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Hello and welcome to the sixth match of the 50th season of Scholastic Scrimmage.

I'm your host, David Graff.

Today's match is between Notre Dame High School and Northampton Area High School.

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

Half time will pass as students can introduce themselves or get to know them a little bit better.

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

And now let's begin.

Buzzers.

Ready?

Here's our first toss up question.

What country's strongest recorded earthquake struck in September 2023?

ET al.

Who's with its epicenter in the Atlas Mountains southwest of Marrakech.

Northampton.

Morocco.

Morocco is correct for your bonus in May 2023.

Bala to Ngcobo was inaugurated as president of what most populous country in Africa?

South Africa?

That is incorrect.

He became the President of Nigeria.

Next toss up question.

What river's course depends on the water levels of the tunnel SAP, the largest freshwater lake in Southeast Asia.

That runs from Tibet to South Vietnam.

Northampton.

The Yankee.

That's incorrect.

Over to Notre Dame.

It's our freebie.

No conferring.

We can buzz in.

Correct answer is the Mekong River.

Next toss up question.

What author who wrote about a lovelorn artist's suicide in The Sorrows of Young Voltaire was a German who wrote about a scholar's temptation enforced Notre Dame.

Good.

Say it.

Again.

You.

I know how to tell you.

I will take that GU is the correct answer.

Yes.

We'll take that.

Johann Wolfgang with for your bonus.

The title for Topman punches and kills claret.

In what?

Novella by Herman Melville.

Has.

Billy Budd is the correct answer.

Next, toss up.

What?

Royal House, which acquired the Infratil from Riveria in the potato War, included Joseph the Second.

Maria Teresa and other Austrian emperors.

The game you're in before the buzzer.

Hapsburg.

The Habsburgs is correct for your bonus.

Even Tory meter illustrates what principle named for a Swiss scientist.

Which often means that as a fluid's velocity increases, its pressure decreases.

Fast.

That's the Bernoulli principle.

Next, toss up.

What medal?

Which can be smelted in the hall.

A process is found in the ore bauxite and is a lightweight metal used in namesake foils.

Notre Dame.

Aluminum.

Aluminum is correct for your bonus.

The first European explorer to reach New Zealand was what Dutch Man, the namesake of another country's largest island.

Past.

It's Abel Tasman, and they named the Tasmanian island after him.

Next toss up question.

What city?

Whose Centennial Park contains a replica of the Parthenon.

Host country music shows at the Grand Old Opry.

That is Tennessee's capital.

Notre Dame.

Nashville.

Nashville is correct for your bonus and April 2020 for having reduced the creation rate of what commodity, which is limited to 21 million units.

Pass.

We're talking about Bitcoin.

Bitcoin is the correct answer.

Next toss up what president whose popularity fell after he repressed the bonus Army was in office in 1929 on Black Thursday and sparked the Great Depression.

Notre Dame.

Hoover.

Herbert Hoover is correct.

I remember that because all the money was hoovered up.

Where did it go wrong?

For your bonus.

What character who claims he doesn't share food and who uses the pickup line?

How you doing?

Is a struggling actor played by Matt LeBlanc on friends.

Shall we?

We take that.

We need a full name.

We need the full name.

Or we can accept that.

We need more on that one.

Joey Tribbiani is his full name.

And what we need for the answer.

Next toss up question.

What British scientist helped lay the first trans Atlantic cable and names a temperature scale that begins at absolute zero and is denoted by K. Notre Dame.

Klein.

That's incorrect.

No confirmed for Northampton, but it's a freebie now.

Kelvin.

Go ahead and buzz in.

Go for it, Kelvin.

Kelvin is correct for your bonus.

What?

Colorless but not odorless compound of hydrogen.

Carbon and chlorine with the molecular formula C h c L3 is a volatile liquid used as a solvent.

Go ahead.

Ammonia.

That's incorrect.

Chloroform is a correct answer.

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

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

The topics are fictional authors or civil rights leaders.

Fictional authors.

Fictional authors.

It is.

So once again, the Lightning Round.

Anyone on their games team can say the answer out loud.

If we don't know anything, someone has a past and we'll move on to the next question.

Your topic is fictional authors.

Name the authors who created these fictional writers, journalists, or diarists.

Travel writer Lemuel Gulliver.

Has Jo March in Little Woman with Little Women.

Louisa may Alcott.

Correct.

Kilgore Trout in novels such as Slaughterhouse Five, Past.

Stephen Dedalus, in A portrait of the artist as a Young Man.

Pass.

Emanuel Goldstein, whose book is read by Winston Smith.

George Orwell.

Correct.

Diarist Mina Harker and Lucy Westerner.

Bram Stoker.

That is correct.

Playwright.

Care.

Quilty, and in Lolita by player care.

Clare Quilty in Lolita.

Nabokov.

That is correct.

Jack Torrance in The Shining.

Stephen King.

That is correct.

The title poet of Doctor Zhivago.

Pass.

Stingo in Sophie's Choice.

Pass.

All right.

Northampton.

Your topic will be civil rights leaders.

What civil rights leader gave the I Have a Dream speech in that car?

Luther King.

Jr. That is correct.

Founded the Tuskegee Institute.

Anyone can say it if you know it.

Pass declined to move from a bus seat in Montgomery in 1955.

Rosa Parks.

Correct.

Gave the speech.

What to the slave is the 4th of July?

Pass left the Nation of Islam in 1964 before being assassinated.

Pass wrote the Souls of Black Folk and co-founded the NAACP.

Pass led the rainbow Push coalition and won the 1984 Democratic primary in Louisiana.

Pass led the march from Selma and became a congressman from Georgia.

Pass down to the Black Panthers with Bobby Seale in 1966.

Pass.

How did the Poor People's Campaign.

Oh, and that is the end of that lightning round.

We'll continue on with the following tossup question.

What author wrote about the beauty in its own excuse for being in his poem, wrote Dora, and wrote an essay titled nature about his transcendentalist views.

Now Jim.

Walden.

That is incorrect.

Over to Northampton.

Go ahead.

Northampton.

Thoreau.

That is also incorrect.

It's Ralph Waldo Emerson is the correct answer.

Next toss up.

What leader whose foreign minister is Penny Wong, led the opposition during most of Scott Morrison's term, and is the prime minister of Australia.

Prime minister.

Australia's Anthony Albanese is next toss up question.

What American composer, whose music of changes was inspired by the E Ching, had pianist David Tudor sit not playing at the 1952 premiere of his four minutes and 33 seconds?

In Northampton.

Cage John Cage is correct for your bonus.

Vellum is a fine version of what thin material made from untended sheep, goat or calf skins that can be bound in to a codex.

Go ahead.

Northampton leather.

That is incorrect.

Parchment is the correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What process during which a top top box helps position RNA polymerase.

Polymerase is the copying of DNA genetic information into RNA and precedes translation.

Notre Dame.

DNA replication.

That is incorrect.

Over the Northampton.

Go ahead.

Transcription.

Transcription is correct.

Your bonuses in math.

Pencil and paper.

Ready?

What is the x coordinate of the vertex of the parabola defined by the equation?

Y equals x squared plus eight x plus 15.

Tell your captain.

Negative four.

Negative four is correct.

Next toss up question.

What team which won the World Series in both 1992 and 1993, now stars first baseman Vladimir Guerrero junior and is the only Major League Baseball team in Canada.

Northampton.

The Toronto Blue.

Jays, the Toronto Blue Jays.

Is correct for your bonus.

In what state was actor Hill Harper supposedly offered $20 million to end a Senate campaign and run against its congresswoman, Rashida Talib.

Pass.

Oh, you said pass.

Oh, sorry.

I did not hear that.

It was the state of Michigan.

Next toss up question.

What state?

Which is named for an alternate or alternate name for the Lenape people, is governed by John Carney and is the first state to ratify the constitution and was the first state to ratify the Constitution.

Notre Dame.

Delaware.

Delaware is correct.

For your bonus, Henry the eighth fourth wife, who hailed from the German Duchy of Cleves, had what first name.

And.

And is also correct.

And with that, we've reached halftime.

We have a close match underway.

Notre Dame currently leads with a score of 82.

North Hampton's 55.

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

What's your favorite innovation of the last 50 years?

From 1975 on over to Notre Dame, kid.

Go ahead.

Caden Engle, grade 11 artificial intelligence.

Okay.

Sharon Turley, grade 11 Stem.

Polina Schmitt senior.

My Nintendo Switch.

Mary Celine Perry, senior.

Google.

All right.

Now onto North Hampton.

Go ahead.

IRA Barner, sophomore space exploration.

Okay Brady Davis laser sophomore stem cell research.

Okay.

Shin Lim, sophomore, high speed motion camera.

All right.

Leonardo, sophomore and modern medicine.

All right.

We'll continue on with the second half of the march with the following Toss-Up question.

What mathematical operation which can be which can be defined using Reimann sums, is a technique in calculus and consists of finding the area under a curve in a Rotterdam integral.

Yes.

Integral or integration is correct.

For your bonus, what American author became the fourth two time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his novels The Nickel Boys and the Underground Railroad.

Pass.

Colson Whitehead is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What island to the northeast of the Cabot Strait contains the remains of the own meadows and comprises a Canadian province with Labrador.

Northampton.

Newfoundland.

Newfoundland is correct for your bonus.

What effect?

Which occurs when energy of a certain particle exceeds the work function, was mentioned in Albert Einstein's Nobel Prize citation.

Past the photoelectric effect.

Next tossup question.

What King, who was imprisoned by Leopold the Fifth after fighting in the Third Crusade, was a 12th century English king whose nickname celebrated his courage.

Northampton.

Richard the Lionheart.

Richard the Lionheart, or Lionheart is correct.

For your bonus, what Trojan prince, who was the son of Kent of and Kinsey's, caused the suicide of Dido when he fled Carthage.

Pass.

Aeneas is the correct answer.

The next tossup is in mathematics.

Pencil and paper.

Ready?

If a runner is going at a constant speed of 2.5m/s, how many seconds will they need to finish a 400 meter lap?

Go ahead.

Northampton 160.

100 and 60s is correct for your bonus.

In a ballet studio, dancers usually warm up while holding what handrail?

Go ahead.

A bar.

A bar is correct.

Next toss up.

What woman whose memoir, The Woman in Me, details her quest to end her conservatorship.

Northampton.

Britney Spears.

That is correct.

And she recorded the song Toxic and Baby.

One more time for bonus.

Mount Pico is the highest point in Portugal.

It is in what archipelago?

In the middle of the Atlantic.

You could just say it with its bonus.

Azores.

The Azores or Azores is correct.

Next tossup question.

What event planned in the Green Dragon Tavern was punished by the Intolerable Acts.

After the Sons of Liberty, through Notre Dame.

The Boston tea party.

The Boston Tea Party is correct, and the Sons of Liberty threw the British cargo into the Boston Harbor.

For your bonus, what hydrated magnesium silicate mineral defines a hardness of one on the Moz scale and is used in baby powder.

Talcum.

Talc or talcum is correct.

Next, toss up what Arthurian Knight conceived when his mother, Elaine, was mistaken by Lancelot, for when Revere went with Bors and Paul and Percival to seek the Holy Grail.

Notre Dame.

Gwen.

C that's incorrect.

Over Northampton.

Pass.

Sir Galahad is the correct answer.

Next toss up.

What artist who with Paul Morrissey made the film Chelsea Girls, founded the factory and made iconic reproductions of Campbell's soup cans.

That's Pittsburgh native Andy Warhol.

Next toss up question.

It's in math.

Pencil on paper.

Ready?

What is the only value of x that satisfies the equation?

Three x plus seven equals one.

Given that the answer is an integer.

Another day.

Negative two.

Negative two is correct.

For your bonus, Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh were members of what committee founded at Yale in 1940 that opposed U.S. entry into World War Two.

Pass.

It's the America First Committee.

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

Who gets to pick between the following topics?

B I s or windows?

Quickly.

Northampton.

BIS.

BIS.

It is give these answers that begin with the consecutive letters by s large mammal often called buffalo.

Bison.

Correct.

Chess piece that moves diagonally.

Bishop.

Correct.

Metal with atomic number 83.

Pass to divide into two parts.

Bisect.

Correct.

Attracted to both men and women.

Bisexual.

Correct.

The capital of North Dakota.

Bismarck.

Correct.

A thick, creamy shellfish soup.

Bisque.

Correct.

A type of small, modest restaurant originating in Paris.

Pass.

Arabic word meaning in the name of God.

Repeated in Bohemian Rhapsody.

Bit smaller.

That's correct.

Oblong.

Crunchy Italian almond cookies.

Biscoff.

We'll.

Should we take that one?

Yes or no?

What do you.

She said this got.

It's biscotti.

What do we think?

Judges?

Yeah, yeah, we'll take it.

It's got or biscotti.

Never heard of Notre Dame.

Your topic is windows.

Answer the following about windows.

Company that created the windows operating system.

Microsoft.

That's correct.

Shakespeare.

Play with the line.

What light through yonder window breaks.

Romeo and Juliet.

That's correct.

14 letter word for pushing a person from a window to a street.

That's correct.

Transparent material found in most windows.

Pass sensory organ with round window and oval window.

Past Cathedral, whose rose window survived a 2019 fire.

Notre Dame.

Correct.

Rapper who puns on window pane.

In love.

The way You Lie Eminem.

Correct.

Circular window on a ship.

Porthole.

Correct.

Alfred Hitchcock film in which Jimmy Stewart plays a photographer.

Past political window denoting a range of policies acceptable to the public.

No.

Saint Mary Sayers again.

Miguel.

That's incorrect.

It's the Overton window for that one.

All right.

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

What country whose socialist you are n g opposed a freeney.

Rio Mont is the home of activist Rigoberta menchu and teacher Maya, and is in southeast of Mexico and is southeast of Mexico.

Northampton.

Venezuela.

That's incorrect.

Over to Notre Dame.

Costa Rica.

Go ahead.

Buzz in.

Go ahead.

Costa Rica.

That's incorrect.

Guatemala is the correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What novel in which Brian Dubuc.

You'll bear jousts at a tournament with the title disinherited Saxon Knight.

Northampton.

Ivanhoe.

Ivanhoe is correct.

Your bonuses in math.

Pencil and paper.

Ready?

What is the measure of a central angle of a sector of a circle whose area is 30% of the entire area of the circle.

The correct answer is 108 degrees.

Next toss up question.

Kip Thorne won a May 1st.

A wager about Cygnus X-1 being what kind of body which has a gravitational pull so strong that not even light can escape from it.

Notre Dame.

A black hole.

That is correct.

For your bonus, what city's Haight Ashbury neighborhood was the center of the Summer of love in 1967, a focal point in hippie culture.

Pass.

Haight Ashbury is a neighborhood in San Francisco, California.

Next toss up question.

What modern day country was the site of the to kayak Kingdom is ruled by Rama, the 10th of the Turkey dynasty of excuse me, the Chakri Dynasty, and was formerly known as Siam.

Notre Dame.

India.

That's incorrect for Northampton.

No conferring, but it's freebie Egypt.

Buzz in.

Go ahead.

Egypt.

That is also incorrect.

Thailand is a correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What 1941 movie begins in a mansion named Xanadu, owned by a newspaper publisher played by Orson Welles, whose last word before dying is Rosebud.

Today, Citizen Kane.

Citizen Kane is correct for your bonus.

What Latin name is given to the constellation that contains Polaris and the asterism known as the Little Dipper?

Pass.

The answer is Ursa minor.

Next tossup question.

What university?

Where Hamilton Hall was unofficially renamed Heinz Hall during pro-Palestinian protests in April 2020 for is an Ivy League school in Manhattan.

Northampton.

Columbia.

Columbia is correct for your bonus.

What Japanese Emperor's restoration ended when the Tokugawa shogunate.

Ended the Tokugawa shogunate.

Ended the Meiji Restoration.

Next toss up question.

What poet described the sleeping town of Thorogood in the radio play Under Milk Wood, and wrote about the villa now, and wrote the villanelle.

Do not go gently into that good night.

The correct answer is Dylan Thomas.

Next toss up question.

What self-described mayor of Castro Street who was assassinated along with George Mosconi in 1978, was California's first openly gay elected official.

And with that, we've reached the end of the match.

The answer to that question was Harvey Milk.

That was a really close matchup.

Northampton with 170 points.

Congratulations.

You're on to the second round.

Notre Dame almost good luck with the rest of your school year.

We'll see you next year.

I thank you for tuning in.

Tune in next week when Pleasant Valley High School faces off against Northern Lehigh High School.

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