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

I'm your host, David Graff.

Today's final matchup is between Emmaus High School, who in their first two matches gathered 540 points, and Saucon Valley High School, who scored 680 points over their first two matches.

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

At half time, we'll pause for students to introduce themselves and 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.

Here's our first tossup question.

Buzzers.

Ready.

What state.

Which in 2025 announced it would be the first to offer universal free pre-K child care is led by Michelle Lujan Grisham from Santa Fe, New Mexico.

New Mexico is correct for your bonus.

She.

Marcion wrote the records of the Grand Historian while serving what Chinese dynasties emperors Wu D, who reigned from 141 to 87 BC.

Is it a child?

Yeah.

The the Chen dynasty.

That's incorrect.

It's the Han Dynasty is a correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What?

Mammals include data about the color of predators in their altruistic warnings to kin.

Live in namesake towns and or rodents, and not canines.

Saucon Valley.

Prairie dogs.

Prairie dogs is correct for your bonus.

What Romanian born playwright depicted the Martin's strange visit to the Smiths in his absurdist French language drama The Bald Soprano.

Francesco Bizet.

That is incorrect within Unesco is the correct answer.

Next tossup question what novel features physician Roger Killingsworth?

Go ahead and ask the Scarlet Letter.

The Scarlet Letter is correct for your bonus.

What influential German art school sought to unite art, architecture and design training under the direction of its founder, Voltaire Gropius.

Picture in my head, just east of the bombed school of Art.

That's incorrect.

It's the Bauhaus movement, or Bao school of Art.

Next tossup question.

What?

What West African country whose de facto national language is creole, has its capital at Freetown.

Saucon Valley, Liberia.

That's incorrect.

I'll continue for Imus and takes its namesake from the Lion Mountain Army.

Sierra Leone.

Sierra Leone is correct for your bonus.

In 1963, what nightclub owner entered a Dallas police headquarters and shot Lee Harvey Oswald, who days earlier had assassinated John F Kennedy?

It's, I think it's Dahlia.

Last name is Stanley.

Yeah.

Daily.

That's incorrect.

Jack Ruby is a correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What country's independence was the subject of the blood?

Telegram was opposed by Operation Searchlight and caused Pakistan to lose its eastern socking valley.

Bangladesh?

Bangladesh is correct because Pakistan to lose its eastern lands.

For your bonus.

What figure from West African folklore is married to Oso, who helps him in his quest to win all the stories in the world from the God nightmare.

Anansi.

Anansi is correct.

Next tossup question.

What mythological group whose ranks include mahogany and trump secrete.

Go ahead, Saucon Valley.

The muses.

The muses is correct.

And they represent the fields of tragedy and dance and nine other inspiring goddesses.

Your bonuses in math.

Pencil and paper.

Ready?

What time in the evening is exactly 150 minutes after 2:45 p.m.. Given that there are 60 minutes in an hour to play.

245 isn't it?

515.

515 is correct.

Next tossup question.

What novel in which Black Arrow is used by Bard the Bowman to kill the dragon?

Small soccer valley.

The hobbit.

The Hobbit is correct.

It was written by J.R.R.

Tolkien.

For your bonus, the Oxbow and The Titan's Goblet are landscape paintings by what leading artist?

As the Hudson River school.

No.

Matthew Brady.

Incorrect.

They're all by Thomas Cole.

Next tossup question.

What song?

Which, as of October 2025, is the most streamed song on Spotify.

Blinding lights.

Blinding lights is correct, and it's by the weekend.

For your bonus, in the children's book by Astrid Lindgren, a monkey called Mr.

Neilson lives at Villa Villa Coola in Sweden.

With what extremely strong red haired girl?

Pippi Longstocking, Pippi Longstocking, Pippi Longstocking is correct.

Next tossup question.

What president ran with cactus Jack, John Dance Gardner as his running mate, and later had Henry Wallace and Harry Truman serve as his vice presidents?

It may be FDR.

FDR Franklin Delano Roosevelt is correct.

For your bonus, what award?

Consisting of a black base with a medal mounted in a c shaped pewter holder, is named for Antoinette Perry, an Honors Broadway theater.

The Tony Award.

The Tony Award is correct.

Next toss up question.

What Italian biologist whose namesake method stains neurons with silver nitrate discovered a complex or body that packages proteins in Silicon Valley?

Golgi could be a little Golgi is correct.

For your bonus, what optical phenomena which occurs twice in A for nel ROM occurs when the angle of incidence of incidence exceeds the critical angle.

Refraction.

Diffraction.

Diffraction.

That's incorrect.

Its total internal reflection.

The correct answer.

All right.

With that, we have reached the first lightning round.

In a pre-match coin toss, it was determined that Saucon Valley will pick between the following topics food science or outdoor sculptures, food science, food science.

Food science.

It is.

Talk about your first lightning round topic is food science.

Answer the following about the science of food.

Calorie dense compounds that include oils.

Lipids.

Correct.

Scientific name for table sugar.

Sodium bicarb.

Sodium chloride.

Incorrect gas produced by yeast that makes dough rise CO2 correct.

Rapid evaporation of water at 100°C.

Evaporation.

Incorrect.

Device whose bomb type can measure energy content of food.

Calorimeter.

That is correct process in namesake cooktops that heats metal pans magnetically.

Pass process in which proteins lose their shape on heating that makes eggs solidify.

Denaturing.

Correct reaction between amino acids and reducing sugars that form a dark crust.

Maynard reaction that is correct.

Type of mixture such as mayonnaise.

In which one fluid is this?

Say it again.

Colloid is correct for a type of mixture such as mayonnaise.

Emulsion was also an answer that we were looking for.

A process in which casein separates from whey during cheesemaking fermentation.

Say it again.

Fermentation.

That is incorrect.

Curdling is that process or at a mess?

Your topic is outdoor sculptures.

Answer the following about outdoor sculptures.

South Dakota monument with colossal presidential sculptures.

Mount Rushmore.

Correct.

Brazilian home city of Christ the Redeemer.

Rio de Janeiro.

Correct.

Animal depicted in two statues outside the New York Public Library.

Lion.

Correct.

Charging animal with a bronze Wall Street statue.

Bull.

Correct.

Konstantin, bring Kush his home country, where he built infinite column.

Greece.

Italy.

Or infinity column, I'll give you.

Greece.

Incorrect.

Popular nickname for Chicago's Cloud Gate.

The building.

Correct.

Sculptor of Le Grand Vitesse, who also pioneered mobiles.

Donatello.

Incorrect.

Turtle fruit balanced on a spoon bridge in Minneapolis.

Apple.

Incorrect.

Animal depicted in the Whispers on Maman.

Boar.

Incorrect.

Sculptor of the Minutemen and the Lincoln Memorial.

Tasks.

That sculptor was Daniel Chester French.

All right.

We'll continue on the following.

Toss up question.

What island was devastated by the 1923 Great Kanto earthquake itself?

Go ahead.

Saucon Valley.

Honshu.

Honshu is correct.

It's most populous island in Japan.

For your bonus, what place is top?

Whose system of female chastity is discussed in a Margaret Mead book about coming of age on its island of Tao.

The Mary.

That's incorrect.

Samoa, or the Coming of Age in Samoa is the book.

Next toss up question.

What document issued by French King Henry Henry the Fourth in 1598, gave religious tolerance?

Saucon Valley edict of nuns.

If not, is correct.

And who gave religious tolerance to the Huguenots?

For your bonus, what story collection in which Jimmy Doyle eats with sophisticated foreigners in After the Race is by James Joyce and named for residents of a city.

Dubliners.

Dubliners is correct.

Next tossup question.

What thermodynamic quantity, which is a state, functions according or which is which is a state function according to Hess's.

It's like Valley and poppy.

And poppy is correct.

That's according to Hess's law.

Okay, for your bonus, in 2025, issues with Microsoft Azure revealed that an undersea internet cable had been severed in What Sea, which empties into the Gulf of Aden.

Okay, let's move up.

From ran a Red sea.

The Red sea is correct.

Next tossup question.

What country, which is covered in a great plane called the Orford, is the native home of the Magyar people.

And Saucon Valley.

Hungry?

Hungry is correct.

And its capital?

Is it Budapest?

For your bonus.

Next token prediction is used to guess the next word in a sequence.

By what machine learning models that power Gemini and ChatGPT.

Chat bots.

LMS or large language models?

That is correct.

Next toss up question.

What war during which the Battle of Blenheim took place ends with the Treaty of Utrecht recognizing the new Bourbon dynasty of an Iberian country.

Go ahead, talk in Valley.

The Reconquista.

That's incorrect.

Over to amaze.

So no conferring.

That war is the War of Spanish Succession.

Next toss up question.

What system of structures whose A and B members are split by the Cassini Division was first seen by Galileo around the sixth planet from the sun.

It's like a valley.

Moons of Saturn.

That is incorrect.

Over to Mars.

Go ahead of Mars.

The rings of Saturn.

The rings of Saturn is correct.

For your bonus.

What?

ABC series that premiered in 2024 stars Kaitlin Olson as Morgan Guillory, a janitor with an IQ of 160 who becomes a consultant for the LAPD.

Heather, you know what?

Genius?

Genius?

No.

That's okay.

I never heard of it either.

It's the show.

High potential.

I don't watch you.

And with that, we've reached halftime.

We have an excellent, very close match underway.

Currently, Saucon Valley leads with a score of 155 to Macy's 95.

And now let's take a moment for students to introduce themselves with their first name, last name, grade level.

And the answer to the following question.

What is your go to breakfast before a scrimmage match?

Tyler from Memphis.

Go ahead.

Tyler Iyengar I'm in 10th grade and my go to breakfast is, bagel and fried egg.

All right.

That is my go to breakfast as well.

Tyler.

Go ahead.

Madeline.

Madeline.

Steve.

Ellie.

12th grade and, the school breakfast.

Excellent.

I mean, a pretty Amethi, 11th grade, an overcooked omelet.

Okay.

Ian Holm, 11th grade.

And I just have a normal breakfast.

All right.

And over to Saucon Valley, stem on condition.

Senior.

Bagel, egg and cheese.

Ryan.

Pork sac, junior.

UN egg.

Okay, Alex.

Swarovski, senior, a glass of milk.

Okay.

Max Brasco, freshman.

Three Tylenol and five glasses of water.

Oh, wow.

You must have had a long night studying, correct, Max?

No, no.

All right.

For our bagel people, are we going.

Are we going to everything?

Bagel.

Plain bagel, Sesame bagel.

What are we going.

Everything.

Everything.

Asiago cheese.

Oh, I kind of that will to mix up our bagel portion now.

Okay, we continue on with the second half of the match with the following tossup question.

What novel?

Whose protagonist education is funded by Philomena Kinney, depicts Esther Greenwood's struggle with mental health and is by Sylvia Plath.

Saucon Valley, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

That's incorrect over UMass.

Go ahead and The Bell Jar.

The Bell Jar is correct for your bonus.

White Plains, Utica, and Yonkers are cities in what U.S.

state?

New York, New York, New York is correct.

Next, toss up question what opera?

Whose overture includes a march of the Swiss soldiers?

Does Gessler force the protagonist to shoot an apple off his son's head?

Miss William Tell William Tell is correct for a bonus.

What does the C stand for in the style sheet language CSS, which is used to specify the appearance of web pages on a computer or something.

A script B computer.

That's incorrect.

It stands for cascading for a cascading Style.

Okay, on to the next tossup.

What event which was suppressed by Light Horse?

Harry Lee saw residents of western Pennsylvania revolt in a 1794 against Good Saucon Valley Whiskey Rebellion.

The Whiskey Rebellion was correct, and they were revolting against a new federal tax on liquor.

For your bonus, what surname is shared by Fanny?

Who composed an Easter Sonata, and her brother, who wrote songs without words.

And the Italian Symphony.

Around.

Schubert.

Mendelssohn is a correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What country which was led during World War One by Prime Minister Robert Gordon, is the world's second largest and includes Silicon Valley.

Canada Canada is correct and includes provinces such as Quebec.

For your bonus, the Hermitage Museum is in what palace?

In Saint Petersburg?

It serves as the official residence of Russian czars up until 1917.

The Winter Palace The Winter Palace is correct.

Next tossup question what university named a delayed gratification study conducted by Walter Mischel and with the site of Philip Zimbardo simulated prison experiment minutes Stanford Stanford University is correct for your bonus.

What desert is the driest non-polar desert in the world and is in northern Chile?

Atacama.

The Atacama Desert is correct.

Next toss up question what troop of carbon can be made by growing it on silicon carbide crystals, or by using Scotch tape to pull off Saucon Valley graphite?

That is incorrect.

I'll continue for soccer or I'll continue for a mess.

Pull off a single layer of graphite.

Go ahead.

Graphene.

Graphene is correct for your bonus.

A translation by Edward Fitzgerald popularized what collection of poems by Omar Khayyam, whose name is Persian, for what type of quatrain?

The Rubaiyat, the Rubaiyat, the Rubaiyat is correct.

Next toss up question what founder of the DeBeers mining company promoted a railroad from Cape Town to Cairo and named both a 1980s Zimbabwe or named both pre 80s 1910.

Bob go ahead, talk about Rhodes.

Cecil Rhodes is correct and he named 1819 Zimbabwe as Rhodesia and also scholarship at Oxford for your bonus.

What American general who moved cannons from Fort Ticonderoga to support George Washington's siege of Boston, later became the first Secretary of War?

Knox?

That is correct.

Henry Knox is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What authors stories?

The five orange pips and the red headed league?

Go ahead.

Amos Arthur Conan Doyle Arthur Conan Doyle is correct, and they all began at 221 B Baker Street for your bonus.

What chronic skin condition, often linked to allergies, causes itchy, inflamed patches?

Eczema is correct.

Next tossup question what mineral is the main component of plaster of Paris and drywall consists of calcium sulfate.

Go ahead of Mars talc.

That's incorrect.

I'll continue for Saucon Valley calcium sulfate de hydrate and defines two on the hardness scale.

Saucon Valley gypsum gypsum is correct for your bonus.

In September 2025.

What former FBI director was indicted for making a false statement after Donald Trump demanded that he be persecuted or prosecuted.

Comey James Comey is correct.

Next toss up question in what Arab country where I ran a contact, a U.S.

military base in June 2025.

Did Israel attempt to kill Hamas leader?

Go ahead, Saucon Valley, Qatar Qatar is correct.

And they attempted to kill leaders in Doha for a bonus.

What German philosopher described the state of human beings being always enmeshed within the world.

In his landmark 1927 book, Being and Time.

Summer Kierkegaard.

Incorrect that German philosopher is Martin Heidegger.

Martin Heidegger.

And with that, we've reached the second lightning round Imus.

You will get to pick between the following topics.

We have a cities or complete the trio.

I feel like trio, but we cannot.

What do you cities, cities, cities?

It is.

It may.

As your second lightning round topic is eight cities identified these world cities whose English names start with the letter A capital of the Netherlands.

Amsterdam.

Correct.

Home to the headquarters of the Coca-Cola company.

Do you know pass capital of Turkey?

Ankara.

Correct.

Home of the Taj Mahal.

Agra.

Correct.

Second most populous Egyptian city.

Alexandria.

Correct.

Home to the US Naval Academy.

Annapolis.

Correct.

Capital of Nigeria.

Abuja.

Correct.

Syrian city besieged for over four years.

Aleppo.

Correct.

Belgian port and the most populous city in Flanders.

Antwerp, correct.

The capital of South Australia.

Adelaide.

That is correct.

It's Jobby and Madeline with the assist there on our geography soccer family.

Your topic is complete.

The trio given two members of a group of three named the third crashes and Pompeii of Rome's First Triumvirate.

Caesar's are correct.

Blossom and Buttercup pass.

Moe and curly.

Johnny.

Incorrect.

Athos and Porthos in an Alexander Dumas novel.

Artemus.

Correct.

Offset and takeoff.

Landing.

Incorrect.

Igneous and sedimentary.

Metamorphic.

Correct.

Ego and superego in Freud's model of psyche, ID correct.

The Buddha and the Sangha, two of Buddhism's three jewels pass the Elder Wand and the Cloak of Invisibility in Harry Potter The Resurrection Stone.

Correct.

Clotho and Lachesis in The Fate, the Fates in Greek myth pass, and that would be arthropods.

Okay, we'll continue on the final of the match with the following toss up question.

What artist was inspired by the suicide of Carlos Case Amos to paint luvvie and the old guitarist?

Two works?

Go ahead.

Talking about Casa Picasso is correct.

It was two works from his somber blue period.

For your bonus, how mood Breitling surrendered near the end of what World War Two battle during which Adolf Hitler killed himself?

Has the Red Army captured his capital, Berlin?

The Battle of Berlin is correct.

Next toss up question.

In 2005, Baltimore's airport was named after what attorney who argued Brown versus Board of Education going to Mars.

Marshall Thurgood Marshall is correct.

And Marshall was born in Baltimore.

That's why they named the airport after for bonus invest for theory what molecular geometry is possessed by tri atomic molecules that are not linear.

Yeah.

Bent.

Bent is correct.

Next tossup question.

In what state did a genocide of native people follow?

A discovery at Sutter's Mill that lured thousands of good talking King Valley, California.

California is correct.

And thousands of 40 niners west for its gold rush for bonus.

What island?

A popular duty free shopping destination often known as China's Hawaii, forms China's southernmost province.

Thank you, Hong Kong.

That's incorrect.

Hainan is a province.

The next toss up is in math.

Pencil and paper.

Ready?

What is the degree of the polynomial formed by multiplying the quantity three x squared plus two x times the quantity x cubed.

Plus go ahead so I can borrow fifth degree.

The fifth degree is correct from playing at home.

Plus six is the end of that equation for your bonus.

What author of the 1962 novel Another Country wrote about David, who has a relationship with the title Italian Man in his novel Giovanni's Room?

Picasso.

Incorrect.

James Baldwin is the correct answer.

Next tossup question what politician charged in 2024 with receiving illegal travel benefits from Turkey ended his 2025 reelection?

Go ahead, Miss Adams.

Eric Adams is correct, and he ended his reelection campaign for mayor of New York City.

For your bonus, what dimensionless quantity?

Equal circumference divided by pitch for a screw.

Or equivalently, the screws output force divided by the input force.

Mechanical advantage.

Mechanical advantage is correct.

Next toss up question what country whose like Keun National Park is home to a large underwater cave system, includes the islands of New Province and go ahead.

Soca Valley quickly.

Turkey time on that and is led from Nassau.

Go ahead of the Bahamas.

The Bahamas is correct for your bonus in August 2025.

What WNBA team became the subject of controversy after the Mohegan Tribe began exploring its sale?

Delivering the Liberty?

That's incorrect.

That WNBA team is a Connecticut Sun.

Next host of question is in math pencil and paper ready?

What two digit number is the only one that is both a perfect cube and a perfect square?

Please go ahead.

A mass 6464 is correct and is the sixth power of two was the end of that question.

For your bonus, what author wrote about four men stranded in a dinghy after a shipwreck in his 1898 story, The Open Boat, the Sallinger?

That's incorrect.

Stephen Crane is a correct answer.

Next tossup question what author detailed his experience taking mescaline in the Doors of Perception, and portrayed the drug Soma in his dystopian novel Saucon Valley?

Huxley Aldous Huxley is correct.

And that was in his dystopian novel Brave New World.

For your bonus.

In September 2001, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge became the first head of what Cabinet Department?

And with that, that is time.

That would have been the created after the 911 attacks.

That was Department of Homeland Security.

Well, that was an excellent match between two very excellent match teams.

Great job mates, but unfortunately not enough.

Good luck with the rest of your school year.

Congratulations to Saucon Valley.

You're on to the final four teams and thank you for watching.

We'll see you next week for the last match of the final eight teams between Wilson Area High School and Northwestern Lehigh High School, the Temple Saint Luke's School of Medicine is shaping the next generation of physicians in our region.

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