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Scholastic Scrimmage: Pleasant Valley HS vs Whitehall HS
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Hello and welcome to the third match of the third round of the 50 season of Scholastic Scrimmage.
I'm your host, David Graff.
Today's matches between Pleasant Valley High School and Whitehall High School.
The match will be composed of two halves, with a lightning round midway through each half.
At half time, will the students can introduce themselves?
I will get to know them a little bit better.
As a reminder, Scholastic Scrimmage requires rapid recall specific factual information.
It's not necessarily indicative of academic training.
And now it's begin.
Buzzers ready for the first tossup question.
What instrument for which John Cage's sonatas and interludes.
Whitehall.
Piano.
The piano is correct, and it has seven octaves and 88 keys.
For your bonus.
What Empress, who was born a minor German princess, may have conspired to assassinate her husband Peter the Third, in order to take the throne for herself.
Catherine the Great.
Catherine the Great is correct.
Next toss up question.
What quantity denoted n, which can be estimated using capture recapture methods, is the number of organisms of a given species.
Whitehall population.
That's right.
And it's of a given species in a given area.
For your bonus, what two states, one on the east coast and one in the Midwest.
Award electoral votes partially by congressional district instead of winner.
Take all.
Maine and Nebraska.
Maine in Nebraska is correct.
Next toss up question.
What man?
The former son in law of Zachary Taylor, led a cabinet with Vice President Alexander Stevens serving.
Whitehall.
Davis.
Jefferson Davis is correct.
It was while serving as president of the Confederacy.
For your bonus, the plant hormones Clinton and Zlatan promote what process that accompanies mitosis and forms new cell walls that divide the cytoplasm.
Cytokinesis.
Cytokinesis is correct.
Next toss up question.
What author wrote about snow that falls faintly through the universe like a last end in the dead?
The final story of his collection, The Dubliners.
Whitehall.
Joyce.
James Joyce is correct.
For your bonus, radical labor organizer Mack McCreery appeared in the US A trilogy, a series of novels by What Manhattan or By What?
Author of Manhattan Transfer.
Burns.
Incorrect.
John Dos Passos is the correct answer.
Next toss up question.
What alkaline earth metal, which is used to make green yard reagents, is found at the center of Chlorophyl molecules and has the atomic symbol m g. Whitehall.
Magnesium.
Magnesium is correct.
For your bonus in 2024, in the United States, deaths from overdoses have dropped, in part because what drug that reverses opioid overdoses and is now sold over the counter?
Narcan.
Narcan, or naloxone is correct.
Next toss up question.
What island is home to the US's largest banyan tree, which survived during a 2023 wildfire that burned the small town of Lahaina in Hawaii.
Whitehall.
The Wahoo!
That's incorrect.
Over the Pleasant Valley.
No conferring, but is a freebie.
Go ahead.
Honolulu.
Also incorrect.
The island is the island of Maui.
Next tossup question.
What novel in which the Longbourn estate is home to frivolous sisters Kitty and Lydia, ends with Lizzie marrying Mr. Darcy and his bride, Jane Austen.
Whitehall.
Pride and prejudice.
Pride and prejudice is correct for your bonus.
What medical condition is characterized by an abnormal lateral curvature of the spine, sometimes giving it an S shape?
Scoliosis.
Scoliosis is correct.
Next toss up question.
What compound which combines with nitric acid to form the noble metal dissolving solution?
Aqua Regina is a binary acid with a molecular formula H c. Go ahead.
Whitehall.
Hydrochloric acid.
Hydrochloric acid is correct, and the formula is h c l. For your bonus, what Greek woman who in some stories meets her brother Orestes in Taurus, is sacrificed by Agamemnon to gain Artemis his favor.
Before the Trojan War.
Helen.
Incorrect.
If a genea is the correct answer, next toss up question.
What president?
Who is the title character of a 1987 opera by John Adams about his visit to Whitehall?
Richard Nixon.
Richard Nixon is correct.
And it's about his visit to China.
And he resigned during the Watergate scandal.
Complete some questions for bonus.
What Italian sculptor depicted an angel with a spear standing over the title saint in his statue, The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa.
Bernini.
Bernini is correct.
Next toss up question.
What country is home to the Uyuni and salt flats in Alta?
Plano contains the eastern part of Lake Titicaca and the go ahead.
Whitehall.
Bolivia.
Bolivia is correct and has dual capitals in both Sucre and La Paz.
For your bonus, Samuel Doe led a 1980 coup.
In what country?
Which in 2005 elected Africa's first female head of state.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
Kenya.
Incorrect.
The correct answer is Liberia.
And with that, we have reached the first lightning round.
In a pre-match coin toss, it was determined that Pleasant Valley.
We get to select between the following topics.
Detective fiction or cheese.
Cheese.
Cheese.
Cheese.
Cheese.
It is Pleasant Valley.
This is your chance to make up some points here with some cheese.
Pleasant Valley your first lightning round topic is cheese.
Name the countries from which these cheeses originate.
Brie and Camembert.
England.
Incorrect.
Cheddar and Stilton.
England.
Correct.
Colby.
Jack and Velveeta.
America.
Correct.
Parmesan and mozzarella.
Italy.
Correct.
A mental which is known for its holes.
Switzerland.
Correct.
Fed up.
Greece.
Correct.
Edam and Gouda.
Ireland.
Incorrect.
Cotija.
Mexico.
Correct.
Havarti.
Pass.
Halloumi.
India.
Oh, the last one you'll see in Greek restaurants.
But because it comes from Cyprus.
All right.
Whitehall.
Your topic is detective fiction.
Name the authors of these works of detective fiction.
A Study in Scarlet, which introduces Sherlock Holmes, is it Conan Doyle?
Correct.
Tom Sawyer, detective Twain.
Correct.
Death on the Nile, which featured Belgium.
Sleuth.
Er, cool.
Pharaoh.
Conrad.
Incorrect.
The Maltese Falcon.
Pass.
Pen name for the Scarlet of the old, or, The Secret of the Old clock and other Nancy Drew books.
A pen name of the author's past.
The poor or the poor?
Letter featuring detective C Auguste Dupin.
Correct.
The Unfinished Mystery of Edwin Drood.
Christy.
Incorrect.
The comic sci fi novel Dirk Gently, holistic detective Agency.
Christy.
Incorrect.
The silence of the lambs, featuring the killer Hannibal Lecter.
King.
Incorrect.
A is for alibi.
One of Kinsley Malone's alphabet mysteries.
Christy.
Last one is Sue Grafton.
Okay.
Okay.
We continue on with the following.
Toss up.
Question buzzers.
Ready for everybody.
In what state were Daniel Morgan defeated the British at the Battle of Cowpens?
Did Benjamin Lincoln.
Whitehall.
South Carolina.
South Carolina is correct.
And Benjamin Lincoln surrendered after the siege of Charleston.
For bonus, the side chain of the amino acid cysteine contains an atom of what element that allows it to form bonds.
The whole protein chains together.
Sulfur.
Sulfur is correct.
Next tossup question.
What 2020 game features a best of seven spike rush mode?
Has Jet and Brimstone.
Go ahead, Pleasant Valley.
Valorant.
Valorant is correct, and it has two of its playable agents.
It's okay.
No worries to know some of the video game stuff.
All right.
And we're onto your bonus question.
In Fables by Aesop.
What type of animal uses a shallow bowl to serve soup to a stalk, and scorns supposedly sour grapes that are too high to reach the fox?
A fox is correct.
Next toss up question.
What city?
Home to the Mariinsky Theater and the State Hermitage Museum, lies north of the net.
Pleasant Valley.
Saint Petersburg.
Saint Petersburg is correct and is named for Russians are known as the Great.
For your bonus, the Shoe Crater, which was formed by an asteroid impact millions of years ago, lies along the coast of what peninsula?
Yucatan.
The Yukon on the Yucatan Peninsula is correct.
Next tossup question what process first explained by Otto Frisch and Liza meitner, can convert uranium 236 to krypton and barium, and involves splitting atomic nuclei.
Go ahead, Pleasant Valley.
Fission.
Nuclear fission is correct and involves splitting atomic nuclei.
For your bonus, what surname is shared by a Hamburg copper Meister who wrote a sulfur G-O and the Baroque composer of the Goldberg Variations.
It's a sofrito.
Excuse me.
Pass buck is the correct answer.
Next toss.
Tossup question.
At what battle did difficulties reveal a path around a narrow path that allowed Xerxes the first.
Go ahead.
Pleasant Valley.
Thermopylae.
The Battle of Thermopylae is correct, and it allowed Xerxes the first to outflank Leonidas.
For your bonus innocent.
The third organized what crusade in which Europeans sought to capture Egypt, but instead directed by Venice to sack Constantinople in 1204.
The Third Crusade is incorrect.
It's the Fourth Crusade.
Next toss up question.
What last name was shared by earliest 20th century film stars Harpo and Groucho, as well as the author of Das Capital, whose first name was Buster Valley.
Marx.
Marx is correct, and his first name was Karl Karl Marx.
For bonus, what law, independently discovered by René Descartes, illustrates the relationship between the angles of incident and refraction in an interface.
The law of refraction.
That's incorrect.
It's Snell's law of refraction.
Next toss up question.
What African city, which is home to the Karen Blixen Museum and the Masai Market, is found northwest of Mombasa and is the capital of Kenya.
Whitehall, Nairobi.
Nairobi is correct for a bonus.
What type of insects form brood ten?
A swarm that invaded Washington, D.C. and other eastern cities in the summer of 2004 and 2001.
Cicadas.
Cicadas is correct.
Next tossup question what musician behind the 2019 album Wasteland baby released the 2024 single Pleasant Valley.
Hozier.
Hozier is correct.
He released a 2024 single, Too Sweet, for your bonus.
What sea in the Pacific Ocean lies between Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula and the Sakhalin Island, or Sakhalin Island.
In the Sea of Japan.
That is incorrect.
The sea of a coast is the correct answer.
And we reached half time.
Let's take a moment for the students.
Introduce themselves with their first and last name grade level and the answer to the following question.
What would you like to study or pursue after graduation from high school?
Keegan.
Pleasant Valley, start with you.
Go ahead.
Keegan Martin, 11th grade I want to study computer programing.
Capo 12th grade.
Public policy or law?
Okay.
Mira Giunta.
12th grade.
Astronautics.
Engineering.
Okay.
Noah Dolan, 12th grade, applied mathematics.
Very cool.
And we go over to Whitehall.
Vance Vincent, her 11th grade.
Computer science.
Okay.
Nave sent her 12th grade pure mathematics.
Logan Lembeck, 10th grade finance.
Niko Kresge, 11th grade.
Either entomology or political science.
Very nice.
Is anybody have a target school yet?
They want to go to.
But no.
No.
Everybody no.
Does want to be.
Possibly NYU.
Oh, okay.
Drama school at NYU.
It's definitely a different experience from other universities being within the city.
But yeah, cool experience.
They have a lot of branch campuses too.
Like one in Dubai.
Yeah, I used to live in New York, so it's it's, there's a bit of nostalgia factor.
You go home, away from home, you get to return back to your.
Yeah.
Excellent.
All right.
We'll continue on with the second half of the match with the following toss up question.
What author of the Penelope ad wrote about residents of the Republic of Gilead named Serena Joy Whitehall?
Atwood.
That is correct.
Margaret Atwood for her novel The Handmaid's Tale.
Your bonuses in math.
Pencil and paper.
Ready?
What is the sum created by adding together all the single digit prime numbers?
Given that the smallest of them is two.
1717 is correct.
The next toss up question is in math.
Pencil on paper.
Ready?
What is the degree measure of either acute angle in an isosceles triangle whose vertex angles measure 166 degrees?
Whitehall.
Seven degrees.
Seven degrees is correct.
For your bonus, what modern day state contains the Crow Indian Reservation, which covers land where the Battle of Little Bighorn took place in 1876.
Montana.
Montana is correct.
Next tossup question.
What artist who depicted the death of his sister in death in the Sick room painted an orange sky after the eruption of Krakatoa.
Go ahead.
Whitehall.
Greek.
That is incorrect.
I'll continue for Pleasant Valley.
Krakatoa.
In the scream.
No conferring, but it's a it's a freebie.
If you want to buzz in.
You're in before the buzzer.
Go ahead.
Okay.
Salvador Dali.
Incorrect.
I think Whitehall is kicking themselves.
No, it's Edvard Monk.
Is it right or Whitehall?
Excuse me.
Edvard munch.
Okay, what's the next toss up question?
What city?
The site of the pro-democracy 2014 umbrella movement had Pleasant Valley.
Hong Kong.
Hong Kong is correct.
And it had its sovereignty transferred from the United Kim to China in July of 1997.
For your bonus, helium below its lambda point, which is called helium two, is an example of what type of fluid in which viscosity vanishes.
Yes.
Incorrect.
It's a superfluid.
Next toss up question.
What author whose book cities of the plain completed his border trilogy, depicted the aftermath of a failed drug deal in No Country for Old Men.
Whitehall.
McCarthy.
Cormac McCarthy is correct for your bonus.
What Australian actresses recent roles include bounty hunter Lilith in the 2024 flop Borderlands, and the title conductor in the 2022 film Tar.
Smith.
Incorrect.
Cate Blanchett is the correct answer.
Next toss up question.
The stuff on Boltzmann law relates luminosity to the fourth power of what quantity, which determines the color of stars and is measured in kelvins.
Whitehall.
Temperature.
Temperature is correct.
For bonus, what author wrote a scene in which a coin toss lands, heads up 92 times in a row, to open his hamlet inspired play?
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.
Stoppard.
Tom Stoppard is correct.
Next toss up question.
In what country did the CHP win?
2024 mayoral.
Pleasant Valley.
Turkey.
Turkey is correct for your bonus.
What British Prime Minister, who took office in 1945, represented his country at the Potsdam Conference and created the National Health Service.
At least Clement Attlee is correct.
Next toss up question what ruler on the island of Solomon sand fails to heed Mack's complaints and tumbles off a tower made from other pond reptiles.
In a story by Doctor Seuss.
It's the turtle that stumps everybody on the stage.
Next tossup question what territory whose tourist hotspots include Norte and Orange Stand is a Dutch Caribbean island that forms the ABC Islands with Bonaire.
Go ahead.
Whitehall.
Aruba.
Aruba is correct.
The other island is Curacao.
Your bonuses in math.
Pencil on paper.
Ready?
What is the volume of a right circular cylinder whose circular base has a radius of six, and whose height is also six?
216 Pi.
216 Pi is correct.
Next toss up.
Question.
What king was assassinated by Francois Ravi?
Rafael issued the edict of not.
And go ahead.
Whitehall.
Henry the fourth.
Henry the fourth is correct.
And he said Paris is worth a mass upon converted to Catholicism.
For your bonus, what founder of Electronic Data Systems ran as a third party candidate against George H.W.
Bush and Bill Clinton in 1992.
Ross Perot.
Ross Perot is correct.
And with that, we have reached the second lightning round.
Whitehall.
You'll get to pick between pick between the following topics.
Acronyms or nine?
Nine?
No.
Do you want to just try acronyms?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Just try again.
Acronyms.
Acronyms.
It is if you listen carefully to this, acronyms is your topic given a letter in an acronym.
So it could be any letter within the acronym.
Give the full word.
The letter stands for the S in the US government agency NASA space.
Correct.
The T in the banking device ATM transfer.
Incorrect.
The A in the international Organization NATO Alliance.
Incorrect.
The C in the computer component.
CPU central.
Correct.
The R in the Lobbying and interest group AARP.
Retired.
Correct.
The O in the Workplace Safety Agency.
OSHA organization.
Incorrect.
The M in the obesity measurement.
BMI.
Mass.
Correct.
The B in the technology company IBM banking.
Incorrect.
The O in the school military program JROTC officer.
Correct.
The F in the sport's governing body or sports.
Sports governing body.
Concacaf Federation.
Incorrect.
That F was for football.
Pleasant Valley.
Your topic is nine.
Answer the following about things related to the number nine element with the atomic number nine.
Has a.
Group of nine goddesses in Greek myth that inspire artists.
Uses correct polygon with nine sides.
Donigan.
Correct.
Baseball.
Defensive positions denoted nine on scorecards.
Pass time Lord, whose ninth incarnation was played by Christopher Doctor Who.
Correct.
Banned it, saying blame it on my youth in their 2019 album nine.
Paths.
World Tree connecting nine realms in yourself.
Say it again.
You do so.
That is correct.
And Norse myth.
Judicial body profiled in Jeffrey Toobin book The Nine Pass.
Author who created nine Nazgul in the Lord of the rings.
Tolkien.
Correct.
Brief Chinese dynasty founded by Wang Mang in A.D. nine.
Pass.
It would be the Shin Dynasty.
Now we're on to the following tossup question.
What NBA team, whose roster includes maxi, Keebler and rookie center Derek Lively, made a run to the finals in 2024 with Kyrie Irving and Luca.
Go ahead, Pleasant Valley, the Mavericks.
That is correct.
And they all said Luka Doncic is on the team for a bonus in August 2020 for a judge.
In what country?
Threatened users who violated a ban on social media site X with a 50,000 riyal a day fine?
Brazil.
Brazil is correct.
And just so you know, that would be equivalent to about 9,000 USD.
That's fine.
Next tossup question.
In what country did a 2024 judicial ruling forced the resignation of Prime Minister straight to Vashon, who served under King Rama the 10th in Bangkok.
Whitehall.
Thailand.
Thailand is correct.
In Shakespeare's a midsummer Night's Dream.
Puck helps.
What king of the fairies get revenge on his wife, Titania.
Titania.
Egeus.
Oberon is a correct answer.
Next toss up question.
What man, who had two artificial legs seized by Illinois infantry, ordered the Goliad Massacre and was the Mexican general who besieged Whitehall?
Santa Anna said town is correct.
And he besieged the Alamo.
Alamo?
Correct.
No extra points for that.
For your bonus.
What infrastructure project, nicknamed Clinton's Ditch, was completed in 1825 to connect Albany and the Hudson River with Buffalo, the Erie Canal.
That is correct.
Next tossup question.
What shape has interior angles of 135 degrees can be made by cutting corners off of a square is exemplified by a stop sign and has Whitehall.
A hexagon.
I'm sorry, I actually heard incorrectly you said hexagon.
The correct answer is Octagon.
The judges, while conferring the other team, heard the answer, so we can't go over to them.
So now, to make up for that pleasant valley, this is a tossup question just for you.
There's no conferring, but it is only just for you.
What MLB team, which signed Matt Chapman and Blake Snell in 2024, plays at Oracle Park, whose right field fence is on the edge of a California bay.
Go ahead, the Dodgers.
That's incorrect.
The San Francisco Giants.
Is the correct answer, and we continue on with the match of the following toss up question.
What religious texts whose first verse are known as the Moon Mantar, was named the eternal successor of Gobind Singh and is the holy text of Sikhism.
The autograph is a correct answer.
Next toss up question.
What was the primary goal of the Wspu, a UK organization led by Christina Bell and Go ahead, Whitehall.
Women's suffrage.
Women's suffrage was correct, and it wished to have women participate in elections for bonus.
What quantity is often measured using a fork?
Cupped anemometer can be contextualized using a Beaufort scale and may be measured in knots.
A northwest wind speed.
Wind speed is correct.
The next tossup is in math pencil on paper.
Ready?
How many different four person groups can be formed from a party of five people?
Given that each group will exclude exactly one person?
Go ahead.
Whitehall.
Five five groups is correct for bonus.
A Ghana is the capital of what I.
And with that, we are out of time.
Whitehall.
Congratulations.
With a score of 385, you are on to the final four teams of this year's classic scrimmage tournament.
Pleasant Valley, thank you for participating.
Good luck with the rest of your school year, and thank you for watching.
We'll see you next week for the final match of the third round between Saucon Valley High School and Parkland High School.
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