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(upbeat music) (whistle blowing) (upbeat music) - Welcome to the 19th 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 Berwick v Delaware Valley.

Representing Berwick are Jaxun Hittle, Jack Kendran, Emma Chakowski, and Josephine Morgan.

Their alternate is Thomas Batista and Fable Gunther and their advisor is Todd Gunther.

Representing Delaware Valley are Christopher Fleming, Dominick Agron, Nathaniel Carso, and Jackson Hancock.

Andrea Del Freo and Isabella Hemler are their alternates and their advisor is Robert Curtis.

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.

Let's go and get started with this toss up question in vocabulary.

As a verb, this two syllable word means to get a disease.

As a noun- - Contract.

- [Paul] Christopher, Delaware.

- Contract - Is correct and here comes your bonus.

In 1610, Galileo discovered that this planet had four large moons.

He saw them through a telescope that he himself had made.

The four moons are Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto.

Name this planet around which these moons revolve.

- Jupiter.

- Jupiter is correct for your bonus points, Delaware Valley, as we go on to a toss up in mythology.

In Greek mythology, Daedalus designed this maze as a home for the Minotaur- Jack, Berwick.

- The labyrinth.

- Is correct and here's your bonus question.

Arthur Miller won a Pulitzer Prize in 1949 for his play that centered around the Loman family, their neighbor Charlie, and Willie's employer Howard Wagner.

Name the successful play.

Emma.

- Death of a Salesman.

- Is correct for your bonus points, Berwick, as we go to a toss up in world history.

Born in Paris in 1808, the third and final son of King Louis and Queen Hortense of Holland, he served as the French Emperor from 1852 to 1870.

Jaxun, Berwick.

- Napoleon III.

- Is correct and here's your bonus.

This word means a child abandoned by unknown parents.

Tom Jones was one.

They're often left on doorsteps in baskets with notes to "please take care of my baby."

What are these children called?

- An orphan.

- No, we're looking for foundlings, foundlings.

Let's go to a toss up in government.

The family of the US president resides in the White House.

Where does the family of the US vice president reside?

Jack, Berwick.

- Also the White House.

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Delaware Valley.

Christopher.

- Sub House?

- No, we're looking for the US Naval Observatory.

Let's go to a tossup in novels now.

In Dickens's "Great Expectations," what jilted bride lives in an overgrown mansion and is the benefactor of Estella?

Jackson, Delaware Valley.

- Catherine - [Paul] Is incorrect.

Rebound to Berwick.

- Margaret.

- Nope, Miss Havisham, Miss Havisham.

Let's go to a toss up in geometry now.

The cube, the cuboid and the rhombohedron are all polyhedrons.

How many faces do they each have?

Jack, Berwick.

- Six.

- Is correct and here's your bonus now.

His best known paintings include View of Toledo and Opening of the Fifth Seal.

Much of his work was done in Toledo, Spain.

Give the proper name of the Greek painter known as El Greco.

- El Greco.

- No, Doménikos Theotokópoulos.

Let's go onto a toss up in novels now.

Of Mice and Men was written by Steinbeck.

It was published in 1937.

In which US state does the story take place?

Nathaniel, Delaware Valley.

- California.

- Is correct and here's your bonus now.

This female politician was the first woman elected to serve a full term in the US Senate.

She represented the state of Arkansas from 1931 to 1945 and was then reelected to a second term.

Name this female politician who was also the first woman to preside over the US Senate and the first to also preside over a Senate hearing.

Jackson.

- Rebecca Langley.

- No, Hattie Caraway.

All right, 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 12 rapid fire questions as they can in one minute.

Berwick has won the coin toss and will pick first.

Your categories are world geography or sports and games.

(team discussing) - We'll take world geography please.

- World geography it is.

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

Identify the standard currency used in each of the following countries.

United States.

- Dollar.

- [Paul] Yes, Japan.

- Yen.

- [Paul] Yes, Finland.

- Corona.

- [Paul] Euro, India.

- Rupee.

- [Paul] Yes, Russia.

- Rubel.

- [Paul] Yes, United Kingdom.

- Pound.

- [Paul] Yes, Vietnam.

- Pass.

- [Paul] Dong, Denmark.

- Euro.

- [Paul] Crone, China.

- Yuan.

- [Paul] Yes, Egypt.

- Pass.

- [Paul] Pound, Mexico.

- Peso.

- [Paul] Yes, Slovakia.

- Euro.

- [Paul] Yes.

All right, Berwick, great job in the lightning round.

That's gonna wrap up your first lightning round.

Delaware Valley, we're coming over to you and your remaining category will be sports and games.

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

You'll be given the nickname of a successful former major league baseball player.

Give the athlete associated with each of these nicknames.

Mr. Cub.

- Ernie Banks.

- [Paul] Yes, the Big Hurt.

- Frank Thomas.

- [Paul] Yes, the Sultan of Swat.

- Babe Ruth.

- [Paul] Yes, Mr. October.

- Ricky Henderson.

- [Paul] Reggie Jackson.

The Wizard of Oz.

- Ozzy Smith.

- [Paul] Yes, the Georgia Peach.

- Pass.

- [Paul] Ty Cobb.

The Yankee Clipper.

- Whitey Ford.

- [Paul] Joe Dimaggio.

Stan the Man.

- Stan Musel.

- [Paul] Yes, Rhino.

- Pass.

- [Paul] Ryan Sandberg.

Shoeless Joe.

- Joe Jackson.

- [Paul] Yes, Charlie Hussle.

- Pass.

- [Paul] Pete Rose.

Big Poppy.

- David Ortiz.

- [Paul] Correct.

All right, Delaware.

Very, very good job in that lightning round, and after that, again, a very close game.

Berwick in the lead over Delaware Valley, 75 to 60.

Now we're going to go ahead and move into the second quarter with this tossup question in US geography.

Designed by David Childs, this New York skyscraper- Jackson, Delaware Valley.

- The Chrysler Building.

- Is incorrect.

I'll finish and rebound to Berwick.

Once known as Freedom Tower reaches a height of 1,792 feet to its tip.

Its mostly used for offices but has an observation area near the top.

Name this building that is the tallest building in the United States.

- Empire State Building - Is incorrect.

We're looking for one World Trade Center.

Let's go on to a toss up in general knowledge.

The time is 9:00 AM.

What does the abbreviation A.M. stand for in this context?

Nathaniel, DelVal.

- Pass.

- Okay, rebound to Berwick.

- Anti Meridian - Is correct for your rebound points, Berwick, as we go to a toss up now in literature.

In the Bible, he's one of the arch angels.

He's a major character in Paradise Lost, in Milton's- Christopher, DelVal.

- Michael.

- Is incorrect.

I'll finish and rebound to Berwick.

In Milton's Paradise Lost, which angel guards The Gate of Eden?

Emma.

- Gabriel.

- Gabriel is correct for your rebound points, Berwick, as we go to a toss up in music.

If a key signature has two flats, what notes will be flat?

Dominick, Delaware Valley.

- B and E. - Is correct and here's your bonus.

Geological time is divided into eras which are then divided into periods.

What is the name for the divisions into which periods are then divided?

- Epoch.

- Is correct for your bonus points, DelVal, as we go to a toss up in literature.

It's been challenged in classrooms throughout the United States.

It tells the story of Billy Pilgrim and his experiences throughout his life and how he sometimes relives them.

Name this novel by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Emma, Berwick.

- Slaughterhouse 5.

- Is correct and here's your bonus.

What country did the French and British forces fight against in 1916 in the World War I Battle of the Somme, which lasted for over four months?

- German.

- Germany is correct for your bonus points, Berwick, as we go to a toss up in biology.

A food allergy is a condition in which the body's immune system reacts to substances in some foods.

These substances are proteins that the body responds to as if they're pathogens or foreign invaders.

What are these substances called?

Josephine, Berwick.

- White blood cells - Is incorrect.

Rebound to DelVal.

- Allergens.

- Allergens is correct for your rebound points, Del.

Let's go on now to your tossup in general knowledge.

These horses have a reddish brown coat color with matching or lighter colored mane- Jackson, DelVal.

- Roan.

- Is incorrect.

I'll finish and rebound to Berwick.

Mane and tail.

What are these horses called?

Emma.

- Bay?

- Nope, Chestnuts, Chestnuts.

Our next tossup is in botany When a hybrid algae colony lives symbiotically with the filaments of multiple fungus groups, what do we-?

Jackson, DelVal.

- That would be a lichen.

- That is correct, and your bonus now.

Name the highest caste in the Hindu caste system, which includes the elite group and those who perform religious services.

- Brahman.

- Is correct for your bonus points, DelVal.

Let's go now to a toss up in physics.

What two word science term refers to the shift in the pitch of a sound as its source-?

Emma, Berwick.

- Doppler Effect.

- Is correct and here's your bonus.

Volleyball was originally called mintonette.

It was invented by the physical director of the YMCA in Holyoke, Massachusetts as an indoor sport for businessmen who found the game of basketball too vigorous and fast paced.

What YMCA instructor invented the game of volleyball in 1895?

(team discussing) Josephine.

- Joseph Roberts.

- No, William Morgan.

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

Here's a fun question.

What is your go-to song in karaoke?

- Well Paul, my favorite sing-along sing song is Deepest Bluest by LL Cool J from the hit movie Deep Blue Sea.

- [Paul] All right, good stuff, thanks Jaxun.

Jack.

- Well Paul, my go-to karaoke song is Deepest Bluest by LL Cool J from the hit movie Deep Blue Sea.

- [Paul] That's awesome, thanks Jack.

Emma.

- Well, Paul, I don't sing.

- [Paul] All right, Josephine.

- Well, Paul, my favorite sing along go-to karaoke song is also Deepest Bluest from the hit movie Deep Blue Sea.

- All right, it is a total consensus over here for Berwick.

Thank you and good luck the rest of the way.

Delaware Valley coming over to you.

Christopher, what is your go-to karaoke song?

- My go-to karaoke song would be Georgia on My Mind by Ray Charles.

- [Paul] That's some good stuff, thanks Christopher.

Dominick.

- I'll be honest, I'd probably just leave the party.

- [Paul] Nathaniel.

- I gotta go with Firework by Katy Perry on that one.

It's classic.

- [Paul] Excellent, thanks Nathaniel.

Jackson.

- Me personally is Yakko's World by the Animaniacs.

- All right, I have not heard that one yet, so thank you for that.

It was very nice to meet all of you again.

Now let's go ahead and begin the third quarter with this tossup question in biology.

They excrete bufotoxins to deter predators- Emma, Berwick.

- Toads.

- [Paul] I'm sorry?

- Toad.

- Is incorrect.

I'll finish and rebound to DelVal.

These glands can be found in the back, neck, and shoulders of toads.

When threatened, the toad will shoot a milky poisonous bufotoxin directly into the predator's eyes or mouth.

Name these noticeable skin glands found in several types of amphibians.

- Warts.

- No, paratoid glands.

Paratoid glands.

Let's go to a tossup in biology now.

It's produced in the liver of most vertebrates and it aids in the digestion of lipids in the small intestines.

Name this fluid that could be dark green to yellowish brown.

Dominick, DelVal.

- Bile.

- Is correct and here's your bonus.

Considered one of the most creative periods in American history, it spanned the 1920s to the mid 1930s.

Name this African American artistic and literary movement centered in New York City's Harlem neighborhood.

- Harlem Renaissance - Is correct for your bonus points, DelVal, as we go to a toss up in American history.

Not only did he help to found the nation's financial system and the Federalist party, he went on- Jack, Berwick.

- Alexander Hamilton.

- Is correct and here's your bonus.

Released in November of 2024, Gladiator II was directed and produced by Ridley Scott.

It was a sequel to Gladiator released in 2000.

In Gladiator II, who played the role of Hano?

- Well, it wasn't Russell Crow 'cause Russell Crow died in the first one.

(team discussing) - Denzel Washington.

- No, Paul Mezcal, Paul Mezcal.

Let's go to a toss up in computer science.

What key should be pressed with the control key to move the cursor to the start of the next paragraph?

Dominick, DelVal.

- Enter.

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Berwick.

Emma.

- N. - Nope.

The down arrow, the down arrow.

Your next tossup is in algebra.

In the field of mathematics, this is the name that is used when referring to half of the maximum value and the minimum value of a periodic function.

Name the three syllable term that's- Jack, Berwick.

- Well, I believe equilibrium is more than three syllables.

- I believe you are incorrect.

Rebound to DelVal after I finish.

Name the three syllable term that's also used in physics when referring to the distance on a transverse wave as measured from the equilibrium position to the trough.

- Middle point.

- Nope, we're looking for amplitude, amplitude.

Here's your next toss up in earth science.

It's a linear feature that exists between two tectonic plates.

What type of-?

Jackson, DelVal.

- Fault line - Is incorrect.

I'll finish and rebound to Berwick.

What type of plate boundary results when two tectonic plates pull apart?

- A fissure.

- [Paul] Hmm?

- A fissure.

- Nope, divergent, divergent.

Your next tossup is in grammar.

The pronouns what, who, whom, whose, which, and that are used to introduce a dependent clause and to connect it to an independent clause.

What type of pronouns are these words?

Jack, Berwick.

- Conjunction - [Paul] Is incorrect.

Rebound to DelVal.

Jackson.

- Additive.

- No, we're looking for relative pronouns.

Here's your next toss up in games.

Online games began to appear in the mid 1990s.

They were called MMORPGs.

What did MMORPG stand for?

Emma, Berwick.

- Massively multiplayer online roleplaying game - Is correct and here's your bonus.

His sisters died in Nazi concentration camps.

His novels portrayed man as a puppet in a strange bureaucratic world.

What German novelist's best known novels were the Trial and the Castle?

(team discussing) - Kafka.

- Is correct for your bonus points, Berwick.

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

This time Delaware Valley will pick first.

Your categories are literature or biology.

- Biology.

- Biology it is, and your time begins after I finish reading the first question.

Scientists use binomial nomenclature to give each animal and plant a two part name.

The scientific name for a red squirrel is Sciurus vulgaris.

Sciurus is the genus and vulgaris is the species.

Give the genus of each of the following animals.

Wolf.

- Lupus.

- [Paul] Canis.

Horse.

- Pass.

- [Paul] Equis, human.

- Homo.

- [Paul] Yes, bear.

- Ursa.

- [Paul] Yes, frog.

- Pass.

- [Paul] Rana, earthworm.

- Something with a U.

- [Paul] Lumbricus, cow.

- Bovis.

- [Paul] Bos, lion.

- Leo.

- Panthera.

Swan.

- Pass.

- [Paul] Cygnus, fox.

- Vulga.

- [Paul] Voltes.

Sheep.

- Marino.

- [Paul] Ovis, zebra.

- Equinus again.

- [Paul] I'm sorry?

- Equinus.

- Is incorrect.

Equis, equis.

All right, DelVal.

That's gonna wrap up your second lightning round.

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

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

Name the poet who wrote each of these poems.

Falling Up.

- Kipling.

- [Paul] Silverstein.

Chicago.

- Pass.

- [Paul] Carl Sandberg.

The Road Not Taken.

- Frost.

- [Paul] Yes, When You Are Old.

- Pass.

- William Butler Yates.

I'm Nobody, Who Are You?

- Emily Dickinson.

- [Paul] Yes, the Chambered Nautilus.

- Jules Verne.

- [Paul] Oliver Wendell Holmes.

The Charge of the Light Brigade.

- Tennyson.

- [Paul] Yes, Jabberwocky.

- Lewis Carroll.

- [Paul] Yes, Paul Revere's Ride.

- Longfellow.

Yes, Ode to a Nightingale.

- Pass.

- [Paul] Keats, Annabel Lee.

- Edgar Allan Poe.

- [Paul] Yes, O Captain, My Captain.

- Walt Whitman.

That's correct.

All right, Berwick.

Great job in the lightning round.

That's gonna wrap things up for those for the rest of the game.

Currently we have a score of Berwick in the lead over DelVal 180 to 125.

And we're now going to go ahead and begin the last segment with this tossup question in chemistry.

What noun can be created from combining the symbols of the following chemical elements in the order in which they are given?

Osmium plus molybdenum plus silicon plus sulfur.

Dominick, Delaware Valley.

- Osmosis.

- Is correct, and here's your bonus.

What country is composed of the official regions of Flanders, Brussels, and Wallonia?

- Belgium.

- Is correct for your bonus points, DelVal.

Let's go now to a toss up in television.

In what television show does Maitreyi Ramakrishnan play a first generation Indian American girl named Debbie, who continuously seeks popularity at her high school and struggles to fit in with the other students?

Jackson, DelVal, - Mean Girls.

- [Paul] No, rebound to Berwick.

- Euphoria.

- No, we're looking for Never Have I Ever.

Here's your next tossup in cinema.

What Netflix drama starring Olivia Coleman, Tobias Menzies, Helena Bonham Carter, and Josh O'Connor paused filming indefinitely upon the death of Queen Elizabeth II?

Josephine, Berwick.

- The Crown.

- Is correct and here's your bonus.

The Delia Owens novel "Where the Crawdads Sing" is set in the marshes of what state?

(team discussing) - Louisiana.

- No, North Carolina.

North Carolina.

Let's go to a toss up in anatomy now.

What type of joint is the trapezial metacarpal joint that is located at the base of your thumb?

Christopher, DelVal.

- Ball and socket joint.

- [Paul] Is incorrect.

Rebound to Berwick.

- A knuckle?

- No, the saddle joint.

Saddle joint.

Let's go to a toss up in anatomy.

Since they're not yet specialized, these cells divide in- Emma, Berwick.

- Stem cells.

- Is correct, and here's your bonus.

Which US state has 51 miles of coastline on Lake Erie and 57 miles of shoreline along the Delaware estuary?

(team discussing) - Pennsylvania - Is correct for your bonus points, Berwick, as we go to a tossup in novels.

In what contemporary novel would you find the characters Werner Pfennig and Etienne LeBlanc?

Josephine, Berwick.

- Les Miserables.

- [Paul] No, rebound to DelVal.

Jaxun.

- Stranger.

- All the Light We Cannot See.

Let's go to a toss up in computer science now.

It involves respecting the privacy of others and not doing things online that will annoy or frustrate others.

It's important to apply this to emails, online chat rooms, and even news groups.

What is this computer lingo term that begins with the letter N?

Dominick, DelVal.

- Netiquette.

- Is correct and here's your bonus.

This seven letter word can be used as both a noun and a verb.

As a verb, it means to judge someone or something based upon a comparison with a set standard or to calculate the size of something by using a device marked in standard units.

As a noun, it refers to a plan or course- Jackson.

- Measure - Is correct and here's your next toss up in games.

What former major league baseball player began his 22nd season with the Seattle Mariners, ended his career with the New York Yankees, and is now part owner of the Minnesota-?

Christopher, DelVal.

- Sorry, Derek Jeter - [Paul] Is incorrect.

Rebound to Berwick.

- Babe Ruth.

- Looking for Alex Rodriguez.

Here's your next toss up in astronomy.

What compound consisting of one part nitrogen to three parts of hydrogen composes most of the outer clouds that surround the planets Jupiter and Saturn?

Jackson, DelVal.

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

Who succeeded Ruth Bader Ginsburg as US Supreme Court Justice-?

- Amy Coney Barrett - Is correct for your bonus points and that's gonna do it for the game.

It was a good one, but our winner is Berwick over Delaware Valley, 205 to 170.

Congratulations, Berwick, you're going to be moving on and we'll see you next time with another round of Scholastic Scrimmage.

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