- Hello, and welcome to the sixth match of the first round of the 49th season of Scholastic Scrimmage.

I'm your host, David Graf.

Today's match between Palmerton and Whitehall 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 better, and they'll get to introduce themselves.

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

Whitehall.

- Copernicus.

- That is incorrect.

Over to Palmerton.

No conferring, but...

It's a free one to buzz in on.

Galileo is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question, what monarch put down a Cossack rebellion led by Yemelyan Pugachev, who took the throne after Peter III's death and was an empress known as the Great?

Whitehall.

- Catherine.

- Catherine the Great is correct.

Your bonus is in math.

Pencil and paper ready.

What is the slope of a line whose equation has the form X = A constant?

- Undefined.

- Undefined is correct.

Next toss-up question, what woman who founded the Roots and Shoots program conducted research in the Gombe Steam National Park, where she observed chimpanzees using tools?

Whitehall.

- Jane Goodall.

Jane Goodall is correct.

And for 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?

- Pompey.

- Pompey is correct.

Next toss-up question, what novel in which venomous yellow spotted lizards inhabit Camp Green Lake was written by Louis Sachar and named for objects that Stanley digs?

Palmerton.

- Holes.

- Holes is correct.

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

- Queensland.

- That is incorrect.

New South Wales is the correct answer.

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

How many significant digits are there in the number 0.00789?

Whitehall?

- Three.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, what piece of laboratory glassware has a conical body that narrows at a cylindrical neck, making it ideal for swirling its contents during titration?

- Erlenmeyer flask.

- An Erlenmeyer flask is correct.

Next toss-up question, what state in which a monument known as its Guide Stones was bombed in 2022?

Palmerton.

- Georgia.

- Georgia is correct.

For your bonus, in 1892, James B Weaver was the presidential candidate of what third party that supported by mentalism, or by mentalism...

Excuse me, bimetallism, and the regulation of railroads?

- Populist Party.

- The Populist Party is correct.

Apologies for that one.

Next toss-up question, what sculptor included Fugitive Love and Paolo and Francesca among the pieces inspired by Dante's In the Gates of Hell, and also includes The Thinker?

Whitehall?

- Rodin.

- Augustine Rodin is correct.

For your bonus, Ambrose Bierce defined love as a temporary insanity cured by marriage in what satirical work of lexicography?

- Animal Farm.

- That is incorrect.

The Devil's Dictionary is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question, in humans, what structures can have their function reduced by dosage compensation, can form bar bodies, and cannot recombine with a smaller Y?

Kyla, go ahead.

- Blood cells?

- Incorrect, and then, it was the buzzer right after she buzzed in.

X chromosomes is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question, what president whose wife was nicknamed Lemonade Lucy... Whitehall.

- Rutherford Hayes.

- Rutherford Hayes is correct, because they banned alcohol in the White House.

For your bonus, what abolitionist and suffragette used the tune of John Brown's Body to write Battle Hymn of the Republic?

- Truth.

- That is incorrect.

It's Julia Ward Howe, is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question, what author, who wrote about the Porteous riots in the novel The Heart of Midlothian, and described a Saxon knight who serves King Richard I in Ivanhoe?

That author is Sir Walter Scott.

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

In a pre-match coin toss, it was determined that Whitehall will get to pick between the following topics.

Your topics you can pick from are the Atlantic Slave Trade or the Arabian Sea.

- The Atlantic Slave Trade.

Whitehall, for the first 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 US.

- Cotton.

- Correct.

English name for large farming estates worked by slaves.

- Plantation.

- Correct.

Country whose slave trade William Wilberforce helped abolish.

- Brazil.

- Incorrect.

South Carolina Port, home to a major slave market.

- Charleston.

- Correct.

Author who said "slavery birthed capitalism" in Das Kapital.

- Marx.

- Correct.

Triangle trade leg that sent slaves to the Americas.

- Middle Passage.

- That is correct.

Country founded by Toussaint Louverture's slave revolt.

- Haiti.

- Correct.

Snail shell currency often used by African slaves.

- Pass.

- Underground Railroad conductor nicknamed Moses.

- Harriet Tubman.

- Correct.

West African country whose Door of No Return memorializes where slaves left Africa.

- Ghana.

- Incorrect.

That last one is Senegal.

Palmerton, your topic is the Arabian Sea.

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

The ocean containing the Arabian Sea.

- Indian Ocean.

- Correct.

Pakistan's most populous city.

And anyone can answer... - Karachi.

- That is correct.

Sultanate, whose capital is Muscat.

- Oman?

- Correct.

Indian city home to Bollywood.

- Mumbai.

- Correct.

Island country in the sea's southeast.

Say it again.

- Bahrain.

- That is incorrect.

River whose valley contains most of Pakistan's people.

- Indus.

- That is correct.

Strait separating the Arabian Sea from the Persian Gulf.

- Pass.

- Civil war-torn country north of the Gulf of Aden.

- Yemen.

- Correct.

- Indian coastal state, a Portuguese colony... - Goa.

- Say it again?

- Goa.

- That is correct.

Indian mountain range parallel to the Arabian Sea.

- Himalayan.

- Incorrect.

The Western Ghats is a correct last answer.

And we will continue on with the following toss-up question.

What ballet included an Arabian Dance and a Waltz of the flowers, has its dancers portray Clara, Drosselmeyer, the Mouse King and the Sugar Plum Fairy?

Whitehall.

- The Nutcracker.

- The Nutcracker is correct.

And for your bonus, over one week in August 1877, Asaph Hall discovered what two natural satellites of Mars?

- Phobos and Deimos?

- That is correct.

Next toss-up question, what operation in which Brigade 2506 was defeated after landing at the Playa Giron, was a botched CIA attempt to topple... Whitehall?

- The Bay of Pigs invasion.

- That is correct.

It was a botched attempt to topple Fidel Castro in 1961.

For your bonus question, what former salesman is pelted with apples by his angry father after turning into a monstrous vermin in Franz Kafka's novella, The Metamorphosis?

- George?

- Incorrect, Gregor Samsa is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question, what organization, which briefly controlled Rostov on Don during a 2023 military operation led by Yevgeny Prigozhin... Whitehall.

No consulting, you got to give me right away.

All right, over to Palmerton, I'll continue, the question.

...is a Russian...

It's a Russian paramilitary group, that would have been PMC Wagner, or Wagner Group.

Next, toss-up, what nine-letter word can mean a combination of functions like G of F of X... Whitehall.

- Composition.

Will we take that?

Composite or composition is correct.

For your bonus, what British industrialist, who founded the diamond company De Beers.

led the Cape Colony in South Africa and funded a namesake scholarship to Oxford?

- Scott.

- Incorrect.

Cecil Rhodes is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question, what country was the site of the Bataan Death March and the... Whitehall?

- The Philippines?

- That is correct.

For your bonus, what Shakespeare comedy centers on Antipholus and Dromio, who discover that they both have long-lost twins named and Antipholus and Dromio?

- 12th Night.

- That's incorrect.

The Comedy of Errors is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question, what organization, which was founded by William D. Boyce and inspired by Robert Baden-Powell, uses a merit badge system... Whitehall - The NAACP.

There's Incorrect, I'll continue for Palmerton.

...uses a merit badge system and teaches outdoor skills?

Palmerton?

- The Boy Scouts.

- The Boy Scouts is correct.

For your bonus, what Germanic artist included an anamorphic skull and a depiction of two visitors to the court of King Henry VIII in his 1533 painting The Ambassadors?

Hans Holbein the Younger is the correct answer.

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

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

Whitehall.

- Four.

-Four is correct.

And for your bonus, the word disaster comes from a Latin word for what objects which can be referred to with the adjective sardrole?

- Cyclone.

- Incorrect.

Stars is the correct answer.

And with that, we have reached half time.

Whitehall currently leads Palmerton with a score of 155-70, and now we'll get to know the students a little bit better by having them say their first, last name, grade level, and the answer to the following question, if you can visit any country in the world, where would it be?

Palmerton, Jared, we start with you.

- Jared Reinhard, I'm in 12th grade, and I'd like to visit Switzerland.

- Okay.

- Jacob Kovac, ninth grade, and I'd like to visit Greece.

- Levi Schall, 11th grade, I would like to visit Poland.

- Dylan Berger, in 10th grade, and I'd like to visit Italy.

- James Kimball, 12th grade, I'd like to visit Iceland.

- Neiv Sinha, 11th grade, I'd like to visit England.

- Pri Pruitt, 12th grade, I'd also like to visit England.

- Kyla Pascoe, 12th grade, I'd like to visit Japan.

- Oh, very cool.

So Kyla, studied abroad in college in Japan.

It was a great experience.

It was through Temple University's extension program.

And Levi, I too want to go to Poland.

My grandparents are from Poland, so I would love to go visit some time, but unfortunately, I haven't had the chance.

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

What office in the Roman Catholic Church may be permanent or transitional, ranks below a priest... Palmerton.

Anything?

Okay, to White Hall.

...and assist with mass and other services?

No conferring.

No conferring.

But you can buzz in if you know it.

- Go ahead.

- Acolyte.

- Incorrect.

A deacon is the correct answer.

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

What value of X satisfies the equation?

Three raised to the X power equals nine raised to the third power?

- Whitehall.

- Six.

- Six is correct.

And for your bonus, what 1959 jazz piece, the best-selling jazz single of all time, was written by Paul Desmond and has a title reflecting its unusual time signature?

- Take Five.

- Take Five is correct because it was written in 5/4 time.

Next toss-up question, what country is home to Omdurman, which is home to Africa's largest city by area until 2011 and contains the confluence of the Blue Nile and White Nile near Khartoum?

That country is Sudan.

Next toss-up question, what 19th century poet who wrote about huddled masses yearning to breathe free in a poem written for the Statue of Liberty titled The New Colossus?

Emma Lazarus is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question, what metal, whose ore includes chalcocite, forms a greenish patina called verdigris, and is alloyed with tin in bronze, and with zinc in brass?

Whitehall.

- Copper.

- Copper is correct.

For your bonus, the Jacob's Ladder plant belongs to what large family of plants that include vanilla, and is named for a notoriously difficult to cultivate plant?

Beans.

- Incorrect.

We're talking about orchids.

Orchids is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question, what city, where 21 people died when a flood of molasses swept its north end... Palmerton.

- Boston.

- Boston is correct.

And they also had a Tea Party in 1773.

For your bonus, the de Vos family owns what Eastern Conference NBA team, which was the first professional team that Shaquille O'Neal played for?

- Orlando Magic.

- The Orlando Magic is correct.

Next toss-up question, what composer is known for the Viola Symphony Herald in Italy, as well as a five-movement work depicting a witch's sabbath in Symphonie Fantastique?

That composer is Hector Berlioz.

Next toss-up question, what poet wrote "five years have passed" in the Tintern Abbey, and collaborated on lyrical ballads with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a fellow British Romantic?

William Wordsworth is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question, what island, which is home to Montauk Point, State Park, the Hamptons, and the borough of Brooklyn... Palmerton.

- Long Island.

That is correct.

My brother lives there in Queens, on Long Island.

For your bonus, what two-word Latin phrase is used to indicate an economic figure such as GDP, has been divided by population?

Just means it's been divided per capita.

Per capita is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question, like a smaller red animal, what member of the family Ursidae has a false... Palmerton?

- Panda?

- Panda is correct.

The giant panda and the smaller red version of the panda.

For your bonus question, what physical quantity, which has units of distance squared times mass, is the rotational analog of mass?

- Volume?

- Incorrect.

Momentum of inertia is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question, what governmental post, which was removed as a Cabinet-level role in 1970... Whitehall?

- Secretary of War.

That is incorrect, I'll continue for Palmerton.

...which was removed as a Cabinet-level... Levi.

- Postmaster General.

- That is correct.

And it was held first by Benjamin Franklin.

For your bonus, what deity, whose name precedes the word Fthagn in the cultish chant, is a fearsome octopus-like entity who call titles "A Story by H.P.

Lovecraft"?

- The Kraken.

Incorrect.

Cthulhu is the correct answer.

Well, it looks like Jared had it on the tip of his tongue.

Quite.

Okay, and with that, we have reached the second Lightning Round.

Palmerton, you'll get to pick between the following topics.

Agencies and Departments, or Events by Month.

Okay, Agencies and Departments is your topic.

Palmerton, Agencies and Departments.

What Federal Cabinet-level departments oversee these US agencies and organizations?

The Internal Revenue Service.

- Pass.

- Federal Aviation Administration.

Quickly, or pass.

- Pass.

Department of Transportation, or excuse me, Department of Transportation.

Federal Bureau of Investigations.

- Department for Homeland Security.

- That is incorrect.

The Census Bureau.

- Department of Commerce.

- That is correct.

The Secret Service.

- Department of Homeland Security.

- That is correct.

National Indian Gaming Commission.

- Department of the Interior.

- That is correct.

Los Alamos National Laboratory.

- Pass.

- Food and Drug Administration.

- FDA.

- That is incorrect.

The Fulbright Scholarship Program.

- Department of Education.

- That is incorrect.

The National Cemetery Administration.

And that last one would have been the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Whitehall, this leaves you with Events by Month.

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

An answer may repeat.

Memorial Day.

May.

- Correct The Vernal Equinox, or first day of spring in the northern hemisphere.

Just right away.

- June.

- Incorrect.

Super Bowl 58.

- February.

- Correct.

The US Presidential Election.

- November.

- Correct.

The most recently-established US federal holiday.

- June.

- Correct.

Canadian Thanksgiving.

- November.

- Incorrect.

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

- March.

- Incorrect.

Patriots Day.

- September.

- Incorrect.

Boxing Day.

- December.

- Correct.

Eid al-Fitr, marking the end of Ramadan.

- February.

- That is incorrect.

That would be April.

Okay, we'll conclude the final quarter of the match with the following toss-up question, in what musical for which Hugh Jackman earned a 2022 Tony nomination are the citizens of River City led by Harold Hill in singing "76 Trombones"?

Whitehall.

- The Music Man.

- The Music Man is correct.

For your bonus, what city which was called Stabroek before being renamed after a British monarch, is the capital of Guyana?

- Queenstown.

- Incorrect.

Georgetown is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question, what quantity which is approximated by the Sackur-Tetrode equation, never decreases by the second law of thermodynamics, and is a measure of disorder?

Whitehall.

- Enthalpy?

- Say it again.

- Enthalpy?

- That is incorrect.

Palmerton?

- Entropy.

- Entropy is correct, yes, entropy, Kyla just slightly off on that one.

For your bonus, in Greek mythology, what Titan, the daughter of Uranus and Gaia, personified memory and was the mother of the Nine Muses?

Mnemosyne is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question, what city, which contains the unfinished pyramid-shaped Ryanggang Hotel and the Juche Tower honoring Kim Il Sung... Palmerton.

- North Korea.

- That is incorrect.

...and is the capital city of North Korea.

Whitehall?

- Pyongyang.

- Pyongyang is correct.

Levi, you jumped a little bit soon.

We were looking for city, not country on that one.

For your bonus, what Native American tribe fought three wars against the US under leaders like Osceola while resisting the conquest of Florida?

- Seminole.

- Seminole, or the Seminole Wars is correct.

Next toss-up question, what TV show depicted the 2003 death of Sarah at the start of the Cordyceps outbreak, and stars Pedro Pascal?

Palmerton?

- The Last of US.

- The Last of Us is correct.

He's a smuggler in the zombie apocalypse.

Your bonus is in mathematics, pencil and paper ready.

What is the value of the cosine squared of 60 degrees, plus the sine squared of 60 degrees?

- One.

- One is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question, in what conflict during which Prince Rupert of the Rhine fought at the Battle of Edgehill, did the New Model Army bring Oliver Cromwell to power?

Whitehall.

- English Civil War.

- The English Civil War is correct.

For your bonus, what Englishman wrote a short poem describing God's creation of Isaac Newton, and satirized 18th-century society in his mock epic, The Rape of the Loch?

- Milton.

- Incorrect.

Alexander Pope is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question, what city contains the natural Spring of Klepsydra and the Erechtheion Temple, both of which are found along the side of the Parthenon, atop... Whitehall.

- Athens.

That's right, atop the Acropolis.

For your bonus, the Treaty of Kanagawa helped open up Japan during what final shogunate?

And that would have been Tokugawa, which was ended by the Meiji Restoration.

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

Congratulations, Whitehall, with 245 points.

You're on to the next round.

Palmerton, with 145 points, thanks for joining us.

We'll see you next year, and thank you for tuning in.

We'll see you next week when Allentown Central Catholic faces off against Notre Dame.