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Scholastic Scrimmage: Lehighton HS vs Salisbury HS
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Hello and welcome to the 11th match of the 50th season of Scholastic Scrimmage.
I'm your host, David Graff.
Today's match is between Lehighton Area High School and Salisbury High School, who over the 50 seasons of the show have won the tournament once, in 2017.
The match will be composed of two halves, with a lightning round midway through each half.
At half time will pause.
Students can introduce themselves.
And we'll ask them.
A question so we can 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 tossup question.
What monarch, who introduced the table of ranks to incentivize civil service by Boyers, was an early 18th century czar who modernized Russia.
Salisbury, Nicholas.
That's incorrect.
Over Haydn.
No conferring, but it is a freebie.
Now.
Correct answer is Peter the Great.
On to our next toss up question.
What quantity?
One form of which is normality, is denoted by square brackets and is often expressed as moles of solute per liter.
Solution.
Salisbury molarity.
Yes.
Molarity.
Our concentration is correct.
For your bonus, what story?
Whose narrator imagines a person crawling between the title decoration before she goes insane.
Was written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
The yellow wallpaper.
The Yellow Wallpaper is correct.
Next tossup question what author wrote about Septimus Smith's death by suicide in a novel that describes Clarissa's preparations to host a party titled Mrs. Dalloway.
That authors Virginia Woolf.
Next toss up question.
What agreement, which promised the creation of a civil body politic, was signed aboard a ship in 1620.
We heightened.
The Mayflower.
Compact.
That is correct.
You signed warship in 1620 by the founders of the Plymouth Colony for your bonus.
What politician who served as James Monroe's Secretary of War was a South Carolina senator who defended the principle of nullification.
General Jackson.
That's incorrect.
John C Calhoun is the correct answer.
Next toss up question.
In January 2024, what team hired its former first round draft pick Jerod Mayo as the.
New England.
Patriots?
The New England Patriots is correct, and it replaced their six time Super Bowl winning coach Bill Belichick.
Or he replaced Bill Belichick for a bonus in art.
What term for the Italian for my lady signifies?
A depiction of the Virgin Mary holding the child Jesus.
That Italian term is Madonna.
Next toss up question.
What financial products which were subject of 2023 save plan are offered by Navient and Sallie Mae, and are debts taken out to pay for college?
We hope.
Student loans.
Student loans are correct for your bonus.
It's in math.
Pencil and paper.
Ready given 40 blue beads and ten red beads.
How many complete bracelets can be made?
If each one needs to have nine blue beads and two red beads?
For four is correct.
If you're doing math at home, you do have enough red beads for five, but it's the limit on the blue beads.
It keeps you at four bracelets.
Nice job.
Next tossup question.
What substance?
Which is secreted in part by the parotid gland and has alpha amylase to hydrolyzed sugars, and is also a watery secretion found in your mouth.
Salisbury saliva.
Yes.
Very roundabout way to get to the answer.
Saliva for your bonus.
What character whose parent repeats the words pieces of eight, leads a hunt for Captain Flint's plunder, and is a pirate in treasure Island.
Captain Jack, that's incorrect.
Long John Silver is the correct answer.
Next toss up question.
What God who is trapped under a golden net while having an affair with Aphrodite.
Salisbury.
Aries.
That is correct.
And he was the father of DeMoss and Phobos.
And also the Greek god of war.
For your bonus.
In what 1890 event did U.S. soldiers trying to repress the Ghost Dance movement kill hundreds of Lakota civilians on the Pine Ridge Reservation?
Wounded knee.
That is correct.
Wounded near the Wounded Knee Massacre is correct.
Next tossup question.
What villain who competes with valor for Marianne's hand after ingratiating himself to Orgon, is the title charlatan of a 1664 comedy by Moliere?
Tartuffe is the correct answer.
And with that, we've reached the first lightning round.
In a pre-match coin toss, it was determined that Lee Highton will get to pick from the following topics.
Sonnets or the 13 Colonies.
The 13 colonies.
We heighten your topic.
Is the 13 colonies.
What present day state?
That was one of the 13 colonies is where the pilgrims landed near Plymouth.
Anyone can say it.
Massachusetts.
Correct.
Was originally called New Amsterdam, new York.
Correct.
Was founded by colonists like John Smith at Jamestown, Virginia.
Correct.
Was named after an island in the English Channel.
Pass had its charter allegedly hidden in an oak tree.
In.
Maryland.
Incorrect was where and Hutchinson settled near Portsmouth.
Rhode Island.
Correct was founded by George Calvert and named for Queen.
Vermont.
Incorrect was named for its woods by a Quaker founder.
Pennsylvania.
Correct was established as a debtor's colony.
Georgia.
Correct is where the word Croatoan was found near an early abandoned colony in North Carolina.
That is correct.
We heighten your topic is sonnets.
Answer the following about sonnets.
Typical number of lines in a sonnet.
37.
That is incorrect language in which Giacomo de Latini wrote the first sonnets.
Italian.
Correct.
Bard of Avon, whose sonnet asked.
Shall I compare the two a song Shakespeare.
Correct name of Percy Shelley's sonnet about a statue of Ramses the second pass.
American poet of sonnet to science.
And the bells.
Pass.
Holy sonnets.
Author who claimed no man is an island.
Byron.
Incorrect.
Author of wartime sonnet anthem for Doomed Youth.
Pass.
Namesake of a sonnet form and author of The Fairy Queen.
Pass, German language.
Author of Do We Know?
Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus.
Pass.
Rainer Maria Raquel.
Sorry.
That was the answer to that one.
Can I give them the last shot just so they have it?
I'll give you the last because I said the answer instead of the next question.
So your final bonus question would be Italian term for a poetic turn in a sonnet.
Some ninth line.
Tone shift.
No volta on that one.
Apologies for that.
I ended up reading with all the lines on here.
The answer to the other to the ninth instead of your, your 10th question there.
But we got all ten in.
All right.
We'll continue on with the following tossup question.
What former country isolated by the Hallstein Doctrine, operated the Stasi and was led by Andre Conacher before reuniting with a Western counterpart.
The correct answer is East Germany.
Next toss up question.
What objects, which include the Japanese Obi used in martial arts are clothing accessories made of a strip of leather and worn about the heighten belt.
A belt is correct.
It's worn at the waist.
And for a bonus, what medieval Norse warriors named for their tendency to wear bear skins into battle, fought in an intense, possibly drug induced rage.
In the desert.
Berserkers.
Berserkers is correct.
Next tossup question what author depicted a trip to the Maribor caves?
After which Doctor Azeez is accused of assaulting Adela Quested in a novel A Passage to India.
E.M. Forster is the correct answer.
Next toss up question.
What stars whose masses are constrained by the t o v limit have a rotating subtype called pulsars, and are mostly made of namesake uncharged particles.
The height and neutron, star.
Neutron or neutron stars is correct.
For bonus, what is the Spanish derived name for a large bowl shaped volcanic depression that forms by collapse after a magma chamber empties?
Crater.
Incorrect.
That crater like thing you see in a volcano is called a caldera or caldera.
Next tossup question.
What war?
In which the U.S. supplied one side through Operation Nickel Grass, began when Egypt and Syria attacked Israel on a Jewish holy day in 1973.
Salisbury.
Yom Kippur War.
Yom Kippur War is correct for your bonus.
In June 2023, a dam over what river in Ukraine was damaged by likely Russian sabotage, reducing water supply to Crimea.
Kiev dam.
That's incorrect.
It was a.
The name of the river was the Dnipro River.
Next tossup question.
What European country is called?
Sana Gora in its native language is governance from Podgorica and has a name that translates as Black Mountain.
Salisbury.
Montenegro.
Montenegro is correct for your bonus.
What country?
Whose OSA Peninsula is home to the core to the Corcovado National Park includes cities such as Ella Holloway and is south of Nicaragua.
Honduras.
That's incorrect.
Costa Rica is the correct answer.
And with that, we've reached half time.
We have a great match underway and currently leads with a score of 105 to Salisbury 75.
And now let's take a moment for each student to introduce themselves with their first and last name grade level.
And the answer to the following question.
What is your favorite innovation from the last 50 years?
Because we're celebrating 50 years of scrimmage.
Hiten, we start with you.
Go ahead.
Sir.
Smith senior.
And my favorite innovation is electric cars.
Okay.
Adam Danner, sophomore.
My favorite innovation is artificial intelligence.
Natalie Blair, senior.
My favorite innovation is Bluetooth.
Okay.
Liam Burns, I'm a senior, and my favorite innovation is, solar panels.
All right, it's Salisbury solar that.
Go ahead.
So it is, JR. And my favorite innovation is the modern mullet.
Okay.
Claire Nichols senior.
And I would have to say gay marriage.
Okay.
I mean, I'm it's I'm a junior and my favorite innovation is snowmaking technology and service.
Okay.
Greg Tanzer senior year.
My favorite innovation is Wikipedia.
Nice.
The sole dad's beside herself with the modern mullet.
Do you plan on getting a modern bullet?
Perhaps with graduation pics or.
No, no, no, not for graduation.
Not for pics.
So you like it on like a guy or on on yourself or what?
Just in general.
The mullet.
Yeah.
All right.
I don't know what to say.
I'd love the research.
Off to see if the mullet was within the last 50 years, or maybe even predated 1975.
We may never know.
And no 1st May ever care.
We don't.
We don't know.
All right, let's continue the match with the following tossup question.
What physicist predicted length contraction as part of his theory of special relativity?
Salisbury.
Einstein.
That's right.
And it includes his equation E equals MC squared.
For bonus.
What second largest branch of Islam holds that Muhammad selected his cousin Ali as the first caliph?
Sikh.
That's incorrect.
Shiite or Shiism?
Islam is a correct branch.
Next toss up.
What commander?
Who is joined by the true Nova tree prior to the Battle of Watling Street, was leading a revolt of the ice and AI against the Romans in Britain.
Boudicca is the correct answer.
Next toss up question.
What instrument was played by the jazz composer of Ain't Misbehavin?
Fats Waller, who used the stride style of moving up and down its 88 keys.
Play the piano.
The piano is correct for your bonus.
A boy named Milo must swim in the cold sea of knowledge after jumping to the Island of Conclusions.
In what?
Norton Juster, novel named for a magic gate.
The Phantom Tollbooth is the correct answer.
Next tossup question.
What species, the first of which lies between Oriental and Vermont Avenue, uses an orange deck of cards in monopoly to heighten chance.
That's correct.
And it bears a question mark for your bonus.
Bernardo O'Higgins led the independence movement in what present day country, which later defeated Bolivia and Peru in the War of the Pacific.
In the Pacific.
Chili.
Chili is correct.
Next toss up question.
What country?
Whose Pico de Watei is the tallest mountain in the Caribbean, covers the eastern part of Hispaniola and its govern from Santo Domingo, Salisbury.
Dominican Republic the Dominican Republic is correct for your bonus.
Sharks can be born through what form of reproduction that involves neither the mother mating nor having her eggs fertilized by sperm.
Asexual.
That is incorrect.
Parthenogenesis is a correct answer.
Next tossup question.
What organ whose function is measured by its glomerular filtration rate.
The kidney kidneys is correct, and it contains functional units called nephrons, which help filter the blood.
For a bonus, what Nigerian author whose Nobel Prize citation claimed that he fashions the drama of existence wrote the play death and the King's Horseman.
What were you going to say?
You're bound.
I was just going to say Walter.
No.
That's incorrect.
It's Wally show.
Yinka is the correct answer.
Next toss up question.
What?
Prime Minister's government, which introduced the Pharmacare Act in 2024 with NDP support, governs with a minority in the Parliament of Canada.
Salisbury.
Trudeau.
Justin Trudeau is correct for your bonus in June 2024.
What tennis player who rallied from two sets down to win the 2024 Australian Open, became the first Italian to be ranked world number one.
Djokovic.
That is incorrect.
Jannik sinner is the correct answer.
Next tossup question.
What state, which in 1992 was the site of the Ruby Ridge standoff, is named the Gem State and is governed from its capital of Boise.
Salisbury.
Idaho.
Idaho is correct for your bonus.
What arthropod order of animals includes the Juro species, which a 2024 study found has a freezing response that helps it manage life in urban areas.
Cockroaches.
Incorrect.
Good guess, but it's spiders.
Spiders have a freezing response.
And with that, we have reached the second lightning round Salisbury.
You'll get to pick between the following topics.
Hall of Famers or identical initials.
And we don't know any spoilers.
Yeah.
Identical initials.
Identical initials.
It is.
Identify these people known by names with the same first and last initial.
You only need to give me the last name for it to be correct.
Spanish painter of Guernica.
Picasso.
Correct.
US president in World War One.
Wilson.
Correct.
Dictator of Spain after World War Two passed.
Outlaw killed by Robert Ford.
Pass.
Protagonist of a tongue twister about pickled peppers.
Peter.
Peter.
Piper.
That is correct.
Actress who starred in Some Like It Hot and The Seven Year Itch.
Monroe.
Correct.
Photographer of monolith and other works about Yosemite National Park.
Singer of What's Love Got to Do with it?
Pass.
Former Arizona representative married to Mark Kelly.
Kelly.
Incorrect.
A tie in director of La Dolce Vita.
Pass.
And that last one was Federico Fellini.
It's the correct answer.
Okay, Haydn.
Your topic is Hall of Famers.
Given a Hall of Fame athlete.
Name their primary sport.
Michael Jordan.
Football.
Correct.
Lou.
Gehrig.
Baseball.
Correct.
Dale Earnhardt senior.
NASCAR.
NASCAR.
Auto racing is correct.
Terry Bradshaw.
Football.
Correct.
Secretariat.
Horse racing.
Correct.
Arnold.
Palmer.
Golf.
Correct.
Ric.
Flair.
Wrestling.
Correct.
Michelle Kwan.
Tennis.
Incorrect.
Patrick Wall.
Pass.
Mia Hamm.
Gymnastics.
Mia Hamm was a famous early 2000s late 90s soccer player.
All right.
We start the final quarter of the match for the following.
Toss up question.
It is in math, so pencil and paper ready?
How many tortilla chips are in a bag with seven servings?
Given that a single serving consists of 12 chips.
Salisbury 84.
84 is correct.
For your bonus, what spherical pointing device is often used in computer aided design as an alternative to a mouse?
Due to its greater accuracy?
Stylus that is incorrect.
A trackball is a correct answer.
What terms used by people who are using AutoCAD in other programs like next Toss?
Tossup question.
What man who lived with the Cherokee after resigning as governor of Tennessee, won the Battle of San Jacinto and became the first president of Texas.
Sam Houston.
Next toss up question what structure?
Which Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore could not leave in June 2024 due to problems with the Starliner, is the second.
The heavier the ES.
The ISS correct or International Space Station?
For bonus.
What animals are called Fergal in German and Wasl in French.
Ferret.
Incorrect.
Birds.
Both name for birds.
Next toss up question.
What quantity is measured with a whetstone bridge?
Is one over?
Conductance can equal voltage over current and represents opposition to current Salisbury resistance.
Resistance or electrical resistance is correct.
For your bonus, what 19th century author used the Franco-Prussian War as a setting for short stories such as Mademoiselle Fifi and Palais de Suf?
I don't know.
Guy de Mo Passant is the correct answer.
Next tossup question what author invented the fictional Orange Catholic Bible and the Bene Gesserit sisterhood?
In a book about Paul, a treatise set on a planet, Salisbury.
Villanelle.
That's incorrect.
I'll go over to heightened and I'll finish the question.
Set on a planet known as Dune.
Anybody see the movie?
Either one.
Dune.
Well, the book was written by Frank Herbert.
Frank Herbert is the correct answer.
Next tossup question.
What city is the site of?
Nymph and Bird Palace is the capital of Bavaria.
Contains the headquarters of BMW and is a German Salisbury.
Munich.
That is correct.
It's a German city that hosts Oktoberfest.
And your host also visited Munich this year.
Oh, really?
Nice.
All right.
For a bonus.
In what state was the Democratic Lufthansa Butler appointed to a state senate seat in 2027 after the death of its longtime holder, Dianne Feinstein.
California.
California is correct.
Next toss up question.
What artistic technique in which George Surratt used to paint a Sunday afternoon on the island of the Grand Selkirk.
Pointillism.
Pointillism is correct.
It involves painting with many small dots.
For your bonus, the Davos gas crater, which is also known as the Gates of Hell, is in what Central Asian country?
Whose capital is Ashgabat?
Tajikistan.
That's incorrect.
Turkmenistan is the correct answer.
The next toss up in math.
Pencil and paper.
Ready?
What is the measure?
In degrees of the smallest angle in a right triangle?
If one of its angles measures 70 degrees?
Lehighton.
20 degrees.
20 degrees is correct for your bonus.
In Operation Urgent Fury, the U.S. invaded what Caribbean island in 1983 and toppled the Communist government of Hudson, Austin.
Cuba.
That is incorrect.
Grenada is the correct answer.
And with that, we've reached the end of the match.
And it is a tie.
Great match underway with 190 points.
So what does this mean in the tie?
Well, it means we are going directly to the next toss up question so everyone knows the rules.
The first team to buzz in and once again there's no conferring an answer.
It correctly wins.
Although be cautious if you buzz and answer incorrectly, your team loses and the other team wins.
So to break the tie, we will go with this toss up question.
What quantity which tokens law relates to unemployment has a real and nominal forms and measures the total value of a country's goods and services.
Heightened.
Liam GDP.
GDP is correct.
And congratulations, Lee.
And with that, you win the match.
This is definitely our closest match of the year.
What a great match between Lee Haydn and Salisbury.
Salisbury right to the end, unfortunately didn't make it.
Good luck with the rest of your school year.
We heightened.
Congratulations.
We'll see you in the second round.
And thank you for watching.
We'll see you next week for the final match in the first round between Saucon Valley High School and Panther Valley High School.
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