- Welcome to the NEIU Finals of WVIa's Scholastic Scrimmage.

I'm your host, Regina Meyers.

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 Scranton versus North Pocono.

Representing Scranton, Sephora Charlotte, Kayleigh Butler, Amelia King their captain, Chloe Tucker.

Their alternates are Josephine Krokus and Nathan Jarrow and their advisor is Lynn Harding.

representing North Pocono Minerva Korea, Olivia Bassi, Grace Beckish and their captain Noah Beckish.

Their alternate is Steph Arias and their advisor is Christopher Wilbur.

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 country whose Nullarbor Plain is south of the Great Victoria Desert is home to a massive monolith called Uluru within the Noah, North Pocono - Australia.

Australia.

Noah's correct answer and your bonus Aramco, which in 2022 surpassed Apple as the world's most valuable company is the state owned petroleum company of what Middle Eastern nation?

Noah - Saudi Arabia - Is a correct answer for your bonus points.

Toss up pencil, paper, ready.

What is the measure of the fourth angle of a conclave concave quadrilateral whose other angles Noah, North Pocono - 200 Degrees - is correct answer.

And your bonus What Island country which is the only nation named after historical woman is between St. Minton and Martinique and is governed from Castrie?

- No answer.

- Okay.

The correct answer is St. Lucia.

Toss up What Boeotian hunter, The son of Lioriope as punished by nemesis for rejecting the nymph echo by being made to fall in love with his own Noah - Narcissus - Narcissus, Noah is correct answer and your bonus North Pocono.

What?

1951 book by Sea wright mills titled For a Symbolic Garment alleges that new middle class professionals slipped quietly into modern society?

- Lion, Witch, and the Wardrobe?

- Is incorrect.

It is White Collar, toss up.

What Asian author wrote "a wilderness were paradise enough according to Edward Fitzgerald's translation of a quad train from this man's Rubaiyat?"

That was Omar Khayyam.

Toss up.

What singer who says "Their overturning Roe v. Wade in her song 2022 song TV describes herself as a make your mama sad - Billie Eillish - Is the correct answer, Amelia and your bonus Scranton.

What English author used heroic couplets in a 1711 poem titled An essay on criticism which contains the claim "A little learning is a dangerous thing."

- Langton Hughes.

- Langton Hughes is incorrect.

It is Alexander Pope.

Toss up Estonian and Finnish are members of a language family named for what Russian Mountain Range that marks the borders between Europe and Asia?

Noah, North Pocono - Euro Mountains - Is a correct answer Noah, and in your bonus What 1894 Railroad strike led by Eugene Deb's spurred Grover Cleveland to make Labor Day a national holiday?

- Philadelphia strike - Is incorrect.

It is Pullman strike.

Toss up.

What European country, which originally colonized Acadia lost the battle of the planes of Abraham in 1759 to Britain, forcing it to give up the Quebec?

Kayleigh Scranton - French - France is correct answer, and your bonus What organelle uses vesicles to package proteins made in the rough endoplasmic reticulum so that those proteins can be secreted?

Kayleigh - Golgi Body - Golgi is correct answer.

Toss up what novel in which Colonel Brandon gives Edward Farrers a job contrasts the sisters Maryanne and Eleanor Dash wood and is by Jane Austin?

Grace, North Pocono.

- Pride and Prejudice Pride?

- Pride and prejudice is incorrect.

Rebound to Scranton.

- Pass.

- The correct answer is Sense and Sensibility.

That's 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 rapid fire questions as they can in one minute.

North Pocono has won the coin toss and will pick first.

Your categories are Physics Nobel Prize winners or island cities.

- Island cities.

- Island cities.

Time begins when I finish reading the first question.

Given a city, name the island it's on.

Reykjavik.

- Iceland.

- Correct?

Havana - Cuba - Correct.

Belfast.

- Pass.

- Ireland.

Taipei.

- Taiwan.

- Correct.

Palermo.

- Sicily.

- Correct.

Hobart.

- Pass.

- Tasmania.

Porta Prince.

- Haiti.

- Hispaniola.

Valletta - Sicily.

- Malta.

Port Moresby - Pass - New Guinea.

and Tamana - Pass.

- Madagascar.

Moving over to our team from Scranton.

Your category is Physics Nobel Prize winners.

Name these winners of the Nobel Prize in physics.

Polish born woman who coined the term radioactivity - Marie Curry.

- Correct.

1921 winner who explained the photo electric effect and found the formula E equals m C squared.

Kayleigh - Einstein.

- Correct.

American who conducted the oil drop experiment.

- Pass - Millikan.

Danish namesake of a model of the atom.

- Kayleigh - Bohr - Correct.

Italian who invented the radio.

- Pass.

- Marconi.

British discover of the electron.

- Watson - Thompson.

Namesake of an exclusion principle that applies to Fermions.

- Pass.

- Pauli.

German who discovered x-rays.

- pass - R öntgen.

namesake of a boson that gives other particles mass.

- Pass - Highs.

Frenchman who discovered radio activity.

- Pass.

- Becquerel.

That's the end of our lightning round.

So let's take a look at our score.

We have Scranton with 40 points and North Pocono with 65.

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

What company which launched the electric minivan ID buzz In 2022, owns both Porsche and a namesake brand whose models include the Jetta and the Beetle.

Olivia - Volkswagen - Volkswagen's correct answer, and your bonus, North Pocono.

What TV series that began in 1976 was set at a theater where audience members named Statler and Waldorf often heckled performers such as Fozzie Bear?

- Pass.

- The answer is the Muppet Show.

Toss up.

What American who was a special envoy failed to halt the resumption of the Chinese civil War, named a plan to rebuild post World War II Europe?

Kayleigh, Scranton.

- Roosevelt - Is incorrect.

rebound to North Pocono.

- Truman.

- Truman is incorrect.

It is Marshall.

Toss up.

What scientists wrote that "I feign no hypotheses" in an essay in the 1713 edition of the Principe which includes the three laws of motion?

Noah?

- Isaac Newton.

- Isaac Newton.

Noah's correct answer and your bonus North Pocono.

In September, 2022, a gun jammed during an assassination attempt on what current vice president of Argentina who served as president from 2007 to 2015?

- Pass - Fernandez.

Toss up.

What province contains the Hadigi archipelago is the only province to border Yukon territory and is home to the city's Victoria and Vancouver?

Kayleigh Scranton.

- British Columbia.

- Is correct answer, and your bonus, Scranton.

What company was prosecuted in 1960 for republishing The novel Lady Chatterley's lover, merged with Random House in 2013, and has a bird as its logo?

- Kayleigh?

- Penguin?

- Penguin's correct answer.

For your bonus points.

Toss up.

What player, who had eight runs, battled in a day before he struck out 13, Royals is a designated hitter and pitcher for the angels from Japan?

Chloe - Jimin Choi.

- Is incorrect, rebound to North Pocono.

- No answer - Okay, the correct answer is Otani.

Toss up.

what legislation which first set 60,000 as a population threshold for statehood, established a namesake territory north of the Ohio River in 1787?

Noah, North Pocono.

- Kansas Nebraska Act.

- Kansas Nebraska Act is incorrect.

Rebound to Scranton.

Anyone?

The correct answer is Northwest Ordinance Toss up.

What material is compacted to form neve and firn is deposited near bodies of water in a lake effect and consists of tiny intricate flakes of ice?

Chloe, Scranton.

- Slush Slush is incorrect, rebound to North Pocono.

- No answer - Okay, the correct answer is snow.

Toss up What city, The second most populous in Bavaria is the setting of the film Triumph of the Will and names a series of post World War II trials?

Noah - Nuremberg - Nuremberg is correct answer On your bonus, North Pocono Moatoli the second may have led what Anatolian empire against Egypt at the 1274 BC Battle of Kadesh.

an example of its characteristic use of war chariots?

- Assassin de umpire - Is incorrect.

It is Hittites.

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.

First, let's update our score.

We have Scranton with 55 points and North Pocono with 95 points.

Why don't we start with our team from Scranton?

Sephora, why don't we start with you.

Why don't you tell everybody who your favorite artist is and maybe why - My favorite artist is Vincent Van Gogh.

I love his use of colors and line strokes.

- I like it too.

Kayleigh - Mine's probably Leonardo da Vinci because he did so many things.

- Yes he did.

Amelia.

- My favorite artist is a singer Phoebe Bridgers and I just really love her music.

- Nice.

Chloe.

- I'm a big fan of Queen.

I've always loved their music and they're everywhere so it's one of those like yo, you know this song like, it's a queen song.

- There you go.

Let's move over to our team from North Pocono Minerva, Why don't you start us off?

- It would probably either have to be the Beatles or singer named Leve.

- And why?

- Just It really tickles my brain.

I don't know how else to explain - That's a good answer.

Olivia.

- My favorite singer is probably Morgan Wallen I love country music.

- Grace - Le Miserable original London cast or the American rejects.

- Okay, how about Noah?

- I like the band ajr.

They're my favorite musical artist.

- Very good.

It was nice getting to know all of you.

Let's get started with another tossup.

What animals are depicted in a series of brown and Bigelow Cigar advertisements painted by CM Coolidge, which shows them playing poker.

Chloe, Scranton.

Dogs.

- Dogs, Chloe's correct answer and your bonus - What United States state Capitol was left without drinking water after floods in August, 2022 damaged its water treatment plan?

- Houston?

- Houston is incorrect.

It is Jackson, Mississippi.

Toss up.

What author of the Haunting of Hill house wrote a 1948 story in which Tessie Hutchinson is stoned to death after winning the title event, The lottery?

Haley Scranton.

- Shirley Jackson?

Shirley Jackson is correct answer, and your bonus.

What type of image, which is always produced by a convex mirror, cannot be projected onto a screen and is contrasted with real images?

- Refraction.

- Refraction is incorrect.

It is virtual images.

Toss up.

Pencil, paper, ready.

What is the price of one pen If Anthony received $5 in change after using a $50 bill to buy six pens?

Noah, North Pocono.

- 7 dollars 50 cents.

- Is correct answer Noah, and your bonus.

The French cities of Arles and Avignon lie on what river that originates in the Swiss Alps.

Noah.

- Rhine River.

- Rhine River is incorrect.

It is the Rhone River.

Toss up.

In what 2022 film does the terminally ill Michael reject a Nobel prize for developing synthetic blood?

Noah, North Pocono.

- Morbius.

- Morbius is correct answer.

And your bonus What Hudson River School painter who depicted a boat going down river in his allegorical series The Voyage of life also painted The Course of Empire?

- No answer.

- Okay.

The correct answer is Thomas Cole.

Toss Up.

What state's National Guard was federalized by Dwight Eisenhower to prevent Governor Orville Favas from blocking Noah, North Pocono.

- Arkansas.

- Arkansas.

Noah's correct answer and your bonus, North Pocono.

The Xiongnu, who may have been ancestors of the Huns, fought a two century long war with what Chinese dynasty that succeeded the Chin Dynasty - Song Dynasty?

- Song is incorrect.

It is Han.

Toss up.

What organisms whose primary type are herbivores are organisms that cannot produce their own energy sources, but instead feed on other organisms?

Grace, North Pocono.

- Consumers?

- Consumers correct answer, Grace and your bonus.

What pioneering 18th century chemists gave the element oxygen its name before he was guillotined during the French Revolution?

Noah - Antoine Lavoisier - Is a correct answer.

Noah, for your bonus points.

Toss up.

What thinker who argued the "for a progressive tax system" in his book Rights of Man describe the times that tri men's souls in the American crisis.

Noah - Mark Twain.

- Mark Twain is incorrect.

Rebound to Scranton.

- No answer.

- Okay is Thomas Payne.

Toss up.

What instrument with a low shallamo range was played by Artie Shaw and King of swing band leader, Benny Goodman and is a woodwind with a single reed?

Kayleigh, Scranton.

- Clarinet?

- Clarinet, kayleigh's correct answer and your bonus.

The Sidaria River empties into what sea shared between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan would shrink drastically in the 20th century.?

Chloe?

- The Black Sea?

- Black Sea is incorrect.

It is Aral.

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

This time Scranton will pick first.

Your categories are California sports or Title Years.

- Title years.

- Title Years.

The time begins after I read the first question.

Give the years that are or are found in the titles of these things.

George Orwell novel featuring Big Kayleigh.

- 1984 - Correct.

John Cusack disaster film about the end of the Mayan calendar.

Kayleigh - 2012.

- Correct.

Prince' song in which he says he is gonna party like it's the title year.

Chloe.

- 1995.

- In 1999.

Arthur C. Clark novel introducing Hal 9,000.

Kayleigh.

- 2001.

- Correct.

Sherman Edwards musical set in the American Revolution.

Kayleigh.

- 1776.

- Correct.

Francisco Goya painting of a firing squad.

- Pass.

- 1808.

2019 Sam Mendez Film set in World War 1.

- 1917?

- Correct.

Band with songs, The Sound and Love Me.

- The 1975.

- Correct.

Song from Hamilton with the line "Jefferson has my voice".

- Pass.

- 1800.

- Correct.

Second book in John Dus Pais USA Trilogy - Pass.

- 1919.

Moving over to our team from North Pocono.

Your category is California sports.

Answer the following about sports in California.

City where the Lakers play.

- Los Angeles.

- Correct.

College football ball game played on New Year's Day.

in Pasadena.

- Rose Bowl.

- Correct.

NFL team that moved from Oakland to Las Vegas.

- Raiders.

- Correct.

Only pro sports team based in San Diego in 2022.

- Padres?

- Correct.

Home of the NHL Sharks.

- Anaheim - San Jose.

Division one University whose mascot is a tree.

- Stanford.

- Correct.

California's only WNBA team.

- Pass.

- Sparks.

- Head coach of the Golden State Warriors.

- Pass.

- Steve Kerr.

Baseball team profiled in the book Money Ball.

- Oakland Days.

- Is correct.

Stadium that hosted Super Bowl 56 in February, 2022.

- SoFi Stadium.

Correct.

- That's the end of the lightning round.

Let's update our score.

We have Scranton with 120 points and North Pocono with 175 points.

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

What author depicted a bird wearing a bonnet in the tail of Jemima puddle duck and described a raid on Mr. McGregor's garden In her book Peter Rabbit.

Minerva?

- Harriet Potter - Potter's correct answer and your bonus North Pocono.

Francium, the element with the largest observed atomic radius is a member of what highly reactive group of the periodic table.

- Alkaline.

- Alkaline, Noah is correct answer for your bonus points.

Toss up.

What scientist lends his name to a unit equal to 10 to the minus four Teslas.

Chloe, Scranton.

- Mull.

- Is incorrect.

I'll complete the question.

Noah?

- Gauss.

- Gauss is correct answer for your rebound points.

Toss up.

A letter to Barron Mont Eagle revealed what plan to kill King James the first by blowing up the houses of parliament whose conspirators included guy thoughts - Gun powder plot - Gun powders correct answer, Noah.

And your bonus.

What South African landform, which is near where Bartoleme Diaz died in 1500, was the namesake location of the Dutch East Indie company's Cape Colony - Cape Canaveral.

- Cape Canaveral is incorrect.

It is Cape of Good Hope.

Toss up.

what state which is represented in Congress by Josh Gifimer and is governed by Phil Murphy is where Corey Booker was once Mayor of - New Jersey.

- New Jersey, Noah is correct answer and your bonus, North Pocono.

What sport with union and league forms uses scrums to restart play?

- Rugby.

- Rugby's correct answer for your bonus points.

Toss up.

what organ in which water is reabsorbed in the loop of Henley contains units called nephrons and filters waste from the blood to produce urine.

Minerva.

- Kidneys.

- Kidneys, Minerva's correct answer and your bonus.

Pencil, paper, ready.

What is the discriminate of the quadratic expression?

Two x squared plus seven x plus five?

- Nine - Nine is correct answer.

Toss up.

In what current province did Thomas Scott's execution by Louis Riel's Red River Rebellion lead John McDonald to send troops to what is now Winnipeg?

- Canada.

- Canada.

Noah is incorrect.

Rebound to Scranton.

- Pass.

- Okay, the correct answer is Manitoba.

Toss up.

in 2022, What country's agency Funi discovered the corpse of the man of the whole, one of the last uncontacted people in the Amazon rainforest?

Kayleigh, Scranton.

- Brazil.

- Brazil's correct answer, and your bonus.

What city founded as Fort Laramie in 1900 has a named taken from the Arabic for place of rest and is the capital and most populist city of Chad?

- No answer.

- Okay.

The correct answer is in Angimena.

Toss up.

What title character who is advised "have more than thou show us by his fool" is betrayed by his daughters Goneril and Regan in a Shakespeare tragedy?

Chloe, Scranton.

- Hamlet.

- Hamlet's incorrect.

rebound to North Pocono.

- No answer.

- Okay.

The correct answer is King Lear.

Toss up.

Plutarch served as a priest at what site where special vapors in a sanctuary of Apollo may have produced the visions of Pithia, This site's Oracle?

Kayleigh?

- Delphi?

- Delphi is correct answer.

and your bonus Scranton.

What Russians Czar sent his Oprichniki bodyguards to kill thousands in the massacre of Novgorod and later beat his own son to death in a fit of rage?

Chloe.

- Ivan the terrible.

- Ivan the terribles correct answer for your bonus points.

and that's the end of our game.

Let's take a look at the score.

We have Scranton with 145 points and North Pocono with 240 points.

Congratulations, North Pocono.

You are the NEIU Scholastic scrimmage champion.

You'll be moving on to the finals, and we'll see you next time with another round of scholastic scrimmage.

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