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, our 40th season of academic competition with teams from all over the viewing area competing for the Frank Miller Memorial Trophy and a cash prize that will describe at halftime.

Today's first round game is between Linen STEM Academy of Knoxville and Jay Frank White Academy of Harrogate, two high schools that have some experience, I think at least watching the show.

J Frank White is one of the schools that has put two teams into the tournament.

Let's say high first to the students from L.A., beginning with Chloe Kemper, a sophomore this year.

Hi Chloe.

Tell us about yourself.

What do you do?

What are your hobbies?

What are your interests?

Hi, my name is Chloe Kemper, and I'm in model U.N. and musical theater.

What are some things you've been in?

I've been in The Wizard of Oz and Schoolhouse Rock.

Oh, that's about sound like fun.

You have a big part in The Wizard of Oz?

No, I was a crow.

Well, that's a fun part of the play, though.

I've seen that.

Play it.

That's good.

Okay.

But you're only probably sophomore now.

So big things ahead.

Let's say hi to Junior Cameron Marshall.

Hi, Cameron.

Tell us about yourself.

My name's Cameron Marshall.

I like flags and I do ethics poll.

And do you compete against other schools or.

Yeah, intramural.

Other school.

Other schools, Yes.

All right.

Good.

Team captain for L.A. is Jared Miller, who's a senior this year.

So, Jared, you're gonna answer bonuses, or you can defer by name to one of your brilliantly garbed t shirts friends Let's hear about you.

I participate in my church and school choirs, and I'm the president of my school's chapter of me off of Theta, which is the Math Honor Society.

Know that.

But what does your vocal part in choir?

I'm a bass.

Okay, good, good.

Let's say also to Jordan Lyons, who is a junior high.

Jordan, welcome.

Tell us about you.

I'm Jordan Lyons, and I'm Black Belt in taekwondo and I've played some baseball.

What's your position in baseball?

I played second baseman.

Okay, that's that's a very busy part of the game.

And you enjoy baseball more or taekwondo?

More taekwondo.

I played a lot more.

All right, let's say hi to the alternates and coaches for L.A.. We've got Harshita, Nigar and Dominique, player joined by coach Glenn Arnold, who teaches chemistry.

They are taking on a squad from Jay Frank White Academy with some new faces here too, and some returnees.

Let's say hi first to Jay Swain, who's a junior Jay High.

Tell us about you.

Hi, I'm Jay.

I plan on studying mortuary science when I go to college and I collect animal bones and teeth.

Well, that would seem to be along the same lines.

Separate creatures.

what inspired this morbidity on your part?

It's always sort of been in my family.

Yeah, I understand it.

I mean, I've had ancestors who were in mortuary science as well, so that's why I'm more curious about it than perhaps the average Joe you meet on the street.

We're good.

Okay, let's say hi to Logan Hudson, who is a sophomore this year.

What about you, Logan?

I like to run cross-country, and my best bud is Aron Bromley.

Oh, fantastic.

Now, when you run cross-country, also turn around, come back.

Yeah, okay.

Because, I mean, in cross-country, I would expect you'd be in where?

Well, cross-country.

You'd be in California right now.

Well, let's take a while.

Okay.

Team captain is Tyler Nickerson.

Tyler, welcome.

Tell us about you.

You're a junior.

What else?

I run cross-country and I play nine instruments.

Wow.

Nine instruments at the same time.

Have you a one man band?

Uh, no.

Let's say hi to Aaron Gramley, who's a sophomore.

Hi, Aaron.

What about you?

I like to do academic team and my best buds are Tyler and Logan.

Well, that works out well.

Is that what you call your scholarship ball team?

Is academic team in other challenges?

Yeah.

Good.

And what other kind of challenges do you do?

Science, bowl or ethics Bowl or whatever?

We do an act.

Or at least we're going to.

What is that?

That's a national quiz bowl.

Oh, no, it's general knowledge.

Okay.

I hope ours is better or at least more fun.

All right, let's say hi to the alternates and coaches for J. Frank White.

First up is Eva Gramley and Madeline Foltz, joined by coaches.

Bill Kobus, who is a substitute teacher and also is the team coach, and Anthony Hensley, the assistant coach and teacher for middle and high school biology at J. Frank White Academy.

You're all familiar with the show, right?

And you've seen it before.

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

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

Toss up for all players in the category of music.

What Broadway musical includes the songs I whistle a happy Tune and Shall We Dance, Jared King and I Is Right And a music bonus Now, which Ashman and Menken musical includes the songs Skid Row.

Suddenly Seymour and Somewhere that's Green Little Shop of Horrors.

Answer Little Shop of Horrors is right for ten.

For ten more.

Tell me, what is the name of the plant?

Answer Venus Flytrap.

Well, the name of the plant, though, is Audrey.

To because Seymour names it after Audrey, one who's also in the stone toss up in biology.

What are the organelles of the cell that take in nutrients and create energy rich molecules for the cell?

Jared Mitochondria, yes, a biology bonus.

Now, what is the sheath of cells and connective tissue that surrounds the root of a hair?

All right.

Yeah.

Follicle break for ten.

What is the stalk that joins a stem to a leaf?

Answer No answer.

That is a petit all toss up in health.

Which part of the blood is made of small, granular fragments of cells that promote clotting?

Jared Platelets and a health bonus.

In 2022, Texas sued Google for capturing data of Texans without their consent, including voice prints and records of face geometry.

This type of data is known by what name biometric measurements rate you biometrics.

That's right.

For 20 points pass up now in geography, what river flows southwest for 337 miles in Virginia and Tennessee and is dammed by both Norris Dam and Melton Hill Dam.

Jay Tennessee River.

Not it.

You can still Ellen in that's the Clinch River I was describing tossup in foreign language.

What is the official language of Venezuela, Jared?

Spanish, right.

And a foreign language bonus.

Now, which variety of Persian is the official language of Iran?

Answer Urdu.

You know that it's Farsi toss up now in math computation.

What is simple interest on $500 put in investment for two years and 5% rate?

Jared $50 is right and a math bonus for element in a certain geometric progression.

The third term is 12 and the fourth term is 48.

What is the fifth term in the progression?

3692 right.

Do 192 is the correct answer.

20 points.

Toss it now in physics, what is the term for a pull or a push applied or exerted force on an object in a physics bonus?

What has a lower frequency infrared rays or microwaves?

I think I think to my question, microwave break for ten.

What is a lower frequency AM or FM, as in radio FM?

No, that's megahertz.

AM is only in kilohertz.

Ten points on that toss up.

Now, in art for all players, what is the resulting color when mixing blue in yellow Jay Green is right in a visual bonus for Jay Frank White Take a look at the screens.

What is the title of this artistic interpretation of the 1954 coup d'etat to overthrow the President of Guatemala?

Nasser Coup to talk.

Now that is glorious.

Victoria, which is Spanish for glorious victory.

Who was the artist for ten points?

Answer Frida Kahlo.

It was her husband, actually.

Diego Rivera.

No points on that toss up now in US history.

what is the name of George Washington's historic home in Virginia.

Cameron Mount Vernon.

Correct.

And a history bonus for element.

Name two of the three R's in Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal story.

Straight answer restoration and Reparation Relief.

Recovery Reform.

No points there.

Toss up now in vocabulary, what is the term for an implied comparison such as a heart of stone?

Jared Metaphor Correct of vocabulary.

Bonus Two parts What 11 letter word beginning with R means to echo or produce an after effect reverberate is correct.

Now spell reverberate r e v e r b e r 80.

That's right.

You get 20 on the bonus.

Now toss up for all players in religion.

Which of the apostles was a tax collector before following Jesus?

Jared, look at him, you can steal J Frank White Logan Matthew is right for ten.

Religion is your bonus named two of the seven Sacraments of Catholicism.

Answer I shall not steal and thou shall not gossip about thy neighbor.

Does sound like ten Commandments to me.

The seven sacraments are baptism, confirmation, Eucharist, reconciliation, anointing of the sick, holy orders and matrimony.

No points on the bonus test up in chemistry.

What is the chemical formula for glucose?

c6h 1206 That's it.

And a chemistry bonus now which in this pair of solvents has the highest flash point acetone or acetic acid?

Answer Acetone.

That's acetic acid, which in this pair of solvents has the highest flash point turpentine or methanol.

Turpentine.

Turpentine is right ten points on the bonus toss up now in government.

What part of the US Constitution explains the six purposes of government?

Jared Article one Not it.

You can steal Jay Frank White but no confirm this is still a toss up.

The preamble toss up now for all players in science to the nearest hour.

How long is it between low tide and high tide?

Jake 12 hours, not it.

You can still Elena and Jared six is right.

And a visual bonus for Ellen.

And take a look at the screens, please.

Who was the American paleontologist and fossil hunter shown here who served as president of the American Museum of Natural History for 25 years, popularizing science to millions of museum visitors.

What's his name?

It's Burgess.

That is Osborn.

Henry Fairfield.

Osborn passed up in literature.

What famous American poet wrote, I know Why the caged bird sings Jared.

My Angelou is right.

Literature Bonus Two parts.

What is the term for an eight line stanza written in iambic pentameter?

Answer Octet Now Octave, how about this?

What is the term for a three line stanza?

Answer Try of that is a terse set.

TTR just up in geometry.

What is the measure of each exterior angle of a regular non-gun one per vertex?

Jared 40 yeah, and a geometry bonus too is similar.

Quadrilateral A and B have perimeters of 30 meters and 45 meters respectively.

What is the reduced scale factor?

Comparing quadrilateral A to b15 1.5.

No, it's two thirds two over three concept Now in geography, what is the capital of Kansas?

Jared Kansas City now that you can steal J Frank White That's Topeka.

Toss it now in sports.

In golf, how many strokes under par is an eagle, Jared Two, Yes.

And a sports bonus.

The Georgia Bulldogs of the SCC play their home games in what city?

Athens.

Athens is right for 20 toss up now in history.

Who led the Bolshevik seizure of power in the Russian Revolution was Chief Lieutenant Jordan Glenn.

Let me read the rest of the question for Jay.

Frank White was chief lieutenant to Lenin, exiled to Mexico and assassinated in 1940, that is Trotsky, Leon Trotsky.

Plus up in mythology, in Roman mythology, Luna was considered a divine embodiment of what?

Jared The Moon.

Yes, in mythology.

Bonus In 2018, some ancient artifacts were discovered in Iceland, including a pendant depicting what weapon of the mythological Norse god of thunder and lightning using their Thor's hammer.

Thor's hammer is what I'm looking for.

And the artifacts were brought to what city?

That is Iceland's capital for further study.

Reykjavik?

Yes.

20 points.

Toss up now in games.

In what game is the objective to withdraw plastic sticks from a plastic tube without causing the marbles or an operation without causing the marbles supported by the sticks to drop to the bottom?

Teller stacks.

Know something?

One of you would have to say the word kerplunk tossed up in health.

The term apoplexy formally referred to what medical condition?

Jared?

The stroke.

A stroke is right, and that is the end of the first half.

So we don't get to do the bonus on that according to the rules.

But Ellen M is trying to run up a lead against Jay Frank White Academy.

What's going to happen in her second half of play?

Well, there's only one way to find her out.

Stick around after the break.

And Tennessee Scholars Bowl 20, 24.

The 40th season of Tennessee Scholars Bowl is a single elimination tournament featuring 64 high school academic teams.

The championship team.

And this year, Scholars Bowl receives the Frank Miller Memorial Trophy.

The scorekeeper timekeeper and judges for this year's Scholars Bowl are Chandler Vincent, Rebecca Longmire, Stephen Hensley, Cathy Coley, Ernie Roberts, Cathy Waddell, Jerry Doherty.

Thank you.

Also to the East Tennessee PBS staff and volunteers who make this educational program possible to enter your high school in next year's Tennessee Scholars Bowl.

Or for more information on this year's tournament, please write to the address shown on your screen.

You're watching Tennessee Scholars Bowl 2024.

I'm Frank Murphy, back from halftime in this first round game between L.A.

STEM Academy of Knoxville and Jay Frank White, Academy of Harris, It looks like J. Frank White's got some ground to catch up because Ellen and trying to maintain their lead as both teams have brought alternates into the game.

Let's say hi first to sophomore Harshita Nagar.

Harshita welcome.

Happy to have you here.

Tell us about yourself.

Hi.

I'm a sophomore, as you've said, and I'm a student ambassador at our school.

Does that mean you give tours?

What does that exactly mean?

I give tours and we go on like college fairs to middle schools.

Oh, that's very good.

Wow.

So it's like a high school fair, but I love it.

Okay.

And have you recruited anybody yet?

But you have Not personally yet.

I'm going to this year.

Oh, good.

All right.

That's a great goal.

We also are joined by a freshman that is Dominic Malaya.

Dominic, Hi.

Welcome.

Congratulations on being on the team.

Tell us about yourself.

I, I like coding and I do kickboxing and Brazilian jiu jitsu.

Now, the guy you're replacing in the chair, Jordan, do you ever kickboxer or fight him?

He just, like, do it because it's too different.

Okay, Not close enough, Let's say I also on the other side to a couple of alternates.

First up is sophomore Madeline Foltz.

Madeline, welcome to the show.

Tell us about you.

I'm Madeline, and I'm really into animals and science.

Yeah.

Do you have any specific species Um, I like lions a lot, but I'm more into, like, the dietary aspect of animals.

Oh, that's interesting.

Excellent.

All right.

let's say also to ever Gramley ever.

Welcome.

Tell us about yourself.

Hi.

I'm a freshman and I like art music.

Nice.

All right, well, that could help you very much in the show.

So let's get right back to it.

Everybody with your fingers on the buzzer.

For Tennessee Scholars Bowl 2024, toss up in religion.

What mountain?

11 miles west of the Sea of Galilee was the site of the transfiguration of Jesus.

Jane, uh, Golgotha.

Now, you ran out of time, Elena and chance to steal.

Cameron I'm out tonight.

No, I'm out.

TABER Toss up for ruin in economics.

What car company is the manufacturer of the Silverado and Tahoe models?

Jared Chevy.

Yes.

And an economics bonus.

What economic term refers to the amount of goods available?

Supply.

Supply.

Correct.

What economic term refers to the amount of goods that consumers want?

Demand.

Demand also, right.

20 points.

Toss up now in foreign language.

Translate the motto of the 45th Infantry Semper Antiochus into English.

Jared, always onward.

yeah that's that's it And a foreign language bonus.

Now who were what is the conquerer in the Latin phrase Omnia Vincent Amore love.

Love always conquers love.

Yeah love conquers all is what we're saying.

That's 20 points toss up now in math computation.

What is the cube root of 125 over 729 Jared 5/9 Yes.

And a visual bonus for Ellen and take a look at the screen in a circle.

What is the measure of an inscribed angle as well as a central angle that intercepts a 116 degree arc and be specific in which angle measure you are stating central as well, because inscribed is 58 degrees, central is 116.

This is both correct for 20 points plus.

Up now in biology, the hula monster is a kind of poisonous lizard native to the arid regions of which continent.

Cameron Oceania.

Now then you can steal Jay Frank White, Tyler Asia.

Now those are in North America, in the southwestern U.S., toss up in music who composed a collection of preludes and fugues known as The Well-Tempered Clavier?

Dolnick Mozart No chance.

Still different.

Like Tyler Chopin.

Now that is Johann Sebastian Bach.

Toss up now in government.

What is a sworn written statement for a civil or criminal proceeding called Tyler Plant?

No chance still steal in affidavit toss up now in spelling the word disseminate means Tyler DC am I and a T that's not it.

The word disseminate means to distribute spread or scatter spell disseminate Jared d i s s e m i and 80 is right for ten and now a bonus in spelling for n spell the seven letter word beginning with a that is one who engages in pursuit of something on an unpaid level.

Amateur enter a m a t e u r. S right 20 points plus If everyone in art which abstract artist is famous for using the drip technique?

Jared Pollock is right and an art bonus.

Also take a look at the screens.

Who was the artist in the self-portrait with a beret shown here who built a large pond filled with water lilies and crossed with a humpback bridge on his property in Giverny.

Monet by Monet is right for 20 plus up in science, which the Earth's atmosphere layers reflects radio waves.

Jared I was in there no steel.

J Frank White.

J Stratosphere.

No, it's the ionosphere toss up.

Now in geology, what is the term for the disappearance of a species?

Jared Extinction, yes, and a geology bonus.

In the summer of 2023, the U.S. Forest Service said it was nearing the completion of a transfer of land that is sacred to the Apaches, two multinational corporations that will mine the flats for which chemical element with the atomic number 29 Answer zinc.

Now they're looking to mine copper toss up now in geography, which landlocked South American country borders Chile and Brazil.

Jared Paraguay.

No chance.

Still J o Portugal, no Bolivia.

Toss up now in literature.

In what literary anthology did Rudyard Kipling create The Mongoose character?

Ricky Jared, The Jungle Book, Rikki, Tikki Tavi and the literature bonus for in Name, the John Steinbeck novel.

That is the story of the food processing industry in California.

Defer to Dominic.

A Cannery Row is right for ten named the John Steinbeck novel that tells of the intertwined destinies of two families, the Trask's and the Hamiltons, whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve.

And the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel.

East of Eden is right 20 points on the bonus toss up now in algebra Solve for X in the equation.

Two thirds x -12 equals x plus six.

Jared negative six at it you can still J Frank White Tyler six.

Now -54 is X on that one.

As you just realized, toss up now in chemistry, what is the symbol for rhodium?

Jared are each correct chemistry bonus if an alloy contains copper and zinc in a ratio of 10 to 9, how much zinc would be in 475 kilograms of the alloy?

1990 ten Answer Well, now you have to get right away.

It's 225 kilograms.

They're toss up in sports.

What words do the letters WWE represent on Journey, World Wrestling Entertainment, Smackdown and Raw and Sports Bonus?

What does the following flag mean in auto racing?

Red Stop and what is the following flag mean in auto racing?

Checkered finish line both right?

20 points Toss up now in history.

A truce signed at Panmunjom in 1953 officially ended.

Which war Cameron Korean War.

Yes, that's correct.

And a history bonus.

Now, what event led to the U.S. and the USSR setting up a hotline in 1963 to facilitate communication between the US President and the Soviet Premier Cuban Missile Crisis?

That's right.

For vocabulary.

What four letter word starting with V is a synonym for proud, arrogant and haughty Jared vein and a vocabulary bonus for men.

What ten letter word beginning with M is the name of a thick dressing or condiment used on sandwiches and salads.

Mayonnaise is right now spell mayonnaise may0n and a i s e is right.

You get 20 points toss up now in religion.

Who baptized Jesus in the Jordan River?

J John the Baptist is right for ten.

Religion is your bonus.

What Bishop of Hippo wrote City of God and is considered one of the most important fathers of the Christian church.

Father Joseph, that is Saint Augustine.

You can still get points by telling me which Saint was his mother.

Uh, St Mary, a saint.

Monica.

It was a cities named after him to the Santa monica toss up for all players Now in astronomy, how many Moon's orbit the planet Venus Jarrett Zero.

Correct.

Astronomy Bonus Apollo 13 was unable to land on the moon due to an exploded oxygen tank named two of the three astronauts on the Apollo 13 mission.

Thomas and Sir Glenn and Armstrong would be hilarious if Tom Hanks was the answer.

No, It was Jim Lovell who was played by Tom Hanks, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert.

Toss it for all players in geography.

Katmandu is the capital of what Asian country?

Dominic Nepal.

Correct.

Geography bonus in 2022, low water levels stranded barges on the second longest river in the United States.

What is that second longest river in the United States?

But don't make the diving.

It is.

It's Colorado, Colorado, Colorado.

Now it's the Mississippi.

What is the longest river in the United States?

Rio Grand.

Cause it's got to be Missouri.

Missouri.

Yes, that's right.

Ten points toss up now in U.S. history.

The 21st Amendment overturn to the 18th Amendment, which had prohibition established prohibition history bonus.

In 1838, the Telegraph was demonstrated for the first time by Alfred Vail and what man who was Vail's partner?

Tamu Morse Same Morse.

That's right.

420 Toss up now in foreign language, what is the German word for street?

Tyler Charles What?

Strauss Yeah was Strasser things how they say it but we'll give it to you.

Foreign language bonus What is the English translation of the French question?

Probably the wrong way to speak English.

Not very well, apparently, but yeah.

Yes, that's right.

20 points Toss up in geometry.

The sides of an isosceles triangle are ten, 13 and 13.

What is its area?

60.

Yes.

And a geometry bonus.

A triangle has angle measures of two x, three x and 115.

What are the measures of the two missing angles?

Answer 26 and 39.

Those are both right for 20 points plus.

Up in science, a device to measure revolutions per minute is called what Jerry wrote.

Harmony No, that's not it at the end of the game.

So we stop right there.

But it is a tachometer which you would find in your car.

Well, congratulations.

And first let me thank the Jay Frank White Academy, one of the two teams that you've got in the competition this year.

Thank you very much for being here.

You're all underclassmen, right?

So we look forward to seeing you next year.

Meanwhile Ellen and congratulations you now advance to the threshold of 32.

You play again and we'll see you again real soon, I imagine.

On Scholars Bowl.

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Thank you for watching.

Tennessee's Scholars Bowl 2020 for.