- Welcome to the, 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 $1000, $3000 or $5,000 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 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 Marian Catholic and Susquehanna community.

Playing in the first half for Marian Catholic are Vincent Pan and Kaitlyn Doyle.

The alternates are Walter Pavlick and Lauren Reman.

Their advisors are Janet Whalen and Jean Susko Representing Susquehanna community in the first half are Sophie Lawrenson and Meghan Keirnan.

The alternates are Billy Steele and Eva Presley.

Their adviser is Will Seeley.

Well, let's get started.

Marian Catholic has won the coin toss and will receive the first question which is: two vectors with a dot product of zero, have what property also true of the diagonals of a rhombus and any two lines that meet at right angles?

Okay.

Rebound now to Susquehanna.

- Perpendicular.

- Is correct for your rebound point, Susquehanna.

And here comes your first question.

What author wrote about artists, Paul Morel in "Sons and Lovers", and described an English woman's affair with a gamekeeper in lady "Chatterley's lover"?

- Pass - Okay.

Rebound now to Marian Catholic.

- Pass - All right.

Then author was DH Lawrence.

Marian Catholic, here comes your next question.

What man, who is chancellor propose the people's budget succeed HH Asquith and represented Britain at the Paris peace conference?

- Churchill - Is incorrect.

Rebound to Susquehanna - Pass.

- Okay.

We were looking for David Lloyd George.

Susquehanna, here comes your next question.

What Mediterranean city, where 2,700 tons of ammonium nitrate stored in a port caused a massive August, 2020 explosion is the capital of Lebanon?

Okay.

Rebound now to Marian Catholic.

- Beirut - Beirut is correct for your rebound points, Marian Catholic and here comes your next question.

What German chemist, who worked with Gustav Kirchhof to discover Caesium worked with Peter Desaga, to develop a namesake device that burns gas?

- Pass - Okay.

Rebound now to Susquehanna.

- Bunsen - Bunsen is correct for your rebound points Susquehanna.

Great job.

And here comes your next question.

What flowers, which mark, the places of people who shall not sleep and lie row on row in the poem in Flanders fields are the source of opium?

- Poppy - Is correct.

And here's your bonus question.

Scientists EO Wilson is a leading expert on what insects that studied by myrmecologists whose bullet species has the most painful sting in the world?

- Hornet - Is incorrect.

We were looking for ant.

Marian Catholic, here's your next question.

What author who wrote about a planet named Ladash That is in a solar system with six sons in a story Nightfall, also wrote the foundation series?

- Pass.

- Okay.

Rebound now to Susquehanna.

- Pass.

- Okay.

That was Isaac Asimov.

Susquehanna, here's your next question.

The allied capture of what island, which fell in six weeks in August 1943, and operation Husky led to the fall of Benito Mussolini's government?

- Pass.

- Okay.

Rebound now to Marian Catholic.

- Sicily - It is correct for your rebound points, Marian Catholic great job.

And that sound that you heard signals the end of the first quarter.

And it's now time for the lightening 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, Marian Catholic has won the coin toss and we'll pick first.

Your categories are: poetic phrases or vice-presidents - Poetic phrases, please - Okay.

Poetic phrases it is.

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

Given a line of poetry name the author.

"Good fences make good neighbors" - Frost.

- Yes.

"I heard a fly buzz when I died".

- Oh, Emily Dickinson.

- Yes.

"Shall I compare the to a summer's day?"

- Shakespeare.

- Yes.

"Hog butcher for the world".

- Pass.

- Sandberg.

"Into the valley of death road the 600" - Hemingway - Alfred Lord Tennyson.

"Where ignorant armies clash by night" - Pass.

- Matthew Arnold.

"I lift my lamp beside the golden door" - Pass - Emma Lazarus.

"I thank you God for most this amazing day".

- Pass - E. E. Cummings.

"We must love one another or die".

- That's W. H. Auden.

All right Marian Catholic, great job in the lightening round.

Susquehanna, we're coming over to you.

Your remaining category will be vice-presidents.

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

Name the president under whom these vice-president served.

Thomas Jefferson - Pass - John Adams Spiro Agnew - Pass - Richard Nixon.

Al Gore?

- Pass - Bill Clinton Walter Mondale.

- Pass - Jimmy Carter Dan Quayle - Pass.

- George H W Bush.

Charles Fairbanks.

- Pass - Teddy Roosevelt - Nelson Rockefeller - Pass - Gerald Ford Charles Dawes.

- Pass - That's Calvin Coolidge.

John C. Breckinridge - Pass - Okay, you ran out of time, that was James Buchanan.

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

And after that, we currently have Marian Catholic in the lead over Susquehanna community 52 to 30.

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.

Let's start with the students from Marian Catholic and Vincent I'll come your way first.

Tell me what your hobbies are.

What do you do for fun when you're not in class?

- When I'm not in school, I like to hang out with my friends, go golfing, play some basketball, or you listen to some music.

- Excellent.

Very nice.

Thanks for being here, Vincent.

And Kaitlyn, what are your hobbies?

- So when I'm outside of school, I'm heavily involved in music.

I was in our concert band and our marching band as well as like our music, like singing groups.

And I like to hang out with my friends.

- Very nice.

Very nice to meet you.

Susquehanna, coming over to you, Sophie what are your hobbies when you're not in school?

- I enjoy hanging out with friends and outdoor activities.

- And Megan, what do you like to do for fun?

- I love playing sports specifically.

Volleyball, basketball, softball.

- Excellent.

Thanks for being here, Susquehanna and good luck the rest of the way.

Now we're going to begin the second quarter with this question that goes to Susquehanna.

What British author, whose story "The Tuesday night club" introduced her amateur detective, Miss Jane Marple also wrote "Murder on the Orient Express"?

- Pass.

- Okay.

Rebound now to Marian Catholic - Pass.

- Okay.

That author was Agatha Christie.

Marian Catholic, here comes your next question.

What behavior, which Robert Merton strain theory suggests is motivated by social pressure is a type of deviancy in which people break laws?

Ran out of time.

Rebound now to Susquehanna.

- Neurotic - Nope.

We were looking for crime.

Okay, Susquehanna, here comes your next question.

What country whose Northeastern Loreto region contains the provincial capital of a ketose in the Amazon rainforest has its national Capitol at Lima?

- Chile - Is incorrect.

Rebound now to Marian Catholic.

- Peru - Is correct for your rebound points, Marian Catholic.

Great job.

And here's your next question.

What religions oldest texts contain ritual sections called ironicas include the Sama and Rig are written in Sanskrit and are called the Vedas?

- Okay.

Ran out of time.

Susquehanna rebound to you.

- Pass - Okay.

That's Hinduism.

Susquehanna, here comes your next question.

What monsters appear in the film "Train to Busan" the dance sequence of the music video for thriller and the TV series, "the walking dead"?

- Zombies - Correct.

And here's your bonus question.

What aluminum oxide mineral named from the Tamel Dravidian four it's two gem forms, Ruby and Sapphire, defines a hardness of nine on the Mohs scale.

Okay.

That's corundum.

Okay, Marian Catholic, it's back to you.

Part of the photosphere is visible during annular examples of what events which only occur during the new moon phase.

When the moon blocks the sun?

- Eclipse - Be more specific.

- Lunar eclipse - Is incorrect.

Rebound now to Susquehanna.

- Solar eclipse - Is correct for your rebound point, Susquehanna.

And here comes your next question.

Which island seated in perpetuity by the treaty of Nan king to great Britain was returned along with the Kowloon Peninsula in 1997 to China?

- Pass.

- Okay.

Rebound now to Marian Catholic - Hong Kong.

- Hong Kong is correct for your rebound points.

Marian Catholic, great job.

And after one half of play we currently have a very good game.

Marian Catholic in the lead over Susquehanna community 72 to 50.

I want to say thank you to Vincent and Kaitlyn of Marian Catholic.

And thank you to Sophie and Megan of Susquehanna community.

You guys are absolutely fantastic.

Thank you so much.

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

Now, joining us for Marian Catholic are Gavin Forkaski and Christina Walco and representing Susquehanna community are Courtney Bennett and Joseph Steria.

Okay, guys, the first question in this quarter goes to Marian Catholic and that question is: what city whose namesake river is the start of the Rideau canal borders Gatineau and Quebec is home to Parliament Hill and as Canada's capital?

- Quebec city - Is incorrect rebound now to Susquehanna.

- Pass - Canada's capital is Ottawa.

Susquehanna, here comes your first question.

What musical work commissioned by Natalia Sats to picks one title, character eating a duck represented by the oboe and it's by Sergei Prokofiev?

- Pass - Okay.

Rebound now to Marian Catholic.

- Pass - Okay.

That musical is "Peter and the Wolf" Marian Catholic, here's your next question.

What New Zealander travel through the Khumbu Icefall will accompanying sherpa Tenzing Norgay on the first successful climb of Mount Everest?

- Pass.

- Okay.

Rebound now to Susquehanna.

- Pass.

- Okay.

That answer is sir Edmund Hillary.

Okay Susquehanna, here's your next question.

What state exhibited by a dead battery occurs when a reaction's forward and reverse rates are equal, meaning that concentrations are not changing?

- Pass - Is incorrect.

Rebound now to Marian Catholic - Equilibrium - Is correct for your rebound points, Marian Catholic.

And here comes your next question.

What author had a roulette addiction that inspired his novel, "The Gambler", and wrote about Raskolnikov's murder of a pawnbroker in "Crime and Punishment"?

- Pass - Okay.

Rebound now to Susquehanna.

- Pass - Okay.

That author Dostoevsky.

Susquehanna, here's your next question.

In 1892.

What mixed race New Orleans man violated Louisiana separate cars act and eventually lost a Supreme court case against a judge John Ferguson?

- Okay.

Rebound out of Marian Catholic.

- Pass.

- Okay.

That's Homer Plessy.

Marian Catholic, here's your next question.

What city whose namesake Harbor is home to the Elephanta Caves is the center of the Bollywood film industry and is the most populous in India?

- Pass.

- Okay.

Rebound now to Susquehanna.

- Pass - Okay.

Citi is Mumbai.

Susquehanna, here comes your next question.

What author use the pen names Jonathan old-style and Jeffrey crayon and wrote about a man who sleeps in the Catskills for 20 years in Rip Van Winkle?

- Pass.

- Okay.

Rebound now to Marian Catholic - Pass.

- Okay.

That author is Washington Irving.

Marian Catholic, here's your next question.

In humans, what chromosome is regulated by dosage compensation because it occurs twice as often in females than in males who also have Y chromosomes?

- The X chromosome - Is correct.

And here's your bonus question.

What poem, which describes items that are said to be so cold is an apology for eating plums that were in the ice box by William Carlos Williams?

- Pass.

- Okay.

This is just to say.

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

This time Susquehanna community will pick first.

Your categories are BA places or Croatia.

- BA places.

- Okay, BA places it is.

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

Give these geographic locations, whose names begin with the letters BA.

Most populous city in Maryland.

- Pass - Baltimore Country east of India, governed from Daca.

- Pass - Bangladesh.

See who's Russian ports include St. Petersburg - Pass - Baltic Sea Indonesian island popular with tourists whose capital is Densapra.

- Bangladesh - Bali.

European peninsula, home to Albania.

- Bangladesh - Balkan Peninsula Capital of Azerbaijan.

- Pass - That's Baku.

Semi-arid national park in South Dakota.

- Pass - Badlands.

Caribbean island left uninhabited after hurricane Irma Ran out of time.

That was Barbuda.

Okay.

That's going to do it for your portion of the lightning round, Susquehanna.

Marianne Catholic, we're coming over to you and we're going to create Croatia, rather.

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

Answer the following about Croatia: it's capital?

- Pass - That's Zagreb.

Country from which it gained independence in 1991?

- Bosnia - Yugoslavia.

Breed of spotted dog named for a historical region of Croatia.

- Dalmation - Yes.

Sea on its west coast?

- Baltic - Adriatic.

Inventor and rival of Thomas Edison born in modern day Croatia?

- Bell - Tesla.

country to it's Northwest govern from Ljubljana?

- Albania - Slovenia.

Passport free European travel area Croatia hoped to join in 2020?

- The European Union - Schengen area.

Venetian explorer who may have been born in Croatia in 1254?

Okay.

That was Marco Polo.

All right, that's going to do it for the lightning round.

And after that we currently have Marian Catholic in the lead over Susquehanna community 100 to 50.

And again, we're 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.

Let's start with the students from Marian Catholic.

Again, Gavin, I'll come to you.

Tell me what you do for fun?

- I enjoy running, golfing and fishing.

- Okay.

Excellent.

Thanks for being here, Gavin.

Christina, what are your hobbies?

- Outside of school I like to play the piano and I also horseback ride and like being outside.

- Excellent.

Good luck the rest of the way.

Susquehanna, kind of coming over to you, Courtney what do you like to do for fun when you're not in class?

- I like to play basketball and softball and hang out with my friends.

- Okay, that sounds like a lot of fun.

And Joseph, what are your hobbies?

- I like to draw and other stuff with art.

- Excellent.

Thanks for being here.

It was very nice to meet all of you.

Now let's go ahead and begin the fourth quarter with this question that goes to Susquehanna community.

What concept, which titles in 1971, John Rawls book discussing its distributed type is modified by the word "social", when describing fairness?

- Social contract - Is incorrect.

Rebound now to Marian Catholic.

- Equality.

- Nope.

We were looking for justice.

Okay.

Marian Catholic, here's your first question Of the last quarter.

In 2014, Mary Berra became CEO of what company founded in 1908 by William Durant, who is constituent brands include Chevrolet, Cadillac, and Buick?

- General motors - Is correct.

And here's your bonus question.

A coil of wire can serve as what circuit component that uses a magnetic field to store energy.

And whose strength is measured in Henrys?

- Transformer.

- Nope.

We were looking for inductor.

Okay.

Susquehanna, it's back to you.

What novel whos sequel is titled "Closing Time" follows characters like Dr. Nika, Milo Minderbinder and John Yossarian and is by Joseph Heller?

- Pass - Okay.

Rebound now to Marian Catholic.

- Pass.

- Okay.

That is Catch 22.

Okay.

Marian Catholic, here comes your next question.

What particles are bound together by glue-ons to form hardons like protons and neutrons and come in six flavors, including strange and charm?

- Pass.

- Okay.

Rebound now to Susquehanna.

- Cortes - Is correct for your rebound point, Susquehanna.

And here comes your next question.

What author claimed that her family created the world's most dangerous man in "Too much and never enough", a book about her uncle Donald Trump?

- Pass - Okay.

Rebound now to Marian Catholic.

- Mary Trump.

Is correct for your rebound points, Marian Catholic.

Great job and here's your next question.

What God who created the people of the fifth sun was taste alkopa his rival and was worshiped at Tia Teocon as a feathered serpent by the Aztecs?

- Pass.

- Okay.

Rebound now to Susquehanna community.

- Pass - All right.

That's Quetzalcoatl.

Susquehanna, here's your next question.

On what streaming series does Taika YTD voice IgG 11 a droid who sacrifices himself to save a bounty hunter and a character known as baby Yoda?

- Mandalorian - Is correct.

And here's your bonus question.

Ramzan Kadyrov rules what Muslim majority region in the north Caucasus that tried to break free from Russia in two wars, beginning in the 1990s?

- Ukraine.

- Nope.

We were looking for Chechnya.

Okay.

Marian Catholic, here's your next question.

John III Sobieski broke a 1683 siege of what city that was earlier besieged by Suleiman the magnificent Ottoman army and as the capital of Austria?

- Vienna.

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus.

What two faced Roman God's temple had doors that close only during peace?

- Pass - Okay.

That's Janice.

And that's the end of the game.

And our winner tonight is Marian Catholic over Susquehanna community 130 to 70.

Congratulations, Marian Catholic!

You're going to be moving on and we'll see you next time with another round of WVIA Scholastic scrimmage.

I'm your host, Paul Lazar, and thank you for watching.