(upbeat music) - Welcome to this season of WVIA Scholastic Scrimmage.

I'm your host, Paul Lazar.

Scholastic Scrimmage is a question and answer competition featuring high school students from across the WVIA viewing area.

In each program, two schools will compete in a single elimination tournament for a chance to win one, three or $5,000.

Tonight's match features Abington Heights versus Wallenpaupak.

Representing Abington Heights are David Zurich, Sam Lenahan, Derek Williams and Jack Shoemaker.

Their alternates are Emma Burian, and Emily Keeley and their advisor is Tammy Williams.

Representing Wallenpaupak are Gabe Racine, Henry Reichman, Jude Motts and Genevieve Ninan.

Their alternate is Brad Miley, and their advisor is Ryan Ninan.

Scholastic Scrimmage is a game of rapid recall of factual information, so let's take a minute and review the rules.

The first team to buzz in will have an opportunity to answer a toss-up question.

Correct answers to these questions are awarded 10 points, and that team will then receive a five-point bonus question.

If that toss-up answer is incorrect, no points will be deducted, but the question will then rebound to the other team.

If the other team answers correctly, they'll be given the toss-up points but will not receive a bonus question.

Well, let's get started with this toss-up question.

What platform, whose mascot is called Wumpus, offers nitro status to those- (button beeps) David, Abington Heights?

- Discord.

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus.

What plastic with recycling code three has a three-letter abbreviation and is used to make pipes for household plumbing?

- PVC.

(button beeps) - Is correct for your bonus points, Abington Heights.

And as we go to our next toss-up.

In what state in 1861 did P.G.T.

Beauregard compel Union forces under Robert Anderson to surrender Fort Sumpter, which guarded Charleston Harbor.

David, Abington Heights.

(button beeps) - South Carolina.

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus, what poet wrote, "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses," in her poem "The New Colossus"?

Derek?

(button beeps) - Emily Bronte.

- No, we're looking for Emma Lazarus.

All right, here's our next toss-up.

What objects are reduced by Gaussian elimination, keep their diagonals the same when transposed, and are rectangular arrays of numbers?

Gabe, Wallenpaupak.

(button beeps) - Matrix.

- Is correct, and here's your bonus.

Juba is the capital of what African country that gained independence in 2011?

- South Sudan.

(button beeps) - Is correct for your bonus points, Wallenpaupak.

As we turn now to our next toss-up question.

What novel, which opens with a chapter titled "Loomings", includes Tashtego and fellow harpooner Queequeg and depicts Captain- Henry, Wallenpaupak.

(button beeps) - Moby Dick.

- Is correct.

And your bonus now.

In string music, what four-letter word indicates a player should return to playing with the bow after a section played pizzicato?

- No answer.

(button beeps) - Okay, that is arco, let's go to our next toss-up.

What woman who arrived at the Selimiye Barracks in 1854 was nicknamed "The Lady with the Lamp" while nursing British soldiers during the Crimean War?

(timer beeps) That woman was Florence Nightingale.

Here's our next toss-up.

What capital city was designed by Herbert Baker and Edwin Lutyens, lies on the Yamuna River, and succeeded Calcutta as the capital of India?

- Jude, Wallenpaupak.

(button beeps) - New Delhi.

- Is correct, and here comes your bonus now.

In 2025, what international sports organization elected Zimbabwe's Kirsty Coventry as its first female and first African-born president?

- Go for it.

- FIFA?

(button beeps) - No, that's the International Olympic Committee.

Let's go to another toss-up.

What author wrote about a love-lorn artist's suicide in the "The Sorrows of Young Werther", and depicted the temptation of a German scholar in his play "Faust"?

Gabe, Wallenpaupak.

(button beeps) - Andersen.

- Is incorrect, rebound to Abington Heights.

- No answer.

(button beeps) - Okay, that's Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Let's go to our next toss-up.

What quantity is the real component of impedance equals voltage over current, according to Ohm's Law and- - Gabe, Wallenpaupak.

(button beeps) - Resistance.

- Is correct, and your bonus now.

What daughter of Jupiter often portrayed with a wheel and a cornucopia is the Roman counterpart of Tyche, the Greek goddess of luck?

- Europa.

- Europa?

(button beeps) - No, that answer is Fortuna.

And that sound that you heard signals the end of the first quarter and it's now time for the lightning round.

In this segment, each team will have an opportunity to answer as many of the 10 rapid fire questions as they can in one minute.

Abington Heights has won the coin toss and will pick first.

Your categories are: Brazil or American eponyms.

- American eponyms.

- American eponyms it is.

And your time begins when I finish reading the first question.

Give these words derived from an American person's name, toy bear.

- Teddy bear.

- Yes.

Facial hair that runs down the edge of the face.

- Sideburn?

(button beeps) - [Paul] Yes.

Dangerous genus of bacteria found in raw poultry.

- Salmonella.

(button beeps) - [Paul] Yes.

Red-leafed plant used as a Christmas ornament.

- Holly?

(button beeps) - [Paul] Poinsettia.

Drawing electoral districts for partisan advantage.

- Gerrymandering.

(button beeps) - [Paul] Yes, luxurious railroad car.

- Carriage.

(button beeps) - Pullman.

Tuba variant that encircles the player's body.

- Euphonium.

(button beeps) - [Paul] Sousaphone.

Cross between dewberry, loganberry, raspberry, and blackberry.

(button beeps) - Raspberry.

- Boysenberry.

Loose trousers worn by American women in the 19th century.

- Bell bottoms.

(button beeps) - [Paul] Bloomers.

SI unit of inductance.

(timer beeps) That was Henry.

All right, that's going to wrap up your portion of the lightning round, Abington Heights.

Wallenpaupak, we're coming over to you and your remaining category will be Brazil.

And once again, your time begins when I finish reading the first question.

Answer the following about Brazil.

Longest South American river which flows through Brazil.

- The Rio Grande.

(button beeps) - [Paul] Amazon.

Brazil's most populous city.

- Brasilia.

(button beeps) - [Paul] Sao Paulo.

Brazil's official language.

- Portuguese.

(button beeps) - [Paul] Yes.

With Chile, one of two South American countries that does not border Brazil.

- Uruguay.

(button beeps) - [Paul] Ecuador.

Brazilian city overlooked by Christ The Redeemer.

- Rio de Janeiro.

(button beeps) - [Paul] Yes, country governed from Asuncion that shares the Itaipu Dam with Brazil?

- El Salvador.

(button beeps) - Paraguay.

Brazil's official currency.

- Pass.

(button beeps) - [Paul] Real.

Type of Brazilian slum named for a tree of the spurge family.

- Pass.

(button beeps) - Favela.

Style of Brazilian music whose name means new wave.

- Bossa nova.

(button beeps) - [Paul] Yes, Brazilian city and former rubber center, once nicknamed the Paris of the tropics.

- Pass.

(button beeps) - That's Manaos.

(timer beeps) All right, that's going to do it for our first lightning round, and after that Wallenpaupak is in the lead over Abington Heights 62 to 45.

Now we'll go ahead and begin the second quarter with this toss-up question.

What communist who advocated permanent revolution as opposed to socialism in one country, was killed in Mexico City on orders from Joseph Stalin?

David, Abington Heights.

(button beeps) - Lenin.

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Wallenpaupak.

- Castro.

(button beeps) - Nope, that was Leon Trotsky.

Here's our next toss-up.

What's subject of the Hulu series "Dropout" worked with Sunny Balwani to misrepresent the accuracy of at-home blood testing kits at her company Theranos?

(timer beeps) That is Elizabeth Holmes.

Here's our next toss-up.

What novelist wrote about Quentin Jacobson's search for Margot in "Paper Towns" and depicted young cancer patient Hazel in "The Fault in our Stars?"

- Sam, Abington Heights.

(button beeps) - John Green.

- Is correct, and here comes your bonus.

What author wrote about an American girl who goes to Europe where she dies of Roman fever after visiting the Colosseum in his novella "Daisy Miller"?

- Hank Green.

(button beeps) - No, the answer was Henry James.

Okay, here's our next toss-up question.

What neighborhood which is home to Minton's Playhouse and the Apollo Theater names a literary renaissance whose authors included Langston Hughes- Jude, Wallenpaupak.

(button beeps) - Harlem.

- Is correct.

And your bonus now.

What lowest layer of Earth's atmosphere contains most of the atmosphere's mass and weather?

- Troposphere.

(button beeps) - Is correct for your bonus points, Wallenpaupak.

As we turn to our next toss-up question, what novel which features the recurring phrase, "For you, a thousand times over," depict Samir and Hassan's life in Afghanistan and it's by Khaled Hossein.

(timer beeps) That is "The Kite Runner".

Okay, here's our next toss-up.

What Arab country, which Ibn Saud tried to conquer around 1920, was liberated by US troops in February, 1991 after its invasion by Iraq?

Jude, Wallenpaupak.

(button beeps) - Afghanistan.

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Abington Heights.

(button beeps) Jack?

- Iran.

- No, that's Kuwait.

Kuwait.

Okay, here's our next toss-up.

What quantity could be measured using a psychrometer or other hygrometer, contributes to the heat index- Henry, Wallenpaupak.

(button beeps) - Barometric pressure.

- Is incorrect.

I'll finish the question and rebound to Abington Heights.

And is the saturation of water vapor in air.

Jack?

(button beeps) - Humidity.

- Is correct for your rebound points, Abington Heights.

And here's our next toss-up.

What poem whose speaker cannot rest from travel and vows to strive and not to yield, was written by Alfred Lord- (button beeps) Gabe, Wallenpaupak.

- No answer.

- I'll finish the question and rebound to Abington Heights.

About a clever Greek hero.

Derek?

(button beeps) - No answer.

- That is Ulysses, okay, let's go to our next toss-up.

What explorer, who sailed the half moon up a river to present day Albany was an English navigator who gave his name to a large- - David, Abington Heights.

(button beeps) - Hudson.

- Is correct, and here comes your bonus question.

What hormone produced by alpha cells in the pancreas works opposite to insulin by raising blood sugar levels.

Derek?

(button beeps) - Bile.

- No, that's glucagon.

Well, that sound that you heard signals the end of the first half and we're now going to give our contestants a little bit of a break and the opportunity for those of you at home to get to know them a little better.

And we'll start with the students from Abington Heights and David, I'll come to you first.

Tell us where you've gone on vacation that's just your favorite place in the world.

- Every summer I go up to Maine to visit my grandparents right by Acadia National Park.

- [Paul] That's excellent, thanks, David.

Sam?

- Lately I've been going to Boston Harbor and I just love the architecture.

- [Paul] Thank you, Sam.

Derek?

- This past summer I went up to Alaska and the greenery and just kind of weather up there was amazing.

- [Paul] Awesome, thanks Derek, Jack?

- Two summers ago my family went down to France and that was fun.

- Oh, that's excellent, thanks Jack.

Good luck the rest of the way, Abington Heights.

Wallenpaupak, over to you.

Gabe, where have you gone on vacation that has just stuck with you and why?

- So I was like 11 and I went to Busch Gardens, and only two things that I remember there was that I rode my very first rollercoaster and I got a big thing full of animals, and I played with the animals a lot.

- Right, thanks Gabe.

Henry?

- Me and my family used to take a yearly trip up to New York, one of the houses that my family owns up there, and it was just always so peaceful there, I loved it.

- [Paul] Awesome, thank you Henry.

Jude?

- A few years back I went to Colorado, I really enjoyed the mountains and the hiking in the desert.

- [Paul] Beautiful state, and Genevieve.

- Last summer I had the chance to go to Italy with our school choir where we got to sing around and it was really beautiful.

- That's awesome, you guys are all more well-traveled than I am.

Thank you very much and good luck to you the rest of the way, Wallenpaupak.

And we'll go ahead and begin the third quarter with this toss-up question.

What two US states, which will be linked by the Bright Line West Rail line, share a border that passes through Lake Tahoe and Death Valley?

- Jude, Wallenpaupak.

(button beeps) - California and Nevada.

- Is correct.

(timer beeps) And here's your bonus question.

What star of the 2024 remake of "The Crow" played the decrepit vampire Orlok in "Nosferatu" and is a Swedish actor with an older brother named Alexander?

(students whispering) - No answer.

(button beeps) - Okay, that's Bill Skarsgard.

All right, let's go to our next toss-up question.

What drug also called methyl theobromine is the most widely used psychoactive drug in the world, and is a natural stimulant found in tea and coffee?

- Henry, Wallenpaupak?

(button beeps) - Caffeine.

- Is correct.

And your bonus, through the Munich agreement, Nazi Germany was allowed to annex what German speaking region of Czechoslovakia in 1938?

- Czech Republic.

(button beeps) - No, we're looking for Sudetenland, Sudetenland.

Okay, here comes our next toss-up.

What man who skipped the constitutional convention because he smelled a rat, was Virginia's first governor and said, "Give me liberty or give me death."

David, Abington Heights.

(button beeps) - Patrick Henry.

- Is correct, and here's your bonus now.

The Issyk-Kul is a lake in what Central Asian country whose capital is Bishkek?

Derek?

(button beeps) - Bangladesh?

- Nope, that country is Kyrgyzstan.

A wonderful vacationing place.

Let's go ahead and move on to our next toss-up question.

What state whose former democratic governor, Roy Cooper, announced a senate campaign to succeed the retiring Thom Tillis is governed from Raleigh?

Genevieve, Wallenpaupak.

(button beeps) - North Carolina.

- Is correct.

And your bonus, what letter can name either a form of DNA that forms a left-handed helix or in birds the sex chromosome found alongside the W chromosome?

- R.

(button beeps) - That is incorrect, we were looking for Z, Z. All right, here's our next toss-up.

What construct can be achieved or ascribed, follows socioeconomic in a variable abbreviated SES, and is the level or rank a person holds in a group?

Jack, Abington Heights.

(button beeps) - Social status.

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question.

In July, 2025, what country agreed to grant more autonomy to New Caledonia, a group of islands it controls in the Pacific Ocean?

- Japan?

(button beeps) - No, that country is France, France.

Okay guys, here's our next toss-up question.

What group which fought against the Northern Alliance and government of Hamid Karzai reintroduced a ban on women's education when it retook Kabul?

Jude, Wallenpaupak.

(button beeps) - The Taliban.

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus.

What playwright wrote about teenage math genius, Thomasina Coverly and her tutor Septimus Hodge in "Arcadia"?

- Miller?

(button beeps) - No, that is Tom Stoppard.

Tom Stoppard was that playwright.

(timer beeps) Well, that sound that you heard signals the end of the third quarter and another lightning round.

This time Wallenpaupak will pick first.

Your categories are, 2010s animated films or geographic nicknames.

(students whispering) - We're gonna go with 2010s animated films.

- 2010s animated films it is.

And your time begins when I finish reading the first question.

Name these animated films released in the 2010s.

Third Pixar film to Star Buzz and Woody.

- Toy Story 3.

(button beeps) - [Paul] Yes.

Disney film about Rabbit police Officer Judy Hopps.

- Zootopia.

(button beeps) - [Paul] Yes.

First film to feature the Night Fury Toothless.

- How to Train Your Dragon.

(button beeps) - [Paul] Yes.

Superhero film that introduced Miles Morales.

(button beeps) - Spider-Man into the Spider-Verse.

- [Paul] Yes.

Disney film about a team led by Hiro Hamada and Baymax.

- Big Hero Six.

(button beeps) - [Paul] Yes.

Dreamworks Film that used Justin Timberlake's "Can't Stop the Feeling".

(button beeps) - Trolls.

- Yes.

Pixar film about Miguel who travels to the- (button beeps) - Coco.

- Yes.

First Shrek spinoff titled for a talking cat.

- Puss in Boots.

(button beeps) - [Paul] Yes.

Wallace and Grommet spinoff that proceeded a sequel subtitled "Farmageddon".

- Sean the Sheep.

(button beeps) - [Paul] Yes.

2017 film about Gene Meh who lives inside a phone owned by a middle schooler.

(button beeps) - The Emoji Movie.

- That is correct, Wallenpaupak, you know your 2010s animated films, did a great job there.

Gonna come over to Abington Heights, and your remaining category is geographic nicknames.

And once again, your time begins when I finish reading the first question.

Identify these US cities, states, or territories from their nicknames.

The Aloha State.

(button beeps) - Hawaii.

- [Paul] Yes, the city of Brotherly Love.

- Philadelphia.

(button beeps) - Yes, Mile High City.

(button beeps) - Denver.

- Yes, Land of 10,000 Lakes.

- Skip.

(button beeps) - [Paul] Minnesota, the Bluegrass State.

- Kentucky.

(button beeps) - [Paul] Yes, the Big Easy.

- New York City.

(button beeps) - [Paul] New Orleans, The Last Frontier, a state.

- Alaska.

(button beeps) - [Paul] Yes, the biggest little city in the world.

- Skip.

(button beeps) - [Paul] That's Reno.

Where America's Day begins, a territory.

- Puerto Rico.

(button beeps) - [Paul] Guam, the Athens of the South.

- Skip.

(button beeps) - [Paul] That is Nashville, Tennessee.

Well, that's going to do it for the second lightning round.

And after that we have Wallenpaupak in the lead over Abington Heights 165 to 120.

And we'll now go ahead and begin the last segment of the game with this toss-up question.

What data type can be searched using regular expressions and joined by concatenation, and is- David, Abington Heights?

(button beeps) - A string?

- Is correct.

And here comes your bonus question.

The Hafele-Keating experiment demonstrated the relativistic dilation of what quantity, whose dilation also underpins the twin paradox?

- Time.

(button beeps) - Time is correct for your bonus points, Abington Heights, as we go now to our next toss-up question.

What island is formerly known as Van Diemen's Land is south of the Bass Strait, and is an Australian island home to a type of- Jude, Wallenpaupak.

(button beeps) - Tasmania - Is correct.

And your bonus, the first Nobel Prize in economics was awarded in what decade during which the US' Great Society programs were launched?

- 1930s.

- 1930s.

(button beeps) - No, that answer is the 1960s, the 1960s.

Here's our next toss-up up question.

What dramatic character who has visions of a bloody child and a floating dagger is prophesied by three witches to take the throne of Scotland?

- Genevieve, Wallenpaupak.

(button beeps) - Macbeth.

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus.

What ruler from the House of Stewart was executed in 1649 after losing the English Civil War?

- Henry VI?

(button beeps) - Nope, that was Charles I. Let's go to our next toss-up.

What man's Third International Theory appears in his Green Book, which inspired the solid green color of Libya's flag under his dictatorship until 2011?

(timer beeps) That was Muammar Gaddafi.

Here's our next toss-up question.

The Dragonfly probe will visit the Shangri-La region on what moon that has lakes of liquid hydrocarbons- Jude, Wallenpaupak.

(button beeps) - Titan.

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus.

What law of thermodynamics states that the entropy of a closed system does not decrease?

- The second.

(button beeps) - Is correct for your bonus points, Wallenpaupak.

As we turn to our next toss-up question.

What singer who held a "Back to the Beginning" benefit concert weeks before his death in 2025 sang Crazy Train- (button beeps) Derek, Abington Heights.

- Ozzy Osbourne.

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus.

What architect redesigned his own Santa Monica residence in the 1970s, and later designed landmarks like the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao?

- No answer.

(button beeps) - That is Frank Gary.

Okay, here's our next toss-up question.

What town whose residents were saved by Baron Delaware after the starving time was founded in 1609 as the first English settlement in Virginia?

Jude, Wallenpaupak.

(button beeps) - Jamestown.

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus.

What economic philosophy dominant in Europe in the 16th to 18th centuries emphasized a favorable balance of trade and accumulation of gold?

- Mercantilism.

(button beeps) - Is correct for your bonus points, Wallenpaupak as we turn now to our next toss-up.

What composer used a lengthy English horn solo to open the "Largo" second movement of his ninth symphony, which was subtitled from- (button beeps) Jack, Abington Heights?

- Beethoven.

- Is incorrect.

I'll finish the question and rebound to Wallenpaupak.

From the New World.

(timer beeps) - Schubert.

(button beeps) - Nope, that's Antonin Dvorak.

And that's the end of the game, and our winner tonight is Wallenpaupak over Abington Heights 215 to 145.

Congratulations, Wallenpaupak.

You are going to be moving on and we'll see you next time with another round of Scholastic Scrimmage.

I'm your host Paul Lazar, and thank you for watching.

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