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Hello and welcome to the 11th match of the 51st season of Scholastic Scrimmage.

I'm your host, David Graff.

Today's match is between Notre Dame High School and Liberty High School.

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

As a reminder, Scholastic Scrimmage 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.

What country is currently led by Ahmed El Salvador, who captured the cities of Hamas and Aleppo on his way to overthrowing Bashir?

Go ahead, Notre Dame.

Syria.

Syria is correct.

He overthrew Bashir al-Assad in Damascus for your bonus.

Nobel Prize winners Paul Lambert and Peter Mansfield helped develop what?

Imaging technique that uses radio waves and magnetic fields to make images.

MRI.

MRI is correct.

Next toss up question.

What state which hosts the world's largest balloon festival is home to the White Sands National Park and contains the cities of Santa Fe and Albuquerque.

Go ahead.

Liberty.

New Mexico.

New Mexico is correct for your bonus.

Politician and General Arthur Wellesley is better known as the Duke of what place?

Cornwall.

Incorrect.

He's known as the Duke of Wellington.

Next toss up question.

What film in which Denzel Washington plays the Super Martin or the The Usurper?

Martin Innis in a 2024 sequel directed by Ridley.

Go ahead.

No danger.

Say it again.

Gladiator two.

Gladiator two is correct.

It was directed by Ridley Scott.

For your bonus, what author wrote about hooligans called Droogs who speak the fictional language of NAD SAT in his novel A Clockwork Orange.

Ray Bradbury.

Incorrect.

Anthony Burgess is the author.

Next toss up question.

What material to which tension is applied via keying is a type of fabric stretched across a wooden frame by artists who make paintings on it.

Go ahead.

Liberty.

Canvas A canvas is correct for your bonus.

The Chateau Lake Louise is a luxurious hotel.

In what?

Oldest national park in Canada, which is in the Rocky Mountains of Alberta.

Bounce.

The national park is correct.

Next tossup question.

What politician succeeded Hannibal Hamlin as vice president, and later became the first president to be impeached during his 1865 to 18th.

Do I, Notre Dame?

Andrew Johnson.

Andrew Johnson is correct in his tenure ended in 1869.

For your bonus, Swedish chemist Svante Arrhenius defined acids as proton donors and bases as species that form what other iron?

Just a spectator ion.

Incorrect.

A hydroxide ion is the correct answer.

Next toss up question what devices which like and fade images may have static wicks on their trailing edge, cause stalls at high angles of attack and provide lift to planes.

That impinges for TikTok.

Those are airplane wings.

Next toss up question.

What southern author wrote about a man who claims my mother is a fish and cash, who builds Addie's Addie Burden's coffin in his novel as I Lay Dying?

Oh, unfortunately, the buzzer went already.

It was already passed.

But it's William Faulkner is a correct answer.

On the next toss up, what tribe they controlled most of North Africa from AD 435 to 534.

Sacked Rome under King Geiser in 455 and lends its name to acts of destruction.

Notre Dame.

Vandals the Vandals is correct.

For your bonus, what French sociologist posited egotistic and emphatic forms of the title act in his pioneering 1897 study suicide.

Voltaire.

That is incorrect.

Your chem is a correct answer.

Next toss up question.

Stephanie Kolak discovered what Parrott armor made polymer with a high tensile strength to weight ratio.

That makes it useful useful in bulletproof vests.

Liberty.

Kevlar.

Kevlar is correct.

For your bonus, what British author of the comic spy novel or Man in Havana or Havana described the persecution of a Mexican whiskey priest in his book The Power and the glory.

No answer.

Graham Greene is a correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What state?

Which is home to the NHL's new team.

Name them.

Go ahead.

Liberty, Utah.

Utah is correct.

Includes the cities of Provo and Salt Lake City.

For your bonus, the sphincter of Odin controls the flow of bile into what?

First section of the small intestine which precedes the jejunum and the ilium.

No answer.

The duo idiom is the correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What British author wrote about a plague survived by Lionel in The Last Man and describe Victor's creation of an artificial life form in God.

Liberty.

Mary Shelley.

Mary Shelley is correct in that artificial life form was created in Frankenstein.

For your bonus, a basket of fruit and bread spills over in what Edouard Manet painting, in which two men converse while their nude female friend looks at the viewer.

Cornucopia.

Incorrect painting of him munching on the grass.

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

It was determined that Notre Dame will get to pick between the following topics.

The topics are The Great Gatsby or Short Q and A free category.

We thank you very much for listening.

You quickly noted, in short Q, A, short Q and A, it is Notre Dame.

Your lightning round topic is short Q and A give these 4 or 5 letter words that contain at least one Q and one A in either order, a sound that a duck makes.

Quack.

Correct.

Exactly the same as particle.

Yes, I heard pass first and fortunately country once led by Saddam Hussein.

Iraq.

Correct.

Latin word for water.

Aqua.

Correct.

A country whose capital is Doha, Qatar.

Correct.

Abbreviated term for muscles at the front of the upper leg.

Quad.

Correct.

A small game bird with Montezuma and Japanese.

Correct.

Structure parallel to ashore, for which boats are loaded.

Pass.

Prefix meaning nearly or seemingly quite incorrect.

To rapidly drink something.

Quench.

Incorrect.

Your closest quaff.

Thus rapidly drink something.

Okay, Liberty, your topic is The Great Gatsby.

Answer the following about the novel The Great Gatsby.

Jazz age decade when the book was written.

The 20s.

Correct.

The book's author.

Pass.

The book's narrator, who is Daisy's second cousin once removed past Gatsby's first name.

Past color of the dock light that symbolizes Gatsby's dream.

Green.

Correct.

University that the narrator and Tom Buchanan attend.

Harvard.

Incorrect.

Sport that Jordan Baker excels at.

Tennis.

Incorrect.

Three word term for the huge dumping ground near the Wilson's home.

Pass.

Specific place in Gatsby's estate where Gatsby dies.

Garden.

Incorrect.

Gatsby's gangster associate who fixed the World Series.

Pass.

Fire.

Wolf starter is the correct answer to the last one.

All right.

We'll continue with the following tossup question.

What devices which name a vaporization cutting technique, have a gas variety that includes their helium neon type and emit coherent light as a beam of Liberty neon lights?

That's incorrect over Notre Dame, so no conferring, but it is a freebie now.

Go ahead.

Laser.

Laser is correct for your toss up.

What country singer released the 2025 album I'm the Problem, which produced the hit singles lies, lies, Lies and Love Somebody with No.

Tell your captain it's a bonus.

Morgan.

Wallet.

Say it again.

Morgan.

Wallet.

We give it to them.

Yeah.

Unfortunately, no, it's Morgan Wallen.

He said wallet.

Okay.

Onto the next tossup question.

In what sport?

Played by Mallory Swanson, Sophia Smith and Trinity Rodman to the US Notre Dame soccer.

Soccer is correct.

And the U.S.

team won the World Cup in both 2015 and 2019.

In soccer.

For bonus.

What quantum principle states that no two fermions can share?

Identical quantum numbers can be applied to pairs of electrons in an atom.

Pauli exclusion principle.

The Pauli exclusion principle is correct.

Next, toss up question.

What war, which was investigated by one side's Argonaut Commission, began when Egyptian forces crossed the Suez Canal during a Jewish Holy day in 1973.

Going know today the Yom Kippur War, the Yom Kippur War is correct.

And that happening on the Jewish holiday of Gulf War in 1973.

For bonus.

Dara Khosrowshahi is the CEO of what company?

Which ended its experiments with self-driving technology under its co-founder, Travis Kalanick.

Tesla.

Incorrect.

Uber is the correct answer.

I think the one still kicking is Waymo.

My friend in LA actually took a Waymo car to an appointment the other day, and he said it was very unusual to be driven by a car with no one in it.

Okay.

Next tossup question.

In 2025, what federal agency, led by Lee Zeldin, reversed its long standing declaration that methane and other greenhous Liberty.

The FDA incorrect over the Notre Dame.

So no.

No conferring, but if you know it, buzz in.

Go ahead.

The Department of Environmental Safety also incorrect.

It's the EPA or the Environmental Protection Agency is the correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What identifiers have reserved blocks that start with ten and 192.168, and are the four part addresses used to identify devices on a network?

Go ahead.

Notre Dame IP address.

IP addresses are correct for your bonus.

What phenomenon names a novel by Orhan Pamuk?

A type of country in a novel by Yoshinori Kawabata and a crash in the title of a Neil Stephenson novel.

Are you later.

Repeat the question for us.

I'm fortunate I can't pass.

The phenomena is snow.

Next tossup question.

What Englishman wrote no cross, no crown while jailed in the Tower of London and founded a namesake colony for Quakers.

Governed from Philadelphia.

Notre Dame, Pennsylvania.

That is, we knew the founder of William Penn.

William Penn is correct.

Okay, for your bonus.

Dichloromethane or C-H two Cl2 has what property?

Because its bonds result in a separation of positive and negative charge centers.

At this point.

Polarity.

Polarity is correct.

And with that, we've reached half time.

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

What is your favorite book that you had to read in school?

So you were assigned this one reading it for pleasure, but you turned out to really enjoy it.

We'll start with Notre Dame.

Go ahead.

My name is first.

Come with the uncommon 12th grade, and I'd say Life of Pi.

Okay.

My name's Phillip Bauer.

I'm in 11th grade, and, I'd say the outsiders.

Okay.

My name is Michael Corey.

I'm in 12th grade, and I'd say Animal Farm.

All right.

My name is Jackson Hole.

I'm in 12th grade.

I have to say, 1984.

All right.

Over to Liberty, Andrew.

Go ahead.

My name's Andrew Bowman.

I'm in ninth grade.

I would have to say hatchet.

Okay.

My name is Declan Edwards.

I'm in 12th grade and probably for Fahrenheit 451.

Okay.

My name is Owen for bony.

I'm in 12th grade.

I'd say the Hobbit.

Okay.

My name is Aiden for bony.

I'm in 10th grade, and I'd say the Odyssey.

Okay.

So, Philip, you had the one that's been popular in the first round.

The outsiders has been, I think, the overwhelming favorite among among students.

All right, we'll continue on the second half of the match with the following toss up question.

What author whose novel Dubious Battle depicts a striking California wrote about George Milton's killing of his friend Lennie in Of Mice and Men?

Go ahead, Notre Dame.

Ray Bradbury.

That's incorrect.

No answer.

Just buzz answer.

Move it on.

All right.

John Steinbeck is the correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What city, whose Michigan neighborhood was once a hub for Italian immigrants, is the most populous city in Brazil and is named after Saint Paul, Notre Dame.

Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Sao Paulo is correct for your bonus.

While dying, greaser Johnny Cade tells Ponyboy Curtis to stay gold in what young adult novel written in the 1960s by teenager S.E.

Hinton.

The outsiders.

The outsiders is correct.

Next tossup question.

What country whose independence was recognized by the Treaty of Cordoba began fighting Spain after the Grito de Dolores, issued by Miguel Hidalgo.

Go ahead, Notre Dame.

Mexico.

Mexico is correct for your bonus.

Lewis and Clark reached the Pacific Ocean after sailing down what?

West coast River, which meets the Willamette River at Portland.

Mississippi.

No.

Incorrect.

We're all the way from the West Coast.

It's the Columbia River meets the will of at.

Next tossup question.

What insects of the genus Maja cicada have male and or have they have males with abdominal thimbles that produce loud mating sounds have a third.

So I know her name.

Cicadas.

Cicadas are correct.

And they have a brood 13 that hatches every 17 years.

For your bonus, what term describes non-native species introduced to an ecosystem that spread rapidly and cause ecological or economic harm?

Invasive species.

Invasive species is correct.

Next toss up question.

What country whose flag and coat of arms both depict a soapstone bird was once called Rhodesia and is Africa.

Go ahead, Notre Dame.

The Republic of Zimbabwe.

Zimbabwe is correct for your bonus.

Gambling dominates the economy of what special administrative region that was handed over from Portugal to China in 1999.

Called.

Hong Kong, not a Hong Kong, it's Macao.

Hong Kong was the one that the British had from the Opium Wars.

Macao is one of the Portuguese had.

Okay, on to the next tossup question.

What veteran of Camp Dino was exiled by the Black Wells, wrote la Vida de Eva about his beloved Beatrice and helped inspire his Divine Comedy, Notre Dame.

Dante.

Yes, Dante is correct.

Dante allegory is the correct answer.

For bonus, what religion founded in Jamaica by poor black communities believes in Africa as a spiritual homeland and follows the Itel diet.

Voodoo.

That's incorrect.

Rastafarian ism is a correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What composer whose third symphony is nicknamed the Organ Symphony, wrote movements like Fossils and the Swan for his Carnival of the animals.

Go ahead.

Jakosky.

That is incorrect.

Over to Liberty.

Go ahead.

Beethoven.

Also incorrect.

It's Camille Saint-Saens is correct.

Answer.

Next tossup question.

Dobson.

Units measure concentration of what molecule destroyed by CFCs and concentrated in a layer of the stratosphere.

Go ahead.

Liberty.

Ozone.

Ozone is correct.

They have the molecular formula of O3.

For your bonus, Dean Kahneman invented what brand of self-balancing two wheeled personal transportation devices.

Hoverboard.

Incorrect.

You don't see him around much anymore.

It's the Segway Segway device.

Next toss up question.

What Confederacy, which signed the Treaty of Fort Stanwick with Britain, was composed of indigenous northeastern nations like the Oneida and Mohawk.

Go ahead.

Liberty.

Haudenosaunee.

Say it again.

Who did not say no.

Yeah.

We will take that.

That is correct.

Or the Iroquois Confederacy is also an acceptable answer.

Next bonus.

What symphony?

By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

His 41st and final symphony is nicknamed for a Roman deity.

Jupiter.

The Jupiter Symphony is correct.

Next tossup question.

What novel in which a gift of false is made by the former star.

Miss.

What's it to a young space traveler?

Meg Murry was written by Notre Dame.

A Wrinkle in Time.

A Wrinkle in Time is correct.

For bonus, May Ewt Mauritius and Comoros are islands or small islands in what ocean?

Atlantic.

Atlantic.

The Atlantic ocean.

That's incorrect.

They're all in the Indian Ocean.

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

Liberty, you will get to pick between the following topics.

Counting in foreign languages or emotions.

Emotions.

Emotions.

It is.

Liberty.

Your second lightning round topic is emotions.

Name these people, places or things that share their name with emotions or emotional states.

Its pursuit is often grouped with life and liberty.

Happiness.

Correct.

Species of Oscar who lives in a trash can on Sesame Street.

Grouch.

Correct.

Last name of Courtney who is married to Nirvana or who was married to Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain.

Pass with Sarina.

The name of the commander's wife in The Handmaid's Tale.

Pass party, whose subject is unaware of its planning.

Surprise.

Correct.

Scraped or graded skin of a citrus fruit, such as.

Of an orange or lemon zest.

Correct.

Saint in the title of a 2003 Metallica album.

Pass.

Bill Clinton's optimistic Arkansas hometown.

Pass, HBO series starring Zendaya as Rue Bennett.

All right.

And that was the TV show euphoria.

Notre Dame.

Your topic is counting in foreign languages.

Give the English equivalent of these numbers in foreign languages.

No answer will be larger than 50.

German dry pass.

Latin Queen Kwe nine.

Incorrect.

Spanish answer 11.

Correct.

French ten.

Correct.

Italian.

Venti 20.

Correct.

Russian.

No nine.

Oh, I heard.

I did hear zero first.

That is correct.

Modern Greek Octo eight.

Correct.

Japanese.

She to avoid a taboo.

Yawn.

Pass.

Arabic.

Warhead one.

Correct.

Mandarin Chinese or three.

Incorrect.

Two in Mandarin Chinese.

All right.

We'll continue on with the final quarter of this match with the following.

Toss up question.

Pencil on paper.

Ready?

It's in math.

How many identical sectors does a circle have?

If each sector has a central angle measuring 20 degrees?

Go ahead, Notre Dame.

1818 is correct for bonus in 1960.

Excuse me.

In 1698, Peter the Great enacted a 60 rouble tax.

On what?

Russian lack of modernity, which inspectors went on to destroy with scissors.

Stamps.

Incorrect.

If you had a beard.

He wanted everyone to get rid of their beards.

Next tossup question.

What world leader names the largest stadium in the world?

A cricket venue in his home state of Gujarat, which he has visited as Prime Minister of India?

We're talking about the current Prime Minister of India, Narendra modi.

Next toss up question.

What fashion house, which originally made luggage trunks, makes the speedy and o'ma bag designs and decorates them with a checkerboard pattern and the let go at liberty.

Louis Vuitton.

Louis Vuitton is correct and they decorate them with their pattern and LV.

Your bonuses in math.

Pencil on paper.

Ready?

What is the value of two raised to the fourth power plus two raised to the fifth power, all divided by two to the third power.

Go ahead 64.

I'll tell your captain.

64.

Incorrect.

It's six.

Is your correct answer.

And our next toss up question is in math.

So keep your pencil and paper out.

What is the area of a rectangle whose width is six and whose height is twice the width?

Go ahead, Notre Dame.

84.

Incorrect.

Liberty.

Go ahead.

So do conferring.

Liberty.

But 72.

Buzz in 72.

72 is correct.

For your bonus, the higher Sophia is a cathedral that later served as both a mosque and a museum.

In what former capital city.

Pass.

Istanbul is a correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What man who is called morose by his nephew Fred, shows kindness to Bob Cratchit after meeting three spirits in Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol.

Go ahead.

Liberty.

Scrooge.

Ebenezer Scrooge is correct.

For your bonus, this title character meets Charles Drury, has an affair with George Hurstwood, and becomes a famous actress.

In what novel?

By Theodore Dreiser.

No answer.

The correct answer is Sister Carrie.

Next toss up question.

What event?

Which targeted members of Spot's Elks Band?

Did U.S.

troops slaughter hundreds of Lakota civilians in an effort in 1890, near a South Dakota creek?

Go ahead.

Liberty.

Buffalo jump massacre.

That is incorrect.

Over to Notre Dame.

So no conferring Notre Dame.

But if you know a buzz in.

Custer's last stand.

That is also incorrect.

It's the Wounded Knee Massacre is the correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What five letter word describes a plasma wind that produces auras and comes from the corona?

It can also refer to eclipses that are not lunar solar.

Notre Dame.

Solar.

Solar is correct.

And that's time.

Liberty.

Unfortunately, with a score of 130.

Not quite enough today.

Good luck with the rest of your school year.

Notre Dame with 260 points.

Congratulations.

You are on to the second round.

And we'll see you next week when Wilson Area High School faces off against Freedom High School.

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