- Welcome to the 16th season of WVIA Scholastic scrimmage.

I'm your host.

Paul Lazar Scholastic scrimmage is question and answer competition featuring high school students from across the WVIA viewing area.

In each program two schools compete in a single elimination tournament for a chance to win one, three or $5,000 dollars.

WVA would like to thank our sponsor, FNCB and People Security Bank for making this competition possible.

This year, Scholastic scrimmage looks a little different and the rules have been revised due to the COVID 19 pandemic, but in each half students will have the chance to alternatively answer one question.

If they answer that question correctly they'll receive a bonus question.

If their answer is incorrect, the other team can rebound but will not be given a bonus.

Students can also score points during the two lightening rounds in each game.

Judges tonight are K-12 educators from the WVIA viewing area and tonight's match features Lakeland and Abingdon Heights.

Playing in the first half for Lakeland, are Grace Stangline and Kayla Walsh.

Their adviser is Jill Marino.

Representing Abingdon Heights in the first half are Isabel Holland and Benson Lu.

The alternate is Rena Honomolly and their advisor is John Monahan.

Well, let's get started.

Lakeland has won the coin toss and will receive the first question which is: What African country whose leaders Hassan Ali Khaire and Mohammad Abdullahi Mohamed oppose the jihadist group Al Shabaab is governed from Mogadishu?

(competitors conversing) - Mozambique (buzzer) is incorrect.

Rebound now to Abingdon Heights.

- We call through the Congo is incorrect.

We are looking for Somalia.

All right, let's move on to our next question for Abingdon Heights.

What month for which breast cancer awareness month has Opal as its birth stone is named from the Latin word for eight and ends with Halloween?

- October - Is correct.

And here's your bonus?

What Greek letter used to denote electro negativity is squared in a statistical test of differences between observed and expected frequencies?

- Ohm - No, we were looking for Chi.

All right, Lakeland.

It's back to you and get your pencils and papers ready.

How many beagles does a kennel have if it has three poodles for every five beagles and it has 24 poodles?

- 40 - is correct.

And here's your bonus question?

What Canadian singer song writer wrote and recorded the songs Famous Blue Raincoat and Hallelujah.

- Justin Bieber - is incorrect.

We're looking for Leonard Cohen Abingdon Heights, it's back to you.

What planet orbited by the AGU Saki probe, where the possibility of life was suggested by the 2020 discovery of phosphene is the second from the sun.

- Mars - is incorrect.

Rebound now to Lakeland - Venus - is correct for your rebound points Lakeland.

Great job.

And here's your next question?

Janet Reno was the first woman to hold what cabinet post held during the first Red Scare by A. Mitchell Palmer as head of the justice department?

- Secretary of defense - is incorrect.

Rebound Abingdon Heights.

- Attorney general - is correct for your rebound points, Abingdon Heights.

And here comes your next question.

What word, which is also the name of the cursed second son of Noah, refers to a meat whose varieties include prosciutto made by curing pork?

- No answer.

Okay.

Rebound now to Lakeland.

- Ham - Ham is correct for your rebound points, Lakeland and here comes your next question.

What molecule, which names a scale used to measure a fuel's ability to prevent engine knock is a straight chain alkane that has eight carbons?

(Buzzer) Okay.

Ran out of time.

Rebound now to Abingdon Heights - Octane - is correct for your rebound points.

And here's your next question Abingdon Heights.

What king, who rebellions led by Perkin Warbeck and Lambert Simnel tried to depose, won the battle of Bosworth field and was the first Tudor king?

(Beep) - Henry - Be more specific - Ummm the 8th - Is incorrect.

Rebound to Lakeland - King Henry the Third - Is incorrect.

We were looking for Henry the seventh, Henry the seventh.

Well, that sound that you heard signals the end of the first quarter and it's now time for the lightening 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 Lakeland has won the coin toss and will pick first your categories are quantum mechanics or Beethoven.

- Beethoven.

- OK Beethoven, it is.

And your time begins after I finish reading the first question answer the following about German composer Ludwig van Beethoven: Number of his last completed symphony?

- One - Yes.

Physical impairment that led him to contemplate suicide?

- Deafness - Yes.

French leader, who was the original dedicatee of his eroica symphony - Napoleon.

- Yes His only opera?

- Ferdrin Figero - Fidelio Unusual number of movements in his pastoral symphony?

- Thirteen - Five German author who's ode to joy was used in his ninth symphony?

- Haydn - Schiller Celestial nickname of his 14th piano Sonata?

- Andromeda - Moonlight Woman's name, who was, who appears in the title of his Bagatelle that begins with alternating E and D sharp notes.

(tone sounding) Okay.

That was Elisa.

Elisa.

Okay, Lakeland, great job on the Beethoven category in the lightening round Abingdon Heights, it's back to you and your remaining category will be quantum mechanics.

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

Answer the following about quantum mechanics.

Six letter term for a particle of light?

- Photon - Yes.

He explained the photoelectric effect with quantum mechanics?

- Bohr - Einstein Quantum mechanical constant denote at H?

- Planck Constant - Yes.

Quantum mechanics has yet to account for this fundamental force?

- Gravity - Yes.

For electrons this property can equal plus or minus one half?

- Spin - Yes.

- Point line or plane where away functions amplitude is zero?

- Frequency - Node - Maximum number of electrons in one orbital?

- Eight - Two Principle limiting simultaneous knowledge of momentum and position?

- Ummm as a newthal - The Heisenberg uncertainty principle An electron and an atom has this many quantum numbers... (Beep) That was four and that's going to do it for the lightning round.

And after that, we have a very close game.

Abingdon Heights in the lead over Lakeland, 70 to 60 Well 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.

Let's start with the students from Lakeland, and Grace.

I'll come your way first.

Tell me who your favorite teacher is and why.

[Grace]- Well my favorite teacher would probably have to be my Spanish teacher as a shakeup.

I've had her for the past four years every year and she's just really enjoyed teaching.

And you can see that she cares about her students a lot.

- [Paul] That's excellent.

Thanks for being here, Grace.

Kayla, who is your favorite teacher and why?

- [Kayla] My favorite teacher is Ms Marino, you know you have to go above and beyond for her students.

- [Paul] That's excellent.

Thanks for being here, Lakeland and good luck the rest of the way Abingdon Heights, it's over to you.

Isabel.

Who is your favorite teacher and why?

- [Isabel] I would say my favorite teacher is my former sociology teacher, Mr. Burke, because his classes really extend beyond the content and teach you a lot about life.

- [Paul] That's excellent.

Thanks for being here, Isabel and Benson who is your favorite teacher?

- [Benson] My favorite teacher is Mr. Monahan, because he's very nice.

- [Paul] That's excellent.

- All right Abingdon Heights.

Good luck to you.

The rest of the way as well.

It was very nice to meet all of you.

Now.

Let's go ahead and begin the second quarter with this question that goes to Abingdon Heights.

What man who died in July, 2020 co-hosted live with Kathy Lee Gifford and Kelly Ripa and was the first US host of Who Wants to be a Millionaire?

- No answer - Okay.

Rebound now to Lakeland - Alex Treback - Is incorrect.

We're looking for Regis Philbin Lakeland, here's your next question?

Bodies radiate energy proportional to the fourth power of what quantity whose lowest value is absolute zero or zero on the Kelvin scale?

- Tempature - Is correct.

And here's your bonus question?

What phenomenon, which can cause a glass to shatter, occurs when an oscillator is excited at its natural frequency making it vibrate, strongly?

- Sound wave.

Nope.

We were looking for resonance Abingdon Heights, here's your next question.

What operatic character has told "You is my woman now" and sings "I loves you" in a work by DuBose Heyward and George Gershwin in which she loves Porgy.

- No answer - Okay.

Rebound now to Lakeland - Porgy and Bess - is correct for your rebound points.

And here comes your next question, Lakeland.

What novel in which a woman named Leafy, abandons her daughter in Florida, centers on Janey Crawford and was written by Zora Neale Hurston.

- Grapes of wrath - is incorrect.

- Rebound to Abingdon Heights.

- Uhh White Teeth - No we were looking for Their Eyes were Watching God Abingdon Heights here's your next question.

What type of parallelograms have diagonals that are each other's perpendicular bisectors include diamonds and squares and have four equal sides.

- Rhombus - Is correct.

And here's your bonus question and get your pencils and papers ready.

What is the radius of a sphere whose surface area is 64 pi given that the surface area formula includes an r squared term - Eight (Beep) - Is incorrect.

We're looking for four Our next question goes to Lakeland.

What kind of food, examples of which made from teff and oughta include Ethiopian injera and Indian roti comes in round flat varieties such as pita?

- Bread - is correct.

And here's your bonus question?

The piano replaced what keyboard instrument popular in the Baroque era in which the strings are plucked rather than struck by hammers?

- Harpsichord - is correct.

Moving on to Abingdon Heights.

Your next question What south American country which contains the mouth of the Kaituma River was the site of the Jonestown massacre and is governed from Georgetown?

(Beep) - is incorrect.

Rebound to Lakeland - Bermuda.

- Nope, We were looking for Guyana Guyana and after one half of play still a very close game.

We have Lakeland in the lead over Abingdon Heights 95 to 80.

We want to say thank you to Grace and Kayla from Lakeland.

And thank you to Isabel and Benson from Abingdon Heights.

You guys were absolutely fantastic.

We're now going to meet your teammates for the second half.

Now, joining us for Lakeland are Thomas and Samantha Black and representing Abingdon Heights are Ashley Hamilton and Haley Kane.

Our first question this quarter goes to Lakeland.

And that question is What odorless gas whose lethality is due to its high affinity for hemoglobin is a product of incomplete combustion and has the molecular formula CO - Carbon monoxide.

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question?

Republicans, Jim Risch and Mike Crapo currently serve as senators from what Western state?

Texas - Is incorrect.

We're looking for Idaho Abingdon Heights.

It's over to you now.

What country that fought ETA ,a separatist group of Basques, has also opposed the independence of Catalonia a region including Barcelona?

- Spain - Is correct.

And here's your bonus question?

What author described good men whose frail deeds might have danced in a green bay in his poem Do not go gentle into that good night?

- Shelley - No, we were looking for Dylan Thomas Lakeland, it's back to you.

What goddess who creates a snake to poison a God and learn his secret name is the mother of Horace who resurrects her husband and brother Osiris?

- Isis - Is correct.

And here's your bonus question?

So-called classical concert classical construction problems.

Try to construct the geometric figures using only a straight edge and what device that can draw a circular arcs?

- Arc No we were looking for compass Abingdon Heights, it's back to you Which mineral who's PA's electric properties means it's used in watches defines a value of seven on the moes scale and as a form of Silicon dioxide?

- Quartz - Is correct.

And here's your bonus question?

Oxford's Bodleian is what type of institution many of which once documented and tracked items with physical card catalogs?

- Census Nope.

We were looking for library Lakeland, it's back to you.

What Englishman stated less is more in his poem.

Andrea Del Sarto wrote the dramatic monologue My last Duchess and was married to Elizabeth Barrett?

- No answer Okay rebound now to Abingdon Heights.

- No answer - Okay.

We're looking for Robert Browning Abingdon Heights, it's back to you.

What country were Nazi agents attempted a coup by assassinating chancellor Englebert Dolphus in 1934 United with Germany in 1938 in the Anschluss?

- Austria.

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question?

What river, which carves hell's canyon and the Pacific Northwest, is the largest tributary of the Columbia river?

- Colorado River - Nope, we were looking for the Snake river Lakeland, it's back to you.

Here's your question.

What phenomenon with demand pool and cost push types can be caused by an increase in money supply and involves a general increase in prices?

- Inflation - Is correct.

(Beep) And here's your bonus question.

Electrodes made of nickel, oxide, hydroxide and cadmium are used in one variety of what device which can also use lithium ions?

- Battery - is correct for your bonus points, Lakeland, great job.

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

This time Abingdon Heights will pick first.

Your categories are Oy or death.

- Oy - Okay Oy it is.

And your time begins after I finished reading.

The first question you have these words that end in the letters, O Y a fake used as a distraction?

- Ploy - decoy happiness, or pleasure - Joy.

- Yes.

A butterfly that is a mimic of the Monarch - Pass - Viceroy Jewish term for a nation or a non-Jewish person.

- Pass - Goy One who recoils from contact, like a poetic mistress.

- Pass - Coy A mixture of metal such as brass - Alloy.

- Yes.

A person who clears tables at a restaurant.

- Bus boy - Yes.

A native of India and a European colonial army.

- Pass - Seapoy A traditional salutation to a passing ship - Ahoy - Yes.

The weight system used for gold (Beep) Gang that was Troy.

Okay.

I think Abingdon Heights.

Great job on your portion of the lightning round Lakeland we're coming back to you and your remaining category.

The bright one is called death.

And your time begins after I finished reading the first question identify these things.

Whose name includes the word death Colorful two word term for the great plague?

- Black Death.

- Yes.

Planet destroying space station used by Darth Vader - Death Star.

- Yes.

Emily Dickinson, poem whose title figure stopped for me... - Pass - because I could not stop for death Form of overtime ending with a score change - Pass - sudden death - Part of a prison holding condemned inmates?

- Death row.

- Yes.

1949 Play whose title character works for Howard Wagner - Pass - Death of a Salesman.

Jock Louis DaVita, painting of a man about to drink hemlock - Aristotle - Death of Socrates - Set of three objects that includes the elder wand.

- Deathly Hallows - Yes.

1993 comic book event featuring the villain Doomsday.

(Beep) That was the death of Superman.

Okay.

Lakeland, that's going to wrap up your portion of the lightening round.

And before we go any further we need to make a quick scoring adjustment.

A judge rule that an earlier answer by Abingdon Heights was incorrect.

So that brings our score to 170 to 140 in favor of Lakeland.

Well, 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.

We'll start with the students from Lakeland and Thomas I'll come your way first.

Tell me who your favorite teacher is and why.

- [Thomas] So my favorite teacher is miss Patricia because she's the best accounting teacher.

And she cares about all our students.

- Yeah.

That's excellent.

Thanks for being here, Thomas.

Samantha, who's your favorite teacher?

- [Samantha] My favorite teacher is probably Mr. Brophy because he always makes class fun.

- Very important.

Alright, Lakeland, good luck.

The rest of the way.

Abingdon Heights coming over to you.

Ashley, who is your favorite teacher and why?

- [Ashley] My favorite teacher is Mr. Monahan because he's a man of the people - And Haley.

Who's your favorite teacher?

- [Hayley] My favorite teacher is my chemistry teacher because she's very passionate about what she teaches.

- Good luck, Abingdon Heights, the rest of the way.

It's very nice to meet you.

Now.

Let's go ahead and begin the fourth quarter with this question that goes to Abingdon Heights.

What title king searches for the killer of Laius in a tragedy by Sophocles only to discover that he himself has committed patricide and incest?

- Oedipus Rex - Yes.

And here's your bonus question?

Architect David Childs designed what New York city building which has a number in its name to have a symbolic height of 1,776 feet.

- The one world trade center - is correct for your bonus points.

Abingdon Heights, Lakeland it's back to you.

What city, the site of the 1943 Zoot suit riots the 1965 Watts riots, and the 1992 Rodney king riots, is the most populous in California?

- Los Angeles - Is correct.

And here's your bonus?

Hesiod's theogony attributes, a primordial origin to what Greek love God whose Roman equivalent was Cupid?

- Eros - Is correct for your bonus points Lakeland It's back to you now Abingdon Heights Paramecium has a contractile version of what organelle, whose central form occupies most of a plant cell and regulates its turgor pressure?

- Acura - Is Correct.

And here's your bonus question?

According to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy what massively useful item can provide warmth act as a raft or foil, a ravenous bug bladder beast?

- Umbrella.

- No, we were looking for towel Lakeland it's back to you.

What author wrote about Soapy, who sent to jail in the Cop and the Anthem and about the married couple Jim and Della in the Gift of the Magi?

- JK Rowling - is incorrect.

Rebound now to Abingdon Heights - O. Henry - Is correct for your rebound points, Abingdon Heights.

And here comes your next question.

What composer of an Alpine symphony and Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks used a rising CGC brass motif in his tone poem, thus Sprach Zarathustra?

- Liss - is incorrect, rebound to Lakeland - Pass.

- Okay.

That's Ricard Strauss.

Lakeland, here's your next question?

What two word name is shared by the sock leader who lost the battle of bad acts and the American helicopters shot down at the battle of Mogadishu?

- Black Hawk - Is correct.

(Beep) And here's your bonus question and get your pencils and papers out.

What is the determinant of the two by two matrix whose top row is (11,5) and who's bottom row is (4,2).

(Beep) [Paul } Okay.

That answer is two.

Abingdon Heights, it's back to you.

What city, where the Carnation revolution started in 1974, was almost entirely destroyed by a 1755 earthquake and it is the capital of Portugal?

- No answer - Okay, rebound now to Lakeland.

- No answer Okay.

That's Lisbon.

And that's the end of the game.

And our winner tonight is Lakeland over Abingdon Heights 195 to 175.

Congratulations, Lakeland.

You're going to be moving on and we'll see you next time with another round of WVIA Scholastic scrimmage.

I'm your host.

Paul Lazar, and thank you for watching.