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(upbeat music continues) - Welcome to the 17th season of WUVIA 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 so compete in a single elimination tournament for a chance to win one, three or $5,000.
WVIA would like to thank our sponsors, FNCB and People Security Bank for making this competition possible.
The rules of the game have been modified for this season's virtual version, 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 educators from the WVIA viewing area and tonight's match features Wyoming Valley West versus Lake Lehman.
Playing for Wyoming Valley West, are Benjamin Bowen and Nathaniel Herman.
Their advisor is Robert Boncheski.
Representing Lake Lehman, are Frankie Penacoli and Ross Davies.
Their alternates are Chase Smith and Jace Henick.
Their advisor is Cecilia Jennings.
Well, let's get started.
Wyoming Valley West has won the coin toss and will receive the first question, which is, what states' research triangle, which includes the cities of Durham, Chapel Hill and Raleigh is home to the main campus of Duke University?
- North Carolina.
- Is correct.
And here's your bonus question.
What ethnic group comprises over 90% of the population of China making them the most populous ethnic group in the world?
- The Han.
- Is correct, for your bonus points, Wyoming Valley West, let's move a over to Lake Lehman now, what novel that ends with the funeral of Alyosha and depicts Dmitri's trial for patricide was written by Fyodor Dostoevsky about Russian siblings?
- Pass.
- Pass.
- Okay.
Rebound now to Wyoming Valley West.
- The Brothers Karamazov.
- Is correct for your rebound points, Wyoming Valley West.
And here comes your next question.
And get those pencils and papers ready?
What is the second smallest positive value of X for which the sign of X equals one Given the smallest value is 90 degrees?
- [Benjamin] Zero.
- Is incorrect, rebound to Lake Lehman.
- One.
- No, we were looking for 450 degrees.
Lake Lehman, here's your question.
In 1861, John Merryman was jailed in what state, the site of the Battle of South Mountain, where a Confederate invasion was turned back at Antietum?
- Virginia.
- Is incorrect.
Rebound to Wyoming Valley West.
- Maryland.
- Is correct, for your rebound points, Wyoming Valley West.
And here is your next question.
What group of movements venerate people such as Prince Philip and John Frum and believe in the ritual arrival of material goods to Pacific Islands?
- (indistinct).
- Nope.
Rebound to Lake Lehman.
- Pass.
- Pass.
- Okay.
That's Cargo cults.
Lake Lehman, here comes your next question.
What type of object after which the currency of Denmark is named includes varieties like diadems and coronets and is worn on the head by monarchs?
- Krone.
- Is correct.
And here's your bonus question.
Which member of the Hudson River School painted "The Oxbow" and a series titled "The Course of Empire"?
- Pass.
- Okay.
That was Thomas Cole.
Wyoming Valley West, here's your next question, in August, 2021, what politician, who lost a 2012 House race to Chris Collins, became the first female governor of New York after Andrew Cuomo resigned?
- Gretchen Whitmer.
- No, we were looking for Kathy Hochul.
Okay.
Here comes your next question, Lake Lehman, what country, whose two co-rulers include the Bishop Urgell, has Catalan as its official language and is in the Pyrenees, between France and Spain?
- Andorra.
- Is correct.
And here's your bonus question, which British sculptor designed Cloud Gate, a sculpture in Chicago's Millennium Park, that resembles a giant bean with a mirrored surface?
- Pass.
- Pass.
- Okay.
That was Anish Kapoor, Anish Kapoor.
And 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.
Wyoming Valley West has won the coin toss and will pick first.
Your categories are primary instruments or P-R-E-D words.
- Primary instruments.
- Okay.
Primary instruments it is.
And your time begins after I finish reading the first question.
Name the primary instruments played by these jazz musicians and answers may be repeated.
John Coltrane.
- Trumpet.
- [Paul] Saxophone.
Miles Davis?
- Bass.
- [Paul] Trumpet.
Ella Fitzgerald?
- Singing.
- [Paul] Yes.
Charlie Parker, who was nicknamed "Bird."
- Piano.
- [Paul] Saxophone.
Artie Shaw, whose instrument is made of Ebony.
- Piano.
- [Paul] Clarinet.
Duke Ellington?
- Trumpet.
- Piano.
Buddy Rich?
- Trumpet.
- [Paul] Drums.
Whitten Marsalis?
- Trumpet.
- [Paul] Yes.
Glen Miller?
- Piano.
- [Paul] Trombone.
Dave Brubeck?
- Bass.
- Piano.
Okay.
Wyoming Valley West, that's gonna wrap up your portion of the Lightning Round, and we're going to come over to Lake Lehman now, and your remaining category will be P-R-E-D words.
And again, your time begins after I finish reading the first question.
Give these words that begin with the letters P-R-E-D, to foretell.
- Predict.
- [Paul] Yes.
Morning time, just before daylight.
- Predawn.
- [Paul] Yes.
A phrase that contains a sentence as main verb.
- Predicate.
- [Paul] Yes.
To occur before something in history.
- (indistinct) - [Paul] Predate.
A prior holder of an office.
- Pass.
- [Paul] Predecessor.
Condition of high blood sugar that often leads to a more severe disorder.
- Pass.
- Pre-diabetes.
Determined in advanced as a fate.
- Predict?
No.
- [Paul] Predestined.
A strong habit or tendency towards something.
- Predisposed.
- [Paul] Predilection.
An animal that hunts prey.
- Predator.
- [Paul] Yes.
Simplified are already broken down as with information.
- Pass.
- That's pre-digested.
And that's going to do it for the Lightning Round.
And boy, what a close game we have.
We have Lake Lehman in the lead overwhelming Valley West, 60 to 55.
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.
And we'll start with the students from Wyoming Valley West, and Benjamin, I'll come to you first.
Tell me what your plans are after graduation.
- I hope to attend the United States Naval Academy or go to a ROTC school and serve my nation as a Marine Corps (indistinct) Officer or Naval Nuclear Submarine Officer.
- Excellent.
Best of luck to you, Benjamin.
Nathaniel, what are your plans after high school?
- I hope to attend the United States Air Force Academy, or do Air Force ROTC at a civilian college.
And I hope to serve as a pilot and officer in the Air Force after college.
- All right.
Best of luck to you guys.
Thank you very much.
Let's come over to Lake Lehman, and Frankie, what are your plans after you graduate?
- Not entirely sure yet, but I'd like to go to college maybe for Psychology.
- Okay, excellent.
And Ross, what are your plans?
- I would like to go to college to study the arts and possibly become a concept designer.
- Very, very cool.
Thank you, Lake Lehman.
It was very nice to meet all of you.
And we'll now go ahead and begin the second quarter with this question that goes to Lake Lehman, in April, 2020, what political party chose Keir Starmer as its leader to succeed Jeremy Corbyn, who had been to defeated by Boris Johnson's Conservatives?
- (indistinct) Party.
- Is incorrect.
Rebound, Wyoming Valley West.
- The Wig Party.
- No, we are looking for the Labor Party.
Okay.
Wyoming Valley West, here comes your next question, the Davisson-Germer experiment showed a fraction of what particle whose antimatter partner is the positron and is shared in covalent bonds?
- The proton.
- Is incorrect.
Rebound to Lake Lehman.
- The neutron.
- Nope.
We are looking for electron.
Lake Lehman, here is your next question.
What 2016 film that features the song "You're Welcome" has a title character whose name means ocean and co-stars Dwayne Johnson as the demigod, Maui?
- Moana.
- Is correct.
And here's your bonus question now, what video game company was sued in 2021 by the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing over its alleged "frat boy" culture?
- Activision Blizzard.
- Is correct for your bonus points, Lake Lehman.
Let's come back to Wyoming Valley West.
What party, which staged the Hartford Convention during the war of 1812 was once led by Alexander Hamilton and rival the Democratic Republicans?
- The Federalists.
- Is correct.
And here's your bonus question, Zadie Smith's novel "On Beauty" is based on what 1910 E.M. Foster novel which begins as Helen Schlegel visits the Wilcox Family at the (indistinct) house?
- The House on Bangor Street.
- No, we're looking for Howard's End.
Let's come back now to Lake Lehman.
What creatures from Norse myth, whose numbers included the Sons of Ivaldi and their rivals, Brokkr and Eitri, were ugly beings gifted at smithing?
- Pass, pass.
- Okay.
Rebound now to Wyoming Valley West.
- Blacksmiths.
- No, we were looking for dwarves.
Wyoming Valley West, here's your next question, what book, whose protagonist briefly loses a bell through a hole in his robe as a Chris Van Allsburg story about a train journey to Santa's workshop?
- The Polar Express.
- Is correct.
And here's your bonus question now, the Zone of Avoidance is a region of low visibility caused by what system, who's satellites include the Magellanic Clouds?
- The Ionosphere.
- Is incorrect.
We're looking for The Milky Way.
Lake Lehman, here's your next question.
What shapes, such as the Menger Sponge, the Sierpinski Triangle and the Mandelbrot Set, can look the same at different levels of magnification?
- Pass.
- Okay.
Rebound now to Wyoming Valley West.
- Similar shapes.
- [Paul] I'm sorry?
- Similar.
- [Paul] Be more specific.
- Geometric similar shapes.
- No, we're looking for fractals or self similar shapes.
Wyoming Valley West, here's your next question.
What first Central American country to legalize same sex marriage, which did so in 2020, has no standing army and is governed from San Jose?
(beeping sound) - Panama.
- Is incorrect.
Rebound now to Lake Lehman.
- Cuba.
- No, Costa Rica.
And after one half of play, we have a tie game.
Lake Lehman and Wyoming Valley West both nodded up at 75 a piece.
We wanna say thank you to Benjamin and Nathaniel from Wyoming Valley West.
And thank you to Frankie and Ross from Lake Lehman.
We're now going to meet your teammates for the second half.
Playing for Wyoming Valley West in the second half are Logan Romanowski and Anna Schol.
Representing Lake Lehman are Seth Barry and Teagan Norcott.
And our first question in this quarter goes to Wyoming Valley West.
And that question is, what statesman, who had the Ems Dispatch edited to provoke a war with France, delivered the "Blood and Iron" speech and led the unification of Germany?
(beeping sound) - Okay.
Rebound now to Lake Lehman.
- Pass.
- Okay.
That answer is Otto Von Bismark.
Okay, Lake Lehman here comes your first question.
What technique whose results may be analyzed using a factor known as R sub F separates components of a mixture based on polarity and has a TLC form?
- Pass.
- Okay.
Rebound now to Wyoming Valley West.
(beeping sound) Okay.
That answer was chromatography.
Wyoming Valley West, here's your next question.
What composer of a third symphony once dedicated to Napoleon and nicknamed "Eroica", set Friedrich Schiller's "Ode to Joy" in his ninth symphony?
- Beethoven.
- Is correct.
And here's your bonus question now.
What Czech-born politician became the first female Secretary of State under Bill Clinton?
(beeping sound) Okay.
That was Madeleine Albright.
Lake Lehman, here is your next question, which man, who defeated Maxentius at The Battle of Milvian Bridge, moved his Roman Imperial government to Byzantium, which he renamed after himself?
- Constantinople.
- Judges?
- [Judge] Be more specific.
- Be more specific.
- General Constatine.
- [Judge] Correct.
- Is correct.
And here's your bonus question now.
What metabolic process whose namesake particles lose energy through a series of redox reactions, proceeds oxidative phosphorylation?
- (indistinct).
- Is incorrect.
We are looking for electron transport chain.
Wyoming Valley West, here is your next question.
The marginal zone separates the white and red pulp of what abdominal lymphatic organ that sometimes swells in Mono, and that filters red blood cells?
- Trachea.
- No.
Rebound now to Lake Lehman.
- Liver.
- No, we're looking for the spleen.
Lake Lehman, here comes your next question.
What book, which comes after Proverbs in Christian Bible says that there is a time to be born and a time to die and lament's that all is vanity.
- Exodus.
- Is incorrect.
Rebound to Wyoming Valley West.
(beeping sound) - Okay.
That answer was the Book of Ecclesiastes.
Wyoming Valley West, here's your next question.
What explorer was accompanied by Fred Noonan during a 1937 attempt to circumnavigate the world in a Lockheed plane during which she disappeared?
- Amelia Earhart.
- Is correct.
And here's your bonus question.
Lightning strikes can create charged versions of what green Minecraft enemies, which silently approach players and explode?
- Creeper.
- Is correct, for your bonus points, Wyoming Valley West.
And that sound that you heard signals the end of the third quarter and another Lightning Round.
This time, Lake Lehman will pick first.
Your categories are, 1939 or famous nicknames.
- Nicknames.
- Famous nicknames.
- Okay.
Famous nicknames it is.
And your time begins after I finish reading the first question.
Identify the people who had these nicknames, president nicknamed "Ike."
- Richard Nixon.
- [Paul] Eisenhower.
Boxer who died in 2016, nicknamed "The Greatest."
- Muhammad Ali.
- [Paul] Yes.
Gangster nicknamed "Scarface."
- Al Capone.
- [Paul] Yes.
Inventor known as "The Wizard of Menlo Park."
- Pass.
- [Paul] Thomas Edison.
Author, nicknamed "Papa."
- Pass.
- [Paul] Hemingway.
Trumpeter nicknamed "Satchmo."
- Louis Armstrong.
- Yes.
American painter nicknamed "Jack the Dripper."
- Pass.
- [Paul] Jackson Pollock.
General nicknamed "Old Blood and Guts."
- Ulysses S. Grant.
- [Paul] Patton.
Opera singer nicknamed "La Divina."
- Pass.
- [Paul] Maria Callas.
Rapper nicknamed "The BasedGod."
- Biggie Smalls.
- No.
We're looking for Lil B.
Okay, Lake Lehman, that's gonna wrap up your portion of the Lightning Round.
Wyoming Valley West, we're coming back to you, and your category will be 1939.
And again, your time begins after I finish reading the first question.
Answer the following about the year 1939.
Country invaded by Germany to start World War II.
- Poland.
- [Paul] Yes.
Film starring Vivian Leigh as Scarlet O'Hara.
- Pass.
- [Paul] Gone with the Wind.
Dictator who ruled Spain starting in 1939.
- Francisco Franco.
- [Paul] Yes.
Pius the 12th took this position in 1939.
- Pope - [Paul] Yes.
John Steinbeck novel about the Joad family.
- Pass.
- [Paul] Grapes of Wrath.
Assassin of John F. Kennedy born in 1939.
- Lee Harvey Oswald.
- Yes.
Founder of psychoanalysis who died in 1939.
- Sigmund Freud.
- [Paul] Yes.
Singer nicknamed "Lady Day" who recorded "Strange Fruit."
- Pass.
- [Paul] Billy Holiday.
African American contralto who performed at the Lincoln Memorial.
- Pass.
- [Paul] Marian Anderson.
Poet who wrote "September 1st, 1939."
- Pass.
- Okay.
That's W.H.
Auden.
And that's going to do it for the Lightning Round.
And after that, we currently have Wyoming Valley West in the lead over Lake Lehman, 150 to 115.
And again, we're going to take a little bit of a break and get to know the contestants playing the second half a little better.
We'll start with the students from Wyoming Valley West and Logan, if you wouldn't mind telling us what your plans are after you graduate.
- I hope to attend the United States Military Academy at West Point where I'll serve as an infantry officer.
- Excellent.
Best of luck to you Logan.
And Anna, what do you wanna do after you graduate?
- I'm looking to major in cyber security, although I'm not sure exactly which college I'm going to end up at.
- All right.
Best of luck to you, Anna.
Thank you for being here.
Let's come over to lake Lehman and Seth, if you wouldn't mind telling us what your post graduation plans are.
- I hope to attend university and study biology.
- Okay.
Excellent.
And Teagan, what do you want to do after high school?
- I'm not particularly sure where I'd like to go, but I'd like to study game development in college.
- Excellent.
It was very nice to meet all of you.
And we'll now begin the last segment of the game with this question that goes to Lake Lehman.
What phylum members, which include lampreys, birds and vertebrates, like humans, all have a primitive spinal column known as the notochord?
- Vertebrates.
- Is incorrect.
Rebound to Wyoming Valley West.
(beeping sound) - Okay.
That's cordata.
Wyoming Valley West, heres your question.
Which playwright who wrote about the Antrobus family in "The Skin of Our Teeth" also wrote a play set in Grover's Corners called "Our Town"?
- Tennessee Williams.
- Is incorrect.
Rebound to Lake Lehman.
- Shakespeare.
- No, we're looking for Thornton Wilder.
Lake Lehman, here's your next question.
What president's speech writer, David Frum, coined the term "Axis of Evil," which this man used to refer to Iran and Iraq, soon after the 9/11 attacks?
- Bush.
- [Paul] Be more specific.
- George Bush.
- [Paul] Be more specific.
- George W. Bush.
- That is correct.
And here is your bonus question.
What coffee chain which trademark the brand "Frapuccino" is named after the first mate in Melville's "Moby Dick"?
- Starbucks.
- Is correct for your bonus points.
Let's move back now to Wyoming Valley West.
What color with a hue formed from an iron cyanide complex called "Prussian" is also the color of copper sulfate pentahydrate and sapphires?
- Purple.
- Is incorrect.
Rebound now to Lake Lehman.
- Blue.
- Blue is correct for your rebound points.
And Lake Lehman, here's your next question.
What objects, which are the protagonists of a 2011 animated version of "Romeo and Juliet", often wear pointy red hats and serve as garden ornaments?
- Gnomes.
- Gnomes is correct.
And here's your bonus question.
What strong acid, once called "oil of vitriol" can be produced by the lead chamber process or the contact process?
- Hydrochloric acid.
- Is incorrect.
Great guess though.
We're looking for sulfuric acid.
Wyoming Valley West, here is your next question.
What style of painting with analytic and synthetic phases was co-founded by George Brock and the artist of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, Pablo Picasso?
(beeping sound) Okay.
Rebound now to Lake Lehman.
- (indistinct) - No, we're looking for cubism.
Lake Lehman, heres your next question.
What rebellion, in which men shot at Inspector John Neville was put down by Light Horse Harry Lee and George Washington, and opposed attacks on alcohol?
- Slave Rebellion.
- Is incorrect.
Rebound, Wyoming Valley west.
- Whiskey Rebellion.
- Is correct for your rebound points, Wyoming Valley West.
And here is your next question.
What river, which flows past the cities of Santarem and Iquitos, merges with the Rio Negro at Manaus, and is the longest river in South America?
(beeping sound) (indistinct chatter) (beeping sound) Okay.
Rebound now to Lake Lehman.
- The Amazon River.
- Is correct for your rebound points, Lake Lehman.
At the end of regulation play, we've ended in a tie.
And when that happens, 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.
Lake Lehman won the tiebreaker coin toss, and so will receive the first question.
And here it is, what author used his uncle's diary as a source for the book, "A Journal of the Plague Year" and wrote about an English castaway in "Robinson Crusoe"?
- Don Steinberg.
- Is incorrect.
Rebound, Wyoming Valley West.
(beeping sound) Okay.
That's Daniel Defoe.
Wyoming Valley West, here's your question.
What toy, voiced by Don Rickles in "Toy Story" was once bundled with a smoking pipe and comes with ears and eyes that can be placed on his face?
- Mr.
Potato Head.
- Is correct.
And here's your bonus question.
What play by Anton Chekhov describes the destruction of beloved trees on an estate, formally owned by Madam Ranevskaya?
(beeping sound) That's "The Cherry Orchard."
Okay.
Lake Lehman, here comes your question, which scientist won the Nobel Prize for explaining the photo electric effect and later developed field equations for his theory of general relativity?
- Einstein.
- Is correct.
And here's your bonus question.
Hyperbolas and parabolas are examples of what curves formed by the intersection of a plane and a 3D shape?
- U curves.
- Is incorrect.
We're looking for conic sections.
Wyoming Valley West, it's back to you.
What country, which has long disputed the Aouzou Strip with neighboring Chad is indented by the Gulf of Sidra, which borders the port of Benghazi?
- Libya.
- Is correct.
And here's your bonus question.
A 1903 Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party led to the formation of what majority communist faction led by Vladimir Lenin?
(beeping sound) Okay.
That was the Bolsheviks.
Okay.
Lake Lehman, here's your next question.
What Monarch installed Maximilian the first as Emperor of Mexico, was captured at the Battle of Sedan, and was the only head of the second French Empire?
- Napoleon.
- Is incorrect.
Rebound, Wyoming Valley West.
- Napoleon the third.
- Napoleon the third is correct for your rebound points.
And that is the end of the game.
And our winner tonight is Wyoming Valley West over lake Lehman, 190 to 170.
Congratulations, Wyoming Valley West.
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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