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

The game that calls for academic knowledge.

Let's meet our team.

History is the category players.

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

Thank you for watching.

Tennessee Scholars Bowl.

I'm Frank Murphy.

This is the academic tournament with teams from all over the viewing area competing for the Frank Miller Memorial Trophy and a cash prize that will describe at halftime.

We are in the threshold of 32 with halfway through our tournament, only 32 teams left.

And this time it's a second round game between Hardin Valley Academy and Greenville High School, who both won their way to be here.

So welcome back to all your players.

Let's say hi to the Hardin Valley squad, the Hawks, beginning with Austin Shinn in 11th grade.

Hi, Austin.

Tell us something about yourself.

I'm about to join my Eagle Scout ranks, and that's outstanding.

I always have to do a special community service project to become an eagle.

In addition to winning dozens and dozens of merit badges.

What's their project?

So I like cleaned up church basketball court, and I drew I painted lines on them.

That sounds great.

Yeah.

Nice.

All right.

So a lot of people can benefit from that.

That's fantastic.

Let's also to Jake Laws in 11th grade.

Welcome back.

Jake, Have you have you to tell us about yourself?

I've been playing bass guitar for two years now.

You must be exhausted.

Yeah, It's nice.

Nice outlet.

A lot of musicians do well, generally speaking, in math and science because some of the same brain activities are involved.

Let's say I had a team captain, Zoe Christie.

So Zoe, as before last time you're here, you'll answer bonuses on behalf of the squad or defer by name to a teammate.

What have you been up to?

I actually speak three languages.

Oh, yeah?

Which three?

I speak Greek.

Chinese.

And in case you haven't noticed, I speak English.

Okay.

I was wondering what that was, so.

That's good.

Thanks.

So I hope that works out for you.

Well.

also Arturo Hernandez in 11th grade.

Welcome back.

Arturo, tell us about you.

Uh, I like to skateboard.

I've been doing it for, like, a year and a half.

Oh, yeah, Yeah.

And all I know about skateboard is the ollie, because that's the constantly shows up in the crossword puzzle.

What is it?

Uh, you just, like, kind of hit, like, the backboard and, like, both of your feet up, and you kind of happen there.

All right, I can picture that.

All right.

Thanks a lot.

Let's say hi to the alternates and coach for Hardin Valley Academy, starting with Ellie Fields and Jessica Bryant and Timothy Bryant, joined by coach Nancy Bush, who teaches science to the Hawks at Heart and Valley, taking on a squad from Greenville High School.

And both these schools, by the way, did put multiple teams into the tournament.

Let's say hi to Skyer Zo of 12th grade.

Skyler Hi.

Welcome back.

Tell us about you.

I play violin some favorite composers, maybe because I can't name every single piece.

Oh, that's fantastic.

And also Emma Waddell, I am a welcome back.

Tell us about you.

You're in 12th grade and hi, I'm president of our National Honor Society chapter and I play varsity tennis.

Do I remember correctly that you're president of everything or just that?

Well, just that and student council class.

Okay, very good.

let's say we had a team Captain Angus Herald.

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

What have you been up to?

I still wrestle and I still make PowerPoints, so I often wrestle with PowerPoint.

So I think I can try still trying to combine them and we can find that.

Yeah, I can make a PowerPoint about wrestling.

I think somebody would watch it.

It takes a lot of skill to make a PowerPoint.

Okay, But wrestling, I hope to see that someday.

Don't forget, you'll answer bonuses or defer.

And we also have Trey Bailey, a ninth grader.

As I recall.

You buzzed in quite a bit the last time you were here.

Tell us about you.

How did you get so good at Scholar's Bowl in such a short time?

I guess I've just whenever I was little, I used to just watch random stuff like some kids would watch, like SpongeBob.

I'd watch Well, I did watch football, but I also watching just random history videos and I got really into history.

That's great.

And then also I was able to compete in national Geography B two years ago, and that was awesome.

Really help me prepare for this.

Outstanding.

Well, we look forward to many years of you on scholarship bowls and certainly in ninth grade, let's say hi to the alternate for Greenville and the coach that is Adam Hensley.

And he is joined by Coach Samuel Hyde, who is the yearbook and testing coordinator at Greenville High School.

All right.

You all won your way here.

You remember how we play with triceps worth ten bonuses worth up to 20 players?

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

Toss up for all players in geography.

In which direction from Central America is the Tropic of Cancer Straight South.

Not you can steal our valley.

Zoe North is the other option.

Incorrect Geography Bonus.

What is the capital of Argentina for ten?

Answer No answer.

There is no Buenos Aires, but you can get ten points if you tell me what Buenos Aries means in English.

Good, good as a good air.

Yeah.

The literal translation is good air.

It means idiomatically.

Fair wins, smooth sailing, ten points toss up for all players in literature.

What was the name of Peter Pan's friend who sewed his shadow back on Zoe?

Wendy?

Yes, Wendy, darling.

We'll take that.

And a literature bonus in A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens.

What are the two cities like and which one is Paris?

We do not know the other one.

Well, it's Charles Dickens.

So London turned out to be the other one.

London in Paris, ten points.

Tossup in health.

What is the medical term for the collarbone?

trick?

You know that you can steal Hudson Valley.

That's your clavicle bone toss up in pre-calculus.

What word does the number two in the function Y equals to cosine X represent?

Emma coefficient?

No, you can steal Hudson Valley factors in that instance.

Two represents the amplitude plus f for everybody in music.

What is another name for the g clef in music which is used, Trey?

treble clef?

Yeah.

In the upper staff and a music bonus for Greeneville.

Which instrument in an orchestra is traditionally the first to sound a note for tuning just before a concert trumpet from Amplitude in marching band.

That's a trumpet in an orchestra, it's usually the oboe, but you can get points if you tell me what note the oboe plays for Tuning D d No, it's a The tuning note is a toss up for all players in U.S. history.

Tennessee became the 16th state in what year?

Emma 1760.

Not it.

You can still have valid.

Zoe 1794.

No, it's 1796.

You missed it on that.

No points there.

Toss up for all players in vocabulary.

A pyromaniac would likely be charged with what?

Emma?

A fire?

Yeah.

What crime?

With that person might be the church with Zoe.

Arson is right for ten vocabularies or bonus.

What?

Nine letter word?

Beginning with the letter J means prudent, fair or sound in judgment.

Answer?

Judicial.

divide.

I know it's judicious.

How about this one?

What?

Six letter word?

Beginning with the letter J means a decrepit car junk junk box Answer Junk box jalopy is an old word for a beat up old car, plus that for everyone in geology, Minnesota's approximately 11,000 lakes were formed by what action?

Trade glaciers?

Yeah, Glaciers melting.

And a visual bonus now for Hardin Valley.

Take a look at the screens, please.

This statue in the U.S. Capitol's National Statuary Hall Collection represents which general who was elected governor of an independent state that North Carolina declared to be in revolt, but received a full pardon in 1788 and became the first governor of Tennessee in 1796.

Defer furniture John Severe is him for 20 points.

Tossup up in religion, according to second century writings known as the proto evangelum and church tradition.

Who is the mother of the Virgin Mary?

Trey?

a Mary Magdalene, not her.

You can steal Hardin Valley.

That's Saint Anne.

No points toss up in art.

In what?

Building in Vatican City is Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam?

Trey?

Sistine Chapel.

Right.

And an art bonus.

Now, what is the process of drawing, painting or engraving using numerous small dots or specks?

Pointillism, pointillism?

Well, I'm describing stippling there.

So there's similar but different toss up in economics, which agricultural researcher developed hundreds of peanut byproducts?

Trey?

George Washington Carver is right In an economics bonus, when Alcoa separated into two companies, one kept the name Alcoa.

What is the new name of the fabrication business that has a facility in the city of Alcoa, Tennessee, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Lake Ridge National Laboratory.

Now, next time you go to the airport, you might see the big sign that used to say Alcoa, that now says Arconic.

How about this?

What was the original name of the company that is represented by the syllables of the word Alcoa?

Answer?

Barack Obama.

That is the aluminum company of America, or if you're from England, aluminum.

So Alcoa up to us after everybody in foreign language, which Greek letter looks like an upside down V tray delta not it you can steel Hudson Valley.

Zoe Lambda Yeah lambda is it foreign language bonus.

Now name the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet, alpha and omega.

Yeah wait, You study Greek, Right?

Okay.

No wonder twice that for all players in chemistry when testing a substance with litmus paper, what color does the paper turn?

If the substance is Boston, Red is a base chance to steal Greenville.

No, you can't confer on tossups.

You can't talk to each other.

So that blows that one out.

It is blue, by the way, percent for all players in algebra.

Solve for X in the equation six minus four x equals x minus four.

Trey?

x equals 10/3.

Now that you can steal our invalid Jake?

2.

X equals two is right and algebra bonus.

Now in the quadratic equation, y equals x squared minus four x plus five.

What is the axis of symmetry equation?

That's the vertex kind of to answer.

I defer to Jake.

Is it negative two?

No, it's positive.

Two x equals positive two, they're plus up for all players in miscellaneous.

What World War One hero was born in Pall Mall in Fentress County, Tennessee, in 1887.

Trey Alvin C York is him for ten points and a miscellaneous bonus now on screen.

Take a look, please.

Which element has a density?

About one third of steel.

And the atomic number 13 C sodium.

Sodium.

Now we're back to aluminum again.

What is the chemical symbol for aluminum?

Al.

Al.

Is right ten points on the bonus plus that for all players in geography, which of the Great Lakes provides shoreline to the state of Ohio?

Emma Erie Yes, that's right.

And a geography bonus for Greenville which four states in the U.S. call themselves Commonwealths.

Virginia.

West Virginia.

Ohio.

Commonwealth of Ohio.

New Jersey.

Pennsylvania.

Virginia.

Ohio.

Pennsylvania.

New Jersey.

Pennsylvania.

Well, Virginia and Pennsylvania are correct.

Massachusetts and Kentucky are the other two.

So you get five points each.

That's ten total on the bonus toss up in literature, in the crucible for what offense is John Proctor arrested Zoe witchcraft and tried in the literature bonus now who created the character referred to in the title of Bruce Springsteen's 1995 album, The Ghost of Tom Joad One answer Edgar Allan Poe.

No, Tom Joad is a John Steinbeck character.

In what book?

For Ten Points Can that I defer to?

Jake Cat in the Hat.

It would be a more dramatic version, I imagine.

But The Grapes of Wrath is the actual book has that for all players in biology.

What is the process by which different kinds of living organisms developed and diversified from earlier forms?

Jake, Is that evolution?

Well, yes, it is.

And again, sorry, evolution and a biology bonus.

In 2022, Canada blocked the expansion of an iron ore mine in the Arctic that would have increased shipping, which makes narwhals stay away from the area.

Generations of hunters have relied on narwhal hunting because one ounce of narwhal skin has as much of what vitamin as an ounce of oranges, Vitamin C. Vitamin C is it for 20 points.

Geology Toss up.

What classification of rock is limestone?

Skyler Sedimentary is right and a geology bonus now for Greenville In 2023, researchers reexamined a fossil that had been in a museum's collection for 150 years and over an inch across.

It's the largest known flower fossil and was preserved for over 34 million years.

In what substance that forms from fossilized tree resin.

Amber Yeah, or alert to amber.

That's right.

20 points toss up now in music.

In the song Frosty the Snowman, what item is used as Frosty's nose or Scarlet Carrot?

Not it.

You can steal hardened valley so button that you can confer on toss upset so I can't give it to you.

I heard Jake whisper it to Zoe.

It is a button, but no points on it.

And that's the end of the first half of play.

Let's see what happens next time as we continue this game between Hardin Valley and Greenville.

What happens in our next half?

Stick around to find out.

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.

You're watching Tennessee Scholar's Bowl.

I'm Frank Murphy back from halftime in this exciting second round match between Hardin Valley Academy and Greenville High School, the score is tied right now, and one of these two teams will win and advance to our Smart 16.

Which is it going to be?

We'll find out in about ten and a half minutes.

But first, we've got to meet the freshman alternates for Hardin Valley Academy, starting with Jessica Bryant.

Welcome back.

Jessica, you were here last time your team played.

Tell us about you.

I actually really love baking.

Baking like as in the British Baking Show type of things with all this complicated stuff or something more basic, a little bit more basic.

What's an example of something you've baked recently?

And as I say on that show, what's a recent bake?

I think the most recent thing I baked was probably a batch of brownies.

That sounds good.

That's I can't go wrong with that.

I love it.

Fantastic.

Let's say hi.

Also to freshman Ellie Fields.

Welcome back, Ellie.

Happy to have you.

Tell us about you.

I don't like ice cream.

What?

Get out No, seriously?

Why not?

I don't know.

Just to cold?

Yeah.

So the texture, is it the flavor?

Is it the temperature?

I mean, all the above.

All right.

Well, I'm shocked and stunned, and I can't get over it, so we'll move back to the game, I guess.

Everybody get your fingers back on the buzzer As we resume Tennessee Scholars Bowl 2024. toss up for all players in government in the United States.

What distinguishes a bench trial Trey?

When there's no jury.

That is right.

And a government bonus for Greenville.

What branch of the U.S. government is responsible for conducting foreign policy?

The Department of State Department of State, well I asked for the branch, which would be executive, Which branch of the US government is responsible for impeaching federal officials?

Impeach would be the Senate and it would be legislative legislating is correct.

Ten points on the bonus toss up.

Now in mythology, in Greek mythology, who was the God of music, poetry and purity?

Zoe Apollo Right.

510 mythology Bonus in Roman mythology.

Who was the two faced God of beginnings, transitions, time and doorways.

Janis is right the namesake for January 20 points toss up in physics, which branch of physics deals with the properties of light?

Angus Theoretical knowledge.

It gives you a chance to steal Hardin Valley.

Jake The quantum.

No, optics.

Optics deals with light no points.

Plus, up now in math for everyone, what is the product of the cube root of 27 and the square root of 121?

Go ahead Trey?

33.

Is right.

When you take three times 11, it is 33.

Now get a visual bonus for Greenville.

Take a look at the screens, please.

The sum of two numbers is 76.

Their difference is 20.

What are the two numbers like 20, 20, 33, 28 and 48?

That's correct.

20 points plus up now in games.

What children's game begins with a searcher counting all the other players.

Angus?

Hide and seek.

Disappear and a games bonus now for Greenville.

What is a popular playground game in which players toss a small object, a pattern of rectangles outlined on the ground and then jump through the spaces and retrieve the object?

Hopscotch is right for 20 plus up.

Now in history of the original 13 states, how was their numerical order?

Determined to rank Trey?

The order ratified the Constitution.

Thats right and history Bonus What retired Army general served as the National Security Advisor, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and was the first African-American Secretary of State from 2001 to 2005.

Now, no.

Leslie Obama.

Ben Franklin.

Colin Powell was his name, plus a for all players in grammar, what is the function of the word part in the sentence?

The Hobbit is not part of the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Trey?

A noun.

No, chance to steal Hardin Valley.

Jake?

Is it a preposition?

It's a predicate noun, so it's a specific role there.

Toss up everyone in health, in human dietary needs, calcium is to bones as what mineral is to hemoglobin.

Zoe Iron is right for ten health bonus.

Now which part of the body has the metacarpal bones fingers?

Well, it's more than just that.

Those are the phalanges of the hand has the metacarpal bones, if you zoom out a little bit.

So I'm going to say your hand for that.

No points toss up in technology.

What is the term for a small piece of code that is capable of replicating itself and spreading that?

Jake?

Is it a loop?

No.

Two other computers chance to steal Greenville Trey?

A virus.

Yeah, Computer virus is right and a technology bonus.

Now, in In 2023, a 13 year old boy in Michigan saved his eight year old sister from an attempted abduction by wounding the alleged kidnaper.

Using what weapon that many associate with link from the Legend of Zelda and David from the Bible.

A slingshot Slingshot is right for 20 toss up for everyone in art.

What are the two dimensions in a two dimensional painting Trey?

The front and the back.

Not it.

You can steal Hardin Valley.

Jake is the length and width?

It is length and width as you keep quizzing me over here and now you get a visual bonus Hardin Valley, take a look at the screens, please.

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

Dr. Seuss.

Just Van Gogh, that is Rembrandt.

Rembrandt Van Rijn.

No points on the bonus toss up in geography.

Akira Akira is the capital of which African country.

Jake Niger.

Not it.

You can steal Greeneville, Eritrea.

No, it's Ghana.

It's a big crossword puzzle word because it's got the right letters in it.

No points toss up in literature.

What is the name for a pair of rhyming lines in a poem?

Jake.

Line scheme?

Not that you can still Greeneville Skyler?

Stanza.

No a couplet is the pair.

toss up now in chemistry when amino acids are joined together to make proteins.

What type of bond joins them?

Emma Ionic, not it You can steal covalent.

No, make sure I've called on you because I couldn't take that anyway.

But a peptide bond is the answer.

I toss up for one in geometry.

Three angles of a quadrilateral are 60, 120, and 70 degrees.

What is the measure of the fourth angle?

Skyler.

Oh, sorry.

110.

Yes.

And a geometry bonus in a certain geometric progression.

The third term is six and the fourth term is 18.

Find the sixth term in the progression.

Three things.

Answer 336 Well, you only have to go up to 162.

We're multiplying by three over and over again in that.

So no points.

Toss up in architecture.

What is the name for an architectural drawing of a building's exterior Trey?

Blueprints?

Not it.

You can steal Hardin Valley blueprint would be the plans.

The elevation is the exterior.

Toss up for all players in economics, what monetary unit replaced the guilder in the Netherlands Trey?

The euro.

Yes and an economics bonus.

Now, what company is credited with developing the world's first smartphone that featured a touch screen email capability and a handful of built in apps, including a calculator in Sketchpad Apple.

Actually, it was IBM.

What was the name of that phone?

The BlackBerry?

No, the IBM 1.

Good name for it, Simon, is what they called it.

No points toss up in foreign language.

The word data.

Data is the plural of what Latin word meaning fact Jake?

Debt.

Not that you can steal Greeneville Angus?

Status.

No datum d a t u m. No points on that.

Toss up in biology.

What is the name for any rod shaped bacterium?

Angus Phylum.

No you can steal Hardin Valley.

That is a bacillus.

No points toss up now in astronomy in which layer of the atmosphere is the ozone layer found Jake?

Stratosphere.

Yes.

And astronomy bonus.

Although Jupiter's 92 moons were briefly thought to be the most in our solar system, 62 more moons were discovered in 2023 orbiting which planet?

Bringing its total to 145 Saturn.

Saturn is right 20 points toss up.

Now in sports, which university has permission from Disney to use Donald Duck as their official mascot?

Emma.

Oregon.

Yeah, University of Oregon and Sports bonus.

Now, which college Bowl game is played in Memphis, Tennessee?

Yeah, the Liberty Bowl.

Is right for ten.

Which College Bowl game is played in Nashville, Tennessee?

The Music City Bowl.

Also right, 20. toe toss up now in U.S. history.

What is the name for both the drought period in the Great Plains that lasted from 1932, 1936 and Emma?

Great, great draft.

And the section of the Great Plains affected by the drought and wind erosion to steel Hardin Valley dust.

You cant confer with each other or look at each other.

So Dust Bowl is the answer on that toss up.

Toss up for everyone in spelling to go back on one's word is to renege spell renege.

Angus?

R E N E G. Not that you can steal Hardin Valley?

Yes, Jake?

R E N A G E. No it's he you just missed the E at the end and you change the E in the middle.

It's silent near the end R E N E G E. Toss up for all players in science.

What is the name for the small glass containers used for bacterial cultures Jake, I have no answers.

I can still Greeneville Schuyler Petri dish is right in a science bonus.

Now.

What type of scientist studies the composition, structure, properties and reactions of substances?

Chemist.

Chemist is right for ten.

What type of scientist Studies, weather and atmosphere?

Meteorologists.

Meteorologists.

Also right 20.

Toss up now in algebra.

The statement quantity A + B + C = A+ the quantity B + C equals which property, Trey?

No.

You jumped in on me too soon.

Which property of addition?

Chance to steal Hardin Valley.

Jake.

Commutative.

The associative property and make sure you not looking at each other on tossups either toss up in music.

What is the meaning of the musical notation?

Poco r poco Jake does mean to get quieter.

Not it.

You can still Greeneville, Trey?

Faster and faster.

Little by little.

Is Poco a poco toss up for all players in government?

Finished the military slogan The few, the proud.

The what?

Zoe.

The Marines?

Yes and a government bonus.

Identify each word in the acronym of the international group NATO.

North Atlantic Trade Organization.

Well, it's treaty organization, so we'd give you 15 points there at the end for North Atlantic and organization.

Other than that, But it wasn't enough to to bring you back to the top of the heap like we were tied so closely at halftime.

Greeneville has pulled away by just under 100 points.

So congratulations to both teams.

First of all, Hardin Valley, one of the two teams your school put into the competition.

We appreciate the support very much and look forward to seeing all you want.

You're all underclassmen, right?

So we expect to see you all back here again next year.

Right.

And meanwhile, Greeneville, congratulations.

You're a big winner.

You'll advance now to the Smart 16.

We'll see you again on Scholars Bowl, taking on some very, very skilled opponents.

So brush up and make sure you, you know, watch old episodes and practice like you can do at home.

Set your DVR so you don't miss any of our Scholars Bowl episodes.

Or as we encourage students to do and believe me, they do.

You can binge watch past seasons online using the PBS app.

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