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

I'm your host, David Graff.

Today's match is between Deering High School, who won the tournament the first year scrimmage aired in 1975, and their opponent is Catoosa High School.

They've got to make a final.

But perhaps the 50th year is your year.

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

Each half at half time will cause the students to introduce themselves.

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

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

And now let's begin.

Buzzers.

Ready?

Here's our first toss up question.

What body of water receives the shot?

Al-Arab River system is connected to the Gulf of Oman by the Strait of Hormuz.

Kind of aqua Persian Gulf.

The Persian Gulf is correct.

And it is southwest of Iran.

For your bonus.

What country whose monarch is called the Dragon King is home to many Buddhist structures in its capital of Temple.

Nepal.

That is incorrect.

It's Bhutan.

And the hint there is they have a dragon that goes across their flag.

Next tossup question.

What painting featured a lute?

Next to a globe includes an anamorphic skull and is a double portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger, depicting diplomats.

That painting is the ambassador's next toss up question.

In what city's 2023 mayoral race did Paul Byas lose to Progressive Brandon Johnson after helping unseat its first black woman leader, Lori Lightfoot?

Kind of aqua Chicago.

Chicago is correct.

If you ever fly out of Abby, a common connection is through Chicago O'Hare airport.

For your bonus.

British physician William Withering popularized the use of digitalis, a drug used to treat what condition of abnormal electrical patterns in the heart.

Cardiac arrhythmias.

Arrhythmias, or cardiac arrhythmias is correct.

Next, toss up.

What object launched in 1957 from the Baikonur?

How to one.

Sputnik one is correct.

And it was built by the Soviet Union for your bonus.

Goats are often sacrificed when people consult the Pythia at what temple dedicated to Apollo.

The pantheon.

That is incorrect.

The Oracle of Delphi is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What emperor built the Golden House or Domas area in the aftermath of the A.D. 64 Great Fire of Rome, during which he is said to have fiddled.

Get us Aqua.

Nero.

Nero is correct for your bonus.

What playwright who wrote Homebody Kabul made the Aids crisis the background for supernatural events in his two part play, Angels in America.

The correct answer is Tony Kushner.

Next toss up question what author who depicted the death of socialite Lily Bart in the novel the House of mirth, wrote about Ellen Walensky in The Age of Innocence.

Edith Wharton is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What city whose neighborhoods include Anacostia, Adams, Morgan, and Foggy Bottom, is circled by the Capital County's Aqua Boston.

That is incorrect.

I'll continue for dear.

Life is circled by the Capital Beltway and is on the Potomac River.

Near Baltimore.

That is also incorrect.

But you're closer.

It's Washington, D.C. is the correct answer.

Next tossup question what ingredient, which is used to color Coca Cola and is the source of fluoride, is made by heating sugars in a namesake process that turns it off.

Carmel Carmel is correct for your bonus.

In 2024, the European Space Agency's BepiColombo probe had a glitch and route to what planet visited in 2011 by NASA's Messenger probe.

Jupiter.

That is incorrect.

Mercury is the correct answer.

And that glitch actually caused a misfire in their thrusters, which in space threw them off by 11 months from their deadline.

Next, toss up what Civil War general who supposedly declared war is hell.

Use scorched earth tactics.

Sherman William Tecumseh Sherman is correct, and he used scorched earth tactics when he was headed to Savannah, Georgia, in his March to the sea for a bonus.

What activist became the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, honoring a settlement house she created in Chicago called whole House.

Greta Thunberg.

That's incorrect.

Jane Addams is the correct answer.

Next toss up question what particles are the two main products of exploration?

Sources are made up of an up quark and two down quarks, and whose protons form and atom's nucleus.

Durham.

Neutrons.

Neutrons is correct for your bonus.

According to Vesper theory, what molecular geometry is exhibited by the tri atomic molecule carbon dioxide.

Chemistry.

Isn't it?

Triangle.

That is incorrect.

Linear molecular geometry is the correct answer.

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

In a pre-match coin toss.

It was determined the catalyst will get to pick between the following topics.

American poetry or music by the numbers.

Is quite enough.

Music by the numbers.

Music by the numbers.

It is kind of talk what your topic is.

Music by the numbers.

Give these numbers for music.

Answers may repeat.

Musicians in an octet eight.

Correct.

Ludwig von Beethoven's final completed symphony sixth.

Incorrect lines on a treble clef.

Staff five correct keys on a grand piano 88.

Correct valves on a standard trumpet three.

Correct.

Either number in a time signature, also known as cut time pass petals on a concert.

Harp three incorrect.

Unusual number of movements in Symphonie fantastique six.

Incorrect.

Beat in a hole.

Rest in common.

Time for a correct half.

Step in a tritone.

Half steps in a tritone two.

That is incorrect.

The last answer is six.

And believe it or not, I never knew this.

There are seven petals to a concert harp.

Okay, dear, that leaves you with American poetry.

Name the authors of these poems the Raven.

Edgar Allan Poe, correct.

Song of myself.

Pass the road.

Not taken.

Walt Whitman.

Incorrect.

A poem whose speaker enters a carriage with death and immortality.

Pass.

Anyone lived in a pretty Howe town which mostly avoids using capital letters.

Pass.

The 1956 poem howl.

Robert Frost.

Incorrect.

To My Dear and Loving Husband published in the 1600s.

Virginia Woolf.

Incorrect.

The Emperor of Ice Cream.

Robert Frost.

Incorrect.

A poem about a musician on Linux Avenue playing a drowsy, syncopated tune.

Kendrick Lamar.

Incorrect.

Snowbound and the Civil War poem Barbara Richey.

Drake.

Incorrect.

John Greeley.

John Greenleaf Whittier is the correct answer to that last one, and we'll continue on with the following.

Toss up question.

What orphan is mistakenly sent to live with Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, who own a farm on Prince Edward Island?

In a series by Lucy Maud Montgomery.

This is one of my wife's favorites.

It's Anne of Green Gables.

Next toss up question.

What politician?

Whom Joseph Welch asked if he had no sense of decency.

McCarthy.

McCarthy is correct.

And he asked during a 1954 hearing.

He was also a Wisconsin senator for a bonus.

What state's orchards National Park contains the 52ft tall Delicate Arch, which is depicted on its state's license plate.

Missouri.

That's incorrect.

It's Utah.

Utah has the arch right in the middle of the license plate.

Next tossup question.

What?

Opera, which is based on a novel by by Prosper Mary, may include a band era sung by the title Seductive Roma Woman and is by George Bizzy.

You know what?

Habanera, if you heard it, it's from the opera Carmen.

Next tossup question.

What region, which is home to two Tainos and Cubanos, is closer to the sun than the Oort cloud, and is a belt named for a Dutch astronomer.

The Kuiper belt.

The Kuiper belt is correct.

For your bonus.

What artist painted his wife, Eileen?

Chicago.

Playing with a dog on a balcony in luncheon of the Boating Party.

Pass.

Renoir is the correct answer.

Next tossup.

What war?

Which is the setting of Anthony Dawes novel.

All the Light We Cannot See is also the subject of World War Two.

Go ahead.

World War two.

World War two is correct.

For your bonus, Frederick Nietzsche's first book is considered the Birth of what?

Literary genre?

From the spirit of music.

Musical.

That is incorrect.

Tragedy is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What country reached a 2022 peace agreement with the Tplf under Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to end a conflict in Tigray region north of year?

Ethiopia.

Ethiopia is correct in the region north of Addis Ababa.

For your bonus, what British author critiqued the lack of educational opportunities for women in her essays?

Three Guineas and a Room of One's Own.

Jane Austen.

Incorrect.

That's one of your answer from before Virginia Woolf is the correct answer.

Next tossup question what country where islanders exchange gifts in the Coola tradition.

Count over 800 indigenous languages and is governed from Port Moresby.

There are Papua New Guinea.

Papua New Guinea is correct for your bonus.

What NHL franchise suspended operation in 2024, with its players and staff moving north to become the Utah Hockey Club.

Arizona Coyotes.

That is also correct.

And unfortunately, I believe their first goal they ever scored as Utah Hockey Club was actually an own goal against himself.

So not off to a great start for that hockey team.

And with that we have reached halftime.

We have an excellent match underway.

Deer currently lead with a score of 85 to 80.

And with that will have each student introduce themselves with their first and last name, their grade level, and the answer to the following question, which they did not hear ahead of time.

So I'll preface it with that.

What is what do they feel is their favorite innovation of the last 50 years?

There are a few here.

We start with you.

Go ahead.

You here.

Bears with a 12th grade and the iPhone.

All right.

Now, no one's an iPhone in the first round.

So that's iPhone is now done officially for everybody in the first year here.

Got it first Daniela.

Go ahead.

Daniela, a, 12th grade and I think, laptops.

Excellent kid.

Caden Sprayberry, 12th grade and, doctor Pepper.

Oh.

All right.

Jacob Williams, 12th grade and the internet.

Okay.

Kind of talk about letting go ahead.

Glenn and Murray, 11th grade and, the Green Revolution.

Okay.

Kevin McGowan, 11th grade, I would say like, the, like sports broadcasting.

Oh, okay.

All right.

Tell me your grade.

11th grade.

Organ transplantation.

Okay.

Kayleigh Hudson, 12th grade.

And I would say just the amount of stuff that can be like solar or, like, wind powered.

Yeah.

Very cool.

Through renewable energy.

So.

Okay, now I would know.

Are you original doctor Pepper?

Re any one of the variations?

Which one?

No.

Original.

Doctor pepper.

Doctor Pepper is overrated.

Okay.

Thank you.

We'll continue on with the second half of the match with the following toss up question.

What woman who led three steamboats in South Carolina during the Columbia River raid, escaped slavery in Maryland before helping dozens more escape Europe?

Harriet Tubman Harriet Tubman is correct.

Your bonuses in mathematics.

Pencil and paper ready.

If X is an integer with a unit digit of seven, what must be the unit digit of the integer equal to x cubed?

Once you have it, tell kids.

Time is up.

It is three.

Is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What city?

That was home to, the house of the tragic poet and the House of the Faun was buried in ash in 1807.

Dora, Pompeii.

Pompeii is correct.

And it was buried when Mount Vesuvius erupted.

For bonus, what poem, which describes how poppies blow between rows of crosses, was written by John McCrae to commemorate fallen soldiers in World War One.

A Farewell to Arms that is incorrect in Flanders Fields is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What single celled organisms, which include those in the genus Candida, are a type of fungi which are used to produce alcohol in fermentation.

Got us Aqua yeast.

Yeast or yeast is correct for your bonus.

Backyard furnaces were encouraged as part of what failed 1958 to 1962 program, ordered by Mao Zedong to rapidly industrialize China, the Great Leap Forward, correct.

Next toss up question.

What?

Dynasty, which sponsored young, whose travels across the Indian Ocean ruled China between 1368.

And kind of talk about the Ming.

The Ming dynasty is correct and it was ousted by the Chiang dynasty for your bonus.

What country hosts the world's oldest ultramarathon, the Comrades Marathon, an annual race between its cities of Durban and Pietermaritzburg.

Russia.

Incorrect.

South Africa is a correct answer.

And actually no two people who completed that marathon.

I used to work at Runner's World magazine and it is brutal.

Absolutely brutal.

Next tossup question what quantity proposed by SPL Sorensen is defined as the negative logarithm of hydrogen ion concentration, and for pure water is typically seven.

There are b h is correct for bonus.

What author of The Daughter of Fortune wrote about the clairvoyant Clara Devi in the House of the spirits, and is a magical realist writer from Chile.

Do you think?

Isabel Allende is the correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What novel?

Whose protagonist presents two white flowers given to him by Weena?

The Eloi, after describing a trip to the far future, is by H.G.

Wells.

Kind of.

Aqua.

The time machine.

The time machine is correct for your bonus.

Guy Fawkes and Robert Kaspi were leaders of what plot to aim to kill King James the First when he visited the House of Lords.

The correct answer is the Gunpowder Plot.

And with that, we have reached the second Lightning Round, dear, if you'll get the slack between the following topics.

Classic film titles or seasons.

Seasons?

Can it be not so.

Quickly, Caden.

What do we think of films?

Films?

Films?

We'll go classic film talk.

All right, we're going classic films.

Dear, if your topic is classic film titles, given the word, give the word that completes the title of these films.

1939 The Wizard of Blank, correct.

1952 singing in the rain.

Correct.

1939 gone with the wind.

Correct 1959 Some Like It Wank.

Hot correct 1968.

Night of the Living Blank.

Dead.

Correct 1946 it's a Wonderful Blank World.

Incorrect 1939 Mr. Smith Goes to Blank Work.

Incorrect 1967 Guess Who's Coming to Town incorrect 1948 The Treasure of the Sierra Blank Desert.

Incorrect.

1957 The Bridge on the River Blank Valley that is incorrect.

Supply bridge on the River Kwai by the kettle.

Issaquah.

Your topic is seasons.

Give these answers that include the name of a season.

Part of Antonio Vivaldi's The Four Seasons that depicts chattering teeth.

Winter correct protests in the Middle East in the 20 tens Arab Spring correct international sporting event held in Paris in 2024.

Olympics be more specific.

Summer Olympics correct Igor Stravinsky's ballet, who 1913 premiere audience rioted past Chinese festival in which mooncakes are eaten Chinese New Year that is incorrect asterism with three vertices, including doorknob that is overheard in July.

Past Rachel Carson's book that warned against DDT.

Past seven word opening line of Shakespeare's Richard the Third.

Past Aaron Copeland ballet titled for mountain range pass two word nickname for baseball's World Series Hall classic.

Unfortunately, the buzzer did go for that.

You were correct.

A fall classic, but no points for that one.

We'll continue the final quarter of the match with the following toss up question what structure?

Which was struck by the ship Dolly in March 2024 and destroyed, is a Baltimore bridge named for the god of Stockwell, Francis Scott Key Bridge.

That is correct.

And it was named for the author of the Star Spangled Banner for your bonus since 2023, what former cricketer and Prime Minister of Pakistan had been jailed on or has been jailed on various corruption charges?

Imran Khan is the correct answer.

Next toss up question what conquistador who is presented with ransom rooms after the Battle of Kamaka, imprisoned at two Walpole in 1532 while invading the Inca Empire.

That's Cajamarca, battle of Cajamarca.

My bet on the mispronunciation that one.

Is.

Francisco Pizarro is the correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What poem in which Centeno marries the goddess Ganga is a Sanskrit epic that contains a dialog between Krishna and Arjuna.

The Bhagavad Gita.

Go ahead.

Yea!

The Epic of Gilgamesh.

That is incorrect.

Over to catus.

Aqua.

The Mahabharata is the correct answer.

Next toss up.

What scientist who wrote the book optics used a prism to split white light and wrote The Prince of Persia, which includes his three laws of classical motion theory.

Isaac Newton Isaac Newton is correct for your bonus.

The ancient Greek city of Byzantium was renamed to become what?

Capital of the Byzantine Empire, Constantinople.

Constantinople is also correct.

Next toss up question what 2020 roguelike game whose 2024 sequel features Hades?

Hades is correct, and you have to help him escape the Greek underworld in the game for bonus.

What a phenomenon whose near field form is named after Augustine, John Fresnel or Fresnel is the bending of light as it passes an obstacle.

Refraction is incorrect.

Diffraction is the correct answer.

Next toss up question what word partially names a work by Sergei Rachmaninoff based on a theme of Paganini, as well as a jazz inspired work by George Gershwin in blue.

Rhapsody.

Kazakh Rhapsody.

Rhapsody is correct for your bonus.

What quantity in economics, which has a marginal form, is maximized by rational actors, and is the satisfaction derived from one's choices?

Past utility is the correct answer.

Next, toss up question what river, whose tributaries include the walls and Mani rivers, rises northwest of Dijon and is crossed by the Pont Neuf as it flows through Paris.

Has aqua the seen sign seen judges?

Yeah.

We'll take it.

The scene or send River is the correct answer for your bonus.

The poet was the original title of what bronze sculpture that shows a man pensively resting his chin on his fist.

The thinker.

The thinker is correct.

Next toss up question.

It's in math.

Pencil and paper.

Ready?

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

Congratulations to both teams.

That was a what a way to start the season.

In the second match cat Issaquah, you have won and we'll go on to the second round with a score of 175 to 165, for good luck with the rest of your school year, and we will see you next week when Marion Catholic takes on Central Catholic High School.

Since 2006, the Temple Saint Luke's School of Medicine has focused on cultivating local talent, with more than a third of our graduates continuing their training at Saint Luke's or now working as attending physicians for our network.

Learn more.

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