Welcome to PBS39's Scholastic Scrimmage.

Scholastic Scrimmage is brought to you by the members of PBS39 and by PPL, Lehigh Valley Reilly Children's Hospital.

Now here's your host, David Graf.

- Hello and welcome to the third match of the second round of the 49th season of Scholastic Scrimmage.

I'm your host, David Graf.

Today's match between Northwestern Lehigh and Emmaus will be composed of two halves with a lightning round midway through each half.

At half-time, we'll pause.

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

Also, a reminder that Scholastic 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.

What drug originally derived from the willow bark of acetylsalicylic acid?

Northwestern.

- Aspirin.

- Aspirin is correct, It's used to lower heart attack risk and also treat pain.

For your bonus, what term describes interactions between two processes, such as medications, whose combined effect is greater than the sum of their individual effects?

- Positive effect.

- That's incorrect.

A synergy is the name of the effect.

Next toss-up question.

What native of the town of Domremy had visions of angels inspiring her to relieve... ...inspiring her to relieve the siege of Orleans on behalf of France... Northwestern.

- Joan of Arc.

- That's right - in the Hundred Years' War.

For your bonus, what 18th century British author of the picaresque novel Joseph Andrews also wrote about the adventures of a foundling in the novel Tom Jones?

- Blair.

- That is incorrect.

Henry Fielding is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question.

What novel, which was written on a 120-foot-long scroll of paper, includes such characters as Carlo Marx and Sal Paradise and is by Jack Kerouac?

Emmaus.

- On The Road.

- On The Road is correct and just happens to be one of your host's favorite novels.

For your bonus, Francis Willard and the WCTU championed what cause that Carrie Nation worked to advance by conducting violent hatchetations?

Excuse me.

Hatchet... Hatchetations is what she conducted.

That'd be the temperance movement.

Next toss-up question.

What city contains the Square of Miracles, lies near the mouth of the Arno River and is an unstable campanile... ..and has an unstable campanile known as its namesake leaning tower?

Emmaus.

- Pisa.

- Pisa is correct.

For your bonus, hoarding is one possible outcome of Gresham's law, which says that bad forms of what stuff will drive out good forms of it?

Karma.

°That is incorrect.

Money is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question.

What 1937 musical work, which set dozens of texts by Goliad monks in German and Latin, begins and ends with O Fortuna and has a cantata by Carl Orff?

Carmina Burana is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question.

In what battle, which Marcus Reno was criticized for not entering, did forces led by Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull defeat and kill George Custer?

Emmaus.

- Battle of Bull Run.

- That is incorrect.

Over the Northwestern.

No conferring.

Go ahead, Northwestern.

- Little Bighorn.

- The Battle of Little Bighorn is correct.

For your bonus, what term refers to both a hallucinogenic drink in the Vedic tradition and a powerful drug that induces happiness in Aldous this Huxley's Brave New World?

- Ecstasy.

- That's incorrect.

Soma is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question.

What thinker introduced Postulates Of Practical Reason in a book expanding on his categorical imperative... Emmaus.

- Kant.

- Kant is correct.

After writing the Critique Of Pure Reason.

For your bonus, what country opened trade with the United States after the arrival of Commodore Matthew Perry's Black Ships?

- Japan.

- Japan is also correct.

Next toss-up question.

The Rosetta probe landed on what type of icy body which has a coma around a nucleus and... Emmaus.

- Comet.

- A comet is correct.

For your bonus, complex numbers are often expressed in the form a + bi, where I squared equals what number?

- Negative one.

- Negative one is correct.

Next toss-up question.

What country, in which Babrak Karmal was put in power by the Soviet Union, elected Hamid Karzai as president after a long period of rule by the Taliban?

Emmaus.

- Afghanistan.

- Afghanistan is correct, and the Taliban now currently controls the country.

For your bonus, Sean O'Brien is the president of what labor union that in the summer of 2023 held contract negotiations with UPS over working conditions for drivers?

- Defer to Eli.

- Just tell your captain.

- AFLCIL.

- AFLCIL.

- Unfortunately, that is incorrect.

The Teamsters Union is the union that he leads.

Next toss-up question.

What country did Bucaramanga mayor Rudolph Hernandez Suarez lose in a 2022 election to former M-19 guerilla Gustavo Pedro, who governed from Bogota?

Northwestern.

- Colombia.

- Colombia is correct.

For your bonus, what woman has a namesake Living magazine, often appears on TV and commercials with Snoop Dogg and, at 81, was Sports Illustrated's oldest swimsuit issue cover model?

- Martha Stewart.

- Martha Stewart.

- Martha Stewart is correct.

And with that, we have reached our first lightning round.

In a pre-match coin toss, it was determined that, Northwestern, you'll get to pick from the following topics.

Moons or artistic times of day.

- We'll go with moons.

- Moons, OK. Northwestern Lehigh, your topic is moons.

Name these moons.

Moon of Jupiter that is the largest in the solar system.

- Io.

- That is incorrect.

Moon of Mars that is smaller than Phobos.

- Deimos.

- Correct.

Moon of Jupiter that is volcanically active and has a two-letter name.

- Io.

- Io is correct.

Largest moon of Saturn.

- Titan.

- Correct.

Moon of Pluto named for a ferryman from Greek myth.

- Charon.

- That is correct.

Largest moon of Neptune.

- Triton.

- Correct.

Moon of Jupiter that is the smallest of the four Galilean moons.

- Europa.

- That is correct.

Icy moon of Saturn that has the highest albedo in the solar system.

- Enceladus.

- That is correct.

Largest moon of Uranus.

- Pass.

- Moon of Saturn often said to resemble the Death Star.

- Pass.

- And that one was Mimas.

It has a big crater impact.

It looks like it could mimic the Death Star.

Emmaus, your topic is artistic times of day.

Given a work of art, what time of day... ..with a time of day in its title...

So we're going to give you the piece of art or artistic movement that has a time of day in its title.

Name the artist who created it.

The painting Starry Night.

- Van Gogh.

- Correct.

The Noon Symphony, one of his over 100 symphonies.

No conferring.

Just say it if you know it.

- Dvorak.

- That is incorrect.

The sculptures Dusk and Dawn in Florence's Medici Chapel.

- Michelangelo.

- Correct.

The musical work Night On Bald Mountain.

- Pass.

- The painting Impression, Sunrise.

- Manet.

- That is correct.

Or actually, that's incorrect.

It's Monet, not Manet.

The excerpt Morning Mood from his incidental music for Peer Gynt.

Greig.

- Say again.

- Greig.

- That is correct.

The painting Landscape Noon, which he retitled The Hay Wain.

- Constable.

- That is correct.

The musical work Prelude To An Afternoon Of A Faun.

- Chopin.

- That is incorrect.

The painting The Night Watch.

And that would have been Rembrandt.

OK. We'll continue on with the following toss-up question.

What scientist names the elastic scattering due to a Coulomb potential and names an experiment in which the nucleus was discovered using... Emmaus.

- Rutherford.

- Ernest Rutherford is correct.

And he discovered it using gold foil.

For your bonus, what word follows specific in the name of a quantity also called relative density that equals a substance's density divided by the density of water?

- Gravity.

- Gravity is correct.

Next toss-up question.

What province contains Jasper and Banff National Parks, is one of Canada's major oil producers and includes the cities of Calgary and Edmonton?

Emmaus.

- Alberta.

- Alberta is correct.

For your bonus, female performers of what instrument include Martha Argerich, Yuja Wang, Alice Sara Ott and Mitsuko Uchida?

- Cello.

- That is incorrect.

They all play the piano.

Next toss-up question.

What novel, in which Friedrich Muller's death from a stomach wound, is witnessed by Paul Baumer?

Emmaus.

- All Quiet On The Western Front.

- All Quiet On The Western Front is correct.

And for your bonus, what city, known as the Paris of the Prairies, is the most populous city in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan?

- Winnipeg.

- That's incorrect.

Saskatoon is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question.

The sesamoid or free-floating type of what general structures in the human body include the pisiform, hyoid and patella as examples?

Northwestern.

- Bones.

- Bones is correct.

For your bonus.

Manaus in Brazil exploded in growth in the 1880s during a boom for what commodity which was the focus of Henry Ford's failed company town Fordlandia?

- Sugar.

- Nope.

My brother-in-law actually spent some time in Manaus, and they're known for their rubber and rubber production.

Fordlandia for his tires, for his cars.

Next toss-up question.

In what country which nearly collapsed during the Rampjaar Disaster of 1672?

did the Orangist faction support princely leaders called stadholders?

Emmaus.

- The Netherlands.

- Yes.

The Netherlands or the Dutch Republic is correct.

For your bonus, what epic poem in which Marjatta gets pregnant from eating a lingonberry and the earth is created from an eggshell is the national epic of Finland?

- No answer.

- Kalevala is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question.

What game series whose sixth-numbered entry was released in 2023 and centers on Luke Sullivan is made by Capcom and stars martial artists Ken and Ryu?

Northwestern.

- Street Fighter.

- Street Fighter is correct.

For your bonus, Aldebaran is the most luminous star in what constellation whose name comes from the Latin for bull?

- Taurus.

- Taurus is correct.

Next toss-up question.

What mathematician showed that for convex polyhedra, vertices plus faces minus edges equals two?

Emmaus.

- Euler.

- Yes, Euler is the correct answer.

For your bonus, what man directed the 2018 post-apocalyptic movie A Quiet Place, a film which he co-starred in with his wife Emily Blunt?

- Kransinski.

- I'm sorry.

That is incorrect.

It's John Krasinski, not Kransinski.

And with that, we've reached half-time.

An excellent match under way.

Emmaus currently leads Northwestern, and now we'll get to know the students better.

They'll introduce themselves, even though we met them in the first round, with their first, last name, grade level, and let us know the answer to the following question - fill us in on a hobby or collection that you have, Northwestern Lehigh.

Shannon, we'll start with you.

- I'm Shannon Green.

I'm a junior and I collect CDs.

- Cool.

- I'm Dan Smolinski.

I'm a senior and I collect vinyl records.

- Hello, I'm Tim Bernard.

I'm a senior and one of my hobbies is building model ships.

- I'm Jesse Kinsman.

I'm a senior, and I collect CDs.

- Oh, cool.

I thought we were going to go down the line and Tim was going to say he collects MP3s, and we're going to move in progress of musical storage.

OK, Elias, go ahead.

- I'm Elias Scope, and I'm a senior and I love collecting coins.

I'm Sarvesh Senguttuvan, I'm a senior, and I like collecting foreign currency.

- Excellent.

- I'm Ryan Bigg.

I'm a senior.

And one of my hobbies is cooking and baking.

- Alright.

- I'm Aiden Cannon.

I'm a junior, and...I'm not sure if I have any hobbies that I'd particularly enjoy sharing with you guys.

- OK. Alright.

Fair enough.

Alright.

We'll continue on with the second half of the match with the following toss-up question.

What exchange, which lends its name to a composite index that focuses on... Emmaus.

- The Nasdaq.

- The Nasdaq is correct, and it's listed alongside the S&P and Dow Jones.

For your bonus, the background of Grant Wood's Daughters Of Revolution depicts a version of what painting of a historical scene by Emanuel Leutze?

- The Signing Of The Constitution.

- I'm sorry.

It's incorrect.

You're in the same time period, but it's Washington Crossing The Delaware.

Next toss-up question.

What company whose Local People Meter expanded data collection beyond sweeps periods publishes a namesake ratings measuring viewership of TV shows?

Northwestern.

- Nielsen.

- Nielsen is correct.

They used to be known for filling out their little blue books.

Your bonus is in math - pencil and paper ready.

If five fair coins are simultaneously flipped, what is the probability that at least one of the five coins will show tails?

- 31 out of 32.

- I believe so.

- 31 out of 32.

- That is correct.

Or 96.875%.

Next toss-up question.

What project at which... ..at whose completion Leland Stanford drove a ceremonial golden spike into the ground... Northwestern.

- Transcontinental Railroad.

- That is correct.

And he drove that spike into the ground in 1869.

For your bonus, what short story by Edward Everett Hale is about an army lieutenant named Philip Nolan who renounced the United States?

- Occurrence at Owl Creek... Owl Creek Bridge.

- That is incorrect.

The Man Without A Country is the correct answer.

That's one I have not heard of.

I have to look that up and take a look at it.

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

What is the pH of an acidic solution that has a pOH age of ten... Northwestern.

- Four.

- That is correct.

We didn't have to read the additional information.

For your bonus, the world's largest salt flat, the Salar de Uyuni, is found in what landlocked South American country?

- Bolivia.

- Bolivia is correct.

Next toss-up question.

What biblical king of Israel who was the father of Rehoboam was tested with hard questions by the Queen of Sheba and was renowned for his wisdom?

Northwestern.

- Solomon.

- Solomon is correct.

And for your bonus, the Gulf of California is also called the Sea of what 16th-century explorer who was the first governor of New Spain?

- Cortez.

- That is correct.

Hernan Cortez is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question.

What things whose cryptic types feature half-turn rotational symmetry, are created by people like Will Shortz, and are word puzzles in a grid?

Northwestern.

- Crosswords.

- Crossword puzzles is correct.

For your bonus, what alkali metal has a well studied oscillation used to keep time in atomic clocks?

- Cesium.

- Cesium is correct.

Next toss-up question.

What event, whose participants disguised as Mohawks, resulted in... Northwestern.

- Boston Tea Party?

- Boston Tea Party is correct.

It involved them dumping a certain beverage in a bay in Massachusetts.

For your bonus, what state, founded by Sargon in 24th century BC, and greatly expanded by Sargan's grandson Naram-Sin, is often called the world's first empire?

- Sumer.

- That's incorrect.

It's the Akkadian empire would be the first one.

Next toss-up question.

What former theater critic for the Daily Punkteowan.. ..dedicated books such as The Reptile Room and Beatrice Baudelaire in A Series Of Unfortunate Events?

Northwestern.

- Lemony Snicket.

- Lemony Snicket is correct.

For your bonus, in what northeastern state did Chris Sununu announce that he would not seek a fifth two-year term as governor in July 2023?

- New Hampshire.

- New Hampshire is correct.

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

Emmaus, you'll get to pick between the following topics - Texas locations, or five.

- Let's go with five.

- Five.

- Emmaus is picking five.

Emmaus, your topic is five.

Answer the following about the number five.

Home country of the Mighty Five composers.

- Germany.

- Incorrect.

Element with atomic number five and the symbol B.

- Boron.

- Correct.

Object at number five in The 12 Days Of Christmas.

- Gold rings.

- That is correct.

Religion whose five pillars include the Hajj or pilgrimage.

- Islam.

- Correct.

Line of poetry with five feet.

- Iambic pentameter.

- Correct.

Figure who suffered the five holy wounds.

- Jacob.

- Incorrect.

A William Carlos Williams poem reads, "I saw the figure five in..." this color.

- Red.

- Incorrect.

Soviet leader who launched the first five-year plan in 1928.

- Stalin.

- Correct.

Platonic solid with pentagons for faces.

- Pass.

- Psychiatrist who described five stages of grief.

That last one will be Elizabeth Kubler Ross.

Northwestern, you have Texas locations.

Let's see if you guys can mess with Texas or not on this one.

Name these cities in Texas.

Home of the Riverwalk and the Alamo.

- Fort Worth.

- Incorrect.

Contains Dealey Plaza where John F Kennedy was assassinated.

- Dallas.

- Correct.

Its capital.

- Austin.

- Correct.

Its most populous city.

- Houston.

- Correct.

Shares its name with the Spanish word for yellow.

- Amarillo.

- Correct.

Gulf Coast City devastated by a 1900 hurricane.

- Galveston.

- Correct.

City with a Spanish name across the Rio Grande from Ciudad Juarez.

- El Paso.

- Correct.

Home of Baylor University that is near the site of a 1993 FBI siege.

- Pass.

- Southernmost city which is near the mouth of the Rio Grande.

- Matamoros.

- That is incorrect.

Site of Globe Life Field where the Texas Rangers play.

- Austin.

- That's incorrect.

It's Arlington where the Rangers are based out of.

We continue on with the final quarter of the match with the following toss-up question.

What viral disease, whose onset usually features Koplik spots in the mouth is also called rubella and is the first M in the MMR vaccine?

Northwestern.

- Measles.

- Measles is correct.

For your bonus, what 19th century American author who wrote the novel Ragged Dick which exemplifies his rags to riches narratives?

- Smith.

- That's incorrect.

Horatio Alger is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question.

What president, whose backers used the slogan Tippecanoe and Tyler too, gave the longest inaugural address... Northwestern.

- William Henry Harrison.

- That is correct.

And he died in 1840 after serving just 31 days in office.

For your bonus, what Spanish explorer crossed the Isthmus of Panama in 1513, becoming the first European to see the Pacific from the New World?

- Pizarro.

- That's incorrect.

Balboa is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question.

What city, home to a mosaic salamander at Park Guell, houses the unfinished Sagrada Familia Church designed by... Northwestern.

- Barcelona.

- That is correct.

It's designed by Antonio Gaudi.

Your bonus is in math - pencil and paper ready.

What is the distance between two x intercepts or roots of the parabola y = x squared - 225?

- 450.

- That's incorrect.

30 is the correct answer.

Alright.

Next toss-up question.

What author depicted a school run by Madame Beck in the novel Villette and described how Bertha set fire to Thornfield Hall in the novel Jane Eyre?

Emmaus.

Right away?

- Charlotte Bronte.

- That is correct.

You have the right Bronte as well.

We would have asked to specify.

For your bonus, what country whose official language is Dzongkha is a Himalayan nation whose capital is Thimphu?

- Bhutan.

- Bhutan is correct.

Next toss-up question.

What country, whose city of Ibadan contains many Yoruba people, was once governed from Lagos and is the most... Emmaus.

- Nigeria.

- That is correct.

It's the most populous country in Africa.

For your bonus, what South Carolina politician who ran for president in in 1948 as a Dixiecrat, filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1957?

- Thurmond.

- That is correct.

Thurmond is the correct answer.

He filibustered for over 24 straight hours.

Next toss-up question.

What god, the son of Maia, carried the caduceus, a staff whose intertwined snakes... Northwestern.

- Hermes.

- Hermes is correct.

He was the Greek trickster god.

For your bonus, what Shinto storm kami rudely threw a flayed horse into the hall of his sister, Amaterasu?

- Do you have any ideas?

- Genshi?

- Susanoo is the correct answer.

The next toss-up is in math.

Pencil and paper ready.

What is the volume of a cube whose edges have a length of one half...given... - One eighth.

- One eighth is the correct answer.

For your bonus, on July 4th, 2023, what American consumed 62 HDB to win Nathan's hot dog eating contest for the 16th... - Chestnut.

- Chestnut is correct.

Next toss-up question.

In what country did protesters hold up sheets of A4 paper to protest the dynamic clearing zero Covid policy... Emmaus.

- China?

- That is correct.

It was advanced by President Xi Jinping.

For your bonus, what British romantic described a woman who has "a mind at peace with all below" and an innocent heart in his poem She Walks In Beauty?

With that, we've reached the end of the match.

The answer to the last bonus question there was Lord Byron.

Well, guys, excellent match between two absolutely excellent teams.

Northwestern Lehigh, with 300 points, you will move on to the next round.

Emmaus, 250 points.

I'm sorry, it's the end of line, but good luck with the rest of your school year Thank you for tuning in.

We'll see you next week when freedom faces off against Whitehall.