(upbeat music) - Welcome to the 17th season of WVIA Scholastic Scrimmage.

I'm your host, Paul Lazar.

Scholastic Scrimmage as 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 sponsors, FNCB, and People Security Bank for making this competition possible.

The rules of the game have been modified for this seasons virtual season, 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 educators from the WVIA viewing area and tonight's match features Loyalsock versus Louisburg.

Playing for Loyalsock are Luke O'Brien and Gianna Rupert.

Their alternate is Gage Patterson and their advisor is Stacy Dangle.

Representing Louisburg are Miriam Valmeyer Lee and Ryan Gilmore.

Their alternates are Jevon Lover and Connor Murray and their advisor is Michael Krieger.

Well, let's get started.

Loyalsock has won the coin toss and will receive the first question, which is what particles theorized by George Zweig and Murray Gell-Mann are held together by gluons in Hadrons and come in six flavors, including up and charm.

- Lucky charms.

- Is incorrect rebound to Louisburg.

- Pass.

- Okay.

That answer was quark.

Okay, Louisburg.

Here comes your first question.

What state where the PlumpJack group was founded is governed by Kimberly Guilfoyle ex-husband Gavin Newsome.

Who was the mayor of San Francisco.

- California.

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question.

What Roman emperor ended the crisis of the third century by creating the tetrarchy.

- Insten Notebook.

- Nope.

We were looking for Diocletian, Loyalsock here's your next question.

What city is home to the popular 10 Amachi street was Japan's capital before it was moved to Tokyo and names and environmental protocol of the 1990s.

- Adoh.

- Is incorrect rebound to Louisburg.

- Ash.

- Okay, that answer was Kyoto, Kyoto.

Louisburg here's your next question?

What subset of white blood cells that can express the glycoproteins CD four or CD eight have memory and helper varieties and mature in the thymus?

- Large white cells.

- Is incorrect rebound the Loyalsock.

- Pass.

- Okay that answer is T-cells.

Okay Loyalsock here's your next question.

What philosopher who denounced Christian pity in his book The antichrist also wrote the book Thus Spoke Zarathustra, which declares God is dead?

- Friedrich Nietzsche.

- Is correct and here's your bonus question now, The Great Dismal Swamp lies mostly in what US state, who southeast is also home to the cities of Norfolk and Newport News.

- Virginia.

- Is correct for your bonus points Loyalsock.

Let's move back over to Louisburg.

What playwright of three sisters wrote about LA Apokyn's purchase of Madame runoff sky as a state in the cherry orchard, and also wrote The Seagull.

- Emily Dickenson.

- Then it is incorrect rebound to Loyalsock.

- Anton Chekhov.

- Is correct for your rebound points, Loyalsock.

And here comes your next question.

What energy that appears in the Arrhenius equation is reduced by catalysts and as the energy that must be added for a reaction to proceed.

- Enzyme.

- Is incorrect rebound to Louisburg.

- Catalyst.

- Nope.

We were looking for activation energy.

Louisburg here's your next question, what general who lost an arm to friendly fire at Chancellorsville let a unit that stood its ground at bull run, earning him the nickname Stonewall.

- Jackson.

- Is correct and here's your bonus question.

An abstract computer that operates on an infinite tape was theorized by what British polymath who developed a namesake artificial intelligence test.

- Alan Turing.

- Is correct for your bonus points Louisburg, 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, Loyalsock has won the coin toss and will pick first.

Your categories are alliterative or Latin phrases.

- Latin phrases.

- Okay Latin phrases it is and your time begins after I finished reading the first question, what Latin phrase often used in English can be translated as seize the day.

- Carpe diem.

- Yes, great work or greatest work.

- Magnum Opus.

- Yes, and so on.

- Pass.

- Et cetera, stiffness of death.

- momento mori.

- Rigor mortis, my fault.

- Pass.

- Mea Culpa, this for that.

- Pass.

- Quid pro quo, for the good.

- Pro-bono.

- Yes, the other way around.

- Vice versa.

- Yes, it does not follow.

- Non-sequitur.

- Yes, remember that you must die.

- Memento mori.

- Is correct, excellent job.

In the lightening round Loyalsock, we're gonna take things over to Louisburg.

Your remaining category will be aliterative names.

And again your time begins after I finished reading the first question, given the title of a written work, identify the author with an alliterative name who wrote it?

The giving tree.

- Shel Silverstein.

- Yes, leaves of grass.

- Pass.

- Walt Whitman, the novel Ulysses - Pass - James Joyce, gone with the wind - Pass.

- Okay, that's Margaret Mitchell, The Giver - Pass.

- That's Lois Lowry, Robinson Crusoe.

- Daniel Defoe.

- Yes, The Lightening Thief.

- Rick Riordan.

- Rick Riordan.

- Yes, The Tin Drum?

- Pass.

- G ünter Grass, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Pass.

- Ken Kesey, the German novel Steppenwolf and Siddhartha.

- Pass.

- That's Herman Hessa.

And that's going to do it for the lightning round, and after that we currently have Loyalsock in the lead over Louisburg 85 to 55.

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.

We'll start with the students from Loyalsock in Lupo.

Come your way first, tell me what your plans are post-graduation.

- I mean, go to college after that I'll probably just you know hang around figure it out.

- All right, sounds good.

Thank you, Luke.

Gianna, what are your plans after high school?

- I planned to go to a four-year college to study secondary English education.

- Excellent thank you for being here Loyalsock, and good luck The rest of the way.

Louisburg over to you, Miriam.

What are your plans after graduation?

- I will be going to college and studying mathematics.

- Okay, excellent.

And Ryan, what do you plan to do after high school?

- I also plan to study mathematics at a four year university.

- Okay, excellent.

It was very nice to meet all of you and we'll now go ahead and begin the second quarter with this question that goes to Louisburg.

What artists of swans reflecting elephants painted the Catalonian coast in the background of the persistence of memory, which depicts melting clocks.

- Salvador Dali.

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question?

What author who mocked the reformation in a tale of a tub satirically suggested that Irish children should be eaten in his essay, A modest Proposal?

- Karl Marx.

- No, we're looking for Jonathan Swift, Loyalsock back over to you.

What city near the confluence of Assan Charlotte and St. Lawrence Rivers is the namesake and capital of the largest province in Canada.

- Quebec.

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

What Greek letter has a lowercase version used in defining limits with Epsilon and an uppercase version that represents change.

- Delta.

- Is correct for your bonus points Loyalsock great job, Louisburg our next question goes to you.

What name given to a fertility figurine found in Willendorf Austria also refers to the Roman goddess of love, and the second planet from the sun?

- Venus.

- Venus.

- is correct and here's your bonus question What five letter physics term describes an idealized body with zero deformation so its shape and size remain constant when a force is applied - Fluid.

- Is incorrect, we're looking for rigid body, Loyalsock back over to you, what element whose value of 3.98 on the appalling scale makes it the most electronegative element is a pale yellow gas that is the lightest halogen Ran out of time rebound to Louisburg.

- Neon.

- It is incorrect, we are looking for fluorine.

Louisburg here's your next question.

What president who Giuseppe Zangara tried to assassinate in post a bank holiday and sign the national recovery act while launching the new deal.

- Roosevelt.

- Be more specific.

- FDR.

- Franklin Roosevelt.

- Is correct is correct and here's your bonus question, in 1958, businessmen Harry Winston donated what blue gemstone which has over 45 carrots to the Smithsonian Institution.

The right answer was the hope diamond.

Okay, Loyalsock here's your next question, What NBA team which plays home games at Capital One Arena made a trade with the Houston Rockets in December 2020 to acquire Russell Westbrook?

- Pass.

- Okay, rebound out of Louisburg.

- Pass.

- Okay, that's the Washington Wizards.

Louisburg here's your next question, Oval BA lies beneath what structure and anti cyclonic storm, approximately twice as wide as the earth that is in the southern hemisphere of Jupiter.

- A great red spot.

- The great red spot.

- Is correct and here's your bonus question and get your pencils and papers ready.

What quotient results when three raised to the seventh power is divided by nine squared (suspenseful music) - 27.

- 27.

- Is correct, very, very good.

And after one half of play, we currently have a tie game, Loyalsock and Louisburg, both tied at 100 apiece.

We want to say thank you to Luke and Giana from Loyalsock.

And thank you to Miriam and Ryan from Louisburg.

You guys were absolutely fantastic.

We're now going to meet your teammates for the second half playing for Loyalsock in the second half are Ethan Gardy and Jett Polizzi and representing Louisburg are Ryan Shabbahang and Andrew Nichols.

Our first question in this quarter goes to Loyalsock, and that question is the one country two systems policy was enacted in what region as a condition of its handover in 1997 from the United Kingdom to China - Sichuan.

- Is incorrect, rebound to Louisburg.

- Hong Kong.

- Hong Kong is correct for your rebound points Louisburg and here comes at your first question of the second half.

What country disputes the region of Nagorno-Karabakh with its Western neighbor Armenia and as governed from the Caspian Sea port of Baku.

- Georgia.

- Is incorrect rebound out to Loyalsock.

- Kazakhstan.

- Nope, we're looking for Azerbaijan, Loyalsock here's your next question.

What country who has major cities include its economic center of Abidjan is west of Ghana and is named after a material derived from elephant tusks.

- The Ivory Coast.

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

In 1898, Congress passed the Newlands resolution, allowing the U S to annex what territory two years later.

- Dakota.

- Is incorrect, we were looking for Hawaii.

Louisburg it's back over to you.

What particle is a charged leptons less massive than the muon is admitted by beta minus decay and occupies orbitals around atomic nuclei.

- Electrons.

- Is correct, and here's your bonus question now, what sprinter who ran the 100 meter dash in 10.72 seconds in April, 2021 was barred from the Olympics after testing positive for marijuana.

- Shikari Richardson.

- Is correct for your bonus points Louisburg.

Loyalsock here's your next question.

The Monteagle Letter helped to expose what 1605 plot, which was led by Robert Catesby and aimed to kill king James The First by blowing up parliament Ran out of time.

We're going to rebound to Louisburg - The Gunpowder Plot.

- Is correct for your rebound points, Louisburg.

And here's your next question?

What color which represents a Northern Irish Protestant Fraternal order is the actual color of airplane black boxes and a symbol of the Netherlands.

- Orange.

- Is correct and here's your bonus question now, tens of thousands of women protested what mostly Catholic European nations, October, 2020 Supreme court ruling banning most abortions.

- Ireland.

- Is incorrect.

We are looking for Poland.

Loyalsock back to you, what author of the story My kinsmen, Major Molyneux wrote about an Italian scientist whose daughter is poisonous in his story Rappaccini's Daughter?

- Shakespeare.

- Is incorrect rebound to Louisburg.

- Virginia Wall.

- Is incorrect we're looking for Nathaniel Hawthorne and that sound that you heard signals to the end of the third quarter and another lightening round this time Louisburg will pick first.

Your categories are constitutional amendments or Joe Biden's cabinet.

- Amendments.

- Okay, constitutional amendments it is.

And your time begins after I finished reading the first question, which amendment to the US constitution allows defendants to not testify against themselves.

- Five.

- Yes, contains the equal protection clause.

You can pass.

- 11.

- 14, Guarantees the right to keep and bear arms.

- Two.

- Two.

- Yes, guarantees the right to a speedy trial - Six.

- Yes, is the only one that was later repealed.

- 18.

- Yes, has free exercise and establishment clauses related to religious freedom.

- One.

- One.

- Yes, gave women the right to vote.

- 19.

- Yes, prohibits forced peace time Quartering of soldiers in civilian homes.

- Three.

- Yes, reserves powers for the states or the people.

- Nine.

- 10, move the presidential inauguration day to January 20th ran out of time.

- 17.

- That was 20th.

Okay.

Great job.

In the lightning round Louisburg, Loyalsock we're gonna come over to you.

Your remaining category will be Joe Biden's cabinet.

And again your time begins after I finished reading the first question, what member of Joe Biden's cabinet is the first female vice president?

- Kamala Harris.

- Yes, secretary of transportation and a former mayor of South Bend?

- Pass.

- Pete Buttigieg.

Attorney general and a former supreme court nominee.

- Pass.

- Pass.

- Merrick Garland, treasury secretary, and a former chair of the federal reserve.

- Pass.

- That's Janet Yellen, Secretary of state.

- Pass.

- That's Tony Blinken, the first African-American defense secretary.

- Pass.

- Lloyd Austin the third, secretary of agriculture and a former governor of Iowa.

- Pass.

- That's Tom Vilsack the Cuban born secretary of Homeland security.

That was Alejandro Mayorkas.

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

And after that we currently have a Louisburg in the lead over Loyalsock 215 to 120.

And we're now going to take a little bit of a break and get to know the contestants from the second half a little better.

We'll start with the students from Loyalsock and Ethan I'll come to you first.

Tell me what your plans are post high school.

- I'm still kinda figuring that out probably planning on going to college, but figuring the major out.

- Okay, excellent thank you, Ethan and Jett, What are your plans after graduation?

- It's an educational degree at a four-year college and then hopefully teach at least high school.

- Okay, good luck, Loyalsock the rest of the way, We really appreciate you being here.

Louisburg coming over to you, Ryan, what are your plans post high school.

- I plan to attend college and study pre-medicine.

- All right excellent and Andrew, what do you plan to do after graduation?

- Make a lot of money.

- Excellent, good luck to you.

It was very nice to meet you.

Now we'll go ahead and begin the last segment of the game with this question that goes to Louisburg and get your pencils and papers ready.

What expression and simplified radical form is equivalent to the square root of 50, given that 50 equals two times five times five.

- How about two?

- Is correct, and here's your bonus question, the practice of dividing a larger state into smaller states is named after what European peninsula?

- Greece.

- No, we're looking for the Balkan peninsula, Loyalsock, here's your first question, what two men who hire Toussaint Charbonneau at Fort Mandan and led the corps of discovery explored Western lands with the help of Sacagawea?

- Lewis and Clark.

- Is correct, and here's your bonus question now, the land of Toradol is the setting of many young adult fantasy novels, by what woman who song of the lion is quartet depicts a Knight named Alana?

That's Tamra Pierce, Louisburg here's your next question?

What company who is Topeka workers complained of 84 hour work weeks and went on strike in July, 2021 is a PepsiCo subsidiary that makes potato chips?

- Frito-Lay.

- Is correct and here's your bonus question now, Daniel Caesar sings, "I left my girl I'm in my Orca."

In what 2021 song which is named for items that Justin Bieber claims to procure out in Georgia?

- Peaches.

- Is correct for your bonus points Louisburg.

Loyalsock here as your next question.

What composer who included the girl with the flax and hair among his preludes also wrote prelude to the afternoon of a fawn and Claire Taloon?

- Rita Ora.

- Is incorrect, rebound a Louisburg.

- Debussy.

- Debussy is correct for your rebound points Louisburg, and here's your next question.

What author described a voice from above that announces the salvation of Gretchen at the end of an 1808 play named after a German scholar, Faust - Hamilton.

- Is incorrect rebound to Loyalsock.

- Pass.

- Okay, that's Gerta, Loyalsock here is your next question.

What mathematician proved the infinitude of primes and included the parallel postulate and his namesake system of geometry in the elements.

- Gomory.

- Is incorrect rebound to Louisburg - Euclid - Euclid is correct for your rebound points, Louisburg, and here's your next question.

What man who said to cast down your bucket in his 1895 Atlanta compromise speech, let the Tuskegee Institute and was arrival of W E B Dubois.

- Booker T Washington - is correct, Booker T Washington is the correct answer.

And here's your bonus question.

A man nicknamed Falafel who died in 2020, was the world's highest ranked player in what ancient board game whose pieces include a doubling cube?

- Gao.

- No, we're looking for backgammon, and that's the end of the game.

And our winner tonight is a Louisburg over a Loyalsock, 270 to 130.

Congratulations Louisburg you're 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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