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- Welcome to the 18th season of WVIA Scholastic Scrimmage.

I'm your host, Paul Lazar.

Scholastic scrimmage is a question and answer competition featuring high school students from across the WVIA viewing area.

In each program, two schools will compete in a single elimination tournament for a chance to win one, three or $5,000.

Tonight's match features Montgomery versus Berwick.

Representing Montgomery are Mary Green, Amelia Shrimp, Mady Defenderfer, and Owen Sherman.

Their alternate is Emily Miller, and their advisor is Kelly Kurtz.

Representing Berwick are Christopher Stola, Elizabeth Gunther, Lilly Robinson-Gilden, and Josephine Morgan.

Their alternates are Emma Czajkowski and William Robinson-Gilden.

Their advisor is Todd Gunther.

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 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.

Let's go ahead and get started with this toss-up question.

What president was in office during the XYZ Affair, signed-- (buzzer signals) Christopher, Berwick.

- John Adams.

- Is correct, and here (electronic burbles) comes your bonus question.

What river, which receives the Tonle Sap in Phnom Penh, empties into the South China Sea in southern Vietnam?

(students whisper incoherently) (buzzer signals) - The Mekong River?

- [Paul] Is correct for your bonus points, Berwick.

Let's move on to another toss-up.

What wave property whose square is proportional to its intensity is a wave's maximum displacement, or equivalently, the height of its peaks?

(buzzer signals) Owen, Montgomery?

- Amplitude?

- Is correct.

(electronic burbles) And here is your bonus question.

What biblical patriarch's sons were Shem, Ham, and Japheth?

(buzzer signals) - Noah?

- [Paul] Is correct for your bonus points, Montgomery, and here's the next toss-up question.

What woman, whose husband wrote the elegy, Adonais, and whose mother authored A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, wrote the horror novel, (buzzer signals) Frankenstein?

Owen, Montgomery.

- Mary Shelley.

- Is correct.

(electronic burbles) And your bonus question now, what Italian American physicist lends his name to particles with half integer spins and created the first manmade nuclear chain reaction?

(buzzer signals) - Pass.

- [Paul] Okay, that was Enrico Fermi.

Enrico Fermi.

Here's your next toss up.

What item was the subject of a 1964 Great Debate that rejected the Pearson Pennant as the Red Ensign's replacement in favor of a maple leaf design?

(buzzer signals) Elizabeth, Berwick.

- Canada?

- Judges?

- Be more specific.

- Be more specific.

- Canada's flag?

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

Gerald Ford became vice president after what man, a former governor of Maryland, pleaded guilty to tax evasion and resigned in 1973?

(buzzer signals) - Nixon?

- [Paul] No, we're looking for the vice president, which was Spiro Agnew.

- Oh.

- Here's your next toss-up question.

What material forms due to compression of peat has subtypes like anthracite and bituminous?

(buzzer signals) Josephine, Berwick.

- Coal?

- Is correct.

(electronic burbles) And here's your bonus question.

What five-letter term for a covered porch becomes, with the addition of an okina, the name of the sixth largest Hawaiian island?

(buzzer signals) - Lana'i?

- [Paul] Is correct for your bonus points, Berwick, Great job.

Here's your next toss-up question.

What author faithfully presented A Pure Woman in an 1891 novel about an English dairy maid who marries Angel Claire titled Tess of the d'Urbervilles?

(buzzer signals) Elizabeth, Berwick.

- Charlotte Bronte?

- Is incorrect.

Rebound now to Montgomery.

(time's up alert chimes) Okay, that was Thomas Hardy.

Here's your next toss-up question.

What book, set at the house of Cephalus, tells the story of the Ring of Gyges, describes the allegory of the cave, and was written by Plato?

(time's up alert chimes) That was The Republic.

Let's move on to your next toss-up.

What country, where the partisans fought Nazi occupiers under Josip Tito, split in the early 1990s?

(buzzer signals) Christopher, Berwick.

- Yugoslavia.

- [Paul] Is correct (electronic burbles) and your bonus question.

Richard Francis Burton disguised himself as a Muslim to enter what city where he performed the tawaf ritual of walking around the Kaaba?

Josephine.

- Mecca?

- [Paul] Mecca is correct for your bonus points.

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

(strong electric buzz) 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 chemical elements or railways.

(students whisper incoherently) - We'll do chemical elements, please.

- [Paul] Okay, chemical elements it is, and your time begins after I finish reading the first question.

Name these elements.

Every answer has an atomic symbol that starts with a vowel.

By mass, the primary component of water.

Josephine.

- Oxygen?

- [Paul] Yes.

Element with atomic number 13 used to make soda cans.

(buzzer signals) - Lilly.

- Aluminum?

- Yes.

Halogen added to salt that the thyroid needs.

(buzzer signals) Josephine.

- Neon?

- Iodine.

Metal whose sterling alloy is used to make utensils.

(buzzer signals) Lilly.

- Silver?

- Yes.

The most malleable metal.

(buzzer signals) - Iron?

- [Paul] Gold.

Radioactive element obtained from yellow cake.

(buzzer signals) Christopher.

- Uranium.

- Yes.

The third most abundant element in Earth's atmosphere.

(buzzer signals) - Oxygen?

- [Paul] Argon.

Toxic element found below phosphorus on the periodic table.

(buzzer signals) - Mercury?

- [Paul] Arsenic.

Transition metal named after the Greek goddess of the rainbow.

(buzzer signals) - Iridium?

- Yes.

Noble gas named in 2016 (time's up alert chimes) for a Russian physicist.

That was Oganessian.

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

Montgomery, we're coming over to you, and your remaining category will be railways.

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

Name the country that contains these railways or railway lines.

The Trans-Siberian Railway.

(buzzer signals) - Russia?

- Yes.

The Shinkansen or bullet train.

(buzzer alerts) - Japan?

- [Paul] Yes; the Indian Pacific which crosses the Outback?

(buzzer signals) - Australia?

- [Paul] Yes; TGV high-speed rail serving Lyon and Marseilles.

(buzzer signals) - France?

- Yes.

The Jungfrau Railway which ascends the Alps.

(buzzer signals) - Germany?

- [Paul] Switzerland.

The Haramain railway connecting Islam's two holiest cities.

(buzzer signals) - Pass.

- [Paul] Saudi Arabia.

The Empire Builder, which uses the Cascade Tunnel under Stevens Pass.

(buzzer signals) - Pass - [Paul] United States, the Afrosiyob, a high-speed train between Samarqand and Tashkent.

(buzzer signals) - Uzbekistan?

- [Paul] Yes; the Train to the Clouds ascending the Andes in Salta Province.

(buzzer signals) (time's up alert chimes) - Peru?

- Is incorrect.

We were looking for Argentina.

Great guess, though.

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

And after that, we have a good game.

We have Berwick in the lead over Montgomery 80 to 50.

And we're now going to go ahead and begin the second quarter with this toss-up question.

How many inches, and pencil and paper ready here, how many inches are equivalent to 10 yards given that a yard equals three feet (buzzer signals) and a foot, Mary, Montgomery.

- 360.

- Is correct (electronic burbles) and here comes your bonus question, and get your pencils and paper ready.

What integer equals 210 squared, given that the square of 21 equals 441?

(buzzer signals) Mary?

- 44,100.

- [Paul] Is correct for your bonus points, Montgomery.

And let's move on to another toss-up question.

What alliterative name for a paint made from lime or chalk can refer to a punishment given to Tom Sawyer or an attempt to cover up one's misdeeds.

(time's up alert chimes) No takers there.

That was whitewashing.

Here comes your next toss-up question.

What author wrote about the death of a Native American named Chingachgook in his novel, The Pioneers, which is in a series The Leatherstocking Tales?

(buzzer signals) Owen, Montgomery.

- Scott?

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Berwick.

Josephine.

- Chauncey?

- [Paul] Nope, we're looking for James Fenimore Cooper.

Here comes your next toss-up.

What type of tissue that is rich in mitochondria contains the proteins actin and myosin (buzzer signals) and is, Mary, Montgomery.

- Protein filaments?

- Is incorrect.

I'll finish the question and rebound to Berwick.

And is classified as smooth, cardiac, or skeletal?

(buzzer signals) - Lilly.

- Muscles?

- Is correct for (electronic burbles) your rebound points, Berwick; great job.

Here's your next toss-up.

What maritime province in Canada includes Cape Breton Island, is to the southeast of New Brunswick, and has a Latin name meaning New Scotland.

(buzzer signals) Owen, Montgomery.

- Nova Scotia?

- Is correct for (electronic burbles) your bonus points, Montgomery.

And here comes your next toss-up question.

What term from the Turkish for new soldier names the Ottoman military forces, (buzzer signals) originally formed, Christopher, Berwick.

- Janissary?

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

What term, which originally named the Soviet Agency in charge of forced labor camps, is also used in English for the camps themselves?

(students talk incoherently) (buzzer signals) - Gulag?

- Is correct for your bonus points, Berwick.

Let's move on to another toss-up.

What team won the 1997 and 2003 World Series, currently stars Cy Young winner Sandy Alcantara, and plays at LoanDepot Park in South Florida?

(buzzer signals) - The Miami Marlins.

- [Paul] Mady from Montgomery is correct, (electronic burbles) and here comes your bonus question.

Lake Nasser formed in the 1960s as a result of the construction of what dam along the Nile River?

(buzzer signals) - Pass.

- [Paul] Okay, that's the Aswan High Dam.

Here's your next toss-up.

The holder of what position outranks the president pro tempore in the US Senate and is the first in line to assume the presidency (buzzer signals) if the president dies?

Christopher, Berwick.

- Vice president?

- Is correct, (electronic burbles) (time's up alert chimes) and your bonus question now.

What 1944 law provides benefits including college tuition and subsidized loans to returning World War II veterans?

- [Christopher] GI Bill.

- What was it, the GI Bill?

- GI Bill.

- GI Bill?

- GI bill is correct for your bonus points, Berwick.

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 Montgomery and, Mary, (upbeat music) I'll come to you first.

Here's a hypothetical for you.

You're singing karaoke.

What song are you singing?

- Oh, goodness.

Well, that's a good question.

I'm a theater major, so I would say probably the intro from The Addams Family 'cause that's a play we did last year.

Yeah, one of them times.

Just has a good memory.

- Sweet.

Thank you Mary.

Amelia?

- Probably Wrecking Ball just 'cause I can.

(laughs) - Okay, excellent.

Mady?

- I would say Party in the USA because it's very popular among our soccer team.

- Okay, and Owen?

- I would say California Girls for the same reason.

On the soccer bus back from games, yeah.

(students laugh) - All right, great answers, Montgomery.

Well, good luck the rest of the way.

Berwick, we're coming over to you.

Christopher, same question.

If you had to sing a karaoke song, what would it be?

- Well, Paul, as a metal fan, none of my music's really karaoke-able for me, so I'm gonna go with On the Road Again.

- Allright, all right, good tune.

Elizabeth.

- Well, Paul, I don't know if you've ever seen Mamma Mia, but that's one of my favorite films and one of the scenes from it is they sing Super Trooper by ABBA.

So, that would be my song.

- ABBA's great.

That's a great answer, Elizabeth, thank you.

Lilly.

- Oh, well, Paul, when I was little, my mom used to play Wildest Dreams by Taylor Swift a lot, and I really like that song so I would go with that.

- [Paul] Okay, so we have a Swifty in the house.

- Yeah.

(laughs) (Elizabeth laughs) - And Josephine.

- Well, Paul, I assume you've seen the movie Jaws.

- Oh, yeah.

- Yeah.

So in the movie, the sea captain, Quint, he sings this song Farewell and Adieu to You Fair Spanish Ladies, and that's the only song I can karaoke, so (Lilly laughs) - that's the one I'd sing.

- All right, excellent.

Thank you, Berwick, and thank you, Montgomery.

It was nice to meet you again.

And we'll now begin the third quarter with this toss-up question.

What author, who wrote about a centenarian in Violeta and used magical realism in The House of the Spirits is the niece of a former leader of Chile?

(buzzer signals) Owen, Montgomery.

- Marquez?

- Is incorrect.

(buzzer signals) Rebound to Berwick.

Josephine.

- Yosef?

- [Paul] Nope, we were looking for Isabel Allende.

Allende.

Here comes your next toss-up question.

What 2023 film, which ends with a title pre-teen girl played by Abby Ryder Fortson getting her period, is an adaptation of a Judy Bloom novel?

(buzzer signals) Lilly, Berwick.

- Blubber?

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Montgomery.

(buzzer signals) Mary.

- Junie B. Jones.

- [Paul] No, we're looking for Are You There, God?

It's Me, Margaret.

Here's your next toss-up.

What English king during whose reign the transatlantic slave trade was banned in the British Empire ruled during the American War of Independence?

(buzzer signals) Christopher, Berwick.

- George III.

- Is correct.

(electronic burbles) And your bonus question, what painting, in which a garment shaped like a brain sits behind God and the first human, is at the center of the Sistine Chapel ceiling?

(muffled student conversations) - It's the one where the hands are reaching out.

- The one with the hands, where God touches Adam.

- Got 'em, God and Adam.

(buzzer signals) God and Adam.

- [Paul] Is incorrect.

We're looking for The Creation of Adam.

You're very close.

Here comes your next toss-up question.

What European country, whose Green Line buffer zone separates its Turkish and Greek regions, is governed from Nicosia?

(buzzer signals) Lilly, Berwick.

- Cyprus?

- Is correct and here (electronic burbles) comes your bonus.

Since the death of Elizabeth II, the only reigning queen in Europe is Margrethe II, who's ruled what nation since 1972?

- Sweden?

(whispers) - Sweden?

- I think it's Sweden.

(whispers) (buzzer signals) - Sweden?

- [Paul] No, we're looking for Denmark.

Denmark.

All right, here comes your next toss-up question.

What country's current insurgencies include the southern Naxalite conflict as well as fighting in Arunachal Pradesh and Assam Far East.

(buzzer signals) Josephine, Berwick.

- India?

- Is correct, and here's (electronic burbles) your bonus question.

A vulpine creature declares that unreachable fruit must be sour in what fable attributed to Aesop?

- The crow and the fox and the bird.

- That's the crow.

- Yeah.

- The crow and the fox?

- No, you're close.

We're looking for The Fox and the Grapes.

The Fox and the Grapes.

- It's always a fox.

- (laughs) Here's your next toss-up question.

What animals, some of which engage in lunge feeding in which they catch prey with hair-like baleen, are cetaceans that have blue and sperm species?

(buzzer signals) Josephine, Berwick.

- Whales?

- Is correct and here (electronic burbles) comes your bonus.

What alliterative term denotes a quantity, abbreviated K, that gives the maximum possible stable population of a species in a given habitat?

(students whisper incoherently) - Max mac.

- Maternal species.

Maternal species?

- No, we're looking for carrying capacity.

Carrying capacity.

All right, here's your next toss-up.

What military installation was surrendered by Major Robert Anderson after a bombardment in South Carolina in 1861 (buzzer signals) that helped trigger, Christopher, Berwick.

- Fort Sumter - Is correct.

(electronic burbles) And here is your bonus.

In October 2022, what right-wing populist leader succeeded Mario Draghi to become the first female prime minister of Italy?

- I have no idea.

(time's up alert chimes) - Maria Lorenzo.

- [Paul] Is incorrect.

We were looking for Giorgia Meloni.

Giorgia Meloni.

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

(electricity buzzes) This time, Montgomery will pick first.

Your categories are NFL duos or Chicago.

- I got you covered in NFL; I got this.

(whispers) We'll go NFL duos.

- [Paul] NFL duos it is.

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

Name the NFL team that featured these wide receiver quarterback duos during the 2022 season.

AJ Brown and Jalen Hurts.

(buzzer signals) - Eagles?

- Yes.

Cooper Kupp and Matthew Stafford.

(buzzer signals) - Rams?

- Yes.

Ja'Marr Chase and Joe Burrow?

(buzzer signals) - Bengals?

- Yes.

Stefon Diggs and Josh Allen.

(buzzer signals) - Buffaloes?

- Yes.

Jaylen Waddle and Tua Tagovailoa.

(buzzer signals) - Dolphins.

- Yes.

DK Metcalf and Gino Smith.

(buzzer signals) - Seahawks?

- Yes.

Courtland Sutton and Russell Wilson.

(buzzer signals) - Broncos?

- [Paul] Yes.

Treylon Burks and Ryan Tannehill.

(buzzer signals) - Titans?

- [Paul] Yes.

Amon-Ra St. Brown and Jared Goff.

(buzzer signals) - Lions.

- [Paul] Yes.

CeeDee Lamb and Dak Prescott.

(buzzer signals) - Cowboys?

- [Paul] Is correct.

That was perfect, Montgomery.

Great job in the lightning round.

Berwick, we're coming over to you, and your remaining category will be about that far away place, very magical, called Chicago.

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

Answer the following about Chicago.

It's in the most populous city in this state.

(buzzer signals) Lilly.

- Illinois.

- Yes.

The Great Lake on which it lies?

(buzzer signals) - Michigan?

- [Paul] Yes; University of Chicago Law School professor, elected president in 2008.

(buzzer signals) - Barack Obama.

- [Paul] Yes; NFL team that plays at Soldier Field.

(buzzer signals) - Bears.

- Yes.

Skyscraper that was once the world's tallest building.

(buzzer signals) - Willis Tower.

- [Paul] Yes.

1871 disaster sometimes blamed on Mrs. O'Leary's Cow.

(buzzer signals) - Chicago Fire?

- Yes.

Democrat elected the city's mayor in 2023.

(buzzer signals) - Pass - Brandon Johnson.

Chicago airport named for 19 (buzzer signals) - O'Hare?

- Midway.

Particle accelerator in the Chicago suburbs.

(buzzer signals) - Pass - [Paul] Fermilab.

Hull House co-founder and the first US woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

(buzzer signals) - Pass.

- That's Jane Addams.

(time's up alert chimes) Not to be confused with the Addams family.

All right, and then after that lightning round, we currently have Berwick in the lead over Montgomery 200 to 140.

And we'll now begin the last quarter of the game with this toss-up question.

What country whose island of Surtsey emerged from the ocean in 1963 primarily uses geothermal energy and has its capital at Reykjavik?

(buzzer signals) - Iceland.

- Owen, Montgomery.

- Iceland?

- Is correct.

(electronic burbles) And your bonus question, what French dramatist wrote about the wealthy Orgon whose wife, Elmire, fends off the advances of the title con artist in the 1664 play, Tartuffe?

- Don't know?

(whispers) (buzzer signals) Pass.

- That's Moliere.

Here's your next toss-up question.

What acid, secreted by parietal cells, was once known as muriatic acid, is the main component of stomach (buzzer signals) - acid and has, Mary, Montgomery.

- Citric acid?

- Is incorrect?

I'll finish the question and rebound to Berwick.

And has the molecular formula HCL?

(buzzer signals) - Hydrochloric acid?

- Is correct for your (electronic burbles) rebound points, Berwick, great job.

And here comes your next toss-up.

Members of what art movement included Englishman, Alfred Sisley, and American, Mary Cassatt, as well as Frenchman, (buzzer signals) Josephine, Berwick?

- Impressionism?

- Is correct; very impressive.

(electronic burbles) Here's your bonus question.

Tyre and Sidon were leading cities in what ancient civilization of the Eastern Mediterranean that created the first known alphabet.

(random student comments) (buzzer signals) - The Phoenicians?

- Is correct for your bonus points.

Berwick.

Here's your next toss-up question.

What poem, which includes the line I will show you fear in a handful of dust in a section titled The Burial of the Dead, is by TS Elliot?

(buzzer signals) Josephine, Berwick.

- The Red Badge of Courage.

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Montgomery.

(buzzer signals) - Wind and Fire.

- [Paul] No, we're looking for The Wasteland.

The Wasteland.

Here comes your next toss-up question.

In 2022, what singer became the first to simultaneously hold every slot in the Billboard Top 10, (buzzer signals) including, Lilly, Berwick.

- Taylor Swift?

- That's correct.

(electronic burbles) And here comes your bonus question.

In golf, what six letter term refers to a score one below par on a given hole?

- Birdie?

(several students respond at once) (buzzer signals) - Birdie?

- [Paul] Tweet, tweet, you are correct for your bonus points.

Very good, Berwick.

And here comes your toss-up question.

What public space north of the Areopagus Hill was a market and political gathering place in ancient Athens that now names a fear of open spaces.

(buzzer signals) Owen, Montgomery.

- Agora?

- Is correct, and your (electronic burbles) bonus question now.

By capturing Vicksburg and Port Hudson in 1863, Union forces gained control of what waterway and divided the Confederacy?

(buzzer signals) - Pass.

- [Paul] That is the Mississippi River.

Here's your next toss-up.

What polygons have shapes that depend only on side length, not angles, can be categorized as scalene and have angles (buzzer signals) Owen, Montgomery.

- Triangles.

- Is correct and your (electronic burbles) bonus question.

What country to the southwest of Honduras is the only Central American country with no coastline on the Caribbean Sea?

(buzzer signals) - El Salvador.

- [Paul] Is correct for your bonus points.

Let's move on to another toss-up.

What novel, in which Justin scares the bully, Julian, was written by RJ Palacio and centers on Auggie Pullman, (buzzer signals) a boy with a, Owen, Montgomery.

- Wonder?

- Is correct and your (electronic burbling) bonus now.

What poetic structure is called heroic if it uses iambic pentameter (time's-up alert chimes) and generally consists of a pair of rhyming lines?

(buzzer signals) - Couplet?

- [Paul] Is correct for your bonus points, Montgomery.

And that's the end of the game.

And our winner tonight is Berwick over Montgomery, 240 to 190.

Congratulations, Berwick.

You are going to be moving on, and we'll see you next time (upbeat music) with another round of Scholastic Scrimmage.

I'm your host, Paul Lazar, and thank you for watching.

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