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Hello and welcome to the first match of the second round of the 48th season of Scholastic Scrimmage.

I'm your host, David Graf.

Today's match between Catasauqua and Stroudsburg High Schools will be composed of two halves with a lightning round midway through each half.

And at halftime, we'll pause to get to know the students a little bit better.

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

And now let's begin, Buzzers ready?

We'll start with our first toss up.

In what country was the first post-junta President Fernando Collor de Mello?

Dilma Rousseff impeachment lead to the rise of Jair Bolsonaro?

- Stroudsburg, - Brazil?

That is correct.

For your bonus, in 1935, what organization was founded in Akron, Ohio, by William Griffith Wilson and Dr. Robert Holbrook Smith, who were known as Dr. Bob and Bill W?

CIO.

Incorrect.

Alcoholics Anonymous is the correct answer.

Next toss up.

What city in which Via Dolorosa ended at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher also contains the remains of the Second Temple at the Western Wall?

Stroudsburg.

- Berlin.

- Incorrect.

And Catasauqua?

No conferring to on this.

- No conferring.

- Pass.

All right.

Time.

Jerusalem is the correct answer.

Next toss up what constant defined as the ideal gas constant over Boltzmann's constant equals about 6.0 2 2 times ten to the 23rd.

And is the number of particles in a mole?

Stroudsburg Avogadro's number.

That is correct.

for your bonus, Eight Bird's Nests in a Man's Beard in a limerick by what English writer of nonsense poems who's referred to a runcible spoon in The Owl And The Pussycat?

Charles Dickens.

Incorrect.

Edward Lear is the correct answer.

Next toss up.

What American activist described her and Ellen Gates Starr's experiences founding a Chicago settlement house in her memoir.

20 Years at Hull House?

Laura Jane Addams is the correct answer.

Next toss up.

What country is home to the Copper Canyon or the Barrancas del Cobre, which is in the Sierra madre Occidental in its state of Chihuahua?

Stroudsburg?

- Mexico?

- That is correct.

For your bonus, what term for North American Aviation P 51 fighter planes was adopted by Ford in the 1960s for a series of rear wheel drive cars?

Oh, sorry.

That is it's a bonus for that.

- Mustang.

- That is correct.

And now for some reason, they're also using it with their electric SUVs.

Next, toss up, what quantity, which is the number of supporting rope sections for a block and tackle is the ratio of output force to input force for a machine?

That quantity is mechanical advantage.

Next toss up what title character who befriends Miss Spider after escaping his abusive aunts, Spiker and Sponge, appears in a Roald Dahl novel about a giant peach?

- Stroudsburg.

- James and the giant peach.

James is the character.

We need... Are we good with that?

Yes.

James or James Trotter is his full name.

For your bonus.

Felix Yusupov organized the murder of what Siberian mystic who gained influence at the court of Tsar Nicholas II through his supposed healing powers?

- Rasputin.

- That is correct.

Next toss up.

What rapper of the 2022 album 12 Carat Toothache featured Quavo on his song Congratulations Hit Number... - Post Malone, - Catasauqua?

- Post Malone - That is correct.

He hit number one with both Rock Star and Psycho.

For your bonus, The traveler Lemuel Gulliver is called a mountain man by the small people of what kingdom to which goes to war with its neighbor, Blefuscu?

The Blefuscu.

No answer.

The correct answer for that would be Lilliput.

Onto next toss up.

What particle has a mass of about ten to the -30 kilograms, flows from anode to cathode in a battery and carries an elementary negative charge?

Stroudsburg.

- Electron.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, Carl Woes divided organisms into three domains - archaea, bacteria and what domain, whose members have nuclei surrounded by envelopes?

- Protozoa.

- Incorrect.

Eukaryotes is the correct answer.

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

In a pre-match coin toss, it was determined that Stroudsburg, you'd get to pick from the following topics - literary dogs or Statuary Hall.

Statuary Hall.

Your topic, Statuary Hall, Stroudsburg name the state given its two honorees in the National Statuary Hall collection as of July 2022, Steven F Austin and Sam Houston, Texas.

Correct.

Junipero Serra and Ronald Reagan.

California.

Correct.

Father Damien and Kamehameha the first - Hawai'i.

- Correct.

TV Inventor Philo Farnsworth and Mormon leader Brigham Young.

- Utah.

- Correct.

John Winthrop and Samuel Adams.

- Massachusetts.

- Correct.

Senator Jacob Colmer and the Green Mountain Boys leader Ethan Allen.

- Vermont.

- Correct.

Confederates James Z. George and Jefferson Davis, - Virginia.

- Incorrect.

Robert M LaFollette Senior and a university namesake.

Namesake for Jack Marquette, - Wisconsin.

- Correct.

Lewis Cass and Gerald Ford, - Michigan.

- Correct.

Julius Morton and Chief Standing Bear who replaced William Jennings Bryan.

- Nebraska.

- Nebraska is correct.

Nice job, Stroudsburg.

Catasauqua.

That leaves you with literary dogs.

Literary dogs.

Name the literary works in which these dogs appear.

The kidnapped sled dog Buck.

Pass.

Bullseye, the vicious pet of Bill Sikes.

- Pass.

- The title rabid Saint Bernard from a Stephen King novel, - Pass.

- Argus, who dies after his master returns to Ithaca.

Pass a phosphorus-covered dog that Sherlock Holmes kills.

- Pass - Pilot, who belongs to Mr. Rochester.

- Pass.

- The Darling family's Newfoundland nurse, Nana.

Lady.

Incorrect Wellington, the title Poodle of a mark Haddon novel Pass Karenin, the dog of Thomas and Teresa in the Milan Kundera novel Pass the Ozark Hunting Dogs.

Old Dan and Little Anne Pass.

All right.

And that is the end of that lightning round.

We'll continue on with the match with the following toss up question.

What instrument, whose virtuosos include Rostropovich, Jacqueline Du Pre and Pablo Casal is the largest instrument in the string quartet?

Catasauqua?

Bass.

That is incorrect.

Stroudsburg, over to you.

- Cello.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, the surname of the president of Nintendo of America is coincidentally the name of what Nintendo villain, whose body is the setting of a 2009 Nintendo DS game?

- Bowser - That is correct, yes.

Mario's arch villain is Bowser and the president of Nintendo of America is Doug Bowser.

All right.

We'll move on with the following toss up.

What president introduced the Job Corps, Head Start, Medicaid and Medicare?

Stroudsburg.

- LBJ.

- That is correct.

Lyndon B Johnson.

For your bonus, in 2022, Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her Platinum Jubilee, which commemorated how many years since her ascension to the British throne?

70.

That is correct.

We'll move on with the next toss up.

What man who in a July 2022 speech claimed a new moral code was ascendant.

wrote that the majority opinion... wrote the majority opinion in the 2022 Dobbs case overturning Roe versus Wade.

Chief Justice Roberts.

Catasauqua?

- Chief Justice Roberts.

- That's incorrect.

Over to Stroudsburg.

Clarence Thomas.

- Incorrect.

Samuel Alito is the correct answer.

Next toss up.

What deity, who used a serpent to trick Ra into revealing his secret name, recovered and reassembled body parts belonging to her husband, Osiris?

Stroudsburg.

- Isis.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, which woman whose face launched 1000 ships did Aphrodite give Paris after Paris judged Aphrodite as the fairest?

Helen.

That is correct.

Helen of Troy.

Onto the next toss up.

What novel in which Curt may secretly be the son of the narrator, Oskar Nazareth, was written by Gunter Grass and titled for a percussion instrument?

The Tin Drum is the correct answer.

Next toss up.

What leader, the main target of the yellow vest protests, leads the En Marche party and has twice... - Macron - Catasauqua?

- Macron.

Emmanuel Macron is correct.

For your bonus, what South Carolina politician supported nullification while serving as vice president under John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson?

No answer or pass.

The correct answer is John C Calhoun.

Onto next toss up.

What condition included in the full name of the Glasgow scale can be medically induced after brain trauma and is a prolonged state... Catasauqua?

- Coma.

- That is correct.

And can be a prolonged state of unconsciousness.

For your bonus, what title character of the tragedy by Sophocles buries her brother Polyneses in defiance of Creon's order against it?

- Pass - Antigone is the correct answer.

Next toss up.

What character who is played by Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Laurence Fishburne in The Matrix films shares his name... Stroudsburg.

- Neo - Incorrect.

I'll continue on for Catasauqua.

Shares his name with a Greek.

- Morpheus?

- Yes, that is correct.

With the Greek God of dreams.

It's Morpheus.

For your bonus.

What state where the towns such as Hindman and Whitesburg were devastated by record flooding in 2022 is led by Andy Basheer.

That's time for that question.

Kentucky is a correct answer.

And with that, we've reached halftime.

Stroudsburg is leading with a score of 160 to Catasauqua's 25 points.

And now let's take a moment to get to know the students a little bit better.

Since Catasauqua had a bye in the first round, we'll have them say their first and last name and their grade level, and then we'll have all the students answer the following question - Is it easier for you to learn by reading, by listening, or by doing?

Lennon, Catasauqua?

Go ahead.

My name is Lennon Murray and I find it easier to learn by doing.

Okay.

Dillan.

I find it much easier just to learn by reading stuff.

First last name in grade level.

Oh, I'm Dillan McCarron, ninth grader.

I find it much easier to just read.

Kevin McCarron ninth grader.

I find it easier to read.

Okay.

Kalei Hudson.

I'm a sophomore and I like to learn by reading and doing.

Okay.

On to Stroudsburg.

I'm Harkirat Shohan.

I'm a senior at Stroudsburg High School and I find it easier to, to, - to learn by listening.

- Okay.

I'm Colin Hoffman.

I'm a senior at Stroudsburg High School, and I find it easier to learn by listening.

I'm Wyatt Christian, a junior at Stroudsburg High School, and I find it easier to learn by reading.

I'm Noah Dickerson, and I'm a senior, and I find it easier by listening.

- Oh, interesting.

I found it the same way, I thought it was always easier to learn by listening.

So a lot of times I would not be taking notes.

I took notes, got too confused, missed what was being said.

So listening always seemed to work for me.

All right.

And we continue on with the second half of the match with the following toss-up question.

What war for which Henry Kissinger first used shuttle diplomacy was fought by a coalition, including Egypt, against Israel, and began on a holy day?

Catasauqua?

- The Six Days War.

- That is incorrect.

Stroudsburg?

- The Yom Kippur War.

- Please buzz in.

- The Yom Kippur War.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, what devices, unlike sprockets, mesh directly together and can form a transmission that transmits torque when they interlock?

- Carson Craig.

- Incorrect.

I guess no one drives a manual car anymore.

It's gears.

Next toss-up.

What poet wrote about his marriage in the sonnet cycle Amoretti, and depicted the Redcrosse Knight in an epic honoring Elizabeth I, The Faerie Queen?

Edmund Spenser is the correct answer.

Next toss-up, what regular polygon has interior angles equal to 108 degrees, comprises the faces of a regular dodecahedron, and has five equal sides?

-Stroudsburg?

- A Pentagon.

-That is correct.

And for your bonus, what woman served for less than five months in 1993 as the only female prime minister of Canada after the resignation of Brian Mulroney?

Kim Campbell is the correct answer.

Next toss-up, what businessman who was replaced by Andy Jassy as his company's CEO went to space in 2021?

Catasauqua?

- Jeff Bezos.

- That's correct.

He went to space on a Blue Origin rocket.

For your bonus, what choreographer, whose namesake technique is based on the opposition of contraction and release, collaborated with Aaron Copeland on the ballet Appalachian Spring?

- No answer.

Pass.

- Martha Graham is the correct answer.

Next, toss-up, what meat, the main ingredient in haggis and traditional Greek moussaka, is often served on a rack of chops and is called mutton when mature?

Stroudsburg?

- Lamb.

- That is correct, for your bonus, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Oliver Wendell Holmes belonged to what group of 19th-century American poets whose name refers to the part of the home?

- Transcendentalists?

- Nope.

They're known as fireside poets.

Next toss-up, what conspiracy whose members were captured at Holbeach house saw Robert Catesby fail to assassinate James I after the arrest of Guy Fawkes?

- Stroudsburg?

- The Gunpowder Plot.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, Owen Grady and Claire Dearing rescue dinosaurs from a volcanic eruption in what 2018 sequel to the film Jurassic World?

- Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.

- That is correct.

Next toss-up, the Great White Spot is a storm on what planet which is orbited by the moons...Catasauqua?

- Jupiter.

- Incorrect, I'll continue for Stroudsburg, which is orbited by the moons Tethys, Enceladus, and has a low-density and an extensive ring system?

- Uranus.

- That's incorrect.

Saturn is the correct answer.

Next toss-up, what situation with correspondence to their Hirschfindal-Hirschman Index...

Excuse me, for the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index of 10,000, is opposed by antitrust laws and occurs in markets with only one seller?

Catasauqua?

- Monopolies?

- That is correct.

For your bonus, half of the 2021 Physics Nobel Prize went to Klaus Hasselmann and Syukuro Manabe for their works on what process, illustrated by the hockey stick graph?

- Pass.

- The correct answer is global warming.

Next toss-up, what author who wrote about an attack on Greenwich Observatory in the Secret agent depicted ivory trader Kurtz in Heart of Darkness?

Joseph Conrad is the correct answer.

And we have reached the second lightning round of the match.

Catasauqua, you'll get to pick from the following topics.

Olympic Athletes, or Keys?

- Olympic Athletes.

- Okay, that means Stroudsburg, you'll have keys as your topic.

Catasauqua, Olympic Athletes.

Name the sport played by these athletes.

And we're looking as the sport such as rowing, not the specific event within the sport.

Simone Biles - Gymnastics.

- Gymnastics.

- Correct.

Michael Phelps - Swimming.

Correct.

Naomi Osaka.

- Tennis.

- Correct.

Usain Bolt.

- Running.

- Incorrect.

We will accept running.

Kevin Durant?

- Basketball.

- Basketball.

- Yes, correct.

Muhammad Ali.

Boxing.

- Correct.

Chloe Kim.

- Snowboarding.

Correct.

Megan Rapinoe.

- Soccer.

- Correct.

Martin Brodeur.

- Pass.

- Greg Louganis.

- Pass.

- And that's the end of your questions.

Greg Louganis was well-known men's diver, he competed in diving.

Stroudsburg.

Keys.

Answer the following about keys.

Either of two computer keys held down to capitalize letters.

- Caps lock.

- Correct.

A master key that unlocks any door in a house.

- Pass.

- Symbol on a musical staff whose name means key in French.

- Pound symbol?

- Incorrect.

National anthem written by Francis Scott Key.

- Star-Spangled Banner.

- Correct.

Obstructions in a lock that interfere with a key, or the interface with the key.

- Pass.

- State known as the Keystone State.

- Pennsylvania.

- Correct.

- Color that is called key in CMYK printing.

- Yellow.

- Incorrect Branch of computer science dealing with keys, encoding, and authentication.

- Pass.

- Three-letter word for a small device held near an electronic lock to unlock it.

- A key.

- Incorrect.

Country whose flag depicts two key... And that's time.

The last one was country whose flag depicts two keys in its right half.

Any ideas on that one?

- Vatican?

- That is correct.

But unfortunately, past the time.

- Phantom points.

- That's it, just the nerd cred on that one.

All right, we'll continue on with the final quarter of the match with the following toss-up question.

Weevils belong to what order?

The largest of all animal orders, which contain insects with hardened forewings, such as scarabs and ladybugs?

- Stroudsburg?

- Beetles.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, Moon and Half Dome is a photograph by what American photographer known for his portraits of Yosemite National Park and the American West?

I'm sure you've seen them.

Ansel Adams is the correct answer.

Next toss-up, what African country whose flag features a soapstone bird sacred to the Shona people, was formerly called Rhodesia and is governed from...?

-Stroudsburg.

- Zimbabwe.

- That is correct.

And what's its capital, for the nerd cred on that?

- Don't know.

- Harare.

- Would've been the end of that question.

For your bonus, in the Bible, what grandfather of Noah lived for a record 969 years?

- Abraham?

- Methuselah is the correct answer.

Next toss-up, what painter who worked from his Chateau de Giverny, painted a picture of a sunrise that provided the name of the Impressionist movement?

Claude Monet is the correct answer.

Next toss-up, what ruler who succeeded his father, Sin-Muballit, mutually was an 18th century BC ruler of Babylon, who formalized an eye for an eye in his namesake...?

Stroudsburg?

- Hammurabi.

-That's correct.

His namesake law code.

For your bonus, a settlement at Port Phillip Bay eventually became Melbourne, the capital and most populous city of what Australian state?

This is a bonus for Stroudsburg.

- Victoria?

- That is correct.

Right, Catasauqua, next toss-up.

Here we go.

What author wrote about a man who walks with his dog Wolf into the Catskills and sleeps through the American Revolution, in his story Rip Van Winkle?

Catasauqua?

- Hemingway?

- Incorrect.

Stroudsburg?

- Longfellow?

No, time is up.

Washington Irving is the correct answer.

The next toss-up is in math.

Pencil and paper ready?

What quotient results when the binomial 8x cubed plus 12x squared is divided by 4x?

Catasauqua?

- 2x + 3x?

That is incorrect.

Stroudsburg, no conferring.

It is a toss-up.

Sorry, you're beyond time, but did you know it?

4X to the fourth?

No, it's 2x squared + 3x.

It's the correct answer.

All right.

Onto the next toss-up.

What European state won the Seven Weeks War with Austria in 1866 and arranged the publications...Stroudsburg?

- Prussia.

- That is correct.

Of the EMS dispatched to start the 1870s war with France.

For your bonus, Rudyard Kipling described "the great gray-green, greasy Limpopo River" in the Elephant's Child, a tale from what collection of explanatory fables?

- Jungle Book.

- Incorrect.

Just So Stories For Little Children is the correct answer.

Next toss-up, what character's death is foreshadowed by his crewman Fadela, who accompanies the commander of the Pequod in his hunt for the title whale in Moby...?

Stroudsburg.

- Ahab.

Captain Ahab.

- Yeah, we'll take that.

Captain Ahab is a correct answer.

For your bonus, in 2022, lack of precipitation in the Alps reduced the flow of what longest river in Italy, causing seawater to flow back into it?

- The Bow River.

- That is incorrect.

It's the Po River.

Next toss-up is in math, pencil and paper ready.

What remainder is left when 80 is divided by 11?

Catasauqua?

- Three?

That is correct.

For your bonus, the pre-agricultural settlement of Gobekli Tepe is in what present-day country where the excavation of the historic site found the ruins of Troy?

- Turkey?

- Go ahead, tell your captain.

- Turkey.

- Turkey is the correct answer.

And that is time, unfortunately, Catasauqua, with 85 points, that's the end of the road.

Good luck with the rest of the school year.

Stroudsburg, congratulations, with 280 points, you are on to the third round, and thank you for tuning in.

We will see you next week when Wilson faces off against Palmerton.