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

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 one, three or $5,000.

Tonight's match features Mifflinburg versus Selinsgrove.

Representing Mifflinburg is Cassidy McClintock, Matt Blake, Logan Hackenberg, Levi Heinselman, their captain, and their advisor is Beth Fonts.

Representing Selinsgrove is Taylor Zakarta.

Evan Daigle, Chris Filer, their captain is McKenna Parker and their advisor is Tara Brubaker.

"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 those 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 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 theory, which predicts length contraction and time dilation was formulated by Albert Einstein in 1905, 10 years before a general counterpart.

(buzzer) - [Regina] McKenna, Selinsgrove.

- The theory of relativity?

- Theory of relativity, can you be more specific?

- Theory of general relativity.

- Is correct answer and your bonus.

What left wing politician served as Franklin Roosevelt's second vice president and ran as the Progressive Party nominee for president in 1948?

(buzzer) McKenna?

- No answer.

- Okay, the correct answer is Wallace.

Toss-up.

What woman who was forced to marry Toussaint Charbonneau showed the Bozeman pass to the Corps of Discovery as a guide for Lewis and Clark?

(buzzer) McKenna.

- Sacajawea?

- Sacajawea's correct answer, McKenna and your bonus Selinsgrove.

In September, 2022, a coalition led by what far right female politician won Italy's parliamentary elections?

(buzzer) McKenna?

- No answer.

- Okay.

The correct answer is Meloni.

Toss-up.

What film, whose frame story involves fortune teller, Professor Marvel and nasty Miss Gulch stars Judy Garland as a girl who sings "Over the Rainbow?"

(buzzer) - "Wizard of Oz?"

- Cassidy?

The "Wizard of Oz," Cassidy's correct answer and your bonus, Mifflinburg.

The so-called Four Books of Chinese Thought include what text that compiles sayings by Confucius and his followers?

(buzzer) Levi?

- No answer.

- Okay, the correct answer is "Analects."

Toss-up.

What building constructed over the former lake of the Domus Aurea features three tiers of superposed columns and was Rome's largest amphitheater?

(buzzer) McKenna, Selinsgrove.

- The Coliseum.

- Coliseum's correct answer and your bonus.

What peptide hormone produced by alpha cells in the pancreas opposes the effect of insulin, causing blood sugar levels to rise?

(buzzer) Chris?

- Insulin?

- Insulin is incorrect, it is Glucogen.

Toss-up.

Pencil, paper ready.

What integer equals 28% of 50 given that it's also equal to 50% of 28?

(buzzer) Chris, Selinsgrove.

- 14?

- 14 is correct answer and your bonus.

What central Asian country has been led by dictators Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow, Medov Medov and Saparmurat Niyazov?

(buzzer) Evan?

- Russia?

- Russia is incorrect.

It is Turkmenistan.

Toss-up.

What city, whose Cardinal Zen was arrested in 2022 under a 2020 national security law is like Macau, a special administrative region of China?

(buzzer) Chris, Selinsgrove?

- Hong Kong?

- Correct, Chris and your bonus.

What Arabic term refers to one of the 14 chapters of the Quran such as The Cow and Al-Fatihah or The Opening?

(buzzer) McKenna?

- No answer.

- Okay, the correct answer is Surah.

Toss-up.

What author described a boy pursued by a supernatural being in the "Erl-King" and wrote about the demon Mephistopheles in the 1808 German play "Faust?"

(high pitched tone) (buzzer) That was Goethe.

That is the end of the first quarter and it is now time for the Lightning Round.

(electrical noise) 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.

Selinsgrove has won the coin toss and will pick first.

Your categories are history of electromagnetism or Greek mythological monster slayers.

- We'll do Greek mythological monsters.

- Okay, Greek mythological monster slayers.

The time will begin after I read the first question.

Which mythological figure killed the Nemean Lion and Lernaean Hydra?

(buzzer) Chris.

- Hercules.

- [Regina] Hercules is correct.

The Minotaur.

You can pass.

(buzzer) - Pass.

- [Regina] Theseus.

Medusa.

(buzzer) - Pass.

- [Regina] Perseus.

The Chimera.

(buzzer) McKenna.

- Pass.

- [Regina] Bellerophon.

The Sphinx who threw herself over the walls of the Thebes after this man answered her riddle?

(buzzer) - Pass.

- Oedipus.

The Calydonian Boar after it was wounded by Atlanta?

(buzzer) - Pass.

- [Regina] Meleager.

The serpent python?

(buzzer) - Pass.

- [Regina] Apollo.

Kampê, the Drakaina guarding Tartarus?

(buzzer) - Pass.

- Zeus.

The many-eyed Argent.

(high pitched tone) Okay, moving over to our team from Mifflinburg.

History of electromagnetism.

Name these pioneers in the field.

Founding father who invented lightning rods.

(buzzer) Matt.

- Benjamin Franklin?

- [Regina] Correct.

Italian for whom the SI unit of potential is named?

(buzzer) Matt.

- Pass.

- [Regina] Volta.

German whose law relates voltage to current.

(buzzer) Levi.

- Ohms?

- [Regina] Correct.

Frenchman who names the SI unit of current?

(buzzer) Matt.

- Watts?

- [Regina] Emperor.

Englishman who discovered electromagnetic induction.

(buzzer) Matt.

- Pass.

- [Regina] Faraday.

Frenchman whose name's SI unit of charge.

(buzzer) Levi.

- Pass.

- Coulomb.

Serbian American designer of AC motors?

(buzzer) Logan.

- Tesla?

- [Regina] Correct.

Scottish physicist who's equations unified electricity and magnetism?

(buzzer) Levi.

- Pass.

- [Regina] Maxwell.

Italian who discovered bio-electricity in frogs.

(high-pitched tone) That was Galvani.

That's the end of the Lightning Round, so let's take a look at our current score.

We have Mifflinburg with 25 points and Selinsgrove with 55 points.

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

In the Battle of Flamborough Head, what captain commanded the Bonhomme Richard and said "I have not yet begun to fight," during the Revolutionary War?

(buzzer) That was John Paul Jones.

Toss-up.

What singer included the songs "Keep Driving" and "Music For a Sushi Restaurant" on a 2000.

(buzzer) McKenna.

- Harry Styles.

- Styles is correct answer and your bonus.

In 1919, what American born conservative became the first woman to be seated in the British House of Commons as a member of Parliament?

(buzzer) McKenna?

- No answer.

- Okay the lady is, the answer is Lady Astor.

Toss-up.

What process which sometimes utilizes PEP carboxylase and its carbon fixation stage uses the Calvin Cycle to synthesize sugars in plants?

(buzzer) Levi, Mifflinburg.

- Photosynthesis?

- Photosynthesis is correct answer, Levi, and your bonus.

What author won a Newbery medal for her 2019 novel about a Cuban-American girl attending Seaward Pines Academy, "Merci Suárez Changes Gears?"

(buzzer) Levi?

- No answer.

- Okay.

The correct answer is Meg Medina.

Toss-up.

What state, which is home to the Fossil Butte and Devil's Tower National Monuments, is the least populous state and includes the city of Cheyenne?

(buzzer) Logan.

- Wyoming.

- Wyoming is correct answer and your bonus, Mifflinburg.

What law states that the entropy of a perfect crystal reaches its minimum value of zero when the temperature is absolute zero?

(buzzer) Levi?

- No answer.

- Okay.

The correct law is the third law of thermodynamics.

Toss-up.

What holiday, which honors the defeat of Charles de Lorencez at the 1862 Battle of Puebla has become an American celebration of Mexican?

(buzzer) Levi, Mifflinburg.

- Cinco de Mayo?

- Is correct answer, Levi and your bonus.

In 2022, Yvon Chouinard, the founder of what outdoor clothing retailer donated his ownership of the company to a trust to fight climate change?

(buzzer) - Columbia?

- Columbia is incorrect.

It is Patagonia.

Toss-up.

What nine letter term from the Greek for falling off provides the scientific name for baby teeth as well as trees that shed leaves in autumn?

(buzzer) McKenna.

- What is deciduous?

- Deciduous is correct answer and your bonus.

What term for using acid to clean metal surfaces also names a technique of preserving vegetables in a brine or vinegar solution?

(buzzer) McKenna?

- Pickling?

- Pickling is correct answer for your bonus points.

Toss-up.

In what sport, whose women's event was won by Eve Muirhead's team at Beijing 2022, do players guide stones toward a target?

(buzzer) McKenna.

- Curling.

- Curling is correct answer and your bonus, Selinsgrove.

What word can refer to a genre of Cuban songs, a Spanish dance in three four time or a 1928 piece dominated by an ostinato motif?

(buzzer) McKenna?

- No answer.

- Okay.

The correct answer is Bolero.

Toss-up.

Glass electrodes are most often used to measure what quantity stabilized by buffers that measures a solutions acidity and is seven for pure water?

(buzzer) Chris, Selinsgrove.

- pH?

- pH, Chris is correct answer and your bonus.

In what phase change, used with some dyes, does a substance move directly from a solid to a gas?

(buzzer) Chris?

- Sublimation?

- Sublimation is correct answer for your bonus points.

We're going to give our contestants a bit of a break and the opportunity for those of you to get to know them a little better.

First, let's update our score.

We have Mifflinburg with 55 points and Selinsgrove with 105 points.

Why don't we start with our team from Mifflinburg and Cassidy start us off.

What do you like to do in school or out of school, you know, some of your clubs or hobbies?

- In school, I'm actively participate in band in the fine arts and the drama department and all that and fun fact, I'm actually the 2022 Union County West End Fair Queen, so that's kind of cool.

It's something I do my free time.

- [Regina] Congratulations.

- Thank you.

- [Regina] And Matt, how about you?

- I'm involved in the band as well, the band and the choir and we're all actually like involved in the plays and musicals and stuff.

We're all like band nerds, but yeah.

- [Regina] And you're also a "Scholastic Scrimmage" team?

- Yeah.

- [Regina] And Logan, how about yourself?

- So continuing on that, I'm in the band and the choir and I'm part of the drama department, so there's that.

- [Regina] Very good.

Lots of future actors in our midst, Levi?

- I'm also a band and choir and the drama department, that's about it.

- That's enough.

Thanks, Mifflinburg.

Let's move over to our team from Selinsgrove.

Taylor, why don't you start us off?

- I do year-round soccer and I also am in marching band and just do music outside of school a lot.

- [Regina] Great.

Evan, how about yourself?

- I play soccer and track and I'm in the choir at our school.

- [Regina] Okay.

Chris?

- I participate in technology student association and I'm class historian.

- [Regina] Oh, very nice.

And McKenna?

- I'm the president of Selinsgrove's Future Business Leaders of America and I also throw javelin and discus on the track team.

- Very good.

Great meeting all of you.

Good luck to both teams as we begin the next quarter with a toss-up.

What battle ended after Operation Uranus caused Friedrich Paulus to surrender to Jeffrey Chuikov and was a Nazi siege of a Soviet city on the Volga?

(buzzer) That was the Battle of Stalingrad.

Toss-up.

What politician who John Boehner called "Lucifer in the flesh" went to Cancun during a 2021 power crisis?

(buzzer) McKenna, Selinsgrove.

- Ted Cruz.

- Ted Cruz is correct answer and your bonus.

What author described a yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window panes in a 1915 poem that also asks "Do I dare to eat a peach?"

(buzzer) McKenna?

- No answer.

- Okay, the correct answer is TS Elliot.

Toss-up.

What compound produced by archaea in the guts of termites and cows is a greenhouse gas about 30 times more.

(buzzer) Levi, Mifflinburg.

- Methane?

- Methane, Levi, is correct answer and your bonus.

Pencil, paper ready.

What is the least common multiple of the two numbers 12 and 31, given that 31 is a prime number?

- 144?

(buzzer) - 144 is incorrect.

It is 372.

Toss-up.

What man, whom Joseph Welch asked if he had, "No sense of decency," was a Wisconsin senator who ran 1950s investigations into communist infil.

(buzzer) Chris, Selinsgrove.

- McCarthy?

- McCarthy's correct answer and your bonus.

The aria "Un bel d ì" is sung in what Giacomo Puccini opera in which Cio-Cio San devoutly waits for the return of American naval officer Pinkerton?

(buzzer) McKenna.

- No answer.

- Okay.

The correct answer is "Madame Butterfly."

Toss-up.

What composer of the jazz standard "Groovin' High" and "Salt Peanuts" was known for playing with puffed out cheeks on a trumpet with a bent bell.

(buzzer) Logan.

- Louis Armstrong.

- Louis Armstrong is incorrect, rebound to Selinsgrove.

(high-pitched tone) It was Dizzy Gillespie.

Toss-up.

What region in which orbital resonances cleared the Kirkwood gaps lies between about two to four AU from the sun between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter?

(buzzer) Levi.

- Asteroid field?

- Asteroid field is the answer given, judges is that correct?

- [Judge] No.

- It is not acceptable, rebound to Selinsgrove.

(buzzer) Chris.

- Asteroid belt.

- Asteroid belt is specific answer and that is correct.

Toss-up.

What beings in Greek myth, who included Hyperion and the Great River Oceanus, ruled the world under Kronos before being toppled by the Olympians?

(buzzer) Logan.

- Titans.

- Titans, Logan's correct answer and your bonus.

Anacapa, Santa Cruz and Catalina are islands in what archipelago off the coast of Southern California?

(buzzer) Levi.

- No answer.

- Okay.

The correct answer is Channel Islands.

Toss-up.

What literary work, which describes the drought of March being ended by April rains, and which portrays many pilgrims was written by Geoffrey Chaucer?

(high-pitched tone) (buzzer) It was "The Canterbury Tales."

That's the end of the third quarter and it's time for another Lightning Round.

(electrical sounds) This time Mifflinburg will pick first.

Your categories are sports venues or world currencies.

- Currencies?

- Yeah.

- We'll take currencies.

- Time begins when I finish reading the first question.

World currencies, identify the official currency of these countries.

United Kingdom.

(buzzer) Leah, Logan.

- Imperial Pound.

- [Regina] Pound is correct.

Japan?

(buzzer) - Yen?

- [Regina] Correct.

Brazil?

(buzzer) - Peso?

- [Regina] Real.

Switzerland?

(buzzer) - Euro.

- [Regina] Franc.

India?

- Pass (buzzer) - [Regina] Rupee.

Turkey?

(buzzer) Matt?

- Pass.

- Lira.

China?

(buzzer) Logan?

- Yen?

- [Regina] Yen is incorrect, it's renminbi.

South Africa?

(buzzer) Levi.

- Pass.

- [Regina] Rand.

South Korea?

(buzzer) Levi.

- Pass.

- [Regina] Won.

Poland?

(buzzer) Logan.

- The Euro.

- [Regina] Euro's incorrect, it is Zloty.

Moving over to our team from Selinsgrove.

Your category is sports venues.

Given a sports stadium or arena, name the city in which it is located.

Madison Square Garden?

(buzzer) McKenna.

- New York City.

- [Regina] Correct.

Wrigley Field?

(buzzer) McKenna.

- Chicago.

- [Regina] Correct.

Center Court where the Wimbledon tennis tournament is held?

(buzzer) McKenna.

- London?

- [Regina] Correct.

Caesar's Superdome?

(buzzer) McKenna.

- Pass.

- [Regina] New Orleans.

Coors Field?

(buzzer) McKenna.

- Denver.

- [Regina] Correct.

Chase Center, home of the Warriors.

(buzzer) McKenna.

- San Francisco.

- [Regina] Correct.

Arrowhead Stadium?

(buzzer) McKenna.

- Kansas City?

- [Regina] Correct.

Rogers Center, previously known as the Sky Dome.

(buzzer) McKenna.

- Atlanta?

- [Regina] Toronto.

MLSs lower.com field and college football stadium known as the Horseshoe?

(buzzer) McKenna.

- Pass.

- [Regina] Columbus.

PPG Paints Arena which replaced The Igloo.

(buzzer) McKenna.

- Pittsburgh.

- Correct.

And that's the end of the Lightning Round.

Our current score is Mifflinburg, 85 and Selinsgrove, 170.

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

Pencil, paper ready.

What is the first term of a geometric sequence whose second term is 12 and whose third term is 24?

(buzzer) Levi, Mifflinburg.

- Six?

Six.

- Six is correct answer, Levi and your bonus.

What co-founder of Ireland's Abbey Theatre wrote the 1920s play "Juno and the Paycock," "The Shadow of a Gunman and "The Plow and The Stars?"

(buzzer) Levi?

- Shakespeare.

Shakespeare's incorrect.

It is Sean O'Casey.

Toss-up.

The film "Live in Real Life" depicts what man who was attacked at the Hollywood Bowl in 2022 and whose special "The Closer" included transphobic jokes?

(buzzer) McKenna?

- Chris Rock?

- Chris Rock is incorrect.

Rebound to Mifflinburg.

(buzzer) Matt?

- Kevin Hart?

- Kevin Hart is incorrect.

It is Dave Chappelle.

Toss-up.

In what present-day country where Jan Hus preached early reformist ideas, were Catholic envoys thrown from a window in the defenestration of Prague?

(buzzer) Logan, Mifflinburg.

No answer?

- France?

- France is incorrect.

Rebound to Selinsgrove, anyone?

(buzzer) McKenna.

- Czech Republic?

- Czech Republic is the correct answer for your rebound points.

Toss-up.

What term, the letter D in the insurance agency FDIC, may refer to a payment made by renters for security?

(buzzer) McKenna, Selinsgrove.

- Deposit?

- Deposit's correct answer and your bonus.

What social science has a four-field approach that trains students in archeology, linguistics and its physical and cultural branches?

(buzzer) McKenna.

- Anthropology?

- Anthropology's correct answer for your bonus points.

Toss-up.

What animals, which Seymour says can be trapped in a hole on a Florida beach, partly title a JD Salinger short story set on a perfect day for them?

(buzzer) McKenna?

- Crabs?

- Crabs is incorrect, rebound to Mifflinburg.

(buzzer) Cassidy?

- Clams?

- Clams is incorrect.

It is banana fish.

Toss-up.

Magnetars are examples of what dense bodies that are about 20 kilometers across, are produced by some supernovas and are named for a?

(buzzer) Levi, Mifflinburg.

- Nebulas?

- Nebulas is incorrect.

I'll complete the question and rebound to Selinsgrove.

For a particle.

(buzzer) McKenna.

- Black holes?

- Black hole is incorrect.

It is neutron star.

Toss-up.

What body of water that flows south of Punta Arenas separates Tierra del Fuego from mainland South America and is named after a Portuguese explorer?

(buzzer) Levi, Mifflinburg.

- Panama Canal?

- Panama Canal's incorrect, rebound to Selinsgrove.

(buzzer) Evan.

- Nile River?

- [Regina] I'm sorry?

- The Nile River?

- Nile River's incorrect, it is the Strait of Magellan.

Toss-up.

What book in which gossip app creator Simon has detention with Bronwyn is a mystery by Karen M McManus about students, not all of whom are honest?

(buzzer) Logan, Mifflinburg.

- "Liar."

- "Liar" is incorrect, rebound to Selinsgrove.

(high-pitched tone) The correct answer is "One Of Us Is Living" and that's the end of the game.

Our final score is Mifflinburg with 95 points and Selinsgrove with 195 points.

Congratulations, Selinsgrove, you'll be moving on and 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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