(upbeat 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 $1,000, $3,000, or $5,000.
Tonight's match features North Pocono versus Mountain View.
Representing North Pocono are Minerva Corea, Olivia Bassi, Grace Beckish and Noah Beckish, and their alternate is Steph Arias and their advisor is Christopher Wilbur.
Representing Mountain View are Paige Strickland, Hunter Kozlowski, Luke Zipprich, Jonathan Simmaleski.
Their alternate is Tanner Stout and their advisor is Charlene Martins.
"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 French painter used Victoria Meurent as the model both for his painting, "Olympia", and a depiction of an outdoor picnic luncheon on the grass?
(buzzer beeps) Jonathan, Mountain View.
- Monet.
Monet.
- Monet is incorrect.
Rebound to North Pocono.
No one?
It is Manet.
Toss-up, paper, pencil ready: If a two-thirds majority is required and 186 ballots are cast, what is the minimum number of yes votes needed for passage?
(buzzer beeps) - 64.
- Hunter.
- Oh, sorry, 64.
- 64, Hunter, is incorrect.
Rebound to North Pocono.
(buzzer beeps) Noah?
- 124.
- 124 is the correct answer for your rebound points.
What president, who fled to Germany during the May, 1968, student protest, founded the Fifth Republic, and led the free French forces in World War II?
(buzzer beeps) Page.
- Eisenhower.
- Eisenhower is incorrect.
Rebound to North Pocono.
- No one.
That would be de Gaulle.
Toss-up: What country, which ceased issuing pennies in 2013, introduced in 1987- (buzzer beeps) Jonathan, Mountain View.
- Canada.
- Canada is the correct answer, and your bonus: In Norse myth, what plant from which Frig did not extract an oath, did Loki- (buzzer beeps) - Mistletoe.
- Mistletoe is a correct answer.
Luke, for your bonus points.
Toss-up: What substance, whose depletion after death causes rigor mortis, consists of a nucleotide bound to an ion containing three atoms of phosphorus?
(buzzer beeps) Noah, North Pocono.
- Adenosine triphosphate, or ATP.
- ATP's correct answer, Noah.
And your bonus: An approximation treating nuclei and electrons separately is named for Max Born and what physicist who was the Manhattan Project's scientific head?
- Albert Einstein.
- Einstein is incorrect.
It is Oppenheimer.
Toss-up: What event whose pretext was the murder of a diplomat, Ernst vom Rath, was a 1938 Nazi pogrom named after the damage to synagogues and Jewish shops?
(buzzer beeps) Noah.
- What is Kristallnacht?
- Kristallnacht, Noah is the correct answer.
And your bonus, North Pocono: Pope Paul VI enacted a program of Aggiornamento, or updating, at what modernizing 1960s ecumenical council?
- Vatican II.
- Vatican II is correct answer for your bonus points.
Toss-up: What character says that "a man can be destroyed but not defeated".
Mentors Manolin, and catches a marlin in an Ernest Hemingway book set on the sea?
(buzzer blares) Santiago.
Toss-up: What rock formed by compression of organic matter has varieties including anthracite, bituminous- (buzzer beeps) Grace, North Pocono.
- Coal.
- Coal is the correct answer, Grace.
And your bonus, North Pocono: What golf tour sponsored by Saudi Arabia, whose CEO is Greg Norman, allegedly offered Tiger Woods more than $500 million to join?
- LIV Golf.
- LIV is the correct answer.
(bells rings) That sound you heard signals the end of the first quarter, and now it's time for the lightning round.
(lightning 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.
North Pocono has won the coin toss and will pick first.
Your categories are 20th Century Artists or NBA Beginnings.
- We choose 20th Century Artists.
- 20th Century Artists.
Time begins when I finish reading the first question.
Name the creators of these 20th century paintings.
"The Persistence of Memory", which shows melting- - Salvador Dali.
- Dali is correct.
"Guernica".
- Pablo Picasso Correct.
"American Gothic", which used his dentist as a model.
- I know it, I just don't know his name.
- You can pass.
- Pass.
- Wood.
"The Treachery of Images".
"A pipe with this is not a pipe" written below it.
- Pass.
- Magritte.
"Nighthawks", depicting a city diner.
- Andy Warhol.
- Hopper.
"Broadway Boogie Woogie", with straight lines and blocks of primary colors.
- Warhol.
- Mondrian.
"I and the Village".
- Pass.
- Chagall.
"Lavender mist", one of his drip paintings.
- Pass.
- Pollock.
"Freedom from Want", which he created for the "Saturday Evening Post".
- Pass.
- Rockwell.
"Christina's World".
- Pass.
- Wyeth.
Moving over to the team from Mountain View.
You have NBA Beginnings.
Name the teams for whom these members of the NBA 75th anniversary team played their first NBA games.
Michael Jordan.
- Bulls.
Correct.
Kobe Bryant.
- Lakers.
- LeBron James.
- Cleveland.
- Lakers.
- Correct.
Larry Bird.
- Celtics.
- Correct.
Dick Nowitzki.
Dirk Nowitzki.
- Mavericks.
- Correct.
Dennis Rodman.
- Bulls.
- Detroit Pistons.
Shaquille O'Neal.
- Magic.
- Correct.
Charles Barkley.
- 76ers.
- Correct.
Dominique Wilkins.
- Hawks.
- Correct.
Clyde Drexler.
- Blazers.
- Trail Blazers.
- Correct.
That was the end of our lightning round.
So let's take a look at our score.
We have North Pocono with 60 and Mountain View with 60, so it's all tied up.
We're going to move into the second quarter with this toss-up question.
What author of "Fratelli tutti", a 2020 enyclical, advocated for the same-sex civil unions in a 2020 interview, and currently leads the Catholic Church?
(buzzer beeps) Noah.
- Pope Francis.
- Pope Francis is the correct answer, Noah.
And your bonus: A 1054 supernova observed by Chinese, Arab, and indigenous American astronomers created what nebula visible in the constellation Taurus?
- Crab nebula, I think.
- Crab nebula.
- Crab is the correct answer for your bonus points.
Toss-up: What fruit, whose varieties include Cara Cara, blood, and navel, is known in Spanish as- (buzzer beeps) Noah, North Pocono.
- Oranges.
- Orange is the correct answer.
And your bonus, North Pocono: In September, 2021, a new defense pact was signed by the United States, Britain, and what country, then led by Prime Minister Scott Morrison?
- Australia.
- Australia's the correct answer for your bonus points.
Toss-up: In what battle fought at Freeman's Farm and Bemis Heights did Horacio Gates capture a British army in a 1777 turning point in the Revolutionary War?
(beeper beeps) Noah, North Pocono.
- Battle of Saratoga.
- Saratoga's correct answer, and your bonus.
"Sicko Mode" is a song on what 2018 Travis Scott album that lent its name to a 2021 festival where 10 attendees died in a crowd crush?
- Astroworld.
- Astroworld's the correct answer for your bonus points.
Toss-up: What writer described the officer's painful execution in the story "In the Penal Colony" and wrote about Gregor becoming a bug in "The Metamorphosis"?
(buzzer beeps) - Ovid.
- I'm sorry Luke?
- Ovid.
- Ovid is incorrect.
Rebound to North Pocono.
No one?
The correct answer is Kafka.
Toss-up: In what building, which Brian Sicknick died a day after defending, was Ashli Babbitt shot as part of a mob that overran it on January 6th, 2000?
(beeper beeps) Jonathan, Mountain View.
- Capitol building.
- The Capitol's correct answer, Jonathan, and your bonus.
In 2021, a Canadian group decided to release 50 million pounds from its reserve of what sweet food, made by gathering sap from a specific type of tree?
- Maple syrup.
- Maple syrups's the correct answer for your bonus points.
Toss-up: What metallic element is found in the mineral Argonite is used by corals to build- (beeper beeps) Jonathan, Mountain View.
- Argon.
- Argon is incorrect.
I'll complete the question in rebound to North Pocono.
...and is used by corals to build their skeleton, and combined with phosphate in human bones.
- It's carbon.
- Anyone?
(beeper beeps) - Grace.
- Is it carbon?
- It is not carbon.
It is calcium.
Toss-up: What author who began writing the gay romance "Maurice" in 1913, described a false accusation that Adela makes against Dr. Aziz in a- (beeper beeps) Jonathan, Mountain View.
- Oscar Wilde.
- Oscar Wilde is incorrect.
I'll complete and rebound to North Pocono.
In "A Passage to India".
No one?
The correct answer is Forster.
Toss-up: What United States streaming service which streamed the 2020- (beeper beeps) Jonathan, Mountain View.
- YouTube.
- YouTube is incorrect.
I'll complete the question and rebound to North Pocono.
Eurovision song contest and the reboot "Bel Air" is named after the logo of parent network NBC?
(beeper beeps) - Netflix.
- Netflix is incorrect.
It is Peacock.
That sound signals the end of the first half.
So we're going to update our score.
We have North Pocono with 105 and Mountain View with 75.
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 North Pocono.
Minerva, we'll begin with you.
Why don't you tell our viewing audience a little bit about yourself, what you do in school, and what you like to do, and maybe what you do out of school.
- I'm involved in the orchestra, and band, as well as Marywood's String Project, and I participate in the PMEA competitions.
I'm part of the Science Olympiad team and I participate in Pennsylvania Junior Academy of Science as well as the Scholastic Scrimmage.
- Yes, very busy.
I don't know how you find time to study.
(laughs) Olivia?
- I'm a member of Students Against Historic Decisions, Red Cross, and a member of the varsity cross-country and track and field teams.
- Another busy student.
Grace, how about you?
- I'm a member of the Science Olympiad team, Model United Nations, the environmental club, and many other activities.
I enjoy reading, writing, and drawing.
- Nice.
Welcome.
Noah.
- Hi, I'm Noah Beckish.
In school, I'm involved in their mathletes club, science olympiad team, and chorus, National Honor Society, Pennsylvania Junior Academy of Science, and now, Scholastic Scrimmage.
Outside of school, I like to play chess.
- Oh, very good, interesting.
Let's move over to our team from Mountain View.
Paige, why don't you start us off?
- I'm involved in soccer, basketball, and softball, and I'm also on the National Honors Society, the enviro-fund team, and Scholastic Scrimmage.
- Woo, that's quite a list too.
Hunter, how about yourself?
- I'm involved in soccer, National Honor Society.
I do the Scholastic Scrimmage, and in my free time, I like to hunt and fish.
- Hunt and fish, very good.
And this is the season.
Luke?
- Outside of the school, I spend a lot of my time working on my farm.
I do 4H and I raise steers and lambs.
- Very nice.
- And I'm a member of the soccer team and the volleyball team.
- Very nice.
You must be very busy on the farm.
Yes.
And how about you, Jonathan?
- I'm in my school's band, on the Scholastic Team as well.
I'm also involved with basketball and track and field for Mountain View.
Outside of school, I'm a volunteer firefighter, and I'm currently a student EMT.
- Good, that's wonderful.
I don't know how everybody finds the time to be involved in all the things that you do, but good luck.
Good luck in the second half.
Let's get started with a toss-up.
What mountain, under which the giant Typhon was said to have been buried, lies between Catania and Messina, and is an active volcano on Sicily?
(beeper beeps) Luke, Mountain View.
- Pompeii.
- Pompeii is incorrect.
Rebound to North Pocono.
No one.
The correct answer is Etna.
Toss-up: What colorful object is used to create a deserving porcupine, an apple tree, and a moon in a Crockett Johnson picture book about a child named Harold?
(beeper beeps) Luke.
- Blue.
- Blue is incorrect.
Rebound to North Pocono.
No one.
The correct answer is purple crayon.
Toss-up: What man, who a civil jury found liable for Ron Goldman's death, was acquitted in 1995?
(beeper beeps) Jonathan, Mountain View.
- OJ Simpson.
- OJ Simpson's the correct answer, and your bonus: What 1963 Supreme Court case held that the 6th Amendment requires that states provide indigent defendants with an attorney?
(beeper beeps) - Miranda versus Arizona.
- I'm sorry, that is incorrect.
It is Gideon versus Wainwright.
Toss-up: What social science, which received its own Nobel Prize in 1968, was studied by John Maynard Keynes and "The Wealth of Nations" author Adam Smith?
(beeper beeps) Noah, North Pocono.
- Economics.
- Economics is the correct answer.
Bonus, North Pocono: What company, that operates a Gigafactory in Nevada, moved its corporate headquarters from Palo Alto to Austin, Texas, in 2021?
- Tesla.
- Tesla's the correct answer.
For your bonus points, pencil/paper ready.
What is the simplified form of the product 6AB squared multiplied by 3A cubed B?
(beeper beeps) Noah, North Pocono.
- 18 A to the fourth, B cubed.
- Is the correct answer, Noah, and your bonus, North Pocono.
What structures, in which barbs are attached to a stem known as a rachis, have a down type?
- I dunno.
- Furs?
- Is incorrect.
It is feathers.
Toss-up: What city is home to Berkshire Hathaway, shares a metropolitan area with Council Bluffs, Iowa, and is the most populous city in Nebraska?
(beeper beeps) Noah, North Pocono.
- Omaha.
- Correct, and your bonus: Sisimiut is the second most populous city on what island whose native name is Kalaallit Nunaat.
- Guam.
- Guam is incorrect.
It is Greenland.
Toss-up: What was the classical name for the area where the Siege of Alesia took place during the Vercingetorix's War with Julius Caesar in present-day France?
(beeper beeps) Noah.
- Gaul.
- Gaul is correct answer, and your bonus, North Pocono.
In what city did Martin Luther King deliver his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech during a strike by sanitation workers in 1968?
- Just guess, I don't know.
- Montgomery.
- Montgomery is incorrect.
It is Memphis.
(high pitched beep) And just in time.
And just in time, that sound you heard signals the end of the third quarter and another lightning round.
(lightning sizzles) This time Mountain View will pick first.
Your categories are Sams or I Am.
- I Am.
- I Am.
Time begins when I finish reading the first question.
I Am: Answer the following about phrases containing the words "I Am".
Play in which Mercutio says, "I am hurt.
A plague on both your houses."
- "Romeo and Juliet".
- Correct.
Religious figure who says, "I am the light of the world."
- Jesus.
- Correct.
Sith Lord who proclaims, "I am the Senate."
- Chancellor Palpatine.
- Correct.
Frenchman who said, "Cogito, ergo sum", or, "I think, therefore I am."
- Napoleon.
- Descartes.
God whose avatar Krishna proclaims "I am become death"?
- John.
- Vishnu.
Movie franchise in which Lightning McQueen boasts, "I am speed."
- "Cars".
- "Cars".
- Correct.
Philosopher who wrote the essay, "Why I Am Not a Christian".
- Pass.
- Russell.
Biblical character who says, "I am escaped with the skin of my teeth."
- Peter.
- Job.
French king who said "L'état, c'est moi", or "I am the state."
- Louis XVI.
- Correct.
President who said "Ich bin ein Berliner."
"I am a Berliner."
(high-pitched beep) That was Kennedy.
Moving over to our North Pocono team, your category is Sams.
Answer the following about people whose names start with Sam.
Pen name of author, Samuel Clemens.
- Mark Twain.
- Correct.
Samantha Power was ambassador to this organization.
- Pass.
- Pass.
- United Nations.
Singer of "Stay with Me" and James Bond theme, "Writing's on the Wall".
- Sam Smith.
- Correct.
First president of the Republic of Texas.
- Sam Austin.
- Houston.
AFC East team that drafted quarterback Sam Darnold.
- New York Jets.
- Correct.
Sam Spade is the protagonist of this detective novel.
- Pass.
- "Maltese Falcon".
This man's diary describes London's great fire.
- Sam Adams.
- Pepys.
Sami Brady is a character on this soap opera set in Salem.
- "The Crucible".
- "Days of our Lives".
Explorer who names a lake between New York and Vermont.
- Sam Hudson.
- Champlain.
Composer of a 1936 "Adagio for Strings".
- Pass.
- Barber.
(high-pitched beep) Just in time.
That's the end of this lightning round.
So let's take a look and update our score.
We have North Pocono with 165 points and Mountain View with 110 points.
We will now begin the last segment of the game with this toss-up question.
What Greek goddess was the daughter of Chaos, had numerous children with Uranus, including Titans, and was the- (buzzer beeps) Grace, North Pocono.
- Gaia.
- Gaia is a correct answer, Grace.
And your bonus: What convert to Christianity was struck blind on the road to Damascus?
(buzzer beeps) - Paul.
- Correct.
Toss-up: In 1972, which country repudiated its dominion status, became a republic under Prime Minister Senanayake, and changed its name from Ceylon?
(beeper beeps) Noah.
- Sierra Leone.
- Sierra Leone is incorrect.
Rebound to Mountain View.
No one?
It is Sri Lanka.
Toss-up: What author described memories evoked by the song "The Lass of Aughrim" in his story, "The Dead", and depicted Dublin life in his modernist novel, "Ulysses"?
(beeper beeps) Jonathan.
- Bernard Shaw.
- Bernard Shaw is incorrect.
Rebound to North Pocono.
No one.
Okay.
The correct answer is James Joyce.
Toss-up: What organelle that contains stacks of thylekoids called grana?
(beeper beeps) Hunter, Mountain View.
- Wait.
- No answer?
I will complete the question and rebound to North Pocono.
Called grana.
(beeper beeps) Minerva?
- Chloroplast.
- Chloroplasts is a correct answer for your rebound points.
Toss-up: A 2021 military coup deposed what country's ruling NLD party, which was criticized for enabling the Rohingya genocide and is led by Aung San Suu Kyi?
Noah.
- Ethiopia.
- Ethiopia is incorrect.
Rebound to Mountain View.
No one.
Paige.
- Israel.
- Israel is incorrect.
It is Burma.
Toss-up: What law which was upheld in NFIB versus Sebelius created a Cadillac tax on expensive plans and included an individual mandate to buy health insurance?
(buzzer beeps) Noah.
North Pocono.
- The Affordable Care Act.
- Affordable Care Act is correct answer.
And your bonus: According to the VSEPR theory, what molecular geometry is possessed by the water molecule which has a bond angle of about 104 degrees?
- Bent.
- Bent is correct answer for your bonus points.
Toss-up: What building on the Platz der Republik for which architect Norman Foster designed a glass dome is the meeting place of the German Parliament?
(buzzer beeps) Paige, Mountain View.
- The Reichstag.
- Reichstag is correct answer.
And your bonus, Mountain View.
The Magdalena River is the longest river in what South American country whose cities include Medellin and Cali.
- Bolivia.
- It is Columbia.
Toss-up: What unit equals one kilogram meter squared per second cubed or one joule per second?
(buzzer beeps) Noah, North Pocono.
- One watt.
- One watt is the correct answer, Noah.
And your bonus: William Calley was convicted of murder of what 1968 massacre in which United States soldiers killed up to 500 Vietnamese civilians?
- The Ho Chi Minh massacre.
- Ho Chi Minh is incorrect.
It is My Lai and that is the end of the game.
Our score is North Pocono 215, Mountain View 120.
Congratulations, North Pocono!
You'll be moving on.
And we'll see you next time with another round of "Scholastic Scrimmage".
I'm your host Regina Myers, and thanks for watching.
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