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 teams from all over the viewing area competing for the Frank Miller Memorial Trophy and a cash prize you'll hear about at halftime.

We are up to the threshold of 32 in our 64 team tournament and in the second round game, Corbin High School from Corbin, Kentucky, will take on Hardin Valley Academy from Knox County, Tennessee.

Both teams won their way to get here and are both quite good.

So we'll see what happens and which of these two will advance to our Smart 16.

Let's start by saying hi to the players from Corbin, Kentucky, beginning with sophomore Jasper Blankenship.

Hey, Jasper, what about yourself I'm on the chess club at our school.

Yeah.

And anything else you do in your spare time?

I mean, you're a gamer.

You just read a lot, or you study Scholars Bowl questions?

I like to read.

Yeah.

Oh, cool.

All right.

We're happy to have you here.

Sam Elliott is a junior.

Tell us something about you, Sam.

I like you said I'm a junior.

I don't really have a lot of free time this year in a lot of clubs wrestle, as well as the academic team thinking about those scholarships and college applications and all that.

Business?

GPA is far too low for that.

Well, I mean, you know, you can pull it out, check out the grade averages of some of our most famous Americans and you'll be get a confidence boost right there.

Let's say hi to team captain.

It Will Taylor, who is a junior.

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

Tell us about yourself.

Well, I'm a junior, just like Sam.

We are in some classes.

He's a good close friend.

I don't really got much going on after school.

All right, Well, that helps bond in teamwork.

I mean, obviously, you can binge watch past episodes of Scholars Bowl to help you prepare.

And let's say hi also to Junior Hudson Co. Hey, Hudson welcome back.

Tell us about yourself.

On most days most of my classes are with these two.

You're a junior with them as well.

You don't even get a break on Scholars Bowl day.

I mean, you make the field trip all the way from Corbin and you still have to spend time with them.

Yep.

Is that okay?

Sometimes.

Well, we're happy that you did.

And we're happy that you're here.

Let's say hi to the alternate for Corbin High School and the coaches.

That is Korina Morales.

And she is joined by coaches Chris Kinzel, who teaches social studies and film, and Darren Higgins, who teaches math at Corbin, home of the first KFC, as I recall.

Valley Academy has an experienced squad.

You may recognize some of these faces because they've always done well in our tournament.

Let's say hi first to Brock can answer 11th grade.

Brock, tell us about yourself.

Hello.

I enjoy solving Rubik's cubes.

How fast?

Well, the regular three by three I've solved in 22 seconds before.

Oh, my hands.

All right.

So to me, it's like I just spend all day on it, and I'm satisfied when I finally get it right.

22 seconds is very impressive.

Let's say I also to 12th grader, Zack Gerber.

Zach, tell us about you.

I am a roller coaster enthusiast.

To date, I have written 320 different roller coasters across the U.S. Now, I've heard that Dollywood continues to win awards, nationwide awards from the American Coasters enthusiasts, because as having the best roller coasters, you've been on many.

How does Dollywood stack up?

Well, as I'm sure a lot of us know, lightning Rod is the best coaster at Dollywood.

But recently, in fact, this off season, they are removing the launch and replacing with a chain.

So I do not know how it's going to compare, you know, rather a few hundred times and let us know.

Yeah, you send me an email saying hi, the team captain David Hart, who is in 12th grade.

David, you going to answer bonuses or defer to a teammate?

What about yourself?

Much like some of the members on the team, I enjoy participating TSA And you guys have a great robotics team also.

Is that related to technology since there is always competition in TSA, but the two clubs are not related.

Oh, interesting.

Okay.

Well, cool.

You guys should compare notes at the end of the match.

Let's say I also 2/10 grader Zainab Hassan.

Hi, Zainab.

Welcome back.

Happy to have you again.

Tell us about yourself.

Hi, I'm on my school's literary magazine.

Oh, cool.

Are you a poet or an author yourself?

I like to write poetry.

Yeah.

Very good.

All right.

Well, we're happy to have you.

Let's say hi to the alternates and coach for Hardin Valley Academy, beginning with Samir Nathawat what and Julian Lee, Ryan Moon and Gary Park, joined by coach Nancy Bush, who teaches science to the Hawks at Hardin Valley.

Players, you've all been here before.

You know how we play toss ups.

Were ten bonuses worth up to 20?

Get your fingers on the buzzer for this second round game of Tennessee Scholars Bowl 20, 24.

Toss up for all players in chemistry.

If blue litmus paper turns red, what does this David Acidic.

Yeah, turns the red.

The presence of acid and a chemistry bonus.

Now for Vai name the compounds first H2O to a hydrogen peroxide.

Yeah.

Hygiene peroxide.

Yes.

Next in H three ammonia in ammonia.

Both.

Right.

20 points.

Toss up in music.

What Tennessee State Song was written in 1967.

In room Zach Rocky top Yeah the Gatlinburg inn and a music bonus now for Hudson Valley What British pop singer whose parents were Albanian immigrants was granted Albanian citizenship in 2022 because of the popularity of her songs such as Levitating and Don't Start Now.

Dua LIPA Actually, yes, it Dua LIPA that is correct.

For 20 points toss up in games.

What Swimming pool game shares a name with a Venetian merchant.

Zach Marco Polo.

Yeah.

I wonder if you just said Marco, if I would have said Polo and given away the answer.

But that's right for ten games bonus.

What board game involves players conquering their enemies territory by building an army on adjacent territories?

Yeah, I think it's says Risk.

Is it for 20 points Toss up now in geography.

The Great Barrier Reef is located off the coast of which Zach Australia, a continent and geography bonus named two of the South American countries at the equator runs through Colombia.

And yeah, Ecuador.

Yeah, Ecuador and Colombia.

Yeah.

And Brazil is the third.

I mean Ecuador practically means equator, right?

20 points.

Toss up in vocabulary.

What kind of noun is humility?

Zach Abstract, Yes.

And a vocabulary bonus.

What is the nine letter word that begins with the letter I and means unbiased or fair?

Impartial.

Impartial, Yes.

What is a five letter word that begins with the letter I and means an expression peculiar to a language idiom also right 20 points plus up in physics who first measured the density of solid objects by submerging them?

Zach Archimedes Yes, and a physics bonus.

Now Ohm's Law is represented by the equation.

E equals I are named two of the three words that these variables represent voltage and current.

You know which one I'm out of here is voltage and current.

That's right.

E is voltage is current, R is resistance 20 points plus that for all players in algebra, solve for X if 18 equals three minus five x David three Now you can still Corbin Will.

Negative three.

Yeah, X is negative three.

It gives you a visual bonus.

Corbin Take a look at the screens.

Please evaluate the expression a X plus a Y.

If A equals 3.2 x equals 5.3 and Y equals 4.7, just tell me.

answer?

I designate Hudson 15.8 32 is the answer.

32 No points on the bonus toss up in art.

Who was appointed by Pope Paul?

The third as chief architect?

Zach Michelangelo of St Peter's Basilica.

Art bonus now a detective known as the Indiana Jones of the art world, found and returned a priceless statue that was stolen from a French museum in 1973.

The statue was of what mythological Roman God of agriculture, wine and fertility?

No, Bacchus, I think.

I think it's Bacchus.

Bacchus is right for 20 points toss up in U.S. history.

Who was president of the United States when NASA was established in Sam Kennedy?

In 1957.

Chance to steal.

Zach Eisenhower is right and a history bonus which two of the state quarters released in the early 21st century highlight the birth of aviation with the Wright Brothers first airplane, Ohio, North Carolina, Ohio and North Carolina.

Those are both right for 20 points.

Tossup in literature.

What is the ten letter word beginning with a that means someone or something presented in Zach allegory in opposition to the principal character chance to steal Corbin Jasper antagonist is right in the literature bonus for Corbin What type of poetry is a form of narrative verse typically following a pattern of rhymed quatrains, like the rhyme of the Ancient Mariner Ode.

It's a ballad that won toss up for everybody in health, sugars, starches and fiber are what type of macronutrient found in Sam.

Carbohydrate.

Yeah, certain foods.

Right and health bonus.

What branch of medical science is the study of incidence, distribution and control of disease in a population and infectious diseases that would be epidemiology.

Try this one.

What field of medicine deals with the digestive system?

I defer to Sam.

Astronomics.

Well, the field of medicine is gastroenterology.

There are no points on the bonus toss up in geometry.

A two dimensional space is divided into quadrants.

What is the three dimensional space divided into?

Zack Octets Correct.

In the geometry bonus two angles are complementary.

One is 54 degrees larger than the other angle.

What are the measures of both angles 72 and 36.

Does that work?

So 30, 63 and 27?

Yeah.

Anything that way?

Answer 63 and 27 degrees now was 18 and 72 degrees at up to 90.

Toss up.

Now in religion, what religions practices are based on the Torah or Mosaic Law?

Zack Judaism Yeah, and religion Bonus for Hudson Valley, known for its five looming towers and grand porticos.

The great Temple of Angkor Wat is sacred for followers of which religion?

It's Hinduism.

It's in India.

So it's either been, you know, my answer, Hinduism, or it's Buddhists.

And in what country is Angkor Wat located in India?

No, it's in Cambodia, which probably would have given you the Buddhism if you thought of it.

That toss up for all players in geography.

What body of water is bordered by Texas, Louisiana and Florida?

Sam Gulf of Mexico is right.

A visual bonus for Corbin.

Look at the screens, please.

What island nation is represented by the flag shown here?

Jamaica is correct for ten.

What is the capital of Jamaica?

Kingston also right for 20 toss up for all players in foreign language.

What does the French expression Freedom Portait mean?

Zach Store?

no chance to steal.

Corbin Will?

It's good.

No, it means ready to wear Pret a porter.

40 That for all players in science, what is the upward force in a liquid?

Zach Buoyancy correct for ten science bonus which metal is the primary component in the or hematite IMO it's blood.

Oh, iron.

Yeah.

Iron right.

For ten.

Which metal is the primary component in the or galena aluminum.

So what I would think because I've heard Brock gallium.

No it's led in that one network so that is ten total on the bonus toss up now in biology koalas rely on what tree Zach Eucalyptus yeah for habitat and food biology bonus for Hudson Valley although it saw record growth in 2022 after years of coral bleaching, scientists are still concerned about marine heatwaves, pollution and coral eating crown of thorns starfish.

At what reef that is the world's largest barrier.

The Great Barrier Reef is right 20 points toss up now in miscellaneous.

What is the Tennessee State Wild animal?

Zach Robert The raccoon.

Yes.

And a miscellaneous bonus for Hudson Valley.

Two parts.

What is the state gem of Tennessee?

It's like, oh, know, it's like the pearl.

It's a pearl.

I think maybe if Sapphire.

Now it is the Pearl, the Tennessee River Pearl specifically.

And what is the Tennessee State reptile?

And I mean this whole name ain't no salamanders amphibian you know for some sort of, you know, the full name of it is the eastern box turtle.

No points on the bonus toss up.

Now in government, what is a rule or regulation issued by the president that has the force of law?

Zach No chance to steal now Corbin Sam executive order correct and a government bonus In 1801 it took 35 house ballots before Thomas Jefferson won the presidency.

Who was the opponent who tied him 34 times in the Electoral College?

Aaron Burr is right for 20 toss up now and spelling spell the word fluoresce as in a Zach.

F L U O R E S C E N T /is the correct spelling of fluorescent and a spelling bonus.

Now someone who exercises a compelling charm which inspires devotion in others is charismatic.

Spell charismatic r. I am a t ICC.

I is an I defer to Zachary c h a r i s m a t i c correct for 20 points Toss up for all players in geology.

In which mountain chain is Mt.

Everest?

Zach Himalayas.

Correct.

In the geology bonus what stone is said to have been given to Abraham by Gabriel and kept at the Kaaba in Mecca.

Stone Stone I defer to Zainab.

Loxton is right, 20 points tossup now in pre-calculus, what is the value of sine squared x plus cosine squared x?

Zac one is right for calculus bonus.

What is the limit of sine x as x approaches?

Infinity does not exist yet because aspects does not exist.

Correct.

What is the limit of sine x divided by x as x approaches infinity?

Oh, is that one?

I don't know.

It's zero.

I think it's zero.

Zero is right.

Yeah.

20 on that bonus toss up.

Now in architecture, what is the name for a decorative strip of wood across the top of a wall.

Sam?

Portico.

Not it you can steal Hardin Valley.

Zach a panel Now it's called molding That decorative strip at the top.

Toss up now in economics, what is a sum of money paid regularly by a company to its investors?

Sam interests out of its profits chances to steal Zach.

Dividend.

Is right and an economics bonus which actually won't get you before the half runs out.

So we'll save that for another day.

It looks like Harden Valley is trying to run up the score on Corbin in this threshold of 30 to round game.

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

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You're watching Tennessee Scholars Bowl.

I'm Frank Murphy, back from halftime.

In the second round game, this threshold of 32 round game between Corbin High School from Corbin, Kentucky, and Hardin Valley Academy from Knox County, Tennessee.

Right now, Hardin Valley is trying to pull away and ice the game, but Corbin can catch up in our second half.

Anything can happen in fact.

and both teams have brought alternates into the game.

We'll see how that affects the play.

Let's say hi.

First to sophomore Korina Morales.

Karina Hi, welcome.

We're happy to have you tell us something about yourself.

Well, I don't do any clubs really, but I really enjoy art class.

So last year in the art show, I won an honorable mention and third place for two of my pieces.

Well, you're only a sophomore in that.

You can start an art club.

Maybe, You know, that would be fantastic.

Congratulations on that.

I'm so happy for you.

And on the other side, we welcome a junior named Ryan Moon.

Ryan Hi.

Welcome to the show.

Tell us about yourself.

What do you like to do?

I enjoy rock climbing big rocks, giant rocks.

And I do indoor rock climbing.

Well, it sounds like a lot of fun.

I climbed a rock once, but it was only about this time.

Let's get back to the game, everybody.

You know how we play toss ups?

We're ten bonuses worth 20.

It's a second round game of Tennessee Scholars Bowl 2024.

Toss up for all players in English.

What is the study of the science of language and its structure called Zack Linguistics.

Right.

410 English is your bonus.

What is the term for a word like buzz that has a sound that imitates or suggests its meaning I defer to Ryan.

Onomatopoeia is correct for 20 points.

Toss up now in chemistry.

What is the term for a substance that increases the rate of a chemical reaction?

Zack Catalyst is right.

For 2010, chemistry is a bonus.

Give the electron configuration in exponential form for sodium one.

That's two.

Two has to be six, three is two.

I think it's the third zone.

The three is one, 1s2, 2s2, 2p6, 3s1.

That's correct.

20 points toss up for every one in literature.

Who was the mythological Greek goddess of love?

Will, Aphrodite, correct in mythology, Venus, when Mount Ulloa erupted in 2022, many native Hawaiians traveled to the volcano to make sacrifices in honor of what mythological goddess of volcanoes and fire I designate Corinna.

Pele.

That's right.

20 points toss up now in music.

What song was the marching song of the Northern Troops?

Zach The Battle Hymn of the Republic during the Civil War.

And Music bonus now for Hudson Valley.

What popular singer songwriter became the youngest person to sweep the four main Grammy categories in 2020 with her hit bad guy Billie Eilish.

Billie Eilish is right for ten.

And what was the title song for the 25th installment of the James Bond film franchise that was written and sung by Billie Eilish No Time to Die.

I think the No Time to Die is the right answer.

20 points Toss up Now in US history.

Thomas Jefferson insisted that the legislative building in Washington be called the Capitol.

How is that spelled?

Zainib?

C A P I T O L is right and it gets you a visual bonus for her unveiling.

Take a look at the screens, please.

The funeral procession for which president traveled down Broadway in New York City on April 25th, 1865, as shown here around Abraham Lincoln.

And the photo also shows what six and a half year old boy who would become the nation's 26th president, Teddy Roosevelt and Roosevelt early, Theodore.

Theodore Roosevelt?

That's correct.

The parade happened to go by his family's mansion and he was looking out the window.

You can see him in the picture.

Toss up for all players in literature.

By what name did Dr. Frankenstein refer to his monster in the novel Frankenstein?

Zach Adam is right.

Literature Bonus.

What novel did Jules Verne write about?

A traveler who makes a wager to circumnavigate the earth.

My favorite book is.

I heard they were on the road.

80 Days is Right.

And what is the name of the protagonist after Zachary Filius Fogg Yeah.

I want to make sure I get the L in there.

That's right.

20 on the bonus toss up.

Now in science, what is the illusion caused by the refraction of light in which distant objects are seen?

Zach Mirage like as if they're floating in the air.

Science bonus for Hardin Valley.

In what geologic era did forests appear and dominate the land?

Because something like Paleolithic I don't know or cenezoic, I think makes more sense.

No.

Cretaceous.

Cretaceous.

It's the Paleozoic.

So kind of dancing around it.

Paleozoic Toss up for all players in math, what is 875 divided by 25?

Zach 35, is right in the math computation bonus.

Now what number is six factorial equal to 720?

So again, 720 is right 20 points toss up in foreign language Translate Casa de ezucar Zach covers sugar from Spanish to English and a foreign language bonus now named two of the European countries where Catalan is spoken.

Andorra and Spain.

Andorra.

Yeah, Spain and Andorra are both right and then also parts of France and Italy.

That's 20 points.

Tossup in geography of what country is Caracas, the capital city.

Zach Venezuela is right.

Geography bonus, which Great Lake is the smallest in terms of surface area Ontario lake lake Lake Ontario, Ontario is right for ten which Great Lake is the smallest by volume three, Lake Erie, both right.

That's 20 total on the bonus concept for all players in art, What is a type of sculpture where objects are suspended?

Zach Relief no and balance to be moved by currents of air and steel.

Corbyn Now that is a mobile or mobile we're talking about does that for everyone in astronomy.

What is the brightest star seen in the night sky?

Serious.

bonus now for in astronomy for all you.

In 1736, the astronomer Anders Celsius confirmed Newton's theory that the Earth is not a sphere.

But what shape ellipse?

I don't know.

Lips and lips, isn't it?

Looks three square and ellipsoid.

And that's Ellipse.

No, Ellipse would be two dimensional.

You just figured out ellipsoid is the right answer.

We also would have taken Oblate spheroid.

But most people say ellipsoid.

No points toss up in health, in psychology, what is the innate and typically fixed pattern of behavior in animals or in response to certain stimuli?

Ryan.

Instinct.

Is right?

Health is your bonus.

According to a 2018 report from UCLA's World Policy Analysis Center, What are the only two countries in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development where paid sick leave is not guaranteed?

Oh, I don't know.

China and Russia?

I think it's not Canada, no.

Yeah, U.S., Canada, USA and Canada.

It's USA and South Korea.

I'll give you ten points for U.S. tossup in religion.

In what city would you find?

The Church of the Holy Sepulcher, believed to be the location of Jesus.

Zach Jerusalem.

Resurrection is right and a visual bonus.

Take a look at the screens, please.

Jordan Valley, known for an array of different styles.

Who is the artist in the self-portrait shown here?

Picasso.

Except that's Picasso.

Picasso is right for ten.

And this 1907 self-portrait was painted at the beginning of which artistic stage of Picasso's career means Cubism.

Cubism?

Yeah.

He became a cubist is right.

20 points toss up in history.

Who uttered the famous words to the British when asked to surrender?

David, I think.

And I have not yet begun to fight chance to steal Corbyn Well, then your hope, John Paul Jones, is that quote, tossed up in vocabulary.

What profession entitles its members to use the term Esquire following Attorney Yeah, their name and a vocabulary bonus for Hardin Valley.

Identify the meaning of the prefix macro or large large.

Correct.

Identify the meaning of the prefix poly pol.

Many, many also write 20 points to toss up now in technology Podbean, Riverside FM and Buzz Sprout podcast are intended for creating podcasts and a technology bonus in the world of podcasting.

RSS stands for what Studios session?

Sure, let's go with it.

I've heard Orion recording studio session.

Oh, we used to actually use this for blogs in the old days too.

It's really simple.

Syndication RSS toss up now in geometry in a parallelogram ABCD if angle a has a measure of 50 degrees, what is the measure of angle D Zach.

130 degrees.

Is right in geometry bonus now.

an angle with the value of five x minus ten is an obtuse angle.

What is the range of the value of x?

So that'll be 180 divided by five on a line.

That's 16 plus 20.

Or the answer 36.

Well, I needed more than that.

I need the range would be greater than 20 and less than 38.

So no points on it.

Toss up in music.

What is the name for the scale which has intervals of half steps?

Zach Chromatic is right music is your bonus with a time signature of 12 over eight.

How many beats does a dotted half note get down in halfnote Is six I think.

I think it's 6.

6.

Is right and with a time signature of two over two what note gets one beat halfnote.

both right 20 points plus up now in economics BMW originally Zach airplanes produced engines for what type of transportation economics bonus.

The European Central Bank is responsible for the monetary policy of what group of member countries?

European Union.

The European Union.

Right for ten.

And name the city where the European Central Bank is headquartered.

Germany.

Frankfurt.

Germany.

That's right.

20 on the bonus.

First up now in literature, The Iliad tells the story of which war.

Zach Trojan War is right.

Literature is your bonus.

Both Virgil and Homer told about the most beautiful woman in the world being seduced and taken away by a foreign prince.

First question Who was the woman as a Pygmalion?

I don't know.

I guess I don't think it's been really.

But I just said Pygmalion.

Now, Helen of Troy, who was the Prince?

Paris.

Paris.

That's right.

You get ten on the bonus.

Tossup in biology.

What?

Marine crustaceans with external shells attach themselves permanently.

David Barnacles.

Yeah.

To a variety of things.

Even whales, they attach to biology.

Bonus.

What?

Seven letter word beginning with a means the white part of a chicken egg.

Oh, those usually axes I have since.

I don't know.

I defer to Zainab.

Alveoli?

No, it's an albumin, but you can still get points for spelling albumin.

I'll be u m e. Yes.

Yeah, that works.

I defer to Zachy Alvi, u m e and Zaki That's right.

410 points.

Toss up in government.

What is the procedure that allows a U.S. city to expand its physical boundaries to include a nearby area?

Sam Annexation is right.

It's not yet part of a larger city and a government in bonus.

Now, in 2022, the authors say that question for another time.

We didn't get to it before the end of the game.

Corbin, thanks for being here and thanks for trying to do your best.

We do appreciate your being here for two games on scholarship ball and hope to see you for many more again next year.

Keep watching past episodes online as a way to study up like a certain player on the Hardin Valley is seem to do.

Harden Valley.

Congratulations.

You once again will advance to the smart 16 and we'll see.

Also, you got two teams in the competition.

We'll see how they do.

They could end up meeting each other in the next round.

We'll find out when we get there.

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