Weatherly vs. Montgomery

(swooshing sound with crickets chirping) (energetic 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 one, three, or $5,000.

Tonight's match, features Weatherly versus Montgomery.

Representing Weatherly, is Trinity McCutchen, Conner McCauley, Taylor Jones, Noah Borrella Guzman, is their captain.

Their alternates are James McLaren and Abigail Binder.

And, their advisor is Shane Moran.

Representing Montgomery, is Gavin Ryan, Samuel Oester, Mary Green.

Their captain is Owen Sherman, and their alternates are Kimberly Pickering and Dylan Hill.

The advisor for the team is Kelly Kurtz.

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 town, home to the McLean house, is where a Union encirclement of the army of Northern Virginia in April, 1865, forced Robert E. Lee to surrender?

(buzzer sounds) - [Regina] Samuel?

- Gettysburg?

- [Regina] Gettysburg is incorrect.

Rebound to Weatherly?

(timer sounds) The answer is, Appomattox.

Toss-up.

What country is the setting of Sugar Street, Palace of Desire, and Palace Walk, which comprise Arabic language author, Nagiub Mahfouz', "Cairo Trilogy?"

(buzzer sounds) Owen, Montgomery?

- Egypt?

Egypt is correct answer, Owen.

And, your bonus, What American film director is noted for his eccentric films, including "The French Dispatch," "The Grand Budapest Hotel," and "The Royal Tennenbaums?

- No idea.

- Tim Burton.

(buzzer sounds) - [Regina] Owen?

- Spielberg?

- Is incorrect.

It is Wes Anderson.

What number, which sounds similar to the word for death in Chinese, is avoided in many (buzzer sounds) East Asian- Owen, Montgomery?

- Four.

- Four, Owen, is correct answer and your bonus, Montgomery.

In 1973, American Indian activists occupied what South Dakota town, where over 250 indigenous women and children were killed by the United States Army in 1890?

(Owen whispers inaudibly) - I don't think it's (garbled).

- Okay.

(buzzer sounds) - [Regina] Owen?

- Sioux Falls?

- Sioux Falls is incorrect.

It is Wounded Knee.

Toss-up, pencil, paper ready.

What obtuse angle is formed by the hour and minute hands of an analog clock at four o'clock, given it is one-third of a circle?

(buzzer sounds) Gavin, Montgomery?

- 120?

- 120 is correct answer, - and your bonus.

Pencil, paper ready for this one, too.

Two answers are required.

What two values of X satisfy the equation, the absolute value of the quantity x plus four, equals seven?

(buzzer sounds) Gavin?

- Three, and negative 11?

- Is a correct answer, Gavin.

For your bonus points, toss-up.

What city, contains the headquarters of Mazda, is home to the Jan Letzel-designed Genbaku Dome, and was the first city targeted with an atomic bomb?

(buzzer sounds) Owen, Montgomery?

- Hiroshima - Hiroshima's correct answer, and your bonus.

What Belarusian-born Jewish artist painted the "White Crucifixion," and "Green Violinist," which may have inspired the title, of "Fiddler on the Roof?"

- (indistinguishable whispering) I don't know.

- I would go with Salvador.

- Salvador Dali?

(timer sounds) - That would be Chagall.

Toss-up.

What character drives to Waterbury and imagines piloting a Navy hydroplane in a 1939 James Thurber short story, whose title refers to his secret life?

(buzzer sounds) Owen, Montgomery?

- Pie?

- is incorrect.

Rebound to Weatherly.

(timer sounds) That was Walter Mitty.

Toss-up.

In 2022, What league redesigned its championship trophy, the Larry O'Brien trophy, to list the teams who have won it, including the Bucks (timer sounds) and Celtics?

(buzzer sounds) Samuel, Montgomery?

- NBA?

- NBA is correct answer, and your bonus, Montgomery.

What author was just 18 when she published her debut novel, "The Outsiders," which is based on the teenage greaser culture of Tulsa, Oklahoma?

(buzzer sounds) Owen?

- S. E. Hinton?

- S. E. Hinton is correct answer for your bonus points.

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

(swooshing and zapping sound effect) 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.

Weatherly has won the coin toss and will pick first.

Your categories are, Ballet, or People With State Names.

- Keep state names.

- People With State Names.

- People With State Names.

Time begins when I finish reading the first questions.

Name these people, whose first or last name is also the name of a United States' state.

Author of the story, "Rip Van Winkle?"

- [Regina] You can pass.

- Pass.

-Pass.

- [Regina] Irving.

Whip-wielding archeologist, played by Harrison Ford?

(buzzer sounds) Connor?

- Indiana Jones?

- [Regina] Correct.

Author of "A Cat on a Hot Tin Roof?"

- Pass.

- [Regina] Williams.

Alter ego of Disney Channel character, Miley Stewart?

(buzzer sounds) Taylor?

- Hannah Montana?

- [Regina] Correct.

Author of a "Room of One's Own," and "To the Lighthouse?"

- Pass.

- Virginia Woolf.

- Painter of skulls and flowers, who wed Alfred Stieglitz?

- Pass.

- [Regina] Georgia O'Keeffe.

Elite pool player from the novel, "The Hustler?'

- Pass.

- [Regina] Minnesota Fats.

Boarding school student who titles John Green's first novel?

(timer sounds) That was Alaska Young.

Moving over to our team from Montgomery.

The category is Ballet.

Give these answers related to classical ballet.

Gauzy skirt worn by ballerinas?

- Ooh.

It's a leotard, isn't it?

- Tutu.

(buzzer sounds) - Tu- - Tutu?

- [Regina] Is correct answer, Owen.

Popular Tchaikovsky ballet set at Christmas.

(buzzer sounds) Owen?

- The Nutcracker?

- [Regina] Correct.

Five-letter Italian word for a company's leading ballerina?

(buzzer sounds) - Pass.

- [Regina] Prima.

A twirler placed it on one foot?

- (whispers) Plea.

(buzzer sounds) - [Regina] Samuel?

- Pirouette?

- Pirouette's correct.

Home country of the Bolshoi Ballet?

(sigh sound) (buzzer sounds) Gavin?

- France?

- [Regina] Russia.

French word for step, which appears in many dance terms?

(buzzer sounds) - Ball change?

- [Regina] Ball chain is incorrect, it's pas.

Technique of dancing on tiptoe?

(buzzer sounds) Mary?

- Pointe?

- [Regina] Correct.

A bend at the knees with the body held erect?

(buzzer sounds) - Plea?

- [Regina] Correct.

Rail that dancers hold while performing warm-ups?

(buzzer sounds) - Barre.

- [Regina] Correct.

Black woman who became principle dancer at the American Ballet Theater in 2015?

(timer sounds) Misty Copeland.

Let's take a look and update our score.

We have Weatherly with 10 points in Montgomery, with 90 points.

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

What force causes molecules of acidic acid to form dimers, is responsible for water's high boiling point and then bonds to the lightest element?

(buzzer sounds) - [Regina] Noah, Weatherly?

- Hydrogen bond?

Hydrogen bonds?

- Hydrogen is correct answer, and your bonus, What term names a region in the middle of a gene, that is transcribed into MRNA, but spliced out of RNA, before it is translated, unlike an exon?

(timer sounds) That is an intron.

Toss-up, What kingdom, which expanded under the great elector, Frederick William, conquered Silesia from Austria during the rule of Frederick the Great?

(buzzer sounds) Samuel, Montgomery?

- Germany?

- Germany is incorrect.

Rebound to Weatherly.

(buzzer sounds) Noah?

- Prussia?

Prussia is the correct answer for your rebound points.

Toss-up.

What author depicted Francis Wayland Thurston's investigation of a creature in the underwater city of R'Lyeh In his horror story, "The Call of Cthulhu?"

(buzzer sounds) - Samuel?

- HP Lovecraft?

- [Regina] Lovecraft is correct answer, and your bonus Montgomery.

What mainland Greek civilization, from the late Bronze Age, included Tiryns, Pylos, and a city where Heinrich Schliemann found the mask of agammemnon?

- It's either Aztecs or (garbled) (buzzer sounds) - Mary?

- The Trojans?

- Trojans is incorrect.

It is Mycenaeans.

Toss-up, What property, which Young's equation relates to the contact angles of a fluid, is lowered by surfactants and allows some insects to walk on water?

(buzzer sounds) Samuel?

- Surface tension?

- [Regina] Surface tension is correct answer.

And, your bonus, Montgomery.

What Russian composer's 15 symphonies include the "Leningrad," his seventh, and "Babi Yar," his 13th?

- I think we should just say, Tchaikovsky, (group murmurs) Everybody (garbled) (buzzer sounds) - [Regina] Owen?

- Tchaikovsky?

- Is incorrect.

It is Shostakovich.

Toss-up.

What structure, just south of which, the Vindolanda Letters were found, was begun in AD 122, by its namesake emperor, to defend against Northern Britains?

(buzzer sounds) - Trinity?

- Great Wall of China?

- [Regina] I'm sorry?

- The Great Wall of China?

- Great Wall of China's incorrect.

Rebound to to Montgomery.

(timer sounds) It is Hadrian's Wall.

Toss-up.

What country's president, Ebrahim Raisi, who in 2021, succeeded Hassan Rouhani, is a close ally of supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, who governs from Tehran?

(buzzer sounds) Owen, Montgomery?

- Iran?

- [Regina] is a correct answer, Owen, and your bonus, In June, 2022, Togo and Gabon, were admitted to what organization, consisting of former members of the British Empire?

- I don't know.

- Pass.

(timer sounds) - The correct answer is Commonwealth.

Toss-up.

What events, with an ictal phase have absence tonic and myoclonic varieties, are detected by EEG and happen repeatedly in uncontrolled epilepsy?

(buzzer sounds) Gavin?

- Earthquakes?

- [Regina] Earthquake is incorrect.

Rebound to Weatherly.

(buzzer sounds) Trinity?

- Seizure.

- Seizure's correct answer for your rebound points.

That's the end of this first half.

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

We have Weatherly with 40, Montgomery with 120 points.

We're going to give our contestants a bit of a break, and the the opportunity for those of you at home to get to know them a little better.

Let's start with our students from Weatherly.

Why don't you tell us a little bit about yourself, like your interests in school, some of the things you're involved in.

Any clubs?

- Yes.

- [Regina] Like which ones?

Besides, Scholastic Scrimmage.

(Connor chuckles) - Interact, Conner's Club, SGA, Drama Club, Conner's Club, Cooper's Closet.

I think that's all.

- [Regina] Well, that's a lot.

(Regina chuckles) Thanks, Trinity.

Connor?

- After school I'm going to college, and planning to be a zoologist.

- [Regina] How wonderful.

Good luck.

Taylor?

- I don't.

- [Regina] Are you involved in any clubs in school?

- Yeah, Scholastic Scrimmage, Chorus, Drama, SGA, Interact.

- [Regina] That's a lot.

(Taylor chuckles) Okay, great to meet you.

How about you, Noah?

- Yeah, I like writing and geography and I play saxophone.

- Okay.

Do you march in the band?

- Yeah, for parades.

- Okay.

Let's move over to our team from Montgomery.

Gavin, why don't you start us off?

- I'm involved in a lot of our band stuff and all of our theater stuff.

- Nice.

Keeps you really busy, right?

(Gavin chuckles) - Yeah.

How about you, Samuel?

- After high school I'm gonna go to college to be an astrophysicist, and I also really enjoy chess and, Marchmen, Jazz band, Concert band.

- [Regina] Very nice.

How about you, Mary?

- In school, I'm involved in Theater, Sign Language Club, guitar, and, after high school, I plan to go to college for forensic technology.

- [Regina] Very good.

How about you, Owen?

- I'm involved in the STEM program with Bloomberg University, and I play soccer.

- [Regina] And, that also keeps you very busy.

- Yeah.

(Owen chuckles).

- Great to meet all of you.

Let's get started in the second half, with a toss-up.

In what event, during which John Neville's house was attacked, did George Washington lead troops to suppress protests against attacks on alcohol?

(buzzer sounds) Noah, Weatherly.

- Whiskey Rebellion?

- Is a correct answer, Noah, and your bonus.

What 19th century Danish philosopher, considered a forerunner of the existentialists, wrote "The Sickness Unto Death," and "Either/Or?"

(timer sounds) That was Kierkegaard.

Toss-up.

What author's book, "Twenty Years After," continues the story of D'Artagnan, who befriends the title soldiers in this Frenchman's novel, had three- (buzzer sounds) Owen?

- Dumas?

- Dumas is the correct answer, Owen, and your bonus, Montgomery.

A leaf can have thousands or millions of what openings for gas exchange, each of which, is flanked by a pair of guard cells?

- It's it's not pores, it's the- All I can think right now is pores.

(buzzer sounds) Gavin?

- Pores?

- I'm sorry?

- Pores?

- Is incorrect, it is stomata.

Toss-up What dark liquid, extracted by injecting pressurized water into shale beds, is in a process known as fracking, is distilled into fuels?

(buzzer sounds) .

Samuel?

- Oil?

- Oil, Samuel is correct answer, and your bonus, Montgomery.

The Nazi party restricted civil liberties and suppressed communism, communists, using as pretext, a fire, at what Berlin Parliament building in 1933?

- Brandenburg.

- Is it a building, though?

- Brandenburg, yeah.

(buzzer sounds) - Owen?

- What is Brandenburg Gate?

- Brandenburg is incorrect.

It is Reichstag.

Toss-up.

What office building, in Foggy Bottom, was the site of a 1972 burglary of the Democratic National Committee, which led to Richard Nixon's (buzzer sounds) Samuel, Montgomery?

- Watergate.

- Watergate, Samuel, is correct answer, and your bonus.

What short story by Frank Stockton is named after the two possible fates that await accused criminals behind one of two doors?

- (indistinct whispering) (timer sounds) - That was "The Lady or the Tiger."

Toss-up.

What country is home to the record label, Big Hit Music, which employs Tomorrow X by Together and a septet, behind the hits, "Boy with Luv," and "Butter" BTS?

(buzzer sounds) Owen?

- South Korea.

- South Korea, Owen is correct answer, and your bonus.

Montgomery.

In September, 2022, Laxman Narasimhan, was named the new CEO of what company, based in Seattle, replacing its interim CEO, Howard Schultz?

- (whispering) What'd you say?

- Twitter?

- Okay.

- Go for it.

(buzzer sounds) - Twitter?

- Twitter's incorrect.

It is Starbucks.

Toss-up.

Pencil, paper ready.

What is the least common multiple of the two numbers, 9 and 15, given that the greatest common factor (buzzer sounds) of the numbers.

Owen, Montgomery?

- 45?

45, Owen, is correct answer.

And, your bonus.

In 1888, what country, during the region of Pedro, the reign, I'm sorry, of Pedro II, became the final country in the western world to abolish slavery?

- Is it (indistinguishable whispering) - No, it's definitely (garbled) I think it's Mexico.

(timer sounds) (buzzer sounds) - Samuel?

- Mexico?

- Mexico is incorrect.

It is Brazil.

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

(swooshing and zapping sound effect) This time, Montgomery will pick first.

Your categories are, Yellow or Volcanoes.

- Yellow.

- Yellow.

- We'll, Yellow.

- Yellow.

- The time begins when I finish reading the first question, Yellow.

Answer the following about yellow things.

States that contains the majority of Yellowstone National Park?

(buzzer sounds) Samuel?

- Wyoming - [Regina] Correct.

City at the end of the yellow brick road in "The Wizard of Oz?"

(buzzer sounds) Samuel?

- Emerald- Emerald City?

- [Regina] Emerald's correct.

Snoopy's yellow bird friend in "Peanuts?"

(buzzer sounds) Mary?

- Woodstock?

- Correct.

Robert Frost' poem about two paths that diverge in a yellow wood?

- Pass.

- [Regina] "Road Not Taken."

Yellow element with rotten egg smell?

(buzzer sounds) Owen?

- Sulfur?

- [Regina] Correct.

Canadian territory governed by Yellowknife?

(buzzer sounds) Owen?

- Saskatchewan?

- Northwest Territories.

British Band whose album, "Parachutes," contains the song, "Yellow?"

(buzzer sounds) Samuel?

- The Beatles.

- [Regina] Coldplay.

Yellow clothing worn by 2018, French protestors?

(buzzer sounds) - Poncho?

- [Regina] Vest.

French painter of "The Yellow Christ?"

(buzzer sounds) Owen?

- Monet?

- [Regina] Gaugin.

These gardens are one of the yellow properties in Monopoly.

(buzzer sounds) Owen?

(timer sounds) Not it time.

- Marvin Gar- - Marvin Gardens.

Moving over to our team from Weatherly, your category is Volcanoes.

In what country are these volcanoes located?

Kilauea?

(buzzer sounds) Noah?

- United States?

- [Regina] Correct.

Mount Fuji?

(buzzer sounds) - Noah.

- Japan.

- [Regina] Correct.

Stromboli?

(buzzer sounds) Noah?

- Italy.

- [Regina] Correct.

Krakatoa?

(buzzer sounds) Noah?

- Indonesia?

- [Regina] Correct.

Hainan, Volcanic Field?

(buzzer sounds) Noah?

- China?

- [Regina] Correct.

Hekla, which erupted in 2000?

- Pass.

- Iceland.

Pico de Orizaba?

(buzzer sounds) Noah?

- Mexico?

- [Regina] Correct.

Mount Elbrus?

(buzzer sounds) Noah?

- Russia.

- [Regina] Correct.

Mount Kilimanjaro?

(buzzer sounds) Noah?

- Kenya?

- [Regina] Tanzania.

Cotopaxi and Chimborazo?

- Pass.

- That would be Ecuador.

(timer sounds) That's the end of our lightning round.

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

We have Weatherly, with 85 points and Montgomery, with 190 points.

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

What author of the verse novel, "Aurora Leigh," wrote a collection of 44 sonnets from the Portuguese, including, "How Do I Love Thee, Let Me Count the Ways?"

(buzzer sounds) Taylor?

- Shakespeare?

- I'm sorry?

- Shakespeare?

- Shakespeare's incorrect.

Rebound to Montgomery.

(buzzer sounds) - Mary Shelley.

- Mary Shelley is incorrect.

It is Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

Toss-up.

In what state did test of sewage in Nassau County reveal polio, prompting Kathy Hochul to declare a state of emergency that included Long Island?

(buzzer sounds) Noah?

- New York?

New York?

New York, Noah, is correct answer.

And, your bonus.

What American chemist, who announced the discovery of new elements on a radio quiz show in 1945, helped discover plutonium?

- Pass.

- Okay, the correct answer is Seaborg.

- Toss-up.

The genetic model fish, Danio rerio, is named after what African mammal, that employs disruptive coloration through its black (buzzer sounds) Samuel?

- The zebra fish?

- [Regina] Zebra is correct answer, and your bonus, Montgomery.

Lisa McGee created what British TV show, set in the 1990s, which centers on a group of students at a Catholic school in the title Northern Irish city?

- What's a Northern Irish (garbled).

(buzzer sounds) - Owen?

- Dublin?

- Dublin is incorrect.

It is "Derry Girls."

Toss-up.

What civilization invented cuneiform, built ziggurats in its city states of Ur and Uruk, and is the oldest historical Mesopotamian civilization?

(buzzer sounds) Gavin?

- The Aztecs?

[Regina] Aztecs is incorrect.

Rebound to Weatherly?

(buzzer sounds) - Trinity?

- The Incas?

- Incas is incorrect.

It is Sumer.

Toss-up.

What instrument, such as the Tom Taylor, such as Tom Taylor played by Joshua Bell, and made by Antonio Stradivari, is the smallest- (buzzer sounds) orchestral- Owen, Montgomery?

- Violin?

- [Regina] Violin, Owen is correct answer.

And, the bonus, Montgomery, what French scientist showed that one minus the ratio of the reservoir temperatures is the maximum efficiency of any heat engine?

- (indistinguishable whispering) - Curie.

Just a guess.

(buzzer sounds) - Samuel?

- Curie?

- Carnot.

Sorry.

Toss-up.

What man, spuriously credited with saying, "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar," wrote 1899's, "The Interpretation of Dreams," proposing the Oedipus complex?

(buzzer sounds) Owen, Montgomery?

- Freud?

- [Regina] Freud's correct answer.

And, your bonus.

What Pacific Island Nation, which was formerly led by King George Tupo, V, is governed from Nuku'alofa?

- I think it's Tonga.

(buzzer sounds) - Owen?

- Tonga?

- [Regina] Tonga's correct answer for your bonus points.

Toss-up.

What yearly event, which in 2021, was co-chaired by Timothy Chalamet and Naomi Osaka, is a high-fashion benefit gala, helmed (buzzer sounds) by Anna Wintour- Gavin, Montgomery?

- The Met Gala?

Met Gala is correct answer.

And, your bonus.

What German author wrote about Gustav von Aschenbach, a tourist, who becomes fixated on a Polish Boy named Tadzio in the 1912 novella, "Death in Venice?"

(indistinct whispering) - No idea.

(timer sounding) - That was, Thom- (timer sounds) Thomas Mann.

And, that's the end of the game.

Our final score is Weatherly, 95, and Montgomery, 235.

Congratulations, Montgomery.

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

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

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