(whistle blowing) (drums rolling) (upbeat music) ♪ Go - Welcome to the 18th 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, 3, or $5,000.

Tonight's match features Wyoming Area versus Wyoming Valley West.

Representing Wyoming Area are Kayden Dructor, Brady Kerns, Gianna Pellegrino, and Bella Vogel.

Rebecca Gula and Mario Belza are the alternates and their advisor is Molly Kearns.

Representing Wyoming Valley West are Tessa Kopetchney, Jalen Buchinski, Elvis Castanos, and Evelyn Saltz.

Their alternate is Joey Souder, and their advisor is Robert Bonczewski.

"Scholastic Scrimmage" is a game of a 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 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'll be given the toss-up points but will not receive a bonus question.

Well, let's go ahead and get started with this toss-up question.

Double-line spectroscopic is a class of what kind of systems that often have a center of mass outside of either component and consist of two stars?

(alarm beeps) That is binary.

Binary.

Here's our next toss-up.

What composer whose lyric pieces includes "Wedding Day at Troldhaugen" adopted a fellow Norwegian's play for his incidental music to "Peer Gynt"?

(alarm beeps) That is Edvard Grieg.

Here's our next toss-up.

On what song from the album "Lover" which shares its name with the 1980 hit for Bananarama does Taylor Swift lament "It's blue, the feeling I've got"?

(buzzer beeps) Evelyn, Valley West.

- "Cruel Summer."

- Is correct (electronic tone burbling) and here comes your bonus.

What calendar month provided the name of an 1825 soldiers revolt that attempted to replace Russian czar Nicholas I with Grand Duke Konstantin?

(buzzer beeps) - November.

- Close.

We're looking for December.

December.

Here's our next toss-up.

What teenager whose hand is burned while working for Ephraim Lapham in an Esther Forbes' novel is an apprentice silversmith in pre-revolution Boston?

(buzzer beeps) - Hansel.

- Bella, Wyoming Area.

- Hansel.

- Is incorrect, rebound to Valley West.

(students whispering indistinctly) (alarm beeps) That was Johnny Tremain.

Let's go to another toss-up.

What company, the subject of critical articles in "McClure's Magazine" by Ida Tarbell, dominated the American energy industry under John D. Rockefeller?

(alarm beeps) Jalen, Valley West.

- Standard Oil.

- Is correct (electronic tone burbling) and here comes your bonus question.

What abolitionist denounced the title holiday as a sham in "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?"

a speech he delivered in 1852?

- John Brown?

- Is incorrect.

The answer we're looking for was Frederick Douglass.

Frederick Douglass.

Here's our next toss-up and get your pencils and papers ready.

What is the greatest common factor of the two numbers 16 and 28, given that dividing both numbers by 2 yields an even number?

(buzzer beeps) Evelyn, Valley West.

- Four.

- Is correct (electronic tone burbling) and here comes your bonus.

What hero killed the Minotaur before escaping from the Labyrinth?

(alarm beeps) - Hercules?

- No, Theseus.

Theseus.

Here's our next toss-up.

In what story does the ghostly crew of Henry Hudson play ninepins in the Catskill Mountains and cause the title character to sleep for 20 years?

(alarm beeps) Brady, Wyoming Area.

- "Sleepy Hollow."

- Is incorrect, rebound of Valley West.

(alarm beeps) That was "Rip Van Winkle."

"Rip Van Winkle."

Let's go to another toss-up.

In 2020, Stan set an auction sale record for what animal species, shattering a record set by the 13-foot-tall Sue, a prized Field Museum fossil?

(alarm beeps) That is the T-Rex, the T-Rex.

Here's our next toss-up.

What woman lamented "You're lonely now and I hate it" on "Jaded," a song from "Endless Summer Vacation," and sang, "I can take myself dancing" in 2023's "Flowers"?

(alarm beeps) Kayden, Wyoming Area.

- Miley Cyrus.

(alarm shrilling) - Is correct and your bonus, (electronic tone burbling) what king, Britain's final Catholic monarch, was overthrown in the Glorious Revolution?

(students whispering indistinctly) (buzzer beeps) - Charles II?

- No, the answer was James II.

James II.

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

(electric buzzing) 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 Valley West has won the coin toss and will pick first.

Your categories are medals or Russian authors.

(students whispering indistinctly) - Medals.

- Medals it is and your time begins after I finish reading the first question.

Are these elements classified as alkaline metals, alkaline earth metals, transition metals, lanthanides, or none of the above?

Sodium.

(buzzer beeps) - Alkali earth metals.

- [Paul] No, alkaline metal.

Copper.

(buzzer beeps) - Earth.

- [Paul] Transition.

Lithium.

(buzzer beeps) - Alkali.

- [Paul] Yes.

Argon.

(buzzer beeps) - Transition.

- [Paul] None of the above.

Calcium.

(buzzer beeps) - Transition.

- Alkaline earth metal.

Cesium.

(buzzer beeps) - None of the above.

- [Paul] Alkaline.

Vanadium.

(buzzer beeps) - Transition?

- [Paul] Yes.

Polonium.

(buzzer beeps) - None of the above.

- [Paul] Correct.

Strontium.

(buzzer beeps) - Transition.

- [Paul] Alkaline earth.

Molybdenum.

(buzzer beeps) - Transition.

- None of the above.

- Transition is correct.

You rang in first, Evelyn.

Very good.

So that's gonna wrap up your portion of the lightning round, Valley West.

Wyoming Area, we're coming over to you and your remaining category will be Russian authors, and again your time begins after I finish reading the first question.

Name the authors of these Russian language works.

The novel "Crime and Punishment."

(buzzer beeps) - Dostoevsky.

- [Paul] Yes.

The novel "War and Peace."

(buzzer beeps) - Tolstoy.

- [Paul] Yes.

The plays "Three Sisters" and "Uncle Vanya."

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- [Paul] Chekhov.

The short stories "The Nose" and "The Overcoat."

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- [Paul] Gogol.

The nonfiction expose "The Gulag Archipelago."

(buzzer beeps) - Lenin.

- Solzhenitsyn.

The novel "Doctor Zhivago."

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- [Paul] Pasternak.

The novel "The Master and Margarita."

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- [Paul] Bulgakov.

The play "The Lower Depths."

(buzzer beeps) - Selvinsky.

- [Paul] Gorky.

The novel "A Hero of Our Time" and the poem "Death of the Poet."

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- [Paul] Lermontov.

The novels "The Defense" and "Invitation to a Beheading."

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- That's Nabokov.

And that's going to do it for the lightning round and after that, we have Wyoming Valley West in the lead over Wyoming Area, 50 to 20.

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

What country whose author Peter Carey wrote the novel "True History of the Kelly Gang" about Ned Kelly is home to many aboriginal authors?

(alarm beeps) Jalen, Valley West.

- Australia.

- Is correct (electronic tone burbling) and here comes your bonus.

What English noun that derives from a Czech term for forced labor was popularized after being used for artificial beings in Karel Capek's play "R.U.R"?

(alarm beeps) That noun was robots.

Robots.

Here's our next toss-up.

What aquatic birds in genuses Anser and Branta include a Canada species and the Hawaiian Nene, often honk in flight, and have females called ganders?

(buzzer beeps) Brady, Wyoming Area.

- Geese.

- Is correct (alarm beeps) and here comes your bonus.

Jacopo Peri wrote, co-wrote rather, "Dafne," often considered the earliest example of what art form which has buffa and seria genres?

(students whispering indistinctly) (alarm beeps) That is opera.

Let's go to another toss-up.

What team captained by Canadian right winger Mark Stone defeated the Florida Panthers to win the 2023 Stanley Cup- (buzzer beeps) and plays... Brady, Wyoming Area.

- Lightning.

- Is incorrect.

I'll finish the question and rebound to Valley West.

And plays home games in Nevada.

(students whispering indistinctly) (alarm beeps) That was the Vegas Golden Knights.

Here's our next toss-up.

What name is shared by Toronto's CFL team and a mythical group that passed through the Symplegades, sought the golden fleece, and was led by Jason?

(buzzer beeps) Brady, Wyoming Area.

- Argonauts.

- Is correct (electronic tone burbling) and here comes your bonus.

Donald Trump was charged under Georgia's version of what law originally enacted at the federal level in 1970 to prosecute the mafia?

- [Brady] RICO.

RICO.

(buzzer beeps) - RICO.

- RICO is correct for your bonus points, Wyoming Area, as we move on to another toss-up.

What explorer dictated the travel log "Il Milione" about his time in the court of Kublai Khan after traveling the Silk Road to China from Venice?

(buzzer beeps) Kayden, Wyoming Area.

- Marco Polo.

- Is correct and your bonus, (electronic tone burbling) what metalloid whose name starts with S is used in photovoltaic cells and is named after a Greek word for the moon?

(students whispering indistinctly) (buzzer beeps) - Strontium.

- No, selenium.

Selenium.

Here's our next toss-up.

What phase transition which removes water during lyophilization is the reverse of deposition and involves a solid converting directly into a gas?

(buzzer beeps) Brady, Wyoming Area.

- Condensation.

- Is incorrect, rebound of Valley West.

(students whispering indistinctly) (alarm beeps) That was sublimation.

Sublimation.

Here comes our next toss-up.

In 2022, what kind of facility in East Java called Kanjuruhan was the site of 135 deaths after Indonesian police fired tear gas during a soccer game?

(alarm beeps) That answer is stadium.

Let's go to another toss-up.

What man who issued the Plan of Iguala and designed a green, (alarm shrilling) white, and red flag ruled from 1821 to 1823 as president and then emperor of Mexico?

(buzzer beeps) Brady, Wyoming Area.

- Santana.

- [Paul] Is incorrect, rebound of Valley West.

- It's should him.

Should him.

(buzzer beeps) - Napoleon III?

- No, the answer was Agustin de Iturbide.

Well, 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 Wyoming Area and, Kayden, I'll come your way first.

Tell us what your plans are after graduation.

- I plan on going to college in something chemistry related.

- [Paul] Very good.

Thank you, Kayden.

Brady.

- I plan to get a degree in either engineering or biological field.

- Okay, very good.

Gianna.

- I plan to go to Pitt for biological sciences.

- [Paul] That's great, and Bella.

- I plan to go to college to study political science.

- All right, thank you very much, Wyoming Area, and good luck the rest of the way.

Valley West, coming over to you.

Tessa, if you wouldn't mind telling us what your plans are post-graduation.

- I plan to go to college and I plan on majoring in biochemistry.

- [Paul] That's excellent.

Jalen.

- I plan to go to college major in pre-law and then go to law school.

- Excellent.

Elvis.

- I'm looking to go to college in major in physics, minor in math.

- [Paul] That's amazing.

Evelyn.

- I plan to attend college with the intent of majoring in math and minoring in physics.

- Wow, some smart people here today on "Scholastic Scrimmage."

Good luck to everybody, it was very nice to see you all, and now we'll begin the third quarter with this toss-up question.

What title character escapes a stepfather Mr. Murdstone and helps to save Agnes Wickfield from the scheming Uriah Heep in a book by Charles Dickens?

(buzzer beeps) Evelyn, Valley West.

- "Great Expectations."

- [Paul] Is incorrect, rebound to Wyoming Area.

(alarm beeps) That is David Copperfield.

David Copperfield.

Let's go to another toss-up.

What attorney, who in 2023 was found liable by default for defaming election worker Ruby Freeman, is a Republican who is mayor of New York on 9/11?

(buzzer beeps) Brady, Wyoming Area.

- Rudy Giuliani.

- Is correct (electronic tone burbling) and here comes your bonus.

What car collector who now hosts the game show "You Bet Your Life" succeeded Johnny Carson and proceeded Jimmy Fallon as host of NBC's "The Tonight Show"?

(students whispering indistinctly) (alarm beeps) Okay, that is Jay Leno.

Let's move on to another toss-up.

What 1930 painting whose background shows the Dibble House and its pointed arch window, depicts a farmer holding a pitchfork, and is by Grant Wood?

(buzzer beeps) Jalen, Valley West.

- "American Gothic."

- Is correct (electronic tone burbling) and here comes your bonus.

What is the alliterative term for a sudden and intense overflow of water triggered by a dam failure or heavy rainfall from storms?

(buzzer beeps) - A flood.

- [Paul] Judges?

Be more specific.

- Got anything?

(Elvis whispers indistinctly) Great flood?

- No, we're looking for flash flood.

Flash flood.

Here's our next toss-up.

What king whose early rule survived the Fronde rebellions, repeal the Edict of Nantes, and developed the Palace of Versailles as France's Sun King?

(buzzer beeps) Brady, Wyoming Area.

- Louis XIV.

- Is correct (electronic tone burbling) and here comes your bonus.

What theologian advocated for the separation of church and state and founded the colony of Rhode Island?

(buzzer beeps) Kayden.

- James Oglethorpe.

- Nope, Roger Williams.

Roger Williams.

Here's our next toss-up.

What poet whose birthday is celebrated with the January 25th supper used poems such as "Tam o'Shanter" and "To a Mouse" to record his native Scots dialect?

(alarm beeps) That was Robert Burns.

Here's our next toss-up question.

JSON is the object notation for what programming language that is used with HTML and CSS to incorporate interactive features for webpages?

(buzzer beeps) Brady, Wyoming Area.

- Java.

- Is incorrect, rebound of Valley West.

(students whispering indistinctly) (alarm beeps) That is JavaScript.

JavaScript.

Here's our next toss-up.

What state which elected Nellie Tayloe Ross as the US' first female governor in 1924 is the least populous state- (buzzer beeps) Brady, Wyoming Area.

- Wyoming.

- Is correct (electronic tone burbling) and here comes your bonus.

Left untreated, what disease caused by Vibrio bacteria can cause death due to severe electrolyte imbalance and diarrhea?

- [Brady] Dysentery.

(buzzer beeps) - Dysentery?

- Nope, that answer is cholera.

Cholera.

Here's our next toss-up question.

Which man who became Britain's final liberal prime minister when he succeeded H.H.

Asquith represented the UK at the Paris Peace Conference?

(alarm shrilling) (buzzer beeps) Jalen, Valley West.

- Tony Blair.

- Is incorrect, rebound of Wyoming Area.

(buzzer beeps) - Neville Chamberlain.

- No, both good guesses.

We are looking for David Lloyd George.

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

(electric buzzing) This time, Wyoming Area will pick first.

Your categories are PRO words or fire.

(students whispering indistinctly) (buzzer beeps) - PRO words.

- PRO words it is and your time begins after I finish reading the first question.

Give these words that start with the consecutive letters P, R, O.

To show to be definitively true.

(buzzer beeps) - Prove.

- [Paul] Yes.

A net income for a business.

(buzzer beeps) - Profit.

- [Paul] Yes.

The chance of an event occurring.

(buzzer beeps) - Probability.

- [Paul] Yes.

Like an author who writes many books.

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- [Paul] Prolific.

To put something off until later.

(buzzer beeps) - Procrastinate.

- [Paul] Yes.

Nearby, contrasted an anatomy with distal.

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- Proximal.

Provoking deep emotions or having intellectual depth.

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- [Paul] Profound.

A career.

(buzzer beeps) - Profession.

- [Paul] Yes.

Court for settling estates of the deceased.

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- [Paul] Probate court.

Versatile or easily changeable.

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- That is protean.

Okay, Wyoming Area, that's going to do it for your portion of the lightning round.

Valley West, we're coming at you.

Your remaining category will be fire and again your time begins after I finish reading the first question.

Give these answers related to fire.

Greek god of fire and the forge.

(buzzer beeps) - Hephaestus.

- [Paul] Yes.

Author of the young adult novel "Catching Fire" about Katniss Everdeen.

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- [Paul] Suzanne Collins.

Online retailer whose smart devices use Fire OS.

(buzzer beeps) - Amazon.

- [Paul] Yes.

City home to Major League Soccer's Fire FC.

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- [Paul] Chicago.

Caribbean country where the disastrous Fyre Music Festival was scheduled.

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- [Paul] The Bahamas.

Fireside Poet of "The Chambered Nautilus."

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes.

US Admiral who said, "You may fire when ready, Gridley" at Manila Bay.

(buzzer beeps) Pass.

- [Paul] That's George Dewey.

British criminal burned in effigy on November 5th, his night.

(buzzer beeps) - Pass.

- [Paul] Guy Fawkes.

Metal band that sang "Through the Fire and Flames."

(buzzer beeps) - Metallica.

- DragonForce.

2019 "Fire Emblem" game featuring the Black Eagles, (alarm shrilling) Golden Deer, and Blue Lions.

That was "Fire Emblem: Three Houses."

And that's going to do it for the lightning round and after that, we currently have Wyoming Area taking the lead over Wyoming Valley West, 110 to 80.

And we'll now go ahead and begin the last quarter of the game with this toss-up question.

What only African country not to adopt the metric system is governed from Monrovia and was- (buzzer beeps) Brady, Wyoming Area.

- Liberia.

- Is correct (electronic tone burbling) and here comes your bonus.

What romantic poet described feeling "like some watcher of the skies," "or like stout Cortez" in his 1816 sonnet "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer"?

(students whispering indistinctly) (buzzer beeps) - Shakespeare.

- Nope, we're looking for John Keats.

John Keats.

Here comes our next toss-up.

What sculpture which was created based on an idea by historian Doane Robinson is carved into the black hills and depicts four US presidents?

(buzzer beeps) Who rang?

Brady, Wyoming Area.

- Mount Rushmore.

- Is correct (electronic tone burbling) and here comes your bonus.

Johann Sebastian Bach wrote a 1749 mass in what minor key which has two sharps and is thus the relative minor of D major?

(students whispering indistinctly) (buzzer beeps) - B minor.

- Is correct for your bonus points, Wyoming Area, as we move on to our next toss up.

What president who created the job corps Head Start and Medicare and Medicaid as part of his Great Society- (buzzer beeps) program?

Jalen, Valley West.

- Lyndon Johnson.

- [Paul] I'm sorry?

- Lyndon Johnson.

- Is correct (electronic tone burbling) and here comes your bonus question.

What process described by a change in a rigid body's first Euler angle causes the orientation of Earth's rotational axes to shift over time?

(students whispering indistinctly) (buzzer beeps) - Gravitation.

- No, that is procession.

Procession.

Here's our next toss-up.

What deity's name is given to an item found in 1908 near Willendorf, Austria and other figurines spuriously identified with the Roman goddess of love?

(buzzer beeps) Jalen, Valley West.

- Aphrodite.

- Is incorrect, rebound to Wyoming Area.

(buzzer beeps) - Venus.

- Venus is what we are looking for (electronic tone burbling) for your rebound points.

Here comes your next toss-up.

What city has many Bauhaus style buildings on its Rothschild Boulevard, contains the ancient port of Jaffa, and is the economic center of Israel?

(buzzer beeps) Brady, Wyoming Area.

- Tel Aviv.

- Is correct (electronic tone burbling) and here comes your bonus.

What artist painted a red-robed Christ stretching out his right hand in "Supper at Emmaus" and used chiaroscuro in his "The Calling of St Matthew"?

(buzzer beeps) - Da Vinci.

- No, that's Caravaggio.

Caravaggio.

Here's our next toss-up.

What material, a type of which was shown in 2023 to self-repair using lime, was made in ancient Rome by mixing sand and cement for use in building?

(buzzer beeps) Jalen, Valley West.

- Cement.

- [Paul] Is incorrect, rebound to Wyoming Area.

(buzzer beeps) Brady.

- Glass?

- Nope, the answer we're looking for was concrete.

Concrete.

Here's our next toss up.

What sport played by Henry Wiggen in the novels "Bang the Drum Slowly" and "The Southpaw" figures in a poem in which a man named Casey has struck out?

(buzzer beeps) Brady, Wyoming Area.

- Baseball.

- Is correct (electronic tone burbling) and here's your bonus question, and get your pencils and papers ready.

What is the perimeter of a right triangle with a hypotenuse of length 15 and a longer leg of length 12?

(alarm shrilling) (buzzer beeps) Gianna, Wyoming Area.

- Nine.

- Is incorrect.

We are looking for 36.

And that's the end of the game and our winner tonight is Wyoming Area over Wyoming Valley West, 165 to 90.

Congratulations, Wyoming Area.

You're 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 thanks for watching.

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