Scholastic Scrimmage: Ep 15 Stroudsburg HS vs Palmerton HS

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

I'm your host, David Graf.

Today's match between Stroudsburg and Palmerton 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, we'll start with our first toss-up.

What program, whose first mission ended with a fire that killed Gus Grissom sent three Nasa astronauts... Palmerton.

- Apollo.

- That is correct.

Sent three astronauts to the moon with its 11th mission.

Your bonus is in math, pencil and paper ready.

What is the value in the following equation of X, of seven raised to the fourth power x 49 cubed, equals seven raised to the X power?

Go ahead, captain.

- Eight.

- Incorrect.

Ten is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What events, which the helicopter-based Los Angeles News Service pioneered in televising in the 1990s, may be ended by pit maneuvers or spike strips?

Stroudsburg.

- Runaway chases?

- Yeah, high-speed chases or police chases are correct.

Runaway chases.

Unfortunately, that was a big part of '90s TV.

For your bonus, what word, which denotes a stable language developed from mixing other languages, also refers to a style of music and cuisine from Louisiana?

- Cajun.

- Incorrect.

Creole or creoles is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What quantity has a first- time derivative called jerk, is measured in meters...?

Palmerton.

- G force.

- Incorrect.

I'll continue for Stroudsburg.

..is measured in meters per second squared... Stroudsburg.

- Acceleration.

- That is correct.

..and is the rate of change of velocity.

For your bonus, in seventh century BC, Ashurbanipal was the throne of what empire, which then controlled almost all of the Near East from its capital Nevia?

Or Nineveh, excuse me.

Its capital Nineveh.

- Sumerian?

Sumeria.

- Incorrect.

It's the Assyria Empire, is the correct answer.

We'll continue on with the next toss-up.

In 2022, what man's killers, Travis and Gregory McMichael, were sentenced to life in prison in Georgia for shooting...?

Palmerton.

- Arbery?

- That is correct.

..Ahmaud Arbery, for shooting him while he was jogging.

For your bonus, in 2022, British company DeepMind announced that its AI AlphaFold had predicted the structures of nearly all known examples of what molecules?

- Atoms.

- Incorrect.

Proteins is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What NAACP attorney argued the case Cooper versus Aaron and Brown versus Board before the Supreme Court?

Palmerton.

- Marshall.

- Thurgood Marshall is correct.

And he later became the first African American justice.

For your bonus, the German word for building up names what principle of quantum mechanics, which governs how electrons progressively fill an atom's sub shells?

- Valence.

- Incorrect.

It's the Aufbau principle, is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What letter, used as a pseudonym by the villains of the Pretty Little Liars franchise, is placed on Hester Prynne's clothing as punishment for adultery?

Stroudsburg.

- E. - Incorrect.

Palmerton, a little bit of time left.

Palmerton, go ahead.

- S. - Incorrect.

A is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What partition, which travels between the Diomede Islands, mostly follows the 180th Meridian and...?

Palmerton.

- International date line.

- That is correct.

..and causes a time change of 24 hours when crossed.

For your bonus, in what opera by Richard Strauss does The Dance Of The Seven Veils precede the off-stage beheading of Jochanaan, who represents John the Baptist?

- Phantom Of The Opera?

- Incorrect.

Salome is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What structures, which include New Zealand's rapidly shrinking Franz Josef, give rise to eskers and moraines, and are slow-moving bodies of ice?

Palmerton.

- Glaciers?

- That is correct.

For your bonus, what six-letter word, which is used as a distress signal in radio communications, comes from the French for "help me" and sounds like a spring holiday?

- Easter?

- Incorrect.

Mayday is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What author of a lecture on Beowulf, subtitled The Monster And The Critics, wrote about the dwarf Thorin and the dragon Smaug in his novel...?

Stroudsburg.

- JRR Tolkien.

- That is correct.

..in his novel The Hobbit.

For your bonus, what constellation's nominal alpha star Dubhe is part of an astrocism variously called The Wagon or The Plow?

Asterism, excuse me, variously called The Wagon or The Plow?

- Big Dipper.

- Did he get that?

Unfortunately, he didn't get it in.

It would be Ursa Major, otherwise known as The Big Dipper.

We have now reached the first lightning round.

In this first lightning round, it was determined in a pre-match coin toss that, Palmerton, you get to select between the following topics - Literary Foundlings And Orphans or Countries Bordering The Mediterranean.

- Countries Bordering The Mediterranean, please.

- OK.

So, Palmerton, that means you will have Literary Foundlings And Orphans when it gets over to you.

Palmerton, your topic is Countries Bordering The Mediterranean.

In what country bordering the Mediterranean Sea or its arms will one find the coastal cities of Valencia and Barcelona?

- Italy.

- Incorrect.

The recently rebuilt library of Alexandria.

- Egypt.

- Correct.

The Cote d'Ivoire, also known as its Riviera.

- Italy.

- Incorrect.

The Peloponnese.

- Greece.

- Correct.

The Hagia Sophia, originally built as a cathedral.

- Bulgaria.

- Incorrect.

Mount Vesuvius and Mount Etna.

- Italy.

- Correct.

The ruins of Carthage.

- Egypt.

- Incorrect.

A forest called the Cedars of God.

- Morocco.

- Incorrect.

Sarajevo, which hosted the 1984... - Bosnia.

- Say it again?

- Bosnia.

- That is correct.

A partition known as the Green Line, that runs through Nicosia.

- Croatia.

- Incorrect.

The final answer was Cyprus.

Stroudsburg, your topic is Literary Foundlings And Orphans.

Name the authors who wrote about these foundlings and orphans.

Answers may be repeated.

David Copperfield.

- Dickens.

- Correct.

Mowgli.

- Kipling.

- Correct.

Heathcliff, who loves Catherine Earnshaw.

- Pass.

- Quasimodo.

- Pass.

- Lord Greystoke, better known as Tarzan.

- Kipling.

- Incorrect.

Cosette, who falls in love with Marius.

- Who wrote Les Mis?

- Do you know who wrote Les Mis?

Pass.

- Natty Bumppo, a frontier scout also called Hawkeye.

- Pass.

- Tom Jones.

- Dickens - Incorrect.

Anne Shirley, a resident of Green Gables.

- Lucy Maud Montgomery.

- That is correct.

Heidi, who lives in the Swiss Alps.

And that would be Spyri, would be the last answer.

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

What office, held by Alfredo Stroessner, did Francisco Solana Lopez lose after the start of The War of the Triple Alliances in a landlocked country?

The office he held, he was the president of Paraguay.

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

What difference results from subtracting the fractions two sevenths minus one fifth?

- Three 35ths.

- Palmerton?

- Three 35ths.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, in a heated rivalry, that peaked in early 2019, what Swedish YouTuber competed with T-Series to become the most subscribed YouTube channel?

- PewDiePie.

- PewDiePie is correct.

Onto our next toss-up.

What author, who depicted Sutpen's Hundred, a plantation near Jefferson, Mississippi, in the novel Absalom, Absalom!, also wrote As I Lay Dying?

Stroudsburg.

- Austin.

- Incorrect.

Palmerton, over to you.

No confirming.

William Faulkner is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What country, the setting of a 2021 film Drive My Car, was home to the director Akira Kurosawa, who directed Throne Of Blood, Ran and Rashomon?

The country is Japan.

And Drive My Car is a very long but very good movie, recommend it for this weekend.

Next toss-up.

What organ, that contains vitreous and aqueous humor, is affected in macular degeneration, contains rods...?

Palmerton.

- The eyes.

- That is correct.

..and it contains rods and cones.

For your bonus, what general served as Consul of Rome a record seven times, reformed the Roman legions and maintained a long running rivalry with Sulla?

- Nero.

- Incorrect.

Gaius Marius is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What elder son of Livia Drusilla reigned during the traditional date of Jesus's crucifixion and lived on Capri after becoming the second Roman Emperor?

Stroudsburg.

- Tiberius.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, what term, starting with R, refers to enzymes that recognize specific DNA sequences and cut DNA strands near such sites?

- Ribosomes.

- Incorrect.

Restriction enzymes is the correct answer.

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

Palmerton currently leads Stroudsburg with a score of 95 to 40.

And now, let's get to know the students a little bit better with the following question - what is the one movie you think you've watched most so far over your lifetime?

Stroudsburg, Ryan, we start with you.

- The movie I've watched the most probably is Interstellar.

- OK, very good.

- The movie that I've watched the most over the course of my lifetime is Anchorman 2.

- That's a great one.

Modern comedy classic.

- The movie I've watched most over the course of my lifetime is Monsters Inc. - OK, Colin.

- The movie I probably watched the most over my life has been Jurassic Park.

- OK, and on to Palmerton.

- The movie I've watched the most is Rocky IV.

- The movie I've watched the most is Happy Gilmore.

- The movie I've watched most is Cars 1.

- The movie I've watched the most is the one-hour version of I'm Just A Bill, by Schoolhouse Rock.

- Very good.

And for me personally, it's the movie Skyfall, one of my favorites.

I think it's one of the best action movies ever made.

Sam Mendes did a great job with that.

And my daughter wanted me to mention her favorite is Sing 2, which is played on repeat at our house.

Now that we've got to know everyone a little bit better, we're going to continue on with the second half of the match.

We start with the following toss-up question.

What two writers, who began the Deutsches Worterbuch, or German dictionary, were siblings who popularized Snow White and other traditional fairy tales from folklore?

Stroudsburg.

- Brothers Grimm.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, Port Louis is the capital of what African island nation that was once home to the dodo bird?

- Mauritius.

- Mauritius.

- Mauritius is correct.

- Say it out loud.

You can tell the captain on the bonus for that.

- You don't need to whisper.

- All right, next toss-up.

What unit, which is proportional to the common logarithm of a ratio of powers, is named after the inventor of the telephone and measures loudness?

Stroudsburg.

- Bell.

- Incorrect.

Over to Palmerton.

- Palmerton.

- Graham?

- That is also incorrect.

Decibels is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What battle, intended to coincide with an attack on the Aleutian Islands, saw US planes sink four Japanese aircraft carriers near a namesake atoll?

- Palmerton.

- Battle of Midway.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, Ascalaphus, the keeper of Hades' orchards, revealed to the gods that Persephone had eaten the seeds of what fruit?

- Apple.

- Incorrect.

The pomegranate is the fruit we're looking for.

Next toss-up.

What composer of Black, Brown & Beige and In A Sentimental Mood led a jazz band with the signature tune Take the A Train and was nicknamed Duke?

Stroudsburg.

- Ellington.

- That is correct.

Duke Ellington is the correct answer.

Your bonus is in math, pencil and paper ready.

If two-fifths of x equals 8, what is the value of three-tenths of x?

- 6?

6.

- 6.

- 6 is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What process, which is induced by gratings, can cause light going through an aperture to spread out or cause light to bend around an obstacle?

Diffraction is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What general, who took command of the Atlantic Wall after losing to Bernard Montgomery at... Stroudsburg.

- Rommel.

- Rommel is the correct answer.

For your bonus, in 1905, Odesa and Kiev were the sites of what type of organized riots against Jewish people, whose name comes from the Russian word for to wreak havoc?

- Pogroms?

- Pogroms are correct.

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

Stroudsburg, you'll get to pick between the following topics.

Female athletes or coins.

Female athletes.

Female athletes, so Palmerton, you have coins.

Hopefully...

In our pre-match coin toss, we've been featuring coins from around the world, so maybe they'll help you out with your topic.

But first, we go to Stroudsburg with female athletes.

Given an athlete, name the primary sport in which she competes.

Given an overall sport... or give the overall sport, not the name of the particular discipline they compete in within that sport.

So female athletes.

We'll start now with Gabby Douglas.

- Gymnastics.

- Correct.

Mia Hamm.

- Soccer.

- Correct.

Serena Williams.

- Tennis.

- Correct.

Cadence Parker.

Candace Parker, excuse me.

- Basketball.

- Correct.

Lindsey Vonn.

- Skiing?

- Correct.

Laila Ali.

- Boxing.

- Correct.

Suni Lee.

- Gymnastics.

- Correct.

Carissa Moore.

- Pass.

- Katie Ledecky.

- Swimming.

- Correct.

Danica Patrick.

- NASCAR driving, racing?

- That is correct.

We would have accepted auto racing, indy racing, NASCAR racing.

Nice job on that lightning round.

Palmerton, your topic is coins.

Give these terms related to coins and coinage.

Metal that gives a US penny its color.

- Copper.

- Correct.

Four-letter word for a building that produces coins.

- Mint.

- Correct.

Spinning top used to win coins called gelt at Hanukkah.

- Dreidel.

- Correct.

The Spanish dollar was known as a piece of this number.

- Eight.

- Correct.

A coin with one specific use such as for a bus ride.

- Token.

- Correct.

Suffragette who once appeared on the US dollar coin.

- Anthony.

- Correct.

Term for pressing an image into a coin used in other contexts - in sports.

- Imprint?

- Incorrect.

Country who uses Krugerrand coins.

- Pass.

- Rich man from ancient Libya who first made pure gold coins.

- Romulus?

- Incorrect.

Term for the side of a coin opposite the obverse.

- Reverse.

- That is correct.

Nice job, Palmerton.

We move on with the final quarter of the match with the following toss-up question.

What country, where Ometepe Islands lie in the largest lake in Central America, is between Honduras and Costa Rica?

Stroudsburg.

- Nicaragua.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, what French author's seven-volume magnum opus has been published in English under the titles Remembrance of Things Past and In Search of Lost Time?

- Voltaire.

- Incorrect.

Marcel Proust is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What state, where union troops found Robert E Lee's Special Order 191, was the site of the Battle of Antietam and the Pratt Street... Palmerton.

- Tennessee.

- Incorrect.

I'll continue for Stroudsburg.

And the Pratt Street riots in Baltimore.

- Maryland.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, what order of aquatic mammals takes its name from the Latin word for whale and also includes dolphins?

- Porpoisene?

- Cetacea is the order that we're looking for.

Next toss-up.

What aramid polymer developed by Stephen Kwolek at DuPont has a high strength to weight ratio, making it useful for bulletproof vests?

Stroudsburg.

- Kevlar.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, the surname of what woman, the first saint born in the United States, precedes Hall in the name of a New Jersey University?

- Seton.

- Seton is correct for Elizabeth Ann Seton.

Next toss-up.

What author of the novel Pincher Martin wrote about Ralph, Piggy and other schoolboys?

Stroudsburg.

You got to answer right away on this one, Colin.

- Waldorf.

- That is incorrect.

I'll continue on for Palmerton.

..and other schoolboys who are trapped on an island in the novel Lord of the Flies?

- Go ahead, Palmerton.

- Scott?

Incorrect.

William Golding is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What leader, who delivered the Jewel Voice Broadcast, reigned until 1989, during the Showa era, and was Emperor of Japan... Palmerton.

- Hirohito.

- That is correct.

He was Emperor of Japan during World War II.

For your bonus, the cities of Plattsburgh and Burlington lie on opposite shores of what lake that forms part of the border between Vermont and New York?

- Champlain.

- Lake Champlain is correct.

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

What is the surface area of a cube whose edges each have a length of two?

Stroudsburg.

- 24.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, what sculptor who died in 2022 is known for massively oversized sculptures of everyday objects such as his Dropped Cone and Clothespin?

Claes Oldenburg is the sculptor.

Next toss-up.

What NFL team won Super Bowl 48 over Denver, had Richard... Palmerton.

- Carolina Panthers.

- That is incorrect.

I'll continue for Stroudsburg.

..had Richard Sherman and Earl Thomas in its Legion of Boom defense and plays in Washington State?

Stroudsburg.

- The Seattle Seahawks.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, what poem that ends by describing a bronze statue of Neptune is a dramatic monolog by Robert Browning about the deceased wife of a sinister duke?

- Carson Craig.

- That is incorrect.

My Last Duchess.

Next toss-up.

What nonfiction novel, which depicted a 1959 event in Holcomb, Kansas, in which the Clutter family was murdered, is a pioneering true crime book by Truman Capote?

It's a good one.

It's In Cold Blood.

Next toss-up.

What British king, who reigned when the British Empire abolished slavery and when the 1832 Reform Act was passed, was succeeded by Queen Victoria?

William IV is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What painting, displayed in a California gallery opposite Thomas Lawrence's Pinkie, is by Thomas Gainsborough and shows a child wearing a particular color?

That painting is The Blue Boy.

Next toss-up.

What proteins that have two paratopes on their ends have subtypes, including IgG and IgA, or Y shaped, and help to trigger immune responses?

Part of our first line of defense.

They are antibodies.

Next toss-up.

What rapper who dissed Nas in the song Take Over on the album The Blueprint says that "if you're having girl problems, "I feel bad for you, son"?

Stroudsburg.

- Quick... - Jay-Z.

Jay-Z is correct, in his song 99 Problems.

For your bonus, Greyfriars Kirk is a church in what capital and second most populous city of Scotland?

This is a bonus for Stroudsburg.

- Edenboro.

- Will we take that, judges?

Edenboro - Edinburgh for the pronunciation.

We will accept that.

And with that we've reached the end of the match.

Congratulations to Stroudsburg with 195 points.

You move on to our final four teams of this season.

Palmerton, you had a great run, but with 150 points it wasn't quite enough.

Good luck with the rest of your school year.

And thank you for tuning in.

Tune in next week for the second match of the third round between Saucon Valley and Allentown Central Catholic High School.