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Hello and welcome to the fifth match of the 50th season of Scholastic Scrimmage.

I'm your host, David Graff.

Today's match is between Wilson Area High School, who have twice been runners up in the tournament, and Palmerton Area High School.

The match will be composed of two halves, with a lightning round midway through each half and half time will pass as students can introduce themselves or get to know them a little bit better.

As a reminder, Scholastic scrimmage requires rapid recall.

Specific factual information is not necessarily indicative of academic training.

And now let's begin.

Buzzers.

Ready?

Here's our first tossup question.

What quantity is the cross product of displacement and force?

Names A type of wrench is rotational analog.

Palmerton.

Torque talk is correct.

For your bonus, in June 2024.

What?

U.S.

Surgeon General wrote a guest essay in the New York Times advocating for health warning labels on social media apps.

Vivek Murthy is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What creature who was captured and brought to Eurystheus at the last of Hercules his labors was a multi-headed dog that guarded the Greek underworld.

Palmerton.

Cerberus Cerberus is correct for your bonus.

The Sacred Band, composed of 150 pairs of male lovers, was an elite military force of what Greek city state that led the Boeotian League.

Sparta.

That's incorrect.

Thebes is the correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What prosecutor in the Scopes Monkey trial, called the boy orator of the plot, gave the Cross of Gold speech during his first presidential campaign.

Homer William Jennings Bryan William Jennings Bryan is correct.

For your bonus, what author wrote about a judge named Lord Haight?

Good who questions Mr.

Envy at the trial of faithful in an allegory titled The Pilgrim's Progress.

Past.

John Bunyan is the correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What region, which lies on the western edge of the Kerch Bridge, is home to a Russian naval base at Sevastopol.

And is it occupied?

Homer's in Crimea.

Crime.

Will we take the, I will take you Crimea or the Crimean Peninsula.

And it is, an occupied peninsula in Ukraine.

Your bonuses in math.

Pencil on paper.

Ready?

What is the length of either diagonal of a rectangle whose area is 108, and whose shorter side has a length of nine?

15.

Unfortunately, the buzzer went off.

You were correct.

But we can't give it to you.

But you were right.

With 15.

Just not quite in time.

Next toss up question.

What poetic form described as heroic when rhyming and in iambic pentameter, is found at the end of Shakespeare and Sonnets, and has two lines.

In a. Couplet.

A couple it is correct for a bonus.

The Analects contain the sayings of which thinker who stressed the importance of respecting one's parents by teaching filial piety.

Plato is incorrect.

Confucius is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What project, overseen by General Leslie Groves, culminated in the Trinity test in 1945 near Los Alamos, Compton, the Manhattan Project.

The Manhattan Project is correct, and it saw the U.S. develop an atomic bomb.

For your bonus, Mr. Einfeld claims that there is something downright detestable about the appearance of what evil character who was created by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Frankenstein.

That is incorrect.

It's Mr. Hyde.

Next toss up question.

What artist showed a woman thinking I'd rather sink than call Brad in Drowning Girl and use an automated topic title for his comic book inspired Wham!

You will have to petition for field trip to MoMA to see pop artist Roy Lichtenstein's work.

Be looking for.

Next toss up question what man who, after planting a vineyard and getting drunk, is ridiculed by his son?

Ham builds an art closet.

Oh, no.

Noah is correct.

And he built an ark to endure a massive flood in the Book of Genesis.

For your bonus, what comic?

Whose stand up specials include Baby Cobra and Hard Knock Wife, played vengeful businesswoman Amy Lao in the Netflix mini series Beef.

Yes, that is Ali Wong.

And with that, we have reached the first lightning round.

In a pre-match coin toss, it was determined that Palmerton.

You'll get to pick first between the following topics.

Battles or highest points.

5.5 the highest points.

Highest points.

It is.

Palmerton.

Your topic is highest points.

What mountain is the highest point in these countries?

Japan.

Mount Fuji.

Correct.

Greece.

Santorini.

That's incorrect.

The United States.

Italy.

Correct.

Nepal.

Mount Everest.

Correct.

Tanzania.

Its highest point in Africa.

Kilimanjaro.

That's correct.

Canada.

Not Logan.

That's correct.

France.

With a name meaning White mountain.

Mont Blanc.

That's correct.

Australia Pass.

Pakistan also the second tallest mountain in the world.

K2.

That's correct.

New Zealand named after a British explorer.

Pass.

That one was Mount Cook.

Nice job.

Levi, you know your highest points throughout the world.

Wilson, your topic is battles.

Name the century in which these battles were fought midway during World War two.

20th, correct.

Saratoga during the American Revolution 18.

Correct.

Gettysburg during the American Civil War 19th.

Correct.

During the Iraq War.

21st.

Correct.

Hastings.

A victory for William the Conqueror.

17th.

Incorrect.

Gaugamela.

A victory for Alexander the Great.

First.

Incorrect.

Marathon.

A victory for Athens.

Second.

Incorrect.

Tor a victory for Charles Martel over Muslim forces.

16th.

Incorrect.

Catalonia plans a loss for Attila the Hun.

13th.

Incorrect.

Two to DeBerg.

Forest a victory for the Germanic.

First.

That's correct.

And we'll continue on with the following toss up question.

What African country which controls Akosombo Dam at the southeastern end of Lake Volta, was once called the Gold Coast and is governed from Accra.

Palmerton, Ghana.

Ghana is correct for your bonus.

The island of was formed between 1963 and 1967 by the explosion of a volcano off the coast of what island country?

Iceland.

Iceland is correct.

Next tossup question.

What group of mammals whose only extant member in North America is the Virginia possum?

Keep their young in pouches and include kangaroos.

Palmerston.

Marsupials.

Marsupials is correct.

We have some crazy worded questions to get to.

A pretty basic answer there on that next bonus or your bonus question.

What phenomenon called spooky action at a distance by Albert Einstein occurs when the quantum states of two particles are linked.

Quantum coupling.

That is incorrect.

It's quantum entanglement is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What law overrode the Missouri Compromise by allowing popular sovereignty to decide a state's position on slavery, and was named for two territories.

Palmerston, Missouri.

Compromise.

That's incorrect.

Over to Wilson.

No conferring, but it's a freebie.

You said named after two territories.

I can't repeat the question.

Okay, come.

Kansas.

Nebraska.

Act.

The Kansas.

Nebraska is correct for your bonus.

A novel by Hugh Lofting is named for what?

Physician who learns to speak with animals and encounters a two headed beast called the push me.

Pull you.

Doctor Doolittle.

Doctor John Doolittle is correct.

Next toss up question.

What novel?

Whose Uji chapters follow the lives of the title nobleman's descendants is an 11th century tale by Han era author Lady Murasaki.

That novel is The Tale of Genji.

Next toss up question.

What kind of function has its execution terminate when it reaches a base case?

And before that may repeatedly call itself with different arguments.

Recursive function is the correct answer.

Next, toss up in 2024.

What woman with a PhD in energy engineering, who is a member of the Morena party, became the first female president elect of Mexico.

Claudia Sheinbaum was the correct answer.

Next toss up.

What author described a geopolitical great game in the novel Kim and wrote about Bactria, a panther who helps raise Mowgli in The Jungle Book.

Rudyard Kipling is the author.

Next, toss up.

What office, whose holder resides at three Sutton Place in Manhattan, has been held by Kofi Annan and Ban Ki moon, and is the chief officer of the UN.

Palmerston.

Secretary general Secretary general is correct.

Your bonuses in math, pencil and paper.

Ready?

What is the Roman numeral for the year 2024?

C6.

That is incorrect.

It's m m x x I v. Or it could also end in I I I I.

Next toss up question.

What country whose monarchy used the secret police called the Savak faced a 1979 revolution in which the policies were replaced by Ayatollah Khomeini.

Palmerton, the shadow Stick.

That is incorrect.

Over to Palmerton.

And I did complete the question.

Iran.

Iran or Buzz in Salem.

Iran.

Iran is correct for your bonus in May 2020.

For what?

Supreme Court Justice blamed his wife for flying an upside down the United States flag at his home in 2021.

Clarence Thomas.

That's incorrect.

It's Samuel Alito.

The next toss up is in math pencil and paper.

Ready?

What fraction is the reciprocal of the mixed number?

Three and three quarters found by flipping its equivalent.

Improper fraction.

Palmerton 4/15.

4/15 is correct.

For your bonus players, explore the fallen kingdom of Hallownest in what 2017 Team Cherry video game, in which players fight enemies using a sword like nail.

Hollow Knight hollow Knight is correct.

And with that, we've reached halftime.

Palmerton currently leads with a score of 145 to Willson's 55.

And now we'll take a moment for students to introduce themselves with their first last name grade level.

And the answer to the following question.

What is your favorite innovation of the last 50 years or solving 50 years of scrimmage?

We'll start with Wilson.

Go ahead.

My name is Akil.

Turmoil.

Secondary.

I'm in grade 12, honestly a tossup.

Coronary bypass surgery.

Oh.

Very good.

All right.

I used to do grade 12, DNA testing.

Okay.

Jamaal or captain Jamaal Green?

Grade 12.

And mine is the human genome Project.

Okay.

Sophia.

Andy.

Grade 12 3D printing.

All right.

In Haiti might say how they're grade 12.

And I would say in-depth space exploration.

Okay.

Doing border grade 11 and fiber optics.

Right.

Has your green grade 11 and bionic limbs.

Okay.

If I stroll 12th grade weather satellites?

Excellent.

So, Dylan, my uncle actually went to MIT and helped pioneer the underground fiber optic cables that are laid along the Atlantic to connect Europe to, to North America.

So it's a great field to going to work for Corning for a number of years, which is not too far away north of us in Corning, New York.

Okay.

We'll continue on with the second half of the match for the following Toss-Up question.

What city is home to the Black Diamond?

National Library is connected to Melmotte, Sweden by the earthen bridge and is a capital of Denmark.

Wilson.

Got the answer right away.

We need an answer.

Give me a guess of a.

That's incorrect.

Over diplomacy.

Go ahead.

Paul.

Copenhagen.

Copenhagen is correct.

And that's one of my favorite cities in the world.

If you ever get a chance to visit a very cool place for your bonus, what leader of the 1952 Free Officers coup against King Farouk nationalized the Suez Canal and was succeeded as Egyptian president by Anwar Al-Sadat.

Just.

Pass.

Gamal Nasser is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

The commander of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition arrived in Uganda in 1871, completing his highly publicized search for the lost David Livingstone.

That is what commanders who were looking for.

That was a whirlwind of a question.

Henry Stanley is a correct answer.

Next, toss up what elements atoms form the cross links created in vulcanization.

The bridges formed by cysteine residues in proteins and is a yellowish solid.

Palmerton.

Sulfur.

Sulfur is correct for your bonus.

What British archeologist told Lord Carnarvon he saw wonderful things after uncovering the first peering into the tomb of Tutankhamen.

Howard Carter is the correct answer.

Next, toss up what author who attributed works are cataloged in the Perry Index.

Was supposedly a slave who created The Lion and the mouse and other fables.

Home.

Written.

Saw a slippery slope is the correct answer for your bonus.

Horace Giddens has a heart attack, but his scheming wife Regina does nothing to help him.

In The Little Foxes, a play by what American author.

Peasant Lillian Hellman is the correct answer.

Next, toss up what team, whose players include Jalen Suggs and the 2023 NBA rookie of the year Paolo Banchero.

Play in the Amway Center in Central Florida.

Wilson.

Orlando Magic the Orlando Magic is correct for a bonus.

Thorium and neptunium belong to what set of radioactive elements that lie below the lanthanides on the periodic table.

Actinides is the correct answer.

Next tossup in math.

Pencil and paper is ready.

What is the x intercept or root of the line whose equation is y equals four x minus six.

Given, it occurs where y equals.

Three over two.

So three over two.

Three over two is correct.

For your bonus, what artist whose namesake prize was awarded to Veronica Ryan in 2022 for her work in contemporary British art, painted rain, steam and speed.

That's it.

He's famous for his painting of ships, this one featured in Skyfall, the James Bond movie.

It's J.M.W.

Turner is the correct answer.

Next tossup question in what state did ranked choice votes reallocate from Nick Begich to help Democrat Mary Portola win a 2022 homer in Alaska?

That is correct.

And it helped her win a 2022 special election against Sarah Palin.

For your bonus, what NFL player who, as rookie in 2021, broke Chad Johnson's franchise record for receiving yards in a season, plays for the Cincinnati Bengals.

Plus, Ja'Marr Chase is the correct answer.

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

Wilson.

You get to pick between the following topics.

The state of Ohio for John.

John or Ohio.

John.

John.

It is Wilson.

Your lightning round topic is John.

Name these people who had or were commonly known by the given name John.

Second president of the United States John Adams.

Correct.

Tycoon who founded Standard Oil John Rockefeller.

Correct.

Author of The Grapes of Wrath.

John Steinbeck.

Correct.

Husband of Yoko Ono, who sang John Lennon.

Correct.

American folk hero and steel driving man.

Best Canadian comedic actor in Home Alone and Uncle Buck.

Pass.

First U.S. Supreme Court chief Justice John Marshall.

Incorrect.

March.

Composer of the Stars and Stripes Forever.

Anybody can say it, too, if you know John Philip Sousa.

That is correct.

Author of The World According to Garp and A prayer for Owen Meany.

Best ornithologist and the artist of The Birds of America.

Pass.

The last one is John James Audubon for the Audubon Society.

Okay, Palmerton.

You have Ohio.

So hopefully we know a lot about Ohio.

It's our neighboring state, Ohio.

Answer the following about Ohio.

Its capital is state House.

Correct.

Great Lake on its northern shore.

Erie.

Correct.

NBA player who became its all time scoring leader in 2023.

Pat pass.

Akron based tire manufacturer and blimp operator.

Misalignment.

Incorrect.

Ohio born president who took office through the compromise of 1877.

Hayes.

Correct.

State tree that nicknames Ohio State sports teams.

The Buckeye.

That is correct.

U.S.

Senator from Ohio, who was the first American to orbit Earth.

Glenn.

Correct.

University.

Where the National Guard killed four students in 19 seven.

Kent state.

Correct.

Its current governor.

Tim Ryan.

That's incorrect.

City on the Miami River that names a war of the 1830s.

Toledo.

Toledo is correct.

All right.

We'll start with the final quarter of the match for the following toss up question.

What kingdom was led by the medieval Peace dynasty, ends its golden age by unifying with Lithuania, and includes Poland.

That is correct.

Includes the cities of Krakow and Warsaw.

For your bonus.

What organization?

Whose leaders like Walter Ruther were assassinated in the battle of the overpass, represents workers at companies like Ford and GM.

United Auto Workers.

The UAW, United Auto Workers is correct.

Next toss up question.

What a literature named space is home to.

The Resolute Desk, has an exit to the Rose garden and is in the west wing of the white House.

Wilson.

Oval office.

Oval office is correct for your bonus.

What derivative of nicotine, known by a four letter abbreviation when found in reduced form, gives up electrons in the electron transport chain.

NAD.

NAD is correct.

Next toss up question.

What endocrine glands affected by Addison's disease produce, produce aldosterone and cortisol and epinephrine, the last of which is also named for these glands.

Palmerton endocrine glands.

That is incorrect.

Over to Wilson.

No conferring.

You can't confer on the toss up, but he's a freebie.

Go ahead.

Terry.

Glenn, it is also incorrect.

It's the adrenal glands.

Is the correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What TV show used Back Porch as a solution to the final bonus round?

Before Ryan Seacrest replaced the game show's longtime host, Pat Sajak.

Palmerton quickly.

Palmerton.

Bob.

And I'm sorry.

You're out of time.

Over to Wilson.

It's a freebie, but no conferring.

Pressure, right?

Oh, no.

Close, but not quite right.

After jeopardy in our market, at least.

Wheel of fortune is the show we're looking for.

Ryan Seacrest is the new host.

What man who led the hunters of the Alps against Austria, also also commanded the expedition of the thousand and led the Red shirts during Italian unification.

Giuseppe Garibaldi is the correct answer.

Next tossup.

What city, whose Gastown neighborhood is near Stanley Park, hosted the 2010 Winter Olympics and is home to Vancouver.

Vancouver is correct.

It's the most populous city in British Columbia.

For your bonus, the unidentified murderer known as the Zodiac Killer was primarily active in the 1960s.

In what state?

California.

California is correct.

Next toss up question.

What African American author of Giovanni's Room wrote about John Grimes and his extremely religious stepfather in the novel Go Tell It on the mountain?

And that's the end of the match.

Congratulations to Paul with 245 points.

You are on to the second round, Wilson.

Great job.

But with 115, you won't quite make it.

Good luck with the rest of your school year.

We'd like to thank you for tuning in.

Check out next week when Notre Dame High School faces off against Northampton Area High School.

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