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Hello and welcome to the 12th match of the 51st season of Scholastic Scrimmage.

I'm your host, David Graff.

Today's match is between Wilson Area High School and Freedom High School.

The match will be composed of two halves, with a lightning round midway through each half and half time will pause for students to introduce themselves, and we'll get to know them a little bit better.

As a reminder, Scholastic Scrimmage requires rapid recall specific factual information as not necessarily indicative of academic training, and that let's be game buzzers.

Ready.

Here's our first toss up question.

Plays in what language?

By Rossini Unesco include the absurdist play The Bald Soprano, as well as a play about an impious hypocrite, Tatu by Moliere.

Go ahead Wilson, Italian.

Incorrect.

Over to freedom.

Go to freedom.

Greek.

Also incorrect.

Wilson.

You're a little close.

It is a romance language, but they are in French.

The French language.

Next toss up question.

What city is home to?

The Baku Dome contains the headquarters of Mazda and is a Japanese city.

That was the first to be struck by an atomic bomb.

Go ahead.

Freedom!

Hiroshima.

Hiroshima is correct for your bonus.

The successful American defense.

Of what?

Fort in Baltimore inspired Francis Scott Key to write the Star-Spangled banner.

Let your captain know.

And you can just tell me.

Fort Benning.

That's incorrect.

Fort McHenry is the correct answer.

All right, the next tossup question.

What element whose fillings are used to show field lines lends its name to a phenomena that also displayed that is also displayed by cobalt and nickel, called ferromagnetism.

We see he was in.

Right?

Yep, you were in.

Go ahead.

Iron.

Iron is correct for bonus.

Mayonnaise is an example of what colloid.

Which in your.

Which is when one liquid is dispersed in another liquid or in another immiscible liquid.

Excuse when one liquid is dispersed into another, immiscible liquid is.

The cap.

No mixture A mixture.

Incorrect and emulsion is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What man who poses as the receptionist, surely in the miserable mill pursues the Baudelaire orphans in Lemony Snicket, a Series of Unfortunate Events.

That persons count old off until next toss up question.

What civilization founded?

What is now the city of Cadiz, used by snails to create purple dye in its city of tire and invented the first alphabet.

Ahead.

Wilson.

Phoenician.

The Phoenicians are correct.

For bonus.

What British king who lost the Battle of Boyne in 1690 was deposed in the Glorious Revolution.

Of the city.

King William.

That's incorrect.

James, the second of England is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What quantity equals the dot product of torque and angular velocity in rotation systems is defined as work per unit time, and is measured in watts.

Go ahead.

Wilson.

Power.

Power is correct.

For bonus, what class of economy germs perform gas exchange using respiratory trees, and are named for the resemblance to a vegetable.

Mercury.

But time was up.

We're talking about sea cucumbers.

Those are the animals we're looking for in my.

All right.

All right.

Next tossup question.

What opera in which suitors of a princess must answer several riddles contain Carlos aria Nason dorma and was composed by Giacomo Puccini.

Turn it out is a correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What 22 year old woman who was detained on the ship madeleine while trying to bring aid to Gaza, was deported to Sweden and is a leading climate activist?

Greta Thunberg.

Yeah.

What?

Think Greta Thunberg is a correct answer?

Yes.

She's a leading climate activist.

For your bonus.

In the novel, Ethan from Ethan and Maddie are severely injured after an injured after an intentional accident in which they steer what object into a tree?

A car?

Incorrect.

A sled is the correct answer.

Next tossup question what airport is named for?

A World War Two fighter pilot?

Who who defended the USS Lexington and has the airport code O, r, d and serves the Chicago area board.

Wilson.

O'Hare.

O'Hare is correct.

For your bonus, what term beginning with egg refers to a measurement of the fraction of light and astronomical object reflects.

Affect.

Incorrect.

And albedo is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

The phrase process extracts what element which forms cross-linked vulcanization is bonded to hydrogen in style and has the atomic symbol S. Go ahead.

Freedom.

Sulfur.

Sulfur is correct.

For bonus, what dessert name?

To honor an American territorial acquisition in 1867.

Consists of ice cream and sponge cake.

Or.

Excuse me.

Let me start this bonus over for you.

What dessert?

Not a dessert we're talking about after dinner.

Dessert named to honor an American territorial acquisition in 1867, consists of ice cream and sponge cake topped with browned meringue.

And you guessed the time's up.

Clark cake?

No, it's the baked Alaska.

Celebrate Alaska being included into the Union.

Okay, we have reached the first lightning round, and pre-match coin toss was determined.

The freedom.

We'll get to pick between the following categories.

Duplicate anatomy or the Gilded Age.

Oh, I. Anatomy.

Okay, freedom.

Your first lightning round topic is duplicate anatomy.

Name these features of the human body that normally has two.

So human body Norways two of these features.

Opposable digits of the hand fingers.

Incorrect color.

Part of the eyes rendered surrounding the pupil.

Iris.

Correct.

External openings of the nasal cavity.

Nostrils.

Correct.

Organs whose nephrons filter blood.

Skip bone parallel to the radius in the forearm.

Ulna.

Correct.

Diagonal ligament in the knee that is one of the most often injured ACL.

Correct.

Gland that produces aldosterone and epinephrine.

Skip.

Triangular shoulder muscle name for a Greek letter skip.

Major artery branching off of the aorta, sending blood to the head.

Skip ear bone that is the smallest in the body.

Ossicles.

Incorrect.

Stapes is smallest one.

Okay, Wilson, your topic is the Gilded Age.

Name these people and things from American life in the late 1800s.

Founder of Standard Oil and the first U.S.

billionaire.

Rockefeller.

Correct.

Immigration station opened in New York Harbor in 1892.

Ellis Island, correct.

Political machine led by Boss Tweed.

Skip mocking name for investigative journalist who exposed corruption.

Skip nationality subject to an 1882 Exclusion Act.

Chinese correct, 1890 antitrust law named for an Ohio Senator.

Skip detective agency to help fight the Homestead Strike FBI incorrect robber baron, nicknamed the Commodore Carnegie.

Incorrect.

Socialist presidential candidate jailed over the Pullman Strike.

Skip railroad mogul who tried to corner the gold market in 1869.

Jay Gould is the answer to the last one.

All right.

We'll continue on with the following toss up question.

What 1994 film in which an opera duet is played over an intercom, depicts Andy Dufresne crawling through a sewage pipe to escape the title?

Go ahead.

Wilson.

Shawshank Redemption The Shawshank Redemption is correct, and he's escaping the title prison for bonus.

Ode to Aphrodite is the only complete extant poem by what ancient author, who may have been exiled to Sicily after she lived on the island of Lesbos.

She married Shu Hara.

Incorrect.

Sappho is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What ecological event?

A refugee from which was depicted in the photo migrant mother devastated agriculture on the Great Plains in the 19 God Wilson Dust Bowl.

The Dust Bowl is correct.

And it happened in the 1930s.

For a bonus, what Canadian province is known as the Cradle of Confederation has a southernmost coast that borders Northumberland Strait.

Quebec.

Incorrect.

Prince Edward Island is the correct answer.

Next tossup question what character?

Who's the protagonist of a 2024 novel by Percival Everett?

Rafts down the Mississippi River with Huck Finn in a novel by Mark Twain.

Go ahead, Wilson.

Huckleberry Finn, that is incorrect.

Over to freedom.

Good freedom.

Tom Sawyer.

Also incorrect.

The correct answer is Jim.

It's a correct answer.

That's correct.

Correct.

Next tossup.

What mountain range is home to the world's largest salt flat, contains the Altiplano plateau and stretches along the western coast of South America.

Go ahead.

Freedom.

Andes.

That is correct.

The Andes mountains for bonus.

What country's cocaine bow region is home to the Vera Rubin Observatory, which in 2025 began a ten year long time lapse study of the southern sky.

Nigeria.

Incorrect.

Chile is the correct answer.

Next host of question is in math.

Pencil and paper.

Ready?

What mixed number?

Combining a whole number and a proper fraction is equivalent to the improper fraction 47 divided by six.

Go ahead.

Freedom seven and one sixth.

That is incorrect.

So Wilson no conferring, but still a tossup for you.

Buzz in if you know it.

Go ahead.

Wilson 756756 is correct for bonus.

What computing company's microprocessor included the 8088 and the flawed Pentium?

Microsoft.

Incorrect.

Intel.

The Intel Corporation had the Pentium processor.

And with that, we've reached halftime.

We have a close match underway, with Wilson currently leading freedom with a score of 80 to 45.

So now we'll have the students introduce themselves with their first name, last name, grade level.

And we were talking before the match.

So I don't think they got to hear the question.

So they're totally on, totally acting off the top of their heads on this one.

But what is your favorite book or poem or short story that you really enjoyed, but that you were assigned to read in school so you didn't pick it on your own?

You were assigned to read it.

So, Wilson.

Jeffrey, go ahead.

I would have to say 1984.

Okay.

And first, last name grade level.

Oh, Jeffrey Sunderland, grade 12 and 1984.

Okay.

That's you giving Jack time to tie his tie.

Wardrobe malfunction.

Go ahead.

Jack.

Jack.

Samira.

My favorite book I was assigned reading school has to be Fahrenheit 451.

Okay, that's a popular pick so far.

Go ahead with our captain.

I'm Andrew Blaze, grade 11.

And I would say Lord of the flies.

Okay.

Go ahead.

I am Alexander for this.

And my favorite short poem is The Raven.

Okay.

Over to Frieda Madison.

Go ahead.

My name is Madison Antonius, grade 11.

And my favorite book was The Outsiders.

Okay.

I'm Gillian Dern in Grade 11, and I have to say, my favorite book there in school would be The Hunger Games.

Okay, my name is Navia Abraham, and I'm Grade ten, and I think my favorite book would be night.

Okay, Leah, we're so grade 11, and I'd say hatchet.

Hatchet.

Okay, the last round we had, or the last match we had, another person named hatchet was one of favorites.

I just read that with my daughter, the little traumatic parts of it.

But we got through it.

She's only a fifth grader, but she did like it in the end.

Okay, we'll continue with the second half of the match for the following toss up question.

The second king of what name established a brutal force who bleak to extract rubber from the Congo Free State, which she ruled as King of Belgium.

Leopold the second is the correct answer.

Next tossup question.

In August 2025, police in what state captured Austin Drummond, who allegedly committed a quadruple murder along its Missouri border north of Memphis.

Clyde.

Freedom, Tennessee Tennessee is correct for your bonus.

What member of the 12 apostles this Roman Catholic Church recognized as the first pope?

What the hell?

You're happy.

No, Peter.

Peter is correct.

Next toss up question.

Colostrum is a precursor of what substance which contains the IGA antibodies is produced by mammary glands and is a white fluid secreted?

Good freedom.

Milk.

Milk is correct for a bonus.

In George Orwell's novella Animal Farm, the exploitation of the proletariat is represented by what large cart horse, whose motto is I will work harder.

Boxer.

Boxer is correct.

Next toss up question what New World country's independence began on Dia de Vico, when the future Braganza dynasty of the Emperor Pedro the First refused to return to Portugal.

Go ahead.

Wilson.

Brazil.

Brazil is correct.

Yep.

You're the first.

I'm staying here.

This is my country.

Okay, for your bonus, why?

Biko exhibit the high temperature form.

Of what phenomena?

Meaning that it can occur in Biko at temperatures above 77 kelvins.

See?

Kelvin sets.

Time for superconductivity is the correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What instrument the soloist in Ludwig van Beethoven is Emperor Concerto, which is played by the soloist in that concerto has a range of more than seven octaves across its black and white keys.

Wilson.

Piano A piano is correct.

For a bonus.

The Swiss psychologist or what Swiss psychologist propose that children go through four stages of development, including sensory, motor and concrete.

Operational.

And Freud.

Incorrect.

John Piaget is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

Mesozoic cells are found in what disease that is treated with artemisinin or quinine caused by Plasmodium protozoa and is spread by mosquitoes.

Malaria.

Wilson.

Wilson.

Go ahead.

Malaria.

Malaria is correct for bonus at about 100 tons.

Which of Christopher Columbus is three ships was his flagship on his first voyage to the Americas in 1492.

So Santa Maria de Santa Maria is correct.

Next tossup question what sport whose men's 2025 world champion was Ilia manly in is the primary sport of Nathan Chen, who performs jumps such as triple axes.

We'll see.

What is figure skating?

Figure skating is correct for bonus.

Acid rain is produced by the reaction of water with nitrogen oxide and what toxic gas it's released by volcanic eruptions.

And who has a molecular mass of 64.

Potassium?

That's incorrect.

Sulfur dioxide is the correct answer.

Next tossup question in what peninsula did Great Britain launch its failed charge of the Light Brigade against Russian troops during the 1854 Siege of Sebastopol?

That's currently being held by Russia.

Now it's the Crimean Peninsula or Crimea.

Next tossup question.

Right.

Oscar runs up and down what structure?

That is not on by named hog and is surrounded by the nine worlds, a mystic world tree from Norse mythology.

Idris Elba is the correct answer.

Oh, we've been in Norse mythology and didn't quite know that one.

I. Okay, Wilson, for the second half you're lightning round topics.

You get to pick between our teams and cities or turtles.

What I will take teams and cities.

Teams and cities.

It is so freedom.

Get ready to know everything you need to know about turtles.

Wilson.

Your topic is teams and cities.

Given an American sports league and the name of a team identified the city that's in the team's name, Major League Baseball, the Red Sox.

Austin.

Boston.

Correct.

Anybody can say it to Boston is correct NBA the Lakers Los Angeles.

Correct NFL the Cowboys, Dallas.

Correct.

NHL the capitals.

Montreal.

Incorrect WNBA the fever Indianapolis.

Correct MLB The Guardians.

Cleveland.

Correct NBA The Trailblazers Portland.

Correct.

MLS the earthquakes pass NHL the Jets.

New York incorrect.

WNBA the Aces.

New York oh.

Think aces getting aces in Las Vegas.

In excess.

Okay.

Freedom.

Your topic is turtles.

Answer the following about turtles.

Common name for a turtles carapace shell.

Correct.

Number of turtle doves in the 12 days of Christmas.

Anybody can say it if you know it.

Nine incorrect purple clad ninja named for a sculptor.

Michelangelo.

Incorrect author of the Ya novel Turtles All the Way Down John Green.

Correct.

New York City borough whose turtle Bay neighborhood has the UN headquarters.

Skip Hindu god whose second avatar is Kurma or turtle.

Skip.

Incorrect, I think skip.

Skip.

Okay.

Greek messenger god who created the leader of the lyre.

Hermes.

Hermes?

Yes, Hermes is correct.

War in which David Bushnell deployed the turtle, an early submarine skip 1865 book, to introduce the Mock Turtle.

Skip 14th to 19th century Korean dynasty that deployed turtle ships.

Skip the be the Joseon Dynasty to.

All right.

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

What disease?

Which last appeared naturally in our email, a Marlon in Somalia is caused by the variola virus and causes painful skin blisters.

Chickenpox.

Wilson.

Chickenpox.

That's incorrect.

Over to freedom.

Go ahead.

Ebola.

Also incorrect.

Smallpox is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What name?

The regnal name for the pope who crowned Charlemagne its emperor in AD 800 is also the name of a zodiac constellation resembling a lion.

Good freedom.

Leo.

Leo is correct for your bonus.

What federal official has reinstated Donald Trump's demand that he resign before the end of his term as chairman?

Excuse me?

What federal official has resisted Donald Trump's demand that he resign before the end of his term as chairman of the Federal Reserve?

Anybody?

That's right.

It's Jerome Powell.

The correct answer.

Next toss up question what poet depicted and an aspiring writer in the 1856 verse novel Aurora Lee and pondered the end of being in her sonnet beginning how do I Love thee?

Go ahead.

Freedom.

Barrett.

We need more.

Yeah.

We'll take.

Yeah.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning is correct for your bonus.

For nearly five decades, what country was ruled by King Hussein of the.

Has a white dynasty?

China.

Incorrect.

Jordan is a country.

Next toss up question.

What property whose stereo form include cis and trans alkenes, occurs in any two components with the same molecular formula, but different structures.

Go ahead.

Freedom isotope.

That is incorrect.

Wilson.

You can't confer.

Wilson.

But it is a freebie.

I saw is a correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What landmark for which the crown of thorns was removed after a 2019 disaster, named a Victor Hugo novel about quasi modo and is a Paris cathedral freedom Notre Dame Notre Dame is correct for your bonus.

What ten letter term is used to refer to a theological entity consisting of more than one, and possibly infinitely many, distinct universes?

If you don't know and want to speed up two, you can just say pass, pass.

Okay, say multiverse is a correct answer.

Oh, next toss up question what author of Answered Prayers and Other Voices Other Rooms wrote about the killing of the clutter family in his nonfiction novel In Cold Blood.

You can't know conferring, but if you know what buzz in.

Truman Capote is correct.

Answer.

Next tossup question.

The Freeport Doctrine was formulated by what senator nicknamed the Little Giant, who engaged in a set of seven debates in 1858 with Abraham Lincoln.

And that is time.

The correct answer is Stephen Douglas.

Well, it was a close match, but unfortunately, freedom with 125 points.

Not quite enough.

Good luck with the rest of your school year, Wilson with 155 points.

Congratulations.

You're on to the second round and thank you for tuning in.

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