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Hello and welcome to the fourth and final match of the third round of the 51st season of classic scrimmage.

I'm your host, David Graf.

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

The matchup composed of two halves with a lightning round midway through each half at halftime.

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

As a reminder, classic scrimmage requires rapid recall of specific factual information that's not necessarily indicative of academic training.

And now let's begin.

Buzzers.

Ready?

Here's our first toss up question.

What animal skeletons of which were found by Bucky Finger and Sue Hendrickson are usually Go head northwestern.

Tyrannosaurus rex.

The Tyrannosaurus rex is correct, and the name means tyrant lizard for your bonus.

In the 1980s, the US supported contra rebels fighting against what Central American countries.

Sandinista government.

Panama.

That's incorrect.

Nicaragua is a correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What Roman, who Catholic tradition holds was the Emperor when Saint Peter was crucified, blamed Christians for the fire in which he go ahead.

Northwestern Nero.

That's correct.

And he played the fiddle during that fire.

For your bonus.

What belief, common among enlightenment thinkers holds that God created the world but does not intervene in it?

No answer.

Deism is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What oldest member of the Senate Democratic Caucus in 2025 was runner up to Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential primary and represents Vermont.

Wilson.

Bernie Sanders.

Bernie Sanders is correct.

Your bonus is in math.

Pencil and paper, ready in simplified radical form.

What is the quotient that results from dividing the square root of 40 by the square root of two?

Two times the square root of five?

That is correct.

Next toss up question.

What foods with the scientific name Solanum like copper cecum have beefsteak and San Marzano varieties?

Go ahead.

Northwestern tomatoes.

Tomatoes is correct for your bonus.

William Butler Yeats stated, A terrible beauty is born in a poem about an Irish uprising.

On what holiday in 1916?

Easter Easter is correct.

Next, toss up questions in math.

Pencil and paper.

Ready?

How many total people can be transported by five school vans?

Given that each van can hold a single adult driver and 15 children.

Go ahead.

Wilson.

8080 is correct for your bonus.

Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal starred in, what, 2005 ang Lee film about a decades long romance between two cowboys in Wyoming.

Club.

Fight Club.

No incorrect Brokeback Mountain is that Academy Award winning film.

On to the next tossup question what Asian country where presidential power expanded under guided diplomacy.

Guided democracy gained independence from the Netherlands in 1945 and was led by Sukarno.

That's the country of Indonesia.

Next toss up question in what European country did 15 people die in a September 2025 accident when the elevator Deloria funicular derailed in its capital of Lisbon.

Go ahead.

Wilson.

Portugal.

Portugal is correct for your bonus.

The 100 Days Reform prompted the overthrow of the Guangzhou Emperor.

By what?

Gallinger Empress, who dominated the last years of the Qing dynasty.

Lady Red Jade.

That's incorrect.

It's Empress Dowager seat.

She is a correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What artist who may have used a camera obscura when creating his view of the Delft, was a Dutch Golden Age master who painted girl with a Pearl earring.

Go ahead.

Northwestern.

Vermeer John Vermeer is correct.

For bonus, the highest possible friction force is found by multiplying the coefficient of friction by the magnitude of what reaction force?

Normal force.

Normal force is correct.

Next toss up question.

What structure has three blood vessels cushioned by Wharton's jelly can cause fetal distress when it's around the neck and connects northwestern.

The umbilical cord.

The umbilical cord is correct, and it connects to the placenta.

For your bonus, the traditional Italian sonnet is.

The traditional Italian sonnet is named for what author who collected scattered rhymes dedicated to Laura in his 14th century songbook, IL Canzoneri.

Say it again, George.

We take that.

What?

What he said I can't really.

Oh, do we have a Pedro arc?

Petrarch is correct.

Yes.

We'll take that on to the next toss up question.

What conflict which Arab countries called the tripartite aggression began with Gamal Abdel Nasser.

1956 natural nationalization of an Egyptian waterway.

It was his nationalization of the Suez Canal created the Suez Crisis.

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

Wilson, you'll get to pick the following topics.

We have American stories or Pacific cities.

Sound.

Sound quickly.

Wilson.

Pacific cities.

Pacific cities.

It is.

Wilson.

Your first lightning round topic is Pacific cities.

Name these cities on the Pacific Ocean or one of its marginal seas.

Capital of Peru and namesake of a bean.

Lima, correct.

Most populous city in British Columbia.

Special Administrative region transferred from the United Kingdom to China in 1997.

Hong Kong, correct most populous city in New Zealand.

Home of the Padres in Major League Baseball.

San Diego, correct capital of New South Wales in Australia.

Sydney, correct.

Most populous Alaskan city Juneau.

Incorrect.

Second most populous Japanese city which is southwest of Tokyo.

Kyoto.

Incorrect.

Home of Waikiki Beach, Hawaii.

Incorrect.

Capital of Papua New Guinea.

Guinea.

Incorrect.

Port Moresby and that one you gave the state.

It's Honolulu is the city.

All right, over to northwestern Lehigh.

Your topic is American Stories.

Given the year and title of a short story, name its author.

1843 the Tell-Tale heart.

Correct 1905.

The gift of the Magi.

Oh, Henry!

Correct 1820.

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Irving, correct 1936 The Snows of Kilimanjaro, Hemingway, correct 1948 The Lottery, Jack Sexton correct 1890 an Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge in 1892, The Yellow Wallpaper.

Gilman.

Oh, yeah, We'll Take That 1947.

The Enormous Radio.

Pass, 1902.

To Build a Fire Pass, 1924.

The Most Dangerous Game.

Pass.

That last one was Richard Connell.

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

What piano work in C sharp minor, subtitled quasi Fatca?

Did Van Beethoven compose to evoke a nighttime scene at Lake Lucerne?

Northwestern Light Sonata the Moonlight Sonata is correct for your bonus.

George the Third and Queen Victoria were members of what royal house that ruled Britain from 1714 to 1901?

The Hanoverians?

Oh yes.

The Hanoverian dynasty, or the House of Hanover is correct.

Next also question what nation?

The birthplace of the UN Secretary General, Dog Hammarskjöld, is a Scandinavian country where five Nobel Prizes are awarded in Stockholm, northwestern Sweden.

Sweden is correct for your bonus.

Carl Davidoff, Jacqueline Dupree and Pablo Cassel were all virtuoso performers on what musical instrument?

Flute.

That's incorrect.

You're all virtual is on the cello.

Next toss up question what characters face appears on a door knocker as he haunts his stingy northwestern?

Jacob Marley Jacob Marley is correct, and he's haunting his former business partner Ebenezer Scrooge for your bonus.

What binary operation returns true for all cases except both inputs being true?

Else that's incorrect.

It would be a and or not.

And next toss up question what scandal?

Whose central crime was accidentally committed by Ferdinand Esterhazy, involves the conviction of a Jewish army officer in France.

That's Ferdinand Esterhazy.

That's a Dreyfuss affair.

Next toss up question.

What composer who depicted Lensky death in a duel in his opera Eugene Onegin, was a Russian who wrote a ballet depicting Odile and Odette.

Swan Lake go northwestern.

Tchaikovsky.

Tchaikovsky is correct for your bonus.

What language, which is mutually intelligible with Hindi, is the lingua franca of Pakistan.

Arab.

Incorrect.

Urdu.

Next toss up question.

What country whose cities of Burgas and Varna lie on?

The Black Sea is north of the European portion of Turkey and has its capital at Sofia.

Sofia's, the capital of Bulgaria.

Next to some question, what group of elements form strong binary acids with hydrogen have seven valence electrons and include Wilson halogens.

Halogens is correct for your bonus.

What deity known as the white Tetsu was a feathered serpent god of the sun from Aztec mythology.

This one's another mouthful.

It's all told.

It's a correct answer.

Or a glottal.

Yeah.

That's right.

Couldn't get that one either way.

All right, here we go.

On to the next toss up question.

What color names and order formed by the peep O'Day boys to protect Protestant power, Northern Ireland, as well as the Royal house of William the Third.

Go ahead.

Northwestern.

Orange.

Orange is correct.

Your bonus is in math.

Pencil and paper.

Ready?

What hexadecimal number is equivalent to the decimal number 44, given the hexadecimal digits, include the letters A through F. Two.

C is a correct answer.

And with that, we have reached halftime.

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

What is your go to breakfast before a scrimmage match?

We'll start over at Wilson.

Go ahead.

My name is I'm in 10th grade, and my favorite breakfast for this classic scrimmage match is anomaly.

Okay.

Jack Samra, I'm in 12th grade and my favorite breakfast before Scholastic scrimmage is getting a nice few reps on a 275 pound bench press.

Nice.

Okay, Andrew, my name is Andrew Blaise.

I'm grade 11 and my favorite breakfast is whatever my dog doesn't finish.

All right.

My name is Geoffrey Sunderland.

Grade 12.

My favorite breakfast is about three scoops of pre-workout and Gatorade mixed with a bagel with no cream cheese.

Okay.

And over to Northwestern Lehigh.

My name is Anya.

I'm in 11th grade, and my favorite breakfast before Scholastic scrimmage match is a protein bar.

Okay, I'm Jeremiah Zona, I'm in 10th grade, and my favorite breakfast is probably milk with a cup.

What?

A cup of milk with a piece of toast.

Okay.

My name is Emmeline Fink.

I'm an 11th grade, and my favorite breakfast before scrimmage is pears and cereal.

All right, I'm Roxanne Lasco.

I'm in 10th grade, and my favorite breakfast before a match is a Jimmy Dean breakfast sandwich.

All right.

Excellent.

We'll continue with the following half of the match with this toss up question.

What character who hears the mermaid singing each to each and wonders if he should disturb the universe?

Titles.

A poetic love song by TS Eliot.

That character is J. Alfred Prufrock on to the next toss up question.

In what city did Michelle Wu run unopposed for mayor in 2025 after the withdrawal of Josh Kraft, a son of the owner of the New England Patriots, Wilson Boston Boston is correct for your bonus, the city of Gold Coast is in what Australian state?

Whose capital is Brisbane?

The state.

Auburn.

Incorrect.

Queensland is the Australian state.

Next toss up question what country is east of?

Lake Kivu has its capital at Key Largo, and saw nearly 3 million Tutsis killed by Hutu extremists during its go ahead, northwestern Rwanda.

Rwanda is correct for your bonus Hyakki tracks or paths on what diagram?

That plots stars for their luminosity and temperature and is named for two astronomers had sprung.

Russell diagram.

The Herzberg Russell diagram is correct.

Next toss up question.

In 2013, Mount Etna created a large fountain of what substance which has or and panha forms and going with western lava.

That is correct.

And it's the above ground counterpart of magma for your bonus.

What cities?

Garden of fugitives contains 13 plaster casts of victims buried in an AD 79 event, witnessed by the elder Pompeii.

Pompeii is correct.

Next toss up question.

What law?

Which the Supreme Court upheld in NFIB versus Sebelius in 2012, expanded Medicaid and have the number go ahead.

Northwestern Affordable Care Act The Affordable Care Act is correct and have the number of Americans who lack health insurance for your bonus.

What state is the setting of plays Joe Turner's Come and Gone and The Piano Lesson, which are both part of a ten play cycle by August Wilson.

Mississippi?

That's incorrect.

You're all set in the state of Pennsylvania.

We're going to next toss up question what quantity whose curve is upward sloping on a price quantity graph is the amount of a good or service that producers are willing to sell.

Wilson.

Supply.

Supply is correct for your bonus.

Convolutional neural nets are well-suited at classifying what creation that can be generated using Dall-E three.

Cloning.

That's incorrect.

It's images or graphics.

It's what it can create.

All right.

Next toss up question bands in what musical genre include the Soja boys, as well as Hunt Wilson, K-pop or Korean pop?

K-pop or Korean pop is correct for your bonus in August 2025, what Midwestern University, whose campus is in Hyde Park, said it would slash its humanities department amid a massive debt crisis.

University of Chicago let your captain know.

University of Chicago.

University of Chicago.

University of Chicago is correct.

All right, on to our next toss up question.

What story whose title character is imprisoned for vagrancy is by Herman Melville and is about a man who repeatedly says, I would go at northwestern, Billy Budd.

That is incorrect.

I'll go over to Wilson.

So no conferring, but it's a freebie.

And the end of the question is, he says, I would prefer not to.

Go ahead.

Nelson Mandela incorrect.

It's Bartleby, the Scrivener.

It's a correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What dispersive device was used by Isaac Newton to separate white light into a rainbow?

Go ahead.

Wilson prism A prism is correct for your bonus.

What?

Confederate general was mortally wounded by his own men at the Battle of Chancellorsville?

Jackson.

General Jackson.

Yes, general Stonewall Jackson is correct.

All right.

With that, we have reached the second lightning round.

Northwestern.

Lehigh.

You'll get to pick between the following topics.

Short Spanish words or mind your peas and q's.

Mind your peas and cuz mind your peas.

And cuz it is, give these answers whose names in English begin with either P or a Q country governed from Manila, Philippines.

Correct.

Pacifist religious denomination of William Penn.

Quaker.

Quaker.

Correct.

Type of rain that titles a print song.

Purple.

Purple.

Correct writing instrument made from a feather and dipped in ink.

Will correct writing material made from untagged animal skins.

Country home to media network Al Jazeera Pakistan.

Incorrect.

City home to the NBA's trailblazers.

Pass in computer science a request to a database for information prompt.

Incorrect pseudonym used by the authors of The Federalist Papers.

Publius.

Correct.

Southeast Mexican state that contains Cancun.

Quintana Roo.

Is that state okay?

Over to Wilson.

Short Spanish words.

So hopefully some of you have taken Spanish so far in high school.

Short Spanish words is your topic.

Give these Spanish words of three or fewer letters, given their usual English translations, either form of the indefinite article A or an UN.

Correct.

The number two does correct and correct de the correct I as in part of the body.

Oh, correct.

Year on you correct through four or via correct.

Bread.

Ton.

Correct.

King three.

Correct.

Garlic.

Oh, that is correct.

Wilson.

Okay, we'll continue the final quarter of the match for the following toss up question.

What NFL team, which has a record 20 straight winning seasons from 1966 Pittsburgh Steelers.

Yes Wilson.

Go ahead Pittsburgh Steelers.

That is incorrect I'll continue for northwestern.

Lehigh from 1966 to 1985, is owned by Jerry Jones and plays in AT&T Stadium in Texas.

The Cowboys.

Northwestern.

The Cowboys.

The Dallas Cowboys is correct.

Andrews kicking himself on that one.

You know.

All right, for your bonus, what alliterative term refers to the maximum population of a species that an environment can safely support indefinitely?

No answer.

The carrying capacity is a correct answer.

Next, toss up question.

What city which is linked to yes.

What city?

Which is linked to the city of Kingston by the Rideau Canal, forms a metro area with Quebec City of Gatineau and is Canada's capital.

Wilson, Ottawa.

This guy's got an answer.

Ottawa Ottawa is correct.

Okay, for your bonus, in 1997, Mattel sued MCA records for copyright infringement over a song by Danish Norwegian band Aqua, partially named after What toy?

Play-Doh.

Incorrect.

It's Barbie and it was the aqua song Barbie Girl.

You ever heard that at all?

Kind of past everybody right now?

Interesting.

Is the judge told both parties to chill.

That was his advice to both parties.

We need to dismiss the lawsuit.

Okay.

Next, toss up questions in math.

Pencil and paper ready?

Rounded to the nearest integer.

What is the value of five times pi?

Given that pi is approximately equal to 3.14?

Good.

Wilson 1616 is correct for your bonus.

Martin Luther King was shot while supporting a strike in Memphis.

Involving what group of public workers, two of whom have been crushed in a compactor.

Garbage worker?

Yes, garbage workers are sanitation workers is correct.

That's who is striking.

Next toss of question.

What president who won the white House by defeating John C Frémont in 1856, did little to stop the south going north western James Buchanan James Buchanan is correct.

He did little to stop the South's from succeeding just before the Civil War.

For your bonus, what fifth book of the Old Testament contains Moses's final speech before the Israelites entered the Promised Land, and has a name meaning second Law.

Book of Deuteronomy.

The book of Deuteronomy is correct.

Next toss up question what novel retold stories from Genesis in Joseph and his brothers and depicted Hans Cash Terps long stay at a Swiss sanatorium in the Magic Mountain.

That author was Paul Thomas Mann.

Next toss up question what ancient Greek proved that there were infinitely many prime numbers, and stated that the parallel postulate in his 300 BC book The Elements go ahead, northwestern Euclid Euclid is correct for your bonus.

What Spaniard led the first European expedition into the interior of present day United States, during which he traveled the Mississippi River in 1541?

One Ponce alien.

That's incorrect.

It's Hernando de Soto is the explorer.

Next toss up question.

What woman who guided Union troops during the raid on come by ferry helped liberate dozens of people as a conductor.

Northwestern Harriet Tubman Harriet Tubman is correct.

And she was a conductor on the Underground Railroad.

For your bonus, F Scott Fitzgerald wrote a short story about what character who is born with the appearance of a 70 year old man and seems to age backwards.

Benjamin Button Benjamin Button is correct and was also made into a movie as well.

Next task of question what poet described dead leaves?

I mean, you buzzed in before, so go ahead.

What poet would you like to name?

Henry David Thoreau.

Incorrect person.

Shelley was who we were looking for.

All right.

Great match.

Both teams.

Wilson with 200 points.

It's the end of the road.

Good luck with the rest of your school year.

Northwestern Lehigh.

Congratulations.

With 305 points, you are on to the final four teams of this season.

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Thrive here.