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

I'm your host, David Graff.

Today's match is between Northern Lehigh High School and Northampton Area High School.

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

The half time will pause so students can introduce themselves, and 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 city whose hand drawn CE Avenue contains the House of terror is home to the same key chain bridge on the Danube River.

And the Hungarian Parliament.

Northern Lehigh.

Prague.

That's incorrect.

Over to Northampton.

Go ahead.

Northampton.

Budapest.

Budapest is correct.

For your bonus.

What romantic poet, who died at age 25 wrote that a thing of beauty is a joy forever.

In his 1818 poem, an idiom.

Shelley.

That's incorrect.

John Keats is a correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What author of The Theory of Moral Sentiments discussed the division of labor of a pin factory in his foundational book, The Wealth of Nation.

Northampton.

Smith.

Adam Smith is correct.

And that's his book, The Wealth of Nations.

For your bonus, Bean's displacement law describes the radiation emitted by what idealized physical body which absorbs all light that falls on it.

A black hole.

For black.

We take that.

Unfortunately that's incorrect.

It's a black body or black bodies is what we're looking for.

Is the correct answer.

Next toss up is in mathematics.

Pencil on paper.

Ready?

How many students can be accommodated in a classroom with six square tables?

If each side of a table can fit two students, go ahead and within 4848 students is correct for your bonus.

In April 2025, Susan Crawford defeated Brad Schimmel to maintain the liberal majority on what Midwestern States Supreme Court.

Kansas.

That is incorrect.

The correct answer is Wisconsin.

Next toss up question.

What retired National Guard Sergeant Major responded to George Floyd's murder as governor of Minnesota, and was also Kamala Harris's running.

Go ahead.

Northampton.

Tim Walz.

Tim Walz is correct.

He was Kamala Harris's running mate.

For your bonus musical works, in what genre include a Joan Tower work for The Uncommon Woman and an Aaron Copland work for the Common Man.

Contemporary.

That is incorrect.

Fanfares is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What hero who defeated bandits guarding six entrances to the underworld, used a ball of thread to navigate the labyrinth and slay the Minotaur.

Northwestern or.

Excuse me, northern Lehigh.

Hercules.

That's incorrect.

Over to North Hampton.

So no conferring, but it is a freebie.

Go ahead.

Theseus.

Theseus is correct for your bonus.

What politician who served a civil rights plank in the 1948 Democratic platform was Lyndon Johnson's vice president, and lost the election of 1968.

Walter Mondale.

Incorrect.

Hubert Humphrey is a correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What a rational number is one less than the silver ratio is approximated by the decimal 1.414, and is the square root of the smallest, even Northampton square root of two.

The square root of two is correct, and it's the square root of the smallest even number.

For your bonus, the Canadian $1 coin features what kind of bird, which is sometimes called a diver.

A sparrow.

Give it to your captain.

What?

Your captain.

Give the answer, Sparrow.

That's incorrect.

It's a loon.

And that's why the coin is commonly called a loonie.

In Canada.

Next toss up question.

What country?

Whose ruling our county dynasty was, was and has funded the news network Al-Jazeera is a nation on the Persian Gulf that is governed from Doha.

Northampton.

Guitar.

Guitar is correct for a bonus.

Claude Monet made many late in life paintings of what aquatic flowers in his garden, as you've learned.

Water lilies.

Water lilies is correct.

Next toss up question.

What document, which was recovered in a 1901 on a diorite stele in Susa, expresses the principles of an eye for an eye, and with a law code from Babylon.

Go ahead.

Northern.

We have a Dead Sea Scrolls.

That's incorrect.

Over in Northampton.

That's the Code of Hammurabi.

Next toss up question.

What instrument?

Whose virtuosos include Dietrich books.

Tega, Huia and Marcel Dupré is a keyboard instrument that makes sounds by pushing air through pipes.

Northampton organ.

Yes.

An organ or a pipe organ is the correct answer.

For your bonus, the 1888 Convention of Constantinople regulated the use of what waterway, which was completed in 1869 under the direction of Ferdinand de Lesseps.

The Suez Suez Canal is correct.

Next toss up question.

What novel in which Clarice McClellan disappears begins.

It Was a Pleasure to Burn, and is a novel about Fahrenheit 401.

We are.

Go ahead.

Fahrenheit 451.

Fahrenheit 451 is correct and was written by Ray Bradbury.

Your bonuses in math.

Pencil on paper.

Ready?

If k must be an integer.

What is the smallest possible value of k for which 4k -67 is a positive number?

That's time.

The correct answer is 17.

Was anybody close?

Almost ten.

All right.

We have reached the first lightning round in a pretty much coin toss.

It was determined that Northern Lehigh will get to pick between the following topics.

Places to sea or island.

Fiction.

Places to see.

Places to see.

It is Northern Lehigh.

Your topic is places to see.

Identify these places whose English language name begins with the letter C. City home to the Willis Tower and Wrigley Field, Chicago.

That is correct.

State home to Yale University.

Connecticut.

That's correct.

South America's southernmost country.

Chile.

That's correct.

Country whose cities include Split and Zagreb has passed.

State capital of Ohio.

Columbus.

Correct.

The world's largest inland sea.

Caribbean.

That's incorrect.

Island country whose capital of Nicosia is divided by the Green Line.

Pass lake on the New York Vermont border.

Cayuga.

Incorrect river that forms part of the Alabama Georgia border.

Pass mountain range whose tallest peak is Mount Elbrus.

Pass.

That was the last one.

That was the Caucasus Mountains.

Was the correct answer?

Okay.

Northampton.

Your topic is Island fiction.

Name the author of these fictional works that depict islands.

Robinson Crusoe.

Defoe.

Correct.

The Mysterious island.

A sequel to 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

Pass.

Treasure Island.

Stevenson.

Correct.

The 1516 book.

Utopia.

Pass.

Lord of the flies.

Pass.

The Island of Doctor Moreau.

Pass.

Island.

A companion novel to Brave New World.

Huxley.

Correct.

Anne of Green Gables, set on Prince Edward Island.

Montgomery.

Correct.

A Wizard of Earthsea.

Pass.

The short story The Most Dangerous Game.

Pass.

And the last one was Richard Connell.

All right.

We'll continue on with the following.

Toss up question.

What battle in which William Prescott defended the Charleston Peninsula was won by the British near Boston, and was actually fought on Breed's Hill.

Go ahead.

Northern Lehigh.

Bunker Hill.

The Battle of Bunker Hill is correct for your bonus.

What governing document was signed by men like William Bradford and Miles Standish in 1620, before they landed at Plymouth?

The Mayflower Compact.

The Mayflower Compact is correct.

Next tossup question.

What element whose oxide is produced in the air process is obtained from bauxite.

In the hall a process and has the atomic symbol a l. Northern.

Lehigh.

Aluminum.

Aluminum is correct.

For your bonus.

What ancient Greek thinker argued that the plot of a literary work is more important than characterization?

In his treatise poetics.

Yes, we know Aristotle.

Aristotle is correct.

Next, toss up question.

What island whose eastern coast is indented by the Scoresby Sound, is governed from York and is the largest island belonging to Denmark in the Arctic.

Northern Lehigh.

Greenland.

Greenland is correct.

For bonus, an alliterative name for a unit equal to ten to the -15m comes from what?

Italian scientist who names a class of particles with half integer spins.

Fibonacci.

That's incorrect.

Enrico Fermi is the correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What present day country?

The base of the EU to Shi'a kingdom has long been ruled by the Shukri dynasty.

From the great Palace in Bangkok.

Authentic Thailand.

Thailand is correct for your bonus.

In a June 2023 game against the A's, Yankees starter Domingo Harmon became the 24th player in Major League Baseball history to accomplish what feat.

Pass.

The correct answer is he pitched a perfect game.

Next toss up question.

What French author of the Persian letters articulated the idea of separation of powers in the spirit of the laws which inspired the Founding Fathers?

Go ahead in northern Lehigh.

John Locke.

That is incorrect.

Over to Northampton.

So no conferring, Northampton.

No conferring.

If you know it, you can buzz in.

Go ahead.

Northampton.

You go.

Also incorrect.

Montesquieu is a correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What organ, whose stratum corneum is composed of dead, keratin rich cells, is the body's largest.

Go ahead.

Northern Lehigh.

Skin.

Skin is correct, and it contains the epidermis.

For bonus.

Since 1961, King Hassan the Second and King Muhammad the Sixth have led what country which maintains a disputed claim to the territory of Western Sahara.

To Syria, Egypt?

That is incorrect.

Morocco is the correct answer.

And with that was reached.

Halftime.

Northampton currently leads with a score of 110.

Northern Lehigh is 80.

Let's take a moment for each student to introduce themselves with their first name, last name, grade level, and the answer to the following question of a book that you were assigned to read in school.

Which one is your favorite?

And poems and short stories are also okay.

We'll start over at Northern Lehigh with Colin.

Go ahead.

Colin.

Junior.

Unwind.

Okay.

And he's lost 11th grade.

The great Gatsby.

Taylor.

Eric, 11th grade, the Yellow Wallpaper, Madeline Herzog, 11th grade.

Into the wild.

Okay.

Northampton.

Go ahead.

Eight a barn horse, 11th grade.

Lamb to the slaughter.

Brady Davis Heuser, 11th grade.

The Hunger Games.

Sean Lamb, 11th grade, Harry Potter, Leonardo, 11th grade.

Five people you meet in heaven.

So you guys were assigned Harry Potter class.

What class was it?

English.

But it was just like, pick a book.

You want to read.

And then like, oh, okay.

So my daughter would love that.

She loves the Harry Potter series.

She's like, you.

Everything will be assigned that.

And I'm like, Harry Potter didn't really exist when I went to high school, so I have no idea where they'll be assigned tonight.

But I'm sure she's going to be happy to know that at least it possibly could be.

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

What event attended by Frederick Douglass and arranged by Quakers like Lucretia mott, produced the Declaration of Sentiments, endorsing women's rights.

Go ahead.

Northampton.

Seneca Falls convention.

The Seneca Falls Convention is correct for your bonus.

What city, which is located where the Assiniboine River meets the Red River of the North, is the most populous city in Manitoba.

Calgary.

That's incorrect.

Winnipeg is the correct answer.

Next toss up question what title object it is created by that is created by Basil Hayward, gradually becomes repulsive, but keeps its owner magically youthful.

In a novel by Oscar Wilde, Northern Lehigh, a painting, that is it.

We need you to be more specific about the painting.

Portrait.

With more specific of him, a portrait of, That's incorrect.

We'll go over to Northampton.

You can't confer Northampton.

Whatever you're writing down.

Go ahead.

The portrait of Dorian Gray.

Portrait.

Dorian Gray is correct for your bonus.

What relatively inefficient sorting algorithm repeatedly swaps adjacent elements to order a list as this one, you can confer.

Transcription.

The correct bubble sorting is the answer we're looking for.

Next tossup question what poker hand can be referred to as a boat rank directly above a flush in Texas Hold'em and requires three cards of one rank and two of another?

Northampton A full House A full house is correct for your bonus.

What author whose novels A World of Strangers and Burger's Daughter were banned during South Africa's apartheid era, wrote July's People Said author also wrote July's People kind of a weirdly worded question.

Mandela.

That's incorrect.

Nadine Gordimer is the correct answer.

Next toss up question G and Lewis proposed what rule the main that the main group of atoms tends to form enough bonds with other atoms to have a full shell of eight valence electrons.

That's the octet rule.

Next toss tossup question.

What author wrote about Reverend Stephen Kumalo traveling to Johannesburg to rescue his son Absalom?

In the novel cry, the Beloved Country?

Allan Payton is the correct answer.

Next tossup question what architect, whose home was called Taliesin, designed a house along a Pennsylvania stream for the Kaufmann family called Falling Water.

Go ahead.

Northampton.

Right.

Frank Lloyd Wright is correct.

And that's one of the coolest things to see in Pennsylvania.

I think if you haven't been or been out to see it.

For bonus, what mathematician proved that the sum of the reciprocals of perfect squares equals pi squared over six?

Solving the basil problem.

Wait.

Wait.

Ed, say it again.

Way.

Ed.

That's incorrect.

Euler is the correct answer.

The next toss up is in math.

Pencil and paper.

Ready?

What is the slope of a line that is perpendicular to the line defined by the equation?

Y equals seven x plus two Northampton.

Negative one over seven.

Negative one over seven is correct for bonus author Conan Doyle story the final problem describes a confrontation on Reichenbach Falls in which Sherlock home fights what nemesis appears.

The Artful Dodger that is incorrect.

Professor James Moriarty If someone have the right answer on the team or not.

Well.

Next time.

All right.

Next tossup question.

What man received the humble petition and advice, led the New Model Army during the English Civil War, and in 1653 became Lord Protector of England.

Northampton, Cromwell.

Oliver Cromwell is correct for your bonus.

What composer depicted Guglielmo and Fernando duping their fiancees fidelity and or Bella in his opera Cosi fan tutte at Mozart.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is correct.

Next tossup question what concept?

Which names the band that includes something in the way on their album?

Nevermind is the state go ahead.

Northampton.

Nirvana.

Nirvana is correct, and it also names the state of liberation from suffering in Hinduism.

For bonus, John Pershing launched the Punitive Expedition in response to what Mexican revolutionaries raid on Columbus, New Mexico.

The Alamo.

That is incorrect.

We were looking for a person.

Is Pancho Villa is the correct answer?

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

You can pick between the following topics.

Peanuts or California.

California.

Okay, California.

It is.

Northampton.

Your topic is California.

Name these things from the history of California.

Event that 40 niners joined to pan for metal.

Goldrush.

Correct.

Tectonic disaster that struck San Francisco in 1906.

Earthquake.

Correct.

A former actor and future president.

Elected governor in 1966.

Reagan.

Correct.

Neighborhood in Los Angeles that is a medium for the film industry.

Hollywood.

Correct.

A group of people denied public services by 1994 as proposition 187.

Pass motorist who was beaten by police that led to riots in 1992.

Floyd.

Say it again.

Floyd.

Incorrect.

Yorba Linda native who resign?

Who resigned as president after Watergate.

Nixon.

Correct.

University town where the Free Speech Movement began.

Sacramento.

Incorrect.

Actor.

Elected governor in a 2003 recall election.

Schwarzenegger.

That is correct.

Animal who flag it named.

Oh, we didn't get to.

The last one was animal who flag named a 1846 revolt against Mexico.

Any guesses?

Bear flag.

Bear flag.

Yes, but unfortunately, we didn't get to that one.

Northern lehigh.

Your topic is peanuts.

Answer the following about peanuts.

Country that first began growing peanuts under the Ming Dynasty.

China.

Correct.

Jazz instrument played by Peanuts Holland and Miles Davis.

Trumpet.

Correct.

Peanuts.

Comic strip character.

Who is Linus?

His sister.

Snoopy.

That is incorrect.

Black scientists who researched peanuts at the Tuskegee Institute.

Who passed US state where Peanut Island is in Palm Beach County, California.

Incorrect.

Company whose mascot is Mr.

Peanut.

Planters.

Say it again.

Planters.

That is correct.

Popular song.

Urging.

Buy me some peanuts and cracker Jack.

Take me out to the ball field.

That is incorrect.

Transformation of nitrogen into ammonia.

That happens in peanut roots.

Nitrification.

That is correct.

Fruit paired with peanut butter in an Elvis sandwich.

Oh, bananas.

Unfortunately, we heard.

We heard Apple's first candy bar solely consisting of peanuts and caramel.

Snickers.

Incorrect.

It's a payday.

It's just peanuts in caramel.

I know what you guys are.

It's take me out to the ball game.

So unfortunately, not quite there at the answer.

All right, we'll start the final quarter of the match with this toss up question.

What process?

Who induced form is caused by absorption of a neutron, occurs at end stage of a chain reaction, and is the splitting of a nucleus.

Go ahead in Northampton.

Nuclear fission vision is correct.

For your bonus, what American chemist won Nobel Prizes in both chemistry and peace and names.

Electronegativity scale, for which chlorine has a value of four.

Lewis.

Say it again.

Lewis.

That's incorrect.

It's Linus Pauling.

And for.

For the nerd cred only.

Does anybody know the second person to win two different Nobel Prizes in different categories?

Marie Curie.

Okay.

Toss up.

Question.

What explorer who died after trying to kidnap Chief colony Apollo in Hawaii led the HMS endeavor on the first of three expeditions of the Pacific.

By Captain James Cook.

Next toss up question.

What man goes to every Middlesex village after seeing lights in the North Church tower in a Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem about his midnight ride.

Northampton.

Paul Revere.

Paul Revere is correct for your bonus.

George Mallory proclaimed, because it's there when asking why he wished to climb.

What landmark successfully summited for the first time in 1953?

Everest.

Mount Everest is correct.

Next, toss up.

What objects which stands on an island once known as Bellows Island, is a sculpture designed by Bartholdi in New York Harbor.

Go ahead.

North and Lehigh.

The Statue of Liberty.

The Statue of Liberty is correct.

For your bonus, what enslaved man and preacher claimed to that eclipse inspired his 1831 rebellion in Virginia, which led to mass reprisals against black people.

So he claimed an eclipse inspired his 1831 rebellion.

Poem.

Douglass.

Incorrect.

Nat Turner is the correct answer.

Okay, onto the next toss up question.

What organ has an outer pinna?

Enter semicircular canals.

Middle obstacles is examined with an otoscope and is the sensory organ for hearing.

So the Lehigh eardrum.

No.

Unfortunately, we can't take that over to Northampton.

But we've got to reset the buzzer.

Please go ahead.

The ear.

The ear is correct.

A little too specific.

Sorry.

Killing that one.

For bonus.

What?

Former Prime Minister of Portugal is the current secretary general of the United Nations?

Ask Antonio Gutierrez.

She's the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What actor who portrayed a replicant named Kay in Blade Runner 2049, claimed that his character was Ken enough in playing Ken.

Go ahead high Ryan Gosling Ryan Gosling is correct, and he was kind enough in the 20 2013 movie Barbie for 2023, movie Barbie.

And with that, time is up.

Northern Lehigh.

Great match.

But unfortunately at the end of the road for you.

Good luck with the rest of your school year.

Northampton.

Congratulations.

With 250 points, you are on to the second round and thank you for watching.

We'll see you next week.

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