(upbeat 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 one, three or $5,000.

WVIA would like to thank our sponsor, FNCB, and People 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 Coronavirus 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 Lightning Rounds in each game.

Judges tonight, are K-12 educators from the WVIA viewing area and tonight's championship match features Lewisburg and Delaware Valley.

Playing in the first half for Lewisburg, are James Koconis and Sarah Mahoney.

Their advisor is Michael Krieger.

Representing Delaware Valley in the first half, are J.D.

Flick and Lucas Helms.

The alternates are Ralph Cortright, Janice Healey, Clint Murray, and Sarah Flick.

Their adviser is Michael Murray.

Well, let's get started.

Lewisburg has won the coin toss and will receive the first question, which is: Simon Stimson is the alcoholic director of the church choir in what play, which is narrated by a stage manager and was written by Thornton Wilder?

- Oscar Wilde.

- Is incorrect, rebound now to Delaware Valley.

- Our Town.

- Is correct for your rebound points, Delaware Valley, and here comes your first question.

What band behind the song, The Miracle of Joey Ramone had its album, Songs of Innocence given to every iTunes user and as fronted by Bono?

- U2.

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

Which Catalin architect created the Casa Mila and his unfinished masterpiece, the Sagrada Familia Basilica, in Barcelona?

- Gaudi.

- Gaudi is correct for your bonus points, Delaware Valley.

Let's move over to Lewisburg.

What European kingdom took over a colony where their Force Publique, once perpetrated rubber atrocities for Leopold II, called the Congo Free State.

- Austria?

- Is incorrect, rebound to Delaware Valley.

- Belgium?

- Belgium is correct for your rebound points, Delaware valley and here comes your next question.

A McLeod Gauge can be used to measure what physical property, which can also be measured by a mononmeter, or an aneroid, or traditional barometer?

- Pressure.

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

Alan Dulles and Gerald Ford were members of what group appointed in 1963 to investigate the assassination of John F. Kennedy?

- The Dallas Commission.

- Is incorrect.

We are looking for The Warren Commission.

Let's go back to Lewisburg now.

Holy Trinity Brompton is a leading church in what organization that uses the Book of Common Prayer and is led by the Archbishop of Canterbury.

- Lutheran.

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Deleware Valley.

- Anglican.

- Anglican Church is correct for your rebound points, Delaware Valley and here comes your next question.

What novel ends as the words, "Yes I said yes I will yes, pass through the mind of Molly Bloom," and depicts a single June day in the city of Dublin?

- Dubliners?

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Lewisburg now.

- The Irish Tale.

- No, we're looking for Ulysses.

Okay Lewisburg, it's back over to you.

What specific military group, which was repulsed by Hugh Doubting at the Battle of Britain, was led by Hermann Goring, and served as the Nazi Air force?

- Luftwaffe.

- Is correct and here's your bonus question, what country's national epic, the Lusiads, is primarily narrated by the explorer, Vasco da Gama?

- Portugal.

- Is correct for your bonus points, Lewisburg.

Okay, Delaware valley.

Here's your next question.

The Field's Medal is awarded for research in what academic fields studied by Georg Cantor and David Hilbert, whose topics include topology and algebra?

- Mathematics.

- Is correct and here's your bonus question.

What Netherlandish artists who created the Haywain Triptych painted a pair of human ears split by a knife in 1510's, The Garden of Earthly Delights?

- Bosch.

- Is correct for your bonus points, Delaware valley.

Great job.

And 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.

Lewisburg has won the coin toss and will pick first.

Your categories are science XYZ, or Shakespearian title characters.

- Science XYZ.

- Okay, science XYZ it is.

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

You have these science terms that begin with an X, a Y or a Z.

A company that makes photocopiers and founded a pioneering research lab.

- Xerox.

- Yes, the amount of product obtained from a chemical reaction?

- Yield.

- Yes, a type of single cell fungus used in baking and brewing.

- Yeast.

- Yes, a noble gas atomic number 54.

- Xenon.

- Yes, the study of animals.

- Zoology.

- Yes, a metal that plate steel and galvanizing.

- Zinc.

- Yes, a woody plant tissue that transports water.

- Xylem.

- Yes, a town in Sweden that lends its name to, four chemical elements.

- Pass.

- Ytterby.

- An Illuminosilicate mineral with micropores.

- Pass.

- Zeolite.

The minimum energy a molecule has after all motion stops.

- Zero.

- We ran out of time, that was a zero point energy.

Okay Delaware valley, we're coming over to you.

Your remaining category will be Shakespearian title characters.

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

Name the Shakespearian title character who delivers these lines.

Now we're looking for the name of one character, not the name of the play.

"To be or not to be."

- Hamlet.

- Yes, "It is the east and Juliet is the sun."

- Romeo.

- Yes.

"Honest Iago, my Desdemona must I leave to thee" - Othello.

- Yes.

"It is a tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury signifying nothing."

- King Lear.

- Macbeth.

- Et tu, Brutei?

- Julius Caesar.

- Yes.

"Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more."

- King Henry.

- Be more specific.

- King Henry VII.

- King Henry V. "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child."

- King Lear.

- Yes.

"Well, Shylock, shall we be beholding to you?"

- Merchant of Venice.

- No, Antonio.

"What's in a name that which we call a rose by any other name, what smell is sweet?"

That was Juliet, we ran out of time there guys.

Still great job though, in the lightening round.

And after that, we currently have Delaware Valley in the lead over Lewisburg, 120 to 85.

And 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.

And we'll start with the students from Lewisburg and James, I'll come your way first.

Tell me a fun fact about yourself.

- I got hit by a firework in Mexico when I was 10.

- Okay, we'll talk more about that later.

Sarah, tell me a fun fact about yourself.

- I'm scuba diving certified.

- That's excellent.

Thanks for being here, Lewisburg.

Delaware Valley over to you.

J.D., tell me what your plans are for the summer.

- College.

Maybe getting an internship at a graphic design firm.

- Okay and Lucas, what are your plans for the summer?

- I plan on working at a local school district in their tech department.

- Okay, excellent.

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 Delaware Valley.

What river joins the Yamuna at Allahabad flows past the city of Varanasi, empties into the bay of Bengal in Bangladesh and is sacred to Hindus?

- Ganges.

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

What leader ordered the bombing of Pearl Harbor after he succeeded Fumimaro Konoe as prime minister of Japan during world war two?

- Tojo.

- Is correct for your bonus points, Delaware Valley.

Let's move over to Lewisburg.

What scale was defined using a Wood-Anderson torsion seismometer and uses a base 10 lever in that system to assign a magnitude to an earthquake?

- Vector scale.

Is correct and here's your bonus question.

In 2016, what NBA team signed Rajon Rondo and acquired Robin Lopez from the Knicks, in exchange for point guard, Derrick Rose?

- Celtics.

- Nope, we're looking for the Chicago Bulls.

Delaware valley, it's back over to you.

What author wrote about the beginning of the armadillos and how the leopard got his spots in Just So Stories and about Mowgli in the Jungle Book?

- Rudyard Kipling.

Is correct and here's your bonus question.

Vladimir and Estragon do not move at the end of what Samuel Beckett play named after a figure who never appears?

- Waiting for Godot.

- Waiting for Godot is correct for your bonus points, Delaware valley.

Lewisburg, back over to you.

What city whose War Memorial Stadium hosts college football's Delta Classic, is home to the Clinton presidential library and is Arkansas capital?

- Little Rock.

Is correct and here's your bonus question.

What property of a is defined as the ratio of its mass to that an equivalent volume of water?

- Density.

- Is incorrect, we're looking for specific gravity.

Delaware valley, here's your next question.

What metallic element found in the mineral pitch blend has a fissile 235 isotope that is capable of sustaining a nuclear chain reaction?

- Uranium.

Is correct and here's your bonus question.

What composer of music for strings percussion and celesta studied Hungarian folk music and wrote the one one-act opera Bluebeard's Castle?

- The Board Jack.

- Nope, we're looking for Bela Bartok.

Lewisburg, it's back over to you.

What point, which was renamed by John II from the name given to it by Bartolomeu Dias, The Cape of Storms is near the Southern tip of Africa?

- Cape May.

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Delaware valley.

- Cape of Good Hope.

- Is correct for your rebound points, Delaware valley.

And here's your next question.

What composer of the opera Cersei included an alla hornpipe in his water music and wrote the oratorial Messiah, which includes the hallelujah chorus.

- Handel.

- Is correct and here's your bonus question.

A civil war currently rages in what country west of Ethiopia governed from Juba that was created in 2011?

- South Sudan.

- South Sudan is correct for your bonus points, Delaware valley, great job.

Let's move back now.

We'll get to that in the next quarter, because after one half of play, we currently have Delaware valley in the lead over Lewisburg, 185 to 105.

We wanna say thank you to James and Sarah from Lewisburg.

And thank you to JD and Lucas from Delaware Valley.

You guys were super.

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

(upbeat music) Now, joining us for Lewisburg are Chenchen Gu, and Ezra Buoopane and representing Delaware Valley are McKayla Cortright and Adam Canterman.

Our first question in this quarter goes to Lewisburg and that question is, what state which leads the nation and power produced from wind has a fracking industry centered on the Barnett Shale and exports oil from Houston?

- Texas.

- Is correct and here's your bonus question.

If you add 10 to the negative 10th moles of acetic acid to a liter of water, to the nearest whole number, what is the final pH of the solution?

- Seven.

- Seven is correct for your bonus points, Lewisburg.

Let's move over to Delaware valley.

What English author consulted uncle Henry's diary to write a journal of the plague year and described a stranded Mariner in Robinson Crusoe?

- Daniel Defoe.

- Is correct and here's your bonus question.

Baracoa, which was Cuba's first capital is a city in what eastern most Cuban province that shares its name with the U.S.

Naval base?

- Guantanamo.

- Guantanamo.

- Is correct for your bonus points, Delaware valley.

Lewisburg, back over to you.

What agreement which led to the creation of Maquiladoras was signed between Canada, the U.S. and Mexico in 1994 to promote free trade?

- NAFTA.

- Is correct and here's your bonus question.

What actress played Jane Hawking in the theory of everything and Jen Urso in the Star Wars film, Rogue One?

- Daisy Ridley.

- Nope., we were looking for Felicity Jones, Delaware valley, it's back over to you.

The Contact Process has largely replaced the Leed Chamber Process in the industrial production of what diproduct acid who is molecular formula is H2S04?

- Sulfuric acid.

- Is correct and here's your bonus question, Bea and Olaf Bjornstam die of typhoid in what novel in which Will Kennicott marries Carol Milford and moves to the small town of Gopher Prairie?

- Pass.

- Okay, that's Main Street.

Lewisburg, back over to you.

What Michigan alumnus, who was taken in the sixth round of the 2000 NFL Draft has won four Super Bowl MVP awards with the New England Patriots?

- Tom Brady.

- Is correct and here's your bonus question.

What state in which the 1780 American victory at Kings Mountain took place was the site of guerrilla campaigns led by Francis Marion?

- North Carolina.

- No, we're looking for South Carolina.

- Delaware valley, it's back over to you.

What man from Louisiana who replaced Kevin McCarthy, his house majority whip in 2014, survived a June, 2017 assassination attempt at a baseball field?

- Paul Lion.

- Is incorrect, rebound to Lewisburg.

- Steve Scalise.

- Is correct for your rebound points, Lewisburg.

And here's your next question.

What businessman who operated the Carousel Club and other nightclubs in Dallas was convicted of murder after he shot Lee Harvey Oswald?

- Jack Ruby.

- Is correct and here's your bonus.

What Roman Catholic doctrine holds that the Virgin Mary was free from original sin?

- The Immaculate Conception.

- Is correct for your bonus points, Lewisburg.

It's back over to Delaware Valley now.

Pencil and papers out, what is the common logarithm of 100 million given that the common logarithm uses a base of ten?

- Eight.

- Is correct and here's your bonus question.

The pineal gland produces what hormone that helps regulate sleep and is related to the skin pigment, melanin?

- Melatonin.

- Is correct for your bonus points, Delaware valley, Great job.

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

This time Delaware Valley will pick first.

Your categories are anonymous musicians or nursery rhymes.

- Anonymous musicians.

- Okay, anonymous musicians it is and your time begins after I finish reading the first question.

Given two song titles, name the musician who performs under a single name who recorded them, Disturbia and Only Girl in the World.

- Pass.

- That's Rihanna.

When Doves Cry and Little Red corvette.

- Prince.

- Yes.

Like a Virgin and Like a Prayer.

- Madonna.

- Yes.

Hello and Rolling in the Deep.

- Adelle.

- Yes.

Try Everything and Hips Don't Lie.

- Shakira.

- Yes.

Fields of Gold and If I Ever Lose My Faith In You.

- Pass.

- Sting.

- Purple Lamborghini and Bang Harangue.

- Pass.

- Skrillex.

Where It's At and Loser.

- Beck.

- Yes.

- Don't Cry and Kiss From a Rose.

- Pass.

- Seal.

Believe and If I Could Turn Back Time.

- Pass.

- That's Cher.

Okay, Delaware valley.

That was a great job in the lightening round.

Lewisburg, we're coming over to you.

Your remaining category will be nursery rhymes.

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

What character from a nursery rhyme is asked, "Have you any wool?"

and responds, "Yes sir, yes sir."

"Three bags full."

- Black sheep.

- Yes.

Is asked, Dormez-vous or are you sleeping in a French rhyme?

- Frere Jacques.

- Yes, sat on her tuffet eating curds and whey.

- Ms. Muffet.

- Yes.

- Had a little lamb.

- Mary.

- Yes.

Lost her pocket, Kitty Fisher found it.

- Pass.

- Lucy Locket.

- Lost her sheep and doesn't know where to find them.

- Lucy Sheep.

- Little Bo Peep.

Is quite contrary and asked, "How does your garden grow?"

- Mary.

- Yes.

Had a wife, but couldn't keep her.

- Peter Piper.

- Is incorrect.

Peter lives on Drury lane, the rhyme asks whether you know this character.

- Pass.

- Muffin man.

Sailed in a wooden shoe with Wynken and Blynken.

- Pass.

- Nod.

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

And after that, we have a good game, Delaware valley in the lead over Lewisburg, 275 to 215.

And 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.

And we'll start with the students from Lewisburg and Chenchen, I will come to you first.

Tell me a fun fact about yourself.

- I play tennis.

- Okay, excellent.

And Ezra, fun fact about you.

- I can ride a unicycle.

- Very, very cool.

Excellent, but can you do it while playing tennis?

- No.

- Okay.

All right, excellent.

Good luck Lewisburg.

Delaware Valley over to you.

McKayla, tell me what your plans are after high school.

- After high school, I will probably go to college and try to become a forensic scientist.

- Okay and Adam, what are your plans after high school?

- I plan on becoming a high school teacher so I can send back to school.

- Okay, excellent.

Very nice to meet you.

Now, let's go ahead and begin the fourth quarter with this question that goes to Delaware valley.

The first blockchain was developed in 2009 to record transactions and what digital cryptocurrency developed by the secretive Satoshi Nakamoto?

- Bitcoin.

- Is correct and here's your bonus.

The last royal dynasty to rule France was named for what French city on Aluar who sees Joan of Arc helped break in the hundred years war.

- Volois - I'm sorry.

- Can I spell it?

- Yes.

- V-A-L-O-I-S. - No, we're looking for Orlean.

Lewisburg, it's over to you.

Doreen Green is the alter ego of what member of the Great Lakes Avengers, a Marvel superhero who can communicate with rodents of the family, Sciuridae.

- Ant man.

- No, rebound to Delaware Valley.

- Squirrel Girl.

- Is correct for your rebound points, Delaware valley.

And here comes your next question.

What third party that formed after the Ballinger affair ran in the election of 1912 and was named for an animal that Theodore Roosevelt felt fit as.

- Bull Moose Party.

- Is correct and here's your bonus question.

In what 1887 experiment did two namesake American physicists use an interferometer to disprove the existence of the luminiferous Ether?

- Watson Click.

- Is incorrect looking for Michelson Morley.

Lewisburg, it's over to you.

What structure is inactivated to form a bar body is unpaired and people with Turner Syndrome and is paired with a Y chromosome in males?

- X chromosome.

- Is correct and here's your bonus.

Fungus is threatening what cave and Southern France, whose great hall of the bulls, houses some of the oldest paleolithic art?

- Pass.

- That's Lascaux Cave.

Delaware valley, it's back to you.

What river, which flows past Timbuktu empties into the Atlantic ocean after passing through Niamey, the capital of its namesake African country?

- The Niger River.

- Is correct and here's your bonus question.

What amendment to the constitution superseded the 18th amendment and thus repeal prohibition?

- 21.

- Is correct for your bonus points, Delaware valley.

Lewisburg, back over to you.

Haphaestus' hammer and chisel were used to aid in the birth of what goddess?

The daughter of Meatus, who sprang fully formed from Zeus's head?

- Athena.

- Yes.

And here's your bonus question.

How many different ways can the letters X, Y and Z be arranged in a row?

- Nine.

- Is incorrect, we're looking for six.

Delaware valley, here's your next question.

What novel, which concerns the murder of Arthur Jarvis by the son of priest, Stephen Kumalo is set in South Africa that was written by Alan Payton?

- The Port of Durban.

- Is incorrect, rebound to Lewisburg.

- Pass.

- Okay, that's Cry, The Beloved Country.

Lewisburg, here's your next question.

Book lungs are used for respiration by some members of what class of eight legged organisms, whose species include ticks, scorpions and spiders?

- Arachnids.

- Is correct and here's your bonus question.

What Roman emperor who subjugated Judea and founded the Flavian Dynasty was the last emperor of the year of the four emperors, AD 69?

- Trajan.

- No, we're looking for a Vespasian.

That's the end of the game.

And our winner of the championship game is Delaware Valley over Lewisburg, 320 to 245.

Congratulations, Delaware Valley.

And we'll see you next season with another round of WVIA Scholastic Scrimmage.

- I'm your host, Paul Lazar and you for watching.

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