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Hello and welcome to the second round of the 51st season of Scholastic Scrimmage.

I'm your host, David Graff.

Today's match is between last season's champion Moravian Academy and Panther Valley 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 Chairman requires rapid recall 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.

In 2025, researchers announced a six atom allotropes of what element that is most stable as a diatomic gas.

That, and it also comprises most of Earth's atmosphere.

Get Moravian nitrogen.

Nitrogen is correct.

You composed most of Earth's atmosphere for your bonus.

What name is given to rocks produced by other rocks?

By changes in temperature, pressure or chemical composition?

Yeah.

Metamorphic.

Metamorphic is also correct.

Next tossup question.

What disaster?

After which Max Blank and Isaac Harris were tried for manslaughter, killed 146 garment workers in 19 Peruvian Triangle Shirtwaist fire.

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire is correct.

And it was, it happened in 1911 to complete the questionnaire for your bonus.

In 1963, a year in a 1963 speech in West Germany, what Americans said proudest boast in the world of freedom and was ich bin ein Berliner.

Or I'm a Berliner.

Okay.

JFK.

JFK is correct.

Next toss up question.

What novel?

In which Sugg Avery has an affair with a woman who is married to an abusive man named Mr.. Is about Seelie and is by Alice Walker.

Moravian.

What is the color purple?

The color purple is correct for your bonus.

In romantic era symphonies, the scherzo replaced what French dance in 3 or 4 time.

Traditionally paired with a trio in a symphony's third movement.

I'm talking to you.

Okay.

Adagio.

That's incorrect.

You'd be a minuet.

It's a correct answer.

Next tossup question in 2025, what city's former police officer, Brett Hankison, was found guilty of charges related to the 2020 killing of Breonna?

Go ahead.

Panther rally Minneapolis.

That is incorrect.

Complete the question from Moravian of Breonna Taylor in Kentucky.

Go ahead.

Moravian.

Louisville.

Louisville is correct for your bonus.

What?

Failure of sister chromatids to properly separate in cell division has a name that sounds like a double negative.

Non disjunction.

Non disjunction is correct.

Next toss up question.

What French scientist who in 1881 demonstrated a vaccine for anthrax.

Developed a namesake method that uses heat.

Go ahead.

And Moravian.

Pasteur.

Louis Pasteur is correct, and it uses heat to kill pathogens in milk.

For your bonus, what?

1943 riots in Los Angeles, in which U.S.

soldiers attacked many young Mexican Americans, were named for a kind of flashy clothing.

Zoot suit riots the Zoot Suit Riots is correct.

Next toss up question.

What comic strip, including your includes the Invisible Not Me was created by Bill Keane.

Features a child named PJ and is a single panel with a circular border.

The comic strip is the Family Circus.

Next tossup question what deity who fathered gods of fear and terror named Phobos.

Go ahead.

Moravian.

Aries.

Aries is correct.

It was during his affair with the goddess of love, Aphrodite.

For bonus.

I, Laura phobia is the fear of what?

Animals whose feces are a frequent vector for toxoplasmosis.

Cats.

Cats is correct.

Next toss up question.

What term can be combined either with brown to name a failed star that can't get Moravian?

Dwarf.

Dwarf is correct.

For your bonus, what texts whose prose type was written or compiled by Snorri Stirling were medieval collections of North Norse mythology.

It is.

It is is also correct.

Next toss up question.

In what empire did local Dems fuzz up the local Dems for assembly?

Go ahead.

Moravian.

The Russian Empire.

The Russian Empire is correct.

And it was followed then by the redistribution of land in 1861.

When the czar Alexander the Second emancipated the serfs.

For your bonus.

19,240 British soldiers died on the first day.

Of what battle?

That lasted four months in 1916, and was named for a French river, probably the Somme.

The battle of the Somme is correct.

Next tossup question what author of the novel Eight Cousins wrote about a girl who falls in love with a German professor Baer after.

Go ahead.

Moravian Alcott.

Louisa may Alcott is correct for your bonus.

What phenomena first observed in pollen grains by a Scottish botanist is the random movement of particles suspended in a fluid?

Brownian motion Brownian motion is also correct.

Next, toss up question.

What position?

The top quadrant of a Nolan chart.

Names a party that ran Chase Oliver for for president and values both Moravian libertarian.

Yes.

Libertarian.

Libertarianism.

The Libertarian Party is correct, and they value both capitalism and civil liberties.

And for your bonus, an 1881 novel by Johanna Sperry is named for a joyful Swiss girl who befriends the goat herder Peter while living in the film uncle in the Alps.

It's called Buddha.

No, that is Heidi that we're talking about now on.

And with that, we have reached the first lightning round in a pre-match coin toss.

It was determine that Panther Valley.

You'll get to pick between birds in fine art and the Great Lakes Greenway.

So bird in fine art or the Great Lakes, the Great Lakes, please.

The Great Lakes, it is.

Panther Valley, your topic is the Great Lakes.

Which of the five North American Great Lakes borders Chicago?

Michigan?

Correct.

Is the largest by area.

Superior.

Correct.

Shares its name with a Canadian province.

Ontario.

Correct.

Was the site of an 1813 naval victory for Oliver Hazard Perry.

Erie.

Correct.

Contains Georgian Bay and Saginaw Bay, Michigan.

Incorrect.

Has the Niagara River as its main outflow.

Huron.

That is incorrect.

Does not border Canada.

Michigan.

Correct.

Is east of the Straits of Mackinac.

Erie.

Incorrect.

Is drained by the Saint Lawrence River.

Superior.

Incorrect.

Was where the S.S.

Edmund Fitzgerald sank.

Michigan.

Also incorrect.

It's Lake Superior.

Okay, Moravian, your topic is birds in fine art.

Answer the following about artworks that feature or depicted birds.

Tchaikovsky ballet with white and black waterfowl.

Swan.

Swan Lake.

Carol or go.

Or are we going to?

Yeah.

We'll take that country.

We're here.

A Shiji created bird and flower.

Ukiyo e print pan.

Correct.

Renaissance painter of Madonna of the goldfinch and the School of Athens.

Raphael.

Correct.

Composer whose pastoral Six Symphony imitates bird calls.

Beethoven.

Correct.

Sergei Prokofiev, work in which the oboe depicts a duck Peter and the Wolf.

Correct.

Painter and naturalist who compiled the Birds of America and Audubon.

Correct.

Jazz sax player named Byrd who wrote ornithology.

Parker.

Correct.

Composer who imitates birdsong in his The Four Seasons or birdsong.

Vivaldi.

Bartholdi is correct.

American artist of the bird catchers and the Gulf Stream.

Homer.

Correct.

Composer of the opera The Thieving Magpie.

That last one is Rossini.

Okay, we'll continue on with the following.

Toss up question.

What NFL team, which in 1972 was coached by Don Shula to an undefeated season.

Go ahead.

Moravian Dolphins.

Yes.

The Miami Dolphins is correct.

Will take either team.

Used to play the Orange Bowl in South Florida for your bonus.

The life of Herod the Great.

A book rescued from a fire and published Post-Human to Sleep in 2025 is by what black author of their eyes were watching God.

Zora Neale Hurston.

Neale Hurston is correct.

Next toss up question what quantity?

The inverse of the period is a number of times in a bank.

Black Panther valley frequency.

Frequency is correct, and it's given in hertz for your bonus.

What character from a 1999 film born Thomas Anderson and sometimes called The One, takes a red pill that reveals his ordinary life is an illusion.

Neo.

Neo is correct.

And that's from the movie The Matrix.

Next tossup question what holiday during which a cup of wine is left full for Elijah begins.

Go ahead.

Moravian.

Passover.

Passover is correct.

It begins with the Seder meal.

For your bonus, what policy, which was implemented through Executive Order 9066, issued in 1942, was upheld by Supreme Court in, or was upheld by the Supreme Court in Korematsu versus the United States.

Japanese internment.

Yes.

The internment Japanese-Americans is correct.

Next tossup question.

What institutions, many of which were founded under the Moral Lands Grant act, receive funds for the G.I.

Bill?

Could Moravian just colleges?

Yeah, colleges is the correct answer.

And it was to provide veterans with education.

Your bonuses in math.

Pencil on paper.

Ready?

What is the surface area of a cube whose square faces each have a perimeter of 20?

Two.

Okay.

One 5150 is correct.

Next tossup question.

What body of water whose cichlids Island is home to Santorini is north going Moravian.

The Aegean Aegean Sea is correct.

And it's north of Crete.

For your bonus, Paul Morrell's romantic relationships are overshadowed by his attachment to his mother, Gertrude.

In what English author's 1913 novel Sons and Lovers.

Lawrence.

D.H.

Lawrence is correct.

Next tossup question.

What novel?

That depicts a small castle built by Wemmick, a clerk to a lawyer.

Go ahead.

Moravian.

Great expectations.

Great expectations is correct.

For your bonus, what young Spanish tennis player won the French Open and Wimbledon men's singles titles in 2024?

Alcaraz.

Alcaraz is correct.

Next tossup question.

What 1930 painting held in the Art Institute of Chicago depicts the Dibble House and a farmer holding a pitchfork, and was good.

Moravian.

American Gothic.

That is correct.

And just nerd credit only.

Who was a painter?

By what?

Grant wood is correct for your bonus.

In the ideal gas law, what letter denotes the proportionality constant, which can be written as 8.31 joules per mole Kelvin.

R R is correct.

And with that, we have reached halftime to.

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

Who is your favorite current music artist?

So we'll start with Moravian Academy.

Jacob.

Go ahead.

My name is Jacob.

My last name is.

Crap.

I'm in, ninth grade, and I have no idea what my favorite music artist is.

No idea at all.

No, no, not right now.

Nope.

All right, Charlene, go ahead.

My name is Charlene Lu.

I'm in 12th grade, and my favorite music artist is Taylor Swift.

Okay.

I'm Nathaniel Schmidt.

I'm in 12th grade right now.

My favorite music artist is the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Okay.

Go ahead.

Tyler.

My name is Tyler Shank.

I'm in 12th grade, and my favorite artist right now is The Who.

All right.

Very cool.

So, Nathanial, when I was working at Runner's World, we did have a runner who runs the la marathon for his, music charity.

So I got to meet him and spent some time with him.

Really, really cool individual.

Okay.

Spencer Valley.

Brad.

Go ahead.

I'm Bradley Bartlett.

I'm in 11th grade, and I think I have to agree with Charlene.

I think Taylor Swift is really hot right now.

Right now.

Right now she's got no Emmy nominations at.

I don't want the Swifties come out.

I know you just really likes the new album, okay?

It's a sham.

And the Emmys really need to get up.

All right.

Hard, hard take there on the Emmys.

Go ahead.

Josh.

My name is Joshua bauder, and I'm a senior.

And I've been really listening to a lot of Kanye West.

Okay, Ava, my name is available.

I'm a senior, and my favorite artist right now is always Zach Bryant.

Okay, Hannah, go ahead.

My name is Hannah Scheffler.

I'm a senior and my favorite artist is Josiah Quinn.

All right.

Very good.

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

What group of plants which have pro Gambia fight stage have brown clusters of Sorey under their undersides and have broad leaves called fronds.

Ferns.

Ferns is correct for your bonus.

In 1966, Robert Weaver became the first head of what cabinet department, becoming the first African American cabinet member.

For two years.

The Bishop.

HUD Housing and Urban Development is correct for your bonus or excuse me for the next tossup question.

What man who claimed you Catholic girls start too much late in only going Moravian Joel.

That is correct, Billy Joel.

And it was in his breakthrough 1973 album.

Okay, for your bonus, the Polk Straight separates the state of Tamil Nadu from what island country?

Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka is correct.

Next tossup question what state whose motto in Spanish for gold and silver is known as the Treasure State and is home to Glacier National.

Go ahead, Panther Valley, New Mexico.

That is incorrect.

It's home to Glacier National Park and the city of Helena.

God.

Moravian Montana.

Montana is correct for your bonus according to loot.

According to the loot, the Lewis acid base theory.

What particles are accepted by Lewis acid?

Protons?

Yes.

Protons.

That is incorrect.

Its electron pairs is a correct answer.

Onto the next toss up.

What man who testified against Michael, Sir Vitus in Geneva, wrote institutes of the Christian Religion and advocated for the doctrine of predestination.

Moravian Calvin John Calvin is correct.

For a bonus, what French artist depicted outdoor parties and Badou Moulin do like a lett and luncheon of the boating Party.

Renoir.

Renoir is correct.

Next tossup question what dialog in which a rupa, or universal form of Krishna is shown to Arjuna is a 701st creed going Moravian Bhagavad Gita.

The Bhagavad Gita is correct for your bonus.

What country had existed as an Ethiopian province until 1993, when it became an independent sovereign country?

What?

Eritrea?

Eritrea?

Eritrea is correct.

Next tossup question what process?

Whose RSA form is based on factoring large primes consists of converting data into a coded form to prevent unauthorized access.

Moravian encryption.

Encryption is correct for your bonus.

In August 2025, Donald Trump fired the head of what federal bureau after it released data that revealed a slow rate of job growth.

The SEC is a computer printing company called SEC.

That's incorrect.

Was the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bureau of Labor Statistics next toss up question.

What second husband of of Livia Drusilla created nine.

Go ahead.

Augustus Augustus Caesar is correct.

For a bonus.

Sal Paradise describes his numerous trips with Dean Moriarty in what landmark Beat Generation novel On the Road, on the road is correct.

Next tossup question what character who writes the message is radiant and some pig to save Wilbur from slaughter.

Go ahead.

Moravian Charlotte.

Yes, Charlotte.

From the book Charlotte's Web, it was written by E.B.

white.

Your bonuses in math.

Pencil on paper.

Ready?

If weekdays are defined as Monday through Friday inclusive, what is the maximum number of weekdays in any calendar month?

Between Interstate 26.

That's incorrect.

23 is a correct answer because we're looking at 31 days minus eight for the weekend.

So we have 23.

And with that we have reached the second lightning round.

Moravian.

You will get to pick between the following topics.

We have double L's or tennis synonyms.

Would you what do you prefer?

Double L's.

Double L's.

It is Moravian.

Your topic is double L's.

Give these answers that have consecutive L's term for lines that never intersect.

How well correct fundamental unit of life in biology shows correct writing tool made from a feather quill.

Well, correct.

Fictional island nation in Gulliver's Travels.

Little input.

Correct.

Literary device in which consonant sounds are repeated between nearby words.

Alliteration.

Correct.

Cut a pant that flares out from the knees to the ankles.

Bell bottom.

Correct.

Surname of Osmonds.

Poet.

Percy's Shelley.

Yes.

Term for property offered by a borrower to secure a loans repayment collateral.

Correct.

Leonard Cohen song that starts.

I heard there was a sea correct in statistics.

The hypothesis a significant test tries to reject.

Call Aly.

That's incorrect.

It's a null hypothesis.

We get rid of Panther Valley.

Your topic is tennis.

Synonyms give these words, all of which have a specific meeting in tennis.

Place where a judge oversees legal cases.

Court correct multiplies a number by two.

Double correct responsibility for a bad outcome for correct.

In math, a collection of elements often enclose correct boiled and baked food made from a ring of okay, pass.

You take a card.

Incorrect passage between two buildings.

Corridor.

Incorrect three letter verb meaning to allow something set correct.

Successful fighter pilot is correct in the film industry, a person who provides camera support, etc.. Incorrect initial value of a quantity with which current values are compared.

Pass B the baseline for the tennis baseline.

Okay, we'll start the final quarter of the match with the following toss up question.

Bowman's layer is part of what structure that extends from the sclera is reshaped via Lasik surgery.

And go ahead.

Moravian the eye.

That is incorrect.

I'll continue for Panther Valley and is a transparent covering of the go ahead cornea.

The cornea is correct for your bonus.

What Spanish explorer crossed the Isthmus of Panama in 1513 to become the first European to see the Pacific Ocean from a new world route?

Magellan.

That's incorrect.

Balboa is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What country's last royal dynasty?

The Pahlavi was overthrown in 1979.

Revolution that led to the rise.

Go ahead.

Moravian Iran Iran is correct and led to the rise of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini.

For your bonus, the Hall of African Mammals is part of what museum in Manhattan's Theodore Roosevelt Park, which is across the street from Central Park?

Yes, the Museum of Natural History, Museum of Natural History is correct.

Next toss up question what book in which directions to the wicket gates are provided by evangelist depict Christian's journey to the celestial City and is by going Moravian Pilgrim's Progress.

That is correct.

And it's by John Bunyan for your bonus.

Whale flippers and human arms exemplify what biology phenomenon in which structure is derived from a common ancestor, regardless of current function.

In evolution's and homologous, yes, a homologous structure is correct.

The next tossup is in math pencil on paper.

Ready?

What is the average speed in miles per hour of a car that travels 60 miles in 90 minutes?

Go ahead.

Moravian 45 miles an hour.

That's incorrect over the Panther Valley.

So no conferring, but can keep working.

Go ahead, Panther Valley.

40 miles an hour.

40mph is correct for bonus.

A town in Nebraska is Keith County lends its name to what?

Massive aquifer, which is vital to the agriculture of the Great Plains.

Flint.

Be correct.

It's the Ogallala Aquifer is a correct answer.

Next toss up question what architectural elements which may require sequences if built in square spaces, create rotunda under them and are in essence hemisphere roofs.

Moravian arches.

Incorrect.

Panther valley pillars.

Also incorrect domes is a correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What amendment, which the Supreme Court applied to the students in Tinker versus Des Moines, protects against prior restraint and other forms of censorship.

Go ahead.

Moravia First Amendment.

The First Amendment is correct for your bonus.

What current NASA program original goal was to include the first woman and the next man on the surface of the moon by the go ahead, Artemis.

Artemis is correct.

And that was by 2024.

Next, toss up what Family, which endows an annual namesake prize won in 2024 by Rican Yamamoto, a Japanese architect.

Go ahead.

Moravian Pritzker.

Pritzker is correct, and it includes in the family JB, who is Illinois's current governor, for bonus.

In a 1946 speech in Fulton, Missouri.

What leader popularized the term Iron Curtain?

Churchill Winston Churchill is correct.

Next toss up question what surface can be joined with another copy of itself to form a Klein bottle, and is created by half twisting and connecting the ends of a rectangle.

Go ahead.

Meridian Mobius strip A Mobius strip is correct for a bonus.

What peninsula?

Where Gallus Nova's airport ceiling collapsed due to a magnitude 8.8 earthquake in July 2025, is in the Far East of Russia.

Kamchatka Kamchatka.

The Kamchatka Peninsula is correct next up and that is time Panther Valley.

Unfortunately, you're up against last year's champion.

Good luck with the rest of your school year.

Moravian Academy 585 points.

Great showing in your first match year of the 51st season.

Congratulations.

You're on to the third round and thank you for watching.

We'll see you next week.

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