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Hello and welcome to round two of the third season of "Scholastic Scrimmage" here on WQLN PBS.

I'm your host, Glenn Holland.

The match will have two halves with the lightning round midway through each half.

We'll get to know the students a little better at halftime.

As a reminder, "Scholastic Scrimmage" is a game that requires rapid recall of specific, factual information that is not indicative of academic training.

Time for our first toss up.

Buzzers ready?

Here we go.

What particles, which are the heaviest outputs of beta-minus decay consist of two up quarks and one down quark and are positively charged nucleons?

Fort LeBoeuf, Seth.

Protons.

That is correct.

Here's your bonus.

The library of Ashurbanipal, found at Nineveh, was a collection over 30,000 tablets acquired by what Middle Eastern Empire ruled by Sargon II?

The Assyrians?

Yes, that's correct.

The Assyrian Empire.

Toss up.

What Midwestern city whose police were accused by a 2023 DOJ report of bias against black and native residents is where George Floyd was killed?

Fort LeBoeuf, Liam.

Minneapolis.

That is correct.

Here's your bonus.

What influential 18th century English publisher wrote the lengthy epistolary novels, "Pamela" and "Clarissa?"

[bell dings] That was Samuel Richardson.

Toss up.

What singer collaborated with Sean Paul on the song "No Lie" and released the 2020 album "Future Nostalgia," which contains "Leviating" and "Don't Start Now?"

Cochranton, Allison.

Dua Lipa.

That is correct.

Here's your bonus.

What loud and startling phenomenon occurs when an object travels through air faster than the speed of sound, creating shock waves?

Sound boom.

GLENN: I'm sorry?

Sound boom.

GLENN: I need a different word.

Sonic boom.

Correct.

Here's your toss up.

What 1999 coming of age novel in which the English teacher Bill introduces the teenage Charlie to classic books was written by Steven Chbosky?

[bell dings] That's "The Perks of Being a Wallpaper."

Toss up, what type of animal is represented by the constellation that includes Polaris and by the constellation containing the Big Dipper, namely Ursa Major?

Fort LeBoefu, Seth.

The bear.

That is correct.

Here's your bonus.

In August, 2023, Donald Trump was charged with violating what law originally passed in 1870 to protect the rights of African Americans?

The Civil Rights Act.

No, the act is the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1870.

Toss up.

What God whose temples in Rome were closed in times of peace was a two faced God of beginnings and is the namesake of the first month of the year?

Fort LeBoeuf, Seth.

Janus.

That is correct.

Here's your bonus.

What Portuguese novelist imagined the Iberian peninsula detaching from Europe in "The Stone Raft" and depicted a strange plague in his book "Blindness?"

[bell dings] That is Jose Saramago.

Toss up, what building designed by Shrieve, Lamb, and Harmon features a spire designed for mooring air ships and when built in 1931 was New York City's tallest?

Fort LeBoeuf, Liam.

The Empire State Building.

That is correct.

Here's your bonus.

What philosopher wrote, "Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains," in his work "The Social Contract?"

Locke.

No, that was Jean Jacque Rousseau.

Toss up, what quantity represented by a curve that slopes downwards in a price versus quantity graph is often plotted by economists alongside supply?

Fort LeBoeuf, Seth.

Demand.

Correct.

Here's your bonus.

Many proteins including insulin are held together by what amino acid that can form disulfide bridges?

Carbon.

No, the amino acid is cystine.

Toss up, what effect which is used by weather radars and speed guns explains why an ambulance siren appears to change pitch as?

Fort LeBoeuf, Liam.

The doppler effect.

Correct.

Here's your bonus.

James Boswell wrote a biography of what author of "Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets," who published the 1755 English dictionary?

[bell dings] That was Samuel Johnson.

[bell rings] And that signal means it is time for our lightning round.

[upbeat music] And Cochranton, you won the toss.

So you have first choice of topics.

Your choices are stars or literary houses.

Literary houses.

All right.

Name the authors of these literary works titled for houses.

"The Little House on the Prairie" series.

Laura Ingalls Wilder.

Correct.

"The House of the Seven Gables."

Oh.

Pass.

The play "A Doll's House," a Norwegian.

That was Tennessee Williams.

I'm sorry?

Tennessee Williams.

No, it was Heinrich Ibsen.

The short story, "The Fall of the House of Usher."

Um pass.

"To the Lighthouse."

Pass.

"The House on Mango Street."

Pass.

"Bleak House."

Pass.

"The House of Mirth."

Shakespeare.

No, it's Edith Warton.

20th century Spanish author of "The House of Bernarda Alba."

Pass.

A Trinidadian-born British author of "A House for Mr.

Biswas."

Pass.

"The House of the Seven Gables."

Pass.

[bell dings] That is by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Fort LeBoeuf, your category is stars.

Name these things about stars.

The lightest element which main sequence stars fuse into helium.

Hydrogen.

Correct.

Dense star type named for uncharged subatomic particles.

Neutron stars.

Correct.

Brightest star in the night sky.

Sirius.

Correct.

Stellar explosion with a core collapsed type.

Supernova.

Correct.

Continuous stream of charged particles from the Sun.

Pass.

Star, that in 12,000 years, will become the new North star.

Pass.

Outermost layer of the sun that produces mass ejections.

Go ahead.

Corona?

Correct.

Type of variable star for which Henrietta Swan Leavitt found a period luminosity relation.

End class stars.

No it's cethades.

Diagram that plot stars' luminosities against their temperatures.

Pass.

[bell dings] That is a Hertzsprung Russell diagram.

Interesting.

So we will continue now to our regular play with this tossup.

What novel in which a proposal from Farmer Robert Martin is unwisely rejected by Harriet Smith?

Fort LeBoeuf, Seth.

"Emma."

Correct.

Here is your bonus.

In 1915, what countries signed the Treaty of London to join the Allied powers after nominally being allied with Germany at the start of World War I?

Italy.

Correct.

Toss up, what agreement which drew a line across the Louisiana territory above which slavery was banned, allowed Maine and a namesake state to join the US?

Fort LeBoeuf, Seth.

The Missouri Compromise.

Correct.

Here is your bonus.

What piano ballad from 2023's "Super Mario Brothers Movie" is performed by Jack Black as Bowser who sings about his true love?

"Peaches."

Correct.

I don't write them, I just deliver them.

Toss up, what Dutch artist painted the last judgment into his "Woman Holding a Balance," and showed a woman in a turban in "Girl with a Pearl Earring?"

Fort LeBoeuf, Seth.

Rembrandt.

No, I'm sorry, Cochranton?

Oh, that was John Vermeer.

Vermeer.

Toss up, what layer below the Gutenberg discontinuity hosts a dynamo powered by its convection that creates earth's magnetic field and is made of liquid iron?

Fort LeBoeuf, Liam.

The inner core.

The inner core?

I'm afraid not, Cochranton?

The outer core.

That is correct.

Bonus, what unit of memory is equivalent to 1,000 terabytes or 1 million gigabytes?

Is that a byte?

GLENN: I'm sorry?

Is that a byte?

Zeta.

It's one petabyte.

Toss up, what event for which Hugh Montgomery was tried for manslaughter but defended by John Adams saw Crispus Attucks shot by?

Fort LeBoeuf, Seth.

The Boston Massacre.

That is correct.

Here's your bonus.

What season of the year is called aki in Japanese, herbst in German, and otono in Spanish?

Fall.

That is correct.

Toss up, which playwright who wrote about Nagg and Nell living in trash cans in "Endgame" created the tramps Vladimir and Estragon in "Waiting for Godot?"

[bell dings] Fort LeBoeuf, Seth.

Beckett.

That is correct.

Here's your bonus.

What 2014 graphic novel by Cece Bell is named for a superhero persona that boots the confidence of a girl who uses a hearing aid at school?

[bell dings] That graphic novel is "El Deafo."

Bonus, we have a tossup question, a pencil and paper ready?

If X is a positive number, what is the minimum value of X for which the sum of 18 plus X is a perfect square?

[bell dings] Cochranton, Daniel.

Seven.

Correct, here's your bonus.

What German composer's tone poems include "A Hero's Life" and a work based on the writings of Friedrich Nietzche, "Also Sprach Zarathustra?"

Amadeus, which one was Nietzche inspired by?

Amadeus.

No, it was Ricard Strauss.

[timer rings] It is now halftime.

The score is Cochranton with 45 points and Fort LeBoeuf with 190.

Let's take a moment to get to know our contestants a little bit better.

[upbeat music] Hello, my name is James Phillips.

I'm a sophomore at Fort LaBoeuf High School and if I had any superpower, it would probably be flying.

My name is Seth Darnell.

I'm a senior at Fort LaBoefu High School and my preferred superpower, it would be teleportation.

My name is Liam McGill.

I'm a senior at Fort LaBoefu High School and if there was any superpower I would have, it'd be invincibility.

My name is Caleb Darnell.

I'm a sophomore at Fort LaBoeuf, and if I could have a superpower, it would be time travel.

Hi, my name is Dalani Smith.

I'm a sophomore at Cochranton, and if I could have any superpower, it'd be teleportation.

Hi, I'm Daniel Servy.

I'm a sophomore from Cochranton, and if I could have any superpower, be a polyglot, speak all languages.

Hi, I'm Allison Perdue.

I'm a junior at Cochranton Junior Senior High School, and if I could have any superpower, it would be teleportation or talking to animals.

Hi, I'm Kendall Rose.

I'm a junior at Cochranton Junior Senior High school and if I could have any superpower, it would be invisibility.

And we are back for the second half.

Tossup, what film which opens as a woman gets attacked off the coast of Amity Island was directed by Steven Spielberg?

Cochranton, Daniel.

"Jaws."

Correct.

Here's your bonus.

What theory often named for two scientists, defines acids as proton donors and bases as proton acceptors?

Luhug.

That's the Bronstead Laury theory.

Toss up.

In what country will the iconic tower be part of a yet unnamed new administrative capital that Abdel Fattah el-Sisi's regime is building near Cairo?

Fort LeBoeuf, Seth.

Egypt.

Correct, here's your bonus.

In what state's 2022 gubernatorial election did Democrat Wes Moore defeat Dan Cox to succeed term limited Republican Larry Hogan?

[students whisper indistinctly] Nebraska.

No, that state is Maryland.

Toss up, what poet beseeched a goddess to "fight by my shoulder" in the "Ode to Aphrodite," the only extant complete poem by this ancient Greek woman from Lesbos?

Fort LeBoeuf, Seth.

Sappho.

Correct.

Here's your bonus.

What 2023 reality show on Amazon Freevee featured Ronald Gladden as the only participant in a trial who was not secretly an improv actor?

[bell dings] That reality show is "Jury Duty."

Toss up, what country whose fleet lost the Battle of Tsushima, ceded half of Sakhalin in 1905 after losing a war to Japan?

Fort LeBoeuf, Liam.

Russian empire.

Correct.

Here is your bonus.

What quantity is equal to enthalpy minus temperature times entropy, and decreases in spontaneous processes?

[bell dings] That quantity is Gibbs free energy.

Toss up, what chemical principle named for a French chemist determines how a system in equilibrium responds to changes in temperature or pressure?

[bell dings] That is Le Chatelier's principle.

Toss up, what country whose capital borders two other countries is governed from Bratislava and was once part of a union with the neighboring Czech Republic?

Fort LeBoeuf, Seth.

Slovakia.

Correct.

Here's your bonus.

What politician who represented Bedford Stuyvesant was the first African American woman elected to the US Congress in 1968?

[bell dings] That was Shirley Chisholm.

Toss up, what poem set on the darkest evening of the year ends with its speaker declaring, "I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep?"

Cochranton, Daniel.

"The Raven."

No, Fort LaBoeuf?

[bell dings] That is "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost.

Tossup, what theologian commented on abortion and euthanasia in the encyclical Evangelium vitae and in 1978 became the first non-Italian pope in centuries?

[bell dings] That was Pope John Paul II, the former, Carol Ultia, who was Polish.

Tossup, what city whose Avenida Nueve de Julio is the world's whitest avenue lies on the Rio de Plata, west of Montevideo and is the capital of Argentina?

Fort LeBoeuf, Seth.

Bueno Aires.

Correct.

Here is your bonus.

Asmara is the capital of what African country which gained independence from Ethiopia in the early 1990s?

Somalia.

No, it is Eritrea.

[timer beeps] That is the signal for our lightning round.

This time, Fort LeBoeuf has choice of topics.

[upbeat music] Your choices are Super Bowl 57 or Henrys.

Henrys please.

[contestant laughs] Henrys?

All right.

Give the surnames of these people named Henry.

Automaker who made the Model T. Ford.

Yes, you don't have to buzz in.

Great compromiser of 19th century Congress.

Pass.

Explorer who names the river that separates New York and New Jersey.

Hudson.

Sorry?

Hudson.

Correct.

Poet of "The Song of Hiawatha."

Pass.

Author of "The Turn of the Screw."

James.

Correct.

First US Secretary of War.

Pass.

Author of the "Tropic of Cancer."

Pass.

German American Secretary of State under Nixon and Ford.

Kissinger.

Correct.

Baroque English composer of the opera "Dido and Aeneas."

Pass.

Actor who played Superman in "Man of Steel."

Pass.

"Great Compromiser" of 19th century Con- [bell dings] That is Henry Clay.

And the actor who played Superman in Man of Steel was Henry Cavill.

All right, Cochranton.

Super Bowl 57.

Answer the following about 2023's Super Bowl.

Kansas City quarterback who was MVP.

Pass.

Team from Pennsylvania that lost.

Pittsburgh Pirates or the Steelers, Steelers.

No, actually it was the Philadelphia Eagles.

I don't know football.

Quarterback with three rushing touchdowns for the losing team.

Pass.

Pregnant singer who performed "We Found Love" at halftime.

Rihanna.

Correct.

Chief's tight end with six catches.

Pass.

Travis Kelsey.

I'm sorry?

Travis Kelsey.

Yes, that is correct.

State that hosted the game in Glendale.

Pass.

Chief's head coach who won his second Super Bowl.

Pass.

Network that aired a Gordon Ramsey show right after the game.

CBS.

No it's Fox.

A former Titans wide receiver who caught a touchdown for the losing team.

Pass.

Controversial pre-throw penalty called on James Bradbury late in the game.

Pass.

[bell dings] That was a defensive holding penalty actually.

And now we go back to our regular play with this tossup.

What event, the first of which was won by Frank Neuhauser in 1925, had eight co-champions in 2019, one of whom correctly gave the letters in auslaut?

Fort LeBoeuf, Seth.

The Scripps National Spelling Bee.

That is correct.

Here's your bonus question.

The slogan "Every man a king" was used by what populist senator and governor from Louisiana who was assassinated in 1935?

[bell dings] That was Huey Long.

I think he also promised a chicken in every pot.

For this tossup, pencil and paper and ready.

What is the empirical formula of butane or C4H10, given that empirical formulas reduce molecular formulas to lowest terms?

Fort LeBoeuf, Seth.

C2H5.

That is correct.

Here's your bonus.

What Indian American author who recently has started writing in Italian, won a Pulitzer Prize for her story collection "Interpreter of Maladies?"

[bell dings] That was Junpa Vaheri.

Toss up, what author who wrote that "a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds" was a transcendentalist who wrote the essay "Self Reliance?"

[bell dings] That was Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Tossup, in what year did France's February Revolution replace Louis Philippe with the Second Republic, triggering a series of other European revolutions?

Fort LeBoeuf, Seth.

1848.

That is correct.

Here's your bonus.

Pencil and paper ready.

What base 10 number is equivalent to the binary number 1110, given the fourth digit from the right equals two cubed?

Nine.

No, it's 14.

Toss up, what compound, the starting point of reverse transcription has messenger, ribosomal, and transfer forms?

Fort LeBoeuf, Seth.

RNA.

Correct.

Here's your bonus.

What cave dwelling monster in Homer's "Odyssey" fed on sailors who've tried to avoid her counterpart, the nearby whirlpool Charybdis?

Scylla.

GLENN: I'm sorry?

Scylla.

Yes, Scylla of Scylla and Charybdis.

Tossup, what state which is home to the Teapot Dome oil field also contains?

Fort LeBoeuf, Caleb.

New York.

No.

Cochranton, I will finish the question for you.

What state which is home to the Teapot Dome oil field also contains Devil's Tower as well as such cities as Cody, Laramie, and Cheyenne.

Wyoming.

Correct.

Here's your bonus.

In March, 2023, UBS agreed to buy what collapsing investment bank, which as its name suggests, is headquartered in Zurich?

That's a good enough guess.

Zurich National Bank.

No, actually it's the Credit Suisse.

Tossup, what golfer who became the oldest ever major champion at the 2021 PGA Championship joined the LIV golf tour in 2022 and is nicknamed Lefty?

[bell dings] That is Phil Mickelson, Lefty Mickelson.

Toss up, which Prime Minister who led Britain during the Phoney War, pursued a policy of appeasement before he was replaced by Winston Churchill in May, 1940?

Fort LeBoeuf, James.

Neville Chamberlain.

That is correct.

Here is your bonus.

Empress Wu Zetian interrupted the reign of what Chinese dynasty, which put down the An Lushan rebellion in 763.

The Chang Dynasty.

No, I'm afraid it was the Tang Dynasty.

[timer beeps] And that is the buzzer ending our game.

[upbeat music] Cochranton, your score is 65.

Great job during the matchup and good luck with the rest of your academic year.

Congratulations to Fort LeBoeuf.

With a score of 335, you will potentially be moving on.

Since we have three semi-final games, the two highest scores of those games will be moving on to the championship game.

I'm Glenn Holland.

Please join us again for the rest of our competition.

[upbeat music]