Welcome to PBS 39 Scholastic Scrimmage.

Scholastic Scrimmage is brought to you by the members of PBS 39 and by St Luke's University Health Network, Lehigh Valley's first and only School of Medicine and the nation's oldest school of nursing, St Luke's has been proudly operating for 150 years.

More at sluhn.org Also made possible by ppl, People's Security Charitable Foundation.

Charles H. Hoch Foundation.

Hello and welcome to the 48th season of Scholastic Scrimmage.

I'm your host, David Graf.

Today's match between Dieruff high school and Jim Thorpe will be composed of two halves with a lightning round midway through each half.

At halftime, we'll pause to get to know the students a little bit better when they introduce themselves.

As a reminder, Scholastic Scrimmage requires a 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.

What Felsic Rock, which is the intrusive equivalent of Rhyolite, makes up most of the continental crust and is sometimes used for countertops?

- Granite.

= That is correct.

For your bonus, what seven-letter word was the name of a medieval region of England, where Norse invaders settled and asserted their own culture and government?

- Danelaw.

- That is correct.

Next toss up.

What Caribbean country includes the islands of Andros, Great Eczema and New Providence, the last of which contains its capital city of Nassau?

Jim Thorpe?

- The Bahamas.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, electric flux equals enclosed charge over epsilon 0 according to what law whose analog for magnetism assumes no magnetic monopoles?

Have a guess?

- No.

- Gauss's law is the correct answer.

Next toss up.

John Carpenter was the first American winner of the jackpot on what gameshow once hosted by Regis Philbin, whose lifelines include phone a friend?

- Who wants to be a millionaire?

- That is correct.

For your bonus, the archaeological site of L'Anse au Meadows is on what island which is home to the Canadian provincial capital of Saint John?

- Newfoundland?

- That is correct.

See, once again, take a guess.

You got it right.

Next toss up.

What party which largely absorbed the anti Masonic party, had its first two presidents die in office and oppose the Democrats in the 1840s?

- Jim Thorpe, - The Whig Party.

That is correct.

For your bonus, what union Cavalry commander devastated Virginia's Shenandoah Valley in 1864 and helped trap Confederate forces at a...

Excuse me, Appomattox.

Philip Sheridan is the correct answer.

The next toss up is in math.

Pencil and paper ready?

What is the value in cents of one quarter, three dimes and two nickels?

Dieruff.

$0.65.

That is correct.

For your bonus.

What is the name of a part of a circle bound by two radii and an arc resembling a slice of pie?

An angle.

Incorrect.

A sector is a correct answer.

Next toss up.

What author who wrote about the marriage of Jack Potter in his story, The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky wrote the novel The Red Badge of Courage?

Stephen Crane is a correct answer.

Next, toss up - what European country whose traditional dishes include paprikash and goulash, has a namesake non-Indo European language and is home to Budapest?

- Jim Thorpe, - Hungary.

That is correct.

For your bonus, the shepherd Gabriel Oak wishes to marry land owner Bathsheba Everdene in what Thomas Hardy novel, whose title refers to its rural setting?

- The Ranch?

- Incorrect.

Far from the madding crowd is the correct answer.

Next toss up.

What country which joined Argentina and Uruguay in the war of the Triple Alliance had two emperors named Pedro and was a... Jim Thorpe, - Brazil.

- That's right.

It was a former Portuguese colony.

Your bonus is in math.

Pencil and paper ready?

What integer can be expressed in scientific notation as four times ten raised to the eighth power?

- 400 million?

- That is correct.

Next toss up.

What sculptor who created Man With A Broken Nose gives his name to a Philadelphia museum that displays his works The burghers of of Kello and the Thinker.

Burghers of Calais.

Sorry.

And the Thinker.

- Dieruff - Michelangelo.

- Incorrect.

Rodin is the correct answer.

And with that, we've reached the first lightning round.

In a pre-match coin toss, it was determined that Jim Thorpe will get to select between the following topics.

T in Anatomy or National Parks.

- National parks.

- All right.

National Parks is your topic.

Jim Thorpe.

National Parks.

In what state are these national parks located?

Petrified Forest in the same state as part of the Grand Canyon.

No one knows, you can say pass.

- Pass - Olympic, which is on the Pacific Ocean.

And anyone can say the answer.

- Alaska.

- Incorrect.

Biscayne.

Which includes a mangrove forest.

-Louisiana.

- Incorrect.

Mammoth cave.

- Alaska.

- Incorrect.

White Sands, which is in a missile range where the first atomic bomb was tested.

- Nevada.

- Incorrect.

Acadia, which includes Mount Desert Island.

- Oregon.

- Incorrect.

Grand Teton.

- Wyoming?

- That is correct.

Glacier, which is near the Canadian border.

And with that, time's up.

It looks like this summer you can go on a trip to the national parks.

So Dieruff your topic is T in anatomy, give these anatomical terms beginning with the letter T. Mouth organ covered in taste buds.

- Tongue - Correct.

First digit on the hand.

- Anybody can say it.

-Thumb.

Yep.

That is correct.

Anatomical name for the shinbone.

- Tibia.

- Correct.

Lymphatic throat organs often removed in children.

- Tonsils?

- That is correct.

Tissue that connects muscle to bone.

- Tendon.

- That is correct.

Endocrine gland affected in Graves disease.

- Pass.

- Three part muscle responsible for elbow extension.

- Pass.

- Male gonad where sperm is produced.

- Testicle.

- Correct.

Lobe of the brain that processes sensory information.

- Pass.

- The immune system organ located behind the breastbone.

- Thyroid.

- Incorrect.

Thymus is the correct answer on that one.

And that concludes our first lightning round.

We'll continue with the next toss up.

What city, whose territory includes the glassmaking island of Murano was once ruled by the Doges and has gondolas?

- Jim Thorpe, - Venice, - That is correct.

Has gondolas traversing its many canals.

I was there this summer.

For your bonus, what French novella is named after a childlike character who uproots baobab trees that have threatened the asteroid where he lives?

The Little Prince.

Go ahead and tell your captain.

- Sorry.

- this is a bonus.

- The Little Prince.

- That is correct.

Just to keep the rules in line for the rest of the match.

Next, toss up what British author imagined a damsel with a dulcimer and wrote about caves of ice within a sunny pleasure dome at Xanadu in his poem, Kublai Khan?

The correct answer is Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Next toss up is in math, pencil and paper ready?

What is the measure of the third angle of a triangle whose two other angles measure 105 degrees and 55 degrees respectively?

- Dieruff - 20 degrees.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, what alias is used by the jewel thief, Selina Kyle, who first appeared in a 1940 issue of Batman.

- Catwoman?

- That is correct.

Next toss up.

What policy enacted by Executive Order 9066 created Tulley, Lake, Manzanar and other camps where Asian American citizens were sent during World War Two?

That policy enacted Japanese-American internment.

Next toss up - what adjective which precedes dark in the title of a Nintendo 64 FPS, describes numbers such as six and 28.

- Jim Thorpe.

- Even - That is incorrect, Dieruff, there's still a little bit of time.

Dieruff, go ahead.

- Doom - Incorrect.

Perfect for the perfect dark series.

I thought that was going to be a little bit ahead of everyone's time.

That would have been out in, like, 1998 or so.

All right.

Next toss up,in June 2022.

What federal agencies cited safety concerns in the banning of the sale of dual e-cigarettes and approved infant versions of coronavirus vaccines.

- Jim Thorpe, - The FDA.

That is correct.

The Food and Drug Administration.

For a bonus, Henri is the reigning grand duke of what small European country that shares borders with Germany, France and Belgium?

- Luxembourg.

- That is also correct.

Next toss up what conflict in which Charles Gordon led the ever victorious army against a man who claimed to be Jesus'brother occurred during the Chang Dynasty?

That would be the Taiping Rebellion.

Next toss up What structure in the human eye has fovea with a high concentration of cones and transmits information to the brain via the optic nerve?

The retina is the correct answer.

Next, toss up What city whose first NFL team moved to Tennessee in 1997 is home to two teams with Nasa inspired names, the Major League Baseball's Astros... - Jim Thorpe, - Houston.

That is correct.

And for the sports nerd crowd, you know the original name of the football team?

- No, - It was the Oilers.

For your bonus, what German physicist discovered a loop rule and a junction rule that can be used to analyze voltage in and current in circuits.

- Joule?

- Incorrect.

Gustav Kirchhoff is a correct answer.

And with that, we've reached halftime.

We have a great match underway.

Jim Thorpe leads Dieruff 100 to 95 and now we're going to get to know the students a little bit better.

They're going to introduce themselves with their first last name, grade level and the one app they can't live without.

Gage from Dieruff we'll start with you.

Gage record and the one app that I can't live without is probably YouTube.

All right, Jacob, I'm Jacob Williams in 10th grade.

And I think the one app I can't live without would be Discord.

I'm Caden Sprayberry.

I'm in 10th grade and I cannot live without Spotify.

Hi, I'm Shawn Nugent.

I'm 11th grade and it would be Google.

Over to Jim Thorpe.

Sofia.

- I'm Sofia Testa.

I'm in 12th grade, and the app I couldn't live without was probably Photos.

James Tardy I'm 12th grade in the app.

I couldn't live without is Safari.

I'm Andrew Posey.

12th grade, and Instagram.

Willow Goold, 10th grade and probably Spotify as well.

Okay.

We have a lot of music fans as part of our contestants here.

Great.

Okay.

We'll continue on with the second half of the match with this toss up.

What Composer's Hymn I Vow to Thee My Country is based on a movement subtitled The Bringer of Jollity.

the Fourth Movement in his suite The Planets.

Gustav Holst is the correct answer.

Next toss up what conservative force whose magnitude is often modeled as a namesake coefficient times the normal force... - Jim Thorpe.

- Friction.

That is correct.

And it's reduced by lubricants.

For your bonus, residents of what West Coast City, led by Mayor London Breed, voted to recall Progressive District Attorney Cheikhou Bodin in a June 2022 election.

- San Francisco.

- That is correct.

Next toss up.

What English Born Explorer of the future New York sailed the Half Moon.

Hudson.

- Jim Thorpe - Hudson.

That is correct.

Henry Hudson.

He was marooned in six... in a 1610 mutiny.

Ffor your bonus.

What author of theautobiography and memoir, Black Boy wrote a novel that depicts the trial of bigger Thomas?

W.E.B.

Dubois.

That is incorrect.

Richard Wright is the correct answer.

Next, toss up what biblical character was hidden by his mother in a basket, was the brother of Aaron and descended... Jim Thorpe.

- Moses - That's correct.

He in Mount Sinai with the Ten Commandments.

For your bonus, the US Constitution is based partially on the oral constitution of what confederacy of Native American tribes?

- Iraquois.

- That is also correct.

Next toss up what zodiac constellation contains The black hole at the center of the Milky Way, depicts a centaur with a bow and is... - Jim Thorpe.

- Sagittarius?

That is correct.

And sometimes called the Archer.

Your bonus is in math, pencil and paper Ready.

Given that 30 over 40 equals 0.75.

What decimal is equivalent to the fraction 31 over 40?

The correct answer is 0.775.

Does anyone close on that one?

- Getting there.

- A second late.

All right.

Next toss up.

What country whose Cape Reinga is sacred to its indigenous people has two main islands, North and South Island.

- Jim Thorpe, - New Zealand?

That is correct.

It was settled by the Maori.

For your bonus, what poem that describes life as a darkling plain where ignorant armies clash is by Matthew Arnold and is named for a location on the British coast?

- Dover - Judges?

We need a little bit more.

The white cliffs of Dover.

I'm sorry.

That's incorrect.

Dover Beach is the correct answer.

Next toss up.

What country was home to the poet of Sonnet of Death, Gabriela mistral, and the author of 20 love poems and a song of Despair by Pablo Neruda.

Chile is the correct answer.

Next toss up.

What director depicted a search for gold in Vietnam?

And a Colorado detective posing as white on the phone in his films, Da Five Bloods and Black Klansman.

Well, this weekend we're all going to look up Spike Lee, the great American director, and look up some of his infamous or famous movies.

Next toss up - what composer wrote the chorus of the Hebrew slaves for Nabucco and the aria La Donna e Mobile for his opera about a court jester named Rigoletto?

Giuseppe Verdi is the correct answer.

Next toss up.

What linear triatomic molecule, which is produced with water in complete combustion of methane forms the bubbles in a carbonated beverage.

- Jim Thorpe.

- CO2.

That is correct.

Or otherwise known as carbon dioxide.

For your bonus, what two countries whose joining was banned by the Treaty of Versailles were united by the 1938 Anschluss?

Germany and Austria?

That is correct.

Here from the Second Lightning Round, you'll get to pick between the following topics.

Alliterative comic book characters or Missourians?

Alliterative comic book characters.

I figured that would be the case.

Whoever got to pick between these two, unless anyone had recently moved from Missouri.

All right.

Alliterative comic book characters, Dieruff.

If identify these comic book characters with alliterative names, Spider-Man's alter ego.

- Peter Parker.

- Correct.

Female hero with a lasso of truth.

- Wonder Woman, c- Correct.

Rival of Superman played in movies by Jesse Eisenberg.

- Lex Luthor.

- Correct.

Animal Companion of Groot.

Rocket Raccoon.

Correct.

Herald of Galactus of Galactus.

- Silver Surfer.

- That's correct.

Tony Stark's primary love interest who used the name rescued... Pepper Potts.

That is correct.

Alter ego of Winter Soldier.

Bucky Barnes.

Correct.

Head of the Daily Bugle generally depicted as hating Spider-Man.

- JJ Jameson.

- Correct.

Detective who marries Luke Cage.

Jessica Jones.

That is correct.

Name used by Sally Jupiter and her daughter in Watchmen.

Pass.

That was the Silk Spectre.

Last one, we have some comic book fans there.

All right.

So Jim Thorpe, that leaves you with Missourians.

Name these people who were born in, lived in, live in or have lived in the state of Missouri.

President who succeeded FDR.

- Truman.

- Correct.

Author of Huckleberry Finn, - Tom Sawyer, - Incorrect.

Current junior senator from the state with Roy Blunt.

Pass King of Ragtime who composed the Maple Leaf Rag.

Pass.

Namesake of a telescope who showed that Andromeda is a galaxy.

- Hubble.

- Correct.

Congresswoman in the squad who represents Saint Louis?

Pass.

Rhythm and blues singer who recorded Maybelene and Johnny B Goode.

- Chuck Berry.

- That is correct.

Regionalist Painter of the mural America Today?

Pass.

Pioneer Conservative Talk Radio who died in February 2021.

Pass.

Jazz saxophonist who composed the Yardbird suite.

All right.

So we know a few more people from Missouri than we thought we did.

It's not a bad round for that one.

All right.

We'll go into the final quarter of the match with the following toss up.

What author included a speech about the first mover in a story about the rivals Palumon and Arcite which the knight narrates in the Canterbury Tales.

It's a very roundabout way to ask.

It was Geoffrey Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales.

Next toss up.

What British Prime Minister was replaced by Anthony Eden in 1955 and by Clement Attlee in 1945, after leading the UK through most of World War Two?

- Dieruff?

- Winston Churchill That is correct.

For your bonus, what English philosopher and proponent of empiricism presented a version of the scientific method in his 1622 thesis, Novum Organum?

Francis Bacon is the correct answer on that one.

Next toss up what polymer which a Chinese team led by Tao Sai synthesized without cells in 2021 consists of linked glucose units and stores energy in potatoes?

- Dieruff?

- Starch.

Starch is correct.

For your bonus what extremely toxic noble gas causes lung cancer and often accumulates in basements?

- Radon.

- That is also correct.

Next toss up - what author whose pet boson inspired his epitaph to a dog, also wrote the humorous 1819 epic Don Juan and was a British romantic poet and Lord?

Lord Byron is the correct answer.

Next toss up what phenomenon that has missense and frame shift varieties can be caused by ionizing radiation.

By ionizing radiation and causes changes in genetic material.

- Jim Thorpe - Radiation.

Incorrect.

Dieruff, a little bit of time.

Mutations is the correct answer.

Next, toss up.

What God is the rival of the Jaguar God.

Take lipka is analogous to the Mayan Kookanha and was depicted by the Aztecs as a feathered serpent.

- Jim Thorpe.

- Quetzalcoatl.

That is correct.

For your bonus, the ferryman Vasudeva teaches wisdom to the title character who shares a name with the Buddha.

In what novel by German writer Hermann Hesse?

Any guesses, Jim Thorpe?

- No.

- Time to go.

It's Siddartha is the correct answer.

Next toss up.

What country where in 2018 a skull of Homo Langi or Dragon Man was rediscovered where Homo erectus subspecies Peking man was excavated.

That country would be China.

Next toss up what French king who revoked the edict of Nantes resigned during the war of the Spanish succession and moved his court to the Palace of Versailles.

That'll be Louis the 14th.

Next toss up.

What line is a line of symmetry for graphs of even functions can be made by graphing x equals zero and is the vertical axis...?

- Dieruff?

- The y axis?

That is correct.

It's the vertical axis of the Cartesian plane.

For your bonus, many insects, including mosquitoes, obtain food using what thin tube-like appendage that also names the trunk of an elephant?

- Proboscis.

- That is also correct.

Next toss up, what Asian nation is home to journalist Maria Ressa, a 2021 Nobel Prize winner who opposed the drug war launched by President Rodrigo Duterte.

- Dieruff.

- Philippines That is correct.

Is a great Frontline documentary about her and her fight against it.

For your bonus at the end of Tennessee Williams play A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche declares that she has always depended on the kindness of what other kind of people?

Strangers.

That is also correct.

Next toss up.

What novel in which Annabel Lee dies at a young age is narrated by Humbert Humbert, who is obsessed with the title girl and is by Vladimir Nabokov.

And that's full time.

The last answer to that toss up was Lolita.

We have an excellent match underway.

Dieruff surge back to make it tied at 210 apiece.

So what that means now is that I will read a toss up question.

The first team to get the next toss up correct wins the match in advance is on to the second round.

Everybody ready?

Buzzers ready.

What President, whose appointment of the midnight judges led to Marbury versus Madison?

- Dieruff.

- John Adams That is correct.

And was the only federalist president.

Dieruff, congratulations.

I mean, that was an excellent match.

It's as good as it gets Dieruff and Jim Thorpe.

Excellent job.

But unfortunately, Jim Thorpe, that's the end of your road.

Good luck with the rest of your school year, Dieruff, congratulations.

We'll see you in the second round.

And thank you for tuning in.

We will see you next week for our final match of the first round when Parkland faces off against Southern Lehigh.