(upbeat music begins) - Welcome to 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 one, three or $5,000.

WVIA would like to thank our sponsor, FNCB and People's 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 Montgomery and Hughesville.

Playing in the first half for Montgomery are Kennedy Marsh and Samuel Oyster.

Their advisor is Kelly Kurtz, and the alternates are Emily Diffenderfer, Lily Burchill and Camden Dalrymple.

Representing Hughesville in the first half are Zachery Godshaw and Kylie Leverson.

Their advisor is Tara Holdran and the alternate is Emma Friedhoff.

Well, let's get started.

Montgomery has won the coin toss and will receive the first question which is, what surname is shared by Maine's first female Senator Margaret Chase, Jamestown co-founder, John and the non-binary singer of Stay With Me, Sam?

- Hunt - Is incorrect, rebound now to Hughesville.

- Smith.

- Sam Smith is correct for your rebound points, Hughesville.

And here comes your first question.

What politician who announced a single-payer plus healthcare plan was born in American Samoa and was a Hindu member of Congress from Hawaii?

(whispering) (buzzer rings) Ran out of time, Montgomery rebound to you.

- Obama - Is incorrect.

We were looking for Tulsi Gabbard, Tulsi Gabbard.

Montgomery, here comes your next question.

What man elected governor of Maryland in 1967 resigned another office in 1973, over a bribery scandal and was Richard Nixon's first vice president?

(buzzer rings) - Okay, rebound now to Hughesville.

- Spiro Agnew - Is correct for your rebound points, Hughesville.

And here comes your next question.

What composer, who included an allegro giocoso third movement in his fourth and last symphony is a member of the three Bs who wrote an 1868 lullaby?

- Bach - Is incorrect, rebound now to Montgomery.

- Beethoven - Is incorrect, we're looking for Johannes Brahms.

And of course the other two Bs are Johann Sebastian Bach and Jimmy Buffet.

Let's move on now to your next question, Montgomery.

What type of fermion detected by IceCube Observatory undergoes namesake flavor oscillations and often passes through matter undetected?

- No answer.

- Okay, rebound now to Hughesville.

- The neutrino.

- Is correct for your rebound points, Hughesville, great job and here comes your next question.

What poem, which depicts yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window panes, opens with the line "let us go then, you and I" and is by T.S.

Eliot?

(whispering) - I can't hear you.

- Okay, I don't know.

(buzzer rings) - You ran out of time, rebound to Montgomery.

- No answer.

- Okay, we were looking for The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.

Let's move on to your next question, Montgomery.

The Nakaz law code was issued by what ruler who was opposed by Pugachev's rebellion supported by Grigory Potemkin and was a great Empress of Russia?

- No answer.

- Okay, rebound now to Hughesville.

- Want to guess Catherine the Great?

- Yeah - Catherine the Great - Is correct for your rebound points, Hughesville.

Great job and we're going to move on to our next question (buzzer rings) which will come in the next quarter, because 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 Antarctica or European attractions.

(whispering) - European attraction.

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

In which European city are these attractions located?

A clock tower, nicknamed Big Ben - London.

- [Paul] Yes, Sagrada Familia.

- Madrid - [Paul] Barcelona, Acropolis.

- No answer.

- [Paul] Athens, Schonbrunn Palace and the Belvedere museum?

- No answer.

- [Paul] That's Vienna.

Louvre museum.

- Berlin - Paris, Uffizi gallery.

- No answer.

- [Paul] Florence, Reich's museum and the Anne Frank House.

- Warsaw - [Paul] Amsterdam, state heritage museum.

- No answer - [Paul] St. Petersburg, a statue of the little mermaid.

- No answer (buzzer rings) - That was Copenhagen.

Okay Montgomery, that's going to wrap up your portion of the lightening round.

Hughesville, coming your way, your remaining category will be Antarctica and your time begins when I finished reading your first question.

Give these answers related to Antarctica.

Country that operates Byrd and McMurdo research stations - Russia - [Paul] United States.

It's a polar form of this driest biome.

- Desert.

- [Paul] Yes.

Animal whose Adelie and Emperor species live there.

- Penguin.

- [Paul] Yes.

A hole formed in this protective layer above it.

- Ozone.

- [Paul] Yes, the closest continent to it.

- North America - [Paul] South America.

Norwegian explorer who reached the South pole in 1911.

- Pass - It's Amundsen.

These mostly submerged structures there, formed by calving.

- Icebergs.

- Yes, nighttime phenomenon whose Southern or Australis form is visible there.

- Aurora Borealis - Correct.

Within two degrees, the latitude of the Antarctic circle.

(buzzer rings) - 15.

- Nope, we were looking for 66.5 degrees.

Very good, Hughesville.

That's going to do it for the lightning round.

And now 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 and Kennedy, I will come to you first.

Tell me what your favorite film is and why.

- My favorite film is I Can Only Imagine, it's a really, it's an amazing story and it's based on MercyMe, which is a Christian band.

And it's always been very inspiring to me.

- Very nice, very nice.

And Samuel, what's your favorite film and why?

- I like Endgame because of all the superheroes and action in it.

- Okay, excellent.

Thank you, Montgomery, good luck the rest of the way.

And Hughesville, coming over to you, Zachery.

What is your favorite film and why?

- You know, honestly, I don't watch that many movies, I think I'm just going to be a bit goofy and say for memory sake, my favorite is the original SpongeBob movie from like 2002.

- All right, excellent, good stuff.

Kylie, what's your favorite film?

- I like the black and white movie, It's A Wonderful Life because it's a family tradition to watch it every Christmas Eve.

- It's an absolute classic, isn't it?

Very nice to meet all of you.

Now we'll go ahead and begin the second quarter with this question that goes to Hughesville.

What body of water borders the oasis town of Ein Gedi, is home to the lowest land elevation on earth, and is named for its high content of salt?

- The Dead Sea.

- Is correct and here's your bonus question.

What director of Almost Famous is known for romantic comedies like Elizabethtown, Say Anything, and Jerry Maguire?

- No answer.

- All right.

We were looking for Cameron Crowe, Cameron Crowe Montgomery here comes your question.

What country who's Arab majority Joint List Alliance is an opposition faction in the Knesset is led by Likud member, Benjamin Netanyahu?

- Japan - Is incorrect, rebound now to Hughesville.

(whispering) - Yemen - Is incorrect, we were looking for Israel, Israel.

Hughesville, here comes your next question.

What African country, once home to giant elephant birds is still home to most species of Baobab trees as well as the cat-like fossa and lemurs?

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

Amy Coney Barrett, who was nominated to the Supreme Court in 2020 clerked for what Supreme Court Justice, who was succeeded in 2017 by Neil Gorsuch?

- No answer - Ran out of time.

We were looking for Antonin Scalia, Scalia.

Montgomery, here comes your next question.

MIRA HQ is a map in what Innersloth developed video game in which a team of crewmates attempts to perform tasks while discovering imposters?

- Among Us.

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

Aeolian processes are those caused by what phenomenon whose velocity can be measured with an anemometer.

- Wind - Is correct for your bonus points, Montgomery.

Let's move on back to Hughesville now.

Here's your question.

What author of A Child's Garden of Verses wrote about a physician who researches duality of man in Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?

- No answer (buzzer rings) - Okay, rebound now to Montgomery.

- No answer.

- Okay, we're looking for Robert Louis Stevenson.

Robert Louis Stevenson.

Montgomery, here comes your next question.

What metalloid found in the mineral moissanite is the second most abundant element in Earth's crust after oxygen and has the atomic symbol SI?

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

The discovery of three cigars wrapped in a copy of Special Order 191 tipped off George McClellan to Confederate strategy just before what 1862 battle?

(buzzer rings) - Second Battle of Bull Run - Is incorrect.

We were looking for the Battle of Antietam the Battle of Antietam.

And after one half of play, we have Hughesville in the lead over Montgomery, 110 to 35.

Kennedy, Samuel from Montgomery, thank you so much.

Zachery and Kylie, you were great, thank you as well.

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

Now, joining us for Montgomery are Owen Sherman and Mary Green and representing Hughesville are Victoria Holmes and Gavin Paulhamus.

All right, so we're going to start this quarter with Montgomery, you are getting the first question which is, what title figure is taken away by high born kinsmen and is shut up in a sepulcher in a kingdom by the sea, in a poem by Edgar Allen Poe?

- Annabel Lee.

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

What husband of Saraswati is the four faced creator God of Hinduism?

- No answer.

- Okay and we're looking for Brahma, Brahma.

Hughesville, here comes your question.

What state, whose Irwin County detention center is where a whistleblower reported numerous hysterectomies performed by ICE is led by Brian Kemp?

- Texas - Is incorrect, rebound to Montgomery - West Virginia.

- Nope, we were looking for Georgia, Georgia.

Montgomery, here comes your next question.

What cognitive condition whose disassociative type occurs in fugue states has retrograde and anterograde types and involves a deficit in memory?

- Dementia.

- Is incorrect, rebound now to Hughesville.

- Amnesia - Is correct for your rebound points, Hughesville.

And here comes your next question.

What disease, which is prevented by the BCG vaccine is caused by a mycobacterium causes suffers to cough up blood and was once called consumption?

(buzzer rings) Okay, ran out of time.

We're going to rebound now to Montgomery.

- No answer.

- All right, the answer we were looking for, was tuberculosis, tuberculosis.

Montgomery, here comes your next question.

What type of poem collected in the narrow road to the deep North includes a seasonal reference, has a five seven five syllabic structure and is from Japan?

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

In Chinese culture, envelopes called hong bao that are used to give gifts are of what color, which is considered lucky?

- Red - Is correct for your bonus points, Montgomery.

Great job.

Hughesville, here comes your next question.

What sculpture, which F.T.

Marinetti compared unfavorably to a roaring car, was found on Samothrace and is a headless depiction of the goddess, Nike?

- Cloud Gate - Is incorrect, rebound to Montgomery.

- No answer - All right.

We were looking for Winged Victory of Samothrace.

Let's move onto your next question, Montgomery.

What state, which is home to the first US national monument, Devil's Tower, contains most of Yellowstone National Park and is led from Cheyenne?

- Wyoming.

- Is correct and here's your bonus question.

Genetic linkage is an exception to what law of Mendelian genetics that holds that alleles of one gene do not determine inheritance of other genes?

- Independent assortment.

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

Hughesville, coming your way.

What woman who said "the lady's not for turning" in a 1980 speech, survived the 1984 bombing by the provisional IRA while prime minister of Britain?

(buzzer rings) - No answer.

- Okay, rebound now to Montgomery.

- Margaret Thatcher.

- Is correct for your rebound points, Montgomery.

Great job, and that sound that you heard signals the end of the third quarter and another lightning round.

This time Hughesville will pick first.

Your categories are soccer around the world or, OR words.

- OR words - Okay, OR words, it is.

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

Give these answers that start with OR.

Constellation that contains Rigel.

- Pass.

- [Paul] Orion, Japanese art of paper folding.

- Origami.

- [Paul] Yes, spice of the mint family related to marjoram.

- Oregano.

- [Paul] Yes, musician from Greek myth who tried to rescue Eurydice from the underworld - Orcyrus, I don't know.

- Orpheus, site of the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting - Oregon - [Paul] Orlando, state known as the Beaver state.

- Oregon.

- [Paul] Yes, family of flowering plants that includes vanilla - Pass - That's Orchids, town in New York that is home to the Buffalo Bills stadium.

- Pass - [Paul] Orchard Park.

Scottish archipelago whose most populous city is Kirkwall - Pass - [Paul] Orkney Islands, scientific study of birds (buzzer rings) - Ran out of time, that was ornithology, ornithology.

Hughesville great job in the lightening round.

Montgomery, we're coming back to you.

Your remaining category will be soccer around the world.

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

In which present day country were these soccer players born Pele?

- Brazil.

- [Paul] Yes, Megan Rapinoe.

- USA.

- [Paul] Yes, Gareth Bale - Wales.

- [Paul] Yes, Christiano Ronaldo.

- Portugal.

- Yes, Zenedine Zidane - Italy - [Paul] France, Diego Maradona.

- Argentina.

- [Paul] Yes, David Beckham.

- England - [Paul] Yes, Luis Suarez.

- Spain - Uruguay, Zlatan Ibrahimovic - Sweden - Yes, Christine Sinclair - India - Canada.

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

And after that, boy, we have a close game.

Montgomery, ahead of Hughesville now, 155 to 150.

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

Let's start with the students from Montgomery and Owen I'll come your way first.

Tell me what your favorite film is and why?

- My favorite film is Star Wars because it's been around for a long time and it was very revolutionary at the time.

- Good stuff, thank you Owen.

Mary, your favorite film and why.

- This is more of a musical, but personally I like Hamilton because it tells the backstory of Alexander Hamilton and shows what he went through during his time period.

- It's award-winning stuff, thank you, Montgomery.

Good luck the rest of the way.

Hughesville, gonna come over to you.

Victoria, what is your favorite film and why?

- It's hard to pick favorites but I'm definitely a sucker for cheesy rom-coms, so I would have to say The Devil Wears Prada.

- All right, that's a good film.

And Gavin, your favorite film and why?

- My favorite film is Dances With Wolves just because I remember watching it with my grandpa and it brings back some good memories.

- It's a beautifully done film.

Very, very good cinematography.

Well, thanks for being here, Hughesville.

It was very nice to meet all of you again.

Now let's go ahead and begin the fourth quarter with this question for Hughesville.

What artist, who uses song titles like 42.26 and 12.38 on his album 3.15.20 repeated "don't catch you slipping now" on his song, This is America?

- Childish Gambino - Is correct and here's your bonus question.

Endotherm is the scientific term for what type of animal, such as mammals, that are capable of regulating their own body temperatures?

- No answer.

- Okay, we're looking for warm blooded animals.

Montgomery, coming to you.

What novel ends in a quarry as the words "like a dog" are said by the dying Josef K. who was unexpectedly arrested in this novel by Franz Kafka?

- Metamorphosis - Is incorrect, rebound to Hughesville.

- Kafka on the Shore.

- Is incorrect, we were looking for The Trial, The Trial.

Hughesville, here comes your next question.

In 1685, Louis the 14th revoked what document signed by Henry the fourth of France, which guaranteed religious freedom to French Protestants or Huguenots?

- No answer.

- All right, rebound now to Montgomery.

- No answer.

- Okay, we were looking for the Edict of Nantes.

Montgomery, here comes your next question.

What city, where Bartolo acts as Rosina's guardian is the setting of an opera in which the aria Largo al factotum is sung by the barber, Figaro?

- Venice - Is incorrect, rebound now to Hughesville.

- Florence.

- Nope, we were looking for Seville, the barber of Seville.

Hughesville, here comes your next question.

What city, the site of a rally featured in the Triumph of the Will was home to a series of post-World War II trials, prosecuting Nazi war criminals?

- No answer.

(buzzer rings) - Rebound now to Montgomery.

- Warsaw - Is incorrect, we're looking for Nuremberg, Nuremberg.

Montgomery, here comes your next question.

What author of Discourses on Livy contrasted lions and foxes and wrote that it is safer to be feared than loved as a ruler in his treatise, The Prince?

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

The two main families of the play, Our Town, are the Webbs and what other family that includes George and his doctor father?

- No answer.

- Okay, that's Gibbs, Gibbs.

Hughesville, coming back your way.

What process inhibited by juvenile hormone typically involves an abrupt change in body plan such as when a caterpillar becomes a butterfly?

- Metamorphosis.

- Is correct and here's your bonus question.

Consolidation or the buildup of liquid where there's normally air is a symptom of what condition in which infected alveoli become inflamed?

(buzzer rings) - No answer - The answer we're looking for was pneumonia, pneumonia and we ran out of time and what a close game.

That is the end of the game and our winner tonight is Hughesville over Montgomery, 170 to 165.

Congratulations, Hughesville.

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.

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