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

The game that calls for academic knowledge.

Let's meet our team.

History is the category players.

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

Thank you for watching.

Tennessee Scholars Bowl.

Hi.

I'm Frank Murphy.

This is the academic tournament with teams from all over the viewing area competing for the Frank Miller Memorial Trophy and a cash prize that you'll hear about coming up at halftime.

We are in the second round, the threshold of 32 with two teams who won their way to be here today.

Jefferson County High School and Unit Coy County High School in Erwin, Tennessee.

Let's say hi first to the Jefferson County Patriots of Dandridge, beginning with Eli Jones 11th grade.

Hi, Eli.

Tell us about yourself.

Hm?

Well, I loved her on cross-country.

Yeah.

Anything else?

I'm on our teams move off of the team, which is, I believe, the math honor societies.

All right, well, good.

Congratulations.

We hope to hear you on math answers coming up during the show.

Also, Katie Frank at 12th grader.

Hi, Katie.

Good to see you again.

Tell us about your idea, fighting and audio for our school theater.

Oh, you have a heck of a theater over there at Jefferson County, don't you?

Having professional companies rent it out and I'm two classes away from getting my associates.

Oh, and what and what area of computer science.

So congratulations and happy to hear that.

Evan Roberts, you are team captain.

So that means you're going to answer bonuses on behalf of the squad.

Or you can defer by name to one of your teammates.

Welcome back.

Good to see you.

Tell us about yourself.

I'm Evan.

I'm a big fan of Liverpool FC and I am currently learning German.

And for those of us who don't follow soccer, F.C.

stands for Football Club.

Yes.

All right.

And what's something great about German that you can use in your everyday life?

I feel like a lot of the words are similar, so you can kind of see origins of words.

Yeah.

All right.

Absolutely.

Okay.

Zach Matheny is here, a ninth grader.

Welcome to the show, Zach.

Good to see you again.

Tell us about yourself.

Hey, I'm in the Spanish club and I'm planning on running track.

I love learning languages and I like running Which do you do?

Short distance?

I do a little bit of both.

I normally run the 800 and the 200.

Okay, that sounds like a lot to me.

Let's say hi to the alternates and coach for Jefferson County High School, beginning with Reagan, Boroff and Max Juerta and Noah Snider, joined by coach Ray Pedigo, who teaches science and math at Jefferson County for the Patriots competing against the Blue Devils of Unicorn County.

Hello.

Blue Devils in Say hi to Leah Richardson in 12th grade.

As I recall last time you were here, Leah, you had a tie.

I didn't have a tie.

And because you lost a bet.

Oh, What?

What is the story with the bow tie?

I made a bet that if we were up at halftime, I would put it on for the second half.

So I did.

So that's how we'll know and send that apply for this for this game.

Now it's a few weeks later.

All right.

Anything else going on with you?

Um, I went to Major in pre-med.

Excellent.

All right.

Happy to have you here.

Emily Holcomb is in 11th grade.

What about you, Emily?

I plan to major in math and music education.

Really?

That's a good combination.

Definitely schools on your horizon.

Yep.

That would offer those courses.

Maybe it's you or I thought about Vanderbilt.

I'm not sure yet.

Very good.

All right, well, good luck with that.

Maybe you got a good scholarship there.

Let's say hi to Brian Hughes in 12th grade.

Your team captains, That means you're going to answer bonuses or defer by name to a teammate.

What are you up to?

What do you do?

Plan on majoring and owning it?

Teacher?

Mm hmm.

Hopefully getting out in the field because you're actually do welding already in high school.

Now, since the last time you were here, we've been contacted by a viewer who wants to know if you prefer MiG tag or stick when welding stick one all the way.

Let's say hi to 12th grader Galen Bradford Hi, Galen.

Tell us about yourself.

Oh, I play the guitar and I plan on going northeast in my two year degree in history and then transferring to Utah for archeology.

Excellent plan.

What interests you most about archeology?

Well, I don't really know.

I'll start with Indiana Jones about the Nazis is outstanding.

I love it.

Let's say hi to the alternates and coaches for Unicoi County High School, beginning with Brady Simmons and Audie Brown, Nora Ray and Kaylee McQueen, joined by coaches Ruth Jackson and Mallory Jackson.

Thank you so much to the Blue Devils and we'll see whether or not Leah gets to put on the bow tie, depending on how Jefferson County plays their game today.

Two players, you've been here before, obviously.

You know how we play toss ups.

We're ten bonuses worth up to 20.

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

Toss up in the category of sports.

In what sport do teams compete for the Stanley Cup.

Evan.

Hockey is right for ten Bonus for Jefferson County in sports as of the start of the 2024 season, which major League Baseball team has never been in a World Series?

Nor have Max.

Answer?

Pass.

It's the Seattle Mariners know they got eliminated again at the end of the 23 season toss up for everyone in history.

On what day each year does Mexico celebrate its declaration?

Bryant Cinco de Mayo No, it's Declaration of Independence from Spain.

Chance to steal Jefferson County, Katy?

October 3rd.

No, September 16th is Mexican Independence Day.

toss up for everyone in vocabulary.

What word describes a work or type of writing that ridicules human vice and folly?

Eli?

Satire?

Yes.

Satire Vocabulary Bonus for Jefferson County.

Two parts in through the looking glass.

The author combined what to words to coin a new word chortle, chuckle, wind.

You're going to snore?

Actually, never a chuckle and a snort.

That's right.

And you get more points if you can Tell me who wrote through the Looking Glass again, answer pass.

That's Lewis Carroll.

You probably think of it as the one of the Alice in Wonderland stories.

Plus that for all players in biology, what are they breathing organs of fish?

Evan?

Gills.

Is right now Get your visual bonus.

Take a look at the screens, please.

Jefferson County.

What is Tennessee's official sport fish shown here, which is often referred to as a bronze back and ounce for ounce.

We'll fight harder than any other species of sport fish in Tennessee.

I know you're not the large mouse mouth bass.

Well, close.

It's the smallmouth bass.

I don't if you get any of those up there in Dandridge or Douglas Lake or anything like that.

But that's a small mouth bass.

Toss up for everyone in algebra.

Solve for x if two thirds x plus 14 equals two.

Emily negative eight.

No, you can steal Jefferson County.

Emily was on the right track.

-18.

All right, toss up for everyone in architecture.

What is the name of the Islamic mausoleum at Agora, which serves as a memorial to the wife of Shahjahan Zachary?

The Taj Mahal is correct for an architecture bonus for Jeff.

Co. Name the cathedral located in Red Square that has nine domes shaped like onions and painted bright colors.

I have no answer.

Past that is Saint Basil's Cathedral.

Toss up in economics.

The obverse and reverse of the great seal of the United States are printed on the back of what denomination of currency?

Leia U.S. dollars.

Yeah, I think we can take another $1 bill is correct.

And the economics bonus now what country's official currency is the renminbi?

Saudi Arabia, that is China.

And they use the one under that.

But what countries official currency is the zloty.

Zloty?

Answer Taiwan?

That's Poland.

No points on the bonus percent for all players in grammar.

In a sentence, Marcia gave Jan the book.

What grammatical role does the word Jan play in the sentence structure?

Brian Now that it you can steal Jefferson County.

Evan Indirect object.

Yes, plural.

Jan is the indirect object and a grammar bonus for Jeffco in the sentence.

A person who studies birds is an ornithologist.

What type of clause is the phrase who studies birds deep in clause, But I don't know what it is a dependent or anything.

I mean, he's an answer.

Dependent?

No, it's an adjective clause modifying the person at the beginning of the sentence toss up for all players in physics, which force of energy is possessed by an object that is currently at rest?

Emily Potential energy.

Yes, is right.

Physics Bonus now for a unicorn named four of the six simple machines fulcrum.

Answer lever fulcrum and load.

I definitely can take lever.

We'll see that the judges will give you a fulcrum.

I think that's kind of the same thing as lever.

The normal ones would be inclined plane lever, pulley, screw, wedge wheel and axle.

So definitely at least five on that concept for all players in foreign language which English word is actually a German word for a school that prepares children for first grade.

Emily Kindergarten.

Kindergarten is right.

Get your bonus now for Unicorn.

Editorial articles throughout the world.

Asked why many social media posts about the 2023 Titan submersed a Bolt disaster seem to derive pleasure from the misfortune of others, which is known as what 13 letter German word answer.

I think that is called schadenfreude, toss up for all players in music.

Which singer was eliminated from the X Factor put into a band that was mentored by Simon Cowell and recently topped the charts?

Leia?

One Direction.

Topped the charts in 2022 with as it was Katy's Ring.

And then on the other side, Harry Styles.

It is Harry Styles, specifically formerly of One Direction.

Get a visual bonus.

Now Jefferson County.

Take a look at the screens, please.

Who is the iconic trumpet player shown here?

Who was one of the most influential figures in jazz and for whom the New Orleans International Airport was named in 2001.

Louis Armstrong, is right, 20 points toss up for all players in history.

What was the name of the tax passed by Parliament in 1765, placed on playing cards, publications and legal Brian?

Impact Yeah mixture of calling all the way but yeah the stamp act is right legal documents US history bonus for unicorn which U.S. president is credited with lobbying Congress to lower tariffs while instituting a federal income tax in 1913 and asking Congress to declare war on Germany in 1917.

Teddy.

Answer?

Teddy Roosevelt, now Woodrow Wilson was president during those years.

Toss up for all players in literature.

A large statue in Knoxville memorializes which award winning author of Roots Emily Frederick Douglass, not him.

You can steal Jefferson County.

He also wrote the autobiography of Malcolm X, which is a great trivia question.

Alex Haley is the author plus a for all players in chemistry, what is the lustrous gray metal void element with this symbol?

SB, Evan.

11?

Uh, ten.

Now you blanked on that Unicoi chance to steal nothing that is antimony is the answer.

No points to answer for all players in pre-calculus.

What is the value of the cotangent of three pi over four?

Nobody got that.

There is the attention to -1.

Tossup for all players in religion.

What is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar observed by Muslims worldwide as a month of fasting, prayer, Ramadan reflection and community is Ramadan bonus now in religion four Jefferson County two parts what Christian Holy day is a day of fasting and repentance and is the beginning of the liturgical season of Lent as Ash Wednesday, correct?

410 What day is the most important and oldest festival of the Christian church celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ?

Easter.

Easter.

Right.

20 points on the bonus toss up in geography.

What river forms the boundary between Virginia and Maryland?

Brian The Potomac is right for ten and a geography bonus now for a unicorn, which for state capitals have the word city in their name.

Salt Lake City.

Sir Tom.

Kansas City.

Answer Kansas City and Salt Lake City.

Kansas City is not one, but Salt Lake City.

Get your five points.

The others are Carson City, Nevada, Jefferson City, Missouri, and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Five on the bonus toss up for winning grammar.

Words that have different meanings but are spelled and pronounce the same synonyms now that still go ahead.

Zachary Homonyms is right for ten.

Grammar is your bonus.

What figure of speech compares to things using the words like or as to create a new meaning?

These comparisons are direct and typically easy to understand.

For example, as slight as a fox, a simile correct for 20 points.

Toss up in astronomy.

Valentina Tereshkova made history on June 16th, 1963 by becoming what?

The time's up on that now.

Sorry.

The buzzer rang.

She was the first woman in space, so no points on the toss up.

But we have more toss ups and more bonuses ready to go.

After the break, we back to see which of these two teams will advance to our Smart 16 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 Ball.

Hi.

I'm Frank Murphy, back from halftime in the second round game.

This threshold of 32 round game between Jefferson County High School and Unicoi County High School.

Jefferson County has taken a lead in the first half, but anything can happen in our second half of play.

We'll see which of them advances to the Smart 16.

Now, Jeff.

Co. has brought two alternates into the game, both seniors.

Let's say hi first to Noah Snyder.

Noah Hi.

Tell us about yourself.

Below our school, I'm our battalion's US three, so I'm the operations officer and I'm the captain of our swim team.

Is that some either of those something you can pursue in college, whether it's the military side or the swimming side?

Right now, I am hoping to pursue college ROTC, sir.

That gives you good scholarship, too.

That's very good.

All right, let's welcome back Raegan Boroff.

Hi, Raegan.

Tell us about yourself.

I'm one of the coeditors of our schools yearbook, and I'm also an ensemble player in the senior play.

Oh, no kidding.

Now, what does the the you're playing?

So the senior play, it's like getting all the seniors together and just like trying out doing different stuff.

So this year we're doing great.

Oh, that's a great one to put a lot of people in.

That's fantastic.

Do All right.

And meanwhile, unicorns keep in the same squad.

So let's get back to the game.

Fingers on the buzzer as we resume Tennessee Scholars Bowl 2024.

Toss up for all players in history who invented a system of writing for the Cherokee language Galen.

Sequoyah.

Right for ten government bonus for Unicoi.

In 2023, the Cherokee Tribe continued to lobby for a nonvoting seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, as promised by the accord, a treaty named four of the current six non-voting seats in the House Cuba, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Bryan.

U.S. Samoan Island, U.S. Virgin Islands, Cuba and World Puerto Rico.

Cuba would be a pull, but I'll give you 15 points for the other ones.

It's American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands and Washington, D.C.. 15 on the bonus toss up for all players in art.

Which cartoonist created The Simpsons?

Evan.

Matt Groening.

Is right for ten and an art bonus for Jeff.

Co.

The webcomic Heart and Brain drawn by Nick Seelig is found on a website named for what other webcomic starring a blue creature named Lars.

We had this one.

It was like it was like a blue cycle.

I mean, like answer to Giant Blue Giant.

The Awkward Yeti is the name of it, and Zach, youve obviously have been watching old shows because you figured that out sort of no points there, but a toss up in economics.

Swedish video game developer Mojang Studios is best known for developing what Zachary?

Minecraft.

Best selling video game has ten points and a bonus in economics, which two men created one of the first commercially successful personal computers and founded Apple Inc.. And there's no, no.

Steve Something else.

Steve Uh, I have, uh, I'm not sure answer ever.

Steve Jobs and Tim Cook.

Steve Jobs will get you ten points.

His partner at the time was Steve Wozniak.

So ten on the bonus toss up in spelling.

A period of forced seclusion is quarantine spell quarantine.

Zachary.

Q U A R A N T I N E. Is right for ten.

And now a spelling bonus for Jefferson County.

Ignominious means deserving or causing public disgrace or shame.

Spell ignominious.

I think like.

I think like the.

Okay.

Deferred is i. I g in o am i n ious?

That's right.

20 points on the bonus toss up in geology for all players.

In which of the U.S. states have the most Tyrannosaurus rex fossils been discovered?

Evan?

Mississippi.

Not it.

You can still Unicoi, Emily?

Mexico.

Montana has a lot of fossils toss up for all players in geometry.

The area of a triangle is 70 square meters.

What is the length of the altitude to a 14 meter base in this triangle?

1110 meters is right and get your ten points.

Geometry bonus.

Also for Jefferson County, two lines intersect, forming four angles, one angle measuring 65 degrees.

Give the measures of the other three angles is an all or nothing question.

Yes.

25, 65, 25 Okay.

25, 65 and 25.

Well, it's 115, 65 and 115 oh, as you just figured out.

So no points on that toss up in miscellaneous.

How many different colors are on in an original Rubik's Cube?

Emily.

Six.

Yeah, one for each side and a visual bonus for Unicoi.

Take a look at the screens, please.

With digits arranged in a circular layout and a finger hole in the wheel for each digit.

What is the common term for the type of telephone shown here by a dial phone or any more round dial?

Now, Rotary is the term that we use.

I mean, I would not have accepted old phone either.

Yeah.

Rotary phone or because it has a rotary dial on it.

No points there.

Tossed out for all players in geography in 1893, which nation became the first self-governing country to pass women's suffrage?

11 New Zealand right for ten Geography Bonus If the time in Auckland New Zealand is 18 hours ahead of Knoxville, what day and what time is it in Auckland when it is?

5:30 p.m. on a Wednesday here is 830.

Yeah, yeah.

Tuesday 830 Oh no.

It's 11:30 a.m. on Thursday.

So just case you have any friends in Auckland, you want to tell them not to call you at that time?

Say, you're watching Scholars Bowl.

Toss up for all players in foreign language.

What are the French words for the window?

I guess nobody studies French on this show, uh, la fenetre.

No points.

They toss up in health.

What is the common term for arteries in the head becoming blocked or rupturing, resulting Zachary?

Stroke.

Yeah, in the death of nervous tissue and a health bonus.

Now what company that analyzes customers saliva samples derives its name from the number of chromosome pairs in each human cell.

23 in me is right for 20 points.

Toss up now in U.S. history.

What was the name given to the domestic programs that President Lyndon Johnson outlined in his 1965 State of the Union address?

Raegan?

Great Society.

Is right for ten and a bonus now in history.

Daniel Ellsberg, who died in 2023, famously gave The New York Times, The Washington Post and others a top secret study in 1971 called The Report of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Vietnam Task Force, but more commonly known as what the Pentagon documents, the White House and Pentagon Papers.

The Pentagon Papers is right.

20 points toss up now in music.

What is the term for the interval between the first and eighth tone of a musical scale?

Emily?

Octave.

Is right music bonus for Unicoi.

two parts.

First, who composed the New World Symphony?

No, that is Dvorak, Who composed the opera?

Aida?

No answer.

That is Verdi.

No points on the bonus toss up in science, which astronomical event cannot last longer than 7 minutes.

32 seconds.

Brian Solar eclipse.

Yeah, we're going to total solar eclipse coming up in 24.

Looking forward to that science bonus.

Now four Unicoi.

Name four of the five major layers that make up the Earth's atmosphere here.

Ozone sphere, lithosphere, ionosphere, sphere.

Answer Stratosphere, lithosphere, ionosphere, ozone.

I'll give you points for stratosphere.

The others are troposphere, mesosphere, thermosphere and exosphere five on the bonus toss up for all players in mythology, in Greek mythology.

What is the name of the winged horse?

Brian?

Pegasus.

Right for 10 Mythology Bonus archeologists examining the ruins of Pompeii discovered a fresco depicting a mythological hunter enraptured by his own reflection.

First question Who was the hunter?

No answer.

Narcissus.

Narcissus, Who was the mountain Nymph in love with Narcissus himself?

No, that is Echo.

No points on the bonus toss up now in history.

Which amphitheater was completed in 80 A.D. to accommodate 50,000 spectators at gladiator games?

Zachary The Circus Maximus.

No, You can steal Gaelen.

The Colosseum?

Yeah.

The Roman Coliseum.

Is it now a visual bonus for Unicoi take a look at the screens?

Who led the Carthaginian army depicted in this image of one of the greatest military achievements in ancient warfare?

Right for 10.

What mountain range did they cross in this major event of the second Punic War?

Also right 20.

Toss up in math computation.

Convert the base five number 1101 into base ten.

That converts to 151 no points tossup in religion.

Which of Jesus Christ's apostles is the patron saint of impossible causes and is the namesake for a nationally known children's research hospital in Memphis.

Emily Saint Peter's not him, you can steal Noah Jude Yeah, St Jude is it?

And a religion bonus for Jefferson County named four of the ten calamities inflicted upon Egypt in order to convinced Pharaoh to free the Israelite slaves because an angel water to blood the Nile and frogs deferred defer to no locusts blood to water boils and death.

Angel.

Yeah, we'll take all of those with frogs darkness for three days.

Flies or wild animals, lice or gnats, pestilence of livestock and storm of fiery hail being the rest toss up for all players in government.

The National Park Service operates under the jurisdiction of which cabinet level government department.

Brian Department of Defense.

Now it you can steal Jefferson County.

Now that is the Department of the Interior.

No points on the toss up next, toss up in vocabulary.

What is the seven letter word beginning with P?

That means swearing under oath to something that is not true.

Brian Sorry, no.

And it's the end of the game and Jefferson county doesn't need the points.

Perjury is the word I was describing.

First of all, thank you, Unicoi County and your spiffy blue ties which Leo didn't get to wear in the second half because you have to be a head for that.

Apparently.

But we do appreciate you being here.

Was everyone else taking off their tie now in support of Leia?

It looks like it.

Okay.

Well, we thank you very much for being here.

Have a great trip back up to Erwin and we look forward to seeing you again next year on Scholars Bowl.

Meanwhile, Jefferson County, congratulations.

I think your school is one of the many schools that has put multiple teams into the tournament.

Is that right?

We look forward to seeing all of your Hawaiian shirts over the course of this season.

You now advance to the round of the Smart 16.

You're that much closer to the Frank Miller Memorial Trophy.

We congratulate you and look forward to seeing you again.

You can keep track of all our teams by watching every episode of Scholars Bowl.

Maybe set your DVR or you can binge watch past seasons online on your smart TV, your phone, your tablet, or whatever using the PBS app.

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