(whistle blowing) (fun drumbeats) Go!

- Welcome to the 17th 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 sponsors, FNCB and People Security Bank, for making this competition possible.

The rules of the game have been modified for this season's virtual version, 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 educators from the WVIA viewing area and tonight's match features Wallenpaupack versus Blue Ridge playing for Wallenpaupack, are Ella Wesenyak and Tyler Lofberg.

Their alternates are Emma Mahone, Abby Lopez, Molly Dickerman and Kai Puma Stellik.

Their advisor is Ryan Neenan.

Representing Blue Ridge are Jake Birch and Aidan Glasgow.

Their alternates are Luke Shay, Leah McCain and Grace Hinkley.

Their advisor is Katie Brown.

Well, let's get started, Wallenpaupack has won the coin toss and will receive first question, which is, what element shown in 2003 to be very slowly radioactive is used in woods, metal and namesake gastrointestinal remedies and has atomic symbol BI.

- Beryllium?

- [Paul] Is incorrect rebound to Blue Ridge.

- Bromine?

- No, that answer is Bismuth.

Blue Ridge here's your first question, What word names an Ethiopian built dam on the Nile, a 1920s cultural movement based in Harlem and a 15th century humanist European rebirth?

- Biolla - Is incorrect.

Rebound to Wallenpaupack - Renaissance - Is correct for your rebound points Wallenpaupack And here's your next question?

What novel, which opens by declaring that happy families are all alike is about a woman who has an affair with Count Vronsky, and is by Leo Tolstoy?

(loud beep) Ran out of time.

Rebound of blue Ridge.

- Let's say, yeah,(loud beep) I don't know.

- Okay.

We're looking for Anna Karenin, Blue Ridge.

Here's your next question?

What explorer who's mythologized in the Lusiadas followed a chartered by Bartolomeu Dias to become the first European to sail to India.

- Christopher Columbus - Is incorrect.

Rebound to Wallenpaupack.

- Magellan.

- Nope.

That was Vasco Da Gama.

Wallenpaupack Here is your next question.

What country led by the Christian Democratic Union suffered deadly flooding on the Rhine River two months before elections to replace Angela Merkel.

- Germany - Is correct.

And here's your bonus question?

What American choreographer worked with Erin Copeland on Appalachian Spring and developed an influential dance technique named for her?

- No answer.

- That's tough one.

That's Martha Graham.

Blue Ridge, here's your next question.

What molecules, whose activity is described by the induced fit model, have names ending in -ase and lower the activation energy of biological reactions.

(loud beep) Okay.

Ran out of time.

Rebound to Wallenpaupack.

- Enzyme - Is correct for your rebound points Wallenpaupack.

And here comes your next question.

What Shakespearean title character claims to be determined to prove a villain and as a king who dies crying my kingdom for a horse at Bosworth field?

- Richard I.

- Is incorrect rebound Blue Ridge - George I - Nope.

Wallenpaupack, you were very close, We are looking for Richard III, Richard III.

Let's move on to the next question (beep) in the next quarter because that sound that you heard signals the end of the first quarter.

And it's now time for the lightning round.

(quick electricity) [Paul]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.

Wallenpaupack has won the coin toss, and will pick first.

Your categories are chemical formulas or national heroes - National heroes.

- [Paul] Okay.

National heroes, it is.

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

Name the present day countries with these national heroes.

Joan of Ark.

- France.

- [Paul] Yes.

Davey Crockett - Us.

- [Paul] Yes.

William Tell - England - [Paul] Switzerland.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.

- Turkey.

- [Paul] Yes.

Pancho Villa?

- Italy.

- [Paul] Mexico.

Nelson Mandela - India - [Paul] South Africa.

Giuseppe Garibaldi.

- Italy.

- [Paul] Yes.

Ned Kelly - Canada.

- [Paul] Australia.

Jose Marti?

- Spain - [Paul] Cuba.

Jose Rizal.

- Spain - [Paul] The Philippines.

Okay.

Wallenpaupack, that's gonna wrap up your portion of the lightning round.

Blue Ridge we're coming over to you.

(loud beep) Your remaining category will be chemical formulas.

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

Given a substance, give its chemical formula.

Water - H20 - [Paul] Yes.

Sodium chloride.

Don't know you can pass.

- Pass - [Paul] NACL.

Sulfuric acid - Pass - [Paul] H2SO4.

Carbon monoxide.

- CO - [Paul] Yes.

Methane - Pass - [Paul] CH4, Nitric acid - Pass - [Paul] HNO3, dry ice.

- NO - [Paul] CO2.

Laughing gas.

(loud beep) Ran out of time.

That was N2O.

And after that we currently have Wallenpaupack in the lead over blue Ridge, 70 to 20.

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 Wallenpaupack, and Ella I'll come to you first.

(fun jazzy music) Tell me what your favorite subject is in school and why?

- My favorite subject is probably English just because I love to read, but I also like history.

- Okay, excellent.

Thank you, Ella.

Tyler, what is your favorite class or subject at school and why?

- History is my favorite subject, Because I love learning about the past.

- Excellent, good luck the rest of the way, Wallenpaupack.

Blue Ridge we're gonna come over to you.

Jake, tell us what you like to do for fun when you're not in school.

- I love to go on bike rides.

- Excellent.

Excellent.

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

- I like to play soccer.

- Okay, excellent, good luck the rest of the way.

It was very nice to meet all of you.

We now begin the second quarter, with this question that goes to Blue Ridge.

What TV show in which a slow cooker started to fire that killed Jack is an NBC drama that uses flashbacks to depict the lives of the Pearson family.

- No answer.

- Okay.

Rebound now to Wallenpaupack.

- This is us - Is correct for your rebound points Wallenpaupack.

And here comes your first question of the second quarter.

What movement that started in Zuccotti Park in 2011, use the slogan we are the 99% and protested corporate influence and economic inequality.

- No answer.

- Okay.

Rebound to Blue Ridge - Labor movement.

- Nope, that was occupy wall street.

Blue Ridge, here comes your next question.

What country, where the national day rally speech is delivered by Lee Hsien Loong uses caning as a legal punishment and as a small Asian city state - No answer.

- Okay.

Rebound to Wallenpaupack.

- Hong Kong.

- No we're looking for Singapore.

Wallenpaupack, here is your next question.

What MLB team based from 1954 to 1991 at Memorial Stadium, was the only team of Brooks Robinson and Cal Ripkin Jr. And is named for an orange bird?

- The Cardinals - Is incorrect, rebound to Blue Ridge.

- The Orioles - Is correct for your rebound points, Blue Ridge.

And here comes your next question.

What general, who supposedly said, "Lafayette we are here in 1917," led the American expeditionary force in World War I and was nicknamed Blackjack.

(loud beep) Okay.

Rebound to Wallenpaupack.

- Pershing.

- Pershing is correct for your rebound points Wallenpaupack, and here comes your next question.

What symphony whose sequel is titled Lelio, depicts a march to the scaffold in the fourth of its five movements and was written by Hector Berlioz.

- No answer.

- Okay.

Rebound now to Blue Ridge.

- No answer.

- Okay.

That's the Symphonie Fantastique.

Blue Ridge here comes your next question.

What mathematical objects, two of which can be combined with a Cartesian product or by taking the union of them are unordered lists of elements.

- No answer.

- Okay, rebound to Wallenpaupack.

- Pair.

- No we're looking for set.

Wallenpaupack, here is your next question.

What city, which is the most populous in the mountain time zone and of the most populous state capital is named after a mythical self emulating bird?

- Phoenix - Is correct.

And here's your bonus question.

What type of object, in which Huckleberry Finn hides a bag of gold is used by Ishmael in Moby Dick as a boy after the Pequod sinks?

- A bag.

(loud beep) - No we're looking for coffin or casket.

And after one half of play, we currently have Wallenpaupack in the lead over Blue Ridge, 100 to 30 I wanna say thank you to Ella and Tyler from Wallenpaupack.

And thank you to Jake and Aidan from Blue Ridge, you are spectacular.

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

(upbeat drums and whistles) Playing for Wallenpaupack in the second half, are Nick Husung and Anastasia Iopollo.

Representing Blue Ridge are Nick Paulman and Griffin Whitehead.

Well, our first question in this quarter will go to Wallenpaupack.

And that question is, what phase of matter consists of freely moving charged particles and is exemplified by the material and glowing neon lights and in the sun.

- Plasma - Is correct.

And heres your bonus question.

What data type named for an English mathematician can only hold one of two logical values, true or false?

- Curing.

- No, that answer is Boolean.

Blue Ridge, let's come over to you.

What author wrote about the town of Templeton in his 1823 novel 'The Pioneers,' which was the fourth book in his series of Leather Stocking Tales.

- No answer.

- Okay.

Rebound now to Wallenpaupack.

- No answer.

- Okay.

That author is James Fenimore Cooper.

Wallenpaupack, here's your next question.

What five day holiday on which lamps, called Diaz are lit, includes ceremonies honoring the Goddess Lakshmi and is a Hindu festival of lights.

- Diwali.

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question?

What former courtier in Kish, often consider the first named emperor in history, conquered the Sumerian civilization to form the Acadian Empire.

- Sargon - Is correct, for your bonus points Wallenpaupack.

Great job.

Blue Ridge, here's your next question and get your pencils and papers ready.

If a standard six side a die is rolled three times what is the probability that it shows an odd number all three times.

(loud beep) Okay.

Rebound now to Wallenpaupack.

- 12.5% - Is correct, for your rebound points Wallenpaupack.

Here's your next question too?

What country were the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was based, was the birthplace of Joshua Reynolds?

The first president of its Royal Academy of Arts.

- England - Is correct, and here's your bonus question?

What nationality appears in the name of a set of dances by Johannes Brahms and in the name of a set of rhapsodies by Franz Liszt?

- No answer.

- Okay.

That's Hungarian.

Blue Ridge, here's your next question.

The Katyn massacre occurred in what country that was partitioned by the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and invaded by Nazi Germany to start World War II - Poland - Is correct, and here's your bonus question.

Giant tube worms live near what features on the ocean floor which released geo heated water which include white smokers and black smokers?

- Underwater volcanoes.

- No, that answer is hydrothermal vents.

Wallenpaupack here's your next question.

What country home to the remaining speakers of the Innu language, uses cona silberies in its main language, which is spoken in cities like Kyoto.

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

What city's name is commonly used for the German government from 1919 to 1933, whose last president Paul V. Hindenberg handed power to the Nazis?

(long beep) - Weimar - Weimar is correct for your bonus points, Wallenpaupack.

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

(fast electricity) This time Blue Ridge will pick first, your categories are baseball stadiums or effects.

- Effects - Effects.

It is.

And your time begins when I finish reading the first question, give these phrases that end with the word effect.

Chain reaction in which each event sets off another one?

You can pass.

- Pass - Domino effect.

Secondary symptom caused by a drug?

- Side effect.

- Yes.

Ashton Kutcher film named for a chaos theory concept?

- Pass - The Butterfly Effect.

Change in pitch of a moving siren?

- Pass - Doppler effect.

Process in which namesake gases warm the earth?

- Pass - Greenhouse effect.

Video game series about Commander Shepherd?

- Mass effect.

- Yes, medical improvement brought on by sugar pills?

(loud beep) Ran out of time.

Blue Ridge, that was placebo effect.

Okay.

Wallenpaupack, we're going to come over to you and your remaining category will be baseball stadiums and again your time begins when I finish reading the first question.

Given the name of a baseball stadium name the city where it's located.

Yankee stadium?

- New York.

- [Paul] Yes.

Wrigley field?

- Chicago.

- [Paul] Yes.

Fenway park?

- Boston.

- [Paul] Yes.

Coors Field?

- No answer.

- [Paul] Denver.

American Family Field, known until 2020 as Miller park.

- No answer.

- [Paul] Milwaukee.

Rogers Center, located near the base of the CN tower.

- Seattle - [Paul] Toronto.

Minute Maid Park?

- Orlando.

- [Paul] Houston, Bush Stadium?

- No answer - [Paul] St. Louis.

Target Field, which replaced the Metro Dome.

- No answer.

- [Paul] That's Minneapolis.

(loud beep) Okay.

After that, we currently have Wallenpaupack in the lead over Blue Ridge, 190 to 60.

And again, we're going to take a little bit of a break and get to know the contestants playing the second half a little better.

And again, we'll start with Wallenpaupack, and Nick, I'll come to you.

Tell me what your favorite subject is in school and why?

- Culinary arts, because I want to go into that field as a career.

- Excellent.

Thank you, Nick.

Anastasia, tell me what your favorite class is in school?

- I like science just because I feel like it's pretty interesting.

- All right.

Excellent, good luck.

The rest of the way Wallenpaupack.

Blue Ridge gonna come over to you, Nick, if you wouldn't mind telling us what you like to do for fun?

- Soccer and volleyball.

- Okay.

Excellent and Griffin, what are your hobbies?

- Probably fishing.

- Excellent.

It was very nice to meet all of you again, and we'll now go ahead and begin the last segment of the game with this question, that goes to Blue Ridge.

What structures whose roots are surrounded by cementum are strengthened by fluoride and include types such as incisors, canines, and molars.

- What are teeth?

- Yes.

And here's your bonus question, in 2021 What billionaire flew on VSS Unity a spaceship built by Virgin Galactic?

- Who was Boris Johnson.

- Is incorrect.

We were looking for Richard Branson.

Wallenpaupack here's your next question?

What civilization used knotted at strings called khipu for record keeping, built a capital at Cusco, and ruled over much of the Andes in present day Peru.

- Incans.

- Is correct.

And here is your bonus question.

What quantity, which is large for chlorine is often defined as the amount of energy released when a gaseous atom gains an electron - Electro-negativity.

- No we're looking for electron affinity.

Blue Ridge, here is your next question.

What author wrote about a royal prisoner in 'The man in the Iron Mask' which continued a story begun in this Frenchman's novel, 'The Three Musketeers.'

- No answer.

- Okay.

Rebound now to Wallenpaupack.

- No answer.

Okay.

- That's Alexandre Dumas.

Wallenpaupack, here comes your next question.

What character, who visits Vibe Island with Perry the Parasol, in a namesake 2005 DS game rules.

The Mushroom Kingdom, and is often rescued by Mario?

- Princess Peach.

- Is correct, and here's your bonus question, in the sixth century Belisarius fought for what great Byzantine emperor and helped him reclaim lands in Italy, north Africa and Spain?

- Alexander, The Great.

- No, that was Justinian the Great.

The great Blue Ridge, here's your next question.

What country, which control present day, Mali and Senegal is part of its West Africa colony, also control the North American colony of Quebec?

- Who is what is France, sorry.

- That is correct.

And here's your bonus question, as it's two word name suggests what theory is the currently dominant theory that classifies elementary particles?

- Atomic theory?

- No, that answer is standard model.

Wallenpaupack here's your next question.

and get those pencils and papers out.

What is the length of the longer leg of a right triangle, whose short leg measures 12 and whose hypotenuse has a length of 20?

(loud beep) Ran out of time.

Wallenpaupack.

We're gonna rebound a Blue Ridge.

(loud beep) Okay.

That answer was 16 (loud beep) and that's the end to the game.

And our winner tonight is Wallenpaupack over Blue Ridge 210 to 80.

Congratulations, Wallenpaupack, You are going to be moving on and we'll see you next time with another round of Scholastic Scrimmage.

I'm your host, Paul Lazar.

(fun drum beats) And thank you for watching.