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

I'm your host, David Graff.

Today's match is between Liberty High School, who have won the tournament six times over the show's history, and Bethlehem Catholic High School, who have reached the final once in 1985.

The match will be composed of two lightning rounds with over two regular rounds, with a lightning round midway through each half at half time to the basket, and all the students a little bit better and have them introduce themselves.

As a reminder, Scholastic scrimmage requires a rapid recall of specific factual information as not necessarily indicative of academic training.

And now let's begin.

Buzzers.

Ready?

Here's our first toss up question.

In March 2024, what country elected the leader of its band past Taft party?

Basharat.

Do you?

My effigy as president, allowing him to govern from Dakar to.

Liberty.

Senegal.

Senegal is correct for your bonus.

What book of the Bible that details the Beatitudes in the sermon on the Mount is the first book of the New Testament.

Matthew, the gospel according to Matthew is correct.

Next toss up question.

What insects engage in behaviors like keeping aphids for their honeydew and growing fungi in underground farms, as seen in their leaf cutter species.

Liberty.

Ants.

Ants is correct.

For your bonus, what country which celebrates the Berkshire Festival before lent, is the birthplace of actress Sofia Vergara and the singer Shakira.

Paloma.

Colombia.

Colombia.

Colombia's correct.

Next toss up question.

What woman wrote about a dog who becomes a football hero in Riverside and wrote about an Oregon girl known as the brave and the pest in the Ramona series.

Oh, my daughter was all over this when we were practicing at home.

It's Beverly Cleary is the author who wrote the Ramona series.

Next tossup question.

What composer?

Whose cello Concerto in E minor made Jacqueline Dupré famous, and who included the tune land of Hope and glory in his Pomp and Circumstance?

Edward Elgar is a correct answer.

Next toss up question.

Joseph Fawzi described first described what effect in which water vapor, methane, carbon dioxide and certain other gases trap some of the sun's energy.

Becca.

The greenhouse effect.

That is correct.

For your bonus in 2021, what NFL wide receiver led the league in receiving touchdowns, receptions and receiving yards as a member of the Los Angeles Rams.

Cooper Kupp.

Cooper Kupp is correct.

Next toss up question.

What event in which which led to Giles Corey's death by pressing began with accusations made by girls like Abigail Williams.

Liberty.

Salem witch trials.

The Salem witch trials is correct.

And they were made in colonial Massachusetts.

The allegations for your bonus.

What country?

Whose highest peak is named after Arthur Conan Doyle, contains the Mayan ruins at Caracol and is governed from Belmopan.

Police.

Belize is correct.

Next toss up question.

What country contains both deer forest, the last wild habitat of the Asiatic lion and a tiger reserve on the border of Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra.

Liberty, India.

India is correct for your bonus.

In an annual Virginia tradition suspended due to Covid, what animals swim across the channel between Chincoteague and also Teak Island?

Horses?

Yeah, we'll take it.

So horses.

But more specifically, the ponies.

The ponies go back and forth in the water.

Next toss up question.

What type of materials, which Lee and Kim claimed to have synthesized in 2023 with LK 99, have no losses from heat due to their electrical resistance being zero.

Superconductors is the correct answer.

Next toss up question what Liberal Party head, whose government passed the Official Languages Act enshrining bilingualism, was Canada's prime minister throughout the 1970s.

Pierre Trudeau and in Canada, English and French are both governed languages for the next toss up.

What anthropologist whose methods in the 1920s were criticized by Derek Freeman, described adolescent girls on Tattoo Island in Coming of Age in Samoa.

That anthropologist is Margaret Mead.

Next toss up question.

What property is possessed by vectors whose cross-product is zero and is possessed by lines in a plane with equal slope?

Since they never intersect.

Liberty.

Parallel parallel lines is correct.

Next.

Or for your bonus, what African American singer whose 1939 recording of Strange Fruit protested southern lynchings was nicknamed Lady Day.

Just guess Benny King.

That is incorrect.

Billie Holiday is the correct answer.

And with that, we have reached the first lightning round.

In a pre-match coin toss, it was determined that Liberty.

We'll get to pick first from the following topics.

Liberty.

The topics are literary families or islands.

Islands.

Islands.

Islands.

It is.

Liberty.

Your topic is Islands.

Given an island name.

The country that controls it.

Greenland.

Denmark.

Denmark.

Correct.

Java.

Indonesia.

Correct.

Baffin Island.

Canada.

You.

I did hear you say Canada first.

Which is correct.

Louise on Phillipines.

Correct?

Tasmania.

Australia.

That is correct.

Sakhalin.

Oh, that's South Padre Island, Brazil.

That is incorrect.

Madeira, Portugal.

Correct.

Socotra, India.

That is incorrect.

Ibiza, Spain.

That is correct.

Becca, you have literary families.

Name the authors who created these fictional families.

The title family of The Brothers Karamazov.

That the Finch family in To Kill a mockingbird pass the Baudelaire orphans in A Series of Unfortunate Events that the Wingfield family in The Glass Menagerie does.

The Caulfield family in The Catcher in the Rye.

Ernest Hemingway.

Ernest Hemingway.

That is incorrect.

The patron sea children in The Chronicles of Narnia past the Tyrone family in Long Day's Journey into night, past the darling family and Peter Pan Pass an unnamed father and son known as the Man and the boy in the road past the Jong and who families in the Joy Luck Club pass.

That last one was Amy Tan.

Okay, we'll continue on with the match for the following.

Toss up question.

What teenage boy who watches interdimensional cable TV with his sister Summer appears on Liberty.

Morty.

Morty is correct, and he appears on Adult Swim along with his scientist Grandpa Rick from The Rick and Morty show.

For your bonus, in the 1990s, Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization made steps towards peace by signing a pair of accords named for what European capital?

Paris.

Paris.

That is incorrect.

Oslo for the Oslo Accords.

Next toss up question.

What lake that receives the Chari River is found in the Sahel region and borders four African nations, including its namesake, governed from an jemina Liberty.

Chad.

Chad and the Lake of Chad is correct.

For your bonus, Earth's magnetic field deflects what stream of charged particles coming from the sun's corona, whose entry into Earth's atmosphere creates auroras.

Photons.

That is incorrect.

Solar winds is correct.

Next tossup question.

What businessman gave his name to the colony in what is now Zimbabwe?

Founded the diamond company De Beers and established a scholarship to Oxford.

Cecil Rhodes for Rhodesia and also the Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford.

Next toss up question.

What God who pulled a sword from the tail of an eight headed dragon?

Orochi is the sibling of the moon god Suku Yomi and the sun goddess Amaterasu.

Suzano is the correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What element whose deficiency causes goiter is a dark purple solid that sublime at room temperature, and is a halogen with an atomic symbol.

I Liberty iodine.

Iodine is correct.

For your bonus, what author of the two line poem in a station of the Metro included Chinese characters in his long poem The Cantos.

Yes.

Edgar Allan Poe is incorrect.

Ezra Pound is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What composer who referenced gossip in the title of his Trish Trash Polka is an ash, an Austrian who wrote many waltzes, including The Blue Danube.

Johann Strauss the second is the correct answer.

Next, toss up what party?

Whose members discussed succession during the Hartford Convention, rivaled the Democratic Republicans and supported Liberty Whigs.

That's incorrect.

I'll get to you on for Becca.

AD supported Alexander Hamilton.

Second.

Go ahead.

Federalist.

The Federalist Party is correct.

For your bonus, a number of U.S. cities have banned new dollar stores from opening to reduce what areas which feature limited access to affordable fresh food.

Ghettos.

That is incorrect.

Food deserts is the term we're looking for.

Next toss up question.

What city?

Which games?

A trilogy that includes Sugar Street and Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz.

Contains Tahrir Square and is the capital of Egypt.

Liberty.

Cairo.

Cairo is correct for your bonus.

The death of the childless Charles the Second in 1700, began what war that ended with the signing of the Peace of Utrecht.

100 years, 100 Years War.

That's incorrect.

Is the War of the Spanish Succession.

And we have reached halftime.

Liberty currently leads with a score of 160 to Beckett's 25.

And now we'll take a minute for the students to introduce themselves.

Will give us their first and last name grade level.

And the answer to the following question.

What is your favorite innovation for the last 50 years?

We start with Liberty.

My name is Julia Khalaf and I'm in 12th grade.

Over the last 50 years, my favorite is stereotypical bouts that I.

It's very interesting.

There's a lot of different things you can do with it, and there's a lot of places it can go.

All right.

Very cool.

Declan.

My name is Declan Edwards.

I'm in 11th grade.

I think most interesting and my favorite is probably innovations in solar energy.

Oh very cool.

Go ahead.

I'm Benjamin Bloom.

I'm in 12th grade.

And my favorite innovation is the PlayStation.

All right.

Maddux.

Matt.

It's coffin.

I'm in 12th grade, and my favorite innovation has been self-driving cars.

Okay, over to Bethlehem Catholic and Matthew.

Go ahead.

My name is Matthew Hamrick.

I'm in 10th grade.

My favorite innovation is in nuclear fission and energy production.

Okay.

My name is Reese Santiago.

I'm in the 12th grade.

And I have to say, I mean, innovation would have to be mostly like CGI or more so, like the increase of how they've been able to use computer technology to, make more realistic scenes within movies.

Yeah.

Okay.

My name is Falcon.

I'm in ninth grade, and my favorite innovation is probably have to do with electric vehicles.

All right.

My name is Grading Analytics.

I'm an 11th grader.

My favorite innovations, Xbox.

Okay.

All right.

We continue on with the second half of the match with a question in mathematics.

Pencil and paper.

Ready?

What is the third term of the arithmetic sequence?

Whose first term is six and whose fifth term is 30?

Liberty 18.

That is correct.

For your bonus, what fundamental interaction which is carried by gluons, holds together the protons and neutrons in an atoms nucleus.

Glue.

That is incorrect.

Strong nuclear force or strong interactions are all acceptable answers.

Next, toss up what novel, which describes how 96 humans are produced by one egg in a novel squeeze process is a satirical 1932 dystopia written by Aldous Huxley.

You'll probably be reading the student in literature class.

It's brave New world.

The correct answer.

Next tossup question what state's 2022 gubernatorial election?

The closest of the year saw former TV anchor Kari Lake defeated Katie Hobbs, who took office in Phoenix.

Liberty, Arizona.

Liberty.

Over to the captain in.

Go ahead.

Arizona.

Arizona is correct for your bonus.

What Whig politician, often considered Britain's first prime minister, resigned in 1742 after 20 years in office.

Winston Churchill.

That is incorrect.

He comes way, way later.

It's Robert Walpole is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What war during which retreating troops used the Highway of Death and set many oil fires, followed the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq in 1990.

Liberty.

The Iraqi War.

Judges, will we take that?

Unfortunately, no, we can't take that.

So we'll go over to Bethlehem Catholic.

Go ahead.

The Gulf war.

The Gulf War is correct.

For your bonus, what author who wrote the alternative history novel The Plot Against America depicted fictional writer Nathan Zuckerman in many of his books.

Philip Roth is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What religion?

Whose concept of Mary period combines temporal and spiritual authority, regards the autograph as a holy text and was once led by gurus.

Liberty.

Hinduism.

That's incorrect.

Over to Becca.

It's a freebie.

Go ahead.

Tourism.

Incorrect.

Sikhism is the correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What novel?

Whose protagonist writes to her sister Nettie and becomes Sung Avery's lover.

Centers on a girl named Sealy and is by Alice Walker.

The correct answer is the color purple.

On to the next toss up question.

What actress who appeared in E.T.

and has her own daytime talk show costarred with Adam Sandler in both The Wedding Singer and 51st Dates?

Jessica.

Jennifer Aniston.

That's incorrect.

Over to Liberty.

No conferring, but it is a freebie.

Now.

She was married to the drummer from The strokes.

Not helping anybody.

Drew Barrymore.

It's the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What man who called the English mad as March hares in the Daily Telegraph affair dismissed Otto von Bismarck and was the last German emperor.

Liberty.

Kaiser Wilhelm.

Be more specific.

Kaiser Wilhelm the second.

That is correct.

For your bonus, what Nobel laureate included stories of music and nightfall in his 2009 book Nocturnes, and wrote about the butler Stevens in The Remains of the day.

Albert Einstein.

No, that is incorrect.

Kazuo Ishiguro.

One of my favorite authors.

All right.

With that, we have reached our second lightning round.

Becca, you'll get to pick from the following topics.

It's your chance to get back into it here with either us houses or groups of five.

Join groups of five.

Groups of five.

Bethlehem Catholic.

Your topic is groups of five.

Answer the following about groups of five people or things.

First of five books of the Torah.

Pentateuch.

Pentateuch.

If you don't know, we can pass or pass.

Sorry.

Okay.

Pilgrimage is one of the five pillars of Islam.

Pass.

Largest of the Great Lakes.

Experience.

Just say it out loud if you know you superior's correct.

Five member boy band that included Justin Timberlake.

Pass.

Mathematician who proposed five postulates in the elements.

Pass nation led from Wellington.

That is in the Five Eyes alliance.

Pass us city in which the five families ran the Mafia.

New York.

That is correct.

Psychiatrist who developed five stages of grief.

And Becca, that is time.

But we did look back to the tape.

And we did hear you say for your first one, the book of Genesis.

That is correct.

So we'll credit you with the points for that one.

And now we go over to Liberty.

Your topic is U.S. houses.

Give the name, not the address of these residences.

President's home in Washington, DC.

The white House.

Correct.

Virginia.

State of George Washington.

Washington, D.C..

Incorrect.

Pennsylvania.

A House on a River designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for Edgar J. Kaufman.

Yes.

San Simeon Estate, a castle built for a publishing tycoon.

Pass, Thomas Jefferson's plantation that appears on the Nickel Pass.

Elvis Presley's mansion in Memphis, Tennessee.

Pass.

Marilyn Lodge is a retreat for the US president.

Pass.

California ranch that Michael Jackson's home and amusement park.

Best resident of New York City's mayor.

Pass.

Mystery House, near San Jose with hundreds of rooms.

Yes.

That last one is a Winchester Mystery house.

Okay, now we go on to the final quarter of the match with the following toss up question.

What state, which contains the eastern portion of the Washita mountains, shares its name with a river that flows through Pine Bluff and Little Rock.

Liberty, Arkansas.

Arkansas is correct for your bonus.

In what type of fraction does the numerator exceed the denominator for improper and improper fraction is also correct.

Next toss up question.

What African country had coups in 2020 and 2021, both led by now interim president as Mia Goita, who dispose bah and Don in 2021, and governors from Bamako.

Liberty Malawi Molly is correct for your bonus.

Ezra Koenig is the lead singer of what band that released the 2024 album, Only God Was Above Us, and the song's harmony Hall and JJ.

The Beatles?

No.

You guys aren't fans of Vampire Weekend.

Come on.

One of my favorite bands.

All right.

Next, we'll go on to the next tossup question.

What materials that include both alloys and suspensions may be categorized as homogeneous and or heterogeneous, and consist of two or more compounds.

Mixtures is the correct answer.

Next, toss up what novel in which Captain Phoebus is stabbed in the back by Claudio for Olo depicted the disabled bell ringer quasi modo is by Victor Hugo.

Liberte.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame is correct.

For your bonus, what tightness?

Who had the Caritas and Dactyl guard her infant son in a cave on Mount Ida?

Was the sister and wife of Cronus.

Hera.

Incorrect.

Raya is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

William of Tiree wrote a chronicle of what conflicts that began in 1095 and were Liberty the Crusades.

The Crusades is correct.

And they were attempts by European Christians to reconquer the Holy Land.

For your bonus, what English soldier describe a poison gas attack to debunk the old lie that patriotic deaths are sweet?

In his World War One poem Dulce et decorum est.

Yes.

Excuse me, est?

George Washington?

Yeah.

I didn't know this one.

It's Wilfred Owen is the correct answer.

Next tossup question.

The Olson farmhouse is in the background.

Of what?

Painting depicting the title girl in a pink dress crawling through a field created by Andrew Wyeth.

And that is time.

The correct answer is Christina's world.

And with that match is over.

Liberty with 235 points.

Congratulations.

You are on to the second round knockout.

Not your year this year, but good luck with the rest of your school year and we will see you next week.

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