(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 1, 3 or 5,000 dollars.

Tonight's match features Forest City versus Carbondale.

Representing Forest City are Caelum Cahoon, Arcadia Howman, Emily Frisbie, and Collin Bailer.

Their alternates are Yingjie Chen and Kaylyn Peck and their advisor is Andrew Trotter.

Representing Carbondale are Jocelyn Brown, Molly Kelly, Kylie Kelly and Megan Cosklo.

Their advisor is Samantha Masco.

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 go ahead and get started with this tossup question and get your pencils and papers ready.

What is the volume of a right circular cone whose height and radius are both three, given the formula has a one third constant?

(beep sounding) Ran out of time there, we're looking for 9 pi.

Let's move on to another tossup.

What title character kills Glauce and escapes on a flying chariot in a Euripides play about the end of this woman's marriage to the Greek hero Jason?

(beep sounding) No takers there.

That's Medea and not Tyler Perry's Medea.

Let's go on to another tossup question.

What former colony which experienced an exodus of Pied-Noir after 1961's Evian Accords, won independence in a brutal war with France in North Africa?

(beep sounding) Okay, that's Algeria.

Let's go on now to another tossup.

What theologian who heard children singing Tolle Lege prompting him to leave Manichaeism was a bishop of Hippo who wrote "Confessions" in AD 397?

(buzzer beeps) Kylie, Carbondale.

- Kane.

- Is incorrect, Rebound to Forest City.

(beep sounding) Okay, we're looking for Saint Augustine.

Let's move on now to another tossup.

What linear tri-atomic molecule has a solid form known as dry ice, is the primary contributor to the greenhouse effect and has molecular formula CO2?

(buzzers beeps) Collin, Forest city.

- Carbon dioxide.

- Is correct and here comes your bonus question.

What German renaissance artist showed a contemplative angel in his engraving Melencolia I?

(beep sounding) That was Albrecht Durer.

Here's your next tossup.

What King, who was imprisoned at Durnstein Castle by Leopold the fifth, fought the third crusade and had an animal inspired moniker commemorating his courage.

(buzzer beeps) Kylie, Carbondale.

- King George.

- Is incorrect, rebound to Forest City.

(beep sounding) Okay, that's Richard, the lion hearted.

Let's go now to another tossup.

What book in which a human boy named Sam Beaver protects a nest full of eggs was written by E.B.

White about a bird who plays the title instrument.

(buzzers beeps) Emily, Forest city.

- "Trumpet of the Swan."

- Is correct, and here comes your bonus question.

What country's 2024 elections, which have been delayed for nine years, will include President Salva Kiir who has led it since its 2011 Independence?

(buzzer beeps) Caelum.

- Is that Israel?

- No, we're looking for South Sudan.

South Sudan.

Let's go on now to another tossup.

What river who's tributaries include the Ubangi flows past the capital cities of Brazzaville and Kinshasa in two namesake (beep sounding) central African countries?

(buzzer beeps) Megan, Carbondale.

- The Nile River.

- Is incorrect, rebound to Forest City.

(beep sounding) Okay, that river is the Congo River.

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

(electricity buzzing) 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.

Forest City has won the coin toss and will pick first.

Your categories are the Aeneid or 1990s Britain.

(students chattering) - We're gonna do 1990s Britain.

- Alright, 1990s Britain it is, and your time begins after I finish reading the first question.

Answer the following about the United Kingdom in the 1990s.

River that runs past Canary Wharf in London.

You don't know, you can pass.

- Pass.

- [Paul] The Thames.

Labor Prime Minister elected in 1997.

- Pass.

- [Paul] Tony Blair.

Iron lady ousted as prime minister in 1990.

Emily.

- Margaret Thatcher.

- [Paul] Yes, princess who died in a Paris car crash.

- Diana.

Princess Diana.

- Yes, language given co-equal status with English, in Cardiff.

- Pass.

- [Paul] Welsh.

12 member entity created by the Maastricht Treaty.

(buzzers beeps) - Is that the Council of the Lords?

- European Union.

House of Parliament from which most hereditary peers were removed in 1999.

(beep sounding) That was the House of Lords.

Alright, Forest City that's gonna wrap up your portion of the lightning round.

Carbondale, we're coming over to you and your remaining category will be the Aeneid.

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

Answer the following about the Aeneid, the language in which it was written?

(buzzer beeps) Molly.

- Greek.

- [Paul] Latin.

Its author?

You don't know, you can pass.

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- [Paul] That's Virgil.

It's protagonist Aeneas is a prince of this city.

- Pass.

- [Paul] Troy.

It's first line is commonly translated as of blank and the man I sing.

(buzzer beeps) Megan.

- Love.

- Arms.

It begins in this city ruled by Queen Dido.

- Pass.

- [Paul] That's Carthage.

Aeneas reaches this river on whose banks Rome now stands.

(buzzer beeps) - Arno.

- Tiber.

Aeneas' journey is complicated by this goddess, Jupiter's wife.

- Pass.

- That was Juno.

(beep sounding) And that's going to do it for the lightning round.

And after that we currently have Forest City in the lead over Carbondale, 30 to 0.

And we're now going to go ahead and begin the next quarter with this tossup question.

In July, 2023, what country led by Ulf Kristersson overcame objections from Turkey to its joining NATO three months after its neighbor Finland joined?

(buzzer beeping) Kylie, Carbondale.

- Poland.

- [Paul] Is incorrect, rebound to Forest City.

(buzzer beeping) - Norway.

- Nope, we're looking for Sweden.

Let's move on to another tossup question.

What country was forced into the normalization period by Warsaw Pact troops after Alexander Dubcek led a reform movement known as the Prague Spring?

(buzzer beeping) Caelum, Forest City, - I'd guess Prague.

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Carbondale.

(buzzer beeping) - Portugal.

- Nope, Czechoslovakia was what we were looking for.

Let's move on to another tossup question.

What artist who organized dismal land, a parody of Disneyland, created the girl with balloon stencils and is an anonymous English street artist?

(beep sounding) That was Banksy, Banksy.

Let's go on now to another tossup.

What product suddenly appears in six stone jars at the start of John chapter two during the wedding at Kana in the first miracle of Jesus who transforms water?

Emily, Forest City.

(buzzer beeping) - Wine.

- Is correct, and here comes your bonus.

What NASA space probe carried an instrument named Ralph, which was used to produce images of Pluto during a 2015 fly by?

(beep sounding) Okay, that's New Horizons.

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

What is the product of 4,000 times 3000 given that a thousand thousands is equivalent to a million?

(buzzer beeping) Caelum, Forest City.

- 12 million.

- Is correct, and here comes your bonus question.

Suborning refers to the practice of persuading another person to commit what crime that includes lying while under oath.

(beep sounding) That answer was perjury, perjury.

Let's go to another tossup.

What 2015 film based on an Andy Weir novel is titled for botanist and astronaut Mark Watney played by Matt Damon who is stranded on the red planet?

(buzzer beeping) Kylie, Carbondale.

- Mars.

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Forest City.

(beep sounding) You had the right place, it was "The Martian," "The Martian."

Let's go to another tossup question here.

What woman who was sold into a marriage to Toussaint Charbonneau, was a Shoshone interpreter who assisted the Lewis and Clark expedition?

Emily, Forest City.

- Sacagawea.

- Is correct.

And let's move on to a bonus question.

The second and fourth quantum numbers for electrons in an atom correspond to the spin and orbital types of what classical quantity?

(buzzer beeping) Caelum.

- Electrons?

- Nope, we're looking for angular momentum, angular momentum.

Let's move on to your next tossup question, (beep sounding) which we will get to in the next quarter because that sound that you heard signals the end of the first half 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.

And we'll start with the students from Forest City.

Caelum, I'll come to you first.

What are your plans after graduation?

- I think I'm gonna head to a, want a military academy, whether it be the Air Force Academy or West Point to study a type of engineering.

- [Paul] That's excellent, good luck.

- [Caelum] Thank you.

- Arcadia?

- I wanna go to college for interior design.

- [Paul] Very cool.

Emily?

- I wish to study history.

- [Paul] Okay, and Collin.

- I'm gonna go to college to study statistics.

- Alright, excellent.

Good luck the rest of the way Forest City.

Carbondale, coming over to you.

And Jocelyn, if you wouldn't mind telling us what your plans are after graduation?

- To go to college for dermatology.

- [Paul] Excellent, Molly?

- To go to college for biology on a pre-med track.

- [Paul] Oh that's wonderful, Kylie?

- To go to college for molecular and cell biology on the pre-med track.

- [Paul] Okay, and Megan?

- I plan on going to aviation school with hopes to become an airline pilot.

- Wow, lots of smart people in the room today.

Very nice to meet you.

So now let's go ahead and begin the third quarter with this tossup question.

What animal with extinct Caspian and Bali species and an endangered Bengal species is the largest feline species and is known for its black stripes?

(buzzer beeping) Megan, Carbondale.

- A zebra.

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Forest City, Emily.

- A tiger.

- Tiger is correct for your rebound points Forest City.

And let's move on to another tossup.

What last name is shared by the singer of "I got you," who's known as the godfather of soul and an abolitionist who led a raid on Harper's Ferry?

(beep sounding) That's Brown.

Alright, let's move on now to another tossup question.

What opera whose arias include 'Che gelida manina' is about an ill seamstress who falls in love with Rodolfo and was written by Giacomo Puccini?

(beep sounding) That opera is La Boheme.

Here's your next tossup question.

What phenomenon, whose far field type can be explained by Huygens principle, can be caused by an aperture and involves light bending around an object?

(buzzer beeping) Caelum, Forest City.

- Refraction.

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Carbondale.

(beep sounding) You were close.

We're looking for diffraction, diffraction.

Here's your next tossup question.

What novel in which the note Goodbye, because I love you, is left by Robert Lebron ends with a drowning of Edna Pontellier and is by Kate Chopin?

(beep sounding) That's Green Eggs and Ham.

Wait, no, that's "The Awakening," "The Awakening."

Here's your next tossup question.

What driver of the number 22 car co-sponsored by Pennzoil is the youngest man to win a sprint cup race and won the 2022 NASCAR Cup series championship?

(buzzer beeping) Collin, Forest City.

- Joey Logano.

- Is correct, and here comes your bonus question.

In a common birth defect, the two halves of what structure located above the tongue failed to properly join together.

connecting the mouth and nose?

(buzzer beeping) - The palate.

- Palate is correct for your bonus points, Forest City.

And we're gonna move on now to another tossup.

What solid material forms when updrafts and downdrafts and clouds cause cycles of refreezing and can occur as precipitation the size of golf ball.

Kylie, Carbondale.

- Hale.

- Is correct, and here comes your bonus question.

What saxophonist who recorded ornithology with Benny Harris pioneered bebop and was nicknamed bird?

(buzzer beeping) Kylie?

- Michael.

- No, we're looking for Charlie Parker.

Let's go to another tossup question.

What country where two pilots died when a fire extinguishing plane crashed in Evia was the site of 2023 Wildfires in Corfu, Corinthia and Rhodes.

(buzzer beeping) Kylie, Carbondale.

- Australia.

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Forest City.

(buzzer beeping) Caelum?

- Canada.

- Nope, we are looking for Greece.

Here's your next tossup.

What author of the dystopian science fiction novels "Klara and the Sun" and "Never Let me Go" is a 2017 Nobel laureate (beep sounding) who moved to Britain from Japan?

(beep sounding) That's Kazuo Ishiguro.

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

(electricity buzzing) This time Carbondale will pick first.

Your categories are foreign language names or tens.

(students chattering) - Tens.

- Tens it is.

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

Answer the following about the number 10.

10th month of the Gregorian calendar - Pass.

- [Paul] October, founding father depicted on the $10 bill.

(buzzer beeping) - Ben Franklin.

- [Paul] Alexander Hamilton, a period of 10 years.

(buzzer beeping) Jocelyn.

- Decade.

- [Paul] Yes.

Either Old Testament book that lists the 10 Commandments, - The Bible?

- Exodus or Deuteronomy.

Type of number that includes 10, 15 and 21.

- Odd.

- [Paul] Triangular.

Street whose number 10 is home to the British Prime Minister.

- Passed - [Paul] Downing Street.

10th President whose name followed Tippecanoe in a slogan.

- Passed.

- That's John Tyler.

(beep sounding) Alright, Carbondale, that's going to do it for your portion of the lightning round.

Now Forest City, we're coming over to you and your remaining category will be foreign language names.

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

Given a language's name for itself such as La France, give the English name of that language such as French, Espanol.

(buzzer beeping) Emily.

- Spanish.

- [Paul] Yes.

Ruski.

- Russian.

- [Paul] Yes, Netherlands.

- Dutch.

- [Pau] Yes.

Al arabia.

- Arabian.

- [Paul] No, Arabic.

Nihongo.

- Pass.

- [Paul] That's Japanese.

Magyar.

(buzzer beeping) - Israeli.

- Hungarian.

Norsk.

- Is that Norse?

- [Paul] Norwegian.

Putonghua.

- Pass.

- It's Mandarin, Chinese.

Hellenica.

- Pass.

- [Paul] Greek.

Ivrit.

- Pass.

- [Paul] Okay, and that's Hebrew.

And that's going to do it for our second lightning round.

And after that we currently have Forest City in the lead over Carbondale 100 to 15.

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

What creatures whose kings rule over the four seas surrounding China are auspicious beings honored in a boat festival and resemble serpents?

(buzzer beeping) Caelum, Forest City.

- Eels - [Paul] Is incorrect, rebound to Carbondale.

(buzzer beeping) - Shark.

- Nope, we're looking for dragon.

Let's go to another tossup.

What battle whose victors were commanded by Eurybiades of Sparta and Themistocles, was a major naval victory for the Greeks over Persia in 480 BC?

(beep sounding) That was the battle of Salamis, the battle of Salamis.

Here's your next tossup.

What novella's protagonist dreams of lions on an African beach praises the great Damaggio and is a fisherman named Santiago who catches a big marlin.

(beep sounding) That's "The old man and the sea" by Ernest Hemmingway.

Let's go to another tossup.

What tiny objects, which act as particles based on their vibration lend their name to a theory of everything and are named for their rope like form.

(buzzer beeping) Molly, Carbondale.

- DNA.

- Is incorrect, rebound to Forest City.

(buzzer beeping) Caelum.

- Amino acids.

- No, we're looking for string or string theory.

Here's your next tossup.

What project led by General Leslie Groves was based at the Oak Ridge Laboratory and conducted the Trinity test after creating the first atomic bomb?

Caelum, Forest City.

- The Manhattan Project.

- Is correct and here comes your bonus.

What term named for a mythical youth whose body was forcibly joined with that of the nymph Salmacis describes a being with male and female organs.

(beep sounding) That's hermaphrodite.

Let's go to another tossup.

What 1824 musical works sometimes nicknamed Coral has a fourth movement celebrating Universal Brotherhood using Friedrich Schiller's Ode to Joy.

(beep sounding) That's Beethoven's ninth.

Here's your next tossup.

What state, which is nicknamed the last best place contains Glacier National Park and the little Bighorn battlefield site and is led from Helena?

(buzzer beeping) Kylie, Carbondale.

- Utah - Is incorrect.

Rebound to Forest City.

Collin.

- Alaska.

- No, we are looking for Montana.

Let's go to another tossup.

For a hyperbola, what points have a tangent parallel to the conjugate axis are a semi major access away from the center and are the tips of branches?

Caelum, Forest City.

- The end positions.

- Is incorrect.

Rebound now to Carbondale.

(buzzer beeping) Kylie.

- Points?

- No.

The answer we were looking for was vertex or vertices.

Here's your next tossup.

What's Senator who led negotiations with Joe Manchin to pass the Inflation Reduction Act is from New York and is the Senate majority leader?

(beep sounding) That's Charles Schumer, AKA, Chuck Schumer.

And that's the end of the game.

And our winner tonight is Forest City over Carbondale 110 to 15.

Congratulations Forest City, 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 thanks for watching.

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