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Hello and welcome to the state championship of Scholastic Scrimmage.

I'm your host, David Graf.

This statewide match will feature the champions of PBS member stations in Pennsylvania that holds classic scrimmage tournaments in their viewing area.

The schools and their stations are Berwick Area High School from WBA.

In the Scranton Wilkes-Barre area and Moravian Academy.

Winners a PBS 39 tournament representing the Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania.

The match will be composed of two halves with a lightning round midway through each half.

At halftime, will.

The students can introduce themselves and we'll get to know them a little bit better.

As a reminder, classic scrimmage requires rapid recall of specific factual information and is not necessarily indicative of academic training.

And now let's begin.

Buzzers.

Ready.

Here's our first toss up question.

What devices often made from Nikko Alloys include naturally occurring load stones and generate a namesake field?

Berwick magnets.

Magnets is correct, and their fields are north and south poles.

For your bonus, what particle, which was originally thought of as a hole in a Dirac sea, is the antiparticle of the electron.

And an antiproton.

That is incorrect.

A positron is a correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What modern country was home to both of the artists of the Laughing Cavalier, Frans Hall, and a man who painted its city Delft John Vermeer.

Moravian.

The Netherlands, the Netherlands is correct.

And that final painter was John Vermeer.

For your bonus, in 1985, the US officially decommissioned.

What?

Mother road.

First opened in 1926, which ran from Chicago to the California coast near Los Angeles.

Route 66.

Route 66 is correct.

Next toss up question.

What volcano rendered the popular recreation site Spirit Lake, unusable and killed researcher Berwick.

Mount Saint Helens Mount Saint Helens is correct, and it erupted in a mass eruption in 1980, in Washington state.

For your bonus, the cruelty of such men as Hugh Auld and Edward Kobe is depicted in an 1845 narrative of the life of what orator?

Ralph Waldo Emerson.

That's incorrect.

Frederick Douglass is the correct answer.

On to next toss up question.

The is part of what bone, which articulates with the clavicles, anchors the front of the rib cage and is also called the breastbone.

Moravian sternum.

The sternum is correct for your bonus.

What Roman emperor began the last persecution of Christians in AD 303 and created the Tetrarchy system.

Diocletian.

Diocletian is correct.

Next toss up question.

What system?

Which expanded to 13 members in 1982 with the creation of the Federal Circuit, comes between district courts and the Supreme Court Moravian appellate courts.

That is incorrect.

Over to Berwick.

Go ahead.

State appellate courts.

So as incorrect, we're looking more specifically for the United States Court of Appeals is the correct answer.

Next toss up question what man who in 1991 gave a speech atop a tank to stop a coup?

Berwick.

Boris Yeltsin.

Boris Yeltsin is correct.

Stop a coup against Mikhail Gorbachev.

He was also the first President of Russia after the USSR collapsed.

For your bonus, what gauge bosons, which are represented as helium, sees in Feynman diagrams.

Mediate the strong force and thus hold quarks together with each other.

Gluons.

Gluons is correct.

Next toss up question.

What console, whose exclusive titles included Kirby and the Rainbow Curse, was released in 2012 by Nintendo and had a large touch screen control.

Moravian Wii U The Wii U is correct and had a large touch screen controller.

It was also one of the worst selling system, selling only 13.5 million units worldwide.

For your bonus, what man thinks it's a far, far better thing that I do than I have ever done.

After switching places with Charles Darnay in A Tale of Two Cities.

Oh, I think Defarge.

That's incorrect.

Sydney Carton is a correct answer.

Next toss up question.

The Lucan River drains what second deepest lake in the world, which shares its name with a former country that joined Zanzibar to form gold Moravian Lake Tanganyika.

Lake Tanganyika is correct.

And it joined with Zanzibar to form Tanzania.

Is the country for your bonus?

What term, which literally translates as wave man, refers to a samurai without a lord or master?

Yeah, yeah.

Ronin.

Ronin is correct.

Next toss up question.

In what conflict were U.S.

troops were commanded by Norman Schwarzkopf?

Did go ahead and Raven Academy go for the Gulf War is correct.

And it was brought on by accusations of slant drilling by Baathist Iraq that led them to invade Kuwait.

For your bonus, what Connecticut born composer known for his use of politics that is two or more keys at the same time, wrote the unanswered questions.

Ives Charles Ives is correct.

Next toss up question.

What point lies at the intersection of two plumb lines is at the centroid?

Form uniform bodies.

Berwick.

The ortho center.

I'm sorry.

That's incorrect.

I'll continue the question for Moravian and is the point about which an object freely balances.

So no conferring, but it is now a freebie.

Go ahead.

Moravian a balancing point.

Balancing point or center of mass, or the barycenter of all acceptable answers that.

Okay, on to your bonus question.

What Portuguese term denotes Rio de Janeiro slums?

Which?

A 2025 raid on the Comando for Mayo gang left over 100 people dead, and that it should be where a raid favela a favela is.

Correct.

Next toss up question what common name for the nut of the Escuelas laboratory names balls of peanut butter dipped in chocolate and is the mascot of Ohio.

Go ahead.

Berwick a Buckeye A buckeye is correct.

And it's a mascot of Brutus Buckeye of Ohio State University.

Okay, for your bonus, what Sherpa mountaineer was the partner of Sir Edmund Hillary on their 1953 trip to the summit of Mount Everest.

David's.

David's?

That's incorrect.

Tenzing Norgay is the correct answer.

And with that, we have reached the first lightning round in a pretty much coin toss.

It was determined that Berwick will get to pick between the following topics.

The topics you can pick from are rocks or water in art.

Quickly.

Berwick.

It's rocks or water and art.

Okay, Thomas, decide.

What are we doing?

We'll do water and art.

Water in art it is Berwick.

Your first lightning round.

Topic is water in art.

Answer the following.

About water in the fine arts.

American architect of falling water, Frank Lloyd Wright.

Yep.

And you can just say it.

Oh, sorry.

Polish composer of the raindrop prelude.

Chopin.

Correct.

Impressionist painter of water lilies.

Monet.

Correct.

Composer of the ballets Swan Lake and the Jakosky.

Correct.

Dutch painter of the storm on the Sea of Galilee.

Rembrandt.

Correct dance in three four, for which the Blue Danube was written.

Yes.

That's correct.

British landscape painter who showed the river stir in The Hague.

Wayne J.M.W.

Turner, that's incorrect.

Ukiyo e artist of the Great Wave off Kanagawa.

Correct.

Italian city home to the Trevi Fountain, Rome.

Correct.

French composer of la mare and Clair de Lune.

Debussy.

That is also correct.

Nice job.

Berwick.

We're even academy.

Your topic is rocks.

Answer the following about rocks.

Class of rocks formed by cooling magma or lava.

Igneous.

Correct.

General process of transporting weathered rock and sediment.

Illusion.

Correct.

Crystalline substances that form rocks such as quartz crystals.

Incorrect.

Rigid layer of the Earth whose name is Greek for rocky sphere.

Lithosphere.

Correct metamorphic rock used in sculptures that form from limestone.

Marble.

Correct.

Horizontal layers of rock stacked in order by age.

Strata.

Correct.

Most common sedimentary rock, which sometimes contains all deposits.

Yeah.

Sleep shale.

Shale.

Shale is correct.

Dark volcanic rock that is formed at mid-ocean ridges.

Basalt.

Correct.

Five letter adjective for rocks rich in magnesium and iron.

Contrasted with felsic.

Yeah.

Ferric.

Incorrect process of sedimentary compaction that forms sedimentary rocks.

Packing.

Deposition.

Sure.

No packing.

Incorrect.

That last one is diagenesis.

All right.

We'll continue with the match with the following toss up question.

What TV channel broadcasts the teen dramas Party of Five and Beverly Hills, 90 210 in the 1990s, alongside other hits the X-Files and The Simpsons.

Go ahead.

Berwick, Fox.

Fox is correct broadcaster of the greatest TV show of all time, the X-Files.

That's a fact.

Not even up for opinion.

All right, on to our bonus question.

And the world remains silent with the original title of what memoir?

That describes how Ellie Wiesel was separated from his sister Zipporah at Auschwitz.

Night.

Night is correct.

Next toss up question what?

J.R.R.

Tolkien fan led the far right FDI party to a 2021 general election victory, making her the first female prime minister.

Moravian.

Maloney.

Yes, Georgia maloney is correct.

She's the first female prime minister of Italy.

For your bonus, the VAR Hanzi center that houses the analog is an annex of what museum?

That also houses the Spirit of Saint Louis.

Air and Space Museum.

Yes.

The National Smithsonian Air and Space Museum is correct for or.

Excuse me.

Next toss up question.

What theory was outlined in On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres by Nicholas Copernicus and go ahead.

Moravian heliocentrism.

Heliocentric theory is correct, and it's, of course, our planet's orbit around the sun for your bonus.

In 1881, Clara Barton founded the American wing of what international nonprofit organization Red cross.

The Red cross is correct.

Next toss up question what author adapted a Chinese play is a Caucasian chalk circle.

Go ahead.

Moravian.

Brecht.

Brecht is correct for your bonus.

What politician became chairman of the A B in 2024, the same year in which he reached 30 years in office as president of Belarus?

Lukashenko.

Lukashenko is correct.

Alexander Lukashenko, next toss up question what Prime minister during the coupon election, negotiated Irish independence in 1924 with David Letterman.

Say it again, Dave O'Leary.

That is incorrect.

I'll continue over from Moravian and represented Britain at the 1919 Versailles Peace Conference.

Go ahead.

Moravian David Lloyd George David Lloyd George is correct for your bonus.

What police officer turned detective from Belgium was introduced in the mysterious fair at styles and solves the murder on the Orient Express.

Plural.

Air corporal is correct.

Next toss up question is in math.

Pencil and paper ready?

If a banquet hall has a maximum capacity of 200 people, how many people are actually in the hall?

If it's 56% full?

Berwick 112 112 is correct.

And for your bonus, Crépuscule.

Your animals hunt during what daily periods where scattering provides some light.

Even though the sun is below the horizon.

Dawn and dusk.

Can you be?

Or unfortunately, we cannot take that one.

It's twilight.

It's a specific answer we're looking for.

And with that, we have reached halftime.

We have an excellent match underway.

Currently, Moravian Academy leads Berwick with a score of 210 to 115.

And now we'll have the students introduce themselves with their first and last name grade level.

And tell us a little bit about either what they're doing this summer or what they plan to do in the fall.

So Moravian Academy will start with this team.

Go ahead.

Marching, comrade.

Grade nine.

I'm gonna paint over the summer.

Very cool.

Jacob Krupp, grade nine.

I might do some running over the summer, but that's probably it.

Excellent.

Schmidt, grade 12.

My family and I are going to go to Chicago this summer.

Oh, I love Chicago.

And it's nice because from this area, it's a quick plane ride to.

It's like an hour and a half via Allentown, right over to Chicago.

Go ahead.

Tyler.

Tyler, grade 12.

And in the fall, I will be attending Gage Book College.

All right.

Congratulations to you.

All right, over to Berwick Area High School.

Fable.

Go ahead.

Hi, I'm Fable Gunther.

I plan to attend Bryn Mawr College in the fall to hopefully study literatures in English.

Excellent.

Hi, I'm Josephine Morgan, I'm in grade 12, and this summer I plan to prepare for my French and Spanish college placement exams.

Okay.

My name is Thomas De Battista.

I'm a junior and over this summer I will read and relax.

Same thing I want to do.

Same thing.

Thomas.

Okay, Jackson.

Go ahead.

My name is Jackson.

I'm in 10th grade, and I intend to just go around with my friends pretty much all around the state this summer.

All right.

Cool.

And with that, we'll continue on with the second half of the match.

Here's our toss up question.

What poet who wrote that?

I rise with my red hair and I eat men like air in lady.

Go ahead.

Moravian Plath.

Sylvia Plath is correct for your bonus.

The Dragon Bridge is a major landmark in what capital of Slovenia?

Ljubljana.

Ljubljana is correct.

Actually got to visit there a few years ago and they sell little dragon plushies now, so not quite so scary anymore.

On to the next toss up question what track and field event, whose stars include Mondo Duplantis?

Use a go ahead Moravian pole vault.

Pole vault is correct, and they use a trapezoidal box in which athletes place the one end of a long, flexible pole for your bonus.

In 1942, what American pilot commanded and named or commanded and named the first major air raid on Japanese cities designed to avenge the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Doolittle James Doolittle is correct.

Next toss up question.

What political party nominated Millard Fillmore for president in eight?

Go ahead Berwick the Know Nothings the Know Nothings is correct for your bonus.

Books by Louis Sacher are named for what school, which was meant to have 30 ground floor classrooms but was accidentally built 30 stories tall.

Wayside school waste high school is correct.

On to next toss up question what author portrayed the fictional country of Costa Guana in his novel Nostromo, and depicts Marlow's river journey up the Congo?

Berwick Conrad Joseph Conrad is correct, and he's depicting that journey in Heart of Darkness.

For bonus, aphids mostly reproduce via what form of asexual reproduction in which an embryo develops from an unfertilized egg.

Even Genesis incorrect.

It's parthenogenesis is a correct answer.

Next toss up question what type of software is built around a kernel to manage memory and device control, manages hardware resources and is exemplified by Linux.

Tyler.

Go ahead.

An operating system.

An operating system is correct for your bonus.

What man reputedly yelled, oh God, it's all over!

After hearing Charles Cornwallis surrender and was prime minister during the American Revolution.

Pitt the younger.

That's incorrect.

It's Lord Frederick North is a correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What Prince who loses a duel to Menelaus, gave Aphrodite a golden apple mark to the Ferris after.

Go ahead.

Moravian Paris Paris is correct for your toss up or for your bonus.

Excuse me?

What singer, whose fans are called Parrot Heads, founded a tropical themed chain restaurant that is named for his for his biggest hit.

Margaritaville Jimmy Buffett Jimmy Buffett is correct.

Next toss up question what poet?

Unflattering.

Lee compared a woman's hair to black wires in a poem beginning Raven Academy Shakespeare Shakespeare is correct.

And it began by mistress's eyes or nothing like the sun.

One of his 154 sonnets for your bonus.

What Swedish national.

Excuse me?

What Swedish naturalist who wrote The System of Nature, developed the system for naming organisms, and thus is known as the father of modern taxonomy.

Linnaeus.

Linnaeus is correct.

Next toss up question.

What locations are inhabited by troglodytes are studied?

Go ahead.

Berwick Caves.

Caves is correct, and they're also studied by speleology and explored by spelunker.

For your bonus.

What was the home state of Frederick Muhlenberg, the first speaker of the House, as well as Founding Fathers Benjamin Rush and James Wilson, North Carolina, North Carolina?

That is incorrect.

The correct answer is our home state of Pennsylvania.

And with that, we have reached the second lightning round Moravian.

You'll get to pick between the following topics one word movies or famous JJ's.

I'd rather be famous.

Yeah, sure, I know, I know, I don't think you know Brooklyn.

Moravian famous JJ, famous JJ's.

It is Moravian.

Your second lightning round topic is famous JJ's.

Give the family names of these people.

Who initials are JJ?

The first names are not required, so we only need the family name.

Wrote Finnegans Wake and Ulysses Joyce.

Correct.

Forms a pop rock band with his brothers Nick and Kevin Jonas.

Correct.

Was the first Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court J. Correct ordered the 1978 mass suicide of cult followers in Guyana.

Jones, correct led the Minnesota Vikings in receiving yards in 2023.

Correct.

Represents Ohio and chairs the House Judiciary Committee.

Jordan, correct, was a Western outlaw killed by Robert Ford.

James Correct is a black reverend who ran for president in 1940.

In 1984, Jackson, correct, is the namesake of the C unit of Energy.

Joule.

Correct.

Died of a heroin overdose before her cover of Me and Bobby McGee was released in that dark.

Jacobs.

That is incorrect.

Janis Joplin is a correct answer.

Also brought up.

I had no idea.

I knew Jewell was yes, I unit of energy, but I had no idea.

His first name was James James Jewell.

All right, over to Berwick.

Berwick, your topic is one word movies.

Name these 2020s Oscar nominated films whose titles consist of just one word musical based on The Wizard of Oz.

Wicked.

Correct.

2024 film about electing a pope.

Conclave.

Correct.

Film depicting sandworms on Arrakis.

Correct.

Biopic about a singer whose surname is Presley.

Elvis.

Correct.

Christopher Nolan, film about a physicist.

Hammer.

Correct.

Films starring Cate Blanchett as a conductor.

Kenneth Branagh, film titled For the Capital of Northern Ireland.

Belfast, correct.

2023 Ridley Scott historical epic pass and also epic flop Napoleon, Netflix film about a screenwriter working on Citizen Kane.

Welles incorrect Latvian animated film about a cat.

Lucky.

That's also incorrect.

Flow is a very good chance.

It's a really great animated film.

Okay, on to our next toss up question.

The concertina is a smaller version of what instrument?

Go ahead.

Marina and accordion is correct and is played by expanding and tracking its bellows and using a keyboard for your bonus.

Alice Walker's essay Uncle Remus No Friend of Mine criticized the work of what 19th century author who popularized the character of Brier Rabbit.

Smith incorrect.

Joel Chandler Harris is the correct answer.

Next toss up question what Wild West gunslinger was killed in 1876 by Jack McCall during a poker game in Deadwood?

Blood Bill?

Say it again, wild Bill, we need you to be more specific.

Bill Hickok.

Yes, wild Bill Hickok is correct.

We need the last name for him there for your bonus.

What?

Noble gas, which was part of the first synthesized noble gas compound.

What has a name derived from the Greek for foreigner?

Xenon.

Xenon.

Xenon is correct.

Next question is in math.

Pencil and paper.

Ready?

What is the measure of each internal angle of a regular octagon?

Given that each external angle measures 45 degrees?

135 135 is correct for your bonus.

Hercules ninth labor was stealing the girdle.

Belonging to what?

Daughter of Aries and Queen of the Amazons.

Incorrect.

Hippolyta is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What state, whose senators include?

Republican Tom cotton, is governed by former Berwick, Arkansas.

Arkansas is correct, and it's governed by former white House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

Okay, for your bonus, what automotive company whose models include the Sonic and the Sorento is a subsidy of fellow South Korean firm Hyundai Kia.

Kia is correct.

Next toss up question.

What language was used to address a man who is abusing our patients, and to lament the times and customs in a speech on cattle lines?

Conspiracy.

Go ahead.

Moravian Latin.

Latin is correct.

And it was her conspiracy by Cicero.

For your bonus, it's in math.

So pencil and paper ready in simplified radical form.

What is the perimeter of a square whose area is 27?

Given that a square has four sides 27 divided by four.

For.

80, 100, 144, 104 over four, that's incorrect.

It's 12 fruit, 3 or 12 times the square root of three.

Onto next toss up.

Question.

What city?

The capital of Liguria was the center.

Go ahead.

Moravian Genoa Genoa is correct.

And it was the birthplace of Christopher Columbus.

For your bonus.

In 1945, conferences held at Yalta and in what German city decided how Germany was to be governed after World War two.

Potsdam Potsdam is correct.

Next toss up question what artist whose works include monolith, Face of Half Dome and Moonrise Hernandez, New Mexico.

Go ahead.

Moravian Adams and Adams is correct.

He was around photographer of the American West.

For your bonus.

Asher Durant and Frederic Edwin Church were members of what?

19th century school of American landscape painters, Hudson River school.

They were part of the Hudson River school.

That is correct.

Next toss up question.

What technique uses indicators like phenytoin to detect Moravian titration?

Titration is correct for your bonus, a 1994 book by critic.

And with that, we have reached the end of the match.

What was a great match between two evenly matched teams I know of met each other in other academic competitions throughout the year.

And once again, Berwick, congratulations and good luck with the rest of your school year.

And now to present the trophy to Moravian Academy.

Our state champions are Teresa Becky of Wpvi and Kate Reisner of PBS 39.

Congratulations, Moravian, you are Scholastic Scrimmage State Champions for 2026 and thank you for watching.

We'll see you for the next season.

Next fall.

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