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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 Montgomery versus Berwick.

Representing Montgomery are Nova Bartlett, Josh Knoebel, Lily Gingery and Maeson Beck-Barton.

Their alternate is Audrey Cook and their advisor is Ms.

Kelly Kurtz.

Representing Berwick are Riley Kirschner, Jaxon Hittle, Thomas de Batista and Josephine Morgan.

Their advisor is Todd Gunther.

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

Well, let's get the game started with this tossup question.

What objects can be sun grazers, consist of a coma surrounding a dirty snowball with one or more tails.

(buzzer rings) Josephine, Berwick.

- Comet.

- Is correct and here's your bonus question.

Which one of Maxwell's equations implies that a magnetic field's flux through any closed surface is zero and is named for a German scientist?

(buzzer rings) - Planck?

- No, this is Gauss's law for magnetism.

Let's go to another tossup.

What Minnesota company, the subject of a month's long boycott over its 2025 rollback of diversity efforts is a retailer with a red bullseye.

Thomas, Berwick.

- Target.

- Is correct.

And your bonus now.

Two versions of the song "One Night Only" appear in what musical featuring Dina and Effie inspired by the stories of Motown groups like The Supremes.

(contestants whispering) (buzzer rings) - "Our Town."

- Nope, this was "Dream Girls."

Here's our next tossup.

What capital of the Gauteng Province is home to the Soweto Township, is a major center of the gold trade and is the most populous city in South Africa?

(buzzer rings) Josephine, Berwick.

- Cape Town.

- Is incorrect.

Rebound in Montgomery.

(bell dings) That is Johannesburg.

Let's go to our next tossup.

What site which is above the Urubamba River's valley was rediscovered by Hiram Bingham in 1911 and?

Jaxon, Berwick.

- Machu Picchu.

- Is correct.

Here's your bonus now, and get out your pencils and papers.

What is the area of a square whose perimeter is 80 given that the sides of a square are congruent?

(gentle music) (buzzer rings) - 400.

- 400 is correct for your bonus points, Berwick, as we turn now to our next toss up question.

What character Who argues that the evil that men do lives after them appears in Julius.

Josephine, Berwick.

- Mark Antony.

- Is correct and your bonus now.

The title of a travel series on AMC refers to a ride with what actor who played Daryl Dixon on "The Walking Dead?"

(buzzer rings) - Jeffrey Dean Morgan.

- No, this was Norman Reedus, Norman Reedus.

Here's our next tossup question.

What test was introduced in the 1950 paper, "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" by- Jaxon, Berwick.

- Turing Test.

- Is correct and here's your bonus.

"Waverider" is the final graphic novel in what fantasy series by Kazu Kibiushi, which is named for a magical piece of jewelry found by Emily Hayes?

(contestants whispering) (buzzer rings) - The necklace?

- Is incorrect.

Very close, "Amulet."

"Amulet."

Let's go to another tossup.

What set of works which begin the collection, "The Contest Between Harmony and Invention" are violin concertos by Antonio Vivaldi depicting a year?

(buzzer rings) Maeson, Montgomery.

- "The Four Seasons."

- Is correct and your bonus question now.

What pathogens cause chronic wasting disease, scrapy and mad cow disease and form when proteins are misfolded?

(contestants whispering) (bell dings) Those are prions.

Prions.

Here's our next tossup.

What author who was the first American to win the Nobel Prize in literature depicted a real estate broker named George in his novel, "Babbitt."

(buzzer rings) Josephine, Berwick.

- Smith.

- Is incorrect.

Rebound in Montgomery.

Nova.

- Hemingway.

- Nope, this was Sinclair Lewis.

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

And it's now time for the lightning 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.

Montgomery has won the coin toss and will pick first.

Your categories are solar system moons or Mexican geography.

- What do y'all wanna do?

Okay.

(buzzer rings) Mexican geography.

- Mexican geography it is.

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

Answer the following about the geography of Mexico.

Major river on the border of Mexico and Texas.

(buzzer rings) - Rio Grande.

- [Paul] Yes.

Long peninsula on Mexico's west coast.

(buzzer rings) - Pass.

- [Paul] Baja.

Belize and this country are on Mexico's southern border.

(buzzer rings) - Chile.

- [Paul] Guatemala.

Border city just south of San Diego.

(buzzer rings) - Pass - [Paul] Tijuana.

Mexico's largest state by area that names a dog breed.

(buzzer rings) - Chihuahua.

- [Paul] Yes.

Large peninsula in the Gulf of Mexico.

(buzzer rings) - Pass.

- [Paul] That's Yucatan Peninsula.

Mayan ruins, home to El Castillo step pyramid.

(buzzer rings) - Mexico City.

- That's Chichen Itza.

Active volcano 40 miles outside Mexico City.

(buzzer rings) - Pass.

- [Paul] That's Popocatepetl.

Major city south of El Paso, Texas.

(buzzer rings) - Laredo.

- That's Ciudad Juarez.

(bell dings) All right, that's going to do it for your portion of the first lightning round, Montgomery.

Berwick, it's over to you and your remaining category will be solar system moons.

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

What planet or dwarf planet is orbited by these moons?

Answers may repeat.

Titan.

(buzzer rings) - Saturn.

- [Paul] Yes.

Europa and other Galilean moons.

(buzzer rings) - Jupiter.

- [Paul] Yes.

Moons sometimes known by the scientific name Luna.

(buzzer rings) - The earth.

- [Paul] Yes.

Phobos and Deimos.

(buzzer rings) - Jupiter.

- [Paul] Mars.

Charon.

(buzzer rings) - Neptune.

- [Paul] Pluto.

Triton.

(buzzer rings) - Saturn.

- [Paul] Neptune.

Puck and Desdemona.

(buzzer rings) - Saturn.

- [Paul] Uranus.

The Shepherd Moon, Mimas.

(buzzer rings) - Neptune.

- [Paul] Saturn.

Amalthea.

(buzzer rings) - Jupiter.

- Yes.

Dysnomia, the second largest dwarf planet moon.

(buzzer rings) - Pluto.

- Nope, that's Eris.

All right, that's going to do it for the first lightning round and after that we have Berwick in the lead over Montgomery, 75 to 20.

Now, we'll go ahead and move into the second quarter with this tossup question.

What politician whose last speech was interrupted by Jean-Lambert Tallien was executed in the Thermidorian Reaction ending his reign of terror.

(buzzer rings) Jaxon, Berwick.

- Robespierre.

- Is correct and your bonus question.

The unreliable narrator of Ford Maddox Ford's novel, "The Good Soldier" has what first name which is shared by a savage in Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World?"

(buzzer rings) - John.

- Is correct for your bonus points, Berwick.

Let's go to another toss up and get out your pencils and papers.

What simplified improper fraction equals the decimal number 2.05 given the numerator must be larger than the denominator.

(buzzer rings) Josephine, Berwick.

- 205 over 100.

- Is correct and here's your bonus question.

In what year did Warren Harding win a presidential election while promising a return to normalcy?

(contestants whispering) (buzzer rings) - 1920.

- Is correct for your bonus points.

Very good, Berwick.

Let's turn to our next tossup question.

What country is home to Banjo Paterson who wrote the ballad, "Waltzing Matilda" and writer Patrick White?

(buzzer rings) Jaxon, Berwick.

- Australia.

- Is correct.

Here's your bonus and keep those pencils and papers handy.

If three standard, six-sided dice are rolled and the numbers multiplied, what is the probability the product is an odd number?

(gentle music) (bell dings) That is 1/8.

Okay, let's go onto another tossup.

What color whose pure form was a zero in Ansel Adams' own system had a pigment made from bone char and is the color.

(buzzer rings) Josephine, Berwick.

- Black.

- Is correct and your bonus now.

Minister Edward Casaubon unsuccessfully tries to write a key to all mythologies in what George Eliot novel about high minded, Dorothea Brooke.

(buzzer rings) - "Middlemarch."

- Is correct for your bonus points, Berwick.

Let's go to another tossup question here.

What form of radiation which can be stopped by a sheet of paper or the skin is emitted by Uranium-238.

(buzzer rings) Maeson, Montgomery.

- Ultraviolet.

- I'm sorry?

- Ultraviolet.

- Is incorrect.

I'll finish the question and rebound to Berwick.

And is equivalent to a helium nucleus?

Thomas.

- Alpha.

- Alpha particles is what we are looking for.

Great job.

Let's go to another tossup.

What monarch wed Theresa Christina, had a daughter, Isabelle, who issued a golden law freeing slaves (buzzer rings) and was the second.

Jaxon, Berwick.

- Don Pedro II.

- Is correct and your bonus now.

The Democratic Alliance won a plurality in what European country's 2024 election enabling Luis Montenegro to replace socialist leader, Antonio Costa.

(buzzer rings) - Spain.

- Nope, we were looking for Portugal.

Let's go to another tossup.

What poem that asks, "In what furnace was thy brain?"

and asks, what immortal hand or eye frames a predator's fearful symmetry is by William Blake?

(bell dings) Note takers there.

That was "The Tyger."

Here's our next tossup.

Towlics and pingos are structural features in what biome that has alpine and arctic varieties.

(buzzer rings) Jaxon, Berwick.

- Mountains.

- Is incorrect.

I'll finish the question and rebound to Montgomery.

Is covered by permafrost and lacks trees.

(buzzer rings) - Nova.

- Tundra.

- Tundra is correct for your rebound points, Montgomery.

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

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.

And we'll start with the students from Montgomery.

And Nova, I'll come to you first.

Tell us what your favorite subject is in school and why.

- I like AP World a little 'cause it's my last class of the day.

- [Paul] Thanks, Nova.

Josh?

- I like lunch 'cause I get to eat.

(Paul laughs) Lily.

- I like art 'cause it lets me be creative with myself.

- [Paul] You tap into another part of yourself, right?

- Yeah.

- Maeson.

- I like English and AP US History because they're very engaging.

- All right Thank you very much, Montgomery, and good luck the rest of the way.

Berwick, it's over to you.

Riley, tell me what your favorite subject is and why.

- Well, Paul, I like history.

It's fun to see how much we've changed and yet stayed the same throughout all of history.

- [Paul] It's true.

Thank you, Riley.

Jaxon.

- Well Paul, I'd have to agree I like history too.

Mostly just 'cause the teachers are the most chilled people we ever meet.

- That's awesome, thanks, Jaxon.

Thomas.

- Well Paul, I'd have to say English because I really like to read and analyze literature.

- [Paul] Thank you, Thomas.

Josephine.

- Well, Paul, I'd have to say Spanish because I love my Spanish teacher, and I love learning how to communicate in other languages.

- That's excellent.

Thank you very much and good luck to you the rest of the way, Berwick.

Glad you're all here.

Let's go ahead and begin the third quarter now with this tossup question.

At what battle which Marcus Reno was criticized for not marching into, did a Lakota led alliance under Crazy Horse defeat and kill George Custer.

(buzzer rings) Josephine, Berwick.

- The Battle of Little Bighorn - Is correct and here's your bonus.

Honiara is the capital of what island country in the Pacific that is named after a biblical king?

- Solomon Islands.

- Solomon Islands.

- Is correct for your bonus points, Berwick.

Let's go to another tossup question.

What author wrote about railroad executive, Dagny Taggart and Hank Rearden, who searched for a man named John Galt in her novel, "Atlas Shrugged."

(buzzer rings) Nova, Montgomery.

I need an answer.

- I forgot.

- Okay, rebound to Berwick.

(buzzer rings) - Ayn Rand.

- Ayn Rand is correct for your rebound points, Berwick.

Let's go to another tossup.

What soccer club whose 2024-2025 squad included Robert Lewandowski, Raphinha and Lamine Yamal contests El Classico against rival club, Real Madrid.

(buzzer rings) Jaxon, Berwick.

- Barcelona.

- Is correct.

And your bonus question.

What drugs which can be general like propofol or local like lidocaine are administered before surgeries to block pain?

- Anesthetics?

(buzzer rings) - Josephine.

- Anesthetics.

- Is correct for your bonus points, Berwick.

Let's go to another tossup question.

What quantity, whose conservation underpins Bernoulli's principle, can be measured in urbs, calories or joules and has a potential?

(buzzer rings) Josephine, Berwick.

- Energy.

- Is correct.

And your bonus question.

After the death of her mother, Fantine, what young girl known as the Lark is adopted by Jean Val Jean and Victor Hugo's novel, "Les Miserables?"

(contestants whispering) (buzzer rings) - Marius.

- Nope, this was Cosette.

Cosette.

Here's our next tossup question.

What author of "A Key into the Language of America" was a religious freedom advocate expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony who founded Rhode Island?

(buzzer rings) Thomas, Berwick.

- John Winthrop.

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Montgomery.

(buzzer rings) Maeson.

- Joan Smith?

- Nope, this was Roger Williams.

Here's our next tossup question.

What country was the site of a failed 2019 mission by Seal Team 6 that tried to plant an eavesdropping device to spy on its ruler, Kim Jong-Un?

(buzzer rings) Josephine, Berwick.

- North Korea.

- Is correct.

Here's your bonus now.

The country of Tuvalu generates about 10% of its revenue by selling what Internet identifiers which may end in .tv?

(buzzer rings) - A web domain.

- Is correct and that's for your bonus points.

Let's go on now to our next tossup question.

What 20th century artistic movement whose manifesto was written by Andre Breton produced dreamlike art such as the paintings of Salvador Dali?

(buzzer rings) Josephine, Berwick.

- Surrealism.

- Is correct.

And your bonus.

How many half steps comprise the interval of a tritone, which is exactly one half of an octave?

(contestants whispering) (buzzer rings) - Eight.

- Nope, that answer is six.

Let's go to another tossup.

In what state where Daniel Morgan crushed British Forces at cow pens did Patriot troops lose The Battle of Camden soon after the siege of Charleston?

(buzzer rings) Thomas, Berwick.

- South Carolina.

- That is correct.

And here's your bonus question.

What name is given to the radioactive isotope of hydrogen that has one proton and two neutrons?

(contestants whispering) - Say hydronium.

(buzzer rings) - Hydronium.

- No, this was tritium.

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

This time Berwick will pick first.

Your categories are Olympic host cities or Iowans.

(contestants whispering) (buzzer rings) - We'll take Olympic host cities, please.

- Olympic host cities it is.

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

What Olympic host city hosted the 2024 Summer Olympics?

- Paris?

- Yes.

Hosted the first modern Olympic games in Greece.

(buzzer rings) - Athens.

- [Paul] Yes.

Is the only city in South America to host the games.

- Rio de Janeiro.

- Yes.

Is the only city to host both the Winter and Summer Games.

(buzzer rings) - Salt Lake City.

- [Paul] Beijing.

Was the most recent American city to host the summer games in 1996.

(buzzer rings) - Atlanta.

- [Paul] Yes.

Was the German city where swimmer, Mark Spitz, won seven golds.

(buzzer rings) - Berlin.

- [Paul] Munich.

Will host the 2026 Winter Games with Cortina.

(buzzer rings) - Los Angeles.

- Milan.

Was the first Asian city to host the Summer Games in 1964.

(buzzer rings) - Pyongyang.

- [Paul] Tokyo.

Was the first city to host the Summer Olympics three separate times.

(buzzer rings) - Melbourne.

- [Paul] London.

Hosted the 1904 games in conjunction with the World's Fair.

- Chicago.

- St.

Louis, Missouri.

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

Montgomery, it's over to you.

Your remaining category will be Iowans.

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

Name these people, real or fictional, from Iowa.

Painter of American Gothic.

(buzzer rings) - Edgar Allen Poe.

- [Paul] Grant Wood.

First pick of the 2024 WNBA draft.

(buzzer rings) - Caitlin Clark.

- [Paul] Yes.

President succeeded by Franklin Roosevelt.

(buzzer rings) - Woodrow Wilson.

- [Paul] Herbert Hoover.

Member of the Avengers played in movies by Jeremy Renner.

(buzzer rings) - Hawkeye.

- [Paul] Yes.

Actor nicknamed Duke who starred in westerns like "The Searchers."

(buzzer rings) - Pass.

- [Paul] John Wayne.

Captain of the Enterprise on the original Star Trek.

(buzzer rings) - John Pickard.

- James T. Kirk.

Winner of three straight Hugo Awards for "Broken Earth" series.

(buzzer rings) - Pass.

- [Paul] Jemisin.

Rams quarterback who led the greatest show on turf.

(buzzer rings) Kurt Warner.

- [Paul] Yes.

Actor who played Frodo in the "Lord of the Rings" movies.

(buzzer rings) - Elijah Wood.

- [Paul] Yes.

Physicist whose namesake radiation belts surround the earth.

(buzzer rings) - Pass.

- [Paul] That is Van Allen.

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

And after that we have Berwick in the lead over Montgomery, 255 to 50 as we begin the last segment of the game with this tossup question.

What compound reacts with water to form syn gas, is the main gas emission from sheep and cows and is a- (buzzer rings) Josephine, Berwick.

- Methane - Is correct.

And your bonus now.

In a story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, what color of wallpaper is frantically examined by a woman descending into madness?

(buzzer rings) - Green.

- That is yellow as in "The Yellow Wallpaper."

Here's our next tossup question.

What state is home to the headquarters of Union Pacific Railroad and Warren Buffett's firm, Berkshire Hathaway, both of which are based in Omaha.

(buzzer rings) Josephine, Berwick.

- Nebraska.

- Is correct.

And your bonus now.

What city which is home to the fortified Scaliger Bridge is the setting of "Romeo and Juliet."

(buzzer rings) Josephine.

- Sorry, Verona.

- Is correct for your bonus points, Berwick.

Let's go to another tossup.

What novel in which the Rhine River Three perform at The Onion Cellar, depicts the glass shattering, Oskar Matzerath, and was written by Gunter Grass.

(buzzer rings) Thomas, Berwick.

- Sorry, "The Tin Drum."

- Is correct and your bonus question.

UN Secretary General, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, hailed from what country whose president Anwar Sadat was assassinated in 1981?

(buzzer rings) - Egypt.

Is correct for your bonus points, Berwick.

Let's go to another tossup question.

What Archipelago has its capital at Stanley, is called Las Malvinas in Spanish, and was the site of a 1982 war between the UK.

(buzzer rings) Josephine, Berwick.

- The Falklands.

- Is correct and your bonus now.

Dynamos are examples of what devices that are the opposite of motors because they turn mechanical energy into electrical energy.

(contestants whispering) (buzzer rings) - Inductor.

- No, this was electrical generators.

Here's our next tossup question.

What mineral which consists of aluminum oxide and is used as a less expensive abrasive compared to diamond defines a nine on the Mohs hardness scale?

(buzzer rings) Josephine, Berwick.

- Brillo.

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Montgomery.

- Zirconia.

- Nope, this was corundum.

Let's go to another tossup question.

What animal was the medieval fable character, renard, was the nickname of Nazi Field Marshall Erwin Rommel.

(buzzer rings) Jaxon, Berwick.

- A Fox.

- Is correct.

And your bonus question now.

In 1975, what country's King Faisal was assassinated by his nephew, Faisal bin Musaid.

(contestants whispering) (buzzer rings) - Iraq.

- Nope, this was Saudi Arabia.

Let's go to another tossup question.

What country sparked the Abyssinia Crisis when it invaded and conquered Ethiopia?

(buzzer rings) Jaxon, Berwick.

- Italy.

- Is correct.

And your bonus question now.

What Greek king and general sacrificed his daughter, Iphigenia, to the goddess Artemis for which he was murdered by his wife, Clytemnestra.

(buzzer rings) - Agamemnon.

- Is correct for your bonus points, Berwick.

Let's go to another tossup question.

A VR game partly titled Rescue Mission was the debut of what small blue hero, the namesake of a game of the year winning 2024 PlayStation platformer.

(buzzer rings) Jaxon, Berwick.

- "Astro."

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question.

What kind of quadrilateral has two pairs of adjacent congruent sides and two perpendicular diagonals, one of which bisects the other?

(contestants whispering) (buzzer rings) - Parallelogram?

- No, this was either a kite or a dart.

And that's the end of the game.

And our winner tonight is Berwick over Montgomery, 340 to 50.

Congratulations, Berwick, you are 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 thank you for watching.

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