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(exciting 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 one, three, or $5,000.

Tonight's match features Crestwood versus Hazleton.

Representing Crestwood is Andrew Moroski, Sean Rossi, Spencer Young.

Gabe Glassic is their captain.

Their alternates are Luke Joseph and Noah Garowi and their advisors are Maria Koons and Jeff Bellis.

Representing Hazleton is Mateo Fiola, Gabrielle How, Keira Kupsho.

Jacob Naro is their captain.

Their alternates are Brianna Kennedy and Megan Kermis and their advisors are Raphael Billet and Dennis Bookman.

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 five 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 question.

What food product is made with a mixture of enzymes called rennet which causes casing to separate out from whey and has blue and cheddar varieties?

(buzzer sounds) Andrew Crestwood.

- Cheese.

- Cheese is the correct answer and your bonus: What family whose members include suicidal Harvard student Quentin and mentally handicapped Benjy appears in several novels by William Faulkner?

(buzzer sounds) That would be the Compson family.

Toss-up: what city where three college football players were shot in November 2022 was the site of the Unite the Right rally near the (buzzer sounds) Mateo, Hazleton.

- Charlottesville.

- Charlottesville's the correct answer and your bonus, Hazleton.

What West African trickster figure who tried to gather the world's knowledge in a calabash is depicted as a spider?

(buzzer sounds) That was a Anansi the Spider.

Toss-up: what dynasty which expanded west after defeating the Seleucid Empire ruled much of ancient India after being founded by Chandragupta around 320 BC?

(buzzer sounds) That was Maurya.

Toss-up.

What is the number of pentagonal faces of a buckyball, the number of vertices of an icosahedron, and the number of faces of a dodecahedron?

(buzzer sounds) Jacob, Hazleton.

- 12.

- 12, Jacob's correct answer.

And your bonus: what quantity, which has a specific form for bond dissociation equals internal energy plus the product of pressure and volume?

(buzzer sounds) The correct answer is enthalpy.

Toss-up: what United States state is home to Priest Lake, Lake Ponderay, and the city of Coeur d'Alene, all of which are in its mountainous Northern panhandle?

(buzzer sounds) Keira, Hazleton.

- Florida - Florida's incorrect, rebound to Crestwood.

Five seconds.

(buzzer sounds) Gabe?

- Montana.

- Montana's incorrect.

It is Idaho.

Toss-up.

What artist whose National Gallery painting of sunflowers had soup thrown on it by protestors (buzzer sounds) Sean, Crestwood.

- van Gogh.

- van Gogh is the correct answer, Sean, and you bonus: what woodwind instrument, featured in a Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart quintet, is also featured in Igor Stravinsky's Ebony Concerto?

(buzzer sounds) - Bassoon.

- Bassoon is incorrect.

It as a clarinet.

Toss-up: in what battle, in which Marcus Reno failed to save the losing side, did a coalition led by Sitting Bull wipe out US cavalry under George Custer?

(buzzer sounds) Mateo, Hazleton.

- The Battle of Little Big Horn.

- And that's correct.

And your bonus, Hazleton.

Pencil, paper ready.

What is the smallest number that is both greater than 2022 and a multiple of nine, given its digits must sum to nine?

(buzzer sounds) The correct answer is 2025.

That is 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.

Crestwood has won the coin toss and will pick first.

Your categories are literary brides and grooms or Italian composers.

Time begins when I finish reading the first question.

- Literary brides and grooms.

- Okay.

Literary brides and grooms.

Given two characters and the author, name the work of literature in which the characters get married.

Elizabeth Bennett and Mr. Darcy by Jane Austen.

(buzzer sounds) Spencer.

- Pride and Prejudice.

- Correct.

Emma and Charles, Gustave Flaubert.

(buzzer sounds) - Pass.

- Madame Bovary.

Carol and Will Kennicott by Sinclair Lewis.

(buzzer sounds) - Pass - Main Street.

May Welland and Newland Archer by Edith Wharton.

(buzzer sounds) - Pass - Age of Innocence.

An unnamed narrator and Maxim de Winter by Daphne du Maurier.

(buzzer sounds) - Pass.

- Rebecca Rosalind and Orlando by William Shakespeare.

(buzzer sounds) Spencer.

- Midsummer's Nights Dream.

- As You Like It.

A governess and Mr. Rochester by Charlotte Bronte.

(buzzer sounds) Gabe.

- Pass - Jane Eyre.

Emily Webb and George Gibbs by Thornton Wilder.

(buzzer sounds) - Pass - Our Town.

The title maid and Mr. B by Samuel Richardson.

(timer buzzes) That was Pamela.

Moving over to our team from Hazleton.

The category is Italian composers.

Answer the following about Italian composers and their works.

Italian capital whose pines inspired Ottorino Respighi.

(buzzer sounds) Jacob.

- Rome.

- Correct.

Composer of the Four Seasons.

(buzzer sounds) - Vivaldi.

- Correct.

Giuseppe Verdi opera in which an Ethiopian princess loves Radames.

(buzzer sounds) - Aida.

- Aida is correct.

Joe Aquino, Rossini opera name for a heroic Swiss archer.

(buzzer sounds) - Keira.

- Pass.

- William Tell.

Opera set in Paris that inspired the musical Rent.

(buzzer sounds) - Pass.

- La bohème.

Husband of Eurydice who names an opera by Claudio Monteverdi.

(buzzer sounds) - Pass - Orpheus.

1816 opera in which Figaro shares Bordeaux in a Spanish city.

(buzzer sounds) - Carmen.

- The Barber of Seville.

Giacomo Puccini opera featuring Nessun dorma.

(timer buzzes) That was Turandot.

That's the end of the lightning round.

Let's take a look at our current score.

We have Crestwood with 25 points and Hazleton with 45 points.

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

What Roman God who secretly seduced the goddess, Psyche, is the counterpart of Aeros who used a bow?

(buzzer sounds) Spencer, Crestwood.

- Cupid.

- Cupid's correct answer.

And your bonus: the sudden death of czar Alexander the First led to a brief uprising in Russia that was named for what calendar month?

(buzzer sounds) - Gabe.

- March.

- March is incorrect.

It is December.

Toss-up: what amendment, which was opposed by New York Congressman Emmanuel Seller and adopted during the Vietnam War in 1971, lowered the voting age to 18?

(buzzer sounds) Spencer, Crestwood.

- 20th.

- Is incorrect.

Rebound to to Hazleton.

(buzzer sounds) Jacob - 26th.

- 26th is the correct answer for your rebound points.

Toss-up: what retail company, the exclusive carrier of Behr Paint, has a logo with an orange background and is the largest home improvement chain in the United (buzzer sounds) Andrew, Crestwood.

- Home Depot.

Home Depot's correct answer, Andrew.

And the bonus: at an audition, an actor typically gives a staffer both their resume and a special eight by 10 photograph, known by what term?

(buzzer sounds) Gabe.

- Headshot.

- Headshot's correct answer.

Toss-up: what author described the vivid memories conjured by eating a cookie called a Madeline in his seven volume French novel, In Search of Lost Time?

(timer buzzes) That's Marcel Proust.

Toss-up: what devices of Shuji Nakamura invented a blue tint used semiconductor technology to produce illumination and are a type of diode?

(buzzer sounds) Spencer.

- LED.

- LED.

Spencer's correct answer.

And your bonus: Kepler's second law follows from the conservation of what quantity, which has an orbital form and an internal form known as spin?

(timer buzzes) Its angular momentum.

Toss-up.

What Archipelago was the site of the Battle of Goose Green during a war in which the UK sank the General Belgrano, a ship belonging to Argentina.

(buzzer sounds) Spencer.

- The Falkland.

- Is the correct answer, Spencer.

And your bonus: MacKenzie Scott donated $84 million to what youth organization which will soon sell boxes of the snack product, Raspberry Rally, to raise money?

(buzzer sounds) Gabe.

- Girl Scouts.

- Girl Scouts is correct answer for your bonus points.

Toss-up: what instrument, sometimes called a blues harp, has a chromatic form, is played by blowing across its comb, and can be held in place with a neck rack.

(buzzer sounds) - A harmonica.

- Harmonica is correct answer.

And your bonus Hazleton.

What progressive American author, who wrote about a dentist in McTeague, never completed his planned Epic of the Wheat trilogy of novels.

(timer buzzes) That was Frank Norris.

That's the end of the first half.

So let's take a look at our score.

We have Crestwood with 75 points and Hazleton with 65 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 Crestwood.

Andrew, why don't you start us off and tell us a little bit about all of the activities you're involved in in school.

- Well right now I'm the president of the French Club.

I've been a member of the math club for forever.

I'm part of the Careers in Science Club, one of the founding members, National Honor Society, Scholastic Scrimmage, and I think that's all of them.

Oh and also the bands in Crestwood.

- And that's enough.

Thank you, Andrew.

Sean, how about you?

- I play soccer and I'm our class treasurer.

- And on the Scrimmage team.

- Yep.

That, too.

- Spencer.

- I play tennis and I'm a member of FBLA and the jazz band.

- Great.

Gabe?

- I'm in concert jazz and well, marching band season just ended.

I'm also in Boy Scouts and the Model United Nations Club.

- Oh, terrific.

Let's move over to our team from Hazleton.

Mateo, why don't you start us off?

- I'm a member of Executive Council, Student Council, Foreign Language Organization, FBLA, and I play tennis and golf.

- Also very busy.

Gabrielle?

- I'm in the marching band and we are state champs.

I'm in the jazz band, the jazz chorus, and I play for the regular chorus.

I'm also in a book club, Student Council, Executive Council, and Girl Scouts.

- Congratulations on your win.

- Thank you.

- Keira?

- I am part of Scholastic Scrimmage, Junior Leadership Hazleton, the Reach High Program through the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, class of 2024 Executive Council, and I'm a piano player through Young Artist Music Academy.

- Wow, congratulations.

Jacob?

- I'm the president of FBLA and I'm a member of PJS.

I'm also in the Reach High Program with the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine and I'm on the class of 2023 Executive Council and I play tennis, as well.

- So maybe medicine's in your future maybe?

Ah yeah, maybe for a couple of you.

Great talking with all of you.

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

Pencil, paper ready.

What is the x intercept or root of the line Y equals two x minus four, given its slope is two and its Y intercept.

(buzzer sounds) Sean, Crestwood.

- Two.

- Two, Sean, is correct answer.

And your bonus: what anthropologist was invited by the Office of War Information to write about Japan's shame culture in the 1946 book, The Chrysanthemum and the Sword.

(timer buzzes) That would be Ruth Benedict.

Toss-up.

What British Prime Minister oversaw the 1875 purchase of the Suez Canal Company, was a Tory rival of William Gladstone, and was of Jewish descent?

(buzzer sounds) Jacob.

- Winston Churchill.

- Winston Churchill's incorrect.

Rebound to Crestwood.

You still have five seconds.

(timer buzzes) Benjamin Disraeli.

Toss-up.

What Old Testament book includes the construction of the golden calf, the encounter with the burning bush, and the Israelites escape out of Egypt?

(buzzer sounds) Spencer, Crestwood.

- Exodus.

- Exodus is a correct answer and your bonus: animals are slaughtered on Eid al-Adha to commemorate how Allah gave Ibraheem what animal to sacrifice in place of his son Ishmael?

(buzzer sounds) Gabe.

- A lamb.

- A lamb is correct answer for your bonus points.

Toss-up: what nation whose president is Marcella Rubella DeSouza is the home country of the United Nations Secretary General Antonio Gutierrez who was raised in Lisbon?

(buzzer sounds) Gabe.

- Portugal.

- Portugal's correct answer, Gabe.

And your bonus: what German school of Art and Architecture was founded by Walter Gropius in 1919?

(buzzer sounds) Andrew.

- (in foreign language) - Is incorrect.

It is the Bauhaus.

Toss-up.

What sports player Ma Long uses a shake hand rather than pen hold grip in order to send a ball over a 15 centimeter net using a (buzzer sounds) Sean, Crestwood.

- Ping pong.

- Ping pong is correct answer and your bonus.

Pencil, paper ready.

The base-2, or binary, representation of the base-10 number 64 consists of a one followed by how many zeros?

(buzzer sounds) Sean.

- Five.

- Five is incorrect.

It is six.

Toss-up.

What territory is south of La Línea de la Concepción is home to a large namesake rock and is a British possession on the Iberian peninsula?

(timer buzzes) That is Gibraltar.

Toss-up.

What title animal of the first book by Norman Bridwell is the mascot of the publisher, Scholastic, is owned by Emily Elizabeth and is a big red dog?

(buzzer sounds) Gabe.

- Clifford the Big Red Dog.

- Clifford the Big Red Dog is correct, Gabe.

And your bonus: in 2022, what Prime minister of Finland took and passed a drug test to deflate criticism stemming from videos of her partying with friends?

(timer buzzes) That was Sanna Marin.

(timer buzzes) And that's the end of the third quarter and it's time for another lightning round.

This time Hazleton will choose first.

Your categories are double geography or starts with PHI.

Time begins when I finish reading the first question.

- We're gonna do geography.

- Okay.

Double geography.

Name the two places that correspond to these geographical clues.

Minnesota's Twin Cities.

(buzzer sounds) Mateo?

- Saint Paul and Minneapolis.

- Is correct.

Countries on Hispaniola.

(buzzer sounds) Jacob.

- Dominican Republic and Cuba.

- Incorrect.

It's Haiti and Dominican Republic.

New York City boroughs on Long Island.

(buzzer sounds) Mateo?

- Queens and Brooklyn.

- Correct.

Capital cities on the Congo River.

(buzzer sounds) Keira?

- Pass.

- Kinshasa and Brazzaville, countries connected by the Khyber Pass.

(buzzer sounds) - Pass.

- Pakistan, Afghanistan.

European countries that were formed by the Velvet Divorce.

(buzzer sounds) - Pass.

- Czech Republic and Slovakia.

US cities abbreviated in the name of DFW Airport.

(buzzer sounds) Mateo.

- Dallas and Fort Worth.

- Correct.

Countries that border Lichtenstein.

(buzzer sounds) Mateo.

(timer buzzes) - Austria and Switzerland.

- It came in after the time, sorry.

Moving over to our team from Crestwood.

Your category is starts with PHI.

Give these people, places or things whose names begin with the consecutive letters PHI.

Team that lost the 2022 World Series to the Astros.

(buzzer sounds) Gabe.

- Phillies.

- Correct.

Country whose islands include Mindanao.

(buzzer sounds) Gabe.

- Philippines.

- Correct.

American inventor of electronic television.

(buzzer sounds) - Phillip.

- Is incorrect.

That is Philo Farnsworth.

Attempting to gain passwords or other info via fake emails or other messages.

(buzzer sounds) - Pass.

- Phishing.

Husband of Queen Elizabeth II.

(buzzer sounds) John.

- Phillip.

- Correct.

Red-haired, co-owner of Perry the Platypus.

(buzzer sounds) - Phineas.

- I'm sorry.

- Phineas.

- Say it one more time.

- Phineas.

- Phineas is correct answer.

Sculptor of the statue of Zeus at Olympia.

(buzzer sounds) Gabe.

- Pass.

- Phidias.

Act of giving away great wealth to increase the public good.

(buzzer sounds) Andrew.

- Philanthropy.

- Correct.

Protagonist of Around the World in 80 Days.

(buzzer sounds) Andrew.

- Pass.

- Phileas Fogg.

(timer buzzes) That's the end of the lightning round.

So let's take a look at our current score.

We have Crestwood with 155 points and Hazleton with 80 points.

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

What cable channel premiered the Real World and Jersey Shore, airs awards called the VMAs, and was launched in 19 (buzzer sounds) Jacob, Hazleton.

- MTV.

- MTV is correct answer.

And your bonus, Hazleton.

What set, which is the identity of the union operation, is represented by a circle with a diagonal line through it?

(timer buzzes) It is the empty set.

Toss-up: what surname of Sherman Helmsley's character of an All in the Family spinoff is shared by a president who signed the Embargo Act and owned Monticello?

(buzzer sounds) - Jefferson.

- Jefferson, Mateo was correct answer.

And your bonus Hazleton: In 2027, the autonomous region of Boganville will gain independence from what country, whose capital is Port Moresby?

(timer buzzes) It is Papua New Guinea.

Toss-up: what country's prime ministers have included the owner of Media Set, a man killed by the Red Brigades, and the creator of fascism, Benito Mussolini.

(buzzer sounds) Mateo, Hazleton.

- Italy.

- Italy is correct answer and your bonus.

A 2013 book subtitled A Journey to the End of Taste discusses what Canadian singer's album, Let's Talk About Love, which includes My Heart Will Go On?

(buzzer sounds) Jacob.

- Celine Dion.

- Celine Dion is correct answer for your bonus points.

Toss-up: what author, who wrote about a butterfly's death changing the future in his story, A Sound of Thunder, also wrote The Martian Chronicles?

(timer buzzes) That was Ray Bradbury.

Toss-up: what quantity can be measured using a sclerometer of Vickers inventure or by using the scratch test to compare it to known values on the Mose scale?

(buzzer sounds) Andrew, Crestwood.

- Hardness.

- Hardness is the correct answer, Andrew.

And your bonus: in Arizona's 2022 Senate election, incumbent Mark Kelly beat what venture capitalist who co-wrote the book Zero to One with Peter Teal?

(timer buzzes) That was Blake Masters.

Toss-up.

What man proposed the Global Marshall Plan in Earth in the Balance and wrote an Inconvenient Truth after losing the presidential election of 2000?

(buzzer sounds) Mateo, Hazleton.

- Al Gore.

- Al Gore's correct answer.

And your bonus, Hazleton.

What toxic ion found in significant concentrations in rocks on Mars has the formula: CLO4-?

(buzzer sounds) Jacob.

- Chloroform.

- Chloroform is incorrect.

It is perchlorate.

Toss-up.

What character, who breaks an engagement with actress Sibyl Vane in a novel by Oscar Wild, is able to remain youthful while a picture of him changes?

(buzzer sounds) Andrew.

- Dorian Gray.

- Dorian Gray.

Andrew's correct answer and your bonus, Crestwood.

Bethesda Fountain and the Delacorte Theater, which hosts Shakespeare's plays, are in what public green pace designed by Frederick Law Olmsted?

(buzzer sounds) - The Globe.

- The Globe is incorrect.

It is Central Park.

And that's the end of the game.

Let's take a look at our final score.

We have Hazleton with 125 points and Crestwood with 175 points.

Congratulations, Crestwood.

You will 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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