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- Hello and welcome to the second round of the 48th season of Scholastic Scrimmage.

I'm your host, David Graf.

Today's match between Salisbury and Allentown Central Catholic High School will be composed of two halves with a lightning round midway through each half.

At half-time, we'll pause to get to know the students a little bit better.

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

And now let's begin.

Buzzers ready.

We'll start with our first toss up.

What National Park, whose namesake river flooded in June 2022, causing this park's closure, is in Wyoming and Montana, and is home... - Salisbury.

- Yellowstone.

- That is correct.

..and is home to Old Faithful?

For your bonus - what quantity measured in Watts, which is bound by the Eddington limit, quantifies the power radiated by an astronomical body?

- Gravitational energy.

- Incorrect.

Luminosity is the correct answer.

Next toss up.

What unit equal to just under 150 million kilometers is approximately the distance between the Earth and the Sun?

- Salisbury.

- A light year.

Incorrect.

I'll continue for Central Catholic.

And is abbreviated AU?

AU stands for astronomical unit.

Next toss up.

What peninsula is west of the Kerch Strait, is home to the cities of Yalta and Sevastopol, and was controversially annexed... - Central Catholic.

- Crimean Peninsula.

- That is correct.

It was controversially annexed by Russia in 2014.

For your bonus - what lake, the largest in Africa by area, contains the source of the White Nile?

- Lake George.

- Incorrect.

Lake Victoria is the correct answer.

Next toss up.

What author, who created Detective Dirk Gently, wrote about a computer that gives the confounding answer 42 in The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy?

Douglas Adams is the correct answer.

Next toss up.

What composer of the aria Vecchia Zimarra, which is sung to an overcoat, and Che Gelida Manina, which is sung by Rodolfo to Mimi in La Boheme?

Giacomo Puccini is the correct answer.

Next toss up is in math.

Pencil and paper ready.

What is the only x intercept or root of x...

Excuse me, of y = x squared minus 6x plus 9. given its vertices lie on a positive... - Central Catholic.

- Negative 3.

X = negative three.

- That is incorrect.

Salisbury.

- X equals positive three.

- That is correct.

For your bonus - Vin Scully, who died in 2022 at the age of 94, served as the broadcast voice of what Major League Baseball team for 67 years?

- The Dodgers.

- That is correct.

And we'll continue on with the next toss up.

What author, who Abraham Lincoln called the little woman who wrote the book that started this great... - Salisbury.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe.

- That is correct.

And for your bonus - what character played by Kirsten Dunst and Florence Pugh in film adaptations of Little Women is the youngest sister of Meg, Jo and Beth March?

- Amy March.

- That is correct.

Next toss up.

In what country were Democrats 66 and the VVD form part of the ruling coalition, do politicians Mark Rutte and Geert Wilders meet in The Hague?

Salisbury.

- Sweden.

- Incorrect.

Central Catholic?

Oh, I'm sorry.

Buzzer went off before.

Go ahead, give it.

Toby, what are you thinking?

- Netherlands.

- That would be correct, but unfortunately it was after the buzzer.

Next toss up.

What predators have spinnerets, have Hobo, Brown Recluse and Black Widow varie... - Central Catholic.

- Arachnid.

- That is correct.

Or spiders.

For your bonus - it's in math, so pencil and paper ready, how many rounds are needed for a 32 team single elimination tournament, assuming that no team receives a bye?

- Four rounds?

Four rounds.

Or five rounds?

Five rounds.

- Unfortunately the buzzer went off before the answer.

But you were correct with five rounds, but no points for that.

Next toss up.

What Greek goddess, who preserved the 100 eyes of the monster Argos by placing them on the... Central Catholic.

- Hera.

- That is correct.

She placed them on the tail of a peacock.

For your bonus - after being convicted of gross indecency, Oscar Wilde was eventually sent to what prison?

The title setting of a ballad that Wilde published in 1898.

- Rikers?

- Try Bedlam.

- Bedlam.

- Incorrect.

The Reading jail is the correct answer.

Next toss up.

What author described a ruinous lawsuit in his novel Bleak House and depicted Estella's lonely childhood with Miss Havisham in Great Expectations?

- Central Catholic.

- Dickens.

- Charles Dickens is correct.

For your bonus - in what country did Karachi-born Benazir Bhutto serve two terms as Prime Minister before being assassinated near Islamabad?

- Pakistan.

- Pakistan?

- Yeah.

- Pakistan.

- Pakistan is correct.

And with that, we've reached the first lightning round.

In a pre-match coin toss, it was determined the Allentown Central Catholic will get to pick between the following topics - the book of Exodus or conquerors and commanders.

- Exodus or conquerors?

- Exodus.

- Are you sure?

- All right, quickly, Hunter, your topic?

- Exodus.

- The Book of Exodus.

The Book of Exodus... And as a reminder, because it's your first time for this season, anybody can say the answer, first thing we hear is what we take.

Allentown Central Catholic, The Book of Exodus.

Answer the following about the Book of Exodus.

The book preceding Exodus in the Old Testament... - Genesis.

- Correct.

Prophet who led the Israelites out of Egypt?

- Moses.

- Moses.

- Correct.

Number of plagues God sent against the Egyptians?

- Ten.

- Correct.

- Sea the parts for the Israelites... - Red Sea.

- Correct.

Jewish holiday commemorating the Exodus?

- Passover.

- Correct.

Edible substance sent by God during... - Manna.

- Correct.

Verb used twice in the English translation of God's statement, "Ehyeh asher Ehyeh"?

- I am.

- Correct.

Mountain upon which God dictates... - Sinai.

- Correct.

First hereditary high priest of the Israelites?

- Aaron.

- Correct.

Idol briefly worship by the Israelites before... - Golden calf.

- That is correct.

The Golden Calf.

Allentown Central Catholic, great job.

You can go home with your head held high there, getting the book of Exodus questions right.

Salisbury, your topic is conquerors and commanders.

Name these leaders and statesmen known for their military exploits.

The first Holy Roman Emperor, crowned in 800?

- Charlemagne.

- Correct.

Fearsome King of the Huns from 434 to 453?

- Attila.

- Correct.

Founder of the Mongol Empire?

- Genghis Khan.

- Correct.

Generalissimo who won the Spanish Civil War?

- Franco.

- Correct.

Roman general who joined Caesar and Crassus in the First Triumvate...Triumvirate?

- Aulerian.

- Incorrect.

Mexican caudillo captained at the Battle...

Captured at the Battle of San Jacinto?

- Pata.

- Incorrect.

First president of Gran Colombia, who was known as El Libertador?

- Simon Bolivar.

- Correct.

Zulu leader who favored the Ikwla Spear over the Assegai?

- Pass.

- Victor at the Battle of Sekigahara who inaugurated a namesake Japanese Shogunate?

- Pass.

- President who was... Last one.

President who was Nato's first supreme allied commander in Europe?

That would have been Dwight D Eisenhower.

We'll continue the match with the following toss up.

What Emperor, served by the Minister Si Li, ended the Warring States Period, was buried with terracotta army and founded the Qin Dynasty?

Qin Shihuang is the correct answer.

Next toss up.

What disease which develops when beta cells in the pancreas are destroyed is characterized by high blood glucose?

Central Catholic.

- Diabetes.

- You need to be more specific.

Just diabetes?

OK, we'll accept diabetes.

Type one diabetes, what we were looking for.

For your bonus - what Englishman mourned the 1833 death of his friend Arthur H Hallam in the short poem Break, Break, Break, as well as the elegy in memorandum AHH?

- Keats?

- No, Keats was dead by then.

- Do Shelley.

- Shelley?

- Yeah.

- Shelley.

- Incorrect.

Alfred Lord Tennyson is the correct answer.

Next toss up.

What novel depicts a dog named Pilot who resides at Thornfield Hall, ends with the narrator's marriage to Mr Rochester and is by Charlotte Bronte?

- Central Catholic.

- Wuthering Heights.

- That is incorrect.

Over to Salisbury.

- Jane Eyre.

- Jane Eyre is correct.

For your bonus - what German word names the eight month period, starting in 1940, during which Londoners endured sustained Nazi bombing raids?

- Kurt Vonnetog.

- No, no.

- Incorrect.

The blitz is the correct answer.

Next toss up.

What national leader introduced new economic policy... Central Catholic.

- Lenin.

- That is correct.

..and took power in the October revolution?

For your bonus - what British chemist, who used X-rays to show an element's defining characteristic is its atomic number, was killed in 1915 during World War I?

- Rutherford.

- Incorrect.

- Henry Moseley is a correct answer.

Next toss up.

What building, which is depicted on the reverse of the bicentennial half dollar, is named after a document that was approved there on July 4th, 1770... - Central Catholic.

- Independence Hall.

- That is correct.

July 4th, 1776.

For your bonus - what Congressional process against officials who have committed high crimes and misdemeanors leads to the chief justice presiding over a Senate trial?

- Impeachment.

- Impeachment is correct.

Next toss up.

What name is shared by a Massachusetts town that is home to the Old North Bridge and a city in Merrimack County that is the capital of New Hampshire?

Central Catholic.

- Concord.

- Say it again.

- Concord.

Concord.

- Concord is correct.

For your bonus - in what state did the winning Republican gubernatorial candidate run a 2021 ad suggesting that the novel Beloved should be banned from schools?

- DeSantis?

- DeSantis.

- DeSantis of Florida sounds like it would be a good guess for this question.

It was actually the state of Virginia is where that happened.

And with that, we've reached half-time.

Allentown Central Catholic leads Salisbury with 140 points to 65.

Now let's take a moment to get to know the students a little bit better.

They'll tell us their first and last name, grade level, and let us know if they learn better by reading, by listening or by doing.

Claire, Salisbury, we'll start with you.

- What am I supposed to say?

- So, first and last name, grade level, and do you learn better by reading, listening or writing?

- I'm Claire Nichols.

I'm a sophomore, and I learn better by listening.

- I'm Tristan Monahan.

I'm a senior, and I learn best by listening to Rick Pearce.

- OK. - Hi, I'm Jackson Cramp.

I'm a senior at Salisbury High School, and I learn best by reading.

- OK. - I'm Grace Kelly.

I'm a senior at Salisbury High School, and I learned best by writing from Mr Pierce's chalkboard.

OK. And now on to Allentown Central Catholic.

- My name is Toby Broun.

I'm a junior at Allentown Central Catholic, and I learn best by reading.

- My name is Hunter.

I'm a senior at PHS, and I learn best by listening.

- My name is Anna Edwards.

I'm a junior at Central Catholic, and I learn best by doing.

- All right.

- My name is Casey Honegger.

I'm a junior at Central Catholic, and I learn best by doing.

- Excellent.

And with that, we'll continue on with the second half of the match with the following toss-up question.

What devices, a massless one of which forms part of an ideal Atwood machine, consists of a rope... Central Catholic.

- A pulley.

- That is correct.

It's a rope running over a wheel and is used to lift loads.

For your bonus, what 19th century German philosopher was an Idealist who wrote about master-slave dialectics in his book Phenomythology of the Spirit?

- Schelling.

- Schelling?

Schelling.

- Incorrect.

It's GWF Hegel, is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What author, who usually is credited with writing Prometheus Bound and depicted a king returning from Troy in Agamemnon, was the first play in the Oresteia?

Salisbury.

- Shelly?

- Incorrect.

Still some time for Central Catholic.

Go ahead, Central Catholic.

- Sophocles?

Aeschylus is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What monarch, who was the sixth Huey Tlatoani, was succeeded by Cuitlahuac following his death during the Ernaman quasi invasion of the Aztec empire?

That would be Moctezuma.

And for the last one, sorry, it was Aeschylus, would be the correct answer.

I totally butchered that name for the other toss-up.

On to the next toss-up question.

What painting technique in which artists paint over a layer of intonaco consisting of wet plaster... Central Catholic?

- Fresco?

- That is correct.

It's named for the Italian word for fresh.

For your bonus, what type of kinetic sculpture exemplified by Alexander Calder's Lobster Trap And Fish Tale includes objects that can be moved by air currents?

- I don't know.

- A living sculpture.

- Incorrect.

A mobile is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What American author of Dragon Seed and East Wind West Wind wrote about Olan and her husband, the farmer Wang Lan, in her novel The Good Earth?

Central Catholic.

- Pearl S Buck.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, what isolationist senator from Ohio who names, along with that of Fred Hartley, a 1947 law limiting the power of unions, was the son of a former president?

- Taft.

- Robert Taft is correct.

- Next toss-up.

What explorer and scout who forced Navajo civilians into the long walk to Bosque Redondo guided John C Fairmont and gives his name to the capital of Nevada?

Central Catholic.

- Carson.

- Kit Carson is correct.

For your bonus, P waves in the earth and sound waves in air exemplify what type of wave which is...

Which the oscillations are parallel to the direction of propagation?

- Longitudinal.

Longitudinal waves is correct.

Next toss-up.

What composer uses a two-note viola motif to depict a barking dog in the part of his contest between a harmony and invention known as The Four Seasons?

Central Catholic.

- Vivaldi.

- Antonio Vivaldi is correct.

And for your bonus, what state is home to the tourist destination Wall Drug and to the annual motorcycle rally in its city of Sturgis?

- Yeah.

Texas.

- Texas.

- Incorrect.

South Dakota is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What religion whose adherents are divided into mansions and follow the vegetarian diet revere Haile Selassie and developed in Jamaica?

Central Catholic - Rastafarian.

- Rastafarians or Rastafarianism is correct.

For your bonus, what author who described a Bible salesman who steals a woman's wooden leg in the story Good Country People wrote A Good Man Is Hard To Find?

- Twain.

- Incorrect.

Flannery O'Connor is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What Cabinet department which until 2003 oversaw the Secret Service, was led in the Civil War by Salmon Chase and in the 179... Central Catholic.

- Treasury.

- The Department of the Treasury is correct.

In the 1790s it was led by Alexander Hamilton.

For your bonus, what WNBA player who was named an honorary starter in the 2022 All-Star Game, was detained in Russia in February 2022 on drug charges?

- Griner.

Brittney Griner is correct.

And with that, we've reached our second lightning round.

Salisbury.

Here's the time to make the comeback.

You have the following topics - classic film quotes or the letter H - to choose from.

- Classic Film Quotes.

- Classic Film Quotes.

Salisbury, your topic is classic film quotes.

Name the films from which these lines originate.

Lions and tigers and bears.

Oh, my.

- Wizard of Oz.

- Correct.

Nobody puts baby in a corner.

- Dirty Dancing.

- Correct.

Yo, Adrian.

- Pass.

- Here's looking at you, kid.

- Casablanca.

- Correct.

- You're going to need a bigger boat.

- Jaws.

- Correct.

- Rosebud as a dying word.

- Citizen Kane.

- Correct.

- You got nothing, you lose.

Good day, sir.

- Maltese Falcon.

- Incorrect.

Do or do not, there is no try.

- Star Wars.

- Be more specific.

- Empire Strikes Back.

- That is correct.

- I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.

- Interstellar - Incorrect.

- Gentlemen, you can't fight in here.

This is a war room.

- A Few Good Men.

- Oh, no.

This other one is a great satirical movie.

It's Dr Strangelove.

Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb.

- The other one, 2001: A Space Odyssey.

The other one was, yeah, 2001: A Space Odyssey.

And I've heard that quote, unfortunately, over and over again, being named Dave.

Central Catholic, your topic is the letter H. What does the H stand for in the sports league NHL?

- Hockey.

- Correct.

The sexually transmitted disease HIV?

- Human.

- Correct.

The biomedical research agency NIH?

- Health?

- Correct.

The reality TV series are RHONY?

- Housewives.

- Correct.

The unit of measure for mph?

- Hour.

- Correct.

The engineering system known as HVAC?

- Pass.

The cassette tape format VHS?

- Home?

- Correct.

The text shorthand TVQH?

- Um, honest?

- Correct.

The web language HTML?

- Pass.

- The college descriptor HBCU?

- Historically.

- That is correct.

And we'll continue on with the final quarter of the match with the following toss-up question.

What world leader who is the General Secretary of the WPK Party promotes the ideology of Juche in his role as Supreme Leader of...?

Salisbury.

- Kim Jong Un.

Kim Jong Un is correct.

As the Supreme Leader of North Korea.

For your bonus, what Dutch scientist modified the ideal gas equation to include the finite size of gas molecules and gave his name to a type of weak non-bonding interaction.

- Charles.

- Incorrect.

Johann Dietrich van der Waals is the correct answer.

Next toss-up question.

What musical, which begins with an auction for a chandelier, contains songs like The Music of the Night and was written by Andrew Lloyd Webber?

Central Catholic.

- Phantom of the Opera.

That is correct.

For your bonus, what German author wrote about a love triangle between Albert, Lotte and a sensitive artist in a 1774 novel titled The Sorrows of Young Werther?

- Goethe?

- Goethe is correct.

Next toss-up.

What country contains the oil-rich Absheron Peninsula, which extends east into the Caspian Sea and includes the national capital of Baku?

Central Catholic.

- Azerbaijan?

- That is correct.

They hold the Formula 1 race there as well, too, in Baku.

For your bonus, in Roman history, what nickname is given to the year AD 69, when Rome was ruled in quick succession by Galba, Otho, Vitellius and Vespasian?

- The fall of Rome.

- Incorrect.

It's the Year of the Four Emperors.

Next toss-up.

What English title is shared by a play from 414 BC featuring a city in the clouds and an Alfred Hitchcock film in which a town is attacked by avians?

Salisbury.

- Birds.

- Birds or The Birds is correct.

For your bonus, what German city whose Commerzbank Tower was until 2021, the tallest building in the EU.

Host to the headquarters of the European Central Bank?

- Stuttgart.

- Incorrect.

It's Frankfurt.

I actually got to go to the top of that tower last year when I was out there for work.

The next toss-up is in math.

Pencil and paper ready.

Given the median is the middle number when a set is sorted, what is the median of the five numbers Four, 11, 15, nine and six?

Central Catholic.

- Nine.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, Dizzy Gillespie wrote a song about a night in what African country, where, according to the lyrics, the nights are filled with peace?

- Egypt.

- Incorrect.

- Tunisia is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What denomination, which has an African Episcopal branch, grew out of the Oxford Holy Club?

Central Catholic.

- Methodist.

- That is correct.

It was founded by George Whitfield and John Wesley.

For your bonus, in 1646, a monk used his ability to smell incense in a cathedral to produce the first modern estimate of what chemistry constant, sometimes written N sub A?

- The ideal gas constant.

- Incorrect.

Avogadro's number is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What actress played Nicole Barber opposite Adam Driver in Marriage Story?

Salisbury.

- Scarlett Johansson.

- That is correct.

And she also stars as the Black Widow.

For your bonus, what Mexican-born guitarist whose namesake band recorded 1999's Smooth with Rob Thomas collapsed from heat exhaustion during a July 2022 performance?

- Iggy Pop.

- Incorrect.

Carlos Santana is the correct answer.

Next bonus.

The Intermediate Value Theorem applies to functions with what property not present at jumps in which one can draw... Central Catholic, you did get in before the buzzer, so go ahead.

- Continuous?

- We will take that.

Central Catholic, you do get the points for that.

It's the end of the match, though, and you have won with 340 points, so no need for a bonus.

Salisbury, thank you so much for joining us.

With 120 points, it's the end of the road.

Have a great rest of your school year.

And we'll see you next week for the third round, when we see Northwestern face off against Bangor.