(whistles shriek) (upbeat music) - [Group] Go!

(upbeat music) - Welcome to this 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 $1,000, $3,000, or $5,000.

Tonight's match features Dunmore versus Mountain View.

Representing Dunmore are Santino Necastro, Amanda Dempsey, Jimmy Clark, and Taryn Walsh.

Their alternate is Maya Herity, and their advisor is William O'Malley.

Representing Mountain View are Jordan Jagger, Dazlyn Sobel, Aubrey Sanders, and Vivian Sedlac.

Their advisor is Stephanie Kyle.

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.

Well, let's get the game started with this tossup question.

What text whose little volume covered Norfolk and Essex was a 1086 survey of landholdings used to assess taxes ordered by William the Conqueror?

(timer rings) That is "The Doomsday Book."

Let's go to our next tossup question.

What Norse God who invented the fishing net, gave birth to the eight-legged horse, Sleipnir, fathered the wolf, Fenrir, and, Vivian, Mountain View.

- Loki.

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

Spartan Commander, Leonidas, led a heroic but doomed defense against an invading Persian army at a mountain pass at what 480 BC battle?

(bell rings) - No answer.

- That is Thermopylae.

Let's go to our next tossup.

What name is shared by the fibers released from the spinnerets of spiders and the fibers produced by a namesake worm that makes it, Vivian, Mountain View.

- Silk?

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

What three dimensional shape names a series of numbers beginning one, four, 10, 20, and 35, which are obtained by summing the first N triangular numbers?

(bell rings) - No answer.

- That is tetrahedron.

Okay, here's our next toss up.

What country expanded Tommy Douglas' Healthcare System nationwide under Prime Minister, Lester Pearson, a year after it adopted the Maple leaf flag?

(bell rings) Santino, Dunmore.

- Canada.

- Is correct, and here's your bonus.

In 2025, what co-founder of World Wrestling Entertainment promised to put herself out of a job as Secretary of Education?

(students whisper) (timer beeps) That is Linda McMahon.

All right, let's move on to our next tossup.

What composer and pupil of Carl Czerny wrote "Three Liebestraum" and a total of 19 Hungarian Rhapsodies, and was a virtuoso performer on the piano?

(bell rings) Santino, Dunmore.

- Bach?

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Mountain View.

(bell rings) - Mozart?

- Nope, we're looking for Franz Liszt.

Let's go to another toss up.

What function gives Y coordinates on the unit circle, has a reciprocal equal to cosecant, and is sometimes defined as opposite over hypotenuse?

(bell rings) Amanda, Dunmore.

- Sine.

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

The words, "Mary had a little lamb" were the first to be recorded on what device, invented in 1877 by Thomas Edison?

(bell rings) - Phonograph?

- The phonograph is correct for your bonus points, Dunmore, as we turn to our next tossup question.

What war, which effectively ended with the Battle of Castillon, also included clashes at Crécy and Agincourt during a long, late medieval conflict?

(timer beeps) That is the Hundred Years War.

All right, here's our next tossup question.

In 2024, what family launched World Liberty Financial, a crypto company whose defy visionary is Baron, and which is managed by Eric- (bell rings) Jimmy, Dunmore.

- Trump?

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

In what agricultural system, popularized after the Civil War, did poor Southern farmers tend land in exchange for a portion of what they produced?

(bell rings) Amanda.

- Tenant farming.

- Is incorrect.

We were looking for sharecropping.

Sharecropping.

Well 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.

Dunmore has won the coin toss and will pick first.

Your categories are The Oceans, or Civil Rights Leaders.

- Oceans?

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

Answer the following about Earth's oceans.

Earth's largest ocean.

(bell rings) - The Pacific?

- [Paul Lazar] Yes, under sea mountain ranges at divergent boundaries.

(bell rings) - Indian?

- [Paul Lazar] Ridges, measure of dissolved solids, such as NACL and sea water?

(bell rings) - Salt?

- [Paul Lazar] Salinity.

Undersea features that spew superheated water and house tube worms.

(bell rings) - Skip.

- Hydrothermal vents.

Large flows of water, such as the Gulf Stream.

(bell rings) - River.

- [Paul Lazar] Currents.

Ocean trench contains Earth's deepest point, Challenger Deep.

- Mariana Trench.

- [Paul Lazar] Yes.

11 letter term for tides that occur twice a day.

(bell rings) - Skip.

- [Paul Lazar] Semi-diurnal.

Process of waves collapsing as they approach shore.

(bell rings) - Skip.

- [Paul Lazar] Breaking.

Wind driven movement of nutrient rich deep water to the surface- (timer beeps) That was upwelling.

All right, Dunmore, that's going to do it for your portion of the lightning round.

Mountain View, we're coming over to you.

Your remaining category will be Civil Rights Leaders, and once again, your time begins when I finish reading the first question.

Name These Black civil rights activists.

Delivered the "I Have a Dream" speech.

(bell rings) - Martin Luther King Jr.

- [Paul Lazar] Yes.

Triggered the Montgomery bus boycott by refusing to give up her seat.

(bell rings) - Rosa Parks.

- [Paul Lazar] Yes.

Chaired SNCC and became a longtime Georgia Congressman.

(bell rings) - Pass.

- [Paul Lazar] John Lewis.

assassinated in 1965 after leaving the nation of Islam.

(bell rings) - Pass.

- It's Malcolm X. Founded Operation Push and ran for president in the 1980s.

(bell rings) - Pass.

- [Paul Lazar] Jesse Jackson.

Argued Brown V Board and later joined the Supreme Court.

(bell rings) - Thurman Goodman?

- [Paul Lazar] Thurgood Marshall.

Was the first Black woman elected to Congress in 1968.

(bell rings) - No answer.

- [Paul Lazar] Shirley Chisholm.

Denounced lynching in her pamphlet, "Southern Horrors."

(bell rings) - Pass.

- Ida Wells.

Wrote "The Souls of Black Folk" and co-founded the NAACP.

(timer beeps) That was W.E.B.

Du Bois.

And that's going to do it for our first lightning round, and after that we currently have Dunmore in the lead over Mountain View, 45 to 30.

Now we'll go ahead and begin the second quarter with this tossup question.

What country, whose city of Sfax, was once conquered by the Normans was the birthplace of the Arab- (bell rings) Santino, Dunmore.

- England?

- Is incorrect.

I'll finish the question and rebound to Mountain View.

Was the birthplace of the Arab Spring and is the northernmost country in Africa?

(timer beeps) That is Tunisia.

All right, here comes our next tossup question.

James Chadwick's doctoral advisor was what namesake of element number 104, who posited atoms have a nucleus, after overseeing the Gold Foil Experiment?

(timer beeps) That is Ernest Rutherford.

Okay, here's our next toss up.

What novel in which characters make the Peach Garden Oath and the Battle of the Red Cliffs is won by Cao Cao, depicts China's warring states period?

(timer beeps) That is "Romance of the Three Kingdoms."

Okay, let's go to our next toss up.

What country, which the Neman River separates from the Kaliningrad Oblast, is the Southern most of the Baltic states and has its capital at Vilnius?

(bell rings) Santino, Dunmore.

- Lithuania?

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus, and get out your pencils and papers.

What is the tens digit of the integer equal to nine factorial, given that eight factorial equals 40,320?

(bright music) (bell rings) Amanda - 362,880.

- No, that answer is simply eight.

Eight.

All right, let's go on to another tossup question.

In what state did activists repaint a crosswalk outside the former Pulse nightclub whose rainbow colors had been removed by Ron DeSantis?

(bell rings) Vivian, Mountain View.

- Florida.

- Is correct, and your bonus now.

From 1984 to 1998, the poet laureate of the United Kingdom was what author whose collection birthday letters reflects on his marriage to Sylvia Plath?

(bell rings) - No answer.

- That is Ted Hughes.

Okay, let's go to another tossup.

What company, which offered a pioneering $5 a day wage to workers at its River Rouge Plant in Michigan, produced vehicles like the Model T?

(bell rings) Vivian, Mountain View.

- Ford?

- Is correct.

And your bonus question.

What son of Czar Nicholas II had his hemophilia treated by the controversial mystic, Rasputin?

(bell rings) - No answer.

- That is Alexei Romanov.

Okay, let's go to our next toss up.

What set of elements that include promethium undergo a namesake contraction in their atomic radius and are found below the transition metals?

(bell rings) Jimmy, Dunmore.

- Alkaline metals?

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Mountain View.

(students whisper) (timer beeps) - That is Lanthanides.

Okay guys, let's go to our next toss up.

What author portrayed six friends who deliver soliloquies in her novel "The Waves," and wrote about the vacationing Ramsey family into the lighthouse?

(buzzer rings) (timer rings) That is Virginia Wolf.

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 Dunmore, and Santino, I'll come your way first.

Tell us a fun fact about yourself.

- I've actually sung at a number of National Anthems for my school's soccer games.

- That's awesome.

Thank you, Santino.

Amanda?

- I won a basketball state championship my freshman year.

- [Paul Lazar] Great, thanks Amanda.

Jimmy?

- I was an eighth grade Bitty championship Bitty champion at Riverfront.

- [Paul Lazar] (chuckles) Thank you, Jimmy.

Taryn.

- I also had a basketball state championship.

- All right, excellent.

Good luck, Dunmore, the rest of the way.

Mountain View, we're coming over to you.

Jordan, tell us a fun fact about yourself.

- I play the saxophone.

- Cool, thanks Jordan.

Dazlyn.

- I like to read.

- Okay, thanks Dazlyn.

Aubrey.

- I like to bake.

- Okay, and Vivian.

- I have a jacket signed by my favorite band.

- And who's the band?

- Joey Valence and Brae.

- Oh nice.

All right.

Good luck the rest of the way, Mountain View.

It was very nice to see you all again.

We'll now go ahead and begin the third quarter with this tossup question.

What river flows out of Lake Itasca, meets the Ohio River near Cairo, Illinois, and then empties into the Gulf of Mexico, near New Orleans.

(bell rings) Santino, Dunmore.

- Mississippi?

- Is correct, and here comes your bonus.

What play's first act ends with three youngsters gazing out their windows, and smelling the heliotropes in their families backyards in Grover's Corners?

(timer beeps) That is "Our Town."

Okay, let's move on to our next tossup.

What island were Hagia Triada was home to a cache of Linear A tablets was where the palaces of Pharaohs and Knossos were built by the Minoans?

(timer beeps) That island is Crete.

Okay, let's go on to another tossup.

What author wrote about the paramilitary gad in his novel, "Dawn," and described going from the Romanian town of Sighet to Auschwitz in his memoir, "Night?"

(bell rings) Vivian, Mountain View, - Elie Wiesel?

- Is correct, and here comes your bonus question.

What country whose Argeli plant is used to print the Japanese yen is a mountainous country, governed from Kathmandu?

(bell rings) - Tibet.

- We're looking for Nepal.

Very close though.

Okay, let's go on to our next tossup question.

What broad class of stars may exhibit pulsations as in the Myra, RR Lyrae, and Cepheid subtypes, and exhibit changes in brightness over time?

(bell rings) Santino, Dunmore.

- Suns.

- Is incorrect.

Rebound a Mountain View (bell rings) - Transition stars.

- No, we're looking for variable stars.

Okay, here's our next toss up.

What French thinker who defended Jansenism in his provincial letters argued that people should strategically believe in God in his namesake wager?

(bell rings) Santino, Dunmore.

Balthar?

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Mountain View.

(bell rings) - Agnos?

- No, that's Pascal, as in Pascal's Wager.

All right, here's our next tossup question.

What woman who is convicted of adultery and incest with her brother George was the mother of Queen Elizabeth and the second wife of Henry VIII?

(bell rings) Vivian, Mountain View.

- Anne Boleyn?

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

Pago Pago is the capital of what U.S.

territory in the South Pacific Ocean?

(students whisper) (timer beeps) That is American Samoa.

Okay, here's our next tossup.

What architect designed the Royal Observatory, rebuilt more than 50 churches, and included a whispering gallery in his designed for St.

Paul's Cathedral?

(timer beeps) That was Christopher Wren.

Okay, here's our next toss up.

What author who exclaimed, "Done with a chart" in a poem about wild nights also wrote a poem that opens, "Because I could not stop for death?"

(bell rings) Taryn, Dunmore.

- Emily Bronte?

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Mountain View.

(bell rings) - Edgar Allen Poe.

- No, you had the right first name, Emily Dickinson is what we were looking for.

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

This time, Mountain View will pick first.

Your categories are European Cities By Tourist Attractions or Hyphenated Words.

- Hyphenated Words.

- Hyphenated words it is, and your time begins when I finish reading the first question.

Give these words, whose typical spelling contains one or more hyphens.

A fairground carousel.

(bell rings) - Merry-go-round.

- [Paul Lazar] Yes.

Six squared plus six squared.

(bell rings) - Pass.

- [Paul Lazar] 72.

A relative gain through marriage.

(bell rings) - In-law.

- [Paul Lazar] Yes, poker bet, consisting of a player's entire chip count.

(bell rings) - All-in.

- [Paul Lazar] Yes.

Portion of the EM spectrum just above UV, discovered by Wilhelm Röntgen.

(bell rings) - Ultraviolet?

- X-rays.

OTC in terms of medicine.

(bell rings) - Over-the-counter.

- [Paul Lazar] Yes.

Second place finisher in a contest.

(bell rings) - Runner-up.

- [Paul Lazar] Yes.

Jump ball that starts a period in basketball.

(bell rings) - Tip-off?

- [Paul Lazar] Yes.

Position held by Emma Tucker at "The Wall Street Journal."

(bell rings) - Editor-in-chief?

- [Paul Lazar] Yes.

The letter is AA in the linguistic term, AAVE.

(bell rings) - Pass.

- That's African-American.

Mountain View, you did great in that lightning round.

Dunmore, we're gonna come over to you.

Your remaining category will be European Cities By Tourist Attractions.

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

Given a pair of attractions, name the European City.

The Louvre and the Eiffel Tower.

(bell rings) - Paris.

- [Paul Lazar] Yes.

The Brandenburg Gate and Checkpoint Charlie.

(bell rings) - Pass - [Paul Lazar] Berlin.

The Sagrada Familia and Park Güell.

(bell rings) - Spain.

- [Paul Lazar] Barcelona.

Schönbrunn Palance and the Belvedere Palace complex.

(bell rings) - Pass.

- [Paul Lazar] Vienna.

The Spanish Steps and the Coliseum.

(bell rings) - Rome.

- Yes.

The Hermitage Museum and Nevsky Prospect.

(bell rings) - Moscow?

- [Paul Lazar] Saint Petersburg.

The Vasa Museum and the Nobel Prize Museum.

(bell rings) - Pass.

- [Paul Lazar] Stockholm.

The Uffizi Gallery on the Ponte Vecchio.

(bell rings) - Pass.

- [Paul Lazar] Florence.

The International Court of Justice and Mauritshuis.

(bell rings) - Pass.

- [Paul Lazar] The Hague.

The Hagia Sophia and Topkapi Palace.

(bell rings) - Pass.

- That is Istanbul.

All right, that's going to do it for our second lightning round, and after that, we have Mountain View in the lead over Dunmore, 105 to 75.

Close enough game, and we'll begin the last segment of the game with this tossup question.

The source engine was developed by what video game company fronted by Gabe Newell who runs the Steam.

(bell rings) Santino, Dunmore.

- Valve.

- Is correct.

(signal rings) And here's your bonus.

What author wrote about epileptic seizures suffered by the pure-hearted Prince Myshkin in his 1869 novel, "The Idiot?"

(timer beeps) That is Dostoevsky.

All right, here's our next tossup.

What present day state where institutions along the El Camino Real were inspected by Junípero Serra was the site of a chain of Spanish missions?

(bell rings) Taryn, Dunmore.

- Florida?

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Mountain View.

(bell rings) - New Mexico.

- No, California.

That was California.

Okay, here's our next toss up, and get out your pencils and papers.

How much money will a customer save by buying a pack of 20 pens for $8 rather than buying 20 pens at $0.50 each?

(bell rings) Vivian, Mountain View.

- $2.00?

- Is correct.

And your bonus question.

In the 1980s, current Senator Bernie Sanders was the mayor of what city, the most populous city in his home state?

(bell rings) - Boston?

- Nope, that's Burlington, Vermont.

Okay, let's go to another tossup.

What novel, in which Sam and Eric mistake the body of a pilot for the Beast, was written by William Golding about boys stranded on a deserted island?

(bell rings) Vivian, Mountain View.

- "Lord of the Flies?"

- Is correct.

And your bonus question now, U.N.

Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld died in 1961 in what kind of incident that in 2010 killed Polish President, Lech Kaczynski?

(bell rings) - A plane crash?

- Is correct for your bonus points, Mountain View, as we turn to our next toss up question.

What senator from Wisconsin, whom army lawyer, Joseph Welch asked if he had no sense of decency, led anti-communist crusades in the 1950s?

(bell rings) Santino, Dunmore.

- McCarthy?

- Is correct.

And your bonus.

In 2003, Steve Jobs first demonstrated what new internet browser for Apple products whose name was meant to evoke the idea of discovery?

(bell rings) - Safari?

- Is correct for your bonus points, Dunmore, as we go to our next toss up.

What food stuff is fermented to produce mead is consumed with apples on Rosh Hashanah.

(bell rings) Vivian, Mountain View.

- Honey?

- Is correct.

And your bonus question.

In the lungs, gas exchange takes place in what small, air-filled sacks?

(timer beeps) That is alveoli.

Okay, here's our next toss up.

What solvent the layer of the Earth, discovered by Inge Lehmann in 1936, is composed of an iron nickel alloy surrounded by a liquid outer counterpart?

(bell rings) Amanda, Dunmore.

- Inner core?

- Yes, and your bonus, in 1882, story by Frank Stockton ends by asking readers if a condemned youth will marry a beautiful lady or be eaten by what title animal?

(bell rings) - Lion?

- Tiger.

Tiger.

Okay, here's our next tossup.

What island whose highest peak is Mount Kinabalu is sometimes known as Kalimantan, and is divided between Indonesia, Brunei, and Malaysia?

(timer beeps) That is Borneo, and that's the end of the game, and our winter tonight is Mountain View over Dunmore, 140 to 110.

Congratulations, Mountain View.

You are 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 thank you for watching.

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