(percussive music) ♪ Go - Welcome to the 18th 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 1, 3, or $5,000.

Tonight's match features Millville versus Weatherly.

Representing Millville are Chase Phillips, Daniel Stackhouse Hemsarth, and Hunter Lingefelt.

Millville has elected to have three players today instead of four.

Their advisor is Justine Myers, and subbing in today, is Lindsey Schultz.

Representing Weatherly are Serenity Stout, Klaus Arrow, James McLaurin, and Noah Barela Guzman.

Their alternates are Trinity McCutcheon and Conner McAuley.

Their advisor is Shane Moran.

"Scholastic Scrimmage" is a game of rapid recall of factual information, so, 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 toss-up 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'll be given the toss-up points, but will not receive a bonus question.

Well, let's get started with this toss-up question.

A Fresnel rhomb is an example of what optical device, a triangular one of which Isaac Newton used to split white light into its component colors?

(light beeping) Hunter, Millville?

- Prism?

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

(electronic bubbling) What city whose Museum of Fine Arts holds dozens of John Singleton Copley works was the site of a 1990 theft at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum?

(screen beeping) Okay, we're looking for Boston.

Let's move on to your next toss-up question.

What 2021 film in which characters wear still suits to reclaim water was directed by Denis Villeneuve and stars Timothee Chalamet as Paul Atreides?

(light beeping) Hunter, Millville?

- "Dune?"

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

(electronic bubbling) In 2023, Joe Biden nominated California attorney, Julie Su to what cabinet position in which she would replace Marty Walsh?

(light beeping) - Speaker of the House?

(chuckles) - No, we're looking for Secretary of Labor.

Here's your next toss-up.

What politician nicknamed The Milk Snatcher led the Conservative Party throughout the 1980s, and served as Britain's first female prime minister?

(light beeping) James, Weatherly?

- Margaret Thatcher?

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

(electronic bubbling) What Pacific Island nation was occupied by the Spanish starting with a 1565 landing in Cebu years after it was named after a Spanish king?

(light beeping) - The Philippines?

- Is correct for your bonus points, Weatherly, great job.

Here's your next toss-up question.

Connecting the centers of the faces of a cube forms what platonic solid's triangular faces, which look like two pyramids joined at the base?

(light beeping) Hunter, Millville?

- Tetrahedron?

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Weatherly.

(screen beeping) Okay, we're looking for octahedron, an octahedron.

Here's another toss-up question.

What city whose Concertgebouw was built in the 1800s is home to the Rijksmuseum, and the Anne Frank House, and is the capital of the Netherlands?

(light beeping) James, Weatherly?

- Amsterdam?

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

(electronic bubbling) What song whose title fact is revealed to be, she was made up by a dude, is a 2022 hit criticizing beauty standards by the singer, Jax?

(screen beeping) Okay, that answer was "Victoria's Secret".

Here's your next toss-up.

What author, who included the essay, "My Dungeon Shook" in the book, "The Fire Next Time" depicted teenager, John Grimes in "Go Tell It On The Mountain"?

(screen beeping) Okay, that was James Baldwin.

Here's your next toss-up.

What kingdom's parasites cause a circular rash in ringworm, itching and flaking between the toes in athlete's foot, and a variety of yeast infections?

(light beeping) Noah, Weatherly?

- Fungus?

- Is correct, (screen beeping) and your bonus question, (electronic beeping) what materials whose classes include thermotropic and lyotropic have distinct phases often used in television displays?

(screen beeping) Okay, that answer was liquid crystals, and that sound that you heard signals the end of the first quarter, and it's now time for the lightning round.

(text bursting) (electricity zapping) (electricity buzzing) 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.

Millville has won the coin toss, and will pick first.

Your categories are Scientific Equations or American Painters.

(players whispering) - Scientific Equations.

- Scientific Equations, it is, and your time begins after I finish reading the first question.

Answer the following about scientific equations.

Scientist who proposed E=MC squared?

(light beeping) - Albert Einstein?

- [Paul] Yes, objects for which Johann Kepler found three laws of motion?

(light beeping) - Pass.

- [Paul] Planets.

Namesake of a law about and a unit of resistance?

(light beeping) - E?

- [Paul] Ohm.

Law governing restoring forces on springs?

(light beeping) - Tension?

- [Paul] Hook, chemistry law written, PV=nRT?

(light beeping) - Ideal gas law?

- Is correct.

Solutions measured by the Henderson-Hasselbalch equation that resist pH changes?

(light beeping) - Buffers?

- [Paul] Yes.

Principle guaranteeing non-zero values for uncertainty?

You can pass if you (light beeping) don't know.

- Pass.

- Heisenberg.

Resistance to fluid deformation denoted eta governed by Stoke's Law?

(screen beeping) That was viscosity.

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

Weatherly, we're coming over to you, and your remaining category will be American Painters, and again, your time begins after I finish reading the first question.

Name the American painters of these paintings.

"American Gothic".

You can pass.

(light beeping) - Pass.

- Grant Wood "Nighthawks"?

- I'm going to pass.

(light beeping) - Pass.

- Edward Hopper.

"Arrangement in Grey and Black No.

1", featuring his mother?

(light beeping) - Pass.

- James Whistler.

"Campbell Soup Cans"?

- I don't want to make a move now.

(light beeping) - Andy Warhol?

- Yes, "Christina's World"?

- Pass.

(light beeping) - Pass.

- Andrew Wyeth.

"The Gross Clinic" and "The Agnew Clinic"?

(light beeping) - Pass.

- Thomas Eakins.

"The Athenaeum Portrait", in unfinished work featuring George Washington?

(screen beeping) That was Gilbert Stuart, and after that, that's going to conclude the lightning round, and we currently have a very tight game, Weatherly in the lead over Millville, 40 to 35.

And we're now going to move into the second quarter with this toss-up question.

What head of a 1728 expedition to the Kamchatka was a Danish explorer whose great northern expedition for Russia found his namesake strait off Alaska?

(light beeping) Noah, Weatherly?

- Bering?

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

(electronic bubbling) What musician who directed the 2021 documentary, "Summer of Soul" is the drummer for The Roots?

(screen beeping) Okay, that's Questlove.

Let's move on to another toss-up.

What company which conspiracy theorists claimed was owned by Smartmatic settled a 2021 lawsuit with Fox News and makes voting machines?

(light beeping) Noah, Weatherly?

- Dominion?

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

(electronic bubbling) What 17th-century philosopher is known for his namesake wager regarding the existence of God?

(light beeping) - Nietzsche?

- No, we're looking for Blaise Pascal.

Here's your next toss-up question.

What river, whose largest tributary is the Tennessee River, is formed by the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers near Pittsburgh?

(light beeping) Noah, Weatherly?

- Ohio?

- Is correct, and here's your bonus question, (electronic bubbling) and get your pencils and papers ready.

What is the base 10 or decimal equivalent of the base 2, or binary number, 11111, given that is five ones in all?

(light beeping) Noah?

- 10?

- Is incorrect, we're looking for 31, 31.

Here's our next toss-up question.

What type of image which is produced by a plane mirror forms in the location where rays cannot be projected onto a screen, as opposed to real images?

(light beeping) Hunter, Millville?

- Reflection?

- Is incorrect, rebound to Weatherly.

(screen beeping) Okay, we're looking for virtual images.

Here's your next toss-up.

What Germanic people who founded an African kingdom under Genseric led a 455 sack of Rome after which their name became a word for damaging property.

(light beeping) Noah, Weatherly?

- Vandals?

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

(electronic bubbling) A vacuum cleaner salesman is recruited to be a spy in a Graham Greene novel titled, "Our Man In," what world capital, the Birthplace of poet, Jose Marti?

(light beeping) James?

- Madrid?

- No, we're looking for Havana, Havana.

Our next toss-up question.

What team starred Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling when it won the 2001 World Series over the Yankees, and now plays at Chase Field in Phoenix?

(screen beeping) That was the Arizona Diamondbacks.

Our next toss-up question, what compounds which can be reduced by Lindlar's catalyst include acetylene or C2H2, and are hydrocarbons containing a carbon-carbon triple bond?

(light beeping) Hunter, Millville?

- Carbohydrates?

- Is incorrect, rebound to Weatherly.

(screen beeping) (screen beeping) Okay, we're looking for alkynes, alkynes, and that sound that you heard signals the end of the first half, 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, and we'll start with the students from Millville, and Chase, I'll come to you first, but what are your plans post high school?

- Going into the army.

- [Paul] Excellent, good luck, thank you.

Daniel, what are your plans after high school?

- I plan to go into the Air Force and become an engineer.

- [Paul] All right, thank you, Daniel, and Hunter?

- I plan to go to college for forensic science and chemistry.

- All right, excellent, and good luck, the rest of the way.

It was very nice to meet you.

Let's go over the Weatherly, and I will come to you first, Serenity, if you would tell me what your plans are after high school?

- To go to college.

- [Paul] Oh, any particular major you're looking at?

- Not yet.

- Okay, well, plenty of time.

Klaus, what are your plans?

- Receive a degree in electrical engineering.

- [Paul] All right, best of luck, James.

- I plan on attending Yale for history.

- [Paul] That's excellent, congratulations, and Noah?

- I'd like to go to college for writing.

- All right, very good, some creative people here at "Scholastic Scrimmage" tonight.

It was very nice to meet all of you, and once again, as a reminder, Millville has elected to have three members of their team at this match instead of the regular four.

Well, let's go ahead and begin the third quarter with this toss-up question.

In what board game do players try to form bingos, which grant a 50-point bonus and put power tiles, like the Q and Z on Triple Word Score squares?

(light beeping) Klaus, Weatherly?

- Scrabble.

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

(electronic bubbling) What character from "To Kill a Mockingbird" who spends summers in Maycomb with his aunt is fascinated by Boo Radley and was based on Truman Capote?

(screen beeping) That character, Dill Harris.

Here's your next toss-up question.

What composer of a Scottish symphony was inspired to write "Fingal's Cave" by his trips to Scotland, and wrote an overture to "A Midsummer Night's Dream"?

(light beeping) Hunter, Millville?

- Chopin?

- Is incorrect, rebound to Weatherly.

(light beeping) Klaus?

- Shakespeare?

- Nope, we're looking for Felix Mendelssohn, Felix Mendelssohn.

Here's our next toss-up question.

What author, whose story, "Big Two-Hearted River" features his recurring character, Nick Adams wrote about Jake Barnes in "The Sun Also Rises"?

(screen beeping) Okay, that was Ernest Hemingway.

Here's your next toss-up.

What city, whose Nazi occupiers governed from The Hotel Majestic celebrated its August, 1944 handover to the allies by ringing bells at Notre Dame?

(light beeping) Hunter, Millville?

- Paris, France?

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

(electronic bubbling) from 1975 to 2017, the largest class of US aircraft carriers was named after what admiral who led the US Pacific Fleet in World War II?

(light beeping) - Boeing?

(chuckles) - No, we're looking for Chester Nimitz, Chester Nimitz.

Here's our next toss-up.

What 11-letter term can refer to aerobic or anaerobic processes that store energy from breaking down glucose in ATP, or to the act of breathing?

(light beeping) James, Weatherly?

- Respiration?

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

(electronic bubbling) American minimalist composer, John Adams worked with Director, Peter Sellers on an opera about what US president's trip to China?

(light beeping) Noah?

- Nixon?

- Nixon is correct for your bonus points, Weatherly, and let's move on to the next toss-up question.

What apostle was martyred in Ethiopia, hosted a dinner for Jesus at his house, was once a tax collector, and is the namesake- (light beeping) Hunter, Millville?

- Saul?

- Is incorrect, I will finish the question and rebound to Weatherly.

And is the namesake of the first gospel?

(light beeping) James?

- Matthew?

- Is correct for your rebound points, Weatherly.

(electronic bubbling) Very good.

Here's our next toss-up.

What country whose persecution of the Rohingya people spawned the world's largest refugee camp was led by Aung San Suu Kyi until a 2021 coup?

(light beeping) James, Weatherly?

- Rwanda?

- Is incorrect, rebound to Millville.

(screen beeping) Okay, that answer we're looking for, it would've taken two, either Burma or Myanmar.

(screen beeping) And that sound that you heard signals the end of the third quarter, and another lightning round.

(text bursting) (electricity zapping) (electricity buzzing) This time, Weatherly will pick first.

Your categories are Animal Adjectives or Sweden.

- Sweden?

- Sure.

Sweden?

- Sweden, it is, and your time begins after I finish reading the first question.

Answer the following about Sweden and Swedes.

Sweden's capital?

(light beeping) - Stockholm?

- [Paul] Yes, its flag is a yellow cross on a field of this primary color.

(light beeping) - Blue?

- Yes.

Swedish furniture company founded by Ingvar Kamprad?

(light beeping) - Ikea?

- Yes.

Country connected by the Oresund Bridge to Malmo?

(light beeping) - Denmark?

- Yes.

Swedish father of modern taxonomy?

- Pass.

(light beeping) - Pass.

- Linnaeus.

Namesake of a unit equal to 10 to the -10 meters?

- Pass.

(light beeping) - Pass.

- Angstrom.

Swedish King who died in 1632 at the Battle of Lutzen?

- Carolus Rex.

(light beeping) Carolus Rex?

- [Paul] Gustavus Adolphus.

Director of "The Seventh Seal" and "Wild Strawberries"?

(light beeping) - Pass.

- Ingmar Bergman.

Swedish currency?

(light beeping) (screen beeping) - Euro?

- Nope, we're looking for the krona.

All right, Weatherly, good job in the lightning round, and we're going to come over now to Millville for your second lightning round.

Your remaining category will be Animal Adjectives, and again, your time begins after I finish reading the first question.

Name the animal referenced by these adjectives.

For example, for canine, we're looking for dog.

Bovine?

(light beeping) - Hunter?

- Cow.

- [Paul] Yes, avian.

(light beeping) - Bird?

- Yes.

Ursine?

(light beeping) - Bear?

- [Paul] Yes, equine?

(light beeping) - Pigs?

- Horse.

Porcine?

(light beeping) - Pass.

- [Paul] Pigs, vulpine?

(light beeping) - Fox?

- Yes.

Aquiline?

(light beeping) - Fish?

- [Paul] Eagle, cervine?

(light beeping) - Snake?

- Deer, cygnine?

(light beeping) - Pass.

- Swan, corvine?

(light beeping) - Pass - Crow.

All right, Millville, that's going to do it for your second lightning round, and after that, we currently have Weatherly in the lead over Millville 135 to 65.

And we're now going to begin the last segment of the game with this toss-up question.

What painting technique used to paint "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" by Georges Seurat involves many small dots of color?

(light beeping) Klaus, Weatherly?

- Stipple?

- Is incorrect, rebound to Millville.

(screen beeping) Okay, that's Pointilism.

Let's move on to our next toss-up question.

What novel whose protagonist works for the merchant, Kamaswami, before becoming an enlightened ferryman was written by Hermann Hesse about Buddhism?

(screen beeping) Okay, that's "Siddhartha".

Here's our next toss-up.

What God, who is tricked into swallowing the omphalos stone by his wife, Rhea, was overthrown along with his fellow titans by his youngest son, Zeus?

(light beeping) James, Weatherly?

- Kronos?

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

(electronic bubbling) The 2023 failure of Silicon Valley Bank followed what type of event in which many depositors seek to withdraw their money simultaneously?

(light beeping) - Recession?

- Is incorrect, we're looking for bank run, bank run.

Here's our next toss-up.

What logarithmic scale was devised by a professor at Caltech in 1935 for use in California, and assigns magnitudes up to 9.5 to measure earthquakes?

(light beeping) Hunter, Millville?

- The Richter scale?

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

(electronic bubbling) What playwright, who depicted Regina withholding her husband's medication and watching him die in "The Little Foxes" also wrote " Children's Hour"?

(screen beeping) Okay, that playwright is Lillian Hellman.

Here's our next toss-up.

What country's government killed the Mirabal sisters and carried out the Parsley massacre under Rafael Trujillo, who derided its neighbor, Haiti?

(light beeping) Noah, Weatherly?

- Dominican Republic?

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

(electronic bubbling) In which modern US state was the short-lived Republic of Fredonia created an 1826 by settlers rebelling against Mexican rule?

(light beeping) - Texas?

- Is correct for your bonus points, Weatherly, great job.

Here's our next toss-up question.

What object, the intended destination of an OceanGate submersible that was destroyed in June, 2023 was sunk on its first voyage in 1912 (light beeping) by an iceberg?

Hunter, Millville?

- The Titanic?

- Is correct, and your bonus question, (electronic bubbling) and get your pencils and papers ready.

What is the sum of the sine of 60 degrees plus the cosine of 30 degrees, both of which have the same value?

(screen beeping) Okay, that answer was the square root of three.

Here's our next toss-up.

What objects can be square rigged, have types such as spinnaker and jibs, and are typically attached to the masts of boats to propel them using wind?

(light beeping) James, Weatherly?

- Sail?

- Is correct, and here's your (electronic bubbling) bonus question.

Sandor Marai"s 1942 novel, "Embers" was written in what Eastern European language, which was also used by the Nobel Prize winner, Imre Kertesz?

(screen and light beeping) - Hungarian?

- Is correct for your bonus points, Weatherly, great job, and that's the end of the game, and our winner tonight is Weatherly over Millville, 175 to 85.

Congratulations, Weatherly, 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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