(collegiate music) ♪ Go - Welcome to the 17th season of WVIA's 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.

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

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

And 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 match features Riverside versus Mountain View.

Playing for Riverside are Michael Rhodes and Connor Brown.

Their advisor is Thomas Borthwick.

Representing Mountain View are Jonathon Cimilesky and Jimi Bernaski.

Their alternates are Nick Schmidt and Luke Ziprich.

Their advisor is Charlene Martins.

Well, let's get started.

Riverside has won the coin toss and will receive the first question, which is what mathematicians 1748 namesake identity involves the numbers negative one, I, pi, and a number named for him, the natural logarithmic base E?

(buzzer) Okay, rebound to Mountain View.

- Noise.

- Okay, that's Euler, Euler.

Mountain View, here's your first question.

What 2021 film, in which an actor named Trevor Slattery befriends the faceless being Morris, stars Awqwafina as Katie and Simu Liu as the title hero?

(indistinct) Okay, rebound now to Riverside.

(buzzer) Okay, that's Shang-Chi.

Riverside, here's your next question.

What city which grew around the British encampment Fort William is a city in east India, where in 1756 British prisoners were held in a black hole?

- Mumbai.

- Is incorrect, rebound to Mountain View.

- New Delhi.

- Nope, the answer was Calcutta.

Mountain View, here's your question.

What man who worked with Frederique Auguste Bartholdi to design the framework of the Statue of Liberty names a wrought iron lattice tower in Paris?

- Eiffel.

- Is correct and here's your bonus question.

In what musical by Howard Ashman and Allen Menken does a dentist suffocate on laughing gas before being fed to the carnivorous plant Audrey 2?

- Pass.

- Nope, we're looking for "The Little Shop of Horrors."

Riverside, here's your next question.

What show that stars Sonequa Martin-Green as Captain Michael Burnham, is a CBS All-Access series, named for a spaceship in the Star Trek universe?

- Enterprise.

- Is incorrect, rebound to Mountain View.

- Discovery.

- Is correct for your rebound points, Mountain View, great job and here comes your next question.

What Supreme Court case, which cited research on dolls by Kenneth and Mamie Clark overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and desegregated public schools?

- Brown v. Board of Education.

- Is correct and here's your bonus question.

An introverted high school student named Charlie befriends step-siblings, Sam and Patrick in what young adult novel by Steven Shaboski?

- Major.

- No, it's "The Perks of Being a Wallflower."

Riverside, here is your next question and get those pencils and papers ready.

There are two answers required here.

The square root of 700 lies between which two consecutive whole numbers given that 25 squared is 625?

(beeping sound) - 25 and 26?

- Is incorrect, rebound to Mountain View.

- 26 and 27.

- 26 and 27 is correct for your rebound points, Mountain View, great job.

And that sound that you heard signals the end of the first quarter.

And it's now time for the Lightning Round.

(electricity sounding) 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.

Riverside has won the coin toss and will pick first.

Your categories are C in music or 13,000 foot mountains.

- 13,000 foot mountains, please.

- Okay.

13,000 foot mountains, it is.

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

Given a mountain that is over 13,000 feet tall, name the continent on which it is found and answers will repeat.

Denali, formerly called Mount McKinley.

- North America.

- [Paul Lazar] Yes, K2, the world's second tallest peak.

- North America - [Paul Lazar] Asia, Chimborazo.

- Asia - [Paul Lazar] South America.

Annapurna 1, over 26,000 feet tall.

- Asia.

- Yes, Mount Kenya.

- Africa.

- [Paul Lazar] Yes, Cotopaxi.

- South America.

- [Paul Lazar] Yes, the Matterhorn.

- North America.

- [Paul Lazar] Europe.

Mount Logan, the tallest in its country.

- Asia - [Paul Lazar] North America, Kilimanjaro.

- Asia - [Paul Lazar] Africa, Vincent Massif.

(beeping sound) Ran out of time, that was Antarctica.

Riverside, great job in the Lightning Round.

We're going to come over to Mountain View now and Mountain View, your remaining category will be C in music.

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

Give these musical terms that begin with a letter C. A steady rise in loudness.

- Crescendo.

- [Paul Lazar] Yes.

Religious singing with Gregorian variety.

- Choir - [Paul Lazar] Chant.

A work usually in three movements for soloist and orchestra.

- Pass.

- [Paul Lazar] Concerto.

Italian word for width found in many musical directions, multiple spellings are acceptable here.

- Pass - [Paul Lazar] Can.

A special separate ending for a piece.

- Pass.

- [Paul Lazar] Coda.

After doh, it means go back to the beginning.

- Pass - [Paul Lazar] Capo.

Another name for four-four time.

- Pass.

- [Paul Lazar] Common time.

A showy, lively piece including 24 written by Nicolo Paganini.

(beeping sound) That was Caprice.

And that's going to do it for the Lightning Round, and we have a great game so far.

Mountain View in the lead over Riverside by just 10 points, 50 to 40.

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.

And we'll start with the students from Riverside, and Michael I'll come to you first.

Tell me what you like to do for fun when you're not in school.

- I just like to play basketball.

Sometimes I play basketball and just hang out with my friends, play some video games.

- Thank you, Michael.

And Connor, what do you like to do for fun?

- (indistinct) Boy Scouts.

- Excellent.

It was very nice to meet you and good luck the rest of the way.

Mountain View, it's over to you, Jonathon, what do you like to do for fun when you're not in class?

- I play sports with friends like football, basketball.

- Okay, excellent.

And Jimi, what are your hobbies?

- I enjoy running cross country track as well as also acting in drama.

- Well, it was a pleasure meeting all of you, and we're now going to go ahead and begin the second quarter with this question that goes to Mountain View.

What novel in which Jack Stapleton claims to be able to cross the deadly Grimpen Mire is named after a spectral dog investigated by Sherlock Holmes?

- Kudru.

- Is incorrect, rebound to Riverside.

(buzzer) - Okay, that answer is "Hound of the Baskervilles".

And a reminder to please speak up so we can hear you.

Riverside, here is your next question.

In what decade did John Maynard Keynes publish his general theory and argue for increased government spending to combat the great depression?

- 1930s?

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

In 2020, what company sued Apple over restrictions on purchasing methods after Apple blocked Fortnite from its App Store?

- Epic Games?

- Is correct for your bonus points.

Great job, Riverside.

It's back to Mountain View, and get your pencils and papers ready.

If a single ball is randomly drawn from an urn holding five red balls and 20 white balls, what is the probability it is red?

- 25.

- Is correct and here's your bonus question.

What American author used 15 different narrators in a novel about the Bunin family, "As I Lay Dying"?

- Tennyson.

- Okay, we're looking for William Faulkner.

Riverside, here is your next question.

What author who created the fictional Myscatonic university wrote such works of horrors at the mountains of madness, and the call of Kathulu?

(indistinct) Is incorrect.

Rebound to mountain view.

- HB love (indistinct).

- Is correct for your rebound points, mountain view.

And here comes your next question.

Examples of what animals in No Smith include Hotty and skull who chase the sun and moon and a child of Lokey who bit off tears hand named Fen rear - Rose - Is correct.

And here's your bonus question.

Cyclotrons and Cicatrons are examples of what large machines that cause charged particles to hit each other at high velocities?

(indistinct) I'm sorry.

(indistinct) Judges.

- [Judge] What was the second part of what he said?

- Colliders.

- [Judge] That's fine.

- We'll take that, very good.

Riverside, here comes your next question.

What country is home to Lake Saban was the first country in the world to adopt Christianity as its official religion and is governed from Yuravan?

- Florida.

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to mountain view.

- Israel.

- Nope, that answer is Armenia.

Mountain view, here comes your next question.

What agency which sent a 1964 suicide letter to Martin Luther king Junior through its (indistinct) surveillance project was first led by Jay Edgar Hoover.

(beeping sound) - The FBI.

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus.

What English woman's essay A room of one's own describes the barriers that would've hindered the writing career of a hypothetical Judith Shakespeare?

(indistinct) Nope, the answer is Virginia Wolf.

And after one half of play, we currently have mountain view in the lead over Riverside, 95 to 55.

We wanna say thank you to Michael and Connor from Riverside.

And thank you to Jonathan and Jimmy from mountain view, you are both spectacular and we're now going to meet your teammates for the second half.

Playing for Riverside in the second half are Sasha Kazista and Michael Kazmirchek.

Representing Mountain View are Megan Ziprich and Paige Strickland.

Our first question in the third quarter goes to Riverside.

And that question is, what process that generates an anti- neutrino a proton and an electron, leaves the mass number of a nucleus unchanged when a neutron decays?

(indistinct) I'm sorry.

(indistinct) Is incorrect, rebound to Mountain View.

(indistinct) Nope, we were looking for beta decay.

Beta decay was the answer.

Mountain view, here is your question.

What artists who painted the marriage of the Virgin in 1504 depicted a discussion between Plato and Aristotle at the center of the School of Athens?

- Michael Anwarld.

- Is incorrect.

Rebound out of Riverside.

(indistinct) Is correct for your rebound points, Riverside.

And here's your next question.

What drink, which Confederate troops made from chikarie due to a blockade of Brazilian goods was touted in the revolution as more patriotic than tea?

(indistinct) Is incorrect, rebound to Mountain View.

(indistinct) Nope, that answer is coffee.

Something that's sacred to us all.

Okay, Mountain View here comes your next question.

What author who depicted the Vicario twins honor killing of Santiago Nasar and Chronicle of a death Foretold also wrote Love in the time of cholera?

(beeping sound) It's over to you Riverside.

(indistinct) Is correct for your rebound points.

Great job, and here comes your next question.

What country whose national diet formally selects its prime minister who's then appointed by the emperor was led briefly by Yoshihi de SUGA?

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

What Sulfur containing amino acid has a single coat on AUG which is also the most common start coat on for protein synthesis?

- Sorry - Is incorrect.

We're looking for methionine.

Mountain View, here's your next question.

What woman who was be headed after Francis Walsingham proved her support for the Barpington plot was a Monarch as well as a cousin of Elizabeth the first?

- Queen Victoria.

- Is incorrect, rebound to Riverside.

- Mary.

- Is incorrect.

We, actually be more specific.

(beeping sound) Okay, we're looking for Mary queen of Scots.

Okay, Riverside here comes your next question.

What type of substance with a continuous phase and the dispersed phase of suspended particles includes gels like gelatin and aerosols like fog?

(indistinct) Is correct.

And here's your bonus question.

Sir Roberts long ago, insider trading deal with Baron Arnheim allows Mrs. Chief Lee of (indistinct) Robert in what 1895 play by Oscar wild?

(indistinct) No, that answer is an ideal husband.

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, animal phrases, or around the house?

- Around the house - Around the house it is.

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

Given a tool found around the house, indicate whether it's used for gardening, cooking, woodworking, sowing, or none of the above.

Colander.

- Cooking.

- Yes, trowel.

- Gardening.

- Yes, zester.

- Cooking.

- Yes, tiller.

- Gardening.

- Yes, Seam ripper.

(indistinct) - Yes, lathe.

- Woodworking.

- Yes, Dipper or Dibbler.

- Cooking.

- Gardening, reamer.

(indistinct) Cooking.

Bevel.

- Woodworking.

- Yes, larpers.

Gardening.

Okay, Mountain View, that's gonna wrap up your portion of the lightning round.

Riverside, we're coming over to you and your remaining category will be animal phrases.

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

Give the specific name of the animal that completes this English idioms and metaphors.

Like a blank in a China shop.

(indistinct) - Yes, make sure your blanks are in a row.

- Blanks.

- Yes, let the blank outta the bag.

Yes, the straw that broke the blanks back.

(indistinct) Yes, let me address the blank in the room.

(indistinct) Yes, a blank and a coal mine.

- Pass.

- Canary.

Casting pearls before blank.

- Pass.

- Swine, to wear a blank around your neck.

- Pass.

- Albatros.

The blank has turned.

- Pass.

- Worm.

Like a blank in the ointment.

(beeping sound) That was a fly.

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

And after that again, a very close game, Mountain View in the lead over Riverside, 165 to 145.

And 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 we'll start with the students from Riverside, and Sasha, I'll come to you first.

Tell me what you like to do for fun when you're not in class.

What are your hobbies?

- Well, I like to read a lot.

I usually stay, (indistinct).

- Okay, thank you Sasha.

And Michael, what are your hobbies when you're not in school?

- I Play soccer and like snowboarding.

- Excellent, good luck to you the rest of the way Riverside.

Let's come over to Mountain View and Megan if you wouldn't mind telling us what you like to do for fun.

- So I (indistinct).

- Okay, thank you Megan.

And Paige, what are your hobbies?

- I play soccer, basketball and softball.

- All right, thank you very much.

It was very nice to meet all of you and will now begin the last segment of the game with this question that goes to Mountain View.

What country, which disputes the alpha chaga zone with Ethiopia was the site of a 2019 coup that ousted Omar Albashir and includes the Darfur region.

- Somali - Is incorrect, rebound to Riverside.

- Sudan.

- Please, repeat please.

- Sudan.

- Sudan is correct for your rebound points Riverside, and here comes your next question.

What Metalloid element which is paired with old lace in the title of a Joseph (indistinct) play has atomic number 33 and is poisonous to humans?

(indistinct) Excuse.

(indistinct) Is incorrect.

Rebound to mountain view.

- Mercury.

- No, the answer is Arsenic.

Mountain View, here comes your next question.

What concept, which Emily Dickinson claim should be told slant is described in the John Keets poem Owed on aggression earn as equivalent to beauty?

- Prime.

- Is incorrect, rebound to Riverside.

(beeping sound) We're looking for truth.

Riverside, here's your next question.

The Theodosian walls protected what city that was sacked by crusaders in 1204 and captured by the conqueror's Ottoman army in 1453?

(beeping sound) Rebound out to Mountain View.

- Constant local - Is correct for your rebound points, Mountain View.

And here comes your next question.

What African country, whose Lake Kyoga is north of the much larger lake Victoria and has its main airport at Entebbe and its capital at Kampala.

(beeping sound) Okay, rebound to Riverside.

- Mozambique.

- Nope, that country is Uganda.

Riverside, here comes your next question.

What color names a sports team coached by Kevin (indistinct) that plays in first energy stadium as well as Rhode islands only Ivy league school.

- Riverside.

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question.

What 20th century Austrian wrote You must change your life in his poem Archaic torso of Apollo and described angelic orders in his first Geno Elegy?

(beeping sound) Okay, that was Rocha.

Mountain View, here's your next question.

Ash clouds may have caused the great dying at the end of what final period of the Paleozoic era after which dinosaurs emerged in the Triassic?

- Thoracic.

- Is incorrect, rebound to Riverside.

(beeping sound) Ran out of time, Riverside.

We are looking for the Permian period.

And that's the end of the game.

And our winner tonight is Mountain View over Riverside by just 10 points, 175 to 165.

Congratulations Mountain View, 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 for watching.

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