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

I'm your host, David Graff.

Today's match is between the Highton Area High School and Northampton Area High School.

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

Half time will pose.

The students can introduce themselves and we'll get to know them a little bit better.

As reminders.

Classic 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 platform, whose mascot is called Wampus, offers heightened discord.

Discord is correct, and it's a chat platform often used by gamers.

For your bonus, what plastic with recycling code three has a three letter abbreviation and is used to make pipes for household plumbing PVC, PVC is correct, or polyvinyl chloride.

Next tossup question.

In what state?

In 1861, did Peach Beauregard compel Union forces under Robert Anderson to surrender at Fort Sumter, which guarded Charleston Harbor, Northampton, South Carolina?

South Carolina is correct.

For your bonus, what poet wrote.

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses.

In her poem The New Colossus.

Browning.

Incorrect.

Emma Lazarus is her.

Next tossup question.

What objects are reduced by Gaussian elimination?

Keep their diagonals the same when transposed.

And are rectangular arrays of numbers?

Go ahead.

Northampton.

Matrices.

Matrices is correct.

For your bonus, Juba is a capital of what African country that gained independence in 2011.

South Sudan.

South Sudan is correct.

Next tossup question what novel, which opens with a chapter titled looming, includes Tashtego and fellow Harpooner Queequeg and is depicting Captain Ahab's quietly heightened Moby Dick.

But we Dick is correct in its depicts Captain Ahab hunt for the title whale.

For bonus.

In string music, what four letter word indicates a player should return to playing with the bow after playing a section in pizzicato.

Nobody in the orchestra only heightened.

It's going back to being arco.

If you're going back to playing with the bow.

Next tossup question what woman who arrived at the solemnis barracks in 1854 was nicknamed the Lady with the lamp while nursing British soldiers during the Crimean War.

Go ahead.

Northampton.

Florence Nightingale.

Florence Nightingale is correct for your bonus.

Serial killers H.H.

Holmes and John Wayne Gacy both operated in what U.S.

state?

In whose city of Carthage, Joseph or Joseph Smith was killed by a mob.

Illinois.

Illinois is correct.

Next tossup question.

What capital city was designed by Herbert Baker and Edwin Lukens lies on the Humana River.

And succeed.

Succeeded Calcutta as the capital of India.

The height in New Delhi.

New Delhi is correct.

For your bonus in 2025, what International Sports organization elected Zimbabwe's Christy Coventry as its first female and first African born president?

Before.

Incorrect but close.

It's the International Olympic Committee.

The IOC, the other big sports governing body.

Everybody knows.

All right, on to the next.

Awesome question.

What author wrote about a lovelorn artist's suicide in the Sorrows of young Voltaire?

Go ahead.

Northampton.

Gretta.

Gretta is correct for your bonus.

A combination of clay and graphite is used to make what content type of what artistic medium, which typically is made from wax.

Sculpture.

That is incorrect.

The medium.

We're looking for crayons.

It's another way of making a crayon.

Next toss up question.

What quantity is the real component of impedance?

Equals voltage over current according to Ohm's law and quantifies opposition to electrical flow.

Go ahead.

Lehighton resistance.

Resistance is correct.

For your bonus.

What daughter of Jupiter, often portrayed with a wheel and a cornucopia, is the Roman counterpart of Tyche, the goddess, the Greek goddess of luck.

Nike.

Incorrect.

It's Fortuna where you get good fortune.

Fortunate.

Next tossup question.

What Communist who advocated permanent revolution as opposed to socialism in one country was killed in Mexico City on the orders of Joseph Stalin.

Trotsky is a correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What subject of the Hulu series dropout worked with Sonny Bell wanting to misrepresent the accuracies of an at home blood testing kit at her company, Theranos.

Elizabeth Holmes 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 between the following topics.

Brazil or American eponymous.

I don't know.

Brazil.

Brazil I don't know.

Presumably like Adam.

Brazil.

Brazil.

It is.

We heighten.

Your first lightning round topic is Brazil.

Answer the following about Brazil longest South American river which flows through Brazil.

Amazon river.

Correct.

Brazil's most populous city.

Rio de Janeiro.

Incorrect.

Brazil's official language.

Portuguese is correct, with Chile, one of two South American countries that does not border Brazil.

Peru.

Incorrect.

Brazilian city overlooked by Christ the Redeemer.

Rio de Janeiro.

Correct.

Country governed from Asuncion that shares its E-Type Peru dam with Brazil.

Paraguay.

Correct.

Brazil's official currency, the.

Skit type of slum named for a tree of the spurge family.

Skip style of Brazilian music whose name means new ways.

Funk.

Incorrect.

Brazilian city and former rubber center once nicknamed the Paris of the tropics.

That's the city of Manaus.

Okay, Northampton.

Your topic is American eponymous.

Give these words derived from an American person's name.

Toy.

Bear.

Teddy.

Correct.

Facial hair that runs down the edge of the face.

Sideburns.

Correct.

Dangerous genus of bacteria found in raw poultry.

Seminole.

Correct.

Red leaf plant used as a Christmas ornament.

How?

Drawing.

Electrical or drawing.

Electoral districts for Partizan advantage.

Gerrymandering.

Correct.

Luxurious railroad car.

Pass.

Tuba variant that encircles the player's body.

Pass a cross between a dewberry, Logan berry, raspberry and blackberry.

Pass.

Loose trousers worn by American women in the 19th century.

Pantaloons.

Incorrect.

C unit of inductance.

The last one is Henry.

I can't believe the salmonella one.

Imagine having salmonella named after you.

But it's for Daniel Elmer.

Salmonella.

All right, on to the next toss up question.

What novelist wrote about Quentin Jacobson's search for Margot in paper towns and depicted young cancer patient Hazel in The Fault in Our Stars?

Go ahead.

Northampton.

Green.

John Green is correct for your bonus.

What author wrote about an American girl who goes to Europe, where she dies of Roman fever after visiting the Colosseum in his novella, Daisy Miller.

Joyce.

That's incorrect.

Henry James is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What neighborhood?

Which is home to Minton's Playhouse and the Apollo Theater, names a literary renaissance whose authors included Langston Hughes, Lee Houghton.

Harlem.

Harlem is the correct neighborhood.

For bonus, what lowest layer of Earth's atmosphere contains most of the atmosphere's mass and weather?

The troposphere.

Troposphere is correct.

Next toss up question.

What artist who painted herself with a monkey and a unibrow in a 1938 Northampton Kahlo?

Frida Kahlo is correct.

And she was a third wife of Diego Rivera.

For a bonus.

What method of learning, which applies logic and reason to questions about theology, was systematized in medieval universities.

As scholasticism is a correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What novel, which features the reoccurring phrase for you a thousand times over, depicts a mirror in Hassans life in Afghanistan and is by Khalid Hussein.

Hiten.

Kite runner.

The Kite Runner is correct.

For a bonus, what so-called ceiling is the legal limit on the total amount of money the U.S.

federal government can borrow?

The debt ceiling.

The debt ceiling is correct.

Next toss up question.

What Arab country?

Which ibn.

So you'd tried to conquer around 1920, was liberated by U.S.

troops in February 1991 after its invasion by Iraq.

Going north.

Hampton.

Kuwait.

Kuwait is correct.

For your bonus, what Union, which represents thousands of U.P.S.

workers referred were refused to endorse either candidate in the 2024 election under its president, Sean O'Brien.

Teamsters.

Teamsters is correct.

Next toss up question.

What quantity can be measured using a secretary or other hydrometer?

Contributes to the heat index and is a saturation of water vapor in air.

Greatly heightened hydrometer.

That's incorrect.

That's what measures what we're looking for.

Over to Northampton.

Go ahead.

Humidity.

Humidity is correct.

Corbin probably kicking himself there.

And you do humidity, but yet hydrometer is measure humidity.

For your bonus.

Northampton.

What German originator of epic theater teamed with Kurt Vile to adapt John Gay's The Beggar's Opera into his 1928 work, the three Penny opera.

Faulkner.

Incorrect.

Bertolt Brecht is the correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What poem?

Who speaker cannot rest from travel and vows to strive and not to yield.

Was written by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, about a clever Greek hero.

Ulysses is the correct answer.

And with that, we reach halftime.

We have a close match underway.

Currently, Northampton leads with 125 points.

Truly heightens 105.

Now we'll take a moment for the students.

Introduce themselves with a first name, last name, grade level and the answer to the following question.

Who is your current favorite music artist?

We.

Hiten Henry, go ahead.

Quickly, Henry.

Come on.

First name, last name.

Grade level music Henry de Boer.

11th grade.

Favorite artist.

The Weird Al Yankovic.

Oh, okay.

Another 90.

Blast from the past.

From the 90s.

Go ahead.

Corbin.

Corbin Kline, 11th grade.

Van Halen.

Okay.

Adam Danner, 11th grade.

Tame Impala.

All right, Jed Cortez, 11th grade.

All them witches.

Okay.

And Northampton to go ahead in a barn horse.

11th grade, Taylor Swift.

Okay.

Brady Davis Heuser, 11th grade, guy Perez.

Okay.

Robert Judge, 12th grade.

And Coal Plains.

Sean Lamb, 11th grade, Gracie Abrams.

All right.

I'm a fan of Gracie Abrams as well, but I'm surprised how many the 80s and 90s are really back.

Okay, we'll continue with the second half of the match with the following toss up question.

Adam, you guys ready?

Next toss of question.

What explorer who sailed the half moon up a river to present day Albany was an English navigator who gave his name to a large bay in Canada.

Northampton.

Henry Hudson is correct for bonus.

What hormone produced by alpha cells in the pancreas works opposite of insulin by raising blood sugar levels.

Glucagon is a correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What two U.S.

states which will be linked by the bright line West rail line, share a border that passes through Lake Tahoe and Death Valley.

Going north, Northampton, Nevada and Utah.

That's incorrect.

A really heightened go ahead.

Nevada and California.

Nevada.

California is correct for your bonus, what star of the 2024 remake of The Crow played the decrepit vampire Orlok in Nosferatu, and is a Swedish actor with an older brother named Alexander?

Oh, this guy's got.

Of Skarsgrd.

Skarsgard is correct, but he is Bill Skarsgard because we didn't give the name of Alexander, his, his surname in that question.

For your next tossup question, what drug also called methyl bromide is most widely used?

Psychoactive drug in the world, which is the most widely used psychoactive drug in the world and is a natural stimulant found in both tea and coffee, we hope.

Caffeine.

Caffeine is correct for your bonus.

Through the Munich Agreement, Nazi Germany was allowed to annex what German speaking region of Czechoslovakia in 1938.

The Rhine.

Incorrect.

Its zu date.

Finland is a busy area.

Next tossup question.

What man who skipped the constitutional convention because he smelled a rat was Virginia's first governor and said, give me liberty or give me death?

That's Patrick Henry.

Next tossup question what state?

Whose former Democratic governor Roy Cooper, announced a Senate campaign to succeed the retiring go Northampton North Carolina.

North Carolina is correct, and he's succeeding the retiring Thom Tillis for your bonus.

What letter can name either a form of DNA that forms a left handed helix, or, in birds, the sex chromosome found alongside the W chromosome.

You incorrect Z is a correct answer.

Z DNA.

Next tossup question.

What construct can be achieved or ascribed follows socioeconomic in a variable abbreviated S, E, s and is a level or rank a person holds in a group.

Broadly, their socio economic status.

What do we think?

Yeah, we'll take that.

Social status and socioeconomic status is correct.

For your bonus in July 2025, what country agreed to grant more autonomy to New Caledonia, a group of islands it controls in the Pacific Ocean?

France.

France is correct.

Next tossup question.

What group which fought against the Northern Alliance and government of Harvard of Hamid Karzai, reintroduced a ban on women's education when it retook Kabul.

Northampton.

Taliban.

Taliban is correct.

For your bonus, what playwright wrote about the teenage math genius Thomas Cinna covertly and her tutor Septimus Hodge in Arcadia.

Tom Stoppard is the correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What data type can be searched using regular expressions can be joined by concatenation and is used to store text, often as an array of characters.

We heighten string data strings.

Yes.

String or string?

That is correct.

For your bonus, the Felix experiment demonstrated the relativistic dilation of what quantity whose dilation also underpins the twin paradox.

Time.

Time is correct.

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

You'll get to pick between the following topics.

20 tens animated films or geographic nicknames.

2010 animated films 2010 animated films.

It is Northampton.

Your second Lightning Round topic is 2010.

Animated films.

Name these animated films released in the 20 tens.

Third Pixar film to star buzz and worldwide 43 correct Disney film about rabbit police officer Judy Hopps.

Zootopia.

Correct.

First film to feature the night.

Furry.

Toothless.

How to Train Your Dragon.

Correct.

Superhero film that introduced Miles Morales.

Spider-Man.

Be more specific.

Into the Spider-Verse.

Correct.

Disney film about a team led by Hiro Hamada and Baymax.

Big hero six.

Correct.

Dreamworks film that used Justin Timberlake's Can't Stop the Feeling.

Trolls.

Correct.

Pixar film about Miguel, who travels to the land of the correct first Shrek spinoff titled For a Talking Cat person.

That's correct.

Wallace and Gromit spinoff that preceded a sequel subtitled Farmageddon Shaun the Sheep.

That is correct.

2017 film about Jean Ma, who lives inside a phone owned by a middle schooler.

The Emoji Movie.

That is also correct.

That's Jarvis sweeping the category.

Northampton.

Okay, on to heightened heighten.

Your topic is geographic nicknames.

Identify these U.S.

cities, states or territories by their nickname or I'll give you their nickname.

You got to give me the city.

The state or the territory.

The Aloha state.

Hawaii.

Correct.

The city of brotherly love.

Philadelphia.

Correct.

Mile high city.

Denver.

Correct.

Land of 10,000 lakes.

Minnesota.

Correct.

The Bluegrass State.

Kentucky.

Kentucky.

Kentucky is correct.

The Big Easy.

Chicago.

Chicago.

Incorrect.

The Last Frontier a state.

Alaska.

Correct.

The biggest little city in the world.

Reno.

Correct.

Where America's day begins.

A territory.

Guam.

Correct.

The Athens of the South.

Tennessee.

Be more specific.

Nashville, Tennessee.

Nashville, Tennessee is correct.

All right.

On to the final quarter of the match with this toss up question.

What island was formerly known as Van Daemon's?

Land is south of the Bass Strait and is an Australian island, home to a namesake type of Devon.

Northampton.

Tasmania.

Tasmania is correct for your bonus.

The first Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded in what decade?

During which the US's Great Society programs were launched.

From the 1960s.

The 1960s is correct.

Next toss up question what dramatic character who has visions of a bloody child and a floating dagger is prophesized by three witches to take the throne of Scotland for Hampton.

Macbeth.

Macbeth is correct.

For your bonus, what ruler from the House of Stuart was executed in 1649 after losing the English Civil War.

Charles the first.

Charles the first is correct.

Next toss up question.

What man's Third International theory appears in his Green Book, which inspired the solid green color of Libya's flag under his dictatorship until 2011.

Go ahead.

Al-Assad.

That's incorrect.

Over to Northampton.

Freebie.

But no conferring on this one.

That dictator Moammar Gadhafi.

Next tossup question.

The dragonfly probe will visit the Shangri-La region.

Of what?

Moon that has lakes of liquid hydrocarbons and is also the largest moon of Saturn.

That moon is Titan.

Next tossup question.

What singer who held a back to the beginning benefit concert weeks before his death in 2000.

Go ahead.

Ozzy Osbourne.

Ozzy Osbourne is correct.

And he was a member of Black Sabbath.

For your bonus, what?

Architect redesigned his own Santa Monica residence in the 1970s, and later designed landmarks like the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao.

Oh, Frank.

Frank.

Frank Lloyd Wright.

Frank Lloyd Wright is incorrect.

The other Frank, Frank Gehry, is the correct architect.

Next tossup question.

What town whose residents were saved by Bear in Delaware after the Starving Time was founded in 1609.

As the go ahead.

Northampton.

Jamestown.

Jamestown is correct, and was found as the first English settlement in Virginia.

For bonus.

What economic philosophy, dominant in Europe in the 16th to 18th centuries, emphasized a favorable balance of trade and accumulation of gold.

Mercantilism.

Yeah, mercantilism is correct.

Next toss up question.

What composer who used a lengthy English horn solo to open the Largo second movement of his Ninth Symphony, was subtitled From the New World.

So Nice Symphony was subtitled From the New World.

Northampton for shock.

Divorce is correct for your bonus.

The US Navy frigate Abraham Lincoln battles what fictional submarine commanded by Captain Nemo in Jules Verne's novel 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

The nautilus.

The Nautilus is correct.

Next toss up question.

What city, which was formerly ruled by the House of Forza, is the capital of the Lombardy region and is the second most populous city in Italy.

Go ahead.

Milan.

Milan is correct.

Your bonuses in math.

Pencil on paper.

Ready?

What is the perimeter of a right triangle whose legs have equal lengths of five and 12, respectively?

And that is the end of the match.

You guys know it all.

Anybody close to it?

30 is the final answer for that one.

And Lee heightened.

Great match between two great teams.

But a with 230 points.

Not quite enough.

Good luck with the rest of your school year.

At Hampton, congratulations.

With 280 points you were on to the next round and we'll see you next week when Parkland High School faces off against the unified school.

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