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Scholastic Scrimmage: Stroudsburg HS vs Moravian Academy
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Now here's your host, David Graf.
Hello and welcome to the eighth and final match of the second round of the 49th season of Scholastic Scrimmage.
I'm your host, David Graf.
Today's match features the finalists from last season's tournament, Stroudsburg and Moravian Academy.
It will be composed of two halves with a lightning round midway through each half.
At half-time, we'll pause so the 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 is not necessarily indicative of academic training.
And now let's begin, buzzers ready.
Here's our first toss-up question.
What formerly enslaved man who fought white farmer Edward Covey wrote the books My Bondage...?
Moravian Academy.
- Douglass.
- Frederick Douglass is correct.
He wrote the books My Bondage and My Freedom.
For your bonus, methods called Zanna Bowser and Dannielynn are used to teach what skill which 21 states mandate taught in primary schools and is a form of writing?
- Cursive.
- Cursive is correct.
And in my daughter's elementary school, they actually brought it back this year, they are learning cursive this year.
Next toss-up question.
What value is the same in all internal frames in special relativity, equals about three times ten to the eight meters per second and cannot be exceeded?
Moravian Academy.
- Speed of light.
- The speed of light in a vacuum is correct.
For your bonus, in what sport did Australia retain the Ashes in 2023 after securing a 2-2 draw in a Test against England?
- Cricket.
- Cricket is correct.
Next toss-up question.
What 1962 children's novel, which began "It was dark and stormy night," depicted Meg Murray's travels...?
Moravian.
- A Wrinkle In Time.
- A Wrinkle In Time is correct, and it was written by Madeleine Lingle.
For your bonus, what British playwright, who wrote of McCann and Goldberg abducted Stanley in The Birthday Party, wrote about hitmen, Ben and Gus in The Dumb Waiter.
- Pinter.
- Harold Pinter is correct.
Next toss-up question.
What country, whose historical region of Dalmatia is home to...?
Moravian.
- Croatia.
- That is right.
And that's where the dog's name comes after as well.
For your bonus, from 2004 to 2009, the world's tallest skyscraper was a 101-floor building in what Asian city?
- Kuala Lumpur.
- That is incorrect.
It's Taipei, for the Taipei 101 Building, which I got to visit earlier this year.
Next toss-up question.
What process with stereolithography and fused deposition modeling types uses CAD software and plastic to make objects with length...?
Moravian.
- 3D printing.
- That is correct.
And it makes objects with length, width and height.
For your bonus, what term in Buddhism refers to the cyclical birth, death and reincarnation that practitioners seek to escape?
- Dharma.
- That's incorrect.
Samsara is the correct answer.
Next toss-up question.
What businessperson, who led philanthropy projects along with his wife, Priscilla Chan, is the CEO of both Meta platforms and Facebook?
Moravian.
- Zuckerberg.
- Mark Zuckerberg is correct.
Your bonus is in math.
Pencil and paper ready.
What is the radius of the base of a right circular cylinder whose volume is 98 pi and whose height is one half?
- Seven.
- That is incorrect.
14 is the correct answer.
Next toss-up question.
What author of The Conscience Of A Conservative and senator from Arizona was a Republican...?
Stroudsburg.
- Barry Goldwater.
- That's right.
I love he used the presidential slogan, Au H2O for Goldwater.
For your bonus, prolific 16th and 17th century playwright Lupe de Vega was a leading figure in what country's golden age of literature.
- England.
- That's incorrect.
Spain is a correct answer.
Next toss-up question.
What English philosopher defended women's rights in his The Subjugation Of Women and expanded on his teacher Jeremy Bentham's ethics in utilitarianism.
Was he in before the buzzer?
Nope, not in before the buzzer.
I'm sorry.
John Stuart Mill was the correct answer.
Next toss-up question.
What conifer, whose wood is used in Pyramus Treasure Chamber, in The Iliad, and whose namesake oil is a natural moth repellent appears on Lebanon's flag?
Moravian.
- Cedar.
- Cedar is correct.
That's why many closets are lined with it, to keep moths away.
For your bonus, Un Bel Di is an aria from what opera set in Nagasaki about Cio-Cio San?
- Madame Butterfly.
- Madam Butterfly is correct.
Next toss-up question.
What federal office makes confessions of error is currently led by Elizabeth Prodger and argues for the US government before the Supreme Court?
Moravian.
- Department of Justice.
- That's incorrect.
Over to Stroudsburg.
No conferring, but it is a freebie now for you.
They'll be the Solicitor General.
And a confession of error is when the Solicitor General actually goes and admits that the lower court ruled a case incorrectly, and they can overturn that.
And with that, we've reached the first lightning round.
In a pre-match coin toss, it was determined that Stroudsburg will get to pick first between the following topics - fictional mansions or UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
- UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
- All right, Stroudsburg, your topic is UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
In what US state are these World Heritage Sites located?
Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson.
- Virginia.
- Correct.
Taos Pueblo.
- New Mexico.
- Correct.
Everglades National Park.
- Florida.
- Correct.
Mammoth Cave.
- Kentucky.
- Correct.
Cahokia, which is a pre-Columbian archaeological site.
- Illinois.
- Correct.
Redwood National Park.
- California.
- Correct.
Frank Lloyd Wright's Falling Waterhouse.
- New York.
- Incorrect.
The Earthworks at Poverty Point, about 15 miles from the Mississippi River.
- Louisiana.
- Correct.
The Guggenheim Museum, which is on Fifth Avenue in the Upper East Side.
- New York.
- Correct.
Mesa Verde National Park.
- Arizona.
- That is incorrect.
It's Colorado.
And you only missed one other one.
That would have been Frank Lloyd Wright's Falling Water House, is in Pennsylvania, the western portion of Pennsylvania.
All right, Moravian Academy, your topic is Fictional Mansions.
Given the name of a fictional estate and the character who lives there, name the author who created them.
Castle Dracula, Home to Count Dracula.
- Stoker.
- Correct.
Wuthering Heights, home to Catherine Earnshaw.
- Bronte.
- Correct.
Which one, though?
- Anne.
- Incorrect Pemberley, home to Mr Darcy.
- Austin.
- That is correct.
Satis House, home to Mrs Havisham.
- Dickens.
- Correct.
Tara, home to Scarlett O'Hara.
- Pass.
- Toad Hall, home to Mr Toad.
- Pass.
- Manderley, the former home of deceased Rebecca.
- Pass.
- Misselthwaite Manor, where Mary Lennox finds a secret garden.
- Lewis.
- Incorrect.
Brideshead, home to Sebastian Flyte.
- Pass.
- Hill House, home to several ghosts.
And with that, time is up.
We'll continue the match with the following toss-up question.
What language was used to write the 1950s novels Sugar Street and Palace Walk, which are parts...?
Moravian.
- Arabic.
Arabic is correct, and they were used to write the Cairo trilogy.
For your bonus, what type of plane is a flat area on the ocean floor, usually found 3 to 6 kilometers below sea level, which collectively covers more than 50% of Earth.
- Sea floor.
- That's incorrect.
It's the abyssal plains.
Is the correct answer.
Next toss-up question.
What seedless, vascular plant have woody-stemmed tree varieties, release spores from under their fronds?
Moravian.
- Ferns.
- That is correct.
And they germinate as spiral-shaped fiddleheads.
For your bonus, in Greek mythology, what food of the Olympian gods was said to confer immortality on those who consumed it?
- Ambrosia.
- Ambrosia is correct.
Next toss-up question.
What goddess, who was the sister of the underworld goddess Ereshkigal was married to Dumuzid and was a Mesopotamian god of fertility, beauty...?
- Moravia.
- Ishtar.
Ishtar is correct.
That was the God of fertility, beauty and love.
For your bonus, what author of The Executioner's Song wrote about the fictional island of Anopopei in his World War II novel, The Naked And The Dead?
- Gilbert.
- That's incorrect.
Norman Mailer is the correct answer.
Next toss-up question.
What law, which named a Congress that met in October 1765, inspired the slogan No Taxation Without Representation by adding fees to printed materials?
- Moravia.
- The Stamp Act.
The Stamp Act of 1765 is correct.
For your bonus, what member of the Seven Sages of Greece enacted anti-aristocratic reforms and relaxed Draco's law code in an early form of Athenian democracy?
- Solon.
- Solon is correct.
The next toss-up is in math.
Pencil and paper ready.
What is the perimeter of a square whose area is 121, given that the square root of 121 and therefore the side length is 11.
Moravian.
- 44.
- 44 is correct.
For your bonus, a family of purplish flowers is named for what plant behavior, in which they turn to face the sun?
- Like, nightshades?
- That's incorrect.
Heliotropism is the correct answer.
The next toss-up question.
What author, whose first book of poetry was 1945's A Street In Bronzeville, depicted people who lurk late and die soon in her poem, We Real Cool.
Moravian.
- Angelou.
- That is incorrect.
Over to Stroudsburg.
Gwendolyn Brooks is the correct answer.
Next toss-up question.
What style, also called late baroque, was marked by intricate patterns and shell-like curvatures and was exemplified in John Henry Fragonard's...?
Go ahead, Moravian.
- Rococo.
- Rococo is correct and his work was The Swing.
For your bonus, what kind of legal agreements, which were used to restrict non-white people from purchasing many homes before 1948, when they were deemed unenforceable?
- Redlining.
- That's incorrect.
Covenants is a correct answer.
And with that, we have reached half-time.
Moravian currently leads Stroudsburg with a score of 195 to 50, and now we'll get to know the students a little bit better while they tell us their first and last name, grade level and the answer to the following question - let us know about a favorite hobby or collection that you have.
We'll start with Stroudsburg.
Jeremy, go ahead.
- My name is Jeremy.
I'm in 12th grade and I like bowling.
I've been doing it for 12 years.
- Very cool.
Peter?
- My name is Peter.
I'm in 11th grade and I like to play the drum set.
- OK. - I'm Wyatt.
I'm in 12th grade and I have a collection of antique maps.
- Very cool.
- I am Hassan Malik.
I'm in 12th grade and I play basketball.
- All right.
Very cool, Hassan.
Over to Moravian Academy and, Tyler, go ahead.
- Hello.
My name is Tyler.
I'm in tenth grade at Moravian Academy and I am a competitive... competing at tournaments all over the state.
- Very cool.
- I am Nathaniel, in tenth grade, and I have a presidential Pez collection.
- All right.
- I'm Charlene, I'm in tenth grade and I'm a competitive swimmer.
- I'm Aman.
I'm in 12th grade and I like the power lift.
- Very cool.
So, Nathaniel, is there any presidents that you're missing right now?
- Most of them.
- Most of them!
OK.
So we're at the beginning.
It's a fledgling collection.
All right.
All right, let's continue the match with the following toss-up question.
What ruler, during whose reign Lord Melbourne served as prime minister, married Prince Albert and was Britain's queen for most...?
Moravian.
- Victoria.
- Queen Victoria is correct.
She was queen for most of the 19th century.
For your bonus, Maseru is a capital of what country, which is completely surrounded by South Africa?
- Lesotho.
- Lesotho is correct.
Next toss-up question.
What 2023 event, hampered by rain in Nevada's Black Rock desert...?
Moravian.
- Burning Man.
- Burning Man is correct, and it was also hampered by climate protesters.
And they burned a large effigy, which is usually part of the experience of the Burning Man Festival.
For your bonus, what 1887 experiment, which used an interferometer floating in mercury, provided evidence against the existence of luminiferous ether?
That's an interferometer.
Excuse me on that.
Floating in mercury.
It's the Michelson Morley experiment.
Next toss-up question.
What organic compound, whose methyl derivative is toluene, is often drawn as a hexagon with a circle inside?
Moravian.
- Benzene.
- Benzene is correct.
It has the molecular formula of C6H6.
For your bonus, what poet wrote about the cheerful singing of an Italian silk winder in Pippa Passes and described another Italian woman in his poem, My Last Duchess?
- Browning.
- Robert Browning is correct.
Next toss-up question.
What Midwestern city, served by a streetcar system known as the Hop, is on the shore of Lake Michigan and is the most populous city in Wisconsin?
Moravian.
- Milwaukee.
- Milwaukee is correct.
And for your bonus, what painting, whose subject's name is carved into a wooden block, shows a murdered French revolutionary leader and is by Jacques-Louis David?
- Death Of Marat.
- The Death Of Marat is correct.
Next toss-up question.
What organization, originally founded as a clinic in Brooklyn by Margaret Sanger, provides...?
Moravian.
- Planned Parenthood.
- That is correct.
It provides birth control and family planning services.
For your bonus, what class of particles, which is named after an Indian physicist, is characterized by integer values of spin?
- Ramachandran particles?
- That's incorrect.
Bosons is the correct answer.
Next toss-up question.
What calculus operation, which can be done by parts or by using substitution...?
- Integration.
- Integration is correct.
And it would turn 2X into X squared + C. Nice job.
For your bonus, what six-letter noun that refers to people who give their opinions on television or other media comes from a Sanskrit word for scholar?
- Pundit.
- A pundit is correct.
Next toss-up question.
What TV show revealed that Liz Keane was related to the real Raymond Reddington and starred James Spader as a criminal who creates the title inventory?
That's OK, I didn't watch it either.
It was The Blacklist.
Next toss-up question.
What leader led his army on The Long March?
It targeted intellectual... Moravian.
- Mao.
- Mao Zedong is correct.
He targeted intellectuals in his Cultural Revolution.
For your bonus, in The Princess Bride, the fencer played by Mandy Patinkin tells a man, "You killed my father, prepare to die."
- Inigo Montoya.
- That is correct.
Next toss-up question.
What city, whose popular Coulson Road contains many shops, was formally founded in the 18th century by King Rama I and is the capital of Thailand?
Stroudsburg.
- Bangkok.
- Bangkok is correct.
For your bonus, what American naval hero, who destroyed the US Philadelphia after it was captured near Tripoli in the first Barbary War, died in an 1820 duel?
- John Paul Jones.
- That's incorrect.
Stephen Decatur Jr is the correct answer.
Next toss-up question.
What ex-wife of Alan Gray says, I have always depended on the kindness of strangers...?
Moravia.
- Blanche.
Blanche de Bois.
- Blanche de Bois is correct.
And she was telling that to her sister Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire.
For your bonus, what term refers to solution properties such as freezing point depression, that depend only on the number of solute particles, not their nature?
- Intensive.
- That's incorrect.
Colligative properties is the correct answer.
Next toss-up question.
What modern-day country's composers include the creator of the ballet the Wooden Prince, Bela Bartok, and the inventor of the tone poem?
Moravian.
- Hungary.
- Hungary is correct.
And the inventor of the tone poem is Franz Liszt.
For your bonus, in May 2023, the Supreme Court of what Asian country invalidated the arrest of its former Prime Minister and cricket star Imran Khan?
- Pakistan.
- Pakistan is correct.
And with that, we have reached the second lightning round.
Moravian, you'll get to pick between the following topics - and I will say for this one, don't give much thought to this.
You could pick between A-B or the topic B-A-Y.
Just pick one or the other, there's not much to go on this one.
- A-B.
- A-B.
Sounds good.
Moravian Academy, your topic is A-B.
Give the answers that begin with the consecutive letters A-B.
The first name of President Lincoln.
- Abraham.
- Correct.
The brother of Cain in the Bible.
- Abel.
- Correct.
Big Three network owned by Disney.
- ABC.
- Correct.
Capital of the United Arab Emirates.
- Abu Dhabi.
- Correct.
Verb meaning leave behind or give up on.
- Abdicate.
- Abstain.
- Incorrect.
Lowest possible temperature.
- Absolute zero.
- Correct.
Caliphate that succeeded the Umayyads.
- Abbasid.
- Correct.
Physical process that is the opposite of emission.
- Absorption.
- Correct.
Five-letter word that is a synonym of home.
- Abode.
- Correct.
Georgian breakaway state near South Ossetia.
- Abkhazia.
- That is correct.
All right, Stroudsburg, this leaves you with the equally opaque topic of B-A-Y.
Give these terms and names beginning with the consecutive letters B-A-Y.
A slow moving stream common in Louisiana.
- Bayou.
- Correct.
Blade fixed to the end of a firearm.
- Bayonet.
- Correct.
German football club with 32 Bundesliga titles.
- Bayern Munich.
- That is correct.
White robot from Big Hero 6.
- Baymax.
- Correct.
Big 12 University in Waco, Texas.
- Baylor.
- That is correct.
Tapestry depicting the Norman Conquest of England.
- Pass.
- Conditional probability theorem named for an English mathematician.
-Pass.
- '90s TV series starring David Hasselhoff as a lifeguard.
- Baywatch.
- Correct.
Surname of Fox Sports commentator Skip.
- Bayless.
- That is correct.
German city that hosts the annual Richard Wagner Festival.
- Pass.
- The last one was Bayreuth.
We'll move on with the next toss-up question.
It's in math, so pencil and paper ready.
What is the only positive root of the quadratic expression X squared - X -20, given the other root is -4?
Stroudsburg.
Quickly.
Say again?
- Five.
- Five is correct.
For your bonus, it's also math, so keep the pencil and paper out.
What is the largest distinct prime factor of the number 196, given that its smallest prime factor is two?
- 98.
- That's incorrect.
Seven is the correct answer.
Also acceptable was 72, or seven squared.
Next toss-up question.
What sport's modern rules, which derive from the Queensberry rules, describe the mandatory eight count, the size of the ring and the use of gloves?
- Boxing.
- Moravian?
- Boxing.
- That is correct.
So, as a powerlifter, Amad, have you ventured into boxing at all?
Maybe it could be a new sport to take up then.
For your bonus, what first English king of his name was survived on his 1135 death by only his daughter Matilda, sparking a succession crisis known as The Anarchy?
- Henry.
- Henry and Henry I is correct.
Next toss-up question.
What country, which was long led by the SED's Heinrich Honecker had a secret police called the Stasi?
Moravian.
- East Germany.
- That is correct.
And it was reunited with his Western counterpart in 1990.
For your bonus, what author wrote about Oedipa Maas, who investigates a mysterious postal service known as Trystero in The Crying Of Lot 49?
It's Trystero, excuse me, is the postal service, if that helps at all?
- Vonnegut.
- That's incorrect.
Thomas Pynchon is the author we're looking for.
Next toss-up question.
What foreign leader was 77 when he won the nomination of the Workers Party and defeated Jair Bolsonaro to win...?
Stroudsburg.
- Lula.
- Lula da Silva is correct.
And he won his third term as president of Brazil.
For your bonus, what Latin American country saw human-rights violations in the 1990s by both its SIN intelligence agency, and the leftist Shining Path and Tupac Amaru.
- Peru.
- Peru is correct.
Next toss-up question.
What playwright, who depicted Berenger yelling, "I'm not capitulating."
Or "I'm not catapulting."
Excuse me.
Berenger yelled, "I'm not catapulting" in... Was born in Romania and also wrote the absurdist The Bald Soprano?
It was the same with me, I could tell from everyone's face, I had to look this one up, it was Eugene Ionesco.
Next toss-up question.
What movement disorder, named for an Englishman, is treated by L-dopa and is a progressive condition that causes muscular rigidity and tremors?
- Parkinson's.
Parkinson's.
- Parkinson's is correct.
For your bonus, what classical Greek sculptor depicted an athletic figure in his statue, Discobolus, which is also known as the discus thrower?
- Praxiteles.
- That's incorrect.
Myron is the correct answer.
Next toss-up question.
What emperor, whose general won the battle of the Kalka River while invading the Kievan Rus, was the founder of the Great Khan... Or was the founder and Great Khan of the Mongol Empire?
Moravian.
- Genghis.
- Genghis Khan is correct.
For your bonus, what singer largely stopped recording in 1985, after having 1970s hits Lovely Day, Ain't No Sunshine and Lean On Me?
- Withers.
- Bill Withers is correct.
Next toss-up question.
What vehicles, central to the base board game Colt Express and Ticket To Ride... Moravian.
- Trains.
- That is correct.
And are represented in Monopoly by properties Short Line and B & O.
And with that, we've reached the end of the match.
No time for the bonus question there.
Congratulations to Moravian, with a score of 460, you are on to the third round.
Stroudsburg ran into a tough opponent today.
With 125 points, it's the end of the road, but good luck with the rest of your school year.
And tune in next week when we start the third round with Pen Argyl and Nazareth.
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