(sports whistle blowing) (upbeat music) - Welcome to the Luzerne Intermediate Unit Finals 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 Delaware Valley.

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

Their alternates are Lauren KOH-VAL-CHIK and Kaya Hannon and their advisor is Angie Burke.

Representing Delaware Valley is Riley Crick, Jackson Hancock, Andrea Del Freo, their captain, Clint Murray.

Their alternates are Sarah Flick and Isabella Hemler and their advisor is Robert Curtis.

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

Let's get started with our first tossup.

What author depicted an illegal taxi service in Jitney, part of a 10 play African American-oriented cycle that includes the piano-- (buzzer beeping) Anna, Tunkhannoch?

- Wilson.

- Is correct answer, Anna, and your bonus.

What class of exoplanets are gas giants with high surface temperatures, orbit close to the host star and are partly named for a solar system planet.

(buzzer beeping) Anna?

- Mercury.

- Mercury is incorrect.

It is Hot Jupiters.

Tossup.

What element has the highest electron affinity of any element at room temperature, is a yellow green gas, and is the second lightest halogen?

(buzzer beeping) Jackson, Delaware Valley.

- Helium.

- [Regina] Helium is incorrect.

We go on to Tunkhannoch.

(buzzer beeping) Nicholas?

- Neon?

- Neon is also incorrect.

It is chlorine.

Tossup.

What man who included part of a kidney in a letter addressed from hell killed Elizabeth Stride and four other prostitutes in White, (buzzer beeping) Jackson, Delaware Valley.

- Jack the Ripper - Jack the Ripper's correct answer, and your bonus, Delaware Valley.

What UH-KAY-MIHN-ID monarch who lost the Battle of Marathon claimed that his predecessor, Bardiya, was actually an imposter.

(buzzer beeping) Jackson?

(indistinct) Is incorrect.

It is Darius I. Tossup.

A plunge pool is a depression found at the bottom of what geologic structures, sometimes called cataracts, examples of which are Iguazu and Victoria.

(buzzer beeping) - Andrea, Delaware Valley.

- What is a trench - Is incorrect.

Rebound to Tunkhannoch.

(buzzer beeping) Nicholas?

- Crater?

- Is incorrect as well.

It is waterfall.

Tossup.

What novella in which memories of Mr. Fezziwig and a visit from Jacob-- (buzzer beeping) Jackson?

- "A Christmas Story".

"A Christmas Carol", sorry.

- "A Christmas Story" is the answer given.

Judge, is that acceptable?

- [Judge] No.

- No.

- [Nicholas] Sorry.

- Sorry, I'll complete the question and rebound to Tunkhannoch.

- Ghost helped to reform Ebenezer Scrooge, was written by Charles Dickens.

(buzzer beeping) Anna?

- "A Christmas Carol".

- "A Christmas Carol" is the specific title.

Tossup.

Pencil paper ready.

If a recipe requires three cups of milk to serve six people how many cups of milk will be needed to serve 11 people?

(buzzer beeping) Nicholas, Tunkhannoch.

- Five and a half.

- Five and a half, Nicholas, is correct, and your bonus: In 1373 St. YAUD-WEE-GUH, though a woman, was crowned with the title King of what country whose next seven kings comprised the Jagiellonian Dynasty.

(buzzer beeping) Hannah?

- Indonesia.

- Indonesia is incorrect.

It is Poland.

Tossup.

What world leader whose right to run for office was restored in April, 2021 defeated-- (buzzer beeping) Andrea, Delaware Valley.

- Trump.

- Is incorrect.

I'll complete the question and rebound to Tunkhannoch.

Jair Bolsonaro, to win a third term as president of Brazil.

(buzzer beeping) - That was Lula DeSilva.

Tossup.

what author's poem, Levy, appeared in an 1866 book of scraps containing poems that French censors had removed from his collection, Les Fleurs du mal.

(buzzer beeping) Andrea.

No answer?

Rebound to Tunkhannoch.

(buzzer beeping) - Moliere.

- Moliere is incorrect.

It is Baudelaire.

That is the end of the first quarter and it's now time for the lightning round.

(electricity buzzing) 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.

Delaware Valley has won the coin toss and will choose first.

Your categories are musicians and instruments or world's tallest buildings - Buildings.

(buzzer beeping) - Buildings, Clint.

The time begins when I finish reading the first question.

World's tallest buildings.

In what country are these buildings which are among the world's tallest?

Burj Khalifa.

(buzzer beeping) Jackson?

- The United Arab Emirates.

- Correct.

The Iconic Tower, Africa's tallest building?

(buzzer beeping) Jackson?

- South Africa - Egypt.

- Lakhta Center.

(buzzer beeping) Russia.

One World Trade Center.

(buzzer beeping) Riley?

- United States.

- Correct.

Landmark 81 in Ho Chi Minh City.

(buzzer beeping) - Jackson?

- China.

- Vietnam?

Grand Torre Santiago, South America's tallest building.

(buzzer beeping) Jackson.

- Brazil.

- Chile.

Mecca Clock Royal Tower.

(buzzer beeping) Riley.

- Saudi Arabia - Correct.

CN Tower (buzzer beeping) Riley.

- Canada.

- Correct.

The Shard (buzzer beeping) - Ireland.

- Ireland is incorrect.

It's United Kingdom.

Petronas Towers.

(buzzer beeping) - Pass.

- Malaysia.

Moving over to our team from Tunkhannoch your category is musicians and instruments.

Given one or more musicians, name their primary non-vocal instrument.

Nikolai Rubenstein and Glenn Gould.

It has 88 keys.

(buzzer beeping) Nicholas.

- Piano.

Correct.

Johnny Cash and Janice Joplin.

(buzzer beeping) Nicholas.

- Guitar.

- Correct.

Neil Peart, Gene Krupa and Ringo Starr.

(buzzer beeping) Theo.

- Drums.

- Correct.

Dizzy Gillespie and Louie Armstrong.

(buzzer beeping) Nicholas.

- Trumpet.

- Correct.

Yehudi Menuhin and Hillary Hahn?

(buzzer beeping) Anna.

- Violin.

- Correct.

Jacqueline Dupre and Yo-Yo Ma.

(buzzer beeping) Theo.

- Pass.

- Cello.

Bella Fleck and Earl Scruggs.

(buzzer beeping) - Pass.

- Banjo.

Anoushka Shankar and Raul Shankar.

(buzzer beeping) Anna.

- Harp.

- Sitar.

Bruddah Iz or Israel Kamakawiwo'ole.

(buzzer beeping) Nicholas.

- Xylophone.

- Ukulele.

Charlie Parker and John Coltrane.

(buzzer beeping) Nicholas.

- Trombone.

- Saxophone.

That's the end of our lightning round.

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

We have Tunkhannoch with 55 points and Delaware Valley with 30 points.

We're going to move into the second quarter with this tossup question.

What energy producing facilities may slow down fast neutrons using a moderator-- (buzzer beeping) Nicholas, Tunkhannoch.

- Nuclear power plant.

- Nuclear power plant is acceptable, and your bonus.

In 1956, George Miller Paper argued that the maximum capacity of what faculty was the magical number seven plus or minus two.

(buzzer beeping) Anna?

- Workplace.

- I'm sorry.

- Workplace - Is incorrect.

It is short term memory.

Tossup.

What city, the most populous city in the Beotian Confederacy lost at Chaeronea with a force of 150 pairs of male lovers called the Sacred Band.

(buzzer beeping) Andrea.

- China.

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Tunkhannoch.

(buzzer beeping) Nicholas.

- Hawaii.

- Is incorrect.

It is Thebes.

Tossup.

What city on the Rio Grande hosts the annual Gathering of Nations Powwow is west of the Sandia Mountains and is New Mexico's most populous city-- (buzzer beeping) Riley.

- Albuquerque.

Albuquerque's the correct answer, and your bonus.

What items of lab glassware which have a piston and volumetric subtypes are used to dispense a known volume of liquid in an acid-based titration?

(buzzer beeping) Riley?

- Beaker.

- Beaker is incorrect.

It is burette.

Tossup.

What person whose apotheosis was painted in 1865 by Constantino Brumidi titles and 1851 Emanuel Leutze's painting that shows him crossing the Delaware?

(buzzer beeping) Nicholas, Tunkhannoch.

- George Washington.

- George Washington is correct answer, and your bonus.

The Patsy Conspiracy aimed to end Medici rule over what Italian city.

(buzzer beeping) Anna.

- Rome.

- Rome is incorrect, it is Florence.

Tossup.

What Supreme Court case whose defendant name was misspelled with a D voided the Missouri Compromise-- (buzzer beeping) Riley.

- Dred Scott.

- Dred Scott is correct answer, and your bonus, Delaware Valley.

What poetic form used in the Divine Comedy has the rhyme scheme A, B, A, B, C, B, C D, C and so on and has a two word Italian name meaning third rhyme.

(buzzer beeping) Riley?

- Sonnet?

- Is incorrect.

It is Terza Rima.

Tossup.

What region of the EM spectrum has a typical wavelength of one nanometer, lies between UV light and gamma rays and is used in-- (buzzer beeping) Andrea, Delaware Valley.

- The visible spectra of light to human eyes.

- Is incorrect.

I'll complete the question and rebound to Tunkhannoch, and is used in medical imaging.

(buzzer beeping) Nicholas.

- X-ray.

- X-ray's correct answer for your rebound points.

Tossup.

What country contains the northernmost portion of the region of Thrace, is home to the resort of Varna on the Black Sea and is governed from Sophia.

(buzzer beeping) Nicholas, Tunkhannoch.

- Iraq.

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Delaware Valley.

(buzzer beeping) Jackson.

- Hungary.

- Hungary is incorrect.

It is Bulgaria.

Tossup.

Ole Kirk Christiansen founded what company Based on Denmark which owns the Ninjago-- (buzzer beeping) Riley.

- Lego - Lego's the correct answer, and your bonus.

What greek scientist estimated the circumference of the earth and is the namesake of a sieve used to find prime numbers.

- Euler.

- Euler is incorrect.

It is Eratosthenes?

That is the end of the first half.

We're going to update our score.

We have Tunkhannoch with 85 points and Delaware Valley, 60 points.

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 the students from Tunkhannoch.

Anna, why don't you start us off and tell us, we decided what we're gonna ask.

Favorite movie and why.

- My favorite movie is Legally Blonde and I just think it's a really funny movie but it also has a really positive message about underestimating someone based on their looks.

- I agree.

Theo.

- My favorite movie is Ferris Bueller's Day Off because I think it's really funny and really meaningful.

- It is.

Nicholas.

- My favorite movie is Alvin and the Chipmunks 2: The Squeakquel.

I really like the soundtrack.

(laughing) - It is funny.

Anna?

- My favorite movie is Silver Linings Playbook because it has my favorite movie ending ever.

- Oh nice.

Why don't we move over to our team from Delaware Valley.

Riley start us off.

- My favorite movie is 12 Angry Men.

I love mysteries.

- Okay Jackson.

- My favorite movie is The Finest Hours.

I just love the plot and story.

- It is good.

Andrea?

- My choice is Dragon Ball Superhero, just 'cause it made me love American comics again.

- Okay, and Clint - My favorite movie is The Shawshank Redemption 'cause I'm a huge fan of Stephen King.

- All right, nice to meet all of you.

Let's get started the second half with this tossup question.

What group whose original members included Robert Boyle and Christopher Ren was chartered in 1660 by Charles II as a National Academy of Sciences.

(buzzer beeping) Clint?

- The Royal Academy.

- The Royal Academy is the answer given.

Judges, is that acceptable?

No, it is not.

Rebound to Tunkhannoch.

(buzzer beeping) - The Royal Group.

- Royal Group is incorrect.

The answer actually Royal Society.

Tossup.

What war whose end in the Treaty of Portsmouth prompted a failed 1905 revolution, was fought by countries led by Emperor Meiji and Tsar Nicholas the II.

(buzzer beeping) Nicholas, Tunkhannoch.

- Russian civil war.

- Russian civil War is incorrect.

Rebound to Delaware Valley.

(buzzer beeping) Riley.

- The Russo-Chinese War - Russo-Chinese war is incorrect.

It is the Russo-Japanese war.

Tossup.

What opera in which Marzelline yearns for a prison guard Who is actually the disguised woman, Leonore, is the only opera by Ludwig van Beethoven.

(buzzer beeping) Andrea.

- Swanwick?

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Tunkhannoch.

Anyone?

(buzzer beeping) - Phantom of the Opera?

- That's a good try.

It's Fidelio.

Tossup.

What acute angle has a tangent of root three over three, a sin of one half, and is the smallest angle in a right triangle, containing a 60 degree angle.

(buzzer beeping) Clint.

- 30 degrees.

- 30, Clint, is correct answer, and your bonus.

Which author wrote about a man who ages backward in his short story The Curious Case of-- (buzzer beeping) Clint?

- Oh... - No answer.

- No.

The correct answer is F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Tossup.

What author who addressed a breath of Autumn's being that drives away leaves in his poem Ode to the West Wind was wed to the author of Frankenstein?

(buzzer beeping) Theo, Tunkhannoch.

- Percy Shelley - Percy Shelley's correct answer.

And your bonus.

What word whose meaning remains unclear was found carved into a tree at the Roanoke Colony after it was abandoned in 1590.

(buzzer beeping) Croatoan.

- Is a correct answer, Anna.

Tossup.

What region includes the former island of Taipa, rivals only Las Vegas in gambling revenue and is a Chinese territory-- (buzzer beeping) Andrea, Delaware Valley.

- Costa Rica.

- Is incorrect.

I'll complete the question and rebound to Tunkhannoch.

Chinese territory Once controlled by Portugal.

(buzzer beeping) Nicholas.

- Taipei.

- Is also incorrect, it is Macau.

Tossup.

What politician who defeated Bill Nelson in 2018 is the National Republican Senatorial Committee chairman and the junior senator from Florida.

(buzzer beeping) Nicholas, Tunkhannoch.

- Mitch McConnell - Is incorrect.

Rebound to Delaware Valley.

(buzzer beeping) Riley.

- Kevin McCarthy.

- Kevin McCarthy is also incorrect.

It is Rick Scott.

Tossup.

What Empire collapsed after the Battle of Tondibi made Gao its capital after the conquest of Sunni Ali and supplanted much of the Mali empire.

(buzzer beeping) Andrea, Delaware Valley.

- Genghis Khan - Is incorrect.

Rebound to Tunkhannoch.

(buzzer beeping) Nicholas.

- Vietnam.

- Is also incorrect.

It is Songhai.

That is the end of the third quarter and it's time for another lightning round.

(electricity buzzing) This time, Tunkhannoch will choose first.

Your categories are 101 or 1968.

Time begins when I finish reading the first question.

- 101.

- 101.

Answer the following involving the number 101.

A Disney movie has 101 of these dogs.

(buzzer beeping) Anna.

- Dalmatians.

- Correct.

Novel in which Winston Smith is tortured in room 101.

(buzzer beeping) Anna.

- Pass.

- 1984.

Russian developer of the periodic table who names Element 101-- (buzzer beeping) - Mendeleev.

- Mendeleev is correct.

Roman Emperor who launched his DAY-CEE-AN expedition in AD 101.

(buzzer beeping) Anna.

- Pass.

- TRAY-ZHIN.

Roman numeral representation of 101.

(buzzer beeping) - Theo.

- Pass.

- CI.

Singer whose song, 101, is on her album, Girl on Fire.

(buzzer beeping) Anna.

- Adele.

- Keys, the twin prime of 101.

(buzzer beeping) Nicholas.

- One.

- 103.

Nintendo console whose games included 2013's The wonderful 101.

(buzzer beeping) Nicholas.

- Wii.

- Be more specific.

- Wii U.

- Correct.

State where US Route 101 or El Camino Real links 21 Spanish missions-- (buzzer beeping) - That's California.

That came in after the buzzer.

Moving over to our team from Delaware Valley.

Category is 1968.

Answer the following about the year 1968.

This man who gave the I Have a Dream speech was shot-- (buzzer beeping) Andrea.

- Martin Luther King Jr. - Correct.

Republican who won the presidential election.

(buzzer beeping) Andrea.

- JFK.

- Nixon.

This Russian, the first man to go into space died.

(buzzer beeping) Riley.

- Yuri Gagarin.

- Correct.

This namesake of a series of pro skater games was born-- (buzzer beeping) Andrea.

- Tony Hawk.

- Correct.

A spring protest took place in this Czech capitol.

(buzzer beeping) Riley.

- Prague.

- Correct.

Summer Olympics were held in this capitol city.

(buzzer beeping) Jackson.

- Pass.

- Mexico City.

Jackie Kennedy married this Greek shipping magnate.

(buzzer beeping) (indistinct) Is incorrect.

Its Onassis.

This term was coined for spinning neutron stars that emit light.

(buzzer beeping) Riley.

- Pass.

- Pulsar.

This Stanley Kubrick film featuring Hal 9000 was released.

(buzzer beeping) Riley.

- A Space Odyssey - Is correct.

This band released Born to be Wild.

(buzzer beeping) Riley.

Steppenwolf.

- Correct.

And that's the end of the lightning round.

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

We have Tunkhannoch with 115 points and Delaware Valley with 100 points.

We will now begin the last segment of the game with this tossup question.

What pitch whose major key is used in Franz Schubert's Trout Quintet is today played at 440 hertz to tune orchestras and is a whole step above G-- (buzzer beeping) Jackson?

- A.

- Jackson's correct answer.

And your bonus.

In 2022 what Western State elected its second consecutive only LGBT Governor, Tina Kotek, who succeeds fellow Democrat Kate Brown.

(buzzer beeping) - Clint.

- Oregon.

- Oregon.

Clint's correct answer for your bonus points.

Tossup.

What systems which DLVO theory describes using the zeta potential scatter light in the Tyndall effect and have subtypes including gels and aerosols.

(buzzer beeping) Andrea, Delaware Valley.

- Spray.

- Spray is incorrect.

Rebound to Tunkhannoch.

(beeping) It is colloid.

Tossup.

What President who convened the Congress of Angostura that established Gran Colombia was known as El Libertador for driving Spain from Venezuela.

(buzzer beeping) - Jackson.

- Simon Bolivar.

- Bolivar's correct answer, Jackson.

And your bonus.

What former capital of Pakistan remains the country's most populous city?

(buzzer beeping) Jackson.

- New Delhi.

- New Delhi is incorrect.

It is Karachi.

Tossup.

Which child of King Schoeneus beat Achilles Father, Peleus, in wrestling-- (buzzer beeping) Jackson.

- Paris.

- Is incorrect.

I'll complete the question In rebound to Tunkhannoch.

And married Hippomenes after losing a race while distracted by golden apples.

(buzzer beeping) - Anna.

- Perseus.

- Is incorrect.

It is Atalanta.

Tossup.

In 2022, the FDA approved a $3.5 million gene therapy for type B of what inherited disease-- (buzzer beeping) Andrea.

Need an answer?

Okay, moving over, I'll complete the question.

(buzzer beeping) - Nicholas.

- Diabetes.

- Diabetes is incorrect.

It is hemophilia.

Tossup.

What American institution inspired by London's Toynbee Hall was co-founded by Ellen Gates Starr and Jane Addams and was a Chicago settlement house.

(buzzer beeping) Anna.

- Hull House.

Hull house, Anna's correct answer, and your bonus.

Stanley attacks Meg during an unsettling celebration in The Birthday Party, a 1958 play by what British author of the One Act drama, The dumbwaiter.

(buzzer beeping) No answer.

The correct answer is Harold Pinter.

Tossup.

Pencil paper ready.

What is the area of a trapezoid whose height is three and whose parallel bases have lengths of five and seven respectively?

(buzzer beeping) Nicholas, Tunkhannoch - 30.

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to DelVal.

(buzzer beeping) Clint?

- Is it 17.

- 17 is incorrect.

It is 18.

Tossup.

What character who was partly based on the author's father, Amasa, defends Tom Robinson in court in-- (buzzer beeping) Riley?

- Atticus Finch.

- Atticus Finch, Riley's correct answer, and your bonus.

What man served as Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln and later oversaw the Alaska Purchase.

(buzzer beeping) - Seward.

- Seward is correct answer for your bonus points, Delaware Valley.

And that's the end of the game.

Our final score is Tunkhannoch 125, Delaware Valley 140.

Congratulations Delaware Valley.

You are the Luzerne Intermediate Unit winner.

We'll be moving on to this year's Scholastic Scrimmage finals and we'll see you next time with another round of Scholastic Scrimmage.

I'm your host, Regina Myers, and thank you for watching.

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