(energetic music) - Welcome to the Scholastic Scrimmage First Division Final.

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 $1000, $3000, or $5,000.

Representing the CSIU is Berwick and representing Colonial IU 20 is Delaware Valley.

Playing for Berwick are Christopher Stola, Thomas D. Patista, Emma Shikowsky, Josephine Morgan, and their alternates are William Robinson Gilden, Lily Robinson Gilden, and Elizabeth Gunther.

Their advisor is Todd Gunther.

Playing for Delaware Valley are Jackson Hancock, Andrea Del Freo, Owen Carso, and Riley Crick.

Their alternates are Isabella Hemler and Christopher Fleming.

Their advisor is Robert Curtis.

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 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.

What particles, which are the heaviest outputs of beta minus decay consist of two up quarks and one down quark and are positively charged nucleons?

(buzzer beeps) Josephine Berwick.

- Positron.

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Delaware Valley.

(buzzer beeps) Owen.

- Proton.

Proton is correct for your rebound points.

(electronic chime music) Let's move on to another tossup.

What Midwestern city whose police were accused by a 2023 DOJ report of bias against black and native residents is where George Floyd was killed?

(buzzer beeps) Riley, Delaware Valley.

- Minneapolis.

- Is correct.

(electronic chime music) And the bonus question, what influential 18th century English publisher wrote the lengthy epistolary novels, "Pamela and Clarissa?"

(buzzer beeps) - John Dickinson?

- No, we're looking for Samuel Richardson.

Let's move to another toss up.

What singer collaborated with Sean Paul on the song "No Lie" and released the 2020 album "Future Nostalgia," which contains "Levitating"- (buzzer beeps) Riley, Delaware Valley.

- Dua Lipa.

- Is correct.

(electronic chime music) And your bonus question, what loud and startling phenomenon occurs when an object travels through air faster than the speed of sound, creating shockwaves?

(buzzer beeps) - Sonic boom.

- Is correct for your bonus points, Delaware Valley.

And here comes the next toss up.

What 1999 coming of age novel in which the English teacher Bill introduces the teenager Charlie to classic books was written by Stephen Chbosky?

(buzzer beeps) - Josephine, Berwick.

- "Dead Poet's Society."

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Delaware Valley.

(buzzer beeps) Riley.

- "10 Things I Hate About You."

- No, we're looking for "Perks of Being a Wallflower."

Here comes your next tossup.

What type of animal is represented by the constellation that includes Polaris and by the constellation- (buzzer beeps) Andrea, Delaware Valley.

- Bear.

(electronic chime music) - Is correct and your bonus question.

In August 2023, Donald Trump was charged with violating what law originally passed in 1870 to protect the rights of African Americans?

(buzzer beeps) - Civil Rights Act?

- [Paul] Judges?

- [Judge] Be more specific.

- [Paul] Be more specific.

- The Civil Rights Act of 1876?

- Is incorrect.

We're looking for the Civil Rights Act of 1870.

1870.

Here comes your next tossup question.

What God whose temples in Rome were closed in times of peace was a two-faced God of beginnings?

(buzzer beeps) Andrea, Delaware Valley.

- Ares?

- Is incorrect.

I'll finish the question and rebound to Berwick.

(buzzer beeps) Emma.

- Janus?

- Is correct for your rebound points.

(electronic chime music) Berwick, that puts you on the board.

Let's move to another tossup question.

What building designed by Shreve, Lamb, and Harmon features a spire designed for mooring airships and when built- (buzzer beeps) Jackson, Delaware Valley.

- The Empire State Building - Is correct.

(electronic chime music) And your bonus question, what philosopher wrote, "Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains in his work the social contract?"

(buzzer beeps) - Rousseau - Is correct for your bonus points, Delaware Valley.

Very good.

Here's your next toss up.

What quantity represented by a curve that slopes downwards in a price versus quantity graph is often plotted by economists alongside supply?

(buzzer beeps) Riley, Delaware Valley.

- Demand.

- Is correct.

(electronic chime music) And your bonus question.

Many proteins including insulin are held together by what amino acid that can form by sulfide bridges?

(buzzer beeps) Saccharate?

- No.

We're looking for cysteine.

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

(lightning buzzing) 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.

Delaware Valley has won the coin toss and will pick first.

Your categories are stars or literary houses.

- Stars.

- Stars it is.

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

Name these things about stars.

The lightest element which main sequence stars fuse into helium?

(buzzer beeps) Riley.

- Hydrogen?

- [Paul] Yes.

Dense star type named for uncharged subatomic particles.

(buzzer beeps) - Neutrons.

- [Paul] Yes.

Brightest star in the night sky.

(buzzer beeps) - Polaris.

- [Paul] Sirius.

Stellar explosion with a core collapse type.

(buzzer beeps) - Nova.

Supernova.

- [Paul] Nova is incorrect.

It was Supernova.

Continuous stream of charged particles from the sun.

(buzzer beeps) Riley.

- Sunlight.

- Solar wind.

Star that in 12,000 years will become the new North star.

(buzzer beeps) - Polaris.

- [Paul] Vega.

Outermost layer of the sun that produces mass ejections.

(buzzer beeps) - Mantle.

- [Paul] Solar corona.

Type of variable star for which Henrietta Swan Levitt found a period luminosity relation (buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- [Paul] Cepheids.

Diagram that plots stars' luminosity (alarm beeps) against their temperatures.

That was the Hertzsprung diagram or HR diagram.

Alright, Delaware Valley.

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

Berwick, we're coming over to you and your remaining category will be literary houses.

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

Name the authors of these literary works titled for houses.

"The Little House on the Prairie" series.

(buzzer beeps) - Louisa May Alcott.

- [Paul] Laura Ingalls Wilder.

"The House of the Seven Gables."

(buzzer beeps) - Nathaniel Hawthorne.

- [Paul] Yes.

The play "A Doll's House, A Norwegian-" (buzzer beeps) - Henry Gibson.

- [Paul] Yes.

The short story, "The Fall of the House of Usher."

(buzzer beeps) - Poe.

- [Paul] Yes.

"To the Lighthouse."

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- [Paul] Virginia Woolf.

"The House on Mango Street."

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- Sandra Cisneros.

"Bleak House."

(buzzer beeps) - Dickens.

- [Paul] Yes.

"The House of Mirth."

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- [Paul] Edith Wharton.

20th century Spanish author of "The House of Bernard da Alba."

(buzzer beeps) - Marquez.

- [Paul] Garcia Lorca.

Trinidadian-British author of "A House for Mr.

Biswas."

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- That's V.S.

Naipaul.

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

And after that we currently have a score of 80 to 30 in favor of Delaware Valley and we're now going to move into the second quarter with this tossup question.

What effect which is used by weather radars and speed guns- (buzzer beeps) Riley, Delaware Valley.

- Doppler.

- Is correct.

(electronic chime music) And here comes your bonus question.

James Boswell wrote a biography of what author of "Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets" who published a 1755 English dictionary?

(buzzer beeps) - Oxford?

- No, we're looking for Samuel Johnson.

Here's your next tossup.

What novel in which a proposal from Farmer Robert Martin is unwisely rejected by Harriet Smith is named for a matchmaker and is by Jane Austen?

(buzzer beeps) Jackson, Delaware Valley.

- "Emma."

- Is correct.

(electronic chime music) And here comes your bonus.

In 1915, what country signed the Treaty of London to join the Allied powers after nominally being allied with Germany at the start of World War I?

(buzzer beeps) - Italy.

- Is correct for your bonus points, Delaware Valley.

And let's move on to another tossup.

What agreement which drew a line across the Louisiana territory above which slavery was banned, allowed- (buzzer beeps) Emma, Berwick.

- Missouri Compromise.

- Is correct.

(electronic chime music) And your bonus.

What piano ballad from 2023 Super Mario Brothers movie is performed by Jack Black as Bowser who sings about his true love?

(buzzer beeps) - Peaches.

- Is correct for your bonus points, Berwick.

And we'll move on now to another tossup.

What state is represented by both the oldest person to become a freshman senator, Peter Welch, and the Democratic socialist Bernie Sanders?

(buzzer beeps) - Vermont.

- [Paul] Christopher, Berwick.

- Vermont.

(electronic chime music) - Is correct and your bonus now.

The Salton Sea is a landlocked body of water that is near the Imperial Valley in the southern part of what state?

(buzzer beeps) - Nevada.

- Nope, close.

We're looking for California.

Here's your next tossup.

What Dutch artist painted the last judgment into his "Woman Holding a Balance" and showed a woman in a turban (buzzer beeps) in "Girl with a Pearl Earring?"

Josephine, Berwick.

- Vermeer.

- Is correct.

(electronic chime music) And your bonus now.

Which Anglo-Saxon King, who was briefly overthrown by Sweyn Forkbeard received his epithet because he was poorly advised?

(buzzer beeps) - Aethelred?

- Is correct for your bonus points.

Very good Berwick.

And here's your next tossup.

What layer below the Gutenberg discontinuity hosts a dynamo powered by its convection that creates Earth's magnetic field and is made of liquid iron?

(buzzer beeps) Andrea, Delaware Valley - Molten core.

- Judges?

- [Judge] Yes.

- Is correct.

(electronic chime music) And here's your bonus question.

What unit of memory is equivalent to 1000 terabytes or 1 million gigabytes?

(buzzer beeps) - Megabyte?

- Nope.

You're looking for petabyte.

Petabyte.

Here's your next toss up.

What event for which Hugh Montgomery was tried for manslaughter but defended by John Adams saw Crispus Attucks- (buzzer beeps) Josephine, Berwick.

- The Boston Massacre.

- Is correct.

(electronic chime music) And here comes your bonus question.

What season of the year is called Aki in Japanese, Herbst in German, and otono in Spanish?

(buzzer beeps) - Fall.

- Is correct for your bonus points.

Very good.

Here's your next tossup.

Which playwright who wrote about Nag and Nell living in trash cans in "Endgame" created the tramps of Vladimir and Estragon in "Waiting for Godot?"

(buzzer beeps) Andrea, Delaware Valley.

- Orson Scott Card.

- Is incorrect.

Rebound now to Berwick.

(buzzer beeps) (alarms beeps) - Samuel Beckett.

- Is correct for your rebound points.

(electronic chime music) Berwick, great job.

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 Berwick and Christopher, I'll come to you first.

Tell us what your favorite vacation spot is.

- Well, Paul, of all the places I've been to, I'd have to say Virginia, probably Williamsburg in Virginia is my favorite.

- [Paul] Okay, very good.

Thank you.

Thomas?

- Well Paul, I'd have to say the Jersey Shore.

- [Paul] All right, excellent.

Emma?

- The outer banks.

- [Paul] Very cool.

Josephine?

- Well Paul, I'd have to say my favorite vacation place is Rye Beach, New Hampshire.

Because the sound of the waves rolling over the rocks is always so soothing.

- [Paul] It's something else, isn't it?

- Yes.

- Great job.

Thank you Berwick.

Good luck the rest of the way.

Delaware Valley, over to you.

Jackson, what is your favorite vacation spot and why is it Catawissa?

- (laughs) Well, I can't tell you that, but my favorite vacation spot is Bennington, Vermont.

- [Paul] Okay.

For the skiing, right?

- Well I haven't gone skiing yet but my family used to live up there, so.

- [Paul] Very cool.

Andrea?

- A certain place.

It's the Replay Arcade Game Museum in Tarpon Springs, Florida.

- [Paul] Okay.

What's your favorite game?

- The Twilight Zone pinball arcade machine.

- Very cool.

Very cool.

Owen?

- I'd have to say Paris, France because you could stay there for months and still not achieve everything you want to.

- [Paul] It's true.

And Riley?

- I like Williamsburg, Virginia because of Busch Gardens and Colonial Williamsburg.

- All right, very good.

It was very nice to meet all of you again and we'll go ahead and begin the third quarter with this tossup question and get your pencils and paper ready.

If X is a positive number, what is the minimum value of X for which the sum of 18 plus X is a perfect square?

(buzzer beeps) Riley, Delaware Valley.

- Nine.

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Berwick.

Christopher.

- Seven.

- Is correct for your rebound points.

(electronic chime music) Very good Berwick, here's your next tossup.

What film which opens as a woman gets attacked off the coast of Amity Island was directed by- (buzzer beeps) Josephine, Berwick.

- Jaws - Is correct.

(electronic chime music) And here comes your bonus question.

What theory often named for two scientists defines acids as proton donors and bases as proton accepters?

(buzzer beeps) - No answer.

- Okay, that's the Bronsted Lowry theory.

Let's move on to another tossup question.

In what country will the iconic tower be part of a yet unnamed new- (buzzer beeps) Andrea, Delaware Valley?

- Italy.

- Is incorrect.

I'll finish the question and rebound to Berwick.

New administrative capital that Abdul Fattah El-Sisi's regime is building near Cairo.

(buzzer beeps) Thomas, Berwick.

- Egypt.

(electronic chime music) - Is correct for your rebound points.

Very good.

Here's your next tossup.

What poet beseeched a goddess to fight by my shoulder in the "Ode to Aphrodite," the only exed and complete poem by this ancient Greek woman from Lesbos?

(buzzer beeps) Emma, Berwick.

- Sappho?

(electronic chime music) - Is correct and here comes your bonus question.

What 2023 reality show on Amazon Free-vee featured Ronald Gladin as the only participant in a trial who is not secretly an improv actor?

- Are you a comedian?

- I have no idea.

(contestants chuckling) - That's silly.

"Are You a Comedian?"

- No.

We are looking for "Jury Duty."

Something everybody loves.

Here's your next tossup question.

What country whose fleet lost the battle of Sushima ceded half of Sakhalin in 19- (buzzer beeps) Christopher, Berwick.

- Mongolia.

- Is incorrect.

I will finish the question and rebound to Delaware Valley.

In 1905 after losing a war to Japan in the reign of the final czar.

(buzzer beeps) Owen.

- Russia.

(electronic chime music) - Is correct for your rebound points and we'll move on now to another toss up.

What chemical principle named for a French chemist determines how a system in equilibrium responds to changes in temperature or pressure?

(buzzer beeps) Andrea, Delaware Valley.

- Homeostasis?

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Berwick.

(buzzer beeps) Emma.

- Boyle's Law.

- Nope.

We're looking for Le Chatelier's Principle.

Here's your next tossup question.

What country whose capital borders two other countries is governed from Bratislava, and was- (buzzer beeps) Thomas, Berwick.

- Slovakia.

- Is correct.

(electronic chime music) And your bonus question.

What politician who represented Bedford Stuyvesant was the first African American woman elected to the US Congress in 1968?

- Shirley Chisholm.

- Shirley?

- Shirley Chisholm.

(buzzer beeps) - Shirley Chisholm.

- What?

- Can I defer to Thomas?

- [Paul] Judges?

- [Judge] You're saying it correctly.

- That is correct.

Steve.

Shirley Chisholm is correct.

Let's move on now to another tossup.

What poem, set on the darkest evening of the year, ends with its speaker declaring, "I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep."

(buzzer beeps) Emma, Berwick.

- Robert Frost.

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Delaware Valley.

(buzzer beeps) - A Midsummer Night's Dream?

- Nope.

We were looking for "Stopping by Woods (alarm beeping) On a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost.

You had the author but we were looking for the poem.

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

(lightning buzzing) This time Berwick will pick first.

Your categories are Super Bowl 57 or Henrys.

- Henrys.

- Super Bowl.

(buzzer beeps) - No no no.

- We'll take Super Bowl 57 please.

- Super Bowl 57 it is.

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

Answer the following about 2023's Super Bowl.

Kansas City quarterback who is MVP?

(buzzer beeps) - Patrick Mahomes.

- [Paul] Yes.

Team from Pennsylvania that lost.

(buzzer beeps) - Eagles.

- [Paul] Yes.

Quarterback with three rushing touchdowns for the losing- (buzzer beeps) - Jaylon Hurts.

- [Paul] Yes.

Pregnant singer who performed "We Found Love" at halftime.

(buzzer beeps) - Rihanna.

- [Paul] Yes.

Chiefs tight end with six catches.

(buzzer beeps) - Travis Kelce.

- [Paul] Yes.

State that hosted the game in Glendale.

(buzzer beeps) - Arizona.

- [Paul] Yes.

Chiefs head coach who won a second sup- (buzzer beeps) - Oh, Andy Reid.

- Yes.

Network that aired a Gordon Ramsey show after the game.

(buzzer beeps) - Fox.

- [Paul] Yes.

Former Titans wide receiver who caught a touchdown for the losing team.

(buzzer beeps) - Dallas Goedert.

- [Paul] AJ Brown.

Controversial pre-throw penalty called on James Bradbury late in the game.

(buzzer beeps) - Pass interference.

- Nope.

We're looking for defensive holding.

But still Berwick, great job on that category in the lightning round.

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

And now Delaware Valley, we're coming over to you.

Your remaining category will be Henrys.

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

Give the surnames of these people named Henry.

Automaker who made the Model T. (buzzer beeps) Riley.

- Ford.

- [Paul] Yes.

Great compromiser of 19th century Congress.

(buzzer beeps) - Clay.

- [Paul] Yes.

Explorer who names the river that's- (buzzer beeps) Hudson.

- [Paul] Yes.

Poet of "The Song of Hiawatha."

(buzzer beeps) - Longfellow.

- [Paul] Yes.

Author of "The Turn of the Screw."

(buzzer beeps) - Winkler.

- [Paul] Henry James.

First US Secretary of War.

(buzzer beeps) - Knox.

- [Paul] Yes.

Author of "Tropic of Cancer."

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- [Paul] Henry Miller.

German American Secretary of State under Nixon and Ford.

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- [Paul] Kissinger.

Baroque English composer of the Opera Dido and Aenaes.

(buzzer beeps) - Thoreau?

- Purcell.

Actor who played Superman in "Man of Steel."

(buzzer beeps) - Cavill.

- Is correct.

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

And after that we currently have Berwick in the lead over Delaware Valley 190 to 155.

But again, still plenty of time for the game to go either way.

Let's go ahead and start the last segment of the game now with this tossup question.

What theologian commented on abortion and euthanasia in the encyclical "Evangelian Vipe" and in 1978 became the first-non Italian pope in centuries?

(buzzer beeps) Emma, Berwick.

- Pope Francis?

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Delaware Valley.

(buzzer beeps) - Pope John Paul.

- Be more specific.

- The 16th?

- Is incorrect.

John Paul the second is what we're looking for.

Here's your next tossup.

What city, whose Avenida Nueve De Julio is the world's widest avenue, lies on the Rio- (buzzer beeps) Jackson, Delaware Valley.

- Buenos Aries, Argentina.

- Is correct.

(electronic chime music) And here comes your bonus.

Asmara is the capital of what African country which gained independence from Ethiopia in the early 1990s?

(buzzer beeps) - Eritrea.

- Is correct for your bonus points, Delaware Valley.

Here's your next toss up.

What event, the first of which was won by Frank Neuhauser in 1925, had eight co-champions in 2019, one of whom correctly gave the letters in auslaut?

(buzzer beeps) Riley, Delaware Valley.

- Scripp's spelling bee.

- Is correct.

(electronic chime music) And here's your bonus question.

The slogan "Every man a king" was used by what populous Senator and governor from Louisiana who was assassinated in 1935?

- Oh my God.

Familiar.

- Pass.

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- Okay, that was Huey Long.

Here comes your next tossup and get your pencils and papers ready.

What is the empirical formula of butane or C4H10, given that empirical formulas- (buzzer beeps) Riley, Delaware Valley.

- C2H5.

- Is correct.

(electronic chime music) And here comes your bonus question now.

What Indian American author who recently has started writing in Italian won a Pulitzer Prize for her story collection "Interpreter of Maladies?"

(buzzer beeps) - Maya Angelou.

- No, that's we're looking for Lahiri.

Let's move to another tossup.

What author, who wrote that "A foolish consistency is the hob goblin of little minds" was a transcendentalist who wrote the essay "Self-Reliance?"

(buzzer beeps) Riley, Delaware Valley.

- Walden.

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Berwick.

(buzzer beeps) - Thoreau.

- Nope.

Ralph Waldo Emerson was the answer.

Here's your next toss up.

In what year did France's February revolution replace Louis Philippe with the Second Republic, triggering a series of other European revolutions?

(buzzer beeps) Josephine, Berwick.

- 1848.

- Is correct.

(electronic chime music) And here's your bonus and get your pencils and papers ready.

What base 10 number is equivalent to the binary number 1110, given the fourth digit from the right equals two cubed?

(buzzer beeps) - I need an answer.

What should I say?

- Don't look at me.

I only know- - 30.

(buzzer beeps) - 30.

- Nope.

The answer was 14.

14.

Here's your next tossup.

What compound, the starting point of reverse transcription, has messenger, ribosomal, and transfer- (buzzer beeps) Riley, Delaware Valley.

- RNA?

- Is correct.

(electronic chime music) And here comes your bonus.

What cave-dwelling monster in Homer's Odyssey fed on sailors who tried to avoid her counterpart, the nearby Whirlpool Charybdis?

(buzzer beeps) - Charybytus?

- Nope.

We're looking for Scylla.

Here comes the next tossup.

What state which is home to the teapot dome oil fill- (buzzer beeps) Riley, Delaware Valley.

- Wyoming.

Is correct.

(electronic chime music) And here comes your bonus question.

(alarm beeps) In March 2023, UBS agreed to buy what collapsing investment bank, which as its name suggests is headquartered in Zurich?

(buzzer beeps) - Silicon Valley.

- Nope.

Looking for Credit Suisse.

And that's the end of the game.

And your Scholastic Scrimmage First Division winner is Delaware Valley over Berwick 210 to 200.

Congratulations Delaware Valley.

We're gonna hopefully see you next time for another round of Scholastic Scrimmage.

I'm your host, Paul Azar, and thanks for watching.

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