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

The game call 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 for the Frank Miller Memorial Trophy and a cash prize that you'll hear about coming up at halftime.

This is a first round game between Gibbs High School and Morristown Hamblin, East High School, let's say hi first to the players from Gibbs wearing their beautiful 40th anniversary Scholars Bowl T-shirts.

Thank you for putting those on.

Beginning with sophomore Jacob Godsey Jacob, hi tell us something about yourself.

Hello.

I'm Jacob Godsey I placed six statewide at the TMTA Math competition.

Oh, wow.

That's amazing.

Is this Tennessee math something?

Something fancy Math Teachers Association.

Very.

But congratulations in geometry.

Well, that's outstanding.

I'm sure that will help Your team is going to get to geometry questions.

Senior Anna Cox is also with us today.

Hi, Anna.

Welcome.

Hi, I'm in.

COX Um, I love to bake.

It's like my therapy and I really love it.

Music Oh, wow.

So do I. I mean, I work in an aid station, so tell me more.

Um, I really like the band's airborne and warrant.

I've been listening to a little bit of Whitesnake recently.

Oh, so eighties hair bands.

Okay, that's a that's a very specific subgenre.

Okay.

Nice to know it.

We welcome back Rylan Slagle, who is team captain this year round.

And congratulations on that.

And we're going to answer bonuses on behalf of the squad or defer by name to a teammate.

You're a junior, and what else is new with you is my second year on Stellar School.

I like to casually skateboard and I like watching horror movies and TV shows.

Is there a way to formally skateboard competitively?

Yeah.

Okay.

So I'm just thinking just non casual.

If if I were to skateboard, I imagine I would be very non casual about it.

Yeah, I would be very tense.

Okay, well, good.

Let's say hi also to Junior Jackson Kingsford Jackson.

Welcome.

Tell us about you.

Hi, I'm Jackson.

I'm a junior.

I'm involved in track and field DECA Scholars Ball and theater and theater and well, first of all, deck every moment with that is it's a business in marketing club and then theater.

I'm of course, I'm partial to that, too.

What do you do in the theater?

Oh, we just recently did a production of It's a Wonderful Life, and I played George Bailey.

I think that's the lead character.

Yes.

Okay.

Let's say hi also to the alternate and coaches for Gibbs High School, that is Alan Krohn, joined by coaches Shelley Stout, who teaches biology, anatomy and physiology, and Dr. Laura Beal, who teaches English and teaching as a profession and gives.

Welcome to all of the folks from Gibbs taken on the squad from Morristown Hamblin East High School, beginning with Kingston Crockett, who is a junior.

Kingston, Tell us about yourself.

I'm in the marching band and I can name all 95 counties in the state of Tennessee.

Well, that's important.

I may come up in a in a quiz somewhere, but I'm also interested in what you do in the marching band, what instrument I play.

The percussion are mainly the instruments, mallet instruments.

So those are like xylophones and marimbas.

And I guess what what would you actually play?

What are the names of the ones in the march?

In our show, I actually played the vibraphone for 3 to 4 songs.

Oh, that's great.

All right.

That sounds that's I love the sound of those.

Let's say hi to Dorian Carpenter, a sophomore.

Welcome.

Dorian, is your first time here.

Yeah.

And happy to have you along with some experienced teammates.

Tell us about you.

I'm with Kingston.

I'm also a member of our Marching band, at most honest.

What's your instrument?

I'm also a percussion player, and next year I'm trying to beat the drum major.

Oh, wow.

That's important, right?

Well, good luck with that.

I'm sure all your other experience will help you There.

We've got team captain.

Is Haden Hall working as you from last year?

Haden, Welcome back.

Tell us about yourself, your sophomore this year, is that right?

Yes, I know.

I didn't realize you were that young.

Great.

Congratulations.

My name's Hayden.

How?

I've swam for about eight years.

I play guitar.

What's your best event?

Swimming wise?

I mainly a breaststroke.

I do Russia really well.

Oh, good.

All right.

Yeah, that's a good one.

And that's a real tough one because it's so easy to get decayed in one mistake.

And I go, Very good.

All right.

We also got Boyd Hopkins, who is a junior.

What about you, Boyd?

My name is Boyd Hopkins, and my favorite food is lasagna.

And I study fencing.

that.

I remember fencing from last year.

We talked a little bit about that Of the three swords, where what's your favorite and Rapier?

Oh, I guess I was thinking more the other day.

And flavor.

Yeah, well, yeah.

What's Rapier then?

Um, it's a long, slender blade.

It's okay.

There's, um.

Well, good.

I have fun with that.

It's outstanding.

Let's say hi to the alternates and coaches for more.

Stand Hamblin East.

That's Caleb Renner and Melanie Diaz.

Johnson joined by coaches Sarah Arnold, who's a librarian, and Katie Collins, who's also a librarian.

Happy to have all y'all back on Scholars Bowl.

You know how we play with toss ups?

Were ten bonuses worth up to 20 players?

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

First category is health.

What are the proteins released by B cells when antigens have caused an immune response?

Jakob Antibodies is correct for ten and a health bonus forgives two parts.

In what part of the human body is the carotid artery?

Like the neck?

Correct.

And what part of the human body is the tibial artery?

The calf?

Yeah.

Lower legs.

What I was looking for calf will take that 20 points toss up now in architecture.

What?

Railroad station house at 42nd Street and Park Avenue in Manhattan was built in the Beaux-Arts style in the early 20th century and saved in the 1970s by a preservation campaign spearheaded by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Jackson Central Station.

Now that you can steal Mars ten, you had one word, right?

It's actually Grand Central Terminal, which is different from Grand Central Station.

Does that for all players in religion.

What is the name of a Christian bishop's headdress that comes from the Greek word for turban?

I was looking for a miter on that concept up for everyone in government.

What is the term for representatives who vote for a specific candidate at their political party convention?

Right.

Delegates is right.

Government Bonus.

In 2021, a group of legal academics urged which Supreme Court justice to retire so that the Biden administration could name his successor, Kamala Harris.

And that was Stephen Breyer.

But tell me, who was confirmed by the Senate as Breyer's replacement?

Defer to Jacob.

It's Angie Brown.

Jackson was right.

You get ten points on the bonus toss up now in spelling a short, entertaining account about a real incident or person is called an anecdote spell anecdote.

Jacob an e. cd0t right 410 spelling bonus two Failed to resist pressure, temptation or some other negative forces to succumb spell succumb.

This is for Rowland.

Answer defer.

Defer to Jacob.

Excuse C you MP That's right.

20 points in that bonus toss up.

Now in science, what name is given to the mass per unit volume of a substance or solution?

Jacob Density is correct.

Science is your bonus.

In 2022, new evidence suggested that archeologist Howard Carter stole treasures from the tomb of the boy King when he discovered it in 1922. Who was the boy king in coming?

King Tut, That's right.

For 20 plus up now in math computation, given I is the imaginary unit simplify to I raised to the fifth power hidden negative five.

Now you can steal Gibbs buzzer ran it's 32 I on that toss up for all players in art who painted the mural The Last Supper.

Jacob Leonardo da Vinci is correct for ten.

And now a visual bonus for Gibbs.

Take a look at the screens, please.

What is the title of the painting shown here?

Created in 1818 by German artist Caspar David Friedrich and considered to be one of the masterpieces of the romantic movement.

It's a record.

I know.

I've heard of Jacob the Hitchhiker.

That specific one is called Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog.

No points on toss up for players in history.

Which bandit terrorized Missouri and surrounding areas for about six years following the Civil War?

That was Jesse James.

Toss up in foreign language.

What is the Spanish word for shoes?

Jacob Bartos Yes, and a foreign language bonus for Gibbs.

Two parts.

What commonly used Latin phrase beginning with B means in good faith or genuine in a veto?

No, it's either bona fide or some people who would say bona fide, try this.

What is the literal English translation of the commonly used Latin phrase in vino veritas, God be with you.

That means in wine truth.

Thanks.

Somebody who drinks a little too much to tell you what they really think.

Tossup in geology.

What term refers to the low altitude area of a glacier that experiences a net annual loss of ice due to melting sublimation and other causes?

Rylan Iceberg Not it.

You can steal Motown.

That is the ablation zone toss up in geography.

What is the only country in the world with three capitols?

Kingston South Africa is correct.

Geography is your bonus.

An expedition was launched in 2022 to retrace the 813 mile desert trek taken from the Persian Gulf to the Red Sea by Harry Philby 105 years earlier when he was sent to help T.E.

Lawrence muster resistance to the Ottoman Turkish rule during the First World War, which desert did they cross?

The Arab desert it had to be exact.

Arabian Desert toss up in music.

Who composed the symphonic fairy tale for children?

Peter and the Wolf at the Buzzer Alan.

John Gates.

Now it gives you time to steal.

Now.

Motown hating Mozart.

No, it's Sergei Prokofiev turns up in history in addition to George Washington, which other delegate to the Constitutional Convention became president of the United States?

Hayden Thomas Jefferson.

Now you can steal kids.

Jacob.

John Adams.

James Madison.

Is the game pass out for all players now in chemistry?

Which chemical element has the symbol?

H.G.

Hayden Mercury is right for visual bonus.

Now for Mars town what synthetic chemical element with atomic number 103 and the symbol L.R.

is named in honor of the inventor of the cyclotron.

Uh, defer to Kingston or or or it's in.

I don't know if I can take that.

It's.

It's Laurentian, and it sound like an extra syllable in there.

You can get points, though, for spelling.

When he invented the cyclotron.

So defer to Boeing.

C. yc0trons right.

You get ten points on the bonus toss up.

Now, in vocabulary, what word is used to describe slightly salty water such as that found Jacob Brackish in marshes near the sea and a vocabulary bonus for Gibbs.

Two parts.

What eight letter word, starting with P means a person who knows and is able to use several languages.

Billy Long deferred to Jacob Polyglot is right for ten now spell polyglot different a Jacob e0lygot 20 points on the bonus for Gibbs.

Toss up Now in geometry, the measure of two opposite angles of a rhombus have measures three x minus five and x plus ten solve for x. Rylan x equals three over five.

No, you can steal Motown.

Durham x is equal to seven over two.

No, in this case, x equals 7.5 is the answer.

No points toss up now in miscellaneous, according to the proverb.

What does the early bird catch?

Hey Worm.

Yeah, make sure of crawling all the way.

But yes.

And a miscellaneous bonus.

What was the favorite dog breed of Queen Elizabeth?

The second Corgi?

That's right.

20 points.

Toss up now in economics.

What is the name for the rate that banks charge to large commercial customers?

Raylan Interest with excellent credit for short term loans.

What's the name for that?

Just steal that looking at each other.

Morristown.

Boyd, you can confer on toss up some.

Sorry, It's the prime interest rate.

Nobody gets that one toss up.

Now in literature, what is the sacred object sought by the Knights of the Round Table or the Holy Grail?

Correct in the literature Bonus.

What is the three act play written by Tennessee Williams that includes the characters Blanche Dewar and Stanley Kowalski?

What do you do?

Sad stories, West Side Story.

And that one is A Streetcar Named Desire.

No points on the bonus.

Back to tossups in astronomy.

What is the term for the point of the moon's orbit that is closest to Earth?

Rylan Elliptical low, Not it.

You can still Morristown.

Boyd Equinox.

No, the perigee is when it's closest toss up.

Now, in foreign language, what does the French expression j mal L'état translate to in English?

A malady of the head.

In other words, a headache is what that would be passed up.

Now, in sports, What is the national Sport of Japan?

Head and Sumo wrestling?

Correct.

Sports Bonus Two parts.

What do the letters NCAA represent?

National Collegiate Association.

National Collegiate Athletic Association.

Defer to Kingston.

National Collegiate, Athletic Athletic Association.

Correct.

And what are the letters BCS represent in college football?

Oh, good Lord.

It's college sports.

That answer deferred basketball.

College sports.

That's the Bowl Championship series at the end of the football season.

Toss up in geography, which range of hills and mountains extends from southern Illinois across Missouri and into Arkansas and Oklahoma.

Jackson, Appalachians.

Now that you can steal Morristown in the central mountain range, you know, those are the Ozark Mountains.

So no points on that.

And before we do the next toss up, we'll let that clock go and save it for the second half.

Right now, Gibbs has a lead over Morristown Hamblin, East.

One of these teams will advance to our threshold of 32. Who's it going to be?

Find out after the break.

Tennessee Scholars Bowl 20, 24.

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 first round game between Gibbs High School and Morristown, Hamlin East High School.

And I don't know if you keep score at home like people watching baseball do, but we have adjusted the score for Morristown East to award ten points to them for the correct answer on Lawrencium, which we've reviewed at halftime.

Also, Gibbs has brought an alternate into the game.

Welcome back from last year.

We recognize you, Junior Alaric Crone.

Hi, Alaric, How are you?

Hi, I'm good.

What've you been up to?

Uh, nothing much.

You know, you're right.

You're honest.

I like that.

I love acting and.

Yeah, I have a hyper fixation on gemstones.

Oh, no kidding.

That could help you in the game.

Sometimes we have a gemstone question, so let's see how that works out for you.

All right, everybody, let's get back to it.

Fingers on the buzzer for Tennessee Scholars Bowl 2024.

Toss up for all players in English in the following sentence.

What part of speech is the word there?

Get away from there.

Take a proposition now that you can steal Mars Town.

No.

Yes, it is a noun there and an English bonus.

Now is the following sentence.

In active voice or passive voice, I will introduce you to my boss this week.

So active.

Active.

Direct in the following sentence.

Is it active or passive voice?

The money was stolen.

That was passive also.

Right?

20 points plus up now in biology, frog and toad larvae are commonly known as what, ten tadpoles?

Yeah, and a biology bonus.

Researchers worried that boat traffic near the Chilean Patagonia was impacting the foraging and nursing habit.

For what giant sea creature with the scientific name Bayley.

And after a merciless device, a whale baleen whales.

Well, the blue whale Can't take that.

But it is a whale.

No points on it.

Toss up now in mouth.

What are the next two numbers in the sequence?

12 9630.

In negative three.

Negative six.

Right.

In the mouth.

Visual bonus from Mars.

Ten.

Look at the screens.

What is the greatest common factor of the numbers?

144 and 84 of 12 is right for 20 points.

Toss up now in music.

What billionaire singer songwriter has had a number one hits with antihero and Cool Summer Hidden.

Taylor Swift is writing a music bonus.

Now what Texas born singer has sold over 25 million albums worldwide and was the first winner of the TV singing competition.

American Idol Kelly Clarkson.

Think Kelly Clarkson is right for 20 toss up now in government.

Which political or governmental body has the power to admit new states to the union?

Congress is right and a government bonus for Gibbs.

What document issued by a government official authorizes the police to arrest someone or search their premises, a warrant and second half what two word phrase that comes from the name of a 1966 Supreme Court decision is used to describe the Fifth and Sixth Amendment protections about which an arrested person must be informed.

Miranda Rights.

That's correct.

For 20 plus up in vocabulary, what is the indigenous name for the group of culturally similar peoples inhabiting the Arctic and subarctic regions of Boyd.

Inuit?

Yeah, of Greenland.

Labrador and so on.

Vocabulary Bonus What is an 11 letter word beginning with E?

That is the antonym of thrifty.

This is a hidden answer, a defer, expensive, extravagant is the 11 letter word I'm looking for.

Plus, up now in physics, 30 volts is needed to force a direct current of six amps through a coil.

What is the resistance in ohms, Jacob?

Five ohms, Correct.

And the physics bonus for Gibbs.

Name two of the three types of nuclear reactions is I'll defer to Jacob is I'll fertile.

So.

Well, I tend to take your first two answers.

We were specifically looking for fusion, fission and radioactive decay on that toss up for all players.

Now in health, what was the first substance successfully used as a surgical anesthetic?

Jacob Ether Now you can steal more stem boy, No.

chloroform is the right answer.

Plus up in games.

What game for two players uses 64 identical disks that are light on one side and dark in the other and placed on an unsecured board with the winner being the player with more disks showing in their color at the end.

Dorian Checkers.

Now that you can steal games, the generic name for it is reverse C, but there's also a brand name of it called Othello.

No points toss up now in U.S. history.

Who was the first pilot to break the sound barrier?

Jackson Chuck Yeager Yeah, Chuck Yeager is right.

History bonus now, which president left office after losing to President Harrison and returned to office after defeating President Harrison, deferred to Jackson.

Now that was Grover Cleveland.

You can still get points, though, if you tell me what was Grover Cleveland's first name to Vernon Jackson?

Grover No, actually, Steven.

His name is Steven Grover Cleveland.

So no toss up now in literature.

In what town were the presents stolen by the Grinch in a Dr. Seuss tale?

Hayden Whoville.

Yeah, and a literature bonus.

Take a look at the screens, please.

Morristown The poster shown here represents the supreme authority of a totalitarian state called Oceana, where the party has the highest authority over the people in what dystopian 1949 novel by which author two answers George Orwell, George Orwell and a 1984.

Yeah, there you go.

You needed to see both of those things Toss up.

Now in chemistry, which chemical element is named for the Norse god of thunder?

Pick up thorium and a chemistry bonus for Gibbs.

In 2023, Amsterdam's City council responded to overtourism and pollution by voting to ban cruise ships from docking at the city's main terminal and pointing out that big ships produce the same level per day as 30,000 trucks worth of what pollutants known as No X oil, no no X and a subscript instead of a one or two.

It refers to nitrogen oxides, which is the sum of snow and O2 toss up in geometry.

What is a 12 sided polygon called Greenland?

Don't pack a gun.

Yes.

And a geometry bonus.

Find the area of an isosceles right triangle with hypotenuse of five inches 12.50, it's less at 6.25 square inches.

Have that tossup now in art which Russian goldsmith became famous for his jeweled eggs.

Pick up the bears.

Now you can steal Morristown boite.

Fabergé.

Yes.

Peter Faberge is right.

And an art bonus for Morristown.

Two parts.

In 1498, a French cardinal who lived in Rome commissioned which sculptor and painter to carve the top division, you know, DaVinci, da Vinci.

And that was Michelangelo.

For how many different popes did Michelangelo create art?

He did say eight.

It's actually nine.

I know.

Points on the bonus toss up now in geography, in which mountain chain is Mount Everest?

Kingston, the Andes.

Now you can steal goods.

Jackson Himalayas, right.

For geography Bonus The lyrics of the Marine Corps hymn refer to the shores of Tripoli, where the Marines hoisted the American flag in 1805 in the war against the Pirates of the Barbary states, of which African country is Tripoli.

The capital for Romans and sort of deferred a Jackson, Libya, correct, for 20 toss up.

Now, in foreign language, what is the French word for table island not bigger.

No, sorry.

That's not right.

what is the French word for table?

It's tableau toss up now in science, what do we call a change in frequency of a wave that occurs when there is a change in the distance between source and receiver?

That's the Doppler effect.

Toss up in U.S. history.

What Naval hero from Knoxville is remembered for his famous rally, Cry Damn the Torpedoes.

Jacob.

Admiral Nelson.

Not him.

You can still Morristown.

That's Admiral Farragut.

David Farragut.

First up in music, who composed the opera Lohengrin, which includes a bridal chorus generally known as Here Comes the Bride, Tchaikovsky.

Now that you can steal Gibbs.

That's Wagner.

Richard Wagner.

Economics.

Toss up for everyone.

For what product is DeBeers famous?

Kingston Diamonds.

Right.

And an economics bonus for Motown.

Name the two categories in which commodities are sorted Import-Export imports and exports.

Well, in this case it's tangible and non tangible goods.

No points on that toss up in mythology.

What mythical creature has the body tail and back legs of a lion and the head and wings of an eagle?

That's Boyd and the Griffin.

Yeah.

And the talons and the front legs.

Mythology Bonus for Morristown.

What is the name of the mythological Polynesian god credited with creating the Polynesian islands and giving the gift of fire to humans?

Maui erect for ten In their mythology, which island country was formed when a giant fish caught by Maui was split into an island?

Samoa?

Now it's New Zealand toss up now in biology, the type of pet parakeet known as a budgie is native.

To what continent?

Boyd Australia.

Correct.

And a biology bonus.

Name two of the pigments involved in the process of leaves changing their colors in the fall to fills.

Uh chlorophyl.

Amazing fills ten points for chlorophyl, but the others are as anther fills carotenoids and at the science toss up in algebra in exponential form.

What is four times three raised to the fifth power.

But Raylan, 12th of the 20th.

Not it.

You can steal Morristown, Kingston three to the ninth.

Power is right and algebra bonus for Morristown give both solutions for X if the in the equation x squared -16 x equals zero, but time has run out so it looks like you didn't need the points anyway.

Did you pull ahead.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I try not.

I don't actually look at the score doing the game so it looks like the lead has shifted in Morristown has won.

Gibbs congratulation for being here.

You always have a great experience of college ball and those shirts look fantastic and I hope you'll be wearing those around town.

They're coming very handy when you're in Knoxville.

We appreciate you being on the tournament.

Look forward to seeing you again next year because I think you're pretty much mostly underclassmen, right?

Okay, great.

Meanwhile, Morristown, congratulations.

You will play again.

You will advance to the threshold of 32.

We'll look forward to having you here again.

And you can keep track of their progress and all of our teams by never missing an episode.

Make sure you DVR our show or as our players do, you can binge watch past seasons online using the PBS app.

My name is Frank Murphy.

Thank you for watching.

Tennessee Scholars Bowl 2024.