(energetic music) - Welcome to the 17th season of WVIA Scholastic Scrimmage and the CSIU Blast IU Division Final 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 $1000, $3000 or $5,000.

WVIA would like to thank our sponsors, FNCB and People Security Bank for making this competition possible.

The rules of the game have been modified for this season's virtual version.

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 lightning rounds in each game.

Judges tonight are educators from the WVIA viewing area, and tonight's CSIU Blast IU Division Final match features Milton versus Mount Carmel.

Playing for Milton are Nicholas Fleck and Morgan Dreisbach.

Their alternate is Sam Hepler and their advisor is Nicholas Vega.

Representing Mount Carmel are Alexis O'Donnell and Nick Nestico.

Their alternates are Leah Shadlesky, Morgan Coletta, Lexie Kane, Jack Robert, Laith Canofani and Garrett McGee.

Their advisors are Aaron Domanski and Chris Cunningham.

Well, let's get started.

Milton has won the coin toss and we'll receive the first question which is, What archipelago that includes Fernandina Island is home to the sharp-beaked ground finch and many other endemic species studied by Charles Darwin?

- The Galapagos.

- We'll take it.

Here's your bonus question now Milton.

What painting technique used by Georges Seurat involves using many small dots to form an image?

- Polka dot.

(beep) - No, we were looking for pointillism.

Mount Carmel, here's your first question and get your pencils and papers ready.

What is the least common multiple of the two numbers 8 and 20, given that their greatest common factor is 4?

- 40.

- 40?

- 40 is correct.

And here's your bonus question.

What British novelist with a repetitive name wrote about World War I in the series Parade's End and depicted a miserable marriage in The Good Soldier.

- No answer.

- Okay, that was Ford.

Milton.

Here's your next question.

What novel in which Pierre Gregoire escapes death at the court of miracles by wedding Esmeralda is a Victor Hugo book, partly named for a cathedral?

(beep) Ran out of time.

Rebound to Mount Carmel.

- The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

- Is correct for your rebound points, Mount Carmel.

And here comes your next question.

What lake, which by volume is the US's sixth largest after the great lakes, abuts many ski resorts along the California Nevada border?

- Damer Lake?

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Milton.

(beep) Okay.

We're looking for lake Tahoe.

Milton.

Here's your next question.

What state hosted the entire men's 2021 NCAA division one basketball tournament, and is the home of Reggie Miller's only NBA team, the Pacers?

- Wisconsin.

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Mount Carmel.

- Indiana.

- Is correct for your rebound points.

Great job, Mount Carmel.

And here comes your next question.

What novel that depicts the reservation of Malpais and a hedonistic world state led by an upper caste called alphas, was written by Aldous Huxley?

- No answer.

- Okay.

Rebound now to Milton.

(beep) Okay.

That's Brave New World.

All right.

Our next question now goes to Milton.

And that question is what president who approved the Rush-Bagot treaty with Britain and the Missouri Compromise presided over the Era of Good Feelings from 1817 to 1825?

- James Monroe.

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus and get your pencils and papers ready.

What is the measure of an angle that is supplementary to itself?

- 90 degrees.

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

And that sound that you heard signals the end of the first quarter, and it's now time for the lightening 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.

Milton has won the coin toss and we'll pick first, your categories are F in Science or Portraits.

- F in Science.

- F in Science, something I know a lot about, it is and your time begins after I finish reading the first question.

Give these scientific terms, starting with an F, temperature scale proposed in 1724.

- Fahrenheit.

- [Paul] Yes.

Preserved part of a formerly living thing.

- Fossil.

- [Paul] Yes.

Appendages of locomotion longer than cilia.

- Pass.

- [Paul] Flagella.

Emission of light, after the absorption of radiation.

- Pass.

- Fluorescents.

Common name given to adipose tissue.

- Pass.

- [Paul] Fat element with the atomic symbol FM.

- Pass.

- [Paul] Fermium.

Collective term for a region's animal life contrasted with flora.

- Fauna.

- Yes.

A unit of capacitance.

- Pass.

- [Paul] Farad.

Group of minerals making up most of the Earth's crust.

- Fossil fuels.

(ding) - Nope.

We're looking for feldspars.

Okay.

Milton, that's going to wrap up your portion of the lightning round.

Now Mount Carmel, we're coming over to you.

Your remaining category will be portraits.

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

Name the artist who painted these portraits and self portraits, the Arnold Feeney Wedding.

- Pass.

- [Paul] Jan van Eyck, self portrait with bandaged ear.

- Van Gogh.

- [Paul] Yes, Arrangement in Gray and Black No.

1, which depicts his mother.

- Pass.

- [Paul] Whistler.

Girl with a Pearl Earring.

- Monet?

- [Paul] Jan Vermeer, the Lansdowne portrait and Athenaeum portrait of George Washington.

- Pass.

- Gilbert Stewart.

Mona Lisa.

- Da Vinci.

- [Paul] Yes.

Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird, which highlights her unibrow.

- Frida Kahlo.

- [Paul] Yes.

Portrait of Adele Bloch Bauer.

- Picasso.

- [Paul] Klimt.

Portrait of Madame X.

- Pass.

- [Paul] Sargent.

Las Meninas.

- Picasso.

- [Paul] That's Diego Velásquez.

And that's going to do it for the lightning round and what a close game we have.

We currently have Mount Carmel in the lead over Milton by just five points, 60 to 55.

And we're now 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.

We'll start with the students from Milton and Nicholas.

I'll come your way first.

Tell me who your favorite teacher is and why?

- My favorite teacher, probably, I can't pick.

There's a lot of them are in the school right now.

- [Paul] Don't want to get you in trouble Nicholas.

Okay, Morgan, who's your favorite teacher and why?

- Probably Mr. Vega because he is right here, in the room.

- Safe choice, Morgan.

Good luck.

The rest of the way.

Mount Carmel.

We're going to come over to you.

Alexis.

Who is your favorite teacher at Mount Carmel?

- Probably my chorus teacher.

Mr Maury.

- Okay.

And Nich, who is your favorite teacher at Mount Carmel?

- There's too many to pick from.

- [Paul] That's a good answer.

That's a great answer.

A very safe one too.

Good luck to you the rest of the way.

And we're now going to go ahead and begin the second quarter, which goes, this first question goes to Mount Carmel.

What economics term, whose Giffen type disobeys the law of demand, describes transferable items of value distinguished from non-transferable services?

- Goods.

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question.

What city was the former capital of the British Raj, the current capital of West Bengal and the site of a missionary founded by Mother Teresa?

- Pass.

- Okay.

That's Calcutta.

Milton.

Here's your first question.

What phase transition often studied using a cold finger is used to freeze dry food and occurs when a solid changes directly into a gas?

(beep) Ran out of time.

Rebound Mount Carmel.

- Vaporization.

- Is incorrect.

We're looking for sublimation.

Mount Carmel, here's your next question.

What sea contains the Cyclades Islands, is separated from the Sea of Marmara by the Dardanelles, and is an arm of the Mediterranean south of Greece?

- Black Sea?

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Milton.

- Aegean Sea.

- Okay.

We'll take it.

Very good for your rebound points.

Okay.

Milton.

Here comes your next question.

What state, which moved a bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest from its capital in 2021 is represented by Senator Marsha Blackburn and led from Nashville?

- Tennessee.

- Yes.

Here's your bonus question.

What empire signed the oldest recorded peace treaty after encountering Ramses II's Egyptian army in the battle of Kadesh?

- Kush.

- Okay.

We're looking for the Hittites.

All right.

Our next question goes to Mount Carmel and here it is.

What compounds with alarm, food trail, and sex subtypes are molecules used by many insects and plants to influence other members of their species?

- Hormones?

- Is incorrect.

Rebound now to Milton.

- Pheromones.

- Pheromones is correct for the rebound.

Thank you very much, Milton.

And here comes your next question.

What man, whose galaxy titles a Marshall McLuhan book produced the 42 line Bible and was a Mainz native who introduced movable type printing to Europe?

(beep) Ran out of time, rebound out of Mount Carmel.

- No answer.

- Okay.

That's Johann Gutenberg.

Mount Carmel, here's your next question.

What novel in which a bomb injures Angela Wexler was written by Ellen Raskin and describes a competition to inherit the title millionaire's fortune?

- No answer.

- Okay.

Rebound to Milton.

(beep) Okay.

That's the Westing Game.

That was a tough one.

And after one half of play is still a very good game.

Milton in the lead over Mount Carmel, 85 to 70, we want to say thank you to Nicholas and Morgan from Milton.

And thank you to Alexis and Nick from Mount Carmel, you guys were outstanding, and we're now going to meet your teammates for the second half.

Playing for Milton in the second half are Ian Keifer and Ashley Shamblin.

Representing Mount Carmel are Jack Robert and Matt Kelly.

Our first question in the third quarter goes to Milton.

And here is that question.

What artists, whose tomb of Julius II includes the dying slave and a horn sculpture of Moses, also sculpted Florence's enormous marble David?

- Michelangelo.

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question.

Neproxin also called Aleve and ibuprofen also called Advil are examples of what class of drugs that relieve inflammation, but are not steroids.

- C-Medical.

No, we were looking NSAIDS.

Mount Carmel, here comes your first question of the second half.

What leader who founded Prophetstown along with his brother, Tenskwatawa, was a Shawnee chief who was killed at the battle of the Thames in 1813.

Tecumseh.

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question.

A yokozuna is a grand champion.

in what form of wrestling popular in Japan?

- Sumo - Is correct.

And we're going to move back over now to Milton.

Here's your question.

What element forms a superfluid below its Lambda point was first detected as a yellow line and the sun's spectrum, and as the lightest noble gas?

- Hydrogen.

- Is incorrect.

Rebound Mount Carmel.

- Helium.

- Is correct for your rebound points, Mount Carmel.

And here's your next question.

What musical, who songs include What's the Buzz and I Don't Know How to Love Him is Andrew Lloyd Webber's rock opera version of the Gospels?

- Jesus Christ Superstar.

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question.

What numbers such as six and 28 are equal to the sum of their proper positive divisors.

- No answer.

- That's perfect numbers.

Milton.

Here's your next question.

What rebellion whose key figures included Roger Casement and Patrick Pearse was an anti-British revolt in Dublin, named for a Christian holiday?

- Kishe?

Is incorrect.

Rebound to Mount Carmel.

- Ash Wednesday.

- No, we were looking for Easter Rising.

Mount Caramel.

Here's your next question.

What organelle has a contractile type that is used to provide turgor pressure and a central type that occupies most of the volume of a plant cell.

- Vacuole.

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question.

What author won a Pulitzer prize for a novel about a man named Swede Levov who owns a glove factory in 1997's American Pastoral?

- No answer.

- That's Phillip Roth.

Milton.

Here's your next question.

What insect with scientific name Vesper Manda Renea has been described as an invasive species whose stings can be fatal prompting it's murder nickname?

- Hornet.

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question.

In a 1906 speech Theodore Roosevelt used what term to refer to Progressive Era investigative journalists like Lincoln Steffens and Jacob Reese?

- Yellow journalism.

Or muckrakers.

- We have to take the first answer.

We were looking for muckrakers (beep) but you said yellow journalism first.

So we can't award you the points and that sound that you heard signals the end of the third quarter and another lightning round.

This time Mount Carmel will pick first.

Your categories are CAU or Nines.

- Nines.

- Okay, Nines it is.

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

Answer the following about the number nine.

Baseball games have nine of these divisions?

- Innings.

- [Paul] Yes.

Italian poet who wrote about the ninth circle of hell in Inferno.

- Dante.

- [Paul] Yes.

F9 is a film in this franchise.

- Fast and Furious.

- [Paul] Yes.

This ninth president had the shortest term.

- Buren.

- [Paul] William Henry Harrison.

In Greek myth, the nine daughters of Mnemosyne.

- Pass.

- [Paul] Muses.

Quarterback who wore number nine for the Saints in 2020.

- Brees.

T- [Paul] Yes.

Author of Nine Princes in Amber, the first of his Chronicles of Amber books.

- Pass.

- [Paul] Zelazny.

Halogen with atomic number nine.

Fluorine.

- [Paul] Yes.

Band with the song, All the Small Things and album nine.

- Blink 182.

- [Paul] Yes.

Mineral that is nine on the Mohs hardness scale.

- Diamonds.

- [Paul] Nope.

We're looking for corundum.

Still though, great job in the lightning round Mount Carmel, we're going to come back over to Milton and your remaining category, Milton will be CAU words.

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

Give these terms beginning with the letters C-A-U.

White vegetable related to broccoli.

- Cauliflower.

- [Paul] Yes.

Past tense of catch.

- Caught.

- [Paul] Yes.

A metal pot for cooking over a fire.

- Cauldron.

- [Paul] Yes.

Alternative to a presidential primary used in Iowa.

- Caucuses.

- [Paul] Yes.

Something that produces an effect.

- Cause.

- [Paul] Yes.

To burn the skin to stop a wound from bleeding.

- Cauterize.

- [Paul] Yes.

A yellow flag at a NASCAR race that indicates danger.

- Caution.

- [Paul] Yes.

Adjective for a chemical that is highly corrosive.

- Pass.

- [Paul] Caustic.

A waterproof sealant used in construction.

- Caulk.

- [Paul] Yes.

Spanish term for a warlord or authoritarian.

- Pass.

- [Paul] That's caudillo.

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

And after that, a 10 point game Milton in the lead over Mount Carmel, 185 to 175.

And now again, we're going to take a little bit of a break and get to know the contestants playing the second half a little better.

And again, we'll start with the students from Milton and Ian, I'll come to you first.

Tell me who your favorite teacher is at Milton and why.

- I have to go with the absolute, the man, the myth, the legend, teacher of American history here and our teacher for spot scrimmage.

Mr. Nicholas Vega.

- Excellent answer.

Thank you, Ian.

Ashley, who is your favorite teacher and why?

- I really, I can't decide because I've never had a bad teacher.

They're all just so great here at Milton, but Mr. Vega goes above and beyond.

- That's great.

Thank you, Milton.

Good luck the rest of the way.

Mount Carmel, it's over to you Jack.

Tell me who your favorite teacher is at Mount Carmel and why?

- Well, there's a lot of good teachers at the school, but I'd probably pick our two advisors, Mr.

Demands gave Mr. Cunningham.

- Okay, excellent.

Thank you, Jack.

And Matt, who are your favorite teachers at Mount Carmel and why?

- Honestly, there's way too many to pick from.

I don't wanna give a bad answer.

- That's a great answer, actually.

So good luck the rest of the way.

And we'll now begin the last segment of the game with this question that goes to Mount Carmel.

What composer whose last opera was the comic Falstaff included the chorus, "Gloria al'egitto" in an opera about a doomed princess, Aida.

- Bach.

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Milton.

- Wagner?

(beep) - No, we were looking for Giuseppe Verdi.

Milton.

Here's your question.

What poet compared God to a ship's pilot in Crossing the Bar and praised troops who rode into the valley of death in The Charge of the Light Brigade.

- Lord Alfred Tennyson.

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question.

What 17th century Englishman advised young women to gather ye rosebuds while ye may and go marry in his poem To the Virgins, To Make Much of Time.

- Burns.

- Nope.

Looking for Robert Herrick.

Mount Carmel.

Here's your question.

What commander whose generals were called the Diadochi, defeated the Persians at the battles of Issus and Gaugamela, and was a great king of Macedon.

- Alexander the Great.

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question.

San Ignacio is one of the most populous cities in what Central American country that was once known as British Honduras?

- Honduras?

- Nope.

We're looking for Belize.

Milton.

Here's your question.

In what process with forms named after Gustaf Mie and C.V. Raman are moving particles, redirected and collisions with other particles in their paths.

(beep) - Ran out of time.

Mount Carmel rebound to you.

- Fusion.

- No.

Good answer though.

We were looking for scattering.

Mount Carmel here is your next question.

What composer of a Cuban overture often worked with his brother Ira and used a clarinet glissando to open his jazz inspired Rhapsody in Blue.

- No answer.

- Okay.

Rebound to Milton.

- George Gershwin.

- Is correct for your rebound points Milton and here comes your next question.

What language, which in 1864, added a glottal stop called okina to its alphabet, has just 12 letters and is spoken mostly in the 50th state?

- Hawaiian.

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus and get your pencils and papers ready.

What is the quotient of 16 factorial divided by 14 factorial?

Given 16 factorial is 16 times every smaller positive integer?

- 256?

- No, we're looking for 240.

Mount Caramel.

Here's your next question.

What bodies may travel along a Hayashi track as they form in molecular clouds before they begin producing energy by fusing hydrogen in their cores?

- Electron.

(beep) - Is incorrect.

Rebound to Milton.

- Golgi apparatus.

- No, we were looking for stars.

And that's the end of the CSIU blast IU division final, and our winner tonight is Milton over Mount Carmel, and a spectacular game.

215 to 185.

Congratulations Milton.

You are 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 thank you so much for watching.