(upbeat rock music) - Welcome to the 16th 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.

WVIA would like to thank our sponsor FNCB and People Security Bank for making this competition possible.

This year, Scholastic Scrimmage looks a little different, and the rules have been revised due to the pandemic, 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 K-12 educators from the WVIA viewing area, and tonight's match features Wyoming Area and Hazleton.

Playing in the first half for Wyoming Area are Nicole DonVito and Adam Wisneski.

Their advisor is Molly Kearns.

Representing Hazleton in the first half, are Landon Walk and Megan Novak.

Their advisor is Raphael Billet, and the alternate is Gabrielle Howe.

So let's get started!

Wyoming Area has won the coin toss and will receive the first question.

In what century did Pope Paul III convene the council of Trent, initiating the Counter-Reformation after the publication of Martin Luther's Ninety-five Theses?

- 16?

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question: In the 1800s, military engineer Enrico Dalgas helped reforest much of what country's Jutland peninsula?

- Greece.

(beep) - Is incorrect.

We are looking for Denmark.

Hazleton, over to you now: What English poet compared lovers to the joint legs of a compass in "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" and coined the phrase, "No man is an island"?

- Lord Byron.

- Is incorrect.

Rebound now to Wyoming Area.

- Shakespeare?

- Is incorrect.

We are looking for John Donne.

John Donne.

Wyoming Area, here comes your next question: The serpent Apep was the greatest enemy of what deity who traveled through the sky in a solar barque and was the primary ancient Egyptian sun god?

- Ra?

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question, now: An object moving at constant speed in a circle experiences an inward acceleration equal to speed squared divided by what quantity?

- "R", radius.

- Radius is correct for your bonus points.

Very good, Wyoming Area.

Hazleton, back to you now: What ancient city, whose walls were the site of the Ishtar Gate, served as the capital for Nebuchadnezzar II, who built its Hanging Gardens?

- Istanbul?

- Is incorrect.

Rebound now to Wyoming Area.

- Babylon?

- Is correct for your rebound points, Wyoming Area.

And here's your next question: What constant, which can be written as 8.31 joules or 0.0821 liter atmospheres per mole-kelvin, is used in an equation of state and is denoted "R"?

- Reginald's Constant.

- Is incorrect.

Rebound now to Hazleton.

- Universal gas constant?

- Is correct for your rebound points, Hazleton, great job.

Here's your next question: What's sculptor of Gattamelata received a commission from Cosimo de' Medici for the first freestanding nude sculpture since antiquity: his bronze "David"?

- Raphael?

- Is incorrect.

Rebound now to Wyoming Area.

- Michelangelo?

- Is incorrect.

We are looking for Donatello.

Donatello.

Wyoming Area, here comes your next question: What author wrote about Josef K.'s arrest in "The Trial" and described the many legs that Gregor acquires after becoming a vermin in "The Metamorphosis"?

(beep) - Ran out of time.

Rebound now to Hazleton.

- Caterpillar?

(high-pitched beep) - Is incorrect.

We are looking for (beep) Franz Kafka.

Franz Kafka.

And that sound that you heard signals the end of the first quarter, and it's now time for the lightning round.

(thunder rumbling) 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.

Wyoming Area has won the coin toss and will pick first.

Your categories are: numbers in poetry or islands.

- Islands.

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

On what island will one find the cities of: Port-au-Prince?

- Pass.

- That's Hispaniola.

Hobart?

- Cuba.

- Tasmania.

- Montauk and the Hamptons in New York State?

- Long Island.

- Yes.

Jaffna and Colombo?

- Pass.

- Sri Lanka.

Palermo and Syracuse?

- Pass.

- That's Sicily.

Nagasaki?

- Japan.

- Kyushu.

San Juan and Ponce?

- Taiwan?

- Puerto Rico.

Port Moresby?

- Virgin Islands?

- New Guinea.

Taipei?

- Bahamas.

- Taiwan.

Nuuk, once known as Godthab?

- Pass.

- Greenland.

- All right, Wyoming Area (high-pitched beep) that's gonna wrap up your portion of the lightning round.

Hazleton, we're coming back to you.

Your remaining category will be numbers in poetry.

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

Give these numbers from poetry: Lines in a couplet.

- Two?

- Yes.

- Two.

- Syllables in the first line of a haiku.

- Five.

- Yes.

- Lines in a sonnet.

- Fourteen.

- Yes.

- Lines in a quatrain.

- Four.

- Yes.

- Lines in a limerick.

- Five.

- Yes.

- Syllables in an iamb.

- Two.

- Yes.

- Syllables in a line of iambic pentameter.

- 10?

- Yes.

- Lines in a tercet.

- Three?

- Yes.

Lines in a villainelle.

- Pass.

- 19.

Syllables in a dactyl or an anapest.

- Pass.

- That's three.

All right, that's going to do it for the lightning round.

And after that, we have Hazleton taking the lead over Wyoming Area, 90 to 45.

And we're now 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.

(upbeat music) Let's start with the students from Wyoming Area.

And Nicole, I will come your way first.

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

- I play soccer, I like to bake and paint.

- Okay, excellent.

Thanks for being here, Nicole.

Adam, what do you like to do for fun?

- I play tennis in my free time for the spring season.

I like to play video games.

- Okay, excellent.

Thanks for being here, Wyoming Area.

Good luck the rest of the way.

Hazleton, coming over to you.

Landon, what do you like to do for fun?

- I love watching baseball, go Phillies.

(Megan laughs) - Absolutely, excellent.

Thanks Landon.

Megan, what do you like to do for fun when you're not in class?

- I like singing or playing the piano.

- All right, very nice.

It was very nice to meet all of you.

Now let's go ahead and begin the second quarter with this question that goes to Hazleton: What economic process is explained by the Solow-Swan model, can be caused by endogenous factors like innovation, and involves an increase in GDP?

- Trickle-down economics?

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Wyoming area.

- Pass.

- Okay, the answer we're looking for was economic growth.

Wyoming Area, here comes your next question: What element is formed when neptunium atoms undergo beta decay, has an isotope 239 that is used in atomic weapons, and has the atomic symbol "Pu"?

- Yeah.

- Plutonium.

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question now: The jellyfish lifecycle includes two body plans: the sessile polyp form, and what more familiar mobile form?

- Algae?

- Nope, we are looking for Medusa.

Medusa.

Hazleton, here comes your next question: What city whose La Ramba passes by the Placa de Catalunya, is home to Antoni Gaudi's Sagrada Familia, and is the second most populous city in Spain?

- Madrid?

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Wyoming Area.

- Barcelona.

- Is correct for your rebound points, Wyoming Area.

And here comes your next question: What university, that in 2020 dropped Woodrow Wilson's name from its School of Public and International Affairs, is an Ivy League school in New Jersey?

- Princeton.

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question now: What painter drew on his upbringing in Belarus as the inspiration for his depiction of dreamlike farm animals in "I and the Village"?

- (clears throat) Palmer?

- Is incorrect.

We are looking for Marc Chagall.

Marc Chagall.

Hazleton, coming back your way.

What senator who was nicknamed "Tail Gunner" faced censure in 1954, following his investigation into the army for supposed communist infiltration?

- Pass.

Okay, rebound now to Wyoming Area.

- Pass.

All right, we are looking for Joe McCarthy.

Joe McCarthy.

Wyoming Area, here comes your next question: What device, in which a current in one coil induces a current in another coil, is used in power plants and lines to step up or step down voltages?

- Cathode-ray tube?

- Is incorrect.

Rebound now to Hazleton.

- Pass.

- Okay, we are looking for transformer.

Transformer.

Hazleton, here comes your next question: What European language, whose words for whipped and thrown name types of turns and leaps and ballet, is the source of terms like plie and pirouette?

- French?

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question: In 1945, a B-25 bomber crashed into what New York City skyscraper, whose spire was originally intended to be used for docking airships?

- Chevrolet Building?

- Is incorrect.

We are looking for the Empire State Building.

(high-pitched beep) The Empire State Building.

And, after one half of play, we currently have Hazleton in the lead over Wyoming Area, 100 to 75.

Thank you, Nicole and Adam of Wyoming Area.

And thank you, Landon and Megan of Hazleton.

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

(upbeat music) Now, joining us for Wyoming Area are Grace Washney and Charlie Alfano.

And representing Hazleton are Bryce Greco, and Isabel Ritz.

And this question in this round goes to Wyoming Area first.

The USS Yorktown sank during what battle in which Admiral Chester Nimitz led a defeat of Isoroku Yamamoto's forces in June, 1942 near a namesake atoll?

- Battle of the Midway.

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question, and get your pencils and papers ready.

What is the surface area of a cube whose volume is 27, given that a cube has six square faces?

(beep) Ran out of time.

We are looking for 54.

54.

Hazleton, over to you now.

What warrior breaks his sword Naegling in a fight with a dragon and dives into a lake to kill the monstrous mother of Grendel in an Old English epic?

- Hercules?

- Is incorrect.

Rebound now to Wyoming Area.

- King Arthur.

- Is incorrect.

We are looking for Beowulf.

Beowulf.

Wyoming Area, here comes your next question: What organelle has one form that is the site of lipid synthesis, and another form that is studded with ribosomes that make it's surface rough?

- Endoplasmic reticulum.

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question: "The Monuments Men" is a 2014 film directed by what actor who played Danny Ocean in the 2001 film "Oceans Eleven"?

- Tom Cruise.

- Is incorrect.

We are looking for George Clooney.

George Clooney.

Hazleton, over to you.

Bart Conner and Nadia Comaneci competed in what sport in which the US's final five was led to a team gold at the Rio Olympics by Simone Biles?

- Gymnastics.

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question: What Arizona man was given a new trial after his 1966 Supreme Court case required police to inform arrested suspects of their right to remain silent?

- Miranda.

- Is correct for your bonus points, Hazleton, great job.

Wyoming Area, coming back to you.

What novel in which a colonel has 17 sons who all bear his first name of Aureliano, is set in Macondo, and was written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez?

- Pass.

- Okay, rebound now to Hazleton.

- "The Chain of Time"?

- Nope, we are looking for "One Hundred Years of Solitude".

Hazleton, here comes your next question: After what disaster were workers called "liquidators" used to clean up at a site in Pripyat, Ukraine where, in 1986, a Soviet nuclear reactor exploded?

- Chernobyl.

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question now: In the US, the morning show "Despierta America" and the drama "La Rosa de Guadalupe" air on what Spanish language network that competes with Telemundo?

- SBC?

- Nope, we are looking for Univision.

Wyoming Area, here comes your next question: What planet, whose Tharsis area contains the shield volcanoes Pavonis Mons and Olympus Mons (high-pitched beep) is covered with iron oxide that colors it red?

- Mars.

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question: Iesha Evans was photographed taking a stand in a 2016 protest in what state capital where Alton Sterling was killed by police in 2016?

- Detroit.

- No, we are looking for Baton Rouge.

Baton Rouge.

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

(thunder rumbling) This time, Hazleton will pick first.

Your categories are: wind or national anthems.

- Wind.

- Okay, wind it is.

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

Answer the following about wind: Prevailing winds near the equator, also called "easterlies".

- Hot winds.

- Trade winds.

Wind force scale, on which three is a gentle breeze.

- Pass.

- Beaufort scale.

Japanese suicide attackers whose name means "divine wind".

- Kamikaze.

- Yes.

In this civilization's mythology, Boreas was god of the north wind.

- Greek.

- Yes.

Author of "Gone with the Wind".

- Margaret Mitchell.

- Yes.

- Double reed wind instrument that often plays an A to tune the orchestra.

- Oboe.

- Yes.

Adjective for geological processes caused by wind.

- Sedimentary.

- Eolian processes.

Author of "The Wind in the Willows".

- Margaret Thatcher.

- Kenneth Grahame.

Body of water whose winds include the mistral and the sirocco.

(high-pitched beep) - Arabian Sea.

- Ran out of time there, sorry.

That was Mediterranean Sea.

And that's going to do it for your portion of the lightning round, Hazleton.

Wyoming Area, coming back to you.

Your remaining category will be national anthems.

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

Name the country with these national anthems: "The Star-Spangled Banner".

- United States of America.

- Yes.

"La Marseillaise".

- France.

- Yes.

- "Hatikvah", which has Hebrew lyrics.

- Israel.

- Yes.

European country whose current anthem is "God Save the Queen".

- Britain.

- Is correct.

- United Kingdom.

- "Deutschlandlied".

- Germany.

- Yes.

- "Jana Gana Mana".

- Netherlands (chuckles).

- India.

"Kimigayo".

- Pass.

- Japan "Pontifical Anthem and March".

- Oh my gosh.

- Pass.

- Pass.

- That's Vatican City.

"Song of Abidjan", which is named for this country's capital on the Gulf of Guinea.

- Sri Lanka.

- Cote d'Ivoire.

"March of the Volunteers".

- Russia.

- Nope, we're looking for China.

Still though, Wyoming Area, great job in the lightning round.

That's going to bring things very, very tight.

We have Hazleton in the lead over Wyoming Area, 165 to 155.

And we're now 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 Wyoming Area.

And Grace, I'll come to you first.

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

- I like to read, I like to hang out with my friends and, yeah.

- Very cool.

Okay, Charlie, what do you like to do for fun?

- I play tennis, baseball, hang out with my friends, and just like work and stuff (chuckles).

- Okay, excellent.

Good luck the rest of the way, Wyoming Area.

Hazleton, Bryce, we're going to come to you first.

What do you like to do for fun when you're not in class?

- I enjoy spending time and traveling with my family and reading.

- Excellent.

And Isabelle, what do you like to do for fun?

- I'm a three-time state championship golfer and a lifeguard.

- Congratulations, that's excellent.

Good luck the rest of the way, Hazleton.

It was very nice to meet you.

Now let's go ahead and begin the fourth quarter with this question for Hazleton: What river, which flows through Dawson City and Whitehorse before emptying into the Bering Sea, shares its name with the smallest Canadian territory?

- Nantucket?

- Is incorrect.

Rebound now to Wyoming Area.

(murmuring) - Starts with an S. - Saskatchewan.

- Saskatchewan.

- That's incorrect.

We are looking for Yukon River.

Okay, Wyoming Area, here comes your next question: What namesake of a ballad from the Wei period, who inspired animated and live action Disney films, was a Chinese warrior who masqueraded as a man?

- Mulan.

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question: Glycogen breakdown in the liver is stimulated by what hormone produced in the pancreas that opposes the effects of insulin?

(murmuring) - Glycogen.

- Is incorrect, we are looking for glucagon.

Glucagon.

Hazleton, here comes your next question: What sandwich produced by rival restaurants Pat's and Geno's often includes provolone atop thinly sliced beef and originates in a Pennsylvania city?

- A cheesesteak, Philly cheesesteak.

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question: What son of Zeus and Danae married Andromeda and killed Medusa?

(beep) Okay, we're looking for Perseus.

Wyoming Area, back to you.

What 2012 presidential candidate who, in 2020 became the first senator to vote to convict an impeached president of his own party, represents Utah?

- Mitt Romney.

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question: A mangrove forest called Sundarbans is on the northern shore of what bay that receives the Ganges River?

- Bay of Guinea.

- Is incorrect.

We are looking for the Bay of Bengal.

Hazleton, here comes your next question: What archipelago was home to the Battle of Goose Green, is governed from Stanley, and has long been disputed between the UK and Argentina?

- The Andes?

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Wyoming area.

- The Galapagos?

- Is incorrect.

We are looking for the Falkland Islands.

Wyoming Area, here comes your next question: What composer, whose only opera was "Pelleas and Melisande", wrote the symphonic poem "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun" and the symphonic sketch "La mer"?

(whispering) - Yeah.

- Debussy.

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question: In September 2019, John Bercow announced that he would step down as the speaker of what lower house of Britain's parliament?

- House of Commons.

- Is correct.

Hazleton, here comes your next question: What Supreme Court case, which used evidence from the Clark doll experiment, overturned the doctrine of "separate but equal" and was decided in 1954?

- Brown v. Board of Education.

- Is correct.

And here's your bonus question: (beep) What group on the periodic table, which contains rubidium, consists entirely of elements with the partially filled "S" subshells?

- Alkali metals.

- Is correct for your bonus points, Hazleton, very good.

Which means, at the end of the game, we have a tied game!

And in the event of a tie, both teams will have a chance to answer a regular and bonus question, unless a team scores on the rebound, in which case, the game ends.

This process continues until a winner is decided.

Hazleton won the tiebreaker coin toss, and so will receive the first question, which is: What poet that wrote "every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you" in his "Song of Myself", which is part of his collection "Leaves of Grass"?

- Robert Frost?

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Wyoming Area.

- Walt Whitman.

- Is correct for the rebound points, Wyoming Area!

(excited cheers) You have won the game!

Our winner tonight is Wyoming Area over Hazleton in dramatic fashion, 200 to 190.

Congratulations, Wyoming Area, you're going to be moving on.

And we'll see you next time with another round of WVIA Scholastic Scrimmage.

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

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