(upbeat music) - Welcome to the 18th 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.

Tonight's match features Abington Heights versus Lakeland.

Representing Abington Heights are Rose Peters, Derek Williams, Sonny Lynch, and Jackson Wentz.

Their alternates are Noah Parfray and Joseph Scandale.

Their advisor is John Zachary Monahan and representing Lakeland are Jacqueline Nally, Jadyn Bercherry, Daniel Black and Samantha Black.

Their alternates are Luke Fanansky and Jules Greer and their advisor is Charlie Barlow.

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 go ahead and get started with this tossup question.

What word precedes medicine in the title of a Louise Erdrich novel as well as song in the title of a poem about J. Alfred Prufrock by TS Elliot.

(electronic beep) Okay, that answer was love.

Let's move on to another tossup.

What transcendental number is half of tao appears in the formula for the volume of a sphere and is approximated by the fractions 339 over 108 and 22 over 7.

(electronic beep) Jackson, Abington Heights.

- Pi.

- [Paul Lazar] Is correct and here comes your bonus question.

Before becoming President, Harry Truman entered politics in what Missouri City with help from a political machine run by Tom Pendergast?

(electronic beep) Okay, that's Kansas City.

Let's move on to our next tossup.

What landmark is at the summit of Auyan-Tepui is named for an aviator, is in Eastern Venezuela and is the world's highest uninterrupted waterfall?

(electronic beep) Jackson, Abington Heights.

- Niagara Falls.

- Is incorrect, rebound to Lakeland.

(electronic beep) Samantha.

- Angel Falls.

- Is correct for your rebound points Lakeland.

And we move on now to another toss up.

What play in which Edgar disguises himself as Tom O'Bedlam centers on a ruler who divides his kingdom between his daughters Regan and Goneril.

(electronic beep) That play is King Lear.

Let's go to another tossup.

What text rediscovered on a pillar at Souza in 1901 contains 282 laws following eye for an eye principles and is named for a Babylonian king?

(electronic beep) Samantha, Lakeland.

- Code of Hammurabi.

- Is correct and here comes your bonus question.

What is the name of the British public healthcare system that was created in 1948 by Labor party politician Aneurin Bevan.

- NHS.

- Is correct for your bonus points.

Don't forget to ring in though.

- Okay.

- Let's move into another tossup question.

What class of molecules helps the body absorb vitamins K, A and D, is found in adipose tissue and comes in saturated and unsaturated varieties?

(electronic beep) Jacqueline, Lakeland.

- Lipids.

- [Paul Lazar] Judges?

- [Judges] Yes.

- Yes, that is correct and here's your bonus question.

In Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream, Rude Mechanicals reenact the tragedy of what youth who has a secret romance with his neighbor Thisbe?

(electronic beep) - [Paul Lazar] Samantha.

- No answer.

- Okay, we're looking for Pyramus.

Here's your next toss up.

What jazz singer who sang for Chick Webb as a teenager first hit number one on the charts with A Tisket A Tasket and was called the First Lady of Song?

(electronic beep) Okay, we're looking for Ella Fitzgerald.

Here's your next tossup.

What father of Louis The Pius was crowned emperor of the Romans by Leo III in AD 800 and was a king of the Franks whose name means Charles the Great?

(electronic beep) Okay, we're looking for Charlemagne.

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

(electronic crackling) 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.

Abington Heights has won the coin toss and will pick first.

Your categories are quadrilaterals or musical instruments.

- Could we do musical instruments?

- [Paul Lazar] Musical instruments it is and your time begins after I finish reading the first question.

Given these musical instruments, identify whether they are percussion, string, wind or electronic instruments and note wind includes both woodwind and brass.

Timpany.

(electronic beep) - Percussion.

- [Paul Lazar] Yes.

Acoustic guitar.

(electronic beep) - Electric.

- [Paul Lazar] String.

Didgeridoo.

(electronic beep) - Electric.

- [Paul Lazar] Wind, fiddle.

(electronic beep) - String.

- [Paul Lazar] Yes.

Synthesizer.

(electronic beep) - Electric.

- [Paul Lazar] Yep.

Cor anglais.

(electronic beep) - Pass.

- Wind, glockenspiel.

(electronic beep) - Percussion.

- [Paul Lazar] Yes.

Euphonium.

(electronic beep) - Pass.

- [Paul Lazar] That's wind.

Balalaika.

(electronic beep) - Percussion.

- [Paul Lazar] String.

Otamatone.

(electronic beep) - Pass.

- Okay, that's electronic and boy this is the first time I ever got to say glockenspiel on the show.

It feels so good.

Alright, Abington Heights, that's going to do it for your portion of the lightning round.

Lakeland, we're coming over to you.

Your remaining category will be quadrilaterals.

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

Given that some answers may be repeated, what is the most general type of quadrilateral with these properties.

And we're looking for a noun unless otherwise specified.

All interior angles are right angles.

(electronic beep) Samantha.

- Rectangle.

- [Paul Lazar] Yes, exactly.

One pair of sides is parallel.

(electronic beep) - Parallelogram.

- [Paul Lazar] Trapezoid.

The rotational symmetry is of order four.

(electronic beep) - Pass.

- [Paul Lazar] Square.

All side lengths are equal.

(electronic beep) - Square.

- [Paul Lazar] Rhombus.

An adjective for one for which a circle can be drawn passing through all vertices.

(electronic beep) - Pass.

- [Paul Lazar] That's cyclic quadrilaterals.

Every pair of adjacent interior angles is supplementary.

(electronic beep) - Pass.

- Parallelogram.

The diagonals each bisect the other.

(electronic beep) - Rhombus.

- [Paul Lazar] That's also parallelograms.

The diagonals are perpendicular.

(electronic beep) - Square.

- [Paul Lazar] Kite.

The diagonals are each other's perpendicular bisectors.

(electronic beep) - Pass.

- [Paul Lazar] Rhombus.

An adjective for one where every interior angle is under 180 degrees.

That was convex quadrilateral and that's going to do it for the lightning round.

And after that we currently have Lakeland in the lead over Abington Heights 40 to 30.

A very good game.

Now we're going to go ahead and go into the second quarter with this toss up question.

What country whose state grid corporation is the world's third largest company by revenue is the base of Tencent, the Alibaba Group and Huawei?

(electronic beep) - Abington Heights.

India is incorrect.

Rebound to Lakeland.

(electronic beep) Daniel.

- China.

- Is correct for your rebound points Lakeland and we move on to another tossup.

What bodies which grow in the zone of accumulation carve out landform such as aretes and circs and can form widespread ice sheets?

(electronic beep) Jackson, Abington Heights.

- Glaciers.

- Is correct and here comes your bonus question.

In June, 2023, what convention of Christian churches voted to expel the Saddleback Megachurch after it ordained a female pastor?

(electronic beep) - The Catholic church.

- No, we're looking for the Southern Baptists.

Let's move on to another tossup.

What rate which is used as an adjustment for real economic stats is measured by the CPI and is the rate at which the price of level of goods rises?

(electronic beep) Samantha, Lakeland.

- Inflation.

- Is correct and your bonus now.

The naive Amelia Sedley and the cunning Becky Sharp are contrasting figures in what 1848 novel without a hero written by William Makepeace Thackery?

(electronic beep) - No answer.

- Okay, we're looking for Vanity Fair.

Let's go to another tossup question.

What man, James Madison's second vice president, was a Massachusetts governor who names the practice of drawing districts for political advantage?

(electronic beep) Jacqueline, Lakeland.

- Jerrymandering.

- [Paul Lazar] What's the man's name?

- Jerry Man.

- Is incorrect, rebound to Abington Heights.

(electronic beep) - No answer.

- Okay, we're looking for Elbridge Jerry.

Let's move on now to another tossup.

In 2022, what former finance minister who founded the centrist party on Marsh defeated Maureen Lapin to win reelection as president of France?

(electronic beep) Samantha, Lakeland.

- Emmanuel Macron.

- Is correct and here comes your bonus question.

What term describes events that cannot both occur at the same time such as tossing heads and tossing tails?

(electronic beep) - Paradox.

- Nope, we're looking for mutually exclusive.

Let's go to another toss up.

What man who wrote on the revolutions of the heavenly spheres was a Polish scientist who published a heliocentric model of the solar system?

(electronic beep) Samantha, Lakeland.

- Copernicus.

- Is correct and here comes your bonus question.

What author of the novel Flow My Tears the policeman said an alternative history of World War II called The Man in the High Castle?

(electronic beep) Samantha.

- No answer.

- Okay, that's Philip K. Dick.

Let's go ahead and go on to another toss up.

What character who loses his new blue jacket while escaping from Mr. McGregor is an animal who raids a garden- (electronic beep) Jackson, Abington Heights.

- Peter Rabbit.

- Is correct and here's your bonus question.

In 2023, what Paris based international agency added the historic center of Odessa to its world Heritage endanger list?

(electronic beep) - No answer.

- Okay, we're looking for UNESCO.

Let's go to another toss up- (electronic beep) Which we'll get to in the next quarter because 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 Abington Heights and Rose, I'll come to you first.

Tell me what your plans are after graduation.

- I plan to go to college to study policy and social justice.

- All right, very good.

Thank you, Rose.

Derek.

- I plan to go to college and hopefully major in environmental engineering and then later find a job as an environmental engineer.

- Excellent, thank you Derek.

Sonny.

- Go to university and plan to major in pharmaceutical or medicinal chemistry.

- Oh, wow.

And Jackson.

- I plan to major in environmental science and then go on to law school and become an environmental lawyer.

- Oh, that's wonderful.

It's very nice to meet you Abington Heights and good luck the rest of the way.

Lakeland, we're gonna come over to you.

And Jacqueline, if you wouldn't mind telling us what your plans are after graduation.

- I plan to major in mechanical engineering.

- All righty.

Jayden.

- I plan to go to college and major in musical education.

- Okay.

Daniel.

- I plan to go to a trade school for carpentry.

- Okay and Samantha.

- I plan to go to college for computer science.

- All right, excellent.

It was very good to meet you both.

And we're gonna go ahead and begin the third quarter with this tossup question.

What company which introduced the X86 architecture and is phasing out Aceleron and Pentium devices supplies Dell and HP's computer chips?

(electronic beep) Jaden, Lakeland.

- Intel.

Is correct and here's your bonus.

Sumio Iijima is often credited with discovering what cylindrical allotrope of carbon known as CNTs, notable for its high conductivity and strength?

(electronic beep) - [Paul Lazar] Samantha.

- No answer.

- Okay, we're looking for carbon nanotubes.

Let's go to another tossup.

What home country of author Alice Monroe was led in the 20th century by such prime ministers as Lester Pearson and as governed from Ottawa?

(electronic beep) - [Paul Lazar] Daniel, Lakeland.

- Canada.

- Is correct and here comes your bonus.

Recurring character Nathan Zuckerman appears in the novels of what Jewish American author who wrote Portnoy's Complaint and The Human Stain?

(electronic beep) - No answer.

- Okay, we're looking for Philip Roth.

Your next tossup.

What planet, whose atmosphere has clouds made of sulfuric acid is home to the Maxwell Monte's Mountain Range- (electronic beep) And is- Jacqueline, Lakeland.

- Venus.

- Is correct and here comes your bonus.

Mapi was a progressive political party in what country whose first prime minister was David Ben Gurian?

(electronic beep) - No answer.

- Okay, that was Israel.

Here's your next tossup question.

What composer whose opera (indiscernible) adopts the story of Cinderella depicted a hero who shoots an apple off his son's head in William Tell?

(electronic beep) Okay, that composer was Gioachino Rossini.

Let's go to your next tossup.

What title character confronts 300 wolves in the Pyrenees with help from his servant Friday and is stranded on an island in a novel by Daniel Defoe?

(electronic beep) Okay, that answer is Robinson Crusoe.

Let's go to another tossup.

What kind of structures in early America included the Middlesex one ending in Boston and another dubbed Clinton's ditch in New York named for Erie?

(electronic beep) Daniel, Lakeland.

- Colonies.

- Is incorrect.

Rebound, Abington Heights.

- No answer.

- Okay, we're looking for canals.

One minute left in the quarter.

Here's your next tossup.

What city contains the v-gland installation in Frogner Park, hosts the award ceremony of the Nobel Peace Prize and is the capital of Norway?

(electronic beep) Samantha, Lakeland.

- Oslo.

- Is correct and here comes your bonus.

What flowers in a certain Javerney garden were depicted in approximately 250 paintings by Claude Monet?

(electronic beep) - Water lilies.

- Is correct for your bonus points, Lakeland.

And here's your next tossup.

What sculptor created The Big Sail, a monumental sculpture on the campus of MIT and many hanging kinetic sculptures that were dubbed mobiles?

(electronic beep) Okay, that was Alexander Calder.

Here's your next toss up.

What element, which is the second lightest calcogen ordinarily exists as yellow solid and forms compounds that often smell like rotten eggs?

(electronic beep) Sunny, Abington heights.

- Sulfur.

- Is correct and here's your bonus.

What term for an ancient Greek heavy infantry unit also names the bones found in human fingers and toes?

(electronic beep) - Phalanges.

- Is correct for your bonus points, Abington Heights.

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

(electronic crackling) This time Lakeland will pick first.

Your categories are ARM or BEN.

- What letters guys?

(indiscernible whispering) (electronic beep) ARM please.

- ARM it is and your time begins when I finish reading the first question.

Give these terms beginning with the consecutive letters ARM, end of the world.

(electronic beep) - [Paul Lazar] Samantha.

- Armageddon.

- [Paul Lazar] Yes.

Area directly under the shoulder joint.

(electronic beep) - Armpit.

- [Paul Lazar] Yes.

Formal agreement to end combat.

(electronic beep) - Armistice.

- [Paul Lazar] Yes.

Large naval fleet such as one sent by Spain against England in 1588.

(electronic beep) - Armada.

- [Paul Lazar] Yes.

Country in the caucuses whose capital is Yerevan.

(electronic beep) - Pass.

- It's Armenia.

Mammal that rolls up into a ball when threatened.

(electronic beep) - Armadillo.

- [Paul Lazar] Yes.

Location where weapons are stored.

(electronic beep) - Armory.

- [Paul Lazar] Yes.

Luxury fashion house known for its suits.

(electronic beep) - Pass.

- [Paul Lazar] Armani.

Standing clothes closet.

(electronic beep) - Armoire.

- [Paul Lazar] Yes.

Surname of astronaut Neil and cyclist Lance.

(electronic beep) - Armstrong.

- That's correct.

And that's going to do it for your portion of the lightning round, Lakeland.

You did a great job there.

Abington Heights, we're coming over to you and your remaining category will be BEN.

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

Give these answers that begin with the consecutive letters BEN.

Seat for two or more people often found in parks.

(electronic beep) - Bench.

- [Paul Lazar] Yes.

Jacob's youngest son in the Old Testament.

(electronic beep) - Benjamin.

- [Paul Lazar] Yes.

Papal name of the Pope who abdicated in 2013.

(electronic beep) - Benedict.

- [Paul Lazar] Yes.

Region of Eastern India north of a namesake bay.

(electronic beep) - Pass.

- [Paul Lazar] Bengal.

Hydrocarbon found in petroleum with formula C6H6.

(electronic beep) - Benzene.

- [Paul Lazar] Yes.

Japanese single portion takeaway meal.

(electronic beep) - Bento box.

- Yes.

African country between Togo and Nigeria.

(electronic beep) - Benin.

- [Paul Lazar] Yes.

Harmless like a non-cancerous tumor.

(electronic beep) - Benign.

- Yes.

1959 epic religious film starring Charlton Heston.

(electronic beep) - Pass.

- [Paul Lazar] Ben-Hur.

Libyan Seaport where US diplomats were attacked in 2012.

(electronic beep) - Pass.

- That was Benghazi.

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

And after that we currently have Lakeland in the lead over Abington Heights 165 to 105.

And we're now going to go ahead and begin the last quarter of the game with this tossup question.

What film, whose title object is the real life antikytheric mechanism is the fifth about a whip wielding archeologist played by Harrison Ford.

(electronic beep) Jacqueline, Lakeland.

- Indiana Jones and- - [Paul Lazar] I need an answer.

- Hidden Jewel.

- Nope, rebound to Abington Heights.

(electronic beep) - Indiana Jones and the Lost Arc.

- No, we're looking for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.

Here's your next tossup.

What country was led by Leaha Kat Ali Kahn and Muhammad Ali Jinnah after it's split apart from India during the process of partition?

Jackson Abington Heights.

- Pakistan.

- Is correct and your bonus.

What American explorer led an expedition across the southwest portion of the Louisiana purchase in 1806 and is the namesake of a mountain in Colorado?

(electronic beep) - Lewis and Clark.

- No, we're looking for is Zebulon Pike.

Zebulon Pike.

Here's your next tossup.

What story in which a cab ride after a ball leads to poverty or Madame Wazelle was written by Guy de Maupassant about the loss of borrowed jewelry?

(electronic beep) That was The Necklace.

Let's go to another tossup.

What river, which is formed by the Coosa and Tallapoosa rivers flows under the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma and shares its name with the state?

(electronic beep) - Mississippi.

- Derek, Abington Heights.

- Mississippi.

- Is incorrect, rebound to Lakeland.

(electronic beep) Daniel.

- Colorado.

- No, we're looking for Alabama.

Here's your next tossup question.

In what battle known as Operation Detachment did US troops take Mount Suribachi as shown in Joe Rosenthal's photograph of soldiers raising a flag?

(electronic beep) Derek, Abington Heights.

- Iwo Jima.

- Is correct and your bonus question.

While hard to apply in practice, what thermodynamics cycle named for a French scientist is the most efficient heat engine between two reservoirs?

(electronic beep) - Hydrogen engine.

- No, we're looking for the Carno Cycle.

Let's go to your next toss up.

What novel in which Mr. Carmichael takes Absalom's case Pro Dayo and Stephen Kamala attempts to fix his village in South Africa is by Alan Peyton?

(electronic beep) That's Cry the Beloved Country.

Let's go to another tossup.

What musical, which includes the songs Dancing Through Life and Defying Gravity, focuses on the relationship between the witches Glenda and Alphaba?

(electronic beep) Samantha, Lakeland.

- Wicked.

- Is correct and your bonus now.

What first century BC Jewish scholar said to have contributed to the Mishna and the Talmud is the namesake of the largest Jewish campus organization?

(electronic beep) - No answer.

- Okay, Hillel the Elder.

Here's your next toss up.

What compound known in antiquity as spirit of Saturn is the simplest ketone and is a common organic solvent found in most nail polish removers?

(electronic beep) Samantha, Lakeland.

- Acetone.

- Is correct and here comes your bonus question.

What Italian city names a meat sauce containing white wine, milk, onion, celery, and carrot used for Tagliatelle or lasagna?

(electronic beep) Samantha.

- No answer.

- Okay, we're looking for bologna and that's the end of the game.

And our winner tonight is Lakeland over Abington Heights, 185 to 125.

Congratulations Lakeland, 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 thanks for watching.

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