(Upbeat rock music) - Welcome to the sixteenth 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.

WVIA would like to thank our sponsor, FNCB and People Security Bank for making this competition possible.

This year, Scholastic scrimmage looks a little different and the rules have been revised due to the pandemic, but in each half, students will have the chance to alternatively, answer one question.

If they answer that question correctly, they'll receive a bonus question.

If their answer is incorrect, the other team can rebound but will not be given a bonus.

Students can also score points during the two lightening rounds in each game.

Judges tonight are K-12 educators from the WVIA viewing area and tonight's match features Crestwood and Wilkes-Barre area.

Playing in the first half for Crestwood are Maddux Testa and Jaden Weiss.

Their advisor is Maria Coons.

The alternates are Anthony D'angio and Nicholas Schwartz.

Representing Wilkes-Barre area in the first half are Brooke Fisher and Tio Morello.

Their adviser is James Blom.

Well, lets get started.

Crestwood has won the coin toss and will receive the first question, which is what country whose primary language is Sranan and Tongo is the smallest in South America in both area and population.

and as governed from Paramaribo?

- Peru?

- Is incorrect, rebound now to Wilkes-Barre.

- Is it French New Guinea?

- Is incorrect.

We're looking for Suriname, Suriname.

Wilkes-Barre area, here comes your first question.

What author described a ceremony for birds to select mates in the parliament of fouls and portray the body wife of bath and the Canterbury tales?

(beep) Run out of time, rebound now to Crestwood.

- Pass - Okay.

The author we were looking for was Geoffrey Chaucer.

Crestwood back to you what narrative poem inspired sculptures, such as the kiss, which depicts Paulo and Francesca, and the thinker, which made a picked it's author Dante?

- Inferno - Is correct.

Here's your bonus question.

What British author, who was born with the name?

Marianne Evans used a male pseudonym to write about a provincial town and her novel Middle March?

- Pass - Okay.

We're looking for George Elliot, George Elliott.

Wilkes-Barre area back to you.

The German center party formed to oppose what man who gave the blood and iron speech, began a cold tour comp, and was the iron chancellor of Prussia?

(beep) Ran out of time, rebound now to Crestwood.

- Pass Okay.

We were looking for Otto Von Bismarck, Otto Von Bismarck Okay.

Crestwood, it's back to you.

What class of energy providing molecules consumption of which is minimized and so-called keto diets include starches and simple sugars?

- Carbohydrates?

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

What term can refer to the innermost living part of a tooth or to the fibrous material used to make paper?

- Root?

- Nope.

We were looking for pulp.

Pulp.

Okay.

Wilkes-Barre area headed back your way.

What man identified himself as the author of Waverly when he published an 1819 novel about a disinherited medieval jousting champion titled Ivanhoe?

- Was it Dante?

- Is incorrect rebound now to Crestwood.

- Pass - All right we are looking for Sir Walter Scott.

Crestwood coming back your way, in February, 2020, what state had problems with an app developed by Shadow Incorporated that clouded the results of its first in the nation democratic caucus?

- Iowa - Is correct and here's your bonus question.

A coal miner's strike was partly responsible for the square deal reforms of what president who took office after his predecessors assassination?

(beep) Ran out of time.

We were looking for Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt.

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 the 10 rapid fire questions as they can in one minute.

Crestwood has won the coin toss and will pick first.

Your categories are experiments or 20th century America.

- Experiments - Experiments it is and your time begins when I finish reading the first question.

Answer the following about notable experiments.

Robert Millikan used oil drops to find this particle's charge.

- Proton.

- No electron.

Italian who showed gravity is a constant.

- Pass - That's a Galileo.

Russian who conditioned dogs to salivate - Pass - Pavlov.

The Miller Yuri experiment rated these building blocks of proteins.

- Amino acids?

- Yes.

This woman showed some atoms were radioactive.

- Marie Carrie?

- Yes.

Yale professor who described his work in obedience to authority.

- Pass - That's Stanley Milgram.

His namesake thought experiment locked the cat in a box.

- Pass - Schrodinger.

He used Swan neck flasks to disprove spontaneous generation.

(beep) Ran out of time.

We were looking for Louie Pasteur, Louie Pasteur.

Okay.

Crestwood, that's going to wrap up your portion of the lightening round.

Wilkes-Barre area, we're coming over to you.

Your remaining category is 20th century America.

And again, your time begins when I finished reading the first question.

Give the decade in which these 20th century events occurred and know that some answers may be repeated.

Jimmy Carter's presidential election and the bicentennial - Seventies.

- Yes.

Passage of the Lend-Lease act and the attack on Pearl Harbor.

- Forties - Yes.

The Stonewall riots and the Apollo 11 landing.

- Sixties - Yes.

The March on Washington and John F Kennedy's death.

- Sixties - Yes.

- The decision in Roe V. Wade and Spiro Agnew's resignation.

- Seventies - Yes.

Bill Clinton's second presidential election and the Atlanta Olympics.

- Nineties - Yes.

The Salk polio vaccine is approved and the Korean war ends.

- Fifties - Yes.

John Steinbeck's of mice and men published and Amelia Earhart disappears.

- Thirties - Yes.

Signing of the SALT two treaty and the three mile Island incident - Eighties - Seventies.

The breakup of standard oil and the triangle Shirtwaist fire.

- Twenties - Nope, looking for the 1910's still though, great job in the lightening round Wilkes-Barre area.

After that we have Wilkes-Barre in the lead over Crestwood 80 to 50.

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.

Let's start with the students from Crestwood and Maddux, I will come your way first.

Tell me who your favorite teacher is and why.

- I'm going to have to go Mr. Bellis, who's my calculus AP teacher, because he really cares that the students are learning the material and takes the time to really go in depth with everything.

- That's great.

Thanks for being here, Maddux.

Jaden, Who's your favorite teacher?

- I'm going to say Miss Hoyt.

She is the chemistry teacher at Crestwood and I had her for three years.

She teaches my favorite subject so Miss Hoyt - That's excellent.

Thanks for being here at Crestwood.

Good luck the rest of the way Wilkes-Barre area coming over to you.

Brooke, who is your favorite teacher and why?

- My favorite teacher undoubtedly would be Mrs. Neri because of her selflessness and dedication to our AP calculus students.

She's truly like what I aspire to be like.

- Oh, that's beautiful.

Thank you, Brooke.

And Tio.

Who's your favorite teacher and why?

- My favorite teacher is definitely my AP Calc teacher Mrs. Neri.

She's super dedicated to her students and she pushes us really hard because she knows that we can succeed.

- Absolutely.

Well, thank you, Wilkes-Barre Good luck the rest of the way.

It was very nice to meet all of you.

Now we'll go ahead and begin the second quarter with this question for Wilkes-Barre area.

How many times more acidic is a solution of pH five compared to a neutral solution of pH seven, since pH is defined as the negative logarithm of acidity?

- 100 times - Is correct, and here's your bonus question.

What process developed by a German chemist and approved on by Carl Bosch is still the standard process for industrial production of ammonia?

- Nitrogen fixing.

- Is incorrect.

We're looking for the Harbor Bosch process.

Let's move over to Crestwood, now.

Here's your next question, what state were the civil Wars battle of lookout mountain was fought is where Andrew Jackson's plantation, The Hermitage, stands outside Nashville?

- Tennessee - Is correct.

And here's your bonus question.

Clotho Lachesis and Atropos formed which Greek mythological trio the incarnations of destiny?

- Phedes?

- Nope.

We were looking for Fates, Fates.

Okay.

Wilkes-Barre coming back to you now.

The Olin islands are part of what country that lies on the Gulf of Bothnia, a Northern arm of the Baltic sea that separates it from Sweden?

- Finland - Is correct.

And here's your bonus question, in 1810 the rum rebellion over through what governor of new South Wales who had earlier faced a mutiny as captain of the HMS bounty?

- Pass - Okay.

That answer was William Bligh.

Crestwood we're going to come back to you, what country, where a prison was attacked by ISIS in August, 2020 in Jalalabad is the site of an ongoing war that began with the U.S. invasion in 2001?

- Afghanistan.

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question.

What creatures use the machines of Sylvester McMonkey McBean to add and remove stars from their bellies and a satire of prejudice written by Dr. Seuss?

- Pass - Okay.

We were looking for Sneeches, Sneeches.

Wilkes-Barre coming back to you now, what author wrote about the amputee Albert crop in a novel about Paul Boiler's experiences during world war one titled all quiet on the Western front?

- Pass - Okay.

You're going to rebound now to Crestwood.

- Pass - Okay that answer was Eric Maria remark.

Crestwood, here's your next question.

In June, 2020, what race won by 'tis the law was the first and shortest leg of horse racing's triple crown though it is usually the last and the longest?

- Belmont Stakes - I'm sorry.

- Belmont - Is Correct.

And here's your bonus question.

What Shawnee leader who desired to form a native American Confederacy was killed at the battle of the Thames in 1813?

- Pass - Alright, that answer was Tecumseh, Tecumseh.

Wilkes-Barre area, coming back to you.

What man, who is funded by the secret six, led the Pottawatomie massacre in Kansas in 1856, three years before leading a raid on Harper's ferry?

- John Brown - Is correct.

And here's your bonus question.

The Dubai fountain is adjacent to what building, which at about 2,700 feet is the tallest building in the world?

- Burj Khalifa .

- Is correct for your bonus points Wilkes-Barre, great job.

And after one half of play, we currently have Wilkes-Barre in the lead over Crestwood 115 to 80.

We want to say thank you to Maddix and Jayden of Crestwood.

And thank you to Brooke and Tio of Wilkes-Barre.

We're now going to meet your teammates for the second half.

(upbeat music) - Now joining us for Crestwood are Nicole Joseph and Jessica Niznick.

And representing Wilkes-Barre area are Maya Corcoran and Brady Melavist Our first question this quarter goes to Crestwood.

What type of aircraft, such as NASA upcoming Mars ingenuity probe, is based on designs by Igor Sikorsky and has horizontal and vertical rotors.

- Pass - I'm sorry.

- Pass - Okay.

Rebound now to Wilkes-Barre.

- Pass.

- Okay.

We're looking for helicopters, helicopters was the answer.

Wilkes-Barre, coming back to you.

What novel who's is defended by Boris max, after he accidentally kills Mary Dalton, depicts bigger Thomas and is by Richard Wright?

- Pass - Okay.

Rebound now to Crestwood.

- Pass - Okay.

That is native sun, native sun.

Crestwood, here comes your next question.

The French settlement Fort Caroline is in what city on the St. John's river, which is North of St. Augustine, and as the most populous city in Florida?

- Miami - Is incorrect, rebound now to Wilkes-Barre.

- Orlando - Is also incorrect.

We are looking for Jacksonville.

Wilkes-Barre, here comes your next question.

What incident in which Hottinguer, Bellamy, and Hauteval demanded bribes from diplomats sparked a 1797 affair between the U.S. and France?

- Pass.

Okay.

Rebound now to Crestwood.

- Also pass.

All right, we're looking for the XYZ affair, the XYZ affair Crestwood, here comes your next question.

What author's novel, no longer at ease, tell us the story of Obi Okonkwo, who grows up in colonial Nigeria in the sequel to his novel things fall apart.

- Pass.

Okay.

Rebound now to Wilkes-Barre.

- Chinua Achebe.

- Is correct for your rebound points, Wilkes-Barre, great job.

Let's move on to your next question, Wilkes-Barre What term describes mammals such as pandas, cows and koalas that have physiological adaptations that allow them to survive on a diet of plants?

- Herbivore.

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

What country's National Epic is The Lusiad, a long poem by Luis de Camoes, that presents a Homeric interpretation of Bosco Tacoma's voyages to India?

- Pass.

- Okay, that answer was Portugal.

Crestwood, gonna come back to you.

What system introduced in the 1887 book Unua Libro by the Polish doctor LL Zamenhof is an artificially constructed international language.

- Pass - Okay.

Rebound now to Wilkes-Barre.

- Pass.

- Okay.

That answer was Esperanto, Esperanto.

Wilkes-Barre here's your next question.

Sue cream or little gem is a miniature version of what food plant that also has been an iceberg varieties, and is the foundation of many salads?

- Lettuces - Is correct.

And here's your bonus and get pencils and papers ready.

What is the degree of the polynomial formed when a quintic polynomial is multiplied by a cubic polynomial?

(beep) Ran out of time, we're looking for degree eight.

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

This time Wilkes-Barre area we'll pick first.

Your categories are Michael Jordan or green.

- Green.

- Okay, green it is.

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

Name these people or things related to the color green.

This religion associates green with paradise in the Koran.

- Islam - Yes.

Rock band with the album, American idiot.

- Pass.

That's green day.

Knight of the round table who encountered the green knight.

- Thaymal - That's Sir Gawain.

Ring wielding superhero played by Ryan Reynolds.

- Greenlanter.

Yes.

Author who wrote about Emerald city in the land of Oz.

- Wizard of Oz - That's L Frank Bom.

Libyan dictator who wrote the green book?

- I'll pass - That's Qadhafi.

City where blue and green factions fought in the Niko riots - Pass.

- Okay.

That's Constantinople.

(beep) All right, Wilkes-Barre, that's going to do it for your portion of the lightening round.

Crestwood, coming back to you, your remaining category will be Michael Jordan.

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

Answer the following about Michael Jordan.

Team with which he won six NBA titles.

- Bulls.

Yes, University he attended, Duke's main rival.

- Pass.

- That's North Carolina.

Current NBA team he largely owns.

- 76ers.

- The Hornets.

Team with which he ended his NBA career.

- Pass - The wizards.

Company that sells Air Jordans.

- Nike.

- Yes.

Coach who won six titles with him.

- Pass.

- That's Phil Jackson NBA arena that features a statue of him.

- Pass.

- United center - Center for the Houston rockets who was taken first in the 1984 NBA draft two picks before him.

- Pass.

- Hakim Olajuwon.

1996 film in which Jordan appeared with bugs bunny, and we're not going to get to that.

That of course was Space Jam.

Great job in the lightning round Crestwood.

And we're now going to take a look at the score.

We have Wilkes-Barre area in the lead over Crestwood 165 to 100.

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.

Let's start with the students from Crestwood and Nicole I'll come your way first.

Tell me who your favorite teacher is in school and why?

- That'll have to be Mr. Mcjoski he's my biology teacher, and he kind of got me engaged in biology which is what I want to do in the future.

- That's excellent.

Thanks, Nicole.

Jessica, who's your favorite teacher and why?

- My favorite teacher is (indistinct) who is my English teacher and she just made reading fun.

- Excellent.

Thank you, Crestwood.

Good luck the rest of the way.

Wilkes-Barre area, going to come to you.

Maya, who is your favorite teacher and why?

- My favorite teacher is Mr. Wells because he's my AP English teacher and English is my favorite subject, and he's taught us a lot about literature this year.

- That's excellent.

Good luck the rest of the way, Maya.

And Brady, who is your favorite teacher and why?

- Mr. Vanko, he's my wellness teacher.

Because like, if you need anything, he'll always be there for you and it makes his class just so simple and fun.

- That's wonderful.

Good luck the rest of the way.

It was very nice to meet all of you.

Now let's go ahead and begin the fourth quarter with this question for Wilkes-Barre area.

What empire in which an eternal flame was tended by Virgin is at the temple of Vesta persecuted Christians under Diocletian Nero and other emperors?

- Pass.

- Okay.

Rebound now to Crestwood.

- Egyptian.

- Nope.

We were looking for the Roman empire, the Roman empire.

Crestwood, here's your next question.

What cabinet department, which is currently led by Chad Wolf was created in 2002 and includes agencies like USCIS and customs and border protection?

- Security - Is correct.

And here's your bonus question.

What employee of the military contractor Pluribus was imprisoned for leaking a report on Russian interference in the 2016 election to the intercept.

- Pass - Okay, that answer was Reality Winner.

Wilkes-Barre here comes your next question.

What author who's (indistinct) includes the Heights of Machu Picchu, is a Chilean poet who also wrote of 20 love poems, and a song of despair.

- Pass - Okay, rebound now to Crestwood.

- Pass.

- Okay.

That author was Pablo Neruda.

Crestwood, here comes your next question and get your pencils and papers ready What integer equals the co-sine of 180 degrees, given that the co-sign of zero is one and the co-sign of 90 degrees is zero?

(beep) - Rebound now to Wilkes-Barre - Negative one.

- Is correct for your rebound points, Wilkes-Barre, great job.

And here comes your next question.

What bands 1976 song you are my best friend appears on a night at the opera, which also contains a song title Bohemian Rhapsody by Freddie mercury.

- Queen.

Is correct.

And here's your bonus question?

The end game currency nook miles first appeared in what 2020 Nintendo switch game, the fifth main series animal crossing game?

- Animal crossings, New horizon - Is correct for your bonus points Wilkes-Barre.

Crestwood, coming back to you.

What article of the U.S. constitution contains the necessary and proper clause and grants the power to declare war and levy taxes to Congress?

- Three.

- Is incorrect.

Rebound now to Wilkes-Barre.

- Pass - Okay.

That's article one, article one.

Wilkes-Barre here comes your next question.

What building governed by Bernard Renee Delaunay housed only seven prisoners when vankers stormed it in 1789 at the start of the French revolution?

- Pass.

- Okay.

Rebound now to Crestwood.

- Pass - Okay.

That answer was the Bastille.

Crestwood, here comes your next question.

What state whose flag has a swallow tail shape is governed by Mike DeWine and is home to the rock and roll hall of fame in it's city of Cleveland?

- Ohio.

Is correct.

And here's your bonus question.

What language is the Lingua Franca of Singapore where it has official language status along with Mandarin, Malay and Tamil?

- Pass.

Okay.

That is English.

And that's the end of the game and our winner tonight is Wilkes-Barre area over Crestwood 190 to 120.

Congratulations.

Wilkes-Barre area, you're going to be moving on and we'll see you next time with another round of WVIA Scholastic scrimmage.

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

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