WLVT Scholastic Scrimmage
Scholastic Scrimmage: Southern Lehigh HS vs Pen Argyl HS
Season 50 Episode 8 | 28m 29sVideo has Closed Captions
Scholastic Scrimmage: Southern Lehigh HS vs Pen Argyl HS
Scholastic Scrimmage: Southern Lehigh HS vs Pen Argyl HS
Problems playing video? | Closed Captioning Feedback
Problems playing video? | Closed Captioning Feedback
WLVT Scholastic Scrimmage is a local public television program presented by PBS39
Scholastic Scrimmage is brought to you by the members of PBS39 and sponsored by St. Luke's University Health Network; scholarships provided by the Air Products Foundation and the Deluxe Corporation Foundation.
Support provided by:
WLVT Scholastic Scrimmage
Scholastic Scrimmage: Southern Lehigh HS vs Pen Argyl HS
Season 50 Episode 8 | 28m 29sVideo has Closed Captions
Scholastic Scrimmage: Southern Lehigh HS vs Pen Argyl HS
Problems playing video? | Closed Captioning Feedback
How to Watch WLVT Scholastic Scrimmage
WLVT Scholastic Scrimmage is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku, Samsung Smart TV, and Vizio.
Providing Support for PBS.org
Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipWelcome to the 50th season of Scholastic Scrimmage.
Special thanks to our title sponsor, Temple Saint Luke's School of Medicine.
Since 2006, the Temple Saint Luke's School of Medicine has focused on cultivating local talent, with more than a third of our graduates continuing their training at Saint Luke's or now working as attending physicians for our network.
Learn more.
So you dawg backslash som.
Additional support provided by PPO electric, Charles H. Hope Foundation and viewers like you.
Thank you.
Hello and welcome to the eighth match of the 50th season of Scholastic Scrimmage.
I'm your host, David Graff.
Today's match is between Southern Lehigh High School, who have won the tournament four times over the last 50 years.
And Pinnacle.
Area High School, who won scrimmage back in 2012.
It's about to be composed of two halves, with lightning round midway through each half at halftime will pause as fans can introduce themselves, and we'll get to know them a little bit better.
As a reminder, sports Scrimmage requires 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 tossup question.
What monarch depicted in the rainbow portrait employed Francis Walsingham and never married, letting leading her to be known as the Virgin Queen.
Inaudible.
Quickly.
Mary, Queen of Scots.
That is incorrect.
Over to Southern Lehigh.
No conferring, but it is a freebie.
Now.
Suddenly high.
Marie-Antoinette.
That is also incorrect.
Elizabeth, the first of England is who we were looking for.
Next toss up question.
What?
Modern day country home to expressionist movements called the blue River.
And to Brucker was where Voltaire, Gropius, pinochle.
France.
That is incorrect.
I'll continue on for Southern Lehigh.
Founded the Bauhaus movement in Weimar.
Go ahead.
Something that you're before the buzzer.
Germany.
Germany is correct for your bonus.
Under leadership like Osceola, what?
Indigenous people fought three wars against the U.S. to defend their homes in Florida.
Go ahead.
The Seminoles.
The Seminoles is correct.
Next toss up question.
What law holds up to the elastic limit?
Is named for an English scientist and is expressed as f equals -17.
Hooke's law.
Hooke's law is correct.
I didn't even finish the equation.
It's f equals minus xk where k is the spring constant.
For your bonus.
What chemical elements atomic symbol is derived from the same Latin word as is plumbing.
What led led is correct for PPB because lead pipes were used in Roman plumbing.
Next toss up question.
What Greek stole ambrosia from the gods, tried to feed his son Pelops to them and was punished with an eternity.
Just out of reach of both fruit and water.
Correct answer is Tantalus.
And that's where we get the word tantalize from.
Next tossup question.
What TV show, which spawned two spin offs featuring Isabel May as narrator Elsa.
Title 1883 and 1923 is a southern high Yellowstone.
Yellowstone is correct.
It's a neo-western starring Kevin Costner for your bonus.
What queen succeeded her half brother Edward the sixth.
After wrestling control of England from the supporters of Lady Jane Gray.
Oh, Elizabeth.
That is incorrect.
Mary, the first of England is the correct answer.
Next toss up question.
What city?
Which franchise?
Francis, the first of France, retook in the Battle of Moor in Janow in 1515, was long ruled by the Visconti and Sforza families in northern Italy.
Southern Lehigh.
Venice.
That's incorrect.
Over to pinnacle.
No conferring.
But is freebie now?
Canonical.
Florence.
Florence is also incorrect.
The northern city is Milan.
Next toss up question.
What British playwright depicted a man who uses his own hot blood to sign a contract with Mephistopheles, a servant of Lucifer, in Doctor Faustus?
Christopher Marlowe is the correct answer.
Next, toss up.
What disease commonly monitored using a hemoglobin A1 C test can cause ketones in the urine and suddenly.
Lehigh.
Diabetes.
Diabetes is correct, and if uncontrolled, will lead to high blood glucose levels.
For your bonus, the name of what type of location appears in the title of all five books in a Sarah J. Moss series of fantasy novels set in a world of fairies.
Court.
Court or courts is correct.
Next toss up question.
What Bohemian born composer of the dumb key trio in E minor, southern Lehigh.
Dvorak.
Dvorak is correct for your bonus.
What?
Alabama governor, who was shot by Arthur Bremer while running for president, made the stand in the schoolhouse door to oppose integration.
Pass.
George Wallace is the correct answer.
Next toss up question.
What man to whom?
Charles the second granted land in America in exchange for debt relief, led Quakers in founding and namesake hope panel.
William Penn.
William Penn is correct, and he had a name say colony that he led from Philadelphia in our very own state, Pennsylvania.
For your bonus, the Sunderbans are a mangrove forest that lie on what bay?
The world's largest.
Pass.
That largest bay is the Bay of Bengal.
And with that, we've reached the first lightning round and pre-match coin toss.
It was determined that Southern Lehigh will have to pick first between the following topics.
The nervous system or numerical novels.
Quickly.
Suddenly high.
The nervous system.
The nervous system.
It is suddenly high.
Your topic is the nervous system.
Answer the following about the nervous system.
The largest part of the brain above the cerebellum.
Cerebral cortex.
That is incorrect.
Division of the nervous system.
Contract with the central nervous system.
Peripheral nervous system.
Correct.
Type of nerve that relays information to the brain.
Sensory neurons.
Correct spaces that separate neurons.
Synapses?
Correct.
Part of the brain.
Often described as oblongata.
Medulla.
Correct.
Substance forming a sheath around myelin.
Correct.
Neurotransmitter often called the feelgood hormone.
Serotonin.
That is incorrect.
Nervous system division activated in a fight or flight response.
Sympathetic nervous system.
That is correct.
Lobes in the back of the brain involved in occipital.
Correct.
Membrane surrounding the brain, one of which is the meninges.
That is also correct.
Nice job.
Your topic is numerical novels.
Name these novels with numbers in their titles.
George Orwell, book about 1984.
That is correct.
Ray Bradbury novel.
High for 50.
One.
That is correct.
Charles Dickens novel set in Paris and London.
A Tale of Two Cities.
That is correct.
Second book in the Lord of the rings trilogy.
The Two Towers.
That is correct.
Arthur C Clarke novel that introduces the computer.
How?
2001 A Space Odyssey.
That is correct.
Jay Asher, novel about Hannah Baker.
Suicide.
13 Reasons Why.
That is correct.
Adventure novel featuring Phileas Fogg.
Pass y a mystery by Karen Emmett McManus about Simon's death.
One of us is lying.
Correct.
Second Sherlock Holmes novel which introduces Mary Maud Stone.
Pass.
Taylor Jenkins Reid novel about a 1970s rock band.
Daisy Jones in the six.
That is correct.
Nice job.
Benadryl.
We continue on with the following.
Toss up question.
What number is sometimes called Archimedes constant?
Is the number of radians equal to 180 degrees, and is an irrational number.
So the Lehigh.
Pi.
Pi is correct is an irrational number equal to about 3.14.
For your bonus, in July 2024, Italian police seized 42 tons of a product falsely labeled as What Good, whose common varieties include one called Evo.
Olive oil.
Olive oil is correct.
The Italians take their olive oil and food culture very seriously.
Next tossup question.
What school of psychology?
A focus of the book Beyond Freedom and Dignity includes John Watson and operant conditioning and researcher of B.F. Skinner.
Southern Lehigh.
Behaviorism.
Behaviorism is correct.
For your bonus, what director of the film adaptations of the BFG and Ready Player One fictionalized his upbringing in the 2022 film The Fabelmans.
Steven Spielberg Steven Spielberg is correct.
Next toss up question.
What 105 day war?
In which CMO how hot had over 500 sniper kills ended with Finland ceding land to the US?
The Winter War.
Benadryl, the Winter War.
The Winter War is correct.
They went to the USSR for your bonus.
What term describes types of stored energy that readily can be 100% converted to kinetic energy?
The potential.
Potential energy.
Potential energy is correct.
The next toss up is in math pencil and paper.
Ready?
What is the difference that results when calculating 3/5 minus one 10th, which requires a common denominator?
Go ahead.
Something like half, one half, one half or 0.50 is correct.
Next bonus or for your bonus.
Before proclaiming himself Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, hold what title?
Inspired by Republican Rome in the French government of 1799 to 1804.
General.
Incorrect.
Consul is the correct answer.
Next tossup question.
In July 2024, what junior senator from Ohio and author of the book Hillbilly Elegy was general?
J.D.
Vance J.D.
Vance is correct.
He was selected by Donald Trump as his vice presidential running mate.
For your bonus.
What city at the mouth of the Swan River is the capital of Western Australia.
One.
Melbourne.
That is incorrect.
Perth is the correct answer.
Next toss up question.
What leader who came to power after ending China's Warring States period, sponsored the creation of the Terracotta Army and which China's first emperor.
So then we ha Ming.
That is incorrect.
Over the pinnacle.
No conferring, but it's a freebie.
Go ahead, project Chen.
We need more.
Chen.
She won.
That is correct.
For bonus.
What class of low mass particles, which are fair mesons that do not experience the strong force, include electrons and neutrinos.
Pass.
We're talking about leptons.
And with that, we have reached half time right now.
So we have score or leads with a score of 155 to 75.
Now let's take a moment for the students to introduce themselves with their first last name grade level and the answer to the following question.
What is your favorite innovation of the last 50 years?
Suddenly.
Hi, Patrick.
We start with you.
Patrick D'Amico.
DoorDash.
11th grade.
Sorry.
Okay.
MJ MJ Edwards, 12th grade.
GG.
Right.
Matilda Snider, 11th grade.
And the creation of the foot controlled Bluetooth page turner for musicians.
Oh, okay.
Ela 12th grade Grubhub.
So metal.
I take it you play an instrument?
What instrument?
Through violin.
Violin?
So my daughter plays violin.
Okay.
All right, now we go over to power on Charles.
Go ahead.
Riley, a 12th grade, probably the 1980s refit of the Iowa class battleship.
Okay.
Eliminate grade 11 and the graphing calculator comic.
Leo.
12th grade satellites.
I start to have grade 11.
The, Wikipedia.
Wikipedia.
All right.
Not the best place to get sources for these answers.
They don't count as, verifying classic scrimmage questions, but I can fall down a rabbit hole just reading and reading and reading on Wikipedia.
All right, we continue on with the match with the following toss up question.
The furthest planet visited by Voyager two is what body sometimes displays a great dark spot and is orbited suddenly?
Hi, Jupiter.
That is incorrect.
I'll continue for pinochle by moons, period.
And is it.
Neptune?
Pinochle?
Neptune Neptune is correct for your bonus.
What character agonizes about a blood stain on his sock after he murders a pawnbroker and a waitress in Fyodor Dostoyevsky novel crime and Punishment.
Rationale.
Say it.
Again.
Rational.
We can.
Raskolnikov is a correct answer.
Raskolnikov.
Next tossup question.
What novel?
In which nuns at the pizza Peak, whose convent educate Cosette, centers on former prisoner Jean Valjean.
Suddenly hot.
Les miserables.
That's right.
And it was written by Victor Hugo for your bonus.
What architectural style that uses lavish ornamentation with a modern industrial influence is exemplified by the Chrysler Building.
Pass, Art Deco.
Next toss up question.
What city, whose oldest building is the elfin fort has a Tom Wright designed hotel called Burj Al Arab on a manmade island, and is in an ideal Dubai.
Dubai is correct, and it's in the UAE for your bonus.
What 19th century philosopher, who collaborated with his wife Harriet Taylor, to write The Subjugation of Women, was a utilitarian.
Guess Gunderson.
That's incorrect.
John Stuart Mill is a correct answer.
Next tossup question what riots, whose participants included Marsha P Johnson, occurred at a Greenwich Village bar in 1969 and helped launch the gay liberation movement.
Suddenly, Stonewall.
Stonewall in the Stonewall riots is correct for a bonus.
And what Bluer Listens book Paul Clifford begins by describing the weather with what seven word phrase, which is now emblematic of cliched first lines.
It was a dark and stormy night.
That is correct.
Next tossup question what cabinet member who was criticized for not visiting East Palestine after a 2023 disaster, is the first gay man to be Secretary of Transportation.
Southern Lehigh.
People who judge.
People judge is correct for your bonus.
Interactions between groups with a common language spur the creation of what?
Simple shared languages which may evolve into more complete creoles titles?
Dialects?
That's incorrect.
Pigeon languages is the correct answer.
Next tossup question.
What poet claimed that God is served by those who only stand in wait?
In his sonnet on with on His Blindness and described Eve's temptation in Paradise Lost pinnacle.
Milton.
John Milton is correct for your bonus.
In what form of asexual reproduction does a new organism form?
When a small portion of the original organism pinches off from the parent?
What does mitosis.
That's incorrect.
Flooding is a correct answer.
Next toss up question what quantity?
Which is zero by by definition for inertial frames, is the second time derivative of displacement and is the rate of change Benadryl acceleration.
Acceleration is correct and change of its rate of change of velocity.
For a bonus, what singer followed up her 2023 album The Rise and Fall of a midwest Princess with the hit single Good Luck Babe.
Chaperoned chaperon is correct.
Next tossup question what city was the capital of the Ptolemaic Kingdom?
Was once home to a pharaoh or large lighthouse to a pharaohs, excuse me?
Or large lighthouse, and is the second most populous city in Alexandria.
Alexandria is correct.
It's the second most populous city in Egypt.
For your bonus, what character in a Tennessee Williams play moves into her sister Stella's home in New Orleans, where she suffers a nervous breakdown?
She.
Smith.
Incorrect.
Blanche Dubois.
The correct answer.
Next tossup question.
In what country did it?
Crane did a train crash on its wallow on its way to Wally Pindi in 2023, the same year its former president Imran Khan was arrested in Lahore.
So can we.
Iran?
That's incorrect.
Over the.
Go ahead.
Benadryl is real.
It's also incorrect.
Pakistan.
Imran Khan is now facing corruption charges, but he was the prime minister at the time.
Next toss up question what game?
Whose champions include Nigel Richards, was invented by Alfred Butts and features a 15 by 15 board on which tiles are placed to form words.
So the Lehigh.
Scrabble.
Scrabble is correct for your bonus.
Leonore masquerades as the title prison guard to save her husband for stand in what opera?
The Only One by Little Green van Beethoven.
Oh.
Sixth oratorio.
Incorrect.
Fidelio is the correct answer.
And with that, we have reached the second lightning round.
Penn Argyle.
You get to pick between the following topics fictional redheads or religious holidays.
Fictional redheads.
Fictional redheads.
It is paranormal.
Your topic is fictional.
Redheads named these fictional characters with red hair.
Harry Potter's best friend, Ron Weasley.
Correct singer of Part of Your World in The Little Mermaid.
Ariel.
Correct a member of the Mystery Gang with Fred, Velma, Shaggy, and Scooby Doo.
Daphne.
Correct.
A teenage spy who fought Saigo and Doctor Dragon on a Disney Channel show.
Kim Possible.
Correct adopted by Daddy Warbucks in a namesake Broadway musical.
Correct.
The heroine of the 2012 Pixar film Brave.
Merida.
Correct.
The oldest of the Rugrats babies past.
Supervises elementary school field trips aboard the Magic School bus.
Miss Frizzle Correct American Greetings character who shares her name with a fruit based dessert.
Past Rosie Leslie's character on Game of Thrones.
Past that last one is Ygritte.
Okay.
Suddenly.
Hi.
Your topic is religious holidays.
Name these religious holidays, we will provide the month in the appropriate calendar.
December.
Commemorating the birth of Jesus.
Christmas.
Correct.
Nissan celebrating the Israelites escape from Egypt or any song.
Hanukkah.
That's incorrect.
Ashwin and Kartikeya, the Hindu festival of lights.
Diwali.
Correct.
Kislev.
Candles are lit on a menorah.
Hanukkah.
Correct.
March or April Christian celebration of the resurrection.
Easter.
Correct.
Tisha a shofar is sounded for the New Year.
Yom Kippur.
That is incorrect.
Cherwell marking the end of Ramadan.
Yeah, it is Yom Kippur.
That is incorrect.
Pallu Guna.
Hindu festival of color.
Holy.
Correct.
Teacher.
A Jewish Day of Atonement Q4.
Correct.
Parvati.
Persian New year on the spring equinox.
Yes.
Past.
Nowruz is the correct answer.
We'll continue with the final quarter of the match for the following toss up question.
What insects known to use hot balls to kill Japanese hornets have been afflicted by colony collapse disorder and are important pollinators.
And bees.
Bees?
That's correct.
In the hop balls, they actually surround the hornets, lock them in and overheat the hornet to kill it.
I don't look that upset.
No idea what they're referencing.
For bonus, the country of Zimbabwe was formed from what predecessor state which declared independence from Britain.
Oh, sorry.
Just like your captain.
No.
If you.
Feature Rhodesia.
Rhodesia is correct.
Next tossup question.
What family whose patriarch Abdulazeez founded or fought against the Rashid owns the largest oil company in the world and controls the holy cities of Mecca and Medina.
That would be the Saudi dynasty.
Are the family of Saad.
Next toss up question in what novel this physician Roger Killingsworth, observed a mark on Arthur Dimmesdale chest, similar to the red and argent.
The scarlet letter.
The scarlet letter is.
The scarlet letter is correct and similar to red A, worn by the adulteress Hester Prynne.
For your bonus, what Indian poet was awarded the 1913 Nobel Prize for literature, largely for the English translation of his book Guitar and Julie.
Pass.
Tiger is the correct answer.
Next toss up question what quantity, which for an analyte can be determined by titration, is the amount of solute in a solution and can be measured in more suddenly high concentration?
That is correct.
It can be measured in moles per liter.
For bonus.
The US justified the Iraq War by claiming that Saddam Hussein was stockpiling military items known by what phrase abbreviated WMD.
Weapons of mass destruction.
Weapons of mass destruction is correct.
Next, toss up what street whose Frederick Hall hosted George Washington's inauguration is home to Goldman Sachs and is the hub of New York City's finance sector.
Wall Street Wall Street is correct for your bonus.
What adjective can describe an isotope that existed when Earth first formed, or to the soup of chemicals from which early life emerged?
Primordial.
Primordial is correct.
Next toss up question what Major League Baseball team employs Stephen Kwan and Jose Ramirez?
So Lehigh, the.
Guardians.
The Cleveland Guardians is correct, and they play their games at Progressive Field for your bonus.
What jazz trumpeter and longtime director of jazz at the Lincoln Center composed the jazz oratorio blood on the fields.
Duke Ellington.
Is incorrect.
Wynton Marsalis is the correct answer.
Next toss up question what Western state is home to Mount Mazama and the volcano Mount Scott, which are both in Crater Lake National Park and is governed from Salem.
So in Lehigh, Oregon.
Oregon is correct for your bonus Spanish verbs.
And with that, we are out of time.
Really close match between two evenly matched teams.
Pros.
Off to a little slow starts.
Unfortunately, with 215 points you will not make it to the second round.
Good luck to the rest of your school year.
Suddenly, our 265 points graduations.
You are on to the second round.
We'll see you next week when Bangor Area High School faces off against Whitehall High School.
Since 2006, the Temple Saint Luke's School of Medicine has focused on cultivating local talent, with more than a third of our graduates continuing their training at Saint Luke's are now working as attending physicians for our network.
Learn more.
So you org backslash som.
Support for PBS provided by:
WLVT Scholastic Scrimmage is a local public television program presented by PBS39
Scholastic Scrimmage is brought to you by the members of PBS39 and sponsored by St. Luke's University Health Network; scholarships provided by the Air Products Foundation and the Deluxe Corporation Foundation.