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

I'm your host, David Graff.

Today's match is between Southern Lehigh High School and Allentown Central Catholic.

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

We'll pause for students to introduce themselves.

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

Classic scrimmage requires rapid recall specific factual information.

It's not necessarily indicative of academic training.

And now let's begin.

Buzzers.

Ready.

Here's our first toss up question.

What author of the Gaelic Wars defeated verse in Jeder Rex at the siege of Alesia?

Go ahead in Central Catholic.

Julius Caesar.

Julius Caesar is correct.

And he was killed by Brutus and other senators during the Ides of March.

Your bonuses in math.

Pencil on paper.

Ready?

How many total widgets can a factory produce in one hour?

If it produces a single widget every seconds?

75.

That's incorrect.

90 widgets is the correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What quantity that can be measured by the Shannon index or richness is high in namesake hotspots, and measures the variety of species in an ecosystem.

Go ahead.

Suddenly, high diversity.

Yes, we'll take that.

Diversity or biodiversity is correct.

For bonus, Christy Mann is what title figure of the Western world in a riot sparking 1907 play by John Millington.

Siege.

The Crucible.

Incorrect.

It's Playboy.

The play was the Playboy of the Western world.

Next tossup question.

What novel in which Mister Willoughby, cruelly jilted Marianne is titled for opposing traits of the Dashwood.

Go ahead, southern Lehigh, pride and prejudice.

That's incorrect.

I'll continue for Central Catholic.

Of the Dashwood sisters and was written by Jane Austen.

So no conferring, but it's a freebie.

Go ahead.

Central Alabama.

Also incorrect.

Sense and sensibility is the correct answer.

Matilda knew it then.

On the.

Yes.

All right.

Next tossup question.

What class of people whose rights Brubaker advocated for was often consigned to undesirable jobs, and is the lowest social group in India.

Stubbornly high.

The untouchables?

Yes, that is correct.

Or the Dalits is also a correct answer for your bonus.

What quantity is the amount of energy needed to increase a material's temperature by a single degree?

Calorie count.

Calorie.

That is incorrect.

Heat capacity is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What country's ascension to the BRICs group was vetoed by Brazil in 2024, following the reelection of Nicolas Maduro to presidency, and is based where he is based in Caracas.

Central Catholic Indonesia.

That's incorrect.

Over the Southern Lehigh.

Go ahead and we'll say it again.

Venezuela.

Venezuela is correct.

Next tossup or for your bonus, in 2025, the Trump administration banned what news organization from the white House press pool over its refusal to use the phrase Gulf of America.

NPR.

That is incorrect.

The Associated Press or the AP?

Next toss up question.

What planet with a corkscrew shaped magno tail or mag magneto tail, has an axial tilt of 98 degrees.

Go ahead.

Central Catholic.

Uranus.

Uranus is correct, and it was discovered by William Herschel.

For your bonus, Lemnos was the favorite island of what Greek god who was hurled from Mount Olympus as a baby due to his lameness.

Hephaestus.

Hephaestus is correct.

Next toss up question.

What president, whom Ken Starr investigated over real estate dealings in the Whitewater scandal.

Central Catholic Clinton.

Bill Clinton is correct.

And he was impeached after his affair with Monica Lewinsky.

For your bonus.

What French emperor was deposed in 1870 after being captured by German forces at the Battle of Sedan?

Napoleon the third.

Deploying the third is correct.

Next tossup question.

What Canadian musician behind the albums I used to think I could fly and so close to what warned Southern Lehigh McCray.

Tape of crazed or Taylor Cray fan.

You got really excited.

All right, we got tape.

McCray is correct for your bonus.

A William Wordsworth poem beginning I Wander Lonely as a cloud describes a host of what golden flowers fluttering and dancing in a lakeside breeze.

Time.

Dandelions.

It's incorrect.

You're talking about daffodils.

Next tossup question.

What artist who made several depictions of his bedroom in Laurel showed the nighttime view from his asylum window.

Central.

Catholic.

Van Gogh.

Van Gogh is correct.

And that was in his famous painting From the Time window, The Starry Night.

For your bonus, what adjective describes species found naturally in a single, defined geographic location and nowhere else on Earth?

Native.

Incorrect.

That species would be endemic to the area.

Next tossup question.

What leader be gained?

Began a namesake Thor in censorship, gave the secret speech against Stalin and was in power in the U.S.. Go ahead.

Central Catholic.

Khrushchev.

Khrushchev is correct.

And he was in power the USSR during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

For your bonus, what term is defined as a type of government run by a small number of people who may use their wealth or fame to exert influence.

Oligarchy.

Oligarchy is correct.

And with that, we have reached the first lightning round in a pre-match coin toss.

It was determined the Central Catholic will get to pick between the following topics.

Title numbers or the 13th century 15th century.

Title numbers.

Title numbers.

It is Central Catholic.

Your first lightning round topic is title numbers.

Name the authors of these literary works with numbers in the title.

1984 Orwell.

Correct.

Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury.

Correct.

Catch 22.

A Tale of Two Cities.

Charles Dickens.

Correct.

The sign of the four, in which John Gaston gets engaged.

Pass the Three Musketeers.

Pass.

The collection of nine stories, which include A Perfect Day for banana fish.

Dickinson.

Incorrect.

The two towers.

Token.

Correct.

12th night pass.

Six Characters in Search of an author.

Pass.

That last one is Pirandello.

I've not heard of it either.

I can see the look of confusion on everyone's face.

Okay, so your first topic is the 13th century.

Answer the following about major world events and figures from the 13th century.

Document England's King John signed in 12 Magna Carta.

Correct.

Mongol ruler who was Kublai?

Grand Genghis Khan, correct.

Merchant who returned from China via the Silk Road in 1290s.

In the 1290s.

Ho Chi Minh.

That's incorrect.

Mathematician who published a sequence starting one, one, two.

Fibonacci.

Correct.

Crusade that sacked Constantinople.

The First Crusade.

Incorrect.

Theologian of the Summer Theologica.

Pass.

Chinese dynasty ousted by the UN.

Ho Chi Minh.

Incorrect.

Long lasting empire founded by Osman the First in 1299.

Ottoman Empire.

Correct.

French king who later became a saint.

Paul.

Incorrect.

University founded in 1209 by scholars leaving Oxford.

Cambridge.

Correct.

Okay.

We'll continue on with the following.

Toss up question.

What title animal is told to return to night's Plutonian shore as it as it perches by a bust of pep.

Go ahead.

Stubbornly high.

Raven.

The raven is correct, and it croaks.

Nevermore for a bonus.

Spain's Viceroyalty of New Grenada had its capital.

On what continent?

Region.

North America.

That is incorrect.

It's South American.

It's where?

Present day Bogota, Colombia is.

Next toss up question.

What company which acquired Hill's Pet Nutrition in the 1970s, owns such brands as Irish Spring and is the world's largest producer of toothpaste.

Southern.

Lehigh.

Colgate.

Colgate is correct.

For bonus, what organ that lies beneath the liver is used to store bile.

Pancreas.

No, no.

Oh, I have it.

I don't know what are going to do it because it was audible.

We do say captains only give the answer.

So go ahead and don't.

The gallbladder.

The gallbladder is correct.

Make sure captain only gives the answer out loud.

All right, next tossup question.

What vehicle painted a highly reflective white, has movable drop nose, and was the first commercial.

Go ahead.

Central Catholic.

The Concord.

The Concord is correct.

You could achieve supersonic speeds.

I don't know why we phrase it that way, but it did have that drop nose.

It could actually land on the runway for your bonus.

What genre exemplified by novels like Rock n roll photos Pedro Panorama is characterized by fantastical elements existing in otherwise normal settings with low fantasy.

That is incorrect.

It's magical realism or real mo.

Next tossup question what scripture which may depict or excuse me?

What sculpture which may depict copper or Khufu is a nose limestone carving of a lion.

Go ahead.

Suddenly the sphinx.

The Great Sphinx is correct and is found near the pyramids of Giza.

For your bonus.

The 1819 Supreme Court case McCulloch versus Maryland held that the establishment of what financial institution was constitutional.

The National Bank.

That is incorrect.

The correct answer is the second Bank of the United States.

Next tossup question.

What country?

Whose first female president was Mary Robinson?

Has political parties like Fianna Fail and Sinn Fein and is governed.

Go ahead.

Central Catholic Northern Ireland.

That is incorrect.

I'll continue for Southern Lehigh and is governed from Dublin.

Go ahead.

Southern Lehigh.

Ireland.

Ireland is correct.

Although we were thinking Northern Ireland, some of those parties do exist in Northern Ireland.

But the whole clue led us to who is the, the actual Prime Minister of Ireland?

For your bonus.

In what month?

In 1862, did Mexican forces defeat a French army at the Battle of Puebla?

May.

May is correct.

And with that, we have reached halftime.

We have an extremely tight match underway.

Southern Lehigh currently leads with a score of 110 to Central Catholic's 100.

And now let's take a moment for students to introduce themselves with a first name, last name grade level.

And they answer the following question.

Who is your current favorite music artist suddenly?

Hi, Patrick.

Go ahead.

Patrick D'Amico, grade 12.

And my current favorite artist is Rich.

You mentioned the coal miners.

Okay.

Google people.

Grade ten.

My favorite artist is Ivor Porter Robinson.

Work for Coca-Cola, I can't decide.

All right, I'm Matilda Snyder.

I'm a senior.

And my favorite artist right now.

Is Levy.

Okay.

I'm a van, too.

I'm also senior, and my favorite artist is Tate McRae.

Nice.

Worked out for you in this round.

Central Catholic.

Cooper.

Go ahead.

My name is Cooper Thompson.

I'm in grade 12, and I honestly have no clue what my favorite musical artist right now would be.

Okay.

My name is Jim Lincoln.

I'm in grade 12, and my current favorite music artist would be the Eagles.

All right, James Rannoch I'm in 12th grade and my favorite artist right now would be LED Zeppelin.

Matthew Alvarado I'm a senior and my favorite artist would be the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

All right.

You are not the first person to name the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

I'm excited.

I'm a Red Hot Chili Peppers fan, but I was around when, like, their best albums were coming out at that time.

Okay.

We're going to continue on the second half of the match with the following toss up question what numbers may be algebraic or transcendental?

Form a set that can be denoted as r minus Q and cannot be written as a quotient of two integers.

Suddenly high irrational numbers.

Irrational numbers is correct for your bonus.

What country whose city of Maastricht names a treaty establishing the European Union is home to many speakers of the West African language.

The Netherlands the Netherlands is correct.

Next toss up question what country whose port of sheet Chien is at the mouth of the Oder River is also home to the Tula River, which flows past Central Catholic Poland.

That is correct, and flows past the text in Warsaw for bonus.

What quantity is the pressure that must be applied to one side of a semi-permeable membrane to prevent water from passing through?

The water potential osmotic is what we're looking for.

So there's pressure.

Next toss up question what edifice whose construction was ordered by Nimrod was left unfinished when God mixed up the speech of men work.

Go ahead.

Central Catholic, the Tower of Babel, the Tower of Babel is correct for your bonus.

What Senator from Massachusetts proclaimed Liberty in Union now and forever, one and inseparable.

During an 1830 debate with Robert Hayne.

A. Smith.

Incorrect.

Daniel Webster is a correct senator.

Next toss up question.

What dictator whose fate and hones movement incorporated the forlorn hey invaded German war or invited German warplanes to bomb Guernica and held power in Spain until 1970?

Go ahead, Francisco Franco Francisco Franco is correct for your bonus.

What artist of the 24 paintings of Marie de Medici cycle was a Flemish Baroque painter known for his sensuous and muscular female nudes.

Michelangelo.

Incorrect.

Peter Paul Rubens is the correct answer.

Next toss up question what country?

Whose eastern half is home to the historical region of Syria, not of Syrian arcana, contains the ports of Benghazi and is governed from Tripoli.

Suddenly hot Tunisia?

That's incorrect.

Over to Central Catholic.

It's a good go ahead.

Libya.

Libya is correct for your bonus with 37.

What country boasts the most official languages, including a mirror, a language that its former president, Evo Morales, grew up speaking Papua New Guinea?

That is incorrect.

Bolivia is a correct answer.

Next toss up question what quantity, which bonds called linkers are indexed against, is measured by changes in CPI, and is the rate at which prices rise over time?

Central Catholic inflation.

Inflation is correct.

It's how prices rise over time.

For your bonus Crocker light a bright red or of lead also contains what element that makes up about 10% of the mass of stainless steel.

Titanium?

That's incorrect.

Chromium is the correct answer.

Next tossup question what vehicles inspired Duke Ellington standard about taking one and go?

It's only high.

The train.

The train is correct for your bonus.

The 1968 discovery of oil.

In what state led to the development of a pipeline system between Prudhoe Bay and Valdez, Alaska.

Alaska is correct.

Next tossup question what playwright of An Ideal Husband depicts two friends named Jack and Algernon, who both use the same go ahead, central Catholic, Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde is correct.

They both use the same alias in The Importance of Being Earnest.

For a bonus, the industrial center of Perm lies near what base of what mountain range which separates the Asian and European portions of Russia.

The Ural Mountains, the Ural Mountains is correct.

Next tossup question.

What river whose flow was reversed by engineers in the late 19th century, flows out of Lake Michigan and through the most populous city in Illinois, Southern Lehigh, the Chicago River.

The Chicago River is correct for your bonus.

In a 1903 memoir titled The Story of My Life, what activist wrote about her education under teacher and Sullivan, Helen Keller Helen Keller is correct.

Next toss up question what quantity for which up quarks equal plus two thirds in.

Go ahead.

Suddenly high charge charge is correct and they're measured in columns for your bonus.

What physicist developed the path integral formulation and names diagrams that depict particle interactions using symbols like arrows and wavy lines.

And except for, that's incorrect.

Richard Feynman is a correct answer.

Next tossup question during what battle did the 101st Airborne Division successfully defend Bastogne, which was surrounded by German guards?

Central Catholic Battle of the bulge.

Battle of the bulge is correct.

It was a German offensive launched in December 1944 for a bonus, the French dish of Hushes, Jamaica consists of meat topped with what vegetable?

Whose French name literally translates as Apple of Earth.

That was a potato.

Potato material.

There was a mushroom.

Mushroom.

Incorrect.

Potato is the correct answer.

What 2017 film, whose title character breaks an arm jumping from her mom's moving car was Greta Gerwig's solo directing revue.

Solo directing debut and stars Saucier Ronan.

Go ahead, Lady Bird.

Lady bird is correct for a bonus.

During World War Two, what now defunct country was liberated from Nazi occupation by the partizans led by Josip Broz Tito.

Czechoslovakia.

That is incorrect.

Yugoslavia is the correct answer.

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

You'll get to pick between the following topics fast food specials or P l p l. We'll take p l. Pellet is suddenly your second lightning round.

Topic is p l give these answers that begin with the consecutive letters p l fifth century BC War between Athens and Sparta.

Pass NBA team that drafted Zion Williamson.

Pelicans correct part of the human body between the thighs and abdomen.

Pelvis.

Correct.

Exercise equipment company that peloton correct an animal skin with or without correct Hawaiian fire and volcano goddess.

Belly.

Hello?

Correct.

I heard the correct one.

First U.S.

federal grant that subsidized college.

Correct.

Disease caused by lack of niacin.

Pass in Greek myth.

The father of Achilles.

Pappas, a hero who loves Melisande in the Claude Debussy opera Pelleas.

Please correct.

Central Catholic, your topic is fast food specials.

Given a signature menu item named a fast food franchise that sells it, the Big Mac, McDonald's.

Correct.

The Whopper, Burger King, correct.

Footlong sandwiches.

Which subway are correct?

The cheesy Gordita Crunch, Taco Bell correct.

Blizzards DQ correct.

The secret menu Animal fries now correct the Dave's single Wendy's correct answer.

I have to go back quick on DQ.

What's the full name?

Dairy Queen, correct.

Chicken minis, which may be accompanied with waffle fries.

Chick fil A, correct.

The honey barbecue chicken strip sandwich.

Popeyes.

Incorrect.

The box combo, which includes Texas toast, Raising Cane's that is correct.

The only one you guys miss.

It's not around here.

The honey barbecue chicken strip sandwich is from Whataburger.

What?

At the end of the match, we'll go over it.

We're going to continue on with the following toss up question.

What author of the story collection Bayou Folk wrote about the suicide of Edna Point?

Yay!

In the Gulf of Mexico in her novel The Awakening.

Go ahead, Southern Lehigh Kate Choppin Kate Chopin is correct for your bonus.

Ambulance driver Frederick Henry falls in love with a nurse named Catherine in what Ernest Hemingway novel A Farewell to Arms A Farewell to Arms A Farewell to Arms is correct.

Next tossup question.

Rusting and aerobic respiration are examples of what chemical reaction process that involves the loss of electrons and is a ahead.

Suddenly high oxidization oxidation is correct and is accompanied by reduction for your bonus.

What kind of data structure they can have.

Experience buffer or overflow is often described as first in, last out.

Stack, stack, stack or stacks is correct.

Next toss up question what creature?

Which in 1995 was held responsible for the death of eight sheep in Puerto Rico, has good Central Catholic be Scarborough?

Chupacabra is correct and its Spanish name means goat sucker for your bonus.

What Puritan leaders 1630 sermon a model of Christian charity.

Use the phrase city upon a hill to describe the Massachusetts Bay colony.

John Winthrop John Winthrop is correct.

Next tossup question what teen from Chicago was kidnaped from Moses Wright's home and lynched in 1955, after being accused of offer of offending a white woman would suddenly.

Hi Emmett Till.

Emmett Till is correct if he offended a white woman in Mississippi for your bonus.

The only two predominantly Catholic countries in Asia are the Philippines.

And what country?

Whose capital is Dili?

East Timor East Timor is correct, and according to the US State Department, the population is 97.5% Catholic.

For your bonus, what substances such as nitrogen dioxide and nitric oxide can damage cells by causing change or oxygen is a toss up question.

What substances such as nitrogen dioxide and nitrogen, nitric oxide can damage cells by causing chain reactions as a result of their free unpaired electrons?

Go ahead.

Central Catholic free radical free radicals is correct for your bonus.

Rod Serling created what anthology TV series, whose episodes include The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street and To Serve Man, The Twilight Zone.

The Twilight Zone is also correct.

Next tossup question in what state did at least 27 people die in July 2025?

After the Guadalupe River flooded Central Catholic Texas Texas is correct for your bonus.

What pious king of England was deposed by Edward the Fourth and likely murdered in the Tower of London, ending his rule of the House of Lancaster or ending the overall rule?

Richard the Third.

That's incorrect.

Henry the Sixth is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What author depicted patriotic courtesan Elizabeth Racette in his story Ball of Fat, and described an adornment lost by Matilda in The Necklace?

De deux.

Maupassant is the answer next to some questions in math.

Pencil on paper.

Ready?

What is the largest integer that is both a multiple of three and less than 200?

Given that three times 70, go ahead stubbornly high 198.

What 98 is correct for your bonus in 2025 Japanese signed.

And with that, we've reached the end of the match.

That was one of the closest we've had so far this year.

Central Catholic unfortunately, just not quite enough for 260 points.

Congratulations.

Stubbornly high with 300 points.

You are on to the next round and we'll see you next week.

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