(upbeat music) - Welcome to the 16th 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 $1,000, $3,000 or $5,000.

WVIA would like to thank our sponsor FNCB and People Security Bank for making this competition possible.

This year, Scholastic Scrimmage looks a little different and the rules have been revised due to the pandemic, but in each half, students will have the chance to alternatively, answer one question.

If they answer that question correctly they'll receive a bonus question.

If their answer is incorrect, the other team can rebound but will not be given a bonus.

Students can also score points during the two lightning rounds in each game.

Judges tonight are K-12 educators from the WVIA viewing area and tonight's match feature is Tunkhannock and Wyoming Area.

Playing in the first half for Tunkhannock are James Micas and Justin Seward.

Their advisor is Angie Burke, and the alternate is Alyssa Kovalchuk.

Representing Wyoming Area in the first half, are Nicole Don Vito and Adam Wyznesky.

Their advisor is Molly Kerns.

Well, let's get started.

Tunkhannock has won the coin toss and will receive the first question, which is, what disease is prevented the long with diptheria and pertussis by the DPT vaccine, was once nicknamed lock jaw and can infect puncture wounds.

- Tetanus.

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question Tunkhannock.

What company, which claimed its Edison machines only needed a drop of blood to perform hundreds of medical tests was founded by Elizabeth Holmes?

(buzzer beeping) Okay.

That's Theranos.

Theranos.

Wyoming Area, here comes your first question.

What general employed foragers called bummers and offered a city as a Christmas gift to Abraham Lincoln during his march to the sea through Georgia?

- Robert E. Lee.

- Is incorrect, rebound to Tunkhannock.

- General Eisenhower.

- Nope.

We were looking for William Sherman.

William Sherman.

Okay Tunkhannock, here comes your next question.

What war, during which the seven, why we fight films were made, is the setting of The Thin Red Line, The Great Escape and Schindler's List?

- World war II.

- Is correct and here's your bonus question?

The first four leaders of Islam after Muhammad we're known as the Rashidun or rightly guided holders of what title?

(buzzer beeping) - Okay, that's caliph.

Okay Wyoming Area, here comes your next question.

What body of water, the native home of the Omul salmon, receives the Selenga River, is the deepest Lake in the world and is in Eastern Siberia?

- Siberian Lake.

- Is incorrect, rebound to Tunkhannock.

(buzzer beeping) Okay ran out of time, we're looking for Lake Baikal.

Tunkhannock here comes your next question.

What man who served as governor of The Bahamas during world war II was made the Duke of Windsor after abdicating from the British throne in 1936?

(buzzer beeping) Okay, ran out of time, rebound to Wyoming Area.

- Smith?

- Nope.

We were looking for Edward the eighth.

Wyoming Area, here comes your next question.

What author wrote about the revenge enacted on Fernand Danglars and Villefort by the escaped prisoner Edmond Dantès in The Count of Monte Cristo.

(buzzer beeping) Okay, we rebound now to Tunkhannock?

(buzzer beeping) Okay, that's Dumas.

Tunkhannock here comes your next question.

(high pitched beeping sound) that we'll get to in the next round.

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

And 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.

Tunkhannock has won the coin toss and will pick first.

Your categories are blood or sculptors.

- Blood.

- Okay, blood it is and your time begins after I finished reading the first question.

Answer the following about blood.

Vital sign reported as systolic over diastolic.

- Blood pressure.

- Yes.

These vessels carry blood away from the heart.

- Arteries.

- Yes.

Cell fragments that aggregate to form blood clots.

- Red blood cells.

- Platelets.

Oxygen carrying protein in red blood cells.

- Pass.

- That's hemoglobin.

Yellowish fluid that makes up the majority of blood.

- Water.

- Plasma.

Letter and sign of the blood type considered the universal donor.

- O negative.

- Yes.

A lack of healthy red blood cells.

(high pitched beeping sound) - Pass.

- Okay, that was anemia.

Great job in the lightning round Tunkhannock.

Wyoming Area, we're coming over to you.

Your remaining category will be sculptors.

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

Name the artist who has created these sculptures, The Thinker.

- Pass.

- Rodin.

A marble David held in Florence's Galleria dell'accadamia.

- Michael Angelo.

- Yes.

Fountain consisting of a urinal turned on its side.

- Pass.

- Duchamp.

Bird in space.

- Pass.

- Brâncui.

The little 14 year old dancer, reminiscent of his paintings of ballerinas.

- Pass.

- That's Degas.

Bull's head, though he's better known for painting such as Guernica.

- Pass.

- Picasso.

The bronze doors of the Florence Baptistry.

- Pass.

- That's Ghiberti.

Flamingo and other stabiles and mobiles.

- Pass - Calder.

Mount Rushmore, which was finished by his son.

(high pitched beeping sound) - Pass.

- Okay, that was Gutzon Borglum.

Gutzon Borglum.

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

And after that, we currently have Tunkhannock in the lead over Wyoming area, 50 to 10.

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.

Let's start with the students from Tunkhannock and James, I'll come your way first.

Tell me who your favorite musician is and why?

- I absolutely love Billy Armstrong, he's the lead singer in Green Day.

Just love all all of their music.

- Okay.

Excellent.

Justin, who's your favorite musician and why?

- I think Carrie Underwood.

Mostly because most people wouldn't expect me to like Carrie Underwood.

- She's got a great voice, thanks Justin, thanks Tunkhannock.

Good luck the rest of the way.

Wyoming Area, Nicole, who is your favorite musician and why?

- I like Fozzy because, I don't know, his music is just really calming.

- Okay, excellent and Adam, who's your favorite musician?

- Probably Brandon Flowers, the main singer for The Killers.

He's I just, I really love his voice and I love the songs that he makes.

- Excellent.

Great answer guys.

Good luck the rest of the way.

It was very nice to meet all of you.

Now let's go ahead and begin the second quarter with this question that goes to Wyoming Area.

What president who has proposed judicial procedures reform bill was a court packing plan, also oversaw the creation of the WPA during the new deal?

- FDR.

- Is correct and here's your bonus question.

The Issyk-Kul is a large endorheic lake in what central Asian country, whose capital is Bishkek.

- Nepal.

- Nope.

We were looking for Kyrgyzstan.

Tunkhannock, here comes your first question of the second quarter.

What author of the novel, The Professor's House, wrote about Jim Burton, who befriends a Bohemian girl in Blackhawk Nebraska in her novel My Ántonia.

(buzzer beeps) - Okay no answer, rebound to Wyoming Area.

- Smith.

- Nope.

We were looking for a Willa Cather.

Wyoming Area here comes your next question.

What type of reaction releases energy for products up to iron 56, occurs in the second stage of a hydrogen bomb blast and is contrasted with fission?

- Exothermic.

- Is incorrect, rebound to Tunkhannock.

- Fusion.

- Fusion is correct for your rebound points Tunkhannock and here comes your next question.

What man adopted the plan of tuxtepec and over through the government of Sebastian Lerdo then rolled from 1876 to 1911 as a dictator in Mexico.

- Fidel Castro.

- Is incorrect rebound to Wyoming Area.

- Gonzales.

- Nope, we were looking for Porfirio Diaz.

Wyoming Area here comes your next question.

What author of the unfinished novel Sanditon used the pen name A Lady for a novel about the dissimilar Dashwood sisters, titled Sense and Sensibility?

- Anne Hathaway.

- Is incorrect, rebound to Tunkhannock.

(buzzer beeping) - Okay, that author was Jane Austen.

Okay, Tunkhannock here comes your next question.

In September, 2020, what city which is led by Greg Fisher, agreed to pay $12 million to the family of Breonna Taylor who was killed by police?

- Minneapolis.

- Is incorrect, rebound to Wyoming Area.

- Detroit.

- Nope.

We were looking for Louisville, Kentucky, Louisville, Kentucky.

Wyoming Area here comes your next question.

Felix Baumgartner's 2012 jump began in what atmospheric layer in which commercial aircraft often cruise to avoid turbulence in the troposphere below.

- Stratosphere.

- Is correct and here's your bonus question and there's two answers required here.

From 1958 to 1961, what two middle Eastern countries were merged as the United Arab Republic under president Gamal Abdel Nasser?

- Amman and Yemen.

- Is incorrect.

The answer was Egypt and Syria.

Those were your two countries right there.

(high pitched beeping sound) And after one half of play we currently have Tunkhannock in the lead over Wyoming Area 60 to 30.

We want to say thank you to James and Justin from Tunkhannock and thank you to Nicole and Adam from Wyoming Area.

You guys were absolutely fantastic.

We're now going to meet your teammates for the second half.

(swooshing sound) Now joining us for Tunkhannock are Jack Chilson and Jillian Landon, and representing Wyoming Area are Grace Woshny and Charlie Alfano.

This first question in the third quarter is going to go to Tunkhannock.

And that question is, what fruit proceeds man in the name of a Herbie Hancock standard, proceeds sugar in a Harry styles song and has a green rind and red edible flesh?

- Watermelon.

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

What California politician resigned as a US representative in 2019 due to allegations she had an affair with her staffer, Graham Kelly.

(buzzer beeps) Okay, that's Katie Hill, Katie Hill.

Wyoming Area here comes your first question.

What state, whose flag shows and elk, an Eagle and the Latin motto, if you seek a pleasant peninsula, look about you, is governed from Lansing?

- Michigan.

- Is correct and here's your bonus question.

The two intersections of the celestial equator and the ecliptic mark what events that occur once in the spring and once in the autumn.

- Solstice.

- Is incorrect, we were looking for equinoxes, equinoxes.

Okay, Tunkhannock here comes your next question.

What presence whose descent is celebrated on Pentecost is often represented as a dove and as part of the Trinity with the father and the son?

- Holy spirit.

- Is correct and here's your bonus question.

Hans Frank led the Nazi occupation of what country, where in 1940, thousands of officers were killed by Soviet forces in the Katyn massacre?

- Poland.

- Poland is correct for your bonus points Tunkhannock, great job.

Wyoming area here comes your next question.

What poem in which Archimago creates a duplicate of Una to seduce the red cross knight is an Elizabethan epic by Edmund Spencer named for a Monarch.

- King Henry.

- Is incorrect, rebound to Tunkhannock.

(buzzer beeping) - Okay, that's Fairy Queen.

Tunkhannock it's back to you.

What athlete who was defaulted from the 2020 US open for hitting a line judge with a ball, is a top rated Serbian tennis player, nicknamed joker?

(buzzer beeps) - Okay, rebound now to Wyoming Area.

- Novak Djokovic.

- Is correct for your rebound points, Wyoming Area.

And here comes your next question.

What desert, which lends its name to a territory that contains Laayoune, is home to the Tuareg people, is North of the Sahel and is Africa's largest?

- Sahara.

- Is correct and here's your bonus question.

Two captains Regent are the heads of state of what most serene Republic, a micro state surrounded by Italy.

- Vatican city.

- Is incorrect, we're looking for San Marino, San Marino.

Tunkhannock, here comes your next question.

Super saturated solutions readily undergo what process of phase change in the solute that forms a solid that then falls out of the solution.

(high pitched beeping sound) (buzzer beeps) Okay, rebound now to Wyoming Area.

- Dissolution.

- Is incorrect.

We are looking for precipitation, precipitation.

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

This time Wyoming Area will pick first, your categories are rivers and bridges or ABCs.

- ABCs.

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

Answer the following about the letters A, B and C. This Canadian province has the postal code BC.

- Quebec.

- British Columbia.

In Roman numerals C represents this number.

- 50.

- 100.

A B and AB are three of these types important in transfusions.

- Pass - That's blood types.

A was the Scarlet letter in a novel by this author.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne.

- Yes.

This word is B in the NATO phonetic alphabet.

- Bravo.

- Yes.

In hexadecimal, the digit C stands for this decimal number.

- 0.5 - 12.

The A in the ABC countries of South America.

- Pass.

- That's Argentina.

In Fixed do solfège, this sellable represents the note A.

- Pass.

- That's La.

Element with the atomic symbol B.

- Boron.

- Yes.

(high pitched beeping sound) - Okay, we're not going to get to the last one there.

Great job, Wyoming Area on your portion of the lightening round.

Tunkhannock we're coming back to you.

Your remaining category will be rivers and bridges.

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

Name these world cities, given a bridge in the city and the body of water the bridge spans.

Tower bridge over the river Thames.

- Pass.

- London.

Vasco da Gama Bridge over the Tagus river.

- Pass.

- Lisbon.

Golden Gate Bridge over this city's namesake Bay.

- San Francisco.

- Yes.

The Rialto over the Grand Canal.

- Rio de Janeiro.

- Venice.

The Woman's Bridge over the Rio de la Plata.

- Pass.

- Buenos Aires.

The Steel Arch Harbor Bridge over this city's namesake Harbor.

- Pass.

- That's Sydney.

Pont Neuf over the Seine.

(high pitched beeping sound) - Yeah, sorry Tunkhannock, ran out of time there.

We were looking for Paris.

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

And after that, boy, de we have a close game.

Tunkhannock in the lead over Wyoming Area, 95 to 90.

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 Tunkhannock again.

And Jack, tell me who your favorite musician is and why?

- Oh, probably Drake.

I just think he's timeless the past decade, so I really like his music.

- Very nice.

Jillian, who is your favorite musician?

- I would have to say Sting, his music is very poetic and I enjoy listening to him when I'm studying.

- Excellent.

Thank you, Tunkhannock.

Wyoming Area we're going to come over to you.

Grace.

Who is your favorite musician and why?

- Probably Jeremy Zucker just because of like a very good studying music and also good music to sing in the car.

- Excellent and Charlie, your favorite musician?

- I would say my favorite musicians are Weezer.

They're just a great band.

I don't know the lead singer's name, but... - Rivers Cuomo, I believe is his name, so, but great stuff.

Great stuff.

Thank you, Wyoming area, good luck the rest of the way.

We're now going to begin the last quarter of the game with this question for Wyoming Area.

What author of the book length essay The Rebel, wrote about the murder of an Algerian man by Merseault in his philosophical novel, The Stranger.

- Immanual Kant - Is incorrect, rebound to Tunkhannock.

(buzzer beeping) Okay, that's Albert Camus.

Tunkhannock, here comes your next question.

What country, home to the 12 member guardian council and the Modules Legislature is led by Hassan Rouhani and the Supreme leader Ali Khamenei.

- Pakistan.

- Is incorrect, rebound now to Wyoming Area.

- Israel.

- Nope.

We were looking for Iran.

Wyoming Area here comes your next question.

In what state did Melba Beals, Ernest Green and seven others integrate a high school despite Orval Faubus' attempts to stop them in Little Rock.

- Arkansas.

- Is correct and here's your bonus question.

In economics, what three word phrase refers to a cost incurred by a firm that is new to a market but not by firms that are already in a market.

- Trickle down economics.

- Is incorrect.

We were looking for barriers to entry.

Tunkhannock here comes your next question.

What technique developed by a French scientist is required by the FDA for interstate sale of milk and employs heat to sterilize foods.

- Imagisation.

- Is incorrect, rebound to Wyoming Area.

- Pasteurization.

- Is correct for your rebound points, Wyoming Area and here comes your next question.

What number of movements in Gustav Mahler's resurrection symphony and Hector Berlioz's symphonie fantastique is one more than a standard symphony?

- Eleven.

- Is incorrect, rebound to Tunkhannock.

- Four.

- Nope.

We were looking for five, five was your number.

Tunkhannock here comes your next question.

What alias assumed by teen girl, Carrie Kelly in the dark Knight returns was held by Dick Grayson who serves as a sidekick to Batman.

- Robin.

- Is correct and here's your bonus question.

What 1969 Supreme court decision held that students wearing of black armbands protesting the Vietnam war was protected under the first amendment?

- Right to assembly.

(high pitched beeping sound) - Is incorrect.

We were looking for Tinker V Des Moines.

Wyoming Area here's your next question What element, which converts to its brittle gray form below 13 degrees Celsius combines with led to form solder and was once widely used in cans?

- Tin.

- Tin is correct and here's your bonus question.

What city named after a college at Oxford university is the most populous on New Zealand's South island?

(high pitched beeping sound) - New Zealand City.

- Is incorrect, we were looking for Christ church and that's the end of the game and our winner tonight is Wyoming Area over Tunkhannock 120 to 105.

Congratulations, Wyoming Area, you're going to be moving on and we'll see you next time with another round of WVIA Scholastic Scrimmage.

I'm your host, Paul Lazar and thank you for watching.

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