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

I'm your host, David Graff.

Today's match is between Parkland High School and Deering High School.

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

We'll pause for students to introduce themselves, and we'll get to know them a little bit better.

As a reminder, Scholastic requires rapid recall.

Specific factual information is not necessarily indicative of academic training.

And now let's begin.

Buzzers.

Ready.

Here's our first tossup question.

What text.

Whose little volume covered Norfolk and Essex was a 1086 survey of land holdings.

Go ahead.

Parkland.

The Domesday Book.

The Domesday Book is correct for your bonus.

Easy and easy.

Dennison's story is titled The Supper at what City, which shares a name with a castle where Claudius and Gertrude reign in Shakespeare's Hamlet.

Task.

The correct answer is Elsinore.

Next toss up question.

What Norse god who invented the fishing that gave birth to the eight legged horse sleeping here fathered the wolf Fenrir and is a shapeshifting trickster.

Parklet.

Loki.

Loki is correct.

For your bonus, Spartan Commander Leonidas led a heroic but doomed defense against an invading.

An amazing and invading Persian army at a mountain pass at what, 480 BC battle.

Thermopylae.

The Battle of Thermopylae is correct.

Next tossup question what name is shared by the fibers released from the spinning roots of spiders and the fibers produced by namesake?

Go ahead.

Parkland.

Silk.

Silk is correct.

And those other fibers are produced by a namesake worm that makes a shimmering fabric.

For a bonus, what three dimensional shape names a series of numbers beginning one, four, ten, 20, and 35, which are obtained by summing the first n triangular numbers.

It's perhaps the best pyramid.

Incorrect.

A tetrahedron is a correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What country expanded?

Tommy Douglas is health care system nationwide.

Go ahead.

Parkland.

Canada.

Canada is correct.

And that was a year after it adopted its Maple Leaf flag for a bonus in 2025.

What co-founder of World Wrestling Entertainment promised to put herself out of a job as secretary of education.

McMahon.

Linda McMahon is correct.

Next toss up question.

What composer and pupil of Carl Czerny wrote three to stroma and a total of 19 Hungarian Rhapsodies, and was a virtuoso performer on the piano.

Paquin.

Mozart.

That's incorrect.

Over the deer.

So no conferring, but it's now a freebie.

Go ahead dear.

List.

List is correct for your bonus.

What African country was led by Lauren Kabila from 1997, when he gained power in a civil war, to 2001, when he was assassinated.

By the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Democratic Republic of the Congo is correct.

Next toss up question what function gives Y coordinates of the unit circle and has a reciprocal?

Go ahead.

Parkland.

Sine.

Sine function is correct.

For your bonus, the words Mary had a little lamb were the first to be recorded.

On what device?

Invented in 1877 by Thomas Edison.

Telegraph.

Incorrect.

The phonograph is the correct answer.

Next toss up.

What war, which effectively ended with the Battle of cast iron, also included clashes at Crecy and opposing corps during a long late medieval conflict.

Parkland.

The 100 Years War.

The 100 Years War is correct for your bonus.

In December 2024, what country's elections yielded the world's youngest head of state?

Prime Minister Christian for daughter.

Iceland.

Iceland is correct, and she was 36 years old when she took over the country.

For your next tossup question in 2024, what family launched World Liberty Financial, a crypto company whose DeFi visionary is barren and which is managed?

Go ahead, dear Trump.

The Trump family is correct.

Managed by Eric and Donald Jr.

For your bonus.

In what agricultural system popularized after the Civil War did poor southern farmers tend land in exchange for a portion of what they produced?

Sharecropping.

Sharecropping is correct.

Next tossup question.

What country?

Whose city of Sfax was once conquered by the Normans, was the birthplace of the Arab Spring, and is the northernmost country in Africa.

Europe.

Egypt.

That is incorrect.

Over to parkland.

Go ahead.

Parkland.

Tunisia.

Tunisia is correct for your bonus.

The line.

Hey!

Roman numeral seven.

Bay.

Drop it like it's hot.

Reoccurs in what, 2024?

Song a collaboration between Kendrick Lamar and SZA.

Luther.

Luther is the correct song.

Next tossup question.

James Chadwick, doctoral advisor.

Was what?

Namesake of element number 104, which posited atoms have a nucleus after overseeing the gold.

Go ahead.

Parkland.

Rutherford.

Ernest Rutherford is correct.

And you oversaw the gold foil experiments for your bonus.

What divine son of the Emperor over the sea is resurrected after dying on the stone tablets in C.S.

Lewis's novel The Lion, the witch and the wardrobe.

The lion.

Incorrect.

Aslan is the correct answer.

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

In a pre-match coin toss, it was determined that deer will be picking first from the following topics.

We have the oceans or civil rights leaders.

What do you think you're.

Most.

We would like to do.

Oceans, please.

Oceans.

It is dear.

For your first lightning round topic is the oceans.

Answer the following about the Earth's oceans.

Earth's largest ocean.

The Pacific.

Correct.

Undersea mountain ranges at divergent boundaries.

Pass a measure of dissolved solids such as NaCl in seawater.

Salinity.

That is correct.

Undersea features that spew superheated water and housed tube worms.

Geysers.

Incorrect.

Large flows of water such as the Gulf Stream.

Past ocean trenches containing Earth's deepest point.

Challenger deep to the Ocean trench.

Mariana trench.

Correct.

11 letter term for tides that occur twice a day.

Passive process of waves collapsing as they approach shore.

Crashing.

Incorrect.

Wind driven movement of nutrient rich deep water to the surface.

That's a unit of seawater flow.

Named for a Swedish oceanographer.

Riptide.

Incorrect.

It's a sverdrup.

And just in case anyone's wondering, one sverdrup is equal to 1,000,000m³ of water per second.

So the flow of currents throughout the ocean.

Okay.

Parkland, civil rights leaders.

Your topic is civil rights leaders.

Name these black civil rights activists delivered the I Have a Dream speech, Martin Luther King, Jr.

Correct.

Triggered the Montgomery bus boycott by refusing Rosa Parks.

Correct.

Chaired SNICK and became a longtime Georgia congressman.

Do you mind?

Booker T Washington.

Incorrect.

Assassinated in 1965 after leaving the Nation of Islam.

Malcolm X. Correct.

Founded Operation Push and ran for president in the 1980s.

Oh.

Anyone can say it, too.

Does it have to be a cabinet?

Pass has argued Brown versus board and later joined the Supreme Court Thurgood Marshall.

Correct.

Was the first black woman elected to Congress in 1968.

Pass.

Denounced lynching in her pamphlet Southern Horrors.

I'd be correct.

Wrote the Souls of Black folk and co-founded an NAACP board.

That's correct.

Founded the Black Panther Party with Bobby Seale.

That was Huey Newton.

Okay, we'll continue on with the following.

Toss up question.

What novel in which characters make the Peach Garden Oath and the battle of Red cliffs is won by.

Go ahead.

Parkland.

The Three kingdoms war.

Yes.

Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

Three kingdoms is an acceptable answer, and it depicts China's Warring States period.

For your bonus, John on re Fragonard was an artist from what French movement that emerged from the Baroque period and emphasized a very ornate style.

Classical.

Incorrect.

Rococo is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What country in which the Neiman River separates from Kaliningrad Oblast is.

Go ahead.

Parkland.

Poland.

That's incorrect.

I'll continue for deer is the southernmost of the Baltic states and has its capital at the Vilnius.

Go ahead, dear.

Lithuania with Winnie is correct.

Your bonuses in math.

Pencil on paper.

Ready?

What is the tens digit of the integer equal to nine factorial?

Given that eight factorial equals 40,320.

Tell your captain.

Eight.

Eight is correct.

Next tossup question.

In what state did activists repaint a crosswalk outside the former pulse nightclub?

Whose?

Go ahead.

Parkland, Florida.

Florida is correct after its rainbow colors were removed by Ron DeSantis for your bonus.

From 1984 to 1988, the poet laureate of the United Kingdom was what author whose collection Birthday Letters reflects on his marriage to Sylvia Plath.

Hughes.

Ted Hughes is correct.

Next tossup question what company which offered a pioneering $5 a day wage to workers at its River Rouge plant in Michigan, pioneered and produced by Park Ford.

Ford is correct, and it produced vehicles like the model T for your bonus.

What son of Czar Nicholas the Second had his hemophilia treated by the controversial mystic Lexi.

Lexi is correct.

It was treated by the mystic press.

Putin.

Next tossup question.

What set of elements that include promethium undergo a namesake contraction in their atomic radius and are found below transition metals.

Here are lanthanides.

Lanthanides is correct for your bonus.

Stokes flow is a form of what type of orderly flow, characterized by a low Reynolds number, which is contrasted with turbulent flow with the help.

Laminar flow.

Laminar flow is correct.

Next tossup question.

What author portrayed six friends who deliver soliloquies in her novel The Waves, and wrote about the vacationing Ramsey family in To the Lighthouse?

Go ahead.

Parkland.

Gertrude Stein.

Incorrect.

Over to Dear.

Virginia Woolf is the correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What river flows out of Lake Itasca meets the Ohio River near Cairo, Illinois, and then empties into the Gulf of Mexico.

Near.

Go ahead.

Parkland.

The Mississippi River.

The Mississippi River is correct and empties into the Gulf of Mexico near New Orleans.

For your bonus, what plays first act ends with three youngsters gazing out their windows and smelling the heliotrope in their family's backyard in Grover's Corners.

Our town.

Our town.

Our town is correct.

And with that, we've reached halftime.

We have a great match underway between Parkland and Deer.

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

Who is your current favorite musical artist?

So, parkland.

Eric.

Go ahead.

I'm Eric.

Go.

I'm, 10th grade at Parkland High School.

My favorite artist right now is probably Frank Sinatra.

All right.

Cool.

Sophia.

Sophia Hamid, 11th grade.

Hail the sun.

Okay.

My name is Sam Palumbo.

I'm in 12th grade at Brooklyn High School.

And my favorite artist right now is American Authors.

Okay, I'm Ken Zang.

I'm an 11th grader at Parkland High School.

My favorite artist friend was Lavi.

All right.

Excellent.

Now overthere.

Jorge.

Go ahead.

Jorge Ramirez, 12th grade, year of high school.

My favorite artist is probably Tupac.

Okay.

My name is Gage Reichard.

I am a 12th grader from Deer of High school, and my favorite artist right now is probably Fall Out Boy.

All right.

My name is generally.

I'm from Deer High School and 12th grade, and my favorite artist is Adam.

Okay.

My name is Christopher Nicki.

I'm from Deer High School, and I'm really into Faye Webster right now.

All right.

Excellent.

So, Gage, I noticed there's a trend going back to, like, my millennial roots, where one of the other contestants was into the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Now, which were they were big when they were in San Diego.

Fall Out Boy when I was in high school.

So it's interesting to see it all coming back around again with the youth.

And it makes me feel kind of old.

Okay, onto the second half of the match for the following tossup question, what author wrote about the paramilitary guard in his novel Dawn and described going?

Go ahead, parkland.

So, yes.

At least weasel is correct for your bonus.

What country whose ugly plant is used to print Japanese yen is a mountainous country governed from Katmandu, Nepal.

Nepal is correct.

Next tossup question.

What?

What broad class of stars may exhibit pulsations?

As in.

Go ahead.

Parkland.

Variable stars.

Variable stars is correct.

And at is in Mira and RR Lyrae stars.

For your bonus.

Baron von Steuben trained the Continental Army while it camped.

At what site?

Near Philadelphia Valley.

Forge Valley forge is correct.

Next tossup question.

What French thinker who defended Jameson ism in his provincial letters argued that people should strategically believe in God in his namesake wager.

Go ahead.

Parkland.

Pascal.

Blaise Pascal is correct for your bonus.

Vaccines developed by Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin targeted enterovirus that causes what disease?

Polio.

Polio is correct.

Next tossup question.

What woman who was convicted of adultery and incest with her brother George, was the mother of Queen Elizabeth and the second wife.

Go ahead.

And Boleyn.

Anne Boleyn is correct.

And she was the second wife of Henry did.

That's correct.

No bonus points on that.

Just just a nice follow up for your bonus.

Pago Pago is the capital of what?

U.S.

territory in the South Pacific Ocean.

Guam.

That's incorrect.

American Samoa is the correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What architect designed the Royal Observatory?

Rebuilt more than 50 churches and included a whispering gallery in his design for Saint Paul's Cathedral.

Christopher Wren is the correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What author who exclaimed done with the chart in a poem about wild nights, also wrote a poem that opens because I could not stop for death.

Parkland.

Emily Dickinson.

Emily Dickinson is correct for your bonus.

McNeill's vet invented what?

Laboratory technique with an h p l c form in which a stationary phase and mobile phase are used to separate substances.

Chromatography.

Chromatography is correct.

Next tossup question.

The source engine was developed by what video game company called Paquin Valve.

Valve is correct and it's fronted by Gabe Newell.

For bonus, what author wrote about epileptic seizures suffered by a pure hearted prince?

Michigan eight.

Say it again, Golding.

That's incorrect.

It was in his 1869 novel The Idiot, and it was the correct answer.

Next tossup question what present day state were institutions along the Camino Real were inspected by?

Junipero Serra.

Was the site of a chain of Spanish missions.

Here.

California.

California is correct for your bonus.

In 2025, the New England Free Jacks won a third consecutive title in what sport?

Also played by New Zealand's All Blacks.

Rugby.

Rugby is correct.

The next question is in math.

Pencil on paper.

Ready?

How much money will a customer save by buying a pack of 20 pens for $8, rather than buying 20 pens at $0.50 each?

Go ahead dear.

$2.

$2 is correct for your bonus.

In the 1980s, current Senator Bernie Sanders was the mayor of what city?

The most populous city in his home state.

Burlington.

Burlington, Vermont is correct.

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

You'll get to pick between the following topics.

We have European cities by tourist attractions or hyphenated words, European cities by tourist attractions.

We're really excited about European cities.

Have we been to Europe recently?

I'm guessing.

All right, there we go.

Here.

Okay, parkland, your topic is European cities by tourist attractions.

Given a pair of attractions named the European city, the Louvre and the Eiffel Tower.

Paris.

Correct.

The Brandenburg Gate and Checkpoint Charlie Berlin.

Say it again.

Berlin.

Correct.

The Sagrada Familia and Park.

Well, Barcelona is correct.

Schoenberg Palace and Belvedere Palace complex, Madrid.

Incorrect.

The Spanish Steps and the Colosseum.

Rome.

Correct.

The Hermitage Museum and the Nevsky Prospect.

Moscow.

Incorrect.

The Visa Museum and the Nobel Prize Museum.

Stockholm.

I heard Oslo first.

Fortunately it's incorrect.

The gallery and the Ponte Vecchio.

Florence.

Correct.

The International Court of Justice and the Ritz House.

Geneva.

Incorrect.

The Hyatt Sofia and the Cappy Palace.

Istanbul.

That is correct.

Okay, dear.

Your topic is hyphenated words.

Give these words.

Who?

Typical spelling contains one or more hyphens.

A fairground carousel.

Merry go round.

Merry go round.

Merry go round is correct.

Six squared plus six squared.

82.

82.

Incorrect.

A relative gained through marriage in law.

Correct.

Poker bet consisting of a player's entire chip count.

All in correct portion of the M spectrum.

Just above you've discovered by William Bent.

Again.

Infrared.

Infrared or.

No.

Sorry.

That's incorrect.

OTC, in terms of medicine.

Over-the-counter.

Correct.

Second place finisher in a contest.

Runner up.

Correct.

Jump ball that starts a period in basketball.

Toss up.

Incorrect position held by Emma Tucker at the Wall Street Journal.

Editor in chief.

Correct the letters A in a linguistic term, a, b, e. African-American.

African-American is correct.

All right.

We'll go to the final call of the match for the following.

Tossup question.

What novel in which Sam and Eric mistake the body of.

Go ahead.

Lord of the flies.

Lord of the flies is correct.

And it was written by William Golding for bonus.

The U.N.

Secretary general, Jack Hammarskjold, died in 1961.

In what kind of incident?

That also in 2010, killed the Polish president Lech Kaczynski.

Plane crash.

A plane crash is correct.

Next tossup question.

What senator from Wisconsin, whose army lawyer, Joseph Welch asked if he had no sense of decency.

Go ahead.

Joseph McCarthy.

Joseph McCarthy is correct.

For your bonus in 2003, Steve Jobs first demonstrated what new internet browser for Apple products whose name was meant to Safari is correct, and it was meant to evoke the idea of discovery.

Next tossup question what foodstuff is fermented to produce mead is consumed with apples.

Go ahead.

Parkland.

Alcohol.

That's incorrect.

I'll continue for gear.

Go ahead.

You're cider.

Also incorrect.

It's consumed with apples on Rosh Hashanah.

Its honey is the correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What solid layer of the Earth discovered by Engle Lehman in 1936, is composed of an iron nickel alloy.

Go ahead.

The inner core.

The inner core is correct.

It's surrounded by a liquid outer counterpart.

For a bonus, an 1882 story by Frank Stockton ends by asking readers if a condemned youth will marry what or will marry a beautiful lady, or be eaten by what title animal?

Wolf.

That's incorrect.

Tiger is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What island whose highest peak is Mount Kinabalu, is sometimes known as Kalamata and is divided between Indonesia, Brunei, Malaysia.

Parkland.

Borneo Borneo is correct.

For your bonus, what was the regional name of the Ottoman Sultan who was known as the Conqueror for his 1453 capture of Constantinople?

Suleiman.

That's incorrect.

Mehmet.

The second is a correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What country whose gods are praised by Zahra?

Toss in.

The Magic Flute is the setting of Philip Class's opera Akhenaten, about one of the pharaohs.

Go ahead.

Project Egypt is correct for your bonus.

Nabataean king Aratus the Fourth built the alchemist treasury in what ancient city?

Which is cut into red sandstone cliffs in present day Jordan?

Petra?

Petra Petra is correct.

Next tossup question.

What process which begins at an or E c site in bacteria.

Go ahead.

Parkland replication DNA replication DNA replication is correct.

I was gonna ask you be more specific, but you got there for your bonus.

Opera singers trained to control what effect?

With an Italian name in which the voice quickly up is a bonus for them?

Yep.

Which the voice quickly fluctuates around a pitch while holding a note.

Tilting vibrato.

Vibrato is correct.

Generally, you've known it your own vibrato.

Yeah.

All right.

Next tossup question.

What 2020s reality series that featured Jen Affleck and Layla Taylor is a Hulu show about TikTok influencer moms who are part of the LDS church.

Parkland, the Secret Life of Mormon Wives, The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives is correct for your bonus under what a literally named foreign policy did William Howard Taft use America's robust economy to do diplomacy?

Dollar diplomacy is correct.

You use it to influence other countries.

Next tossup question what content was where Ceefax lost a war to mass?

Anisa the Jurgensen war took place in.

Go ahead Africa.

Africa is correct.

And Rome, when the Battle of Zama over Carthage.

For your bonus.

What tall anvil shaped clout with the abbreviation CB may be called Thunderheads when they appeared during thunderstorm.

Cumulonimbus.

Cumulonimbus clouds are correct.

Next toss up question.

What's I base unit that prior to 2019 was defined in terms of the triple point of water is a unit of temperature that is equal to a degree Celsius.

Parkland.

Kelvin a Kelvin is correct for your bonus.

What boy who brings Doctor Livesey a map leading to Captain Flint's buried fortune, befriends Long John Silver as narrator of the novel Treasure Island.

Jack.

Jack.

Jack is incorrect.

It's Jim Hawkins is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What?

Two countries fought a four day conflict in May 2025 following a terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir, which go ahead park Pakistan in India, Pakistan, India is correct and it was condemned by Narendra modi for your bonus.

What U.S.

states national parks include Bryce Canyon, arches and Zion, Utah Utah is correct.

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

Well, it was an excellent match.

We almost ran out of questions.

We are on the very last page.

But dear, unfortunately not quite your day today.

Good luck with the rest of your school year of parkland.

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