- 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 Marian Catholic and Delaware Valley playing in the first half for Marian Catholic are Vincent Pan and Caitlin Doyle.

The alternates are Walter Pavlick and Laura Reman.

Their advisors are Janet Whalen and Jean Susko.

Representing Delaware valley in the first half are Lucas Helms and Janice Healey.

The alternates are Clint Murray and Sara Flick.

Their adviser is Michael Murray.

Well, let's get started.

Marian Catholic has won the coin toss, and will receive the first question, which is: What country whose Poteau C department contains many silver mines, is home to constitutional and executive Capitol cities at Sucre and LaPaz.

- (Kaitlyn) Peru.

- (Paul) Is incorrect, rebound to Delaware Valley.

- (Lucas) Belize.

- (Paul) Nope.

We were looking for Bolivia.

All right, Delaware valley, Here's your first question: What relationship holds between a plane and it's normal between an ellipse's major and minor axes, and between two lines that meet at a right angle?

- (Lucas) The origin?

- (Paul) Is incorrect rebound now to Marian Catholic.

- (Kaitlyn) A sect?

- (Paul) Nope, What we were looking for was perpendicularity.

Okay, Marian Catholic here comes your next question: What President, who signed the Walker Tariff was a former governor of Tennessee who defeated Henry Clay as a dark horse candidate in 1844?

- (beep) - (Paul) Rebound now to Delaware Valley.

- (Lucas) Monroe?

- (Paul) Nope, we're looking for James Polk.

Delaware Valley, Here's your next question: What novel in which Lucy's aristocratic husband Charles Darnay is nearly guillotined during the French revolution was written by Charles Dickens?

- (Lucas) Tale of Two Cities.

- Is correct, and here's your bonus question: What eight letter term, which can proceed the words carnivore or anaerobe, refers to a condition required for life?

- (Beep) - Okay.

We're looking for obligate.

Marian Catholic, It's back over to you.

What substance, which is imitated by cubic zirconia, is a network solid that is the hardest natural substance and as an Allotrope of carbon?

- (Kaitlyn) Diamond?

- (Paul) Is correct, and here's your bonus question: What British Explorer led the lost 1845 expedition to the Arctic aboard the Erebus and the Terror?

- (Kaitlyn) Lawrence.

- (Paul) Nope, we're looking for sir John Franklin.

Delaware valley, It's back to you.

What NFL team, which was coached by Bill O'Brien and acquired running back David Johnson from Arizona in 2020, shares a city with baseballs Astros?

- (Beep) (Lucas) Uh, the Cowboys!

- (Paul) is incorrect rebound now to Marian Catholic.

- (Vincent) The Houston Texans - (Paul) Is correct for your rebound points, Marian Catholic, And here comes your next question: What city to whose residence Boris Johnson offered visas in 2020 was subjected to a national security law kept secret until its imposition by China?

- (Kaitlyn) Puerto Rico.

- (Paul) Is incorrect, rebound now to Delaware valley.

- (Beep) (Lucas) Hong Kong?

- (Paul) Hong Kong Is correct for your rebound points, Delaware valley, 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.

Marian Catholic has won the coin toss and will pick first.

Your categories are: Norse mythology, or assassinations.

- (Kaitlyn) Assassinations, please.

- (Paul) Okay, assassinations it is, and your time begins after I finish reading the first question: Name the prominent person killed by these assassins: Lee Harvey Oswald.

- (Kaitlyn) JFK.

- (Paul) Yes.

Brutus and other members of the Roman Senate.

- (Kaitlyn) Caesar.

- (Paul) Yes.

Nathuram Godse.

- (Kaitlyn) Gandhi.

- (Paul) Yes.

Members of the People's Will using a bomb.

- (Kaitlyn) Pass.

- (Paul) Alexander The Second.

Leon Czolgosz.

- (Kaitlyn) Pass.

- (Paul) William McKinley.

Robert Ford in 1882 in Missouri.

- (Kaitlyn) Pass.

- (Paul) Jesse James.

Charles Guiteau.

- (Kaitlyn) Pass.

- That's James Garfield.

Ramon Mercader, who used an ice axe.

- (Kaitlyn) Pass.

- (Paul) Leon Trotsky.

Gavrilo Princip, who also killed this man's wife.

- (Kaitlyn) Pass.

- Franz Ferdinand, a mob in Carthage, Illinois, which also killed his brother Hyrum.

- (Kaitlyn) Pass.

- (Paul) That's Joseph Smith.

Okay.

That's going to do it for your portion of the lightening round Marian Catholic.

Delaware valley, it's over to you.

Your remaining category will be Norse mythology, and again, your time begins after I finish reading the first question: Name these figures from Norse myth.

God of thunder who owns the hammer Mjolnir.

- (Lucas) Thor.

- (Paul) Yes.

One eyed owner of the eight legged horse, Sleipnir.

- (Lucas) Odin.

- (Paul) Yes.

Trickster God who fathered the Midgard Serpent.

- (Lucas) Uh, Loki?

- (Paul) Yes.

Son of nine mothers who guards the Bifrost Bridge.

- (Lucas) Pass.

- (Paul) Heimdall.

Goddess of love, who owns the necklace Brisingamen.

- (Lucas) Frejya.

- (Paul) Yes.

God killed with mistletoe by his brother, Hodor.

- (Lucas) Pass.

- (Paul) Balder.

Vanir God of Fertility who owns the foldable ship, Skidbladnir - (Lucas) Pass.

- (Paul) Frey.

God who sacrifices an arm to allow other gods to chain the wolf Fenrir.

- (Lucas) Pass.

- (Paul) That's Tyr.

Primordial giant, whose body was used to create the world.

- (Lucas) Uh, Midgard.

- (Paul) Nope, we're looking for Emir, and that's going to do it for the lightning round, and after that, we currently have Delaware valley in the lead over Marian Catholic, 60 to 50.

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.

We'll start with the students from Marian Catholic and Vincent you're up first, tell me what your favorite film is and why?

- (Vincent) My favorite film is probably The Battle of Midway, because it's close in detail of great historical battles that happened in our country.

- (Paul) Excellent.

And Kaitlyn, what's your favorite film?

- My favorite film would be Pride and Prejudice because I really enjoyed the novel.

- (Paul) Excellent.

Thanks for being here, Marian Catholic.

Delaware valley, It's over to you, Lucas, what is your favorite film and why?

- (Lucas) I would have to say The Death of Stalin, it, uh, it shows the hilariousness of the events.

- (Paul) Okay, and Janice, what's your favorite film?

- (Janice) Forrest Gump because it goes through history with the sixties and so forth.

- (Paul) All right, excellent.

Thanks for being here, It was very nice to meet all of you.

Now let's go ahead and begin the second quarter with this question that goes to Delaware valley.

What play whose characters include a Nigerian student named Joseph Asagai, centers on a younger family in Chicago, and is by Lorraine Hansberry?

- (Lucas) Cat On A Hot Tin Roof.

- (Paul) is incorrect, rebound to Marian Catholic.

- (Kaitlyn) Pass.

- (Paul) It is A Raisin In The Sun.

Marian Catholic, here's your question: What gas whose name comes from the Greek word for smell is produced in the atmosphere by lightning and is an allotrope of oxygen with three atoms?

- (Kaitlyn) Pass.

- (Paul) Okay, Rebound to Delaware Valley.

- (Lucas) Sulfur.

- (Paul) Is incorrect, we're looking for Ozone.

Delaware Valley, here's your next question: What city in Texas includes the tower of the Americas and the largest of the three SeaWorld parks and is home to both the Alamo and the NBA Spurs?

- (Lucas) San Antonio.

- (Paul) Is correct, and here's your bonus question: What poet described a forbidden tree whose fruit brought death into the world in his epic Paradise Lost?

- (Janice) Milton.

- (Paul) Is correct, for your bonus points, Del Val.

Marian Catholic, here comes your next question: Members of what religion were protected by the edict of Milan, persecuted by Diocletian and blamed for the great fire of Rome by Nero?

- (Kaitlyn) Catholics.

- (Paul) Is correct, and here's your bonus question: The Singha Durbar palace contains the houses of parliament in what capital city of Nepal?

- (Vincent) Pass.

- (Paul) Okay.

That's Kathmandu.

Del Val here's your next question: What monument, which is illuminated in white between 10:00 PM and 1:00 AM is a catenary shaped structure designed by Eero Saarinen in St. Louis?

- (Lucas) the St. Louis arches.

- (Paul) Be more specific.

- (Lucas) The gateway to the West.

- (Paul) Is incorrect, rebound now to Marian Catholic - (Kaitlyn) Knee arch.

- (Paul) Nope.

We're looking for the Gateway Arch.

The Gateway Arch.

Marian Catholic, it's back to you.

What 2020 film directed by Adil and Bilall stars Kate del Castillo, as the villainous cartel member Isabelle and is the third film in the Bad Boys series?

- (Vincent) Bad Boys For Life?

- (Paul) Is correct, and here's your bonus question, and get your pencils and papers ready: What is the harmonic mean of five and seven?

Given the harmonic mean of two numbers is twice their product divided by their sum?

- (Beep) - Okay.

We ran out of time.

We were looking for 35 over six.

Delaware Valley, Here's your next question: What quantity has a magnitude of V squared over R for uniform circular motion equals force over mass and is the rate of change of velocity?

- (Beep) (Janice) Acceleration?

- (Paul) Is correct, and here's your bonus question: Each of the five rings on the Olympic flag represent what large land areas?

- (Lucas) Continents.

- (Paul) Is correct, for your bonus points, Delaware valley, great job, and after one half of play we currently have Delaware valley in the lead over Marian Catholic 90 to 70.

We want to say thank you to Vincent and Caitlin from Marian Catholic.

And thank you to Lucas and Janice from Delaware valley you guys were absolutely spectacular.

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

Now, joining us for Marian Catholic are Gavin Burkowski and Christina Walco and representing Delaware Valley are JD Flick and Adam Canterman.

Okay, our first question in this quarter goes to Marian Catholic, And that question is: What battle at which Edward Pakenham was killed by Andrew Jackson's forces was fought days after the treaty of Ghent ended the war of 1812?

- (Beep) Okay.

Rebound now to Delaware Valley.

- (Adam) Battle of New Orleans.

- (Paul) Is correct for your rebound points, Delaware valley, and here comes your next question: What idea, two concepts of which were discussed in an Isaiah Berlin essay, is depicted in a Eugène Delacroix painting as a woman leading the people?

- (J.D.)

Liberty - (Paul) Is correct, and here's your bonus question: The port of La Rochelle lies on what bay west of France, and north of Spain?

- (Adam) Bay of Biscay - (Paul) Is correct for your bonus points.

Let's move back to Marian Catholic: Intercostal spaces separate what flat bones whose 12 pairs articulate posteriorly with vertebrae and protect thoracic organs within a namesake cage?

- (Christina) The ribs.

- (Paul) Is correct, and here's your bonus question: What adjective describes functions whose grafts have translational symmetry because their values repeat at regular intervals?

- (Gavin) Oscillating.

- (Paul) Is incorrect, we're looking for periodic functions.

Del Val it's back over to you, What capital city, the center of the 2013 Euromaidan protest was the most populous non Russian city of the Soviet union, and is in Northern Ukraine?

- (Adam) Kyiv.

- (Paul) Is correct and, here's your bonus: What leader of the 1933 revolt of the sergeants was overthrown as President of Cuba in 1959?

- (Adam) Batista.

- (Paul) Is correct for your bonus points, Del Val.

Marian Catholic, here's your next question: What city, where the Lee Resolution and the Olive Branch Petition were passed was where the second Continental Congress met in Pennsylvania.

- (Christina) Philadelphia.

- (Paul) Is correct, and here's your bonus question: The bureau of engraving and printing is part of what executive branch department that was led by Steven Mnuchin?

- (Gavin) Treasury.

- (Paul) Is correct for your bonus points, Marian Catholic.

Del Val, it's back to you and get your pencils and papers ready.

What integer is equal to the quotient to the fraction one-ninth divided by the fraction one-sixty-third?

- (J.D.)

7 - (Paul) 7 is correct, and here's your bonus question: The best lack all conviction while the worst are full of passionate intensity, as things fall apart in what poem by William Butler Yeats?

- (J.D.)

The center in our own.

- (Paul) Is incorrect, We're looking for The Second Coming.

Marian Catholic, here's your next question: What American who conducted the New York Philharmonic from 1958 to 1969 also wrote the ballet Fancy Free and the musical West Side Story?

- (Christina) Pass.

- (Paul) Rebound to Delaware Valley.

- (J.D.)

Gershwin.

- (Paul) Nope.

We're looking for Leonard Bernstein.

Here's your next question, Delaware Valley: In what state did the Ballarat gold rush occur after colonists crossed the bass straight from Tasmania shortly after it found that a capital at Melborne?

- (Adam) New South Wales.

- (Paul) is incorrect.

Rebound to Marian Catholic.

- (Christina) Australia.

- (Paul) Is incorrect, we're looking for Victoria.

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

This time Delaware Valley will pick first.

Your categories are college sports or head gear.

- (Adam) College sports.

Okay.

College sports it is, and your time begins after I finish reading the first question: Given one or more coaches and their sport name the university they work for.

Team nicknames are not acceptable.

Nick Saban, football - (J.D.)

Duke - (Paul) Alabama, Mike Krzyzewski, or coach K basketball.

- (J.D) Syracuse.

- (Paul) Duke.

Dabo Swinney, football.

- (Adam) Clemson.

- (Paul) Yes.

John Calipari, basketball - (Adam) ALA. - (Paul) Kentucky.

Knute Rockne and Brian Kelly, football from 1918 to 1930.

- (Adam) Notre Dame.

- (Paul) Yes.

Ryan Day, who replaced Urban Meyer, football.

- (Adam) LSU - (Paul) Ohio State.

Geno Auriemma women's basketball.

- (Adam) Balen.

- (Paul) Connecticut.

Lincoln Riley football.

- (Adam) LSU.

- (Paul) Oklahoma.

Jay Wright, basketball - (Adam) Gonzaga.

- (Paul) Villanova.

Pat Summitt and Kelly Harper, Women's basketball.

- (Adam) Baylor.

- (Beep) (Paul) Tennesse.

All right, Delaware Valley, It's going to wrap up your portion of the lightening round.

Marian Catholic, It is over to you and your remaining category will be headgear.

And again, your time begins after I finish reading the first question: name these types of clothing worn on the head.

Head wrap commonly worn by Sikhs.

- (Christina) Turban.

- (Paul) Yes.

Cloth draped over the face as in a wedding.

- (Christina) Veil.

- (Paul) Yes.

Cylindrical hat named for Moroccan city.

- (Christina) Pass.

- (Paul) Fez.

Muslim headscarf that does not cover the face.

- (Christina) Pass.

- (Paul) Hijab.

Tall cylindrical hat worn by Abraham Lincoln and the cat in the hat.

- (Christina) Top hat.

- (Paul) Be more specific.

- (Christina) Pass.

- (Paul) Stovepipe hat, Wide-brimmed hat common in Mexico.

- (Gavin) Sombrero.

- (Paul) Yes.

Type of cap worn by Sherlock Holmes as well as by hunters.

- (Gavin) Pass.

- (Paul) Deerstalker.

Tall pointed hat worn by bishops and stylized on Bishop chess pieces.

- (Gavin) pass.

- (Paul) That's Miter.

and that's going to do it for the lightning round, and after that, we currently have Delaware Valley in the lead over Marian Catholic, 160 to 125.

Well 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.

We'll start with the students from Marian Catholic and Gavin, You'll be up first.

Tell me what your favorite film is and why?

- (Gavin) My favorite film is The Blind Side because I love the incredibly true story of Micheal Oher.

- (Paul) Thank you very much, Christina what is your favorite film?

- (Christina) My favorite film is Lala land because I love the soundtrack and I think this story is really sweet.

- (Paul) Excellent.

Thank you very much.

Delaware Valley over to you.

J.D.

what is your favorite film?

- (J.D.)

2001 A Space Odyessy is sweet.

- (Paul) Okay.

And Adam, what is your favorite film and why?

- (Adam) I'd say the Shawshank Redemption because I think the acting by Morgan Freeman, Tim Robbins you just can't beat in any other movie.

- (Paul) All right.

Excellent.

Thank you.

It was very nice to meet you.

Now, Let's go ahead and begin the fourth quarter with this question that goes to Delaware valley.

What disease causes Koplik's spots in the mouth, had a major 2019 outbreak in New York and is immunized against along with mumps and rubella?

- (J.D.)

Uh, measles.

- (Paul) Is correct, and here's your bonus question: What method of arranging resistors yields a smaller equivalent resistance and creates multiple paths within a circuit Unlike series connections?

- (Adam) Parallel.

- (Paul) Is correct, let's move over to Marion Catholic.

Here's your question: What code, the first to be broken for the ultra intelligence gathering project at Bletchley park was used by Germany at the start of world war two?

- (Gavin) Morse.

- (Paul) Is incorrect, rebound to Delaware Valley.

- (Adam) Enigma.

- (Paul) Is correct for your rebound points, and Del Val here comes your next question: What organizations that are clustered on a namesake row in Washington, DC include the Brookings institution and conduct research on policy issues?

- (Adam) Smithsonian.

- (Paul) Is incorrect, rebound to Marian Catholic.

- (Gavin) Pass.

- (Paul) We we're looking for think tanks.

Marian Catholic Here's your next question: What story in which the sound of a ticking watch is heard by the condemned man Peyton Farquhar is set during the civil war and it's by Ambrose Bierce?

- (Gavin) Pass.

- (Paul) Okay, rebound to Delaware Valley.

- (J.D.)

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.

- (Paul) Is correct for your rebound points.

Del Val here comes your next question: What Native American tribe had a newspaper called the Phoenix published by George Gist who developed a silver Barre and called himself a Sequoia?

- (Adam) Cherokee.

- (Paul) Is correct and here's your bonus question: What term refers to a layer of soil which is often labeled O, A, B or C or to a construct from which altitude in the sky is measured?

- (J.D.)

Thermometer.

- (Paul) Is incorrect we're looking for soil horizon.

Marian Catholic, here's your next question: What religion in which priests called Mambos and Ounguns call down spirits known as lowas is a syncretic religion practiced in Haiti?

- (Christina) Pass.

- (Paul) Okay, rebound to Delaware Valley.

- (J.D.)

Voodoo.

- (Paul) is correct for your rebound points, Delaware valley, and here comes your next question: What title character brings grief to his lover, Gretchen and a play by Goethe that depicts this scholars bargain with the devil Mephistopheles?

- (J.D.)

Faust.

- (Paul) is correct, and here's your bonus question: What type of dance that is common in ballets consists of an entree, Adagio, solo variations, and a Coda, and has a French name, meaning step for two?

- (Adam) Duet.

- (Paul) Nope.

We're looking for pas de deux, Marian Catholic here's your next question: What manner of death was suffered by Mary Jo Kopechne, a girl who refuses to call Brad for help in a Roy Lichtenstein painting and Ophelia in Hamlet?

- (Christina) Drowning.

- (Paul) Is correct, and here's your bonus: William L Marcy used what six letter term for the system in which politicians give civil service jobs to people who help them win?

- (Gavin) Pass.

- (Paul) That was the spoils system.

And that's the end of the game.

And our winner tonight is Delaware Valley over Marian Catholic, 225 to 135.

Congratulations, Delaware valley.

You're going to be moving on.

We'll see you next time with another round of WVIA Scholastic scrimmage.

I'm your host.

Paul Lazar, and thanks for watching.