(upbeat music) - Welcome to this season of WVIA's "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 1, 3, or 5,000 dollars.

Tonight's match features Wallenpaupack versus Elk Lake.

Representing Wallenpaupack are Gabe Racine, Henry Reichman, Jude Motts, and Genevieve Neenan.

Their alternate is Brad Miley, and their advisor is Ryan Neenan.

Representing Elk Lake are Carly Gill, Lilia Sheffield, Nate Thurman, and Cohen Orlandini.

Their advisor is Jennifer Ward.

Scholastic Scrimmage is a game of rapid recall of factual information, so 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 toss-up points but will not receive a bonus question.

Well, let's go ahead and get the game started with this toss-up question, what tissue and which companion cells provide energy to cells called sieve tube elements, transport sugars away from the leaves to the rest of the plant?

(buzzer buzzing) Gabe, Wallenpaupack.

- Phloem.

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

During the Russian Civil War, the Red Army fought an anti-communist military coalition named for what other color?

(buzzer buzzing) - White.

- White is correct for your bonus points, Wallenpaupack, as we turn to our next toss-up question.

What explorer who met with Zamorin of Calicut in 1498, rounded the Cape of Good Hope to become the first modern European to reach, (buzzer buzzing) Henry, Wallenpaupack.

- Christopher Columbus.

- Is incorrect.

I'll finish the question and rebound to Elk Lake.

The first modern European to reach India by sea.

(buzzer buzzing) Cohen.

- Leif Erikson.

- No, that was Vasco da Gama.

All right, here comes your next toss-up.

What region whose Salvation Islands was once home to a penal colony at Devil's Island is a European territory in South America governed from Cayenne?

(buzzer buzzing) Genevieve, Wallenpaupack.

- French Guiana.

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

The monocle wearing Eustace Tilley is the mascot of what American literary and news magazine that celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2025?

(buzzer buzzing) - "Scholastic's."

- No, that was "The New Yorker."

All right, let's go to another toss-up.

What site where the mythical python guarded the omphalos at the center of the world was the home of the Pythia Oracle at the temple of Apollo?

(buzzer buzzing) Cohen, Elk Lake.

- Olympia.

- [Paul] Is incorrect, rebound to Wallenpaupack.

(buzzer buzzing) Gabe.

- Sparta.

- Nope, we're looking for Delphi.

All right, let's go to another toss-up and get out your pencils and papers.

If point P has the Cartesian coordinates 4,3, what are the new coordinates- (buzzer buzzing) Henry, Wallenpaupack.

- 4, negative 3.

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

Conflict between farmers and merchants helped provoke what 1786 uprising in Western Massachusetts that partly motivated the constitutional convention?

(Jude whispering) (buzzer buzzing) - Shays's Rebellion.

- Is correct for your bonus points, Wallenpaupack.

Let's go to another toss-up.

What island, which in 1969 was occupied by activists from the American-Indian movement was the site of a federal prison in San Francisco Bay?

(buzzer buzzing) Henry, Wallenpaupack.

- Alcatraz Island.

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question.

What collection of the sayings and approvals of Muhammad is used as a major source of Islamic law and theology alongside the Quran?

(students whispering) (buzzer buzzing) - Talmud.

- No, we're looking for "The Hadith."

"The Hadith."

Here's our next toss-up.

What substance whose composition may be measured with a DFT gauge or a Zahn cup is sold under such brands as Benjamin Moore and Sherwin-Williams?

(buzzer buzzing) Henry, Wallenpaupack.

- Paint.

- Is correct.

And your bonus now.

A 2025 mass shooting targeted the Manhattan headquarters of what organization, which a gunman blamed for causing his CTE condition?

(students whispering) (buzzer buzzing) Genevieve.

- Hospital System.

(alarm beeping) - No, we're looking for the National Football League.

Well, that sound that you heard signals the end of the first quarter and it's now time for the lightning round.

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.

Elk Lake has won the coin toss and will pick first.

Your categories are lines of poetry, or Napoleon.

(student speaking faintly) (students chuckling) (buzzer buzzing) - All right, we'll take lines of poetry.

- Very brave, lines of poetry it is.

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

Given a poet and a line of their poetry with its final word missing, provide the final missing word.

Dylan Thomas, "Do not go gentle into that good," blank.

- Pass.

- [Paul] You don't know, (buzzer buzzing) you can pass.

- Pass.

- [Paul] That's "night."

Percy Shelley, "Look on my works, ye Mighty, and," blank.

(buzzer buzzing) - Strong.

- [Paul] "Despair."

Ogden Nash, "Candy is dandy, but liquor is," blank.

(buzzer buzzing) - Bitter.

- [Paul] "Quicker."

Emily Dickinson, "Hope is the thing with," blank.

- Pass.

(buzzer buzzing) - Pass.

- [Paul] "Feathers."

Robert Frost.

"And miles to go before I," blank.

(buzzer buzzing) - "Sleep."

- Yes.

T.S.

Eliot, "This is the way the world ends.

Not with a bang but a," blank.

(buzzer buzzing) - "Whimper."

- Yes.

John McCrae, "In Flanders fields the poppies," blank.

(buzzer buzzing) - Grow.

- [Paul] "Blow."

Allen Ginsberg, "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by," blank.

- Pass.

(buzzer buzzing) - Drugs.

- "Madness."

Maya Angelou, "But still, like dust, I'll," blank.

(alarm beeping) That was "rise."

All right, that's going to do it for your portion of the lightning round, Elk Lake.

We're gonna come over to Wallenpaupack and your remaining category will be Napoleon.

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

Answer the following about Emperor Napoleon I. Became emperor of this European country in 1804.

(buzzer buzzing) Jude.

- France.

- [Paul] Yes.

Beheaded King who was that country's previous monarch.

(buzzer buzzing) - Louis XIV.

- [Paul] Louis XVI.

Island where he was born.

(buzzer buzzing) - Corinth.

- [Paul] Corsica.

Final battle after returning from Elba.

(buzzer buzzing) - Waterloo.

- Yes.

Died in exile on this island.

(buzzer buzzing) - Cyprus.

- [Paul] Saint Helena.

First wife divorced because she did not bear him an heir.

(buzzer buzzing) - Pass.

- Josephine.

His brother, whom he named King of Spain.

(buzzer buzzing) - Pass.

- Joseph.

Became First Consul in the coup of the 18th of this month.

(buzzer buzzing) - August.

- [Paul] Brumaire.

1805, Battle of the Three Emperors that names a Paris train station.

(buzzer buzzing) - Pass.

- Austerlitz.

Empire where he led a failed invasion in the winter of 1812.

(buzzer buzzing) (alarm beeping) Ran outta time there, guys, sorry about that.

That answer was Russia.

So after that, we currently have Wallenpaupack in the lead over Elk Lake, 70 to 10.

And now we're going to go ahead and move into the second quarter with this toss-up question.

What 1965 song whose working title was "Scrambled Eggs" is a widely covered Beatles song about a time when "All my troubles seemed so far away."

(buzzer buzzing) - Yesterday.

- Gabe, well, yes, that is correct.

And here's your bonus question.

Shor's algorithm for factorization is carried out by what devices which use entangled qubits to quickly perform calculations.

(buzzer buzzing) - Quantum Computers.

- [Paul] I'm sorry.

- Quantum computers.

- Is correct for your bonus points, Wallenpaupack, as we go to our next toss-up question.

What compound is made in the Monsanto and Cativa processes, has an anhydrous glacial form, has the formula CH3COOH, and is an acid found in vinegar.

(buzzer buzzing) - Glyphosate.

- Nate, Elk Lake.

- Glyphosate.

- Is incorrect, rebound to Wallenpaupack.

(buzzer buzzing) Jude.

- Sulfuric acid.

- Is incorrect.

We're looking for acetic acid.

All right, here's our next toss-up.

What saint who's retrial was ordered by Callixtus III claimed to have divine visions before leading the French in Orleans in the Hundred Years' War?

(buzzer buzzing) Cohen, Elk Lake.

- St.

Jude.

- [Paul] Is incorrect.

Rebound to Wallenpaupack.

(buzzer buzzing) Henry.

- St.

Valentine.

- No, we're looking for Joan of Arc.

Joan of Arc.

All right, let's go to our next toss-up.

What art movement, whose name was coined by Lawrence Alloway is exemplified by the re-appropriations of comic books painted by Roy Lichtenstein?

(alarm beeping) That is Pop Art.

Okay.

Let's move along to our next toss-up.

What character lives on a farm with his cousin Mose, has his stapler placed in Jell-O by Jim?

(buzzer buzzing) Nate, Elk Lake.

- Dwight Schrute.

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

Dioneo and others flee a plague that breaks out in 14th century Florence at the start of what collection of 100 stories written by Giovanni Boccaccio?

(buzzer buzzing) - "The Plague."

- No, we're looking for "The Decameron."

"The Decameron."

Our next toss-up.

What French philosopher described an overly stiff waiter to illustrate the concept of bad faith in "Being and Nothingness," a work of existentialism?

(buzzer buzzing) Gabe, Wallenpaupack.

- Descartes.

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Elk Lake.

(alarm beeping) That is Jean-Paul Sartre.

Here's our next toss-up.

What ancient city melted a siege tower known as "Taker of Cities" to create a harbor monument to Helios in the form of 108-foot tall- (buzzer buzzing) Cohen, Elk Lake.

- Greek.

(buzzer buzzing) - Is incorrect, rebound to Gabe, yes.

- Rhodes.

- Rhodes is correct for your rebound points, Wallenpaupack, as we go now to our next toss-up question.

What expressions, some of which use L'Hopital's rule to evaluate equal the- (buzzer buzzing) Henry, Wallenpaupack.

- Derivatives.

- Is incorrect.

I'll finish the question and rebound to Elk Lake.

Equal the value of a function's output approaches as its input approaches a certain value.

(buzzer buzzing) - Limits.

- Limit is correct for your rebound points, Elk Lake, as we go to our next toss-up.

What city's politicians include Mayor Muriel Bowser as well as Eleanor Holmes Norton, a delegate of the House of Representatives who cannot vote?

(alarm beeping) (buzzer buzzing) Jude, Wallenpaupack.

- San Juan.

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Elk Lake.

- Puerto Rico.

- Nope.

That city is Washington.

DC.

Well, that sound that you heard signals the end of the first half and we're now going to give our contestants a little 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 Wallenpaupack, and Gabe, I'll come to you first.

Tell me what you like to do for fun when you're not in class.

- Build crafting.

It's a kind of, it's a weird term, but whether it's card games like Magic The Gathering or video games, I just like to find pieces of puzzles, put them together and make them worse against other people's puzzles better.

- Awesome.

Thank you, Gabe.

Henry.

- I enjoy playing a game called Magic The Gathering.

It is a trading card game that I'm able to play a format called Commander in.

It's a great game.

I play it myself.

Jude.

- I enjoy golfing and snowboarding.

- Great.

Thanks, Jude.

Genevieve.

- I love doing any kind of music so I love playing instruments and singing as well, as well as hanging out with my friends.

- Thank you, Genevieve.

Good luck the rest of the way Wallenpaupack.

Elk Lake, we're coming over to you.

Carly, tell us what you like to do for fun.

- I really like to do music, like play my clarinet or I do cheerleading outside of school.

- Thanks, Carly.

Lilia.

- I love listening to music, any kind of music.

- [Paul] Thanks Lilia.

Nate?

- I enjoy playing football and then also drums and bass guitar.

- [Paul] Awesome.

Thanks, Nate.

Cohen.

- I host a podcast with the school superintendent.

- [Paul] That's awesome.

What's the name of the podcast?

- The OG Connection.

- The OG Connection.

All right, very cool.

Thanks, Cohen.

Good luck to you Elk Lake.

It was very nice to meet all of you.

And now we'll go ahead and begin the third quarter with this toss up question.

Robert Maynard hunted down what man who blockaded Charlestown using the Queen Anne's Revenge and was a pirate known for his dark facial hair.

(buzzer buzzing) Jude, Wallenpaupack.

- Black Beard.

- Is correct and your bonus now.

Tina Fey played overworked math teacher Ms.

Norbury in what 2014 film starring Rachel McAdams and Lindsay Lohan?

(buzzer buzzing) Genevieve.

- Mean Girls?

- That is correct for your bonus points Wallenpaupack.

Let's go to our next toss up question.

What technology relies on synchronized atomic clocks to determine the location of a receiver and is the most widely used navigation system?

(buzzer buzzing) Gabe, Wallenpaupack.

- GPS.

- Is correct.

And your bonus now.

If A set S has N numbers, what other set that includes all possible subsets of S including S itself and the empty set must have two to the n numbers.

(students chattering) (buzzer buzzing) - The Misen set.

- No, that is the power set.

The power set.

Let's move along to our next toss up question.

What composer whose short lyric pieces include character miniatures like "Wedding Day at TroldHaugen" was a Norwegian who wrote the "Peer Gynt Suite," (buzzer buzzing) Jude, Wallenpaupack.

- Mahler.

- Is incorrect.

Rebound Elk Lake.

(buzzer buzzing) - Mozart.

- No.

That composer is Edvard Grieg.

Here's our next toss up question.

What soldier who called for international support in his letter from Jamaica won the Battle of Boyaca and was a revolutionary called Liberator.

(buzzer buzzing) Cohen, Elk Lake.

- John de Marquis.

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Wallenpaupack.

(alarm beeping) That was Simone Bolivar.

Here's our next toss up.

What novel Whose frustrated protagonist has an affair with Rodolphe Boulanger while married to the provincial, Dr.

Charles, is by Gustav Flaubert.

(buzzer buzzing) Henry, Wallenpaupack "Mrs.

Dalloway."

- Is incorrect.

Rebound Elk Lake.

(buzzer buzzing) - "The Scarlet Letter."

- No, we're looking for "Madam Bovary."

Here's our next toss up.

What's psychologist who wrote Motivation and personality placed self-actualization at the top of a construct that ranks a hierarchy of human needs.

(buzzer buzzing) Jude, Wallenpaupack.

- Freud.

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Elk Lake.

(alarm beeping) Ran out of time there guys.

We were looking for Abraham Maslow.

Here's our next toss up.

What party which split into conscience and cotton factions promoted the American system as the main rival to the Democrats in the mid 1800s.

(buzzer buzzing) Henry, Wallenpaupack.

- The Wig party.

- Is correct And here's your bonus.

What English playwright wrote about the attempts of Mosca, Voltore, Corbaccio and Corvino to inherit the fortune of a sly fox in "Volpone."

(students speaking faintly) - Anderson.

- No, that was Ben Johnson.

Okay.

Here comes our next toss up.

What YA series whose arcs include The Lost Continent Prophecy depicts a war imperia (alarm beeping) and was written by Tui T. Sutherland about young dragonets.

- Wings Of Fire.

- Lilia, Elk Lake.

- "Wings of Fire."

- Is correct.

And here's your question.

What African country whose capital is named after US President James Monroe was founded in the 19th century (buzzer buzzing) by the American colonization?

- Liberia.

- Liberia is correct for your bonus points, Elk Lake.

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

This time Wallenpaupack will pick first.

Your categories are state borders or months (student speaking faintly) (buzzer buzzing) - State borders - State borders it is.

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

Given two states, name the only state that borders both, Washington and California.

(buzzer buzzing) Genevieve.

- Oregon.

- Yes.

Maine and Vermont.

(buzzer buzzing) - New Hampshire?

- Yes.

Florida and Alabama.

(buzzer buzzing) - Georgia?

- Yes.

New Jersey and Connecticut.

(buzzer buzzing) - New York.

- Yes.

Ohio and Wisconsin.

(buzzer buzzing) - Michigan.

- Yes.

Idaho and North Dakota.

(buzzer buzzing) - Montana.

- Yes.

New Mexico and Louisiana.

(buzzer buzzing) - Texas.

- Yes.

Virginia and Illinois, (buzzer buzzing) - Tennessee, - [Paul] Kentucky, Nebraska and Tennessee.

(buzzer buzzing) - Kansas.

- Missouri, Wyoming and Oklahoma.

(buzzer buzzing) - Colorado.

- That is correct.

Okay, Wallenpaupack, you did a great job in the lightning round.

Elk Lake, we're coming over to you and your remaining category will be months.

And once again your time begins When I finish reading the first question.

Give these answers that are names of months in English and answers may repeat.

Last name of sisters in "Little Women."

(buzzer buzzing) - Pass.

- [Paul] March.

A verb meaning something is possible.

(buzzer buzzing) - February - [Paul] May.

First name of Aubrey Plaza's "Parks and Recreation" character.

(buzzer buzzing) - June.

- [Paul] April.

Word following red in the name of a hunted submarine in a Tom Clancy novel.

- November, - October.

Music genre that includes John Philip Sousa's "The Liberty Bell."

(buzzer buzzing) - October - [Paul] March.

Month named for the first Roman emperor.

(buzzer buzzing) - June.

- [Paul] August.

With black Palestinian militant group of the 1970s.

(buzzer buzzing) - January.

- September.

First name of actress who played Betty Draper on "Madman."

(buzzer buzzing) - April.

- [Paul] January.

Usual first name of Swedish playwright of "Miss Julie."

(buzzer buzzing) - May.

- Nope.

That was August.

All right.

That's going to do it for the lightning round.

And after that we have Wallenpaupack in the lead over Elk Lake 170 to 45 as we begin the last segment of the game with this toss up question.

What phenomenon whose namesake structures are Lewis structures enclosed and square brackets occurs when bonds are formed by delocalized electrons.

(buzzer buzzing) Cohen, Elk Lake.

- Electron bonding.

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Wallenpaupack.

(buzzer buzzing) Jude.

- Polar bonds.

- Nope.

We're looking for resonance.

Resonance.

Here's our next toss up.

What country which is home to the Monte Verity Cloud Forest is a central American nation governed from San Jose that is to the south of Nicaragua.

(buzzer buzzing) Genevieve, Wallenpaupack.

- Chile.

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Elk Lake.

(buzzer buzzing) - Brazil.

- Nope, that country is Costa Rica.

Here's our next toss up question.

What company which named Andy Jassy as CEO in 2021 experienced a major drop in sales for the 2025 edition of its annual July promotion, Prime Day.

Henry, Wallenpaupack.

- Amazon.

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus now.

Lake Balaton, the largest lake in central Europe is in what country whose first king was Stephen I?

(buzzer buzzing) - Romania.

- You're very close.

We're looking for Hungary.

Hungary.

Here's our next toss up.

What author wrote about a convict who gets married five times in "Moll Flanders" and about a man who converts Friday to Christianity in "Robinson Crusoe"?

(buzzer buzzing) - Henry, Wallenpaupack.

- Stevenson.

- Is incorrect.

Rebound Elk Lake.

(buzzer buzzing) - Angelo?

- Nope, that's Daniel Defoe.

Okay guys, here's our next toss up.

An asterism consisting of Alnitak,, Alnilam and Mintaka is found in what Constellation whose stars Saiph and Rachel are below a namesake.

Gabe, Wallenpaupack.

- Orion.

- Is correct.

And your bonus question now.

In 1941, what Boston Red Sox left fielder batted 406 becoming the last player to have a batting average over 400 for an entire season?

(buzzer buzzing) - Babe Ruth.

- Good guess, but we are looking for Ted Williams.

All right.

Let's go to our next toss up.

In 2025, what country's constitutional court upheld the impeachment of a president from the People Power Party who declared Martial Law, Yoon Suk Yeol?

(buzzer buzzing) Jude, Wallenpaupack.

- South Korea.

- Is correct.

And your bonus now.

The city of Yinxu in modern day Henan province was the capital of what oldest archeologically verified Chinese dynasty, which preceded the Zhou.

(buzzer buzzing) - Mann.

- No, that was the Shang Dynasty.

Okay guys, here comes your next toss up.

One of what beings shouts, "The great work begins at the end of Millennium approaches," the first part of a Tony Kushner play titled for them in America.

(buzzer buzzing) Gabe, Wallenpaupack.

- Angels.

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question.

What publication, which has been led since 2015 by Zanny Minton Beddoes is a weekly British magazine whose name reflects its emphasis on business.

(student speaking faintly) (buzzer buzzing) - "Business Insider."

- No.

The answer we're looking for was "The Economist."

Here's our next toss up.

What US state is home to a Banksys mural "Forgive Us Our Trespassing" as well as Robert Smithson's "Spiral Jetty," which extends into the Great Salt Lake?

(buzzer buzzing) Gabe, Wallenpaupack.

- Utah - Is correct.

And your bonus.

What law states that the volume of a gas is inversely proportional to its pressure at constant temperature.

(student speaking faintly) (buzzer buzzing) - Planks law.

- No, that is Boyle's law.

And that's the end of the game.

And our winter tonight is Wallenpaupack over Elk Lake, 220 to 45.

Congratulations, Wallenpaupack.

You're 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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