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Now here's your host, David Graf.

- Hello and welcome to the fourth and final match of the third round of the 49th season of Scholastic Scrimmage.

I'm your host, David Graf.

Today's match between Saucon Valley and Moravian Academy will be composed of two halves with a lightning round, midway through each half.

At half-time, we pause, so the students can introduce themselves and we get to know them better.

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

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

What landmark was the goal of the Kainan Maru and Terra Nova expeditions, though it was reached shortly before by a party under Raul Amundsen?

Saucon Valley.

- The South Pole.

- The South Pole is correct.

For your bonus, what Italian author wrote about the creation of false documents in his novel The Prague Cemetery and Foucault's Pendulum?

- Machiavelli.

- That is incorrect.

Umberto Eco is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question.

What island, which is home to El Yunque National Forest, is west of Vieques and is the main island of a US territory governed from... Moravian.

- Puerto Rico.

- That is correct.

It's governed from San Juan.

For your bonus, Lou Montulli coined the food-inspired name for what small text files that websites store in a browser to remember information about past visits?

- Cookies.

- Cookies or HTML cookies is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question.

What province's 2022 elections were won by the Future Coalition of Francois Legault... Moravian Academy.

- Quebec.

- That is correct.

It focused in part on the rights of French speakers in Canada.

For your bonus, what Persian emperor, the heir of Darius the Great, built the Apadana hall in Persepolis and commanded against the Greek forces at Thermopylae?

- Cyrus the Great.

- That's incorrect.

Xerxes I of Persia is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question.

What theory, for which the Pound-Rebka experiment provides evidence, links gravity to curved space time... Saucon Valley.

- Relativity.

General relativity.

- General relativity is correct.

It was developed by Albert Einstein.

For your bonus, St Helena is the capital of what largest of the Channel Islands, which lends its name to a type of dairy cattle?

- Jersey.

- Jersey is correct.

Next toss-up question.

What job comes second in the title of a John Le Carre novel, along with Tinker, Soldier and Spy... - Tailor.

- Saucon Valley?

- Tailor.

- Tailor is correct.

It's a person who makes or alters clothing.

And that's from his novel Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.

For your bonus, Elvis sang that the drummer boy from Illinois went crash, boom, bang in what, 1957 classic hit to which everybody in the whole cell block was dancing?

- Jailhouse Rock.

- Jailhouse Rock is correct.

Next toss-up question.

Pope Francis is the first pope to be a member of what Catholic order founded by Saint Ignatius of Loyola... Moravian Academy.

- Jesuits.

- Jesuits is correct.

And the members often work in the field of education.

For your bonus, what quantity's value for Comet Hale-Bopp is almost exactly one, meaning that its orbit is very nearly parabolic?

- Radius.

- Eccentricity is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question.

What character who is hit by a jezail bullet in Afghanistan weds Mary Morstan after The Sign Of The Four... Moravian Academy?

- Watson.

- That is correct.

He narrates stories about Sherlock Holmes.

For your bonus, the largest battle of the Revolutionary War was fought on and named for what island which US forces had to abandon and flee to Manhattan?

- Long Island.

- Long Island is correct.

The Battle of Long Island.

The next toss-up is in math - pencil and paper ready.

What is the diameter of a circle whose area is 81 pi... Saucon Valley.

- 18.

- 18 is correct.

We don't need any of the other information for that one.

Nice job, Alexander.

For your bonus, Hu Jin Kwai was jailed for using what scientific technique to improve resistance to HIV in fetuses by employing the protein Cas9 to edit their DNA?

- CRISPR.

- CRISPR is correct.

Next toss-up question.

In what set of pieces that opens the contest between harmony and invention... Moravian Academy?

- Four Seasons.

- The Four Seasons is correct.

For your bonus, what quantity opposes changes in the corresponding flux when introduced by a current according to Lenz's law and can be calculated using Ampere's law?

- Resistance.

- Incorrect.

Magnetic field is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question.

What school in the SEC whose top NIL earners include Angel Reese and Olivia Dunne... Moravian.

- LSU.

- LSU is correct.

They defeated Iowa to win the 2023 women's basketball tournament.

For your bonus, in what 1805 battle did the Royal Navy defeat French and Spanish forces, despite the death of Lord Horatio Nelson?

- Trafalgar.

- The Battle of Trafalgar is correct.

Next toss-up question.

What representative, who was expelled from the Freedom Caucus in 2023 for insulting Lauren Boebert, is from Georgia and has the initials MT... Saucon Valley.

- Greene.

- Marjorie Taylor Greene is correct.

Her initials are MTG.

For your bonus, the winner of the Masters Golf Tournament is awarded a jacket of what color?

- Green.

- Green is correct.

My wife has a green jacket, and I always joke that she won the Masters.

Long inside joke for Emily on that one.

Next toss-up question.

What shape has the most sides of any regular polygon that can tesselate the plane, has initial angles that sum to 720 degrees... Moravian.

- Hexagon, - A regular hexagon or hexagon, is correct.

It has six sides.

For your bonus, what 1729 satirical essay which states that a child seasoned with a little bit of pepper or salt will be very good boiled, was written by Jonathan Swift?

- Modest Proposal.

- We... Yeah.

A Modest Proposal.

Modest Proposal is correct.

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

In a pre-match coin toss, it was determined that Saucon Valley will pick first between the following topics - four-letter titles or historical female figures.

Quickly.

- Titles.

- Four-letter titles?

Saucon Valley, your topic is four-letter titles.

Name these novels with four-letter titles.

Jane Austen novel about a matchmaker.

- Pass.

- 1965 Frank Herbert novel set... - Dune.

- Correct.

Pete Benchley novel about a shark.

- Jaws.

- Correct.

Toni Morrison novel titled for a style of music.

- Jazz.

- Correct.

Stephen King novel about a rabid dog.

- Pass.

- Emma Donoghue novel whose protagonists are captive in the title space.

- Cell.

- Incorrect.

Carl Hiaasen novel about saving owl habitat.

- Pass.

- 2012 Huey Howey novel that begins with his Shiloh series.

Or Silo, or Shiloh.

- Pass.

- Orhan Pamuk novel set in the Turkish city of Kars.

- Pass.

- Sapphire novel about pregnant teenager Precious.

- Pass.

- Push was the correct answer to that one.

The movie version of it was entitled Precious, but the novel itself was Push.

Moravian Academy, your topic is historical female figures.

Name these national leaders who were women.

British queen who died in 2022.

- Elizabeth II.

- Correct.

18th-century Russian empress nicknamed The Great.

- Catherine.

- Correct.

Or give me the whole full... ..more on that one.

- Catherine the First.

- That is incorrect.

Last queen of Egypt who lost the battle of Actium.

- Cleopatra.

- Correct.

British prime minister from 1979 to 1990.

- Thatcher.

- Correct.

Chancellor of Germany before Olaf Scholz.

- Merkel.

- Correct.

Israel's prime minister from 1969 to 1974.

- Pass.

- Indian prime minister assassinated in 1984.

- Indira Gandhi.

- Correct.

Pakistani prime minister whose second term was from 1993 to 1996.

- Khan.

- That is incorrect.

Queen of Hawaii who abdicated in 1895.

- Haioliv.

- That is incorrect.

Empress dowager, who supported the Boxer Rebellion in 1901.

- Wu Zetian.

- That is correct.

Did he say the right one on that one?

I'm sorry.

That's incorrect.

It was Empress Dowager Cixi.

And just to qualify on the Catherine, we needed Catherine the Great, or Catherine II, or her full name in Russian for that one.

On to the next toss-up question.

What play, in which Don John's plot is foiled by the constable Dogberry is a Shakespeare comedy centered on the feuding Beatrice and Benedict?

Moravian Academy.

Quickly.

- Twelfth Night.

- That is incorrect Over to Saucon Valley.

It's the Shakespeare play Much Ado About Nothing.

Next toss-up question.

What company which names the tallest building in Houston bought First Republic Bank in 2023, is led by Jamie Dimon, and has a stock symbol JPM?

Moravian.

- JP Morgan.

- JP Morgan Chase and Company is the correct answer For your bonus, what fundamental force gives rise to charged current interactions, can alter the flavor of quarks, and is carried by W and Z bosons?

- Strong.

- Incorrect.

Weak, or weak nuclear force, is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question.

In what then capital of Chiang Kai Shek's Republic of China, were an estimated 200,000... Moravian.

- Nanjing.

- Nanjing or Nanking is the correct answer.

It was estimated 200,000 people were killed by the Japanese army.

For your bonus, the Ashley Book is an encyclopedia containing illustrations of what objects, which include the bowline, clover hitch, and overhand loop?

- Knots.

- That's correct.

It's a book of knots.

Next toss-up question.

What sculpture, which in 1972 was vandalized by Laszlo Toth, is the only piece signed by Michelangelo and depicts... Saucon Valley.

- The Thinker.

- That is incorrect.

I'll continue the question for Moravian.

It depicts Mary cradling the body of Christ.

Go ahead, Moravian.

- Pieta.

- The Pieta is correct.

For your bonus, at a September 2023 meeting in New Delhi, what international organization, focused on economic issues, agreed to add the African Union as a member?

- World Bank?

- G9 Summit.

- Say it again.

- G9 Summit.

- That's incorrect.

It's the G20 Summit or the Group of 20 Summit.

Next toss-up question.

What device that was developed by William Oughtred uses logarithmic scales to simplify multiplication, preceded... Saucon Valley.

- Calculator.

- That is incorrect.

I'll continue for Moravian Academy.

Preceded the calculator and resembled a ruler?

Go ahead, Moravian.

- A slide rule.

- Slide rule is correct.

For your bonus, dinosaurs existed in the Triassic and Jurassic periods and what last period of the Mesozoic era when Triceratops evolved?

- Cretaceous.

- Cretaceous is correct.

Next toss-up question.

What kingdom which emerged from the conquest of the Carpathian Basin by Arpad... Moravian.

- Hungary.

- Hungary is correct, and it later formed a Hapsburg dual monarchy with Austria.

For your bonus, what psychologist, whose 360 letters to Sigmund Freud were collected in 1974, proposed the concepts of introversion and the collective unconsciousness?

- Jung.

- Carl Jung is the correct answer.

And with that, we've reached half-time.

Moravian currently Saucon Valley with a score of 200 to 95.

And now we'll have the students introduce themselves with their first, last name and grade level and the answer to the following question - what is your all-time favorite movie or TV series?

Over to Saucon Valley.

Ryan, we start with you.

My name is Ryan.

I'm a junior and my favorite movie is The Silent Voice.

- OK. - I'm Alex.

I'm a sophomore and my favorite show is BoJack Horseman.

- My name is Lincoln.

I'm a senior and my favorite TV show is Jeopardy!.

- All right.

- Hi, I'm Paul.

I'm a junior.

My favorite movie is The Godfather.

- Excellent.

And now over to Moravian.

Tyler, go ahead.

- Hello.

My name is Tyler.

I am in tenth grade and my favorite movie is also The Godfather.

- I am Nathaniel.

I'm in tenth grade and my favorite movie is District 9.

- OK. - I'm Charlene.

I'm in tenth grade and my favorite movie is Crazy Rich Asians.

- OK. - My name is Aman.

I'm a senior.

My favorite show is How I Met Your Mother.

- OK, we'll continue on the second half of the match with the following toss-up question.

What Greek deity, whose symbols include the dolphin, slew the serpent Python, was gifted... Moravian Academy.

- Apollo - Apollo is correct.

He was also the god of music.

For your bonus, what British author analyzed poetic myth in his book The White Goddess, and described the mad Roman emperor Caligula in his 1934 novel I, Claudius?

- Graves.

- Robert Graves is correct.

The next toss-up question.

What author, who heartily accepted the motto that government is best which governs least in his essay Civil Disobedience, also wrote the book Walden?

Moravian.

- Thoreau.

- Henry David Thoreau is correct.

For your bonus, Vittorio Orlando was forced to resign as Italian prime minister after negotiating an unpopular multi...

Excuse me.

..mutilated victory in what peace treaty?

- Versailles.

- The Treaty of Versailles is correct.

Next toss-up question.

What opera, whose title character sings Semper Libera, included...included in the Brindisi song by Alfredo, and comforts a fallen woman named Violetta Valery... Moravian.

- La Traviata.

- La Traviata is correct.

For your bonus, what landlocked country is south of Chad and north of the Democratic Republic of Congo and has its capital at Bangoji - or Bangui?

- Central African Republic.

- The Central African Republic is correct.

Next toss-up question.

What party, whose 19th-century Half-Breeds faction opposed the Stalwarts... - Republican, - Saucon Valley?

- Republican?

- Republican Party is correct.

It dominated post-Civil War North.

For your bonus, in 2021, a Starbucks in what city became the company's first location in the United States to be unionized?

- Seattle.

- That's incorrect.

Buffalo, New York is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question.

What poet, who described the shores of Gitche Gumee in a long poem that depicts the death of Minnehaha, wrote about... Moravian.

- Longfellow.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is the correct answer.

For your bonus, which author wrote about the Smales family fleeing Johannesburg in her novel July's People?

- Patton.

- Incorrect.

Nadine Gordimer is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question.

What game, whose players can find Zonaite deposits in the depths... Moravian.

- Legend Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom.

- The Legend of Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom is correct.

And they can also earn Ultrahand on the Great Sky Island.

For your bonus, what jazz saxophonist whose improvisational style was described by Ira Gitler as sheets of sound, released the album's Giant Steps and A Love Supreme?

- Coltrane.

- John Coltrane is correct.

Next toss-up question.

What element, which is a better conductor of electricity than copper, is combined with copper in its sterling alloy and has the atomic... Moravian.

- Silver.

- That is correct.

It has the atomic symbol, Ag.

For your bonus, what polysaccharide is the primary component of both cotton fibers and paper?

- Cellulose.

- Cellulose is correct.

Next toss-up question.

What novel in which Cardenio wanders the Sierra... Moravian.

- Don Quixote.

- Don Quixote is correct.

It was written by Miguel de Cervantes.

For your bonus, during what decade did Louis Philippe become king of France after the July Revolution and then crushed the June Rebellion which inspired Les Miserables?

- 1840s?

- That is incorrect.

1830s is the correct answer.

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

Moravian, you'll get to pick between the following topics - E-L-E or hurricanes.

- E-L-E?

- E-L-E. - E-L-E it is.

Moravian Academy, your second lightning round topic is E-L-E. Give these answers that contain the consecutive letters E-L-E. Tuesday after the first Monday in November.

- Pass.

- Election... - He said pass first.

I'm sorry about that.

Antimony is one of these 118 entity... - Elements.

- Correct.

A poem or song about mourning.

- Elegy.

- Correct.

A dish made from beaten eggs with a Denver variety.

- Omelet.

- Correct.

The purported ability to read other people's thoughts.

- Mental telepathy?

- That is correct.

A weapon used for hand-to-hand combat contrasted with ranged weapons/ - Melee.

- Correct.

Four-stringed instrument common in Hawaiian music.

- Ukulele.

- Correct.

Lizards with the ability to change colors.

- Chameleon.

- Correct.

Small holes through which shoelaces pass.

- Anklets.

- That's incorrect.

A tall wooden or stone slab erected as a monument.

- Obelisk.

- That's incorrect.

The last one is stele.

Saucon Valley, your topic is hurricanes.

Answer the following about hurricanes.

Hurricane that devastated New Orleans in 2005.

- Katrina.

- Correct.

Term for hurricanes in the northwestern Pacific.

- Cyclone.

- That's... We need the more specific variety of that.

- A hurricane cyclone?

- That's incorrect.

Anatomical term for the calm center of a hurricane.

- Eye.

- Correct.

Lin-Manuel Miranda musical with a song Hurricane.

- Hamilton.

- Correct.

Zora Neale Hurston novel in which Janine survives a hurricane - or Jeanie, excuse me.

- Pass.

Florida University with team nicknamed the Hurricanes.

- Miami.

- Correct.

George Gershwin opera in which a hurricane hits Catfish Row.

- Pass.

Effect named for a Frenchman that causes hurricanes to rotate.

- Coriolis.

- Correct.

Home city of the Carolina Hurricanes.

- Charlotte.

- Incorrect.

Hurricane wind scale named for two scientists.

- Saffir-Simpson.

- Saffir-Simpson scale is correct.

We move on to the final quarter of the match with the following toss-up question.

What institutions which were closed in March 1933 during a week-long holiday... Moravian.

- Banks.

- Banks is correct.

Its plans to form the FDIC were successfully ending a run on depositors taking money out of banks.

For your bonus, what actress portrayed Wai Lin in the James Bond movie Tomorrow Never Dies and a laundromat owner being audited in Everything Everywhere All At Once?

- Yeoh.

- Michelle Yeoh is correct.

Next toss-up question.

What chemical process, whose primary abiotic cause is lightning, breaks a triple bond to make an element found in air useable by living organisms?

Moravian.

- Nitrification.

- Er, that is incorrect.

We'll have to go over to Saucon Valley.

No conferring, but if you know it.

- Nitrogen fixing.

- Er, yeah.

Nitrogen fix or nitrogen fixation is the correct answer.

For your bonus, what state's federal protected areas include Great Egg Harbor River, and the Great Swamp, and Cape May National Wildlife Refuge?

- New Jersey.

- New Jersey is correct.

Next toss-up question.

What author, who wrote about the bodies at Austerlitz and Waterloo In his poem Grass, wrote about the City of Big Shoulders in his poem Chicago?

Moravian.

- Sandburg.

- Carl Sandburg is correct.

For your bonus, the Sinhala Only Act removed English as the official language of what Asian island country where the Tamil Tigers fought in a civil war?

- Sri Lanka.

- Sri Lanka is correct.

Next toss-up question.

What mountain range, which was formed in part by the subduction of the Nazca plate... Moravian.

- Andes.

- The Andes Mountains is correct.

It contains the highest point outside of Asia.

For your bonus, what are the primary contaminants in the 2023 East Palestine, Ohio train derailment, was what compound, the precursor to the polymer PVC?

- HVC.

- Incorrect.

Vinyl chloride is the correct answer.

The next toss-up question is in math - pencil and paper ready.

How many inches are in five yards, given that there are 12 inches in a foot... - 180.

- Alexander?

- 180.

- 180 inches is correct.

For your bonus, what 2006 historical novel set in Nazi Germany is narrated by Death, centers on the literature-loving Liesel Meminger, and is by Markus Zusak?

- Man In The High Castle.

- That's incorrect.

The Book Thief is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question.

What country, where the prime minister real-estate businessman Srettha Thavisin gained approval from King Rama X in 2023?

Moravian.

- Thailand.

- That is correct.

It is led from Bangkok.

For your bonus, the English word boondocks, meaning a remote area, is derived from a term for mountain in what language commonly spoken in Manila?

- Tagalog.

- Tagalog.

Can you pronounce that?

Give me a better pronunciation.

- Tagalog.

- Tagalog is correct.

Next toss-up question.

What city contains the oldest cathedral in Japan, is on the western end of Kyushu and was... Moravian.

- Nagasaki.

- Nagasaki is correct.

It was targeted with an atomic bomb three days after Hiroshima.

For your bonus, what adjective describes a number like four and a half expressed as an integer, together with a fraction less than one.

- Mixed.

- Yes.

A mixed... Mixed number is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question.

What organ, whose underside contains guard cells that regulate the opening of stomata, have... Moravian.

- Leaf?

- A leaf is correct.

They have branch veins that supply their cells with many chloroplasts.

For your bonus, what Protestant denomination whose early members included William Penn opposed slavery and preached nonviolence?

- Quakers.

- Quakers is correct.

Next toss-up question.

What French philosopher who claimed that existence precedes essence discussed the concept of bad faith in his 1943 book Being And Nothingness?

Moravian.

- Sartre.

- Sartre.

Jean-Paul Sartre is correct.

For your bonus, Quentin Compson drowns in the Charles River in what novel written in a stream of consciousness style by William Faulkner?

- Sound And The Fury.

- The Sound And The Fury is correct.

Next toss-up question.

What war, during which the treaty of the... And that is the end of our match.

Saucon Valley, unfortunately, with 160 points, it's the end of the road.

Good luck with the rest of your school year.

Moravian Academy, with 480 points, congratulations.

You are on to the final four teams in the tournament.

And we will see you next week for the start of the semifinals.