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- Welcome to the 17th 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.

WVIA would like to thank our sponsors, FNCB and Peoples Security Bank for making this competition possible.

The rules of the game have been modified for this season's virtual version.

And in each half, students will have the chance to alternatively answer one question.

If they answer that question correctly, they'll receive a bonus question.

If their answer is incorrect, the other team can rebound but will not be given a bonus.

Students can also score points during the two Lightning Rounds in each game.

Judges tonight are educators from the WVIA viewing area and tonight's match features Hazleton versus Crestwood.

Playing for Hazleton are Curt Gammer and Kiera Koopshow.

Their alternates are Briana Kennedy, Gabrielle How and Sophia Neiman.

Their advisors are Rafael Billet and Kathy Tombasco.

Representing Crestwood are Anthony Danjo and Ruthie Malkesky.

Their alternates are Aubrey Colo and Olivia Richards.

Their advisor is Maria Koons.

Well, let's get started.

Hazleton has won the coin toss and will receive the first question, which is, what novel which helped inspire the Pure Food and Drug Act centers on a Lithuanian immigrant who works as a meat packer and is by Upton Sinclair?

- What is "The Jungle"?

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question.

The so-called shadow docket is sometimes used by what group whose current members include Steven Breyer?

(buzzer) - Ran out of time.

We're looking for the Supreme Court.

Okay Crestwood, here comes your first question.

What physicist who shared a Nobel prize with Sin-Itiro Tomonaga and Julian Schwinger depicted particle interactions in his namesake diagrams?

- Boer - Is incorrect.

Rebound to Hazleton.

(buzzer) - Okay.

That was Richard Feynman.

Okay.

Hazleton, here comes your next question.

What general, who chaired America's Promise and led the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1989 to 1993 was the first African American Secretary of State?

- Who is Colin Powell?

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question now.

What German physicist who proved the existence of electromagnetic waves is the namesake of a unit of frequency?

(buzzer) - 'Kay.

That's Henrich Hertz.

Crestwood, here comes your next question.

What book in which Thrasymachus offers a definition of justice describes an ideal city-state ruled by a philosopher king and is by Plato?

- Pass - Rebound now to Hazleton.

- "Utopia"?

- Is incorrect.

We're looking for "The Republic".

Hazleton, here comes your next question.

What Chinese city is the origin of hot dry noodles, is the capital city of Hubei province and saw the first identified cases of COVID-19?

- Where is Wuhan, China?

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question.

The mother of Emperor Constantine the Great names what island in the south Atlantic where Napoleon spent his final years in exile?

- Helena?

- Be more specific.

- Oh, is the question of name of the mother or the name of the island?

St. Helena?

- Is correct for your bonus points, Hazleton.

Let's move over to Crestwood.

What principle which explains the lift of airplane wings states that a rise in the velocity of a fluid coincides with a decrease in pressure.

- Is it the boys?

(buzzer) - Okay.

Rebound to Hazleton.

- Are we allowed to ask what the question was?

Like, repeat the question?

- [Paul Lazar] No.

- Who are the Wright brothers?

- No, we're looking for Bernoulli's Principle.

(buzzer) - And that sound that you heard signals the end of the first quarter.

And it's now time for the Lightning Round.

(electrical strike) - 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.

Hazleton has won the coin toss and will pick first.

Your categories are trees or deserts.

- [Curt] Deserts.

- Okay.

Hazleton you've selected deserts and your time begins after I finish reading the first question.

What desert is the largest in Africa?

- What is the Sahara desert?

- [Paul Lazar] Yes.

Is named for the continent at the south pole.

- What is Antarctica?

- [Paul Lazar] Yes.

Is named for the peninsula that includes Yemen.

- What is the.

- [Paul Lazar] You can pass.

- The Arabian peninsula - Judges.

Is incorrect.

We're looking for the Arabian desert.

Covers much of southern Mongolia.

- What is the Gobi desert?

- [Paul Lazar] Yes.

Covers most of Botswana.

- What is the Kalahari desert?

- [Paul Lazar] Yes.

Is the world's driest non-polar desert and is centered in Northern Chile.

(buzzer) - What is the Andes desert?

- That was the Atacama desert.

Okay.

Hazleton, great job in the Lightning Round.

Crestwood, we're going to come over to you and your remaining category will be trees.

And again your time begins after I finish reading the first question.

Answer the following about trees.

Elongated stem of a tree.

- Trunk?

- [Paul Lazar] Yes.

Adjective for trees that shed their leaves.

- Pass - [Paul Lazar] Deciduous.

Buoyant material made from the bark of a type of oak.

- Driftwood - [Paul Lazar] Cork.

Tree providing most of a koala's diet.

- Bamboo - [Paul Lazar] Eucalyptus.

Clade of plants with enclosed seeds, including most trees.

- Pass - [Paul Lazar] Angiosperms.

Tree name that could be preceded by Fraser or Douglas.

- Oak?

- [Paul Lazar] Fir.

Uppermost layer of a forest formed by tree crowns.

- Canopy.

- [Paul Lazar] Yes.

Biome also called the boreal forest.

- Redwood?

- [Paul Lazar] Taiga.

Tree that aspirin is derived from.

(buzzer) - Asper.

- That was Willow.

All right, that's going to do it for the Lightning Round.

And after that, we currently have Hazleton in the lead over Crestwood 75 to 20.

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 Hazleton and Curt I'll come to you first.

Tell me what your plans are post-graduation?

What do you want to do after high school?

- Post graduation?

I'd either like to attend the Pennsylvania State University or manage my rare coin business, Gammercoin also.

- Okay, excellent.

Thank you, Curt.

Good luck.

Kiera, what would you like to do after graduation?

What are your plans?

- Post graduation, I would like to be something in the medical field, possibly a physician assistant, a pharmacist or an epidemiologist.

- Okay.

Good luck to you.

And it was nice meeting you.

Let's come over to Crestwood and Anthony, if you wouldn't mind telling us what your plans are after graduation?

- I'd like to go to Penn State to get a mechanical engineering degree.

- Okay.

Best of luck to you, Anthony.

And Ruthie, what are your plans?

- To attend college and study either computer engineering or cybersecurity.

- All right, good luck to all of you.

It was very nice to meet you.

Well, before we go any further we have to make a quick scoring adjustment as an answer that was earlier made by Hazleton was called incorrect when it was correct.

So we're adding 10 points to your score and the score is now correct.

We'll now begin the second quarter with this question that goes to Crestwood.

What world leader who leads the En Marche party and defeated Marine Le Pen in a 2017 runoff election is the current president of France?

- Emmanuel Macron?

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question.

What seer was a daughter of Priam cursed to have her prophecies never be believed?

- Pass - 'Kay.

That was Cassandra.

Hazleton, let's move back over to you.

What disaster whose cleanup made use of bio robots caused thousands of cancer deaths after a 1986 explosion at a Soviet nuclear power plant?

- Chernobyl.

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question.

What vice president under Gerald Ford also served as governor of New York and was the grandson of an oil billionaire?

(buzzer) - That was Nelson Rockefeller.

Crestwood, here's your next question.

What taxonomic class that includes invertebrates such as cuddle fish and squids has a name that comes from the Greek words for head and foot?

- Crustaceans?

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Hazleton.

- Tentacle.

- Is incorrect, we're looking for cephalopoda.

Cephalopoda.

Hazleton, here's your next question.

In what open world game series can a player fight the Mythic Dawn cult to become the hero of Kvatch in its Oblivion entry, which preceded Skyrim?

- Dark Souls?

- Is incorrect.

Rebound now to Crestwood - Elder Scrolls?

- Is correct for your rebound points Crestwood and here comes your next question.

What monarch who founded the Royal Academy of Arts and may have suffered from porphyria or dementia, ruled Britain during the American revolution?

- King George III?

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question.

What type of graduated glass tube with a stopcock on one end is often used during titrations?

- Beaker?

- No, we are looking for burette.

Hazleton, here's your next question and get your pencils and papers ready?

What is the measure in degrees of the third angle of a triangle whose other two angles measure 62 degrees and 45 degrees?

- 73 degrees.

- Yeah.

73 degrees.

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question.

What ancient Greek dramatist wrote about parents who decide to kill their own children in his plays "Iphigenia in Aulis" and "Medea"?

- Who was Socrates?

- That was, nope, we were looking for Euripides.

Let's move back to Crestwood.

What author wrote 54 novels in the Extraordinary Voyages series including one about Phileas Fogg's circumnavigation, "Around the World in 80 Days"?

(buzzer) - James Bradbury.

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Hazleton.

- Horace Greenley.

- Nope.

That author was Jules Verne.

And after one half of play, we currently have Hazleton in the lead over Crestwood 105 to 50.

And we're now going to take a quick break and say thank you to Curt and Kiera from Hazleton.

And thank you to Anthony and Ruthie from Crestwood.

We're now going to meet your teammates for the second half.

Playing for Hazleton in the second half are Bryce Greco and Lucy Olander and representing Crestwood are Jessica Niznik and Ben Rossi.

Our first question in this quarter will go to Hazleton.

And that question is what state in which Hurricane Henri made landfall in 2021 was led by governor Dan McKee in his New England state governed from Providence.

- Rhode Island?

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question and get your pencils and papers ready.

What is the volume of a cylinder with a height of 10 centimeters and a radius of five centimeters?

(buzzer) - We're looking for 250 pi cubic centimeters.

Crestwood, here's your next question.

What acid, which is combined with nitric acid and Aqua regia is a strong binary acid produced in the stomach and has the molecular formula HCL?

- Hydrochloric acid?

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

What name was shared by Robert Scott's 1901 Antarctic expedition and the companion ship to the HMS Resolution on James Cook's final Pacific voyage?

- Pass.

- 'Kay.

That was Discovery.

Hazleton, it's back over to you.

What senator nicknamed "The Little Giant" articulated his Freeport Doctrine on slavery during an 1858 debate series in Illinois against Abraham Lincoln.

(buzzer) - 'Kay.

Rebound now to Crestwood.

(buzzer) - Okay.

That was Steven Douglas.

Okay.

Crestwood, here comes your next question.

What term that is used for an association of 54 nations, mostly former British colonies, is used in the official name of the state of Pennsylvania?

- Commonwealth?

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question.

What highest point of Turkey, which is visible from neighboring Armenia, was the supposed resting spot of Noah's ark?

- Pass.

- Okay.

That's Mount Ararat.

Hazleton, it's back over to you.

What composer who had an opera house built in Beyreuth, wrote the opera's "Tristan and Isolde" and "Lohengrin" as well as the 15-hour Ring Cycle?

- Beethoven?

- Is incorrect, rebound to Crestwood.

- Boer?

- No, we're looking for Richard Wagner.

Crestwood, here's your next question.

What author of the essay collection "Notes of a Native Son" wrote about a teenager from Harlem named John Grimes in his "Go Tell it on the Mountain"?

- Pass.

- 'Kay, rebound to Hazleton.

- Pass.

- Okay.

That's James Baldwin.

Hazleton, here's your next question.

What monarch who launched the massacre of Novgorod using the Oprichniks became the first czar of Russia in 1547 and murdered his own son?

(buzzer) - Joseph?

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Crestwood.

- Nicolai?

- No we're looking for Ivan the Terrible and that sound that you heard signals the end of the third quarter and another Lightning Round.

(electrical crackling) - This time Crestwood will pick first.

Your categories are national soccer teams or maps.

- National soccer teams.

- Okay.

National soccer teams, it is.

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

Given the nickname of a national football team, name the country that that team represents.

The Socceroos.

- Pass - [Paul Lazar] Australia.

Die Mannschaft, meaning "the team".

- Brazil - [Paul Lazar] Germany.

Les Bleus, meaning "the blues".

- France.

- Yes.

The Pharaohs.

- Egypt.

- Yes.

El Tri.

- Mexico.

- Yes.

The All Whites, as opposed to their rugby team, the All Blacks.

- England - [Paul Lazar] New Zealand.

La Albiceleste meaning "the white and sky blue".

- Sweden - [Paul Lazar] Argentina.

Seleç ão meaning "the team".

- Pass.

- [Paul Lazar] Brazil.

Blagult meaning "the blue yellow".

- Sweden.

- [Paul Lazar] Yes.

Strákarnir okkar, meaning "our boys".

(buzzer) - Ran out of time.

That was Iceland.

Still though, Crestwood, fantastic job in the Lightning Round.

We're gonna move over to Hazleton now and Hazleton, your remaining category will be maps.

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

Answer for the following about maps.

Term for a collection of maps.

- Atlas.

- [Paul Lazar] Yes.

Term for a map maker.

- Cartographer - [Paul Lazar] Yes.

Transit system nicknamed "The Tube" with an iconic map.

- Pass - [Paul Lazar] London Underground.

Government organization whose World Fact Book includes maps.

- Oh, pass on that one too.

- CIA.

Line that joins points of equal elevation.

- Longitude?

- [Paul Lazar] Contour line.

Any method of flattening the globe surface into two dimensions.

- Pass.

- [Paul Lazar] Map projection.

Nickelodeon "Explorer" with a map and talking backpack.

- Dora (buzzer) - Got that right under the bell there, Lucy.

Congratulations on that.

That's going wrap up your portion of the Lightning Round.

And after that we currently have Hazleton in the lead over Crestwood 145 to 110.

And again, we're going to take a little bit of a break and get to know the contestants playing the second half a little better.

And we'll start with Bryce from Hazleton.

Bryce, if you wouldn't mind telling us what your plans are after graduation?

- I plan to attend Grove City College and major in history with hopes to eventually attend law school.

- Excellent.

Best of luck to you, Bryce.

Thanks for being here.

And Lucy, what are your plans after graduation?

- I plan to attend college and major in engineering.

- Good luck to you as well.

And thanks for being here today.

Crestwood, we're going to come over to Jessica, if you wouldn't mind telling us what your plans are post-graduation.

- I plan to attend college and pursue something in the medical field.

- Okay.

Excellent.

And Ben, what are your post high school plans?

- I plan to attend a university and study finance or economics.

- Okay, excellent.

Thank you all for being here.

It was very nice to meet you.

I will now go ahead and begin the last segment of the game with this question that goes to Crestwood.

What island whose county of Armagh is part of its historical region of Ulster contains a namesake northern region that is part of the UK?

- Britain?

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Hazleton.

- Scotland?

- No, we're looking for Ireland.

Okay.

Hazleton, here's your next question.

Hashimoto's and Graves Diseases are disorders of what butterfly shaped gland that makes calcitonin, is stimulated by TSH and is enlarged in a goiter?

- Thyroid.

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question.

The city of Iqaluit is on what island, which is the largest in Canada?

- Iceland?

- Nope.

We're looking for Baffin Island.

Crestwood, let's come back to you.

What quarterback asked to run the play Jet Chip Wasp in Super Bowl 54, a long pass to Tyreek Hill that sparked a comeback for his Kansas City Chiefs?

- Patrick Mahomes?

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question.

About 150 species of vipers are named after what heat sensing organs in their heads?

- Pass.

- 'Kay.

That's pit or pit viper.

Hazleton, let's come back back to you.

What state is home to the US Air Force Academy as well as a university campus in Boulder, which is about 25 miles northwest of Denver?

- Colorado?

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

What author wrote about a siege of Torquilstone Castle in a novel about a disinherited medieval knight titled "Ivanhoe"?

- Pass.

- Okay.

That's Sir Walter Scott.

Crestwood, here comes your next question.

What country where the plague is set in Oran was the birth country of Albert Camus, who wrote about Meursault shooting a man near Algiers?

- Iran?

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Hazleton.

- France?

- Nope.

We're looking for Algeria.

Okay.

Hazleton, here comes your next question.

What dynasty ceded northern China to the Jin dynasty beginning at southern period and was later conquered by the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty?

- The Han dynasty?

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Crestwood.

- The Song dynasty?

- Is correct for your rebound points, Crestwood.

Great job.

And here comes your next question.

What home country of the sculptors Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore is home to a sandstone monument called Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square?

- France?

- Nope.

We're looking for the United Kingdom.

Hazleton, here comes your next question.

What character meets Aristotle's ghost in Glubbdubdrib after leaving the floating island of Laputa in a Jonathan Swift novel about this man's travels?

- Gulliver?

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question.

"I've always depended on the kindness of strangers" are the final words of what character in Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire"?

- Pass.

(buzzer) - 'Kay.

That's Blanche Dubois.

And that's the end of the game.

And our winner tonight is Hazleton over Crestwood, 175 to 130.

Congratulations, Hazleton.

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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