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, 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 you'll hear about coming up at halftime.

This is a second round game, a threshold of 32 round game between Maryville High School and Oliver Springs High School.

Both these teams won their way here and are hoping to advance to the round of the Smart 16.

Let's say hi first to the players from Maryville, starting with 12th grader Patrick Hue.

Welcome back.

Patrick, tell us about yourself.

Hello.

I'm part of my school science club which is harder Scholar's bowl or Science Bowl?

Which is better?

How about that?

Scores better.

Yeah.

You know, you have to have said the other way, but be.

Thank you, Patrick, for joining us.

Have a good day.

Let's say hi to Livia Odoi, who's in 12th grade.

Hi, Livia.

Welcome back.

How are you?

Thank you.

I'm good.

How are you?

Very well, thank you.

Tell us more.

I actually have a confession to make.

The last time we spoke, I told you that I also enjoyed eating candy corn with salted peanuts.

Yes, but I'm actually allergic to peanuts.

Oh, so you seem so happy.

You can drop in.

You know, you can try something and a tree nut instead of a legume.

Yeah, I'll try it next time.

Let's say hi to team Captain Mohib of Ahmed Mohib.

How are you?

Pretty good.

How are you?

All right.

Tell us more about yourself.

You're in 12th grade.

You're team captain.

You'll answer bonuses or defer by name to a teammate.

Yeah.

Some people call me by the honorable Mohib Ahmed.

Do I have to say that every time I call on you?

Because I will take a while.

Tennessee State Protocol requires you to do that.

So yes, that means you've got elected office.

Or what does that mean?

Yes, I'm elected governor of Tennessee's Boys State.

All right.

So fantastic.

The honorable Mohib Ahmed, Nice to have you here.

Let's say hi to 12th grader Coston Autry Coston.

Welcome back.

Tell us about yourself.

Hi.

Well, recently I have been getting into coin collecting.

Okay.

And what type of coins fascinate you the most?

Well, it used to be a lot of like Western European coins and some Eastern European coins, but now it's sort of getting into like Chinese coins because not only they're surprisingly affordable, despite some of them being like over 1000 years old, that does surprise me very much.

let's the head of the alternates and coach for Maryville High School, starting with Anna Elam and Ava Oldham.

Alex Velarde and Ava Cash joined by coach Dr. Corey DeHart, who teaches physics and astronomy to the squad at Maryville.

Let's say hi now to the players from Oliver Springs High School who won their way here.

Congratulations on your last victory.

Let's say hi.

First to 12th grader Jackson Houston.

Hey, Jackson, tell us about yourself.

So right now, I'm taking two enrollment classes at Rowan State Community College.

I to pretty much all of your time between that and Scholars Bowl?

Yeah, but it helps you after graduation.

Right which is coming up really soon.

And how far?

You're pretty close to the run state campus we're Rockwood?

in Harriman.

Okay, good.

All right.

We're happy to have you here.

Also, we've got Sarah Yokeley in 10th grade.

What about you, Sarah?

I'm in my school's marching band and I like that a lot.

Yeah.

Okay.

Let's say hi to team Captain Trystan Morgan, who is in 12th grade.

Kristen, welcome.

How are you?

I'm doing good.

I'd like to make an announcement towards the honorable over there.

Oh, yeah.

I didn't vote for him at Boys State I voted for Reed Bull.

Oh, you were.

So you were both there at the same time.

I see.

Okay.

I didn't put two and two together that you were competing again.

Okay, well, I mean, now it's paying off, right?

Because you just got inside his head and that's game play.

Let's say hi to 10th grader Jonah Robbins.

Jonah.

Hi.

Welcome back.

Tell us about yourself.

I do wrestling as a CO up to another school.

Yeah.

How does that work?

They don't have a wrestling team or all of springs doesn't have one.

They don't have a wrestling team.

So I can go to another school.

And where do you go?

Anderson County.

Oh, that's the closest one then, Right.

Okay, well, good.

They're the mavericks over there, right?

Yeah.

And what are the what's your team mascot and all the springs?

A bobcat.

Bobcat.

Okay, so make sure you get it straight because let's say I'm the coach for Oliver Springs.

That is Eva Robins, who is the STEM teacher for the Bobcats.

Apparently.

I now see the picture at Oliver Springs.

All right, players, you only won your way here.

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

Fingers on the buzzer for the second round game of Tennessee Scholars Bowl 2024.

First toss up in the category of biology, which order includes lemurs, monkeys, apes and people.

Coston.

Species?

Chance to steal Oliver Springs, Tristan?

Kingdom.

No, the order is primates toss up now in English with punctuation if necessary, spell the word your in the following sentence.

Livia?

Y O U ‘ R E. Would have been what I was asking and the sentence would have been I like the way you're answering these questions.

So that's ten points.

And an English bonus is the following sentence.

In active voice or passive voice, they are paid on Fridays.

Are paid passive, passive, passive voice.

Right?

This one is the following sentence active voice or passive voice.

The movie is being made in Hollywood.

It's being made passive.

Also passive.

You're right.

Passive.

Now, in pre-calculus, what is the product of the secant of an angle times the cosine of that angle?

Patrick?

One.

Right.

And a pre-calculus bonus in the unit circle.

What is the exact value of cotangent pi over three pi cotangent pi over three.

So the tangent is going to be sort of tangent y not really answer.

I deferred to Livia.

Square root of three over two?

Close, it's square root of three over three.

So I can't give it to you, but you're certainly on the right track.

Toss up in art.

What is Michelangelo's David holding in his left hand?

Mohib?

A slingshot.

Yes.

And an art bonus for Maryville.

What are the three primary colors of light?

This is an all or nothing question.

The three primary colors of light of an art.

Okay, defer to Livia.

Red, yellow and blue.

Well, because they're the primary colors of light, they're a little different than the regular primary colors.

That's why I had to do all or nothing on that.

It's red, blue, green.

In that instance.

No points toss up in geography.

What river runs through Paris, France?

Patrick?

The Seine.

Is right for ten.

Geography is your bonus.

Two parts.

What is the capital of Nevada of Carson City?

I defer to Patrick Carson City.

Correct.

What is the capital of Alabama?

Montgomery.

I mean, Montgomery.

Montgomery.

Also, right.

20 points.

Toss up now in geology, what branch of science deals with the physical and biological properties and phenomena of the sea?

Patrick?

Marine bio-.

Chance to steal, Oliver Springs The key might have been that it's a geology toss up.

It's an oceanography is the answer.

Plus up now in history, who was the first wife of King Charles The Third?

Mohib?

Mary.

Not it.

You can steal Oliver Springs.

Nobody remembers Princess Diana.

Okay, that's too bad.

Toss up in religion in the Catholic Church, the bishop of Rome is more commonly known as what?

Mohib?

The archbishop?

Not it.

You can steal, Jonah.

The Pope.

The Pope is right.

Gets you ten points and a visual bonus.

Take a look at the screens, please.

Who is the stateswoman shown here?

Who was the first female British prime minister and the longest serving of the 20th century, earning the nickname the Iron Lady?

Margaret Thatcher is ranked for 20 points toss up now in sports, what is the simplified form of baseball for children that uses a flexible Patrick Ball flexible tube as t ball now a baseball bonus or sports bonus for Marvel, which Major League baseball player holds the record for the most career home runs with 762 Hank Aaron is that is it him or is it some of the old guys?

Try Hank Aaron.

Hank Aaron?

No, it's Barry Bonds.

Here's the second half of the question.

Who held the record before?

Barry Bonds with 755 home runs and Babe Ruth?

I don't know.

Maybe it's Babe Ruth.

Now, you probably haven't heard of this guy named Hank Aaron.

A toss up in economics.

Which video game company was originally founded in 1889?

Tristan?

Nintendo.

Yeah.

To sell Hanafuda playing cards.

Economics Bonus for Oliver Springs.

Which countries currency is the ruble?

Russia.

Right for ten.

Which countries currency is the rupiah R U P I A H?

Answer India.

Well that sounds a similar sounding one, but it was spelled the way I did.

It's Indonesia toss up everyone in physics regarding radio waves and broadcasting FM stands for what Coston?

Frequency modulation.

Is right and physics is your bonus.

How much work is done in a system?

If a 20 Newton force is utilized to move an object four meters 88 to 88 joules, I'm to defer to you.

I will decide for the cost of it.

80 joules.

Yeah, 80 is it.

And that's 20 points toss up now in literature.

What is the title of the novel by John Green that narrates the story of Livia?

The Fault in Our Stars, A 16 year old girl diagnosed with cancer literature bonus for Maryville who is the tenant narrator At THRUSH Cross Grange in Wuthering Heights.

I can't remember the answer.

David.

That's Mr. Lockwood.

Try this one.

Who is the narrator of Black Beauty?

Oh, know, I haven't read it.

The horse I defer to Coston.

The horse Black Beauty.

Yes, that's right.

Ten points on the bonus.

Toss up now in math computation.

What is the product of the cube root of 125 times the square root of 169?

Patrick?

85.

No, you can steal Oliver Springs.

No time right now that you probably realized that as soon as you said it right five times 13 is only 65.

Toss up now in music.

What musical instrument originating in Trinidad and Tobago, Lydia?

Steel drums.

Yeah, music bonus now for Maryville.

Which two iconic songs did Dolly Parton write within Days of Each Other for an album that she released in February 1974?

Jolene and Nine to Five?

Doing the same album range Jolene and 9 to 5.

Jolene is right 9 to 5 came out later.

I Will Always Love You.

Her most famous song she probably wrote on the same day as Jolene.

She thinks maybe we're on the same piece of paper toss up in US history, which president, on the day after his inauguration in 1977, granted an unconditional pardon to, Patrick?

Gerald Ford.

An unconditional pardon to hundreds of thousands of men who evaded the draft during the Vietnam War.

A chance to steal Oliver Springs.

Jackson Jimmy Carter is right and a history bonus.

Now, who was the first female secretary of state for the U.S.?

Answer You're ran out of time on that one.

It was Madeleine Albright.

You can still get points by telling me under which president she served like 2000.

Probably maybe answer Obama.

It was Bill Clinton.

No points on that toss up.

Now in chemistry, which precious metal that is more valuable than gold as the atomic number.

Livia?

Platinum 78 and a visual bonus.

Take a look at the screens please, for this math problem, raise the expression quantity of x minus three because a third power is squared minus nine x.

Who has it?

Who has a 27?

I have it asset.

I'm going to give it to class.

Yeah.

Get.

Yeah.

X squared minus nine x squared.

Six minus answer I defer to cost in x cubed minus nine x squared plus 26.

Never mind.

You were so close, it's x cubed minus nine x squared plus 27 x -27.

You ran out of steam there.

The at the end toss up in vocabulary.

What is the nine letter word beginning with V For someone who takes the law into their own hands to punish persons?

Livia?

Vigilante.

And a vocabulary bonus now.

what bird can be used to describe the personal characteristics?

A vain, self-conscious strutting person?

Mr. Rooster There are some similarities there, but we're going for Peacock.

When you add in the vanity and the self-conscious, How about what small furry mammal can be used to describe the personal characteristics a sneaky and sly person or a cheeky weasel?

Weasel.

That's right.

Ten points plus up now in government.

Who was president of the United States when Taylor Swift was born?

On December 13, 1989?

Mohib?

George H.W.

Bush is correct and a bonus in government.

Now.

In 2023, Mexico expressed concern to the U.S. that the deployment of floating barriers could violate the water treaty of 1944 and the Boundary Treaty of 1970.

That requires what river to remain unobstructed.

Rio Grande to Rio Grande.

About Rio Grande, That's right.

For 20 plus Up now in art, in Edvard Munch's The Scream, the figure is on a path.

Coston?

Fjord.

Overlooking a fjord.

Yeah, and an art bonus.

Now, what type of art is a sculptural method in which these sculpted pieces are bonded to a solid background of the same material to give the impression that the sculpted material has been raised above the background plane.

A collage?

Collage.

That's called a relief.

A sculpture called a relief toss up in history.

Who married King Henry the eighth days after Anne Boleyn's execution and was the only one of the six wives.

Mohib?

Catherine to give birth to a male heir to steal Oliver Springs.

Good guess on Catherine.

There were a couple of them, but Jane Seymour actually was the wife who gave them the heir toss up in technology.

Google Slides is compatible.

What?

Patrick Excel is compatible with presentation files from which Microsoft program chance to steal.

All this brings Tristin?

PowerPoint.

Yes.

And a technology bonus if we have time, which we do not.

But that is some points right for you there.

At the end of the first half.

We'll see how Oliver Springs does in our second half or if Maryville is going to try to hang on to their lead.

And one of these teams advances to the Smart 16.

Coming up after the break 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 Scholars Bowl.

I'm Frank Murphy, back from halftime in this second round game between Maryville High School and Oliver Springs High School.

Hot Springs has a little bit of work to do to catch up and see if they can make it to the Smart 16 or will Maryville hang on to their lead?

Both teams are keeping the starting lineups in place.

That means we can get right back to it with your fingers on the buzzer for the second round game of Tennessee Scholars Bowl 2024 Toss up for all players in mythology.

What mythological Leader of the Titans overthrew his father?

Coston?

Cronos.

Of Uranus.

Yeah.

And mythology now is your bonus.

What mythical reptile is reputed to be a serpent king who causes death to those who look into its eyes snake like and like Norse.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I defer to Olivia Jarmon.

Gondor I'm talking about the basilisk in which Harry Potter book and film is there a basilisk hidden below Hogwarts Chamber of Secrets?

Chamber of Secrets?

That's correct.

Ten points.

Toss up in algebra.

What shape is represented on a graph by the equation?

X squared minus four Y squared?

Patrick?

Hyperbola.

Yeah, equals 16.

I was getting to it and it is a hyperbola and an algebra bonus.

Now what is the simplified value of I plus I squared plus I cubed plus I to the fourth power.

This is one.

No.

Yeah.

Zero.

Right.

Yeah you're right.

One Yeah, Yeah.

It's zero.

That's yeah.

Answer?

Zero.

Is the correct answer.

20 points plus up in miscellaneous.

What is the literary term for a play on words?

Coston?

idiom.

Now that you can steal Oliver Springs, which is a pun, U.N. is a play on words pass up in geography.

Scranton, Allentown, and Erie are all cities.

In what state?

Mohib?

Pennsylvania.

Is right in a geography bonus.

What is the tiny, landlocked country in the Eastern Pyrenees mountains between France and Spain?

Oh, that.

Nope.

No, no, no, no.

It's hard to go.

No, no, no.

Oui, oui, oui, oui.

I can't do it.

My answer?

I defer to Patrick.

I'm blanking.

No.

That would be a good name for a country.

But it's Andorra.

Plus from players in health.

What?

11 letter word, beginning with P is the name for the thin sack.

Livia?

A thin sack that completely encloses the heart.

Chance to steal all the springs.

It's the pericardium.

No points Toss up now in spelling.

A male who does not marry is a bachelor spell bachelor Mohib?

B A C H E L O R. Correct.

Spelling bonus.

Now when a couple ties the knot they are engaging in matrimony spell matrimony.

I notice my I'm in line removed.

So it's m rhymes or a great work, master.

I defer to Livia, M A T R I M O N Y.

Is right.

20 points toss up now in chemistry.

Who laid out the Chemical periodic table in predicted, Coston?

Mendeleev?

Yeah.

Is right for ten and a bonus also in chemistry, native fishermen in Indonesia have been affected by waters turning murky from sediment and polluted by cyanide and diesel fuel flowing from open pit mining.

For what element with atomic number 28 that is used in batteries for electric vehicles and mobile phones.

What is it called?

Cobalt.

I think it's cobalt as to make sense.

Okay.

Cobalt.

No, 28 is nickel.

Whoops.

No points on the bonus toss up in religion in August 2023, an estimated 1.5 million people Coston?

Hajj.

No attended the closing mass celebrated by Pope Francis at World Youth Day in what European capital chance to steal all the springs.

Jonah Oh, Rome.

No, it was in Lisbon.

In Portugal.

No points pass up now in Art.

What is the museum in Paris that has a glass roof?

Livia?

The Louvre.

With a shape of a pyramid and an art visual.

Now take a look at the screens, please.

Who is the artist shown here who depicted themes related to Mexican history?

Society and politics and is one of the best known proponents of the Mexican mural ISM movement that is credited with the reintroduction of fresco painting into modern art and architecture.

Diego Rivera Yeah, this this I think a very.

Diego Rivera That's right.

20 points toss up in science.

Name the science and art of extracting metals from their ores and modifying Livia?

Metallurgy and metals for use and a science bonus.

Two parts.

Who invented the astronomical telescope?

Galileo Galilei.

Galileo Galilei.

I think it's called Galileo.

And who discovered why objects float on water?

Archimedes.

Archimedes.

Also right.

20 on the bonus toss up in vocabulary.

What kind of mania describes a person with a compulsion to steal Coston?

Kleptomania?

Yes.

And a vocabulary bonus.

Two parts.

What?

Six letter word?

Beginning with l can be a verb or an adjective and means extremely generous or extravagant.

Lavish.

Lavish.

Lavish.

Yes.

What?

Six letter word beginning with l can be a verb or a noun and means to express sorrow or to grieve, Lament, mention lament.

Also write 20 points.

Toss up in geometry.

In a rectangle, a diagonal measures 20 feet, and the length is 16 feet.

What is?

It's width measure?

Livia?

Ten feet.

No, you can steal Oliver Springs looking for 12 feet on that one toss up in music.

What is the ballet term for a 360 degree turn?

Livia?

Pirouette.

On one foot music bonus.

What musical includes the songs Surrey with the Fringe on top and people will say, We're in love, you know, not a clue.

Jesus Christ Superstar?

I wanna say Chicago.

I defer to Livia.

Chicago.

Oklahoma.

You still get points if you tell me what play was Oklahoma based on?

Ooh, Taming of the Shrew.

We need one of the theater kids to have read the script, or it says on the front page, adapted from Green Grove of Lilacs.

No points on that toss up in government.

What is the word for a government ruled by men only Tristan?

Patriarchy?

Is it government is your bonus.

What is the two step process for a person to serve in the President's cabinet?

Answer.

Senate?

Well, I needed more than that.

I needed nominated by the president would be the first step and then ratified is the key word there by the Senate.

Can't give it to you toss up in chemistry.

A satirical April Fools news story warned of the real dangers of di- Coston?

Water.

Di-Hydrogen monoxide is water and a visual bonus.

Now take a look at the screens, please.

Which of the noble gases is the third most abundant gas in Earth's atmosphere and has atomic number 18 argon.

Argon.

Okay.

Argon.

And what is its chemical symbol are air.

Both of those are right.

You get 20 points toss up now in literature, which Shakespearean play is about the assassination of a Roman Empire.

Mohib?

Julius Caesar.

And literature bonus, which Shakespearean play contains the line All the world's a stage.

No, that's much ado about nothing.

Hey, Mr. Hamlet, that one's as you like it.

Which Shakespearean play contains the line Now is the winter of our discontent.

It's Macbeth or Hamlet.

Answer?

King Lear.

That one's Richard the third.

No points on the bonus toss up in geography in 1853, the US added more than 29,000 square miles to Arizona and New Mexico, through which purchase Livia?

The Gadsden Purchase.

Is right geography bonus in 2023 Responses to moves by Iran to seize two oil tankers.

The US Navy warships stationed in the Persian Gulf region increase their patrols through what busy merchant ship passageway, which was as it did set Iran, the Gulf of Hormuz.

Those issues can also be, I think one of these.

Answer?

Suez Canal.

It is the Strait of Hormuz.

So no points on it to toss up in sports.

In what year did the University of Tennessee Football team last?

Patrick?

1996.

Not at last win a national championship chance to steal.

Jonah?

1998.

Yeah, you know that one and a bonus in sports for Oliver Springs the Texas A&M Aggies of the SCC play their home games in what city College Station.

College Station.

That's right 20 points toss up in history.

Those who signed the Mayflower compact settled where Coston?

Plymouth.

And a history bonus for Maryville.

Which of the 13 American colonies was founded.

First Virginia.

Virginia.

Virginia.

Virginia.

Correct.

Which of the 13 American colonies was founded Last to Georgia.

Georgia also right.

20 points.

Toss up in biology.

What type of farming depends on natural substance rather than synthetic materials?

Patrick?

Organic.

Yeah, organic farming for fertilizer and such biology is your bonus.

What is the term beginning with the letter M for a part of the cell cycle in which replicated chromosomes are separated into two new nuclei, which gives rise to genetically, genetically identical cells in which the total number of chromosomes is maintained?

meta.

I defer to Coston.

Metaphase.

Thats mitosis.

Try this.

What is the term beginning with M for a type of cell division that results in four daughter cells each with half the number of chromosomes of the parent cell, as in the production of gametes and plant spores.

Meiosis.

Yes, for ten points.

Toss up now in foreign language, what is the French term for a food cutting technique that helps achieve uniform, precise, thin strips of vegetables, for example, also described as a matchstick.

Livia?

Mandolin.

As a matchstick cut chance to steal Oliver Springs.

Tristan?

Fillet?

No, the French term for it is julienne.

Toss up in algebra solve for x if 30 divided by x equals 5 Coston?

Six.

Yeah, x equals six on that.

And we have an algebra bonus which we don't need right now.

So let the time run out.

Congratulations to Maryville.

First of all though, thank you very much to Oliver Springs.

We appreciate your being here and winning your way into the threshold of 32.

But we'll maybe see some of your players again next year or you got a seniors on this squad, right?

Well, either way, we're happy, happy that you're here.

And we know that Oliver Springs has put multiple teams into the tournament this year, which we appreciate the support, as has Maryville, put multiple teams into the tournament.

And you'll be seeing these faces again as they advance to the round of the March 16.

Congratulations.

Familiar territory for all of you who made it pretty far.

How far did you guys go in the tournament last year?

I know you went past the eight.

Semifinals.

Yeah.

Oh, nice.

Okay, well, congratulations on that.

We'll see how we do this year.

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Tennessee Scholars Bowl 2024.