(collegiate music) ♪ Go - Welcome to the 17th season of WVIA's "Scholastic Scrimmage."

I'm your host, Regina Myers.

"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 Lewisburg.

Representing Hughesville is Jadyn McGinley, Xavier Kogan Blake Boyer and their captain, Emma Friedhoff.

Their alternates are Liam Turnbow and Jonah McGinley and their advisor is Tara Holdren.

Representing Lewisburg is Hazel Bonapani, Sophia Martin, Henry Rovnak, and their captain is Tori VanderHyde.

Their alternates are Tim Coughlan and Gabriela Rosenberg and their advisor is Michael Krieger.

"Scholastic Scrimmage" is a game of rapid recall of factual information.

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 will be given the toss-up points but will not receive a bonus question.

Let's get started with our first toss-up.

What novel opens during the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, centers on Esther Greenwood who gets shock treatments and is by Sylvia Plath?

(buzzer) It is "The Bell Jar."

Toss-up.

What battles in which militia defended Northbridge from Thomas Gage begin with "The shot heard heard 'round the world" and started the Rev.

(buzzer) - Blake, Hughesville?

- Lexington?

- [Regina] And?

- Concord?

- Correct.

And your bonus.

What Caribbean Island, whose town of Codrington was evacuated following Hurricane Irma in 2017, forms a nation along with Antigua?

(buzzer) Blake?

- Haiti?

- Haiti is incorrect.

It is Barbuda.

Toss-up.

What 2012 novel which depicts a visit to the Anne Frank House where a first kiss is shared by Gus Waters and Hazel Lancaster is by John Green?

(buzzer) Hazel?

No answer?

- "Fault In Our Stars."

- "Fault In Our Stars" is correct answer, Hazel and your bonus.

What language whose dialects included East Midlands was used in the 14th century to write "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" and "The Canterbury Tales?"

(buzzer) The correct answer is middle English.

Toss-up.

What color names a type of object described by Planck's Law and the Stefan-Boltzmann law, which is a type of body that absorbs all incident radiation.

(buzzer) Henry.

- Black hole?

- Black is correct answer, Henry and your bonus, pencil paper ready.

For what value of X does X factorial equal 720?

(buzzer) Henry.

- Six?

- Six is correct answer for your bonus points.

Toss-up.

What group, which tarred and feathered John Malcolm in 1774, organized the Boston Tea Party under.

(buzzer) Tori?

- Sons of Liberty?

- Sons of Liberty, Tori's correct answer and your bonus, Lewisburg.

In what city did Nury Martinez resign as city council president in October 2022 after audio leaked of racist remarks she made?

(buzzer) That would be Los Angeles.

Toss-up.

What company which canceled the stablecoin Diem, owns Reality Labs which makes the virtual reality technology Oculus and has led?

(buzzer) Xavier, Hughesville.

- Meta?

- Meta's correct answer and your bonus.

Andrew Jackson led the United States forces in the first of three wars against what native American tribal group in Florida?

(buzzer) Jadyn.

- The Navajo?

- Navajo is incorrect.

It is Seminoles.

Toss-up.

What term which applies to the Bhikhu in Buddhism, who wear orange robes, names a D&D class that uses key points and aesthetic person?

(buzzer) Blake, Hughesville.

- Monk?

- Monk is correct answer and your bonus.

Actresses of different ages play aspiring monarch Rhaenyra Targaryen on what HBO show that debuted in 2022?

(buzzer) Emma?

- "Vikings" - Is incorrect.

It is "House of the Dragon."

That is 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.

Hughesville has won the coin toss and will pick first.

Your categories are rocks or paintings.

The time begins when I finish reading the first question.

- Rocks.

- Rocks.

Identify whether these rocks are classified as igneous, metamorphic or sedimentary.

Sandstone?

(buzzer) Emma.

- Sedimentary.

- [Regina] Correct.

Granite?

(buzzer) Emma.

- Igneous?

- [Regina] Correct.

Shale?

(buzzer) Xavier.

- Metamorphic?

- [Regina] Sedimentary.

Marble?

(buzzer) Emma.

- Metamorphic?

- [Regina] Correct.

Basalt?

(buzzer) Emma.

- Igneous?

- Correct.

Limestone?

(buzzer) Emma.

Sedimentary?

- [Regina] Correct.

Nice.

(buzzer) Emma.

- Metamorphic?

- [Regina] Correct.

Phyllite?

(buzzer) Emma.

- Igneous?

- [Regina] Metamorphic.

Gabbro.

(buzzer) Emma.

- Sedimentary?

- [Regina] Igneous.

Coquina.

(buzzer) Emma.

- Metamorphic.

- Sedimentary.

Moving over to our team from Lewisburg.

Your category is paintings.

Give the missing English language word that completes the title of these paintings.

Vincent VanGogh's "The Starry" blank.

(buzzer) - Night.

- [Regina] Correct.

Leonardo da Vinci's The Last blank.

(buzzer) - Supper.

- [Regina] Correct.

Salvador Dali's The Persistence of blank (buzzer) - Remembrance?

- [Regina] I'm sorry?

- Remembrance.

- [Regina] Remembrance is incorrect, it is memory.

Michelangelo's The Creation of blank (buzzer) - Adam?

- [Regina] Correct.

Grant Woods American blank (buzzer) - Pass.

- Sophia.

It is gothic.

Jan Vermeer's Girl with a pearl blank.

(buzzer) - Earring?

- [Regina] Correct.

Raphael's The School of blank.

- Athens?

- Correct.

Emanuel Leutze's Washington Crossing the blank.

(buzzer) Hazel?

- Charleston?

- [Regina] Is incorrect.

It is Delaware.

Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly blank.

(buzzer) - Wonders?

- Delights.

Eugene Delacroix's Liberty Leading the blank.

(buzzer) - People.

- People is correct answer.

That's the end of our Lightning Round.

So let's take a look at our score.

We currently have Hughesville with 60 points and Lewisburg with 65 points.

We're going to move into the second quarter with this toss-up question.

What mathematical things, whose telescoping type can be simplified by cancellation, include the divergent harmonic one and are the sum of a sequence?

(buzzer) Jadyn, Hughesville.

- Sigma.

- Sigma is incorrect.

Rebound to Lewisburg.

(buzzer) It is a series.

Toss-up.

What ordinal number refers to the scale degree that is the root of a dominant chord as well as the perfect interval between a C and the G above it.

(buzzer) Jadyn.

- An octave?

- [Regina] Octave is incorrect.

Rebound to Lewisburg.

(buzzer) Henry?

- A third?

- A third is incorrect, it is a fifth.

Toss-up.

Who-man was the subject of proclamation 4311 issued by President Gerald Ford in 1974 to pardon him for any crimes he committed while president?

(buzzer) Blake, Hughesville.

- Richard Nixon.

- Nixon is correct answer and your bonus.

What Polynesian culture hero lassoed and beat the sun, forcing it to slow down and allowing humans to thrive?

(buzzer) Blake.

- Ra?

- Is incorrect, it is Maui.

Toss-up.

What author wrote about a strike at a coal mine in his novel "Germinal" and published in 1898, open letter defending Alfred Dreyfus titled, "J'Accuse?"

(buzzer) That was Emil Zola.

Toss-up.

What game franchise, the origin of the Super Smash Bros fighter, Isabel had a 2020 release?

(buzzer) Emma, Hughesville.

- Animal Crossing?

- Animal Crossing, Emma's, correct answer and your bonus.

What type of animal does the elderly Kate give to Dave Mitchell in an Emily Cheney Neville young adult novel whose title begins, "It's Like This?"

(buzzer) Emma?

- A cat.

- Cat is correct answer for your bonus points.

Toss-up.

What planet has natural satellites discovered by Asaph Hall in 1877 named Phobos and Deimos is the?

(buzzer) - Mars.

- [Regina] Xavier, Hughesville?

- Mars.

- Mars is correct answer and your bonus.

What principle named for a Swiss physicist states that a rise in a fluid speed corresponds to a drop in its potential energy or static pressure?

(buzzer) Emma?

- Viscosity?

- Viscosity is incorrect.

It is Bernoulli's principle.

Toss-up.

What recurring event took place during a truce known as the Ekecheiria, which protected the cities of Elis and this event's athletes over every four years?

(buzzer) Blake, Hughesville?

- The World Cup?

- The World Cup is incorrect.

Rebound to Lewisburg.

(buzzer) The correct answer is Olympics.

Toss-up.

What company against which Peiter Zatko filed a whistleblower complaint was the target in 2022 of a $43 billion acquisition bid by Elon Musk?

(buzzer) Hazel, Lewisburg.

- Twitter?

- Twitter's correct answer and your bonus, Lewisburg.

In the MCU, a civil war follows the passage of accords named for what country, the home of Wanda Maximoff depicted in Avengers.

(buzzer) Henry?

- Sokovia?

- Sokovia is correct answer for your bonus points.

We're going to give our students a bit of a break, but first we're gonna update the score.

We have Hughesville with 95 points and Lewisburg with 80.

Let's get to know our students a little bit better.

We'll start with our team from Hughesville.

Jadyn, why don't you start us off and tell us a little bit about your future plans.

- Well, after high school I plan to go off to college to study biomedical engineering.

- [Regina] Good for you.

Good luck.

Xavier.

- I plan to, I'm not sure where I'm going to go yet but I feel like I might go to Penn State for computer engineering?

- Good luck.

Blake.

- I would like to go to college for video production.

- [Regina] Okay.

Locally?

Maybe?

- I got accepted to Bloomsburg.

- [Regina] Congratulations.

Emma.

- I plan to go to college to study chemistry.

- [Regina] Okay.

Bright futures for all of us, I'm sure.

And let's move over to our team from Lewisburg.

Hazel, why don't you start us off.

- I plan to go to school and study architecture.

- [Regina] Okay.

Sophia?

- I plan to go to college and major in chemistry and math.

- [Regina] Very good.

Henry?

- I'm planning to go to college and study computer science.

- [Regina] Excellent.

Tori?

- I plan to go to college and study history or political science.

- Okay, maybe a little both?

- [Tori] Maybe a little both.

- Great to get to know all of you.

Let's start the second half with this toss-up.

What county seat of Anne Arundel county is home to the Banneker-Douglass Museum and the United States Naval Academy and is the capital of Maryland?

(buzzer) Blake, Hughesville.

- Annapolis?

- Annapolis is correct answer, Blake and your bonus.

Desalination works by reversing what process in which water diffuses across a semi-permeable membrane?

(buzzer) Blake?

- Osmosis?

- Osmosis is the correct answer for your bonus points.

Toss-up.

What type of reactions include one named for Arthur Birch, occur at the cathode of a galvanic cell and are the opposite of oxidation reaction?

(buzzer) Jadyn, Hughesville.

- Reduction?

- Reduction is correct answer, Jadyn and your bonus.

What peak in the principle cordera of the Andes is the highest mountain in the Western hemisphere?

(buzzer) Blake?

- Mount Everest?

- Everest is incorrect.

It is Aconcagua.

Toss-up.

What unhappy character who has an affair with Tanis Judique while serving as her realtor in Zenith titles a 1922 novel by Sinclair Lewis?

(buzzer) That is "George Babbitt."

Toss-up.

What country whose troll tongue rock formation is southeast of Bergen is home to a museum dedicated to Edvard Munch in its capital of Oslo?

(buzzer) Hazel, Lewisburg.

- Sweden?

- Incorrect, rebound to Hughesville.

(buzzer) Xavier?

- Norway.

- Norway is correct answer for your rebound points.

Toss-up.

What kingdom, whose Impi soldiers crushed a British army at 1879's battle of Isandlwana, ruled parts of modern South Africa under kings such as Shaka?

(buzzer) Henry?

- Zulu?

- Zulu is correct answer, Henry.

And your bonus, Lewisburg.

What six-letter term refers to the set of values for which a function is defined, which is often contrasted with the functions range?

(buzzer) Henry?

- Domain?

- Domain's correct answer for your bonus points.

Toss-up.

What author called nature, "red in tooth and claw," in his poem "In Memorium, A.H.H."

and described the valley of death in "The Charge of the Light Brigade?"

(buzzer) Jadyn, Hughesville.

- Walt Whitman?

- Walt Whitman is incorrect.

Rebound to Lewisburg.

That was Alfred Lord Tennyson.

Toss-up.

Which endocrine glands lies in the sella turcica produces oxytocin, vasopressin and human growth hormone and is sometimes called the master gland?

(buzzer) Emma, Hughesville.

- Pineal gland?

- [Regina] Pineal gland is incorrect.

Rebound to Lewisburg.

(buzzer) - Hypothalamus?

- Hypothalamus is also incorrect.

It is the pituitary gland.

Toss-up.

What man who wrote a 1784 essay that asked the question, "What is enlightenment" was a German philosopher who wrote "The Critique of Pure Reason?"

(buzzer) Xavier.

- Nietzsche?

- Nietzsche is incorrect.

Rebound to Lewisburg.

It was Immanuel Kant.

Toss-up.

The Rainbow Warrior was sunk while opposing what events conducted by France in French Polynesia and Algeria that spread radioactive fallout?

That was nuclear testing.

That's the end of the third quarter and it's time for another Lightning Round.

This time Lewisburg will pick first.

Your categories are American landmarks or grand things.

Time begins after I read the first question.

(quiet discussion) (buzzer) Tori?

- Grand things.

- Grand things.

Name these things that are grand.

Landmark in Arizona carved by the Colorado River.

(buzzer) Grand Canyon.

- [Regina] Correct.

Video game series named for the crime of stealing cars.

(buzzer) - Grand Theft Auto.

- [Regina] Correct.

Judicial body that hands down an indictment.

(buzzer) Henry?

- Grand jury.

- [Regina] Correct.

Formula one racing event held in Monaco.

(buzzer) Grand Prix.

- [Regina] Correct.

Dam built on the Columbia River in the 1930s.

(buzzer) Tori.

- Hoover Dam?

- [Regina] Grand Coulee.

Second busiest North American train station after Penn Station.

(buzzer) - Grand Central Station.

- [Regina] Correct.

Physics model that merges electromagnetic weak and strong forces?

(buzzer) - Grand unified theory.

- [Regina] Correct.

In baseball, a home run that occurs.

(buzzer) - Grand slam.

- [Regina] I'm sorry?

- Grand Slam.

- [Regina] Correct.

Weekly country music concert in Nashville.

(buzzer) - Pass.

- [Regina] Grand Ole Opry.

Largest island in a British territory between Jamaica and Yucatan Peninsula.

(buzzer) - Pass - Grand Cayman.

Moving over to our team from Hughesville.

Your category is American landmarks.

Give the state in which these United States landmarks are located.

Mount Rushmore.

(buzzer) Emma.

- Washington?

- [Regina] South Dakota.

Times Square.

(buzzer) - New York.

- [Regina] Correct.

Gateway Arch.

(buzzer) - Louisiana?

- [Regina] Missouri.

Glacier National Park.

(buzzer) Blake.

- Alaska?

- [Regina] Montana.

Diamondhead.

(buzzer) Blake.

- Arizona?

- [Regina] Hawaii.

Abraham Lincoln's birthplace.

(buzzer) Blake.

- Illinois?

- Kentucky.

Falling Water, a house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

(buzzer) Blake.

- Pennsylvania.

- [Regina] Correct.

Lake Itasca, the headwaters of the Mississippi River.

(buzzer) Emma.

- Colorado?

- [Regina] Minnesota.

Ebeneezer Baptist Church, where Martin Luther King was a pastor.

(buzzer) Blake.

- Alabama?

- [Regina] Georgia.

The Biltmore, the country's largest privately owned house.

(buzzer) Emma.

- Colorado?

- North Carolina.

That's the end of our Lightning Round.

So let's take a look at our current score.

We have Hughesville with 140 points and Lewisburg with 130 points.

Let's start the final quarter with a toss-up.

What United States territory was left without power after 2020?

(buzzer) Tori.

- Puerto Rico.

- Puerto Rico's correct.

Your bonus.

The preservation of the USS Constitution is largely credited to what American poet who celebrated the ship in his poem, "Old Ironsides?"

(buzzer) - Walt Whitman.

- Walt Whitman is incorrect.

It is Oliver Wendell Holmes.

Toss-up, pencil paper ready.

What is the only quadrant through which the graph of the line y equals negative three halves X minus one does not pass?

(buzzer) - First quadrant?

- First quadrant, Henry's correct answer and your bonus.

What alcohol inspired name was given to a faction of conservative northern Democrats like Grover Cleveland who supported laissez-faire capitalism?

(buzzer) Tori?

- Bull moose?

- Is incorrect, the correct answer is Bourbon Democrats.

Toss-up.

Which American architect from the Chicago school designed St. Louis' Wainwright building and is known for the dictum that "Form follows function?"

That was Lewis Sullivan.

Toss-up.

What large battle included the Malmedy massacre, Anthony McCullough's declaration "Nuts" and a German force being repulsed in Arden by January 19.

(buzzer) Henry.

- Battle of the Bulge.

- Is the correct answer and your bonus, Lewisburg.

The telex system Project Cybersyn was planned under what socialist Chilean president who was overthrown in a 1973 coup by Augusto Pinoche.

That was Salvador Allende.

Toss-up.

What sulfate mineral, which is dehydrated to make Plaster of Paris, and is the main mineral in sidewalk chalk defines a two on the Mohs hardness scale?

(buzzer) Hazel, Lewisburg.

- Limestone?

- [Regina] Limestone is incorrect.

Rebound to Hughesville?

(buzzer) Blake?

- Granite?

- Granite is incorrect.

It is gypsum.

Toss-up.

What law, repealed in 1943 by the Magnuson Act, was passed at the height of yellow peril fears in 1882 and banned immigration from an Asian country?

(buzzer) Blake, Hughesville?

- Asian Exclusion Act.

- Asian Exclusion Act is incorrect, rebound to Lewisburg.

The correct answer is the Chinese Exclusion Act.

Toss-up.

What book in which Simon Magus is baptized by Phillip begins by describing Pentecost and appears in the New Testament after the gospels?

That is the Acts of the apostles.

Toss-up.

What strait extends as far west as Cape Spartel, borders the city of Tangier and the exclave of Ceuta and separates Northern Morocco from Spain?

(buzzer) Henry, Lewisburg.

- Gibraltar?

- Gibraltar, Henry's correct answer and your bonus.

Consumption government spending, investment and net exports add up to equal what quantity, the sum of goods and services consumed in an economy?

(buzzer) Henry.

- GDP?

GDP is correct answer for your bonus points and that is the end of our game.

Let's take a look at our final score.

We have Hughesville with 140 points and Lewisburg with 175 points.

Congratulations, Lewisburg, you'll be moving on and we'll see you next time with another round of "Scholastic Scrimmage."

I'm your host Regina Myers and thank you for watching.

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