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Hello and welcome to the seventh match of the 51st season of Scholastic Scrimmage.

I'm your host, David Graff.

Today's match is between Allentown Central Catholic High School and Area High School.

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

At halftime, will pause for students to introduce themselves.

We'll get to know them a little bit better.

As a reminder, Scholastic Scrimmage requires rapid recall specific factual information as not necessarily indicative of academic training.

And now let's begin.

Buzzers.

Ready.

Here's our first toss up question.

And it's in math.

So pencil and paper ready as well.

What whole number is the resulting quotient?

When the square root of 48 is divided by the square root of three.

Go ahead.

Four four is correct for your bonus.

What central text of Rabbinic Judaism contains the Mishna, which sets down formal oral laws, and the camera, a body of commentary.

On the Torah.

That's incorrect.

The Talmud is a correct answer.

Next toss up question.

At what battle was was Johann Rall killed while fighting Americans who had crossed the Delaware River in 1776 to attack his army near New Jersey's capital, Central Catholic.

Battle of Trenton.

The Battle of Trenton is correct for your bonus.

What British royal officer died while leading the Terra Nova expedition, which reached the South Pole in January 1912.

Smith.

Incorrect.

Robert Scott is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What city?

Which is the least populous U.S.

state capital, is named after a city in France and is close to the Green Mountains.

Central Catholic Montpelier.

We take, Yeah, we'll take it.

Montpelier is the correct answer, and it's in central Vermont for your bonus.

In what country did Dick Scuf become prime minister in July 2024?

While his predecessor, Mark Ruta, became secretary general of NATO.

Belgium.

That's incorrect.

But you're in the right vicinity of Europe.

It's the Netherlands.

Next toss up question.

What author of The Structure of Distribution of Coral Reefs wrote a book drawing on his time on the HMS Beagle, entitled On the Go Ahead Panadol.

Darwin Charles Darwin is correct.

And that book was titled On the Origin of Species.

For your bonus, what type of stellar remnants are maintained by electron or by electron degeneracy pressure and must have masses no larger than the limit or Chandrasekhar limit?

Excuse me?

The Chandrasekhar limit.

Quarks.

Do it again.

Quarks.

Incorrect.

White dwarfs is the correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What company whose profits financed a mystery house in San Jose used the tagline the gun that won the West to sell its namesake repeating rifle.

Central Catholic.

Winchester.

Winchester is correct for your bonus.

In 2004, Iraqi born Zaha Hadid became the force, the first woman to win the Pritzker Prize in what artistic profession?

Sculpture.

Literature.

That is incorrect.

Architecture is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What mythological objects guarded by the dragon laden which happened?

Armies used to defeat Atalanta in a race grow on a tree in the garden of his.

Go ahead, Central Catholic.

Golden apple.

That is correct.

And they grow in the garden of his verities.

For bonus, what colorfully named mid-twentieth century travel guide detailed safe accommodations for black people in segregated areas of the United States.

The green book the Green Book is correct.

Next toss up question.

What compound which in the body is metabolized as catalase decomposes under UV light into two hydroxyl radicals and has the molecular formula H2 O. Hydrogen peroxide.

Hydrogen peroxide is correct, and its, formula is H2 O2.

For your bonus, what protein that catalyzes the carbon fixation step in the Calvin cycle.

In photosynthesis is believed to be the most abundant enzyme on Earth.

Which.

Rugby.

Say to go or you just start before the buzzer.

Rugby.

Now RuBisCO is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What leader who leads the party is tried, but failed to quash a 2025 pride festival in Bucharest as a far right prime minister.

Central Catholic.

Viktor Orban Viktor Orban is correct.

He's a far right prime minister of Hungary.

For your bonus, the Nikkei 225 is a stock market index that tracks a stock exchange based in what city looks.

Like New York City.

Incorrect.

The Nikkei is based out of Tokyo.

Next toss up question.

What city named a period of reform under Alexander Dubcek?

Slogan of socialism with a human face.

Before a 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.

That's the Prague Spring.

Next toss up question.

What author wrote about the fictional book the 26 Mount, or Malignant Gates in a novel about four Chinese families who play mahjong.

The Joy Luck Club pinochle ten.

Amy Tan is correct for your bonus.

What eight word question opens Shakespeare's 18th sonnet, which is addressed to a lovely and temperate person whose eternal nature shall not fade.

Into a summer's day.

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

That is correct.

And with that, we have reached the first lightning round in a pretty much coin toss was.

Determine the pinnacle.

You'll get to pick between the following topics.

Alternating ayes or Super Bowl MVP's.

Alternating ayes alternate.

So, you know any sports fans, right?

I can see that.

I got it.

All right.

Pinochle.

Alternating ayes.

It is.

Give these answers in which every other letter is an a country north of the United States.

Canada.

Correct.

World's largest hot desert singer.

Correct.

First name a former U.S.

Vice President.

Harris.

Kamala.

Correct.

The capital of Cuba.

Havana.

Correct.

Central American country bisected by a canal.

Panama.

Correct.

Indian epic about the husband of Sita.

Pass.

Latin percussion instrument, also called the rumba shaker.

Pass.

Buddhist school, whose name means great vehicle.

My honor or my high honor?

That is correct.

Long curved sword carried by samurai.

Katana.

Correct.

British pop group whose hits include cruel Summer and Venus.

ABBA.

You're correct.

That last one is Bananarama.

All right.

On to Central Catholic.

Your topic is Super Bowl MVP's.

Name the team for which these NFL players were named Super Bowl MVP's.

Patrick Mahomes.

Chiefs.

Correct.

Joe Montana.

40 Niners.

Correct.

Roger Staubach and Emmitt Smith.

Raiders.

Incorrect.

Tom Brady in 2021 for his fifth and final MVP honors.

Say it again.

Buccaneers.

Correct.

Peyton Manning.

Broncos.

Incorrect.

John Branch and Julian Edelman.

Patriots.

Correct.

Ray Lewis.

Ravens.

Correct.

Cooper.

Kupp.

Rams.

Correct.

Nick Foles.

Eagles.

Correct.

Bart.

Star.

The first winner.

Packers.

That is correct.

All right.

We'll continue on with the match with the following.

Toss up question.

What force has a residual form carried by pions that hold together atomic nuclei and is mediated by gluons and is more powerful than the weak force?

Central.

Catholic.

Strong force.

That is correct.

For your bonus scene, what country did U.S.

troops leave Clark Airbase after the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo?

Seattle.

Incorrect.

The country is the Philippines.

Next toss up question.

What puzzle can be solved using the CFO method?

Officially has its blue and green centers on opposing sides.

And go ahead.

Central Catholic.

Rubik's Cube or Rubik's Cube is correct, and it features six rotatable faces for your bonus.

What process, developed by a German scientist is used to produce ammonia from hydrogen and nitrogen?

Combustion.

Incorrect is the Haber Bosch process.

Next tossup question.

What brass instrument whose performers often place their hands in the bell while using it is highly.

Go ahead.

Central Catholic.

French horn A French horn is correct for your bonus.

What actress who both wrote and performed on the shows Big Mouth and Dickinson, won a 2024 Emmy for playing sous chef Sidney Adamu on the Bear.

Anne Hathaway.

That's incorrect.

Bio debris is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

In what country did Mohammed Naguib lead the Free Officers Movement coup that was suppressed by the autocratic presidency of Gamal Abdel Nasser?

Central Catholic.

Egypt.

Egypt is correct for your bonus.

What city was the site of Bloody Sunday?

A 1905 massacre of peaceful demonstrators outside of the Winter Palace.

Saint Petersburg?

Saint Petersburg is correct.

Next toss up question.

What British author, who may have died in a bar fight, praised Helen of Troy as the face that launched a thousand ships in his play Doctor Faustus?

Christopher Marlowe is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What song whose second verse opens?

I'm cliche.

Who cares?

Has a bridge that ends with the scream.

I told you so.

And it's a 2024 hit by Chapel Road an hour ago.

Good luck babe.

Good luck babies.

Correct.

For your bonus, what tournament held on the same day as the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup is a tournament for Concacaf soccer that was that was won by Mexico, who beat the U.S.

2 to 1.

The Gold Cup.

The Gold Cup is correct.

Next toss up question is in math.

Pencil on paper.

Ready?

What is the largest two digit number?

That is a multiple of four.

Given that 100 itself is divisible by four.

Central Catholic 9696 is correct.

For your bonus, in 2020, five, Bedouins clashed with Syrians, swayed a region with what?

17 religious group that broke from Shia Islam in 1015.

Shia.

That is incorrect.

The Druze is the group that broke away.

And with that, we've reached halftime.

We have an actual match underway.

Central Catholic currently leads with a score of 160.

Tip in Orgill's 105.

And now I'll take a moment to have the students introduce themselves with their first name, last name, and grade level.

And the answer to the following question.

What was your favorite book or short story or poem that you were assigned to read in school that ended up being one of your favorites?

Central Catholic go ahead.

I'm James Brannock.

I'm a senior.

I guess my favorite book that I've been assigned would be, Macbeth.

Okay, I'm Matthew Alvarado.

I'm a senior, and my favorite would be the outsiders.

I'm Jim langan, I'm a senior, and my favorite would be One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

My name is Cooper Thompson.

I'm a senior, and I think I would concur with Jim.

Okay.

All right.

We'll go ahead.

I'm at the Nasdaq of I'm a senior.

And my I really enjoyed Animal Farm.

Okay.

I'm alma mater.

I'm also a senior.

And I would say To Kill a mockingbird.

My name is Peyton Duvall.

I'm a senior and I would say the things they carried.

Okay.

My name is Angie Benjamin.

I'm a sophomore and I would say The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

All right.

Excellent.

We'll continue on with the following toss up question.

What Chinese dynasty, whose rule was interrupted by Wu's return, faced a 755 rebellion led by an Lushan that was succeeded by the song dynasty.

Go ahead.

Central Catholic Tang dynasty, Tang dynasty or Tang Dynasty is correct.

For bonus in probability theory, the normal distribution is sometimes named after what German mathematician.

In Euler, incorrect Carl Gauss is a correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What river, which forms from the Lou Loblaw River in Biopharma Falls, separates Brownsville from Kinshasa, the capital of, or the capitals of two namesake African countries.

Central Catholic and the Congo.

Congo River is correct for your bonus.

What sandstone formation in Australia's Northern Territory lies east of the Juta, and is considered sacred to the Aboriginal people.

Uluru.

Willie Roo is correct.

Next tossup question.

Michael Collins stayed in the command module during what mission featuring the great Central Catholic Apollo 11.

Apollo 11 is correct, and it's during which Neil Armstrong landed on the moon.

For your bonus, what 1976 novel, subtitled The Saga of an American Family, depicts an 18th century slave name.

Kunta Kinte.

Uncle Tom's cabin.

Incorrect roots is the correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What psychologist who wrote the utopian novel Walden two and studied reinforced.

Go ahead.

Penn.

Skinner.

B.F.

Skinner is correct.

And he used the namesake box in his experiments for your bonus.

What effect does an electron get ejected from the surface of a metal after the metal is hit by incident light of sufficient frequency?

Ionization.

Incorrect.

The photoelectric effect is the correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What country whose first postwar president was Karl Renner was governed by the Fatherland Front until Germany annexed it during the English.

Central.

Catholic.

Austria.

Austria is correct for your bonus.

What artist of the Spanish Renaissance painted the burial of the Count of Gorgas?

El Greco El Greco is correct.

Next toss up question.

What poet described one clear call in crossing the bar, and depicted the tidal group entering the Valley of Death in the charge of the Light Brigade.

Correct answer is Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

Next toss up question.

What self?

Dual platonic solid, also referred to as three simplex, is a pyramid with six edges and four equilateral triangles as its faces.

Tetrahedron is the correct answer.

Next tossup question.

Zach Gallon was a 2025 Opening Day starting pitcher for what MLB team, which lost to the Texas Rangers in the 2023 World Series, and the team plays in Phoenix Central Catholic.

Arizona Diamondbacks.

Arizona Diamondbacks is correct for your bonus.

Two American scientists conducted, what, 1887 experiment that used an interferometer in an attempt to detect a phase shift due to the so-called ether.

Thompson.

Incorrect.

It's a Michelson-Morley experiment.

Next toss up question.

What tration board man escaped the more mellow training at Capua and was defeated by Marcus when Phineas Grotius, after leading a slave revolt against Rome.

Pinochle.

Spartacus.

Spartacus is correct for your bonus.

What state gave rise to Supreme Court cases on fighting words in Brandenburg and the exclusionary rule in BAP, as well as Youngstown Sheet and Tube.

Ohio.

Ohio is correct.

Next tossup question.

What poet wrote about people who, reaping their sowing and went there, came in.

Anyone lived in a pretty small town which features unusual capitalization.

That poet is e cummings.

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

Central Catholic.

You'll get to pick between the following topics.

Your topics are.

Epic authors or first ladies.

First ladies.

First ladies.

It is.

Central Catholic.

Your topic is first ladies.

Name these United States first ladies.

The last name is sufficient.

Barack Obama's first secretary of State.

Clinton.

Correct.

Married Greek millionaire Aristotle Onassis after her husband died.

Has helped save a portrait of George Washington during the War of 1812.

Has lost her son Willie during the Civil War.

Lincoln.

Correct.

Founded the namesake center to help people recover from alcoholism.

Chaired the UN Commission on Human Rights.

Roosevelt.

Correct.

The first to live in the white House.

Adams.

Correct.

Campaign to beautify the federal highway system.

Eisenhower.

Incorrect.

Refused to serve alcohol at the white House and became known as lemonade.

Lucy Nelson.

Wilson.

Incorrect.

The most recent First lady to pass away in 2023.

And that was Rosalynn Carter.

Cape Girardeau.

You have epic authors given an epic and it's credited author named the modern day country where the author was born.

The Divine comedy.

Dante Alighieri.

Italy.

Correct.

Paradise lost.

John Milton.

England.

Yes.

The song of Hiawatha.

Henry.

Wadsworth.

Longfellow.

United States.

Correct.

Rosalind and Ludmilla.

Alexander.

Pushkin.

Russia.

Correct.

The Odyssey a modern sequel.

Nicholas Kazan teaches Greek.

Greece.

Correct.

The gaucho epic Martin Ferreiro by Jose Hernandez.

Spain.

Incorrect.

The Kavala by Elias Law.

Correct.

Right.

Reference.

Incorrect.

The Lucy ads by Louis De.

Cameos.

France.

Incorrect.

The Old Norse saga.

Heim.

Krigsman.

By snoring by.

Excuse me, Snorri Sterlingfm.

Norway.

That is incorrect.

The Shinobi by Ferdowsi.

That was Iran.

That's the last one.

All right, we start the final quarter.

The match with the following toss up question.

What newspaper?

Whose 2025 plan to refocus on personal liberties and free markets sparked resignations?

It's also owned by Jeff Bezos and published in water.

Go ahead.

Central Catholic, New York Times that is incorrect and published in DC.

This is a freebie for you.

Order.

Do I have an object in post?

The Washington Post is correct.

For your bonus, the page of soil can be increased by adding powder made from what?

Pulverized sedimentary rock that is made up of calcium carbonate.

Quartz.

Incorrect.

Limestone.

We have a lot of limestone in this area.

It's why we have sinkholes all over the place.

Next toss up question.

What transition metal, which is found in vitamin B12 and a namesake blue pigment, is ferromagnetic, like iron and nickel, and has the atomic symbol.

Central Catholic.

Cobalt.

Cobalt is correct, and its atomic symbol is c o. For your bonus, what German Enlightenment philosopher whose dental logical ethics include his categorical imperative, wrote critique of pure reason.

The correct answer is Immanuel Kant.

Next toss up question.

What author of the historical novel Salaam Bo described a young provincial woman's affair with the rakish, rolled off Balenciaga in Madame Bovary.

An ideal Flaubert.

Flaubert is correct.

For your bonus.

A Street in Bronzeville is a poetry collection by what?

Author from Chicago who wrote the poem We Real Cool?

Brooks.

Gwendolyn Brooks is also correct.

Next toss up question.

What event, which the Immortal Seven advocated for, was a relatively peaceful transfer of power from England's James the Second to William and Mary, Central Catholic.

The Glorious Revolution.

The Glorious Revolution is correct.

And for your bonus, it's in math.

So pencil and paper ready?

What is what number is equivalent to both?

15% of 205 and also 205% of 15.

32.

That is incorrect.

30.75 is a correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What connective tissue produced by Conder Sites has a translucent, hydrolyzed variety that forms much of the nose and is more flexible than bone.

Central Catholic cartilage cartilage is correct.

For your bonus.

What mythological figure fed his son Pelops to the gods, leading to a punishment in which he stands in a pool, unable to reach food or drink.

Tantalus.

Tantalus.

Tantalus is correct.

And that's where we get the verb tantalize from.

Next toss up question what doctrine which Tertullian named or Izium rejects, is the Christian belief that God exists as father, son, and holy Spirit.

Central.

Catholic.

The Trinity.

The Trinity is correct.

These questions are completely random.

I swear to the audience for the bonus.

What dramatist described a grim apartment building visited by arcade holds in the Ghost Sonata, and wrote about a strong willed countess in Miss Julie.

And that is the end of the match.

August Strindberg is a correct answer to that, but unfortunately, with 185 points, not quite enough today.

Good luck with the rest of your school year.

Allentown Central Catholic, congratulations, you are on to the second round.

Thank you for watching.

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