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Scholastic Scrimmage: Pen Argyl HS vs Catasauqua HS
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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 the first match of the second round of the 49th season of Scholastic Scrimmage.
I'm your host, David Graf.
Today's match between Pen Argyl, who had a bye in the first round due to another school's scheduling issue, and Catasauqua 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, and it's not necessarily indicative of academic training.
And now let's begin.
Buzzers ready.
Here's our first toss-up question.
What book depicting a boarded up Lurkim, where the word "useless" is pondered by the Onceler, was written by an... Catasauqua.
- The Lorax.
- The Lorax is correct.
It was written by Dr Seuss.
For your bonus, what stringed instrument played by Regina Carter was also played by 18th-century composer Chevalier de Saint George, sometimes dubbed the Black Mozart?
- Cello.
- Cello is incorrect.
It's the violin.
Next toss-up question.
What element, the second most abundant element in the Earth's crust, is found in both sand and quartz?
Catasauqua.
- Silicon.
- Silicon is correct.
And it is a metalloid that's used in computer chips.
For your bonus, what word did the Daily Mail coin in 1906 to refer to women such as Emmeline Pankhurst who advocated for the women's right to vote in Britain?
- Suffragettes.
- Suffragette is correct.
Next toss-up question.
Jewel Cave National Monument and the Wind Cave National Park are in what state which is also home to the Crazy Horse Memorial and Mount Rushmore?
Pen Argyl.
- South Dakota.
- South Dakota is correct.
For your bonus, Amazon Web Services provides what type of computing in which users manage resources over the Internet without regard to physical infrastructure?
- E-commerce?
- That is incorrect.
Cloud computing is the correct answer.
Next toss-up question.
What senator, who wrote the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act with Russ Feingold, came from Arizona and lost the 2008 presidential race...?
Pen Argyl.
- John McCain.
- John McCain is correct.
And he lost the presidential race to Barack Obama.
For your bonus, what poem by William Ernest Henley triumphantly declares, "I am the master of my fate" and thanks "whatever gods may be for an unconquerable soul"?
- Megamind.
- That is incorrect.
Invictus is the correct answer.
That is the poem we were looking for.
Next toss-up question.
What play, in which a plan to build summer cottages is rejected by Madame Ranevskaya, was written by Anton Chekhov?
Pen Argyl.
- The Cherry Orchard.
- The Cherry Orchard is correct, and is named for its symbolic trees.
For your bonus, What 732 battle was a victory for Charles Martel over the Umayyads, who is often credited with halting the spread of Islam in Western Europe?
- Spanish Inquisition.
- That is incorrect.
The Battle of Tours is the correct answer.
Next toss-up question.
What company whose CEO, David Coleman, was criticized for a new African American Studies curriculum, runs the high school, AP and...
Pen Argyl.
- College Board?
- Just Jonathan?
- The College Board.
- The College Board is correct.
And they run the AP and SAT programs.
You can see right in that, you'll see that little light pop up inside for you.
Your bonus is in mathematics.
Pencil and paper ready.
What product results from multiplying the square root of 20 times the square root of 80?
- What is eight times the square root of five?
- That is incorrect.
40 is a correct answer.
Next toss-up question.
Directly evaluating what operation can lead to the indeterminate forms that can be resolved using L'Hopital's rule, finding the value of a function gets near, finding the value of a function gets near?
That operation would be the limit.
Next toss-up question.
What American author, who wrote about Boy Willie and Bernice in The Piano Lesson, depicted garbage truck driver Tony Maxson in his play Fences?
It's Troy Maxson.
I think I might have said Tony Maxson, it's Troy Maxson.
August Wilson is the correct answer.
Next toss-up question.
What businessman who claimed to own a half-monkey, half-fish called the Fijian mermaid promoted hoaxes as part of the circus he ran with James Bailey?
Pen Argyl.
- Barnum.
- PT Barnum is correct.
For your bonus, Swae Lee sings, "You're left in the dust "unless I stuck by ya" in the chorus of a 2018 song, a collaboration with Post Malone?
- Sunflower?
- Sunflower is correct.
Next toss-up question.
What kind of measure was infamously botched in 1936 by the Literary Digest and is provided by firms such as Zogby and Gallup to gauge public opinion?
Catasauqua.
- Polls?
- Polls are correct.
Both of those are polling firms.
And just to let you know, that magazine folded.
They predicted a landslide loss for FDR and they folded two years later.
So, got to be accurate in journalism!
For your bonus, what type of elastic wave cannot propagate in liquids with low viscosity and is determined by seismographs after P waves?
And is detected, excuse me, by seismographs after P waves.
- S waves.
- S waves is correct.
Next toss-up question.
What quantity denoted Z that is proportional to hydrostatic pressure, is hadal zones such as the Mariana Trench and increases downward?
Catasauqua.
- Fathoms.
- That is incorrect.
Pen Argyl, a little bit of time.
- Water pressure.
- We can't take that one either.
It's depth, is the correct answer we're looking for.
Next toss-up question.
What emperor reclaimed power by ordering the execution of Sejanus, spent years secluded in Capri and preceded Caligula as the second Roman emperor?
That second Roman emperor would be Tiberius.
And with that, we have reached the first lightning round.
It was determined in a pre-match coin toss that Catasauqua would be picking first between the following topics, 20th-Century Painters or Ends In -ice.
- Ends In -ice.
- Ends In -ice.
Catasauqua, your topic is Ends In -ice.
Give these nouns the end in the consecutive letters -ice.
Opposite of virtue.
- Pass.
- Cost of buying something.
- Price.
- Correct.
Law enforcement officials.
- Police.
- Correct.
Care for the terminally ill. - Hospice.
- Correct.
Lack of courage.
- Cowardice.
- Correct.
Someone learning a trade from an expert.
- Apprentice.
- Correct.
I heard apprentice first.
Drinking cup or goblet - Chalice.
- Correct.
Water channel with a movable gate.
- Pass.
- Preconceived judgment or opinion.
- Prejudice.
- Correct.
Yellowish discoloration of the skin.
- Jaundice.
- That is correct.
Nice job, Catasauqua, on that round.
Now over to Pen Argyl.
20th-century Painters is your topic.
Name these artists who created their major works between 1900 and 1999.
Painter of Number 5, 1948, known as Jack the Dripper.
- Pass.
- Mexican woman who painted The Broken Column.
- Frida Kahlo.
- Correct.
French Dadaist painter of Nude Descending a Staircase.
- Pass.
- Spanish Surrealist painter of The Persistence Of Memory.
-Salvador Dali.
- Correct.
American Pop Artist of Marilyn Diptych featuring Marilyn Monroe.
- Warhol.
- That is correct.
Austrian creator of the gold leaf painting The Kiss.
- Pass.
- Dutch square-and-line painter of Broadway Boogie Woogie.
- Pass.
- Spanish Cubist painter of The Old Guitarist.
- Picasso.
- Correct.
American painter of Red Canna series, featuring lily flowers.
- O'Keeffe.
- That is correct.
Dutch Abstract painter of the Woman series.
- Pass.
- That last one would be Willem de Kooning.
OK. We'll continue on with the following toss-up question.
What city was the site of a massive August 2020 explosion in its port?
- Beirut.
- Beirut is correct.
It is the capital of Lebanon.
For your bonus, what European language was used by the poet Constantine Cavafy, whose poems Waiting for the Barbarians and Ithaka were inspired by the ancient world?
- Greek.
- Greek is correct.
Next tossup question.
What empire committed the Herero genocide in Namibia and defended its African colonies from the Triple Entente before losing World War...?
- Germany.
- Germany is correct.
For your bonus, the energy of a photon equals its frequency times what constant whose reduced form results from dividing it by two pi?
- Planck's constant.
- Planck's constant is correct.
Next toss-up question.
What god who married Ariadne after Theseus abandoned her was sewn into Zeus's thigh after the death of his mother Semele and was the god of wine?
Catasauqua.
- Dionysus.
Dionysus is correct.
For your bonus, Dr Frank Jobe performed the first ulnar collateral ligament replacement on the elbow of what Dodgers pitcher for whom the surgery is commonly named?
- Tommy John.
- Tommy John is correct.
And also great job not pluralizing it.
A lot of people say Johns, but it is, in fact, Tommy John.
Next toss-up question.
What cellular process which terminates upon reaching UAG or one of the other stop codons involves ribosomes using T...
Pen Argyl.
- Protein synthesis?
- That is correct.
Yes, we will take that.
And it's by rhizomes using tRNA to synthesize a protein.
For your bonus, US troops under James Forsyth committed what 1890 massacre in which hundreds of Lakota civilians were killed during the Ghost Dance War?
- Wounded Knee.
- The Wounded Knee massacre is correct.
And with that, we've reached halftime.
We have an excellent match underway.
Catasauqua currently leads Pen Argyl with a score of 125... Oh, it's actually tied, looking at it.
The score just updated.
So we have a really great match because it's tied, Catasauqua and Pen Argyl both sharing a score of 125 points, and now we'll get to know the students a little bit better.
They'll give us their first and last name, their grade level and the answer to the following question.
Let us know about a favorite hobby or collection that you have.
Pen Argyl, Dominic, we'll start with you.
Dominic Dawley, Grade 12, a favorite hobby is hiking.
Ella, Grade 10, and favorite hobby is reading.
- John Horsburgh, Grade 12, and I collect Pokemon cards.
- Charles Riley, grade 11.
I like modeling and drawing.
- Very cool.
So Jonathan, my daughter also collects Pokemon cards, and out of a pack of Japanese Pokemon cards, we got a gigantic Pikachu.
Apparently that's worth something to someone.
Okay, Catasauqua, Lennon, over to you.
Lennon, Murray, grade 10, and I like learning about history.
- I'm Dillan, I'm in tenth grade, and I like Formula One.
- Very cool.
- I'm Kevin, I'm in tenth grade and I like reading.
- My name is Ethan Armbruster, I'm in 12th grade and I like exploring and free running.
- Very nice.
So, Dillan, have you been able to get to a Formula One race yet?
- No, not yet.
I was hoping that I could go to the Vegas one this week, but... - Prices, absolutely insane.
So a friend of mine is very into it.
He got to see when they raced at Indianapolis back in the '90s and he loved it.
Said it's absolutely amazing.
All right.
We'll continue on with the second half of the match with the following toss-up question.
What TV show introduced a men's lodge called the Loyal Order of Water Buffaloes and was set in the town of Bedrock, the home of Fred...?
Catasauqua.
- The Flintstones.
- That is correct.
It was home to Fred's Stone Age family.
For your bonus, what annual meteor shower is caused by the earth passing through the debris left from the Swift-Tuttle Comet and peaks between July and August?
- Pass.
- That'd be the Perseid meteor shower.
Next toss-up question.
What treaty which gave the US fishing rights in the Gulf of St Lawrence was signed in 1783 to officially end the American Revolution?
- Pen Argyl.
- The Treaty of Paris.
- The Treaty of Paris is correct.
For your bonus, in July 2023, pro-Russian soldiers in what African country launched a coup that deposed President Mohammed Bazoum?
- Mali.
- Incorrect.
Niger is the correct answer.
Next toss-up question.
What play whose heroine is helped by Touchstone includes the All the World's A Stage Speech and is a Shakespeare comedy set in the Forest of Arden?
Pen Argyl.
- A Midsummer Night's Dream.
- Say it again.
- A Midsummer Night's Dream.
- I'm sorry.
That's incorrect.
Over to Catasauqua.
No conferring, but there's a little bit of time.
That Shakespeare play is As You Like It.
Next toss-up question.
What Central American country where former figure skater Michelle Kwan has served as US ambassador since 2022 has its capital at Belmopan?
Pen Argyl.
Go ahead.
Right away.
- Belize.
- Belize is correct.
And I feel like with Scrimmage, you learn something new every day.
I had no idea that Michelle Kwan's second act was being a US ambassador.
Now onto your bonus question, Pen Argyl.
The vain queen of Greek myth was the mother of Andromeda... Or what vain queen of Greek myth was the mother of Andromeda and gave her name to a constellation whose five brightest stars form the shape of a W?
Cassiopeia is the correct answer.
Next toss-up question.
The no hair theorem characterizes what astronomical objects that can be formed in a supernova and which have an... Catasauqua.
- Black holes.
- That is correct.
And have an event horizon around a singularity.
For your bonus comment, conman Victor Lustig twice tried to sell what wrought iron lattice structure on the Champs de Mars?
- Magnetite?
- That is incorrect.
The Eiffel Tower is what he tried to sell.
Next tossup question.
What religion, whose Guajira temples include a kitchen providing free meals called a langar, read the Adi Granth and was founded by Guru Nanak?
Catasauqua.
- Hinduism.
- That is incorrect.
A little bit of time for Pen Argyl.
Go ahead.
- Sikhism.
- Sikhism is correct.
For your bonus: What Anglo-American poet described the brutality of warfare in The Shield Of Achilles and wrote, "We must love one another or die" in September 1, 1939?
WH Auden is the correct answer.
Next toss-up question.
What opera in which the Catalogue aria is sung by Leporello is a Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart opera whose title womanizer is dragged to hell?
Catasauqua.
- Don Juan.
Unfortunately, no, we can't take that.
Pen Argyl?
You were so close.
Don Giovanni is the correct answer.
And with that, we have reached the second Lightning Round.
Pen Argyl, you'll get to pick between the following topics, Postal Abbreviations or 1920.
- We're going to go abbreviations.
- Postal Abbreviations.
Pen Argyl, your topic is Postal Abbreviations.
Given an official two-letter US Postal Service abbreviation, name the state or US possession it stands for.
TX.
- Texas.
- Correct.
FL.
- Florida.
- Correct.
VA. - Virginia.
- Correct.
KY. - Kentucky.
- Correct.
PR.
- Puerto Rico.
- Correct.
GU.
- Guam.
- Correct.
IA.
- Iowa.
- Correct.
AS.
- Arkansas.
- That is incorrect.
MO.
- Missouri.
- Missouri, I did hear first, and that is correct.
MP.
- Mississippi.
- Incorrect.
It's the Northern Mariana Islands, would have been the correct answer.
Catasauqua, you have the year 1920.
Answer the following about the year 1920.
Senator who was elected president.
- Hoover.
- That is incorrect.
Field of chemistry that studies heat for which Walter Nernst won a Nobel Prize?
- Thermology.
- That is incorrect.
German party led by Adolf Hitler that was formed that year.
- Nazi.
- Correct.
Author who published her first book about Detective Hercule Poirot.
- Pass.
- International group and UN precursor that began... - League of Nations.
- Yes.
Pandemic that killed... - Spanish flu.
- Correct author who published This Side of Paradise, his first novel.
- Ernest Hemingway.
- That is incorrect.
Belgian city that hosted the Olympics.
- Brussels.
- Incorrect.
Sociologist of the Protestant Ethic who died at 56.
- Freud.
- That is incorrect.
Sculptor who finished the statue at the Lincoln Memorial.
And that would have been Daniel Chester French.
All right.
We have a tight match underway.
We will continue on with the final quarter of the match with the following toss-up question.
What plant whose golden form is genetically modified and whose Asian species has a scientific name... Catasauqua.
- Rice.
- Rice is correct, and is grown in namesake rice patties.
For your bonus, the 1492 Alhambra decree expelled Jews from what newly united European country?
- Spain.
- Spain is correct.
Next toss-up question.
What wars, one of which was ended by the Treaty of Tientsin, led to the ceding of Kowloon to Britain and were named for the drug trafficked into China?
Pen Argyl.
- The Opium Wars.
- The Opium Wars is correct.
For your bonus: What device name for a German physicist is used to detect ionized radiation which causes it to emit clicking sounds?
- A Geiger counter.
- A Geiger counter is correct.
Next toss-up question.
What structure contains the Y and Z holes, aligns with the summer solstice and is a circular collection of upright rocks in southern...?
Pen Argyl.
- Stonehenge.
- Stonehenge is correct.
Southern England is where they're located.
For your bonus, what Hawaiian Island was hit by August 2023 wildfires that severely damaged its town of Lahaina?
- Maui.
- Maui is correct.
Next toss-up question.
What last name is shared by the English author who wrote the novel Sons and Lovers and the actress who played Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger...?
Pen Argyl.
- Lawrence.
- Lawrence is correct, for DH Lawrence and Jennifer Lawrence.
For your bonus, the Saint John River flows into what Bay to the south of New Brunswick, which has the highest tidal range in the world?
- The Hudson Bay?
- No.
That's OK.
I had to look this one up as well.
It's the Bay of Fundy.
Next toss-up question.
What 1976 novel, in which Dr William Waller buys the protagonist, centers on an enslaved Gambian named Kunta Kinte and is by Alex... - Roots.
- Roots is correct.
For your bonus, what English philosopher defended absolute monarchy in his 1651 text Leviathan?
- Pass.
- All right, onto the next toss-up question.
That correct answer was Thomas Hobbes.
Onto the next toss-up question.
What 12-letter term names a vector quantity given by a definite integral of velocity or by change in position that is...?
Catasauqua.
- Acceleration.
- That is incorrect.
I'll continue the question for Pen Argyl.
..that is distinct from distance?
Pen Argyl?
- Displacement.
- Displacement is correct.
Your bonus is in math.
Pencil and paper ready.
What is the value of x if five...raised to the x power equals 125 raised to the fifth power?
- 15.
- 15 is correct.
Next toss-up question.
What composer who wrote several operas called the Orlando Furioso wrote four violin concerti depicting parts of the year in the Four Seasons?
Antonio Vivaldi is the correct answer.
Next toss-up question.
What author claimed "A thing of beauty is a joy forever" in his poem described a light winged bird, in his 1819 Ode to a Nightingale?
John Keats is the correct answer.
Next toss-up.
What regional name was shared by the 13th-century king known as Longshanks, the king who abdicated in 1936 and the only son of Henry VIII?
No conferring.
That name is Edward.
Next toss-up question.
It's in math, so pencil and paper ready.
What is the surface area of a cube whose edges have a length of four, given it has six identical square faces?
Catasauqua.
- 32.
- That is incorrect.
Over to Pen Argyl.
You have to buzz in.
- 256.
- That is incorrect.
96 is the correct answer.
Next toss-up question.
What painting does Judas knock over a salt shaker, as depicted by Leonardo Da Vinci...?
Catasauqua.
- The Last Supper.
- The Last Supper is correct.
And for your bonus, the Battle of Plataea, at which the... - Pass.
- OK. On to the next toss-up question.
What language, which was used to write... And with that, we've reached the end of the match.
What a way to start the second round.
Excellent match between two really evenly matched teams.
Unfortunately, though Catasauqua with 180 points, it is the end of the road for you.
Congratulations to Pen Argyl.
We will see you in the next round.
And thank you for tuning in.
We will see you next week when Lehighton faces off against Nazareth.
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