- (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 five thousand dollars.

WVIA would like to thank our sponsor FNCB and people security bank for making this competition possible.

This year, Scholastic Scrimmage looks a little different and the rules have been revised due to the COVID 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 lightening rounds in each game.

Judges tonight are K-12 educators from the WVIA viewing area, and tonight's match features Loyalsock and Montgomery.

Playing in the first half for Loyalsock Areesha Mian and Margaret Rider.

Their advisor is Stacy Dangle, and the alternate is Elizabeth Walters.

Representing Montgomery for the first half are Kennedy Marsh and Samuel Oyster.

Their advisor is Kelly Kurtz, and the alternates are Emily Diffenderfer, Lily Burchill and Camden Dalrymple.

Well, let's get started.

Loyalsock has won the coin toss and will receive the first question, which is as follows.

The newest member of NATO is what nation that in 2019 added North to its name, to avoid conflict with Greece and whose capital is Skopje?

- North Macedonia?

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question.

What Island in the Mediterranean sea is divided by the green line that runs past the city of Nicosia?

- Cyprus?

- Is correct for your bonus points, Loyalsock.

Great job.

Montgomery coming over to you.

What instrument played by Tommy Dorsey and big band leader Glenn Miller is a brass instrument that is tuned by pulling or pushing on it's slide?

- Trombone?

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question.

What alliteratively named loan program established in 2020 by the CARES act was intended to keep employees of small businesses on payroll?

- Stimulus Checks?

- Is incorrect, where you're looking for paycheck protection program, or PPP.

Loyalsock, here comes your next question.

What author of Black Reconstruction in America and The Souls of Black Folk discuss the talented tenth of African-Americans.

And co-founded the NAACP?

- Ida B.

Wells?

- Is incorrect rebound now to Montgomery.

- Du Bois?

- Is correct.

We'll we'll take that for your rebound points, Montgomery, great job.

And here's your next question.

What constant which is multiplied by the elementary charge to give Faraday's constant is the number of atoms in a mole and is about 6.022 times 10 to the 23rd?

- No answer.

- Okay.

Rebound now to loyal sock.

(buzzer sounds) Okay, we were looking for Avogadro's constant, Avogadro's constant.

Loyalsock, here comes your next question.

In May, 2020 what Shia majority country suffered a friendly fire incident when its supply ship Konarak was hit by a missile from the frigate Jamaran?

(buzzer sounds) Okay, no answer.

Montgomery rebound to you.

- Egypt?

- Is incorrect.

You close we're looking for Iran, Iran.

Montgomery here comes your next question.

A Louisiana law on rail car accommodations was the focus of what 1896 Supreme court decision that upheld the doctrine of separate but equal?

(buzzer sounds) Okay, rebound now to Loyalsock.

(buzzer sounds) Okay, the answer we were looking for was Plessy V Ferguson (high pitched beep) Plessy V Ferguson.

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 ten rapid fire questions as they can in one minute.

Loyalsock has won the coin toss and will pick first.

Your categories are Eiffel Tower names or birds in classical names.

- Eiffel Tower names.

- Okay Eiffel tower names it is.

And your time begins when I finish reading the first question, okay?

Name these French scientists, whose names are on the Eiffel tower.

Namesake of the SI unit of current.

- Pass.

- [Paul] Ampere.

His pendulum showed Earth's rotation.

You can pass.

- Pass.

- [Paul] That's Foucault.

His inverse square law calculates electrostatic force.

- Pass.

- [Paul] That's Coulomb.

Namesake of a fictitious force that occurs during rotation.

- Pass.

- [Paul] That's Coriolis.

A guillotine chemist who named oxygen.

- Pass.

- [Paul] That's Lavoisier.

Creator of an early form of photography.

(high pitched beep) Okay.

We've run out of time.

That is Louis Daguerre, Louis Daguerre.

Okay, Loyalsock that's going to do it for your portion of the lightning round.

Montgomery coming over to you, your remaining category will be birds in classical music.

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

Given works, at least one of which has an avian title; name the composer the ballet Swan Lake, and the Nutcracker.

- Stravinsky?

- [Paul] Tchaikovsky.

The operas, The thieving magpie and The Barber of Seville.

- Pass.

- [Paul] Rossini.

The Swan from The Carnival of the Animals.

- Pass.

- [Paul] That's Saints-Saens.

The ballets, the Free bird and the Rite of spring.

- Pass.

- [Paul] Stravinsky.

The cuckoo and the Nightingale and the oratorio Messiah.

- Pass.

- That's Handel.

Sad birds from Mirrors and Bolero.

- Pass.

- [Paul] That's Ravel.

The tone poems the Swan of Tuonela and Finlandia.

- Pass.

- [Paul] Sibelius.

The opera, the golden Cockerel and the interlude Flight of the Bumblebee.

(high pitched beep) Okay, we're not going to get to that one.

That was Rimsky-Korsakov, Rimsky-Korsakov.

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

And after that, we have Montgomery in the lead over Loyalsock, 20 to 15.

Well, let's give our contestants a little bit of a break and the opportunity for those of you at home to maybe get to know them a little better.

Let's start with the students from Loyalsock.

And Areesha, I'll come to you first.

Tell me who your favorite musician is and why?

- My favorite musician is Lana Del Rey because I like the sound of her music.

- [Paul] Okay.

Very good.

Margaret, your favorite musician and why?

- My favorite musician is Taylor Swift because I went to a Taylor Swift concert.

- Very cool, very cool.

Well, good luck the rest of the way Loyalsock.

Montgomery, going to come over to you.

Kennedy who is your favorite music artist?

- I have many, but one of my all time favorites is Michael Jackson because not only is he extremely versatile but his music is timeless and never failed to put me in a good mood.

- [Paul] Excellent.

Thank you, Kennedy.

And Samuel, your favorite music artist and why?

- I like Queen because of the genre of music they have.

- All right, excellent.

Good luck, Montgomery.

Good luck, Loyalsock.

It was very nice to meet all of you.

And we're now going to go ahead and begin the second quarter with a question for Montgomery.

What title object is called a Sylvan historian and unravished bride of quietness in an ode equating truth with beauty that was written by John Keats.

- Autumn?

- Is incorrect.

Rebound now to Loyalsock.

- No answer.

- Okay.

That's Grecian Urn, Grecian Urn.

Loyalsock, here's your next question.

What man finished third in the 1856 presidential election as the American party candidate was the last Whig president and succeeded Zachary Taylor.

- No answer - Alright, rebound now to Montgomery.

- Millard Fillmore.

- Is correct for your rebound points Montgomery.

Great job.

Here's your next question.

Saudi Arabia holds an annual Royal festival honoring what ungulate, a mammal whose dromedary species stores fat not water in its oversized hump?

- Camel?

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question.

What country, who is King Charles XII lost the 1709 Battle of Poltava to Peter the Great, was defeated by Russia in the Great Northern War?

- England?

- No, we were looking for Sweden, Sweden.

Loyalsock, coming back to you now.

What author wrote about a conscientious objector whose hearts recoiled at war in his poem I sing of Olaf, which has unusual capitalization?

(buzzer sounds) - No Answer.

- Okay, rebound now to Montgomery.

- No Answer.

- Okay, that author was EE Cummings, EE Cummings.

Montgomery here comes your next question.

What religion was promoted in the rock edicts built after the Kalinga war, whose violence lead the Mauryan ruler Ashoka to convert to this religion?

- Muslim?

- Is incorrect.

Rebound now to Loyalsock.

- No answer.

- Okay, we were looking for Buddhism, Buddhism.

Loyalsock, coming back to you now.

What program upheld by the Supreme court in a June 18th, 2020 decision was created by Barack Obama to stop deportations of young immigrants?

- DACA?

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question.

During the civil war over 45,000 union prisoners of war were housed at what Georgia prison camp commanded by Henry Wirz?

- No answer.

- Okay, we were looking for Andersonville prison, Andersonville prison.

Montgomery coming back to you.

One horsepower equals about 735 of what unit that equals a joule per second and is named for a British physicist who improved the steam engine?

- Watt?

(high pitched beep) - Is correct.

And here's your bonus question.

Which artists painting the Parsonage Garden at Nuenen was stolen in March, 2020 from the Singer Lauren (high pitched beep) Museum in the Netherlands?

- Michelangelo?

- Nope, we're looking for Vincent van Gogh, Vincent van Gogh.

And after one half of play, we currently have Montgomery in the lead over loyal sock, 50 to 25.

Thank you Areesha and Margaret from Loyalsock.

Thank you, Kennedy and Samuel from Montgomery.

We're now going to meet your teammates.

Playing in the second half for a Loyalsock are Maia Patchett and Gianna Rupert.

And in the second half representing Montgomery, Owen Sherman and Mary Green.

Well, let's go ahead and get started with Loyalsock.

You are getting the first question this time around.

What singer used a custom built a cloud guitar, changed his name in 1993 to the so-called love symbol and had hits with When Doves Cry and Purple Rain?

- Prince?

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question.

What character from the grapes of wrath, who was abandoned by her husband, Connie, breastfeeds a dying stranger after giving birth to a stillborn child?

- Mary?

- Is incorrect.

We were looking for Rose of Sharon, Rose of Sharon.

Good guess though.

Montgomery coming over to you, get your pencils and papers ready.

How many loaves of bread can be made from nine cups of flour if one and a half cups of flour are needed to make a single loaf?

(intense music) - Six?

- Is correct and here's your bonus question.

The basic law serves as the constitution of which formerly British city which has been governed by the one country two systems doctrine since 1997?

- Glasgow?

- Nope.

We were looking for Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

Okay, Loyalsock, coming back to you.

What architect of Kentuck Knob and LA's Ennis house whose Robie house is a leading example of Prairie school architecture designed Fallingwater?

- No answer.

- Okay.

Rebound now to Montgomery.

- Frank Lloyd Wright?

- Is correct for your rebound points, Montgomery.

Great job.

Here's your next question.

What character who often assumes the alter ego Spaceman Spiff is a child created by Bill Waterson who owns a stuffed tiger named Hobbs.

- Calvin?

- Is correct and here's your bonus question.

What author wrote I eat men like air in the poem Lady Lazarus which was published in the collection Ariel two years after her death in 1963?

- Emily Dickinson?

- Nope.

We were looking for Sylvia Plath, Sylvia Plath.

Loyalsock, it's back to you now.

What body of water which contains the Belcher Islands has a Southern portion called James Bay and is a Canadian Bay named for an English Explorer?

- Hudson river?

- We will take that.

Hudson Bay.

Here's your bonus question.

Harold Godwinson defeated Harald Hardrada at what battle, which occurred less than three weeks before the battle of Hastings?

- Battle of Saratoga?

- Is incorrect.

We are looking for The Battle of Stamford Bridge The Battle of Stamford Bridge.

Montgomery, it's back to you now.

What author whose pseudonyms included Jonathan Oldstyle and Geoffery Crayon wrote about a man who fell asleep for 20 years in Rip van Winkle?

- Washington Irving?

- Is correct and here's your bonus question and get those pencils and papers out again.

If similar triangles, A, B, C, and D, E, F, are in two to one ratio and angle A is 35 degrees what is the measure of corresponding angle D?

(intense music) (high pitched beep) - Seventy degrees?

- I'm sorry?

- Seventy degrees?

- Is incorrect.

We were looking for 35 degrees, 35 degrees.

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

This time Montgomery will pick first.

Your categories are Transportation or Seattle.

- Transportation.

- Okay, transportation it is and your time begins when I finished reading the first question.

Name these cities given one or more of their Metro stations.

Fenway.

- Chicago?

- [Paul] Boston.

Charing Cross.

- London?

- [Paul] Yes.

Shibuya?

- No answer.

- [Paul] Tokyo.

Sadat and Giza?

- Cairo?

- [Paul] Yes.

Champs- Élysées - Clemenceau?

- Riaille?

- Paris.

Topkap1-Ulubatl1?

- Taipei?

- [Paul] Istanbul.

Cheongdam?

- No answer.

- [Paul] Seoul.

Nueve de Julio?

- Mexico city?

- [Paul] Buenos Aires.

(high pitched beep) - And that's as far as we're going to get.

Okay, Montgomery that's going to wrap up your portion of the lightning round and now we're going to come over to Loyalsock.

Your remaining category will be Seattle and again, your time begins after I've finished reading the first question.

Answer the following about the city of Seattle.

state whose most populous city it is.

- Washington?

- [Paul] Yes.

Nearby company founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen.

- Microsoft?

- Yes.

Observation tower built for the 1962 world's fair.

- Seattle needle?

- [Paul] Space needle.

Like Rome it's said to be built on this number of hills.

- Pass.

- [Paul] Seven.

It's NFL team.

- Seahawks?

- Yes.

Inlet on which it lies.

- Pass.

- [Paul] Puget Sound.

Rock band led by Eddie Vedder founded in Seattle in 1990.

- Nirvana.

- [Paul] Pearl jam.

City that co names Seattle's international airport.

(high pitched beep) - Ran out of time there.

That was Tacoma, Tacoma.

All right, that's going to do it for the lightning round and after that, we currently have Montgomery in the lead over Loyalsock 110 to 75.

Let's take a chance now to get to know the contestants playing the second half a little better and again, we'll start with the students from Loyalsock.

Maia, tell me who your favorite musician is and why?

- Currently my favorite musician is Shawn Mendez because I really love his music and how inspirational is.

- [Paul] Okay.

Excellent.

Gianna same question.

- Currently, my favorite musician is Carrie Underwood.

I just like how she tells a story with her music.

- Okay.

Excellent.

Thank you, Loyalsock and good luck the rest of the way.

Montgomery coming over to you.

Owen, who is your favorite musical artist and why?

- Probably guns and roses because of the variety of music they produce.

- [Paul] They've been around for a long time.

Okay.

Mary, how about you?

My favorite musical artist would be Five Seconds of Summer because of the beat they produce.

- Okay, excellent.

Good luck to the rest of the way, Montgomery.

As we begin the last segment of the game with this question, which goes to Montgomery.

What river whose upper course is called the long song forms most of the Thailand-Laos border and empties into the South China sea in Southern Vietnam?

- The Ganges?

- Is incorrect.

Rebound now to Loyalsock.

- No answer.

- Okay.

That river was the Mekong, the Mekong.

Loyalsock, here comes your question.

What inventor of the Terza rima form composed the love poetry dedicated to Beatrice Portinari and wrote The Divine Comedy which begins with the Inferno?

(buzzer sounds) Ran out of time.

We're going to rebound now to Montgomery - Dante?

- Is correct for your rebound points.

Great job, Montgomery.

And here's your next question.

The second law of thermodynamics states that closed systems cannot decrease their value of what quantity which measures the systems disorder?

- Mass?

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Loyalsock.

- No answer.

- Okay.

We were looking for entropy, entropy.

Loyalsock, here comes your next question.

What area, home to the monument of the people's heroes and south of the forbidden city was the site of a 1989 crackdown on Beijing's student protestors?

(buzzer sounds) Okay, we're going to rebound a Montgomery now.

- Saigon?

- Nope.

We were looking for Tienanmen Square, Tienanmen Square.

Montgomery, here comes your next question.

What Christian denomination practices disfellowshipping disallows transfusions , publishes the Watchtower, and performs door to door proselytizing?

- Prodestant?

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Loyalsock.

- Jehovah Witnesses?

- Is correct for your rebound points, Loyalsock.

And here's your next question.

What city whose residents are called Weegies, is home to the Old Firm football rivalry, is on the river Clyde, and it's the most populous in Scotland?

- No answer.

- Okay.

Rebound now to Montgomery.

- Camembert?

- Nope.

We were looking for Glasgow, Glasgow.

Montgomery here comes your next question.

What woman, who founded Hogarth Press with her husband Leonard, wrote about a boat trip taken by the Ramseys in her modernist novel To The Lighthouse?

- No answer.

- Okay, rebound to Loyalsock.

- No answer.

- Okay.

We were looking for Virginia Wolf, Virginia Wolf.

Loyalsock here comes your next question.

What element with highly toxic dust found in the minerals Aquamarine and Emerald is the first alkaline earth metal and has atomic symbol BE?

- Bromine?

- Is incorrect.

Rebound now to Montgomery.

- Beryllium?

- Is correct for your rebound points, Montgomery.

Great job.

(high pitched beep) And well, we're not going to get to the next question because that's the end of the game and our winner tonight is Montgomery over Loyalsock 130 to 85.

Congratulations, Montgomery, 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 thanks for watching.

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