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season of Scholastic Scrimmage.

I'm your host, David Graf.

Today's match between Whitehall and Northern 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 it's not necessarily indicative of academic training.

And now let's begin.

Buzzers ready.

We'll start with our first toss-up.

What type of cell which has... which is regulated by the FOXP3 gene has cytotoxic and helper varieties and is a white blood cell that develops in the thymus?

Whitehall.

- A T cell?

- That is correct.

For your bonus, what port on the Red Sea is the second most populous city in Saudi Arabia?

- Riyadh?

- Incorrect.

Jeddah is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What empire lost Anatolia after the Battle of Manzikert and was governed by the Komnenos dynasty and by Justinian the Great from Constantinople?

- The Ottoman Empire?

- Northern Lehigh?

- The Ottoman Empire.

- That is incorrect.

Whitehall?

There's still a little bit of time.

It's the Byzantine Empire, is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What quantity, which is measured by using the Cattell Culture Fair Test and the Stanford-Binet test, has a median of 100?

Whitehall?

- IQ.

- That is correct.

And quantifies mental ability.

For your bonus, homolytic cleavage forms what type of chemical species that are essential... that are especially reactive because they have unpaired electrons?

Any guesses?

Free radicals is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What north-eastern state in which Democrat Sara Gideon lost a 2020 Senate election to incumbent Susan Collins is led by Janet Mills from Augusta?

Whitehall.

- Maine.

- That is correct.

And for your bonus, which artistic movement included the female painters Eva Gonzales, Marie Bracquemond and Marie Cassatt?

Any guesses, Whitehall?

Impressionism is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What country, which is home to the Riff Mountains, also contains the western terminus of the Atlas Mountains, which are found south of Casablanca?

Whitehall.

- Morocco.

- That is correct.

And for your bonus, characters named Snowball and Napoleon represent Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin in what allegory of the Russian Revolution written by George Orwell?

- Animal Farm?

- That is correct.

Next toss-up.

What painter of the Neanderlish...

Excuse me.

What painter of the Netherlandish Proverbs, nicknamed for his paintings of peasants, was a Dutch Flemish artist who painted Landscape With The Fall Of Icarus?

Bruegel the Elder is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What molecule, whose concentration can be measured in Dobson units, is depleted by chlorofluorocarbons and is composed of three oxygen atoms?

Ozone is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What British author rewrote six fairy tales in his 1982 book Revolting Rhymes, and described golden tickets in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?

Northern Lehigh.

- Roald Dahl.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, what quantity which equals the cross product of displacement and force is the rotational analog of force and is symbolized by tao?

Nobody's had physics?

That is torque, is the correct answer we're looking for.

Next toss-up.

What theologian who equated knowledge of self and knowledge of God in his institutes of the Christian religion was a Protestant reformer in Geneva?

John Calvin is the correct answer.

What primary color which once used pigments extracted from cinnabar has shades including scarlet?

Whitehall.

- Red - That is correct.

For your bonus, what two-word English name is given to Israel's air defense system, deployed in 2011, that intercepts incoming artillery shells and rockets?

- Iron Dome?

- That is correct.

Next toss-up.

What material made from beta keratin has high tensile strength, is produced by spinarets and is used for ballooning and catching prey by spiders?

Whitehall.

- Silk.

- That is correct.

Spider silk is the correct answer.

For your bonus, what Englishwoman used twist endings in her mysteries The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and Death on the Nile, which both feature detective Hercule Poirot?

Agatha Christie is the correct answer.

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

In a pre-match coin toss, it was determined that Whitehall would get to pick first between the following topics.

V in science or opera.

- V In science.

- V in science.

We're not opera fans, Whitehall?

V in science, Whitehall.

Identify these terms from science that start with the letter V. A space completely devoid of matter.

- Vortex.

- Incorrect.

In math, a placeholder for an unknown value such as x.

- Variable.

- Correct.

Electrons in an atom's outer shell.

- Valence.

- Correct.

Density equals mass divided by this quantity.

- Volume.

- Correct.

Organelle that stores waste.

- Vacuole.

- Correct.

Element with the atomic symbol V. - Valium?

- Incorrect.

Body part such as an organ that has lost its function.

- Pass.

Measure of a fluid's resistance to flow.

- Viscosity.

- Correct Essential amino acid with one-letter abbreviation V. - Pass.

- Process of widening blood vessels.

- Pass.

- And that's the last one.

Vasodilation is the answer for that.

Right, Northern Lehigh.

Hopefully we are into operas.

Answer the following about operas.

Composer of Don Giovanni and The Magic Flute.

- You just say it.

- Mozart.

- That is correct.

US City home to the Metropolitan Opera House.

- Pass.

- Georges Bizet title gypsy who loves a bullfighter.

- Pass.

- Language of Giuseppe Verdi's La Trotavi... La Traviata.

- Italian.

- That is correct.

German composer of the Ring Cycle and Lohengrin.

- Pass.

- Maria Callas's voice type, which is higher than alto.

- Soprano.

- Correct.

Gioachino Rossini's opera whose title character shoots an apple off his son's head.

- Pass.

- Orchestral piece that often begins an opera.

- Pass.

- Surname of Porgy and Bess creators Georgia, or George, and Ira.

So you'll have to hit your advisor up to go to the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City, get to see some operas.

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

What act, which was declared a federal hate crime in March 2022 law, is an extrajudicial attack, such as what happened in 1955 to Emmett Till?

The correct answer is lynching.

What president, under whom the Department of Energy and Education were formed, gave up his Georgia peanut farm after defeating Gerald Ford in 19...?

Northern Lehigh.

- Jimmy Carter.

- That is correct.

He defeated Gerald Ford in 1976.

And for your bonus, which English king was overthrown after the Immortal Seven issued an invitation to William, thus beginning the Glorious Revolution?

Any guesses, Northern Lehigh?

James II of England.

Next toss-up.

What philosopher whose books include Untimely Meditations and The Gay Science wrote about Ubermensch or superman in Thus Spoke Zarathustra?

Friedrich Nietzsche is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

In 2022, what man who made Chris Pincher Deputy Chief Whip despite misconduct charges, was forced by his Cabinet to resign as British Prime Minister?

Whitehall.

- Boris Johnson.

- That's correct, but he might be coming back soon.

Next bonus for you.

There are two answers required.

What two US states share the longest border, much of which is along the Red River?

- Texas, Texas and Oklahoma.

- That is correct.

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

What is the sum of the fractions 1/10 plus 1/11?

Bianca?

- 21 over 110?

- That is correct.

For your bonus, the Conway cabal tried to replace George Washington as head of the Continental Army with what other American commander who won the Battle of Saratoga?

Horatio Gates is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What film, whose making is the subject of the TV series The Offer, features the line, "I'm going to make him an offer "he can't refuse," said by Vito Corleone?

Whitehall.

- The Godfather.

- That's correct.

I was hoping somebody here watched The Godfather series.

Next bonus.

An oscillating crystal of what mineral is used to accurately keep time in modern clocks and watches?

- Uranium.

- Incorrect.

It's quartz.

And that was pioneered by the watch brand Seiko.

half-time.

We have an excellent match under way.

Whitehall is leading with 135 points to Northern Lehigh's 40.

Now let's take a moment for each student to introduce themselves with your name, last name, grade level and what is the one app you can't live without?

Steven, go ahead.

- Stephen Hansen, Grade 11, YouTube.

- OK. - Neiv Sinha, Grade 10, Apple News.

- Nathan Mack, 12.

TikTok.

- Hailey Weston, 11th, Twitter.

- All right, and on to Northern Lehigh.

- Aisha Petrovic, 12th, Snapchat.

- Bianca Carian, 12th, and Apple Maps.

- Jackson Hunsaker, 11th, definitely YouTube.

- Taylor Everick, 9, Spotify.

- And now we'll continue on with the second half of our match with the following toss-up.

What colony, whose Pied Noir is settled, became independent after the 1962 Evian accords and was France's largest North African possession?

Whitehall.

- Algiers.

- Incorrect.

Northern Lehigh?

Algeria is what we're looking for.

Steven knew it as soon as you said it, right?

Knew what you were going for.

OK. With our next toss-up, we'll continue.

What objects have a planetary type formed by dying stars and a dark type rich in light absorbing dust and are clouds of interstellar gas?

Nebulas is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What sea borders the port of Rasht, receives water from the Volga River and borders five countries including Azerbaijan, Iran and Russia?

Whitehall.

- Caspian Sea.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, the regions around 30 degrees latitude are named for what animals whose wild members in the American West are called mustangs?

- Horses?

- That is correct.

Next toss-up.

What man who popularized the idea of African American double consciousness in The Souls of Black Folk was a co-founder of the NAACP?

- Du Bois.

- Northern Lehigh?

- Du Bois.

- That is correct.

W.E.B.

Du Bois.

For your bonus, a massacre of indigenous people and over 260 hangings were ordered by Governor George Arthur in what Australian state once called Van Diemen's Land?

- Tasmania?

- That is correct.

On to the next toss-up.

John Kenny and Thomas Kurtz developed what programming language which may contain lines like "go to 10" and is named for its general simplicity?

- Northern Lehigh?

- JavaScript.

Incorrect.

Whitehall?

This is a freebie.

No conferring, though.

Basic is the name of that programming language.

Next toss-up.

In what play is the rude mechanicals' production of Pyramus and Thisbe viewed by Theseus and Hippolyta before its house is blessed by Oberon and Titiana?

The play is A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Next toss-up.

What building incomplete, when Adams moved in, was designed by James Hoban, is depicted on the $20 bill and is at 1,600 Pennsylvania Avenue?

- Whitehall.

- The White House?

That's correct.

For your bonus, the Palazzo Pitti was the main residence for what?

Florentine banking family that included Lorenzo the Magnificent and several Grand Dukes of Tuscany?

- Venici?

- Say it again?

- Venici?

- No.

Incorrect.

It is the Medici family.

I was actually just there three weeks ago.

Next toss-up.

What termed that describes a piece played in response to applause, typically at the end of a concert, is derived from a word that means again?

Northern Lehigh.

- Bravo.

- Incorrect.

Whitehall?

- Encore.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, Stereo Madness and Club Step are levels in what 2013 musical rhythm-based platform game in which a square character avoids spikes?

- Geometry Dash?

- That is correct.

The next toss-up is in math.

Pencil and paper ready.

Given that the square root of negative one is by definition the imaginary number i, what is the square root of negative 121?

Whitehall.

- 11i.

- That is correct.

And your bonus is also in math.

Two answers are required.

The quantity 4 squared - 25 can be factored into what two binomials with integer coefficients?

- 2x - 5, 2x + 5.

- That is also correct.

Next toss-up.

What act, whose preclearance requirements were ended by the Shelby County versus Holder, banned literacy tests and other forms of discrimination in suffrage?

That act would be the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

And we've reached our second lightning round.

Northern Lehigh, you'll get to pick between the topics of river cities or lines.

Quick, Northern Lehigh!

- Lines.

- Lines.

That means Whitehall, you'll have river cities.

Northern Lehigh.

Lines.

Answer the following about lines.

Number of lines in a typical haiku.

- Five, seven, five.

- Incorrect.

Mathematician whose fifth postulate deals with parallel lines.

- Pass.

- British word for a line in which people wait.

- Pass.

- Sport whose Mendoza line is a statistical one.

- Pass.

- These lines include the San Andreas one.

- San Andreas fault.

- That is correct, faults or fault lines.

In football, standard number of offensive linemen on the field at one time.

- 11.

- Incorrect.

Longitudinal line that preceded over... or that preceded or fight over the Oregon Territory?

- Pass.

- The original host of Whose Line Is It Anyway?

and The Price is Right.

- Pass.

Lines above or below a musical staff.

All right.

That was a rough one there with lines, but the host of Whose Line Is It Anyway is Drew Carey.

Who I actually got to meet a couple years ago.

Whitehall, you're left with river cities.

Which national capital sits on these rivers?

The Thames.

- London.

- Correct.

The Dneiper.

- Pass.

- The Tiber.

- Pass.

- The Potomac.

- Washington, D.C. - Correct.

The Seine.

- Paris?

- Correct.

River Liffey.

- Pass.

- Han.

- Beijing.

- Either of the two on the Niger.

- Yamoussoukro.

- Incorrect.

Vudo... Vltava.

- Moscow.

- Incorrect.

Tigris, or the Tigris, excuse me.

Tigris.

- Baghdad?

- That is correct.

with the following toss-up question.

What author whose novel Oil inspired the film There Will Be Blood depicted Lithuanian immigrant Jurgis Rudkus in his novel The Jungle?

- Upton Sinclair.

- Northern Lehigh, that is correct with Upton Sinclair.

For your bonus, what current member of Joe Biden's cabinet was unsuccessfully nominated to the Supreme Court by Barack Obama?

Merrick Garland is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What producer of the 2021 film Candyman who directed the horror films US and Get Out...?

Northern Lehigh?

- Jordan Peele.

- Say it again?

- Jordan Peele.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, what adjective describes a factor that divides evenly into integer n and is strictly less than n, such as 2 within respect to 12?

A proper factor is the answer we're looking for.

Next toss-up.

What set of elements that IUPAC defines as possessing partially filled d orbitals includes copper and is found in the middle of the periodic table?

Whitehall.

- Transition.

- That's right, transition metals.

For your bonus, in 2017, what British actress became the first woman to play the Time Lord protagonist of the BBC series Doctor Who?

I'm not a Doctor Who fan either.

Jodie Whittaker is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What author wrote about two sisters who are murdered with an ax by pawn shop client Rodion Raskolnikov in his novel Crime and Punishment?

Whitehall.

- Doychekowski?

- Aah, say it again!

- Doychekowski.

What do we think, judges?

We're going to give it to him.

Dostoyevsky is the correct one, but we're close enough.

You got yourself almost there.

Yeah.

All right.

And with that, we'll move on to your bonus question.

What 1990 law coauthored by Tom Harkin made closed captioning and wheelchair ramps more common by mandating that public places be made accessible?

Whitehall.

- Americans With Disabilities Act.

- That is correct.

Next toss-up.

What deity, whose namesake gates were kept open only during wartime, is a two-faced Roman god of doorways?

Whitehall.

- Janus.

- That is correct, and is the namesake of our first month.

For your bonus, which biologist proposed the law of segregation and the law of independent assortment during his experiments with pea plants?

- Mendel.

- That's correct.

Gregor Mendel is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What man who was the first European to see Dry Tortugas, was the first Spanish governor of Puerto Rico and legendarily sought the fountain of youth?

Whitehall.

- Juan Ponce de Leon.

- That is correct.

For your bonus, what country's president, Jovenel Moise, was assassinated in July 2021, a month before a magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck its Tiburon Peninsula?

- Chile?

- Haiti is the correct answer.

Next toss-up.

What character who is given an enchanted girdle by Lady... by Lady Bertilak participates in a beheading game proposed to the Round Table by the Green Knight?

And that's the game.

That answer was Sir Gawain.

And with that Whitehall has won the match with a score of 275 to Northern Lehigh's 75.

Northern Lehigh, thank you very much for coming in and participating.

Good luck with the rest of your school year.

Whitehall, we'll see you next week and thank you for tuning in.

We'll see YOU next week when Pen Argyl faces off against Salisbury.

Thank you.