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Hello and welcome to the fourth and final match of the third round of the 50 Seasons Classic Scrimmage.

I'm your host, David Graff.

Today's match is between Saucon Valley High School and Parkland High School.

Mattioli, composed of two halves with a lightning round midway through each half at half time, will pause as students introduce themselves.

And will get to know them a little bit better.

It's classic treatment requires rapid recall specific factual information as not necessarily indicative of academic training.

And now let's begin.

Foster is ready.

Here's our first tossup question.

What technique with a thin layer form separates compounds.

Parkland chromatography.

Chromatography is correct and has a name meaning color writing.

For your bonus, the Pulitzer Prize winning biography G-Man portrayed what powerful federal official who led the FBI and its precursor agencies from 1924 to 1972.

Answer J. Edgar Hoover J Edgar Hoover is correct.

Next toss up question.

What artist painted a light bulb with an eye shaped halo, a terrified bull and a writhing horse in his Saucon Valley?

Picasso Picasso is correct in depicting a bombing in his painting Guernica for your bonus.

What romance language was used to write the Lucy ads, an epic poem about 15th century explorations composed by Louise Vash.

Do commercial.

Portuguese.

That is correct.

And all the things I learned from my Portuguese drivers.

That's characteristic of Portuguese.

Next tossup question.

What novel in which Roy meets a boy called Mote Fingers in a small Florida town, was written by Carl Hiaasen about efforts to save parkland.

Hoot.

Hoot is correct about efforts to save endangered owls.

For your bonus.

A travertine staircase called the Cascade, which adjoins Victory Park, is among the Soviet era monuments.

In what capital of Armenia?

Answer.

Yerevan Yerevan is correct.

Next tossup question.

What peninsula is to the northeast of buzzards Bay, forms the northern limit of the Nantucket Sound and curves eastward off the coast of Massachusetts.

Saucon Valley.

Cape Cod.

Cape Cod is correct for your bonus.

In 1848, what treaty ceded California and six other states to the U.S. and ended the Mexican-American War?

Guadalupe Hidalgo.

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is correct.

Next tossup question.

What musician released a 1959 album of Gil Evans arrangements of Porgy and Bess, the same year, he included All Blues and So What?

On Kind of Blue.

Parkland.

John Coltrane.

That's incorrect.

Over to Saucon Valley.

No conferring, but it is a freebie.

Go ahead.

Louis Armstrong.

That is also incorrect.

We're in the same wheelhouse here, but it's Miles Davis.

Is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What extremely strong transition metal whose dioxide is used to turn paints?

White is used in many prosthetics.

It has the atomic symbol T ot Saucon Valley.

Titanium.

Titanium is correct.

For your bonus, the stage directions of the play waiting for Godot calls only for a road.

And what object for which the protagonist considers hanging themselves.

A lamppost?

That's incorrect.

It's a road.

And the other thing it calls for is a tree.

Next toss up question what law which prohibited slavery above the 3630 parallel.

Go ahead.

Cyril, please say it again.

Missouri Compromise Missouri compromise is correct.

For bonus online, supporters of Palestinian statehood often use the symbol of what fruit whose colors match those of the Palestinian flag or Palestine's flag.

Might.

Capture the peach.

That is incorrect.

The watermelon.

I think.

The red of the flash, green of the grind and black of the seeds.

Next, toss up what actor who appeared in a complete unknown as Bob Dylan portrayed the title chocolatier.

Saucon Valley.

Timothee Chalamet Timothee Chalamet is correct, and he portrayed the chocolatier Willy Wonka in Wonka.

For your bonus, what bay at the northern end of the Gulf of Maine has the highest tides in the world.

Okay.

Edward Island.

That is incorrect.

The Bay of Fundy is the correct answer.

The next question is in math.

Pencil and paper.

Ready?

What is the only quadrant that does not contain any part of the line defined by the equation?

Y equals negative three x minus four.

Socking valley.

The first quadrant.

The first quadrant is correct for your bonus.

Pope Paul the Third convened what Council of the Catholic Church, which lasted from 1545 to 1563 and designed the theology of the Counter-Reformation?

Oh, yeah.

Diet of worms.

That is incorrect.

The Council of Trent is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What?

Indigenous woman?

The daughter of the Chief Powhatan.

Saucon Valley.

Pocahontas.

Pocahontas is correct.

For bonus in English language poetry, what metrical foot consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable?

An I am and I am is correct.

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

In a pre-match coin toss, it was determined that parkland will get to pick between the following topics American speeches or silent letters.

Make a.

Speech.

American speeches.

American speeches.

It is.

Parkland.

Your first lightning round.

Topic is American speeches.

What Americans gave these speeches.

I'll provide a year.

I have a dream.

1960 for King Junior.

Correct.

The 14 points.

1918 Woodrow Wilson.

Correct.

Farewell to baseball.

1939 as you read.

That is Lou Gehrig.

Correct.

The ballot or the bullet?

1964.

We know, that is Lyndon Johnson.

Incorrect.

Women's rights are human rights, 1995 1995.

Quiet on the soccer valley side, too.

That is Hillary Clinton.

That is correct.

The Great Society, 1964, Lyndon Johnson.

Correct.

The Four Freedoms, 1941 FDR.

FDR.

Correct.

Old soldiers never die.

1951 Ernest Hemingway.

That is incorrect.

Addressed to the nation on the challenger disaster.

1980 Ronald Reagan.

That is correct.

Every Man of King 1934.

Huey Long.

Huey long is correct.

Nice job.

Parkland.

Okay.

Saucon Valley.

Your topic is silent letters.

Give these words that in most American accents, begin with a silent letter.

A huge ocean wave.

Time.

Incorrect.

A person who will receive an inheritance.

Pass a ring of plants or flowers.

Pass.

Ancient reptiles that were the first known flying vertebrate.

Pterodactyl.

Correct.

To supervise or wrestle something unruly, such as livestock.

Wrangle.

Correct.

A tiny, mischievous dwarf.

No.

Correct.

Twisted, knotted and deformed.

Gnarled.

Correct.

A cheap little object used as decor.

Has chronic condition that causes scaly or red skin plaques.

Eczema.

Incorrect.

A respectful imitation or reference to another work of art.

Reference.

No.

Incorrect.

The last one is a large.

Okay.

We'll continue on with the following.

Toss up question.

What city whose sky tree was designed by Nick and Saiki is where?

Saucon Valley.

Tokyo.

Tokyo is correct.

And it's also home to the Imperial Palace, where Derek, you do lives for your bonus.

The first moon suggested to have its own ring system was what?

Second largest moon of Saturn after Titan, which is itself named after a female Titan.

Europa?

That's incorrect.

Rhea is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What author who wrote about a hypocritical preacher in Elmer Gantry described two provincial townspeople of Gopher Prairie in his novel parkland.

Guys, there's Horton Wilder.

That's incorrect.

I'll continue the question for Saucon Valley.

In his novel Main Street.

Go ahead, Edgar Allan Poe.

Incorrect.

The author is Sinclair Lewis.

Next toss up question.

What president who defeated Democrat James Cox while promising a return to normalcy in parkland.

Quickly.

Parkland.

I have to move on.

Okay.

Time.

I'll continue for Saucon Valley in 19.

Go ahead.

Salk.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Say it again.

Franklin Roosevelt.

No.

The correct answer is Warren G. Harding.

And just so the teams know, as soon as you buzz, we need an answer quickly.

Next toss up question.

What country?

Whose border with Romania contains the Iron Gates Gorge is home to the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers in Glen parkland, Hungary.

That's incorrect.

I'll continue for Silicon Valley in Belgrade.

Soccer valley.

Serbia.

Serbia is correct for your bonus.

Flowers and starfish exhibit a form of symmetry with body parts rotated around an axis.

Unlike the bilateral symmetry found in humans.

Radial radial symmetry is correct.

Next toss up question.

What constant, which a sphere of silicon was constructed to calculate is approximately six points.

Go ahead.

Parkland.

Avogadro's number?

Yes.

Avogadro's or Avogadro's constant is correct.

We're good with our judges.

We're good with it.

For your bonus, what war poet, who was a friend of Wilfred Owen, described an officer blundered down the trench in his 1980 1918 poem counterattack.

Thomas.

Incorrect.

Siegfried Sassoon is a correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What man who founded the first permanent European settlement in mainland South America, crossed the Isthmus of Panama in 1513 to reach parkland.

Vasco da Gama.

That's incorrect.

I'll finish for Spokane Valley to reach the Pacific.

Go ahead.

Magellan.

Also incorrect.

Balboa is the correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What state?

Where Mike McDonell helped block a September 2024 plan to change how it awards electoral votes, has a unicameral legislature?

Sure.

Go ahead.

Nebraska.

That is correct.

Unicameral legislature in Lincoln.

For your bonus, what musical work depict the demon in a Bog and Witches Sabbath on Saint John's Eve and was composed by Morris with scores Muskogee.

We will rock you.

That is incorrect.

Night on Bald Mountain is a correct answer.

Next toss up.

What city?

The capital of the Maharashtra state contains the gateway to India, India monument arch.

And is the center of the Bollywood film industry Saucon Valley.

New Delhi.

That's incorrect.

Over the Parkland Guide Park, Mumbai.

Mumbai is correct for your bonus.

What 2015 book in which John Lewis Finch returns to make home Alabama, was billed as a watchman.

Go Set a Watchman is correct, and it was a sequel to To Kill a mockingbird.

Next, toss up what numbers, which are symbolized by a bold capital letter Z, or divided to formed a set of rational numbers and include negative six and 31.

Saucon Valley integers.

Integers is correct for your bonus.

In what Latin American country was the Somoza family overthrown in 1979, leading to a decade of conflict between the Fsln and the Contras.

Nicaragua Nicaragua Nicaragua is correct.

And with that, we have reached halftime.

Let's take a moment for the students to introduce themselves with the first last name grade level and the answer to the following question.

What do you plan to study or pursue after graduation from high school?

Over to Saucon Valley.

Go ahead.

Step on confusion.

Junior and environmental science.

Chris Hoyt, senior TV and film.

Okay.

Alex Roski.

Computer science or finance?

Ron talks off sophomore philosophy.

All right.

And over to parkland.

Sofia.

Go ahead.

Sophomore economics.

Probably.

Max Rybak, senior writing.

Ken Zhang, sophomore, biology Summit senior computer science.

All right.

Excellent.

And we'll get the match right on away with the following Toss-Up question.

What Prime Minister who called for blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Parkland.

Winston Churchill.

Winston Churchill is correct.

He succeeded Neville Chamberlain for your bonus.

What quantity for an atom can be obtained as the difference between the mass number and the atomic number.

Number of neutrons.

Judges?

Yeah, we'll take that.

The neutron number or the number of neutrons is correct.

Next toss up question.

What author described a barley seed that produces a tiny girl in Thumbelina and wrote about a naked ruler in his fairy tale, The Emperor's New Clothes?

The parkland.

Hans Christian Andersen.

Hans Christian Andersen is correct for your bonus.

The genre of paintings are exemplified by works are what genre of paintings are exemplified by works such as Broken Column by Frida Kahlo and the one by Parmigiano in a Convex Mirror.

Self-Portrait.

Self-Portraits are correct.

Next tossup question what property whose appearance causes magnetic fields to be expelled in the Meissner effect, is present in materials with zero electrical resistance.

Portland.

Superconductivity.

Superconductivity is correct.

For your bonus.

What country underwent a devastating civil war in the late 1960s after discontent among its eco people led to an attempted succession by the offeror?

Answer in Nigeria.

Nigeria is correct.

Next toss up question what present day country was the natural rubber?

Was natural rubber first used in sacred ball games by the ancient Bull Mac.

Saucon Valley, Mayans.

That is incorrect.

I'll continue.

Go ahead.

Parkland.

The Mexico.

Mexico is correct for your bonus.

What man who coached the Boston Celtics to a title in 2008 was hired as head coach of the doc.

Rivers is correct.

Who's the head coach in Milwaukee Bucks in 2024?

Next toss up question.

What city?

Which hosts a film festival that awards the gold Lion parkland.

Cons.

That is incorrect.

I'll continue for Saucon Valley is home to Saint Mark's Basilica and is an a courthouse.

Venice is correct.

It's Italian city with many canals for your bonus.

What genus who species include an immense of awful redness and africanus has a name meaning southern ape and includes homonym ancestors of modern humans.

Australopithecus.

That is correct.

Next tossup question.

What figure?

Who is bound by the feather, gulped near at the cost of tears?

Hat.

Go ahead, talk about Odin.

That's incorrect.

I'll continue for parkland.

A tears hand will swallow Odin at Ragnarok and is a monstrous wolf of Norsemen.

Go ahead Fenrir.

Fenrir is correct for your bonus.

What term describes acids such as phosphoric acid that have multiple acid?

Disassociation constants?

Because they can lose more than one proton.

And Bronstein acids.

That's incorrect.

Poly protic acids.

The correct answer.

Poly protic.

Next tossup question.

What country's summer coalition and Pessoa party support Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez alongside parkland, Spain.

Spain is correct alongside regional parties for the Basque Country and Catalonia.

For your bonus, what ancestors of Babur brutally conquered much of Central Asia and the Middle East in the 14th century and saw himself as Genghis Khan's true heir.

Tamerlane.

Tamerlane is correct.

Next toss up.

What word?

Describing five the five largest vertebrae in the lower part of the spine also names a puncture used to obtain good Saucon Valley lumbar.

Lumbar is correct for your bonus.

Events called suhoor and iftar take place before and after periods of what practice which is obligatory for Muslims as a pillar of Psalm.

Fasting.

Fasting is correct.

Next toss up question.

What author described experiments that produced a leopard man in the island of Doctor Monroe?

Parkland.

H.G.

H.G.

Wells H.G.

Wells is correct, and he also wrote about Martian invaders in The War of the worlds.

For your bonus, what country's Atlantic Ocean territories include South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands?

France.

That is incorrect.

The United Kingdom is the correct answer.

Next toss up question what series in which Tara and Darcy befriend transfer student Ellie is a Netflix show about the romance between British teens Charlie and Sofia.

Heartstopper.

Heartstopper is correct for your bonus.

Under Clovis and the Merovingian dynasties, what Germanic tribe occupied Paris and conquered formerly Roman Gaul in the fifth century AD?

Visigoths.

That is incorrect.

The Franks were the correct answer.

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

Saucon Valley, you'll get to pick between the following topic.

Janes or Vermont.

From.

Vermont.

Vermont.

It is Soccer Valley.

Your second lightning round topic is Vermont.

Answer the following about Vermont.

It's state capital, Montpelier.

Correct.

Vermont mountain range, whose boys were led by Ethan Allen.

Green mountain.

Correct.

Lake on the northern part of Vermont's border with New York.

Lake Champlain.

Correct.

US National passenger railway company that operates the Vermonter line.

Amtrak.

Correct.

Its most populous city.

Pass.

Vermont born U.S. president nicknamed silent.

Pass, red Sox catcher and Vermont native nicknamed Pudge.

Pass.

Independent Vermont senator who ran for president was correct.

Optimistic orphan who moved to Vermont in an Eleanor Porter children's novel.

Oliver Twist.

Incorrect.

Feline, nickname of the University of Vermont sports teams.

Tom cat.

That is incorrect.

They're known as the Catamounts.

And.

Parkland.

Your topic is Jaynes.

Give the surnames of these notable women with a given name.

Jane.

Author of sentence Sensibility.

Austin.

Correct.

American activist who co-founded whole House.

Adam.

Correct.

Coming home actress, photographed on an antique aircraft gun in North Oneida.

Correct.

English zoologist who studied chimpanzees.

Doll.

Correct.

Third wife of Henry the Eighth, who died after childbirth.

Seymour.

Correct.

Actress who played Sue Sylvester on Glee.

Which the first of you.

Lynch?

Lynch is correct.

Wife of Franklin, who was the U.S. First Lady from 1853 to correct fictional governess in a Charlotte Bronte novel.

Correct.

Alias used for Norma McCorvey in a 1973 Supreme Court case, though that is incorrect.

Louisa and Born, director of the piano and the power of the dog.

Lloyd.

That's incorrect.

Jane Champion was the last one, and the other one would have been I.

Her DOH!

It was ro is incorrect for Rovers.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Did they say ro?

Do we want to check cause it was out all right?

Yeah.

Okay.

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

What quantity is plotted against inflation on the Phillips curve has frictional and.

Go ahead.

Parkland employment.

That is incorrect.

I'll continue for Saucon Valley and cylindrical types and measures the rate of people looking for work.

Cyclical types.

Excuse me.

Go ahead.

Employment guys both said employment.

It's unemployment is what that measures.

Next tossup question.

What a holy Roman Emperor who died in 1190 at the river south.

Go ahead.

Talk about Rosa Frederick Barbarossa is correct.

And he was nicknamed for his red beard.

The end of that question for your bonus.

What singer of the hits I Got you?

I feel good and say it loud I'm black and I'm proud.

Was a funk musician often called the Godfather of Soul with Steve.

Al green.

That's incorrect.

James Brown is the correct answer.

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

Ready?

How many small?

Two by two by two cubes can fit inside a larger rectangular prism or box whose dimensions are eight by two by four?

Parkland.

Eight.

Eight is correct for your bonus.

In the Old Testament, David arranges the death of Uriah in order to marry what woman?

Say it again.

Bathsheba.

Bathsheba is correct.

And he observed her bathing.

Next toss up question.

What play about?

Sisters from Laurel, Mississippi, is set in New Orleans.

Was written by Tennessee Williams and features.

Streetcar Named Desire A Streetcar Named Desire is correct, and it featured Stella and Blanche Dubois.

Your bonuses in math.

Pencil and paper.

Ready?

What is the perimeter of a semicircle whose radius is seven?

Given the perimeter consists of a line segment plus an arc.

So identity has a plus.

Seven pi plus seven.

That is incorrect.

It's seven.

Pi plus 14 is the correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What dessert?

Whose namesake eye is a geological dome called the Saucon Valley had a comma.

That's incorrect.

Over to parkland.

I'll continue the question.

The Rochette structure is north of this, a hill and extends across northern Africa.

Go ahead.

Sahara.

The Sahara Desert is correct for your bonus.

What?

English king defeated Richard the Third at the Battle of Bosworth to end the War of the roses.

It's my turn.

I'm Henry the seventh.

Henry the seventh is correct.

Next toss up question.

What Chinese dynasty, whose founder won the Battle of Lake Pyong or Pyongyang, built the Forbidden City Palace in Beijing or parkland.

The Ming dynasty.

The Ming dynasty is correct.

For your bonus.

What giant hunter from Greek mythology.

Who was killed by a scorpion sent by on Syria or iron?

Orion is correct.

He was turned into a constellation by Zeus.

Next toss up question.

What objects?

A rare example, which are the British Ghanian $0.01 magenta, are collected by philatelist.

Parkland coins.

That is incorrect and were found at the corners of envelopes Saucon Valley.

Stamps.

Stamps is correct for your bonus.

Deep ocean circulation is driven by changes in temperature and what quantity, which can be decreased in any.

Say it again.

Salinity.

Salinity is correct.

Next toss up question.

What particles whose energy is equal to Planck's constant times frequency caused.

Go ahead.

Parkland photon.

Photons is correct for your bonus.

What facility, which Microsoft reached a deal to reopen in 2024, was the site of a 1979 partial meltdown in Pennsylvania.

Three Mile Island three Mile Island is correct.

Next tossup question what author depicted brothers Peter Martin and Jack in his satire A tale?

Go ahead.

Lewis, that's incorrect.

And that is the end of the match.

I think this is one of the best matches we've had in this entire tournament, but unfortunately, soccer value 245 points.

Not quite enough.

Good luck with the rest of your school year.

Parkland, congratulations.

You're on to the final four teams.

I thank you for watching.

We'll see you next week for the first matchup between Raving Academy and Allentown Central Catholic in the final four teams of the tournament.

Thank you.

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