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Hello and welcome to the eighth and final match of the second round of the 51st season of Scholastic Scrimmage.

I'm your host, David Graff.

Today's match is between northwestern, Lehigh and last year's runners up, Whitehall High School.

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

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, and that's not necessarily indicative of academic training.

And now let's begin.

Buzzers.

Ready.

Here's our first toss up question.

No matter offers exemplify the advantageous type of what structures which form my courses with fungi and have tap and fibrous types and northwestern roots.

Roots are correct in the anchor plants.

For your bonus, what father of Chicago Blues was the first person to record such blues standards as Hoochie Coochie Man, Mannish Boy, and Rolling Stone.

Smith.

Incorrect.

Muddy waters is the correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What archipelago?

Whose largest island of ten of Tenerife lies off the coast of Morocco and is a Spanish possession that names a type of bird from western Canary Islands.

The Canary Islands is correct for your bonus editor Danny Dino Dinara gave what name to the compendium of knowledge he helped amass during the enlightenment.

Encyclopedia of the enlightenment.

We.

Yeah, it's Cyclopedia is correct.

It was named for.

First look at this next tossup question.

What religious system?

Whose texts include The Yellow Militant Dream and the Jew Wong Zi is credited to a long lived ancient Chinese prophet named Lao Da Whitehall.

Taoism.

Taoism is correct for your bonus.

Monticello is near what city?

Which is home to the University of Virginia.

Which was Richmond.

Incorrect.

Charlottesville is a correct city.

Next tossup question.

What constellation, who stars Doobie and Merak Point to Polaris is the second nearest to the celestial North Pole and contains the Big Dipper.

Northwestern.

Ursa major.

Ursa major is correct for your bonus.

What branch of physics is the subject of various interpretations, including and sambal.

Copenhagen and many worlds.

Once.

Quantum mechanics.

Quantum mechanics is correct.

Next toss up question.

What inventor from mines was financially backed by Johann First and used oil based ink and screw press to develop metal movable type.

Northwestern.

Johann is Gutenberg.

Yes, Gutenberg is correct.

And he was doing a movable type of printing for a bonus.

What Mumbai born British sculptors.

Public art includes sky mirror, briefly shown at the Rockefeller Center, as well as Chicago's Cloud Gate.

Right, right.

Incorrect.

Anish Kapoor is the correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What cabinet department, whose previous head Alejandro Mayorkas, was impeached in 2024, is currently led by former South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem.

Whitehall Department of Homeland Security.

The Department of Homeland Security is correct.

And fun fact Mayorkas was the first cabinet secretary to be impeached since 1876.

For your bonus Nancy case, Bob Baker and presidential candidate Bob Dole were both U.S.

senators who represented what?

Midwest state?

Yes, Kansas.

Kansas is correct.

Next toss up question.

What author, whose literary offenses were enumerated by Mark Twain, wrote about frontiersman Natty Bumper in novels like The Last of the Mohicans.

Northwestern.

Cooper.

Yes.

James Fenimore Cooper is correct.

Your bonuses in math.

Pencil on paper.

Ready?

If triangle ABC is an isosceles triangle.

What is the measure of angle B?

If angle ay measures 106 degrees?

37 degrees 37 degrees is correct.

Next tossup question.

What team which defeated Golden State in the second round of the 2025 NBA playoffs, got Julius Randle in a 2024 trade and is led by Anthony Edwards.

Whitehall.

Timberwolves.

The Minnesota Timberwolves is correct for your bonus.

Alys Vidal is one of the co-creators of what?

Far right party that finished second in Germany's February 2025 elections.

Alternative for Deutschland or the AfD?

Yes, alternative for Germany or the AfD is correct.

The next toss up is in math pencil and paper.

Ready?

What is the monthly salary of a worker?

Who or who earns $42,000 per year?

Given the year has 12 months?

Go ahead.

Whitehall 30 503,500 is correct for your bonus.

Gabriel Mime infiltrates a cabal of anarchists in The Man Who Was Thursday, a novel by what Englishman who created the priest?

Detective Father Brown.

No answer.

G.K.

Chesterton is the correct answer.

And with that, we've reached the first lightning round and a pre-match coin toss was the.

At northwestern.

You'll get to pick between the following topics.

Extreme elements or C in art.

Quickly, Jeremiah.

C in art.

C in art.

It is northwestern.

We have your first lightning round topic is C in art.

Give these answers related to the visual arts that start with the letter C. Blue and red are primary examples of these three colors.

Correct?

Burn wood used to draw black lines.

Charcoal.

Correct.

An artwork made up of glued together elements or images.

Collage.

Correct.

Classical order of columns that is neither ionic nor Doric.

Corinthian.

Correct.

Small dome like structure atop a building.

Pass state that contains the llama and the Getty Museum.

Colorado.

Incorrect.

Sculpted female figure used as a column.

Pass the arrangement of the elements in a painting.

Pass.

Pass.

Another term for timber.

For terrorism from the Italian for light and dark.

Chiaroscuro.

Correct.

Tiny sculpted portrait often worn as a pendant or brooch.

Pass.

Now would be a cameo.

Okay, Whitehall, your topic is extreme elements.

Name these chemical elements with unusual or extreme properties.

Element whose ability to bond itself is studied in organic chemistry.

Carbon.

Correct.

Noble gas with the lowest boiling point.

Helium.

Correct.

Heavy metal once called quicksilver because it's a liquid.

Mercury.

Correct.

Heaviest element with a stable isotope.

Lead.

Correct.

Alkali metal used to define the second with atomic symbol CSS.

Cesium.

Correct.

Halogen that forms the strongest hydrogen bonds.

Fluorine.

Correct.

Has a namesake pest that weakens it.

And a namesake cry when bent.

Pass.

First metalloids with atomic symbol B. Boron.

Correct.

The best conductor of electricity.

Copper.

Copper.

Incorrect.

Group eight.

Element that is the densest.

Platinum.

Osmium is a correct answer to that one.

All right.

We'll continue on the following.

Toss up question.

What British art.

What British artist painted flat fired mill and other landscapes along the river Sterne, including three Whitehall.

John Constable.

John Constable is correct.

And I included a horse pulling a wagon in the Hay Wain.

Your bonuses in math.

Pencil on paper.

Ready?

What is the common logarithm of 1000 minus the common logarithm of ten?

Two.

Two is correct.

Feature.

Next toss up question.

What legal principle which forbids the government from imprisoning someone indefinitely without due process, means northwestern writ of habeas corpus.

Habeas corpus is correct, and it means in Latin.

You should have the body for your bonus.

The Empty Quarter is the English translation of what desert that covers most of southern Saudi Arabia.

No answer.

That desert is a Rube alkali.

Next tossup question.

What knot or what novella?

Whose narrator begins dating Marie Cardona soon after the death of his mother?

Madame or so was written in French by Albert Camus.

Go ahead.

Roxann.

The stranger.

The stranger is correct.

For your bonus, the U.S.

promise to respect the property of loyalists in, what, 1783 treaty with Britain that ended the revolutionary War.

Treaty of Paris.

The Treaty of Paris is correct.

Next tossup question.

What city whose your repeated and associated dynasties supplied.

Two kings was where Lycurgus created the argon system of extensive military training.

Whitehall.

Sparta.

Sparta is correct.

Your bonuses in math.

Pencil on paper.

Ready if 13.9ft is converted to inches.

How many significant digits should be used in reporting?

The answer?

Three.

Three is correct.

Next toss up question and I tentative algorithm for finding GCD is named after what mathematician whose trees Whitehall.

Euclid.

Euclid is correct.

For your bonus, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army had what Irish language name that translates as we ourselves shall butcher Sinn Fein.

You will.

We'll take that.

Sinn Fein is the correct answer.

Okay, onto next tossup question.

What civilization was ruled by kings such as Pascal the Great.

Use the Long Count calendar and built the site of Palenque, Tikal and Chichen Itza.

Go ahead.

Logan.

The Mayan.

The Mayan Empire is correct.

Remind civilization for your bonus.

Seismic waves and light waves.

Or what type of wave whose oscillations are perpendicular to the waves.

Direction of propagation.

Sine wave.

Incorrect.

Transverse waves is a correct answer.

And with that, we've reached halftime.

Now we'll have the students introduce themselves with their first name, last name, grade level, and the answer to the following question.

Who is your current favorite music artist?

Northwestern.

Lehigh.

Roxanne.

Go ahead.

I'm Roxanne Lasco, I'm in 10th grade and my current favorite music artist is a band called the Arctic Monkeys.

Hi.

I'm Emlen.

Think, I'm in 11th grade, and my current favorite music artist is Hozier.

Okay.

Hi, I'm Jeremiah Zellner.

I'm in 10th grade, and my current favorite artist is a band called Queens.

Right.

Okay.

Hi.

I'm ani busy Nannie.

I'm in 11th grade, and my favorite current music artist is Billy Joel.

Excellent.

Whitehall.

Logan.

Go ahead.

Hi, I'm Logan, I'm in 11th grade and currently my favorite music artist is Rammstein.

All right, I'm Vihaan.

I'm in 12th grade.

And my current music, my current favorite music artist is Gustav Mahler.

Okay, I'm Gabriel Kinney, I'm in 12th grade and I'm loving biking with Francis right now.

Okay, I am Nico.

I am in 12th grade and my favorite musical artist is Radiohead.

Excellent, Roxanne I'm a huge fan of the Arctic Monkeys two, and once again, like the early or late 90s, early 2000, music is back.

Although they do have more recent albums like tranquility.

Hotel, right is relatively new.

You listen to the Strokes, which you should.

There you go.

All right, I know we go on later in the match.

After the match, Nico.

All right, all right, let's go on with the next tossup question.

What author described Jesuits at Longo's would College in a portrait of an artist as a young man.

Go ahead.

Whitehall, Joyce.

James Joyce is correct.

And he shares characters with his novel Ulysses.

Comic characters.

For your bonus, what French author depicted a Second Empire family in his in his Rogan Mikah series and defended Jewish soldier Alfred Dreyfus in his letter J'accuse!

Zola yes, Emile Zola is correct.

Next tossup question in what organ affected by Pre-cancerous Barrett's disease?

Does a state peristalsis move a food bolus through a tube linking the mouth and the stomach?

Whitehall esophagus.

The esophagus is correct.

For your bonus, what standup comedian performs celebrity interviews on the podcast?

This past weekend?

Theo van Theo Van is correct.

Next tossup question what body of water is overlooked by Masada?

Receives the Jordan River and is an extremely salty sea.

Go ahead.

Whitehall.

The dead sea.

The Dead Sea is correct.

And it's along the border of Israel and Jordan.

For your bonus, what priestess of the goddess tended a sacred flame in ancient Rome and took a 30 year vow of chastity.

Her.

Those priestesses were the Vestal Virgins.

Next tossup question.

What explorer who was attacked by the Calusa near Charlotte Harbor, led a Spanish expedition to Florida that legendarily sought a fountain.

Northwestern Ponce de Leon Juan Ponce de Leon is correct, and he was looking for the Fountain of Youth.

For your bonus in logic, the conditional statement if P, then Q has what relationship with the statement?

If not q, then not p. Contrapositive.

You were in before the buzzer, and contrapositive is correct.

Next tossup question what title character of a 1968 Don Freeman book who searches a department store for his missing overall button, is a teddy bear named northwestern Corduroy.

Corduroy is correct.

He's a teddy bear.

Name for the fabric corduroy.

For your bonus, what British girl groups 1996 debut album included their hits Say You'll Be There to Become One and Wannabe Spice Girls.

The Spice Girls is correct.

Next tossup question.

Player characters in what game series include the silent Claude, the Grove Street OG, Carl Johnson, and Tommy Whitehall.

Grand Theft Auto The Grand Theft Auto series is correct, and varsity is a mobster in the Vice City game.

For your bonus, what Street named for an explorer, separates the mainland of Chile from the Terra del Fuego to its out.

The street, the Strait of Magellan.

The Strait of Magellan is correct.

Next tossup question what queen who was targeted by Wyatt's rebellion after becoming engaged to fill up the second of Spain, earned the epithet Bloody Northwestern Mary the first, Mary the first is correct, and she received that name for persecuting Protestants.

For your bonus.

The tit for tat strategy applies to what game theory dilemma studied by economist John Nash.

No answer.

The prisoner's dilemma is the correct answer.

Next toss up question what animal whose males enter must to reproduce.

Go ahead.

North-Western elephants.

Elephants is correct for your bonus.

The three CS of cough, conjunctivitis, chorea or symptoms that precede the rash in what extremely contagious viral illness.

Chickenpox.

Incorrect.

It's measles or rubella is a correct answer.

You no.

Next toss up question.

Tile is an order of what metal that is used in jet engine compressor blades.

Due to its high strength to weight ratio, and has the atomic symbol T, I request.

Titanium.

Titanium is correct for your bonus.

What independent leader that led a campaign known as this.

Such rigor was the such regressor, named for a term he coined for a type of nonviolent civil disobedience.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Incorrect.

Mahatma Gandhi is the correct answer.

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

You'll get to pick between the following topics.

Exterior lights or Switzerland.

Have no reference?

No, I have no idea.

Just quickly behind Switzerland.

Switzerland.

It is Whitehall.

Your topic is Switzerland.

Answer the following about Switzerland and the Swiss.

Two colors on Switzerland's flag.

Red and white.

Correct.

Lake on its French border into which the Rhone River flows Lake Geneva.

Correct.

Principality lead from produce to Switzerland's East Liechtenstein.

Correct.

Mountain range that contains the Matterhorn, the Swiss Alps.

Correct word there.

Paul is Swiss in a brand of cocoa mix mist.

Incorrect.

It's capital city Zurich.

Incorrect.

Minority.

Official language spoken in the southeast.

German.

Incorrect.

Swiss psychologist who developed theories of universal archetypes.

Jung.

Correct city to host the World Economic Forum Zurich.

Incorrect.

Author of The Moral Judgment of the child who studied child development.

Maslow.

That's incorrect.

John Paul Day is the last one.

And for Northwestern Lehigh, your topic is exterior lights.

Give these words that start or end with the consecutive letters LIGO trip on an airplane flight.

Correct?

Tall building that provides signals to ships.

Lighthouse.

Correct.

Then.

Or small?

Tight.

Incorrect.

U.S.

equivalent of the British word torch type.

Flashlight.

Someone said something before that I didn't hear the correct answer to manipulate someone.

So they think their memories are untrue.

Gaslight.

Correct.

To leave a train.

Pass.

Pass.

Feeling faint.

Lightheaded.

Correct.

Type of disease that forms spots on plants.

Leaves.

Pass period.

Immediately after sunset.

Twilight.

Correct.

A sad predicament.

Plight.

Correct.

All right.

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

What city is home to?

The headquarters of Smashburger is at the confluence of the Cherry Creek and the South Platte River.

And is the capital of Colorado.

Requestor.

Denver.

Denver is correct for your bonus.

What character tells stories to King Shahryar to avoid being killed?

In the frame story of the Arabian Nights, she now reside?

Yes, Charizard is correct.

Next toss up question.

What case which led Benjamin Curtis to leave the Supreme Court, overturned the Missouri Compromise and held its namesake.

Go ahead.

Northwestern Dred Scott B Sandford.

That is correct.

And fun fact it's actually Sanford.

The D was a clerical mistake that stayed in for a very long time.

For your bonus, in August 2025, a federal judge halted U.S.

plans to deport hundreds of unaccompanied children to what Central American country?

Guatemala Guatemala is correct.

Next tossup question what materials often have wide band gaps?

Experience electrical breakdown include gap glass and rubber, and resist the flow of current.

Unlike conductors, white hall inductors.

That is incorrect.

Over to northwestern.

Go ahead.

Say it again.

Resistors.

That's also incorrect.

It's insulators is the correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What German composer, inspired by a trip to Holyrood Palace to write his Scottish symphony, also wrote an overture to a midsummer Night's Dream.

Go ahead, White Hall.

Mendelssohn.

Felix Mendelssohn is correct.

For your bonus, Justin Dart, junior champion.

What?

1990s civil rights law that banned discrimination against people with physical and mental health conditions?

Americans with Disabilities Act.

Yes, the Americans Disabilities Act is correct.

Next, toss up question what story, which ends with someone giving little Davey Hutchinson a few pebbles he can use to help stone a woman to death.

By what hole?

The lottery.

The lottery is correct.

And it's by Shirley Jackson.

For your bonus.

What author who's who wrote her 2018 novel Whereabouts in Italian is a Bengali American who won a Pulitzer Prize for her book interpreter of the maladies?

Two.

No answer.

That author's Jhumpa Lahiri.

Next tossup question.

What mountain?

Whose volcanic cone of Kibo reaches its summit at Uhuru Peak is in northern Tanzania and is the tallest mountain.

Northwestern Tilman, Jaro.

Mount Kilimanjaro is correct.

It's the tallest mountain in Africa.

For your bonus, the lotus effect is an example of the ultra form of what property in which surfaces have high contact angles and strongly repel water.

Non polarity does.

Incorrect.

Hydrophobic is the correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What artist who painted his sick sister in parts of his frieze of life depicted white hot milk?

And if our book is correct, he depicted gaunt figure clutching his hands in the famous The Scream.

For your bonus, what baseball team fired longtime general manager Mike Rizzo days before selecting Eli Willets with the first pick of the 2025 Major League Baseball draft.

The White Sox.

That's incorrect.

The Washington Nationals is the correct team.

Next toss up question.

What future president resigned as Assistant Secretary of the Navy in 1898 to form a cavalry regiment in the Spanish-American War?

Northwestern.

Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt is correct.

That was the Rough Riders.

And with that, we have reached the end of the match, and we are at a tie with 295 points.

It's a great job for both teams.

We'll take a second to reset here, and I'll explain the rules of overtime.

So what we'll do in overtime is I will ask the next toss up questions in order going down the line.

The first team to buzz in and answer correctly wins the match.

But if you buzz in and answer incorrectly, you lose the match for your team.

So it's sudden death.

If no one answers, I move on to the next question.

Everyone understand the rules, okay?

And here is our tiebreaker question what acid, once known as muriatic acid, is combined in a 3 to 1 ratio with nitric acid to form Aqua Raja, and has a molecular formula of H, c, L northwestern hydrochloric hydrochloric acid is correct.

And with that northwestern I. Congratulations, you've won this match.

Whitehall.

It's always exciting to have a match like this, but it's heartbreaking to lose.

It was a great match, but good luck with the rest of your school year.

Northwestern.

Lehigh.

Congratulations.

You're on to the next round and thank you for tuning in.

The tournament is now done with the second round.

We're on to our final eight teams and the third round starts next week.

We'll see you then.

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