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

I'm your host, David Graf.

The championship match is between Moravian Academy, who returned as champions from last year and over scrimmages, 51 years have won the tournament six times.

And SoCon Valley High School, who, counting today's appearance, have made the final three times and won the tournament once in 1997.

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

At half time will pause.

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

Scott stick scrimmage requires rapid recall specific factual information as not necessarily indicative of academic training.

And now let's begin.

Buzzers.

Ready?

Here's our first toss up question.

What president who approved the Clayton Bulwer treaty earlier won the Battle of Buena Vista against Mexico?

Moravian Taylor.

Taylor is correct.

And he was nicknamed old rough and ready for your bonus.

What dancer, who grew up among the Romani people of Paris is loved by bellringer quasi modo in Victor Hugo's novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame?

Esmeralda.

Esmeralda is correct.

Next toss up question.

What longtime friend of Clara Schumann was one?

Go ahead.

Moravian Brahms.

Brahms is correct.

He could pose for symphonies as well as a German Requiem for your bonus.

Rounded to the nearest five degrees.

What is the bond angle in water, which is slightly less than the angles found in a tetrahedral molecule?

15 115 okay 115.

That is incorrect 105 degrees next toss up question what poet wrote about a frozen ground swell that makes gaps in the title object?

Go ahead, Moravian po.

That's incorrect.

I'll continue for Saucon Valley included the line good fences make good neighbors in Mending Wall.

Go ahead, Saucon Valley.

Robert Frost Robert Frost is correct for your bonus.

From 2020 to 2023, what performer played the title character on the Comedy Central sitcom Nor from Queens, which costarred B.D.

Wong as her father?

Kyle?

That's incorrect.

It's new alum, otherwise known as Aquafina.

Next toss up question what events have a crawling type that stay below the canopy can be mitigated by removing underbrush.

Moravian force fires.

Yes, forest fires or wildfires is correct, and they may start if lightning hits dry vegetation for your bonus.

The Queen Consort of Britain's William the Fourth is a namesake of what Australian city?

The capital of South Australia.

Adelaide.

Adelaide is correct.

Next toss up question what Major League Baseball team, which in a 2025 trade, added Rafael Devers to an infield.

Go ahead.

Moravian.

The Giants the Giants is correct.

And their based at Oracle Park in the Bay area.

For your bonus in 2024, Britain sanctioned kleptocrats Isabel dos Santos, a billionaire from what African country where 2025 protests over fuel prices killed dozens.

In the name China and Goa.

Angola is correct.

You get to hit the Portuguese name from the former Portuguese colony of Angola onto next toss up question what swing state where Adelita Gravel won a 2025 election to replace her father in the house has Mark Kelly and Ruben go ahead.

Moravian Arizona Arizona is correct, and their senators are Mark Kelly and Ruben Gallego.

For your bonus, Erica and Santa are characters in what Richard Wagner opera about a cursed sailor.

Tristan and Isolde.

That's incorrect.

The Flying Dutchman is a correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What man had a daughter named Who?

His first, who was from his first wife, Khadija, received revelations.

God and Moravian Muhammad.

Muhammad is correct.

And he received revelations in a cave from the angel Djibril for your bonus.

Wealthy nobles from what country funded the failed 1690s Darién scheme in Panama and in the 1620s established the colony of Nova Scotia.

Scotland Scotland is correct.

Next toss up question what city in which the Marshall massacre occurred?

As part of a four year long siege by the Army of the Republic during the 1990s breakup.

Go ahead, Saucon Valley, Sarajevo Sarajevo is correct.

And that was during the 1990s breakup of Yugoslavia.

For your bonus, Lulu May Barnes is the birth name of what character?

Who visits gangster Sally tomato in prison?

In a 1958 Truman Capote novella.

Kyle.

Incorrect.

Holly Golightly is a correct answer.

Next toss up question is in math.

Pencil and paper ready?

What would the decimal or base ten number seven be expressed in binary?

Given that seven is one less SoCon valley?

It would be 111111 is correct for your bonus in September 2025, what Midwest City's school superintendent, Ian Roberts, was arrested after Ice accused him of being an undocumented immigrant.

Paul Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minneapolis.

Incorrect.

He was the superintendent of the Des Moines, Iowa school district.

Next toss up question what mythical figure who created the Milky Way by rustling black gods?

Go ahead, Moravian Herakles.

That's incorrect.

I'll go over to Saucon Valley by rustling black.

God's star blanket is an animal trickster in Navajo tales comparable to Raven Second Valley Coyote A coyote is correct for your bonus.

In ecology, what term starting with H, describes any organism that cannot meet its metabolic needs without consuming material from other organisms.

Heterotrophs.

Say it again.

Heterotrophic?

Yes.

Heterotrophic or heterotrophs are correct.

And with that, we have reached the first lightning round in a mid-match coin toss or in a pre-match coin toss, it was determined that Saucon Valley will get to pick between the following topics.

We have 19th century paintings or p e pre please.

Saucon Valley, your first lightning round topic is p r e. Give these words that begin with the letters p r element at the start of a word that alters its meaning like free correct measure taken to prevent something bad.

Precaution.

Correct.

Leader of the US executive branch.

President.

Correct.

Preconception.

Often hateful about prejudice.

Prejudice is correct to early.

Premature.

Correct.

Introductory piece of music.

Prelude correct statement from which logical conclusions are drawn.

Premise.

Correct.

Foresight of a bad event.

Premonition.

Correct status of widespread respect and admiration.

Pride.

Incorrect a legal decision that must be followed in subsequent cases.

Precedent.

Precedent is correct.

The only one you missed there.

The the widespread respect is prestige.

So we're looking for okay.

Moravian Academy, your topic is 19th century paintings.

Name the artists of these 19th century paintings Self-Portrait with bandage ear.

Van Gogh, correct.

The scream.

Monk.

Correct.

Water lilies.

Monet.

Correct.

Liberty.

Leading the people.

Delacroix.

Correct.

The 3rd of May, 1808.

Goya.

Correct.

The Child's Bath by an American painter.

Cassatt.

Correct.

The Oxbow.

Cole.

Correct the ballet class.

Correct.

Washington.

Crossing the Delaware by a German American painter.

Stieglitz.

Incorrect.

The Hague, Wayne.

Constable.

Constable is correct.

Was Emmanuel Luton a painter of Washington crossing the Delaware?

We'll continue on the match for the following toss up question.

What country whose nine dash line asserts claims to the Spratly Islands.

Go ahead.

Moravian China?

China is correct, and it's launched the Great Wall of Sand project to claim territory near Taiwan for your bonus.

Actor Charlton Heston once led what advocacy group?

That in the late 1970s shifted its traditional focus from on conservative on conservation and marksmanship.

Texas Rangers.

The Texas Rangers incorrect.

It's the NRA or National Rifle Association.

Next toss up question what city, which is at the northern end of the Cook Inlet, is served by Ted Stevens International Airport and is go ahead, SoCon Valley Wellington.

That's incorrect.

I'll continue from Moravian and is the most populous city in Alaska.

Go ahead.

Moravian Anchorage Anchorage, Alaska is correct for your bonus.

William Shakespeare's characters of Osric, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern serve the royal court.

Of what kingdom?

Denmark.

Denmark is correct.

Next toss up question what male royal helped organize 1850 one's great Exhibition names the London Hall that hosts go ahead Moravian Prince Albert.

Prince Albert is correct, and it's Royal Albert Hall, where they host the BBC Proms concerts.

For your bonus.

What theorem uses prior and conditional probabilities to calculate the posterior probability of event A given event B there?

This seems to complicate inductive theorem.

That's incorrect.

Bayes theorem is a correct answer.

Next toss up question Jim Lovell, captain, what 1970 NASA mission during which an oxygen tank explosion.

Go ahead.

Moravian Apollo 13 Apollo 13 is correct, and it led Jack swagger to say, Houston, we've had a problem here.

So they dramatize it much more in the movie with Tom Hanks.

For your bonus, what most populous city in Canada's prairie provinces is built at the confluence of the bow River and elbow River, I think it's.

Calgary.

Calgary is correct.

Next toss up question what game?

Whose launch season was called Doom's Rise Soccer Valley Marvel Rivals Marvel rivals is correct and features Cloak and Dagger and Magneto for your bonus.

What Asian country is ruled by a military junta called the tomato, which is fighting a rebel group in regions like Kachin in an ongoing civil war?

Yeah, Myanmar.

Myanmar?

Burma is correct.

Next toss up question what collection?

Whose frame story describes how the host, Harry Bailey, joins pilgrims to medieval English?

Go ahead.

Moravian Canterbury Tales The Canterbury Tales is correct and is written by Geoffrey Chaucer.

Your bonus is in math.

Pencil and paper.

Ready?

What is the probability?

Two people with type A B blood will have a child with type A blood.

One fourth, one fourth is correct.

And that's because each of the letters or each sign to one allele.

So you get the a, b, b going into the equation there.

Okay.

Next tossup question what period which included the appearance of false Dimitri's.

Go ahead.

Moravian.

Time of troubles.

The time of Troubles is correct and ended when Michael Romanov became Russia's Czar.

For your bonus, at what 31 BC naval battle did Octavian's forces crush Mark Antony and Cleopatra at the site of the Ionian Sea?

The Battle of Actium the Battle of Actium is correct.

And with that, we have reached half time.

We're going to take a moment now for the students to introduce themselves with their first name, last name, grade level, and we'd also like them to thank someone that's helped them along other educational journey.

We started with Raving Academy.

Go ahead, comrade D, ninth grade.

My parents.

Excellent.

Go ahead.

Trolley.

Charlene Lu, 12th grade.

My chemistry teacher, Mr.

Wistow.

Okay.

Miss Angel Schmidt, 12th grade and my father, okay, 12th grade.

And my music theory teacher, as well as director of vocal and handbell music and movie and Mr.

Weigel.

All right.

Excellent.

And now we're just talking Valley.

Max Brasco, freshman, and Edmund Blackburn.

Webb the fourth.

Alex Mirsky, senior.

I want to thank our quiz bowl advisor, Mrs.

Friday and our other history teacher, Mr.

Murkowski.

Okay, Stefon and senior and my parents see on park sad freshman and my older brother Ryan.

All right.

Excellent.

And Ryan is not with us today.

He made district chorus.

Correct.

Yep.

That's correct.

All right.

Congratulations to him.

And I'd like to take a moment to thank the PBS 39 crew behind Classic Scrimmage, led by the head of the education department, Kate Rice.

Snyder.

Our judges, Michael Karcher, Nancy Smith, Diana Smith, Billy Hurley and Jennifer Johnson, and our directors, Javier Diaz and John DeSantis, as well as the entire technical crew.

So thank you all to them.

And now we continue on with the second half of the match with the following toss up question.

It's in math pencil and paper ready.

If a standard six sided die is rolled 320 times, what is the expected value of the number of roles that show an even number?

Second Valley one 6160 is correct for your bonus car.

Shu and Mew Mew are both brands of what Italian fashion house which was purchased or which purchased rival Versace in 2025?

Gucci.

That is incorrect.

Prada is a cracked answer.

Next toss up question what type of animal chance Brkic quacks Moravian frogs.

I love that you knew my animal impression.

There it is a frog.

You are correct for your bonus.

What philosopher described the will to truth in Beyond Good and Evil, a sequel to his earlie Nietzsche is correct.

Next toss up question what ruler who allied France is the first of France to fight?

Emperor Charles V besieged Vienna in 1529.

Go ahead.

Moravian Suleiman the Magnificent Suleiman the Magnificent is correct, and he was an Ottoman sultan.

The hint was going to be called the magnificent for your bonus.

What bebop musician of salt, peanuts and a night in Tunisia puffed his cheeks while playing a signature bent trumpet.

Armstrong.

That's incorrect.

Dizzy Gillespie is a correct answer.

Next toss up question what quantity?

Whose second and first time derivatives are jousts and jerk is often equal to force over mass and is gorham Moravian acceleration.

Acceleration is correct and it's the rate of change of velocity.

Your bonus is in math.

Pencil and paper.

Ready again?

What multiple of 100 provides the best approximation for the value of 36 squared?

Given that 40 squared is equal to 1600.

15.

Okay, I guess maybe 15 1515.

That's incorrect.

Alex.

Usually quick on math.

You have the answer.

I'm guessing 13 1300.

Yes.

Would have been there.

All right.

On to next toss up question.

What state, home to Shoshone Falls, was the site of the 1992 Ruby Ridge standoff?

Contains the city.

Go ahead, Saucon Valley, Texas.

That's incorrect.

I'll continue for Moravian contains the city of core d'Alene and is nicknamed the Potato State.

Go ahead.

Moravian Idaho Idaho is correct for your bonus.

The Japanese town of Nikko is home to the mausoleum of what?

Last of Japan's three great unifier who founded Japan's last shogunate, Tokugawa Ieyasu.

Tokugawa Ieyasu is correct.

Next toss up question.

What character?

Who employs a black cook named Calpurnia.

Go ahead, Sorkin Valley.

Atticus Finch Atticus Finch is correct, and he's Tom Robinson's lawyer in To Kill a mockingbird.

For your bonus, the protagonist, Brother Emil, is murdered by Frank Sabata.

In what?

Novel by Willa Cather about the Bergson family.

The fall of the House of usher.

That's incorrect.

Oh, pioneers is a correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What event, which led to the trial of Captain Thomas Preston.

Killed.

Moravian Boston massacre.

The Boston Massacre is correct for your bonus.

What African country whose Bioko island contains its current capital of Malabo, is partially named for its location just north of zero degrees latitude.

Equatorial Guinea Equatorial Guinea is correct.

Next toss up question.

What country?

Whose city of Alou lies on the eastern shores of the Gulf of Barnea, is home to the headquarters of Nokia in the outskirts.

Go ahead.

Moravian Finland Finland is correct, and the headquarters is in the outskirts of Helsinki.

For your bonus, a statistical distribution of particles is named for Enrico Fermi.

And what British physicist who predicted the existence of positrons.

By Kate Thompson.

Sure.

Thompson.

That's incorrect.

Paul Dirac is the correct answer.

Next toss up question what company, which was founded in the 1980s as Babbage's experienced soaring stock prices in early 2021 and is a stock and valley Amazon.

That's incorrect.

I'll continue for Moravian and is a major retailer of video games.

Gordon.

Moravian GameStop GameStop is correct, and that Babbage's name brings back memories.

I worked for Electronics Boutique back when I was in high school, so one of their predecessors, they ended up for your bonus.

A pet store worker named Otis befriends young India Opal baloney in what Katy DiCamillo novel about a dog named after a southern grocery chain.

Okay, a story of Winn-Dixie.

Close, but not quite.

It's because of Winn-Dixie.

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

Moravian.

You'll get to pick between the following topics.

East endings or oh, words.

What do you want to pick?

Oh!

Oh words.

Oh, words.

It is Moravian.

Your second lightning round topic is.

Oh words.

Give these answers that begin and end with the letter O. Best selling cookie ever, which has a white filling.

Correct.

Major city near Walt Disney World.

Orlando.

Correct.

Herb used on marinara pizza.

Regno.

Correct your region.

Capital.

Oslo.

Correct.

Slang for damaging information used to hurt political rivals.

Oppo.

Correct.

Dramatic musical piece such as Messiah or correct.

Five letter verb meaning to perform better than.

Outdo.

Correct musical phrase repeated throughout a piece.

Ostinato.

Correct regnal name of the Great Holy Roman Emperor who won the Battle of Lek Field in 955.

Auto correct.

First name of the Nobel Prize winning Mexican poet Paz Octavio.

Octavio is correct.

Have you pause?

Okay.

Soccer Valley, your second lightning round topic is is endings.

Give these words and terms that are not superlatives, but do end in the consecutive letters.

EST structure in which a bird lays eggs.

Nest correct.

Front part of the upper torso.

Chest.

Correct.

Competitive event.

Contest.

Correct.

Verb meaning to strongly hate something.

Detest.

Correct.

Gather crops from a field.

Harvest.

Correct.

Six letter verb that means to eat or drink something.

Ingest.

Correct.

Severe storm.

Tempest.

Correct.

Item left to someone in a will inherit it.

No a state that's incorrect.

Autumnal beer event held in Munich.

Oktoberfest.

Correct.

Judicial inquiry to determine a person's cause of death.

Say, just say it again.

Protest.

That's incorrect.

It's inquest with that one.

And the other one was left in someone's will.

Is bequest.

Oh, bequest.

All right.

We'll continue on with the final quarter of our finals match with the following toss up question.

What procedures, one of which was named for Edsger Dijkstra, is used to find a shortest path and, step by step sock and valley optimization.

That's incorrect.

I'll continue for Moravian hour, step by step sets of rules used to solve a problem.

Algorithms would have been correct.

Yes.

That's correct.

Answer.

Next toss up question.

What city home to Journal.

Constitution newspaper, which will stop its print edition in 2026, is also home to the headquarters of CNN engine.

Go ahead.

Moravian.

Ilana Atlanta is correct, and it's in Georgia for your bonus.

What country, often described as Europe's last dictatorship has been ruled since the 1990s by Alexander Lukashenko?

Belarus.

Belarus is correct.

Next toss up question.

What general, who was exiled after losing at Amphipolis, became a historian who wrote about the battle.

Go ahead, Thucydides decides is correct, and he wrote about the battle in his history of the Peloponnesian War.

For your bonus, what 18th century English author wrote about the body adventures of a foundling in his picaresque novel The History of Tom Jones Fielding Henry Fielding is correct.

Next toss up question what poetic form which Edmund Spenser used and his Amoretti consists of three quatrains followed.

Go ahead.

Moravian sonnet A sonnet is correct, and it's then followed by a couplet for a total of 14 lines for your bonus.

What city in modern day Belgium names the treaty that ended the War of 1812 Ghent.

The Treaty of Ghent is correct.

Next toss up question.

What organ which sits at the cella?

Turkish secretes oxytocin, oxytocin from its go ahead and raven gland.

Pituitary gland is correct, and it secretes oxytocin from its posterior lobe and sits below the hypothalamus for your bonus.

What a Lieven letter.

Word reform refers to the portion of the Earth's crust formed by the crust, and the rigid, utmost part of the mantle lithosphere.

Lithosphere is correct.

Next, toss up question what actress who starred in How to Marry a millionaire and Some Like It Hot died in 1962 of an overdose.

Go ahead, Saucon Valley.

Marilyn Monroe.

Marilyn Monroe is correct.

For your bonus, what name is shared by the second Pope and Lucy Van Pelt?

Younger brother in the comic strip peanuts.

Linus.

Linus is correct.

Next toss up question.

What man who in 1872 became the first black man nominated for vice president, published The North Star and wrote Gordon Moravian Douglas Frederick Douglass is correct, and he wrote a narrative of his life in slavery for your bonus.

Erbil is a capital of a semi-autonomous region controlled by what ethnic group, who are found mainly in Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran?

Kurds.

The Kurds are correct.

Next toss up question in physics, what quantity can be measured in units of columns per second or amperes?

And is the flow of chain?

Go ahead.

Moravian current.

Yes, electric current is correct for your bonus.

The ability to detect muons formed by cosmic rays depends on what relativistic phenomenon that explains their apparent longer lifetimes.

Relative.

Relativity.

Correct.

We can't take that.

It's time dilation.

And that buzzer means it is the end of the match.

Saucon Valley you ran up against a very tough opponent.

Thank you very much for participating.

Raven Academy, congratulations.

You are the winners of the 51st season of Classic Scrimmage, and we'll be right back with the award ceremony.

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Scholastic scrimmage would not be possible without our title sponsor, Temple Saint Luke's School of Medicine, and the additional support of electric utilities, the Charles H. Hoke Foundation, educational supporters and viewers like you.

Thank you.

And now it's time for the trophies.

Helping present is Nick savant, the director of medical education from our title sponsor, Temple Saint Luke's School of Medicine.

Nick, come on out.

So congratulations.

First, here's the trophy for them.

Congratulations.

First to our runner up school Sock and Valley.

Accepting the trophy is our coach, Jessica Friday.

And now to accept the championship trophy for Moravian Academy.

Their coach, Kevin Ferdinand.

Kevin.

Congratulations.

Thank you, thank you.

Here to present the school districts with a donation to their scholarship fund.

Is legally public media's president and CEO on a birdsong.

Come on out.

Graduations to you and your team.

Very well done.

And we're going to academy.

Congratulations to you and your team.

Well done.

And the funds aren't over yet.

Next week is the all star match where represented from.

Each of the top eight schools will compete on two teams in the final match of the season.

See you then.