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 academic tournament with high schools from all over the viewing area competing for the Frank Miller Memorial Trophy and a cash prize that you'll hear about at halftime this year.

Our 64 team tournament includes Happy Valley High School and Webb School of Knoxville, both put multiple teams into the tournament this year.

So we're happy to have them here.

As we advance now to the threshold of 32, the winner will advance to the Smart 16.

Let's say hi to the players from Happy Valley beginning with 11th grader Nick Bailey.

Hi, Nick.

Welcome back.

Happy to have you.

Tell us about yourself.

Hey there.

I do robotics and I do band.

that means what, you play an instrument?

Yeah, I play tenor saxophone.

All right.

A saxophonist I think we've talked about.

And which is better band or robotics?

I like robotics more.

Really?

Okay, well, I hope you stick with both of us for a long time.

I think you could.

We also have Ella Wells, a 10th grader, back with us.

Hi again, Ella.

Tell us about you.

I am co-captain of Happy Valley High School Speech and Debate Team.

And I hope to either become a lawyer or a TV broadcaster.

Same thing, Both universally respected.

Yeah, well, good.

All right.

I'm happy that you're here at the TV station.

If you have any questions for our crew, be sure to ask while you're here.

Also, let's say hi to team captain Levi Taylor, who's in 12th grade.

Levi, you're going to answer bonuses on behalf of the squad, or you can defer by name to a teammate.

What about yourself?

I play sousaphone or tuba for another band.

Uh huh.

So in other words, sousaphone.

When you're marching, tuba when you're sitting still, is that right?

Or vice versa?

That's right.

You marching?

Sousaphone.

Okay, good.

All right.

Against the name Sousa.

Because he invented all that stuff.

Yeah.

All right.

Nice to have you here.

And also, we've got 11th grader Alicia Jones High.

Alicia, how are you?

I'm good.

I am also co-captain of our school speech and debate team, and I like to watch baseball with my favorite team being the New York Mets.

Let's go, Mets.

Come on.

Nobody's ever a mets fan.

Oh, my gosh.

All right, how about that?

I grew up as a New York Mets fan.

That's fantastic.

Well, let's go.

Mets.

They're terrible.

That's part of what we look not a mets fan unless you root for them.

And they're awful.

All right, let's say hi to the alternate and coaches for Happy Valley.

We've got Marcy Tamura and coaches, Alex Payne, who is the dean of students, Shannon Lawson, librarian, English and Kayla Hodge, History and geography.

Happy to have you all here.

Taking on a good team from Webb School of Knoxville.

Let's say hi first to senior Nicholas Kerzak.

Nicholas, how are you?

Good.

What have you been up to?

I play the alto sax and I'm fluent in Polish.

Oh, see, I wish you guys had brought your saxophone so we can have a little jam session at the end of the show today over the credits.

And what made you flute and polish?

Is it a heritage thing or just a language that you prefer?

Both My parents are Polish.

Outstanding.

All right.

Well, we're happy to have you here.

Let's say hi also to Andrea montano.

Andrea, tell us about you.

What are you, a senior this year?

I think you've been on the college ball for all four years, maybe three years.

Three of them.

Okay, well, it seems much longer.

Tell us about yourself.

My first language is Romanian.

And really, how different is that from other European languages and its own different group?

You mean you wouldn't be able to understand someone from a neighboring country?

Maybe I can understand most romance languages.

Oh, great.

So, yes, Outstanding.

All right, well, happy to have you here.

Team captain is Steven Kola, who is a junior.

Steven, you're going to answer bonuses or defer by name to a teammate.

What have you been up to?

Well, I'm the financial coordinator for the robotics team.

Oh, all right.

You also raised money for charity.

Two years.

Your money, guys.

What I'm getting here.

Yeah.

Is that a family thing or something you're doing on your own kind of right.

All right.

Well, I hope it works out very well for you.

Let's say hi also to Daisy Howard, a junior at Webb this year.

Hi, Daisy.

Welcome back.

What are you doing?

I'm on the robotics team, and I still don't have my 12 year molars.

Oh, wow.

some people just are evolutionarily advanced and they don't need them.

No.

Yeah, I you know, I'm the next generation of humans.

Okay, well, good.

I'm happy to have you here.

Nice to meet you.

My name's Frank.

Next generation of humans.

Let's say hi to the alternates and coach for Webb School of Knoxville.

We've got Anna Tanaka, who is a senior, and Nolan Humphrey also joins us with coach Jenny Fields, who teaches Latin at Webb.

You've all won your way here.

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

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

First, toss up in the category of science.

Which type of matter has volume but no definite shape.

Andrea, Guess that you can steal thick liquid.

Liquid has volume and a science bonus for Happy Valley.

What is the term for the bouncing back of waves that struck a surface that reverberation?

Reverberation.

That's reflection.

How about this?

What is the term for the change in direction of a wave as it passes from one medium to another region?

Again, refraction and reverberation again, that one's refraction.

Somebody new it toss up for all players in foreign language.

What is the spanish word for wolves?

Ella.

Lobos.

Is right.

Foreign language bonus for Happy Valley.

What spanish word literally means a person who kills and is used for bullfighters.

Matador for Levi to answer.

I defer to Ella.

Oh, it's fun as a bonus, but as long as you deferred to you say it.

Matador.

Yeah, you got to play by the rules here.

Toss up now in geometry in a circle, a five centimeter radius bysects an eight centimeter cord.

Find the distance of the cord from the Circle Center.

Now, nobody rang in for that three centimeter question.

All right, Toss up for everyone in music in which family of instruments are the triangle and chimes?

Andreea?

Percussion.

Is right Music bonus.

Now take a look at the screen, please.

Webb What is this musical symbol and what does it indicate?

So two answers I took from this.

One is the director says, Defer to Andrea.

It is a firmata and it means that you can either hold it as long as you want or as long as the director tells you to.

That is the most accurate description of firmata that I've heard so far in preparing these questions.

So that's good.

20 points tossup in economics, which U.S. agency was created in 1865 to combat the rise of counterfeit currency following the Civil War.

It's even US Mint now that you can steal Happy Valley.

Nick The National Treasury.

No, it's the US Secret Service on toss ups.

It's you against the buzzer.

Nobody looking at each other now.

Biology toss up Lepidoptera refers to which animals Ella?

Butterfly.

Right and moths too biology.

Bonus for Happy Valley in which phylum are lobsters.

And for that answer, a first crustacean.

Well, the phylum is arthropod.

In which phylum are toads or amphibians.

But the impressive list and it's exactly by Norman Rockwell.

Well, maybe the cordate is the phylum.

You got to know your linnaean classification, their toss up in vocabulary.

What is the term for an introduction to a poem, play or novel such as the Canterbury Tales?

Ella.

prolog.

Yeah, and we'll take that and a vocabulary bonus.

What is the term for a fear of open spaces?

Gonna say agoraphobia and agraphobia?

That's agoraphobia.

I imagine you give me fear of plants of some kind.

What is the term for?

Fear of heights?

Um, agoraphobia.

Agoraphobia.

Oh, acro acrophobia.

Well see if the judges will take that because Ella did give him the right answer.

So, yeah, we'll take the ten on that toss up.

Now, in literature, which war was the setting for the Diary of Anne Frank?

World War two Correct Literature bonus for Happy Valley, a rare first edition of what classic 1937 novel featuring Bilbo Baggins was found in a Scottish charity shop in 2023 and then sold for £10,000.

Refer to Nick The Hobbit is right for ten.

Who wrote it?

Levi Just defer it.

Refer to Nick J. J.R.R.

Tolkien.

That's right.

And you get 20 on the bonus toss up.

Now in games, how many colored dots are on a twister?

Matt Nicholas 25.

No, you can steal.

Levi.

12?

24 It's an even number toss up for everyone in U.S. history who was the second president of Steven John Adams of the United States could imagine a vastly different country, huh?

Now, a visual bonus for Webb.

Take a look at the screens, please.

The women seen here on the east steps of the US Capitol are celebrating the passage of the 19th Amendment, which granted what, for ten points?

Suffrage.

Women's suffrage.

Yeah.

We'll take down the women's right to vote.

And in what year was it ratified?

1920.

12.

19.

1920?

That's right.

You get 20 points then on the bonus toss up.

Now in chemistry, which element has the symbol Pd?

Nicholas?

Lead, not it.

You can steal Happy Valley PD, l Elisha palladium.

Yeah, Make sure there's no talking to each other on toss ups.

Palladium, is it?

Chemistry is your bonus.

What type of chemical reaction occurs between a fuel and an oxidizing agent to release energy?

This is for Levi to answer or defer.

And it's commonly called burning combustion.

Right.

For 20 points.

Toss up now in English.

What five letter word beginning with I describes phrases such as Make the bed or change your mind.

Steven idiom Yeah, that means something different from their literal meaning.

English Bonus for Webb.

What figure of speech did Carl Sandburg use when he wrote Pigs So Thin the farmer had to tie knots in their tails to keep them from crawling through the cracks?

Hyperbole is right for 20 toss up now in algebra using the six numbers.

What is the median of the data set?

6, 8, 13, 19, 20 and 23 Levi?

13.

Not it but you can steal.

Andrea?

19.

No, 16 is medians.

All right, toss up in religion.

What annual seven day celebration of African and African-American culture was created in 1966.

Nicholas Kwanzaa right for ten Religion bonus in 2020, soldiers confessed that they were part of a campaign to exterminate all the Rohingya muslim minority in what nation that was formerly known as Burma.

No, no, no.

It's civilian Cambodia.

That is Myanmar.

Toss for everyone in geography.

In which city is Tennessee Tech University located?

Nicholas Cookeville.

Yes.

And the geography bonus for everyone.

On which continent is the Amazon River located?

Africa.

This is a bonus for web site.

On which continent is the Volga River located Europe.

Yeah, we'll take that as right 20 points toss up in geology, which of the three main categories of rock is always formed from one of the two other types?

Nick Metamorphic is right.

Geology bonus What 2000 BC Cromlech in the Salisbury Plain of England as evenly spaced stone uprights with horizontal lintels set up in a circular pattern.

Stonehenge.

Stonehenge is right 20 points tossup up now in mythology, in Greek mythology, what was the name of the River of Forgetfulness?

Ella?

The River Styx.

No chance to steel Webb.

Andreea Lethe Yes, L E T H E. Mythology bonus which mythological titan God stole fire from the Greek gods and gave it to humanity for Steven.

Answer a defer Prometheus is right for your bonus toss up in history.

Queen Mary, the first sometimes called Bloody Mary, was a member of what family that ruled England from 1485 to 1603 Tudor Yeah.

Make sure I called on you there.

Remember, history is your bonus.

A house in Sussex that was listed for sale at £2.25 million in 2023 had been given by Henry the Eighth.

To which woman who was his fourth wife as part of their annulment settlement.

For Levi to answer or defer.

Ella.

Anna of Cleves, Yes.

Anna Cleves is it?

And 20 points toss up now in art, what was the principal craft of Sir Christopher Wren?

Daisy Watercolor.

Don't you can steal Happy Valley, Levi or Oil.

Now he's on the list of the world's most famous architects.

I'll toss up now in government how many judges are currently serving in the United States Supreme?

is nine.

Court is nine.

Government is your bonus.

What agency overseen by Congress is represented by the letters FCC.

Federal Division Tougher and defer to Daisy.

Federal Change Commission.

That's the Federal Communications Commission.

How about what agency regulated by the Department of Transportation is represented by the letters, ICC?

turn transportation answer interstate communications.

Then that is the Interstate Commerce Commission.

I can't give it to you.

No points there.

Toss up now in technology, who is credited with inventing the kinetic scope?

A forerunner of the motion picture film projector, Steven Thomas Edison.

Yes.

And a technology bonus.

Since 2005, Oak Ridge National Laboratory has deployed four supercomputers, each being the world's fastest in its time, named two of those four or ORNL supercomputers defer to Nicholas Frontier and Summit.

Those are both right with Jaguar and Titan being the other two.

20 points toss up in spelling.

Spell the word misspell.

Ella.

M I S S P E L L Correct.

And a spelling bonus now for Happy Valley, a person who claims neither faith nor disbelief in God is an agnostic spell.

Agnostic A which is for Levi to answer a defer defer to of A G N O S T I C. 20 points on the bonus toss up in music.

What is the time signature for a waltz?

Nicholas 3/4 time.

Yeah, and a music bonus which English singer songwriter was cleared of copyright infringement when a New York jury decided he didn't steal key components of Marvin Gaye's 1973 song Let's Get It On, When he was creating his 2014 hit Thinking Out Loud Deferred to Nicholas Cage.

Ed Sheeran is right for 20 points as the half ends.

Does that tie things up for halftime?

I think we're pretty.

This is a neck and neck game.

I better get some extra questions ready in case we go to a tiebreaker.

It's very, very close.

It's an exciting match in this second round of scholars.

Both stick around to see who advances to the Smart 16.

Coming up after the break on 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.

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Hi, I'm Frank Murphy.

We have a very exciting second round game between Happy Valley School and Webb School of Knoxville.

And you may notice a slight difference in the points.

During halftime, we had a challenge on one of the bonus questions that Happy Valley answered, where team captain had not deferred to the teammate and then gave an incorrect answer, unfortunately.

So we had to subtract ten points from Happy Valley, but we'll see if they're able to make those up and continue with our game.

Also, Webb has brought an alternate into the game.

Let's say hi first to Nolan Humphrey.

Nolan, what year in school are you?

I'm a sophomore.

We're happy to have you.

Tell us about some of your hobbies.

Sure.

So I'm on the robotics team and in the play we did just a few weeks ago, I was the dramaturg.

Oh, what does that mean, Dramaturg?

It's a role in theater.

That means you have to help the actors like it.

It's to keep historical accuracy and make them character for the lines.

That sounds fantastic.

All right.

And then also, Anna Tanaka is back with us.

Anna, good to see you again.

You're a senior, right?

Yes.

And we recognize you from last time you were here.

Tell us what you've been up to.

I like to crochet in my free time.

You have free time?

No.

And what are you planning to crochet before we see you again Next year or whenever?

Little animals.

Little animals.

Fantastic.

I mean, you can bring them with you.

lovely.

Meanwhile, Happy Valley.

Keep in the starting lineup in.

So we're ready to go back to it for the second half of this second round game of Tennessee Scholars Bowl 2024.

Toss up for all players in sports, which Olympic sport uses rings and parallel bars.

Anna.

Gymnastics.

Is right and a sports bonus in football.

What separates the two teams at the beginning of each play?

Oh, line of scrimmage.

It sounds fun though.

The line of scrimmage is right for ten.

What is the term for when a defensive player catches a pass from the offensive team?

Interception.

Interception, That's right.

20 Toss up for all players in the category of U.S. history.

What are the last three words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's famous speech?

I have a dream.

Nick, I have a dream No, not it.

Chance to steal Webb.

Uh, now free at last, is it?

So no points on that toss up health.

Toss up for everyone.

What is the word for a human embryo?

After eight weeks of development and a fetus is right for ten bonus Now in health, Which vitamin is beneficial for both bone health and muscle strength?

Stephen To answer a defer, vitamin D is bone health and muscle strength.

A vitamin K, That's fine.

I mean D what is another name for ascorbic acid?

Vitamin C?

Yeah.

Okay.

Yes, that's ten points.

Tossup in literature.

In theater.

What is the term for a monologue in which a character expresses soliloquy?

but soliloquy is the right answer.

And you get a literature bonus.

What novel includes the characters?

King Louis, Bagheera and Mowgli?

Oh, The Jungle Book deferred to Andrea.

The Jungle Book.

Correct.

And Steven to answer Defer, who wrote The Jungle Book?

Answer Jack London.

That's Rudyard Kipling.

toss up for everyone.

What type of number is the square root of a negative number?

Stephen Imaginary number, right?

In a math visual, take a look at the screens.

Please give the prime factorization of 800.

Stephen deferred to Anna.

2.

Yeah, you have to get right to it quickly.

It's two to the fifth power times, five to the second power plus eight for everyone.

Now in Miscellaneous Garmin, TomTom and Magellan all make devices that use what type of technology.

Miscellaneous bonus for Happy Valley.

What does GPS stand for?

Global Positioning System?

I defer to our global positioning system.

Write for ten.

Which division of the US Armed Forces operates the constellation of up to 30 satellites in the GPS system?

Air Force.

Air Force.

Air Force.

When we've updated the question, it's now the US Space Force that takes care of that.

So ten points toss up now in geography.

What is the largest island on earth that is not a continent?

Steven Greenland and geography bonus for Web, the rugged island of Skellig Michael was responsible for a spike in visitors along the ring of Kerry after scenes from Star Wars The Last Jedi were filmed there.

In which country is Skellig Michael located to either like Ireland or New Zealand.

Now it's Ireland.

And if you want to know Michael is spelled Michael.

But that's the way they say it over there.

When I went to visit Tossup in astronomy, what famous Italian astronomer was the first to discover the rings of Saturn in 1610?

Anna Galileo Is it astronomy bonus now for Webb?

What is the name of the dwarf planet between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter?

Sersi Sersi And it know it's a series, so I don't if I can take that C E R E S toss up for one in vocabulary.

What seven letter word beginning with C means brief and to the point, Anna?

Concise.

Yes.

And vocabulary bonus.

What 11 letter word means involving or producing a harsh, discordant mixture of sounds.

Cacophony.

Yeah.

And it's quite a device answer to cacoph- discord.

No, cacophonous was the word, but you can still get points by spelling to cacophonous.

Defer to Andreea.

C A C O P H O N O U S. That does get you ten points on the bonus toss up for everyone in pre-calculus.

Change five pi over six two degrees.

Andrea 150 is right and a pre-calculus bonus.

What trigonometric function is the result of the quotient of cosine x divided by sine x contingent x tangent cotangent x.

Yes, that's right.

20 points toss up in religion under what King in the first century B.C.

was the Western Wall or Wailing Wall built?

Andrea Solomon That you can steal Happy Valley, Ella.

David?

King Herod Agrippa specifically, but we would've taken Herod for that toss up in economics.

What is the standard name for a tax levied on the beneficiary share of an estate inheritance tax?

Yeah.

I'd make sure I've called on you all the way, but that is right.

An economics bonus.

What is an economic system based on supply and demand With little or no government control?

Capitalism.

Capitalism?

Well, free market is the specific system.

What is the term for money that can be invested in business?

The Okay, it's capital.

Sure.

Capital It is capital.

Ten points.

Toss up now in astronomy, which planet in our solar system is nearest the sun theory and a visual bonus.

Now take a look at the screens, please.

Which gas giant seen in this image is the largest planet in our solar system.

Jupiter.

Jupiter.

Right.

For 20 toss up now in foreign language, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales were written in what kind of English?

Andrea Middle Yeah, and foreign language bonus for Webb.

How do you say my grandmother's house in Spanish Casa and takes on defer to Anna.

la casa de mi abuela.

Correct for 20 points toss up now in government.

What is the repeal by Congress of Presidential actions called Levi?

Veto.

I need more.

Chance to steal Webb.

Stephen.

Congressional veto kind of, but it technically is called a legislative veto.

Can't give it to you.

Toss up in architecture.

What famous building in western North Carolina is an example of Chateau esque architectural style?

Andrea Biltmore Yeah, and an architecture bonus.

What is the term for a roof structure that projects vertically beyond the plain of a pitched roof, often containing a window door?

Dormer is right for 20 toss up now in U.S. history, which US President dedicated the Statue of Liberty in 1886 and Stephen?

Jackson.

Not him.

You can still Happy Valley.

Levi?

McKinley.

No, Grover Cleveland was president at that time.

Toss up in physics.

What is the term used to identify the point of no disturbance of a standing wave.

Levi?

Trough.

Not that you can steal Webb.

Nolan, Null point.

What is it?

At null point?

No, it's called Node.

N O D E. Can't give it to you.

Toss up in literature, simile, metaphor and personification are known as what Ella?

Forms of speech, Yeah, figures of speech.

Okay.

Literature bonus.

What is the name of the story that ends with a sled dog named Buck running through the pale moonlight or glimmering borealis, his great Kurt of bellow as he sings a song of the younger world, which is the song of the pack.

Call of the Wild is correct.

Pretend who wrote it?

Jack London.

Jack Jack London.

Correct for 20 points total toss up in math computation.

Simplify the number negative two thirds raised to the negative four power Times up on that it would be positive 81 over 16.

Toss up in music.

What American country music singer songwriter is known for Whiskey, Lullaby and Perfect Storm Nick Brad Paisley Write for ten Music Bonus for Happy Valley.

What is the title of the classic country music song that begins with the line Blame it all on my roots.

I showed up in Boots.

uh - refer to Nick.

Friends in Low Places.

And which that's correct.

Now, Levi, which country music superstar had an award winning hit with that song?

Garth Brooks.

Garth Brooks.

That's right.

For Plain Up in Geography, the Grand Canyon was formed by what river?

Nolan?

The Colorado.

Yes.

And a geography bonus.

The world's longest known cave system is a national park that is only 190 miles from Knoxville.

What national park is it, Stephen, to answer or defer?

Thinking took?

Is it just really fun?

Oh, yeah, that would be fun.

Answer Defer to Anna Cave National Park.

Well, it's called Mammoth Cave National Park, but you need the Mammoth part.

And what state is that located?

For ten points.

Kentucky, Right.

For 10% for all players in biology.

Which blood type is the universal donor Semen.

Oh, negative.

And a biology bonus for web.

What is the only bird able to fly backwards?

Hummingbird.

Correct.

For ten.

And we don't get to the other half of that.

They're only found in North and South America, which I found interesting.

Well, Webb has managed to pull away and being a very good, good team from Happy Valley High School.

Congratulations, you guys, for doing so well in the tournament.

First time Happy Valley has been here in recent memory, you know, long, long time.

And we're looking forward to seeing you again next year on the show.

Thanks a lot for coming down from Elizabethton.

Meanwhile, Webb, you now advance to the round of the Smart 16 where you get to play again, maybe even against people you know We'll find out when we get there.

So thank you so much for watching.

You'll find out, too, by not missing any of our episodes.

Set your DVR, check the listings, whatever you got to do to watch Scholar's Bowl, maybe even binge watch past seasons online using the PBS app.

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