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of Scholastic Scrimmage.

I'm your host, David Graf.

This year's Scrimmage will look a little bit different due to COVID 19 pandemic.

PBS39 is following all CDC guidelines, and that includes pregame temperature checks, students wearing masks during the competition, and I've been socially distanced from the teams on set.

And now on to today's matchup that features Whitehall vs Bethlehem Catholic.

The match will feature two halves with a lightning round halfway through each half.

At half-time, we'll get to know the students a little bit better.

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

And now let's begin.

Buzzers ready with our first toss-up.

What organization, which Woodrow Wilson won a Nobel prize for helping to found, formed after World War I and was a forerunner...?

- Beca.

- The League of Nations.

- That is correct, was a forerunner to the United Nations.

For your bonus, the photo Earthrise was taken during what 1968 mission in which William Anders, Frank Borman and James Lovell became the first to orbit the Moon?

- Apollo 1?

- Incorrect.

Apollo 8 is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

In World War I, what country's air force included a unit nicknamed the Flying Circus, led by the Red Baron, whose real name...?

Beca.

- Germany?

- That's correct, Imperial Germany is the correct answer.

For your bonus, what country, whose Clark Air Base was formerly operated by the US, was the site of a 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo on Luzon Island?

- Italy.

- Incorrect, the Philippines is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What organization, a successor to the Revenue Cutter Service, has the motto Semper Paratus and is an Armed Forces branch that patrols US waters?

Beca?

- Coast Guard.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, Jack Kilby's 1958 integrated circuit which is made using not silicon, but rather what other metalloid that lies directly below silicon on the periodic table?

- Sulfur.

- Incorrect.

Germanium is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What task which can be done with algorithms called Radix, Bubble, Merge and Quick, involves putting items in a list or array into order?

Whitehall.

- Sorting.

- That's correct.

For your bonus, Narendra Modi is a member of what political party, which advocates Hindutva and is the main rival of the more secular Indian National Congress?

- The BJB.

- Sorry, that's incorrect.

BJP is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What river, whose tributaries include the Iskar and Sava, empties into the Black Sea in Romania and flows past four capital cities, including Vienna?

Whitehall.

- The Danube?

- That's correct.

For your bonus, what author of the novel Starship Troopers wrote about a man who comes to Earth after being raised on Mars in Strangers In A Strange Land?

- The Martians.

- Incorrect, it's Robert Heinlein, is the author.

Next toss-up.

In what 2015 film is the dying Mr White, a former associate of Ernst Stavro Blofeld, who leads the terrorist organization against... who leads this terrorist organization against James Bond?

- 007?

- Incorrect, it was the title of the movie was named after the terrorist organization, Spectre is the movie that we're looking for.

Next toss-up.

What book series, which includes Stay Out Of The Basement and introduced the ventriloquist dummy Slappy consists of 62 horror books by RL Stine?

Whitehall.

- Goosebumps.

- That's correct.

For your bonus, although the Umayyads ruled from Cordoba until 1031, in 750, they were replaced in the Middle East by what caliphate that ruled into the 13th century?

- The Abbasids?

- That is correct.

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

What is the probability that an event will occur if the odds against it happening are five to two?

Whitehall.

- Three to five.

- That is incorrect.

Beca?

You're in time.

- Two to five?

- Incorrect, closer - it's two to seven, or two in seven chance.

Next toss-up.

What building is being renovated in hopes of being ready for the 2024 Olympics after its lead-covered roof and spire were destroyed in a 2019 fire?

Beca.

- Notre Dame?

- That's correct.

The Notre Dame Cathedral.

For your bonus, what blind prophet appears in Euripides' play The Bacchae and argues with the title character of Sophocles's play Oedipus Rex?

- Tiresias?

- That is correct.

Next toss-up.

What singer rose to fame in 1938 with A-Tisket, A-Tasket and improvised scat singing so well she was nicknamed the First Lady of Song and Lady Ella?

The correct answer is Ella Fitzgerald.

Next toss-up.

What king, who is known for his mistresses such as Nell Gwyn, was put in power by the Restoration and has the namesake of his beheaded father?

Charles II of England is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What country's islands include Rottnest Island, where most of the quokkas live, and an island home to other marsupials such as wombats and Tasmanian devils?

Whitehall.

- Tasmania?

- Incorrect.

Beca?

- Australia.

- That's correct.

You were right for the Tasmanian devil, but we were looking for the whole country.

All right, for your bonus, Beca.

What Serbian center, who once recorded a triple double in less than 15 minutes, was named the NBA MVP in 2021?

- Jokic?

- That's correct, Nikola Jokic is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What national park, which contains the Grand Prismatic Spring, is the oldest national park in the US and home to the geyser Old Faithful?

Beca.

- Yellowstone.

- That's correct.

Yellowstone National Park.

For your bonus, Confessions Of A Mask was written by what Japanese author of the Temple of the Golden Pavilion and the Sea of Fertility tetralogy?

- Hineji?

- Yukio Mishima is the correct answer.

And with that, we've reached our first lightning round.

Whitehall, in the pre-match coin toss, was determined will get to pick first from the following topics.

You'll get to pick between Organelles or P in Art.

- Organelles.

- Organelles.

That means, Beca, you'll have P in Art.

Whitehall.

Organelles.

Name these organelles.

The site of protein synthesis made of two subunits.

Anybody can shout it out.

Don't confer, just shout.

- Ribosome.

- Correct.

Nicknamed the powerhouse of a cell.

- Mitochondrion.

- Correct.

It has smooth and rough portions.

- Endoplasmic reticulum.

- Correct.

Named for an Italian physicist, it transports proteins.

- Golgi apparatus.

- Correct.

The site of DNA transcription in eukaryotes.

- The nucleus?

- Correct.

The most acidic organelle.

It's full of digestive enzymes.

- Lysosomes.

- Correct.

Composed of chitin in fungi and peptidoglycan in bacteria.

- Flagellum?

- Incorrect.

What catalase breaks down a component with Formula H2O2 with a compound with Formula H2O2... - Hydrogen peroxide.

- Uh...

Incorrect.

In plants, it's surrounded by a membrane called the tonoplast.

- Cell wall?

- Incorrect.

Used by sea anemones and jellyfish for defense and to capture prey.

- Flagella.

- That's incorrect.

That was a tough round there.

You guys were on a roll in the beginning and got a little rocky in the end.

They always get a little bit tougher as they go on.

So, Beca, that leaves you with P in Art.

Identify these visual art terms that begin with the letter P. A painting of a person's likeness, including their face and expression.

- Portrait.

- Correct.

Color tones with a paler, softer hues such as pale blue.

- Pastel.

- Correct.

Flat hand-held board used for mixing paints.

- Palette.

- Correct.

Artistic medium of Alfred Stieglitz and Ansel Adams.

- Photograph.

- Correct.

A plant base that has a scul...

Excuse me.

A plain base that a sculpture or statue rests on.

- Pedestal.

- Incorrect.

Or correct!

Wet gluey paper mixture that hardens when dried.

- Papier mache.

- Correct.

Gray-green veneer that develops on bronze.

- Pass.

- Main art movement associated with Andy Warhol.

- Progressivism?

- Incorrect.

White powder mixed with water to make rough casts and molds.

- Pass.

- Ceramic pottery material made by firing kaolin in a kiln.

- Pottery?

- Incorrect.

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

What former Soviet Republic, where Alexander Lukashenko claimed victory in a 2020 election opponents decried as rigged, and has its capital in Minsk?

Beca.

- Ukraine?

- Incorrect.

Whitehall?

No conferring, just buzz in if you know it.

Go ahead.

- Bulgaria.

- Belarus.

Next toss-up.

What novel in which Brian de Bois-Guilbert abducts a Jewish woman named Rebecca and jousts with the title knight was written by Sir Walter Scott?

Ivanhoe is the novel we're looking for.

Next toss-up.

What war, in which Winfield Scott led an amphibious assault that captured the Port of Vera Cruz in 1847 pitted... Beca.

- The Mexican-American War.

- That's correct.

And for your bonus, in Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New World, Linda consumes massive quantities of what drug, which is used to pacify the population of the world state?

- Cocaine?

- Incorrect.

Soma is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What office, whose first female holder was Megan Brennan, has been held since 2020 by Louis DeJoy, who leads an agency responsible... Beca.

- Postmaster General.

- That's correct.

She's the United States Postmaster General.

For your bonus, what avant-garde American composer called for a pianist to sit at a keyboard and do nothing for a period of time in his work 4 Minutes and 33 Seconds?

- Sousa?

- Incorrect.

John Cage is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

Three of what mathematical things can be operated on by the triple product, which combines the dot and cross products that can be used on them?

Beca.

- Vectors.

- That's correct.

For your bonus, Mr Republican was the nickname of what Ohio senator who with Fred Hartley gave his name to a 1947 act restricting the power of labor unions?

- Long.

- Incorrect.

Robert Taft is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What city, which contains the Stormont Parliament building, was the site of a shipyard that built the Titanic and is the capital of Northern... Beca.

- Belfast.

- That's correct.

For your bonus, Henry Luce founded what American magazine, whose 2018 Person Of The Year award was given to journalists termed the Guardians?

- Time.

- That is correct.

Time Magazine.

Next toss-up.

What man who in 1994 led the LAPD on a low-speed chase in his Ford Bronco was acquitted of murdering his ex-wife...?

Beca.

- Simpson.

- That is correct.

OJ Simpson is the correct answer.

For your bonus, in the Haber process, the product of ammonia is purified by what technique that separates liquids based on differences in boiling points?

- Evaporation.

- Incorrect.

Distillation is the correct answer.

We have an excellent match under way.

Beca has 185 points to Whitehall's 90.

And now at half-time, to aid in social distancing, we asked the students to introduce themselves and tell us what they did during quarantine in 2020.

- Hi, my name is Nathan and I'm from Whitehall High School.

During quarantine, I picked up reading.

- Hi, I'm Neiv and I'm a freshman at Whitehall High School.

During quarantine, I played a lot of chess.

- Hi, my name is Zachary.

I'm a junior at Whitehall High School, and during quarantine I learned how to play the piano.

- Hi, my name is Daniel and I'm a senior at Whitehall High School.

During quarantine, I spent time with my family and practised tennis.

- Hi, my name is Brett.

I'm a senior at Bethlehem Catholic High School, and during quarantine I rode my bike.

- Hi, I'm Evan.

I'm a senior at Bethlehem Catholic.

During quarantine, I walked my dog.

- Hi, my name is Aidan.

I'm a senior at Bethlehem Catholic, and during quarantine I ran every day.

- Hi, I'm Isabella, and during quarantine I rode my bike and listened to a lot of podcasts.

- Welcome back.

We'll begin the second half of the competition with the following toss-up question.

What type of substance is confined using magnetic fields, is made up of ionized gas and is called the fourth state of matter?

Whitehall.

- Plasma.

- That's correct.

For your bonus - in Greek myth, Chiron was what type of half man, half horse creature?

- Centaur.

- Buzz in here.

- Centaur.

- That is correct.

Next toss-up.

What religious painter from Iowa showed a woman with an apron and a man with overalls carrying a pitchfork in his painting American Gothic?

Grant Wood.

Everybody knows the painting, not necessarily the artist.

Next toss-up.

The Lion of the North was the nickname of what great Protestant king who died in 1632 at the Battle of Lutzen, leading Sweden in the Thirty Years War?

Gustavus Adolphus is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

Quantum dots are microscopic examples of what materials used to make transistors with properties between those of insulators and conductors?

Beca.

- Semi-conductors.

- That's correct.

For your bonus, what circuit components often include a dielectric placed between two parallel plates, have a strength measured in farads, and can store charge?

- Capacitor?

- That's correct.

Capacitor is correct.

Next toss-up.

What city on the Huangpu River is home to the Oriental Pearl Tower, is at the mouth of the Yangtze River and is China's most populous city?

Beca.

- Shanghai.

- That's correct.

For your bonus, what kind of object is depicted in the best known sculpture by Myron, which shows an athlete preparing to throw this type of object?

- Discus?

- That's correct.

Next toss-up.

What mythical object which was stolen by the giant Thrym has a short handle because of Loki's mischief and is a hammer wielded by Thor?

Whitehall.

- Mjolnir.

- That's correct.

For your bonus, biryani is a dish made of using what crop whose basmati and jasmine varieties are popular in Indian cuisine?

To your captain.

- Rice.

- That is correct.

Next toss-up.

What scientist, who standardized thermometers, invented a namesake temperature scale in which the freezing point of water is defined as 32?

Whitehall.

- Fahrenheit.

- That's correct, Daniel Fahrenheit is the correct answer.

For your bonus, Derrick Bell co-developed what theory, which has recently been banned in some states, which argued that racism is embedded in the US... - Critical race theory.

- That is correct.

Next toss-up.

What poet asks, "Does it stink like rotten meat?

"And does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?"

in a poem about a dream deferred, entitled Harlem?

Beca.

- Langston Hughes?

- That's correct.

For your bonus, what woman, who wrote the autobiography of Alice B Toklas, is known for quotes such as, "A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose."

Gertrude Stein is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What country is symbolized by a woman named Marianne wearing a Fijian cap, has an anthem known as Les Marzay... or as La Marseillaise, and is home to the Eiffel Tower?

Whitehall.

- France.

- That's correct.

France or the French Republic.

For your bonus, Claude Francois De Malet was executed for leading a coup against what monarch, who Malet claimed was actually dead... who actually died while invading Russia in 1812?

- Napoleon.

- That's correct, Napoleon Bonaparte.

It's like I said, guess - if you know, if you're close, you might get it.

Next toss-up.

What composer's last works include the Little Masonic Cantata and a Freemasonry-inspired opera featuring the Queen of the Night, The Magic Flute?

Beca.

- Mozart.

- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is the correct answer.

Your bonus will be in math, pencil and paper ready.

How many edges are on a rectangular tetrahedron or triangular pyramid, given that it has four faces and four vertices?

- Six.

- That's correct.

Next toss-up.

Bleda was king of what barbarian tribe who lost the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains in AD 451 and were ruled by the scourge of God, Attila?

Whitehall.

- The Huns.

- That's correct.

For your bonus, what seven-letter adjective describes the ancient King Leonidas, as well as the elite soldiers exemplified by Master Chief in the Halo videogame series?

- Spartan.

- That's correct.

And with that, we've reached our second lightning round.

you'll get to pick between the following topics - Super Mario or Elon Musk.

- Super Mario.

- Super Mario.

So that means Whitehall, you have Elon Musk.

Reminder to stay quiet during it, if you know the answer, write it down on a piece of paper, perhaps.

Beca, Super Mario.

Answer these.

Name these characters from the Super Mario videogame franchise.

Mario's brother with an L on his cap.

- Luigi - Correct.

Typically green egg-laying ally who resembles a dinosaur.

- Yoshi.

- Correct.

Humanoid mushroom and attendant to Peach.

- Toad.

- Correct.

Donkey Kong's hat-wearing nephew.

- Diddy Kong.

- Correct.

Ghostly figure who vanishes when directly looked at.

- King Boo.

- Correct.

Orange-haired princess of Saracen... Sarasaland.

- Daisy.

- Correct.

Mario's archenemy who has a spiked shell.

- Bowser.

- Correct.

Woman rescued in Donkey Kong who is New Donk City's mayor in Super Mario Odyssey.

- Pauline.

- Correct.

Inventor of the Poltergust 3000 and Fludd.

- Elvin Gadd.

- Correct.

Fire-breathing triceratops named for the singer of Nine Inch Nails.

- Reznor.

- That's correct.

All right.

We got some Nintendo fans in Bethlehem Catholic.

I think especially those last two were hard.

I did not know the last two.

OK, everyone settle on set, and that means Whitehall.

You have Elon Musk.

Answer the following about Elon Musk.

He is CEO of this electric car company.

- Tesla.

- Correct.

He founded this rocket launching company.

- SpaceX.

- Correct.

He co-founded X.com, a predecessor of this online payment firm.

- Paypal.

- Correct.

He was born in this African nation.

- South Africa.

- Correct.

In 2018, he sent a mini submarine to this nation to help a trapped soccer team.

- Chile.

- Incorrect.

He dropped out of this California university after two days.

- Stanford.

- Correct.

He was in a relationship and fathered a child with this Canadian musician.

- Grimes.

- Correct.

He proposed this tube-based high-speed transportation system.

- Pass.

- He voiced Elon Tusk, a character on this 2019 episode of this show.

- Saturday Night Live?

- Incorrect.

He founded this tunnel-building company.

- Square.

- Incorrect.

So I told both the teams this would be a fun, a fun lightning round to go through.

A lot of pop culture in that round.

with this following toss-up.

It will be on math, pencil and paper ready.

What is the length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle whose legs have lengths of three and five respectively?

Beca.

- Six.

- Incorrect.

Whitehall.

- Square root 34.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, Lake Nasser was formed during the construction of what dam built in the 1960s in southern Egypt?

- Aswath?

- Incorrect, it's the Aswan High Dam.

Next toss-up.

What character who says.

"That ain't my style," with a sneer on his lip is the star player for Mudville, who nonetheless strikes out in an 1888 poem?

The correct answer is Casey, from Casey At The Bat.

Next toss-up.

What scandal in which Elliot Richardson quit amid the Saturday Night Massacre followed a 1972 break-in and led Richard Nixon to resign as...?

Whitehall.

- Watergate?

- That's correct.

The Watergate scandal.

For your bonus, pine trees and ginkgos belong to what paraphyletic group of plants that do not enclose their seeds in ovaries?

- Fern?

- Incorrect, it's gymnosperms is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What event, won in 2021 by Maneskin and in previous years by acts like Conchita Wurst, Celine Dion and Abba, is an annual international song contest?

Whitehall.

- American Idol.

- Incorrect.

Beca, still a little bit of time.

The correct answer is the Eurovision Song Contest, Eurovision Song Contest.

Next toss-up.

What materials contain a sea of delocalized electrons, are high ductile and malleable...?

Whitehall.

- Metal?

- That's correct.

Metals is the correct answer.

For your bonus, in August 2020, what former chief strategist for Donald Trump was charged with fraud connected to his efforts to crowdfund a border wall?

- Steve Bannon.

- That's correct.

Next toss-up.

What empire, served by the philosopher Chanakya, won the Kalinga War under its emperor Ashoka and was founded by the Chandragupta in 322 BC?

Whitehall.

- The Mauryan Empire.

- That is correct.

Your bonus is in math, pencil and paper ready.

If a microscope passes light through two lenses, each with 20-fold magnification, what is the overall magnification?

- 400.

- That's correct.

400-fold is the magnification.

Next toss-up.

What epic in which a burial shroud is repeatedly unwoven to delay the 108 suitors of Penelope depicts a hero's return to Ithaca after a... Whitehall.

- The Adventures of Ulysses.

- That is incorrect.

Beca?

- The Odyssey?

- That is correct.

For your bonus... And with that, we've reached the end of the match.

Really great match between two really great teams.

Whitehall, unfortunately, with 295 points it's the end of the road here in this year's tournament.

Beca, you'll advance on to the next round with 355 points.

Thanks to both teams.

And thank you for joining in.

Good luck.

Make sure to join us next week when we have Lehighton face off against Pen Argyl.

Thank you.