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of Scholastic Scrimmage.

I'm your host, David Graf.

This year, Scrimmage will look a bit different due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

PBS39 is following all CDC guidelines, and that includes prematch temperature checks, students wearing masks during the competition, and I'm socially distanced from the teams on set.

And now on with today's second round match-up that features Parkland versus Liberty.

The match will have two halves with a lightning round midway 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 and it's not necessarily indicative of academic training.

And now let's begin.

Buzzers ready.

We'll start with our first toss-up.

What musician behind the album Father of Asahd featured Rihanna on the 2017 hit Wild Thoughts?

- Parkland.

- DJ Khaled.

- That is correct.

And has the catchphrase "Another one."

Now for your bonus, what actor who hosted the 2020 CBS gameshow Game On previously starred in a Comedy Central sketch comedy series with Jordan Peele?

- Key?

- That is correct.

Keegan-Michael Key is the correct answer.

Onto our next toss-up.

Oxygen enters cells through what process in which molecules cross the cell membrane passively going from regions of high to low... - Diffusion.

- That is correct.

Diffusion's the correct answer.

For your bonus, what 19th century French author wrote two novels about poor relation...poor relations titled Cousin Pons and Cousin Bette as part of his series The Human Comedy?

- Sartre?

Incorrect, it's Honore de Balzac is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

In 2016, what state's residents approved the name Utqiagvik for the city of Barrow, giving it an Inuit name to a city north of the Arctic Circle?

Liberty.

- Alaska.

- That is correct.

Liberty, for your bonus, it's on math, pencil and paper ready.

Two answers are required.

What two prime numbers are factors of 147, given that 147 is divisible by a perfect square, 49?

Go ahead.

- Seven and three?

- That is correct, next toss-up.

What disease for which the FDA gave a June 20th 2001 approval to a $50,000 a year drug, Aduhelm, is the most common cause of dementia in the United States?

Liberty.

- Alzheimers?

- That's correct.

For your bonus, what island, which names an orange flavored but blue colored liqueur, is a Dutch-owned Caribbean island that is the C in the so-called A.B.C.

islands?

- Curacao.

- That's correct.

Next toss-up.

What English king conquered Cyprus from Isaac Komnenos during the Third Crusade, one of many military feats that earned him the nickname Lionheart?

Parkland.

- Richard the Lionheart.

- That's correct.

Richard Lion-hearted.

For your bonus, the treaties that ended the Seven Years War and the American Revolutionary War were both signed in and named for what city?

- Paris.

- That is correct.

Next toss-up - what boy is mistreated by his aunts?

Sponge and Spiker and befriends talking insects in a Roald Dahl novel?

Parkland.

- James.

- That is correct.

James Trotter from James and the Giant Peach.

And your bonus - what satirical World War II novel whose sequel Closing Time was published in 1994, includes characters such as Milo Minderbinder?

- Catch-22.

- That is correct.

Next toss-up - what Greek god who creates a net to ensnare the adulterous Ares and Aphrodite... Liberty.

- Hephaestus.

- That is correct.

Hephaestus is the correct answer.

For your bonus, static friction is related to what phenomena in which electric forces tend to attract two different materials such as liquid in glass?

- Adhesion.

- That's correct.

Next toss-up.

What elements, the namesake of a contraction in the atomic radius of heavy elements, lies beneath the transition metals and above the actinides?

Liberty.

- The lanthanides.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, what author of the philosophical treatise Emile also wrote The Social Contract?

The philosophical treatise Emile.

Any guesses?

All right, it's Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Next toss-up - what event whose pretext was Ernst vom Rath's assassination was a 1938 pogrom in Germany in which windows of Jewish owned businesses... Parkland.

- Kristallnacht.

- That's correct.

And for your bonus, Bloemfontein, which means fountain of flowers, is in what country whose other cities include Pietermaritzburg and Durban?

- Berlin?

- South Africa, is the correct country we're looking for.

Next toss-up - what American author wrote that imitation is suicide and that a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds in his essay Self-reliance?

Ralph Waldo Emerson is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What NBA team, which won its first title in 1999 with the Twin Towers of David Robinson and Tim Duncan is led by Gregg Popovich and plays in Texas?

Parkland.

- Houston Rockets?

- Incorrect.

Liberty?

The San Antonio Spurs.

We now move on with our next toss-up in math, pencil and paper ready.

If the vertex angle of an isosceles triangle measures 56 degrees, what is the measure of either of the congruent base angles?

Parkland.

- 62 degrees.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, a frequency ratio of two to one underlines what musical interval, whose two tones have the same letter name?

- Octave.

- That's correct.

With that, we've reached our first lightning round.

In the prematch coin toss, it was determined that Liberty would get to pick first between the two topics of 15th century kingdoms or countries on the equator.

- We'll choose countries, please.

- OK, countries on the equator.

What country on the equator contains the islands of Java and Sumatra?

- Indonesia.

- Correct.

And anybody can say it.

In the most populous south... Is the most populous South American nation.

- Brazil.

- Correct.

Has a name for the Spanish for Equator.

- Ecuador.

- Correct.

Is home to the Medellin where the drug lord Pablo Escobar once operated.

- Venezuela.

- Incorrect.

contains the autonomous state of Puntland on the tip of the Horn of Africa.

- Ethiopia.

- Incorrect.

Is governed from Brazzaville.

- Democratic Republic of the Congo.

- Incorrect.

Contains two spears and a shield of the Masai people... - Kenya.

- Correct.

Is home to the Etawah, one of the north shore... on the north shore of Lake Victoria.

- Tanzania.

- Incorrect.

Contains volcanic Mt.

Nyiragongo near its capital, Goma.

- Uganda.

- Incorrect.

Is governed from Libreville.

- Liberia?

- Incorrect.

Was a tough one there on African geography.

And now on to Parkland.

For your lightning round you have 15th century kingdoms.

Name these powerful states from the 15th century.

Lost the Hundred Years War to France.

- England.

- Correct.

Conquered much of the Andes and built Machu Picchu.

- Incan.

- Correct.

A colorful named horde that lost control of Russia.

- Golden.

- Correct.

Muslim empire that took Constantinople in 1453.

- Ottoman.

- Correct.

Led by the Solomonic dynasty, started building what is now in Addis Ababa.

- Pass.

Achieved military victories in Central Europe under the ruler John Hunyadi and Matthias Corvinus?

- Hungary.

- Correct.

A Mongol dynasty that ruled China.

- Yuan.

- Correct.

Funded Vasco da Gama's voyage to India from Iberia.

- Portugal.

- Correct.

Mesoamerican empire governed from Tenochtitlan.

- Aztec.

- Correct.

West African kingdom that superseded Mali and made Gao its capital.

- Ethiopia?

- Incorrect.

Nice round, though, Parkland.

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We're going to continue the match with our next toss-up.

What African country's president Juvenal Habyarimana was killed in a plane crash after which almost a million Tutsis... - Liberty.

- Rwanda.

That is correct.

For your bonus, Edmund Burke's defense of tradition and skepticism of revolutions are usually considered the intellectual start of what broad political philosophy?

Conservatism is the correct answer.

Next toss-up - what author of an essay, The Eloquence in the Vernacular, wrote La Vida Nova to express his love for Beatrice and depicted Hell in his poem Inferno?

Parkland.

- Dante Alighieri.

- That's correct.

For your bonus, the Burgess Shale is home to many fossils from what geologic period that saw a massive increase in biodiversity in its namesake explosion?

- Cambrian.

- That is also correct.

Next toss-up.

What set denotes Q consists of numbers whose decimal expansions terminate or repeat... Parkland.

- Rational?

- That's correct.

Rational numbers.

For your bonus, after establishing the Little American base on Antarctica in 1929, what navigator and his crew were the first to fly over the South Pole?

- Dylan?

- Richard E. Byrd is the correct answer.

Next toss-up - what country, whose Port of Moka names a style of coffee, is north of the Gulf of Aden and has Houthi forces occupying its capital of Sanaa?

Liberty.

- Yemen.

- That's correct.

Yemen is the correct answer.

For your bonus, what Shakespearean villain who described the green eyed monster of jealousy plots against and brings about the downfall of Othello?

Iago is the correct answer.

Next toss-up - what Biblical character, a tent maker, is first described praising the stoning of Stephen, but converts on the road to Damascus and becomes an apostle?

Parkland.

- Peter?

- Incorrect.

Liberty?

Go ahead.

- John.

- Incorrect.

It's St Paul the Apostle.

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

Now, prior to the match, to aid in social distancing, we asked the students to introduce themselves individually and tell us how they occupied themselves during quarantine.

So let's meet the contestants from Parkland and Liberty.

- Hi, I'm Prince and I'm a senior at Parkland High School.

- During quarantine, I weightlifted to destress.

- I'm Thomas.

I'm a sophomore at Parkland, and during quarantine I practiced a lot of piano.

- Hi, I'm Joseph.

I'm a sophomore at Parkland High School and during quarantine I played sports to destress.

- Hi, I'm Shravan.

I'm a junior at Parkland High School and over quarantine I read a lot of books to decompress.

- Hi, my name is Rowan and I am a sophomore at Liberty High School.

During quarantine, I learned to play the bagpipes to decompress.

- Hi, my name is Robert.

I'm a sophomore at Liberty High School and during quarantine I started playing tennis to decompress.

- Hi, my name is Michelle.

I am a junior at Liberty High School and over quarantine I played Dungeons and Dragons to decompress.

- Hi, my name is Christian.

I'm a junior at Liberty High School and over quarantine I played a lot of tennis and taught myself the guitar.

- Welcome back.

We'll begin the second half with the following toss-up question.

The Pioneer Courthouse is a landmark in what city, the most populous in Oregon, that also gives its name to a Fred Armisen... Parkland.

- Salem.

- Incorrect.

I'll complete the question for Liberty.

That also gives its name to a Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein sketch comedy show.

- Liberty.

- Portland.

That's correct.

And just make sure, no conferring on toss-ups as well, even when it goes over to the other side.

Next bonus, or your bonus question will be what triple star system in a southern constellation is the closest star system to the Sun?

Alpha Centauri is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What term that describes the proteins targeted by Covid-19 vaccines is also used by epidemiologists to describe rapid increases in cases of a disease?

Spikes is the answer we're looking for.

Next toss-up - what composer of a set of Hungarian dances for piano... Parkland.

- Liszt?

- Incorrect.

...for piano four hands used a vernacular text for his A German Requiem and wrote a namesake lullaby?

- Brahms, or Brahms' Lullaby, is the answer we're looking for.

Next toss-up - what Greek city which massacred Melos and dominated the Delian League was led by Pericles before it was defeated in the Peloponnesian... Parkland.

- Athens.

- That's correct.

In the Peloponnesian War by Sparta.

For your bonus, Oktoberfest is celebrated annually in what European city, the capital of the state of Bavaria?

- Munich.

- That is correct.

Next toss-up - what novel whose characters include the pianist Mademoiselle Reisz and Robert Lebrun centers on Edna Pontellier and was written by Kate Chopin?

Parkland.

- The Awakening.

- That's correct, got it in right under the buzzer there.

For your bonus, dragline excavators are often used to extract what natural resource whose varieties include anthracite and lignite?

- Coal.

- That's correct.

Next toss-up - what modern day country where Delftware ceramics developed during a 17th century golden age was the birthplace of Jan Vermeer and Rembrandt?

Parkland.

- The Netherlands.

- That's correct.

For your bonus, in 1937, the German Condor Legion bombed what Spanish city, whose destruction was depicted in a Pablo Picasso painting?

- Guernica.

- That's correct.

Next toss-up - what aircraft, named for the second president of the Weimar Republic, was destroyed in 1937?

Parkland.

- Hindenburg.

- That's correct, the Hindenburg.

For your bonus, in the Spanish colonial era, the Manila Galileans linked the Philippines and what Pacific port city in western Mexico, now a tourism center?

- Cancun?

- Incorrect.

You're in the right area, though, Acapulco is the resort area we're looking for.

Next toss-up - what objects, one of which contains the Pillars Of Creation, are exemplified by the horsehead and the crab and are clouds of dust?

Liberty.

- Nebula.

- That's correct.

Nebulas, clouds of dust and gas in space.

For your bonus, what actress starred in the 2020 film based on H.G.

Wells's The Invisible Man and stars on a Hulu show based on Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale.

- Angela Moss?

- Go ahead...

It's bonus, so let your captain know.

- Angela Moss.

- That's incorrect, it's Elisabeth Moss is the correct answer.

She's also great in Mad Men as well.

Next toss-up - the largest city of Lebanon has what name, which is derived from the ancient Greek for three cities, and it is the name of Libya's capital?

Liberty.

- Tripoli.

- That's correct.

For your bonus, in 2021, prosecutors accused what former CEO of wire fraud and other shady business practices around her company of Theranos?

Elizabeth Holmes is who we're looking for.

Next toss-up.

What country, whose creation was proposed by Theodore Herzl, declared independence in 1948 in an event led by David Ben-Gurion in Tel Aviv?

Parkland.

- Israel?

- That's correct.

Your bonus is in math, pencil and paper ready.

What is the dot product of the two vectors whose components are 1, 7 and -14, 2, given that they are perpendicular to each other?

- Zero.

- That is correct.

And with that, we move on to our next lightning round.

So in this lightning round, Parkland, you can choose between the topics of L Words or Numerical Names.

- L Words.

- OK, L Words.

That means Liberty, you'll be left with Numerical Names.

Parkland, L Words for your lightning round.

Give these words that contain at least three Ls.

Two coplanar lines that never intersect.

- Parallel.

- Correct.

Security given to guarantee a loan.

- Collateral.

- Correct.

Olympic sport played by Karch Kiraly and Kerri Walsh Jennings.

- Pass.

The chorus from Handel's Messiah, during which the audience traditionally stands.

- Hallelujah.

- Correct.

Adjective that describes language used in casual conversation.

- Pass.

- Term for excluding someone from a group.

- Pass.

One of two or more forms of a gene.

- Allele.

- Correct.

Term for a person born between about 1981 and 1996.

- Millennial.

- Correct.

North American fish named for a colorful facial feature.

- Pass.

- Term for a man's wallet.

All right, and on to Liberty.

Liberty, your topic is numerical names.

Numerical Names.

Identify these people or places known by numerical names or nicknames.

Title group of an 1844 Alexander Dumas novel.

- The Three Musketeers.

- Correct.

Term for a participant in the California Gold Rush.

- 49er.

- Correct.

Small, mostly spherical droid in the Star Wars sequels.

- R2D2.

- Incorrect.

Highest mountain in the Karakorum range.

- K2.

- Correct.

Group of Russian composers, including Modest Mussorgsky.

- Pass.

- Telekinetic girl played by - Millie Bobby Brown... - 11.

Correct.

Landmark where Utah, New Mexico and other states meet.

- Four Corners.

- Correct.

Irish group with the song Beautiful Day.

- U2.

- Correct.

Teleporting and time traveling youth on the Umbrella Academy.

- Five.

- Correct.

Incarcerated ally of Jean Valjean in Les Miserables.

- 24601.

- That's correct.

Nice job on that lightning round, Liberty!

I was wondering if anybody would know that, but I take it you're a fan of the musical.

- Yes, I am.

- All right.

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

What title character rejects the proposal of St John Rivers and instead marries her former... Parkland.

- Jane Eyre.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, New York Governor DeWitt Clinton promoted the creation of what infrastructure project that linked Albany to Buffalo and was completed in 1825?

- Erie Canal.

- That's correct.

Next toss-up - what politician appointed So...

Excuse me, Sajid Javid as Chancellor of the Exchequer was London's mayor from 2008 to 2016 and succeeded Theresa May as Prime Minister?

Liberty.

- Boris Johnson.

- That's correct.

For your bonus, what member of the Rude Mechanicals is the weaver who has his head turned into a donkey by the sprite Puck in A Midnight Summer's Dream?

Nick Bottom is the answer we're looking for.

Next toss-up.

What generic word names a box-office bomb that is the subject of The Disaster Artist and a film about a kidnapping for which Alison Brie won an Oscar?

Correct answer is The Room.

It's a really great movie.

Check it out.

Next toss-up.

What city whose House of Vettii contains many carefully preserved frescoes was buried along with Herculaneum by the eruption of Vesuvius?

Liberty.

- Pompeii.

- That's correct.

For your bonus, what term refers to a type of warm up exercise done by ballet dancers or the handrail used in those exercises?

- Barre?

- That's correct.

Next toss-up.

Which ruler who defeated the Toyotomi clan in the Siege of Osaka won the battle of Sekigahara and gave his name to the final Japanese shogunate?

Parkland.

- Tokugawa?

- That's correct.

For your bonus, what Scottish inventor added a separate condenser to create an improved steam engine in 1776, thereby accelerating the Industrial Revolution?

- Thomas?

James Watt is the correct answer.

Next toss-up - what thin objects, the namesake of the equation 1/0 + 1/i = 1/f are converging where they are convex and are used to focus light in eyeglasses?

Parkland.

- Lens.

- That's correct.

For your bonus, in 2021, Pope Francis became the first sitting Pope to visit what Middle East country where he met with Ali al-Sistani in the capital... or in the city of Najaf?

- Turkey?

- Incorrect.

Iraq is the correct answer.

Next toss-up - what leader whose party introduced the Arms Amendment Act in 2019 after mosque shootings in Christchurch is the Prime Minister of New Zealand?

She also led their Covid-19 response, it's Jacinda Ardern.

Next toss-up - what Democrat resigned as Secretary of State after the sinking of the Lusitania and advocated for free silver in his 18... Parkland?

- Bryan.

That's correct, William Jennings Bryan.

And for your bonus, what city on the Neva River was constructed in the early 1700s to give the Russian empire a port on the Baltic Sea?

The Neva river.

- Moscow.

Incorrect - St Petersburg was the answer we're looking for.

Next toss-up... Oh, and with that, we have reached the end of the match.

We have an excellent match with Parkland advancing with 380 points to Liberty's 265.

Liberty, thank you very much for joining us, and good luck with the rest of your school year.

Parkland, we'll see you in the next round.

And thank you for tuning in.

We'll see you next week when Salisbury faces off against Emmaus.

Thank you.