(upbeat music) - Welcome to the 18th 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 Scranton versus Wallenpaupack.

Representing Scranton are Daniel Jacklinsky, Jevon James, Kenny Kraser, and Megan Wong.

Their alternates are Jason Monroe and Jenna Lewis, and their advisor is Lynn Cawley Harding.

Representing Wallenpaupack are Genevieve Neenan, Braden Caputo, Michael McCloskey, and Michael Soskil.

Their alternate is Nathan Freethy, and their advisor is Ryan Neenan.

"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.

Well, let's go ahead and get started with this toss-up question.

What devices, whose namesake constant is measured in Newton's per meter and denoted by K in Hook's law, are coils?

Michael, Wallenpaupack.

- Spring.

- Is correct, and your bonus now.

What 12-letter word refers to the practice of compiling dictionaries which may include work on etymologies and definitions?

- I dunno.

(buzzer beeping) - No answer.

- Okay, that's lexicography.

Let's go to another toss-up.

What US-born artist painted children lighting lanterns in Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose after depicting Virginia Gotro in portrait of Madame X?

(buzzer beeping) Genevieve, Wallenpaupack.

- Norman Rockwell.

- Is incorrect, rebound to Scranton.

(buzzer beeping) - No answer.

- Okay, and that was John Sergeant.

Let's go to another toss-up.

What author of The "Witches of Eastwick" wrote about a high school basketball star from Pennsylvania in a group of four novels about Rabbit Angstrum?

(buzzer beeping) Michael, Wallenpaupack.

- Mike Lupica.

- Is incorrect.

Rebound now to Scranton.

(buzzer buzzing) - No answer.

- Negative.

Okay, that was John Updike.

Let's go to another toss-up.

What show, which depicted the Feast of the Seven Fishes in a 2023 episode, is a Hulu series set in Chicago that stars Jeremy Allen White as a chef?

- Jevon, Scranton.

- The Bear.

- Is correct, and your bonus now.

In August 2023, voters in what state rejected a constitutional amendment that would've required future amendments to win 60% support to pass?

- Kansas.

- Nope, we were looking for Ohio.

Let's go to another toss-up question.

What substance, most of which was destroyed in barrio Genesis, can undergo annihilation with its opposite charge counterpart, namely normal matter?

(buzzer beeping) Braden, Wallenpaupack.

- Antimatter.

- Is correct, and here comes your bonus.

A man rescues a girl from a locked safe, in what story by O. Henry about former criminal Jimmy Valentine?

(buzzer beeping) - No answer.

- Okay, that's 'A Retrieved Reformation.'

Let's go to another toss-up.

Edwin Howard Armstrong pioneered what medium for which the term broadcasting was invented that sparked an era of mass communication in the 1920s?

Michael, Wallenpaupack.

- Radio.

- Is correct, and your bonus now.

The Biot-Savart law describes how a current generates what kind of vector field measured in Teslas?

- Flow.

- Okay, we're looking for magnetic field, magnetic field.

Here's our next toss-up.

Wet City's concert venues include Schoenberg Hall at a namesake branch of the University of California and Frank Gary's Walt Disney Concert Hall.

Michael, Wallenpaupack.

- Anaheim.

- Is incorrect, rebound now to Scranton.

(buzzer beeping) Kenny?

- Miami.

- Nope, we're looking for Los Angeles, Los Angeles.

Here comes our next toss-up.

What quantity, whose lateral form excludes a shape's bases, equals 4@r2 for a sphere and six times side length?

Megan, Scranton.

- Area.

- Be more specific.

- Volume.

- Is incorrect, rebound now to Wallenpaupack.

Michael?

- Surface area.

- Surface area is correct for your rebound points, Wallenpaupack.

And that sound that you heard signals 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.

Wallenpaupack has won the coin toss and will pick first.

Your categories are vice presidents or "Fast and Furious" cast.

(buzzer beeping) - Vice presidents.

- Vice presidents it is, and your time begins after I finish reading the first question.

Given a president, name his vice president.

Joe Biden.

- Harris.

- Yes, Bill Clinton.

- Pass.

- Gore.

Donald Trump.

- Mike Pence.

- Yes.

George Washington.

- Adams.

- Be more specific.

- John Adams.

- Hmm?

- John Adams.

- Yes.

Abraham Lincoln's second vice president who succeeded Lincoln as President.

- Tyler.

- Andrew Johnson.

George W. Bush.

(buzzer beeping) - Pass.

- Dick Cheney.

Richard Nixon's second vice president who succeeded Nixon as President.

(buzzer beeping) - Pass.

- Gerald Ford.

George H.W.

Bush.

- Pass.

- Dan Quayle.

Theodore Roosevelt's VP who names a city in Alaska.

(buzzer beeping) - Skagway.

- Fairbanks.

James Polk's VP who names a city in Texas.

- Boston.

- Dallas.

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

Scranton, we're coming to you, and your remaining category will be "The Fast and Furious cast".

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

Name these people who've appeared in one or more "Fast and Furious" films.

Plays Dominic and voices Groot in the MCU.

(buzzer beeping) - Vin Diesel.

- Yes.

Israeli who plays Giselle as well as Wonder Woman.

(buzzer beeping) - Gal Gadot.

- Yes.

Short comedian who plays Dinkley and co-stars in two "Jumanji" movies.

(buzzer beeping) - Kevin Hart.

- Yes.

Former wrestler who plays Luke Hobbs.

- The Rock.

- Yes.

English actor who plays Deckard Shaw.

(buzzer beeping) - Tom Hardy.

- Jason Statham.

Rapper who plays Tej Parker.

(buzzer beeping) - Ludacris.

- Yes.

Wrestler you can't see who plays Jacob.

(buzzer beeping) - John Cena, John Cena.

- John Cena.

- Yes.

Bodak Yellow rapper who plays Leysa.

- Cardi B.

- Yes.

Actor who played Brian and died in 2013.

- Paul Walker.

- Yes.

Actress who plays Letty Ortiz.

(buzzer beeping) Ran out of time there, that was Michelle Rodriguez.

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

And after that very close game, Wallenpaupack over the lead by Scranton by just five points, 55 to 50.

And now we're going to go ahead and begin the second quarter with this toss-up question.

What (mumbles) delivered speeches defending Milo for murder charges in exposing the Cadeli Conspiracy before being killed for opposing Mark Anthony?

(buzzer beeping) - Javon, Scranton.

- Brutus.

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Wallenpaupack.

- No answer.

- Okay, that was Cisciro, Cisciro.

Here comes your next toss-up.

What poem which describes things that are said to intimately live with rain claims that only God can make the title plans and is by Joyce Kilmer?

- Trees.

- Michael, Wallenpaupack.

- Trees.

- Yes, and here comes your bonus.

The author Saki took his pen name from what collection which consists of Edward Fitzgerald's translations of quatrains by Omar Jayam?

- No clue.

(buzzer beeping) - No answer.

- Okay, that's the Rubaiyat, the Rubaiyat.

Here's our next toss-up.

What man argue that property rights arise from laboring on the land and is two treatises of government, a text that influence the founding fathers?

(buzzer beeping) Javon, Scranton.

- John Locke.

- Is correct, and your bonus, what black female activist and co-founder af the NAACP exposed incidents of lynching in the late 1800s and works like Southern horrors?

(buzzer beeping) Javon?

- (indistinct).

- No, that was Ida B.

Wells, Ida B.

Wells.

Our next toss-up.

What activity was restricted by the eight box law, the grandfather clause, literacy tests and other racist- Javon, Scranton.

- Boding, Boding.

- Is correct, and your bonus question.

The Chadrasekhar limit is an upper bound on what quantity for a white dwarf beyond which the dwarf will collapse?

- No answer.

- No answer.

- No answer.

- Okay, that was mass.

Let's go to another toss-up.

What country which won the Basketball silver metal at the 2020 Olympics in the home country of the top pick in the 2023 Draft Victor Wanyama?

- France.

- Javon, Scranton.

That's correct, France.

Here comes your bonus question.

What English woman who wrote under a male pseudo name depicted conflicts between siblings Tom and Maggie Tulliver in her novel "The Mill on the Floss"?

(buzzer beeping) Okay, that was George Elliot.

Here's our next toss-up.

What theological dialogue who's second chapter explains the utman or eternal soul is a conversation between Arjuna and Krishna in the Mahabarata?

(buzzer beeping) Michael, Wallenpaupack.

- Bhagavad Gita.

- Is correct, and here comes your bonus.

What building known for causing strong wind effects at its base is a triangular-shaped skyscraper on New York's Fifth Avenue?

(buzzer beeping) - No answer.

Okay, that is the Flatiron building, the Flatiron building.

Our next toss-up.

What bone, whose head articulates with the glenoid cavity of the scapula deform the ball and socket shoulder joint is proximal to the elbow?

(buzzer beeping) Megan, Scranton.

- Humerus.

- Is correct, and your bonus question.

What brand of video game consoles included handheld systems named Portable and Vida?

(buzzer beeping) Megan.

- PlayStation.

PlayStation is correct for your bonus point, Scranton.

(buzzer beeping) And 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.

And we'll start with the students from Wallenpaupack, and Genevieve will come to you first.

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

- In my free time I like to practice and play music.

- Very good, thank you.

Braden?

- I experiment with music production and I also like to practice my saxophone.

- Michael?

- I like reading, running and just playing video games sometimes.

- Okay, Michael?

- I enjoy reading and I run cross country for our school team.

- Excellent, very nice to see you again Wallenpaupack.

Good luck to you the rest of the way.

Scranton, we're gonna come over to you, and Daniel, if you wouldn't mind telling us what you like to do for fun.

- I like to play baseball, golf, listening to music, and many other things, of course.

- Thank you for being here, Daniel.

Javon?

- I like to watch movies and play football.

- Okay.

Kenny?

- I usually work at my ice cream shop, and then I also hang out with my friends.

- All right, now I want ice cream.

Megan?

- I enjoy reading, creative writing, as well as learning about biology.

- All right, very good, and very nice to see you again, Scranton.

Good luck to everybody.

And we're now going to go ahead and begin the third quarter with this toss-up question.

What general, nicknamed Old Blood and Guts, relieved Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge and was known for his ambition and abrasive personality?

(buzzer beeping) Michael, Wallenpaupack.

- Grant.

- Is incorrect, rebound to Scranton.

- No, it's not, it's not... (buzzer beeping) - That was Patton, Patton.

Here's our next toss-up.

What state is home to the historic Fort Snelling, the headquarters of the Mayo Clinic, and the Mall of America in Bloomington near St. Paul?

(buzzer beeping) Jevon, Scranton.

- Minnesota.

- Is correct, and your bonus now.

Surgeon Norman Barrett is the namesake of a metaplastic disease affecting what roughly 10-inch long organ that receives food from the pharynx?

(buzzer beeping) - Esophagus.

- Is correct for your bonus points, Scranton, as we move on to the next toss-up.

What Asian country were the New People's Army insurgency and Moro conflict have recently taken place, has been the site of protests in Manila?

(buzzer beeping) Michael, Wallenpaupack.

- Philippines.

- Is correct, and your bonus now.

In May 2023, which performer announced plans to retire his current stage name and possibly begin performing under his real name, Abel Tesfaye?

(buzzer beeping) - The Weeknd.

- Is correct for your bonus points, Wallenpaupack, as we move to another toss-up question.

What European language was used to write the novels "Buddenbrooks", The "Magic Mountain", and (indistinct) by Brothers Heinrich- (buzzer beeping) Michael, Wallenpaupack.

- German.

- Is correct, and here comes your bonus now.

In 2023, Fernando Villavicencio was assassinated in what South American country where he was a candidate running to succeed President Guillermo Lasso?

(buzzer beeping) - Columbia.

- No, that country is Ecuador, Ecuador.

Here's our next toss-up.

What country contains Lake Balkhash is the world's largest landlocked country by area, and is a- (buzzer beeping) Javan, Scranton.

- Kazakhstan.

- Is correct, and your bonus now.

Which English king, who was married to Catherine of Braganza, was king during the Great Fire of London and came to power after the Stuart Restoration?

(buzzer beeping) - King Henry.

- Is incorrect, that was Charles II.

Here's our next toss-up.

What class of rocks, which may be extrusive like basalt or intrusive like granite, is defined as rocks forming- (buzzer beeping) Michael, Wallenpaupack.

- Igneous.

- Is correct, and your bonus, what noble gas is used in photography because it can produce intense bursts of white light like Xenon, which lies below it on the periodic table?

(buzzer beeping) - Krypton.

- Is correct for your bonus points, Wallenpaupack, as we go to our next toss-up question.

What kind of objects have modes or industries such as the Mousterian, were often made of flint and were once used to define unique human behavior?

(buzzer beeping) That was stone tools.

Let's go to our next toss-up.

What group, which was founded in Florida by Tina Descovich and Tiffany Justice, is a conservative organization that calls for censorship in schools?

(buzzer beeping) Michael, Wallenpaupack.

- Moms for Liberty.

- Is correct, and your bonus now.

What Republican senator from Massachusetts was beaten with a cane by Preston Brooks in 1856 after giving a speech attacking slavery?

(Michael mumbling) (buzzer beeping) - Martin Luther King Jr. - No, we're looking for Charles Sumner, Charles Sumner.

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

(lightning buzzing) This time Scranton will pick first, your categories are world legislatures or 14.

(Scranton students mumbling) - 14.

(buzzer beeping) 14.

- Okay, 14 it is, and your time begins after I finish reading the first question.

It's two prime factors.

(buzzer beeping) - Two and seven.

- Yes.

Element with atomic number 14 and atomic symbol Si.

(buzzer beeping) - Silicon.

- Yes.

President who created the 14 points?

- Pass.

(buzzer beeping) - Pass.

- Wilson.

Composer whose 14th piano sonata is the Moonlight Sonata?

(buzzer beeping) - Beethoven.

- Yes.

Poems like those by Petrarc, consisting of 14 lines.

(buzzer beeping) - Sonnet.

- Yes.

Word for a period of 14 days?

(buzzer beeping) - Fortnite.

- Yes.

Avatar Vishnu, who spent 14 years in exile with his wife Sita?

(Buzzer beeping) - No answer.

- Rama.

Roman emperor succeeded by Tiberius after his death in AD14?

(Buzzer beeping) - Nero.

- Augusta Caesar.

Spiritual title whose 14th and current holder lives in exile and Dharamshala?

(buzzer beeping) That was the Dalai Lama.

All right, that's going to do it for your portion of the lightning around, Scranton.

And now Wallenpaupack, we come over to you, and your remaining category will be world legislatures.

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

What country's present-day legislative branch includes a body called the House of Lords?

(buzzer beeping) - UK.

- Yes.

Bundestag.

(buzzer beeping) - Germany.

- Yes.

State Duma.

(buzzer beeping) - China.

- Russia.

Knesset?

(buzzer beeping) - Russia.

- Israel.

(indistinct).

(buzzer beeping) - No answer.

Iceland.

Lok Sabha.

(buzzer beeping) - Poland.

- India.

National People's Congress.

(buzzer beeping) - South Africa.

- China.

Pontifical Commission.

(buzzer beeping) - No answer.

- The Vatican.

Same.

(buzzer beeping) - United States.

- Poland.

Doyle Aaron.

(buzzer beeping) - No answer.

- That is Ireland.

And that's going to do it for the second lightning round, and after that we currently have Scranton in the lead over Wallenpaupack, 145 to 135.

And now we'll go ahead and begin the last segment of the game with this toss-up question.

What technology that supposedly spread west after the Battle of Talas was attributed to the eunuch siloon and used the bark of mulberry trees?

(buzzer beeping) Michael, Wallenpaupack.

- Abacus.

- Is incorrect, rebound to Scranton.

(buzzer beeping) - Pencils.

- No, we're looking for paper, paper.

Our next toss-up, what element's allotropes include a two-dimensional hexagonal one called graphene, as well as spherical- Michael, Wallenpaupack.

- Carbon.

- Is correct, and your bonus, the Polish glacier is a root of ascent of what mountain in Argentina that is the tallest mountain outside of Asia?

(buzzer beeping) - Kosciuszko.

- Nope, we're looking for Mount Aconcagua, Mount Aconcagua.

Our next toss-up, what type of interval between the bottom space and top line on a treble clef has a two-to-one frequency ratio and has a name from the Italian for eighth?

(buzzer beeping) Genevieve, Wallenpaupack.

- Octave.

- Is correct, and your bonus now, what son of Loki from Norse mythology is a wolf who will swallow Odin?

- Fenrir.

- Is correct for your bonus points, Wallenpaupack.

Our next toss-up.

What type of electoral district, 56 of which were abolished by the Great Reform Act of 1832, included ones with few voters known as pocket or rotten?

(buzzer beeping) Michael, Wallenpaupack.

- Counties.

- Is incorrect, rebound to Scranton.

(buzzer beeping) - Districts.

- Nope, we're looking for borough.

Let's go to another toss-up.

What author, who wrote about a planet that suddenly experiences total darkness in his story "Nightfall", described the Galactic Empire in Foundation?

(buzzer beeping) Michael, Wallenpaupack.

- Asimov.

- Is correct, and your bonus, what adjective can describe a language formed from mixing other languages, as well as a style of folk music originating in rural Louisiana?

- Blues.

(buzzer beeping) - Blues.

- No, that was Creole.

Here's our next toss-up, and get your pencils and papers ready.

What is the value of 16 raised to the five-fourths power, given that the answer is an integer- Michael, Wallenpaupack.

- 32.

- Is correct, and your bonus, Asheville, an Appalachian city that is nicknamed Land of the Sky, is in the western part of what East Coast state?

- Try Maine.

(buzzer beeping) - Maine.

- We're looking for North Carolina.

Here's our next toss-up.

What monarch sent the Krueger Telegram to South Africa, dismissed Otto Von Bismarck as chancellor and abdicated as German Kaiser after World War I?

(buzzer beeping) Jevon, Scranton.

- Adolf Hitler.

- Is incorrect, rebound to Wallenpaupack.

(buzzer beeping) - Guggenheim.

- No, it was Wilhelm II.

Let's go to another toss-up.

What man, who beat Robert Zimmerman in a 2022 House election, agreed to settle a check fraud case in Brazil and fabricated much of his biography?

(buzzer beeping) Michael, Wallenpaupack.

- Taft.

- Is incorrect, rebound to Scranton.

(buzzer beeping) Okay, they were George Santos, George Santos.

Our next toss-up.

What material was invented in 1867 using diatomaceous earth as a stabilizing agent for nitroglycerin by Alfred Nobel, and is a high explosive?

(buzzer beeping) Michael, Wallenpaupack.

- C4.

- Is incorrect, rebound to Scranton.

(buzzer beeping) - TNT.

- Judges?

- No.

- Is incorrect, we're looking for dynamite.

And that's the end of the game.

And our winner tonight is Wallenpaupack over Scranton, 180 to 145.

Congratulations, Wallenpaupack.

You're going to be moving on, and we'll see you next time with another exciting round of "Scholastic Scrimmage".

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

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