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Hello and welcome to 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 and is not indicative of academic training.

Time for our first toss up.

Buzzer's ready?

Here we go.

What author of the 1638 book "Discourses on Two New Sciences" supposedly dropped two balls from the Leaning Tower of Pisa and supported heliocentrism?

[buzzer dinging] Fort Leboeuf, Seth.

Galileo?

That is correct.

Here's your bonus.

An English governess believes that malevolent ghosts are haunting children named Miles and Flora in what 1898 Novella by Henry James?

"The Turn of the Screw".

That is correct.

Toss up.

What Monarch put down a Cossack rebellion led by Yemelyan Pugachev, took the throne after Peter III's death and was an empress known as "The Great"?

[buzzer dinging] Catherine the great.

Fort Leboeuf, Liam.

Of Russia.

Oh, Catherine the great of Russia.

That is correct.

Here's your bonus.

Pencil and paper ready?

What is the slope of a line whose equation has the form "X equals a constant"?

[Liam clearing throat] No slope.

I'm sorry?

No slope.

That is correct or undefined slope.

Toss up.

What woman, who founded the Roots and Shoots program, conduct a research in Gombe Stream National Park, where she observed chimpanzees using tools?

[buzzer dinging] Harbor Creek, Bennett.

Jane Goodell?

That is correct.

Here's your bonus.

What member of the First Triumvirate lost the Battle of Pharsalus to Julius Caesar, after which he fled to Egypt, where he was assassinated?

[buzzer dinging] GLENN: Miguel.

Cresses.

GLENN: I'm sorry?

Cresses?

No, actually it's Pompey.

Pompey the Great.

Toss up.

What novel, in which venomous "yellow-spotted lizards" inhabit green, Camp Green Lake, was written by Louis Sachar and named for objects that Stanley digs?

[buzzer dinging] Fort Leboeuf, Seth.

Holes.

That is correct.

Here's your bonus.

Sydney is the capital of what most populous Australian state, which lies north of Victoria?

New South Wales.

That is correct.

Toss up.

Pencil and paper ready.

How many significant digits are there in the number 0.00789, given... [buzzer dinging] Harbor Creek, Owen.

Three.

That is correct.

Here is your bonus.

What piece of laboratory glassware has a conical body that narrows to a cylindrical neck, making it ideal for swirling its contents during titration?

Flask.

GLENN: I have to hear from Miguel.

Oh.

Flask.

GLENN: And I need more specific.

[alarm dinging] That's the Erlenmeyer flask, specifically.

Toss up.

What state, in which a monument known as its "Guidestones" was bombed in 2022... [buzzer dinging] Georgia Guidestones.

Sorry, Fort Leboeuf, Liam.

Oh, Georgia Guidestones.

Yes.

Thank you.

Your bonus.

In 1892, James B. Weaver was the presidential candidate of what agrarian third party that's supported bimetallism and the regulation of railroads?

The Labor Party?

No, that was a populist party.

Toss up.

What sculpture, what sculptor included Fugitive Love and Paolo and Francesca among the pieces inspired by Dante in The Gates of Hell, which also includes The Thinker?

[buzzer dinging] Fort Leboeuf, Seth.

Rodin.

That is correct.

Auguste Rodin.

Here is your bonus.

Ambrose Bierce defined "love" as "a temporary insanity curable by marriage" in what satirical work of lexicography?

[alarm dinging] That is "The Devil's Dictionary".

Toss up.

In humans what structures can have their function reduced by dosage compensation, can form Barr bodies, and cannot recombine with the smaller Y.

[alarm dinging] That is X chromosomes.

[buzzer dinging] And it now is time for the lightning round.

[upbeat music] Fort LeBoeuf you have first choice on topics.

Your choices are the Atlantic slave trade and the Arabian Sea.

The Arabian Sea please.

All right.

Name these places in the Arabian Sea or on its shores: the ocean containing the Arabian Sea.

The Indian.

[buzzer dinging] Correct.

Pakistan's most populous city.

[buzzer dinging] Islamabad.

No, Karachi.

Sultanate whose capital is Muscat.

Pass.

Indian city home to Bollywood.

[buzzer dinging] Bombay.

Or Mumbai.

Island country in the seas Southeast, governed from Male.

[buzzer dinging] Sri Lanka?

No, the Maldives.

River whose valley contains most of Pakistan's people.

[buzzer dinging] Indus.

Correct.

Strait separating the Arabian Sea from the Persian Gulf.

Pass.

Civil war torn country north of the Gulf of Aden.

Pass.

[alarm dinging] That one is Yemen.

And we go to Harbor Creek for your lightning round.

Your topic is the Atlantic slave trade.

Answer the following about the history of slavery in the New World.

The main crop that fueled slave demand in the U.S. Cotton.

Correct.

English name for large farming estates worked by slaves.

Plantations.

Correct.

Country whose slave trade William Wilberforce helped abolish.

Pass.

South Carolina port home to a major slave market.

Pass.

Author who said slavery birthed capitalism in Das Kapital.

Pass.

Triangle trade leg that sent slaves to the Americans.

Pass.

Country founded by Toussaint L'Ouverture's slave revolt.

Haiti.

Correct.

Snail shell currency often used to buy African slaves.

Pass.

Underground Railroad "conductor" nicknamed "Moses".

Harriet Tubman.

Correct.

West African country whose "Door of No Return" memorializes [alarm dinging] where slaves left Africa.

And that is in Senegal.

We now go back to our standard play with our next toss up.

What president, whose wife was nicknamed "Lemonade Lucy" after he banned alcohol at the White House, won the disputed 1876 election over Samuel Tilden?

[buzzer dinging] Harbor Creek, Owen.

Rutherford B Hayes.

That is correct.

Here's your bonus.

What Abolitionists and suffragette use the tune of "John Brown's Body" to write "Battle Hymn of the Republic"?

[alarm dinging] That is Julia Ward Howe.

Toss up.

What author wrote about the Porteous Riots in his novel "The heart of Midlothian", and described a Saxon Knight who serves King Richard I in Ivanhoe?

[buzzer dinging] Walter Scott.

I'm sorry.

Fort LeBoeuf.

Walter Scott.

That is correct.

Here's your bonus.

What highly active volcano in Hawaii, whose crater is considered sacred by native Hawaiians, has erupted twice in 2023 so far?

Mauna Loa?

It is actually Kilauea.

Toss up.

What ballet including an "Arabian dance" and "Waltz of the Flowers"... [buzzer dinging] Fort LeBoeuf, Seth.

"The Nutcracker".

That is correct.

Here's your bonus.

Over one week in August, 1877, Asaph Hall discovered what two natural satellites of Mars?

[buzzer dinging] Phobos and Deimos.

It's a bonus in it from Seth.

Phobos and Deimos.

Yes.

Very good.

Toss up.

What operation, in which Brigade 2506 was defeated after landing at the Playa Giron, was a botched, CIA-backed attempt to topple Fidel Castro in 1961?

[buzzer dinging] Fort LeBoeuf, Seth.

The Bay of Pigs.

That is correct.

Here's your bonus.

What former salesman is pelted with apples by his angry father after turning into a "monstrous vermin" in Franz Kafka's novella "The Metamorphosis"?

[alarm dinging] That is Gregor Samsa.

Toss up.

What organization, which briefly controlled Rostov-on-Don during a 2023 mutiny led by Yevgeny Prigozhin, [buzzer dinging] Fort LaBoeuf, Liam.

The Wagner PMC group.

That is correct.

Here's your bonus.

In November, 2022, Anwar Ibrahim became prime minister of what Asian country whose monarchy rotates among the rulers of states like Pahang and Johor?

Brunei?

That is Malaysia.

Toss up.

What nine letter word can mean a combination of functions like "G of F of X" and can also mean numbers, such as 12 and 21, that are products of primes?

[buzzer dinging] Fort LeBoeuf, Seth.

Composite.

That is correct.

Here is your bonus.

What British industrialist, who founded the diamond company De Beers, let the Cape Colony in South Africa and funded a namesake scholarship to Oxford?

[alarm dinging] That is Cecil Rhodes.

Also the namesake of Rhodesia formerly, now Zimbabwe.

Toss up.

What country was the site of the Bataan Death March and the 1986 People Power Revolution, which brought Corazon Aquino to power over Ferdinand Marcos?

[buzzer dinging] Fort LeBoeuf, Seth.

The Philippines.

That is correct.

Here is your bonus.

What Shakespeare comedy centers on Antipholus and Dromio, who discovered they both have long lost twins also named Antipholus and Dromio?

[alarm dinging] That is "The Comedy of Errors".

You can guess where some of the errors come from.

[buzzer dinging] And that is the end of our first half.

The score is Fort LeBoeuf with 170 points and Harbor Creek with 70.

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

[upbeat music] My name's Owen.

I go to Harbor Creek.

I'm a sophomore and my favorite subject is math.

My name is Miguel Erb.

I'm a sophomore at Harbor Creek and my favorite subject is history.

My name is Bennett.

I'm a junior at Harbor Creek and my favorite subject is history.

My name is Sam.

I'm a junior at Harbor Creek and my favorite subject is math.

My name is Isabelle.

I'm a senior at Fort LeBoeuf and my favorite subject is science.

My name is Seth Darnell.

I'm a senior at Fort LeBoeuf and my favorite subject is French.

My name is Liam McGill.

I'm a senior at Fort LeBoeuf High School and my favorite subject is history.

My name is Caleb Darnell.

I'm a sophomore at Fort LeBoeuf and my favorite subject is American History.

We are back for the second half and now your first toss up.

What organization, which was founded by William D. Boyce and inspired by Robert Baden-Powell, uses a merit badge system and teaches outdoor skills?

[buzzer dinging] For LeBoeuf, Seth.

The Boy Scouts of America.

Correct.

Here's your bonus.

What Germanic artist included an anamorphic skull and a depiction of two visitors to the court of Henry VIII in his 1533 painting The Ambassadors?

Van Eyck?

No, that was Hans Holbein the Younger.

Toss up.

Pencil and paper ready?

How many values are in a data set if the arithmetic mean of the set is 12 and the values in the set have a sum of 48?

[buzzer dinging] Harbor Creek, Owen.

Four.

That is correct.

Here's your bonus.

The word "disaster" comes from a Latin word for what objects, which can be referred to with the adjective "sidereal"?

[alarm dinging] That is stars, astra.

Toss up.

What play, in which a fountain pen is stolen by the protagonist's son Biff, tells the story of suicidal Willy Loman and is by Arthur Miller.

[alarm dinging] The play is "Death of a Salesman".

Toss up.

What office in the Roman Catholic Church may be "permanent" or "transitional", ranks below a priest and assists with mass... [buzzer dinging] Harbor Creek, Bennett.

Cardinals.

No.

Fort LeBoeuf?

[buzzer dinging] Deacon.

Deacon.

That is correct.

Here is your bonus.

Pencil and paper ready?

What is the 10th triangular number, given that it must be equal to the sum of the first 10 positive integers?

[alarm dinging] That is 55.

Toss up.

Pencil and paper ready?

What value of X satisfies the equation three raised to the X power equals nine raised to the third power, given nine equals three squared.

[buzzer dinging] Harbor Creek, Sam.

Four.

Nope.

Fort LeBoeuf.

Nine?

No, X equals six.

Toss up.

What country is home to Omdurman, was Africa's largest bay area until 2011, and contains the... [buzzer dinging] Sudan.

Harbor Creek, Miguel.

Sudan.

That is correct.

Here's your bonus.

What alliteratively-named Confederate general who lost at Chattanooga was formerly the namesake of Fort Liberty, a large army base in North Carolina?

Stonewall Jackson.

No, that was Braxton Bragg.

Fort Bragg.

Toss up.

What 19th-century poet wrote about "huddled masses yearning to breathe free" in a poem written for the Statue of Liberty titled "The New Colossus"?

[alarm dinging] The poet was Emma Lazarus.

Toss up.

What metal, whose ores include cahalcolite, forms a greenish patina called verdigris and is alloyed with tin in bronze and with zinc... [buzzer dinging] Fort LeBoeuf, Seth.

Copper.

That is correct.

Here's your bonus.

The Jacob's ladder plant belongs to what large family of plants that includes vanilla and is named for a notoriously difficult to cultivate plant?

Orchids?

That is correct.

Toss up.

What city, where 21 people died when a flood of molasses swept its North End neighborhood, has a harbor that was the site of a 1773... [buzzer dinging] Fort LeBoeuf, Liam.

Boston.

That is correct.

Here's your bonus.

The DeVos family owns what Eastern Conference NBA team, which was the first professional team for which Shaquille O'Neal played?

[alarm dinging] That is the Orlando Magic.

[alarm dinging] And now it's time for the second lightning round, and this time Harbor Creek has first choice as to topics.

[upbeat music] Your choices are agencies and departments and events by month.

Events by month.

All right.

Give the month in which these events are scheduled to take place in 2024.

Answers may repeat.

Memorial Day.

May.

Correct.

The vernal equinox, or first day of spring in the Northern Hemisphere.

April, March.

Which?

March.

Correct.

The Super Bowl 58.

February.

The US presidential election.

November.

The most recently established US Federal Holiday.

June.

Correct.

Canadian Thanksgiving.

Pass.

The end of the Tour de France and the start of the Paris Olympics.

July.

Correct.

Patriots Day.

Pass.

Boxing Day.

Pass.

Eid al-Fitr, marking the end of Ramadan.

September.

No, it's April.

Canadian Thanksgiving.

Pass.

Patriots Day.

October.

No, that's April.

[alarm dinging] Boxing Day is the day after Christmas in December.

Canadian Thanksgiving is what we celebrate as Indigenous People's Day on October 12th.

Port LeBoeuf, agencies and departments.

What federal cabinet-level departments oversees these US agencies and organizations?

The Internal Revenue Service.

The Department of the Treasury.

Yes, Treasury.

Federal Aviation Administration.

Defense.

That's transportation.

Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Defense.

No, that's the Department of Justice.

Census Bureau.

The interior.

No, department of Commerce.

Secret Service.

Defense.

Homeland Security.

National Indian Gaming Commission.

Interior.

Correct.

Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Human Services?

Energy.

Food and Drug Administration.

Human Services, Health and... Health and Human Services, yes.

The Fulbright Scholarship Program.

Education.

No, the Department of State.

And the National Cemetery Administration.

[alarm dinging] That's the Department of Veterans Affairs.

And now we go back to our main, our main competition with a toss up.

What composer is known for the viola symphony Harold in Italy as well as a five-movement work depicting a "Witches' Sabbath," is Symphonie Fantastique?

[alarm dinging] That is Hector Berlioz.

Toss up.

What poet wrote "Five years have past" in "Tintern Abbey" and collaborated on lyrical Ballads with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a fellow British Romantic?

[alarm dinging] That is William Wordsworth.

Toss up.

What island, which is home to Montauk Point State Park, the Hamptons and the borough of Brooklyn is south of Connecticut across a namesake sake sound.

[buzzer dinging] Harbor Creek, Bennett.

New York?

No, I need the island.

Fort LeBoeuf?

[buzzer dinging] Liam.

Road Island?

I'm sorry?

Road Island?

No, it is a Long Island.

Across Long Island Sound from Connecticut.

Toss up.

Like a smaller "red" animal, what member of family Ursidae has a false thumb, and can consume 10 kilograms per day of its main food, bamboo?

[buzzer dinging] Fort LeBoeuf, Seth.

Pandas.

That is correct.

The bonus.

What physical quantity, which has units of distance squared times mass, is the rotational analog of mass?

[alarm dinging] That is the moment of inertia or rotational inertia.

Toss up.

What governmental post, which was removed as a cabinet-level role in 1971, was first held in 1775 by Benjamin Franklin... [buzzer dinging] For LeBoeuf, Seth.

The postmaster general.

That is correct.

Here is your bonus.

What deity, whose name precedes the word "fhtagn" in a cultist's chant, is a fearsome octopus-like entity whose "call" titles a story by H.P.

Lovecraft?

[buzzer dinging] Cthulhu?

That is correct.

The call of Cthulhu.

Toss up.

In what musical, for which Hugh Jackman want earned a 2022 Tony nomination, are citizens of River City led by Harold Hill in singing "Seventy-Six Trombones"?

[buzzer dinging] Fort LeBoeuf, Seth.

The Music Man.

Correct.

Here's your bonus.

What city, which was called Stabroek before being renamed after a British monarch, is the capital of Guyana?

Elizabeth town?

No, it is Georgetown, but close.

Toss up.

What quantity, which is approximated by the Sackur-Tetrode equation, never decreases by the second law of thermodynamics and is a measure of disorder?

[buzzer dinging] Fort LeBoeuf, Seth.

Entropy?

Correct.

Here's your bonus.

In Greek mythology, what Titan, the daughter of Uranus and Gaea, personified memory and was the mother of the nine Muses?

[alarm dinging] That was Mnemosyne, which basically means memory.

Toss up.

What city, which contains the unfinished pyramid-shaped Ryugyong Hotel and the Juche Tower honoring Kim Il-Sung, is the... [buzzer dinging] Harbor Creek, Miguel.

North Korea.

I need the capital city.

Oh.

So Fort LeBoeuf.

Pyongyang?

That is correct.

Here's your bonus.

What Native American tribe fought three wars against the U.S under leaders like Osceola while resisting the conquest of Florida?

The Seminoles?

That is correct.

Seminoles.

[buzzer dinging] And that is the end of our competition.

[upbeat music] Harbor Creek your score is 130.

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

Congratulations to Fort LeBoeuf with a score of 315.

You'll be moving on.

I'm Glenn Holland, please join us again for the rest of our competition.

[exciting music]