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Hello and welcome to the first match of the third round of the 50 season of Scholastic Scrimmage.

We're now down to the final eight teams.

I'm your host, David Graff.

Today's match is between Freedom High School and Moravian Academy.

The match, to be composed of two halves with a lightning round midway through each half and a half time, will pass the 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.

Buzzers.

Ready.

Here's our first tossup question.

What author who described winter afternoons in a poem about an oppressive, certain slant of light, was a reclusive poet known as the Belle of Amherst or Moravian Dickinson.

Emily Dickinson is correct for your bonus.

The protected area known as Devil's Marbles is found in what Australian territory?

Whose capital is Darwin?

Yeah.

Northern Australia.

That is when we take our judges.

You will take that.

The northern territories are northern Australia is correct.

Next toss up question.

What?

God who married Ariadne after she was left Moravian Dionysus.

Dionysus is correct.

And she was also the Greek god of wine.

For your bonus.

What Roman general effectively ended the Second Punic War by defeating a Carthaginian army led by Hannibal at the Battle of Zama in 202 BC?

Scipio Africanus.

Skip you africanus is correct.

Next tossup question.

What particle?

Three of which combined to form a nucleus of carbon 12, is equivalent to a helium four nucleus and is named after the first Greek Moravian alpha particle.

Alpha particle is correct and named after the first Greek letter.

For your bonus.

What team won the 2001 World Series?

After Luis Gonzalez hit a walk off single off the Yankees, Mariano Rivera.

That's.

Yeah.

Mets.

That's incorrect.

It's the Arizona Diamondbacks.

It's the correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What 1889 painting, which a 2024 paper claimed showed hidden turbulence in its 14 whorls, is a Vincent van Gogh work that shows the Moravian Starry Night.

Yeah, the Starry Night is correct, and it shows the sky after dark.

For your bonus, Joseph Lister pioneered the use in surgery of what?

Class of compounds often applied to skin or surfaces to prevent infections, rather than to treat them.

And antiseptics.

Antiseptics is correct.

Next toss up question.

What British monarch, under whom George Grenville served as prime minister, agreed to the Treaty of Paris in 1783.

Moravian George the third.

George's third is correct.

And that recognized American independence.

For your bonus.

Critic Louis Roussel coined the name for what art movement practiced by Georges Braque and Marcel Duchamp that emphasized geometric forms.

Cubism.

Cubism is correct.

Next, toss up question what crop?

The domestication of Tahoe City is serialized in next to make hominy Peruvian corn.

Corn is correct.

And then it's ground to formed.

Masa for your bonus.

What policy was upheld by the 1944 Supreme Court case Korematsu versus the U.S., which endorsed Franklin Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066.

Japanese internment.

That is correct.

The interment of Japanese Americans.

Next tossup question what title character loves Adolphus cousins, hates her father's Andrews Arms factory and serves as a Salvation Army major in a George Bernard Shaw play.

Barbara under shaft is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What monarch, who studied shipbuilding in Amsterdam while disguised on his grand embassy, won the Great Northern War.

Arabian.

Peter the Great.

Peter the Great is correct.

And he helped modernize Russia.

Your bonuses in math.

Pencil on paper.

Ready in miles per hour.

What is the average speed of a truck that finished a 100 mile trip in 80 minutes?

And that's time.

75mph would be the average speed.

Does anybody close some Arabian side?

Tyler, you look like you're getting there.

Next tossup question.

What unit of radioactivity, which equals 3.7 times ten to the 10th disintegration per second is abbreviated CI and named Moravian.

Kurri Kurri is correct.

It's named for a Polish French scientist duo.

For your bonus, what country in the Middle East is an archipelago whose capital is Manama, Bahrain?

Yeah, Bahrain.

Bahrain is correct.

Next tossup question.

What novel depicting the servant consul who accompanies Pierre Aeronautics aboard the Nautilus submarine of Captain Nemo was written.

Freedom.

20,000 leagues under the Sea.

That is correct.

It was written by Jules Verne.

For your bonus.

What woman known as the Sibyl of the Rhine wrote the musical morality play Ordo Vor two time, and was a medieval composer from Bingen.

No response.

Hildegard von Bingham is a correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What activist who was captured at the Battle of Calderone Bridge was a priest who gave Grito de Dolores to begin Mexico's independence movement.

He gave the Grito algo.

Hidalgo is correct me del Toro is the correct answer for your bonus.

What word?

Starting with Q names a class of distant luminous active galactic nuclei that are major sources of radio waves.

Quasars.

Quasars is correct.

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

Moravian.

In a pre-match coin toss, it was determined that you'll get select between the following topics.

Molecule abbreviations or literary mansions and castles.

Golden literary mansions.

Literary mansions and castles.

Literary mansions and castles.

It is.

Brave in your first lightning round topic is literary mansions and castles.

Answer the following about literature featuring lavish homes.

Danish prince who lives in Elsinore Castle.

Past Bronte sister who created the manor.

Withering Heights.

And.

Incorrect castle owning vampire created by Bram Stoker.

Dracula correct.

Castle, home to King Arthur's court.

Camelot correct family whose mansion sinks into a lake in an Edgar Allan Poe story.

House of usher.

Correct.

Author of The Haunting of Hill House.

Lovecraft incorrect children's book in which Mary finds a hidden plot of land at Missile Threat Manor.

Secret garden.

That is correct.

Daphne du Maurier, novel set at the Manderley estate.

That's du Maurier.

Excuse us.

Casco monteiro.

Incorrect.

Title estate revisited by Charles Ryder in an Evelyn Waugh novel.

Northanger Abbey.

That's incorrect.

Author who describe the spooky Bly House in The Turn of the screw.

And that would have been Henry James once before.

It was Brideshead from Brideshead Revisited.

Freedom.

Your topics are molecule abbreviations.

Answer the following about molecules known by abbreviations.

Compounds like PVC made by repeating monomers.

Past the protective layer of Earth's atmosphere damaged by CFCs.

Ozone.

Correct ions whose namesake pumps or inhibited by PPI.

Pass ion added to ATP to make ATP.

Pass.

Substance whose liquid form used in rockets is called LOX.

Pass SSRI is increased serotonin levels in these spaces between neurons.

Passageways.

Incorrect heat trapping substances such as CO2, abbreviated GHG, GS.

Thermal insulators incorrect.

Plant hormone, abbreviated a name for its role in causing leaves to fall.

At condition of redness and swelling.

In the name of NSAIDs.

That's inflammation.

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

What show's spin off novel, The Book of Bill, focuses on the Moravian Academy.

Gravity Falls gravity falls is correct for your bonus.

The logo of the travel company TripAdvisor and the mascot for the language learning website Duolingo both feature what type of animal owl.

An owl is also correct.

Next toss up question what organ removed in a collar?

See US tech to me is it has a six assist duct that joins common hepatic duct from the liver and is the organ that stores bile.

Moravia gall bladder.

The gall bladder is correct for your bonus.

What poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson is named for an aging hero who opts to seek a newer world and vows to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Ulysses.

Ulysses is correct.

Next, toss up what former church designed by amphibious of of Terror Laz and Isidore of Miletus to Turkey announced in July.

Go ahead, Moravian Hagia Sophia.

The highest fee is correct.

You would once again become a mosque after previously being denoted as a museum for your bonus.

By definition, the I and her are the souls who reside in what specific location within the realm of Asgard in North mythology.

Valhalla.

Valhalla is correct.

Next, toss up.

What man who was assassinated by by Postle.

Gnaeus founded the League of Corinth while king of Macedon and was the father of Alexander the Great's Moravia.

Philip, can you be more specific?

Philip the Second, Philip the second of Macedon is correct for your bonus.

What woman who is Henry the eighth?

Third wife was the only one to bear him a living male heir.

The future King Edward the Sixth.

Is the one who died.

Jane Seymour.

Jane Seymour is correct.

Next toss up question.

What airline whose flight 1282 suffered a sudden decompose session in January 2024 after a door plug blew out?

Freedom?

Alaska Airlines Alaska Airlines is correct in they operate they operate a major hub in Anchorage.

For your bonus.

What particle?

Who is responsible for the nonzero mass of W and Z bosons, was discovered at CERN in 2012 and is nicknamed the God particle.

Is incorrect.

Higgs boson is the correct answer.

Next toss up question what measure of central tendency is three for the sequence of numbers one, three, three, four, and five, and refers to the value that appears most often in a data set.

Moravian mode A mode is correct for your bonus.

The Trask family appears in what novel, largely set in California's Salinas Valley, a 1952 work that was inspired by the Book of Genesis.

Appears to be East of Eden.

East of Eden is correct.

And with that, we have reached halftime.

Let's take a moment for the students to introduce themselves with their first and last name grade level and the answer to the following question.

What would you like to study or pursue after graduation from high school?

We go over to freedom.

Nick.

Go ahead.

I'm Nick Hoffman, 12th grade, and I plan on pursuing finance.

Okay.

I'm Daniella Gazelle, I'm in 12th grade, and I plan on pursuing business administration and law.

I spring I'm ready to attend skiing 12th grade, and I plan to study aerospace engineering.

Okay.

Matthew Heinemann, 12th grade.

And I plan on pursuing civil engineering.

Excellent.

And I'm moving academy.

Tyler.

Go ahead.

My name is Tyler Schenck.

Wow.

I'm a junior this year, and I plan on pursuing my.

Okay, I'm a senior.

Schmidt, junior, and I plan on pursuing clowning.

Okay.

I'm sure my Mo and I plan on pursuing, juggling.

Okay.

I'm Isabella Laskey, and I also am going to for two miming.

Excellent.

So I don't know how the mining fits in.

Unless you're looking to all become, like, members of the Minecraft movie or something like that.

Know, miming.

Oh, miming.

I thought from over here, said mining.

No.

Wow.

I'm really into Minecraft because I'm like that.

So you can all be part of Cirque du Soleil.

That.

Yeah.

The main goal for Moravian Academy's team.

Okay, we can tell you about the second half of the match with the following tossup question.

What explorer who died in coaching in 1524 was a Portuguese captain of the South?

Go ahead.

Moravian Vasco da Gama.

Vasco da Gama was right.

He is captain of the Sao Gabriel.

For your bonus.

The deadliest act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history was the 1995 bombing of a federal building in what state's capital city, Oklahoma?

Oklahoma is correct.

Next tossup question what actor who played a writer in Field of Dreams and passed away in September 2024, voiced Mufasa in the Lion King or even Academy.

James Earl Jones?

That is correct.

And he was also the voice of Darth Vader in the Star Wars franchise.

For your bonus Inhumans, what structures composed primarily of repeating cheetah legs, sequence lines, the end that are the ends of chromosomes.

Codons.

Stop codons.

Incorrect.

Telomeres is a correct answer.

The next toss up question is in math pencil and paper ready?

What?

Only two digit number that is, both a perfect square and a perfect cube also equals two raised to the sixth power.

Freedom 60.

Four.

64 is correct for your bonus.

In Roald Dahl's novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, what candy craving boy is squeezed through a giant pipe after drinking from a chocolate river?

Gloop Augustus Gloop is correct.

Next tossup question what presidential election in which an electoral commission awarded disputed votes from states like Louisiana, was one or even academy?

1876 1876 presidential election is correct, and it was won by Rutherford Diaz for your bonus.

What nine letter word describes the following.

The flowering plants that blossom multiple times a year and live for longer than two years.

Perennial perennials is correct.

Next toss up question what character imagines being a Navy pilot and a surgeon before picturing his death by firing squad as a James Thurber story about his secret life?

That character is Walter Mitty from the book The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.

Next toss up question.

What island?

Whose city of sandwich is in the metro area of the provincial capital of Victoria, shares its name with British Columbia's most populous city.

Where Vancouver.

Vancouver and Vancouver Island is the correct answer for your bonus.

What country gained independence at the same time as India in 1947, after British India was partitioned into two countries?

Yes, Pakistan.

Pakistan is correct.

Next toss up question what composer who employed sprite sheet music in Peru, Leonor or Luna, was a member of the Second Viennese School who created the 12 tone system.

Arnold Schoenberg is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What language?

Which was used to write poems, drinking Alone by Moonlight and Quiet Night, though, was used by Lee by during the Moravian Chinese.

That is correct.

Used during the Tang Dynasty for your bonus.

In the Spanish sentence vein, a key, the verb is in what grammatical mood used to give commands.

Yeah.

Imperative.

The imperative mood is correct.

Next tossup question.

What moon discovered in 1978 is more massive than its neighbors Hydra.

Nix.

Go ahead.

Moravian Charon.

Yeah, we'll take it.

Charon HaSharon is the correct answer for your bonus.

What two word term, often abbreviated CR, refers to bills used to prevent U.S. government shutdowns by maintaining funding at current levels.

No compromise resolution is incorrect.

We're closer to continuing resolution.

Next toss up question what activist?

The main force behind 2022.

The Climate Book, began the Fridays for freedom.

Credit number.

Greater credit to Mark is correct.

And she's from Sweden.

A little bit there.

To end the question for your bonus, the new River Gorge National Park is in which state?

Whose city of Moundsville is named for the nearby Grave Creek mound.

Idaho.

Incorrect.

The correct answer is a state of West Virginia.

Next toss up question.

What author whose diary was published as the book On the Way Home, depicted the Big Woods in her series of novels little House on the Prairie.

Moravian Alcott.

That's incorrect.

Over the freedom.

No conferring, but it's freebie.

Go ahead.

Austin.

Also incorrect.

It's Laura Ingalls Wilder is the correct answer.

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

Freedom.

You'll get to pick between the following topics Emmy winning performers or brown or.

Emmy winning do do.

Let me quickly, Brady.

What do you want to use?

The Emmy winning.

Performance.

Okay, Emmy winning performers.

It is from your second lightning round topic.

Is Emmy winning performers given a performer and the role for which they won an Emmy?

Name the TV show Jim Parsons as Sheldon Cooper.

The Big Bang Theory.

That is correct.

Bryan Cranston as a former chemistry teacher.

Walter White, Breaking Bad I heard Breaking Bad first.

That's correct.

Olivia Colman as Elizabeth, the second.

In The Crown.

That's correct.

Jason Sudeikis as the title Ted Lasso?

That's correct.

Quinta Brunson as teacher.

Janine Tiegs.

Albert elementary.

Correct.

Jeremy Allen White as the chef.

Carmy the bear.

That's correct.

Kieran Culkin as Roman Roy.

Pierce lead Youngjae as Contestant four, five, six.

Good games.

That's correct.

Bill Hader as the title hitman turned actor.

That's part.

And finally, Jean smart as the body comedian Deborah Vance.

Did the reindeer.

That's incorrect.

That last one has all the, Emmy buzz.

Two for this current round coming up, it's hacks is the TV show Breathing Academy.

Your topic is Brown.

Answer the following about Browns City, home to the NFL's Browns.

Cleveland.

Correct comic strip that featured Charlie Brown.

Peanut the.

Correct town whose federal arsenal abolitionist John Brown raided.

Harpers Ferry.

That's correct.

Animal whose brown variety has the scientific name Ursa arctos bear.

That's correct.

Shipping company that asked, what can Brown do for you?

Fedex.

Incorrect.

State home to Ivy League, Brown University, Rhode Island.

Correct author who wrote children's mysteries featuring encyclopedia Brown.

Smith.

Incorrect.

State represented by Senator Sherrod Brown.

Ohio.

Correct.

City who segregated schools were challenged in Brown versus Board of Education.

Kansas City.

Well actually incorrect singer of this 1967 hit.

Brown Eyed Girl.

Morrison.

We need a little bit more Jim Morrison.

Incorrect.

Van Morrison is correct.

Answer on that.

And the one before, of course, was Topeka, Kansas.

We're looking for the city, not state.

Okay.

We will go on to the final quarter of the match with the following toss up question what color?

Which appears in the title of the 2006 Amy Winehouse album, is also part Moravian Black.

Black is correct for your bonus.

In what African country where 19 people were killed violently in July 2020 for protests against a finance bill, the president, William Ruto, eventually blocked.

I don't know, Molly.

That is incorrect.

Kenya is the correct answer.

Next toss up question what religious group waits in silence until moved by their inner light was founded?

Peruvian Quakers.

Quakers are correct.

They were founded by George Fox for a bonus.

In Voltaire's novel candied, the philosopher Gottfried Leibniz was satirized as what eternally optimistic character whose surname means all tongue.

Polyglot.

No.

Close its doctor Pangloss.

Pangloss.

Next toss up question.

What city, whose name likely comes from the Etruscan for mouth, was the birthplace of Galileo and contains the campanile Moravian.

Pisa.

Pieces correct is known as its leaning tower.

For your bonus.

What sort of numbers is the union of the rational and irrational numbers, and is represented as the number line.

Set of integers.

That is incorrect real numbers is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What metal whose trioxide is known as the Jones region, is used as an anti-corrosion agent in stainless steel.

Go ahead.

Moravian chromium.

Chromium is correct and has the atomic symbol c r for your bonus.

The name of the restaurant chain Ruby Tuesday comes from a song by what?

English rock band whose other hits include Start Me Up and Give Me Shelter for Gimme Shelter.

Rolling Stones The.

Rolling Stones is correct.

Next toss up question what Prime Minister, who ordered the execution of Louis Reale, resigned over the Pacific scandal and was the first prime Minister of Canada.

Go ahead.

Freedom.

Justin Trudeau.

That is incorrect.

He's the current prime minister over the Moravians.

Go for it.

McDonald.

John McDonald is correct for your bonus.

At what, 1811 battle in modern day Indiana did U.S. forces under William Henry Harrison Root, an indigenous army led by Tecumseh's brother Teck squatter.

Tippecanoe.

Tippecanoe is correct.

The Battle of Tippecanoe next tossup question what author of a collection titled The Tower, which begins with a 1920 review, Stephen King?

That is incorrect.

We'll go overall finish pushing for freedom, which begins with a 1927 poem about a holy city titled Sailing to Byzantium, was a native of Ireland.

William Butler William Butler Yeats is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What behavior that is intergenerational in monarch butterflies and drama in spawning salmon occurs?

Go ahead.

Moravian migration.

Migration is correct for your bonus.

What author of the Pulitzer Prize winning story collection Interpreter of Maladies wrote about a man named Gogol in her novel The Namesake.

Smith, Jhumpa.

Lahiri is the correct answer.

Next tossup question what two word phrase, popularized by the journalist John O'Sullivan in the 1840s, claimed it?

Americans had a go at Moravian Manifest Destiny.

That is correct.

And he was claiming that they had a divine right to expand westward for your bonus.

What King lost battles at the Catalonian plains and early a Raleigh m Raleigh on whom the year before he was convinced not to invade Italy by Pope Leo the First.

Attila the Hun.

Attila the Hun is also correct.

And with that it is time, freedom unfortunately just ran up against a very tough opponent.

Good luck with the rest of your school year moving academy.

Congratulations!

You are on to the final four teams.

I thank you for watching.

We'll see you next week when Allentown Central Catholic faces off against Palmerton High School.

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