(upbeat lively music) (whistle blows) - Welcome to the 17th season of WVIAs 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 Southern Columbia versus Mount Carmel.

Representing Southern Columbia is Ethan Rush, Isaac Carter, Landon Ferrera, their Captain, Gavin Krebs, and their alternates are Aiden Corrigan and Austin Hill.

Their advisor is Leanne Wroten.

Representing Mount Carmel is Braden Brinkesh, Alexys O'Donnell, Morgan Colletta, and their captain Jack Robert, and their advisors are Aaron Domanski and Chris Cunningham.

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 toss-up 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 Dutch Explorer, the first European to visit Fiji, New Zealand, and an island state of Australia, which was later named after him?

(buzzer dinging) - [Regina] Jack?

- Marco Polo [Regina] I'm sorry?

- Marco Polo?

- [Regina] Marco Polo's incorrect, Jack, and rebound to Southern Columbia, five seconds.

(buzzer dinging) - [Regina] Isaac?

- New Zealand?

- Is incorrect, it is Abel Tasman.

Toss-up.

What Greek letter which denotes variations in the input when combined-- - Delta - [Regina] I'm sorry?

- Delta.

Delta's is the correct answer Jack, and your bonus, Mount Carmel.

In September, 2022.

What country granted citizenship to whistleblower Edward Snowden who fled the United States in 2013?

(buzzer dinging) - Sweden?

- Sweden is incorrect.

It is Russia.

Toss up.

What international airport whose former name Orchard Field, led to its IATA code of ORD is busier than Midway, the other airport that serves Chicago?

(buzzer dinging) - [Regina] Jack, Mount Carmel.

Need an answer.

- JFK.

- [Regina] Is incorrect.

Rebound to Southern Columbia.

(buzzer dinging) - [Regina] Gavin?

- O'Hare.

- O'Hare is correct answer for your rebound points.

Toss up.

In October 2022, what South American country exchanged imprisoned American oil executives for family members of its embattled President Nicolas Maduro.

(buzzer dinging) - Columbia.

- [Regina] Columbia's incorrect rebound to Southern Columbia.

(buzzer dinging) - [Regina] Isaac?

- Venezuela Venezuela's correct answer for your rebound points.

Toss up.

What class of mollusks which includes the cuttlefish and nautilus, uses jet propulsion and ink sacks for defense and contains squids and octopuses.

(timer ringing) They are cephalopods.

Toss up.

What day of the week is known by French as Samedi, is when most college football games are played?

(buzzer dinging) - Saturday?

Saturday Jack from Mount Carmel's correct answer and your bonus.

Impression blue iron is bonded to what taxonomic polyatomic and ion with molecular formula CN- (buzzer dinging) - Nickel.

- [Regina] I'm sorry.

- Nickel.

- Nickel is incorrect.

It is cyanide.

Toss up.

In what state, in October 2022, did a jury award over 900 million in damages for defamation related to-- (buzzer dinging) - Virginia - [Regina] Virginia's incorrect.

I'll complete the question in rebound to Southern Columbia, 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary.

(buzzer dinging) - [Regina] Isaac?

- Connecticut.

- [Regina] Connecticut is correct answer for your rebound points.

Toss up.

What type of animal is Moses in animal farm?

Huginn and Muninn and Nor Smith and a bird- Landon.

- Donkey.

Donkey is incorrect.

I'll complete the question in rebound to Mount Carmel and a bird that repeats- Alexys.

- A raven.

- A Raven is correct answer for your rebound points.

Alexys, toss up.

What Israeli leaders premiership saw the war of War of Attrition end the Munich Olympics massacre and the Yom Kippur War before her 1974 resignation.

(timer ringing) That was Golda Meir.

Toss up.

What devices of which rheostats and potentiometers are variable types, are represented on circuit diagrams by zigzag lines and opposed current flow.

(buzzer dinging) - [Regina] Isaac.

- Resistors.

- [Regina] Resistors is correct answer and your bonus.

What voting method used in New York City's mayoral primaries in 2021 and Alaska's special election in 2022 ensures the winner has majority support?

(buzzer dinging) - [Regina] Gavin?

- Popular.

- Popular, is incorrect.

It is ranked choice.

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

(lightening crackles) 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.

Mount Carmel has won the coin toss and will pick first.

Your categories are, female authors or landlocked countries.

The time begins when I finish reading the first question.

- We'll take countries.

- Landlocked countries.

What landlocked country has its capital At Vienna?

(buzzer dinging) - Pass - Austria shares Lake Titi Kaka with neighboring Peru.

(buzzer dinging) - Chile - [Regina] Bolivia.

Contains the northern part of the Gobi desert.

(buzzer dinging) - Mongolia - [Regina] Correct.

Is divided into 26 cantons.

(buzzer dinging) - Croatia - Switzerland.

Is entirely surrounded by South Africa.

(buzzer dinging) - Tanzania - Thimphu is in the Himalayas and measures gross national happiness.

(buzzer dinging) - Tibet - [Regina] - Bhutan, is separated from Thailand by the Mekong River.

(buzzer dinging) - Malaysia.

- [Regina] - Laos, is the world's most populous landlock nation and borders Eritrea (buzzer dinging) - Pass.

- Ethiopia, is the largest landlock nation in the world and is home to Al Malti (buzzer dinging) - Pass.

- Kazakhstan, has a breakaway state called-- (alarm beep) and that's the end for Mount Carmel.

Moving over to our team from Southern Columbia your category is female authors, name these women who wrote these literary works.

- "Beloved."

(buzzer dinging) - Pass.

- [Regina] Morrison.

"Murder on the Orient Express" (buzzer dinging) - Pass.

- Agatha Christie.

"I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.

(buzzer dinging) - Pass - [Regina] Maya Angelou.

"Sense and Sensibility" (buzzer dinging) - Jane Austen - [Regina] Correct, "The color.

Purple" (buzzer dinging) - Pass.

- Alice Walker.

"The House on Mango Street."

(buzzer dinging) - Pass - Sandra Cisneros.

"The Joy Luck Club."

(buzzer dinging) - Pass - Amy Tan, "The Hate U Give."

(buzzer dinging) - Pass.

- Angie Thomas.

Chile author of "The House of the Spirits."

(buzzer dinging) - Pass.

- [Regina] Isabel Allende.

Science fiction author, of "The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms" and of "The Inheritance Trilogy."

(buzzer dinging) - Pass - Jemisin.

That's the end of the lightning round.

So let's update our current score.

We have Southern Columbia with 45 points and Mount Carmel with 35 points.

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

What novel in which a futuristic slang called Nadsat is spoken by violent teenage droogs such as the narrator Alex was written by Anthony Burgess.

(buzzer dinging) - [Regina] Jack.

- "Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy."

- Is incorrect, rebound to Southern Columbia.

(timer ringing) It is "A Clockwork Orange".

Tessa, what character, leads a No Girls Allow Club called G.R.O.S.S.

was created by cartoonist Bill Watersson and has a stuffed tiger named Hobbes.

(buzzer dinging) - [Regina] Alexys.

- Thomas.

- [Regina] Thomas is incorrect, rebound to Southern Columbia.

(buzzer dinging) - [Regina] Isaac.

- Jane - Is incorrect.

It is Calvin.

Toss up.

What element is bonded to oxygen in Diatomaceous Earth, the skeletons of glass sponges the most common kind of sand and the mineral quartz.

(buzzer dinging) - [Regina] Alexys.

- Carbon.

- [Regina] carbon is incorrect.

Rebound to Southern Columbia.

(buzzer dinging) - [Regina] Landon.

- Sodium.

- Sodium is incorrect.

It is silicon.

Toss up.

What child of Drogo and Primula who has the finger bitten off in Mount Doom is a Hobbit who takes the one ring to Mortar in the Lord of the-- (buzzer dinging) - Frodo.

- [Regina] Frodo.

Gavin is correct answer and your bonus Southern Columbia.

Pencil, paper, ready.

What is the smallest four digit number that is a multiple of nine?

(timer alarm) - Is 1008.

Toss up.

What final British Monarch from the House of Hanover, was called the grandmother of Europe was married to Prince Albert and became Queen in 1830- (buzzer dinging) - [Regina] Alexys, Mount Carmel.

- Queen Victoria.

- Victoria is correct answer and your bonus.

What British landscape painters six footers, set near the River Stour include "The Lock" and "The Hay Wain."

(buzzer dinging) Jack.

Okay, the correct answer is Constable.

Toss up.

What God whose four sons, protected the four canopic jars won a contest for dominance over his uncle Seth and is the falcon- Jack, Mount Carmel.

- Horus - Horus, Jack's correct answer and your bonus.

To delay her execution, what woman repeatedly stops at frame story of the Arabian Knights.

(buzzer dinging) - Pass.

- Okay, the correct answer is Scheherazade.

Toss up.

What objects are graded on the four C's of color, cut, clarity and carats are-- Jack Mount Carmel.

- Gemstones.

- [Regina] Gemstones is incorrect.

Rebound to Southern Columbia.

I'll complete the question, are an allotrope of carbon and are the hardest known gemstones.

(buzzer dinging) Landon.

- Diamonds - Diamonds is a correct answer for your rebound points.

Toss up.

What ethnicity whose branches included The Salian's was united under Clovis the Merovingian and lends its name to a major country of Western Europe.

(buzzer dinging) - Netherlands.

- [Regina] I'm sorry.

- Netherlands.

- [Regina] Netherlands is incorrect.

Rebound to Southern Columbia.

- Italy .

- Italy is incorrect.

It is Frank's.

That's the end of the first half.

So let's update our current score.

We have Southern Columbia with 65 points and Mount Carmel with 55 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 Southern Columbia.

Ethan, why don't you start us off and tell everybody about your future plans.

- I'm hoping to either pursue something in finance or engineering and I'm hoping to either run in college or if I can't make it, be in the marching band.

- [Regina] Good for you.

Good luck.

Isaac.

- I want to go to the United States Military Academy and major in life sciences and become a combat medic.

- [Regina] - Wow.

Good luck.

Landon.

- I want to major in aerospace engineering at the United States Air Force Academy.

- [Regina] Okay, Gavin.

- I'd like to major in engineering or business at some college.

Somewhere.

Okay.

Moving over to our team from Mount Carmel.

Brayden, why don't you start us off.

- I would like to pursue a career in civil engineering.

- [Regina] Good.

Alexys.

- I wanna get my PhD in archeology.

- [Regina] Everyone has high hopes.

Good.

Morgan.

- I'd - Like to major in accounting and then become a lawyer.

- [Regina] Okay and Jack, why don't you finish this off.

- I wanna go for cardiothoracic surgery.

- A lot of brilliant minds in the room today.

Good luck to both teams as we begin with this toss up.

In what medical profession, who's first female practitioner was Lucy Hobbs Taylor, do those with DDS degrees perform root canals and fill- Jack, Mount Carmel.

- Dentist - Dentist is correct answer and your bonus.

According to legend Romulus and Remus, the twins who founded Rome were abandoned as babies by the river Tiber where they were suckled by what animal?

(buzzer dinging) Alexys.

- A She Wolff.

- A She-Wolf is a correct answer, Alexys and toss up.

What quantity which is measured by sphygmomanometer is a vital sign reported as a ratio of systolic (buzzer dinging) - Blood pressure.

- Blood pressure, Jack is correct answer, and your bonus Mount Carmel.

What si prefix which is based on the Greek word for five represents a factor of 10 to the 15th power.

(buzzer dinging) - Pico meter.

- Pico is incorrect is Peta.

Toss up.

What Psychologist sent packages to Boston in the small world experiment and told subjects to give fake electric shocks to test obedience to authority?

(buzzer dinging) Jack.

- Cannon Briggs - Is incorrect.

Rebound to Southern Columbia.

That was Stanley Milgram.

Toss up.

What ruler whose violent conquest of the Kingdom of Kalinga led him to convert to Buddhism led the Maurya Empire in India and was called "The Great."

(buzzer dinging) Alexys.

- Alexander.

- Alexander is incorrect.

Rebound to Southern Columbia, Isaac.

- Khan.

- Khan is incorrect.

It is Ashoka.

Toss up.

What playwright who wrote the song "Mad Dogs" and "Englishmen" is known for his witty upper class comedies such as "Private Lives" and "Blithe Spirit" (timer ringing) - That is Coward.

Toss up.

What English singer co-wrote "Nikita" with Bernie Taupin who also co-wrote his hits "Saturday Nights All Right For Fighting " Alexys, Mount Carmel.

- Elton John.

- Elton John is correct answer Alexys and your bonus Mount Carmel.

What 11th century Castilian Knight who conquered Valencia from Yahya al-Qadir is a Spanish national hero named after an Arabic word for Lord.

(buzzer dinging) - Pass.

- Okay, the correct answer is El Cid.

Toss up.

What spaces, who's in the round style is also called arena.

Also come in a traditional proscenium layout and are the playing spaces used by actors.

(buzzer dinging) Isaac, Southern Columbia - Auditorium.

- [Regina] Auditorium is incorrect.

Rebound to Mount Carmel.

(buzzer dinging) Jack.

- Theater.

- Theater's correct answer for your rebound points.

Toss up.

What river whose tributaries include The Ubangi was explored by Henry Stanley and flows past Kinshasa the capital of its namesake African country.

(timer alarams) That's the Congo River.

Tassa, what author wrote about Adso who helped the medieval fryer William of Baskerville to solve murders in the 1980 Italian novel "The Name of the Rose."

(timer dings) That was Umberto Echo.

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

(lightening crackles) This time Southern Columbia will choose first.

Your categories are NFL positions or Thomas'.

Time begins when I finish reading the first question.

- NFL positions.

- NFL positions, given an NFL player identify his position as quarterback, running back, wide receiver or tight end.

Patrick Mahomes.

(buzzer dinging) - Quarterback.

- Correct.

Derek Henry (buzzer dinging) - Running back.

- Correct.

Delvin Cook.

(buzzer dinging) - Wide receiver.

- [Regina] Running back.

Cooper Cup (buzzer dinging) - Wide receiver.

- [Regina] Correct.

Justin Herbert.

(buzzer dinging) - Quarterback.

- [Regina] - Correct.

Stefon Diggs (buzzer dinging) - Wide receiver - [Regina] - Correct.

George Kittle.

(buzzer dinging) - Tight end - [Regina] Correct.

Nick Chubb.

(buzzer dinging) - Running back - [Regina] Correct.

Russell Wilson.

(buzzer dinging) - Quarterback - [Regina] - Correct.

Darren Waller.

(buzzer dinging) - Tight end - [Regina] - Correct.

Moving over to our team from Mount Carmel your category is Thomas'.

Identify these people with a first name Thomas, Tom, or Tommy.

Philosopher who wrote Leviathan (buzzer dinging) - Pass - Hobbs.

Inventor of the phonograph and incandescent light bulb.

(buzzer dinging) - Edison.

- [Regina] Correct.

Author of the Declaration of Independence.

(buzzer dinging) - Jefferson.

- [Regina] Correct.

British polymath who conducted the double slit experiment.

- Pass.

- [Regina] Young.

English novelist of "Jude the obscure" (buzzer dinging) - Pass.

- [Regina] Hardy.

Current Secretary of Agriculture.

(buzzer dinging) - Pass.

- [Regina] Tom Vilsack.

A actor who starred in a remake of the Mummy and played Ethan Hunt.

(buzzer dinging) - Hiddleson - [Regina] Cruz.

Philosopher who wrote "Suma Theologica" (buzzer dinging) - Pass.

- St. Thomas Aquinas.

19th century scientist nicknamed Darwin's Bulldog (buzzer dinging) - Pass.

- [Regina] Huxley.

Archbishop of Canterbury murdered in 1170.

(buzzer dinging) - Bassett - Beckett.

That's the end of the lightning round.

So let's take a look at our score.

We have Southern Columbia with 110 points and Mount Carmel with 110 points.

It's all tied up.

We'll now begin the last segment of the game with this toss up question.

Pencil, paper, ready.

What is the maximum whole number of seven inch long pieces of wood that can be cut from a five foot long board?

(buzzer dinging) Alexys, Mount Carmel.

- 35.

- 35 is incorrect rebound to Southern Columbia.

(buzzer dinging) - Seven.

- Seven is incorrect.

It is eight.

Toss up.

What government in which Judah P Benjamin served as Secretary of State was led by Alexander Stevens and President Jefferson Davis from Richmond.

(buzzer dinging) Jack.

- United States.

- United States is incorrect rebound to Southern Columbia.

(buzzer dinging) Isaac.

- Virginia.

- Virginia is incorrect it is Confederacy.

Toss up.

What disease which the JYNNEOS vaccine targets by using vaccine of viruses spread during a summer 2022 outbreak and is related-- Jack Mount Carmel.

- Covid - Is incorrect, rebound of Southern Columbia, related to smallpox.

(buzzer dinging) Gavin.

- Monkeypox.

- Monkey Pox is a correct answer for your rebound points.

Toss up.

What quantity which can be lowered by creating a eutectic mixture by adding salt to water is the temperature at which a solid becomes a liquid.

(buzzer dinging) Ethan, Southern Columbia.

- Melting point.

- Melting points, correct answer and your bonus.

A trigonometric identity states that the square of what function of X equals one plus the square of the tangent of x .

(buzzer dinging) Gavin.

- C tan.

- C tan is correct answer for your bonus points.

Toss up.

What battle which began with the code signal.

Tora Tora Tora sank the U.S.S.

Arizona and was a sneak attack by Japan on-- (buzzer dinging) - Pearl Harbor.

- Pearl Harbor, Gavin's correct answer, and your bonus Southern Columbia.

Trade arriving in China in the early 1800's was confined to what Port City on the Pearl River that lends its name to the main language in Hong Kong.

(buzzer dinging) - Mandarin.

- Mandarin is incorrect.

It is Canton.

Toss up.

What present day country contains the Al-Khazneh temple in Nabataean city of Petra, which lies about 140 miles from its capital Amman.

(buzzer dinging) - Syria - Syria is incorrect Jack.

Rebound to Southern Columbia.

(buzzer dinging) - Isaac.

- Ohman.

- Ohman is incorrect.

It is Jordan.

Toss up.

Pencil, paper ready.

What is the prime factorization of 200 given that 200 is equal to 2 times 10 times 10.

(buzzer dinging) Landon, Southern Columbia.

- 1, 2, 5, 20, 10, 200.

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Mount Carmel.

(timer ringing) The correct answer is 2 ,2, 2, 5, and 5.

Toss up.

Ludwig van Beethoven's seventh symphony is in which major key, the relative major of F sharp minor that has three sharps in its key signature.

(buzzer dinging) - C sharp - [Regina] C is incorrect.

Rebound to Southern Columbia.

(buzzer dinging) - D. - [Regina] D is incorrect.

It is A.

And that is the end of the game.

Let's take a look at our score.

We have Mount Carmel with 110 points and Southern Columbia with 145 points.

Congratulations Southern Columbia.

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.

(upbeat music)