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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 between Northwestern Lehigh and Bangor are composed of two halves with a lightning round midway through each half, and 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 composer, who depicted the friends Nadir and Zurga in The Pearl Fishers, included a toreador song and a habanera in his opera Carmen?
Northwestern.
- Bizet.
- That is correct.
Georges Bizet is the correct answer.
Your bonus is in math, pencil and paper ready.
What is the value of x if two thirds of one half x equals 50.
- 150.
- That is correct.
Next toss-up.
What British poet addressed a still unravished bride of quietness, which delivers the message, "Beauty is truth, truth, beauty," in Ode To A Grecian Urn?
John Keats is the correct answer.
Next toss-up.
What town, where an engine house filled with rebels was captured by Robert E Lee, was the site of a federal...?
Northwestern.
- Harpers Ferry.
- That is correct.
..an arsenal raided in 1859 by John Brown.
For your bonus, what writer criticized the Soviet prison system in his novel One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich and in his nonfiction work, The Gulag Archipelago?
- Solzhenitsyn.
- That is correct.
The next toss-up is in math, pencil and paper ready.
What is the probability that a fair coin flipped four times will show heads all four times?
Northwestern.
- One in 16.
- That is correct.
For your bonus, what architect, who worked with Vlado Milunic on Prague's Dancing House, included smooth metal surfaces in his design for the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao?
- IM Pei.
- Incorrect.
Frank Gehry is the correct answer.
Next toss-up.
What disease had its first US case since 2013 in 2022...?
Northwestern.
- Ebola.
- That is incorrect.
I'll continue for Bangor.
..can cause paralysis and may be treated with an iron lung.
- Go ahead.
- Polio?
- That is correct.
For your bonus, Bangor, what noble gas, which makes up about 1% of the Earth's atmosphere, is used with potassium 40 in a common radiometric dating technique?
- Neon.
- Incorrect, argon is the correct answer.
Next toss-up.
What US city, which is home to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Faneuil Hall and the Bunker Hill Monument, is the capital of Massachusetts?
- Bangor.
- Boston.
- That is correct.
And for your bonus, Jesus is light from light and consubstantial with the father, according to the namesake creed developed at what first-ever church council in AD 325?
- Go ahead.
- The Nicene Creed.
- That is correct.
The first council of the Nicene Creed.
Next toss-up.
What procedure, often uses a buret, is stopped at an end point when an indicator...?
Northwestern.
- Titration.
- That is correct.
For your bonus, English author Robert Graves wrote what 1934 historical novel, whose title character describes the reigns of Caligula and other Roman emperors?
- Marcus Aurelius.
- Incorrect.
I, Claudius is the correct answer.
Next toss-up.
What personage, whose origin is debated in the fili...
In the filio...
Excuse me.
In the filioque controversy, descended on apostles on Pentecost and forms the Trinity with God...?
Northwestern.
- The Holy Spirit.
- That is correct.
..forms the Holy Trinity with God and Jesus.
For your bonus, in biology, what term refers to the process of determining the order of nucleotides in a DNA molecule or of amino acids in a protein?
- Transcription.
- Transcription.
- That is incorrect.
Sequencing is the correct answer.
Next toss-up.
What economist, who stated that, in the long run, we're all dead...?
Northwestern.
- Keynes.
- That is correct.
..in his argument for deficit spending.
For your bonus, what Greek goddess of discord threw an apple marked for the fairest into the wedding of Peleus and Thetis, indirectly sparking the Trojan War?
- Hera.
- Incorrect.
Eris is the correct answer.
Next toss-up.
What landmark is in the Auyan-tepui, lies on a tributary of the Quirino, in eastern Venezuela, and is the world's highest uninterrupted...?
- Northwestern.
- Angel Falls.
- That is correct.
It is the world's highest uninterrupted waterfall.
For your bonus, what port city in Donetsk Oblast was the site of a Russian siege that ended in May 2022, after Ukrainians took the Azovstal Steel Plant, or after Ukrainians in the Azovstal Steel Plant surrendered?
- Mariupol.
- That is correct.
And with that, we've reached our first lightning round.
In a pre-match coin toss, it was determined that Bangor would get to select first between the topics of Numbers or Hannibal Barca.
Bangor, which topic would you like?
- Numbers.
- Numbers?
Northwestern, you'll have Hannibal, then.
Bangor, Numbers.
What positive integer is the closest to pi?
- Anyone can shout it out.
- Three.
- Correct.
The number of sides in a heptagon.
- Seven.
- Correct.
A divisor of all even numbers, but no odd numbers.
- Two.
- Correct The multiplicative identity.
The multiplicative identity.
- One.
- Correct.
The number of degrees in a right angle.
- 90.
- Correct.
The largest perfect cube below 100.
- If no-one knows, you can pass.
- Pass.
- The Fibonacci number after 21.
- 35.
- Incorrect.
The smallest perfect number.
- One.
- Incorrect.
Four factorial.
- 24.
- That is correct.
The base of a vigesimal system, such as used by the Mayans.
- Pass.
- And that would be 20, is the correct answer for that.
Northwestern, you're left with Hannibal Barca.
Answer the following about the ancient general Hannibal.
The mountain range he crossed to invade Italy in 218 BC.
- Alps.
- That is correct.
The large pachyderms used to cross those mountains.
- Elephants.
- Correct.
The North African city for whom he was a general.
- Carthage.
- Correct.
He lost the second of these wars.
- Punic Wars.
- Correct.
He lost this city in that war.
He lost TO this city in that war.
- Rome.
- Correct.
202 BC battle he lost to Scipio Africanus.
- Pass.
- Scipio Africanus.
He lost sight in one eye in the marshes of this river in Florence.
- Tiber.
- Incorrect.
Used a double envelopment maneuver in this 216 BC battle.
- Pass.
- His father, also a general.
- Hamilcar.
- Correct.
Englishman who depicted him in an 1812 painting, Snow Storm.
- Smith.
- Incorrect.
JMW Turner was the answer to the last one.
Turner did a lot of battle scenes.
And we'll continue on with the next toss-up question.
What title character lives near the mouse trainer Mr Bobo and meets an Other Mother who has buttons for eyes...?
Northwestern.
- Coraline.
- Yes.
Coraline Jones the correct answer.
For your bonus, what colony was formed by the merger of the upper and lower portions, as recommended by the Durham Report in the years after the rebellions of 1837 and 1838?
- Italy.
- Incorrect.
The province of Canada is the correct answer.
Next toss-up.
What organization, the plaintiff in a 1992 case against Robert Casey, was founded by Margaret Sanger and provides reproductive...?
Bangor.
- Planned Parenthood.
- That is correct.
They provide reproductive health services.
For your bonus, in 2021, the US Government created the Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary in what Great Lake?
- Superior.
- Incorrect.
Lake Michigan is the correct answer.
Next toss-up.
What holiday, which gives its name to a 1930 poem by TS Eliot, inspired by his conversion to Anglicanism, is the day after Mardi Gras and the first day of Lent?
Northwestern.
- Ash Wednesday.
- That is correct.
Northwestern, for your bonus, what shape is the graph of the equation X squared plus y squared equals R squared, where R is a constant?
- Circle.
- That is correct.
Next toss-up.
What Midwestern state, whose Supreme Court held in 2019 that a woman had the right to an abortion, upheld that ruling in an August 2022 referendum?
Bangor.
- Roe versus Wade.
- Incorrect.
Still a little bit of time for Northwestern.
But no conferring.
Northwestern.
- Missouri.
- Incorrect.
Kansas is the correct answer.
Next toss-up.
What statesman, who declared, "O, tempora, O, tempora," against Catiline, and attacked Mark Anthony in the Philippics, is considered a modern Roman rhetorician?
Cicero is the correct answer.
Next toss-up.
What film series, in which Haddonfield resident Laurie Strode is played by Jamie Lee Curtis, depicts serial killer Michael Myers and is set in October?
Northwestern.
- Halloween.
- That's right.
And that is, in fact, the best scary movie ever made.
For your bonus, Terence Powderly Lee led what early American union, that declined after the Haymarket Square bombing?
- United Coworkers.
-Incorrect.
The Knights of Labor.
Is the union that he led.
Next toss-up.
What artwork, which showed a hollowed out tree of man and a pair of ears holding a knife in its hellish right panel, is a triptych by Hieronymus Bosch?
That triptych is The Garden Of Earthly Delights.
And with that, we've reached half-time.
Northwestern leads with 165 points to Bangor's 60.
And now we'll take a minute to get to know the students a little bit better.
They'll introduce themselves with their first, last name, grade level, and also let us know, is it easier for you to learn by reading, by listening or by doing?
Northwestern, Elijah, we'll start with you.
Go ahead.
- Hi, I'm Elijah, Northwestern, grade 12, and I think it's easier for me to learn by taking notes as it just commits it to muscle memory.
- OK. - Hi, I'm Haydn, from Northwestern Lehigh, a 12th grader, and I think it's easiest kind of by doing, like Eli said, with writing and committing it to memory.
- Excellent.
Tim?
- Hello, I'm Tim, I'm an 11th grader from Northwestern Lehigh, and I would say that I learn best by reading.
- OK. - I'm Jesse, I'm an 11th grader at Northwestern Lehigh, and I'd say I learn best by reading as well.
- All right, and on to Bangor.
- Hi, I'm Logan, I'm in 11th grade, and I think I learned better by taking notes because of muscle memory as well.
- OK. - Hi, I'm Matthew, I'm a tenth grader at Bangor, and I feel like I learn better by watching because I'm a visual learner.
- OK. - Hi, my name is Evan, I'm in ninth grade, Bangor Area High School, and I learn best by listening.
- All right.
And, Fiona.
- Hello, I'm Fiona, ninth grade, Bangor Area, and I think I learn best by reading because I'm a visual learner.
- All right, excellent.
- And we'll continue on with the second half of the match with the following toss-up question.
What force names a hypothetical boson, with spin 2, is caused by the curvature of space-time in general relativity and pulls objects towards the Earth?
- Bangor.
- Gravity.
That is correct.
It pulls the objects towards the Earth.
For your bonus, what quantity, whose bond type is about 0.3 for Earth, is a ratio of the amount of light reflected by a body to the amount of incident light on it?
Albedo is the correct answer.
Next toss-up.
What character uses a poisoned dress to murder Glauce and escapes in the chariot of Helios in Euripides' play that depicts her abandonment by Jason?
Northwestern.
- Antigone.
- Incorrect.
Bangor, there's still some time.
No conferring, though.
Medea is the correct answer.
Next toss-up.
What brass instrument, usually pitched in F, can be stopped by putting one's hand in its bell, is highly... Northwestern.
- French horn.
- That is correct.
..and is sometimes called French, was the final giveaway on that question.
For your bonus, what Illinois Governor ran with John Sparkman and Estes Kefauver in a presidential election of 1952 and 1956, which he lost to Dwight Eisenhower?
- Stevenson.
- Adlai Stevenson is the correct answer.
Next toss-up.
What alkaline earth metal replaces calcium in limestone to form dolomite, has a milky white hydroxide and is found with sulfate in Epsom salt?
Northwestern.
- Magnesium.
- Magnesium is correct.
For your bonus, what chemistry law, named for a Frenchman, holds that, for a gas at constant pressure, the ratio of its volume to absolute temperature is constant?
- Charles.
- That is correct.
Charles' law is the correct answer.
Next toss-up.
What man, who gave the Blood and Iron Speech, ordered the anti-Catholic Kulturkampf after uniting Germany as the original...?
Northwestern.
- Otto von Bismarck.
- That's right.
Known as the Iron Chancellor.
For your bonus, what four-letter word denotes a typographic measurement of about 4.217mm and a disorder in which people eat non-food items, such as soil?
- Pica.
- Pica is the correct answer.
Next toss-up.
What TV show, which generated the spin-offs Private Practice and Station 19, is a long-running ABC drama about a Seattle surgeon named...?
Bangor.
- Grey's Anatomy.
- That's correct.
..a Seattle surgeon named Meredith.
And I cannot believe that show is still on, it was on when I was in college.
For your bonus, what Polish-British anthropologist studied the Trobriand islanders in his 1922 book, Argonauts Of The Western Pacific?
Bronislaw Malinowski is the correct answer.
The next toss-up.
What character tells the sun to gallop apace so night can come faster, uses "about a rose by any other name" and in a Shakespeare...?
Bangor.
- Juliet.
- That is correct.
..marries Romeo in a Shakespeare play.
For your bonus, what mountain, which George Bell called "A savage mountain that tries to kill you," is the second-highest mountain in the world?
- K2.
- That is also correct.
Next toss-up.
What quantity is equal for each branch of a parallel circuit, is stepped up or down by a transformer...?
Northwestern.
- Voltage.
- That is correct.
..and equals current times resistance by Ohm's law.
For your bonus, what Frankish general and Mayor of the Palace defeats Muslim forces at the Battle of Tours in AD 732?
- Smith.
- I see a lot of head shaking there.
Charles Martel is the correct answer.
Next toss-up.
What city, which lies east of Espoo, in the Uusimaa region, is about 50 miles north of Estonia's capital of Tallinn and is the capital of Finland?
Northwestern.
- Helsinki.
- That is correct.
For your bonus, the musical Come From Away centers on the citizens of Gander, Newfoundland, as they help displaced people after what historical event?
- The sinking of the Titanic.
- Incorrect.
The event is the September 11th attacks.
Next toss-up.
What title, given to Edward of Caernarfon in 1301 and given in September 2022 to Prince William, is held by the heir apparent to the British throne?
Northwestern.
- Duke of Wessex.
- That's incorrect.
Bangor?
Go ahead.
- Duke of Sussex.
- Incorrect.
It's the Prince of Wales.
You're Prince of Wales if you're next in line for the throne.
And with that, we've reached our second lightning round.
In this second lightning round, Northwestern, you'll get to pick between the following topics - Dutch-Derived Words or Double D. - Double D. - Northwestern, your topic is Double D. Give these people, places or things whose name contain a double D. Aircraft or ship part used to control yaw.
- Rudder.
- Correct.
Capital of Ethiopia.
- Addis Ababa.
- Correct.
The 2016 film about black women who were Nasa mathematicians.
- Hidden Figures.
- Correct.
George Eliot Novel about Dorothea Brooke.
- Pass.
- Religion with Mahayana and Theravada branches.
- Buddhism.
- Correct.
Musical in which Tevye sings If I Were A Rich Man.
- Pass.
- Margaret Atwood novel that follows Oryx And Crake and The Year Of The Flood.
- Pass.
- Doctor who treated John Wilkes Booth's broken leg in 1865.
- Pass.
- Pioneering rocket scientist who created the first liquid-fueled rockets.
- Goddard.
- Correct.
Supervillain alter ego of Edward Nygma.
- Pass.
- That would be the Riddler.
Get it?
Edward Nygma, enigma?
The Riddler.
Bangor, that leaves you with Dutch-Derived Words.
Give these English words, derived from Dutch.
The transport of illicit goods.
- Pass.
- A supervisor or leader of a political machine.
- Chancellor.
- Incorrect.
To stand around aimlessly.
- Loiter.
- Correct.
To prepare food in a brine, especially a cucumber.
- Pickle.
- You can just say it.
- Pickle.
- Correct.
A shoulder-mounted rocket launcher.
- Bazooka.
- Correct.
A leave of absence, often for soldiers or government workers.
- Pass.
- A leisure excursion by boat.
- Cruise.
- Correct.
To stop flow by filling an open hole.
- Plug.
- Correct.
A breakfast food cooked on a lasciated iron.
- Omelet.
- On a latticed iron, excuse - me.
Take another stab at that.
Latticed iron?
That was my bad.
- Pass.
- A salad made with shredded cabbage.
- Sauerkraut.
- That is incorrect.
Coleslaw.
And the lasciated iron was waffles, for that one.
- Oh.
All right, and we continue on with the final quarter of the match with the following toss-up question.
What type of star will the sun become in about 5 billion years...?
Northwestern.
- A red giant.
- That is correct.
..after it runs out of hydrogen in its core.
For your bonus, what planet has rings named after Urbain Le Verrier and Johann Galle, both of whom contributed to its discovery in 1846.
- Uranus.
- Uranus.
- Incorrect.
Neptune is the correct answer.
Next toss-up.
What play, in which a former resident of Belle Reve moves in with Stanley and Stella Kowalski, is about Blanche Dubois and is by Tennessee Williams?
Northwestern.
- A Streetcar Named Desire.
- That is correct.
For your bonus, the Chisos Mountains are entirely within what National Park, which is on the US border with Mexico and is named for a feature of the Rio Grande?
You can tell your captain, it's a bonus.
- Big Bend.
- Big Bend.
- Big Bend National Park is correct.
Next toss-up.
What South Pacific Island, home to Henderson Field, is the largest of the Solomon Islands by area and was the site of a bitter 1942-1943 World War II battle?
Go ahead, Northwestern.
- Guadalcanal.
- That is correct.
For your bonus, what explorer, who was employed by King Leopold II and set up trading posts on the Congo River, asked a missing missionary, "Dr Livingstone...?"
Northwestern.
It's a bonus, you can... - Smith.
- Incorrect.
Henry Stanley.
And the famous line was "Dr Livingstone, I presume?"
Next toss-up.
What computing subfield, pioneered by David Deutsch, is based on principles such as entanglement and superposition from a namesake subfield of physics?
Northwestern.
- Theoretical physics.
- Incorrect.
Bangor, there's still some time to ponder.
Quantum computing is the correct answer.
Next toss-up.
What playwright, who depicted blues singer Floyd Barton in Seven Guitars, included Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and Fences in his Pittsburgh Cycle?
August Wilson is the correct answer.
What youngest man to receive an electoral vote for president was a three-time Democratic nominee who defended free silver in the Cross of Gold Speech?
I believe the buzzer went before him, or did he buzz in first?
He did buzz in first.
OK, Matthew, go ahead.
- Richard Nixon.
- Incorrect.
William Jennings Bryan is the correct answer.
What events produce Love waves and Rayleigh waves, can be measured on the Mercalli scale...?
Northwestern.
- Earthquakes.
- That is correct.
..and often have epicenters near a strike-slip fault.
For your bonus, what English composer of The Enigma Variations also wrote The Pomp and Circumstance Marches, the first of which is often played at graduations?
- Elgar.
- Elgar is the correct answer.
Next toss-up.
What diagram, which titles a collection by Primo Levi that includes the story Cerium, was formulated by Dmitri Mendeleev and displays the elements?
Northwestern.
- Periodic Table.
- That is correct.
The periodic table of elements.
And for your bonus, what Japanese term denotes a Shinto deity or spirit such as Amaterasu or Susanoo-no?
That is the end of the match.
The correct answer to that bonus is kami.
And with that, Northwestern.
Lehigh has won the match with the score of 325 to Bangor's 120.
Bangor, thank you for joining us and good luck with the rest of your school year.
Northwestern, you will move on to the third round.
And thank you for tuning in.
We'll see you next week when Lehighton faces Northampton.
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