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(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 Lake Lehman versus Hazleton.

Representing Lake Lehman are Timothy Resek, Paul Bear, Michael Badman, and Julianne Judge.

Their alternates are Keely Delaney and Aiden Richardson and their advisors are Cecilia Jennings and Courtney Judge.

Representing Hazleton are Joshua Davidson Heiselman, Riley Matson Tono, Derek Gatos, and Mateo Fiola.

Their advisor is Patrick Brogan.

"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.

Well, let's get the game started with this toss-up question.

New metaphors exemplify the adventitious type of what structures which form mycorrhizae with fungi, have tap and fibrous types, and anchor plants.

(bell dinging) Paul, Lake Lehman.

- Lichens?

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Hazleton.

(bell dinging) - Moss?

- Nope, we're looking for plant roots.

Okay, let's move on to our next toss-up.

What archipelago, whose largest island is Tenerife, lies off the coast of Morocco and is a Spanish possession that names- (bell dinging) Timothy, Lake Lehman.

- Cape Verde?

- Is incorrect.

I'll finish the question and rebound to Hazleton.

Spanish possession that names a type of bird.

(buzzer buzzing) Those are the Canary Islands.

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

What religious system whose texts include the "Yellow Millet Dream" and "Zhuangzi" is credited to a long-lived ancient Chinese prophet named Laozi?

(bell dinging) Timothy, Lake Lehman.

- Confucian?

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Hazleton.

(bell dinging) Mateo.

- Buddhism?

- Nope, that is Taoism.

All right, let's move along to our next toss-up.

What constellation whose stars Dubhe and Merak point to Polaris is the second nearest to the celestial North Pole and contains the Big Dipper?

(bell dinging) Paul, Lake Lehman.

- Ursa Major.

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question.

What branch of physics is the subject of various interpretations including Ensemble, Copenhagen, and Many-Worlds ones?

- Okay, pause it, say it.

(bell dinging) - Astrophysics?

- No, that is quantum mechanics.

Okay, let's move along to our next toss-up.

What inventor from Mainz who was financially backed by Johann Fust, used oil-based ink in a screw press to develop metal movable type printing?

(bell dinging) - Gutenberg?

- Mateo, Hazleton.

- Gutenberg?

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question.

What Mumbai-born British sculptor's public art includes Sky Mirror, briefly shown at Rockefeller Center, as well as Chicago's Cloud Gate?

(bell dinging) - I.M.

Pei?

- No, that's Anish Kapoor.

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

What cabinet department whose previous head, Alejandro Mayorkas, was impeached in 2024- (bell dinging) Mateo, Hazleton.

- Homeland Security?

- Is correct and here comes your bonus question.

Nancy Kassebaum Baker and presidential candidate Bob Dole were both U.S.

senators who represented what?

(bell dinging) - Kansas.

- Kansas is correct for your bonus points, Hazleton, as we turn to our next toss-up question.

What author whose literary offenses were enumerated by Mark Twain wrote about frontiersman, Natty Bumppo in novels like "The Last of the Mohicans"?

(buzzer buzzing) That author is James Fenimore Cooper.

Alright, let's move to our next toss-up question.

What team, which defeated Golden State in the second round of the 2025 NBA playoffs, got Julius Randle in a 2024 trade?

(bell dinging) Riley, Hazleton?

- The Timberwolves?

- Is correct.

And your bonus now.

Alice Weidel is one of the co-leaders of what far-right party that finished second in Germany's February 2020- (bell dinging) - AFD?

- AFD is correct for your bonus points, Hazleton.

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

(intense music) 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.

Hazleton has won the coin toss and will pick first.

Your categories are extreme elements or C in art.

- Elements.

- Elements.

- Extreme elements it is and your time begins when I finish reading the first question.

Name these chemical elements with unusual or extreme properties.

Element whose ability to bond to itself is studied in organic chemistry.

(bell dinging) - Carbon.

- [Paul] Yes.

Noble gas with the lowest boiling point.

(bell dinging) - Helium?

- [Paul] Yes.

Heavy metal once called quicksilver because it's a liquid.

(bell dinging) - Mercury?

- [Paul] Yes.

Heaviest element with a stable isotope.

(bell dinging) - Tungsten?

- [Paul] Lead.

Alkali metal used to define the second with atomic symbol CS.

(bell dinging) - Celsium?

- [Paul] Cesium.

Halogen that forms the strongest hydrogen bonds.

(bell dinging) - Pass.

- Fluorine.

Has a namesake pest that weakens it and a namesake cry when bent.

(bell dinging) - Gold.

- [Paul] Tin.

First metalloid with atomic symbol B.

(bell dinging) - Boron?

- [Paul] Yes.

The best conductor of heat and electricity.

(bell dinging) - Aluminum?

- [Paul] That's silver.

Group eight element (buzzer ringing) that is the densest.

T That was osmium.

Okay, Hazleton, good job in the lightning round.

Lake Lehman, we're coming over to you and your remaining category will be C in art.

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

Give these answers related to the visual arts that start with the letter C. Blue and red are primary examples of these things.

(bell dinging) - Colors?

- [Paul Yes.

Burned wood used to draw black lines.

(bell dinging) - Charcoal?

- [Paul] Yes.

Artwork made up of glued together elements or images.

(bell dinging) - Collage?

- [Paul] Yes.

Classical order of columns that is neither ionic nor doric.

(bell dinging) - Corinthian?

- [Paul] Yes.

Small dome-like structure atop a building.

(bell dinging) - Cornice?

- [Paul] Cupola.

State that contains the LACMA and Getty Museum.

(bell dinging) - Connecticut?

- [Paul] California.

Sculpted female figure used as a column.

(bell dinging) - Pass - Caryatid.

The arrangement of the elements in a painting.

(bell dinging) - Chiaroscuro?

- [Paul] Composition.

Another word for tenebrism from the Italian for light dark.

(bell dinging) - Chiaroscuro.

- [Paul] That's correct.

Tiny sculpted portrait often worn as a pendant or broach.

(bell dinging) - Pass.

- That is cameo.

All right, that's going to do it for our first lightning round and after that we currently have Hazleton in the lead over Lake Lehman 60 to 35.

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

And get out your pencils and papers.

"What is the monthly salary of a worker who earns $42,000 per year, given that a year has 12 months"?

(bell dinging) Timothy, Lake Lehman.

- Three and a half thousand.

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question.

Gabriel Syme infiltrates a cabal of anarchists in "The Man Who Was Thursday," a novel by what Englishman who created the priest detective Father Brown?

(bell dinging) - Arthur Conan Doyle?

- That's a good guess, but we were looking for G.K.

Chesterton.

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

What British artist painted Flatford Mill and other landscapes along the River Stour, including three black horses pulling a wagon in The Hay Wain?

(buzzer buzzing) That is John Constable.

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

What legal principle which forbids the government from imprisoning someone indefinitely without- (bell dinging) Paul, Lake Lehman?

- Habeas corpus.

- Is correct.

And your bonus question, the Empty Quarter is the English translation of what desert that covers much of southern Saudi Arabia?

(bell dinging) - The Arabian Desert?

- No, that desert is the Rub' al Khali.

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

What novella, whose narrator begins dating Marie Cardona soon after the death of his mother, Madame Meursault, was written in French by Albert Camus?

(buzzer buzzing) That was "The Stranger."

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

What city who is Eurypontid and Agiad dynasty supplied its two kings was where Lycurgus created the Agoge system of extensive- (bell dinging) Paul, Lake Lehman.

- Sparta.

- Is correct and here's your bonus and get your pencils and papers ready.

"If 13.9 feet is converted to inches, how many significant digits should be used in reporting the answer"?

(bell dinging) Timothy?

- Four.

- That is incorrect.

We are looking for three.

Three.

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

In 2025, investigators from what country cited fuel switches as the cause of a June accident that killed 229 passengers on a flight near Ahmedabad?

(bell dinging) Mateo, Hazleton.

- Korea, South Korea.

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Lake Lehman.

(bell dinging) Timothy.

- The UAE?

- Nope.

That country is India.

India.

Let's go to our next toss-up question.

An iterative algorithm for finding GCDs is named after what mathematician whose treatise on plane geometry and more is called his "Elements"?

(bell dinging) Paul, Lake Lehman.

- Euclid.

- Is correct.

And your bonus question now.

The political wing of the Irish Republican Army had what Irish language name that translates, "as we ourselves"?

(bell dinging) Timothy.

(Timothy speaking foreign language) No, that's Sinn Fein.

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

What civilization was ruled by kings such as Pacal the Great, used the Long Count calendar, and built the sites of Palenque, Tikal, and Xcichaniza?

(bell dinging) Paul, Lake Lehman.

- The Mayan civilization?

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus.

Seismic S waves and light waves are what type of wave whose oscillations are perpendicular to the wave's direction of propagation?

(bell dinging) - Longitudinal waves?

- No, those are transverse waves.

Well, 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 Lake Lehman.

And Timothy, I will come to you first.

If you had one superpower to choose from, what would it be and why?

- To teleport, saves time.

- [Paul] Absolutely it does.

Thanks, Timothy.

Paul?

- Super speed.

I'd like to have more free time than I do.

- [Paul] Wouldn't we all?

Thanks, Paul.

Michael?

- Be able to run faster than light to travel through time and get stuff done.

- Awesome.

Thanks, Michael.

Julianne?

- Talk to animals so I can talk to all my pets.

- Alright, I love it.

Thanks, Julianne.

Good luck the rest of the way, Lake Leman.

Hazleton, we're coming over to you.

Joshua, tell us if you had a superpower, what would it be and why?

- Super speed because saves time and you could get places faster.

- [Paul] Absolutely.

Riley?

- Telekinesis as it would make a lot of tasks just much easier.

- Pull a lot of pranks with that too.

Derek?

- Time travel because I could go back in history and relive the events.

- [Paul] Love it.

Thanks, Derek.

Mateo?

- Teleport so I could travel anywhere.

- That's great.

Thank you very much and good luck to you the rest of the way, Hazleton.

We'll now go ahead and begin the third quarter with this toss-up question.

What author described Jesuits at Clongowes Wood College in a portrait of the artist as a young man who shares characters with his novel, "Ulysses"?

(bell dinging) Mateo, Hazleton.

- Joyce?

- We'll take that.

That is correct and here's your bonus.

What French author depicted a Second Empire family in his "Rougon-Macquart" series and defended Jewish soldier Alfred Dreyfus in his letter "Jacques"?

(bell dinging) - Pass.

- That was Emile Zola.

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

In what organ affected by the precancerous Barretts disease does peristalsis move a food bolus through a tube linking the mouth and the stomach?

(bell dinging) Mateo, Hazleton.

- Esophagus?

- Is correct.

And your bonus question, what standup comedian performs celebrity interviews on the podcast "This Past Weekend"?

(bell dinging) - Joe Rogan?

- No, that's Theo Von.

Theo Von.

Alright, let's go to our next toss-up question.

What body of water is overlooked by Masada, receives the Jordan River, and is an extremely salty sea along the border of (bell dinging) Timothy, Lake Lehman.

- Red Sea?

- Is incorrect.

I'll finish the question and rebound to Hazleton.

Border of Israel and Jordan?

(bell dinging) Mateo.

- Dead Sea?

- The Dead Sea was what we were looking for for your rebound points.

Good job, Hazleton as we go to another toss-up.

What explorer who was attacked by the Calusa near Charlotte Harbor led a Spanish expedition to Florida that legendarily sought a fountain of youth?

(bell dinging) Timothy, Lake Lehman.

- Juan Ponce de Leon?

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question.

In logic, the conditional statement if P, then Q, has what relationship with the statement, if not Q, then not P?

(bell dinging) - Inverse?

- No, that's contrapositive or contraposition.

Let's move along to our next toss-up question.

What title character of a 1968 Don Freeman book who searches a department store for his missing overall button is a teddy bear named for a fabric.

(bell dinging) Julianne, Lake Lehman.

- Corduroy.

- Is correct.

And your bonus.

What British Girl Group's 1996 debut album included their hits, "Say You'll Be There," "To Become One," and "Wannabe"?

(bell dinging) Timothy.

- Spice Girls?

- Spice Girls is correct for your bonus points, Lake Lehman.

As we go now to our next toss-up question.

Player characters in what game series include the silent Claude, the Grove Street OG, Carl Johnson, and Tommy.

(bell dinging) - Timothy, Lake Leman.

- "GTA: San Andres."

- Is correct and here's your bonus question.

What straight name for an explorer separates the mainland of Chile from Tierra del Fuego to its south?

(bell dinging) - Strait of Magellan?

- Is correct for your bonus points, Lake Lehman.

Let's go to our next toss-up question now.

What queen who was targeted by Wyatts Rebellion after becoming engaged to Phillip II of Spain, earned the epithet bloody for persecuting Protestants?

(bell dinging) Mateo, Hazleton.

- Mary I.

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus.

The tit-for-tat strategy applies to what game theory dilemma studied by economist John Nash?

(buzzer ringing) (bell dinging) - Pass.

- That is Prisoner's Dilemma.

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

This time Lake Lehman will pick first.

Your categories are exterior lights or Switzerland.

- Exterior lights.

- Exterior lights is is and your time begins when I finish reading the first question.

Give these words that start or end with the consecutive letters L-I-G-H-T.

Trip on an airplane.

(bell dinging) - Flight?

- [Paul] Yes.

Tall building that provides signals to ships.

(bell dinging) - Lighthouse.

- [Paul] Yes.

Thin or small?

(bell dinging) - Slight?

- [Paul] Yes.

U.S.

equivalent of the British word torch.

(bell dinging) - Flashlight.

- [Paul] Yes.

To manipulate someone so they think their memories are untrue.

(bell dinging) Gaslight.

- [Paul] Yes.

To leave a train.

(bell dinging) - Pass.

- Alight.

Feeling faint.

(bell dinging) - Lightheaded?

- [Paul] Yes.

Type of disease that forms spots on plants' leaves.

(bell dinging) - Blight.

- [Paul] Yes.

Period immediately after sunset.

(bell dinging) - Twilight?

- [Paul] Yes.

A sad predicament.

(bell dinging) - Blight.

- Plight is what we were looking for, but great job in that lightning round, Lake Lehman.

Hazleton, we're coming over to you and your remaining category will be Switzerland.

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

Answer the following about Switzerland and the Swiss.

The two colors on Switzerland's flag.

(bell dinging) - Red and white.

- [Paul] Yes.

Lake on its French border into which the Rhone River flows.

(bell dinging) - Danube?

- [Paul] Geneva.

Principality led from Vaduz to Switzerland's east.

(bell dinging) - Liechtenstein?

- [Paul] Yes.

Mountain range that contains the Matterhorn.

(bell dinging) - Alpine.

- Alps.

Word that follows Swiss in a brand of cocoa mix.

(bell dinging) - Miss?

- [Paul] Yes, it's capital city.

(bell dinging) - Bern.

- [Paul] Yes.

Minority official language spoken in the southeast.

(bell dinging) - Dutch?

- [Paul] Romansh.

Swiss psychologist who developed theories of universal archetypes.

(bell dinging) - Freud?

- [Paul] Jung.

City that hosts the World Economic Forum.

(bell dinging) - Geneva.

- [Paul] Davos.

Author of the "Moral Judgment of the Child" who studied child development.

(bell dinging) - Freud.

- [Paul] Nope, that's Jean Piaget.

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

And after that we currently have Lake Lehman in the lead over Hazleton 165 to 120.

We'll now go ahead and begin the last segment of the game with this toss-up question.

What animals whose males enter musth to reproduce, name a holiday party game involving opening or stealing gifts, and are the largest pacaderms?

(bell dinging) Mateo, Hazleton.

- White elephants?

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question.

The three Cs of cough, conjunctivitis, and coryza are symptoms that precede the rash in what extremely contagious viral illness?

(bell dinging) - Polio?

- Is incorrect, we were looking for measles or rubeola.

Alright, let's go to our next toss-up question.

Rutile is an ore of what metal that is used in jet engine compressor blades due to its high strength to weight ratio and has the atomic symbol Ti?

(bell dinging) Michael, Lake Lehman.

- Titanium.

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question.

What independence leader led a campaign known as Satyagraha named for a term he coined for a type of nonviolent civil disobedience?

(bell dinging) - Mahatma Gandhi.

- Gandhi is correct for your bonus points, Lake Lehman.

As we go now to our next toss-up question.

What city is home to the headquarters of Smashburger, is at the confluence- (bell dinging) Paul, Lake Lehman.

- Chicago?

- Is incorrect.

I'll finish the question and rebound to Hazleton.

Is at the confluence of Cherry Creek and the South Platte River, and is the capital of Colorado?

(bell dinging) Mateo.

- Denver.

- Is correct for your rebound points, Hazleton.

As we go now to our next toss-up.

What case which led Benjamin Curtis to leave the Supreme Court, overturn the Missouri Compromise and held that its namesake man was still enslaved?

(bell dinging) - Dred Scott - Mateo, Hazleton.

- Dred Scott V. Sanford?

- Is correct.

And your bonus question.

In August, 2025, a federal judge halted U.S.

plans to deport hundreds of unaccompanied children to what Central American country?

(bell dinging) - El Salvador.?

- No, that's Guatemala.

Guatemala.

Alright, here's our next toss-up.

What materials often have wide band gaps, experience electrical breakdown, include glass and rubber, and resist the flow of current, unlike conductors.

(bell dinging) - Michael, Lake Lehman.

- Insulators?

- Is correct.

And your bonus question.

Reissner's membrane is part of what spiral-shaped structure in the inner ear?

(bell dinging) - Paul.

- Eardrum?

- No, we're looking for the cochlea.

The cochlea.

All right, here's our next toss-up.

What girl who's abducted from Terry by Dr.

Brenner and is later adopted by Jim Hopper, is a psychic play by Millie Bobby Brown?

(bell dinging) - Paul, Lake Lehman.

- Eleven.

- Is correct.

And your bonus question.

What English philosopher stated that "the only justification for limiting freedom is to prevent harm" in his book "On Liberty"?

(bell dinging) - John Locke?

- Nope, that's John Stuart Mill.

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

What German composer, inspired by a trip to Holyroodhouse Palace to write a Scottish symphony, also wrote an overture to a "Midsummer Night's Dream"?

(bell dinging) Derek, Hazleton.

- Mozart?

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Lake Lehman.

(bell dinging) Paul.

- Beethoven?

- Nope.

That was Felix Mendelssohn.

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

What story, which ends with someone giving little Davy Hutchinson a few pebbles he can use to help stone a woman to death is by Shirley Jackson.

(bell dinging) Michael, Lake Lehman.

- "The Lottery."

- Is correct.

And your bonus, what author who wrote her 2018 novel, "Whereabouts" in Italian is a Bengali American who won a Pulitzer Prize for her book, "Interpreter of Maladies"?

(bell dinging) - Benito Mussolini.

- No, it's Jhumpa Lahiri.

And that's the end of the game.

And our winner tonight is Lake Lehman over Hazleton, 210 to 150.

A great game.

Congratulations Lake Lehman.

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 thank you for watching.

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