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 Scholar's Bowl.

I'm Frank Murphy, our 40th year of academic competition with high schools from all over the viewing area, competing for the Frank Miller Memorial Trophy and a cash prize that will describe that halftime.

This is a third round game.

We are in the round of the Smart 16 with Temple Baptist Academy playing Dobyns-Bennett High School.

both of these schools put multiple teams into the tournament this year.

But these two have won twice to get here today to see which of you will advance to the round of the educated eight.

Let's say hi to the players from TBA, starting with Kayla Carter.

Welcome back, Kayla, tell us about yourself.

I play volleyball and basketball, but not at the same time, although that would be a challenge.

Unless you invent a new sport where you get to do it all at once, put a net in the middle of the basketball court.

Yeah.

And then dribble the volleyball.

I say, why not?

Why not try it?

Let's say hi to Easton Jones.

He's a senior this year.

EASTON We're happy to have you.

Tell us about yourself.

Yeah, I just got my wisdom teeth out about five days ago, so.

Oh, my goodness.

Feeling pain?

All right, so you don't look swollen or anything.

You're okay.

Did you have any of that?

Did they make a video of you as you came out of the.

No, I wasn't loopy when I came out.

So good.

I'm glad I was.

I don't know why those those videos just freak me out in a bizarre way.

I don't like them.

Glad to hear it.

Let's say hi to senior Will Campbell.

So will your team captain.

That means you're going to answer bonuses on behalf of the squad or defer by name to one of your teammates.

What about you?

Well, I'm captain of the debate team and I play soccer and basketball.

What about if you did them at the same time?

What if you put what do you kick the basketball?

What do you think?

Well, I've tried it before.

It hurts quite a bit.

Okay.

Well, thank you for the answer that answers that.

We also have freshman Micah Vixima with us.

Welcome back, Micah.

Happy to have you.

Tell us about yourself.

Well, I've played the flute since sixth grade and I enjoy writing research papers and essays.

You may be the only one I know.

What do you research?

What's something you research?

Well, in eighth grade, I did a research paper on cryptocurrencies.

Nice.

Okay.

And has that been valuable to you in real life?

To make it?

Yes, I'm very interested in that stuff.

Oh, good.

All right.

Well, thank you for being here, Micha.

We appreciate you.

Let's say hi to the alternate and coach for Temple Baptist.

That is Parker Kelly, who was a sophomore, joined by coach Jessica Sexton, who teaches history, taking on a squad from Dobyns-Bennett High School in Kingsport.

First up is Adam Kerchal.

Adam, welcome back.

Tell us about yourself.

Well, I am the only person on my entire team, including the alternates, who's not wearing a black shirt.

Well, it's dark enough.

I mean, it looks.

Was it Navy blue?

Yeah, it's Navy blue.

The anchors give it away.

That's when it was Navy blue, as opposed to some other shade.

But it's pretty good.

Okay.

And let's say hi also to Michael Fanning.

Is a junior who is wearing the aforementioned black shirt.

What about you?

I just listen to Taylor Swift a lot.

Yeah.

Never gets old or I guess you can't get old because she keeps putting out new songs.

Yeah, absolutely.

She never gets old.

Well, good.

We're happy to have you here.

Team captain is Senior Sachin Pubala Singham.

Sachin, welcome back.

What about you?

What do you been up to?

Well, I have two dogs, and they're both Yorkshire terriers.

And I'm slightly disappointed in Adam for not wearing a black shirt.

How was this communicated to the team?

It's a we have a team synergy going on.

Yeah, This.

They just.

No.

All right, Well, I mean, if you win, you can fix that in a future episode.

I'll wear some the same color or whatever it might be.

Yes.

Well we'll see.

I don't know Temple Baptist is going to want to make sure this is your last stop.

This is your last time on the show.

Ouch.

Junior Claire Lee is with us.

So Claire, youve at least got one more year of eligibility on Scholars Bowl.

Tell us, what about yourself?

Well, if I could choose any superpower, it would be teleportation.

Where would you go?

Everywhere.

Okay, Because you want to travel, but you don't want to spend time sitting in a plane.

Yeah, because, like, you could just up here, like, in someone's house where told you that.

No, no.

You know, you won't appear on the front door and knock.

You don't want to appear in the house.

Imagine what would happen.

I the worst possible thing that you would get freaked out.

Think of the worst possible thing you could stumble in on.

That's what that's what'll happen.

But teleportation just erases, you know, the painful step of walking.

Well, let's say hi to my agents, which all we do is go to walk, walk, walk.

Let's say hi to the alternates.

And coach for Dobyns-Bennett, that is Allison Fields and Eesha Kothari, joined by coach Joanna Nash, who teaches world history.

You all one tries to get here, players.

You know how it goes with toss ups where ten bonuses worth up to 20.

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

Toss up in the category of mythology in Norse mythology.

What goddess of fertility, motherhood and prophecy.

Sachin.

Frea.

Uh no, was Odin's wife and Boulder's mother chance to steal Temple.

Actually, technically, it's Frigg.

toss up.

Now in science, who invented the vacuum tube?

Micha?

Joseph Cook?

Not him.

You can steal DB.

that's John Ambrose Fleming.

Toss it for everyone in geometry.

What is a line called that passes through to points on a circle?

Such a Let's see it.

Yeah.

And a geometry bonus if an inscribed angle measures 37 degrees, what is the measure of it's intercepted arc isn't it sad to see 74 deferred.

A clear 74.

Yeah.

74 degrees 20 points toss up in art which children's book illustrator is best known for the monsters he created for Where the Wild Things Are.

That's Maurice Sendak.

Toss up in geography, what is the capital of Texas?

Sachin?

Austin?

Yes and a geography bonus.

Which state was added to the U.S. in 1821 as the 24th state and has the nickname the Show Me State.

Sorry, Missouri?

Correct.

Now, what is the capital of Missouri?

Same Saint Louis?

No, Jefferson City is capital.

So ten points on the bonus toss up now in literature in which Edgar Allan Post story does an old man's oddly clouded Sachin?

Tell-Tale Heart.

But I Lead to Murder and the literature bonus.

A university in England gave undergraduates a trigger warning about some classic books with, quote, distressing scenes and violence, including which 1861 book that tells of an orphan who comes into a fortune from a mysterious benefactor and enters London High society liberal, so Les Miserables.

That one is Great Expectations.

Try this one.

The trigger warning also included which 1847 story that describes the romance between a homely governess and the troubled Mr. Rochester.

Jane.

Jane.

Jane.

Eyre Yeah.

Jane Eyre is how you pronounce it, I understand what you're saying.

toss up for all players in biology.

An autotroph is an organism that can make its own.

What?

Will?

Food.

And a visual bonus for Temple Baptist.

What type of insect shown here is able to jump more than 100 times its body length Yeah, due to natural spring in its joints and history bonus Now during the years 1250 to 1271, which empire had no emperor the Roman Empire no more Sachin?

Byzantine?

Now I need to say Holy Roman Empire to differentiate it from the regular Roman Empire toss up in religion.

What is the annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia?

Micah?

No answer.

That is a mandatory religious duty for Muslims that must be carried out at least once in their lifetime by all adult Muslims.

That's called the Hajj, a toss up in economics beginning sometime in 2024, whose face will appear on United Kingdom currency.

Kayla King George No chance to steal Sachin?

Rishi Sunak no King Charles the third.

Toss up now in spelling.

In some militaries, the rank of corporal nominally corresponds to commanding a section or squad Will?

C O R P O R A L. Is right and you get a spelling bonus.

Now, a commissioned officer in the US Navy or Coast Guard is a lieutenant spell lieutenant to defer to Micah l i e u t a n a n t is right 20 points plus up now in chemistry.

What type of atom has an equal number of protons and electrons?

Michael?

Stable.

No chance to steal temple Micah?

A neutral.

Correct and a bonus in chemistry in 2022, vandals defaced the famous stairs of the Turks white cliffs in Sicily using which red powder with the chemical formula fe203 pass alongside ferrous oxide.

All right.

Yeah.

We'll take ferrous oxide for that.

The cliffs are made of what sedimentary rock that is composed of clay and lime limestone and limestone.

It's called marl m a r l. Toss up now in algebra, what are the two solutions for the equation?

49 x squared -81- Claire?

Nine sevens and negative nine sevens equals zero.

bonus now in algebra for D b give both solutions for x in the equation?

X squared -16 x equals 00x and 16 zero zero and 16 both right 20 points.

Toss up in music.

Jazz musician Louis Armstrong was famous for singing Sachin?

an oh, trumpet.

Yes is right.

I was going to tell you some of the songs and ask you what he played.

Bonus Now in music for debate two parts Who wrote the operetta?

The Mikado to sing Robert Frost, Gilbert and Sullivan.

What is the musical term for the introductory music?

At the beginning of The Mikado?

Prelude.

Prelude, actually.

Overture.

And that's instance toss up now in US history.

In which city did Martin Luther King Jr deliver his Sachin?

Washington, D.C.?

I Have a Dream speech in a history bonus.

In 1925, Dayton, Tennessee, High school teacher John Scopes was arrested and charged with violating a newly enacted law that criminalized the teaching of what?

Evolution.

Evolution, specifically human evolution, but will take that.

And in which county is Dayton, Tennessee County?

I have an answer.

Franklin that's in Rae County are a toss up everyone in vocabulary.

What is the meaning of the psychological term?

Ergo, phobia?

Claire The fear of big things now that you can steal Temple.

Micah?

fear of work is correct and a vocabulary bonus.

Now what is a ten letter word beginning with B that describes a loud, energetic, rowdy person, boisterous, boisterous, erect, now spell a boisterous defer to Easton b I steamroll us is right 20 points on the bonus.

Toss up for everyone in astronomy.

What is the science concerning the physical properties of the universe such as Micah?

Astrophysics?

Yeah.

Chemical makeup and gravitational forces and a visual bonus for temple.

Look at screens, please.

What is the name of the constellation shown here located between Capricorn and Pisces, with the name that is Latin for water carrier Aquarius.

Aquarius is right for 20 plus up now in architecture.

What is the term beginning with the letter L for the area of space immediately at the top or bottom of stairs or in-between series of flights of stairs.

Easton?

Landing?

Yes.

And an architecture bonus.

Two parts.

In 2022, environmentalists forced Paris to abandon plans to cut several mature trees in order to build a cafe.

Shops, toilets and baggage drop off near what centerpiece of the 1889 World's Fair would tower the Eiffel Tower for ten?

What is the literal meaning of the towers?

Local nickname la Dame de faeo.

The Fair Lady.

The Fair Lady actually issues fabric in regards to that.

She's an Iron lady.

So ten points on the bonus toss up.

Now in sports, what is considered the greatest cycling event in the world?

Will the Tour de France.

And a sports bonus.

Tennis champion.

Novak Djokovic was detained and deported from Australia prior to the 2022 Australian Open.

His father claimed it was not due to Novak's lack of a COVID vaccine, but because the West wanted to stomp on which country where Djokovic is a native, Is it this Norway now?

That is Serbia?

No points on the bonus toss up for one in geography.

In which country are the islands of Aaron Skye and Shetland Sachin?

Scotland.

Is right Geography bonus two parts.

What is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea?

Sicily?

Brant.

Sicily belongs to which European country?

Italy.

Both right.

20.

Toss up in foreign language.

What is the French word for house, Micah?

Kai?

Not it.

Chance to steal DB.

Claire?

Casey.

No, I'm looking for a more formal Mason and I also win toss up in health.

One of the translations of what pledge contains the phrase Sachin?

Hippocratic Oath.

I will abstain from all intentional wrongdoing and harm and a bonus in health for DB.

What is the term for the specialized connective tissue made of fibrous collagen that gives structure to organs such as ears and noses, cartilage?

Correct.

What is the term for the specialized connective tissue made of collagen and calcium that forms the main structure in the framework of the body bone?

Yes, 20.

Toss up in pre-calculus for the ellipse x squared over 16 plus y squared over 25 equals one.

What is the length of the major axis?

Michael.

Eight.

Not it you can steel Temple.

Will.

Four?

No, ten units.

Toss up in games for everyone in the board game Trivial Pursuit How many wedges must you collect to be eligible for the final well, six question and a games bonus for Temple.

What board game has players completing activities in the four color coded categories of creative cat data, head star performer and word worm and include cranium Play-Doh Cranium is right for toe toss up in government which military institution is referred to as the long gray line?

Will?

West Point.

Is right and a bonus now in government, which we don't have time to do.

At the end of the half, we'll save that for another day.

What a close game between Temple Baptist Academy of Powell and Dobyns-Bennett High School of Kingsport.

One of these two will advance to the round of the educated eight.

Find out who it is after the break.

On Tennessee's 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 Ball.

I'm Frank Murphy, back from halftime in this third round game, this smart 16 round game between Temple Baptist Academy and Dobyns-Bennett High School.

It's a very close game, and one of these two teams will advance to the round of the educated eight.

Right now, Temple Baptist has a lead.

We'll see if they can hold on to that as they've also brought an alternate into the game.

Let's say hi to sophomore Parker Kelly Parker.

Tell us something about yourself.

I play guitar and I like to watch college football.

Do you prefer the Vols or do you have other teams around the country?

Florida Gators.

Really?

Oh, is that because of family heritage or what made you choose them?

My mom.

Okay, Well you don't want to make mom upset.

All right.

Fair enough.

All right.

Meanwhile, Dobyns-Bennett keeping the starting lineup intact, so we'll get right back to it.

Players fingers on the buzzer for this third round game of Tennessee's Scholar's Bowl 2024 Category is English with punctuation if necessary, Spell the word your in the following sentence.

I am pleased with your answers.

Claire.

Y O U R. is correct.

English Bonus.

Now what is the past?

Simple for the verb hide it hit correct.

What is the past participle for the verb hide hidden it is hidden also right 20 points plus up now in chemistry.

What was the medieval forerunner of chemistry based on the supposed transformation?

Micah Alchemy is right, and we'll get a chemistry bonus.

Now potassium is classified as an alkali metal.

Give the noble gas configuration for potassium.

The third thing is answer neon s2.

Now it is argon 4s1 and no points on the bonus toss up now in literature in Romeo and Juliet, what was Romeo's family name?

Sachin?

Montague.

And a literature bonus for DB, a British writers opinion column about her top ten favorite aunts in literature included Aunt March, a rich widow who disapproves of her daughter in law's charitable work, and the amiable poverty in which she and her four daughters live as described in what book by what author?

Little Women My Little Women by Louisa May Alcott.

Both right for 20 points.

Toss up now in art.

The old guitarist is an example of which artists Will?

Picasso.

Which artist?

Blue period.

Yeah, and a visual bonus.

Now take a look at your screens, please.

What is the title of the famous French painting shown here in which Jacques-Louis David used the neoclassical style to depict a scene from a contemporary event, the 1793 Assassination of a Revolutionary Leader.

No answer.

If there's a small hint on the bottom right of the screen where David signed it.

It's called the Death of Marat.

Toss up now in U.S. history, which U.S. president had a previous job as a film actor?

Will?

Ronald Reagan.

Correct.

In the history bonus.

Now, which U.S. president had a previous job as a tailor?

Zachary Taylor That would be good.

But it was Andrew Johnson who made his own clothes.

Those are his cabinet.

Second half, which U.S. president had a previous job as an ordained minister?

Yes, sir.

Garfield is right.

Ten points on the bonus Toss up in vocabulary necklace is two bead as mosaic is two.

What?

Sachin?

Glass.

No chance to steal Will?

Tile.

Yeah, vocabulary bonus.

Now what eight letter word beginning with d means low spirits, a state of inactivity or stagnation and ocean regions near the equator noted for dead calm or fluctuating winds don't defer to mica doldrums is right now spell doldrums for ten points.

Dino de nada defer to Micah.

D O L D R U M S. Is right.

20 on the bonus toss up now in biology?

What is the space within a cell that is empty of cytoplasm lined with a membrane Will?

Vacuole.

Yeah and filled with fluid biology bonus.

The first withdrawal has been made from the Doomsday Vault, where seeds from around the globe are stored to protect the world's future food supply.

The withdrawal was made by which nation that is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea, Turkey, Iraq, Jordan, Israel and Lebanon, and whose own seed collection was the casualty of a civil war in 2012.

Syria, Maybe Syria is right.

20 points toss up in world history.

What structure stood from August 13, 1961 until November, Sachin?

The Berlin Wall.

November 1989, and a world history bonus.

Who are the next four people in the line of succession to the British throne?

So William Harry Reid.

And then who?

Sir William Chandler.

George Nasser.

Prince William, Prince Harry, Charlotte and George.

Well, I can give you 15 points.

I didn't ask for them to be in order, so I can give you points for William, George, Charlotte or Louis.

So it's 15 points toss up in music.

What is defined as putting an accent in music on the off beats Sachin?

Syncopation is it?

And a music bonus.

Now what singer who died in a plane crash at age 30 was considered a forerunner for women in country music with hits including I Fall to Pieces, Crazy and Walkin After Midnight.

Oh, I heard this one back, sir.

Aretha Franklin, that is Patsy Cline.

Toss up now in math.

What?

Four consecutive odd integers add up to 88.

Claire 19, 21 23, 25.

Those are correct.

And ten points now of math bonus on the screen.

Please take a look.

Find the volume of a rectangular solid in cubic feet with dimensions of six inches, 18 feet and four inches 3324.

To collect three cubic feet is correct for 20 points.

Toss up now, in foreign language, what is the English translation of the Spanish word gato?

Claire Cat is right.

Foreign language bonus Translate the French phrase from Italy into Spanish.

What is it?

Why it's different.

Michael No answer.

It would be como esta usted.

So basically I'm asking how are you in both languages.

Toss up now in physics, What is the scientific principle that only two electrons can occupy a given orbital and both must have opposite Claire Hunt's principle?

No must have opposite spins.

Chance to steal Temple Will?

The transitive.

No thats the Poly Exclusion Principle Toss up now in geography.

What is the smallest province of Canada, Sachin?

St Edward's?

Not it you can steal Temple.

Micah?

Newfoundland?

Prince Edward Island.

No points toss up in religion.

What Jewish queen of Persia.

Save the Israelites from the court Official Parker?

Esther Yeah.

Hayman's Plot Religion Bonus.

What does the name of the prayer shawl worn by male Jews during the daily morning service and by the leader of the afternoon service?

Is it a hulka?

No, it's a tallit.

T a l l i t. Toss up for everyone in economics.

What was the brand name of the first automatic drip coffee maker in 1972?

Sachin?

Keurig?

Not that you can steal.

Parker Mr. Coffee is right.

Economics is your bonus.

Two questions.

What company makes Gatorade drinks?

It's Coca-Cola.

Coca-Cola.

Now that is PepsiCo.

What company makes Chex mix?

Kellogg's?

Now that one's General Mills.

No points.

They're tossup in literature.

What is the five letter word starting with E for the poetic form that is longer than a dirge?

And also laments Michael?

Elegy?

laments death as a poem or song in a literature bonus, which poet wrote Good Fences Make Good Neighbors.

It's coming now.

It's another answer.

EMERSON That's Robert Frost.

the line is contained in which of Frost's poems, Fences, is called Mending Wall.

I love it when Robert Frost sneaks up on us.

Toss up in Health.

What is the process of freezing bodies at the moment of death, Sachin?

Cryo preservation?

Yeah, with the aim of resuscitation.

Cryopreservation or cryonics health bonus for D.B.

What ingredient is added to white sugar to make brown sugar molasses?

Molasses is right for 20 toss up in geometry.

What is the volume of a cylinder in terms of pi with height of two feet and radius of five feet?

Will?

Ten feet.

chance still DB at Adam 50 PI.

Yes, that's correct.

geometry bonus then.

What is the complementary angle to 37 degrees 83, 52 degrees.

And what is the supplementary angle to 37 degrees.

83.3.

143 degrees.

Yeah.

Toss up in arts what Disney Pixar feature was about a rodent who liked to cook Michael Ratatouille and an arts bonus for DB.

What is the English translation of the Latin phrase ars gratia artis that appears surrounding the lion's head in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios logo?

Art is art.

No, it's specifically art for art's sake.

Toss up for everyone in US history.

Which former US president founded the Bull Moose Party in 1912.

Micah?

Teddy Roosevelt.

Is right and the US history bonus next to Union Station in Washington, D.C., the Federal Judiciary building that houses offices of the United States Courts is named after which civil rights lawyer who represented the Brown family in Brown versus Board of Education and later served on the Supreme Court from 1967 to 1991.

Clarence Thomas.

Thomas That was Thurgood Marshall.

Toss up for everyone in vocabulary hot is too warm, as cold as two Will?

Cool.

And a vocabulary bonus sound box is related to output device as joystick is related to what console input device.

Yes.

For 20 toss up in science which Greek supposedly yelled Eureka after realizing- Archimedes.

That water displacement can be used to calculate volume science bonus for TBA.

What cloud type are stratus clouds found in higher than normal altitudes?

No that's Alto Stratus.

What cloud type are wispy feather like clouds?

Cirrus.

Yeah, that's right.

For ten points on the bonus toss up in sports to which well it was close at the half and is close at the end and the lead shifted it looks like did DB is it looks like DB pulled ahead at the Oh my goodness.

Wow I didn't see that coming.

Temple what a great game.

Congratulations to you guys.

We appreciate you being here and making it again to the smart 16 and multiple underclassman right on the team.

So we can see you again next year.

You're brilliant.

We hope to see you again next year on Scholars Bowl.

Meanwhile, D.B., you can start breathing again.

I don't think you expected to win either.

I think you snuck that one by all of us.

So congratulations.

You now advance to the round of the educated eight once again, as you have in past years.

Congratulations on that.

We look forward to seeing you again on Scholars Bowl.

You, of course, can watch all of our episodes, keep track of all of our teams by never missing an episode, checking your local listings, setting your DVR and binge watching past seasons online using the PBS app.

My name is Frank Murphy.

Thank you so much for watching.

Tennessee Scholars Bowl 2024.