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, our 40th season of competition with high schools from all over the viewing area, competing in this academic tournament for the Frank Miller Memorial Trophy and a cash prize that we hear about coming up at halftime.

This is round number four, the round of the educated eight.

And the teams in today's game are Farragut High School and Dobyns-Bennett High School of Kingsport, Tennessee.

Both had to win, I think, what, three times to get here so far.

So we're delighted.

By the way, Dobyns-Bennett put multiple teams into the tournament, and this is the one that has advanced this deep into the tournament.

Meanwhile, Farragut, let's say, how do you first starting with ninth grader Roshan Ramanan.

Welcome back, Roshan.

Tell us about yourself.

I've been to six continents.

Which one was missing?

Antarctica.

And I'm sure it's on the list, right?

It is, yeah.

Which was the most recent?

Australia.

Excellent.

All right.

I mean you technically could have said North America is the most recent, but I. Oh, yeah, but you know what I meant.

Yeah.

Let's say had the 12th grader, Tom Williamson.

What about you, Tom went even up to?

Hi, something interesting about me is that I think that time is non-linear.

Really?

Can you prove that?

I can't.

But, you know, one can speculate.

Really?

Can you prove that?

Messing with you?

Right.

Nice T-shirt, by the way.

We appreciate you.

We're in the 40th season Scholars Bowl T-shirt.

Absolutely.

Team captain is 12th grader Leo Davis.

Leo, you'll answer bonuses on behalf of the team or defer by name to one of your teammates.

What's new with you?

I'm a fan of the - And I'm a part of mock trial.

Now, once again, you'll have to explain to me what you're talking about.

Its a period of Japanese history.

It's typically what you think of a samurai.

All of that.

Oh, all right.

I'm glad to know it.

Thank you very much.

Again, I need you to, once you graduate to write some questions for Scholars Bowl and send them on in the address on your screen at halftime.

Let's say hi also to Alex Yan, who's in 11th grade.

Alex, what about yourself?

I also like to do science bowl.

Yeah, but this one's better, right?

Alex.

Alex.

Alex.

Scholars Bowl is better?

Yes.

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

We've got Federica Manigan, Evan Conger, Sophie Liu, and coach Christopher Hampton, who teaches social studies, taking on an experienced squad from Dobbyns-Bennett High School in Kingsport.

First up is Adam Kershaw.

Adam, welcome back.

Tell us about yourself.

Hi.

I have two dogs and a cat, and their names are Sonny Muffin.

Those are the two dogs.

And I have a cat named Tweety.

Okay, which is the better one?

Which is the favorite?

That's a good question that I will decline to answer at this time.

Okay.

One of the animals prefer you more than the others.

Can you tell if not to give them human emotions?

But this one seemed to favor you.

The cat seems to have taken a liking to me in recent times.

All right, Well, they will eat you when you're dead, so be careful.

Yeah.

All right.

Let's say hi to Michael Fanning, who is a junior.

Michael, tell us about yourself.

Out of every game show host on this earth, Frank Murphy's my favorite.

Oh, wow.

I will accept that.

I'll take that.

Ryan Seacrest slash the late Alex Trebek.

Well, I guess if he had if he had been alive, then he would probably be the number one.

Can you get us into the championship match now?

Because I said that.

No, that's entirely up to you.

I mean, seriously, your cross-town rivals at Science Hill are much better at messing me, messing with me than that.

So I appreciate it.

Let's say hi to team Captain Sachin Pubala Singham.

Sachin, welcome back.

How are you?

I'm good.

How are you?

You'll answer bonuses or defer to a teammate by name.

And I'm well, thank you.

What's new?

I don't condone bribery, as Michael did.

Yes.

Fair play.

I'm the president of my school's environmental club.

So nice.

All right, well, flattery does get you everywhere, but I appreciate the compliment, but once the game starts, I'm.

I don't care who answers.

Let's say hi to Claire Li, who's a junior.

What about you, Claire?

I like to play the clarinet because my name is Claire.

That's so if your parents had named you Oboe, then I might have played the oboe.

Okay.

Wow.

Well, I'll accept that.

The Claire.

Annette, it's so confusing because one of the principals for an oboe, I believe, for the National Symphony Orchestra is named Claire.

And I always want to say that Claire Channette plays clarinet, but she doesn't.

So thank you for making this right for the future.

So let's say hi also to the alternates and coach for Dobyns-Bennett.

We've got Allison Fields and Aisha Kothari, joined by coach Joanna Nash, who teaches world history.

All right, players, you've won your way here three times.

You've won your way here.

We've got toss ups worth ten bonuses worth up to 20.

Get your fingers on the buzzer for this fourth round game.

This educated eight round game of Tennessee Scholars Bowl 2024.

First category is health.

To avoid the bends, divers breathe- Sachin?

SCUBA?

Divers breathe pressurized air made up mostly of what gas?

Chance to steal- Tom?

Hydrogen?

No, it's nitrogen.

Toss up now in religion, by what name was the disciple Paul of Tarsus, known prior to his conversion to Christianity and missionary life?

Leo?

Andrew.

Not it you can steal DB.That is Saul became Paul.

Toss up in sports.

Which NFL team is the only team ever to finish the regular season with a perfect undefeated record and win the Super Bowl.

Sachin?

Patriots.

Not it.

You can steal Farragut.

Tom?

Steelers.

No it was the 1972 Miami Dolphins.

Toss up now in vocabulary.

What 11 letter word beginning with Q is a name sometimes given to the element Mercury Tom Quicksilver.

Yes.

And a vocabulary bonus.

What does the root word nether as in the Netherlands, mean?

Like something to do with direction like above the like really not north, above.

Above?

It's actually the opposite.

It's below because the Netherlands are below sea level toss up.

Now in geography, what is the most active port in Alabama?

Roshan?

Mobile.

Yes.

And a geography bonus Name four of the five states along the Mississippi Rivers Western Shore, Tennessee, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana and Nebraska.

Answer.

Differ to Roshan.

Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri and Nebraska.

The first three are correct.

Iowa and Minnesota are the others.

Some of those states are on both eastern and western shores.

But you got 15 points there.

Tossup in astronomy.

What is the name for the visible surfaces of the sun and stars?

Roshan?

Photosphere.

Yes, and an astronomy bonus.

Now, the James Webb Space Telescope is an international collaboration between NASA, the ESA and the CSA.

What do ESA and CSA stand for?

European Space Energy Agency and Chinese, Chinese.

European Space Agency and Chinese Space agency?

The first is right, European, but Canadian is the other.

Ten points on the bonus.

Toss up now for all players in math computation.

How much change is left over after paying an expense of $14.68 with a $20 bill?

Michael 532 Is it in a visual bonus for DB on the screen?

Take a look, please.

If a person can earn $45 in 12 minutes, how much money can be earned in half an hour?

Defer to Claire.

$112.5.

Yeah, we'd say $112.50.

But that's the same thing.

Toss up for all players in architecture.

Which monument located alongside the Tidal Basin in Washington, D.C. and honoring a founding father has a design- Sachin?

Space Needle.

No, has a design partially inspired by the honorees own design for the Rotunda at the University of Virginia?

Washington Monument.

No, the Jefferson Memorial looks like the rotunda at UVA.

Toss up now in foreign language, what is the Spanish phrase for?

See you later, Michael.

Hasta luego.

Yes.

And a foreign language bonus.

What is the Spanish word for grandfather?

Abuela.

Yes, is right.

20 points toss up now in economics.

In what type of bank account does the investor agree to keep money in an account for a specified- Sachin?

Mutual fund?

No.

For specified length of time without taking withdrawal or loss pay a penalty Leo?

CD.

Yes.

Certificate of deposit and a bonus for Farragut.

Two parts.

What type of metal is the traditional gift for the 25th wedding anniversary?

Silver I don't know.

I mean, silver?

Is right for ten.

What type of metal is the traditional gift for a 50th wedding anniversary?

Gold.

Platinum.

It's gold.

You know, you have to be married a long time to get platinum, ten points, tossup in biology, Brown, Turkey, Chicago, Hardy and Sachin?

Fig.

And sylester are varieties of fig.

Biology bonus name the only two types of eagles that breed in the United States.

Golden, gold, golden and bald.

Those right for 20.

Toss up now in U.S. history.

In which year did Abraham Lincoln officially issue the Emancipation Proclamation?

Michael?

1863.

Is correct.

And a history bonus for DB.

In 2023, Sirhan Sirhan was again denied parole at his 17th parole hearing since his conviction for killing, which Senator and presidential candidate in 1968?

Lyndon Johnson.

It was Robert F Kennedy.

Toss up for all players in music who's symphony number six in F major Opus 68 is also known as the Pastoral Symphony.

Alex?

Tchaikovsky.

Not it you can steal DB, Michael?

Mozart.

No pastoral is Beethoven toss up for everyone.

Now in mythology, what was the Roman equivalent of the mythological Greek goddess Aphrodite?

Sachin?

Venus.

Yes, and a visual bonus for DB on the screen.

What was the name of one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?

A statue of the mythological Greek sun God Helios depicted here, the remains of which people continued to visit for 800 years after its collapse in an earthquake.

Colossus of Rhodes.

Is right for 20 points plus up now in history.

What is the term for ancient Egyptian writings?

Symbols, Sachin?

Hieroglyphics.

And a history bonus on what two beaches where U.S. troops assigned to land at Normandy on June six, 1944.

Omaha and Bravo.

Ten points for Omaha.

Utah is the other.

Toss up now in geology within two degrees.

What is the angle of tilt of the Earth's axis?

Roshan?

23.5.

Yeah, it's 23.4 s That's within.

That's close enough.

We'll take it ten points and a geology bonus now, a volcano that had been dormant for 6000 years erupted near what city?

That is Iceland's capital in 2021 and again in 2022.

Making it Reykjavik.

Yes, for 20 points.

Toss up now in algebra.

What is the simplified form of the product of four square root of five times two square root of five?

Alex 30.

No chance to steal DB Adam?

40.

Is it algebra bonus Give the two solutions for the variable of x in the equation.

x squared plus 63 equals 16x.

x squared -60 x plus 37, seven and nine.

Yeah.

X equals seven and nine.

Is it toss up now for all players in miscellaneous?

Which state has six times more airplane pilots per capita than anywhere else in the United States?

Claire?

Colorado.

No chance to steal Farragut.

Roshan.

Illinois.

No, you ran out of time there, but it's Alaska.

If you think about it.

People got to fly around.

Toss up In vocabulary, An entomologist studies insects, Roshan?

No answer.

Spell entomologist.

Chance to steal DB.

Claire?

E N T Y M O L O G I S T. No.

it's got an O in there its entomologist.

So no points on the toss up.

Next toss up in government.

What is the term for a legal procedure in which Michael Affidavit?

a legal procedure in which a person's earnings are required by court order to be withheld by an employer for the payment of a debt such as child support, chance to steal Farragut.

But you can't look at each other.

That dqs you right there.

It's a toss up.

Garnishment is the word toss up now in science.

What is the SI unit for all energy, including heat, Roshan?

Jules.

Yes.

And a science bonus.

What is the si unit of measurement for temperature?

Kelvin.

Kelvin.

And what is the si unit of amount of substance.

Mole.

Mole.

Right for 20.

Toss up now in chemistry.

In 1911 which British physicist proposed a nuclear model of the atom that says the central part of the atom carries a positive charge?

Roshan?

Niels Bohr, not him.

You can steal.

Michael?

Rutherford.

Yes.

And a chemistry bonus for DB By 2022, a growing demand for electric vehicle batteries spurred more than 17,000 prospecting claims in Nevada, which is the only location of the only major mine in the U.S. for which chemical element with the atomic number three and symbol Li.

Lithium.

Is right for 20.

Toss up in religion, what volcanic mountain is sacred to followers of Shinto?

Alex Mt.

Sinai?

Not that you can steal Sachin?

Fiji?

That's not it.

It's Fuji, not Fiji.

Cant give it to you.

Toss up for all players.

Now in literature.

What epic poem ends with Hector's funeral?

Sachin?

Iliad.

Yes.

And a bonus in literature when speaking to a climate conference in Glasgow, Barack Obama quoted Shakespeare and referred to him as the Bard, which disappointed Scots because Shakespeare is the Bard of England, not Scotland, who is considered the Bard of Scotland.

Does this question Joseph something just Joseph Smith.

Robert Burns is the poet toss up now in US history.

Both Adams, both Roosevelts and John F Kennedy received their bachelor's degrees from what college Sachin?

Harvard is right and a history bonus now name two of the five living former vice presidents of the US.

Spence Gore and Biden.

and Biden and Pence.

Those are both right.

Dan Quayle, Al Gore, Dick Cheney, Joe Biden, Mike Pence, 20 points on the bonus toss up for all players in health.

Name the group of peptide hormones produced in the pituitary Sachin?

Antibodies?

No, pituitary gland and central nervous system that act on the opiate receptors of the brain.

The Roshan?

Endorphins is right as the half ends, you get ten points there under the wire.

It's an extremely close game between two extremely skilled and evenly matched teams.

Farragut and Dobyns-Bennett, which one advances to our semifinals to the philosophical for find out coming up 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 Bowl.

I'm Frank Murphy, back from halftime in a very exciting fourth round game between Farragut High School and Dobyns-Bennett High School of Kingsport.

Two evenly matched teams with only a few points separating the two.

One of these will advance to the round the philosophical 4, and we'll find out who it's going to be coming up after ten and a half more minutes of play.

Both teams keeping the starting lineups intact.

So that means we can get right back to it.

Everybody, fingers on the buzzer.

For Tennessee Scholars Bowl 2024, first toss up now in the category of pre-calculus.

Find the limit for four x over two X as x approaches three.

Claire?

Two is the limit and a pre-calculus bonus.

What numerical method of determining the definite integral of a function involves finding the average of the left and right rhyming sums, resulting in a certain non rectangular shape for each transform.

Trapezoidal trapezoidal That's enough.

And 20 points toss up for all players in art.

A famous sculpture in New York City located in Rockefeller Center and across the street from Saint Patrick's Cathedral, depicts what mythological Greek titan holding the universe on his shoulders.

Clair Atlas is right and you get a visual bonus.

Now look at the screens, please.

Which French sculptor designed the statue originally known as liberty enlightening the world seen here.

Mirko Vespucci That's Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, who wrote The New Colossus, a sonnet that is mounted on a bronze plaque inside the pedestal lower level, and begins with the line Give me your tired, your poor Plato.

Answer.

Robert Frost That was Emma Lazarus.

No points on the bonus.

Back to toss ups in English.

What eight letter word beginning with a is a synonym for proponent?

Tom?

Assistant.

Not it.

You can steal DB.

Its advocate Toss up now in geography.

55% of the population of Indonesia lives on which island Sachin?

Java?

Yes, and a geography bonus.

What South American countries capital is Asuncion, Paraguay.

And what South American countries capital is Quito, Ecuador, Ecuador.

Those are both right for 20.

Toss up now in technology, the keyboard shortcut control R is commonly used in web browsers.

To do what Alex refresh the page is correct in a technology bonus in home technology, what do the letters in the abbreviation h v a C represent only ventilation and air conditioning has ventilation, ventilation, air conditioning and air conditioning.

I think we might be able to give you partial credit for that.

You've lived off heating, so you gave me the vasey, but heating, ventilation, air conditioning are the four words to give you 15 toss up in architecture.

Louis Henry Sullivan used the credo form follows function, and he has been called the father of what type of buildings Roshan?

Known for their height.

Michael Skyscrapers.

Yes.

And architecture bonus for DB.

In 2023, Greece began limiting the number of visitors per day at which Athens landmark that is the most complete ancient Greek monumental, complex Acropolis is right for 20.

Toss up for all players in music, a musical work in which a solo instrument like a piano or violin is featured.

Tom?

Concerto.

Yes, alternately contrasting and blending Music Bonus Farragut What is the interval in the key of C major between D and G?

Perfect fourth?

Yeah, it is 1 to 3.

Yeah, perfect for it.

Is it fourth answer?

A fourth?

A perfect fourth.

Yeah.

They'll give you that.

You got it in in time.

And now here's a toss up.

spell.

The word reconnaissance, which is a military observation of a region.

Sachin?

R E C O N N A I S S A N C E. Is right and a spelling bonus for d B spelled Taurus as in the constellation and the zodiac sign.

Yeah, I got a t a r u r us.

I don't know if they give that to you since you f take your first answer, but now you can still get points if you spell Taurus as in a donut shaped object to go to your eyes.

Okay.

T O R I S. No, it's T O R U S. When you take up crossword puzzles it is a word you need to know.

Toss up for everyone in economics.

What word?

Beginning with the letter K means an illegal payment to someone for approving a purchase, contract or job security?

Sachin?

Kick out.

Not that you can steal Farragut Roshan?

Kickback.

Kickback Is it economics bonus for Farragut Two parts.

Who was the first woman to be featured as a solo subject on U.S. federal currency On the $1 silver certificate in 1886?

Like soccer, Julia or No, she's not.

There might be a Tubman.

Harriet Tubman.

That was Martha Washington.

The baptism of what Native American woman was featured in a John Gadsby Chapman painting reproduced on the back of a $20 first charter period.

National Bank Note to Sacajawea That was Pocahontas.

No points on the bonus toss up in chemistry.

What is the symbol for Bismuth Roshan?

Bi?

Yes, and a chemistry bonus which elements electron configuration is argon 3d64s2.

I think it's nickel, nickel, nickel, nickel.

It's actually iron.

No points there.

Toss up now in geometry, the measure of a base angle of an isosceles triangle is 32, give the measure of its vertex angle.

Alex 116 is correct.

And geometry bonus What is the midpoint in fraction form between three quarters and one half on the number line?

That's five eights?

Yeah, it's yeah, yeah.

5/8 is correct for 20 points.

Toss up for all players in art.

What term can be applied to art and comes from the French military term meaning advance guard?

Tom?

Avantgard Yes.

And a visual bonus on the screen for Farragut, which French post-impressionist painted the self-portrait with Halo and Snake shown here.

Monet?

Monet?

Monet?

That is Paul Gogan no points on the bonus toss up now on vocabulary.

Fish is too fin as bird is to what?

Roshan?

Wing?

Yes, and a vocabulary bonus.

What eight letter word beginning with D means hardworking and persevering, determined between diligent, diligent, diligent, as correct as ten spell diligent d I D.E.A.. Yeah.

Do you defer to Tom D I L I G E N T. 20 on the bonus toss up now in U.S. history in 1835, for the first and only time in U.S. history, the national debt was paid off.

By which president who thought debt could destroy Roshan?

Andrew Jackson.

The liberty of our country.

And a history bonus for Farragut, which for vice presidents became president because of the assassination of their predecessors.

So is John Andrew Johnson, Lyndon Johnson, Teddy Roosevelt, and Chester Arthur.

Okay, defer to Romans, Andrew Johnson, Lyndon Johnson, Teddy Roosevelt, and Chester Arthur.

Those are all correct for 20 points.

Toss up in biology.

What term describes the emission of light by a living organism?

Alex Bioluminescence is right in a biology bonus for Farragut.

What type of skeletons do earthworms and jellyfish have?

Hydro Skeleton.

Hydro skeleton.

What type of skeleton do lobsters and crab- exoskeleton?

Those are both right for 20.

Toss up now in government, which U.S. president granted a full, free and absolute pardon to Richard Nixon?

Claire?

Ford.

Is right.

And a government bonus for D.B.

Serbia was among the few countries in the world that did not require entry visas for Cubans.

But in 2023, it revoked the open travel arrangement that had been used for decades by Cubans seeking asylum in Europe.

Serbia was part of what former Communist run Federation of Six Republics Yugoslavia.

Yugoslavia?

correct for 20.

Toss up in arts.

What famous Norwegian painting inspired Halloween masks and a series of horror movies Sachin?

The Scream?

Yes.

And an arts bonus, the over commercialization of a seven city tour of Egyptian artifacts, including the gold burial mask of a well-known 18th dynasty Pharaoh, was parodied in, what, 1978 Steve Martin song that includes the lyric.

Now, if I'd known they'd line up just to see him, I'd have taken all my money and bought me a museum.

King Tut?

Is correct for 20 points.

Toss up now in foreign language, what is the English translation of the French phrase, Où est le musée?

Leo?

Where's the museum?

Right.

And a foreign language bonus.

Now, what is the word for juice in Latin?

Juice.

It's a sucos.

What is the word for juice in German?

Juice.

That is zoft.

So no points there.

Toss up now in history which explorer is credited as the first European to reach for what-Marco Polo.

I didn't call on you, but first European to reach Hawaii.

Chance to steal Sachin?

James Cook.

Yes.

And a world history bonus for DB, who is the Russian holy man who was killed in 1916 by Russian nobles eager to end his influence over the royal family.

Rasputin is right toss up in health.

What mental illness that causes unusual shifts in mood and ability to function.

Roshan?

Bipolar disorder was formerly called manic depression.

Health bonus.

What insect is responsible first for transmitting yellow fever Mosquito?

Yeah, Mosquito.

What insect is responsible for transmitting Lyme disease?

Tick ticks.

Yeah, those are both right for twenty.

Toss up in algebra.

What conic section graph is represented by nine x squared plus nine y squared equals Michael?

Circle.

81 and an algebra bonus.

What is the value of four raised to the one half power added to the value of 27 raised to the one third power.

Five?

Is right, two plus three equals five.

Toss up now in music.

Who composed the comic opera The Marriage of Figaro?

Claire?

Mozart.

Yes.

And a music bonus.

What is the style of a accompanied solo that imitates the rhythm and tones of speech?

Soliloquy that is resusative.

toss up in literature.

What was the name of Dr. Seuss's egg hatching elephant?

Michael?

Horton Yes, and that's the end of the game, so we don't get to hear the bonus for that question.

But it looks like DB managed to extend and pull ahead.

Well, that was pretty exciting, wasn't it?

Farragit was very close there until the end.

Congratulations, Farragut.

What a delight to have you.

We got some underclassmen here we can see again next year on Scholars Bowl, as I recall.

Congratulations.

And to you, seniors, what a great time it's had.

We've had having you here and hope you spread the word and get more great players from Farragut in years future.

Meanwhile.

DB It sounds like you're going back to the philosophical for this year.

Congratulations on that.

I think having you been that far in the tournament before.

Sachin has, okay, we're good.

Well, we'll look forward to seeing you again real soon on Scholars Bowl.

You can, of course, keep track of all of our episodes.

Don't miss any of them by sending your DVR and checking your local listings.

And as I strongly suspect some of these guys do, binge watching past seasons online using the PBS app.

My name is Frank Murphy.

Thank you so much for watching Tennessee's Scholars Bowl 2024.