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(upbeat music) (upbeat music) - Welcome to the 19th 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 one, three, or $5,000.

Tonight's match features Southern Columbia versus Montgomery.

Representing Southern Columbia are Austin Schaefer, Victoria Hefner, Ryter McCoog and Milind Capadea.

Their alternates are Mara Turner and Alexandra Woodland.

And their advisor is Brian Leslie.

Representing Montgomery are John Grasso, Nova Bartlett, Santino Williams and Maeson Beck Barton.

Their alternate is Audrey Cook and their advisor is Kelly Kurtz.

"Scholastic Scrimmage" is a game of rapid recall of factual information, so let's take a minute 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.

(questions whooshing) Let's go ahead and get started with this toss up question in science.

Shelly suspected she had a UTI when she had fever, chills, abdominal pain and cloudy urine.

She knew it was time to see her doctor.

What medical problem does a person have if he or she is suffering with a UTI?

(buzzer beeps) - [Paul] Austin, Southern Columbia.

- Urinary Tract infection?

- Is correct and here comes your bonus now.

This adjective describes an object that has jagged or saw like edges.

Examples include the tooth leaf margins of several plants.

- Serrated?

- Is correct for your bonus point, Southern Columbia.

As we move on to a toss up in social science, until the 15th amendment was passed in 1870, these men were not allowed to vote in the United States, (buzzer beeps) John, Montgomery.

- African-Americans.

- Is correct and here comes your bonus question.

The height of a horse is measured in hands.

How many inches at the withers is a horse 16 hands high?

(buzzer beeps) - 80 inches.

- No, we're looking for 64.

64.

Let's move on to a toss up in world geography.

It consists of about 700 flat coral semi-tropical islands, however, only about 30 of them are inhabited.

From 1783 to 1973, it was a British colony.

Tourism makes up 70% of this country's industry name this country whose largest city is Nassau.

(buzzer beeps) John Montgomery.

- The Bahamas.

- Is correct and here comes your bonus now.

The rain in Spain stays mainly on the planes from the movie, "My Fair Lady" is a perfect example of this type of literary technique that's used to create a lyrical effect in poetry and other literary forms.

Name this technique in which vowel sounds are repeated within a sentence or phrase.

(buzzer beeps) Santino.

- Rhyme.

- No, we're looking for assonance.

Assonance.

Let's go to a toss up now in literature.

In Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

School master, Ichabod Crane, sought the hand of what young maiden?

(buzzer beeps) - Katrina Van Tassel.

- Nova, Montgomery.

- Katrina Van Tassel.

- Is correct and here comes your bonus now.

This barred spiral galaxy is visible from the earth appearing as a hazy band of light in the night sky.

Our solar system is located on the edge of which galaxy?

(buzzer beeps) - Santino.

- Milky way.

- Is correct for your bonus points.

As we move on to a toss up now in literature.

This historic novel is set both before and during the French Revolution in the cities of Paris and London.

(buzzer beeps) - Austin, Southern Columbia.

- Les Mis.

- Is incorrect.

I'll finish the question and rebound it to Montgomery.

It's said to be the bestselling novel of all time.

What Dickens novel begins.

(buzzer beeps) It was the best of times.

John, Montgomery.

- "The Tale of Two Cities."

- Is correct for your rebound points, Montgomery, great job.

Let's go to a toss up now in world geography, it has the oldest surviving parliament in the world called the Althing.

It sits just outside the Arctic circle between Greenland and Europe (buzzer beeps) and three, John Montgomery.

- Iceland.

- Is correct and here comes your bonus.

Used in insecticides and paint.

There are suspension of very fine droplets in the air that move with great speed.

Common classifications include dust, fume, mist, smoke, and fog.

Chemists classify some of them as colloids.

What is the general name for these small particles or droplets of liquids that are suspended in a gaseous substance?

(timer beeping) That answer we were looking for was aerosols.

Aerosols.

And that sound that you heard signals 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 12 rapid fire questions as they can in one minute.

Southern Columbia has won the coin toss and will pick first.

Your categories are astronomy or music.

- All right, we'll go with astronomy.

- Astronomy it is and your time begins after I finish reading the first question, I'll name an animal that is represented in one of the constellations in the night sky.

You name the constellation.

Lion.

(buzzer beeps) Pass.

- [Paul] Leo, fish.

(buzzer beeps) - Pisces.

- [Paul] Yes, whale.

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- [Paul] Cetus, eagle.

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- [Paul] Aquila, ram.

(buzzer beeps) - Taurus.

- Aries, dove.

(buzzer beeps) - Virga.

- [Paul] Colomba, lizard.

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- [Paul] Lacerta, wolf.

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- [Paul] That's Lupus, fox.

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- [Paul] Vulpecula, peacock.

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- [Paul] Pavo, swan.

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- [Paul] Cygnus, crane.

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- That's grus.

Okay, Southern Columbia.

That's going to do it for your portion of the lightning round.

Montgomery, we're coming over to you and your remaining category will be music.

And once again, your time begins after I finish reading the first question, name the popular country singer or group who hit the top of the billboard charts with these 2023 songs.

"Seven Minutes in Heaven."

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- [Paul] Reba McIntyre, "Everleave."

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- [Paul] Alexandra Kay, "It Takes a Woman."

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- [Paul] Chris Stapleton, "Truck Bed."

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- HARDY, "Religiously?"

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- Bailey Zimmerman, "Something in the Orange."

(buzzer beeps) - Zach Ron.

- [Paul] Yes.

"Don't Let the Old Man In."

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- [Paul] Toby Keith, "Everything I love."

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- [Paul] Morgan Wallen, "It Matters to Her."

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- [Paul] Scotty McCreary, "Standing Room Only."

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- [Paul] Tim McGraw, "Light on in the Kitchen."

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- [Paul] Ashley McBride, "You Proof."

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- That's Morgan Wallen.

(timer beeping) Okay guys, that's going to wrap it up for the first lightning round and after that we currently have Montgomery in the lead over Southern Columbia, 60 to 20.

And we're now going to go ahead and move into the second quarter with this toss up in literature.

Written for Alice Liddell.

This 19th century work contains the poems, "You are old, Father William," and "Beautiful Soup."

Name This Lewis Carroll story.

(buzzer beeps) Austin, Southern Columbia.

- "Alice on Wonderland."

- Is correct and here comes your bonus.

Each contains a place for the faithful to assemble and pray toward Mecca identified as principle building used for worship in the Muslim faith.

(buzzer beeps) - Mosque.

- Mosque is correct for your bonus points, Southern Columbia.

As we move on to a toss up now in sports, a basketball player advances the ball up the court to begin an offensive play.

What position or title is given to this player?

- Point guard?

- Nova Montgomery.

- Point guard.

- Is correct and here comes your bonus question.

This unmanned space flight test that blasted off from Kennedy Space Center on November 16th, 2022 spent three weeks in space as it orbited the moon before it returned home.

(buzzer beeps) Name- John.

- Artemis One.

- Is correct for your bonus points, Montgomery.

As we move on to a toss up in world geography now.

Devil's Island, best known of a safety island, served as an inhumane French penal colony from 1852 to 1938.

Off the northern coast of which South American country is it located?

(buzzer beeps) Austin, Southern Columbia - French Guinea.

- Is incorrect.

Rebound now to Montgomery.

(buzzer beeps) John.

- Suriname.

- No, you are close.

You're looking for French Guiana.

French Guiana.

Let's go to a toss up now in literature.

It means elixir of life in Greek, it can also mean anything that tastes good.

Name this word associated (buzzer beeps) with the food- Mason, Montgomery.

- Ambrosio.

- Is correct and here comes your bonus now.

What trig function is represented by the ratio of the arm opposite the angle to the hypotenuse.

(buzzer beeps) John.

Sine.

- Sine is correct for your bonus points, Montgomery.

As we move on now to a toss up in art.

American painter, Grant Wood is best known for his depictions of the rural Midwest.

He spent his time in the army designing camouflage scenes.

American Gothic is probably his most famous painting.

Where did American painter Grant Wood obtain his art training?

(buzzer beeps) Ryter, South Columbia.

- Mexico.

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Montgomery.

(buzzer beeps) - Santino.

- France.

- No, we're looking for the Art Institute of Chicago.

Let's go to a toss up now in math, a simple definition of this branch of mathematics might be that it simply deals with the angles and sides of triangles.

(buzzer beeps) Trigonometry.

- Austin, Southern Columbia.

- Trigonometry.

- Is correct and here comes your bonus now.

The Navajo Nation has its own judicial system.

It includes a group that is not police officers, but whose job is to help resolve disputes and disagreements within the tribe.

What is this group called?

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- Okay, that's peacemakers.

Peacemakers.

Let's go to a toss up now in science.

Sometimes called methyl alcohol or wood alcohol, this clear colorless organic gas is extremely flammable and highly poisonous.

When combined with organic acids it forms esters, which are used in paints and dyes.

Name this important solvent.

Whose formula is CH3OH.

(buzzer beeps) - Acetate.

- [Paul] Milind, Southern Columbia.

- Acetate.

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Montgomery.

(buzzer beeps) - Butane.

- No, methanol, methanol was the answer there.

Well 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.

We'll start with the students from Southern Columbia and Austin.

I'll come to you first.

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

- Binge watch Netflix.

- [Paul] Okay, thanks Austin, Victoria.

- I play field hockey and I like to bake and read.

- Excellent, Ryter.

- I like to play chess and play a lot of different video games.

- [Paul] Thank you, Miland.

- I love reading but also just watching YouTube.

- Okay, thanks for being here, Southern Columbia.

Good luck the rest of the way.

Montgomery, coming over to you.

John, what do you like to do when you're not in class?

- So I really like to play video games.

I also watch a lot of anime and I always like researching new things.

- Okay, really cool.

Lifelong learning.

Got to love it, Nova?

- I really like traveling and I like to do sports outside of school as well.

- Thank you, Nova.

Santino.

- Probably favorite thing right now is just working out.

- [Paul] Cool, thank you Santino and Maeson.

- I embroider recreationally and I like to do research on the acting industry.

- All right, excellent, thank you Montgomery.

It was so nice to meet all of you.

And now we'll begin the third quarter with this toss up question in music.

Vocalist drummer Patrick Monahan and guitarist bassist, Rob Hotchkiss formed this San Francisco based band in 1994.

Two other members joined them later and they found true success in 2001 with their album, "Drops of Jupiter," which won them two Grammy nominations for record of the year and best performance by a duo or group (buzzer beeps) with vocalists.

Mason, Montgomery.

- Train.

- [Paul] Is correct and here comes your bonus question.

Identify this brass instrument by the description.

It has three keys, is shaped like a trumpet and is the smallest instrument used by a brass band?

Name it.

(buzzer beeps) Nova.

- French horn.

- No, we're looking for the cornet, the cornet.

Let's go to a toss up now in literature.

What popular American author pen the short stories, "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber," "Cat in the Rain," and "Hills like White Elephants."

(buzzer beeps) Nova, Montgomery.

- Ernest Hemingway.

- Is correct and here's your bonus now.

Before a sculptor casts a piece of art, he'll generally make a small model of the finished sculpture.

What are these models called?

(buzzer beeps) John.

- Statuesque.

- No, looking for maquettes, maquettes.

Let's go to a toss up now in science.

Your thumb has a special joint that allows you to move it from an outstretched position across your palm to touch your little finger, give the common name of this type of joint.

(buzzer beeps) Austin, Southern Columbia.

- A double joint.

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Montgomery.

(buzzer beeps) John.

- Hinge joint.

- No, that joint is the saddle joint.

The saddle joint.

Let's go onto a toss up now in US geography.

What top hog producing state in the US is the only US state that's bordered by two navigable rivers.

The Missouri River to its west and the Mississippi River to its East.

(buzzer beeps) Austin, Southern Columbia.

- Ohio.

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Montgomery.

(buzzer beeps) John.

- Missouri.

- Nope, we're looking for Iowa.

Iowa was that state.

Let's go on to a toss up now in literature.

American author, William Styron, received several literary awards.

One of his best known works was written following a serious bout with depression.

With what type of literature is William Styron most closely associated?

(buzzer beeps) Mason, Montgomery.

- Poetry.

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Southern Columbia.

(buzzer beeps) - Gothic.

- No, we're looking for simple fiction.

Let's go to a toss up now in sport, but three time world heavyweight boxer known for his chant.

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

(buzzer beeps) Ryter, Southern Columbia.

- Muhammad Ali.

- Is correct and here comes your bonus now.

This noun is a seven letter word beginning with the letter R, meaning a group of retainers or attendance.

Name it.

(buzzer beeps) Austin.

- Receptionist.

No, we're looking for retinue.

Retinue.

Let's go to a toss up in vocabulary now.

It often happens when you panic, it causes the levels of carbon dioxide in your blood to increase.

What do we call this deep, rapid breathing.

(buzzer beeps) Nova, Montgomery.

- Hyperventilating.

- Is correct and here comes your bonus now.

Discovered in 1903 by a Philadelphia engineer named David Barringer.

This depression measures 4,180 feet wide and 570 feet deep.

Scientists believed that it was created when a meteorite struck the earth and disintegrated upon contact.

Name the US state in which this huge depression now called the meteor (buzzer beeps) crater is located.

John.

- Arizona.

- Is correct for your bonus points, Montgomery, great job.

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

This time Montgomery will pick first.

Your categories are geometry or world geography.

- Let's do geography.

- Yeah.

- Geography.

- We'll do geography.

- Geography it is.

And your time begins after I finish reading the first question, you'll be given the names of extremely tall buildings in the world.

Give us the city in which each building is located.

Burj Khalifa.

(buzzer beeps) - Dubai.

- [Paul] Yes, Lotte World Tower.

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- [Paul] Seoul, Petronas Towers one and two.

(buzzer beeps) - Kuala Lumpur.

- [Paul] Yes.

Willis Tower.

(buzzer beeps) - Chicago.

- [Paul] Yes, Steinway Tower.

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- [Paul] That's New York City.

Trumpet International Hotel and Tower.

(buzzer beeps) - New York City.

- [Paul] Chicago, Jin Mao Tower.

(buzzer beeps) - Shanghai.

- Yes, Princess Tower.

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- [Paul] That's Dubai, CITIC Tower.

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- [Paul] That's Beijing, Makkah Royal Clock Tower.

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- [Paul] Mecca, Central Park Tower.

(buzzer beeps) - New York.

- [Paul] Yes, Empire State Building.

(buzzer beeps) - New York.

- Yes.

Okay, Montgomery, that's going to wrap up your portion of the lightning round.

Southern Columbia, we're coming over to you and your remaining category will be geometry.

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

You'll be given a geometry formula.

Give what the formula is used for.

- Half base times height.

(buzzer beeps) - Area of a triangle.

- [Paul] Yes, two pi times radius.

(buzzer beeps) - Area of a circle.

- [Paul] Circumference of a circle, side squared.

(buzzer beeps) - Area of a square.

- [Paul] Yes, two times length plus two times height.

(buzzer beeps) - Perimeter of a rectangle.

- Yes, pi times radius squared.

(buzzer beeps) - Area of a circle.

- [Paul] Yes, 180 times the quantity N minus two.

(buzzer beeps) - Number of exterior angles.

- [Paul] Sum of interior angles of a polygon.

Four pi times radius squared.

(buzzer beeps) - Volume of a cube.

- [Paul] Surface area of a sphere.

Four times side.

(buzzer beeps) - Perimeter of a square.

- [Paul] Yes.

Half the quantity base one plus base two times height.

(buzzer beeps) - Area of a trapezoid.

- [Paul] Yes.

One third the quantity length times width times height.

(buzzer beeps) - Surface area of a cone.

- That was volume of a pyramid.

Okay, Southern Columbia.

That's going to wrap up your second lightning round.

And after that we have Montgomery in the lead over Southern Columbia.

155 to 85.

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

Her first novel was voted best novel of the century in a poll conducted by Library Journal.

What American author won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her novel, "To Kill a Mockingbird."

(buzzer beeps) Austin, Southern Columbia, - Margaret and Steinway.

- Is incorrect, we'll rebound it to Montgomery.

(buzzer beeps) Mason.

- Harper Lee.

- Harper Lee is correct for your rebound points, Montgomery.

And as we move on to a toss up now in art.

In 1814, Francisco Goya painted a vivid depiction of Napoleon soldiers executing Spanish hostages.

What is the name of this painting?

(timer beeping) That's the "3rd of May, 1808."

Let's go to a toss up now in biology.

What gelatin substance that's extracted from red algae is used as a medium to grow bacteria and fungi.

(buzzer beeps) In the science lab.

Victoria, Southern Columbia.

- Auger.

- Is correct and your bonus now.

In 1753, this well-known African-American built a clock made entirely of wood that kept perfect time for over 50 years.

20 years later, he published a yearly almanac based solely on his own tide and weather predictions.

Name the surveyor who was chosen by President Washington to lay out the boundaries for the District of Columbia.

(buzzer beeps) - Benjamin Franklin.

- Benjamin Banneker is what we are looking for.

Let's go to a toss up now in biology.

A vaporous organisms produce eggs that hatch outside the body.

What type of organisms give birth to offspring that develop within the mother's body rather than hatching from eggs?

(buzzer beeps) Nova, Montgomery.

- Mammals.

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Southern Columbia.

(buzzer beeps) Pass.

- Okay, that's viviparous.

Let's go to a toss up now in art.

A group or an individual orders a picture or other piece of artwork to be created specifically for them.

They give special instructions to the artist (buzzer beeps) as to, John, Montgomery.

- Commission.

- Is correct and here comes your bonus now.

One of his plays, "A Doll's House" was the most performed play in 2006.

What Norwegian was the first major dramatist to write plays about the problems of modern society.

(timer beeping) That is Henrik Ibsen.

Your next toss up is in mythology.

In Greek mythology, she was a Phoenician princess, sister of Cadmus, the consort of Zeus and mother of King Minos of Crete.

Name this mythological character who now shares her name with the sixth largest moon in the solar system and the smallest of Jupiter's four Galilean moons.

(buzzer beeps) Austin, Southern Columbia.

- IO.

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Montgomery.

(buzzer beeps) - Callisto.

- No looking for Europa.

Europa.

Here's another toss up in mythology.

The goddess Artemis turned him into a stag.

As a hunter, he had a group of hounds named this hunter who was hunted and devoured by his own hounds.

(buzzer beeps) Austin, Southern Columbia.

- Loki.

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Montgomery.

(timer beeping) That's Actaeon.

Here's your next toss up in American history.

On his second day in office as US president, he pardoned all the Vietnam draft evaders by issuing proclamation 4483.

Name this US president.

(buzzer beeps) John, Montgomery.

- Jimmy Carter.

- Is correct.

And your bonus now.

In 1879, a mouthwash was named after this British surgeon who led the fight for the use of antiseptic medicine during surgery and in hospital hygiene.

Named the surgeon who first used an antiseptic called phenol to soak medical dressings and to sterilize surgical instruments, thus making surgeries safer and more successful.

(buzzer beeps) Maeson.

- Listerine.

- Is incorrect.

You are close.

We're looking for Joseph Lister.

Joseph Lister.

And that's the end of the game.

And our winner tonight is Montgomery over Southern Columbia.

185 to 95.

Congratulations, Montgomery, you're 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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The Luzerne Foundation can help.

The Luzerne Foundation is a Northeastern Pennsylvania based community nonprofit.

That provides over 70 scholarships a year to students.

The Luzerne Foundation, we are here for good.

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