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

I'm your host Regina Myers.

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 dollars.

Tonight's match features Nanticoke versus Marian Catholic.

Representing Nanticoke is Dylan Shires, Grace Reed, Sophia Lukowski, Lucas Stahoviak, their captain.

Their alternate is Lucas Yenjaesky and their advisor is Xan Pere.

Representing Marian Catholic is Alex Cornmesser, Alyssa Kuba, Addison Pan, Their captain is Angela Pan.

Their alternates are Julius Curry and Derek Dang.

And their advisor is Janet Whelan.

Scholastic Scrimmage is a game of rapid recall of factual information.

Let's take a minute and review the rules.

The first team to buzz in will have an opportunity to answer a toss up question.

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 will be given the tossup points but will not receive a bonus question.

Let's get started with our first tossup question.

What king who as a result of his father's Dasharatha's promise to Kaikeyi, leaves Ayodhya kills the demon Ravana and rescues Sita in an Indian epic?

(long beep) Rama is the correct answer.

Toss up.

What organ that produces HCG and progesterone is the only transient organ in humans and is connected via the umbilical cord to a fetus?

(beep) Addison, Marian Catholic.

- Uterus.

- [Regina] Uterus is incorrect.

Rebound to Nanticoke.

Five seconds.

(two beeps) Lucas.

- What is the abdomen?

- Abdomen is incorrect, it is placenta.

Toss up.

What state admitted to the union in 1820 was once part of Massachusetts and is the namesake of a ship whose sinking led to the Spanish American war?

(two beeps) Lucas, Nanticoke.

- Maine?

- Maine is a correct answer, and your bonus, what 2015 Sega game which depicts Goro Majima and Kazuma Kiryu in bubble era 1988 Japan is the prequel to a series about Japanese organized crime?

- It might be Yakuza.

- Huh?

- It might be Yakuza.

- Yakuza.

(two beeps) - Lucas.

- Yakuza.

- Yakuza.

- Yakuza.

- Yakuza.

- Yakuza.

- [Regina] Can you be more specific?

- I have no more.

- I guess not, Yakuza.

- The correct answer is Yakuza Zero.

Toss up.

What city contains the Mansudae assembly Hall is on the Taedong River, is home to the unfinished Ryugyong hotel, and is the capital of North Korea?

(two beeps) Dylan, Nanticoke.

- Pyongyang.

- Pyongyang is the correct answer.

And your bonus Nanticoke, what person claimed that the Ark of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice in his letter from Birmingham jail?

(two beeps) Lucas.

- Martin Luther King - Correct.

Toss up.

What short story concludes with Katrina Van Tassel marrying Brom Bones after Ichabod Crane is frightened away by a run-in with the headless horseman?

(beep) Alyssa, Mary Catholic.

- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow?

- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is the correct answer.

And your bonus, karst topography is characterized by caves and what land forms formed by surface collapse which are known as cenotes when they contain fresh water?

- Just take a guess.

(beep) - [Regina] Alyssa.

- Sinkholes?

- [Regina] I'm sorry?

- Sinkholes?

- Sinkhole is a correct answer for your bonus points.

Toss up.

What man who was California's governor when named to the Supreme Court led a commission investigating the JFK murder (two beeps) while he was-- Lucas, Nanticoke.

- Warren.

- Warren's the correct answer, and your bonus Nanticoke, what young adult author's novels include After Tupac and D Foster and Before the Ever After?

(two beeps) Lucas.

- Jane Eyre?

- Jane Eyre is incorrect.

It is Jacqueline Woodson.

Toss up.

Aposematic coloring is used to evade what type of species which are called (beep) apex when they are on top of a food chain and target their prey.

(beep) Alyssa, Marian Catholic.

- Predators?

- Predators is the correct answer.

And your bonus Marian Catholic, what country has a currency called The Balboa named after an explorer who reached the Pacific after crossing this country's namesake Isthmus?

(beep) Alex.

- Portugal?

- Portugal is incorrect.

It is Panama.

That is the end of the first quarter and it's now time for the lightning round.

(whoosh) (electric sound) 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.

Nanticoke has won the coin toss and will pick first.

Your categories are Russian leaders or Super Mario.

- What do you guys want?

- What do you want?

- I have no idea.

Whatever you want, so.

- Super Mario?

- I think we should.

What do we want?

- Super Mario, I guess.

- Go with it.

- All right.

Yeah, I guess we'll go with Super Mario.

- Super Mario.

- Yeah.

- The time begins after I read the first question.

Answer the following about characters and things in the Super Mario game franchise, Mario's green clad brother.

(two beeps) Lucas.

- Luigi.

- [Regina] Correct, dinosaur like being Mario often ride-- - Bowser.

- No.

- I'm sorry?

- Bowser.

- No.

- [Regina] Yoshi.

Food item that names the kingdom where most of the series is set.

(two beeps) Lucas.

- Mushroom Kingdom?

- [Regina] Correct.

Item in Super Mario Brothers that grants invincibility.

(two beeps) - Star.

- [Regina] Correct.

Colorful alliteratively named track in every Mario kart game.

(two beeps) - Rainbow Road.

- Correct.

RPG series that includes the Thousand Year Door.

(two beeps) - Pass.

- Paper Mario?

- [Regina] Paper Mario is the correct answer.

A short word on a block that causes a small quake when activated.

(two beeps) - Pass.

- [Regina] Pow.

(indistinct) haired princess of Sarasaland who first appeared in the Super Mario Land.

(two beeps) - Princess Peach?

- Daisy.

City in Super Mario Odyssey where mayor, whose mayor is Pauline.

(two beeps) - Pass.

- New Donk.

Turtle-like antagonist who kidnaps Princess Peach.

(long beep) (two beeps) - Turtle.

I mean, Bowser.

- The correct answer is Bowser and that came in after the clock, sorry.

Moving over to our team from Marian Catholic.

Russian leaders.

What Russian czar prince party leader or president killed one of his sons likely during a bout of insanity.

(beep) Alex.

- Czar Ivan the terrible.

- [Regina] Correct.

Was the last czar of Russia.

(beep) Alex.

- Alexander the second.

- [Regina] Correct, banged his shoe on a desk during a speech at the UN.

(beep) - Pass.

- (indistinct) enacted a tax on beards in 1698 as one of his modernizing reforms.

(beep) - Peter the great?

- [Regina] Correct.

Sold Alaska to the United States and emancipated the surfs.

(beep) - Catherine the great?

- Alexander the second.

Led the USSR during World War II.

(beep) - Joseph Stalin.

- [Regina] Correct.

Was a lover of the king of Poland whose lands she annexed in 1772.

(beep) - Catherine the great.

- [Regina] Correct.

Introduced the reforms of Perestroika and Glasnost.

(beep) - Pass.

- [Regina] Gorbachev defeated the Teutonic Knights at the battle on the ice.

(beep) - Pass.

- [Regina] Nevsky was Russia's first post Soviet president.

(beep) - Boris Yeltsin.

- Correct answer, right on time.

That's the end of the lightning round.

The judges determined an answer given earlier by the Marian Catholic team was incorrect.

So we're going to update our score.

We have Nanticoke with 60 points and Marian Catholic with 50 points.

We're going to move into the second quarter with this toss up question.

What Shakespearean comedy featuring fall staff is named after the women fall staff courts Mistress Page and Mistress Ford who are happily married?

(long beep) That's the The Merry Wives of Windsor.

Toss up.

What silver smith holds a teapot in a 1768 John Singleton Copley portrait and races through Lexington in Grant Wood's painting of his midnight ride.

(two beeps) Lucas, Nanticoke.

- Paul Revere.

- Paul Revere's the correct answer, and your bonus Nanticoke, William Cullen Bryant and John Greenleaf Whittier were among what group of 19th century New England poets whose name refers to a place in the home.

- Got nothing on that, sorry.

Pass.

- Okay, no answer.

The correct answer is Fireside Poets.

Toss up.

What book which declares man is born free and everywhere he is in chains is by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and discusses the Peoples Pact with the state?

(two beeps) Dylan, Nanticoke.

- Is it National Rights?

- [Regina] National Rights is incorrect.

Rebound to Marian Catholic.

(long beep) The correct answer is social contract.

Toss up.

What city which is home to the Levine Museum of the New South and the headquarters of Bank of America is the most populous city in North Carolina?

(beep) Alex, Marian Catholic.

- Raleigh?

- [Regina] Raleigh's incorrect.

Rebound to Nanticoke.

- Charlotte.

- Charlotte.

- Charlotte.

- Charlotte's the correct answer for your rebound points.

Toss up.

What character uses a wax dummy of himself to fool Sebastian Moran, has a brother named Mycroft, and is a detective created by Arthur Conan Doyle?

- Holmes.

Sherlock Holmes.

(beep) - [Regina] Alyssa, Marian Catholic.

- Sherlock Holmes?

- Sherlock Holmes is the correct answer and your bonus Marian Catholic, what adjective describes a substance in a reaction that will yield the least amount of product and therefore controls the extent of the reaction?

(beep) Addison.

- Determining?

- Is incorrect.

It is limiting reagent.

Toss up.

What son of Calliope charmed Cerberus with his music and won his dead wife's freedom but lost her when he looked back while leaving the underworld?

(beep) Alyssa, Marian Catholic.

- Gonna go with Hercules.

- [Regina] Hercules is incorrect.

Rebound to Nanticoke.

(group whispers) (long beep) The correct answer is Orpheus.

Toss up.

What last capital city of the Duchy of Savoy which is now the capital of Piedmont, displays an image of Jesus' face on its namesake shroud.

(beep) Addison, Marian Catholic.

- Turin?

- Turin is the correct answer Addison.

And your bonus, what country singer's 2022 album Stereotype includes Single Saturday Night, the Lainey Wilson duet, Never Say Never, and She Had Me at Heads Carolina?

(beep) Alyssa.

- Florida, no, Luke Bryan?

- [Regina] Luke Bryan is incorrect.

It is Cole Swindell.

That's the end of the first half.

We're going to give an update of our score.

Nanticoke has 80 points and Marian Catholic has 70 points.

We'll give our students a bit of a break and the opportunity for our viewing audience to get to know you a little bit better.

We're gonna start with our team from Nanticoke.

Dylan, why don't you start us off and tell us about like some of the activities you're involved in, in school.

- So in school I am a member of the National Honor Society.

I am also part of the Bore Club here at Nanticoke.

And I play for the varsity football team.

- [Regina] Keeps you very busy.

- Mhm.

- Mhm.

- Oh yeah.

- [Regina] Grace, how about you?

- Well I'm obviously a member of the Scholastic Scrimmage team.

I am National Honor Society treasurer and I am the varsity captain of four varsity teams.

- [Regina] Four teams?

- Yes.

- [Regina] Wow, that's a lot.

- Yes it is.

- [Regina] Sophia.

- I'm also part of the Scholastic Scrimmage team.

I'm the captain of five sports.

I am National Honor Society president, I'm a member of student council, and I'm on the school improvement committee.

- [Regina] And somehow you find time to do everything.

- Yeah, somehow.

- [Regina] Lucas.

- I'm the senior class president and I play varsity football and baseball.

I just wanna say hi mom, hi family.

(group laughs) - Ah sweet.

Thanks Lucas.

Let's move over to our team from Marian Catholic.

Alex, why don't you start us off.

- Hi, I'm Alex Cornmesser.

I do NHS.

I'm in student council as a treasurer.

I also do Scholastic Scrimmage obviously and I run cross country.

- [Regina] Okay, Alyssa.

- Hi, I'm Alyssa.

I do concert band, marching band, pit band, concert chorus.

I'm in the percussion ensemble.

I do creative writing, and I'm in forensics.

And I'm on the Scholastic and School League scrimmage teams.

- [Regina] And you are also very busy and manage to get it all done.

Addison.

- I'm part of National Honor Society.

I'm part of the Future Business Leaders of America, and the Students Against Destructive Decisions.

I'm part of the Scholastic Scrimmage team as well as the School Leagues Scrimmage team.

- [Regina] That's a lot.

Angela, why don't you finish us off?

- I am the executive president of student council.

I'm a member of NHS, treasurer of FBLA, a leader in Aevidum, I'm in Green club, Sak Club, CRS, I run track and field in the spring.

I'm in the Immaculate Heart Community and obviously Scholastic Scrimmage and School League Scrimmage.

- [Regina] Okay.

And you remembered all of that off the top of your head.

It was nice meeting all of you.

We'll now begin the second half of the game with this tossup question.

What man who defeated Cynthia Nixon in a 2018 primary was succeeded by Kathy Hochul after harassment claims led him to resign as New York's governor?

(beep) Alex, Marian Catholic.

- Cuomo?

- Cuomo is the correct answer Alex, and your bonus, The Weber is the SI unit for what quantity which in simple cases equals magnetic field strength times area?

(long beep) The correct answer is magnetic flux.

Toss up.

What particles from spectral lines through their emission or absorption are released in gamma decay and may be classified as infrared or-- (two beeps) Sophia, Nanticoke.

- Gamma rays?

- Gamma rays is incorrect.

I'll complete the question in rebound to Marian Catholic.

Or x-rays?

Five seconds.

(beep) Addison.

- Radiation?

- Radiation is incorrect, it is photons.

Toss up.

What event began when the deaf man Black Coyote did not give up a gun on the Pine Ridge reservation and saw United States soldiers kill over 200 Lakota people?

(beep) Alex, Marian Catholic.

- Wounded Knee?

- Wounded Knee, Alex's correct answer and your bonus, what poet stated that is "No Country for Old Men" in the opening line of his poem Sailing to Byzantium?

(beep) Alex.

- Yates?

- Yates is the correct answer.

Alex, for your bonus points.

Toss up.

What name is shared by the title character of a Virginia Wolf novel who changes sex and a Florida city that is home to Sea World and the NBA's magic?

(two beeps) Dylan, Nanticoke.

- Orlando?

- Orlando, Dylan's correct answer and your bonus, what French mathematician's name is used for the plane on which complex numbers are plotted with a verti, or horizontal real axis and a vertical imaginary axis?

(two beeps) - Versal?

- Is incorrect, it is Argand.

Toss up.

What state where a police shooting paralyzed Jacob Blake and led to an athlete Boycott was where Kyle Rittenhouse killed two people in-- (two beeps) Lucas, Nanticoke.

- Minnesota.

- [Regina] I'm sorry?

- Minnesota?

- Minnesota's incorrect.

I'll complete the question in rebound to Marian Catholic.

Two people in Kenosha?

(long beep) That was Wisconsin.

Toss up.

the spin statistics theorem generalized what physicist's statement that two electrons cannot share a quantum state, his namesake, exclusion principle?

(beep) Alex, Marian Catholic.

- Heisenberg?

- [Regina] Heisenberg is incorrect.

Rebound to Nanticoke.

(long beep) It is the Pauli Principal.

Toss up.

What school's basketball team led by most outstanding player Ochai Agbaji and Coach Bill Self won the 2022 NCAA men's basketball tournament?

(long light beep) (long beep) That was Kansas.

And that's the end of the third quarter and it's now time for another lightning round.

(whoosh) (electric noises) This time Marian Catholic will choose first.

Your categories are books or, Annes and Annes.

(beep) Angela.

- We'll go with books.

- Books.

The time begins after I read the first question.

What type of book contains words and their definitions?

(beep) - Dictionary.

- [Regina] Correct, can be used to look up synonyms.

(beep) Angela.

- Thesaurus.

- [Regina] Correct, is a collection of factual knowledge such as pretend-- (beep) - Alyssa.

- Encyclopedia.

- [Regina] Correct.

Was once published by Benjamin Franklin under the pseudonym Poor Richard.

(beep) Addison.

- Almanac?

- [Regina] Correct, is filled with recipes.

(beep) Alyssa.

- Cookbook.

- Correct, is a compendium of maps named after a titan from Greek myth.

(beep) Addison.

- Atlas.

- [Regina] Correct.

Is the story of the author's own life (beep) generally longer-- - Autobiography.

- [Regina] Correct.

Contains a sport or game's official regulations and procedures.

(beep) - Alyssa.

- Playbook.

- [Regina] Playbook is incorrect, it is the rule book.

Includes information about the world's countries published by the CIA.

(beep) Alex.

- The list.

- [Regina] It's incorrect.

It's the fact book.

Is read at the Passover Seder.

(beep) - Torah.

- Is incorrect.

It is Haggadah.

Moving over to our team from Nanticoke.

Your category is Annes and Annes.

Identified these people with a first name Anne spelled with or without an E. 19th century novelist who wrote Agnes Grey.

(two beeps) Lucas.

- Anne Hathaway?

- [Regina] Bronte.

Fourth wife of Henry VIII.

(two beeps) - Boleyn.

- [Regina] Cleves.

Actress who shared in Wag the Dog who died after a 2022 auto accident.

(two beeps) - Pass.

- Heche.

Religious dissenter expelled from Massachusetts in 1638.

(two beeps) - Hutchinson.

- [Regina] Correct.

Author of Interview with the Vampire who died in 2021.

(two beeps) - Pass.

- Rice.

Author of a diary who died in 1945 in Bergen-Belsen.

(two beeps) - Frank.

- [Regina] Correct.

Actress who played Catwoman in the Dark Knight Rises.

(two beeps) - Pass.

- [Regina] Hathaway.

American author of Gift from the Sea.

(two beeps) - Pass.

- [Regina] Lindbergh.

Teacher of Helen Keller.

(long light beep) That was Anne Sullivan.

And that's the end of the lightning round.

Our score is Nanticoke 100 and Marian Catholic 130.

We will now begin the last segment of the game with this toss up question.

What alloy used to make the dancing girl sculpture found in Mohenjo-daro is the namesake of an archeological age between the stone and iron ages.

(beep) Addison, Marian Catholic.

- Bronze?

- Bronze, Addison's correct answer and your bonus, what 1887 experiment did not observe a predicted shift in an interference pattern, thus demonstrating that the luminiferous ether does not exist.

(beep) Angela.

- Pass.

- Okay, the correct answer is Michelson-Morley.

Toss up.

What shape, the most general quadrilateral, whose diagonals bisect each other, is used in a law to add vectors, and has two pair of parallel sides?

(two beeps) Lucas, Nanticoke.

- Four square.

- [Regina] Four square is incorrect.

Rebound to Marian Catholic.

(beep) Addison.

- Rectangle?

- Rectangle is incorrect, it is a parallelogram.

Toss up.

What painter of the Mystic Nativity depicted one of the Hora holding out a cloak to a woman being blown to shore on a seashell in the Birth of Venus?

(long beep) That was Botticelli.

Toss up.

What novel narrated by Jack Burden an aid to populist governor Willie Stark is by Robert Penn Warren, and takes its title from Humpty Dumpty?

(beep) Alex, Marian Catholic.

- Great Fall.

- [Regina] Is incorrect, rebound to Nanticoke.

- Had a great fall?

(long beep) - Is incorrect.

It is All the King's Men.

Toss up.

What show's 2020 episode Gold Stick was written by Peter Morgan and depicts Margaret Thatcher meeting with Olivia Coleman's character Elizabeth the second.

(beep) Alex, Marian Catholic.

- The Crown?

- The Crown is the correct answer.

And your bonus, what non-metal which is dissolved in water in Lugol's solution is a halogen that forms a violet colored gas.

(beep) Angela.

- Florine.

- [Regina] I'm sorry?

- Florine.

- Florine is incorrect, it is iodine.

Toss up.

What character whose glittering eye transfixes a wedding guest, describes being cursed after shooting an albatross in a Samuel Taylor Coleridge rhyme?

(long beep) That was The Ancient Mariner.

Toss up.

What general who failed to capture Richmond during the Peninsula Campaign ran for president in 1864 after leading Union forces at-- (two beeps) Lucas, Nanticoke.

- McClellan?

- McClellan Lucas's correct answer and your bonus, what composer of Knoxville, summer of 1915 adapted a movement of his 1936 string quartet into his Adagio for Strings.

- Beethoven.

- Beethoven is incorrect.

It is Samuel Barber.

Toss up.

What process which occurs when the ion product of a solution is too large, causes those ions to fall out of a solution as an insoluble, soluble solid.

(long light beep) (long beep) The correct answer is precipitation.

And that is the end of our game.

So let's take a look at our final score.

We have Nanticoke with 110 points and Marian Catholic with 150 points.

Congratulations Marian Catholic.

You'll be moving on.

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

I'm your host Regina Meyers and thanks for watching.

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