(percussive music) ♪ Go - Welcome to the Central Susquehanna Intermediate Unit and Bradford, Lycoming, and Sullivan Tioga Intermediate Unit Finals of WVIA's "Scholastic Scrimmage."

I'm your host Regina Myers.

"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 $1,000, $3,000 or $5,000.

Tonight's match features Berwick versus Lewisburg.

Representing Berwick is Elizabeth Gunther, Jack Kendron, Emma Chikowski.

Josephine Morgan is their captain.

Their alternate is Eric Schweitzer, and their advisor is Todd Gunther.

Representing Lewisburg is Gabriella Rosenberg, Tim Codlan, Henry Rovnak, and their captain is Tori Vanderhyde.

Their alternates are Sophia Martin and Hazel Bonipani, and their advisor is Michael Krieger.

"Scholastic Scrimmage" is a game of rapid recall of factual information.

Let's take a minute and review the rules.

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

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

If that toss up 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 will be given the toss up points, but will not receive a bonus question.

Let's get started with our first toss up question.

What organ that contains the falciform ligament receives blood from the portal vein and hepatic artery and is the largest internal organ?

(buzzer rings) Emma, Berwick.

- The lungs?

- [Myers] Lungs is incorrect.

Rebound, Lewisburg.

(buzzer rings) - The heart?

- The heart is incorrect.

It is the liver.

Toss up.

What province which includes the cities of Squamish and Nanaimo posted the 2010 Winter Olympics?

(buzzer rings) Tim, Lewisburg.

- British Columbia.

- British Columbia, Tim's correct answer.

And your bonus Lewisburg.

What flair star discovered in 1915 by Robert Innes is the nearest single star to the sun?

(buzzer rings) Henry?

- Proxima Centauri.

- Is the correct answer, Henry, for your bonus points.

Toss up, what poet coined the phrase, "Love conquers all," in his tenth eclogue and described a Trojan Prince's journey to Italy in his Latin epic- (buzzer rings) Elizabeth, Berwick.

- Virgil?

- Virgil's the correct answer Elizabeth, and your bonus.

What man whose followers killed Congressman Leo Ryan led over 900 members of the People's Temple Cult in a 19- (buzzer rings) Elizabeth, Berwick.

- I'm sorry, Jim Jones.

- Jim Jones is correct answer for your bonus points.

Toss up.

What king who won the Battle of Breitenfeld and was succeeded by Christina after he died at the Battle of Lutzen reigned in 17th century Sweden?

(buzzer rings) Jack?

- Gustavus Adolphus.

- Is a correct answer, Jack.

And your bonus, Berwick.

Reducing high levels of inflation is one of the current goals of what Chair of the Federal Reserve who succeeded Janet Yellen in 2018?

- Our answer is Smith.

- Smith is incorrect.

It is Jerome Powell.

Toss up.

What technique whose forward-backward form was used to establish the AM-GM inequality uses a base case and a namesake hypothesis to prove a theorem?

(buzzer rings) Emma, Berwick.

- The scientific method.

- [Myers] Is incorrect.

Rebound to Lewisburg.

(buzzer rings) Tim?

- Equation?

- Equation is incorrect.

It is induction.

Toss up.

What fraternal twin sister of Helenus, a daughter of Priam, was cursed by Apollo to always foretell the future?

(buzzer rings) Emma, Berwick.

- Cassandra.

- Cassandra's correct answer, Emma, and your bonus.

In the 1600s, English peasants often rose up against what process by which common land was seized to create larger and more efficient farms?

- Our answer is feudalism.

- Feudalism is incorrect.

It is enclosure.

Toss up.

What man wrote about a monster beneath Arabella's house in "The Lair of the White Worm" and described Jonathan Harker's trip to Transylvania in "Dracula?"

(buzzer rings) Josephine, Berwick.

- Bram Stoker.

- Bram Stoker's correct answer, and your bonus.

What river that originates in County Wicklow is spanned by the Ha'penny Bridge in Dublin?

(timer rings) The correct answer is River Liffey.

Toss up.

What Central Asian conqueror who captured Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I at the 1402 Battle of Ankara, ruled from the Samarkand, and was known as the Lame?

(buzzer rings) Josephine?

- Tamerlane.

- Tamerlane's correct answer, and your bonus.

What class of clouds which includes the contrails formed by airplane exhaust has a name coming from the Latin for a lock of hair?

- Cirrus?

- Cirrus.

- Our answer is cirrus.

- Cirrus is correct answer for your bonus points, and that is the end of the first quarter, and it's now time for the Lightning Round.

(electricity sizzles) 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.

Berwick has won the coin toss and will choose first.

Your categories are campaign slogans or word beginnings and endings.

The time begins when I finish reading the first question.

(team discusses) - Yeah.

- Regina, we'll choose word beginnings and endings, please.

- Word beginnings and endings.

Identify these words that begin and end with the same pair of letters.

Image created by using a camera.

- Photograph, oh wait, buzz.

(buzzer rings) - [Myers] Emma.

- Photograph.

- [Myers] Correct.

Person who creates hairdos.

(buzzer rings) - Pass.

- [Myers] Stylist.

Relating to the order of letters.

(buzzer rings) Emma.

- Alphabetical.

- [Myers] Correct.

Decorative object in the middle of a table.

(buzzer rings) Jack.

- Centerpiece.

Correct.

Language spoken in Reykjavik.

(buzzer rings) Josephine.

- Icelandic.

- Correct.

Plural numerical guesses.

(buzzer rings) Jack.

- Pass.

Estimates.

To provide spiritual knowledge or wisdom.

(buzzer rings) - Enlighten.

- [Myers] Correct.

The act of killing a god.

(buzzer rings) Jack.

- Pass.

- [Myers] Deicide.

Birthday on which of bar mitzvah might be held?

(buzzer rings) Emma.

- 13th.

- [Myers] Is correct.

Plural meaning multiple highest points.

(buzzer rings) Emma.

- No wait, that's not.

Pass.

- Pass.

(timer beeps) - The correct answer is maxima.

Moving over to our team from Lewisburg.

Your category is campaign slogans.

Given a campaign slogan, name the presidential candidate.

"Build the wall."

(buzzer rings) Tori.

- Trump.

- [Myers] Correct.

"Yes we can."

(buzzer rings) - Obama.

- [Myers] Correct.

"He kept us out of war."

That is World War I.

(buzzer rings) Tori.

- Wilson.

- [Myers] Correct.

"Tippecanoe and Tyler too."

(buzzer rings) - Pass.

- [Myers] Harrison.

"No cross of gold, no crown of thorns."

(buzzer rings) Tori.

- Pass.

- Bryan.

"The buck stops here."

(buzzer rings) Tori.

- Pass.

- [Myers] Truman.

"Return to normalcy."

(buzzer rings) Tori.

- Pass.

- [Myers] Harding.

"54-40 or fight."

(buzzer rings) Henry.

- Polk.

- [Myers] Correct.

"Happy days are here again."

(buzzer rings) Tori.

- Pass.

- [Myers] FDR.

"Compassionate conservatism."

(buzzer rings) Tori.

- Pass.

- George W. Bush.

That's the end of the Lightning Round, so let's update our score.

We have Berwick with 90 points, and Lewisburg with 35 points.

We're going to move on into the second quarter with this toss up question.

What NFL team which was coached for 26 years by Don Shula had the NFL's only perfect season in 19- (buzzer rings) Jack, Berwick.

- Miami Dolphins.

- Miami Dolphins, Jack's correct answer and your bonus.

The republic that led Germany in the 1920s is usually named for what city in Thuringia that hosted a (buzzer rings) 1919 constitutional convention.

This is a bonus for Berwick.

- Weimar.

- Yes.

Our answer is Weimar.

- Weimar's correct answer for your bonus points.

Toss up.

Lipid rafts are found in what structure described by the fluid mosaic model (buzzer rings) which is- Josephine, Berwick.

- The cell membrane.

- Cell membrane.

Josephine's correct answer and your bonus.

In what Newbery winning Richard Peck novel is Mary Alice Dowdel sent to temporarily live with her grandmother?

- I think so.

Our answer is "Heidi."

- That is incorrect.

It is "A Year Down Yonder."

Toss up.

What country which lost an army at the Battle of Tannenberg seated land in the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk in 1918 following the October revolution?

(buzzer rings) Henry, Lewisburg.

- Russia.

- Russia's correct answer and your bonus.

What author of "The Sceptical Chymist" proposed a law stating that at constant temperature, the product of pressure times volume is a constant.

(buzzer rings) Tim?

- Ideal Gas Law.

- Ideal Gas Law is incorrect.

It is Boyle's Law.

Toss up.

What country fought a 2022 skirmish in support of the Republic of Artsakh, which lies in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, that it disputes with Armenia?

(buzzer rings) Josephine, Berwick.

- Turkey?

- Turkey's incorrect.

Rebound to Lewisburg.

Five seconds.

(buzzer rings) Tori.

- Georgia.

- Is incorrect.

It is Azerbaijan.

Toss up.

What force balances lift in steady level flight, balances air drag at an object's terminal velocity, and pulls masses- (buzzer rings) Henry, Lewisburg.

- Gravity.

Gravity is correct answer, Henry, and your bonus.

What author, who wrote about a professor of classics named Coleman Silk in "The Human Stain" wrote several novels narrated by Nathan Zuckerman?

(buzzer rings) Tori.

- No answer.

- Okay, the correct answer is Philip Roth.

Toss up.

What present day country was the site of the Norte Chico and Moche civilizations and contains the city of Cuzco, the capital of the Inca Empire?

(buzzer rings) Josephine, Berwick.

- Peru.

- Peru is correct answer, and your bonus.

What Spanish explorer wrote "Naufragios," a chronicle of his eight year trek across North America after being shipwrecked in Florida in 1528?

(team discusses) - Our answer is Ponce de Leon.

- Ponce de Leon is incorrect.

It is Cabeza de Vaca.

Toss up.

What poem whose line describing a cup of kindness may have been written by Robert Burns- (buzzer rings) Jack, Berwick.

- "Auld Lang Syne."

Jack?

- "Auld Lang Syne."

- "Auld Lang Syne," Jack's correct answer, and your bonus.

In 2012, Volkswagen purchased what other German auto manufacturer that had a September 2022 IPO with an estimated worth of 9 billion Euros?

- No, try Bugatti.

No, that's Italian, isn't it?

Audi.

- Our answer is Audi.

- Audi's incorrect.

It is Porsche.

Toss up.

What letter signifies (timer beeps) a logical dysfunction, is the name of the title anarchist of a graphic novel by Alan Moore, and is a Roman numeral for five?

(buzzer rings) - X.

- X is incorrect.

Rebound to Berwick.

(buzzer rings) Josephine.

- V. - V is correct answer for your rebound points, and that's the end of the first half, so let's take a look at our current score.

We have Berwick with 145 points, and Lewisburg with 55 points.

We're 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.

Let's start with our students from Berwick.

The teams have agreed that we want to talk about your superpower or your superhero you would like to be if you could.

Elizabeth, start us off.

- I would like to have telekinesis as a power.

I think it would be so interesting to see what goes on in other people's heads.

- [Myers] That's, I think it would be too.

Jack?

- I would want to shoot money out of my wrists like Spider-Man shoots webs, and like the Tobey Maguire version, where it actually comes out of his wrists, not some stupid machines.

- [Myers] I would like to do that too.

Emma?

Not sure?

- Pass.

- [Myers] Okay, we'll come back to you maybe.

Josephine?

- Well, Regina, I'd like to be able to speak every language in the world.

I think it would be interesting that I could talk to everyone then.

- You could.

I think that's a great idea.

Let's move on to our team from Lewisburg.

Gabriella, do you wanna start us off?

- Yeah, I think it'd be cool to shape shift.

- [Myers] Okay, why?

- I'd love to, I don't know, try something else out for a day.

- [Myers] I don't blame you.

Tim?

- Well, I would like to be able to shoot any condiment out of my fingers, so that I don't run out of ketchup on my hamburger.

- [Myers] There you go.

I like that.

Henry?

- I'd say mind reading, because it'd be nice to know what people like actually think of me.

I don't like white lies.

- [Myers] Okay, be careful with that.

Tori?

- I would like to fly, because it's fun to see things from really far away.

So be up in the air.

- Nice talking with all of you.

Good luck to both teams.

We'll now begin the second half of the game with this toss up question.

What task can be done on a graph in the breadth first or depth first way, or for a sorted list in binary form, and consists of finding a given element?

(buzzer rings) Henry, Lewisburg.

- Searching.

- Searching is correct answer, Henry.

And your bonus.

What mathematical quantity is zero for singular matrices and equals AD-BC for a two by two matrix?

(buzzer rings) Henry.

- Determinant.

- Determinant is correct answer for your bonus points.

Toss up.

What artist painted a woman who refuses to call Brad for help in "Drowning Girl," one of his pop art paintings that mimic the visual style of comics?

(buzzer rings) Josephine, Berwick.

- Warhol.

- [Myers] Warhol is incorrect.

Rebound to Lewisburg.

(timer buzzes) It is Lichtenstein.

Toss up.

What case which concerned a state tax targeting The Second Bank of the United States expanded in- (buzzer rings) Tori, Lewisburg.

- Maryland McCulloch.

- Is correct answer, Tori, and your bonus, Lewisburg.

Katherine M. Russell heads what UN agency which receives funds from an annual trick or treat program and delivers aid to young people worldwide?

(buzzer rings) Tori.

- UNICEF.

- UNICEF is a correct answer for your bonus points.

Toss up.

What gathering spot whose name means Gate of Heavenly Peace is just south of the Forbidden City and was the site of the major 1989 protests in Beijing?

(buzzer rings) Josephine, Berwick.

- Tiananmen Square.

- Tiananmen Square's correct answer, Josephine.

And your bonus.

What seven letter term from the Latin for related by blood describes words that share a common origin, such as fraternity and the French word frere?

- Sure.

- Our ans- (timer buzzes) - The correct answer is cognate.

Toss up.

What author wrote about such characters as King Rinkitink, a ruler of the Quadlings named Glinda, and a farm girl named- (buzzer rings) Emma, Berwick.

- Baum.

- Baum's correct answer, Emma, and your bonus.

Pencil, paper ready for this.

If 527 people vote in an election, how many votes are needed to achieve a simple majority?

(buzzer rings) Jack, Berwick.

- 264.

- 264, Jack's correct answer.

Toss up.

What athlete who won, who in 2021 defended a world title against Ian Nepomniachtchi accused Hans Niemann of cheating, and is the current world- (buzzer rings) - Magnus Carlsen.

- Magnus Carlsen.

Jack from Berwick is correct answer, and your bonus.

What Japanese woman's 11th century work, "The Tale of Genji," is often considered the world's first novel?

- It's not the right one.

Dasai directed.

- Is incorrect.

It is Lady Murasaki.

Toss up.

What party, which Winona LaDuke won an electoral vote as a member of in 2016, ran Ralph Nader for president in 2000 and focuses- (buzzer rings) Tori, Lewisburg.

- The Green Party.

- Green Party, Tori's correct answer, and your bonus.

"Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks" and "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" are two of the many tone poems by what German composer?

(timer beeps) (buzzer rings) Tori?

- No answer.

- Okay.

The correct answer is Strauss, and that's the end of the third quarter, and it's time for another Lightning Round.

(electricity sizzles) This time Lewisburg will choose first.

Your categories are Also a Flower or Great Lakes Cities.

Time begins when I finish reading the first question.

(buzzer rings) Tori?

- Also a Flower.

- Also a Flower.

What flower shares its name with the colored portion of the eye?

(buzzer rings) - Iris.

- [Myers] Correct.

A cross-legged yoga pose.

(buzzer rings) - Lotus.

- [Myers] Correct.

The girl who who turned into a blueberry in "Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory."

(buzzer rings) - Violet.

- [Myers] Correct.

Two series of still lifes by Vincent Van Gogh.

(buzzer rings) - Sunflowers.

- [Myers] Correct.

The love interest of Jay Gatsby.

(buzzer rings) - Violet.

- [Myers] Daisy.

The "Doctor Who" companion played by Billie Piper.

(buzzer rings) Tori.

- Pass.

- [Myers] Rose.

The throne of Emperor Japan.

(buzzer rings) - Cherry.

- [Myers] Chrysanthemum.

A Native American princess from "Peter Pan."

(buzzer rings) Tori.

- Pass.

- [Myers] Tiger Lily.

A fragrant long grain rice from Southeast Asia.

(buzzer rings) Gabriella.

- Sassafras.

- [Myers] Jasmine.

A 1974 revolution in Portugal.

(buzzer rings) Tori.

- Pass.

- [Myers] Carnation.

Moving over to our team from Berwick.

Your category is Great Lakes Cities.

Name these cities on the Great Lakes.

Wisconsin city where Miller Brewing Company was founded.

(buzzer rings) Jack.

- Green Bay.

- [Myers] Milwaukee.

Canada's most populous city.

(buzzer rings) - Toronto.

- [Myers] Correct.

City sometimes nicknamed the Second City.

(buzzer rings) Jack.

- Buffalo.

- [Myers] Chicago.

Ohio city at the mouth of the Cuyahoga River.

(buzzer rings) Emma.

- Cleveland.

- [Myers] Correct.

New York city where George Eastman founded Kodak.

(buzzer rings) Jack.

- Buffalo.

- [Myers] Rochester.

Ontario city that was the first capital of a united Canada.

(buzzer rings) Jack.

- Pass.

- [Myers] Kingston.

City where the Packers play at Lambeau Field.

(buzzer rings) Jack.

- Green Bay.

- [Myers] Correct.

Indiana city where Michael Jackson was born.

(buzzer rings) Josephine.

- Indianapolis.

- [Myers] It's Gary.

Home to Northwestern University.

(buzzer rings) Jack.

- Pass.

- [Myers] Evanston.

City contested in an 1835 border war between Michigan and Ohio.

(buzzer rings) Jack.

- Pass.

- That's Toledo.

That's the end of this Lightning Round, so let's take a look at our current score.

We have Berwick with 195 points, and Lewisburg with 115 points.

We will now begin the last segment of the game with this toss up question.

What process results in emission of an antineutrino and an electron and is a form of radioactive decay that raises a nucleus's atomic number by one?

(buzzer rings) - Fusion.

- [Myers] Fusion is incorrect.

Rebound to Berwick.

(buzzer rings) Emma.

- Fission.

- Fission is incorrect.

It is beta decay.

Toss up.

What compounds which can be oxidized to form ketones contain a hydroxyl group and include an ethyl type that is often added to gasoline?

(buzzer rings) Henry, Lewisburg.

- Ethanol.

- [Myers] Ethanol is, can you be more specific?

- I don't think so.

- [Myers] Okay.

Berwick?

(buzzer rings) Josephine.

- Unleaded ethanol.

- Unleaded ethanol is also incorrect.

It is alcohol.

(timer beeps) Toss up.

What singer worked with The National's Aaron Dessner on the song "Cardigan" from her album, "Folklore."

(buzzer rings) Josephine, Berwick.

- Taylor Swift.

- Taylor Swift is correct answer.

And your bonus.

What 1819 painting by Theodore Gericault depicts the survivors of a shipwreck?

- Titanic?

- Sure, why not.

- No answer.

- Okay.

The correct answer is "The Raft of the Medusa."

Toss up.

What practice whose targets were acquired in Flower Wars used a flint knife, and altar on captives to give blood to the Aztec gods?

(buzzer rings) Tim, Lewisburg.

- Blood sacrifice.

- [Myers] Blood sacrifice is the answer given.

Judges, is that acceptable?

- No.

It is not.

Rebound to Berwick.

(buzzer rings) Elizabeth.

- Human sacrifice.

- Human sacrifice is a correct answer for your rebound points.

Toss up.

What author of "Discourses on Livy" wrote that it is better for a leader to be feared than loved in the 16th- (buzzer rings) Emma, Berwick.

- Machiavelli.

- Machiavelli, Emma is correct answer.

And your bonus.

Bernoulli's principle and the First Law of Thermodynamics both express the conservation of what quantity?

- Energy?

- A conservation of- - Energy.

- Energy, probably.

- Our answer is energy.

- Energy's correct answer for your bonus points.

Toss up.

What is the diameter of a circle whose area is 196 pi, given that the area is a function of the square of the radius?

The question is on the monitor.

(buzzer rings) Jack, Berwick.

- 16.

- [Myers] 16 is incorrect.

Rebound to Lewisburg.

(team discusses) The correct answer is 28.

Toss up.

What activist who founded the newspaper "The North Star" wrote "My Bondage and My Freedom" and other- (buzzer rings) Jack, Berwick.

- Frederick Douglass.

- Frederick Douglass is correct answer, and your bonus.

A 2021 crisis was triggered by a ban on Serbian license plates in what country, which unilaterally declared independence from Serbia in 2008?

(buzzer rings) Emma?

- Kosovo.

- Kosovo's correct answer for your bonus points.

Toss up.

What state's 2022 Senate race in which one candidate ran an ad about high crudites prices and another how to stroke features John- (buzzer rings) Jack, Berwick.

- Pennsylvania.

- Pennsylvania is correct answer, Jack.

And your bonus.

What name is shared by a northern US river that flows through Fargo (timer beeps) and has a southern US river that is a tribute of the Atchafalaya River?

(team discusses) - More west.

- The flat.

(timer beeps) - The correct answer is the Red River.

And that is the end of the game.

Our score is Lewisburg 115 points, and Berwick 255 points.

Congratulations, Berwick.

You are the CSIU BLaST-IU champion.

You'll be moving on to this year's finals and we'll see you next time with another round of "Scholastic Scrimmage."

I'm your host, Regina Myers, and thanks for watching.

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