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Hello and welcome to the 12th and final match of the first round of the 50th season of Classic Scrimmage.

I'm your host, David Graff.

Today's match is between Saucon Valley High School, who won the tournament in 1997, and Panther Valley High School.

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

At half time will pass.

The students can introduce themselves.

I will ask them a question so we get to know them a little bit better.

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

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

What film character pretends to be Abe Froman, the sausage king of Chicago, and rides in Cameron's dad's Ferrari while taking a day off from school.

Saucon Valley.

Ferris Bueller?

Ferris Bueller is correct.

For your bonus, what California landmark, which was built on Mount Leigh to advertise a real estate development in the 1920s, once included the word land.

The Hollywood sign, the Hollywood sign is correct.

Next toss up question.

What poet of ode on the death of a favorite Cat claimed the paths of glory lead but to the grave.

In his 1751 elegy written in a Country Churchyard.

Thomas Gray is a correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What city, which was ruled by the 30 Tyrants after losing a war, was the site of a funeral oration given by Pericles during their war with Saucon Valley.

Athens.

Athens is correct.

Was given during the war with Sparta.

For your bonus, what German term?

Whose name translates to joining, refers to the 1938 annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany and is correct.

Next toss up question what quantity, which is three halves are for an ideal gas and 4.184 joules for water.

Is the heat needed to raise one gram of a substance by one degree?

Saucon Valley.

Specific heat.

That is correct.

And it raises it by one degree Celsius.

For your bonus, what author of the alternate history novel The Man in the High Castle wrote.

Do androids dream of electric Sheep?

Which inspired the movie Blade Runner?

I read like the first chapter.

No, it's a.

Yes.

From.

Incorrect Philip K Dick.

He also wrote A Scanner Darkly.

Next toss up question.

What white material which Phil Dais used along with gold to create the statue of Zeus at Olympia, is the source for is sourced from hippopotamuses and elephant tusks.

Panther Valley.

Ivory.

Ivory is correct.

For your bonus.

What two word phrase for an embarrassing social remark comes from the French term for misstep.

Faux pas.

Faux pas is correct.

Next tossup question.

What war?

Which is the subject of James Michener's novel The Bridges at Tokyo re include the Battle of Incheon over Incheon.

Excuse me.

And was fought in the Korean War.

The Korean War is correct and was fought on an Asian peninsula.

For your bonus.

In what Alabama city did police brutally attack protesters on the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Bloody Sunday in 1965.

This is a bonus.

It's okay, Bradley, you know you get me.

Yeah, that sounds good.

Which would.

Montgomery.

That is incorrect.

Just for kicks.

Bradley, what was your answer?

Mobile.

Both.

Incorrect.

It's Selma for the Edmund Pettus Bridge, located.

Next toss up.

What devices?

Whose function is described by the Shockley equation.

Or designed to conduct current in one direction and have a light emitting type.

Sucking Valley diode.

A diode is correct.

For your bonus, what kind of crescent shaped lake is left behind when a rivers meander is cut off?

Oxbow lake.

An oxbow lake is correct.

Next toss up question.

What?

King was killed by Charles Oregon Shanshan after being convicted of treason by the National Convention in Valley Louis the 14th.

That is incorrect.

I'll continue for Panther Valley Tourism by the National convention in 1792, during the French Revolution.

So no conferring, no conferring.

But it is a freebie.

If you want to buzz in.

Go ahead, Panther Valley.

Louis, the 12.

That is also incorrect.

Louis the 16th is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What religious founder sat in a spa in a spot now marked by the bachelor Shauna or Diamond Throne Valley?

The Buddha?

The Buddha is correct.

And that is located under the Bodie tree.

For your bonus, what last English king of the House of Wessex, who died in 1066, received his epithet because he lived a saintly life, but did not die as a martyr.

For the William.

All the innocents.

Baldwin.

That's incorrect.

Edward the Confessor is the correct answer.

And with that, we've reached the first lightning round and pre-match coin toss.

It was determined that Saucon Valley would get to pick between the following topics.

Children lit from the British Isles or what's up, British literature?

I think you what's up?

What's up?

I think we got quickly.

Captain, quick.

Quick question.

Literature.

British literature.

All right, Saucon Valley, your topic is children's lit from the British Isles.

Name the British or Irish author who created these characters.

Matilda, Wormwood and Willy Wonka.

Anyone can say it.

Yeah.

Correct.

Peter Pan, pass.

Peter.

Susan, Edmund and Lucy.

Pendency.

Pevensie.

Excuse me.

Pavement's.

Pass.

Peter.

Rabbit.

Pass.

Winnie the Pooh.

Milne.

Correct.

Lyra.

Belacqua.

Pass.

Artemis Fowl.

Pass.

Teenage spy.

Alex.

Rider.

Riordan.

Incorrect.

Mole.

Badger and reckless.

Driver.

Mr. toad pass the wizard.

Howl who has a moving castle pass.

The last one was Dianne Wyn Jones house.

Panther Valley.

Your topic is what up given, given or excuse me?

Give these words that start with the consecutive letters s u p. Given the what's up in the category?

An evening meal.

Just say it.

O supper.

Correct amount of something available.

Surplus.

Do we take that?

It's s u r c. No, we won't take that.

Highest court in the US Supreme.

Correct.

Extra or unnecessary.

Pass to ask for something humbly.

Especially if God.

Suppose that's incorrect.

The highest degree of comparison.

Such as?

Brightest.

Superlative.

Correct.

Soft and pliant.

Supple.

That's correct.

Lying down on one's back.

Pass.

Capable of exceeding Mach one.

Supersonic.

Correct.

To take the place of something as an indictment.

Supersede.

That is correct.

I don't.

All right.

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

What author of the novels Agnes Gray and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, used the synonym Action Bell and was the younger sister of Emily and Charlotte.

Bronte.

Which one is the Lucy?

Incorrect.

Over to Panther Valley.

Emily.

Buzz in.

Go ahead.

Emily.

It's not Emily.

We named her the question.

It's.

And Anne Bronte.

The Bronte sisters.

Next toss up question.

What project facilitated by the 1986 Treaty of Canterbury was completed in 1994 and connects Kent with France.

The Chunnel.

The channel or Chunnel is correct, and it goes under the Strait of Dover.

For your bonus, what English author who wrote about a Prince of Abyssinia in the allegorical story restless was the subject of a 1791 biography by James Boswell.

King Henry the ninth.

Incorrect.

Samuel Johnson is the correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What state, which is home to the resort town of Kennebunkport, includes Acadia National Park.

So I can Valley, Maine.

Maine is correct, and it's located in New England and governed from Augusta.

For a bonus, in what European countries mythology do the dead cross a river to get to 200?

Naila in the land of the dead.

As told in the text color Varla.

Wales.

Incorrect.

It's Finland is the correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What author who wrote the story The Open Boat wrote about the cowardly private Henry Fleming in his Civil War novel the Red Badge of Courage.

Stephen Crane is a correct answer.

The next toss up question is in math.

Pencil on paper.

Ready?

What is the perimeter of a regular dodecahedron whose sides each have a length of four?

Given Valley 48.

That is correct.

And given that a god has 12 total sides.

For your bonus, what coefficient ranges from negative one to positive one?

Measures the strength of a linear relationship between two variables and is denoted R. Coefficient of coefficient of correlation.

Coefficient of correlation.

That is correct.

Next toss up question in 2023, what policy which had been upheld in Grutter versus Bollinger was gutted by the Supreme Court in its affirmative action?

Affirmative action is correct.

And it was getting cases about admission to both UNC and Harvard.

For your bonus, the 1982 song Ebony and Ivory was a collaboration between Paul McCartney and what blind singer, whose own hits include superstition.

Stevie Wonder Stevie Wonder is correct.

Next toss up question.

What color appears in the title of a novel about Jack Gladney by Don DeLillo, and the title of a book about a namesake wolf hybrid by Jack London.

That is white for the books, both White Noise and White Fang.

And with that, we have reached halftime.

Currently, Soccer Value leads us with a score of 152.

Panther Valley's 50 points.

Now, let's take a moment for each team to introduce themselves with their first name, last name, grade level, and the answer to the following question.

What is your favorite innovation of the last 50 years?

So it's our 50th anniversary.

We started in 1975.

Name your favorite innovation.

We start with talking about, Stefon Kitchen.

I'm a junior and I'd say the PlayStation.

Okay.

I'm Chris Hoyt.

I'm a senior.

And I'll say, digital cameras.

Okay.

I'm Alex Morales, game junior.

And I would probably say for of.

All right.

My name is Ryan Parkside, 10th grade.

And, artificial intelligence mining.

Okay.

And Panther Valley.

Bradley.

Go ahead.

My name is Bradley Bartlett.

Sophomore.

And I'd have to say specifically the Cybertruck.

Okay.

My name is Brenna McAndrew.

I'm a senior, and I'd say the Cybertruck.

Okay.

My name is Joshua bauder, and I'm a junior.

Yeah, I'd say the Cybertruck.

Okay.

My name is available.

I'm a junior, and I would say the Cybertruck.

Is Panther Valley being paid by Elon Musk to promote the Cybertruck.

Or at least maybe they should get a free Cybertruck.

Yeah, that's is watching Fox and one Panther Valley's way.

Okay, with that, we'll continue on with the second half of the batch with the following toss question.

What decade during which the Wagner Act established the right to unionize featured the formation of the A and C cc as part of the New Deal.

Like a valley.

The 1930s.

The 1930s is correct.

Your bonus will be in math pencil and paper.

Ready?

What is the cost of a single pen?

If someone using a $5 bill can buy three pens and receives $0.80 in change.

$1.40.

$1.40 is correct.

Next toss up.

What property possessed by bonds with small, non-zero differences in electronegativity?

Yeah.

In electronegativity is an unequal sharing of electrons as seen in water cycle.

Valley polarity, polarity or polar bonds is correct for your bonus.

In 1898, the US, the USS Maine sank in the harbor of what city, contributing to the outbreak of the Spanish American War.

Havana.

Havana, Cuba is also correct.

Next toss up question.

In what country?

Where Mount Ma erupted in 2023.

Did a 2024 landslide kill at least 14 people in Sulawesi, an island northeast of Java?

Go ahead.

Saucon Valley, Indonesia.

Indonesia is correct for your bonus in 2020 for the widespread theft of what metal led Los Angeles to put some statues in storage and cause major street light outages.

Copper.

Copper is correct.

Its price spiked and it's still been going way up.

Next toss up question.

What city is home to?

The sanctuary mosque was a major trading center of the Mali Empire.

You.

Check it out.

Timbuktu.

Timbuktu is correct.

And it has a name that refers to any remote, exotic location.

For your bonus.

What force is proportional to velocity by Stokes law and is balanced by gravity.

When an object falls at terminal velocity.

Okay, so friction.

Air friction.

Are we.

What are we thinking about?

That one.

Jet.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yes.

Okay.

So drag force or air resistance or air friction?

We'll take those.

That is correct.

Next toss up.

In what Olympic event.

Whose world record holders include Sergei Bubka and Mondo Duplantis.

Do Soccer Valley pole vault.

That is correct.

And they use a long fiberglass pole to jump over a bar for a bonus.

What Utah senator, whose father, George was a governor of Michigan, was himself a governor of Massachusetts and ran for president in 20 2012.

Oh, yeah.

Romney.

Mitt Romney is correct.

Next tossup.

What type of number has an odd number of positive factors?

Outputs an integer.

When taken to the power of one half and includes 16 and 25.

Let's talk about perfect square.

A perfect square is correct for your bonus.

What country musician released the 2023 album One Thing at a time, which includes the chart topping single Last Night.

Okay, yes.

Very, Noah Kahan.

Incorrect.

Morgan Wallen is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What language is the original language of the opera, William Tell, as well as the language of Samson and Delilah, composer Camille and Song.

Silicon Valley.

French.

French or the French language is correct for your bonus.

What kind of place is translated in Spanish as Playa and in French as clause?

Beach.

A beach is correct.

Next toss up question.

What religions hymns.

The writers are credited to its namesake founder, who described the good God as Hora Mazda and who lived.

Silicon Valley.

Zoroastrianism.

Zoroastrianism is correct.

And he lived in ancient Persia for a bonus.

Quantum gravity aims to unify quantum physics.

With what?

Mainstream theory of space, time and gravitation.

Relativity.

Relativity.

Or actually, you know what?

We need more general relativity.

General relativity is correct.

Next toss up question.

What Titan, who was tricked by Hercules into retrieving the Golden Soccer Valley Atlas?

That is correct.

And he was tasked with holding up the heavens for all eternity.

For your bonus, Max Vermeer co-founded What German School of Psychology, which holds that objects can be perceived as more than the sum of their individual parts.

Collectivism.

That's incorrect.

Gestalt psychology is a correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What journey, which went from Sabarmati Ashram to Dundee was made to protect to protest the British monopoly of a psychedelic salt march.

The so much is correct news to protest a British monopoly of the namesake good, which was salt for your bonus.

Arthur Wells's Monkey is a partial translation of what 16th century Chinese novel credited to Wu Chang, in whose protagonist is a traveling monk.

Journey to the West.

Journey to the West is also correct.

And with that, we have reached the second Lightning Round path round.

This is your chance to catch up.

You get to pick between the following topics.

Ends in X were the letter B.

Letter B the letter B. Panther Valley your topic is the letter B.

What does the B stand for in the colloquialism bf?

Best.

Correct.

The sandwich BLT.

Bacon.

Correct.

The literary identifier ISBN.

Books.

Correct.

The television channel NBC broadcast.

Correct.

The oil company BP.

Has the date specifications B, c and BCE.

Before.

Before.

Correct.

The long range weapon.

ICBM.

Ballistic.

Correct.

The postgraduate degree MBA.

Batch.

Business.

Correct.

The baseball stat RBI.

Batted.

Correct.

The investigative agency, NTSB Bureau.

That's incorrect.

Board is correct.

Answer that.

National Transportation Safety Board.

Saucon valley.

Your topic is ends in X.

Identify these people, places, or things whose names end in X city whose suburbs are home to the NFL's Arizona Cardinals.

Phoenix.

Correct.

Day when the sun is directly above the equator.

Equinox.

Correct.

1999 movie that features Keanu Reeves as Neo.

The matrix.

Correct.

Folder for received emails.

Inbox.

Correct.

Desert animal.

Nickname of Nazi general Erwin Rommel.

Fox.

Correct.

Possibly vestigial organ attached to the large appendix.

Correct.

First U.S. Secretary of War.

Pass.

Childhood disease that can reappear as shingles.

Chickenpox.

Correct.

Latin name for a priest is the Pope's Twitter handle.

Pontifex.

That's correct.

Catalog.

Whose entry 001 is Bulbasaur.

Pokedex.

That's correct.

All right.

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

What disease, which is transmitted by the genus Anopheles, is caused by Plasmodium parasites carried by mosquitoes and is common.

Spokane Valley.

Malaria.

That is correct.

It's common in the tropics.

For your bonus, what Chinese revolutionary who formulated the three principles of the people and was the first leader of the Kuomintang.

Sun Yat sen. Sun Yat sen is correct.

Next toss up question.

What broad field?

Whose early theater missions included acoustics.

It was practiced by C Wright Mills and focuses on study of human society.

Panther Valley.

Sociology.

Sociology is correct.

For your bonus, the Harz is a highland area.

In what?

Northern part of what?

European country?

Where?

It covers portions of Lower Saxony.

Saxony and Holt and Thuringia.

Scotland.

Incorrect.

We're talking about parts of Germany.

Next toss up question.

What set of battles in which militia held the Old North Bridge against Thomas Gage followed Paul Revere's ride at the start of the river.

It's like a valley.

Lexington and Concord.

The Battle of Lexington.

Concord is correct, and it was at the start of the Revolutionary War.

For your bonus, what molecule?

Which is toxic to cells in large concentrations, acts as the final acceptor of the electrons that enter the electron transport chain.

Oxygen.

Oxygen is correct.

Next tossup.

What phenomenon, possibly modeled by quintessence or the cosmological constant, is a mysterious energy.

Saucon Valley.

Dark matter.

That is incorrect.

I'll continue for Panther Valley.

Is it mysterious energy accelerating and the expansion of the universe.

Entropy.

Entropy.

That's incorrect.

It is dark energy.

Next toss up question.

What politician?

The highest ranking enlisted man ever to serve in the House, became governor of Minnesota.

And in 2024, Kamala Harris is running.

Saucon Valley, Tim Walz.

Tim Walz is correct for your bonus.

Median is the second most populous city in what South American country?

Columbia.

Columbia is correct.

Next toss up.

What man who wrote the funeral march of his piano Sonata number two at George Sands estate was a Polish composer of many études and the mute and the Minute Waltz.

Chopin is the correct answer.

Next, toss up what President's Inaugural Address, which followed a poem recital by Robert Frost, told citizens of the world to ask what you can do.

Saucon Valley.

JFK.

JFK is correct.

And he asked what you can do for your country for your bonus.

What type of reaction releases heat to its surroundings has a negative change in enthalpy?

Exothermic.

Exothermic is correct.

Next, toss up what game which features goals on high street like get on TV and trap the boy.

Soccer Valley monopoly.

That's incorrect.

I'll continue for Panther Valley.

Trapped.

The boy in the phone booth was made by House.

House and stars.

A horrible bird.

No conferring.

It's a freebie.

If you wanna buzz in.

So we're looking for a digital game.

It's untitled goose game.

It's a correct answer.

Next, toss up.

What author whose series about the mage Simon Snow was spun off from her Ya novel fangirl, wrote about the 1980s Omaha in the romance Eleanor and Park.

Rainbow row was the correct answer to that soccer job.

With 445 points, you are on to the next round.

Panther Valley unfortunately ran into a tough opponent today with 100 points.

We'll make it onto the second round, but good luck with the rest of your school year.

And you might be wondering.

What happened.

To the finalist from last year.

Well, they get a pass in the first round, so we'll see northwestern, Lehigh and parkland.

Last year's finalists in one of the rounds.

In our second round will they'll face each other.

Tune in next week for the start of round two.

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