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Hello and welcome to the second match of the third round of the 50 season of Scholastic Scrimmage.

I'm your host, David Graff.

Today's match is between Allentown Central Catholic at Palmerton High School.

The match will be composed of two halves with a lightning round midway through each half.

At half, will PA systems can introduce themselves and we'll 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 with our first tossup question buzzers.

Ready.

What French composer channeled his infatuation for Harriet Smithson into a work about an artist's self consuming passion?

In his Symphony Fantastique.

The actor Berlioz is a correct answer.

Next, toss up questions in math.

Pencil and paper.

Ready?

All or nothing for this answer.

What two consecutive integers have a product of 132?

Given that their sum is 23.

Go ahead.

Central Catholic 11 and 12.

11 and 12 is correct for your bonus entrance exams.

For what profession require writing an eight legged essay about content from the four books and the Five Classics of Confucianism.

Philosophy.

That is incorrect.

It was for Chinese civil servants, and the eight legged essay is very similar to an English a five paragraph essay.

You'll be familiar.

With.

Next tossup question what musical whose songs include Til There Was You is about a con man named Harold Hill who tricks a town into thinking he will set up a band, Central Catholic.

The music.

Man.

The Music Man is correct for your bonus.

What German philosopher prays the pot a Nissan in a book that defined the phrase Will to live the world as will and representation.

What Friedrich Nietzsche.

Nietzsche.

Incorrect.

Arthur Schopenhauer is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What structures one of which hotel designed for Djoser often consists of stacked mastaba in their step form and contain tombs.

Central Catholic.

Pyramids.

Pyramids is correct, and they contain the tombs of pharaohs.

For your bonus, what term refers to a region of subterranean sand, gravel or rock that stores groundwater which can be pumped by wells?

Water table.

Incorrect.

An aquifer is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What eight lettered word refers to the number inside a long division bracket, which is being divided by the divisor.

To find the go ahead.

Palmerton.

Dividend.

That is correct.

It's defined the quotient for a bonus.

What author of novels titled Esther and Democracy describe his childhood in a Pulitzer Prize winning book about his education, published in 1919.

Just.

This past.

Henry Adams is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What author who wrote about two members of the class family in his book Franny and Zoe, wrote about Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye.

Go ahead, Central Catholic.

J.D.

Salinger J.D.

Salinger is correct for your bonus.

Jodie Foster played a police chief investigating the death of a Native American woman in what anthology shows fourth season, subtitled Night Country.

Yellowstone.

Incorrect.

True detective is the correct answer.

It's on the Mac series.

The first seasons.

Very good.

I haven't watched since then.

Next tossup question.

What practice protested by the 1917 Silent Parade and the red record by Ida B Wells was a form of murder perpetrated upon lynching.

Lynching is correct.

It was a murder perpetrated against Emmett Till.

For a bonus, what compound which is used to form the plastic Hdpe is the simplest alkene.

Hydrogen.

Incorrect.

Ethene is the correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What state whose ski resorts include Telluride and Vail is home to Rocky Palmerton, Colorado.

That is correct.

It's home to Rocky Mountain National Park and its mile high city of Denver.

For bonus, what author wrote about a bird named Lewis born without a voice that learns to play a musical instrument?

In his 1970 book The Trumpet of the Swan.

Several other famous.

Names.

E.B.

white.

Oh, did they get there before the buzzer?

Judges.

And we check with the judges.

Unfortunately, the answer was right, but it was after the buzzer, so no credit for it.

And with that, we've reached our first lightning round.

In a pre-match coin toss, it was determined that Palmerton will select first between the following topics scientific acronyms or World War One executive scientific acronyms.

Scientific acronyms.

It is Palmerton.

Your topic is scientific acronyms given an acronym used in science.

Give the word represented by the first letter of the acronym Lead and Electronic Device.

Light.

Correct.

NIH, a government agency.

National correct STP, a set of conditions used in chemistry.

Past Ram, a type of brain under memory.

Correct.

ATP, the energy.

Adenine.

Is incorrect.

RFID, a method for tracking objects.

Refractive.

That's incorrect.

E are an organelle in cells and plasmonic.

Correct.

NMR, a form of spectral spectral spectra is the rule.

Okay, QED, a field of physics.

Quantum.

Correct.

Crispr, a gene editing technique.

Chromosome.

That is incorrect.

Cluster is the correct answer for that one.

Yeah, yeah.

Okay.

Central Catholic.

Your topic is World War one.

Answer the following about World War one.

Austrian Archduke whose assassination sports of one correct country were the battles of Verdun and Samara, France.

Correct.

Central power invaded at Gallipoli.

Ottoman Empire.

Correct.

German Kaiser during the war.

Wilhelm the second.

Correct type of military vehicle that included German U-boats.

Submarine.

Correct.

1919 peace treaty that assigned war.

Correct.

Largest naval battle of the war.

Name for European peninsula.

Iberian.

Incorrect German telegram that promised U.S. territory to Mexico.

Zimmermann.

Correct.

Peace treaty by which Russia left the war in March 1918.

That date on which the armistice was signed, now sold.

November 11th.

Yes.

And it's now celebrated as Veteran's Day.

Now, we did confer with the judges.

And for Palmerton, your answer to ATP, the judges did more quietly hear either Dylan or Levi say, adenosine first before Cassandra's answer.

So you get it correct.

So you get five points onto our next tossup question what disaster?

Which in September 2024, temporarily shut down the Biltmore Estate in Asheville was a category four.

Go ahead, central Catholic.

Hurricane Helene.

Hurricane Helene is correct.

It was a category four hurricane that killed over 200 people.

For your bonus.

In the second century A.D., Arrhenius of Leone denounced Gnosticism as what type of belief that denied Catholic dogma to defeat.

Heretic belief.

Yes.

Heretics or heresy is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What president who's firing a Forest Service leader, Gifford Pinchot, caused a split with the Progressive Party in 19.

Go ahead.

Palmerston.

Theodore Roosevelt.

That's incorrect.

Competition for Central Catholic in 19.

Go ahead.

Central Catholic.

William Howard Taft.

William Howard Taft is correct, and he was succeeded by Theodore Roosevelt for your bonus.

In Greek myth, what boastful girl who turned into a spider after defeating Athena in a weaving contest was turned into a spider?

Arachnid Rockne is correct.

Next toss up.

What substance secreted by goblet cells is abnormally viscous, insists thick fibrosis patients, and builds up in the nose during sinus congestion.

Central Catholic.

Mucus.

Mucus is correct.

For your bonus, in May 2023, Koichi Togashi discovered in the Pinwheel Galaxy what type of massive star explosion whose brightness increased 40 fold in a week?

Supernova.

Supernova is correct.

And kind of a cool fact he's an amateur astronomer.

It's making news for himself.

Next tossup question what author of the novel Sometimes a Great Notion described Randall McMurphy experiences at a psychiatric hospital in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

The author is Ken Kesey, and the character of Randall McMurphy in the movie is played by Jack Nicholson.

For extra fun bonus for you on to the next tossup question.

In what city did a helium sphere rise above a cauldron following a boat parade?

During the August 2024 opening ceremony?

Central Catholic parish.

That is correct.

During the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics for your bonus in 1901, what anarchist, influenced by the ideas of Emma Goldman, fatally shot President William McKinley in Buffalo?

Oswald.

Incorrect.

Leon Chor Ghosh is a correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What city state?

Where the People's Action Party was founded by Lee Kuan Yew, was a British colony that became independent from the late Central Catholic.

Singapore.

Singapore is correct, and they became independent from Malaysia in 1965.

For your bonus, what musician whose first wife's name, Nemea, inspired an interest in Islamic spirituality, was a saxophonist who recorded A Love Supreme and Giant Steps.

Louis Armstrong.

That's incorrect.

John Coltrane is the correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What decade featured the launch of explorer one, the beginning of NASA's Project Mercury and the successful placement of Sputnik one into.

Orbit in the 50s?

The 1950s is correct.

Your bonuses in math pencil and paper ready.

What some results from adding the proper fractions 7/9 plus 3/5.

62/45.

62/45 is correct.

And with that, we've reached half time.

We have an excellent match underway.

Currently, Central Catholic leads with a score of 155 to Palmerton 75 and now Sycamore for the students introduce each other with their first and last name.

They will also give their grade level and answer the following question.

What do you find to study or pursue after graduation?

Central Catholic I'll start with you.

Go ahead.

Kyle Fleischman I am in 12th grade, and I plan to study political science or history.

Okay.

Jim Langan, I'm in 11th grade, and I plan to study law.

Okay.

Matthew Keenan, I'm a senior.

I'm planning on going into economics.

Okay.

Matthew Alvarado, I'm a junior, and I plan on going into business or history.

All right.

And, pumpkin.

Cassandra.

Go ahead.

I'm Cassie Hager.

I'm in 12th grade, and I plan to study journalism.

Okay.

I'm Dylan Borger, grade 11, and I plan to study analytical chemistry.

I measure green grade 11, and I.

And I plan to study robotics.

Okay.

I believe I stroll in 12th grade.

I plan to study meteorology.

Okay.

And with that, we will move on to the second half of the match for the following Toss-Up question.

What country whose planned smart city of Neom is on the Gulf of Aqaba is second only to Venezuela improving oil reserves.

Go ahead.

Central Catholic Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Arabia is correct, and it's also home to Mecca for your bonus money markets, where short term debt is traded or contrasted with what other kind of market where long term debt and equities are traded.

Bond market the contrast is a capital markets.

Next toss up question what basketball team which in 1995 paired Clyde Drexler with Hakeem Olajuwon, drafted Chinese center Yao Ming central Catholic.

The rockets.

The Houston Rockets is correct, and they're based in southeast Texas for a bonus.

What Minnesota native served as vice president under Jimmy Carter and lost the 1984 presidential election in a landslide to Ronald Reagan.

Walter Mondale.

Walter Mondale is correct.

Next toss up question.

What concept, which a Cornell West title says matters names a critical theory promoted by Kimberly Crenshaw, whose subjects include white supremacy, Central Catholic, or race?

Race is correct for your bonus.

What 19th century Swedish dramatist who feuded with Henrik Ibsen, was or has been criticized for his negative portrayal of women in plays such as Miss Julie.

That.

August Strindberg is a correct answer.

Next, toss up what novel?

In which a racing accident fatally injures frail, frail.

The horse of Count Vronsky is named for an adulterous woman and is by Leo Tolstoy.

Go ahead.

Central Catholic, Anna Karenina.

Anna Karenina is correct for your bonus.

Alkali metals have a relatively low value.

For what quantity?

The energy needed to remove an electron from a neutral atom.

Oxidation.

That's incorrect.

Ionization energy is the correct answer.

Next toss up.

What body of water was historically called Lake Sodom contains the mouth of the Jordan River, and is a middle eastern sea with very high Central Catholic.

The Dead Sea.

The Dead Sea is correct, and it has very high salt levels.

For your bonus book, businessmen appointed Linda Yuka Reno as CEO of a tech company he purchased for $44 billion in 2022 and then rebranded in 2023.

Elon Musk.

Elon Musk is correct.

And the company we're talking about is Twitter, which was changed over to X.

Next toss up question.

What force is caused by features called a spirit?

TS has kinetic and static types is decreased using Palmerton friction.

Friction is correct.

It's decreased using lubricants since it opposes motion.

For your bonus, what national park whose highest point of Clemens Dome was renamed Couuty in 2024, is in a mountain range shared by Tennessee and North Carolina.

Smoky mountains.

Can you be a little more specific?

Smoky Mountain National Park.

Great smoky.

Judges, what do we think?

No, unfortunately we can't.

So you had to include Great Smoky Mountains National Park or Great Smoky Mountains was acceptable.

Sorry.

Palmerton.

Next tossup.

What country?

Where thousands of Jews were arrested in the veld of roundup was governed by Philip Patton under its Nazi Palmerton.

Vichy.

France.

Michi France is correct.

And it was governed under its puppet Nazi Vichy regime.

For your bonus, what form of electromagnetic radiation, which can be produced by the decay of atomic nuclei, is of a shorter wavelength than X-rays?

Gamma rays, gamma rays.

Gamma rays is correct.

Next tossup question.

What five letter word denotes a type of water mixed with quinine.

The home note of a musical scale.

Permitted.

Tonic.

Tonic is correct.

It's, as we mentioned, a home of musical scale and as part of a cocktail, often paired with gin and tonic for a bonus.

What Mexican revolutionary led the 1960 raid on Columbus, New Mexico, after losing a power struggle to Vinny Stefano Carranza?

Pancho Villa.

Pancho Villa.

Pancho Villa is correct.

Next toss up question what particles which are studied by the T, two K and super candy experiments are near massless pheromones.

Go ahead.

Central electrons.

That is incorrect for Palmerton massless fermions with a name meaning little neutral ones Alexander or Cassandra.

Neutrons.

That is also incorrect.

It's neutrinos is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What boy who takes a map from the C chest of the recently deceased Billy Bones is a protagonist of Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island.

Go ahead.

Palmerton.

Tom Sawyer.

That's incorrect.

Over to Central Catholic.

No conferring, but it is a freebie now.

No conferring that.

Go ahead.

Matthew.

Billy, no!

Jim Hawkins is the correct answer.

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

Central Catholic.

You'll get to pick between the following topics state parks or Canada?

Oh, I don't know.

Not state parks in the national parks.

Quickly map.

And state parks.

State parks.

It is central Catholic.

For your second lightning round topic you have state parks.

What states are home to these state parks?

Boston Harbor Island, Massachusetts, correct.

Galveston Island.

Texas.

Correct.

Harry S Truman near it's city of Warsaw, Missouri.

Correct.

Jack London.

Home and ranch in Sonoma County, Alaska.

Incorrect.

Alleghany Islands, New York.

Incorrect.

Myrtle beach.

South Carolina.

Correct.

UGA Lake near the town of Seneca Falls.

New York.

Correct.

Tombstone courthouse, home to a replica gallows.

Connecticut.

Incorrect.

Franconia notch in its White Mountains.

Patch starved rock where numerous canyons were created by a flood known as the Kankakee Torrents.

Arizona.

It's incorrect.

Illinois is a correct answer to that last one.

Okay, Farmington, your topic is Canada.

Answer the following about Canada.

It's Prime Minister.

Trudeau.

Correct.

Tree whose leaf appears on the Canadian maple leaf.

Maple.

Correct.

It's capital.

Ottawa.

Correct.

Its largest territory.

Created in 1999.

Nunavut.

Correct.

Most populous city in Alberta.

Home to the NHL's flames.

Calgary.

Correct.

Canadian author of the novel Life of Pi.

Past best rodent depicted on Canada's five cent coin.

Beaver.

Correct.

Canada's largest island north of the Hudson Strait.

And across the island.

Incorrect.

Canadian singer songwriter who wrote Sisters of Mercy and Hallelujah.

Parson, its smallest province, led from Charlottetown.

P.E.I.. That's correct.

Or Prince Edward Island.

Nice job.

Levi knows a lot about Canada.

Excellent, excellent.

Okay, we will move on to the final quarter of the match for the following tossup question.

What big band or what band's first big hit, which was co-written by the lead singer Glenn Frey and titled Take It Easy, was followed by other such hits including Hotel California, Central Catholic.

The Eagles.

The Eagles is correct for your bonus.

The secretive fraternal organization was specifically targeted or excuse me, what secretive fraternal organization was specifically targeted by a third party that nominated William Wirt for president in 1832?

No.

No.

Nothing's.

That's incorrect.

The Freemasons is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What conflict?

Whose namesake was killed by John Alderman includes the Great Swamp Fight and was fought between colonists of a Wampanoag king.

Go ahead.

Central Catholic King Philip's War.

King Philip's War is correct for your bonus.

The Beehive Cluster is in what constellation, which is found between Gemini and Leo in the zodiac and represents a crustacean cancer.

That's correct.

Cancer.

Next tossup question.

In what state did Jim Justice enter a Senate race?

Palmer, West Virginia.

West Virginia is correct, and that was to replace the former Democrat Joe Manchin.

For your bonus, what Dutch driver won three straight Formula One world championships from 2021 to 2023, driving for Red Max Verstappen.

Max Verstappen is correct.

Next tossup question what device?

Which is you?

Which uses glass bulbs of varying densities for their Galileo type were invented by Daniel Fahrenheit.

Central Catholic.

Thermometer.

Thermometer is correct in they used to contain mercury.

For your bonus.

What majority Hindu island has its capital at Denpasar, lies directly east of Java in Indonesia, and is a popular tourist destination.

Sumatra.

That's incorrect.

Bali is the correct answer.

Next, toss up questions.

What city contains the Art Nouveau style?

Gellert baths is home to the Saint Genji Chain Bridge along the Danube River, and is the capital of Hungary.

Oh.

Budapest.

Budapest is correct.

And for your bonus, in 1541, what Spaniards travels around what is now the southeastern United States led him to becoming the first documented European to cross the Mississippi River.

Cortez.

Incorrect.

Hernando de Soto is a correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What poem describes a pallid bust of Pallas above?

A chamber door is named for a bird by.

Go ahead, Central Catholic.

The raven.

The raven is correct.

It was written by Edgar Allan Poe.

For your bonus, what English woman wrote about the rise and fall of Tudor statesman Thomas Cromwell in a trilogy of novels that began in 2009 with Wolf Hall.

Emily Dickinson.

Incorrect.

Hilary Mantel is a correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What class of medications, which include seafood, seafood, fluorine, and diethyl ether, are used during surgery to cause patients to lose.

Go ahead.

Emergency anesthetics are correct, and they cause patients lose sensation or consciousness for a bonus.

What businessman who owned the San Diego Padres in the 1970s bought the fast food company McDonald's in 1961 and drove its global expansion fast?

Ray Kroc is the correct answer.

Next tossup what artist who depicted himself in Saint Bartholomew's flayed skin in The Last Judgment painted God and Adam on the ceiling of this glade central Catholic?

Michelangelo.

Michelangelo is correct.

And he painted them on the Sistine Chapel.

For your bonus, what name was shared by the English king who resigned at the beginning of the 100 Years War, and by his eldest son, also the so-called Black Prince.

Edward.

Edward is correct.

Next tossup question.

What general?

Who won the battle of sea over.

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

Really great match between two great teams in this final round of eight.

No, unfortunately not your day.

Good luck with the rest of your school year.

Central Catholic congratulations, you are on to the final four teams.

I thank you for tuning in.

We'll see you next week on Pleasant Valley High School.

Faces off against Whitehall High School.

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