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Hello and welcome to the sixth match of the second round of the 51st season of Scholastic Scrimmage.

I'm your host, David Graff.

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

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

At half time will pause for students to introduce themselves.

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

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

And now let's begin.

Buzzers.

Ready?

Here's our first tossup question.

What novel in which the word mother is seen as an obscenity by Helmholtz Watson in the World state is a dystopian novel by all this Huxley sucking valley.

Brave new world.

Brave New World is correct for your bonus.

A fragment of what structure contains a 1990 graffiti painting that shows Lenin Brezhnev kissing East German leader Erich Honecker.

The Berlin Wall.

The Berlin Wall is correct.

Next tossup question.

What molecule whose vibrations were used in the first atomic clock is a pungent gas produced in the Haber process, whose molecular formula is NH three.

Saucon Valley.

Ammonia.

Ammonia is correct.

For your bonus, what author wrote about Esperanza, a Mexican-American girl who grows up in a rundown Chicago neighborhood?

In her novel the House on Mango Street.

I don't know what we should know that I'm night.

What?

The last quiz.

Incorrect.

Sandra C Nano Carneros is the correct answer.

Sandra C narrows next tossup question.

What world leader who introduced the Family Allowance, or Bolsa Familia in his 2003 term, was reelected in 2022.

Let's go ahead and talk Reveille.

The silver.

Weenie?

Yes, we'll take that.

Lula da Silva is correct for your bonus.

What immune system organ found behind the sternum is a site of T-cell maturation or opening against the lymph node.

That's incorrect.

The thymus is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What NBA team, which won its first title in 1999 with the Twin Towers lineup that featured David Robinson.

Go ahead, Notre Dame.

San Antonio Spurs.

San Antonio Spurs is correct in the North Star Victor Wembanyama.

For your bonus in August 2025, the African Union endorsed correct the map It campaign against what commonly used map projection that distorts Africa's size and shape.

The Mercator projection.

That is correct.

And doing it that way with the Mercator projection.

It really does distort the size.

Africa is actually 30 point 3,000,000m², compared to Greenland's only two point 1,000,000m².

Next tossup question what organ that produces renin is targeted by the suppressant to increase the aquaporins expression, and is a bean shaped structure.

Talking about kidney.

The kidney is correct and it produces urine.

For your bonus, what Spanish princess was the first wife of England's Henry the Eighth, who divorced her to marry Anne Boleyn?

Isabella.

That's incorrect.

Catherine of Aragon is the correct answer.

Next tossup question.

In what city?

Where a rapid drop in murders has been overseen by Mayor Brandon Scott or the crews rebuilding the Francis Scott Key Bridge.

Notre Dame, Chicago.

That is incorrect.

And we're talking Valley.

Baltimore.

Baltimore is correct.

There.

Rebuilding the bridge in Maryland.

That was one that was hit by the barge, tragically killing a six different workers around the bridge.

Okay, so for your bonus, Lilongwe is the capital of what small, landlocked African country that was once formerly known as Naya Sala.

This small could be the.

South.

The south of Burundi.

That's incorrect.

The country we're looking for is Malawi.

Next tossup question.

What family whose art collection formed the basis of the Uffizi had members such as Lorenzo the Magnificent and controlled.

Go ahead, Notre Dame.

Medici.

Medici is correct.

And they controlled Renaissance Florence for your bonus.

Berry Gordy Jr founded.

What record label that pioneered a namesake type of pop inspired soul music that was named after a nickname of Detroit Motown.

Motown.

Motown is correct.

Next tossup question.

What descriptive frameworks classified by the Köppen system include semi-arid and tropical, and are categories.

Go ahead.

Saucon Valley climate climates are correct, and they include long term weather patterns for your bonus.

What gigantic, monstrous creature, whose call is depicted in a 1928 short story is central to the mythos created by H.P.

Lovecraft?

Yeah, that's that's cool.

Kathy Wu is correct.

Next toss up question what character is trained at Battle School to lead a war against the four MCs?

In a 1985 science fiction novel about his game?

Go ahead.

Notre Dame under yes, under Andrew Wiggins is correct.

And he was by Orson Scott Card.

The Ender's Game series, for a bonus.

What enslaved woman from the park for from the Parrish household was accused of teaching children fortune telling at the start of the Salem witch trials.

That's the parish household.

Sarah.

Sarah.

Sarah's.

Sarah.

Incorrect.

Tituba is the correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What politician?

Who, with Mayor George Mosconi was murdered in 1978, served on San Francisco's Board of Supervisors as its first openly gay member.

Harvey Milk is the correct answer.

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

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

South American animals or Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart subject.

We should make sure.

Animals.

South American animals.

South American animals.

It is.

Saucon Valley for your first lightning round topic, it's South American animals.

Please have a pencil and paper ready.

Given an animal found in South America state whether it is a and this is what you should write down.

It's a mammal, a fish, a bird, or none of the above.

And we'll start the lightning round a jaguar animal.

Correct.

Piranha for a fish.

Correct.

Poison dart frog.

Amphibian.

No, no, none of the above.

You have unfortunately heard the wrong answer.

Which is the right answer?

First, there are no points for that.

Blue and gold macaw a bird.

Yes.

Capybara a mammal.

Correct.

Keyhole cichlid.

None of the above.

Incorrect.

Basilisk.

None of the above.

Correct.

Greater Rhea.

Bird.

Correct.

Alpaca.

Mammal.

Correct.

The, Excuse me.

The waddled.

Curacao bird.

Correct.

Okay, on to Notre Dame.

Your topic is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Answer the following about the composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

His present day country of birth Germany.

Incorrect.

Post Baroque period in which he composed.

As the title.

Magic instrument.

Played by Tamino in an opera flute.

Correct.

Decade in which he died.

1690s.

Incorrect.

Two rhyming German words that preceded knocked music in the title of his Serenade.

Number 13.

Pass.

Father of the Symphony, who mentored him.

Pass.

Say it again, Wolfgang.

Incorrect.

Mask for the dead.

He died before finishing.

Pass.

Letter that identifies catalog numbers of his works.

E. Incorrect.

Mozart.

Mozart.

Opera featuring the statue of L. Commodore.

Pass.

Key.

Signature of his 1783 Greek Mass.

And that last one would have been in C minor.

Okay.

We continue on with the following.

Toss up question.

What genus of succulent plants with slender, toothed leaves includes a species named Vera, whose insides are often used to make Saucon Valley.

Palo Alto is correct, and the insides are often used to make sunburn ointment.

For your bonus, what 17th century British cavalier poet urged young women to gather.

He rosebuds while ye may in his poem To the virgins to make much of time.

Spencer.

Incorrect.

Robert Herrick is the correct answer.

Okay.

Next toss up question is in math.

Pencil and paper.

Ready?

What is the price of a single notebook?

If $9.12 is the total cost for six identical notebooks, go to Soccer Valley $1.57.

That's incorrect.

Over to Notre Dame.

No conferring, but you have time to work.

Go ahead.

$1.52.

The dollar 52 is correct.

For your bonus in 2025, what?

State Senator Marsha Blackburn announced that she would run for governor to succeed term limited Republican Bill Lee.

Florida.

Incorrect.

Tennessee is a correct state.

Next tossup question.

Romans used what fruit to make mustard.

Khiam wedding bread and a beverage poured out in sacrificial libations and soccer.

Go ahead.

Grape.

Grapes are correct.

And it was also mentioned in the motto vino veritas for your bonus.

What English mathematician lends his name to a theoretical computer or machine that can look at one square at a time of an infinitely long tape?

Turing, Turing.

Turing is correct for Alan Turing.

His Turing machine.

Next tossup question.

What city is home to the church of the Holy Sepulcher?

Go ahead, Notre Dame, Jerusalem Jerusalem is correct.

And also it's home to the Al-Aqsa mosque.

For your bonus, an economic observation called Gresham's Law is usually expressed as the bad form of what concept?

Driving out the good.

Supply and demand.

That's incorrect.

Money or currency is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What art movement, exemplified by paintings like The Breakfast by Juan Griese, was co-founded by Pablo Picasso and emphasizes geometric art.

Psychedelic cubism.

Cubism is correct and emphasizes geometric artworks.

For your bonus, what U.S.

state contains Mount Mitchell, the tallest mountain east of the Mississippi.

This question for Tennessee.

Incorrect.

Mount Mitchell's in North Carolina.

Next tossup question.

What particles are described as fast or thermal, depending on speed, consist of one up and two down port.

I talk a valley.

Neutrons.

Neutrons is correct and has one up and two down quarks for bonus.

What gas giant planet takes only about ten Earth hours to rotate on its axis, and thus has the shortest day in the solar system.

This little gas giant gas giant is looking to market just after its launch in 2000.

Jupiter.

Jupiter is correct, and according to NASA, it specifically takes nine hours and 56 minutes to get through a single day.

Okay, on to the next tossup question.

Until the 1850s, what country cut off nearly all foreign trade through it?

Go ahead, Notre Dame, China.

That's incorrect.

I'll continue for Silicon Valley through its koku policy when we talk about Japan.

Say Japan.

Japan is correct.

And it was ruled from Edo during that period.

For your bonus, what nickname is usually applied to Ludwig von Beethoven's Third Symphony, which he originally dedicated to Napoleon?

Great great.

The great opening.

No.

That's incorrect.

It's.

It's heroic.

Or a rock symphony.

And with that, we have recap.

Time for a great match underway.

Currently, Sock Valley leads with a score of 172, Notre Dame 60, and now have the students introduce themselves with their first name, last name, grade level.

And the answer to the following question who is your current favorite musical artist?

Soccer Valley Max.

Go ahead.

Max.

Brasco.

Freshman.

Foster the people.

Okay.

Alex Borowski, senior.

The kid.

Leroy.

Okay, Ron Paul said junior.

Shostakovich.

Stephan.

Guess who's in senior.

The Chainsmokers.

Okay.

Notre Dame.

Jackson.

Go ahead.

Jackson Hole senior.

Lever.

Michael Corey, senior.

Travis.

Scott, Philip.

Bella, junior.

Mitski.

Pascal.

Bianco, senior.

Zach Bryan.

All right.

Excellent.

We'll continue with the second half of the match with the following toss up question.

Let's go back to what author called love and ever fixed Mark in a poem that begins.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit implements one of his 154 sonnets.

Go ahead.

I can Valley Shakespeare.

Shakespeare is correct.

For your bonus, what humorist from Minnesota delivered radio monologues that describe the fictional town of Lake Wobegon on A Prairie Home Companion?

I'm Davis Mitchell.

Incorrect.

That is public radio.

Great.

Garrison Keillor.

To next tossup question.

What island, which is northeast of Saint Pierre and Meek and Miquelon is governed from Saint John's and forms.

Go ahead Duncan valley, Prince Edward Island.

That is incorrect.

I'll continue for Notre Dame and forms a Canadian province with mainland Labrador.

Newfoundland was in.

Go ahead.

Newfoundland.

Newfoundland is correct for your bonus.

The Peruvian dish cooee is made from what?

Domesticated rodent, which is sometimes called a cave.

Guinea pig.

Guinea pig is correct.

Next toss up question.

What corporation was originally known as Dayton's names the stadium of the Minnesota Twins and is a retail giant whose logo is a red bullseye.

Notre Dame.

Target.

Target is correct for your bonus.

In 1776, what American spy proclaimed, I regret I have but one life to give for my country before being executed in New York.

Nathan Hale.

Nathan Hale is correct.

On to the next tossup question.

What composer included a four against three polyrhythm in his fantasy impromptu, and was inspired by a dog chasing its tail to compose the Minute Waltz?

Saucon Valley.

Quickly.

Strasser.

Incorrect.

Over to Notre Dame.

So no conferring, but it's a freebie.

John.

Legend.

Also incorrect.

Chopin is a correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What institution which targeted Merinos and go under Thomas de Torquemada enforced Catholicism on Jews and Muslims.

Go ahead, talk about church.

Say it again.

The Catholic church.

That is incorrect.

I'll go over to Notre Dame.

Muslim converts in Spain.

Notre Dame.

The Spanish Inquisition.

The Spanish Inquisition is correct.

For your bonus.

Various authors are buried in Poets Corner, a part of a London church where many kings and queens have had their coronations.

So should be a part of what London church for many kings and queens have had their coronation.

Westminster Abbey.

Westminster Abbey is correct for the next toss up question.

What author described the monster ennui in a poem to the reader, placed before the spleen an ideal section of his 1853 collection, the Florida mall.

That author Charles Baudelaire.

Next tossup question.

What show in which horse dealer Travis Wheatley was played by series creator Taylor Sheridan, is a neo-western named for the Dutton Ranch in Montana.

Saucon Valley.

Yellowstone.

Yellowstone is correct.

For your bonus, what literary character with an alliterative name is hanged after accidentally killing the master at arms?

John Clay gourd, in a Herman Melville novella.

No, no, Arnold Armstrong.

Incorrect.

Billy Budd is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What group of compounds, which include syphon amides and amniotic glycosides, are used to treat infections by inhibiting the growth of bacteria?

Sucker valley.

Antibacterials.

We.

Yes, it's like bacteria's is correct or antibiotics is also correct, but antibacterials will take for your bonus.

What eight letter noun beginning with H refers to a person who pursues pleasure as the most important goal in life.

Hedonist.

A hedonist is correct.

Next tossup question.

What language?

Whose use in education was rejected at the 1880s Milan Congress was brought to the US by Thomas Gallaudet and is known as ASL.

Good Saucon Valley Sign Language.

Yes.

American Sign Language.

And imagine that at the at them a law in Congress where they said no, we'll we'll pass on that.

Only three people were deaf out of 162 voted on that.

So go figure.

All right.

For your bonus, what opera in which Cleo applies makeup during his aria Vesta de la de la Juba, was composed by Ruggiero Leon Cavallo and is titled for circus performers.

Jim Crow.

Incorrect.

Polje is the correct answer.

And with that we reached the second lightning round Notre Dame.

You'll get to pick between the following topics.

The topics are World Series or words in state capital names.

World series.

World series it is Notre Dame.

Your second lightning round topic is World Series.

Answer the following about baseball's World Series.

The month it traditionally begins.

You can just say October.

October, correct?

In the series current format, the maximum number of games.

Seven.

Seven.

Correct.

Team that won the series in 2024.

Dodger.

Dodgers correct team that stole signs during the 2017 Astros.

Correct.

The only non U.S.

team to win the series.

Blue Jays.

Correct.

Team that won the series in both Oakland and Philadelphia is correct.

US TV network that currently broadcast the series.

Fox.

Correct.

Year with no series.

Because of a strike in 1993.

Incorrect.

The city whose team won the first series.

Boston.

Correct.

Al West team that has never appeared in the series.

Angels.

Incorrect.

The Seattle Mariners never appeared.

Okay, so, Valley, your topic is words in state capital names give these words that form part of or all of the name of a state's capital.

Alternative name for Father Christmas.

Santa.

Correct.

Substance whose table form is made up of sodium chloride salts.

Correct.

Holy person who has been canonized.

Correct.

Stick used to conduct an orchestra.

Baton.

Correct.

Three letter French word for some.

Parts.

Okay.

Mythical creature reborn from ash.

Phoenix.

Correct.

A state of harmony between people or country.

Concord.

Correct.

Popular jazz age dance.

Charleston.

Correct.

French word for stone.

Rock.

Incorrect term for God's intervention in the universe.

Miracle.

Incorrect.

Providence for Providence, Rhode Island.

Yeah.

Tennessee.

Little Rock was not.

Okay.

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

What orphan gets lost in Mcdougal's cave for three days along with Becky Thatcher?

Valley.

Tom Sawyer.

Tom Sawyer is correct.

Your bonus is in math.

Pencil and paper.

Ready?

By what percentage does the number 24 increase when its two digits are reversed?

To make a different number?

Yes.

I'm sure.

75%.

75% is correct.

Next tossup question.

What restoration is Christian movement does not celebrate birthdays.

Publishes the Watchtower magazine.

Go ahead.

Stocking Valley.

Mormonism.

That's incorrect.

I'll continue for Notre Dame.

And practices door to door evangelism.

Go ahead, Notre Dame.

Jehovah's witness, Jehovah's Witness is correct.

For your bonus.

What Latin American country, which gained independence after the cisplatin war was where the German ship Admiral Graf spread Avenue Graf.

Admiral Graf Spee was scuttled in 1939.

Argentina.

Incorrect.

Uruguay is the correct answer.

Next toss up question is in math.

Pencil on paper.

Ready?

What is the diameter of a circle whose area is 49 pi?

Given that a circle area.

Saucon Valley.

1414 is correct.

For your bonus, in 1912, what German language poet spent time at a castle on the Adriatic, where he wrote every angel is terrified in his in the first of his doorway.

No elegies.

Oh, I know Goethe.

That's incorrect.

Right near Wilkie or Ruka is the correct answer.

Reinier Rocha.

Next tossup question.

What country whose second longest river is to go to?

Bari is home to the state of Gujarat and Raja.

Go ahead, Saucon Valley, India.

India is correct.

And it's home to also Rajasthan.

And it lies which lie on its border with Pakistan.

For your bonus.

What compounds whose diethyl variety was once used as an anesthetic have a central oxygen atom bonded to two carbon atoms.

I think I was back to carboxyl carboxyl.

Incorrect ethers is a correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What mythical figures named octopus, Clotho and Lak?

This.

Go ahead so I can rally the fates.

The fates is correct.

And they spun thread from a spindle that represented people's lives and determined their fates.

For your bonus, the headquarters of the U.S.

Fifth Fleet is on what small Middle Eastern island nation whose capital is Manama, Kuwait.

That is incorrect.

Bahrain is the correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What mathematical operation can be approximated using Simpson's rule or a rhyme in sum, and is used?

Go ahead.

Talking about integration.

Integration is correct and is using calculus to find the area under a curve for your bonus.

In 2000, the NHL retired leaguewide what number formerly worn by Wayne Gretzky.

000 is incorrect.

99 is a great one word.

99.

Next tossup question.

What novel?

Whose protagonist is jailed after attacking Phil Connor centers on gas rockets, depicts a meatpacking plant.

Go ahead.

Sorkin Valley, the jungle.

The jungle is correct, and it's by Upton Sinclair.

For your bonus, the city of a Renault was the cult center of a sun goddess worshiped by what?

Indo European speaking people who control who controlled Anatolia from 1600 to 1180 BC?

It was.

And that last one.

The answer was the Hittites.

It's a correct answer.

Well, guys, it was a great match between two great teams.

But Notre Dame unfortunately, with 155 points at the end of the road.

Good luck with the rest of your school year.

Saucon Valley with 305 points.

You're on to the next round and thank you for watching.

We'll see you next week.

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