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

I'm your host, David Graf.

Today's match between Wilson and Palmerton will be comprised 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 and is not necessarily indicative of academic training.

And now, let's begin.

Buzzers ready?

Here's our first toss-up.

What businessman, who founded The Boring Company and proposed the Hyperloop...?

Palmerton.

- Elon Musk.

Musk.

- Elon Musk is correct.

For your bonus, what child of Amanda Wingfield, whose pleurosis leads to the nickname Blue Rose from Jim O'Connor, owns the title collection In The Glass Menagerie?

- Margaret.

- Incorrect.

Laura Wingfield is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What is the profession of a character who is taken to a valley by a roc, gives a cup to Haroon al-Sayed, is named Sinbad and goes on Seven Voyages?

Sinbad was a sailor.

Next toss-up is in math, pencil and paper ready.

What is the greatest common factor of 56 and 70?

Palmerton.

- Seven.

- Incorrect.

Wilson, there's still some time.

14 is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What legume is used whole in the Indian dish chana masala, ground into flour in Middle Eastern falafel and cooked and mashed in the dip hummus?

Wilson.

- Ah... - Say it again?

- No, I'm sorry.

OK, Palmerton, it's over to you.

Go ahead.

- Chickpeas.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, what author portrayed a clairvoyant boy in his story The Rocking- Horse Winner and privately published his controversial novel Lady Chatterley's Lover?

- Hemingway?

- Incorrect.

DH Lawrence is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What queen, who was wrongfully accused of fraud in the diamond necklace affair, married Louis XVI and was guillotined in the French Revolution?

Palmerton.

- Antoinette.

- Palmerton, let the person who buzzed in go.

- Antoinette?

- It's Cassandra buzzed in.

- OK.

I didn't know who buzzed.

- Antoinette.

- Marie Antoinette is correct.

For your bonus, cars are banned on what island, which shares its name with the strait that separates Michigan's...?

- Mackinac Island.

- Let your captain know on the bonus.

- Mackinac Island.

- Mackinac Island.

- All right, Levi's on it!

He's ready to go.

Mackinac Island is correct.

Yeah, if you can't tell, look down below, you'll see a light up if your buzzer, if you buzzed in.

There's a little light there for you.

OK, on to the next toss-up.

What poet described seeing the margins of a bay covered with a never ending line of daffodils in the 1807 romantic poem, I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud?

William Wordsworth is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What element, whose carbonate salt was used in white paints before its neurotoxicity was proven...?

Wilson.

- Lead.

- That is correct.

..before it was proven, but it's still used for shielding in X-rays and in car batteries.

For your bonus, what future US President defeated a British invasion of Louisiana in January 1815, weeks after the Treaty of Ghent officially ended the War of 1812?

And this is a bonus for Wilson - Andrew Jackson.

- Andrew Jackson is correct.

Onto the next toss-up.

Now, Palmerton, be ready.

Next toss-up.

What painter, who painted a portrait of Thomas Moore while living in England in the 1520s, included a highly distorted skull in his work The Ambassadors?

Hans Holbein the Younger is the correct answer.

Onto the next toss-up.

What philosopher who, in Arabic philosophy was called the First Teacher, founded the peripatetic school, taught at the Lyceum and tutored Alexander the Great?

Palmerton.

- Socrates.

- Incorrect.

Wilson?

- Aristotle.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, what type of machine is an emulation layer used by Java to run platform-independent, compiled byte code?

- Computer.

- Incorrect.

It would be a virtual machine.

Next toss-up.

What disaster, which coincided with a similar event in Peshtigo, Wisconsin, which legend blamed on Mrs O'Leary's cow in 1871...?

- Chicago Fire.

- That's correct.

The Great Chicago Fire.

For your bonus, while the interval from C to G is a perfect fifth, what adjective describes the interval of a fifth from C to G#, which is a half step larger?

- F minor.

- Incorrect.

The adjective we're looking for is augmented.

Next toss-up.

What drug, similar to an ancient remedy made from the willow tree, was made by Bayer...?

- Aspirin.

- Wilson?

- Aspirin?

- That is correct.

And for your bonus, Trumpet, the winner of Best in Show at the 2022 Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, is what breed, whose name may refer to a detective?

- Bloodhound?

- Bloodhound is correct.

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

In a pre-match coin toss, it was determined that Wilson will first select from the following topics - T In Mathematics or Plays By Country.

- T In Mathematics.

- T In Mathematics.

That means, Palmerton, start racking your brain on Plays By Country.

Wilson, T In Mathematics.

Give these mathematical terms that start with the letter T. Number that is the base of the decimal system.

- Ten.

- That is correct.

Polygon with the fewest sides.

And anyone can just say it.

- Triangle.

- Correct.

Trig function equal to opposite over adjacent.

- Tangent.

- That is correct.

Donut-shaped solid.

- Pass.

- Transformation that slides a shape without rotation or reflection.

- Pass.

- Platonic solid with four faces.

- Tetrahedron.

- Correct.

Reflecting a matrix over its main diagonal.

- Pass.

- Prime that differs by two, also called prime pairs.

- Anyone?

- No.

- Twin.

- Uh, judges?

- That's right.

- That's right.

Quadrilateral with one pair of parallel sides.

- Trapezoid.

- Correct.

Tilting the plane with shapes that do not overlap or have gaps.

Tessellation is the answer to that last one.

All right, Palmerton, we have Plays By Country.

Given a play, name the modern-day country that contains the author's birthplace.

Tartuffe.

- Pass.

- Uncle Vanya.

- Germany.

- Incorrect.

Our Town.

- Germany.

- Incorrect.

All's Well That Ends Well.

- France.

- Incorrect.

- Lysistrata.

- Russia.

- Incorrect.

Hedda Gabler.

- Germany.

- Incorrect.

The Importance Of Being Earnest - Germany.

- Incorrect.

The House Of Bernarda Alba.

- Italy.

- Incorrect.

Mother Courage And Her Children.

- Germany.

- That is correct.

Six Characters In Search Of An Author.

- Russia.

- Incorrect.

- Italy is the correct answer.

Look at it this way, you have the lightning round, you went with the second half, so that's your time to shine.

OK, we'll continue on with the match with the following toss-up question.

What baseball stadium is home to a mascot named Wally, has a left field wall called the Green Monster...?

Palmerton.

- Fenway Park.

- That is correct.

And it's home to the Boston Red Sox.

For your bonus, in 2022, Gavin Newsom blocked the release of what Palestinian man, who assassinated Robert F Kennedy in 1968?

The correct answer is Sirhan Sirhan.

Next toss-up.

What book, which contains the line, "Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity," is a memoir about life near a pond in the woods by Henry David Thoreau?

Wilson.

- Walden.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, the Itaipu Dam is shared between Brazil and what smaller of South America's two landlocked countries?

- Paraguay.

- That is correct.

And for nerd cred, do we know the other landlocked country?

It's Bolivia, is the other landlocked country.

But you are correct with Paraguay.

Onto the next toss-up.

What former general promoted the Six Arrows, introduced the Latin alphabet, banned the fez, and promoted secularism as the first president of Turkey?

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What TV character, who grew up in Nebraska before becoming a waitress at the Cheesecake Factory in...?

- Wilson.

- Penny.

- Do we need the full name?

- Penny's fine.

- We'll take Penny.

Penny Hofstadter, or Penny Teller was her maiden name on the show.

For your bonus, one second after the Big Bang, the universe was in an epoch named after what class of six low-mass particles, including electrons and neutrinos?

- Fugue.

- Incorrect.

Leptons is the correct answer.

The next toss-up is in math, pencil and paper ready.

What is the value of the exponent when the number 820,000 is written in scientific notation?

Palmerton.

- 8.2 times ten to the fourth.

- Incorrect.

- Incorrect.

- The fifth power.

Wilson?

Buzz in?

- The fifth power.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, what president, whose Secretary of State died in an explosion aboard the USS Princeton, replaced his Cabinet after succeeding William Henry Harrison?

Go ahead and tell your captain.

Or, captain, go ahead.

- Andrew Jackson.

- That is incorrect.

John Tyler is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What city state was ruled by the Agiad and Eurypontid kings, was served by slaves called Helots and sent troops to Thermopylae under King Leonidas?

- Sparta.

- Wilson?

- Sparta.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, an innkeeper pretends to knight what character, who is assisted by Sancho Panza and who mistakes a windmill for giants, in a novel by Miguel de Cervantes?

- Gulliver's Travels.

- Don Quixote is the correct answer.

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

Now, since both of these teams had a bye in the first round, let's take a minute to get to know them by introducing their first and last name, give their grade level and we'll go with what is the app that you cannot live without?

Chase, Wilson School, we'll start with you.

- Hi, I'm Chase, I'm a junior at Wilson and one app I can't live without is Snapchat.

- All right.

- Hi, I'm Jenny, I'm a junior at Wilson and one app I can't live without is text messages.

- OK. - Hi, I'm Claire and I'm a senior at Wilson and I cannot live without my Desmos graphing calculator app.

- OK. - I'm Hans, a junior at Wilson and I cannot live without YouTube.

- All right.

And on to Palmerton.

- Hi, I'm Cassy, I'm a sophomore at Palmerton and I can't live without Snapchat.

- OK. - I'm Justin, I'm a senior and I can't live without the PA Lottery app.

- OK!

- I'm Levi, a sophomore at Palmerston High School, I can't live without Google Chrome.

- All right.

- My name is Heidi, I am a sophomore and I cannot live without Google as well.

- OK, excellent.

- So, Jenny, is there any specific texting app or just general messages?

WhatsApp?

- No, just text messages.

- Just texting, all right.

Sounds good.

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

What character has his gold stolen by Dunsey Cass, adopts the young girl Eppie and is the title Weaver of Rivoli in a novel by George Eliot?

Raveloe, excuse me.

Silas Marner is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What country, contains the widely spoken language of Wolof, is the westernmost country on the African mainland and is governed from Dakar?

Palmerton.

- Senegal.

- That is correct.

Took a while there to work your map of Africa through your head, huh?

Right, for your bonus, What man...?

What man evacuated his government to Taiwan after the Kuomintang nationalist regime lost the Chinese civil war to Mao Zedong's Communists?

Chiang Kai-chuk?

- That is... That is... Yeah, Chiang is correct.

Chiang Kai-shek is the correct answer.

On to the next toss-up.

What vehicle, which the Rogers Commission found had suffered O-ring failure, held astronauts, including Christa McAuliffe, when it exploded in 1986?

Palmerton.

- The Challenger.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, in 2022, Amanda Lee became the first female demonstration pilot for what navy squadron, the US's oldest aerobatics team?

- Skydivers.

- Incorrect.

The Blue Angels is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What country lost Schleswig-Holstein in an 1864 war with Germany and was led during World War II by King Christian X from its capital in Copenhagen?

Palmerton.

- Denmark.

- That is correct.

And for your bonus, Dutch van der Linde and John Marston each appear in multiple games in what open-world video game action series, set around the turn of the 20th century?

- Call of Duty.

- Incorrect.

It's the Red Dead Redemption series.

Next toss-up.

What character reads Dover Beach to his wife Mildred and her friends, is a book-burning fireman and is the protagonist of Fahrenheit...?

Wilson.

- Never mind.

- I'll continue the question for Palmerton.

..and is the protagonist of Fahrenheit 451?

Also made into a series that's on HBO, it's Guy Montag.

Next toss-up.

What country controls the Lighthouse Reef and the Great Blue Hole, is the only English-speaking country in Central America and is governed from...?

Palmerton.

- Belize.

- You are correct.

For your bonus, Gail Halvorsen dropped candy to children in what city, which Allied forces supplied in airlift when it was blockaded by the Soviet Union in 1948?

- Berlin.

- That is also correct.

Next toss-up.

What force must have strength of mass times velocity squared over radius for uniform circular motion and points inward, unlike centrifugal...?

Wilson.

- Centripetal force?

- That is correct.

Yes, that is correct, because I did not get to finish the question, centripetal force.

Centrifugal force was incorrect.

For your bonus, what dialog between Prince Arjuna and his chariot driver Krishna is part of the Mahabharata, that expresses core Hindu doctrine?

- No answer.

- Bhagavad Gita is the correct answer.

What country's President Kais Saied spearheaded a July 2022 referendum that undid reforms from when his North African country began the Arab Spring?

The country is Tunisia.

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

Palmerton, you'll get to choose between the following topics - Q-U-E or State Nicknames.

- State Nicknames.

- OK, so that means, Wilson, you'll have Q-U-E. Palmerton, State Nicknames.

Which US State is known by the nickname the Empire State?

- New York.

- Correct.

The Golden State.

- California.

- Correct.

The Land of 10,000 Lakes.

- Minnesota.

- Correct.

The Last Frontier.

- Alaska.

- Correct.

The Old Dominion.

- Tennessee.

- Incorrect.

The Show-Me State.

- Tennessee.

- Incorrect.

The Bluegrass State.

- Oklahoma.

- Incorrect.

The Equality State is also called the Cowboy State.

- Texas.

- Incorrect.

The Magnolia State.

- Texas.

- Incorrect.

The Treasure State.

It is also called The Last, Best Place.

- Utah?

- Nope.

Montana stakes the claim to being The Last, Best Place.

And now, Wilson, onto you.

Your topic is Q-U-E.. Give these words that either begin or end with the consecutive letters Q-U-E. One of a kind.

- Unique.

- Correct.

A long journey with a noble mission quest.

- Quest.

- Correct.

A very old-fashioned item.

- Pass.

- Antique.

They said pass first.

Not transparent.

- Opaque.

- Correct.

A Mexican dish of melted cheese... - Queso.

- Correct.

An exclusionary social group.

- Clique.

- Correct.

Nauseous and dizzy.

- Queasy.

- Correct.

The condition of someone's body, especially if fit and attractively muscled.

- Physique.

- Correct.

To satisfy a thirst or desire.

- Quench.

- Correct.

A French soup made with crustaceans.

- Bisque.

- Oh, yeah, Chase, one of my favorites, a bisque.

That is the end of that lightning round.

We'll move on with the final quarter of the match with the following toss-up question.

What book series, that began in 1992, depicted the ventriloquist dummy Slappy and a haunted mask...?

- Goosebumps.

- That's right.

By RL Stine.

For your bonus, what activist, who texted Mark Meadows, "Release the Kraken and save us from the left "taking America down," is a wife of a Supreme Court justice?

- Roberts.

- No, Clarence Thomas' wife, Ginni Thomas, is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What profession is practiced in Italy by people known as carabiniere, in France by people known as gendarme and in London by people called bobbies.

- Police?

- Wilson?

- Oh, police.

- That is correct.

They're all police officers.

For your bonus, what author, who wrote about a high school basketball star, Harry Angstrom, in a series of novels, also wrote The Witches Of Eastwick?

John Updike is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What man, who spoke about his dog Checkers when he was Dwight D Eisenhower's running mate, left the White House in 1974 amid the Watergate scandal?

Palmerton.

- Nixon.

- Richard M Nixon is correct.

For your bonus, what Duchess of Aquitaine was the wife of Henry II of England and the mother of Richard the Lionheart and King John?

- Anne?

- It would be Eleanor of Aquitaine, is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What country, whose Klang Valley contains the administrative center of Putrajaya, is home to the Petronas Towers in its capital of Kuala Lumpur?

- Palmerton.

- Malaysia.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, the platypus and four other species of echidnas make up what order of animals, the only mammals that lay eggs?

The monotremes.

On to the next toss-up.

What mathematician developed graph theory with a problem about seven bridges in Konigsberg and lends his name to the base of the natural logarithm e?

Palmerton.

- Euler.

- That is correct.

And for your bonus, an American woman named Jack Starbright is a guardian of what teenage British spy, who is the hero of Anthony Horowitz's novels, such as Stormbreaker?

- Pass.

- Alex Rider is the correct answer.

On to the next toss-up.

What country which, from 1878 to 1980 was ruled by the True Whig Party, was settled by formerly enslaved people from the United States...?

Palmerton.

- Libya.

- That is incorrect.

So I'll continue the question for Wilson.

..who founded Monrovia?

- Oh, no conferring.

- Oh, gotcha, gotcha.

All right, that one's over.

So, we were close there, Levi.

It's not Libya, it's Liberia, is the correct answer.

On to our next toss-up.

What building, whose competition-winning design by Danish architect Jorn Utzon features concrete shells, is a music hall in an Australia harbor?

Palmerton.

- Sydney Opera House.

- That is correct.

And for your bonus, in what sport do participants wear a conductive lame garment that registers touches from an epee, foil or saber, all of which are types of swords?

- Fencing.

- That is also correct.

Next toss-up.

What country, where a 2022 oil factory explosion caused a fire in Matanzas, which is where US officials first reported an illness called Havana Syndrome?

Palmerton.

- Cuba.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, what athlete, who was traded by the Washington Wizards to the Los Angeles Lakers in 2021, has the most career triple-doubles in NBA history?

- Russell Westbrook.

- That is correct.

Next toss-up.

What seven-letter term refers to materials described by Young's modulus that return to their original shape after deformation, such as rubber bands?

- Wilson.

- Elastic.

- Wilson?

- Elastic.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, the rows of Pascal's triangle give the coefficients named for what type of polynomial that has two terms?

- Linear.

- That is incorrect.

Binomial is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What composer, who called for four taxi horns in An American In Paris, used the clarinet... And that is the end of the game.

Excellent game between two really close teams.

Unfortunately, though, Wilson, with 185 points, that's the end of your term here on Scholastic Scrimmage.

Good luck with the rest of your school year.

Palmerton, congratulations.

With 200 points, you are onto the third round.

And thank you for tuning in.

We'll see you next week when Saucon Valley faces Whitehall.