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- Hello and welcome to the 47th season of Scholastic Scrimmage.

I'm your host, David Graf.

This year's Scrimmage will look a bit different due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

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

And now on with today's matchup, which features Catasauqua vs Bethlehem Catholic.

This match will feature two halves with a lightning round mid-way through each half.

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

As a reminder, Scholastic Scrimmage requires rapid recall, specific factual information and is not necessarily indicative of academic training.

And now let's begin.

Buzzers ready.

Onto our first toss-up.

What institution, whose Four Horsemen opposed the New Deal, did Franklin Roosevelt try to pack in the 1930s by adding up to six more justices?

Becahi?

- The Supreme Court?

- That is correct.

For your bonus, what man, who moved funds into pet banks as Andrew Jackson's Treasury Secretary, later served as chief justice during the Dred Scott case?

- Roosevelt.

- That is incorrect.

It's Roger Taney.

On to the next toss-up.

In what country, home to the Yamina and the Blue and White political alliances, did Naftali Bennett replace Benjamin Netanyahu as Prime Minister?

Becahi?

- Israel.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, in Greek myth, what musician went to Hades to retrieve his love Eurydice?

- Apollo.

- That's incorrect.

Orpheus is the correct answer.

Next toss-up is in math.

Pencil and paper ready.

What is the original price of a bicycle that now retails for $210 after having been discounted by 30%?

We're looking for the original price.

The time is up.

It would be $300.

Onto the next toss-up.

What monarch faced the Bedchamber crisis, ruled through the tenure of Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli and was married to Prince Albert?

Becahi.

- Elizabeth.

- That's incorrect.

Catasauqua, a little bit of time.

The correct answer is Queen Victoria.

Next toss-up: what author typed his novel The Dharma Bums on a single roll of paper, as he did with his novel about a trip taken by Sal Paradise titled On the Road?

Nobody?

One of my favorites, Jack Kerouac.

Next toss-up.

What waterway includes the Great Bitter Lake, terminates in its north at Port Said and is a canal that runs along a namesake Egyptian peninsula?

Becahi.

- Suez Canal.

- That's correct.

And for your bonus, which son of John of Gaunt became the first Lancastrian King of England when he overthrew Richard II in 1399?

- Henry.

- Be more specific - Henry I.

That's incorrect, it was Henry IV.

Next toss-up: what scientist, who first used the term positive and negative for charge, proposed to show that lightning is electricity by flying a kite in a storm?

Becahi.

- Ben Franklin.

- That's correct.

Benjamin Franklin.

And for your bonus, in what state was gay college student Matthew Shepard murdered, the response to which is depicted in the play The Laramie Project?

- Massachusetts.

- That's incorrect.

Wyoming is the correct answer.

Next toss-up: what word for the ocean storms that foiled the Mongol attempts to invade Japan is also the name for Japan's tactic of aerial suicide attacks in World War II?

Catasauqua.

- Kamikaze.

- That's correct.

For your bonus, Indianapolis 500 champions traditionally drink what nonalcoholic beverage from a glass bottle?

- Milk.

- That's correct.

One of the finest marketing sponsorships of all time.

Next toss-up: what singer of Versace on the Floor, who joined Anderson Paak in the duo Silk Sonic, has had hits...?

Becahi.

- Bruno Mars.

- Bruno Mars is correct.

And for your bonus, what country of birth of...or what country of birth of Augustine Strindberg is the setting for his naturalistic tragedy Miss Julie?

- Germany.

- Incorrect.

The correct answer is Sweden.

Next toss-up: what animals which have only two germ layers or C style organisms, some of which have skeletons that have been utilized by humans because they absorb water?

Becahi.

- Sponge.

- That's correct, sponges.

For your bonus, what dwarf planet, discovered by Giuseppe Piazzi, is the largest object in the asteroid belt and is named for a Roman goddess?

- Sirius.

- Judges?

That's incorrect .

It's Ceres.

That's the correct answer.

Next toss-up: what phenomena, plotted against wage rises on the Phillips curve, comes in structural and seasonal forms and occurs when people cannot find jobs?

Catasauqua.

- Unemployment - Unemployment is correct.

For your bonus, what rapper, whose meal at McDonald's includes a quarter pounder with bacon and fries with barbecue sauce, is sometimes known as Cactus Jack?

- Travis Scott.

- That's correct.

And for nerd credits, anybody know his real name?

Stage name?

No?

- No.

- Jacques Webster II.

All right.

Next toss-up: what man, whose company was criticized in a history written by muckraker Ida Tarbell, was the first US billionaire and founded Standard Oil?

Becahi?

- Rockefeller.

- Uh, we give her that, judges?

Yeah.

John D Rockefeller is correct.

For your bonus, what ornate art style sometimes called late baroque includes John Henry Fragonard's painting The Swing and flourished in 18th century France?

- Victorian.

- That's incorrect.

It's the rococo style.

a pre-match coin toss, it was determined that Becahi would get to pick between the following topics.

Bethlehem Catholic, you can pick between First Ladies or US states.

- US states.

- US states.

That means, Catasauqua, you'll have First Ladies.

Becahi, US states is your topic.

Name these states, given names of two cities within the state.

Pittsburgh and Allentown.

- Pennsylvania.

- Correct.

Shreveport and Lafayette.

- Louisiana.

- Correct.

West Valley City and Provo.

- Utah.

- Correct.

Missoula and Great Falls.

- Montana.

- Correct.

Rochester and Duluth.

- Minnesota.

- Correct.

Tucson and Mesa.

- Arizona.

- Correct.

Augusta and Columbus.

- Maine.

- Incorrect.

San Antonio and Dallas.

- Texas.

- Correct.

Lewiston and Bangor.

- Maine.

- Correct.

Green Bay and Kenosha.

- Wisconsin.

- That's correct.

Nice job, Becahi, on knowing your US states.

So it means, Catasauqua you're left with First Ladies.

First Ladies.

Name the First Lady who announced the Be Best campaign and was born in Slovenia.

- Melania Trump.

- That's correct.

Won the Democratic nomination in the 2016 presidential election.

- Hillary Clinton.

- That's correct.

Wrote the newspaper column My Day.

- Pass.

- Told her husband to remember the ladies in a 1776 letter.

Martha Washington.

- Incorrect.

Married Aristotle Onassis after her husband's death.

- Kennedy.

- Uh, yes, correct.

Began the anti-drug campaign Just Say No.

- Pass.

- Supported the Highway Beautification Act and was nicknamed Lady Bird.

- Pass - Was nicknamed Lemonade Lucy by the opponents of Prohibition.

- Pass.

- Launched the Let's Move program and wrote the memoir Becoming.

- Michelle Obama.

- Correct.

Was institutionalized by her eldest son, Robert, in 1875.

- Pass.

- All right, and that is the end of the lightning round.

For answers to the Lightning Round, make sure to check out PBS39's social media channels, where we'll share the questions and answers.

Now we'll move on with our next toss-up.

The next toss-up in math.

Pencil and paper ready.

If a resolution needs a two-thirds majority to pass in a 285-member legislature, what minimum number of votes is required?

The correct answer is 190 votes.

Next toss-up: in this 1913 poem by Joyce Kilmer, the title objects are said to wear a nest of robins and to lift their leafy arms to pray.

Becahi.

- Trees.

- That's correct.

For your bonus, what 18th century English poet wrote a satirical epic titled The Dunciad and claimed to err is human, to forgive is divine in an essay on criticism?

- Carroll.

- That's incorrect.

Alexander Pope is the correct answer.

Next toss-up: what composer of Some Enchanted Evening wrote the music Oh, What A Beautiful Morning in Oklahoma!, his first musical with Oscar Hammerstein.

Becahi.

- Rodgers.

- Correct, Richard Rodgers.

And for your bonus, from independence in 1831 until 1909, Belgium had only two kings, who shared what regnal name?

- Leopold.

- That is correct.

Next toss-up: what kingdom was the birthplace of the composer of the Miraculous Mandarin, Bela Bartok, and the pianist Franz Liszt, who composed the Mephisto Waltz?

The correct answer is the kingdom of Hungary.

Next toss-up: what state, which is home to the Torah synagogue, has such mansions as Chateau-sur-Mer and the Breakers in Newport and is also the smallest state by area?

Catasauqua?

- Rhode Island?

- That's correct.

For your bonus, the deepest known part of the Pacific Ocean, the Challenger Deep, is in what trench, that curves around the American territory of Guam?

- Mariana.

- That's correct.

The Mariana Trench.

Next toss-up:.

what country, where Cardinal Jaime Sin mobilized participants in the People's Power Revolution, was formerly led by Ferdinand Marcos from Manila?

Catasauqua.

- Italy.

- That's incorrect.

Becahi, there's still some time on the clock.

Go ahead.

Say again.

- The Philippines.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, what is the name for the set that contains all possible subsets of a given set?

- All real numbers.

- Incorrect.

The correct answer is a power set.

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

We have an excellent match under way.

Catasauqua has 95 points.

Becahi has 190 points.

Now prior to the match, in order to aid in social distancing, we asked the students to introduce themselves individually on video.

So let's meet the contestants from Catasauqua and Bethlehem Catholic.

- Hello, my name is Angele and I'm a senior at Catasauqua High School.

- Hello, my name is Randy and I'm a senior at Catasauqua High School.

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

- Hi, my name is Kayla and I'm a junior at Catasauqua High School.

- Hi, my name is Evan.

I'm a senior at Bethlehem Catholic High School.

- Hi, my name is Brett.

I'm a senior at Bethlehem Catholic High School.

- Hi, my name is Louise and I'm a senior at Bethlehem Catholic High School.

- Hi, my name is Aidan and I'm a senior at Bethlehem Catholic High School.

- Welcome back.

We'll begin the second half with this toss-up.

Mycology is the study of what eukaryotic organisms that resemble plants but do not use photosynthesis and include yeast and mushrooms?

Catasauqua.

- Fungus.

- That's correct.

Fungi or funguses.

For your bonus, J.M.

Coetzee, who wrote the novels Waiting for the Barbarians and Disgrace, is one of two Nobel laureates in literature from what country?

- UK.

- Incorrect, the correct answer is South Africa.

Next toss-up: what event, which Enki spoke about to warn Atra-Hasis, was survived in Sumerian myth by Utnapishtim and in the Bible by Noah?

Catasauqua?

- Flood.

- That's correct.

The great floods.

For your bonus, what man, the first African-American to earn a PhD from Harvard, wrote the essay The Talented Tenth and founded the NAACP's magazine The Crisis?

- Frederick Douglass.

- Incorrect, the correct answer is W.E.B.

Dubois.

Next toss-up: what island, the destination of an expedition supported by Alcibiades, was home to the Greek colony of Syracuse and is at the southern tip of Italy?

Catasauqua.

- Sicily.

- That's correct.

For your bonus, syllogistic reasoning is criticized in the Novum Organum, a work on what scientific method by what 17th century English philosopher?

Francis Bacon is the correct answer.

Next toss-up: what company, co-founded in 1976 by Steve Wozniak, introduced the unsuccessful...?

Catasauqua.

- Apple.

- That's correct, Apple Computers.

For your bonus, optical pumping is used to generate a population inversion in the gain medium of what device, first built by Theodore Maiman?

- The Game Boy.

- Incorrect.

The correct answer is lasers.

Next toss-up, what composer, who revived Johann Sebastian Bach's music and wrote the Hebrides Overture converted to Christianity and added Bartoldi to his name?

The correct answer is Felix Mendelssohn.

Next toss-up: what character employs a chief of staff named Colonel Sebastian Moran and fatally plummets into the Reichenbach Falls after fighting Sherlock Holmes?

No Sherlock Holmes fans?

Professor James Moriarty.

Ring a bell?

All right.

Next toss-up is in math.

Pencil and paper ready.

How many times more basic is a solution of pH10 compared to a neutral solution of pH7, since the pH scale is logarithmic?

Catasauqua.

- Three - Again?

- Three.

- That's incorrect.

- 300.

- That is also incorrect.

It would be 1000 times more basic.

Next toss-up: what president, who served in the Senate after leaving office, angered radical Republicans and was impeached after succeeding Abraham Lincoln?

Becahi.

- Andrew Johnson.

- That's correct.

For your bonus, in January 20th 2001, what app received over 100,000 one-star reviews after it prevented users from buying GameStop stock?

- Robin Hood?

- That is correct.

Onto our next toss-up.

What poet, who depicted a ship of pearl in the chambered nautilus, shares his full name with a Supreme Court justice known as the Great Dissenter?

Becahi.

- Ginsberg?

- That's incorrect.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Senior is the correct answer we were looking for.

Onto our next toss-up: what phenomena, supposedly studied by Majestic 12, are the subject of a 2021 Pentagon report that found no evidence of military technology or aliens?

Becahi.

- Area 51.

- That is incorrect.

Catasauqua?

- UFOs.

- Buzz in.

- UFOs.

- That is correct.

And for your bonus, the tendency of crustaceans to evolve to be like crabs is an example of what type of evolution, in which unrelated species evolve similar structures?

- Adoption.

- Incorrect.

Convergent evolution is the answer we were looking for.

Next toss-up: what author wrote about a Jewish boxer who attended Princeton, matador Pedro Romero and World War I veteran Jake Barnes in The Sun Also Rises?

The correct answer is Ernest Hemingway.

PBS and Ken Burns just had a really great documentary on him.

Definitely a must watch.

Next toss-up: what type of flow, whose voltage can be increased with transformers, was promoted by Nikola Tesla and periodically changes direction?

Becahi.

- Alternating current?

- That's correct.

For your bonus, what character, who abandons his wife Janice in a 1960 novel, is a former basketball star who appears in four novels by John Updike?

- Chamberlain.

- Incorrect Robert Angstrom is the correct answer.

And with that, we've reached the next lightning round.

Catasauqua, you'll get to choose the topic this time.

Your choices are between CCs or palindromes.

- Palindromes.

- Palindromes.

That means, Becahi, you'll have CCs.

Catasauqua, your topic is palindromes.

Give these four-letter palindromes.

Word for 12pm.

- Noon.

- Correct.

First of Tolstoy's title characters... First name of the Tolstoy title character who kills herself.

- Pass.

- Real estate document that proves ownership.

- Deed.

- Correct.

Character voiced by Patrick Stewart in The Emoji Movie.

- Pass.

- First name of the German politician called the Iron Chancellor.

- Pass.

- Swedish band who sang Mamma Mia.

- Abba.

- Correct.

Italian word for bone that appears in the name of a veal entree.

- Pass.

- First name of Reese Witherspoon's character in Legally Blonde.

- Elle.

- Correct.

Indian flatbread baked in a tandoor.

- Naan.

- That's correct.

Latin word for behold that precedes homo in a phrase spoken by Pontius Pilate.

- Pass.

- All right, and that is the end of your lightning round.

We'll now move on to Bethlehem, Catholic.

Bethlehem Catholic, you have CCs.

Give these two-word answers in which each word starts with the letter C. Region jutting out from southeastern Massachusetts.

- Cape Cod.

- Correct.

Infectious disease that most frequently infects humans.

- Pass.

- Process that includes global warming.

- Climate change.

- Correct.

Dairy product also called curds and whey.

- Cream cheese.

- Incorrect.

Treat made from spun sugar.

- Cotton candy.

- Correct.

Coastal Texas city with a Latin name meaning body of Christ.

- Corpus Christi.

- Correct.

Largest land bird in North America.

- Pass.

- Lewis Carroll character with a mischievous grin.

- Cheshire cat.

- Correct.

Maximum population size an environment can sustain.

- Pass.

- Main chemical compound in limestone.

- Pass.

- And that is the end of your lightning round.

Both difficult subjects there.

We'll now move on with the final quarter of our game with the following toss-up.

What building, designed by Peter Hall and Jorn Utzon, features a set of sail like white shells and is a performing arts venue in Australia?

Becahi.

- Sydney Opera House.

- That's correct.

For your bonus, the vaccine Gardasil protects against what cancer-causing virus, the most common sexually transmitted infection in the world?

- HPV.

- That is also correct.

Next toss-up: what man, who was nearly deposed on the Day of the Dupes, was nicknamed the Red Eminence and was succeeded by Mazarin as chief minister to Louis XIII?

The correct answer is Cardinal Richelieu.

Next toss-up: what author, who wrote about the revolutionary Verkhovensky in the novel Demons, also wrote about a murderer named Rakshonikov in Crime And Punishment?

Raskolnikov is correct.

- Dostoevsky.

- That's correct.

And for your bonus, in 2011, the global population first exceeded how many billion people, which the United Nations recognized by proclaiming a day of this many billion?

- Seven.

- That is also correct.

What politician, who served as House minority leader for most of the 2010s, is the second in the presidential line of succession as the speaker of the House?

Catasauqua.

- Nancy Pelosi.

- That's correct.

For your bonus, what Soviet Foreign Minister secured an alliance with Germany by negotiating a non-aggression pact with Joachim von Ribbentrop in 1939?

- Stalin.

- Incorrect.

Molotov is the correct answer.

Next toss-up: what non SI unit, found in the denominator of molarity, is equivalent to a cube with sides ten centimeters long and is abbreviated with a capital L?

Catasauqua.

- Liter.

- That's correct.

And now for your bonus.

Pencil and paper ready.

What polynomial results from multiplying the binomial 2x - 5 times the binomial 3x + 2?

Go ahead with your answer.

- 6x squared - 11x - 10.

- That is correct.

Onto the next toss-up.

What type of structure, which Richard Lovelace claimed stone walls do not make in his poem To Athlena, includes a supermax one in Florence, Colorado?

It's To Althea.

His poem To Althea.

The correct answer is prisons.

Next question: what city, whose Janiculum and Villa Borghese parks lie on opposite banks of the Tiber river, contains the Pantheon and is the capital of Italy?

Bacahi.

- Rome.

- That's correct.

For your bonus, Shi Huangdi was the first emperor of what Chinese dynasty, the first to rule over a unified China?

- Qin.

- That is correct.

Next toss-up: what Netflix series, whose title marketing executive leaves Chicago to take a job at Savoie, stars Lily Collins and is set in France?

Becahi, go ahead.

- Emily in Paris.

- That is correct, and with that, we have reached the end of the game.

Excellent game between two great opponents.

The winner is Bethlehem Catholic with 330 points to Catasauqua's 215.

Catasauqua, thank you very much.

Enjoy the rest of your school year.

Bethlehem Catholic, we will see you in the next round.

Congratulations!

And thank you for tuning in.

We'll see you next week, when Southern Lehigh faces off against Whitehall.

Thank you very much.