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Hello and welcome to the first match of the finals of the 51st season of Classic Scrimmage.

I'm your host, David Graf.

Today's match is between Moravian Academy and Parkland High School.

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

At halftime will pause.

The students can produce themselves and we'll get to know them a little bit better.

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

And now buzzers ready.

Here is our first toss up question.

What boy who draws comic strips such as Stinky Sebastian is friends with Rally Jefferson and is the title character.

Go ahead.

Parkland.

Greg Heffley Greg Heffley is correct, and that is from the Wimpy Kid series.

For your bonus, tesserae are the tiny stones or pieces of glass used to make larger designs known by what term mosaic mosaics is correct.

Next toss up question.

Cratons are stable core regions of what landmasses which once joined together to form superstructures like Pangea, Moravian continents, continents is correct, and it formed a superstructure such as Pangea.

For your bonus, the operation returns zero for a singular matrix.

Excuse me.

What operation returns zero for a singular matrix and is used to solve systems of linear equations in Cramer's rule.

Determinant.

Yeah.

Determinant.

Determinant is correct.

Next toss up question.

In September 2025, what countries ban on social media led to the resignation of Prime Minister KP Sharma?

Ali.

Go ahead.

Moravian Nepal.

Nepal is correct and led to mass protests in Kathmandu for your bonus.

What formerly enslaved person became an abolitionist known for a speech at the Ohio Women's Rights Convention, now known as ain't I a woman?

Sojourner truth.

Sojourner truth is correct.

Next toss up question.

What military location, which Admiral Husband Kimmel was sacked for failing to protect, was bombed on December 7th, 1940.

Parkland, Pearl Harbor Pearl Harbor is correct.

And it was bombed in a sneak attack by Japan.

For your bonus, Bobbie is a chef at a Japanese German fusion restaurant in the 2025 Hulu revival of What Animation show depicting Hank and Peggy's life in Arlen, Texas.

King of the Hill.

King of the Hill.

King of the Hill is correct.

Next toss up question.

What author from Hannibal, Missouri use a raven?

Mark Twain Mark Twain is correct.

I figured there'd be a quick tell on that question for the bonus.

What device which can be step up or step down, are used to increase or decrease the voltage of an alternating current?

I think it's alternate.

Sure.

Alternator.

That is incorrect.

A transformer is a correct answer.

Next toss up question.

Clang and GCC are examples of what type of program, often contrasted with an interpreter that converts high level parkland.

Compiler A compiler is correct.

It converts high level code to low level machine code.

For your bonus, what 12 letter term identifies the government set up by the parliamentarians to replace the English monarchy after the English Civil War.

The answer we're looking for is Commonwealth.

Next, toss up question.

What cause for which?

The expedition of the thousands reg of the thousands red shirts fought culminated in Victor Emmanuel the Second becoming God.

Moravian.

The unification of Italy.

The unification of Italy is correct.

And he became king of the entire peninsula.

For your bonus.

After vacating Clinch Hall, Anna Eliot visits the city of bath and reunites with Captain Wentworth.

In what posthumous novel by Jane Austen.

Persuasion.

Persuasion is correct.

Next toss up question.

What fresco found on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel is a Michelangelo painting that shows Christ sending souls to heaven and hell.

Moravian.

The Last Judgment.

The Last Judgment is correct for your bonus.

What condition?

Often treated with a brace or surgery causes an abnormal side to side C or S curve in the spine.

Scoliosis.

Scoliosis is correct.

The next toss up questions in math.

Pencil and paper.

Ready?

What is the negative root of the quadratic expression x squared plus two x -15?

Given the positive root is three.

Moravian negative five.

Negative five is correct for your bonus.

Czar Nicholas the first suppressed what 1825 uprising led.

Oh my bad.

That's okay.

It's a bonus.

I'll keep reading.

LED by the liberal Russian army officers, which had a name derived from a from a month Decembrist.

Decembrist revolt.

The Decembrist revolt is correct.

Next toss up question.

What adjective names a course at Saint Andrew's called the birthplace of golf, the form of English used in Beowulf and a testament.

Moravian.

Old.

Old is correct for the Old course of Saint Andrew's and Old English for your bonus.

What German compound word refers to joy at seeing other people's suffering?

Schadenfreude.

Schadenfreude is correct.

Next toss of question.

What war?

After which the Bar-Lev line was constructed, caused Egypt to lose the Sinai Peninsula to Israel and is named for Gary Parkland, the seven Days War.

That's incorrect.

I'll continue for Moravian and is known as name for a very short duration.

Grand Moravian Six Days War.

The Six Days War is correct.

Ken.

Your one day off on the war.

Like there for your bonus.

Moravian.

The Book of Revelation is traditionally attributed to a man from Patmos.

With what?

First name?

Yeah, John.

John is correct.

Next also question what regions density is much smaller than the Kirkwood gaps contains Vesta and the dwarf planet series.

Go ahead.

Moravian asteroid belt.

Asteroid belt is correct and it's found between Mars and Jupiter.

For your bonus, what US state once had an independent monarchy that was overthrown and replaced with a government led by Sanford Dole.

Hawaii.

Hawaii is correct.

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

In a pre-match coin toss, it was determined that Moravian would get to pick between the following topics.

We have whether or 50.

America.

Okay, let's do 50s America.

Moravian.

Your first lightning round topic is 50s America.

Answer the following about the United States in the 1950s.

General who became president and how correct.

1954 case the outlawed school segregation.

Brown v board.

Correct.

Wisconsin Senator who crusaded against poverty.

Correct.

Disease for which Jonas Salk developed a vaccine.

Correct.

Surname of the couple executed for being Soviet spies.

Rosenberg.

Correct.

Massive trade union formed in a 1955 merger.

Fell.

CIO correct.

Central American country where U.S.

agents helped topple Jacobo Arbenz.

Guatemala.

Correct.

I'm using a park that opened in Anaheim in 1955.

Disneyland.

Correct.

City where Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat.

Montgomery.

Correct.

Literary movement exemplified by how?

And on the road.

Beat.

Yeah.

Beat or beat?

Generation.

Writing is correct.

Nice job.

Moravian, over to parkland.

Your topic is whether give these weather terms.

Fast spinning, funnel shaped whirlwind formed over land.

Tornado.

Correct precipitation in a blizzard.

Snow.

Correct.

Huge rotating storms with examples like Sandy and Katrina.

Correct.

Towering thunderclouds, abbreviated CSB.

Cumulonimbus.

That is correct.

Flash formed by electrical flow from the ground to the clouds.

Lightning correct phenomenon whose speed is measured on the Beaufort scale.

Wind.

Correct visibility reducing events near deserts such as have obs fogs.

Incorrect atmospheric air current whose polar type goes from North America to Europe.

Jet stream.

Correct.

Mid-level cloud sheets whose radius forms.

Type.

Bands.

Forms.

Band types.

Clouds.

That's incorrect.

Soft hail pellets covered in rhyme.

Sleep.

Incorrect clothes.

But that is which the Lehigh Valley news team loves the term grapple.

They use it frequently in their reports.

Okay, on to next toss up question what state in which the Harris Station Dam impounds the Kennebec River until 1820 was part of Massachusetts Moravian Maine.

Maine is correct and is now governed from Agusta.

For your bonus, what term from the Greek for cut vein identifies a medical professional that specializes in drawing and storing blood from patients.

Sure.

Phlebotomist a phlebotomist is correct.

Next toss up question what game streamed by Levy Rosman and he got Moravian chess.

Chess is correct.

Are you a fan of Levy Rosman?

No, but I know who he is.

All right, so yes, chess is correct for your bonus, the doomed love between young actress Nina and the troubled author Constantine live is central to what play by Anton Chekhov, the seagull.

The seagull is correct.

Next toss up question.

In what city were DeCarlo?

Brown was arrested over a 2025 incident on the Lynx Blue Line light rail, in which a Ukrainian refugee, Irina Tsaritsa, was stabbed.

Moravian Minneapolis.

That's incorrect.

Over to parkland.

The question is complete.

Go ahead.

Parkland, New York City also incorrect.

That incident happened in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Next toss up question what symphony?

Whose day fix theme occurs in the dreams of a wicked Sabbath?

Moravian Symphonie Fantastique simply fantastique is correct for your bonus.

George Washington lived at what?

Virginia, a state which his brother Lawrence, named for a British officer he served under during the War of Jenkins Ear.

Mount Vernon, Mount Vernon is correct.

Next toss up question.

What city contains a central square of miracles lies just east of the mouth of the Arno River and is.

Go ahead, Moravian Florence.

That's incorrect.

I'll continue for parkland and is an Italian city home to a leaning tower.

Go ahead.

Parkland.

Pisa.

Pisa is correct for your bonus.

In what process performed in the root nodules of legumes is a namesake diatomic gas made useful for plants by converting it into ammonia or NH3.

Nitrogen fixation nitrogen fixation is correct.

Next toss up question what man who ordered a settlement called La Navidad built on the coast of Hispaniola?

Captain.

The Santa moravian, Christopher Columbus Christopher Columbus is correct, and he captained the Santa Maria on a 1492 voyage to the New World.

For your bonus, what easternmost Canadian province was a discrete UK dominion until 1949, when it officially became Canada's most recent province?

Newfoundland Newfoundland is correct.

Next toss of question.

What statement, written as an inequality for a product, says that one cannot measure both position and momentum.

Go ahead.

Parkland.

Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.

Heisenberg's uncertainty principle is correct.

And for your bonus, what US battleship, nicknamed Old Ironsides, is the world's oldest active warship and captured the HMS Guerrier in the War of 1812.

Constitution.

The USS Constitution is correct.

And with that, we have reached half time.

Wouldn't have each student introduced themselves with their first name, last name, grade level and the answer to the following question.

If money was not a factor, what would you do for a future career?

Raven Academy Jacob.

Go ahead.

Okay, I say first, last name, grade level and then the answer.

Jacob.

First name.

Jacob.

Last name crept grade level nine.

And I guess historian.

All right.

Very cool.

Charlie.

Go ahead.

Charlene low, grade 12 and doctor.

All right.

Nathaniel Schmidt.

Grade 12 and a food critic.

Okay.

Tyler.

Grade 12 and director of music for a symphony.

Very cool.

Okay.

Parkland.

Eric.

Go ahead.

Eric.

Eric.

Grade ten.

And I'd be a politician.

Okay.

Sam.

Plum.

Bo.

Grade 12 international tour guide.

Okay.

Sophia Hamid, 11, comedy writer.

Okay.

Ken Zheng, 11th grade, a researcher.

All right.

Very cool.

Sophia, comedy writer.

I feel like is a good pick because I feel like that's a profession where you make nothing for a very long time, then have the chance to make a lot.

If you do, hit it big.

So to do it and I have to worry about money, it would probably be a blessing to many people trying to be a comedy writer.

All right, we'll continue on with the second half of the match with the following toss up question.

What team lost the 1986 World Series after Bill, after a Bill Buckner error, and broke the curse of the Bambino after Moravian.

Red Sox Boston Red Sox is correct.

And that was they broke that curse.

After a 2004 ALCS win over the rival the Yankees for your bonus.

What leader of Oceania is portrayed as the enemy of Emmanuel Goldstein, and is said to be constantly watching you in George Orwell's novel, 1984?

Big brother Big Brother is correct.

Next toss up question what American woman was traveling with Fred Noonan near the Holland Island in 1937?

Go ahead.

Moravian.

Amelia Earhart is correct.

And that's when she disappeared while trying to fly around the globe for your bonus.

What?

Former Cubs left fielder, who completed his fourth year with the Phillies as a designated hitter, had a four home run game and 56 total home runs in 2025.

Kyle Schwarber is correct.

And to all our Phillies fans out there, he just signed again.

So he's going to stay with the Phillies for at least I believe, in other four seasons.

All right.

Next to some question is in math pencil and paper ready.

What is the integer equal to the product of two raised to the negative two power times two raised to the fifth power?

Parkland eight eight is correct.

For your bonus, what language with a three letter abbreviation is typically used to interact with relational databases SQL, SQL, SQL, or SQL is correct.

On to the next toss up.

What singer, whose 2005 debut album music of the sun included Pond Day, Replay and sang When the Sun Shines will shine together in parkland.

Rihanna Rihanna is correct for your bonus.

The site of her husband Brantley Mallard, who she thought was dead, killed Luis in what?

Short work by Kate Chopin story in an hour.

The story of an hour is correct.

Next toss up question what poet described himself as now 37 years old, and said that he was hoping to cease not till death in the first part of his song of myself?

Moravian Whitman Walt Whitman is correct for your for your bonus.

What?

Piano suite by modus, which Maurice Ravel orchestrated, has a movement called the Great Gate of Kyiv.

Pictures at an exhibition.

Pictures and exhibition is correct.

Next toss up question.

What man who supported electronic town halls and warned of a giant sucking sound caused by naff raving academy.

Perot.

Ross Perot is correct, and he ran for president as an independent in 1992.

For your bonus in September 2025, what country triggered article four of the NATO charter after Russian drones entered its airspace?

Poland.

Poland is correct.

Next toss up question.

Wage rules govern clusters of what element that has a tri oxide used in Pyrex glass for many.

Go ahead.

Parkland.

Boron.

Boron is correct and has the atomic symbol B for your bonus Diana moon glamor shoot.

What title character of a Kurt Vonnegut short story set in the year 2081, where everyone, where everybody has finally equal was finally equal, where everybody was finally equal?

Billy Pilgrim that's incorrect.

Harrison Bergeron is a correct answer.

Next toss up question.

Aristotle claimed what style of play exemplified by the extant plays of Aristophanes?

Go ahead.

Moravian comedy comedies are correct, and they don't end in misery, unlike tragedies.

Your bonuses in math pencil and paper ready?

What is the dot product of two vectors?

13 comma negative three and four comma negative eight.

Given it equals the sum of the two products 13 times four plus three times 130 times four, 52 -24 equals answer 68, 78, 78.

That's incorrect.

76 was the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What status was extended throughout Italy after the Social War and was given go ahead.

Moravian Roman citizenship Roman citizenship is correct, and it was given free to all males in the Roman Empire for your bonus.

In what western state were four people were killed in August 2025 after an Army veteran opened fire at the Owl Bar is in its town of Anaconda.

Sure, Colorado.

Incorrect.

Montana is a correct answer.

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

You'll get to pick between the following topics video game villains or BRICs member countries, BRICs member countries, BRICs member countries.

It is park parkland.

Your second lightning round topic is BRICs member countries name these countries that form the international organization BRICs, which includes some not in the acronym.

The largest by area ruled by Vladimir.

Russia.

Correct.

The only one fully in the Southern Hemisphere.

Brazil.

Incorrect.

Its most populous member.

China.

Incorrect.

Its only Western Hemisphere member.

Brazil.

Correct.

Petro state that borders Oman and Saudi Arabia.

United Arab Emirates, correct, its largest economy and the world's second largest.

China.

Correct country whose nuclear program was subject to the JCPoA deal.

Iran, correct, overthrew Hosni Mubarak in the Arab Spring.

Egypt correct.

Its only landlocked member, which is home to the African Union headquarters.

Now Ethiopia.

That is correct.

Its newest member, led by Prabowo Subianto.

Nigeria.

Incorrect.

Indonesia.

Okay, Autumn Raven Academy, your topic is video game villains.

Name the video game series in which these reoccurring villains appear Ganondorf who seeks the Triforce legend of Zelda.

That's correct.

Doctor Eggman, also known as Doctor Robotnik.

Sonic correct M bison who clashes with Ryu and Chun-Li.

Street Fighter correct.

Albert Wesker who is fought by Chris Redfield.

Metal Gear incorrect.

The Knights Templar who oppose an order that includes Ezio.

Auditory.

Assassin's Creed correct.

Sephiroth, who first appeared in its seventh entry.

Final Fantasy.

Correct.

Doctor wily who creates Robot Masters.

Is that Metal Gear?

Nope.

Incorrect.

GLaDOS created by Aperture Science.

Portal.

Correct.

Dracula who is by the Belmont family.

Castlevania.

Correct.

Xiao Khan who rules Outworld.

Mortal Kombat that is correct.

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

What effect is used both in the radial velocity method of finding exoplanets and in radar speed balance?

Moravian the Doppler effect?

That's correct, and also causes passing sirens to change pitch.

For your bonus, the US acquired California and Nevada as part of what, 1848 treaty ending the Mexican-American War.

Guadalupe Hidalgo The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is correct.

Next toss up question what condition is the subject of Simon Baron Cohen's ES theory once had a subtype called Asperger syndrome and occurs.

Moravian autism.

Autism is correct for your bonus.

What African country, which almost entirely surrounds the Gambia, is governed from Dakar, Senegal.

Senegal is correct.

Next toss up question what name is shared by an independent film festival that in 2025 announced a move to Boulder, Colorado and a Kid outlaw partnered Gaurav Moravian Sundance?

Yeah, I believe Nathaniel buzzed in, but he buzzed.

All right, Sundance is correct.

And he was partnered with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid for your bonus.

A quarry in what village northeast of Stockholm was the source of eight elemental discoveries, including four named for it, which include erbium.

It's like.

It's like YouTube.

It's like a turbulence of e-tron.

That's incorrect.

Iturbi, Sweden.

It's a correct answer.

Next toss up question.

Genes in the ABC model regulate formation.

Parkland.

Flowers.

Flowers is correct for your bonus.

What inheritance system common in medieval Europe gave most or all of a person's property to its eldest legitimate son?

Avoiding division of estates.

Patriarchal?

That's incorrect.

Probably is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

In architecture, what adjective identifies paired doors that contain multiple glass panes as well?

Moravian French French doors are correct for your bonus in August 2025, what billionaire governor from Illinois promised to resist attempts by the Trump administration to deploy military in Chicago.

Pritzker.

Pritzker is correct.

Next toss up question what planned city was designed by Walter and Marion?

Griffin is in a territory surrounded by New South Wales.

Go ahead parkland, Canberra Canberra is correct in the capital of Australia for your bonus for his second labor.

Hercules slew what poisonous serpent that grew two heads for every one that was chopped off the Hydra.

The Hydra is correct.

Next toss up question.

What number is the number of valence electrons in a sulfur atom?

Go ahead.

Parkland six six is correct for your bonus.

A prison known as Pinot Tacon was described by what philosopher who formulated his fellowship calculus as part of his philosophy of utilitarianism.

Jeremy Bentham Jeremy Bentham is correct.

Next toss of question what scientists who conducted decades of fieldwork at Gombe Stream National Park.

Go ahead, Moravian Goodall.

Jane Goodall is correct for your bonus.

Johann Gusev, Joycean, coined what name for the 300 year period after Alexander the Great's death in which Greek culture dominated the Mediterranean.

Hellenistic age.

The Hellenistic period, or Hellenistic age is correct.

Next toss up question what novel, which begins, as Philby argues about the fourth dimension, describes Weena and other Eloi who live in the far future Moravian.

The time.

The time machine is correct, and it's by H.G.

Wells for your bonus.

What language did did Caladenia write for his classic fifth century play that would have been in the Sanskrit language?

He wrote that.

Well, parkland, you had an excellent season.

Unfortunately not quite enough today.

Good luck with the rest of your school year.

Raven, congratulations!

You are on to the final match and we will find out who plays Moravian when we tune in next week.

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