(whistles blowing) - Welcome to the 17th season of W V I A's Scholastic Scrimmage.

I'm your host, Regina Myers.

Scholastic Scrimmage is a question and answer competition featuring high school students from across the W V I A 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 Western Wayne versus Riverside.

Representing Western Wayne, Are Emily Brofe, Kylie Maring, Alex Chapman, Evan Pierce and their alternate is Bernie Radel.

Their advisor is Ryan Ander.

Representing Riverside are Michael Rhodes Gary Rosinski, Jen Janelle, Sasha Kazista and our alternate Sarah Wolfe and Connor Monahan.

And their advisor is Ronald Guys.

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 tossup question.

Correct answers to these questions are awarded 10 points and the team will then receive a five point bonus question.

If the tossup 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 tossup points but will not receive a bonus question.

Let's get started with our first tossup question.

What particle oscillates between three flavors has a tiny but non-zero mass, barely interacts with matter and has a name meaning little neutral one.

(chime beeps) Evan, Western Wayne.

- Neutrino.

- Neutrino, Evan, is correct answer and your bonus Western Wayne, Marco Polo supposedly visited the court of what Mongol leader who founded China's Yuan dynasty and ordered, Evan.

- Genghis Khan?

- Is incorrect.

It is Kubla Khan.

Toss up.

What city, whose jumbo floating restaurant sank in 2022.

Contains Kowloon north of Victoria Harbor (chime beeps) and in 19.

Alex, Western Wayne.

- Hong Kong.

- Hong Kong Alex is correct answer and your bonus, what British author wrote about Tony's trip to Brazil in a handful of dust and portrayed the alcoholic Lord Sebastian flight in Brideshead Revisited?

(chimes beep) - James Joyce.

- James Joyce is incorrect.

It is Evelyn Waugh.

Toss up.

What battle in which Strong Vincent bled a defense of Little Round Top and Pickett's charge failed and was an 1883 Union victory?

Michael?

- Battle of Gettysburg.

- Battle of Gettysburg is correct answer Michael And your bonus Riverside, what unusually colored animal titles a book by Nassim Taleb, about improbable events and a 2010 movie starring Natalie Portman as a ballet dancer?

(chime beeps) Sasha?

- Black Swan.

- Black Swan, Sasha is the correct answer.

For your bonus points.

Toss up.

What term, coined from the Greek for, a way down by Michael Faraday, is an electrode that is a site of reduction as connected to an anode - (chime beeps) Evan?

- Cathode?

- Cathode is correct answer, Evan.

Your bonus, the Hober Bosch Process is used to produce over 200 million tons per year of what gas, used to make fertilizers?

(chime beeps) Evan?

- Ammonia.

- Ammonia is correct answer for your bonus points Western Wayne.

Toss up.

What author described a rough beast that slouches towards Bethlehem in his poem, "The Second Coming" and also wrote many poems (chime beeps) Sasha, Riverside.

- Yeats.

- Yeats is correct answer, Sasha.

And, your bonus, the line, "willow of crystal, a poplar of water" opens Sunstone, a poem by what Mexican author of the Labyrinth of Solitude?

(chime beeps) Sasha?

- Pablo Neruda?

- Is incorrect, it is Octavia Paz.

Toss up, what first ever United States delegate to the United Nations, previously organized Marian Anderson's concert at the Lincoln Memorial as FDR's first lady?

(chime beeps) Michael, Riverside.

- Eleanor Roosevelt.

- Eleanor Roosevelt, Michael is correct answer.

And your bonus, what band whose album, Aqualung, contains "Locomotive Breath," is lead by flutist Ian Anderson and shares its name with the inventor of the seed drill?

(chime dings) That would be Jethro Tull.

Toss up, what trigonometric function's namesake law extends the Pythagorean Theorem to - (chime beeps) Evan, Western Wayne.

- Law of Cosigns.

- Cosign, Evan, is correct answer.

And your bonus, bed nets help protect against what insect, which Carlos Findlay and Walter Reed proved was responsible for spreading Yellow Fever - (chime beeps) Emily?

- Bed Bugs?

- I'm sorry?

- Bed bugs.

- Bed bugs is incorrect, it is mosquitoes.

That sound you heard signals the end of the first quarter and now its time for this Lightening Round.

In this segment, each team will have an opportunity to answer as many of the ten, rapid fire questions as they can, in one minute.

Western Wayne has won the coin toss and will pick first.

Your categories are stars or Italian Renaissance artists.

- We'll choose stars, please.

- Okay, stars.

Time begins after I finish reading the first question.

Answer the following about stars.

Noble gas formed by fusion of hydrogen in the sun.

(chime beeps) Evan.

- Helium.

- Correct.

- North star found in the tail of Ursa Minor.

(chime beeps) Evan.

- Pass.

- Polaris, brightest star in the night's sky.

(chime beeps) Evan.

- Alpha Centauri.

- Incorrect, Sirius Event whose type 2 involves core collapse and explosion of a high-mass star.

(chime beeps) - Supernova.

- Supernova, Alex, correct.

Small, dim star-type that is the most common in the uni- (chime beeps) Evan.

- Dwarf.

- [Regina] Be more specific.

- White dwarf.

- Incorrect, red dwarf.

Group of stars nicknamed the Seven Sisters.

(chime beeps) Alex.

- Pass.

- Pleiades, letter denoting the spectral class of the sun.

(chime beeps) Alex.

- Pass.

- [Regina] G. Red super-giant on Orion's shoulder.

(chime beeps) Evan.

- Betelguese.

- The Beetlejuice.

The cold, dark patches on stars with high magnetic flux.

(chime beeps) Evan.

- Pulsars.

- Incorrect, sun spots.

Collections of stars that can be opened - (chime beeps) Moving over to our team from Riverside.

Your category is Italian Renaissance artists.

Given a work, indicate whether it was created by Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo or Donatello.

The Mona Lisa.

(chime beeps) Michael.

- Leonardo.

- [Regina] Correct.

The Creation of Adam and other works on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

(chime beeps) - Michelangelo - [Regina] Correct.

The School of Athens.

(chime beeps) Michael.

- Raphael.

- [Regina] Correct.

A drawing of ideal body proportions called, Vitruvian Man.

(chime beeps) Jen.

- Leonardo.

- [Regina] Correct.

A 17-foot tall Statue of David.

(chime beeps) Sasha.

- Michelangelo.

- [Regina] Correct.

The bronze sculpture of David created around 1440.

(chime beeps) Michael.

- Donatello.

- Correct.

The painting, "The Last Supper."

(chime beeps) - Leonardo.

- [Regina] Correct.

A sculpture of Moses with horns.

(chime beeps) - Raphael.

- [Regina] Michelangelo.

Equestrian statue of Gattameleta.

(chime beeps) - Michelangelo.

- [Regina] Donatello.

The most expensive painting ever sold, Salvator Mundi.

(chime beeps) - Leonardo.

- [Regina] Correct.

(chime beeps) Just in time.

And that's the end of the lightening round.

The judges have determined that an answer given by the Western Wayne team earlier during the Lightning Round was correct and they will be awarded their points.

So our score is Western Wayne 60, Riverside 75.

Toss up, what island known before 1956 as Beto's island, was renamed after a statue on the island with a tablet reading, "July 4, 1776" and a torch?

(chime beeps) Michael.

- Ellis Island.

- Ellis Island is incorrect.

Rebound to Western Wayne.

Reading "July 4, 1776" and a torch.

(chime beeps) No one?

Evan?

- Independence Island.

- It is incorrect, it is Liberty Island.

Toss up, in 2022, what literary medal, marking its 100th anniversary, went to Donna Barbara Higuera, the Last Quentista, the A L A's most esteemed book for children?

(chime beeps) Emily.

- Pulitzer Prize.

- Is incorrect, rebound to Riverside.

No one?

That would be John Newberry.

Toss up, what event whose 109th edition began in Copenhagen in July 2022, is a major, annual cycling race that always finishes in the Champs Elysee in Paris - (chime beeps) - Tour de France.

- Tour de France, Jen, is correct answer.

And your bonus Riverside, in what type of fraction, such as five-thirds, is the numerator greater than the denominator?

(chime beeps) Sasha?

- Improper.

- Improper is correct answer for your bonus points.

Toss up, what painting in which the God Zephyr blows the title Goddess toward the shore is by Sandro Botticelli and depicts a love - (chime beeps) Emily, Western Wayne.

- Birth of Aphrodite.

Birth of Aphrodite.

- Is incorrect, I'll complete the question and rebound to Riverside.

And depicts a love Goddess on a shell.

No one?

The correct answer is "The Birth of Venus."

Toss up, Theodore Maiman built the first of what devices which use a gain medium to achieve a population inversion that generates coherent beams of light?

(chime beeps) Jen.

- Flashlight?

- Flashlight is incorrect, rebound to Western Wayne.

No one?

The correct answer is a laser.

Toss up, what political party currently lead by Kier Starmer and previously led by Jeremy Corbin and Tony Blair - (chime beeps) Alex, Western Wayne.

- Labor.

- Labor is correct answer, Alex.

And your bonus, following the 2020 election, Republicans in seven states sent fake electoral certificates to what Federal agency that preserves Government records?

(chime beeps) Alex.

- National Archives - National Archives is the correct answer for your bonus points.

Toss up, what field of study which was practiced by Clifford Geertz and Margaret Mead concerns human culture and has - (chime beeps) Jen, Riverside.

- Anthropology.

- Anthropology is correct answer.

And your bonus Riverside, what leader of the Soviet Union signed the SALT 1 Treaty after succeeding Nikita Khruschchev in 1964?

(chime beeps) Sasha.

- Gorbachev.

- Gorbachev is incorrect, it is Brezhnev.

Toss up, in what year in which John Bell ran for President on the Constitutional Union ticket, did a victory by Abraham Lincoln lead South Carolina to secede?

(chime beeps) Alex, Western Wayne.

- 1860 - 1860 is correct answer.

And your bonus, Du Fu's "Ballad of the Army Carts" and Le Bai's "Drinking Alone by Moonlight" are poems from which Chinese dynasty under which literature flourished?

(chime beeps) Alex.

- The Qin Dynasty.

- Qin is incorrect, it is Tang.

Paper, pencils ready.

If a 7 is dealt from a standard 52-card deck, what is the probability the next card from the remaining 51 will also be a 7?

(chime beeps) Evan.

- 4 over 51.

- 4 over 51 is incorrect, rebound to Riverside.

Anyone?

- 1 in 17.

- 1 in 17 is correct answer, Gary for your rebound points.

That signals the end of the first half, let's update our score.

We have Western Wayne with 85 points and Riverside with 110.

We're going to give our contestants a 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 Western Wayne.

Why don't you take a moment and tell us your future plans.

Emily, let's start with you.

- My future plans are to attend a four-year college for biology and then to specialize into plant sciences.

- [Regina] Interesting.

Kylie.

- I plan to attend a four-year university and major in mathematics.

- [Regina] Lot's of math and science people.

Alex.

- I plan to attend a four-year university and major in meteorology and atmospheric sciences.

- [Regina] Okay.

Evan.

- I plan to attend a four-year university and major in nuclear engineering.

- Okay, good luck to all of you in the second half.

Riverside, let's move over to you.

Let's start with you Michael - I plan to attend a four-year university to major in aerospace engineering.

- [Regina] Good luck, Gary.

- I plan to attend a four-year university to major in finance.

- [Regina] Finance, that's a different one.

Jen.

- I plan to attend a four-year university to major in neuroscience.

- [Regina] Okay, and Sasha.

- I also plan to attend a four-year university and major in neuroscience.

- Okay, well it was great talking to all of you and getting to know you just a little better.

Good luck in your futures and good luck in the second half.

Let's get started with a toss up.

What instrument provides the nickname of Camille Saint-Saens's third symphony, is sometimes operated with a bellows and has massive pipe forms?

(chime beeps) Jen.

- Organ.

- Organ, Jen, is correct answer.

And your bonus Riverside, in December 2021 the airport in Las Vegas was renamed in honor of what former Senate Majority Leader, who died just two weeks later?

(chime beeps) That was Harry Reid.

Toss up, what poetic form used in John Dunn's "Death Be Not Proud" and William Shakespeare's "Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day" is 14 lines - (chime beeps) Jen, Riverside - Sonnet - Sonnet, Jen, is correct answer.

And your bonus, the tomb of Napoleon is in what Parisian hotel, or complex, originally built as a home for disabled war veterans?

(chime beeps) It is Invalides.

Paper, pencil ready.

What is the value of the whole number X given that the logarithm of X plus the logarithm of 6 equals the logarithm of 12?

(chime beeps) Evan, Western Wayne.

- X is equal to 2 - X is equal to 2 is correct answer Evan.

And your bonus, William Faulkner set many of his novels in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, which is in what southern state?

(chime beeps) Alex.

- Georgia?

- Incorrect, the correct answer is Mississippi.

Toss up, the House of the Fawn is in what city on the Bay of Naples, which has preserved in volcanic ash by the AD - (chime beeps) Michael, Riverside.

- Pompeii.

- Pompeii is correct answer.

And your bonus, the Good Friday agreement largely ended violence in what constituent country of the U.K. where Unionists fought Republicans during the Troubles.

(chime beeps) - Ireland.

- [Regina] Be more specific.

- Northern Ireland - Is the correct answer, Sasha.

Toss up, in what film are General Aaron Moore's orders for Colonel McKenzie carried on foot by two - (chime beeps) Evan, Western Wayne.

- 1917.

- Is correct answer Evan.

And your bonus, what piece with a seven-word name and except from act II of Edvard Grieg's Peer Gynt is known for it's increasingly phrenetic - (chime beeps) Evan.

- Hall of the Mountain King.

- Is correct answer for your bonus points.

Toss up, what molecule whose auto ionization constant is the product of hydroxide and hydronium ion concentrations - (chime beeps) Evan, Western Wayne.

- Water.

- Water, Evan, is correct answer.

And your bonus, what quantity, which is proportional to the average kinetic energy of molecules in a gas is - (chime beeps) Evan.

- Temperature.

- Temperature is correct answer, Evan.

Toss up, the Battle of Stanford Bridge fell three weeks before what battle at which Harold Godwinson was slain by forces under William the Conqueror in 1066?

(chime beeps) That was the Battle of Hastings.

Toss up, what man, who was killed when two Hellfire missiles struck a house in Kabul in a July 2022 drone-strike helped plan 9/11 and was head of Al-Qaeda?

(chime beeps) Emily.

- Osama Bin Laden.

- Osama Bin Laden is incorrect, rebound to Riverside.

(chime beeps) Sasha.

- Saddam Hussein.

- Is incorrect, it was Ayman al-Zawahiri.

That sound you heard signals the end of the third quarter and another lightening round.

This time, Riverside will pick first.

Your categories are Superbowl 56 or Two W's.

- Superbowl 56.

- Okay, Superbowl 56.

Answer the following about Superbowl 56.

This Los Angeles-based team won.

(chime beeps) Michael.

- Rams.

- [Regina] Correct.

This team from Ohio lost.

(chime beeps) Gary.

- Cincinnati Bengals.

- [Regina] Correct.

LA quarterback who threw three touchdowns.

(chime beeps) - Matthew Stafford.

- [Regina] Correct.

This rapper performed "Lose Yourself" at halftime.

(chime beeps) - Eminem.

- [Regina] Correct.

LA receiver named the game's - (chime beeps) - Cooper Kupp.

- [Regina] Correct.

Trophy named for a former Packer's Coach.

(chime beeps) - Vince Lombardy Trophy.

- [Regina] Correct.

TV Network that aired it and broadcasts Sunday night football (chime beeps) Gary.

- NBC.

- [Regina] Correct.

LA's coach who became the youngest head coach - (chime beeps) - Sean McVey - [Regina] Correct.

Former Broncos linebacker who had two sacks for - (chime beeps) - Von Miller.

- [Regina] Correct.

This play-by-play announcer for the game joined Amazon's NFL- (chime beeps) Gary.

- Al Michaels.

- [Regina] Correct.

Moving over to the team from Western Wayne.

Two W's, give these words or names that contain the letter W at least twice.

Capital of Poland (chime beeps) Alex.

- Warsaw.

- [Regina] Correct.

William Carlos Williams wrote a poem about a red one.

- Pass - [Regina] Wheelbarrow Stephen Chbosky wrote a book about the perks of being one of these.

- A wall flower?

- [Regina] Correct.

An employee who reveals illegal activity in a company.

- Whistleblower - [Regina] Correct.

Tree with a weeping variety.

- Weeping Willow.

- [Regina] Correct.

To narrow or reduce in number.

(chime dings) - Windle - [Regina] Incorrect, winnow.

Term for a woman whose spouse has died.

- Widow.

- [Regina] Correct.

Native American gathering whose name comes from an Arongetsit word.

(chime dings) Alex.

- Pass.

- [Regina] Pow wow.

Bird to which William Cullen Bryant dedicated a poem.

- Pass.

- [Regina] Waterfowl.

Chinese dog breed with a thick, course coat.

- Pass - [Regina] Chow chow.

That's the last of the questions for the Lightning Round.

Let's begin.

An update, our current score with Western Wayne we have 150 and Riverside with 195.

Toss up, what leader of the Merry Pranksters wrote about Randall McMurphy, who is lobotomized in a mental asylum in his novel, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest?"

(chime dings) That would be Kesey.

Toss up, what protein, which forms stiff chains when (chime dings) mutated - Sasha.

No answer?

- No sorry.

- That's okay, I'll rebound the question to Western Wayne and complete it.

When mutated in Sickle Cell Disease has four iron atoms that bind to Oxygen and is found in red blood cells - (chime dings) Alex.

- Hemoglobin.

- Correct, for your rebound points.

Toss up, what country, which contains an arid region called the Great Karoo completely surrounds Lesotho and has three national - (chime dings) Michael, Riverside.

- South Africa.

- South Africa, Michael, is correct answer.

And your bonus, Riverside, pencil and paper ready.

What is the product of the quantity 2 raised to the 3rd power times the quantity 2 raised to the negative 4th power?

(chime dinging) Sasha.

- One half.

- One half, Sasha, is correct answer for your bonus points.

Toss up, what philosopher who wrote about the definition of knowledge in a work called, "Theaetetus" included the allegory of the cave in the Repub - (chime dinging) Jen, Riverside.

- Plato - Plato is correct answer, Jen.

And your bonus, what city contains Anish Kapoor's reflective sculpture, Cloud Gate, nicknamed "the Bean" due to it's shape in its Millennium Park?

(chime dinging) Sasha.

- Chicago.

- Chicago is correct answer.

Toss up, what region extending about three light years from the sun outside the heliosphere contains icy objects - (chime dinging) Evan, Western Wayne.

- Cubler's Belt - Is incorrect, I'll rebound the question and complete for Riverside (chime dinging) Gary.

- The Kuiper Belt - Is incorrect, it is an Oort Cloud.

Toss up what government headed by a an elderly Philippe Petain was compelled after the 1940 followed France to - (chime dinging) Alex, Western Wayne.

- Vichy, France - Is correct answer.

And your bonus, Carol Kennicott struggles with life in Gopher Prairie, Minnesota in what novel by Sinclair Lewis?

(chime dinging) Evan?

- House on Mango Street.

- Is incorrect, it is Main Street.

Toss up, what French author said, "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him" and satirized - (chime dinging) Evan, Western Wayne.

- Rousseau.

- Is incorrect.

I'll complete the question and rebound to Riverside.

Libnizian optimism in his 1759 novella, "Candid."

(chime dinging) Sasha.

- Voltaire.

- Voltaire is correct answer for your rebound points.

Toss up, what animal which is depicted in Marmaduke Wetherell's "Surgeon's Photograph" is an alleged Plesiosaur that lives in a lake near Inverness - (chime dings) Evan, Western Wayne.

- The Loch Ness Monster.

- Loch Ness Monster is correct answer.

And your bonus, in what country did the 2010 self emulation of produce seller Mohamed Bouazazi set off the Jasmine Revolution and inspire other Arab spring protests.

(chime dings) - Egypt.

- Egypt is incorrect, it is Tunisia.

Toss up, what religious movement whose early leaders included George Fox has members who seek an inner light and who were named for trembling - (chime dings) Alex, Western Wayne.

- Scientology.

- Is incorrect.

I'll complete and rebound to Riverside.

At the Lord's words.

No one?

The correct answer is Quakers And that sound means its at the end of the game.

So lets take a minute and update our score.

We have Western Wayne with 180 and Riverside with 235.

Congratulations Riverside, you're the winner of the match.

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

I'm hour host Regina Myers and thanks for watching.

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