(upbeat music) ♪ Go - 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.

Tonight's match features Hughesville versus Delaware Valley.

Representing Hughesville are Jonah McGinley, Casey Sondheimer, Liam Turnbow, and Quinn Draper.

Their alternates are Keegan Smith and Reese Kirk and their advisor is Tara Holdran.

Representing Delaware Valley are Jackson Hancock, Andrea Del Freo, Owen Corso, Riley Crick, and their alternates are Isabella Hemler and Christopher Fleming.

Their advisor is Robert Curtis.

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 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.

So we'll go ahead and get started now with this toss-up question.

What quantity which equals charge divided by voltage measures the ability of its namesake circuit component to store charge and is given in Farads?

(buzzer beeping) Jonah, Hughesville.

- Capacity.

- [Paul] Judges?

- [Judge] No.

- It is incorrect.

Rebound to Delaware Valley.

(beep) (buzzer beeping) - Amperes?

- No, we are looking for capacitance.

Capacitance.

Let's move on to your next toss-up question.

What school of thought includes the idea of Shial or Filial Piety is (buzzer beeping) Andrea, Delaware Valley.

- Confucianism.

- Is correct.

And your bonus question.

What former governor of California led the commission that investigated the assassination of John F. Kennedy?

(buzzer beeping) - Warren.

- Is correct for your bonus points.

Very good, Delaware Valley.

Let's move on to another toss-up.

What piano piece, subtitled "Quasi Una Fantasia", opens with a repeated C sharp minor arpeggios is by Ludwig van Beethoven and has a nocturnal nickname?

(buzzer beeping) Jonah, Hughesville.

- "Moonlight Sonata".

- Is correct.

And your bonus question now.

What island, whose city of Gander, is the setting of the musical, "Come From Away", contains the provincial capital St. John's and is east of Labrador?

- Why y'all looking at me?

(buzzer beeping) Jamaica?

- No, we're looking for Newfoundland.

Newfoundland.

Let's go to another toss-up question.

What empire, one of whose leaders promoted the syncretic religion Din-i Ilahi, built the Taj Mahal under Shah Jahan (buzzer beeping) Oh, and Delaware Valley.

- India.

- Is incorrect.

I'll finish the question and rebound to Hughesville.

Under Shah Jahan and was led by Akbar the Great?

(buzzer beeping) - The Gupta Empire.

- No, we're looking for the Mogul Empire.

The Mogul Empire.

Here's your next toss-up question.

What constellation contains the teapot asterism as well as the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way and is also called the Archer?

(buzzer beeping) Riley, Delaware Valley.

- Orion.

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Hughesville.

(buzzer beeping) - Sagittarius.

- Is correct for your rebound points, Hughesville.

Let's move to another toss-up.

What artist who depicted marching flies in a hallucinogenic toreador depicted ants on a watch and melting clocks in (buzzer beeping) Jackson, Delaware Valley.

- Salvador Dali.

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question.

What American figure skater, whose parents are from China, is nicknamed the Quad King and won the men's singles gold medal at the 2022 Winter Olympics?

(buzzer beeping) - Adam Skater?

- No.

No, we're looking for Nathan Chen.

Great guess though.

Here's your next toss-up question.

What novel, which depicts Roland Weary's death from gangrene and the firebombing of Dresden from Billy Pilgrim's perspective, is by Kurt Vonnegut?

(buzzer beeping) Riley, Delaware Valley.

- Pass.

- Okay.

Rebound now to Hughesville.

(buzzer beeping) Jonah.

- "Lord of the Flies".

- Nope.

We are looking for "Slaughterhouse Five".

Here's your next toss-up question.

What former mayor of Braddock, who suffered a stroke in May, 2022 (buzzer beeping) Riley, Delaware Valley.

- John Fetterman.

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question.

What process occurs when silver is exposed to sulfur compounds, resulting in a blackish film forming on its surface?

(high pitched beep) (buzzer beeping) - Tarnishing.

- Is correct for your bonus 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.

(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.

Hughesville has won the coin toss and will pick first.

Your categories are French Art Terms or State's Highest Points.

- State's Highest Points.

- Yeah.

(buzzer beeping) - State's Highest Points.

- Yeah, all right, State's Highest Points it is.

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

Given the highest natural point in a US state, name the state.

Denali.

(buzzer beeping) - Montana.

- [Paul] Alaska.

Mount Hood.

(buzzer beeping) - Montana.

- [Paul] Oregon.

Hawkeye Point, which shares its state's nickname.

(buzzer beeping) - Montana.

- [Paul] Iowa.

Mount Katahdin.

(buzzer beeping) - Idaho.

- [Paul] Maine.

Mount Rainier.

(buzzer beeping) - Pennsylvania.

- Washington.

Britain Hill, just south of the Alabama border.

(buzzer beeping) - Pass.

- [Paul] Florida.

Clingmans Dome in the great Smoky Mountains.

(buzzer beeping) - Tennessee.

- [Paul] Yes.

Jerimoth Hill.

Once owned by Brown University.

(buzzer beeping) - Massachusetts.

- [Paul] Rhode Island.

Mount Sunflower, which shares its state's nickname.

(buzzer beeping) Liam.

- Ooh, pass.

- Kansas.

Wheeler Peak, near the town of Taos.

(high pitched beep) That was New Mexico.

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

Delaware Valley, we're coming over to you.

Lucky you guys.

Your topic will be French Art Terms.

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

Given a French term, state whether it primarily applies to ballet, visual art, music, clothing, or none of the above.

Collage.

(buzzer beeping) - Art.

- [Paul] Yes.

Denouement.

(buzzer beeping) - Ballet.

- [Paul] None of the above.

Releve.

(buzzer beeping) - Ballet.

- [Paul] Yes.

Plie.

(buzzer beeping) - Ballet.

- [Paul] Yes.

En plein air.

(buzzer beeping) - Fine Arts.

- [Paul] Yes.

Et tube.

(buzzer beeping) - Music.

- [Paul] Yes.

Haute Couture.

(buzzer beeping) - Music.

- [Paul] Clothing.

Fugue.

(buzzer beeping) - Music.

- Yes.

Pas de bourree.

(buzzer beeping) - Ballet.

- [Paul] Yes.

Le trompe-l'oeil.

(buzzer beeping) - Music.

- Visual Arts.

All right, and that's going to do it for the lightning round.

And after that, we have Delaware Valley in the lead over Hughesville, 75 to 25.

And now we're going to go ahead and begin the second quarter with this toss-up question.

What phenomenon is explained by the icing model, is displayed below the Curie temperature, and is a permanent type of magnetism exhibited by iron?

(buzzer beeping) Andrea, Delaware Valley.

- Ferromagnetism.

- Is correct.

And your bonus question.

What Dutch artist from the De Stijl Movement painted Broadway Boogie Woogie and many works with black lines and primary color rectangles?

(buzzer beeping) - Rothko.

- Nope, we're looking for Piet Mondrian.

Piet Mondrian.

Here's your next toss-up question.

Which king, who was excommunicated by Pope Paul III and who dissolved England's monasteries, had his wives Catherine Howard (buzzer beeping) Riley, Delaware Valley.

- Henry VIII.

- Is correct.

And your bonus question.

What service, which has been used in Ukraine since Russia invaded, is a broadband internet service developed by SpaceX using satellites in low orbit?

(buzzer beeping) - Starlink.

- Is correct for your bonus points.

Very good, Delaware Valley.

Let's move on to another toss-up question.

What surname is shared by a woman whose 1971 album "Pearl" includes "Me and Bobby McGee?"

(buzzer beeping) Riley, Delaware Valley.

- Joplin.

- Is correct.

And your bonus question.

What type of eye, which is common among arthropods, is composed of thousands of ommatidia that each have their own lens?

- Compound.

- Compound.

(buzzer beeping) Compound.

- Compound eye is correct for your bonus points.

Very good, Delaware Valley.

Here's your next toss-up.

What title monarch is relieved to learn of the death of Polybus in a play by Sophocles, but blinds himself after realizing (buzzer beeping) Riley, Delaware Valley.

- Pass.

- Okay, I'll finish the question and rebound to Hughesville.

Realizing he married his own mother?

(buzzer beeping) - Oedipus.

- [Paul] Judges?

- [Judge] Yes.

- That is correct for your rebound points, Hughesville.

Let's go to another toss-up.

And for this, get your pencils and papers out.

What is the length of the longer leg of a right triangle with a hypotenuse of 17, whose shorter leg has a length of eight?

(beep) Okay, we were looking for 15.

15.

Here's your next toss-up.

What human character titles crossover series in which he fights a kingdom war with the rabbits and takes part (buzzer beeping) Riley, Delaware Valley.

- Mario.

- Is correct.

And your bonus question.

What poet, whose poem "Old Iron Sides" helped encourage the preservation of the USS Constitution, had a son who was a Supreme Court Justice?

(buzzer beeping) - Robert.

- Nope, we're looking for Oliver Wendell Holmes.

Here's your next toss-up question.

What creature who lived at the Spring of Amymone was defeated with Iolaus's help during the second labor of Hercules, who (buzzer beeping) Jonah, Hughesville.

- The Hydra.

- Is correct.

And your bonus question.

What strongman deposed Patrice Lumumba in 1960 at the beginning of the Congo Crisis and became Zaire's dictator for 32 years?

(buzzer beeping) - Steve.

- Close.

We are looking for Mobutu Sese Seko.

Here's your next toss-up question.

What man, who surrendered his driver's license after a 2019 crash (high pitched beep) near Sandringham, was ceremonially reinterred in 2022 next to his wife Elizabeth II?

(buzzer beeping) Jonah, Hughesville.

- Philip.

- Is correct.

And your bonus question.

What term from the Greek for study of houses refers to the study of how organisms interact with their environments?

(buzzer beeping) - Ecology.

- Is correct for your bonus points, Hughesville.

Great job.

And that sound that you heard means, well, it's halftime and we're 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 Jonah, I'll come to you first.

Something tells me you're prepared for this.

Tell me what your plans are after high school.

- Well, I've been thinking about it a lot lately as, you know, like, there's so many options I can go into, but I'm really thinking about trying to find the Lost City of Atlantis.

It's somewhere out there.

- [Paul] It has to be.

- Just nobody's seen it.

- [Paul] Well, it has to be there.

- I could be the first.

- Well, I think you will.

Good luck with that.

Let me know how it goes.

Casey, how about you?

- I think my answer's a little bit more bland.

I think I just wanna go to college and get a good job.

- Okay, all right.

Two extremes right there.

All right, that's cool.

Liam, how about you?

- Hopefully pursue a major in aerospace engineering.

And that's about it.

- Okay.

Hey, that's a great field to go into.

And Quinn?

- To pursue my life goal of saving as many lives as I can.

- Okay, all right.

You said at the beginning of the show, before, we were talking and you said you wanted to be an evil villain, but.

So you changed your answer on me?

- A little bit.

- Okay.

Good luck the rest of the way, Hughesville, I appreciate it.

Delaware Valley, coming over to you.

Jackson, what are your plans post high school?

- I plan to go to college for botany.

- Okay, study of plans.

Excellent.

Andrea?

- I was thinking about publishing my own book.

- [Paul] Okay.

Any particular genre?

- Probably science fiction.

- [Paul] Okay, really cool.

Owen?

- After high school, I plan to attend a four-year liberal arts college to major in English and history.

- [Paul] All right, excellent.

And Riley?

- I'd like to go to college and study computer science.

- All right.

Excellent.

Excellent.

It was very nice to meet all of you again.

After one half of play, we currently have Delaware Valley in the lead over Hughesville, 125 to 60.

And we're now going to begin the third quarter with this toss-up question.

What Roman Emperor convened the first council of Nicaea, converted to Christianity (buzzer beeping) Riley, Delaware Valley.

- Constantine.

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question.

What photographer's essay "The Assignment I'll Never Forget" describes how she made the 1936 portrait "Migrant Mother"?

(buzzer beeping) - Georgia O'Keeffe.

- No, we're looking for Dorothea Lang.

Dorothea Lang.

Here's your next toss-up question.

What island is home to the Space Force's Thule Air Base, which is 750 miles north of the Arctic Circle and is a large island belonging to Denmark.

(buzzer beeping) Andrea, Delaware Valley.

- Greenland.

- Is correct.

Your bonus question now.

New Year's Eve in New Orleans features the dropping of a six foot tall version of what symbol of French kings also used in the logo (buzzer beeping) Andrea.

- Fleur de lis.

- Fleur de lis is correct for your bonus points.

Very good, Del Val.

Let's go to another toss-up question.

What taxonomic class whose name ends in S contains the slow loris and the lemur as well as a larger species including chimpanzees and humans?

(buzzer beeping) Andrea, Delaware Valley - Homos.

- [Paul] Is incorrect.

Rebound to Hughesville.

(buzzer beeping) - Apes.

- Is incorrect.

We were looking for primates.

Primates.

Here's your next toss-up.

In 2022, what celebrity agreed to pay the SEC $1.2 million over her promotion of Ethereum Max tokens and also divorced her husband, Kanye West?

(buzzer beeping) Liam, Hughesville.

- Kim Kardashian.

- Is correct.

And your bonus question now.

Nazi soldier Corporal Lankes puts artistic decorations on concrete bunkers in what Gunter Grass novel narrated by Danzig native, Oskar Matzerath?

(buzzer beeping) - "Christmas in Nazi Germany".

- No, we're looking for "The Tin Drum".

"The Tin Drum".

Here's your next toss-up question.

What event which led to Husband Kimmel being relieved of command after the sinking of the USS Arizona was a 1941 Japanese sneak (buzzer beeping) Riley, Delaware Valley.

- The attack on Pearl Harbor.

- Is correct.

And your bonus question.

In 1973, Salvador Allende was killed in a coup led by what right wing general who then ruled Chile until 1990?

- We had another question.

I don't know this one.

(buzzer beeping) - Bernardo O'Higgins.

- No, we're looking for Augusto Pinochet.

Let's go to another toss-up.

What product often contains clay to increase its opacity, is made from suspension called pulp, and consists of (buzzer beeping) Riley, Delaware Valley.

- Juice.

- Is incorrect.

I'll finish the question.

Rebound to Hughesville.

Consists of cellulose fibers in a flat sheet?

(buzzer beeping) Jonah.

- Paper.

- Is correct for your rebound points, Hughesville.

Let's go to another toss-up question.

The Horror Writers Association presents awards named for what Irish author who described Jonathan Harker's trip to Transylvania in the novel "Dracula"?

(buzzer beeping) Riley, Delaware Valley.

- Bram Stoker.

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question.

A group of football clubs called the Old Firm are based in what most populous city in Scotland?

- Edinburgh.

- Edinburgh.

(buzzer beeping) - Edinburgh.

- No, we're looking for Glasgow.

Glasgow.

Here's another toss-up question.

What type of monument, such as European dolmen tables and the Moai sculptures on Easter Island (high pitched beep) is named for being constructed from large stones?

(buzzer beeping) Jackson, Delaware Valley.

- Sculpture.

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Hughesville.

(buzzer beeping) - A carving.

- No, we were looking for megalith or megalithic.

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

(electricity buzzing) This time Delaware Valley will pick first.

Your categories are Tigers or DG Words.

- DG words.

- DG words it is.

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

Give these words that contain the consecutive letters D and G, in that order.

To evade an oncoming hazard.

(buzzer beeping) - Dodge.

- [Paul] Yes.

A thick milky gruel.

(buzzer beeping) - Porridge.

- [Paul] Yes.

A small useful device.

(buzzer beeping) - Gadget.

- [Paul] Yes.

To shorten or abbreviate a text.

(buzzer beeping) - Abridge.

- [Paul] Yes.

Fat, especially on the belly.

(buzzer beeping) - Blubber.

- [Paul] Pudge.

A small club or a blunt weapon.

(buzzer beeping) - Pass - [Paul] Cudgel.

Boring, pedantic, and old fashioned.

(buzzer beeping) - Curmudgeon.

- Stodgy.

A type of long bladed rush-like grass.

(buzzer beeping) - Pass.

- [Paul] That's sedge grass.

To make small movements impatiently.

(buzzer beeping) - Fidget.

- [Paul] Yes.

Colorful Australian parakeet.

(buzzer beeping) - Budgie.

- Is correct.

And that's going to do it for your portion of the second lightning round, Delaware Valley.

Great job.

Hughesville, we're gonna come over to you and your remaining category will be Tigers.

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

Answer the following about tigers.

Apple computers whose OS had a tiger edition?

(buzzer beeping) Liam.

- MacBook.

- [Paul] Judges?

- [Judge] Yes.

- [Paul] Yes.

Culture, whose Zodiac has the tiger as the third sign.

(buzzer beeping) - Chinese.

- [Paul] Yes.

11 time PGA Player of the Year.

(buzzer beeping) - Tiger Woods.

- [Paul] Yes.

Cereal whose mascot is Tony the Tiger.

(buzzer beeping) - Frosted Flakes.

- [Paul] Yes.

TV family from the 1970s that had a dog named Tiger.

(buzzer beeping) - The Brady Bunch.

- [Paul] Yes.

Title alternative to the tiger in a Frank Stockton story.

(buzzer beeping) - Pass.

- The lady.

ACC school whose teams are the Tigers.

(buzzer beeping) - LSU.

- [Paul] Clemson.

Country home to the Tamil Tigers.

(buzzer beeping) - India.

- [Paul] Sri Lanka.

Genus containing tigers and lions.

(buzzer beeping) - Big kitty cats.

- [Paul] Panthera.

2001 novel that features a tiger named Richard Parker.

(buzzer beeping) - Pass.

- That was "Life of Pi".

And after that, that's going to conclude the second lightning round.

And we see Delaware Valley in the lead over Hughesville 200 to 105.

And we'll now begin the last quarter of the game with this toss-up question.

What programming language whose zen can be shown via the command import this uses white space to define structure and is named for a comedy troupe?

(buzzer beeping) Liam, Hughesville.

- Python.

- Is correct.

And your bonus question.

What female leader of the right wing National Rally party lost the 2017 and 2022 French presidential elections to Emmanuel Macron.

- Y'all know French people?

(buzzer beeping) Foie gras.

- No, we're looking for Marine Le Pen.

Marine Le Pen.

Here's your next toss-up question.

What prime minister who was freed in the Gran Sasso Raid signed the Lateran Treaty with the Vatican in 1929 and led (buzzer beeping) Jackson, Delaware Valley.

- Benito Mussolini.

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question.

What English metaphysical poet reflected on illness and faith in his 1624 book, "Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions", which claimed no man is an island?

(buzzer beeping) - Kermit the frog.

- We're looking for John Dunn.

Let's go to another toss-up.

What people in the Bible, whose champion was the six cubit and a span Goliath, were killed when pillars (buzzer beeping) - The Philistines - Quinn, Hughesville is correct, Philistines.

Let's go to a bonus question.

Iraqi forces deliberately set over 600 oil wells on fire during Iraq's 1990 invasion of what country, which prompted the first Gulf War?

- Kuwait.

- Say it.

(buzzer beeping) - Kuwait.

- Is correct for your bonus points.

Very good, Hughesville.

Here's your next toss-up.

What country, whose cities include Nieuw Nickerie, is east of Guyana and is a former Dutch colony in South America, whose capital (buzzer beeping) - Suriname.

- [Paul] Jackson, Delaware Valley.

- Sorry, Suriname.

- Yes, that is correct.

And here's your bonus question.

What principle, which explains the Venturi effect, relates a fluid's increase in speed to a decrease in its potential energy or pressure?

(buzzer beeping) - Viscosity.

- No, we're looking for Bernoulli's Principle.

Let's move on to another toss-up question.

What activist, who in 1872 refused to pay a $100 fine for voting, worked with (buzzer beeping) Jackson, Delaware Valley.

- Susan B. Anthony - Is correct.

And your bonus question.

What work with long runs of 16th notes is part of an opera by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and depicts a princess transformation into the title animal?

(buzzer beeping) - "Flight of the Bumblebee".

- Is correct for your bonus points, Del Val.

Here comes another toss-up.

What author, to whom poet John Berryman wrote an homage, wrote, "If ever two were one, then surely we" in her poem, "To My Dear and Loving Husband"?

(buzzer beeping) - Emily Dickinson.

- Is incorrect.

We'll rebound now to Delaware Valley.

(buzzer beeping) Riley.

- Mary Shelley.

- No, we're looking for Anne Bradstreet.

Anne Bradstreet.

Here's your next toss-up question.

What unit originally defined as one 10,000,000th of the distance from the North Pole to the equator is an SI base unit slightly longer than a yard?

(buzzer beeping) Jackson, Delaware Valley.

- Meter.

- [Paul] Is correct.

- Oh.

- And your bonus question.

What term for a shallow body of water separated by a narrow landmass from a larger body of water comes from the name for the one surrounding Venice?

(buzzer beeping) - Straight.

- No, we're looking for lagoon.

Lagoon.

Here's your next toss-up question.

What character created by Derek Kolstad is declared excommunicado from the Continental?

(buzzer beeping) Andrea, Delaware Valley.

- John Wick.

- Is correct.

(high pitched beep) And your bonus question.

In 1967, astronauts Gus Grissom, Roger Chaffee, and Ed White were killed when which spacecraft caught fire at Florida's Kennedy Space Center?

(buzzer beeping) - Apollo 3.

- We're looking for Apollo 1.

Apollo 1.

And that's the end of the game.

And our winner tonight is Delaware Valley over Hughesville, 255 to 130.

Congratulations, Delaware Valley, you're going to be moving on.

And we hope to see you next time on another match of Scholastic Scrimmage.

I'm your host Paul Lazar, and thank you for watching.

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