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(whistle trilling) (energetic music) - Welcome to this 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.

Tonight's match features Mountain View versus Valley View.

Representing Mountain View are Jordan Jagger, Dazlyn Sobol, Reagan Bishop Russo and Vivian Sedlak.

Their alternate is Aubrey Sanders, and their advisor is Stephanie Kyle.

Representing Valley View are Jagger Roe, Peter Neshkov, Addison Daiute and Anthony Cotillo.

Their alternate is Molly Carter, and their advisor is Cindy Cerminaro.

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 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'll be given the toss-up points but will not receive a bonus question.

Well, let's get started with this toss-up question.

What art form mastered, by John Y Naka, makes use of Akadama clay, small Hasami shears, and typically shallow pots to cultivate, (buzzer beeping) Jagger, Valley View.

- Origami?

- Is incorrect.

I'll finish the question and rebound to Mountain View.

And typically shallow pots to cultivate miniature trees.

(buzzer beeping) - Bonsai?

- Bonsai is correct for your rebound points, Mountain View, as we go to our next toss-up question.

What figure, who was punished for depicting Zeus's sexual crimes on a tapestry, lost a contest to Athena, and was subsequently turned into a spider?

(buzzer beeping) Vivian, Mountain View.

- Ariadne?

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Valley View.

(buzzer beeping) You were very close.

We're looking for Arachne, Arachne.

Here's our next toss-up question.

What poem noting, "The port is near.

"The bell's I hear the people all exalting," is an elegy by Walt Whitman that likens Abraham Lincoln to a Navy leader?

(buzzer beeping) Vivian, Mountain View.

- "Oh Captain, My Captain."

- That is correct, and here's your bonus question.

"Skunk Hour" is a poem by what 20th century American author who wrote about a statue of Robert Gould Shaw in his poem, "For the Union Dead?"

(buzzer beeping) - No answer.

- Okay, that's Robert Lowell.

Here's our next toss up question.

What scientist, who died from aplastic anemia in 1934, co-discovered polonium amid work on radioactivity, that made her the first female Nobel winner?

Vivian, Mountain View.

- Marie Curie?

- Is correct, and your bonus now.

Over 7 million World War II veterans use the education benefits offered by what 1944 law designed to support returning service members?

(buzzer beeping) - The veterans of foreign wars.

- No, we're looking for the GI Bill.

That was the GI Bill.

Here's our next toss-up.

What man, whose daughter, Anna, feuded over child psychology with Melanie Klein, advanced the concept of the superego, (buzzer beeping) and founded, Vivian, Mountain View?

- Sigmund Freud?

- Is correct, and your bonus question now.

What god had a priestess known as The God's Wife was worshiped with his wife Moot in thieves, and was often syncretized with the sun god, Ra?

(buzzer beeping) - Toth.

- Nope, we're looking for Amun, Amun.

Okay, here's our next toss-up question.

What food, with Poi Mochi and Chocolate Headlight varieties, is a deep fried treat often in the shape of a Taurus that are sold by Krispy Kreme?

(buzzer beeping) Vivian, Mountain View.

- A donut.

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

What novel by Esther Forbes, set during the Revolutionary War, follows a young man whose hand is mangled while working as a silversmith's apprentice?

(buzzer beeping) - No answer.

- That is Johnny Tremaine.

Okay guys, here's your next toss-up.

What country, which has been dominated by the People's Action Party since the 1959 election of Lee Kwan Yu, is a city state on the Malay Peninsula?

(buzzer beeping) Peter, Valley View?

- Taiwan?

- Is incorrect, rebound to Mountain View.

(buzzer beeping) The answer we were looking for was Singapore.

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.

Valley View has won the coin toss and will pick first.

Your categories are elements of Shakespearean drama, or Babylon.

- Shakespeare.

(buzzer beeping) Elements of Shakespearean drama.

- Elements of Shakespearean drama it is, and your time begins when I finish reading the first question.

Answer the following about the plays of William Shakespeare.

Term he uses for jesters.

(buzzer beeping) - Clowns.

- Yes, either century Shakespeare wrote in.

(buzzer beeping) - Medieval?

- I'm sorry?

- Medieval.

- I need the number, what century?

- 1800s.

- Is incorrect, 16th or 17th century.

Third main genre of his plays, alongside comedy and history.

(buzzer beeping) - Tragedy?

- [Paul] Yes.

A monologue spoken by a character alone on stage.

(buzzer beeping) - Soliloquy?

- [Paul] Yes.

Five foot poetic meter of most of his verse.

(buzzer beeping) - Pass.

- [Paul] That's iambic pentameter.

Number of acts in each of his plays.

(buzzer beeping) - Two.

- Three?

- [Paul] Five.

Round London Theater he helped build.

(buzzer beeping) - The globe?

- Yes.

Term for non-poetic, non-verse dialogue.

(buzzer beeping) - Stage directions?

- [Paul] Prose.

His only three-part play.

(buzzer beeping) - "Hamlet?"

- Nope, we're looking for "Henry the Sixth."

Alright, Valley View, that's a tough topic, but you did a good job on that.

Mountain View, we're coming your way.

Your remaining category will be Babylon.

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

Answer the following about Babylon and the Babylonian empires.

Ancient wonder in Babylon.

(buzzer beeping) - The Hanging Gardens?

- [Paul] Yes.

Present day country home to its ruins.

(buzzer beeping) - Rome.

- [Paul] Iraq.

Empire that conquered Babylon under Cyrus the Great.

(buzzer beeping) - Pass.

- That's Persia.

King who decreed a namesake Babylonian law code.

(buzzer beeping) - Pass.

- That's Hammurabi.

Wedge mark writing system used in Babylon.

(buzzer beeping) - Cuneiform.

- Yes.

Macedonian conqueror who died in Babylon in 323BC.

(buzzer beeping) - Genghis Kahn?

- Alexander the Great.

Group exiled in the Babylonian captivity.

(buzzer beeping) - Pass.

- That's the Jewish people.

Love goddess who named a blue gate in Babylon.

(buzzer beeping) - Venus.

- Ishtar.

King who consulted the prophet, Daniel.

(buzzer beeping) - Ran outta time there, guys.

That was Nebuchadnezzar the Second.

Well, that's going to do it for the first lightning round, and after that, we currently have Mountain View in the lead over Valley View, 60 to 20, as we move into the second quarter with this toss-up question.

A symphysis is one type of what structures that become inflamed in arthritis, have a ball and socket type, and include the shoulder and, Vivian, Mountain View?

- Joints?

- Is correct, and here's your bonus.

What electrical circuit components, which have a parallel plate type, store charge and electric potential energy?

(buzzer beeping) - An outlet?

- No, that is capacitor, capacitor.

Here's our next toss-up question.

What poem, which vows will take a cup of kindness yet, was set down in 1788 by Robert Burns in Scott's dialect, and is sung at midnight on New Year's?

(buzzer beeping) That poem is "Auld Lang Syne."

All right, here's our next toss-up question.

What African city, whose Anfa Hotel hosted a 1943 allied conference, is the setting of a 1942 film starring Humphrey Bogart, and is a port in Morocco?

(buzzer beeping) Peter, Valley View.

- No.

- No answer?

- I clicked on an accidental, I'm sorry.

- Okay, rebound to Mountain View.

(buzzer beeping) - Casablanca?

- Is correct for your rebound points, Mountain View.

As we go to our next toss-up question, what primary founder of Umkhonto weSizwe was imprisoned for 27 years on Robin Island, but then became the first Black president of South Africa?

(buzzer beeping) Vivian, Mountain View, - Nelson Mandela?

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

In chemistry, many metals have what property of being able to compress into thin sheets, which somewhat overlaps with the trait of ductility?

(buzzer beeping) - Malleable?

- Is correct for your bonus points, Mountain View, as we turn to our next toss-up, and get out your pencils and papers.

What is the least common multiple of 11 and 12, given their difference of one, means the answer is simply their product?

(buzzer beeping) Jagger, Valley View.

- 132.

- Is correct, and here comes your bonus question.

What Soviet author described brutal labor camps in his nonfiction series, "The Gulag Archipelago," and his novella, "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich?"

(buzzer beeping) - Ivan Denisovich?

- No, we're looking for Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

Here's our next toss-up question.

What play, in which the word, absent, is preferred to dead by Estelle, depicts three souls who are locked in a room in hell, and is by Jean-Paul Sartre?

(buzzer beeping) That is "No Exit."

Okay guys, here's your next toss-up.

What 16th century ruler, who patronized the nine gems artists, was known for his religious tolerance during his long reign as a great mogul emperor?

(buzzer beeping) Peter, Valley View.

- Genghis Khan.

- Is incorrect, rebound Mountain View.

(buzzer beeping) - Constantine?

- Nope, looking for Akbar the Great.

All right, let's move on to our next toss-up.

What film character, voiced by Jenna Davis, is copied to create the villain, Amelia, and was built by Gemma to be her daughter's companion robot doll?

(buzzer beeping) Vivian, Mountain View.

- "Megan."

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

What professor of history at Harvard received a posthumous Pulitzer Prize in 1919 for a memoir about his education?

(buzzer beeping) (buzzer beeping) That is Henry Adams.

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 Mountain View, and Jordan, I'll come to you first.

If you had to eat one food for the rest of your life, what would it be, and why?

- Chocolate, because I love chocolate.

- [Paul] Who doesn't, man?

Good answer.

Jordan.

Dazlyn?

- Chocolate, because I love chocolate.

- [Paul] All right, Reagan?

- Chocolate, because I love chocolate.

- [Paul] All right, and Vivian?

- Chocolate, because I love chocolate.

- Okay, insulin shots all around for Mountain View.

Thanks guys, good luck the rest of the way.

Valley View coming over to you.

Jagger, if you had to eat a food for the rest of your life, what would it be and why?

- Hot dogs.

I love hot dogs.

- [Paul] Thanks, Jagger.

Peter?

- Hot dogs, 'cause I love hot dogs.

- [Paul] All right, Addison?

- Hot dogs, 'cause I love hot dogs.

- [Paul] Anthony, let me guess.

- Hot dogs, 'cause I love hot dogs.

- We're gonna go ahead and start the third quarter now with, thank you, Valley View.

Very healthy diet here among everybody.

That's good to see.

It was very nice to meet all of you, and we'll go ahead and begin the third quarter now with this toss-up question.

What process names a bath of liquid nitrogen rapidly occurs when a piece of metal work is quenched, and decreases in object's temperature?

(buzzer beeping) Addison, Valley View.

- Rusting?

- Is incorrect, rebound to Mountain View.

(buzzer beeping) - Cooling?

- Cooling is correct for your rebound points, Mountain View, as we turn to our next toss-up question.

What novel, in which a red weed is spread by the tripods of invaders who later succumb to disease, was written by HG Wells about a Martian attack?

(buzzer beeping) Vivian, Mountain View.

- "War of the Worlds?"

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

Little Girl in a Blue Armchair is a painting by what American woman who, after moving to France, frequently depicted mothers with their children?

(buzzer beeping) - No answer.

- Okay, that was Mary Cassatte.

Here's our next toss-up question.

What former Tennessee governor won the Battle of San Jacinto against Mexican forces several weeks before he became the first president of Texas?

(buzzer beeping) That was Samuel Houston.

Here's our next toss-up, and get out your pencils and papers.

What is the slope of a line that is perpendicular to the line defined by the equation, y equals, Anthony, Valley View?

- Four.

- Is incorrect.

I'll finish the question and rebound to Mountain View.

Is perpendicular to the line defined by the equation, Y equals four x plus nine.

(buzzer beeping) - Negative four x plus nine?

- That's incorrect.

We're looking for negative one fourths, or negative 0.25.

All right, let's go on to our next toss-up question.

What defendant was the subject of testimony by Kid Cudi and Cassie Ventura in a case that in July, 2025 acquitted him of most charges of sex abuse?

(buzzer beeping) Reagan, Mountain View.

- Sean Diddy Combs?

- Is correct, and here comes your bonus question.

"Don't Deal with the Devil" is the subtitle of what notoriously difficult 2017 Studio MDHR platformer, (buzzer beeping) whose art... - Cuphead?

- Cuphead is correct for your bonus points, Mountain View, as we go to another toss-up.

What musician, whose wife, Alice, was a member of his classic quartet, was a jazz saxophonist whose albums included "Blue Train" and "A Love Supreme?"

(buzzer beeping) That was John Coltrane, John Coltrane.

Okay, here's our next toss-up.

What author of the Encyclicals, Evangelium Vitae and Veritatis Splendor, served as Archbishop of Krakow in Poland before becoming Pope in 1978?

(buzzer beeping) Vivian, Mountain View.

- Francis?

- Is incorrect, rebound to Valley View.

(buzzer beeping) That Pope was John Paul the Second.

All right, here's our next toss-up.

What man signed a bill repealing the Reedy Creek Improvement Act target targeting Disney and enacted the Don't Say Gay law in his role as Florida's governor?

(buzzer beeping) Vivian, Mountain View.

- Ron DeSantis?

- Is correct, and here's your bonus, and get out your pencils and papers.

In simplified radical form, what product results from multiplying the square root of three by the square root of 21?

(bright music) (buzzer beeping) Vivian?

- Three times the square root of seven?

- Is correct for your bonus points, Mountain View, and that sound that you heard signals the end of the third quarter and another lightning round.

This time, Mountain View will pick first.

Your categories are Nordic words, or yellow.

(buzzer beeping) - We are gonna go with yellow.

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

Give these answers related to the color, yellow.

British band that sang "Yellow Submarine."

(buzzer beeping) - The Beatles?

- [Paul] Yes.

1898 war encouraged by yellow journalism about the USS Maine.

Don't know, you can pass.

(buzzer beeping) - The Spanish American War.

- [Paul] Yes.

Greedy yellow cap wearing rival of Mario.

(buzzer beeping) - Wario.

- [Paul] Yes.

Yellow golden flowers in William Wardsworth's, "I wandered lonely as a cloud."

(buzzer beeping) - Marigolds?

- Daffodils.

Yellow character in the board game, Clue.

(buzzer beeping) - Colonel Mustard?

- [Paul] Yes.

Yellow headwear that names a rebellion against the Han Dynasty.

(buzzer beeping) - Pass.

- [Paul] That's turban.

Yellow-clad member of the X-Men with adamantinum claws.

(buzzer beeping) - Wolverine.

- [Paul] Yes.

Band that released the 2000 song, "Yellow."

(buzzer beeping) - Coldplay.

- Yes.

Country whose 1986 People Power Revolution, or Yellow Revolution, ousted Ferdinand Marcos.

(buzzer beeping) - Pass.

- That's the Philippines.

Fish whose yellowfin variety is used in sashimi.

(buzzer beeping) Ran out of time, that was tuna.

Okay, Mountain View, you did a great job in the lightning round.

Valley View, we're coming over to you, and your remaining category will be hotdogs, I mean, Nordic words.

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

Give these English words that originated in Norse or Scandinavian languages.

Heavy mist.

(buzzer beeping) - Fog.

- [Paul] Yes.

Short rod used for magic spells.

(buzzer beeping) - Wand.

- Wand.

- [Paul] Yes.

Baby goose.

(buzzer beeping) - Duckling, duckling?

- [Paul] Gosling.

Caribou.

(buzzer beeping) - Pass.

- [Paul] Reindeer.

Exceptional detective.

(buzzer beeping) - Pass.

- Sleuth.

Wire-headed kitchen tool used to create, used to aerate liquids.

(buzzer beeping) - Whisk.

- [Paul] Yes.

Dye derived from lichens used in acid base tests.

(buzzer beeping) - Skip.

- [Paul] That's litmus.

Marine mammal with a single spiraling tusk.

(buzzer beeping) - Narwhal.

- [Paul] Yes.

Leftover grit at the bottom of a cup.

(buzzer beeping) - Skip.

- [Paul] Dregs.

Lattice of thin interwoven twigs often used to make furniture.

(buzzer beeping) - Wicker?

- Wicker is correct.

And that's going to do it for our second lightning round.

And after that, we currently have Mountain View in the lead over Valley View.

185 to 55.

As we begin the last segment of the game with this toss-up question.

What events, which can occur in a destructive megathrust variant near subduction zones, are measured by the Richter scale, (buzzer beeping) and occur, Anthony, Valley View?

- Earthquake.

- Is correct, and your bonus now.

What poem, which uses the phrase, fatal engine, to describe a scissor blade, is a mock epic about the theft of Belinda's hair, written by Alexander Pope?

(buzzer beeping) - No answer.

- That's "The Rape of the Lock."

Here's our next toss-up.

What sea contains the Aland Islands, has arms like the Gulf of Bothnia and the Gulf of Finland, and borders Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania?

(buzzer beeping) Peter, Valley View?

- The Baltic Sea?

- Is correct, and your bonus now.

The composer, Johann Strauss Jr., is hailed as the king of what musical form that became a craze in the 19th century?

(buzzer beeping) - Opera.

- No, we are looking for waltz.

Okay, let's move on to our next toss-up question.

What ionic compound is found in the mineral, halite, is dissolved in water to make brines, and is used as seasoning?

(buzzer beeping) Vivian, Mountain View.

- Sodium chloride?

- Is correct, and your bonus now.

What West German chancellor served from 1969 to 1974, during which he sought improved relations with Eastern bloc countries through Ostpolitik?

(buzzer beeping) - Bismarck?

- No, that was Willy Brandt.

Okay, here's our next toss-up.

What battle, which followed the discovery of special order 191 by George McClelland's men, repulsed a confederate invasion of northern Maryland?

(buzzer beeping) - Saratoga.

- [Paul] Jagger, Valley View.

- Saratoga.

- [Paul] Is incorrect, rebound to Mountain View.

(buzzer beeping) - Gettysburg.

- That was the Battle of Antietam.

Okay guys, here's your next toss-up.

What philosopher, who described the state of nature as nasty, brutish and short, argued for an absolute sovereign in his 16... (buzzer beeping) Anthony, Valley View.

- Thomas Hobbes.

- Is correct, and here's your bonus.

What mosque on Jerusalem's Temple Mount is the earliest still surviving work of Islamic architecture?

(buzzer beeping) - No answer.

That is the Dome of the Rock.

Okay, here's your next toss-up.

What Midwestern city, which is home to a streetcar system known as The Hop, as well as Marquette University, is the most populous city in Wisconsin?

(buzzer beeping) Jagger, Valley View.

- Madison?

- Is incorrect, rebound to Mountain View.

(buzzer beeping) - Green Bay?

- Nope, that city is Milwaukee, Milwaukee.

Here's our next toss-up.

What queen, who was implicated in the affair of the diamond necklace, was executed by guillotine in 1793?

(buzzer beeping) Vivian, Mountain View.

- Marie Antoinette?

- Is correct, and your bonus question.

Alex Borstein won two Emmys for playing talent manager, Susie Myerson, on what prime video show, starring Rachel Brosnahan as the title 1950s comedian?

(buzzer beeping) - The Amazing Mrs.

Maisel?

- Is correct for your bonus points, Mountain View, as we go now to a toss-up.

René Laënnec invented what medical device that now utilizes a diaphragm to improve auscultation, which is the practice of detecting the body's internal sounds?

(buzzer beeping) Vivian, Mountain View.

- Stethoscope?

- Is correct, and your bonus question now.

The football huddle originated at what university in Washington DC named after a co-founder of the American School for the Deaf?

(buzzer beeping) (buzzer beeping) That was Gallaudet University.

And that's the end of the game.

And our winner tonight is Mountain View over Valley View, 220 to 85.

Congratulations, Mountain View, you're 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 thanks for watching.

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