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Scholastic Scrimmage: Moravian Academy vs Emmaus
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Hello and welcome to the opening match of the 50th season of Scholastic Scrimmage.
I'm your host, David Graff.
Today's match is between Moravian Academy, who have won scrimmage five times in the show's history, and in May, as high school group won the tournament a record eight times.
The match will be composed of two halves, with a lightning round midway through each half at halftime.
We'll pause for students can introduce themselves.
We'll get to know them a little bit better.
As a reminder, Scholastic Scrimmage requires rapid recall of specific factual information.
That's not necessarily indicative of academic training.
And now let's begin.
Buzzers.
Ready.
Here's our first toss up.
What singer, who featured on the 2023 remix of Lizzo's song special, released the 2022 album S.O.S., which included singles.
Snooze Peruvian.
Scissor.
Scissor is correct for your bonus.
What's South's Asian River Valley was home to ancient cities of Harappa and Mohenjo daro.
The Indus River, the Indus River valley is correct, and the Indus River is the correct river.
Next toss up question what two countries which are fighting in the ongoing conflict, separated after a 2011 referendum and now Moravian.
Sudan and South Sudan?
That is correct.
And they now have their capitals at Juba and Khartoum.
For your bonus, what book, which opens with a rat being found in a family's apartment in Chicago, was the first full length novel published by Richard Wright.
Stuart Little.
That's incorrect.
Native son is the correct answer.
Next toss up question.
What quantity can be measured with the rank and scale?
You may ask.
Temperature.
Temperature is correct, and it has a minimum value of absolute zero.
Your bonus will be in mathematics.
Pencil and paper.
Ready?
What is the height of an equilateral triangle whose side lengths are two?
Given the height form 260, 30, 90 right triangles.
Square root of three.
Square root of three or root three is correct.
Next toss up question.
What man who championed the contract with America while leading a campaign to retake Congress?
Review.
Gingrich, Newt Gingrich is correct.
And he was the speaker of the House from Georgia.
It was actually raised as a young kid in Hummelstown, Pennsylvania.
So about an hour and a half away.
For your bonus, what grandchild of Helios killed her two children by her ex-husband, Jason.
Medea.
Medea is correct.
Next toss up question.
What architect who designed the Museum of Islamic Art and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame used 673 Moravian pay.
That is correct.
I am Pei is the correct answer, and used 673 glass panes to design the Louvre pyramid for your bonus.
What British Prime Minister was criticized for his part, for his policy of appeasement towards Adolf Hitler.
Chamberlain.
Neville Chamberlain is the correct answer.
Next tossup question.
What mountain range contains the source of the Grand River and the microstate of Andorra, which is sandwiched Moravian Pyrenees?
The Pyrenees Mountains is correct in sandwich, Andorra, between France and Spain.
For your bonus, what quantity whose change is negative for a spontaneous reaction equals the change in enthalpy.
Minus temperature times the change in entropy.
Gibbs.
Free energy.
Gibbs.
Free energy is correct.
Next toss up question.
What reaction?
Which is undergone by a substance when it combusts is contracted with reduction.
And is it you miss oxidation.
Oxidation is correct.
For your bonus, what country's president, Alberto Fernandez, is a member of its judicial list party, and as was its former president, Christina Fernandez de Kirchner.
Peru.
That is incorrect.
Argentina is the correct answer.
Next tossup question.
What island where a civilization used linear A script.
Moravian Crete.
Crete is correct for your bonus.
What woman who starred with Chris Hemsworth in Men and Black International plays Valkyrie in the Thor series, and Bianca Taylor in the Creed series.
Smith.
Incorrect.
Tessa Thompson is the correct answer.
Next tossup question.
What dessert?
Whose?
Paranal Observatory houses the Very Large Telescope?
It's the driest non-polar Moravia, the Atacama.
The Atacama Desert is correct.
And it is the highest.
Or it is the driest non-polar desert on Earth.
Due to rain shadow caused by the Andes.
For your bonus, the orchestral tune in the Hall of the Mountain King comes from what Norwegian composer's incidental music to the play Peer Gynt?
Yeah.
Grieg.
Say it again, Grieg.
That is correct.
Edvard Grieg is the correct answer.
Next tossup question.
What species whose scientific name is Dionysia Mushi pula is a plant that derives nutrients from bogs.
It captures when its leaves.
Moravian Venus flytrap.
That is correct.
Its whence leaves close over prey.
For your bonus.
In George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, Henry Higgins makes a bet that he can turn what Cockney flower girl into a lady fit for upper class society.
That's right.
Sharon.
Incorrect.
Eliza Doolittle is the correct answer.
Next toss up question.
What instrument?
That creates a melody through a cantor and a constant harmony through drones has a great high land variety used in Scotland.
Moravian.
Bagpipes.
Bagpipes is correct.
And for your bonus.
In 1780, what British major who collaborated with Benedict Arnold in plotting to betray West Point to the British, was hanged in New York.
Andre.
John Andre is the correct answer.
Next toss up.
In 2023, Hamish Harding was enroute to what specific site when he died, along with the CEO of Ocean Gate aboard a Murray Bingham.
The wreck of the Titanic.
That is correct.
They were.
They were aboard a submersible that imploded.
For your bonus, what object discovered in 1801 is the largest object in the asteroid belt.
Series.
Series is correct.
And with that, we have reached our first lightning round.
In a pre-match coin toss, it was determined that Moravian will get to pick from the following topics.
Your topic to the select from our sharks or presidents at war.
Presidents.
The presidents at war.
Okay, so we didn't watch Shark Week this week.
We don't feel confident when shark Week aired.
All right, Moravian, your topic is Presidents at war.
Name the US presidents who led the US into these conflicts.
World War one.
Gross and correct.
World War two.
Roosevelt.
Correct.
The Spanish-American War.
Yeah.
Roosevelt.
Incorrect.
The War of 1812.
Madison.
Correct.
The Mexican.
The Mexican-American War.
Polk.
Correct.
The quasi War.
And Adam.
Correct.
The Korean War.
Eisenhower.
Incorrect.
The Bosnian War.
Clinton.
Correct.
The invasion of Grenada.
Reagan.
Correct.
The First Barbary War.
Jefferson.
Correct.
Ottumwa.
So hopefully you watch Shark Week this week.
Your topic is sharks.
Answer the following about sharks.
Most massive shark species named for the largest mammal.
Great white shark.
That is incorrect.
Shark organ that contains buoyant oil and makes bile.
Liver.
That is correct.
Flexible material making up a shark skeleton.
Cartilage.
Correct.
Triangle shaped fin on a shark's backside.
Dorsal.
Correct.
Structures sharks constantly replace while humans only grow to seven teeth.
Correct.
Flat and shark relative with eagle and mantra and manta rays.
Ray.
That is correct.
Relative of the great white that grew up to 60ft long.
Whale shark.
That is incorrect.
Number of chambers in the heart of sharks and most fish to correct.
Fish that hitches rides by suckering their heads onto sharks.
You can pass if you don't know.
Pass.
One carbon organic compound that sharks use to eliminate excess nitrogen.
Pass.
Urea is the correct answer to the last one.
All right.
We'll continue on with the following tossup question.
What popular programing language created by Guido van Rossum uses whitespace indentation to delimit blocks and shares its name with a reptile.
Peruvian python.
Python is correct for your bonus.
What African country is building the iconic tower in its new administrative capital, whose construction began under President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi?
Egypt.
Egypt is correct.
Next tossup question.
What country?
Home to Nobel laureates Alice Wiley and Svetlana Alexievich, is a former Soviet state ruled since 1994 by Alexander Lukashenko.
Moravian.
Belarus.
Belarus is correct for your bonus.
In what decade?
When the Black Monday crash caused the Dow Jones to lose 23% of its value, did a president implement trickle down economics?
80s.
The 1980s is correct.
Next toss up question what art form whose performers may sport colorful, bold stripe.
Cool.
Midori makeup is a hyper stylized, men's only theater tradition from Japan.
Peruvian Kabuki.
Kabuki is correct.
For your bonus, what collection of ancient texts, including the Sama, a compilation of chants and melodies, and The Rig, which contains hymns to deities such as Agni, Vedas?
Vedas is correct.
Next tossup question.
What our what author who depicted himself as Peter Martin in The Town and the city wrote about Carlo Marx.
Dean Moriarty and Sal Paradise Inn on the road.
Peruvian.
Cookbook.
That is incorrect.
It goes over to Mars.
May I go ahead?
Faulkner.
There's also incorrect.
Jack Kerouac is the author we're looking for.
Next toss up question.
What class of rock makes up intrusions such as sills, and includes rocks that are said to be intrusive?
If they form from you?
Miss igneous.
Igneous is correct, and that is if they form from cooling of magma.
For your bonus, Lynn Margulis proposed what theory that double membrane organelles like mitochondria and chloroplasts originated as independent organisms.
Endosymbiotic theory.
That is correct.
Next toss up question.
What woman whose reputation was damaged by the affair of the diamond necklace was the wife of Louis, the 16th and famously said Moravian Marie-Antoinette.
That is correct.
And she famously said, let them eat cake for your bonus.
A group of pirates called the Vitol brothers targeted what medieval league that built trading post called Quatorze and was led from Lubeck.
Hanseatic League, the Hanseatic League is correct.
Next toss up question.
What musical is the Heaviside Layer reached after the song memory is sung by Grizabella.
Moravian cats.
Cats is correct.
For your bonus, the French word chevre can refer to what animal or to a cheese made from its milk.
Yeah.
Goat.
Goat is correct.
And you could get goat or cow.
You know, we're pretty.
Pretty close either way.
When are we going to guess?
And with that, we have reached the first half time.
We have a great match underway.
Moravian Academy currently leads Imus 305 to 80.
And now we'll have the students take a moment to introduce themselves with their first and last name, their grade level, and the answer to the following question.
What is your favorite innovation of the last 50 years?
So be from 1975 until today.
Charlene with Moravian Academy, we start with you.
Charlene Lu.
11th grade.
And the washing machine.
That's a good one.
Okay.
Katherine.
Katherine.
Carolyn.
Ninth grade.
And, the modern point shoe.
All right.
Go ahead.
Nathaniel Schmidt, 11th grade.
Gh okay.
Tyler Shank, 1/11 grade modern prosthetics.
Excellent.
All right, Miss high school.
Colby.
Go ahead.
Colby.
Zane.
12th grade.
And the bid.
The birthday.
Okay.
Daniel Witmer, 12th grade.
The Basuki.
Okay.
Aiden cannon, 12th grade.
The ace.
Okay, Max.
Those the entire 12th grade.
The Elk Grove stainless steel water fountain.
All right.
Is that the one that's refillable?
So you can, like, fill up your water bottle and all that?
All right.
Very good.
At least the one.
The one that we have in my office, it gives you, like how many water bottles were saved every month.
So that's kind of a cool stat way to show.
Okay.
With that, we'll continue on with the second half of the match with the following tossup question.
What author of How much Land does a man need wrote about an adulterous wife who throws herself under a train in the Russian novel Tolstoy?
Tolstoy is correct for your bonus.
What acid?
With the molecular formula CH3, c o h is responsible for the tart taste of vinegar, acetic acid, acetic acid is correct.
Next toss up question.
What national park, which contains Hetch Hetchy Valley and the rock formations Half Dome and El Capitan radiant.
Yosemite.
That is correct in El Capitan and is in the Sierra Nevadas of California.
For your bonus, the eight nation alliance sought to put down what anti-imperialist rebellion in China, led by the Righteous and Harmonious Fists up Boxer Rebellion.
The Boxer Rebellion is correct.
Next tossup question what color which names a revolution led by the Argonaut?
Norman Bore Log also names a third party that nominated Ralph Nader for president.
Moravian green, the Green or Green Party or Green Revolution, or all correct answers to that question for your bonus.
Playwright August Strindberg was born in what European country, which was also the homeland of millennium trilogy author Stieg Larsson.
Sweden?
Sweden is correct.
Next, toss up.
What?
Astronomer who showed that a far off galaxies recessional speed.
Don't miss Hubble.
Hubble is correct.
Is proportional to its distance.
And he has a namesake telescope named after him.
For your bonus, thalassemia can cause enlargement of what organ?
Responsible for disposing of old red blood cells.
Can you, The spleen.
The spleen is correct.
Next toss up question.
What physiologist who wrote the 1902 lectures on the work of the Digestive Glands demonstrated a conditioned reflex in his studies review.
Pavlov.
That is correct.
And he the conditional reflexes on his studies of salivating dogs.
For your bonus, what animal?
Which may be named after the mother of the hydra and consort of Typhon in Greek myth, is a spiny egg laying mammal.
A kidney and a kidney or a spiny anteater is correct.
Next tossup question in what play does a character reveal that he was born by caesarean section?
Fulfill a prophecy.
Moravian.
Macbeth.
Macbeth is correct.
He fulfills a prophecy then made by three witches.
And he kills the Scottish king for your bonus.
Tajikistan.
The eastern border is.
With what country?
Which contains the Rubicon desert and the southern portion of the Gobi Desert.
China.
It's just China.
Yeah, China.
China is correct.
Next tossup.
What region?
Which names?
The world's largest and highest plateau is home to the Potala Palace.
Moravian Tibet.
Tibet is correct, and it was historically ruled by the Dalai Lama.
For your bonus.
In Judaism, four ritual questions are asked during what traditional meal at the start of Passover Seder.
Seder is correct.
Next toss up question.
Operation Dynamo occurred during what 1940 battle that saw a fleet of little ships evacuate British troops who were trapped in northern France?
Moravian Dunkirk, Dunkirk, or the Battle of Dunkirk is correct, and they were trapped in northern France.
For your bonus, what?
U.S. president was in office when 52 Americans were taken hostage in the US Embassy in Tehran, following the Iranian Revolution.
Carter Jimmy Carter is the correct answer.
Next, toss up.
What novel?
Whose protagonist is exiled to in Boston after shooting Moravian.
Things fall apart, things fall apart.
And it is by Chinua Achebe.
For your bonus, Snell's Law incorporates two values for what?
Dimensionless quantity, which represents how much a medium bends the path of light.
Refraction.
Can you be a little bit more specific?
Linear refraction.
I'm sorry.
That is incorrect.
What we were looking for was index or indices of refraction.
And with that, we have reached the second lightning round.
So for the second lightning round Imus you will get to pick from the following topics.
We have English grammar or sevens as in the number seven.
Sevens.
Sevens or right.
Miss.
Your topic is sevens.
Give these answers that contain either the word or numeral seven.
Vices that include sloth and gluttony seven sins.
That is correct.
Group of liberal arts colleges, including Mount Holyoke.
Pass.
1954 film directed by Akira Kurosawa.
Seven samurai.
That is correct.
Conflict that included the French and Indian War.
Seven Years War.
That is correct.
Boeing plane whose Max nine model was grounded in 2020 for Boeing 727.
That is incorrect.
1937 Disney animated film based on a fairy tale, Snow White The Seven Dwarves.
That is correct.
Nathaniel Hawthorne novel about a Salem resident.
Residents.
Excuse me.
Salem residents pass Christian denomination that observes a Saturday Sabbath.
Seventh day Adventists.
That is correct.
Board game featuring the Great Pyramid and Colossus of Rhodes.
Seven wonders of the Ancient World.
You know, we'll take that.
It was seven wonders.
Seven wonders of the ancient world.
We'll take that.
And now, over to Moravian Academy.
Your topic is English grammar.
Answer the following about grammar concepts in English.
Part of speech of the word between preposition.
Correct punctuation mark that may splice clauses incorrectly.
Comma.
Correct base form of a verb such as to infinitive.
Correct process of inflecting a verb in accent.
Intonation.
That is.
Both of those are incorrect grammatical mood used to state facts.
Elements such as ish that can be added to the end of a word.
Sorry.
That is correct.
Process that is doubled in the phrase don't got no time, and I can give correct definitive article in English the correct greatest degree version of an adjective such as worst.
Past tense what's stands for an SVO word order subject that is correct for subject verb object.
And we'll start the final quarter of the match with the following toss up question.
What word derives from the Slavic term for labor was introduced?
Go ahead, Moravian slave.
That is incorrect.
I'll continue.
The question for Remus was introduced by Carol Chapek in the play argue R and refers to a machine such as an android is robot.
A robot is correct for your bonus.
What author wrote about a ship whose deck was once read with hero's blood?
In a poem about the USS Constitution, titled Old Iron Sides?
Whitman is incorrect.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Senior is the correct answer.
Next toss up question what element whose halide salts were traditionally used in developing photographs?
Was called are gentium in Latin?
Moravian silver.
Silver is correct, and it has its atomic symbols, e.g.
because of Argentina in Latin for your bonus.
What televangelist was criticized in 2017 for not housing victims of Hurricane Harvey at Lakewood Church, his megachurch in Houston?
Osteen Joel.
Osteen is the correct answer.
Next toss up question.
What author of the autobiography Long Walk to Freedom, was released in 1990 from Robben Island prison?
Review.
Mandela.
Nelson Mandela is the correct answer and went on to become the president of South Africa.
For your bonus Chordata, an arthropod are examples of what taxonomic groups higher than classes.
Phylum.
Phylum is correct.
Next toss up question.
What author who wrote about Ted Williams final game in hub fans bid bid adieu depicted the salaryman Harry Angstrom in such novels as rabbit, Run!
Peruvian.
Lewis.
That's incorrect.
Over to Mars.
You have a little bit of time, but no conferring.
Go ahead, Miss Smith.
That's also incorrect.
John Updike is the correct answer.
Next toss up question.
What Democratic politician who defeated Mehmet Oz in a 2022 camp movie?
Fetterman, John Fetterman is correct.
And he is the junior senator from Pennsylvania.
For your bonus.
What country was led by Francisco Solano Lopez and lost up to 90% of its male population during the War of the Triple Alliance in the 1860s?
Paraguay.
Paraguay is the correct answer.
The next toss up question is in math pencil and paper ready?
What is the area of a circle whose diameter is 18?
Given that the area mass 81 pi 81 pi is correct.
For your bonus in March 2020 for the stock price of Krispy Kreme rose 40% after it was announced plans to sell its donuts at branches of what fast food chain?
McDonald's.
McDonald's is correct.
And that was that's news to me.
I had no idea.
You can get a Krispy Kreme at McDonald's next toss up question what name?
Which identifies a figurine of villain dwarf that is tens of thousands of years old, is shared by the Roman.
Peruvian.
Venus.
Venus is correct and shared by the Roman goddess of love and is also a planet for a bonus Italian artist.
Arthur Miller's gently gentle, gentle rescue depicted what biblical woman slaying the Assyrian general Holofernes.
Judith Judith is correct.
Next toss up question what country's men's soccer team, which is coached by Roberto Martinez, has featured players Romelu Lukaku and Peruvian.
Belgium.
Belgium is correct, and they also feature Eden Hazard.
They play their home games in Brussels for your bonus.
A mammoth national monument is in what Texas City on the river, which is home of Baylor University.
Waco.
That is correct.
Baylor's based in Waco, Texas.
The next toss up question is in math pencil and paper.
Ready?
What integer equals the product of the first three prime numbers?
Given that the first review 12 is incorrect and unfortunately we are out of time.
The correct answer though, Aidan, just for the nerd crowd, what would it be?
30 is correct, but unfortunately no points for that.
And that is the end of our match.
Congratulations from Raven Academy.
You're on to the second round with a score of 575 to a high school, 155.
Good luck with the rest of your school year.
We will see you next week in Bishop High School.
Faces off against Catoosa High School.
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