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Hello and welcome to the 10th match of the 51st season of Scholastic Scrimmage.

I'm your host, David Graff.

Today's match is between Petoskey High School and Saucon Valley High School.

The natural be composed of two halves with a lightning round midway through each half at half time 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 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 art form mastered by John Y. Naka makes use of Academy clay.

Small Asami Shears, and typically shallow pots to cultivate.

Go ahead.

Katsura.

Bonsai.

Bonsai is correct.

It's to cultivate miniature trees for your bonus.

What term?

Which refers to a two person dance, exemplified by a wedding scene in the ballet.

A Coppelia is literally meaning step of two.

It literally means step of two.

Tango incorrect pas de deux or perdido is a correct answer.

Next tossup question what figure?

Who is punished for depicting Zeus's sexual crimes on a tapestry?

Go ahead, Saucon Valley.

Sorry, arachnid.

Arachnid is correct.

She lost the contest to Athena with subsequent turned into a spider for your bonus.

According to Vesper theory, what geometry is taken by molecules such as p f3 with a central atom with one lone pair and bonds to three atoms.

Tetrahedral tetrahedral.

That is incorrect.

It's a trigonal, pyramidal or.

Yeah, pyramidal.

Trigonal pyramidal is the correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What poem?

Noting the port is near the bells.

I hear the peak.

Go ahead, Saucon Valley.

Oh, captain.

My captain, that is correct.

And it's Walt Whitman's ode to Abraham Lincoln for your bonus.

Skunk hour is a poem by what?

20th century American author who wrote about a statue of Robert Gould Shaw in his poem For the Union Dead.

No.

James Joyce.

Incorrect.

Robert Lowell is a correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What scientist who died of a plastic anemia in 19 kind of rock.

What?

Marie Curie Marie Curie is correct.

And she co-discovered polonium.

For your bonus, over 7 million World War Two veterans used the education benefits offered by, what, 19 nine 1944 law designed to support returning service members.

GI Bill, that is correct.

My dad was one of those who was able to get his master's degree at West Virginia due to the GI Bill.

Next toss up question what man, whose daughter Anna feuded over child psychology with Melanie Klein, advanced the concept of super ego and founded Go Ahead, Saucon Valley.

Sigmund Freud Sigmund Freud is correct, and he founded psychoanalysis for your bonus.

What God had a priestess known as God's Wife, was worshiped with his wife moot in Thebes, and was often synchronized with the sun god RA.

Autumn or moon is a correct answer.

Next toss up question what food with poem, mochi and chocolate headlight varieties is a deep fried treat, often in the shape of a Taurus that is sold by Krispy Kreme.

Good Saucon Valley Donut A donut is correct for your bonus.

What novel by Esther Forbes, set during the Revolutionary War, follows a young man whose hand is mangled while working as a silversmiths apprentice.

Thomas Truman, unfortunately, gave the wrong first name.

It's Johnny Tremain, it's the correct sorry.

Next toss up question.

What country which has been dominated by the People's Action Party.

Go ahead, talkin Valley.

Singapore.

Singapore is correct.

And the city state on the Malay Peninsula for your bonus.

What's takes?

Cayuga Lake, one of its Finger Lakes, is near the town of Seneca Falls, New York.

New York is correct.

Next toss up question.

A synthesis is one type of what structures that become inflamed in arthritis and have ball and sock.

Greg Cassar for joints a joint is correct and they include the shoulder and the elbow for your bonus.

What electrical circuit components, which have parallel plate types, store charge and electric potential energy.

Capacitors is a correct answer.

Next toss up question what poem which vowels will take a cup of kindness yet was set down in 1788 by Robert Burns in Scots dialect.

Great kind of aqua.

Ozymandias.

That is incorrect.

I'll continue for Saucon Valley and his son.

Go ahead, talk a valid link sign.

That is correct.

It's sung at midnight on New Year's Eve for your bonus.

The Parliament that Oliver Cromwell overthrew in 1653 was given what nickname?

Because it was a remnant of the Long Parliament government.

Well.

At the Commonwealth of England.

Incorrect.

The Rump Parliament is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What African city, whose amfAR hotel hosted a 1943 Allied conference, is the setting of a 1942 film starring Humphrey Bogart.

Go ahead.

Castaway.

Casablanca Casablanca is correct, and it's a port in Morocco.

For your bonus in 2024, what state replaced its flag, which had an insensitive depiction of a Native American man with one that features two fields of blue and a white star?

Mississippi.

Incorrect.

Minnesota is the correct answer.

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

It was determined in a pre-match coin toss that Saucon Valley would be selected first between the following topics.

Elements of Shakespearean drama or Babylon.

Babylon.

Babylon.

It is stock valley.

Your first lightning round topic is Babylon.

Answer the following about Babylon and the Babylonian empires.

Ancient wonder in Babylon.

Garden.

Correct.

Present day country home to its ruins.

Iraq.

Correct.

Empire that conquered Babylon under Cyrus the Great.

I came into the empire.

That is correct.

King who decreed a namesake Babylonian law code.

Rob.

That is correct.

Wedge.

Mark.

Writing systems used in battle.

Cuneiform.

Correct.

Macedonian conqueror who died in Babylon in 323 BC Alexander the Great, that is correct.

Group exiled in the Babylonian captivity.

The Jews correct love goddess who named a blue gate in Babylon.

Ishtar, correct.

King who consulted the prophet Daniel.

Nebuchadnezzar the third year.

Yeah.

We won't take that just because the pronunciation of the second sorry above.

So shrine cap, step pyramid common near Babylon.

Ziggurat.

That is correct.

It was Nebuchadnezzar the second.

You said the third one that was.

Okay.

Kind of talk like your topic is elements of Shakespearean drama.

Answer the following about the plays of William Shakespeare term he used for jesters.

If you don't know it, you can pass at either century.

Shakespeare wrote in 16 correct third main genre of his plays alongside comedy and history.

Tragedy.

Correct.

A monologue spoken by a character alone on stage.

Soliloquy.

Correct.

Five foot poetic meter of most of his verses.

Sonnet.

Incorrect number of acts in each of his plays or scene.

Most of his play.

Three incorrect round London theater.

He helped build.

Pass term for non poetic non verse dialog.

Pass is only three part play.

Part scene.

Ending stage direction indicating to everyone.

Exit.

Pass.

Exalts with the last one.

All right.

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

What primary founder of the Kanto Way, Seas Way Seaway was imprisoned for 27 years on Robben Island and then go ahead, talk about Nelson Mandela.

Nelson Mandela is correct.

He then became the first black president of South Africa for a bonus in chemistry.

Many metals have what property of being able to compress into thin sheets, which sometimes overlaps with the trait of ductile of ductility.

Malleability.

Malleability is correct.

Next toss up is in math pencil and paper ready?

What is the least common multiple of 11 and 12?

Given the gift guide?

Saucon Valley 130 to 132 is correct for your bonus.

What Soviet author described brutal labor camps in his nonfiction series The Gulag Archipelago and in his novel and his novella One Day in the Life of Evan.

Tradition.

Bitch?

No.

For Ivan Savage, the Story of ski.

No.

Solzhenitsyn is the correct answer.

Next tossup question what play in which the word absent is preferred to Dead by Estelle depicts three souls who are locked in a room in hell and is by Jean-Paul Sartre.

No exit is the play next tossup question.

What 16th century ruler who patronized the Nine Gems artists, was known for his religious tolerance during his long reign as the Great Mogul Emperor Saucon Valley Akhbar.

Akhbar is correct for your bonus.

What devices may exploit the resonant frequency of rubidium 87 or cesium 133 to establish a time standard chronometer with a on the clock time clock.

Atomic clock.

An atomic clock is correct.

Next toss up question what film character voiced by Janet Davis is copied to create the villain Amelia and was built by Gemma to be her daughter's companion, robot Soccer Valley Megan Megan is correct and was to be her daughter's companion.

Robot doll for a bonus, what professor of history at Harvard received a post humanist Pulitzer Prize in 1919 for a memoir about his education.

Toni Morrison incorrect Henry Adams is a correct answer.

Next toss up question what process named a bath of liquid nitrogen rapidly occurs when a piece of metal work is quenched and decreases an object's temperature ahead.

Cat Issaquah.

Cooling cooling is correct for your bonus in 2025.

What office's current holder, Tenzin Gyatso, disputed that the Chinese government has any right to pick his reincarnated successor, Dalai Lama?

The Dalai Lama is correct.

Next toss up question what novel in which a red weed is spread by the tripod invaders who later succumb to ahead cats.

Aqua.

War of the worlds.

The War of the worlds is correct.

It was written by H.G.

Wells about a martian attack.

For a bonus, Little Girl in a Blue Armchair is a painting by what American woman who, after moving to France, frequently depicted mothers with their children.

Past Mary Cassatt is a correct answer.

Next tossup question what former Tennessee governor won the Battle of San Jacinto against Mexican forces several weeks before he became the first president of Texas?

Go ahead, Saucon Valley Taylor incorrect over two cats.

Aqua freebie, but no conferring.

Is a city named after Sam Houston.

We have reached halftime.

We have a great match underway.

Saucon Valley currently leads quarter soccer with a score of 165 to 90.

Now all the students introduce themselves with their first name, last name, grade level and the answer to the following question.

What is your favorite book or poem or short story that you were assigned to read for school that you ended up really enjoying?

So we'll start with Desmond Cat Issaquah.

Go ahead.

Doesn't Murray freshman hound of the Baskervilles.

Leonard Murray, senior Mice and men Kevin McGuigan, senior.

Who is LeBron James?

Dylan McGauran, senior and Autobiography of Negroes.

Izuku okay.

Stuck in Valley.

Go ahead, step on confusion.

Senior.

To kill a mockingbird.

Rampersad.

Junior.

Fahrenheit 451.

Alex Murawski, senior.

Into the Wild.

Okay.

Max Brasco.

Freshman.

The Divine Comedy.

All right.

Excellent.

We continue the match with the following toss up question.

This is in math, so pencil and paper ready?

What is the slope of a line that is perpendicular to the line defined by the equation y equals four x plus.

Go ahead Saucon Valley.

Negative one fourth.

Negative one fourth.

And you got two for the equation.

Even dummies plus nine.

And the equation for your bonus.

What process in which water evaporates from the surface of plant leaves helps pull water up from roots.

Transpiration transpiration transpiration is correct.

Next toss up question what defendant was subject of testimony by Kid Cutie and Casey Ventura going cat Issaquah Sean Diddy Combs yes.

Sean Puff Daddy Combs is correct for your bonus.

Don't deal with the devil.

It's the subtitle of what notoriously difficult 2017?

Go ahead.

Cuphead.

Cuphead is correct.

We're able to beat it.

Have you played it?

No, I can't, I can't see past the second island.

Onto the next tossup question.

What musician, whose wife Alice was a member of his classic quartet, was a jazz saxophonist whose albums include Blue Train and A Love Supreme.

Go ahead.

Kind of awkward.

Coltrane John Coltrane is correct for bonus.

What constitutional amendment ratified in 1804, requires the Electoral College cast separate but distinct ballots for both president and vice president.

19 oh, that is the 12th amendment.

What man signed a bill repealing the Reedy Creek Improvement Act targeting Disney and enacted the don't go ahead cast?

Aqua Ron DeSantis.

Ron DeSantis is correct.

Your bonuses in math.

Pencil and paper.

Ready in simplified radical form.

What product results from multiplying the square root of three by the square root of 21?

Go ahead three root seven three.

Root seven is correct.

Next toss up question what events which can occur in destructive megathrust variants?

Year two Greg has aqua earthquakes.

Earthquakes is correct.

Yes.

Your subduction zones is measured by a Richter scale for your bonus.

What poem, which uses the phrase fatal engine to describe a scissor blade, is a mock epic about a thief of Belinda's hair, written by Alexander Pope.

Pass.

That would be the rape of the Loch.

Next toss up question.

What sea contains the All India Islands is has arms like the Gulf.

Okay.

Go ahead.

Saucon Valley, Baltic Sea, the Baltic Sea is correct and borders both Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania.

For your bonus, the composer Johann Strauss Jr is hailed the king of what musical form that became a craze in the 19th century?

Lieder, incorrect waltzes.

Next tossup question.

What poem?

Who speaker has dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before?

Features a bird that sits on a pallid bust of palace and says government, it's like a valley.

The raven.

The raven is correct, he says.

Nevermore for bonus.

In hexadecimal notation, what letter denotes the highest possible digit f?

F is correct and represents 15.

Next toss up question what ionic compound is found in the mineral?

Halite is dissolved.

Go ahead, Saucon Valley.

Sodium chloride.

Sodium chloride is correct and it seasoning in a form of table salt.

Uses seasoning for bonus.

What West German chancellor served from 1969 to 1974, during which he sought improve relations with Eastern Bloc countries through his politique.

Willy Brandt yes, Julie Brandt is correct.

Next tossup question what battle which followed the discovery of the Special Order of 191 by George Gregg.

Catus.

Aqua.

Antietam.

The Battle of Antietam is correct for bonus.

The second team in the company name AT&T stood for.

What technology or stands for what technology?

Which was dominated by Western Union for most of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Telegraph.

Telegraph or telegram is correct.

Next tossup question what philosopher who described the state of nature as nasty, brutish and short argued for an absolute sovereign in his 19 three.

In his 1651 book Leviathan, in 1651 book Leviathan.

Thomas Hobbes is a correct answer.

Next toss up question what Midwestern city, which is home to a streetcar system known as the hop, as well as Marquette University, great Cass Aqua Chicago incorrect and is the most populous city in Wisconsin.

Saucon Valley Milwaukee Milwaukee is correct.

Your bonus is in math.

Pencil on paper.

Ready?

What is the area of a square whose diagonals each have a length of four?

Eight.

Eight is correct.

And with that we have reached the second lightning round.

Catus Aqua.

You get to pick between the following topics.

Nordic words or yellow, yellow, yellow.

It is catus.

Aqua.

Your second lightning round topic is yellow.

Give these answers related to the color yellow.

British band that same play say it again Coldplay.

Incorrect 1898 War encouraged by yellow journalism about the USS Spanish-American War.

Correct.

Greedy yellow cap rival of Mario while we o eat.

Warrior.

Warrior is correct.

Yellow golden flowers in William Wordsworth I wander lonely as a cloud.

Sunflower.

Incorrect yellow character in a board game.

Clue.

Mustard.

Correct.

Yellow headwear that names a rebellion against the Han Dynasty.

Past.

Yellow clad member of the X-Men with adamantium claws.

Wolverine correct band that released the 2000 song Yellow Gold.

Correct country whose 1986 People's Power Revolution or Yellow Revolution ousted Ferdinand Marcos.

Philippines.

Correct fish whose yellow fin variety is used in sashimi.

Puffer fish.

Incorrect.

The last one was tuna.

Okay, Saucon Valley, your topic is Nordic words.

Give these English words that originated in Norse or Scandinavian languages a heavy mist, fog.

Correct short rod used for magic spells.

Wand correct a baby goose.

Starling.

Incorrect.

Caribou.

Moose.

Incorrect.

Exceptional detective.

Sleuth.

Correct.

Wire headed kitchen tool used to aerate liquids.

Whisk correct dye derived from lichens.

Used in acid based tests.

A pass marine mammal with a single spiraling tusk.

The narwhal.

Correct.

Leftover grit at the bottom of a cup.

Refuse the incorrect lattice of thin, interwoven twigs often used to make furniture mesh.

Incorrect.

It's wicker I no idea.

Term wicker came from Norse language.

Okay, we serve the final quarter of the match with the following toss up question.

What Queen, who is implicated in the affair of the diamond necklace, was executed by guillotine socket Valley Marie Antoinette Marie Antoinette is correct and she was executed alongside her husband Louis the 16th for your bonus.

Alex Borstein won two Emmys for playing talent manager Susie Meyers on what Prime Video show it starred Rachel Brosnahan as the title 1950s comedian.

Marvelous Mrs.

Maisel The Marvelous Mrs.

Maisel is correct.

Next tossup question Rene Larnach invented what medical device that now utilizes a diaphragm to improve auscultation, the practice of detecting the bodies internal.

Sounds good.

Talking Valley stethoscope.

Stethoscope is correct for your bonus.

The football huddle originated at what university in Washington, D.C., named after a co-founder of the American School for the deaf.

Jefferson Jefferson.

Incorrect.

It's Gallaudet University was developed by their quarterback, Paul Hubbard.

So they wouldn't steal the signs they were getting from the sideline.

Next toss up question what water or what body of water borders the cities of Qi, sumo and in Tiba is divided between Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania.

Great Saucon Valley, Lake Victoria Lake Victoria is correct.

Yes.

It's the largest lake in Africa.

For your bonus, what French colony, which was centered on Canada's modern day maritime provinces, was conquered by the British in 1710.

In Queen Anne's War in Nova Scotia.

Incorrect.

Acadia is the correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What river?

Which Mayor and Hidalgo supported reopening for swimmers in 2020?

Go ahead.

Saucon Valley The Sun the sun is correct and was used as a venue for the triathlon in the 2024 Olympics.

For your bonus in 2025.

What NFL teams largest salary cap hits include now retired tackle Ryan Rim Chick and five time Pro Bowl running back who is not retired.

Alvin Kamara.

The Florida Dolphins that is incorrect.

The New Orleans Saints is a correct answer.

Plasmodium passes through what structures whose secondary type contain lignin and is a rigid barrier of cellulose.

Saucon Valley Saba.

So walls is correct of those and it's found between plant cells for your bonus.

What planet rotates on its axis once every 243 Earth days, which is more slowly than it revolves around the sun?

Venus.

Neptune.

Incorrect.

Venus is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What project?

Which was completed when Leland Stanford drove in a golden spike in Utah.

Saucon Valley, transcontinental railroad.

That is correct.

And that was in 1869.

A lot of trains run directly across the US for your bonus.

What African country's military is currently fighting against the offensive or is currently fighting against the offensive, which was launched in June 2025 by the jihadist group al-Shabab.

Additionally, Sudan and South Sudan, Sudan?

That is incorrect.

Somalia is the correct answer.

Next tossup question what country?

Whose city of Charleroi is the most populous in its Wallonia region, was home?

Go ahead, Jim, say it again.

Belgium.

Belgium is correct.

It was home to painter René Magritte.

For a bonus.

For years, Cato the Elder would end all public speeches with what?

Call to destroy what city?

Even when his speech had nothing to do with war.

Carthage Carthage is correct.

Next toss up question what physicist names the main equation governing non-relativistic quantum wavefunctions and a thought experiment?

Good talking Valley.

Schrodinger.

Schrodinger is correct.

And it was a thought experiment about a possibly alive or dead cat.

What does one say?

I think it's one of the best matches we've had yet.

Almost every question answered.

Excellent job to both teams.

Unfortunately, Cats soccer with 195 points.

Not quite enough, but good luck with the rest of your school year.

Saucon Valley, congratulations, you are on to the second round.

I thank you for watching.

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