Championship Match
Season 18 Episode 40 | 24m 5s | Video has closed captioning.
Berwick takes on Delaware Valley in the Championship Match of WVIA's Scholastic Scrimmage
Aired: 05/23/23
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Season 18 Episode 40 | 24m 5s | Video has closed captioning.
Berwick takes on Delaware Valley in the Championship Match of WVIA's Scholastic Scrimmage
Aired: 05/23/23
Problems Playing Video? | Closed Captioning
(marching band whistle blowing) (upbeat marching band music) ♪ Go - Welcome to the WVIA Scholastic Scrimmage Finals.
I'm your host, Regina Myers.
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 $1000, $3000, or $5,000.
Tonight's match features Berwick versus Delaware Valley.
Representing Berwick is Christopher Stola, Jack Kendran, Emma Chakowski, their captain Josephine Morgan.
Their alternate is Elizabeth Gunther, and their advisor is Todd Gunther.
Representing Delaware Valley is Riley Krick, Jackson Hancock, Andrea Del Freo, and their captain is Clint Murray.
Their alternates are Sarah Flick and Isabella Hemler, and their advisor is Robert Curtis.
Scholastic Scrimmage is a game of rapid recall of factual information.
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 5 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 will be given the toss-up points but will not receive a bonus question.
Let's get started with our first toss-up question.
What arrangement of numbers, whose odd entries form a Sierpinski gasket, contains binomial coefficients, and is named for a French mathematician?
(signal beeps) - [Regina] Andrea, Delaware Valley?
- Fibonacci code.
- Fibonacci code is incorrect.
Rebound to Berwick.
(signal beeps) - [Regina] Emma?
- Pascal's triangle?
- [Regina] Pascal's triangle is the correct answer for your rebound points.
Toss-up.
What man who wrote, "There is never any ending to Paris," in his memoir, A Movable Feast, depicted Jake Barnes' visit to Pamplona, in The Sun Also Rises?
- Hemingway - (whispering) It's not ours.
(signal beeping) - Andrea Delaware Valley?
- Hemingway.
- [Regina] Hemingway is the correct answer Andrea and your bonus Delaware Valley.
Pencil and paper.
If set A has 12 elements, and set B has 15, what is the minimum possible number of elements in the union of A and B?
(signal beeping) - [Regina] Riley?
- Zero?
- [Regina] Zero is incorrect.
It is 15.
Toss-up.
What man who published the newspaper L'Aurore, regained Alsace-Lorraine from Germany as the French Prime Minister at the 1919?
(signal beeping) - [Regina] Riley, Delaware Valley?
- De Gaulle?
- [Regina] De Gaulle is incorrect.
I'll complete and rebound the question to Berwick.
1919 Paris Peace Conference?
(timer signaling) That is Clemenceau.
Toss-up.
What painting, which shows two shadowy rowboats under a red circle sun, is it?
(signals beeping) - [Regina] Jack, Berwick?
- The Scream.
- [Regina] Is incorrect.
I'll complete the question in a rebound to Delaware Valley.
Red circle sun is a depiction of Le Havre's harbor by Claude Monet and named an art movement?
(signal beeping) - [Regina] Jackson?
- Impressions?
- [Regina] Impressions.
Correct answer Jackson for your rebound points.
Toss-up.
What pathway which generates acetyl-CoA, used in the citric acid cycle, uses investment and payoff phases to generate two net molecules of ATP?
(signal beeping) - [Regina] Andrea, Delaware Valley?
- Cellular respiration?
- [Regina] Is, cellular respiration is incorrect.
Rebound to Berwick.
(signal beeping) - [Regina] Emma?
- Krebs cycle?
- [Regina] Is also incorrect.
It is glycolysis.
Toss-up.
What organization, which suppressed the Thasian Rebellion and formed after the Battle of Plataea, was a league of Greek city-states led by Athens?
(signal beeping) - [Regina] Josephine, Berwick?
- The Hellenistic League?
- [Regina] Hellenistic is incorrect.
Rebound to Delaware Valley.
- (whispering) Guess.
(signal beeping) - [Regina] Jackson?
- The Athens League.
- Is also incorrect.
It is Delian.
Toss-up.
What author wrote about demonic mirror shards that freeze Kai's heart in The Snow Queen (signal beeping) and depicted.
Emma?
- Hans Christian Andersen?
- Hans Christian Andersen is the correct answer and now your bonus.
In October, 2022, what shoe company ended its partnership with Rapper Ye over his anti-Semitic comments?
- (whispering) Is it Nike, Adidas, Asics?
- No.
No.
The Yeezy's?
Yeezy's.
- Our answer is Yeezy's.
- It is incorrect.
It is Adidas.
Toss-up.
What actress played off anchor Audra on The Morning Show, co-created the Netflix series Never Have I Ever, and appeared on The Office as Kelly Kapoor?
(timer beeping) - Mindy Kaling.
Toss-up.
What animal's Adelie species will sometimes try?
(signal beeping) - [Regina] Emma, Berwick?
- Penguin.
- [Regina] Penguin.
Emma's correct answer and your bonus.
What American heiress was kidnapped in 1974 by the radical Symbionese Liberation Army and later helped the group perform bank robberies?
- Our answer is Vanderbilt.
- [Regina] Vanderbilt is incorrect.
It is Patty Hearst.
And that is the end of the first quarter and it's now time for the Lightning Round.
(electricity buzzing) 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.
Delaware Valley has won the coin toss and will choose first.
Your categories are Alexandria or "F" cities.
The time begins when I finish reading the first question.
(participants chattering) - Uh "F" cities.
- "F" cities.
Name these cities that begin with the letter F. Capital of Tuscany and birthplace of the Italian Renaissance.
(signal beeping) - [Regina] Riley?
- Florence.
- [Regina] Correct.
Moroccan city that names a type of felt hat.
(signal beeping) - [Regina] Riley?
- Fez?
- [Regina] Correct.
Capital of Sierra Leone.
- (whispering) I'll do it.
(signal beeping) - [Regina] Jackson?
- Freetown.
- [Regina] Correct.
Michigan birthplace of General Motors.
(signal beeping) - [Regina] Riley?
- Ford.
- [Regina] Flint.
Most populous city in North Dakota.
(signal beeping) - [Regina] Riley?
- Fargo.
- [Regina] Correct.
Second most populous Alaskan city.
(signal beeping) - [Regina] Riley?
- Fairbanks.
- Correct.
Indiana city named after a mad Revolutionary War general.
(signal beeping) - [Regina] Clint?
- Fairfield?
- [Regina] for Fort Wayne.
City home to Colorado State University.
(signal beeping) - [Regina] Riley?
- Pass.
- [Regina] Fort Collins.
German city and headquarters of the European Central Bank.
(signal beeping) - Clint?
- Uh, Frankfurt.
- [Regina] Correct.
Capital of the Canadian province of New Brunswick.
(signal beeping) - [Regina] Riley?
- Fairfax?
- [Regina] Fredericton.
Moving over to our team from Berwick.
Your category is Alexandria.
Answer the following about the Egyptian city of Alexandria.
Its founder, a conqueror from Macedon.
(signal beeping) - Alexander The Great.
- [Regina] Is correct.
Century BC in which it was founded.
(signal beeping) - [Regina] Josephine?
- First?
- [Regina] Fourth.
Macedonian derived dynasty of pharaohs who ruled it.
(signal beeping) - Ptolemy?
- [Regina] Correct.
The sea on which it lies.
(signal beeping) - [Regina] Josephine?
- Mediterranean.
- [Regina] Correct.
Wonder of the Ancient World located there.
(signal beeping) - [Regina] Jack?
- The pyramids.
- [Regina] Lighthouse.
Its queen who died by snake bite in 30 BC.
(signal beeping) - Cleopatra?
- [Regina] Correct.
Roman dictator who occupied it and was killed on the Ides of March.
(signal beeping) - Caesar - [Regina] I'm sorry?
- Caesar.
- [Regina] Correct.
Engineer who lived there, and names a formula for the area of a triangle.
(signal beeping) - [Regina] Emma?
- Heron?
- [Regina] Is correct.
There are, the caliphate consisting of the first four successors to Muhammad that conquered it.
(signal beeping) - [Regina] Christopher?
- Aubid?
- [Regina] Rashidun.
Ancient structure that was reestablished in 2002.
(signal beeping) - [Regina] Josephine?
- The Library of Alexandria?
- [Regina] Is the correct answer.
And that's the end of the Lightning Round.
Let's update our score.
We have Berwick with 65 points and Delaware Valley with 50 points.
We're going to move into the second quarter with this toss-up question.
What woman who was nicknamed the Lady with the Lamp for her humanitarian medical work in the Crimean War established the modern standard for nurses?
(signal beeping) - [Regina] Josephine?
- Florence Nightingale?
- [Regina] Florence Nightingale's correct answer Josephine.
And your bonus.
What French thinker set up Europe's first sociology department in 1895 and wrote the Division of Labor in Society.
(participants chattering) - Our answer is Montesquieu.
- [Regina] Montesquieu is incorrect.
It is Emile Durkheim.
Toss-up.
What geometry, the preferred form for any atom with SP3 hybridization, is exhibited by methane, and is named after a solid with four faces.
(signal beeping) - [Regina] Riley, Delaware Valley?
- Pyramid?
- [Regina] Pyramid is incorrect.
Rebound to Berwick.
(signal beeping) - [Regina] Christopher?
- Cylinder.
- [Regina] Cylinder is incorrect.
It is tetrahedral.
Toss-up.
What frightened character who screams "you turned the page" while narrating the children's story?
(signal beeping) - [Regina] Riley?
- Grover.
- [Regina] Grover's correct answer Riley.
And your bonus.
The Tipitapa River links Lake Managua to what other lake which shares its name with a country, whose cities include Masaya and Leon.
(participants whispering) (signal beeping) - [Regina] Riley?
- Spain?
- [Regina] Spain is incorrect.
It is Nicaragua.
Toss-up.
What woman profiled in the 2018 book Bad Blood was sentenced in November, 2022 to over 11 years in prison for?
(signal beeping) - [Regina] Riley?
- Elizabeth.
(participants whispering) - [Regina] No answer?
- No answer.
- I'll complete the question in rebound to Berwick.
In prison for defrauding investors in Theranos?
(signal beeping) - [Regina] Josephine?
- Smith?
- [Regina] Smith is incorrect.
It is Elizabeth Holmes.
Toss-up.
Khalid Islambouli planned the killing of what man who worked on the Menachem Begin on the Camp David Accords and was the third President of Egypt?
(signal beeping) - [Regina] Christopher?
- Nasser?
- [Regina] Nasser's incorrect rebound to Delaware Valley.
(signal beeping) - No answer.
- Clinton?
Okay, the correct answer is Anwar Sadat.
Toss-up.
What British scientist used a heat conduction to estimate and to argue, uh sorry.
Heat conduction estimate to argue, that the Earth is at most 400 million years old and names the SI unit of temperature?
(signal beeping) - [Regina] Andrea?
- Fahrenheit?
- [Regina] Fahrenheit is incorrect.
Rebound to Berwick.
(signal beeping) - [Regina] Josephine?
- Kelvin?
- [Regina] Kelvin's the correct answer for your rebound points.
Toss-up.
What title character lives by the shores of the Gitche Gumee and is the beloved of Minnehaha in eight, in an 1855 epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow?
(signal beeping) - [Regina] Josephine, Berwick.
- No answer.
- [Regina] Okay, rebound to Delaware Valley.
(signal beeping) - [Regina] Jackson?
- Elizabeth?
- [Regina] Elizabeth is incorrect.
It as Hiawatha.
Toss-up.
What concept studied in Hamartiology, whose original type was explained by St. Augustine, has sloth, envy, and gluttony among?
(signal beeping) - [Regina] Jack, Berwick?
- Sin.
- [Regina] Sin.
Jack's correct answer and your bonus.
Rust is an alloy consisting primarily of copper and what group 12 metal.
(timer beeping) (participants chattering) - Our answer is tin.
- [Regina] Tin is incorrect.
It is zinc.
And that's the end of the first half.
So let's take a look at our current score.
We have Berwick with 95 points and Delaware Valley with 60 points.
We're going to give our contestants a bit of a break and the opportunity for those of you at home to get to know them a little better.
Let's start with our students from Berwick.
Christopher, why don't you start us off and tell us about maybe your favorite book and why it is.
- I think my favorite book would have to be The Fall of Gondolin by J.R.R.
Tolkien.
Um, I can't really say why specifically that book but I've always been a fan of his universes and it's just an excellent addition to an already great author's legacy.
- [Regina] Nice to hear.
Jack?
- I would say that my favorite book would be Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury.
I think it appropriately illustrates the importance of knowledge.
- [Regina] It sure does.
Emma?
- Um.
- [Regina] Still thinking about it?
- I don't know.
I read so much that I can't really pick a favorite.
- [Regina] Okay, so you're a good reader.
All right.
Josephine?
- My favorite book would have to be Tuesdays with Morrie and I like that book because it really puts into focus how precious life is and how, how, just how precious life is I guess.
- [Regina] Yes it is.
Very nice to hear.
Let's move over to our team from Delaware Valley.
Riley?
- I would've to say my favorite book is Ready Player One because it's a very fun read and it talks a lot about pop culture.
- [Regina] Okay.
Jackson?
- My favorite book is The Inquisitor's Tale.
I love the genre, historical fiction and the climax of it is great.
- [Regina] Very good.
Andrea?
- My favorite book is The Invisible Man because it shows a lot about how you need to be careful.
- [Regina] You do.
Clint?
- My favorite book is The Lord of the Flies 'cause it's an interesting story about boys trying to develop a society on their own.
- [Regina] Oh, very good.
Nice to talk with all of you.
We will now begin the second half of the game with this toss-up question.
What territory is south of the Erez Border Crossing, is home to Khan Yunis, has been ruled by Hamas since 2007, and is?
(signal beeping) - [Regina] Riley, Delaware Valley?
- Palestine?
- [Regina] Palestine is incorrect.
I'll complete the question and rebound to Berwick.
Middle Eastern Strip?
(signal beeping) - [Regina] Christopher?
- Israel?
- [Regina] Israel's incorrect.
It is the Gaza Strip.
Toss-up.
What country which opposed the Grande Armee at Borodino during the reign of Alexander I, repulsed an 1812 invasion by French?
(signal beeping) - [Regina] Josephine, Berwick?
- Russia?
- [Regina] Russia, Josephine's correct answer and your bonus.
What United States Commodore's 1854 expedition to open Japan led to the signing of the Convention of Kanagawa?
- (whispering) I think it might have Perry.
Perry?
- Perry?
- Yes.
- Our answer is Perry.
- [Regina] Perry is correct answer for your bonus points.
Toss-up.
Pencil paper ready.
What is the greatest common factor of the two numbers, 91 and 65, given that 91 is divisible by 7, and 65 is divisible by 5?
(signal beeping) - [Regina] Andrea, Delaware Valley?
- 35?
- Is incorrect rebound to Berwick.
(signal beeping) - [Regina] Jack?
- Seven.
- [Regina] Seven is incorrect.
It is 13.
Toss-up.
What jazz band leader, whose signature tune was Moonlight Serenade, was a trombonist who was killed in a plane?
(signal beeping) - [Regina] Riley?
- Glenn Miller?
- [Regina] Glenn Miller's correct answer and your bonus.
The title of a 2022 documentary wished goodnight to what NASA probe that spent more than 14 years longer than planned, exploring the surface of Mars.
- (whispering) Opportunity.
- (whispering) Opportunity.
- (whispering) Yeah I think so too.
- (whispering) Go ahead and say it.
(signal beeping) - [Regina] Clint?
- Opportunity?
- [Regina] Opportunity's correct answer for your bonus points.
Toss-up.
What character who starts a buffalo stampede with Akela to kill the tiger Shere Khan is a man cub who is raised by?
(signal beeping) - [Regina] Jack, Berwick?
- Mowgli?
- [Regina] Mowgli is correct answer Jack.
And your bonus.
What reddish flower mentioned in the poem In Flanders Fields has become a symbol of remembrance for war dead in Canada and the United Kingdom?
- Our answer is poppies.
- [Regina] Poppy is correct answer for your bonus points.
Toss-up.
Pete Alonso broke a rookie home run record held by what player who wears number 99 and hit?
(signal beeping) - [Regina] Andrea?
- Babe Ruth?
- [Regina] Babe Ruth is incorrect.
I'll complete the question in rebound to Berwick.
And hit an all, all record 62, I'm sorry, an AL record 62 home runs in 2022 for the Yankees?
(signal beeping) - [Regina] Jack?
- Aaron Judge?
- [Regina] Aaron Judge is correct answer for your rebound points.
Toss-up.
What element's allotropes include a black one, similar to graphene, a flammable white one, and a red allotrope used in?
(signal beeping) - [Regina] Emma, Berwick?
- Phosphorus?
- [Regina] Phosphorus, Emma's correct answer and your bonus.
What name is given to the convergence point for all light rays passing through an optical lens parallel to the axis of the lens?
- (whispering) I don't know.
- Our answer is focal point.
- [Regina] Focal point's correct answer for your bonus points.
Toss-up.
What man who urged followers to cast down your bucket in the Atlanta Compromise speech was a Black leader who founded the Tuskegee Institute?
(signal beeping) - [Regina] Jackson, Delaware Valley?
- Booker T. Washington.
- Is correct answer.
Jackson and your bonus.
What red-haired woman won a Best Actress Oscar for playing the title evangelist In the Eyes of Tammy Faye, and played a CIA agent in Zero Dark 30.
(timer beeping) (signal beeping) - [Regina] Jackson?
- Nicole Kidman?
- [Regina] Nicole Kidman is incorrect.
It is Jessica Chastain.
And that is the end of the third quarter, and it's time for another Lightning Round.
(electricity buzzing) This time Berwick will choose first.
Your categories are Margarets or sea monsters.
- [Berwick Team] Sea monsters.
- [Regina] The time begins when I finish reading the first question.
- We'll take sea monsters please.
- Sea monsters.
Name these mythical monsters that live in the seas, lakes or rivers.
- Cryptid said to inhabit a lake in the Scottish Highlands.
(signal beeping) - [Regina] Jack?
- The Loch Ness Monster.
- [Regina] Correct.
Squid-like monster off the coast of Norway.
(signal beeping) - The Kraken?
- [Regina] Correct.
Maidens who lure sailors with songs?
(signal beeping) - Mermaids.
- [Regina] Sirens.
Great old one created by H.P.
Lovecraft.
(signal beeping) - Uh.
- [Regina] Christopher?
- Cthulhu?
- [Regina] Correct.
The Babylonian water goat featured in the Zodiac.
(signal beeping) - [Regina] Christopher?
- Pass.
- [Regina] Capricorn.
Swamp dwelling monster that can regrow heads.
(signal beeping) - [Regina] Emma?
- Hydra.
- [Regina] Correct.
Biblical sea serpent that names a Thomas Hobbes book.
(signal beeping) - Leviathan.
- [Regina] Correct.
Whirlpool monster in the Strait of Messina opposite Scylla.
(signal beeping) - Charybdis.
- Is correct.
Sea dwelling kaiju awakened by nuclear radiation.
(signal beeping) - [Regina] Josephine?
- Godzilla.
- [Regina] Correct.
Brother of Fenrir and Hel in North, Norse myth.
(signal beeping) - [Regina] Emma?
- Can I try to pronounce it here?
Germagander?
Is that how you pronounce it?
German gap something.
Is that right?
- [Judge] Yes.
(timer beeping) - Jormungand is the correct answer.
Moving over to our team from Delaware Valley.
(contestants chattering) Your category is Margarets.
Identify these people with the first name Margaret.
Author of Gone with the Wind.
(signal beeping) - [Regina] Andrea?
- Thatcher.
- [Regina] I'm sorry?
- Thatcher?
- [Regina] Mitchell.
Longest serving 20th century British Prime Minister.
(signal beeping) - Thatcher.
- [Regina] Correct.
Anthropologist who wrote Coming of Age in Samoa.
(signal beeping) - [Regina] Riley?
- Pass.
- Mead.
First woman to serve in both Houses of Congress.
(signal beeping) - [Regina] Riley?
- Williams.
- [Regina] Smith.
American birth control activist who wrote What Every Girl Should Know.
(signal beeping) - [Regina] Riley?
- Bloom.
- [Regina] Sanger.
Titanic survivor, also known as Molly, who was nicknamed Unsinkable.
(signal beeping) - [Regina] Jackson?
- Jones.
- [Regina] Brown.
Canadian author of Oryx and Crake.
(signal beeping) - Pass.
- [Regina] Atwood.
Documentary photographer married to Erskine Caldwell.
(signal beeping) - [Regina] Jackson?
- Margaret Caldwell?
- [Regina] Is incorrect.
Bourke-White.
Asian-American comic who played Kim Jong-Il on 30 Rock.
(signal beeping) - [Regina] Jackson?
- Pass.
- [Regina] Cho.
Transcendentalist editor.
(timer beeping) Okay, that's the end of our Lightning Round.
So let's take a look at our score.
We have Berwick with 190 points and Delaware Valley with 90 points.
We will now begin the last segment of the game with this toss-up question.
What phenomenon, seen in subjects judging line lengths in a Solomon Asch study happens when people alter beliefs or behavior to fit with others.
(signal beeping) - [Regina] Jack?
- Peer pressure?
- [Regina] Peer pressure is incorrect.
Rebound to Delaware Valley.
(signal beeping) - Suggestibility.
- [Regina] Is also incorrect.
It is conformity.
Toss-up.
What novel in which Compeyson drowns in the Thames after a fight with Abel Magwitch was written by Charles Dickens about an orphan named Pip.
(signal beeping) - [Regina] Riley?
- David Copperfield?
- Is incorrect.
Rebound to Berwick.
(signal beeping) - Jack?
- Great Expectations.
- Great Expectations is a correct answer for your rebound points.
Toss-up.
What particle has an anti-matter counterpart called the positron had its charge measured?
(signal beeping) - [Regina] Andrea, Delaware Valley?
- The God Particle?
- [Regina] Is incorrect.
I'll complete the question.
Rebound.
(signal beeping) - Emma?
- Electron?
- Electron is correct answer for your rebound points.
Toss-up.
What city is east of Callao, is home to the oldest university in the Americas (signal beeping) - [Regina] Was founded by?
Clint?
- Boston?
- [Regina] Boston's incorrect.
I'll complete the question in rebound to Berwick.
Founded by Francisco Pizarro and is the capital of Peru.
(signal beeping) - Josephine?
- Lima?
- [Regina] Lima's correct answer for your rebound points.
Toss-up.
In what city did German businessman John Rabe oversee a safety zone during a 1937 massacre committed by Japanese troops against Chinese civilians.
(signal beeping) - [Regina] Christopher?
- Nanjing?
- [Regina] Nanjing.
Christopher's correct answer and your bonus.
In what play by Henrik Ibsen does a town turn against Dr. Stockmann who tries to warn the public about dangerous bacteria in a local spa's water?
(participants whispering) - No answer.
- Okay.
The correct answer is An Enemy of the People.
Toss-up.
What type of field aligns the collective dipole moments of domains in iron and is pictured?
(signal beeping) - [Regina] Andrea, Delaware Valley?
- Electron field?
- [Regina] Electron field is incorrect.
I'll complete for the question to Berwick.
Pictured by lines running from a north pole to a south pole?
(signal beeping) - [Regina] Emma?
- Magnetic field?
- [Regina] Magnetic field is correct answer for your rebound points.
Toss-up.
What action is predicted in Penney's Game, is used by the comic villain Two-Face to decide his victim's fate?
(signal beeping) - [Regina] Josephine?
- A coin?
- [Regina] Can you be more specific?
- A silver dollar.
- [Regina] I'm sorry?
- A silver dollar.
- [Regina] Is incorrect.
I'll complete the question and rebound to Delaware Valley.
(signal beeping) - [Regina] Riley?
- Coin toss?
- [Regina] Coin toss is a correct answer for your rebound points.
Toss-up.
What city includes the Over-The-Rhine neighborhood, is separated from Covington, Kentucky by the Ohio River, and is home to the NFL's Bengals?
(signal beeping) - [Regina] Riley?
- Cincinnati.
Cincinnati's correct answer Riley.
And your bonus.
Pencil paper ready?
What complex number equals the sum of the four numbers, I + I squared + I cubed + I raised to the fourth power?
(signal beeping) - 24?
- [Regina] 24 is incorrect.
It is zero.
Toss-up.
In November, 2021, what woman ceased to be the head of the state of Barbados, but remained the leader of 15 commonwealth countries?
(signal beeping) - [Regina] Jackson?
- Queen Elizabeth II.
- Is correct answer Jackson and your bonus.
What man often blamed for an era of stagnation, led the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1982, after helping to topple Nikita Khrushchev.
- Oh.
Guess it.
- Yes.
Yeah.
- Go, go.
(signal beeping) - [Regina] Clint?
Gershaw.
Gerbshav.
- Is incorrect.
The correct answer is Brezhnev.
And that is the end of the game.
Our score is Delaware Valley 120 points and Berwick 240 points.
Congratulations Berwick.
You are this year's Scholastic Scrimmage Champion.
Thank you to all the teams who competed this year, and we'll see you next year, with another season of Scholastic Scrimmage.
I'm your host Regina Myers, and thank you for watching.
(upbeat marching band music) (marching band drumming)