Hello and welcome to the fifth match of the first round of the 49th season of Scholastic Scrimmage.

I'm your host, David Graf.

Today's match between Freedom and Panther Valley will be composed of two halves with a Lightning Round midway through each half.

At halftime, we'll pause so the students can introduce themselves and we'll get to know them 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 question, what American chemist defined acids as substances capable of donating an electron pair, and is the namesake of a diagram that depicts electrons as dots.

- Four?

Panther Valley.

- Four.

- That is incorrect.

Over to Freedom.

Freedom.

- Lewis.

- Gilbert Lewis is correct.

And for your bonus, The Outdoor Sculptures, Endless Column, and The Table of Silence are by what Romanian sculptor of the series Bird In Space?

- We have no answer.

- No answer on that one.

The correct answer is Constantin Brancusi.

Next toss-up question, what Egyptian god, who replaced Mantu as the patron deity of Thebes, was identified with Jupiter and Zeus, and was famously fused with the sun god Ra?

Amen is a correct answer.

Next toss-up question, What emperor ruled as his country conquered Burma and the Philippines, established Manchukuo, and lost to the Allies in the Pacific in World War Two?

Freedom.

- Hirohito.

- Hirohito is correct.

For your bonus, what state has a uniquely pennant-shaped flag featuring five red-and-white stripes and 17 white stars?

- Ohio.

- Ohio is correct.

Next toss-up question, what English poet included a poison tree in his collection Songs of Experience and describes the fearful symmetry of a jungle predator in The Tiger?

William Blake is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question, what country, which contains most of the Apennine Mountains, is home to an active volcano on Stromboli Island and Mount Etna on Sicily?

Freedom.

- Italy.

- Italy is correct.

For your bonus, what 1947 Book by Margaret Weiss Brown describes an old lady whispering hush in a great green room, and is a classic bedtime story?

Thought you guys'd know it, it's Goodnight Moon.

That was a favorite of my daughter and I's when she was little.

Next toss-up question, a letter to Lorenzo de' Medici opens what book that compares rulers to lions and foxes, warns against flatterers, and is by Niccolo Machiavelli?

That book is The Prince Next toss-up question, what Conspiracy which is commemorated by Bonfire Night every November 5th, was a failed plot by Catholics, including Guy Fawkes, to blow up parliament?

The correct answer is the Gunpowder Plot.

Next toss of question, what organ expresses large amounts of cytochrome P450 enzymes to metabolize drugs, makes fat-emulsifying bile, and lies beneath the diaphragm?

Freedom.

- The liver.

- The liver is correct.

For your bonus, a woman of the far future named Weena belongs to what group of small beings who are preyed upon by Morlocks in H.G.

Wells' novel The Time Machine?

Eloy is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question, in what African country did all progressive Congress candidate Bola Tinubu succeed Muhammadu Buhari as president in a 20... Freedom.

- Nigeria.

- Nigeria is correct.

For your bonus, the earliest opera still regularly performed is Claudio Monteverdi's 1609 Favela in Musica, or Fable in Music, about what mythical musician?

Orpheus is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question, what NFL team was led by quarterback Bart Starr and coach Vince Lombardi to win... Panther Valley?

- Green Bay Packers?

- Say it again.

- Green Bay Packers.

- Green Bay Packers is correct.

They led them to the first Super Bowl victory.

For your bonus, what Revolutionary War officer's use of guerrilla tactics against the British led him to be nicknamed the Swamp Fox?

- Baron?

- Incorrect.

Francis Marion is the correct answer.

And with that, we have reached the first Lightning Round.

In a pre-match coin toss, it was determined that Panther Valley will get to select between the following topics, World Literary Characters or Pacific Islands.

Quickly, Panther Valley.

- Literary Characters.

World Literary Characters?

All right.

Panther Valley, your first Lightning Round topic is World Literary Characters.

Name the non-American author who created these literary characters The unfaithful Anna Karenina.

- Tolstoy.

- Correct.

The hunchback Quasimodo.

And anyone can say it out loud.

- Pass.

- Hedda Gabler, the title figure of a Norwegian play, - Pass.

The Handmaiden Offred.

- Pass.

Raskolnikov, who kills a pawnbroker.

- Pass.

- The shining Prince Genji.

- Pass.

- Colonel Aureliano Buendia.

- Pass.

- Dr. Yuri Zhivago.

- Pass.

- Hacker Lisbeth Salander.

- Pass.

- Mr. Biswas, who builds a house.

All right.

And we move over to Freedom.

Freedom, you have Pacific Islands for your topic.

Name these islands in the Pacific.

Island with a Papua province.

And anyone can say it if you know it.

- Borneo.

- Incorrect.

Island country home to Taipei.

- Taiwan.

- Correct.

Largest island of Japan.

- Hokkaido.

- Incorrect.

Largest island in British Columbia, Canada, which shares its name with the province's capital.

- Vancouver Island.

- That is correct.

Southernmost Australian state, home to a namesake devil.

- Tasmania.

- Correct.

New Zealand Island, home to Wellington and Auckland.

- North Island.

- That is correct.

Island home to the capital of French Polynesia.

- Tahiti.

- That is correct.

Most populous island in Hawaii.

- Oahu.

- That is correct.

Largest and most populous island in the Philippines.

- Luzon.

- That is correct.

American island that is the largest and southernmost of the Mariana Islands.

The last one was Guam.

Okay, we'll continue on with the following toss-up question.

Big Cypress National Preserve is part of what wetlands region extending southward from Lake Okeechobee that names a national park... Freedom.

- The Everglades.

- The Everglades is correct.

It names the national park in southern Florida.

For your bonus, Cassie pretends to be a ghost to escape the plantation of what villainous character who orders Uncle Tom's death in a Harriet Beecher Stowe novel?

Nothing from Freedom.

We have Simon Legree.

It's the correct answer.

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

What is the slope of the line defined by the equation 2X + Y = 7?

Panther Valley.

- Negative two.

- Negative two is correct.

For your bonus, what analytical technique typically uses a magnetic field to separate molecules based on their M to Z ratio?

- An MRI?

- Incorrect.

Mass spectrometry is the correct answer.

Next question, what empire, whose Jaguar and Eagle warriors fought ritual flower wars, ruled from Tenochtitlan until it was conquered... Panther Valley.

- The Aztecs.

- The Aztec empire is correct.

For your bonus, what Spanish word names the centuries-long conflict that ended in 1492, when Ferdinand and Isabella captured the Moorish city of Granada?

- Conquistador.

- Incorrect.

Close, but not quite.

It would be the La Reconquista, is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question, what playwright depicted Harry Hope's saloon in The Iceman Cometh, and wrote about the fracturing Tyrone family in Long Day's Journey Into Night?

That playwright is Eugene O'Neill.

Next toss-up question, what word that harms Monty Python's Knights Who Say Ni, also names a two-part film set in Maine that features Bill Skarsgard as Pennywise the Clown?

Panther Valley.

- It.

- It is correct.

Your bonus is in math, pencil and paper ready.

What is the fifth term of the geometric sequence whose first term is two, and whose third term is 10?

- 18.

- That's incorrect.

50 is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question, what country, that declared independence in The Cry of Ipiranga, was ruled by Emperor Pedro I, after gaining independence from Portugal?

Freedom.

- Brazil.

- Brazil is correct.

For your bonus, in 2023, what country, led by Joko Widodo, worked with Space-X on the SATRIA-1 satellite which will boost Internet access for its 280 million residents?

- India.

- Incorrect.

Indonesia is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question, what constellation, which contains the M87 black hole and the star Spica, lies between Leo and Libra in the Zodiac and depicts a maiden?

Panther Valley, you were in before the buzzer.

- Virgo?

- Yes, you are correct.

And for your bonus,, it happens to be my star sign as well, too.

For your bonus, in Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels, the tiny residents of what country argue on how to crack eggs and go to war with the nearby Blefuscu?

-No answer.

- Say that again?

- No answer.

- That fictional country is Lilliput.

And with that, we have reached half time.

We have a great game underway.

Freedom currently leads with a score of 120, to Panther Valley's 50 points.

And now we'll take a moment for the students to introduce themselves with their first and last name, grade level, and the answer to the following question, if you could visit any country in the world, where would it be?

Freedom, Matt, we'll start with you.

- Matthew Heineman, 11th grade, and I'd like to visit Iceland.

- Joseph Cismeyer, 12th grade, and I'd like to visit Finland.

- Brady Kaczynski, 11th grade, and I would visit Switzerland.

- Daniella Gazzo, 11th grade, and I would visit Italy.

- Maddison Maynard, 12th grade, I would visit Ireland.

- Eli Maynard, 12th grade, I'd visit Italy.

- Kylah Pinckney, 12th grade, and I would visit Croatia.

- Brenna McAndrew, 11th grade, and I would visit Scotland.

- All right.

We have a couple of people want to visit Italy.

I really like Italy.

Milan's my favorite.

I've been to Florence.

I know people are really into it, but it was super touristy, so I don't know.

Milan tends to be the place I prefer more.

All right, we'll continue on with the second half of the match with the following toss-up question.

What leader, who co-wrote the 2023 children's book Climate Change, is married to Camilla Parker Bowles and is the ruling King of England?

- Freedom.

- King Charles.

- We need to be a little bit more specific?

- King Charles VIII.

- That is incorrect.

Panther Valley.

- King Charles VII.

That is also incorrect.

Charles is King Charles III, currently.

Next toss-up question, what war in which the UN landing at Inchon was led by Douglas MacArthur?

Freedom?

- Korean War?

- That is correct, and it created the DMZ along the 38th parallel.

- For your bonus, what Castilian Saint established the Order of Preachers, also known as the Black Friars, in 1216?

- No answer.

- It would be Saint Dominic, is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question, what term, which is translated as brucke in German and pont in French, denotes a structure such as the Sydney Harbor and Golden Gate ones?

Panther Valley?

- Bridge.

- Bridges are correct.

For your bonus, at the 2021 US Open, Russian Daniil Medvedev was booed during his championship point which denied what other tennis player a Calendar Grand Slam?

- Nadal.

- That's incorrect.

It's the Joker Novak Djokovic, was denied his Calendar Grand Slam.

Next toss-up question, what author, who wrote about a man who dies of hypothermia in his story To Build A Fire, depicted a canine protagonist in the Yukon in White Fang?

Panther Valley.

- Hawthorn?

- Incorrect.

Freedom?

No conferring.

The author is Jack London.

Next toss-up question, what SI-derived unit is equal to one volt ampere, or one joule per second, measures power, and is named for an inventor who improved the steam engine?

Freedom.

- Watt.

- Watt is correct, named after James Watt.

For your bonus, the Hittite king Hattusili III and Ramses the Great signed the Eternal Treaty after what 1274 BC battle fought near the Orontes River?

That is the Battle of Kadesh.

Next toss-up question, what rapper says he knows his whole back's to these ropes, to those ropes, and describes vomit on his sweater already?

Freedom.

- Eminem.

- That's right, I believe it was from his mom's spaghetti.

For your bonus question, what seven-letter term can refer to the total weight or total dry weight of all living matter in a given area?

This is one, you don't want to overthink too much.

It's the biomass.

Next toss-up question, what President who was accused of cruelty in the Coffin Handbills, unseated John Quincy Adams in 1828 and was a former general nicknamed Old Hickory?

Freedom - Andrew Jackson.

- Andrew Jackson is correct.

For your bonus, William Shatner became the oldest person in space after a trip in the New Shepard rocket, which is operated by what company owned by Jeff Bezos?

- Blue Origin.

- Blue Origin is correct.

Next toss-up question, what quantity, whose change is known as impulse, is conserved in all collisions, is denoted P, and is equal to the product of position and velocity?

Panther Valley.

- Potential energy.

- That is incorrect.

Freedom?

Linear momentum is the correct answer.

And with that, we have reached the second Lightning Round.

Freedom, here are the topics you get to pick from.

Mascots or Ends In U.

Okay, Freedom.

For the second Lightning Round, your topic is Mascots.

Given a college sports mascot, name the school it represents.

An Irish leprechaun.

- Notre Dame.

- Correct.

Albert and Alberta, who are gators.

- Florida.

- Correct.

Bevo, who is a longhorn?

- Texas.

- Correct.

Brutus Buckeye.

- Ohio State.

- Correct.

Big Al, who is an elephant?

- Alabama.

- Correct.

A dancing tree.

- Stanford.

- Correct.

- Ralphie, who is a bison.

Colorado.

- Correct.

Rambling Wreck, which is a 1930s car, or the Yellow Jackets.

- Georgia Tech.

- That is correct.

Sparky, which is a maroon-and-gold devil.

- Arizona State.

- That is correct.

Handsome Dan, who is a bulldog.

- Georgia.

- That is incorrect.

Yale University is home to Handsome Dan.

Panther Valley, your topic is Ends In U.

Name these words that end in the letter U.

List of dishes available in a restaurant.

- Menu.

- Correct.

Five-letter French word for goodbye.

- Parlez-vous?

- Incorrect.

Large Australian flightless bird.

- Emu.

- Correct.

Flat region within a mountainous area.

- Plateau.

- Correct Greek letter before Z.

- Pass.

- Swampy creek in southern U.S. - Bayou?

- That is correct.

Coffee-flavored Italian dessert whose name means "pick me up".

- Tiramisu?

- Correct.

Adjective meaning "unplanned".

- Impromptu.

- Correct.

Popular Linux distribution developed by Canonical?

- Pass.

- Word formed by merging the start and end of two other words.

- Pass.

That would be a portmanteau, was the last one.

All right, we'll continue on with the following toss-up question.

What power, granted in the Constitution's Article Two, Section Two, Clause One is invoked when the president grants clemency for a criminal conviction?

Panther Valley.

- Pardon?

- Be a little more specific.

We'll take that.

We will take pardon, or presidential pardon is correct.

For your bonus, what man who had an open relationship with fellow existentialists, Simone de Beauvoir, included the statement "Hell is other people" in his play No Exit?

- Comeau.

- That's incorrect.

Jean-Paul Sartre is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question, what industry which, in 1820, was shaken by the Essex disaster, involves the use of tri-work to render oil from sea creatures that were harpooned?

Panther Valley.

- Whaling.

- Whaling is correct.

For your bonus, Skye and Iona are islands in what archipelago off the western coast of Scotland?

- No answer.

- Hebrides is the correct answer.

Brenna, I saw everyone look to you because you said you wanted to visit Scotland, so a good place to put on your list.

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

What is the sum of all the internal angles of a convex pentagon, given that it could be partitioned into three triangles?

Panther Valley.

- 540 degrees.

- 540 degrees is correct.

For your bonus, what cells which have regulatory and helper forms are white blood cells that can help eliminate infected cells?

- The correct answer is T cells.

Next toss-up question, what author claimed the greatest skill was to subdue an enemy without fighting, in text, noting that all warfare is based on deception in The Art of War?

Sun Tzu is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question, events in what city are shown in the 1935 Leni Riefenstahl film Triumph of Will, which records Joseph Goebbels and other Nazis at a massive rally?

Panther Valley.

- Berlin.

- That is incorrect.

Over to Freedom.

You're trying to buzz in, there you go.

- Munich.

- Incorrect.

Nuremberg is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question, what structural protein, whose disulfide bonds are broken during a perm, make up the dead outer layer skin and comprises hair and fingernails?

Freedom.

- Keratin.

- Keratin is correct.

For your bonus, Robert Innis discovered what red dwarf that is about 1.3 parsecs from Earth, making it the nearest star to the sun?

- No answer.

- Proxima Centauri is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question, in what 2022 Supreme Court decision by Samuel Alito, partially named after a Mississippi State health office, did the court overrule Roe V Wade?

The correct answer is Dobbs V Jackson's Women's Health Organization.

Next, toss-up question, what hero receives the sword Hrunting from his former rival Unferth, and defends the mead hall Heorot from the monster Grendel in an old English epic?

Freedom, you were in right before the buzzer.

- Arthur.

- That is incorrect.

And the buzzer did go off, so no time for Panther Valley.

It was Beowulf.

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

Congratulations to Freedom with 215 points, you're on to the second round.

Panther Valley, 105 points.

Not quite enough.

Good luck with the rest of your school year.

And thank you for tuning in.

We will see you next week when Palmerton faces off against Whitehall.