(upbeat marching band 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 1, 3, or $5,000.

Tonight's match features Blue Ridge versus Montrose.

Representing Blue Ridge are Leigha McCain, Gracey Hinkley, Aiden Glasgow, and their captain, Nick Paulman, and their advisor is Katie Bailey.

Representing Montrose is Velena Gardner, Ryan Kelisek, Daegan Gianoni.

Their captain is Thomas Stewart.

Their alternates are Sam Staschko and Stephanie Somerville.

And their advisors are John Kolowski and Eric Powers.

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 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 will be given the tossup points, but will not receive a bonus question.

Let's get started with our first tossup question.

What Prince of Phthia, the leader of the Myrmidons, was inspired by the death of his companion, Patroclus, to slay Hector at the end of the Trojan War?

(low pitched buzzer sounds) Ryan Montrose.

- Aeneas.

Aeneas.

- Aeneas is incorrect, rebound to Blue Ridge.

(high pitched buzzer sounds) The answer is Achilles.

Toss up, what tissue that has trabecular and cortical forms, contains collagen and calcium hydroxyapatite, and sometimes contains blood cell forming marrow?

(high pitched buzzer sounds) That is bone.

Toss up, what actress who played the drug adult daughter of Riggan Thompson in Birdman, played aspiring actress, Mia, alongside Ryan Gosling in La La Land.

(high pitched buzzer sounds) That was Emma Stone.

Toss up, what American painter, who showed two women in a Chinese restaurant in Chop Sui, portrayed the lonely patrons of a late night diner in "Nighthawks."

(high pitched buzzer sounds) That was Edward Hopper.

Toss up, what novel, in which Arthur Homewood donates blood to Lucy Westenra at the suggestion of Dr. Van Helsing, was written by Bram Stoker about a vampire.

(low pitched buzzer sounds) Ryan Montrose.

- Dracula - Is correct answer, Ryan, (echoing sound effect) and your bonus, what German composer of the Baroque era wrote a piece featuring the eight note base ostinato D, A, B, F sharp, G, D, G, A which was paired with gigue.

- Mozart.

- Is incorrect, it is Pachelbel.

Toss up, what letter can denote the ball shaped atomic orbital closest to the nucleus, or a value that can be plus or minus one half for an electron it spin.

(buzzer sounds twice quickly) Nick.

- S. - S, Nick's correct answer (echoing sound effect) and your bonus, Blue Ridge, which of the classical simple machines can be created by wrapping a tilted inclined plane around a cylinder.

- Lever?

- A lever is incorrect.

It is a screw.

Toss up, what man, who appointed every member of Barebone's Parliament, was nicknamed Old Ironsides and became Lord Protector after the English Civil War.

(buzzer sounds quickly) Daegan.

- Oliver Cromwell.

- Oliver Cromwell's correct answer, Daegan, (echoing sound effect) and your bonus, 10 characters tells stories over 10 days in what 14th Century Book by Giovanni Boccaccio whose title is partly derived from the Greek word for 10.

- No answer.

(laughs softly) - No answer?

- Pass.

- Okay, the correct answer is Decameron.

Toss up, what series, which began in 1927, when Leslie McFarlane wrote The Tower Treasure under the name Franklin W. Dixon, depicts two crime solving brothers.

(buzzer sounds quickly) Ryan Montrose.

- The Hardy Boys.

- Hardy Boys is correct answer, (echoing sound effect) Ryan, and your bonus, what city, whose metropolitan area is home to the headquarters of the Conmebol Soccer Confederation, (high pitched buzzer sounds) is the capitol of Paraguay.

- Pass.

- No answer?

- [Ryan] No answer.

- Okay, the correct answer is Asunción.

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

(lightning bolt cracks) (electricity hums) 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.

Montrose has won the coin toss and will pick first.

Your categories are inorganic compounds or A in music.

- Inorganic compounds.

- Inorganic compounds.

The time will begin after I read the first statement.

Inorganic compounds.

Given the molecular formula, name the substance.

We will accept trivial names, like water, or systematic names, like calcium bromide.

NaCl.

(buzzer sounds quickly) Thomas.

- Sodium chloride.

- Sodium chloride is correct.

H2SO4.

(buzzer sounds quickly) Thomas.

- Sulfuric acid.

- Correct.

NH3.

(buzzer sounds quickly) Daegan.

- Ammonia.

- Correct.

CO2.

(buzzer sounds quickly) Daegan.

- Carbon dioxide.

- Correct.

- CH4.

(buzzer sounds quickly) Thomas.

(Thomas sighs) - Methane.

- Correct.

N2O.

(buzzer sounds quickly) Thomas.

- Dinitrogen monoxide.

- Is a correct.

NaOH.

(buzzer sounds quickly) Thomas.

- Sodium hydroxide.

- Correct.

H2O2.

(buzzer sounds quickly) Thomas.

- Dihydrogen dioxygen.

- Is incorrect, hydrogen peroxide.

SF6.

(buzzer sounds quickly) Thomas.

- Sulfur hexafluoride.

- Correct.

- LiHCO... (high pitched buzzer sounds) That's the end of that one.

We're moving over to the Blue Ridge team.

Your category is A in music, give these musical terms, not all of which come from Italian, that begin with the letter A.

Elaborate vocal solo in an opera.

- Pass.

- Aria, the lowest woman's part in choral music.

(buzzer sounds quickly twice) - Gracey.

- Alto.

- Correct.

- Coral music performed without instruments.

(buzzer sounds quickly twice) - Acapella.

- Correct.

A fast tempo, a bit slower than vivace.

- Pass.

- Allegro.

- The science of sound production in singular, a type of guitar.

(buzzer sounds quickly twice) Gracie.

- Acoustic.

- Correct.

Cord tone sounded in succession, rather than all at once.

- Pass.

- Arpeggio.

Device to increase the volume of sound.

(buzzer sounds quickly twice) Gracie.

- Amplifier.

- Correct.

Direction to gradually play faster.

(buzzer sounds quickly twice) Gracie.

- A-crescendo.

- Crescendo's incorrect, accelerando.

Slow expressive tempo used in Samuel Barber piece for strings.

(high pitched buzzer sounds) That is adagio.

Let's update our score.

We have Blue Ridge with 30 points and Montrose with 70 points.

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

What country?

The site of the 2022 Abu Sefein Church fire is led by Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and is where the ship Ever Given blocked the Suez Canal.

(buzzer sounds quickly twice) Nick.

- Egypt.

- Egypt, Nick's correct answer (echoing sound effect) and your bonus, Blue Ridge.

Theodore Roosevelt won the Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating what 1905 treaty that ended the Russo-Japanese War.

(high pitched buzzer sounds) That would be the Treaty of Portsmith.

Toss up, what statement often written as h-bar over two, is less than or equal to Sigma X times Sigma P, limits knowledge of a particle's position and momentum.

(high pitched buzzer sounds) That is Heisenberg.

Toss up, in what country were three tiers of windows were included in the Fagus Factory, did architect Valter Gropius find the Bauhaus in Weimar.

(low pitched buzzer sounds) Ryan Montrose.

- Prussia?

- Prussia's incorrect, rebound to Blue Ridge.

- Pass.

- No answer?

- No answer.

- Okay, the correct answer is Germany.

Toss up, what man, whose ship The Liberty was seized in 1768, was the first governor of Massachusetts and prominently signed the Declaration of Independence.

(buzzer sounds quickly) Ryan Montrose.

- John Hancock.

John Hancock.

- John Hancock's correct answer (echoing sound effect) and your bonus Montrose, in 1934, officers from what non-federal law enforcement agency ambushed and killed Bonnie and Clyde.

- Don't know.

- No answer.

- Okay, the correct answer is the Texas Rangers.

Toss up, what subject, whose positive theory was developed by H. L. A. Hart as a natural form in many philosophies, and is practiced by members of the bar.

(high pitched buzzer sounds) That is law.

Toss up, what city, the capital of the Spanish province of Navarre, is home in the annual festival, home to the annual festival of San Fermín, which contains the Running of the Bulls.

(buzzer sounds quickly) Ryan.

- Madrid.

Madrid.

- Madrid is incorrect.

Rebound to Blue Ridge.

(buzzer sounds quickly twice) Nick.

- Barcelona.

- Barcelona's incorrect.

It is Pamplona.

Toss up, what 15 million dollar deal negotiated by Robert Livingston and James Monroe with agents of Napoleon, gained the United States New Orleans (buzzer sounds quickly) and a name... Ryan Montrose.

- Louisiana Purchase.

- Louisiana Purchase's correct answer (echoing sound effect) and you bonus.

Para was often described as having the eyes or face of which animal, which was also often used to represent the Egyptian goddess Hathor.

- A cow.

- A cow is correct answer Ryan for your bonus points.

Toss up, what type of radiation, which can give rise to dark lightning during namesake bursts, has higher energy than x-rays and is named for a Greek letter.

(buzzer sounds quickly) Ryan Montrose.

- Theta.

- Theta is incorrect.

Rebound to Blue Ridge.

(high pitched buzzer sounds) - Delta rays.

- Delta is also incorrect, it is gamma rays.

Let's take a look at our score.

We have Blue Ridge with 40 points and Montrose with 95 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 our students from Blue Ridge.

(upbeat music) Leigha, let's start with you Why don't you tell us all about yourself, like what you like to do in school, what you're involved in, what keeps you busy?

- I enjoy playing sports and I'm also in Prom Committee.

- Any particular sport?

- Volleyball and basketball.

- Okay, busy.

(Leigha chuckles) Gracie, how about you?

- I play softball and I'm the president of our Leo Club Chapter at Blue Ridge.

- Oh congratulations.

- Thank you.

- Aiden, how about yourself?

- I enjoy playing soccer and volleyball.

I'm in multiple clubs including Leo Club, National Honors Society and Prom Committee, - And probably a whole lot more you just can't think of right now.

(Aiden laughs) How about you Nick?

- I enjoy soccer and volleyball and I am the Senior Vice Class President.

- And the captain of the Scrimmage Team.

Welcome Blue Ridge.

Let's move over to our students from Montrose.

Velena, start us off.

- I'm in different clubs at school including Key Club and Invi and I'm also the Senior Class Treasurer.

- Congratulations.

How about you, Ryan?

- I enjoy sports like many people, I enjoy playing soccer and tennis, and our Drama Club recently put on a production, a play at our school.

I'm also the secretary of the, of our Class and I am the editor for the Key Club.

- Good for you, keeps you very busy, too.

Daegan, how about yourself?

- I run cross country and track, I do FBLA, and I am the Secretary of the Junior Class.

- And congratulations to you.

Lots of roles, lots of offices held here.

Thomas.

- I play golf in the fall and baseball in the spring and participate in ski clubs throughout the winter.

And I'm a member of National Honor Society and Captain of this class.

- And you only left out the summer, right?

(Regina laughs) - My only, - It was great talking with all of you.

Let's get started with a toss up.

What show, which received a 2022 Emmy Nomination for actress Rhea Seehorn, starred Bob Odenkirk as a wily lawyer who first appeared on Breaking Bad.

(high pitched buzzer sounds) That is Better Call Saul.

Toss up, what island, whose highest peak is Cerro de Punta, is home to the coqui frog and El Yunque National Forest and is a United States territory, led from San Juan.

(buzzer sounds quickly) Ryan Montrose.

- Fiji.

- Fiji's incorrect, rebound to Blue Ridge.

(buzzer sounds quickly twice) Nick.

- Puerto Rico.

- Puerto Rico's correct answer (echoing sound effect) for your rebound points.

Toss up, what author portrayed a woman who borrows money from the merchant La Rue before killing herself with arsenic in the 1856 French novel Madame Bovary.

(high pitched buzzer sounds) That is Gustave Flaubert.

Toss up, what planet, whose poles periodically go through 42 years of darkness, has a 98 degree axial tilt and a larger radius than fellow Ice Giant, Neptune.

(buzzer sounds quickly) Ryan.

- Uranus.

- Uranus is correct answer (echoing sound effect) And your bonus, Montrose.

Aluminum hydroxide is an example of what type of molecule that can act as either an acid or a base.

- Pass.

- Okay, no answer?

- No answer.

The correct answer is amphoteric.

Toss up, what language appeared alongside English in Elias Boudinot's Phoenix, a newspaper published in New Echota, using a syllabary developed by Sequoia.

(high pitched buzzer sounds) That is Cherokee language.

Toss up, what author wrote about gambler Jim Smiley and the little animal whose name is Dan'l Webster in The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.

(buzzer sounds quickly) Ryan Montrose.

- Oh.

- No answer?

We have to rebound the question to Blue Ridge.

Anyone?

- No answer.

- Okay, the correct answer is Mark Twain.

Toss up, what food used to make Hawaiian musubi is paired with eggs in a Monty Python Sketch and can refer to canned pork made by Hormel foods or junk email.

(buzzer sounds quickly) Ryan Montrose.

- Spam.

- Spam's correct answer, Ryan (echoing sound effect) and your bonus, Montrose.

What law, named for a French chemist, states that at constant valuem the pressure of a given mass of a gas varies directly with its temperature.

- Boyle's?

- Boyle's is incorrect.

It is Gay-Lussac's.

Toss up, what country, which in the 1700s, was a French colony called San Domain, declared independence in 1804.

(buzzer sounds quickly) A revolt... Daegan Montrose.

- Haiti.

- Haiti's correct answer, Daegan (echoing sound effect) and your bonus, what group, which included the Buddhist B.R.Ambedkar, lies outside the four varnas of India's caste system and has historically faced discrimination.

- No answer.

- No answer?

Okay, the correct answer (high pitched buzzer sounds) is Dalits.

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

(lightning cracks) (electricity hums) - This time Blue Ridge will pick first.

Your categories are I, E, or jails and prisons.

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

I, E, give these words that end in the consecutive letters I, E. A five letter word for an impish sprite or a fairy.

- Pass.

- Pixie.

A childish word for a germ or head louse.

- Pass.

- Cootie.

In Marxist Theory, the capitalist non-royal owning class.

- Pass - Bourgeoisie.

A shady figure who handles money for gambling bets.

- Pass.

- Bookie.

A relatively flat treeless grassland.

(buzzer sounds quickly twice) Nick.

- Prairie.

- Correct.

A device that cooks food by constantly revolving it.

(buzzer sounds quickly twice) - Nick.

- Rotisserie.

- Correct A shield maiden who guides the heroic dead in Norse myth.

- Pass - Valkyrie.

A bakery specializing in fine French pastry.

- Pass - Pâtisserie.

A score of one below par in golf.

(buzzer sounds quickly twice) - Nick.

- Bogie - Isn't... (high pitched buzzer sounds) No, it's birdie.

(Nick groans) (Regina chuckles) Moving over to our team from Montrose.

The category is jails and prisons.

Answer the following about prisons and jails.

Board game with Jail and Just Visiting spaces.

(buzzer sounds quickly) Ryan.

- Monopoly.

- Correct.

Singer of Jailhouse Rock.

(buzzer sounds quickly) Thomas.

- Alice Preston.

- Correct.

South African President imprisoned on Robben Island.

(buzzer sounds quickly) Daegan.

- Nelson Mandela.

- Correct.

City Home to Rikers Island Jail.

- Pass.

- New York City.

Nickname of the deadly 18th century British Prison in Calcutta.

- Pass.

- Black Hole.

Eight letter term for the highest security prisons.

- Pass - Supermax.

State Home to Leavenworth Prison.

(buzzer sounds quickly) - Wisconsin.

- Kansas.

Prison housing Andy Dufresne in a 1994 film.

- Pass - Shawshank.

Author who featured London's Newgate Prison in Moll Flanders.

- Pass - Defoe.

British philosopher who proposed a prison called the Panopticon.

(high pitched buzzer sounds) That is Jeremy Bentham.

So let's take a look and update our score.

We have Blue Ridge with 60 points and Montrose with 140 points.

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

What degree of polynomial, whose roots can be found by Cardano's Method, has at most two local extrema and has a degree one more than a Quadratic.

(buzzer sounds quickly) Thomas.

- Fourth degree.

- Fourth degree is incorrect.

Rebound to Blue Ridge.

(buzzer sounds quickly twice) - Trinomial?

- Trinomial is also incorrect, it is cubic.

Toss up, what symphony, with an English horn solo in D flat major in its largo second movement, is named for the fact Antonín DvoYák wrote in while in the US.

(high pitched buzzer sounds) That is the New World Symphony.

Toss up, what institution, which issued a namesake consultum ultimum approving death for treason, had members chosen by the censure from wealthy Roman citizens.

(high pitched buzzer sounds) - That would be the Senate.

Toss up, pencil paper ready.

What is the probability of an event happening if the odds of the event occurring are five to two in favor?

(buzzer sounds quickly) Ryan Montrose.

- 50%.

No, no sorry.

- 50% is incorrect.

Rebound to Blue Ridge.

(high pitched buzzer sounds) It is five sevenths.

Toss up, what author, whose play featuring Joe Keller, inspired the name of the band 21 Pilots, was married to Marilyn Monroe and wrote The Crucible.

(high pitched buzzer sounds) That was Arthur Miller.

Toss up, what man whose money was used to buy the field of blood delivers a kiss in the garden of Gethsemane after getting 30 (buzzer sounds quickly) pieces of silver.

Ryan Montrose.

- Judas.

- Judas is correct answer.

(echoing sound effect) And your bonus, Montrose.

What 18th century Scottish philosopher wrote about a missing shade of blue in his book, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding.

- Aaron... (high pitched buzzer sounds) I don't know.

- Okay, this is David Hume.

Toss up, what federal agency, which is led by former senator Bill Nelson, is carrying out the Artemis Program and supervised the launch of the web.

(buzzer sounds quickly twice) Nick Blue Ridge.

- NASA - NASA's correct answer Nick.

(echoing sound effect) And your bonus.

What Ohio University was the site of a 1970 massacre in which Jeffrey Miller and three other anti-war students were shot by the National Guard.

- Kent State.

- Kent State's correct answer for your bonus points.

Toss up, what tissue that contains single celled tracheids, as well as vessel elements, transports water upward and is normally found adjacent to the phloem.

(high pitched buzzer sounds) That is xylem.

Toss up, what novel, in which the warship Thunder Child is destroyed by a Heart Ray fired from a tripod, was written by HG Wells about a Martian invasion.

(high pitched buzzer sounds) (buzzer sounds quickly) Ryan.

- Can't remember what it's called.

- Okay, rebounded Blue Ridge.

(buzzer sounds quickly twice) - Nick.

- Independence Day?

- Independence Day is incorrect.

It is The War Of The Worlds and that is the end of our game.

Let's look at our score.

We have Blue Ridge with 75 points and Montrose with 150 points.

Congratulations, Montrose, you'll be moving on, (exciting marching band music) and we'll see you next time with another round of Scholastic Scrimmage.

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