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(whistle blowing) (upbeat percussion music) - Welcome to this season of WVIA's "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.

Tonight's match features West Scranton versus Scranton.

Representing West Scranton are Hui Zhen, Brandon Sanchez, Yadhira Paramo, and Engel Ovalles Peña.

Their advisor is Rick Bresser.

Representing Scranton are John Montoro, Noah Casey, Lauralee Ayala, and Ellagrace Miseo.

Their alternate is Ari Wargo, and their advisor is Lynn Cawley Harding.

"Scholastic Scrimmage" is a game of rapid recall of factual information, so let's take a moment 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 get started with this toss-up question, and get out your pencils and papers.

If a petition requires 100 signatures, how many people need to be asked if two out of every seven people asked actually do sign?

(soft instrumental music) (buzzer beeps) Noah, Scranton.

- 29 people.

Oh, no!

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to West Scranton.

(bell dings) Okay, we're looking for 350.

350.

All right, let's go to our next toss-up question.

What color is indicated by the Arabic word, abyad, the Hebrew word, laban, the Hindi word, safed, the Italian word, bianca, and the German word, weiss?

(buzzer beeps) Ellagrace, Scranton.

- White.

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

John and Charles Wesley founded what 18th century Protestant movement which emphasized personal holiness and revivalist preaching?

(bell dings) That is Methodism.

Okay, let's go to another toss-up.

What country, whose most populous city is in the Klang Valley and contains the Petronas Towers, is an Asian nation whose capital is Kuala Lumpur?

(buzzer beeps) Engel, West Scranton.

- Malaysia.

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

What U.S.

rock band, which shares its name with a city, had hits with the tracks, "Make Me Smile," "25 or 6 to 4," and "If You Leave Me Now"?

(bell dings) It's a band, it's a city.

It is Chicago.

All right, let's go to our next toss-up question.

What civilization, whose eighth century collapse affected cities such as Copán, used the Tzolkin and Long Count calendars in what is now Guatemala?

(buzzer beeps) Engel, West Scranton.

- (indistinct) - Is incorrect.

Rebound to Scranton.

(buzzer beeps) Noah.

- Mayans?

Mayans?

- Is correct for your rebound points, Scranton.

Great job.

Let's go to our next toss-up.

What Arab country, for which Senator Bob Menendez was convicted of working as a foreign agent in 2024, is led by Abdel Fattah el-Sisi from Cairo?

(bell dings) That country is Egypt.

Egypt.

All right, let's go to our next toss-up.

What microorganisms, which include the species Saccharomyces cerevisiae, are types of fungi, some of whom create alcohol or CO2 in fermentation?

(buzzer beeps) Engel, West Scranton.

- Bacteria.

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Scranton.

(bell dings) That is yeasts, yeasts.

All right, let's go to our next toss-up.

What city is known locally as Hamar, contains the Mosque of Islamic Solidarity, was the setting of "Black Hawk Down," and is the capital of Somalia?

(bell dings) (bell softly rings) And that is Mogadishu.

Well, that sound that you heard signals the end of the first quarter, and it's now time for the Lightning Round.

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.

Scranton has won the coin toss and will pick first.

Your categories are: V in Geography, or Pearls.

- Geography.

- Geography, V in Geography it is.

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

Identify these places whose English language names begin with the letter V. Capital city of Austria.

(buzzer beeps) - Vienna.

- [Paul] Yes.

State governed from Richmond.

(buzzer beeps) - Virginia.

- [Paul] Yes.

Asian country east of Cambodia.

(buzzer beeps) - Vietnam.

- [Paul] Yes.

Most populous city in British Columbia.

You don't know, you can pass.

(buzzer beeps) - Vancouver.

- [Paul] Yes.

The Green Mountain State.

(buzzer beeps) - Oh, uh... - [Paul] You can pass.

- I can pass.

- Pass.

- [Paul] Vermont.

Country home to Lake Maracaibo.

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- Venezuela.

Italian volcano overlooking Naples.

(buzzer beeps) - Vesuvius.

- [Paul] Yes.

Waterfall on the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe.

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- [Paul] That's Victoria Falls.

Longest river in Europe.

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- [Paul] Volga.

Highest mountain in Antarctica.

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- That's Vinson Massif.

(bell softly rings) All right, Scranton, that's going to do it for your portion of the Lightning Round.

And West Scranton, we're coming your way and your remaining category will be Pearls.

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

Answer the following about pearls.

Hawaiian naval base bombed in 1941.

(buzzer beeps) - Pearl Harbor.

- [Paul] Yes.

Item of pearl jewelry worn by a girl in a Johannes Vermeer portrait.

(buzzer beeps) - Necklace.

- [Paul] Earring.

Film series in which Jack Sparrow captains the Black Pearl.

(buzzer beeps) - "Pirates of the Caribbean."

- [Paul] Yes.

Grunge band fronted by Eddie Vedder.

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- [Paul] Pearl Jam.

French composer of the operas, "The Pearl Fishers" and "Carmen."

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- [Paul] That's Bizet.

Game in which ender pearls can be used to teleport- (buzzer beeps) - Minecraft.

- [Paul] Yes.

Country whose third-longest river is the Pearl River.

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- That's China.

Iridescent material also called nacre.

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- [Paul] That's mother-of-pearl.

American author of "The Good Earth."

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- [Paul] That's Pearl S. Buck.

New Testament book describing heaven as having 12 gates, each made of a single pearl.

(buzzer beeps) - Genesis?

- That is the book of Revelation.

All right, that's going to do it for the Lightning Round.

And after that, we have a very good game.

Scranton in the lead over West Scranton, 45 to 25, as we begin the second quarter with this toss-up question: What event, travel to which was protected by the Ekecheiria truce, inspired a date system of four-year periods and was an ancient Greek sports event?

(buzzer beeps) Engel, West Scranton.

- The Olympics.

- Is correct, and here comes your bonus question.

What District 12 tribute is tortured with tracker jacker serum that alters his memories of Katniss Everdeen in Suzanne Collins's "Hunger Games" books?

(bell dings) That is Peeta Mellark.

All right, let's go to another toss-up.

What quantities, whose initial and equilibrium values for reactions are often written in ICE tables, can be reported in units of moles per liter?

(bell dings) That is concentration.

All right, here's our next toss-up.

What elder brother of Vili and Vé rode an eight-legged horse named Sleipnir, sacrificed his eye for wisdom, and fathered Thor in Norse mythology?

(buzzer beeps) Engel, West Scranton.

- Odin.

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

The Hansen Writing Ball was the first commercially produced version of what machine, whose electric Selectric version was introduced by IBM in 1961?

(bell dings) Okay, we're looking for typewriters.

Typewriters.

Okay, here's our next toss-up.

What Major League Baseball team, which traded Garrett Crochet to Boston, lost an AL record- (buzzer beeps) - White Sox.

- John, Scranton.

- White Sox.

- Is correct, and here comes your bonus.

Anarchist Alexander Berkman stabbed executive Henry Clay Frick during what 1892 strike at a western Pennsylvania steel mill?

(buzzer beeps) - Coal Miners and Laborers Strike?

- No, this was the Homestead Strike.

The Homestead Strike.

All right, here's our next toss-up.

What woman, who launched the "Let's Move" campaign in 2010, wrote the memoir, "Becoming," and served as First Lady when her husband, Barack, was president?

(buzzer beeps) Yadhira, West Scranton.

- Michelle Obama.

- Is correct, and here comes your bonus.

What kind of numbers, which include 6, 28, and 496, equal the sum of their proper positive divisors?

(buzzer beeps) Engel.

- Greatest common factor?

- No, we're looking for perfect numbers.

Perfect numbers.

All right, here comes our next toss-up in a tied game.

What man was crowned king of Italy by Pope Adrian IV, won at Legnano against the Lombard League, drowned in the Saleph River, and had a red beard?

(bell dings) That was Frederick Barbarossa.

Okay, let's go to another toss-up here.

What book, whose second verse provides details on offering livestock, describes laws and priestly rituals and is the third book of the Torah?

(bell dings) That was Leviticus.

Okay, let's go to our next toss-up.

What artist, who depicted a bullfight in "The Hallucinogenic Toreador," depicted crawling ants and melting clocks in "The Persistence of Memory"?

(buzzer beeps) Engel, West Scranton.

- Um, what's it called?

Picasso.

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Scranton.

(buzzer beeps) - Salvador Dalí.

- Is correct for your rebound points, Scranton.

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 West Scranton, and Hui, I'll come to you first.

Tell me what you like to do for fun.

- For fun, I like to play volleyball.

I play in school and yeah, that's about it.

- [Paul] All right, thank you very much.

Brandon.

- For fun, I like playing soccer and going to church.

- Thanks, Brandon.

Yadhira?

- I like to play clarinet in the marching band.

- [Paul] Thank you.

Engel?

- I like to play basketball, volleyball, and cook.

- Excellent.

Good luck the rest of the way, West Scranton.

Scranton, we're coming over to you.

John, tell us what you like to do for fun.

- I like to play and watch baseball.

- [Paul] Thank you.

John.

Noah?

- I like to play golf.

- [Paul] Thank you, Noah.

Lauralee?

- I like to watch shows and I really like to play soccer.

I like volunteering at my church as well.

- [Paul] Oh, that's wonderful.

Thank you, Lauralee.

Ellagrace?

- I play violin.

- Thank you very much.

It was very nice to meet all of you.

And now we'll go ahead and begin the third quarter with this toss-up question: What comedian, who claims to have graduated from business school with really good grades, addressed aviation safety in his HBO show, "The Rehearsal"?

(buzzer beeps) Brandon, West Scranton.

- Kevin Hart.

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Scranton.

(buzzer beeps) - Adam Sandler.

- No, that's Nathan Fielder.

Okay guys, let's go to our next toss-up.

What author depicted the town of Llareggub in the radio play, "Under Milk Wood," and urged, "Rage, rage" in his poem, "Do not go gentle into that good night"?

(bell dings) We're looking for Dylan Thomas.

Here's our next toss-up question.

What document, which formed a perpetual union, did not give the federal government taxation power and was replaced by the current U.S.

Constitution?

(buzzer beeps) Noah, Scranton.

- The Articles of Confederation.

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

What country, whose second populous city is Chiang Mai, has had 10 kings named Rama?

(buzzer beeps) - India.

- Nope, that country is Thailand.

Okay guys, here comes your next toss-up.

What cosmologist names a tuning fork sequence for classifying galaxies and a space telescope that was replaced by the James- (buzzer beeps) Engel, West Scranton.

- Galileo?

- Is incorrect.

I'll finish the question and rebound to Scranton.

That was replaced by the James Webb Telescope?

(bell dings) That was Edwin Hubble.

Okay guys, here's our next toss-up.

What novel, in which a character's Communist boyfriend is framed for murdering Mary Dalton by her actual killer, Bigger Thomas, is by Richard Wright?

(bell dings) That novel was, "Native Son."

All right, let's go to our next toss-up.

What board game, for which Nigel Richards memorized French and Spanish, is played on a 15-by-15 grid and- (buzzer beeps) John, Scranton.

- Scrabble.

- Is correct, and here's your bonus.

According to an analog of Newton's Second Law of Motion, what quantity equals the moment of inertia times the angular acceleration?

(buzzer beeps) - Force?

- Nope, you're looking for torque.

Torque.

Here's our next toss-up.

What devices, whose dial type work through expansion of a bimetallic strip, may also use a tube filled with ethanol or mercury to measure temperature?

(buzzer beeps) Engel, West Scranton.

- Thermostat.

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Scranton.

(buzzer beeps) - Thermometer.

- Thermometer is correct for your rebound points, Scranton, as we turn to our next toss-up.

What law, portions of which were struck down in 2013's Shelby County v. Holder case, banned literacy tests to determine eligibility to cast a ballot?

(bell dings) That was the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Okay, let's go to our next toss-up.

In what country was a new 2025 inquest launched over a Halloween 2022 crowd-crushing incident in Itaewon?

(buzzer beeps) Engel, West Scranton.

- South Korea.

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

What 1962 book by Rachel Carson documented the effects of pesticides like DDT on wildlife?

(bell softly rings) (bell dings) And that book was, "Silent Spring."

Well, that sound that you heard signals the end of the third quarter and another Lightning Round.

This time, West Scranton will pick first.

Your categories are: Hamlet, or Nautical Terminology.

(buzzer beeps) - Nautical Terminology.

- Nautical Terminology it is, and your time begins when I finish reading the first question.

Give these terms and phrases used by sailors or on ships.

Left, when facing a ship's front.

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- [Paul] That's port.

Rear of a ship.

(buzzer beeps) - Stern.

- [Paul] Yes.

Tall posts supporting sails or rigging.

(buzzer beeps) - Masts.

- [Paul] Yes.

Unit of speed abbreviated KN.

(buzzer beeps) - Knots.

- [Paul] Yes.

Small vessel that tows a larger vessel in a harbor.

(buzzer beeps) - Towboat.

- Tugboat.

A ship's jail.

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- That's a brig.

Spine of a ship's hull.

Hauling sailors under it was once a very brutal punishment.

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- [Paul] That's keel.

Elevated command area that often houses the wheel.

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- [Paul] That's the bridge.

The tilt of a ship left or right, often from taking on water.

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- [Paul] That's listing.

Official in charge of a ship's manifest and onboard valuables.

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- That's purser.

Okay, West Scranton, that's going to do it for your portion of the Lightning Round.

Scranton, we're coming your way.

Your remaining category will be Hamlet.

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

Name these characters from William Shakespeare's "Hamlet."

Hamlet's love interest who goes insane.

(buzzer beeps) - Ophelia.

- [Paul] Yes.

Killer of Hamlet's father, who claims the throne.

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- Pass.

- [Paul] That's Claudius.

Friend of Hamlet to whom he says, "The rest is silence."

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- [Paul] That's Horatio.

Elderly noble whom Hamlet stabs through a curtain.

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- [Paul] That's Polonius.

Man who fences with Hamlet, causing both their deaths.

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- [Paul] That's Laertes.

Hamlet's mother.

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- That's Gertrude.

Dead jester whose skull Hamlet finds.

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- [Paul] That's Yorick.

Two courtiers who betray Hamlet and are executed overseas.

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- [Paul] That's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.

Norwegian prince who arrives at the play's end.

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- [Paul] That's Fortinbras.

Courtier who delivers the fencing challenge to Hamlet.

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- That's Osric.

(bell softly rings) All right, guys, that's going to do it for the Lightning Round.

And after that, still a very close game, Scranton in the lead over West Scranton, 100 to 80, as we go into the final segment of the game, beginning with this toss-up question: What novel, in which the killing of a boy named Ikemefuna brings a curse on the family of Okonkwo, is set in colonial Nigeria, and is by Chinua Achebe?

(bell dings) That is, "Things Fall Apart."

Okay, guys, let's go to our next toss-up.

What indigenous people, driven to Bosque Redondo by Kit Carson on the Long Walk, have the largest U.S.

reservation and were World War II code talkers?

(buzzer beeps) John, Scranton.

- Navajo.

- Is correct, and here's your bonus.

Fredericton is the capital of what Canadian province, whose southeastern border is on the Bay of Fundy?

(buzzer beeps) - Alberta.

- No, we're looking for New Brunswick.

All right, here's our next toss-up.

In computing, traversing a tree is typically done using what type of method in which a function repeatedly calls itself until it reaches a base case?

(bell dings) That is recursion.

Recursion.

Here's our next toss-up.

What sculptor, who portrayed the sacrifice of six people in "The Burghers of Calais," showed a man with his fist on his chin in "The Thinker"?

(buzzer beeps) Engel, West Scranton.

- Michelangelo.

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Scranton.

(buzzer beeps) - Sophocles.

- No, Auguste Rodin is what we were looking for.

All right, here's our next toss-up.

What empire was divided up by the Sykes-Picot Agreement, fought the Gallipoli campaign against the Allies, and was called the "sick man of Europe"?

(buzzer beeps) - German- - Lauralee, Scranton.

- German Empire?

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to West Scranton.

(buzzer beeps) - The Ottoman Empire.

- Is correct for your rebound points, West Scranton.

Great job!

Let's go to another toss-up.

What number, which equals the ratio of a regular pentagon's diagonal to its side length, is denoted by the letter phi and equals approximately 1.618?

(bell dings) That is the golden ratio.

Okay guys, here comes your next toss-up.

What author of "Suddenly Last Summer" depicted Laura's visit from Jim O'Connor, a gentleman caller, in his 1944 memory play, "The Glass Menagerie"?

(bell dings) That is Tennessee Williams.

Here's our next toss-up.

What city, whose neighborhoods include Adams Morgan, Foggy Bottom, and Dupont Circle, is on the Potomac River and is home to the National Mall?

(buzzer beeps) Engel, West Scranton.

- Washington, DC.

- Is correct, and here's your bonus.

What part of the eye controls the size of the pupil and is the source of a person's eye color?

(buzzer beeps) - The iris.

- Is correct for your bonus points, West Scranton, as we go to a toss-up now.

What phenomenon is the input to a rectifier, must be used to power transformers, and periodically reverses direction, unlike direct current?

(buzzer beeps) Noah, Scranton.

- Alternating current.

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

From 1992 to 2006, Serbia was part of a political union with what neighboring country, whose capital is Podgorica?

(buzzer beeps) - Croatia?

- No, we're looking for Montenegro.

Montenegro.

(bell softly rings) All right, that's the end of the game and it was a great one, but our winner tonight is Scranton over West Scranton, 120 to 105.

Congratulations, Scranton.

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, and thank you for watching.

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