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Scholastic Scrimmage: Parkland HS vs NW Lehigh HS
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Now, here's your host, David Graff.
Hello, and welcome to the final match of the 49th season of Scholastic Scrimmage.
I'm your host, David Graff.
This year's final is between Parkland High School, who have won scholastic scrimmage five times in the tournament's history, and Northwestern Lehigh, who runners up in the 2020 tournament.
The match will be composed of two halves, with a lightning round midway through each half at half time for the students can introduce themselves, and we'll get to know them a little bit better.
As a reminder, Scholastic Scrimmage requires rapid recall specific factual information that's not necessarily indicative of academic training.
And now let the finals begin.
Buzzers ready.
Here's our first tossup question in 2023, what organizations members, while demonstrating at Willow Run in Michigan, became the first striking workers.
Parkland needed auto workers.
The United Auto Workers is correct.
They were the first striking workers visited by a sitting president.
For your bonus, what measure of a saw?
U.S. concentration in a solution is defined as the number of moles pour per of solute per liter of solution.
Molarity.
Molarity is also correct.
Next tossup question.
What novella whose title character eradicates Bo buzz and falls in love with a rose that grows on his home.
Asteroid is by Antoine.
Parkland.
The Little prince.
The Little Prince is correct for your bonus in 2019, which European country added north to its official name to settle a dispute with neighboring Greece?
North Macedonia North Macedonia is correct.
Next toss up question what class of materials that form by vitrification typically contain a network of silicon dioxide?
Northwestern glass.
Glass is correct and is often made by heating sand for your bonus.
Hundreds of different plant species have been identified in what Sandro Botticelli paintings that depict flora among several figures in a garden.
Garden.
The Garden of Earthly Delights.
That is incorrect.
La Primavera is a correct answer.
Next toss up question.
What works?
Which include Ottolenghi simple by a James Beard Award winner, were written by Julia Child, who included a number of French recipes.
Auckland cookbooks.
Cookbooks is correct for your bonus.
The arena and the River Kwai are sites of what title objects in a novel by Yugoslav author Ivo Andric and French author Pierre Poul.
French writer.
Bridge.
Yeah.
Bridge or bridges is the correct answer.
Next toss up question.
What woman who helped free hundreds of people in the Columbia River raid earned the title Moses of her people.
Parkland.
Harriet Tubman Harriet Tubman is correct for her work on the Underground Railroad.
For your bonus, what Japanese author of the life Changing Magic of Tidying Up calls for keeping only those belongings that spark joy when decluttering Kondo Marie Kondo is the correct answer.
She's a popular Netflix series and also a series of books as well.
To next toss up question what Frenchman, whose least time principle gives the path of light, is better known for an equation about sums of power of integers.
In his last with western Vermont, Vermont is correct, and that is from his last theorem.
For your bonus, what three dimensional shapes is the locus of all points?
A fixed distance from a given point called the center.
Of the sphere.
Sphere is correct.
Next toss up question.
What British poet declared, oh, there is blessing in this gentle breeze in the prelude and describe golden daffodils in I wander lonely as a cloud.
That British poet is William Wordsworth.
Next toss up question.
What general, who was born into slavery on the Breda plantation, led a revolt against the French on Saint-Domingue that became northwestern Toussaint Louverture.
Toussaint Louverture is the correct answer.
And that rebellion became the Haitian Revolution.
For your bonus in church architecture, what is the name of the central part of a church surrounded by side aisles stretching from the entry to the transept.
Atrium.
There's incorrect naves.
Is the correct answer.
The next tossup question is in math.
Pencil and paper.
Ready?
What is the fifth term of an arithmetic sequence?
Whose first term is two, and whose common difference between terms is three?
Parkland 1414 is correct for your bonus.
What German philosopher who used a hammer to elucidate his concept of present at hand and ready to hand, wrote being and time.
Hegel.
That is incorrect.
Martin Heidegger is a correct answer.
Next tossup question.
What city is separated by the Sam Choo river from sun?
June has the most skyscrapers of any city.
Northwestern Shanghai.
That is incorrect.
I'll continue the question for parkland and was handed over to China from the United Kingdom.
Parkland, Hong Kong.
That is correct.
And it was handed over in 1997 for your bonus.
What African desert east of the Knob Desert covers most of Botswana and east of Namibian, that is.
That is incorrect.
It's the Kalahari desert.
It's the next tossup question.
What comic book character?
Who is the father of Polaris and survived the Holocaust as a boy, led the Brotherhood of Mutants.
Parkland.
Magneto.
Magneto is correct, and he can control and manipulate metal with magnetic powers for your bonus.
Which English king fought the First Barons War after breaking an agreement he had signed at Runnymede in 1215?
200 years?
Yeah, John, the first.
Yes.
King John of England or John the first is correct.
And with that, we have reached the first lightning round.
In a pre-match coin toss, it was determined that parkland will get to pick between the following topics.
Water.
Air or F in literature.
Water, water.
Water systems.
Parkland.
Your lightning round topic is water.
Name.
These land forms linked to water feature where a river runs over a drop.
just go ahead and say waterfall.
That is correct.
Narrow, steep sided glacial inlets with a Norwegian name.
Fjord.
Correct.
Region around some river mouths.
Named for a Greek delta.
Correct.
Fertile location around a continuous isolated water source in a desert oasis.
Oasis is correct.
I heard that first rock layer that stores groundwater.
Aquifer.
Correct.
Enclosed brackish region where a river meets the sea bog.
That is incorrect.
Islands running parallel to a coast that are natural breakwaters.
At all.
That is incorrect.
Deep sea for planes that cover over half the earth.
Oceans.
That is incorrect.
Ball shaped glacial valleys in which lakes called tarns form.
Pass ridges on riverbanks built up by successive floods.
Banks.
That is incorrect.
Levees or dikes was the correct answer for the last one.
Northwestern.
Lehigh.
Your topic is F in literature.
Give these literary answers that begin with the letter F. Ray Bradbury novel about 451.
Correct.
Creator of Daisy Buchanan and Jay Gatsby.
Scott Fitzgerald.
Correct.
Author who created James Bond Ian Fleming.
Correct.
Ernest Hemingway, novel about For whom the Bell Tolls.
That is correct.
Author of Light in August and Absalom, Absalom!
Fritz.
That is incorrect.
Cosmic character in Shakespeare's Henry the Fourth and The Merry Wives of Windsor.
Fairy.
That is incorrect.
French author of Madame Bovary.
Flaubert.
That's correct.
Experimental James Joyce novel featuring Humphrey and Shipton.
See you again, Finnegans Wake.
That is correct.
English author Tom Jones fielding.
That is correct.
Isaac Asimov's series about the Fall Foundation.
That is correct.
Nice job.
Northwestern Lehigh.
We'll continue on with the following toss up question.
What tribal confederation lost the Battle of Alesia under version deterrence was conquered by Julius Caesar and populated most of present day France.
Northwestern.
The garlic.
yes.
The Gauls or the garlic people is correct for your bonus.
The complete hydrogen.
The complete hydrogenation of benzene produces.
What ring compound?
Whose molecular formula is C six, H 12.
Cyclohexane.
Cyclohexane is correct.
Next toss up question.
What artist painted four paintings for the stanza de la Salle?
The Torah in the Vatican included La Disputa, the parentheses, and the School of Athens.
Mythbuster.
Raphael Raphael is correct for your bonus.
What historical novel by Sir Walter Scott depicts Frank Robert Stone's adventures with Jacobite rebels, and is named for an alliterative outlaw.
Ivanhoe.
That is incorrect.
Rob Roy is a correct answer.
Next toss up question.
What phenomena which can produce, which can be produced using a rectifier, occurs when electrons move in one direction through a circuit, and is contrasted with AC.
Northwestern.
Lehigh.
Direct current.
Direct current, or DC is correct for your bonus.
What English actress who played antagonist Janine Matthews in the Divergent series, costarred with Leonardo DiCaprio in the 1997 movie Titanic?
Kate Winslet, Kate Winslet Kate Winslet is correct.
Next toss up question what English author described a deer hunt conducted by Octavian in The Book of the Duchess and wrote about medieval pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales?
Parkland.
Chaucer Geoffrey Chaucer is correct.
For your bonus, there's a Carlo is a central square of what Latin American capital city, which is also home to the massive Estadio Azteca.
Mexico City.
Mexico City is correct.
Next toss up question.
What philosopher who wrote that man is by nature a political animal in the first book of his fourth century BC treatise, politics was taught by Plato.
Northwestern.
Aristotle.
Aristotle is correct for your bonus.
In the first century, the the Vietnamese Trung sisters rebelled against which Chinese dynasty, whose fall led to the Three Kingdoms period.
The Han dynasty.
The Han dynasty is correct.
Next toss up question.
In 2023, what Democrat from New York won 212 votes on every ballot for speaker of the House.
After northwestern.
Hakeem Jeffries Hakeem Jeffries is correct.
And that was after he succeeded Nancy Pelosi as House Minority leader.
For your bonus.
Near an isolated point charge, what vector quantity equals the column force divided by the charge?
In this case, the capacitance.
Capacitance that is incorrect electric field is the correct answer.
And now, for the final time this year, we'll have the students introduce themselves.
They don't have to give their grade level.
We pretty much know everybody's grade level now.
Most people here are seniors, except for, I believe, Max and Shannon.
So we're also going to ask them, what college they'd like to attend.
Go ahead.
Joseph and I would like to attend UIUC.
All right.
Excellent.
Hi, I'm Alex Cohen.
I will be attending Cornell.
Okay.
I'm Thomas gilchrest.
I'll be attending Northwestern University.
Go, cats.
I'm max.
Affirmative.
I'm currently undecided.
And Max still a junior.
So you still have a whole year to decide on that?
Now we're from northwestern Lehigh.
Jesse.
Go ahead, Jesse.
Kinsman.
I plan on attending Penn State.
I'm Tim Bernard.
I'd like to attend either Lehigh or Cornell.
I'm Dan Belinsky, and I'd like to attend Kutztown University.
I'm Shannon Green, and I'd like to attend university of Scranton.
Oh, excellent.
University of Scranton.
So I I'm David Graff, the host.
I attended Marywood University.
I got my MBA at Cedar Crest College, Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Yeah, the U.
We actually share classes between mayors.
So you might find yourself taking art classes if you go to the U.
Up at Mary University, up and down there.
Okay.
We'll continue on with the second half of the match with the following parts of question.
What athlete who made an over-the-shoulder catch in the 1954 World Series was known?
Parkland.
Willie Mays.
Willie Mays is correct, and he was known as the say Hey kid for your bonus.
In 1922, Howard Carter led an expedition that found the intact tomb of what monarch?
King Tut.
King Tut, or King Tutankhamun is correct.
Next toss up question.
What city?
What city?
To which the Curia was moved in 1309 was, until 1376, the home of the French dominated popes in the era dubbed the Babylonian Captivity.
Avion is a correct answer.
Next toss up question what type of gravitational force causes moons to break apart below the Roche limit, and leads to the daily rise and fall of Earth's northwestern?
Tides.
Tides or tidal force is correct and leads to the rise and fall of Earth's sea level.
For bonus, what 12th century Holy Roman Emperor, who reigned for 35 years, was opposed by an alliance of northern Italian city states called the Lombard League.
Ferdinand.
That is incorrect.
Frederick Barbarossa is the correct answer.
Next toss up question.
What animals whose skins were worn by North.
North?
Excuse me.
What animals whose skins were worn by Norse berserkers in battle are also the team nickname for an NFL team that plays its home games at Soldier Field.
Parkland bears the bears is correct, and they play at Soldier Field in Chicago, right on the lake for your bonus.
What process in which cells become more specialized do stem cells undergo in embryonic development?
Do so.
Specialization uses cell specialization.
That is incorrect.
It's cellular differentiation is the correct answer.
Next toss up question what religion whose texts include the promised key holds that the Bible was written in Amharic.
Venerates highly Selassie and began in Jamaica with Western Rastafarian ism.
Rastafari ism is correct for your bonus in an August 2023 coup ended more than 50 years of rule by the Bongo family in what Central African nation governed from Lieber Ville.
no.
That is incorrect.
Gabon is a correct answer.
Next toss up question.
What?
General, who said I. I shall return while evacuating Clinton MacArthur.
Douglas MacArthur is correct.
And he was fired by Harry Truman after leading the forces in the Pacific in World War Two.
For your bonus, what crop, which was devastated in the early 1900s by the boll weevil, was processed by namesake device invented by Eli Whitney.
Cut cotton.
Cotton or the cotton gin is correct.
Next toss up question.
Most diamonds come from diamond dreams or pipes produced by what?
Landforms which have shield and northwestern volcanoes.
Volcanoes is correct.
And they eject lava during eruptions for your bonus.
What American playwright wrote about Joe Keller, who intentionally shipped shoddy airplane parts in his play All My Sons.
O'Neill.
That is incorrect.
Good guess.
Though.
Another American, famous American playwright, Arthur Miller, is a correct answer.
Next toss up question.
The triumphal march is from what?
Opera depicting the love between Egyptian commander.
From what?
Parkland.
Aida.
Aida is correct.
It's about the title Ethiopian Princess for bonus.
Shortness of breath, fatigue and chest pain are symptoms of what condition?
In which the fiber sac surrounding the heart becomes inflamed.
I think it is asthma.
That is incorrect.
Periodic hiatus is a correct answer.
Or pericarditis is a correct answer.
Next tossup question what TV franchise whose Australian spinoff premiered on CBS in fall 2020, three months after its LA based show ended, is about crime solvers in the Navy.
Go ahead.
Northwestern.
NCIS NCIS is correct for your bonus.
Silvery Hill is a prehistoric mound found in what present day country, which is also home to a monument on Salisbury Plain made from standing sergeants.
Country of ancient Egypt.
Egypt.
That is incorrect.
United Kingdom is correct.
And what we were talking about there.
That monument is Stonehenge.
And with that, we have reached our second lightning round.
Northwestern.
You'll get to pick between the following topics V a vocabulary or ABCs of games.
I don't really feel like PTA.
vocabulary.
Vocabulary.
Vocabulary.
Give these words that start with the letters V, a to disappear.
Vanish.
Correct.
A device that removes dirt using suction vacuum.
Correct.
Immense in size.
Best correct.
Expressed indistinctly or unclear.
In vague.
Correct.
Inflated.
Self-Pride as in Andre.
Say it again, I heard vain.
That's incorrect.
Gaseous phase of gaseous phase of a liquid vapor.
Correct.
A servant or person who parks cars.
Valet.
Correct.
The intentional act of damaging property.
Vandalism.
Correct.
From the Latin for say farewell.
A certain graduate of a school.
Varsity.
Incorrect verb meaning to expand the diameter of blood vessels.
Vessel dilation.
That's what dilation is.
Correct.
Parkland.
Your topic is a, b, cs of games.
In what games?
Whose names start with A, B or C?
Do players move?
Rooks and bishops.
Chess.
Correct.
Roll dice to bear off pieces after moving them along points.
Backgammon.
Correct.
Suspect.
Miss Scarlet, Colonel.
Two clues.
Correct.
Draw colored cards and then pass.
Gumdrop mountain.
Candyland.
Correct match.
Green adjective cards to red noun cards.
Apples.
Apples.
Correct.
Use red pins for hits and white for Mrs.. Battleship.
Correct.
Move.
Military units as factions in World War II two.
Pass.
Place to complete.
Cities, roads and cloisters.
Get on!
Yeah!
Time.
That is incorrect.
Find words by in a 4x4 grid of lettered dice.
Boggle.
Correct.
Receive one word clues from a spymaster.
Codenames.
Codenames is correct.
Okay.
Did you want the final quarter of this final match with the following toss up question.
What novel?
Whose title character is hired by the Harling family as a housekeeper, is narrated by orphan Jim Burden and is by Willa Cather.
My Antonia is a correct answer.
Next toss up question.
What nation purged Soviet influence in 1971?
One's corrective resolution was briefly united with Syria after Gamal Abdel.
Go ahead.
Parkland.
Egypt.
Egypt is correct.
And that was after Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal.
Your bonus question is in mathematics.
Pencil and paper ready?
What is the area of a triangle in which adjacent sides, with lengths seven and eight, respectively, meet to form a 30 degree angle?
I just guessed.
Go ahead.
Parkland.
60.
That's incorrect.
14 is the correct answer.
Next toss up question.
What geometric adjective describes lenses that cause light to converge at a focal point, as well as diverging mirrors?
Convex.
Convex is correct.
And our final clue is and is the opposite of concave.
So they couldn't quite serve that one up.
Easy enough for your bonus.
What New Deal program, known by a three letter initialism, gave food and lodging to young men in exchange for their work on environmental projects.
Seek.
The Seek or Civilian Conservation Corps is correct.
Next toss up question.
In 2022, what musical group caused the Hybe Corporation's stock to drop by announcing a hiatus to complete mandatory military service?
Parkland is correct, and there completed their mandatory military service in South Korea.
For your bonus, what Olympic sports recent all around medal winners have included Gabby Douglas, Aly Raisman and Sunisa Lee.
Gymnastics.
Gymnastics.
Gymnastics.
Artistic gymnastics is correct.
Next tossup question.
What dictator developed?
The ideology of Ju che became known as parkland.
Kim IL sung Kim IL sung is correct.
He became known as the great leader of North Korea.
For your bonus, the coefficient of restitution quantifies the change in relative speed after what events, which are called elastic if they conserve kinetic energy.
Collisions.
Collisions is correct.
Next tossup question.
What novel in which the book An Imperial Affliction is recommended to Gus by Hazel was partially inspired by John Green's work with cancer patients.
Northwestern.
The fault in Our stars.
The fault in Our Stars is correct.
For your bonus, what author's 1925 poem The Hollow Men described a valley of dying stars and declares, this is the way the world ends.
Not with a bang but a whimper.
T.S.
Eliot.
T.S.
Eliot is correct.
Next toss up question what Canadian province whose towns include Sudbury shares its name with a peninsula bordering three Great Lakes whose tip is near Detroit.
Parkland, Ontario.
Ontario is correct for your bonus.
Camille Saint-Saens Danse Macabre includes a pioneering use of what instrument, whose name means wooden sound.
Clavius.
That is incorrect.
The xylophone is a correct answer.
Next toss up question.
What field?
Whose name is from the Greek.
And with that, we have reached the end of the match.
What a great match between two excellent teams.
A round of applause for everybody!
Parkland, congratulations!
With a score of 340 points, you are the champions of the 49th season of Scholastic Scrimmage.
And Northwestern Lehigh with 255.
Great job your runners up.
And now we'll turn it over to Lehigh Valley Public Media's president, Tim Fallon, to present the teams with their awards.
Thank you.
I often say one of my favorite jobs here at Lehigh Valley Public Media is I get to say thank you a lot.
And so now I get to say thank you to our wonderful community partners who have supported Scholastic Scrimmage through this entire year.
People and Lehigh Valley Health Network's Riley's Children's Hospital thank them so much as well.
And now and now I get to present the trophies to first, the runner up for this year's Scholastic scrimmage.
Could the coach of Northwestern Lehigh come join me?
Thank you Dave.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
What a great competition.
And now this year's scholastic scrimmage champion is Parkland High School.
Can the coach of parkland come join me as well?
Gratulations, this is for you.
Please.
I.
And not only do we get these wonderful trophies to bring back to school, but thanks to our community partners, people, we have $2,000 for the scholarship fund for Northwestern Lehigh.
Congratulations.
And for our champions.
$4,000 for your scholarship fund for Parkland High School.
Thank you, Tim, and congratulations to both teams.
Now next year, next fall is a big year for Scholastic Scrimmage.
We're celebrating our golden Jubilee 50 years and we'd like to hear your stories.
If you're a Scholastic Scrimmage alumni or have a great story around scrimmage, please share it with us and we'll do our well.
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