WLVT Scholastic Scrimmage
Scholastic Scrimmage: William Allen HS vs N. Lehigh
Season 49 Episode 12 | 28m 29sVideo has Closed Captions
Scholastic Scrimmage: William Allen HS vs N. Lehigh
Scholastic Scrimmage: William Allen HS vs N. Lehigh
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: William Allen HS vs N. Lehigh
Season 49 Episode 12 | 28m 29sVideo has Closed Captions
Scholastic Scrimmage: William Allen HS vs N. Lehigh
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 sponsorshipHello and welcome to the 12th and final match of the first round of the 49th season of Scholastic Scrimmage.
I'm your host, David Graf.
Today's match between William Allen and Northern Lehigh will be composed of two halves with a lightning round midway through each half.
At halftime, the students will 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 it's not necessarily indicative of academic training.
And now let's begin - buzzers ready.
Here's our first toss-up question, and it's in math.
So pencil and paper, also ready.
What is the volume of a right circular cone whose height and radius are both three, given the formula has a one third constant?
Time is up.
Mine pi is the correct answer.
On to the next toss-up question.
What title character kills Glauce and escapes on a flying chariot in a Euripides play about the end of this woman's marriage to the Greek hero Jason?
Medea is the correct answer.
Next toss-up question.
What former colony, which experienced an exodus of pieds-noirs after the 1962 Evian accords, won independence in a brutal war with France in North Africa?
Northern Lehigh.
- Niger.
- That is incorrect.
William Allen, no conferring, but there is still some time.
William Allen.
- Algeria.
- Algeria is correct.
For your bonus, what name was shared by the only two emperors of Brazil, the first of whom declared independence from Portugal in 1822?
- Pedro.
- Let your captain know to tell me.
- Pedro.
- Pedro is correct.
There were two of them.
Good job, Jaiden.
Next toss-up question.
What theologian who heard children singing, "Tolle, lege," prompted him to leave Manichaeism, was bishop of Hippo, and who wrote the Confessions in AD 397?
Saint Augustine is the correct answer.
Next toss-up question.
What linear triatomic molecule has a solid form known as dry ice, is the primary contributor to the greenhouse effect and has... William Allen.
- CO2.
- CO2 or carbon dioxide is correct, and has a molecular formula of CO2, but we'll take CO2 because you said it before we said it.
For your bonus, what German Renaissance artist showed a contemplative angel in his engraving Melencolia I?
Albrecht Durer is the correct answer.
Next toss-up question.
What King, who was imprisoned at Durnstein Castle by Leopold V, fought the Third Crusade and had an animal inspired moniker commemorating his courage?
William Allen.
- Richard I.
- Richard I is correct.
And he was known as Richard the Lionheart.
For your bonus, it's in math, pencil and paper ready.
What is the volume of a pyramid whose height is six and whose square base has sides that each have a length of seven?
98 is the correct answer.
Next toss-up question.
What book in which a human boy named Sam Beaver protects a nest full of eggs, was written by EB White about a bird who plays the title instrument?
That book is The Trumpet of the Swan.
Next toss-up question.
What river whose tributaries include the Ubangi flows past the capital cities of Brazzaville and Kinshasa in two namesake Central African countries?
William Allen.
- The Nile.
- The Nile is incorrect.
Over to Northern Lehigh.
The correct answer is the Congo River.
Next toss-up question.
In July 2023, what country led by Ulf Kristersson overcame objections from Turkey to join Nato three months after its neighbor Finland joined?
William Allen.
- Sweden.
- Sweden is correct.
For your bonus, what class of fundamental particles includes electrons, muons and neutrinos, and has a name starting with L?
Leptons is the correct answer.
Next toss-up question.
What country was forced into the normalization period by the Warsaw Pact troops after Alexander Dubcek led a reform movement known as the Prague Spring?
William Allen.
- Czechoslovakia.
- Czechoslovakia is correct.
For your bonus, French painter Henri Matisse lived near what city on France's Cote d'Azur, which is about ten miles west of Monaco?
- Marseille.
- That is incorrect.
Nice is correct.
And with that, we have reached the first Lightning Round.
In a pre-match coin toss it was determined that Northern Lehigh would get to select between the following topics.
You can select between The Aeneid or 1990s Britain.
Quickly, Northerly Lehigh.
- 1990s Britain.
- 1990s Britain.
Answer the following about the United Kingdom in the 1990s.
River that runs past Canary Wharf in London.
- Pass.
- Labour Prime Minister elected in 1997.
- Pass.
Iron Lady ousted as prime minister in 1990.
- Pass.
Princess who died in a Paris car crash.
- Diana.
- Correct.
Language given co equal status along with English in Cardiff.
- Welsh.
- Welsh is correct.
12-member entity created by the by the Maastricht Treaty.
- Pass.
- House of Parliament from which most hereditary peers were removed in 1999.
- Pass.
- Political unit with a devolved or with a... Yeah, excuse me, political unit with a devolved parliament in Edinburgh.
And that would be Scotland for the last one.
All right, William Allen, you are left with The Aeneid.
Answer the following about The Aeneid.
The language in which it was written.
And anyone can say it if they know it.
Or pass.
- Pass.
- Its author.
- Pass.
- Its protagonist, Aeneas, is a prince of this city.
- Pass.
- Its first line is commonly translated, "Of blank and the man I sing."
- Pass.
- It begins in this city ruled by Queen Dido.
- Pass.
- Aeneas reaches this river on whose banks Rome now stands.
If you know it, you can just say it.
No conferring.
- Tiber.
- The Tiber/Tiber is correct.
Aeneas' journey is complicated by this goddess, Jupiter's wife.
- Pass.
- Aeneas is reminded of his duty to found a city by this Roman messenger god.
And that would have been Mercury.
OK, we'll continue on with the following toss-up question.
What artist who organized Dismaland, a parody of Disneyland, created the Girl with Balloon stencils or sketches and is anonymous... And is an anonymous English street artist?
Northern Lehigh.
- Banksy.
- Banksy is correct.
For your bonus, Tulip meets the robot One-One on a cartoon named for an infinity type of what vehicle, another of which circles the globe on the show Snowpiercer?
That would be a train.
Next toss-up question.
What product suddenly appears in six stone jars at the start of John Chapter 2 during the wedding at Cana and is the first miracle of Jesus who transforms water?
William Allen.
- Wine.
- Wine is correct.
For your bonus, what NASA space probe carried an instrument named Ralph, which was used to produce images of Pluto during a 2015 flyby?
That probe is New Horizons.
And I may be wrong, but I believe it's still out there, still sending signals back, even though they didn't think it would be.
The next toss-up is in math.
Pencil and paper ready.
What is the product of 4,000 x 3,000, given that a thousand thousands is equivalent to a million?
The correct answer is 12 million.
Next toss-up question.
What 2015 film based on the Andy Weir novel is titled for botanist and astronaut Mark Watney, played by Matt Damon, who is stranded on a red planet?
- The Martian.
- Northern Lehigh, The Martian is correct.
For your bonus, what term for a stylized symbol made of intertwined letters is often used for motifs that can be embroidered onto tailored clothing?
- Cursive.
- That is incorrect.
It's a monogram.
You know the ones you see in the LL Bean catalog, they have the three across the cuff and things like that.
Next toss-up question.
What woman who was sold into marriage by Toussaint Charbonneau was a Shoshone interpreter who assisted the Lewis and Clark expedition.
Northern Lehigh.
- Sacagawea.
- Sacagawea is correct.
For your bonus, the second and fourth quantum numbers for electrons in an atom correspond to the spin and orbital types of what classical quantity?
That'd be angular momentum.
Next toss-up question.
What animal with extinct Caspian and Balian species and an endangered Bengali species is the largest feline species and is known for its black stripes?
Northern Lehigh.
- Tiger.
- A Tiger is correct.
- For your bonus, Ella Baker was a strategist for what civil rights organization established by young African American activists in 1960?
That would be SNCC.
And with that, we have reached half time.
Let's take a moment for each student to introduce themselves with their first and last name, their grade level, and the answer to the following question - if you could visit any country in the world, where would it be?
William Allen, go ahead.
- My name is Leyran Jimenez Gonzalez, I'm a senior, and I would visit probably Spain.
- Cool.
- I'm Jaiden Jean.
I'm a freshman, and I'd visit England.
- All right.
- I'm Daniela Pacheco.
I'm a junior, and I would visit Singapore.
- Cool.
- I'm John Kingsley, I'm a junior, and I'd probably visit China.
- All right.
And on to Northern Lehigh.
Go ahead.
- I'm Seth Schaffer, I'm a junior and I would visit Greece.
- OK. - I'm Taylor Iver, I'm a sophomore, and I would visit Malta.
- All right.
- I'm Madeline Husak, freshman, and I would visit Australia.
- OK. - I'm McKenna Kirk and I would visit Australia as well.
- All right, very cool.
So, Taylor, any reason why you'd visit Malta?
You're the first person in the first round to say Malta.
Anything in particular?
Or you just want to be in the Mediterranean?
- I just like the Mediterranean.
- And there's ancient civilization remnants there that I would like to visit.
- There is, right?
There's some of the oldest embattlements across the coastline, isn't there?
- Yes.
- All right.
Very cool.
All right, we'll continue on with the second half of the match with the following toss-up question.
What last name is shared by the singer of I Got You who is known as the Godfather of Soul and an abolitionist who led a raid on Harpers Ferry?
William Allen.
- Brown.
- Brown is correct.
For your bonus, what alcoholic beverage depicted in namesake paintings by Edgar Degas and Vincent Van Gogh was once known as the green fairy?
Let your captain know.
- Moonshine.
- That's incorrect.
It's absinthe.
It has a known green color.
It's believed the woodworm that was in it would cause people to hallucinate.
Thus a lot of their paintings and their topics.
Next toss-up question.
What opera whose arias include Che gelida manina is about an ill seamstress who falls in love with Rodolfo and was written by Giacomo Puccini?
That opera is La Boheme.
Next toss-up question.
What phenomena, whose far-field type can be explained by Huygen's Principle, can be caused by an aperture and involves light bending around an object?
That would be diffraction.
And I serve as a creative director in my day job.
We actually just had a conversation about this the other day because there's lens correcting software that corrects for this when we take photographs.
Next toss-up question.
What novel in which the note "goodbye because I love you" is left by Robert Lebrun ends with the drowning of Ella Poitier and is by Kate Chopin?
That would be The Awakening.
Next toss-up question.
What driver of the number 22 car co-sponsored by Pennzoil is the youngest man to win a Sprint Cup race and won the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series Championship?
It's all right.
I'm not a NASCAR fan either.
It's Joey Logano.
Next toss-up question.
What solid material forms when updrafts and downdrafts in clouds cause cycles of refreezing and can occur as precipitation the size of golf balls?
Northern Lehigh.
- Hail.
- Hail is correct.
For your bonus, what saxophonist who recorded Ornithology with Benny Harris, pioneered bebop, and was nicknamed Bird?
- Brown.
- That is incorrect.
Charlie Parker is the correct answer.
Next toss-up question.
What country where two pilots died when a fire extinguishing plane called Evia was the site of 2023 wildfires in Corfu, Carinthia and Rhodes?
Northern Lehigh.
- Greece.
- Greece is correct.
For your bonus, what country which is home to the Izalco volcano is...west of the Gulf of Forseca... and southwest of Honduras?
That's Fonseca, excuse me.
The Gulf of Fonseca.
And it's southwest of Honduras.
Did you know it anyway?
- I was going to guess El Salvador.
- El Salvador was right.
But unfortunately, you're after the buzzer.
Next toss-up question.
What author of the dystopian science fiction novels Klara And the Sun and Never Let Me Go is a 2017 Nobel laureate who moved to Britain from Japan?
That'll be Kazuo Ishiguro.
His novel Klara and the Sun, I read that a few years ago.
It's a great read for everybody, especially because it addresses what it means to be really real in the age of AI.
Next toss-up question.
What creatures whose kings rule over the four seas surrounding China are auspicious beings honored in a boat festival and resemble serpents?
William Allen.
- Dragons.
- Dragons is correct.
For your bonus, the 2023 MLB home run derby was won by what first baseman who is a designated hitter for the Toronto Blue Jays and whose father was a Hall of Fame outfielder?
That'd be Vladimir Guerrero.
And with that, we have reached the second lightning round.
William Allen, you get to pick between the following topics - foreign language names or tens, as in the number ten.
- Foreign language.
- OK. Foreign languages by names.
William Allen, your lightning round topic is foreign language names.
Given a language's name for itself such as le francois, give the English name like French.
Espanol.
- Spanish.
- Correct.
Russki.
Anyone can just say it.
- Russia.
- Correct.
- Nederlands.
- Netherlands.
That is incorrect.
Al-Arabiya.
- Pass.
- Nihongo.
- Chinese.
- That is incorrect.
Nyuyar.
- New York?
- Say it again.
- Pass.
- Pass.
Norsk.
- Polish.
- Incorrect.
Gwowan.
- Taiwanese.
- Er, can you be more specific?
- Taiwan.
- Sorry.
That's incorrect.
It's Mandarin Chinese.
Ellinika.
- Pass.
- Greek.
Eevra.
The Hebrew language.
OK, Northern Lehigh, your topic is tens.
Answer the following about the number ten.
Tenth month of the Gregorian calendar.
- October.
- Correct.
Founding Father depicted on the $10 bill.
- Alexander Hamilton.
- Correct.
A period of ten years.
- Decade?
- Correct.
Either Old Testament book that lists the Ten Commandments.
- Mark.
- Incorrect.
Type of number that includes 10, 15 and 21.
- Pass.
- Street whose number ten is home to the British Prime Minister.
- London.
- Incorrect.
Tenth President whose name followed Tippecanoe in a slogan.
- Pass.
- Decapods like shrimp belong to this phylum.
- Crustacean.
- Incorrect.
Country with a five dynasties and ten kingdoms period.
- Egypt.
- Incorrect.
Noble gas whose atomic number is ten.
I believe you guys guessed this earlier.
It's neon.
All right.
And on to the final quarter of the match with this toss-up question.
What battle whose victors were commanded by Euripides of Sparta and Themistocles was a major naval victory for the Greeks over Persia in 480 BC?
The Battle of Salamis is the correct answer.
Next toss-up question.
What novella's protagonist dreams of lions on an African beach, praises the great DiMaggio and is a fisherman named Santiago who catches a big marlin?
Catching the big marlin was a tip to Ernest Hemingway, who loved big sea fishing.
And the novella is The Old Man And The Sea that he wrote.
Next toss-up question.
What tiny objects which act as particles based on their vibration lend their name to a theory of everything and are named for their rope-like forms?
William Allen.
- String theory.
- Yeah.
String theory or strings is correct.
For your bonus, what Jewish-American author of The Mysteries of Pittsburgh wrote about two cousins who write comic books in The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay?
Michael Chabon is the correct answer.
Next toss-up question.
What project, led by General Leslie Groves, was based at the Oak Ridge Laboratory and conducted the Trinity Test after creating the first atomic bomb?
William Allen.
- Manhattan Project.
- Is correct.
For your bonus, what term named for the mythical youth whose body was forcibly joined with another nymph, Salmacis, describes a being with male and female organs?
- Intersex.
- Intersex.
- Intersex is incorrect.
It would be a hermaphrodite from Hermaphrodite.
Next toss-up question.
What 1824 musical work, sometimes nicknamed Choral, was the fourth movement celebrating universal brotherhood using Frederick Schiller's Ode to Joy?
You would know it if you hear it.
It's Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.
Next toss-up question.
What state, which is nicknamed The Last Best Place, contains Glacier National Park and the Little Bighorn Battlefield site and is led... Northern Lehigh.
- Alaska.
- That is incorrect.
And is led from Helena?
Go for it.
- Virginia.
- Incorrect.
Montana is the correct answer.
Next, toss-up question.
For a hyperbola, what points have a tangent parallel to the conjugate axis or a semi-major axis away from the center and are the tips of branches?
Vertices is the correct answer.
Next toss-up question.
What senator who led negotiations with Joe Manchin to pass the Inflation Reduction Act is from New York and is the Senate majority leader?
And with that, we have reached the end of the match.
Congratulations to William Allen.
With 115 points, you're on to the second round.
Northern Lehigh, 75 points wasn't quite enough today.
Good luck with the rest of your school year.
Thank you for tuning in.
You will join us next week for the start of the second round of the tournament where Pen Argyl goes up against Catasauqua.
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.