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Scholastic Scrimmage: Parkland HS vs Moravian Academy
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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 Scholastic Scrimmage.
I'm your host, David Graf.
We're down to the final four teams in the 49th season of Scrimmage.
The second match to decide who will make it to the final is between Parkland and Moravian Academy.
The match will be composed of two halves with a Lightning Round midway through each half.
At halftime, we'll pause so the students can introduce themselves and 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 question.
What function whose namesake law generalizes The Pythagorean theorem describes the ratio between a right triangle's adjacent side and its hypotenuse?
Moravian?
- Cosine?
- Cosine is correct.
For your bonus, William Miller's failed prediction of the second coming took place in what 19th-century decade in which Mormon Prophet Joseph Smith was murdered?
- The 1830s.
- That's incorrect.
It's the 1840s.
And both events actually happened in 1844.
Next toss-up question, in what state where American prisoners were massacred by Banister Tarleton, at Waxhawks, did Patriot forces lose the Battle of Camden and Charleston?
Moravian?
- South Carolina?
- South Carolina is correct.
For your bonus, Willie Stark, a Southern politician based on Huey Long, is the central character in what novel by Robert Penn Warren?
- Gone With The Wind.
- Incorrect.
All The King's Men is the correct answer.
Next toss-up question, what search engine introduced a chat bot based on G... Parkland?
- Bing.
- Bing is correct, based on GPT4 in February 2023.
For your bonus, scroll-like volutes decorate the tops of columns of what order that, like the Doric and Corinthian, is one of the three main classical orders?
- Ionian?
- I...we take...?
We'll take it, all right, we'll take, Ionian, we'll take it.
It's the ionic order, is correct.
Next toss-up question, what sedimentary rock that has oolitic form often contains aragonite, forms stalagmites in caves, and is formed from calcium carbonate?
Parkland?
- Pallasite?
- That is incorrect, over to Moravian.
No conferring, it's a toss-up.
Go ahead, Moravian.
- Limestone?
- Limestone is correct.
And Moravian, for your bonus, what eight-letter word follows "social" in a term referring to how easily people can change status in a given society?
- Like mobility?
- Social mobility, or mobility is correct.
Next toss-up question, what city is the setting of a 1960 George Seldon novel about the cricket Chester and is home to Harriet the Spy, who lives on the Upper East Side?
Moravian.
- New York City.
- New York City is correct.
And for your bonus, what Egyptian God, who was syncretized with armies by the Greeks, invented hieroglyphics and is often depicted with the head of an ibis?
- Ra?
- That's incorrect, Thoth is the correct answer.
Next toss-up question, what mystical creature, the mascot of Notre Dame's athletic teams is a fairy...?
Moravian?
- Leprechaun.
- A leprechaun is correct.
It's a fairy that hides a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow in Irish folklore.
For your bonus, what biological compounds containing four fused rings include hormones such as cortisol and anabolic ones that increase muscle mass?
- Proteins.
- There's incorrect, steroids is the correct answer.
The next toss-up question is in math, pencil and paper ready.
What is the only value of X that satisfies the equation, 6x - 7= 17, given that the answer is...?
Parkland?
- Four.
- Four is correct, given that the answer is an integer.
For bonus, in August 2023, what district attorney in Fulton County, Georgia, indicted 19 people for attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 election?
- Willis?
- Fani Willis is correct.
Next toss-up question, what character meets immortal Struldbruggs on Luggnagg, and talking horses called Houyhnhnms in a satirical Jonathan Swift novel about his travels?
Parkland?
- Gulliver?
- Gulliver is correct.
For your bonus, what queen, the final monarch of the House of Stuart, was reigning when the Acts of Union united England and Scotland?
- Elizabeth?
- That is incorrect.
Anne, Queen of Great Britain, is a correct answer.
Next toss-up question, what family, which included the corrupt Pope Alexander VI and his... Parkland?
- Medicis?
- That is incorrect.
I'll continue for Moravian.
...and his daughters Lucretia, rivaled the Sforzas and Medicis in Renaissance Italy?
Go ahead, Moravian.
- The Borgias?
- The Borgias, or Borgias, is the correct answer.
For your bonus, a Buddhist temple called the One Pillar Pagoda can be found in what capital city of Vietnam?
- Hanoi.
- Hanoi is the correct answer.
Next toss-up question, what German scientist who names the smallest possible length... Parkland?
- Angstrom?
- That is incorrect.
I'll continue for Moravian ...who names the smallest possible length proposed the idea that energy is quantized and is called the father of quantum physics?
Moravian.
- Heisenberg.
- That is also incorrect.
Max Planck is the correct answer.
And with that, we've reached the first Lightning Round.
In a pre-match coin toss it was determined that Parkland would get to pick between the following topics, Literary Dogs or Visual Art Terms.
- Visual Art Terms.
- Visual Art Terms it is.
Parkland, your topic is Visual Art Terms.
Given an art term, identify whether it is most commonly used in the discipline of painting, sculpture, drawing, or photography.
Acrylics.
- Painting.
- Correct.
Bust and relief.
- Sculpture - Correct.
Aperture.
- Photography.
- Uh, yes.
Cross-hatching.
- Drawing.
- Correct.
Shutter speed.
- Photography.
- Correct.
Lost wax technique.
- Sculpture.
- Correct.
Speed, as measured with the ISO system.
- Photography.
- Correct.
Encaustic.
- Drawing.
- Incorrect.
Bouquet.
- Painting.
- Incorrect.
A la prima.
- Painting - Painting is correct.
Moravian, onto your topic, it's Literary Dogs.
Name the author who created these fictional canines.
- Bull's-eye, Bill Sikes' dog in Oliver Twist.
- Dickens.
- Correct.
- Hagrid's boarhound Fang in the Harry Potter books.
- J.K. Rowling.
- Correct.
- The faithful Argus, in The Odyssey.
- Homer.
- Correct.
Mr. Rochester's dog Pilot in Jane Eyre.
- Bronte?
- Correct.
Uh, yes, we'll take that.
Toto in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
- Pass.
- Lawson's dog, Crabbe, in The Two Gentlemen Of Verona.
- Shakespeare.
- Correct.
The title wolf dog in White Fang.
- Pass.
- Nana, the nursemaid of the Darling Family in Peter Pan.
- Smith.
- Incorrect.
Ribsy, the troublemaking pet of Henry Huggins.
- Pass.
The watchdog Tock in The Phantom Tollbooth.
Norton Juster was the answer to the last one.
All right, we'll continue on with the following toss-up question.
What sitcom in which the entrepreneurial Tom Haverford was played by Aziz Ansari, was set in Pawnee, Indiana, and depicted city employee Leslie Knope?
Parkland.
- Parks and Recreation.
- Parks and Recreation is correct.
For your bonus, Frederick the Great was a virtuoso on and wrote more than 100 sonatas for what wind instrument whose modern form was developed by Theobald Boehm?
- Flute.
- The flute is correct.
Next toss-up question, what body of water contains the Dahlak Archipelago, provides the origin of the name Eritrea, and separates Egypt and Sudan from the Arabian Peninsula?
Parkland.
- The Red Sea.
- The Red Sea is correct.
For your bonus, Parkland, what World War I battle took place over nine months in 1916, and involved over 300,000 deaths in trench warfare in northeast France?
- Black Forest.
- That's incorrect.
The Battle of Verdun is the correct answer.
Next toss-up question, what son of Seti I was a 19th-century dynasty pharaoh who built the temple at Abu Simbel, may be the pharaoh in Exodus, and was known as the Great?
Moravian?
- Ramses II.
- Ramses II is correct.
For your bonus, what British Poet Laureate wrote the 1998 collection Birthday Letters, in which he reflected on his marriage to American author Sylvia Plath?
- Kipling.
- That is incorrect.
Ted Hughes is the correct answer.
Next toss-up question, what commentator, who in August 2023 interviewed Donald Trump on Twitter, was fired by...?
Moravian?
- Carlson.
- That is correct.
Carlson, or otherwise known as Tucker Carlson.
And he was fired by Rupert Murdoch.
For your bonus, what ordinary matter particles, which are part of the second generation of leptons, are about 200 times heavier than electrons?
- Protons?
That is incorrect.
Muons is the correct answer.
Next toss-up question, what title character is found with a dog on an ice float by Captain Walton, who learns how the scientist made a creature in a novel...?
- Frankenstein.
- Moravian?
- Frankenstein?
- That is correct.
Frankenstein, or, can we take that?
Just Frankenstein is good?
Frankenstein or Victor Frankenstein.
And it's a novel by Mary Shelley, you are correct.
For your bonus, what Alabama city has an annual commemoration to mark Bloody Sunday, in which civil rights protesters were beaten on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in 1965?
- Birmingham.
That's incorrect.
It's Selma, Alabama, is the correct city.
Next toss-up question, what company founded Cape Town, monopolized Japan's external trade...?
Moravian?
- The Dutch East India Company.
- The Dutch East India Company is correct, and they monopolized Japan's external trade for 200 years.
For your bonus, what conflict is the setting of The Dentist, The Man I Killed, and other stories in the Tom O'Brien collection, The Things They Carried?
- The Great Migration.
That is incorrect.
The conflict is the Vietnam War.
And with that, we have reached half time.
Currently, Moravian lead Parkland with a score of 135-105, and now we'll have the students introduce themselves with their first and last name, grade level, and the answer to the following question, what future career or trade interests you?
Parkland, Joseph, you're first, go ahead.
- I'm Joseph Penn, and I'd like to be an engineer.
I'm in 12th grade.
- Cool.
- Hi, I'm Alex Cohen, I'm a senior, and I plan on studying computer science.
- I'm Tom Gilchrist.
I'm a senior at Parkland High School, and I plan to do something that no one's done before.
- Max Harperback 11th grade, writer.
All right, and on to Moravian Academy.
Charlene, go ahead.
- I'm Charlene Lo, I'm a sophomore, and I plan to go into medicine.
- My name is Tyler Shanghai.
I'm a sophomore, as well, and I would like to go into... to be a historian.
- All right.
I'm Aman Desai, senior, financial engineering.
- Shiv Patel, sophomore, neuroscientist.
-All right, we have some very cool career paths that we're looking at to come on.
We'll continue the match for the following toss-up question.
What animal, one of which was strangled to death due to its impervious fur, in the first of Hercules'...?
Parkland?
- Lion.
- A lion is correct, and it was in the first of Hercules' labors.
For your bonus, what noble gas is at a concentration of about 1%, the third-most common gas in dry air, and has an atomic number 18?
- Argon.
- Argon is correct.
Next toss-up question, what author wrote about the abduction of Cora and Alice Munro, and the death of Uncas in a novel about Natty Bumppo titled The Last of the Mohicans?
Parkland.
Quickly.
- Stephenson?
- That's incorrect, over to Moravian.
James Fenimore Cooper is the correct answer.
Next toss-up question, what country where 100 people died in an October 2023, drone strike in Homs has been the site of a decades-long civil war against Bashir al-Assad?
Parkland.
- Syria.
- Syria is correct.
For your bonus, what surname, which belongs to a humorist who died in an Alaskan plane crash in 1935, is also the last name of the hero known as Captain America?
- Rogers.
- Rogers is correct, for both Will Rogers and Steve Rogers.
On to the next toss-up question, what animals are free-floating Medusa stages in phylum Cnidaria that swim by pulsating...?
Parkland?
- Jellyfish?
- That is correct.
They swim by pulsating their bells.
For your bonus, what, author of the Border trilogy, which includes the novel All the Pretty Horses, wrote about the brutal Judge Holden in Blood Meridian?
- I have no idea.
- Cooper?
- That's incorrect.
Cormac McCarthy is the correct answer.
Next toss-up question, in September 2023, what athlete defeated Aryna Sabalenka to become the first American teenage tennis player?
- Parkland?
- Coco Gauff.
- Coco Gauff is correct, and she became the first American teenage tennis player since Serena Williams to win the US Open when she beat Sabalenka.
For your bonus, what form of arthritis, caused by the buildup of uric acid crystals in the joints, often affects the big toe first?
- Rheumatoid.
- That's incorrect.
Gout, or gout arthritis is what we're looking for.
Next toss-up question, what empire known as the Realm of Four Parts to its subjects, was founded by Manco Capac and destroyed the conquistadors, led by Francisco Pizarro?
Parkland.
- Incan.
- The Incan empire is correct.
For your bonus, what monarch entered a holy league designed to control the Black Sea coast two years after taking the throne, and later went on to the Grand Embassy?
- Peter the Great.
- Peter the Great is correct.
Next toss-up question, what play, in which Ulrich leads a revolt against Gessler, was written by Friedrich Schiller about a Swiss archer who shoots an apple off a boy's head.
Moravian.
- William Tell.
- William Tell is correct.
For your bonus, what city, south of Sardis Lake, which is home to the University of Mississippi, shares its name with an English city?
- London.
That's incorrect.
The city is Oxford, for Oxford, Mississippi.
Next toss-up question, what interactions that hold together the base pairs in DNA, explain the high boiling point of water, and are named...?
Moravian?
- Hydrogen bonds.
- Hydrogen bonds is correct, and they are named after the lightest element.
For your bonus, topologists often joke that a coffee mug is equivalent to what shape that looks like a doughnut?
- A disk?
- Incorrect.
A toris is the correct answer.
Next toss-up question, what 2023 film, in which medium Joyce Reynolds becomes impaled on a statue, is about Hercule Poirot investigating a murder in Italy?
That film is A Haunting In Venice.
Left quite a mark on everyone here, I can tell, in the crowd.
I've not heard of it yet either.
Next toss of question, what province, whose town of Churchill is known as the polar bear capital of the world, is east of Saskatchewan and is governed from Winnipeg?
Moravian?
- Northwest.
- That's incorrect.
Over to Parkland.
Go ahead, Parkland.
- Manitoba?
- Manitoba is correct.
For your bonus, in English, what characteristic of a verb may be indicative, imperative, or subjunctive?
- Mood.
- Mood is correct.
And with that, we have reached our second Lightning Round.
Moravian, you'll get to pick between the following topics.
Islands of the World or Double Vowels.
- Vowels.
- All right, Double Vowels it is.
Moravian, give these answers that begin with a double vowel.
- Long fish with an electric type.
- Eel.
- Correct.
- Biblical brother of Moses.
- Aaron.
- Correct.
The number two in Roman numerals.
- II.
- Correct.
Distant solar system region that long period comets come from?
- Oort cloud.
- That is correct.
African mammal whose name means "earth pig".
- Aardvark?
- That is correct.
Five-letter adjective meaning spooky.
- Eerie.
- Correct.
Acronym for US roadside assistance organization... - AAA.
- That is correct.
First name of architect Saarinen, who designed the Gateway Arch.
- Van Der Waal.
- Incorrect.
German name of Charlemagne's capital.
- Rome.
- Incorrect.
Term for the study of eggs.
- Eggs.
- No, it would be oology.
- Is that a thing?
Okay.
- That apparently is someone... A future career path for everyone could be going on to study eggs.
You could be an oologist.
- Something no one else has done before?
- All right, Parkland, ready?
Your topic is Islands of the World.
Given an island or island group, name the country that controls it.
- Tasmania.
- Australia?
- Correct.
Greenland.
- Denmark.
- Correct.
The Isle of Man.
- Britain.
- UK.
- That is correct.
Molokai.
- Italy.
- Incorrect.
Luzon.
- Philippines.
- Correct.
Bora Bora.
- Mexico.
- Incorrect.
Baffin Islands.
- Canada.
- Correct.
Aruba.
- Netherlands.
- That is correct.
Novaya Zemlya.
- Brazil.
- Incorrect.
Gotland.
- Sweden.
- Sweden is correct.
- Nice.
- I know, right?
All right, we'll continue on with the following toss-up question.
The atoll technique is used to play what musical instrument, whose concert version has a six-and-one-half octave range and seven pedals to control its 40...?
Parkland?
- Harp.
- The harp is correct, it controls 47 strings.
For your bonus, in 2023, Italian archeologists at the Palazzo della Rovere finished excavating the private theater of what fifth Roman Emperor and lover of acting?
- Caligula?
- Incorrect.
Nero is the correct answer.
Next toss-up question, what election, whose winner ran on the National Union ticket, saw former General George McClellan lose to Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War...?
- 1864?
- 1864 is correct.
Your bonus is in math, pencil and paper ready.
What is the median of a data set whose six values are, 1, 100, 8, 17, 12, and 4?
- Ten?
- Let your captain know.
- Ten?
- Ten is correct.
Next toss-up question, what head of State, who brokered the end to the 2023 Wagner Group revolt, is often called Europe's last dictator?
Parkland.
- Putin.
- Say it again.
Putin.
- That is incorrect.
I'll continue the question for Moravian.
...for his role as president of Belarus?
Alexander Lukashenko is the correct answer.
Next toss-up question, what word describes both a speaker in the title of a Chang-rae Lee novel, and a son in the title of a novel about Bigger Thomas by Richard Wright?
Native is the correct answer.
Next toss-up question, what first name was shared by the daughter of Sir Thomas Parr and the Aragonese princess, who were respectively the last and first wives of Henry VIII?
Parkland.
- Catherine.
- Catherine is correct.
For your bonus, the Montreal Protocol banned the use of what class of ozone-depleting refrigerants that include freons?
- Chlorofluorines?
- That is incorrect.
It's CFCs, or chlorofluorocarbons.
That's the correct answer.
- Close.
- Next toss-up question, what amendment, in which Furman versus Georgia was held to apply to the death...?
Parkland.
- Eighth?
- The Eighth Amendment is correct, it was held to apply to the death penalty.
For your bonus, a New York Daily News headline claimed that what president, a former Michigan congressman, told the city to "drop dead" during a 1970s budget crisis?
- Ford.
- Gerald Ford is correct.
- Definitely a Ford thing to say.
Next toss-up question, what bodies may be named using a Bayer designation that contain a Greek letter and a form of the name of a constellation, such as Alpha Centauri?
Moravian.
- Stars.
- Stars is correct.
For your bonus, what second single from the album Gemini Rights repeats "I wish I knew you wanted me" and is the first billboard number one by Steve Lacy?
- "Dark Red".
- That's incorrect.
"Bad Habit" was the name of the song.
And if we played it for you, you all would've remembered it from a couple of months back.
It was all over the place.
Next toss-up question, what religious tradition stressed effortless action in its concept of Wu Wei, as articulated in the text on the power of the way, attributed to Lao...?
Parkland?
- Taoism.
- Taoism is correct.
It's attributed to Lao Tzu.
For your bonus, in theater, an actor who is corpsing is starting to exhibit what undesirable, out-of-character behavior in the middle of a scene?
- Stage fright.
- That is incorrect.
It's the end of the match.
But the correct answer was laughing.
If you're uncontrollably laughing.
Frequently seen on Saturday Night Live when they get too far ahead of themselves.
Well, that was a great match between two excellent teams.
Moravian, unfortunately, with 215 points, it's the end of the road, but good luck with the rest of your school year.
Congratulations to Parkland, with 275 points.
We'll see you next week for the final between Northwestern Lehigh and Parkland.
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