- Welcome to PBS39's Scholastic Scrimmage.

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Now here's your host, David Graf.

- Hello and welcome to the seventh match of the second round of the 49th season of Scholastic Scrimmage.

I'm your host, David Graf.

Today's match between Saucon Valley and William Allen 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'll get to know them a little bit better.

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

And now let's begin.

Buzzers ready?

Here's our first toss-up question.

What Supreme Court justice, who participated in hunting trips and private plane rides with billionaire Harlan Crow, is the oldest active justice?

Saucon Valley?

- Thomas.

- Clarence Thomas is correct.

For your bonus, what configuration of far electric field varies like one over R cubed, consists of two opposite electric charges a short distance from one another?

- Subshell?

Subshell?

- That is incorrect.

An electric dipole is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question.

What battle which saw fighting at Bloody Lane and Miller's Cornfield took place in Maryland and was the bloodiest...?

- Saucon Valley.

- Antietam.

- The Battle of Antietam is correct, and it was the bloodiest single day of the US Civil War.

For your bonus, the island formerly known as Van Diemen's Land is now named for what Dutch explorer?

- Dutch.

He said Dutch explorer.

Er, Cook Island.

- That is incorrect.

The island is named after Abel Tasman for Tasmania or the Tasmanian islands.

Next toss-up question.

What East Coast state is home to most of the White Mountains, has the shortest coastline of any coastal state, and is between Maine and Vermont?

William Allen.

- New Hampshire?

- New Hampshire is correct.

For your bonus, what city in Spain's autonomous community of Navarre is known for its San Fermin festival, which contains the running of the bulls?

The running of the bulls takes place in Pamplona, Spain.

Next toss-up question.

What disease, whose last natural case occurred in Somalia in 1977...?

Saucon Valley.

- Smallpox?

- Smallpox is correct, and it's characterized by a rapidly spreading rash.

For your bonus, what Irish actor, credited as Shivering Soldier in the movie Dunkirk, played the Scarecrow in Batman Begins and is the title physicist in Oppenheimer?

- Murphy.

- Yes, Cillian Murphy is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question.

What man, whose confessions from prison were published by Thomas Grey, was captured after an 1831 slave rebellion that he led in Virginia?

William Allen?

- John Brown.

- That is incorrect.

Over to Saucon Valley.

No conferring, but it is now open.

Nat Turner is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question.

What man drew on Charles Barbier's night writing system to create a system of raised dots representing letters, which is used by blind people?

- Braille.

- Saucon Valley.

- Braille.

- Braille is correct.

For Louis Braille.

For your bonus, Georgetown is the capital of what British Overseas Territory, which is made up of three islands and is a notable offshore financial center?

- Cayman Islands.

- The Cayman Islands is correct.

Next toss-up question.

What author wrote about Thea Kronberg's training to be an opera singer in The Song of the lark, and depicted life on the Great Plains in O Pioneers?

Willa Cather is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question.

What organ, whose marginalized zones separate the red and white pulp, may be enlarged in people with mononucleosis and destroys old red blood cells?

Looks like no-one had mononucleosis.

I remember when I had it, you felt the swelling in your spleen.

Spleen is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question.

What instrument, played by Domenico Dragonetti and Charles Mingus, is a large string instrument that is often played with its player standing upright?

Saucon Valley.

- Cello.

- That is incorrect.

Over to William Allen.

A bass or double bass is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question.

What organization, led by Grand Sachems like Charles Murphy and the infamously corrupt William Tweed, was a political machine that dominated...?

Saucon Valley?

- Tammany Hall.

Tammany Hall is correct, and it dominated New York.

For your bonus, Saul Bellow's character, Augie March, was born in what Midwestern city, the setting of Nelson Morgan's The Man With The Golden Arm?

It's Nelson Algren, excuse me.

- Chicago?

- Chicago?

Chicago, Illinois is correct.

Next toss-up question.

What song, whose artist asks, "How do you lie without flinching?"

is the lead single from Guts by Olivia Rodrigo and is titled for a bloodsucker?

Saucon Valley.

- Vampire?

- Vampire is correct, and if you turn on any radio station or streaming station, it's pretty much on constant rotation.

Your bonus is in math.

Pencil and paper ready.

What is the straight-line distance between the points 1, 6, and 6, -6?

- Oh, 13 13.

- 13?

- 13 is the correct answer.

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

In a pre-match coin toss, it was determined that Saucon Valley will get to pick first between the following topics - Andrew Jackson or Alliterative Idioms.

Quickly, Saucon Valley.

- Idioms, please.

- Idioms?

OK. Saucon Valley, your topic is Alliterative Idioms.

Give these idioms whose two components are alliterative.

For example, motormouth or cookie cutter.

A hard to say phrase.

- Tongue twister.

- Correct.

A car with poor fuel efficiency.

- Gas guzzler.

- Correct.

To arrange for a person to be professionally or socially excluded.

- Outcast?

- That is incorrect.

Stunned into silence at meeting a celebrity.

- Shellshocked?

- Incorrect.

Un...

Excuse me.

Unenthusiastic and insincere as an attempt or gesture.

- Pass.

- A fearless thrill seeker.

- Daredevil.

- Correct.

An early terms for wartime PTSD.

- Shellshock.

- Correct.

A humorous but disruptive student.

- Class clown.

- Correct.

A person noted for their extreme thrift.

- Penny person.

- That's incorrect.

An easygoing, pleasurable lifestyle that may lead to sin.

- Pass.

- That is a primrose path.

And, sorry, you were close - it's a penny pincher, not a penny person.

All right, William Allen, you have Andrew Jackson for your topic.

Answer the following about Andrew Jackson.

He was this party's first president.

And anyone can say it.

Just say it out loud.

- Democrat.

- No conferring.

- Say it?

- Democrat.

Democrat is correct.

He won the Battle of New Orleans in this war against Britain.

- War of 1812.

- Correct.

Volunteer state he represented in the Senate.

- North Carolina.

- That's incorrect.

He had this nickname comparing him to a tree.

- Pass.

- He signed a bill named for this type of tax on imports in 1833.

- Pass.

- His second vice president, who succeeded him.

- Martin Van Buren.

- That is correct.

He killed lawyer Charles Dickinson in one of these events.

- Pass.

- He is buried at this plantation, his former home.

- Pass.

- He fought the rechartering of one of these entities, led by Nicholas Beadle.

- Pass.

- This protege of his was elected president in 1844.

And that would be James Polk.

All right.

We will continue on with the match with the following toss-up question.

What former leader who resigned as MP from Umbridge and also South Ruislip in 2023, was succeeded by Liz Truss and later...?

- Saucon Valley?

- Johnson.

- That is correct.

Boris Johnson.

..and later Rishi Sunak as Prime Minister of Great Britain.

For your bonus, what ruler, who became Holy Roman Emperor in 962, conquered most of Germany and Italy and led the 955 defeat of the Magyars at the Battle of Lechfeld?

Oh, this is a, uh... just a bonus.

- Charlemagne.

- That is incorrect.

Just for kicks, Jaiden, do you know who it is?

- Otto the Great?

- Otto the Great was correct, but unfortunately, it was a bonus for Saucon, so you get nerd credit only on that one.

Next toss-up question.

What author who won a Pulitzer Prize for The Reivers, created the Sartoris and Burden families, who lived on the fictional...?

Go ahead, Saucon Valley.

- Faulkner.

- That is correct.

William Faulkner is the correct answer.

For your bonus, former Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo assumed what cabinet position in 2021?

- Secretary of State?

- That's incorrect.

She is the Secretary of Commerce.

Next toss-up question.

What element, whose primary ore is cassiterite, was historically alloyed with copper to produce bronze, and is known for its use in food cans?

Saucon Valley?

- Tin.

- Tin is correct.

For your bonus, what member of the Spartan-II program, who receives advice from the AI Cortana, is the main protagonist of the Halo video game series?

- Master Chief.

- Master Chief is correct.

Next toss-up question.

George Orwell fought for POUM during what 19...?

- Saucon alley.

- Spanish Civil War.

- The Spanish Civil War is correct.

In which the republicans clashed with nationalists.

For your bonus, in what northern state, where Horace Mann helped to create a Board of Education in 1837, did Edward Everett and John Hancock serve as governors?

- Massachusetts.

- Massachusetts is correct.

Next toss-up question.

What author described how the Valar made an island of Numenor in The Silmarillion and depicted the quest...?

- Tolkien.

- Tolkien is correct.

..and he depicts the quest of Frodo Baggins in the Lord Of The Rings series.

Next bonus question.

In what kingdom of organisms do microscopic channels called plasmodia allow for transportation between cells?

Excuse me, it's plasmodesmata.

Allows for the transportation between cells.

- Bacteria?

- Bacteria.

- Plantae is the correct answer.

The next toss-up is in math.

Pencil and paper ready.

What is the diameter of a circle whose area is 144 Pi?

- 24.

- 24 is correct.

For your bonus, in July 2023, what Big Ten University in Illinois fired its football coach, Pat Fitzgerald, for covering up patterns of hazing and racism?

- Northwestern.

- Northwestern University is correct.

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

Saucon Valley currently leads William Allen with a score of 200-20.

And now we'll get to have the students introduce themselves with their first, last name, grade level, and the answer to the following question - tell us about a favorite hobby or collection that you have.

We'll start with Saucon Valley.

Ryan, go ahead.

- Er... - We're going to do name, grade level and a hobby or collection that you have.

- Um, hello, my name is Ryan Wang.

I'm a junior, and my hobby I really like to do is just play video games.

- All right.

Cool.

So were you, uh, contributing to the Master Chief answer there?

- No.

- No?

- You were thinking of windows.

- All right, on to Alexander.

- Hi, I'm Alexander Borowski, I'm a sophomore, and I like playing GeoGuessr in my free time.

- OK. - Uh, my name is Lincoln.

I'm a senior, and I like watching Jeopardy.

- OK. - Hi, I'm Paul, I'm a junior, and I also like playing GeoGuessr.

- All right.

Excellent.

And now on to William Allen.

John.

Go ahead.

- Um, I'm John Kingsley, and I like to do art and play guitar.

- Very cool.

I'm Daniella Pacheco, a junior, and I like to bake.

- All right.

- Um, I'm Jayden Jean.

I'm a freshman and like to read.

- OK. - I'm Leyran Jimenez, a senior, and I also like to read.

- Very cool.

Anything you're reading right now, at the time?

- Um, I think The Fifth Season by NK Jemisin.

- Ah, OK.

So I'm reading Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh, cos if you ever notice, we have a lot of questions about that book, and I never read it.

So I thought this season I better read it so I actually know what I'm asking everybody.

All right.

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

What figure in Greek myth rejected the nymph Echo and drowned after being cursed by the goddess Nemesis to fall in love with his own reflection?

- William Allen, John.

- Narcissist.

- Narcissus is correct.

For your bonus, what King, who initiated the law of the Splintered Paddle in 1797, ruled from Hilo as the founder and first ruler of the Kingdom of Hawaii?

Kamehameha the Great is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question.

What title character kills the talking cricket in the Carlo Collodi novel, which describes how the wooden nose of this puppet...?

- Pinocchio.

- Saucon Valley.

- Pinocchio.

- That is correct.

And the puppet's nose grows larger when he lies.

For your bonus, what Nigerian playwright, wrote about Simon Pilkings, who tries to prevent Ellison's ritual suicide in Death And The King's Horseman?

- Achebe?

- That is incorrect.

It's Wole Soyinka is the correct answer.

The next-toss up is in math.

Pencil and paper ready.

What is the measure of the vertex angle of an isosceles triangle whose two base angles equal measure 65 degrees?

Saucon Valley.

- 50?

- 50 degrees is correct.

For your bonus, what European composer wrote his Ninth Symphony while visiting the United States in the 1890s, leading to his nickname, From The New World?

Leading to ITS nickname, From The New World?

- Dvorak?

- Dvorak is correct.

Next toss-up question.

What leader was the consort of Prasutagus, was killed at the Battle of Watling Street, and was an Iceni queen who led a rebellion in Roman Britain?

Saucon Valley.

- Uh, Queen Boudica.

- Queen Boudica is correct.

For your bonus, the golden ratio is a number equal to the quantity x plus one divided by two, where x is what irrational number?

- Square root of five.

- The square root of five is correct.

Next toss-up question.

What French writer, who defended colonialism in his 1841 Essay On Algeria, visited US prison facilities before writing Democracy In America?

Alexis de Tocqueville is a correct answer.

Next toss-up question.

What type of reaction, which occurs at a battery's cathode, involves a substance gaining electrons and is normally accompanied by oxidation?

Saucon Valley.

- A reduction.

- Reduction is correct.

For your bonus, what greedy nincompoop falls into the chocolate river after he becomes the first child to win a golden ticket to Willy Wonka's candy factory?

- Gloop.

- Augustus Gloop is correct.

Next toss-up question.

What country, of which Joan-Enric Vives Sicilia is co-prince alongside French President Emmanuel Macron...?

Saucon Valley.

- Monaco?

- That is incorrect.

I'll continue the question for William Allen.

..is a small country between...?

Go ahead.

- Andorra.

- Andorra is correct.

It's a small country between France and Spain.

For your bonus, Jose Orozco and Diego Rivera were Mexican artists who often painted what works denoted by the term beginning with M that signifies a painting on a wall?

You can just tell your captain.

- Oh.

A mural.

Mural.

- Tell your captain.

- Mural.

- Mural is correct.

Sorry, we have to keep with the rules of Scholastic Scrimmage.

All right, next toss-up question.

What man proposed a speed up called Eucharistia as part of his perestroika, and was told to "tear down this wall"?

Saucon Valley.

- Gorbachev.

- Yep.

Gorbachev is correct.

And he was the last leader of the Soviet Union.

For your bonus, what Polynesian country, which lies just west of the International Dateline, derives significant revenue from the use of its internet domain, dot TV?

- Tuvalu.

- Tuvalu is correct.

And unfortunately, most of that country is sinking and going to be underwater relatively shortly.

Next toss-up question.

What region can be accessed in its south by the Rafah border crossing, has been administered by Hamas...?

- Saucon Valley.

- The Gaza Strip.

The Gaza Strip is correct.

It's been administered by Hamas since 2006.

For your bonus, what class of colloids, which include ointments and mayonnaise, are mixtures in which one liquid is dispersed as tiny droplets within another liquid?

- A mixture?

- That is incorrect.

An emulsion is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question.

What National League team, which lost to crosstown rivals in the 2000 World Series, dubbed the Subway Series, plays its home games in Queens?

- Dodgers?

- Saucon Valley?

- Dodgers?

- That is incorrect.

Over to William Allen.

It's New York's other baseball team, the New York Mets.

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

William Allen, you'll get to pick between the following topics - Starts And Ends With R or Types Of Boats.

- Starts And Ends With R. - Starts And Ends With R it is.

William Allen, your topic is Starts And Ends With R. Give these words that both begin and end with the letter R. An adult male chicken.

- Rooster.

- Correct.

Dasher, Dancer and Prancer, among others.

- Reindeers.

- Correct.

Its Doppler type, which is used in weather forecasting.

- Pass.

- Facial covering that protects against airborne hazards such as N95 types.

- Pass.

- Husband of Grace Kelly or a mountain in Washington.

- Pass.

- Criminal denoted by an R in the legal term, Rico.

- Pass.

- A pitcher who replaces a starter.

- Pass.

- A six shooter or a Beatles album.

- A revolver.

- Correct.

Pseudonym of villain Edward Nygma.

- Pass.

- Device that converts alternating current to direct current.

- Radio waves.

- That is incorrect.

That last one was a rectifier.

All right, Saucon Valley, you have Types Of Boats.

Name these types of boats or ships.

A boat designed to independently operate underwater.

- Submarine.

- Correct.

Ship that carries vacationers, such as for Royal Caribbean.

- Cruise.

- Correct.

Inuit canoe-like watercraft propelled by a double-bladed paddle.

- Like, Dewey - Incorrect.

Warship that carries fighter jets and other planes.

- Aircraft carrier.

- Correct.

Vessel that may fly the Jolly Roger flag.

- A pirate ship.

- Correct.

Traditional flat-bottomed Venetian boat.

- Gondola.

- Correct.

Large ship that stores and transports oil.

- Oil tanker.

- Correct.

Boats sailed in the 2021 America's Cup or owned by a billionaire.

- Yacht.

- Yacht is correct.

Ancient gallery...

Ancient galley, manned by three rows of oars.

- Pass.

- Pass.

- Racing boat with two parallel hulls of equal size.

- Sailboat.

- That's incorrect.

That last one was a catamaran.

- Oh.

All right.

We move on to the final quarter of the match with the following toss-up question.

In what process, which was first absorbed... observed by Fritz Strassmann and Otto Hahn and was co-explained by Lise Meitner, do nuclei split into multiple parts?

- Saucon Valley.

- Mitosis.

- That is incorrect.

Over to William Allen.

Oh, I'm sorry, buzzer went off.

But, John, go ahead give it a chance anyway.

- Like, fission?

- It was fission, but unfortunately you were too late.

Next toss-up question.

What character uses a cane to murder Sir Danvers Carew, appears in an 1886 novella by Robert Louis Stevenson, and is the evil alter ego of Dr Jekyll?

- Mr Hyde.

- Saucon Valley?

- Mr Hyde is correct.

For your bonus, what Ghanaian diplomat served as Secretary General of the United Nations between 1997 and 2006?

Kofi Annan is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question.

What religious leader, who in 1989 issued a fatwa calling for the death of Salman Rushdie, became supreme leader of Iran after its 1979 revolution?

Ayatollah Khomeini is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question.

What stage of cell division, during which the chromatin condenses into discrete chromosomes, follows the G2 phase, and is the first phase...?

- Saucon Valley.

- Prophase.

Prophase is correct, and it's the first phase of mitosis.

For your bonus, the words, "You'll be a man, my son," conclude what poem, which uses conditional statements to offer moral guidance and was written by Rudyard Kipling?

- Oh, wait.

That's... - No answer.

- The correct answer is If.

Next toss-up question.

What novel, in which Father Maple gives a sermon about Jonah begins with the line, "Call me Ishmael," and depicts...?

- Saucon Valley.

- Moby Dick.

That is correct.

..and it depicts Captain Ahab's hunt for a white whale.

For your bonus, what pre-Socratic philosopher from Ephesus saw fire as a fundamental element and argued that it's impossible to step into the same river twice?

- It's Socrates?

- Yeah, yeah, yeah.

- Socrates?

- That's incorrect.

Heraclitus is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question.

What band behind the 2021 album Pressure Machine was founded in Las Vegas by David Keuning and Brandon Flowers, and recorded the hit Mr Brightside?

Saucon Valley.

- The Killers.

- Say it again?

- The Killers.

- The Killers is correct.

I got to see them play over at the Sands a couple of years ago.

They are just as good in person as they are on all their recordings.

For your bonus, in what 17th century war named after the Wampanoag chief, did New England settlers crush a Native American alliance?

- Mohican war?

- That's incorrect.

King Philip's War is the correct answer.

On to the next toss-up question.

What African country, which contains the extremely shallow Lake Kyoga, has its main airport at Ntomba, which lies south of its capital at Kampala?

- Saucon Valley.

- Uganda.

- Uganda is correct.

And for your bonus, what adjective precedes heat when referring to the energy required for a phase change because there is no change in temperature?

- Enthalpy.

- That is incorrect.

The correct answer is latent energy.

And with that we have reached the end of the match.

William Allen, unfortunately, you ran into a really capable opponent, and with 60 points, you're out of this year's tournament.

But good luck with the rest of your school year.

Saucon Valley, with 370 points, congratulations, you'll be joining us in the third round.

And thank you for watching.

We'll see you for next week's last match in the second round between last year's finalists, Stroudsburg and Moravian Academy.