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Hello and welcome to the eighth and final match of the second round of the 50 season of Scholastic Scrimmage.

I'm your host, David Graff.

Today's match is between northwestern Lehigh High School, who have reached the final two times in the last five years of this classic championship, and they're facing Parkland High School who have won the tournament over its history five times.

The match will be composed of two halves, with the white and red midway through each half.

How final passes students can introduce themselves or ask them a question to get to know them a little bit better.

As a reminder, Scholastic requires rapid recall of specific factual information is not necessarily indicative of academic training.

And now let's begin with the following tossup question.

What politician who is mocked for supposedly saying he invented the internet?

Parkland.

Al Gore.

Al Gore is correct.

And he lost the 2000 presidential race for your bonus in December 2021, French astronaut Thomas Pesquet helped install solar panels on what structure that orbits the.

Earth International Space Station and International Space Station.

The International Space Station is correct.

Next toss up question what body of water which lent its name to a 1928 hurricane, is a shallow lake that flows into the Everglades and is the largest lake in Florida.

Go ahead.

Parkland.

Kissimmee.

That's incorrect.

Over the northwestern Lehigh.

No conferring, but it's a freebie.

Lake Okeechobee is the correct answer.

Next tossup question using Eazy-E wrote six solo sonatas for what instrument played by Hilary Hahn.

That is the most common parkland violin.

The violin is correct, and it's the most common stringed instrument in most orchestras.

For your bonus, what 1968 period of political liberalization, which Alexander Dubcek called socialism with a human face, was crushed by forces from the Warsaw Pact?

Answer.

Prague Spring.

The Prague Spring is correct.

Next toss up question what state?

Which is the main setting of John Updike's Rabbit novels, names and avenue in Washington, D.C., on which the white House is parkland.

Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania is correct, and it's on Pennsylvania Avenue, where the white House is located.

For your bonus.

In what country has nickel pension?

Yon faced protest for ceding territory to Azure by John in a cease fire.

He signed to end the 2020 Nagatoro Kabaka War.

Answer.

Armenia.

Armenia is correct.

The next tossup question is in math.

Pencil and paper.

Ready?

How many sides does a regular polygon have?

If each of its sides has a length of six and its total perimeter is 96?

Parkland.

16.

16 is correct.

For your bonus, the Taylor Petrovich uses a cat's skin to make the title garment for a Kiki.

A Kiki of itch?

In what short story by Nikolai Gogol.

Consider the overcoat.

The overcoat is correct.

Next tossup question.

What Cherokee class Royal Navy ship was captained by Robert Fitzroy in 1835, when it reached the Galapagos Islands with chalk parkland.

HMS Beagle.

The HMS Beagle is correct, and on board was Charles Darwin.

For your bonus, what thermodynamic law, named for a Swiss born chemist states A reaction's enthalpy change does not depend on how one gets from reactants to products.

Has this law.

Passed?

This law is correct.

Next toss up question what poem, which ends as a flaming brand is waved over a gate by an angel, describes Satan's infiltration of Eden and was written by John Milton.

Proclaimed Paradise Lost.

Paradise Lost is correct for your bonus.

The first casualty of the American Revolution is sometimes said to be what?

Sailor of African and Indigenous descent.

Say it again.

Crispus Attucks Crispus Attucks is correct.

Next toss up question.

What 1968 Broadway musical features a song about saltpeter and pins, and depicts events surrounding the declaration of Independence in its parkland.

1776.

1776, and it depicts the Declaration of Independence in its title year of the play of the musical.

Excuse me for a bonus.

What man?

A former partner in the law firm DLA Piper served as Second Gentleman of the U.S. as husband of Kamala Harris.

Doug Emhoff Doug Emhoff is correct.

Next toss up question or phenomenon which has diffuse and specular types, has a namesake angle equal to the angle of incidence or refraction.

That is incorrect.

I'll continue for northwestern Lehigh and occurs when light strikes a mirror.

Go ahead northwestern for reflection.

Reflection is correct.

For your bonus, what structure, two copies of which are connected together to form a Klein bottle is considered the simplest non oriental surface.

A table.

Incorrect.

A Mobius strip is a correct answer.

Next toss up question.

In what Asian country where a 2021 spring revolution opposed a coup by the Topman dawn.

Were the Rohingya people oppressed?

Auckland, Myanmar.

Myanmar or Burma is correct.

For your bonus.

In the final scene of hamlet, what son of Polonius has a poisoned sword that causes both his death and Hamlet's.

Claudius.

That's incorrect.

Laertes is the correct answer.

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

In a pre-match coin toss, it was determined that parkland will pick between the following topics.

Minerals or American artworks?

I'd say minerals and minerals.

Minerals.

It is parkland.

Your topic is minerals.

Answer the following about minerals.

The hardest natural mineral and.

Diamond.

Carbon.

Correct chemical formula of halite or rock salt.

NACA.

An ACL and ACL is correct.

Hardness scale of without correct compound that makes up calcite.

And calcium carbonate.

That is correct color left by mineral dragged along a namesake plate streak.

Correct metalloids bound to oxygen in quartz.

So silicon.

That's correct.

Breakage type in which a mineral does not break along a plane.

Angled.

That is incorrect.

Mineral group that makes up 3/5 of the Earth's crust.

Rock and.

Rock.

That's incorrect.

Naturally occurring form of magnetite used in early compasses.

Crystal.

Incorrect.

Mineral containing the first alkaline earth metal with emerald and aquamarine varieties.

That last one is beryl.

North-Western.

Your topic is American artworks.

Name the US born artist who created these artworks.

American Gothic would correct Campbell soup cans.

Warhol correct arrangement in gray and black.

Number one, which depicts his mother.

Pollock.

Incorrect.

Nighthawks.

Hopper.

Correct.

Lobster trap and fish tail a mobile.

Past.

Man playing Santa made for the Saturday Evening Post.

Wyeth.

Incorrect.

Carl Scull red, white and blue.

Wyeth.

Incorrect.

The photograph Moon and Half Dome depicting Yosemite.

Pass.

Christina's world.

Ryan.

Right.

Here we go.

Lavender mist.

Pass.

Jackson Pollock.

Okay.

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

What office?

From which Gray Davis was recalled in 2003.

Parkland.

Governor of California.

The Governor of California is correct and was also held by Jerry Brown and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

For your bonus in 2023, what country's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announced measures to encourage people to have children?

Answer Japan.

That is correct.

Japan is it.

And they want to balance out the aging population for your bonus.

What?

Excuse me.

The next toss up question.

What singer's record 1980s run of seven consecutive Billboard number ones included soul, motional, how Will I know and I Want to Dance.

Parklet.

Whitney Houston Whitney Houston is correct, and that final one was I Want to Dance with Somebody for your bonus.

In the 1800s, what organization, whose leaders included Silent Charlie Murphy and Boss Tweed, dominated Democratic poll say it again, Tammany Hall.

Damn, Annie Hall is correct.

And they dominated Democratic politics in New York City.

Next toss up question what character is called a lump of brick dust by a soldier who later admits this Indian water carrier is the better man?

In a poem by Rudyard Kipling.

Go ahead.

Parkland.

Moberly.

That's incorrect.

Over the northwestern.

Gunga din, it comes from the line.

You're a better man than I am, Gunga din.

Next tossup question.

What ecological relationship is modeled by the lot code?

Volterra equations as ambush and pursuit varieties and involves one parkland.

Predation.

Predation is correct.

Involves one organism eating another.

For a bonus, Jonathan Swift satirical essay a modest proposal argues that poor children of what island should be sold to the rich as food and answer Jamaica.

That's incorrect.

Ireland is the correct answer.

Let's say that next tossup question what language was used to propose the floating man argument for the soul's existence by the canon of medicine?

Author of a sinner and Islamic prophet or love philosopher?

Excuse good.

Arabic Arabic is correct for a bonus in ecology, what letter used to denote carrying capacity also refers to a strategy of maximizing k. K is correct.

Next tossup question what dynasty whose last ruler was defeated at Mu Yi wrote texts on oracle bones and was the first archeologically verified Chinese dynasty.

Go ahead.

Parkland.

The Seattle dynasty.

That is incorrect over northwestern.

Gwang.

The Shang dynasty is correct for your bonus, the Narmada and Indus rivers empties into what sea that borders Oman.

The Red sea.

That is incorrect.

The Arabian Sea is the correct answer.

Next tossup.

What mineral whose porous activated powdered form is used to treat poisonings is a black substance obtained?

Kent.

Go ahead or.

Charcoal?

Charcoal is correct.

Activated charcoal is what is used for your bonus.

Governments often raise capital by selling what kind of security which have a defined term.

A bond is correct and is sometimes contrasted with stocks.

And with that, we have reached halftime, parked in front of leads with a score of 252 30.

And now we'll have the students introduce themselves with a first last name grade level.

And the answer to the following question what age you think is it appropriate for a student to get a smart or internet connected phone professionally?

Hi.

Go ahead on your 10th grade.

I think whenever they start staying home alone for like often.

Okay.

And Jeremiah go ahead.

Jeremiah's zone their ninth grade I think that they should get an internet wired smartphone in one.

They're like 15 or 16 years old.

I like that answer, Jeremiah.

That's a good answer.

All right, Shannon, go ahead.

I'm Shannon Greene, I'm a senior.

And I think when they're in sixth grade, okay, I'm Garrett Jones, I'm a senior.

And I think 12.

Okay.

Parkland can go ahead.

I'm Ken Jeong I'm a sophomore at I think 12.

Okay.

I'm Mike snapback.

I'm a senior and I say 12 or 13.

Okay.

Sophia Hamid, I'm a sophomore.

I'd say about 13.

Okay.

My name is Simon.

Through Husky.

I'm a senior, and I'd say 13 as well.

Okay.

All right.

Thanks for all the input.

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

What event initiated at the Council of Clermont were urban the second called for.

It was the earliest attempt by Europeans to conquer the the Crusades.

Can you be more specific?

First Crusade the First Crusade is correct for your bonus.

What mathematical curve?

Ideally forms the trajectory of a projectile under constant gravity, provided that there is no air resistance?

Freefall.

That's incorrect.

A parabola is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What measure of dispersion is the size of the smallest interval containing a data set, and equals the largest value minus the smallest northwestern range?

Range is correct, and it's minus the smallest value for your bonus.

What street between New Zealand's North Island and South Island is named for an English explorer.

Cook.

The Cook Strait is correct.

Next, toss up what novel, which ends with its narrator planning to light out for the territory, depicts a raft trip on the Huckleberry Finn.

That's correct.

Huckleberry Finn or The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is correct.

And it was by Mark Twain, for a bonus, in what, 2016 game, whose primary developer is known as Concerned Ape, two players manage a farm inherited from their grandfather.

Stardew Valley Stardew Valley is correct.

Next tossup question what island?

Where a 1692 earthquake destroyed the Pirate Haven a Port Royal was the birthplace of Marcus Garvey and the Go-Ahead Park.

Jamaica.

That's correct.

And it's also where Rastafarian ism originated.

For your bonus, what emperor, the namesake of Rome's largest public baths, instituted the Tetrarch.

After ending the crisis of the Third century.

Like maybe, Augustus.

Answer.

Constantine.

That's incorrect.

Diocletian is the correct answer.

Next, toss up.

What particles?

Whose namesake model was proposed by Murray Gelman come in six flavors and are the fundamental parkland.

Quark quarks are correct and the fundamental constituents of protons for bonus.

Georgetown is the capital of what British Overseas Territory, a group of islands south of Cuba, is often used as a tax haven.

British answer A Cayman Islands.

Cayman Islands is correct.

Next tossup question what city includes the modernist Casa Baixo and Casa Mila, designed by Anthony Gaudi and is the capital of the autonomous community of Catalonia.

Parkland.

Barcelona Barcelona is correct for your bonus, we'll plant hormones that promote stem elongation and apical or excuse me a yeah apical dominance include indoor acetic acid or iaé.

Answer oxygens.

Oxygens is correct.

Next tossup.

What show on which Domingo Chavez went by the nickname ding was a Prime Video action series based on Tom Clancy novels that starred John Parkland.

Jack Ryan.

Jack Ryan is correct, and it starred John Krasinski.

For your bonus.

What 1945 battle a defeat of the Japanese in the months after the Battle of Iwo Jima was the bloodiest of the Pacific theater.

Midway and answer Okinawa.

The Battle of Okinawa is correct.

Next tossup question what character who believes that a barber's basin is the helmet of Mariano is aided by the Squire Central Panza.

Don Quixote.

The Western Don Quixote is correct.

It's novel by Miguel de Cervantes.

For your bonus, what word that starts with S identifies houseplants such as aloe and cacti that have fleshy leaves or stems for tiny water.

Succulents is correct.

Therefore, retaining water in arid settings.

Next toss up question in what state did Orval Faubus prompted Dwight Eisenhower?

Parkland.

Arkansas.

That is correct for your bonus in Little Women.

Which of the March sisters ultimately dies of complications from scarlet fever?

Cancer?

Amy.

That's incorrect.

Beth.

You are correct.

Answer.

Sorry.

Next toss up question.

What drug?

The leading product of Danish company Novo Nordisk, is an anti diabetes drug introduced northwestern.

Ozempic.

Ozempic is correct and was introduced in 2017.

For your bonus, the decay chains of uranium isotopes 235 and 238.

And at isotopes of what metal whose isotope 208 is the heaviest stable isotope?

Of sodium.

Incorrect.

The correct answer is lead.

And with that, we have reached the second lightning round northwestern.

You'll get to pick between the following topics.

Words from Dutch or M and O. Amino and O.

It is.

Northwestern.

Your lightning round topic is M and O.

Give these answers that contain the letters M and an O.

Not necessarily in that order.

A sour yellow citrus fruit.

Lemon.

Correct.

Impressionists who painted water lilies.

Monet.

Correct.

Greek derived term for a memory technique.

Past Spanish word for hand.

Mono.

Correct.

King of Israel between David and Rio.

Beyond Solomon.

Correct.

A country that separated from Serbia in 2006.

Past French cabaret with a red windmill symbol Laon rouge.

Correct.

The quality of knowing everything.

Wisdom.

No lanthanide with atomic number 60.

Used in magnets.

Pass market with a single dominant buyer.

Monopoly.

That's incorrect.

And parkland.

Your topic is words from Dutch.

Give these words that came to English primarily from Dutch.

We will provide the first letter T a long journey as in the name of a TV show.

Trek.

Trek is correct.

Why a large ship?

Yes, yacht.

Yacht is correct.

G a big mouthful.

Gulp gulp is correct.

D 100 cents dollar correct I floating object created via Calvin image.

Incorrect P to preserve and brined.

Pickle.

Pickle.

Pickle pickle is correct.

E a type of tax applied to goods when they are produced.

Input tax and input.

Incorrect F to pass a burden on to someone by force or deceit.

Fraud.

Incorrect S the protruding part of an animal's face.

Snout snout snout is correct.

J a triangular sail over a ship's prow.

And jet.

Incorrect.

That would be the jib for it.

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

What building was designed to occupy Bennelong Point by Yawn Knutson, who devised its sail like white shells to sit along Australia, northwestern.

Melbourne Opera House.

Say that again.

Opera House.

Be more specific.

Melbourne Opera House.

That's incorrect over the parkland.

Parkland.

Go ahead.

The Sydney Opera House.

The Sydney Opera House is correct for your bonus.

What actor earned consecutive Best Actor Oscars in the 1990s for his roles in the films Philadelphia and Forrest Gump?

It's a bonus for the captain name.

Tom Hanks after Tom Hanks.

Tom Hanks is correct.

Next toss up question the climax of the Gospel of John signs involved what man?

The subject of the verse Jesus wept, who held from Bethany and was raised from the dead.

Parkland.

Lazarus.

Lazarus is correct for your bonus.

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow was included in what author's collection The setting.

Washington Irving is correct.

And who was in the collection?

The Sketchbook of Joffrey Crayon.

Next tossup question what word?

Starting with F names a manmade water diverted trough, such as those used to ship logs, as well as a common theme park.

Log chute ride?

The northwestern Flume flume is correct for your bonus.

In 1861, Victor Emmanuel, the second of the House of Savoy, became the first person in centuries to ho Emperor.

That's incorrect.

He became the King of Italy.

Next toss up question.

What country?

Who officially or excuse me?

What country?

Whose official currency is the rand completely encloses Waso two and has three parkland.

South Africa.

South Africa is correct and also has three capital cities.

For a bonus, abnormally high pressure in the eye is found in the most instances of what condition which has.

Imma say it again, comma.

Glaucoma is correct and has an open angle type and is a leading cause of blindness.

Next toss up question what containers include a long necked design type to avoid splashback, a kettle type and a spill resistant conical type?

The go ahead parklet.

Test tube?

That is incorrect.

It's the Altmire type.

And that completes a question for northwestern.

No conferring on the toss upwards for free.

Flask A flask is correct for your bonus.

What French composer known for his whimsical titles, such as Three Pieces in the Shape of a pair, wrote three Jim no paid for piano.

Vivaldi.

That's incorrect.

Erik Satie is a correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What figure?

Whose corpse gave rise to the cure?

Sorrow and a winged horse.

Pegasus was slain by Perseus, who avoided the petrifying parkland.

Medusa.

That's correct.

He avoided her petrifying Gorgon gaze for your bonus.

What?

Two word name which was used by activists like James Farmer?

Or was used?

Yeah.

What?

Two word name which was used by activists like James Farmer, who traveled on busses throughout the South in 1961 to test desegregation rulings.

On Freedom Riders?

That's correctly, were the Freedom Riders next toss up question.

What general?

Who was sacked after slapping two soldiers in Sicily?

Parklet patent.

George patent is correct and he was called old Blood and Guts.

For your bonus, a family of mallards reaches the public garden after navigating Boston's busy streets.

In, what 1941 picture book by Robert McCloskey.

We pass.

The correct answer is make way for ducklings.

Next toss up question what compound?

A polymer that could be synthesized from L-dopa is abundant in individuals with go ahead.

Berkeley dopamine.

That's incorrect.

All continue after northwestern Lehigh is absent in individuals with albinism, and is the main pigment.

Go ahead and a you're in before the buzzer.

Melatonin no melanin.

Unfortunately said the wrong word.

But melanin is correct.

But unfortunately we can't give it to you.

And with that, we've reached the end of the match.

Congratulations.

Apartment of 435 points.

You are on to the next round with Western Lehigh won 45.

Not quite enough this time.

Good luck with the rest of your school year and thank you for watching.

We'll see you next week for the start of the third round of the 50th season.

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