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.

I'm Frank Murphy.

This is the academic tournament with high schools from all over the viewing area, competing in our 40th season for the Frank Miller Memorial Trophy and a cash prize.

You'll hear about it.

Halftime.

This is a second round game.

We are in the threshold of 32 and it's Carter High School, the Hornets of Carter taking on the Knights of J. Frank White Academy in Harrogate.

So a Knoxville school versus Harrogate School.

Let's say hi to the players.

The returning players who won their way here from Carter.

First up is Styx Vigue, a junior.

Hi Styx.

Tell us about yourself.

I like Greek mythology and comics.

Yeah now you did well in the Greek mythology earlier in your last game, what particular stories do you love?

to probably the Odyssey and the, uh.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

All right.

You're saying who's asking the questions?

Let's let's say hi to Blake McGee, who's a senior.

Blake, Welcome back.

What about yourself?

Um, yeah, I'm still in the Beatles.

Yeah, I like beetles.

These are the live beetles?

Yeah.

And wasn't there a story about the dung beetles that didn't exist in Australia?

And it caused problems there to import them after they imported cattle?

No, I heard about that one.

All right.

Well, of course I go right to the scatological, so you might want to look that up.

Let's say hi to team captain, which is Reagan Carney.

Reagan.

Welcome back.

I know you'll answer bonuses on behalf your team or defer to one of them by name.

What's new with you?

Im still into rock music, Most stuff.

My heavy rotation is classic rock.

I do listen to some new stuff, mainly in classic rock.

So if we ask who like Styx everyone's going to answer.

I do.

I do.

Because we've got a team named.

Yeah.

Good.

All right, let's say hi to Karen Escobar, who's a senior.

Hi, Karen.

What about you?

I still really like baking, but I've begun to do more cookies and trying to do more desserts.

Lots of sweets.

Oh, you ever watch that show?

The baking show with the people in England in the tent?

It just seems like the worst possible place to build a cake.

You know, I've seen a lot of baking shows.

Okay.

Okay.

Many of the I'm on some day and a lot of local contestants turn up on Food Network shows because they make them some of them, they make them in here in Knoxville.

Let's say hi to the alternates and coach for Carter High School.

First up is Riley Smith and Dalen Brady with Michael O'Malley, who teaches English, taking on an experience squad from Jay Frank Wade Academy, who is trying to work their way all the way to the top of the tournament like they did last year.

First up is Ben Nickerson, who's a junior.

Hey, Van, what about you?

I'm playing basketball this year with team Captain Stephen.

Oh, really?

Are you good?

Oh, he's better than me.

But my favorite element is vanadium.

Really?

All right, so we're back to this.

The elements.

Nice to know.

I don't even know where that one is.

On the on the table.

I have to look it up.

Okay, Let's say Troy Allison, who's a junior.

What about you, Troy?

I'm still.

I still like to play volleyball.

And my favorite element has to be uranium.

Really?

All right, Very, very active there.

Team captain Shashi Verma, who answers bonuses or defers.

What about you, Shashi?

So I recently took part in organizing a cultural festival down Cumberland Gap called the Mountain Fiesta.

Really?

That sounds interesting.

And last year my favorite element was Krypton, but this year I would have to say it's still Krypton, really.

Okay, So it held onto its number one position, as you're hoping to do in the tournament.

Let's say hi to a new player to the team this year.

Although you were here for the last game, Stephen Rae, who is a senior.

Welcome, Stephen.

Tell us about you.

Like Van said, I am the one of the team captains of our varsity basketball team, J. Frank White Academy.

I really enjoy the sport and I'd say my favorite element in loving memory will have to be tungsten.

All right.

Because the guy who loved tungsten, he graduated.

What did he do?

He couldn't participate.

Oh, I couldn't participate.

Well, good.

I'm glad we got tungsten represented on the team.

That was a thing in all their episodes last year.

Let's say any of the coaches for J. Frank White Academy, we've got Bill Kobus, who is the team coach and substitute teacher, joined by Anthony Hensley, who was the middle school and high school biology teacher in Harrogate on the campus of LMU, for J Frank White Academy players, you've all been here before.

You know how we do it.

With toss ups worth ten bonuses worth up to 20.

Get your fingers on the buzzer for this second round game of Tennessee Scholars Bowl 2024.

Toss up in geography.

In which state does the Potomac River have its origins, Shashi?

Virginia?

No, you can steal Carter, Reagan, Maryland.

West Virginia is where it starts.

Toss up in world history.

Who was the French inventor of a system of writing for the blind that was named Reagan?

Brail?

After him History Bonus.

Now in 2023, construction workers digging a shortcut hole for their excavator cause damage to a section of which World Heritage site that dates back to the Ming Dynasty.

It's the Terracotta Army, right?

Yeah, the terracotta Army.

It's actually with the Great Wall of China.

They tried.

They dug through.

Part of it, passed up in music.

What is the seven letter term?

Beginning with the letter R for a public performance or presentation in by a solo recital performer Music bonus.

Now, what was the period of music from 1750 to 1820, which established many of the norms of composition, presentation and style.

Classical?

Classical?

Yes.

And during this era, what became the predominant keyboard instrument?

Piano.

Piano.

That's right.

20 points toss up.

Now in geology, what is the name of the horseshoe shaped belt around much of the rim of the Pacific Ocean, where many volcanic Reagan?

Ring of fire.

Eruptions and earthquakes occur.

Geology bonus for Carter.

Which extremely porous volcanic rock can float on water and is often used as an abrasive.

It's it's the right answer.

Pumice.

Yes, we say pumice but certainly that would be the way you spell it, Toss up in foreign language.

What is the English translation of the French phrase?

Bonsoir, Reagan.

Good night.

Yeah, good evening or good night?

Bonqui is also goodnight.

Foreign language bonus now.

what is the word for shirt in Spanish?

I defer to Karen Gamesa.

Correct.

What is the word for snow in German?

No, I think it's pronounced schnee.

Toss up for all players in government, the main body of the US Constitution is divided into seven Shashi?

Articles.

Parts and a government bonus known.

The mission of which agency in the Department of Justice is to enforce the controlled substances, laws and regulations of the United States.

Substances laws.

DEA Yeah, the DEA, Yeah.

Drug Enforcement Administration.

DEA Toss up for all players in algebra.

What is the vertex of the equation?

Y equals the quantity X minus four squared, Shashi?

Zero, -16.

No you can steal Carter doll, but you can't look at each other's papers, though unfortunately, this is the solo portion of the game.

The vertex is four comma zero plus if everybody in architecture.

Where was the Statue of Liberty built?

Reagan, France erect for ten and an architecture bonus for Carter.

Look at the screens, please.

The Eiffel Tower shown here, which was completed ahead of schedule and under budget, was built to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the French Revolution at the World's Fair, held in, what year?

1883?

I think that's in 1883 when I was 1789 plus 100 is 1889.

So toss up now in science.

What is the name for industrial waste in the atmosphere that combines with water droplets?

Shashi?

Acid rain?

Yeah.

And falls to the ground.

Acid rain Science bonus What type of lens has curved surfaces that bulge in the middle?

Okay.

Okay.

Concave.

No, it's not convex.

What type of lens has curved surfaces that dip in the middle Concave.

Right.

For ten toss up now in spelling and entrepreneur organizes Shashi, e and t, r e p, r e and eu r is how you spell that.

And a spelling bonus Now for J. Frank White.

Spell the seven letter word beginning with D that means a complete failure, especially because of bad planning and organization.

Disaster.

Yeah.

No.

A seven letter early letter to my two ties to my two six answer d I essayist.

It's actually a debacle.

Basically no points on the bonus toss up in history.

When Albert Einstein arrived in the U.S. in 1933, he was a refugee.

From what country?

Shashi in Germany is right.

History is your bonus.

What country in Southeast Asia?

Whose King Mangkhut was the inspiration for the musical?

The King and I was the only one to remain independent and not become a colony of a European.

Taiwan, Thailand, Thailand, Thailand.

Yeah, known as Siam at that time, but Thailand is right.

Toss up in literature.

In which novel is Jean Valjean released?

Shashi?

Les Miserables.

From prison and a literature bonus alleging a systematic theft on a mass scale open.

I was sued by 17 authors in 2023, including Watt, author of The Winds of Winter Winter.

Honestly, Robert Frost, That one's George R.R.

Martin, another plaintiff suing open.

I was what author of The Pelican Brief and the Time to Kill.

Robert Frost.

MARTIN as John Grisham no points on the bonus toss up.

Now in sports, which of the Triple Crown races Preakness is held at Baltimore?

Sports bonus Now the Alabama Crimson Tide of the SEC play their home games in what city Alabama won one more time.

I don't know to say Montgomery or Mobile.

And so, you know, I think maybe that's why the Elephant is a logo.

It's Tuscaloosa O plus up in vocabulary.

What five letter word beginning with s That is a likely alteration of the Spanish word for he knows means Shashi Sabhas means having shrewdness or practical knowledge.

And still Carter, the English word is savvy.

Savvy?

Why toss up now?

In biology, red pandas are a distant relative of what North American mammal.

That is Tennessee's official wild animal.

Shashi?

Raccoon Yes, and a visual bonus for biology.

Take a look.

What are the common names for the icicles?

Which are the tiny bones?

Malleus, Incas and Stapes, Hammer.

Anvil for an anvil.

Answer?

Hammer and anvil.

That's ten points.

Stirrup is the third.

You can get five more, though, if you tell me in what part of the body they're located.

The eardrum.

Now you're familiar The ear.

Yes, is right.

That's 15 on the bonus toss up.

Now in geography.

How many counties are in Tennessee?

95.

Correct.

And a geography bonus named four of the eight states that border Tennessee, Kentucky, North Carolina, Virginia, North Arkansas, Georgia, Alabama, Oak, Alberta, Oak, Alabama.

And then Kentucky, Virginia, Alabama, Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina.

All of those are correct.

The full list is Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Missouri, Mississippi, North Carolina, Virginia.

20 points Toss up in geometry.

The area of a circle is 196 pi.

What is the length of its diameter?

28 Correct and a geometry bonus.

Now find the total surface area of a closed cylindrical container with radius five centimeters and a height of 34 centimeters for surface area.

The cylinder, of course, is clear to our square.

Answer 200.

It's 390 pi Square centimeters has a forbidding art in the comic series Peanuts.

What is the name of the anthropomorphic beagle?

Reagan?

Snoopy is right.

Art is your bonus.

What is the common color name for the heraldry Color of loyalty, which is as you're purple or blue, that's blue and answer blue.

Correct.

For ten, what is the common color name for the heraldry color of worthwhile ambition, which is tawny green, yellow things, Yellow, brown.

And sir, yellow.

That was orange.

Ten points on the bonus toss up in chemistry.

What is the inter atomic linkage that results from the sharing of an electron pair between two atoms Shashi?

Covalent bond?

Correct.

And a chemistry bonus?

What is the chemical formula for propane?

xc38c38 right for 20 points.

Toss up in English.

What four letter word is the synonym of sagacious.

Shashi?

Tall.

Chance to steal Carter Reagan No, If you're a sage, you are wise.

Toss up in economics.

Jimmy Donaldson, the highest paid YouTuber in 2023 who spent 50 hours buried alive Reagan.

Mr. BS is known by that name and an economics bonus in a bid to offset rampant inflation and strict sanctions imposed by the U.S.. What Socialist government launched a cryptocurrency called the Petro?

I thought I was trying to turn it to China.

Now it was Venezuela.

Plus up now in religion, according to the Acts of the Apostles, who was Paul's partner on his first missionary journey?

Reagan?

John, no, you can steal J Frank White.

Shashi?

David?

Barnabas toss up for all players in miscellaneous which American lawman and gambler in Dodge City in Tombstone was the last Reagan Pat Garrett was the last surviving participant of the gunfight at the okay Corral then Smith Now Wyatt Earp for everybody in health, what is the transparent part of a human eyeball that covers the iris and pupil?

Then lens at it you can steal.

Carter Reagan People know the cornea is the part that covers all of those other things.

Well, it's the end of the first half.

Carter's got some points on the board.

They're going to make a game of it.

J.Frank White, of course, trying to advance.

Also, one of these teams will advance to our round of the smart 16. Who's it going to be?

Find out after the break.

On 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.

You're watching Tennessee Scholars Bowl.

I'm Frank Murphy, back from halftime.

In this second round game, this threshold of 32 round game between the Hornets of Carter High School and the Knights of J. Frank White Academy.

Carter is on the board trying to catch up to J. Frank White.

And maybe that'll happen in our next half of play with the alternates that they brought into the game.

Let's say hi first to Dalen Brady, who's a senior Dalen.

Welcome to the show.

Tell us about yourself.

My name is Tom Brady.

I really like Garfield.

Garfield, The president.

The cat.

The cat.

Okay, neighborhood.

Okay.

Well, good.

All right, That sounds like fun.

I didn't realize he was still still, you know, popular with the high schoolers, but I'm glad to know he is.

Let's say also to Riley Smith.

Welcome back, Riley.

Good to see you again.

Tell us about Riley.

And I like science, biology and animals.

Mm hmm.

Do you have any favorite animals or any favorite species or genres?

I like possums and see animals.

Sea animals.

Okay, good.

That's interesting.

You know how we play.

We'll get right back to it.

Meanwhile, J. Frank White Academy has the starting lineup in players fingers on the buzzer for the second half of the second round game of Tennessee Scholars Bowl 2024 Toss up for all players in mythology.

What body part does the mythological Norse God Odin sacrifice?

Shashi?

Armpit?

In order to gain wisdom chance to steal Carter Reagan leg Now he sacrificed his eye.

toss off now in history in 1939, who became the first reigning British monarch to visit the United States.

Reagan joins the sixth yes as right to gain popular support.

And a history bonus now in 1867, a plan for a tunnel under the English Channel was turned down by which two rulers who were head of the United Kingdom and the head of France at the time to put the question, no, I don't know Napoleon and Queen Elizabeth.

Well, any more on that Napoleon the throne and Queen Elizabeth the first.

Yeah, we can give you points for Napoleon the third.

But Queen Victoria was a queen in 1867.

So ten points toss up now in math computation.

What is the product of 32 and 28?

Van?

Not that you can steal Carter, that's 896 toss up for everyone in music.

If an X is used for an accidental, what does it mean?

Reagan Double Sharp is right and you get a visual bonus.

Now take a look at the screens, please.

In a triangle with 72 square centimeters of area.

What is the height that is perpendicular to its base of centimeters?

Answer?

I defer to Rylie.

He's trying to give you a screen time.

Right.

Let me say it hit me one eight centimeters.

Look at the grid.

Toss up for all players in technology on a Windows computer.

What is the function of the keyboard shortcut?

Control the Shashi?

Paste.

Yes.

And technology is your bonus.

What building block of the World Wide Web is represented by the letters H, TTP word hypertext word.

Ports P is to part of hypertext, part defer to Troy Hypertext Part No Is the Hypertext Transfer Protocol that points on that toss up in foreign language.

What was the writing system used in the ancient Middle East consisting of wedge shaped letters?

Cuneiform Yeah, I draw on a clay tablet and a foreign language bonus.

Now, what is the English translation of the German question?

Vish Pas is des.

How are you today?

How are you?

Good.

How are you sure.

How are you?

What time is it?

No.

So no points on that toss up.

Now in geography, what is the capital of Arkansas?

Reagan.

Little Rock.

Yes.

And a geography bonus.

Two parts.

What is the capital of Portugal?

Lisbon.

Correct.

What is the capital of Finland?

Helsinki.

Both right for 20.

Toss up in geology rounded to the nearest ten.

What percentage of the earth is covered in up?

Shashi 80.

Now what percentage?

Reagan 70.

% is covered with oceans and geology.

Bonus Now for Carter, thousands of people were killed in September 2023 when the water from Storm Daniel caused two dams in Libya to burst, sweeping many victims into which sea would be the Mediterranean.

And you know, the seas.

There's only two.

Yeah, the Mediterranean is right.

20 points toss up in arts, in Greek mythology.

Who is the God of theatrical arts?

Shashi?

Dionisius?

Yes.

And an arts bonus, which Broadway musical includes the songs waving through my window.

Only us and you will be found.

You'll be found.

The dude was.

I wasn't sure.

A West Side Story?

No, Those are from Dear Evan Hansen.

Toss up now in biology.

What does the study of hormones and their actions Shashi?

Endocrinology.

And a biology bonus.

What is the biological prefix?

Hematoma.

Itchy hematoma.

Blood.

Blood, blood.

And what is the biological prefix?

Hypo H Y P O mean.

Oh, hypothermia.

Yeah.

Lo less.

I'll see if they'll take that specifically under or below, like injection.

But the judge is doing that for a second several players in literature who wrote the novella Billy Budd, Sailor, Shashi?

Herman Melville, and a literature bonus after his death in 1824, the memoirs of which English baron who wrote the poems Don Juan and she walks in Beauty, were burned by his friends to prevent publication ton one mean going down.

Kafka Okay, now don't say that.

Let's have to look at Lovecraft.

Lord Byron is the guy passed up now in government.

What is the term length for the US Senate?

Reagan Six years.

Correct.

In a visual bonus, Take a look at screens, please.

The most famous US postage stamp error occurred while printing the image of a Curtiss j and for airplane on the 1918 airmail stamp seen here which is known to for later lists and others by what nickname the inverted Jenny is right for ten a for later list collects and or studies stamps spell fillet the list Answer?

p h i l a t e l is t that's right 20 points Toss up Now in pre-calculus, what is the numerical value of five factorial Shashi?

120.

Is right and a pre-calculus bonus.

What is the value of the tangent of 135 degrees in the unit circle H 35 sir.

Negative one right for 20 points.

Toss up in religion.

What is an Indian religion that traces its spiritual- Shashi?

Hinduism?

No, that traces its spiritual ideas in history through the succession of 24 supreme preachers of Dharma, and the three main pillars translating to nonviolence, not absolutism and asceticism.

Reagan, Sikhism, that is Jainism, Jain Dharma.

Toss up for all players.

Now in chemistry, what principle states that we cannot know both the position and speed of a particle?

Shashi Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.

That's right, with perfect accuracy Chemistry Bonus.

Now what is the chemical formula for nitric acid?

The agent in that range H and O3 Direct.

What is the oxidation state for nitrogen in Nitric acid?

Negative three Answer negative three.

No, it's plus 510 points on the bonus toss up in vocabulary.

What five letter term beginning with M refers to the customs and manners of a social group or culture.

Reagan moans no chance to steal J Frank White trashy manners.

Those are mores M.O.

Ari's toss up now in history.

Who was the first unelected vice president to assume Reagan?

Don Taylor to assume the presidency?

Troy.

Andrew Johnson.

Now Gerald Ford.

Toss up in geography, which Arizona City was so named because it rose from the ruins.

Reagan Phenix of a Native American town.

Geography as your bonus.

In 2023, Hurricane Ideal Dahlia became the largest storm in history to hit which city?

That is Florida's capital, Tallahassee ranked for 20 points toss up in games in which popular online game do players complete levels by swapping colored pieces of confections on a game board to make a match?

Candy Crush?

Yeah, of three or more bonus and games in what video game series by Rovio Entertainment, there's a flock of colorful flying creatures try to save their eggs from green colored pigs.

This PBS show Angry Birds is right 20 points Toss up in science.

Who invented the Reflecting telescope?

Shashi?

Galileo.

No chance to steal Carter, Reagan, Einstein.

And that was Isaac Newton with the Reflecting telescope toss up in literature whose death is lamented by Walt Whitman in his poems.

Reagan, Abe Lincoln, Captain, My Captain and others.

Literature Bonus Now what are the first names of the two protagonists in Of Mice and Men?

Lenny and Lenny and Carl?

We got We don't get that, Lenny.

Carl.

Ten points for Lenny.

George is the other one toss up now in government.

Which U.S. state was the first to give women the right to vote?

Wyoming Correct and a government bonus in 1964, which jurisdictions citizens were able to vote for the first time in a presidential election thanks to the passage of the 23rd Amendment African American Civil Rights Act.

Yeah.

Oh, wonder 18 year olds.

No, that's the District of Columbia.

People live in D.C., plus up in math in an arithmetic progression with the first term of four and a common difference of three.

What does the eighth term?

Shashi?

25.

Right, and a math bonus?

What is the median of the dataset?

60, 42, 55, 70, 64, 75.

You answer 62.

Yes, right.

For 20 points at the end of the game.

Not that you needed them because you built up a little bit of lead, but what a great performance by Carter.

Outstanding Play, and I hope to have you all back on the show again in the future and keep your school represented.

But we do appreciate you all being here very much.

Meanwhile, J. Frank White Academy For the second year in a row, you'll advance to the round of the Smart 16.

Congratulations on that.

We'll see you again on Scholars Bowl.

Of course.

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Make sure you set your DVR.

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My name is Frank Murphy.

Thank you for watching.

Tennessee's Scholars Bowl 2024.