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(upbeat electronic music) (rhythmic band music) - 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 Hughesville versus Mifflinburg.

Representing Hughesville are Keagan Smith, Reese Kirk, Kaycee Sondheimer, and Jonah McGinley.

Their alternate is Michael Swales.

Another alternate is Corbin Kirk, who is not shown at this time, and their advisor is Tara Holdren.

Representing Mifflinburg are Chloe Albright, Lucy Turner, Aubrey Flumen, and Ajaxx Gerhart.

Their advisor is Beth Fonts.

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 toss up question.

Correct answers to these questions are awarded 10 points, and that team will then receive a five point bonus question.

If that toss up 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 toss up points but will not receive a bonus question.

Well, let's go and get started with this toss up question in anatomy.

This gland in the endocrine system makes hormones that control the way the body uses energy.

Its main job is to control the speed of your metabolism.

Graves disease-- (electronic beeps) Kaycee, Hughesville.

- Thyroid?

- Is correct and here comes your bonus question now.

As a representative of all the people, the president can use his veto power as a check on Congress.

Of all the presidents from Washington to Obama, which president from Abilene, Kansas vetoed the greatest number of bills?

- We learned about this in gov, right?

(electronic beeps) - That president was Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Let's go on to a toss up now in language arts.

What American writer who won two Pulitzer Prize awards in fiction in 1982 and 1991 for two different novels containing the same main character, Harry Rabbit Angstrom?

(electronic beeps) That was John Updyke.

Let's go ahead and move on to a toss up in theater.

He hires actors, rents the theater, buys the play, and handles receipts.

What do Americans call the person who's responsible for the financial part of theater production?

(electronic beeps) Ajaxx, Mifflinburg.

- Treasurer?

- [Paul] Is incorrect, rebound to Hughesville, Kaycee.

(electronic beeps) - Director?

- Nope, that's the producer, the producer.

Let's go on now to a toss up in literature.

What 20th century female American authors works include "Tender Buttons", "Wars I Have Seen", "The Making of Americans", and "The autobiography "of Alice B. Toklas"?

(electronic beeps) Chloe, Mifflinburg.

- Alice B. Toklas.

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Hughesville.

(electronic beeps) That is Gertrude Stein.

Let's go to a toss up now in government.

Named after its first recipient who discovered slow neutrons and developed the world's first nuclear reactor, it's the oldest governmental award given in the United States-- (electronic beeps) Jonah, Hughesville.

- Firming.

- Is correct, and here comes your bonus question.

Their mass has never been measured accurately since their mass is extremely tiny by the standards of subatomic particles.

Identify these electrically neutral subatomic particles that are denoted by the Greek letter V, Jonah.

(electronic beeps) - Neutrons?

- Is incorrect.

We're looking for neutrinos, neutrinos.

Let's go to a toss up now in drama.

Shakespeare employed the use of alliteration in many of his plays.

In fact, he even used alliteration in the title of one of his plays.

This play was a comedy about a king and three of his friends who fell in love while hosting the princess and her three ladies.

Name this three word play title in which Shakespeare employed alliteration by beginning each of these words with the letter L. (electronic beeps) That is Love's Labor Lost.

Let's go to a toss up now in botany.

Native to the savannas of the Carolinas, by what name is the insectivore plant Dionaea Muscapula more commonly known?

(electronic beeps) Keagan, Hughesville.

- Venus Flytrap.

- Is correct, and here comes your bonus question now.

In what Nathaniel Hawthorne short story did Georgiana's husband urge her to have a crimson blotch removed from her cheek?

- We have it.

- We do.

- We did it in the practice, yeah.

- Oh, I don't remember either.

(electronic beeps) - We are looking for "The Birthmark", 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 12 rapid fire questions as they can in one minute.

Mifflinburg has won the coin toss and will pick first.

Your categories are chemistry or grammar.

- We'll take grammar.

- Grammar it is and your time begins after I finish reading the first question.

You'll be given the name of verb tense for the verb, write.

What form of the verb, write, would be used to create each of these tenses?

The simple future tense of write.

(electronic beeps) - Will write.

- [Paul] Yes, the simple past tense.

(electronic beeps) - Have written.

- [Paul] Wrote, the present perfect tense.

Don't know, you can pass.

(electronic beeps) - Write.

- Has written.

- [Paul] Has written is correct.

The present perfect progressive, also known as the present perfect continuous.

(electronic beeps) - Writing.

- Has been writing, the future perfect.

(electronic beeps) - Will write?

- Is incorrect, will have written, the past perfect.

(electronic beeps) - Has written.

- Had written, the future perfect progressive, also known as the future perfect continuous.

(electronic beeps) - Will be writing.

- Is incorrect, will have been writing.

(electronic beeps) All right, Mifflinburg, that was a tough subject.

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

Now, Hughesville, we're coming over to you.

Your remaining category will be chemistry, and once again, your time begins after I finish reading the first question.

You'll be given the names of elements that are trace elements in the human body.

Give the chemical symbol for each of these trace elements, Rubidium.

(electronic beeps) - Rb.

- [Paul] Yes, Cesium.

(electronic beeps) - Cs.

- [Paul] Yes, Beryllium.

(electronic beeps) - Be.

- [Paul] Yes, Strontium.

(electronic beeps) - Sr. - [Paul] Yes, Radium.

(electronic beeps) - Ra.

- [Paul] Yes, Titanium.

(electronic beeps) - Ti.

- [Paul] Yes, Manganese.

(electronic beeps) - Mg, no, Ma.

- [Paul] That is incorrect, Mn, Yttrium.

(electronic beeps) - Ir.

- [Paul] Y, Niobium.

(electronic beeps) - Mb.

- [Paul] Yes, Tungsten.

(electronic beeps) - Tt.

- W, Molybdenum.

(electronic beeps) - Mb.

- [Paul] Mo, Tantalum.

(electronic beeps) - Ta.

- Yes, All right, Hughesville.

Great job in the lightning round.

That's going to do it for the first lightning round, and after that, we currently have Hughesville in the lead over Mifflinburg 70 to 10, and we're now going to go ahead and move into the second quarter with this toss up question in world geography.

This city spans two islands, Zealand and Amager.

The Oresund Bridge connects the two parts of this city.

Name the city that is both the largest city and the capital of Denmark.

(electronic beeps) - Copenhagen.

- Chloe, Mifflinburg.

- Copenhagen.

- Is correct, and here comes your bonus question.

Johnny Damon played in Major League Baseball from 1995 until 2012.

During that time, he played on seven different teams.

Name the last team that left fielder Johnny Damon played for before he retired.

(electronic beeps) - New York Yankees.

- No, it was the Cleveland Indians now known as the Cleveland Guardians.

Well, let's move on to a toss up now in drama.

By the time that William Shakespeare was 21, he not only had a wife to support but also had three children.

He went to London and became an actor, tried his hand at rewriting plays, and dabbled in writing his own plays.

What was the name of Shakespeare's wife who always encouraged him?

(electronic beeps) Jonah, Hughesville.

- Anne Hathaway?

- Is correct, and here comes your bonus question now.

They're found in the retroperitoneal space and, in humans, are about 4.5 inches long.

They control fluid volume, electrolyte concentrations, and toxin removal.

Name these organs found in vertebrates that remove waste products from the blood and produce urine.

- Kidney, right?

- Yes.

(electronic beeps) - Kidneys.

- Is correct for your bonus points, Hughesville, as we go on to a toss up now in literature.

This American writer and musician of Jewish descent was born in Chicago, Illinois.

He was famous for his poems for children that introduced us to the characters Headphone Harold, Sarah Cynthia, Sylvia Stout who would not-- (electronic beeps) Jonah, Hughesville.

- Shel Silverstein.

- Is correct, and here comes your bonus.

He was the British prime minister four different times in the 19th century.

What great statesmen first served from 1868 to 1874, then from 1880 to 1885, then again in 1886 and again from 1892 to 1894?

- Do you guys know any British prime ministers?

(inaudible) (electronic beeps) Steve.

- No, we're looking for William Gladstone, but that was close.

Let's go on now to a toss up in art.

Starry Knight is one of the most recognized pieces of art in the world.

It could be found on t-shirts, magnets, puzzles, and even coffee mugs.

(electronic beeps) Who painted this masterpiece?

Jonah, Hughesville.

- Van Goff.

- Is correct and here comes your bonus question.

What unmanned spacecraft that was named for a Portuguese explorer whose ship circumnavigated the earth was the first to orbit and map Venus in 1989?

(electronic beeps) - We'll just go with Cook.

- No, it's Magellan, Magellan.

Let's go to a toss up now in vocabulary.

What term beginning with the letter M refers to a person who's authorized to conduct Christian worship such as pastors, preachers-- (electronic beeps) Keagan, Hughesville.

- Minister.

- Is correct and your bonus now.

In the United States we associate the color black with mourning.

What color is associated with mourning in Muslim countries?

- You wanna go with red?

- Yeah.

(electronic beeps) - Red.

- No, that answer was also black.

That was a trick question.

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

It's typically gray or brown in color and exhibits varying degrees of vecility.

Name this rock that smells like mud when it's wet.

(electronic beeps) Keegan, Hughesville.

- Clay.

- Is incorrect, rebound to Mifflinburg.

(electronic beeps) Chloe.

- Sulfur.

- No, we're looking for shale, shale.

(electronic beeps) 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 Hughesville, and Keagan, I'll come to you first.

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

- I do a lot of sports.

(upbeat pop music) I play soccer, football, and do wrestling and track as well.

- [Paul] Excellent, thanks, Keagan, Reese.

- I like music.

So I play a lot of instruments.

You can find me playing in my local symphony or singing in my choir.

- That's excellent, thank you, Kaycee.

- I like to ride my horse and typically, when I'm not riding my horse, I'm working at a local vet clinic.

- [Paul] Oh, very nice, Jonah.

- I like to dabble in a lot of things.

I like to call myself a Da Vinci, except instead of being a genius at everything, I'm very mediocre, (Paul laughs) but my recent exploit is I made an entire spreadsheet of my wardrobe for fun.

- I love it.

Thanks, Jonah.

Good luck the rest of the way.

MiffLinburg, coming over to you.

Chloe, what do you like to do for fun when you're not in class?

- I think that last description also describes me pretty well.

I basically dabble in anything artistic and then I also play tennis, and I throw out for our track and field team.

- [Paul] All right, thank you very much, Lucy.

- I do a lot with music as well.

I play flute in our band at school.

- [Paul] Thank you, Lucy, Aubrey.

- I like to stay active, and I participate in field hockey, softball, and wrestling.

- [Paul] All right, thanks Aubrey, and Ajaxx.

- I participate in choir, band, chamber choir, drama club, Scholastic Scrimmage, future teachers of America.

I'm everywhere right now.

Outside of school mostly, though, it's more personal activism.

- Nice, great.

Thank you, Ajaxx.

It was very nice to meet all of you.

Now let's go ahead and begin the third quarter with this toss up question, and it's a short story toss up question.

"The Celtic Twilight", a collection of stories about the Irish beliefs in ghosts, spirits, and fairies, was written by what English poet?

(electronic beeps) Jonah, Hughesville.

- Henry.

- [Paul] Is incorrect, rebound to Mifflinburg.

(electronic beeps) - Chloe.

- William Shakespeare.

- No, William Butler Yates.

Let's go on to a toss up now in chemistry.

This chemical element with an atomic number of 87 was the last of the naturally occurring elements to be discovered.

Name this element that was named after a European country.

(electronic beeps) Reese, Hughesville.

- Francium?

- Is correct and here comes your bonus question now.

She was born as Martha Canary.

Give the popular nickname of this intriguing female who served as a scout for Colonel George Custer and who later appeared in wild West shows until 1902.

- Anne, the girl with the gun, Anne.

- Oh Annie, get your gun?

- No.

- I'm so confused.

(electronic beeps) - Anne.

- No, you're looking for Calamity Jane, Calamity Jane.

Let's go on to a toss up now in novels.

Authors Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan teamed up to write a 2022 novel filled with suspense, an unforgettable love story, and a tangle of secrets.

Olivia McAfee was married to a cardiothoracic surgeon until she became the victim of his darker side.

She divorced her husband, took her son Asher, and went back to her hometown in New Hampshire to take over her father's beekeeping business.

All goes well until her son is arrested and charged with the murder of his girlfriend, Lily Campanellow.

Name this book that centers around both young love and a mother's love.

(electronic beeps) Reese, Hughesville, - "It Ends With Us"?

- [Paul] Is incorrect, rebound now to Mifflinburg.

(electronic beeps) Ajaxx.

- Pass.

- No, that's "Mad Honey", "Mad Honey".

Let's go on to a toss up now that's a potpourri toss up.

This profession has been documented in Egyptian tomb drawings as well as ancient Greek literature.

It involves concentrating the protein casein and milk fat.

Name this profession for which Wisconsin is famous.

(electronic beeps) Jonah, Hughesville.

- Cheese making?

- Is correct, and here comes your bonus question now.

Identify this word that's a synonym for sudden, unexpected, curt, and immediate.

- Sudden, curt, short?

- Surprising?

- Surprise?

(electronic beeps) Surprise.

- No, the answer was abrupt, abrupt.

Let's go on to a toss up now in world geography.

Located on the North Saskatchewan River, it's North America's northernmost large city.

Known as Canada's festival city, it's home to North America's second largest shopping mall.

What is the capital of the Canadian province of Alberta?

(electronic beeps) That city is Edmonton, Edmonton.

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

One of the 12 Olympians, he presided over the sea storms, earthquakes-- (electronic beeps) Chloe, Mifflinburg.

- Poseidon.

- Is correct and here comes your bonus now.

What word having the bio prefix is the name for the scientific theory or hypothesis that states that all living things come only from other living things.

(electronic beeps) - Biology?

- Biogenesis is what we were looking for there.

Let's go on to a toss up in world geography.

This Christian cathedral was built in 532 AD.

It's noted for its huge central dome and Byzantine-- (electronic beeps) Ajaxx, Mifflinburg.

- Notre Dame?

- Is incorrect.

I'll finish the question and rebound it to Hughesville.

Name this cathedral that now serves as a museum in Istanbul, Turkey.

(electronic beeps) - Constantinople?

- No, we're looking for the Hagia Sophia, and that sound that you heard signals the end of the third quarter and another lightning round.

This time Hughesville will pick first.

Your categories are world history or mythology.

- [Jonah] Mythology?

- Okay.

- Mythology.

(electronic beeps) - Mythology.

- Mythology it is, and your time begins after I finish reading the first question.

Name these characters from Greek mythology who ended up in the sky as constellations.

The wife of Perseus and the daughter of Cepheus and Cassiopia.

(electronic beeps) - Andromeda?

- [Paul] Yes, the dragon who guarded the golden apples in the gardens of the Hesperides.

(electronic beeps) - Draco.

- [Paul] Yes, Zeus's bird who retrieved his thunderbolts.

(electronic beeps) - Cyprus.

- [Paul] Aquila, the whale that almost ate Andromeda.

(electronic beeps) - Pass.

- [Paul] Cetus, the hunter who was Artemis' hunting companion.

(electronic beeps) - Orion.

- Yes, the crow that Apollo sent to search for water.

(electronic beeps) - Pass.

- [Paul] Corvus, the winged horse that Zeus used to-- (electronic beeps) - Pegasus.

- [Paul] Yes, the multi-headed water snake that Hercules-- (electronic beeps) - Hydra.

- [Paul] Yes, the bird that dies in a fire but is reborn from its own ashes.

(electronic beeps) - Phoenix.

- [Paul] Yes, the dolphin that was Poseidon's messenger.

(electronic beeps) - Capricorn.

- [Paul] Delphinus, Orion's faithful dog.

(electronic beeps) - Argus.

- [Paul] Sirius, the maiden who Herra turned into a bear.

(electronic beeps) - Virgo, oh, wait Urso.

- Is incorrect.

- Ursa Major.

- Calisto, Calisto.

Okay, Hughesville, you did a great job in that lightning round.

Mifflinburg, we're coming back over to you, and your remaining category will be world history, and once again, your time begins after I finish reading the first question.

Give the main invention that each of these inventors discovered or invented.

Ruth handler.

(electronic beeps) - Pass.

- [Paul] The Barbie doll, Tim Burners Lee.

(electronic beeps) - Pass.

- [Paul] Worldwide Web, Whittcomb Judson.

(electronic beeps) - Pass.

- [Paul] That's the zipper, Elias Howe.

(electronic beeps) - Pass.

- [Paul] Sewing machine, George Washington Carver.

You can pass.

(electronic beeps) - Pass.

- Uses for peanuts, Henry Ford.

(electronic beeps) - Ford cars.

- Yes, James Naismith.

(electronic beeps) - Pass.

- [Paul] That's the game of basketball, Josephine Cochrane.

(electronic beeps) - Pass.

- [Paul] Dishwasher, Wilbur and Orville Wright.

(electronic beeps) - Airplanes.

- Yes, per, oh.

(electronic beeps) We're not gonna get to that last one there.

Still great job in the lightning round, Mifflinburg, and after that, we currently have Hughesville in the lead over Mifflinburg 165 to 40, and we're now going to go ahead and begin the last segment of the game with this toss up question in government.

In the United States, no one can be made to pay to vote or to pay all their back taxes before they vote.

What were these types of required payments called?

(electronic beeps) Jonah, Hughesville.

- Voting taxes?

- Is incorrect, rebound to Mifflinburg.

(electronic beeps) - Monetary compensation?

- No, the answer was poll taxes, poll taxes.

Let's go on to a toss up in mythology.

According to Greek mythology, what King of Athens and Father to Theseus drowned himself in the sea when he mistakenly thought that his son was dead.

(electronic beeps) That was Aegeus.

Here's our next toss up.

It's in theater.

It consists of stalls, circles, and balconies.

The main part of a theater, it also includes the floor area.

(electronic beeps) Jonah, Hughesville.

- The stage?

- Is incorrect.

I'll finish and rebound to Mifflinburg.

Name this part of a theater where the audience sits to view the performance.

(electronic beeps) - The house.

- No, the answer was auditorium, auditorium.

Your next toss up is in computer science.

He worked in the CERN laboratories in Switzerland.

It was there that he developed the worldwide web.

Name this English computer scientist.

(electronic beeps) That was Tim Burners Lee.

Let's go on now to a toss up in cinema.

They usually appear briefly and often in the background.

These actors usually appear in non-speaking roles and are often used to fill busy city streets, movie theaters-- (electronic beeps) Reese, Hughesville.

- Extras.

- Is correct, and here comes your bonus now.

- The gluteus medias, gluteus minimum, and the tensor fasciae latae are examples of these types of muscles that work in sync to enable you to move your legs sideways away from your body center.

What is the general name for these muscles in the hips that, not only draw your legs away from the center line of the body, but also help to rotate the legs in the joint sockets.

- Is it abductors or inductors?

- Abductors.

- Abductors?

(electronic beeps) Okay, abductors.

- Is correct for your bonus points, Hughesville, as we move on to a toss up in dance.

The mazurka is one of five national dances for this country.

It's based on triple meter folk dances.

In what country did the type of dance called the mazurka originate?

(electronic beeps) Ajaxx, Mifflinburg.

- Russia?

- Is incorrect, rebound now to Hughesville.

(electronic beeps) - Ireland?

- Nope, that country is Poland, Poland.

Let's go on to a toss up now in vocabulary.

The statement, all humans are mortal, I am a human, therefore, I am mortal, is an example of what form of deductive reasoning?

(electronic beeps) Jonah, Hughesville.

- Cartesian?

- [Paul] No, rebound to Mifflinburg.

(electronic beeps) Chloe.

- Observation.

- No, we're looking for syllogism, syllogism.

Well, your next toss up is in mythology.

What Norse goddess was the queen of Asgard, the goddess of marriage, motherhood, and the home, and the goddess for which Friday was named?

(electronic beeps) Ajax, Mifflinburg.

- Freya?

- Is incorrect, (electronic beeps) rebound to Hughesville.

Keagan.

- Sif?

- No, we're looking for Frig, Frig.

Let's go on to a toss up in physics now.

What device consisting of one or more pairs of conductors that are separated by an insulator is used to store electric charges or energy?

(electronic beeps) Jonah, Hughesville.

- A battery?

- Is incorrect, rebound to Mifflinburg.

(electronic beeps) (electronic beeps) That is a capacitor, and that sound that you heard means, well, it's the end of the game, and our winner tonight is Hughesville over Mifflinburg, (upbeat pop music) 180 to 40.

Congratulations, Hughesville.

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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