(upbeat music) - Welcome to the 16th season of W-V-I-A Scholastic Scrimmage.

I'm your host, Paul Lazar.

Scholastic Scrimmage is a question and answer competition featuring high school students from across the W-V-I-A 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.

W-V-I-A would like to thank our sponsor, F-N-C-B, 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 Coronavirus 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 lightning rounds in each game.

Judges tonight are K-12 educators from the W-V-I-A viewing area.

And tonight's match features Milton and Lewisburg.

Playing in the first half for Milton are Cara Kennedy and Ian Keefer.

Their advisor is Nicolas Vega, and the alternates are Tyler Flutterbach, Camden Scoggins, and Nicholas Fleck.

Representing Lewisburg in the first half are Sarah Mahoney and James Coconas.

Their advisor is Michael Krieger, and the alternates are Jack Drouhin and Hannah Mershahee.

Well, let's get started.

Milton has won the coin toss and will receive the first question, which is, at what site did Thomas Anderson raise the U.S. flag in 1865, four years after the Union surrender of the Civil War's first battle site in Charleston?

(contestants whispering) - Gettysburg.

(beep) - Is incorrect, rebound now to Lewisburg.

(contestants whispering) - Bull Run?

- Is incorrect, where you're looking for, Fort Sumter, Fort Sumter.

Lewisberg, here comes your first question.

What poem that repeats the phrase, "I'm with you in Rockland" begins, "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness," and is by Alan Ginsburg?

(contestants whispering) (beep) - Okay, now rebound now to Milton.

(contestants whispering) (beep) - Ran out of time.

We were looking for "How Old", "How Old".

Okay Milton, here comes your next question.

A South Korean drama inspired what A-B-C series set in San Jose, California, which stars Freddie Highmore as a surgeon with Autism and Savant Syndrome?

- The Doctor.

- [Paul] I'm sorry?

- The Good Doctor.

- We'll take that, Very good.

Here's your bonus question.

(laser sound) What 2019 song, which claims you're making the typical me break my typical rules, is the Jonas Brothers first single, since reuniting?

(contestants whispering) - Sucker?

- Is correct for your bonus points, Milton, very good.

Lewisberg, coming over to you.

What element is the final product of the triple alpha process is the focus of organic chemistry and has allotropes, including nanotubes and graphite?

- Carbon?

- [Paul] Is correct.

(laser sound) And here's your bonus question.

In June, 2020, Kenya, Ireland, India, Mexico, and Norway were elected to non-permanent seats for which of the principle organs of the United Nations?

(contestants whispering) - United Nations?

- Is incorrect, We were looking for the United Nations Security Council.

Milton coming over to you.

What only U.S. president to graduate from the Naval Academy, pardoned Vietnam war draft evaders, and oversaw the Salt-II Talks and Camp David Accords?

- Jimmy Carter?

- [Paul] Is correct.

(laser sound) And here's your bonus question.

A hexagonal storm can be found at the North Pole of what planet whose moons include Enceladus and Epimethius?

(contestants whispering) - Venus?

- Is incorrect, we are looking for Saturn, Saturn.

Okay Lewisberg, coming over to you, what city, in which the Sonic restaurant chain is headquartered was the site of a terrorist bombing in 1995, and is the capital of the Sooner State?

(contestants whispering) - Oklahoma City?

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

(laser sound) The fictional Miskatonic University was created by what American author, whose stories include the Dunwich Horror, and the Color Out of Space?

- J-K Rowling?

- Is incorrect, we we're looking for H-P Lovecraft.

H-P Lovecraft.

Well, that sound that you heard signals the end of the first quarter.

And it's now time for the lightning round.

(thunder rumbling) 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.

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

Your categories are bones, or European museums.

(contestants whispering) - European museums.

- Okay, European museums it is, and your time begins when I finish reading the first question.

Name the European cities in which these museums are located, The Louvre?

- Paris.

- [Paul] Yes, Prado?

- Berlin?

- [Paul] Madrid.

Tate Modern?

- Pass.

- [Paul] London.

Uffizi Gallery?

(contestants whispering) - Rome?

- [Paul] Florence.

Hermitage Museum?

(contestants whispering) - Manchester?

- [Paul] St. Petersberg.

- Rijksmuseum?

- Berlin?

- Amsterdam.

Munch Museum?

- Pass.

- [Paul] Oslo.

Gemaldegelerie?

- Reykjavik?

- [Paul] Berlin.

Magritte Museum?

- Pass.

- [Paul] That's Brussels.

Mauritshuis?

(contestants whispering) (beep) Okay ran out of time, that was the Hague, the Hague.

Okay Milton, good job.

We're going to come over to you now Lewisburg.

And your maiden category will be bones.

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

Given a bone in the human body, identify if it is found in the head, the torso, the arm, or the legs.

Femur?

- Leg?

- [Paul] Yes.

Incus, also known as the anvil?

- Head?

- [Paul] Yes.

Ulna?

- Arm?

- [Paul] Yes.

Sternum?

- Torso?

- [Paul] Yes.

Mandible?

- Head?

- [Paul] Yes.

Patella?

- Leg?

- [Paul] Yes.

Atlas?

- Torso?

- [Paul] Head.

Parietal bone?

- Head.

- [Paul] Yes.

Trapezium, which articulates with the first metacarpal?

- Arm.

- [Paul] Yes.

Calcaneus?

- Leg?

- [Paul] Yes.

Well that's going to do for the lightning round.

And after that, we have Lewisburg in the lead over Milton, 110 to 35.

And we're now going to give our contestants a little bit of a breather, a little bit of a break, and the opportunity for those of you at home to get to know them a little better.

(upbeat music) Let's start with the students from Milton And Cara, I'll come your way first.

What are your plans for after high school?

What comes next?

- I'm going to be going to... [Inaudible 08:49:24] ...with a focus in Math and Language Arts.

- That's excellent, congratulations.

Ian, what comes next for you after high school?

- I haven't chosen a college yet, but I am going to be going for a post-secondary in English Education, and a minor in Secondary History Education.

- Very nice, good luck the rest of the way, Milton.

Lewisberg, gonna to come over to you.

Sarah, you're up first.

Tell me what you like to do when you're not in class.

- I really enjoy running, and also some of my other hobbies include: painting, spending time with my dogs and my family, and spending time with friends.

- Excellent, very nice.

And James, same question.

- Yeah, I really enjoy running as well, and I also like to play the piano, and read and spend time with my friends and family.

Excellent, well good luck the rest of the way.

It was very nice to meet all of you.

Now we'll go ahead and begin the second quarter with this question for Lewisburg.

What N-B-A team which won at least 50 games and 18 straight seasons with such stars as Tony Parker is coached by Greg Popovich and based in Texas?

(contestants whispering) - The Houston Astros?

- Is incorrect, rebound now to Milton.

(contestants whispering) (beep) - Okay, that team was the San Antonio Spurs.

Okay, Milton coming your way now with your question.

What instrument, whose models included the Electro-Spanish 150, introduced in 1936 by Gibson, has six strings that are often played with a pick.

- Guitar?

- Yes, here's your bonus question now.

(laser sound) The Major Oak grows in what Nottinghamshire Forest that was home to Robin Hood and his men?

- Sherwood Forest?

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

Lewisburg coming back to you, what vehicle, whose first modern version was Daimler's Reitwagen, is a single-person, gas-powered, two-wheeled vehicle, popularized by Harley Davidson?

- The motorcycle?

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

(laser sound) A hare runs along the Maidenhead Bridge in what hazy 1844 painting by J-M-W Turner, that depicts a moving train?

- The Mona Lisa?

(Paul laughing) - Is incorrect, we are looking for Rain, Steam and Speed.

Milton, headed back to you.

In December, 2019, what country saw protesters storm a U.S. embassy after a U.S. airstrike hit the Shiite Kataib Hezbollah militias, near Baghdad?

- Iraq?

- Is correct.

(laser sound) And here's your bonus question.

What author wrote about being transported from Sighet to concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in his memoir, Night?

- Oscar Schindler - Is incorrect, we were looking for Elie Wiesel, Elie Wiesel.

Lewisberg, here comes your next question.

What character who decides to light out for the territory at the end of an 1884 novel, helps the escaped slave Jim, and was created by Mark Twain?

- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?

- Is correct.

(laser sound) And here's your bonus question.

What 13th century Venetian merchant claimed to have traveled to China, and governed the city of Yung Joc under Kubla Khan?

- Marco Polo?

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

Milton, coming back to you now, what subject of Christopher Hitchens' The Missionary Position was a Macedonian-born saint, who founded the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta?

(contestants whispering) (beep) - Ran out of time, there.

Lewisberg rebound to you.

- St. Theresa?

- Is correct for your rebound points, great job.

And here comes your next question.

What character is taken in by Doc, and adopts a pet hyena in a film about her fantabulous emancipation, in which she's played by Margot Robbie?

(beep) - Harriet Tubman?

(Paul laughing) - Is incorrect, rebound now to Milton.

- Harley Quinn?

- Is correct for your rebound points, Milton, great job.

And after one half of play, we have Lewisburg in the lead over Milton, 145 to 70.

Thank you, Milton and Lewisburg.

Great job, Kara, Ian, Sarah, James.

Thank you so very much.

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

(whooshing sound) Now joining us for Milton are Cameron Kreitz and Morgan Solomon.

And representing Lewisberg are Chenchen Gu and Ezra Bonapone.

Okay, so we're going to start now with Milton.

Here's your first question.

What body of water is home to the Sesse Islands, is the source of the white Nile, is the largest African lake, and is named after a British queen?

- Lake Victoria?

- Is correct.

(laser sound) And here's your bonus question.

In 2020, which country, led by president Carlos Alvarado, became the first Central American country to legalize same-sex marriage?

- Mexico?

- Is incorrect, we were looking for Costa Rica, Costa Rica.

Okay Lewisberg, coming over to you.

What document, written in Belgium by John Mason, Pierre Soule, and James Buchanan called for the U.S. either to buy or seize Cuba from Spain?

- The Ostend Manifesto.

- Is correct.

(laser sound) And here's your bonus question.

What 2012 novel, by R-J Palacio, is narrated by Auggie Pullman, a fifth grade boy with a disfigured face who stands up to bullies at a prep school.

(contestants whispering) - Wonder?

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

Milton, coming back over to you now.

What title monarchs summons a shepherd to testify about the death of Laius in a play by Sophocles and fulfills a prophecy by marrying his own mother?

- Oedipus?

- Is correct (laser sound) And here's your bonus question.

What ruler of Brunswick-Luneburge succeeded Anne Stewart, who had no surviving children, and became the first British king from the house of Hanover?

- Phillip the second?

- No, we were looking for George the first, George the first.

Okay Lewisburg, headed back your way, and get your pencils and papers ready.

What is the height of a parallelogram whose area is 78 and whose base has a length of 13?

(intense music) - Six - [Paul] Is correct.

(laser sound) And here's your bonus question.

In medicine, thrombosis is another name for the formation of what structures that contain fibrin?

- Gallstones?

- [Paul] Is incorrect.

We were looking for blood clots, blood clots.

Milton, here comes your next question.

What city, where police chief Erica Shields resigned and protestors burned down a Wendy's after the killing of Rayshard Brooks, is Georgia's capital?

- Charleston?

- Is incorrect, rebound now to Lewisburg.

- Atlanta.

- Atlanta is correct for your rebound points, Lewisburg.

Great job, and here comes your next question.

What war, in which Laura Secord warned of an American attack included the battle of the Thames in upper Canada, and is named for the year it began?

- The war of 1812.

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

(laser sound) And here's your bonus question.

What Soviet Armenian composer wrote the music for the ballet Gayane, the last act of which features the frenetic saber dance?

- Igor Stravinsky?

- Is incorrect, we were looking for Khachaturian, Khachaturian.

Milton, here's your next question.

What process, which requires a carrier protein (beep) in its facilitated form results in the movement of a substance down its concentration gradient?

- Diffusion.

- Yes, that's correct, and here's your bonus question.

(laser sound) After Hermes killed Argus, Hera placed Argus' eyes on the tail of what bird?

- Peacock?

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

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

(thunder rumbling) This time Lewisburg will pick first.

Your categories are pro vocabulary or Donald Trump's cabinet.

- Donald Trump's cabinet.

- Donald Trump's cabinet it is.

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

Name the cabinet department that has been headed by these people: Steven Mnuchin, whose signature is on U.S. bills.

- Treasury?

- [Paul] Yes.

Mark Esper and Jim Maddis?

- Defense?

- [Paul] Yes.

Betsy Devos, who supports school voucher programs?

- Education.

- [Paul] Yes.

John Kelly and Kirstjen Nielson?

- Chief of staff, oh Department of Homeland Security.

- [Paul] We have to take your first answer.

Rex Tillerson, who was preceded by John Kerry?

- Secretary of state?

- [Paul] Yes.

Dan Brouillette and Rick Perry?

- Energy?

- [Paul] Yes.

Wilbur Ross, who promotes domestic businesses?

- Commerce?

- [Paul] Yes.

Eugene Scalia and Alexander Acosta?

- Labor.

- [Paul] Yes.

Ben Carson, who was preceded by Julian Castro?

- H-H-S?

- [Paul] No, Housing and Urban Development.

Alex Azar and Tom Price?

- H-H-S?

- Is correct, very good.

And that's going to wrap up your portion of the lightning round Lewisburg, great job.

And we're coming over to you now, Milton.

And your remaining category will be pro vocabulary.

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

Give these words, beginning with the letters P-R-O.

Introductory portion of a book or play?

- Prologue?

- [Paul] Yes.

Money gained after factoring in expenses?

- Profit?

- [Paul] Yes.

Biased information supporting a particular agenda.

- Propaganda?

- [Paul] Yes.

Person being taught by a mentor?

- Protege?

- [Paul] Yes.

To bring forth children?

- Procreate.

- [Paul] Yes.

To look over a text and mark corrections?

- Proofread?

- [Paul] Yes.

Casual public walkway, from the French for, to walk?

- Pass.

- Promenade.

A nose, snout or elephant trunk?

- Pass.

- [Paul] Proboscis.

History of an item's ownership?

- Pass.

- [Paul] Provenance.

Condition that causes premature aging in children.

- Pass.

- Okay, that's Progeria.

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

And after that we have Lewisburg in the lead over Milton 270 to 165.

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.

And what we'll do is start with the students from Milton.

And Cameron, I'm going to come your way first.

Tell me what your plans are after high school.

- Yeah, I plan to enter the circus.

(Paul laughing) - Okay, excellent, thanks Cameron, good luck with that.

Morgan, what are your plans after high school?

Once you can breathe.

- I plan to go to college for at least a four year degree in the Science and Math field.

- Okay, excellent, thank you Milton.

Good luck the rest of the way.

Lewisburg, going to come over to you now.

Chenchen, tell me what you like to do when you're not in school.

- I play tennis and I play violin, and I'm in the band.

- Excellent.

Thanks for being here.

And Ezra, what do you like to do when you're not in class?

- I read, I run, and I play cello.

- Okay, excellent, some musically inclined students today on Scholastic Scrimmage.

Well, it was very nice to meet you.

And now we'll go ahead and begin the fourth quarter with this question for Lewisburg.

What boarding school student, who dies in a car crash after making out with Pudge Halter, appears in a John Green novel titled, looking for her.

- Harry Potter?

- Is incorrect, rebound to Milton.

- Alaska?

- Is correct for your rebound points, very good, Milton.

Here comes your next question.

What city was home to the architect Diotisalvi who may have designed a campanile, whose unstable foundation causes it to tilt at a four degree angle?

- Pisa?

- Is correct.

(laser sound) And here is your bonus question.

And get your pencils and papers ready.

What must be the value of X, if the three numbers: 24, 42, and x have a mean, or average of 30?

(contestants whispering) (intense music) (beep) - Ran out of time, we're looking for 24.

Lewisburg, headed back to you.

What mountain range, which is home to the world's deepest cave in its region of Abkhazia, stretches past Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan?

- The Caucasus Mountains.

- Yes.

(laser sound) And here's your bonus question.

What film character is described as a scruffy-looking nerfherder and frozen in carbonite in The Empire Strikes Back?

- Han Solo?

- Is correct for your bonus points, Lewisberg.

Milton, back to you.

What country, whose parliament's executive wing is housed in the beehive has been governed by prime ministers, Helen Clark and Jacinda Ardern?

- Germany?

- Is incorrect, rebound now to Lewisburg.

- New Zealand?

- Is correct for your rebound points, great job, Lewisberg.

And here's your next question.

What segment forms the hypotenuse of any right triangle inscribed in a circle is the longest chord of a circle, and has twice the length of a radius?

- Diameter?

- Is correct.

(laser sound) And here's your bonus question now.

What German philosopher wrote about the banality of evil in Eichmann in Jerusalem?

- Immanuel Kant?

- Is incorrect, we we're looking for Hannah Arendt.

Hannah Arendt.

Milton, gonna come back to you now.

What province, which is home to Whistler Blackcomb, one of the largest ski resorts in North America is led from Victoria and includes Vancouver?

- Ottawa?

- Is incorrect, rebound now to Lewisburg.

- British Columbia?

- Is correct for your rebound points, Lewisburg.

Here comes your next question.

What Irish author wrote about Lucy Westenra, who dies after removing a garlic necklace provided by Dr. Van Helsing, in the vampire novel Dracula?

- William Butler Yeats?

- Is incorrect, rebound now to Milton.

(contestants whispering) (beep) - Okay, ran out of time, the answer your looking for was Bram Stoker, Bram Stoker.

(beep) And that's the end of the game.

And our winner tonight is Lewisburg over Milton 315 to 185.

Congratulations, Lewisburg.

You're going to be moving on.

And we'll see you next time with another round of W-V-I-A Scholastic scrimmage.

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

(whooshing sound) (upbeat music)