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

The game that calls for academic knowledge.

Let's meet our team.

History is the category players.

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

Thank you for watching.

Tennessee Scholars Bowl.

I'm Frank Murphy.

This is the 64 team tournament with high schools from all over the viewing area, competing for the Frank Miller Memorial Trophy and a cash prize that you'll hear about at halftime.

It is a great academic tournament.

And today we've got a first round game between some somewhat neighboring schools, Karns High School and Webb School of Knoxville, which isn't too far down the road.

Let's say hi to the Beavers of Kearns, starting with 12th grader Amelia Brown.

Hi, Amelia.

Tell us more about yourself.

Hi, I am one of the drum majors for the current high school marching band, and I'm also a Girl Scout for Troop 20496 station in Torrance.

I wonder if I might have bought cookies from your troop outside one of the supermarkets at one point.

You probably have.

Let's say I had a 12th grader, Elizabeth Linick.

Elizabeth, tell us about yourself.

I play three different instruments, including violin, cello and the piano.

Well, that's all three, I assume, Right?

And which is the best of the three?

Personally, I like the violin the most.

Why is that?

It's the first one I started learning, and it's the one I've had the most experience with.

It's probably also the most beautiful sounding of the three, I guess.

I mean, they're all great.

Great.

Thanks a lot.

Let's say hi to team Captain Avery Hanson.

Hi, Avery.

Good to see you again.

Welcome back.

And as team captain this year, you're going to answer bonuses on behalf of the squad or defer by name to a teammate.

What have you been up to?

I went to government school for the Humanities recently, and then I play flute for my band.

So good.

I'm very good as Elizabeth is, with very much hope.

So I'm first chair, so I'll take it.

Good.

All right.

Well, good.

We'll hear more about that.

I hope, as you progress through the game.

Let's also say hi to 11th grader Cole Summers.

Cole, welcome.

Tell us about you.

Well, I'm kind of a nerd.

I can name every U.S. president.

I like art movies, TV, you know, stuff like that.

So do you recommend any good shows that we should watch?

All I can say is college books.

Yes, college sports.

There you go.

What a great idea.

That's really cool.

Thank you so much.

You know, let's let's say hi to the alternates and coach for Kerns High School starting with David Johnson, Hailey Ferrando, Kristin Ramsey and Larry Winn, along with observer Elijah Doherty.

So he's learning the game and Michael Masters is the English teacher at Karns and he's also wearing the appropriate blue colors I see for the game.

Let's also now say hi to the players from Webb School of Knoxville.

One of the schools that was able to put two teams into the competition.

We do appreciate the support from Webb every year, starting off with senior Nicholas Kazak.

Nicholas, what have you been up to tell us about you?

I'm the immediate lead on the robotics team and I play the alto sax.

When you said what was the first where you said media or immediate media leader, Media leader.

So that is the what does the media leader do with a robot?

I record the robot and make video projects for.

Oh, all right, great.

Does the robot have his own tik-tok?

Maybe YouTube channel, Instagram.

Oh, very cool.

I'd like to see that.

Tell me about it after the show.

Also, we've got senior Andrea Munteanu.

We've had you here before.

Tell us about you.

I'm the president of the Latin Club and I also play the flute and the electric bass.

Now, I mentioned the competition to become president of the Latin Club at Web.

Must be cutthroat.

Yes, it was almost it was three of us kind of against each other.

How did you win By vote?

I mean, what do you do to to convince the others to vote for you?

I guess I it I gave a very, like, tear jerking speech in Latin.

No.

All right.

Well, I'm still interested to hear it someday.

Let's say hi to team Captain Steven Kollar, who's a junior.

Hi, Steven.

What have you been up to?

Early on this year, the vice president and Pig Club.

What is that philanthropic investment group?

I assumed it was short for the Pig Latin Club and that you were going to tell Andre Thank or to the philanthropic investment group.

So you donate money to.

Well, we vote on a charity to donate, usually a local one.

We vote on it for the end of the year.

But the money we raise, we put in those stocks to teach the kids about like the economy and this.

And then we use the money that we make from that to donate to the what if you lose money?

But that happens sometimes.

But.

Well, that's life, right?

Yeah.

Okay.

Well, great.

Let's say I also to a junior named Daisy Howard.

Hi, Daisy.

Nice tie you've got there.

Tell us about you.

I also participate in Science Olympiad, where I came in first place for forestry because it's much easier than Scholars Bowl right?

I wouldn't say that it's.

Well, let's see how well you breezed through this.

Congratulations.

It was forestry.

It was the Scholars Bowl.

Great.

All right.

Well, I'm happy to hear about that.

Let's say hi to the alternates and coach for Web school.

We got Anna Tanaka, and we've also got Nolan Humphrey, joined by coach Jenny Fields, who teaches Latin at Webb.

You've all seen the show before.

You know how we play.

Several of you actually have been here before.

The 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.

The first toss up is in the category of astronomy.

The Big Dipper is part of what constellation Andrea Ursa major is it?

And astronomy bonus.

Now, most of the asteroids in our solar system are between the orbits of which two planets are Mars and Jupiter.

That's correct.

For 20 points, toss up now in algebra, reduce the square root of 48 to its simplest radical form.

Nicholas for three is it?

And an algebra bonus.

Now for web solve for Z in the equation three fourths Z equals Z minus four.

And so Steven 16/7.

Now I just 16 Z equals just 16, that one.

And no points on the bonus toss up for all players in sports.

In which water activity would you use a rebreather Elizabeth Scuba That's right Sports bonus Now what is the team name for the athletic program at East Tennessee State University?

The Buccaneers That's right.

What is the team name for the athletic program at Tennessee Tech?

The Golden Eagles is also right for 20 points.

They're toss up now in geography.

What is the capital of Alaska?

Nicholas Anchorage Not it.

You can steal coins.

Paul Juno Yep.

I do know, in fact, and you're right, geography is your bonus.

The Mason-Dixon line separates which two states?

Maryland and Pennsylvania.

That's both right for 20 points.

Toss up now in vocabulary.

What seven letter word beginning with B is a synonym for breakable, crumbling and fragile.

Andrea Brittle is right vocabulary bonus spelled a homonym that means the top of a hill or mountain peak right now spell the homonym.

That means a quick look or a sneaky look.

P e k those are both right for peak and that's 20 points for several players in geology.

In what state is the volcano killer?

Yeah, Andrea, Hawaii is right.

A visual bonus now in geology.

Look at the screens, please.

What is the name of the tourist attraction shown here?

Located in Craighead Caverns in East Tennessee, It's the largest underground lake in the United States.

Lost Lassie.

That's right.

For 20 points plus up now in history.

Who founded the Girl Scouts of America in 1912?

Juliette Gordon Low.

Yes.

And a history bonus.

Now, in 2023, an investigation was conducted into the only Nazi concentration camp to exist on British soil, located on Alderney.

In what archipelago off the coast of Normandy?

No answer.

Those are the Channel Islands.

Toss up in art.

In the painting, American Gothic.

What is the man holding in his hand?

Stephen Pitchfork.

Right.

And an art bonus for web.

Charlotte Bartholdi modeled for what famous statue that was sculpted by her son, Frederick Auguste Bartholdi The statue.

The Statue of Liberty.

That's right.

For 20 points plus up in economics.

What currency is used in Mexico?

Nicolas Peso is right.

Economics bonus now named two of the four main ingredients in pumpkin pie, spice, cinnamon clement.

Cinnamon, nutmeg.

Just to quote something, a synonym of cinnamon.

Cinnamon and nutmeg.

Yes, that's a cinnamon.

I don't know if I could say it now.

Cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger cloves and sometimes allspice.

So those two are both right for 20 points.

Toss up in mythology, who is the mythological Roman figure that carried the world on his shoulders?

Andrea Atlas Yes and mythology Bonus for Web.

What item did Jason and the Argonauts seek and capture?

Golden Fleece is right for 20 toss up in biology.

Name the large water mammal sometimes called a sea cow Daisy manatee just in time and a biology bonus Give the standard scientific adjective for the type of symmetry exemplified by starfish and sand dollars ten as refer to.

Andrea Pentangle Well, it's called radial symmetry.

Try this.

Give the standard scientific adjective for the type of symmetry exempli One axes by and for bilateral is right ten points on the bonus toss up.

Now in pre-calculus in the function Y equals x squared minus four x plus three.

What is the range of the function?

Stephen Three to infinity, not eight.

You can steal Karns -32 and you have to ring it anyway and you can confer.

So in that one the pre-calculus toss up y is greater or equal to negative one.

Toss that for everyone in music which Ashman and Menken musical includes.

The songs Les Poissons, Under the Sea and Part of Your World.

me The Little Mermaid is right.

And now a music bonus for Karns who was the Tennessee Volunteers opponent when the pride of the Southland Band first played Rocky Top in a game on the third Saturday in October 1972.

Defer to Amelia Alabama Yeah is right now complete this lyric for ten points wild as a mink but sweet.

A soda pop is right 20 points there.

Toss up now in history.

In 1867, Russia sold what parcel of land to the U.S.?

Alaska for 7.2 million.

And a visual bonus for Karns.

Look at the screens, please.

What ambitious infrastructure project shown here connected the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans in the early 20th century.

The Transcontinental Railroad.

Now, that's the Panama Canal.

They were digging a ditch in that picture.

Plus that for all players in spelling in French, mademoiselle is a title of courtesy for an unmarried woman, Andrea and a d a and.

Oh, I see.

Ely, That's.

That's not.

It still comes if the ring in, if you know it.

So No, can't give it to you.

sounds like it should be madam then.

But it's actually M A D E M O I S E L L E. No points on the toss up.

Back to tossups in technology in relation to data transfer and charging technology, what do the letters you sb represent?

Nicholas No answer and still cards at the buzzer.

Elizabeth Universal service bus post but not it.

It's universal serial bus I can't give it to you Toss up now in chemistry gases with a subscript of two as in H2 or O2 are called what Andrea Diatomic is right Chemistry bonus Now in 2023, a science magazine reported that archeologists in China fear that opening the 2200 year old tomb of China's first emperor could damage it and could trigger booby traps, including a river like flow of what metallic element formerly known as quicksilver carrying mercury right for 20 points plus up in religion.

In which city is the nine domed Saint Basil's Cathedral?

St Petersburg.

Not you can steal coins every Rome.

Now Moscow is the answer.

Toss up in geography.

What is the name of the line that divides the earth into eastern and western hemispheres at Nicholas, Prime Meridian, at zero longitude and a geography bonus for web two parts.

What is the capital of South Korea?

So.

So.

And what is the capital of North Korea?

Pyongyang.

Pyongyang, Pyongyang.

Yes, that's right.

How's that for literature?

What is the William Golding book about a group of boys stranded on an island?

The king of the not it.

You can still be called Lord of the Flies.

That's it.

Literature Bonus recurrence, which character debuted in the novel?

A study in Scarlet in 1887 and appeared in 60 More works on two vertical Sherlock Holmes is right for ten.

And who created Sherlock Holmes for Avery to answer or again defer defer to Elizabeth.

CONAN Doyle.

Yes, right.

Sir Arthur CONAN Doyle.

It's 20 on the bonus toss up in science.

Which light has the longest wavelength in the visible spectrum and reflects Dizzy Red reflects the least science bonus now for Webb.

What chemical element is named after the Greek goddess of the Rainbow?

And in the Iliad, the female messenger of the gods, Iridium is right for ten.

And what was the name of that mythological Greek goddess Iris?

Also right.

20 points toss up now in geometry.

Given the conditional sentence, if a then B, what does its converse is even if B than A the right and a geometry bonus?

How many degrees are in one exterior angle of a regular dodecahedron, which was thousand 800 divided by 12?

Because it's one answer, one 2800.

Now it's only 30 degrees in one of those angles up for one.

And miscellaneous.

What type of military knife is the best known survival multitool that is stowed?

Nicolas Swiss Army knife.

Yeah, that's right.

And a miscellaneous bonus in what city and state is the Naval Academy located at ten Maryland.

Okay, five points for that.

And what city and state is the Coast Guard Academy located?

You, California now Annapolis, Maryland is Naval New London.

Connecticut is Coast Guard.

But you get five points on that bonus as the first half ends.

Its current versus Webb.

One of these schools will advance to the threshold of 32.

We'll find out who it's going to be coming up after the break.

On 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.

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this is Tennessee Scholar's Bowl.

I'm Frank Murphy, back from halftime in this first round match between Karns High School and Webb School of Knoxville.

Right now, Webb has lead, but Karns may catch up in our second half of play, especially since Avery has run off the entire team and brought in three of her alternates.

So let's say hi to them, beginning with 12th grader David Johnson.

Hi, David.

Tell us about yourself.

Hi, I'm David Johnson.

I am a volunteer at Zoo Knoxville and I own a Argentine red tegu named Lucy, which is a dog, A cat, a lizard.

What?

A giant lizard.

Good.

All right, let's say hi also to Haley Fernando.

Hey, Haley, tell us about yourself.

You're in 12th grade.

And what else?

Yes, I do.

Color guard, winter Guard and NHS.

And I'm also a certified Starbucks barista.

Certified?

Yes.

I mean, I'm a certified customer that is doing good.

What does it mean, certified?

Just that you know how to make all the drinks and you can make them really quick and stuff.

So it's like the scouting of Starbucks.

You get the merit badge.

I'll be looking for your sash next stop.

But yeah, Let's say I also 2/11 grader Ellery Winn High.

Ellery, welcome.

Happy day.

Tell us about yourself.

I'm also an NHS.

I like reading and watching The Walking Dead.

The Walking Dead.

Okay.

Good.

Okay.

Well, we're happy to have you both here.

Meanwhile, Webb has brought alternate Anna Tanaka into the game.

Let's say hi to Anna.

You're senior, right?

Yes.

What else do you do?

I am a co-captain of both my swim team and my water polo team.

A water polo is tough.

That's a really brutal sport.

How do you do it?

I mean, you must have to practice and build up strength.

Yes.

All right, well, good.

Happy to have you here.

Let's get back to the game, everybody.

Fingers on the buzzer for Tennessee Scholars Bowl 2024.

Next toss up is in the category of government as of 2022.

How many amendments to the Constitution have been ratified?

Nicolas, 27, is right.

And the government bonus now for Webb.

Name a case considered by many legal scholars to be one of the worst ever rendered by the Supreme Court that ruled slaves were not citizens and that Congress lacked power to ban slavery in the U.S. territories.

Dred Scott is right for 20 points plus up now in English, she is a shining star is an example of what type of figure of speech kind of metaphor is right.

English Bonus What is the past participle form of the verb to take took took now have taken this past participle.

Try this.

What is the past participle form of the verb to sing So I've sung, I've sung Is it ten points toss up in health Which system of the body collects processes and acts on information and a nervous system?

Correct.

And a health bonus.

The middle ear fills with air that comes from the mouth or nose.

The what passage?

Stephen To answer or defer sinus answer deferred in cochlear passage.

Now it's called the U station tube specifically, but no points there.

Toss up everyone in math give the next term in the sequence.

149 16 Nicolas 25 Yeah, we're just squaring numbers there and you get a math visual.

Now take a look at the screens web one number is 15 less than another number.

If the sum of the two numbers is 79, name both numbers.

Answer Stephen, I defer to you.

No.

94 and no.

You seem surprised.

It's 32 and 47.

No points on the bonus toss up in architecture.

What is the glass part of a window called Andrea?

The pain?

Yes.

And architecture.

What is the term for a reproduction of a technical drawing?

Using a contact print process on light sensitive sheets which allow rapid and accurate production of an unlimited number of copies?

Chris Tracing No, that's I think, the encyclopedia definition of blueprints, which is a long way to go to describe it.

Plus, up now in U.S. history, which famous American politician was killed in a duel by the vice president?

Stephen Alexander Hamilton is right in a history bonus now.

what was the first major land battle of the Civil War?

Unfortunately, boring bull run.

First Battle of Bull Run.

And what state was that fought as a Tennessee?

Tennessee?

No, that's in Manassas, Virginia.

Ten points on that toss up now in foreign language, translate the word pescado from Spanish.

Nicholas Fish to English is fish foreign language.

Also, what is the English translation for the Spanish word Fuego, or fire?

And the English translation for the Spanish word near the snow also right.

20 points toss up now in physics.

What determines the color of light?

Andrea?

The wavelength.

Yes.

And a physics bonus.

Two parts of what nationality is the physicist Georg Ohm.

Dutch.

Dutch.

He's German.

Of what nationality is the physicist?

Niels Bohr?

East German, German or Dutch?

No, he's Danish.

No points.

They're toss up now in art.

Man with a guitar by Picasso is a classic example of a painting from which movement?

Andrea Cubism.

Yes.

And an art bonus for web.

In 2023, climate activists in Sweden smeared red paint on the glass that protects a painting by which French impressionist painter known for his waterlily paintings.

Monet That's right, for 20 points.

Claude Monet pass up now in music.

What is the six letter word starting with you that describes singing or playing with two or more voices or instruments playing the same pitch unison?

Yes.

And a music bonus.

Now, what movie?

Musical includes the songs hopelessly devoted to you?

And you're the one that I want Grease for ten.

Now, what movie musical includes the songs, All that Jazz and Cellblock Tango, Chicago, Both right for 20 plus up now in geography for all players, which island is the largest of the Hawaiian Islands?

Stephen, Maui.

Now that you can steal coins every Hawaii.

Yeah, the big island is Hawaii.

And a visual bonus.

Now take a look at the screens, please.

The flag shown here belongs to which nation That is the only landlocked country in Southeast Asia.

Defer to Ellery, Mongolia.

Now you'll need to know that clue.

If you take up crossword puzzles, it's Laos.

Laos?

Because it's good for crosswords.

Toss up in vocabulary.

What eight letter word beginning with F means to struggle awkwardly and also means a flatfish cut for food.

Nicholas Flounder.

Yes, and a vocabulary bonus.

Doh is too dear as mayor is two.

What is the first one to throw a donkey?

It's all donkey now it's a horse.

I think donkeys are called Jackson.

Jenny's horse is to stallion as chicken Is to what?

Rooster.

Rooster?

Yeah, that's right.

For ten points.

Toss up.

Now in chemistry.

What?

Disaccharides is formed by chemically combining one molecule each of both glucose and fructose into sucrose.

Yeah, Table sugar is called sucrose.

That's right.

And chemistry bonus.

New research revealed that a lack of nitrogen instead of an excess of mercury is to blame for the stunted regrowth of the Amazon rainforest.

After mining.

For what chemical element with the number 79 could get cobalt and that's gold.

But you can get points for telling me the symbol for gold.

Oh, yeah.

Hey, you a you too.

ten points.

Toss up in science.

What is the term for the scientific study of earthquakes and related phenomena?

Hillary Seismology is right.

Science bonus for Kearns, the Titan submersible that imploded near the wreckage of the Titanic in 2023, have a hole made of carbon fiber and end caps made of what?

Elements with atomic number 22 titanium is right second half of the question.

The Titan was controlled by a modified Logitech f 170, a wireless device normally used to control what a X-Box.

You know, probably can take that because a video game is the right answer.

All right.

20 points toss up now in sports, which NBA team is located in Dallas, Texas?

Hailey Houston, Astros, not in Dallas.

Is there a chance to steal the Spurs?

No, it's the Dallas Mavericks in the NBA.

San Antonio Spurs.

We had every other team tossup in government.

Which continent has the most countries represented in the U.N., Steven Africa.

Right.

And a government bonus.

How many votes are in the Electoral College?

200 and sir, 436.

It's FiveThirtyEight.

How about how many votes must a candidate have to win the presidency to 19?

I think it's to 19 to 20, 22 to 19.

Still higher.

It's 270 votes toss up for all players in literature who wrote The Divine Comedy.

Andre Dante, Good for ten Literature is your bonus.

Now, what did the soothsayer tell Julius Caesar to beware the Ides of March?

And who did Cassius convince to join in the plot by sending him forged letters, encouraging him to take action Brutus as a birthright for 20 plus up in biology.

What class of animals has the characteristics of being cold blooded with no larval forms and dry skin with scales, but no feathers?

David's make make sure I know you new reptiles and they share a common.

Yeah, We'll give it to you Biology bonus for Carnes.

Photosynthesis is the process by which plants use sunlight.

And what to substances to create oxygen and energy in the form of sugar.

Defer to Haley, water and sunlight.

I'll give you a ten for water.

Carbon dioxide is the other thing they use.

Toss from players in math.

What is the quotient of -72 divided by 0.09 Nicholas 80 Now that you can still Kahn's Haley, point eight, no, it's -800 because it was -72 divided by 0.09.

Toss up in music.

Max Yeager's farm in New York was the site of what famous 1969 three day Rock music festival.

Nicholas Woodstock is right and a music bonus for Webb, who composed the opera Carmen for first answer.

Stephen Verdi.

Now that is bizarre.

George B Toss up for everyone in history who was the first vice president of the United States?

Stephen John Adams right in history.

Bonus Now, what was Dwight Eisenhower's highest military rank prior to serving as president?

General?

Do we start to see General?

General Yeah, it's five star, but we don't need that part.

How about John F Kennedy's highest military rank prior to serving as president?

Major, Major.

Now, he was a lieutenant in the Navy and that is now going to be the end of the game.

Webb has held on to win against a very delightful team from Kearns.

Congratulations to the seniors.

Thank you for being here all those years and also to the underclassmen.

We kind of seeing you again next year on Scholars Bowl and if you do see the rest of your team, tell them I said hi and please give my regards.

Meanwhile, Webb, you will play again.

You advance down to the threshold of 32.

So we'll be seeing your faces once again.

If you'd like to see all of these faces and keep up with all the players and keep track of the games.

Make sure you watch every episode of Scholars Bowl, even if you have to set your DVR to do it or like they do, you can binge watch past seasons online using the PBS app.

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