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

The game call for academic knowledge.

Let's meet our team.

History is the category players.

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

Thank you for watching.

Tennessee Scholar's Bowl.

I'm Frank Murphy.

This is the high school academic tournament with teams from all over our viewing area competing for the Frank Miller Memorial Trophy and a cash prize that you'll hear about at halftime Season 40 of Scholars Bowl, with 64 teams competing in the tournament, including actually two from Hardin Valley Academy.

This is one of their two teams and Herriman High School.

We're delighted to have both of you here today.

Let's say hi first to the players from Hardin Valley, beginning with 11th grader Austin Shinn.

Austin, tell us something about yourself.

Uh, I'm on the swim team.

I swim competitively.

What are your better times on, let's say, backstroke, breaststroke, freestyle?

I'm more of like a mid to long distance.

Precisely.

Do they make you swim the 500?

Yeah, I like the 500.

Yeah, that's brutal.

Yeah, except when they stick the numbers down in the water so you can see how much you can still have to go.

Yeah.

Oh, my goodness.

All right, Jake Laws is in 11th grade.

How are you, Jake?

I'm doing good.

How are you?

Fine, thank you.

Thank you.

I wrestle for Hardin Valley.

I'm on the team.

Are you any good?

I like to say so.

I mean, you could take the rest of the team.

College ball.

Team, probably.

Yeah.

Yeah, pretty easily.

All right.

Team captain is 10th grader Zoe Christie.

Hi, Zoe.

Tell us about yourself.

Thank you for wearing your shirt, by the way.

Of course I do.

Theater for Hardin Valley.

Yeah, and they've a nice auditorium over there.

Yeah.

Uh, what are some productions, though?

You're only in 10th grade, so maybe it's been only a few since ninth and 10th grade.

But what have you done?

Last year?

We did Anything Goes.

It's a musical by Cole Porter, and this year we're doing Addams Family, The Musical.

Oh, that's a good are two great choices.

I like both of those shows.

Love to hear it.

Let's say hi also to 11th grader Arturo Hernandez.

Arturo, welcome to the show.

Tell us more about you.

Yeah, I also like to wrestle very hard of the academy.

Who's better?

You were Jake.

I'd say he is.

Oh, come on, man.

How are you going to decide?

Oh, wait, There's a way.

All right, well, we're happy that you're here.

Let's say hi to the alternates and coach for Hardin Valley Academy, beginning with Ellie Fields and Jessica Bryant.

Timothy Bryant and coach Nancy Bush, who teaches science to the hawks of Hardin Valley, taken on a squad from Harriman High School in Harriman, Tennessee.

Welcome.

Let's say hi first to Nicholas Robinson, a freshman.

Tell us more about yourself, Nicholas.

I am a freshman class officer.

Yeah, Yeah.

You have a winning campaign slogan or they How did you convince people to vote for you?

Oh, I just try.

I just told them to vote for me.

They voted more.

Good.

I'm glad they're such obedient.

Yeah.

Let's say also to a junior.

It's Laney.

Kirsten Laney.

Hi.

Tell us more about you.

Hi.

I'm junior class president and the color guard captain.

Wow.

How did you get elected?

A lot of campaigning.

Okay.

And have handed out a lot of candy.

Oh, that works.

And then it also helps you become the color guard captain.

Yeah.

Team captain.

I recognize Evan Chen from past years or a senior.

Now, tell us more about you, Evan.

I play on the high school soccer team and what position I usually play one of the forwards, or sometimes I get switched back to like attacking mid.

Now, do you have to practice running for soccer or is just there enough in the game that you don't have to ever run outside?

The game running usually are like six laps each practice.

Oh my gosh.

Wow, your team Captain SEAL answer bonuses on behalf of the squad to defer by name to one of your teammates, much like Zoe Will on the other side, let's say hi.

Also to Drake.

Villager Hi, Drake.

How are you?

Good.

I'm a good cook, so I got pretty much.

What cuisine do you prefer?

Or my favorite thing to make is probably stuffed shells.

It's really good.

Also Italian food.

I'm good.

Have you thought about working in a restaurant or.

Not really, no.

Too much stress.

Okay, I can see that.

But we're happy to have you here.

Let's say hi to the alternates and coach for Herman High School.

First up is Riley Hickling and Jenna Smith, joined by coach Mike Holler, who has been with us for a couple of years here on scholarship.

But we're happy to have you back again.

You have 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's Scholars Bowl 2024.

Toss up in the category of foreign language.

What is the French word for King?

That is Ra Roy Roy like a king.

No points there.

Tossup up in geometry.

How many total degrees in a triangle?

780 is right.

And a bonus in geometry for you if the length and width of a rectangle are eight and 15, what are the lengths of its two diagonals?

Answer would be 17 the two diagonals 17 and 17.

That's right.

For 20 points.

Toss up now in architecture.

What is a facade in architecture?

Those are the outside walls of a building, especially the front.

No points on the toss up.

Back to geography, toss ups in what state is Key West?

So Florida is right for ten geography bonus which two states border Lake Tahoe or Nevada?

I guess the answer, Utah.

Nevada.

I'll give you points for Nevada, but it's on the other side of Nevada on the border with California.

So ten points toss up now in biology.

What human features have arches, loops, whorls islands and dots?

Those are your fingerprints we're talking about.

Toss up in English.

Transform the sentence with a simile into a sentence with a metaphor.

My child is like a blessing to me.

Even my child is a blessing.

That's right.

And an English bonus.

Now, which punctuation mark should be used to set off non-essential elements is the first part.

Nonessential comma?

Yes.

Which punctuation mark should be used to form the possessive case apostrophe also.

Right.

20 points Toss up in history.

In 1935, the country of Persia changed its name to what?

Even Germany?

No chance.

Steel.

Hardin Valley, Turkey.

Now make sure I've called on you all the way to Persia.

Is now called Iran.

No points toss up in music.

A B-flat key on a piano is also known as what key?

So a now you can steal Herman Evans A sharp.

A sharp is what I needed.

And a music bonus now for Herman, who composed the surprise Symphony, which is called that because of the startling loud chord that occurs in the second movement, that occurs amongst very soft dynamics and seems out of place within the melody Mozart.

And that is Haydn, Franz, Joseph Haydn.

No points on the bonus.

Back to tossups in government.

What is the word for an official mark or stamp on a passport that allows someone to enter or leave a country, usually for a particular reason?

Even the visa is right.

Government Bonus.

What is the legal process by which a person gains citizenship in an adopted country?

Answer Immigration that is naturalization.

Try this.

What is the act of giving up citizenship in a country?

Answer Alien possession that's called expatriation or become an expat that for all players in physics, what is a circular hairdryer adapter called it spreads airflow to a wider area or surface.

And what is it?

A fan, not it.

You can steel.

Herman Blaney Diffuser Diffuser is right for ten and it gets you a bonus in science.

Take a look at the screens please.

What species of owl shown here is the only one found in Tennessee with dark eyes.

White owl that was called a barred owl, a red barred, no points on the bonus back to tossups in literature.

Who wrote The Screwtape Letters and the Space Trilogy?

You probably know him better from some of his other stuff, but that is C.S.

Lewis up for all players in algebra.

What type of line has a zero slope?

Zoe Horizontal is right.

Algebra bonus.

Now solve the equation for x x squared -42 equals and nothing.

So that would be x equals seven or negative six times that.

For all players in art, what is the term for a color that can't be made by mixing other colors together?

You're also sorry I even blurted it out.

You still Herman 11 primary?

Yes, you can.

Thank Jake for those ten points and you get a visual bonus now for harassment.

Take a look at the screens please.

Two parts.

First, who is the artist in the self-portrait shown here?

Tickets to the movie Size of that.

That's Frida Kahlo.

You can get points if you can tell me the title of that work you not know, other than she called it Self-portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird, which is pretty much everything we just saw on the screen.

Toss up.

Now in economics, by separating fiber from the seed, what machine invented by Eli Whitney and cotton gin is it revolutionize production and an economics bonus for Herriman.

What commodity was called the Sweat of the sun by the Incas Colors?

Answer the gold.

Yes, for ten.

What commodity did they call the tears of the moon?

Sapphire, silver, dynamite, gold and silver.

They're so ten points on the bonus for all players in chemistry.

What compound with the chemical formula ch3oh is used as an alternative fuel to gasoline.

11 Ethanol.

Now that you can steal Jake Diesel.

Now methanol is what it is, not ethanol, but methanol pops up in spelling.

A basic rule of spelling is I before E Except after what letter?

Lainey C Right.

And a spelling bonus for Herriman spell an eight letter word that begins with B you and means a meddlesome, prying or officious person.

The answer I don't think the answer would be b us y bod y busybody.

No points there.

Toss up now in religion, the Christian celebration of Candlemas is 40 days after Christmas and coincides with what rodent based event.

Jake Groundhog Day.

Yes, that's right.

Halfway through winter at that point religion bonus Now in 2022, mummies with gold chips for tongues were discovered in Egypt.

Experts believe the chips were placed so the deceased could speak to which ancient Egyptian god of the underworld, Anubis Osiris, is the one toss up for all players in sports.

One lap around a track is 440 yards.

How many laps would you have to run around this track to cover two miles?

Zoe eight is right.

And a sports bonus for Hardin Valley.

What is the diameter of the center circle on an official basketball court?

That's the first question.

Ten Their papers say three things.

Answer I defer to Jake 30.

Now the center circle is only four feet across.

How about how far is the free throw line from the backboard feet?

Answer 12 and it's 15 feet.

No points on the basketball questions.

Toss up in U.S. history.

Which U.S. President served in between the terms of Grover Cleveland's Nonconsecutive terms now Benjamin Harrison was the middle man there.

No points toss up in health.

What is the common name for acetyl?

Salicylic acid?

Nope.

Aspirin is what I described that for all players in foreign language.

What is the Latin word for the minimum number of members required to be present at an assembly?

Zoe Quorum to transact business and a foreign language bonus.

Now for Harden Valley, the Basque language based QE is spoken on the border of which two European countries OC, Spain, Spain and France.

Those are both right.

So you get 20 points there at the end of the first half.

And we'll find out which of these two teams advances to the threshold of 32.

Coming up after the break on Tennessee's Scholars poll 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 Ball.

Hi, I'm Frank Murphy, back from halftime in this first round game between Hardin Valley Academy and Herriman High School.

Right now, Herriman has a lead of about 50 points, which is not that great of a lead, guys.

In terms of scholars, it's easily overcome.

Well, and anything can obviously happen in our second half of play by a great Hardin Valley squad who are bringing two alternates into the game.

Let's say hi first to freshman Jessica Bryant.

Jessica, welcome to the show.

Tell us a little bit about yourself.

Hi, I'm in High Road Academy.

Who's robotics team?

Oh, the robotics, right?

Yes, very well known in the area and is that your main activity or do anything else, too?

I mainly do that.

And then, of course, Bill, are you in the like the coding side of things or the mechanical side of things or all of the above?

I am part of the business team, so you basically do everything that just falls out there with us.

Oh well, that's a different part.

I mean, you can't you got to make it to all those competitions all over the place and every other thing that you all do.

Very good.

And let's say also to another freshman, Ellie Fields, welcome to the show.

Ellie, we're happy to have you.

Tell us about you.

I, I do.

Volunteering at the zoo.

Oh, all right.

You must have a favorite section of the zoo What animals are there?

I love the elephants.

And like the mammals mostly.

Well, they left bull.

Yeah, but they're still like one.

Still, they're a one elephant is still there.

I thought they were shipping them all off to hell and world.

No, they're still someone silly, I'm pretty sure.

Well, I'm glad to know it Meanwhile, Herriman is keeping the starting line up back in the game.

So ready to get back to it.

Fingers on the buzzer for Tennessee Scholars Bowl 2024.

Toss up for all players in pre-calculus in the unit circle.

What is the sign of pi over six radians?

11.

Oh, that's one half.

That's right.

Pre-calculus bonus Determine the equation for a circle in standard form with a radius of three and centered at the point negative three for it would be x plus three all squared plus y minus four.

All squared equals nine.

That's exactly right.

20 points on that plus up.

Now in miscellaneous, what type of product is Gorgon solar?

Jake is not a food any more than that and more specifically just steel.

Herman And it's not.

Jeffrey I can't answer your question.

Z Is that a food?

Well, who's quizzing who here?

It's a type of cheese.

So technically, yes, it is a food processor for all players in geography.

Which U.S. city has the nickname The Mile High City?

Drake, Seattle.

Now that you can steal Hardin Valley.

So Denver is right.

And a bonus in geography.

Name four of the six time zones that include the 50 United States Eastern Standard Time.

I think this one more maybe answer Eastern Standard Central and Pacific.

Eastern, Central and Pacific are all correct.

You could have given me Denver's time zone, which is Mountain or Alaska or Hawaii time.

So 15 points there.

First up now in science, what is the term for any change in speed and direction of a moving object?

Jake, is a magnitude.

No, I'm not going to answer your question.

It a chance to steal Herman Drake acceleration.

It is acceleration and a science bonus for Herriman.

According to a 2022 study, almost half of the bald eagles and golden eagles in the U.S. showed signs of chronic lead poisoning from eating the carcasses of animals killed by hunters.

What manmade items were the birds ingesting?

Bubble bullets?

Yeah, that's right.

Bullet fragments.

The hunters killed the animal, The birds ate the carcass.

Yeah.

Toss up in mythology.

What is the name of the mythological three headed dog in Greek?

Jake.

What a service.

Well, it's not that jeopardy, but I got it right there.

Right.

Well, it's.

It's the pronunciation is iffy, but this time I'm going to give it to you.

A Cerberus and a mythology bonus for Hudson Valley.

The residents of what island in Greek mythology became so corrupted by greed and power that Zeus and the gods destroyed them by letting the island be swallowed up by the sea.

Atlantis is right.

410 Atlantis and the Atlantic Ocean are named after which mythological Greek God atlas.

Both right for 20 points plus up now in math computation on a number line.

What is the distance between positive 23 and negative eight?

1131 is right in the visual math bonus.

Now for Herman, look at the screens, please change the decimals.

0.65 and 0.875 to reduced fractions.

So only two answers enough to tell me which is which.

Of course.

Answer seven.

I have 13 over 20 and I didn't get the other one.

So which one is that?

The 65 over 165 is 13 over 20.

The other 1.875 would have reduced to 7/8 seven over 810 points on the bonus toss up for all players in art.

What superhero character that was created by artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger debuted in 1939 in Detective Comics.

Number 27.

Zoe Batman.

It is Batman, an arts bonus for Hudson Valley.

Britain's Got Talent judges were surprised when a quartet that Simon Cowell had signed as one of his first artists back in 1997 showed up to audition.

Which quartet is it?

Whose showbusiness names are Tinky Winky Dipsy, Lala and Po, the Teletubbies for 20 points pass up in history.

What Nile Valley Civilization believed in an elaborate afterlife that was reflected in their art and hieroglyphics.

The Egyptians as write world History Bonus two diamond bracelets that were commissioned by what Austrian born monarch who would marry Louis the 16th and would be the last Queen of France.

Marie Antoinette is right for 20 toss up.

Now in geology, what are limestone rock structures built by living organisms in warmer parts of the ocean?

So coral reefs.

Yes, that's correct.

bonus now for you in geology, a 23 year old American tourist from Maryland was injured in 2022 after he and two family members hiked up a closed path and he fell into a crater trying to take a selfie at the top of which famous volcano that overlooks Naples, Italy.

This Mount Vesuvius is right for 20 points.

Toss up role players and vocabulary spell the plural form of the word knife.

Jake, Kate and I.V.s as write for ten vocabulary bonus.

What is a 13 letter word beginning with J.

That means the theory or philosophy of law, a legal system, judicial answer Do judiciary now?

Jurisprudence is the word I'm describing.

You can still get ten points if you can spell jurisprudence.

Answer I defer to Jake J.

You r. I. C. P. R. U. T e. N. C. Well, you put a c where there's an s, it's a j you are is and then prudence.

So no points on that.

Plus up now in literature, in the Adventures of Tom Sawyer, who was the juvenile pariah of the village.

Zoe Huckleberry Finn is right.

Literature Bonus Now in 2023, while at the Library of Congress, a researcher found a previously unknown short story that was handwritten in pencil, located in the notebook that belonged to what author who also wrote In Cold Blood and Breakfast at Tiffany's.

Stephen King, great stuff.

And Sir Edgar Allan Poe, Truman Capote is that author No Points there.

Toss up now in the category of games.

What kind of puzzle requires the numbers one through nine to be entered into squares?

Jake Sudoku.

Yeah.

So that each contain one number games bonus What game has 64 alternating colored squares and players try to jump their opponents piece to capture it?

Checkers.

Checkers is right for 20 toss up.

In economics, a monopoly means an absence of what trick competition is right for ten economics bonus.

Who invented the steel plowshare in 1837, whose name is now synonymous with a company that supplies farm equipment, especially tractors?

John Deere.

John Deere is right for 20 points.

Toss up now in chemistry.

If a chemical solution is neutral, what is its p h?

Even seven is right and a chemistry bonus.

Take a look at the screens, please.

Herman Lead has an atomic number of 82.

What is its chemical symbol for ten points?

P B is right and lead is a heavy metal that is soft and highly malleable spell malleable.

I got it.

I got it.

Answer m a l. L. E. A.

B l. E is the correct answer.

You get 20 on that bonus toss up.

Now in foreign language, what commonly used French word is defined as a mixture of dried petal flowers with spices.

Zoe Potpourri, yes, and a foreign language bonus.

What is the a critical mark used in Spanish above an NEA squiggly answer?

We don't have an answer, Tilde.

Is it what the name of it is?

How about the die critical mark used in German above and a thought at all times or something?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Again, no answer.

Well, the two dots are called and, um, lot.

No points on that toss up.

Now in government, the solicitor General of the United States is the fourth highest ranking official in which Cabinet level department.

Answer, Jake.

Department of Defense, Not it.

You can still know Herman.

Even the Department of Treasury.

No, The solicitor general is in the Department of Justice.

No points toss up in religion.

What religion did Prince Siddartha good Thomas found Jake or Hinduism?

Not it.

You can steal Herman.

Even Buddhism.

Is it religion?

Bonus for Herman Gandhi was assassinated in 1948 by a conspiracy of fundamentalists who were disturbed by his efforts to reform Indian society and to promote brotherhood between which two religious groups answer one of them the Sikhs as like H zero you got.

That's all like, No, it's neither.

It's Hindus and Muslims.

Toss up for players in U.S. history.

In 1860, the Pony Express began carrying mail from Missouri all the way to what other state, even Utah.

Now that you can steal Harden Valley, Tennessee, you know, it's not California was the answer.

And time runs out in a very close game and it looks like Harden Valley did come from behind in the second half to just barely edge Herman by a mere five points.

Well, congratulations to both squads.

HARRIMAN First of all, we love having you here.

You know that.

And we look forward to seeing you again on college ball in the future.

You underclassmen, at least, and I hope that you'll keep up the good work out there.

Meanwhile, Harden Valley, one of the two teams in the competition from that school, advances now to the round of the 30 to the threshold of 32, we call it.

Congratulations to you.

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