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

I'm your host, David Graff.

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

The matter we composed of two halves with a lightning round midway through each half at halftime, will pause for students to introduce themselves, and we'll get to know them a little bit better.

As a reminder, scholastic treatment requires rapid recall, specific factual information, and is not necessarily indicative of academic training.

And now let's begin.

Buzzers.

Ready?

Here's our first toss up question.

What value, which is exceeded by tachyons is the same in all internal frames?

In special relativity, and is about 300,000,000m/s.

Parkland.

The speed of sound.

That is incorrect.

Over to Salisbury.

So no conferring, but it is a freebie.

Go ahead.

Salisbury.

Speed of light.

The speed of light is correct.

For your bonus.

What?

Six letter adjective describes a tumor?

That is not cancerous and typically does not metastasize.

Unlike a malignant tumor.

Any guesses?

Wrong.

No.

Correct answer is a benign tumor.

Next toss up question.

What Scotsman, who was found living in the village of oggi in 1871, was a missionary who was who went missing in Africa until Henry Stanley found him.

In.

That's David Livingstone, probably to quote Doctor Livingstone, I presume, when he found.

What's the next toss up question?

What composer wrote a piano concerto in D major for the one armed Paul Bekenstein, and utilized a Spanish dance form in his 1928 work Bolero.

That's Maurice Ravel.

Next toss up question what fundamental particles have three flavors called tao mu on an electron have less mass and a quark, and rarely interact with matter.

Go ahead.

Parkland a lepton.

That's incorrect.

Over to Salisbury.

Good.

Salisbury.

Alpha particle.

Also incorrect.

Neutrinos is the correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What kind of institution was Clement Noyce, whose inhabitants copied manuscripts on vellum and stayed confined out of devotion to the Catholic Church.

Parkland.

A monastery.

A monastery is correct for a bonus.

The islands of New Britain and New Ireland belong to what country?

Whose capital is Port Moresby?

Papua New Guinea.

Papua New Guinea is correct.

Next toss up question.

What sculptor who did not finish a series of prisoners he sculpted for Julius?

The second tomb showed Mary mourning her dead son in the sculpture Pieta.

Michelangelo.

It's the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What fluid, which is overproduced and relatively dilute in people with diabetes insipidus, is a waste product.

Go ahead.

Parkland.

Urine.

Urine is correct.

It's a waste product commonly stored in a human's bladder.

For your bonus, what native American chief who fought in the U.S.

in an 1832 war to Abraham Lincoln, participated in names a kind of American military helicopter.

Apache.

That is incorrect.

Black Hawk is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What group started the free breakfast for children program, and was founded in Oklahoma by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale to promote black nationalism.

Go ahead.

Parkland.

The NAACP.

That is incorrect.

Over to Salisbury.

Go ahead.

Salisbury.

Black panther party.

Black Panther Party is correct.

For your bonus, Euclid's algorithm is used to calculate what quantities for which two numbers is is the product of the numbers over their least common multiples?

And prime numbers.

That is incorrect.

Greatest common factors.

This answer we're looking for.

Next tossup question.

What novel in which drunkard Hindley tries to obstruct the stormy romance between Catherine Earnshaw and Heath Cliff was written.

Go ahead.

Parkland.

Wuthering Heights.

That is correct.

It was written by Emily.

Bronte.

It's just.

Just for extra credit on that one for your bonus.

What?

Austrian composer used a Frederick Clop stock poem in his Resurrection Symphony, which followed his Titan Symphony.

Oh, let's.

That's incorrect.

Gustav Mahler.

It's a correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What class of compounds whose phosphate types form the primary structure of cell membranes or water?

Go ahead.

Parkland.

Lipids.

Lipids is correct in their water insoluble compounds that include oil and fats.

For a bonus, during the American Revolution, what militia group, led by Ethan Allen, worked with Benedict Arnold to capture Fort Ticonderoga.

Green mountain boys.

The Green Mountain Boys is correct.

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

At a pre-match coin toss, it was determined that parkland would get to pick between the following topics.

Micro terms or ends in I u m do it.

Ends in AUM.

Ends in AUM.

It is parkland.

Your topic is ends in.

I give give these words the end in the consecutive letters I use tank or exhibit for fish.

Aquarium.

Correct drug that names two 19th century Chinese wars.

Opium.

Correct.

A speakers platform.

Let, podium.

Podium.

Correct.

Valves.

Brass instruments slightly larger than the baritone.

Euphonium.

Correct.

Chaos for a city in John Milton's depiction of hell.

Pandemonium.

Correct.

Hospital treating mental health or infectious diseases?

Sorry.

Pass delay or suspension of policy, such as?

Of the death moratorium.

Correct.

A large store such as Mr.

McGorry in a 2018.

A 2007 emporium.

That's correct.

Cash payment to a guest speaker.

Pass glass walled room in a house.

Atrium.

Incorrect.

That's a solarium.

Okay, over to Salisbury.

Micro terms is your topic.

Give these answers that start with the prefix micro oven that uses electromagnetic microwave.

Correct.

Tech company behind the windows OS.

Microsoft.

Correct.

Device singers hold to their face.

Microphone.

Correct.

Lab device that makes small objects.

Marco.

Correct.

Generic term for tiny living beings.

Microscopic.

No.

That's incorrect.

Term for a person who is overly controlling of small parts of a project.

Micromanager.

Correct.

Social media with short posts such as Twitter.

Pass medical condition involving a smaller than usual head.

Pass.

Common prefixed AC unit for capacitance.

Yes.

Pass.

Small place that is representative of a wider area.

That's a microcosm of that last one.

Okay.

We'll continue on with the following tossup question.

What country were the ship Nclh Sultan crashed into a garden in 2025?

Is where the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded at Oslo City Hall.

Go ahead.

Parkland.

Norway.

Norway is correct for your bonus.

In 1880, John Philip Sousa was named director of the band.

For what branch of the military whose official march is titled Semper Fidelis in the Marine Corps.

United States Marine Corps is correct.

On to the next toss up.

What island, which contains the Buddhist temple of Borobudur, is the world's most populous island and is home to in parkland, Java.

Java is correct, and it's home to Indonesia's capital of Jakarta.

For your bonus, Trump buoy was popularized during what period of art, which flourished in the 17th century and is exemplified by the works of Caravaggio.

Realism.

Realism.

Incorrect.

The Baroque period is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What team, whose pitchers included the National League starter in the 2024 and 2025 All-Star games, Paul Skins plays.

Happy.

Go ahead, Salisbury Pirates.

Say it again.

Pirates.

Yes.

Pittsburgh Pirates is correct.

They play at PNC Park in western Pennsylvania.

For your bonus.

Cherry red skin can occur as a result of poisoning from prolonged exposure.

To what?

Diatomic gas that's in auto exhaust, which bonds strongly to hemoglobin.

Nitrogen.

That is incorrect.

Carbon monoxide is the correct answer.

The next house of question is in math.

Pencil and paper.

Ready?

What?

Some results from adding every even integer from 10 to 16 inclusive.

Given that there are four such numbers to add up.

Go ahead.

Parkland 5252 is correct, and for those playing at home, it's ten, 12, 14 and 16 for bonus.

Miguel de Cervantes was wounded in, what, 1571 battle at which the Holy League's fleet defeated the Ottoman Empire.

In the Fourth Crusade.

That's incorrect.

The Battle of Lepanto is the correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What novel, which ends with a description of a lady in rain clouds, centers on Henry Fleming's experience in the Civil War, and is by Stephen Crane.

Parkland.

The Red Badge of Courage.

The Red Badge of Courage is correct for your bonus in September 2023.

What nation sees the disrupted Nagorno-Karabakh region from our media and displace thousands of its residents?

Azerbaijan.

Azerbaijan is correct.

Next toss up question in what country did the 1986 People's Power Revolution, led by Corazon Lucchino, oust longtime dictator Ferdinand Marcos for power?

Go ahead.

Parkland.

The Philippines.

The Philippines is correct.

And they were seizing power in Manila, capital Philippines for your bonus.

What city in southern India, the country's third most populous, is known as India's Silicon Valley and is home to a large software industry.

Just again, defer to Ken.

So again, I throw a pin.

That's incorrect.

Bangalore is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

Japanese Kanako is what kind of foodstuff that is mixed with butter to create a roux, and is made by grinding grains like wheat into a fine powder.

Oh.

No cooks on the stage.

It's flour.

That's what we're asking for.

Next tossup question.

What poet gave agricultural advice in his Georgia Oaks, and wrote about a Trojan hero who becomes the ancestor of the Romans in his epic poem The Aeneid.

Go ahead.

Parkland.

Virgil.

Virgil is correct.

And for your bonus, what English bemused had we but world enough and time in his carpe diem poem to his coy mistress.

John John Donne.

That's incorrect.

The correct answer is Andrew Marvell.

And with that, we have reached halftime, though let's take a moment for the students to introduce themselves by saying their first and last name, their grade level, and the answer to the following question of a book that was or could be a short story or poem that was assigned to you in school.

Which one is your favorite?

We start with parkland.

Ken.

Go ahead.

My name is Ken Zhang.

I'm a junior in high school, and my favorite book is Fahrenheit 451.

Okay.

Sophia Hamid, 11th grade, The Great Gatsby.

My name is Sam Palumbo.

I'm a senior, and my favorite book is light in the forest.

Okay.

Eric, your.

10th grade at Parkland High School.

And my favorite book would probably be The Killer Angels.

All right.

Salisbury.

Emerson.

Go ahead.

Emerson, you host 12th grade, and my favorite book was Things Fall Apart.

Okay.

Riley Nemetz 12th grade and Silent Spring.

Okay.

John Nemetz 10th grade.

And my favorite book was The Crucible.

Rachel McKelvie 10th grade.

My favorite book was also The Crucible.

Okay, so Sophie with Fahrenheit 451.

That was a question last week's show.

So you just mystify.

We can.

Okay.

We'll continue on with the second half of the match for the following toss question.

What event in which a naval quarantine was imposed by John F Kennedy began in 1962.

Go ahead.

Salisbury.

Cuban missile crisis.

The Cuban missile Crisis is correct.

And it's after we discovered nuclear weapons on a Caribbean island.

For your bonus, in 2022, an image was released of a black hole at the Milky Way center, which lies in what zodiac?

A constellation.

Aries.

Incorrect.

Sagittarius is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What alliance, established through the outlines of the 1992 Maastricht Treaty, has a parliament that meets in Strasbourg.

Parking.

Go ahead.

The European Union.

That is correct.

They meet in Strasbourg and Brussels for your bonus.

In what province did John Wilson's Liberal government become a so-called quiet Revolution in the 1960s?

Promoting secularism and nationalism?

Yes, Quebec is the correct answer.

Next tossup question what CEO, who named Greg Abel as his successor in 2025, lives in a five bedroom house in Omaha and is the longtime head.

Pokemon.

Go ahead.

Warren Buffett Warren Buffett is correct.

He's a long time head of Berkshire Hathaway.

For your bonus, what philosopher argued that woman is made not born?

In her book The Second Sex.

Gilman.

That's incorrect.

Simone de Beauvoir is the correct answer.

Next toss up question what type of polygon is subject to Pascal's theorem?

When inscribed in a conic, has internal angles that sum up to 720 degrees and has six sides.

Parkland.

Go ahead.

Hexagon A hexagon is correct for bonus at room temperature and atmospheric pressure.

Dry ice undergoes what phase transition going directly from solid to a gas.

Sublimation.

Sublimation.

Sublimation is correct.

Next tossup question what director depicted UFOs arriving at Devil's Tower in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and directed a film about a killer shark titled Jaws Salisbury.

Steven Spielberg Steven Spielberg is correct for your bonus.

During Operation Dynamo, several hundred boats evacuated hundreds of thousands of Allied soldiers from the beaches of what French harbor?

Dunkirk.

Dunkirk is correct.

Next toss up question.

What African country once adopted the policy of Ujamaa under Julius Nyerere and was created in 1960 for unification of the Tanganyika and Zanzibar.

Go ahead.

Zimbabwe.

That's incorrect.

Go ahead.

Kenya.

That's incorrect.

The correct answer is Tanzania.

Onto the next tossup question.

What country is home to the historic Mission San Juan Capistrano?

And the city of Anaheim is south of Los Angeles.

Go ahead.

Parkland of the United States of America.

That is incorrect.

I'll continue for Salisbury and his.

Named for a fruit.

Go ahead, Orange County.

Orange County is correct for your bonuses in math.

Pencil and paper.

Ready?

What is the minimum whole number of school busses needed for a 200 student field trip?

If each bus can hold 28 students.

Eight.

That is correct.

It's school busses.

Next tossup question.

What country is both is the setting of both Giacomo Puccini's opera tornado and an opera by John Adams, based on a 1972 visit to it by Richard Nixon.

Parkland.

China.

China is correct for your bonus.

As of June 2025, Walmart and Amazon are the top two entries in the list of 500 largest U.S.

corporations, compiled by what magazine Forbes.

That is incorrect.

The correct answer is Fortune magazine.

That was a good guess for Blake.

You're not.

You're not that far off.

It's a good guess.

Okay.

With that, we've reached the second lightning round Salisbury.

You'll get to pick between the following topics.

Ancient cities or pass or play.

Quickly, Riley.

Pass or play?

Pass or play?

It is Salisbury.

Your topic is pass or play.

Give these answers that include either the word pass or the word play.

No answers will contain both.

Sony line of video game consoles.

PlayStation.

Correct.

Jewish holiday commemorating the Exodus.

Passover.

Correct.

Umpire's traditional two word cry to start a baseball game.

Play ball.

Correct.

Type of surgery that connects unrelated blood vessels.

Bypass.

Correct.

To blame someone else or shift responsibility.

Pass.

First Ernest Cline novel about Wade Watts.

Pass, section of the Silk Road connecting Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Pass.

Childhood modeling putty that can be used in a fun factory.

Correct.

Score ranging from 0 to 158.3 for NFL quarterbacks.

Passing yards.

That's incorrect.

A horror movie franchise about the doll Chucky.

We're taping this episode right before the Halloween season.

It would be child's play.

You might see Child's Play on TV.

Okay.

Parkland.

Ancient cities is your topic.

Name these cities from the classical Mediterranean world.

Pericles commissioned.

It's Parthenon.

Athens.

Correct.

Capital of an empire that fought Rome in the Punic Wars.

Carthage.

Say it again.

Carthage.

Correct.

Ptolemaic pharaohs built its enormous library.

Alexandria.

Correct.

Capital of the Byzantine Empire.

Noble.

Correct.

City that led to both to Boeotian League and had a sacred band.

Pass.

Winner of the Peloponnesian War, known for its strict Sparta.

Correct.

Where Octavian and Antony led the final defeat of Julius Caesar's assassins.

Rome.

Incorrect.

Alexander the Great built it still existing causeway.

Alexandria.

That's incorrect.

Provincial economic center.

Sacked in Boudica's revolt in AD 60%.

A city whose mausoleum was a wonder of the ancient world.

Babylon.

Incorrect.

Halicarnassus was the answer to the last one.

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

It's in math, so pencil and paper ready?

What is the value of the 100 thousandths digit of pi?

Given that it's the fifth digit after the decimal point?

Go ahead Parkman.

Nine nine is correct.

And of course, you know Pi begins 314159 for your bonus.

What Republican served as vice president under George W Bush?

Dick Cheney?

Dick Cheney is correct.

Next toss up question.

What character asks for drawings of a muzzle and a sheep and uproots bamboo trees on his home?

Asteroid.

In a book by Antoine de Sant.

Go ahead.

The little prince the little prince is correct for your bonus.

Closing time at a bar is announced with the words.

Hurry up please.

It's time.

In what T.S.

Eliot Poems section.

A Game of chess.

The waste.

The wayside.

The wasteland.

The wasteland.

The wasteland is correct.

Next tossup question.

What country?

Whose cuisine includes dishes like khachapuri, was once led by Edward Schiff.

Anita in the Black Sea and is governed from Tbilisi great parkland.

Turkey that is incorrect and is governed from Tbilisi.

Go ahead.

Cyprus.

Also incorrect.

Georgia is the correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What technique often used to produce hydrogen and oxygen gas?

From what?

Go ahead.

Parkland.

Electrolysis.

Electrolysis is correct.

And it produces it from water drives.

An unfavorable chemical reaction using an electric current.

For bonus.

Mauna Loa exemplifies what kind of volcano, which is characterized by broad, gentle slopes formed by low viscosity lava flows.

Shield A shield volcano is correct.

Next tossup question.

What novel?

Whose narrator causes an explosion in the Liberty Paints factory and is expelled from an all black college, was written by Ralph Ellison.

Parkland.

Invisible man.

Invisible man is correct.

For your bonus.

What science fiction author imagines Lagash as a planet, or a planet that is illuminated by the light of six suns?

In his 1941 story nightfall.

Isaac Asimov.

Isaac Asimov Isaac Asimov is correct.

Next tossup question.

In what state did Union ships pass Fort Jackson and Saint Philip to enter the Mississippi River and seas?

The most populous southern city.

Quite.

Parkland.

Louisiana.

Louisiana is correct.

They were seizing New Orleans.

New Orleans is correct.

Also for bonus.

What beautiful mortal from Greek mythology bled to death in Aphrodite's arms after getting injured by a boar during a hunting trip.

That pass.

Adonis is the correct answer.

Next tossup question.

X-ray diffraction is used to characterize what solid materials with long range order whose liquid forms are utilized in displays, known as LCDs.

Go ahead.

Parkland.

Crystals.

Crystals is correct.

For your bonus, there are two answers required.

In 1829, what?

Two schools first met in their annual Boat Race rowing contest that is on the Thames in London.

Oxford and Cambridge.

Oxford and Cambridge is correct.

Next tossup question.

What mountain range, which contains the source of the Rhone River, is home to the Matterhorn and Mount Bock.

Go ahead.

Sparkling up the Alps.

The Alps is correct and stretches across the country of Switzerland.

For your bonus, what country is home to Wally Show Yinka, the playwright who wrote The Lion and the Jewel and death and the King's Horseman.

That home country is Nigeria.

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

Parkland.

Great work with 350 points.

We will see you in the second round.

Salisbury ran up against a tough opponent.

Thank you for coming and enjoy the rest of your school year.

And thank you for watching.

We'll see you next week.

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