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

I'm your host, David Graff.

Today's match is between Moravian Academy, who have gathered 1405 points over the season, and Allentown Central Catholic High School, who have collected 740 points.

The match will be composed of two halves, with a lightning round midway through each half and half time will pause for students to introduce themselves, and we'll get to know them a little bit better.

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

And now let's begin with our first toss up question.

Buzzers.

Ready?

It's in math.

So also get your pencil and paper ready.

How many bicycles must be gathered to have the same total number of wheels as six tricycles?

Central Catholic.

Nine.

Nine is correct because you have six times.

Three is 18 divided by two.

Two wheels on a bike.

You end up with nine bicycles for your bonus.

Henry Van Dike Carter illustrated the original 1858 version of what British surgeons namesake anatomy a landmark reference book.

That's Henry Gray's book, Gray's Anatomy.

Next tossup question.

What author addressed a season of mists and mellow fruitfulness in to Autumn?

One of his great odes that included Central Catholic John Keats.

John Keats is correct.

And it included the 1918 ode to a Grecian Urn.

For your bonus.

Clubber Lang, Ivan Drago and Apollo Creed are among the competitors defeated by what movie character played by Sylvester Stallone.

Rocky.

Rocky is correct.

Next toss up question.

Before Josh Shapiro became Pennsylvania's governor, he held what office?

Moravian AG or attorney general?

Attorney general is correct.

And on the federal level, it's held by Merrick Garland at the Justice Department.

For your bonus, what eldest Pevensie siblings slays the talking wolf monogram and becomes Hie king of Narnia?

In the CSS Lewis's The Lion, the witch and the wardrobe.

Edmund.

That's incorrect.

The eldest sibling is Peter.

Next toss up question.

What Empire, which lost the 1571 Battle of Lepanto, employed Moravian Ottoman Empire.

The Ottoman Empire is correct, and they implied an elite group of Janissaries.

For your bonus.

What Protestant king ruled England during the Nine Years War along with his wife Mary, the second William.

Which one?

The second.

That's incorrect.

It's William.

The third is the correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What poem in which Cooney died at first and barrows did the same is by Central Catholic Casey at the bat.

Casey at the bat is correct, and it depicts a mighty baseball player who strikes out for your bonus.

It's in math.

Pencil and paper.

Ready?

What is the quotient of 17 factorial divided by 15 factorial?

Given that it is the product of a pair of two digit numbers.

Go ahead two factorial.

That is incorrect.

The correct answer is 272.

Next toss up question.

What team captained by right back Kyle Walker has won three straight titles.

Moravian.

Manchester City Manchester City is correct.

And they won three straight Premier League titles under Pep Guardiola.

For your bonus, what character stolen from Judge Miller's estate in California becomes the leader of a team of sled dogs.

In Jack London's The Call of the wild.

Ken Buck buck is correct.

Next toss up question.

What a force which equals negative weight for an object falling at terminal velocity can oppose thrust.

Raven like air resistance.

Yes.

Air resistance or drag force is correct.

For your bonus.

After the Franco-Prussian War, Germany annexed what territory?

Named for two historical regions, which France regained after World War One.

Alsace-Lorraine, Alsace and Lorraine is correct.

Next tossup question.

What author of no longer at ease, use the fictional village of human Safiya clan.

Moravian.

Chevy.

Chinua Achebe is correct for your bonus.

What?

Photoreceptor cells in the retina of the eye are responsible for color vision and high visual acuity?

Cones.

Cones is correct.

Next tossup question in 2024, what man who won a 2021 ranked choice primary over Kathryn Garcia was indicted for taking gifts from Turkey.

Moravian Adams.

Eric Adams is correct, and he is the mayor of New York City.

For your bonus, what item of jewelry titles?

A John Vermeer Trone epic portrait of a young woman in a blue turban who looks over her shoulder at the viewer.

Pearl earring A pearl earring is correct.

And with that, we have reached the first lightning round in a pre-match coin toss.

It was determined that Central Catholic will get to pick between the following topics.

Literary crimes or Native American history?

I think.

Moving quickly, Matt.

Native American history.

Native American history.

It is Allentown central Catholic.

Your for your first lightning round.

Topic is Native American history.

Answer the following about indigenous people in the United States.

Shoshone woman who assisted Lewis and Clark Sacajawea were correct.

Virus that infected blankets given out.

That is correct.

Lakota chief who toured with Buffalo Bill.

Standing bull.

Sitting bull is correct.

Southwest tribe led by Geronimo.

Apache.

Correct.

Colony founded by pilgrims that Squanto helped out.

Incorrect.

Portable tent dwellings used by Plains sheep.

Correct.

Spanish word for village that names a Southwest Native culture.

Pueblo.

Correct.

Florida tribe led by Osceola.

Seminoles.

Correct.

Crop groped or excuse me.

Crop grouped with beans and squash as the Three Sisters.

Corn.

Corn.

Correct.

Nez Perce leader who said I will fight no more forever.

Pass.

The last one was cheese.

Chief Joseph.

Moravian literary crimes is your topic.

Name the literary work in which these crimes are perpetrated or investigated.

Bacon leads a ring of child pickpocket.

Oliver Twist.

Correct.

Samuel Ratchet is stabbed to death on the title train.

Oriental express.

That is incorrect.

Nora forges a signature and is blackmailed by Krog dad.

Pass.

Melo is assassinated.

All quiet on the Western Front.

That is incorrect.

Raskolnikov murders a pawnbroker.

Crime and punishment.

That is correct.

Alex and his droogs carry out Ultraviolence.

Clockwork orange.

That is correct.

An orangutan kills two women with a razor.

Murder.

The Rue Morgue.

That is correct.

Sir Charles appears to be killed by a demonic dog.

Hound of the Baskervilles.

That is correct.

The clutter family is murdered in Kansas.

Cold.

In cold blood.

In cold blood is correct.

Rachel van der exotic diamond is stolen from, diamond necklace.

That's incorrect.

The last one is the moonstone, which is one that I was unfamiliar with.

Next toss up question.

What mythological figure who murdered his nephew Perdix designed wings whose wax melted.

Go ahead.

Moravian dateless.

Daedalus is correct.

And it caused the death of hubristic son Icarus when the wax wings melted for bonus.

What kind of place?

Names and oath sworn in 1789 by members of the Third Estate who demanded a constitution during the French Revolution.

A tennis court a tennis court is correct.

Next toss up question.

What programing languages V8 engine is used in its node runtime?

Was created by Netscape and it's found within script tags in a website's HTML code.

That might be dated now because it was one of the first programing languages I learned in high school.

Is JavaScript still the base of a lot of websites?

Next toss up question.

What man who painted syndicate of the Drapers Guild was a Dutch artist who showed Franz Banach coax millet.

Go ahead.

Moravian.

Rembrandt.

Rembrandt is correct.

And showed his militia company in the Night Watch for your bonus.

What operation, when applied to the set A and B, gives the set containing every element that belongs to both A and B, so.

Summation set.

That's incorrect.

The intersection is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What?

King used an army called the the force public, which impressed people into slavery to harvest rubber during his rule.

Go ahead.

Moravian.

Leopold.

Which one?

The second.

Leopold.

The second of Belgium is correct.

And it was during his rule of the Congo Free State.

For bonus, a book called the rela, which translates as travels, records the many voyages across Asia and Africa of what 14th century Moroccan explorer.

Ibn Battuta, even Battuta is correct.

Next toss up question what process which has Homo metabolize form is repressed by juvenile hormone and is an abrupt change in form.

Go ahead.

Moravian.

Like metamorphosis.

Metamorphosis is correct and is during the development seen in many insects.

For your bonus in September 2020 for all independent board members of what genetic testing company resigned amid a dispute with its CEO.

And will Jet Ski?

23 and me 23.

Me is correct.

Next tossup question what character who calls life a walking shadow in his tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow soliloquy.

Central.

Catholic.

Macbeth.

Macbeth is correct and titles.

A play set in Scotland by Shakespeare.

For bonus, what actor from the after party won the first season of Celebrity Jeopardy!

And the top prize on Who Wants to Be a millionaire?

In 2024.

Dwayne The Rock Johnson.

That is incorrect.

Ike Barinholtz is the correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What river, whose western portion is sometimes called the ISIS, flows past Oxford and Windsor and is crossed by the Tower Bridge in Moravian, the Thames.

The Thames is correct.

The Tower Bridge is to give way because it's flows through London.

For a bonus.

What devices whose glass variety is often used in P.H.

meters are the sites of half reactions in galvanic cells, which have two of them?

Just like.

A cathode incorrect electrodes is the correct answer.

And with that, we've reached half time.

Let's take a moment for the students.

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

If you could travel expense free to anywhere in the world, where would it be?

Moravian.

Go ahead.

I'm Kathryn, Carolyn.

I'm in ninth grade, and I would like to go to Malta.

Okay.

I'm Charlene Lu.

I'm in 11th grade, and I would like to go to Italy.

I'm Nathaniel Schmidt, I'm in 11th grade, and I would like to go to, India.

Okay.

My name is Michael.

I'm in 11th grade.

I would like to go to Montenegro.

Okay.

Very cool.

So, through a friend of a friend, I actually found out that I know Miss Montenegro.

So one of the models I work with regularly, her cousin, who she was a former beauty pageant queen and now her cousin is the Miss Montenegro contestant.

The world.

I know small world.

Also central Catholic.

Kyle.

Go ahead.

I'm Kyle, freshman.

I'm in 12th grade and I would like to go to Ireland.

Okay.

I'm Matthew Keenan.

I'm in 12th grade, and I'd like to go to Germany.

Okay.

I'm Jim Lincoln.

I'm in 11th grade, and I would like to go to Australia.

I'm Matthew Alvarado.

I'm in 11th grade and also like to go to Australia.

All right.

Very cool.

Australia is one of the places I've never been, so would be very neat to visit.

Anything in particular you'd want to see in Australia?

Like you want to go to the.

The western coast is more populated to the east.

Probably the opera house in Sydney.

Sydney Opera house.

Okay.

Very cool.

Okay.

We continue on with the match for the following tossup question.

What Empire's troops under Surinam captured the standard in a 53 battle that killed Crassus in Korea.

Go ahead.

Moravian Roman Empire.

That is incorrect.

Over to Central Catholic.

I'll complete the question to stop Rome's advance on Persia.

Go ahead.

Central Catholic.

Persian.

That is also incorrect.

The Parthian Empire.

It's a correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What country whose first female president is Claudia Sheinbaum was led.

Raven Academy.

Mexico.

Mexico is correct.

And for your bonus, what surname is shared by Martin, who wrote about the Holocaust in Time's Arrow and by his father, Kingsley, who wrote the academic satire Lucky Jim.

Smith.

Smith?

That's incorrect.

Amos is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What work in which Odell uses a disguise to trick Prince Siegfried in a gasp ballet to music set.

Go ahead.

Moravian.

Swan Lake.

Swan Lake is correct.

And it's shy or, czajkowski names for the bird.

There.

So for your bonus, your January 2024 Claudine Gaye resigned as president of what Massachusetts institution amid criticism of how she handled protest over the war in Gaza.

Harvard, Harvard or Harvard University is correct.

Next tossup question what event which led Kanye West to say George Bush doesn't care about black people?

Moravian.

Hurricane Katrina.

Hurricane Katrina is correct, and it was a 2005 storm that flooded Gulf Coast cities like New Orleans.

For your bonus in chemistry, what class of forces include London dispersion forces and hydrogen bonds?

Imfs or intermolecular forces?

Intermolecular forces is correct.

Next toss up question.

What lake is overlooked by the Scarborough Bluffs includes the headwaters of the Saint Lawrence River, and is named for a province containing Toronto.

Arabia.

Ontario.

Lake Ontario or Ontario is correct.

For your bonus, Robert Harris's poem To the Virgins, to make much of time, belongs to a genre named for what two word Latin phrase, which means seize the day.

Carpe diem.

Carpe diem is correct.

Next toss up question.

What type of reaction uses agents, such as alkali metal hydrides to add electrons to a species achieving the opposite of its counterpart?

Oxidation Moravia reduction.

Reduction is correct.

For your bonus, what first incorporated U.S. territory, formed in 1787, encompasses modern day states like Michigan, Ohio.

This is a bonus from Moravian and Illinois.

Northwest territory.

The Northwest Territories is correct.

Now, when you think of Northwest Territories.

Sorry.

Next tossup question.

In what year in which the first televised presidential debate was held central Catholic.

1960.

1960 is correct, and that's incumbent vice president faced Richard Nixon, faced off against John F Kennedy.

For bonus, what dimensionless quantity, which is zero for black bodies, represents the fraction of incoming light that a surface reflects.

Absorption.

Incorrect albedo is a correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What novella that depicts a boy named Monoline and his mentor Santiago, who catches a giant marlin.

Moravian old man in the sea.

The Old Man.

The sea is correct and is by Ernest Hemingway.

For your bonus, Missouri is the capital of what country?

Entirely surrounded by South Africa.

The southwest.

Yeah.

Let's do two.

Let's do two is correct.

Next toss up.

Question.

What physicist who first described discrete energy levels in which electrons orbit the nucleus is the namesake model of the atom.

And he was from Bergen.

Bohr.

Niels Bohr is correct.

And he was from Denmark.

For your bonus, what nationalistic tone poem by Italian composer Otto Renault Respighi climaxes with a triumphant march along the up and the Appian Way.

No!

Those big dances for those incorrect pines of Rome is the correct answer.

Next tossup question what holiday during which baroque herbs and matzah bread are eaten in Seder Moravian Passover.

Passover is correct and celebrates liberation of the Israelites from slavery.

For your bonus.

Emmanuel can't distinguish synthetic propositions from ones described by what word which names a philosophy tradition founded by Gottlob Freyja.

Naturalistic.

Incorrect would be analytic philosophy.

Next toss up question.

What man who was killed at Felix.

You so perverse.

Moya Palace had supposedly healing powers that led him to treat.

Go ahead, Moravian Rasputin.

That is correct.

It led him to treat Tsarevich Alexei at the Roman off court.

And for your bonus, what political party, which nominated Millard Fillmore for president in 1856, championed nativism and despised Catholics and immigrants?

No.

Nothing party.

The no nothing party is correct.

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

Moravian.

You'll get to pick between the following topics.

2024 Olympic medal winners or Golden list of gold?

Yeah.

Golden.

Golden.

It is.

Moravian.

Your second lightning round topic is golden.

Give the answers that contain the words gold or golden girl in a fairy tale who encounters three bears.

Correct.

NBA team led by Steph Curry.

Golden State Warriors correct item sought by the Argonauts.

Golden fleece.

Correct.

NHL team in Las Vegas.

Golden Knights.

That's correct.

1520 meeting in a field between Henry the Eighth and Francis the First meeting of the Cloth of Gold.

That's correct.

We'll take that 2002 anniversary of Elizabeth the Second's ascension.

Golden jubilee.

Correct.

Goalkeeper or the goalkeeper award at the World Cup.

Golden glove.

Correct.

First film starring Pierce Brosnan.

This James Bond.

GoldenEye.

Correct.

University of Minnesota.

Team nickname.

Golden Gophers.

That's correct.

Object used by Leland Stanford to complete the first Spy Temple Railroad.

That is correct.

It is the golden Spike.

Central Catholic.

We have a different kind of gold going on here.

It's 2024 Olympic medal winners.

Given one or more medal winners from the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.

Name their sport or discipline they participated in.

Breanna Stewart and LeBron James.

Basketball.

Correct.

Katie Ledecky and Leon.

Swimming is correct.

Lydia Ko and Scottie Scheffler.

Golf.

Correct.

Rebecca and Georgia and Suni Lee.

Gymnastics.

Correct.

Kenneth.

Rocks and Rai Benjamin.

Archery.

Incorrect.

Yemen.

Khalifa.

Shooting.

That's incorrect.

B girl Army and B boy.

Victor.

Sprinting.

That is incorrect.

Carolyn Marks and Gabrielle Morena photographed in midair.

Diving.

That is incorrect.

58 year old Laura Kraut and ballooning balloon to no speed walking.

That is incorrect.

18 year old Sam Watson, who set a world record at 4.74 seconds.

Sprinting.

That is incorrect.

That was sport climbing.

If you look up the clip of him, it's incredible.

It looks like he literally just jumped to the top of the wall.

And we continue on with the final quarter of the match with the following toss up question.

The untuned tam tam is a type of what round instruments typically suspended vertically.

Central Catholic.

Gong Gong is correct and it can be played with a mallet.

Completes the question for a bonus.

What item of clothing is named for an island group where the first public nuclear bomb test took place in 1946.

Bikini.

Bikini for the Bikini Atoll is correct.

Next toss up question.

What author wrote about Carter assuming the title of Pharaoh in the Cain Chronicles and created.

Go ahead.

Moravian.

Recording requirement is correct for your bonus.

What former cell division, also known as game into Genesis, produces haploid cells in sexual reproduction.

Meiosis.

Meiosis is correct.

Next toss up question.

What city?

Whose suburb?

Whose suburbs include Irpin and Buka is home to the Babi Yar mass grave, is on the Niger River and is the capital.

Moravia.

Kyiv.

He was correct, is capital of Ukraine.

For your bonus, what author of 10th of December dramatized the afterlife of Abraham Lincoln's son in his Booker Prize winning 2017 novel.

Lincoln in the Bardo.

Smith.

That's incorrect.

George Saunders is the correct answer.

Next tossup question is in math.

Pencil on paper.

Ready?

What is the median of the data set whose five values are 11, 17, 27, eight, and 16?

Given it is the middle term when order Central Catholic 1616 is correct.

For your bonus, what family that funds a prestigious annual architecture award also names a Frank Gehry designed music pavilion in Chicago's Millennium Park.

That's correct.

Answer is the Pritzker family.

Next, toss up question or present a country where in 1851, gold rush was started by Edward Hargraves was.

Go ahead Australia.

Australia is correct and it was the destination of transport of convicts in New South Wales.

For your bonus, what most populous region of Italy contains the cities of Pavia and Milan?

Lombardy.

Lombardy is correct.

Next tossup question.

What singer, who died days after his 2016 album Black Star dropped, sang about major Tom in the song Space Oddity and used the persona even Academy.

David Bowie.

David Bowie is correct, and he used the persona Ziggy Stardust.

Your bonuses in math.

Pencil on paper.

Ready for using currently circulating U.S. coins.

What is the minimum number of coins needed to have exactly $0.43.

Three.

Up four.

That's incorrect.

It's six coins.

You need one quarter, one dime.

You need a 35 a nickel to get you to 40, and then three pennies.

You have $0.43.

Next tossup question.

What six letter term can refer to the gel like material inside mitochondrion, or to a rectangular array of numbers enclosed in Moravia.

Matrix.

Matrix is correct, and its numbers enclosed in brackets.

For your bonus.

A 2021 film musical starred Peter Dinklage as What title swordsman.

Who goes writes letters to Roxanne, and is often portrayed as having a large nose?

What's your name?

De Bergerac de Bergerac is correct.

Next tossup question.

What groups whose candidates are scrutinized during fourth year can, in certain cases, review a jury?

A jury is correct, and in certain cases, they can be sequestered to help keep them impartial in judgment.

For your bonus, a frenzied Pierre Bishop cough tries to kill Napoleon during the French invasion of Russia.

In what novel by Leo Tolstoy.

War and peace.

War and peace is correct.

That's awesome question.

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

Allentown Central Catholic off to a quick start, but then Brady was able to catch up and go beyond.

Thank you very much for participating.

Good luck with the rest of your school year.

Moravian Academy 505 points.

Congratulations!

You are on to the final of the 50th season of Scholastic Scrimmage, and thank you for watching.

We'll see you for the second match for final four teams between Whitehall High School and Parkland High School next week.

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