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

I'm your host, David Graff.

Today's match is between Panther Valley High School and Jim Thorpe High School.

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

We'll the students 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 for our first match of the season.

Let's begin.

Buzzers.

Ready?

Here's the first toss up question.

What type of cell that matures in the semi tubules is initially stored in the epididymis, and during fertilization, fuzes with an egg cell.

Jim Thorpe sperm cell.

A sperm cell is correct for your bonus.

It's in math.

Pencil and paper.

Ready?

What is the product of 46 times 50?

For a product that can be found using a difference of squares.

To 224.

He did start right before her time.

Go ahead and say the answer again.

224.

That is incorrect.

The correct answer is 2484.

Is the correct answer.

On the next toss up question.

In what state were 165 people were saved in 2025 by Scott Ruskin, a rescue swimmer.

Did the Guadalupe River flood?

Jim Thorpe.

Texas.

Texas is correct.

The Guadalupe River flooded Kerr County near San Antonio.

For your bonus, Jim Thorpe.

In 1913, assassination brought Constantine the first to the throne of what country?

Which in 1912 regained control over a city sometimes called Salonika.

Austria-Hungary.

That is incorrect.

The city we're talking about, or the country we're talking about is Greece.

And the city's current name is Thessaloniki, which is actually the second biggest city after Athens.

Next tossup question.

What country?

Whose westernmost province of Bauchi is ruled by Sharia law, controls most of the greater Sundar Islands, including Sulawesi and Sumatra.

For coffee lovers, Sumatra is the tip.

It's the country of Indonesia.

Next toss up question is in math.

Pencil and paper ready?

What is the measure of the central angle of each side of a circular pizza that has been divided into ten congruent stuffed Panther Valley?

36 degrees 36 degrees is correct, and that's ten congruent sectors for from playing at home.

For your bonus, what capital of the province of Sind is the most populous city in Pakistan?

Go ahead.

Istanbul.

That is incorrect.

The most popular city in Pakistan is Karachi.

Next toss up question.

What author described the treachery?

A Ford Mondeo.

Who weds Panther?

Valiant.

I'm sorry.

Alexandre Dumas Alexandre Dumas is correct.

And we're talking about his book, The Count of Monte Cristo.

Nice job.

For your bonus.

Coexistence curves intersect at triple points.

On what?

Diagrams that show the pressures and temperatures at which solids, liquids, and gases can exist.

Over time.

We just talked about.

The correct answer is a phase diagram.

Next toss up question what city, which is the main setting of the 2015 film spotlight.

And the TV show cheers is home to the globe newspaper and nicknamed Beantown.

Jim Thorpe.

Chicago.

That's incorrect.

Over to Panther Valley.

No conferring, but is a freebie now.

Houston.

That's also incorrect.

Gabriel's kicking herself.

What's the right answer?

You know Boston.

Boston, Massachusetts.

Is Beantown.

Next toss up question.

What explorer who tried to convert rulers in Cebu to Christianity was killed by Lapu-Lapu in the Philippines during his attempted.

Go ahead.

Jim.

Thor.

Christopher.

Columbus.

That's incorrect for Panther Valley during his attempted circumnavigation.

Ferdinand.

Magellan.

For him, Magellan is correct.

For your bonus, Zuma Rock is west of what Planned City, which in 1991 replaced Lagos as the capital of Nigeria.

The new capital of Nigeria is Abuja.

Abuja is the correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What organelle contains the protein cytochrome c as part of its electron transport chain, which drives ATP?

ATP synthesis during cellular respiration Jim Thorpe.

Mitochondria.

Mitochondria are mitochondria and is correct for your bonus.

In what quantum mechanical process is a particle with classically insufficient energy?

Bypass a barrier by going under or through it.

Patient facing.

Facing.

That is incorrect.

Quantum tunneling is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What figure?

Who vomits up a stone followed by his children in reverse birth order was a Titan who was the husband of.

Go ahead, Jim Thorpe.

This.

That's incorrect.

I'll continue for Panther Valley.

Husband of Raya and the father of Zeus.

Cronus.

Go ahead and buzz in.

Just.

We get track.

Go ahead.

Kronos.

Kronos is correct for your bonus.

In October 2024, Bao Li and Cheng Bao.

Two members of what animal species arrived at the National Zoo?

Pandas.

Pandas is correct.

They're two giant pandas.

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

In a pre-match coin toss, it was determined that Panther Valley.

We'll get to select first between the following subjects.

German cities or horses?

I don't think quickly.

Josh.

Horses.

Horses it is.

We have some equine fans here on Panther Valley.

Hopefully your topic is horses.

Answer the following about horses.

And remember, anyone can say the answer, but the first thing we hear is what we accept.

Your first question.

A part of a horse protected by a horseshoe hoof.

Correct.

Greek god of horses and the sea.

Trojan.

Incorrect term for a baby horse.

Less than a year old mare.

Incorrect.

Fastest of the four basic horse gates.

Gallop.

Correct.

Dark colored title.

Horse of an antsy.

Well.

Book pass.

Part of a horse traditionally used in string instrument bows.

Mane.

Incorrect.

Team.

Stick and ball.

Game played on horseback.

Polo.

That's correct.

In horse racing, winning the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes.

Pass.

Unit equal to four inches.

Used to measure horse height.

Horse height.

And ruler who rode on.

Oh, we are done with that round.

So that's a hand.

So four inches horses are measured in half.

Okay.

Over to Jim Thorpe.

Your topic is German cities.

Name these German cities.

Germany's current capital Berlin.

Correct.

Lends its name to a beef patty served on a bun.

Hamburg.

Correct.

Host of Oktoberfest.

Munich.

Correct.

Cathedral city that lends its name to a fragrance marketed to men.

Cologne.

Correct.

Bavarian city where Nazi leaders were tried as war criminals.

Nuremberg.

Correct.

City on the main River.

Home to the Central European Bank.

Pass.

Site of an 1813 battle of the Nations.

Pass capital of Saxony that was firebombed in February 1945.

Dresden.

Correct.

Former capital of West Germany.

Pass.

And finally, host of a July 1945 World War two conference.

Darmstadt.

Incorrect.

That city is Potsdam.

And we'll continue on with the next toss up question.

What politician?

The daughter of Baltimore Mayor Thomas Diehl.

Sandro Jr.

Represents San Francisco.

Go ahead.

Jim Thorpe.

You gotta give us a guess now.

I don't.

All right, we'll move on.

I'll continue the question.

And as a former Democratic speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi.

Go ahead, buzz and Brad.

Go ahead to Pelosi.

Nancy Pelosi is correct for your bonus.

What Finnish architect designed JFK airport, TWA terminal and the Saint Louis Gateway Arch.

Snowden.

Incorrect.

That architect is Eero Saarinen.

Next toss up question.

What physical process that is quantified using Fick's first and second laws occurs when particles travel down their concentration gradient.

Go ahead, Jim Thorpe.

Active transport.

That is incorrect.

Over to Panther Valley.

There's no conferring.

Did you guys write that down in share or No?

Diffusion.

Diffusion is correct.

We're going to for this one.

I'll give you guys a warning.

I don't know if you guys are just out.

Okay.

Sounds good.

Okay.

For your bonus, what?

Nearly 800 mile long peninsula in northwestern Mexico contains two of the country's 31 states.

Go ahead.

Tell your captain this bonus.

O Baja, Baja.

We need more Baja peninsula.

The Baja.

Oh, but Baja California.

What are we going to think, judges?

Yeah.

Give him Josh and say the answer for Brad.

Give him the answer.

Give California, Baja California, Baja California is correct, and we're going to be okay with that.

Judges, this is the first round here.

Okay.

Next tossup question.

What organization which sued Robert Casey in a 1992 Supreme Court case, was co-founded by Margaret Sanger or by Margaret Sanger and provides reproductive health care.

Panther Valley Planned Parenthood.

Planned Parenthood is correct for your bonus.

What New Deal labor program, created in 1933, hired thousands of young men to work on environmental projects.

Unlike the public works of the WPA.

Just go with it.

Tennessee now Tennessee Valley authority.

That is incorrect.

It's the C, C, C, or Civilian Conservation Corps.

Next tossup question.

What author suggested landlords could eat poor Irish babies in a modest proposal?

Jonathan Swift, Jim Thorpe that is correct.

Jonathan Swift for your bonus.

A German astronomer discovered what numbered law of planetary motion, which states that planets follow equal or elliptical orbits.

It's a planetary law that planets follow elliptical orbit.

Copernicus is incorrect.

Kepler's.

It would be Kepler's first law.

Next tossup question what musician who helped pioneer bebop with songs like Coco played saxophone on his standard ornithology, inspired by his nickname bird.

The correct answer is Charlie Parker.

And with that, we have reached halftime.

We have a nice match underway.

Panther Valley has 85 points to Jim Thorpe's 45 points.

And now for this first round, we're going to have the students introduce themselves with their first last name grade level.

And the answer to the following book or the answer to the following question.

What is your favorite book that you were assigned in school?

This wasn't something you read for pleasure or something you were assigned in school and found to really enjoy it.

We'll start with Hannah.

Panther Valley.

Go ahead.

Hannah Scheffler, senior and Fahrenheit 451.

Okay.

Go ahead.

Available.

It's senior and 1984.

Written by George Orwell.

Okay.

That's also one of my favorites.

Josh go ahead.

Joshua bauder I'm a senior and the Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Duma.

And no kidding, because you got that right in one of our questions.

All right.

Go ahead.

Brad.

Bradley Berlet junior and counting.

Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumont.

Nice.

Okay.

Maxwell.

Jim Thorpe.

Go ahead.

Maxwell priori, senior.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead.

Okay, onto our captain Luke.

Bossy.

I'm a senior, and my favorite book is White Fang by Jack London.

All right, go ahead.

Gabriella.

Sarah.

I'm a senior.

And the book I read in school is Animal Farm by George Orwell.

Okay.

And Ian Ian walk senior and catch it.

All right.

Excellent.

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

What dictator, who is advised by economists known as the Chicago Boys, came to power after a 1973 coup removed Salvador Allende as Chilean president.

Pinochet is that is the dictator that we're looking for.

Next toss up question.

What circuit device is shown as a triangle, meaning a line at one vertex ideally restricts current to one direction and has a light emitting form.

Go ahead.

Jim Thorpe diode A diode is correct.

For your bonus, what Norse god was killed by his brother Hodor with a mistletoe tipped arrow or dart?

Heimdall.

Incorrect.

Balder is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What city contains the monumental axis was planned by Lucio Corso and Oscar Niemeyer, and replaced Rio de Janeiro as its nation's capital.

We're talking about Brazil's current capital of Brasilia.

Next toss up question what present day country where data on Kimathi led in 1950s Mao Mao uprising against the British Empire is now the largest economy in East Africa.

Go ahead, Panther rally Egypt.

That is incorrect.

Over to Jim Thorpe.

No conferring, but it's a freebie now.

Go ahead.

Chad.

That is also incorrect.

Kenya is the correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What singer songwriter who recorded Loves in Need of Love today?

And isn't she lovely on his album songs in the Key of Life, is a blind keyboardist Jim Thorpe.

Ray Charles.

That is incorrect.

Over to Panther Valley Stevie go ahead Buzzer.

Stevie Wonder Stevie Wonder is correct for your bonus.

What poet whose 2016 collection Then Come Back features once lost poems, also wrote 20 love Poems and A Song of despair.

Taylor Swift.

Incorrect.

Pablo Neruda is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

Chaotic behavior is displayed by the double type of what?

Near harmonic oscillators, which are used in grandfather clocks and include a swinging bob.

Jim Thorpe.

Pendulum pendulums or pendulums is correct.

For your bonus, what metal that strengthens the enamel of incisors of beavers also causes beavers teeth to turn orange.

Magnesium.

That is incorrect.

Iron is the correct answer.

Next.

Next.

Tossup question.

What battle where General Edward Pakenham was killed took place after the Treaty of Ghent ended the war of 1812 and was fought in Louisiana.

Battle.

Relic.

Sorry.

Battle of New Orleans.

The Battle of New Orleans is correct for your bonus.

Summertime is the first aria in what opera?

Set in Charleston's Catfish Row.

Past.

The correct answer is Porgy and Bess.

Next tossup question.

What literary protagonist whom Lady Berta Lack tries to seduce is an our theory and hero who are who agrees to a beheading game with the unsettling Green Knight.

Sir Gawain is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

Omicron's and bipolar cells are found in what structure?

Which contains the phobia and has cone and rod cells for light detection in the eye.

The correct answer is the retina.

Next toss up question.

What fictional country where Riri Williams builds an upgraded version of her Ironheart suit is the primary setting of the black Go Ahead Panther rally.

Wakanda.

Wakanda is correct is the primary setting of the Black Panther franchise.

For your bonus, a king with what regnal name legendarily said Paris is worth a mass and converted to Catholicism to end the French War of Religion.

It could be something real.

Louis the Eighth is incorrect, Henry.

And we'd also accept good King Henry or Henry the Great.

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

Jim Thorpe, it's your turn to pick.

You have the following topics.

Are you words or self?

Are you words?

Are you words?

Is your pick Jim Thorpe for topic are you words?

Identify these words that begin with the letters R and you an alleged fact that is spread often in rumor, correct?

Read variety of corundum.

Ruby.

Correct synonym for trash or garbage.

Rubbish.

Correct.

Remains of an ancient building or civilizations.

Correct.

Vertical structure used to steer a boat.

Rudder.

Correct.

Card game in which players assemble sets and runs.

Rummy.

Correct.

Root vegetable, also called a Swede or Swedish turnip.

Pass to any or any mammal that chews its cud.

Pass expressive free use of tempo in music.

Rhythm.

But that was incorrect anyway.

Commotion or a term for a family room?

Pass.

This would be my daughter laughing.

I was testing the questions on her.

It's rumpus.

All right.

There's a rumpus room or what we call rec room together.

Okay, Panther Valley, your topic is south.

Give these people places or things whose English name contains South or southern.

Geographic point at 90 degrees south latitude.

Southern hemisphere.

That's incorrect.

Country home to Johannesburg Pass, a country whose currency is the one South Korea?

That's correct.

US state, home to Fort Sumter, South Carolina.

South Carolina?

That's correct.

A country once ruled by no.

Dinh Diem, who which ceased to exist in 1907.

Say it again.

South Vietnam.

South Vietnam is correct.

Annual media.

Music and film festival in Austin, Texas.

Pass.

Australian state governed from Sydney.

Pass.

Literary movement of Flannery O'Connor and Carson McCullers.

Pass.

Dallas University.

Who sports teams are the Mustangs.

South Texas.

Incorrect.

British joint stock company whose 1720 collapse popped a namesake bubble.

That is the South Sea Company and were on to the final quarter of the match with the following toss up question.

What year in which Chicago police beat protesters near the Democratic National Convention saw the murders of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King.

Go ahead, Panther Valley, 1968 1968 is correct for your bonus.

What American author won Pulitzer Prizes for fiction for his novels The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys?

Upton Sinclair that is incorrect.

Colson Whitehead is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What religion?

Who?

Scripture was partially composed in the 16th century by rom dos uses the Golden Temple and regards the Audie Grant as the last guru.

Of the Valley.

Buddhism.

That's incorrect.

Over to Jim, sir.

Ramadan.

Go ahead.

Taoism.

That is also incorrect.

Sikhism is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

Austenite and martensite are phases of what alloy that is produced in the Bessemer process contains 11% chromium and or contains 11% chromium in its stainless type.

Panther Valley steel.

Steel is correct.

We were talking about stainless steel there.

Obviously, for your bonus.

A point on a circle that is rolling around in identical circle traces.

What curve, which has a single cost and is name for its heart like appearance.

Path.

Cardioid is the correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What mountain?

Whose southernmost slope is the hill?

The quilt.

No.

Glacier is the tallest mountain in North America and is in the interior of Alaska.

Keltner is the name of the glacier.

That would be Denali or Mount McKinley.

Next tossup question.

What character?

A star athlete whose prospects fade after he is discovered, after he discovered his father's affair, is the eldest son of Willy Loman in Death of a salesman.

That character is Biff Loman.

Next tossup question what Roman goddess is depicted being blown to shore by the goddess Zephyr while standing on a shell in a painting?

Go ahead, Jim Thorpe.

Venus.

Venus is correct in that painting is depicting her birth.

For your bonus, what city is home to the Canadian Football League's All U.S.

and was home from 1969 to 2004 to the Major League Baseball Expos.

Toronto.

That is incorrect.

What is a French name?

That's Montreal.

It's the city that we're looking for.

Next tossup question.

What civilization?

Whose port of Lothal may have been used for maritime trade, left behind sites like Mahendra Daro and is named for a river.

That civilization is the Indus River Valley civilization.

Next toss up question.

What collection that introduced the mongoose.

Rikki tikki Tavi, the panther Bagheera, and the feral child Mowgli was written by Rudyard Kipling.

Panther valley.

The Jungle Book The Jungle Book is correct for your bonus.

A 2024 study of Pgms found what type of inert pill reduced symptoms.

Even when patients were told they were receiving no actual medication.

And that is the end of the match.

You are correct.

Doesn't count that the buzzer lamps just re-affirm the placebo effect.

Thank you very much to both teams.

Great first match to start the season off.

Unfortunately Jim Thorpe with 100 points.

Not quite enough.

Good luck with the rest of your school year.

Panther Valley congratulations.

With 145 points, you're on to the second round and thank you for watching.

We'll see you next week.

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