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Hello and welcome to the fourth match of the second round of the 50 season of Scholastic Scrimmage.

I'm your host, David Graff.

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

Match will be composed of two halves with a lightning round midway through each half and half time will pass.

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

As a reminder, sports scrimmage requires rapid recall specific factual information that's not necessarily indicative of academic training.

And now let's begin.

Here's our first toss up question.

What country whose Plane of Jars contains clusters of ancient stone jars, is a landlocked Southeast Asian country governed from via via tion.

Palmerton.

Laos Laos is correct for your bonus.

The daisy ad criticized the hawkish views of what Arizona Republican who lost the 1964 presidential election to Lyndon Johnson.

Barry Goldwater Barry Goldwater is also correct.

Next tossup question what woodwind, whose name comes from the Latin for remember, is played by covering up some of its eight tone holes and is often made of cheap plastic.

Palmerton A quarter over quarter is correct for your bonus.

What man who was the highest paid federal employee until he stepped down as chief medical adviser to the president in December 2022.

Anthony Fauci.

Anthony Fauci is correct.

The last numbers I could find in 2019, he was paid about 30,000 more dollars in the US president.

Believe it or not, back in that year.

Next tossup question what materials, some of which contain sodium hypochlorite, are often used to remove the natural color of fabric, whiten paper, or whiten hair palmitate.

Bleach.

Bleach or bleach is correct, and they are also used to lighten hair color.

For a bonus, the English word careful is used as a mnemonic for a pronunciation rule in what foreign language?

Spanish.

That is, incorrect.

French is a correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What holiday, which Anna Jarvis successfully lobbied for and then opposed because of its commercialization, takes place.

Palmerton mother's Day.

Mother's day is correct, and it takes place on the second Sunday in May.

For your bonus, what character is stabbed while hiding behind an iris or tapestry to eavesdrop on hamlet?

It's not like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.

That's incorrect.

Polonius is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What island country, which is home to Nobel Prize winning author.

Outdoor blackness is also home to the singer Bjork and his governor from Reykjavik, Iceland.

Iceland is correct for your bonus.

An equation developed by Constantine Sulikowski is named for describing the motion of what vehicles, in terms of their exhaust velocity.

In automobiles is incorrect.

Rockets is a correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What iron which is depleted in patients with hyperkalemia, is exchange for sodium ions by a namesake pump and is an alkali metal.

Palmerton.

Potassium.

That is correct.

And its abbreviation is K plus.

For your bonus track is a city.

In what country?

Which contains many plotters or areas of land that have been reclaimed from the sea.

Netherlands.

The Netherlands is correct.

Next tossup question.

What colony founded in 1732 to resettle worthy poor people from England by James.

By James Oglethorpe was the last and southernmost of the 13.

Palmerton, Georgia.

That's correct.

That's what was known as the debtors colony.

For your bonus, what European country committed the Herero genocide in present day Namibia and was stripped of colonies in present day Tanzania after World War one.

Germany.

Germany is correct.

Next toss up question.

What teacher of Frederic Edwin Church painted a view from Mount Holyoke, known as the Oxbow, and is considered the founder of the Hudson River school.

Thomas Cole is a correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What author wrote about two sisters who send empty coaches to their father's funeral in Lapeer?

Guerriero, part of his novel sequence The Human Comedy.

The correct answer is on read to Balzac.

Next toss up question.

What man who return to power after Raul Salon's coup in Algeria's destroyed the Fourth Republic.

Earlier led Free French forces in World War II to.

Palmerton, Charles de Gaulle.

Charles de Gaulle is correct.

For your bonus, the title of J.D.

Salinger story Raised High The Roof Beam Carpenters is from what poem?

Or from a poem by what?

Greek woman who lived on the island of Lesbos.

Past Sappho is the Greek poet.

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

In a pretty much coin toss.

It was determined that Palmerton will pick between the following topics scientific sixes or historians.

Scientific sixes.

Scientific sixes.

It is Palmerton.

Your topic is scientific sixes.

Answer the following about the number six in science.

Six sided two dimensional shape.

Hexagon.

Correct.

Six planet from the sun.

Jupiter.

Incorrect.

Italian.

Winner of the sixth Nobel Prize in Medicine and namesake of a cellular apparatus.

Passing binary equivalent of the decimal number six.

Pass.

These six machines include the screw and lever.

Pass number like six, the equals the sum of their proper divisors.

Perfect numbers.

That's correct.

A system of six stars adjacent to Pollux in Gemini.

Orion.

Incorrect.

Physicist who wrote whose six easy pieces were taken from his Caltech lecture on physics.

Pars ring shaped compound with a formula C6 h six.

And that was benzene, but unfortunately too late.

But you got the nerd credit there.

You knew it in the end.

And now we move on to Northampton.

Your topic is historians.

Name the authors of these books of history, the history of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

Past the histories written in Greek around 440 BC.

As a history of the English speaking peoples.

He was a British prime minister during World War two.

Winston Churchill.

Correct.

A people's History of the United States.

Pass the 18th premiere of Louis of Louis Napoleon, who also wrote dos capital.

Pass.

Commentaries on the Gallic War.

Pass.

The Age of Louis the 14th.

He also wrote candied.

Pass.

Iberico Dita.

A History of Rome.

Pass.

Team of rivals.

Pass.

History of the Peloponnesian War.

Pass.

All right.

And we will continue on with the following.

Toss up.

Question.

Eight sets of four hexadecimal digits are the V6 standard of what addresses whose V4 versions include one, two, 7.0.0.1, which identified devices on a network.

Northampton.

IP, IP or an IP address is correct.

For your bonus, what Roman politician who rediscovered letters helped spark the Renaissance, crushed the Catiline conspiracy and was considered a great orator.

Go ahead.

Mark Anthony, that is incorrect.

Cicero is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What country, which contains most of the grand ERG Occidental, contains the coastal cities of Iran and is situated between Morocco and Tunisia.

Palmerton.

Algeria Algeria is correct.

Levi.

I was going through that map of Africa in your head for your bonus.

What?

Four letter term indicates the nebulous envelope of gas and dust surrounding the nucleus of a comet.

The nucleus of a comet tail.

That's incorrect.

The comma is the correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What film whose protagonist tries out for the Fire Hawks hockey team is a sequel about now?

Teenaged Riley Levi inside out?

That is incorrect.

That's incorrect.

And you have to take the first answer.

Northampton of North.

Henry, go ahead and set out to Inside out.

Two is correct with a little assist.

There from Palmerton for your bonus.

Teoscar Hernandez won the 2024 iteration of what showcase for Power Hitters, which is held the night before.

It's a bonus, which is held the night before Major League Baseball's all star game.

Go ahead.

Home run derby.

The Home Run Derby is correct.

Next tossup question.

What number?

Which for all x equals sine squared of x plus cosine squared of x is also the maximum possible value of sine or cosine of x.

One one is correct.

For bonus in 1973, what trade organization's embargo against Israel's allies caused a fourfold rise in the price of oil and kicked off the 1970s energy crisis?

OPEC.

OPEC is correct.

Or the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.

Next tossup question.

What building, which is the source of three fragments returned by the Vatican in 2023 and many of the Elgin Marbles is a temple on Athens Acropolis.

Northampton.

The colossus of Rhodes.

That is incorrect.

Over to Palmerton.

No conferring.

It is a freebie now.

Go ahead.

No.

Not those.

That's also incorrect.

The Parthenon is the correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What character?

Who recalls his ex-fiancé Belle and at a party?

Or who recalls his ex-fiance, say, Belle and at a party by Mr. Fezziwig.

Is the miserly Northampton Scrooge?

Ebenezer Scrooge is correct, and he's a protagonist of Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol.

For your bonus, what handsome youth is a lover of.

Both Aphrodite and Persephone died after being gored by a boar while hunting.

Pass.

The correct answer is Adonis.

And with that, we have reached halftime.

Let's take a moment for the students to introduce themselves with their first and last name grade level and the answer to the following question.

What age appropriate for student to get a smartphone.

Levi Palmerton.

Go ahead.

Levi Strohl, 12th grade and I think 15 years old.

Okay.

As a green 11th grade and I think 12 years old.

Dylan Borger, grade 11 and I think 12 years old.

Joey Salt, ninth grade and I think 13 years old.

Okay.

And over to North Hampton, Ada Byron, Horace, 10th grade, 18, Grady Davis Heuser, 10th grade, and I'd say 12 Cheyenne Lamb, 10th grade, I say 14.

Sophia Titano, 10th grade, 15.

All right.

I like the teenage.

I think that's what I'm going to go with for my daughter.

I think that's the perfect time to get a cell phone or to get a smartphone and be able to access the internet.

Okay.

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

What monarch issued the Declaration of Indulgence to spare Catholics from punishment before being overthrown by William and Mary's Glorious Revolution.

Palmerton.

James the second.

James the second is correct for your bonus.

The name of what?

Silvery gray radioactive metal with atomic number 43 reflects that it was the first element to be produced artificially.

Technique.

Zoo Tech Museum is correct.

Yes.

Tech Museum is correct.

The next toss up is in math.

Pencil and paper.

Ready?

How many students would be left without a group if a 45 person class was asked to form groups of six for a project?

Go ahead.

Option two.

That is incorrect.

Over to Northampton.

No conferring, but so freebie.

If you work out the math.

Go ahead three.

That is correct.

And how many full groups would be completed?

Just for fun.

Seven.

Seven is also correct for your bonus.

What novel, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1947, tells the story of populist Governor Willie Stark, who was inspired by Huey Long.

Pass All the King's Men.

Next tossup question what poem, which describes a husky and brawling place that is a hog butcher for the world is by Carl Sandburg and is bout an Illinois city.

But what an elegant way to describe the city of Chicago.

Next, toss up.

What city?

Whose forest Park hosted the 1904 World's Fair is home to a monument to westward expansion.

Go ahead.

Paula.

Saint Louis, Missouri, is correct.

And we're talking about the Gateway Arch.

Your bonuses in math.

Pencil and paper.

Ready?

If the average height of three boys is 66in, how tall would a fourth boy have to be to raise the average to 68in?

Correct answer is 74in or 6ft?

Two inches.

Next tossup question.

What TV show that popularized the phrase no soup for you was the 1990s Northampton?

Seinfeld.

Seinfeld.

I'm so glad somebody got that.

I was afraid nobody would know it, but I'm glad it's still popular.

And it contained the characters Elaine, George Kramer, and the comedian named Jerry.

For your bonus.

A seven note E minor guitar riff opens the song Seven Nation Army by what former rock band a duo composed of a man and his ex-wife.

You don't have to buzz.

You can just say The White Stripes.

The White Stripes is correct.

Next tossup question in what state where George Helmy was appointed to fill a Senate seat in 2024, is Andy Kim running to replace convicted incumbent Bob Menendez?

Palmerton, new Jersey new Jersey is correct.

What is the state of new Jersey without corruption, right?

Yeah.

Okay.

For your bonus in 2023, a fossil was discovered that included the intact last meal of what?

Extinct class of arthropods whose bodies are made up of parts of three segments.

Arachnids.

That's incorrect.

Trilobites is a correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What man whose 1903 voyage navigated the ship yoa through the Northwest Passage, was a Norwegian who led the first expedition to the south Pole.

Thanks for was raw Amundsen.

Next tossup question.

What quantity?

Which equals x minus delta u, according to the first law of thermodynamics, can be calculated as force times parallel displacement.

The correct answer is work.

Next tossup question.

What goddess who rides a chariot drawn by a pair of cats and receives and receives slain warriors at Fork Bangor is the Norse goddess of love and beauty.

Go ahead.

Northampton.

Freya.

Freya is correct for your bonus.

Madagascar is separated from mainland Africa by what channel?

Which shares its name with a country governed from Poteau.

Mozambique.

Mozambique is correct.

Next tossup question.

What facility?

Which the ship star of the West tried to resupply was a fort in South Carolina seized from the Union at the start.

Permitted Fort Sumner.

Fort Sumter is correct.

And it was seized at the start of the Civil War.

For your bonus, what U.S. law passed in 1862 provided an applicant with 160 acres of public land if they resided on it for five years.

Homestead act.

The Homestead Act is correct.

Next tossup question.

What man who planned the town of Poundbury is married to Camilla Parker Bowles and spent 64 years as the Prince of Wales before succeeding Paul Martin.

Charles, you need to be more specific.

King Charles the third.

King Charles the Third is correct.

And he succeeded his mother, Elizabeth the second.

For your bonus.

What French philosopher who wrote the satire the Persian Letters and argued for checks and balances in government.

In the spirit of the laws.

Descartes.

That's incorrect.

Montesquieu is the correct answer.

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

You'll get to pick from the following topics.

State universities or presidential names.

Quickly.

Northampton.

State universities.

State universities.

It is Northampton.

Your topic is state universities.

Name the state whose flagship universities are in these cities.

Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Correct.

Berkeley, California.

Correct.

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, correct.

Gainesville, Georgia.

Incorrect.

Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Correct.

Knoxville, Tennessee.

Correct.

Laramie.

Pass.

Lexington, Kentucky.

Correct.

Stores.

Kansas.

Incorrect.

Vermillion.

Pass as well as South Dakota.

The one before it stores is where UConn is in Connecticut.

Okay, Palmerton, your topic is presidential names.

What surname of a US president can also refer to these things?

A shrub bush.

Correct.

To give someone something such as a wish.

Grant.

Correct.

The capital of Mississippi.

Jackson.

Correct.

To break the surface of something with a sharp object.

Pierce.

Correct.

State whose capital is Olympia, Washington.

Correct.

Shallow point at which a river is crossed.

Pass.

Pass.

Generic size.

Trademark term for a vacuum cleaner.

Hoover.

Correct.

Driver of a Wain or wagon.

Pass.

Pass a playing card treated as having a higher rank than normal.

Trump.

Correct.

Cycling race in which members of a duo take turns.

To pass.

Well, if you ever stopped by the velodrome in Trexler Town, you may see a Madison race.

And that's where the cyclists take turns on the track.

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

It's in math, so pencil paper.

Ready?

What is the price of one coffee?

Given that five coffees have the same total cost as one coffee, plus a $14 sandwich.

The price of one coffee is $3.50.

Next tossup question.

What author wrote the prequel, concrete Rose about Maverick Carter, whose daughter star sees a police shooting in her novel The Hate You Give.

Angie Thomas is the correct answer.

Next toss up what name is shared by the Massachusetts city where James Naismith invented basketball and a state capital where Abraham Lincoln lived until 1861.

Pharmacist.

Springfield.

Springfield is correct for your bonus.

The breakup of what former country began in 1991 with declarations of independence by Croatia and Slovenia.

Yugoslavia.

Yugoslavia is correct.

Next tossup question.

What man whose leg was hit by a cannonball at the Battle of Pamplona, wrote the Spiritual Exercises, taught Francis Xavier and founded the Jesuits.

The answer is Saint Ignatius of Loyola.

Next toss up question.

What word which follows monopolistic in a market structure exemplified by the toothpaste industry, describes how firms contend over scarce resources.

Northampton competition.

Competition is correct for your bonus.

What theory, disproved in 1828 by Frederic Fuller's synthesis of urea, held that certain processes and molecules were unique to living things.

Past vitalism is the correct answer.

Next, toss up.

What disease which can be diagnosed in infancy using a sweet chloride test, affects the pancreas and can cause a buildup of thick mucus in the lungs.

Palmerton.

Pneumonia.

That is incorrect.

Over to North Hampton.

So no conferring, but it's freebie.

Go ahead.

Croup.

That's also incorrect.

Cystic fibrosis is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What author of the book Cabbages and Kings wrote about kidnapers who have to pay to give Johnny Dorset back to his father in the ransom of Red chief?

That author is O. Henry.

Next tossup question.

What game in which zerks can be defeated in a walled city with the help of the robotic drone?

12 features a backpack wearing feline protagonist.

That's the video game stray.

Next, toss up what culture that recorded King was on a long count calendar, was ruled by Puckle the Great in Palakkad and built on the Mayan.

The Mayan is correct in the Mayan civilization.

For your bonus.

And with that, we are out of time with Hampton.

Unfortunately, with 120 points is the end of the road.

Good luck with the rest of your school year.

Palmerton.

Congratulations.

With 285 points, you are on to the third round.

Thank you for watching.

We'll see you next week for Pleasant Valley when they face Southern Lehigh.

Since 2006, the Temple Saint Luke's School of Medicine has focused on cultivating local talent, with more than a third of our graduates continuing their training at Saint Luke's are now working as attending physicians for our network.

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