(upbeat techno music) - Welcome to the 16th 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.

WVIA would like to thank our sponsors, FNCB and Peoples Security Bank for making this competition possible.

This year's Scholastic Scrimmage looks a little different and the rules have been revised due to the pandemic.

But, in each half, students will have a 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 Mountain View.

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

Their advisor is Joe Marino.

Representing Mountain View in the first half are Jonathon Symuleski and Jimi Bernofsky.

The alternates are Paige Strickland and Nick Schmitt.

Their adviser is Charlene Martins.

Well, lets get started.

Lakeland has won the coin toss.

And will receive the first question which is: What state, which is represented by the first openly bisexual US senator, is the home of Kyrsten Sinema and and was formerly represented by John McCain?

- Texas - Is incorrect.

Rebound to Mountain View.

- Arizona - Is correct for your rebound points, Mountain View.

And here comes your first question of the game.

And get your pencils and papers out.

If a standard six-sided die is rolled once, what is the probability the result is a multiple of three?

- One-third - Is correct.

And here's your bonus question.

What Dutch scientist whose namesake principle says every point on a wavefront could be treated as a source of new waves, developed the pendulum clock?

- Bernoulli - No, we were looking for Christiaan Huygens.

Lakeland it's back over to you.

The Ems Dispatch helped start what war during which Napoleon the Third was captured at Sedan, and the German Empire was formed during the Siege of Paris?

(whispering) (loud beep) - Hundred Year War - Is incorrect.

Rebound to Mountain View.

- French Revolutionary War - Is incorrect.

We're looking for the Franco-Prussian War.

- Mountain View, it's back over to you.

What mannerist who showed a nobleman laid in his grave and taken to Heaven, and the burial of the Count of Orgaz was nicknamed for his Greek heritage?

- Ethos - Is incorrect.

Rebound to Lakeland.

- No answer.

- Okay.

We're looking for Greco.

Lakeland, here's your next question.

Pascal's law states that a confined fluid has a constant value everywhere.

For what quantity who is atmospheric value can be measured with a barometer?

- Pressure - Is correct.

And here's your bonus question.

An asterisk denotes an atom in what type of state produced in a laser that is higher in energy than the ground state?

- Plasma - Is incorrect.

We're looking for excited states.

Okay Mountain View, here's your next question.

What law written by Jesse B. Thomas was struck down in the Dred Scott decision, and admitted both the free state Maine and a namesake slave state?

- No answer.

- Okay.

Rebound to Lakeland.

- Kansas Nebraska - Is incorrect.

We're looking for the Missouri Compromise.

Lakeland, here's your next question.

What country, the setting of the novel "True History of the Kelly Gang," is the home of Banjo Paterson who wrote bush ballads like "Waltzing Matilda?"

- Germany (loud beep) - Germany is incorrect.

Rebound to Mountain View.

- Austria - Is incorrect.

We're looking for Australia.

(loud beep) And 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 E in chemistry or presidential scandals.

- Chemistry - Okay E in Chemistry it is, and your time begins after I finish reading the first question.

Give these chemistry terms that start with the letter E: Biological catalyst, such as ligases.

- Enzymes - Yes.

Element 99, named after a Nobel winning physicist.

- Next question.

- That was Einstein.

In atom's attraction for electrons and a bond.

- Electronegativity - Is correct.

State in which forward and reverse reactions have equal rates.

- Pass - Equilibrium Molecular formula reduced to lowest terms.

- Pass - Empirical formula Type of reaction that releases heat.

- Energetic - Exothermic Measure of randomness or disorder symbolized S. - Pass - That's entropy.

Point into titration at which the reaction is complete.

(loud beep) That was equivalence point.

Okay.

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

Mountain View, we're coming over to you.

Your remaining category will be presidential scandals.

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

Name the president under whom these scandals occurred: Teapot dome.

- Warren G. Harding - Yes The Whiskey Ring.

- Pass - Grant The XYZ Affair.

- Roosevelt - John Adams Iran Contra - Lincoln - Reagan The Petticoat Affair - Pass - Andrew Jackson - Operation Fast and Furious, under which guns were sold to Mexican cartels.

- Bush - Obama The Monica Lewinsky Affair.

- Clinton - Yes Watergate - Nixon - Yes The Maria Halpin Affair, which prompted the mocking chant, "Ma, Ma, Where's my paw?"

(loud beep) - Jackson - That was Grover Cleveland.

And that's going to do it for the lightning round.

And after that, we currently have Mountain View in the lead over Lakeland 50 to 30.

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.

Let's start with the students from Lakeland, and Grace, I'll come your way first.

Tell me what your plans are after high school.

- I hope to major in biology and eventually make it to medical school to be a doctor.

- That's excellent.

Good luck, Grace.

Kayla, what are your plans?

- I want to go to college for criminal psych and get into the forensic profiling in the FBI.

- All right, sounds great.

Thank you Lakeland.

Mountain View, it's over to you, Jonathon.

What are your plans post high school?

- I want to attend the Air Force Academy and become a combat rescue officer.

- That's excellent.

And Jimi, what are your plans?

I would like to join the Air Force and after four years of military service, possibly go to college for law and crime.

- That's excellent.

Some big plans.

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 Mountain View.

What transition metal responsible for the color of both rubies and emeralds, is named after its colorful salts and has the atomic symbol CR.

- Chromium - Is correct.

And here's your bonus question.

What wife of Lapidoth is the only female judge mentioned in the Old Testament, appearing in chapters four and five of the book of Judges?

- Ruth - Nope.

We were looking for Deborah.

Lakeland, here's your next question.

What Central American country, which is flanked by the world's second largest barrier reef, is led from Belmopan, and borders Mexico and Guatemala?

(loud beep) (mumbling) - Rebound, now to Mountain View.

- El Salvador - Is incorrect.

We're looking for Belize.

Mountain View, here's your next question.

Emile Durkheim described egoistic and anomic types of what action that he found more common in Protestants than Catholics, the act of killing oneself?

- Suicide - Is correct.

And here's your bonus question.

What Fox News host, who has said in a 2020 court opinion to engage in exaggeration rather than stating actual facts, co-founded the Daily Caller?

- No answer.

- Okay.

That was Tucker Carlson.

Lakeland, here's your next question.

What architect of Poplar Forest designed the lawn as part of the Academical Village at the University of Virginia and also designed Monticello?

- Wright (loud beep) - Is incorrect.

Rebound to Mountain View.

- No answer.

- Okay.

That was Thomas Jefferson.

Mountain View, it's back to you.

What island, which lies at the Southern Terminus of the Seikon Tunnel, is south of Hokkaido, and is the most populous of the Japanese islands?

- Honshu - Is correct.

And here's your bonus question.

What author described a woman who makes a last- minute decision not to go to Argentina in his story Evaline, which appears in his collection, Dubliners?

- Oscar Wilde - No, we're looking for James Joyce.

Lakeland, it's back over to you now.

The enzyme catalase breaks down what molecule sold in opaque brown bottles that is used as a disinfectant and has the molecular formula H202?

- Iodine - Is incorrect.

Rebound, to Mountain View.

- Dihydrogen dioxide - Is incorrect.

We're looking for hydrogen peroxide.

Alright, Mountain View, here comes your next question.

What language was used to write the "Lower Depths," a social realist play by Maxim Gorky, premiered by the director Konstantin Stanislavski?

- Latin - Is incorrect.

Rebound to Lakeland.

(loud beep) - Russian - Russian is correct for your for your rebound points.

Lakeland, great job.

And after one half of play, we currently have Mountain View in the lead over Lakeland 80 to 40.

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

Good luck in all that you do.

And good luck to Jonathon and Jimi from Mountain View, as well.

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

Now, joining us for Lakeland are Thomas Vanaskie and Samantha Black.

And representing Mountian View are Paige Strickland and Megan Zipprich.

Our first question in this quarter goes to Lakeland.

And that question is: What politician, who was succeeded by Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer as leader of the Christian Democratic Union, is the current chancellor of Germany?

- Pass - Okay.

Rebound to Mountain View.

- Merkel - Is correct for your rebound points, Mountain View.

And here's your first question.

What disease is treated with artemisinin, is caused by five species from genus plasmodium, causes cyclic fevers and is spread by mosquitoes?

- Malaria - Is correct.

And here's your bonus question.

The White Lotus Movement initiated an anti-tax rebellion against which dynasty, which later suppressed the Taiping Rebellion?

- Han Dynasty - No, we are looking for the Ching Dynasty.

Lakeland, here's your next question.

What country, home to large numbers of Basseri Nomads in its Farce Provence, has the world's largest Shiite population, many of which live in Tehran?

- Saudi Arabia - Is incorrect.

Rebound now to Mountain View.

- Iran - Is correct for your rebound points, Mountain View.

And here comes your next question.

What state was the site of the Wakarusa War between Free-Staters and pro-slavery settlers, part of an 1850s conflict in which it was bleeding?

- Kansas - Is correct.

And here's your bonus now.

"The Sea and Sinbad's Ship" is the first movement in what Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov work whose title character is represented by a solo violin?

- No answer.

- Okay.

That's Scheherazade.

- Lakeland, here's your next question.

What term denotes organisms in the lowest trophic level of a food web which utilize carbon dioxide and thus feed themselves via photosynthesis?

- Autotrophs - Is correct.

And here's your bonus question.

What British poet satirized 18th century writers in his mock epic, "The Dunciad" and described an involuntary haircut in "The Rape of the Loch?"

- Charles - Nope.

We're looking for Alexander Pope.

Mountain View, here comes your next question.

What poet wrote, "Go not to Lethe" in "Ode on Melancholy?"

which he wrote in 1819, along with a poem about a bride of quietness titled "Ode on a Grecian Urn?"

- No answer.

- Okay.

Rebound now to Lakeland.

- Darwin - Nope.

We're looking for John Keats.

Lakeland, here's your next question.

In 1985, what vessel sought by Robert Ballard was found 370 miles off the coast of Newfoundland, where it collided with an iceberg in 1912?

- Titanic - Yes.

And here's your bonus now.

Photo electron spectroscopy can be used to determine what quantity, the energy required to remove an electron from an atom?

- Nuclear - Ionization Mountain View, here's your next question.

The majority of cosmic rays are what particle made of three quarks that is produced in beta minus decay of a neutron (loud beep) And is found in nuclei?

- Proton - Is correct.

And here's your bonus.

The present day national currencies of Kenya, Uganda and Somalia share their name with what former British currency that was worth 12 pence?

- The pound - Nope.

We were looking for shilling.

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

This time, Mountain View will pick first.

Your categories are NFL teams or beavers.

- NFL teams - Okay.

And NFL teams it is.

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

Given the pair of NFL players, name their team in 2020: Davante Adams and Aaron Rodgers.

- Green Bay Packers - Yes.

Alvin Kamara and Drew Brees?

- New Orleans Saints - Yes.

Tyreek Hill and Patrick Mahomes?

- Kansas City Chiefs - Yes.

Ezekiel Elliot and Dak Prescott?

- Dallas Cowboys - Yes.

Julian Edelman and Cam Newton?

- Carolina Panthers - Patriots.

Defensive players Jalen Ramsey and Aaron Donald?

- Pass - Rams Defensive players Eddie Jackson and Khalil Mack?

- Pass - That's the Bears.

Wide receivers Chris Godwin and Mike Evans?

- Pass - Buccaneers Running backs Kareem Hunt and Nick Chubb?

- Pass - That's the Browns.

Tight ends Dallas Goedert and Zach Ertz?

- Pass - Okay.

That was the Philadelphia Eagles.

Okay Mountain View, you did a great job in your portion of the lightening round.

Lakeland, we're coming over to you.

Your remaining category will be beavers.

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

Answer the following related to beavers.

They make these barriers to stop the flow of water.

- Dam - Yes.

1773 event in which goods were thrown from a ship called the Beaver into a harbor?

- Boston Tea Party - Yes.

Taxonomic order that contains beavers?

- Pass - Rodents Author who depicted Mr. Beaver in "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe?"

- C.S.

Lewis - Yes.

Star of "Braveheart" who starred in the 2011 film, "The Beaver."

- Pass - Mel Gibson North American country whose nickel depicts a beaver?

- Canada - Yes Beavers are athletes at this PAC 12 school in Corvallis?

- Pass - Oregon State Beaver Glacier is on this continent's Ross Ice Shelf?

- Antarctica - Yes.

Surname of "Leave it to Beaver's" Beaver?

(loud beep) Ran out of time.

That was Cleaver.

And that's going to do it for the lightning round.

And after that, we currently have Mountain View in the lead over Lakeland, 170 to 110.

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.

Let's start with the students from Lakeland.

And Thomas, I'll come your way first.

Tell me what your plans are after high school.

- As of right now, I'm pretty undecided.

I'm just trying to figure out my options.

- Me too.

Thanks, Thomas.

Great job.

Samantha, what are your plans post high school?

- I plan to go to college and be an astronomer.

- That's excellent.

Keep looking up Samantha.

Mountain View, it's over to you.

Paige, what are your plans after high school?

- I hopefully plan to attend college and maybe manage in media production or something like that.

- Okay.

Very nice.

And Megan, what are your plans?

- I plan to major in pre-med and then go on to medical school.

- Excellent.

It was very nice to meet all of you.

Now let's go ahead and begin the fourth quarter with this question that goes to Mountain View.

What war, which included the Sinai and Palestine Campaign and the Gallipoli campaign and its Middle Eastern theater, was fought between 1914 and 1918?

- World War I - Is correct.

And here's your bonus question.

What country on the coast of the Adriatic Sea between Greece and Montenegro, is governed from Toronto?

- Bosnia Herzegovina - Is incorrect.

We're looking for Albania.

Lakeland, here's your next question.

In what country were Maran Hamida and Hassan Diab among the politicians to resign after ammonium nitrate caused a massive explosion in Beirut?

- India - Is incorrect.

Rebound to Mountain View.

- Lebanon - Is correct for your rebound points, Mountain View and here comes your next question.

What 1955 play, which is set during a media circus in the town of Hillsborough, is a fictionalized portrayal of the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial?

- No answer.

- Okay.

Rebound now to Lakeland.

- Evolution on Trial - No, we're looking for "Inherit the Wind."

Lakeland, here's your next question.

What religion who schools include Shingon and Nichiren, has a branch called Theravada and is based on concepts such as the four noble truths?

- Buddhism - Is correct.

And here's your bonus.

"Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls" and "Me Talk Pretty One Day," are collections of humorous essays by what contemporary American author?

- Jack Nicholson - No, we were looking for David Sedaris.

Mountain View, here's your next question.

What policy carried out at Tule Lake and Manzanar was challenged in Korematsu v US and incarcerated people of certain ethnicity in World War II?

- No answer.

- Okay, rebound now to Lakeland.

- The Japanese Enforcement Act - Is correct.

We will take that.

Very good for your rebound points.

And here's your next question, Lakeland.

Pencil and papers out as well.

What is the area of a right triangle whose legs have links of four and five, respectively, given the legs form the right angle?

- Ten - Is correct.

And here's your bonus and keep those pencils out.

What is the smallest positive angle X for which sign of X equals negative co-sign of X, meaning tangent of X is negative one?

- Would it just be one?

- Nope.

We're looking for 135 degrees.

Mountain View, here's your next question.

What novel in which a man called Monks tries to gain an inheritance by plotting with Fagin to corrupt the titled orphan, was written by Charles Dickens?

- Oliver Twist - Is correct and here's your bonus.

What city who is allied sector was supplied by a 1945 airlift, was divided into east and west portions (loud beep) during the Cold War?

- Berlin - Is correct for your bonus points, Mountain View.

And that's the end of the game.

And our winner tonight is Mountain View over Lakeland 205 to 140.

Congratulations Mountain View.

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 thanks for watching.

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