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- Hello and welcome to the final of the 48th season of Scholastic Scrimmage.

I'm your host, David Graf.

Today's final is between Stroudsburg, who earned 1,015 points on their way to the final.

Their challenger is Moravian Academy, who did have a bye week in the first round but still gathered 970 points on their way to the final.

As a reminder, the final will be composed of two halves with a lightning round midway through each half and a half-time pause to get to know the students a little bit better.

Scholastic Scrimmage requires rapid recall of specific factual information, and it's not necessarily indicative of academic training.

And now let's begin the final.

Buzzers ready.

Here is our first toss-up question.

What programming language was developed by Sun Microsystems, is now owned by Oracle, runs in a virtual machine and...?

Stroudsburg.

- Java.

- That is correct.

- And it has a coffee cup as its logo.

- For your bonus, in 1984 Bernhard Goetz shot four black teenagers on what city's transit system whose ridership dropped under mayors like John Lindsay and Ed Koch?

- New York City?

- That is correct.

- Onto the next toss-up.

What playwright depicted a gorilla-crushing Yank in The Hairy Ape and Edmund Tyrone revealing he has tuberculosis in Long Day's Journey Into Night?

Eugene O'Neill is the correct answer.

Next, toss-up.

What city whose Kingdom Centre skyscraper has a large opening at its top is in the historic region of Najd and is the capital of Saudi Arabia?

Moravian?

- Riyadh.

- Riyadh is correct.

For your bonus, what epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, which opens with the phrase, "This is the Forest Primeval," is named for an Acadian girl?

- Phaedra.

- Incorrect.

Evangeline is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question.

What artistic medium, which was used by James Van Der Zee to portray members of the Harlem Renaissance, was also used by Robert Capa and Ansel Adams?

- Moravian - Photography.

- Photography is correct.

For your bonus, in 53 BC Crassus died fighting at the Battle of Carrhae against what empire that controlled Persia from the third century BC to the third century AD?

- The Sassanid Empire.

- Incorrect.

The Parthian Empire is the correct answer.

Next toss-up - what country's president, whose nickname means crocodile in the Shona language, is the Zanu PF member Emmerson Mnangagwa, who succeeded Robert Mugabe?

Moravian.

- Zimbabwe.

- Zimbabwe is correct.

For your bonus, what tyrannical nurse played by Louise Fletcher on film and Sarah Paulson on a Netflix show appears in Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest?

- Smith.

- Nurse Ratched is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question.

What title character who shocks Mr Bumble by asking for more?

Moravian.

- Oliver Twist.

- That is correct.

And he asks for more gruel.

For your bonus, it's in math, pencil and paper ready.

How many pieces of candy will be in the larger pile if 45 pieces are separated into two piles that have a ratio of 5 to 4?

- 25.

- 25 is correct.

Next toss-up.

What property found in the denominator of the Reynolds number characterizing flow is very high for molasses and is a fluid's...?

Moravian.

- Viscosity.

- That is correct and it's a fluid's resistance to flow.

For your bonus, in 1944, Franklin Roosevelt signed what law that provided educational benefits and mortgage incentives for veterans returning from World War II?

- The Veteran Care Act - Incorrect.

The GI Bill is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What former country whose first president was Ngo Dinh Diem merged with its communist...?

Stroudsburg.

- Vietnam.

- Could you be more specific?

- South Vietnam?

- That is correct.

For your bonus, what artist who painted Max Schmitt rowing in a Philadelphia river, depicted an operation at Jefferson Medical College in the Gross Clinic?

- Browning - Incorrect.

Thomas Eakins, and that work, the Gross Clinic can be seen just down the turnpike extension in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

And with that, we have reached our first lightning round.

In a pre-match coin toss it was determined that Stroudsburg would get to pick first between the following topics - particles or new places.

Stroudsburg?

- New places.

- New places.

That means, Moravian, you'll have particles.

Stroudsburg, your topic is new places.

Name these geographic places whose names start with the word 'new'.

Be sure to include the word 'new' in your answer.

The most populous city in the United States.

- New York City.

- Correct.

Capital city of India.

- New Delhi.

- Correct.

Louisiana City, home to the French Quarter.

- New Orleans.

- Correct.

US State whose motto is, "Live Free or Die".

- New Hampshire.

- Correct.

Country called Aotearoa that stood in for Middle Earth.

- New Zealand?

- Correct.

Most densely populated US state.

- New Jersey.

- Correct.

Canadian province whose capital is Fredericton?

- Newfoundland.

- Incorrect.

Second largest island by area in the world.

- New Zea-... New...

Uh, New...

Pass.

- Connecticut city, home to the US Coast Guard Academy.

- New Haven.

- Incorrect.

French territory in the South Pacific whose capital is Noumea.

They got tougher as they went on.

That was New Caledonia was the final answer.

Moravian, you have particles.

Particles - name these particles.

They are transferred or shared in chemical bonds.

- Electrons.

- Correct.

Charged particles found in nuclei.

- Protons.

- Correct.

Quanta of light energy.

- Photons - Correct.

Fired at gold foil in the Rutherford experiment.

- Neutrons.

- That is in-... That is correct.

Incorrect.

Excuse me.

Incorrect.

Boson discovered in 2012 that gives most other particles mass.

- Higgs.

- That is correct.

Their absorption and release drives fission chain reactions.

- Neutrinos.

- That is incorrect.

Antiparticles of the electron.

- Positron?

- That is correct.

They have flavors like strange and up.

- Quark.

- Correct.

Undiscovered carrier of a fundamental force described by general relativity.

- Graviton.

- That is correct.

Uncharged leptons that barely interact with matter.

- Fermion.

- Incorrect.

Neutrinos.

is the correct answer for that one.

All right, and we continue on with the following toss-up question.

What philosopher who thought the pineal gland was the seat of the soul developed a mind/body dualism and wrote, "I think, therefore I am"?

Moravian.

- Descartes.

- Rene Descartes is correct.

For your bonus, what German-speaking author wrote about Buddhist philosophy in his novel Siddhartha and depicted Joseph Knecht's education in The Glass Bead Game?

- Mann.

- Incorrect.

Hermann Hesse is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What devices have a period given by the formula 2pi times the square root l over g, are approximate harmonic oscillators used in clocks, and include...?

Moravian.

- Pendulum.

- That is correct.

And they include a bob.

For your bonus, what kind of line is used in a test to determine whether a graph represents a function?

- Vertical?

- A vertical line is correct.

Next toss-up.

What man who was James Madison's second vice president, approved a salamander-shaped region that inspired...?

Moravian.

- Gerry.

- That is correct.

Gerry.

And it's Elbridge Gerry.

Gerry we'll take, and it was then turned into gerrymandering as we know it today.

For your bonus, what role playing game series set in post-nuclear wasteland was...?

This is a bonus for Moravian Academy.

..was criticized for its online-only multiplayer game 76 that was plagued by performance issues and loot box fees.

- Fallout.

- Fallout is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question.

What figure from Greek myth was created by Hephaestus and given to Epimetheus along with a...?

Moravian?

- Pandora?

- That is correct.

..was given a gift in a jar or box that contained all the world's evils.

For your bonus, in the key of G major, which has only one sharp, the sharp is placed on which notes?

- F. - F sharp is correct.

The next toss-up is in math, pencil and paper ready.

If its first two values are zero and one, what is the mode of the Fibonacci sequence, given the mode is the most common number?

Stroudsburg?

- One.

- That is correct because it goes zero, one, one, and then two, three, five and so on from there.

For your bonus, what first great unifier of Japan conquered most of Honshu before being ambushed in 1582 and succeeded by Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu?

- How do you say it?

- Meiji.

- Meiji.

- That is incorrect.

It is Oda Nobunaga is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What hockey team, which in 2022 made Mike Grier, the NHL's first black general manager, is based at the SAP Center in the San Francisco Bay Area?

- Stroudsburg?

- The Golden Knights.

- That is incorrect.

Over to Moravian.

Moravian?

- The Sharks.

- That is correct.

The San Jose Sharks is the correct answer.

For your bonus, Miguel Diaz-Canel governs from what Caribbean capital city where a May 2022 gas leak caused a deadly explosion at the Hotel Saratoga?

- Port au Prince.

- No, that capital city would be Havana, Cuba.

Next toss-up.

What ruler launched the Harrying of the North after defeating Harold Godwinson at the 1060...?

Moravian?

- William the Conqueror.

- William the Conqueror is correct.

And that was at the Battle of Hastings at 1066.

For your bonus, what island between Ireland and Great Britain is a Crown dependency that is home to a namesake breed of cat with a short tail or no tail at all?

- Isle of Man.

- That is correct.

And it's also home to an absolutely insane motorcycle race, if you've ever had a chance to watch it.

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

We have an excellent final under way.

Currently, Moravian Academy lead Stroudsburg with a score of 190-65.

And now for the final time this season, starting with Stroudsburg, we'll have you say, your name, your grade level, and let's know a little bit about your future plans or what you plan to study.

Ben?

- My name is Ben Domanski.

I'm a junior and I plan to study chemistry.

- Excellent.

- My name is Harkirat Chohan.

I'm a senior and I plan to study biochemistry.

- My name is Colin Hoffman.

I'm a senior and I plan to study accounting.

- I'm Ryan Chen.

I'm a senior and I plan to study computer science.

- All right.

And on to Moravian Academy.

Tyler?

- My name is Tyler Shankweiler, and I wish to study genetics with the importance on the history of history of man and genetics.

- Great.

- I am Nathaniel Schmidt.

I'm a freshman, and I would like to study classics.

- OK. - I'm Okezue Bell.

I'm a senior, and I plan to study electrical engineering and computer science.

- OK. And Ellie?

- I'm Ellie Capobianco.

I'm a senior, and I plan to study history.

- Very cool.

And I'm David Graf.

I studied digital media and broadcast production and also have my MBA, which is worth it.

In the end, I think almost what field you go into look back and see if you can get your MBA at some point because it really helps to understand the business of what you're doing.

All righty.

With that, we will continue on with the second half of the final.

Here's the next toss-up question.

What group of vascular plants has prothallus stage, includes ostrich and bracken types, bears spores, but not seeds?

- Stroudsburg?

- Mold.

- Incorrect.

I'll continue from Moravian Academy.

..and produces fiddleheads.

- Moravian Academy?

- Ferns.

- Ferns is correct.

For your bonus, in the works of Belgium cartoonist Herge, what young reporter walks on the moon with his friend Captain Haddock and his dog Snowy?

- Smith.

- Incorrect.

Tintin is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What 2021 film for which Troy Kotsur won an Oscar, has a title referring to Emelia Jones's character, Ruby, who is the daughter of two deaf adults?

Moravian?

- Coda.

- That is correct.

And for nerd credit only, do we know what Coda stands for?

- It's like a music symbol.

- It is child of deaf adults.

- Oh!

- Sorry.

- It also is a music symbol as well, too.

And now for your bonus.

Carol Weatherford and Floyd Cooper won 2022 Coretta Scott King Awards for Unspeakable, a children's book about what city's 1921 race massacre.

- Tulsa.

- Tulsa is correct.

Next toss-up.

What event which was blamed on the Monday-night conspirators, included August Spies, saw anarchists bomb an 1886 labor demonstration in Chicago?

Moravia?

- Haymarket Square Riot.

- The Haymarket Square Riot is correct.

For your bonus, statistical tests often try to reject what type of hypothesis denoted H0, and which supposes that an observed difference is due to chance alone?

- Nul.

- Nul or nul hypothesis is correct.

That's fine.

We'll take it.

Next toss-up question.

What state which the Trump administration tried to strip of its Clean Air Act waiver announced a ban starting in 2035...?

Stroudsburg?

- California.

- That is correct.

And the ban is on new gas-powered cars.

For your bonus, overharvesting led to the 1992 closure of what prized fishing grounds formed by an underwater plateau off the southern coast of Newfoundland?

- Continental Shelf.

- No, that is incorrect.

The Grand Banks is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What university hosts the International Center for Automotive Research, is on Lake Hartwell in western South Carolina, and fields the ACC's Tiger...?

Moravian?

- Clemson.

- Clemson is correct.

And Nikki Haley, the former UN ambassador and now presidential hopeful, is an alumni.

For your bonus, in what city which US forces evacuated in August 2021 was Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri killed in a 2022 drone strike?

- Kabul.

- Kabul is correct.

Next toss-up.

What state where the Delicate Arch is in Arches National Park near...?

Moravian?

- Utah.

- That is correct.

It's near Moab and it's also on Utah's license plate.

For your bonus, Geronimo was a leader of what Native American tribe of the southwest United States that fought a decades-long war against American forces?

- Comanche.

- That is incorrect.

Apache is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What structure, the largest in the nucleus of eukaryotes is responsible for the assembly of ribosomes...?

- Moravian?

- Endoplasmic reticulum.

- That is incorrect.

- I'll continue on for Stroudsburg.

..and has a name meaning little nucleus.

Go ahead.

- Nucleolus.

- Nucleolus is correct.

And for your bonus, what pigment found in the thylakoid membrane lends part of its name to an organelle in plants?

- Chlorophyll.

- Chlorophyll is correct.

Next toss-up question, what TV show whose theme song describes humble folks without temptation?

Moravian?

- South Park?

- That is correct.

We have a fan there, Nathaniel, in South Park.

For your bonus, what African country, which lends its name to a bight in the Gulf of Guinea, is governed from Cotonou, although its capital is Porto-Novo?

- Togo?

- Incorrect.

Benin is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question.

What story in which Madame Sofronie pays $20 on Christmas Eve for hair...?

- Moravian?

- Gift of the Magi.

That is correct.

Allowing Delia to buy a watch chain for her husband.

Your bonus.

What 1648 peace ended the Thirty Years' War in Central Europe and helped originate the concept of geopolitical sovereignty?

- Peace of Westphalia.

- The Peace of Westphalia is correct.

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

Moravian Academy, you'll get to pick between the following topics - sci-fi ships or restaurants on Wall Street?

- I don't know any restaurants on Wall Street.

- Sci-fi ships.

- Sci-fi ships.

All right.

So Stroudsburg, that means you're left with restaurants on Wall Street.

Moravian Academy, your topic is sci-fi ships.

Given the name of a vessel from science fiction name the science fiction franchise in which it appears.

The Death Star.

- Star Wars.

- Correct.

The TARDIS.

- Doctor Who?

- Correct.

A bird of prey piloted by Klingons.

- Star Trek.

- Correct.

UNSC Pillar of Autumn, a vessel used by Master Chief.

- Halo.

- Correct.

- Serenity.

- Star Craft.

- Incorrect.

- The Planet Express courier ship.

- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

- Incorrect.

The Heart of Gold, which was stolen by Zaphod Beeblebrox.

- Pass.

- That one was The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Nostromo in a film starring Sigourney Weaver.

- 2001: A Space Odyssey.

- Incorrect.

SSV Normandy.

- Mass Effect.

- Correct.

The Pegasus, a ship destroyed by robot Cylons.

- Pass.

- That last one was Battlestar Galactica.

Stroudsburg, your topic is restaurants on Wall Street.

Name the restaurant chain that uses these ticker symbols.

MCD whose... - McDonald's.

- That is correct.

- WEN, known for its square burger patties.

- White Castle.

- Incorrect.

- Wendy's.

Wendy's.

Oh, my gosh.

- SBUX, a chain of coffee houses.

- Starbucks.

- Correct.

DPZ, which once had a 30-minute or free delivery guarantee.

- Domino's.

- Correct.

- Pizza.

- GM...or CMG which offer plant-based chorizo in 2022.

- Salad works.

- Incorrect.

DNUT, a North Carolina based donut chain.

- Duck Donuts.

- Incorrect.

JACK, a west coast burger chain that also sells tacos.

- Jack in the Box.

- That is correct.

CAKE, which offers 35 flavors of its namesake dessert.

- Baskin Robbins.

- Incorrect.

CBRL, whose southern-themed locations are paired with gift shops.

- Bojangles.

- Incorrect.

That was a tough one, but in a way, I think it's good you don't know that many fast food restaurants, right?

A little bit better for your health to not know in that category.

All right.

And we move on to the final quarter of the final with the following toss-up question.

What technique that has HPLC and thin layer types has...?

Moravian?

- Chromatography?

- That is correct.

And is used to separate mixtures.

We've rounded out the question.

For your bonus, in physics what force is multiplied by the coefficient of kinetic friction to find the magnitude of kinetic frictional force?

- Momentum.

- Incorrect.

Normal force is the correct answer.

For your next toss-up, what man who resigned as Assistant Secretary of the Navy in 1898 to lead the Rough Riders...?

Stroudsburg.

- Teddy Roosevelt.

- That is correct.

And he assumed the presidency upon the death of William McKinley.

For your bonus, what poet described a "wee sleekit, cow'ring timorous Beastie" in his 1785 poem To a Mouse?

- Robert Burns.

- Robert Burns is correct.

Next toss-up question.

What novel in which immersive sensory movies called feelies are enjoyed...?

Moravian Academy?

- Brave New World?

- That is correct.

And is by Aldous Huxley.

For your bonus, what plural noun appears in both the title of a 1775 play featuring Mrs Malaprop and a Doris Kearns Goodwin book about Abraham Lincoln's cabinet?

That is Doris Kearns.

- Rivals.

- That is correct.

Next toss-up question.

What physicist shares his name with the time before which the laws of physics break down and a constant equal to about 6.6 times ten to the negative...?

- Avogadro.

- That is incorrect.

I'll continue for Stroudsburg.

.. to the negative 34 joule-seconds denoted h?

- Planck - Ben, Max Planck is correct.

For your bonus, Brewster's angle equals the inverse tangent of a ratio of two values of what quantity that describes how much light bends when entering a medium?

- Fraction?

- We had fun.

- It is the index of refraction is the correct answer.

All right, next toss-up.

What country whose namesake capital territory governs Jervis Bay is home to the state of Queensland and has its capital...?

- Moravian?

- Australia.

- That's correct.

It has its capital southwest of Sydney.

For your bonus, what author wrote about a child of scorn who cursed the commonplace and eyed a khaki suit with loathing in his poem Miniver Cheevy?

- Elliott.

- Incorrect.

Edwin Arlington Robinson is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What document whose first item concerns the meaning of repentance was allegedly nailed to the Wittenberg Church door in...?

Moravian?

- The treatises of Martin Luther.

- That is incorrect.

I'll continue for Stroudsburg.

..church door in 1517 by Martin Luther?

Stroudsburg?

- The 95 Theses.

- The 95 Theses is correct.

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

Stroudsburg, you had a great run, but with 135 points, it was not quite enough.

Moravian Academy, congratulations.

With 345 points, you are the champions of the 48th season of Scholastic Scrimmage.

And now here's PBS39's CEO Tim Fallon to present the awards to our winners.

- Wow, what a match.

And it just reminds me just how not so smart I am after watching these two teams compete.

I think I knew one question that they both were able to answer.

I want to say thank you very much to our supporters all season long.

PPL Corporation and St Luke's University Health Network.

Their support provides the opportunity for $4,000 to go to the scholarship fund for the winning team and $2,000 to the scholarship funds for our runner-up team.

Now, I have the great privilege to present those prizes as well as trophies to our participating teams.

So to join me is the coach of Stroudsburg.

Congratulations.

- Thank you.

- There you go.

And here's the trophy for you guys.

- Thank you.

- You got it.

And the winner of this year's Scholastic Scrimmage matches is Moravian Academy.

And joining me is the coach of Moravian Academy to accept the scholarship money and their trophy.

Congratulations, sir.

What a great job you and your team did.

And I think now it is back to Dave.

- Thank you, Tim.

And the fun's not over yet.

Join us next week for the all star match.

Thank you.