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Hello and welcome to the 10th match of the 50th season of Scholastic Scrimmage.

I'm your host, David Graff.

Today's match is between Jim Thorpe Area High School and Nazareth Area High School, who won scrimmage in 1999.

The match will be composed of two halves, with a lightning round midway through each half and half fumble paths as students can introduce themselves, and we'll get to know them a little bit better.

As a reminder, Scholastic Scrimmage requires rapid recall specific factual information.

It's not necessarily indicative of academic training.

And now let's begin with our first toss up question.

It's in math.

So pencil and paper ready.

What is the volume of a rectangular prism whose length is four, whose width is five, and whose height is seven?

Nazareth.

That would be 840.

140 is correct.

For your bonus, Lewis Hamilton won six of his seven World Championships while driving for what?

Formula One team named after a German luxury brand.

This is Nazareth.

Is there a Nazareth bonus?

Mercedes.

Mercedes is correct.

Do you know what team he was with when he won his first?

This is great.

Only any racing fans.

McLaren.

McLaren is correct.

Patrick.

Formula one found their.

Okay.

Under our next toss up question.

What politician ran on a ticket with Indiana Senator Dan Quayle when he defeated Michael Dukakis to win the 1988 Nazareth.

But George H.W.

Bush.

George H.W.

Bush is correct.

And he went on to win the 1988 presidential election.

For your bonus, AZT, or dodo, is a medication originally developed to treat what retroviral disease?

Aids.

Aids or HIV is correct.

Next, toss up.

What?

Jellyfish like beings which are native to the planet S are three, eight, eight and also seen on CBS, are hunted in a namesake Nintendo series by Samus Eren, Jim Thorpe.

Metroid.

Metroid or Metroid is correct for your bonus.

What state's flagship university is in the city of Missoula, which is near the confluence of the Bitterroot and Blackfoot rivers?

Utah.

That is incorrect.

Montana is the correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What boy who dies when Roger releases a boulder at Castle Rock?

Wears glasses.

Used to start a signal fire.

Nazareth.

Piggy.

Piggy is correct.

And that's in William Golding's Lord of the flies.

For your bonus, the young emperor commissioned the Forbidden City palace complex.

In what?

Northern Chinese city?

After making it his capital in 1403.

Beijing?

Beijing is correct.

The next toss up is in math pencil and paper.

Ready?

What is the fourth value in a data set whose sum is 40, and whose three other values are 13, 16, and five?

That's right.

That would be 11.

That is incorrect.

Jim Thorpe.

Jim Thorpe, go ahead.

16.

That is also incorrect.

Six is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What peninsula, whose north is spanned by the Cantabrian Mountains, is home to the Tagus River, which empties into the Atlantic Ocean at Lisbon, Nazareth.

The Iberian Peninsula.

The Iberian Peninsula is correct for your bonus.

Master is one of the first English words taught to what character?

Who becomes a servant after being saved from cannibals?

In the book Robinson Crusoe.

Robinson.

That's incorrect.

Friday is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What former shadow Minister for exiting the EU replaced Jeremy Corbyn as the leader of the Labor Party, and in 2024, became Britain's prime minister?

Keir Starmer is a correct answer.

Next, toss up.

What writer describe her feelings for Pieter van Pels in letters to an imaginary friend named Kitty, and hid in a secret annex while keeping her diary.

Jim Thorpe.

And Frank.

And Frank is correct.

Answers while keeping a diary for your bonus.

In statistics, what term refers to data points that are significant distance from the mean?

This is our bonus.

Bonus for Jim Thorpe.

I'll start again so you guys can hear the whole question.

In statistics, what term refers to data points that are a significant distance from the mean, possibly indicating some sort of error?

Outlier.

Outlier.

Outliers is correct.

Next toss up question.

What God whose bar was represented by the for worship at Heliopolis was often fuzed with R2 and Ahmed.

Nazareth RA ra is correct, and he was fuzed in his Egyptian role as the sun god.

For your bonus, what cyber security company caused major business disruptions in July 2024?

After a flawed update to its anti hacking software, Falcon Sensor.

Microsoft.

That is incorrect.

CrowdStrike Holdings is the correct answer.

And with that, we have reached the first lightning round in a pretty much coin toss.

It was determined that Jim Thorpe will get to pick between the following topics solar System objects or the Great Lakes.

Solar system objects.

Solar system objects.

It is.

And for this one, have a piece of pencil and paper ready.

I'm going to give you a few things to write down that you can answer with.

Okay.

Given an object in the solar system.

Identify whether it's a planet, a moon, a comet, or an asteroid.

Series.

Planet.

Incorrect.

Mercury.

Planet.

Correct.

Callisto.

Moon.

Correct.

Demos.

Moon.

Moon.

Correct.

Neptune.

Planet.

Correct.

Vesta.

Moon.

Incorrect.

Shoemaker-Levy nine.

Before 1992.

Comet.

Correct.

Hale-Bopp.

Comet.

Correct.

Umbral pass.

And Hagia.

Comet.

Incorrect.

That's an asteroid.

Nazareth.

Your topic is the Great Lakes.

Nothing to write down for this one.

You just have to tell me which of North America's Great Lakes shares its name with the state.

Michigan.

Correct.

Shares its name with a Canadian province.

Quebec.

Incorrect.

Shares its name with a canal in New York.

Over 300 miles long.

Erie.

Correct.

Shares its name with a North American people known as the Wyandot.

Huron.

Correct.

Is the largest by volume.

Superior.

Correct.

Is the easternmost.

Ontario.

Correct.

Is the northernmost.

Superior.

Correct.

Receives the Detroit and Yuga rivers.

Michigan.

Incorrect.

Has cities of Rensin and Kenosha on its shores.

Ontario.

Incorrect.

Contains Mackinaw Island.

Superior.

Incorrect.

The last one was Lake Huron.

We'll continue on with the following.

Toss up question.

What radioactive isotope, which can be synthesized by neutron bombardment of lithium six, is an isotope of hydrogen that has two neurons.

Jim Thorpe.

Deuterium.

That is incorrect.

Over to Nazareth.

Go ahead.

Hydrogen three.

Yes, we will take that.

We could also take, Tritium is also correct.

Answer.

Hydrogen three for your bonus.

In 1960, US pilot Gary Powers was shot down over the Soviet Union.

In what model?

A spy plane which lends its name to an ensuing diplomatic incident.

U-2, a Lockheed U-2, is correct.

Next, toss up.

What composer who used blues progressions in his Piano Concerto in F included a clarinet glissando at the start of his Rhapsody in Blue.

George Gershwin.

If you're ever in O'Hare airport, traveling underground between the United terminals.

Listening carefully in that rainbow tunnel.

Rhapsody in blue.

That clear echoes.

Rondo.

There's a remix of it down there.

It's kind of a hidden Easter egg.

Next toss up question.

What author wrote about the social reformer Romney in the poem Aurora Lee and published love poems in her 1850 book sonnets from the Portuguese.

That author is Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

Next toss up.

What artist whose 2017 documentary Five Foot Two shows the making of Perfect Illusion and her album Joanne, saying the songs Telephone and Bad Romance Jim Thorpe.

Lady Gaga.

Lady Gaga is correct for your bonus.

In what country was dictator for NCO Batiste toppled by the 26th of July Movement in December 1958.

Argentina.

That is incorrect.

Cuba is the correct answer.

Next toss up.

What tribal group whose member Red cloud signed the Treaty of Laramie, led the coalition that killed George Custer at Little Bighorn.

Go ahead, Jim Thorpe.

Mexico.

That is incorrect.

Over.

Nazareth.

Go ahead.

Sue.

The Sioux or Lakota is correct for your bonus.

What?

American woman painted a child's feet being washed in her work.

The child's bath.

Smith.

Incorrect.

Mary Cassatt is the correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What quantity for which pauses can be used to measure its dynamic type is zero for superfluids and characterizes a fluid's resistance to motion.

Jim Thorpe.

Viscosity.

Viscosity or dynamic viscosity is correct.

For your bonus, what molecule which can be oxidized to produce formaldehyde is the simplest alcohol.

Ethanol.

Incorrect.

Methanol is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What tourist sites, which include Connecticut's lake compounds, Virginia's Busch Gardens and Ohio's Cedar Point, which has the Blue Streak roller coaster.

Nazareth amusement parks.

That's correct.

They're all amusement parks for bonus.

What German philosopher expanded his concept of like, kite or ethical life rooted in tradition.

In his 1807 work The Phenomenology of the spirit.

Neat.

Incorrect.

Hegel is the correct answer.

Next tossup question.

The Yoshizawa Radelet diagram.

Aid in what art form used by atomic bomb survivor Sadako Sasaki to make 1000 cranes by folding paper origami.

Jim Thorpe.

Origami.

Origami is correct.

For your bonus, what mountain nymph who wasted away after falling in love with the handsome Narcissus, was cursed to only be able to repeat what others say.

Did you just hear an echo?

Echo, echo, echo is the correct answer.

And with that, we've reached half time.

We have an excellent match underway.

Nazareth currently leads Jim Thorpe with a score of 135 to 80.

And now let's take a minute to have the students introduce themselves with their first and last name, their grade level.

And the answer to the following question.

What is your favorite innovation of the last 50 years?

And we're going to exclude the internet and the iPhone, because that's something pretty easy that almost anyone could say.

So we'll start over at Jim Thorpe.

Maxwell.

Go ahead.

Maxwell Fiore, junior.

Anti-lock brakes on cars.

Oh, that's a very good one.

I like that.

Go ahead.

Gabriel.

I'm not never old Sarah.

I'm a junior, and mine's probably Netflix.

Okay.

Landon Thompson, I'm a senior.

And Wikipedia.

Okay.

I'm Luke posey, I'm a junior.

And I would probably have to say Bluetooth.

All right.

And over to Nazareth.

Patrick.

Go ahead.

Patrick would call a senior and stealth in military aviation.

Okay.

I'm veteran, shake, senior and flat screen TV.

I'm myself Lucas.

I'm a junior.

Minecraft.

All right.

A lot of Gould.

I'm a junior.

And cool math games.

Very cool.

So it is amazing.

People don't think about it, but a flat screen TV really does change the dynamic of a house.

My house was built sometime between 1920, 1930 and all over our like lower level.

We found this place where they had like drilled cables to where like we could figure where they place the TV, and now you can just simply place them on the wall and put it almost anywhere, you know, taking up all the room of a console.

So interesting innovation along with anti-lock brakes that's going.

Hopefully Max wasn't using them often up in Jim Thorpe, but who knows.

Okay, we'll continue on with the match for the following Toss-Up question.

What?

Explore who was set adrift by the crew of the discovery while trying to find the Northwest Passage?

Deems a large bay in northeastern Canada.

Nazareth Henry Hudson Henry Hudson is correct for your bonus.

The southern German region called Schwab's Vault, which is the source of the Danube River, has what?

Colorful two word game in English.

For us.

Black Forest.

Black forest is correct.

Next tossup question what condition defined by DSM five as a persistently elevated, expansive or irritable mood combines with depression in type one Nazareth bipolar disorder?

I'll continue.

The question for Jim Thorpe combines with depression and type one bipolar disorder.

Max Maxwell go ahead.

Borderline personality disorder.

That is also incorrect.

Mania or manic episodes is the correct answer.

Next toss up question what feat?

Accomplished by Barry Sharpless in 2001 and then again in 2022, was also accomplished by Marie Curie and Linus Pauling, who won in Chemistry and Peace Now's Nobel Prize.

Be a little more specific.

Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Not quite a we need a little bit more.

For what?

What is the accomplishment beyond just winning it?

I don't know.

Okay, we'll go over to Jim Thorpe.

I we'll go ahead for measuring radioactivity.

That's also incorrect.

Sorry.

This this question was kind of absurdly worded.

The feat that they're looking for is that all of those people won the Nobel Prize twice.

So two times they won the Nobel Prize.

He won it just like Marie Curie.

Twice in chemistry as well.

Next toss up question what country whose Lake Neoga lies north of Jinja has its largest airport and Tom vu and houses a means torture chamber in Kampala.

Nazareth.

Uganda.

Uganda is correct.

Your bonuses in math pencil and paper.

Ready?

How many days were there in the full ten year span from January 1st, 2010 to December 31st, 2019 inclusive?

3652.

That is correct.

And you made sure to account for the two leap days, which were in both 2012 and 2016.

Nice job.

Nazareth.

Next tossup question.

What author asked if the body were not the soul?

What is the soul?

In his poem I sing the body Electric, which is in his collection Leaves of Grass.

Go ahead.

Gabrielle Walt Whitman.

Walt Whitman is correct for a bonus.

Since 2021, the comedy group consisting of Ben Marshall, John Higgins, Martin Herlihy has created prerecorded videos for Saturday Night Live.

That comedy troupe is known as Please Don't Destroy.

Next tossup question.

What country that joined with Egypt in 1958.

Nazareth, Syria.

Syria is correct.

And they form the United Arab Republic for your bonus.

And OB anarchy leader named Somerset was the first indigenous leader to make contact with what colony's settlers, who are also aided by his quantum.

I know probably.

Plymouth.

The Plymouth Colony is correct.

Next tossup.

What country, which lies to the south and east of Adams Bridge, has its most populous city at Colombo and is an island off.

Sri Lanka.

Jim Thorpe.

Sri Lanka.

That is correct with Sri Lanka and it's an island off the coast of India.

For your bonus, what African country's 2024 presidential election was won by the Patriotic Salvation Movement's Mahatma Deby, the son of the former president Idriss Deby?

Ethiopia.

Incorrect.

The country is Chad is the correct answer.

And with that, we are on to our second lightning round.

Nazareth.

Here are the topics you get to pick from.

We have athletic cities or only eyes.

Only eyes.

Only eyes.

It is Nazareth.

Give these answers.

Whose only vowel is the letter I?

Common type of local wireless internet network.

Wi-Fi.

Correct.

Metal with the atomic symbol S n silicon.

Incorrect.

Winter Olympic sport with a downhill type ski.

Correct colored portion of the eye.

Iris correct with ego and superego.

A part of Sigmund Freud's correct long, thick tube shaped pasta.

Possible five letter synonym for the word mask or municipal.

Five letter synonym for the word municipal.

Past base on which a sculpture is placed.

Past.

A type of real showcasing key moments.

Highlight that is correct overall.

Female reproductive organ of a flower.

Past that one is the pistol.

Even though pronounced pistol spelled with two eyes.

And Jim Thorpe, your topic is athletic cities.

Given an athlete and sport, name the US city where their professional team is currently based Aaron Judge, baseball.

New York.

Correct LeBron James, basketball.

L.A..

Correct.

Miami or.

Excuse me?

Pause.

That's bad.

One of mine, Joe Burrow's football.

Cincinnati.

Correct.

Sidney Crosby, hockey.

Pittsburgh.

Correct.

Tyrese Haliburton basketball.

Pass.

Tua Tagovailoa, football.

Miami.

Correct.

Justin Jefferson, football.

Minnesota.

We need the city, but too late.

You already answered.

Who?

Yo, Rodriguez.

Baseball pass.

Asia Wilson.

Basketball pass.

And Thiago Almada soccer.

Pittsburgh.

No, I mean, I consider myself a pretty big sports geek, and I had no idea that he's a soccer player for the Atlanta Union and the MLS.

All right.

We'll continue on with the final quarter of the match with the following Toss-Up question what June 2024 event in which more than 1000 people died as temperatures exceeded 120°F, is an annual pilgrimage to Mecca.

One of the five Pillars of Islam, it's known as the Hajj.

Next tossup question.

What state, home to a failed settlement at Cape Fear, was the site of the lost Nazareth, North Carolina.

That is correct.

And they were site to the lost Colony of Roanoke for your bonus.

In a process called customization.

What has happened at least five times marine animals evolved to resemble what crustaceans.

This has happened five times a crab?

That is correct.

They've become too associate or look like crabs.

Next toss up question what continent?

Which should evoke a sad.

I experience so much tone in courting to big Giovanna.

Why nya in an essay is in the setting of works by Chinua Achebe.

Go ahead.

Nazareth.

Asia.

That's incorrect.

Over to Jim Thorpe.

Antarctica is also incorrect.

Roger Bay is an author and he's talking about the continent.

He's from Africa?

That's correct.

Next tossup question.

What analytical device, which can be approximated by a foam coffee cup, measures the transfer of heat during a physical change or chemical reaction.

Go ahead.

And Ezra.

Accelerometer monitor is correct for your bonus.

What American author depicted a union strike among taxi drivers in his 1935 play, waiting for lefty.

Smith.

Incorrect.

Clifford Odets is a correct answer.

Next toss up.

What English leader commander at the Siege of Georgia, worked with Thomas Fairfax in the New Model Army and beat Charles, the first in the English Civil War.

That's right.

Oliver Cromwell.

Oliver Cromwell is correct for your bonus.

What expansion Boss Standard is used for sound cards and other expansion cards on desktop computers, typically in its Modern Express variant.

Delivery.

Incorrect PCI, which stands for Peripheral Component Interconnect, is the correct answer.

Next toss up question what author wrote about 19 girls with the same name in an abundance of Catherines, and portrayed cancer patient Hazel in The Fault in Our Stars.

Nazareth John Green.

John Green is correct.

And for your bonus, what complex whose name means City of Temples was built as a Hindu religious site under served in the second of the camera empire in present day Cambodia.

Angkor Wat.

Angkor Wat is correct.

Next toss up question what river which formed Hells Canyon near the eastern border of Oregon, is the largest tributary that was just go ahead.

Snake River.

Snake River is correct.

It's the largest tributary of the Columbia River.

For a bonus.

What five letter word coming from the Kesh?

What language refers to a highly effective fertilizer made out of bird or bat droppings?

Although that is incorrect, guano is the correct answer.

And with that, we are out of time.

Jim Thorpe.

Unfortunately, the 125 points not quite enough to beat Nazareth.

Good luck with the rest of your school year.

And congratulations to Nazareth with 275 points.

You are on to the second round and thank you for watching.

We'll see you next week when the Highton Area High School faces off against Salisbury 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 are now working as attending physicians for our network.

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