Welcome to PBS39's Scholastic Scrimmage.

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 third match of the third round of the 49th season of Scholastic Scrimmage.

I'm your host, David Graf.

Today's match between Southern Lehigh and Parkland will be composed of two halves with a lightning round midway through each half.

At half-time, we'll pause, so students can introduce themselves, and we get to know them better.

As a reminder, Scholastic Scrimmage requires rapid recall of specific factual information and is not necessarily indicative of academic training.

And now let's begin.

Buzzers ready.

Here's our first toss-up question.

What play in which Tom claims I'm the opposite of a stage magician centers on Laura Wingfield and is titled for her collection of figurines?

Parkland.

- The Glass Menagerie.

- The Glass Menagerie is correct.

A bit of a slow start, but we're moving here.

For your bonus, what 16th-century Greek ship pilot is best known by his Hispanicized name that is shared with a strait between Vancouver Island and Washington State?

- Cook.

- That is incorrect.

Juan de Fuca is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question.

What series of chemical elements fill the 4f electron subshell, have atomic numbers from 57 to 71... Parkland.

- The lanthanides.

- That is correct.

They are on the periodic table above the actinides.

For your bonus, the barrier to a chemical reaction is what minimum amount of energy that must be added to reaction for it to proceed?

- That would be the activation energy.

- Activation energy is correct.

Next toss-up question.

The Bugatti Veyron is a car named for a driver from what country that is the headquarters of car brands like Citroen, Renault and... Parkland.

- France.

- That is correct.

Peugeot would've been the last French car manufacturer we were listing off.

Your bonus.

What 1989 novel by British author Kazuo Ishiguro depicts Stevens, a butler who represses his feelings for housekeeper Miss Kenton?

- Handmaid's Tale.

- That is incorrect.

The Remains Of The Day is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question.

What 2023 album whose title is spelled out by letters on rings on its cover Includes the singles Bad Idea... Southern Lehigh.

- Guts.

- Guts is correct.

It includes the singles Bad Idea Right and Vampire, and is by Olivia Rodrigo.

For your bonus, female participants in what 1920s subculture used heavy make-up, wore bobbed hair and danced the Charleston to jazz music?

- Flappers.

- Flappers is correct.

Next toss-up question.

What organelle found in animals consists of flattened disks called sister ne... Southern Lehigh.

- Golgi body.

- Golgi bodies or Golgi apparatuses is correct.

For your bonus, what city whose Zimmerman House was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright is the most populous city in New Hampshire?

- Concord.

- That is incorrect.

Manchester is the most populous city in New Hampshire.

Next toss-up question.

What kind of military technology included a group modified for D-Day called Hobart's Funnies, the Soviet T... Parkland.

- Landing craft?

- That is incorrect.

I'll continue for Southern Lehigh.

..the Soviet T-34, US M4 Sherman and the German Panzer?

Southern Lehigh.

- Tanks.

- Tanks is correct.

For your bonus, what ring-like muscles surround the opening of body passages such as the pyloric one controlling the passage of food to the small intestine?

- Sphincter.

- Sphincters is correct.

Next toss-up question.

What American artist depicted two women in a restaurant in his painting Chop Suey... Parkland.

- Hopper.

- Edward Hopper is correct.

..and painted an ad for Phillies cigars above a bar in Nighthawks?

For your bonus, Jules Massenet's opera Werther is based on a work by what author of Elective Affinities, a German member of the Sturm und Drang movement?

- We'll pass this one.

- Johan Goethe is the correct answer.

Goethe.

Next toss-up question.

What theory gives rise to the so called twin paradox, predicts... Parkland.

- Special relativity.

- Special relativity's correct.

It's contrasted with a general counterpart.

For your bonus, low residual income from streaming services helped lead what union that represents film and TV workers to go on strike along with SAG-AFTRA in 2023?

- The Screen Actors Guild.

- That is incorrect.

The Screen Actors Guild is part of SAG-AFTRA.

The correct answer is the Writers Guild of America.

That was the other union that went on strike as well.

Next toss-up question.

What 2022 film includes the characters Lemon and Tangerine and stars... Southern Lehigh.

- Bullet Train.

- Bullet Train is correct.

It stars Brad Pitt as Ladybug.

For your bonus, the disease gaffkemia affects what animal whose American species, found on North America's eastern shores, is the heaviest living crustacean?

- Crabs.

- Close, but you're incorrect.

It's lobsters was the crustacean we're looking for.

And with that, we have reached the first lightning round.

In a pre-match coin toss, it was decided that Parkland will get to pick between the following topics - D in poetry or world heritage sites.

- World heritage sites.

- World heritage sites it is.

Parkland, your topic is world heritage sites.

In what country contains these UNESCO's world heritage sites?

Yellowstone National Park.

- USA.

- Correct.

The Great Barrier Reef.

- Australia.

- Correct.

The Alhambra.

- Spain.

- Correct.

The ancient city of Aleppo.

- Syria.

- Correct.

Lake Baikal.

- Canada.

- Incorrect.

Machu Picchu.

- Peru.

- Correct.

The Lake District.

- Pass.

- Halong Bay.

- Vietnam.

- That is correct.

Fort Jesus in Mombasa.

- Kenya.

- That is correct.

The Elephanta Caves.

- Israel.

- That is incorrect.

The last one was India.

Southern Lehigh, your topic is D in poetry.

Given a poet and a line from one of their poems, give the word beginning with a D that fills in the blank.

And I will be saying blank in the quote of poetry.

Allen Ginsberg.

I saw the best minds of my generation blank by madness.

- Driven.

- That is incorrect.

Edgar Allan Poe.

Once upon a midnight blank.

- Dream.

- Incorrect.

Langston Hughes.

What happens to a blank deferred?

- Dream.

- Correct.

Dylan Thomas.

Rage, rage against the blank of the light.

- Dying.

- That is correct.

Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Look on my works, ye mighty, and blank.

- Dull.

- That is incorrect.

Robert Frost.

Two roads blank... - Diverged.

- Correct.

Walt Whitman.

When lilacs last in the blank bloomed.

- Pass.

John Milton.

No light, but rather blank visible.

- Death.

- Incorrect.

William Carlos Williams.

Forgive me, they were blank.

- Dead.

- Incorrect.

John Keats.

My heart aches and a blank numbness pains.

- Dull.

- Incorrect.

Drowsy is the correct answer.

We'll continue on with the following toss-up question.

What country, which is home to a massive basin called the Boson de Mar Pima... ..or Mar Pima...Mapimpi...

Excuse me.

So it would be the Bolson de Mapimi.

..includes such states as Queretaro and the cities of Puebla and Tijuana?

Parkland.

- Mexico.

- Mexico is correct.

For your bonus, in music, what effect, sometimes denoted by a vertical wavy line, occurs when the notes of a chord are sounded one at a time from bottom to top?

- Glissando.

- That is incorrect.

Arpeggio is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question.

What vessel, which is depicted in the poem The Convergence Of The Twain by Thomas Hardy, was captained by Edward Smith when it hit an iceberg... Parkland.

Quickly.

- USS Titanic.

- The Titanic is correct.

..when it hit an iceberg in 1912?

For your bonus, a mountain formerly known as Communism Peak is the highest point in what landlocked Central Asian country whose capital is Dushanbe?

- Kazakhstan.

- That's incorrect.

Tajikistan is the correct answer.

You're thinking of the other landlocked Central Asian country.

Next toss-up question.

What mechanic who belongs to the Junior Anti-Sex League has an affair with Winston and is captured by the thought police in George Orwell's novel... Southern Lehigh.

- Julia.

- Julia is correct.

And she's from George Orwell's novel 1984.

For your bonus, which Emperor of Japan from 1989 to 1919 was the son of Hirohito and the father of the current Japanese Emperor Naruhito?

- Maji.

- That is incorrect.

Akihito was the emperor.

Next toss-up question.

What piece in which a boson represents...

Excuse me.

What musical piece in which a bassoon represents the grandfather is a symphonic fairy tale for children... Parkland.

- Peter And The Wolf.

- Peter And The Wolf is correct.

For your bonus, what author of Elmer Gantry declined a 1926 Pulitzer Prize for his novel Arrowsmith, which depicts a doctor trying to cure a plague?

- Williams.

- Incorrect.

Sinclair Lewis is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question.

What type of radiation, whose scattering was used to deduce Bragg's law, was used by Rosalind Franklin to study DNA in a namesake crystallography?

Southern Lehigh.

- X-ray.

- X-rays is correct.

For your bonus, what function of x has an output of x when x is positive or zero and the opposite of x when x is negative?

- Absolute value of x over x.

- I'm sorry.

That's incorrect.

You were close.

The answer is absolute value of x.

Not x over x.

Next toss-up question.

What city which was defeated by... ..which was defended by the Aurelian Wall did King Alaric's Visigoths sack in AD40... Parkland.

- Rome.

- Rome is correct.

Parkland, your bonus.

What word, which names Nasa's second human space flight program and the constellation whose brightest star is Pollux, is Latin for twins?

- Gemini.

- Gemini is correct.

Next toss-up question.

What country is home to the Court of Justice of the European Union, is a Grand Duchy and is the small country that comprises the Lux in Benelux ?

Parkland.

- Luxembourg.

- Luxembourg is correct.

For your bonus, the day after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, Franklin Roosevelt told Congress that the attack was a date which will live in what condition?

- Infamy.

- Infamy is correct.

And actually, today is December 7th.

The day of our taping is the 82nd anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Next toss-up question.

What title character who kills Don Issachar to rescue Cunegonde is a student of the optimistic Dr Pangloss in a 1759 French novella by Voltaire?

Parkland.

- Comoni.

- Say it again, Parkland - Comoni.

- That is incorrect.

Can...

He didn't buzz in.

We actually had Thomas.

Thomas, you have the right.

- I was going to say Faust.

- Both are incorrect.

Candide is the correct answer.

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

We have a great match under way.

Parkland currently leads Southern Lehigh with a score of 155 to 90.

I'll have the students introduce themselves with their first, last name grade level, and the answer to the following question - what is your all-time favorite movie or TV series?

Southern Lehigh.

Matilda, we start with you.

Go ahead.

- I'm Matilda.

I'm a sophomore, and my favorite movie is The Martian.

- I'm Ella.

I'm a junior.

And my favorite TV show is Game Of Thrones.

- I'm Owen.

I'm a senior, and I'd have to go with Interstellar.

- I'm by Matthew I'm a sophomore, and my favorite movie is Kung Fu Panda.

- I'm Max.

I'm a junior, and I'd have to go with Scholastic Scrimmage.

- Perfect choice for Matt.

No brownie points for that one.

- I'm Tommy.

I'm a senior at Parkland High School.

And my favorite TV show is The Big Bang Theory.

- I'm Alex.

I'm a senior, and my favorite movie is Knives Out.

- I'm Joseph.

I'm a senior and my favorite movie is Across the Spider-Verse.

- All right.

On to the next toss-up question to begin the second half of this match.

What physicist whose namesake rings are created by reflection and are discussed in his 1704 book Optics... Parkland.

- Newton.

- Isaac Newton is correct.

And they also name his three laws of motion.

For your bonus, in what Henrik Ibsen play does Oswald Alving learn dark family secrets and beg his mother for an overdose of morphine while dying of syphilis?

- A Doll's House.

- That is incorrect.

Ghosts is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question.

What president, whose commitment to westward expansion inspired the phrase 54-40... Parkland.

- James Polk.

- Polk is correct.

He led during the Mexican-American War.

Your bonus is in math - pencil and paper ready.

In how many seconds will an elevator traveling four feet per second ascend nine floors if there are 12 feet between the floors?

Let your captain know.

- 27 seconds.

- 27 seconds is correct.

Next toss-up question.

What California Republican, who negotiated the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 to raise... Parkland, go ahead.

- Kevin McCarthy.

- Kevin McCarthy is correct.

And that raised the debt ceiling.

For your bonus, what left-wing revolutionary party overthrew the Somoza family in 1979 and subsequently governed Nicaragua until 1990 and then again in 2007?

- Sandinistas.

- The Sandinistas is correct.

Next toss-up question.

What country, whose capital lies on the Abseron Peninsula, disputes Nagorno-Karabakh with neighboring Armenia, and is governed... Parkland.

- Azerbaijan.

- That is correct.

It's governed from Baku.

For your bonus, in 1893, Henry Ossawa Tanner painted an elderly African American man teaching a young boy to play what stringed instrument?

- Cello.

- That's incorrect.

The banjo is the correct answer.

And it's from...

The Banjo Lesson is the name of the work.

Next toss-up question.

What cosmic entities, such as Sagittarius A star, which is at... Parkland.

- Black Holes.

- That is correct.

And they have such strong gravitational forces that they trap lights.

For your bonus, what British author, who wrote about the corruption of postwar Vienna in The Third Man and depicted a Catholic whiskey priest in The Power And The Glory?

- Pass.

- Henry Graham Greene is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question.

What objects, whose flat-woven types includes kilim, are made from wool and include Oriental and Persian varieties... Southern Lehigh.

- Carpets?

- Yes.

Carpets or rugs is the correct answer.

...Persian versions which indicate their geometric patterns that are used in those types?

For your bonus, what person claimed one is not born but rather becomes a woman in her 1949 book The Second Sex?

- Toni Morrison.

- Say that again.

- Morrison.

- Morrison is incorrect.

It's Simone de Beauvoir.

And with that, we have reached the second lightning round.

Southern Lehigh, you'll get to pick between the following topics - mobile games or the 2024 presidential election.

Quickly, Southern Lehigh.

- Mobile games.

- Mobile games it is.

Southern Lehigh, your topic is mobile games.

Name these mobile games.

Nintendo monster-catching franchise with a mobile go game.

- Pokemon Go.

- That is correct.

Match 3 puzzle saga about confections.

- Candy Crush.

- That is correct.

Rovio game series about launching... - Angry Birds.

- That's correct.

RobTop rhythm-based platform... - Geometry Dash.

- That is correct.

Halfbrick game about slicing oranges and plums.

- Fruit Ninja.

- That is correct.

RPG set in Teleria which sponsors many Twitch streamers.

- League Of Legends.

- That is incorrect.

Danish endless runner set on railroad tracks.

- Subway Surfers.

- That is correct.

Series in which Barry Steakfries steals a portable flying device.

- Jetpack Joyride.

- That is correct.

Blizzard demon-killing franchise with an immortal game.

- Pass.

- Hit-Point game in which players attract cats to their yard.

- Pets.

- Oh, that's incorrect.

Neko Atsume was the answer to the last question.

We know our mobile games.

I don't want to see your mobile phone bills, though, on your Apple account!

The gotcha games that were listed on there.

OK, Parkland.

Your topic is the 2024 presidential election.

Name these 2024 presidential candidates.

The current Democratic President.

- Joe Biden.

- Correct.

Most recent Republican President.

- Donald Trump.

- Correct.

Former Vice President from Indiana.

- Mike Pence.

- Correct.

Current Governor of Florida.

- Ron DeSantis.

- Correct.

Female Republican from South Carolina.

- Nikki Haley.

- Correct.

Democrat who ran in 2020 and wrote A Return To Love.

- Marianne Williamson.

- Correct.

Anti-vaccine activist whose father was assassinated in 1968.

- Robert Kennedy Jr. - Correct.

Former Governor of New Jersey implicated in the ... - Chris Christie.

- Bridgegate.

Yes.

Correct.

Former Texas Congressman and CIA operative.

- Will Hurd.

- Correct.

Hindu entrepreneur who wants... - Vivek Ramaswamy.

- That is also correct.

He wants to raise the voting age to 25.

Nice job, Max.

You know your presidential candidates.

And we start the final quarter of the match with the following toss-up question.

What US coin, which shares its name with a dreadful genre of lurid stories, depicts the Union Shield opposite an image... Parkland.

- Penny.

- The penny is correct.

It's opposite an image of Abraham Lincoln.

Your bonus.

In the US, the most watched scripted television episode of all time is the 1983 series finale of what sitcom about doctors during the Korean War?

- MASH.

- MASH is correct, It was watched by an estimated 106 million viewers.

Next toss-up question.

What 15th-century resident of Mainz used a loan from Johann Fust to issue a 42-line Bible after inventing the metallic movable... Parkland.

Quickly.

- Gutenberg.

- Gutenberg is correct.

He invented the metallic movable type printing press.

For your bonus, what author created Detective Sam Spade, who appears in his novel The Maltese Falcon?

- We will pass.

- Samuel Hammett is the correct answer.

The next toss-up question is in math - pencil and paper ready.

Your answer must be given in a percentage.

What percentage of a class wears glasses if nine out of 30 students wear glasses?

Max.

Parkland.

- 30%.

- 30% is correct.

For your bonus, Hector was the son of what man who was King of Troy during the Trojan War?

- Aeneas.

- That is incorrect.

Priam is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question.

What title character who could climb lamps at one week old by shinning up the cord appears in a novel by EB White and has the body of a mouse?

Parkland.

- Stuart Little.

- Stuart Little is correct.

For your bonus, undersea earthquakes can trigger what destructive phenomena with very long wavelengths which reach large heights in shallow waters?

- Tsunami.

- Tsunami or tsunamis is correct.

Next toss-up question.

What merchant served as the first governor of the state of Massachusetts and signed the Declaration of... - Parkland.

- John Hancock.

Correct.

He signed the Declaration of Independence with a massive and now namesake signature.

Your bonus.

What most populous island of Denmark is home to most of the capital of Copenhagen?

- Antole.

- That's incorrect.

Zealand is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question.

In 2023. what chain, whose major franchisee Meridian closed, began a Reclaim the Flame plan after falling behind Wendy's in... Parkland.

- Burger King.

- That is correct.

And they fell behind Wendy's to number three in burger sales.

For your bonus, what city was the birthplace of Herodias, is in present-day Turkey, and was the site of a 45-meter-tall tomb known as the Mausoleum?

- Halicarnassus.

- Halicarnassus is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question.

What mineral made of magnesium silicate hydrate is the main constituent of soapstone, has a Mohs hardness of one and is... Southern Lehigh.

- Talc.

- Talc is correct.

It's ground up to make baby powder, For your bonus, what Russian scientist, the namesake of element 101, predicted the properties of gallium, which he called ekaaluminum?

- Mendelevium.

- Are we good enough... Good enough in the pronunciation of that?

The judges... We'll take it.

Dmitri Mendeleev.

We'll take it.

On to the next toss-up question.

What Greek goddess who transformed Arachne into a spider... Parkland.

- Athena.

- Athena is correct.

For your bonus, in 2022, Ryan North started writing comic books featuring what group of Marvel comic heroes whose headquarters is in the Baxter Building?

- The Fantastic Four.

- The Fantastic Four is correct.

Next toss-up question.

The main plot tried to overthrow which king, who is also the target of Robert Catesby, in the Gunpowder Plot after succeeding... Parkland.

- King James I.

- King James I of England is correct.

And that was after he succeeded Elizabeth I.

For your bonus, in September 2023, what country returned AWOL US soldier and attempted defector Travis King to US custody?

- North Korea.

- North Korea is correct.

Next toss-up question.

What student of psychologist Elias von Cyon was Russia's first Nobel laureate and studied classical conditioning by making dogs salivate... Southern Lehigh.

- Pavlov.

- Pavlov is correct.

He made dogs salivate to sounds.

For your bonus.

What ten-letter adjective describes physical processes in which the temperature of a system remains constant?

- Homeostasis.

- That's incorrect.

Isothermal is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question.

In what century, in which Jupiter Hammond published poetry, was the collection Poems On Various Subjects written by former slave Phillis Wheatley?

Parkland.

- 19th century.

- That is incorrect.

Over to Southern Lehigh.

No conferring.

Go ahead.

- 18th century.

- 18th century is correct.

For your bonus, what artist of Haitian ancestry showed a crawling skeleton in Riding With Death and started as a New York graffiti... And the answer to that would have been Jean-Michel Basquiat.

And we have reached the end of the match.

Southern Lehigh, with 170 points, not quite enough.

Good luck with the rest of your school year.

Parkland, congratulations.

With an even 400 points, you're on to the final four teams.

We'll see you next week when Saucon Valley faces off against Moravian Academy.