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of Scholastic Scrimmage.

I'm your host, David Graf.

This year's scrimmage will look a bit different due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

PBS39 is following all CDC guidelines.

That includes pregame temperature checks, students wearing masks during the competition, and I've been socially distanced from the teams on set.

And now, on with today's matchup, that features Salisbury vs Emmaus High School.

The match will feature two halves, with a lightning round mid-way through each half.

At half-time, we'll pause to get to know the students a little bit better.

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

And now, let's begin.

Teams, buzzers ready.

We'll start with this first toss up.

What element?

The second-most common by mass in the human body has atoms that tend to form four bonds and is the subject of organic..?

Salisbury?

- Carbon.

- That's correct.

For your bonus, what term refers to a force directed towards the center of a circle that causes an object to move along a curved path?

- Circular motion?

- Incorrect, it's centripetal force, is what we're looking for.

Next toss up.

What structures, which shorten over time as their telomeres decay, are composed of protein and DNA and in most human cells, form 23 pairs?

Emmaus?

- Chromosomes.

- That's correct.

For your bonus, Millard Fillmore was the 1856 presidential nominee of what political party, that promoted anti-Catholic and anti-immigrant views?

- The Whig Party?

- That's incorrect.

It's the Know Nothing Party, is the correct answer.

Next toss up.

What poem that requests, "Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears," was written by Dylan Thomas and urges, "Rage, rage against the dying of the light."?

The correct answer is Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night.

Next toss up.

What TV show, on which Lorraine Bracco plays therapist Dr Melfi was 2000s HBO crime drama starring James...?

Salisbury?

-Sopranos.

- That's correct.

..starring James Gandolfini as the mobster named Tony.

For your bonus, what 1950s film by Akira Kurosawa includes several characters, including a bandit, giving contradictory accounts of the same incident?

The correct answer was Rashomon.

Next toss up.

What former capital city, whose American residents were evacuated by Operation Frequent Wind in 1975, was renamed by its conquerors to Ho Chi Minh City?

Emmaus?

- Saigon.

- That's correct.

For your bonus, graupel consists of a core of what crystalline material surrounded by rime?

-Quartz?

- That is incorrect, it's snow or crystalline ice.

Next toss up.

What novel in, which the teacher Kantorek encourages Albert Kropp and Paul Baumer to enlist in World War I, was written by Einrich Maria Remarque?

Excuse me, Erich Maria Remarque.

The correct answer is All Quiet On The Western Front.

Next toss up.

What devices, which, in 1849, scientist Alfred Smee compared to nerves, operate by using a key to transmit code that was developed by Samuel Morse?

- Emmaus?

- Morse Code.

- Incorrect.

Salisbury?

- Telegrams?

A telegram is what they sent, what we were looking for, though, we asked for the device, so it's incorrect.

It would be a telegraph.

Telegraph is what we were looking for.

Next toss up.

What historical figure shares his name with the currency of Venezuela, has a landlocked country...?

Salisbury?

- Simon Bolivar.

Yep, Simon Bolivar is the correct answer.

For your bonus.

what disease, which Walter Reed proved is spread by mosquitoes, is named for how it causes jaundice, which turns the skin its namesake color?

- Yellow fever.

- That is correct.

Next toss up.

In 2021, light was observed for the first time behind what type of object?

A super-mass... - Salisbury?

- A black hole.

- That's correct.

..a super-example for which is at the center of the Milky Way.

For your bonus, many historic chateaux are located along what river, which flows through Nantes and is the longest river in France?

- The Rhine?

- Incorrect, it's the Loire River, is a correct answer.

Next toss up.

What substances, which are generated by hemolytic bond cleavage, are suppressed in the body by antioxidants and contain unpaired electrons?

All the health food companies are always saying you have to eliminate them - free radicals.

What we're looking for.

Next toss up.

What country, whose Klang Valley contains the administrative center of Putrajaya, is home to the Petronas Towers in its capital, Kuala Lumpur?

Emmaus?

- Malaysia.

- That's correct.

For your bonus, in Greek myth, Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos make up what trio who controlled the thread of mortal lives?

- The Fates.

- Say that again?

- The Fates.

- That is correct.

With that, we've reached our first lightning round.

In a pre-match coin toss, it was determined that Emmaus will get to pick between the following categories - Title Characters or Chinese Inventions.

- Chinese inventions?

Chinese inventions.

- OK, so that means, Salisbury, you'll have Title Characters.

Emmaus will go with Chinese Inventions.

What item, which first historically appeared in China, was a common writing medium made from wood pulp?

- Paper.

- Correct.

Made of wood rather than metal, as Johannes Gutenberg used?

- Printing press.

- Correct.

A nitrate-based mixture used in bombs and...?

- Gunpowder - Correct.

A sky-based form of explosive entertainment, often seen in the US on July...?

- Fireworks?

- Correct.

Made from pig bristles and used to avoid gingivitis?

- Toothbrush.

- Correct.

A complex game using white and black tokens on a 19 x 19 board?

- Go.

- Correct.

A kind of map that uses colors or shades to represent elevations?

- Topographical.

We need the specific, more specific on that.

- Topographical map?

- Incorrect.

A controversial alternative to smoking, sold by Juul?

- Vaping.

E-cigarettes?

- That is correct.

A luxury good produced by the species Bombyx mori, first described by Shen Kuo and made by contact with natural lotus zones?

-Pass.

- All right.

That means, Salisbury, we now move on to your portion of the lightning round with Title Characters.

Identify these literary works named for their main characters.

Shakespearean tragedy set in Denmark?

- Hamlet.

- Correct.

Jane Austen novel about a matchmaker?

- Emma.

- Correct.

LM Montgomery novel followed by Anne Of Anne... of...of...Avonlea?

Followed by Anne Of Avonlea?

-Pass.

- Charles Dickens book about an orphaned pickpocket?

- Oliver Twist.

- Correct.

Jack London novel about a wolfdog?

- White Fang.

- Correct.

Voltaire novella satirizing optimism?

- Candide.

- That is correct.

- Miguel de Cervantes novel about a knight-errant?

- Don Quixote.

- Correct.

Joanna Spyri novel about a girl living in the Alps?

- Pass.

Sophocles play about the daughter of Oedipus?

- Pass.

-Virginia Woolf novel about a woman planning a party?

- Pass.

- All right.

That is the end of our first lightning round.

We'll continue the match with the following toss up.

What founder of the anti-Nazi partisans and only European founder of the Non-Alignment Movement, was named in 1974 President for Life of Yugoslavia?

Salisbury?

- Tito.

- That is correct.

Josip Broz Tito is the correct answer.

For your bonus, the letters FF are used to indicate what musical dynamic marking, which means very loud?

Forte...forossic?

- Fortissimo is the correct answer that we're looking for.

Next toss up.

What artist created portraits of his doctor, Paul Gachet, who this man stayed with after leaving the mental asylum where he painted...?

Emmaus?

- Van Gogh?

- That's correct.

In feudal Japan, samurai strove to conform to what moral and social code, which means way of the warrior and resembles European codes of chivalry?

- Bushido.

- That is correct.

Next toss up.

What novel ends with the Rachel rescuing the only survivor of the Pequod, depicts Captain's Ahab search for a whale, and was by...?

- Emmaus?

- Moby-Dick.

- That's correct, by Herman Melville.

For your bonus, how many total atoms are in one molecule of propane, given that propane is an alkane with a three-carbon chain?

With a three-carbon chain?

The correct answer is 11.

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

What fraction, in lowest terms, is equal to 84%?

Emmaus?

- 4.2 over five?

- That is incorrect.

Salisbury?

- 21 over 25.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, in an October 2020 referendum, voters in New Caledonia rejected independence and chose to remain a special collective of what European country?

- Spain.

- Incorrect.

The correct answer is France.

Next toss up.

What group, in which Seth Warner served as captain, seized Fort Ticonderoga in 1775?

Emmaus?

- The Green Mountain Boys.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, after a cat named Pitty Sing causes a car crash, a vacationing family encounter a criminal called the Misfit in what story by Flannery O'Connor?

- Pass.

- A Good Man Is Hard To Find.

Is the correct answer.

Next toss up.

What Bible book is the origin of the term scapegoat, includes sexual prohibitions in its holiness code and is the third book following Exodus?

Salisbury?

- Leviticus.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, Edward the Confessor ordered the construction of the original version of what London Abbey, where British Monarchs are crowned?

- Downton Abbey.

- Is incorrect.

It's Westminster Abbey.

Now, prior to our match, to aid and social distancing, we asked students to introduce themselves individually and tell us about how they occupied themselves during quarantine.

Now let's meet the contestants from Salisbury and Emmaus.

- My name is Tristan Monahan.

I go to Salisbury High School and I'm in my sophomore year.

Over quarantine, I was dreaming of this moment and reading Marx.

- Hello, my name is Jackson Cramp.

I'm a junior at Salisbury High School.

Over quarantine, I watched Always Sunny In Philadelphia with my brother.

- My name is Cameron Dubinsky.

I'm a freshman at Salisbury High School and over quarantine, I learned how to dive.

- Hi, my name is Grace Kelly.

I go to Salisbury High School, I'm a junior and over quarantine, I looked forward to virtual Scholastic Scrimmage practices.

- I'm Thomas Harthill, I'm a senior at Emmaus High School and over quarantine, I watched way too many old Disney movies.

- My name is Ari Bowman, I'm a senior at Emmaus High School and over quarantine, I made a lot of art pieces.

- Hi, I'm Thomas Flexner.

I'm a junior at Emmaus High School and over quarantine, I watched all 40 seasons of Survivor.

- Hello, I'm Eric Whelp and I'm a junior at Emmaus High School and over quarantine, I liked to spend time with my family and friends.

- Welcome back.

We'll begin the second half with the following toss up.

What composer, who wrote three war sonatas and the Lieutenant Kije Suite also wrote a symphonic fairy tale for children titled Peter And The Wolf?

Emmaus?

- Rachmaninoff.

- Incorrect.

Salisbury?

- Handel?

- Incorrect.

Its Sergei Prokofiev, is the correct answer.

Next toss up.

What former writer for the newspaper Avanti led the Black Shirts in a 1922 march on Rome that allowed him to become the fascist dictator of...?

Salisbury?

- Benito Mussolini.

- That is correct.

The fascist dictator of Italy.

For your bonus, what law states that heat never spontaneously flows from cooler to hotter materials, or that entropy of an isolated system never decreases?

- Miller's law?

- Incorrect, it's the second law of thermodynamics.

Next toss up.

What term describes properties such as the reduction potential and temperature that do not depend on the amount of mass?

Emmaus?

- Heat?

- Incorrect.

Salisbury, there's still a little bit of time.

- Chemical properties?

- Buzz in.

- Chemical properties?

- Incorrect, its intensive properties, is the right answer we're looking for.

Next toss up.

What philosopher, who said, "We owe a cock to Asclepius," at his death was depicted in the Phaedo and the Apology, by Plato, and was forced to drink hemlock?

Emmaus?

- Socrates.

- That's correct.

For your bonus, what man, who criticized the auto industry in his book Unsafe At Any Speed, was the Green Party nominee in the 1996 and 2000 presidential elections?

- Gravel?

Mike Gravel?

- Incorrect, Ralph Nader's the correct answer.

Next toss up.

What battle, which was preceded by the Battle of Ligny and was a victory for the Duke of Wellington, also ended the reign of Napoleon?

Emmaus?

- Waterloo.

- That's correct.

The Battle of Waterloo.

For your bonus, the ruins of the ancient Mayan city of Tikal are in what Central American country which borders Mexico to the west and Belize to the east?

- Guatemala?

- That is correct.

Next toss up.

What state, whose city of Beaumont is home to Lamar University, is also home to Rice University and a state school...?

Salisbury?

- Texas.

- That's correct.

..a state school whose flagship campus is there.

For your bonus, sister chromatids are formed during what part of the cell cycle that contain G1, S and G2 phases, during which a cell prepares for mitosis?

- Meiosis - Incorrect.

Interphase is the correct answer.

Next toss up.

What number, which is the base of a function equal to its own derivative, equals about 2.7...?

Emmaus?

- E. - That is correct.

For your bonus, the British nautical prefix HMS stands for what three-word phrase?

- Her Majesty's ship?

- That is correct.

Next toss up.

What country, whose currency is the sol, was once led by Alberto Fujimori, was the birthplace...?

Salisbury?

- Japan.

- Incorrect.

I'll finish the question for Emmaus.

..was the birthplace of Mario Vargas Llosa and is governed from Lima?

- Peru.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, Paul Pennyfeather is expelled from Oxford in Decline And Fall, a novel by what British author who wrote about college friends in Brideshead Revisited?

- Hardy?

- Incorrect.

Evelyn Waugh is the correct answer.

Next toss up.

What species that made Mousterian stone tools died out or was assimilated into modern humans about 40,000...?

- Salisbury?

- Neanderthal.

- That is correct, and are named for a German valley.

Your bonus, what Italian-American anarchists were controversially convicted of robbery and murder in Massachusetts in 1921?

- Goldman.

- Incorrect.

Sacco and Vanzetti are the correct answers.

Next toss up.

What former Marine, who tried to kill conservative General Edwin Walker, was shot by nightclub owner Jack Ruby after ...?

Salisbury?

- Lee Harvey Oswald.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, in December 2020, A federal judge ordered the restoration of what program that lets children brought into the US apply for amnesty from deportation?

- Daca.

- That is also correct.

Next toss up.

What 1930... what 1913 play, that depicts a wager with Colonel Pickering, is a GB Shaw comedy in which Harry Higgins transforms Eliza Doolittle's speech?

Emmaus?

- My Fair Lady.

- Incorrect.

Salisbury?

Pygmalion is the correct answer.

Next toss up.

What country was home to the Marieval and Kamloops resident schools, where remains of children from first...?

Emmaus?

- Canada.

- That is correct.

And for your bonus, Russia and Sweden fought from 1700 to 1721 in what war that ended with the Treaty of Nystad?

- The Hundred Years War.

- Incorrect, it's The Great Northern War, is the correct answer.

Next toss up.

What explorer, who commanded the Discovery in a 1610 expedition before he was cast adrift by mutineers, lends his name to a large bay...?

Emmaus?

- Henry Hudson.

- That's correct.

..a large bay in Canada.

For your bonus, the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla are located in what country, whose other cities include Tangiers and Casablanca?

- Morocco.

- That is correct.

And with that, we've reached our second lightning round.

In the second lightning round, we will have... ..Salisbury selecting from the following topics of Countries That Border China or Michaels.

- Quickly, Salisbury.

- Countries That Border China.

All right, so that means, Emmaus, you'll be left with Michaels.

Salisbury, Countries That Border China.

What country that borders China shares Mount Everest with China.

- Nepal.

- Correct.

Has cities named Lahore and Karachi?

- Cambodia.

- Incorrect.

Contains the northern portion of the Gobi Desert?

- Mongolia.

- Correct.

Contains the mouth of the Mekong River?

- Vietnam.

- Correct.

Controls the island of Sakhalin?

- The Philippines - Incorrect.

Has the Yalu River as part of its northern border?

- North Korea.

- Correct.

Introduced the concept of gross national happiness?

- Pass.

Has its capital in Dushanbe?

- Pass.

- Contains the state of Rakhine, where many prosecuted Rohingya people live?

- Myanmar.

- That is correct.

Contains the Tora Bora cave complex?

- Cambodia.

- Incorrect.

Now, over to Emmaus.

Emmaus, your topic is Michaels.

Identify these real or fictional people named Michael.

Author of Jurassic Park?

- Crichton.

- Correct.

Former New York City mayor and 2020 presidential candidate?

- Bloomberg.

- Correct.

Villain of the Halloween film series?

- Myers.

- Correct.

American swimmer who won 23 Olympic gold medals?

- Phelps.

- Correct.

Actor who played Magneto in X-Men: First Class?

- Fassbender.

- Correct.

Former NFL player who hosts The $100,000 Pyramid?

- Strahan.

- Correct.

English physicist and namesake of the SI unit of cap... ..capsidience?

- Farad.

- Capistance.

Yes, you're correct.

- Capacitance?

- Yeah, capacitance, correct.

Singer called the King of Pop, who died in 2009?

- Jackson.

- Correct.

Apollo 11 astronaut along with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin?

- Collins.

- That's correct.

Author of nonfiction books such as Moneyball and The Big Short?

- Pass.

- All right, Emmaus, nice job with that category, you know your Michaels.

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We'll conclude the match with this final quarter of the game with the following toss up.

What organization, which is led by David Coleman, runs the CCSS profile and Accuplacer programs, and administers advanced placement and SAT...?

Emmaus?

- College Board.

- That's correct.

SAT testing is what they also administer.

For your bonus, in the 2021 MLB season, the first player to reach 30 home runs was this Angels star that excels as both a pitcher and a hitter?

- Smith!

- Incorrect.

Jackson, do you know it?

- Shohei Ohtani.

- That's correct.

All right, onto the next toss up.

What songs, some of which are of the da capo variety, include Nessun Dorma in the opera Turandot and have a name that is Italian for air?

Emmaus?

- Aria.

- That's correct, arias.

Your bonus is in math, pencil and paper ready.

What is the fourth term of a geometric sequence whose first two terms are, in order, three and two?

- Answer zero?

- That is incorrect, the correct answer is eight over nine.

Next toss up.

What Wyoming representative, criticized by fellow Republicans...?

Salisbury?

- Liz Cheney.

- That is correct, and is the daughter of a former vice president.

For your bonus, in 2005, Ellen John Sirleaf became what country's president, making her the first woman elected head of state of an African country?

-South Africa.

- Incorrect.

Liberia is the correct answer.

Next toss up.

What novel, in which blood loss dooms Jim Conklin, and Henry Fleming has conflicted feelings about being wounded in the Civil War, is by Stephen Crane?

Salisbury?

- The Red Badge Of Courage.

- That's correct.

For your bonus, what Russian author created Akaky Akakievich, who scrimps and saves to purchase a garment that is soon stolen in an 1842 story titled The Overcoat?

- Dostorfski?

- Incorrect.

Gogol is the correct answer.

Next toss up.

What planet is tilted sideways, is orbited by the moon Titania...?

Emmaus?

- Uranus?

- That is correct.

Your bonus is in math, pencil and paper ready.

What is the only value of X that satisfies the equation 3 + 4/5 X = 18?

- 12.

- That's correct.

Next toss up.

What president, whose farewell address warned of the military industrial com...?

Salisbury?

- Eisenhower.

- That's correct, Dwight D Eisenhower.

For your bonus, celadon pottery is prized for its resemblance to what often-greenish stone that was used to make ornate artifacts in both East Asia and Mesoamerica?

- Jade.

- That's correct.

Next toss up.

What God, often depicted wearing an Atef crown, was killed and dismembered by his brother Set and was the father...?

- Salisbury?

- Osiris?

- That's correct.

For your bonus, in 1984, Sikh bodyguards Satwant Singh and Beant Singh assassinated what world leader to avenge a raid on the Golden Temple of Amritsar?

- Nelson Mandela.

- Incorrect.

Indira Gandhi is the correct answer.

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

How many seconds are there in 0.3 minutes?

And with that, the match is over.

excellent match between two really evenly matched teams.

The winner is Emmaus with 340 points to Salisbury's 280 points.

Salisbury, thank you very much for joining us and good luck with the rest of your school year.

Emmaus, we'll see you in the next round.

And thank you for tuning in, we'll see you next week when Allentown Central Catholic faces off against Northwestern Lehigh in a rematch of the 2019 final.

See you next week, thank you.