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Scholastic Scrimmage: Pleasant Valley HS vs Southern Lehigh HS
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Hello and welcome to the fifth match of the second round of the 50 season of Scholastic Scrimmage.
I'm your host, David Graff.
Today's match is between Pleasant Valley High School and Southern Lehigh High School.
The match will be composed of two halves with a lightning round midway through each half.
At half time, will positive students get introduce themselves and they'll answer questions so we get to know them a little bit better.
As a reminder, Scholastic Scrimmage requires rapid recall specific factual information.
It's not necessarily indicative of academic training.
And now let's begin.
Buzzers.
Ready.
Here's our first tossup question in 2024 Florida band.
What good's cultured form after state laws restricted substitutes for this type of food made by firms like Impossible Foods, Southern Lehigh.
Meat, meat products.
Meat or meat products is correct.
And for your bonus, what fundamental force which she and she would demonstrate could violate P symmetry in beta decay is mediated by W and Z bosons.
Strong force there's incorrect weak nuclear force is the correct answer.
Next tossup question what property possessed by relatively non-polar molecules like oils and other lipids that avoid water, has a name that is Greek for water.
Pleasant Valley hydrophobic.
Hydrophobic is correct, and it's Greek for water.
Fearing for your bonus.
In 1962, Pope John the 23rd convened the Second Ecumenical Council, named for what place whose reforms included promoting the vernacular mass.
Trent.
That is incorrect.
It's Vatican or Vatican City.
Correct answers.
Next tossup question.
What czar, during whose reign protesters were massacred on Bloody Sunday, was influenced by the mystic rest.
Southern Lehigh Nicholas the second, Nicholas the second is correct.
And he was influenced by Rasputin.
For your bonus, what American mathematicians name names and equilibrium form of game theory in which no player can improve their outcome by changing their strategy.
John Nash.
John Nash is correct.
Next toss up question.
What country contains the ruins of Chiba city of Chan Chan?
Giant desert geoglyphs called the Nazca Lines and Machu Picchu and other Incan southern Lehigh.
Peru.
Peru is correct, and other Incan cities completed.
The question.
For your bonus.
What common name is given to a titanium, a plant native to Sumatra that produces a foul smelling flower and is also the world's largest.
Pitcher plant.
That is incorrect.
It's the corpse flower or corpse plant is the correct answer.
Next, toss up what country which banned exports of rare earth elements in September 2023, is home to the oil firm Petronas, which names two towers in Kuala Lumpur.
Pleasant Valley, Malaysia.
Malaysia is correct for your bonus.
What leader founded the Viet Minh independence movement and served as the first president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
Ho Chi Minh.
Ho Chi Minh is correct.
Next toss up question.
What Chinese dynasty, whose final years included the battle of Red cliffs, dissolved into the Three Kingdoms period in the third century CE?
Southern Lee hock tang.
That's incorrect.
Over to Pleasant Valley.
No conferring, but it's still a freebie now.
Or it is a freebie now.
Go ahead.
Joe.
That's also incorrect.
The Han Dynasty is the correct answer.
Next toss up question.
What author of In the Shadow of Men started a namesake institute to advocate protection.
Protection of primates, and discovered tool use in chimpanzees?
Suddenly art.
Jane Goodall.
Jane Goodall is correct for your bonus.
What diagrams which are named for two scientists, classify stars according to the luminosity and effective temperature.
Constellations?
That is incorrect.
Its h r diagrams or her sprung Russell diagrams.
Next toss up question.
What story?
Whose narrator suffers from over acuteness of the senses, depicts the body of a man with a pale blue eye that is hidden under the floor.
Southern Lehigh.
The Tell-Tale heart.
The Tell-Tale heart is correct for your bonus.
What English king, who faced a long revolt by Welshman Owain Glyndwr, was the first king from the House of Lancaster.
James.
That's incorrect.
Henry, the fourth of England is the correct answer.
Next toss up question.
What composer of the Missa Solemnis, whose piano concerto number five is nicknamed Emperor, wrote a ninth symphony with a choral setting of the ode to Joy.
Southern Lehigh.
Beethoven wheel van Beethoven is correct for your bonus.
In 2008, Blizzard Entertainment completed a merger with what massive video game company that publishes the Call of Duty franchise.
Multimedia.
That is incorrect.
The companies Activision and Amazon formed Activision Blizzard.
And with that, we have reached the first Lightning Round.
In a pre-match coin toss, it was determined that Southern Lehigh will get to pick between the following topics black holes or Philip the Second of Spain go black.
Black holes.
Black holes.
It is southern Lehigh.
Your lightning round topic is black holes.
Answer the following about black holes.
Particles of light that can't escape a black hole.
Photons.
Correct.
Black hole boundary inside which light can't escape.
Possible zodiac constellation that contains the Milky Way's central black hole.
Past space time waves from colliding black holes detected by Lego.
Pass wheelchair using physicist whose names Stephen Hawking.
Correct.
Albert Einstein's theory that describes how black holes curved space.
Be more specific.
General relativity.
That is correct.
Infinitely dense point at a black hole's singularity.
Correct.
Stellar explosion.
That can form a black hole.
Supernova.
Correct.
Food named phenomena that stretches out.
Objects falling.
Spaghettification.
That is correct.
Theorem that a black hole's only properties are mass, spin, and charge.
Pass.
That last one was the no hair theorem.
Okay, over to Pleasant Valley.
Hopefully you guys had AP European history because your topic is Philip the second of Spain.
Name these people places and things from the reign of Philip the second of Spain.
Dutch speaking country that revolted in 1568.
Netherlands?
That's correct.
Bloody Queen of England.
He married.
Isabelle.
Incorrect.
Turkish ruled empire.
Philip's navy fought at Lepanto.
Ottoman.
Correct.
Precious metal that Spain mined at Potosi.
Silver.
Correct.
Straighten your cape Horn that he ordered.
Blockaded Gibraltar.
That's incorrect.
Fleet he sent to conquer England in 15 Spanish Armada.
Correct.
His royal house, based in Austria.
Hapsburg.
Correct.
Painter of Venus.
Of vino.
Who made two royal portraits of of Philip pass.
His father, who was both King of Spain and Holy Roman Emperor.
Pass.
The new palace he commissioned on a grid iron plan.
Task.
We did a good job with that, Clark.
You know your Philip the second of Spain.
Okay.
We continue on with the following tossup question.
What mythical woman who was turned into a lion with her husband?
Hippo harmonies was the first to wound the Caledonian boar and was known for her speed.
Suddenly her.
Chimera.
That's incorrect.
Over the Pleasant Valley.
No conferring bits of freebie.
No conferring.
Go ahead.
Lamia.
That's also incorrect.
Atalanta.
She's also the namesake of an Italian series.
A soccer team as well.
Next tossup question.
What planet?
Whose metallic core makes up 85% of its radius, has the most extreme changes in surface temperature and is the closest to the sun.
Pleasant Valley.
Mercury.
Mercury is correct for your bonus.
What an iron!
Usually written as H minus, is found in many rechargeable nickel metal batteries.
Hydrogen.
That's incorrect.
Hydride is the correct answer.
Next tossup question.
What river is crossed by the Tappan Zee Bridge and the Holland Tunnel empties into the Atlantic Ocean in New York Harbor.
And is named for an explorer.
Southern.
Lehigh.
Hudson.
Hudson is correct for the Hudson River.
For your bonus, in the first line of his poem howl, Allen Ginsberg claims, I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by what phenomenon?
What?
Racism does incorrect madness is the correct answer.
Next toss up question.
Frederick the great lead.
What kingdom?
Whose forces later captured Pleasant Valley.
Prussia.
Prussia is correct.
His forces later captured Napoleon the Third.
For your bonus, the biennial film festival known as Feast Pako is held in what African country?
Whose capital is what?
Ouagadougou, Niger.
That's incorrect.
Burkina Faso is the correct answer.
Next tossup question.
What Beetlejuice actor who played Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live had a 2020 for involuntary manslaughter.
I. Alec Baldwin.
Alec Baldwin is correct for your bonus.
What Republican president who signed the Sherman Anti-Trust act served between the two nonconsecutive terms of Grover Cleveland.
William Henry Harrison.
That is incorrect.
Benjamin Harrison is the correct answer.
Next toss up question.
In what country's 2023 election did Christopher Luxon National Party defeat Labor Prime Minister Chris Hipkins, who replaced Jacinda Ardern?
Pleasant Valley.
New Zealand.
New Zealand is correct for your bonus.
What Australian state, whose parliament rejected a separation vote in May 2024, is scheduled to host the 2032 Summer Olympics in Brisbane.
Queensland.
Queensland is correct.
Next tossup question.
What German scientist whose law of magnetism implies that nonexistence of plus valley hurts?
That's incorrect.
I'll continue on for Southern Lehigh.
Nonexistence of monopoles names two of Maxwell's equations and the normal distribution.
Schwarz.
Schrodinger.
Also incorrect.
Carl Gauss is the correct answer.
Next toss up question.
What amendment, which includes the phrase accept as a punishment for crime, was circumvented by Black Codes and ratified in 1865 to abolish slavery.
Pleasant Valley.
13th.
The 13th amendment is correct.
For bonus, Lily bloom marries, but eventually leaves abusive neurosurgeon Kyle Kincaid.
Or excuse me, Riley Kincaid in what, 2016 novel by Colleen Hoover.
It ends with us.
It Ends with Us is correct.
And with that, we have reached halftime.
We have a very close game underway.
The score is tied 110 to 110 between Pleasant Valley and Southern Lehigh.
And now we'll take a moment for students to introduce themselves with their first and last name grade level.
And the answer to the following question, which they have not heard ahead of time.
What is the appropriate age for a student to get a smartphone or an internet connected phone?
Keegan, pleasant Valley go ahead.
Keagan Martin, junior 11.
Okay.
Senior 14.
Mira junior.
Senior 13.
Noah Dolan, senior 12.
Okay.
And then we go on to Ella suddenly.
Hi.
Ella Schindler, senior 13.
Matilda Snyder junior.
And I say, just stick with the flip phone.
MJ Edward senior 13.
Patrick D'Amico junior 13.
Okay, is a daughter of a nine year old.
I agree with Matilda.
I think that's that's the way to go with.
The BlackBerry Teen.
Okay.
We continue on the match with the following tossup question.
What country controls the small barred archipelago has a rugged pleasant valley.
Norway, that is.
Or that is correct.
For your bonus, the film birth of a nation inspired the 1915 revival of What Organization at Stone Mountain in Georgia.
The Ku Klux Klan.
The Ku Klux Klan is correct.
Next tossup question what university's basketball team is coached by Dan Hurley?
One Division NC double A, Division one championships in 2023 and 2024 and is nicknamed the Huskies.
Pleasant Valley, Connecticut.
Yes.
Connecticut or UConn is correct for your bonus for a set of N numbers, what kind of mean is found by taking the nth root of the product of the numbers?
Weighted.
That is incorrect.
The geometric mean is the correct answer.
Next toss up question is in math.
Pencil and paper.
Ready?
What is the least common multiple of nine and 15?
Given it is equal to the product, Southern Lehigh 4545 is correct for a bonus.
What two word Latin phrase, which means always faithful, is the motto of the U.S. Marine Corps.
Semper fidelis.
That is correct.
Next tossup question.
What battle ended with Irvin McDowell's retreat to Washington earned Stonewall Jackson his nickname and was the first major battle of the Civil War.
Go ahead.
Plus evaluation before the buzzer.
Bull run.
Be more specific.
The Battle of Manassas.
What do we think?
Yes, we're going to take it.
So the first battle Bull Run or the First Battle of Manassas is correct for your bonus.
In the Gospel of Luke, Jesus ascends to heaven.
From what?
Mount named after a food.
Mount Olive.
Mount Olive is correct.
Next tossup question.
What group whose upbeat song, Wouldn't It Be Nice opens their album Suddenly High.
The Beach Boys.
The Beach Boys is correct, and opens their album Pet Sounds.
For your bonus, what director of Inception and The Dark Knight trilogy?
This is a bonus for Southern Lehigh.
Number one, a Best Director Oscar for his 2023 film Oppenheimer.
Christopher Nolan Christopher Nolan is correct.
Next toss up question what events described by the coefficient e are called elastic if they conserve momentum and kinetic energy suddenly on collisions.
Collisions is correct and occur when objects hit each other.
That concludes question for your bonus.
The term longa refers to what dance events and music genre, in what style of ballroom dancing that originated in Argentina and Uruguay around the 1900s.
Tango.
Tango is correct.
Next toss up question what book, inspired by its author's bet with editor Bennett Cerf, has just 50 unique words and features an unusual plate of food offered by Sam I am.
Pleasant Valley green eggs and ham.
Green Eggs and ham is correct and is true.
He had a bet that he could only make a good book with only using 50 words from his editor.
For your bonus, the epitaphs of fictional people as Fiddler Jones appear in what collection of poems in Free Verse by Edgar Lee Masters.
No answer.
Okay.
The correct answer is the spoon River anthology.
Next toss up.
What man who in 1888 sent the dear boss and from hell letters was never was a never identified serial killer who murdered five women in white Chapel, southern Lehigh.
Zodiac killer.
That is incorrect.
I'll complete the question for Pleasant Valley.
Go ahead, pleasant Valley.
Jack the Ripper, Jack the Ripper is correct.
He murdered the five women in White Chapel, London.
For your bonus.
What law states that?
A chemical reaction.
Total change in enthalpy.
Delta h equals the sum of the delta h values for each step.
The first law of thermodynamics.
That's incorrect.
It's Hess's law.
It's the correct answer.
Next, toss up.
What city, whose sites include the old town of Gamla Stan and the Vassall Museum, is home to the Nobel Prize Museum and is the capital of Sweden.
Southern Lehigh.
Quickly.
Let's talk.
Stop.
For which I can't give it to you guys because I heard it whispered to the other person, and unfortunately, the answer was already heard out loud.
Well, I guess we can give it over to the other side.
Yeah, the other side.
Clarke, Stockholm.
Stockholm is correct.
So just for the viewers at home, the person that buzzed in it was whispered to them.
The answer to that answering.
If they go over to Pleasant Valley, Pleasant Valley has it correct.
You get the points.
And the bonus question.
The border between Iowa and Nebraska is formed by what river?
Which flows through Sioux City and Bismarck, Mississippi.
That's incorrect.
The Missouri River is the correct answer.
And with that, we've reached the second lightning round Pleasant Valley.
You'll get to pick between the following topics.
Starting words with S, w, or ice cream.
Much different topics from our first lightning round.
Go ahead quickly though.
Mirror starting words with s w okay.
Starting words with s it is.
Give these words that begin with the consecutive letters s w to propel oneself through water using body.
Correct wetland, often partially or intermittently.
Correct.
To wrap a baby in tight close water.
Correct weapon with a long blade for cutting.
Correct moving or capable of moving with great speed.
Swift correct to swing slowly and rhythmically.
Back and.
Forth.
Swing.
Incorrect.
Characterized by showy display or fashionably elegant.
Passive pass to faint or become enraptured.
Swoon.
Correct sample piece of fabric.
Pass.
Row of cut grain or grass left by a safe or mowing machine.
Pass a b a swath swath of grain from your side.
Southern Lehigh, your topic is ice cream.
Answer the following related to ice cream topped ice cream dish that is a homophone for a day of the week.
Sunday.
Correct retailer of ice cream based Blizzard.
Dairy Queen.
Correct.
Per most polls, the most popular ice cream flavor in the U.S..
Vanilla.
Correct Italian word for ice cream.
Gelato.
Correct.
Vermont based maker.
Of Ben and Jerry's.
Correct variety of ice cream containing three separate.
Flavors.
Neapolitan.
That is incorrect.
Author of the poem The Emperor of Ice Cream Puffs.
Japanese rice cake, often filled with mochi.
Correct dessert or dessert made with ice cream cake and meringue.
Baked Alaska.
Correct artists of the songs.
Ice cream and I will remember you.
Past.
The last one with Sarah McLaughlin.
And we'll move on to the final quarter of the match with the following toss up question.
What author claimed the best laid schemes gang afternoon clay in his 1785 poem to a mouse and set down the Scots lyrics of the song Auld Lang Syne for the on.
That author's Robert Burns next toss up question.
What monarch, who's whose reign was recorded in the Armada letters promoted exclusive worship of the sun god Orton and was the husband of Nefertiti.
Tutankhamen.
That is incorrect.
Over to Pleasant Valley.
No conferring.
It is for me.
Go ahead.
Diocletian.
That's also incorrect.
Akhenaten is the correct answer.
Next toss up question.
What artist depicted a man speaking at a town hall in freedom of speech?
Part of his four freedom series, reproduced in the Saturday Evening Post.
Now you often see his works hanging in your doctor's office.
It's Norman Rockwell is the artist.
Next toss up question what type of angle has a cosine of zero and a sine of one?
And is the largest angle in a triangle to which go ahead suddenly hot 90 degrees?
That is incorrect.
Over to Pleasant Valley.
I'll finish the question for you, which the Pythagorean theorem applies.
Go ahead.
Right angle A right angle is correct for your bonus.
What philosopher from Sinope supposedly became a follower of Anthony's, the founder of the school of cynicism that he espoused.
Past Diogenes is the correct answer.
Next toss up question.
What book, which ends with a card game symbolizing the Tehran Conference, depicts the portrayal of boxer by the pig Napoleon plus or dog Animal Farm.
Animal farm is correct, and it's by George Orwell for your bonus.
Tamerlane tomb and Samarkand can be found in what former Soviet republic, whose capital is Tashkent?
Kyrgyzstan?
That is incorrect.
Uzbekistan is the correct answer.
Our next tossup question.
What two men wrote?
All the presidents men and spoke with the informant Deep Throat, while reporting for the Washington Post on the Watergate scandal.
Southern League.
The white House plumbers.
That's incorrect.
Over the Pleasant Valley.
The two men are Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.
Next toss up question.
It's in math, so pencil and paper ready.
What is the probability two independent events occur?
Will both occur if their individual chances are one sixth and 3/5.
Go ahead.
Only ten.
Percent.
That is writer 1 in 10 for your bonus.
What surname is shared by Emily, who played anthropologist Temperance Brennan on the crime drama bones and by Zoe, who plays Jess Day on New Girl Chanel?
Chanel is correct.
Next tossup question what author whose tales of a traveler include The Devil and Tom Walker wrote about Brom Bones and Ichabod Crane in the legend southern New York.
Washington Irving.
Washington Irving is correct.
He wrote about them in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
For your bonus, the loyal William Dobbins eventually wins the heart of widow Amelia Osborne in what satirical 1848 novel by William Makepeace Thackeray.
A past Vanity Fair is a correct answer.
Next, toss up.
What?
Medical condition?
With a two word name.
Which titles?
A 2017 hit by Phoebe Bridgers is treated with motion sickness.
Motion sickness is correct and is treated with Dramamine for your bonus.
Under the leadership of Kwame Nkrumah, what present day sub-Saharan country became the first to gain independence from the United Kingdom in 1957?
The past.
And with that, we have reached the end of the match.
A really great match between two so closely match teams, unfortunately stubbornly high with 220 points.
It's not your day.
Good luck with rest.
Your school year was about 230 points.
Congratulations!
You're on to the next round and thank you for watching.
We'll see you next week when Whitehall High School faces off against Nazareth Area High School.
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