Welcome once again to the high school battle of the brain at the Scholars Bowl.

The game that calls for academic knowledge.

Let's meet our team.

History is the category players.

Get your fingers on the buzzer for Tennessee Scholars Bowl 2024.

Thank you for watching.

Tennessee Scholars Bowl.

Hi, I'm Frank Murphy.

This is our 40th year of competition with teams from all over the viewing area competing for the Frank Miller Memorial Trophy and a cash prize they'll hear about coming up at halftime.

Today's game is a second round game, a threshold, a 32 round game between Dobbins Bennett High School and Alcoa High School.

Both teams scored over 400 points in their first round game.

So it's going to be, I hope, a high scoring match today as we see which of these two will advance to our Smart 16.

Let's say, high.

First to Adam Kurchal, who is a senior.

Hi Adam, tell us about yourself.

Hi, I am in the classic club.

What is the Classics Club?

It's basically like a Latin club.

We do anything related to like Greek and Roman, like life, culture and mythology.

Assume that has helped you here on Scholarship Bowl then, right?

Yeah.

Oh, good.

All right, let's say hi again to junior Michael Fanning.

Welcome back, Michael.

Tell us about yourself.

Um, I do speech and debate.

You just do speech and debate.

It's against somebody, right?

Yes.

I compete often.

I went to a college that was well known for its speech and debate club at George Mason.

Where are some places you might be have an eye on?

I know you're only a junior, but.

All right, Well, take a look at George Mason.

Let's say he had the team captain Sachin Poobalah Singam Sachin.

Hi.

Welcome back to the show.

Hello, Frank.

Always good to have you here.

You're a senior and team captains plans are bonuses or defer to a teammate.

Tell us about yourself.

I'm the president of the environmental Club, and I set my early decision to Wake Forest University.

Wow.

Outstanding.

And spend a little time in North Carolina, then.

Yeah.

What about the environmental club appeals to you?

What was something that the club would do at DB?

Something important that we do is we do trash cleanups around Kingsport.

That's the best.

Yeah, that's good.

Okay.

Well, I appreciate you doing that.

Thank you very much.

Let's.

I had to Claire Lee, who is a junior Hi, Claire, how are you?

I'm good.

What's new with you?

Well, it's not new but, I have two cats and one dog, and they're all very cute.

Okay, well, obviously, you've taken care of them well enough so that they've lived to this year's episodes.

What are their names?

My dog's name is Molly, and her birthday just passed a few days ago.

Oh, my goodness.

I didn't realize we were celebrating Dog.

Is it dog?

Years or human years?

We celebrate dog.

Human years.

Oh, sure.

Yeah.

And what are the cats?

Um, one cat is called Bella, and another cat is called Cookie.

These names mean anything.

I mean, like from literature.

It's all just intuitive, like I saw.

And I was like, this name matches.

I get it.

That makes sense to me.

Let's see.

How do the alternates and coach for Dobbins Bennett, beginning with Allison Fields and Aisha Kothari, joined by coach Joanna Nash, who teaches world history, one of the two teams that Deeb has in the tournament taking on the tornadoes of Alcoa.

Let's say hi first to Reed Gossett, who's a senior high.

Reed, tell us about you.

I play on the football and soccer teams at my school and what else you do when those sports are out of season or just one role right into the other, right?

They usually roll into each other.

But I also I'm an Eagle Scout, so I participate in Boy Scouts as well.

Oh, fantastic.

Now, Eagle Scout is quite an accomplishment.

You have to do a special project, and I'm always fascinated to see what community project you've come up with as an Eagle Scout.

What is it?

I built actually built bench areas for the soccer field so the teams can sit under like a covering.

That's great.

All right.

I'm glad to hear that.

it's also say hi to Tripp Wilson, who is a senior Tripp.

Hi.

Welcome back.

Tell us about yourself.

I'm a runner and I am also a musician.

I love to play the baritone.

Yeah, Yeah.

And this Tripp mean that there's a dad and a granddad with your same name.

It probably should.

It just means my brother wanted that name, so he got naming rights.

Okay, well, I hope you don't trip over your questions today.

You did really well last time you were here.

Sorry I had to get that.

Have to pause to the judges can finish groaning.

Let's say hi to Luke SIEGLER, who is a senior.

Welcome back, Luke.

Always happy to have you and your family here.

Tell us about you.

I'm the fourth kid to go through Scholar's ball house I've offered from Princeton University for a D-1 volleyball.

Oh, that is fantastic.

Well, congratulations.

I hope you do pursue that.

Does the chain you're wearing have any volleyball significance?

No, because it looks like something a beach volleyball player would wear is what I'm asking.

I just played beach over the summer.

It's pretty fun, but I bet.

Where do you do that?

I came to volleyball.

Okay, so they have a Yeah, they got beach courts outside.

That's excellent.

Yeah.

All right.

Well, happy to have you.

Your team captain.

So you'll answer bonuses or defer by name to a teammate such as Jahoyta Green.

Welcome back to your to tell us about you.

I'm Jahoyta and in the band I play oboe.

But I also am the drum major of the band also running cross-country and track.

Wow.

How do you play oboe and lead the band at the same time or do you take turns?

That's a good question.

They prefer to take turns, but I thought about it.

I'm doing them at the same time.

All right.

Well, very cool.

Let's say hi to the alternates and coaches for Alcoa High School, starting with Cooper Wilson and Charlie Cowart, Megan Thomas and Jack Alexander, joined by coaches Jena Feldblum, who's a government teacher and Ken Brown, the German teacher at Alcoa High School.

For the tornadoes.

Obviously, players, you all won your way here with some high scoring games last time we saw you get your fingers on the buzzer for this second round game of Tennessee Scholars Bowl 2024.

Toss up for all players in health.

What is the standard name for a potential cancer causing agent?

Claire Carcinogen is ranked for ten Health is your bonus following a two year investigation and e-cigarette company agreed to pay $438 million in a settlement over marketing its product to teens.

What electronic cigaret company was it?

Jewel.

Right for twenty.

for all players in algebra evaluate 4 X plus 3 Y minus 5 Z.

If x equals 3, Y equals 2, Z equals 4.

Michael?

Negative 2.

Is right.

Algebra bonus for DB.

Name the coordinates for the point where the line's y equals to X plus four and Y equals one half x plus four intersect zero x equals zero x equals zero.

Okay.

And y equals four because we're zero for the coordinates and needed.

That's right.

20 points plus up in music.

What famous singer played the lead role in the 2018 movie version?

Reed Lady Gaga of A Star is Born is Right and a music bonus for Alcoa.

in his song Know Yourself.

Drake says he's running through the six with my woes in reference to his hometown area, Code 416, which is used in what city?

Toronto.

S write you all laughing at me for doing great.

Okay, toss up for all players in vocabulary.

What is the past participle form of the word draw Tripp?

Drawn.

Yes.

And a vocabulary bonus.

What word ending in archy, A C R H Y means ruling by a single ruler.

Answer Anarchy.

No, it's monarchy single.

How about this one?

what word ending in a r c h y means rule by a father or eldest male.

That's patriarchy.

Patriarchy.

That's right.

Ten points on the bonus toss up in astronomy, most planets in our solar system are named for mythological gods from which clear earth, which ancient civilization, like Rome, is right for ten, and an astronomy bonus.

Which of the constellations is the largest and is named for the mythological creature that Hercules killed in his second labor Day versus versus Hydra Is that one?

Try this.

Which of the constellations is the smallest and its name is Latin for Cross crews?

No, I think I needed Crux on that cigar.

You toss it for all players in literature.

What is the seven letter word starting with the letter P that refers to a simple story from which, Tripp?

Protagonist.

Simple story from which a lesson should be drawn.

Adam Proverb A parable is the seven letter version of that no points they are toss up for all players in art.

What earthenware substance is a clay based on glazed or glazed ceramic with a fired body that is porous Tripp?

clay no chance to steal, Claire?

Adobe.

Terracotta is the word I'm looking for there.

Percent for all players in U.S. history.

Which famous U.S. general accepted the Japanese surrender in 1945?

Luke Truman No.

aboard the USS Missouri.

Chance to steal D.B.

At the buzzer, Claire?

Patton.

No, that is General MacArthur.

No points on that percent for all players in foreign language.

What is the English translation of the French?

Mayday a Tripp?

Going down.

No, that's not it.

Chance to steal D.B.

Claire?

Crashing.

No, it is.

Help me.

Mayday!

Help!

Give me aid.

Toss up for all players in chemistry, which element makes a metal or alloy ferrous Sachin, iron?

Yes is right.

And a visual bonus is.

Take a look at the screen for this chemistry bonus.

Francium is the heaviest chemical of the alkali metal group and its isotopes decay quickly into one of the nearby elements on the periodic table teen radium and radon.

What is Francium's atomic number?

82.

No, it's 87.

Sorry, I can't give that to you.

Toss it for all players in math computation.

What is the product of .004 and 0.051 Claire?

.000204 is right for ten and a math bonus.

What is the cash value of 11 quarters?

12 dimes and 13 nickels outside two 275 plus answer two defer to Claire.

520.

No, it's $4.60.

No points on that toss up for all players in religion.

With which religion are the five pillars associated Sachin.

Islam.

Is right religion bonus.

What is the 13 letter word used to describe the Roman Catholic dogma, most recently used in 1950 that the Pope has the authority to teach without error answer?

Communion.

That is infallibility.

No points on that toss up for everyone in world history who invented dynamite and bequeathed his fortune to recognize those Tripp.

Nobel.

Yeah.

Who conferred the greatest benefit to humankind.

History bonus for Alcoa, who ruled Russia prior to his abdication in March 1917.

Same.

You're saying there's nothing else.

answer.

Stallin.

No need to say Nicholas the second by the time the buzzer try this.

Who led the overthrow of Russia's provisional government in October 1917 to become the first leader of the Soviet Union.

Lenin is right.

Ten points on the bonus toss up in English.

What is the past tense of the verb bring Tripp.

Brung?

Not it.

You can steal D.B.

Sachin.

Brought.

Brought is it English bonus Which four words need to be capitalized in the following sentence?

William the Conqueror was the first Norman King of England.

England.

William the Conqueror.

William Conquer England, England and Norman Normandy.

Well, yeah.

I mean, William conquered Norman and England, but those are the right four words toss up in geology.

A small earthquake that precedes a larger earthquake by several days.

Claire?

Foreshock.

Is called that.

And a geology bonus.

What 800 mile stretch through California, where the Pacific and North American tectonic plates meet, consistently produces a magnitude 6.0 earthquake.

Approximately once every 22 years.

Defer to Adam.

San Andreas Fault is correct for ten.

And after whom is San Andreas, California named researching to answer the term, it is the defer to Claire, Andreas That's a good guess, but it translates to St Andrew.

So that's the answer.

Toss up for all players in history.

Which U.S. Presidents inaugural speech included?

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Sachin.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Is right and a visual bonus.

Take a look at the screens, please.

What is the name of the building shown here?

Which means Little mountain in Italian of Thomas Jefferson's home in plantation, shown here.

Monticello is right for ten, and it's located just outside what city?

That is home to University of Virginia.

I think Charlottesville, Charlottesville is right for 20 points.

Toss up for all players in sports.

What is the term for a score of zero in tennis?

Reed Love is Right Sports Bonus In what city is the Kentucky Derby held?

Answer?

Louisville?

Yeah, just in time.

And on what racetrack is the Derby held Churchill downs both right 20 on the bonus horse up now in government a state law requires people using the waterways in Tennessee to wear a life jacket if under what age Luke.

12.

Right.

And a bonus in government.

What is the minimum age to run for the governor of Tennessee?

30, defer to Jehoiada.

30 is right.

How many consecutive terms may the Tennessee governor serve?

It can be two consecutive terms.

Say it again.

Two consecutive.

That's right.

Two is right.

20 points.

Toss up in literature.

Gregory Peck won an Academy Award for his portrayal of what character in the film Michael?

Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird Is Right Literature is your bonus in To Kill a mockingbird.

What was Atticus Finch, his profession lawyer who's a lawyer and who wrote the novel To Kill a mockingbird.

Different Harper Lee.

Those are right.

20 points toss up now in science, what unit is commonly used to measure the energy value of a food?

Luke.

Watts?

Not it you can steal.

Adam.

Calorie.

Calorie is it science is your bonus which solvent has the higher flash point acetone or acetic acid with citric acid?

Acetic acid, Yes.

Turpentine or methanol terms more say turpentine.

Both, Right.

20 points plus up now in pre count.

What is the measure in radians of the quadrant one angle with sine of one over two?

Adam.

Pi over 6.

Right pre-calculus bonus in calculus, what is the process of combining infinitesimal data to describe displacement area volume and other concepts such an integral for what?

Integral?

I don't know if I can take that.

Integration is the actual process and that is the end of the first half.

Dobbins Bennett has been it has built up a little bit of a lead over Alcoa and I say a little bit because anything can happen in our second half of play and hundred points really is not that much in the Scholars Bowl world as we find out.

So stick around for more exciting action coming up after the break.

And Tennessee Scholars Bowl 2024.

The 40th season of Tennessee Scholars Bowl is a single elimination tournament featuring 64 high school academic teams.

The championship team.

And this year, Scholars Bowl receives the Frank Miller Memorial Trophy.

The scorekeeper timekeeper and judges for this year's Scholars Bowl are Chandler Vincent, Rebecca Longmire, Stephen Hensley, Cathy Coley, Ernie Roberts, Cathy Waddell, Jerry Doherty.

Thank you.

Also to the East Tennessee PBS staff and volunteers who make this educational program possible to enter your high school in next year's Tennessee Scholars Bowl.

Or for more information on this year's tournament, please write to the address shown on your screen.

This is Tennessee Scholars' Bowl.

I'm Frank Murphy, back from halftime in a very exciting second round match, a threshold, a 32 round match between Dobbins Bennett High School and Alcoa High School, when only 100 points separate our two teams, which can easily be accomplished in about three questions in our Scholars Bowl universe, the winner of this game advances to the Smart 16.

Both teams are keeping their starting lineups in for the second half, so I guess we get right back to it with your fingers on the buzzer for the second round game of Tennessee Scholars Bowl 2024.

Toss up for all players in music who composed the ballet The Nutcracker?

Claire.

Tchaikovsky.

Is right and a bonus in music.

Who composed the tone poem Also Sprach Zarathustra, which was made famous as the opening theme of 2001 A Space Odyssey.

That was a piano piece, Bach Bach.

Now it is Richard Strauss.

So a lot of waltzes in that movie toss up role players in U.S. history who was president of the United States during the War of 1812?

Tripp Jackson Not it.

You can steal Sachin.

Madison.

Was him and a U.S. history bonus.

In 2022, Native Americans asked a Scottish museum to return three items taken from victims of what massacre that occurred on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota on December 29th, 1890, what they call Sioux Answer Massacre of Wounded Knee.

Yes, Battle of Wounded Knee, but we'll take it.

Wounded Knee is the important part there.

Toss up for all players in mythology, in Roman mythology, who was the counterpart to the Greek goddess Artemus and sister to Apollo Adam, Diana Wright and a mythology bonus.

Now, what item from mythology is also called a horn of plenty and represents nature's product Cornucopia.

Cornucopia.

Right for 20 points, Tossup in physics.

What word describes three lines that pass through the same point.

Claire.

Co-linear.

Not it you can steal Alcoa Tripp.

Intersection.

No concurrent is that word tossup in technology, in texting and social media.

What do the letters FWIW represent?

Sachin.

For your information.

Not that you can steal Alcoa.

Tripp.

Free Wi-Fi.

And well for what it's worth you got it wrong but the answer would have been for what it's worth, toss up for all players in art.

If something is dichromatic, how many colors does it have?

Claire Two is right and you get an art bonus on the screen.

Please take a look.

Who is the actor seen here during the Rose to fame during the silent movie era and is considered to be one of Hollywood's most important historical figures.

Charlie Chaplin is right for 20.

Toss up for all players in history.

Which Italian explorer traveled to China in 1275 and remained Sachin.

Marco Polo.

You had to serve Kublai Khan.

Marco Polo history Bonus to what group of people does the pneumonic device Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, Beheaded.

You survived referred to as of Henry 6 wives of Henry the eighth.

That's correct.

For the musical theater people know that one for 20 toss up in spelling any means of deliberately destroying, wasting or damaging items is called sabotage.

Spell.

S A B O T A G E is right and a bonus in spelling.

Presidential elections are quadrennial meaning every four years.

Spell quadrennial Q U A D R N I A L. Well, now you missed it.

There's an e in there instead of an I.

So it's Q U A D R E N I A L. No points on the bonus toss up in health.

What word is used to describe the rate at which body cells use food?

Claire.

metabolism, yes.

And a health bonus.

What part of the body is affected by hepatitis?

The liver, Yes.

What internal organ is associated with the medical adjective Pulmonary.

Lung.

Also right 20.

Toss up in geometry.

The legs of a right triangle are eight and 15 feet.

What is the length of the hypotenuse, Michael?

17.

Yes and geometry bonus in which regular polygon is the interior angle measure equal to twice the measure of the exterior angle at each vertex triangle or triangle.

And that's a hexagon that I'm describing.

All right, toss up for everyone in miscellaneous.

What is the term for female ship trip?

I do not think you can steal Adam.

Ewe.

Yeah, you ewe is right.

Miscellaneous bonus for D.B.. What is the geometric shape of a school crossing sign as a triangle?

Thought was a triangle.

It's a triangle triangle.

It's actually a pentagon.

Next time you go to school, take a look.

What is the geometric shape of a speed limit sign?

A rectangle.

A rectangle is right ten points on the bonus, Toss up for all players in geography, what is the only river on the African continent that flows north?

Luke.

the Nile, The Nile flows north for the Mediterranean and a visual bonus for Alcoa.

Take a look at the screens, please.

What country is represented by this flag which depicts an AK 47 and is one of only four national flags to feature a gun or cannon the to join up Mozambique.

Yeah Republica Mozambique is it 20 points toss up for gun in literature.

What is the term for these symbols in the language developed by the ancient Egyptians Sachin?

Hieroglyphics?

Yes.

And a foreign language bonus now.

what are the last four letters in the Greek alphabet or making signs?

But I guess it's like Phi is lambda in anything?

No, it does not last answer, such as Chi Phi Omega and Pi.

Well, I think we can give you points for Chi and Phi, but it's actually the four in order are Phi, Chi, Psi, Omega.

I think you get 15 there.

If I did my calculations mentally correct Chemistry bonus.

What is the type of reaction when oxygen combines with other elements combustion not it.

You can steel Alcoa Tripp?

Oxidation.

Yes.

And a chemistry bonus.

What do the letters NPK on a container of garden fertilizer represent sodium, potassium diverted true sodium, phosphorus, potassium, well, it's nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium.

I think we give you a partial credit for the two that you got right.

Ten points there.

Plus that for all players in religion, what is the Hebrew word for Sabbath trip?

So but not exactly no chance to steal.

DB Such am Hanukkah Shabbat is the word.

No points toss up in games.

What daily word game gives players Reed?

Wordle.

Yeah six chances to guess Wordle.

games Bonus for Alcoa.

What game includes 19 tales that represent five resources including clay or grain, Sheep and wood defended Tripp Settlers of Catan.

Is correct.

20 points toss up now in economics.

What is the term for a hand-operated, calculating tool?

The slide about beads that has been used to, Claire?

Mandible.

Not it, used since ancient times.

Luke Chinese calculator.

No, it's called an abacus.

So cutting with your jaw clear, clear, clear.

Literature toss up.

Who was the fearless Norse warrior who slew a murderous troll, Tripp?

Leif Ericson in an old English Sachin.

Beowulf.

In the old English Poems Beowulf.

What is the name of the monstrous character that Beowulf slays in a meade hall?

Grendel And according to Beowulf, what is better than mourning a death Revenge, avenging it, Right.

20 points.

Toss up in biology.

What are the single celled reproductive units on the underside of fern leaves?

Claire?

Spores.

Right.

And a biology bonus.

What are the pairs of tiny holes on the sides of the abdomen and thorax?

That a grasshopper breathes through mouth?

The breathing hole they're called?

Yeah.

Good Guess they're called sphericals.

Toss up for everyone in algebra.

Find the value of x.

If four x plus five plus six x minus five equals 100.

Claire.

X equals ten.

Right.

And algebra bonus in the quadratic equation, Y equals x squared minus four x plus five.

What is the axis of symmetry?

Equation x equals two x equals two x 20 points.

Toss up in architecture.

What is the term for the upper triangular part of a wall at the end?

Such an gable at the end of a pitched roof and an architecture bonus, which word designates both and elaborate design suggesting flowers or foliage in Moorish architecture and a ballet position with the arms and one leg extended.

Pirouette.

No, that's not a pirouette.

Oh, Grant, No.

Great.

Grant No answer here.

Now, Moorish might have been a hint in their arabesque is the term toss up in government.

The FBI operates under the jurisdiction of which cabinet level government, Tripp?

Homeland Security.

Department.

No chance to steal D.B.

Sachin.

Department of the Interior?

They are part of the Department of Justice.

Toss up for everyone in vocabulary.

What seven letter word beginning with t is used to mean oppressive rule by absolute authority Tripp.

Tyrannical.

And that's not the seven letter word chance to steal d be Sachin.

Tyranny.

Is it, And a vocabulary bonus.

What ten letter word beginning with l is a commissioned naval officer and could also mean a deputy or substitute acting for a superior.

Lieutenant.

Correct.

Now spell it Lieutenant O. I don't know if it's that.

No, this is written again.

Answer l i e u t e n n but a n t. It's one too many ns in there in the middle.

Yeah.

It's just a it's L I E U T E N A N T no points on the bonus, but a toss up.

Now for all players in astronomy.

What is the term for a dying stars explosion with so much energy, Sachin.

A supernova.

That heavy metals are formed in an astronomy bonus, Earth's magnetosphere is made up of invisible lines of magnetic field that radiate out into space from where on the earth?

North Pole and South Pole.

Both those are both right for 20 points.

And the next one up time, time that you go to get it, shout it out.

Kit Carson That's your coach, right?

Yeah.

No, he's not the answer to the question, but a good game for Alcoa.

What a joy to have you and your intimidating turtlenecks on the show.

I hope you bring them again next year.

We love having you here.

And congratulations, Luke, to the being the final Siegler on the show.

Appreciate that.

Meanwhile, Dobbins-Bennett, You will advance now to the Smart 16.

Congratulations.

We're happy that you've done so, and we'll look forward to seeing you again on Scholars Bowl, along with your other DB teammates or classmates.

I guess you formed their own team, right?

All right.

Well, do keep watching every time that we're on and set the DVR so you don't miss any episodes or as our players obviously do, binge watch, pass seasons using the PBS app.

My name is Frank Murphy and this is Tennessee Scholars Bowl 2024.