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Scholastic Scrimmage: State Championship
Season 47 Episode 20 | 27m 50sVideo has Closed Captions
Three PA state teams vie for the scrimmage state championship title.
Three Pennsylvania scrimmage teams; Cranberry High School, Milton High School, and Moravian Academy, vie for the scrimmage state championship title.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipHello and welcome to the 2022 Pennsylvania State Championship of Scholastic Scrimmage.
I'm your host, David Graf.
This state-wide 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 Cranberry High School, representing WQLN, in Erie, Pennsylvania.
Milton High School, from WVIA, in the Scranton/ Wilkes-Barre area, and Moravian Academy, winners of the PBS39 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.
Every question will be a toss-up with no follow-up bonus questions.
On the left of the screen, you and I, the viewers, will see the first five students to buzz in.
I'll call the names of the students and the school of the student who buzzed in first and they will have a chance to answer.
If they answer incorrectly, I will go to the next student who buzzed in from the next school.
The match will also feature a lightning round at the halfway point of the match.
And as a reminder, Scholastic Scrimmage requires rapid recall of specific factual information and is not necessarily indicative of academic training.
And now, let's begin.
Buzzers ready and onto the first question, it's in US History.
What fort, the object of a relief attempt by the steamship Star of the West in January 1861, was where the first shots... Eric, from Moravian Academy.
- Fort Sumter.
- That is correct.
Next toss-up.
Saint Joseph, Missouri, and Sacramento, California were the end points of what mail service that operated from... Divik, from Moravian Academy.
- The Pony Express.
- That is correct.
It operated from 1860 until 1861.
Next toss-up.
What man, who's February 1965 murder in Manhattan was the subject of two November 2021 exonerations, and he was once the spokesman for the Nation of Islam?
Divik, from Moravian.
- Malcolm X.
- That is correct.
What novel, the first be published by Toni Morrison, is titled for a facial feature that is desired by the protagonist...?
Divik, from Moravian Academy.
- The Bluest Eye.
- That is correct.
Onto the next toss-up.
What object, which follows an apparent path known as an ecliptic, is a G2V star located 93 million miles, or one astronomical unit, from Earth?
Trevor, from Cranberry.
- The Sun.
- That is correct.
Next toss-up.
Lin-Manuel Miranda directed what 2021 musical film starring Andrew Garfield as Johnson...?
It's Kayli, from WVIA.
- Tick, Tick...Boom.
- That is correct.
As Jonathan Larson, was the character that he played.
Next toss-up.
What mountain, which was first climbed by Edwin James in 1820, is about 12 miles west of Colorado Springs and is named for a 19th-century explorer?
Divik, from Moravian.
- Pikes Peak.
- That is correct.
They have an excellent road race there, if anybody gets a chance to see it.
Next toss-up.
A cloak-like covering called a mantle is found in what animal phylum, whose members include gastropods and cephalopods?
Divik, from Moravian.
- Crustaceans.
- That is incorrect.
Trevor was the next to buzz in, from Cranberry High School.
- Invertebrates.
- That is also incorrect.
- The correct answer is mollusks.
Next toss-up.
What 1886 novel, depicting the murder of Colin Campbell, was written by Robert Louis Stevenson and has a title referring to David Balfour's abduction?
Yiyi, from Moravian.
- Kidnapped.
That is correct.
In 2021, what country condemned its eastern neighbors Belarus for provoking a border crisis by helping...?
Eric, from Moravian Academy.
- Poland.
- That is correct.
They provoked a border crisis by helping Middle Eastern refugees enter the European Union.
Next toss-up.
Polynomials of what degree, whose depressed form was first solved by Girolamo Cardano, have one more root than quadratics and are called cubics?
Divik, from Moravian Academy.
- Third-degree polynomials.
- Yes, that is correct.
Third-degree or degree-three polynomials.
Next toss-up.
In 1995, Mozambique became the first country to join what political association without being...?
Eric, from Moravian Academy, - The Commonwealth of Nations.
- That is correct.
Without becoming part of the former British Empire.
Next toss-up.
What Paramount Network series, about the Dutton family of ranchers, stars Kevin Costner and shares its name with a national park in Montana...?
That would be Milton High School, Kayli.
Kayli, from Milton High School.
- Yellowstone.
- That is correct.
Next toss-up.
What kind of paper, treated with dyes derived from lichens, is frequently used as a pH indicator?
Divik, from Moravian.
- Litmus paper.
- That is correct.
In what ancient city could criminals be thrown from the Tarpeian Rock, which was named for the Vestal Virgin, for breaking the laws of the 12...?
Eric, from Moravian Academy.
- Rome.
- That is also correct.
Next toss-up.
What author wrote about the kind Prince Myshkin, who returns to Russia after receiving treatment for epilepsy...?
Yiyi, for Moravian.
- Dostoyevsky.
- That is correct.
In his 1869 novel titled The Idiot.
Next toss-up.
What Nasa program, one of whose missions ended with the deaths of Ed White, Roger Chaffee and Gus Grissom...?
Nicholas, from Milton High School.
- Challenger.
- That is incorrect.
We'll move on to Eric, at Moravian Academy.
- Apollo.
- That is correct.
The Apollo program.
Next toss-up.
What Alpine mountain, which overlooks the Swiss town of Zermatt, lends its name to a ride at Disneyland?
Yiyi, from Moravian.
- Erm, Everest?
- That is incorrect.
We'll move on to the next person to buzz in, which was Ashley, from Milton High School.
Ashley, go ahead.
- I was going to say Mount Everest.
- All right.
The correct answer is Matterhorn.
Next toss-up.
What 1965 novel by Frank Herbert, in which villages called...?
Divik, from Moravian.
- Dune.
- That's correct.
Made into a extremely popular movie this year.
Next toss-up.
What word, used in the Book of Judges to separate the Ephraimites from the Gileadites, refers to a phrase distinguishing members of a group from outsiders?
Samit, from Moravian.
- Greasers?
- Incorrect.
Anyone else?
Shibboleth is a correct answer we're looking for.
Next toss-up.
What team, which acquired first baseman Rowdy Tellez in July 2021, employed 2021 NL Cy Young winner Corbin Burnes and plays their home games in Wisconsin?
Eric, for Moravian.
- The Brewers - That is correct, the Milwaukee Brewers.
The next toss-up is in math, pencil and paper ready.
What is the area of an annulus, or ring created by concentric circles, whose outer radius is seven and whose inner radius is four?
Divik, from Moravian.
Divik?
- Yep, ah, six pi?
- That is incorrect.
We'll go to Trevor, from Cranberry High School.
- 33 pi.
- That is correct.
Next toss-up.
What man, called the Lion of the Senate, opposed Jimmy Carter in the 1980 Democratic primary and was the younger brother of...?
Eric, from Moravian.
- Ted Kennedy.
- That is correct.
He was the younger brother of the assassinated president, JFK.
Next toss-up.
What two countries were party to the 1904 Entente Cordiale, which among other things, acknowledged their respective influences in Morocco and Egypt?
Eric, for Moravian.
- The UK and France.
- That is correct.
The United Kingdom in France.
Next toss-up.
What metal, found in the mineral azurite, is a good conductor of heat and electricity, once was widely used in pots and wiring and has a reddish color?
Trevor, from Cranberry.
- Copper.
- That is correct.
Next toss-up.
Neolithic passage tombs, such as Knowth and Newgrange, can be found in what present-day country, whose high kings were crowned at the Hill of Tara?
Ashley, from Milton High School.
- Ireland.
- That is correct.
Next toss-up.
In what country did a crisis over the Anghel Saligny Investments lead to a November 2021 ascent of Prime Minister Nicolae Ciuca, who is leading from Bucharest?
Eric, from Moravian.
- Romania.
- That is correct.
On to our next toss-up.
What is the home country of the 21st-century memoirist Karl Ove Knausgard and the realist playwright of Peer Gynt and Hedda Gabler, Henrik Ibsen.
Yiyi, from Moravian.
- Norway.
- That is correct.
Next toss-up.
What US general designed a war of attrition against communist forces while leading American troops in Vietnam from 1964 to 1968?
Divik, from Moravian.
- McNamara.
- That is incorrect.
The other teams still have a little time to buzz in.
Brooke, from Cranberry High School.
- Montgomery.
- That is also incorrect.
The correct answer is William Westmoreland.
The next toss-up is in math, pencil and paper ready.
If point P has the coordinates 6,2, what are the coordinates of the new point created if P is reflected across the y axis?
Divik, from Moravian.
- Negative 6, 2.
- That is correct.
We're just flipping everything on the y axis.
Next toss-up.
What compound word refers to someone like Frances Haugen or Chelsea Manning, who exposes their employer's illegal or unethical behavior?
Divik, from Moravian.
- Whistle-blower.
- That is correct.
Next toss-up.
What modern-day state, targeted by the Edmonds-Tucker Act against polygamy, grew from an attempted state called...?
Divik, from Moravian.
- Utah?
- That is correct.
It was led by Brigham Young.
In September 2021, Anthony Gonzalez announced he would not seek re-election as representative from what state, whose governor is Mike DeWine?
Eric, from Moravian.
- Montana.
- Incorrect.
Cranberry and Milton, you still have a chance to buzz in.
Trevor, from Cranberry.
- Kansas.
- That is also incorrect.
The correct answer is Ohio.
Next toss-up.
What device, built by Johann Maelzel, uses an adjustable height to regulate the speed at which it clicks, which musicians use to keep a beat?
Divik, from Moravian.
- Metronome.
- That is correct.
A parody of Samuel Richardson's novel Pamela, titled Shamela, was published in 1741 by what Englishman, who also wrote the picaresque novel Tom Jones?
Divik, from Moravia.
- Fielding.
- Henry Fielding is correct.
Correct answer.
Next toss-up.
What element, transported in the blood by transferrins, accumulates in the blood in hemochromatosis and is the metal in hemoglobin that binds oxygen?
Trevor, from Cranberry.
- Iron.
- That is correct.
Next toss-up.
Giuseppe Zangara killed the Chicago mayor Anton Cermak while trying to assassinate what US president-elect?
Eric, from Moravian.
- FDR - That is correct.
He tried to assassinate him in Miami in 1933.
Next toss-up.
What empire, which was ruled by the Komnenos and the Palaiologos dynasties was governed from...?
Eric, from Moravian.
- Byzantine.
- That is correct.
It was governed from Constantinople.
Next toss-up.
The currently in deployed version...
The currently in-development or in...
Excuse me, the current in-deployment version six of what Network Communications Protocol defines its namesake addresses as 128-bit numbers?
Trevor, from Cranberry.
- IP.
- That is correct.
Internet protocol or IP.
Next toss-up.
What state, which contains the source of the Murray and Darling Rivers, is the most populous in Australia and named after...?
Samit, from Moravian.
- Northern Territory.
- That is incorrect.
Two other schools?
Nicholas, from Milton, go ahead.
- Victoria.
- That is also incorrect.
The correct answer is New South Wales.
And with that, we've reached half-time.
We have an excellent match under way, Moravian Academy leads with 260 points, followed by Cranberry High School with 50 points and WVIA's Milton High School with 30 points.
And we will move to our first lightning round.
All right, Milton High School with 30 points, you get the first pick.
The topics you can pick from for the lightning round are Literary Villains, Operatic Locales or European Bridges.
Captain, give me your pick.
- Literary Villains.
- All right, Literary Villains.
Cranberry High School, with 50 points, you can pick from Operatic Locales or European Bridges.
Quickly, Cranberry, or I'll pick for you.
- Operatic Locales.
All right, sounds good.
That was going to be my pick for you anyway.
No, I'm just kidding.
All right, Milton High School.
So, this is Milton High School and Milton High School only, you can confer and then please refer to your captain.
Captain, you're the one giving me the answer.
For your lightning round, Milton High School, Literary Villains.
Name the literary works that contain these villains.
The Wicked Witch of the West.
- The Wizard of Oz.
Correct.
Big Brother.
- 1984.
- Correct.
The stranded choir boy, Jack.
- Lord of Flies.
- Correct.
Stanley Kowalski.
- Pass.
- The correct answer is A Streetcar Named Desire.
Captain Hook.
- No, no, no.
Peter Pan.
- That is correct.
The puritan Abigail Williams.
- The Scarlet Letter.
- Incorrect.
The Crucible is a correct answer.
Uriah Heep.
- Pass.
- David Copperfield is the correct answer.
Real estate salesman Ricky Roma.
- Pass.
- Glengarry Glen Ross is the correct answer.
Antonio, the usurping Duke of Milan.
- Pass.
- That's The Tempest.
A Huron scout named Magua.
- The Last Of The Mohicans.
- Last Of The Mohicans.
- Sorry, the buzzer went off.
That was a correct answer, but no credit for points.
But it was The Last Of The Mohicans.
Nice job, Nicholas.
Cranberry High School, your topic for this lightning round is Operatic Locales.
Given an opera, name the present-day country that is its primary setting.
The answers may be repeated.
Aida.
- Italy.
- Incorrect.
- Carmen.
- Spain?
- That is correct.
- La Boheme.
- France.
- That is correct.
- Die Meistersinger Von Nurnberg.
- Germany.
- That is correct.
William Tell.
- England.
- Incorrect.
Switzerland.
- The Girl Of The Golden West.
- The UK.
- That's incorrect.
The United States of America.
- Rigoletto.
- Italy.
- That is correct.
Boris Gor... Godunov.
Boris Godunov.
- Russia.
- That is correct.
Turandot.
- France.
- Incorrect.
China is the correct answer.
The Marriage Of Figaro.
- Italy.
- Incorrect.
The correct answer is Spain.
OK. And that leaves Moravian Academy with European Bridges.
Moravian Academy, in what city would one find the Tower Bridge and the Westminster Bridge?
- London.
- Correct.
The Pont des Arts and the Pont Alexandre III.
- Paris.
- That is correct.
The Vasco da Gama Bridge over the Tagus River.
- Lisbon.
- That is correct.
The Charles Bridge over the Vltava River.
- Vltava?
That's, like, Ukraine.
So, Kiev?
- Kiev.
- Incorrect.
Prague is the correct answer.
The Ponte Amerigo Vespucci, over the Arno River.
- Arno's in Italy.
- So, Rome?
- Tiber.
- Tiber.
Oh, wait, that's not a city.
- Incorrect.
Florence is the correct answer.
The Alexander Nevsky Bridge, over the Neva River.
- Moscow.
- Incorrect.
Saint Petersburg is the correct answer.
The Golden Horn Bridge and the Bosphorus Bridge.
- Bosporus, that's Turkey.
- Istanbul.
- That is correct.
The Rialto Bridge and the Bridge of Sighs.
- Cairo.
- Incorrect.
Venice is the correct answer.
The Szechenyi Chain Bridge, over the River Danube.
And with that, we're out of time.
The correct answer to that was Budapest.
Great job to all the schools in that lightning round.
We now move on to the second half of the match with the following toss-up.
Muggle technology fascinates the Ministry of Magic employee who is married to Molly...?
- Kayli, from Milton High.
- Arthur Weasley.
- That is correct.
And he's a father of seven children, including Ron.
Next toss-up.
What author who noted "stone walls do not "a prison make" was a cavalier poet who wrote To Lucasta, Going to the Warres and To Althea, From Prison?
Divik, from Moravian.
- Byron.
- Incorrect.
And the buzz did go off right before we got in.
So, the correct answer is Richard Loveless.
Next toss-up.
Michael I was the first tsar from what royal dynasty that held power...?
So, we have Ashley, from Milton High.
Go ahead, Ashley.
- Romanov.
- That is correct.
The House of Romanov.
Next toss-up.
What program, which used the Hanford site and was headquartered at Oak Ridge, established the Los Alamos Laboratory...?
Eric, from Moravian Academy.
- Manhattan Project.
- That is correct.
To build the first atomic bombs.
Next toss-up.
What sculpture of the Puritan created the Robert Gould Shaw Memorial, in Boston?
Trevor, from Cranberry High School.
- Warhol.
- That is incorrect.
We'll move on to Yiyi, at Moravian.
- Daniel Chester French.
That is also incorrect.
Augustus Saint-Gaudens is the correct answer.
All right, next toss-up.
What month, whose birthstone is sapphire, titles a song that asks, "Do you remember dancing in..."?
Brooke, from Cranberry High School.
- September?
- That is correct.
And the song was by Earth, Wind and Fire.
Next toss-up.
What Central African country and former German colony is home to the port of Douala...?
Nicholas, from Milton High.
- Namibia.
- That is incorrect.
I will keep going with the question for the other schools.
Eric, from Moravian buzzed in.
Eric, go ahead.
- Cameroon.
- That is correct.
Next toss-up.
What cell structure, which contains enzymes called flippases, can be stabilized by cholesterol and divide the cytoplasm...?
Divik, from Moravian.
- The cell membrane.
- That is correct.
Next toss-up.
What mathematical prodigy wanted his tombstone to feature a 17-sided regular polygon, which he proved could be drawn with compass and straight edge?
Trevor, from Cranberry High School.
- Euler.
- That is incorrect.
We move on to Samit, from Moravian Academy.
- Gauss.
- That is correct.
Carl Friedrich Gauss is the correct answer.
Next toss-up.
What Greek god, who was the father of the cyclops Polyphemus and the flying horse Pegasus...?
Trevor, from Cranberry High School.
- Poseidon.
- That is correct.
He could cause earthquakes and he was also god of the oceans.
Next toss-up.
What type of animals in Egyptian hieroglyphics could represent the letters A or M and were used to depict the heads of gods Thoth and Horus?
Divik, from Moravian.
- Falcon.
- That is correct.
Birds or avians, a falcon is correct.
We'll take that.
Next toss-up.
What author of Something Wicked This Way Comes and The Illustrated Man...?
Yiyi, from Moravian.
- Bradbury.
- That is correct, Ray Bradbury.
He also wrote Fahrenheit 451.
On to our next toss-up.
What Anglo-Irish author of the 1766 novel The Vicar Of Wakefield wrote about a woman who pretends...?
Yiyi, from Moravian.
- Goldsmith.
- Oliver Goldsmith is the correct answer.
Next toss-up.
In 2021, what Latin American country announced plans to build a city near a volcano to aid in mining Bitcoin, which saw a September law make it legal tender there?
Divik, from Moravian.
- Honduras.
- That is incorrect.
We'll move on to Trevor, from Cranberry High School.
- Venezuela.
- That is also incorrect.
The correct answer is El Salvador.
Next toss-up.
What commonality is shared by members of the 1958, 1960 and 2021 classes of the Baseball Hall of Fame with the 1904 and 1994 World Series winners?
Have to be a big-time sports buff, especially for baseball, for this one.
Trevor, from Cranberry.
- From New York?
- That is incorrect.
Eric, from Moravian, buzzed in.
Eric, go ahead.
- They never happened.
- Eric, very nice.
They never happened.
In 1994, do you know why?
Labor dispute.
That's why that one didn't happen.
All right, next toss-up.
What monarch's reign included the reforms of Gerard van Swieten and began due to the pragmatic sanction, which made her Austrian Empress...?
Eric, from Moravian.
- Maria Teresa.
- That's correct.
It made her Austrian Empress in 1740.
In 1869, Thomas Henry Huxley coined what term that now largely denotes the belief that the existence of God cannot be proven or disproven?
Trevor, from Cranberry High School.
- Agnosticism.
- That is correct.
Next toss-up.
What mountain, whose base is home to the Aokigahara Forest, was shown in 36 views by the ukiyo-e artist...?
Divik, from Moravian.
- Mount Cook.
- That is incorrect.
I'll continue on with the question.
..by the artist Hokusai and is the highest point of Japan?
Trevor, from Cranberry High School.
Trevor, from Cranberry, go ahead.
Mount Fuji is the correct answer.
Next toss-up.
In 1988, which country's Naguib Mahfouz became the first Arab writer to win the Nobel Prize in literature?
Divik, from Moravian.
- Egypt.
- That is correct.
Next toss-up is in math, pencil and paper ready.
What is the value of X if the mean average of the three numbers of the... Of the mean average...
Excuse me.
What is the value of X if the mean average of the three numbers X, 5 and 7 equals 8?
Divik, from Moravian.
- 12.
- That is correct.
Next toss-up.
Arnold Bax and Arthur Bliss wrote what works for a quintet consisting of a string quartet and what woodwind, whose A is often used when orchestras tune?
Yiyi, from Moravian.
- Oboe.
- That is correct.
The oboe's A is used to tune most orchestras.
Next toss-up.
What philosopher, who introduced the Kingdom of Ends in his dialogical theory of ethics, was a German who proposed the categorical...?
Divik, for Moravian.
- Immanuel Kant.
- That is correct.
He proposed the categorical imperative.
Next toss-up.
In chemistry, the triple in triple point refers to three of what physical forms in which a...?
Divik, from Moravian.
- Phases.
- Does...?
Yeah, phases of matter is the correct answer.
Next toss-up.
What novel by Jack London, whose protagonist has a rival named Spitz, is taken by a pair of French Canadians to...?
Yiyi, from Moravian.
- Call Of The Wild.
- That is correct.
And with that, we have also reached the end of the match.
Really fun to have a match against all the state champions.
Moravian Academy, congratulations, you have won with 450 points.
Cranberry High School takes second place with 130 points.
And Milton High School, representing Scranton/ Wilkes-Barre, third place with 90 points.
Thank you all.
Congratulations to Moravian Academy.
You are the Scholastic Scrimmage State Champions for 2022.
I get to walk this wonderful trophy over to you in the other studio after we finish wrapping here.
We'd also like to thank our judges for their participation and helping us with all the questions today.
And thank you for tuning in, we'll see you next year.
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