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

I'm your host, David Graf.

Today's match between Nazareth and Dieruff will be composed of two halves with a lightning round midway through each half.

At halftime, we'll pause to get to know the students a little bit better, and they'll also get a chance to introduce themselves.

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 quantity which equals charge divided by voltage measures the ability of its namesake current component to store charge and is given in farads?

Capacitance is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What school of thought includes the idea of xiao or filial piety, is expounded in such books as the Analects and is named for a Chinese thinker?

Nazareth.

- Confucianism.

- Confucianism is correct.

For your bonus, what former governor of California led the commission that investigated the assassination of John F Kennedy?

- Robert Kennedy?

- Incorrect.

It's Earl Warren who headed the Warren Commission.

Next toss-up question.

What piano piece, subtitle Quasi Una Fantasia, opens with repeated C-sharp minor arpeggios, is by Ludwig van Beethoven and has a nocturnal nickname?

Dieruff.

- Moonlight Sonata.

- Moonlight Sonata is correct.

For your bonus, what island, whose city of Gander is the setting of the musical Come From Away, contains the provincial capital St John's and is east of Labrador?

- Trinidad and Tobago.

- Incorrect.

Newfoundland is the correct answer.

Got to be much farther north for that answer.

Next toss-up question.

What empire, one of whom's leaders promoted the syncretic religion of Din-i Ilahi built the Taj Mahal under Shah... Nazareth.

- Mughal Empire.

- The Mughal Empire is correct.

For your bonus, Cathy Ames gives birth to twin boys named Cal and Aron in what novel by John Steinbeck that is set in Salinas Valley?

- East of Eden.

- East of Eden is correct.

Next toss-up question.

What constellation contains the Teapot asterism, as well as the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, and is also called the Archer?

Dieruff.

- Orion?

- Incorrect.

Nazareth, there's still a little time, but no conferring.

Go ahead, Nazareth.

- Sagittarius?

- Sagittarius is correct.

For your bonus, it's in maths, so pencil and paper ready.

The expression two raised to the power of the quantity x plus three equals what constant times the quantity two to the x?

Go ahead, Nazareth.

- Eight.

- Eight is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question.

What artist who depicted flying machines in his Hallucinogenic Toreador, depicted ants on a watch and a melting clock in The Persistence... Nazareth?

- Salvador Dali.

- That is correct.

He depicted melting clocks in The Persistence Of Memory.

For your bonus, what American figure skater whose parents are from China is nicknamed the Quad King and won the men's single gold medal at the 2022 Winter Olympics?

No answer.

Nathan Chen is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question.

What novel, which depicts Ronald Weary's death from gangrene and the firebombing of Dresden from Billy Pilgrim's perspective, is by Kurt Von... Nazareth.

- Slaughterhouse-Five.

- That is correct and it's by Kurt Vonnegut.

And just you know, there is the mention of Hellertown, which is just south of here, in the Slaughterhouse-Five novel.

For your bonus, what giant, who was tasked by Hera with guarding a heifer that was actually Io, was slain by Hermes after Hermes put all of its 100 eyes to sleep?

Argus Panoptes is the correct answer.

Or Argos was also acceptable.

Next toss-up question.

What former mayor of Braddock, who suffered a stroke in May 2022, defeated Mehmet Oz later in the year to win a Senate seat?

Dieruff.

- John Fetterman.

- John Fetterman is correct and he won a Senate seat in Pennsylvania, our home state.

For your bonus, what process occurs when silver is exposed to sulfur compounds, resulting in a blackish film forming on its surface?

- No answer.

- That is tarnishing is the reaction that happens.

Next toss-up question.

What phenomena is explained by the Ising model, is displayed below the Curie temperature and is a permanent type of magnetism exhibited by iron?

Nazareth.

- Ferromagnetism.

- Ferromagnetism is correct.

For your bonus, what Dutch artist from the De Stijl movement painted Broadway Boogie-Woogie and many works with black lines and primary color rectangles?

- Willem... - You're going for Willem de Kooning, but that is incorrect.

It's Piet Mondrian and you can see some of his work in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Next toss-up question.

Which king who was excommunicated by Pope Paul III and who dissolved England's monasteries had his wives Catherine Howard and Anne Boleyn... Nazareth.

- King Henry III.

- King Henry III is correct.

He had both of those wives executed.

For your bonus, what service, which has been used in Ukraine since Russia invaded, is a broadband internet service developed by SpaceX that uses satellites in low orbit?

- StarLink.

- StarLink is the correct answer.

And with that, we have reached the first lightning round.

In a pre-match coin toss it was determined that Nazareth will get to pick between the following topics - French art terms or states' highest points.

- States' highest points.

- States' highest points it is.

Nazareth.

States' highest points.

Given the highest natural point in a US state, name the state.

Denali.

- Alaska.

- Correct.

Mount Hood.

- Pass.

- Hawkeye Point, which shares its state's nickname.

- Pass.

- Mount Katahdin.

- Pass.

- Mount Rainier.

And anyone can say it.

- Washington.

- Washington's correct.

Britton Hill, just south of the Alabama border.

- Florida.

- Correct.

Clingmans Dome in the Great Smoky Mountains.

- Colorado.

- Incorrect.

Jerimoth Hill, once owned by Brown University.

- Rhode Island.

- Correct.

Mount Sunflower, which shares its state's nickname.

- Kansas.

- Correct.

Wheeler Peak... Oh, and that's the end.

The last one was Wheeler Peak, near the town of Taos, which would have been New Mexico.

Dieruff, that leaves you with French art terms.

For this one, we'll ask you to take out your pencil and paper to write down, because you will be given a French term and then you need to state whether it primarily applies to - and this is what to note down - whether it applies to ballet, visual art, music, clothing or none of the above.

All right.

And your first term is collage.

- Visual arts.

- Correct.

Denouement.

- Clothing.

- Incorrect.

Releve.

- Ballet.

- Correct.

- Plie.

- Ballet.

Correct.

En plein air.

- Clothing.

- Incorrect.

Etude.

- Music.

- Correct.

Haute couture.

- Clothing.

- Correct.

Fugue.

- Visual arts.

- Incorrect.

Pas de bourree.

- Ballet.

- Correct.

Trompe l'oeil.

- Music.

- Incorrect.

The last one was visual arts.

That would be an artful optical illusion.

All right, we'll continue the match with the following toss-up question: what titled monarch is relieved to learn of the death of Polybius in a play by Sophocles but blinds himself - after realizing... - Nazareth?

- Oedipus.

- That is correct.

Blinds himself after realizing he's married his own mother.

For your bonus, in 1793, Charlotte Corday, a Girondin sympathizer, was guillotined for murdering what Jacobin in his bathtub?

- Voltaire.

- Incorrect.

It would be Jean-Paul Marat, is the correct answer.

Next toss-up is in math.

Pencil and paper ready.

What is the length of the longer leg of a right triangle with a hypotenuse of 17 whose shorter leg has a length of eight?

Nazareth.

- One.

- Incorrect, Dieruff, still some time.

And no confirming, because it is a toss-up.

Time is up.

The correct answer is 15.

Next toss-up question: what human character titles crossover series in which he fights a kingdom war with the Rabbids and takes part in the Olympics with Sonic the Hedgehog?

Dieruff.

- Mario.

- That is correct.

Super Mario does all of those things.

For your bonus, what poet, whose poem Old Ironsides helped encourage the preservation of the US Constitution, had a son who was a Supreme Court justice?

- No answer.

- No answer.

It's Oliver Wendell Holmes Senior, is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question: what creature, who lived at the spring of Amymone, was defeated by Iolaus's help during the second Labor of Hercules, who cut off its many heads?

Nazareth.

- The Hydra.

- That is correct.

The Leraean Hydra is the correct answer.

For your bonus, what strongmen deposed Patricia Lumumba in...

Excuse me, what strongman deposed Patrice Lumumba in 1960 at the beginning of the Congo crisis and became Zaire's dictator for 32 years?

- No answer.

- The correct answer is Mobutu Sese Seko, is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question: what man, who surrendered his driver's license after a 2019 crash near Sandringham, was ceremonially reinterred in 2022 next to his wife, Elizabeth II?

Nazareth.

- Prince...Albert?

- Incorrect.

Still some time for Dieruff.

Dieruff, go ahead.

- Philip.

- Prince Philip is correct.

For your bonus, what term, from the Greek for study of houses, refers to the study of how organisms interact with their environments?

- Ecosystem?

Judges?

- Ecology?

- We're not going to take it.

Ecology was the correct answer that we were looking for.

And with that, we have reached halftime.

We have an excellent match under way.

Nazareth leads with a score of 130 to Dieruff's 60 points.

And now at halftime we'll have each student introduce themselves with their first and last name, their grade level and the answer to the following question - if you could visit any country in the world, what country would it be?

Patrick, Nazareth, we'll start with you.

Go ahead.

- My name is Patrick Piccolo.

I'm in 11th grade and I if I had to visit one country, - it'd be Italy.

- OK, go ahead.

- My name is Alana Gould.

I am in tenth grade and I'd - also say Italy.

- I'm Veeren Shaker.

I'm in 11th grade and I would say Sweden.

- Cool!

- Marcel Puskas.

I'm in tenth grade and I would say Australia.

- Excellent.

Now over to Jacob, Dieruff .

Go ahead.

- I'm Jacob Williams.

I'm in 11th grade, and if I could visit any country, it would be Germany.

- Cool.

- I'm Cayden Sprayberry.

I'm in 11th grade and I would want to visit Norway.

- All right.

- I'm Benjamin Carrasquillo.

I'm in 11th grade, and I would visit the Netherlands.

- Excellent.

- I'm Christopher Dornocchi.

I'm in tenth grade and I would visit Switzerland.

- Very cool.

So, Ben, I actually got to visit the Netherlands last year.

The company I work for, our design center is right outside of Amsterdam, and it's a very cool country.

A lot of people riding bikes.

If you're a fan of bikes, that's the country to go to.

All right.

We'll continue on with the second half of the match with the following toss-up question: what Roman emperor convened the first Council of Nicaea, converted to Christianity and gave... Dieruff.

- Constantine.

- Constantine is correct.

Gave his name to the capital of the Byzantine Empire.

For your bonus, what photographer's essay, The Assignment I'll Never Forget, describes how she made the 1936 portrait Migrant Mother?

- Frida Kahlo.

- Incorrect.

Dorothea Lange is the correct answer.

Perhaps you were watching - PBS recently had a special about Frida Kahlo.

Maybe that's where it came from.

All right.

On to our next toss-up.

What island is home to the Space Force's Pituffik, formerly known as Thule Air Force Base, which is 750 miles north of the Arctic Circle and is the largest island belonging to Denmark?

- Dieruff.

- Greenland.

Greenland is correct, and Denmark also still owns the Faroe Islands as well, too, still part of the kingdom of Denmark.

For your bonus, New Year's Eve in New Orleans features the dropping of a six-foot-tall version of what symbol of French kings, also used as the logo for the NFL's Saints?

Correct answer is the fleur de lys.

Next toss-up question.

What taxonomic class, whose name ends in -s, contains the slow loris and the lemur as well as larger species, including chimpanzees and humans?

- Nazareth.

- Primatus?

Yeah, we'll take that.

He said primatus.

So we'll take that.

Primates, primatus.

So, for your bonus, local theories cannot explain what quantum phenomenon in which measures the state of one particle affects the state of another particle?

- Quantum entanglement.

- Quantum entanglement.

Correct.

Nice job.

Next toss-up question.

In 2022, what celebrity agreed to pay the SEC $1.2 million over her promotion of EthereumMax tokens and also divorced her husband, Kanye West?

- Dieruff.

- Kim Kardashian.

- Kim Kardashian, Cayden with emphasis, there, must be a Kim K fan!

All right.

And now on to your bonus.

Nazi soldier Corporal Lankes put artistic decorations on concrete bunkers in what Gunter Grass novel narrated by Danzig native Oskar Matzerath?

- Dieruff.

- Inglourious Basterds?

Incorrect.

The Tin Drum is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question: what event, which led to Husband Kimmel being relieved of command after the sinking of the USS Arizona, was a 1941 Japanese sneak attack?

- Nazareth.

- The attack on Pearl Harbor.

- Attack on Pearl Harbor is correct.

It was a sneak attack on Hawaii, where Pearl Harbor is located.

For your bonus, in 1973, Salvador Allende was killed in a coup led by what right-wing general, who then ruled Chile until 1990?

- No answer.

- The correct answer is Augusto Pinochet.

Next toss-up question: what product often contains clay to increase its opacity, is made from a suspension called pulp and can... Dieruff.

Cayden, it was you.

- I didn't mean to do that.

- Yeah, go for it.

- Orange juice.

- Incorrect.

I'll continue the question for Nazareth.

And consists of cellulose fibers in a flat sheet.

- Nazareth.

- Paper.

- Paper's it.

For your bonus, what intelligence alliance consists of the US and its major English-speaking allies, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom?

- The Big Five.

- Incorrect.

You were close.

It's the Five Eyes.

Next toss-up question: the Horror Writers Association presents awards named for what Irish author, who described Jonathan Harker's trip to Transylvania in the novel Dracula?

- Nazareth - Bram.

We need the full name, or at least the last name.

- Bram Stoker.

- Bram Stoker is correct.

For your bonus: a group of football clubs called the Old Firm are based in what most populous city of Scotland?

- Adenburgh?

- Eden.

- Either one incorrect.

It's Glasgow.

It's the most populous city in Scotland.

And we've reached our second lightning round.

Dieruff, you'll get to select from the following topics: tigers or DG words.

- DG words, please.

- DG words.

Your lightning round topic is DG words.

Give these words that contain the consecutive letters D and G in that order.

To evade an oncoming hazard.

This word often precedes ball.

- Dodge.

- Correct.

A thick, milky gruel.

- Sludge.

- Incorrect.

A small, useful device.

- Gadget.

- Correct.

To shorten or abbreviate a text.

- Pass.

- Fat, especially on the belly.

- Pudge.

- Correct.

A small club or blunt weapon.

- Pass.

- Boring, pedantic and old-fashioned.

- Pass.

- A type of long-bladed rush-like grass.

- Pass - To make small movements impatiently.

- Fidget.

- That is correct.

Colorful Australian parakeet.

- Pass.

- That last one, they're pretty cute.

They're budgies.

OK, Nazareth, that leaves you with tigers.

Answer the following about tigers.

Apple computers whose OS had a Tiger edition.

- Pass - Culture whose zodiac has the tiger as its third sign.

- Chinese.

- That is correct.

11-time PGA Player of the Year.

- Tiger Woods.

- Correct.

Cereal whose mascot is Tony the Tiger.

- Frosted Flakes.

- Correct.

TV family from the 1970s that had a dog named Tiger.

- Brady Bunch.

- That is correct.

Title alternative to The Tiger in a Frank Stockton story.

- Pass.

- ACC school whose team is the Tigers.

- Pass.

- Country, home to the Tamil Tigers.

- India.

- Incorrect.

Genus containing tigers and lions.

- Felinae.

- Incorrect.

2001 novel that features a tiger named Richard Parker.

- Pass.

- Life Of Pi was the last answer.

All right.

We continue on.

It's the final quarter of our match with the following toss-up question: what programming language, whose Zen can be shown via the command import this, uses whitespace to define structure and is named for a comedy troupe?

- Dieruff.

- Python.

Python is correct, named after the Monty Python comedy troupe.

For your bonus, what female leader of the right-wing National Party lost in the 2017 and 2022 French presidential elections to Emmanuel Macron?

- No answer.

- That'd be Marine Le Pen, is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question: What Prime Minister, who was freed in the Grand Sasso raid, signed the Lateran Treaty with the Vatican in 1929 and led fascist Italy into World War... Dieruff.

- Benito Mussolini.

- That is correct.

He led them into World War II.

For your bonus, what English metaphysical poet reflects on illness and faith in his 1624 book Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, which claimed, "No man is an island"?

John Donne is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question: what people in the Bible, whose champion was the six cubit in span Goliath, were killed when pillars in a temple to Dagon were destroyed by Samson?

- Nazareth.

- The Philistines?

The Philistines is correct.

For your bonus, Iraqi forces deliberately set fire to over 600 oil wells during Iraq's 1991 withdrawal of what country, which prompted the first Gulf War?

- Kuwait.

- Kuwait is correct.

Next toss-up question: what country, whose cities include Nieuw Nickerie, is east of Guyana and is a former Dutch colony in South America?

Nazareth.

- Suriname.

- Suriname is correct.

Whose capital was at Paramaribo.

For your bonus, what principle, which explains the Venturi effect, elevates a fluid or relates a fluids increase in speed to a decrease in its potential energy or pressure?

- Bernoulli's law?

- Bernoulli's law or principle is correct.

Next toss-up question: what activist, who in 1872 refused to pay a $100 fine for voting...?

Nazareth.

- Susan B Anthony.

- Susan B Anthony is correct.

And she now appears on some dollar coins.

For your bonus, what work with long runs of 16th notes is part of an opera by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and depicts a prince's transformation into the title animal?

- No answer.

- That would be The Flight Of The Bumblebee.

You'll recognize the song when you hear it.

Next toss-up question: what author, to whom poet John Berryman wrote a homage, wrote, "If ever two were one, "then surely we," in her poem To My Dear And Loving Husband?

Anne Bradstreet was the correct answer.

Next toss-up question: what unit, originally defined as one ten millionth of the distance from the North Pole to the equator, is an SI base unit?

Nazareth.

- The meter.

- The meter is correct.

It's an SI base unit slightly longer than a yard.

And with that, we have reached the end of the match.

Congratulations to Nazareth.

With 255 points, you are on to the second round.

We will see you there.

Dieruff, great work today.

Unfortunately, it's the end of the road with 125 points.

Have a great rest of the school year.

And thank you for tuning in.

We'll see you next week when Northampton faces off against Northwestern Lehigh.