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

The game that calls for academic knowledge.

Let's meet our team.

History is the category players.

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

Thank you for watching.

Tennessee Scholar's Bowl.

I'm Frank Murphy.

This is the academic tournament with 64 teams 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, our 40th season of Scholars Bowl.

And today's first round match is between Seymour High School and Hall's High school.

Seymour, one of the schools that put at least two teams into the tournament this year.

So let's start by saying hi to the ladies of Seymour, beginning with Sophie Carr, a junior.

Hi, Sophie.

Tell us something about yourself.

I have a brother and I'm in Beta Club with Alina and Sophia.

Now, is your brother also involved in college ball or.

He was, yes.

Okay.

And let's say hi then to Eleanor Hembree, who's a senior.

What about you, Elaina?

I have four brothers and I'm in Beta Club with Sophia and Sophie and Beta Club is a service organization.

Yes.

What's something you might do in Beta Club?

Um, we, like, get service hours for each like, year to help with the community.

So a helpful thing you've done in the course of your time, your four years at Seymour is one thing that we do every year is like a stuffing drive in like during Thanksgiving.

That sounds great.

Yeah.

All right, love it.

Team captain is Sophia Winooski.

So, Sophia, you're going to answer bonuses on behalf of the squad or defer to them by name.

So happy to have you back on the show again this year.

Tell us about yourself.

I have a sister and I'm also in the Beta Club with Elaina and Sophie.

Excellent.

Well, welcome back.

We're happy to have you.

Let's say hi to junior Savannah Butler.

Hi, Savannah.

Tell us about yourself.

Hello.

I am the captain of my school speech team, and my favorite element on the periodic table is iodine.

Oh, that's a fantastic one.

Think of all the uses.

Yeah, if you're doing a speech on iodine that I'd love to hear that I did once.

It was a written speech that I didn't speak up like speak out about.

Yeah, I just like iodine because overall it's a very attractive element for uses in radiotherapy, chemotherapy, detoxification and environmental sciences.

Proving that you really did do a speech on iodine.

Yes.

All right.

Let's ahead of the coach for Seymour High School.

That is Kristy Williams, who teaches marketing at Seymour, taking on the Red Devils of Halls.

Listening.

Hi.

First to some returning players, including 11th graders, Sophia Elkins.

Hi, Sophia.

How are you?

Hi.

I play tennis and I also am really involved in our schools FCA program.

Tell me what that stands for.

FCA stands for Fellowship of Christian Athletes.

Great.

So obviously as a tennis player, you do that.

Where do you get to go play tennis?

You travel a lot or is it mostly local?

We played one away tournament in the Tri-Cities, but mostly it's local around Knox County.

Yeah.

Oh, good.

All right.

And I hope you enjoy that very much.

Let's say hi to 12th grader Ethan Huber.

Hey, Ethan, tell us about you.

My name's Ethan, the number one on our tennis team at our high school.

And I'm in the host high Magic course, which is our most advanced choir.

What's your vocal part?

I'm a tenor, too.

Oh, wow.

Tenors are always in short supply.

As you get on in life, they'll try to rope you into every other choir you can.

You get an ear.

That's great.

All right, well, the madrigals are terrific.

Let's see.

We had a team captain.

Who is Benjamin Atkins, 12th graders.

So, Benjamin, you're going to answer bonuses or defer by name to one of your teammates.

Tell us about you.

I am the tenor section leader in the halls.

High school madrigals.

So you can tell Ethan what to do.

Ethan's boss.

That's nice.

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

Wow.

And do they actually fire in the air, too?

And then most of the time, they.

Oh, okay.

So they're supposed to sound good.

All right.

We're happy to have you here.

And we've also got 10th grader Joe Nicholas Adkins.

What a coincidence.

You have the same last name as the guy next to you.

Tell us about you.

Well, my name's Joe Nicholas.

I go to halls.

Yeah, and I'm also a tenor, so he passes me around.

Yeah.

Is he your brother?

Yes.

I would have guessed you had a lower voice just based on your answer right now.

But I'm also in the marching band.

Yeah.

What do you play?

I play marimba.

So just like, imagine a xylophone, but bigger.

I goes to the talent show one time, and the winner was a marimba player.

But we had the darndest time getting that marimba off the stage for the next act to come on.

So I can imagine it very easily.

Yeah.

All right, Well, good.

We're glad you're here.

Let's stay ahead of the alternates and coach for Hal's high school.

And that would be Amanda Lane and Ty Davis, joined by coach Tim Reeves, who teaches social studies at Halls.

You've all many of you have been here before.

You've all watched the show for sure.

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 literature.

Haiku contains three lines of poetry, with a total of how many syllables?

Sophia Seven at it.

You can still see something.

Yeah, mixture of calling all the way, but 17 is the right answer.

Literature is your bonus.

What are the names of the characters involved in a love triangle in the Twilight Saga?

Bella, Edward and Jacob.

And second half of the question who is the author of The Twilight Saga?

Answer John, when you get 15 points for the three correct answers, Stephanie Meyer is the author.

Plus up now in Music.

What rapper has had hits with the songs God's Plan and Search and Rescue.

Sophia Drake is right.

Music is your bonus.

What is the musical term defined as the degree of happiness or aloneness in sound according to the frequency of vibration of the sound waves producing them.

Pitch, pitch, pitch.

Right for 20 points plus.

Up now in U.S. history, who was president of the United States between Benjamin Harrison and Theodore Roosevelt?

John Nicklaus.

Grover Cleveland, Not him.

You can still now Savannah Taft?

No.

William McKinley, who was assassinated and made Teddy President Thomas up in math.

What is the name of a line which intersects a circle at exactly one point?

Benjamin Tangent line is right in a math visual on the screen.

Take a look.

Calls given an isosceles right triangle with hypotenuse 12 Find the perimeter in simplified radical form.

Answer Benjamin Moore 42 And we're looking for a 12 plus 12 square root of two because it's radical form percent for everybody in health.

Which type of glands produce hormones?

Hannah should know.

Adrenal glands.

You ran out of time there.

You got to answer right away.

You're ringing Sophia to you.

Now, endocrine glands are what we're describing.

And the overall toss up in foreign language translate good journey into a common French phrase often used in English.

Sophia Bon voyage is right in a foreign language bonus borrowed from French.

What does the 12 letter word that begins with E!

For someone who organizes and manages an enterprise that usually involves some risk for Benjamin to answer a defer entrepreneur That's right.

For 20 points toss up in art, Which American painter trademarked the phrase painter of light in 1996 for the mass marketing of his paintings of cottages and other peaceful scenes.

The Vanna Thomas Kinkade is correct, and an art bonus for Seymour, who was the American painter from Rhode Island Colony, whose best known works are unfinished portraits of George and Martha Washington that it began in 1796.

Michelangelo That would be a good feat.

It was Gilbert Stuart Toss up now for all players in economics.

How many sheets of paper are in a case containing ten reams of regular copy paper?

Benjamin 100 At it, you can still see more photos.

Savannah I didn't call on you though, so I had a chance.

See how 5000 would have been right?

So make sure I've called on even though I'm looking at you.

Toss up for four players in literature.

Down which river do Huck and Jim travel and adventures of Huckleberry Finn?

Joe Nicholas, Mississippi is it?

And the literature bonus for Halls.

England's University of Greenwich was criticized in 2023 for coddling when it issued a trigger warning to students about the toxic relationships in an 1817 classic novel, Northanger Abbey, which was written by which author Charles Jane Austen is right for 20 points.

Plus, if everyone in geology geologists divide eras into periods and divide periods into what time frames, even centuries, that that gives you a chance to still see more.

No, epochs, E P O C H epochs toss up in vocabulary.

What part of speech are the words and but or nor for Savannah, it's not contractions propositions.

That's not a chance to steal Halls conjunctions, is it?

And a vocabulary bonus.

Now what five letter word beginning with C means great disorder or confusion.

Chaos.

Now for ten more points spell chaos.

C h a That's wrong.

Oh, that is right.

C H A O S. I think the judges might give that to you since you restarted the same thing.

Yes.

20 points Toss up in miscellaneous In what state is the University of Notre Dame located in Savannah, Massachusetts?

Not it.

You can steal Hall's star the buzzer sound as it was Indiana.

Toss it for everybody in geography.

What Tennessee City earned the nickname the Marble City because Joe Nicholas Knoxville because of its pink marble quarries.

That's right.

And I got a visual bonus.

Take a look at the screens, please.

Hauls in the school crest shown here.

What is the translation of the word Veritas?

No answer.

That is truth.

The crest you saw is the emblem of which university in Cambridge, Harvard is right.

I left off Massachusetts on purpose to make it harder.

But you got a toss up in math computation.

What is the least common multiple of three, four and 16?

So that one not so.

I'm going to remind you again, let me call on your first all students to steal.

The least common multiple of those numbers is 48 toss up now in biology.

What is the heart protein that forms when hair cells move away from the root and are cut off from their nourishment supply?

Joe Nicolas Carrington Yes, and a biology bonus.

What is a thread like structure of nucleic acids and protein found in the nucleus of most living cells carrying genetic information in the form of genes?

DNA Well, it may include some DNA, but chromosome is what I described pass up.

Now in English, it seems silly that Sam set Sideways is an example of what type Benjamin Alliteration figured a speech grammar bonus for Charles convert the following sentence into indirect speech.

Maria said, It is my car.

She said, She said it's my car.

Well, to make it more and to make an indirect it would be.

Maria said that it was her car, so no points on that toss up.

Now in religion, who was the Albanian nun who won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her work in India and was canonized a Catholic saint 19 years later?

John, a Mother Teresa, is right now known as Saint Teresa of Calcutta, a religion bonus for Hall's Christian churches of many denominations offer a blessing of the animals on a date close to October 4th, which is the feast day of which Catholic Friar, who is the namesake for a major city in Northern California and the patron saint of animals.

Francis Anymore?

Cisco No.

Well, there's so many Saint Francis's as that's my actual name Saint Francis of Assisi is what we needed there for the patron saint of animals toss up in world history.

Rome was spared further destruction in 452, when Pope Leo, the Great, held a meeting with what leader of an invading barbarian group, Savannah uttered them.

Is it in a world history bonus who invented the vulcanization process that made possible the commercial use of rubber?

I defer to Savannah.

Henry Ford.

I know Charles Goodyear is the guy's name.

They named some tires after that guy toss up in government.

What is the provision in the U.S. Constitution that allows each branch of government to share powers with the other branches if checks and balances is correct and a government bonus for halls in 2023, the mayor of which city that is Alaska's largest, offered to buy the homeless one way plane tickets to warmer locations or to other cities in Alaska.

Anchorage is right for 20 points plus up in astronomy, which is the only planet inhabited solely by robots.

Benjamin Mars Right.

And Astronomy Bonus.

An astronomical unit is a unit of length, roughly equal to the distance between what the Earth is, the earth and the sun.

Those are both ranked 20 points toss up now in spelling.

Students follow a curriculum in school.

Spell the word curriculum.

Savannah C U R R I C U L U M is right for ten points, and now a spelling bonus for Seymour spelled a five letter word, beginning with F. That is a deceptive or pretended blow thrust or other movement, especially in boxing or fencing.

Yes, sir.

Yeah, you missed it there.

How about this half of the question spell?

It's homonym.

That means weak and dizzy, close to losing consciousness.

F a i n t. That's right.

Now, the the deceptive move is faint, but spelled with f e. I am so ten points on the bonus toss up in architecture.

What is it?

Device made to be raised up or let down so as to permit or hinder passage.

Typically at the entrance to a castle or tower, Ethan drawbridge is surrounded by a moat and an architecture bonus.

Four Halls.

What is the name of the building mentioned in the Bible that was supposed to reach heaven?

The Tower of Babble is right for 20 toss up in geography.

What city is the easternmost state capital in the U.S.?

Joining was Honolulu, not it.

You can steal it.

See more Savannah opening.

You know, the easternmost state capital is actually Augusta, Maine.

And if you were trying to get me westernmost, it looks like that is the end of our first half with halls a bit having a bit of a lead over Seymour.

What will happen in our second half of play?

Stick around and find out.

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 Seymour High School and Hall's high school.

Right now, the Red Devils have a lead over the Eagles, but we'll see what happens in our second half of play.

One of these two teams will advance to the threshold of 32.

Both teams are keeping the starting lineups intact, so that means we can get right back to it.

Players Fingers on your buzzers for Tennessee Scholars Bowl 2024.

Tossup for all players in algebra three X squared -12 Y squared equals 48 is the equation of which conic section.

Nobody got that in time.

That's a hyperbola.

Now, moving on to physics tossup what type of force is needed to make an object move in a circular path.

Savannah Centripetal force.

Yeah, I heard the T in there.

That's right.

Centripetal and a physics bonus for Seymour.

Pierre and Marie Curie won the Nobel Prize for isolating what two elements?

Answer Curium, radium and polonium.

I may have named that after them, but radium and polonium is the answer.

Tossup in literature.

What is the name of the fictional character who was the main protagonist of the novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame?

Savannah Quasimodo Correct in the literature Bonus for Seymour.

Two parts who wrote Death of a Salesman.

Arthur Miller for Sophia to Arthur Miller.

And what is the name of the protagonist in Death of a Salesman?

James That's Willy Loman.

You get ten points on the bonus toss up in chemistry.

What is the chemical symbol for arsenic?

Savannah Yes, is right.

And a visual bonus.

Now see more.

Take a look at the screens.

Please identify it as a new element.

In 1783, what is the name and symbol for the rare metal represented on the periodic table as shown here, take tungsten tungsten W Those are both correct 20 points plus up now in U.S. history.

Where did the first skirmishes of the American Revolution take place?

Joe Nicholas Lexington and Concord.

That's correct.

U.S. History Bonus for Hall's name.

Two of the three men who wrote essays for The Federalist under the name Publius John Jay and Alexander Hamilton are both right with James Madison.

Be in the third 20 points toss up in science.

What meteorological phenomenon formed by electrostatic discharges strikes 3 million times a day.

Benjamin Lightning Somewhere around the world.

The science phone is now four halls.

In 2023, wildfires destroyed the historic town of Lahaina, on which Hawaiian island, Maui, is right for 20 plus.

Up now in sports, who was the first woman to win an IndyCar Series event and now hosts the pretty intense podcast.

Sofia, Danica Patrick is right at the buzzer.

That's ten points and a bonus in sports for halls.

Which sport is governed by the Marquess of Queensbury rules?

rugby that's boxing the no points on the bonus toss up.

Now, in foreign language, what is the official language of Taiwan?

Savannah Mandarin.

Correct.

In a foreign language bonus translate the Latin phrase Lux Eterna eternal light and also translate the Latin phrase Dias era Answer No answer.

That is day of wrath.

I think I must have been watching Mozart's Requiem when I wrote that question.

Tossup in Religion.

Hanukkah commemorates a miracle that took place in an uprising against the Hebrews, led by which rebel group?

Savannah the Maccabees.

That's right.

And a religion bonus.

What is the religious meal?

Served in Jewish homes on the eve of the 15th day of the month.

Nissen to begin the Festival of Passover.

I defer to Savannah beside her plate.

Yeah, Seders only need to.

There is 20 points toss up in geography.

Nairobi is the capital of which African country?

Joe.

Nicholas.

Niger.

Not it.

You can still see more.

Savannah.

Libya?

No.

As Nairobi, Kenya.

No points on that toss up now in geometry in an isosceles triangle, one of the base angles measures 30 degrees.

What is the measure of the vertex angle, Ethan?

60 knot it.

You can still see more hundred 20.

You have to ring in for that.

I can't give it enough to call on you.

So I think that throws out that question.

But under 20 would have been right toss up for everybody in health.

What does a hematologist study, Sophia?

Blood and health bonus for Seymour.

In which country is Himalayan rock?

Salt mined.

Nepal might be a trick question.

It's actually Pakistan, which also has territory there.

Toss up for everyone in vocabulary.

What type of sentence gives directions or commands while addressing someone directly That's an imperative sentence.

Toss up for everybody in games.

how many balls are on a pool table at the start of the game?

Ethan Nine, not eight.

You can still see more.

Savannah Ten now 16, 15 plus the cue ball.

The 16 plus up in government.

In which language was the Magna Carta written?

Savannah Latin is right and a visual bonus.

Now for see more take a look at the screens please.

Which country is highlighted on the map of Africa shown here?

Morocco is right for 20 points toss up now in mythology in Norse mythology, who are the female figures who served Odin and guided the souls of dead warriors to Valhalla?

Ethan Valkyries Yes, and in mythology bonus now a prototype floating solar farm in the Netherlands that can turn to follow the sun's rays is named for what mythological Greek sea God who predicts the future?

Poseidon and it's Proteus is the one who predicts the future.

So no points on the bonus.

Back to toss ups in chemistry.

What is the chemical formula for methane?

That is c h for no points on that toss up for everyone.

Now in literature in Homer's Iliad, what nationality of soldiers were hidden inside the Trojan horse?

John Nicholas Greek is right literature bonus now which two of Shakespeare's plays have seasons in the title?

No, no answer.

That would be a midsummer Night's Dream and The Winter's Tale.

Toss up everyone in music in four for Time.

How many beats of silence should there be with a half rest symbol?

Joe Nicholas two is correct and a music bonus for halls.

Identify the other half of the famous duo Brooks and Brooks Barley as Brooks and Dunn, a country duo.

How about Sunny and no answer?

Sonny and Cher were a pop duo in the sixties and seventies.

Plus, up now in economics, what is the financial term for?

Cash on hand, cash on bank deposit and things like stocks and bonds that can be quickly and easily converted.

Even easy access, easily converted to cash, a chance to steal.

Savannah Liquid wealth.

Yeah, liquid assets.

Liquid wealth.

Think we can take that economics bonus now for Seymour?

What does the abbreviation IPO stand for something first answer defer to Savannah invented.

Oh inventory processing office.

That's an initial public offering in terms of stocks.

The second half of the question, what does the abbreviation NFT stand for?

For Sophia to answer, defer Nonfungible token.

I'll see if they'll take it, because you did fudge the answer when you said Nonfungible is emphasizing it's fun.

Gible.

So it may have cost you points there.

We'll find out what the judges say.

Can't take it.

Toss up in algebra, find the value of x.

If four x plus five plus six x minus five equals 100.

Savannah ten is correct.

Algebra bonus.

Now what is the reduced slope of the line?

Connecting the points negative four, six and six.

Negative two.

Answer Do I have to defer to Savannah?

Two now?

Negative four over five bonuses the captain answers or defers to view by name tossup in science.

What principle is expressed in Newton's first law of motion Ethan, inertia correct Science bonus A compound pulley and a hydraulic screw are among the inventions credited to which Greek scientist, who has been called the father of theoretical mechanics.

Archimedes is right for 20 toss up in foreign language.

What French word means a nightclub or restaurant where entertainment is performed, and was the title of a Broadway musical and film that's a cabaret toss up in arts.

What Pixar animated film follows a 12 year old boy named Miguel, who has accidentally transported Sophia Coco to the land of the dead.

And a bonus now for Halls.

What Broadway musical has a song that begins with the number 525,600 Right to White Pay rent is correct for ten.

What is the title of the song th Seasons of Love.

Those are both right.

You get 20 on the bonus toss up in U.S. history.

What document serves as the United States longest?

We don't have time.

I would save that for another day.

That is the end of the game.

With Halls hanging on to win over a team from Seymour.

Quite skilled team.

We appreciate you being here.

We look forward to seeing you again next year on Scholars Bowl.

The Under underclassmen at least.

Right.

So congratulations, Sophia.

We enjoyed having you here for multiple years in a row.

Meanwhile, Halls the Red Devils will play again.

We'll see you again on Scholars Bowl.

You can, of course, keep track of Halls and all the teams by setting your DVR, checking your listings, never missing an episode of Scholars Bowl or binge watch past seasons online using the PBS app.

My name is Frank Murphy.

Thank you for watching.

Tennessee's Scholars Bowl 2020 for.