(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 Wayne Highlands Representing Scranton, Sephora Charlotte, Kaylee Butler, Amelia King.

Their captain is Chloe Tucker.

Their alternates Josephine Krokus and Nathan Jerro.

And their advisor is Lynn Harding.

Representing Wayne Highlands is Mattice Harkum.

Jordan Patsuk, Avery Oliger.

Chloe Wolfe, their captain and their alternates are Klayre Yarish and Ella Miller.

The advisor Laura Lockwood.

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'll be given the tossup points, but will not receive a bonus question.

Let's get started with our first toss-up.

What author described how Thomas Auld sent him to work for Edward Covey in an 1845 narrative of his life, which advocated for abolitionism?

(buzzer beeping) Kaylee Scranton?

- "10 Years a Slave"?

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Wayne Highlands.

(buzzer beeps) - Chloe?

- Harriet Beecher Stowe's, "Uncle Tom's Cabin"?

- It is also incorrect.

It is Frederick Douglass.

Toss-up.

What chemist who Gustav Kirchhoff discovered Cesium and Rubidium developed a way of generating a continuous flame using his namesake burner?

(buzzer beeps) Chloe Wayne Highlands.

- Bunsen?

- Bunsen's correct answer and your bonus.

In 2021, Damon Galgut's novel "The Promise" won what literary prize awarded annually to a novel written in English?

(buzzer beeps) - Avery?

- Would that be a Pulitzer?

- It would not.

It would be a Booker Prize.

Toss-up.

What Pennsylvania politician whose relationship with William R. King field rumors that he was gay was elected in 1856 as the 15th United States- (buzzer beeping) Kaylee Scranton - James Buchanan.

- Buchanan, Kaylee is correct answer and your bonus.

What Asian river's namesake valley was home to the ancient cities of Harappa and Mohenjo-daro?

- Just guess.

(buzzer beeping) - [Regina Myers] Kaylee?

- Mesopotamia?

- It is incorrect.

It is Indus River.

Toss-up, what senior pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church is facing Herschel Walker in 2022 election and serves- (buzzer beeps) Avery Wayne Highlands?

- Ralph Walnerk?

Warnock, sorry.

- Warnock is correct answer Avery.

And your bonus, what word refers to a line that a graph gets infinitely close to, but not actually reach, (buzzer beeps) such as, Avery?

- An asymptote?

- Asymptote, Avery's correct answer for your bonus points.

Toss-up.

What river whose official source is the Tomasee, flows past Arnhem empties into the North Sea near Rotterdam and runs throughout Western Germany?

(buzzer beeping) Mattice?

- The Rhine?

- Rhine, Mattice's correct answer and your bonus Wayne Highlands.

What author of the parody detective story V.V.

: or, Plots and Counterplots" also wrote the 1886 novel, "Joe's Boys"?

(beeper beeping) That was Louisa May Alcott.

Toss-up.

What simple machine is subject to a statement given on the equilibrium of planes by Archimedes which involves distances to the fulcrum.

(buzzer beeps) Chloe Wayne Highlands.

- A lever?

- Lever, Chloe's correct answer and your bonus Wayne Highlands.

What Greek king's children include Electra, Orestes and Iphigeneia?

- I think it's Agamemnon, I don't know, maybe.

(buzzer beeping) - [Regina Myers] Chloe?

- Agamemnon?

- Agamemnon is correct answer for your bonus points.

Toss-up.

What city that names a 1530 Lutheran Creed by Philip Melanchthon and a 1555 treaty declaring the cuius regio, eius religio principle is in Bavaria?

(buzzer beeping) Kaylee?

- Augsburg?

- Augsburg's correct answer in your bonus Scranton.

What country is 1926 to 1929 rebellion known as the Cristero War was a response to the anti-clerical decrees of President Plutarco Calles?

- Do you know it?

- Holy Roman Empire?

- I have no idea, just say it.

(buzzer beeping) - Kaylee?

- Holy Roman Empire?

- Holy Roman Empire is incorrect.

That was Mexico.

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.

Wayne Highlands has won the coin toss and will pick first.

Your categories are, Battles and Wars or Tom Brady.

- Battles and Wars.

- Battles and Wars.

- Battles and Wars.

The time begins when I finish reading the first question.

During what war were these battles fought, Agincourt.

(buzzer beeping) Chloe.

- Pass.

- [Regina Myers] Hundred Years' War, Chancellorsville.

(buzzer beeping) Chloe.

- American Civil War?

- [Regina Myers] Correct, First Battle of the Marne.

- English Civil War?

- You get it.

(buzzer beeping) - [Regina Myers] Avery?

- English Civil War?

- [Regina Myers] Is incorrect, World War I, Cowpens.

(buzzer beeping) Chloe.

- Pass.

- [Regina Myers] American Revolution, Marston Moor.

(buzzer beeping) Avery.

- Is that World War I?

- It was English Civil War, Leyte Gulf.

(buzzer beeping) Chloe.

- World War II?

- [Regina Myers] Correct, Bosworth Field.

(buzzer beeping) Chloe.

- World War I?

- [Regina Myers] War of the Roses, Lake Erie.

(buzzer beeping) Avery.

- American Civil War?

- [Regina Myers] War of 1812, the Yellow Sea in 1904.

(buzzer beeping) Chloe.

- Spanish Civil War?

- [Regina Myers] Russo-Japanese War, Incheon.

(buzzer beeping) Chloe.

- Pass.

- The Korean War.

(beeper beeping) Moving over to the team from Scranton.

Your category is Tom Brady.

Answer the following about Tom Brady.

He primarily plays this football position that attempts passes.

(buzzer beeping) - Kaylee.

- Quarterback?

- [Regina Myers] Correct, currently plays for this Florida-based NFL team.

- I know this.

(buzzer beeping) [Regina Myers] Amelia.

- Tampa Bay?

- [Regina Myers] Correct, his NFL jersey number.

(beeper beeping) - Pass.

- [Regina Myers] 12, his wife a Brazilian model.

(beeper beeping) - Gisele Bundchen.

- [Regina Myers] Correct, the Big 10 University he played for.

(buzzer beeping) Amelia.

- Michigan?

- [Regina Myers] Correct, he was selected in this round of the NFL draft with a 199th pick.

- Pass.

(buzzer beeping) - Pass.

- Sixth, started his NFL career with this team which he left in 2020.

(buzzer beeping) Kaylee.

- Patriots?

- [Regina Myers] Correct, upset this team in Super Bowl XXXVI to win his first Super Bowl.

- Just guess.

(buzzer beeping) - [Regina Myers] Chloe.

- Pass.

- [Regina Myers] St. Louis Rams, has lost twice in the Super Bowl to this NFC East team.

(buzzer beeping) Chloe.

- Eagles?

- [Regina Myers] Giants, Titans' coach a linebacker who caught eight receptions from Brady.

(buzzer beeping) Chloe.

- Pass.

- Mike Vrabel.

That's the end (beeper beeping) of this lightning round.

Let's take a look at our score.

We have Scranton with 45 and Wayne Highlands with 60 points.

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

Which city once comprised of several islands along the Konkan Coast is the capital of the Maharashtra state and produces India's Bollywood films?

(buzzer beeping) Kaylee?

- Mumbai?

- Mumbai is correct answer and your bonus, "The Game of Thrones" stars Kit Harrington and Richard Madden appear in what MCU film about aliens trying to stop the emergence of Tiamut.

(beeper beeping) That is "Eternals."

Toss-up, what class of rocks includes aphanitic textured examples like andesite and glassy examples such as pumice and obsidian (buzzer beeping) and forms, Kaylee Scranton.

- Igneous.

- Igneous is correct answer and your bonus, what state's Republican Party called homosexuality an abnormal lifestyle choice in its 2022 platform and rebuked John Cornyn over gun reform tax support?

- You got this one?

- I'd guess at it.

- I'll just say Texas.

(buzzer beeping) - [Regina Myers] Chloe?

- Texas?

- Texas is a correct answer for your bonus points.

Toss-up.

What man, the only Welsh prime minister in British history represented Britain at the Paris Peace Conference and signed the Treaty of Versailles?

(buzzer beeping) Chloe Scranton.

- Chamberlain?

- Chamberlain's incorrect, rebound to Wayne Highlands.

(buzzer beeping) Chloe?

- Winston Churchill?

- Winston Churchill is also incorrect.

It is David Lloyd George.

Toss-up.

What quantity which is a variable's second central moment is the average of squared differences from the mean and equals standard deviation squared.

(beeper beeping) That is variance.

Toss-up.

What month during which the Lyrid meteor shower takes place is when the United States celebrates Arbor Day and is the first month of the year with 30 days.

(buzzer beeping) Avery Wayne Highlands.

- January?

- January's incorrect rebound to Scranton.

(buzzer beeping) Chloe?

- April - April's correct answer for your rebound points.

Toss-up.

What ancient author of "The Brothers Poem" and the "Ode to Aphrodite" is noted for her poetry's same-sex themes and lived on the, (buzzer beeping) Kaylee Scranton.

- Sappho.

- Sappho is correct answer and your bonus Scranton, at the start of William Blake's poem "The Tiger," what alliterative two-word phrase immediately follows the opening words, "Tiger, Tiger"?

(beeper beeping) Those words are "Burning bright."

Toss-up, what lake which has the Pigeon River and the Nipigon River among its tributaries is the northernmost westernmost and largest of the Great Lakes?

(buzzer beeping) Kaylee Scranton.

- Lake Superior?

- Superior is correct answer and your bonus Scranton.

A concept in intentional relation called Thucydides Trap predicts an inevitable war between the United States and what emerging power?

- Is it China?

- I was hoping you did the reading.

(buzzer beeping) - [Regina Myers] Chloe?

- Soviet Union?

- Soviet Union is incorrect, it is China.

Toss-up.

What type of EM radiation detected by the Spitzer Space Telescope has frequencies just below those of visible light and is used in thermal imaging?

(beeper beeping) - Avery Wayne Highlands - Is it gamma?

- It is not gamma.

Rebound to Scranton.

- Radio?

- Is also incorrect.

It is infrared.

We're going to give our contestants a bit of a break right now so let's update our score.

We have Scranton with 100 points and Wayne Highlands 60 points.

We'll have our viewing audience get to know you a little bit better.

Let's start with our team from Scranton.

Sephora, why don't you start us off and tell us, you know, like, maybe what your future plans are and what you do in school or out of school.

- I'm an art and theater kid.

I plan on getting a bachelor's and master's in the arts and I also plan on being in the animation industry specifically for kids media.

- Oh, very good, that's exciting.

- [Regina Myers] Kaylee.

- I would like to go to college for something science related.

- [Regina Myers] Science related, nothing specific yet?

- Yeah, nothing specific yet.

- (laugh) Okay, Amelia?

- I'm going to go to college after high school and study architecture and hopefully become a licensed architect and run cross-country and track.

- [Regina Myers] Oh, good luck.

- Thank you.

- [Regina Myers] Chloe.

- I'd like to major in engineering.

Particularly civil 'cause I just like building bridges and things like that, the bridge competitions, but after high school I'd really like to go travel and go see maybe after college I'd like to go travel and see the world.

- I hope you have that opportunity.

Let's move over to our team from Wayne Highlands.

Mattice, why don't you start us off.

- I would like to go to college and major in history and get my doctorate in history.

- [Regina Myers] Good luck, Jordan.

- I plan to go to college in law school to become an attorney and I play field hockey and do FBLA.

- [Regina Myers] Avery?

- I'd like to go to a four-year college to study history and political science and then one day become an archivist.

- [Regina Myers] I think you'll do well and Chloe.

- I plan to be a physician assistant in pediatrics.

- Very nice, great talking with all of you.

We'll now begin the second half of the game with this toss up question.

What Olympic event which was won in 2021 by Peres Jepchirchir and Eliud Kipchoge both representing- (buzzer beeping) Amelia?

- The marathon?

- Marathon, Amelia's correct answer and your bonus Scranton pencil, paper, ready.

What is the value of the constant K if the vector two comma five is parallel to the vector four comma K?

- Kaylee.

(buzzer beeping) - [Regina Myers] Kaylee?

- Five?

- Is incorrect, it is 10.

Toss-up.

What author of the allegory, "A Tale of a Tub" wrote about highly intelligent horses called Houyhnhnms in his satirical 1726 novel, "Gulliver's Travels."

(buzzer beeps) Chloe Wayne Highlands.

- Jonathan Swift?

- Swift is the correct answer Chloe and your bonus, what river, which receives the waters of the Tonle Sap near Phnom Penh, forms much of the border between Laos and Thailand?

(buzzer beeps) Chloe?

- Pass.

- It is Mekong, toss-up, pencil, paper, ready.

What is the length of a rectangle whose width is three and whose perimeter is 16 given the rectangle has four sides in all?

(buzzer beeps) Avery Wayne Highlands.

- Five?

- Five is correct Avery and your bonus Wayne Highlands.

The magic wands used by Harry Potter and by Voldemort are both made with feathers from what Phoenix?

(buzzer beeps) Chloe?

- Fox?

- Fox is the correct answer.

Toss-up, what explorer who discovered the Komandor Islands died during his second Kamchatka expedition and names a straight that separates Alaska from- (buzzer beeping) Chloe Wayne Highlands?

- Bering?

- Bering's correct answer and your bonus Wayne Highlands.

What phrase did Niccolo Machiavelli coin to refer to the emperors who headed the Roman Empire at its greatest extent including Trajan and Hadrian.

(buzzer beeps) Chloe?

- "Veni, vidi, vici?"

- It is incorrect, it is "Five Good Emperors."

Toss-up, what band's album, "A Night at the Opera" includes a song- (buzzer beeping) Chloe Wayne Highlands.

- Queen?

- Queen is correct answer and your bonus.

What quantity whose inclusive form is increased by kin selection is zero from mules and measures an organisms ability to pass on its genes?

(buzzer beeps) Avery?

- Inheritance?

- Inheritance is incorrect, it is fitness.

Toss-up, what class of viruses that include T4 and Lambda, but not HIV infect bacteria and are named after their apparent ability to eat up bacteria.

(buzzer beeping) Amelia.

- Macrophages?

- Macrophages is incorrect.

Rebound to Wayne Highlands.

No?

(beeper beeping) It is bacteriophages, toss-up.

What agreement which excluded the proposed Tallmadge Amendment set a border along the 36 degrees 30 minutes parallel and admitted Maine and a namesake slave state (buzzer beeping) Kaylee Scranton.

- The Great Compromise?

- Great compromise is incorrect.

Rebound to Wayne Highlands.

(buzzer beeps) Chloe.

- The Missouri Compromise?

- Missouri Compromise is a correct answer, toss-up.

What world capital where heavy rains in August 2022 flooded the Han River and its affluent Gangnam District is the capitol of South Korea?

(buzzer beeping) Kaylee Scranton.

- Seoul?

- Seoul is the correct answer and your bonus.

What author who worked on the script of the 2021 movie "West Side Story" depicted the AIDS crisis in his two-part play "Angels in America."

(beeper beeping) That was Tony Kushner.

That is the end of the third quarter and the start of another lightning round.

(electricity sparking) This time Scranton will pick first.

Your categories are Alabama or people named Henry.

- They could ask for real names with Henry.

- Okay.

(buzzer beeping) - [Regina Myers] Chloe?

- People named Henry.

- People named Henry.

Time begins after I read the first question.

Give the surnames of these people with the first name Henry, Secretary of State under Richard Nixon.

(buzzer beeping) - Pass.

- [Regina Myers] Kissinger, pioneer of assembly line production and publisher of the "Dearborn Independent."

(buzzer beeping) Chloe.

- Ford?

- [Regina Myers] Correct, author of "Civil Disobedience"?

(buzzer beeping) Amelia.

- Longsworth Wadfellow?

- [Regina Myers] Is incorrect, it is Thoreau.

American author of "Washington Square" and "The Ambassadors"?

(buzzer beeping) - Pass.

- [Regina Myers] James, first Secretary of War.

- Pass.

(buzzer beeping) - Pass.

- Knox, American poet of "Paul Revere's Ride."

(buzzer beeping) - Kaylee?

- Wadsworth Longfellow?

- Longfellow is the correct answer.

Kentucky Senator who developed the American System?

(buzzer beeping) - Pass.

- Clay, English explorer of Canada who commanded the Half Moon.

- I don't know.

(buzzer beeping) - Chloe.

- Pass.

- Hudson, British composer of the opera "Dido and Aeneas."

(beeper beeping) That was Purcell.

Moving over to our team from Wayne Highlands.

Your category is Alabama.

Answer the following about Alabama.

It's capital.

(buzzer beeps) - Chloe.

- Montgomery?

- [Regina Myers] Correct, blind and deaf woman born there whom Anne Sullivan taught.

(buzzer beeps) - Chloe.

- Helen Keller?

- [Regina Myers] Correct, 1960 novel by Harper Lee set there.

(buzzer beeps) - Chloe.

- "To Kill a Mockingbird"?

- Correct, civil rights leader who wrote letter from Birmingham Jail.

(buzzer beeps) - [Regina Myers] Chloe.

- Martin Luther King Jr.?

- [Regina Myers] Correct, educational institute whose first president was Booker T. Washington.

(buzzer beeps) Chloe.

- Pass.

- Tuskegee, Alabama's largest bay an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico.

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- Mobile, Roman God of fire depicted in a large Birmingham statue.

(buzzer beeps) Chloe?

- Mercury?

- [Regina Myers] Vulcan, governor who declared segregation forever in 1963.

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- [Regina Myers] Wallace, city home to the United States Space and Rocket Center.

- Pass.

(buzzer beeping) - Pass.

- Huntsville, former college football coach who is one of its senators.

(buzzer beeping) - Pass.

- Tuberville, that's the end of the lightning round.

Let's take a look at our score.

We have Scranton with 130 and Wayne Highlands with 135 points.

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

What body of water whose northern termini include the Strait of Jubal provides the name origin for Eritrea and lies east of Sudan and Egypt.

(buzzer beeps) - Avery - The Nile?

- The Nile is incorrect.

Rebounds to Scranton.

(buzzer beeps) - Kaylee.

- The Mediterranean?

- It is also incorrect, it is the Red Sea, toss-up.

What period whose third Sunday is Gaudete Sunday is symbolized by four candles, precedes Christmas- (buzzer beeps) and is, Kaylee Scranton.

- Advent?

- Advent is correct answer and your bonus Scranton.

In the 19th century, what imperialist country competed with Russia for influence in Afghanistan and Central Asia during the Great Game?

(buzzer beeping) Chloe.

- United States?

- United States is incorrect.

It is United Kingdom, toss-up.

What poet who read "On the Pulse of Morning" at Bill Clinton's inauguration began her seven-part autobiography with "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings"?

(buzzer beeping) Amelia Scranton.

- Maya Angelou.

- Maya Angelou is the correct answer and your bonus Scranton.

In August 2022, what Indian born author of the novel "The Satanic Verses" was stabbed by Islamic militant Hadi Matar at an event in New York?

(buzzer beeping) - Pass.

- It is Salman Rushdie, toss-up.

What actor whom Jimmy Kimmel has apologized many times for running out of time for plays the title characters in the "Born Trilogy" and "The Martian."

(buzzer beeping) Chloe Scranton.

- Matt Damon?

- Matt Damon is the correct answer and your bonus Scranton.

What suburb of Chicago, which in 2021 became the first United States city to approve reparations for its black residents, is home to Northwestern University?

(buzzer beeping) - Kaylee?

- Evanston?

- Evanston is the correct answer for your bonus points.

Toss-up, what constellation that names the crew module for the Artemis program contains the stars Alnitak and Betelgeuse- (buzzer beeps) and is named, Avery Wayne Highlands.

- Orion?

- Orion Avery's correct answer and your bonus.

What French physicist who coined the term, "gyroscope" used a namesake pendulum to demonstrate the earth's rotation.

(buzzer beeps) - Kepler.

- Kepler is incorrect.

It is Foucault, toss-up.

In what country in 1977 was activist Steve Biko of the Black Conscientiousness Movement beaten to death in police custody while working against apartheid.

(buzzer beeps) - Chloe.

- South Africa?

- Correct answer Chloe and your bonus Wayne Highlands.

In 2021, Cincinnati, Houston, and Central Florida announced they would join what athletic conference that currently includes Iowa State and Kansas.

(buzzer beeps) - Avery?

- The NCAA?

- NCAA is incorrect, it is Big 12, toss-up.

What architect of the Casa Batllo and Park Guell was a native of Catalonia who designed the as yet unfinished Sagrada Familia Basilica in Barcelona?

(beeper beeping) It is Gaudi, toss-up.

What fifth-period element whose hexafluoroplatinate was the first known compound of a noble gas lies above radon and has the atomic symbol XE?

(buzzer beeping) - Kaylee Scranton.

- Xenon?

- Correct answer and your bonus.

What poet wrote, "forgive me they were delicious," in a poem opening, "I have eaten the plums that were in the ice box" titled "This Is Just to Say"?

- I have no idea.

- It doesn't matter.

(buzzer beeping) - Pass.

- Okay, the correct answer is William Carlos Williams.

And that's the end of our game.

Let's look at our final score.

We have Wayne Highlands with 155 points and Scranton with 175 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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