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Hello and welcome to the seventh match of 50 Season of Scholastic Scrimmage.

I'm your host, David Graff.

Today's match is between Pleasant Valley High School and Northern Lehigh High School.

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

The positive students can introduce themselves.

We'll get to know them a little bit better.

As a reminder, Scholastic Scrimmage requires rapid recall of specific factual information.

That's not necessarily indicative of academic training.

And now let's begin with our first toss up question.

What show in which Michael suicide leads his brother to inherit a business called The Original Beef, depicts Jeremy Alan White as a zealous peasant.

Pleasant Valley the bear.

The bear is correct, and he portrays a zealous chef in that show for your bonus.

Some myths claim that the Egyptian god Horus was the son of what goddess?

The sister wife of Osiris.

ISIS.

ISIS is correct.

The next toss up is in math pencil and paper.

Ready?

How many different ranks are in a standard 52 card deck?

Given each suit has the exact same rank and there are four suits.

North.

Northern.

Lehigh 16.

That's incorrect.

Over the Pleasant Valley.

Pleasant valley.

Go ahead.

13.

13 is correct for your bonus.

What punctuation mark is used to terminate statements in many programing languages, such as Java and C?

Slash.

That is incorrect.

Semicolon is a correct answer.

Next tossup.

What country?

Where an art museum contains the headless.

Winged Victory of Samothrace features sculptures celebrating victory on the arc de Triomphe.

Pleasant Valley.

France.

France is correct for your bonus.

What surname was shared by Virgil, Morgan and Wyatt?

Three lawmen who killed cowboys during the shootout at the okay corral in 1881.

Herb Earp is correct.

Next toss up question.

What country is home to Lake?

But cash is the world's largest landlocked country by area in the world.

North.

Northern.

Lehigh.

Kazakhstan.

Kazakhstan is correct and is governed from Astana.

For your bonus in July 2023.

What EU countries government led since 2010 by Mark Ruther, resigned and called for early elections amid a dispute over migrant policies.

In Italy.

That is incorrect.

The Netherlands is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What celestial body, whose geographical history includes the Nonaka period, is orbited by the Moon's demos and Phobos, and is called Pleasant Valley.

Mars.

Mars is correct.

And it's called the Red planet.

For your bonus.

A line drawn through the Rigel and Beetlejuice in Orion will point to what Zodiac constellations?

Two brightest stars, Castor and Pollux.

Gemini.

Gemini is correct.

Next tossup question.

In September 2014, a court in what country gave a life sentence to Ilham Tohti, a Uyghur economics professor, for promoting separatism in Xinjiang.

Pleasant Valley, China.

China is correct.

For your bonus, Ray Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451 depicts firemen whose job is to destroy what objects books.

Books is correct.

Next toss up question.

What playwright who based a character from his play After the Fall on his ex-wife Marilyn Monroe, wrote death of a Salesman and The Crucible.

Arthur Miller is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What prime minister signed the Lateran Treaty, recognizing Vatican City is independent and allied with Germany as the fascist dictator of Italy.

Northern Lehigh.

Mussolini.

Mussolini is correct.

For your bonus, what 17th century physicist proved that the power series with the term x to the n over n factorial converged.

Isaac Newton.

Isaac Newton is correct.

Next toss up question or process which is governed by fixes laws, is called osmosis.

When it involves water.

Pleasant Valley diffusion.

Diffusion is correct.

For your bonus, two guitars appear behind a Spanish dancer in El Halo, a painting by what American born artist who painted Portrait of Madame X. Frida Kahlo.

That's incorrect.

She's a Mexican artist.

This American artist is John Singer Sargent's.

Next tossup question.

What Austrian composer who depicted a hurdy gurdy player and a linden tree in Vienna?

Teresa left his two movement Eighth Symphony unfinished, called the Lehigh.

Mozart.

That's incorrect.

Over the Pleasant Valley.

No conferring, but it is a freebie.

Go ahead.

Buck.

That's also incorrect.

Franz Schubert is the correct answer.

But worth a try.

You know, like we say.

Give it a guess.

It was a freebie.

When it goes over to the other team.

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

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

French science or short stories.

Short story.

Short stories.

Short stories.

It is pleasant Valley.

Your topic is short stories.

Name the authors of these short stories.

The lottery.

Past.

Young Goodman Brown.

Pass the fall.

The House of usher.

Pass.

Rip van Winkle.

Pass.

The gift of the Magi.

Pass.

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.

Pass.

A good man is hard to find.

Pass to build a fire.

Pass.

The Yellow Wallpaper.

Pass.

Interpreter of maladies.

Pass.

All right.

Want to check in on our short stories?

Pleasant Valley.

Northern lehigh.

Your topic is French science.

Identify these things named after French scientists.

See unit of current.

Abbreviated a.

If we don't know, you could pass.

Pass.

Heating process used to kill bacteria in food.

Pasteurization.

Yeah.

We'll take that.

Pasteur.

Or pasteurization.

Force arising from Earth's rotation.

Magnification.

That's incorrect.

Law governing the force between two point charges.

Pass.

Triangle diagram.

Whose fourth row is 1331.

Do you know?

Anybody could say it.

You know it.

Oh, just say it.

If you know it, I know.

I don't know.

Pascal.

That is correct.

Plane used in analytic geometry.

20 past prime numbers equal to a power of two minus one.

All right.

That is the end of the first lightning round.

We'll continue on with the following tossup question.

What play?

Whose second act occurs in the garden of a Woolton manor house, ends with Jack Worthing realizing the title phrase, and is by Oscar Wilde.

The Lehigh.

The Importance of being earnest.

That is correct.

For your bonus, what 1963 Supreme Court case concerning a man who broke into a pool hall held that a defendant has the right to be provided with legal counsel.

To pass that case is Gideon versus Wainwright.

Next toss up question.

What state?

Whose?

Amendment four in franchises enfranchised felons in 2018, was severely affected by Hurricane Ivan in 2022 and is led by Governor Ron DeSantis.

Pleasant Valley, Florida.

Florida is correct.

For your bonus, the Balboa and the U.S. dollar are the official currencies of what Central American country?

Who contains the northern part of the Darien Gap?

Panama.

Panama is correct.

Next toss up question.

What man who is the namesake of the radius between the proton and electron in hydrogen, was a Danish physicist who names a 1913 model of the atom.

Pleasant valley.

Niels Bohr.

Niels Bohr is correct for your bonus.

What economist is the namesake of a curve that links tax rates and revenue, which was reportedly drawn on a cocktail napkin?

Laffer.

Arthur Laffer is correct.

Next toss up question.

What author whose gay love story Maurice was only published posthumously, wrote about Lucy honey church's trip to Florence in a room with a view.

E.M. Forster is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What singer's manager, Colonel Tom Parker, encouraged him.

Plus valley Elvis Presley.

Elvis Presley is correct, and he had hits like The Heartbreak Hotel and Jailhouse Rock.

For your bonus, Commodus was the son of what Roman emperor and the author of stoic philosophical treaties, meditations.

Who was the last of the Five Good emperors?

Marcus Aurelius.

Marcus Aurelius is correct.

Next toss up question.

What king issued the Edict of Fontaine Blue?

Suppress the fond revolts greatly expanded the Palace of Versailles, and was called the Sun King.

Pleasant valley.

Louis the 14th.

Louis the 14th is correct for your bonus.

A rabbit named fiver foretells the destruction of the Sandyford Warrant at the beginning of what?

Novel by Richard Adams.

Watership down.

Watership Down is correct.

Next toss up question.

What novel in which Father Pamela's death is recorded as a pleasant valley.

The Plague by Albert.

The plague is correct by Albert Comeau.

And for your bonus.

A Dutch astronomer proposed the existence.

Of what?

Cloud of icy planetesimals surrounding the sun.

Thought to be a source of long period comets.

Pass at the Oort cloud.

And with that, we have reached half time.

Let's take a minute for the students to get to know each other by introducing themselves with their first and last name grade level.

And the answer to the following question.

What is your favorite innovation from the last 50 years?

We start with Keegan at Pleasant Valley.

Keegan Martin 11th.

Modern medicine.

Okay.

Capo 12th.

Rock chips.

Merge into 12th also.

Space technology.

Noah Dolan 12.

The app Uber.

Uber.

I travel a lot.

Uber saves me in many cases.

So it is an amazing app.

Although fun fact in some countries like in Denmark, the union that has the taxi drivers actually got together and banded against it.

So you still to get into Penn Taxis?

Uber is illegal in Denmark.

All right.

We here in Northern Lehigh and Seth.

Go ahead Seth Schaffer.

12 be all.

Okay.

Taylor.

Eric 11th Crispr mechanical 11th 3D printers.

Madeline.

Hu sac 10th.

The V ten engine.

All right.

Very cool.

Now we continue on with the second half of the match for the following tossup question.

And it's in math, so pencil on paper.

Ready.

What is the what integer is equal to 55% of 120.

Given that 55% can be rewritten as the fraction 11/20.

That's the time.

The answer is 66.

Next tossup question.

What man who, in a 1946 New Year's Day speech, formally renounced his divinity rule during the Showa era and was emperor of Japan.

Pleasant valley.

Hirohito Hirohito is correct.

He was Emperor of Japan during World War II, two for your bonus.

Abraham Lincoln was assassinated while watching our American cousin at what?

Washington, D.C. theater.

The Ford Theater.

The Ford Theater is correct.

Next tossup question.

What author who described hearing marital music while in his been field wrote about living deliberately in a cabin in the woods in his book Walden.

Positively Henry David Thoreau.

Henry David Thoreau is correct for your bonus.

What quantity named after a British physicist, which equals tensile stress over strain, is a modulus that characterizes the stiffness of a material.

Hooke's law.

Incorrect.

Young's modulus is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What country contains the avenue of the bobos is home to to the Malagasy people and is a large pleasant valley.

Madagascar.

That is correct.

It's a large island off the coast of southeastern Africa.

For your bonus, what composition by George Frideric Handel takes its name from the fact that it was written for a 1770 concert on the River Thames.

Pass.

The composition is water.

Music.

Dams full of water.

Next tossup question.

What regular polygon has nine diagonals?

Has the most sides of any regular polygon that can tile the plane, and has a 100 and has 120 degree internal angles.

Pleasant Valley.

A pentagon.

Say it again.

A pentagon.

A pentagon is incorrect over the Northern Lehigh.

Go ahead.

Northern Lehigh, an octagon.

That is also incorrect.

A hexagon is a correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What officer whose legacy was defended by his wife, Libby, after he died in battle in 1876, was crushed by Crazy Horse at the Battle of Little Bighorn.

Pleasant Valley.

Custer.

George Custer is correct for your bonus.

What center left British political party lost power during the Winter of discontent in 1979 and 1978.

The Labor party.

The Labor Party is correct.

Next toss up question.

What musician who wrote the jazz standard Billie's Bounce and co-wrote the song or anthology, was a bebop alto saxophonist nicknamed bird.

The correct answer is Charlie Parker.

Next, toss up what scientist who names a paradox about the absence of aliens in his namesake air is the namesake of a lab near Chicago, and was an Italian American nuclear physicist.

Pleasant Valley.

Fermi.

Enrico Fermi is correct for your bonus.

What August Wilson play, which ends with a disabled veteran, war veteran Gabriel, trying to blow his trumpet.

Focuses on former baseball star Troy Maxson.

Fences.

Fences is correct.

Next toss up question.

What poet wrote that love is so short, forgetting is so long.

And tonight I can write the saddest lines in his 20 love poems and a song of despair.

That poet is Pablo Neruda.

Next toss up question.

What process, whose very form uses bins of earthworms involves organic materials.

Decomposed valley.

Composting.

Composting is correct.

And the, they put the organic materials into, decompose and become nutrient rich.

Soil conditioner for bonus.

What 1964 resolution, named for a body of water, gave President Lyndon Johnson authority to send more troops to Vietnam without a declaration of war.

The Gulf of Tonkin.

The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution is correct.

Next tossup question.

In Greek myth, Ganymede was born in what city ruled by King Priam, whose sons Hector and Paris plot Greeks.

Pleasant valley.

Troy.

Troy is correct.

For your bonus, what French physicist gives his name to a wavelength equal to Planck's constant, divided by linear momentum, which is possessed by particles.

Past.

Louis de Broglie is the correct answer.

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

You'll get to pick between the following topics.

Airports or one?

One.

One.

It is.

Northern Lehigh.

Your topic is one.

Give these answers that contain either the word or numeral one.

Motorsport.

Whose drivers include Lewis Hamilton.

What series?

Mr. Miller won.

Formula one is correct.

1776ft tall New York skyscraper that replaced the Twin Towers.

World Trade Center.

That is incorrect.

2016 Star Wars film in which Jin and Colombian.

That is correct.

Microsoft Cloud Storage Server service.

Path.

Manga and anime in which Luffy leads the Straw Hat Pirates.

One piece.

That is correct.

Karen McManus novel about the Bayview for suspected of murdering Simon Dougherty.

Past boy band that sang Story of My Life.

One direction correct.

Ken Kesey novel in which in which psychiatric patient opposes.

Nurse Ratchet.

Past 2023 fighting game whose cameo fighters include Sub-Zero and Goro.

Mortal Kombat one.

That is correct.

Dimensionless quantity equal to the speed of sound.

At last one would be Mach one.

Pleasant Valley hopefully you've done a lot of traveling.

Your topic is airports.

What country is served by a major international airport named after these people?

Charles de Gaulle.

France.

Correct.

And anyone can say it.

Leonardo da Vinci.

Italy.

Correct.

Edward O'Hare.

Australia.

Incorrect.

Indira Gandhi.

India.

Correct.

Nikola.

Tesla.

You are.

Correct.

Friends list.

Germany.

Incorrect.

Lester B Pearson.

Australia.

Incorrect.

David Ben-Gurion.

Israel.

Correct.

Oliver.

Tambo.

South Africa.

That is correct.

Ninoy Aquino.

The Philippines.

Correct.

We continue on with the final quarter of the match with the following toss up question.

What disease whose a type results in an insufficient level of clotting factor eight can be cause can cause it sufferers to be unable to stop doing.

Pleasant Valley hemophilia.

Hemophilia is correct, and it causes them to be unable to stop bleeding.

For your bonus, what Pacific Island country earns about 10% of its revenue by leasing the internet domain name that ends in.tv.

W two.

Unfortunately is incorrect.

Tuvalu is the correct answer.

Sorry about that.

And Tuvalu is actually rapidly because of rising ocean may not exist very soon.

But this is part of the revenue next tossup question.

What politician who proposed high tariffs and a national bank in his American system, organized the Whig Party and was a senator from Kentucky.

Henry Clay senior is a correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What state is home to Devil's Post Pile National Monument?

Near the city of Mammoth Lakes and the Woods National Monument, north of San Francisco.

Pleasant Valley, California.

California is correct.

And for your bonus, what Native American chief who was killed in 1540 at the Battle of Moab?

Villa gives his name to a city that is home to the University of Alabama.

Pass.

Tuscaloosa is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What city were Devonte Mitchell was killed at a Hyatt hotel in July 2024.

Hosted the 2024 Republican National Convention and is in Pleasant Valley.

Milwaukee.

Milwaukee is correct and is located in Wisconsin.

For a bonus, what American filmmaker directed the 2019 film The Irishman and the 2023 film killers of the Flower Moon, both of which starred Robert De Niro.

Martin Scorsese Martin Scorsese is correct.

Next toss up question.

What country with a Tehran dentist led the in confidential Minera rebellion, declared its independence from Portugal under Don Pedro, the first pleasant Valley.

Brazil.

Brazil is correct.

And they declared independence in 1822.

For your bonus, John Martel's Life of Pi tells the story of an Indian boy who gets stranded with a tiger that has what relatively normal name.

Pi.

No, that is incorrect.

Richard Parker is the name of the tiger name.

Next tossup question.

In what 2002 film starring Tom cruise, do three clairvoyant humans called Precogs enable the Precrime program to stop murders before they happen.

The Lehigh Future of Tomorrow.

That's incorrect.

Over the Pleasant Valley.

No conferring.

Pleasant Valley.

Minority report is a correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What philosophical movements works include The Ethics of Ambiguity and Being and Nothingness, written respectively by Simone de Boulevard and John Paul Sartre.

Pleasant Valley.

Absurdism.

That's incorrect.

Over the Northern Lehigh.

Existentialism is the correct answer.

Next toss up.

What?

Ally of undress.

Carl, stand against John X in the Leipzig debate.

Was excommunicated by Pope Leo the 10th and critiqued indulgences in the 95 theses.

Pleasant Valley.

Martin Luther King Jr is correct.

And with that, we have reached the end of the match.

Northern Lehigh, you ran up against a tough opponent with Pleasant Valley, who reenters the tournament after many years out, winning with a score of 382.

Northern highs 55 through the Lehigh.

Good luck with the rest of your school year, Pleasant Valley.

We'll see you in the second round.

I thank you for watching.

We'll see you next week when suddenly high high school faces off against Penn Area High School.

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