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Hello and welcome to the fifth match of the second round of the 51st season of Scholastic Scrimmage.

I'm your host, David Graff.

Here's matches between a miss high school and Nazareth area High School.

The match will be composed of two halves, with a lightning round midway through each half and half time will pause for students to introduce themselves.

I will 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.

Buzzers.

Ready.

Here's our first toss up question.

What number of oxygen atoms in a phosphate ion is also, the number of carbon atoms in butane, and of chlorine atoms in carbon tetrachloride.

You may ask?

3.3.

That's incorrect.

Over to Nazareth.

So no conferring, but it's a free question.

Go ahead.

Five.

Also incorrect.

Four is the correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What poet that declares tender is the night and ends with the question, do I wake or sleep?

Was written by John Keats about the music of the title bird.

Mars.

Ode to a Nightingale.

Ode to a Nightingale is correct for your bonus.

What lake in southern Siberia is the world's deepest freshwater lake.

Like it by Michael.

By call.

Lake by Carl is correct.

Next tossup question.

What term?

Which literally means bottom of the bag in French is used in English to identify a common suburban street that has no outer Nazareth.

Cul de sac.

Cul de sac is correct.

That was it.

I never thought about it, but cul de sac does is French bottom of the bag is where cul de sac comes from.

For your bonus, what author wrote about Lieutenant Jimmy Cross in the title story of his collection The Things They Carried, which is about the Vietnam War.

Go ahead, John Steinbeck.

Incorrect.

Tim O'Brien is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What explorer whose brother Thorvald helped him colonize Vineland is sometimes.

Go ahead.

Nazareth.

Leif Erikson Leif Erikson is correct, and he was sometimes called the lucky.

For your bonus, what German born diplomat served as both National Security Advisor and Secretary of State under Richard Nixon?

Back to work.

Mike McNamara McNamara.

Incorrect.

Henry Kissinger is a correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What man is alleged by New York prosecutors to have written, deny, defend and depose on bullets he used to murder a health insurance CEO in 2000.

Go ahead and answer.

Luigi Maggio.

Will we?

You will take that.

Luigi Mangione is the correct answer.

We'll take that.

Your bonuses in math.

Pencil on paper.

Ready?

How many positive divisors does 64 have, including both one and 64 itself.

Given that 64 equals two raised to the sixth power.

Go ahead.

Seven seven is correct.

Our next toss up question is also in math.

So Nazareth, pencil on paper.

Ready.

What is the measure of an angle whose complement measures 38 degrees, giving complementary angles?

May is quickly 5252 is correct.

And that's just some simple subtraction there because complementary angles add up to 90 degrees.

For your bonus, John Bedell Bokassa was a leader of what country?

Whose capital is Bangui and whose name reflects its location in Africa?

Central or Central African Republic?

The Central African Republic is correct.

Next tossup question what man inspired the character Willie Stark in All the King's Men?

Touted his share or wealth plan and was a Louisiana governor called Nazareth.

Huey Long Huey Long is correct.

He was called the Kingfish for your bonus.

In Chinese mythology.

Legendary author who shot down nine of what?

Ten celestial objects that all appeared at once, thus saving the Earth.

Go ahead.

Meteors.

Incorrect.

Sun.

So in Chinese mythology, ten suns appeared.

He shot down all but the one we have now.

Next tossup question.

What ritual was believed to be performed at the present day site of Moncton?

Upon Jesus when his cousin John dipped him into the river.

Go ahead.

Nazareth.

Baptism.

Baptism is correct.

And he dipped him into the Jordan River for a bonus.

What quantity?

Which equals average force times the time interval over which the force acts, is equal to a body's change in momentum.

It also has a nearly buzzin.

You can just tell me that cup.

Go ahead.

Impulse.

Impulse is correct.

That's okay.

Next tossup question.

What city?

Whose kingdom center has a large hole at its top, contains the King Abdullah Financial District and is the capital of Saudi.

Go ahead.

Nasr.

Riyadh.

Riyadh is correct.

And it's the capital of Saudi Arabia.

That is correct as well.

For your bonus in 2025, what former investment banker floated plans to privatize Social Security while serving as Donald Trump's secretary of the Treasury?

Donovan.

Incorrect.

Scott Bezzant is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

In what country?

Where in 2025, police captured Feto, the leader of the Los Janeiro's was a gang war led to disruptions in cities like Kiel and Keita.

You may ask?

Ecuador.

Ecuador is correct for your bonus.

In what?

Structural?

In what structural pose?

Partly named for the Italian for.

Against.

Does a subject appear to rest the majority of their weight on one foot?

The most control.

It's sculptural pose.

What sculptural pose?

Flamingo pose.

Incorrect.

It's contrapposto or counter pose.

So a common example would be Michelangelo's David.

The way he's standing.

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

Nazareth.

In a pre-match coin toss, it was determined that you would get to pick first between the following topics.

Highest points or parts of an automobile.

Highest point.

Highest points.

Highest points.

It is.

Nazareth.

For your first lightning round topic.

You have highest points.

What mountain is the highest point in these countries?

Nepal.

Mount Everest.

Correct.

Tanzania.

Kilimanjaro.

Correct.

Japan.

Fuji.

Correct.

France.

Blank.

Correct.

Pakistan.

It's the second tallest mountain on Earth.

K2.

Correct.

Greece.

Correct.

New Zealand.

Pass.

Canada.

No.

Mount Whitney.

No.

Argentina and all of South America.

Mount Andes.

Incorrect.

Russia and all of Europe.

Alps.

Albert.

Incorrect.

The last one is Mount Elbrus.

Correct.

Okay, miss.

Your topic is part of an automobile.

Name these components of modern cars.

Pedal to the right of a brake pedal.

Gas.

Gas.

Correct.

Power component that jumper cables attach to.

Engine.

Incorrect.

Windshield mounted mirror.

Pass.

Pass the gearbox, which may be manual or automatic.

Engine.

Incorrect.

Rear pipe that emits waste gas.

Exhaust.

Exhaust.

Correct.

Gauge that measures the distance driven.

And also anyone can say odometer.

Correct.

Storage box in the dashboard on the passenger side.

Glove compartment.

Correct.

Device that ignites gas in the combustion chamber.

Piston.

Incorrect.

French derived term for a car's frame.

Pass mechanism that helps with turning by letting the wheels rotate at different speeds.

Axle.

Incorrect.

It's the differential which is on the axle.

All right.

We continue the match with the following toss up question.

Hemagglutinin is a protein.

In what virus?

In what virus?

Of family worth.

MCSo Verdi, whose H1n1 subtype caused a 1918 pandemic and.

Go ahead and asra.

Influenza.

The influenza is correct.

It also has swine and bird types.

For your bonus, what word can describe a catalyst whose phase differs from its reactants?

Or a chemical mixture with non-uniform composition and its mixture mixture?

That's incorrect.

Heterogeneous is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What singer behind the album's spirit in the Dark and Lady Soul sang?

Find out what it means to be me.

After spelling out the title in her hit Respect.

Miss Aretha Franklin Aretha Franklin is correct for your bonus.

What Danish American muckraking photojournalist published a work showing terrible conditions in tenement housing called How the Other Half Lives.

A recent Riess.

Yes.

Jacob Rees Riess is correct.

Next toss up question.

What company which agreed to buy the rights to Pink Floyd's music in 2024 makes Walkman music players and go ahead.

Nasira.

Sony.

Sony is correct.

And in 2025, they increase the price of their PlayStation by $50 across the board.

For your bonus, in July 2025, the International Criminal Court charged what country's Supreme Leader Hubert Toula accused of with or with persecuting women and girls.

The last time he was Akhundzada.

Iran.

That's incorrect.

Afghanistan is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

In math, derangements and transpositions are examples of what operation that puts a set element in a specific order.

Unlike a combination.

Go ahead.

Mess.

Permutation.

Permutation is correct.

For your bonus.

What cognitive bias occurs when people consider and seek out information in a way that supports their existing beliefs?

Confirmation bias.

Confirmation bias.

Confirmation bias is correct.

Next, toss up question.

What capital of Maharashtra is home to the dot to the Dharavi slum?

Is the center of Bollywood film maker?

Go ahead and answer.

Hyderabad.

That's incorrect.

I'll continue for mass and its most populous city in India.

Go ahead.

Mumbai.

Mumbai is correct.

For your bonus.

What?

18th century German literary movement, whose name translates to storm and stress, emphasized emotion, individualism and entered turmoil.

Translator.

Storm.

North.

Close.

It's close, but it's incorrect.

It's on.

Drunk or drunk is the correct answer.

Okay, next, toss a question.

What commander signaled.

England expects that every man will do his duty in an 1805 form aboard the HMS.

Go ahead.

Nazario.

Admiral Nelson Horatio Nelson is correct.

It was during the Battle of Trafalgar.

For your bonus, the southern terminus of the John Muir Trail is.

What mountain?

Which is the tallest peak in California.

Mount Whitney.

Mount Whitney is correct.

What composer who wrote the score for Sergei Eisenstein's film Alexander Nevsky used orchestral instruments to depict animals in Peter and the Wolf?

Yes.

Prokofiev Prokofiev is correct.

For your bonus.

What type of mean is found?

By taking the reciprocal of the arithmetic mean of the reciprocal of every entry in a given data set, which is determined geometric mean.

That's incorrect.

Harmonic mean is the correct answer.

And with that, we reached half time.

We have a great match underway.

Nazareth currently leads with a score of 145.

Two maces, 120.

And I'll take a moment for the students to introduce themselves with their first name, last name, grade level, and the answer to the following question.

Who is your current favorite music artist?

The May is Tyler.

Go ahead.

I'm Tyler Younger, I'm in 10th grade and my current favorite music artist is Tyler, the Creator.

Okay.

My name is Madeline Steve.

I'm in 12th grade, and, I've been into Haiti's town recently.

All right.

My name is Mina Perea.

I'm an 11th grade, and I've recently been into Kiss of Life.

Okay.

My name's Chad.

I'm in 11th grade, and my favorite band lately has been Shinedown.

All right.

Over to Nazareth.

Go ahead.

Arjun Garg, 10th grade and Post Malone.

Okay.

Alana Gould, 12th grade, and Cody Johnson.

Ryan Hoffman, 11th grade, and Bob Dylan.

All right.

Marcel.

Couscous, 12th grade.

And Coldplay.

All right, now we'll continue on with the second half of the match with the following toss up question.

What events whose name come from the Japanese word for harbor and wave, can be caused by?

Go ahead, a mess.

Tsunami.

Tsunami is correct, and it can be caused by underwater earthquakes and lead to coastal flooding.

For your bonus, what Edith Wharton novel does Newland Archer end up marrying?

Mae Wayland despite falling in love with her cousin Elena?

Alaska.

The age of innocence.

The age of innocence.

The Age of Innocence is correct.

Next tossup question.

What author wrote about Piscatella Breedlove desire to look pretty in The Bluest Eye, and depicted a formerly enslaved woman named Seta in beloved Miss Toni Morrison?

That is correct.

For your bonus, what emperor was the namesake of a donation that purported to give the Pope power over Rome?

Until Lorenzo Valla, or Lorenzo Valla proved the document was a forgery?

No clue.

Charlemagne.

That's incorrect.

Constantine, the first or the great?

Next tossup question.

What Frenchman, the main author of the Declaration of the Rights of Man, was nicknamed Hero of Two Worlds.

Go ahead.

Nazareth.

The Marquis de Lafayette.

The Marquis de Lafayette is correct.

I'm not sure if anyone's watching it, but PBS Thursday night as Ken Burns new documentary, The American Revolution and the Marquee will be mentioned.

Okay, for your bonus in orchestras, the kettle drum, which typically has a diameter of 33in, is better known by what name?

To be timpani.

The timpani is correct.

Next tossup question.

What class of animals whose members have appendages such as cholesterol and breathe through book lungs contain eight legged scorpions.

Nazareth spiders.

Incorrect.

Continue.

The question for mice and spiders.

Go ahead of mice.

Arachnids.

That's correct.

Yes.

We were looking for the class, and not one of the.

One of the examples was the spider itself.

It may ask for your bonus.

What scientist who applied antiseptic techniques during surgery using carbolic acid is the namesake of a brand of mouthwash listed in Worcester.

In just a list in the Lewiston.

Lewiston is incorrect.

Its Joseph Lister is the correct answer for Listerine.

Next tossup question.

What author wrote about the Templar Brian De Boy Gilbert, who lusts after the healer Rebecca and fights a Saxon knight in this man's novel?

Ivanhoe, mass.

Quickly.

Smith.

Incorrect.

So that is a whole question.

Nazareth.

It's a freebie.

Now for you.

No conferring.

No.

Go ahead.

Twain.

Incorrect.

Sir Walter Scott.

It's a correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What team managed for the entire 1970s by Earl Weaver was lead in the 1980s.

And 1990s by Cal Ripken Jr.

And now plays at Camden Yards in Maryland.

Go ahead.

Asra.

The Baltimore Ravens.

That's incorrect.

Over to Imus.

Go ahead.

The Baltimore Orioles.

Yes.

Baltimore Orioles is correct.

That is correct on that one for a bonus.

Stan Getz and Joel Gilberto helped popularize what style of Brazilian jazz music with their standard, The Girl from Ipanema.

The Brazilian funk.

Incorrect.

The bossa nova.

There's been a couple of bossa nova questions so far this, this year.

So that must be what the quiz makers are listening to.

Okay, we'll do our next tossup question.

What state, whose largest university was integrated by James Meredith, was the site of freedom Summer and is where Medgar Evers was shot in Jackson.

Go ahead, Miss Mississippi.

Mississippi is correct for your bonus.

What university, which was founded in 1209, was attended by poet John Milton, an economist.

John Maynard Keynes supported economics.

I don't know, Oxford.

That's incorrect.

University of Cambridge.

Oxford.

Or they broke away from Oxford, which were founded like 1096 or something like that.

Okay.

Next tossup question.

What title character who is called mealy by Mr.

Grimm Whig is adopted by Mr.

Brownlow after being saved from Fagin's gang in a novel by Charles Dickens.

Go ahead of me is David Copperfield.

That's incorrect.

Over to Nazareth.

So no conferring with freebie.

Go ahead.

Oliver Twist.

Oliver Twist is correct.

For your bonus, what British poet compared love to refined gold in a valediction forbidding mourning and told death to be not proud?

In his 10th Holy Sonnet.

Shakespeare.

That is incorrect.

It's John Donne.

It's the correct answer.

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

It may.

Yes.

You can pick between the following topics.

Silent tea or classic sports nicknames.

Medical sanity yet.

Sanity.

Silent tea.

Silent tea.

It is.

It may ask your second lightning round topic is silent tea.

Give these words the end with a silent tea.

Lawn game with mallets and wickets.

Croquet.

Correct.

All you can eat.

Self-serve.

Buffet.

Correct.

Deck of cards used in fortune telling.

Tarot.

Correct.

Verb meaning a carom or deflect off a solid surface.

Ricochet.

Correct.

Five letter term for an artist's first appearance.

Debut.

Correct.

A dedicated personal servant.

Valet.

Correct.

Thick comforter on a bed.

Duvet.

Correct.

Craft using yarn and namesake.

Crochet.

Correct.

Art form of Cicchetti of the Cicchetti method that was developed by Enrico Sink.

Getty.

Pass.

Pass.

Type of horse drawn carriage that is the origin of the term taxicab.

Pass.

That last one was a cabriolet.

Okay, now with your topic is classic sports nicknames.

Name the retired or deceased athlete who have these nicknames.

I will give you a sport and their year of birth.

You name the athlete.

Boxing's iron Mike 1966 Mike Tyson.

Correct.

Baseball.

The Sultan of Swat.

1895 Babe Ruth.

Correct.

Basketball's his airness.

1963 Michael Jordan.

Correct.

Hockey's the Great One.

1961 Wayne Gretzky.

Correct.

Golf's lefty.

1970.

Tiger woods.

Incorrect.

Football.

Coach.

Prime.

1967.

Pass.

Basketball's Black Mamba.

1978.

Kevin Durant.

Incorrect.

Football's the juice.

1947.

OJ, OJ Simpson.

Correct.

Baseball.

Mr.. October 1946.

Pass.

Boxing's the Brown bomber.

1914.

Muhammad Ali.

That's incorrect.

Joe Lewis was known as the Brown Bomber.

And we'll start the final quarter of the match with the following toss up question.

What state whose western border forms part of the Mason-Dixon line is called Basra.

Maryland.

I will that's incorrect.

I'll continue on for Imus is called the Blue Hen state consists of three counties and is led from Dover.

Go ahead.

Delaware.

Delaware is correct.

For your bonus, what 2024 Netflix mini series costarred Jessica Gunning as Martha, a woman who becomes frighteningly obsessed with London bartender Donnie Dorn.

I'm Goth by lightning.

You again.

Death by lightning.

That's incorrect.

Baby reindeer is the series.

Next tossup question.

What activists led a march to Sacramento from the grape farms of Delano during a strike he led prior to co-founding the United Farm.

Go!

Cesar Chavez.

Cesar Chavez is correct.

And that was prior to his co-founding of the United Farm Workers.

For your bonus.

In feudal Japan.

Samurai hoping to preserve honor after a disgrace committed.

What form of ritual suicide that involved cutting open the abdomen.

Seppuku.

Seppuku is correct.

Next toss up.

Question.

What play which ends at the servant fears is abandoned.

In a locked House is a Russian drama by Anton Chekhov about the sale.

Go ahead of me.

The Cherry Orchard is correct and is about the sale of the title Fruit trees that are the Cherry Orchard.

For your bonus.

The term arbor refers to the branching white matter in what part of the brain that is important in coordinating movement.

The prefrontal cortex.

The prefrontal cortex.

That's incorrect.

The correct answer is the cerebellum.

Next tossup question.

What device whose die sensitized type contains a thin layer of titanium dioxide, uses silicon to convert photons from sunlight into electricity to mass solar panels.

Yes, we'll take that.

Solar panels are solar cells within the solar panels.

Correct?

For your bonus in 2025, what South Dakota senator succeeded Mitch McConnell to become leader of the Senate Republican caucus.

This might not be.

That's the I don't know.

Mike Johnson.

Incorrect.

John Thune so it's the head of the caucus, not the body itself.

And Johnson, the head of Congress for next tossup question in 1971, what country lost its permanent seat on the U.N.

security?

Go ahead.

Nazareth, Taiwan.

Taiwan is correct.

That's when the General Council voted to recognize the People's Republic of China.

For your bonus, the slogan no reelection was promoted by what?

Mexican president who went back on his pledge and ran for reelection six times from 1884 to 1904.

Oh, yes.

In Santa Ana.

That's incorrect.

Porfirio Diaz is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What mythical figure who drowned out the siren songs while on the Argo mass?

Odysseus.

That's incorrect.

I'll continue for Nazareth while on the Argo failed and escape mission from the underworld.

After looking back at Eurydice.

Go ahead.

Nazareth.

Odysseus.

That's also incorrect.

Orpheus is the correct answer.

I think you're both kicking yourselves right now.

After you.

A few thought about it.

All right.

Next tossup question.

What book?

Whose protagonist self-exiled to summa.

And is the son of the Emperor Kira su Bo is by Lady Murasaki and is often.

Go ahead and ask.

The Tale of Genji.

The Tale of Genji is correct for your bonus.

Penicillin was discovered after Alexander Fleming observed fungi killing colonies.

Of what bacterial genus whose aureus species can be drug resistant or.

Specialist incorrectly.

Staph or Staphylococcus.

Next toss up question.

In what war was the 77th division's lost battalion trapped in the beast?

Go ahead and asra, a World War one.

That is correct.

But unfortunately, that is also time.

And due to scholastic scrimmage rules, you do not get the bonus.

So Nazareth, with 220 points, it's the end of the road for you.

Good luck for the rest of your school year.

You mess with 230 points.

Congratulations, you're on to the next round and thank you for watching.

We'll see you next week.

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