Welcome to PBS39's Scholastic Scrimmage.

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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 pregame temperature checks, students wearing masks during the competition, and I'm socially distanced from the teams on set.

And now on to today's match between Parkland and Emmaus.

The match will feature two halves with a lightning round mid-way through each half.

At half-time, we'll pause to get to know the students a little bit better.

As a reminder, Scholastic Scrimmage requires rapid recall of specific factual information.

It's not necessarily indicative of academic training.

And now let's begin.

Buzzers ready.

Here's our first toss-up.

What play by Arthur Miller, in which a mistress known as the Woman receives... Parkland?

- The Crucible.

- Incorrect.

I'll continue for Emmaus.

..in which a character known as the Woman receives a gift of new stockings from traveling businessman Willy Loman?

Emmaus.

- Death Of A Salesman.

- That's correct.

For your bonus, in what European capital city was a leftist government called the Commune crushed during Bloody Week in 1871?

- Paris.

- That's correct.

Next toss-up.

What southern state, which has the youngest US senator, elected a pair of Democratic senators in a 2021 runoff election, including John Azoff?

Parkland.

- Georgia.

- That's correct.

For your bonus, what solid compound used to preserve food and in fog machines sublimes at standard temperature and pressure?

- Dry ice.

- That is correct.

We'll continue with our next toss-up.

What president who made Andrew Mellon Treasury Secretary promised a return to normalcy... Parkland.

- Warren Harding.

- That's correct.

..and died soon after the Teapot Dome scandal broke in 1923?

For your bonus, what office, which is third in line of presidential succession, presides over the Senate in the vice president's absence?

- Speaker of the House.

- Incorrect.

It's the president pro tempore of the Senate.

Next toss-up.

Wat biblical character interprets a dream predicting a seven year famine and goes to Egypt as a slave after his brother steals his multicolored coat?

Parkland.

- Moses.

- Incorrect.

Emmaus, there still some time.

Go ahead.

- Joseph.

- That is correct.

And for your bonus, what English mansion, owned by the family of Sebastian Flyte, in Revisited in a 1945 novel by Evelyn Waugh?

- Brideshead.

- That's correct.

Brideshead Castle is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What group of artifacts discovered in 1974 by farmers near Xi'an was part... Parkland.

- Terracotta army.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, what 1887 experiment uses an interferometer helped disprove the concept of luminescence in...

Excuse me.

..luminefereous ether, paving the way for special relativity?

- The oil drop experiment.

- Incorrect.

It's the Michelsen-Morley experiment, is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What city, the site of a massacre that led to Operation Wrath of God, was the location of the Beer Hall Putsch and the 1970... Parkland.

- Munich.

- That's correct.

..in 1972 Olympics in Germany.

For your bonus, what actor and part time DJ played Caleb Prior in the Divergent series and the music obsessed title character in the 2017 film Baby Driver?

- Ansel Elgort.

- That's correct.

I had no idea he was a DJ.

The next toss-up.

What book that describes a river called Anhydrous, or no water, was written by Thomas More about an ideal society?

Emmaus.

- Utopia.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, what author wrote about the title character's devotion to Homer Barron, whose corpse is found in her home in his story A Rose for Emily?

- Poe.

- Incorrect.

William Faulkner is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What most common anion in seawater can be precipitated by adding silver nitrate and can combine with sodium to form the mineral known as table salt?

Parkland.

- Chlorine.

- We wanted the aniron, which would be chloride, so that answer is incorrect.

Emmaus, to make up for that, we'll give you the following five point question with no bonus afterward.

What author wrote about tripods armed with heat rays that devastated England... Emmaus.

- Wells.

- HG Wells is correct.

In his War Of The Worlds.

Now there is no bonus, and we will now continue on with the following toss-up open to both teams.

What city, which is home to the oldest university in the Americas, was founded in the 16th century by Francisco Pizarro and is the capital of Peru?

Parkland - Lima.

- That is correct.

And for your bonus, what member of the Black Panther Party was murdered along with Mark Clark...

Excuse me.

..Mark Clark in a 1969 police raid in Chicago?

- Malcolm X.

- Incorrect.

Fred Hampton is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What film, whose Well of Souls scene, used 10,000 snakes... Emmaus.

- Indiana Jones And The Raiders Of The Lost Ark?

- That is correct.

And featured Harrison Ford for the first time as Indiana Jones.

For your bonus, a Gian Lorenzo Bernini sculpture is titled for the ecstasy of what saint from Avila?

- Saint John.

- Incorrect.

The correct answer is Saint Teresa of Avila.

It was determined in the pre-match coin toss that Emmaus would get to pick from the following topics.

Your topics are Shakespeare quotes or airports.

- Airports.

- OK, airports.

- Airports.

Not confident on our Shakespeare skills?

- No, not one bit.

- All right, so that will go on to Parkland.

round, airports.

round, airports.

In what country are these major international airports?

Heathrow Airport.

- United Kingdom.

- Correct.

Narita International Airport.

- Chile.

- Incorrect O'Hare International Airport.

- USA.

- Correct.

Ben Gurion International Airport.

- Pass.

- Frederic Chopin Airport.

- France.

- Incorrect.

Pearson International Airport.

- Pass.

Sharm el-Sheikh International Airport.

- India.

- Incorrect.

Leonardo da Vinci Airport.

- Italy.

- Correct.

Benito Juarez International Airport.

- Mexico.

- Correct.

Dusseldorf Airport.

- Germany.

- Correct.

And I guess I'm proud to say I've been in just over half of those airports in my lifetime.

All right.

That leaves Parkland with Shakespeare quotes.

Parkland.

Name the Shakespeare play in which these quotes are found.

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

- Hamlet.

- Correct.

I hate hell, all Montagues and thee.

- Romeo And Juliet.

- Correct.

The fault.

dear Brutus is not in our stars, but in ourselves.

- Julius Caesar.

- Correct.

I serve the fairy queen, to do her orbs upon the green.

- Midsummer Night's Dream.

- That is correct.

Something wicked this way comes.

- Othello.

- Incorrect.

O brave new world that has such people in it.

- All's Well That Ends Well.

- Incorrect.

Once more unto the breach, dear friends.

- Pass.

All the world's a stage.

- Much Ado About Nothing.

- Incorrect.

If you prick us, do we not bleed?

All right, and that concludes that lightning round.

that lightning round.ss-u.

What emperor who began the Roman conquest of Britain may have been poisoned by his wife Agrippina the Younger, and was succeeded by Nero?

Emmaus.

- Caligula.

- Incorrect.

Parkland, there's still some time.

No consulting now.

Parkland.

- Commodus.

- Incorrect.

Claudius is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What process, which can be initiated by P53 in response to DNA damage, is contrasted with necrosis and is a programmed form of cell death?

Parkland.

- Apoptosis.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, what city, known for its diamond industry, forms the second most populous metropolitan area in Belgium after Brussels?

- Belgrade.

- Incorrect.

Antwerp, also home to a very famous design school as well.

Next toss-up.

What baseball team, which began 2021 with Major League Baseball's longest title drought, dropped its mascot in 2018 and in 2022 will be renamed the Guardians?

Emmaus.

- The Cleveland baseball team.

- That's correct.

The Cleveland baseball team, formerly known as the Cleveland Indians.

For your bonus, in September 2001, the Mexican government raffled off a safe house once owned by a criminal known by what nickname whose real name is Joaquin Guzman?

- El Chapo.

- That is correct.

Yeah, that bizarre interview with Johnny Depp too.

I don't know if you saw that or not.

OK, on to our next toss-up.

What bird, on which the Hindu god Kartikeya rides, inspired the six feather logo of NBC and is known for its... Emmaus.

- Peacock?

- That's correct.

It's known for its showy plumage.

For your bonus, Kwame Nkrumah was the first president of what West African country that gained independence from the United Kingdom in 1957?

The correct answer is Ghana.

Next toss-up.

What scientist, who wrote the book Systema Naturae, divided the three kingdoms into classes and was a Swedish... Emmaus.

- Linnaeus.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, what poetic form that has 19 lines and two alternating refrains is exemplified by the Dylan Thomas poem Do Not Go Gently Into That Good Night?

- Sonnet.

- Incorrect.

Villanelle is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What man who wrote, "Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo" in his poem Grass called the title city the "hog butcher of the world" in Chicago?

Emmaus.

- Clare.

- Incorrect.

There's still some time for Parkland.

Carl Sandburg is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What state, that was the site of the 1985 Move bombing, the three mile... Emmaus.

- Pennsylvania.

- That is correct.

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

For your bonus, the Battle of Navarino helped secure the independence of what European country that broke away from the Ottoman Empire in 1832?

- Greece.

- That is correct.

half-time.

We have an excellent match under way.

Parkland has 105 points.

Emmaus is leading with 155 points.

In aid of social distancing, we asked the students to introduce themselves and tell us what they'd like to study in college.

Let's meet the contestants.

Hi, I'm Ari.

I'm a senior at Emmaus High School, and during college I'm going to study art.

Hi, my name is Thomas.

I'm a senior at Emmaus High School, and I plan on studying film in college.

Hello, my name is Eric.

I'm a junior at a Emmaus High School, and I hope to study engineering in college.

Hi, I'm Thomas, and I'm a junior at Emmaus High School, and during college I hope to study history.

Hi, I'm Shravan.

I'm a junior at Parkland High School, and in college I plan to study computer science.

Hi, I'm Prince.

I'm a senior at Parkland High School, and in college I plan to study neuroscience.

I am Thomas, a sophomore at Parkland High School, and I have a lot of interests, so I'm not sure what I'm going to study in college yet.

Hi, I'm Joseph.

I'm a sophomore at Parkland High School, and I have yet to decide what to study in college.

And we're back.

We'll start the next round... We'll start the second round with the following toss-up.

What country's city of Les Cayes was heavily damaged by a magnitude 7.2 earthquake in 2021, which caused its president Ariel Henry to declare a state of emergency?

Emmaus.

- Haiti.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, what existentialist philosopher and feminist wrote the book The Second Sex?

The correct answer is Simone de Beauvoir.

- Yeah, I knew it was French.

- On to the next toss-up.

What creature who lived at the Lake of Lerna had its stumps cauterized by Iolaus during one of the labors of Hercules and was a many-headed monster... Parkland.

- Hydra.

- That's correct.

The hydra is a correct answer.

For your bonus, what term refers to the process of completely covering the plane with geometric shapes with no overlap?

- Overload.

- Incorrect.

Tessellation is the correct answer.

Next toss up.

What cells, whose production is supported by Sertoli cells or haploid cells that use an acrosome to penetrate the zona pellucida?

- Sperm cells.

- Parkland?

- Sperm cells?

- That's correct.

For your bonus, Voyager's Golden Records contain Glenn Gould's recordings of one part of what JS Bach work with 48 preludes and fugues, two each in every major and minor key?

- The Well-Tempered Clavier.

- That is correct.

Next toss-up.

What term for the part of a guitar that holds the strings above the body can also refer to a contrasting section in the middle of a song?

Emmaus.

- Bridge.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, the US gained all, or parts of, modern day California, Nevada and Utah as part of what 1848 treaty that ended the Mexican-American war?

- The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.

- That is correct.

Next toss-up.

What novel in which Sister Dorothea's mail is read by the diminutive Danzig native Oskar was written by Gunter Grass and named for a toy instrument?

The correct answer is The Tin Drum.

Next toss-up.

What surname is shared by a Prime Minister who invoked the War Measures Act in response to a crisis in Quebec and Canada's current Prime Minister?

Emmaus.

- Trudeau.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, in 2021, Orlando asked its residents to conserve water to preserve supplies of what substance used as a disinfectant and to treat COVID 19 patients?

- Saline.

- Incorrect.

Liquid oxygen is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What force described by quantum chromodynamics binds protons and neutrons together to form... Parkland.

- Strong force.

- That's correct.

..to form nuclei.

For your bonus, the line "I stop somewhere waiting for you" concludes what poem by Walt Whitman which is comprised of 52 sections?

- Leaves Of Grass.

- Incorrect.

Song Of Myself is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What author wrote about the bad influence of Lord Henry Wotton on a man whose depravity are transformed to a painting, or transferred to a painting, in The Picture Of Dorian... Emmaus.

- Wilde.

- That's correct, Oscar Wilde.

The Picture Of Dorian Gray.

For your bonus, what phylum contains organisms that have stingers called nematocysts and includes corals, jellyfish and sea anemones?

- Cnidaria.

- That is correct.

Next toss-up.

What name is shared by Rutherford Hayes' First Lady, an Ethiopian Australopithecus specimen, and the author of... Emmaus - Lucy.

- That is correct.

..and the author of Anne Of Green Gables.

For your bonus, what Indian leader was the grandfather of Ashoka the Great and the founder of the Mauryan dynasty?

Chandragupta.

Is that... Yeah, that's enough.

We'll take that for the answer.

Next toss-up.

What river, which flows past the site of the Battle of Red Cliffs, is spanned by Three Gorges Dam and is the longest... Parkland.

- Yangtze.

- That is correct.

It's longest in China and all of Asia.

For your bonus, what long-time Liberal Democratic Party leader resigned as Prime Minister of Japan in 2020?

- Shinzo Abe.

- That is correct.

Next toss-up.

What state is home to the Tanglewood Music Festival in its western Berkshire mountains, which hosts performances by the Boston Symphony Orchestra?

Parkland.

- Connecticut.

- Incorrect.

Emmaus, there's still some time.

Emmaus.

- Massachusetts.

- That's correct.

For your bonus, near the beginning of Peter Pan, Wendy helps Peter by reattaching what incorporeal item which has been severed from Peter... - His shadow.

- That is correct.

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

Parkland, you'll get to pick from the following.

One billion streams on Spotify or typography.

- One billion streams on Spotify.

- OK, one billion streams on Spotify.

Parkland, your topic is one billion streams on Spotify.

Name the performers of these songs that have been streamed at least one billion times on the service Spotify.

Watermelon Sugar.

- Harry Styles.

- Correct.

All Of Me.

- John Legend.

- Correct.

Bad Guy.

- Billie Eilish.

- Correct.

Shape Of You.

- Ed Sheeran.

- Correct.

Cheap Thrills.

- Sia.

- Correct.

Can't Feel My Face.

- The Weeknd.

- Correct.

We Don't Talk Any More.

Two answers are acceptable.

- Selena Gomez.

- That's correct.

Humble.

- Kendrick Lamar.

- Correct.

Wonderwall.

- Oasis.

- Correct.

Senorita.

Two answers are acceptable for this again.

- Camilla Cabello.

- That's correct.

Sorry, but I didn't quite hear that first time.

Shawn Mendes would have been the other correct answer.

Emmaus, that leaves you with typography.

Answer the following about typography and fonts.

Writing that slants to the right often... - (INDISTINCT) - Correct Short line added to the end of a stroke.

- Serif.

- Correct.

Typeface whose name is Latin for Swiss.

- Pass.

- Newspaper that commissioned a New Roman font.

- Times...

The New York Times.

- Incorrect.

Widely derided Microsoft font used in so-called Doge memes.

- Comic Sans.

- Correct German inventor of movable type printing.

- Gutenberg.

- Correct.

Unit half as long as an M. - An N. - Correct.

Animal that jumps over a lazy dog in a sentence used to display... - (INDISTINCT) - Correct.

Monospaced font that shares its name with a person who delivers messages.

- Courier.

- Correct.

Adjusting the space between individual letters like R and N. Pass.

All right.

And that is the end of that lightning round.

with the following toss-up.

What objects are responsible for the plucking of bedrock.

can create landforms like cirques and moraines, and are large moving bodies... Parkland.

- Rivers.

- Incorrect.

I'll finish for Emmaus.

Large moving bodies of ice.

Emmaus.

- Glaciers.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, what African country's port city of Mombasa is on the western shores of the Indian Ocean?

Go ahead.

- Kenya.

- That is correct.

Next toss-up.

What three word phrase is the subtitle of Naomi Klein's On Fire, refers to a proposal from Ed Markey and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez about... Emmaus.

- Green New Deal.

- That is correct.

About climate change.

For your bonus, what man who was appointed governor of the Bahamas due to his Nazi sympathies resigned as the British king in 1936 to marry divorcee Wallis Simpson?

- Edward VIII?

- That is correct.

Next toss-up.

What politician who was targeted in 1991's August coup, succeeded Konstantin Chernenko, and promoted glasnost, is the last... Parkland.

- Gorbachev.

- That is correct.

Mikhail Gorbachev was correct.

For your bonus, the triple alpha process forms what element which joins nitrogen and oxygen as a catalyst in a hydrogen fusion cycle in stars heavier than the sun?

- Hydrogen.

- Incorrect.

The element is carbon.

Next toss-up.

What Manhattan building, designed by William Van Alen, was surpassed by the Empire State Building as the world's tallest... Parkland.

- Chrysler.

- That's correct.

For your bonus, what comedian who has testified before Congress to secure health care for 911 responders preceded Trevor Noah as the host of The Daily Show?

- Colbert.

- Incorrect.

Jon Stewart's the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What band whose song Caroline No was originally released by Brian Wilson included... Emmaus.

- The Beach Boys?

- That is correct.

..included Wouldn't It Be Nice and God Only Knows on their album Pet Sounds?

One of my favorite albums.

For your bonus, a passage in Rome whose gates were open during times of war was dedicated to what uniquely Roman two faced god of beginnings and endings?

- Janus.

- That is correct.

The next toss-up is in math.

Pencil and paper ready.

How many ways are there to select a distinct gold medalist and a distinct silver medalist from a pool of five competitors?

Parkland.

- 20.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, Louis XIV repealed what 1598 edict that had granted religious toleration to Protestants in France?

- Edict of Nantes.

- That is correct.

Next toss-up.

What constitutional amendment championed by the WCTU was enforced by the 1919 Volstead Act and banned the sale... Parkland.

- Prohibition.

- That's correct.

..and banned the sale of alcohol.

For your bonus, what Dutch artist who co-founded the De Stijl used horizontal and vertical lines in paintings such as Broadway Boogie Woogie?

- Van Eyck.

- Incorrect.

Mondrian is a correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What city, whose tourist attractions include the Pike Place Market, is home to the Space Needle... Parkland.

- Seattle.

- That is correct.

Seattle, Washington.

For your bonus, what color which is made by using a Tyrian dye in the ancient world... That is a bonus question, but that is the end of the match anyway.

So go ahead and give it.

You knew what it was?

- Purple.

- That is correct.

But unfortunately does not count.

Excellent match between two excellent teams.

Emmaus, congratulations.

With 375 points, you're on to the final.

Parkland, good luck with the rest of your school year.

And thank you for tuning in.

We'll see you next week for the final of the 47th season of Scholastic Scrimmage.

Thank you.