(lively marching band music) ♪ Go - Welcome to the 18th 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 1, 3, or $5,000.

Tonight's match features Riverside versus North Pocono.

Representing Riverside are Austin Schramko, Zack Chileck, Tess Parchinski, and Sarah Wolfe.

Their advisor is Ronald Geise.

Representing North Pocono are Stephanie Arias, Minerva Corea, Grace Beckish, and Noah Beckish.

Rena Nemitz and Elizabeth Donovan are their alternates and their advisor is Christopher Wilber.

"Scholastic Scrimmage" is a game of rapid recall of factual information, so let's take a moment 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 go ahead and get started with this toss-up question.

What function whose namesake law generalizes the Pythagorean theorem describes the ratio between a right triangle's adjacent side and its hypotenuse?

(buzzer sounds) Grace, North Pocono.

- Cosign?

- Is correct and here comes your bonus.

William Miller's failed prediction of the second coming took place in what 19th century decade in which Mormon prophet Joseph Smith was murdered?

(buzzer sounds) - 1870s?

- It was the 1840s.

The 1840s.

Here's our next toss-up.

In what state where American prisoners were massacred by Banastre Tarleton at Waxhaws did Patriot forces lose the Battles of Camden and Charleston?

(buzzer sounds) Noah, North Pocono.

- South Carolina.

- Is correct.

And here comes your bonus.

Willie Stark, a southern politician based on Huey Long, is the central character of what novel by Robert Penn Warren?

(buzzer sounds) - No answer.

- Okay, that is "All the Kings Men."

Here's our next toss-up.

What search engine introduced a chatbot based on GPT-4 in February 2023, has the second largest query volume behind Google, and is owned by Microsoft?

(buzzer sounds) Grace, North Pocono.

- Bing.

- Is correct and here comes your bonus.

Scroll-like volutes decorate the top of columns of what order that, like the Doric and Corinthian, is one of the three main classical orders?

- Ionian?

- Judges?

- [Judge] Uh, no.

- Is incorrect.

We were looking for Ionic.

Ionic.

Let's go to our next toss-up.

What sedimentary rock that has an oolitic form, often contains aragonite, forms stalagmites in caves, and is formed from calcium carbonate?

(buzzer sounds) Minerva, North Pocono.

- Calcite?

- [Paul] Is incorrect.

Rebound to Riverside.

(buzzer sounds) - Limestone?

- Is correct for your rebound points, Riverside.

As we move on to our next toss-up, what city is the setting of a 1960 George Selden novel about the Cricket Chester and is home to "Harriet the Spy" who lives on the Upper East Side.

(buzzer sounds) Grace, North Pocono.

- Chicago?

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Riverside.

(buzzer sounds) - Manhattan?

- [Paul] Judges?

- [Judge] Yes.

- That is correct.

New York City, very good.

That's for your rebound points.

And we move on now to another toss-up.

What mythical creature, the mascot of Notre Dame's athletic teams, is a fairy that hides a pot of gold.

Noah, North Pocono.

- Leprechaun.

- Is correct.

And your bonus, what biological compounds containing four fused rings include hormones such as cortisol and anabolic ones that.

(buzzer sounds) - Steroids?

- Is correct for your bonus points, North Pocono.

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

What is the only value of X that satisfies the equation 6x minus 7 equals 17?

(buzzer sounds) Noah, North Pocono.

- Four.

- Is correct.

And here comes your bonus.

In August 2023, what district attorney in Fulton County, Georgia indicted 19 people for attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election?

(buzzer sounds) - No answer.

- Okay, that's Fani Willis.

Here's our next toss-up.

What character meets immortal struldbrugs on Luggnagg and talking horses called Houyhnhnms in a satirical Jonathan Swift novel about his travels?

(buzzer sounds) Noah, North Pocono.

- Gulliver.

- Is correct and here comes your bonus question.

What queen, the final monarch from the House of Stewart, was reigning when the Acts of Union united England and Scotland?

(buzzer sounds) - Elizabeth?

- No, we're looking for Anne, Queen of Britain.

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

(logo whooshes) (electricity crackles) 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 literary dogs or visual arts terms.

- Visual arts.

- Visual art terms it is and your time begins after I finish reading the first question.

Given an art term, identify whether it is most commonly used in the discipline of painting, sculpture, drawing, or photography.

Acrylics.

(buzzer sounds) - Painting.

- [Paul] Yes.

Bust and relief.

(buzzer sounds) - Sculpture?

- [Paul] Yes.

Aperture.

(buzzer sounds) - Photography.

- [Paul] Yes.

Crosshatching.

(buzzer sounds) - Drawing.

- [Paul] Yes.

Shutter speed.

(buzzer sounds) - Photography.

- Yes.

Lost wax technique.

(buzzer sounds) - Drawing.

- [Paul] Sculpture.

Speed, as measured with the ISO system.

(buzzer sounds) - Photography.

- Yes.

And caustic.

(buzzer sounds) - Painting.

- Yes.

Bokeh.

(buzzer sounds) - Sculpting.

- Photography.

Alla prima.

(buzzer sounds) - Sculpting - Painting.

Still though very good in that portion of the lightning round, Riverside.

We're gonna come over to North Pocono and your remaining category will be literary dogs.

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

Name the author who created these fictional canines.

Bullseye, Bill Sikes dog in "Oliver Twist."

(buzzer sounds) - Charles Dickens.

- [Paul] Yes.

Hagrid's boarhound Fang in the "Harry Potter" books.

(buzzer sounds) - J.K. Rowling.

- [Paul] Yes.

The faithful Argus in the "Odyssey."

(buzzer sounds) - Homer?

- [Paul] Yes.

Mr. Rochester's dog Pilot in "Jane Eyre."

(buzzer sounds) - Pass.

- [Paul] Charlotte Bronte.

Toto in the wonderful "Wizard of Oz."

(buzzer sounds) - Pass.

- L. Frank Baum.

Lance's dog Crab in "The Two Gentlemen of Verona."

(buzzer sounds) - Pass.

- [Paul] Shakespeare.

The title wolfdog in "White Fang."

(buzzer sounds) - Jack London.

- [Paul ] Yes.

Nana, nursemaid to the Darling family in "Peter Pan."

(buzzer sounds) - Pass.

- [Paul] J.M.

Barrie.

Ribsey, the troublemaking pet of Henry Huggins.

(buzzer sounds) - Pass.

- [Paul] Beverly Cleary.

The watchdog Tuck in "The Phantom Toll Booth."

(buzzer sounds) - Norton Juster.

- Is correct.

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

And we have a very good game right now, North Pocono in the lead over Riverside 90 to 55.

And we're now going to move into the second quarter with this toss-up question.

What family, which included the corrupt Pope Alexander VI and his daughter Lucrezia, rivaled the Sforzas and Medicis in Renaissance Italy?

(timer beeps) That was the Borgia family.

The Borgia family.

Here's our next toss-up.

What German scientist who names the smallest possible length (buzzer sounds) proposed the idea.

Noah, North Pocono.

- Planck.

- Is correct and your bonus now.

In E. Coli, tryptophan synthesis and lactose metabolism are regulated by what structures?

Clusters of genes that are transcribed together.

- Um, we can try that, yeah.

(buzzer sounds) - Allele?

- No, we're looking for operons.

Operons.

Here's our next toss-up.

What sitcom in which entrepreneurial Tom Haverford was played by Aziz Ansari was set in Pawnee, Indiana and depicted city employee Leslie Knope.

(buzzer sounds) Zack, Riverside.

- Parks and Recreation?

- Is correct and here comes your bonus.

Frederick the Great was a virtuoso on and wrote more than 100 sonatas for what wind instrument whose modern form was developed by Theobald Boehm?

(buzzer sounds) - Flute?

- Is correct for your bonus points, Riverside.

Great job.

And here's our next toss-up.

What body of water contains the Dahlak Archipelago, provides the origin of the name Eritrea, and separates Egypt and Sudan from the Arabian Peninsula?

(buzzer sounds) Sarah, Riverside.

- Suez Canal.

- [Paul] Is incorrect.

Rebound to North Pocono (buzzer sounds) - Red Sea.

- The Red Sea is correct for your rebound points, North Pocono.

As we move on to another toss-up.

What son of Seti I was a 19th dynasty pharaoh who built the temple at Abu Simbel, may be the Pharaoh in Exodus, and was known as The Great?

(buzzer sounds) Noah, North Pocono.

- Ptolemy?

- [Paul] Is incorrect, rebound to Riverside.

- Ramses.

(buzzer sounds) Ramses?

- [Paul] Be more specific.

- I don't know.

- [Paul] No answer?

- No.

- We're looking for Ramses II.

Ramses II.

Let's go on to another toss-up.

What commentator, who in August 2023 interviewed Donald Trump on Twitter, was fired by Rupert Murdoch.

(buzzer sounds) Noah, North Pocono.

- Tucker Carlson.

- Is correct.

And your bonus now.

What ordinary matter particles, which are part of the second generation of leptons, are about 200 times heavier than electrons.

(buzzer sounds) - Muon?

- Is correct for your bonus points.

Very good, North Pocono.

Here's our next toss-up.

What title character is found with a dog on an ice flow by Captain Walton who learns how this scientist made a creature in a novel by Mary Shelley.

(buzzer sounds) Grace, North Pocono.

- Frankenstein?

- Is correct and here comes your bonus question.

What Alabama city has an annual commemoration to mark Bloody Sunday in which civil rights protestors were beaten on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in 1965?

- It's not Montgomery.

- It's not?

I was gonna say we could try Montgomery.

- All right, we'll try it.

(buzzer sounds) Montgomery?

- Nope, that answer is Selma, Alabama.

Here's our next toss-up.

What company founded Cape Town, monopolized Japan's external trade for 200 years, (buzzer sounds) founded, Noah, North Pocono.

- Dutch East India Company.

- Is correct.

And here comes your bonus question.

What conflict is the setting of "The Dentist," "The Man I Killed," and other stories in the Tim O'Brien collection, "The Things They Carried?"

- Is it man versus self?

- Try it.

- Oh, try it.

(buzzer sounds) - Man versus self?

- No, we're looking for Vietnam.

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 Riverside, and Austin, I'll come to you first.

You guys get three months off in the summer.

So where do you like to go on vacation?

- Um, I like to go to Florida a lot.

- [Paul] Excellent.

Any particular place?

- Orlando.

- [Paul] Okay, very nice.

Zack?

- Disney World.

- [Paul] Okay, we have two Disney Worlds here.

Tess?

- I would also say Disney World.

- [Paul] All right.

And Sarah?

- New York City.

- Okay, so three of the four are Disney people and we have a New York City person here.

It's very good to see you again, Riverside, good luck the rest of the way.

North Pocono, coming over to you.

Stephanie, same question.

- I'd probably say the beach.

- [Paul] Any particular beach?

- No.

- [Paul] Okay, all right.

Just any beach?

- Yeah.

- [Paul] All right.

Minerva?

- Um, I'd say the beach.

- [Paul] Okay.

- Just any beach, yeah.

- [Paul] Okay, Grace?

- Probably Boston, Massachusetts.

- [Paul] Okay.

And Noah?

- I like to go to Hershey Park and ride the Fahrenheit rollercoaster.

- That is really cool, isn't it?

- [Noah] Absolutely.

- Awesome.

Good luck to you, North Pocono, the rest of the way.

And now we're going to begin the third quarter with this toss-up question.

What animals, one of which was strangled to death due to its impervious fur.

(buzzer sounds) Noah, North Pocono - Bobcat.

- Is incorrect.

I'll finish the question and rebound to Riverside.

in the first of Hercules' labors, also make up the body of the sphinx?

(buzzer sounds) - Lion?

- Lion is correct for your rebound points, Riverside.

And here's our next toss-up.

What author wrote about the abduction of Cora and Alice Munro and the death of Uncas in a novel about Natty Bumppo titled "The Last of the Mohicans?"

(timer beeps) That is James Fenimore Cooper.

Here's our next toss-up.

What country, where 100 people died in an October 2023 drone strike in Homs, has been the site of a decade-long civil war against Bashar al-Assad?

(buzzer sounds) Sarah, Riverside.

- Sudan.

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to North Pocono.

(timer beeps) That is Syria.

Syria.

Here comes our next toss-up.

What animals are free floating medusa stages, in phylum Cnidaria.

(buzzer sounds) Grace, North Pocono.

- Jellyfish.

- Is correct and here comes your bonus.

What author of The Border trilogy, which includes the novel "All the Pretty Horses," wrote about the brutal Judge Holden in "Blood Meridian?"

(buzzer sounds) - Pass.

- That author is Cormac McCarthy.

Let's go to another toss-up.

In September 2023, what athlete defeated Aryna Sabalenka to become the first American teenage tennis player since Serena Williams to win the US Open?

Austin, Riverside.

- Coco Gauff?

- Is correct, and your bonus now.

What form of arthritis caused by the buildup of uric acid crystals in the joints often affects the big toe first?

(buzzer sounds) - No answer.

- Okay, that is gout.

Gout.

Here's our next toss-up.

What empire, known as the Realm of Four Parts to its subjects, was founded by Manco Capac, and destroyed by conquistadors led by Francisco Pizarro?

(buzzer sounds) Noah, north Pocono.

- Aztec Empire?

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Riverside.

- Incans.

(buzzer sounds) Incan Empire?

- Incan Empire is correct for your rebound points, Riverside.

And our next toss-up.

What play in which Ulrich leads a revolt against Gessler was written by Friedrich Schiller about a Swiss archer who shoots an apple off a boy's head?

(buzzer sounds) Noah, North Pocono.

- William Tell.

- Is correct and here comes your bonus.

What city south of Sardis Lake, which is the home of the University of Mississippi, shares its name with an English city?

- What about London?

Or maybe Georgetown?

(buzzer sounds) - Georgetown?

- No, that answer is Oxford.

Oxford.

Here's our next toss-up.

What interactions that hold together the base pairs in DNA explain the high boiling point?

(buzzer sounds) Noah, North Pocono.

- Hydrogen bonding?

- Is correct and here comes your bonus.

Topologist often joke that a coffee mug is equivalent to what shape that looks like a donut.

(buzzer sounds) - Torus?

- Torus is correct for your bonus points, North Pocono.

And that sound that you heard signals the end of the third quarter and another lightning round.

(logo whooshes) (electricity crackles) This time North Pocono will pick first.

Your categories are islands of the world or double vowels.

(buzzer sounds) - Double vowels.

- Double vowels it is and your time begins after I finish reading the first question.

Give these answers that begin with a double vowel.

Long fish with an electric type.

(buzzer sounds) - Eel.

- [Paul] Yes.

Biblical brother of Moses.

(buzzer sounds) - Aaron?

- [Paul] Yes.

The number two in Roman numerals.

(buzzer sounds) - I-I.

- [Paul] Yes, distant solar system region that long period comets come from.

(buzzer sounds) - Oort Cloud.

- Yes.

African mammal whose name means earth pig.

(buzzer sounds) - Aardvark.

- [Paul] Yes.

Five letter adjective meaning spooky.

(buzzer sounds) - Eerie.

- [Paul] Yes.

Acronym for US roadside assistance organization founded in 1902.

(buzzer sounds) - A-A-A.

- [Paul] Yes.

First name of the architect Saarinen who designed the Gateway Arch.

(buzzer sounds) - Aaron?

- Eero.

German name of Charlemagne's capital.

(buzzer sounds) - Pass.

- [Paul] Aachen.

Term for the study of eggs.

(buzzer sounds) - Oology.

- Is correct.

And that's going to do it for your portion of the lightning round, North Pocono, great job there.

Riverside, we're coming over to you and your remaining category will be islands of the world.

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

Given an island or island group, name the country that controls it.

Tasmania.

(buzzer sounds) - Australia.

- [Paul] Yes.

Greenland.

(buzzer sounds) - Denmark.

- [Paul] Yes.

Isle of Man.

(buzzer sounds) - Britain.

- [Paul] Yes.

Moloka'i.

(buzzer sounds) - Pass.

- The US.

Luzon.

(buzzer sounds) - Pass.

- [Paul] The Philippines.

Bora Bora.

(buzzer sounds) - Samoa?

- [Paul] France.

Baffin Island.

(buzzer sounds) - Britain.

- [Paul] Canada.

Aruba.

You can pass.

(buzzer sounds) - Pass.

- [Paul] The Netherlands.

Novaya Zemlya.

(buzzer sounds) - France.

- [Paul] Russia.

Gotland.

(buzzer sounds) Austin.

- Pass.

- Okay, that's Sweden.

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

And after that we currently have North Pocono in the lead over Riverside, 220 to 115.

And we're now going to go ahead and begin the last quarter of the game with this toss-up question.

What 2023 film in which medium Joyce Reynolds becomes impaled on a statue is about detective Hercule Perot (buzzer sounds) investigating a murder.

Grace, North Pocono.

- "A Haunting in Venice"?

- Is correct and here's your bonus.

In a 1915 poem by Rupert Brooke, a man with what title jobs states, "if I should die then some corner of a foreign field would be forever England."

- A farmer.

(buzzer sounds) - Farmer.

- Nope, the answer we were looking for was soldier.

Soldier.

Here's our next toss-up.

What province, whose town of Churchill is known as the polar bear capital of the world, is east of Saskatchewan, and is governed from Winnipeg?

(buzzer sounds) Who rang?

(buzzer sounds) Sarah, Riverside.

- Nunavut.

- [Paul] Is incorrect.

Rebound now to North Pocono.

(buzzer sounds) - Manitoba.

- Is correct for your rebound points, North Pocono.

As we move on now to another toss-up.

The addle technique is used to play what musical instrument whose concert version has a six and a half octave range and seven pedals to control its 47 strings.

(buzzer sounds) Sarah, Riverside.

- Harp.

- Is correct and here comes your bonus.

In 2023 Italian archeologists in the Palazzo della Rovere finished excavating the private theater of what fifth Roman emperor and lover of acting?

(buzzer sounds) - Nero?

- Is correct for your bonus points, Riverside.

Moving on to our next toss-up.

What election, whose winner ran on the National Union ticket saw former General George McClellan lose to Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War?

(buzzer sounds) Noah, North Pocono.

- 1864.

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

What is the median of a data set whose six values are 1, 100, 8, 17, 12 and 4?

(buzzer sounds) - 14 and a half.

- No, that answer is 10.

10.

Let's go to another toss-up.

What head of state, who brokered the end of the 2023 Wagner Group revolt, is often called Europe's last dictator?

(buzzer sounds) Noah, North Pocono.

- Lukashenko.

- Is correct and here comes your bonus.

Manjushri is what kind of enlightened being in Mahayana Buddhism who delays Nirvana to help educate others?

(buzzer sounds) - Bodhisattvas?

- Is correct for your bonus points, North Pocono.

Very impressive.

Here comes our next toss-up.

What word describes both a speaker in the title of a Chang-Rae Lee novel and a son in the title of a novel about Bigger Thomas by Richard Wright?

(timer beeps) That was native.

Native.

Here's our next toss-up.

What first name was shared by a daughter of Sir Thomas Parr and an Aragonese princess who were respectively the last and first wives of Henry VIII?

(buzzer sounds) - Catherine.

- Stephanie, North Pocono, that is correct, and here's your bonus.

The Montreal Protocol banned the use of what class of ozone depleting refrigerants that include freons?

(buzzer sounds) - Chlorofluorocarbons.

- Is correct for your bonus points, North Pocono.

Here's our next toss-up.

What amendment, which in Furman v. Georgia was held to apply to the death penalty, forbids both excessive bail and cruel and unusual punishments?

(buzzer sounds) Noah, North Pocono.

- Eighth Amendment.

- Is correct and here's your bonus.

A "New York Daily News" headline claimed that what president, a former Michigan Congressman, told the city to drop dead during a 1970s budget crisis?

(buzzer sounds) - Jimmy Carter?

- No, that answer was Gerald Ford.

Gerald Ford.

(timer beeps) And that's the end of the game.

And our winner tonight is North Pocono over Riverside, 290 to 130.

Congratulations North Pocono, 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 thanks for watching.

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