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 Scholar's Bowl.

I'm Frank Murphy.

This is our 40th year of competition with high schools 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 first round in this first round game is between West Ridge High School of Blunt Ville in Sullivan County and J. Frank White Academy in Harrogate, Tennessee.

Let's stay high.

First to the players from West Ridge.

Welcome, you guys.

I'll say hi to Ray Greer.

You're a sophomore.

Tell us more about yourself.

Ray.

I'm Ray.

I go to West Ridge High School.

I'm in the band and I'm a straight-A student, so I've never made a be so.

Well, that's outstanding.

Well, then you're on the right.

This is the right game for you.

It sounds like you're very good.

We also welcome Nathan Starnes is a junior.

What about you?

I'm Nathan.

I am vice president of its upper bound program.

Also, like, really obsessed with everything that's for horror movies.

Oh, wow.

And they're still making good ones, right?

Or you prefer the classics, The newer ones.

All right.

I'm more of an old timey monster.

Classic guy.

But it's good to know.

Team captain this year is a returning player from last year.

It's Hunter Vermillion, who's a senior.

Tell us more about you, Hunter.

What have you been up to since we saw you last year?

I've now finished the Season I program at West Orange and still like to hunt animals.

What is Senior Miami Certified Nursing Assistant?

Outstanding.

All right, good.

We're glad to hear about that.

And we also welcome Harrison Hounshell.

It was new to us this year.

You're a sophomore.

What about you, Harrison?

I was in the marching band this year and I've been to 17 countries.

Well, I can't decide which I want to ask about more.

Tony Quick, what instrument you play a bass clarinet and name one or two of the countries, Turkey and Finland.

Whoa.

And those were on the same weekend.

Okay.

Because of course, let's say the alternate and coaches for Westridge, that is Tristan Coffey, joined by coaches Jerry Sinclair, who teaches chemistry, and Ruth Leonard, who teaches physics to the gray Wolves at Westridge, taking on last year's champions, or at least most of you three of you were on last year's championship team, as I recall.

First up is Van Nickerson, who is a junior.

Welcome back, then.

Congratulations, by the way, on your success last year.

Tell us what you've been up to since you took home the trophy.

Oh, I've just been playing more violin.

More violin?

Yeah.

As opposed to less violin.

What's what do you play with?

Some compositions you're good at?

Oh, I love playing Sardaz not very good at it, but I play it.

But most importantly, my favorite day of the week is Friday.

Okay, that's a fun day.

Let's say hi to Troy Ellison, who's a junior.

What about you, Troy, of doing?

I've started playing.

I'm going to start playing tennis.

I still play volleyball.

Yeah.

My favorite day of the week has to be Saturday.

Why?

Just goes, Oh, school.

It's a fine day.

I mean, they're all all seven are good.

They all seven have good reasons for I'm team captain again this year is Shashi Verma.

So you're a senior now.

Shashi welcome back.

How about yourself?

What I've been up to, I'm still playing tennis.

I'm the captain of the high school tennis team and captain of the Scholars Bowl team Yes.

And I would have to say my favorite day of the week is Tuesday.

Tuesday?

Yeah.

that one baffles me that okay.

And are so new to our team this year and new to your team this year is Stephen Rea, who's a senior.

What about you, Stephen?

I am the team captain of the varsity basketball team back home.

My J.

Friend Quite academy.

Yeah.

And I don't play any instruments, but I got to say my favorite day of the week is Saturday as well.

Oh, so you two Saturdays on a Tuesday On a Friday.

And you're on the campus of L M U and Harrogate.

Right.

Okay.

Very good.

Let's say hi to the coaches for J. Frank White Academy.

First up is Bill Kobus, who is the team coach and substitute teacher, joined by Anthony Hensley, who is the middle school and high school biology teacher at Jay Frank White Academy.

I mention to Hunter and Shashi as team captains, you'll answer bonuses on behalf of your team or defer by name to a teammate.

All right, players, you've all seen the show.

You've maybe binge watched past episodes.

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

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

First toss up is in the category of sports, which sport awards the Davis Cup?

Shashi Tennis is right and sports is your bonus.

What is the term for the score that an expert golfer would be expected to make for a given hole?

All in one only one hole in one actually par is the term that they would expect to be expected hit.

What is the term for the closely mown area of a golf course between th the green thereof?

And the right answer, the green no.

The fairway is lead you to the green.

No points on the bonus toss up in economics, the sale of spinach greens soared 33%.

Shashi Popeye's.

because his eating habits That's right.

Now, here's your bonus.

in economics a 2022 Tennessee law repealed an exemption that previously allowed employees with disabilities be paid below what level?

Minimum wage.

Minimum wage.

Minimum wage is right for 20 points.

Toss up for all players in vocabulary.

What is the 14 letter word for a person who is 70 to 79 Shashi octogenarian now that you can steal 70 to 79 years old and steal Westridge Hunter Geriatric, maybe.

But the word is septuagenarian when you're in your seventies does that for everyone in science who discovered important implications for the measurement of time intervals when he saw that the period of swing of a pendulum is independent Shashi, Galileo of its amplitude and a visual bonus.

Now for Jay Frank White, take a look at the screens, please.

Who is the Serbian American inventor and engineer shown here, best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current electricity supply system, Nikola Tesla is right for 20 points.

Turns up in geometry.

Two consecutive angles of a parallelogram are two x and three x.

What is the measure of the smaller angle?

Shashi 72 is right and the geometry bonus as a decimal.

What are the next two terms of the geometric sequence?

80, 40, 20, 10 5, 2.51.25.

Yeah.

2.5 and then 1.25.

Those are both correct 20 points plus up Now in music, what type of dance music that originated in Argentina and Uruguay was influenced by both regional folk music and European classical dance music and is composed in the easily danceable time signatures of four, four and two four.

Shashi Tango is right.

Music is your bonus.

Two parts Who is considered the Queen of Soul and sang Freeway of Love and Respect Aretha Franklin.

Correct.

Who wrote the song Respect which Aretha Franklin made famous?

Louis Armstrong.

Armstrong and Aaron Copland.

That was Otis Redding.

Ten points on the bonus toss up in history.

Who was the first English adventurer to explore and map the Chesapeake Bay and who helped establish Troy Hudson know and helped establish the English colony in North America in the early 17th century.

Chance to steal Westridge Harrison Smith.

What is this?

Yeah, that's right.

John Smith is correct.

And a history bonus.

Now on April 30, 1789, George Washington took the oath of Office of President of the United States.

In what city?

Just for Hunter to answer or defer by name?

Philadelphia.

Philadelphia.

And that was New York.

Try this one.

In 1793, George Washington to be out of office for a second term.

In what city?

Philadelphia.

That's right.

410 toss up now in the literature.

How many lines are in a limerick?

Shashi five is correct.

Literature bonus.

Now what is the poetry term for a two line stanza, couplet, couplet, couplet, correct.

What is the term for a six line stanza?

It's a sustained, sustained sextet.

That's right.

20 points on the bonus.

Toss up Now, in astronomy, what prominent Constellation is immediately northwest of Orion?

Shashi Andromeda with a central part that looks like a large V and is depicted as a bowl chance to steal Westridge Nathan Big Dipper.

Now that is Taurus.

It looks like a bowl.

Make sure you don't look at each other during the toss up part of the game.

Health is your toss up for everyone.

What is the medical technique devised in China before 2500 B.C., in which needles are inserted Shashi acupuncture to the skin and a health bonus In 2022 ago I was convicted and fined $85,000 after its factory negligently released.

What chemical?

But the formula NH three that is used in the process of freezing the waffles ammonia Ammonia is right 20 points toss up in architecture.

What type of zoning ensures that businesses are located in appropriate areas?

Troy Commercial.

Yeah, commercial zoning and a bonus in architecture for Jay Frank White Which Greek architectural order has a capital decorated with carvings of Acanthus leaves Athens, Athens.

Now the capital is described at the top of the column.

So in this case we're looking at Corinthian columns.

They're the most ornate place up in government.

The length of a US senator's term is how many times?

As long?

Harrison, 4.

No, as that of a member of the US House.

Chance to steal.

J Frank White Try three.

Yes, three times longer and a government bonus.

Name the four U.S. presidents who did not make any nominations for Supreme Court appointments as there were no vacancies while they were in office.

Tyler Obama.

No, not Nova.

Tyler.

Benjamin Harrison, Obama, Johnson and Jackson.

And Obama does not answer.

Tyler, Benjamin Harrison Johnson and Jackson.

And more on Johnson and Jackson.

Yeah, and Andrew Jackson.

You get five points for Andrew Johnson.

It was William Henry Harrison.

Zachary Taylor.

You said Tyler, Andrew Johnson and Jimmy Carter.

So five points there.

Toss up now in English.

What four letter word is a synonym for reverberate Shashi, echo.

Yes.

And in English.

Bonus Fran's new car turned out to be a lemon is an example of what type of figurative speech content that a sour expression turned out to be.

It is.

It is a radio hyperbole.

It's a idiom now saying a car is a lemon is a metaphor.

No points on that toss up in physics, which atomic particle is made up of one up and two down quarks.

Shashi, Proton No chance to steal Westridge Hunter Electron.

Now the neutron is one up and two down toss up now in math computation divide 144 by 0.12.

Then 1200 is correct.

In a math visual for Jay Frank White, look at the screens, please.

What is the correct change from a $100 bill for a meal costing $78.26?

2274 2174, Yes, 2174 $21.74 is correct.

You get 20 points toss up now in religion, name the pillar of Islam that is described, Shashi Hajj, that is described as sincerely reciting the Muslim profession of faith chance to steal Westridge Hunter No, it's shahada.

Toss it for all players in geography.

In what deal do the US acquire the land that became the state of art?

Shashi, Louisiana Purchase, Arkansas and a geography bonus which dam on the border of Nevada and Arizona created the largest reservoir in the United States.

Hoover Dam.

Hoover Dam.

Break for ten.

What is the name of the reservoir?

Yes.

Also read 20 points Toss up in foreign language.

What does the English translation of the German phrase?

Guten Abend.

Shashi, good evening.

No chance to steal, right?

Goodnight.

It's good afternoon.

It's what I was saying there.

Toss up now in biology.

What animals are classified as Chiroptera, the second largest order of mammals, Shashi, vertebrates.

Not it, you can steal.

Westridge Apparently that means hand wing.

They're bets toss up Now in arts, what Knoxville based comedian who is currently on her nationwide just getting started tour released her first Netflix special titled I'm Every Woman in April 2023 Shashi Kelsea Ballerini Not it you can Steal Westridge.

It's nothing.

Y'all are from Knoxville right now.

LeAnn Morgan is who that is.

Comes up in games.

What racket or paddle sport can be played indoors or outdoors with two or four players hitting?

Harrison Pickleball Yeah, that's right A hollow plastic ball bonus and games for Westridge what X-Box exclusive first person shooter game introduced the artificial intelligence character Cortana who provides tactical information to the main character Master Chief and who Microsoft also used as the basis for its Windows Virtual Assistant.

Halo is right 20 points passive in history from proximately 1716 until his death in 1718.

Edward Teach was a feared pirate.

Yeah, I'm actually I'm calling all the way there.

I'm stumbling a little bit but yes Blackbeard and world history is your bonus.

Euclid is considered to be the father of which branch of mathematics?

Geometry.

Geometry is right for 20 plus up now in literature.

What was the title of the 23 page pamphlet written in 1848 by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels?

The Communist Manifesto Correct Literature Bonus What influential American writer who would go on to write Cat's Cradle and Breakfast of Champions received Army training at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville in 1943.

Could it be Cormac McCarthy?

No.

Kurt Vonnegut.

After being captured during the Battle of the Bulge, Vonnegut was imprisoned in an underground meat locker in Dresden, which was the inspiration for which of his novels Slaughterhouse.

It's a pocket Knife, as in Slaughterhouse Five is right.

You get ten points on the bonus as the first half ends.

It sounds like you guys are showing off trying to run up the scores.

And this is your first time back since winning the championship at West Ridge.

Still has a chance to buzz in and score some points and we'll see how things play out in our second half of the game coming up after the break.

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.

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.

I'm Frank Murphy, back from halftime.

In this first round game between Westridge High School of Bluntville and J. Frank White Academy, which is in Harrogate.

I point out, by the way, that both these schools have put multiple teams into our tournament this year.

You may see these school names pop up a few times in your listings right now.

J. Frank White Academy.

Last year's championship team is trying to run up the score, but West Ridge still has a shot to even things out in our second half, and they've brought an alternate into the game.

Let's say hi to freshman Tristan Coffey.

Hi, Tristan.

Welcome to the show.

Tell us about yourself, Im Tristan, I'm in the chess club, Yeah, What's your favorite chess move?

Do you have anything, any good thing up your sleeve that works this time?

Just go with the game.

Okay.

Good.

I mean, I would guess Checkmate would be my favorite, provided I could eventually get to it, but that's fun.

All right.

Meanwhile, J. Frank has the starters still in.

Get your fingers on the buzzer, everybody.

As we resume Tennessee Scholars Bowl 2024, it was up for all players in geology.

which branch of geological science is the study of the earth by quantitative physical methods and the relations between the physical features of the Earth and forces that produce them?

Trashy seismology.

No, you can still Westridge Harrison, geologists.

No seismology, I think, falls under geophysics, but that's what it is.

Tossup in algebra, What is the absolute value of the expression?

Four plus three i where i is the imaginary unit Shashi, seven.

No you can steal Westridge Hunter seven all know the value.

There is five no points toss up in music.

What does the Italian musical term adagio.

You mean Shashi faster?

No, chance to steal, Westridge Hunter slower Well, it does mean slow or stately.

And now a music bonus for Westridge.

What is the major key for an instrument like a piano when the key signature has no sharps or flats?

Natural.

That's a key.

Major key.

No points on that toss up in economics, the 1880s economic boom in the Amazon basin was fueled by rubber black gold that was not oil.

An economics bonus.

What car company is the manufacturer of the supra RAV4 and Prius models?

Toyota is right.

For 20 years I've been spelling a written word that cannot be read or deciphered.

Is illegible spell Shashi, Uh I L L I G I B L E That's incorrect.

And still Westridge illegible.

But you can't go looking at each other's papers either.

So unfortunately, it's a I L L E G I B L E no points on the spelling tossup in health.

What part of the body do podiatrists treat foot?

Yes.

And a visual bonus in health.

Look at the screen, please.

In the human body, what are the largest and thickest bones seen here that articulate proximately with the pelvic bone and distally interact with the patella and the proximal aspects of the tibia femur is right for 20 toss up.

Now in literature, in the children's book Charlotte's Web, what was the name of the pig?

Harrison Wilbur is right in the literature.

Bonus a British author's opinion column about her top ten favorite aunts or aunts in literature includes what character who was a sister to Lily Potter and who, along with her husband Vernon, allowed Harry to live in the cupboard under their stairs.

Friendship wasn't granted no Petunia Dursley.

What was the name of Petunia son who is Harry's cousin?

Dudley Yeah, Dudley Dursley is right.

We'll give you time on that toss up.

Now, in miscellaneous from the Batman comics, which character's alter ego is to face Harvey Dent toss up for all players in geography?

In what country is Neuschwanstein A 19th century, Shashi, Germany.

Yeah, Historical Palace and geography is your bonus, which two countries border the Dead Sea?

Oh, Saudi Arabia is three.

Is it Saudi Arabia?

Saudi Arabia and urgent answer different of Troy, Saudi Arabia, Eritrea No, it's Israel and Jordan on either side of the Dead Sea.

Toss up now in vocabulary, what term describes words of two languages that have almost the same spelling with the same meaning?

Shashi conjugate Now that you can still Westridge Those are cognates toss up now in chemistry.

What is the chemical formula for sulfur hexafluoride?

Shashi sh6f Now that you can still Westridge SF6 Toss up in math computation change 3 to 4 base five into a base ten number and this is a toss up, so you can't go looking at each other either.

So nobody got that.

It's 89.

Probably ridiculed you if you bring in plus up in religion who became the first Christian martyr when he was stoned to death in 36 A.D.?

Stephen.

Stephen.

Yes.

Stephen.

Stephen.

Stephen.

Stephen.

Religion Bonus.

Now, according to Catholic tradition, where do the souls of those who have died undergo purification before they enter heaven?

It's a purgatory.

Purgatory is correct.

Where you get purged and a 20 points they're tossed out for all players in government.

Sometimes a name is listed as a.k.a what does a.k.a Shashi also known as Stand for and a visual bonus for government.

Take a look at the screens please.

On its 1976 bicentennial series of state flags, the US Postal Service made what error on the Tennessee stamp seen here On the wrong side is the left side, the blue stripes on the wrong side.

Actually, it's on the right to the correct sign, but the stars in the middle are upside down, so no points there turns up in foreign language.

What is the official language in Niger?

Shashi French is correct.

Foreign language bonus In what two countries is the Urdu language spoken in Pakistan and Afghanistan?

No.

Yes, it's definitely Pakistan.

Oh, that's Bengal tickets that answer Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Ten points for Pakistan.

India is the other one.

I know your dad's going to be mad, right?

Test up in technology on a Windows computer.

What is the function of the keyboard shortcut Control Z, Troy copy.

No, you can still Harrison backspace back.

No, it's undo it.

Undo is your last action tossup in chemistry.

What is the collective name for compounds that are made up of only carbon and hydrogen?

Shashi Hydrocarbons now can steal Westridge Yeah, they called you on time on that.

You were right.

But hydrocarbons was the answer.

But no points toss up in sports.

In American football, how many points are awarded for a field goal?

Hunter Three is right.

Sports Bonus Now what is the team name for the athletic program at Yale University?

I defer to Harrison Bulldogs correct for ten.

What is the team name for the athletic program at the University of Pennsylvania Falcons?

Now those are Quakers.

You get ten on the bonus toss up in U.S. history.

The Civil War battle of Antietam was fought in which state?

Shashi, Maryland.

Correct in history.

Bonus Woodrow was President Wilson's middle name.

What was his first name?

Henry.

You can re Patrick Henry.

And that's Thomas.

What was the middle name of President Richard Nixon?

Milt.

Milt.

Milt.

What would not Stimson Guy's name.

None.

Defeated Troy.

None?

No, it's Milhouse.

Mike on The Simpsons.

Toss up in mythology, who was the mythological Roman god of Freshwater and the Sea and is a counterpart of the mythological Stephen Neptune.

Yeah.

Gotcha.

And a bonus in mythology.

What mythological Greek demi god of the deep sea was the son of Poseidon and represented as a merman.

Triton is right 20 plus up in biology which phylum of animals have a no record dorsal nerve cord and pharyngeal slits at some point in their development then fish that you can steal Westridge Nathan Nematodes.

Now Chordata is the phylum class up now in geometry.

Find the angle of a triangle with base of 14 feet, an altitude of nine feet.

Shashi 63 Yeah, 63 square feet and geometry bonus.

The area of a triangle is 48 square feet.

If a base is 12 feet, what is the height length to that base?

Yeah, eight is right.

20 toss up Now in music.

What modern instrument is the successor to the Shashi piano by the court and harpsichord music bonus.

What does the musical term Poco a poco mean?

Little by little.

Little by little Reich 410 What does the musical term staccato mean?

Is Strauss separated them?

Separated like yes, sometimes like separated notes like, yeah, it means detached or distinct short notes.

Yes, that's have for all players in geography.

What chain of volcanic islands extends over 900 miles westward from the tip of the Alaskan peninsula and separates the Pacific Ocean from the Bering Sea?

The ring of fire?

No, you can steal Westridge.

Those are the Aleutian Islands turns up in vocabulary.

What is a seven letter word, starting with a that is a synonym of forgive and also means to declare someone free, Shashi, amnesty, free from blame or guilt.

Chance to steal Westridge The seven letter word we're looking for there is absolve toss up in science.

Name the famous scientist who wrote the interpretation of dreams.

Sigmund Freud.

Correct.

In a science bonus, What is the name for the phenomenon?

When parts of the Pacific Ocean become warmer than usual and rising moist air currents are produced that affect weather patterns around the world?

And you don't like that?

La Nina?

No, it's the other one.

El Nino toss up in art.

What does the Renaissance mean in English?

A driven revolution.

No change.

Still, Westridge Harrison Rebirth Erect in an art bonus.

In 2023, the town of Shrewsbury, England, displayed surrealist sculptures by what Spanish artist, who is well known for his painting of softened solid objects that was inspired by seeing a piece of runny Camembert cheese melting in the sun.

Hunter No idea how Salvador Dali The Persistence of Memory is The painting I was talking about there.

Well, that's the end of the game.

So Westridge did get some points on the board, but not enough to overcome the returning champions from last year.

J. Frank White Academy.

So congratulations, first of all, to Westridge.

We look forward to seeing your underclassman again on the show and your other team, of course, in the competition.

Meanwhile, J. Frank White Academy, congratulations.

You will move again now to the threshold of 32, will you will play again.

We'll see you again on the show.

And you can keep track of all of our episodes.

Never miss one.

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