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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 a 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.

Buzzers ready?

Here we go.

What word, which in most dialects is a homophone of a wood beam that connects two working oxen, means an egg's nutrient-rich, yellow protein?

[buzzer dinging] Cambridge Springs, Parker.

Yolk.

That is correct.

Here's your follow-up.

What 19th-century British poet wrote about an elderly Greek hero who vows to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield in the poem "Ulysses"?

[suspenseful music] [buzzer dinging] That is Alfred Lord Tennyson.

Toss-up.

What celestial body was discovered in 1846 based on calculations by Urbain Le Verrier to explain anomalies in the orbit of its inner neighbor Uranus?

[buzzer dinging] General McLane, Owen.

Neptune.

That is correct.

Here's your bonus.

George Gershwin wrote an overture named after what Western Hemisphere country whose musical traditions include the rumba and salsa?

Columbia.

No.

I'm afraid it is Cuba.

Toss-up.

What 19th-century author portrayed a Spanish servant's love for queen in Ruy Blas, and described reformed convict Jean Valjean in Les Miserables?

[suspenseful music] [buzzer dinging] That is Victor Hugo.

Toss-up.

What recipient of the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize known for her blue-bordered white sari, was an Albanian nun who founded the missionaries of charity?

[buzzer dinging] McLane, Owen.

Mother Theresa.

That is correct.

Here is your bonus.

What adjective describes cells such as animal gametes that contain a single set of chromosomes?

Reproductive.

No, I'm afraid its haploid.

Toss-up.

What number of hydrogen atoms in ethylene is also the number of carbon atoms in butane and the number of bonds formed by almost all carbon atoms?

[buzzer dinging] General McLane, Owen Four.

That is correct.

Here is your bonus.

The 2013 Newbery medal was given to what novel by Catherine Applegate, which is told from the perspective of a gorilla who lives in a cage at a mall?

"The One and Only Ivan".

That is correct.

Toss-up.

What economic concept, one of the three classical factors of production with land and labor denotes the durable goods used in production?

[suspenseful music] [buzzer dinging] The answer is capital.

Toss-up.

What country underwent the National Reorganization Process or Dirty War and lost the Falklands War in the decade after Juan Peron's death?

[buzzer dinging] General McLane, Peter.

Argentina.

That is correct.

Here's your bonus.

In October 2022, an explosion partially destroyed a bridge crossing what strait to the east of the Crimean Peninsula?

[suspenseful music] The Osfers.

No, I'm afraid it's the Kerch Strait.

Toss-up.

In what process which can occur after the breaking of the Coulomb barrier in a stellarator or tokamak, are two atomic nuclei joined together?

[suspenseful music] [buzzer dinging] Cambridge Springs, Parker.

Fusion.

That is correct.

Fusion, nuclear fusion.

Here is your bonus.

Members of what branch of the US military supposedly earn the nickname "devil dogs" for their actions at the Battle of Belleau Wood in World War I.

The Marines.

That is correct.

Toss-up.

What artist whose L.H.O.O.Q added a mustache to the Mona Lisa, was a pioneer of Dadaism, and created Fountain, a readymade consisting of a urinal?

[suspenseful music] [buzzer dinging] General McLane, Peter.

Salvador Dali.

No.

Cambridge Springs.

[buzzer dinging] That is Marcel Duchamp.

Toss-up.

What ethnic group's Cuisine includes rice cakes called tteok, the chili paste gochujang, marinated meat in-?

[buzzer dinging] General McLane, Lena.

Korean.

That is correct.

Here's your bonus.

The world's most populous Francophone city is what capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo?

You have to tell me.

Kinshasa.

Kinshasa.

That is correct.

Toss-up.

What statistical quantity represented by the line inside the box in a box plot is found by putting a data set in order-?

[buzzer dinging] General McLane, Owen.

The median.

That is correct.

Bonus.

DNA test conducted in 1998 revealed that Thomas Jefferson likely had six children with what woman whom he enslaved at Monticello?

[suspenseful music] [buzzer dinging] That is Sally Hemmings.

[phone ringing] And that means it's time for the lightning round.

General McLane, you won the toss and you have a choice between these two topics.

Sweetness or American poets?

Sweetness.

How sweet.

Here is your lightning round.

Name these sweet-tasting things.

Dissaccharide known as "table sugar".

Glucose A sweet liquid in flowers that hummingbirds drink.

Nectar.

Simple sugar that is the brain's main fuel.

Pass.

Bodily fluid that can be sweet in people with diabetes.

Blood.

No.

Food product made by boiling sap from a maple tree.

Syrup.

Correct.

Sweet secretion from aphids harvested by some ants.

Pass.

Zero-calorie natural sweetener extracted from a namesake plant genus.

Stevia.

Correct.

Sweet brown sauce created by a heat-induced chemical reaction.

Caramel.

I'm sorry?

Caramel.

Yes.

Artificial sweetener named for an amino acid that people with PKU avoid.

Pass.

Pass.

A West African fruit that when eaten- And now onto General McLane and your category is American poets.

Name the authors of these lines of poetry.

"Quoth the Raven, 'Nevermore'."

Edgar Allan Poe.

Correct.

"On the deck my captain lies, fallen cold and dead."

Pass.

"Listen, my children, and you shall hear of the midnight ride of Paul Revere."

[upbeat music] Pass "Because I could not stop for Death."

Pass "Anyone lived in a pretty how town."

Pass.

"Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice."

[upbeat music] Pass.

"What happens to a dream deferred."

[upbeat music] Pass.

"I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox."

[upbeat music] [buzzer dinging] That last one was William Carlos Williams from "This Is Just To Say" and now we go back to our regular line of questioning.

So toss-up.

What vessel owned by Juan de la Cosa was the largest of the three ships in Christopher Columbus's first voyage and was named after the mother of Jesus?

General McLane, Owen.

The Santa Maria.

That is correct.

There's your bonus.

Planck's constant divided by momentum gives the de Broglie value of what quantity, which is about 400 to 700 nanometers for visible light?

Wavelength.

That is correct.

Toss-up.

What show featured Luke Kirby is a controversial performer Lenny Bruce, streamed on Amazon Prime, and starred Rachel Brosnahan as the title comic?

[suspenseful music] [buzzer dinging] That is "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel".

Toss-up.

What current Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump's first ambassador to the UN, earlier spent six years as governor of South Carolina?

[buzzer dinging] General McLane, Peter.

Tim Scott.

No, I'm sorry.

Cambridge Springs.

[suspenseful music] [buzzer dinging] That is Nikki Haley.

Toss-up What adjective can refer to major and minor keys with the same letter name to lines of longitude or two lines in the same plane that don't intersect?

[buzzer dinging] General McLane, Owen.

Parallel.

Correct.

Here's your bonus.

Heated limestone is used to make clinker, a key ingredient in what material that binds together gravel and sand in concrete?

[suspenseful music] Mortar.

No.

Cement.

Toss-up.

What character mutters "puppy biscuit" to himself as he imagines himself as a lawyer and hydroplane pilot in a James Thurber work about his "secret life"?

[suspenseful music] [buzzer dinging] That is Walter Mitty, "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty".

Toss-up.

What mammalian class that includes marmots and capybaras has members whose incisors never stop growing?

[buzzer dinging] General McLane, Owen.

Rodents.

That is correct.

Here's your bonus.

What name was coined by Benjamin Russell in 1817 to refer to the apparent mood of national harmony during James Monroe's presidency?

[suspenseful music] Tranquility.

Close, the Era of Good Feelings.

Toss-up.

What party which supported the "American System" of high tariffs and a national bank was led by Henry Clay and opposed the Democrats in the 1840s?

[suspenseful music] [buzzer dinging] The Whig Party.

General McLane, Peter.

Yes, the Whig Party.

Here is your bonus.

The PRI, PAN, and PRD parties oppose what populist president of Mexico who was elected to office in 2018?

[suspenseful music] [buzzer dinging] That is Lopez Obrador.

Toss-up.

What instrument played by both Allen Vizzutti and Wynton Marsalis is a cylindrical relative of the cornet and is a high-pitched brass instrument?

[buzzer dinging] General McLane, Peter.

Trumpet.

That is correct.

Here's your bonus.

The toughest known substance is an alloy containing what metal whose isotope 60 is a beta emitter used to irradiate foods to sterilize them?

[suspenseful music] Cesium.

No, I'm afraid it's cobalt.

Toss-up.

What last name is shared by Diogenes Club co-Founder Mycroft and his brother, who lives at 221B Baker Street and solves mysteries with Dr. Watson?

[buzzer dinging] General McLane, Lena.

Holmes.

That is correct.

Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes.

They're brothers.

Here's your bonus.

The same where every member held a "liberum veto", was the legislature of a commonwealth comprised of Lithuania and what other present-day country?

[suspenseful music] Estonia.

Estonia.

No, that was Poland.

It was Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Toss-up.

What computer devices which send scan codes and have designs including the Dvorack layout, may have a "home row" continue the letters 'A' and 'L'?

[suspenseful music] [buzzer dinging] General McLane, Owen.

Keyboards.

That is correct.

Here's your bonus.

What Mexican flowering plant with red and green foliage is named for a secretary of war who served as the first US minister to Mexico?

[suspenseful music] [buzzer dinging] Poinsett.

[bell ringing] It is now halftime.

The score is Cambridge Springs with 40 points and General McLane with 150.

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

[upbeat music] Hello, I'm Peter Alberry and I go to General McLane School District and I'm a senior.

One of my favorite subjects in school is history, specifically US History.

I'm Owen McMullin.

I'm a senior at General McLane High School and my favorite subject is AP World History.

I'm Lena Bookhamer.

I go to General McLane.

I'm a junior and my favorite subject is US government and politics.

I'm Bella Williams, I'm a junior at General McLane and my favorite subject is chemistry.

I'm Katie Hillas.

I go to Cambridge Springs High School and I'm a sophomore and my favorite subject I'd say is probably English.

My name's Parker Schmidt.

I'm a senior at Cambridge Springs High School and my favorite class is AP Calculus.

I'm Landon Harney.

I'm a senior at Cambridge Springs High School and my favorite class is computer programming.

I'm Kirsten Grubbs.

I'm a junior at Cambridge Springs High School and my favorite subject is psychology.

We are back with the second half, toss-up question.

What amendment that provided to the primary reasoning for the Brown v. Board decision was the second Reconstruction Amendment and guarantees due process.

[buzzer dinging] General McLane, Owen.

The 14th.

That is correct.

Here's your bonus.

What peninsula which is separated from Singapore by the Straits of Jahor contains the southernmost portion of Thailand?

[buzzer dinging] Malay.

That is correct.

Toss-up, what Japanese artist who performed "Cut Piece", is shown in an Annie Leibovitz photo being embraced by her nude husband, John Lennon of the Beatles?

[buzzer dinging] General McLane, Peter.

Yoko Ono.

That is correct.

Here is your bonus.

William Shockley and Walter Schottky confusingly both name types of what circuit devices which ideally allow current to flow in only one direction?

Wires No diodes.

Toss-up, what holiday, commemorated by a "Walk for Freedom" led by its "grandmother" Opal Lee became a federal holiday in 2021 and celebrates emancipation?

[buzzer dinging] Cambridge Springs, Parker.

Juneteenth.

That is correct.

Here's your bonus.

A mythical canine called the sha represented what God who married Nepthys and fought for power with his nephew Horus?

Ra.

No, that is the Egyptian God Set.

Toss-up, what Greek God who fathered Erichthonius on Gaia, was thrown off of Mount Olympus by his mother Hera, but returned and became the God's blacksmith?

[buzzer dinging] Cambridge Springs, Landen.

Hephaestus.

That is correct.

Here's your bonus.

What man who overcame a severe stutter became king following the abdication of his brother Edward VIII in 1936 and was the father of Elizabeth II?

[suspenseful music] [buzzer dinging] Oh, that was George VI.

Toss-up.

What author described Major Ossai using a stapler for torture in Anthills of Savannah and depicted Okonkwo hanging himself in Things Fall Apart?

[suspenseful music] [buzzer dinging] It was Chinua Achebe.

Toss-up, what fashion house, which is led by CEO Leena Nair, produces the "2.55" handbag and a "No.5" fragrance and is named after its French-?

[buzzer dinging] General McLane, Isabella.

Chanel.

That is correct.

Here's your bonus, pencil, and paper ready.

If a single card is randomly chosen from a standard 52-card deck, what is the probability that it displays an even number?

[buzzer dinging] General McLane, Owen.

20 in 52.

I'm sorry.

20 in 52.

No, I need to have that reduced to the simplest possible terms.

So that would be five in 13.

That is correct.

Toss-up.

What organelle releases cytochrome c to begin apoptosis, is the site of the electron transport chain, and is called the powerhouse of the cell?

[buzzer dinging] General McLane, Isabella.

Mitochondria.

That is correct.

Here's your bonus.

What French artist depicted men signaling to a distant boat after surviving a shipwreck in The Raft of the Medusa?

[suspenseful music] [buzzer dinging] That was Theodore Gericault.

Toss-up, what event which caused the formation of the elephant's foot and united-?

[buzzer dinging] General McLane, Owen.

Chernobyl.

That is correct.

Here's your bonus.

What title character poisons herself with arsenic after having unsatisfying affairs and becoming indebted in a novel by Gustave Flaubert?

[suspenseful music] [buzzer dinging] Emma Bovary in his novel "Madame Bovary".

Toss-up, what country who which is home to most speakers of the Walloon language has a northern Dutch-speaking region of Flanders that surrounds Brussels?

[buzzer dinging] General McLane, Peter.

Belgium.

Correct, bonus.

The world's smallest inhabited island is one of the Thousand Islands, an archipelago located in what river on the US-Canada border?

[suspenseful music] [buzzer dinging] That is the St. Lawrence River.

And now it is time for our next set of lightning rounds.

[upbeat music] Last time General McLane had the choice, so this time Cambridge Springs has a choice between two different topics.

Indigenous American words or four-letter acronyms.

Four letter acronyms.

All right.

Give the usual four-letter acronym for these organizations and businesses, Main US Space Agency.

Nasa.

Correct.

Federal agency that checks workplace safety.

OSHA.

Correct.

Military Alliance joined by Finland in 2023.

NATO.

Correct.

Federal organization founded in 1979 that responds to natural disasters.

FEMA.

Correct.

Sports broadcaster based in Bristol, Connecticut.

ESPN.

Correct.

13-member group of nations with major oil reserves.

Pass Pac-12 school whose teams are the Bruins.

UCLA.

Correct.

Largest British bank which was founded in Hong Kong?

Pass.

Protestant Group founded by George Williams that operates sports programs.

Pass Nonprofit that runs the voting rights project.

The voting rights project, the ACLU.

The Protestant group is the YMCA.

Where it's fun to stay, I'm told.

General McLane, Indigenous American words.

Give these words that originated in the languages of native peoples of the new world.

Soft shoe or slipper made of animal hide.

Moccasin.

Correct.

Domed shelter made of blocks of snow.

Igloo.

Correct.

Thick roll of smoking tobacco.

Cigar.

Correct.

North America's largest marsupial.

Pass.

Bat excrement prized as fertilizer.

Guano.

Correct Sweet food made from cacao.

Chocolate.

Correct.

An edible gourd such as pumpkin or zucchini.

Squash.

Correct.

A loose blanket-like garment worn over the torso with a simple hole for the head.

Shawl.

No, it's poncho.

A revered symbol found on a pole.

Totem.

Correct.

Primary ingredient in guacamole.

Avocado.

Correct.

North America's largest marsupial.

Beaver.

I'm sorry.

Beaver.

No, that is the possum.

So we continue with a new toss-up question.

What NFL team, whose stadium hosts the NFL Combine, set an NFL record in 2022 by-?

[buzzer dinging] The Indianapolis Colts.

Cambridge Springs, Parker.

The Indianapolis Colts.

That is correct.

Here's your bonus.

What conditions which can be detected by EKGs are irregularities in a heartbeat and include tachycardia and atrial fibrillation?

Palpitations.

No, those are arrhythmias.

So the general category.

Toss-up, what monarch's confidants included the "Munshi" Abdul Karim and John Brown following the 1861 death of her husband, Prince Albert, at Windsor Castle?

[buzzer dinging] General McLane, Peter.

Queen Victoria.

Correct.

Here's your bonus.

In what US city were five police officers charged with murder after the January 2023 killing of Tyree Nichols?

Minneapolis.

No, that was Memphis, Tennessee.

Toss-up, pencil and paper ready.

What is the only solution to the equation x squared plus six x plus nine equals zero, given the left-hand side is a perfect square?

[buzzer dinging] Cambridge Springs, Parker.

X minus three.

I need a- Negative three.

Thank you.

Yes, that is correct.

Your bonus, in 2022, professional sports teams in Washington DC unveiled pink uniforms in reference to what flowers abundant at the city?

[buzzer dinging] Cherry blossoms.

That's correct.

Toss-up, what author of the essay "In search of Zora Neale Hurston" won a 1983 Pulitzer Prize for her novel about a teenager named Celie titled "The Color Purple"?

[suspenseful music] [buzzer dinging] That was Alice Walker.

Toss-up.

What city, whose Museum of the Future has a torus-shaped design also contains the Burj Khalifa and is the most populous in the United Arab Emirates?

[buzzer dinging] Genereal McLane, Peter.

Dubai.

Correct.

Here's your bonus.

The lead ore galena is also a major source of what element, the most reflective metallic element?

Silver.

I'm sorry.

Silver.

Yes, that is correct.

Toss-up, what quantity, which is the real part of impedance, is denoted by four or five colored bands and is equal to voltage over current by Ohm's Law?

[buzzer dinging] General McLane, Owen.

Resistance.

That is correct.

Here's your bonus.

What author depicted the experience of Chinese immigrants in her novels, "The Kitchen God's Wife" and "The Joy Luck Club"?

[suspenseful music] [buzzer dinging] That was Amy Tan.

Toss-up.

What author wrote about a Danish family who hides Ellen from Nazis in "Number of the Stars", and depicted a colorless dystopia in her YA novel, "The Giver"?

[buzzer dinging] General McLane, Lena.

Lowry.

That is correct.

Lois Lowry.

Here's your bonus.

What Catholic sacrament that involves the laying on of hands is an affirmation of belief normally performed once in adolescence?

Confirmation That is correct.

Toss-up, what lake that receives the waters of the Winooski River is named for a French Explorer and forms much of the border between New York and Vermont?

[suspenseful music] [buzzer dinging] I believe he was in before, General McLane, Peter.

Lake Ontario.

No, I'm afraid it's Lake Champlain.

Toss-up, what organization led for 37 years by former cigar makers Samuel Gompers, represented skilled craft unions and merged in 1955 with the CIO?

[suspenseful music] [buzzer dinging] That was the AFL.

The American Federation of Labor.

Toss-up, what quantity equal to one-half times mass times velocity squared-?

[buzzer dinging] Yes.

General McLane, Owen.

Kinetic Energy.

Correct.

Here's your bonus.

Squamous epithelial cells make up what outermost layer of the skin that lacks blood vessels and nerve endings?

Epidermis.

That is correct.

And that's the end of our time.

[upbeat music] Cambridge Spring, your score is 210.

Great job during the match.

Good luck with the rest of your academic year.

Congratulations to General McLane with a score of 450 points.

You'll be moving on.

I'm Glenn Holland.

Please join us again for the rest of our competition.

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