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 MeMohibrial Trophy and a cash prize that you'll hear about at halftime.

We are that much closer to the trophy.

This is the round of the philosophical four the teams.

Had to win four times to get here today.

That's quite an accomplishment.

Today's game between Maryville High School and Science Hill High School of Johnson City, let's say high first, the players from Maryville, beginning with 12th grader Livia Odoi.

Welcome back Livia.

It's always a delight to see you.

Tell us Mohibre.

Thank you.

Well, I just got back from a wonderful Mohibdel United Nations conference yesterday.

And what country did you represent in France?

Oh, How'd you do?

Pretty well.

You speak French, by any chance?

Not even a little bit.

Well, it sounds like still a fun time.

You know, if I could remember whatever compliment I just paid to Livia, I would also pay that to Patrick, because it's also.

It's always a delight to see you.

Oh, I know.

Tell us about you, Patrick Hue.

12th grade this year affect all seniors on the dais.

Tell us Mohibre.

I think I might have is Oh, really ringing here, as you say.

Yes.

And what makes you think you would?

I would think you would either have it or not, because one day I was just sitting in class and there was just a ringing noise and it just came through my right ear.

And you're the only one who heard it.

Yes, I was the only one.

I heard it.

Okay.

I looked crazy.

You seemed too young for it.

One and bands don't for you answered that problem.

Answer that mystery right there.

Let's say hi to team Captain Mohib Ahmed.

Mohib Ahmed, Mohib.

Good to see you again.

What's new?

My favorite word is petricore.

Petricore?.

Sure.

Yeah.

What's that got to do with rocks or something?

You know, it's the smell of rain.

Really?

Oh, that's a fantastic.

Where would you?

After the tournament's all over, you email it to us and we'll try to make next to your student.

Guess it for a vocabulary award.

Yes, absolutely.

And also as team captain, you will answer bonuses or defer by name to a teammate like, for example, Costin Autrey, who was in 12th grade.

Welcome back.

Coston.

What's new?

Well, I also just got back from the United Nations.

Yeah, And you played I also played France.

Really encourage the use of baguettes and crisps and salt.

No problem.

You speak any French?

Absolutely not.

But you, Livia, got to be teammates on that project.

Yes.

Oh, that's all that makes it worthwhile right there.

Let's say hi to the alternates and coach from Maryville High School, beginning with Anna Elam, Eva Oldham, Alex Velarde and Eva Cash, joined by Dr. Corey DeHart, who teaches physics and astronomy and coaches there.

Three, I believe.

Right.

You have three teams in the competition this year in scholarship, but we appreciate that level of support.

The other school that put three teams into the tournament and obviously that's a good strategy.

A winning strategy is Science High School of Johnson City.

Let's say hi once again to 12th grader Aarushi Raj.

Welcome back, Arushi, What's new?

We're going to guess your full name, but you don't have to.

You're not going to tell us.

Don't tell us.

Okay.

So my guess is Francis Justice Murphey.

Francis Justice, Murphey, Justice, Justice.

Like with the EU.

Yeah.

Oh, all right, all right.

But they don't tell you yet if you're right or wrong.

Okay, let's say hi to 12th grader Amanda Nowy.

Hello.

I would guess that your middle name is definitely Taylor Swift.

So that would be Francis Taylor Swift.

Murphy Yes.

All right.

So Fitz Murphy?

Yes.

Okay.

Team captain is Owen Hoover, who's in 12th grade.

So.

And you'll answer bonuses.

Or you can defer by some made up name to one of the others.

As long as I know who you're talking about.

What's going to.

I think I would have to guess.

Mick Haggerty.

Francis Mack, Haggerty, Murphy.

These are such good names.

I need to be writing these down.

Okay.

And Shivan, Jane, you're also 12th grade.

What's new?

I think your middle name is Cat in the Hat.

Francis.

Cat in the Hat.

Murphy Again, I can't.

I can't argue with any of these wonderful suggestions.

Congratulations to you.

Well, none of you were right, but I mean, who knows?

I can.

I might change it at some point in my life.

Why not?

Let's say hi to the alternates and coaches for Science Hill, Sam Haley, Selena Wheeler.

Are you Joshi, Molly Wilson and coaches Ben Davenport and Michael Laviano, who teaches economics and world history to the overly dramatic alternates and team at Science Hill High School.

They always put on a show.

It makes us happy.

All right, players, you had to win about four times to get here.

Do it.

So we decided, well, let's see who's going to win a fifth time in this game.

You know how we play toss ups worth ten and bonus is worth up to 20.

Get your fingers on the buzzer for this philosophical four round game of Tennessee scholars Bowl 2024 Toss up for all players in English with punctuation if necessary.

Spell the word.

It's in the following i t apostrophe s in the following sentence.

The cat likes having its ears scratched on its right.

There's no apostrophe when it's possessive.

English bonus now for Science Hill with punctuation if necessary, Spell the plural form of the last name Jackson, as in Happy holidays from the Jackson's copy with an apostrophe.

Apostrophe J, a, C, k, s, O, and s correct.

There's no apostrophe when you're plural as a last name either.

It's kind of I picked that up from apostrophe .

com.

Tossup in algebra.

What is the reduced value of the quantity R minus x over the quantity x minus R, Coston negative R minus x over x minus r no is still negative.

One Negative one is correct.

And now a bonus in algebra for science.

He'll solve for X if 30 x plus one equals 15 x -26 x equals six.

Now x equals negative eight in that one, no points on the bonus.

Next toss up in the category of architecture.

What famous performing arts venue is located in the capital of the Australian Owen?

The Sydney Opera House.

Australian State?

Yeah.

New South Wales.

And a visual bonus for Science Hill.

Take a look at the screens, please.

What is the name of the 12th century Hindu Buddhist temple shown here that is known for its five looming towers and grand porticos and is considered to be one of the largest religious structures in the world to furnish heaven.

Angkor Wat Yes, that's it.

20 points toss up now in government.

What is the seven letter word beginning with C used for each of the 12 regional U.S. courts?

Patrick Cabinet US Courts of Appeals chance to steal Since Hill Owen?

circuit is correct and a government bonus if the US Congress adjourns within ten days of the passage of a bill and the President does not sign it.

What happens to the bill?

Pocket veto or what happens to the bill is that it does not become law.

Toss up for our players in health.

What part of the body has the calcaneus bone Coston, the knee, no chance to steal Santillan and Rucci the head?

No, it's in your heel.

Calcaneus a toss up in literature which French author created the characters Claude Frollo Esmeralda and quasi Mohibdo Owen?

Victor Hugo correct in the literature bonus.

What book has the characters Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimsdale and Roger chilling work.

Let her describe the Scarlet Letter correct for ten.

Who wrote The Scarlet Letter?

Hawthorne also wrote 20 of that bonus toss up in geography.

Ankara or Ankara is the capital of what country Aarushi?

Turkey correct and a geography bonus in 2023, Ethiopia resumed negotiations over its hydroelectric dam with which two downstream countries that fear their water supply will be threatened.

Sudan and Egypt.

Those are both right for 20 toss up now in music in a major scale, what is the in Patrick A fourth yeah you got it in time for the buzzer sounded so music bonus now for Maryville in the music man how many trombones led the big parade to you see they have no clue for 2024 76 how many cornets were close at hand before 2424 110.

All right.

It's in the song.

It's up in US history.

Which President, while delivering his farewell address to the nation in 1961 only no answer warned against the power of the military industrial complex.

Eisenhower Correct.

The history bonus for Maryville.

In 1945, the Secretary of State approved the resettlement to the US of a team of Nazi rocket scientists, including what man who served as director of the Marshall Space Flight Center and was chief architect of the Saturn five rocket used in the Apollo missions to the Moon.

What would you say, Von von Braun?

Is it Wernher von Braun?

20 points.

Toss up in chemistry.

What anti-matter particle has the same mass as an electron, but Coston positron?

Yeah, with the opposite charge is right.

And a chemistry bonus from Maryville.

What is the chemical formula for Propanol?

I think it's that three CS or 23.

It's fine.

H Maybe maybe one, two, three, four, five, six.

No answer.

I defer to Coston c3h7h correct.

For 20 points plus up in foreign language, what is the English translation of the Japanese phrase?

Ohayo gaizuma.

Coston.

Good Morning.

Is it.

And in foreign language bonus translate the Spanish phrase Felice cumplianos into French or into French?

French.

Well, my French from France when I want to, I don't know okay I defer to Coston born the it's actually just bona vier.

Toss up for all players in math computation with two fair dice what is the probability of rolling a sum of six or 11 Patrick seven out of 36.

Correct.

In a math bonus on the screen from arrival in a right triangle if the sign of an acute angle is eight over 17, give the cosine and tangent values of the same angle.

It's a 15, right?

815 so, so cosine of 15 over 17 and then as written, you know, hands over 5 to 15.

I'm going to defer Patrick, I defer to Patrick.

So cosine is 15 over 17 and the tangent is eight over 15.

Both of those are right.

That's 20 on the bonus toss up.

Now in religion, what is the only miracle of Jesus that is recounted in all four gospels?

Lydia Turning water into wine Now that you can still stand still own raising Lazarus from the dead.

No, it's the feeding of the 5000 no points.

They're a toss up in history.

How many independent nations were created when the Soviet Union broke up in 1991, Livia?

15.

Right and a history bonus.

In 1970, after 11 years of construction, the massive Aswan High Dam was completed.

Egypt to end the cycle of flood and drought on which river it was then the Nile River.

That's it for 20 toss up.

Now in astronomy, what is the day on which the sun's direct rays cross the celestial equator?

Coston solstice now that you can still Amanda Equinox, Correct and an astronomy bonus for Science Hill, what was the first space probe to orbit another planet when it entered into orbit around Mars in 1971?

Answer Voyager.

That's Mariner nine.

Try this one.

Witchcraft was the first to successfully soft land on Mars in December 1971, after which it transmitted for about 20 seconds before it losing connection with NASA Columbia.

That's called the Mars three Lander.

No points on the bonus toss up in vocabulary.

What nine letter word beginning with V means the clear of Owen?

Vindicate.

Of accusation, blame or a doubt and a vocabulary bonus for science Hill.

What nine letter word beginning with I means innocent and unsuspecting, or showing childlike simplicity and candidness immature.

It's called ingenuous.

No points on the bonus toss f in sports, what is the third event in the Triple Crown of U.S.?

Patrick The Belmont.

Yeah.

Of horse racing in a sports bonus.

In 2022, the US gave up the Merchant of Death Arms dealer in exchange for which U.S. citizen who was released by Russia.

The basketball player.

Brittney Griner.

Brittney Griner.

Brittney Griner.

Yes.

For 20 toss up now in art, what Latin phrase?

Meaning remember you must die is used in memento mori.

to describe images and art that relate to death.

And an art bonus.

Now, what Italian art term literally means light, dark and uses a technique that shows high contrast between light and dark to a dramatic effect.

Light?

Answer Luciano.

Okay, it's called Shadow Squirrel, the modified example of chiaroscuro is a girl with a Pearl Earring, by which painter will premiere Vermeer.

Is it for ten points on the bonus.

Toss up in geography, what river flows north from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario and forms part of the border between Canada and the United States?

Patrick Dillon Saint Laurence That you can steal Science Hill that sorry the buzzer sounded already Shiven.

It's the Niagara River famous for its falls.

Toss up in biology.

What is the word for the tiny drops of moisture that condense after a warm day and appear at night?

Owen.

Dew.

On outdoor surfaces Biology Bonus Flowering plants are divided into what two groups annual perennial Well, it's minor cuts and dye cuts when we're talking on that level.

No points on the bonus toss up in literature.

What TV series now in its fourth season on PBS is based on books by a veterinarian in the Yorkshire Patrick Masterpieces, Veterinary Owen All creatures great and small.

Yeah.

James Herriot is where we were going with that and literature bonus on Science Hill in February 2023, Puffin Books and the Roald Dahl Story Company announced plans to delete the following line from which book?

Mike TV himself had no less than 18 toy pistols of various sizes hanging from belts around his body.

And every now and again he would leap up into the air and fire off a half a dozen rounds from one or another of these weapons.

Some doctors found the witches.

The witches.

And that line is from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Mike TV is kind of the hint on that one.

It's a very close game as we wrap the first half of this philosophical four round game between Science Hill and Maryville, one of these two teams advances to our championship match.

Is it going to be?

Find out after the break.

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 MeMohibrial 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 a very exciting philosophical four match between Science Hill High School and Maryville High School.

As you can see, only a few points separate our two teams.

One of these teams will advance to the round of our championship game.

I think we've challenge you before.

I need a name for the something to.

We got philosophical for we get educated eight we got, you know, smart 16 something that is alliterative with two and we'll work on that maybe after the show.

All right players no starting lineups are still in and get your fingers back on the buzzer as we resume this match of Tennessee's Scholars Bowl 2024.

Toss up for all players in geometry.

A kite has diagonal lengths of 12 and 16.

What is the area of the kite?

Patrick?

96.

Yes.

And a geometry bonus for Maryville and a right rectangular prism with a height of six with of four depth of three give the length of the solids diagonal.

So you see some altogether?

Yeah.

It's 61 again I defer to Boston radical 61.

Yeah.

Square root of 61 is the same thing will take that 20 points toss up in music.

How many sharps are in the key of B major?

Patrick Five.

Yes.

And a music bonus for Maryville, who is the composer of the Peer Gynt suite.

Oh, you're kidding.

It's.

No, no, no, no, no.

It's that Norwegian guy.

What's his face?

I don't know.

I'm just for the record, it's not.

Yes, I defer to Patrick.

Take Kosky now.

It's Edvard Grieg.

Is that the guy you're thinking of?

All right.

Does a pro players in economics any wine labeled port must come from what countries Doro Coston France.

Now what countries?

Doro Valli and steal seven Italy now port comes from Portugal No points on that toss up for all players in chemistry not actually used by veterinary dentists, but created in an easy science experiment for kids.

What is the popular name?

Livia Elephant toothpaste.

Yeah, for the foamy substance that you make and visual bonus in chemistry for Maryville.

Take a look at the screens please.

Palladium is one of the rare metals that takes part in oxidation reactions to reduce hydrocarbons and carbon Mohibnoxide.

In what type of comMohibn devices with ceramic honeycombs inside that are a target for thieves.

Users defer to Costa Catalytic converters is the right answer for 20% for all players in spelling, Lightning is a giant spark of own.

LIGO HD and I Angie is a spell lightning and a spelling bonus for Science Hill Saccharin means excessively sweet or sentimental spelt saccharin different to a Rashi as a c, c h, a r i and E. Yeah, I mean, it makes it sound like you said h in there.

Yeah, that's it for 20 points.

Toss out for all players in history.

What group of people are the descendants of exiles from the French colony Acadia, who found refuge in southern Russia, Cajuns in southern Louisiana and a history bonus for science Helm In 2022, records found in a medieval Mohibnastery in Greece give a glimpse of life 600 years ago when which empire ruled northern Greece and spanned from the coast of North Africa to much of the Middle East and the Balkans.

Roman Empire.

Byzantium Empire.

The Byzantine was indeed the Byzantine Empire.

I needed Ottoman Empire on that.

No points there.

Toss up in miscellaneous.

What actor played Batman in 2022 film of the Mohibment?

Robert Pattinson The Batman in a miscellaneous bonus for Maryville Two parts.

What actor played Batman in the 2016 film Batman v Superman Dawn of Justice that everything Ben Affleck correct for ten who played Lex Luther in Batman v Superman and had previously played Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg.

Oh, yes.

Jesse Eisenberg answered.

Jesse the Jesse.

I think any need Mohibre than that.

Jesse Eisenberg is that guy's name does up for and usually take last name only but not first name only.

All right, toss up in US history.

After Spiro Agnew resigned as vice president, who was the House?

Patrick Ford.

Yes.

Is right for ten.

And a bonus in U.S. history named four of the ten U.S. presidents who served only one term because they lost their bid for another term in the general election.

Oh, H.W.

Bush.

Bush.

Oh, Trump.

Trump.

Um, Carter, Carter.

Carter is one of them.

Not Carter.

Not written.

Russell Daniels.

Yes.

Yes, sir.

H.W.

Bush, Trump, Carter and Roosevelt.

Theodore.

The first three were correct.

The full list is John Adams.

John Quincy Adams.

Martin Van Buren.

William Howard Taft.

Benjamin Harrison.

Herbert Hoover.

Gerald Ford.

Jimmy Carter, H.W.

Bush and Donald Trump.

15 on that toss up.

Now, in foreign language, what is the French word for January Boston General?

Not it.

You can steal signs.

Hell, Amanda, like an arrow.

No, it's Janvier.

Toss up in math computation.

Find the quotient of five over 12 divided by one and one half the quotient of five over 12 divided Patrick.

Five over three.

No chance.

Still seven five over eight now.

5/18 is it for that quotient plus up now in arts, what is the rehearsal process of actors and directors to determine the actors placements on the stage or audition A chance to steal Livia Blocking.

Blocking is right and arts is your bonus.

What performing arts venue in New York City that is home to the Metropolitan Opera has 30 indoor and outdoor facilities and 5 million visitors per year.

Lincoln Center is right for 20 toss up front players in geology.

What is the color of as your right?

Oh, in blue.

Right.

And a visual bonus for science Hill.

Take a look at the screens, please.

Geologists believe that about 200 million years ago, India was a large island off the Australian coast, began to forge northward at a rate of about nine meters a century until it collided with Asia about 40 to 50 million years ago, causing the beginning of the rapid uplift of what Mohibuntain range with some of the world's highest peaks shown here.

Himalayas.

Yeah, that's it for 20 toss up now in geography.

Manchester, Essex and Gloucester are England.

Our cities in what, New England state?

Amanda Massachusetts is right for ten and geography bonus in the capital of the state that also contains the major city Chicago.

Springfield, Springfield.

Correct.

For ten in the capital of the state that also contains the major city Buffalo Chester out Altoona the Albany yes for 20 on the bonus toss up now in health where are these psychometric bones in the human body Coston for had not it you can steal Science Hill.

Shiven.

Pelvis there in your cheek or face your forehead toss up in English.

What is the subject in the sentence?

Are you going to the dance tonight Shiven.

you correct in an English bonus using alliteration.

What two animals could complete the idiom as busy as a blank and e B and buffalo.

Well, both of those might get busy, but a busy as a beaver.

Busy as a B ten points toss up in science.

What is a common piece of laboratory glassware consisting Lidia.

petri dish consisting of a finger length of glass or clear plastic that is open at the top, close to the bottom.

Arushi test tube.

Yeah and used for lab experiments.

A science bonus for Science Hill.

In 2022, the range of sci prefixes for large and small sizes was expanded from 2024.

Which new prefix with the uppercase symbol r four is for a multiplying factor of ten to the 27th power Mega answers.

There's no answer.

That's Ronna.

R O N N A.

Which new prefix with the uppercase symbol Q is for a multiplying factor of ten to the 30th power.

Oh yeah, no.

Giga That's Quetta.

Q U E E T T A.

No points on the bonus toss up in religion.

What city in Judea was the birthplace of Jesus?

Livia Nazareth Not it.

You can still Aarushi.

Bethlehem correct in a religion bonus The shortest verse in the Bible.

John 1135 consists of what?

Two words to praise Jesus.

Jesus wept erect for ten.

Jesus wept upon hearing of whose death?

John the Baptist.

John the Baptist?

No, it was his friend Lazarus of Bethany.

Ten points on that toss up.

Now, in geography, in which state is Cape Cod National Seashore, Massachusetts.

Correct.

And the geography bonus, What is the capital of the 48th state?

Anchorage.

What higher?

Honolulu.

That's Phenix.

What is the capital of the first state?

Dover, Right.

Yeah.

Ten points on the bonus toss up.

Now in literature, what Russian novelist was the author of Crime and Punishment and Dostoevsky?

Yeah, and The Brothers Karamazov Literature bonus from travel.

What?

Algerian, French absurdist philosopher was the author of The Stranger and recipient of the 1957 Nobel Prize of Literature is right for 20 toss up now in geometry, the interior angles of a regular polygon, each measure 135 degrees.

What is the polygons name?

Patrick Octagon.

Correct and a geometry bonus.

If the circumference of a circle is 18 pi, what is the area of that same circle in terms of pi 81, right?

Yeah.

Anyone?

Pi?

I defer to Patrick 81 pi is right for 20 toss up in music which one of Beethoven's compositions premiered in 1824 and is known as his choral symphony.

Amanda The Ninth Symphony is right and a music bonus.

Five years after Beethoven's death, a music critic described his piece called Sonata Quasi una Fantasia as reminiscent of floating on Lake Lucerne at night.

What is the common name for that Moonlight Sonata is right for 20 toss up in history.

Which U.S. president had a sign on his desk saying The buck stops here?

Aarushi.

Harry Truman, correct in history.

Bonus for Science Hill, which U.S. president hosted the 1978 Camp David Accords that led to permanent peace agreements between Egypt and Israel after three decades of hostilities deferred to Aarushi.

Jimmy Carter right For ten before becoming president, Jimmy Carter was governor of what state?

Georgia.

Georgia's first Georgia deferred to a Georgia is right 20 on the bonus toss up in biology.

What vascular tissue transports water and minerals from the roots to the leaves.

Coston.

Xylem.

Yeah, biology bonus named four of the five recognized breeds of the retriever dog.

I love.

It was Australian.

We got to go out Golden Retriever, Labrador Retriever, Australian retriever and short Hershey retriever.

Well, I can take your first four answers, which you gave me with the first two of those were correct.

Labrador and Golden Chesapeake Bay, flat coated in curly coated ten points on the bonus.

Was it enough to happen?

And you have to check the updated score to see how close we are.

Oh man, it looks like Science Hill managed to win this game by just the slimmest of margins.

Congratulations to all the teams involved.

First of all, Maryville, what a joy it is to always have you guys on the show.

I know this was a heartbreaker right now because you were fought so hard up till the end and it's all seniors on the dais.

So we'll we won't get to see you again next year, but I hope that you'll continue the tradition and pass on some of your knowledge and coach your younger teammates on Scholars Bowl.

So congratulations on that.

You do get our trophy for today being in the philosophical four so Science Hill You do get to play again against a very good team in our championship game.

We look forward to seeing you there and we look forward to you.

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