[Upbeat drum music] - 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 Scranton versus Montrose.

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

Their alternates are Josephine Krokus, Nathan Jarrow, and their advisor is Lynn Harding.

Representing Montrose is Sam Stashko, Ryan Kedlisic, Daegan Gianoni, their captain is Thomas Stewart.

The alternates are Velina Gardner and Stephanie Somerville.

Their advisors are John Kolowski and Eric Powers.

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 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.

What program whose first mission ended with a fire that killed Gus Grissom sent three NASA astronauts to the moon on its 11th mission?

(buzzer sounding) Chloe, Scranton.

- Apollo.

- [Regina] Apollo's correct answer, and your bonus, pencil, paper ready.

What is the value of X given that the quantity seven raised to the fourth power times 49 cubed equals seven raised to the X power?

(buzzer sounding) - [Regina] Chloe.

- Nine.

- [Regina] Nine is incorrect.

The correct answer is 10.

Toss-up.

What events which the helicopter based Los Angeles News Service pioneered televising in the 1990s maybe ended by pit maneuvers or spike strips?

(buzzer sounding) - [Regina] Chloe.

- Police chases.

- [Regina] Police chases is the correct answer, and your bonus, Scranton: what word which denotes a stable language developed from mixing other languages, also refers to styles of music and cuisine from Louisiana?

(buzzer sounding) - [Regina] Sephora.

- Creole - Creole's the correct answer for your bonus points.

Toss-up.

What quantity has a first time derivative called "Jerk" is measured in meters per second squared (buzzer sounding) is the rate-- - [Regina] Kaylee.

- Acceleration?

- Kaylee, acceleration is the correct answer and your bonus: in the seventh century BC Ashurbanipal took the throne of what empire which then controlled almost all of the near East from its capital Nineveh?

- (Kaylee whispers) Yeah I guess, I don't know.

- (Chloe whispers) Go ahead, go ahead.

(buzzer sounding) - Rome.

- Rome?

- [Amelia] Mhm.

- Is incorrect.

It is Assyria.

Toss-up.

In 2022, what man's killers, Travis and Gregory McMichael were sentenced to life in prison in Georgia for shooting him while he was jogging?

(buzzer sounding) - [Regina] Amelia?

- Um... Oh wait, Ahmaud Arbery.

- [Regina] Is the correct answer Amelia, and your bonus: in 2022, British company, DeepMind, announced that its Al AlphaFold had predicted the structures of nearly all known examples of what molecules?

- (Amelia whispering) I have no idea.

Do you wanna guess?

(buzzer sounding) - [Regina] Kaylee.

- Protein.

- Protein is the correct answer Kaylee, for your bonus points.

Toss-up.

What NAACP attorney argued the cases Cooper versus Aaron and Brown versus Board before the Supreme Court and later became the first African American Justice?

(timer beeping) - That was Thurgood Marshall.

Toss-up.

What letter used as a pseudonym by the villains of the Pretty Little Liars franchise is placed on Hester Prynne's clothing as punishment for adultery?

(buzzer sounding) - [Regina] Thomas, Montrose.

- A.

- [Regina] "A" is correct answer.

Thomas, on your bonus: the pillar of Islam that requires the giving of alms is known by what Arabic term, that in the English alphabet starts with the letter Z?

- Pass.

- [Regina] Okay.

- [Thomas] No answer.

- The correct answer is Zakat.

Toss-up.

What partition which travels between the Diomede Islands, mostly follows the 180th meridian and causes a time change of 24 hours when crossed?

(buzzer sounding) - [Regina] Ryan, Montrose.

- Uh, the Meridian time zone line.

- [Regina] Meridian time zone line is incorrect.

Rebound to Scranton.

(whispering) (timer beeping) Okay, the correct answer is International Date Line.

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

(lightning sounds) In this segment each team will have an opportunity to answer as many of the rapid fire questions as they can in one minute.

Montrose has won the coin toss and will pick first.

Your categories are: literary foundings and orphans or countries bordering the Mediterranean.

- Countries bordering the Mediterranean.

- Countries bordering the Mediterranean.

Time will begin after I read the first question.

In which country bordering the Mediterranean sea or its arms will one find the coastal cities of Valencia and Barcelona?

(buzzer sounding) - [Regina] Ryan.

- Spain.

- [Regina] Correct.

The recently rebuilt library of Alexandria?

(buzzer sounding) - [Regina] Ryan.

- Egypt.

- Correct.

The Côte d'Azur also known as the Riviera?

- Pass.

Pass.

- [Regina] France.

The Peloponnesus?

(buzzer sounding) - [Regina] Ryan.

- Greece.

- [Regina] Correct.

The Hagia Sophia originally built as a cathedral.

(buzzer sounding) - Jerus- no, that's not it.

- [Regina] No, it's not Jerusalem.

- Turkey.

- Mount Vesuvius and Mount Etna.

(buzzer sounding) - [Regina] Ryan.

- Italy.

- [Regina] Correct.

The ruins of Carthage.

(buzzer sounding) - [Regina] Ryan.

- Tunisia.

[Regina] Correct.

A forest called the Cedars of God.

(buzzer sounding) - Cyprus.

- [Regina] Lebanon.

Sarajevo which hosted the 1984 Winter Olympics.

- No answer.

- [Regina] Bosnia.

A partition known as the green line that runs through Nicosia.

- No answer.

- [Regina] Cypress.

Moving over to our team from Scranton.

Your category is literary foundlings and orphans.

Name the authors who wrote about these foundlings and orphans.

David Copperfield.

(buzzer sounding) - [Regina] Kaylee.

- Charles Dickens.

- [Regina] Correct.

Mowgli?

- Pass.

- [Regina] Kipling.

Heathcliff who loves Catherine Earnshaw?

- Pass.

- [Regina] Emily Bronte.

Quasimodo?

- Pass.

- [Regina] Victor Hugo.

Lord Greystoke better known as Tarzan?

- Pass - Cosette who falls in love with Marius?

- Pass.

- Hugo.

Natty Bumppo, a frontier about a scout also called Hawkeye.

- Pass.

- [Regina] Tom Jones.

- (Amelia whispers) Pass.

- Oh, pass.

- [Regina] Henry Fielding.

Anne Shirley, a resident of Green Gables.

- Pass.

- [Regina] Montgomery.

Heidi who lives in the Swiss Alps.

- Pass.

- [Regina] Spyri.

(timer beeping) That's the end of our lightning round.

Let's take a look at our score.

We have Scranton with 55 and Montrose with 35.

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

What structures, which include New Zealand's rapidly shrinking Franz Josef give rise to eskers and more rains and are slow moving bodies of ice.

(buzzer sounding) - [Regina] Daegan, Montrose.

- Glaciers.

- [Regina] Glacier, Daegan.

Correct answer, and your bonus: what six letter word which is used as a distress signal in radio communications comes from the French for help me and sounds like a spring holiday?

(whispering) Easter.

- Easter.

- Something like Easter.

- [Regina] Easter is incorrect.

It is "Mayday."

Toss-up.

What author of a lecture on Beowulf subtitled the monsters and the critics wrote about the Dwarf Thorin and the dragon Smaug in his novel.

(buzzer sounding) - [Regina] Ryan.

- J.R.R.

Tolkien - [Regina] Tolkien's the correct answer, Ryan, and your bonus: what constellation's nominal alpha star, Dubhe, is part of an asterism variously called "the Wagon" or "the Plough."

- No answer.

(timer beeping) - The correct answer is Ursa Major.

Toss-up.

What office later held by Alfredo Stroessner and Francisco Solano Lopez lose after starting the War of the Triple Alliance in a landlocked country.

(timer beeping) That office was president of Paraguay.

Toss-up.

Pencil, paper ready.

What difference results from subtracting the fractions?

Two sevenths minus one fifth.

(buzzer sounding) - [Regina] Sam, Montrose.

- Three 35ths.

- [Regina] Three 35ths, Sam, is the correct answer, and your bonus: in a heated rival that peaked in early 2019, What Swedish YouTuber competed with T-Series to become the most subscribed-- (buzzer sounding) - [Regina] Thomas?

- PewDiePie.

- PewDiePie is the correct answer for your bonus points.

Toss-up.

What author who depicted Sutpen's Hundred, a plantation near Jefferson, Mississippi in the novel, "Absalom, Absalom!"

also wrote, "As I Lay Dying"?

(timer beeping) That was Faulkner.

Toss-up.

What country, the setting of the 2021 film, "Drive My Car," was the home of the director of "Throne of Blood," "Ran," and "Rashomon," Akira Kurosawa?

(buzzer sounding) - [Regina] Kaylee?

- Japan.

- [Regina] Japan, Kaylee has the correct answer and your bonus: Edna St. Vincent Millay's poem, "First fig" describes what kind of object that will not last the night but still gives a lovely light?

(whispering) - Candle?

- [Regina] A candle is the correct answer, for your bonus points.

Toss-up.

What organ that contains vitreous and aqueous humor is affected in macular degeneration, contains rods and cones and is-- (buzzer sounding) - [Regina] Kaylee, Scranton.

- The eye.

- [Regina] The eye is the correct answer, and your bonus: what general served as consul of Rome a record seven times, reformed the Roman legions and maintained a long-running rivalry with Sulla.

(whispering) (buzzer sounding) - [Regina] Kaylee.

- Uh, Julius Caesar?

- [Regina] Julius Caesar is incorrect.

It is Gaius Marius.

(sharp beeping tone) We are going to give our contestants a bit of a break after that tone and the opportunity for those of you at home to get to know them a little better.

Let's start with our students from Scranton.

Sephora, why don't we start with you.

Tell everybody a little bit about yourself and maybe what your future plans are.

- I like the arts and theaters.

I'm a theater kid and I plan on going to university for a bachelor's and master's in the arts and soon being a part of kids' animation and media.

- [Regina] Oh, very good.

That sounds exciting.

Good luck.

How about you Kaylee?

- I plan on attending college to do something related to science.

- [Regina] Related to science.

So, wide open field.

Amelia?

- I plan to go to college and study architecture and run cross country and track.

- [Regina] Thank you.

Chloe, how about you?

- I plan to go to college for civil engineering 'cause I find that really interesting.

- [Regina] That's in-- that is interesting.

Thank you Scranton.

Let's move over to our team from Montrose.

Sam, how about you start us off?

- I plan on going to university to study business marketing.

- [Regina] Locally maybe?

- No.

- [Regina] I don't know (laughs) - No.

A few hours away at least.

- I've been accepted into Clarks Summit University and I plan getting an English major and going into the law field.

- [Regina] Oh well good luck.

Daegan?

- Um, I would like to go to college for aerospace engineering.

- [Regina] Okay.

So we'll see your name someday around NASA.

Thomas?

- I plan to go to university for some form of engineering.

- [Regina] Okay, well good luck.

Lots of choices.

It was great meeting both teams.

Let's get started with another toss-up.

What elder son of Livia Drusilla reigned during the traditional date of Jesus' crucifixion and lived on Capri after becoming the second Roman emperor?

(buzzer sounding) - [Regina] Ryan, Montrose.

- Octavius.

- [Regina] Octavius is incorrect.

Rebound to Scranton.

- (Amelia whispers) No idea.

- King Herod?

- King Herod is incorrect.

It is Tiberius.

Toss-up.

What two writers who began the "Deutsches W örterbuch" or "German Dictionary" were siblings who popularized "Snow White" and other traditional fairy tales.

(buzzer sounding) - [Regina] Kaylee.

- The Brothers Grimm.

Brothers Grimm, Kaylee has the correct answer and your bonus: Port Louis is the capital of what African Island nation.

that was once home to the dodo bird.

(whispering) (buzzer sounding) - [Regina] Kaylee.

- Madagascar.

- Madagascar is incorrect.

It is Mauritius.

Toss-up.

What unit which is proportional to the common logarithm of a ratio of powers is named after the inventor of the telephone and measures loudness.

(buzzer sounding) - [Regina] Ryan, Montrose.

- Decibel.

- [Regina] Decibel, Ryan has the correct answer, and your bonus: John T. McLaughlin's mosquito fleet fought in what series of three wars involving Osceola which took place from 1835 to 1842 in Florida.

- Uh, the Bay of Pigs Invasion - [Regina] Is incorrect, it is the Seminole Wars.

Toss-up.

What battle intended to coincide with an attack on the Aleutian Islands, saw United States planes sink four Japanese aircraft carriers near a namesake atoll.

(buzzer sounding) - [Regina] Chloe.

- Iwo Jiwa-- Iwo Jima.

- [Regina] Is incorrect.

Rebound to Montrose.

(timer beeping) That would be the Battle of Midway.

Toss-up.

What composer of "Black, Brown and Beige" in a sentimental mood let a jazz band with a signature tune, "Take the 'A' Train," and was nicknamed Duke?

(timer beeping) That was Duke Ellington.

Toss-up.

What process, which is induced by gratings can cause light going through an aperture to spread out or cause light to bend around an obstacle.

(buzzer sounding) - [Regina] Chloe, Scranton.

- Refraction.

- [Regina] Refraction is incorrect.

Rebound to Montrose.

No one?

- Reflection?

- [Regina] Reflection is incorrect.

It is diffraction.

Toss-up.

What general who took command of the Atlantic Wall after losing to Bernard Montgomery at El Alamein in 1942 was called the "Wehrmacht Desert Fox"?

(timer beeping) That was Rommel.

Toss-up.

What amendment passed shortly after Franklin Roosevelt first took office, reduced lame duck periods by starting the presidential terms in January?

(buzzer sounding) - [Regina] Chloe, Scranton.

- The 20th.

- 20th is the correct answer Chloe, and your bonus: Alan Alda played Hawkeye Pierce, an army sergeant-- surgeon during the Korean War on what TV show that in 1983 aired the most watched series finale?

(buzzer sounding) - M *A *S *H?

- [Regina] M *A *S *H, Amelia has the correct answer for your bonus points.

Toss-up.

What country where Ometepe Island lies in the largest lake in Central America is between Honduras and Costa Rica and has its capital at Managua?

(buzzer sounding) - [Regina] Kaylee.

- Nicaragua.

- [Regina] Nicaragua is the correct answer, Kaylee, and your bonus: what French author's seven volume magnum opus has been published in English under the titles, "Remembrance of Things Past" and "In Search of Lost Time"?

- No answer.

- Okay, the correct answer is Marcel Proust.

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

(lighting sounds) This time Scranton will pick first.

Your categories are: female athletes or coins.

The time begins when I finish reading the first question.

(whispering) - Female athletes.

- Female athletes.

Given an athlete, name the primary sport in which she competes, give an overall sport, not the name of any particular discipline within that sport.

Gabby Douglas - Gymnastics - [Regina] Correct.

Mia Hamm.

- Tennis.

- [Regina] Soccer.

Serena Williams.

- Tennis.

- [Regina] Correct.

Candace Parker.

- Skating.

- [Regina] Basketball.

Lindsey Vonn.

- Skiing?

- [Regina] Correct.

Laila Ali.

- Boxing?

- [Regina] Correct.

Suni Lee.

- Gymnastics?

- [Regina] Correct.

Carissa Moore.

- (Amelia whispers) Pass.

- Pass.

- [Regina] Surfing.

Katie Ledecky.

(buzzer sounding) - [Regina] Kaylee.

- Swimming.

- [Regina] Correct.

Danica Patrick.

- (Amelia whispers) Oh, wait maybe... Um, NASCAR racing.

- [Regina] NASCAR is the correct answer.

Moving over to Montrose, the category is coins.

Give these terms related to coins and coinage.

Metal that gives a U.S. penny its color.

- Copper.

- Copper.

- [Regina] Copper's correct.

Four letter word for a building that produces coins.

- Mint.

- Mint.

- [Regina] Correct.

Spinning top used to win coins called "gelt" at Hanukkah.

- No answer.

- [Regina] Dreidel.

The Spanish dollar was known as a piece of this number.

- Pass.

- [Regina] Eight.

A coin with one specific use such as for a bus ride.

- Token.

- [Regina] Correct.

Suffragette who once appeared on U.S. dollar coins.

- No answer.

- [Regina] Susan B. Anthony.

Term for pressing an image into a coin used in other contexts in sports.

- Press.

- [Regina] Strike.

Country that uses Krugerrand coins.

- (Ryan whispers) Pass.

- Pass.

- [Regina] South Africa.

Rich man from ancient Lydia who first made pure gold coins.

- No answer.

- [Regina] Croesus.

Term for the side of a coin opposite the obverse.

(sharp beeping tone) - Tales.

- Reverse.

Let's-- that's the end of our lightning round.

So let's take a look at our current score.

We have Scranton with 150 points and Montrose with 95.

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

What state where Union troops found Robert E. Lee's, "Special Order 191," was the site of the Battle of Antietam and the Pratt Street riots-- (buzzer sounding) - [Regina] Kaylee, Scranton.

- Maryland.

- [Regina] Maryland is the correct answer, and your bonus: what order of aquatic mammals takes its name from the Latin word for whale and also includes dolphins?

(buzzer sounding) - Porpoise?

- [Regina] Porpoise is incorrect.

It is Cetacea.

Toss-up.

What aramid polymer developed by Stephanie Kwolek at DuPont, has a very high strength-to-weight ratio making it useful for bulletproof vests?

(buzzer sounding) - [Regina] Ryan.

- Kevlar.

- [Regina] Kevlar.

Ryan has the correct answer, and your bonus, Montrose: the surname of what woman, the first saint born in the United States proceeds Hall in the name of a New Jersey University?

(whispering) - Seton Hall?

Seton Hall's the correct answer for your bonus points.

Toss-up.

What author of the novel Pincher Martin wrote about Ralph, Piggy, and other school boys who are trapped on an island in the novel, "Lord of the-- (buzzer sounding) Kaylee, Scranton.

- Uh, William Golding?

- [Regina] Golding's correct answer, Kaylee, and your bonus: what father of Laertes and Ophelia does Hamlet describe as a tedious old fool before unknowingly stabbing him through a tapestry?

- (Amelia whispers) Guess.

Just guess.

I wouldn't know.

(whispering) (timer beeping) - That is Polonius.

Toss-up.

What leader who delivered the "Jewel Voice Broadcast" reigned until 1989 during the ShMwa era, and was the emperor of Japan during World War II?

(timer beeping) That was Hirohito.

Toss-up.

Pencil, paper ready.

What is the surface area of a cube whose edges each have a length of two given that the cube has six square faces?

(buzzer sounding) Amelia.

- 24.

- [Regina] 24, Amelia has correct answer, and your bonus, Scranton: What sculptor who died in 2022 is known for massively oversized sculptures of everyday objects such as his dropped cone and clothespin?

(timer beeping) That is oldenberg.

Toss-up.

What NFL team won Super Bowl 48 over Denver, had Richard Sherman and Earl Thomas in the-- (buzzer sounding) - Seahawks.

[Regina] Seahawks is the correct answer, Sam, and your bonus, Montrose: What poem that ends by describing a bronze statue of Neptune is a dramatic monologue by Robert Browning about the deceased wife of a sinister Duke?

(whispering) - No answer.

- No answer?

Okay.

The correct answer is, "My Last Duchess."

Toss-up.

What book which depicts a 1959 event in Holcomb, Kansas in which the Clutter family was murdered in a pioneering true crime book by Truman Capote?

(timer beeping) That was "In Cold Blood."

Toss-up.

What British King who reigned when the British Empire abolished-- (sharp beeping tone) slavery and when the 1832 Reform Act was passed, was succeeded by Queen Victoria?

(buzzer sounding) Amelia.

- King George.

- [Regina] King George is incorrect.

Rebound to Montrose.

(whispering) - King Henry.

- King Henry is incorrect.

It is William the 9th.

And that is the end of our game.

Our score is Montrose: 120 points and Scranton: 180 points.

Congratulations, Scranton.

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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