(wind blowing and whistle blowing) (upbeat marching band music) ♪ Go - 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 North Pocono versus Wallenpaupack.

Representing North Pocono are Minerva Corea, Olivia Bassi, Grace Beckish, and their captain, Noah Beckish.

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

Representing Wallenpaupack are Michael Soskil, Brendan Fossetta, Emma Mahone, Tyler Lofberg, their captain, and their alternates are Emily Kangal, and Angelo Cresta.

Their advisor today is Jamie Bartholomew.

"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 toss up.

In what country whose first post-junta president was Fernando Collor de Mello did Dilma Rousseff's impeachment lead to the rise of Jair Bolsonaro?

(buzzer ringing) Noah, North Pocono?

- Brazil.

- Brazil's the correct answer and your bonus North Pocono, in 1935, what organization was founded in Akron, Ohio by William Griffith Wilson and Dr. Robert Holbrook Smith who were known as Dr. Bob and Bill W.?

- No answer.

- Okay, the correct answer is Alcoholics Anonymous.

Toss up, what city in which the Via de la Rosa ended at the church of the Holy Sepulcher also contains the remains of the Second Temple at the Western Wall?

(buzzer ringing) Brendan, Wallenpaupack?

- Jerusalem.

- Jerusalem's the correct answer, Brendan, and your bonus, what hydrocarbon with formula C8H18 is the namesake of a rating that measures a fuel's ability to prevent engine knocking?

- Ethanol.

- Ethanol is incorrect, it is octane.

Toss up, what constant defined as the ideal gas constant over Boltzmann's constant equals about 6.022 x 10?

(buzzer ringing) - Avogadro's Number.

- Avogadro's Number is the correct answer, Mike, from Wallenpaupack, and your bonus, Eight Birds nest in a man's beard in a limerick by what English writer of nonsense poems who referred to a runcible spoon in the owl and the pussycat?

- Wilde.

- Wilde is incorrect, it is Lear.

Toss up, what American activist described her and Ellen Gates Stars' experiences founded at Chicago Settlement House in her memoir, "20 Years at Hull House"?

(buzzer ringing) Emma, Wallenpaupack?

_ Susan B. Anthony.

- Susan B. Anthony is incorrect.

Rebound to North Pocono, no one.

The correct answer is Jane Addams.

Toss up, what country is home to the Copper Canyon or Barranca del Cobre which is the Sierra Madre Occidental in this country's State of Chihuahua?

(buzzer ringing) Noah, North Pocono?

- Mexico.

- Mexico's the correct answer and your bonus, North Pocono, what term for North American aviation P51 fighter planes was adopted by Ford in the 1960s for a series of rear wheel drive cars?

- Model T. - Model T is incorrect, it is the Mustang.

Toss up what quantity, which is the number of supporting rope sections for a block and tackle is the ratio of output force to input force for?

(buzzer ringing) Noah, North Pocono?

- Mechanical advantage.

- Mechanical advantage is the correct answer, Noah, and your bonus, pencil paper ready?

If the logarithm of X cubed equals five, what is the logarithm of X raised to the sixth power?

(buzzer ringing) Noah?

- 10.

- 10 is the correct answer.

For your bonus points toss up, what title character who befriends Miss Spider after escaping his abusive aunts, Spiker and Sponge, appears in a Roald Dahl novel about a giant peach?

(buzzer ringing) Noah, North Pocono?

- James.

- Is the correct answer and your bonus, North Pocono, Felix Yuha organized the murder of what Siberian mystic who gained influence at the court of Czar Nicholas II?

(buzzer ringing) - Rasputin.

- Rasputin, Noah is the correct answer for your bonus points.

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

(electronics 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.

Wallenpaupack has won the coin toss and will pick first.

Your categories are Literary Dogs or Statuary Hall.

- Literary Dogs.

- Literary Dogs, time begins when I finish reading the first question.

Name the literary works in which these dogs appear.

The kidnapped sled dog, Buck.

(buzzer ringing) - Tyler?

- "Call of the Wild".

- [Regina] Correct.

Bullseye, the vicious pet of Bill Sykes.

(buzzer ringing) - Emma?

- Pass.

- "Oliver Twist".

The title rabid Saint Bernard from a Stephen King novel?

(buzzer ringing) - "Cujo".

- [Regina] Correct.

Argos, who dies after his master returns to Ithaca.

(buzzer ringing) Michael?

- Pass.

- "Odyssey".

A phosphorus-covered dog that Sherlock Holmes kills.

(buzzer ringing) - "The Hound of the Baskervilles".

- Correct.

Pilot, who belongs to Mr. Rochester.

(buzzer ringing) - Pass.

- "Jane Eyre".

The Darling family's Newfoundland nurse, Nana.

(buzzer ringing) - "Peter Pan".

- [Regina] Correct.

Wellington, the little poodle of a Mark Haddon novel.

(buzzer ringing) - Pass.

- [Regina] "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime".

Karenin, the dog of Tomas and Tereza as a Milan Kundera novel.

(buzzer ringing) - Pass.

- "The Unbearable Lightness of Being".

The Ozark hunting dogs, Old Dan and Little Ann.

(timer ringing) (buzzer ringing) - "Where the Red Fern Grows".

- "Where the Red Fern Grows" came in right after the timer so I'm sorry we can't award you those points.

Moving over to our North Pocono team.

Statuary Hall, name the state given its two honorees in the National Statuary Hall collection as of July, 2022.

Stephen F. Austin and Sam Houston.

(buzzer ringing) - Texas.

- [Regina] Correct.

Junipero Serra and Ronald Reagan.

(buzzer ringing) - California.

- [Regina] Correct.

Father Damien and Kamehameha I.

(buzzer ringing) - Wyoming.

- [Regina] Hawaii, TV inventor, Philo Farnsworth and Mormon leader, Brigham Young.

(buzzer ringing) - Utah.

- [Regina] Correct.

John Winthrop and Samuel Adams.

(buzzer ringing) - Massachusetts.

- [Regina] Correct.

Senator Jacob Culler and Green Mountain Boys leader, Ethan Allen.

- New Hampshire.

(buzzer ringing) - New Hampshire.

- [Regina] Vermont.

Confederates James Z. George and Jefferson Davis.

(buzzer ringing) - Kentucky.

- Mississippi.

Robert M. Follette, Sr. and University namesake.

(buzzer ringing) - Wisconsin.

- [Regina] Correct.

Lewis Cass and Gerald Ford.

(buzzer ringing) - Pass.

- [Regina] Michigan, Julius Morton and Chief Standing Bear who replaced William Jennings Brian.

(buzzer ringing) - Pass.

- Nebraska, those are the end of our lightning round questions so let's update our score.

We have North Pocono currently at 75 points and Wallenpaupack with 40 points.

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

What rapper of the 2022 album "12 Carat Toothache" who featured Quavo and his song "Congratulations" hit number one with both Rockstar and Psycho?

(buzzer ringing) Noah?

- Post Malone.

- Correct.

And your bonus, North Pocono, the traveler Lemuel Gulliver is called a man mountain by the small people of what kingdom which goes to war with its neighbor, Blefuscu?

- It's "Gulliver's Travels, I don't know.

(buzzer ringing) - Is it "Gilligan's Island"?

- "Gilligan's Island" is in incorrect, it is Lilliput.

Toss up, what particle has a mass of about 10 to -30 kilograms, (buzzer ringing) Noah?

- Electron.

- Electrons is the correct answer, Noah, and your bonus, Carl Woese divided organisms into three domains, archaea, bacteria and what domain whose members have nuclei surrounded by envelopes?

(buzzer ringing) - Eukaryota.

- Eukaryota's the correct answer.

Toss up, what president who introduced the Job Corps, Headstart, Medicaid and Medicare- (buzzer ringing) - Noah, North Pocono?

- Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

- Is incorrect, I'll complete the question and rebound to Wallenpaupack, and Medicare as part of his great society succeeded John F. Kennedy in 1963?

(buzzer ringing) Brendan?

- Lyndon B. Johnson.

- Lyndon B. Johnson is the correct answer for your rebound points.

Toss up, what man who in a July, 2022 speech claimed a new moral code was ascendant, wrote the majority opinion in the 2022 Dobbs case overturning Roe V. Wade?

(timer ringing) That was Samuel Alito.

Toss up, which deity who used a serpent to trick Ra into revealing his secret name recovered and reassembled body parts belonging to her husband, Osiris?

(buzzer ringing) Brendan?

- Isis.

- Isis is the correct answer and your bonus, Wallenpaupack, which woman whose face launched a thousand ships did Aphrodite give Paris after Paris judged Aphrodite as the fairest?

- What was her name?

- Oh my God, I think it was Helen.

(buzzer ringing) - Helen of Troy.

- Helen of Troy's the correct answer, Tyler, for your bonus points.

Toss up, what novel in which Kurt may secretly be the son of narrator, Oskar Matzerath, was written by Gunter Ross and titled for a percussion instrument?

(buzzer ringing) Brendan?

- "The Little Bell".

- "Little Bell: is incorrect, rebound to North Pocono, no one.

The correct answer is "Tin Drum".

Toss up, what leader, the main target of the Yellow Vest Protests, leads the en Marche party and has twice- (buzzer ringing) Tyler, Wallenpaupack?

- Macron is the correct answer Tyler, and your bonus, what South Carolina politician supported nullification while serving as Vice President under John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson?

- Calhoun - Calhoun.

- Calhoun is the correct answer for your bonus points.

Toss up what condition included in the full name of the Glasgow Scale can be medically induced after brain trauma and is a prolonged- (buzzer ringing) Noah, North Pocono?

- A coma.

- A coma, Noah, is the correct answer.

And your bonus, what title character of a tragedy by Sophocles buries her brother, Polynices, in defiance of Creon's order against it?

(timer ringing) - Pass.

- Okay that would be Antigone, just in time, that sounds the end of the first half.

So 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.

But before we do that let's update our score with North Pocono has 110 points and Wallenpaupack 80.

Let's begin with our team from North Pocono.

Minerva, why don't you start us off and tell us about what your future plans are.

- I plan to pursue science in some shape or form.

I just like a lot of stuff so I don't know yet.

- [Regina] You'll find out, you'll figure it out, Olivia?

- I hope to study nursing and become a NICU nurse.

- [Regina] Any specific reason for choosing that particular path?

- No, my mom's a nurse since I'm following her footsteps.

- [Regina] Following her footsteps.

Grace?

- I'm still undecided but I'm leaning towards a major in English.

- [Regina] Okay, good luck.

Noah?

- I plan to pursue an engineering major at a four year university.

- Okay, good luck to all of you.

Let's move over to our team from Wallenpaupack.

Michael, how about you?

- Either hoping to be some sort of a teacher, probably physics or something with civil engineering.

- [Regina] Okay, you'll be good at it.

Brendan?

- I plan on going in for civil engineering with a minor in the language of German.

- [Regina] Okay, why German?

- I decided to take it in freshman year and I was like, "Hey, I like this," so I decided to continue it.

- [Regina] Well there you go, great teachers can do that.

Emma?

- I plan to go to a four year college studying animal science and then go to a veterinary school and get my DMV.

- [Regina] Oh, good luck.

And Tyler?

- I would like to pursue a career in either national defense/security or in chemical engineering and pursue a career as a US military officer.

- Good luck, very high level and sophisticated positions.

Good luck with that.

Let's get back to our tossup.

I'll start with the tossup, what character who is played by Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Lawrence Fishburn in the "Matrix" films shares his name with a Greek god of dreams?

(buzzer ringing) Tyler, Wallenpaupack?

- Morbius.

- Morbius is incorrect, rebound to North Pocono, no one?

The correct answer is Morpheus.

Toss up, what war for which Henry Kissinger first used shuttle diplomacy was fought by a coalition including Egypt against Israel and began- (buzzer ringing) Brendan?

- The Arab-Israeli War.

- Arab-Israeli War is correct, and your bonus, what devices that can mesh directly together unlike sprockets can form a transmission that transmits torque when they interlock?

- Gears.

- Gears is the correct answer for your bonus points.

Toss up, what poet wrote about his marriage in the sonnet cycle, "Amoretti", and depicted the Red Cross Knight in an epic honoring Elizabeth?

(buzzer ringing) Noah, North Pocono?

- Spenser.

- Spenser's the correct answer Noah, and your bonus, The Cypress Hills contain the highest point in what Canadian province that is, along with Alberta, one of just two landlocked provinces?

- Ontario, maybe.

- Ontario.

- Is incorrect, it is Saskatchewan.

Toss up, what regular polygon has interior angles equal to 108 degrees, comprises- (buzzer ringing) Noah, North Pocono?

- Pentagon.

- Pentagon is the correct answer, Noah.

And your bonus, what woman served for less than five months in 1993 as the only female Prime Minister of Canada after the resignation of Brian Mulroney?

- No answer.

- That would be Kim Campbell.

Toss up, what businessman who was replaced by Andy Jassy as his company's CEO in 2021 went to space that year on a Blue Origin rocket?

(buzzer ringing) Noah, of North Pocono.

- Jeff Bezos.

- Bezos is the correct answer and your bonus, North Pocono, what choreographer whose namesake technique is based on contraction and release collaborated with Aaron Copland on the ballet "Appalachian Spring"?

- No answer.

- That was Martha Graham.

Toss up, what meat, the main ingredient in haggis and traditional Greek moussaka is often served as a rack- (buzzer ringing) - Liver.

- Liver is incorrect, I'll complete the question and rebound to North Pocono, of chops and is called mutton when mature?

(buzzer ringing) Noah?

- Lamb.

- Lamb is the correct answer for your rebound points.

Toss up, what conspiracy whose members were captured at Holbeche House saw Robert Catesby fail to assassinate James I after the arrest of Guy- (buzzer ringing) - Brendan?

- The Gunpowder Plot.

- Gunpowder's the correct answer and your bonus, Wallenpaupack, Owen Grady and Claire Dearing rescued dinosaurs from a volcanic eruption in what 2018 Sequel to the film "Jurassic World"?

- "Jurassic World, Fallen Kingdom".

- Is the correct answer, Tyler.

Toss up, the Great White Spot is a storm on what planet (buzzer ringing) which is, Grace, North Pocono?

- Jupiter.

- Is incorrect, I'll complete the question and rebound to Wallenpaupack, orbited by the moons Tethys and Enceladus and has low density and an extensive ring system?

(buzzer ringing) (timer ringing) - Brendan?

- Saturn.

- Saturn is the correct answer for your rebound points.

And that's the end of this third quarter and another lightning round.

(electronics buzzing) This time North Pocono will pick first, your categories are Olympic Athletes or Keys.

- Olympic Athletes.

- Olympic Athletes the time will begin after I read the first question.

Name the sports played by these athletes, we're looking for a sport such as rowing, not the name of specific events within that sport.

Simone Biles.

- Gymnastics.

- [Regina] Correct.

- Michael Phelps.

- Swimming.

- [Regina] Naomi Osaka.

- Tennis.

- [Regina] Correct.

- [Regina] Correct.

Sorry, Usain Bolt.

- Running.

- Track.

- Track.

- [Regina] Track is the correct answer.

The first answer given was running.

Kevin Durant.

- Basketball.

[Regina] Muhammad Ali, that's correct.

- Boxing.

- [Regina] Correct.

Chloe Kim.

- Soccer.

- [Regina] Snowboarding.

Megan Rapinoe.

- Soccer.

- [Regina] Correct.

Martin Brodeur.

- Pass.

- [Regina] Hockey.

Greg Louganis.

- Baseball.

- Diving.

Moving over to our team from Wallenpaupack.

Our category is Keys, answer the following about keys.

Either of two computer keys held down to capitalize letters.

- Shift.

- [Regina] Correct.

A master key that unlocks any door in a house.

- Skeleton.

(buzzer ringing) - Skeleton key.

- [Regina] Correct.

Symbol on a musical staff whose name means key in French.

(buzzer ringing) Tyler?

- Cleft.

- [Regina] Correct.

National Anthem written by Francis Scott Key.

(buzzer ringing) - "The Star Spangled Banner".

- [Regina] Correct.

Obstructions in a lock that interfaced with a key.

(buzzer ringing) - Brendan?

- Pins, pins.

- [Regina] Tumblers.

State known as the Keystone State.

(buzzer ringing) - Pennsylvania.

- [Regina] Correct.

Color that is called key in CMYK printing.

(buzzer ringing) - Pass.

- [Regina] Black.

Branch of computer science dealing with keys and coding in authentication.

(buzzer ringing) Emma?

- Pass.

- [Regina] Cryptography.

Three letter word for a small device held near an electronic lock to unlock it.

(buzzer ringing) - EPG.

- [Regina] EPG is incorrect, it is fob.

Country whose flag depicts two keys in its right half.

(buzzer ringing) Brendan?

- Vatican City.

- [Regina] Is the correct answer.

That's the end of our lightning round.

So let's take a look at our score.

We have North Pocono with 185 points and Wallenpaupack with 150 points.

We'll now begin the last segment of the game with this toss up, what situation which corresponds to a Herfindahl-Hirschman Index of 10,000 is opposed by antitrust law and occurs in markets with only one seller?

(Buzzer ringing) Brendan, Wallenpaupack.

- Monopoly.

- Monopoly is the correct answer, and your bonus, half of the 2021 Physics Nobel Prize went to Klaus Hasselmann and Syukuro Manabe for their their work on what process illustrated by the hockey stick graph?

- Electron microscopy.

- Is incorrect, it was global warming.

Toss up, what author who wrote about an attempted attack on Greenwich Observatory in "The Secret Agent" depicted Ivory Trader Kurtz in "Heart of Darkness"?

(buzzer ringing) - Joseph Conrad.

- Joseph Conrad, Emma, is the correct answer and your bonus, Wallenpaupack, the former ballistic research laboratory was home to what device built in 1945, considered the first programmable digital computer?

- No, Turning machine.

- Turning machine.

- Turning machine.

- Is incorrect, it is electronic numerical integrator and computer.

Toss up, weevils belong to what order, the largest of all animal orders which contains insects with hardened four wings such as scarabs and ladybugs?

(buzzer ringing) - Tyler, Wallenpaupack?

- Invertebrates.

- Invertebrates is incorrect, rebound to North Pocono, no one?

The correct answer is beetles.

What African country whose flag features a soapstone bird sacred to the Shona people was formally called Rhodesia and is governed from- (buzzer ringing) - Botswana.

- Botswana is incorrect, I'll complete the question and rebound to North Pocono, from Harare, anyone?

(buzzer ringing) - Noah?

- Rwanda.

- Rwanda is incorrect, it is Zimbabwe.

Toss up, what painter who worked in his chateau at Giverny painted a picture of a Le Havre sunrise that provided the name of the impressionist movement?

(buzzer ringing) Emma?

- Monet.

- Monet's the correct answer and your bonus, Wallenpaupack, a 2021 study found women ate more meat than men did in what Roman seaside resort town destroyed with Pompeii in the ad 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius?

- Paraclitus.

- Paraclitus is incorrect, it is Herculaneum.

Toss up, what ruler who succeeded his father Sin-Muballit was an 18th century BC ruler of Babylon who formalized an eye- (buzzer ringing) - Nebuchadnezzar.

- Nebuchadnezzar is incorrect, I'll complete the question and rebound to North Pocono, who formalized an eye for an eye in a namesake law code?

(buzzer ringing) Noah?

- Hammurabi.

- Hammurabi's the correct answer for your rebound points.

Toss up, what author wrote about a man who walks his dog, Wolf, into the Catskills and sleeps through the American Revolution, in his story, Rip- (buzzer ringing) - Tyler?

- Rip Van Winkle.

- Is incorrect, I'll complete the question and rebound to North Pocono in his story, "Rip Van Winkle"?

No one?

The correct answer is Washington Irving.

Toss up, pencil paper ready?

What quotient results when the binomial 8x cubed plus 12X squared is divided by 4X and is also a binomial?

(Buzzer ringing) Noah?

- 2X squared plus 3X.

- Is the correct answer and your bonus, North Pocono, what principle states that the magnitude of the buoyant force on a body equals the weight of the fluid displaced by the body?

- No answer.

- Okay.

The correct answer is Archimedes.

And that is the end of our game.

Our score is Wallenpaupack with 180 points and North Pocono with 205 points.

Congratulations, North Pocono, 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.

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