(bright upbeat music) - Welcome to the 17th season of WVIA 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 one, three or $5,000.

WVIA would like to thank our sponsors, FNCB and Peoples Security Bank for making this competition possible.

The rules of the game have been modified for this season's virtual version and in each half, students will have the chance to alternatively, answer one question.

If they answer that question correctly, they'll receive a bonus question.

If their answer is incorrect, the other team can rebound, but will not be given a bonus.

Students can also score points during the two lightning rounds in each game.

Judges tonight are educators from the WVIA viewing area, and tonight's Scholastic Scrimmage championship match features Milton versus Wallenpaupack playing for Wallenpaupack, are Ella Wesyniak and Tyler Lothberg.

Their alternates are Emma Mahone, Abby Lopez, Molly Dickerman, and Kai Puma Stelik.

Their advisor is Ryan Nenam.

Representing Milton, are Nicholas Fleck and Morgan Dresbach.

Their alternate is Sam Heppler and their advisor is Nicholas Vega.

Well, let's get started Wallenpaupack has won the coin toss and will receive the first question, which is, what country adopted a tourism slogan.

Meaning I love you in your madness, in the wake of many crises and including a massive 2020 explosion in Beirut?

- New Zealand.

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Milton.

- Haiti.

- Nope.

That country is Lebanon.

Milton.

Here's your next question?

What band's disco song miss you features their late drummer Charlie Watts as does their song I can't get no satisfaction written by Mick Jagger.

(beep) Black Eyed Peas.

Nope.

Rebound to Wallenpaupack.

(indistinct chatting) - The Rolling Stone.

- Is correct for your rebound points Wallenpaupack.

And here comes your next question.

What word taken from a king of a Epirus who lost the 275 BC battle of Beneventum to the Romans refers to a victory whose costs exceed the benefits.

- No answer.

- Okay.

Rebound to Milton.

- Pyrrhus.

- Is correct for your rebound points Milton.

Great job.

And here's your next question and get those pencils and papers out.

What is the smallest integer that is larger than 550 and divisible by nine given the sum of its digits must be divisible by nine?

(beeping sound) Ran out of time, rebound to Wallenpaupack.

- 558.

- Is correct for your rebound points Wallenpaupack.

And here comes your next question.

Nobles in what country commissioned architect, Inigo Jones to design a bank winning house at White Hall and the layout for the square at Covet garden?

- England.

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question?

William Howard Taft was the only president who also serve in what position whose other holders include Morrison Waite and Melville Fuller?

- Chief justice of the Supreme court.

- Is correct for your bonus points Wallenpaupack.

Let's go back to Milton now.

What president who veto the Taft Hartley act and tried to enact the fair deal assumed the White House in 1945 after Franklin Roosevelt died?

- Harry Truman.

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question.

In what post-apocalyptic novel by Cormack McCarthy do a father and son travel through a bleak landscape?

- The Road.

- Is correct for your bonus points, Milton.

And now we're gonna move back over to Wallenpaupack.

What city, which is the capital of the Maharashtra State lies on the Arabian sea is home to Bollywood and is the most populous city in India?

- Bombay.

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question.

In 2021, what attorney who is a fellow at Georgetown university's law school became the first second gentleman?

- Harris?

- No, the answer is Doug Emhoff and that's sound that you heard signals the end of the first quarter, and it's now time for the lightning round.

(lightning sound) 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, Wallenpaupack has won the coin toss and we'll pick first, your categories are M in science or numerical book titles.

- Numerical book titles.

- Numerical book titles it is.

And your time begins when I finish reading the first question, what number completes the titles of these novels?

The Blank Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas.

- Three.

- Yes.

Fahrenheit blank by Ray Bradbury?

- 451.

- Yes.

Blank Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Varne?

- 20,000.

- Yes.

Catch blank by Joseph Heller.

- [Ella] 22 - [Tyler] 22.

- Yes.

Blank years of solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

- Seven.

- 100 Slaughterhouse blank by Kurt Vonnegut?

- Five.

- Yes.

Blank a space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clark.

- 2001.

- Yes.

The Crying of Lot blank by Thomas Pynchon.

- No answer.

- 49 Blank Years a Slave by Solomon Northup.

- Seven.

- 12 Blank Splendid Sons by Khaled Hosseini?

No answer.

- That's 1000.

(beeping sound) Okay.

Wallenpaupack, that's gonna wrap up your portion of the lightning round.

Milton we're coming over to you and your category will be M in science.

And again, your time begins when I finish reading the first question, give these scientific terms that start with M layer of earth beneath the crust?

- Pass.

- Mantle.

cell division to produce two equal daughter cells?

- Mitosis.

- Yes.

Study of the weather?

- Meteorology.

- Yes.

The length of a vector or the brightness of a star.

- Pass.

- Magnitude.

Total number of protons and neutrons in an atom?

(beeping sounds) - Mass.

- A collection of about six times 10 to the 23rd particles.

- Pass That's mole.

The 50th percentile of a data set?

- Median.

- Yes.

Element name for the discover of nuclear fusion?

- Mercury.

- Meitnerium.

With measles, one of the M's in the MMR vaccine?

(beeping sound) That was-- - pass - That was mumps.

And that's going to do it for the lightning round.

And after that, we currently have a very close game here Wallenpaupack in the lead over Milton 105 to 65.

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 Ella, I'm going to come to you first, tell me what it would mean to you to win the Scholastic Scrimmage championship?

- It would mean a lot.

I mean, I haven't spent as much time on the Scholastic team as some of my other teammates, but I have loved my time on the team and loved my time competing.

- And we've loved having you.

Thank you, Ella.

And Tyler, what would it mean to you to win it all?

- That would mean a lot.

I've been doing this since eighth grade and this is my first time doing it, especially after getting quarantined before I was supposed to last year.

- Oh sorry Well, thank you very much.

And good luck the rest of the way.

Let's come over to Milton, and Nicholas, tell me what it would mean to you to win the Scholastic championship?

- It would mean a lot.

Like this is my second year doing Scholastic, last year and of course, but maybe after seeing my fellow teammates win as well cause they're seniors I can do this again, so, yeah.

- All right.

Thank you, Nicholas and Morgan what would it mean to you to win it all?

- It'd mean a lot.

Me being a senior, we haven't had a normal school year, my whole high school career cause of random stuff.

So it would mean a lot.

- Well, good luck to you the rest of the way Milton.

It was very nice to see you all again and will now begin in the next quarter with this question that goes to Milton.

What compounds that include the refrigerant are 22 are halogen containing compounds phased out by the Montreal protocol as harmful to the ozone layer?

- Bicarbonate.

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Wallenpaupack.

- Greenhouse gases.

- No, we're looking for chlorofluorocarbons or CFCs.

Wallenpaupack, here's your question.

What Mayo character from the Peanuts comic strip has a younger brother named Rerun believes in the great pumpkin and carries a security blanket?

- Linus.

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question?

Henry Park's tenterfield oration argued for the Federation of what present day country where in 1901, 6 British colonies created a Commonwealth?

- Australia.

- Is correct for your bonus points Wallenpaupack.

Great job.

And Milton, here's your next question?

What leader often called the Marshall in his country's state media met with Moon Jae In, in a 2018 summit and is the Supreme Leader of North Korea?

- Kim Jong-un.

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question?

The lines, all the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players begin a monologue spoken by Jacques in what William Shakespeare comedy?

- Edward.

- No, that answer is As You Like It, let's move back to Wallenpaupack now.

In what opera is the aria, (foreign)sung by Taino after servants of the queen to the night, give him the title instrument.

- The Tim drum.

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Milton.

- The flute.

- Judges Is incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was the Magic Flute.

Let's take our next question over to Milton now.

What particle is the main component of cosmic rays, fuses together in a namesake chain inside of stars and makes up the nucleus of a hydrogen atom?

(beeping sound) Okay.

Rebound to Wallenpaupack.

- Proton.

- Proton is correct for your rebound points Wallenpaupack And here comes your next question.

What company which launched the newsletter platform Bulletin suffered a major October 2021 outage and changed its name to Meta later that month?

- Facebook.

- Is correct.

And heres your bonus question.

while studying solid mercury, Heike Kamelirlingh Onnes discovered what phenomenon in which materials electrical resistance drops to zero?

- Super conductivity.

- Is correct for your bonus points Wallenpaupack.

Milton here comes your next question.

What war which popularized the song Over There and the Uncle Sam, I want you recruitment poster, did the us enter under Woodrow Wilson in 1917?

- World War I?

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question?

A story about a city mouse and a country mouse was supposedly created by what ancient Greek slave who's credited with composing many fables?

- Phaedrus.

- No, that answer is Aesop.

And after one half of play, we currently have Wallenpaupack in the lead over Milton 145 to 85.

Wanna say thank you to Ella and Tyler from Wallenpaupack and thank you to Nicholas and Morgan from Milton.

You are both spectacular.

We're now going to meet your teammates for the second half.

(bright upbeat music) Playing for Wallenpaapack in the second half, are Nick Husong and Anastasia Ayapolo.

Representing Milton, are Ian Keefer and Ashley Shamblin.

And our first question in the third quarter goes to Wallenpaupack, and that question is what element whose atoms may have formed the first covalent bonds was observed in space before it was discovered on earth and has atomic number two?

- Helium.

Is correct.

And here's your bonus question.

What is the subtitle of the San Diego studio who developed Sony published video game series that since 2014 has been the only MLB licensed baseball game?

- The Show.

- Is correct for your bonus points.

Great job Wallenpaupack.

Milton, here's your next question.

What poet described an Abyssinian made with a dulcimer and the sacred river Alph in his poem about a stately pleasure dome in Xanadu Kubla Khan?.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question?

What city that was an independent Republic from 697 to 1797 was governed by Orso Ipato and other elected li lifelong officials called Doges ?

(beeping sound) - Any.

- Is incorrect.

We're looking for Venice.

Let's go back to Wallenpaupack.

What Tsar was defeated by Poland Lithuania in the Livonian war ordered the building of St.

Basil cathedral and had a fearsome nickname?

- No answer.

- Okay.

Rebound out to Milton.

- Ivan the Terrible.

- Is correct for your rebound points, Milton and here comes your next question.

What holiday involves reading the book of Jonah occurs the day after a chicken is used in the Kapparot ritual, and is the Jewish day of atonement?

(beeping sound) Out of time, rebound now to Wallenpaupack - Passover.

- That is Yom Kippur.

Let's move back over now to Wallenpaupack.

What quantity is much smaller than particle size and Rayleigh scattering equals wave speed divided by frequency and is measured crest to crest?

- Oscillation.

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Milton.

- Wavelength.

- Is correct for your rebound points, Milton and here comes your next question.

What novel in which a union army chaplain is married to a woman named Marmee has a tomboyish protagonist named Joe March and is by Louisa May Allcot?

- Little Woman.

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question, which painting named by Andre Salmon for a Barcelona street rather than a French town depicts five nude prostitutes and was created by Pablo Picasso?

- Pass.

- Okay.

That's Les Demoiselles d'Avingnon.

Let's go to Wallenpaupack.

Alaine Locke was the Dean of what cultural movement embodied by writers like Zora Neale Hurston that was named for a mostly black part of New York?

- Harlem Renaissance.

- Is correct.

And your bonus question now.

Increased fluid pressure within the eye may be a symptom of what eye disease causing optic and vision loss?

- Glaucoma.

- Is correct for your bonus points Wallenpaupack.

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

(lighting sound) This time, Milton will pick first, your categories are film quotes or X words.

- Film quotes.

- Film quotes it is.

And your time begins when I finish reading the first question, give the missing words from these film quotes, the film titles will also be given star wars, may the blank be with you.

- [Ian] Oz - [Ashley] Oz - Yes.

The wizard of Oz.

I have a feeling we're not in blank anymore.

- Kansas.

- Yes.

The godfather, I'm gonna make him an offer he can't blank.

- Refuse.

- Yes.

Casablanca, play it blank.

- Sam.

- Yes.

The Graduabte, Mrs. Blank, you're trying to seduce me.

- Robinson.

- Yes.

Gold Finger.

A martini shaken, not blank.

- Nor stir, stirred.

- Right.

Soylent Green.

Soylent Green is blank.

- People.

- Yes.

Dirty Dancing.

Nobody puts blank in a corner.

- [Ian] ] baby - [Ashley] baby.

- Yes.

Airplane.

Blank, you can't be serious.

- Surely.

- Yes.

In the heat of the night, they call me blank Tibbs.

- Mister Tibbs.

- Yes.

Very good in the lightning round, Milton, you cleaned house there.

Great job.

Let's move over to Wallenpaupack and your remaining category will be X words.

And again, your time begins when I finish reading the first question, give these words that end in the letter X and they're ordered from shortest to longest shape paired with whisker in a type of data plot.

- Box.

- Yes.

Verb, meaning to urge or persuade?

- No answer.

- Coax.

A mild hex that causes bad luck.

- No answer.

- Jinx.

Rubbery material used in surgical gloves.

- Latex.

- Yes.

Pathogen mailed to US senators in late 2001.

- Smallpox.

- Anthrax.

Very traditional as in a religion.

- Orthodox.

- Yes.

Change in an objects apparent position between different viewpoints?

- No answer.

- Parallax.

Abdominal organ attached to the colon?

- Appendix.

- Yes.

Diacritical mark that appears above the O in the French for hotel.

- No answer.

- Circumflex.

Dinosaur, whose name means ancient wing?

(beeping sound) That was-- - Archy That was archaeopteryx.

You had it, but you were out of time, unfortunately.

So that brings our score right now to Milton over Wallenpaupack 225 to 215.

And again, we're going to take a little bit of a break and get to know the contestants playing the second half a little better and Wallenpaupack again, I'm going to come to you first.

Nick, tell us what it would mean to you to win the Scholastic Scrimmage championship.

- Scholastic is the extracurricular that I've focused most on and this is my first year playing in WBIA, not as an alternate.

So it would mean a lot to me.

- Okay, Nick, thank you so much.

And Anastasia What would it mean to you to win?

- It would also mean a lot just because I've also done this since eighth grade and I'm a senior now, so it'd be really cool to end strong.

- Absolutely.

You guys work so hard at it too.

Thank you so very much.

Let's go over to Milton now and Ian tell us what it would mean to you to win it all?

- It would mean the world to me, it's been such a fun time and as team captain to the team, I just wanna say I am so proud of every single member in this room.

- Great.

Thank you, Ian.

And Ashley, what would it mean to you?

- This is my first and my last year, so I think that I truly get the full Scholastic Scrimmage experience if we'd win it all.

- All.

It's a great Swan song.

Absolutely.

Thank you very much, Ashley and good luck to both teams as we enter the last segment of the game with this question that goes to Milton.

What quantity equals big G times the Earth's mass over Earth's radius and has a free fall acceleration equal to about 9.8 meters per second squared?

- Gravity.

- That is correct.

And your bonus question is trans Jordan and Palestine, but long to the class A category of what quasi colonial territories set up by the league of nations in the early 1920s?

(beeping sound) That was mandates.

Let's move back over to Wallenpaupack.

What group who are guarded by the Hekatonkheires after being imprisoned and Tartarus were led by Cronus and were overthrown by the Olympians?

- Titans.

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question?

What term denotes the 114 sections or chapters, including Al-Kahf and Al-Baqarah into which the Quran is divided?

- Books.

- No, the answer is Surah.

Let's move back over to Milton, which king met Francis the first at the field of the Cloth of Gold and employed Hans Hoblein the Younger to paint Anne of Cleaves, who is his fourth wife?

- Henry the Eighth - Is correct.

And your bonus question now.

A chocolate cake filled with whipped cream and cherries is named for what wooded area in Southwest Germany that is the source of a Danube river?

- Bavaria.

- Is incorrect.

We're looking for the black forest.

Okay.

Wallenpaupack, here comes your next question.

What novel in which veterans, Septimus Smith commits suicide chronicles Clarisa's preparations to host a party and is by Virginia Wolf?

- No answer.

- Okay.

Rebound now to Milton.

- Mrs. Dalloway.

- Is correct for your rebound points, Milton and here comes your next question.

Butanediol and lactic acid are potential products of what anaerobic process whose forms in yeast can produce carbon dioxide and ethanol?

- Fermentation.

- Is correct.

And your bonus question.

In the Chinese Zodiac between the years of the rabbit and the snake comes the year of what creature often adopted by emperors as a symbol of power?

- Rat.

- I'm sorry.

- Rat.

- Is incorrect.

And that answer was dragon.

Let's move over to Wallenpaupack The fall of Sevastopol ended what war in which British troops were treated by Florence Nightingale as they fought Russia on a namesake peninsula?

- Crimean.

- Is correct.

And your bonus question and get your pencils and papers ready.

What is the sine of a 270 degree angle?

- Three pi over two.

- Is incorrect.

We're looking for negative one.

Milton.

Here's your next question.

What verse form can have an octave use a turn to move into the sestet has Petrarchan and Elizabethan types and is a poem that is 14 lines long.

- Sonnet.

- Is correct.

And your bonus question.

The title family of fictional beings interrupts a rehearsal of the play, mixing it up in what absurd drama by Luigi Pirandello?

- No clue.

- That's Six Characters in Search of an Author.

And that's the end of the game and our winner tonight of the Scholastic Scrimmage season 17 championship is Milton over Wallenpaupack 275 to 235.

Congratulations, Milton on winning it all.

And we'll see you next year with another season of Scholastic scrimmage.

I'm your host, Paul Lazar And thank you for watching.

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