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Hello and welcome to the six match of the 51st season of Scholastic Scrimmage.

I'm your host, David Graff.

Today's match is between Southern Lehigh High School and Pleasant Valley High School.

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

We'll pass.

The students can introduce themselves and we'll get to know them a little bit better.

As a reminder, Scholastic Scrimmage required rapid recall specific factual information that's not necessarily indicative of academic training.

And now let's begin.

Buzzers.

Ready.

Here's our first tossup question.

What scientist gave the title system of the world to book three of his Principia, which earlier lists the laws of inertia as one of his laws of motion?

Go ahead, Pleasant Valley.

Isaac Newton.

Isaac Newton is correct.

He was one of his laws of motion.

For your bonus foster child, Liza menninger finds solace in literature in Nazi Germany.

In what 2005 novel by Marcus Zu Sach.

Pass!

The correct answer is the Book Thief.

Next toss up question what artist who made many paintings of Helga Tester showed a disabled girl in pink on the ground, looking towards a house in Christina's World.

That artist is Pennsylvania native Andrew Wyeth.

Next toss up question.

What location on Island do bar visited by Ellie Statler and Alan Grant is where scientists used DNA extracted.

Pleasant Valley.

Jurassic park.

Jurassic Park is correct.

And they resurrected dinosaurs with that DNA extracted from mosquitoes in amber.

For your bonus.

For 51 years, Robert C Byrd was senator from what U.S.

state whose other senators have included Joe Manchin.

New Jersey.

Incorrect.

West Virginia is the correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What novel?

Whose section recalled to life follows doctor minutes release from the Bastille is set in both London and Paris and is by Southern Lehigh.

A Tale of two cities.

That is correct.

And by Charles Dickens for your bonus.

In what South American country was Army Chief San Juan Zuniga arrested in 2024 after leading a coup attempt against President Louis R.K.

in Argentina.

In Argentina.

That is incorrect.

Bolivia is the correct answer.

Next toss up question what king survived the frontier rebellions as a youth?

Use the edict of Fountain Blow against the Huguenots and commission the Palace of Versailles.

Suddenly, High King Louis the 14th.

Louis the 14th is correct for your bonus.

What discrete mathematical structures consist of vertices and edges, and can be used to represent connections such as social networks.

I'm not too sure, but lines.

Incorrect graphs is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What creature which is depicted on a monument to Independence in Mexico City, also names a baseball team starring Mike Trout in Los Angeles.

Suddenly angel, angel or angels is correct.

For a bonus.

What four word term names, a 1987 Tom Wolfe novel and a 1497 event in Florence led by son of a Rolla, in which immortal, in which immoral items were burned.

And a coup.

That is incorrect.

Bonfire of the vanities is the correct answer.

Someone have it on the team, but weren't quite sure.

All right.

Next tossup question.

What technology?

Whose development earned Charles K Gao a Nobel Prize?

Transmits data as light pulses through thin fleck.

Go ahead.

Pleasant Valley fiber optics.

Fiber optics is correct.

And it transfers that light through thin, thin, flexible strands of glass.

For your bonus, what character in Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales discusses her five marriages and tells a story about a knight who learns what women desire most.

Come on.

Past that character's the wife of bath.

Next toss up question.

What act upheld in the heart of Atlanta motel case effectively established.

Excuse me.

Effectively abolished Jim Crow in 1964 by outlawing official discrimination based on race.

Go ahead.

Suddenly.

Ha!

Plessy v Ferguson.

That's incorrect.

Over to Pleasant Valley.

Go ahead of the Equal Rights Act.

That is also incorrect.

It's the Civil Rights Act.

Oh, the other next toss up question.

What series in which an escape from hilltop Farm is aided by the goose bright Bill was written by Peter Brown about raus, the title mechanical being.

Go ahead, Pauls Valley, the wild robot.

The wild robot is correct for your bonus.

What type of what type of treatment that can include?

Cisplatin can be paired with radiation in a treatment prescribed by an oncologist.

Chemotherapy.

Chemotherapy is correct.

Next toss up question.

What African country whose largest ethnic group is the Kikuyu contains a shield of the Maasai people on its flag and has its capital at Nairobi, Kenya.

High Kenya.

Kenya is correct for your bonus.

Eko bridge passes over what river in Massachusetts, which flows northeast before emptying into Boston Harbor.

The Charles River.

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

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

1990s world leaders, or double Z. Double Z. Double Z. It is Posit Valley.

Your topic is double Z. Give these words that contain two consecutive Z's.

A violent snowstorm.

Blizzard.

Correct.

Carbonation as in a soft drink.

Correct.

Food.

Grinding.

Digestive chamber in birds.

Gizzard.

Correct.

Italian word for middle.

Used in sheet music.

Pass.

Opportunistic raptor in the genres.

Bukayo.

Ballad.

Correct to rub one's nose on something to show affection.

Nuzzle.

Correct.

An invasive photographer of celebrity.

Paparazzi.

Correct.

A town square in Italy.

Pass.

Slang term for a spoil sport.

Pass.

Spa tub with massaging jets.

Jacuzzi.

Correct.

Okay, so, Lehigh, your topic is 1990s world leaders.

Name the country led by these people in the 1990s.

Nelson Mandela.

South Africa.

Correct.

Ryotaro Hashimoto.

Japan.

Correct.

Tony Blair UK.

Correct.

Francois Mitterrand.

France.

Correct.

Carlos.

Salinas.

Spain.

Incorrect.

Boris Yeltsin.

Russia.

Correct.

Hosni Mubarak.

Pass.

Yeah.

Pass.

Pass.

Okay.

Look for went to Poland.

Correct.

Good.

John.

John.

Pass.

Yitzhak.

Rabin.

Israel.

Correct.

All right.

We'll continue on with the following.

Toss up.

Question.

In eukaryotes, what structures consist of 40 S and 60 s subunits are found on rough Indo, but quite suddenly.

Ribosomes.

Ribosomes is correct.

For bonus.

From 1969 to 1974, Robert Reed and Florence Henderson played the parent of the title family on what sitcom?

Country.

The Brady Bunch.

Brady Bunch is correct.

Next toss up question.

What Emperor began fighting the romantic wars, co-ruler with Lucius Verus, and was the last of the Five Good Emperors.

He was also a stoic philosopher.

Go ahead, Pleasant Valley.

Anthony.

That's incorrect.

Over to Southern Lehigh.

No conferring on this one, but it's a tossup.

Go ahead.

Diogenes.

Also incorrect.

Keagan, do you know now?

That is right.

But unfortunately, that's for nerd credit.

Only on that one.

Next tossup question.

What queen, whose bed is made from an olive tree, is the mother of Temecula and waits two decades on Ithaca for the return of her husband, Odysseus.

Suddenly hard.

Penelope.

Penelope is correct for your bonus.

What leader of Indonesia, whose rule was known as the New Order, led a 1967 overthrow of Sukarno that.

Passed.

Passing on that one.

It saw its Cerato as a correct answer for Suharto.

Excuse me, is the correct answer?

Next tossup question.

What landform transports chunks of rock via plucking or bordered by moraines and carve U-shaped valleys?

Due to being massive rivers of ice.

Glacier.

Go ahead.

Only high glacier.

Glacier is correct for your bonus.

In what process?

With a namesake energy.

Does an atom or molecule gain or lose electrons gaining a net charge?

Innovation.

Ionization.

Ionization is correct.

Next toss up question.

What character?

Who visits his history teacher, Mr.

Spencer, after leaving Pepsi Prep, is the protagonist of J.D.

Salinger's Pleasant Valley Past.

All right, I'll finish the questions.

Only I, J.D.

Salinger's.

Go ahead.

Holden Caulfield.

Holden Caulfield is correct, and the book is catcher in the Rye.

That is correct.

Also, for your bonus.

What surname is shared by painter Dante Gabriel and his sister Christina, who wrote the lyrics to In the Bleak Midwinter and the poem Goblin Market.

Great job.

I don't know.

I like Gibson.

Incorrect.

Rossetti is a correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What New Yorker, whose namesake treaty resolved post-revolutionary disputes with Britain in 1794, is the first chief justice of the Supreme Court.

That New Yorker is John Jay.

Next toss up question.

What Greek letter whose lowercase form denotes standard deviation while its uppercase represents summation?

Go ahead.

We know sigma.

Sigma is correct, and it's a precursor to the Latin letter s. For your bonus, what Spanish painter depicted a scene of the Peninsular War in the 3rd of May, 1808.

Picasso.

Incorrect.

Francisco Goya is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What isotope which added to chloroform used as a solvent in NMR, reacts with tritium in nuclear fusion and is a hydrogen atom with one unit.

Suddenly high deuterium.

Deuterium is correct and it has one neutron.

It's also pronounced nuclear.

Oh, there you go.

For your bonus.

An animated show subtitled Edgerunners adapted what?

2020 action RPG set in Night City, which centers on a mercenary known as B. Yellowstone?

That is correct.

It's the video game cyberpunk 2077.

And with that, we've reached halftime.

We have an excellent match underway.

Stubbornly high currently leads with a score of 145 to Pleasant Valley 75.

And now we'll take a moment for each student to give their first and last name grade level and the answer to the following question what is their favorite book or Kirby short story or poem that they had to read for school?

That became one of their favorites.

So we'll start with Southern Lehigh.

Patrick go ahead.

My name is Patrick D'Amico.

I'm a senior, and my favorite book that I had to read was definitely the, The Great Gatsby.

Okay.

Excellent.

Cole.

My name is Cole Bible.

I am a sophomore, and and my favorite book that I had to read in class was Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer.

Okay.

I'm Matilda Snyder, I'm a senior, and apparently this is an unpopular opinion, but my favorite is To Kill a mockingbird.

Oh, that's my favorite book, too.

There we go.

Yes.

Hi, my name is Avantika Jewelry.

I'm a senior, and my favorite book would have to be Romeo and Juliet.

Okay.

Pleasant Valley.

Liam.

Go ahead.

Hi, my name is Liam Angell.

I'm a senior at Pleasant Valley, and this is not a book, a poem or short story, but I had to analyze You Belong With Me by Taylor Swift for my English class, and it's a really good song, so it's mine.

That made you like you were not a Taylor Swift fan and now a swiftie.

Yeah.

So.

He can go ahead.

Keegan Martin I'm a senior.

My favorite book was The Odyssey.

Okay, everyone.

Kurt Senior, the ones who walk away from home.

I was okay.

Michael Rubino Senior and probably the Tell-Tale heart.

All right.

Excellent.

We'll continue on with the second half of the match with the following toss up question in what state did students at its A and T State University launched the sit in movement in 1960 by protesting at a Woolworth's lunch counter.

Go ahead, Southern Lehigh, North Carolina.

That is correct.

And that is in Greensboro for your bonus.

Buenos Aires and Montevideo are on the shores of what estuary that is formed of the confluence of Uruguay and the Parana rivers.

Oh, crap.

I. Just I don't know, past Rio de la Plata is the correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What active NFL player who has the most career playoff receptions co-hosts a podcast with his brother Jason and is currently Gladstone, Lehigh, Travis Kelce?

That is correct.

He's currently engaged to Taylor Swift for bonus.

What vitamin, whose active form is known as Calcium Ferrule, is required to prevent rickets because calcium absorption depends on it.

Vitamin D vitamin D is correct.

Next tossup question what planet contains the discovery?

Rubies cliff and the Cloris basin was explored by the Messenger mission and is the closest planet to the sun.

So the Lehigh Mercury.

Mercury is correct for your bonus during World War Two, what German word named the Aerial Division of the Nazi military.

As an.

Duluth buffer is the correct answer.

Next toss up question what country to which laborers were repatriated after the Braciole program ended with the location of the 1994 Zapatista uprising against NAFTA.

Mexico is the correct answer.

Next toss up question what animals?

Two of whom gored tourists who harassed them in Yellowstone National Park?

Go ahead.

Pleasant Valley bison.

That is correct and are the largest mammals in North America.

For your bonus, what heat sensing organs located between the eyes and nostrils of snakes.

Partly name a subfamily of vipers.

Pitt.

Pitt is correct.

It's the pit organ of a snake.

Next toss.

Tossup question.

What U.S.

state in the lower 48 does not have counties, but instead uses a system of parishes, including one guidepost Valley, Louisiana.

That is correct, and one is named Lafayette.

The other, West Baton Rouge.

For your bonus.

What Spanish explorer led an expedition as far as present day Kansas in search of Cibola, leading to the first European sighting of the Grand Canyon.

The Gamma incorrect Coronado is the correct answer.

Next tossup question what character improvises a poem while dueling?

Valverde in a play by Edmond Rostand, helps the antic, the inarticulate Christian who rocks in and has a large nose.

Sereno de Bergerac is the correct answer.

Next toss up question what?

King married Elizabeth of York to unite the houses of York and Lancaster after defeating Richard the Third and becoming the first Tudor king.

Henry the Seventh is the correct answer.

What country?

The birthplace of sculptor Bartle Tomlinson contains a sculpture by Edward Erikson depicting the Little Mermaid in Copenhagen.

So in Lehigh, Denmark.

Denmark is correct.

I actually got to see that statue.

It's really small.

You wouldn't even know it's there.

You see, the group of people round up before you ever see it.

For your bonus.

In what Story by Edgar Allan Poe does more so mentioned the title object to get revenge against Fortunato for unspecified insults.

Retrace or excuse me as a character, Montresor.

A ticket to Scotland Yard, the Cask of Amontillado.

That is correct.

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

You'll get to pick between the following topics.

We have team mascots or fighting words.

Maybe team.

We'll do team mascots with team mascots.

It is suddenly.

Hi.

Your topic is team mascots.

Name the public schools that have these college football mascots Albert and Elberta Gator.

Pass, Boomer and sooner, which are white ponies.

Brutus.

Buckeye, Ohio State.

Correct.

You will do a I'm.

I'm okay with the joins there.

Jonathan the 15th a live husky Yukon.

Correct.

Osceola and his horse renegade pass Benny Beaver for the school in Corvallis.

Pass.

Big owl the elephant.

Alabama.

Correct.

Bevo, a steer.

Pass the rambling wreck, which is a car.

Pass.

Goldie, who is a gopher?

Oh!

Pass.

That's for Minnesota.

The Golden Gophers.

Okay, pleasant Valley, your lightning round topic is fighting words.

Give these words that are homonyms of terms related to fighting or war.

Sprig of bamboo shoot correct fruity drink ladled out at parties.

Punch.

Correct.

Hard exoskeleton in which a bivalve lives.

Heart incorrect.

Loud monotonous.

Hum.

Buzz.

Incorrect.

Non-existent.

Animal.

Boy Scouts are told to hunt in a prank.

Pass.

Audience.

Personal.

Nonpublic information.

Private pass material paired with brick.

In a term for a physical store.

Mortar.

Correct genus that includes electric rays.

Pass first person singular possessive pronoun I. Incorrect.

Intentionally losing a game to secure a high draft.

Pick.

Sandbagging.

Incorrect.

Tank is a correct answer on that one.

And how about Miami Dolphins fan?

A few years ago, we were tanking for two.

Fortunately not quite working out the way we wished it would.

Okay, we'll start the final quarter of the match with the following toss up question.

What quantity equals k sub b times the natural logarithm of the number of microstates cannot decrease in an isolated system, and is a measure of disorder.

Quite suddenly, high entropy.

Entropy is correct for your bonus.

What oceans.

Marginal seas include Barents Sea and the Kara Sea.

Arctic.

The Arctic Ocean the Arctic is correct.

Next, toss up what first name is shared by the Senate President pro tempore from Iowa and the minority leader from New York, whose surnames are Grassley and Google's Valley.

So Ron, that is incorrect.

So Lehigh, Chuck, Chuck or Charles is correct.

Yeah.

For your bonus P type examples of what materials can be formed by doping certain elements, such as selenium and germanium.

Steroids.

Incorrect.

We're talking about p type semiconductors correcting next toss up question what leaders whose elections are marked by white smoke.

Hold the chief.

Go ahead, pleasant Valley pope.

The Pope is correct.

And they hold the office of the Holy See for your bonus.

The 1998 Good Friday Agreement largely ended what three decade conflict between unionists and nationalists in Northern Ireland?

Irish war for independence.

That is incorrect.

The troubles is the name of that conflict.

Next toss up question what city, home to a European inspired neighborhood called Bund, sits on the Yangzi River Delta and tops Beijing as the most populous in Great Southern Lehigh?

Shanghai Shanghai is correct.

Its most populous in China.

For your bonus, what athlete who won four gold medals as a Final Five member was forced due to the twisties to pull out of multiple 2020 Olympic events?

Simone Biles Simone Biles is correct.

Next toss up question what youth whose exploits in the land of the Soviets title in 1930 collection by her Z owns a dog, snowy, and is a reporter from Belgian comics.

A Steven Spielberg also brought this character to life.

It's Tintin is correct answer.

The next toss up question is in math.

Pencil on paper.

Ready?

How is the year 2025 expressed in Roman numerals?

Given that the number 1000 is represented by the not go ahead call max ax b, that is correct for your bonus.

What musical instrument was especially of jazz musicians Joe Morello, Jeanne Cooper, Gene Krupa, and Art Blakey?

I think.

Is country saxophone incorrect?

They all played the drums through Liam's drumming away their hair, drumming.

Okay, next toss up question what country's 2025 elections, which cost the head of the coalition, Peter Duncan, his seat secured another term for Prime Minister Anthony Albany's.

Go ahead suddenly high.

Australia.

Australia is correct for your bonus.

Hot tip Galvanization is used to prevent what process in which a metal deteriorates through oxidation, such as iron rusting.

Correct.

Corrosion.

Corrosion is correct.

Let's get the next toss up question.

What kingdom?

Which was ruled by a man who died fighting in the 1632.

All right.

And with that, it is time Pleasant Valley ran up against a tough opponent today.

Unfortunately, not your day.

Good luck with the rest of your school year.

And so the only high congratulations with 295 points you are on to the second round and thank you for watching.

We'll see you next week when Allentown Central Catholic faces off against Pinnacle Area High School.

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