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Hello and welcome to the sixth match of the second round of the 50 season of Scholastic Scrimmage.
I'm your host, David Graff.
Today's match is between Whitehall High School and Nazareth Area High School.
The match re composed of two halves with a lightning round midway through each half at half time, will pass as students can introduce themselves and we'll get to know them a little bit better.
As a reminder, sports activities requires rapid recall of specific factual information that's not necessarily indicative of academic training.
Now let's begin.
Buzzers.
Ready?
Here's our first tossup question.
What God, who's Verona or Mount is the bull?
Nandi is the husband.
Nazareth.
Shiva.
Shiva is correct.
And he's often called the destroyer for your bonus.
What function?
Which has horizontal asymptote at plus and minus pi over two outputs and angle.
Given the value of opposite over adjacent.
That would be tangent.
Be more specific.
Tan of x.
That is also incorrect.
It's the inverse tangent is the correct answer.
Next toss up question.
What modern country?
Home to the composer of the 40 voice motet Septem in Ilium is where my Lady Neville's book was composed in 1591 by William Byrd.
Whitehall, England.
Yes.
England or the United Kingdom is correct for your bonus.
What 1967 Supreme Court decision held that laws prohibiting interracial marriage violated the 14th Amendment.
Loving versus Virginia.
Loving versus Virginia is correct.
Next toss up question in 2023, what country?
Which removed all fines for having a third child in 2021.
Whitehall.
China.
That is correct.
And it lost its place to India as the world's most populous nation.
For your bonus, what most populous city in North Dakota is part of a metropolitan area that also includes the city of Moorhead, Minnesota, the capital.
Bismarck.
That's incorrect.
Fargo, North Dakota is the correct answer.
The next toss up question is in math pencil and paper.
Ready?
What is the only quadrant that does not contain any part of the graph of the line?
Y equals negative two x plus three.
Go ahead.
Nazareth.
That would be the third quadrant.
The third quadrant is correct for your bonus.
In what 1854 purchase did the U.S. acquire what is now southern Arizona and New Mexico from Antonio de Santa Anna's government in Mexico?
The Gadsden Purchase the Gadsden Purchase is correct.
Next toss up question what adjective derived from the third century king of Epirus who won battles of Askham and Heraclius over Rome?
Refers to a very costly Whitehall.
Pyrrhic.
Pyrrhic is correct.
He refers to a very costly victory.
For your bonus, what author of Wonder Boys won a Pulitzer Prize for a novel about the creators of a comic book character?
The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier and Clay.
Smith.
Incorrect.
Michael Chabon is a correct answer.
Next tossup question.
What ancient poet who wrote about different holidays in Farsi was a Roman who compiled mythological stories of transformation in his Whitehall orbit?
It is correct for your bonus, in what country's January 2024 presidential election was Democratic Progressive Party vice president, lightning to be elected to replace Tsai ING wen.
Taiwan.
Taiwan is correct.
Next toss up question.
What home country of former San Antonio Spurs player Manu Ginobili was once led by President Juan Peron and his government.
Whitehall.
Argentina.
That is correct.
And it's coming from Buenos Aires.
Next.
Or for your bonus, what term refers to a collection of data stored in rows and columns in a relational database or relational database?
Linked list.
That is incorrect.
A database table or tables is correct.
Next toss up question what objects can represent linear transformations on vector?
Go ahead.
Whitehall.
Matrices.
Matrices is correct.
For bonus, Madeline, a trans woman working to overcome anxiety, is the protagonist of what indie platformer game about climbing the title mountain.
Celeste.
Celeste is correct.
Did anyone beat Celeste?
Because that game is near impossible.
Congratulations to you.
Especially.
I come from the era when 2D games were like it and that game just drove me nuts.
Onto our next tossup question what novel whose frame story begins in the year 1801 as Mr. Lockwood visits Whitehall?
Pride and prejudice.
That's incorrect.
I'll go over to Nazareth and complete the question.
Visit.
The isolated Yorkshire home of Highcliffe was written by Emily Bronte.
Go ahead and answer, Little Women.
Also incorrect.
Withering Heights is the correct answer.
Next tossup question.
What?
In what century?
When the War of the League of Cumbrae took place, did the Council of Trent tried to counter the effects of its Protestant Reformation?
Whitehall.
The 16th century.
The 16th century is correct.
Your bonuses in math.
Pencil and paper.
Ready?
What is the area of a sector of a circle whose radius is six, and whose central angle measures 90 degrees.
Nine pi.
Nine Pi is correct.
Next tossup question.
What musical in which a reprise of I'll Cover You is sung during Angel's funeral is set among bohemian New Yorkers during the Aids crisis.
The answer is the musical rent.
And with that, we have reached the first lightning round and a pre-match coin toss.
It was determined that Nazareth will get to pick between the following topics.
The Rams.
Titanic or state borders.
State borders.
State borders.
State borders.
It is.
Okay, now with your lightning round.
Topic is state borders.
Name the state giving clues about states that it borders.
Island state bordered by.
No others.
Hawaii.
Correct.
The largest state bordered by no others.
Alaska.
Correct.
Georgia and Alabama are to it's north.
Florida.
Correct.
Oregon is to its south.
In Idaho.
To Washington.
Say it again.
Washington.
Correct.
Oklahoma is to.
It's North Texas.
Correct.
Only state it borders is New Hampshire.
Okay.
Correct.
Massachusetts.
It's to the north and Connecticut to the west.
Rhode Island.
Correct.
Kansas is to the east and Utah to its west.
Colorado.
Correct.
Montana is to its west and Iowa to its east.
Illinois.
Incorrect.
Missouri is one of eight states it borders.
Kentucky.
Incorrect.
Tennessee.
You're in the right region.
But yeah.
Tennessee actually born eight different states.
Whitehall.
Your topic is the RMS Titanic.
Answer the following about the Titanic and its sinking object that caused its sinking iceberg.
Correct.
Ocean.
In whose cold?
Northern waters?
It's elastic.
Correct.
Month of 1912.
In which it sank.
April.
Correct.
Three letter distress call that was telegraphed out during SOS.
Correct term for Titanic's cheapest level of accommodation below third class ground.
Incorrect.
British shipping company that operated the Titanic Pass.
Woman nicknamed unsinkable for her valor in the disaster task ship that rescued the Titanic.
Survivors.
The Carpathia.
Correct.
Macy's co-owner who died in the sinking past.
Titanic.
Captain who went down with his ship.
Smith.
Smith is correct.
I think.
Yeah.
We'll continue on with the match for the following.
Tossup question.
What book that begins with a crushing yawl called the Nellie describes the cruelty of the colonial ivory trade trader Kurtz.
Go ahead.
Whitehall.
Heart of darkness.
Heart of darkness is correct and was written by Joseph Conrad.
For your bonus, what British author defended gloomy literature in the poem Terrence?
This is stupid stuff.
And describe a runner's funeral in to an athlete dying young.
Houseman.
Houseman is correct.
A houseman is the correct answer.
Next tossup question.
What explorer whose son Sebastian named the Rio de la Plata sailed for Henry, the seventh of England, and in 1497 discovered the mainland of North America.
Lake Hall.
Cabot.
John Cabot is correct, and he discovered the mainland of North America.
For your bonus.
The atom monarchy in Babylon and the Great Structure in Earth were examples of what stepped pyramid like religious buildings of ancient Mesopotamia.
Ziggurat.
Ziggurats is correct.
Next tossup question.
What technique is used in the Winkler test to measure dissolved oxygen levels, and can use a base to find the unknown concentration of an acid?
Whitehall titration.
Titration is correct.
Your bonus is in math.
Pencil and paper.
Ready?
What integer is equal to 30% of 40% of 50?
Six.
Six.
Six is correct.
Next toss up question.
What actor played a futuristic fighter pilot who lands in the year 2022?
In the atom project?
That's right.
Ryan Reynolds.
Ryan Reynolds is correct.
And he also plays Deadpool for your bonus.
In 2024, Laxman Narasimha stepped down as CEO of what company?
Under which Howard Schultz opposed a drive that led to over 400 of its stores to unionize.
Walmart.
That's incorrect.
Starbucks is the correct answer.
Next tossup.
What author described a car restored by correct a spot in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and wrote the novel Goldfinger, which depicted the spy.
Nazareth.
Quickly.
Nazareth.
Tearing.
That's incorrect.
Over to Whitehall.
Finish the question depicting the spy James Bond.
Whitehall.
Ian Fleming.
Ian Fleming is correct for your bonus.
Mount Bogan is found in what?
South eastern state of Australia.
Whose capital is Melbourne?
New South Wales.
That's incorrect.
Victoria is the correct answer.
Next toss up question.
What former bus driver, whose regime held a referendum on the Issac Kebo region of Guyana, claimed a disputed victory in Venezuela's Nazareth.
That should be.
Yeah.
Nazareth.
Nazario.
Evo.
No.
That's incorrect.
I'll finish the question for Whitehall in Venezuela's 2024 election.
Go ahead.
Whitehall.
Maduro.
Nicolas Maduro is correct.
For your bonus, what politician introduced the 1909 People's Budget as Chancellor of the Exchequer and later became British Prime Minister midway through World War One.
Churchill.
That is incorrect.
David Lloyd George is the correct answer.
And with that, we've reached halftime.
We'll take a moment for the students to introduce themselves with their first and last name, their grade level, and the answer to the following question at what age do you think it's appropriate for a student to get a smart or internet connected phone?
Gabriel.
Whitehall.
Go ahead.
Gabriel Kenney, 11th grade.
And I think that you have it at 13.
Okay.
Logan Lambert, 10th grade.
And I think they should also have it at 13.
All right.
Go ahead.
Leaves in her 12th grade.
And I also think it should be 13.
Okay.
Beyonce in her 11th grade.
It should be 13.
All right.
Go ahead.
Alana Nazareth.
A lot of good.
11th grade.
I also think it should be 13.
Okay.
Viren Shaikh, a senior.
It should be like 14 or 15.
I like that answer.
I'm all for that one.
Go ahead.
Mark.
So, Puskas junior.
I think it should be 14.
Okay.
Ryan Hoffman, 10th grade and 13.
All right.
And I swear, at the end of this round, we're going to compile all of these and figure out what our baseline is there for, what we should get.
We do have one person say one.
So we're going to lop off the bottom and top em to make it statistically a little more relevant for us here.
All right.
We'll continue on with the match for the following.
Toss up question what French scientist whose constant k sub e appears in his law describing the force between charged particles names the s. Go ahead.
Whitehall.
Coulomb.
Coulomb is correct.
And he names the c. The C unit of.
Charge.
For your bonus light belongs to what class of waves, which can be polarized as they oscillate perpendicularly to the wave fronts.
Motion.
Unlike longitudinal waves.
Latitude.
No waves.
That's incorrect.
Transverse waves is the correct answer.
Next toss up question.
What king, who in 1200 controversially married Isabella of Agawam, was forced by his barons in 2015 to sign a royal charter, the Magna Carta.
Whitehall.
John the first.
That is correct.
King John of England, or John the First is correct for your bonus.
In the 19th century, Edward Lear greatly popularized what short poetic form that typically obeys the rhyme scheme, a a b b a.
Limerick.
A Limerick is correct.
Next toss up question.
What first name is shared by the author of Democracy and Education, and an English philosopher who considered the mind a tabula rasa.
Surname.
Whitehall.
John.
John is correct.
And the surname is Locke that they all share.
For John Dewey and John Locke.
For your bonus, what musical instruments manufacturers include the Austrian Company, both Stauffer and the German American company Steinway and Sons.
Pianos.
They both manufacture pianos.
That is correct.
Next toss up question or phenomenon with a common exotic form has a very rare conjoined form.
Results in offspring with nearly the same DNA in its white hot twins.
Twins is correct, and they have nearly, the same DNA in its identical form.
For your bonus, what modern day country, whose highest peak was formerly called Communism Peak, is a former Soviet republic whose capital is at Duchamp.
Yes.
Kyrgyzstan.
Incorrect.
Tajikistan is the correct answer.
Next tossup.
What country's waters contain the tongue of the ocean?
A deep region that borders the island of New Providence, which is home to the capital, Nazareth.
Is.
Canada?
That is incorrect.
I'll continue a question for Whitehall, which is home to its capital, Nassau.
Go ahead.
Whitehall.
The Bahamas.
The Bahamas is correct for your bonus.
What explorer who established Le Iles Meadows founded the settlement of Vinland in present day Newfoundland.
Erikson.
Leif Erikson is correct.
Next toss up question.
What man who was represented by Roswell Field in a case that he lost to John Sandford in 18 Whitehall.
Dred Scott, Dred Scott is correct.
And he was an enslaved man who was suing for citizenship.
For your bonus.
What primordial goddess in Greek mythology who conceived the 12 titans of Uranus represents the Earth.
Gaia.
Gaia or Gaia is correct.
Next toss up question what quantity names reference frames with constant relative velocity and is the subject of Newton's first law?
Go ahead.
Whitehall.
Inertia.
Inertia is correct, and it's the first law about how moving bodies state in motion.
For your bonus, what sculptor's bronze works include coming through the Rye and a small statue of a lone cowboy atop a rearing horse called the Bronco Buster.
David.
Incorrect.
Frederick.
Remington.
I was fortunate to see his sculptures when my family visited Denver at the Denver Contemporary Art Museum.
Next tossup question.
What building?
Whose walls have calligraphy by Abdul Hauk is made of Moroccan white marble and was commissioned by Whitehall.
The Taj Mahal.
That is correct.
For your bonus.
Neutron star mergers can produce what events, which are the most luminous in the universe, and emit a lot of namesake high energy radiation.
Supernovas.
That's incorrect.
Gamma ray bursts is the correct answer.
Next tossup question.
What center?
Who was traded to the Los Angeles Kings in 1988, is the leading goalscorer for his career in the NHL and is known as the Great One.
Whitehall.
Gretzky.
Wayne Gretzky is correct for your bonus.
The battle of the crater took place as part of a Union siege of what Virginia City, whose fall in 1865 enabled the capture of Richmond after landing.
Appomattox courthouse.
Incorrect.
Petersburg is the correct answer.
And with that, we've reached the second Lightning Round.
In a pre-match coin toss.
We figured it out that Whitehall.
We get to pick between the following topics.
The Divine Comedy or Belgium.
You know, I feel like the future might be better.
Okay.
Whichever one you go.
Belgium.
Belgium.
It is.
Whitehall.
Your topic is Belgium.
Answer the following about Belgium.
It's capital Brussels.
Correct.
Main language spoken in southern Belgium and in Quebec, France a French.
You said France first.
We can't take it.
Nor the region of Belgium where the Dutch is the main language.
Where Dutch is Flanders.
Correct.
Independent Grand Duchy to its southeast.
Luxembourg.
Correct.
Belgian surrealist who painted the tea tree of images.
Magritte.
That is correct.
Belgian cartoonist who created Tintin.
Pass.
Belgian born actress who starred in Breakfast at Tiffany's and Roman Holiday as a 19th century king who founded the Congo.
Leopold, which won the second.
That is correct.
Belgium based organization of 27 countries formed by European Union.
That is correct.
And jazz would win.
Named for its Belgian inventor.
Saxophone.
Saxophone is correct for adult sax.
Or Adolf Sax.
Nazareth.
You have the Divine Comedy.
Name these people, either real or mythical, referred to in the Divine Comedy.
First man mentioned in the Bible.
God.
Say it again.
No.
This.
Whatever you said, he said God.
Yeah.
God.
Incorrect.
The Egyptian queen who had an affair with Mark Antony.
Cleopatra.
Correct.
Student of Plato who wrote the politics.
Aristotle.
Poetics of poetry.
Aristotle is correct.
Mythical Greek performer of 12 labors.
Hercules.
Correct.
Roman poet of the Aeneid.
Ovid.
Incorrect.
Mythical musician who loved you.
Eurydice.
Orpheus.
That is correct.
Roman emperor, whose column depicted the Dacian Wars.
Caesar.
Incorrect.
Great pope who names a style of chant Gregorian.
The Pope.
Wow.
Gregarious.
That is incorrect.
Venerable monk who wrote the classical history of English people.
Past pro soccer.
Pro soccer philosopher.
That last one was, Tales of Miletus.
And we'll continue on the match, the final quarter, with the following tossup question.
What namesake of a biblical book, who is joined by a trio including Shadrach, reads the writing on the wall of of Czar's feast and survives a lion's den.
Nazareth.
Daniel.
Daniel is correct.
For your bonus, what diagram?
Whose axes displayed temperature and pressure show when a substance undergoes change between its solid, liquid and gas forms.
Its state.
That's incorrect.
A phase diagram is a correct answer.
Next tossup question.
What reactions can have inner sphere or outer sphere?
Mechanisms result in one molecule gaining electrons and another losing it.
Whitehall.
Redox.
Redox reactions are correct and the other is going is losing electrons.
For your bonus.
In the ninth, in the ninth century, Rurik founded what East Slavic proto Russian state whose realms eventually stretched from the Black Sea to the Arctic Ocean.
Kievan Rus Kievan Rus is correct, or the Kievan Rus is also acceptable.
Next toss up question.
What city is that?
The mouth of the Chao Phraya River is home to the temple of the Emerald Buddha and the what a rune!
And is the capital of Thailand.
Nazareth.
Bangkok.
Bangkok is correct.
For your bonus diary, Kirk travels to the word between the worlds.
In what?
C.S.
Lewis novel, which is the first in a narrative chronology of the Narnia series, tales of.
The magicians.
Rings.
That is incorrect.
The Magician's Nephew is the correct answer.
Next toss up or next toss up question.
What president who was investigated by Ken Starr in the Whitewater real estate.
Go ahead.
Whitehall.
Bill Clinton.
Bill Clinton is correct for your bonus.
What amino acids, whose derivatives include serotonin, is erroneously blamed for causing Turkey induced drowsiness?
Just get some.
Glutamine.
Incorrect.
The amino acids tryptophan.
Is the.
Correct answer.
Next tossup.
What city?
Which shares its name with a Trojan prince who ran away with Helen, is home to the arc de Triomphe.
That's right.
Paris.
That is correct.
And the cathedral?
Notre Dame.
For a bonus, Edvard Munch and Jacques-Louis David both painted The Assassination of What Politician?
By Charlotte Corday during the French Revolution.
Pierre Robespierre.
Incorrect.
Jean-Paul Marat is the correct answer.
Next tossup question.
What reptile?
Whose subfamily?
Quartet Quarterlies has heat sensing organs lack Nasrid snakes.
That is correct.
And they could be venomous and also include the cobra for your bonus.
A demonic black cat named behemoth decapitates a master of ceremonies at Moscow's Variety Theater in what Mikhail Bulgakov novel named for two lovers.
Ivan and Anna.
That is incorrect.
The Master and Margarita is the correct answer.
Next tossup question what law, whose individual mandate was upheld in 2012, expanded programs like Medicaid and is often nicknamed for a Democratic president.
Whitehall.
Obamacare.
We will accept Obamacare.
And also the Affordable Care Act.
Applies.
For bonus per a 2024 rule change in the NFL.
What kind of play will receive with will receiving team members be placed in a set up zone around the 35 yard line?
It is an onside kick.
That is incorrect.
A standard kick off is the correct answer.
Oh, you know what?
We actually will accept the onside kick.
So looking back at that they do have a nine onside kick.
So onside kick is correct.
Next tossup question.
What novella, whose first chapter depicts a dead mouse in one man's hand, is about workers named George and Lennie.
Go ahead, Whitehall.
Of mice and men.
Of mice and men is correct.
Answer by John Steinbeck for your bonus.
The island of Corfu is in what sea and arm of the Mediterranean that is west of Greece and south of the Italian peninsula.
That's the Ionian Sea, is the correct answer.
Nazareth.
Thank you for joining us.
Unfortunately, 125 points.
You ran up against a tough opponent.
Whitehall today.
Good luck with the rest of your school year.
Whitehall.
Congratulations.
We'll see you in the next round.
I thank you for watching.
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