(marching band music) - Welcome to the 17th season of WVIA's 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 Peoples Security Bank for making this competition possible.

The rules of the game have been modified for this season's virtual version.

And 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 Lewisburg Area versus Montgomery Area.

Playing for Lewisburg Area are Miriam Vollmayr-Lee and Ryan Gilmore.

Their alternates are Jevon Lover and Connor Murray.

Their advisor is Michael Krieger.

Representing Montgomery Area are Gavin Rhine and Samuel Oyster.

Their alternates are Emily Diffenderfer and Camden Dalrymple.

Their advisor is Kelly Kurtz.

Well let's get started.

Lewisburg Area has won the coin toss and will receive the first question, which is, what country which runs Operation Sovereign borders to stop asylum seekers has been led since 2018 by Prime Minister Scott Morrison from Canberra?

- England.

- Is incorrect, rebound to Montgomery.

(talks amongst themselves) - China (buzzer sounds) - No, we were looking for Australia.

Okay, Montgomery, here comes your first question.

Boston Corbett shot what man who yelled, "Seek Semper tyrannis" and jumped from a balcony at Ford's Theater after assassinating Abraham Lincoln.

- John Wilkes Booth.

- Is correct and here's your bonus question.

What river, which joins with the Paraná River near the town of Corrientes shares its name with a landlocked South American country?

(talks amongst themselves) - Chad?

Is incorrect.

We're looking for Paraguay River.

Lewisburg, it's back over to you.

What author who wrote about an invisible worm in his poem, "The sick rose" was an English romantic who described a predator burning bright in "The Tiger?"

- Pass.

- Okay, rebound to Montgomery.

(talks amongst themselves) - Shakespeare.

Nope, we were looking for William Blake .

Montgomery, here's your next question.

In optics, an image is inverted if it has a negative value for what quantity denoted M that indicates how much it grows as in a namesake glass.

(talks amongst themselves) (buzzer sounds) Okay, ran out of time.

Rebound to Lewisburg.

- Concavity.

- Nope, we were looking for magnification.

Lewisburg, here's your next question.

What metal mine at Potosi in Bolivia was supposedly found in a mountain range that is the origin of the names Rio de La Plata and Argentina.

(talks amongst themselves) - Silver.

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

The 2005 novel "Zorro," which acts as an origin story for its title hero was written by what acclaimed Chilean author of "The House of the Spirits."

- Pass.

- Okay, that's Isabelle Allende.

Montgomery, here's your next question.

What American designed the popular forest plantation, "The Rotunda" at the University of Virginia and a personal residence called Monticello?

(talks amongst themselves) - Thomas Jefferson.

- Is correct and here's your bonus question.

British astronomer Cecilia Payne showed that nearly all of the mass of stars consists of what two elements?

(talks amongst themselves) (buzzer sounds) - Ran out of time guys.

We were looking for hydrogen and helium.

Lewisburg, it's back over to you.

What short story about a costly mistake by Mathilde Loisel was written in French by Guy de Maupassant and is named after a piece of jewelry?

(beep) - Pass.

- Okay, rebound to Montgomery.

(talks amongst themselves) - Necklace.

- That is correct Montgomery for your rebound points.

And that sound that you heard signals the end of the first quarter and it's now time for the lightning round.

(electric shock) 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 Area has won the coin toss and will pick first.

Your categories are units of measurements or African capitals.

- Units of measurement.

- Units of measurement it is.

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

What unit of measurement equals exactly 2.54 centimeters?

(talks amongst themselves) - Inch.

- Yes.

3,600 seconds.

- Hour.

- Yes.

42 gallons of petroleum.

- A barrel.

- Yes.

A Newton times a meter.

- Pascal.

- No, Joule.

The distance from the earth to the sun.

- Astronomic unit.

- Yes.

One coulomb per second - One.

Ampere, one 10th of anatomy meter.

(talks amongst themselves) - Pico.

- A depth of six feet.

- None.

Fathom, one 640th of a square mile.

- Furlong.

- Acre.

One degree Celsius.

(beep) That was Kelvin.

Okay Lewisburg, you did great in the lightening round.

We're gonna come over to Montgomery now.

Your remaining category will be African capitals.

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

Give the capital of these African countries.

Egypt.

- Cairo.

- Yes, Kenya.

You can pass.

- Pass.

- Nairobi.

Senegal.

- Pass.

Dakar.

Nigeria.

- Pass.

Abuja.

Libya.

- Pass.

Tripoli.

Morocco.

- Pass.

- Rabat.

Sudan.

- Pass.

Khartoum.

Ghana.

- Pass.

- Accra.

Namibia, - Pass.

Windhoek, Burkina Faso.

(beep) Ran out of time.

That was Ouagadougou.

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

And after that, we have a very close game.

Lewisburg in the lead over Montgomery, 50 to 40.

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 Lewisburg and Miriam, I'll come your way first.

Tell me what your hobbies are.

What do you like to do when you're not in class?

- I'm very interested in art and so I do a lot of painting.

I also play in the orchestra.

- Very cool, thanks for being here.

Ryan, what do you like to do for fun?

- I'm a yo-yo master.

- Okay, I'll ask you to demonstrate later.

Thanks for being here, Lewisburg.

Montgomery, it's over to you.

Gavin, what are your hobbies?

What do you like to do when you're not in class?

- I'm very involved in music, so I play a lot of different instruments.

- Okay, excellent.

And Samuel, what do you like to do for fun?

- I'm also in the band and I like to play chess in my free time.

- Okay, a very musically inclined set of contestants today on Scholastic Scrimmage.

It was very nice to meet all of you.

We're now going to go ahead and begin the second quarter with this question that goes to Montgomery.

What movie franchise whose protagonist fights Toecutter, defeats Lord Humongous and competes in the Thunderdome includes a film subtitled Fury Road.

(talks amongst themselves) - Mad Max.

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

After Clifford is paralyzed by a World War I injury, his wife Connie has an affair with gamekeeper Oliver Mellors in what novel by DH Lawrence?

- Pass.

- Okay, that's "Lady Chatterley's Lover."

Lewisburg it's back over to you.

What state who's governor called for an investigation into ERCOT after a 2021 winter storm is governed by Greg Abbott and is home to Ted Cruz?

(talks amongst themselves) - Texas.

- Is correct and here's your bonus question.

Bio-diesel fuels are examples of what molecules formed by reacting a carboxylic acid with an alcohol that formed namesake polymers used in clothes?

(talks amongst themselves) - Plastic.

- Nope, we were looking for esters.

Montgomery, here's your next question.

What quantity is constant for a Newtonian fluid, zero for a super fluid, very high for molasses and represents a fluids resistance to flow?

(talks amongst themselves) - Viscosity.

- Is correct and here's your bonus question.

What city whose Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum is housed in a former Khmer Rouge prison is the capital of Cambodia?

- Pass.

- Okay, that's Phnom Penh.

Lewisburg, here's your next question.

What country whose chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg resigned in 1938 was annexed by Nazi Germany and the Anschluss and was Hitler's country of birth?

(talks amongst themselves) - [Both] Austria.

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

A treatise of human nature is by what Scottish empiricist philosopher who formulated the problem of induction?

- John Lock?

- No, we were looking for David Hume.

Okay, Montgomery, here's your next question.

What imaginary creatures include Seg-way in the Earth Sea novels, Norbert in the Harry Potter series and Smaug who hoards treasure and breathes fire?

- Dragon.

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question.

In January, 2021, the Biden administration announced it would speed up plans to place what woman on the $20 bill instead of Andrew Jackson?

(talks amongst themselves) Susan B. Anthony (buzzer) - Nope, we're looking for a Harriet Tubman.

Lewisburg, here's your next question.

What economist, whose wife Rose worked with him on the book, "Capitalism and Freedom," opposed Keynesianism as a leader of the pro-market Chicago school.

- Keys.

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Montgomery.

(talks amongst themselves) - Orlando.

- Nope, the answer you're looking for was Milton Friedman.

(beeps) Our next, okay.

We're going to get to that in the next half because after one half of play, we have a tied game.

Lewisburg and Montgomery knotted up at 70.

We want to say thank you to Lewisburg Area and to Montgomery Area.

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

Playing for Lewisburg Area in the second half are Ryan Shabbahang and Andrew Nichols.

Representing Montgomery Area in the second half are Mary Green and Owen Sherman.

Our first question in this quarter goes to Lewisburg.

And that question is what policy launched by executive order 9066 was fought by Fred Korematsu and left certain west coast residents to be held in camps in World War II.

(talks amongst themselves) - Executive order 19.

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Montgomery.

- Pass.

Okay, that's the Internment of Japanese Americans.

Montgomery, here's your first question.

What river whose tributaries include Pende Oreille empties into the Pacific ocean and forms much of the border of Oregon and Washington?

(talks amongst themselves) - Pass.

- Okay, rebound to Lewisburg.

- Karey.

- Nope, we're looking for the Columbia River.

Let's move back now to Lewisburg with their next question.

What element which has the highest tensile strength and melting point of any metal was once called Wolfram as reflected and its atomic symbol W?

- Tungsten.

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question.

Jesus's human and divine selves were totally separate according to what sect condemned as heresy at Calsedan in 431 that's spread throughout Asia?

- Judiasm.

- Nope, we're looking for new nistorianism.

Montgomery, here's your next question.

What artist painted animal skulls against desert backdrops and detailed and many closeup images of flowers after she moved to New Mexico?

(talks amongst themselves) - Georgia O'Keeffe.

- Is correct and here's your bonus question.

Skeletal muscles are striated because they have what functional units made up of organized actin and myosin filaments?

- Neurons.

- Nope, we're looking for sarcomeres.

Let's move back over to Lewisburg now.

What novel in which an electric eyed snake is used to pump the stomach of Guy Montag's wife depicts fireman who burned books and is by Ray Bradbury?

- Fahrenheit 451 - Is correct and here's your bonus question.

What Russian composer wrote a Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini as well as a famous prelude in C-sharp minor?

- Sergei Rachmaninoff.

- Is correct.

Very impressive, Lewisburg.

Montgomery, here's your next question.

What soccer player who joined Juventus in 2018 after a decade with Real Madrid is a forward who hails from Portugal and is often known as CR Seven.

- Ronaldo.

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question.

In 2021, software tycoon John McAfee was found dead in what country, where he was arrested on tax evasion charges?

- United Kingdom.

- No, we were looking for Spain.

Lewisburg, it's back to you.

What country's People's Defense force was founded in 2021 to oppose the top Mudhal which took power in a coup in which Aung San Suu Kyi was arrested?

- Syria.

- Is incorrect, rebound to Montgomery.

- Pass.

- That's Burma or Myanmar.

Montgomery, here's your next question.

What author wrote about John the Carpenter (beep) whose wife, Alison cheats on him in the Miller's tale, which is the second of his "Canterbury Tales?"

- Chaucer.

- Is correct and your bonus question now.

The Atlanta Braves lost the 1992 World Series to what team based in Canada?

- The Blue Jays.

- Is correct for your bonus points, Montgomery.

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

(electricity) This time Montgomery Area will pick first.

Your categories are TV occupations or a grand.

- TV occupations.

- TV occupations it is.

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

Given TV characters and their occupations, name the show on which they first appeared.

Physicist Sheldon Cooper.

- "The Big Bang Theory."

- Yes.

Teacher turned drug lord Walter White.

- "Breaking Bad."

- Yes.

Government office director wants Ron Swanson who is Leslie Knope boss.

- Parks and recreation."

- Yes, Dunder Mifflin, regional manager Michael Scott.

- "The Office."

- Yes.

Former police officer Rick Grimes.

- Pass.

- "Walking Dead."

Engineer Montgomery Scott.

(talks amongst themselves) - Star Trek.

Fourth grade teacher Herbert Garrison.

- Pass.

- "South Park."

Law professor Annalise Keating.

- Pass.

- "How to get away with Murder" Sam Malone, a Boston bartender.

- Pass.

- That's "Cheers."

Substitute teacher Dorothy Sporek.

(beep) That was the "Golden Girls."

Okay, Montgomery you did fantastic in the lightening round.

We're gonna come over to Lewisburg and Lewisburg your remaining category will be a grand.

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

Give these phrases and titles that contain the word grand.

Deep crevasse in Arizona.

- Grand canyon.

- Yes.

Home run with the bases loaded.

- Grand slam.

- Yes, historic music venue in Nashville.

- Grand Ole Opry.

- Yes.

- Manhattan transit hub at 42nd street and Park avenue.

- Grand Central Station.

- Yes, video game series sometimes set in San Andreas.

- Grand theft auto.

Yes, group of citizens that determines probable cause for indictments.

- Grand jury.

- Yes, home city of Gerald Ford's presidential museum.

- Grand Rapids.

- Yes, Caribbean island governed from the city of Georgetown.

- Pass.

- Grand Cayman, Wes Anderson film set in the fictional country of Zubrowka.

- Pass.

- That's the Grand Budapest Hotel.

Two word term used in the official name of Luxembourg.

- Grand City.

- Nope, we're looking for Grand Duchy (beep) and that's going to do it for the lightning round.

And after that we currently have, again, a very close game Lewisburg in the lead over Montgomery, 165 to 145.

And let's get to know the contestants playing the second half a little better.

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

When you're not in class, what is it you'd like to do for fun?

- So I enjoy singing, playing in the marching band and playing tennis.

- Okay, excellent.

Thank you for being here, Ryan.

Andrew, what do you like to do for fun?

- I too, like Ryan Gilmore, I'm a yo-yo master.

So I like doing that.

- All right, well, demonstrations are going to occur after the show.

Thanks for being here Lewisburg.

Montgomery coming over to you.

Mary, what do you like to do for fun?

- I'm in the color guard, drama club and I'm a cheerleader.

- And you don't do yo-yos?

- No.

- Okay, all right, just wanted to double check.

Oh, and what do you like to do for fun?

- I like to play soccer and I also play guitar.

- Okay, excellent.

It was very nice to meet all of you.

And we'll now go ahead and begin the last segment of the game with this question that goes to Montgomery.

What river whose delta is near the port town of Le Havre surrounds the Île de la Cité and flows under the Pont Neuf and Pont Notre-Dame in Paris?

- Seine.

- Is correct.

And your bonus question now.

Scenes from "The Passion of Christ," the door and the frame of what object that hangs on a wall between the man and woman in Jan van Eyck's Arnolfini portrait.

- Pass.

- Okay, that's mirror.

Lewisburg, here's your next question.

What author who wrote about an IRS regional office in Peoria in "The Pale king" included almost 400 end notes in his lengthy novel "Infinite Jest?"

- David Foster Wallace.

- Is correct and here's your bonus question.

What quantity which can sometimes be calculated using the parallel access theorem is the rotational analog of mass?

- Moment of Inertia.

- Is correct for your bonus points, Lewisburg.

Montgomery, here is your next question.

What mineral with fused and shocked types is a PA's electric crystalline material that defines seven on the Mohs scale and is made of silicon dioxide.

- Pass.

- Okay, rebound now to Lewisburg.

- Quartz.

- Is correct for your rebound points, Lewisburg.

And here's your next question.

What opera whose characters include the assassin Sparafucile includes (speaks Italian) and is the tale of a hunchback jester by Giuseppe Verdi.

- Mozart's "Flute."

(beep) - No, incorrect.

We'll rebound now to Montgomery.

- "Hunchback of Notre Dame."

- No, we're looking for Rigoletto.

Montgomery, here's your next question.

What Roman emperor who recited from the Iliad as he committed suicide was the last Julio Claudian emperor and ruled during the Great Fire in AD 64?

- Nero.

- Is correct and your bonus question, what last battleship commissioned by the US was the site of the Japanese surrender at the end of World War II?

- USS Arizona.

- USS Missouri.

Lewisburg, here is your next question.

What man who proposed that electrons can absorb or emit photons to move between circular orbits within an atom was a Nobel Laureate born in Denmark?

- Bohr.

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question.

What term describes nonliving factors such as acidity or temperature that can impact the organisms in an environment?

- A biotic.

- Is correct and will move back over now to Montgomery.

What city part of which can be accessed via the Damascus Gate contains a Jewish quarter in its old city, which is home to the Western wall?

- Petra.

- Is incorrect, rebound now to Lewisburg.

- Jerusalem.

- Is correct for your rebound points, Lewisburg.

And here's your next question.

The Cumaean Sibyl used a honey cake to pacify what creature captured in (beep) Heercules' 12th labor who guarded the underworld with its three heads?

- Cerberus.

- Is correct.

And your bonus question, blockchain technology can verify the authenticity of what objects that prove ownership of digital assets, such as art or sports memorabilia?

- NFTa.

- Is correct for your bonus points Lewisburg.

And that's going to do it for tonight's game.

Our winner is Lewisburg over Montgomery, 230 to 165.

Congratulations, Lewisburg.

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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