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Hello and welcome to the State Championship of Scholastic Scrimmage.
I'm your host, David Graff.
This statewide match will feature the champions of the three PBS member stations in Pennsylvania that hold scholastic scrimmage tournaments in their viewing area.
The three schools and their stations are Mercyhurst Preparatory from WQ.
Ln in Erie, Berwick High School from Dia in the Scranton Wilkes-Barre area, and Moravian Academy.
Winners of the PBS 39 tournament representing the Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania, with three schools participating simultaneously.
The match will look a bit different from what you're used to viewing.
Each school is playing in their home studio to give all three schools an equal chance to hear and react to the tossup questions.
I'm isolated with the judges in a separate studio at PBS, 39 in Bethlehem, and all teams are watching me over remote feed.
The match will also feature just a single lightning round, which will start after halftime.
As a reminder, Scholastic Scrimmage requires rapid recall of specific factual information as not necessarily indicative of academic training.
And now let's begin.
Buzzers.
Ready.
Here's the first tossup question.
What state whose salmon River begins in?
The Sawtooth Range has an inland port at Lewiston on the snake River, and is to the east of Washington.
Nathaniel.
Moravian.
Idaho.
Idaho is correct.
Next toss up question.
What Titan of the Sun in Greek mythology, the subject of an unfinished epic poem by John Keats.
Featured or fathered the gods.
I know what Moravian Helios.
That is incorrect.
I'll continue the ore over to Berwick.
Emma.
Hyperion.
Hyperion is correct.
Next tossup question.
What fundamental force is the ultimate source of friction?
Does not affect neutral particles.
Aligns compass needles and drives currents.
Jack at Berwick.
Electromagnetic force.
Electromagnetic force or electromagnetism is correct.
Next tossup question.
In 1809, what French zoologist proposed that evolution progressed via the mechanisms of use and disuse.
Go ahead.
And, Daniel.
Moravian Lamarck.
That is correct.
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck is the correct answer.
Nice job.
On the next toss up question.
What man was sheltered by Frederick the Wise at Wartburg after being excommunicated at the Diet of Worms over the contents of his 90 Nathaniel Moravia, Martin Luther.
Martin Luther is correct, and it was over the contents of his 95 theses.
Next toss up question in the middle of the Covid 19 pandemic, the International Olympic Committee added what word to its motto faster, higher, stronger.
Go ahead.
Moravian.
The name for that is incorrect.
We will go over to Berwick, Jackson.
Better?
That is also incorrect.
The correct answer is together.
Next toss up question.
What structure encompasses the Balfour Bypass and the Great Bitter Lake has a northern terminus at Port Side, and is a canal in the northeast of Egypt.
At Berwick.
Suez.
The Suez Canal is correct.
Next toss up question.
What city did in 1886 expedition or explosion in Haymarket Square killed police officers.
Nathaniel.
Moravian.
Chicago.
Chicago is correct, and it led to the wrongful execution of August Spees and other anarchists.
Next toss up question.
What 2005 novel?
The introduced settings, such as the Lotus Hotel and Casino, is the first book.
But go ahead.
Lightning thief.
The Lightning Thief is correct, and it's the first book in required and series.
Percy Jackson and the Olympians.
Next toss up question in October 2024, what probe, which is currently 25,000,000,000km from Earth, activated its S-band transmitter.
Jackson at Berwick.
Voyager two.
That is incorrect.
And we will next go to Tyler.
Moravian.
Voyager one.
Voyager one is correct.
Next toss up question.
What mathematician who introduced the parallel postulate in the elements was an ancient Greek who also names Emmet Berwick.
Euclid.
Euclid is correct.
Next tossup question.
What author's novels aura and the death of R.A. Tambo Cruz are both set in his home country of Mexico.
Nathaniel.
Moravian Fuentes.
Carlos Fuentes is correct.
Next tossup question.
What condition that male crave in this art distinguished from bipolar disorder caused causes psychotic disordered thought and has a name meaning split mind.
Nathaniel at Moravian.
Schizophrenia.
Schizophrenia is correct.
And it's, Emil Kraepelin.
Just for everyone watching at home.
Next toss up question.
What South American capital city, whose Sioux City is the oldest subway system in Latin America, contains the unusually wide of India.
Navy de Julio.
Nathaniel.
Moravian.
Buenos Aires Buenos Aires is correct.
Next tossup question.
What president who won reelection over Charles Evans Hughes used the slogan.
He kept us out.
If they know what Moravian.
Woodrow Wilson.
Woodrow Wilson is correct.
Next toss up question.
The outcome of n repeated Bernoulli trials.
Tyler.
Moravian.
Infinite series.
That is incorrect.
I'll continue on.
The question of Bernoulli trials can be modeled by what probability distribution that tends to a normal distribution.
Emma Berwick.
Uniform.
That is also incorrect.
The correct answer is as n tends to infinity, is a binomial distribution.
Next toss up question.
What surname is shared by the novelist of White Teeth and by dissident Winston in George Orwell's 19?
Leaf and Mercyhurst.
Frost.
That is incorrect.
Next up was Nathaniel Moravian Academy.
Smith.
Smith is correct.
And that's for the real life author Zadie Smith and the fictional character Winston Smith.
Next toss up question.
A painting by what 19th century French artist inspired the Stephen Sondheim musical Sunday in the Park with George Nathaniel.
Moravian Sunday on the Isle of La Grande Jatte.
That is incorrect.
Our next person up is Josephine with Berwick Manet.
That is also incorrect.
You had the right painting, Nathaniel.
It's hanging at the met, but we were asking for the artist who would be George Sarat.
Next toss up question.
What type of rate of radiation?
Shorter than radio waves, but longer than infrared permeates the universe and is used.
Go ahead.
Tyler.
Moravian microwaves.
Microwaves is correct, and it's used in speed guns and namesake ovens.
Next tossup question what creator of the confluence project designed a pair of 200ft black granite walls engraved with soldiers names for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
Josephine Berwick I am.
That is incorrect.
And I did complete the question.
So it's up for grabs.
Mercyhurst for Moravian.
Go ahead.
Moravian.
Nathaniel Brown.
That's also incorrect.
Maya Lin is the correct answer.
Next tossup question.
What country's gang trynna date of war was grown amid refugee crisis.
Tyler.
Moravian Honduras.
That is incorrect.
Over to Jackson at Berwick.
Venezuela.
Venezuela is correct.
Next tossup question.
In chemistry, what adjective describes the temperature above which a gas cannot be liquefied at any pressure?
Josephine at Berwick.
Super.
That is incorrect.
We will go to Nathaniel Moravian Academy.
Critical.
Critical.
The critical temperature is correct.
Next tossup question.
What poem, which describes a spot of joy depicted in a portrait painted by Frau.
Penned off is a dramatic monologue by Robert Browning about a noble woman.
Nathaniel.
Moravian.
To my Last Duchess.
Judges.
Unfortunately, we can't take that over to Josephine at Berwick.
My last duchess.
My last duchess is correct.
Sorry, Anthony.
You added a little bit of an extra word there on the next tossup question.
What story?
Whose title character loses a contest after being filled with a handful of shot is about an amphibian, and it's by Mark Twain.
Nathaniel Moravia, the celebrating jumping frog of Calaveras County.
That is correct.
Next tossup question.
What band recorded lithium.
Come as you are.
Heart-Shaped Box Jacket.
Berwick.
Nirvana.
Nirvana is correct, and it featured the vocals of Kurt Cobain.
Next toss up question.
What an emphatic a b c d e is used in diagnosing what malignant form of cancer whose risk is increased by prolonged.
Sharleen at Moravian.
Melanoma.
Melanoma or melanoma is correct, and it's believed to be increased by prolonged UV exposure.
The next tossup question is in math.
Pencil and paper ready?
Given that Ace ranks higher than kings.
How many total cards in a standard 52 card deck rank higher than a nine?
Jackson at Mercyhurst.
2020 is correct because over counting aces, we have five cards.
Times for suits week.
Well, 20.
Next toss up question.
What man who fled Scotland following the Battle of Killington was a Jacobite leader nicknamed the Bonnie Prince.
Jacket, Berwick.
William of Orange.
That is incorrect.
We will go over to Nathaniel at Moravian.
Charlie.
That is correct.
Bonnie Prince Charlie or Charles Edward Stuart is the correct answer.
Next tossup question.
What materials which can be divided into substitutional and interstitial classes or solid solutions of at least two metals.
Raven.
Go ahead.
Alloys.
Alloys is correct and at least two metals, and it also includes bronze would be an example of which.
Next tossup question what ruler who defeated Ibrahim Lodi in the 1526 Battle of Panipat, was the first emperor of the Mughal Empire.
Jackson.
Berwick.
The great.
That is incorrect.
We will go over to North.
And what Moravian.
Baba of the grid.
Baba is correct.
Next tossup question.
What mathematician and author of The Industrial Society and Its Future was captured in 1995 at a Montana cabin.
Jack Berwick, the Unabomber.
Can you give his specific name, or can we take that judge to say Unabomber is correct?
It's Ted Kozinski is a Unabomber.
And you are correct.
Next toss up question in January 2020 for what country's Queen Margaret the Second, abdicated and was replaced by her son Jackson of Berwick.
Denmark.
Denmark is correct.
And she was replaced by her son Frederick, the 10th.
Next tossup question what novel in which Marie Cardona testifies at a murder trial after an ER man is shot on a beach in Marceau, was written by Albert Camus.
Nathaniel.
Moravian.
The stranger.
The stranger is correct.
And with that, we have reached half time.
We have a great match underway.
Currently, Moravian leads with a score of 180, followed by a perfect 100 and Mercyhurst ten points.
And now, because we're broadcasting all over the state, we're going to ask each student, starting with Berwick, to introduce themselves with their first, last name and their hometown.
Berwick.
Go ahead.
Jackson.
Jackson.
Hutto.
Berwick.
And your hometown to Jackson.
It is Berwick.
It is Berwick.
All right.
Jack.
Gendron.
Also Berwick.
Nice.
Emma.
And I'm asking, is Quebec?
Okay.
Just a few.
Josephine Morgan, and I'm also from Berwick.
Okay.
See, there's one personally said it wasn't from Berwick, I knew it.
All right, on to Mercyhurst.
Go ahead.
Aiden.
Sheehan.
Schoenfeld.
Waterford.
Okay.
Okay.
Next.
Kaylee.
Morrell.
Erie.
Okay.
With Leith.
Wyman.
Erie.
Okay.
And finally, Jackson.
Chelsea and Waterford.
And now over to Moravian Academy.
Isabelle Nolasco.
Roseburg.
Okay.
Charlene.
Luke.
Bethlehem.
Nathaniel.
Schmidt.
Allentown.
Tyler.
Schenck.
Look.
Issaquah.
Okay.
And now to start the second half, we are going to present Mercyhurst with the four Lightning round topics.
You get to pick one.
So Mercyhurst to pick your lightning round topic.
You can pick from world leader quotes biodiversity also an element or popular social media accounts.
Mercyhurst.
What would you like also an element also.
Also, let's go for also an element.
Mercyhurst has selected also an element.
So this is for Mercyhurst only.
Anyone can just shout out the answer once they know it.
Your topic is also an element.
Give these people places or things that share their names with an element on the periodic table.
Give the name of the element and not its symbol.
Household appliance used to flatten shirts.
Iron.
Correct.
Tech hub valley in California's Bay area.
Silicon.
Correct.
Roman messenger god.
Rock.
Yes.
Mercury.
Sorry, I heard pass before the correct answer so it doesn't count.
Became NBA commissioner in 2014.
Pass TV network focusing on true crime of crime.
Pass.
Superman's home planet.
Krypton.
Correct.
Corn with a historic buffalo design.
Design.
Nicole.
Correct.
Netflix series about reggaeton artist Chanty.
Pass.
Video game.
Developer of the Bayonetta series and Babylon's Fall.
Pass.
Proceeds.
Old lace in the title of a play about the murderous Brewster family.
Pass.
That last one was arsenic.
Okay, Berwick, you get to pick from world leader quotes.
Biodiversity or popular social media accounts.
We'll take popular social media accounts, please.
Popular social media accounts.
It is.
Berwick.
Anyone can say the answer.
Your topic is popular social media accounts.
Name these people with a large number of followers on social media.
Co-Founder and former CEO of Microsoft.
Bill gates.
Correct.
Host of NBC's The Tonight Show.
Jimmy Fallon.
Correct.
Israeli actress who plays Wonder Woman.
Gal Gadot.
Correct.
Portuguese soccer player who wears the number seven for Al Nasser.
Ronaldo.
Correct.
Female singer who stars in Only Murders in the building.
Selena.
Gomez.
Correct.
Prime Minister of India.
Narendra modi.
Correct.
Woman from Barbados who founded the cosmetics brand Fenty Beauty.
Correct.
Author of dreams for My Father and the audacity of Hope.
Best Irish singer of this Town and Slow Hands.
Pass.
Billionaire who founded Harpo Productions.
Pass.
The last one was Oprah.
Okay.
Moravian.
You get to pick between world leader quotes or biodiversity.
We'll go with biodiversity.
Biodiversity.
It is where even your topic is biodiversity.
What country is home to these unique forms of biodiversity?
The lion tamarin near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Correct.
Wild pandas.
China.
Correct.
Over 40 million kangaroos.
Australia.
Correct.
Lemurs.
Madagascar.
Correct.
A national park named after Mahatma Gandhi.
India.
Correct.
Migrate.
Migrating animals in the Serengeti.
Kenya.
That is incorrect.
The Sumatran tiger.
Indonesia.
Correct.
The Galapagos Islands.
Ecuador.
Correct.
Polar bears in its territory of Nunavut.
Canada.
Canada.
Correct.
Many types of geckos on Socotra Island.
Yemen.
Yemen is correct.
All right.
We continue on with the second half of the match with the following toss up question and pencil on paper.
Ready?
This one is in mathematics, if a fair coin is flipped twice and yields two heads.
What is the probability the next two flips will also both show heads.
Jack Jakob Berwick both 25%.
That is correct.
One fourth or 25% is the correct answer.
Next toss up question.
Tension and release are central to the namesake dance technique of what choreographer of American Document and Appalachian Spring.
Josephine Berwick Copeland.
That is incorrect.
We will go over to Nathaniel Moravian.
Akins.
That is also incorrect.
Martha Graham is a choreographer.
We're looking for.
Next toss up question.
In what city did Martin Luther King arrive to help striking garbageman and deliver the.
I've been to the mountaintop.
Jack of Berwick.
Memphis.
Memphis, Tennessee is correct.
And it was his I've Been to the mountaintop speech that he delivered before he was B.
He was assassinated.
Next toss up question.
What man?
The heir to a mining fortune rivaled Joseph Pulitzer and used his New York Journal newspaper.
Josephine at Berwick.
Hearst.
William Randolph Hearst is correct.
And he use that newspaper to gain support for the Spanish-American War.
Next toss up question.
What city?
Which in 2026 will welcome the first international WNBA team contains Scotiabank Arena, which is shared by the Maple Leafs and the Raptors.
Raven.
Nathaniel.
Toronto.
Toronto is correct.
Next tossup question in 2018, what then 20 year old who now plays midfield for AC Milan, became the youngest player ever to captain the US men's Raven.
Nathaniel.
Go ahead.
Christian Pulisic, Christian Pulisic or Pulisic is correct, and he became the first or youngest to captain U.S. Men's National team in soccer.
Next tossup question what quantity first found to be zero in liquid helium cooled below the lambda point is high for honey and measures a fluids M at Berwick.
Viscosity.
Viscosity is correct and it measures a fluid's resistance to flow.
Next tossup question.
Peace field, the historic home of John Adams and his family is in what?
Go ahead.
Tyler.
Moravian.
Massachusetts.
Massachusetts is correct.
And the end of the question was in what state?
City of Quincy.
Quincy, Massachusetts is where it's located.
Next tossup question.
What colony were the cafe Wars took place between factions of the new war gained independence in the Avion accord.
Go ahead and ethanol.
Moravian.
Algeria.
Algeria is correct.
And those, of course, were in 1962.
Next tossup question.
What monarch of Persia's Achemenid empire who lost at battles of Salamence was the son, leave the Mercyhurst.
Darius.
That is incorrect.
We will go over to Nathaniel at Moravian Xerxes the Great.
Yes.
Xerxes the Great or Xerxes the First is the correct answer.
And he was the son of Czar of Darius.
Who?
Lee, if you're on the on the right trail, but stopped by one generation.
Next tossup question.
What title figure pauses before a house that seemed a swelling of the ground and rides in a carriage with immortality?
In an Emily, Emma Berwick wrote.
Death.
Death is who is in the carriage.
It's a poem by Emily Dickinson.
Next toss up question in a short story by D.H. Lawrence.
A boy named Paul seeks to acquire luck and money by using what title toy to predict, to predict the result of races.
Jack Berwick.
Nothing nice.
That is incorrect.
We'll move over to Leith at Mercyhurst.
Jack, that is also incorrect.
And the correct answer was a rocking horse is what he uses to predict the races.
Next toss up question.
What word?
Which in concert bands is often used in place of euphonium names a male vocal range between jacket burwick or baritone.
Baritone is correct.
It's between tenor and bass.
The next tossup is in math, pencil on paper.
Ready?
How many hands tall is a horse whose height is five feet?
Eight inches?
Given a hand is a unit of length that equals four inches.
Jacket burwick.
Go ahead, go ahead.
1717 hands is correct.
Next toss up.
Question.
What war?
That included the Battle of White Mountain began after the second differentiation of Prague, and ended after the peace of Westphalia.
Jackson of Berwick, 30 years War.
The 30 Years War is correct, and it ended after the Peace of Westphalia in 1648.
Next tossup question.
In September 1870, the Battle of Sudan was fought during what war between forces of Napoleon the Third Jackson of Berwick.
Franco-Prussian War.
The Franco-Prussian War is correct.
The person on the other side was Otto von Bismarck.
Next tossup question.
What tissue composed of living truncated cells and dead lingam rich components transports water in plants and is found alongside the flow on em at Berwick, Rhode Island.
Xylem is correct.
Next toss up question.
The Karelian Isthmus separates the Gulf of Finland from what?
Russian Lake, the largest lake located in Nathaniel, Moravian Lake Ladoga.
Lake Ladoga is correct, and it's the largest lake located entirely within Europe.
Next question.
What painting?
Whose lower right hand corner shows two dwarfs, depicts a group of women tending to Spain's Nathaniel.
Moravian Antinous plus Minas or the maids of honor is correct.
Next toss up question.
The whole a rule process was invented to extract what low density metal from its oxide.
Josephine at Berwick.
The Berwick iron.
That is incorrect.
We will go over to the annual Moravian Academy.
Aluminum.
Aluminum is correct.
Next toss up.
Question.
What five letter word can refer to the eyeball?
A theater destroyed in 1613.
Fire that showed.
Go ahead.
Emma Berwick on the role of clove is correct.
It should be Shakespeare plays.
And it's also a spherical model of Earth.
Globe is correct.
Next tossup question.
What father of the string quartet wrote nearly 70 works in that genre during his long tenure.
The final Moravian.
That is incorrect.
We will go over to alma Berwick.
Haydn.
Joseph Haydn is correct.
Next toss up question.
What event takes place at a site whose name means place of the skull?
Golgotha.
At the order of Pontius Pilate.
Leave Mercyhurst.
The crucifixion of Jesus.
The crucifixion of Jesus Christ is correct.
And it happens on a Friday.
And it was in the New Testament.
Next toss up question.
What French poet wrote about a vehicle that floats down impassive rivers?
In The Drunken Boat, which was published by this poet's lover, Paul Verlaine?
Nathaniel Moravian Academy.
Baudelaire.
That is incorrect.
We will go over to Leith at Mercyhurst Common.
That's also incorrect.
Our tour Rumbo is the correct answer.
Next tossup question.
What country's fleet was ambushed at Port Arthur and later crushed at the Battle of Tsushima?
During the war.
Nathaniel.
Moravian Russia.
Russian or the Russian Empire is correct.
And that was during war with Japan, overseen by Czar Nicholas the Second.
Next toss up question.
During which presidents administration did passage of the Federal Aid Highway Act spur the construction?
And Leif was in right before the end.
So go ahead, leave.
Ronald Reagan.
That is incorrect.
We'll take the next 1 in 2 because the first bus went in.
It will go over to Jackson a Berwick.
Dwight Eisenhower.
Dwight Eisenhower is correct.
And that concludes the match.
Congratulations to PBS 30 Nine's Moravian Academy with 315 points.
You were this year's state champion.
And thank you to our schools in Erie, Pennsylvania and Scranton, Pennsylvania for also participating.
We're here from Berwick.
Great job to everyone involved.
Thank you.
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