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Hello and welcome to the final of the 50 season of Scholastic Scrimmage.

I'm your host, David Graff.

After 25 matches featuring 28 teams from the Lehigh Valley viewing area, we're down to the final two teams Whitehall High School and Moravian Academy.

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

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

As reminders, classic scrimmage requires rapid recall specific factual information as not necessarily indicative of academic training.

And now let's start the final buzzers.

Ready.

Here's our first toss up question.

Limbic eruptions can occur in stratified examples of what bodies, which include tarns made by glaciers, as well as five Great North America Moravian lakes.

Lakes is correct.

And they would be five great North American examples.

Moravian for your bonus.

What concept that appears in the title of an A.J.

Ayer book with truth and logic also names a type of game proposed by Ludwig Wittgenstein.

AKA prison.

Incorrect language or languages is the correct answer.

On the next toss up question, what term coined to describe Americans who tried to seize land in Latin America?

Now names a tactic for delaying Moravian filibusters.

Filibusters is correct, and it names a tactic for delaying bills in the United States Senate.

For your bonus, what leader who developed the principle of one country, two systems preceded Jiang Zemin and launched the 1980s economic reforms in China.

Yeah.

Deng, that is incorrect.

It's Deng Xiaoping is the correct answer.

Oh, we're taking it.

He's a ding ding ding a ding with an eight.

He said it is correct.

All right.

We confer with the judges.

And they did say the correct answer.

So, Moravian.

Nice job.

You get the bonus points.

Next tossup question.

What poet who won his first Pulitzer Prize for the 1924 collection New Hampshire, wrote about two ways the world could end.

Review.

Frost.

Robert Frost is correct.

And it was his poem.

Fire and Ice for your bonus.

What pathogens that are misfolded proteins are believed to be the cause of felled Jakob disease and mad cow disease.

Yeah, prions.

Prions are prions is the correct answer.

Next toss up question what school?

Whose football team includes quarterback Quinn Ewers, Whitehall, Texas.

Yeah.

Texas or Universe?

Texas is correct and also includes quarterback Arch Manning for your bonus.

A which uses the name Squire Satan to address what demon who bets God that a German scholar is corruptible in Johann Wolfsburg.

Von Girth as play Faust.

Mephistopheles.

Matthew.

Sophocles is correct.

Next tossup question.

What country where the English based language is spoken.

Borders.

Guinea and Liberia is led from Freetown.

Raven.

Go ahead.

Sierra Leone.

Sierra Leone is correct.

And it's named for the Lion Mountains.

For your bonus.

What abolitionist senator from Ohio served as Treasury Secretary under Abraham Lincoln before becoming Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in 1864.

Chase, Solomon.

Chase is correct.

Next toss up question.

What poem?

Which asks the question.

What dread hand?

And in what furnace was Thy brain?

Was written by William Blake about a burning bright white hall.

The tiger.

The tiger is correct.

And was, written about a burning bright feline.

For your bonus, what type of doctor specializes in problems relating to hormones such as thyroid disease or diabetes?

Endocrinologist and endocrinologist is correct.

Next toss up question.

What city which names a racial compromise proposed by Booker T Washington contains Ebenezer Baptist Church, where Martin Luther King Jr preached.

Whitehall.

Quickly.

Whitehall.

Birmingham.

Incorrect over the Moravian.

Go ahead.

Atlanta.

Atlanta, Georgia is correct for your bonus.

Boston City Hall is an example of what architectural style noted for its exposed materials such as raw concrete and its minimalist esthetic.

Brutalism.

Brutalism is correct.

Next toss up question.

What man who was the subject of Gilbert Stewart's Atheneum and Lansdowne portraits was depicted in a manual.

Looks it.

Washington.

George Washington.

George Washington is correct.

He was, depicted crossing the Delaware.

For your bonus.

What saint.

Born in Spain in 1170, is believed by some to have invented the rosary.

Began a namesake mendicant order Francisco, a Dominican.

Yet Dominica, yes, Dominica or Saint Dominic is the correct answer.

Next toss up question what conic section, whose rectangular type has perpendicular asymptotes, has an eccentricity greater than one, and has two separate Whitehall hyperbola and I is correct and has two separate branches for your bonus.

Quantum chromodynamics predicts that there are eight types of what particle, which is named for sticking nuclei through the strong force.

Yeah.

Gluons.

Gluons is correct.

And with that, we have reached the first lightning round in a pre-match coin toss.

It was determined that Whitehall.

You'll get to pick between the following topics.

The nine over 11 attacks or Pacific islands.

I think we should take nine away.

We'll take the nine over 11 attacks.

Okay.

Whitehall for your first lightning round.

Your topic is the 9/11 attacks.

Answer the following about the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001.

Manhattan business complex.

It destroyed twin towers.

Correct.

Terrorist group behind the attacks.

Al.

Correct.

Building in Virginia.

Damage.

Pentagon.

Correct.

Airline whose flight 93 crashed in Pennsylvania.

United.

Correct.

Saudi born mastermind who U.S. forces killed in 2011.

Correct.

New York City mayor at the time.

Cuomo.

Incorrect.

First country the US invaded within weeks of the attack.

Iraq.

Incorrect.

Alliance group whose article five invoked after the attacks.

United Nations.

Incorrect.

Broad U.S. anti-terrorism law passed after nine over 11.

USA Patriot Act.

That is correct.

Egyptian man who led the 911 hijackers.

Pass.

That last one was Mohamed Atta.

Moravian.

Your topic is Pacific Islands.

Name these islands in the Pacific Ocean.

The world's second largest by area after Greenland, New Guinea.

Correct.

Home to Taipei 101, Taiwan.

Correct.

Home to volcanoes.

Monarch and Mauna Loa, Hawaii.

Correct.

The Bass Strait separates it from the Australian mainland.

Tasmania.

Correct.

Island shared by Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei.

Borneo.

Correct.

The southernmost of the Mariana Islands.

A U.S. territory.

Guam.

Correct.

The northernmost prefecture of Japan.

Hokkaido.

Correct.

Home to populate the capital of French Polynesia.

Fiji.

Incorrect.

Contains the Milford Sound Fjord and the city of Christchurch.

North Island.

That's incorrect.

Home to Manila.

Luzon was on his correct.

And we continue on with the match with the following toss up question.

What high priest, the father of Eleazar and Nadab, turns his staff into a snake before Pharaoh, with the guidance of his Whitehall.

Moses.

That is incorrect.

I'll continue the question from Moravian with guidance from his younger brother Moses.

Moravian.

Aaron.

Aaron is correct.

For your bonus, the image of a long strand of iron gray hair.

And what story?

By William Faulkner.

About a woman who sleeps next to her husband's corpse.

The only sound in the fury.

That is incorrect.

A rose for Emily is a correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What folkloric figures companions include Johnny ink slinger.

A group of assistants who grease a shovel.

Go ahead.

Moravian.

Paul Bunyan.

Paul Bunyan is correct.

And his babe, the Blue Ox, is another one of his companions.

For your bonus, in September 2024, what former Republican vice president made news by endorsing Kamala Harris for president?

Yeah.

Cheney.

Dick Cheney is correct.

The next toss up question is in math.

Pencil on paper.

Ready?

What integer is the sixth triangular number given?

The fifth triangular number is 15 and equals one plus two plus three plus four plus five.

Whitehall 2121 is correct.

For your bonus.

The acronym VoIP or VoIP, a common internet based communication technology.

The B stands for what feature?

Voicemail.

That is incorrect.

It's just voice is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What term popularized by Ward Cunningham is derived from a Hawaiian word meaning quick and appears in the name of an editable free encyclopedia.

Moravian wiki wiki is correct.

We're talking about Wikipedia.

For your bonus, in 2023, Roanoke, Virginia replaced a statue of Robert E Lee with one of what woman whose immortal cervical cells are used in cancer research.

Lax.

LAX is correct.

Henrietta Lacks is the correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What structure found just north of the Roman fort Vindolanda, extended from the Irish Sea to the North Sea and is a go ahead Moravian Hadrian's Wall.

That is correct.

And it is a wall name for a Roman emperor.

For Hadrian.

For a bonus, the indoor version of what sport includes a libero, a back row defensive specialist who cannot attack but may substitute freely.

Volleyball.

Volleyball is correct, and I found that out watching the Olympics this summer.

I had no idea why they had the different shirt on under the libero.

Next toss up question.

What tragedy in which a drunken fight on Cyprus results in the demotion.

Go ahead.

Moravian.

Othello.

Othello is correct.

And so everyone else at home can play along.

It's a demotion of Cassio and ends with Desdemona getting murdered by the title More of Venice for the bonus.

What English physicist designed a cage like device used to block electric fields?

Discovered a law of induction and names in C unit for cap or capacitance.

Excuse me.

So say for capacitance.

Faraday.

Faraday is correct for his Faraday cage.

Next tossup question.

What name is shared by a region connecting Florida's panhandle and peninsula, and a park containing the chief.

Those mountains along the Rio Grande in Texas.

Moravian.

Big bend.

Big bend is correct for your bonus.

The United States northernmost town of Alaska lies north of what line of latitude?

Around 66 degrees, 34 minutes.

Arctic Circle.

The Arctic Circle is correct.

And with that, we've reached half time.

Let's take a moment for each student to introduce themselves with their name, grade level.

And instead of a question for this final match, I'm going to ask them to thank someone that's made an impact in their lives.

So, Marine Academy, Isabelle, we start with you.

Go ahead.

I'm Isabelle Lasky, grade nine, and I'd like to thank Mr. Ferdinand.

All right.

I'm Charlene Lew, grade 11, and I would like to thank my chemistry teacher, Mr.

Wisdom.

Excellent.

You.

I'm Athena Schmidt.

Grade 11.

And I'd like to thank, Marine Academy theater director, Miss Harsh.

Okay.

Tyler.

My name is Tyler Shank.

I'm in 11th grade, and I would like to thank my evening academy.

Everything, man.

Father Michael.

Okay.

And over to Whitehall.

Vihaan.

Go ahead and vihaan.

I'm a junior, and I'd like to thank Mrs. O'Neil.

Okay.

I'm Neve.

I'm a senior, and I'd like to thank my mom.

Okay.

Logan.

The back.

I'm a sophomore, and I'd like to thank my grandfather.

I'm Gabriel Kenney.

I'm going to 11th grade, and I'd like to thank my parents for walking jeopardy with me every night.

Excellent.

And I'd like to take a moment to thank the producer of Scholastic Scrimmage, Kate Rif Snyder, our director, Harvey or Diaz, all of our judges and the entire crew of PBS 39 for the great work they do producing Scholastic Scrimmage.

Thank you all.

And now we continue on with the second half of the batch.

What structures can undergo line ization to form our bodies and our chromosomes?

Two copies of which are typically found only in human females.

Whitehall.

X chromosomes.

X chromosomes is correct.

For your bonus.

The artist appears in a mirror and a black dog stands at the feet of a man clad in black and a woman in green.

In what work by John van Eyck.

The Arnolfini wedding.

The Arnolfini wedding is correct.

Next tossup question.

What author included the story?

There Will Come Soft Rains in The Martian Chronicles depicted a dystopian book.

Why not?

Go ahead.

Bradbury.

Bradbury is correct, and he depicted a dystopian book burning society in Fahrenheit 451.

For your bonus, what headmistress at crunch M Hall locks students in a cupboard called the Choki and makes Bruce eat an enormous cake.

In Roald Dahl's novel Matilda.

Comes.

Headmaster.

Mary.

That's incorrect.

Miss Trunchbull is the correct answer to the next toss up question.

In what 1871 opera does the title Princess sing?

Otara.

Audio.

Farewell, Earth.

Before being burned alive with her.

With her lover Rodimus.

In ancient.

Go ahead.

Whitehall.

Aida.

Aida is correct.

And it was burned in ancient Egypt.

For your bonus, what substance which can turn deep blue in the presence of iodine, is a branched polymer of glucose, and is a mixture of amylose and pectin.

Starch.

Starch or starches is correct.

Next tossup question in 2024, what band added Scientologist Emily Armstrong as co-lead singer alongside Mike Shinoda, who raps on.

Go ahead, Whitehall, Linkin Park.

Linkin Park is correct, and he raps on their older hits Crawling and Numb for bonus.

In 1845, What President became the first to have his veto overridden when Democrats joined his former Whig allies to restore a Coast Guard bill.

Polk.

Incorrect.

John Tyler is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What man said that the great question of the day would be decided by blood and iron in a speech given.

Go ahead.

Moravian.

Bismarck.

Bismarck is correct and was given as he was Prussian Chancellor before unifying Germany.

For your bonus, what word for the male equivalent of a succubus is also the name of a rock band with such songs as Pardon Me and Drive.

Incubus.

Incubus is correct.

It seems like our quiz makers here were into, like nu metal from the 90s for this round.

Next tossup question what picture book character who is purchased by Lisa after he searches for a button missing from his overalls is a teddy bear.

Go ahead, Whitehall.

Pet the cat.

That is incorrect.

I'll continue.

A question from Moravian is a teddy bear named for a fabric.

Go ahead.

Moravian corduroy.

Corduroy is correct for your bonus.

What nature spirits made up the chorus in a namesake genre of Greek dramas were often depicted accompanying Dionysus and were half goat sailors.

Sailors is correct.

Next toss up question what film, which won the 2023 Best Animated Oscar, is about mosquito's search for his late mother in a bird filled world and was made by Studio Ghibli.

Moravian boy in the heron.

The boy in The Heron is correct for your bonus.

What event, which was described in The Diary of Samuel Peats, began in putting rain and destroyed most of Saint Paul's Cathedral by the Great Fire of London.

The Great Fire of London is correct.

Next toss up question what gas, which is often used in whipped cream chargers, has an anesthetic by.

Is used as an anesthetic by dentists.

Rivian.

Nitrous oxide.

Nitrous oxide or laughing gas is correct.

Your bonuses in math pencil and paper ready?

What is the x coordinate of the vertex of a of the quadratic expression y equals three x squared plus nine x.

Over two x.

Equals power two.

Negative three over two.

Negative three over 2 or -1 and one half is correct.

Next toss up.

Question.

George Stigler and Gary Becker taught at what university were mono theorist school, where its monetarist school of economics opposed.

Keynesians and go ahead Whitehall.

University of Chicago.

University of Chicago is correct, and it included Milton Friedman for your bonus tech demo, on which literary translates to which literally excuse me translates to Monk's head is a Swiss type of what food product whose other Swiss varieties include greener cheese.

Cheese.

That's right.

It's a cheese.

Next tossup question what city reelected Eleanor Holmes Norton as its delegate in 2022, a year after its statehood bill passed.

Go ahead.

Tyler, D.C, District of Columbia, Washington, district of Columbia is correct, and for your bonus, Scranton Mayor Terrance Powderly led what early, loosely organized labor union that bloomed and then collapsed in the United States in the 1880s.

No.

Yes.

Knights of labor.

Knights of labor is correct.

And with that, we have reached the second lightning round Moravian Academy.

You'll get to pick between the following topics.

Lions or eyes.

Lions.

Lions.

We're making lions, Lions, Lions!

We're giving her the lions.

Right.

That's your.

Yeah, that's your school mascot.

All right, here we go.

Give these answers related to lion, a Greek hero who slated to be in lion.

Heracles.

Correct.

City home to the NFL's Lions.

Detroit.

Correct word that follows Panthera in the lions.

Binomial name.

Lion.

Lioness.

What are you going to quickly.

Wolf.

The judge.

Look at that.

I'm going to say no for now.

College.

Whose athletic name are the Nittany Lions?

Penn state?

Correct.

Crusade.

In which Richard the Lionheart and said correct.

Author who created the Cowardly Lion in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz?

Bomb.

Correct.

Animate character whose name means lion in Swahili.

Simba.

Correct.

Jewish tribe whose symbol is the lion.

Benjamin.

Incorrect.

Didi, whose avatar includes the part lion.

Nara.

Shiva.

Vishnu.

Correct.

Nigerian playwright of the lion and the Jewel.

Soyinka.

Yes.

That's correct.

And judges, we're going to look back.

Are we going to take that other one?

We are not going to take that one.

The correct answer on the other one was Leo.

It's Panthera.

Leo is the correct terminology.

Whitehall.

Your topic is eyes.

Answer the following about eyes.

Hole in the eye that dilates to let light in.

Iris.

Incorrect.

Most common human iris color.

Brown.

Correct.

European capital.

Whose eye is a massive Ferris wheel.

London.

Correct.

Broadcast TV network whose logo is an eye PBS.

Incorrect.

Painter whose cataract clouded eyes affected his water lilies.

Works.

Monet.

Correct.

Nerve to transmit signals from the eye to the brain.

Pass.

Lord of the rings character whose eye looks out from round.

Correct.

Babylonian king whose namesake law codified an eye for an eye.

Robbie.

Correct.

English rocker who sang Eyes Without a Face.

Pass 100 eyed giant in Greek myth, who served Hera.

Pass a giant is Argos.

We continue on with the final quarter of the final with the following toss up question.

What body of water was named in 1858 by John Hanning Speke, who was dispatched by the Royal Geographical Society to find the source of the Nile.

Moravian.

Lake Victoria.

Lake Victoria is correct for your bonus.

Lambda and T4 are examples of what kind of viruses that specifically infect bacteria.

Bacteriophage.

Yeah.

Bacteriophages.

Bacteriophages is correct.

Next tossup question.

What synthetic polymer developed by Stephanie Wallach has tensile strength up to ten times that of steel, and is often used in Moravian Kevlar.

Kevlar is correct.

It's often used in bulletproof vests.

For your bonus.

What company, whose ant Group division runs the world's largest mobile payment platform, is an online retail giant founded by Jack Ma.

Yeah.

That's Chinese.

It's, Timo.

That's incorrect.

Alibaba is the correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What venue were Henry Harry Shaw?

Excuse me.

Let me start that over.

What venue?

Where Harry Thor fatally shot architect Stanford White.

Shares its name with an arena above Penn Station, home to the New York Knicks.

Go ahead, maroon Academy.

Madison Square Garden, Madison Square Garden is correct for your bonus.

What golden flower growing along the margins of a bay are depicted as fluttering and dancing in William Wordsworth's poem I wander Lonely as a cloud.

Something.

Daffodils.

That is correct.

He is talking about golden daffodils.

Next tossup question.

What man led a failed coup against Carlos Andres?

Perez began the Bolivarian Revolution and died in office in 2013.

As the president of Venezuela.

Whitehall.

Chavez.

Hugo Chavez is correct for your bonus.

Tierra del Fuego is separated from the mainland of South America by what strait?

Named for a Portuguese sailor on the Strait of Magellan.

The Strait of Magellan is also correct.

Next tossup question what type of compact object can X can explode in type one A supernovas if it grows beyond the Chandrasekhar limit and go ahead.

Whitehall black holes?

That is incorrect.

I'll continue for Moravian and is a dwarf remnant of a red giant.

Go ahead.

Moravian brown dwarf.

That is also incorrect.

A white dwarf is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What playwright, who depicted the political rise of a sausage seller in The Knights Goes?

Moravian.

Aristophanes.

Aristophanes is correct.

Your bonuses in math.

Pencil on paper.

Ready?

What is the original price of a coat that now sells for $51?

After a 25% discount was applied, would you do something?

676.

That is incorrect.

$68 was the original price of the coat.

Next toss up question what man wrote the 2024 book Life My Story Through History, which mentions the resignation of his predecessor, Benedict the 16th, and is the current Pope.

Moravia.

Pope Francis the first.

Pope Francis the first is correct.

For bonus, Adam Scott stars in what Apple TV plus show about lumen Industries, whose employees undergo a procedure that creates two distinct sets of memory.

Severance.

Severance is correct.

The next toss up is in mathematics.

Pencil and paper ready?

How many total potato chips can be contained in three cans?

Given that five cans of the same type hold a total of 300 chips?

Go ahead.

Whitehall 180 180 is correct.

And how many were in each can?

60.

That is correct.

Also, for your bonus, what Italian scientist grows a garden of exotic plants.

And with that, we have reached time.

Unfortunately, Whitehall, you ran up against a tough team with a score of 455.

Congratulations, proving Academy, you are the champions of the fifth season of Scholastic Scrimmage, and we'll be right back with the presentation of our awards since 2006, the Temple Saint Luke's School of Medicine has focused on cultivating local talent, with more than a third of our graduates continuing their training at Saint Luke's are now working as attending physicians for our network.

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Before we head out the awards, PBS 30 and I would like to thank our community partners for their assistance in supporting and celebrating the 50th season of Scholastic Scrimmage.

Special thanks to our title sponsor, Temple Saint Luke's School of Medicine, with additional support from Paul Electric and the Charles H. Hoke Foundation.

And now to help me present the awards from our title sponsor is doctor De Carson, senior associate dean of Temple Saint Luke's School of Medicine.

So first off, congratulations to White Hall for your second place finish accepting the trophy is their coach, Steven Adams.

Mr. Adams.

Also, please accept from our partners a $2,000, scholarship donation.

Thank you.

And now to accept the championship trophy.

Here it is.

Moravian Academy and their coach, Kevin Ferdinand.

Here is a $4,000 donation from our community partners for your scholarship foundation.

Thank you.

And thank you for watching.

We'll see you next year for the 51st season of Scholastic Scrimmage.