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- Hello and welcome to the final match of the third round of the 48th season of Scholastic Scrimmage.

I'm your host, David Graf.

Today's match between Parkland and Moravian Academy will be composed of two halves with a lightning round midway 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 of specific factual information and is not necessarily indicative of academic training.

And now let's begin, buzzers ready.

Here's our first toss-up.

What country, whose Nullarbor Plain is south of Great Victoria Desert, is home to a massive monolith called Uluru within the... Moravian.

- Australia.

- That is correct.

Which is within the outback.

Your bonus, Aramco, which in 2022 surpassed Apple as the world's most valuable company based off market capitalization, is the state owned petroleum company for what Middle Eastern nation?

- Saudi Arabia.

- Saudi Arabia is correct.

The next toss-up is in math, pencil and paper ready.

What is the measure of the fourth angle of a concave quadrilateral whose other angles measure 20, 40 and 100 degrees?

- Parkland.

- 200 degrees.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, what island country, which is the only nation named after a historical woman, is between Saint Vincent and Martinique and is governed from Castries?

- Grenadines.

- Incorrect.

Saint Lucia is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What hunter, the son of Liriope, was punished by Nemesis for rejecting the nymph Echo?

Parkland.

- Orion.

- That is incorrect.

I'll complete the question for Moravian.

By being made to fall in love with his own reflection?

Moravian.

- Narcissus.

- Narcissus is correct.

For your bonus, what 1951 book by C Wright Mills, titled for a symbolic garment, alleges the new middle class professionals slipped quietly into modern society?

- The Overcoat.

- Incorrect.

That book is entitled White Collar.

Next toss-up, what Asian author wrote, a wilderness were paradise enough, according to Edward Fitzgerald's translation of a quatrain, is from this man's Rubaiyat?

That author is Omar Khayyam.

Next toss-up, what singer who says they're overturning Roe versus Wade in her 2022 song TV, describes herself as a make your mama sad type in the song... Moravian Academy.

- Lizzo.

- That is incorrect.

I'll finish the question for Parkland.

Oh!

Parkland?

- Billie Eilish.

- Billie Eilish is correct.

Bonus for Parkland.

What English author used heroic couplets in a 1711 poem titled An Essay On Criticism, which contains the claim a little learning is a dangerous thing?

- Locke?

- That is incorrect.

Alexander Pope is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

Estonian and Finnish are members of a language family named for what Russian mountain range?

Moravian.

- The Urals.

- That is correct.

The Ural Mountains.

For your bonus, what 1894 railroad strike, led by Eugene Debs, spurred Grover Cleveland to make Labor Day a national holiday?

- The Pullman strike.

- The Pullman strike is correct.

Next toss-up, what European country which originally colonized Arcadia lost the battle of the plains of Abraham in 17... Moravian.

- France.

- That is correct.

Forcing it to give up Quebec when it lost to Britain.

For your bonus, what organelle uses vesicles to package proteins made in the rough endoplasmic reticulum so those proteins can be secreted?

- Golgi body - Golgi is correct, Golgi body or Golgi apparatus For the next toss-up, what novel in which Colonel Brandon gives Edward Ferrars a job contrast the sisters Marianne and Eleanor Dashwood and is by Jane Austen?

Parkland.

- Sense And Sensibility.

- Sense And Sensibility is correct.

For your bonus, what author, who coined the term cyberspace in his story Burning Chrome, wrote the Sprawl trilogy, which includes the cyberpunk novel Neuromancer?

- Pass.

- William Gibson is the correct answer.

Next toss-up, what company which launched the electric minivan ID Buzz in 2020... Moravian Academy.

- Volkswagen.

- That is correct.

And they own both Porsche and a namesake brand which produces the Jetta and the Beetle.

It's the Volkswagen.

For your bonus, what TV series that began in 1976 was set at a theater where audience members named Statler and Waldorf often heckled performers such as Fozzie Bear?

- The Muppet Show.

- The Muppet Show is correct.

Next toss-up, what American who as a special envoy failed to halt the resumption of the Chinese civil war named a plan to rebuild post World War II...?

Moravian Academy.

- Marshall.

- George Marshall is correct.

It was a plan to rebuild post-World War Two Europe.

For your bonus, Stephen of Blois and Empress Matilda fought what 12th century civil war in England, named for its lawlessness?

- The Barbaric Wars.

- Incorrect.

The Anarchy is correct.

Next toss-up, what scientist wrote, I feign no hypothesis, in an essay in the 1713 edition of his Principa...?

- Parkland.

- Newton.

That is correct.

Which includes his three Laws of Motion.

For your bonus, in September 2022, a gun jammed during an assassination attempt on what current vice president of Argentina, who served as president from 2007 to 2015?

- Hernandez.

- We'll accept that?

We'll take that.

So it's Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and we will accept that as part of the answer.

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

In a pre-match coin toss, it was determined that Parkland will get to select first between the following topics: physics Nobel Prize winners or island cities.

What would you like?

- Physics Nobel Prize winners.

- OK, physics Nobel Prize winners.

So, Moravian Academy, hopefully you've been on some island vacations and will be ready for this next round.

Parkland, physics Nobel Prize winners - name these winners of the Nobel Prize in physics.

Polish born woman who coined the term radioactivity.

- Curie.

- Correct.

1921 winner who explained the photoelectric effect.

- Einstein.

- Correct.

American who conducted the oil drop experiment.

- Milgram.

- Correct.

Oh, incorrect.

Sorry, not incorrect on the pronunciation.

Danish namesake of a model of the atom.

- Bohr.

- Correct.

Italian who invented the radio.

- Marconi.

- Correct.

British discoverer of the electron.

- Thomson.

- Correct.

Namesake of an exclusion principle that applies to... - Pauli.

- Correct.

German who discovered x rays.

- Rontgen.

- Correct.

Namesake of a boson that gives other particles mass.

- Higgs.

- Correct.

Frenchman who discovered radioactivity.

- Curie.

- It's Becquerel.

Moravian Academy, your topic is island cities.

Given a city, name the island that it's on.

Reykjavik.

- Iceland.

- Correct.

Havana.

- Cuba.

- Correct.

Belfast.

- Ireland.

- Correct.

Taipei.

- Taiwan.

- Correct.

Palermo.

- Sicily.

- Correct.

Hobart.

- Tasmania.

- Correct.

Port au Prince.

- Nova Scotia.

- Incorrect.

Valletta.

- Malta.

- Correct.

Port Moresby.

- New Guinea.

- That is correct, yes.

We'll take New Guinea.

Antananarivo.

- Madagascar.

- That is correct.

And we'll continue on with the following toss-up question.

What player who had eight runs batted in a day before he struck out 13 Royals is a designated hitter and...?

Parkland.

- Ohtani.

- Correct, Shohei Ohtani.

He's a pitcher for the Angels and from Japan.

Your bonus is in math.

Pencil and paper ready.

Given the volume formula includes a constant of four thirds pi, what is the radius of a sphere whose volume is 36 pi?

- Three.

- Three is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question.

What legislation, which first set 60,000 as the population threshold for statehood, established a namesake territory north of the Ohio...?

Parkland.

- Northwest Ordinance - Northwest Ordinance is correct.

It established a territory north of the Ohio River in 1787.

For your bonus, Ottorino Respighi wrote a trilogy of musical works on the festivals Pines and Fountains of what city?

- Rome.

- Rome is correct.

Next toss-up.

What material can be compacted, is deposited in your bodies of water in lake effect and consists of tiny, intricate flakes of ice?

Moravian Academy?

- Snow.

- That's correct.

For your bonus, in 1958, the CIA undermined Soviet censorship by publishing copies of what Boris Pasternak novel, which depict Laura's affair with the title physician?

- Dr Strangelove.

- Incorrect.

Dr Zhivago is the correct answer.

Next toss-up, what city, the second most populous in Bavaria, is the setting of the film Triumph of the Will and names a series of post-World War Two trials?

Parkland.

- Nuremberg.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, Muwatalli II may have led what Anatolian empire against Egypt at the 1274 BC Battle of Kadesh, an example of its characteristic use of war chariots?

- Ottoman.

- That is incorrect.

The Hittites is the correct answer.

Next toss-up, what animals are depicted in a series of Brown and Bigelow cigar advertisements painted by CM Coolidge which show them playing poker?

Moravian?

- Dogs?

- That is correct.

And Yuengling also co-opted that art and have them all sitting around drinking beer and playing cards.

For your bonus, what US state capital was left without drinking water after floods in August 2022 damaged its water treatment plant?

- Carson City.

- Incorrect.

Jackson, Mississippi is correct.

Next toss-up, what author of The Haunting of Hill House wrote a 1948 story in which Tessie Hutchinson is stoned to death after winning...?

Parkland.

- Jackson.

- Yep.

Shirley Jackson is correct.

After winning the title event in the lottery.

For your bonus, what type of image which is produced by a convex mirror cannot be projected onto a screen and is contrasted with real images?

- Virtual.

- A virtual image is correct.

The next toss-up is in math.

Pencil and paper ready.

What is the price of one pen if Anthony receives $5 in change after using a $50 bill to buy six pens?

Parkland.

- $16.

- That is incorrect.

Moravian, you still have some time.

Go ahead.

- Seven and a half dollars.

- That is correct.

$7.50.

Nice job!

For your bonus, the French cities of Aurel and Avignon lie on what river that originates in the Swiss Alps?

- The Seine.

- That is incorrect.

The Rhone river is the correct answer.

And with that, we have reached half-time.

We have a close match under way.

Moravian Academy currently leads with a score of 160 to Parkland's 145.

Now let's get to know the students a little bit better.

They'll give us their first and last name yet again.

And we'll ask the question, what following media outlet or magazine can you not live without?

What is your go-to?

We start with Parkland.

- I'm Shravan Yenta, and the media outlet that I cannot live without is New York Times.

- Excellent.

Joseph?

- I'm Joseph Ping and the media outlet I can't live without is Buzzfeed.

- OK!

Big in the lists, Joseph.

Thomas.

- I'm Thomas Gilchrist and I don't really watch media outlets.

- OK. - I'm Max Seiverback.

ESPN.

- OK. And Moravian Academy.

Tyler?

- My name is Tyler Schankweiler and the media outlet I cannot live without is the New Yorker.

- OK. - I'm Nathaniel Schmidt.

The media outlet I cannot live without is FiveThirtyEight.

- Right.

- I'm Okezue Bell, and the media outlet I can't live without would probably be Time magazine.

- Great.

- I'm Ellie Capobianco and the media outlet I can't live without is probably also the New York Times.

- I'm a big fan of the New York Times.

Wordle fans?

Anybody?

Got some Wordle fans.

All right.

But I'd say the media outlet that I can't live without is Bloomberg Businessweek.

The layout of the magazine I think is incredible.

And their articles do a great job at summing up business affairs.

All right.

We'll continue on with the second half of the match with the following toss-up question.

In what 2022 film does a terminally ill Michael reject a Nobel Prize for developing synthetic...?

Moravian Academy.

- Morbius.

- That is correct.

For developing synthetic blood.

It was often panned, too, as being a terrible movie, I believe.

Right?

For your bonus, what Hudson River School painter, who depicted a boat going downriver in his allegorical series The Voyage Of Life, also painted The Course Of Empire?

- Smith.

- Incorrect.

Thomas Cole is the correct answer.

Next toss-up, what state's National Guard was federalized by Dwight Eisenhower to prevent...?

Parkland.

- Missouri.

- That is incorrect.

I'll continue the question for Moravian Academy.

To prevent Governor Orval Faubus from blocking desegregation by the Little Rock Nine?

Moravian Academy.

- Arkansas.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, the Xiongnu, who may have been the ancestors of the Huns, fought a two century long war with what Chinese dynasty that succeeded the Chin dynasty?

- The Han.

- The Han dynasty is correct.

Next toss-up, what organisms whose primary type are herbivores are organisms that cannot produce their own energy sources but instead feed on other organisms.

Parkland?

- Carnivores.

- That is incorrect.

Moravian Academy.

No conferring, but there's still some time.

Go ahead.

- Heterotropes.

- That is correct.

Heterotropes or consumers are the answers you're looking for.

For your bonus, what pioneering 18th century chemist gave the element oxygen its name before he was guillotined during the French Revolution?

Lavoisier.

- Lavoisier is correct.

Next toss-up, what thinker who argued for a progressive tax system in his book Rights of Man described the times that try men's souls in The American Crisis.

Moravian Academy.

- Paine.

- Thomas Paine is correct.

For your bonus, what modernist author of the two line poem In A Station Of The Metro also wrote The Cantos and was arrested for treason after World War II?

- Auden.

- Incorrect.

Ezra Pound is the correct answer.

Next toss-up, what instrument with a low chalumeau range was played by Artie Shaw and King of Swing band leader... Parkland?

- Clarinet.

- Clarinet is correct, and it's a woodwind with a single reed.

For your bonus, the Syr Darya river empties into what sea shared between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, which shrank drastically in the 20th century?

- Caspian.

- That is incorrect.

The Aral Sea is the correct answer.

Next toss-up, what author depicted a bird wearing a bonnet in the tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck and described a raid on Mr McGregor's garden in her book Peter Rabbit?

Beatrix Potter is the correct answer.

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

For this lightning round, Moravian Academy, you'll get to select between the following topics.

California sports or title years.

- California sports.

- California sports it is, Moravian Academy.

California sports.

Answer the following about sports in California.

City where the Lakers play.

- Los Angeles.

- Correct.

College football game played on New Year's Day in Pasadena.

- Rose Bowl.

- Correct.

NFL team that moved from Oakland to Las Vegas.

- Raiders.

- Correct.

Only pro sports team based in San Diego in 2022.

- Padres.

- Correct.

Home of the NHL's Sharks.

- San Jose.

- Correct.

Division one university whose mascot is a tree.

- Stanford.

- Correct.

California's only WNBA team.

- Pass.

- Head coach of the Golden State Warriors.

- Kerr.

- Correct.

Baseball team profiled in the book Moneyball.

- Athletics.

- That is correct.

We'll take it.

Stadium that hosted Super Bowl LVI in February 2022.

- SoFi Stadium.

- That is correct.

And the only one you missed there was the Los Angeles Sparks.

Parkland, your topic is title years.

Give the years that are, or are found in, the titles of these things.

George Orwell novel featuring Big Brother.

- 1984.

- Correct.

John Cusack disaster film about the end of the Mayan calendar.

- 2012.

- That is correct.

Prince song in which he says he's going to party like it's this title year.

- 1999.

- Correct.

Arthur C Clarke novel introducing HAL 9000.

- 2001.

- That is correct.

Sherman Edwards musical set in the American Revolution.

- 1776.

- Correct.

Francisco Goya painting of a firing squad.

- 1808.

- Correct.

2019 Sam Mendez film set in World War I.

- 1917.

- That is correct.

Band with songs The Sound and Love Me.

- 1975.

- That is correct.

Song from Hamilton with the line Jefferson has my vote.

- 1800.

- That is correct.

Second book in John Dos Passos's USA trilogy.

- 1861.

- That's incorrect.

1919 was the correct answer to that last one.

And we'll continue on with the final quarter of the match with the following toss-up question, what scientist lends his name to a unit equal to ten to the minus four teslas, two of Maxwell's equations and the bell curve of normal distribution?

Parkland.

- Gauss.

- That is correct.

Carl Friedrich Gauss, and it was to the bell curve of normal distribution.

For your bonus, what English word is the name of a play by Samuel Beckett in which Hamm's legless parents live in trash cans and is also the name of the stage of a chess game with few pieces left?

- Endgame.

- Endgame is correct.

Next toss-up, a letter to Baron Monteagle revealed what plan to kill King James I by blowing...?

Moravian.

- Gunpowder Plot.

- That is correct.

For your bonus: what South African land form, which is near where Bartholomew Diaz died in 1500, was the namesake location of the Dutch East Indian Company's Cape colony?

- Cape of Good Hope.

- The Cape of Good Hope is correct.

Next toss-up, what state, which is represented in Congress by John Gottheimer, is governed by...?

Parkland.

- New Jersey.

That is correct.

And it's where Cory Booker was once the Mayor of Newark.

For your bonus, what sport with union and league forms uses scrums to restart play?

- Rugby?

- Rugby is correct.

Next toss-up, what organ, in which water is reabsorbed into the loop of Henle, contains units called nephrons and filters...?

Parkland.

- Liver.

- That is incorrect.

I'll continue for Moravian.

And filters waste from the blood to produce urine?

Moravian.

- Pancreas.

- That is also incorrect.

Kidneys is the correct answer.

Next toss-up, in what current province did Thomas Scott's execution by Louis Riel's Red River Rebellion lead John McDonald to send troops to what is now Winnipeg?

Moravian.

You have to answer quickly when you buzz.

- Manitoba.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, omnivorous coconut crabs may explain why no-one has found the body of what aviator who went missing in 1937 while trying to circumnavigate the globe?

- Earhart.

- Amelia Earhart is correct.

I hope that is not the case.

It's a grim way to bring up that question.

For our next toss-up, in 2022, what country's agency FUNAI discovered the corpse of the Man of the Hole, one of the last uncontacted people in the Amazon rainforest?

Parkland.

- Japan.

- That is incorrect.

Moravian?

That would be Brazil.

It was where the corpse was found.

Next toss-up, what title character, who is advised, Have more than thou showest, by his fool, is betrayed by his daughters, Goneril and Regan?

Moravian.

- King Lear.

- That is correct.

In a Shakespeare tragedy.

For your bonus, what book of minor prophets that chastises lax priestly behavior is the last book in most Christian arrangements of the Old Testament?

- Malachi.

- The Book of Malachi is correct.

Next toss-up, Plutarch served as a priest at what site, where special vapors in a sanctuary of Apollo may have produced the visions of...?

Moravian.

- Delphi.

- That is correct.

This site's oracle would be the Oracle of Delphi.

For your bonus, what Russian tsar sent his Oprichniki bodyguards to kill thousands in the massacre of Novgorod and later beat his son to death in a fit of rage?

- Ivan the Terrible.

- That is correct.

Definitely not.

Father of the Year material, Ivan the Terrible.

We'll move on with the following toss-up question.

What objects which Hipparchus cataloged in 129 B.C.

are today grouped into spectral classes such as O and B?

Parkland.

- Blood types?

- That is incorrect.

I'll continue for Moravian.

Which consist of blue supergiants.

Go ahead, Moravian.

- Stars.

- Stars is correct.

And with that we have reached the end of the match.

Excellent match for Moravian Academy with 340 points.

Congratulations.

You are on to the final four.

Parkland, great run this season, but unfortunately it's the end of the road.

Thank you very much and good luck with the rest of your school year.

And thank you for tuning in.

We'll see you next week for the first Final Four match between Stroudsburg and Allentown Central Catholic.