(whistles blow) (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.

Tonight's match features Montgomery versus Berwick.

Representing Montgomery, is Dylan Hill, Owen Sherman, Mary Green, Samuel Oyster, their captain, and their advisor is Kelly Kurtz.

Representing Berwick, is Christopher Stolla, Jack Kendran, Emma Chakowski, Josephine Morgan, their captain.

Their alternates are Eric Schweitzer, and Elizabeth Gunther, and their advisor is Todd Gunther.

"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 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 will be given the toss-up points, but will not receive a bonus question.

Let's get started with our first toss-up.

What man led troops to Williamsburg in the Gunpowder Incident in 1776, became governor of Virginia, and said, "Give me liberty or give me death."

(buzzer beeps) - [Regina] Owen, Montgomery.

- Patrick Henry.

- Patrick Henry's the correct answer.

And your bonus, in 2022, what country, led by an autocrat nicknamed Europe's last dictator, nicknamed Europe's last dictator, allowed Russian forces to invade Northern Ukraine from its territory.

- Putin.

- I believe.

All right, Putin.

- Putin is incorrect, it's Belarus.

Toss-up, what species preyed on the moose population in Isle Royal, altered ecosystems when reintroduced to Yellowstone, and are closely- (buzzer beeping) Jack, Berwick.

- Wolves.

- Wolves, Jack, is the correct answer, and your bonus, Purdue Pharma developed what narcotic, whose popularization in the 1990s helped spark the opioid epidemic?

- Heroin.

- Our answer is heroin.

- It is incorrect, it is Oxycontin.

Toss-up, what character, who repeats his own name in "Largo al factotum", assists Count Almaviva, and is the title character of "The Barber of Seville?"

(buzzer sounds) That is Figaro.

Toss-up, what novel, in which a cat knocks over Zeena's pickle dish, depicts a sledding accident that paralyzes Mattie Silver and is by Edith Wharton?

(buzzer beeping) Jack, Berwick.

- "Age of Innocence."

- It is incorrect, rebound to Montgomery.

Three seconds.

(buzzer sounds) That is "Ethan Frome."

Toss-up, what man, who may have murdered his second wife, Poppaea Sabina, succeeded Claudius as Roman Emperor in AD 54 and supposedly- (buzzer beeping) Christopher, Berwick.

- Nero.

- Nero's correct answer, and your bonus.

What Canadian city, which hosts the largest international jazz festival, is home to a biosphere designed for Expo 67?

- You wanna say Montreal.

- [Group] Sure.

- Our answer is Montreal.

- Montreal's correct answer for your bonus points.

Toss-up, what African country, whose leader, Salva Kiir, plans to move its capital to Ramciel from Juba became independent in- (buzzer sounds) Owen, Montgomery.

- South Sudan.

- South Sudan's correct answer and your bonus.

What Islamic philosopher and doctor, who was called The Commentator for his writings on Aristotle, wrote "The incoherence of the Incoherence?"

- Socrates.

- It is incorrect.

It is Averroes.

Toss-up, what American composer of a short symphony and the ballet "Billy the Kid" was inspired by Henry Wallace.

(buzzer beeping) Jack.

- Copland.

- Copland, Jack, is the correct answer and your bonus.

What French sculptor, who designed a fountain for the United States Botanic Garden, worked with Gustav Eiffel on the Statue of Liberty?

- Sure.

- Our answer is Rodin.

- Rodin is incorrect, it is Bartoldi.

Toss-up, what author, who included "The Dialogue of the Dogs" in his exemplary novels, wrote of an Hidalgo from La Mancha, who tilts at windmills, in "Don Quixote"?

(buzzer beeping) Emma, Berwick.

- Cervantes.

- Cervantes, correct answer, Emma, and your bonus.

The founder effect is a special case of what phenomenon, that exacerbates population bottlenecks and involves random changes in allele frequencies?

- Mutation.

- Our answer is mutations.

- Mutation is incorrect, it is genetic drift.

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

(electricity sparking) 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.

Montgomery has won the coin toss and will pick first.

Your categories are paintings and artists, or occupations.

(students chatting) - Occupations.

- Occupations, the time begins when I finish reading the first question.

Give the word ending in the letters 'ER', but not maker, that describes a person who creates and or sells these items.

Structures made from wood.

(buzzer sounds) Samuel.

- Carpenter.

- [Regina] Correct, maps?

(buzzer sounds) Owen.

- Cartographer - [Regina] Correct, contracts and other official notes?

Herman Melville's Bartleby is one.

(buzzer sounds) Samuel.

- Lawyer.

- [Regina] Scrivener.

Shorthand writings, such as for a courtroom?

(buzzer sounds) Mary.

- Lawyer.

- [Regina] Stenographer.

Horoscopes?

(buzzer sounds) Samuel.

- Pass.

- Astrologer.

Cushions and covers for car seats?

(buzzer sounds) Pat, Samuel - Upholstrier.

- [Regina] I'm sorry.

- Upholstrier.

- [Regina] Upholsterier is the answer given, Judges is that- - [Judge] Yes.

- [Regina] Is that acceptable?

It's correct.

Knives and other eating utensils?

(buzzer sounds) - Blacksmith.

- [Regina] Cutler, candy and other sweets?

(buzzer sounds) Owen.

- Confectioner.

- [Regina] Correct.

Shoes, this term also refers to people who repair them.

(buzzer sounds) Samuel.

- Cobbler.

- [Regina] Correct.

Small items used for sewing and/or men's clothing?

(buzzer sounds) - Tailor.

- Incorrect, haberdasher.

Moving over to our team from Berwick, Your category is paintings and artists.

Which artist painted these works, "The Night Watch"?

(buzzer sounds) Josephine.

- Rembrandt.

- [Regina] Correct.

"The Persistence of Memory"?

(buzzer sounds) - Dali.

- [Regina] Correct, the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?

(buzzer sounds) - Michelangelo.

- [Regina] Correct, "Daughters of Revolution"?

(buzzer sounds) Jeff.

- Pass.

- [Regina] Wood.

"A Series of Haystacks?

(buzzer sounds) - Monet.

- [Regina] Correct, "The Potato Eaters"?

(buzzer sounds) - Pass.

- Van Gogh.

"Campbell Soup Cans?

(buzzer beeping) Josephine.

- Warhol.

- [Regina] Correct.

"Guernica".

- (buzzer beeping) Picasso.

- [Regina] Correct, "Saturn Devouring His Son."

- (buzzer beeping) Pass.

- [Regina] Goya.

"Las Meninas".

- (buzzer beeping) Velázquez.

- Is the correct answer and that's the end of the lightning round.

Let's take a look at our score.

We have Montgomery with 45 points and Berwick with 80 points.

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

What institution which in 2022 returned the artwork Temple Strut with a salabhinka to Nepal, host an annual gala, and is a New York City art museum.

(buzzer beeping) Jack, Berwick - The Met.

- The Met Jack's the correct answer and your bonus what Puritan author depicted Christian's journey to the celestial city in the allegory "The Pilgrim's Progress?"

- No answer.

- Okay, the correct answer is John Bunion.

Toss up.

What leader who chaired the UN committee that drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights also served from 1933 to 1945 as-(buzzer beeping) Christopher?

Berwick?

No answer, rebound to Montgomery as First Lady.

(buzzer beeping) Samuel?

- Geneva.

- Is incorrect.

It is Eleanor Roosevelt.

Toss up, what organelles which in the 1950s were shown to consist mostly of a namesake RNA have the task of translating messenger RNAs to make proteins?

(buzzer beeping) Josephine, Berwick.

- Ribosomes.

- Ribosomes Josephine is the correct answer, and your bonus, what lunar mare is where Ranger Eight crashed in 1965, and where the Eagle Lander touched down during the Apollo 11 mission?

- Our answer is the Sea of Tranquility.

- Is a correct answer, for your bonus points.

Toss up, what novel whose protagonist calls himself Dusty Chato while fighting at a tournament attended by Lady Rowena was published in 1819 by Walter Scott?

(buzzer beeping) That was Ivanhoe.

Toss up: what thinker, called the father of conflict theory in sociology for his idea of dialectical materialism, analyzed class relations in Das Kapital?

(buzzer beeping) Josephine?

- Locke.

- [Regina] Locke is incorrect, rebound to Montgomery?

(buzzer beeping) Owen?

- Vunt?

- Is incorrect.

It is Karl Marx.

Toss up: what physicist gave h-bar over two as the lower limit of the product of the standard deviations of position and momentum in his uncertainty principle?

(buzzer beeping) Josephine, Berwick.

- Heisenberg.

- Heisenberg's the correct answer and your bonus.

What name is shared by a cult once called Riko?

A point that contains all others in a Jorge Luis Borgess story and a Hebrew letter.

(students chatting) (buzzer beeping) The correct answer is Aleph.

Toss up.

What painting technique used to make "Women at the Well" by Paul Signac was also pioneered by Georges Seurat and uses many tiny dots of- (buzzer beeping) Josephine, Berwick.

- Pointillism.

- Pointillism is the correct answer, and your bonus: pencil paper.

What is the co-sin of a 270 degree angle?

(buzzer beeping) Christopher?

- Negative one.

- Negative one is incorrect.

The correct answer is zero.

That is the end of the first half.

Let's update our score.

We currently have Montgomery with 45 points and Berwick with 125 points.

We're 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.

Let's start with the students from Montgomery.

Dylan, why don't you start us off and tell us about maybe your favorite subject and why?

- I have to go with STEM because I really like the problem solving aspect of it.

- [Regina] And there are a lot of different variables involved.

- Mm hm.

- [Regina] How about you Owen?

- I have to go with Intro to Engineering because it's a very interesting course and Dr. Wargo is fantastic.

- [Regina] That helps.

Mary, how about you?

- My favorite subject is science, specifically forensics because I plan on getting into it after high school.

- [Regina] Oh, good luck.

- Thank you.

- [Regina] Samuel?

- I really enjoy science and specifically physics because every problem you solve has a real world answer that actually means something.

- And that makes a lot more sense, right?

Let's move over to our team from Berwick.

Christopher, why don't you start us off?

- Well my favorite subject would be history, too, because of my brother Ben, and also my current history teacher Mr. Swick.

- [Regina] Very nice.

How about you Jack?

- My favorite subject would have to be math because throughout my entire schooling career I've had excellent math teachers.

Shout out to Mr.'s Gunther, Schrader, and Hook, and Mrs. Gerba.

- [Regina] Very good.

Emma, how about you?

- Computer science.

- [Regina] Do you know why?

Can you tell us why?

- Mm.

- [Regina] No?

Just something you find interesting.

- Mm hm.

- [Regina] Josephine, how about yourself?

- My favorite subject in school is languages because we have an excellent English and Spanish department, so shout out to Mrs. Christian and Mrs. Eisenberg.

- Very good.

Great to talk to all of you.

Good luck in the next part.

We all will now begin the second half of the game with a toss up question.

What term which refers to the period of exponential expansion of the universe is used in economics to refer to an increase over time in prices?

(buzzer beeping) Jack, Berwick.

- Inflation.

- Inflation is the correct answer, and your bonus: Publius was the pen name used in what set of 85 anonymous essays written to support the ratification of the constitution?

- Our answer is the federalist papers.

- Is the correct answer for your bonus points.

Toss up what element whose most stable allotrope at standard conditions is a bright yellow solid was once - (buzzer beeping) Emma, Berwick.

- Sulfur.

- Sulfur Emma's correct answer and your bonus.

What poet who wrote "Letters from the Black Sea" after being exiled by Augustus described Arachne's transformation into a spider in his "Metamorphosis"?

(students chatting) - Our answer is Virgil.

- It is incorrect.

It is Ovid.

Toss up.

What structure contained a mural of Leonid Brezhnev kissing Erich Honecker was crossed at checkpoint Charlie and was dismantled in- (buzzer beeping) Josephine, Berwick.

- The Berlin wall.

- Is the correct answer Josephine, and your bonus: Cooperstown.

New York is home to the hall of fame of what sport whose invention is erroneously credited to Abner Doubleday.

- Our answer is baseball.

- Baseball is the correct answer for your bonus points.

Toss up what Southern state where Chris Jones and Sarah Huckabee Sanders were 2022 gubernatorial candidates was led for much of the 1980s by Bill Clinton.

(buzzer beeping) Owen, Montgomery.

- Georgia.

- [Regina] Georgia's incorrect rebound to Berwick.

(buzzer beeping) Jack.

- Texas.

- Texas is incorrect.

It is Arkansas.

Toss up what novel in which Jim Conklin's death is observed by a tattered man and young Henry Fleming is set during the Civil War and is by Stephen- (buzzer beeping) Owen, Montgomery?

- "Red Badge of Courage."

- Is a correct answer Owen.

And your bonus: what Shawnee Chief formed a Native American alliance to oppose the United States but was killed by William Henry Harrison's army at the battle of the Thames.

- Hiawatha.

- Is incorrect.

It is Tecumseh.

Toss up.

What second son of King Atrius led the Spartan army in the Trojan War alongside his brother Agamemmnon after the kidnapping of his wife Helen?

(buzzer beeping) Emma, Berwick.

- Menelaus.

- Menelaus is the correct answer and your bonus: what four words which were cried in a whisper to Charles Marlowe were the last words spoken by Mr. Kurtz in Joseph Conrad's novella, "Heart of Darkness."

- No answer.

- Okay, the correct answer is "the horror, the horror."

Toss up: what shape whose namesake coordinate system uses the coordinates Z, phi, and R is made by revolving a rectangle about one side and resembles-(buzzer beeping) Emma, Berwick.

- A cylinder.

- A cylinder's the correct answer Emma, and your bonus: the ophicleide was a precursor to what lowest pitch standard orchestral brass instruments.

(students chatting) - Our answer is tuba.

- Tuba' the correct answer for your bonus points.

Toss up what kingdom which Owain Glyn Dur led in a revolt is now a constituent UK country whose prince is the heir apparent to the British throne.

(buzzer beeping) Emma, Berwick.

- Wales.

- Wales is correct dancer and your bonus.

Rochelle Salts and quartz both exhibit what property in which mechanical stress exerted on a solid induces a voltage?

(students chatting) - Our answer is electro negativity.

- Is incorrect.

The correct answer is piezo electricity.

That is the end of the third quarter and it's time for another lightning round.

(lightning sparking) This time Berwick will pick first.

Your categories are members of the house or Oh Canada.

- Oh Canada.

- Oh, Canada.

- Oh, Canada.

The time will begin after I read the first question.

Answer the following about Canada.

It's capital (buzzer beeping) Josephine.

- Ottawa.

- [Regina] Correct.

Province whose only official language is French.

(buzzer beeping) Emma.

- Quebec.

- [Regina] Quebec is the correct answer.

A rodent that is one of Canada's national animals.

(buzzer beeping) Emma.

- Beaver.

- [Regina] Beaver's correct.

It's federal police service.

(buzzer beeping) - Mounties.

- [Regina] Mounties is correct.

Popular dish consisting of french fries covered with cheese curds-(buzzer beeping).

- Poutine.

- Poutine's correct.

It's Eastern most province (buzzer beeping).

- Labrador.

- [Regina] Is correct.

Canada's only major league baseball team.

(buzzer beeping) - The Toronto Blue Jays.

- [Regina] Correct, month when Canada Day is celebrated.

(buzzer beeping) - June.

- July.

Province that produces most of Canada's oil.

(buzzer beeping) Emma?

- Nunavut?

- [Regina] Alberta.

It's national summer sport which predates ice hockey.

(buzzer beeping) Jack.

- Curling.

- Lacrosse.

Moving over to our team from Montgomery.

Your category is members of the house.

Given one or more members of the 117th Congress name the state: Kevin McCarthy and Nancy Pelosi.

(buzzer beeping) Samuel.

- New York.

- [Regina] California.

Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (buzzer beeping) Owen.

- New York.

- [Regina] Correct.

Lauren Boebert who represents the ski resort town of Aspen.

(buzzer beeping) Owen.

- Colorado.

- [Regina] Correct.

Liz Cheney, its only Representative (buzzer beeping) Owen.

- Georgia.

- [Regina] Wyoming.

Marjorie Taylor Green (buzzer beeping) Owen.

- Georgia.

- [Regina] Correct.

Charlie Christ and Matt Gates.

(buzzer beeping) Owen.

- Florida.

- [Regina] Correct.

Tim Ryan and Jim Jordan (buzzer beeping) Owen.

- West Virginia.

- [Regina] Ohio.

Joaquin Castro and Dan Crenshaw.

(buzzer beeping) Samuel.

- Texas.

- [Regina] Correct.

Seth Moulton and Ayanna Pressley who belongs to the squad.

- (buzzer beeping) Pass.

- [Regina] Massachusetts.

Steny Hoyer and Jamie Raskin.

- (buzzer beeping) Virginia.

- Maryland is the correct answer.

That's the end of the lightning round.

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

We have Montgomery with 80 points and Berwick with 235 points.

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

What most populous city along the Arno River is the capital of Tuscany and is widely considered to be the birthplace of the- (buzzer beeping) - Florence.

- Florence Jack, or Christopher, sorry, is the correct answer and your bonus.

Corno Grande is the highest point in what mountain range that runs north-south along the Italian peninsula.

(students chatting) - Our answer is the Pyrenees.

- Pyrenees is incorrect.

It is Abenine.

Toss up: what figure who is depicted as the mystic in Gustav Holtz' The Planets" is the Roman equivalent of Poseidon and lent his-(buzzer beeping) - Neptune.

- Neptune is the correct dancer, and your bonus: what short story, whose protagonist is married to a physician named John is by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and depicts a young wife's madness.

- Our answer is "Hysteria".

- Hysteria is in correct.

It is "The Yellow Wallpaper."

Toss up: what activist from Alabama disobeyed driver James F. Blake and sparked the 1955-(buzzer beeping) Samuel, Montgomery.

- Rosa Parks.

- Rosa Parks is the correct answer, and your bonus: which organ's red pulp contains the cords of Billroth and filters old red blood cells out of the bloodstream.

(buzzer beeping) Samuel.

- Liver.

- Liver's incorrect it is spleen.

Toss up: what town where Tom Keller is reinstated as sheriff by Mayor Hyrum Lodge is the title home of Betty and Jughead in a CW show based on Archie comics.

(buzzer beeping) Jack, Berwick.

- Riverdale.

- Riverdale's the correct answer and your bonus: during his second stint as Prime Minister, which politician oversaw Britain's creation of a nuclear weapon and the coronation of Elizabeth the second.

(students chatting) - Our answer is Livingston.

- Is incorrect.

It is Winston Churchill toss up what objects if they are not rotating and uncharged have a distance equal to the Schwartz child radius between a singular (buzzer beeping) Samuel, Montgomery.

- A black hole.

- [Regina] Black hole is the correct answer and your bonus: in the 2022 film: "13 Lives" Viggo Mortenson plays one of the divers who rescued a soccer team from a cave in what Southeast Asian country?

(students chatting) - Thailand.

- Thailand is the correct answer for your bonus points.

Toss up: what surname is shared by Helm Holtz in "Brave New World" and by a narrator who weds Mary Morstan after living at 221 B Baker Street.

(buzzer beeping) Josephine.

- Holmes.

- Holmes is incorrect.

Rebound to Montgomery Baker Street with Sherlock Holmes.

(buzzer beeping) Owen.

- Watson.

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

Toss up which city, the target of the Doolittle Road, was fire bombed in March, 1945 in the deadliest air raid of World War II and is a capital of Japan.

(buzzer beeping) Samuel Montgomery.

- Tokyo.

- Tokyo's the correct answer, and your bonus: a basic solution has a high concentration of what ion, written as OH minus.

(buzzer beeping) Mary.

- Oxygen hydride.

- Oxygen hydride is the answer given, judges is that correct?

No it is not.

The correct answer is hydroxide.

And that is the end of the game.

Our score is 125 points for Montgomery and Berwick with 265 points.

Congratulations, Berwick.

You'll be moving on.

And we'll see you next time with another round of scholastic scrimmage.

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

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