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(drum pounding) (whistle blowing) (upbeat music) ♪ Go (upbeat music) - Welcome to this 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 five thousand dollars.

Tonight's match features Wyoming Area versus Tunkhannoch.

Representing Wyoming Area are Kurt Capy, Dil Maloney, Sophia Minta, and Jackson Pollard.

Their alternates are Jonathan Snopkowski and Abby Francis, and their advisors are Nancy Roman and Molly Kerns.

Representing Tunkhannoch are Ben Landon, Cora Milner, Joseph Koneski, and Maya Montras.

Their alternate is Leah DeMarco, and their advisors are Melissa Krodrovie and Dr.

Thomasina Fiorello.

Scholastic Scrimmage is a game of rapid recall of factual information, so let's take a moment and review the rules.

The first team to buzz in will have an opportunity to answer a tossup question.

Correct answers to these questions are awarded 10 points and that team will then receive a five point bonus question.

If that tossup 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.

Well, let's get the game started with this tossup question.

What senator who said, "The dream shall never die", after losing the 1980 Democratic primary to Jimmy Carter was the brother of a murdered president?

(buzzer beeping) Ben, Tunkhannoch.

- Bobby Kennedy.

- Is incorrect, rebound to Wyoming Area.

(buzzer beeping) Jackson.

- Robert Kennedy?

- Nope, that is Ted Kennedy.

Let's go on to our next tossup question.

What quantity equals the difference in energy between a transition state and its reactance, and is the energy needed for a reaction to proceed?

(buzzer beeping) Maya, Tunkhannoch.

- Activation energy?

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

What adjective describes a structure or behavior such as goosebumps that has lost most or all of its original function due to evolution?

(buzzer beeping) - A vestigial structure.

- Is correct for your bonus points, Tunkhannoch, as we turn to our next tossup question.

What winger who won the Conn Smythe Trophy after winning the 2018 Stanley Cup is a Russian who in 2025, (buzzer beeping) Ben, Tunkhannoch.

- Alex Ovechkin.

- Is correct, (whimsical whirring) and here comes her bonus.

What American author wrote about how snow submerges an iron year in the opening section of his 1930 epic poem, "The Bridge"?

(buzzer beeping) Maya.

- Walt Whitman.

- Nope, that's Hart Crane.

Okay, here's our next tossup question.

What country which Charles the 10th forced to pay 150 million francs in reparations to France, gained independence in Toussaint Louverture slave revolt?

(buzzer beeping) Kurt, Wyoming Area.

- Haiti.

- Is correct and here's your bonus.

(whimsical whirring) In August 2025, an explosion in Pennsylvania killed two workers at the Clairton Coke Works, a plant owned by what major industrial company?

(buzzer beeping) - DuPont.

- No, that's US Steel, US Steel.

Alright, here's our next tossup question.

What politician who was criticized for living in a rent stabilized apartment by Andrew Cuomo is the 2025, Maya, Tunkhannoch.

- Zohran Mamdami.

- Is correct, (whimsical whirring) and here's your bonus question.

Anselm Huttenbrenner preserve the manuscript of what Franz Schubert symphony, which has two extent complete movements?

(high-pitched beeping) That is the Symphony Number Eight in B minor.

Here's our next tossup question.

What guitarist who played a solo on Michael Jackson's song "Beat It" founded a band named after his Dutch surname whose hits included "Panama" and "Jump"?

(buzzer beeping) Ben, Tunkhannoch.

- Van Halen.

- Is correct, (whimsical whirring) and here's your bonus.

What author of the 1755 dictionary of the English language declared patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel to his biographer James Boswell?

(high-pitched beeping) That was Samuel Johnson.

Here's our next tossup question.

What country whose Strathspeys dance music features a snap rhythm names the yard that is the London Police headquarters and is governed from Edinburgh?

(buzzer beeping) Ben, Tunkhannoch.

- Scotland Yard.

- Scotland is correct, and here comes your bonus.

The historian Thucydides recorded the funeral oration given by what statesman to honor Athenians who died in the first year of the Peloponnesian War?

(high-pitched beeping) That was Pericles.

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

(thundering whooshing) 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.

Tunkhannoch has won the coin toss and will pick first.

Your categories are black holes, or cats and fiction.

- We pick cats and fiction.

- Who wouldn't?

Cats and fiction, it is, and your time begins when I finish your first question.

Name the authors who created these literal or metaphorical cats.

The Cheshire Cat from "Alice in Wonderland".

(buzzer beeping) - Frances Hodgson Burnett.

- [Paul] Lewis Carroll.

The prince's cat Tybalt from "Romeo and Juliet".

(buzzer beeping) - Shakespeare?

- [Paul] Yes, "The Cat in the Hat".

(buzzer beeping) - Dr.

Seuss.

- [Paul] Yes, Maggie, the protagonist of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof".

(buzzer beeping) - Pass.

- [Paul] Tennessee Williams.

A cat named Church who was resurrected in the novel "Pet Cemetery".

(buzzer beeping) - Stephen King.

- Yes, Buttercup, who belonged to Primrose Everdeen.

(buzzer beeping) - Suzanne Collins.

- [Paul] Yes, Pluto from the horror story, "The Black Cat".

(buzzer beeping) - Edgar Allen Poe.

- [Paul] Yes.

The cat that walked by himself in one of the "Just So" stories.

(buzzer beeping) - Pass.

- [Paul] It's Richard Kipling.

Behemoth, a giant cat from the "The Master and Margarita".

(buzzer beeping) - Pass.

- That's Mikhail Bulgakov.

The lost cats found, (high-pitched beeping) well, we won't get to that one unfortunately, but still you guys know your cats.

Great job in the first lightning round, Tunkhannoch.

Wyoming Area, we're coming over to you and your remaining category will be black holes, and once again, your time begins when I finish reading the first question.

Answer the following about black holes, fastest possible speed which isn't enough to escape them.

(buzzer beeping) - Speed of light?

- [Paul] Yes.

Black hole surface beyond which nothing can leave.

(buzzer beeping) - Escape velocity.

- [Paul] Event horizon.

Wheelchair using physicists who predicted they emit radiation.

(buzzer beeping) - Stephen Hawking.

- [Paul] Stephen Hawking is correct.

Effect in which a black hole's gravity bends nearby light.

(buzzer beeping) - Pass.

- Gravitational lensing.

The powerful star explosions that form them.

(buzzer beeping) - Supernova.

- [Paul] Yes.

Space time ripples emitted by a black hole merger and dedicated by LIGO.

(buzzer beeping) - Pass.

- [Paul] That's a gravitational waves.

Einstein's theory of gravity which describes them.

(buzzer beeping) - Ethereal load, relativity.

- Is incorrect, general relativity.

British namesake of a process for getting energy from them.

(buzzer beeping) - Pass.

- That's Roger Penrose.

Constellation that contains the Milky Way central black hole.

(high-pitched beeping) That was Sagittarius.

Okay, Wyoming Area, that's going to wrap up your portion of the first lightning round, and after that we currently have a score of Tunkhannoch at 80 and Wyoming Area at 25.

As we begin the second quarter with this tossup question, what disease can cause atrophy of the vas deferens in boys, high chloride levels on a sweat test, and build up of thick mucus in the lungs?

(buzzer beeping) Sophia, Wyoming Area.

- Cystic fibrosis?

- Is correct, (whimsical whirring) and here's your bonus.

What 2020 indie game with maps like six Tanglewood Drive and Camp Woodwind has the players use clues like EMF five and spirit box to identify ghosts?

(buzzer beeping) - Phasmophobia?

- Is correct for your bonus points, Wyoming Area, as we go now to a tossup.

What novella in what's your report on suppressing savage customs ends exterminate all the brutes depicts Ivory Trader Kurtz and is by Joseph Conrad?

(high-pitched beeping) That is "Heart of Darkness".

Here's our next tossup question.

What time signature sometimes denoted by a stylized C has one beat equivalent to a quarter note and has a duration, Joseph, Tunkhannoch.

- Common time.

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

Until 2020 what US State's official name included the phrase and Providence plantations.

(buzzer beeping) Maya?

- Georgia?

- Nope, that is Rhode Island.

Okay, let's go to our next tossup which require your pencils and papers.

What is the smallest number that is both a multiple of 13 and greater than 400, given the multiples of 13 include 39 and 390?

(buzzer beeping) Joseph, Tunkhannoch.

- 403.

- Is correct, and here's your bonus question, what Monarch was both the most recent English king to be killed in battle and the final English king from the House of Plantagenet?

(high-pitched beeping) That is Richard the Third.

Okay, let's go to another tossup question.

What country were Peter Obi and Atiku Abubakar challenged the 2023 election victory of Bola Tinubu is Africa's most populous, and is led- (buzzer beeping) - Nigeria.

- Kurt, Wyoming area.

Is correct.

And here's your bonus question.

In July, 2025, what country which remains dominated by president of the Senate, Hun Sen, fought several border clashes with neighboring Thailand?

(buzzer beeping) - Myanmar.

- Nope, we're looking for Cambodia.

Alright, let's move on to our next tossup.

What book in which the Israelites eat Manna, depicts Aaron casting a golden calf, 10 plagues striking Egypt, and Moses parting the Red Sea?

(buzzer beeping) Kurt, Wyoming area.

- The Old Testament.

- [Paul] I'm sorry?

- The Old Testament?

- [Paul] Is incorrect, rebound to Tunkhannoch.

(buzzer beeping) Ben?

- Exodus?

- Exodus was the book we were looking for, very good Tunkhannoch, as we go to our next tossup question.

In what year did Ferdinand folk defeat the spring offensive leading to the abdication of Wilhelm the Second in the November revolution, ending World War One?

(buzzer beeping) Jackson, Wyoming area.

- 1917?

- [Paul] Is incorrect rebound to Tunkhannoch.

(buzzer beeping) Joseph.

- 1918.

- 1918 is the year we were looking for, correct.

All right, let's go on to our next tossup question.

What city whose suburbs include Abu Ghraib was the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate, lies on the Tigris River and is the capital of Iraq?

(buzzer beeping) Kurt, Wyoming Area.

- Baghdad.

- Baghdad is correct and here's your bonus.

(whimsical whirring) John Trumbull's iconic painting of what event is featured on the back of the two dollar bill?

(buzzer beeping) - The signing of the Declaration?

- [Paul] Be more specific.

- The signing of the Declaration of Independence.

- That is correct for your bonus points, Wyoming Area.

And that sound that you heard signals the end of the first half, and we're now going to give our contestants a 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 Wyoming Area and Kurt, I'll come to you first.

Tell me what you like to do for fun.

- I like to hang out with friends after school.

- [Paul] Thank you, Kurt.

Dil?

- Have movie night with my friends on the weekend.

- [Paul] Awesome, thanks Dil.

Sophia?

- I like to go on runs.

- [Paul] Thanks, Sophia, Jackson?

- I like to drive around and listen to music.

- Alright, real cool, thanks Wyoming Area, and good luck the rest of the way.

Tunkhannoch it's over to you.

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

- I like to golf and play basketball and workout.

- [Paul] Thanks Ben.

Cora?

- I like to golf and also read.

- [Paul] Thanks Cora.

Joseph?

- I like to golf and play music.

- [Paul] Thank you Joseph, and Maya?

- I like to golf with my grandpa.

- Alright, excellent.

Good luck to you the rest of the way Tunkhannoch.

It's very nice to meet all of you.

Well let's go ahead and begin the third quarter now with this tossup question.

What quantity, which has a dynamic form measured in pascal-seconds or pas-s is zero in a super fluid and measures of fluids resistance to flow?

(buzzer beeping) Maya, Tunkhannoch.

- Viscosity?

- Is correct, and your bonus question now.

The first of the so-called unequal treaties greatly favored Great Britain and ended what 19th Century War?

(buzzer beeping) - World War Two, One?

- Nope, that answer is the Opium War.

Okay, let's go to our next tossup question.

What man switched his nation to the Latin alphabet and forced citizens to use European style surnames as the first post independence leader of Turkey?

(buzzer beeping) Kurt, Wyoming Area.

- Ataturk.

- Ataturk is correct and here's your bonus question.

What novel by Don DeLillo, which is set in the fictional college town of Blacksmith is about a professor of Hitler studies named Jack Gladney?

(high-pitched beeping) We were looking for "White Noise".

Okay, let's go to another tossup question.

What figure, the mother of Chrysaor and sister to Stheno and Euryale was slain by a hero who used a reflective shield to counter her petrifying, (buzzer beeping) Ben, Tunkhannoch?

- Medusa?

- Is correct, and your bonus question, what form of classification in biology uses namesake diagrams that show relationships among species based on shared derived characteristics?

(buzzer beeping) - A phylogeny tree.

- That is incorrect, we're looking for cladistics, cladistics.

Okay, let's go to our next tossup question.

What author described the cultures of the Quadlings, the Gillikin, and the Winkies in children's books that also mention Munchkins and Dorothy Gale?

(high-pitched beeping) No takers there, that was L Frank Baum.

Okay, let's go to our next toss up question.

What function has an integral equal to X times itself minus X, has a derivative equal to one over X, and is the inverse of the exponential function?

(buzzer beeping) Maya, Tunkhannoch.

- A logarithmic function.

- Be more specific.

- I don't know, I'm sorry.

- All right, rebound to Wyoming Area.

(high-pitched beeping) We're looking for the natural logarithm.

Okay, let's go to our next toss up.

What state whose quarter shows the New River Gorge Bridge is the only state with two, Sophia, Wyoming area.

- West Virginia.

- Is correct, and here's your bonus.

(whimsical whirring) What term from physics identifies the tendency of a body to resist changes in its motion?

(buzzer beeping) - Inertia?

- Is correct for your bonus points, Wyoming Area, as we turn to our next tossup question.

What character is scolded for driving 55 miles per hour after hearing apuckita, apuckita, apuckita sound, while daydreaming in a story by James Thurber.

(buzzer beeping) Jackson, Wyoming Area.

- Marshall.

- Is incorrect, rebound at Tunkhannoch.

(high-pitched beeping) That was Walter Mitty.

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

This time Wyoming Area will pick first.

(electric buzzing) Your categories are, ends in AZE or steam.

(contestants whispering) (buzzer beeping) - Ends in AZE.

- Ends in AZE, it is, and your time begins when I finish reading the first question.

Give these words that end with the consecutive letters, AZE.

A puzzling network of confusing paths.

(buzzer beeping) - Maze?

- [Paul] Yes.

To spend time in a laid back relaxed manner.

(buzzer beeping) - Laze.

- [Paul] Yes.

What farm animals do when they eat grass in a field.

(buzzer beeping) - Graze.

- [Paul] Yes, to stun someone, making them unable to think clearly.

(buzzer beeping) - Haze?

- [Paul] Daze, fad.

(buzzer beeping) - Craze.

- [Paul] Yes, to surprise someone greatly.

(buzzer beeping) - Amaze?

- [Paul] Yes, a glossy, smooth coating applied to a surface.

- Glaze.

- Yes.

A slight obscuration of the air caused by fine particles.

- Haze?

- [Paul] Yes, to completely destroy.

(buzzer beeping) - Pass.

- [Paul] Raze.

Process of joining metals similar to soldering.

(buzzer beeping) - Pass.

- That is braze.

Okay, Wyoming Area, you did a great job in that lightning round.

Tunkhannoch, we're coming over to you.

Your remaining category will be steam.

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

Answer the following about steam.

Phase change by which steam becomes liquid.

(buzzer beeping) - Condensation.

- [Paul] Yes, Disney mascot who appears in Steamboat Willie.

(buzzer beeping) - Mickey Mouse.

- [Paul] Yes, pressurized springs that eject water in steam.

(buzzer beeping) - Geysers?

- [Paul] Yes, animated TV show that originated the steamed hams meme.

- The Simpsons?

- [Paul] Yes, seam engine pioneer who names the SI unit of power?

(buzzer beeping) - Watt?

- Yes, sci-fi sub genre with Victorian aesthetics.

(buzzer beeping) - Steam punk.

- [Paul] Yes, American folklore figure who raced against a steam powered drill.

(buzzer beeping) - John Henry.

- Yes, English painter of rain, steam, and speed.

(buzzer beeping) - Pass.

- [Paul] That's Turner.

Video game company behind the steam gaming platform.

(buzzer beeping) - Valve.

- That's correct.

Inventor of the Clermont Steamboat.

(buzzer beeping) - Clermont?

- Nope, that's Robert Fulton.

All right, that's going to do it for our lightning round, and after that we have Tunkhannoch in the lead over Wyoming Area 180 to 125, as we begin the last segment of the game with this tossup question.

What battle in which the US Asiatic Squadron commanded by George Dewey destroyed a Spanish fleet in 1898, took place near the Philippines capitol?

(buzzer beeping) Sophia, Wyoming Area.

- The Battle of Manila.

- Is incorrect, rebound at Tunkhannoch.

(high-pitched beeping) You were very close, it was the Battle of Manila Bay.

All right, let's go to our next tossup.

Gout is a subtype of what condition that affects synovial tissue has osteo and rheumatoid types, (buzzer beeping) and Maya, Tunkhannoch?

- Arthritis.

- Is correct, Here is your bonus and get out your pencils and papers.

What must be the value of X if the data set whose four values are zero, 41, 104, and X, has a median of 36?

(buzzer beeping) Maya.

- 36.

- That's incorrect, we're looking for 31.

Okay, let's move on to our next tossup.

What constitutional amendment permits non apportionment, responded to the Pollock V Farmers Loan and Trust ruling, and authorizes a federal income tax?

(buzzer beeping) Jackson, Wyoming Area.

- The 16th amendment?

- Is correct, and here comes your bonus.

What hit 2025 Netflix series stars, Malin Akerman and Brittany Snow as East Texas residents who have an affair after meeting at an NRA fundraiser?

(buzzer beeping) - Pass.

- That is the "Hunting Wives".

Okay, let's go to our next tossup.

What major desert is east of the Taklamakan Desert, contains many dinosaur fossils in its Nemegt Formation, and spans across Southern Mongolia?

Ben,Tunkhannoch.

- Gobi.

- Is correct, and here's your bonus.

The ruins of the ancient city of Adulis are in what African country whose capital is Asmara?

(buzzer beeping) Maya.

- Jordan.

- Nope, that's Eritrea.

Okay guys, here's our next tossup question.

What geological feature who is northern terminus is at the Mendocino Triple junction is a transform fault that extends for 750 miles in California?

(buzzer beeping) Ben, Tunkhannoch?

- San Andreas.

- Is correct, and your bonus now.

The nonviolent breakup of Czechoslovakia in 1992 is often known as what type of divorce?

(buzzer beeping) - Mutual?

- No, that answer is velvet, velvet.

Alright, let's move on to another tossup.

What kinetic sculptures, which include lobster trap and fishtail by Alexander Calder have parts that move in the air similarly to toys above cribs?

(buzzer beeping) Maya, Tunkhannoch.

- Dynamic sculptures.

- Is incorrect, rebound to Wyoming Area.

(high-pitched beeping) That is mobiles, mobiles.

Alright, here's our next tossup.

What war saw the sinking of the Heneral Belgrano, helped Margaret Thatcher win a 1983 election, and was fought between Britain and Argentina?

Kurt, Wyoming Area.

- Falklands Island Wars.

- Is correct, and your bonus question.

What wife of Laius killed herself after realizing she had committed incest with her son Oedipus?

(high-pitched beeping) (buzzer beeping) - Porsche?

- No, that was Queen Jocasta.

And that's the end of the game, and our winner tonight is Tunkhannoch over Wyoming Area two ten two one forty five.

Congratulations Tunkhannoch, you are 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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