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Scholastic Scrimmage: NW Lehigh HS vs Whitehall HS
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Now here's your host, David Graf.
- Hello and welcome to the second match of the third round of the 49th season of Scholastic Scrimmage.
I'm your host, David Graf.
Today's match between Northwestern Lehigh and Whitehall will be composed of two halves with a lightning round midway through each half.
At half-time we pause, the students introduce themselves and we'll get to know them better.
As a reminder, 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 question.
What device's compound type which uses both objective lenses and... Northwestern.
- Microscopes.
- Microscopes is correct.
It uses both objective lenses and an eyepiece to achieve high magnification.
For your bonus, what unsaturated hydrocarbons, the simplest of which have n carbons and 2n hydrogens, are characterized by a carbon-carbon double bond?
- Alkanes.
- Alkanes is correct.
Next toss-up question.
What novel in which Robert elopes with Edward's fiancee Lucy Steele is named after the Dashwood sisters' contrasting traits and is by Jane Austen?
Northwestern.
- Sense And Sensibility.
- Sense And Sensibility is correct.
For your bonus, what word refers to the amount of ethanol present in an alcoholic beverage or a mathematical process for demonstrating a statement's truth?
- Proof.
- Proof is correct.
Next toss-up question.
What class, the privileged side of the Conflict of the Orders, held most political power in early Rome and were distinguished... Northwestern.
- The patricians.
- The patricians is correct.
They were distinguished from the plebeians.
For your bonus, what South American country's first president was Johan Ferrier, who renamed the country in 1975 following independence from the Netherlands?
- Suriname.
- Suriname is correct.
Next toss-up question.
What transition metal whose carbide is almost as hard as diamond... Northwestern.
- Tungsten.
- Tungsten is correct.
Ind it's used in incandescent light bulbs.
For your bonus, Savai'i and Upolu are islands in what Pacific archipelago whose nation's capital is Apia?
- Samoa.
- Samoa is also correct.
Next toss-up question.
What organization led by former Governor Charlie Baker was ruled to be subject to antitrust laws in 2021, enabling the NIL deals for student athletes?
Whitehall.
- The NCAA.
- The NCAA is correct.
For your bonus, what process of biodegrading organic matter aerobically produces a namesake product that can be used as humus or fertilizer?
- Compost.
- Compost or composting is correct.
Next toss-up question.
What animated film series whose fifth installment was subtitled Collision Course features... Northwestern.
- Ice Age.
- Ice Age is correct.
It features John Leguizamo as the voice of Sid the ground sloth.
For your bonus, upon reaching Australia, James Cook landed in and named what bay, whose name was afterward used to refer to a nearby penal colony?
- The Bay of Discovery.
- That is incorrect.
Botany Bay is the correct answer.
Next toss-up question.
In 1989, what country formed a contract same after round table talks with a labor union founded at the Lenin Shipyard by Lech Walesa called Solid... Whitehall.
- Poland.
- Poland is correct.
It was called Solidarity.
For your bonus, what Dominican-American author wrote about a boy who loves fantasy novels and suffers from a family curse in the Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wilde?
- Cervantes.
- Incorrect.
Junot Diaz is the correct answer.
Next toss-up question.
What author won Booker Prizes for a novel about the Chase family titled The Blind Assassin, and for The Testaments, her sequel to The Handmaid's Tale?
Northwestern.
- Margaret Atwood.
- Margaret Atwood is correct.
For your bonus, Edward Elgar wrote a concerto for what instrument played by Jacqueline du Pre and Yo-Yo Ma?
- Violin.
- Incorrect.
That concerto was written for the cello.
Next toss-up question.
Wat American astronomer's discoveries, including redshift increasing with distance, a tuning fork galaxy classification and the universe's expansion?
Whitehall.
- Doppler.
- That's incorrect.
Over the Northwestern.
Go ahead, Northwestern.
- Hawking.
- That is also incorrect.
Edwin Hubble is the correct answer.
Next toss-up question.
What holiday, which names anti-conscription riots in Quebec in 1918 and a 1916 uprising against British Rule of Ireland follows the 40... Whitehall.
- Easter.
- Easter is correct.
It follows the 40 days of Lent.
For your bonus, in the Ruy Lopez opening in chess, both players' second moves involve moving what piece which must always move multiple spaces?
- The knight.
- The knight is correct.
Next toss-up question.
What island, which is south of the Aeolian Islands, is home to Syracuse and Palermo... Northwestern.
- Sicily.
- Sicily is correct.
It lies across the Strait of Messina from the boot of Italy.
For your bonus, what equation named for a German chemist determines the reduction potential of redox reaction based on concentration and temperature?
That's redox reduction - excuse me.
Based on concentration and temperature.
- Hess's Law.
- That is incorrect.
The Nernst equation is the correct answer.
Next toss-up question.
What word follows South China Morning in the name of a major Hong Kong newspaper, and in the name of a Jeff Bezos-owned paper follows Washington?
Whitehall.
- Post.
- Post is correct for both the South China Morning Post and the Washington Post newspapers.
For your bonus, in the Treaties of Aigun and Peking, China ceded territory along the Amur River to what country, including its modern-day city of Vladivostok?
- Russia.
- Russia is correct.
And with that, we reached the first lightning round.
In a pre-match coin toss, it was determined that Northwestern will get to pick first between the following topics - civil war battles or S-E-M. - What do you think, Tim?
- Civil war.
- Civil war.
Northwestern, your topic is civil war battles.
Given a civil war battle, name the state in which it was fought.
Gettysburg.
- Pennsylvania.
- Correct.
Petersburg and the first Bull Run.
- Virginia.
- Correct.
Antietam.
- Maryland.
- Correct.
Fort Sumter.
- South Carolina.
- Correct.
Kennesaw Mountain and the March to the Sea.
- Georgia.
- Correct.
Mobile Bay.
- Alabama.
- Correct.
Fort Donelson and Shiloh.
- Tennessee.
- Correct.
Paducah and Perryville.
- Kentucky.
- Correct.
Palmetto Ranch.
- Texas.
- Correct.
Valverde and Glorietta Pass, fought here before it became a state.
- West Virginia.
- That's incorrect.
The last one was New Mexico.
Actually, till then I did not know the wars fought in the civil war in New Mexico.
Whitehall, your topic is S-E-M. Give these answers that begin with the consecutive letters S-E-M. Punctuation connecting.. - Semicolon.
- Correct.
A half of the school year.
- Semester.
- Correct.
Spanish for week.
- Semana.
- Correct.
School for educating future clergy.
- Seminary.
- Correct.
Language family including Hebrew.
- Seminal.
- Incorrect.
Material that partially resists electric current.
- Semiconductor.
- Correct.
Latin motto of the Marine Corps.
- Semper Fi.
- That's incorrect.
Flour made from durum wheat.
- Semolina.
- Correct.
Mother of Dionysius.
- Pass.
- Communication system using flags.
- Semaphore.
- Semaphore is correct.
OK. We'll continue on with the following toss-up question.
What organization was opposed by William Borah's Irreconcilables and by Henry Cabot Lodge, who kept Whitehall.
- The League of Nations?
- League of Nations is correct, who kept the US from joining after World War I.
For your bonus, the 17th-century Castillo de San Marcos is in what Florida city, the oldest continually inhabited European settlement in the continental United States?
- Saint Augustine.
- Saint Augustine is correct.
Next, toss-up question.
What lake, which contains Michipicoten Island and Isle Royale drains via the Saint Mary's River into Lake Huron and is the largest... Northwestern.
- Lake Superior.
- That's right.
It's the largest of the Great Lakes.
Lake Superior.
For your bonus, what Italian composer wrote the aria Una Furtiva Lagrima and adapted a Walter Scott novel in his opera Lucia Di Lammermoor?
- Puccini.
- That's incorrect.
Gaetano Donizetti is the correct answer.
Next toss-up question.
What author of the story The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas wrote the novel The Left Hand Of Darkness, as well as a fantasy series set in Earthsea?
Ursula Le Guin is the correct answer.
The next toss-up question is in math.
Pencil and paper ready.
Rounded to the nearest whole number, how many hours are equivalent to 50 minutes, given that one hour contains 60 minutes?
Whitehall.
- One.
- That is incorrect.
(VOICE OFF SCREEN) Oh, I did say 50 minutes?
That is correct.
Yes, one is the correct answer.
I misread the question.
But you gave the right answer to the wrong question.
So that is correct.
We are keeping it.
So for your bonus, what king was punished by feeding his son to the Greek gods by being placed near fruit and water that stayed eternally out of his reach?
- Tantalus.
- Tantalus is correct.
Next toss-up question.
What ballet which follows the Bride and the Husbandman, includes five variations on the Shaker tune Simple Gifts and was composed by Aaron Copland?
Whitehall.
- Rite Of Spring.
- That is incorrect Over to Northwestern.
Northwestern.
- Appalachian Spring.
- Correct.
You were close.
I knew you had it, but not quite.
For your bonus, the IQR is the difference between the first and third of what values which are equivalent to the 25th, 50th and 75th percentile.
- Quartiles.
- Quartiles is correct.
And with that, we've reached half-time.
We have an excellent match underway.
Northwestern Lehigh leads Whitehall with a score of 180 to 135.
Now we'll take a moment for the students to introduce themselves with their first and last name, their grade level and the answer to the following question - what is your favorite movie or TV series?
Northwestern Lehigh.
Shannon, we'll start with you.
- My name is Shannon.
I'm in 11th grade and my favorite movie is Fight Club.
- My name is Than.
I'm in 12th grade, and my favorite TV series would have to be Survivor.
- My name is Tim.
I'm in 12th grade and my favorite movie would be the first Pirates Of The Caribbean.
- My name is Jesse.
I'm in 12th grade and my favorite movie is Jurassic Park.
- OK, Whitehall.
James, over to you.
- My name is James.
I'm in 12th grade and my favorite TV series is South Park.
- I'm Neiv.
I'm in 11th grade.
And my favorite movie is Hidden Figures.
- I'm Pri.
I'm in 12th grade, and my favorite movie is the 2022 Batman movie.
- Kyla.
12th grade.
My favorite movie is Pulp Fiction.
- OK, we'll continue with the second half of the match with the following toss-up question.
What African country, which controls Pemba and Mafia Islands, also controls the semi-autonomous province of Zanzibar, which is south.... Go ahead, Northwestern.
- Tanzania.
- Tanzania is correct... ..which is...
Yes, Tanzania is the correct answer.
And on to your bonus question.
What company based in Toulouse, France, makes the A380, the world's largest commercial airliner?
That's Boeing's main competitor, Airbus.
The next toss-up question is in math.
Pencil and paper ready.
What is the probability that an event will occur if the odds in favor of the event are 5 to 3?
Whitehall.
- Five and eight.
Five out of eight.
- Five and eight.
Or 62.5.
That is the correct answer.
For your bonus, in the 2023 NBA playoffs.
what franchise led by Jalen Brunson and Julius Randle beat Cleveland before losing to the Miami Heat in the second round?
- The Knicks.
- The York Knicks is correct.
Next toss-up question.
What Titan, whose nymph daughters included Pleiades and Calypso, was condemned to stand in the far west of the world?
Whitehall.
- Atlas.
- Atlas is correct.
And hold up the heavens.
For your bonus, what massive freshwater lake in Eastern Siberia is generally considered the world's deepest lake?
- Lake Baikal.
- Lake Baikal is correct.
Next toss-up question.
What color describes a mist in Jackson Pollock's Number 1, 1950, an anti-gay political scare of the 1950s... Northwestern.
- Lavender.
- Lavender is correct.
And also a Haze song in a 2022 Taylor Swift song.
For your bonus, what process regulated by the enzymes hexokinase and phosphor... and phosphofructokinase produce pyruvates and is the first step of aerobic respiration?
- Inhalation.
- That's incorrect.
Glycolysis is the correct answer.
Next toss-up question.
What woman who in 1776 letter told her husband to remember the ladies.
Whitehall.
- Abigail Adams.
- That is correct.
She became the second First Lady when her husband John Adams became president.
For your bonus, what CBS Evening News anchor who used the catchphrase, "And that's the way it is."
held back tears as he announced JFK's assassination?
- Walter Cronkite.
- Walter Cronkite is correct.
Next toss-up question.
What author, who wrote about Mrs Manson Mingott, whose granddaughter Ellen Olenska in love with Newland Archer in her novel The Age Of Innocence?
Edith Wharton is the correct answer.
Next toss-up question.
What tissue, which contains tracheids and vessel elements, uses transpirational pull to move water and plants and usually lies near... Northwestern.
- Xylem.
- Xylem is correct.
And it lies near the phloem.
For your bonus, what nonbinary English actor voices the titled blue-haired character on the Netflix show Hilda and plays the fierce teenager Ellie on HBO's The Last Of Us?
- Bella Ramsey.
- He was in before the buzzer.
Bella Ramsey is correct.
Next toss-up question.
What Middle Eastern country whose Kashgar dynasty was overthrown in 1925 was ruled until 1979 by members of the of the Pahlavi dynasty?
Northwestern.
- Iran.
- Iran is correct.
And that dynasty used the title Shah.
Your bonus is in math.
Pencil and paper ready.
How many unique sequences of four coin flips have at least one tails among the four outcomes?
- 15.
- 15 is correct.
Next toss-up question.
What country, the site of a sky bridge, nicknamed the Horizontal Skyscraper, also contains a stadium called the Bird's Nest and the Shanghai Tower?
Northwestern.
- China.
- China is correct.
And for your bonus, a red steel sculpture in Philadelphia, created by pop artist Robert Indiana, displays what four-letter word with a tilted O?
- Love.
- Love is correct.
And it's located in Love Park.
And with that, we've reached the second lightning round.
Whitehall, you'll get to pick between the following topics - the letter R or alliterative people.
- The letter R. - The letter R it is.
Whitehall, your second lightning round topic is the letter R. What does the R stand for in these abbreviations?
The lobbying group the NRA.
- Rifle.
- Correct.
The fantasy franchise LOTR.
- Rings.
- Correct.
The gaming category MMORPG.
- Rule.
- Correct.
The college military program ROTC.
- Pass.
- The group for those over 50 called AARP.
- Retirement.
- That is incorrect.
The medical procedure CPR.
- Resuscitation.
- Correct.
The accounting metric ROI.
- Return.
- Correct.
The antidepressant class SSRI.
- Pass.
- The music trade organization RIAA.
- Rhythm.
- Incorrect.
The environmental nonprofit NRDC.
- Reserve.
- That's incorrect.
Resources was the last answer for the National Resources Defense Council.
Northwestern, your topic is alliterative people.
Give the surnames of these people with alliterative names.
So we only need the surname.
Italian Explorer who commanded the Santa Maria in 1492.
- Columbus.
- Correct.
Spanish painter of Guernica.
- Picasso.
- Correct.
Italian who discovered Jupiter's four largest moons.
- Galileo Galilei.
- That is correct.
Daughter of Kris Jenner, formerly married to rapper Ye .
- Kardashian.
- That is correct.
Dictator who controlled Spain from 1939 to 1975.
- Franco.
- Correct.
Irish author of Finnegans Wake and Dubliners.
- Joyce.
- Correct.
German who named... German whose namesake SI unit is the reciprocal of the second.
- Hertz.
- Correct.
Star of the movies Falling For Christmas and Mean Girls.
- Lohan.
- Correct.
Composer of South Pacific and Oklahoma.
- Chekhov.
- That is incorrect.
French philosopher who was chief editor of the Encyclopedie.
- Diderot.
- That is correct.
On with the final quarter of the match with the following toss-up question.
What German chemist whose wife Clara died by suicide in 1915 after he weaponized chlorine gas names an industrial process for producing amm... Whitehall.
Quickly.
- Bessemer.
- That is incorrect.
Industrial process for producing ammonia.
For Northwestern now.
Northwestern.
- Smith.
- That's incorrect.
Fritz Haber is the correct answer.
Next toss-up question.
What structure, which was built along a guarded death strip in 1961 was destroyed by protesters in 1989... Northwestern.
- The Berlin Wall?
- That is correct.
It was destroyed in 1989 to reunite the divided capital of Germany.
Your bonus is in math.
Pencil and paper ready.
There are two answers required.
What two values of X are solutions to the equation the square of the quantity 2x = 36?
- 3 or negative 3.
- We think...?
Yes.
3 and negative 3 are the correct answers.
Next toss-up question.
What assets, whose repeat sales prices are measured on the S&P Case-Shiller index, are often purchased with finance loans called mortgages?
Whitehall.
- Houses.
- Houses or homes is correct.
And for better or worse, I have one.
And it always hangs over your head every month.
For your bonus, in September 2023, Tharman Shanmugaratnam became the first person of non-Chinese descent to win the presidency of what small South Asian country?
- Myanmar.
- That's incorrect.
Singapore is the correct answer.
Next toss-up question.
What five-letter word follows asymptotic in a branch of an HR Diagram and follows red in the naming of a type of star that the sun will become?
Whitehall.
- Dwarf.
- That is incorrect.
Northwestern.
Go ahead, Northwestern.
- Giant.
- Giant is correct.
For your bonus, the city of Qinhuangdao is found on the shores of what colorfully named sea that lies north of the East China Sea?
- The Yellow Sea.
- The Yellow Sea is correct.
Next toss-up question.
What tool, a variant of which is called the ard was used in ancient times, has a steel type developed by John Deere and is used to turn... - Whitehall.
- The plow.
The plow is correct.
It's used to turn over soil.
For your bonus, what 1850 poetry collection included untitled verses that began Yes, call me by my pet name and How I love thee?
Let me count the ways.
- Leaves On The Wind.
- That's incorrect.
It's Sonnets From The Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
Next toss-up question.
What politician, who is separated from his spouse, Sophia Gregoire, leads the Liberal Party and serves... Northwestern.
- Justin Trudeau.
- That is correct.
I believe her name is French Canadian, so a little tough to get out there.
My French is not my best.
For your bonus, In what event, triggered by the failed assassination of Gaspard de Coligny in 1572, did Catholics massacre thousands of Protestant Huguenots in France?
- The St Bartholomew's Day Massacre?
- The St Bartholomew's Day Massacre is correct.
Next toss-up question.
What Nintendo series, whose newest entry is a mixed reality game subtitled Home Circuit, features Mushroom Gorge... Whitehall.
- Mario Kart.
- Mario Kart is correct, and also features the notorious Rainbow Road track.
For your bonus, collard greens and kale are rich in what element found in hydroxyapatite that is the most abundant metal in the human body?
- Iron.
- That is incorrect.
Calcium is the correct answer.
Next toss-up question.
What quantity is constant for Newtonian fluids, can be measured in units called poises, and is a measure of the resistance of a fluid... Whitehall.
- Viscosity.
- Viscosity is correct, and it's resistance of a fluid to flow For your bonus, during the Tri Wizard Tournament Barty Crouch Jr impersonates what Auror who uses a magical prosthesis and who later dies while escorting Harry Potter?
- Mad-Eye Moody.
- Mad-Eye Moody is the correct answer.
Next toss-up question.
And that is the end of the match.
That was a really great match for the third round.
Thank you very much to both teams.
Unfortunately, Whitehall, with 260 points, not quite enough to move on.
Good luck with the rest of your school year.
Northwestern Lehigh, congratulations.
With 360 points, we will see you in the next round.
And we'll see you next week when Southern Lehigh faces off against Parkland.
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