(upbeat music) ♪ Go - Welcome to the 17th season of WVIA's Scholastic Scrimmage.

I'm your host, Regina Meyers.

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 Lakeland versus Scranton.

Representing Scranton is Sephora Charlotte, Kaylee Butler, Amelia King, and their captain Chloe Tucker.

The alternates are Josephine Krokus and Nathan Jerro.

Their advisor is Lynn Harding.

Representing Lakeland is Sam Black, Anna Liuzzo, Arthur Walsh, and their Captain, Max Slick.

Their alternates are Daniel Black and Finn Davy and their advisor is Jill Marino.

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 or 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 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 author of "No Cross, No Crown" received a 1681 land grant from Charles II and was a Quaker who established a colony?

(buzzer beeping) Chloe Scranton?

- William Penn.

- William Penn, Chloe's correct answer.

And your bonus, Scranton, Joseph Priestley is one of two chemists credited with discovering what gas which Priestly referred to as dephlogisticated air?

(team whispering) - Carbon dioxide, maybe?

(buzzer beeping) - [Regina] Kaylee?

- Carbon dioxide?

- Carbon dioxide is incorrect, it is oxygen.

Toss-up, what programming structures are often unrolled during compilation, come in four and wild types, and repeatedly execute.

(buzzer beeping) - [Regina] Kaylee?

- Loops?

- Loops, Kaylee's correct answer.

And your bonus Scranton, what animal who created the Milky Way by throwing some Black God's stars into the sky was the trickster God of Navajo mythology?

(buzzer beeping) - [Regina] Chloe?

- Maui?

- Maui is incorrect, it is Coyote.

Toss-up, which goddess who killed the daughters of Niobe and transformed Actaeon into a stag was the twin sister of Apollo and the goddess?

(buzzer beeping) Arthur at Lakeland?

- Artemis?

- Artemis is the correct answer.

And your bonus, in what city can one walk up the Spanish steps to reach the Trinita Dei Monti Church?

- Go for it.

- Rome?

- Rome is correct answer for your bonus points.

Toss-up, what sitcom depicted a drink called snake juice that intoxicates Ron, a President of Pawnee, who works with Leslie Knope in the title city department?

(buzzer beeping) - [Regina] Sam?

- Parks and Rec?

- Parks and Rec is correct answer.

And your bonus, Lakeland, what group of particles named after a word from James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake come in six flavors like strange, bottom, and top?

(buzzer beeping) - Quarks?

- Quarks, Sam's correct answer for your bonus points.

Toss-up, what island whose north shore includes Cold Spring Harbor is home to the boroughs of Queens and Brooklyn and is New York's largest island?

(buzzer beeping) - [Regina] Max, Lakeland?

- Staten Island?

- Staten Island is incorrect.

Rebound to Scranton.

(buzzer beeping) - [Regina] Chloe?

- Manhattan?

- Manhattan is incorrect, it is Long Island.

Toss-up, what religion whose persecuted priests were called Kakure or hidden in Tokugawa era Japan was spread by Francis Xavier and other Jesuits?

(buzzer beeping) Kaylee?

- Catholicism?

- Catholicism is correct.

And your bonus, what long Latin poem by Ovid describes many examples of the title phenomena including Nyleas being changed into stone and Talus becoming a partridge?

(team whispering) (buzzer beeping) - Medusa?

- Medusa?

- [Amelia] Yeah.

- Is incorrect, it is metamorphosis.

Toss-up, what quantity which is constant in isochoric processes is inversely proportional to pressure by Boyle's law and can be measured in liters?

(buzzer beeping) Arthur, Lakeland?

- Volume?

- Correct, Arthur.

And your bonus, in what European capital city was Zaniar Matapour arrested in June, 2022 after committing a mass shooting at an LGBT Pride Festival?

- London?

- London is incorrect, it is Oslo, Norway.

That is the end of the first quarter and it's now time for the lightning round.

(electricity sparking) 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.

Scranton has won the coin toss and will pick first.

Your categories are lightning or literary animals.

(buzzer beeping) - Literary animals.

- Literary animals.

The time begins when I finish reading, when I begin reading the first question.

Literary animals.

Given a literary character, identify what animal it is.

Charlotte in Charlotte's Web?

(buzzer beeping) - A pig?

- [Regina] Incorrect, spider.

Moby Dick?

- Oh my gosh.

(buzzer beeping) - [Regina] Kaylee?

- A whale?

- [Regina] Correct.

Napoleon in Animal Farm?

(buzzer beeping) Kaylee?

- Pig?

- [Regina] Correct.

Aslan in the Chronicles of Narnia?

(buzzer beeping) - Lion?

- [Regina] Correct.

Buck in the call of the Wild?

(buzzer beeping) Kaylee?

- Dog?

- [Regina] Correct.

Rocinante in Don Quixote?

(buzzer beeping) - A horse?

- [Regina] Correct.

Hazel in Watership Down?

(buzzer beeping) - Pass.

- A rabbit.

Richard Parker in Life of Pie?

(buzzer beeping) - Kaylee?

- Tiger?

- [Regina] Correct.

Rikki Tikki Tavy in the Jungle book?

(buzzer beeping) Chloe?

- Orangutan?

- [Regina] Mongoose.

Captain Flint, Long John Silver's pet in Treasure Island?

(buzzer beeping) Kaylee?

- Lobster?

- Lobster is incorrect, it as a parrot.

Moving over to the team from Lakeland.

Your category is lightning.

Answer the following about lightning.

Loud sound after lightning?

(buzzer beeping) - Arthur?

- Thunder?

- [Regina] Correct.

Force that opposes motion of surfaces in contact which generates lightning?

(buzzer beeping) Max?

- Friction?

- [Regina] Correct.

Anvil shaped clouds that produce lightning?

(buzzer beeping) - Cirrus?

- [Regina] Incorrect, cumulonimbus.

Lightning can break triple bonds in this most common atmospheric gas?

(buzzer beeping) - Nitrogen?

- [Regina] Correct.

Amorphous solid that can form when lightning strikes sand?

(buzzer beeping) - Glass?

- Glass is correct.

Fourth state of matter formed by lightning.

(buzzer beeping) - Plasma?

- [Regina] Correct.

Antimatter counterpart to electrons produced by lightning?

(buzzer beeping) - Pass - [Regina] Positrons.

Mysterious spherical form of lightning?

(buzzer beeping) - Fall lightning?

- [Regina] Correct.

Lowest layer of earth's atmosphere in which lightning occurs.

(buzzer beeping) - Stratosphere?

- [Regina] Troposphere.

Conductive channel of ionized air formed in the initial stage of lightning?

(buzzer beeping) - Pass.

- Leader.

That's the end of our lightning round.

So let's update our current score.

We have Scranton with 60 and Lakeland with 70.

We're going to move into the second quarter with this toss-up question.

What astronomical objects which title a 1978 story by Alice Monroe included Europa, Io, and Ganymede, and Orbit?

(buzzer beeping) Arthur, Lakeland?

- Moons?

- [Regina] I'm sorry?

- Moons.

- Is correct.

And your bonus Lakeland, Since 2011 what country that contains much of the Atlas Mountains range has been the largest in Africa by area?

(team whispering) - I don't know.

- The Andes?

- Andes is incorrect, it is Algeria.

Toss-up, what two Americans named the county that contains Helena, Montana because they crossed the area in 1805 and 1806?

(buzzer beeping) - Lewis and Clark?

- Lewis and Clark Amelia's correct answer.

And your bonus, Scranton, what Middle Eastern country whose current king is Abdullah II has been ruled by the Hashemite dynasty since 1921?

(team whispering) (buzzer beeping) Kaylee?

- Saudi Arabia?

- Saudi Arabia is incorrect, it is Jordan.

Toss-up, what novel in which the psychic Landau convinces an aristocrat not to divorce an adulterous woman who later jumps under a train is by Leo Tolstoy?

(buzzer beeping) Arthur?

- Anna Karenina?

- Anna Karenina is a correct answer.

And your bonus, Lakeland, pencil paper ready?

What number of circles with a diameter of four will collectively have the same area as a single circle whose diameter is 12?

(buzzer beeping) Max?

- Three?

- Is incorrect, it is nine.

Toss-up, what technique one type of which uses STL files to aid in FDM and uses a thermoplastic filament builds up layers of material into a solid object?

(buzzer beeping) - 3D printing?

- 3D printing, Sam's correct answer.

And your bonus, Lakeland, the name of what food appears in an alternative name for amateur radio and is hyphenated with handed or fisted in expressions meaning graceless?

(buzzer beeping) - Ham?

- Ham, Sam, is the correct answer for your bonus points.

Toss-up, what renaissance artist was inspired by the ancient Roman author of De Architectura to depict ideal human proportions in his... (buzzer beeping) - Leonardo da Vinci?

- Da Vinci is a correct answer, Amelia.

And your bonus, Scranton, what country whose name may derive from a term meaning mountain of vomiting water is the most populous in central America and is west of Belize?

- Honduras, maybe?

(bell sounding) Honduras?

- Honduras is incorrect, it is Guatemala.

Toss-up, what city where Rick Caruso and Karen Bass are running in a 2022 mayoral election to replace Eric Garcetti is the most populous in California?

(buzzer beeping) Chloe, Scranton?

- Los Angeles?

- Los Angeles is the correct answer.

And your bonus, Scranton, in 1764 James Hargreaves invented what hand powered machine with a partly feminine name that could produce many spools of yarn at once?

- No, I don't think so.

(bell sounding) - The correct answer is Spinning Jenny.

That means we're gonna take a break and give our contestants a break too and the opportunity for those of you at home to get to know them a little better.

Let's start with the students from Scranton.

Sephora, we'll start with you.

Tell our viewing audience a little bit about yourself and maybe your future plans.

- I am an artist and also in theater and my future plans is to get a master's degree and maybe... Get a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in the arts and specifically go into kids' animation.

- [Regina] Oh, exciting.

Good luck.

Kaylee, how about yourself?

- I really enjoy science so I definitely wanna go into something that has to do with science in the future.

- [Regina] But you haven't quite decided yet?

- I haven't quite decided which one.

- [Regina] Okay, that's all right.

Amelia?

- I plan to get my master's degree and become a licensed architect and run cross country and track in college.

- [Regina] And be very busy.

- All the time, yes.

- [Regina] Chloe?

- Well what seems like a complete 180, I wanna be a civil engineer.

And specifically I'd love to get my doctorate in civil engineering.

- Well good luck with that.

Keep your plans high.

Sam, from Lakeland, how about you?

- I plan to go to college and eventually get a PhD in astrophysics and hopefully work for NASA one day.

- [Regina] I hope you do, good luck.

- Thank you - [Regina] Anna?

- My future plans are to go to college and earn my master's in speech pathology.

- [Regina] Very good.

Arthur?

- I plan to get a PhD in psychology and go into research focusing on forensic psychology.

- [Regina] Okay, very specific.

And Max?

- I'm planning to attend college and I will likely major in computer science.

- Well good luck.

It was great to get to know all of you just a little bit better.

We will now begin the second half of the game with this toss-up question.

What language was used to write both "The Plum And the Golden Vase" and its source material, the great classical novel, "Water Margin" by Shi Nai'an?

(buzzer beeping) - Latin?

- [Regina] Latin, Amelia, is incorrect, rebound to Lakeland.

(buzzer beeping) Arthur?

- Japanese?

- Japanese is incorrect.

It is Chinese.

Toss-up what Midwestern university names an economic school led by George Stigler and Milton Friedman that advocated monetarism instead of keynesianism?

(buzzer beeping) - Northwestern?

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Lakeland.

No one?

The correct answer is University of Chicago.

Toss-up, what diatomic compound can react with methanol to form a acidic acid, has a very high affinity for hemoglobin, and is sometimes called a silent killer?

(buzzer beeping) Arthur?

- Carbon monoxide?

- Carbon monoxide's correct answer.

And your bonus, under hostile conditions the bacteria that cause botulism can form what hardened dormant structures that can survive for centuries?

(buzzer beeping) Arthur?

- Volcanoes?

- [Regina] I'm sorry?

- Volcanoes.

- Volcanoes is incorrect, it is endospores.

Toss-up, what baseball player who in 2022 became the third man with a career 300 average to reach 500 home runs and 3000 hits plays for the... (buzzer beeping) Amelia, Scranton?

- Bryce Harper?

- Is incorrect.

I'll complete the question in rebound to Lakeland.

Plays for the Tigers.

No one?

That is Miguel Cabrera.

Toss-up, what man's speech on the cult of personality and its consequences nicknamed "The Secret Speech" denounced the purges of his predecessor Joseph Stalin?

(buzzer beeping) - Nikita Khrushchev?

- Khrushchev is correct answer, Amelia.

And your bonus, Scranton, what Israeli city along the Mediterranean Sea is home to most of the country's foreign embassies?

(team whispering) (bell sounding) Tel Aviv.

Toss-up, what author wrote about fifth grade bullies in the novel "Blubber" and described a girl's first period in the novel "Are You There, God?

It's Me, Margaret."

(buzzer beeping) Kaylee?

- Judy Bloom?

- Judy Bloom, Kaylee's correct answer.

And your bonus, in 1981, members of what profession which made up the PATCO P-A-T-C-O Union were fired by Ronald Reagan after a lengthy strike?

(buzzer sounding) - Pass.

- The correct answer is air traffic controllers.

Toss-up, what wind instrument with a heckle type depicts the grandfather in "Peter And The Wolf" uses a double reed and has a larger contra or double type?

(buzzer beeping) Arthur, Lakeland?

- Oboe?

- Oboe is incorrect, rebound to Scranton.

No one?

(buzzer beeping) Kaylee?

- A bassoon?

- Bassoon is a correct answer for your rebound points.

Toss-up, what group whose member Ethan Nordean was charged with conspiracy in relation to the January 6th riot and is an all male far-right activist... (buzzer beeping) Kaylee?

- The Proud Boys?

- Proud boys is correct answer, Kaylee And your bonus, what precursor of neuro epinephrine is a neurotransmitter produced in the brain's reward circuit and released after many pleasurable activities?

(buzzer beeping) Kaylee?

- Dopamine?

- Dopamine is a correct answer for your bonus points.

That's the end of the third quarter and it's now time for another lightning round.

(electricity sparking) This time Lakeland will pick first.

Your categories are pun words or revolutions.

- We'll take pun words.

- Pun words.

The time begins when I finish reading the first question.

Pun words, give these words that contain the consecutive letters P-U-N. An admirable type of courage or gumption?

(buzzer beeping) - Pass - [Regina] Spunk.

Extremely smelly?

(buzzer beeping) - Pungent?

- [Regina] Correct.

Asian folk remedy in which tiny needles are pushed into the skin?

(buzzer beeping) Sam?

- Acupuncture?

- [Regina] Correct.

A supposed expert interviewed on a news show?

(buzzer beeping) Arthur?

- Pass - [Regina] Pundit.

To totally erase something from a record?

(buzzer beeping) - Expunge?

- [Regina] Correct.

Tiny and insignificant.

(buzzer beeping) Sam?

- Puny?

- Correct.

A non-conformist troublemaker or delinquent?

(buzzer beeping) Sam?

- Punk?

- [Regina] Correct.

Safety from consequence or discipline.

(buzzer beeping) - Pass.

- [Regina] Immunity.

Never late, always on time?

(buzzer beeping) Sam?

- Punctual?

- [Regina] Correct.

A qualm of slight feeling of regret?

(buzzer beeping) - Pass.

- That is compunction.

Moving over to our team from Scranton.

Your categories are revolutions.

Answer the following about various revolutions.

SI frequency unit equal to 60 revolutions per minute?

(buzzer beeping) - What is rotations?

- [Regina] Hertz.

Band whose song "Revolution Nine" is on their white album?

- U2?

- [Regina] The Beatles.

Sport played by the New England Revolution.

- Rugby?

- [Regina] Soccer.

Jumping parasites killed by the Pet Medicine Revolution.

Multiple answers are acceptable.

- Fleas?

- Correct.

Faction opposed Patriots in American Revolution?

(buzzer beeping) Kaylee?

- Royalists?

- [Regina] Correct.

Vermont Senator who wrote "Our Revolution"?

(buzzer beeping) Kaylee?

- Bernie Sanders?

- [Regina] Correct.

Communist leader who launched the cultural revolution?

(buzzer beeping) Kaylee?

- Mao Zedong?

- [Regina] Correct.

Polish astronomer who's heliocentrism sparked a revolution?

(buzzer beeping) Kaylee?

- Nicolas Copernicus?

- [Regina] Correct.

Musician who recorded "Purple Rain" with the Revolution?

(buzzer beeping) - Prince?

- Correct.

Country with a carnation.

(beep sounding) Okay, that's the end of that lightning round.

Let's take a look and update our score.

We have Scranton with 165 points and Lakeland with 145 points.

We'll now begin the last segment of the game with this toss-up.

What Victorian author wrote about Weena, one of the small Eloi people from the year 802,701 AD in a science fiction novel titled "The Time Machine"?

(buzzer beeping) Kaylee?

- H.G.

Wells?

- Is correct, Kaylee.

And your bonus, Scranton, The Jacobite uprisings aimed to restore what royal dynasty which united the English and Scottish crowns during the reign of James I?

(buzzer beeping) - Tudor Rose?

- Is incorrect, is House of Stewart.

Toss-up, what point at which two plumb lines intersect is the same as a centrite for a body of uniform density and is a weighted average of a body's matter?

(buzzer beeping) Amelia?

- Density?

- [Regina] Density is incorrect, rebound to Lakeland.

(buzzer beeping) - Mass?

- Mass is correct, Arthur, for your rebound points.

Toss-up, what United or UK Prime Minister who took office after the Norway debate offered blood toil, tears, and sweat upon succeeding Neville Chamberlain in 1940?

(buzzer beeping) Chloe?

- Margaret Thatcher?

- [Regina] Margaret Thatcher is incorrect, rebound to Lakeland.

No one?

(buzzer beeping) - Winston Churchill?

- Winston Churchill, Max, is a correct answer for your rebound points.

Toss-up, what author wrote about a trip to the city of Archangel undertaken by explorer Robert Walton at the start of her 1818 horror novel "Frankenstein"?

(buzzer beeping) Sam?

- Mary Shelly?

- Mary Shelly, Sam's correct answer.

And your bonus, Lakeland, what composer who led the second Viannese school wrote a 1928 work "Variations For Orchestra" that displays his 12 tone technique?

(buzzer beeping) - Bach?

- Bach is incorrect.

The correct answer is Schoenberg.

Toss-up, what country which controls the world's largest natural gas field is home to the headquarters of Al Jazeera in Doha and hosted the 2022 World Cup?

(buzzer beeping) Max?

- Qatar?

- Qatar, Max, is a correct answer.

And your bonus, Lakeland, the 18th amendment was implemented by what 1919 act that allowed the federal government to enforce prohibition?

(buzzer beeping) Arthur?

- Dry act?

- [Regina] I'm sorry?

- Dry act.

- Dry act is incorrect, it is the Volstead Act.

Toss-up, what Italian artist showed the three graces dancing in a circle to the left of the goddess Venus in an orange grove in his painting, "Primavera"?

(buzzer beeping) - Botticelli?

- Botticelli, Amelia, is a correct answer.

And your bonus, what playwright depicted Peter impaling himself on a knife held by Jerry in "The Zoo Story" and also wrote the 1961 play "Who's Afraid Of Virginia Wolf"?

(team whispering) - I know it.

(bell ringing) - That is Edward Albee.

Toss-up, what moon which is mutually tidally locked due to its large size relative to the dwarf planet in orbits was the first known moon of Pluto?

(buzzer beeping) Arthur, Lakeland?

- Cirrus?

- [Regina] Cirrus is incorrect, rebound to Scranton.

No one?

The correct answer is Charon.

(bell ringing) At the end of regulation play, we have a tie game.

We will be going into overtime.

The team that answers the next question correctly will break the tie and the game will end.

We'll start with a toss-up.

What President who signed the Chinese Exclusion Act and the Pendleton Civil Service Act became president after the assassination of James Garfield?

(bell ringing) That was Arthur.

Toss-up, what river whose lower section is known as the Padma forms the world's largest delta in Bangladesh and is the holiest river of Hinduism?

(buzzer beeping) Kaylee, Scranton?

- The Ganges?

- It is the Ganges, Kaylee.

For those points, Scranton.

That's the end of our game.

Our final score is Lakeland 185, Scranton 195.

Scranton you'll be moving on and congratulations.

We'll see you next time with another round of Scholastic Scrimmage.

I'm your host Regina Myers, and thanks for watching.

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