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(energetic music) ♪ Go - Welcome to this 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.

Tonight's match features Scranton versus Mountain View.

Representing Scranton are John Montaro, Noah Casey, Lauralee Ayala, and Ellagrace Miseo.

Their alternate is Ari Wargo, and their advisor is Lynn Cawley Harding.

Representing Mountain View are Jordan Jagger, Dazlyn Sobel, Reagan Bishop Russo, and Vivian Sedlac.

Their alternate is Aubrey Sanders, and their advisor is Stephanie Kyle.

"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 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'll be given the tossup points but will not receive a bonus question.

Well, let's go ahead and get started with this tossup question.

What state which hosts the world's largest balloon festival is home to White Sands National Park and contains the cities of Santa Fe and Albuquerque?

(contestant buzzes) Vivian, Mountain View.

- New Mexico.

- Is correct and here's your bonus.

politician and general Arthur Wellesley is better known as the Duke of what place?

(tone beeps) - No answer.

- He was the Duke of Wellington.

Here's our next tossup question.

What film in which Denzel Washington plays the usurper Macrinus is a 2024 sequel directed by Ridley Scott that depicts combat in ancient Rome?

(contestant buzzes) Noah, Scranton.

- "Gladiator 2" - Is correct.

And here's your bonus question.

What author wrote about hooligans called droogs who speak the fictional language Nadsat in his novel, "A Clockwork Orange?"

(tone beeping) Lauralee.

- No answer.

- Okay, that is Anthony Burgess.

Let's go on to our next tossup question.

What material to which tension is applied via keying is a type of fabric stretched across a wooden frame by artists who make paintings on it.

(contestant buzzes) Ellagrace, Scranton.

- Canvas.

- Is correct.

And your bonus question.

The Chateau Lake Louise is a luxurious hotel in what oldest national park in Canada which is in the Rocky Mountains of Alberta?

(tone beeping) - No answer.

- Okay, that's Banff National Park.

Let's go to our next tossup.

What politician succeeded Hannibal Hamlin as vice president and later became the first president to be impeached during his 1865 to 18- (contestant buzzing) John, Scranton.

- Andrew Johnson.

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

Swedish chemist Svante Arrhenius defined acids as proton donors and bases as species that form what other ion?

(contestant buzzing) - Hydroxide.

- Is correct for your bonus points, Scranton, as we go now to our next tossup.

What devices, which like empennages, may have static wicks on their trailing edge, cause stalls at high angles of attack and provide lift to planes?

(tone beeping) Those are the airplane wings.

Very important, very important.

Here's your next tossup question.

What Southern author wrote about Vardaman, who claims, "My mother is a fish," and Cash, who builds Addie Bundren's coffin, in his novel "As I Lay Dying?"

(tone beeping) That author was William Faulkner.

Okay, here's our next tossup.

What tribe that controlled most of North Africa from A.D.

435 to 534 sacked Rome under King Gaiseric in 455 and lends its name to acts of destruction?

(contestant buzzing) Vivian, Mountain View.

- Carthage?

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Scranton.

(tone beeping) Okay, that was Vandals.

All right, here's our next tossup question.

Stephanie Kwolek discovered what para-aramid polymer with a high tensile strength-to-weight ratio that makes it useful in bulletproof vests?

(contestant buzzing) Jordan, Mountain View.

- Carbon fiber.

- [Paul] I'm sorry?

- Carbon fiber.

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Scranton.

(tone beeping) (player whispering) (tone beeping) That is Kevlar.

All right, well that sound that you heard signals the end of the first quarter, and it's now time for the Lightning Round.

(whooshing) In this segment, each team will have an opportunity to answer as many of the tent and rapid-fire questions as they can in one minute.

Mountain View has won the coin toss and will pick first.

Your categories are "The Great Gatsby," or Short Q&A.

(contestant buzzing) - Short Q&A.

- Short Q&A it is.

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

Give these four or five-letter words that contain at least one Q and one A in either order.

Sound a duck makes.

(contestant buzzing) - Quack.

- [Paul] Yes; exactly the same as.

(contestant buzzing) - Equal.

- [Paul] Yes.

Country once led by Saddam Hussein.

(contestant beeping) - Pass.

- [Paul] Iraq.

Latin word for water.

(contestant buzzing) - Aqua.

- [Paul] Yes.

Country whose capital is Doha?

(contestant buzzing) - Qatar.

- [Paul] Yes.

Abbreviated term for muscles at the front of the upper leg.

(contestant buzzing) - Quad.

- Yes.

Small game bird with Montezuma and Japanese species.

(contestant buzzing) - Quail.

- [Paul] Yes.

Structure parallel to a shore from which boats are loaded.

(contestant buzzing) - Pass.

- [Paul] Quay.

Prefix meaning nearly or seemingly.

(contestant buzzing) - No answer.

- [Paul] That's quasi.

To rapidly drink something.

(contestant buzzing) - Quench.

- Quaff.

Quaff.

All right, Mountain View, still great job, though, in the Lightning Round.

Scranton, we're coming over to you and your remaining category will be the Great Gatsby.

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

Answer the following about the novel "The Great Gatsby."

Jazz Age decade when the book was written?

(contestant buzzing) - 1920s.

- [Paul] Yes.

The book's author?

(contestant buzzing) - Scott Fitzgerald.

- [Paul] Yes.

The book's narrator, who's Daisy's second cousin once removed?

(contestant buzzing) - Nick?

- [Paul] Yes.

Gatsby's first name.

(contestant buzzing) - Jay.

- [Paul] Yes.

Color of a dock light that symbolizes Gatsby's dreams?

(contestant buzzing) - Green.

- [Paul] Yes.

University that the narrator and Tom Buchanan attended?

(contestant buzzing) - Oxford.

- [Paul] Yale.

Sport that Jordan Baker excels at?

(contestant buzzing) - Golf.

- Yes.

Three-word term for the huge dumping ground near the Wilson's home?

(contestant buzzing) - Pass.

- [Paul] That's Valley of Ashes.

Specific place in Gatsby's estate where Gatsby dies?

(contestant buzzing) - The pool?

- [Paul] Yes.

Gatsby's gangster associate who fixed the World Series?

(contestant buzzing) - Wolfgang?

- No, we're looking for Meyer Wolfsheim.

Very close, very close.

Well that's going to do it for our first Lightning Round and after that we have Scranton in the lead over Mountain View 70 to 40.

And now we're going to go ahead and move into the second quarter with this tossup question.

What state which is home to a new NHL team named The Mammoth is nicknamed the Beehive State?

(contestant buzzing) John, Scranton.

- Utah.

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

The Sphincter of Oddi controls the flow of bile into what first section of the small intestine which precedes the jejunum and ileum?

(contestant buzzing) - The column.

- No, we're looking for the duodenum.

That's the duodenum.

Okay, let's go to another tossup.

What British author wrote about a plague survived by Lionel in "The Last Man," and described Victor's creation of an artificial life form in "Frankenstein?"

(contestant buzzing) Vivian, Mountain View.

- Mary Shelley.

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question.

A basket of fruit and bread spills over in what Edouard Manet painting in which two men converse while their nude female friend looks at the viewer?

(contestant buzzing) - No answer.

- That is "Luncheon on the Grass."

Okay, here's our next tossup question.

What devices, which name a vaporization cutting technique, have a gas variety that includes their helium-neon type and emit coherent light as a beam?

(contestant buzzing) Vivian, Mountain View.

- Laser.

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question.

What country singer released the 2025 album "I'm the Problem" which produced the hit singles "Lies, Lies, Lies," and "Love Somebody?"

(contestant buzzing) - Morgan Wallen.

- Is correct for your bonus points, Mountain View, as we go now to our next tossup question.

In what sport played by Mallory Swanson, Sophia Smith, and Trinity Rodman did the US Women's National team win the 2015 and 2019 World Cup?

(contestant buzzing) Jordan, Mountain View.

- Soccer.

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

What quantum principle stating that no two fermions can share identical quantum numbers can be applied to pairs of electrons in an atom?

(contestant buzzing) - No answer.

- That is the Pauli Exclusion Principle.

All right, here comes our next tossup.

What war which was investigated by one side's Agranat Commission began when Egyptian forces crossed the Suez Canal during a Jewish holy day in 1973?

(tone beeping) That was the Yom Kippur War.

All right, here's our next tossup: in 2025, what federal agency led by Lee Zeldin reversed its longstanding declaration that methane and other greenhouse gases threaten public health?

(contestant buzzing) Vivian, Mountain View.

- The EPA.

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

An invasion of Korea known as the Imjin War was launched by what second of Japan's Great Unifiers who was followed by Tokugawa Ieyasu?

(tone beeping) - No answer.

- That was Toyotomi Hideyoshi.

All right, here's our next tossup question.

What identifiers have reserved blocks that start with 10 and 192.168, and are four-part addresses used to identify devices on a network?

(contestant buzzing) Noah, Scranton.

- MAC address.

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Mountain View.

(contestant buzzing) - IP address.

- IP address is what we are looking for for your rebound points.

Great job, Mountain View.

As we go to our next tossup question.

(beeping) Well, we'll get to that one in the next round because 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 Scranton, and John, I'll come to you first.

Tell me if you had one superpower, what would it be and why?

- I choose super speed because I'm not very fast.

- [Paul] Okay, (laughing) thank you, John.

Noah?

- I think I second John here.

That'd be pretty nice.

- [Paul] All right Lauralee?

- Maybe to fly, 'cause I wanna fly.

- [Paul] Okay, Ellagrace.

- I would choose time control so I could sleep in in the morning.

- Love that.

All right, thank you Scranton.

Good luck the rest of the way.

Mountain View, we're coming over to you.

Jordan, if you had a superpower, what would it be and why?

- The power to spawn chocolate because I love chocolate.

- [Paul] (chuckling) Fair enough.

Dazlyn?

- To melt chocolate because I love chocolate.

- [Paul] Okay, Reagan?

- To cry chocolate, because I love chocolate.

- [Paul] I see.

Vivian?

- Mine would be to have a never-ending chocolate bar because I love chocolate so much.

- All right, we have some sugar fiends here on the stage here for "Scholastic Scrimmage" this afternoon.

Very good to meet you all again and good luck the rest of the way, Mountain View.

We're now going to go ahead and begin the third quarter with this tossup question.

What Englishman wrote, "No cross, no crown," while jailed in the Tower of London, and founded a namesake colony for Quakers governed from Philadelphia?

(contestant buzzing) Reagan, Mountain View.

- William Penn.

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question now.

Dichloromethane, or CH2 Cl2, has what property because its bonds result in a separation of positive and negative charge centers?

(contestant buzzing) - Polarity.

- Is correct for your bonus points, Mountain View, as we go to our next tossup question.

What author, whose novel "In Dubious Battle" depicts a strike in California, wrote about George Milton's killing of his friend Lennie in "Of Mice and Men?"

(contestant buzzing) Vivian, Mountain View.

- Steinbeck.

- Is correct, and your bonus question: Gerlach in the High Tatras is the highest point in what mountain range of Eastern Europe which forms a large band in Romania?

(contestant buzzing) - The Alps.

- Those are the Carpathian mountains.

Let's move on to our next tossup.

What city whose Bixiga neighborhood was once a hub for Italian migrants is the most populous city in Brazil and is named after St.

Paul?

(contestant buzzing) Vivian, Mountain View.

- Shao Paulo.

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

While dying, greaser Johnny Cade tells Ponyboy Curtis to stay gold in what young adult novel written in the 1960s?

(contestant buzzing) - "The Outsiders."

- Is correct for your bonus points, Mountain View, as we go on to our next tossup question.

What country, whose independence was recognized by the Treaty of Cordoba began fighting Spain after the Grito de Dolores issued by Miguel Hidalgo?

(contestant buzzing) Vivian, Mountain View.

- Portugal?

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Scranton.

(contestant buzzing) - Mexico.

- Is correct for your rebound points, Scranton.

Great job.

Here's our next tossup.

What insects of genus Tibicen have males with abdominal tymbals that produce loud mating sounds- (contestant buzzing) Vivian, Mountain View.

- Crickets?

- Is incorrect.

I'll finish the question and rebound to Scranton.

And have a Brood XIII that hatches every 17 years.

(contestant buzzing) Ellagrace.

- Cicadas?

- Is correct for your rebound points, Scranton, as we turn to our next tossup question.

What country, whose flag and coat of arms both depict a soapstone bird, was once called Rhodesia, and is an African country governed from Harare?

(tone beeping) That is Zimbabwe.

Okay guys, here's our next tossup question.

What veteran of Campaldino, who was exiled by the Black Guelphs, wrote "La Vita Nuova" about his love for Beatrice who helped inspire his "Divine Comedy?"

(tone beeping) That is Dante.

All right, here's our next tossup.

What composer whose third symphony is nicknamed the "Organ Symphony" wrote movements like Fossils and The Swan for the "Carnival of the Animals?"

(contestant buzzing) Noah, Scranton.

- Beethoven.

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Mountain View.

(tone beeping) That is Camille Saint-Saens.

All right, here's our next tossup question.

Dobson units measure concentrations of what molecule destroyed by CFCs and concentrated in a layer of the stratosphere that has molecular formula O3?

(contestant buzzing) (alarm beeping) Vivian, Mountain View.

- Trioxide.

- [Paul] Is incorrect.

Rebound to Scranton.

(contestant buzzing) - Ozone?

- Is correct for your rebound points, Scranton.

And that sound that you heard signals the end of the third quarter and another Lightning Round.

This time Scranton will pick first.

Your categories are Counting in Foreign Languages, or Emotions.

(contestant buzzing) - Emotions.

- Emotions it is, and your time begins when I finish reading the first question.

Name these people, places, or things that share their name with emotions or emotional states.

Its pursuit is often grouped with life and liberty.

Don't know you can pass.

(contestant buzzing) That's happiness.

Species of Oscar who lives in a trash can on Sesame Street.

(contestant buzzing) - Grouch.

- [Paul] Yes.

Last name of Courtney who married Nirvana front man, Kurt Cobain.

(contestant buzzing) - Pass.

- [Paul] Love.

With Serena, the name of the commander's wife in "The Handmaid's Tale."

- Pass.

(contestant buzzing) - Joy?

- [Paul] Yes.

Party whose subject is unaware of its planning.

(contestant buzzing) - Surprise.

- [Paul] Yes.

Scraped or grated skin of a citrus fruit such as an orange or lemon.

(contestant buzzing) - Zest.

- Yes, saint in the title of a 2003 Metallica album?

(contestant buzzing) - Pass.

- [Paul] Anger.

Bill Clinton's optimistic Arkansas hometown?

(contestant buzzing) - Pass.

- [Paul] Hope.

HBO series starring Zendaya as Rue Bennett?

(contestant buzzing) - "The Bear."

(alarm beeping) - Nope, "Euphoria."

All right, Scranton, great job in the Lightning Round.

Mountain View, we're coming your way, and your remaining category will be Counting in Foreign Languages.

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

Give the English equivalent of these numbers in foreign languages.

No answer is larger than 50.

German: (speaking foreign language) (contestant buzzing) - Reagan.

- Three.

- Yes; Latin: (speaking foreign language).

(contestant buzzing) - Fifteen.

- [Paul] Five; Spanish: (speaking foreign language).

(contestant buzzing) - Eleven.

- [Paul] Yes; French: (speaking foreign language).

(contestant buzzing) - Ten.

- [Paul] Yes.

Italian: (speaking foreign language).

(contestant buzzing) - Twenty.

- [Paul] Yes.

Russian: (speaking foreign language).

(contestant buzzing) - Zero.

- [Paul] Yes.

Modern Greek: (speaking foreign language) (contestant buzzing) - Eight.

- Yes.

Japanese: (speaking foreign language), or to void a taboo, (speaking foreign language).

(contestant buzzing) - Four.

- [Paul] Yes.

Arabic: (speaking foreign language).

(contestant buzzing) - Twelve.

- [Paul] One.

Mandarin Chinese: (speaking foreign language).

(contestant buzzing) - Pass.

- That is two.

All right, and that's going to do it for our second Lightning Round.

And after that we have a very good game.

Mountain View in the lead over Scranton 170 to 130.

And now we'll go ahead and begin the final segment of the game with this tossup question.

What confederacy, which signed the treaty of Fort Stanwix with Britain, was composed of indigenous northeastern nations like the Oneida and Mohawk?

(tone beeping) That was the Iroquois.

Iroquois.

Here's our next tossup.

What novel in which a gift of faults is made by the former star Mrs.

Whatsit to a young space traveler Meg Murray was written by Madeleine L'Engle?

(contestant buzzing) Vivian, Mountain View.

- "A Wrinkle in Time."

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question now.

Mayotte, Mauritius, and the Comoros are among the small islands found in what ocean?

(contestant buzzing) - Pacific?

- Is incorrect.

That was the Indian Ocean.

All right, let's go to our next tossup and get out your pencils and papers.

How many identical sectors does a circle have if each sector has a central angle measuring 20 degrees?

(contestant buzzing) Noah, Scranton, We need an answer.

- Eighteen.

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

In 1698, Peter the great enacted a 60-ruble tax on what symbols of Russia's lack of modernity which inspectors were sent to destroy with scissors?

(contestant buzzing) - No answer.

- Those are beards.

Beards.

All right, here's our next tossup.

What world leader names the largest stadium in the world, a cricket venue in his home state of Gujarat that he has visited as prime Minister of India?

(tone beeping) That's Narendra Modi.

Okay, our next tossup question: what fashion house, which originally made luggage trunks, makes Speedy and Alma bag designs decorated with a checkerboard pattern and the letters LV?

(contestant buzzing) Vivian, Mountain View.

- Louis Vuitton.

- Is correct.

And your bonus now and get out your pencils and papers.

What is the value of two raised to the fourth power, plus two raised to the fifth power, all divided by two to the third power?

(ethereal music) (tone beeping) Ran outta time there, guys.

What you're looking for is six.

Okay, here's our next tossup, and it's also get out your pencils and papers.

What is the area of a rectangle whose width is six and whose height is twice the- (contestant buzzing) Vivian, Mountain View - 72.

- Is correct.

And your bonus question: the Hagia Sophia is a cathedral that later served as both a mosque and a museum in what former capital city?

(tone beeping) That is Istanbul.

All right, on to the next tossup.

What man who's called morose by his nephew Fred shows kindness to bro- (contestant buzzing) Vivian, Mountain View.

- Ebenezer Scrooge.

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

The title character meets Charles Drouet, has an affair with George Hurstwood, and becomes a famous actress in what novel by Theodore Dreiser?

(tone beeping) That is "Sister Carrie."

All right, our next tossup.

In what event, which targeted members of spotted Elk's Band (alarm beeping) did U.S.

troops slaughter hundreds of Lakota civilians in 1890 near a South Dakota creek?

(tone beeping) That was the Wounded Knee Massacre.

And that's the game.

And our winner tonight is Mountain View over Scranton, 210 to 140.

Congratulations, Mountain View.

You're going to be moving on.

You've earned that chocolate, 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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