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Hello and welcome to the third match of the second round of the 50 season of Scholastic Scrimmage.
I'm your host, David Graff.
Today's match is between Allentown Central Catholic High School and Liberty High School.
The match will be composed of two halves with a lightning round midway through each half.
Half time will pass as students can get to introduce himself, and we'll ask some questions to get to know them a little bit better.
As a reminder, Scholastic Scrimmage requires rapid recall specific factual information that's not necessarily indicative of academic training.
And now let's begin.
Buzzers.
Ready?
Here's our first tossup question.
What politician who survived a motion to vacate from Marjorie Taylor Greene in 2024 succeeded Kevin McCarthy in 2023 as speaker of the House.
We're looking for our current speaker of the House, Mike Johnson.
Next toss up question.
What empire that lost the battle of Tom was ruled by a Sikh Muhammad and founded by Sunni Ali, who reigned from Gao after the fall of Mali.
Liberty.
Timbuktu.
That is incorrect.
Over downtown Central Catholic.
No conferring with the freebie.
Go ahead.
Songhai.
Songhai.
This one part is correct for your bonus.
The game Rock, paper, scissors lacks what mathematical property?
Because paper beats rock and scissors beats paper.
But scissors does not beat rock.
Go ahead.
Absolute winner.
That's incorrect.
Transitive property is the mathematical property that lacks.
Next toss up question.
What theologian claimed that reason links eternal law to natural law in his 13th century treatise on law.
A portion of his Summa Theologica.
Central Catholic.
Thomas Aquinas.
See, Thomas Aquinas is correct for your bonus.
What economic practice is defined as either intensive or extensive, based on the ratio of labor and material resources used, space occupied to be used to the space occupied.
By navigators.
Go ahead.
Capitalism.
Incorrect.
Agriculture or farming.
Next toss up.
Question.
What country was the site of coordinated arson attacks on its train system in July 2024, on the day of the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics.
Central Catholic France.
France is correct for your bonus at the end of World War two, what peninsula was divided in two roughly along the 38th parallel?
No need to buzz in, captain.
You can stop on the Korean Peninsula.
The Korean Peninsula is correct.
Next toss up question.
What task?
Whose difficulty makes RSA encryption hard to crack can be done by seed algorithms or trial division, and applies to composite numbers.
The answer is prime factorization.
Next toss up question.
What author whose poem the mother proclaims that abortions will not let you forget, depicted a group of pool players in her poem.
We real cool.
That's the poet Gwendolyn Brooks.
Next tossup question.
What company whose logo was painted on Han Dynasty urns by AI Weiwei, was featured in Andy Warhol's works, depicting its glass soda bottles.
Liberty.
Coca-Cola.
Coca-Cola is correct.
For your bonus, what doctrine devised by John Quincy Adams when he was Secretary of State, asserts that the U.S. will always oppose European colonialism in the Americas.
Monroe Doctrine.
The Monroe Doctrine is correct.
Next tossup question what city, led by former teachers union leader Brandon Johnson, hosted the 2024 Democratic National Convention and is the most populous Central Catholic Chicago?
That is correct, yes, the most populous in Illinois.
For your bonus, a 1920 work by Raven Vaughan Williams which opens with a long, fluttering violin cadenza, lacks bar lines, depicts what title songbird ascending.
Mockingbird.
That's incorrect.
That cadenza depicts a lark.
Next tossup question.
What show in which a ship crosses Sundering Sea to Valinor stars Morfydd Clark as the elf Galadriel, and adapts writings by J.R.R.
Tolkien.
Central Catholic.
The hobbit.
That is incorrect.
Over to Liberty.
Go ahead.
Liberty.
The Lord of the rings.
Say that again.
Lord of the rings.
That is incorrect.
It is the Rings of Power.
Next toss up question.
What?
Taifa era knight whose body was placed on his horse Baba Yaka at the 1099 Siege of Valencia?
It's the title hero of the national epic of Spain.
Liberty.
Don Quixote.
That is incorrect.
Over to Central Catholic.
LC is the correct answer.
Next tossup question.
What country is the setting of Patrick White's Voss?
A retelling of, like Hart's attempt to cross the continent before dying in its outback Central Catholic Australia.
Australia is correct for your bonus.
What country?
Where a ten year civil war known as La Valencia was fought, was home to the leftist guerrilla group, the Fark.
From.
Spain.
That is incorrect.
Colombia is the correct answer.
Next tossup question.
What song whose lyric promises to stand on guard for our home and native land?
Is that Liberty o Canada, O Canada is correct.
And its the its capital is Ottawa.
For your bonus.
Ethylene glycol is often used in what type of product intended to prevent a certain physical change from occurring.
Antifreeze.
Antifreeze or antifreeze is correct.
Next tossup question.
What war during which the devastating sack of Martinsburg was orchestrated by Count Tilly, had a final French phase prior to the Treaty of Westphalia.
Central Catholic 30 Years War.
The 30 Years War is correct.
For your bonus, what singer played a mermaid in the 2023 movie Barbie, which included her song Dance the Night.
Dua Lipa Dua Lipa is correct and she is a favorite in the graph household.
Glad you guys got that.
Next tossup question what material often made by heating a limestone and clay mixture in a rotary kiln is mixed with sand, gravel, central Catholic concrete.
That is incorrect.
I'll continue for liberty.
Go ahead.
Liberty cement.
Cement is correct for your bonus.
What author of the 1973 novel Gravity's Rainbow wrote about a mysterious inheritance in The Crying of Lot 49.
George Orwell.
That's incorrect.
Thomas Pynchon is a correct answer.
Next toss up question.
What 1993 film set on the fictional Isla Nublar is about industrialist Central Catholic?
Jurassic Park.
Jurassic Park is correct, and it featured his amusement park that had cloned dinosaurs.
For your bonus.
In RNA splicing, what non-coding regions between the exons of a gene are removed from newly formed RNA molecules?
Codons.
That's incorrect.
Introns is the correct answer.
And with that, we have reached the first lightning round.
In a pre-match coin toss, it was determined that Central Catholic will get to pick between the following topics.
Not a metal or jazz instruments.
Quickly central Catholic try jazz.
Not a metal, not a metal.
It is Central Catholic.
Your topic is not a metal.
Name these elements that are not classified as metal's most abundant element in the universe.
Hydrogen.
Correct.
Found as an odorless yellow solid, though many of its compounds stink.
Sulfur.
Sulfur.
Sulfur is correct, and anyone can say it.
The most electronegative element on the Pauling scale.
Has its isotope 14 is used to date object's carbon.
Carbon correct element used in safety matches and named after its like giving.
Phosphorus.
That is correct.
Group 14 element.
The main compound of integrated circuits.
Silicon.
That is correct.
Heaviest element found in thyroid hormone.
Tungsten.
That's incorrect.
The lightest metal.
Lloyd, whose compounds are used in some pesticides.
That's the most common noble gas in Earth's atmosphere.
Nitrogen.
Nitrogen.
That's incorrect.
As of 2023, the heaviest element discovered.
Californium.
Dump its OG ness and just let you know.
And interestingly, it looks for a few facts about that.
It's been recently synthesized.
It is a gas, but it's believed at room temperature on Earth because of all the electrons you would actually amass on Earth and be a solid because it would stick to each other.
Well, fun fact there for anyone at home.
Okay, Liberty, your topic is jazz instruments.
Given the jazz performers name, their primary instrument.
Miles Davis and Louis Armstrong.
Trumpet.
Correct.
Tom Dorsey and Glenn Miller pass.
Thelonious Monk and Duke Ellington.
Piano.
Correct.
Charles Mingus and Ray Brown.
Jazz musicians.
Play it without a bow.
Bass.
Correct.
Max Roach and Buddy Rich.
Saxophone.
Say it again.
Saxophone.
That's incorrect.
Coleman Hawkins and John Coltrane.
Pass.
Wes Montgomery and Django Reinhardt.
Saxophone.
Incorrect.
Artie Shaw and Benny Goodman.
Saxophone.
That's incorrect.
King Oliver and Bix Beiderbecke.
It's name comes from the French for horn.
Cornet.
Correct.
Milt Jackson and Lionel Hampton.
It's a percussion instrument played with mallets.
Xylophone.
That's incorrect.
Last one was a vibraphone.
Or vibe is also acceptable.
And we'll continue on with the following.
Toss up question.
What large island is home to the states of Sabah and Sarawak?
Is north of the Java Sea and is divided between Brunei, Malaysia and Indonesia.
Liberty.
Sulawesi.
That's incorrect.
Over to Central Catholic.
Go ahead.
Central Catholic.
Borneo Borneo is correct for your bonus.
In what German city did Neville Chamberlain sign an agreement to appease the Nazis, after which he declared that he had made peace for our time.
In.
Berlin.
That is incorrect.
Eunuch is where it was signed.
Next toss up.
What particles, whose absence is called a hole were discovered by J.J. Thompson have a charge of minus the elementary charge and orbit the nucleus.
Central Catholic electrons.
Electrons is correct.
For your bonus, what state is home to the fictional you?
Not Petaluma County, which is the setting of novels such as Light in August.
Tennessee.
Incorrect.
Mississippi.
It's a famous county created by William Faulkner, located fictionally in Mississippi.
Next toss up question.
What man whose namesake company made a product known as the Tin Lizzie, built an assembly line in Dearborn, Michigan, and manufactured the Central Catholic Ford.
That is correct.
And he manufactured the model T car.
For your bonus, aspirin is an example of what class of of medication known by an acronym whose UN abbreviated form notes that it is not a steroid painkiller.
Presumably not.
Narcotic.
That is incorrect.
It's an Nsaid which stands for a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug.
And with that, we have reached halftime.
Let's take a moment for the students to introduce themselves with the first, last name and grade level.
And they didn't know this question ahead of time.
So I want your gut reaction.
It's a debate going on in the Graf household.
What is the age a kid should get a smartphone first thing that comes to mind?
Gabby, central Catholic, go ahead.
I'm Gabriella martinez.
I'm a junior, and I think the age should be 11.
Okay.
I'm James Logan.
I'm a junior, and it's whatever age they enter eighth grade.
All right.
I'm Matthew Keenan.
I'm a, senior, I think, 11.
Gotcha.
I'm Matthew Alvarado.
I'm a junior, and I think 12.
Okay, Liberty.
Declan.
Go ahead.
I'm Declan Edwards.
I'm a in 11th grade, and I think it should be when they enter middle school.
I'm Benjamin Bloom, I'm a senior, and I think you should be 13.
Okay.
I'm really.
I'm a senior, and I think it should be 13.
Okay.
I'm at it's coffin.
I'm a senior, and I think it'd be 12.
Okay.
We've had generally the same answer so far to begin for in our second round here.
I think we have, one of our judges is a statistical professor.
I want him to, like, complete everything and see where that mean age is.
Maybe we'll figure it out for my daughter.
Then.
Okay, we're on to the second half of the batch with the following toss up question.
What composer whose trips to Naples and Rome inspired his Italian Symphony include a wedding march in his incidental music to a midsummer Night's Dream.
Liberty.
William Shakespeare, that is incorrect.
Over to Central Catholic.
Go ahead.
Beethoven.
That's also incorrect.
Felix Mendelssohn is a correct answer.
Next toss up question.
What particles?
Which were called aces by George Zweig.
Are there usually three of in baryon and come in six flavors including charm and up.
Liberty.
Quarks.
Quarks is correct for your bonus before leaving the big 12.
What university women's softball team won its fourth consecutive Women's College World Series in 2024?
Michigan.
That.
That's incorrect.
The University of Oklahoma.
They are known for their softball team.
Next tossup question on what island were the US claimed a right to intervene through the Platt Amendment in 1901.
Did the American Navy build a base at Guantanamo Bay, Central Catholic Cuba?
Cuba is correct for your bonus.
What class of materials, which have a large band gap, possesses a high resistivity and include glass and rubber insulators.
Insulators is correct.
Next toss up question what artist of the women of Algiers painted Marianne wearing a Phrygian cap and raising the French flag in his 1830 work Liberty leading the People.
Who?
Jean de la Croix is a correct answer.
Next toss up question.
What branch of chemistry whose 12 principles include avoiding explosions and limiting waste, focuses on sustainability.
Central Catholic, environmental science that is incorrect.
Over to Liberty and is named for a color.
That completes question.
Go ahead.
Liberty.
Green chemistry.
Green chemistry.
I kind of a lame name, but it is.
Green chemistry could also take.
Sustainable chemistry is also acceptable for your bonus.
What Dutch artist painted Captain Frans Banning coke, gesturing to his militia company in the night watch.
Picasso is incorrect.
Rembrandt is the correct answer.
Next tossup question what author of the play The Skin of Our Teeth, chronicled the romance between George Gibbs and Emily Webb in Grover's Corners in his play Our Town.
Thornton Wilder is the correct answer.
Next toss up question.
What country contains the eastern portions of Lake Kivu is governed from Keylock, Kigali, and saw thousands of go ahead.
Liberty, Rwanda Rwanda is correct for your bonus.
What philosopher, the mother of a 19th century novelist, wrote A vindication of the Rights of Woman in 1792.
Freud does incorrect.
Mary Wollstonecraft is the correct answer.
Next toss up question what vitamin whose deficiency causes increased bruising, is needed for blood clotting, and can be obtained by eating collards and other leafy greens.
Go ahead.
Central Catholic, a.
That's incorrect.
Over to Liberty.
Go ahead.
Liberty D that's also incorrect.
Vitamin K is a correct answer.
Next tossup question what battle during which the victory or death letter was released by William Travis ended in 1836 as Mexican forces overran a mission in Texas central Catholic the Alamo.
The battle of the Alamo is correct for your bonus, most publicly listed U.S. companies are incorporated in what state, which has three counties and is known as the Blue and State Delaware.
It could be Massachusetts, Delaware.
Delaware is correct.
Next tossup question what title character, who is taught by Miss Temple at Lowood School, becomes a governess and marries Mr. Rochester in a novel by Charlotte Bronte.
Jane Eyre is a correct answer.
Your next tossup is in math.
Pencil on paper.
Ready?
What mixed number is equivalent to the improper fraction 37 divided by eight?
Given that eight times four equals 30 Liberty four and 3/8, that is incorrect.
Over to Central Catholic and I'll complete the question.
Four equals 32.
Go ahead.
Central Catholic four and 5/8, four and 5/8 is correct for your bonus.
What Portuguese speaking African country has recently seen an escalating insurgency challenging the national government in Cabo Delgado Province.
Cameroon is incorrect.
Mozambique is the correct answer.
And with that, we have reached the second lightning round.
Liberty, you'll get to select between the following topics and listen carefully to this one.
Euro being cities or also a baseball team.
Baseball, European.
Baseball.
Quickly.
Liberty.
Also a baseball team.
Also a baseball team.
It is Liberty.
Your topic is also a baseball team.
Name these people, places or things that share their name with a major league Baseball team.
Northerners.
Purse.
Southern Yankee, correct biblical Seraphim and cherubim.
Angels.
Correct.
Violent profession of John Lafayette and Captain Kidd has family dog on the Jetsons.
Pass Catholic priests in Latin America.
Padre is correct.
Big cat with Bengal and Siberian varieties.
Tigers.
Correct.
People who make a beverage with malted barley and hops.
Brewers correct.
Half lines extending to infinity in a single direction.
Vectors.
Incorrect.
Identical siblings.
Twins.
Correct.
Geographical feature formed in the layer mode.
Orogeny.
Rockies.
That is correct.
Yes.
All right, central Catholic, if you've been wondering what is this topic?
It is Euro being cities.
In what European country are these cities whose English names start with the letter B?
Birmingham.
Do you think England is correct?
Bologna, Italy.
In direct.
Berlin, Germany.
Correct.
Budapest, Hungary.
Correct.
Bordeaux, France.
Correct.
Bucharest.
Slovakia.
Incorrect.
Both.
Basil.
Greece.
Incorrect.
Brugge, Austria.
Incorrect.
Brought a Slava.
Slovakia.
Correct.
Brno.
Ukraine.
That's incorrect.
Burn is located in the Czech Republic.
On to the final quarter of the match with the following tossup question.
What cities?
NFL team, which was sold in 2023 for $6 billion by former owner Daniel Snyder, was renamed Liberty Commanders?
Say it again, commanders.
Unfortunately, that, what city we're living.
Oh, I have to Washington DC.
Washington DC is correct.
And they're known as the commanders who say commanders before got to commanders.
So that is acceptable.
For your bonus, in the 1960s and 70s, a group called the Young Lords mostly worked to support immigrants from what island who concentrated in New York and Chicago, Ellis Island.
That is incorrect.
Puerto Rico is the correct answer.
Next toss up question what name is shared by the last Confederate ship to surrender?
A river that joins the Potomac near Harpers Ferry and Virginia's only national park?
Central Catholic Shenandoah.
Shenandoah is correct.
Your bonuses in math.
Pencil and paper.
Ready if set A has eight elements and set B has 12 elements.
What is the maximum number of elements in the union of A and B?
For is incorrect, 20 elements is the correct answer.
Next tossup.
Which man gave the speech?
The light has gone out of our lives to mourn the death of Mahatma Gandhi.
While serving as the first Prime Minister of India.
The first Prime Minister of India was Nehru.
Next toss up question what novel in which missiles improbably turn into a whale is named after a reference work that advises don't panic and was written by Douglas Adams.
That novel is The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Next tossup question.
What river?
Whose Indian stream?
Tributary names in 1830s Republic divides New Hampshire from Vermont and flows past Hartford in its namesake state.
Liberty, Connecticut.
The Connecticut or Connecticut River is correct for your bonus.
What solutions that usually consist of a weak acid and its conjugate base are used to resist P pH changes.
Buffer A buffer is correct.
Next tossup question what molecules whose reactivity can be studied in the Nicolas making kinetics often have names ending in a, S, e and act liberty enzymes.
Enzymes is correct as biological catalysts.
And with that we have reached the end of the match.
A great match between both teams.
Central Catholic with 200 points.
You are on to the third round.
Liberty 140.
Not quite enough today.
Good luck with the rest of your school year and thank you for watching.
We'll see you next week when Palmerton High School faces off against Northampton Area High School.
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