Hello and welcome to the tenth match of the first round of the 49th season of Scholastic Scrimmage.

I'm your host, David Graf.

Today's match between Marion Catholic and Jim Thorpe will be composed of two halves with a lightning round midway through each half.

At half-time, we'll pause, the students, can introduce themselves and we'll get to know them a little bit better.

As a reminder, Scholastic Scrimmage requires rapid recall of specific factual information, and it's not necessarily indicative of academic training.

Now let's begin, buzzers ready.

Here's our first toss-up question.

What particles, which are the heaviest outputs of beta minus decay consist of up to two up quarks and one down quark and are positively charged nucleons?

- Protons.

- Protons is correct.

For your bonus, the library of sure to be offshore of Ashurbanipal, founded at Nyanza, was has a collection of over 30,000 tablets acquired by what Middle Eastern Empire ruled by Sargon the second?

Let your captain know he can answer on this one.

- Akkad.

- That is incorrect.

It is the Assyrian empire.

Next toss-up question.

What Midwestern city whose police were accused by a 2023 DOJ report of bias against black native residents is where George Floyd was killed?

Minnesota.

I'm sorry.

That's incorrect.

We'll go over to Jim Thorpe.

Minneapolis.

Next toss-up question.

What singer collaborated with Sean Paul on the song No Lie and released a 2020 album, Future Nostalgia, which contains Levitating and Don't... - Dua Lipa.

- Dua Lipa is correct.

The other song I was going mention was Don't Start Now.

For your bonus, what loud, startling phenomena occurs when an object travels through air faster than the speed of sound creating shock waves?

Sonic boom.

A sonic boom is correct.

Next toss-up question.

What 1999 coming of age novel, in which an English teacher Bill introduces the teenager Charlie to classic books, was written by Stephen Chbosky?

That novel is The Perks of Being a Wallflower.

I believe Emma Watson starred in the movie adaptation of that.

Next toss-up question.

What type of animal is represented by the constellations or by the constellation that includes Polaris and by the constellation containing the Big Dipper, namely Ursa Major?

- Bear.

- A bear is correct.

For your bonus: In August 2023, Donald Trump was charged with violating what law, originally passed in 1870, to protect the rights of African Americans?

Voting law.

That is incorrect.

It's the Ku Klux Klan Act or the Civil Rights Act of 1870.

Next toss-up question.

What God, whose temples in Rome were closed during times of peace, was a two-faced god of beginnings and is the namesake of the first month of the year?

January.

That is incorrect.

Over to Jim Thorpe.

- Janis.

- Janis is correct.

January is the month named after Janis.

For your bonus, what Portuguese novelist imagined the Iberian Peninsula detached from Europe in The Stone Raft and depicted a strange plague in his book Blindness?

Jose Saramago is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question.

What building designed by Shreve, Lamb and Harmon features a spire designed for mooring airships and when built in 1931 was New York City's tallest?

The Empire State Building.

The Empire State Building is correct.

For your bonus, what philosopher wrote, "Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains," in his work The Social Contract?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau is correct.

Next toss-up question.

What quantity represented by a curve that slopes downward in a price versus quantity graph is often plotted by economists alongside... Supply against demand.

Are we going to take that or not?

He said supply against demand.

Let's say we're not going to take that.

Over to Jim Thorpe.

Supply and demand.

So we're looking for just demand as the answer because it is plotted against supply or alongside supply.

Onto the next toss-up question.

What effect which is used by weather radars and speed guns explains... Doppler Effect.

That is correct and explains why an ambulance height appears to change pitch as it moves past an observer.

For your bonus, James Boswell wrote a biography of what author of Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets who published a 1755 English Dictionary?

Noah Webster.

Samuel Johnson is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question.

What novel in which a proposal from Father Robert Martin is unwisely rejected by Harriet Smith, is named for a matchmaker and is by Jane Austen?

Emma.

Emma is correct.

For your bonus: In 1915, what country signed the Treaty of London to join the Allied Powers after nominally being allied with Germany at the start?

This is a bonus for Jim Thorpe.

After nominally being allied with Germany at the start of World War I?

- Italy.

- Italy is correct.

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

In a pre-match coin toss, it was determined that Marian Catholic will pick first between the following topics.

We have stars or literary houses.

- Literary houses.

Literary houses.

OK. Marian Catholic, your topic is literary houses.

Name the authors of these literary works titled for houses.

The Little House on the Prairie series.

- Jane Austen.

- That is incorrect.

The House of the Seven Gables.

Pass.

The play A Doll's House, a Norwegian.

Pass.

The short story The Fall of the House of Usher.

- Edgar Allan Poe.

- That is correct.

To the Lighthouse.

Pass.

The House on Mango Street.

- Pass.

- Bleak House.

- Pass.

- The House of Mirth.

Pass.

20th-century Spanish author of the House of Bernarda Alba.

Pass.

Trinidadian-British author of A House for Mr Biswas.

Pass.

VS Naipaul was the last answer.

OK, Jim Thorpe, you have stars.

Name these things about stars.

The lightest element, which main sequence stars fuse into helium.

- Hydrogen.

- Correct.

Dense star type named for uncharged subatomic particles.

Pass.

Brightest star in the night sky.

- Polaris.

- Incorrect.

Stellar explosion with a core collapse type.

- Supernova.

- Correct.

Continuous stream of charged particles from the sun.

- Radiation.

- Incorrect.

Star that in 12,000 years will become the new North Star.

Pass.

Outermost layer of the sun that produces mass ejections.

- Corona.

- That is correct.

Type of visible star from which Henrietta Swan Leavitt found a period luminosity rate relation.

Pass.

Diagram that plots stars' luminosities against their temperatures.

Pass.

University where Annie Jump Cannon developed a stellar classification system.

And that would be Harvard University for the last answer.

OK. We'll continue on with the following toss-up question.

What agreement which drew a line across the Louisiana territory above which slavery was banned allowed Maine and a namesake state to join the United States?

Missouri compromise.

Missouri compromise is correct.

And for your bonus, what piano ballad from 2023's Super Mario Bros movie is performed by Jack Black as Bowser, who sings about his true love?

Peach.

Like, Peaches.

Peaches is correct.

And my nephews could not stop singing that song all summer.

Next toss-up question.

What state is represented by both the oldest person to become a freshman senator, Peter Welch, and a Democratic Socialist, Bernie Sanders?

New Hampshire.

That is incorrect.

Over to Jim Thorpe.

No conferring, but it's a free question.

- Vermont.

- Vermont is correct.

For your bonus, the Salton Sea is a landlocked body of water that is near the Imperial Valley in the southern part of which state?

Arizona.

Incorrect.

California is the correct answer, but good guess.

We were in the Southeast.

Next, toss-up question.

What Dutch artist painted the last judgment into his Woman Holding a Balance and showed a woman in a turban in Girl With a Pearl Earring?

- Jim Thorpe.

- Vermeer.

Vermeer is correct.

For your bonus: Which Anglo-Saxon king, who was briefly overthrown by Sweyn Forkbeard, received his epithet because he was poorly advised?

Oh... With that one, sorry, that is a bonus for Jim Thorpe.

So you know what?

With that, that is OK. We will pull from our reserve question and give you another bonus question.

What author depicted the experience of Chinese immigrants in her novel The Kitchen God's Wife and the Joy Luck Club?

This is a bonus only for Jim Thorpe.

That author would be Amy Tan.

Now, Marian Catholic, you jumped the gun on that, but you were correct.

So keep that momentum going.

Next toss-up question.

What layer below the Guttenberg discontinuity hosts a dynamo powered by its convection that creates Earth's magnetic field and is made of liquid iron?

Mantle.

That is incorrect.

Over to Jim Thorpe.

Core.

We need to know a little bit more specific.

Outer core.

The outer core is correct.

For your bonus:.

What unit of memory is equivalent to 1,000 terabytes or 1 million gigabytes?

Petabyte.

- Tell your captain.

- Oh, petabyte.

- Petabyte.

- A petabyte is correct.

And with that, we have reached half-time.

We have a great game under way.

Jim Thorpe currently leads with a score of 100 to Marion Catholic's 40, and now the students will introduce themselves with their first and last name, grade level and the answer to the following question.

If you could visit any country in the world, where would it be?

Over to Marian Catholic.

Brady, go ahead.

My name is Brady Bobrovsky, I'm in 12th grade and I would visit Italy.

My name is Isaac Cueva, I'm a junior and I would visit Italy.

My name is Julius Currie, I'm a senior and I would visit Rome.

My name is Eli Coriva and if I were to visit a country, I'd visit Germany.

OK. And on to Jim Thorpe High School.

- Luke, go ahead.

- My name is Luke Bosey, I'm a sophomore, and I would like to travel the United States more.

OK.

I'm Landon Thompson, I'm a junior and I'd visit Iceland.

My name is Maxwell Priore, I'm a sophomore, I would visit Germany.

My name is Gabrielle Sarah, I'm also a sophomore and I'd visit Italy.

Very cool.

Luke, I like that answer.

So I was fortunate in my career that one of my first jobs, I had to travel to the United States a lot more before I got to travel the rest of the world, and it is amazing the diversity just in the landscape alone.

I remember the first time going to Albuquerque, having grown up in the Northeast, it just hits you differently to realize that there is literally a desert and a city in a desert all within the United States.

So it's a great country to travel through.

We'll continue on with the second half of the match with the following toss-up question.

Buzzers ready.

What event for which Hugh Montgomery was tried for manslaughter but defended by John Adams saw Crispus Attucks shot...

The Boston Massacre.

That is right.

You're saving me from myself.

Thank you so much.

And for your bonus: What season of the year is called aki in Japanese, Herbst in German and otono in Spanish?

- Autumn.

- Autumn or fall is correct.

Next toss-up question.

What playwright who wrote about Nagg and Nell living in trash cans in Endgame created the tramps Vladimir and Estragon in Waiting for Godot?

Samuel Beckett is the correct answer.

The next toss-up is in math.

Pencil and paper ready.

If X is a positive number, what is the minimum value of X for which the sum of 18 plus X is a perfect square?

Jim Thorpe.

- Seven.

- Seven is correct.

For your bonus: What German composer's tone poems, including A Hero's Life, is a work based on the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche, Also Sprach Zarathustra?

Wagner.

Incorrect.

Richard Strauss is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question.

What film, which opens as a woman gets attacked off the coast of Amity Island was directed by Steven Spielberg and is about a man-eating shark?

Jim Thorpe.

- Jaws.

- Jaws is correct.

For your bonus, what theory, often named for two scientists, defines acids as proton donors and bases as proton acceptors?

That would be the BronstedLowry theory.

Next toss-up question.

In what country will the iconic tower be part of a yet-unnamed new administrative capital that Abdel Fattah al-Sisi... - Egypt.

- That is correct.

That his regime is building near Cairo.

For your bonus: In what state's 2022 gubernatorial election, the Democrat Westmore defeat Dan Cox to succeed to succeed term limit Republican Larry Hogan?

Georgia.

Incorrect.

The correct answer is the state of Maryland.

Next toss-up question.

What poet beseeched a goddess to fight by my shoulder in Ode to Aphrodite, the only extant complete poem by this ancient Greek woman?

Sappho.

Sappho is correct.

For your bonus: What 2023 reality show on Amazon Freevee featured Ronald Gladden as the only participant in a trial who was not secretly an improv actor?

Jury Duty.

Jury Duty is correct.

Did everybody watch that?

Because that show is hilarious.

It is a really good show.

Next toss-up question.

What country, whose fleet lost the battle of Tsushima, ceded half of the Sakhalin in 1905 after losing a war... Russia.

Russia is correct and they lost the war to Japan.

For your bonus: The quantity is equal to enthalpy minus temperature times entropy and decreases in spontaneous processes.

That is what quantity?

Delta age.

That is incorrect.

Gives free energy or free energy was the answer that we were looking for.

Next toss-up question.

What chemical principle named for a French chemist determines how a system in equilibrium responds to changes in temperature or pressure?

The Le Chatelier principle is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question.

What country whose capital borders two other countries is governed from Bratislava and was once part of a union with the neighboring... - Slovakia.

- That is correct.

And it's part of a union with the neighboring Czech Republic or was part of a union.

For your bonus, what politician who represented Bedford-Stuyvesant was the first African American woman elected to US Congress in 1968?

- Clara Barton.

- Incorrect.

Shirley Chisholm is the correct answer.

And now on to the second lightning round.

Jim Thorpe, you'll get to pick between the following topics.

Super Bowl 57 or Henrys.

Henrys.

OK, Henrys is your topic.

Jim Thorpe, for the second lightning round, your topic is Henrys.

Give the surnames of these people named Henry.

Auto-maker who made the Model T?

- Ford.

- Correct.

Great compromiser of the 19th century.

Pass.

Explorer whose name is the river that separates New York and New Jersey.

- Hudson.

- Correct.

Poet of the Song of Hiawatha.

Author of The Turn of the Screw.

Pass.

First US Secretary of War.

Pass.

Author of Tropic of Cancer.

Pass.

German-American Secretary of State under Nixon and Ford.

Pass.

Baroque English composer of the operas Dido and Aeneas.

Pass.

Actor who played Superman in Man of Steel.

Cavill.

Henry Cavill is correct.

All right, Mary Ann Catholic, that leaves you with Super Bowl 57.

Answer the following about 2023's Super Bowl.

Kansas City quarterback, who is MVP?

- Patrick Mahomes.

- Correct.

Team from Pennsylvania that lost.

Philadelphia Eagles.

That is correct.

Quarterback with three rushing touchdowns for the losing team.

- Jalen Hurts.

- Correct.

Pregnant singer who performed We Found Love at half-time.

- Rihanna.

- Correct.

Chiefs' tight end with six catches.

- Travis Kelce.

- Correct.

State that hosted the game in Glendale.

- Arizona.

- Correct.

Chiefs' head coach who won his second Super Bowl.

- Andy Reid.

- Correct.

Network that aired a Gordon Ramsay show after the game.

- CBS.

- Incorrect.

Former Titans wide receiver who caught a touchdown for the losing team.

- AJ Brown.

- Correct.

Controversial pre-throw penalty called on James Bradberry late in the game.

Holding.

That is correct, defensive holding.

The only one there you didn't know was pretty much the non-sports-related question.

That was the Fox Network.

They have a big contract with Gordon Ramsay so they were airing a show after that.

All right, we'll continue on with the final quarter of the match with the following toss-up question.

What city, whose Avenida 9 de Julio is the world's widest avenue, lies on the Rio de Plata, west of Montevideo, and is the capital of Argentina?

Buenos Aires.

Buenos Aires is correct.

For your bonus, Asmara is the capital of what African country which gained independence from Ethiopia in the early 1990s?

- Etrea.

- Pronounce it again.

- Eritrea.

- Eritrea is correct.

Next toss-up question.

What event, the first of which was won by Frank Neuhauser in 1925, has eight co-champions in 2019, one of whom gave the correct letters in auslaut?

The Scripps Spelling Bee.

The Scripps National Spelling Bee is correct, and that was spelled A-U-S-L-A-U-T. For your bonus: The slogan Every man a King was used by what populist senator and governor from Louisiana who was assassinated in 1935?

Huey Long is a correct answer.

The next toss-up question is in math.

Pencil and paper ready.

What is the empirical formula of butane or C4H10, given that empirical formulas reduce molecular formulas to their lowest terms?

C2H5.

C2H5 is correct.

For your bonus: What Indian-American author who recently has started writing in Italian won a Pulitzer Prize for story collection Interpreter of Maladies?

Interpreter of Maladies.

Jhumpa Lahiri is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question.

What author who wrote that a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds was a transcendentalist who wrote the essay Self Reliance?

Ralph Waldo Emerson is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question.

In what year did France's February Revolution replace Louis Philippe with the Second Republic, triggering a series of other European... 1842.

That is incorrect.

I'll finish.

It triggered other European revolutions.

Eli, did it come to you now?

It was 18... - 48.

- 48.

Next toss-up question.

What compound, the starting point of reverse transcription, has messenger, ribosomal and transfer forms?

- DNA.

- That is incorrect.

And contains uracil, unlike DNA?

- RNA.

- RNA is correct.

For your bonus: What cave-dwelling monster in Homer's Odyssey fed on sailors who tried to avoid her counterpart, the nearby whirlpool, Charybdis?

- Siren.

- That is incorrect.

Scylla is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question.

What state, which is home to the Teapot Dome oil field, also contains Devil's Tower as well as cities such as Cody and Cheyenne?

Nevada.

That is incorrect.

To Jim Thorpe.

Wyoming.

We need to go with who buzzed in.

- Wyoming.

- Wyoming is correct.

In March 2023, UBS agreed to buy what collapsing investment bank which, as its name suggests, is headquartered in Zurich, and that would be Credit Suisse.

We had a really close game.

Great job to both teams.

Unfortunately, though, for Marion Catholic with 140 points, it's the end of the road.

Good luck with the rest of your school year.

Jim Thorpe, congratulations.

With 185 points, you are on to the second round.

Thank you for watching.

We'll see you next week.