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

The game that calls for academic knowledge.

Let's meet our team.

History is the category players.

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

Thank you for watching.

Tennessee Scholars Bowl.

I'm Frank Murphy.

This is the academic tournament with teams from all over the viewing area competing for the Frank Miller Memorial Trophy and a cash prize they'll hear about coming up at halftime.

We are in the threshold of 32.

It is a second round game today between Maryville High School and Halls High School.

And we've got a lot of returning players and familiar faces on the show today.

So let's say hi.

First to 10th grader Rebecca Boone.

Hi, Rebecca.

Tell us about your hobbies interests.

What else?

Yeah, I'm on the bowling team for my school.

No kidding.

What's your best score?

146.

Is that good?

Because I don't know.

Perfect scores, 300.

So it's all right.

All right.

Well, its 146 more than I've ever scored.

So congratulations there.

Let's say hi also to Ollie McQueen in 12th grade.

Welcome back, Ali.

What about you?

I'm in my school's model, U.N. and I work at a pottery studio.

Now, is the model U.N. just a tiny little U.N. that was dollhouse furniture or I mean, I wish it was.

Yeah.

But tell me more about the pottery studio.

I don't really do pottery.

I just do most of the grunt work.

And then I help with the kids during the summer.

Okay.

Well, eventually they'll let you put your hands on some clay.

Okay.

Hang also to team Captain Abby Causey.

So, Abby, you're going to answer bonuses of half the squad or defer by name to a teammate.

What have you been up to?

So this year I'm choreographing my school's musical, and I'm also in our model U.N. club now.

I joked about the Model U.N., but what do you and Ali do with the model U.N.?

So we write different papers for each conference that we go to and then when we get to our committees, we debate them and see if we can pass some resolutions to kind of solve these problems.

And in the world, this is the thing that looks great on college applications, right?

I hope so.

I imagine it does.

Let's say hi to 10th grader Tanya Barwad.

Hi, Tanya.

Welcome back.

How are you?

I'm good.

I'm in tennis and I'm in science club.

Okay.

And science club.

Is there a special field of science that you gravitate toward?

Biology?

Oh, great.

All right, Nice.

Maybe that's something you can do as a career someday.

That's fantastic.

Let's say hi to the alternates and coach for memorable, starting with Connor Faller and Avery Smith.

Also Bailey and Denton and Cosmo Goal, joined by coach Dr. Corey DeHart, who teaches astronomy and physics at Marvel, taking on the Red Devils of Halls High School.

Welcome back.

Halls Let's say hi to Sophia Elkins in 11th grade.

How are you, Sophia?

I'm good.

I am part of the SGA at Halls, which is the Student Government Association, and I'm part of the team board of Knoxville Teen Board.

And that's a prestigious thing as well.

Yes, that was the one with the big fancy ball in the summer where they all get dressed.

Yes, I went this summer.

And to do that, you have to have 100 service hours.

Oh, fantastic.

I always wondered about that.

And that's good to know.

All right.

Well, congratulations on that.

We're also joined by Ethan Huber, who's in 12th grade.

What about you, Ethan?

I'm the number one on our tennis team at the high school, and I'm in the Halls High Madrigals, which is our most advanced choir and is number one on tennis.

Would that be love 15?

What does that mean?

What is the tennis is all different numbers.

Yeah, I'm just the best player on the team.

Oh, of course.

We're glad to hear that.

I hope you're the best player.

And Scholars Bowl today to help all of you.

Ah, let's say hi to team captain Benjamin Atkins in 12th grade.

What about you, Benjamin?

I am the tenor section leader in the Halls High Madrigals.

So I'm Ethan's boss, and I lead rehearsals.

And in my free time, I like to design and 3D print model rockets.

Now, my wife also sings choral music, so I have some passing familiarity with it.

What are some of the pieces that you guys have sung as madrigals?

Well, during our December, we like every day we travel around halls and sing Christmas songs.

That's great.

Lots of just, you know, classic Christmas songs over Holy Night, Little Town of Bethlehem, and then in the spring and Summer, or You Do Anything, but we have a fall concert and a spring concert or musical.

And this year we're doing a musical.

Which one?

Secret Garden.

Excellent.

All right.

We're happy to hear all that.

Let's say hi to your brother, Joe Nicholas Adkins, who's in 10th grade.

What about you?

Do you sing to Joe?

Nicholas?

Yeah, I'm in the madrigals, too.

I'm a tenor one.

So he's my boss.

Oh, man.

Yeah, but tenors are better than basses, right?

Oh, for sure.

Yes.

All right.

Apologies to my bass friends watching at home.

What else do you do, Joe?

Nicholas, I'm in the marching band.

Yeah, and I love to play chess.

No kidding.

Yeah.

All right, very good.

All right.

We're happy to have you here.

Let's see kind of the alternates and coach for Halls.

That is Amanda Lane and Ty Davis.

And they are joined by coach Tim Reeves, who teaches social studies.

You obviously all were here before to win your way into this second round game players we got tossups.

Were ten bonuses worth up to 20?

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

First toss up in the category of U.S. history.

What name was given to President Franklin Roosevelt's collection of political and economic policies Abbie?

the New Deal.

Aimed at resolving the crises of the thirties.

And a history bonus.

Now, which president's second inaugural speech included, quote, With malice toward none and charity for all.

With firmness in the right, let us achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace.

Ronald Reagan.

That was Abraham Lincoln.

So no points on that toss up.

Now, in geography, what term refers to the angular distance north or south of the equator?

Ollie?

Latitude.

Is right for 10.

Geography is your bonus.

In 2023, hundreds of Venezuelan migrants were stranded in a desolate stretch of which desert when they were stopped from crossing the northern border of Chile into Peru and desert.

Answer the Sahara.

That's the Atacama Desert in South America.

Toss up in chemistry.

What is the particle that possesses only a fraction of the charge of an electron and seems to be a constituent of baryons and mesons?

Benjamin?

Quark.

Is right.

Chemistry Bonus Name the periodic trend that measures how much energy is required to remove an electron from an atom.

We don't know.

No answer.

That would be the ionization energy task for everybody in vocabulary.

What seven letter word beginning with E means a pithy saying or remark expressing an idea in a clever and amusing way.

Oops, sorry.

Yeah, it's an enthusiastic epigram, but we had more of a look in at each other, so I have to throw that question out anyway, since you didn't get it.

Plus a for all players in arts in the 1960s, the co-founder of the Children's Television Workshop asked what puppeteer to create a family of characters to populate.

Benjamin Jim Henson Yeah, Sesame Street is where I was going with that.

And then arts bonus now for Halls.

Named four of the six type of birds mentioned in the song The 12 Days of Christmas and Food.

Chicken.

No, not a chicken.

And a hen.

That's all I've got.

Answer?

Partridge, Turtle Dove, French, French hen.

I dont have a fourth one.

You're in the madrigals.

We do sing that song.

All three of those are correct.

You left out calling birds, geese and swans.

Oh, I forgot all of those.

You'll think of me next year.

Toss up in economics.

Which country is the world's largest producer of corn?

Joe Nicholas.

The United States.

Is correct.

Economics is your bonus.

Which U.S. currency Bill has a picture of the White House time?

$1.

Would it be $1 $20 bill?

And which U.S. currency bill has a picture of the Lincoln Memorial $5 bill.

Both of those are the 20 points toss up in math computation.

What is negative three raised to the fourth power divided by negative three squared.

Ollie?

Nine.

Is right.

It's 81 divided by nine if you're following along at home.

And a math visual now for Maryville.

Look at the screens, please.

The perimeter of a rectangle is 48 inches.

If the length is ten inches more than the width, give both dimensions.

Answer at 12 and two.

Well, the length is 17, the width is seven inches.

No points on the bonus toss up.

Now in health, what is a substance such as vitamin C or E that removes potentially damaging oxidizing agents in a living organism?

Ollie?

Antibodies?

No, you can steal Halls.

Its antioxidants.

No points on that toss up.

Now for everyone in spelling.

The mistake was made inadvertently spelled inadvertently.

Abbie.

I N A D V E R T A N T L Y.

Not it.

You can steal Hall's Sophia.

I N A D V E R T A N T L Y No, you both got hung up on that e instead of a there it's I N A D V E R T E N T L Y. Inadvertently.

Toss up for everyone in sports what annual event is called the frozen for Ethan Stanley Cup.

Not at you can still marvel now that's the NCAA hockey championships, the frozen four and the parallels the final four plus up in history.

which Italian explorer, Abbie?

Columbus.

No traveled to China in 1275 and remain to serve Kubla Khan for 17 years, Joe Nicholas?

Marco Polo.

Yes and a history bonus which African general who used war elephants crossed the Pyrenees and the Alps to take Rome by surprise.

Hannibal That's right for 20.

Toss up for all players in religion, what is the main sacred text of Zoroastrianism, Benjamin?

Bible.

Not that you can steal Maryville?

That is the Avesta No points on the toss up.

Next, toss up in science.

What is the process of breaking down glucose and sugars that releases energy without using Tanya?

Hydrolysis.

without using oxygen chance to steal Halls.

Ethan?

an ATP synthesis.

No, it's just fermentation is what we're talking about there.

Toss up now in literature, The Lion King has similarities to which Shakespeare play.

Joe Nicholas.

Hamlet.

Yeah, that includes several similar characters, and a literature bonus now.

All quiet on the Western Front is about a boy who excitedly looks forward to a swaggering victory march but finds himself in a nightmare of bloodshed and chaos during which war, World War One.

That is right for 20 points.

Toss up now in miscellaneous, Beethoven was the name of a famous composer and the name of a famous movie dog, Abbie Saint Bernard.

Of what breed?

And a bonus in miscellaneous from Marvel.

What was the middle name of President William J. Clinton?

John That's Jefferson.

What was the middle name of President John F Kennedy?

Fitzgerald That's right.

Ten points on the bonus.

Toss that for all players in government.

Which document begins when in the course of human events, Joe Nicolas?

Declaration of Independence.

Is right and it gets you a visual bonus in government.

Look at the screens, please.

What did the three stars on the Tennessee flag shown here represent West, Middle and East Tennessee?

Yeah, the three grand divisions.

And what does the Blue Circle represent?

It's river.

I think it's the unity between the three.

Yeah.

They use, they say eternal unity, but that's exactly it.

We'll give it to you.

That's 20 points on the bonus toss up for all players in physics.

What is the nine letter word?

Beginning with the letter R, that means prolonged sound caused by vibration or reflection?

Sofia Resonance.

Yes.

And a physics bonus.

Now, name the two properties that define a vector direction in magnitude direction and magnitude.

Those are both right for 20 toss off for all players in foreign language, What is the literal English translation of the Spanish phrase salsa a maria?

Tanya.

Yellow Salsa.

Not exactly true.

And steal, Ethan?

Dancing with Maria.

No, it's yellow sauce.

You can't tell me salsa if I gave you salsa.

Toss up in architecture, what is the name of the crowning feature of a column?

Sophia, Buttress?

What is it?

The buttress.

No chance to steal Maryville?

That is the capital at the top of the column.

Toss up now in geography, which Canadian province borders New Hampshire?

Ollie?

Quebec.

Yes.

And a geography bonus.

What are the two longest rivers in Africa?

I defer to Ollie.

The Nile and the Congo.

Those are both right for 20 toss up.

Now in geology, what is the term for an underwater mountain formed by volcanic activity that is a seamount No points toss up in biology.

Photo tropism is the reaction or movement of a plant to the stimulus of what Ollie?

Light.

Yes.

And biology bonus in addition to a heard and a memory, what is a group of elephants called a gang?

A parade?

What is a group of frogs called a gang?

An army of points on the bonus toss up in mythology.

What was the name of the mythological fire goddess of Mont Ulloa, as well as the name of the greatest Brazilian, Abbie?

Tafiti?

greatest Brazilian soccer player chants, steal Halls.

Sophia?

Pele?

Is right.

Mythology bonus now.

Which creature in Greek mythology was half man and half bull Minotaur, right.

And who are the heroes that accompany Jason on his quest for the Golden Fleece?

Argonauts Those are both right for 20% for all players in games.

Which chess piece can move in all directions?

But only Ethan Queen know only one space per turn Abbie?

Nevermind.

Yeah.

You could have said King maybe gotten ten points at the end is the end of the first half between Maryville and Halls.

One of these two teams advances to our Smart 16.

Coming up after the break.

And Tennessee Scholars Bowl 2024.

The 40th season of Tennessee Scholars Bowl is a single elimination tournament featuring 64 high school academic teams.

The championship team.

And this year, Scholars Bowl receives the Frank Miller Memorial Trophy.

The scorekeeper timekeeper and judges for this year's Scholars Bowl are Chandler Vincent, Rebecca Longmire, Stephen Hensley, Cathy Coley, Ernie Roberts, Cathy Waddell, Jerry Doherty.

Thank you.

Also to the East Tennessee PBS staff and volunteers who make this educational program possible to enter your high school in next year's Tennessee Scholars Bowl.

Or for more information on this year's tournament, please write to the address shown on your screen.

You're watching Tennessee Scholars Bowl.

I'm Frank Murphy, back from halftime.

In this second round game, this threshold, a 32 round game between Maryville High School and Halls High school right now, Halls has the lead.

We'll see what happens in our second half of play.

With Maryville bringing an alternate into the game.

Let's say hi to Qaswa Gull.

We met you last time your team played.

Quaswa, tell us about yourself.

I'm a member of NHS and I'm on the Science Olympiad team.

And you're a senior this year?

Yes.

What area of science do you gravitate towards?

Earlier, Tanya told us she likes biology.

What about you?

I'm also biology.

Yeah, that's fantastic.

I love it.

All right, well, if you remember how to play because you've been here.

Meanwhile, Halls keeping starting lineups in there, so we'll get right back to it and see which of you two teams is going to advance to the smart 16 fingers on the buzzer for Tennessee Scholars Bowl 2024.

What artifact of American history contains the inscription?

Proclaim liberty throughout the land and unto all the inhabitants thereof.

Ethan.

Declaration of Independence.

That it you can still marvel.

Qaswa?

The Constitution.

That's the Liberty Bell was the artifact I was talking about.

toss up.

Now in pre-calculus, find the exact value of the expression tangent 45 degrees times cosine 150 degrees.

Nobody got that in time.

You can't look at each other's pictures on a toss up.

It would have been negative square root three over two.

All right, toss up for everybody in science.

What is the term for the relatively calm center of a hurricane or typhoon?

Ollie?

I.

Is right and that gets you a visual bonus.

Now take a look at the screens, please.

What is the simplest ketone shown here that is a volatile, flammable, colorless liquid used in laboratories as a solvent and as a component of nail polish removers.

For Abbie to answer or defer.

Acetone.

That's right for 20 points.

Toss up now in literature, what Chinese military treatise written by Sun Tzu in the fifth century B.C.

has Ethan?

Art of war.

Yeah, 13 chapters each devoted to a different topic and a bonus.

Now, in literature.

Who wrote in his book Walden, If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

Henry David Thoreau is right for 20 points.

Toss up in music.

What famous singer died on August 16, 1977, four weeks after the release of his album Moody Blue.

Ethan?

Elvis Presley.

Is right and a music bonus for Halls.

Two parts.

What does the musical term legato mean?

I can't remember.

Held out that is smooth or connected.

What does the musical term tempo mean?

Back to standard rhythm and back to the standard rhythm.

Yeah, we can take notes, resume the previous tempos.

We'll give you ten on that toss up.

Now in economics, which form do most working Americans receive from their employers to show their income Ethan?

W2 Yeah, an amount of tax withheld.

An economics bonus for Halls two parts.

What is the official currency of the South African Common monetary area?

Dollars.

While you need to know this, if you ever take up crossword puzzles, it's the rand.

What is the official currency of South Korea?

Don?

Answer?

No answer.

That is the Korean Republic Won.

We would have taken won the won.

No points there.

Toss up for all players in chemistry.

What is the term for forms of the same element that contain equal numbers of protons, but different numbers but even iron?

No, but different numbers of neutrons in their Abbie?

Isotope, in their nuclei is an isotope chemistry is a bonus.

What is calciums electron configuration in exponential form?

God, calcium contains two to answer.

2S3P?

Well, they're in there, but it's a 1s2, 2s2, 2p6, 3s2, 3p6, 4s2, for calcium.

Toss up now in vocabulary what is it ten letter adjective beginning with the letter M, that means excessively careful of small and minor details Qaswa?

Meticulous.

Yes.

And a vocabulary bonus A crusive verbalalist is someone skilled at creating or solving what a word puzzle.

Well, specifically, The crusi makes it a crossword puzzle.

Crusiverbalist Toss up now in music for all players, how many total keys are on a grand piano?

Ethan 88, right.

And a music bonus.

Take a look at the screens, please.

Commemorated in a hit song, The Sea Edmund Fitzgerald, shown here, sank in what body of water during a storm on November ten, 1975, killing all 29 men aboard.

Answer Lake Michigan That is Lake Superior.

You can still get points, though, if you tell me which Canadian singer songwriter who died in 2023 considered the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald to be his finest work.

Justin Bieber.

Im not going to say Justin Bieber.

Answer.

Scrooge McDuck.

Gordon Lightfoot is the guy's name.

Toss up now for all players in government.

What is the term for the violations sometimes called piracy that occurs when a copyrighted work is reproduced, Abbie?

Copyright.

When a copyrighted work is reproduced, distributed, performed, or publicly displayed without the permission of the owner.

A chance to steal Halls.

At the buzzer Ethan?

No you didnt get it either.

You almost had it Abbie.

It's copyright infringement.

Toss up now in geometry.

What type of inscribed angle intercepts a semi-circle?

That it would be a right angle.

No points toss up in technology.

What is the term for a program or file that is intentionally harmful to a computer network?

Joe Nicholas?

Malware.

Or server is a malware and a technology bonus for Halls.

Which programing language first released in 1995, is still commonly used for developing mobile applications for Android devices?

Porch Linux.

Linux.

Now Java is what we're talking about there.

That's apt in foreign language.

What is the national language of Pakistan?

Qaswa?

Urdu.

Yes.

And a bonus in foreign language.

What is the English translation of the Spanish phrase?

Cintron de Seguridad?

Three days of summer.

That's a seatbelt.

Apparently.

Toss up for all players in religion.

What structure in Jerusalem is a relic of the Temple of Herod, which was destroyed in 70 A.D.?

Joe Nicholas Wailing Wall.

Yeah, in 70 A.D.

Religion Bonus four Halls.

What is the term for the group of books of the Bible removed by King James, the first in 1604 written text?

Yes, the forbidden texts.

We call it the Apocrypha.

So no points on that tossup in geography.

What body of water has a name that means middle of the earth?

Joe Nicholas?

Mediterranean.

Yeah.

The Mediterranean Sea is right.

And a geography bonus.

Name two of the four major deserts on the North American continent that Mojave.

And I don't have a second answer.

Well, Mojave is right for five points.

Great Basin, Chihuahuan and Sonoran are the others Plus up in literature.

Who is the author of The Prince and the Pauper Abbie?

Mark Twain.

Yes, for ten and a bonus Now in Literature.

In 2022, the Brooklyn Public Library celebrated its 125th anniversary by listing its 125 most borrowed books.

Which book about Max, who dresses in a wolf suit, chases his dog with a fork and turns his bedroom into a jungle, was number one on the library's list.

Where the Wild Things Are is right for 20 plus up.

Now in geology, what type of igneous rock solidifies below the Earth's surface?

Abbie?

Granite, Not it.

You can steal Halls, Joe Nicholas?

Obsidian.

No, intrusive is that type of igneous rock toss up in vocabulary.

What is the term for an introduction to a poem, play or novel?

Such as the Canterbury Tales Ollie?

Prologue is right.

Vocabulary is a bonus.

What ten letter words starting with C means of or like a corpse cadaver cadaverous?

Yes.

Now spell cadavers for ten more points cadaver0us.

That's correct.

Total 20 on that bonus toss up.

Now, in sports, which city is Major League Baseball and National Football League teams are each named for a different bird.

Abbie?

Sorry.

Chance to steal Halls.

Joe Nicholas Baltimore.

Yeah.

The Ravens and the Orioles and a sports bonus for Hall's name.

The four NBA teams in California.

Six things starting in their Miami Golden State Warriors and three other one five points for Golden State.

You miss the Sacramento Kings, the L.A. Clippers and the L.A. Lakers.

That's it for everybody in history.

The assassination of the Archduke of what country was one of the chain of events If Austria No chance to steal Ollie.

Austria-Hungary?

Yeah, I need the full answer.

Austria-Hungary.

That's right.

And a bonus in world history from travel.

For centuries, the Barbary states of North Africa preyed on the maritime commerce of others.

Name four states that made up the Barbary states, Sudan and Egypt.

No those are not it.

We were looking for Algiers, Tripoli, Tunis and Morocco as the four states, but that is the end of the game.

Maryville made a decent comeback there, but not enough to take down the Red Devils of Halls.

First of all, Maryville, congratulations.

We know your school has put multiple teams into the tournament.

We very much appreciate that support.

I know you'll be rooting on your classmates as the tournament continues.

Meanwhile, Halls congratulations.

You're going to be in the Smart 16.

We'll look forward to seeing you again on the show.

You can keep track of all of our teams.

Never miss an episode by setting your DVR or doing whatever it takes to watch or binge watching past seasons online using the PBS app.

My name is Frank Murphy.

Thank you for watching.

Tennessee's Scholars Bowl 2024.