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Hello and welcome to the second match of the semifinals of the 50th season of Scholastic Scrimmage.

I'm your host, David Graff.

Today's match is between Whitehall High School, who have gathered 1175 points over the season, and Parkland High School, who gathered 735 points.

Now, it may seem a little bit lower, but we have to remember that parkland are the reigning champions, so they had a bye in the first round.

The match will be composed of two halves of white and red midway through each half and our temple passes.

Teams 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.

It's not necessarily indicative of academic training.

And now let's begin with our first toss up question buzzers.

Ready.

What.

This ability is shared by comic book character al in the Deadpool series, and by attorney Matt Murdock.

Whitehall.

Blindness.

Blindness is correct.

Matt Murdock, who is better known as Daredevil.

And this year, blindness as a disability for bonus.

In September 2024, at least 40 people died in Lebanon when hundreds of devices used by Hezbollah were remotely detonated.

Says what devices were remotely detonated.

Pagers.

Pagers is the correct answer.

Next, toss up what president who commuted his mentor Phillipe Payton's death sentence to life in prison, designed France's Fifth Republic, which he led Whitehall.

Charles de Gaulle.

Charles de Gaulle is correct, and he led that until 1969.

For your bonus, what was the surname of the Adventist brothers who ran the Battle Creek Sanatorium and founded a company that makes cereal like Rice Krispies?

Kellogg Kellogg is the correct surname.

Next toss up question.

What novel in which Constance Bosco helps to retrieve the diamond of Queen Anne is by Alexander Dumas.

Parkland.

I'm the count of Monte Cristo.

That is incorrect.

I'll continue the question for Whitehall and his name for a trio of soldiers.

Go ahead.

Whitehall.

The three musketeers.

The Three Musketeers is correct for your bonus.

The twin paradox arises when what phenomena predicted by special relativity, in which moving clocks appear to move slower than fixed ones.

Dilation.

Time dilation.

Time dilation is correct.

Next toss up question.

What number is the smallest integer that can be factored into two distinct primes?

Is the first perfect number and equals three for Whitehall?

Six six is correct and equals three factorial.

For your bonus, what actress who played the title character in the 2025 live action film Snow White, played Maria in the 2021 remake of The West Side Story.

Selena Gomez.

That's incorrect.

Rachel Zegler is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What institution, which was replaced by Pet Alternatives, was chartered in 1836 after its president, Nicholas Biddle.

Whitehall.

Go ahead.

The second Bank of the United States.

The second Bank of the United States is correct.

After Nicholas Biddle lost a war with Andrew Jackson.

For your bonus, what collection?

Whose story of a patient woman named Griselda is in the last of its 100 tales is by 14th century Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio.

The Decameron.

The Decameron is correct.

Next tossup question what country, whose provinces include its western region of Anbar, has access to the open sea near its ports of Basra and is governed from Baghdad.

Whitehall, Iraq.

Iraq is correct for your bonus.

What leader who resigned after the April 19th revolution in 1960, was the autocratic first president of South Korea.

DM that's incorrect.

Syngman Rhee is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What mural, located at the Santa Maria della Grassi refractory shows Jesus and his apostles parklet.

The last supper.

The Last Supper is correct and shows Jesus and his apostles seated around a long table.

And it's by Da Vinci.

For your bonus.

Equilibrium constants exist for what class of reactions written using a pair of arrows, one going forwards and one going away from the products.

Reversible.

Reversible reactions is correct.

Next toss up question what author describe the leeches of Lake Lachrymose in the wide Window?

One of his tragic tales.

In this way, he authors a series of unfortunate parkland.

Lemony Snicket.

Lemony Snicket is correct, and it was in his Series of Unfortunate Events.

For your bonus, what set of six symphonic poems depicted the Rocky Road Castle and the mole River and was composed by Bedrich Cisterna.

The fall versus Marvel last is the correct answer.

Or my Country is a translates to English.

Next toss up question.

What wars?

Battles include the November 1899 Siege of Ladysmith, at which Louis both led Dutch colonies against the British.

Whitehall.

The Boer War.

That is correct.

The second Anglo Boer War Boer War is acceptable for your bonus.

Fermenting dough using lactobacilli and yeast creates what type of bread which is made from a namesake starter.

Simple sourdough.

Sour dough is correct.

And anybody get into the sour dough trend during the pandemic at all?

No one was making sourdough bread and neither did I.

All right.

With that, we reach our first lightning round in a pre-match coin toss.

It was determined that parkland will get to pick between the following topics.

Letters in math or Taylor Swift.

Letters and letters and letters in math.

Okay, so we're confident math that we're not a swiftie.

Oh, yeah.

All right.

Letters and math.

It is.

Parkland.

Your first lightning round topic is letters in math.

Name the English or Greek letter most commonly used to denote the following.

The ratio of a circle circumference to its diameter.

Pi.

Correct.

The base of the natural logarithm.

Roughly d point.

Correct.

The standard deviation of a data set.

Sigma.

Correct.

The golden ratio.

Phi.

Phi.

Correct.

The Greek letter for population means mu mu.

Correct.

In the equation for a line, the y intercept b b b is correct.

Greek letter for angles in polar coordinates.

Theta.

Correct.

In calculus.

Change.

Delta delta Delta delta is correct.

The square root of negative one I, I is correct.

The function subject to the Reimann hypothesis or Riemann hypothesis.

Zeta.

Zeta is correct.

Nice.

Okay.

And over to Whitehall.

Whitehall.

Your topic is Taylor Swift.

Answer the following about Taylor Swift.

Her major tour that began in 2020.

Correct the year in which she was born.

1986.

That's incorrect.

Her song for which a ten minute version was recorded in 2021.

Right.

Incorrect.

Rapper who guested on a remix of Bad Blood.

Kendrick Lamar.

That is correct.

Film in which she played Bomba Lena.

Pass album whose second part is N is the anthology Tortured Police Department.

That is correct.

Singer who performed Slow Hands as a reputation tour guest.

Pass her album featuring Mean and Enchanted 22.

Incorrect country singer who names her debut single.

Tim McGraw.

Correct.

2020 documentary titled.

First song about her album lover Pass.

That last one is Miss Americana.

Why don't we have some Swifties?

You guys need some?

Some of the questions in there.

Oh, a few of them are.

Okay.

We continue on with the following.

Tossup question.

What organelle, which contains colossal bodies and is surrounded by an envelope covered in pores, houses most parkland in the nucleus.

The nucleus is correct and houses most of the cell's genetic material.

For your bonus, Wernher von Braun co-developed what long range ballistic missile with an alpha numeric name used by Germany in World War two.

I know V1.

That is incorrect.

V2 rockets is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What set of four laws denounced by the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions?

Parkland, the Alien and Sedition Act, the Alien Sedition Act is correct, and it was signed by John Adams for a bonus.

What scientist who names gamma ray emitting bubbles found in the Milky Way was an Italian American who helped developed the first nuclear reactor.

Enrico Fermi Enrico Fermi is correct.

Next tossup question what author who wrote about Frank Oz Balderstone in his novel Rob Roy, depicted parkland.

Herman Melville.

That is incorrect.

I'll continue for Whitehall depicted a son of Cedric Rothbard who loves Lady Rowena in Ivanhoe.

Go ahead.

Whitehall.

Sir Walter Scott.

Sir Walter Scott is correct for your bonus.

The links between the true Eibar and the Del Villa families are explored in what 1982 debut novel by Isabel Allende.

The House of spirits.

The House of spirits is correct.

Next tossup question what injuries can be treated using split thickness grafts have their severity denoted in parkland, Burns?

That is correct.

Hazard severity denoted in degrees.

So first, second, third degree burns for your bonus.

What territory contains the reclaimed land at Cotai tops Las Vegas as the largest gambling center and is a Chinese city once controlled by Portugal.

Oh my god.

Macao Macao is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

In what country were rivals such as cannon, Banana and Joshua and Kumo?

Sidelined by or sidelined as Robert Mugabe consolidated dictatorial power.

Whitehall.

Zimbabwe.

Zimbabwe is correct.

And it's the former Rhodesia for your bonus.

In what phase of respiration does contraction of the rib cage and relaxation of the diaphragm lead to air flowing out of the lungs?

Exhaling.

Well, judges, what do we think?

Yeah, we'll take it.

Exhalation or exhaling is correct.

Next toss up question.

What cities whose Merdeka Palace is used by President Joko Widodo will be replaced as capital city by Nosheen Antara and lies on Java in Indonesia.

Whitehall, Jakarta.

Jakarta is correct for your bonus.

What British author depicted the Blitz in The End of an affair, and wrote about the persecution of a Mexican whiskey priest.

In The power and the glory.

Of Henry.

Incorrect.

Graham Greene is the correct answer.

Next toss up question.

What musical ensembles, which often include vanilla and guitar Ron, play ranchero, a genre of traditional music from western Mexico.

Go ahead, white hall mariachi band.

Mariachi bands is correct.

For bonus, what Celtic hero could suck his thumb to gain insight and ability he actually gained by burning his thumb while frying the salmon of knowledge.

Smith.

Incorrect.

Finnmark.

Cool is the correct answer.

And with that, we've reached half time.

We have a great match underway.

Whitehall currently leads with a score of 190 to Portland's 120.

And now let's take a moment for the students to introduce themselves with their name, grade level, and the answer to the following question.

If you could visit anywhere in the world, where would it be?

Gabriel.

Whitehall.

Go ahead.

Gabriel Kenney, 11th grade and Italy.

Okay.

Vincent.

Her 11th grade.

Spain.

Okay.

They've sent her 12th grade.

Definitely.

England.

Logan.

Lubeck, 10th grade.

Vatican city.

All right.

Parkland.

Sofia, in 10th grade.

Spain.

And Max Rybak, fourth grade, Chicago.

Canceling 10th grade.

Spain.

Summit through 12th grade.

And I'd say South Africa.

Okay, so, Castle, what's appealing about Spain?

I wanted to we're here on stage.

I, I take I take Spanish, and I just really want to go there.

Rain is in the plains.

Oh, there you go.

Yeah.

Spain.

Now I wonder who the Spanish you want.

Is it like the king?

Spanish from Spain, with a little bit of a lisp on to it?

Or is it more closer to Spanish used here in the United States?

For Spanish from Spain.

Spanish for San Juan.

That's okay.

We'll continue on with the second half of the match with the following tossup question.

In what experiment which disproved JJ Thomson's plum pudding model, where alpha particles, parkland, the Rutherford experiment.

Can you be more specific?

The Rutherford's cathode tube experiment.

We cannot accept that.

Okay.

Judges.

Brain judges.

Yep.

Oh, okay.

We will take that.

So we're looking for Rutherford's gold foil experiment.

That.

So Rutherford's experiment is correct.

We will take that for your bonus in 2024.

Former Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse left his job leading the university system of what state?

Which is also transforming its new college.

Texas.

Incorrect.

The correct state is Florida.

Next tossup question.

What island?

Where the Protestant Ascendancy was aided by the 17th century penal laws, was the site of a fifth century missionary work by Saint Patrick Sophia.

Ireland.

Ireland is correct for your bonus.

What 1688 event in England, known by two word game, caused the fall of New England Governor Edmundson.

Say it again.

The glorious Revolution.

Glorious Revolution is correct.

It ended Catholic rule in Maryland.

Next toss up question what principle also called the law of parsimony, often expressed in terms of zebras and horses, claims that the simplest explanation is usually the go ahead parkland.

Occam's razor.

Occam's razor is correct, and its simplest explanation is usually the best.

For your bonus, what Chinese-American author depicted a group of women who get together to play mahjong in her novel the Joy Luck Club.

Amy Tan Amy Tan is correct.

Next tossup question is in math pencil and paper.

Ready in minutes.

What is the average length of each movie in a three film trilogy whose total runtime is seven hours?

Go ahead.

Whitehall 140 minutes.

Yes, 140 minutes, or an average of two hours and 20 minutes is correct for your bonus.

What word starting with L denotes the groups that denote a pair of electrons to a central metal atom in a complex iron or coordination compound.

A ligand, a ligands or a ligand is correct.

Next tossup question.

What God who wrote a donkey during his return to Olympus used a net to catch his wife.

Parkland.

Her Festus Ephesus is correct.

And he caught Aphrodite cheating on him with that net for bonus after she and her lover lost the Battle of Actium.

What queen died, supposedly after she was bitten?

Yep.

And she was bitten by an.

But Cleopatra is correct.

Next tossup question.

What character who described having damp, drizzly November in his soul in a 19th century novel, works on the Pequod and narrates Whitehall.

Ishmael.

Ishmael is correct, and he's a narrator of Moby Dick, Moby Dick.

Correct.

For bonus, what Russian born author of the treaties on the spiritual?

On the spiritual in Art created abstract, improvised improvization and organized the Blue Rider movement.

Kandinsky.

Kandinsky.

Kandinsky is correct.

Next toss up question is in math.

Pencil and paper.

Ready?

How much change will Tom receive if he buys four candy bars that each cost $1.12?

If he uses a $5 bill.

Parkland $0.52 $0.52 is correct.

For your bonus, in August 2024, the U.S. completed a prisoner exchange.

In what country?

That freed Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gersh.

Russia?

Russia is correct.

Next toss up question.

In 2023, what country passed a reform bill reducing the power of its Supreme Court?

Go ahead.

Parkland.

Israel.

Israel is correct for your bonus.

What?

1777 battle, which included fights at Bemis Heights and Freeman's Farm in upstate New York, was a victory for U.S. forces under Horatio Gates.

Battle of Saratoga.

Battle.

Saratoga is correct.

Next toss up question.

What people who founded the Kievan Rus state and made up the Byzantine Empire for in guard, colonize the Faroe Islands and Iceland using longship.

Whitehall.

Vikings.

Vikings is correct.

And they called him using long ships for your bonus.

In biology, what unselfish behavior exhibited by chimpanzees occurs when individual sacrifices their own fitness to benefit others.

Altruism.

Altruism is correct.

Next, toss up question.

What country were the majority of the population speak?

Warren shares the typo Dam with neighboring Brazil and has its capital at Asuncion.

Parkland, Paraguay.

Paraguay is correct for your bonus.

What authors story.

The Color Out of Space and novella.

The Shadow over Innsmouth are examples of his use of otherworldly cosmic horror.

Kirk on.

Kurt Vonnegut.

That is incorrect.

H.P.

Lovecraft is the correct answer.

And with that, we have reached the second Lightning Round.

Whitehall.

You'll get to pick from the following topics.

The topics are two Middle E's or New Jerseyans, two Middle East, two Middle East, two Middle East.

It is.

Give these four letter words whose second and third letters are both.

E meat used in cheeseburgers.

Beef.

Correct.

Body parts treated by a podiatrist.

Feet.

Correct.

Automaker behind the Wrangler SUV.

Jeep.

Correct.

Underwater formation of rock or coral reef.

Correct.

Slang term meaning to suddenly throw an object.

Yeet.

Correct.

A person with similar characteri pass.

Green and white plant in the onion family.

Be incorrect to suddenly change direction.

Pass document indicating ownership.

Pass long central frame at the bottom of a boat.

Keel.

Keel is correct.

Parking.

Let's see how well you know our neighbors to the east.

New Jerseyans.

Name these people who were born in new Jersey.

New Jersey in the 19th century.

U.S. president who served nonconsecutive terms.

Grover Cleveland.

Correct.

Artists who song include.

Born to run.

Willie Nelson and William Lawson.

That's incorrect.

Conservative Supreme Court justice who died in 2016.

I'm Antonin Scalia.

That's correct.

Man who killed Alexander Hamilton.

Aaron Burr.

That's correct.

Beat generation poet who wrote howl.

Allen Ginsberg.

Correct.

Singer of I Will Always Love You and My Love is Your Love.

Whitney Houston.

Correct.

Governor of the state from 2010 to 2018.

Chris Christie.

Correct.

NBA center who won three rings as the Laker.

As a Laker with Kobe Bryant.

Shaquille O'Neal.

Correct.

Jazz pianist who wrote 1:00 jump and was also known as Count.

The mountain.

Duke Ellington.

That's incorrect.

Author of American Pastoral.

Grant wood.

Incorrect.

Philip Roth.

That's the last one.

Okay, we continue on with the fall, with the final quarter of the match, with the following toss up question.

What state?

Which has the largest enslaved population in 1860.

Parkland.

South Carolina.

That is incorrect.

I'll continue on for Whitehall.

Crushed Nat Turner's rebellion and saw its western counties secede in the Civil War.

Go ahead.

Whitehall, Virginia.

Virginia is correct.

Needs to ceded to become West Virginia.

For your bonus, what author of social statistics was a social Darwinist who coined the term survival of the fittest?

Spencer.

Herbert Spencer is correct.

Next toss up question.

Maurice.

Rashard.

Captain.

What team which had has won 24 Stanley Cups is known as the Habs and plays hockey in the most populous city.

Parkland.

Maple Leafs.

That is incorrect.

I'll continue for Whitehall.

The most populous city in Quebec.

Go ahead.

The Blue Jays.

That's also incorrect.

It's the Montreal Canadiens, known as the Habs for the sort of the habitants.

Next tossup question.

What event starts at a hypocenter?

Generates p waves and slower s parkland.

Go ahead.

Earthquakes.

Earthquakes is correct and generates p waves and slower S waves, and can also cause soil liquefaction.

For a bonus.

Mount Titano is the highest point of what micro state in the Apennines, which is entirely surrounded by Italy.

San Marino.

San Marino is correct.

Next tossup question.

What long poem, whose second section depicts shelves crowded with perfumes, depicts a barbaric yap is in Leaves of Grass and is by Walt Whitman.

Song of myself is the correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What show?

Which costars Jim Carter as Carson the Butler and Maggie Smith as Dowager Countess was named for the Crawley family's British parklet.

Downton Abbey.

Downton Abbey is correct in his name for the Crawley family's British estate.

For your bonus, what term is used to describe an individual with a single copy of a recessive allele who does not express the trait it causes?

A carrier, correct carrier, or genetic carrier is the correct answer.

Next, toss up question what structure, whose completion was managed by engineer Emily Warren Roebling, crosses the East River and connects Manhattan.

Go ahead.

Whitehall.

The Brooklyn Bridge.

The Brooklyn Bridge is correct, and it connects Manhattan, they say, to another borough.

It's to Brooklyn.

They don't want to say Brooklyn in the question.

For your bonus.

What African country, whose flag contains a black and white shield is led from embalming and change its name in 2018.

Embalming.

Excuse me, is it captain s martini?

Eswatini is correct.

Next toss up question.

The use of what facilities, which were the subject of the Russian experiment was greatly reduced by trans institutionalization.

Starting.

Go ahead.

Parkland conversion camps.

That is incorrect.

Starting in the 1960s.

That completes the question for Whitehall.

No conferring with tossup.

Go ahead.

Native American boarding schools.

That's also incorrect.

Its mental asylums were institutionalized at that time.

Next toss up question.

What buildings, which include the Alder in Chicago and the Hayden in New York City, led by Neil deGrasse Tyson.

Use projections.

Go ahead.

Parkland.

I'm theaters.

That's incorrect.

Over to Whitehall.

Use projections to teach astronomy.

Go ahead.

Whitehall.

Planetarium.

Planetarium is correct.

For your bonus.

What poem?

Which concludes that one could do worse than to be a swinger.

On the title tres was published in 1915 by Robert Frost.

Willow.

That's incorrect.

Birches is the correct answer.

Next tossup question.

What author used the subtitle A novel Without a Hero to describe his work, whose characters include Amelia Sedley and Becky Sharp.

Title.

Parkland.

Mark Twain.

That's incorrect.

I'll give you what.

And with that.

That's the end of the match.

Unfortunately.

Did you know the answer to any Thackeray?

Thackeray is correct because it was his book.

Vanity fair.

What a great match.

But unfortunately, parkland just not quite enough with 290 points.

Whitehall, congratulations.

You are on to the final with 320 points to face Moravian Academy.

And thank you for watching.

Tune in next week for our final match of the 50th season Scholastic scrimmage between Whitehall High School and Moravian Academy.

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