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.

Hi, 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 will describe that halftime.

This is a first round game between Sweetwater High School and Happy Valley High School there from Elizabethtown.

We're happy to have both teams here.

It's been a while since Happy Valley's been in the tournament, but this year they put two teams in the tournament.

Let's say hi first, though, to the players at Sweetwater, beginning with Hannah Allman.

Hi, honey.

You're a senior this year.

Tell us about yourself.

What I've been up to.

I'm president of Student Council and I'm editor in chief of the high school yearbook.

So you can only write good stories about yourself.

Of course.

Yeah, that's excellent.

That's no separation of powers there with the press and the government.

But what was your winning campaign slogan?

And I'm sure you plastered across the front page of the newspaper.

My speech was a mess.

I got to be honest with you.

That was a good topic.

You know, I can see that.

See the banner now, Hannah, my speech was a mess, but it went and worked.

Let's say hi to Jude Knight, youre a junior.

Jude.

What else do we need to know about you?

I play football, and in the spring I've on track.

What position do you play?

Wide receiver and track.

Meaning not cross-country Inside track events.

What's your best track event?

Wide receiver.

You should be pretty fast, right?

The 200 meter.

Excellent.

Nice.

Team captain is senior Titus Taylor.

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

What's something we need to know about you?

Student Body President and I work for the high school team.

And what is Saint Hannah?

She's just senior class president.

She's the president of Student Council.

Oh, council.

And you're the student body president.

Is she right?

Nice articles about you, too, or just about herself?

I hope so.

Okay.

And we've also got Jason Shaw, who's a junior.

Hey, Jason, Welcome.

Tell us about yourself.

I'm in scouting and I have horses.

How high in scouting have you made it?

I'm a life scout right now working on my Eagle Scout.

Oh, good.

All right, well, we wish you well on that.

Maybe next year you will have a progress report and see how that's coming along.

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

And we've got Andrew Haydorn, Gray Hicks and coaches Jason Hick, who teaches government and economics, and David Lowe, English and literature at Sweetwater.

and Let's say hi also to our team from Happy Valley High School, beginning with 11th grader Nick Bailey.

Tell us more about you, Nick I do.

Robotics and band, yeah.

Can you make a robot that plays a musical instrument?

I mean, just for fun.

Would you do that for us?

Maybe.

Why not?

Right?

What instrument do you play?

I play tenor saxophone.

Okay, So you're a saxophonist?

Yeah, I think that's what they call it in England anyway.

All right.

Ella Wells is a 10th grader.

Ella, tell us about you.

I am co-captain of the Speech and debate team.

I also dance ballet and I love penguins.

Oh, well, penguins are pretty awesome.

Except on that terrible of ballet, though, of course.

Yeah.

Tell us about your dance.

I've seen many ballets over time.

What are some of your key roles?

I have performed as the Captain in Nutcracker and in Sleeping Beauty Waltz.

Oh, fantastic.

I'd love to hear about that.

Okay.

Team captain is Levi Taylor, who is in 12th grade.

Levi, tell us about you.

What do you like to do?

I'm also in robotics and I play baseball.

Well, position outfield mainly.

Oh, cool.

All right.

And in the robotics program for this year, anything special you're working on the challenge or like pick a robot up on the elevator?

Like I said, like two feet.

Oh, I used to watch Battlebots when I was a kid.

Maybe you could pick that robot up.

And we don't.

We don't fight robots.

We like to score points.

Oh, okay.

I was looking for a slam dunk.

It's what I was looking for with the other robot body slam of some kind.

Elijah Jones is in 11th grade.

I should tell us about you.

I am also a co-captain of the speech and debate team and I enjoy playing video games.

Well, who's better?

You are, Ell I declined to speak.

Oh, and what kind of video games?

I like War Thunder.

Yeah.

All right.

Well, I don't know any of them, but I'm so.

I'm curious to know if maybe that'll ramble with somebody watching at home.

Let's say hi to our alternate for Happy Valley.

That's Marcita Moore.

And she's joined by coaches Alex Payne, the dean of students, Shannon Lawson, who teaches English in library, and Kayla Hodge, history and geography at Happy Valley in Elizabethtown.

Carter County's representing here today.

Well, we're happy that you're all here.

You've seen the show before.

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

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

First toss up is in history, which ruler of England and Ireland was referred to as the Virgin Queen?

Ella.

Elizabeth, the first.

I've got to call on you before you answer, but next, that's part of the rules.

But that's your first warning.

Okay.

bonus now for Happy Valley.

Who is Henry?

The eighth, first wife.

the of Ella.

Catherine of Aragon.

That's correct.

For ten, who was the daughter of Catherine of Aragon, and Henry the eighth, who reigned as queen from 1553 to 1558.

Again, for Levi, the answer I defer to Ella Mary the first, I believe.

Yeah, Mary first or Mary Tudor, we would have taken that's 20 points on the bonus toss up for all players in music.

Give the musical term for the notes of a chord that are not the melody.

Ella Yes.

Harmony And a music bonus.

Now, what does the musical tempo term Allegro mean?

And it gets moderately fast.

Well, I think it's just fast.

We'll see if the judges will take that.

Try this one.

What does the musical term adagio mean?

I got it.

I'm defer to Ella.

Slow.

Yeah, slow and stately.

So we get at least ten on that.

We'll check on the rest.

Toss up for our players in vocabulary.

What animal would you associate with the character description?

Sly and cunning Pena Fox Is it vocabulary bonus Now what nine letter word beginning with E means extremely or shockingly bad and is from the Latin meaning out of the flock.

Egregious?

Yeah, egregious.

Right now get ten more points for spelling egregious answer e.g.

RGGI owe us ten points on the bonus toss up.

Now in math, what is the product of .008 and 0.084?

I nobody rang in in time it would be 672 millionths or decimal point three zeros and then 672 plus up in biology.

What is the term for the broad flat part of a plant leaf that's called the blade?

No points.

They're tossup now in geography, which states name comes from the French words, meaning green and mountain L.A. Vermont is right.

And a geography bonus now listed alphabetically.

What are the first four state capitals?

Answer Philadelphia and Albany.

Go ahead.

No answer.

I don't know either.

I'll give you five points for Albany, New York.

That is the first one.

Then the others are Annapolis, Maryland, Atlanta, Georgia, and Augusta, Maine.

So five points there toss up in religion.

What is the main religion of Pakistan?

Elijah, Islam, yes.

And a religion bonus for Happy Valley.

Upon Japan's surrender at the end of World War two, allied powers believed that a constitutional form of government could not be put into place as long as the Japanese people looked to an emperor as their ultimate authority.

General MacArthur signed the order for the end of what national religion.

So defer to Asia spiritualism.

Now that is Shintoism there you can still get points of view.

Tell me which Emperor was forced to renounce his divine status.

Hirohito is relieved and technically, as I hear, he don't.

Yeah, okay.

Well, you're both varieties.

The rules are.

You got to answer a defer pass up in foreign language.

In which country is Zulu?

An official language, Levi?

Ethiopia.

No, You can steal Sweetwater.

It's one of the many official languages of South Africa.

Plus up in literature.

Which character created by Washington Irving was pursued by the Headless Horseman Elba.

Ichabod Crane is right for ten and a literature bonus for Happy Valley, a third edition book printed in 1608 of what well-known story by Miguel de Cervantes was sold in 2022 for 504,000 the vada L.A. Don Quixote is right for ten.

Now tell me what Broadway musical was loosely based on.

Don Quixote.

Levant Defer to the man of La mancha.

Both write 20 points there, plus several players in US history.

What former First Lady founded a rehab facility for what she called addictive diseases.

And is Betty Ford, who had the Betty Ford Clinic present for all players in architecture.

What is it term for a building or structure that is designed to keep birds confined?

The aviary is right and it gets you a math bonus on the screen.

Take a look, please.

In the equation, six x minus five Y equals -15.

Identify both x and Y intercepts and name them in coordinate form.

Answer y negative three x two.

No.

In coordinate form it would be a negative two and a half zero and zero three.

So no points on that toss up now for all players in English.

In a footnote for what word is a an abbreviation anonymous.

Yeah.

And an English bonus.

Correct.

The following sentence if necessary.

You leave me and my sister went to our favorite piece of pizza place.

Defer to Ella, my sister and I. Yeah, exactly right.

Went to our favorite pizza place.

Plus that for all players in geology, what is the name of the 97 and a half ton hunk of NOx dolomite on the UT campus that is used by students as their open forum?

They call it the rock test pioneers players in technology.

What was the name of the first computer language for business?

Levi Java No, you can steal Sweetwater, C++, Titus, Python, no COBOL C O B O L, toss up in algebra solve for x if three x plus seven equals 15 minus x dude x equals two is right.

Algebra Bonus for Sweetwater.

What are the real solutions for the quadratic equation?

Quantity x minus two times quantity x plus three equals zero.

Answer diverted you.

So now you got to answer right away.

Once that buzzer sounds, they could give it to you.

Plus, up for all players in geography in which national park is old Faithful?

Nick Yellowstone.

Yeah, that's right.

It gets you ten points and a visual bonus.

Take a look at the screens, please.

What is the term for a circular concave depression?

Often formed by the collapse of a volcanic crater or subsurface cavity.

Answer Sinkhole.

It's a caldera.

No points on that toss up.

Now, in sports, how many periods are in a typical hockey game?

Titus Three.

Yes.

And a sports bonus.

What is the team name for the athletic program at the University of Texas, The Longhorns?

And second question, what is the team name for the athletic program at the University of Michigan?

Wolverines.

Those are both right.

You Toss it for all players in mythology.

Who was the mythological Greek god of sleep?

Yella Morpheus.

No chance to steal sweet water Hipness was the guy.

Time's up.

Now, in chemistry, what molecules are the building blocks of proteins, Levi?

Amino acids, Yes.

And a chemistry bonus for Happy Valley.

Native fishermen in Indonesia have been affected by waters turning murky from sediment and polluted by cyanide and diesel fuel flowing from open pit mining.

For what element with atomic number 28 that is used in batteries for electric vehicles and mobile phones.

That nickel with you?

Lithium.

Well, in this case I'm talking about nickel, which is another ingredient in the batteries.

So no points turns up in astronomy.

During which phase of the moon do solar eclipses occur.

New moon is right for astronomy.

As your bonus, Cassini's division is the obvious large gap between which objects in space is this answer Mars and Jupiter?

Well, that's actually the gap between the rings of Saturn.

You can get points if you tell me.

The largest moon of Saturn.

Answer No answer.

It's called Titan does it for everybody in economics, What is the term that means a fall in the value of a nation's currency against other currency for any reason.

Levi, depreciation now that you can steal Sweetwater, Jude, depression.

No, that term is a devaluation when you're comparing it to another currency, looks like that is going to be the end of our first half.

We'll save that next question for the second half of the game.

Which of these two teams advances 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 on Frank Murphy back from halftime in this first round game between Sweetwater High School and Happy Valley High School of Elizabethtown.

Right now, Happy Valley has a lead.

But Sweetwater has brought an alternate into the game.

So we'll see what happens in the second half.

Let's say hi to Andrew Haydorn.

A junior.

Tell us about you, Andrew.

What do you like to do?

I'm Andrew Haydorn and I play football And track what position?

Football.

I'm a center.

And what about in track?

What's your event?

Throw shotput and discus.

I would have guessed that, but I didn't want to say, Yeah, you probably could pick me up and throw me to.

I've not be not careful.

All right.

Meanwhile, Happy Valley keeping the starting lineup in the game.

So let's get our fingers on the buzzer as we resume Tennessee Scholars Bowl 2024.

Toss up in the category of art.

What type of artwork is made up of bits and fragments of stone glass, tile and other durable mosaic is the right answer.

And an art bonus now for Happy Valley.

Knoxville born artist Buford Delaney was part of what intellectual and cultural revival of African-American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics and scholarship in New York City during the 1920s and thirties and the Harlem Renaissance.

The far to Ella Harlem Renaissance.

That's right.

For 20 plus up in literature.

Who wrote Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?

Ellen Roald Dahl.

Yeah, Roald Dahl.

And a literature bonus now for Happy Valley, who accompanied said Charlie on the tour of the Chocolate Factory for ten years.

It's his grandpa Joe.

His grandpa Joe?

Yes.

And what is the sequel to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?

Answer Charlie and Chocolate Factory too.

That would be a great title, but it was called The Great Glass Elevator.

ten points on the bonus toss up.

Now in geometry, what is the sum of the degree measures of the exterior or angles?

One per vertex of a Pentagon?

Levi 769 eight You can still sweep water.

times up there only 360 degrees plus F for everybody in health.

What are the microscopic hair like structures or organelles that extend from the surface of nearly all mammalian cells like flagella?

Now you can still Sweetwater cilia, but those are toss up for everybody in government.

The US government possesses only powers granted to it by which document Jude, the Constitution is right.

And a visual bonus now for Sweetwater.

Take a look at the screens, please.

Who was confirmed as the second female justice on the US Supreme Court, shown here at her 1993 Senate confirmation hearing?

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Right For now, tell me which President nominated her?

John F Kennedy.

Now, the 1993 was a hint there it was Bill Clinton, ten points on the bonus toss up.

Now in religion, what is the philosophy based on the writings of Lao Tzu advocating humility and religious piety?

Ela Taoism Yes, and a religion bonus named four of the five books of the Torah is removing Genesis.

The Genesis Exodus answer Levi.

Deuteronomy, Exodus, Genesis.

Isaiah.

Well, the I'll take the first three that you gave me, because those are correct, but it's Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, numbers, Deuteronomy.

So 15 points there.

Toss up now in spelling someone famous is said to be renowned spell renowned Ela, R E N O W N E D, correct for ten spelling bonus now spell Brandeis as in Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts.

I defer to Allah um b r a n d y s e. It's a B R A N D E I S try this one spell Gallaudet as in Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C.. Sure, sure.

Defer to Ela G A L L A D E T T E. Well, I can see where you're sounding it out, but this is a tricky one because it's pronounced slightly different than the spelling.

It's Jll, a u t, no points on the bonus.

Back to toss ups in vocabulary Cardiologist is to heart as neurologist is to what?

Hanna brain.

Yes, and a vocabulary bonus for Sweetwater.

What was Merriam-Webster's word of the year for 2022?

That comes from the title of a 1944 movie and is defined as psychological manipulation, causing the victim to question their perception of reality.

Titus to answer a defer is the definition gaslighting.

Yeah.

And you don't have to ask me.

You can tell me.

But you're right.

It is gaslighting.

was up in physics what property of matter tends to maintain any motionless body to stay at rest?

Titus Solid nodded and sustained Happy Valley.

Nick Newton's first law.

No, you Can't talk to each other on tossups.

It would have been inertia and we had to throw it out anyway.

Toss up now in U.S. history.

In 1861, South Carolina blocked a federal ship from resupplying what fought in Charleston Harbor Neck.

Fort Sumter is right.

410 history bonus who was vice president under and presidential successor to Andrew Jackson.

Don't answer that.

Garfield No, it was Van Buren.

Martin Van Buren.

No points toss up now in music, what is Scotland's national instrument and a large part due to the bagpipes of traditional Scottish culture.

A visual bonus for Sweetwater.

Take a look at the screens, please.

What is the term for the notes of a chord played in succession?

Either ascending or descending Defer to Jude.

Arpeggio is right.

You get 20 on the bonus toss up in foreign language.

What is the Spanish phrase for?

I'm sorry, Hannah.

Lucy Correct.

And a foreign language bonus now for Sweetwater.

In 2021, thousands in Barcelona protested in defense of the Catalan language and against a court decision to mandate that school subjects be taught in Spanish.

The Catalan language had been prohibited by what military dictator who controlled Spain from 1936 until his death in 1975.

Answer Castro.

Now, that was Francisco Franco, and last I heard, he was still dead.

Toss up in pre-calculus in radical form.

What does the sum of the cosine 45 degrees plus the sign of 45 degrees?

Divide one.

Now you can steal sweet water.

It's the square root of two.

Toss up.

Now for everyone in astronomy, what is the galaxy closest to the Milky Way?

Like the Andromeda?

Yes.

And an astronomy bonus.

Now, what is the term for a point on the celestial sphere directly above an observer on earth?

I say access to answer access.

That's called a zenith.

Try.

This one is the term for the point on the celestial sphere, directly opposite the zenith sources tantalizing answer bottom.

Venus has talked me out, but it's called the nadir, N A D I R, toss up for everybody in geography.

What world capital is called?

The City of Lights Ella, Paris is right And a geography bonus now for Happy Valley.

Name the two landlocked countries in South America, Paraguay, Paraguay, Aragon, Bolivia.

Those are both right for 20 points.

Toss up now.

An arts.

In 2018, a movie was produced about the boy to whom Winnie the Pooh belonged.

What was his name?

Titus Christopher Robin.

Right.

For ten Arts Bonus, which famous film director had enormous success with Avatar and Titanic?

James Cameron That's right.

For 20 toss up now in literature, how does Santiago finally kill the Marlin in the Old Man and the Sea?

Levi with a knife after he harpoons it/ That's correct.

For ten points.

Literature Bonus in what Charles Dickens novel does a cynic drunk named Sydney Carton sacrificed himself to the guillotine by assuming the identity of another.

Good question.

I don't know.

Answer No answer.

That is a tale of two cities.

You can still get points if you tell me whose identity did Carton assume it was John's?

I defer to Ella.

So Charles Darne, and all our lip readers at home are enjoying the show toss up now for all players in music who was dubbed the King of Ragtime for composing many classics including Maple Leaf Rag and The Entertainer.

We like you, Scott Joplin.

Correct.

For ten Music Bonus for Happy Valley.

In 2023, a California man donated to the Medical University of Vienna skull fragments that are believed to be from which composer whose symphonies include the choral, the Pastorale and the Orozco, Norman Rockwell, Ludwig van Beethoven.

All right.

Chemistry is the toss up.

What is the chemical formula for ozone?

Nick oh three Yes, and a chemistry bonus.

Now, which two elements make up the mineral quartz, talc and something silica.

Okay, use out of silicon and silicon and carbon ten points for silicon.

Oxygen was the other one plus up in government, which was the first state to ratify the US Constitution in Paris, Virginia.

Not it.

You can steal now, Nick, Massachusetts.

No, we were both wrong.

It said Delaware.

On that note, several players in sports as head coach of the Lady Vols basketball team.

How many NCAA women's championships did Pat Summitt win titles for?

No, that's not it.

You can steal at the buzzer.

Happy Valley leaving 1308 was the answer for the great Pat Summitt.

You didn't need the points, though, because you held on to win.

First of all, Sweetwater, what a joy to have you on the show as it is every year.

Enjoy the beautiful scenery down there, down 75.

We hope to probably stop by and visit you all and see you again next year.

A lot of underclassmen so you can come back next year, I hope.

Great.

Meanwhile, Happy Valley.

Congratulations.

You advance to the threshold of 32.

We get to see you again on Scholars Bowl.

And if you'd like to see them again or see all of us again on scholarship bowl, make sure you watch each and every episode.

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