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

I'm your host, David Graff.

These matches between Stroudsburg Area High School and Nazareth area High School.

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

At half time will pass.

Students can introduce themselves.

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

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

And now let's begin.

Buzzers.

Ready?

Here's our first tossup question.

It's in math.

Let's also get pencil and paper ready.

If a petition requires 100 signatures, how many people need to be asked if two out of every seven people actually do sign the petition?

Go ahead.

And.

Nazareth.

350 people.

350 people.

That is correct.

For bonus.

What metals?

Corrosion form?

A blue green pigment called a patina, which can be seen on the Statue of Liberty.

Go ahead.

No need to buzz into it.

The bonus copper.

Copper is correct.

Next toss up question.

What color is indicated by the error by the Arabic word abyad?

Higher.

The Hebrew word lavon.

The Hindi word Safavid.

The Italian word.

Go ahead.

And.

Asra.

White.

White is correct.

The other one.

We see time where Bianca for bonus.

John and Charles Wesley founded what?

18th century Protestant movement which emphasized personal holine Transcendentalism.

That's incorrect.

Methodism is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What country?

Whose most populous city is in the Klang Valley and contains the Petronas Towers, is an Asian.

Go ahead.

Stroudsburg.

Malaysia.

Malaysia is correct.

Its capital is Kuala Lumpur.

For your bonus, what U.S.

rock band?

Which shares its name with a city, had hit tracks with Make Me Smile.

25 or 6 to four.

And if you leave me now.

Their phone.

London.

Incorrect.

Chicago is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What civilization?

Whose eighth century collapse affected cities such as Copan used the Sulkin and Long Count calendars.

Go ahead.

Nazareth.

The Maya.

The Mayans are correct.

And they were in what is now Guatemala.

Your bonuses in math.

Pencil on paper.

Ready?

If x must be an integer, what is the smallest value of x that satisfies the inequality?

Three x plus 37 is greater than six.

The correct answer is x would equal negative ten.

Next toss up country.

What Arab country?

For which Senator Bob Menendez was convicted as working as a foreign agent in 2024, is led by Abdel Fattah El-Sisi.

Compiled.

Go ahead and answer.

Egypt.

Egypt is correct.

Mud from Cairo is the capital for your bonus.

In what state did the U.S.

forces lose the Battle of Bladensburg in 1814, forcing James Madison's government to flee.

Maryland.

Maryland is correct.

Next toss up question.

What microorganisms, which include the species Saccharomyces cerevisiae, are types of fungi, some of whom create alcohol or CO2 in fermentation.

Go ahead.

And Asra.

Yeast.

Yeast or yeast is correct for your bonus.

What Democratic politician?

The target of a thwarted kidnaping plot in 2020, defeated Tudor Dixon to win reelection in 2022 as the governor of Michigan.

Was incorrect.

Governor Whitmer is the correct answer.

Gretchen Whitmer Next toss up question.

What city is known locally as hammer contains the mosque of Islamic Solidarity with the setting of Black Hawk Down, and is the capital of Somalia.

The capital we're looking for is Mogadishu.

Next toss up question.

What event traveled to, which was protected by the carrying truce inspired a date system, a four year period.

Go ahead.

Nasira.

The Olympics.

The Olympics or the Olympiad is correct.

For your bonus, what?

District 12 tribute is tortured with tracker jacker serum that alters his memories of Katniss Everdeen in Suzanne Collins Hunger Games books.

Peter, we need the.

Is that okay?

But we up.

Unfortunately, it's so it's Peter Malak is the correct answer or Malak is a correct answer.

Next tossup question what quantities whose initial and equilibrium values for reactions are often written in ice tables can be reported in units of moles per liter.

Concentrations is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What elder brother of Billy and Bay road, an eight legged horse named slept near sacrificed his eye for wisdom and fathered.

Go ahead.

Nazareth.

Odin.

Odin is correct.

And he fathered Thor in more mythology.

For your bonus, the Hanson Writing Ball was the first commercially produced version of What Machine?

Whose Electronic Selectric version was introduced by IBM in 1961.

Typewriter A typewriter is correct.

In a pre-match coin toss, it was determined that Nazareth will get to pick between the following topics V in geography or pearls.

V in geography or pearls.

Yes, the in geography, B in geography.

It is Nazareth.

Your lightning round bonus topic is B in geography.

Identify these places whose English language names begin with the letter B, the capital of Austria.

Vienna.

Correct.

State government from Richmond, Virginia.

Correct.

Asian country East of Cambodia.

Vietnam.

Correct.

Most populous city in British Columbia.

Vancouver.

Correct.

The Green Mountain state.

Vermont.

Correct.

Country home to Lake Maracaibo.

Venezuelan city.

Venezuela.

Correct.

Italian volcano overlooking Naples.

Vesuvius.

Correct.

A waterfall on the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Victoria.

Correct.

Longest river in Europe.

Pass.

Highest mountain in Antarctica.

Pass.

Pass.

That's the Vinson Nelson's massive.

Okay.

Stroudsburg.

Your topic is pearls.

Answer the following about pearls.

Hawaiian naval base bombed in 1941.

Pearl Harbor.

Correct.

Item of pearl jewelry worn by a girl in a John Vermeer portrait necklace.

Incorrect.

Film series in which Jack Sparrow captains the black Pearl.

Pirates of the Caribbean.

Correct.

Grunge band fronted by Eddie Vedder.

Past French composer of the opera the Pearl Fishers and Carmen Pass game in which Ender pearls can be used by Swift.

Correct.

Country whose third longest river is the Pearl River in Indonesia.

Incorrect.

Iridescent material, also called nacre.

Pearl.

Be more specific.

I don't know.

Mother of Pearl.

That is correct.

American author of The Good Earth.

Pass.

New Testament book describing Heaven as 12 gates, each made of a single pearl.

Revelations.

That is correct.

All right.

We'll continue on with the following.

Toss up question.

What Major League Baseball team, which traded Garrett Crochet to Boston, lost an Al record tying 21 straight games.

Go ahead.

Stroudsburg.

The Chicago White Sox the Chicago White Sox is correct for a bonus.

Anarchist Alexander Berkman.

Stabbed executive Henry Clay Frick during what 1892 strike at a western Pennsylvania steel mill.

Carnegie.

Incorrect.

It was the homestead strike.

Next toss up question.

What woman who launched the Let's Move campaign in 2010 wrote the memoir Becoming.

Go ahead.

Stroudsburg.

Michelle Obama.

Michelle Obama is correct.

And she wrote that while her husband, Brock, was president.

For your bonus, what kind of numbers, which include 628 and 496 equal the sum of their proper positive divisors?

A perfect square roots.

Judges.

Unfortunately, we can't take it.

The perfect numbers.

Next tossup question.

What man was crowned King of Italy by Pope Adrian the fourth and won the Lugano against the Lombard League.

Drowned in the South River and had a red beard.

That is Frederick Barbarossa or Frederick the first.

Next toss up question.

What book?

Whose second verse provides details on offering livestock, describes laws and priestly rituals, and is the third book of the Torah.

Leviticus is the third book of the Torah.

Next toss up question.

What artist who depicted a bullfight in the hallucinogenic troubadour depicted crawling ants and melting clocks in the process?

Go ahead.

Nazareth.

Salvador Dali.

That is correct.

In the last, the other painting we were talking about was The Persistence of Memory.

For your bonus, what man announced a policy of glasnost to improve domestic freedoms while serving as the last leader of the Soviet Union.

Mr.

Gorbachev.

Mikhail Gorbachev is correct.

Next toss up question.

What comedian who claims to have graduated from business school with, quote, really good grades, addressed aviation safety in his HBO show The Rehearsal.

Oh, you guys have to check this out.

It's Nathan Fielder.

He was actually able to talk his way in to getting a commercial license to fly like a seven, six, seven.

Okay, next tossup question.

What author depicted the town of Thurrock in the radio play Under Milk Wood and urged rage, rage in his poem?

Do not go gently into that good night.

Dylan Thomas.

Next tossup question.

What document, which formed a perpetual union, did not give the federal government taxation power?

Go ahead.

Stroudsburg.

The articles of Confederation.

The articles of the Confederation is correct.

And it was replaced by the current U.S.

Constitution.

For your bonus.

What country whose second most populous city is Chiang Mai, has had ten kings named Rama.

Thailand.

Thailand is correct.

And with that, we have reached halftime.

We have a great match underway.

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

What is your favorite book that you were assigned to read in school?

So it wasn't a personal pick, it was something you had to read for school.

So we'll start with Stroudsburg.

Ariana, go ahead.

My name is Ariana Deitch.

I'm in 12th grade, and my favorite book that I read in school was 1984.

Okay.

Jacob Pachter, I'm in 11th grade, and my favorite book that I read was The Outliers.

Mason Oliver, I'm in 11th grade, and the favorite book that I have for school is ever lost.

My name is Savannah Morton.

All.

I'm in 12th grade, and my favorite book was also 1984.

Okay.

In order to Nazareth.

Ryan.

Go ahead.

I'm Ryan Hoffman.

I'm in 11th grade.

My favorite book was, Animal Farm.

I want to Gould.

I am in 12th grade, and my favorite book was Lord of the flies.

Okay.

Arjun Garg, 10th grade.

And my favorite book would be To Kill a mockingbird.

Okay.

Andrew Burnham, 11th grade favorite book is Animal Farm.

All right.

Excellent.

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

What cosmologist named a tuning fork sequence for classifying galaxies, and a space telescope that was replaced by the James Webb telescope.

Go ahead.

Nazareth.

Hubble.

Edwin Hubble is correct.

For your bonus.

What?

Mughal emperor commissioned the Taj Mahal for his consort, Mumtaz Mahal.

Smith?

Nope.

Shah Jahan is the correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What novel in which a character's communist boyfriend is framed for murdering Mary Dalton by her actual killer, Biggar Thomas, is by Richard Wright.

Native son is the name of that novel.

Next tossup question.

What board game for which Nigel Richards memorized French and Spanish is played.

Go ahead.

Shrewsbury.

Scrabble.

Yeah.

We big fan of Scrabble.

No, I've watched the video about it.

Oh, there you go.

Good way to learn about things.

YouTube.

You can learn a lot.

Just be careful for your bonus.

According to what?

Analog of Newton's second law of motion.

What quantity equals the movement of inertia times the angular acceleration of gravity?

Incorrect.

Torque is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What devices whose dial type work through expansion of by metallic strips may also use a tube filled with ethanol or mercury to measure temperature.

Go ahead.

Nasrin.

Thermometer.

A thermometer is correct.

For your bonus, the U.S.

Congress passed the Teller Amendment and the plot amendment to formalize policies towards what country?

After the Spanish-American War.

Cuba.

Cuba is also correct.

Next tossup question.

What law?

Portions of which were struck down in 2013 Shelby County versus holder case.

Band literacy tests to determine eligibility to cast a ballot.

That law is the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Next toss up question.

What country was a new 2025 inquest launched over a Halloween 2022 crowd crushing incident in Italy?

I won't go ahead trials for South Korea.

South Korea is correct.

For your bonus, what 1962 book by Rachel Carson documented the effects of pesticides like DDT on wildlife.

The environment.

Incorrect.

Silent spring.

Next toss up question.

What novel in which the killing of a boy named Ichabod Funa brings a curse on the family of Okonkwo is set in colonial Nigeria and is by Chinua Glad Stroudsburg.

Things fall apart, things fall apart.

Inspirational.

Achebe eBay for your bonus.

What technique used by the clarinet in the opening of Rhapsody in Blue is the act of continuously sliding from one note to another.

That's what's out there.

It a slur.

Incorrect glissando is the correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What indigenous people driven to the square condo by Kit Carson on the Long Walk have the largest U.S.

reservation, and were World War two.

Go ahead.

Stroudsburg.

Cherokee.

Incorrect.

I'll continue for Nazareth.

World War II code talkers.

Go ahead.

Nazareth.

Navajo.

The Navajo are correct for your bonus.

Fredericton is the capital of what Canadian province?

Whose southeastern border is on the Bay of Fundy.

New Brunswick.

New Brunswick is correct.

Next tossup question.

In computing, traversing a tree is typically done using what type of method in which a function repeatedly calls itself until it reaches a base case.

Recursion is a correct answer.

Next, toss up question.

What sculptor who portrayed the sacrifice of six people in The Burghers of Calais, showed a man on his fist, or with a fist on his chin in The Thinker.

That sculptors wrote down.

There's a museum for his works down in Philadelphia.

Next tossup question.

What empire was divided up by the Sykes-Picot agreement?

Fought the Gallipoli Campaign against heat.

Go ahead.

And, Ezra.

The Ottoman.

The Ottoman Empire is correct.

And it was called the sick Man of Europe towards the end of its reign.

For your bonus, what Chalet and author's work include a 1982 novel featuring twins Jamie and Nicholas Triana in the House of the spirits.

Perez.

Nope.

The author is Isabel Allende.

Next tossup question.

What number?

Which equals the ratio of a regular pentagons diagonal.

The diagonal to its side length is denoted by the letter phi and equals approximately 1.618.

The correct answer is the golden ratio.

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

You'll get to pick between the following topics.

We have hamlet or nautical terminology.

Nautical terminology.

Stroudsburg.

Your topic is nautical terminology.

Give these terms and phrases used by sailors or on ships left when facing a ship's front.

Starboard.

Incorrect.

Rear of a ship.

Hull.

Incorrect.

Tall posts.

Supporting sails or rigging.

Pass.

Unit of speed.

Abbreviated K and knots.

Correct.

Small vessel that tows a larger vessel in a harbor.

Towboat.

Do it again.

Towboat.

Incorrect.

A ship's jail.

Pass.

Spine of a ship's hull.

Hauling sailors under it was once a brutal punishment.

Pass.

Elevated command area that often houses the wheel.

That pass the tilt of a ship from left to right, often when taking on water.

Sway.

Incorrect.

Official in charge of a ship's manifest and on board valuables.

That would be the ship's purser.

Okay, now your topic is hamlet.

Let's see how.

How?

Well you know your Shakespeare.

Name these characters from William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

Hamlet's love interest who goes insane.

Ophelia.

Correct.

Killer of Hamlet's father who claims the throne.

King Charles.

Incorrect.

Friend of hamlet.

Who.

He says the rest is silence.

It's to whom?

He says the rest of silence.

Test.

Elderly noble whom hamlet stabs through a curtain.

King Henry.

Incorrect.

Man who fences with hamlet, causing both of their deaths.

Edward.

Incorrect.

Hamlet's mother.

This hamlet.

Incorrect.

Dead jester whose skull hamlet finds.

Edward.

Incorrect.

Two couriers who betray hamlet and are executed overseas.

Pass.

Norwegian prince who arrives at the play's end.

Pass.

Courier.

All right, who delivers the fencing challenge to hamlet.

There are some Shakespeare heads out there that are probably livid, screaming at their TV screens now, but it's okay to.

All right.

Under the final quarter of the match with the following tossup question what author of suddenly last Summer depicted laws visit from Jim O'Connor, a gentleman caller in his 1944 memory play The Glass Menagerie?

Tennessee Williams is the correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What city?

What city?

Whose neighborhoods include Adams Morgan, Foggy Bottom, and DuPont Circle is on the go ahead.

Nazareth.

Washington, D.C.. That is correct.

It's on the Potomac River.

For bonus, what part of the eye controls the size of the pupil and is the source of a person's eye color?

Retina.

That is incorrect.

The iris is the correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What phenomenon is the input to a rectifier?

Must be used to power transformers and periodically reverses direction.

Unlike direct current going Nazareth.

Alternating current.

Alternating current is correct.

For your bonus.

From 1992 to 2006, Serbia was part of a political union with what neighboring country?

Whose capital is Greta?

Montenegro.

Montenegro is correct.

Next tossup question.

What French composer of a singer of a single opera, Pollini and Mia Sande, used Stefanie Marmot or Mallarmé poem to inspire for prelude to the afternoon of a Faun.

Not big in a French composer's either.

It's Claude Debussy is a correct answer.

What monument?

Whose sovereigns in the lintel formation create stations that align with solstices was built on the Salisbury Plain in New York.

Go ahead.

And Ezra.

Stonehenge.

That's correct.

It was built in Neolithic England.

For your bonus.

What shallow round, transparent containers are used by biologists to grow microorganisms on a gel like substance called agar Petri dish?

A petri dish is correct.

Next toss up question.

What item whose sick?

A doob type is part of a traditional Scottish dress has butterfly and gravity types.

Go ahead.

Stroudsburg.

Kilt.

That is incorrect.

I'll continue for Nazareth.

That are often illegally edged weapons.

Go ahead.

Nasira.

Broadsword.

Also incorrect.

Across a kilt has worn a little knife, but knives.

Next toss up question.

What English author included the maxim only connect in his novel Howards End, and depicted a fateful trip to the Malabar Caves in a passage to India.

E.M.

Forster.

Next tossup question what Prime Minister, who expanded the franchise by passing the Second Reform Act, was a rival of William Gladstone, who was born into a Jewish family.

Go ahead.

Stroudsburg.

Winston Churchill.

That is incorrect.

Over.

Nazareth.

No conferring, but it is a freebie.

Benjamin Disraeli is the correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What organelle which houses many thylakoid sacs?

Go ahead.

Strasbourg.

Chloroplast.

Chloroplast is correct.

And with that, we have reached the end of the match.

Stroudsburg.

Unfortunately, with 105 points.

That is the end of the road.

Good luck with the rest of your school year.

Congratulations to Nazareth with 270 points.

You are on to the second round and thank you for watching.

We'll see you next week when Issaquah High School faces off against Saucon Valley High School.

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