(energetic 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 $1,000, $3,000 or $5,000.

Tonight's match features Marian Catholic versus Delaware Valley.

Representing Marian Catholic is Alex Cornmesser, Alyssa Kuba, Addison Pan, Angela Pan, their captain.

Their alternates are Julius Currie and Derek Dang.

Their advisor is Janet Whalen.

Representing Delaware Valley is Riley Krick, Jackson Hancock, Andrea Del Freo.

Their captain Clint Murray.

Their alternate Sarah Flick and Isabella Hemler.

And their advisor is Robert Curtis.

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 British group whose song, "See Emily Play," features member Syd Barrett, recorded "Another Brick in the."

(buzzer buzzes) Andrea, Delaware Valley.

- The Beatles?

- The Beatles is incorrect.

I'll complete the question and rebound to Marian Catholic.

"Another Brick in the Wall Part 2" and "The Dark Side of the Moon."

(buzzer buzzes) Alex.

- Pink Floyd.

- Pink Floyd is the correct answer for your rebound points.

Toss-up.

What author whose autobiography, "Peeling the Onion" describes his time in the German SS, wrote about Oscar Matzerath in his novel "The Tin Drum"?

(buzzer buzzes) That is Gunter Gross.

Toss-up.

In what country where Laura Secord warned of an American attack at Beaver Dams in 1813 did US forces in the War of 1812 sack modern day Toronto?

(buzzer buzzes) Clint.

- What is Canada?

- Canada, Clint is correct answer and your bonus, Delaware Valley.

What detective offers two potential explanations for the death of Samuel Ratchett in Agatha Christie's "Murder on the Orient Express"?

(contestants faintly speaking) - Poirot.

- Poirot.

- Poirot.

(buzzer buzzes) - Poirot.

- Poirot is a correct answer Clint for your bonus points.

Toss-up.

What Egyptian god whose scarab headed aspect was known as Khepri traveled the dew of every.

(buzzer buzzes) Andrea, Delaware Valley.

- Ra.

- Ra is the correct answer and your bonus, Delaware Valley.

What physical quantity is in the numerator of the refractive index and has the same value in every inertial reference frame?

- I think it's four.

- Four?

- I think it's four.

- Four.

- Four is incorrect.

It is the speed of light.

Toss-up.

What author who wrote several stories about Detective C. Auguste Dupin wrote about a man who yells, "I admit the deed," in the telltale heart.

(buzzer buzzes) Alyssa, Marian Catholic.

- Edgar Allan Poe.

- Is a correct answer, Alyssa and your bonus.

What Spanish Explorer died in 1542 while leading the first European expedition to cross the Mississippi River?

(contestants faintly whispering) - Just say it.

- Just say it.

- Say it.

(buzzer buzzes) Addison.

- Ponce de León?

- Ponce de León is incorrect.

It is Hernando de Soto.

Toss-up.

What phase of cell division has a leptotene stage in meiosis I, has centrosomes move apart and chromosomes condense and is the first phase?

(buzzer buzzes) Angela, Marian Catholic.

- Prophase.

- Prophase.

Angela, is the correct answer and your bonus.

The Taliban destroyed two statues in Bamyan depicting what figure whom sculptures often depict with long ear lobes and seated in a lotus position?

(buzzer buzzes) Alyssa.

- Buddha.

- Buddha's the correct answer for your bonus points.

Toss-up.

What first female senator from New York also served as the first Secretary of State for Barack Obama and was first.

(buzzer buzzes) - Clint, Delaware Valley.

- Hillary Clinton.

- Hillary Clinton, Clint is the correct answer and your bonus.

Eggplants, bell peppers and tomatoes belong to what family of plants that also includes the highly toxic mandrake and belladonna?

- Nightshades.

Nightshades.

- Nightshades.

- Nightshades is the correct answer for your bonus points.

Toss-up.

What four letter English word denotes a choral composition one of which was written for Pope Marcellus II and a quantity whose unit.

(buzzer buzzes) - Will.

- Will is incorrect.

I'll complete the question and rebound to Marian Catholic.

And a quantity whose unit is the kilogram?

(buzzer buzzes) Addison?

- Mass.

- [Regina] Mass.

Can you say that one more time?

- Mass.

- Mass is the correct answer for your rebound points.

And that's the end of the first quarter.

And it's now time for the lightning round.

(lightening buzzing) 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.

Delaware Valley has won the coin toss and will choose first.

Your categories are musical notations or California sports venues.

- Musical notations.

- The time begins after I read the first question.

(contestants faintly whispering) - California sports venues.

- California sports venues.

What team plays its home games at these stadiums and arenas?

SoFi Stadium shared by two NFL teams.

(buzzer buzzes) Clint.

- The Rams and the Chargers.

- Correct.

College football's Rose Bowl.

(buzzer buzzes) - USC.

- [Regina] Is incorrect.

UCLA Bruins.

Oracle Park and MLB Stadium.

(buzzer buzzes) - Riley.

- The Giants.

The Giants.

- [Regina] Correct.

Levi Stadium at, an NFL stadium.

(buzzer buzzes) Clint.

- 49ers.

- [Regina] Correct, Honda Center, an NHL ice rink.

(buzzer buzzes) - Kings.

- [Regina] Ducks.

Petco Park, an MLB Stadium.

(buzzer buzzes) - Angels.

- Padres, Chase Center, an NBA arena.

(buzzer buzzes) - Warriors.

- [Regina] Correct.

Ring Central Coliseum, an MLB ballpark.

(buzzer buzzes) Riley.

- Angels.

- [Regina] Oakland Athletics.

Dignity Health Sports Park, an MLS arena.

(buzzer buzzes) - Galaxy.

- [Regina] Correct.

Pachanga Arena, home to a National Lacrosse League team.

(buzzer buzzes) - Pass.

- Yes?

That would be the San Diego Seals.

Moving over to our team from Marian Catholic.

The category is musical notations.

Name these symbols used in musical notation.

Any symbol that tells a musician to not play.

(buzzer buzzes) Alyssa.

- Rest.

- Correct.

Accidental that raises a pitch one half step.

(buzzer buzzes) Alyssa.

- Sharp.

- Correct.

Symbols such as treble or bass indicating location.

- Clef.

- Correct.

Hairpin opening to the right indicating a gradual increase in volume.

(buzzer buzzes) - Pass.

- [Regina] Crescendo.

Dot above or below a note indicating it should be played short.

(buzzer buzzes) - Fermata.

- Staccato.

A hold, also called a bird's eye.

(buzzer buzzes) - Fermata.

- [Regina] Correct.

Symbol that cancels a previous accidental.

(buzzer buzzes) - Pass.

- Natural sign.

Curved line joining two notes of the same pitch adding their durations.

Alyssa?

- Slur.

Slur.

- [Regina] Is a tie.

Double bar lines with two dots indicating a section should be played again.

(buzzer buzzes) - Repeat.

- [Regina] Correct.

Small ornamental note just before a normal note.

(buzzer buzzes) - Accidental.

- Accidental is incorrect.

It is a grace note.

And that's the end of the lightning round.

So let's update our current score.

We have Marian Catholic with 70 and Delaware Valley with 65 points.

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

What man, who evoked cloudless climbs and starry skies in his 1814 poem, "She Walks in Beauty" was a leading romantic author as well as a British Lord?

(buzzer buzzes) That was Lord Byron.

Toss-up.

In October, 2022, four parties in what country signed the Tido Agreement to make the moderate party's Ulf Kristersson its new prime minister?

(buzzer buzzes) Alex.

- United Kingdom.

- [Regina] United Kingdom is incorrect.

Rebound to Delaware Valley.

(buzzer buzzes) - Germany.

- Germany is incorrect.

It is Sweden.

Toss-up.

What office, whose holders Carter Harrison and Anton Cermak were both murdered, was held by two men named Richard Daley and leads an Illinois city?

(buzzer buzzes) Andrea.

- Mayor?

- Is correct, and your bonus, Delaware Valley.

What first and last name is shared by the golfer who won the Masters in 2013 and the star of "Severance" who played Ben Wyatt on "Parks and Recreation"?

- It was Tiger Woods.

(contestants faintly speaking) (buzzer buzzes) - The correct answer is Adam Scott.

Toss-up.

What instrument, which plays a rising C, G, C figure at the start of Also Sprach Zarathustra is the highest standard orchestral brass?

(buzzer buzzes) Andrea, Delaware Valley.

- Trumpet.

- Correct, and your bonus.

- Good job.

- Barack Obama repealed what United States policy implemented in 1994 that allowed people who identify as LGBT to serve in the armed forces if they kept their identity hidden?

- Don't ask, don't tell.

(buzzer buzzes) Don't ask, don't tell.

- This is a bonus for Del Val.

- Don't ask, don't tell.

- Don't ask, don't tell.

- Don't ask, don't tell, Clint in the correct answer for your bonus points.

Toss-up.

In chemistry, what quantity proportional to namesake constants denoted lowercase K is increased by catalyst and quantifies the speed of a reaction?

(buzzer buzzes) Alyssa, Marian Catholic.

- Rate.

- [Regina] Can you be more specific?

- The rate of the reaction.

- Is a correct answer and your bonus, Alyssa.

What term derived from the Arabic for zero refers to a cryptographic system that typically has an output string the same length as the input string?

(contestants speaking faintly) (buzzer buzzes) That is a cipher.

Toss-up.

What battle, which ended Irvin McDowell's invasion of Virginia, named Stonewall Jackson, his nickname, and was the first major.

(buzzer buzzes) Jackson, Delaware Valley.

- Battle of Antietam.

- Antietam is incorrect.

I'll complete the question and rebound to Marian Catholic.

Nickname and was the first major battle of the Civil War.

(buzzer buzzes) Alex.

- Bull Run.

- Bull Run, Alex, is the correct answer for your rebound points.

Toss-up.

What Latin American country is home to the coastal resort towns of Zihuatanejo, Manzanillo?

(buzzer buzzes) - Alex, Marian.

Mexico.

- Mexico, Alex, is the correct answer and your bonus.

Melanie Lynskey and Christina Ricci star on what Showtime series named for the girls' soccer team that is stranded in the wilderness after a plane crash?

(alarm rings) (buzzer buzzes) Alex.

- "Naked and Afraid."

- Is incorrect.

It is "Yellow Jackets" and that is the end of the first half.

Let's update our score.

We have Marian Catholic with 100 points and Delaware Valley with 90 points.

It's a close game.

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 Marian Catholic.

Alex, why don't you start us off and tell us about your favorite subject in school and why?

- It would probably have to be like a social studies just because I enjoy learning about different cultures and religions.

- [Regina] Okay.

Alyssa?

- Mine would probably be psychology because it's interesting, useful and I'm obviously going to use it in my future career plans.

- [Regina] Very good.

Good luck.

Addison?

- Mines would be history since I like reading and like studying about the progression of humanity through the ages.

- [Regina] Very nice.

Angela?

- My favorite is chemistry because I'm becoming a chem major but also it was the first class that challenged me.

- Very good.

Let's move over to our team from Delaware Valley.

Riley, why don't you start us off.

- My favorite would probably be history.

I just find it interesting.

- [Regina] It is.

Jackson.

- My favorite subject would probably be geography.

It's always good to know where you are and where you're going.

- [Regina] It sure is.

Andrea.

- I love science 'cause it meets for interesting like writing stories, like sci-fi.

- [Regina] Very good.

Clint.

- My favorite subject's math because I like finding about how things are made in our society and I like going to competitions.

- Okay, very good.

Great to meet all of you.

Good luck.

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

What number is the number of radians in 180 degrees, (buzzer buzzes) the area.

Clint, Delaware Valley.

- One.

- One is incorrect.

I'll complete the question and rebound to Marian Catholic.

The area of a circle with radius one and the ratio of a circle circumference to diameter.

- Just say something.

(contestants speaking faintly) (buzzer buzzes) - The answer is pi.

Toss-up.

What man included the section "Apropos of the Wet Snow" in his "Notes from Underground" and depicted the ax murderer, Raskolnikov, in "Crime and Punishment"?

(buzzer buzzes) Riley.

- Dostoevsky.

- Dostoevsky is the correct answer, Riley, and your bonus, Delaware Valley.

In ancient Greek theater what general term referred to groups of performers who collectively commented on the action of a play?

- Narrator.

- Narrator?

- No it's not, it's group.

- Say it.

(buzzer buzzes) - The narrators.

- Narrators is incorrect.

It is the chorus.

- Toss-up.

What Pharaoh who married Nefertiti and is commemorated at Abu Simbel fought the Hittites at the Battle of Kadesh and is known as The Great?

(buzzer buzzes) - Alex, Marian Catholic.

- Uh.

Xerxes.

- Xerxes is incorrect.

Rebound to Delaware Valley.

(buzzer buzzes) Andrea?

- Nefertiti.

- Nefertiti is incorrect.

It is Ramesses II.

Toss-up.

What constant multiplied by temperature in the Nernst equation and equal to 8.314 Joules per mole-Kelvin is the R in n R T in a namesake law?

(buzzer buzzes) That is the ideal gas constant.

Toss-up.

Federalist No.

51 and Montesquieu's "The Spirit of the Laws" promote what three word system to ensure that each branch of government.

(buzzer buzzes) Riley.

- Checks and balances.

- Checks and balances, Riley, is the correct answer and your bonus, Delaware Valley.

What 2021 movie starring Chlo ë Grace Moretz centers on the planning of a wedding made harder by the rivalry between the title cartoon "Carrot and Mouse"?

(buzzer buzzes) Andrea.

- "Tom and Jerry" - "Tom and Jerry" is correct answer.

Toss-up.

What team won Super Bowl XLI over the Chicago Bears under coach, Tony Dungy, led by wide receiver, Marvin Harrison, (buzzer buzzes) and Clint, Delaware Valley.

- Indianapolis Colts.

- Is correct answer, Clint and your bonus.

In the Bible when Peter and Andrew met Jesus they were working in what trade?

(buzzer buzzes) Jackson.

- Fishing.

- Fishing is correct answer.

Toss-up.

What 6 carbon acid is produced from acetyl CoA and oxaloacetate in the first step of a biochemical pathway it sometimes names the Krebs cycle?

(buzzer buzzes) Andrea.

- What is poison?

- [Regina] Poison is incorrect.

Rebound to Marian Catholic.

(buzzer buzzes) Alex.

- Arsenic.

- Arsenic is incorrect.

It is citric acid.

Toss-up.

What Englishmen imprisoned with Lord Cobham over the Main Plot, secretly married Elizabeth Throckmorton and established the lost colony of Roanoke?

(buzzer buzzes) Andrea.

- John Adams.

- I'm sorry?

- John Adams.

- John Adams is incorrect.

Rebound to Marian Catholic.

(buzzer buzzes) Alex.

- John Smith.

- Is incorrect.

It is Sir Walter Raleigh.

That is the end of the third quarter and another lightning round.

(lightening buzzes) This time Marian Catholic will pick first.

Your categories are, also a bird or 1999.

Time begins when I finish reading the first question.

(buzzer buzzes) - 1999.

- 1999.

Answer the following about events of the year 1999.

Potential computer bug that caused panic ahead of the new millennium.

(buzzer buzzes) Aly.

- Y2K.

- Correct US President acquitted in an impeachment trial.

(buzzer buzzes) Alex.

- Bill Clinton.

- Correct.

NBA team that won their first title with Tim Duncan and Gregg Popovich.

(buzzer buzzes) Alex.

- Bulls.

- Spurs.

Russian president who resigned and was replaced.

(buzzer buzzes) - Alex.

- Boris Yeltsin.

- Correct.

- [Regina] Country led from Dili that voted for independence from Indonesia.

(buzzer buzzes) - Alex.

- Singapore.

- [Regina] East Timor.

The first film in the Star Wars prequel trilogy was released.

(buzzer buzzes) - Phantom Menace.

- Correct.

Multi-state currency launched by the EU.

(buzzer buzzes) Alex.

- The euro.

- [Regina] Euro is correct.

Later disqualified cyclist who won the Tour de France.

(buzzer buzzes) Alex.

- Lance Armstrong.

- [Regina] Correct.

Country where Pervez Musharraf ousted Nawaz Sharif in a coupe.

(buzzer buzzes) Alex.

- Afghanistan.

- [Regina] Pakistan.

Canada created this territory led from Iqaluit.

- Pass.

(buzzer buzzes) - Pass.

- Nunavut.

Moving over to our team from Delaware Valley.

Your category is also a bird.

Give these words that are also types of birds.

To avoid observation by moving downwards quickly.

(buzzer buzzes) Riley.

- Duck.

- [Regina] Correct.

To pass food or drink through the throat.

(buzzer buzzes) Andrea.

- Swallow.

- [Regina] Correct.

Machine used to lift heavy objects.

(buzzer buzzes) Riley.

- Crane.

- [Regina] Correct.

Moving quickly, also the surname of the author of "Gulliver's Travels."

Riley.

- Swift.

- [Regina] Correct.

A silly person, also a clock invented in the Black Forest region.

(buzzer buzzes) Andrea.

- Cuckoo.

- [Regina] Correct.

To repeat the words of another without thought.

(buzzer buzzes) Andrea.

- Mimic.

- [Regina] Parrot.

Member of the Catholic church who elects a new pope.

(buzzer buzzes) Jackson.

- Cardinal.

- Correct.

Greenish blue color.

Also a Weezer album of cover songs.

(buzzer buzzes) Riley.

- Teal.

- [Regina] Correct.

A score of three under par for a hole in golf.

(buzzer buzzes) Riley.

- Albatross.

- Correct.

Infection of the month caused by the fungus Candida albicans.

(buzzer buzzes) - Pass.

- Thrush.

And that's the end of the lightning round.

So let's update our current score.

We have Marian Catholic with 130 points and Delaware Valley with 170 points.

We will now begin the last segment of the game with this toss-up question.

In what state which will be represented by Maxwell Frost, the first Gen Z member of Congress, did Val Demings lose a 2022 Senate race to Marco Rubio?

(buzzer buzzes) Riley.

- Florida.

- Florida, Riley is correct answer and your bonus, Delaware Valley.

In an annual event, Sparta's citizens declared war upon what subjugated surf-like social class that vastly outnumbered three Spartans?

- Plebes.

(contestants faintly whispering) (buzzer buzzes) - Jackson.

- Plebes.

- Plebes is incorrect.

It is helots.

Toss-up.

What adjective names the group of algae most closely related to plants and also.

(buzzer buzzes) Alyssa.

- Green.

- Green, Alyssa, is correct answer and your bonus.

What pig who is rescued shortly after birth by Fern Arable and sometimes helped by Templeton the rat is befriended by a spider in "Charlotte's Web"?

(buzzer buzzes) - Wilbur.

- Wilbur is correct answer for your bonus points.

Toss-up.

What man who founded the River Rouge plant that was targeted by UAW strikes pioneered the assembly line to produce the model.

(buzzer buzzes) Andrea, Delaware Valley.

- Henry Ford.

- Henry Ford's correct answer and your bonus.

The Lansdowne portrait of George Washington and several other iconic portraits of early United States Presidents were painted by what artist?

(contestants faintly whispering) (buzzer buzzes) - Clint.

- Pablo Picasso.

- Picasso is incorrect.

It is Gilbert Stuart.

Toss-up.

What philosopher discussed a kingdom of darkness in a book that describes life in the state of nature as nasty, brutish and short, titled "Leviathan"?

(buzzer buzzes) Andrea.

- Plato.

- [Regina] Plato's incorrect, rebound to Marian Catholic.

(buzzer buzzes) Alex.

- Montesquieu.

- Montesquieu is incorrect.

It is Hobbes.

Toss-up.

What group, the target of bills such as North Carolina's 2016 law HB2, has faced discrimination via bathroom bills and exclusion.

(buzzer buzzes) Riley.

- Transgender people.

- Is the correct answer Riley and your bonus.

In 1848, San Francisco became home to the first example of what neighborhoods which experienced growth in the 1940s thanks to the Magnuson Act?

(contestants faintly whispering) (buzzer buzzes) - Riley.

- Boomtowns.

- Boomtown is incorrect.

It is Chinatowns.

Toss-up.

What quantity has a proper form measured along a world line dilates at relativistic speeds and forms a four-dimensional physics construct with space?

(buzzer buzzes) Andrea.

- Time.

- I'm sorry?

- Time.

Time is correct answer and your bonus.

What queen of Carthage died by suicide after she was left by Aeneas?

- Is it Cleopatra?

- No.

(buzzer buzzes) - Cleopatra.

- Is incorrect.

It is Dido.

Toss-up.

What poet described sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells and women who come and go talking of Michelangelo in "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"?

(buzzer buzzes) That was T.S.

Eliot.

Toss-up.

What character, who in a 2022 game, can equip the Stonewall Shield along with the Leviathan Axe is the father of Atreus?

(buzzer buzzes) Clint.

- Kratos.

- Kratos is correct answer and your bonus.

What philosopher, who titled a 13th century tract after his opposition to Averroes's concept of unity of the intellect, wrote the "Summa Theologica"?

(buzzer buzzes) (contestants faintly whispering) - Luther.

(buzzer buzzes) - Luther.

- Is incorrect.

It is St. Thomas Aquinas and that's the end of the game.

Our final score is Marian Catholic 145 points and Delaware Valley 220 points.

Congratulations Delaware Valley.

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 thank you for watching.

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