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Hello and welcome to the final match of the 47th season of Scholastic Scrimmage.

I'm your host, David Graf.

This year's Scrimmage will look a bit different due to the COVID 19 pandemic.

PBS39 is following all CDC guidelines.

That includes pre match temperature checks, students wearing masks throughout the competition, and I'm socially distanced from the teams on set, and now on with the final that features Moravian Academy, who have made it to the final nine times in the school's history, winning it three times versus Emmaus high school who advanced to the final 12 times in their school's history, winning it eight times.

As a reminder, the match will feature two halves with lightning round mid-way through each half and at half-time we'll get to know the students a little bit better.

It's classic Scrimmage, requires rapid recall specific factual information, and it's not necessarily indicative of academic training.

And now let's begin.

Buzzers ready with the first toss-up.

What quantity equal to one half times mass times... Moravian.

- Kinetic energy.

- That is correct.

For your bonus.

Squamous epithelial cells make up what outermost layer of the skin that lacks blood vessels and nerve endings?

- Epidermis.

- That is correct.

Next, toss-up.

What son of Gordius was given the ears of a donkey after earlier finding himself unable to eat or drink anything... Moravian.

- Tantalus?

- Incorrect.

I'll continue for a minute.

Go ahead.

- Midas.

- That is correct because everything he touched turned to gold.

For your bonus, what US president promised to defeat West Germany against communism in his Ich bin ein Berliner speech?

- JFK.

- That is correct.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

Next toss-up.

What author described Colonel Brandon's exposure of John Willoughby's misdeeds... Moravian.

- Jane Austen.

- That is correct.

And for your bonus, what author wrote about or what author wrote, ridiculous.

the waste sad time stretching before and after in Burnt Norton, which is part of his poetry sequence Four Quartets?

- Eliot.

- That's correct.

- T.S.

Eliot is the correct answer.

Next, toss-up, what quantity is inversely proportional to wavelength, is measured... Moravian?

- Frequency.

- That's correct, is measured in Hertz.

Your bonus will be in math, pencil and paper ready.

All or nothing.

Given that three to the fourth equals 81 between what two consecutive integers does the base three logarithm of 500 lie?

- Five and six?

- That is correct.

Next, toss-up, what opera whose arias include Habanera and the... Moravian - Carmen.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, which Holy Roman Emperor, whose nickname referenced his red beard, drowned in the Saleph river while traveling to the Third Crusade?

- Frederick Barbarossa.

- That is correct.

Next, toss-up, what superhero team, which in 1975 added Banshee and Colossus as members... Moravian?

- X-Men.

- That is correct, was founded by Professor Charles Xavier and consists of powerful mutants.

For your bonus.

What 1967 children's book by Zilpha Keatley Snyder is named after a secret pastime that April and Melanie create after finding a bust of Nefertiti?

- Dressing up?

- That is incorrect.

- The Egypt Game is the correct answer.

Next, toss-up, what president who's front porch campaign was managed... Moravian.

- William McKinley.

- That's correct, was managed by Mark Hanna.

For your bonus.

What character from Mesopotamian mythology defeated Humbaba The Guardian of the Cedar Forest and his companion Enfidu and was king of Uruk?

- Gilgamesh.

- Gilgamesh is the correct answer.

Onto our next toss-up.

What university that hired 1619 Project author Nikole Hannah-Jones in July 20th 2001 is the alma mater of Kamala Harris and is an HBCU in Washington?

Emmaus.

- Howard.

- That's correct.

Howard University.

For your bonus, what term is used for a line that passes through two other lines, creating equal alternate interior angles If the other two lines are parallel?

- Transversal.

- That is correct.

Next toss-up.

What concept whose descent in the form of a mighty rushing wind is celebrated on Pentecost, joins the father and son in the Christ... Moravian.

- Holy Spirit.

- That is correct.

- In the Christian trilogy, or Trinity.

Excuse me.

For your bonus, what financial instruments with call and put types allow, but do not require investors to buy or sell a stock at a fixed strike price in the future?

- Options.

- That's correct, a stock option is the correct answer.

Next toss-up, what structures, including the enormous Ogallala one, are unconfirmed if they border the water table directly and are water containing layers of rock?

Moravian.

- Aquifers.

- That is correct.

For your bonus.

Mr Emerson arranges for Charlotte Bartlett and Lucy Honeychurch to have better accommodations at an Italian hotel in what novel by E.M. Forster?

- A room with a view?

- That is correct.

Next toss-up.

What last name is shared by Maddie, who suggests crashing a sled in the novel Ethan Frome?

Moravian.

- Silver.

- That is correct.

The one legged pirate Long John in Treasure Island.

For your bonus, the village of Schengen, and which names a passport free travel area in the European Union, lies in what smallest of the three low countries?

- Luxembourg, - Luxembourg, - Luxembourg is correct.

With that, we have reached the first lightning round.

At a pre-match coin toss, it was determined that Moravian will select from the following topics.

Moravian, you can select from the science of sleep or art museums.

- We'll take signs of sleep, please.

- Science of sleep, that means Emmaus,.

you will have art museums.

Moravian.

Your lightning round topic is the science of sleep.

Answer the following about sleep.

Disorder characterized by sleepiness... - Insomnia.

- Correct.

Sleep phase known by a three letter acronym... - REM.

- Correct.

Sound caused by obstructed air movement while sleeping.

- Snoring.

- Correct.

sleep wake cycle that follows 24 hour long... - Circadian.

- Correct.

Disorder characterized by pauses in breathing during sleep.

- Apnoea.

- Correct.

The pineal gland hormone released mostly at night.

- Melatonin.

- Correct - Disorder characterized by involuntary sleep... - Narcolepsy.

- Correct.

Three letter acronym for the device used to measure brain waves in a sleep study.

- I think EEG.

- EEG.

- That is correct.

Latin derived word for sleepwalking.

(MUFFLED SPEAKING) That is incorrect.

Excessive teeth grinding often during sleep.

- Concrete.

- That is incorrect.

And that concludes your lightning round.

So Emmaus, for your lightning round you have art museum.

Art museums, name the countries that are home to these art museums.

Tate Modern.

- The United Kingdom.

- Correct.

- The State Hermitage Museum, which occupies... - Russia.

- Correct.

Musee d'Orsay.

- France.

- Correct - Reich's Museum.

- Germany - Incorrect.

Getty Villa.

- Italy.

- Incorrect.

Museo del Prado.

- That's Spain.

- Correct.

Uffizi Gallery.

- Italy.

- Correct.

Acropolis Museum.

- Greece.

- That is correct.

- Daegu National Museum.

- Japan - Incorrect.

Frida Kahlo Museum.

- Mexico.

- That is correct.

Nice job on that lightning round.

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

What Irish actor starred in Dante's Peak played the architect Sam in Mamma Mia!

And played James Bond in the films Goldeneye... Emmaus.

- Pierce Brosnan.

- That is correct.

Goldeneye and die another day.

For your bonus.

What six Letter adjective can refer to molecules that can't be superimposed on their mirror images or the carbon atoms responsible for that behavior?

The correct answer is achrial.

Next toss-up.

What numbers are not crossed out when using the sieves of Aristophanes?

Moravian.

Primes?

- That is correct.

Prime numbers.

For your bonus.

What fairy tale inspired musical by Stephen Sondheim was made into a movie featuring James Corden as the baker and Anna Kendrick as Cinderella?

- Into the woods?

- That is correct.

Next, toss-up.

What journalist who had herself committed to Blackwell's Island mental asylum for an undercover expose...?

Moravian.

- Nellie Bly.

- That is correct.

She traveled around the world also in 72 days in 1888.

For your bonus, Cochise was a leader of what Native American tribe, whose other leaders include Magna Colorados and Geronimo?

- Apache?

- That is correct.

Next, toss-up.

What country has feuded with Britain over ancient seeds from sites and seized them in a 2020 raid of the British Institute in Ankara?

Moravian.

- Turkey?

- That is correct.

For your bonus.

What American authors satirized middle class conformity in his novel Babbitt?

- Lewis.

- Sinclair Lewis is the correct answer.

Next toss-up, what organ through which the Zika virus can pass to a developing fetus via the umbilical... - Emmaus.

- Uterus?

- Incorrect.

I'll continue to question for Moravian.

Via the umbilical cord is expelled by the mother during afterbirth.

No conferring on this.

- Placenta - That is correct.

For your bonus.

What Temple Complex, which lies near the city of Siem Reap, is depicted on the flag of Cambodia?

- Angkor Wat, Angkor Wat, - Angkor Wat.

- Angkor Wat.

- Angkor Wat is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What region whose namesake plateau is the world's largest Is home to the Potala Palace in Lhasa?

- Emmaus.

- Tibet.

- That is correct and is a traditional winter home of the Dalai Lama.

For your bonus, which man who succeeded Edward III as king of England, was empowered during the peasants revolt in 1381?

- Henry the fourth?

- Incorrect.

- Richard the second of England is the correct answer.

And with that, we've reached half-time, Moravian has 320 points to Emmaus's 120.

Prior to the match to aid social distancing, we asked the students to introduce themselves individually and tell us what their most meaningful assignment a teacher had given them to work on in school was.

So let's meet the contestants for Moravian and Emmaus.

- I'm Yiyi.

a senior at Moravian Academy and my favorite project was my fire project on Lucid Dreaming.

- I'm Eric Jackson.

I'm a senior at Moravian Academy, and my favorite research project in high school was a fire project I did on spontaneously combustible frogs.

- Hi, my name is Divik Burma.

I'm a senior in high school and my favorite project so far has been a research project about deforestation in Haiti.

- Hi, my name is Sumit Mohapatra.

I'm a senior at Moravian Academy High School and my favorite project was a project where I used activated carbon to remove herbicides from water.

- Hi, my name is Ari Bowman.

I'm a senior at Emmaus High School and my favorite project in school was working on an in-depth feature story on self medication.

- Hi, my name is Thomas.

I'm a senior at Emmaus high school, and my favorite project was a documentary film I made about the new Hollywood movement.

- Hi, my name is Thomas Flexer.

I'm a junior at Emmaus High School and my favorite project was a cave art project I did in Quest for the distant past.

- Hello, my name is Eric Whelp.

I'm a junior in Emmaus high school.

My favorite project was a research project on polymers in middle school.

- Welcome back.

We'll start the second half with this toss-up.

What general left behind twisted rails nicknamed his... - Moravian.

- Sherman?

- That is correct.

William Tecumseh Sherman.

They were nicknamed his neckties.

For your bonus.

In 2021.

Montana became the most recent state to ban what type of cities which do not fully cooperate with federal immigration law?

- Oh, sanctuary city.

- Sanctuary cities.

- That is correct.

Next, toss-up.

What playwright described research conducted on jumping fleas at the Thinkery, a school run by... - Moravian - Aristophanes?

- That is correct.

It's a school run by Socrates.

For your bonus.

What HBO series that stars Zendaya as a teenager grappling with drug addiction and has a title that means intense happiness?

- Euphoria.

- That is correct.

It's an excellent show.

- Next up is in math, pencil and paper ready.

What is the product of 0.012 times 400?

Moravian.

- 9.2?

- That is incorrect.

Emmaus?

- Go ahead.

- 4.8.

- That is correct.

For your bonus.

What equation named after a German chemist is used to calculate the reduction potential of a reaction at nonstandard conditions?

- Um, Maxwell?

- The buzzer did sound through before you went in.

Incorrect, though.

It's the Nernst equation.

Next toss-up.

What National Flower of Wales is also called narcissus and is depicted dancing in the breeze in William Wordsworth's...

I wander... Moravian.

- Daffodils?

- That is correct.

I wandered lonely as a cloud is what it was painted in.

For your bonus, what British philosopher lends his name to a paradox about the set of all sets that are not members of themselves?

- Hilbert?

- That's incorrect.

Bertrand Russell is the correct answer.

Next, toss-up.

What resource did President of Mexico Lazaro Cardenas nationalize in 1938?

Moravian.

- Oil?

- That is correct by founding the company Pemex.

For your bonus.

Mswati The third is the current monarch of what small country that shares land borders with South Africa and Mozambique?

- Eswatini.

- Eswatini is correct.

Next toss-up.

What author's The sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon includes a story... Moravian.

- Irving.

- Washington Irving is the correct answer.

For your bonus.

What French existentialist wrote that hell is other people in his play No Exit?

- Sartre.

- That is correct.

Next, toss-up.

What state, which was home to a granite feature known as the old man of the Mountain, is the only state that borders Maine and is led... Emmaus.

- New Hampshire.

- That is correct.

- For your bonus, Nur ad-Din battled against what crusade in which Louis, the seventh of France and Eleanor of Aquitaine, failed to recapture the county of Edessa?

Edessa.

The correct answer is the second crusade.

Next toss-up, what man ordered the Drogheda massacre, appointed the members of the bare-bones parliament and ruled... Moravian.

- Oliver Cromwell.

- Well, that is correct and ruled as Lord Protector after the execution of Charles the first.

For your bonus, the strength of an electric field can be written in terms of Newton's divided by what other SI units?

- Coulomb.

- Correct.

Next toss-up, what organelle, which is believed to have evolved from an... Emmaus.

- Mitochondria.

- That is correct.

For your bonus.

In Greek mythology, Clio is a muse of what academic discipline that was practiced?

- Comedy - Incorrect.

- History is the correct answer.

Next toss-up, in 2021 what country had its first male champion crowned in one of golf's four major tournaments when the 2021 Masters was won by Hideki Matsuyama?

Moravian.

- Japan?

- That is correct.

For your bonus.

What state carried out the US's largest ever mass execution when it hung 38 indigenous men involved in the Dakota war of 1862?

- Georgia - Incorrect.

Minnesota is the correct answer.

Next toss-up, what explorer who is mortally wounded by the Calusia People served as the first governor of Puerto Rico and led a Spanish expedition to Florida?

Emmaus.

- Ponce de Leon.

- That is correct.

- For your bonus, what military group took responsibility for an August 20th 2001 suicide bombing at Kabul's airport and is partially named after a large historical region?

- The Taliban?

- That is incorrect.

ISIS-K is the correct answer.

The next toss-up is in math, pencil and paper ready.

if any value is acceptable for the hundredth digit what is the largest three digit number that includes both seven and four?

Emmaus.

- 974.

- That is correct.

For your bonus.

The line I caught it bad yesterday opens what 2021 song whose music video depicts its singer D=dancing for Satan?

- Call Me By Your Name by Lil Nas X.

- Yeah, we'll take that.

It's Montero Call Me By Your Name by Lil Nas X.

Correct.

And with that, we've reached our second lightning round.

Emmaus, you will get to pick between the following topics.

We have national flags or tigers.

- All right.

National flags.

- National flags.

Moravian, that means you will have tigers.

National flags.

Name the country whose flag features the motto Order and progress in Portuguese.

- Brazil - Correct.

A maple leaf.

- Canada.

- Correct.

- A star of David.

- Israel.

- Correct.

A red circle representing the... - Japan.

- Correct.

- A green cedar tree.

- Oh, Lebanon.

- Correct.

- A sword and the Shahada.

- Pass.

The keys of St Peter.

- Vatican City.

Correct.

An eagle eating a snake.

- Mexico.

- Correct.

A Maasai shield.

- Mozambique.

- Incorrect.

A red and white checkerboard pattern.

- Czech Republic - Incorrect.

All right.

And now we have Moravian Academy.

You have tigers.

Answer the following about tigers.

Calvin's stuffed tiger in a comic strip - Hobbs.

- Correct.

Word for a baby tiger.

- Cub.

- Correct.

Tiger named for a region of the Indian subcontinent.

- Bengal - Correct.

Author of a 1794 poem, The Tyger.

- Blake.

- Correct.

Country, whose 12 zodiac animals include the Tiger.

- China - Correct.

Novel by Yann Martel featuring a tiger named... - Life of Pi.

- That is correct.

Tiger antagonist of The Jungle Book.

- Shere Khan.

- Correct.

Mascot for frosted flakes.

- Tony the Tiger.

- Correct.

Las Vegas partner of Siegfried, who was attacked by Tiger.

- Pass.

- Genus that includes tigers and lions.

- Cats.

- Incorrect.

And now we'll start the final quarter of the match with the following toss-up question.

what author of the twist heavy play Witnesses for the Prosecution also wrote many novels about crimes solved by Belgian detective Hercule Poirot?

Emmaus.

- Agatha Christie.

That is correct.

For your bonus, what 1494 treaty used a line 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde Islands to divide the new world between Portugal and Spain?

- A treaty of Tordesillas?

- That is correct.

Next toss-up, what Arab country whose city of Daraa has been the site of recent fighting by its Free Army, which seeks to end the regime of Bashir al-Assad?

Moravian.

- Syria?

That is correct.

For your bonus.

Mike Lindell is a CEO of What Company, which has claimed without proof that its products help fight conditions like fibromyalgia?

- MyPillow.

- That is correct.

Next toss-up, what mountain range whose highest point is mount Toubkal is inhabited by many berbers and stretches... Emmaus.

- The Atlas Mountains.

- Is correct and stretches from Tunisia to Morocco in northern Africa.

For your bonus, which Chinese poet, whose work was loosely translated by Ezra Pound as the Rivers merchant's wife, wrote Drinking alone by moonlight?

That is the river merchant's wife.

- Son Zu.

- Li Bai is the correct answer.

Next toss-up, what poet wrote the line, by the road to the contagious hospital in spring and all, and wrote about eating... Moravian.

- Williams.

- That is correct, William Carlos Williams, he wrote about eating plums from an icebox in This is just to say.

For your bonus, what term refers to a symbiotic relationship in which one species benefits, while the other is neither helped nor harmed?

- Incrementalism?

That is correct.

Next toss-up, what composer whose ballet Petrushka has a namesake... Moravian.

- Stravinsky.

- That is true, has a namesake.

- For a bonus, in Islam, the adjective Rashidun refers to the first four holders of what title, a third of... - Oh, sorry.

- Yeah, you take the time here.

I'll finish.

A third of whom was... - Caliph.

- That is correct.

Next toss-up, what chemists who propose the law of multiple proportions is the namesake of a unit once equal to... Moravian.

- Alpha Godhra.

- That is incorrect.

- I'll continue for Emmaus.

Once equal to an atomic mass unit and a form of colorblindness.

John Dalton is the correct answer.

Next toss-up, Ramone Mercader killed what communists who created the idea of permanent revolution led... Moravian.

- Lenin.

- Incorrect.

I'll continue for Emmaus.

Led the Red Army in the Soviet Union and rivaled Joseph Stalin.

- Trotsky.

- That is correct.

For your bonus.

Jeff Bezos's July 20th 2001 Blue Origin flight took about four minutes to reach its point of farthest distance from Earth.

What is this point called by astronomers?

Apogee is the correct answer that we're looking for.

Next toss-up.

What city where George Moscone and Harvey Milk were murdered Is home... Moravian.

- San Francisco.

- That is correct.

Is home to Fisherman's Wharf.

- For your bonus, in 1966, the Supreme Court overturned the conviction of what Arizona man who shares his name with a set of rights recited by police?

- Miranda?

- Miranda.

- That's correct.

Ernesto Miranda is the correct answer.

Next toss-up, what husband of Lee Krasner made Abstract Expressionist works, such as Autumn Rhythm by pouring paint on the canvas and was nicknamed... Emmaus.

- Pollock.

- That's correct.

His nickname, jack the dripper.

For your bonus.

What piano pedal, the leftmost on a modern piano shifts the piano's action rightward so that the hammer strikes one fewer strings for any given note?

- U-pedal.

- Incorrect.

It is the soft pedal is the correct answer.

Next toss-up, what heaviest alkaline earth metal was once used in glow in the dark paints was discovered by Marie Curie?

Emmaus.

- Radium.

- That is correct and was named after its radioactivity.

For your bonus, spin is an intrinsic form of what quantity which is conserved in the absence of an external torque?

And that is the end of the match, the correct answer was angular momentum.

And we've reached the end of the match.

The final scores, Moravian with 585 points to Emmaus's 300.

Great match between two excellent teams.

Moravian.

Congratulations.

You are the champions of the 47th season of Scholastic Scrimmage, and now I'd like to invite the coaches to join their teams up on stage and welcome the CEO of PBS39, Tim Fallon to present the teams with their trophies.

- Thank you, David, and it gives me great pleasure to congratulate these two terrific teams.

Lehigh Valley is in a great place with these young people assuming leadership positions and what great work they have done.

It's my great pleasure to present the runner-up trophy to a Emmaus high school.

Coach.

Come on out.

Congratulations.

Well done.

Great job.

Thank you very much.

And it's my distinct pleasure to present the winning trophy to Moravian Academy.

Coach.

Would you join me?

I'm standing in front of the trophy, but congratulations.

Really well done.

Great job indeed.

I want to thank our corporate support sponsor, PPL Corporation.

They have provided scholarship money for both teams, $4,000 for the winning team and $2,000 for the runner-up and our long time Scholastic Scrimmage host Dr Karen Walton is going to join me to present those checks, please, Dr Walton.

Yay!

Coach, would you come out.

And to the winning team, Moravian academy.

Great.

Thank you.

And in appreciation for Dr Walton's many years of service as our Scholastic Scrimmage host more than 20 years, we have recently had the opportunity to dedicate the Dr Karen Doyle Walton Education Lounge right here at PBS39.

Congratulations, Dr Walton.

Thank you, Tim, and congratulations to Dr Walton.

We'd like to thank the control room and the technical crew that spent countless hours preparing for and editing Scholastic Scrimmage and of course of special note, our judges, Sally Campbell and Kathleen Steele, along with our buzzer keeper, volunteer Phyllis Santoyo and Scholastic Scrimmage would not be possible without the work of our producer Kate Refsnyder.

Thank you and see you next year for the 48th season of Scholastic Scrimmage.