(whistle blowing) (upbeat music) - 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 Tunkhannoch versus Crestwood.

Representing Tunkhannoch is Anna Wilson, Theo Myers, Nicholas DeMarco, their captain Anna Williams.

Their alternates are Lauren Kovalchik and Kaya Hannon.

And their advisor is Angie Burke.

Representing Crestwood is Spencer Young, Sean Rossi, Andrew Moroski, Gabe Glassic, their captain.

Their alternates are Luke Joseph and Noah Garoui.

and their advisors are Maria Koons and Jeff Bellis.

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 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 will be given the toss-up points but will not receive a bonus question.

Let's get started with our first toss-up question.

What character wears a wedding dress designed by Cinna during an interview with Caesar Flickerman, and represents District 12- (buzzer beeping) Anna?

- Katniss Everdeen?

- Katniss Everdeen is the correct answer, Anna.

And your bonus, what set of punitive laws named after a Chancellor of the Exchequer, and passed after the failure of the Stamp Act, led to the Boston Massacre?

(buzzer beeping) Anna?

- Quartering Act?

- Is incorrect, it is Townsend Act.

Toss-up, what numbers which are used to construct the real numbers in a Dedekind cut, are denoted by a bold "Q", and can be written as the quotient of integers?

(buzzer beeping) - [Regina] Nicholas, Tunkhannoch?

- Real numbers?

- [Regina] Real numbers is incorrect, rebound to Crestwood.

(buzzer beeping) Gabe?

- Imaginary numbers?

- Imaginary numbers is incorrect, it is rational numbers.

Toss-up, what term which likely comes from the Venetian for foundry came to designate poor segregated minority neighborhoods, especially Jewish districts?

(buzzer beeping) - [Regina] Andrew, Crestwood.

- Ghetto?

- Ghetto, Andrew, is the correct answer and your bonus, what Caribbean island is to the west of Bonaire, lends its name to a liquor often died blue, and is the "C" in the Dutch-owned ABC Islands?

(buzzer beeping) Gabe?

- Curacao?

- Curacao is correct answer for your bonus points.

Toss-up, what author who wrote the poem "If" wrote about a pair of evil cobras who are killed by a heroic mongoose in his story Rikki Tikki Tavy?

(buzzer beeping) Anna, Tunkhannoch.

- Kipling?

- Kipling is correct answer, and your bonus.

What country where 10 people died in an October, 2022 gas station explosion is led by Taoiseach Michael Martin?

(siren sounding) That would be Ireland.

Toss-up, what real life island ruled in myth by Asteriun and is his wife Europa was where Daedalus built the labyrinth used to imprison the Minotaur?

(buzzer beeping) Theo, Tunkhannoch?

- Crete?

- Crete, Theo, is correct answer and your bonus.

What American expatriate artist painted the controversial "Portrait of Madam X"?

(buzzer beeping) Anna?

- No answer.

- Okay, the correct answer is John Singer Sergeant.

Toss-up, pencil paper ready?

How many square tiles, each measuring two by two, are needed to cover a rectangular floor that measures 10 by 16?

(buzzer beeping) - Sean, Crestwood?

- 40?

- 40, Sean, is correct answer and your bonus, what particles are represented by wavy lines on Feynman diagrams and lose or gain energy in Compton scattering?

(buzzer beeping) Gabe?

- Electromagnetic radiation?

- Is incorrect, it is a photon.

Toss-up, in what country did a 2021 ban (high pitched beeping) on inorganic fertilizers contribute to the overthrow of Gotabaya, Rajapaska amid protest in Cote and Colombo?

(Siren sounding) That was Sri Lanka.

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

(lightning sparking) 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.

Tunkhannoch has won the coin toss and will choose first.

Your categories are S in medicine or historical fiction.

The time begins when I finish reading the first question.

- S in medicine.

- S in medicine.

Give these terms from medicine that start with the letter S. Process also known as perspiration.

(buzzer beeping) Nicholas?

- Sweating?

- [Regina] Correct.

Crust of hardened blood that forms over a wound.

(buzzer beeping) Nicholas?

- Scab?

- [Regina] Correct.

Disease declared eradicated by the World Health Organization.

(buzzer beeping) Nicholas?

- SARS?

- [Regina] Smallpox.

Organ that sequesters and destroys old red blood cells.

(buzzer beeping) - Pass - [Regina] Spleen.

Bacteria that cause a namesake throat infection.

The abbreviation is acceptable.

(buzzer beeping) Anna?

- STREP.

- [Regina] Correct.

Side to side curvature of the spine.

(buzzer beeping) Anna?

- Scoliosis.

- [Regina] Correct.

Bone also called the breast bone.

(buzzer beeping) Anna?

- Scapula?

- [Regina] Sternum.

Deviations from normal health reported by a patient.

(buzzer beeping) Theo?

- Symptom?

- [Regina] Correct.

Division of the nervous system activated by the fight or flight response.

(buzzer beeping) Nicholas?

- Pass.

- [Regina] Sympathetic.

Chronic complications of an acute condition such as those of long covid.

(buzzer beeping) - Pass.

- [Regina] Sequela.

Moving over to our team from Crestwood.

Your category is historical fiction.

Given a work of historical fiction, name its author.

"A Tale of Two Cities."

(buzzer beeping) - Shakespeare?

- [Regina] Dickens.

"The book Thief".

(buzzer beeping) - Pass.

- [Regina] Zusak.

The plays "Julius Caesar" and "Antony and Cleopatra".

(buzzer beeping) - Shakespeare?

- [Regina] Correct.

"The man in the High Castle".

(buzzer beeping) - Pass.

- [Regina] Philip Dick.

"I, Claudius" (buzzer beeping) - Pass.

- Robert Graves.

"The prince and the Popper".

(buzzer beeping) Gabe?

- Pass.

- [Regina] Mark Twain.

"Rob Roy", one of his Waverly novels.

(buzzer beeping) - Pass - [Regina] Sir Walter Scott.

"The name of the Rose".

(buzzer beeping) - Pass.

- [Regina] Umberto Eco.

"Roots, The Saga of an American Family".

(buzzer beeping) Gabe?

- Emily Dickinson?

- [Regina] Alex Haley.

11/22/63 (buzzer beeping) Gabe?

- Pass.

- Stephen King.

(timer chiming) And that's the end of the lightning round.

So let's take a look at our score.

We have Tunkhannoch with 55 points and Crestwood with 30 points.

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

What president who partly names a treaty that seated Florida to the United States Allied with Henry Clay to win the election of 1824 over Andrew Jackson?

(buzzer beeping) Nicholas, Tunkhannoch.

- John Quincy Adams?

- Is a correct answer and your bonus, Tunkhannoch.

As a college senior Veronica Roth wrote what YA novel set in post... (buzzer beeping) Anna?

- Divergent?

- Divergent, Anna, is correct answer for your bonus points.

Toss-up, what country whose planned smart city of Nigam will lie near the eastern shore of the Gulf of Aqaba, is also home to Jeddah, Medinah, and Riyadh?

(buzzer beeping) Gabe?

- Saudi Arabia?

- Saudi Arabia, Gabe, is correct answer.

And your bonus Crestwood, what components of brass instruments have a piston type used in trumpets and a rotary type used in French horns?

(buzzer beeping) - Valve?

- [Regina] I'm sorry?

- A valve.

- A valve is correct answer for your bonus points.

Toss-up, what metal which was once sourced in Devon and Cornwall from cassiterite ore is the main component of pewter and is alloyed with copper in bronze?

(buzzer beeping) Andrew, Crestwood?

- Tin?

- Tin, Andrew, is correct answer, and your bonus.

Igor Denchenko was a source for what dossier named for ex-British intelligence officer Christopher which detailed Donald Trump's activities in Russia?

(buzzer beeping) Gabe?

- No answer.

- I'm sorry?

- [Gabe] No answer.

- Okay, the correct answer is the Steel Dossier.

Toss-up, what Savoy opera in which Ko-Ko is made Lord High Executioner ends with Nanki Poo marrying Yum-Yum and is a Gilbert and Sullivan work set in Japan?

(Siren sounding) That is Mikado.

Toss-up, what philosopher rebutted a book by Robert Filmer in the first part of a 1689 text that defended a right to property his two treatises on government?

(buzzer beeping) Sean?

- John Luck?

- John Luck, Sean, is correct answer, and your bonus Crestwood.

John Franklin died leading a doomed expedition to find a what long-sought route between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans above Canada and Alaska?

(buzzer beeping) - The Northern Passage?

- The Northern Passage is the answer given judges, is that acceptable?

- [Judge] No.

- No, the specific answer is Northwest Passage.

Toss-up, what city whose namesake harbor is home to Bennelong Point contains a Jorn Utzon designed opera house and is the most populous city in Australia?

(buzzer beeping) Spencer?

- Sydney?

- Sydney, Spencer, is correct answer, and your bonus Crestwood.

What ballad by John Keats describes a wretched white of a knight who is enthralled by the title fem fatal, a woman without mercy?

(buzzer beeping) - No answer.

- Okay, the correct answer is "La Belle Dame Sans Merci".

Toss-up, what Prophet who goes to Jaffa after ignoring God's order to visit Ninevah (high pitched beeping) becomes caught in a storm while at sea and is swallowed by a large fish?

(buzzer beeping) Anna, Tunkhannoch?

- Jonah?

- Jonah is correct answer, and your bonus.

What Dutch scientist became known as the father of microbiology after his experiments with lenses led him to design several of his own microscopes?

(siren sounding) The correct answer is Leeuwenhoek.

And that's the end of the first half.

So let's update our current score.

We have Tunkhannoch with 80 points and Crestwood with 75 points.

It's a close game.

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.

Let's start with our students from Tunkhannoch.

Anna, why don't you start us off and tell us about your favorite music or group, genre.

- My favorite musical artist is Taylor Swift and then my second favorite is probably Black Bear.

- [Regina] Okay, Theo?

- My two favorite bands are the Smiths and the Beatles.

- [Regina] Okay, Nicholas?

- I'm really into Weird Al Yankovic.

- [Regina] That's all right.

- It's awesome music.

- [Regina] I'm sure you're not the only one.

Anna?

- My favorite musical artist is Joni Mitchell.

- Okay, very good.

Spencer, how about you?

- [Spencer] My favorite band is Coldplay.

- [Regina] Okay, Sean?

- I also like Coldplay.

- [Regina] Okay, any particular reason?

- I don't know, it just sounds good.

- [Regina] It sounds good, that's a good answer.

Andrew?

- My favorite's also Weird Al Yankovic.

- [Regina] Hey, hey there is another one right here.

Gabe?

- A German band called Dschinghis Khan.

- Okay, it's nice to meet all of you.

We will now begin the second half of the game with this toss-up question.

What periodic phenomena can be longitudinal or transverse, may be traveling or standing, and have a namesake length measured from crest to crest?

(buzzer beeping) Andrew, Crestwood?

- Wavelength?

- Wavelength is the answer given judges, is that acceptable?

- [Judge] Yeah.

- Is acceptable, and your bonus Crestwood.

Roy Brown was officially credited with shooting down what ace with 80 air combat victories who led a flying circus in World War I?

(buzzer beeping) Gabe?

- Red Bear?

- Red Bear is incorrect, it is the Red Baron.

Toss-up, what shield volcano has a name meaning long mountain erupted in late November, 2022 and is the largest of five comprising the big island of Hawaii?

(siren sounding) That's Mauna Loa.

Toss-up, what river receives the Never Sink River at Port Jervis, has the School Kill River as a major tributary- (buzzer beeping) Nicholas?

- Delaware?

- Delaware is correct answer, Nicholas.

And your bonus, Tunkhannoch.

What ancient Greek author who lived around 700 BC is credited with writing the epic "Shield of Heracles" and the poetic farmer's almanac "Works and Days"?

(buzzer beeping) Anna?

- Homer?

- Homer's incorrect, it is Hesiod.

Toss-up, the Higgs mechanism gives particles what property whose equivalence with energy is expressed by e=mc2 and whose SI unit is the kilogram?

(buzzer beeping) Nicholas, Tunkhannoch?

- Weight?

- [Regina] Is incorrect, rebound to Crestwood.

(buzzer beeping) Andrew?

- Mass?

- Mass is a correct answer for your rebound points.

Toss-up, what baseball franchise, the only MLB team that Hall of Famer Robert Young played for currently employs Christian Yelich and is based in- (buzzer beeping) Nicholas, Tunkhannoch?

- Milwaukee Brewers?

- Is correct answer, Nicholas, and your bonus.

In the late 1960s, Stokely Carmichael led what youth advocacy organization that organized sit-ins during the civil rights movement?

(buzzer beeping) Anna?

- Black Panthers?

- Black Panthers is incorrect, it is a student non-violent coordinating committee.

Toss-up, the umbra is part of what phenomenon which Wendy Darling reattaches to Peter Pan that is produced when an opaque object blocks a light source.

(buzzer beeping) Nicholas, Tunkhannoch?

- Eclipse?

- Is correct, and your bonus Tunkhannoch, pencil paper ready.

What is the radius of the base of a right circular cylinder whose height is five and whose volume is 20 PI?

(siren sounding) The correct answer is two.

What man read Das Kapital while in prison for leading the ARU in the Pullman Strike and was a five-time presidential candidate of the socialist party?

(buzzer beeping) Theo, Tunkhannoch?

- Lennon?

- [Regina] Lennon is incorrect, rebound to Crestwood.

(high pitched beeping) There's still four seconds.

(buzzer beeping) Gabe?

- Stalin?

- Is incorrect, thee correct answer is Debs.

And that's the end of the third quarter and it's time for another lightning round.

(lightning sparking) This time Crestwood will pick first.

Your categories are from A to A or purple things.

Time begins when I finish reading the first question.

- Purple things.

- Purple things.

Answer the following about people and things with purple in their name.

US metal for those wounded in action.

(buzzer beeping) Gabe?

- Purple heart?

- [Regina] Correct.

Singer who created the album Purple Rain.

(buzzer beeping) Spencer?

- Prince.

- [Regina] Correct.

Author of the Color Purple.

(buzzer beeping) - Pass.

- [Regina] Walker.

Anthropomorphic T-Rex known as the purple dinosaur.

(buzzer beeping) Andrew?

- Barney.

- [Regina] Correct.

Midwestern city in which the purple line of the L passes through Evanston.

(buzzer beeping) - Pass.

- Chicago.

Guitarists who wrote Purple Haze.

(buzzer beeping) - Pass.

- [Regina] Jimmy Hendrix.

Gastropods form from which Tyrian Purple is extracted.

(buzzer beeping) - Pass.

- [Regina] Sea snail.

Director of the "Purple Rose of Cairo" which starred his then partner Mia Farrow.

(buzzer beeping) - Pass.

- [Regina] Woody Allen.

Author of the Western novel "Riders of The Purple Sage".

(buzzer beeping) - Pass.

- [Regina] Zane Grey.

One-eyed one-horned creature in a Sheb Wooley song.

(buzzer beeping) - One-eyed one-horned flying purple people eater.

(high pitched beeping) - Purple people eater is the answer he was in the process of giving during the time.

So we'll have to give him that, right?

- [Judge] Yes.

- Okay, moving over to our team from Tunkhannoch.

Your category is from A to A.

Give these words that both start and end with the letter "A".

A metallic device that can pick up a TV signal.

(buzzer beeping) Nicholas?

- Antenna.

- [Regina] Correct.

A small, a smell.

(buzzer beeping) Anna?

- Aroma.

- [Regina] Correct.

Virtual assistant in Amazon products.

(buzzer beeping) - Alexa?

- [Regina] Correct.

Camelidae species that closely resembles a llama.

(buzzer beeping) Leo?

- Alpaca?

- [Regina] Correct.

Large snake native to South America.

(buzzer beeping) Anna?

- Anaconda?

- [Regina] Correct.

Fear of spiders.

(buzzer beeping) Nicholas?

- Arachnophobia?

- [Regina] Correct.

Irregular or otherwise problematic heartbeat.

(buzzer beeping) Leo?

- Arrhythmia?

- [Regina] Correct.

Herbs sometimes called rocket, often used in salads.

(buzzer beeping) Theo?

- Arugula?

- [Regina] Correct.

Secretive information or a subset of tarot deck.

(buzzer beeping) Hannah?

- Pass.

- [Regina] Arcana.

Something that is hated or a religious excommunication.

(buzzer beeping) - Pass.

- Anathema.

And that's the end of the lightning round.

So let's take a look at our current score.

We have Tunkhannoch with 150 points and Crestwood with 115 points.

We will now begin the last segment of the game with this toss-up question.

What poem that describes a subterranean sunless sea fed by the sacred river Alph was written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about the title Mongol ruler?

(Siren sounding) That was Kubla Khan.

Toss-up, what element produces the Balmer and Lyman series of spectral lines, undergoes fusion in the core of most stars, and is the universe's most abundant?

(buzzer beeping) Nicholas, Tunkhannoch?

- Carbon?

- [Regina] Carbon is incorrect, rebound to Crestwood (buzzer beeping) Spencer?

- Hydrogen?

- Hydrogen is correct answer for your rebound points.

Toss-up, what country which tried to win independence in the 10 years war did Jose Marti attempt to liberate from Spanish colonial rulers in Havana?

(buzzer beeping) Gabe?

- Cuba?

- Correct, and your bonus.

What process in which the first oiler angle changes is a change in the direction in which a spinning body's rotation access points?

(buzzer beeping) Gabe?

- No answer.

- Okay, the correct answer is precession.

Toss-up, what birds in family trochilidae were symbolized by the Aztec war god Huitzilopochtli and include the bee species, the world's smallest bird.

(buzzer beeping) Theo, Tunkhannoch?

- Hummingbird?

- Hummingbird, Theo, is correct answer, and your bonus.

When Daisy Buchanan visits Jay Gatsby's mansion she begins sobbing at the site of beautiful examples of what everyday items?

(buzzer beeping) Anna?

- Eggs?

- Eggs is incorrect, it is shirts.

Toss-up, what number can denote the proposed oldest population of stars as well as the atomic number of lithium and the number of vertices in any triangle?

(buzzer beeping) Nicholas, Tunkhannoch?

- Three?

- Three is correct answer, and your bonus Tunkhannoch.

What founding father wrote the Federalist Papers with Alexander Hamilton and James Madison and negotiated a namesake 1794 Treaty with Britain?

(buzzer beeping) Anna?

- John Jay?

- John Jay is correct answer for your bonus points.

Toss-up, in what 1863 battle did John C Pemberton surrender one day after the Battle of Gettysburg yielding control of the Mississippi River to Union forces?

(buzzer beeping) Gabe?

- Vicksburg?

- Vicksburg, Gabe, is correct answer, and your bonus Crestwood.

In 2022 the NBA retired the jersey number six league-wide following the death of what man who won 11 championships with the Boston- (buzzer beeping) Gabe?

- Kobe Bryant?

- Kobe Bryant is incorrect, it is Bill Russell.

Toss toss-up, what French playwright who wrote about Arnolphe and Agnes "The School For Wives", depicted a hypochondriac named Argan in "The Imaginary Invalid"?

(siren sounding) That would be Moliere.

Toss-up, what artist painted two women drinking in "The Tea", depicted a mother and child hugging in "Caress Maternal", and was a female American impressionist?

(siren sounding) That was Mary Cassatt.

Toss-up, what battle led to the Treaty of Pressburg, was nicknamed the Battle of Three Emperors, and was an 1805 victory over Austria and Russia for Napoleon?

(siren sounding) That was Austerlitz And that's the end of the game.

Let's take a look at our final score.

We have Crestwood with 145 points and Tunkhannoch with 175 points.

Congratulations Tunkhannoch, you'll be moving on.

And we'll see you next time.

Until another round of scholastic scrimmage I'm your host Regina Myers, and thank you for watching.

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