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

The game that calls for academic knowledge.

Let's meet our team.

History is the category players.

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

Thank you for watching.

Tennessee Scholars Bowl.

Hi, I'm Frank Murphy.

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

This is a first round game with 64 teams competing between Greenville High School and Midway High School.

And if I remember correctly, Greeneville has more than one team in the tournament this year.

You might be seeing that green devil logo a few more times.

Let's say hi to the players from Greeneville, beginning with Skyler Zo, who's in 12th grade.

Hi, Skyler, Welcome.

Tell us about yourself.

I play a violin Well, you guys have a beautiful performing arts center up there.

Hope you get to play on that stage sometime at Niswonger.

That'd be lovely.

Let's say hi also to Emma Waddell, who's in 12th grade.

Welcome, Emma.

Tell us about you.

Hi.

I play varsity tennis and I'm my class president.

Oh, congratulations.

What was your winning slogan?

What did you do?

How did you get elected?

Vote for Emma and vote for Emma.

That's a pretty good.

Pretty good.

I know the other person forgot to put their name in there was just vote for that other person and they didn't win.

Let's see.

We had a team captain Angus Harrell, 11th grade Angus, you're going to answer bonuses or defer by name to one of your teammates.

Tell us about you.

I wrestle and I make a lot of PowerPoints.

Why?

Well, just for anything really.

Oh, okay.

Multipurpose.

I mean, I've been recently making a PowerPoint.

First thing, I've got a presentation I've got to do, and it's there's a lot you can do with it, but it's time consuming.

Sometimes I get too busy and I'm.

Sometimes I only make them for other people.

Sometimes.

Yeah.

That's fascinating to me.

And then why is it a job or is it a hobby?

It's just a hobby.

They're funny.

All right.

Well, I'm glad to hear that.

Let's say also to Tray Bailey, who is in ninth grade.

Hey, Trey, welcome to the show.

Happy to have you.

Tell us about yourself.

So I ran cross country and track for Greenville High School.

of course, you can't do both because, one, you're running away from the school, the running one you're running around the school, which is better.

My favorite race is the mile, but that's on track cross-country.

So Mile is a track or no.

Yeah, but I like cross country better.

Okay.

Yeah.

You get to see some sights.

Yeah.

Run around.

Beautiful Greeneville and historic sites and things.

You've got up there.

I don't want to mention any presidents from Greeneville because you know that might come up in the show.

You never know.

Let's say hi to the alternates and coach for Greeneville.

We've got one alternate Adam Hensley and coach Samuel Hyde, who does yearbook and testing coordination at Greenville High School.

Happy to have you both here.

Taking on a team with some experienced players from Midway High School in Kingston, Tennessee, the other end of Kingston Pike.

Happy to have you guys back.

Let's say hi first to sophomore R.J. Creswell.

R.J., welcome.

Tell us about yourself.

I play bass drum in the Midway marching band.

Yeah.

Yes.

And I'm really good.

Yeah, I am.

Very well.

I'm glad to hear that.

And that's something you can also take into a symphonic setting.

Or is it strictly an outdoor drum?

You can play bass drum in concert band too, but normally we play multiple things in concert band.

All right, nice.

We're happy to have you here as a percussionist.

Let's say hi to Caden Roach, who is in junior year also an another musician.

Tell us about yourself.

I play the trumpet not as well as RJ plays the bass drum, but.

But you can still practice.

You've got time.

Yeah.

I am the first trumpet here at Midway High School, but they never had any before you.

Oh, wait, wait.

I understand now.

You know, I'm the first one.

We are.

I'm very monumentally pioneering the trumpet.

Yes, that's fantastic.

And what some of the composers, composers you enjoy playing?

Well, I don't know much for trumpet because I'm originally an orchestra player.

Yeah, but playing recently, playing Mussorgsky Pictures at an exhibition.

That's a great piece.

I've enjoyed it.

Yeah.

The Knoxville Symphony did that last year also.

Very lovely.

Let's say hi to team Captain Destiny Squire.

Welcome back, Destiny.

You're a senior this year.

It's good to see you.

You've been here for, like, four years, right?

Yes, I think so.

That or three?

I can't remember.

All right, well, it seems like more.

Tell us about you.

What have you been up to since last year?

So I've recently become a professional Gaslighter.

This sounds deadly and dangerous.

Why?

Why would I be dangerous?

Well, I mean, if we're talking about literal gas coming out of a literal light post.

Told you that you're crazy.

I'm sorry.

You're crazy.

I see what you're doing.

Yeah, I love it.

That's very funny.

Good job.

I hope you go to comedy because say you've got the talent for it.

Let's say hi.

Also to Adrian Esquire.

What a coincidence that you have a similar last name to Destiny.

Actually, she's my sister.

It's fate.

No, wait.

It's destiny.

Yeah.

Tell us about you, Adrian.

I would like to do.

The judges finally got the joke.

Pick up the pace.

Judges pick up the pace.

They're waiting on you.

Well, my middle name is Eliska, and it means true for inside Slavic.

Oh, that's.

Love it.

Okay, fantastic.

Well, we're happy to have you here.

Taking out a good team from Greenville's.

We'll see which of you will advance to our threshold of 32 after we meet the alternates and coach from Midway, we've got several, including Leland Squire, Amanda Howe, Ivy Councilor Luke Morrison, and Coach Tyler LAMB, who teaches history, civics and economics at Midway High School.

All right, players, you've all seen the show, at least many of you have been here before.

You know how we play with toss ups worth ten bonuses, worth up to 20 players.

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

Toss up in the category of economics, whose picture is on the front of US $100 Bill Drake.

Benjamin Franklin is right.

Economics bonus for Greenville Which Bill of currency has a picture of Ulysses S grant if 5050 correct and what is on the back of the $50 bill, what building Congress?

Well, the name of the building would be the US Capitol building.

So I'll give you ten on the bonus toss up.

Now in miscellaneous, according to the proverb, what speaks louder than words Tray action is right.

Miscellaneous Bonus for Greenville.

What is the name of the international accords written to ban war atrocities?

I think the Geneva Convention.

That's right.

20 points.

Toss up in chemistry.

The sum of the protons and neutrons in the nucleus describes what property of an atom track atomic weight.

Not exactly.

Chains.

Steel mass number.

Yeah, and there is a slight difference.

I'm going to give it to mass number.

Chemistry is the bonus for Midway, which two elements are the primary components of the alloy Bronze, copper, nickel.

I'll give you a ten for copper, but tin was the other one, so ten points for copper plus I've been spelling aham too square thin fabric intended for personal hygiene purposes such as blowing one's nose is a handkerchief spell Handkerchief.

Angus h a in k e r c h i e s not it.

You can still midway h a and d k e r c h i. I know you're looking at me for some kind of reaction.

No, I can't give it to you either.

But you did miss this.

You did pick up on the silent d. It's h and d klr.

See if no points.

Plus up now in the category of math whose name is attached to the theorem relating the three sides of a right triangle to Pythagoras.

Yeah, and a visual bonus.

Now for green.

Look at the screens.

Please solve the inequality for x -30 is less than ten x plus 18 and then describe how it solution is shaded on a number line.

So it's two answers the solution and then the description for use.

Lesson six What is an eight for seven Answer seven plus an X and -48 is less than six.

Seven is less than x.

Well, no, but you can still try to describe it on the number line if you want.

Illustrated above.

Above the line.

Well, the solution is x is greater than negative eight and it would be an open circle at negative eight and then shaded right.

So no points on the bonus.

Back to tossups in geography, how many states border Tennessee can four at it you can steal Greeneville Skyler six now eight states border Tennessee tied with Missouri for the most toss up in religion.

What statue stands on Corcovado mountain overlooking Rio de Janeiro?

Train Crossover Redeemer.

Yes.

And a religion bonus for Greenville.

What is the first book of the New Testament of the Bible?

Genesis.

Now that's obvious.

And Matthew is new.

No points on the bonus toss up in geology.

What is the term for the uppermost layer of earth with the highest concentration Trey the crust, you know, the highest concentration of organic matter and microorganisms lithosphere RJ what is it Lithosphere now, make sure ive called on you all the way.

But that was not right anyway.

The topsoil I'm describing, you know, like when you go out, walk on it, toss up in foreign language, what is the French word for a buttery, flaky pastry shaped like a M-A Chris border moon foreign language bonus for Google Translate the French food escargot into English Snow snail.

Yes.

And translate the French food who lay into English.

Hey, foodie pudding?

No, it's chicken fillet.

Kind of similar to poultry.

Ten points on the bone.

It starts up in music.

What popular classic rock song begins?

Just a small town girl living in a train journey.

Living in a lonely world.

She took the midnight train.

Ah, just stop believin and make sure I've called on you all the way.

And that's your last warning Don't stop believin Get your ten points and a music bonus.

Apple Music's most streamed song globally in 2022 was Stay Buy, which two artists, Justin Bieber and Justin Bieber.

Justin Bieber and Kesha.

Well, ten points for Justin Bieber.

The kid, La Roy was his partner on that track.

Toss up for everybody in geography.

What is the capital of Connecticut?

Trey Providence.

Not it.

You can steal midway There was Hartford, Connecticut.

No points there.

Toss up for everybody in art.

What do we call a color scheme that uses two or three related colors that line next to each other on the color wheel?

Destiny complementary now that you can steal Greenville so now it can't confer on tossups either analogous would have been the answer pops up in technology in texting and social media.

What does b r b represent.

Try be right back is right bonus now in texting and social media.

I y k y k. It stands for what if you know.

You know if you know you know.

Yeah I know what you need to tell me.

The answer is obviously very good.

20 points toss up for one in literature.

Who did Macbeth kill to become king Scholar.

King Leonard, Not him.

You can still Midway King.

King Henry King Duncan person for all players in mythology which mythological Roman messenger of the gods wore a winged king, Hermes now wore a winged hat and steal Greeneville.

Try Apollo.

How in Roman it would be mercury.

You had the winged hat first.

Now, for all players in U.S. history, what part of the USA was called Seward's Icebox by critics?

Skyler Alaska is right.

And a visual bonus.

Take a look at the screens, please.

The flag shown here was proposed in 1891 as the official flag of what southern state, Georgia, Georgia's Georgia.

Now it's Tennessee.

I don't think they accepted it, but it was proposed percent for all players in sports, which sport uses a balance beam Trey gymnastics correct for ten sports bonus.

Now what is the length in feet of an official football field between the goal lines?

For Angus to answer or defer.

Defer to Emma 300 feet is right.

What is the width in feet of an official football field?

Deeds.

It's 50 something.

58, 58.

Well, it's 53 and a third yards, which is 160 feet.

So ten points on that toss up in biology which blood vessels carry blood away from the heart Trey arteries.

Yes.

Is right to the rest of the body.

Biology bonus.

What is the term for the offspring of a beaver, which is the same as the term for a baby fox?

A fine.

A fine.

That's a kit.

Try this one.

What is the term for the offspring of a seal, which is the same as the term for a baby sloth?

A pup?

That's right.

Ten points plus up now in English on websites.

What does F A Q usually mean?

Kaden Questions Now that you can still train frequently asked questions.

Yeah, I need all of that.

And an English bonus for Greenville.

Correct.

The following sentence if necessary.

Rachel gave the donuts to Becca and I again.

Me?

Yeah, Rachel gave the donuts to Becca and me.

That is correct.

For 20 points toss up now in pre-calculus, What is the measure in degrees of the angle in radians of seven pi over six at the buzzer.

Skyler 210.

Yeah, 210 degrees.

Get you ten points in a pre-calculus bonus if the sine ratio of an angle is 5/13 five over 13.

What is the tangent ratio of the same angle?

So defer to Skyler five over seven.

Five over 12 is the tangent.

No points on the bonus.

Back to tossups in government.

What ideology advocates the abolition of hierarchical government and the organization of society and a voluntary Angus Libertarianism now voluntary cooperative basis.

James is still midway destiny anarchy.

Yeah, anarchism will take anarchy, bonus and government.

Now in 1792, Congress authorized the US Mint to inscribe all coins with what Latin motto meaning out of many one you can trust.

I don't have an answer That is E pluribus unum.

Tossup for everybody in architecture, what is the Latin term that refers to buildings, particularly plantation homes that existed before the Civil War?

Emma Rebellion Now that you can steal cane, Colonial Antebellum is Latin for before the war.

Toss up.

Now in astronomy, the James Webb Space Telescope is named after James E Webb, who is administrator of Watt Agency NASA right for ten Astronomy bonus.

The first moon rocks brought back to Earth in 1969 were given the name armalcolite who is represented by the syllables Arm, Al and Col oh Buzz Aldrin and I defer to Kayden Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong okay and one more?

no answer.

All right well you'll give you ten points for Armstrong and Aldrin then you can get ten points on this next half.

What was their landing site on the moon deferred.

RJ Sea of Tranquility is right so you get 20 on that bonus plus up now in vocabulary what word is used to describe one half of the world's surface Emma semi-sphere say that again it's semi-sphere not it and RJ hemisphere I think we'll have to steal that and take the ten points at the end of the first half.

It's Greeneville versus Midway.

Who's going to advance to the threshold of 32?

We'll find out 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 this first round game between Greeneville High School and Midway High School.

Right now, Greenville has a bit of a lead, but nothing is unsurmountable and one half of play.

So I think it's only about four questions in our scholars ball universe of about 30 points each makes the difference between these two squads, which are both keeping their starting lineups in the game, which means we get right back to the fingers on the buzzers for Tennessee Scholars Bowl 2024.

Toss up for all players in history who completed his conquest of Darius the thirds Persian Empire in 331 B.C.. Drake Alexander the Great is the right answer in the world History.

Bonus for Greenville A statue of what 18th century Empress was dismantled in the Ukrainian city of Odessa in December 2022.

During a process, the media called the Russification, the first Schuyler Catherine the Great is right 20 points tossup now in geography of which country is Greenland, a province, Trey, Denmark.

Right.

And a geography bonus.

Two parts of what country is Prague, the capital city, Czechia.

Czechia.

Well, Czech Republic is what we're call it, of what country is Brussels, the capital city, Belgium.

Belgium.

That's right.

For ten toss up Now in music, which type of musical composition is characterized by the systematic imitation of one or more themes overlapping canon that you could steal midway Kitten Ensemble?

No, A Fugue is what I'm describing.

We also would have accepted Rondo toss up for all players in chemistry.

What is the symbol for the element?

Platinum Trey?

Pl?

Not it.

You can steal RJ, PT it is right and get you a chemistry bonus.

Take a look at the screens please.

Liver memoriam is a synthetic chemical element that was known by the placeholder name Un Um Hexiom, which refers to what atomic number 51 115.

Now 116 is unknown.

Hex How about this Livermorium.

is named for what laboratory liver?

The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory at West.

No points on the bonus toss up in literature.

What is the term for hints given to help the reader determine the outcome of a situation?

Skyler Foreshadowing is right.

Literature Bonus Now who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?

So just insert yourself.

Harriet Beecher Stowe is right for ten.

What was the name of the cruel slave owner in the book?

Tom Uncle Tom?

No, the bad guy was Simon Legree.

Ten points on the bonus concept for everyone in algebra.

What graph is represented by the function y equals the quantity x minus four squared plus three Skyler Say it again.

Parabola.

Yeah.

Make sure I've called on you all the way with that is right and it gets you an algebra bonus.

Now give the factors of nine y squared -121 answer and defer to math.

Oh sorry.

Oh y equals 11 over three y equals -11 over three.

I was looking for the factors quantity three y -11 times the quantity three y plus 11.

Toss up for all players in U.S. history.

Before Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross, what was her profession?

A nurse?

Yes.

And the U.S. history bonus.

After no candidate won the necessary majority, the House of Representatives decided the 1824 presidential election by choosing which man to be the sixth president of the United States.

John Quincy Adams.

John Quincy Adams is right for 20 points toss up now in art, what is the term for a color scheme that uses colors directly opposite on the color wheel track?

Complementary is right and an art bonus on the screen.

Take a look, please.

The statue in the US Capitol's National Statuary Hall Collection, shown here, represents which King, who was said to have overturned the huge Naha stone in Hilo to say it's King Martin.

Really?

I don't know.

King Martin Newby and his King Kamehameha The first.

Oh oh points on the bonus toss up.

Now in health, which part of the elementary canal is a muscular tube that connects the throat or mouth to the stomach?

SKYLER Esophagus.

Yes.

And a health bonus.

Now, what is the term that means a dark brown to black pigment occurring in the hair, skin and iris of the eye.

People and animals that's responsible for tanning, of skin exposed to sunlight.

Melanin is right for 20 plus up now in foreign language, give the Latin word for elsewhere that is used to mean a person under suspicion was somewhere else when the act was committed.

Destiny alibi is right for ten foreign language bonus two parts.

First, what is the official language of Monaco for French?

French.

Right.

For ten, What is the official language of Liechtenstein?

Oh, German.

German.

Also right.

20 points plus up now in economics, what is a certificate issued by the government or a business promising to back with interest?

Scholar Bond.

Is it economics bonus?

In January 2023, the federal government announced a $282 million grant would go toward the estimated $16 billion cost of a new railroad tunnel between New York City and New Jersey.

Under which river?

Hudson River.

The Hudson River.

Yeah, that's right.

20 points tossed up in government.

What does the US Constitution set as the minimum age for a member of the US House of Representatives?

Trey?

25.

Yes.

And a government bonus.

Two parts.

What does FDA stand for?

Food and Drug Administration.

Food and Drug Administration.

Correct.

What does CDC stand for?

Center for Disease Control.

You know, it certainly Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but I think we can take that toss up Now in religion, what is the term for someone who denies the existence of God?

Trey, atheist.

Yes.

And a religion bonus.

At what age does a Jewish male have a bar mitzvah?

13 is right.

20 points Toss up in science.

On which scale does water have a boiling point of 100 degrees?

Trey Celsius?

Right.

4/10 Science bonus.

What is the frequency of leap years every four years?

Correct.

What is the frequency of solstices as every six months.

Every six months.

Also.

Right.

20 points.

Translate for everyone in literature.

What is the high point or turning point of a story?

Trey The climax?

Yes.

Literature Bonus.

Now a previously unknown short story titled Pursuit as Happiness was published for the first time in 2020.

It recounts a hunt for a huge marlin, which echoes the narrative of Old Man in the Sea, written by what same author Ernest Hemingway.

Ernest Hemingway is right for 20 toss up now in geometry.

What is the mathematical term given to a ray passing through an angled vertex, forming two congruent angles?

Can complementary not you can steal greenville trace supplementary an angle by sector is the ray and no points they are toss up now in history.

Which man became U.S. president even after a campaign that smeared him as a drunkard, gambler, adulterer, womanizer, Tray Jefferson and murderer chance to steal midway.

R.J. Jackson.

Yes.

Andrew Jackson.

And a history bonus.

During the Spanish-American War, the U.S. Navy seized which island that is the largest of the Mariana Islands.

And 52 years later, its residents were granted U.S. citizenship.

Puerto Rico.

Now Guam is the one out there in the Pacific.

Toss up now in games.

What game utilizes the weapons, rope, lead, pipe and knife to make sure our colony was sorry.

Clue.

All right.

And games is your bonus.

What Game about Finance was created by Charles Darrow in 1933 and later sold by Parker Brothers.

Monopoly.

Monopoly, Correct.

For ten which conglomerate purchased Parker Brothers in 1991.

Hasbro and Hasbro was right for 20 on the bonus toss up.

Now in chemistry, what is a substance whose solution is capable of conducting an electric current?

Emma, metal not it You can steal Midway RJ electrolyte is what I'm describing.

Toss up in vocabulary.

See what five letter word beginning with a means, a statement or proposition which is regarded as being established, accepted or self-evidently true.

That five letter vocab word is axiom.

Toss up Everyone in literature who wrote Jane Eyre write Emily Bronte, not her.

You can steal midway.

Ken Louis.

Charlotte Bronte.

Yeah, you were close, but not right.

Tossup in geography.

Over which ocean was Amelia Earhart flying when she Trey?

Pacific Pacific Ocean and geography bonus.

What are the only two states in the U.S. that produce coffee beans on a commercial scale?

Why buy Take away and California?

Those are both right for 20 points.

Toss up now in music.

In which musical profession does a performer wear pointe shoes?

Emma Ballet Right.

And music bonus.

Now what is the major key for an instrument like a piano when the key signature has four sharps?

F that is E major.

Try this one.

What is the major key for an instrument like a piano?

When the key signature has one flat and flat, That would be a flat.

A-flat.

A-flat.

That is F major.

Is that asking for the major key?

So no points on that toss up.

Now in biology, Bottlenose is a type of what species that is known Trey?

dolphin Yeah for its built in smile biology bonus.

What is the process of change that takes place before animals such as butterflies and frogs become adults?

Metamorphosis.

Metamorphosis is right for ten now spell metamorphosis for ten more points.

M E.T.A.

emo r p h a s. I almost got yourself ten more points at the end.

But at the end it's a page o SARS, so I can't give it to you.

But I don't think you needed him anyway because you did pull away from our friends at Midway High School who are delightful.

Thank you very much for being here and I hope you'll keep watching and we'll see your underclassmen in future years on Scholars Bowl.

Meanwhile, Greeneville, congratulations.

You now advanced to the threshold of 32.

You will play again on Scholars Bowl and you course, can keep track of all of our students by watching every day, setting your DVR, whatever it is you need to do to not miss an episode or like many of them, to binge watch past seasons online using the PBS app.

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