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Scholastic Scrimmage S48 Ep9 Saucon Valley vs Whitehall
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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-up between Saucon Valley and Whitehall 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.
It is not necessarily indicative of academic training.
And now let's begin.
Buzzers ready.
Here's our first toss-up, and it's in math, so pencil and paper also ready.
What is the fourth term of the arithmetic sequence whose first term is 7 and whose common difference is 5?
Whitehall.
- 22.
- That is correct.
For your bonus, what politician from the Social Democratic Party served as mayor of Hamburg before replacing Angela Merkel as Chancellor of Germany in December 2021?
Olaf Scholz.
And I just happened to be in Germany on Election Day that year when he won, and it's interesting to see how much more calm the Germans are during the election period than we are.
Next toss-up.
What character who is given a photograph as a reward in the story A Scandal In Bohemia lives at 221B Baker Street and solves...?
Saucon Valley.
- Sherlock Holmes.
- That's correct.
And he solves crimes with Dr Watson.
For your bonus, a 1982 Thomas Keneally novel is titled for the ark of what German industrialist who saved 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust?
- Schilling...Schillingder's List?
Or Schillingder?
- I'm sorry.
On the pronunciation we can't accept that.
It's Oskar Schindler which is the correct pronunciation of his name.
Onto our next toss-up.
What composer of a two-hour-long mass in B minor and the St Matthew's Passion includes 48 preludes and fugues in his Well-Tempered Clavier?
Saucon Valley.
- Bach.
- You're correct.
Johann Sebastian Bach is the correct answer.
For your bonus, an element's reduction potential and density are examples of what properties whose values do not depend on the amount of the element present?
- Atomic number.
- That's incorrect.
Intensive properties is the correct answer.
On to the next toss-up.
What transition metal with the highest boiling point of any metal is used in light bulb filaments, is also known as wolfram and has the atomic symbol...?
Saucon Valley.
- Tungsten.
- That is correct.
It has the atomic symbol of W. For your bonus, what American seamstress's family claims that she created the first United States flag, which featured 13 five-pointed stars in a circle?
- Betsy Ross.
- That is also correct.
Next toss-up.
What dynasty founded by the Aisin-Gioro clan includes the emperors Qianlong and Kangxi, and was led by the Manchus and was also the last Chinese dynasty?
Whitehall.
- Qing?
- Say it again?
- Qing Republic?
- The Qing dynasty is correct.
And now for your bonus, there are two answers required.
What most populous island of Indonesia and what large island owned completely by Indonesia are separated by the Sunda Strait?
Go ahead.
- Borneo and Sumatra.
- Incorrect.
You had one.
It was Sumatra.
The other was Java.
Is the other correct answer.
Next toss-up.
What author, who depicted "the substanceless blue pour of tor and distance" in her poem Ariel also wrote the autobiographical novel The Bell Jar?
Sylvia Plath is the correct answer.
Next toss-up.
What country, which officially is a cooperative republic, disputes land west of the Essequibo River with Venezuela and is governed from Georgetown?
Whitehall.
- Guyana.
- That is correct.
For your bonus, what German scientist names three laws of spectroscopy as well as a pair of laws that include a loop rule?
We're heavy on the German questions today.
It's Gustav Kirchhoff is the correct answer.
Next toss-up.
A police raid on what establishment on Christopher Street in Greenwich Village in 1969 sparked riots that helped galvanize the gay rights movement?
The Stonewall Inn is the correct answer.
Next toss-up.
What condition which the DSM-5 renamed major neurocognitive disorder is a deterioration of mental function most often caused by Alzheimer's disease?
Whitehall.
- Dementia.
- That is correct.
For your bonus, because of poor sanitation in the wake of a 2010 earthquake, Haiti suffered an outbreak of what intestinal infection that can cause lethal diarrhea?
- Cholera.
- That is also correct.
Next toss-up.
What man who signed into law the 2022 Woke Act targeting critical race theory also backed the "don't say gay" law in his role as Florida's governor?
Whitehall.
- Ron DeSantis.
- That is correct.
In his role as Florida's governor.
For your bonus, what character who wore a hat with a pencil on it in a 2021 viral video in which he said he never forgot you was the host of the TV show Blue's Clues?
- Steve...?
Steve something?
- Anything?
- Steve something.
- Oh, Steve or Steve Burns.
Should have guessed before the buzzer went off, but you're incorrect on that.
Next toss-up.
What rapper who in 2022 released the EP Red And White and adopted they/them pronouns had a top-ten hit with the 2017 emo rap song XO Tour Llif3?
Whitehall.
- Lil Uzi Vert.
- That is correct.
For your bonus, in physics, what quantity which measures the strength of certain electronic circuit components can be measured in Farads?
- Voltage?
- Capacitance is the correct answer.
I'm sorry, you're incorrect on that one.
Next toss-up.
What present-day country first circumnavigated by Matthew Flinders was where the Endeavour under James Cook landed at Botany Bay in modern Sydney?
Saucon Valley.
- Australia.
- That is correct.
And for your bonus, in July 2022, Ada Limon was appointed by the Librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden, to replace Joy Harjo in which position?
Joy Harjo took over as the United States Poet Laureate.
And we've reached our first lightning round.
In a pre-match coin toss, it was determined that Whitehall will get the first choice between the following topics of literary colors or 20th-century battles.
- Battles.
- 20th-century battles.
So that means, Saucon Valley, literary colors will be your topic.
Whitehall, 20th-century battles.
Name the present-day country in which these battles took place.
Answers may be repeated.
Pearl Harbor, 1941.
Anyone can say it.
- USA.
- Correct.
The Somme, 1918.
- Pass.
- Ramallah during the first Gulf War.
- Saudi Arabia.
- Incorrect.
Pusan Perimeter in 1950.
- Russia.
- Incorrect.
The Spion Kop in the second Boer War.
- Pass.
- Gallipoli in 1915.
- Pass.
- Dien Bien Phu in 1954.
- Vietnam.
- Correct.
Battle of the Bulge in 1944.
- France.
- Incorrect.
Leyte Gulf in 1944.
Pass.
The El-Alamein in 1942.
- Pass.
- That last one was Egypt, was the last one.
Saucon Valley.
You have literary colors for your topic.
Give the colors that complete these literary titles where I say blank.
Anne of Blank Gables by LM Montgomery.
- Green.
- Correct.
The Blank Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
- Scarlet.
- Correct.
A Clockwork Blank by Anthony Burgess.
- Orange.
- Correct.
Island of the Blank Dolphins by Scott O'Dell.
- Blue.
- Correct.
The Color Blank by Alice Walker.
- Purple.
- Correct.
Where the Blank Ferns Grow by Wilson Rawls.
- Red.
- Correct.
The Blank Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
- Purple?
- Incorrect.
The Red and the Blank by Stendhal.
- Blue.
- Incorrect.
The Devil in the Blank City by Erik Larson.
- Red.
- Incorrect.
The Blank Bug by Edgar Allan Poe.
- Golden.
- That is correct.
And we'll continue the match with the following toss-up.
What covalent solid with SP3 hybridized atoms is used in namesake anvils to apply extreme pressures and is an allotrope of carbon that is very hard?
No-one's sporting any diamonds on any of their jewelry.
Diamonds is the correct answer.
Next toss-up.
What novel in which zydeco musician Justin dates fellow high-schooler Via is by RJ Palacio and depicts Auggie, a boy with facial differences?
Whitehall.
- Wonder.
- That is correct.
For your bonus, what monument, a 630-foot tall inverted canton... or catenary curve was designed by Eero Saarinen to symbolize westward expansion?
- St Louis Arch.
- We need the specific name of the work.
- The Gateway Arch.
- That is correct.
Next toss-up.
What country which lies to the north of the Kaliningrad enclave and to the south of Latvia borders the Baltic Valley...?
Saucon Valley.
- Lithuania.
- That is correct.
For your bonus, along with Andrew Moray, which Scottish independence leader commanded the victorious side at the Battle of Stirling Bridge in 1297?
William Wallace is the correct answer.
Next toss-up.
What art style, which has analytic and synthetic forms, was co-developed by George Braques and is exemplified by the geometric style of Pablo Picasso?
Saucon Valley.
- Cubism.
- That is correct.
For your bonus, a lack of the chemical hypocretin is believed to be what factor in what brain condition characterized by brief attacks of deep sleep?
- Insomnia.
- That is incorrect.
Narcolepsy is the correct answer.
Next toss-up.
What language, whose name for itself translates as "one who hopes", is described in the book of Unua Libro by Zamenhof who created it in 1887?
Esperanto is the correct answer.
Next toss-up.
What person's words and deeds, the most verifiable of which are called sahih, are recorded in hadiths, and are the primary basis of Sharia law in Islam?
Muhammad is the correct answer.
And with that, we've reached half-time.
We have a tight and kind of nervous match under way between Saucon Valley with 105 points and Whitehall with 100 points.
Now, let's take a moment for the students to answer the following question.
They'll give their first and last name, their grade level, and we'd like to know, is it easier for you to learn by reading, by listening or by doing?
Kimberly, Saucon Valley, we start with you.
- Kimberly Moser, 11th grade, and I learn best by reading.
- OK. Stefan Goudsouzian, ninth grade, and I definitely learn best by doing.
- OK. - Lincoln Alisha, 11th grade.
I learn best by listening.
- Hi, I'm Paul Mehalizes.
I'm in 10th grade and I learn best from doing.
- All right, on to Whitehall.
- Steven Hansen, 11th grade, learn best from doing.
- Nathan Mack, 12th grade.
I learn best by doing.
- Neiv Sinha, 10th grade.
I learn best by reading.
- Hailey Weston, 11th grade, and I learn best by doing.
- All right.
For me, it's always best by listening.
I would not even take so many notes but if I could hear someone say something, I could always remember and recall it.
All right.
Now, with that, we'll start the second half of our match with the following toss-up.
What bone runs from the thumb to the elbow, parallel to the ulna, and shares...?
- Saucon Valley?
- Radius?
That is correct, and shares its name with a line segment between a point on a circle and its center.
And for your bonus, what last leader of the Soviet Union, who was challenged by the Gang of Eight in a 1991 coup attempt, died in August 2022 at the age of 91?
- Gorbachev.
- You are correct.
Mikhail Gorbachev is the correct answer.
Next toss-up.
What region, which was once ruled by a council called the Kashag, is home to the Potala Palace in Lhasa and was historically ruled by the Dalai Lama?
- Whitehall.
- Tibet.
- That is correct.
For your bonus, what actress played the singer in an all-woman band in Some Like It Hot and sang Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes?
- Madonna?
- Incorrect.
Marilyn Monroe is the correct answer.
I think Madonna wishes she was Marilyn Monroe.
In my personal opinion.
On to the next toss-up.
What video game, whose sixth season added "sweet thieves" mode, is set in an arena called the Blunderdome where beans play battle royale mini games?
- Whitehall.
- Fall Guys?
- That's correct.
It's a favorite of my daughter.
I'm surprised everyone paused that long on that one.
For your bonus, what American migratory butterfly in the genus Danaus was classified as an endangered... was classified as endangered in 2022, amid an estimated greater than 20% drop in its population?
- Monarch.
- The monarch butterfly is correct.
Next toss-up.
What insect named after a Greek word meaning prophet are known to practise sexual cannibalism and have folded forelimbs reminiscent of worship?
- Whitehall.
- The praying mantis.
- That is correct.
For your bonus, during the 1922 march on Rome, King Victor Emmanuel III gave the role of Prime Minister to what leader of the Blackshirts?
Benito Mussolini is the correct answer.
Next toss-up.
What title outcast dies at a secret location near Colonus in a Sophocles play set after this man discovered that his wife, Jocasta, was also...?
Saucon Valley.
- Oedipus.
- That's right.
He discovered that she was also his mother.
For your bonus, a 2022 rule change by the FDA allowed the sale without prescription of what medical devices, early examples of which were trumpet shaped?
- EpiPen?
- Incorrect.
Hearing aids is the correct answer.
Next toss-up.
What Pharaoh commissioned the new capital in the city of Amarna, was Nefertiti's husband and Tutankhamen's father and briefly converted Egypt to monotheism?
Akhenaten is the correct answer.
Next toss-up.
What man who won an Oscar for his role in the 1953 film From Here To Eternity was part of the Rat Pack, was nicknamed Old Blue Eyes and sang My Way?
Whitehall.
- Frank Sinatra.
- That is correct.
For your bonus, what British author coined the portmanteau Oxbridge, depicted Becky Sharp flinging a dictionary out of a coach in an 1848 novel, Vanity Fair?
William Makepeace Thackeray is the correct answer.
Next toss-up.
What shape is the simplest non-orientable surface, can be created by cutting a Klein bottle along its length and is a strip with just one side?
Whitehall.
- Mobius.
- A mobius strip is correct.
For your bonus, what process, first used in 487 BCE against Hipparchus, was named for the pottery shards used for voting to exile citizens from Athens for ten years?
Ostracism is the correct answer.
And with that, we've reached our second lightning round.
Saucon Valley, you get to pick between the following topics.
Recent popular songs or ladies?
What do we think, Lincoln?
We're going to go recent popular songs.
Recent popular songs.
Right, Saucon Valley.
Your topic is recent popular songs.
Name the primary singer of these recent popular songs.
Good For You and Driver's License.
- Olivia Rodrigo.
- Correct.
Montero, Call Me By Your Name and Old Town Road.
- Lil Nas X.
- Correct.
Easy on Me from her album 30.
- Adele.
- Correct.
Holy and Peaches.
- Justin Bieber.
- Correct.
Kiss Me More and Say So.
- Dua Lipa.
- Incorrect.
Don't Start Now and Levitating.
- Dua Lipa.
- Correct.
Noticed and Blueberry Faygo.
- Pass.
- Hands To Myself and Lose You To Love Me.
- Selena Gomez.
- Correct.
Lemon Pepper Freestyle and Laugh Now Cry Later.
- Drake.
- Correct.
The country hit Fancy Like.
- Pass.
- I'm not a country fan either.
That's Walker Hayes.
Whitehall.
Your topic is ladies.
Answer the following about ladies.
President whose wife was known as Lady Bird.
- Lyndon B Johnson.
- Correct.
Enchantress who gave the sword Excalibur to author... to Arthur.
- Morgan.
- Incorrect.
British prime minister known as the Iron Lady.
- Margaret Thatcher.
- Correct.
Disney's Lady and the Tramp are these animals.
- Dogs.
- Correct.
Woman who appeared as Our Lady of Fatima.
- Pass.
- Nickname for the New York Times, inspired by its former appearance.
- Liberty Lady.
- Incorrect.
2008 song subtitled Put a Ring On It.
- Pass.
- The state's barrier islands include Lady's Island and Hilton Head.
- South Carolina.
- Correct.
Author of The Portrait of a Lady and Daisy Miller.
- Pass.
- Monarch known as the Nine Days Queen.
And that was Lady Jane Grey.
And we'll conclude the match, the final quarter of the match with this following toss-up question.
What officer ordered the lines of Torres Vedras built during the Peninsular War and commanded victorious British troops against Napoleon at Waterloo?
Arthur Wellesley is the correct answer.
Next toss-up.
What Democrat who narrowly won the 2020 Iowa presidential caucus now serves as Secretary of Transportation and was the mayor of...?
Whitehall.
- Pete Buttigieg.
- That is correct.
For your bonus, in 2022, what Latin American country's president Nayib Bukele responded to a spike in murders by detaining at least 50,000 suspected gang members?
- Guatemala.
- Incorrect.
The correct country is El Salvador.
Next toss-up.
What structure takes up crystal violet dye when it has a thick peptidoglycan layer, is made of cellulose in plants and surrounds the cell membrane?
Saucon Valley?
- Cell wall?
- That is correct.
For your bonus, what Whig Senator from Massachusetts declared "Liberty and Union "now and forever one and inseparable" during his 1830 debate with Robert Hayne?
- Horatio?
- Incorrect.
Daniel Webster is the correct answer.
Next toss-up.
What literary work in which Harry Bailly leaves the Tabard Inn to travel with a group of pilgrims is a collection of stories...?
Saucon Valley.
- Canterbury Tales.
- That is correct.
This is a collection by Geoffrey Chaucer.
For your bonus, of the four major groups of orchestral instruments, which one includes the Korean junggo and the Japanese taiko?
- String.
- Incorrect.
That orchestral group is the percussion instruments for Japanese taiko drums.
Next toss-up.
In what Civil War, what state witnessed the siege of Fort Pulaski, William Rosecrans's defeat at Chickamauga and William Sherman's march to Savannah?
Saucon Valley.
- Georgia.
- That is correct.
Your bonus is in math.
Pencil and paper ready.
What is the coefficient of the X term in the polynomial equal to the quantity X minus six times the quantity X plus four?
Go ahead.
- Negative two.
- That is correct.
Next toss-up.
Kheiron gave up his immortality to free what figure whose liver was pecked out each day after he was bound to a mountain for giving fire....?
- Whitehall.
- Prometheus?
That's correct.
For giving fire to humanity.
For your bonus, in 2020, Argentina had three days of national mourning for what soccer star who scored the goal of the century against England in the 1986...?
- Diego Maradona.
- Maradona is correct.
Next toss-up.
What Mexican state is the largest by area, is...?
Whitehall.
- Chiapas.
- Incorrect.
I'll continue for Saucon Valley.
Is to the east of Sonora and south of New Mexico and Texas.
And with that, time is up.
Wow.
That was an extremely close game.
Congratulations, Saucon Valley wins it right at the end with a score of 210 to Whitehall's 205.
Whitehall, you had a great first couple of rounds in the tournament.
Unfortunately, you're out.
Have a great rest of the school year.
We'll see you next year.
And thank you for tuning in.
We'll see you next week when Salisbury faces off against Allentown Central Catholic High School.
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