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(upbeat music) (upbeat music continues) (upbeat music continues) (upbeat music continues) (whistle blowing) (band music) (band music continues) (band music continues) (band music continues) 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 Crestwood versus Tunkhannock.

representing Crestwood is Jeremy Mueller, Eric Reinheimer, Luke Joseph, Sean Rossi.

Their alternates are Sophia Seifert and Spencer Young and their advisor is Maria Koons.

Representing Tunkhannock are Bryce Miller, Lauren Bulkly, Logan Zudannawitz, Zoe Powers and their alternate is Maya Montross.

Their advisor is Melissa Candrovy.

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 get started with this tossup question.

This play by Lynn Nottage won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize.

Name this play that is based upon the plight of women during the Civil War in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

(beeper rings) No takers there, we are looking for Ruined.

Let's move on now to another tossup.

This is a potpourri tossup.

In Greek mythology, Charon, a grim ferryman conducted the dead to the underworld across a black river.

Coins were required to pay the fare for this passage.

Where was the fare to be placed on the body of the dead to ensure proper passage?

(beep rings) Luke Crestwood, - The eyes.

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Tunkhannock.

(beep rings) Logan.

- The tongue.

- Is correct.

We will take that for your rebound points Tunkhannock Great job.

Let's move on to another toss up.

This one in literature.

One would probably conclude that this Tennyson poem was based upon Homer.

It is, however, actually based on Dante's Inferno.

Identify this 1842 poem.

(beep rings) That was Ulysses, Ulysses.

Let's move on to a toss up in science.

The sun emits huge quantities of them.

Antenna in our home receive them from (beep ringing) radio and tv.

Luke Crestwood.

- Waves.

- Is incorrect.

(beep ringing) Finish the quest Logan - Solar flares - Is incorrect.

We're looking for photons, photons.

Here's your next tossup.

This is a social science tossup.

In 1616, this English explorer discovered the Canadian Arctic's, largest island and a straight between the island and Greenland.

Both the island and the straight are named for this explorer, who was he?

(beep ringing) Bryce, Tunkhannock.

- Hudson.

- Is incorrect, rebound to Crestwood.

(beep ringing) - Jeremy - Baffin.

- Is correct for your rebound point Crestwood.

Let's move on to another toss up here.

This one in social science.

This is a stalling technique used to prolong the debate on an issue (beep ringing) in hopes the measure, - Filibuster.

- Eric, Crestwood is correct and here comes your bonus question.

This soft silvery metal having an atomic number of 19 and an atomic weight of 39.102 is so soft it can be cut with a knife.

Name this element whose chemical symbol has been derived from the Latin word for alkali?

(team whispering) (beep ringing) Luke.

- Aluminum.

- Is incorrect, we were looking for potassium, potassium.

Let's move on to another tossup.

This one in math.

Two mathematicians invented calculus independently of one another.

One was Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.

Who was the other?

(beep ringing) Logan, Tunkhannock.

- Newton.

- Is correct and here comes your bonus question.

The career of this French dramatist stretched for five decades.

During the 1950s, he wrote The Lark and Beckett.

His works included many other works that dealt with maintaining dignity in a troubled world.

Name this dramatist who's probably best known for his play, Antigone.

- Just guess.

(team whispering) (beep ringing) - That was Jean Anouilh, Jean Anouilh.

Let's move on now to a toss up in science.

Murray Gell-Man was an American physicist who received the Nobel Prize in physics in 1969 for the work he was doing on elementary particles.

He discovered a subatomic particle in 1962, the same year that another physicist George Zweig made the same discovery.

What subatomic particle did these men independently discover in 1964?

(beep ringing) Sean, Crestwood.

- Uh, Quarks.

- Is correct and here comes your bonus question.

Acoustics, astronomy and optics were all areas of interest.

He was blind in both eyes by 1766 but continued to do his research.

Name this Swiss mathematician who authored one of the first calculus books.

(team whispering) (beep ringing) That was Leonhard Euler.

And 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 12 rapid fire questions as they can in one minute.

Tunkhannock has won the coin toss and will pick first.

Your categories are math or science and anatomy.

- Science and anatomy.

- We'll do science and anatomy.

- Okay, science and anatomy it is.

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

Identify these terms associated with the human body.

Tiny air sacks in the lungs where gases are exchanged.

(beep ringing) - Pass.

- Alveoli, a snail shaped tube in the inner ear.

(beep ringing) - Eardrum.

- Cochlea, a small gap between neurons.

(beep ringing) - Pass.

- Synapse, an organ that stores bile.

(beep ringing) - Gallbladder.

- Yes.

A section of the small intestine between the duodenum and ileum.

(beep ringing) - Pass.

- Jejunum, glands in the upper outside corner of your eyes that produce tears.

(beep ringing) - Tear ducts.

- Lacrimal glands.

The serous membrane that surrounds the lungs.

(beep ringing) - Pass.

- Pleura, the scientific name for high blood pressure.

(beep ringing) - Pass.

- Hypertension, the smallest bone in the human body.

(beep ringing) - Pass.

- Stapes, the orange yellow pigment and bile that causes (beep ringing) jaundice if it builds up in the blood and skin.

That was bilirubin.

Okay, Tunkhannock.

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

Crestwood, we're coming over to you.

Your remaining category will be math.

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

Identify these algebra terms.

The sum of the exponents of variables in a term.

(beep ringing) Sean.

- Polynomial.

- No, degree of a polynomial, positive number with exactly two factors.

(beep ringing) - Uh, binomial.

- Prime number, simple used to indicate the square root or nth root of a number.

(beep ringing) - Radical.

- Yes.

Rectangular array of numbers arranged in rows and columns.

(beep ringing) - Matrice?

- Yes, in exponential notation, the expression being multiplied.

(beep ringing) - Pass.

- That's base, set of all natural numbers.

They're opposites and zero.

(beep ringing) - Pass.

- Integers.

Quotient of two polynomial expressions.

(beep ringing) - Common factor.

- Rational expression.

Procedure or a set of steps used to solve an equation.

(beep ringing) - Algorithm.

- Yes.

Rule that numerically describes the relationship between two or more variables.

(timer beeping) Ran out of time there, that was formula.

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

And after that we currently have Crestwood in the lead over Tunkhannock 45 to 25.

And we're now going to move into the second quarter with this tossup question.

Though born in San Francisco, he was thought of as a New England poet.

His first poem was published in England in 1912.

Name this famous American poet whose most famous works include The Death of the Hired Man and Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.

(beep ringing) Zoe, Tunkhannock.

- Robert Frost.

- Is correct and here comes your bonus question.

This type of bar graph is made up of a series of adjoining vertical rectangles that compare the frequency.

What is it called?

(team whispering) (beep ringing) - Histogram.

- Histogram is correct for your bonus points Tunkhannock.

Let's move on to a toss up in literature.

This satirical novel was first published in 1927.

One of the main characters is Ernest Talliaferro, a 38-year-old widower who is a wholesale buyer of women's clothes.

What William Faulkner novel told of literary life in New Orleans and a yacht cruise on Lake Pontchartrain?

(beep ringing) Sean, Crestwood.

- The sound in the fury.

- Is incorrect, rebound to Tunkhannock.

(team whispering) (beep ringing) It's everybody's favorite Mosquitoes, Mosquitoes.

Let's move on now to another tossup.

This one in literature.

Yoknapatawpha County, a fictional county in Mississippi was the setting for a large part of this author's works.

The author (beep ringing) drew up detailed.

Sean, Crestwood.

- William Faulkner.

- Is correct, very good.

Let's move on now to your to your bonus question now in science.

Almost one third of all the protein found in your body is found in the form of what?

(team whispering) (beep ringing) - Muscle.

- No, we were looking for collagen, collagen.

Let's move up to another tossup question, this one in science.

This chemical element discovered by Dirk Coster and George de Hevesy in Denmark in 1923 is a silver colored metal that easily absorbs neutrons and does not corrode.

Name this element that has an atomic number of 72 and a chemical symbol of Hf.

(beep ringing) That element is Hafnium, Hafnium.

Let's go to another toss up in social science.

Which former US president was the first vice president to advance to the presidency upon the assassination (beep ringing) of Sean, Crestwood.

- Um, Andrew Johnson.

- Is correct and here comes your bonus question.

She won a Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1998.

Identify the American playwright who wrote how I learned to drive.

(team whispering) (beep ringing) - Dickinson.

- No, we were looking for Paula Vogel.

Let's go to a toss up in science.

Consider Chargaff's rule.

In all double stranded DNA, the amount of guanine is equal to the amount of what?

(beep ringing) Luke, Crestwood.

- Um nevermind pass.

(beep ringing) - Okay, rebound to Tunkhannock.

(team whispering) (beep ringing) - Thymine.

- Is incorrect.

We're looking for cytosine, cytosine.

Here's your next toss up in science.

Internet addresses ending in .com are for commercial organizations or companies.

If an internet address ends with .name, it's an indication that the site is for what?

(beep ringing) Okay, that answer is an individual.

Here's your next toss up.

(beep ringing) What female astronaut became the first woman to command a spaceship when she commanded the Columbia shuttle on its orbital flight from July 23rd to July 28th, 1999.

(beep ringing) Bryce, Tunkhannock.

- Ellen Ochoa.

- Is incorrect, rebound to Crestwood.

(beep ringing) - Sally Ride.

- No, the person we're looking for was Elaine Collins.

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 Crestwood.

And Jeremy, I'll come to you first.

Tell me what you'd like to do when you're not in class.

- Uh, I love to watch football.

I'm a big Detroit Lions fan.

Uh, hopefully they win the Super Bowl, but aside from that, I love working out and I love playing video games.

- Awesome, thanks for being here.

Jeremy.

Eric?

- Uh, I play volleyball.

I love watching sports.

I like learning about history and geography independently and I really like listening to music and attending concerts.

- Excellent, thanks for being here Eric.

Luke?

- Uh, I play golf and volleyball and I also host trivia on Monday nights and I also like watching sports and I'm a big Eagles fan.

- Awesome.

And Sean?

- I like to watch and play soccer.

- Okay, thanks for being here, Crestwood.

Good luck the rest of the way.

Tunkhannock we're coming over to you.

Bryce, tell me what you like to do when you're not in class.

- I play basketball and I also run cross country and track and then I really enjoy traveling to national parks with my family.

- That's excellent.

Lauren?

- Um, I like to read.

I like to bake and I also like to play tennis.

- Okay, Logan?

- I like to read, play ping pong with my father and then hang out with friends and family.

- [Paul] Thank you Logan and Zoe?

- I like to play tennis, travel and spend time with my friends.

- That sounds great, thank you all for being here today and good luck to the rest of you.

And we're now going to go ahead and begin the third quarter with this tossup question.

Which of Edgar Allen Poe's poems were written in memory of his young wife who died in 1847?

(beep ringing) Luke, Crestwood.

- The Raven.

- Is incorrect, I'll finish the question and rebound to Tunkhannock.

And is just one of as many poems that has been based upon his reoccurring theme about the death of a young, beautiful, beloved female.

(beep ringing) Logan?

- The Black Cat.

- No, we're looking for Annabelle Lee, Annabelle Lee.

Here's your next toss up, this one in math.

What type of equation can be written in the form Ax + B + C for real numbers A, B, and C when A is not equal to zero?

(beep ringing) Lauren, Tunkhannock.

- Polynomial, sorry a polynomial.

- Is incorrect, rebound to Crestwood.

(beep ringing) - A quadratic.

- Is incorrect, we're looking for linear equation, linear equation.

Here comes your next tossup question.

This one in social science.

Alfred The Great ruled Wessex from 871 to 899.

Vikings had invaded the country when he came to power.

In what battle did he defeat The Vikings?

(beep ringing) That was the Battle of Edington, the Battle of Edington.

Let's go to another tossup.

In what Colorado City is the Garden of the Gods of Scenic Park located?

(beep ringing) Bryce, Tunkhannock.

- Colorado Springs.

- Is correct and here comes your bonus question.

A z score is another name for what statistical value?

(beep ringing) That is standard score.

Here's your next toss up, this one in science.

Geologic time eras are subdivided into periods.

What period occurred between the Permian period and the Jurassic period?

(beep ringing) Luke, Crestwood.

- The Cretaceous period (beep ringing) - Is incorrect, rebound to Tunkhannock.

(beep ringing) - Triasic.

- Triasic is correct for your rebound points Tunkhannock, great job.

Here comes your next tossup, this one in math.

In 2009, the US Congress designated March 14th as a holiday (beep ringing) celebrating, Luke, Crestwood.

- Pie - Is correct and here comes your bonus question in social science.

Located in Istanbul, it's a rather significant international waterway.

It's the world's narrowest straight that is used for navigation.

Name the straight that separates Europe and Asia.

(beep ringing) That is the Bosporus Straight, the Bosporus straight.

Here comes your next toss up in literature.

Encyclopedia Britannica calls him the foremost pro satirist in the English language.

He's known for such works as a tale of a tub and an argument against abolishing Christianity.

What Irish author wrote Gulliver's Travels?

(beep ringing) Luke, Crestwood.

- Jonathan Swift.

- Is correct and here comes your bonus.

Don Jose was a naive young soldier who seduced by a gypsy with whom he falls in love.

He abandons his childhood sweetheart and neglects his military duties for her, but in the end she jolts him for a bullfighter.

What female heroine in an 1875 opera by George Bizet was murdered by Don Jose?

(timer ringing) (team whispering) (beep ringing) - Uh, Don Maria.

- No, no the answer we were looking for was Carmen.

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

This time Crestwood will pick first.

Your categories are literature or sports.

- I'm thinking sports.

(team whispering) - I think we'll have to go with sports.

- Difficult decision I know and uh we'll go ahead and start this up for you and your time begins when I finish reading the first question.

The history of sports is filled with fantastic athletes who've dominated in their particular fields.

Name the sport in which each of these former athletes participated.

Wilt Chamberlain.

(beep ringing) - Basketball.

- Yes, Dan Marino.

(beep ringing) - Football.

- Yes, Andre The Giant.

(beep ringing) - Wrestling.

- Yes, Greg Maddox.

(beep ringing) - Baseball.

- Yes, George Foreman.

(beep ringing) - Boxing.

- Yes, Lee Trevino.

(beep ringing) - Pass.

- Golf, Earl Anthony.

(beep ringing) - Pass.

- Bowling, Pele.

(beep ringing) - Soccer.

- Yes, Andre Agassi.

(beep ringing) - Tennis.

- Yes, Bruce Jenner.

(beep ringing) - Running, cross country track?

- Yes.

- Okay.

- Fred Hucul (beep ringing) - Pass.

- Hockey, Mark Spitz.

(beep ringing) - Swimming.

- Yes, alright, Crestwood.

Great job there in the lightning round.

A quick note from the judges.

We have to go ahead and strike the points for the Bruce Jenner answer that we got.

The answer was track and field and not running.

So we're going to have your score remain at 125 for Crestwood.

Now Tunkhannock we're coming over to you.

Your remaining category will be literature.

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

Given the author and the work, fill in the blank in the title.

Edgar Allen Poe, the blank in the Room Morgue.

(beep ringing) Lauren?

- Pass.

- Murders.

Tennessee Williams, the blank Menagerie.

(beep ringing) - Glass.

- Yes, L. Frank Baum, the road to blank.

(beep ringing) - El Dorado.

- Oz.

William Faulkner,As I lay blank (beep ringing) - Pass.

- Dying.

Ernest Hemingway, the sun also blank.

(beep ringing) - Pass.

- Rises.

John Steinbeck, blank flat.

(beep ringing) - Pass.

- Tortilla.

Suzanne Collins, catching blank.

(beep ringing) - Fire.

- Yes, Rick Riordan the blank Thief.

(beep ringing) - Lightning.

- Yes, Philip Pullman, the golden blank.

(beep ringing) - Boy.

- Compass.

Richard Adams, blank down.

(beep ringing) - Watership.

- Yes, Neil Gaiman, The blank book.

(beep ringing) - Jungle Book.

- Graveyard.

Meg Cabot, The blank Diaries.

(beep ringing) - Pass.

- That's princess.

(timer beeping) And that's going to do it for the lightning round.

And after that we currently have Crestwood in the lead, over Tunkhannock 125 to 80.

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

Name this New Zealand explorer who searched for the abominable snowman in the Himalayas, led an expedition to the South Pole and became the first person to climb Mount Everest.

(beep ringing) Luke, Crestwood.

- Sir Conan Arthur Doyle.

- Is incorrect, rebound to Tunkhannock.

(beep ringing) That was Edmund Hillary, Edmund Hillary.

Let's move on to another tossup, this is a potpourri question.

The term has been used since 1936 to describe broadcast systems that have substantially higher resolution than the previous technology generation.

Today this includes several different formats.

What is the complete meaning for the television acronym HDTV?

(beep ringing) Logan, Tunkhannock.

- High definition.

- Be more specific.

- High definition television.

- Is correct and here comes your bonus.

He served in the US Senate for 18 years.

He was a payload specialist on a space shuttle mission in 1986.

So who became NASA's administrator in May 2021?

(beep ringing) That was Bill Nelson.

Here comes your next toss up in social science.

During what war did submarines first become a major factor in naval warfare when Germany employed them to destroy (beep ringing) merchant vessels?

Bryce, Tunkhannock.

- World War I.

- Is correct and here comes your bonus.

In this book we meet the characters, Lowell Cartson, Dr. Juliana Fortis, Daniel Beach, and Dr. Joseph Barnaby.

Name this new book by Stephanie Myers that tells the story of a former government torturer now using the name of Alex who's on the run from her handlers who want her dead.

(beep ringing) - Alex Cross.

- No, we're looking for The Chemist.

Let's move on to another toss up in social science.

In June of 2024, he stepped down after 41 years as the host of the popular game show Wheel of Fortune.

(beep ringing) Who is this man?

Luke, Crestwood.

- Alex Trebeck.

- Is incorrect, rebound to Tunkhannock.

(team whispering) (beep ringing) Okay, that was Pat Sajak, Pat Sajak.

Here comes your next tossup, this one in social science.

He served as the Roman Emperor from 306 AD to 337 AD and created the most famous city of the world at that time, which he named after himself.

Name this Roman emperor who was the first emperor to become a Christian and who made Christianity the main religion of the Roman Empire thus fusing church and state.

(beep ringing) Logan, Tunkhannock.

- Theodosius.

- Is incorrect, rebound to Crestwood.

(beep ringing) - Theodosius.

- No, we are looking for Constantine The Great.

Constantine The Great.

Here comes your next tossup.

He ridiculed Paul Revere's legendary ride in his 1931 painting, the midnight ride of Paul Revere by moving it from New England to his home state of Iowa.

His painting, Arbor Day praises the domestic values achieved from rural life in America.

Name this American painter and printmaker who is best known for his American Gothic painting.

(beep ringing) - Andy Warhol.

- Is incorrect, Tunkhannock we're going to rebound now to Crestwood.

(beep ringing) - Cooper, cooper.

- Is incorrect, we're looking for Grant Wood, Grant Wood.

And that's the end of the game.

And our winner tonight is Crestwood over Tunkhannock in a tight game 125 to 100.

Congratulations, Crestwood, you're going to be moving on and we'll see you next time with another round of scholastic scrimmage.

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

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