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I'm your host, David Graf.

Today's match between Freedom High School and Northwestern Lehigh will be composed of two halves with a lightning round midway through each half.

At halftime, we'll pause so the students can introduce themselves, and we'll get to know them a little bit better.

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

And now let's begin.

Buzzers ready and also pencil and paper ready.

Our first toss-up is in math.

Given that a straight angle has pi radians, what number of degrees is equivalent to pi over six radians?

Northwestern.

- 30.

- 30 is correct.

For your bonus: What word precedes now, tomorrow and forever in the defiant 1963 inaugural address of Alabama Governor George Wallace?

- Segregation.

- That is also correct.

On to our next toss-up.

What city, whose Summer Olympics were boycotted by the United States in 1980, was home to the headquarters of the KGB?

Northwestern?

- Moscow.

- That is correct.

When it was the Soviet Union's capital.

For your bonus, what fruit is combined with grapes, celery, walnuts and mayonnaise in a traditional Waldorf salad?

- Cranberries.

- Incorrect.

It's apples, but it is a fact that is the worst salad of all the salads.

Next toss-up.

What mother of Chrysaor and the horse Pegasus was the sister of Stheno and Euryale, was beheaded by Perseus and was the only mortal...?

Northwestern.

- Medusa.

- That is correct.

She was the only mortal Gorgon.

For your bonus, what patron God OF Babylon defeated the dragon Mushussu, who took the Tablet of Destinies from Kingu and slayed the sea serpent Tiamat?

- Shiva.

- That is incorrect.

Marduk is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What geospatial quantity is represented by contour lines on a topographic...?

Northwestern.

- Elevation?

- That is correct.

Elevation, height or altitude are all acceptable answers.

Your bonus is in math, pencil and paper ready.

What is the measure of angle X if the angle Y measures 140 degrees and X and Y are vertical angles?

- 40 degrees.

- Say it again?

- 40 degrees.

- Incorrect.

The correct answer is 140 degrees.

Next toss-up.

What ruler, whose mother is known as the Younger Lady, was interred at a site known as KV 62, later uncovered by Howard Carter and was a boy pharaoh?

Northwestern.

- King Tut.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, what sixth century BC reformer democratized participation in the ecclesia of Athens and undid much of the harsh laws in the draconian code?

- Plato.

- That is incorrect.

Solon is the correct answer.

For your next toss-up, what world leader who launched the Belt and Road Initiative in 2013 holds the title of Paramount Leader as the head of the Chinese Communist Party?

Northwestern.

- Xi Jinping.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, the line "Tear her tattered ensign down" opens what poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes that pays homage to the US Constitution?

- Old Ironsides.

- That is also correct.

Next toss-up.

What lead musician on the rock-influenced album In A Silent Way used the Dorian mode for So What?, which appears on his jazz album Kind Of Blue?

Miles Davis is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What author wrote about a secret society called the VFD and described Count Olaf's cruelty to the Baudelaire orphans in A Series Of Unfortunate Events?

Northwestern.

- Lemony Snicket.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, in 1893, what American woman was tried and acquitted for murdering her father and stepmother with an axe in Fall River, Massachusetts?

- Smith.

- Incorrect.

Lizzie Borden is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

Energy cascades are part of what Andrei Kolmogorov theory of what type of fluid flow that occurs at high Reynolds numbers and can cause bumpy plane rides?

Northwestern.

- Turbulence.

- Yes, that is correct.

Turbulence or turbulent flow.

For your bonus, what tower, which was built during the redevelopment of Toronto's railway lands, was the world's largest freestanding tower until 2007?

- The CN Tower.

- That is correct.

Onto the next toss-up.

What man who promoted infrastructure via his American System became Secretary of State in the Corrupt Bargain and was called the Great Compromiser?

Henry Clay is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

In what novel does the Yellow Robe Demon capture the protagonist, Tang Sanzang, who is eventually rescued by the Monkey King, Sun Wukong?

- Northwestern.

- Journey to the West.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, what optical phenomena is governed by Snell's law and is exemplified by light bending as it enters water?

- Refraction.

- That is also correct.

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

In a pre-match coin toss, it was determined that Freedom would get to pick between the topics of The Book Of Genesis or National Languages.

- National Languages.

- National Languages.

So that means, Northwestern, The Book of Genesis will be your topic.

Freedom, National Languages.

Give the official language of these countries.

Egypt.

Anyone can say it.

- Arabic.

- Correct.

Brazil.

- Portuguese.

- Correct.

Israel.

- Arabic.

- Incorrect.

Jamaica.

- English.

- Correct.

Dominican Republic.

- Spanish.

- Correct.

Senegal.

- Pass.

- San Marino.

- Italian.

- Correct.

Suriname.

- Pass.

- Moldova.

- Pass.

- Cambodia.

- Pass.

- And that is the end of your lightning round.

We move over now to Northwestern Lehigh.

Northwestern Lehigh, your topic is The Book of Genesis.

Give the missing word where I say "blank" from these quotes from the King James version of the book of Genesis.

God created the heaven and the "blank".

- Earth.

- Correct.

God planted a garden eastward in "blank".

- Eden.

- Correct.

The Lord destroyed Sodom and "blank".

- Gomorrah.

- Correct.

The flood was "blank" days upon the earth.

- 40.

- Correct.

Be fruitful and "blank".

- Patient.

- Incorrect.

Lot's wife, she became a pillar of "blank".

- Salt.

- Correct.

Esau said to "blank", "Feed me, I pray thee."

- Father?

- Incorrect.

The length of the "blank" shall be 300 cubits.

- Ark.

- Correct.

Cain shall be avenged "blank".

- Henceforth.

- Incorrect.

Noah begat three sons, Shem, "blank" and Japheth.

- Joseph.

- Incorrect.

The correct answer to that last one, Ham was the correct answer.

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

What religion has naked sky-clad and clothed white-clad sects, venerates 24 Tirthankaras and preaches a non-violent principle called ahimsa?

- Excuse, it's a-him-sa.

Known as the most peaceful religion in the world, Jainism is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

The electron and neutron obey statistics named for Paul Dirac and what Italian whose Chicago Pile-1 hosted the first man-made...?

Northwestern.

- Fermi.

- That is correct.

Enrico Fermi is the correct answer.

For your bonus, the Makgadikgadi Salt Pan is surrounded by what desert that covers most of Botswana?

- The Namib Desert.

- Incorrect.

The Kalahari Desert is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What Russian author who created the dying magistrate Ivan Ilyich also created Count Vronsky and Pierre Bischoff in Anna Karenina... Northwestern.

- Leo Tolstoy.

- That is correct.

And War And Peace.

For your bonus, the name of what US city precedes "Dynamics" in the name of a company that in 2019 began promoting a robot named Spot that resembles a dog?

- Boston.

- That is correct.

Boston, Massachusetts for Boston Dynamics.

Next toss-up.

What president opposed by the Hartford Convention of New England Federalists escaped during the burning of Washington, DC...?

Northwestern?

- James Madison.

- That's correct.

During the War of 1812.

And for your bonus, what composer included hammer blows in his Tragic Symphony and a massive choir in his Eighth Symphony, the Symphony Of A Thousand?

- Mahler.

- Gustav Mahler is correct.

For our next toss-up, what artist who showed a woman pouring from a pitcher in The Milkmaid made just 36 paintings, including View of the Delft and Girl with a Pearl Earring?

Freedom.

- Vermeer.

- Jan Vermeer is the correct answer.

For your bonus, the closest star to the Sun is about four light years away in a constellation that depicts what type of mythological half-human creature?

- Centaur.

- That is also correct.

Next toss-up.

What law which is modified in the van der Waals equation has a namesake constant of about 8.31 joules per mole kelvin and is written PV = nRT?

Northwestern.

- The ideal gas law.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, in what South American country was a Maoist insurgency called the Shining Path suppressed under President Alberto Fujimori?

- Venezuela.

- Incorrect.

Peru is the correct answer.

For the next toss-up, what poem, whose speaker proclaims, "I will show you fear "in a handful of dust," opens with the line, "April is the cruelest month" and is by TS Eliot?

TS Eliot fans are screaming at the screen at home.

It's The Waste Land.

Next toss-up.

In June 2022, what man was released from federal supervision 41 years after he shot James Brady and attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan?

John Hinckley Jr is the correct answer.

And with that, we have reached halftime.

We're going to get to know the students a little bit better.

We're going to start with Brady.

Give us your first, last name and grade level and the one app you can't live without.

Brady, go ahead.

- I'm Brady, I'm in 10th grade, and the app I probably can't live without is probably YouTube.

- I'm Daniela, I'm in 10th grade and probably Subway Surfers.

- I'm John Coulter.

I'm in 12th grade and I can't live without YouTube.

- I'm Derek Shore.

I'm in 12th grade and I can't live without YouTube also.

- And on to Northwestern Lehigh.

Elijah, go ahead.

- My name is Elijah.

I'm in 12th grade and the app I cannot live without is Google.

- Hi, I'm Tim Bernard.

I'm in 11th grade and I'd say the app that I can't live without would be the ESPN app.

- Hi, I'm Haydn King and I'm a senior.

I'm in 12th grade and the app I can't live without is probably Instagram.

- I'm Jesse.

I'm in 11th grade and I couldn't live without Spotify.

- All right.

So far this season, YouTube is by far the most popular app among students.

The oddball one that we had out of the bunch so far has been eBay by one of the other students who both buys and sells jewelry on it.

So I thought that was kind of a unique pick for that.

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

Buzzers ready.

What 2022 film, whose title character has a robotic cat named Socks and is voiced by Chris Evans, explains the origins of a...?

Northwestern.

- Lightyear.

- That is correct.

Explained the origins of the action figurine introduced in Toy Story, which is Lightyear, Lightyear the movie.

For your bonus, in 1942, General Douglas MacArthur vowed to return to what country in which the Bataan Death March took place after MacArthur escaped?

- The Philippines.

- That is also correct.

Next toss-up.

What American scientist who classified acids and bases as electron pair acceptors and donors respectively names oft-used dot diagrams?

Northwestern.

- Lewis.

- That is correct.

Gilbert Lewis is the correct answer.

For your bonus, what element's depleted form contains a lower concentration of its fissile isotope 235?

- Uranium.

- That is also correct.

Next toss-up.

What 1848 meeting organized by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton pronounced the Declaration of Sentiments that Stanton wrote to endorse women's suffrage?

Northwestern.

- The Seneca Falls Convention.

- That is correct.

And for your bonus, what Greek cynic philosopher, who mocked Plato in his tongue and cheek definition of man as a fatherless biped using a plucked chicken, lived in a large clay wine jar?

It's a bonus.

You can just tell your captain.

- Diclastes.

- No, it would be... Diogenes is the correct answer.

For your next toss-up, what NBA team won five titles between 1999 and 2014, is coached by Gregg Popovich... Freedom.

- San Antonio Spurs.

- That is correct.

And had played its home games in the Alamodome in Texas.

For your bonus, Adolf Hitler wrote Mein Kampf in prison after being charged with treason for his role in what failed 1923 coup attempt?

- The Beer Hall Putsch.

- That is correct.

Onto the next toss-up.

What novelist whose debut was The Voyage Out wrote about the suicidal Septimus Smith and a woman preparing a dinner party in her book Mrs Dalloway?

Virginia Woolf is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What treaty's final negotiations by Carlos Salinas, Brian Mulroney and George HW Bush in 1993 created a trade bloc among Mexico, Canada and the United States?

Freedom.

- The North American Free Trade Agreement.

- That is correct.

Otherwise known as NAFTA.

For your bonus, it's in math, pencil and paper ready.

What is the simplified form of the algebraic expression whose numerator is 6A-squared and whose denominator is 4AB?

- 3A/2B?

- That is correct.

Next toss-up.

What type of shape whose area can be calculated with Heron's formula has an...?

- Triangle.

- That is correct.

You saved me from having to read the rest of that rather long question.

Great job!

Next bonus.

What boy is elected chief after blowing into a conch shell to summon plane survivors near the beginning of William Golding's novel Lord of the Flies?

- Ralph.

- Ralph is correct.

Next toss-up.

What word can denote a species in chemical reactions that are formed and then consumed or blue square ski runs between easy and advanced?

Northwestern.

- Intermediate.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, in 2018, what country finished building the Lakhta Center skyscraper, which will serve as headquarters for its oil company, Gazprom?

- The UAE.

- That is incorrect.

Russia is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

Rain in the Middle East has led to what insects of the genus Schistocerca devastating food supply in...?

Northwestern.

- Locusts.

- That is correct.

They've been devastating food supply in Eastern Africa with their destructive swarms.

For your bonus, what family of plants, which include the saguaro and the prickly pear, uses water-efficient... Northwestern.

- Succulents?

- That's incorrect.

The correct answer for that was cactuses.

Onto our next toss-up.

What essay that describes a way of paying landlords' rent was written in 1729 by Jonathan Swift and satirically advocates that Irish children be eaten?

The essay is A Modest Proposal.

Next toss-up.

What video game character who battles a metal doppelganger in Stardust Speedway fights the evil Dr Robotnik...?

Northwestern.

- Sonic.

- That is correct.

And is a ring-collecting blue hedgehog.

And for your bonus, Alfred Adler coined the term for what psychological complex in which people believe themselves to be worse in some way than other people?

- Imposter syndrome.

- That is incorrect.

Inferiority complex is the correct answer.

And with that, we have reached our second lightning round.

Northwestern, you'll get to pick between the following topics, Wisconsin or People Named Robert.

- People Named Robert.

- People Named Robert.

Freedom, I hope you know a lot about the state of Wisconsin.

Start wracking your brain right now.

Northwestern Lehigh, your topic is People Named Robert.

Give the surname of these people with the first name Robert.

Victorious General at the Battle of Chancellorsville.

- Lee.

- Correct.

Scottish author of Treasure Island.

- Stevenson.

- Correct.

Founder of the Boy Scout Movement.

- Powell.

- Correct.

Poet of The Death Of A Hired Man.

- Frost.

- Correct.

Inventor of the first modern steamboat, the Clermont.

- Smith.

- Incorrect.

Democratic presidential candidate assassinated in 1968.

- Kennedy.

- Correct.

British poet married to Elizabeth Barrett.

- Tennyson.

- Incorrect.

German composer of Carnaval and Kreisleriana.

-Pass.

- British scientist who names a law relating force to compression of a spring.

- Smith.

- Incorrect.

First Prime Minister of Great Britain.

- Walpole.

- That is correct.

Freedom, your topic is Wisconsin.

Answer the following about the state of Wisconsin.

The capital of Wisconsin.

- Pass.

- Wisconsin's most populous city.

- Milwaukee.

- Correct.

Democrat from Wisconsin who was the first openly LGBT US senator.

- Pass.

- Wisconsin's city of Colby names a variety of this dairy product.

- Cheese.

- Correct.

Wisconsin's only NFL team.

- Packers.

- Correct.

Wisconsin borders this state's Upper Peninsula.

- Michigan.

- Correct.

Progressive governor of Wisconsin nicknamed "Fighting Bob".

- Pass.

- Mascot of the flagship University of Wisconsin.

- Badger.

- Correct.

Lake on whose shores sit Fond du Lac and Oshkosh.

- Lake Ontario.

- Incorrect.

Long running TV show set in a fictionalized version of Genoa City, Wisconsin.

-Pass.

- That last one was The Young and the Restless, and that is the end of the second lightning round.

We'll continue the game with the following toss-up.

What organelle is home to the electron transport chain, has a matrix divided by folds called cristae and... Northwestern.

- Mitochondria.

- That is correct.

And is nicknamed the powerhouse of the cell.

For your bonus, what word refers to the expression "B-squared minus 4AC" in the quadratic formula, which determines the number of solutions of an equation?

- Determinant.

- That is incorrect.

Discriminant is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What man who obtained the Rudd Concession and proposed a Cape to Cairo railway was a diamond magnate who has funded a scholarship to Oxford?

Cecil Rhodes, for the Rhodes Scholarship.

Next toss-up.

What country is home to the ancient cities of Bukhara and Samarkand, lies between Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan and has its capital at Tashkent?

- Freedom.

- Uzbekistan.

- Uzbekistan is the correct answer.

For your bonus, in what long poem which precedes Purgatorio does Virgil lead the narrator through nine circles of Hell?

- Dante's Inferno.

- Dante's Inferno is correct.

Next toss-up.

What six-letter term for a book comprising of multiple magazine issues can also refer to a quantity that equals 4/3 pi r-cubed for a sphere?

Northwestern.

- Volume.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, methyl orange and phenolphthalein are examples of what compounds that change color to show a change in pH?

- Litmus?

- Incorrect.

pH indicators is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What virus, whose types 6, 11, 16 and 18 are protected against by the Gardasil vaccine, is the cause of genital warts and most cervical cancers?

Northwestern.

- HSV.

- That is incorrect.

Freedom?

- HPV.

- Can you buzz in first?

- HPV.

- That is correct.

Onto your bonus.

We got the bonus there.

What mountain in the Grampian range of the Highlands is the highest in Scotland and in all of the United Kingdom?

It's the Grampian range in the Highlands.

Ben Nevis is the mountain that we're looking for.

Next toss-up.

What author described Don Parritt's suicide and the morphine addiction of Mary Tyrone in his plays The Iceman Cometh and Long Day's Journey into Night?

Eugene O'Neill is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What state, whose eastern coast is indicated by Biscayne Bay, gives its name to a subspecies of manatee that lives in the Everglades and off the coast...?

Northwestern.

- Florida?

- That is correct.

And off the coast of Miami.

And for your bonus, what author wrote books that depicted the Christ-like lion Aslan, who is resurrected after being slain by the White Witch?

- Lewis.

- CS Lewis is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What sculptor...?

Oh, and with that, we have reached the end of the match.

Northwestern Lehigh, congratulations.

You are on to the second round with a score of 365.

Freedom, with 155, this is the end of the road for you in Scholastic Scrimmage this year.

Good luck with the rest of your school year.

And thank you for tuning in.

We'll see you next week when Dieruff faces off against Jim Thorpe.