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

I'm your host, David Graf, for the all star match.

We have two teams comprised of one student nominated by their coach and peers to represent each of the final eight schools in this year's tournament.

And now let's meet the team's, starting with Team Einstein.

Hi.

My name is Avantika Jory.

I'm in 12th grade and I'm from Southern Lehigh High School.

My name is Jack Samra.

I'm in 12th grade and I'm from Wilson Area High School.

I'm Nathaniel Schmidt, I'm in 12th grade, and I go to Moravian Academy.

I'm Brady Davis.

I'm an 11th grade, and I go to Northampton.

And now let's meet Team Newton.

I'm Jeremiah Zellner, I'm in 10th grade.

I go to Northwestern Lehigh.

I'm in I'm in 11th grade and I go to e-mails.

I'm Hameed I'm in 11th grade, and I attend Parkland High School.

I'm Alex and I'm in 12th grade at Saucon Valley High School.

All right.

Excellent.

The match will still be composed of two halves of the Lightning Round.

Midway through each half at halftime will pause so the students can answer a phone question.

We came up with.

We're going to talk about our futures a little bit.

And also reminders.

Classic requires rapid recall, specific factual information.

It's not necessarily indicative of academic training.

And now let's begin.

Buzzers ready.

Here's our first toss up question.

What objects can be?

Sun grazers consist of a comma surrounding a dirty snowball.

Go ahead.

Einsteins, comets.

Comets are correct, and they can have one or more tails for your bonus.

Which one of Maxwell's equations implies that a magnetic fields flux through any closed surface is zero, and is named for a German scientist?

No.

Faraday's okay.

Faraday's law.

Incorrect.

It's Gauss's law of magnetism.

Next toss up question.

What?

Minnesota company, the subject of a months long boycott over 2000 on science.

Target.

Target is correct.

And they were boycotted over their 2025 rollback of diversity efforts.

For your bonus, two versions of the song One Night only appear in what musical featuring Deena and Effie.

Inspired by the stories of Motown groups like The Supremes.

Oh, I know this golden no.

I can't name.

Showgirls.

No, no.

Closer.

It's Dreamgirls.

It's a correct answer to that question.

Next toss up question.

The capital of what province is home to?

Soweto Township is a major center on science.

Johannesburg Johannesburg is correct.

It's a major center of the gold trade.

For your bonus, what communist leader who died in 1969, had his embalmed body still on display in a mausoleum in Hanoi?

Bonus on this one.

So just let your captain know, Jack.

Oh, yeah.

Ho Chi Minh.

Oh, gee, man is correct.

Next toss up question.

What site, which is above the Aruba River valley, was rediscovered by Hiram Bingham in 19.

Go ahead, Newton Machu Picchu.

Manchu Picchu is correct.

And it's a citadel in the Andes.

Your bonus is in math.

Pencil and paper.

Ready.

What is the area of a square whose perimeter is 80?

Given that the sides of a square are congruent, 400 400 is correct.

Next toss up question what character?

Who argues that the evil that men do after or lives after them, appears in Julius Caesar and gives the friends Romans.

I saw it, Mark Antony.

Mark Antony is correct.

He gives the friends, Romans, countrymen speech for your bonus.

The title of a travel series on AMC refers to a ride with what?

Actor who played Daryl Dixon on The Walking Dead?

Who?

Who is the.

Torment Smith?

That's incorrect.

The same thing.

I had no idea he had a travel show like almost every other celebrity.

But it's Norman Reedus as a travel show on AMC.

All right, on to the next toss of question.

What test was introduced in the 1950 paper computing Machinery?

Newton's Turing test.

The turning test is correct, and it was the British mathematician test to distinguish humans from computers.

For your bonus, Waverider is the final graphic novel in what Fantasy series by Kazuki Kiba Ishi, which is named for a magical piece of jewelry found by Emily Hayes.

Yes.

The magic.

The magic necklace.

Incorrect.

And an amulet is the correct answer.

Next toss of question.

What set of works which begin the collection?

The contest between harmony and invention.

Go ahead on science.

The four seasons.

The Four seasons is correct.

It's by Antonio Vivaldi for your bonus.

What pathogens cause chronic wasting disease, scrapie and mad cow disease and form when proteins are misfolded.

Prions.

Yeah, prions are prions is correct.

Next.

Awesome question.

What author who was the first American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, depicted a real estate broker named George in his novel Babbitt, Einstein.

Updike.

That's incorrect over in Newton.

Go ahead, Lewis Sinclair Lewis is correct for your bonus.

What states attorney general, the Shia James was targeted by a Department of Defense or Department of Justice investigation that found no evidence of mortgage fraud.

Virginia.

Virginia.

That's incorrect.

New York.

Next tossup question.

What politician whose last speech was interrupted by Jean Lambert?

Talon was executed in the Thermidor reaction.

Go ahead on science, Robespierre.

That is correct.

And it ended his reign of terror.

For your bonus, the unreliable narrator of Ford Maddox Ford's novel The Good Soldier was what has what first name, which is shared by a savage in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World.

Just John, John, John John is correct.

And with that, we have reached our first lightning round in a pre-match coin toss.

We determined that the Newtons will get to pick between the following topics solar system, moons or Mexican geography.

Mexican like the moons are going to be a little more superficial, like quickly Newton's moons.

For system moons, it is Team Newton.

Your first lightning round topic is Solar system moons.

What planet or dwarf planets are orbited by these moons?

Answers may repeat.

Titan, Saturn, correct.

Europa and the other Galilean moons.

Jupiter.

Correct.

Moons, sometimes known by the scientific name Luna earths are correct.

Phobos and Deimos.

Mars.

Correct.

Sharon.

Pluto.

Correct.

Triton.

Uranus.

Uranus.

That's incorrect.

Puck and Desdemona.

Uranus.

That's Uranus, the shepherd.

Moon.

Mimas.

Mars.

Incorrect.

Amalthea.

Jupiter on that one.

And then the second largest dwarf planet.

Moon.

Harris.

Harris is correct.

All right.

On science, your topic is Mexican geography and the following about the geography of Mexico.

Major river on the border of Mexico and Texas.

Rio Grande, correct.

Long Peninsula on Mexico's west coast in California.

Correct.

Belize and this country are in Mexico's southern border.

Guatemala.

Correct.

Border city just south of San Diego.

Tijuana, correct.

Mexico's largest state by area.

And it names a dog breed.

Correct.

Large peninsula in the Gulf of Mexico.

Yucatan, correct.

Mayan ruins, home to El Castillo Steps pyramid, Chichen Itza.

That is correct.

Active volcano 40 miles outside of Mexico City.

Copan.

Are you correct?

El Popo?

Is that one major city south of El Paso?

Texas city is correct, excluding Mexico City, and within two the total number of Mexican states.

The three acceptable answers here.

27.

That's incorrect.

It's 31.

And we would have accepted 29 or 32.

Okay, on to the next toss up question.

It's in math.

Pencil and paper.

Ready.

What simplified improper fraction equals the decimal number 2.05.

Given the numerator must be larger than the.

Not going.

Newton 41/20.

Yeah, 4120 is correct for your bonus.

In what year did Warren Harding win a presidential election while promising a return, a return to normalcy in 2021, 19 2019, 20, 1920 is correct.

Next toss up question what country is home to Banjo Paterson, who wrote the ballad Waltzing Matilda and writer?

Go ahead on says Australia.

Australia is correct.

Your bonus is in math.

Pencil and paper ready if three standard six sided dice are rolled and the numbers multiplied, what is the probability the product is an odd number?

Three Tyson's 18 sides.

Give me a number, say 25%.

Yeah.

I'm.

Anybody on Team Newton know it?

No, no not on that one.

It's one eighth.

Since you multiply any integer by an even number you're going to get even product.

So it has to be all odd.

All three rolls have to come up with odd numbers.

All right.

On to the next toss up question.

What color whose pure form has a zero in Ansel Adams zone system had a pigment made from bone char, and is the color of the sharp keys on a piano and signs black.

Black is correct for your bonus.

Minister Edward Kashubian unsuccessfully tries to write a key to all mythologies in what George Eliot novel about high minded Dorothea Brooke, Middlemarch.

Middlemarch is correct.

Next toss up question what form of radiation which can be stopped by a sheet of paper, or the skin is emitted by uranium 238 and is equivalent to a helium nucleus?

I sense alpha radiation.

Oh, yes.

Alpha radiation or alpha particles is correct for your bonus.

What Russian word for restructuring designates the Soviet economic reforms carried out by Mikhail Gorbachev in the 1980s.

Perestroika.

Perestroika is correct.

Next toss up question.

What monarch?

What monarch?

Wed Theresa Christina had a daughter, Isabel, who issued a golden law freeing slaves and was the second and final monarch.

Mindstorms Pedro the second.

Pedro the second is correct.

He was the final monarch of Brazil.

Brazil is the country we're talking about.

For your bonus, the Democratic Alliance won a plurality in what European countries 2024 election, enabling Luis Montenegro to replace Socialist leader Antonio Costa.

Portugal, Portugal Portugal is correct.

All right.

Next toss up question.

What poem that asks in what furnace was thy brain?

And asks what immortal hand or eye frames are predators fearful symmetry?

Go ahead on science.

The tiger.

The tiger is correct and it's by William Blake is also correct for your bonus.

What eight letter adjective appears in the title of a 1996 novel partially set at the on field Tennis Academy, whose title comes from hamlet.

And.

Evilest.

Incorrect.

It's infinite for Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.

Next toss up question and ping ons are structures featured in what biome that has Alpine and Arctic varieties instance.

Tundra.

Tundra is correct, and it's covered by permafrost for your bonus.

What three letter Latin phrase identifies unconstitutional laws that retroactively change the criminal status of actions after they are committed.

Jurisprudence.

That's incorrect.

Ex post facto is correct.

And with that, we have reached halftime.

We've got a fun match underway.

Currently, Team Einstein leads with a score of 215 to Newton's 90.

And now the students have introduced themselves.

And we're trying to figure out what do we want to talk about?

Some seniors are still trying to figure out where they're gonna go to college.

Weren't sure what we're going to do.

So because we're recording in January, we're going to make a bold prediction of who will win the 2026 World Series of Baseball.

So let's start with Team Einstein.

Give us your pick.

I think the Blue Jays okay.

Blue Jays is repeat champions.

All right I think the banana ball league is going to combine with the MLB.

And the Savannah bananas are going to take it.

Interesting okay I think something crazy is going to happen.

And we're going to see the nationals win.

All right.

Great.

See it again.

Go.

Oh yeah.

Go Phils.

That's a that's the correct answer.

Actually this question Newtons go ahead Jeremiah I'd probably say maybe something happens in the Yankees end up winning okay I mean statistically you're going to guess somebody.

It's a Yankees Ian.

Go ahead I know nothing about baseball.

So I'm going to say the Phillies.

All right Phillies.

It's a perfect answer.

The Philadelphia Phillies go Phillies!

All right.

Seattle Mariners.

Oh!

Seattle Mariners all right.

It's a good.

It's a good pick.

We'd like to see Seattle because I believe they're the only active team right now.

They've never won a World Series.

It'd be great to see them one one, but.

So go pills.

All right.

We're continuing on with the second half of the match with the following toss up question.

At what battle were Marcus Reno was criticized for not marching into?

Did a Lakota led alliance under Crazy Horse defeat and kill George Custer?

Einsteins Little Bighorn?

The Battle of Little Bighorn is correct for your bonus.

Honoria is the capital of what island country in the Pacific that is named after a biblical king?

Solomon Islands, Solomon Islands.

The Solomon Islands is correct.

Next toss up question.

What author wrote about railroad executive Dagny Taggart and Hank Rearden?

Newton Rand Rand is correct, and that's from her novel Atlas Shrugged for your bonus.

Dutch club dancer Margaretha Zela, who was executed as a German spy during World War One, was better known by what stage name?

Honey, wait.

What?

Mazari Mata Hari is correct.

Next toss up question.

What soccer club?

Who's 2024 2025 squad includes Robert Lewandowski, Raphinha, Einstein's Barcelona Barcelona is correct and their big rival is Real Madrid.

For your bonus.

What drugs which can be general like propofol or local like lidocaine or administered before surgery to block pain anesthetics anesthetics is correct.

Next toss up question what quantity whose conservation underpins Bernoulli's principle can be measured in ergs, calories or joules and has been studied.

Energy.

Energy is correct and it has a potential subtype for your bonus.

After the death of her mother, Fantine, what young girl known as the lark is adopted by Jean Valjean in Victor Hugo's novel Les Miserables.

Cosette.

Of course, that is correct.

Next toss up question what author of A key into Language of America was a religious freedom advocate expelled from the Massachusetts Bay colony who then founded Rhode Island?

Reinstein.

Roger Williams.

Roger Williams is correct for your bonus.

In what October 1973 event did Richard Nixon fire special prosecutor Archibald Cox, leading to the resignation of Attorney General Eliot Richardson?

Bloody Monday incorrect.

It's the Saturday night Massacre.

Next toss up question what country was the site of a failed 2019 mission by Seal Team Six that tried to plant an easy device to Newton's North Korea?

North Korea is correct.

And they tried to plant an easy device on Kim Jong un for your bonus.

The country of Tuvalu generates about 10% of its revenue by selling what internet identifiers?

Which in this country's case ends in TV?

Yes.

Yeah, I think so.

Domain?

Yeah.

Web domain.

A web domain, domain name or domains is correct.

Next toss up question.

What?

20th century artistic movement.

Whose manifesto was written by André Breton.

Go ahead.

On site.

Futurism.

That's incorrect.

I'll continue for Newtons was written by André Breton.

Produces dreamlike art such as the paintings of Salvador Dali.

Newton's surrealism.

Surrealism is correct for your bonus.

How many half steps comprise the internal.

Or excuse me, how many half steps comprise the interval of a tritone, which is exactly one half of an octave?

So for.

Four, that's incorrect.

There are six half steps.

Next toss up question in what state were Daniel Morgan crushed British forces at Cowpens did go ahead.

John Stein's South Carolina South Carolina is correct.

And Patriot troops also lost the Battle of Camden.

For your bonus, what name is given to the radioactive isotope of hydrogen that has one proton and two neutrons?

I think Trinity.

Sure.

Trinity.

No.

That's incorrect.

It's tritium.

It's just tritium.

Next toss up question.

What compound reacts with water to form sign?

Gas is the main gas emitted from sheeps and cows.

And Newton's method?

Methane is correct and has a molecular formula of four for your bonus.

In a story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, what color of wallpaper is frantically examined by a woman descending into madness?

Yes, Yellow Wallpaper is correct.

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

So on Stevens, we'll get to pick between the following topics.

Olympic host cities or Iowans?

What was that?

Was the second one I won.

Iowans.

People from Iowa.

Olympic host cities.

Olympic host cities.

It is not to brag, but I went ten for ten on this last night.

Practicing with my wife, my big Olympics fan.

So here we go.

Einsteins.

Your topic is Olympic host cities.

What Olympic host city hosted the 2024 Summer Olympics?

Here's correct.

Hosted the first modern Olympics in Greece.

Athens.

Correct.

Is the only city in South America to host the games.

Rio.

Correct, is the only city to host both the winter and summer games.

La.

Incorrect.

But that's a good guess.

But it is incorrect.

It's Beijing was the most recent American city to host the Summer games in 1996.

Atlanta Atlanta is correct was the German city where swimmer Mark Spitz won seven golds.

Munich.

Munich is correct.

Will host the 2026 Winter games with Cortina.

Milan Milan is correct was the first Asian city to host the Summer games in 1964.

Tokyo.

Tokyo.

Tokyo is correct was the first city to host the Summer Olympics three separate times.

That might be a la la la.

London.

London was that one.

Now they will be, I believe, coming up when they host them in a few years.

And then the final one is hosted, the 1904 games in conjunction with the World's Fair.

Just go for it anyway.

Saint Louis, Saint Louis is correct on that one was after the buzzer, but just fun to get that one in anyway.

All right Newtons hopefully you know a lot about Iowa and Iowans name these people real or fictional from Iowa.

Painter of American Gothic.

Grant wood, correct.

First pick of the 2024 WNBA draft.

Caitlin Clark.

Correct.

President.

Succeeded by Franklin Roosevelt.

Hoover.

Yep.

Herbert Hoover is correct.

Member of the Avengers.

Played in movies by Jeremy Renner.

Hawkeye.

Hawkeye is correct.

Actor named Duke, who starred in Westerns like The Searchers.

Eastwood.

That's incorrect.

Captain of the enterprise on the original Star Trek.

Kirk.

Correct.

Winner of three straight Hugo Awards for the Broken Earth series.

Heinlein.

Incorrect.

Rams quarterback who led the Greatest Show on turf.

Matthew Stafford.

That's incorrect.

Actor who played Frodo in the Lord of the rings movies.

Eliza Wood.

The larger wood is correct.

Physicist whose namesake radiation belts around Earth.

Hawking.

Nope.

Incorrect.

It's the Van Allen van Allen.

James Van Allen for the Van Allen belts.

Okay, we will continue on with the following toss up question.

What state is home to the headquarters of the Union Pacific Railroad and Warren Buffett's firm, Berkshire Hathaway.

That's the giveaway there.

Go ahead and signs Nebraska.

Nebraska is correct.

And they're both based in Omaha.

For your bonus, what city, which is home to the 4 to 5 scaling or bridge, is the setting of Romeo and Juliet.

Verona.

Verona is correct.

Next toss up question.

What novel in which the Rhine River three perform at the Onion Cellar depicts the glass shattering Oscar Mazzara.

Go ahead on size the tin drum.

The tin drum is correct, and it's by Gunter Grass for your bonus.

UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali hailed from what country?

Whose president, Anwar Sadat, was assassinated in 1981.

Egypt?

Yeah.

Egypt is the one.

Okay, next toss up question.

What archipelago has its capital at Stanley is called Los.

Go ahead.

Einstein.

Falklands.

The Falkland Islands are correct.

And it was the site of a 1982 war between the United Kingdom and Argentina.

For your bonus, dynamos are examples of what devices that are the opposite of motors, because they turn mechanical energy into electrical energy engines to provide.

Yeah.

Generator?

Yeah.

Electrical generators is correct.

Next toss up question what mineral, which consists of aluminum oxide and is used as a less expensive abrasive compared to diamond, defines a nine on the Moz hardness scale.

Corundum is a correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What animal which the medieval fable character Reiner or which, excuse me, which was the medieval character Reiner?

Go ahead.

Newtons dragon.

That's incorrect.

I'll continue.

For Team Einstein was the nickname of Nazi Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, and is indicated by the adjective Volpone going down.

Science.

Fox A fox is correct for your bonus.

In 1975, what country's King Faisal was assassinated by his nephew Faisal bin Masjid?

Is Iraq right?

Or Messiah?

Excuse me.

Messiah.

Iraq.

That's incorrect.

It's Saudi Arabia.

Next toss of question.

What country sparked the Abbasid crisis when it invaded?

Go ahead on science.

Italy?

That's right.

And it sparked that crisis when he invaded.

What country?

Ethiopia.

Ethiopia is also correct for your bonus.

What Greek king and general sacrifice his daughter if a genia to the goddess Artemis for which he murdered, or for which he was murdered by his wife.

Caltanissetta.

Agamemnon.

Agamemnon is correct.

Next toss up question A VR game partially titled Rescue Mission was the debut of What Small Blue Hero, the namesake of a game of the year winning 2024 PlayStation platformer Newton's Astro Astronaut is correct for your bonus.

What kind of quadrilateral has two pairs of adjacent to group in sides and two perpendicular diagonals, one of which bisects the other.

A kite, a kite or dart is correct.

Next toss up question what food is Nyx to make?

Masa right size corn.

Corn is correct and it's ultimately known as maize for your bonus.

Oh, and that is the end of the match.

Why?

Congratulations to everybody for making the final eight teams.

Good luck for the rest of your school year and thank you for watching this entire season.

We are so glad you have tuned in.

We'll see you next year for the 52nd season of school.

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