(upbeat music) - 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, but 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 Wyoming Area versus Delaware Valley.

Playing for Wyoming Area, are Hailey Patts and Owen Hizynski.

Their alternate is Matt Pelleschi.

Their advisor is Molly Kearns.

Representing Delaware Valley, are Ralph Courtright and Clint Murray.

Their advisor is Michael Murray.

Well, let's get started.

Wyoming Area has won the coin toss and will receive the first question which is, what property that has an inclusive form involving kin's selection is according to Charles Darwin, maximized by those organisms most likely to survive?

- Fitness.

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

John F. Kennedy established what award, which along with congressional gold medal is America's highest civilian honor?

- Medal of Honor.

- It is incorrect.

We're looking for the medal of freedom.

Delaware Valley, here is your first question.

What Hungarian born rival of William Randolph Hearst published the New York World and lenses named prizes for the arts and journalism?

- Pulitzer.

- Is correct and here's your bonus question.

What Norwegian dramatist pioneered theatrical realism in 19th century plays such as Hedda Gabler?

(timer beeping) - Okay, that's Henrik Ibsen.

Wyoming Area, it's back over to you.

What play in which Karl Lidner tries to stop a family moving to Clybourne Park follows the Younger family and was written by Lorraine Hansberry?

- Raisin in the Sun.

- Is correct and here's your bonus question and get your pencils and papers ready.

What is the value of the fraction, 1/4 raised to the negative third power?

(timer beeping) We ran out of time.

We were looking for 64.

Delaware Valley, here is your next question.

What man who chaired Amy Coney Barrett's confirmation hearing succeeded Strom Thurmond in the Senate and is the senior Senator from South Carolina?

(timer beeping) Okay, ran out of time, rebound to Wyoming Area.

- Pass.

- Okay, That's Lindsay Graham.

All right, Wyoming Area, here's your next question.

What street which includes the so-called Canyon of Heroes crosses Manhattan's grid system and is the namesake of New York City's theater district?

- Broadway.

- That's correct.

Wyoming Area, and here's your bonus question.

Voyagers were North American frontiersmen who transported and traded in what commodity?

The primary trade good of the early Hudson's Bay Company.

- Is it beaver pelts?

- Is correct for your bonus points, Wyoming Area, great job.

Delaware Valley, here's your question and get your pencils and papers ready.

What is the product of 32 times 28, given that the difference of Square's method says it equals 30 squared minus two squared?

- 896 - Is correct, and here's your bonus question.

What title character learns that he's the nephew of Squire Allworthy and subsequently marries Sophia Western in the 1749 novel by Henry Fielding?

- Don Quixote.

Don Quixote - Is incorrect.

We are looking for Tom Jones, and that sound that you heard signals the end of the first quarter.

And it's now time for the lightning round.

(air whooshing) 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.

Wyoming Area has won the coin toss and will pick first.

Your categories are poetic terminology or iconic years from history.

- We get poetic terminology.

- Poetic terminology it is.

And your time begins after I finish reading the first question, and don't forget to speak up please.

Name these terms related to poetry, a single metrical unit with an anatomical name.

- Pass - Foot, repetition of initial consonants.

- Alliteration.

- Yes, a pair of consecutive rhyming lines.

- Pass.

- Couplet.

A short poem inscribed on a tombstone.

- Epitaph.

- Yes.

Humorous five line form popularized by Edward Leer.

- Limerick.

- Yes, rhyme that occurs within a single line.

- Pass.

- Internal rhyme, three letter word for a poem of praise.

- Pass - Ode, any stanza with four lines.

- Pass.

- Quatrain, the first eight lines of a sonnet.

(bell dinging) Ran out of time.

That was octave.

Still a very good job in the lightning round, Wyoming Area.

We're gonna come over to Delaware Valley, and Delaware Valley, your remaining category will be iconic years from history.

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

Identify the four digit years when these events happened.

Battle of Hastings.

- 1066.

- Yes, Christopher Columbus reaches the Americas.

- 1492.

- Yes, end of World War II.

- 1945.

- Yes, Magna Carta signed.

- 1215.

- Yes, Wall street crash that caused the great depression.

- 1929.

- Yes, Apollo 11 mission completes the first manned moon landing.

- 1969.

- Yes, September 11th attacks.

- 2001.

- Yes, storming of the Bastille begins the French revolution.

- 1795.

- 1789, Battle of Waterloo.

- 1815.

- Yes, great fire of London.

- 1611 - Nope, we're looking for 1666, and that's going to do it for the lightning round.

And after that, we have Delaware Valley in the lead over Wyoming Area, 100 to 65.

And we're now 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.

And we'll start with the students from Wyoming Area, and Hailey, we want to know what it is you do for fun when you're not in class.

- When I'm not in class, I'm at the dance studio.

I'm a dancer.

I play tap dance and lyrical, a bunch of types where I'm also singing.

I look at the form.

- That's excellent, that's excellent.

Very cool, thank you, Hailey, and Owen, what do you like to do for fun when you're not in class?

- I like to read and I also like to play, look up different board games, very interested in math at the moment.

- Excellent, very cool.

Thanks for being here Wyoming Area.

Delaware Valley, we're gonna come over to you, and Ralph, if you wouldn't mind telling us what your favorite subject is at Delaware Valley, and why?

- Ooh, my favorite subject at Delaware Valley is probably history, and it's just 'cause there's so many different events and things that intertwine, and you can relate them to things that are happening now.

- And you are very good at it, so very, very good.

Clint, - [Ralph] Thank you.

- What are your favorite classes at Delaware Valley?

- I like math, it's my favorite subject.

I'm just good for numbers.

- Excellent, it's a very good talent to have.

It was very nice to meet all of you.

And now we'll go ahead and begin the second quarter with this question that goes to Delaware Valley.

What year's presidential election which included the constitutional union party led to the succession of Southern states after Abraham Lincoln won?

- 1860.

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

In what decade of the 1900s did Charl Dugal return to power as the French fourth Republic collapse during the Algerian crisis?

- The 1960s.

- No, we're looking for the 1950s.

Wyoming Area, here is your question.

Dark energy speeds up what process that results in cosmological Redshift as distant galaxies move farther away, which is contrasted with contraction?

- Expansion.

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

A book of short stories by Sherwood Anderson is titled for what fictional town in Ohio?

- Pass.

- Okay, that's Weinsberg, Ohio.

Delaware Valley, here's your next question.

What character hopes to catch a glimpse of Rosalyn at a masked ball where instead falls in love with the Capulet family's daughter Juliet?

- Romeo.

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

What woman whose namesake European space agency Rover is scheduled a land on Mars in 2021 was called the dark lady of DNA in a 2002 book?

- Murray Cury.

- Nope, we're looking for Rosalind Franklin.

Wyoming Area, here's your next question.

What American artist who painted many pictures of Helga Testorf depicted a woman in a pink dress crawling towards a farmhouse in Christina's world?

- Pass.

- Okay, rebound to Delaware Valley.

(timer beeping) Okay, that was Andrew Wyath, Delaware Valley, here's your next question.

What number that denotes the oldest star population is also the number of divisions of the small intestine, as well as the smallest odd prime number?

- Two.

- Is incorrect, rebound to Wyoming Area.

- Three.

- Three is correct.

Remember, you're looking for the smallest odd prime number.

Wyoming Area, here comes your next question.

What war in which Alexander Samsonov shot himself after losing the battle of Tannenburg caused the fall of the Romanov dynasty of Russia in 1917?

- World War I.

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

What material property, which depends on the polarization of light in the phenomenon of birefringence appears in Snells law?

- Pass.

- Okay, that was the index of refraction.

Delaware Valley, here's your next question.

What thinker is traditionally considered the author of the five classics had his teachings collected in the Analects, and was a Chinese philosopher?

- Confucius.

- Confucius.

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

The marquis of Pombal helped rebuild what capital city that was leveled by an earthquake and tsunami on all saints day in 1755?

- Lisbon.

- Is correct for your bonus points, Delaware Valley.

Let's move back over to Wyoming Area and get your pencils and papers ready.

What are the Cartesian coordinates of the point whose polar coordinates are 4,270 degrees?

- 450- (timer beeping) - I'm sorry, repeat please.

- 450 - Is incorrect, rebound now to Delaware Valley.

- 168.

- No, we're looking for 0,-4.

After one half of play, we currently have Delaware Valley in the lead over Wyoming Area, 135 to 95.

We wanna say thank you to Hailey and Owen from Wyoming Area, and thank you to Ralph and Clint from Delaware Valley.

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

Playing for Wyoming Area in the second half are Dylan Rosati and Maddie Kaharcheck.

Representing Delaware Valley are Isaac Courtright and Sarah Flick.

Our first question in the third quarter goes to Wyoming Area.

And that question is, what series in which the gelatinous engineer Yaphit serves under Ed Mercer as a live action show starring Seth McFarland that parody star Trek?

- Austin Powers.

- Is incorrect, rebound now to Delaware Valley.

(timer beeping) Okay, that series is the Orval.

Delaware Valley, here is your next question.

What city which names a type of steel characterized by wavy flow like bands was the capital of the Umayyad caliphate and is the capital of Syria?

- Damascus.

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

What programming language often used for scientific purposes was developed by John Backas at IBM and released in 1957?

- Basic.

- No, the answer is Fortran.

Wyoming Area, it's back to you.

What native tribe known in their language as the Dine'e, and has the nation's largest reservation and had members serve in World War II as code talkers?

- Navajo.

- Is correct, and here's your bonus question, Madison Bumgardner threw an unofficial seven inning no-hitter in 2021 as a member of what national league west team, sometimes called the snakes?

- And potentially diamond serve.

- Nope, we were looking for the Arizona Diamondbacks.

Delaware Valley, here comes your next question.

What element from which most MRI machines detect signals and has isotopes with mass numbers two and three, and is the most abundant element in the universe?

- Hydrogen.

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

What name is shared by a Danish jewelry company that makes customizable bracelets and a music streaming service bought by Sirius XM in 2019?

- Pandora.

- Is correct, for your bonus points, Delaware Valley.

Let's move back now to Wyoming Area.

What US city was the site of the 12th street race riot in 1967, includes one end of the ambassador bridge and was the first headquarters of Motown?

- Detroit.

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

In Jeffrey Chaser's Canterbury tales, a body wife from what English city gives an account of her five marriages?

- Fantastic.

- Nope, we're looking for Beth.

Delaware Valley, here's your next question, what author of the poems after apple picking and birches wrote about having miles to go before I sleep in stopping by woods on a snowy evening?

- Frost.

- Is correct, and here's your bonus question, in 1992, riots broke out in Los Angeles after police officers who had been filmed beating what man were acquitted of assault?

(timer beeping) Okay, that's Rodney King.

Wyoming Area, it's back to you.

What American chemists who coined the term photon defined bases as electron pair donors and represented covalent bonds with his namesake dot diagrams?

- Lewis.

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

What process a form of nitrogen fixation is the main technique used for the industrial production of ammonia?

- Actual distillation.

- Nope, we're looking for the Hobart Bosch process.

And that sound that you heard signals the end of the third quarter and another lightning round.

(air whooshing) This time, Delaware Valley will pick first.

Your categories are movies by the numbers or Catholic masses.

- Movies by the number.

- Okay, movies by the numbers it is.

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

Given an incomplete movie title and one of its stars, give the number that begins the title.

Glenn Close blank Dalmatians, two answers acceptable.

- 101.

- Yes, Cheer Delay, blank, a space Odyssey.

- 2001.

- Yes, Jonah Hill blank Jump Street.

Two answers are acceptable.

- 21.

- Yes, Eminem, blank Mile.

- Pass.

- Eight Mile.

Heath Ledger blank Things I hate about you.

- 10.

- Yes, Marilyn Monroe The blank year itch.

- Seven.

- Yes, Katherine Heigl blank Dresses.

- Three.

- 27, Zach Efron blank again.

- 17.

- Yes, Brad pit blank Monkeys.

(timer beeping) Ran out of time, that was 12.

Okay, Delaware Valley, you did fantastic in the lightning round.

Wyoming Area, we're coming over to you.

Your remaining category will be Catholic masses.

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

Give these answers related to Catholic masses.

Original language of the Roman right.

- Pass.

- Latin, musical setting of the mass for the dead.

- Pass.

- Requiem, consecrated bread consumed during mass.

- Body of Christ.

- Be more specific.

- Body of Christ.

- No, small statue of Jesus on the cross carried in processions before mass.

- Respects.

- Yes, midnight mass often ends the Eve of this holy day in December.

- Christmas.

- Yes, structure at the front of the church where the gospel book is placed.

- Manger.

- I'm sorry?

- Manger.

- Altar, that's going to do it for the lightning round.

And before we go any further, we have a quick scoring adjustment we'd like to make for Wyoming Area.

They did get an earlier question in the lightning round correct, so we'll credit them with those points.

And now the score leaves us at Delaware Valley 230 to Wyoming Area, 155.

Well, 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.

We'll start with the students from Wyoming Area, and Dylan, if you wouldn't mind telling us what you do for fun when you're not in class.

- When I'm not in class, I usually to go to football and after that, all the way on a little bit and I don't know, I like driving around pretty much.

- Okay, excellent.

And Maddie, what do you like to do for fun?

- I like spending time with my friends.

- All right, sounds good.

Good luck the rest of the way Wyoming Area.

Delaware Valley gonna come over to you, Isaac, if you wouldn't mind telling us what your favorite subject is at Delaware Valley.

- My favorite subject at Delaware Valley is probably German because I know a lot of schools around here don't have German as an option, especially not to get up to five years of learning the language.

And it's just a lot of fun.

- Excellent, thank you, Isaac.

And Sarah, what is your favorite subject in school?

- My favorite subject in school is probably science because I'm in AP biology right now.

And I really enjoy the course.

- Excellent, thank you for being here Delaware Valley.

It was very nice to meet you again.

And we'll now begin the last segment of the game with this question that goes to Delaware Valley.

What objects, examples of which include the Z grill and inverted Jenny are studied and collected by philatelists and used to pay for mail postage?

- Stamps.

- Stamps.

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

What current president of the Philippines announced that he would run for vice president in the country's 2022 elections?

(timer beeping) Okay, that's Rodrigo Duterte.

Wyoming Area, here is your next question.

What character succeeds Finis Valorum as Supreme chancellor after the invasion of Naboo and later lures Anakin Skywalker to the dark side?

- Palpatine.

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

Santiago digs for treasure at the foot of the Egyptian pyramids in what 1988, Paulo Coelho novel whose title character can turn lead into gold?

- Alchemist.

- Is correct, very good.

Let's move back to Delaware Valley.

What owner of the con shell Paja jana whose 10 incarnations include the fish Matia, the hero Rama, and Krishna is the Hindu preserver God?

- Vishnu.

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

What politician became the first female vice presidential nominee of a major party when she ran with Walter Mondale in 1984?

(timer beeping) Okay, that answer was Geraldine Ferraro.

Wyoming Area, it's back to you.

What river, which is crossed by the sixth October bridge is formed from blue and white tributaries at cartoon and flows through Sudan and Egypt?

- Nile.

- Yes, and here's your bonus question now.

What sequences of three nucleotides have start and stop examples, and in most cases, specify one amino acid?

- Codons.

- Is correct, for your bonus points, Wyoming Area, Delaware Valley, it's back to you, which man who sent Shu Fu to look for an Elixir of immortality began construction of the great wall after becoming the first emperor to unify China?

- Sher won D. - Is correct, and here's your bonus question.

Photo therapy also called light therapy is a potential treatment for what psychological condition, also treated with SSRIs and MAOIs?

- Schizophrenia.

- Nope, we're looking for depression.

Wyoming Area, here's your next question.

What composer of the tone poems and Alpine symphony and Don Juan included of brass fanfare, titled "Sunrise" at the beginning of Also sprach Zarathustra?

- Beethoven.

- Is incorrect, rebound to Delaware Valley.

(timer beeping) Okay, that was Recart Straus, Delaware Valley, here's your next question.

What Austrian, who names an equation for the evolution of a wave function created a thought experiment involving a cat that is both alive and dead?

- Schrodinger.

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

A 2019 raid near the Syrian village of Barisha killed what Iraqi leader who was the self-proclaimed Califf of the Islamic state?

(timer beeping) Okay, that's Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and that's the end of the game.

And our winner tonight is Delaware Valley over one Wyoming Area, 270 to 185.

Congratulations, Delaware Valley.

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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