(whistle blasts) (upbeat drum music) ♪ Go (upbeat drum 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 $1000, $3000, or $5,000.

Tonight's match features Tunkhannock versus Wyoming Area.

Representing Tunkhannock is Anna Wilson, Theo Myers, Nicholas DeMarco, their captain, Anna Williams.

Their alternates are Lauren Kovalchick and Kaya Hannon.

Their advisor is Angie Burke.

Representing Wyoming Area is Halle Cranson Gianna Pellegrino, Chris Murphy, their captain, Casey Noon.

Their alternate is Bella Vogel, and their advisor is Molly Kearns.

"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 5 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.

What opera in which "It Ain't Necessarily So" is sung by Sportin' Life, opens with the lullaby, "Summertime" and is an opera by George Gershwin?

(tone beeps) That was Porgy and Bess.

Toss up.

What largest part of the alimentary canal begins at the pyloric sphincter, has a section called the jejunum, and links the stomach and the large intestine?

(tone beeps) Nicholas, Tunkhannock.

- Small intestine.

- [Regina] Is the correct answer Nicholas, and your bonus.

What Winter Olympic sport alternates cross-country skiing and shooting at targets?

(tone beeps) Anna.

- Biathlon.

- [Regina] Biathlon is the correct answer for your bonus points.

Toss up.

What play which inspired Bruce Norris's play "Clybourne Park" centers on the family of Walter Younger and was written by Lorraine Hansberry?

(tone beeps) Nicholas?

- "Little Woman."

- [Regina] "Little Woman" is incorrect, rebound to Wyoming Area.

(tone beeps) The correct answer is "A Raisin in the Sun."

Toss up.

What conquistador led a 1540s expedition that reached the Grand Canyon while searching the Southwestern United States for the legendary Seven Cities of Gold?

(tone beeps) Theo.

- Ponce de Leon.

- [Regina] Ponce de Leon is incorrect, rebound to Wyoming Area.

(tone beeps) The correct answer is de Coronado.

Toss up.

What NBA player, the 41st pick in the 2014 NBA draft, has the most career triple-doubles by a center and won consecutive MVPs with the Denver Nuggets?

(tone beeps) Casey, Wyoming Area.

- Tim Duncan.

- [Regina] Tim Duncan is incorrect, rebound to Tunkhannock.

(tone beeps) Nicholas.

- Nikola Jokic.

- [Regina] Is the correct answer for your rebound points Nicholas.

Toss up.

In two short stories, what title figure shows Captain Kids gold to Tom Walker and is defeated by Daniel Webster in a fight over a farmer's soul?

(tone beeps) Anna, Tunkhannock.

- Tom Sawyer.

- Tom Sawyer is incorrect, rebound to Wyoming Area.

(tone beeps) The answer is the Devil.

Toss up.

What conic sections have eccentricity greater than 1, have two asymptotes and two branches- (tone beeps) and are Casey, Wyoming Area.

- Ellipse.

- [Regina] Ellipse is incorrect.

I'll complete the question and rebound to Tunkhannock.

And are exemplified by the graph of y=1/x?

(tone beeps) Nicholas.

- Hyperbole.

- Hyperbole is correct answer for your rebound points.

Toss up.

What kingdom in which Lájos Kossuth led a failed revolution in 1848 against the Habsburgs dynasty, later formed a dual monarchy with Austria?

(tone beeps) - Hungary.

- Chris.

Hungary is correct answer Chris and your bonus Wyoming Area.

In 2022, the UK announced a ban on most sales of what material consisting of partially decayed vegetative matter taken from namesake lands and bogs?

(tone chimes) (tone beeps) Casey.

- No answer.

- Okay, the correct answer is peat.

And that is the end of the first quarter and it's now time for the lightning round.

(graphic sizzles) 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 choose first.

Your categories are "Lines of Poetry," or "Women Leaders."

The time begins when I finish reading the first question.

(tone beeps) Casey.

- "Women Leaders."

- [Regina] "Women Leaders."

Name the country where the given woman has been the only woman to hold the indicated title.

Prime Minister Kim Campbell?

(tone beeps) - Pass.

- [Regina] Canada.

Prime Minister Tansu Ciller?

(bystander coughs) (tone beeps) - Indonesia.

- [Regina] Turkey.

Chancellor Angela Merkel?

(tone beeps) - Germany.

- [Regina] Correct.

Prime Minister Indira Gandhi?

(tone beeps) - India.

- [Regina] Correct.

Prime Minister Edith Cresson?

(tone beeps) - Pass.

- [Regina] France.

President Megawati Sukarnoputri?

(tone beeps) - Indonesia.

- [Regina] Correct.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard?

(tone beeps) Chris.

- Brussels.

- [Regina] Australia.

President Dilma Rousseff?

(tone beeps) - Pass.

- [Regina] Brazil.

Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto?

(tone beeps) - Italy.

- [Regina] Pakistan.

Prime Minister- (tone chimes) That's moving over to our team from Tunkhannock.

Your category is "Lines of Poetry."

What American poet wrote these lines, "Because I could not stop for death."?

(tone beeps) - Pass.

- [Regina] Dickinson.

"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness."?

(tone beeps) - Dickinson.

- [Regina] Ginsberg.

"Listen my children and you shall hear of the midnight ride of Paul Revere."?

(tone beeps) - Pass.

- [Regina] Longfellow.

"The fog comes on little cat feet."?

(tone beeps) - Robert Frost.

- [Regina] Sandburg.

"You do not do, you do not do.

Any more, black shoe."?

(tone beeps) - (indistinct).

- [Regina] Plath.

"Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, but spare your country's flag."?

(tone beeps) - Keys.

- [Regina] Whittier.

"A crown, a mansion, and a throne that shine, with gold unfading, Washington!

Be thine."?

(tone beeps) - Plath.

- [Regina] Wheatley.

(tone chimes) That's the end of our lightning round.

So let's take a look at our score.

We have Tunkhannock with 35 points and Wyoming Area with 25 points.

Now we're going to move into the second quarter with this toss up question.

What language which is taught in Punana Leo preschools includes the Okina in its 13 letter alphabet and is spoken on islands like Ni'i- (tone beeps) Anna.

- Hawaii.

- [Regina] Hawaii, Anna's correct answer and your bonus.

The city of Samarkand was a major stop along what trade route named for a valuable commodity of Chinese origin?

(tone beeps) - The Silk Road.

- Silk Road, Theo's correct answer for your bonus points.

Toss up.

What politician who defeated Amy McGrath in 2020 to win his seventh term in the Senate represents Kentucky and is the Senate minority- (tone beeps) Chris, Wyoming Area.

- Mitch McConnell.

- Mitch McConnell's correct answer and your bonus.

In 2022, a satirical IG Nobel prize was awarded for a study of how constipation affects mating in what arachnids which hunt prey with pincers?

- Scorpions.

(tone beeps) Casey.

- Scorpion.

- Scorpion is correct answer for your bonus points.

Toss up.

What author wrote about a riddle in Dante's death mask in his novel "Inferno," whose protagonist- (tone beeps) Robert- - Dante.

- [Regina] Dante is incorrect.

I'll complete the question and rebound to Tunkhannock.

Whose protagonist Robert Langdon also appeared in his "The Da Vinci Code"?

(tone beeps) That is Dan Brown.

Toss up.

What value which an equation devised by Pierre Francois Verhulst, designates K is the maximum species population that a given ecosystem can support?

(tone beeps) Casey.

- Carrying capacity.

- Carrying capacity's correct answer Casey and your bonus.

What author described a mysterious place, before the street begins in the title work of his 1974 children's poetry collection "Where the Sidewalk Ends."?

- Shel Silverstein.

(tone beeps) - Silverstein.

- Silverstein's correct answer for your bonus points.

Toss up.

What material was used to make around 670 horse sculptures and 8,000 model soldiers for the tomb of- (tone beeps) Chris, Wyoming Area.

- Clay.

- Clay is incorrect.

I'll complete the question and rebound to Tunkhannock.

For the tomb of Qin Shi Huang.

Which form an army named for it?

(tone beeps) Anna.

- Marble.

- Marble is incorrect.

It is terracotta.

Toss up.

What title, which means sign of God in Arabic, is a 12 Shia honorific that once identified Ruhollah Khomeini, the supreme leader of Iran?

(tone beeps) Anna, Tunkhannock.

- Amir.

- [Regina] Amir is incorrect.

Rebound to Wyoming Area.

(tone beeps) Chris?

- Palavi.

- Say it one more time.

- Palavi.

- [Regina] Palavi is incorrect.

It is Ayatollah.

Toss up.

What main character is chosen "Pope of the Fools" and is ordered by Claude Frollo to kidnap Esmeralda in Victor Hugo's novel "The Hunchback of Notre Dame"?

(tone beeps) Theo.

- Quasimoto.

- Quasimoto's correct answer and your bonus Tunkhannock.

What Chinese American filmmaker became just the second woman to earn the Oscar for Best Director in 2021, doing so for directing "Nomadland."?

(tone beeps) Anna.

- Zhao.

- Zhao's correct answer Anna for your bonus points.

(tone chimes) And that is the end of the first half.

So let's take a look at our score.

We have Tunkhannock with 65, And Wyoming Area with 55 points.

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 our students from Tunkhannock.

Anna, why don't you start us off and tell us a little bit about your future plans.

- I plan to go into education, either secondary social studies teaching, or early childhood education.

- Very good.

Theo?

- I plan to go into either physics or engineering.

- All right, Nicholas?

- I plan to go to college for mechanical engineering.

- And Anna?

- Attend college for political science.

- Okay, moving over to our team from Wyoming Area.

Halle, start us off.

- I plan to attend college for physical therapy.

- Okay, Gianna.

- I plan to attend college for pediatrics.

- All right, and Chris?

- I'm planning to attend college for a political science major on the pre-law track.

- Good luck.

Casey?

- I plan to attend college and study mechanical engineering.

- All right, well good luck to all of you in your futures and good luck in the rest of the game.

We'll now begin the second half of the game with this toss up.

The zone of avoidance is a dark region corresponding to the plain of what system, whose Orion-Cygnus Arm contains Rigel, the Pleiades, and the Sun?

(tone beeps) Gianna.

- The solar system.

- Solar system is incorrect.

Rebound to Tunkhannock.

(tone beeps) Nicholas.

- Milky Way.

- The Milky Way is correct answer for your rebound points.

Toss up.

What software whose Estonian developers used (indistinct) as the basis for its P to P backend, is owned by Microsoft and lost market share to Zoom in 2020?

(tone beeps) Nicholas, Tunkhannock.

- Google Teams.

- Google Teams is incorrect.

Rebound to Wyoming Area.

- Skype.

- Skype.

Halle is correct answer for your rebound points.

Toss up.

What dynasty which was invaded by the Eight Nation Alliance during the anti-Christian Boxer Rebellion was the final imperial dynasty of China?

(tone beeps) Chris, Wyoming Area.

- Shang Dynasty - Shang is incorrect.

Rebound to Tunkhannock.

(tone beeps) Anna.

- The Zao dynasty.

- Dao is also incorrect.

It is the Qing.

Toss up.

Which element, the lightest to violate the off ball principle, protects stainless steel from corrosion and is a transition metal with atomic symbol CR?

(tone beeps) Nicholas.

- Chromium.

- Chromium Nicholas's correct answer and your bonus Tunkhannock.

Which chess move which can be done king side or queen side, involves moving the king two spaces towards a rook and placing that rook beside the king?

(tone beeps) Nicholas.

- King swap.

- King Swap is incorrect.

It is castling.

Toss up.

What island is governed from Naha, is the largest of the Ryukyu islands and was the site of a fierce battle in the Pacific from April to June, 1945?

(tone beeps) Nicholas, Tunkhannock.

- Midway.

- [Regina] Midways incorrect, rebound to Wyoming Area.

(tone beeps) Chris.

- Guam.

- Guam is incorrect.

It is Okinawa.

Toss up.

What President who eased the Cold War by signing the Helsinki Accords lost to- (tone beeps) Nicholas, Tunkhannock.

- Lyndon B. Johnson.

- Is incorrect.

I'll complete the question and rebound to Wyoming Area.

Lost to Jimmy Carter in 1976 after pardoning his predecessor, Richard Nixon?

(tone beeps) Halle.

- Ford.

- Ford is correct answer for your rebound points.

Toss up.

What character whose given name may be Allison, tells of a knight who learns that women most want is sovereignty in a story from the Canterbury Tales?

(tone beeps) Nicholas.

- Joan of Arc.

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Wyoming Area.

(tone beeps) The correct answer is "The Wife of Bath."

Toss up.

What compound produced in the Monsanto process by the carbonylation of methanol has molecular formula C-H3-C-O-O-H and is a component of vinegar?

(tone beeps) Halle, Wyoming Area.

- Carboxylic acid.

- Carboxylic Acid is incorrect.

Rebound to Tunkhannock.

(tone beeps) The correct answer is acetic acid.

Toss up.

(tone chimes) We won't be using that toss up.

That's the end of this quarter and we'll move over to another lightning round.

(graphic sizzles) This time Tunkhannock will pick first.

Your categories are "Ends in Ash" or "Jordan's."

Time begins when I finish reading the first question.

- "Ends in Ash."

- "Ends in Ash."

- "Ends in Ash."

Give these words ending with the letters A-S-H in that order.

Four letter word for paper money?

(tone beeps) Nicholas.

- Cash.

- [Regina] Correct.

A 100 meter foot race?

(tone beeps) Anna.

- Dash.

- Correct.

A diagonal line or to cut violently?

(tone beeps) Nicholas.

- Slash.

- Correct.

A band worn by a pageant contestant?

(tone beeps) Anna.

- Sash.

- Correct.

A hair projecting from an eyelid?

(tone beeps) Anna.

- Lash.

- Correct.

A burst of light as from a camera?

(tone beeps) Theo.

- Flash.

- Correct.

A dish of Lima beans and corn?

(tone beeps) Theo.

- Succotash.

- Correct.

To suppress as a rebellion?

(tone beeps) Anna.

- Pass.

- Quash.

A tile surface behind a stove or countertop?

(tone beeps) - Back splash.

- [Regina] Correct.

A material used to make fertilizer?

(tone beeps) Anna.

- Pass.

- Potash.

Moving over to our team from Wyoming Area.

Your category is "Jordan's."

Answer the following about people and things named Jordan.

1996 Animated films starring Michael Jordan and "The Looney Tunes"?

(tone beeps) - Space Jam.

- [Regina] Correct.

2022 Jordan Peele film in which a monster eats Jupe and his audience?

(tone beeps) - Pass.

- "Nope."

NFL team on which Jordan Love backs up Aaron Rodgers?

(tone beeps) - Packers.

- Correct.

State whose Village of Jordan is near Syracuse?

(tone beeps) Chris.

- New York.

- Correct.

Villain played by Michael B. Jordan in "Black Panther."?

(tone beeps) Casey.

- Killmonger.

- Correct.

Sea that receives the Jordan River?

(tone beeps) - Red Sea.

- Dead Sea.

2013 film about stockbroker Jordan Belfort?

(tone beeps) - Wolf of Wall Street.

- Correct.

Epic Fantasy Series created by Robert Jordan?

(tone beeps) Casey.

- Pass.

- [Regina] "The Wheel of Time" TV show whose characters include Tracy Jordan and Liz Lemon?

(tone beeps) Gianna.

- Pass.

- 30 Rock.

Game series that featured the extremely difficult Buckethead song, "Jordan"?

(tone beeps) - Pass.

- Guitar Hero.

(tone chimes) And that's the end of the lightning round.

So let's take a look at our score.

We have Tunkhannock with 125 points and Wyoming Area with 100 points.

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

What creatures whose numbers include the trio Brontes, Steropes, and Arges, and the man eating Polyphemus, and are giants with only one eye?

(tone beeps) Chris, Wyoming Area.

- Cyclops.

- Cyclops is the correct answer and your bonus.

Kunta Kinte is believed to have been born in what African country which is almost entirely surrounded by Senegal?

(tone beeps) Casey.

- Gambia.

- Gambia is correct answer for your bonus points.

Toss up.

In 2022, what politician named, Kwasi Kwarteng as chancellor and then removed him during the 7 weeks she spent as Britain's Prime Minister?

(tone beeps) That was Liz Truss.

Toss up.

Pencil, paper, ready.

When written as a polynomial, what is the coefficient of the X term of the square of the quantity X plus 7?

(tone beeps) Chris, Wyoming Area.

- 1/2.

- 1/2 is incorrect.

Rebound to Tunkhannock.

(tone beeps) Nicholas.

- 14.

- 14 is correct answer for your rebound points.

Toss up.

What composer whose first symphony was titled "Jeremiah" composed the ballet "Fancy Free" and a musical that included the song "Maria Westside Story"?

(tone beeps) Anna, Tunkhannock.

- Lin Manuel Miranda.

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to Wyoming Area.

(tone beeps) - Andrew Lloyd Webber.

- Is also incorrect.

It is Leonard Bernstein.

Toss up.

What country where Sranantongo is widely spoken is South America's smallest country by area and population and has its capital at Paramaribo?

(tone beeps) Nicholas.

- Ecuador.

- Ecuador is incorrect.

Rebound to Wyoming Area.

(tone beeps) Gianna.

- Chile.

- Chile is incorrect.

It is Suriname.

Toss up.

Pencil, paper, ready.

What is the smallest positive value of X for which the sine of X equals zero, given the sine of zero is also zero?

(tone beeps) Nicholas, Tunkhannock.

- Negative one.

- Negative one is incorrect.

Rebounds to Wyoming Area.

There's still time.

(tone beeps) Casey.

- 1/2.

- 1/2 is incorrect.

It is 180.

Toss up.

What man who tried to start a race war called Helter Skelter by ordering the murder of actress Sharon Tate in 1969, led a cult known as His Family?

(tone beeps) Anna.

- Charles Manson.

- Charles Manson is correct answer and your bonus Tunkhannock.

Antwerp is the most populous city of what Northern Dutch speaking region of Belgium?

(tone beeps) - Netherlands.

- Netherlands is incorrect.

It is Flanders.

Toss up.

What city whose namesake airport is in Romulus in Wayne County, was replaced as the state capital by Lansing and is the most populous city in Michigan.

(tone beeps) Nicholas, Tunkhannock.

- Flynn.

- Is incorrect rebound to Wyoming Area.

(tone chimes) Okay, nobody has an answer.

The correct answer is Detroit And that's the end of our game.

Let's take a look at our final score.

We have Wyoming Area with 115 points and Tunkhannock with 145 points.

Congratulations, Tunkhannock.

You'll be moving on.

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

I'm your host Regina Myers and thank you for watching.

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