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Hello and welcome to the second match of the 50th season of Scholastic Scrimmage.
I'm your host, David Graff.
Today's match is between Merion Catholic High School and Allentown Central Catholic High School, who have won scrimmage three times over the last 50 years.
The match will be composed of two halves, with a lightning round midway through each half.
At half time.
We'll pass as students can introduce themselves.
We'll get to know them a little bit better.
As a reminder, Scholastic Scrimmage requires rapid recall of specific factual information.
That's not necessarily indicative of academic training.
And now let's begin with our first toss up question.
What Roman emperor who deified his lover Antoninus, ordered the Scottish frontier in Roman Britain marrying Catholic Hadrian.
The Hadrian Hadrian is correct, or Hadrian's Wall would have been, except the answer with the rest of the question.
For your bonus, what Bulgarian born artist worked with his wife Jeanne-Claude, and wrapped such landmarks as the Reichstag in fabric?
What is stamp love?
That is incorrect.
Christo is the correct answer.
And I actually get to see.
He did an exhibit close to here in Central Park about 15 years ago.
He wrapped gates in Central Park.
Next toss up question.
What solar system planet hosts a hexagonal storm over its north pole has a density less than waters.
And Marin Catholic.
What is.
Jupiter?
That is incorrect.
I'll continue for Central Catholic and has the most extensive ring system.
Central Catholic.
Saturn.
Saturn is correct for your bonus.
In the 1870s, what state elected Hiram Revels and Blanche Bruce as the first black senators filling Confederate President Jefferson Davis's old seat.
Virginia.
That is incorrect.
Mississippi is the correct answer.
Next toss up question.
What state's House delegation includes Republican Elise Stefanik, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Mary Catholic, New York.
That is correct.
And Cortez represents Queens.
For your bonus.
A valet with atrophied eyelids escorts Garson to a room at the start of what?
Play by Jean-Paul Sartre.
No exit is the correct answer.
Next toss up question.
What poem that describes a retreating sea of faith and imagines a plane where ignorant armies clash.
Is by Matthew Arnold, and it's his work set on the English shore.
That poem is Dover Beach.
Next question.
Or next toss up.
What organs?
Which in insects have receptors containing units known as Morticia?
Have mammalian versions with a light detecting retina?
Central Catholic.
Eyes.
Eyes are correct.
For your bonus, in 1921, Shoji Efendi became the guardian of what religion that originated in 19th century Persia and believes in the unity of all faiths.
Unitarianism that is incorrect.
Is the Baha'i Faith.
Next toss up question.
What artist collaborated with Thomas Jekyll on the Peacock Room and painted arrangement in gray and Black number one, which depicts his mother.
James Whistler is the correct answer.
Next tossup question.
What word which names the mascot of the NFL's Seattle Seahawks is German for lightning, and names a World War Two bombing campaign.
Mary Catholic.
Blitz.
Blitz is correct, and it names a World War Two bombing campaign against Britain.
For your bonus in July 2024, what former Donald Trump strategist and Breitbart co-founder reported to prison after he was convicted of contempt of Congress.
What is really.
Rudy Giuliani?
That is incorrect.
Steve Bannon is the correct answer.
Next tossup question.
What confessional poet described a man with one great toe big as a Frisco seal?
In a poem from her collection, Ariel, that she titled daddy.
Sylvia Plath is the correct answer.
Next toss up.
What?
Man that fired a shot into Dealey Plaza from the Texas School Book Depository in 1963.
Central Catholic.
Lee Harvey Oswald.
Lee Harvey Oswald is correct in that shot.
Killed.
John F Kennedy.
For your bonus, Lee.
Lo.
Beatles rule can sometimes be used to find what quantity?
The value.
A function of f of x approaches as x gets near a specific value.
That's low.
Beatles rule.
The asymptote.
That is incorrect.
The correct answer is the limits.
And now we're on to our first lightning round.
In a pre-match coin toss, it was decided that Marion Catholic would get to pick first from the following topics.
Your topics are taxonomic kingdoms or cities of the British Isles.
We'll go with cities of the British Isles.
Okay, Mary.
In Catholic cities with the British Isles, it is what city?
In the present day United Kingdom or Republic of Ireland?
Was there a great fire threatened the British government in the 1660s.
And anyone could say it.
Just say that.
London.
London is correct.
Irish independence was sought during the Easter Rising.
Dublin.
Correct.
The Scottish Parliament reopened in 1999.
Edinburgh.
That is correct.
The troubles raged in the capital of Northern Ireland.
Ulster.
That is incorrect.
The Old English speaking University, the oldest English speaking university that was founded in 1096.
Oxford.
That is correct.
Archbishop Thomas Becket was murdered in 1117.
Canterbury.
That is correct.
The Beatles formed in the 1960s.
Birmingham.
That is incorrect.
The name Cotton Opolis arose during the Industrial Revolution.
Birmingham.
That is incorrect.
Plastic was invented in England.
This second city.
Berwick upon Tweed.
That is incorrect.
City on the River Clyde.
Oh, and with that one, we're out.
Plastics.
This one kind of blew me away.
It was Birmingham.
Plastic was invented in Birmingham, in the United Kingdom.
Central.
Catholic.
Your topic is taxonomic kingdoms.
Now break out the pencil and paper because you have to write some things down to prepare for the responses.
In the five Kingdom classification system.
Are these organisms considered animals, plants?
Fungi, protists or manera?
Now the questions begin.
The giant panda.
Animals.
Correct.
Octopus and animal.
Correct.
Basilius, a thrush is the cause of anthrax.
Fungi.
That is incorrect.
Archaea.
Bacteria.
That is correct.
Moss plants.
Correct.
Baker's yeast.
Fungus.
Correct.
The photosynthetic.
You.
Galena band.
That is, Incorrect.
Fern.
Plants.
Correct.
P Nate Tatum.
The source of penicillin.
Fungi.
That is correct.
And sea anemones.
Animals.
That is correct.
All right.
We'll continue on with the following.
Toss up question.
What man who names the Broadway theater where Hamilton plays wrote the music for the King and I in collaboration with lyricist Oscar Hammerstein.
So take it.
No one seen Hamilton on Broadway at all.
It's the Richard Rodgers Theater, and Richard Rodgers is the composer.
Next toss up question.
What island contains?
The town of Hanga ROA is inhabited by the Rapanui people and is a Chilean possession that contains large stone moai statues.
Central Catholic.
Easter Island.
Easter Island is correct for your bonus.
Oliver Cromwell's protectorate abolished.
What?
Parliament?
The remedy produced after Thomas Pride purged the parliament.
Puritan Parliament.
That is incorrect.
The Rump Parliament is the correct answer.
Next, toss up.
What medal which oxidizes to form a green layer known as Central Catholic.
Copper.
Copper is correct, and it's still used to coat pennies.
Your bonuses in math.
Pencil and paper.
Ready?
What is the smallest number that, when rounded to the nearest hundredth, could be rounded up to 0.13.
0.125.
That is correct.
Next toss up question.
What religion which reveres the creator deity bond yields and venerates lowa such as Papa Legba and a Socratic ear, is a syncretic faith that developed in Haiti.
Central Catholic.
Rastafarian ism.
That is incorrect.
Over to Marian Catholic.
No conferring, but up to you.
Marian Catholic.
Voodoo.
Voodoo is correct.
For your bonus, Kit Carson is buried in the town of Taos.
Which is in what state?
Whose cities include Clovis and Rio Rancho.
Texas is incorrect.
New Mexico is a correct answer.
Next toss up.
In what decade?
Which Thomas Wolfe called the me decade.
Did an Arab oil embargo fueled stagflation amid celebrate of the US bicentennial?
Central Catholic.
The 1970s.
The 1970s is correct.
For your bonus, the Gracie brothers developed the popular Brazilian form of what?
Japanese martial art, whose name means gentle art.
Jiu jitsu.
Jiu jitsu is correct.
Next toss up question.
What character smuggles goods to the falsely imprisoned muff?
Potter is raised by Aunt Polly and Quartz Becky Thatcher in a novel by Mark Twain.
Central Catholic.
Tom Sawyer.
Tom Sawyer is correct for your bonus.
What viral disease?
Whose A and B types are preventable by vaccines, has a C type that can cause cirrhosis and liver cancer.
Hepatitis.
Hepatitis, hepatitis or viral hepatitis is correct.
And with that, we have reached halftime.
We have a great match underway right now.
Allentown Central Catholic leads Marion Catholic with a score of 130 to 55.
And now we'll have the students introduce themselves with their first and last name grade level.
And the answer to the following question.
In celebration of the 50th season, what is your favorite innovation from the last 50 years?
And we've mentioned internet and iPhone off the table to the obvious ones.
So Marian Catholic, James, we start with you.
Go ahead.
James Gomez Jr. My favorite innovation would be, the PlayStation.
That's a good one.
And it's sold out I think over easily over hundreds of billions of editions.
So definitely a big influence on society.
Colleen go ahead.
Colleen goes for college.
Junior.
My favorite innovation is probably the 3D.
Okay.
Isaac.
Isaac Corriveau I'm a senior.
My favorite innovation would.
Have to be the TV.
Yeah.
All right.
Eli.
My name's Eli Corriveau.
I'm a senior, and if I were to have to pick my favorite innovation, it would probably be, insulin production and insulin use.
Because I'm diabetic.
Very good.
All right, central Catholic.
George.
Go ahead.
I am George Newman.
And my favorite, innovation would probably have to be the insulin bite for very similar reasons.
Okay, Jim.
My name is Jim Logan.
I'm in 11th grade.
My favorite innovation, probably Bluetooth.
All right.
I'm Gabby Martinez, I'm a junior.
And my favorite innovation would probably be everybody.
Okay.
My name is Matthew Alvarado.
I'm a junior, and my favorite innovation would probably be the Xbox.
Very cool.
Yeah.
Modern medicine.
It does amaze me how much it's evolved over 50 years, and I've often thought about like 50 years from now.
What what will possibly be like like will organ transplant be as difficult or insulin?
How much simpler will it be to help balance out things like diabetes?
All right.
Onto the second half of the match for the following tossup question.
What novel, whose Epilog is narrow, is narrated by Professor Pierre Chateau, features Aunt Lydia, the commander, and Offred.
It was written by Margaret Atwood.
It also became a popular TV series.
The Handmaid's Tale.
Next toss up question.
What series in which Jack McBrayer played the seemingly immortal page.
Kenneth starred Tina Fey as writer Liz Lemon and was in South Park.
Say it again.
South Park.
That is incorrect.
All continue for Marion Catholic and was set at NBC headquarters in New York City.
No conferring, but if you know what was it?
Oh, it's a good one.
Everyone should queue up.
Netflix night 30 Rock.
It's the TV series.
Next toss up question.
In what effect?
Whose transverse form was measured in the eyes.
Stillwell experiment.
Does a moving observer perceive a change in a wave's frequency?
Central.
Catholic.
The Doppler effect.
The Doppler effect is correct.
Your bonuses in math.
Pencil and paper.
Ready?
Two answers are required.
What are the only two prime numbers that, when added together, produce a sum of 21?
19 and two.
19 and two is correct.
Next toss up.
Question.
What country's revolution in which the average secret police were broken up by Americans in 1956, ended with the arrival of Soviet tanks in Budapest, marrying Catholic Hungarian Revolution.
The Hungarian Revolution, or Hungary is correct.
Your bonus?
In what state was March for Our Lives?
Founded by survivors of a 2018 school shooting in parkland.
Parkland.
Say it again.
Say exactly what you said.
Parkland?
No.
Parkland.
Parkland is the city we're looking for the state.
State was Florida.
Next toss up question.
What instrument?
Whose virtuosos include J.J. Johnson and Glenn Miller, had an earlier form called a sac jackpot and is played using a slide.
Very Catholic.
Is it a trombone?
The trombone is correct.
For your bonus, what American author of the novel Babbitt also wrote Arrowsmith.
Go ahead.
And your captain.
To.
Mark Twain.
That is incorrect.
Sinclair Lewis is the correct answer.
Next tossup question.
What acid used in the wet method to make phosphoric acid can be made using the contact process, and is a strong acid with the chemical formula H2S sulfuric acid.
Mary Catholic.
Sulfuric acid.
Sulfuric acid is correct, and its formula is H2So4.
For your bonus.
Modern Tanzania was formed by the Union of Tanzania and what archipelago in the Indian Ocean.
Zanzibar.
Zanzibar is correct.
Next tossup question.
What politician who was CEO of Halliburton in the late 1990s, served as both George H.W.
Bush's defense secretary and George W Bush's vice president.
Central Catholic.
Al Gore.
That's incorrect.
Over to Marian Catholic.
It's again, no conferring.
You can buzz in if you know it or think you know it.
Go ahead.
Mitt Romney.
That's also incorrect.
It's Dick Cheney.
Next, toss up what cities?
Los Angeles neighborhood contains the Griffith Observatory, while other landmarks like Grauman's Chinese Theater lie on its Hollywood Boulevard.
Central Catholic.
Los Angeles.
Los Angeles is correct in grand theaters on the Hollywood Boulevard.
For your bonus, what rapper's 2021 album Hall of Fame, which starts and ends with the songs painting, Pictures and Bloody canvas, includes the hit rap star.
Oh, this is a bonus for Central Catholic.
Polo G polo G is correct.
Rethinking polo GTI.
Oh well, they were correct.
Central Catholic apology.
Next toss up question.
What nutrient isolated by Albert Saint George is called a Swarbrick acid because it treats symptoms of scurvy and is a vitamin found in very Catholic vitamin C?
That is correct.
Its vitamin found in citrus fruits.
For your bonus, what 1959 play by William Gibson depicts and Sullivan's real life work teaching language and discipline to a young Helen Keller.
What is Helen Keller?
The story that is incorrect.
The Miracle Worker is the correct answer.
And with that, we have reached our second lightning round.
It's Allentown Central Catholic.
You'll get to pick between the following topics.
Fictional mice or moths, mice or months and their fictional mice.
Some months.
Central Catholic months.
It is.
Listen very closely to these questions and name these months that contain Veterans Day and Thanksgiving in November.
Correct?
Can end with a leap day.
February.
Correct.
It's first.
Monday is Labor Day.
September.
Correct.
On the Muslim calendar, the holy month of fasting.
Anybody can say it.
That is incorrect.
It's 26.
Day is Boxing Day in the UK.
December.
Correct.
Named for the Roman god of war.
Augustus.
That is incorrect.
Called a narrow in Spanish.
January.
Correct.
Some chemists observe Mole Day on its 25th October.
Say it again.
October.
Correct.
On the Jewish calendar month when Yom Kippur is observed.
September.
That is incorrect on the French Revolutionary calendar.
September.
Month.
When Maximilien Robespierre was overthrown.
August.
That's also incorrect.
I say listen carefully.
We're asking for specific calendars.
So Thermidor would be on the French Revolution calendar.
When Robespierre was overthrown.
Burying Catholic.
Your topic is fictional.
Mice.
Answer the following about mice in fiction.
A cartoon mouse chased by the cat named Tom.
Jerry.
Correct.
Mascot of Disney and love interest of Minnie.
Mickey Mouse.
Correct.
Title Mouse of Daniel Keyes book.
Stuart Little.
That's incorrect.
Mouse whose burrow is saved by the title rats of NiMH.
If you don't know, you can say past.
Move on.
Yes.
Author.
Who created the mouse?
Ricky Ricotta and Captain Underpants.
Stuart Little.
Incorrect.
Disney film in which the mouse rook fur saves the title.
Felines from death.
Aristocats.
That's correct.
Number of blind mice in an English nursery rhyme.
That's correct.
Fastest mouse in all of Mexico in Looney Tunes cartoons.
I guess.
Speedy.
Gonzalez.
That's correct.
Name shared by the fictional mouse reporter Stilton in in.
And an Apache chief.
That was Geronimo.
That last one.
Okay, we'll continue on with the final quarter of the match with the following toss up question.
What novel set at Mythic Manor is by Francis Hodge Burnett and portrays an orphan named Mary Lennox, who discovers the title secluded place.
The Secret Garden.
Mary Catholic.
The secret Garden the secret garden is correct.
For your bonus, Scott Joplin, who wrote the song The Entertainer, is often called the King of what genre of music, characterized by syncopated rhythms.
This is a bonus for Marin Castle.
The blues.
That is incorrect.
Georgia Central Catholic.
What was your guess?
Ragtime.
Ragtime is correct, but unfortunately, no points.
Just the nerd credit on that one.
Next tossup question.
What home country of Nobel Prize winning author Orhan Pamuk contains the Bosphorus Bridge and the mosque.
The higher ground Catholic Turkey.
Turkey is correct.
It contains a mosque, the highest Sofia, and in the city of Istanbul.
So Turkey is correct for your bonus.
During an argument over the bleeding Kansas crisis, Preston Brooks canned or caned what abolition?
Abolitionist Senator from Massachusetts on the Senate floor.
Abe Lincoln.
Incorrect.
Charles Sumner is the correct answer.
Next toss up in mathematics.
Pencil and paper.
Ready?
What is the largest prime factor of the number?
132?
Given that 132 is a multiple of both four Central Catholic.
11.
11 is correct.
It's a multiple of both four and three for your bonus.
In 1866, what Austrian monk published his laws of independent assortment and segregation, which paved the way for modern genetics.
I go, oh no, no, no, Mendel.
Mendel.
Mendel is correct.
Next toss up question.
What explorer who wrote the Mundus Nouveau letter in 1503 was honored by the mapmaker Martin Virgil Mueller said for Captain.
America was spooky.
America was correct.
And he was honored by Virgil Mueller by having two continents named after him in the New World.
For your bonus.
In Norse myth, the owner of the yogurt horn will kill and be killed by Loki during Ragnarok.
It's actually Thor.
Thor.
Incorrect.
Heimdall is the correct answer.
Next tossup question.
What NFL team who won Super Bowl 37 with MVP safety Derrick Jackson also won Super Bowl 55, in 2021 with Rob Gronkowski and Central Catholic.
The New England Patriots.
That's incorrect.
I'll finish for Marin Catholic and Tom Brady.
James Marin Catholic.
Dolphins.
That is also incorrect.
I'm a Dolphins and I wish they'd won the Super Bowl.
Back then it was the Tampa Bay Buccaneers that was Tom Brady's return.
Season when he.
Switched from New England over to to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Next toss up question.
What river, which is overlooked by the Castille?
Saint Angelo empties into the Tyrrhenian Sea at the port of a CTA.
After flowing through Rome.
Central Catholic.
The Tiber Tiber River is correct.
And with that, that's the end of the match.
No need for a bonus on that one, because Allentown Central Catholic, you've won!
Congratulations.
You're on to the second round with a score of 225.
We're in Catholic 150 points.
Not quite enough today, but a great match.
Good luck with the rest of your school year.
And thank you for tuning in.
We'll see you next week when Liberty High School faces off against Bethlehem Catholic High School.
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