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(upbeat music) - 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 Danville versus Benton.

Representing Danville are Sean Sahea, Ria Pavula, Rashad Nama, and Griffin Young.

Their alternate is Elizabeth Mackley and their advisor is Paul Breon.

Representing Benton are Emily Blasik, Landon Baker, Max Coker, Reagan Hess and their alternates are Amber Hughes and Christian Lyons and their advisors are Greg Fitz and Lauren Davis.

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 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.

And we'll go ahead and get started with this tossup question.

What American chemist defined acids as substances capable of donating an electron pair and is the namesake of diagrams that depict electrons as dots?

(buzzer beeps) - Lewis.

- [Paul] Griffin, Danville.

It is correct.

And your bonus question, the outdoor sculpture's endless column and the table of silence are by what Romanian sculptor of the series Bird and Space?

(buzzer beeps) That sculptor was Constantin Brâncui.

Here's our next tossup question.

What Egyptian God who replaced Montu as the patron deity of Thebes was identified with Jupiter and Zeus and was famously fused with a sun god, Ra.

(buzzer beeps) Landon, Benton.

- Set?

- [Paul] Is incorrect.

Rebound to Danville.

(buzzer beeps) - Osiris?

- No, we're looking for Amun.

Amun.

Here's our next tossup question.

What emperor ruled as his country conquered Burma and the Philippines established Manchukuo and lost to the allies in the Pacific in World War II?

- Japan.

(buzzer beeps) Griffin, Danville.

- Japan?

- [Paul] Is incorrect.

Rebound now to Benton.

(buzzer beeps) - Germany.

- [Paul] I'm sorry?

- Germany.

- We're looking for the emperor, Hirohito.

Hirohito.

Here's our next tossup question.

What English poet included a poison tree in his collection, Songs of Experience and describe the fearful symmetry of a jungle predator in the tiger?

(buzzer beeps) Okay, that was William Blake.

Let's move on to another tossup question.

What country which contains most of the Apennine mountains is home to an active volcano on Stromboli Island and Mount Etna on Sicily?

(buzzer beeps) Landon, Benton.

- Italy?

- [Paul] Is correct.

And the bonus question.

What 1947 book by Margaret Wise Brown describes an old lady whispering hush in a great green room and is a classic bedtime story?

(buzzer beeps) - That book is Goodnight Moon.

Here's our next tossup question.

A letter to Lorenzo de'Medici opens what book that compares rulers to lions and foxes, warns against flatterers and is by Nicolo Machiavelli?

(buzzer beeps) That book, that letter rather, is The Prince.

Here's our next tossup question.

What conspiracy which is commemorated by Bonfire Night every November 5th was a failed plot by Catholics including Guy Fawkes to blow up Parliament?

(buzzer beeps) - [Paul] Griffin, Danville.

- Fox Rebellion - [Paul] Is incorrect.

Rebound out of Benton.

(buzzer beeps) Okay, that was the gunpowder plot.

Here's our next toss up.

What organ expresses large amounts of cytochrome P450 enzymes to metabolize drugs, makes fat emulsifying bile, and lies beneath the diaphragm?

(buzzer beeps) Emily, Benton.

- Liver.

- [Paul] Is correct.

And your bonus question.

(bell dings) A woman of the far future named Weena belongs to what group of small beings who are preyed upon by Morlocks and HG Well's novel The Time Machine?

(buzzer beeps) - Aliens?

- [Paul] Judges?

- [Judge] Say again?

- [Paul] Can you repeat?

- Aliens?

- [Judge] No.

- No, we're looking for Eloy.

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

(thunder booms) 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.

Danville has won the coin toss and will pick first.

Your categories are world literary characters or Pacific Islands.

- World literary characters.

- World literary characters it is and your time begins after I finish reading the first question.

Name the non-American author who created these literary characters, the unfaithful Anna Karenina?

- Pass.

- [Paul] Tolstoy.

The Hunchback Quasimoto?

- Pass.

- [Paul] Victor Hugo.

Heda Gobbler, the title figure of a Norwegian play?

- Pass.

- [Paul] Henrik Ibsen.

The handmaid, Offered?

- Pass.

- [Paul] Margaret Atwood.

Raskolnikov who kills a pawn broker.

- Pass.

- [Paul] Dostoevsky.

The Shining Prince, Genji?

- Pass.

- [Paul] Lady Murasaki.

Colonel Aureliano Buendía?

- Pass.

- [Paul] That's Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Dr. Yuri Zhivago?

- Pass.

- [Paul] Pasternak.

Lisbeth Salander?

- [Paul] Stieg Larsson.

Mr. Biswas who builds a house?

(chime dings) That was V.S.

Naipaul.

That was a tough category, Danville.

Hopefully in the next lightning round you'll do a little bit better.

Benton, we're gonna come over to you and your remaining category will be Pacific Islands.

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

Name these islands in the Pacific.

Island with a Papua Province?

- Pass - [Paul] New Guinea.

Island Country home to Taipei?

- Pass.

- [Paul] Taiwan.

The largest island of Japan?

(students whisper) - Okinawa.

- [Paul] Honshu.

Largest island in British Columbia, Canada which shares its name with the province's capital?

- Pass.

- [Paul] Vancouver.

Southern most Australian state, home to a namesake devil?

- Pass - [Paul] Tasmania.

New Zealand island home to Wellington and Auckland?

- Pass.

- [Paul] That's North Island.

Island home to the capital of French Polynesia.

(buzzer beeps) - New Guinea.

- [Paul] Uh, Tahiti.

Most populous island in Hawaii?

- Honolulu.

- [Paul] Oahu.

Largest and most populous island in the Philippines?

(chime dings) That was Luzan.

Alright, after that lightning round, we currently have a Benton in the lead over Danville 20 to 10.

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

In what African country did all progressives, Congress, candidate Bola Tinubu, succeed Mohammad Bahari as president at a 2023 inauguration in Abuja?

(buzzer beeps) - [Paul] Landon, Benton.

- Senegal.

- [Paul] Is incorrect.

Rebound to Danville.

(buzzer beeps) - Morocco.

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

Let's move on to another tossup question.

What NFL team, which was led by quarterback Bart Starr and Coach Vince Lombardi to win in the first Super Bowl plays-- (buzzer beeps) Griffin, Danville.

- The Green Bay Packers.

- [Paul] Is correct.

And here's your bonus question now.

What revolutionary war officer's use of gorilla tactics against the British led him to be nicknamed the Swamp Fox?

- Pass - And it was Francis Marion.

Here's our next tossup question.

Big Cypress National Preserve is part of what Wetlands region extending southward from Lake Okeechobee that names a national park in southern Florida?

(buzzer beeps) Landon, Benton.

- The Everglades.

- [Paul] Is correct.

And here's your bonus question.

Cassie pretends to be a ghost to escape the plantation of what villainous character who orders Uncle Tom's death in a Harriet Beecher Stowe novel?

- Pass.

- Okay, that's Simon Legree.

Let's go to another tossup question and get your pencils and papers ready.

What is the slope of the line defined by the equation 2X plus Y equals 7?

(buzzer beeps) Griffin, Danville.

- Two - [Paul] Is incorrect.

Rebound to Benton.

(buzzer beeps) - Two over seven.

- [Paul] Is incorrect.

We're looking for negative two.

Negative two.

Here's our next tossup question.

What empire whose Jaguar and Eagle warriors fought ritual flower wars ruled from Tenochtitlan until it was-- (buzzer beeps) Griffin Danville?

- Aztecs - [Paul] Is correct.

And here's your bonus question.

What Spanish word names the centuries long conflict that ended in 1492 when Ferdinand and Isabella captured the Moorish city of Granada?

- Pass.

(buzzer beeps) - Okay, that's Reconquista.

Reconquista.

Here's our next tossup.

What playwright depicted Harry Hope's Saloon in The Iceman Cometh and wrote about the fact the fracturing Tyrone family in Long Day's Journey Into Night?

(buzzer beeps) Not takers there.

That was Eugene O'Neill.

Here's our next tossup.

What word that harms Monte Python's Knights Who Say Ni also names a two-part film set in Maine that features Bill Skarsg ård as Pennywise the clown?

(buzzer beeps) Landon, Benton.

- It.

That's correct, Benton.

And now here's your bonus question.

What law, which is one of Maxwell's equations, relates the electric flux through a closed surface to the charge contained within it?

(buzzer beeps) - Ohm's Law?

- [Paul] I'm sorry?

- Ohm's Law?

- [Paul] No, we're looking for Gauss's law.

Let's move on to another tossup question.

What country that declared independence in The Cry of Ipiranga was ruled by Emperor Pedro the first after gaining independence from Portugal?

(buzzer beeps) - [Paul] Landon, Benton.

(chime dings) - Brazil.

- [Paul] Is correct.

And here's your bonus.

In 2023, what country led by Joko Widodo worked with SpaceX on the SATRIA-1 satellite which will boost internet access for its 280 million residents?

(students whisper) (buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- Okay, we're looking for Indonesia 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 then we'll start with the students from Danville and Sean, I'll come to you first.

Tell me what you like to do for fun when you're not in school.

- When I'm not in school I like to run and I like to lift.

I also like to read.

- Okay, excellent.

Thank you.

Ria?

- I dance, I paint, and I also like to read.

- Okay.

Rashad.

- I like to swim and also read.

- [Paul] Okay, and griffin.

- I like to play chess and go hiking.

- Alright, it's very nice to meet you, Danville.

Good luck the rest of the way.

Benton coming over to you.

Emily, it's the same question.

Tell us what you like to do to do for fun.

- I like to play soccer and hunt.

- [Paul] Not at the same time though?

- No.

(laughs) - [Paul] Okay.

Landon?

- I like to hang out with friends and play soccer.

- Okay.

Max?

- I like to play soccer and hike.

- [Paul] Okay.

And Regan?

- I play soccer, run track, and hike with my family.

- Alright.

A lot of soccer players here.

Excellent.

Good luck the rest of the way to you, Benton.

And we'll now begin the third quarter with this tossup question.

What constellation which contains the M87 black hole and the star Spica lies between Leo and Libra in the Zodiac and depicts a maiden?

(buzzer beeps) Okay, that was Virgo.

Virgo.

Here's our next tossup question.

What novel whose protagonist marries Aouda after winning a bet at the Reform Club with help from passepartout was written in French by Jules Verne?

(buzzer beeps) No takers there.

That's Around the World in 80 Days.

Here comes your next tossup question.

What leader who co-wrote the 2023 children's book Climate Change is married to Camilla Parker Bowles and is the ruling king of England?

(buzzer beeps) Landon, Benton.

- King Charles?

- [Paul] Be more specific.

- King Charles, III?

- [Paul] Is correct for those tossup points and here's your bonus question.

What African country where the 7 million-year-old Sahelanthropus fossil was found lies south of Libya and is governed from N'Djamena?

(buzzer beeps) - Senegal?

- No, we are looking for Chad.

Chad.

Here's our next tossup question.

What war in which a UN landing at Inchon was led by Douglas MacArthur ended in 1953 with the creation of a-- (buzzer beeps) Griffin, Danville?

- The Korean War?

- [Paul] Is correct and here's your bonus question.

What Castilian Saint established the order of preachers also known as the Black Friars in 1216?

(students whisper) - The Franciscans?

- No, we are looking for Saint Dominic.

Saint Dominic.

Here's our next tossup question.

What term which is translated as br ücke in German and pont in French denotes a structure such as the Sydney Harbor and Golden Gate ones?

(buzzer beeps) Landon, Benton.

- Bridge.

- [Paul] Is correct.

And here comes your bonus question.

At the 2021 US Open Russian Daniel Medvedev was booed during his championship point, which denied what other tennis player a calendar grand slam?

(buzzer beeps) - Djokovic.

- Is correct for your bonus points, Benton.

Great job.

And let's move on to another tossup.

What author who wrote about a man who dies of hypothermia in his story to build a fire depicted a canine protagonist in the Yukon in White Fang?

(buzzer beeps) Okay, that was Jack London.

Jack London.

Here's our next tossup.

What SI derived unit is equal to one volt, ampere, or one joule per second, measures power, and is named for an inventor who improved-- (buzzer beeps) Reagan, Benton?

- Watt?

- [Paul] Is correct.

And here comes your bonus question.

Hittite Muwatalli II and Ramesses the Great signed the eternal treaty after what 1274 BC battle fought near the Orontes River?

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- Okay, that was the Battle of Kadesh.

Battle of Kadesh.

Here comes your next tossup.

What rapper says he knows his whole back's to these ropes and describes vomit on his sweater already in a song-- (buzzer beeps) Max, Benton.

- Eminem.

- [Paul] Is correct and here comes your bonus question.

What seven letter term can refer to the total weight (chime dings) or total dry weight of all living matter in a given area?

(buzzer beeps) - Density?

- No, we're looking for vomit on his sweater.

No, I'm sorry.

We're looking for biomass.

Biomass.

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

(thunder booms) This time Benton will pick first.

Your categories are Mascots or Ends in U.

- Ends in you.

- Ends in U, it is.

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

Name these words that end with the letter U.

List of dishes available in a restaurant?

(buzzer beeps) - Menu.

- [Paul] Yes.

Five letter French word for goodbye.

(buzzer beeps) - Oh, au revoir?

- [Paul] Adieu.

A large Australian flightless bird?

(buzzer beeps) - Emu.

- [Paul] Yes.

Flat region with a mountainous area.

(buzzer beeps) - Plateau?

- [Paul] Yes.

Greek letter before Z.

(buzzer beeps) - Mu?

- Yes.

Swampy creek in the southern US.

- Pass.

(buzzer beeps) - [Paul] Bayou.

Coffee flavored Italian dessert whose name means pick me up.

(buzzer beeps) - Tiramisu?

- [Paul] Yes.

Adjective meaning unplanned.

(buzzer beeps) - Impromptu.

- [Paul] Yes.

Popular Linux Distribution developed by Canonical.

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- [Paul] Ubuntu.

Word formed by merging the start and end of two other words?

(chime dings) That was portmanteau.

Although it says tow, it ends with a U, so portmanteau.

All right, Benton.

Great job on the lightning round.

Danville, we're gonna come over to you.

Your remaining category will be mascots.

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

Given a college sports mascot, name the school it represents.

An Irish leprechaun?

(buzzer beeps) - Notre Dame.

- [Paul] Yes.

Albert and Albert, who are alligators?

(buzzer beeps) - FSU - [Paul] Florida.

Bevo, who's a Longhorn?

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- [Paul] That's Texas.

Brutus Buckeye?

(buzzer beeps) - Ohio State.

- Yes.

Big Al, who's an elephant?

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- Alabama.

A dancing tree?

- Stanford.

- [Paul] Yes.

Ralphie, who's a bison?

(buzzer beeps) - What?

Wyoming?

- [Paul] Colorado.

Ramblin Wreck, which is a 1930 car?

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- That's Georgia Tech.

Sparky, who is a maroon and gold devil?

(buzzer beeps) - Duke.

- [Paul] Arizona State.

Handsome Dan, who's a bulldog?

(buzzer beeps) - Georgia?

- [Paul] Yale.

All right, Danville.

Still great job in the lightning round.

And after that we currently have Benton in the lead over Danville, 125 to 55.

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

What president who was accused of cruelty in the Coffin Handbill unseated John Quincy Adams in 1828 and was a former general nicknamed Old Hickory?

(buzzer beeps) Landon, Benton.

- John Tyler?

- [Paul] Is incorrect.

Rebound to Danville.

(buzzer beeps) - James Polk.

- [Paul] No.

Andrew Jackson.

Andrew Jackson.

Here's your next toss up.

What quantity whose change is known as impulse is conserved in all collisions is denoted P and is equal to the product of position and velocity?

(buzzer beeps) Rashad, not Danville.

- Potential energy.

- [Paul] No.

Rebound to Benton.

- Its some kind of energy.

(whispers) (buzzer beeps) (buzzer beeps) - Okay, we're looking for linear momentum.

Linear momentum.

Here's our next toss up question.

What power granted in the Constitution's Article Two, section two, clause one is invoked when the president grants clemency for a criminal conviction?

(buzzer beeps) Griffin, Danville.

- Pardon.

- [Paul] Is correct.

And here comes your bonus question.

What man who had an open relationship with fellow existentialist Simone de Beauvoir included the statement, "Hell is other people" in his play, No Exit?

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- Okay, that's Jean-Paul Sartre.

Here's our next toss up.

What industry which in 1820 was shaken by the Essex disaster involved the use of a trywork to render oil from sea creatures that were harpooned?

Griffin, Danville.

- Whaling.

- [Paul] Is correct.

And here's your bonus.

Skye and Iona are islands in what archipelago off the western coast of Scotland?

(buzzer beeps) - Ireland?

- We're looking for the Hebrides.

Hebrides.

Pencils and papers ready here.

What is the sum of all the internal angles of a convex pentagon given that it could be partitioned into three triangles?

(buzzer beeps) Griffin, Danville.

- 540 - [Paul] Is correct.

And your bonus question.

What cells which have regulatory and helper forms are white blood cells that help eliminate infected cells?

(buzzer beeps) - T cells.

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

Great job.

Here's our next tossup question.

What author claimed the greatest skill was to subdue the enemy without fighting in a text noting all-- (buzzer beeps) Griffin, Danville.

- Sun Tzu.

- [Paul] Is correct.

And your bonus question.

Which Soviet leader made agricultural reforms in the Virgin Lands campaign and pursued de-Stalinization during his namesake in 1950's Thaw?

(buzzer beeps) - Gorbachev?

- Khrushchev.

Khrushchev.

Here comes your next tossup guys.

Events in what city are shown in the 1935 Leni Riefenstahl film, Triumph of the Will, which records Joseph Goebbels and other Nazis at a massive rally?

(buzzer beeps) Landon, Benton.

- Berlin.

- [Paul] Is incorrect.

Rebound to Danville.

(buzzer beeps) - Munich?

- [Paul] Nope.

Looking for Nuremburg.

Nuremberg.

Here comes your next toss up.

What structural protein, whose disulfide bonds are broken during a perm makes up the dead outer layer of skin and comprises hair and fingernails?

(buzzer beeps) - Keratin.

- [Paul] Emily, Benton.

- Keratin.

- [Paul] Is correct.

And here's your bonus question.

Robert Innes discovered what red dwarf that is about 1.3 parsecs from earth making it the nearest star to the sun?

(chime dings) (buzzer beeps) Okay, that's Proxima Centuri.

And that's the end of the game.

And our winner tonight is Benton over Danville, 135 to 100.

Congratulations Benton, you are gonna 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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