Scholastic Scrimmage: Ep 14 Emmaus HS vs Moravian Academy

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

I'm your host, David Graf.

Today's match features the two finalists from last season, Emmaus and Moravian Academy.

The match will be composed of two halves with a lightning round midway through each half, and at half-time we pause to get to know the students better.

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

It is not necessarily indicative of academic training.

And now let's begin.

Buzzers ready.

We'll start with our first toss-up.. What prince of Phthia and the leader of the Myrmidons was inspired by the death of his companion Patroclus... Moravian.

- Achilles.

- That is correct.

..to slay Hector at the end of the Trojan War?

For your bonus, what composer used a section called I Feel the Earth Move and several Knee Plays in an opera from his portrait trilogy Einstein On The Beach?

- Glass.

- Philip Glass is correct.

Next toss-up.

What tissue has trabecular and cortical forms, contains collagen and calcium hydroxy... Go ahead.

- Cartilage.

- Incorrect.

I'll continue on.

..contains calcium hydroxyapatite and sometimes contains blood cells forming marrow?

Moravian.

- Bone.

- Bone tissue or bone is correct.

For your bonus...

If Great Britain's Prince William succeeds his father, as expected, and keeps the regnal name William, what regnal number William would he become?

- The fourth?

- That is incorrect.

The fifth would be the William that he would become.

Next toss-up.

What actress who played the drug addled daughter of Riggan Thomson in Birdman played aspiring actress Mia alongside Ryan Gosling in La La Land?

Moravian.

- Emma Stone.

- That is correct.

For your bonus... What common name is given to any insect in the order lepidoptera which is not a butterfly?

- Moth.

- That is correct.

Moth or moths.

Next toss-up.

What American painter who showed two women in a Chinese restaurant in Chop Suey portrayed the lonely patrons of a late night diner... - Hopper.

- You are correct.

Edward Hopper.

He portrayed it in Nighthawks.

For your bonus... Edward de Vere is one of several figures proposed by Anti-Stratfordians to be the real author of what works attributed to what author?

- Shakespeare's plays.

- That's correct.

Many people believe he was William Shakespeare.

Next toss-up.

What novel in which Arthur Holmwood donates blood to Lucy Westenra... Go ahead, Moravian.

- Dracula.

- That is correct.

..by the suggestion of Dr Van Helsing and was written by Bram Stoker?

Next bonus.

Or your bonus, Moravian Academy.

What German composer of the Baroque era wrote a piece featuring the eight note bass ostinato D. A.

B. F Sharp.

G. D. G. A which was paired with a gigue?

- Bach.

- Johann Pachelbel is the correct answer.

Incorrect.

Next toss-up.

What letter can denote the ball shaped atomic orbital closest to the nucleus or... Emmaus.

- S. - Yes, that is correct.

For your bonus...

Which of the classical simple machines can be created by wrapping a tilted inclined plane around a cylinder?

- A screw.

- That is also correct.

Next toss-up.

What man who appointed every member of Bare-bones Parliament was nicknamed Old Ironsides Moravian.

- Oh, Cromwell.

- That is correct.

Oliver Cromwell.

For your bonus...

Ten characters tell stories over ten days in what 14th century book by Giovanni Boccaccio, whose title is partly derived from the Greek word for ten?

- The Decameron.

- That is also correct.

Next toss-up.

What series, which began in 1927 when Leslie McFarland wrote The Tower Treasure under the name Franklin W Dixon, depicts two crime solving brothers?

Moravian.

- Sherlock Holmes.

- That is incorrect.

Emmaus, there's still a little bit time.

Go ahead.

- The Hardy Boys.

- That is correct.

For your bonus... What city whose metropolitan area is home to the headquarters of CONMEBOL Soccer Confederation is the capital of Paraguay?

- Asuncion.

- That is correct.

Next toss-up.

What country, the site of the 2022 Abu Seifein church fire, is led by Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and is where the ship Ever Given blocked the Suez... Emmaus.

- Egypt?

- That is correct.

..Ever Given blocked the Suez Canal?

For your bonus... Theodore Roosevelt won the Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating what 1905 treaty that ended the Russo-Japanese War?

- The Treaty of Kanagawa?

- That is incorrect.

The Treaty of Portsmouth is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What statement, often written as H-bar over 2, is less than or equal to sigma X times sigma P limits knowledge of a particle's position... Emmaus.

- Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.

- That's correct.

..limits the position and momentum.

For your bonus... What play by Thornton Wilder is narrated by the stage manager and takes place in the small town of Grover's Corners, New Hampshire?

- Our Town.

- Our Town is correct.

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

In a pre-match coin toss, it was determined that Emmaus will get to pick first between the following topics - inorganic compounds or A in music.

- We'll go with inorganic compounds.

- Inorganic compounds.

That means, Moravian, you'll have A in music.

And also we ask everyone just stays quiet while one team answers.

If you want to play along, go ahead and write down on a piece of paper if you have a best guess.

You have inorganic compounds.

Given the molecular formula, name the substance, and we will accept trivial names like water or systematic names like calcium bromide.

NACL.

- Salt.

- Correct.

H2S04.

- Sulfuric acid.

- Correct.

NH3.

- Ammonia.

- Correct.

CO2.

- Carbon dioxide.

- Correct.

CH4.

- Pass.

- N20.

- Er... Oxyg...

Pass.

- NAOH.

- Sodium hydroxide.

- Correct.

H202.

- Hydrogen peroxide.

- Correct.

SF6.

- Sulfur hexafluoride.

- Correct.

LIHCO3 - Lithium bicarbonate.

- That is also correct.

Sarvesh, you know your chemistry, the inorganic compounds.

So, Moravian, that leaves you with A in music.

Give these musical terms, not all of which come from Italian, that begin with the letter A.

Elaborate vocal solo in an opera.

- Aria.

- Correct.

The lowest woman's part in a choral music.

- Alto.

- Correct.

Choral music performed without instruments.

- A cappella.

- That is correct.

A fast tempo, a bit slower than vivace.

- Allegro.

- Correct.

The science of sound production, in singular, a type of guitar.

- Acoustic.

- Anyone can say it.

Acoustic is correct.

Chord tones surrounded in succession rather than all at once.

Sounded in succession, excuse me, instead of all at once.

- Pass.

- Device to increase the volume of sound.

- Amplifier.

- That is correct.

Direction to gradually play faster.

- Pass.

- Slow, expressive tempo used in Samuel Barber's piece for strings.

- Adagio.

- That is correct.

From Latin for dice... And that is the end of that round.

And just a reminder, too, for Moravian, anyone, if you know the answer, you can shout it out loud.

We don't have to wait for the captain.

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

What man, whose ship the Liberty was seized in 1768, was the first governor of Massachusetts and prominently signed... Moravian.

- Samuel Adams.

- I'll continue for Emmaus.

That's incorrect.

..prominently signed the Declaration of Independence?

- Hancock.

- John Hancock is the correct answer.

For your bonus...

In 1934, officers from what non-federal law enforcement agency ambushed and killed Bonnie and Clyde?

- The Bankerten?

- Pinkerton.

- Pinkerton.

- That is incorrect.

It's the Texas Rangers, and Chuck Norris had not joined yet at that point.

Over everyone's head.

We need to be more from the '90s.

Sorry.

Next toss-up.

What subject whose positive theory was developed by HLA Hart has a natural form in many philosophies and is practiced by members of the Bar?

- Law.

- Moravian?

- Law.

- That is correct.

For your bonus... What American pop artist emulated the style of comic books in paintings such as Drowning Girl and Whaam!?

- Warhol.

- That's incorrect.

Roy Lichtenstein is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

In what city, the capital of the Spanish province of Navarre, is home to the annual festival of San Fermin, which contains the running of the bull?

Emmaus.

- Pamplona.

- That is correct.

It contains the running of the bulls.

For your bonus... Ludwig Boltzmann's grave shows his equation relating what thermodynamic quantity to the log of the number of microstates?

- Temperature.

- That's incorrect.

Entropy is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What $15 million deal negotiated by Robert Livingston and James... Moravian.

- Louisiana Purchase.

- That is correct.

It gave us Louisiana as well as the New Orleans Territory...

Excuse me, as well as the Louisiana Territory.

For your bonus... Harrah was described as having the eyes or face of which animal which is also often used to represent the Egyptian goddess Hathor?

- Peacock.

- That is incorrect.

A cow is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What type of radiation which can give rise to dark lightning during namesake bursts has higher energy than X rays?

Emmaus.

- Gamma.

- That is correct.

And it's named for a Greek letter, a gamma ray.

For your bonus... A type of pentameter often used for blank verse employs what metrical foot, which consists of an unstressed syllable, followed by a stressed syllable?

- An iamb.

- That's correct.

An iamb or iambic pentameter is correct.

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

We have a great match under way.

Moravian Academy leads with 140 points to 135.

And since it's the first time we see both of these teams, because they had a pass in the first round, we'll get to know them better.

They'll introduce their first and last name, grade level and what is the one app that you cannot live without.

Emmaus, we start with you.

Go ahead.

- Hi, I'm Sarvesh.

I'm an 11th grader and the app I can't live without is mozzarella sticks - OK. - I'm Eric.

I'm a 12th grader in Emmaus.

My favorite app is garlic knots.

- I'm Thomas.

I'm a senior at Emmaus and the app I can't live without is pretzel sticks.

- Gotcha.

- I'm Ben.

I'm a 12th grader and I can't live without wings.

- There you go.

Very interesting.

Emmaus was the first team to take this literally - picking food appetizers versus computer apps, which everybody else went with.

So, very cool.

Moravian, puts a lot of pressure.

Do we go computer apps or we do favorite apps?

Tyler, go ahead.

- Hi, my name is Tyler.

I'm in ninth grade and my favorite app would be my Calendar.

- OK. - I'm Nathaniel.

I'm in ninth grade.

My favorite app is probably Settings.

- OK. - I'm Okezue.

I'm a senior and my favorite app is Notion.

- OK. - I'm Ellie.

I'm a senior and my favorite app is Google Docs.

- All right.

So, Nathaniel, Moravian, that is not as unusual as you as you'd think.

There were three other contestants that said Settings was their favorite app.

So it must be those type-A control people that want to make sure everything's set up the right way on their phone.

Emmaus, I love where you went there with the apps.

My favorite is buffalo wings.

You can go with that as well.

- There you go.

- All right.

We'll continue the second half of the match with this toss-up.

What show, which received a 2022 Emmy nomination for actress Rhea Seehorn, starred Bob... - Better Call Saul.

- That is correct.

..with a lawyer that also appeared in Breaking Bad?

Your bonus is in math.

Pencil and paper ready?

What is the average speed in miles per hour of a bicyclist who travels 4.5 miles in 15 minutes?

- 18mph.

- Did he get in before the buzzer?

He did.

He got it right before the buzzer.

And you are right with 18mph.

Next toss-up.

What island whose highest peak is Cerro Punto, is home to the coqui frog and the El Yunque National Forest?

It's also... Emmaus.

- Puerto Rico.

- That is correct.

And if you ever noticed, due to the Puerto Rican population in Lehigh Valley during Puerto Rican Heritage Day, our local baseball team, the Iron Pigs, puts a coqui on their hats.

For your bonus... At what university did Phillip Zimbardo lead an experiment in which participants were randomly assigned to groups of either guards or prisoners?

- Stanford.

- That is correct.

Stanford University.

Next toss-up.

What author portrayed a woman who borrows money from the merchant Lheureux before killing herself with arsenic in the 1856 French novel Madame Bovary?

Go ahead.

- Flaubert.

- Say it again.

- Flaubert.

- That is correct.

Gustave Flaubert is the correct answer.

For your bonus... What American author who depicted businessman Frank Copperwood - excuse me, Frank Coperwood - in such novels as The Financier wrote the novel Sister Carrie?

- Smith.

- Incorrect.

Theodore Dreiser is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What planet whose poles periodically go through 42 years of darkness has a 98 degree axle... axial tilt and... Emmaus.

- Neptune.

- That is incorrect.

I'll continue on for Moravian.

..and a larger radius than fellow ice giant Neptune?

Go ahead, Moravian.

- Uranus.

- That is correct.

For your bonus... Aluminum hydroxide is an example of what type of molecule that can act as either an acid or a base?

- Buffer.

- Incorrect.

Amphoteric is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What language alongside English in Elias Boudinot's Phoenix, a newspaper published in New Echota, uses syllabary developed by the Sequoyah?

Moravian.

- Cherokee.

- The Cherokee language is correct.

For your bonus...

The Charge of the Light Brigade was repulsed by soldiers from what country which fought Britain, France and the Ottomans in the Crimean War?

- Russia.

- That is also correct.

Russia or the Russian Empire.

Next toss-up.

What author who wrote about gambler Jim Smiley and the title animal, whose name is Daniel Webster.

in The Celebrated Jumping Frog... Moravian.

- Twain.

- Thank you for not having me have to read the entire title of that.

Thank you.

For your bonus...

In 2022. drought and climate change led to the uncovering of multiple sets of human remains in dried up portions of what lake east of Las Vegas?

- Lake Mead.

- That is correct.

Luckily, many members of the Mafia are now gone, long gone and won't have to be found for that.

For your next toss-up.

What food used to make Hawaiian musubi is paired with eggs... Emmaus.

- Spam.

- That is correct.

And it's made by the Hormel Corporation.

For your bonus... What law named for a French chemist states that at constant volume the pressure of a given mass of a gas varies directly with its temperature.

- Gay Lussac's Law.

- Gay Lussac's Law is correct.

Next toss-up.

What country which in the 1700s was a French colony called Saint-Domingue... Moravian.

- Haiti?

- That is correct.

For your bonus... What group, which includes the Buddhist BR Ambedkar, lies outside the four varnas of India's caste system and has historically faced discrimination?

- The Untouchables.

- We will accept that.

The Dalits is also acceptable as well too.

For the next toss-up... What degree of polynomial whose roots can be found in Cardano's method has at most two local extrema and has a degree one more than a quadratic... Emmaus.

- Three...cubic... - Judges?

Yep, we'll take that.

Cubic polynomials.

It had a degree one more than a quadratic.

So you are correct.

For your bonus... Oregon's second most populous city is what city nicknamed TrackTown USA and is home to the University of Oregon?

- Salem.

- That is incorrect.

It's Eugene, Oregon, which I spent many months in when I used to work for Runner's World magazine.

All right.

And we are on to the second lightning round.

Moravian Academy.

Your topics - you can choose from are jails and prisons or IE.

- IE.

- IE.

That means jails and prisons goes to Emmaus.

Moravian Academy, your topic is IE.

Give these words that end in the consecutive letters IE.

A five-letter word for an impish sprite or fairy.

- Pixie.

- Correct.

A childish word for a germ or headlouse.

- Cootie.

- Correct.

In Marxist theory, the capitalist, non-royal, owning class.

- Bourgeoisie.

- Correct.

A shady figure who handles money for gambling bets.

- Bookie.

- Correct.

A relatively flat, treeless grassland.

- Prairie.

- Correct.

A device that cooks food by constantly revolving it.

- Rotisserie.

- Correct.

A shield maiden who guided the heroic dead in Norse myth.

- Valkyrie.

- Correct.

A bakery specializing in fine French pastry.

- Patisserie.

- That is correct.

A score of one below par in golf.

- Birdie.

- Correct.

A colorful, elastic hair band.

- Scrunchie.

- That is correct.

Nice job on that bonus round.

Emmaus, for your lightning round, your topic is jails and prisons.

Answer the following about prisons and jails.

Board game with jail and just waiting places.

- Monopoly.

- Correct.

Singer of Jailhouse Rock.

- Presley.

- Correct.

South African president imprisoned on Robben... - Mandela.

- Correct.

City home to Rikers Island Jail.

- New York City.

- Correct.

Nickname of the deadly 18th century British prison in Calcutta.

- Pass.

- Eight-letter term for the highest security prisons in the United States.

- Maximum.

- incorrect.

State home to Leavenworth Prison.

- California.

- Incorrect.

Prison housing Andy Dufresne in a 1994 film.

- Shawshank.

- That is correct.

Author who featured London's Newgate Prison in Moll Flanders.

- Fielding.

- Incorrect.

British philosopher who proposed a prison called the Panopticon.

- Locke.

- Incorrect.

Jeremy Bentham was the correct answer of the last one.

And we'll continue with the final quarter of the match with the following toss-up question.

What symphony with an English horn solo in D-flat major in its Largo second movement is named for the fact that Antonin Dvorak... Emmaus - The New World Symphony.

- That is correct.

He wrote it while he was in the United States.

For your bonus...

The moon Dysnomia orbits what most massive known dwarf planet whose discovery led Pluto to be demoted from a planet?

- Haumea.

- Incorrect.

Eris is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What institution which issued a consultum ultimum, which is an emergency decree to protect the state, approving death for treason and had members chosen by the censor from wealthy Roman citizens?

Moravian.

- The Senate.

- Can you be more specific?

Oh, is that OK?

All right.

The Senate.

Judges will take that.

Senate or Roman Senate.

For your bonus...

In 1945, Japanese officials formally surrendered aboard what American battleship, the last ever commissioned for the US Navy?

- Missouri.

- The USS Missouri is correct.

The next toss-up is in math.

Pencil and paper ready.

What is the probability of an event happening if the odds of the event occurring are 5 to 2 in favor?

Go ahead, Moravian.

- 40%.

- That is incorrect.

Emmaus... And that's the buzzer.

It's five in seven is the correct answer for five over seven.

Next toss-up.

What author whose play featuring Joe Keller inspired the name of the band 21 Pilots was married to Marilyn Monroe and wrote The Crucible?

Emmaus.

- Miller.

- Arthur Miller is correct.

For your bonus... 17th century pirate William Dampier wrote the first English language recipe for what dip that includes mashed avocados, onion and lime juice?

- Guacamole.

- That is correct.

Who knew that was such an old recipe?

I had no idea.

For your next toss-up... What man whose money was used to buy the field of blood delivers a kiss in the Garden of Gethsemane after getting 30 pieces of silver to betray... Moravian.

- Judas.

- That is correct.

Judas Iscariot is the correct answer.

For your bonus... What 18th century Scottish philosopher wrote about a missing shade of blue in the book An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding?

- Smith.

- Incorrect.

David Hume is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What federal agency, which is led by former Senator Bill Nelson, is carrying out the Artemis program and supervised the launch... Emmaus.

- NASA.

- That is correct.

He supervised the launch of the Webb telescope.

For your bonus... What Ohio University was the site of the 1970 massacre in which Jeffrey Miller and three other anti-war student protesters were shot by the National Guard?

- Ohio State University.

- Incorrect.

Kent State University is a correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What tissue containing single celled tracheids as well as vessel elements transports water upward and is normally found adjacent to... Emmaus.

- Xylem.

- That is correct.

..as found adjacent to the phloem?

Xylem is your correct answer For your bonus...

In January 2022, the Russian Navy changed plans for a military exercise in what country's waters after fishermen threatened to... And we have reached the end of... Oh, he did get in?

Sarvesh did get in before the bell, so you can let your captain know the answer.

But I cannot continue the question.

- Say Germany.

- Germany.

- Unfortunately, it's incorrect.

The correct answer is Ireland.

And with that, time is up.

Emmaus, with 255 points, it's the end of the road.

Good luck with the rest of your school year.

Moravian Academy - 310 points.

Congratulations.

You are on to the next round.

And thank you for tuning in.

You can see the first of next week's final four matchups, Stroudsburg versus Palmerton next week.