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(light-hearted music) (exhilarating music) - Welcome to the 19th 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.

Tonight's match features Lewisburg versus Delaware Valley.

Representing Lewisburg is Alana Jacob, Teddy Hummoth, Alexey Rosenberg, and Isaac Sussman.

Their alternates are Mariah Drexler and Sophia Romano, and their advisor is Michael Krieger.

Representing Delaware Valley, Christopher Fleming, Dominic Agron, Nathaniel Caso, and Jackson Hancock.

Andrea Del Freo and Isabella Hemler are their alternates, and their advisor is Robert Curtis.

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 tossup question correct.

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.

Let's get started with this tossup question in literature.

In 1855, Walt Whitman published a collection of his poems.

He continued to edit and add more poems to this collection as the years passed, thus making this book both the first book of poems that he published and the last book of his poems.

Name this collection that contains such poems as "Song of Myself", "Pioneers O Pioneers", and "O Captain My Captain".

(buzzer beeps) Jackson, Delaware Valley.

- Leaves of Grass - [Paul] Is correct and here comes your bonus question.

This Kentucky Confederate officer wreaked havoc in the Civil War with his repeated cavalry raid in Kentucky and Tennessee.

Once imprisoned, he escaped only to be killed in Greenville, Tennessee on September 4th, 1864.

Named as head of a group of Raiders.

(buzzer beeps) - Stonewall Jackson.

- No, that was John Hunt Morgan.

Let's move to a tossup now in astronomy.

The moon is 252,710 miles from the earth moving in an elliptical orbit around it.

What is the point called Where the moon is at its farthest location from the earth in this elliptical orbit?

(buzzer beeps) Christopher, Delaware Valley.

- Max Point.

- [Paul] Is incorrect.

Rebound to Lewisburg - Elongation.

- No, the answer is apogee.

Apogee.

Let's go to a tossup in literature now.

English literature has been one of the most, if not, the most influential contribution to the arts.

Name the English author who penned "The Light That Failed", "The Man Who Would Be King", "Captain Courageous", and "The Jungle Book".

(buzzer beeps) Jackson, Delaware Valley.

- Rudyard Kipling - Is correct, and here comes your bonus now.

He played 22 seasons in Major League Baseball for the Seattle Mariners, Texas Rangers, and New York Yankees.

He hit 696 home runs during his career and batted in 2086 runs.

He's currently part owner of the Minnesota Wolverines and has a net worth of $350 million.

Name this outstanding baseball player who still answers to the nickname, A-Rod.

(buzzer beeps) Christopher, Delaware Valley.

- Alex Rodriguez.

- Is correct for your bonus points.

Let's move on now to a tossup in computer science.

This type of software program backs up data and stores it in the cloud.

It protects against hackers and identity theft, fixes security issues and removes malware.

Norton, Bitdefender, McAfee, and Panda are all trusted examples.

Isaac, Lewisburg.

- Antivirus.

Is correct, and here's your bonus question.

Give the word starting with the letter E, which means improving society by changing environments.

(buzzer beeps) - Environmentalism?

- No, euphenics.

We are looking for euphenics.

Let's go to a tossup in biology, some snakes use this method of navigation when crossing open sand.

Instead of wriggling, the snakes repeatedly throw their bodies diagonally.

Teddy, Lewisburg.

- Sides swiping - [Paul] Is incorrect.

I'll finish the question and rebound to Del Val.

Diagonally through the air.

Identify this method of moving that leaves a series of J shaped tracks in the sand.

(buzzer beeps) Jackson - Jumping.

No, you were close.

Side winding.

Side winding.

Let's go now to a tossup in literature.

A book published in 1888 titled "Looking Backward", 2000 to 1877 was a utopian science fiction novel describing the future social and economic order through a narrative of a man who falls into a deep sleep and is revived in the year 2000. Who wrote this idealistic romance?

(buzzer beeps) That was Edward Bellamy.

Edward Bellamy.

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 12 rapid fire questions as they can in one minute.

Delaware Valley has won the coin toss and we'll pick first.

Your categories are world history or art.

- We'll choose world history then.

- World history it is.

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

Give the country that was led by each of the following individuals during the 1960s.

Yasser Arafat.

(buzzer beeps) - Egypt.

- [Paul] Palestine.

Gaddafi.

(buzzer beeps) - Egypt.

- [Paul] Libya.

Golden Mayor.

(buzzer beeps) - Turkey.

- [Paul] Israel.

Fidel Castro.

(buzzer beeps) - Cuba.

- [Paul] Yes.

Nikita Khrushchev.

(buzzer beeps) - USSR.

- [Paul] Yes.

Char de Gall.

(buzzer beeps) - France.

Yes.

Hussein Bintilal.

(buzzer beeps) Iraq.

- [Paul] That's Jordan.

Leonid Brezhnev.

(buzzer beeps) - USSR.

- [Paul] Yes.

John F. Kennedy.

(buzzer beeps) United States of America.

- [Paul] Yes.

Indira Gandhi.

(buzzer beeps) - India.

- [Paul] Yes.

Chairman Mao Zedong.

(buzzer beeps) - China.

- [Paul] Yes.

Joao Goulart.

(buzzer beeps) - Laos.

- [Paul] Nope, that was Brazil.

All right, Delaware Valley.

Great job in the lightning round.

We're gonna come on over now to Lewisburg and your remaining category will be art.

And again, your time begins when I finish reading the first question, give the first names of these famous artists.

Van Gogh.

(buzzer beeps) - Vincent.

- [Paul] Yes.

Lichtenstein.

(buzzer beeps) - Skip.

- [Paul] Roy.

(indistinct).

(buzzer beeps) - Skip.

- [Paul] Paul.

Matisse.

(buzzer beeps) - Skip.

Anri.

Calder.

(buzzer beeps) - Skip.

Alexander.

Warhol.

(buzzer beeps) - Andy.

- [Paul] Yes.

Dali.

(buzzer beeps) - Salvador.

- [Paul] Yes.

Rubens.

(buzzer beeps) - Skip.

- [Paul] Peter.

Whistler.

(buzzer beeps) - Skip.

- [Paul] That's James.

Brock.

(buzzer beeps) - Skip.

- [Paul] That's George.

Vermeer.

You don't know you can pass.

(buzzer beeps) - Skip.

- [Paul] Johannes.

Hopper.

- Skip.

- [Paul] And that's Edward.

That was a tough category, Lewisburg, but you did just fine.

And we're gonna go ahead and give you a score update right now.

Delaware Valley in the lead over Lewisburg, 60 to 25.

And we're now going to go ahead and move into the second quarter with this tossup question in American history.

First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen.

This phrase was coined by the father of what famous Civil War general?

(buzzer beeps) Jackson, Del Val - Ulysses S. Grant - [Paul] Is incorrect.

Rebound to Lewisburg (buzzer beeps) - Stonewall Jackson.

- Nope, that was Robert E. Lee.

Robert E. Lee.

Your next tossup will be in art.

Before a sculptor begins a major work, he'll often create a small sketch in wax or clay.

What do we call this sketch which?

Jackson, Del Val - Model - [Paul] Is incorrect?

I'll finish the question and rebound it to Lewisburg.

Which serves as a model for the final work?

(buzzer beeps) - Template.

- No, looking for bozzetto.

Bozzetto.

Let's go to a tossup now in literature.

His first play was "The Old Bachelor".

It was quickly followed by the double dealer.

Many critics say his best play was The Way of the World" Identify this English writer considered the greatest writer of the restoration comedy of manners.

(buzzer beeps) Jackson DelVal.

- Lord Byron.

- [Paul] Is incorrect.

Rebound of Lewisburg.

(buzzer beeps) Another tough one.

That's William Congreve.

We'll go to a tossup again in literature.

He was born in 1908 to black sharecroppers on a plantation near Natchez, Mississippi, but later moved to Chicago where he worked several odd jobs during the Great Depression.

His his autobiography, "Black Boy", tells about his trials as he struggled to survive in a white man's world.

His most impressive work, about a Mississippi lad named Bigger Thomas, sold 250,000 hardback copies at $5 each.

Name this author who wrote the book, "Native Son".

(buzzer beeps) Jackson, Del Val - Langston Hughes.

- [Paul] No, rebound to Lewisburg.

(buzzer beeps) That's Richard Wright.

Let's go down to a tossup in sports and games.

Today it's one of the world's most popular board games.

Chess involves two players each with 16 game pieces.

In what country was the game of chess invented?

Jackson, Del Val.

- Babylon.

- [Paul] Is incorrect.

Rebound to Lewisburg.

(buzzer beeps) - India.

- Is correct for your rebound points, Lewisburg.

As we move on to a tossup in literature.

Notes of a son and brother and a small boy and others are the autobiographical works of what American author who also gave us the "Portrait of a Lady", "The Bostonians", and "The Turn of the Screw"?

(buzzer beeps) Jackson Del Val.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne.

- [Paul] No, rebound to Lewisburg.

(buzzer beeps) That's Henry James.

Henry James.

Let's move on to a tossup an earth science now.

Cassiterite right has the formula SN O2 and the best sources are found in Bolivia.

Cassiterite is the principle ore from which what metallic element is derived?

Jackson, Del Val.

- Tin.

- [Paul] Is correct and here comes your bonus now.

In 1805, Lewis and Clark arrived in a western area of our country where the current city of Walla Walla is located.

The city's name was derived from the Indian word meaning many waters.

In which current US state was this area located?

- Oregon - [Paul] Is incorrect.

We're looking for Washington.

You are close.

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 Lewisburg and Alana, I'll come to you first.

Tell me what you like to do for fun.

- Anything outside, running, skiing, biking.

- [Paul] Alright, thank you very much.

Teddy.

- I like to be outside too and play non-competitive sports and just hang out with my friends.

- Okay, thank you.

Alexey?

I love playing tennis and board games mostly.

Alright.

And Isaac?

I like programming as my main hobby.

Alright, very cool.

Thank you Lewisburg and good luck the rest of the way.

Delaware Valley, we're coming over to you.

Christopher, tell us what you like to do for fun.

- I like to read and play guitar.

- [Paul] Alright, thank you.

Dominic?

- I play piano and cello.

- Nathaniel.

- I like playing some tennis and reading some good books.

- [Paul] Excellent.

And Jackson?

- I also like reading some good books and I liked doing a good jigsaw puzzle, too.

And of course, quizball.

- Awesome.

Good luck the rest of the way, Delaware Valley.

It was very nice to meet all of you.

And we're now going to go ahead and begin the third quarter with this tossup question.

In art, its open mouth served as a gutter to help carry falling water from the walls of the building.

What's strange and grotesque creature was a symbol?

Jackson, Del Val.

- Gargoyle - Is correct, and here comes your bonus.

Give the names of the married couple who purchased a radio in the short story titled, "The Enormous Radio".

- William and Mary.

- No, we're looking for Jim and Irene Westcott.

Let's go to a tossup in literature.

It's almost like a second life or a hidden identity.

When a character has a second life or takes on an identity that is hidden from his friends and family, what do we call this alternate?

Christopher, Del Val.

- Alter ego - Is correct, and here comes your bonus now.

The inverse of a matrix can be obtained by multiplying the reciprocal of the matrix's dominant by its what?

- What's it called?

Determinant?

(buzzer beeps) - Determinant?

- No, we're looking for adjoint.

Adjoint.

Let's go to a tossup in US geography.

It was originally named Massacre Island but was later renamed for the great grandson of Louis the XIV.

Name this barrier island found between the Mississippi Sound and the Gulf of Mexico.

(buzzer beeps) Teddy, Lewisburg - Lewis Island - [Paul] Is incorrect.

Rebound to Del Val.

Christopher.

- Louis the 16th.

- No, we're looking for Dolphin Island.

Dolphin Island.

Well your next tossup will be in sports and games.

What is the name of the world famous royal and ancient golf club in Scotland where golfers have been golfing for 600 years?

- Sterling Alana, Lewisburg.

Sterling Golf Club.

- [Paul] Is incorrect.

Rebound to Delaware Valley.

(buzzer beeps) Jackson - James the Second Green.

- No, we're looking for St. Andrews.

St. Andrews 600 years, wow.

Let's go to a tossup now in biology.

Synthetic substances that are like the male hormone testosterone are sometimes illegally used in athletics.

Alana, Lewisburg - Steroids - Is correct, and here comes your bonus question.

Often used to model or indicate tone, this artistic technique involves multiple sets of parallel lines that intersect each other at an angle.

What is this coloring technique called?

(buzzer beeps) - Hatching?

- [Paul] Be more specific.

- Cross hatching.

- Is correct for your bonus points.

Very good, Lewisburg.

As we move on to a tossup in US geography.

What lake located on the Utah Arizona border is the largest artificially created.

Alana, Lewisburg.

- Salt Lake - [Paul] Is incorrect.

I'll finish and rebound to Del Val.

Artificially created lake in the Western hemisphere?

(buzzer beeps) - Lake Powell.

You got it.

That's for your rebound points, Del Val.

Great job.

Let's go to a tossup in social science now.

What four word term, beginning with the letter C, refers to the precedent established in Shank V United States, which could be summarized by the statement that free speech and press can be limited if they threaten national security?

Dominic, Del Val - Clear and present danger - Is correct, and here comes your bonus.

Rosalyn heads into the forest of Arden seeking her exiled father.

There she finds true love.

In which of Shakespeare's place did this occur?

(buzzer beeps) - The Merry Wives of Winster?

- No, the answer we're looking for was as you like it.

As you like it.

Let's move on to a tossup in literature.

Margaret Mitchell won a national book award for fiction in 1936.

In 1937 she won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction for the same novel.

What was the only novel that Margaret Mitchell wrote?

(buzzer beeps) That is Gone With the Wind.

Gone With the Wind.

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

This time, Lewisburg will pick first.

Your categories are literature or astronomy.

- Oh sorry.

Astronomy.

- [Paul] Astronomy it is.

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

Identify these American space firsts.

The first American man to travel into space.

(buzzer beeps) - Skip.

- [Paul] Alan Shepherd.

The first American female to travel into space.

(buzzer beeps) - Sally Wright.

- [Paul] Yes.

The first African American to travel into space.

(buzzer beeps) - Skip.

- [Paul] Bluford.

The first man to walk on the moon's surface.

(buzzer beeps) - Neil Armstrong.

- [Paul] Yes.

The first NASA program to put humans in space.

(buzzer beeps) - The Apollo program.

- [Paul] Mercury.

the first successfully launched US satellite.

(buzzer beeps) - Skip.

Explorer one.

The first American to orbit the earth.

(buzzer beeps) - Skip.

John Glenn.

The first American to walk in space.

(buzzer beeps) - Skip.

- [Paul] It's Ed White.

The first American satellite to land on Mars.

(buzzer beeps) - Pioneer.

- [Paul] Mariner Nine.

America's First Space Station.

(buzzer beeps) - The International Space Station.

- [Paul] Skylab.

America's first space shuttle.

(buzzer beeps) That was Columbia.

Columbia.

Alright, Lewisburg.

That's gonna wrap up your portion of the lightning round.

Del Val, we're coming over to you.

And your remaining category will be literature.

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

Name the famous poets who gave us the following poems.

Jabberwocky.

(buzzer beeps) - Percy Shelley.

- [Paul] Louis Carroll.

Because I could Not Stop for Death.

(buzzer beeps) - Sylvia Plath - [Paul] Emily Dickinson.

The Raven.

(buzzer beeps) - Edgar Allen Poe.

- [Paul] Yes.

The Wasteland.

(buzzer beeps) - Skip.

- TS Elliot.

The Road not Taken.

(buzzer beeps) - Robert Frost.

- [Paul] Yes.

O to a Nightingale.

(buzzer beeps) - Mary Shelley, - [Paul] John Keats.

Oh Captain, My Captain.

(buzzer beeps) - Walt Whitman.

- Yes.

Paul Revere's Ride.

(buzzer beeps) - Henry Woodsworth Longfellow.

- [Paul] Yes.

My Shadow.

(buzzer beeps) - Arthur Conan Doyle.

- [Paul] RL Stevenson.

The Owl and the Pussycat.

(buzzer beeps) - Walt Whitman.

- [Paul] Edward Lear.

I Wandered Lonely as a Child.

(buzzer beeps) - Skip - [Paul] Wordsworth.

If.

(buzzer beeps) - Roger Kipling.

- [Paul] Yes.

Alright, very, very good, Delaware Valley.

That's gonna wrap up your portion of the lightning round.

And after that, we currently have Del Val in the lead over Lewisburg 135 to 60.

But still plenty of time for something to happen for you Lewisburg.

We're gonna go ahead and begin now.

The last segment of the game with this tossup in music.

What period of art and music from around 1600 to 1750 included- - Baroque.

Dominic, Delaware Valley.

You are correct and here comes your bonus now.

This mountain peak located in Lake Claire National Park stands approximately 1,617 meters and can be easily reached by trekkers on the overland track.

It shares its name with a tall mountain in Greece that is also known as Kissavos.

Located within the peon range in the central highlands, it's capped with Doright from the Jurassic period.

Name this Australian mountain that is the tallest mountain on the island of Tasmania.

(buzzer beeps) - Mount of Olives.

- No, we're looking for Mount Ossa.

Mount Ossa.

Let's go to a tossup in literature.

What three syllable word, beginning with the letter E, is the name given to a sentence or a line of poetry that continues from one line to the next without punctuation?

(buzzer beeps) Jackson, Del Val.

- Epistroph?

- [Paul] No, rebound to Lewisburg.

(buzzer beeps) - Epilogue.

- No, the answer is enjambment.

Enjambment.

Well, let's go to a tossup in chemistry.

This silver white metal that was once used exclusively for light bulb filaments derives its- Jackson, Del Val.

- Tungsten.

- Is correct, and your bonus now.

In Chinese philosophy and religion, two principles interact to influence the destinies of creatures and and things.

One principle is dark, negative, and feminine.

The other is bright, positive and masculine.

Give the name of these principles.

- Yin and Yang.

- Is correct for your bonus points, Del Val.

Great job.

As we move on to a tossup in literature.

What is the name of the Mad Sea captain who cruised beneath the oceans in Jewel Vern's book- Jackson, Delaware Valley.

- Captain Nemo.

- Is correct and here comes your bonus question.

A horrible fate awaited the dishonest queen Cassieopia.

She had promised to allow Perseus and Andromeda to wed.

When she went back on her promise.

What did Perseus do to her?

(buzzer beeps) - Killed her.

No, turned her to stone.

Turned her to stone.

Let's move to a tossup in botany.

This group of tropical plants forms tight clusters of long sword shaped leaves.

Jackson, Del Val.

- Cycads.

- [Paul] Is incorrect.

I'll finish and rebound to Lewisburg.

What name is used when referring to members of this large family of tropical plants, such as the pineapple and Spanish moss that are grown in tropical forests?

(buzzer beeps) That's bromeliads.

Bromeliads.

Let's go on and move to a tossup in American history.

a statue of this religious leader represents the state of Utah in the statuary hall of the US capitol in Washington DC.

Jackson, Del Val, - Brigham Young.

- [Paul] Is correct.

And your bonus now.

The Hope Diamond, a 45.52 karat gemstone housed in the Smithsonian, has a deep blue color.

The color results from trace amounts of what element found within its crystal matrix?

(buzzer beeps) - Tungsten.

- No, it's boron.

Boron.

Let's go to a tossup now in vocabulary.

This two syllable word means taken, done, or used by stealth.

Identify this word beginning with the letter F that means sly or shifty.

(buzzer beeps) Teddy, Lewisburg.

- Filched.

- [Paul] Is incorrect.

Rebound to Del Val.

(buzzer beeps) - Foxy.

No, we're looking for furtive.

And that's the end of the game.

And our winner tonight is Delaware Valley over Lewisburg, 180 to 60.

Congratulations Delaware Valley.

You're gonna be moving on to the next round 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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