Scholastic Scrimmage
Berwick vs. Lewisburg
Season 21 Episode 38 | 27m 29sVideo has Closed Captions
Berwick vs. Lewisburg - CSIU Championship
Berwick takes on Lewisburg in the CSIU division Championship Match of WVIA's Scholastic Scrimmage
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Scholastic Scrimmage
Berwick vs. Lewisburg
Season 21 Episode 38 | 27m 29sVideo has Closed Captions
Berwick takes on Lewisburg in the CSIU division Championship Match of WVIA's Scholastic Scrimmage
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(whistle toots) (upbeat music) ♪ Go ♪ - Welcome to this season's CSIU Championship Game of WVIA "Scholastic Scrimmage."
I'm your Paul, 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 $1,000, $3,000, or $5,000.
Tonight's CSIU championship match features Berwick versus Lewisburg.
Representing Berwick are Jaxon Hittle, Fable Gunther, Thomas DiBattista, and Josephine Morgan.
Their alternate is Riley Kerschner.
And their advisor is Todd Gunther.
Representing Lewisburg are Canyon Swartzentruber, Ben Regoven, Zach Tims, and Hope Koshuba.
Their alternates are Ian Kavanaugh and Justin Nolt.
And their advisor is Mike Krieger.
"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 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'll be given the toss-up points but will not receive a bonus question.
Well, let's get this game started with this toss-up question.
What quantity is the product of cross-sectional area, number density, velocity, and charge is denoted capital I and is the rate of flow of charge?
(buzzer beeps) Thomas, Berwick.
- Resistance?
- Is incorrect.
Rebound to Lewisburg.
(buzzer beeps) - Inductus?
- Nope, that is electric current.
Electric current.
Here's our next toss-up question.
What island group contains the Gibb's Hill Lighthouse, is a British overseas territory governed from Hamilton, and is a point on a namesake triangle?
(buzzer beeps) Josephine, Berwick.
- Bermuda?
- Is correct.
(effect buzzes) And here's your bonus.
What philosophical movement is described as a humanism in a lecture by Jean-Paul Sartre, and names a type of dread or crisis?
(buzzer beeps) - Existentialism?
- Is correct for your bonus points, Berwick.
Let's go to another toss-up.
What book which opens as Enfield tells the story of the door to Utterson was written by Robert Louis Stevenson (buzzer beeps) about... Thomas, Berwick.
- "The Strange Case of Dr.
Jekyll and Mr.
Hyde"?
- Is correct, and here's your bonus now.
(effect buzzes) What ancient city named Philip II's Hellenic League was located on an isthmus northeast of the Peloponnese and received two epistles from Paul?
(buzzer beeps) Jaxon.
- Thessaloniki?
- No, this was Corinth.
All right, let's go to another toss-up.
What band who won Eurovision in 1974 (buzzer beeps) with "Waterloo"... Jaxon, Berwick.
- ABBA.
- Is correct, and here's your bonus.
(effect buzzes) In probability, what term starting with C means two or more disjoint events that cover the whole sample space and whose probabilities add to one?
(buzzer beeps) - Certain?
- Nope, these are complementary events.
Here's our next toss-up.
What opera associates "The Star-Spangled Banner" with Pinkerton, is titled for the Japanese Cio-Cio song, (buzzer beeps) and was composed... Josephine, Berwick.
- "Madame Butterfly"?
- Is correct.
And your bonus now.
(effect buzzes) What museum was the site of an October, 2025 jewel robbery which thieves gained access to the Apollo Gallery using chainsaws?
(buzzer beeps) Josephine.
- The Louvre?
- Is correct for your bonus points, Berwick.
Let's go on to another toss-up.
What city's 1979 White Night riots were a response to the lenient sentencing given the man who killed city supervisor Harvey Milk, an LGBT activist- (buzzer beeps) Thomas, Berwick.
- San Francisco?
- Is correct.
(effect buzzes) And your bonus.
What Anglo-American author described elderly rubbish spoken by dictators in a poem about the start of World War II titled "September 1st, 1939"?
- I was gonna say (indistinct) but that's probably World War I.
(buzzer beeps) - Josephine.
- Wilfred Owens?
- No, this was W.H.
Auden.
Here's our next toss-up.
What author collected works like "Down at the Dinghy" and "Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut" in his "Nine Stories" which features members of the Glass Family?
(buzzer beeps) Thomas, Berwick.
- Thornton Wilder?
- It is incorrect.
Rebound to Lewisburg.
(buzzer beeps) - No answer.
- That is J.D.
Salinger.
All right, here's our next toss-up.
What events occurred during the Cryogenian Period and may have caused Snowball Earth glaciations?
(buzzer beeps) Ben, Lewisburg.
- Process?
Oh, damn, it.
- Snowball Earth.
- Is incorrect.
I'll finish the question (timer beeps) and rebound to Berwick.
Due to their prolonged drops in global temperature.
(buzzer beeps) - Ice ages?
- Ice ages is what we are looking for, Berwick.
Very good.
And that sound that you heard signals the end of the first quarter, and it's now time for the Lightning Round.
(lightning buzzes) 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 pick first.
Your categories are Life or Death or Verbs.
- Life or Death, but it could be vague.
- Life or Death.
- I think I'll change it.
- Okay.
(buzzer beeps) - We'll take Life or Death, please.
- Life or Death it is.
And your time begins when I finish reading the first question.
Given a literary work that includes either life or death in the title, name the author.
"Death of a Salesman."
(buzzer beeps) - Miller?
- Yes.
"The Death of Ivan Ilyich" as well as "War and Peace."
(buzzer beeps) - Tolstoy.
- Yes.
"A Psalm of Life" as well as "Paul Revere's Ride."
(buzzer beeps) - Longfellow.
- Yes.
"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty."
(buzzer beeps) - Pass.
- Thurber.
"Death in Venice."
(buzzer beeps) - Marlow.
- That's Thomas Mann.
- "Life of Pi."
(buzzer beeps) - Pass.
- That's Yann Martel.
Nigerian author of "Death and the King's Horseman."
(buzzer beeps) - Achebe?
- [Paul] That's Wole Soyinka.
"Death of a Naturalist" by an Irish translator of "Beowulf."
(buzzer beeps) - Wilde?
- [Paul] That's Seamus Heaney.
"The Death of Innocents" by a nun who also wrote "Dead Man Walking."
(buzzer beeps) - Mother Teresa.
- [Paul] That's Helen Prejean.
"The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentlemen."
(buzzer beeps) - Pass.
- That is Laurence Sterne.
All right, Berwick, great job on the Lightning Round.
Lewisburg, it's over to you.
And your remaining category will be Verbs.
And once again, your time begins when I finish reading the first question.
Answer the following about English language verbs.
Tense exemplified by the phrase "I am."
(buzzer beeps) Ben.
- Present.
- Yes.
Unconjugated verb form such as to be.
(buzzer beeps) - Infinitive?
- Yes.
Short word that negates a verb.
(buzzer beeps) - Negative?
- Not.
Verb voice contrasted with active.
(buzzer beeps) - Passive?
- Yes.
Verbs added for grammatical reasons such as have in "I have eaten."
(buzzer beeps) - Auxiliary.
- Yes!
Grammatical mood for verbs used as commands as in leave.
(buzzer beeps) - Imperative.
- Yes.
Verb that requires a direct object.
(buzzer beeps) - Pass.
- [Paul] That's transitive.
Three-letter suffix, all gerunds end in.
(buzzer beeps) - I-N-G?
- Yes.
What the S in the abbreviation SVO stands for.
(buzzer beeps) - Subject.
- Yes.
- [Paul] Verb whose conjugation is unique or atypical.
(buzzer beeps) - Irregular.
- That is correct.
All right, Lewisburg, you cleaned up there on that Lightning Round.
And after that, we currently have Berwick in the lead over Lewisburg 85 to 40 as we go ahead and move into the second quarter now with this toss-up question.
What empire under which stone pillars of the dharma were built was ruled by Chandragupta and Ashoka?
(buzzer beeps) Zach, Lewisburg.
- The Gupta Empire?
- Is incorrect.
(buzzer beeps) I'll finish.
Josephine, Berwick.
- The Mauryan Empire?
- Mauryan Empire is correct for your rebound points.
Let's go to our next toss-up.
What instrument which nicknames Ludwig van Beethoven's 10th string quartet has seven pedals that control the tuning of its 47 pluckable- (buzzer beeps) Jaxon, Berwick.
- A harp.
- Is correct.
(effect buzzes) And your bonus.
A burning natural gas field called the Gates of Hell is in what Central Asian country whose capital is Ashgabat?
(buzzer beeps) - Turkmenistan?
- Is correct for your bonus points, Berwick.
Let's go to another toss-up.
What novel whose first chapter depicts the four title characters playing pilgrims is about the March sisters and is by Louisa... Hope, Lewisburg.
- "Little Women"?
- Is correct.
And here's your bonus.
(effect buzzes) Sarah Michelle Geller and Ryan Phillippe starred in what 1999 teen romantic drama that's an adaptation of the novel "Dangers Liaisons"?
(buzzer beeps) - Skip.
- That is "Cruel Intentions."
Here's our next toss-up.
William Braggs studied what type of radiation that has frequencies just above ultraviolet light and is used in- (buzzer beeps) Josephine, Berwick.
- X-ray?
- Is correct.
(effect buzzes) And your bonus.
Betsey Trotwood becomes the guardian of the title character in what Charles Dickens novel which depicts the extortion of Mr.
Wickfield by Uriah Heep?
(buzzer beeps) - David Copperfield?
- Is correct for your bonus points, Berwick.
Let's go to our next toss-up.
What city succeeded Vandalia as its state's capital, is home to the Presidential Library and tomb of Abraham Lincoln, and is in the center of Illinois?
(buzzer beeps) Ben, Lewisburg.
- Springfield.
- Is correct.
(effect buzzes) And your bonus now.
What state assemblyman from Astoria debated Republican Curtis Sliwa and Independent Andrew Cuomo as the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City?
(buzzer beeps) - Zohran Mamdani?
- Is correct for your bonus points, Lewisburg.
Let's go to another toss-up.
What adjective describes metal frameworks whose developers won the 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry and also carbon containing compounds like proteins?
(buzzer beeps) Thomas, Berwick.
- Organic?
- Is correct.
(effect buzzes) And here's your bonus.
Like technetium, what lanthanide metal with atomic number 61 is one of two elements lighter than lead that has no stable isotopes?
- Uranium (indistinct).
(buzzer beeps) Uranium?
- No, that answer is promethium.
Promethium.
Here's our next toss-up.
What organ that secretes a ghrelin contains chief and parietal cells?
(buzzer beeps) Josephine, Berwick.
- The stomach?
- Is correct.
(effect buzzes) And here's your bonus.
What French city gives its name to both an 843 treaty splitting the Carolingian Empire and a World War I battle lasting 10 months in 1916?
(buzzer beeps) - Verdun?
- Is correct for your bonus points, Berwick.
Let's go to another toss-up.
A 1939 study of the Kikuyu people is titled for facing what second tallest mountain (buzzer beeps) in Africa which... Jaxon, Berwick.
- Kilimanjaro.
- Is incorrect.
I'll finish and rebound to Lewisburg.
Which shares its name with a country home to Mombasa.
(buzzer beeps) - Kenya.
- Is correct for your rebound points, Lewisburg.
Let's go to another toss-up.
What religious group which elected Clint Pressley president in 2024 (timer beeps) expelled the Saddleback Church in 2023 and is the world's largest Baptist group?
(buzzer beeps) Josephine, Berwick.
- The Methodists.
- Is incorrect.
Rebound to Lewisburg.
(buzzer beeps) - Southern Baptist.
- Is correct for your rebound points, Lewisburg.
And 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 Jaxon, I'll come to you first.
Simply tell us what your plans for the future are.
- Well, Paul, I plan to collapse in some woods in Italy and follow a dead poet through the afterlife to find my I-pop idol and then write a really weird fan fiction about it.
- You too?
- Yes.
(team laugh) - That's awesome.
Thanks, Jaxon.
Fable.
- Well, Paul, I plan to follow a prophecy given to me by three strange women that I would marry a man who would one day become the king of Scotland.
- All right, thank you, Fable.
All right, Thomas.
- Well, Paul, I plan to help a really weird old guy from Transylvania move to England.
- [Paul] You're a nice guy, Thomas.
And Josephine.
- Well, Paul, I plan to look for my science project in the Alps.
- Okay.
(chuckles) Thanks, Berwick, and good luck to you the rest of the way.
Lewisburg, it's over to you.
Canyon, tell us what your plans are for the future.
- I plan to study biology and violin performance in college.
- In the Alps?
- Maybe.
- Maybe.
- [Paul] Thanks, Canyon.
Ben.
- I think I'll also follow Canyon and Josephine into the Alps.
Maybe create like some kind of creature.
- Okay.
- Bring it to life.
- Okay, like a Frankensteinish kind of thing.
I love it.
Thanks, Ben.
Zach.
- I want a house in Wyoming.
- Pennsylvania?
- No, just Wyoming.
- Oh, Wyoming.
(laughs) Thank you, Zach.
Hope.
- Mm, my most like present future plan is to go home and go to bed.
- Okay.
(laughs) Not looking too far ahead just yet.
All right, well, good luck to you, Lewisburg.
It was great to see everybody again.
Let's go ahead and begin the third quarter now with this toss-up question.
What author depicted the practice of wife selling in "The Mayor of Casterbridge," (buzzer beeps) which is set in Wessex?
Thomas, Berwick.
- Thomas Hardy.
- Is correct.
(effect buzzes) And your bonus.
In 1998, what 77-year-old Ohio senator became the oldest astronaut at the time of going to space doing so 36 years after his first space flight?
(buzzer beeps) - Alan Shepard.
- No, that's John Glenn.
John Glenn.
Here's our next toss-up.
What sea, the site of the Dogger Bank incident in the Russo-Japanese war (buzzer beeps) contains... Jaxon, Berwick.
- The Sea of Japan?
- Is incorrect.
I'll finish and rebound to Lewisburg.
Contains the Statfjord oil field and lies between Britain and Scandinavia.
(buzzer beeps) - North Sea.
- Is correct for your rebound points, Lewisburg.
Let's go to another toss-up.
What religious leader who lived in the Lion House legendarily said, "This is the place," after succeeding Joseph Smith?
(buzzer beeps) Zach, Lewisburg.
- Brigham Young.
- Is correct.
(effect buzzes) And your bonus now.
In what modern-day country did US forces fight the Moro Rebellion in the early 1900s after betraying and deposing President Emilio Aguinaldo?
(buzzer beeps) - Mexico.
- Nope, this was the Philippines.
Here's our next toss-up.
What artist of a 1948 work showing two hands drawing each other also created the lithograph "Waterfall" in which water and possibly- (buzzer beeps) Zach, Lewisburg.
- M.C.
Escher?
- Is correct.
(effect buzzes) And your bonus now.
What quantum phenomenon which is exploited in a type of scanning electron microscope involves particles crossing a classically forbidden barrier?
(buzzer beeps) - Quantum tunneling?
- Is correct for your bonus points, Lewisburg.
Here's our next toss-up.
What NFL team has not had a losing season since 2003?
Signed former Jets and Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers in '20- (buzzer beeps) Canyon, Lewisburg.
- Is it the Steelers?
- It is the Steelers.
(effect buzzes) And here is your bonus.
The "Pines of Rome," the "Fountains of Rome," and "Roman Festivals" form what Italian composer's "Roman Trilogy"?
(buzzer beeps) - Verdi.
- No, this was Ottorino Respighi.
All right, let's go to another toss-up.
What metric unit whose inverse measures the output of IR spectroscopy is the path length of a cuvette and equals 2.54 times (buzzer beeps) the number of inches?
Canyon, Lewisburg.
- Centimeters.
- Is correct.
(effect buzzes) And your bonus now.
In an 1831 Supreme Court case, John Marshall declared that what Native American tribe, which was suing Georgia, was a domestic dependent nation?
(team whispers indistinctly) (buzzer beeps) - Cherokee.
- Is correct for your bonus points, Lewisburg.
Here's our next toss-up.
What country which signed an 1819 treaty with John Quincy Adams that ceded control of Florida?
(buzzer beeps) Jaxon, Berwick.
- Spain.
- Is correct.
(effect buzzes) Here's your bonus now.
What literary term refers to a sentence that runs over from one line of poetry into the next line without any intervening punctuation?
- Stanza.
(team whispers indistinctly) - Let's go with it.
- Okay.
(buzzer beeps) - A stanza?
- No, this is enjambment.
Enjambment.
Here's our next toss-up question.
What biblical book, which begins with a story about Queen Vashti and Shushan, is named for a queen who with her kinsman Mordecai- (buzzer beeps) Thomas, Berwick.
- Esther - Is correct.
(effect buzzes) And your bonus.
Sugarloaf Mountain and Corcovado are natural landmarks that tower over what Latin American city?
- Is it La Paz?
(timer beeps) Yeah.
(buzzer beeps) La Paz?
- No, that city is Rio de Janeiro.
Well, that sound that you heard signals the end of the third quarter and another Lightning Round.
(lightning buzzes) This time, Lewisburg will pick first.
Your categories are Septets or Catholic Traditions.
- Catholic Traditions.
(buzzer beeps) Catholic Traditions.
- Okay.
Catholic Traditions it is.
And your time begins when I finish reading the first question.
Answer the following about teachings, practices, and traditions in Catholicism.
Beverage transubstantiated into the blood of Christ.
(buzzer beeps) - Wine.
- Yes.
The core Catholic worship service at which communion is given.
(buzzer beeps) - Mass.
- Yes.
Sacrament involving admitting one's sins.
(buzzer beeps) - Confession.
- Yes.
First two words of the Lord's prayer followed by "Who art in heaven"?
(buzzer beeps) - Our Father.
- Yes.
Four week pre-Christmas season.
(buzzer beeps) - Advent.
- Yes.
- Pre-heaven afterlife where sin is discharged.
(buzzer beeps) - Purgatory.
- Yes.
String of beads used as an aid in prayer.
(buzzer beeps) - Rosary.
- Yes.
Priest in charge of a monastery.
(buzzer beeps) - Abbott.
- Yes.
A major sin unlike venial sin.
- Oh, my God.
(indistinct) (buzzer beeps) No, it's not.
- Deadly.
- Deadly?
No.
- [Paul] Be more specific.
- Mortal?
- Yes.
Color of priestly robes during Lent.
- Not during Lent.
(buzzer beeps) Green?
- Nope.
Those are purple.
All right, Lewisburg, great job in that Lightning Round.
Berwick, it's over to you.
And your remaining category will be Septets.
And once again, your time begins after I finish reading the first question.
Identify these groups that have seven members from a few of those members.
Europe and Asia.
(buzzer beeps) - Continents.
- Yes.
Books partly titled "Chamber of Secrets" and "Goblet of Fire."
(buzzer beeps) - Harry Potter?
- Yes.
Greed, pride, and lust.
(buzzer beeps) - Seven deadly sins.
- Yes.
Great Pyramid of Giza and Colossus of Rhodes.
(buzzer beeps) - Ancient wonders of the world.
- Yes, Seven Wonders.
Neon, argon, and krypton.
(buzzer beeps) - Noble gases.
- Yes.
Canada, Japan, and Italy that used to include Russia.
(buzzer beeps) - NATO?
- G7.
Bashful, Dopey, and Sneezy.
(buzzer beeps) - The dwarf, Seven Dwarfs.
- Yes.
Smith College and Mount Holyoke College.
(buzzer beeps) - Seven Sister Colleges.
- Yes.
Numa Pompilius and Tarquinius Superbus.
(buzzer beeps) - Hills of Rome?
- Is incorrect.
They were kings.
Suite whose movements include the "Bringer of War" and the "Bringer of Jollity."
(buzzer beeps) - "Planets."
- "The Planets" by Gustav Holst is correct.
And that's going to do it for the second Lightning Round.
But before we go any further, an earlier answer by Berwick, that was the seven wonders of the ancient world was deemed to be correct.
So we're going to go ahead and add those points onto their total, which leaves us now with a Berwick lead of 220 to 190 as we go into the last segment of the game with this toss-up question.
What party whose leader represents the resort town of Clacton, has tacked right of Britain's Conservative Party since being founded by Nigel Farage?
(buzzer beeps) Josephine, Berwick.
- The Liberal Party?
- Is incorrect.
Rebound to Lewisburg.
- Oh, we can't, oh, my God.
(buzzer beeps) - No answer.
- That is Reform UK.
Here's our next toss-up, and get out your pencils and papers.
If a wheel is spinning at 80 RPM, how many revolutions does it make each hour?
Given RPM means revolutions (buzzer beeps) per minute.
Zach, Lewisburg.
- 4,800.
- Is correct.
And your bonus now.
(effect buzzes) In October, 2025, what state university in Bloomington suspended print publication of its newspaper the Daily Student amid a dispute over censorship?
(buzzer beeps) - Illinois State?
- You're very close.
We're looking for Indiana University.
Here comes our next toss-up.
What country whose Red Sea coast features the Hijaz Mountains (buzzer beeps) and the Port of Jeddah?
Jaxon, Berwick.
- Saudi Arabia.
- Is correct.
(effect buzzes) And your bonus.
What author became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in fiction, which she received for a 1920 novel about Newland Archer?
- Yeah, I really don't know.
- Christie.
Agatha Christie.
- Okay.
(buzzer beeps) - Agatha Christie?
- No, that was Edith Wharton.
Here's our next toss-up.
What attacking commander at the Siege of Tobruk lost the Second Battle of El Alamein (buzzer beeps) and was... Zach, Lewisburg.
- Rommel.
- Is correct.
(effect buzzes) And your bonus now.
What functional groups can be selectively oxidized by PCC are indicated by the suffix O-L and consists of an oxygen and hydrogen atom?
(buzzer beeps) - Hydroxyl?
- Is correct for your bonus points, Lewisburg.
As we go to our next toss-up, what police force whose riot squads clashed with members of the On-to-Ottawa Trek in 1935 is a Canadian agency (buzzer beeps) nicknamed for... Josephine, Berwick.
- The Mounties?
- Is correct.
(effect buzzes) And your bonus.
The Orlando Pride are a team in what highest competitive women's soccer league in the United States, which was established in 2012?
- Denver.
(team chatters indistinctly) (buzzer beeps) Denver?
- This is the NWSL.
All right, let's go on to another toss-up.
What animals are protected from Chuck Muckle by a boy called Mullet Fingers who sabotages- (buzzer beeps) Zach, Lewisburg.
- Burrowing owls.
- Is correct.
(buzzer beeps) And here comes your bonus.
In 1958, Gamal Abdel Nasser formed the United Arab Republic as a union between Egypt (buzzer beeps) and what other country?
- Syria.
- Is correct for your bonus points, Lewisburg.
Here's our next toss-up question.
What defunct country used the Come and Take It flag during a war at one- (buzzer beeps) Jaxon, Berwick.
- Republic of Texas.
- Is correct.
(effect buzzes) And your bonus.
What painting by Edward Hopper depicts two similarly dressed women sitting across a table in a Chinese restaurant?
(buzzer beeps) - "Chop Suey"?
- Is correct for your bonus points.
Here's our next toss-up question.
What virus names the family of viruses that includes the Epstein-Barr virus and chickenpox virus, and has a simplex virus that causes cold sores?
(buzzer beeps) Josephine, Berwick.
- HI, no.
Smallpox.
- Is incorrect.
Rebound to Lewisburg.
(buzzer beeps) - Spinal viruses?
- No, this was herpes.
Herpes.
Here's our next toss-up.
What content creator joined Druski and Kevin Hart (buzzer beeps) in a 2024... Jaxon, Berwick.
- Kai Cenat.
- Is correct.
(timer beeps) And your bonus now.
The Titan Atlas, the Ethiopian Queen Cassiopeia, and Polydectes were all slain by what petrifying body part liberated by Perseus?
- The head of Medusa.
- Head of Medusa, yeah.
(buzzer beeps) The head of Medusa?
- The head of Medusa is correct for your bonus points.
And that is the end of the game.
And our winner tonight is Berwick over Lewisburg, 270 to 230.
Congratulations, Berwick, you are this year's CSIU champions, great job.
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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