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Hello and welcome to the 13th match of the 51st season of Scholastic Scrimmage.

I'm your host, David Graff.

Today's match is between Merion Catholic High School and Palmerton Area High School.

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

At half time will pass as students to introduce themselves.

We'll 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 tissue in which companion cells provide energy to cells called c tube elements transport sugar away from leaves to the rest of the plant.

Flow is a correct answer.

Next tossup question what explorer who met with the Xamarin of Calicut in 1498, rounded the Cape of Good Hope to become the first modern European to reach India by sea?

Vasco da Gama is the correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What region?

Which whose?

Salvation Island was once home to the penal colony at Devil's Island, is a European territory in South America, governed from Cayenne.

Go ahead.

Palmerston.

French Guiana.

French Guiana is correct for your bonus.

The monocle wearing Eustace Tilly is a mascot of what?

American literary and news magazine that celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2025.

Time.

Time magazine.

That is incorrect.

The New Yorker magazine is a correct answer.

Next tossup question what site where the mythical python guarded the infamous at the center of the world was home to the Pythia oracle at the Temple of Apollo.

The Oracle of Delphi is the correct answer.

Next question is in math.

Pencil on paper.

Ready?

If point P has a Cartesian coordinates four comma three.

What are the new coordinates?

If P is reflected across the x axis?

Go ahead Palmerton for negative three.

For negative three is correct.

For bonus conflict between farmers and merchants help provoke.

What?

1786 uprising in western Massachusetts that partially motivated the Constitutional Convention.

Shays rebellion.

Shays rebellion is correct.

Next tossup question.

What island?

Which in 1969 was occupied by activists from the American Indian Movement, was the site of a federal prison.

Go ahead.

Palmerton.

Alcatraz.

Alcatraz is correct.

And it was in San Francisco Bay.

Completed.

The question for your bonus.

What collection of sayings and approvals of Muhammad is used as a major source of Islamic law and theology, alongside the Koran?

The door.

Incorrect.

The hadiths is a correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What substance, whose composition may be measured with a deft gauge or Zorn cup, is sold under such brands as Benjamin Moore and Sherwin Williams.

Homer's in paint.

Paint is correct.

Those are two of the way the official ways you measure paint.

For bonus, a 2025 mass shooting targeted the Manhattan headquarters of what organization?

Which a gunman blamed for causing his CTE condition.

To.

Universal healthcare.

Universal healthcare?

That's incorrect.

The NFL or National Football League.

And sadly, it was, a person from another company working the building that was actually killed and not not anywhere where he was originally targeting.

Okay.

For your bonus or for the next tossup question, what 1965 song whose working title with Scrambled Eggs is a widely covered Beatles song about a time when all my troubles seemed so far away.

Go home written yesterday.

Yesterday is correct for bonus.

Shor's algorithm A factorization is carried out by what devices which can be used or which can use entangled qubits to quickly perform calculations.

Which.

Those devices are quantum computers.

Next toss up question.

What compound is made into Monsanto and Corteva processes has and then hydrogen in glacial form and has the formula CH3, c o o h and is an acid counting vinegar.

Go ahead.

Mary Catholic acetic acid.

Acetic acid is correct for a bonus.

Ulysses Grant held office during what economic panic?

In what year?

That triggered the Long Depression and helped undercut support for reconstruction.

It was called the panic of 1873.

Next toss up question.

What Saint, whose retrial was ordered by convicted, is the third claim to have divine visions before leading the French at.

Go ahead.

Marian Catholic.

Joan of Arc.

Joan of Arc is correct.

And Sheila, the French in the Hundred Years War.

For your bonus, a trial concerning destroying evidence was a helicopter from a helicopter.

Crash began in 2025 against Matt Wright, an Australian known for wrangling what big predators.

I never heard of them either, but he was known for wrangling crocodiles.

What's his thing?

And with that, we've reached the first lightning round.

In a pre-match coin toss, it was determined that Marion Catholic will get to pick between the following topics lines of poetry or Napoleon.

I mean, do you guys have anything about the Pope here?

Quickly, Zoe.

Lines of poetry.

Lines of poetry.

It is Marion Catholic.

Your first lightning round topic is lines of poetry.

Given a poet and a line of their poetry, with its final word missing, provide the final missing word.

Dylan Thomas, do not go gently into that good blank.

And if you don't know, you can pass past Percy Shelley.

Look on my works, ye mighty and blank.

Okay, anyone can say it too.

If you know you can talk.

I don't know what I'm asking.

Pass Ogden Nash.

Candy is dandy, but liquor is blank.

Better.

Incorrect.

Emily Dickinson.

Hope is the thing with.

Past Robert Frost and Miles to go before I blank.

Pass T.S.

Eliot.

This is the way the world ends.

Not with a bang, but with a blank.

Who whisper incorrect.

John McCrae.

Oh.

All right.

And that is the end of that topic for Palmerton.

Your topic is Napoleon.

Answer the following about Emperor Napoleon the first became emperor of this European country in 1804.

France, correct.

Beheaded King, who was that country's previous monarch.

Pass Island, where he was born.

Malta.

Incorrect final battle after returning from Elba.

Waterloo.

Correct.

Died in exile on this island.

Past first wife.

Divorced because she could not bear him an heir.

Passed his brother, whom he named King of Spain.

Pass became first Consul into coup of the 18th of this month.

October.

Incorrect.

1805 battle of the Three Emperors that names a Paris train station that was about Austerlitz.

Okay, we'll continue on with the following tossup question.

What art movement, whose name was coined by Lawrence Alloway, is exemplified by the reappropriation of comic books painted by Roy Lichtenstein.

Marian Catholic?

Is it Art Nouveau that is incorrect over the poem written so no conferring, but is a freebie.

Pop art is the correct answer.

Next tossup question what character lives on a farm with his cousin?

Mose, has his stapler placed in Jello by Jim and is a salesperson.

Go Mary Catholic Dwight.

Are we good?

Yeah, we're good with that.

Dwight.

Dwight Schrute from the office for bonus.

Do Unio and others flee a plague that breaks out in 14th century Florence at the start of what?

Collection of 100 stories written by Giovanni Boccaccio.

The Canterbury Tales.

Incorrect.

The Dean Cameron is the correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What French philosopher describe an overly stiff waiter to illustrate the concept of bad faith in being and nothingness, and wrote works of essentialism.

Go ahead, Paul Martin Descartes.

That's incorrect.

Over to Marian Catholic.

Is it, Nietzsche?

That is also incorrect.

It's Jean-Paul Sartre.

He's the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What ancient city melted a siege tower known as taker of cities to create the harbor monument for Helios.

In the form of a 108ft tall colossus.

Go ahead, Mary Catholic.

Rhodes Rhodes is correct for bonus.

What small gland in the brain helps regulate circadian rhythm and produces melatonin?

The pituitary.

That's incorrect.

Is the pineal gland correct?

Answer.

Next tossup question.

What expressions, some of which use low petals, rule to evaluate equal the value of a function's output.

A good permitted limits limit is correct for your bonus.

The US president who vetoed the most bills was what man who also threatened to pack the Supreme Court.

FDR.

FDR is correct on the next toss up question what city's politicians include Mayor Muriel Bowser, as well as Eleanor Holmes Norton, a delegate of the House of Representatives who cannot vote.

That's Washington, D.C., and that's why on the back of the license plate that says taxation without representation.

Okay, we have reached halftime.

Let's take a moment for the students.

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

What is your favorite book that you had to read for school?

This is something that you didn't read for fun.

You had to read as part of an assignment.

Ended up really enjoying it.

We'll start with Mary in Catholic.

James.

Go ahead.

James Gomez senior.

And my favorite was Frankenstein.

Lawrence Edgar senior.

And probably, the most dangerous game.

Okay.

Zoe Johnstone jr.

And my favorite, it's probably Animal Farm.

Okay.

Colleen Gills Bok senior.

And my favorite is kind of a toss up.

It's either Frankenstein or Catch 22.

Okay.

Catch.

You're one of the first ones to mention catch 22.

In this first round.

I like half of it, but it's really good.

I finished it by myself.

Okay, Ezra, go ahead.

As your green senior.

And my favorite was probably Of Mice and Men.

Okay.

But Dylan Borger, senior and my favorite was The Crucible.

Okay.

I like the lobby senior and my favorite was the hatchet woman drop junior.

And my favorite was Lord of the flies.

Excellent.

So Alex Hatchet was a few other people's favorites.

I just read that with my daughter.

She really liked it.

Julia freaked out by some of the scenes.

Of course, she's only in fifth grade, but when we read it fifth grade.

Yeah, yeah, she really enjoyed it though.

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

Robert Maynard hunted down what man who blockaded Charlestown using Queen Anne's Revenge and was a pirate known for his dark facial hair, permitted Blackbeard.

Blackbeard is correct.

For a bonus, Tina Fey played overworked math teacher Mrs.

Norbury in what 2004 teen film starring Rachel McAdams and Lindsay Lohan.

Mean girls Mean Girls is correct.

Next tossup question what technology relies on synchronized atomic clocks to determine the location of a receiver, and is the most widely used navigation system?

Very Catholic, GPS.

GPS is correct for your bonus if a set S has N members.

What other set?

That includes all possible subsets of S, including S itself, and the empty set must have two to the N members.

A power set is a correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What composer whose short lyric pieces include character miniatures like Wedding Day at Hagen, was a Norwegian who wrote the Peer Gynt Suite.

Go ahead, Palmerton Park.

Incorrect.

Over to Marin Catholic.

Edvard Grieg is the correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What soldier who called for international support in his letter from Jamaica, won the battle of Boyega and was a revolutionary called the Liberator.

Go ahead, Marian Catholic, Tucson city.

Yeah.

Tucson.

That's incorrect over the portion.

So no conferring, but it's a freebie.

So Moon Boulevard is the correct answer.

Next tossup question what novel?

Whose frustrated protagonist protagonist has an affair with Rudolph?

Bologna was married to the provincial doctor Schaal and is by Gustave Flaubert.

That's Rudolph.

But one day, to shed the affair.

That is, in Madame Bovary.

Next tossup question what psychologists who wrote motivation and personality placed self-actualization at the top of a construct that ranks a hierarchy of human needs.

There would be Maslow for Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

Next toss up question what party which split into science and cotton factions promoted the American system as the main rival to the Democrats in the mid 1800s.

It's the Whig party.

Next toss up question.

What?

Why?

A series whose arc includes the Lost Continent, prophecy, depicts a war in Korea and was written by two eating southern.

Go ahead, Mary Catholic.

Wings of fire.

Wings of fire is correct for your bonus.

What African country, whose capital is named after U.S.

President James Monroe, was founded in the 19th century by the American Colonization Society.

That would be the country of Liberia.

And their capital is Monrovia.

Next tossup question what phenomena?

Whose namesake structures are Lewis?

Structures enclosed in square brackets occurs when bonds are formed by delocalized electrons.

Oh, unfortunately, the buzzer went off.

What were we going to say anyway?

Let's see if you had it.

I was going to say, Covalent bonds.

No.

It's incorrect.

Its resonance is the correct answer.

Yep.

Next tossup question.

What country?

Which is home to Monteverdi Cloud Forest is a Central American nation governed from San Jose and is south of Nicaragua.

Go ahead.

Pompton Quickly?

Nope.

Anything.

Okay.

Over to Marian Catholic.

Go ahead, El Salvador.

But it's incorrect.

Costa Rica is the correct answer.

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

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

State borders or months.

State borders.

State borders.

It is all right.

Pay attention to this one.

The wind up a little tricky on this.

Here.

Palmerton, your topic is state borders.

Given two states name the only state that borders both states.

I'm going to name Washington and California.

Oregon.

Correct.

Maine and Vermont?

New Hampshire, correct.

Florida and Alabama.

Mississippi.

Incorrect.

New Jersey and Connecticut.

New York correct.

Ohio and Wisconsin.

Michigan.

Correct.

Idaho and North Dakota.

Montana.

Correct.

New Mexico and Louisiana.

Texas.

Correct.

Virginia and Illinois.

Kentucky.

Correct.

Nebraska and Tennessee.

Missouri.

Correct.

Wyoming and Oklahoma.

Kansas.

Incorrect.

Colorado.

But excellent job in that category.

Do you have a good mental picture of the United States?

Okay, Marian Catholic months is your topic.

Give these answers that are names of months in English.

Some answers may repeat.

Last name of the sisters in Little Women.

Anyone can answer may incorrect verb meaning something is possible.

May correct.

First name of Aubrey Plaza in Parks and Recreation for her character April.

Correct word following read in the name of a hunted submarine in a Tom Clancy novel.

October.

Correct music genre that includes John Philip Sousa.

The Liberty Bell March correct month named for the first Roman Emperor July incorrect with black.

It's a Palestinian militant group from the 1970s.

I had a November incorrect first name of actress who played Betty Draper on Mad Men.

June.

Incorrect.

Usual first name of Swedish playwright Miss Julie.

No be August for that last one.

All right.

We'll start the final quarter of the match with the following toss up question.

What company which named Andy Jassy as CEO in 2021, experienced a major drop in sales for the 2025 edition of its annual July promotion?

Prime Day.

Amazon.

Amazon Amazon is correct for your bonus.

Lake Balaton is the largest lake in Central Europe.

Is in what country?

Whose first king was Stephen?

The first.

German.

That's incorrect.

Lake border towns in Hungary.

Next toss up question.

What author wrote about a convict who gets married five times in Molly Flanders?

And about a man who converts Friday to Christianity in Robinson Crusoe.

Daniel Defoe is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

In 2025, what country's Constitutional Court upheld the impeachment of a president from the People's Power Party who declared martial law?

You and your.

Go ahead, Mary Catholic, South Korea South Korea is correct for your bonus.

The city of Yin Shu, in modern day Henan province, was the capital of what oldest archeologically verified Chinese dynasty which preceded the Jo.

Ming.

Incorrect.

It's the Shang dynasty.

Next toss up question.

One of what beings shouts.

The great work begins at the end of millennium.

Approaches the first part of a Tony Kushner play titled for Them in America.

Angels is the correct answer.

Next tossup question what U.S.

state is home to Banksy mural.

Forgive us our trespassing, as well as Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty, which extends into the Great Salt Lake Perimeter Formation.

Utah Utah is correct for a bonus, what law states that the volume of a gas is inversely proportional to its pressure at constant temperature?

The ideal gas law.

That's incorrect.

Boyle's law is the correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What character?

Who Richard Einfeld sees trampling a girl kills Danvers.

Carrie in a Robert Louis Stevenson book about a serum invented by Doctor Jekyll.

Marrying Catholic Mr.

Hyde, Mr.

Hyde is correct for your bonus.

What Frankish military leader who fought the Moors at Rossano Pass was immortalized in an 11th century epic French song that was named for him.

Pass rule on is a correct answer.

Next tossup question what scientists so-called and use mirabilis papers of 1905 included an explanation of the photoelectric effect and propose the equation E equals MC.

Palmerton Einstein.

Klein Stein is correct for bonus.

What did Gyptian pharaoh move the capital from Amarna near the end of the 18th dynasty?

Tooting common?

Nope.

But Nocturne is the correct answer on that one.

Next toss up question what country whose capital lies at the mouth?

And with that, we have reached the end of the match.

Marian Catholic unfortunately 90 points.

Not your day today.

Good luck with the rest of your school year parting congratulations with 165 points.

You are on to the second round and thank you for watching.

We'll see you next week for the start of the second round.

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