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Hello and welcome to the third round of the 51st season of Scholastic Scrimmage.

I'm your host, David Graff.

We are down to our final eight teams.

Today's match is between Moravian Academy, who, in their second round match, scored a single game season high a 595 points, and Northampton Area High School, who accumulated 530 points so far this season.

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

At half, time will pause for 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.

That's not necessarily indicative of academic training.

And now let's begin.

Buzzers.

Ready.

Here's our first tossup question.

What country whose flag features a yellow Sambo symbol, contains the northern part of the Gobi Desert, and has this capital.

Go ahead.

Moravian.

Mongolia.

Mongolia is correct.

And it has its capital at Ulan Bator.

For your bonus.

Allen Dulles resigned as CIA director after what failed U.S.

back invasion that tried to topple Fidel Castro in Cuba in 1961.

Bay of pigs.

The Bay of pigs is correct.

Next tossup question.

What mathematician wrote on the sphere and cylinder used inscribed polygons to estimate.

Go ahead.

Moravian.

Euclid.

That's incorrect.

I'll continue for Northampton.

To estimate.

Pi lived in third century BC Syracuse and said Eureka.

Go ahead.

Northampton.

Aristophanes.

Also incorrect.

Archimedes of Syracuse is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What set of laws were condemned in the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions for tightening citizenship requirements?

Peruvian alien and sedition Acts.

Alien Sedition Act is correct and censor critics of John Adams in the Aliens and Sedition Act.

For your bonus, the River is a sequel to what, 1986 young adult novel by Gary Paulson, which depicts Brian's survival in the Canadian wilderness after a plane crash.

Hatchet.

Hatchet is correct.

Next toss up question.

What office?

Ascension to which begins in new eras like the current era, is held by the occupant of the Chrysanthemum Throne, who is now Moravian Emperor of Japan.

Emperor of Japan is correct, and it's now held by Naruhito.

For your bonus, what phenomenon in which quantum particles seem to communicate instantly across a distance.

Did Albert Einstein call spooky action at a distance?

I'm sure.

What?

Quantum tunneling.

That is incorrect.

Quantum entanglement is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What quantity whose change equals the time of integral equals the time integral of force and is called impulse, is symbolized lowercase p and is equal to mass times velocity.

The correct answer is momentum.

Next toss up question.

In what state?

William Paterson was governor and Alexander Hamilton was killed in a duel.

Go ahead.

Moravia, new Jersey.

New Jersey is correct for your bonus.

What sticky film that forms on teeth can harden into tartar if not removed by brushing?

Plaque?

Dental plaque is correct.

Next toss up question.

What country is the setting of the Labyrinth of Solitude is where?

Ambrose Bierce.

Go ahead.

Moravian Mexico.

Mexico is correct.

It's where Ambrose Bierce disappeared.

For your bonus.

What mountain?

Just east of Jerusalem.

Excuse me.

What mountain?

Just east of Jerusalem.

Is said to be the spot where Jesus ascended to heaven.

Mountain.

Mount of olives.

Mount of olives is correct.

Next toss up.

Question.

What objects?

Which name?

Chambers that suspend cloud chambers.

Excuse me?

That supersede cloud chambers?

So what objects?

Which name chambers that supersede cloud chambers are often spheres due to surface tension.

And are air pockets formed in soapy water?

Moravian bubbles.

Bubbles is correct.

It's very awkwardly worded question to get to bubbles for your bonus.

What language did 19th century playwright August Strindberg use to write naturalistic tragedies such as the Father and Miss Julie?

Swedish?

Swedish is correct.

Next tossup question.

What monarch whose forces suppressed father.

Gunman's march on Bloody Sunday was deposed in the February Revolution.

And with the last Russians are Moravian Nicholas second.

Nicholas the second is correct.

For your bonus, in October 2024, seven people died in an attack by the PKK in what NATO member state where the PKK fights for independence of Kurdistan.

Turkey.

Turkey is the correct answer.

Next tossup question what country?

Where in 2025, Thomas Jenko was convicted for his activities within.

Fark is a world's main exporter of cocaine.

Go ahead.

Moravian.

Colombia.

Colombia is correct.

And it's led from Bogota.

For a bonus.

What European dynasty originated in Anjou but ruled England under medieval kings like Henry the Second.

Plantagenet.

The House of the Plantagenet is correct.

Next tossup question.

What primary color can be created by painters with the pigment gambas and comes in shades such as thick citrine, saffron and lemon.

Moravian yellow.

The primary color is yellow.

For your bonus, ancient Romans used reduced grape mash in lead pot, creating lead acetate, which today is exemplified by aspartame and sorbitol.

So what is the substance it was created in?

That reaction?

Go ahead.

Yes, sure.

Alcohol?

No, it was an artificial sweetener.

They accidentally created the first artificial sweetener.

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

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

You'll get to pick between the following topics.

Poetry, terminology or ancient Egypt.

I'd rather go to ancient Egypt.

Yeah.

Let's go.

Ancient Egypt.

Ancient Egypt it is.

We're having your first lightning round topic is ancient Egypt.

Answer the following about ancient Egypt, the most common term for ancient Egyptian monarchs starting in the New Kingdom period.

Correct logo graphic.

Ancient Egyptian writing society.

That's correct.

Queen who was Egypt's last pre-Roman ruler.

Cleopatra.

Correct.

City once home to a great library.

Alexandria.

Correct.

Great king who won the Battle of Kadesh.

Ramses.

Which one?

The second.

Correct.

Ancient capital.

Where?

Luxor now stands.

Thebes.

Correct.

Color of Lower Egypt's crowned as contrast with Upper Egypt.

White.

Crowned red.

Correct.

Unifier of Egypt.

Depicted on a palette.

King Tut.

Incorrect.

Jars that held a mummy's organs.

Canopic jars.

Correct.

Macedonian general who succeeded Alexander the Great in Egypt.

Ptolemy Soter.

Ptolemy the first.

The soda is correct.

Okay, Northampton.

Your topic is poetry terminology.

Give these literary terms related to poetry.

A block of poetic lines analogous to a paragraph.

Stanza.

Correct.

Three line Japanese poetic form.

Haiku.

Correct.

Pattern of a poems.

Rhyme such as a b a b. Rhyme scheme.

Correct.

A pair of successive rhyming lines.

Couplet.

Correct.

A serious poem that mourns the poem's subject.

Sonnet.

Incorrect style of verse with strict meter but no strict rhymes.

Perhaps line or lines that a poem regularly repeats.

Refrain.

Correct.

Metrical foot consisting of unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.

Iambic pentameter.

Correct.

Midpoint in a sonnet where a new thought develops.

Past, a poem in which the first letter of each line spells a message and acrostic.

An acrostic poem is correct.

All right.

We'll continue on with the following tossup question.

What novella, whose protagonist discusses the great DiMaggio with mentally.

Go ahead.

Moravian.

The old man in the sea.

The old man and the sea is correct.

And he reels in a gigantic marlin after a long slump.

But it's also by Ernest Hemingway.

The old man in the sea.

For a bonus, Winford Scott devised what union plan for defeating the South in the Civil War by choking off its access to the Mississippi River and the Atlantic.

The Anaconda Plan the Anaconda Plan is correct.

Next tossup question.

What reality?

Competition.

Which features Michelle Visage as a judge and ends episodes with lip sync for your life battles, is hosted by RuPaul.

Raven Academy.

A drag race, RuPaul's Drag Race is correct.

For your bonus, DuPont chemist Wallace Carruthers developed what polymer with amide linkages, which is used in fabrics in parachutes and women's stockings.

Nylon.

Nylon is correct.

Next toss up question.

What city?

Whose domain walls were breached?

Go ahead.

Moravian.

Constantinople.

Constantinople is correct.

And it was conquered by the Ottomans in 1453.

For your bonus.

In what?

Science fiction series by Douglas Adams, the dolphins depart the doomed planet Earth, leaving the message so long.

And thank you for all the fish.

Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is correct.

Next toss up question.

What novel in which Samson Carrasco impersonates the Knight of the White Moravian.

Don Quixote.

Don Quixote is correct, and it's B. It's by Miguel de Cervantes for your bonus.

In 2025, the Commerce Department proposed a tax on the assessed value of what?

Government protections for novel inventions and discoveries.

Patents.

Patents is correct.

Next tossup question.

What condition, which can give characteristic delta waves on an EEG has REM and non-REM stages?

Go ahead.

Moravian sleep.

Yes.

Sleep said, and it's disrupted by people with insomnia.

For bonus in thermodynamics, the Carnot cycle alternates isothermal steps with what type of process in which no heat is exchanged.

Equilibrium process.

Okay.

Equilibrium adiabatic is the correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What island known in antiquity as Trina Serra for its triangular shape, is southwest of the Strait of Messina.

Go ahead.

Moravian.

Sicily.

Sicily is correct.

It's off the coast of mainland Italy.

For your bonus, what minor key, which Beethoven called the Black Key, has two sharps in its key signature and is the relative minor of D major.

Music theory.

Capital.

The, B Judge.

Yeah.

We'll take a, B or B minor is correct.

How would you actually plot it out there on paper?

I had my school.

Nice job.

All right, onto our next tossup question.

What quantity?

Which can be calculated as C plus I plus G plus net exports, measures the total value of goods and services.

Go ahead.

Moravian GDP.

The GDP of gross domestic product is correct.

And it's the total services produced by a country.

Goods and services for your bonus.

What South Asian leader was assassinated in 1984 by two bodyguards who were Sikh nationalists.

Indira Gandhi.

Indira Gandhi is correct.

Next tossup question.

What chemist who defined acids and bases as electron pair acceptors?

Go ahead.

Northampton.

Lewis.

Gilbert Lewis is correct.

And for your bonus, Albert.

The second is the reigning monarch of what country?

Which is home to the Monte Carlo Casino.

Monaco?

Monaco is correct.

And with that, we've reached half time.

No.

It's too common for the students to introduce themselves with their first name, last name, grade level.

And the answer to the following question.

What is your go to breakfast for us classic scrimmage match.

So we always record in the early morning hours.

So we want to know what do you prefer match.

You get your powered up.

We're having academy.

Go ahead.

Virtually any comrade in ninth grade.

And our final bagel.

Charlene.

No.

12th grade and, x Nathaniel Schmidt, 12th grade and oatmeal cream.

That was a 12th grade, a pumpkin muffin.

Oh, okay.

Is that a pumpkin muffin?

Every single match.

Every day.

Every day or every day.

Okay.

Northampton.

Go ahead.

Robert Judge 12th grade.

And pancakes okay Brady Davis wiser 11th grade French chefs.

All right.

Ada Barnhart 11th grade chicken okay Leah for Naruto 11th grade.

And just toast.

All right.

Excellent.

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

What man who is arrested in a room above Mr.

Carrington's shop yells, do it to Julia while being tortured by the Thought police in George Orwell's 1984, Moravian Winston.

Yeah.

We'll take the Winston or Winston Smith is acceptable for your bonus.

A large red spot called the Moor Door.

Manila lies near one of the poles of what largest satellite of Pluto.

Okay, but Caroline, Karen or Sharon is correct.

Next toss up.

Question.

What creature was captured by Heracles during his final labor?

Guarded the gates of the underworld.

Go ahead.

Moravian.

Cerberus.

Cerberus is correct.

It was a snake tailed dog with three heads.

For your bonus, John Oakhurst dies by shooting himself in the chest in what?

Short story by Bret Hart about people exiled from the title town.

Wow.

Small girl in.

Yes.

Short Smallville.

That's incorrect.

The Outcasts of Poker Flat is a correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What case?

Which struck down section 13 of the Judiciary Act of 1789 concerning the appointment of midnight judges.

Go ahead.

Moravian.

Mobley versus Madison.

Marbury versus Madison is correct.

And it established judicial review for your bonus.

Lorena Ochoa was the first Mexican player to become world number one in what sport?

Which is also played by Annika Sorenstam, tennis.

Good tennis?

Tennis.

Incorrect.

Golf is where she was first ranked number one.

Next tossup question what animals, including the theater loving Gus, the villainous Macavity, and Grizabella.

Moravian cats.

Cat is correct.

And it's by Andrew Lloyd Webber for your bonus in 1497.

What Italian explorer sailed under the English flag became the first European to land on North American mainland since the Vikings.

Cabot.

John Cabot is correct.

Next tossup question what element whose nitrate salt forms ordinary salt?

Peter lies below sodium on the periodic table has the atomic symbol Northampton.

Potassium.

Potassium is correct and has the atomic symbol okay.

Got is also correct for your bonus.

What title?

Protagonist of a Charles Dickens novel befriends Mike, quarrels with schoolmaster whack fruit squares and has an alliterative name.

Oh, oh, you can tell your cat.

Nicholas Nickleby Nicholas Nickleby is correct.

Next toss up question in what war, which Alastair Campbell's so-called dodgy dossier advocated for, did the UK join a coalition of the willing against Saddam Hussein?

Moravia?

Go for, we, fortunately, we can't take that.

That is the whole question.

So over to Northampton.

Go ahead.

The Persian Gulf War, that is also incorrect.

So you're all on the right track.

And I think thinking the right thing, the only acceptable answers are were the Iraq War or Second Gulf War or Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Those were the three acceptable answers.

Next tossup question what ballet originally scored with 13 instruments, includes a broad stance and variation on simple gifts and was composed by Aaron Copeland.

Moravian Appalachian Spring Appalachian Spring is correct for bonus.

Americans like Charles Davenport promoted what discredited practice that aimed to improve humanity's genetic quality through selective breeding.

Eugenics.

Eugenics is also correct.

Next, toss up question what organ stimulated by t s h to secrete T3 and T4 can be enlarge in graves disease to form a good Moravian thyroid.

The thyroid is correct.

It's a butterfly shaped gland in the neck.

For your bonus, what architect of the Farnsworth House collaborated with Philip Johnson on the Seagram Building and popularized the maxim less is more.

Yeah.

Frank Lloyd Wright, that's incorrect.

It'll be lutefisk.

This is the architect.

Next tossup question what?

Mariner escapes captivity with help from Zuri and meet an indigenous man he calls Friday after being gored.

Moravian.

Robinson Crusoe.

Robinson Crusoe is correct.

It's a novel by Daniel Defoe.

For your bonus, the Palmer Index measures the severity of what?

Natural events that correspond to narrower tree rings and increased water stress.

Droughts, droughts, droughts.

A drought is correct.

Next toss up question what deejay whose albums include God did Father of Assad and suffering from success, used his catchphrases such as another one and played yourself Northampton DJ Cohen DJ Khalid is correct for your bonus.

The title of the play wit, is often written with the eye replaced with a punctuation mark, or with what punctuation mark that can link two independent clauses.

Semicolon.

Semicolon is correct.

Next toss of questions in math.

Pencil on paper.

Ready?

How many spokes are on a bike wheel?

If a spoke occurs every 30 degrees?

Given the wheel is a complete circle of 360 degree Northampton 1212 spokes is correct.

And for your bonus, German writer Carl von Clausewitz wrote an influential treatise on what topic that was also the subject of a book credited to Sun Tzu.

For War is correct.

And for the Lightning Round Northampton, do you get to pick between the following topics American Transit or foreign articles?

American Transit American transit.

It is Northampton.

Your topic for the second lightning round is American Transit.

Name these U.S.

cities given a pair of stations on that city's transit system, Federal Triangle and Smithsonian.

Washington, D.C., correct.

Franklin Square and Independence Hall.

Philadelphia.

Correct.

Grand Central and Times Square, New York City, correct.

Shot tower and Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, correct.

Embarcadero and 16th Street.

Mission.

Yes.

Midway and O'Hare.

Chicago.

Correct.

Universal City and Highland Park.

San Francisco incorrect.

Tower City and Hopkins Airport.

Atlanta.

Incorrect.

Peachtree Center and King Memorial.

Atlanta.

Correct.

Roxbury Crossing and Fenway.

Boston.

Boston is correct.

Okay.

Moving academy, your topic is foreign articles.

Give these answers that start with the word.

That means the.

In other languages, such as Los, most populous Nevada city, Las Vegas.

Correct terrorist group that planned 911 to correct sparkling water brand with colorful cans and flavors like Pamplemousse Lacroix.

Correct reoccurring Pacific weather cycle that causes warming and heavy rain and El Nino.

Correct.

Author of the Earth Sea books.

Ursula Gwynn, correct.

Sinaloa drug lord captured in 2016.

Oh.

Chapel.

Correct.

Qatar based Arabic news network whose name means gorgeous.

You say it again.

Al-Jazeera.

Correct.

In 1656, Diego Velasco, his portrait of Spanish couriers.

Las Meninas, correct.

Three volume economic text by Karl Marx.

Das capital.

Correct.

Native translator, enslaved by Hernan Cortez.

La malinche is correct.

All right.

Well, because you want the following quarter of the match with this tossup question.

What play partly hinges on the deed to the estate of Belle Reve centers on the Kowalski's relationship with Go-Ahead Moravian, a Streetcar Named Desire.

A Streetcar Named Desire is correct, and it's by Tennessee Williams for your bonus.

What body of water on the Bolivia Peru border is the world's highest lake that can be navigated by large vessels.

Lake Titicaca, that is correct.

Next tossup question.

What force?

Whose namesake coefficient is represented by mu and reduced Go-Ahead Northampton friction.

Friction is correct for your bonus.

What great 10th century Holy Roman Emperor was the son of Henry the Fowler, who defeated the Magyars at the Battle of Leek Veld.

Or Lech Veld.

Trojan.

Incorrect Otto the Great or Otto the First is a correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What tool can be made with kosinski's?

Sable hair consists of a handle, ferrule and tuft and can be created using stippling and impasto by painters.

Moravian paint brush A paintbrush or brushes is correct for your bonus.

Alexander Walcott and Dorothy Parker were among the writers who met as a so-called Round table in the 1920s at what Manhattan Hotel.

Waldorf.

The Algonquin for the Algonquin Round Table.

Next tossup question what state?

Which is home to ski resorts near the towns of Stowe and Killington.

Go ahead.

Northampton, Vermont.

Vermont is correct for your bonus.

Expressionist Otto Dix painted a war triptych based on what War, whose horrors inspired the movement.

During the Spanish-American War, that is incorrect.

The dates were inspired by World War One.

Next toss up question and what body of water did a 2010 explosion on the Deepwater Horizon and offshore rig go ahead?

Northampton, the Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of Mexico is correct for your bonus.

Palin.

Mythic acid is part of what macro molecule needed for the Krebs cycle that is most often used to transport, a c seed groups.

It was often used to transport acetyl groups.

Coenzyme A is a correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What company has partnered with Rivian Automotive for electric vans, bones, Twitch, and Whole Foods?

It was co-founded Rivian Amazon.

That is correct and is co-founded by Jeff Bezos for your bonus.

In August 2025, Donald Trump announced the US government would buy a 10% stake in what tech company that makes computer chips.

Do you know Intel?

Okay, Intel.

Intel is correct.

Next tossup question what former Republican senator was replaced by Ashley Moody, whom Ron DeSantis appointed in 2000.

Go ahead.

Moravian Rubio Marco Rubio is correct for your bonus.

The U.N.

secretary general Javier's or Javier Perez de Quezada, hailed from what South American country where the Shining Path insurgency was based in Peru.

Peru is correct.

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

It's the end of the line.

Congratulations.

Good luck with the rest of your school year.

Raven Academy, congratulations to you.

What, 545 points?

You're on to the final four teams in the tournament.

And thank you for watching.

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