Welcome to PBS 39.

Scholastic scrimmage.

Scholastic scrimmage is brought to you by the members of PBS 39 and by the Temple.

Saint Luke's School of Medicine is shaping the next generation of physicians in our region.

Our students learn here, stay here, and care for our community.

Start here.

Grow here.

Thrive here.

Additional support provided by electric utilities Charles H. Hope Foundation and viewers like you.

Thank you.

Hello and welcome to the seventh match of the second round of the 51st season of Scholastic Scrimmage.

I'm your host, David Graff.

Today's match is between Wilson Area High School and Palmerton High School.

The match will be composed of two halves with a lightning round midway through each half.

At half time, we'll pause for students to introduce themselves, and we'll get to know them a little bit better.

As a reminder, Scott Scrimmage requires rapid recall specific factual information.

It's not necessarily indicative of academic training.

And now let's begin.

Buzzers.

Ready.

Here's our first tossup question.

What?

Senator, who said the dream shall never die after losing the 1980 Democratic primary to Jimmy Carter, was the brother of an assassinated President Wilson.

Robert Kennedy.

That is incorrect.

Over to Palmerton.

Wilson, you were close.

It's Ted Kennedy was the brother of of, of, excuse me of JFK.

That's what we're looking for.

Okay.

Next question.

What quantity equals the difference in energy between a transition state and its reactants?

And is the energy needed for a reaction to proceed?

Polymers in activation energy.

Activation energy is correct.

For your bonus, what adjective describes a structure or behavior such as goosebumps, that has lost most or all of its original function due to evolution?

Vestigial.

Vestigial is correct.

Next tossup question what winger, who won the Conn Smythe Trophy after winning the 2018 Stanley Cup, is a Russian who, in 2025 became the NHL's all time leading scorer.

Which Ovechkin Alexander Ovechkin is correct for your bonus?

What American author wrote about how snow submerges an Iron Year in the opening section of his 1930 epic poem, The Bridge?

Over.

Walt Whitman.

That's incorrect.

Harold Hart Crane is a correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What country?

Which?

Charles the 10th forced to pay 150 million francs in reparation to France, gained independence into Song Louverture slave revolt.

That's the nation of Haiti.

Next tossup question.

What politician who was criticized for living in a rent stabilized apartment by Andrew Goy Palmerton.

Mamdani.

Zoran Madani is correct, and he is now the mayor elect of New York City.

For your bonus on Tim Hooten, Bryher preserved what manuscript of the Franz Schubert Symphony, which has two extant complete movements.

No answer.

That's his symphony number eight.

Next tossup question.

What guitarist who played solo on Michael Jackson's song Beat It founded a band named after his Dutch surname, whose hits include Panama and Jump Wilson.

Van Halen.

Van Halen is correct, and Eddie Van Halen specifically is who we were talking about.

For your bonus, what author of the 1755 dictionary of the English Language declared, patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

To his biographer James Boswell.

Merriam Webster.

That's incorrect.

Samuel Johnson is the correct answer.

Next toss up question what country whose stress be dance music features a snap rhythm named the yard that is in London's Police headquarters and is governed from Edinburgh.

Scotland Scotland is correct for your bonus.

The historian Thucydides recorded the funeral oration given by what statesmen to honor Athenians who died in the first year of the Peloponnesian War.

Caesar.

Incorrect.

The correct answer is Pericles.

Next tossup question.

What disease can atrophy?

The vast difference in boys has high chloride levels on a sweat test or shows high chloride levels when given a sweat test, and is a buildup of thick mucus in the lungs.

Palmerton.

Pneumonia.

That's incorrect.

Over to Wolf.

It's a no conferring, but it's a freebie.

Now.

Malaria.

Also incorrect.

That disease is cystic fibrosis.

Next tossup question.

What novella in which a report on suppressing savage custom ends.

Exterminate all the brutes depicts ivory trader Kurtz and is by Joseph Conrad.

That novella Heart of Darkness.

Next tossup question.

What time signature, sometimes denoted by a stylized C, has one beat equivalent to a quarter note and has a duration equivalent to a whole note board?

Wilson.

And for four yes for four common time is correct for your bonus until 2020, what U.S.

states official name included the phrase and province plantations and Providence.

Excuse me?

Plantations.

Virginia.

That's incorrect.

Rhode Island is the correct answer.

Next toss up is in math.

Pencil on paper.

Ready?

What is the smallest number?

That is both a multiple of 13 and greater than 400.

Given the multiple, given the multiples of 13 and 39 and or of 13 include 39 and 390.

Go ahead.

Palmerton 403.

403 or 403 is correct for bonus.

What monarch was both the most recent King of England to be killed in battle, and the final English king from the House of the Plantagenet.

Charles.

Incorrect.

Richard the Third.

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

In a pre-match coin toss, it was determined that Palmerton will get to pick between the following topics.

Black holes or cats in fiction.

So black holes or cats in fiction.

Black holes.

Black holes.

It is.

Palmerton.

Your first lightning round topic is black holes.

Answer the following about black holes fast as possible speed which isn't enough to escape them.

Speed of light correct.

Black hole surface beyond which nothing can leave event horizon.

Correct.

Physicist and author of The Theory of Everything.

Who predicted they emit radiation.

Past an effect in which a black hole's gravity bends nearby.

Light.

Spaghetti effect.

Incorrect.

The powerful star explosions they form for that form them.

Supernova.

Correct.

Spacetime ripples emitted by a black hole merger and detected by LIGO.

Gravitational waves.

That's correct.

Einstein's theory of gravity, which describes them.

Theory of relativity.

That is.

Nope.

Yeah.

Yes or no for judges.

Prompt.

Be more specific.

So with that, we're out of time.

It's general relativity is a correct answer.

Okay, Wilson, your topic is cats in fiction.

Name the name.

The author who created these literary or metaphorical cats.

The Cheshire cat from Alice in Wonderland.

Pass the Prince of cats.

Tybalt from Romeo and Juliet.

Shakespeare.

Correct.

The Cat in the hat.

Doctor.

Seuss.

Correct.

Maggie, the protagonist of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

Anne Hathaway.

Incorrect.

A cat named church who is resurrected in the novel Pet Cemetery.

Pass.

Buttercup, who belonged to Primrose Everdeen.

Oh, Suzanne Collins.

Correct.

Pluto.

The horror story.

The black cat.

Mary Shelley.

Incorrect.

The cat that walked by himself in one of the just So stories.

Robert Frost.

Incorrect.

Behemoth.

A giant cat from The Master and Margarita.

All right.

We'll continue on with the match with the following toss up question.

What country?

Where Peter Obi and Atiku Abubakar challenged the 2023 election victory.

A Bola Tinubu is Africa's most populous and is led from Abuja.

Africa's most populous country is Nigeria.

Next toss up question.

What book in the Bible in which the Israelites eat manna depicts Aaron casting a golden calf.

Ten plagues striking Egypt and Moses.

Exodus.

The Book of Exodus is correct.

It also features Moses parting the Red sea for your bonus.

What French author described an unexpected burst of involuntary memory caused by a madeleine cake in his multi-volume novel In Search of Lost Time.

And more.

That's incorrect.

Marcel Proust is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

In what year did Ferdinand Folk defeat the Spring Offensive?

William the Second abdicated in the November Revolution and World War One, and great 1918 1918 is correct.

For your bonus.

The L in an RLC circuit refers to what device that are represented as coils in circuit diagrams.

Inductors is the correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What city whose suburbs include Abu Ghraib was the capital of the of the other of the Abbasid Caliphate, lies on the Tigris River and is the capital of Iraq.

Go ahead.

Palmerton.

Kandahar.

That's incorrect.

Tehran.

You have to buzz in first.

Go ahead.

Tehran.

Also wrong.

Baghdad is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What quantity, which has a dynamic form measured in Pascal seconds or in pauses, is zero in a superfluid and measures a fluid's resistance.

God permitted viscosity.

Viscosity is correct, and it measures of fluids resistance to flow.

For your bonus, the first of the so-called unequal treaties greatly favored Great Britain and ended what 19th century war with China.

No answer.

Pass on that one.

The Opium War, the first opium war.

Next.

Awesome question.

What man switched his nation to the Latin alphabet and forced citizens to use European style surnames?

As the first post-independence leader of Turkey?

Kemal Ataturk is the correct answer.

And with that, we have reached half time.

We have a pretty close match underway, with Palmerton leading by ten points over Wilson.

And now we'll let the students introduce themselves with their first name, last name, grade level.

And the answer to the following question who is your current favorite musical artist?

Wilson.

Go ahead.

I'm pretty loud.

I've ready.

Sophomore.

And my favorite musician is Frederic Chopin.

Okay.

Jack Samra, I'm a senior, and my current favorite artist is Ludwig van Beethoven.

Okay.

Andrew plays, grade 11, and my favorite artist is NBA YoungBoy.

Okay.

My name's Jeffrey Sunderland.

I'm a senior.

My current favorite artist is Van Halen.

All right.

Well, that was perfect for the question.

We had come up in the match already.

Okay, Ezra Palmerton, go ahead.

As you green.

I'm a senior and my favorite artist currently is the Smiths.

Okay, Dylan Borger senior.

And my current favorite artist is Dean Martin.

All right, Alex Levy I'm a senior and my current favorite artist is Linkin Park.

Okay, I'm Logan Strub, I'm a junior and my current favorite artist is disturbed.

All right.

Very good.

If we continue on with the second half of the match with the following tossup question what figure the mother of Chrysler and the sister to Sir Theano and Uriah Lee, was slain by a hero who used a reflective shield to counter her petrifying gaze.

Palmerton.

Medusa.

Medusa is correct for a bonus or form of classification in biology.

Uses namesake diagrams that show relationships among species based on shared derived characteristics.

Just.

Phylogenetics is the correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What author described the culture of the Lings, the the Wilkins and the wikis in children's books that also mentioned Munchkins and Dorothy Gale?

Go ahead, Palmerton.

Nothing.

All right.

We'll go over to Wilson.

So that is a complete question.

So the Wizard of Oz, go ahead and buzz in The Wizard of Oz.

That's also incorrect.

We're looking for the author, Frank Baum.

It's the correct answer in that way.

Next toss up question.

What function has an integral equal to x times itself?

Minus x has a derivative equal to one over x n is equal.

Go ahead.

Palmerton natural log of x plus c. Yes.

Natural log or natural logarithm is correct for your bonus.

What term is given to the period from March to July 1815, when Napoleon briefly returned to power?

That's one against the 100 days.

Next tossup question what state whose quarter shows the new River Gorge Bridge is the only state with two cannot go ahead.

Wilson, West Virginia.

That is correct.

It's the only state with two panhandles for your bonus, what term from physics identifies the tendency of a body to resist changes in its motion?

Or inertia?

There you go.

Inertia.

Inertia.

Inertia is correct.

Next tossup question what character is scolded for driving 55mph after hearing a pack up, pack up sound while daydreaming in a story by James Thurber.

Walter Mitty is a correct answer.

Next tossup question what battle in which the US Asiatic Squadron, commanded by George Dewey, destroyed a Spanish fleet in 1898, took place near the Philippines capital.

That's the Battle of Manila Bay.

Next tossup question.

Gout is a subtype of what condition that affects synovial tissue, has osteo and rheumatoid types, and is characterized by joint guide promoting arthritis.

Arthritis is correct and is characterized by joint inflammation.

Your bonuses in math pencil on paper ready?

What is the value of x?

If the data set whose four values are zero?

41 104 and X has a median of 36.

36.

That's incorrect.

The correct answer is x equals 31.

Next toss up question.

What constitutional amendment permits non appointment responded to the Pawlak versus Farmers Loan and Trust ruling and authorized a federal income tax.

That's the 16th amendment.

Next toss up question what major desert is east of talk Lahmacun dessert contains many dinosaur fossils in its formation and spans across southern Mongolia.

Balsam the Gobi Desert.

The Gobi Desert is correct for your bonus.

The ruins of the ancient city of a duelist are in what African country?

Whose capital is Asmara?

Kenya.

That's incorrect.

Eritrea is the correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What geological feature?

Whose northern terminus is at the mine?

Diseno Triple Junction is a transform fault that extends for 750 miles in California.

Go ahead.

Wilson, the San Andreas the San Andreas Fault is correct for your bonus.

The nonviolent breakup of Czechoslovakia in 1992 is often known as what type of divorce?

Annulment.

Incorrect.

It was known as the Velvet Divorce because it went so smoothly, relatively, for the Kingdom of.

Okay, we are on to our second lightning round.

Wilson, you get to pick between the following topics.

Ends in a z e or steam.

It's easy for your steam.

Easy, quickly.

Easy, easy.

It is.

Wilson.

Your second lightning round.

Hopkins ends in A-Z.

E give these words the end with the consecutive letters A, Z, e puzzling network of confusing paths.

Maze correct to spend time in a laid back, relaxed manner.

Days.

Incorrect.

What farm animals do when they eat grass in a phrase.

Raise correct to stun someone making them on keys a maze on.

Unfortunately that's incorrect.

A fad.

Is incorrect to surprise someone greatly amazed.

Correct.

A glossy, smooth coating applied to a surface glaze.

Correct.

A slight obstacle of air caused by fine particles is correct.

To completely destroy.

Pulverize.

Incorrect process of joining metals similar to soldering.

Scared.

And that was the last one to praise.

Great.

Okay, Parchin, your topic is steam.

Answer the following about steam phase change by which steam becomes liquid condensation.

Correct.

Disney mascot who appears in Steamboat Willie Mickey Mouse correct.

Pressurized springs that eject water and steam geysers.

Correct.

Animated TV show that originated the Steamed Hams.

Meme.

Passive.

The steam engine pioneer who names the C unit of power.

What correct sci fi subgenre with Victorian esthetics.

Steampunk.

Correct American folklore figure who raced against a steam powered drill.

Henry.

That is correct.

English painter of rain, steam and speed.

Past video game company behind the steam gaming platform.

No.

Last one was valve.

The Valve Corporation is behind steam.

All right.

We start the final quarter of the match with the following toss up question what kinetic sculptures, which include lobster trap and fishtail by Alexander Calder, have parts that move in the air, similar to toys above?

Cribs.

Mobiles is the correct answer.

Next toss up question what war saw?

The sinking of the General Belgrano helped Margaret Thatcher win a 1983 election, and was fought between Britain and Argentina.

Former Falklands War The Falklands War is correct for bonus.

What wife of Laius killed herself after realizing she had committed incest with her son, Oedipus.

No answer.

Your casta is a correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What poem?

Who speaker knows how ways lead on to weigh ends with a proclamation and that has made all the difference and is by Robert Frost.

The road no taken.

Wilson.

Go ahead.

The road not taken.

The road not taken is correct for your bonus.

What president whose predecessor was assassinated, signed the Pendleton Civil Service Act to reform the spoils system of government.

Lyndon Johnson, that's incorrect.

Chester Arthur is the correct president.

Next toss up question.

What transition metal has the highest melting point of any metal is used in the filament of incandescent light bulbs, and has the atomic symbol W tungsten.

Tungsten.

Tungsten is correct for bonus.

What alpine microstate whose capital is Vaduz, is Europe's only doubly landlocked country.

Linked in Stein Liechtenstein is correct.

Next tossup question what disaster which occurred at Lakehurst station and caused Herbert Morris to yell, oh, the humanity killed 35 people aboard a German zeppelin.

Go ahead, Wilson, the Hindenburg.

The Hindenburg disaster is correct for your bonus.

What author who argued for secular interpretations of Scripture in the practice?

Theological politics was a Jewish philosopher who wrote ethics.

And anything.

Wilson.

Baruch Spinoza is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

The Art Deco or the Art Deco Penobscot Building is in what city?

Which lies across the Ambassador Bridge from Windsor and is the most populous city in Michigan.

Palmer.

Detroit Detroit is correct for your bonus.

What English author and statesman used Latin to write a 1516 book that imagined a fictional island with an ideal society, titled Utopia?

No answer.

That is, Thomas Moore.

Next tossup question.

What poem in which death and Life in death gambol for the souls of a ship was written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, about a sailor who kills an albatross.

That poem is the rhyme of the Ancient Mariner.

Next toss up question what conquistador, who led a 16th century group called the famous 13, defeated Atahualpa at a part of the Spanish conquest of the Incan Empire?

It was as a part of the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire.

The correct answer is Francisco Pizarro.

The next toss up question is in math pencil on paper.

Ready?

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

What was a very close match between these two teams?

Wilson, congratulations.

With 165 points, you're on to the next round.

Palmerton.

It was close, but not quite this time.

Good luck with the rest of your school year.

I thank you for tuning in.

We'll see you next week for the final match of the second round, when Northwestern Lehigh High School faces off against last year's runners up, Whitehall High School.

The Temple Saint Luke's School of Medicine is shaping the next generation of physicians in our region.

Our students learn here, stay here and care for our community.

Start here, grow here, thrive here.

This.