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(lively whistling music) (exciting marching band drumming music) ♪ Go - Welcome to this season of "WVIA's 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 Lake-Lehman versus Tunkhannock.

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

Their alternates are Keeley Delaney and Ayden Richardson, and their advisors are Cecilia Jennings and Courtney Judge.

Representing Tunkhannock are Ben Landon, Cora Milner, Joseph Kineski, and Maia Montross.

Their alternates are Collin Jerome and Leah DeMarco, and their advisors are Melissa Kandrovy and Dr.

Thomasina Fiorello.

"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 get the game started with this tossup question.

What country, whose flag features a yellow Soyombo symbol, contains the northern part of the Gobi Desert and has its capital?

Ben, Tunkhannock.

- Mongolia.

- Is correct, and here's your bonus question.

Allen Dulles resigned as CIA director after what failed US-backed invasion that tried to topple Fidel Castro in Cuba in 1961?

- Bay of Pigs invasion.

- Bay of Pigs invasion is correct for your bonus points, Tunkhannock.

Let's go on now to our next tossup.

What mathematician wrote "On the Sphere and Cylinder," used inscribed polygons to estimate pi, lived in third century BC Syracuse, and said "Eureka"?

Michael, Lake-Lehman - Archimedes.

- Is correct, and here's your bonus question.

In the United States, Swedish Fish and Sour Patch Kids are produced by what British confectionery company also known for its Chocolate Creme Eggs?

- Cadbury.

- Is correct for your bonus points, Lake-Lehman.

Let's go to our next tossup.

What set of laws were condemned in the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions for tightening citizenship requirements?

Julianne, Lake-Lehman.

- Alien and Sedition acts.

- Is correct, and here's your bonus now.

"The River" is a sequel to what 1987 young adult novel by Gary Paulsen, which depicts Brian's survival in the Canadian wilderness after a plane crash?

- "Hatchet."

- "Hatchet" is correct for your bonus points, Lake-Lehman.

Let's go to our next tossup question.

What office, a session to which begins new eras like the current Reiwa era, is held by the occupant of the Chrysanthemum Throne, who is now Naruhito?

(buzzer beeping) Timothy, Lake-Lehman - Emperor of Japan.

- Is correct, and here's your bonus.

What phenomenon, in which quantum particles seem to communicate instantly across a distance, did Albert Einstein call "spooky action at a distance?"

(buzzer beeping) Michael.

- Quantum tunneling?

- Is incorrect, you're very close.

We're looking for quantum entanglement.

Okay, let's go to our next tossup.

What quantity, whose change equals the time integral of force and is called impulse, is symbolized lowercase p and is equal to mass times velocity?

Paul, Lake-Lehman.

- Pressure.

- [Paul Lazar] Is incorrect, rebound to Tunkhannock.

Ben.

- Momentum.

- Momentum is correct for your rebound points, Tunkhannock, as we move to our next tossup question.

In what state, where William Paterson was governor and Alexander Hamilton was killed in a duel, were the battles of, Michael, Lake-Lehman.

- New Jersey.

- Is correct, and here's your bonus now.

What sticky film that forms on teeth can harden into tartar if not removed by brushing?

- Plaque.

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

Let's go to our next tossup question.

What country is the setting of "The Labyrinth of Solitude," is where Ambrose Bierce disappeared, and was home to the "The Old Gringo" author Carlos Fuentes?

Timothy, Lake-Lehman.

- Spain.

- [Paul Lazar] Is incorrect, rebound to Tunkhannock.

Maia.

- Mexico.

- Is correct for your rebound points, Tunkhannock.

As we go now to our next tossup question.

What objects, which name chambers that superseded cloud chambers, are often spheres due to surface tension, and are air pockets formed in soapy water?

Paul, Lake-Lehman.

- Bubbles.

- Is correct, and here's your bonus.

What language did 19th century playwright August Strindberg use to write naturalistic tragedies such as "The Father" and "Miss Julie"?

(buzzer beeping) - Latin.

- No, that language was Swedish.

Well 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 10 rapid-fire questions as they can in one minute.

Tunkhannock has won the coin toss and will pick first.

Your categories are "Poetry terminology" or "Ancient Egypt."

- We choose Egypt.

- Egypt it is, and your time begins when I finish reading your first question.

Answer the following about ancient Egypt.

Most common term for ancient Egyptian monarchs starting in the New Kingdom period.

- Pharaoh.

- Yes.

Logographic ancient Egyptian writing system.

- Hieroglyphs.

- [Paul Lazar] Yes, queen who is Egypt's last pharaoh ruler.

- Pass.

- [Paul Lazar] Cleopatra.

City once home to a great library.

- Alexandria.

- Yes.

Great king who won the Battle of Kadesh.

- Pass.

- Ramses II.

Ancient capital where Luxor now stands.

- Pass.

- That Thebes.

Color of Lower Egypt's crown, as contrasted with Upper Egypt's white crown.

- Gold?

- [Paul Lazar] Red.

Unifier of Egypt depicted on a palette.

- Pass.

- That's Narmer.

Jars that held a mummy's organs.

- Pass.

- Canopic jars.

Macedonian general who succeeded Alexander the Great in Egypt.

- Pass.

- That's Ptolemy I. Okay, Tunkhannock, that's going to do it for your portion of the lightning round.

Lake-Lehman, it's over to you.

Your remaining category will be "Poetry Terminology," and once again your time begins when I finish reading the first question.

Give these literary terms related to poetry.

A block of poetic lines analogous to a paragraph.

Julianne - Stanza.

- [Paul Lazar] Yes, three-line Japanese poetic form.

- Haiku.

- Yes.

Pattern of a poem's rhymes, such as A-B-A-B.

- Rhyme scheme.

- Yes.

A pair of successive rhyming lines.

- Rhyming couplet.

- Yes, a serious poem that mourns the poem's subject.

- Ode?

- [Paul Lazar] Elegy.

Style of verse with strict meter but no strict rhymes.

- Free verse?

- [Paul Lazar] Blank verse.

Line or lines that a poem regularly repeats.

- Chorus.

- [Paul Lazar] Refrain.

Metrical foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.

- Iambic pentameter.

- [Paul Lazar] Yes.

Midpoint in a sonnet where a new thought develops.

- Pass.

- [Paul Lazar] That's turn.

Poem in which the first letter of each line spells a message.

- Pass.

- That is acrostic, an acrostic poem.

All right, that's going to do it for our lightning round, and after that we currently have Lake-Lehman in the lead over Tunkhannock, 90 to 50.

Now we'll go ahead and begin the second quarter with this tossup question.

What monarch, whose forces suppressed Father Gapon's march on Bloody Sunday, was deposed in the February Revolution and was the last Russian tsar?

Ben, Tunkhannock.

- Tsar Nicholas.

- [Paul Lazar] Be more specific.

- The second.

- Is correct, and here's your bonus question.

In October 2024, seven people died in an attack by the PKK in what NATO member state where the PKK fights for the independence of Kurdistan?

Maia.

- Israel?

- Nope, that country is Turkey.

Let's move on to our next tossup.

What country, wherein 2025 Timochenko was convicted for his activities within FARC, is the world's main exporter of cocaine and is led from Bogota?

Paul, Lake-Lehman.

- Colombia.

- Is correct, and here's your bonus question.

What European dynasty originated in Anjou but ruled England under medieval kings like Henry II?

- The Tudors.

- No, that was the House of Plantagenet.

The Plantagenets.

Here's our next tossup question.

What primary color can be created by painters with a pigment gamboge and comes in such shades as xanthic, citrine, saffron, and lemon?

Paul, Lake-Lehman.

- Yellow.

- Is correct, and here's your bonus.

Ancient Romans used lead acetate as what type of substance, which today is exemplified by aspartame and sorbitol?

- Sweetener.

(buzzer beeping) A sweetener.

- Is correct, artificial sweetener is correct for your bonus points, as we go to our next tossup question.

What city, which was rebuilt by Esarhaddon after Sennacherib leveled it, was later ruled by Nebuchadnezzar II, who may have built its Hanging Gardens?

Paul, Lake-Lehman.

- Babylon.

- Is correct, and your bonus now.

What poet described himself as a worshiper of nature and addressed Sister Dorothy as a dear, dear friend in his long poem, "Tintern Abbey"?

Paul.

- Sir Oscar Wilde?

- No, that's William Wordsworth.

Okay, let's go to our next tossup.

What novella, whose protagonist discusses the great DiMaggio with Manolin and reels in a gigantic marlin after a long slump, is by Ernest Hemingway?

Paul, Lake-Lehman.

- "The Old Man and the Sea."

- "Old Man and the Sea" is what we're looking for, and here's your bonus question.

Winfield Scott devised what Union plan for defeating the South in the Civil War by choking off its access to the Mississippi River and the Atlantic?

(buzzer beeping) - The blockade plan?

- No, that was the Anaconda Plan.

Let's go to our next tossup.

What reality competition show, which features Michelle Visage as a judge and ends, Maia, Tunkhannock.

- "RuPaul's Drag Race."

- Is correct, and your bonus now.

DuPont chemist Wallace Carothers developed what polymer with amide linkages, which was used as a fabric in parachutes and women's stockings?

- Nylon.

- Nylon is correct for your bonus points, Tunkhannock.

Let's move to our next tossup.

What city, whose Theodosian Walls were breached near the Gate of St.

Romanus, was conquered by the Ottomans in 1453, ending... Paul, Lake-Lehman.

- Constantinople.

- Is correct, and your bonus question.

In what science fiction series by Douglas Adams do dolphins depart the doomed planet Earth leaving the message "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish"?

Paul.

- "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series.

- Is correct for your bonus points, Lake-Lehman.

And 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 your way first.

Tell me what your favorite subject is in school and why.

- History.

I just like learning about historic events.

- A lot to learn from it, right?

Thanks, Timothy.

Paul.

- Also history, and because I arbitrarily decided that.

(Paul Lazar laughing) - [Paul Lazar] Thanks, Paul.

Michael.

- Just any science 'cause I love learning how and why things work.

- [Paul Lazar] Cool, thanks, Michael.

Julianne.

- Science, because of the different fields that you can like pursue in it.

- There's a lot going on there.

Thanks very much, Lake-Lehman, and good luck the rest of the way.

Tunkhannock, it's over to you.

Ben, what is your favorite subject in school, and tell us why.

- I like physics 'cause it all makes sense.

- [Paul Lazar] All right, maybe to you, not to me, but thank you very much, Ben.

Cora.

- I like Math because I like the structure of it and I'm pretty good at it.

- Okay.

Not me, but that may be great for you, Cora.

That's wonderful, thank you.

I'm up here for a reason.

Joseph.

- I like Math because numbers have always just made sense to me.

- [Paul Lazar] Okay, Maia?

- My favorite subject is Biology because I like that every process has a purpose and a reason.

- All right, some very smart students up here for "Scholastic Scrimmage" today.

It was very nice to see all of you again, and let's go ahead and begin the third quarter with this tossup question.

What novel, in which Sanson Carrasco impersonates the Knight of the White Moon, is about a self-imagined knight-errant and is by Miguel de Cervantes?

Paul, Lake-Lehman.

- "Don Quixote."

- Is correct, and here's your bonus question.

In 2025, the Commerce Department proposed a tax on the assessed value of what government protections for novel inventions and discoveries?

- Patents.

- Is correct for your bonus points, Lake-Lehman.

Let's go to our next tossup.

What condition, which can give characteristic delta waves on an EEG has REM and non-REM stages?

And Paul, Lake-Lehman.

- Sleep.

- Is correct, and your bonus question.

In thermodynamics, the Carnot cycle alternates isothermal steps with what type of process in which no heat is exchanged?

- Michael, it's all you.

- I truly don't know.

- Benito Mussolini.

- No... (Paul Lazar laughing) We're looking for an adiabatic.

Adiabatic.

Let's go to our next tossup question.

What island, known in antiquity as Trinacria for its triangular shape, is southwest of the Strait of Messina and is off the coast of mainland Italy?

Paul, Lake-Lehman.

- Corsica.

- Is incorrect, rebound to Tunkhannock.

- Maia.

- Sicily?

- Sicily is that country, very good.

Let's go to our next tossup question.

What quantity, which can be calculated as C plus I plus G plus net exports, measures the total value of goods and services produced in a country?

Paul, Lake-Lehman.

- GDP.

- Is correct, and your bonus question now.

What South Asian leader was assassinated in 1984 by two bodyguards who were Sikh nationalists?

- Mahatma Gandhi.

- [Paul Lazar] I'm sorry?

- Gandhi.

- [Paul Lazar] Be more specific.

- Mahatma Gandhi.

- Is incorrect.

You had the last name right, it was Indira Gandhi.

Indira Gandhi.

All right, let's go on to our next tossup question.

What chemist, who defined acids and bases as electron pair acceptors, showed how electrons formed chemical bonds in his namesake dot diagrams?

(buzzer beeping) Michael, Lake-Lehman.

- Faraday.

- Is incorrect, rebound to Tunkhannock.

(alarm beeping) That chemist was Gilbert N. Lewis.

Okay, here's our next tossup question.

What man, who's arrested in a room above Mr.

Charrington's shop, yells "Do it to Julia" while being tortured by Thought Police in George Orwell's "1984"?

(alarm beeping) That was Winston Smith.

Okay, let's go to our next tossup.

What creature was captured by Heracles during his final labor, guarded the gates of the underworld, and was, Maia, Tunkhannock.

- The... Cerberus?

- Is correct, and here's your bonus question.

John Oakhurst dies by shooting himself in the chest in what short story by Bret Harte about people exiled from the title town?

(alarm beeping) That was "The Outcasts of Poker Flat."

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 "American Transit" or "Foreign Articles."

- "American Transit."

- "American Transit" it is, and your time begins when I finish reading the first question.

Name these US cities given a pair of stations on its transit system.

Federal Triangle and Smithsonian.

- Washington, DC.

- [Paul Lazar] Yes, Franklin Square and Independence Hall.

- Philadelphia.

- [Paul Lazar] Yes, Grand Central and Times Square.

- New York City.

- [Paul Lazar] Yes, Shot Tower and Johns Hopkins Hospital.

- Boston.

- Baltimore.

Embarcadero and 16th Street Mission.

- Chicago.

- San Francisco.

Midway and O'Hare.

- Chicago.

- Yes.

Universal City and Highland Park.

- Los Angeles.

- Yes.

Tower City and Hopkins Airport.

- Detroit.

- [Paul Lazar] Cleveland.

Peachtree Center and King Memorial.

- Orlando.

- [Paul Lazar] Atlanta.

Roxbury Crossing and Fenway.

- Boston.

- Boston is correct.

All right, that's going to do it for your second lightning round, Lake-Lehman.

Tunkhannock, we're coming over to you, and your remaining category will be "Foreign Articles."

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

Give these answers that start with words that mean "the" in other languages, such as "Los."

Most populous Nevada city.

Ben.

- Las Vegas.

- [Paul Lazar] Yes, terrorist group that planned 9/11.

- Al-Qaeda.

- Yes.

Sparkling water brand with colorful cans and flavor- - LaCroix.

- [Paul Lazar] Yes.

Recurring Pacific weather cycle that causes warming and heavy rain.

- La Nina.

- [Paul Lazar] El Nino.

Author of the "Earthsea" books.

- Pass.

- Ursula K. Le Guin.

Sinaloa drug lord captured in 2016.

- El Chapo.

- [Paul Lazar] Yes.

Qatar-based Arabic news network whose name means "the island."

- Pass.

- [Paul Lazar] Al Jazeera.

1656 Diego Velazquez portrait of Spanish courtiers.

- Pass.

- [Paul Lazar] "Las Meninas."

Three-volume economic text by Karl Marx.

- Pass.

- [Paul Lazar] "Das Kapital."

Native translator enslaved by Hernan Cortes.

- Pass.

- That's La Malinche.

All right, that's going to do it for our lightning rounds.

And after that, we currently have Lake-Lehman in the lead over Tunkhannock, 215 to 115, as we begin the last segment of the game with this tossup question.

What case, which struck down Section 13 of the Judiciary Act of 1789, concerned the appointment of midnight judges, and established judicial review?

Julianne, Lake-Lehman.

- Marbury v. Madison.

- Is correct, and here's your bonus.

Lorena Ochoa was the first Mexican player to become world number one in what sport, which was also played by Anna Sorenstam?

- Just try soccer.

- Soccer.

- Nope, that sport is golf.

All right, let's go to our next tossup question.

What animals include the theater-loving Gus, the villainous Macavity, and Grizabella, who sings the ballad "Memory" in an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical?

Maia, Tunkhannock.

- "Cats."

- Is correct, and your bonus.

In 1497, what Italian explorer who sailed under the English flag became the first European to land on the North American mainland since the Vikings?

- Amerigo Vespucci.

- No, that was John Cabot.

Okay, let's go to our next tossup question.

What element, whose nitrate salt forms ordinary saltpeter, lies below sodium on the periodic table, has atomic, Julianne, Lake-Lehman.

- Potassium.

- Is correct, and here's your bonus.

What title protagonist of a Charles Dickens novel befriends Smike, quarrels with schoolmaster Wackford Squeers, and has an alliterative name?

- Clyde Clydous?

- No, we're looking for "Nicholas Nickleby."

Okay, guys, let's go to our next tossup question.

In what war, which Alastair Campbell's so-called dodgy dossier advocated for, did the UK join a coalition of the willing against Saddam Hussein?

Timothy, Lake-Lehman.

(Timothy indistinctly speaking) - Is incorrect.

Rebound to Tunkhannock.

- Brexit?

- No, that's the Iraq War.

The Iraq War.

Here's our next tossup.

What ballet, originally scored for 13 instruments, includes a bride's dance and variations on "Simple Gifts" and was composed by Aaron Copland?

Maia, Tunkhannock.

- "The Nutcracker."

- [Paul Lazar] Is incorrect.

Rebound to Lake-Lehman.

- "Hamilton."

- Nope, that's "Appalachian Spring."

All right, here's our next tossup question.

What organ, stimulated by TSH to secrete T3 and T4, can be enlarged in Graves disease to form a goiter, and is a butterfly-shaped gland in the neck?

Julianne, Lake-Lehman.

- Thyroid.

- Is correct, and here's your bonus.

What architect of the Farnsworth House collaborated with Philip Johnson on the Seagram Building and popularized the maxim "Less is more?"

- Mies van der Rohe.

- Is correct for your bonus points, Lake-Lehman.

Thank you for not making me say that.

Let's move on to our next tossup question.

What mariner escapes captivity with help from Xury and meets an Indigenous man he calls Friday after being... Paul, Lake-Lehman.

- "Robinson Crusoe."

"Robinson Crusoe."

- Is correct, and here's your bonus.

The Palmer Index measures the severity of what natural events that correspond to narrower tree rings and increased water stress?

- Droughts.

Droughts?

- Droughts is correct for your bonus points, Lake-Lehman, as we turn to another tossup.

What DJ whose albums include "God Did," "Father of Asahd," and "Suffering..." Timothy, Lake-Lehman.

- Drake.

- Is incorrect.

I'll finish the question and rebound to Tunkhannock.

"Father of Asahd," and "Suffering from Success" uses such catchphrases as "Another one" and "You played yourself?"

- Maia.

- DJ Khaled.

- That is correct for your rebound points, Tunkhannock.

And that's the end of the game, and our winner tonight is Lake-Lehman over Tunkhannock, 265 to 135.

Congratulations, Lake-Lehman, 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 thank you for watching.

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