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 Hi, I'm Frank Murphy.

This is the academic tournament with 64 teams competing for the Frank Miller Memorial Trophy and a cash prize.

You'll hear about coming up at halftime.

We have teams from all over the viewing area and today we have a first round game between Sequoyah High School of Madisonville, Tennessee, and Maryville High School in Blunt County.

Let's say hi first to the players from Sequoyah, starting with 10th grader Quinton Perry.

Quentin, tell us about yourself.

What do you do?

Uh, I watch movies.

What kind of movies?

Oh, choices.

They're all of them.

All right, so if you had to pick a genre for the next movie you were going to watch, what would it be?

Noir.

Oh, wow.

I didn't expect that answer.

That's very cool.

Let's say hi.

Also to 12th grader Priscilla Rose.

Priscilla, tell us about you.

I'm the president of Planet Club.

Pluto, yay or nay?

No, we rejected and stuff like cleaning the planet.

Oh, okay.

Or our planet.

This planet, The one that we're on.

Okay, Not the other ones.

Let's say hi to team Captain Abby, Major and Abby.

You're going to serve bonuses on behalf of the squad.

Or you can defer by name.

We recognize you from past seasons.

Tell us what you've been up to.

I'm captain of the soccer team and vice president of the Planet Cricket.

Oh, okay.

So after listen to Priscilla on planet stuff.

What are some of the projects?

I guess I gave Priscilla a little bit of a plan.

Yeah, we do like campus cleanups, and then we train up the highways sometimes.

Excellent.

Happy to hear about that.

And it's so lovely in Madisonville when you get down to visit.

Let's say hi to Bryan Mandohano Bryan Hi.

Welcome to tell us about you.

Oh, I just love mock trial.

Really?

Yeah.

Which side does the fans beat?

Last year?

It was a civil case, but yeah, yeah, it was a lot easier to defend the plaintiff.

Really?

Okay, that's fascinating.

Glad to hear that.

All right, let's say hi to the alternates and coach for Sequoyah High School.

We've got Annabel Villalobos and Jonathan Rudder Briasia Bowman, Delilah Lunamin and Alisha Kimball.

And they are joined by coaches Brittany Lynn, who teaches ninth and 11th grade honors E L A and Mariam Fields, who does ninth grade.

ELLA We're happy to have Sequoyah back on the show again this year, taking on one of the multiple squads from Maryville High School with three teams in the tournament this year.

Think did that last year to, let's say, high first to 11th grader John Humbert.

Hey, John, welcome.

Tell us about you, too.

I'm in the Spanish Honor Society and Maryville High School.

Well, fantastic.

I hope that helps you in the show today.

What drew you to that?

What's your fascination with language?

So my sophomore year, I took Spanish one and two at the same time.

Well, different semesters.

Okay.

But I just loved it.

I fell in love with the language and that encouraged me to just join Spanish society.

I hope I get to do some traveling with that knowledge too.

We also welcome back.

Matthew Natali Hey Matthew, good to see you again.

You are in 10th grade Now tell us about yourself.

I played trombone in the marching band and I'm part of my school science club.

Okay, No science club, but I guess is there a competition for that too?

I know there's a science bowl at summer.

Yes, we go to Science Bowl.

And which is better Science Bowl or Scholars Bowl say Scholars Bowl say Scholars Bowl.

Thank you.

Let's say hi also to team Captain Arrow and Castenhiser.

Hi, Arrow and welcome back to the show.

Good to see you again.

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

Tell us about you.

I play the piano and I am captain of the science ball team.

Oh, is Matthew any good?

Yeah, if nothing else matters.

And what kind of piano do you prefer?

I mean, I guess I should say.

What kind of music do you prefer to play on the piano?

It's 5050, whether I go Chopin or Taylor Swift.

So, you know.

Oh, my gosh, That sounds fascinating.

All right.

I love to hear a Taylor Swift's on the piano.

Never occurred to me that you could you would do that.

Of course you would.

Thomas Tisdale is in 12th grade.

Let's say hi to Thomas.

Welcome back.

Good to see you again.

Tell us about yourself.

I'm co-president of our Schools Model U N club.

Oh, and do you represent a specific country in that regard, or how does that work?

No, we represent pretty much all our countries.

But my favorite country probably is Iran or the USA, because USA on top because there's a lot of.

Yeah, there's a lot of debate between them, I imagine, in the model U.N..

Okay.

That's fascinating.

Let's say hi to the alternates and coach for Maryville High School.

First up is Lauren Turner.

And then we've got Elwin Kisner, Lara Robbins and Skyler Lawson, joined by coach Dr. Corey to Heart, who teaches physics and astronomy at Maryville And they've always done well in the tournament taking on Sequoyah So one of your teams will advance to the threshold of 32.

Let's find out who it's going to be.

You've all been here before.

You know how the game is played.

Plus, that's worth ten bonuses worth up to 20 players.

Get your fingers on the buzzer for Tennessee's Scholars Bowl 2024 Toss up in Chemistry in 1894, Sir William Ramsay and Baron Reilly discovered which gas with the atomic number 18, Erwin Argon is ranked for ten.

Chemistry is your bonus and estimated 12 million tons of electric car batteries that will stop working in the next ten years will end up in landfills unless experts are able to find better ways to recycle the batteries raw materials, including which one?

That is the lightest solid element Lithium.

Lithium.

Lithium is right for 20 plus up now in spelling, good spirit among comrades is camaraderie spell camaraderie.

Ireland c0mrade.

R i e. That's not it.

You can steal Sequoia i That is within a camaraderie.

See a m a r a d e r i.e.

those and that one toss up now in algebra sulfur.

Why in the equation negative three x minus four y equals zero.

Erwin negative three over four.

no just steel sequoia.

Now you're on the right track.

Certainly it's y equals negative three over 4xy equals negative three fourths x toss up.

Now in art, what famous painting is known to art experts as arrangement in gray and black?

Number one, they call that Whistler's mother toss up now in history, which Civil war Naval leader who was the first to reach the military level of admiral, captured New Orleans in 1862 from the Confederates, I'm fair.

Yes.

And a history bonus for Marvel.

In 1877, federal troops were withdrawn from the three states in which they remained marking the end of the reconstruction name.

The three states and the president who removed the troops.

So for answers that the presiden whatever the ribs is, Right after the second answer, I defer to Matthew Rutherford behaves was the president at Mississippi Alabama and South Carolina.

I'll take five points for other would be Hanes, five points for South Carolina.

But the two states that you missed were Florida and Louisiana.

So ten on the bonus toss up Now in health, what word do the letters EKG or e-cig meaning Brian electrocardiogram Yeah the heart's electrical activity a recording of and health bonus for Sequoia what words do the letters and the food additive MSG represent?

Answer a no it now you ran out of time with that.

You got to learn it right out.

It's monosodium glutamate, but there's still a second half of the question what words do the letters GMO represent?

A genetically modified, genetically modified organism?

Yeah, you save ten there on the bonus toss up for all players in mythology.

What mythical creature has the head, arms and torso of a human and the body and legs of a horse?

Irwin Center is right in a visual bonus Now from a travel look at the screens, please.

Who is the African folklore character shown here?

Known as a trickster with the ability to outsmart and triumph over more powerful opponents through his use of cunning, creativity and wit.

Loki.

Now that is called a Nancy.

Sometimes if they call him Aunt Nancy, even though he's a guy, the spider Anansi the spider pops up now in music, in what present day country was Johann Sebastian Bach, born Matthew Germany.

Yes.

And a music bonus for Marvel, according to Spotify's sizzling 2023 songs of Summer.

What track that roughly translates to?

She Dances Alone had the most downloads globally since the first part of Machiavelli's Answer by Lando.

Now, that would be Ella by La Sola.

How about this?

What song?

By Gibbs High School alumnus Morgan Wallen was on Spotify as sizzling 2023 songs of summer for having the most downloads in the United States.

It's like, well, there's like, he wrote, like, you know, I don't like him and I defer to Thomas.

Don't start now.

You know, that one was last night was the most downloads of the summer in the U.S. toss up.

Now in religion, what plants leaf is associated with Saint Patrick and can be used to explain Thomas Clover No, it can be used to explain the Holy Trinity chance to steal Sequoia.

You know, it's a specific form of clover.

The shamrock with the three leaves pass up.

Now in government, what type of jury decides if there's enough evidence to hold a trial?

John?

Jury?

Yeah.

Make sure I've called on you all the way, though.

And grand jury is right.

Government is your bonus.

What is the two word expression for an individual who refuses to serve in the military based on religious or moral beliefs?

Country conscientious objector is right for 20% for all players in science.

What is the simple machine consisting of a rod free at both ends and a steady object on which the rod rests?

John A weaver?

Yes.

And a science bonus who published his major classic factory work system and nature right.

In 1735 at the age of 28, and provided a classification of the then three kingdoms of nature, mineral, vegetable and animal, and was the first naturalist to include man within the animal kingdom.

I refer to John when else Yes is right.

Carl Linnaeus for 20 toss up in foreign language.

What is the official language of the Netherlands?

Thomas Dutch Right.

And a foreign language bonus.

Give the English translation of the French phrase civil plain if you please, and the French phrase bonhomie.

Goodnight both right for 20 points plus up now in math computation.

What fractional part of 201 to 0 one is 67 Irwin 67 over two.

A one No, that's not it.

Lots of questions Still, when you can't look at each other, unfortunately, you can't look at each other's papers on tossups.

they would take it down to one third.

toss up in sports.

In which state is the Daytona International Speedway?

Thomas, Florida, located as Florida sports bonus for Marable.

The Iditarod sled dog race crosses two mountain ranges the frozen Yukon River and the Bering Sea ice on its way to the finish line in what famous Gold Rush town?

No.

Anchorage?

No, no, no.

I defer to John.

This Nome is right.

20 points tossup now in geography, which U.S. state was the 50th to be admitted?

Matthew Y to the union is Hawaii Five-O.

And a visual bonus for Marvel.

Take a look at the screens, please.

Which country is highlighted on the European map shown here?

You know, I've never been to Croatia, so it's really fast cars over there.

I mean, Croatia is right for 20 points toss up now in technology in chat GPT.

What words to the letters GPT represent job generative prompt technology and that you can steal Sequoyah You're on the right track.

It's generative.

Pre-Trained transformer is GPT.

I didn't know it either.

Toss up in grammar.

Correct.

The error in this sentence if necessary.

My friend and myself went to a movie last night.

Abby, my friend and I is right.

And an English bonus for Sequoia.

What is the nine letter psychology term?

Beginning with the letter I for quick impulsive thought that does not make use of formal logic or clear reasoning just for Abby to answer or defer.

I defer to Quenton Instinct.

Now the nine letter word I'm looking for, there is intuition asset for everybody in biology.

By what method do most bacteria multiply?

Erwin Vision.

Yeah, cell division or vision is it?

And a biology bonus.

Now, in 2022, the United States pledged to increase its LNG exports to the United Kingdom under a new bilateral energy partnership.

What is LNG is something I heard of Thomas Lowe.

Never go liquefied natural gas toss up for everyone in architecture.

What city's Oak Park suburb is the location of the Beachy house, the Frank Thomas house, the Hills DeCaro house, and the Nathan G house, all of which were designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

Thomas Chicago is right for ten architecture bonus from travel.

What structure on the Columbia River near Spokane, Washington, is the largest power station in the U.S. Daniels offered.

I refer to John Norris Dam.

That is the Grand Coulee Dam.

It's huge toss up now in history who coined the term fascism and created the first one party.

Matthew Mussolini.

Yeah, first one party fascist state history bonus.

Now, which two of the wives of Henry the eighth were beheaded?

Anne Boleyn who's the fifth one, was the Anne Boleyn and Catherine of Aragon.

No, it was.

Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard.

Are you trying to sing the song in your head?

Yeah.

Ten points for Anne Boleyn.

Toss up now in chemistry.

A U238 atom differs from a U235 atom Due to three Brian Isotopes three additional what?

Thomas Neutrons is it and a bonus Now in chemistry, what is the chemical formula for nitric acid?

Guess it HN03 is right for 20 points plus F for everyone in literature.

What Children's Picture Book by Chris Van Allsburg Tells of a Boy's.

Oh, we ran out before we got to talk about the Polar Express.

Okay, well, that's halftime in this game between Sequoyah and Maryville.

Which team is advancing to the threshold of 32?

Find out after the break.

On Tennessee's Scholars Bowl 2024.

The 40th season of Tennessee Scholars Bowl is a single elimination tournament featuring 64 high school academic teams.

The championship team.

And this year, Scholars Bowl receives the Frank Miller Memorial Trophy.

The scorekeeper timekeeper and judges for this year's Scholars Bowl are Chandler Vincent, Rebecca Longmire, Stephen Hensley, Cathy Coley, Ernie Roberts, Cathy Waddell, Jerry Doherty.

Thank you.

Also to the East Tennessee PBS staff and volunteers who make this educational program possible to enter your high school in next year's Tennessee Scholars Bowl.

Or for more information on this year's tournament, please write to the address shown on your screen.

You're watching Tennessee Scholars Ball.

I'm Frank Murphy, back from halftime.

In this first round game between Sequoyah High School and Maryville High School, Sequoyah, located in Madisonville.

Maryville, of course, in Blunt County.

Right now, America's got a bit of a lead, but they scored all those points in one half of play.

So obviously anything can happen in our second half.

And both teams are bringing alternates into the game.

Let's say hi on the Sequoyah side to 12th grader Anabel Villalobos.

Hi, Anabel, welcome.

Tell us about yourself.

I like tried to size.

is that the one that jumps over things are the ones where the horses walk sideways or what do the horses do in that?

It is letters around an arena and you do tests.

Lovely.

All right.

We'll happy to hear about that.

And on the Marvel side, let's say hi to 12th grader Lauren Turner.

Hi, Lauren.

Tell us about you.

I'm president of the Outdoors Club.

And what's an activity that your club would normally do other than go outside?

Because that would be pretty easy.

We we go outside and hike, I guess.

Okay.

Yeah.

Because even if the whole thing is just to go stand outside, that would be good.

But I think.

Yeah.

Where do you hike around?

Just smoky mountains.

Lovely.

All right.

Fantastic.

Let options on the Blunt County side of the Smokies, too.

let's get back to it, everybody.

Fingers on the buzzer for Tennessee Scholars Bowl 2024.

Toss up everyone in the category of math.

A student body has a ratio of 3 to 5 males to females.

If there are 1000 students, how many females?

Thomas 600.

Now you can still.

Sequoyah I don't but I defer to Brian.

This is a toss up where you would have to steal and ring in is you versus the buzzer 625 would be the answer on that ratio toss up now in games, the word checkmate in chess Thomas the king can't move comes from the Persian phrase Sha ma, which translates to what English phrase?

Sequoia A chance to steal.

Brian, The king is trapped.

Well, he's dead, so that's why he can't move.

And that's why he's trapped because he's actually did so no points there.

Toss up in economics.

What is the term for a person who makes and repairs things in iron by hand?

John A blacksmith?

Yes.

And an economics bonus from Arable, what was founded on September four, 1998, by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University.

Like mice, it's weight limit and it's just the answer MySpace.

That's Google.

What is the name of Google's Web browser?

But like, you know, I'm really not sure the answer.

Chrome is right for ten points.

Toss up now in geology, dinosaurs existed.

In what era of geologic time?

Thomas Jurassic Not it.

You can still Sequoia Annabelle Mesozoic is right for ten and geology bonus for Sequoyah What is the metal found in the mineral hematite?

Carbon carbon and that's iron.

Try this one.

What is the metal found in the mineral cinnabar in?

No answer.

That's mercury.

No points on the bonus toss up for everyone in mythology.

What series of fantasy novels spans?

Five books is written by award winning author Rick Riordan and follows John Percy Jackson.

Yeah, and the Olympians.

And there's a lot more I could have read there, but we move on And Greek mythology bonus now for Marvel.

Take a look at the screens please.

What is the name of the mythological three headed dog shown here that guards the entrance to the underworld in Greek mythology?

So just like different heads, do they have different personalities or do they like fight over the body and their friends?

Yeah.

Answer Cerberus is right for 20 plus up now in history.

What was the nickname of King Richard?

The first of England?

John the Lionheart Yes, and a history bonus from arrival in 2023, researchers published their analysis of a skeleton that showed a failed attempted brain surgery 3500 years ago and belonged to one of two brothers in a shared grave excavated in 2016.

In Megiddo, Israel, a city prophesies as the site of the final battle before end times and also known by what Greek name again.

It answers apocalypse.

Armageddon would have been the right answer for 20 no points.

There passed up in religion In 1865, William and Catherine Booth founded the Christian Mission that was later renamed to what familiar bell ringing organization?

John The Salvation Army is right for ten religion bonus from arrival in eighth Century for Mosaic, with more than 5 million pieces, was unveiled in 2021, in which city described in the Book of Joshua as the location where the walls fell and the Israelites marched and blew trumpets.

Jericho answered.

I defer to John.

Jericho is right for 20 points.

Toss up now in geography.

What is the capital city of West Virginia?

Thomas Charleston is right for ten geography Bonus Two parts in which state is Biscayne Bay, Wyoming.

Sounds like Washington to me.

I don't think I'm though.

I said, well, I'm in Wyoming.

Florida near Miami.

How about in which state is Lake Winnipesaukee?

It's sounds it sounds up north.

Sounds of Wisconsin, Wisconsin.

I think it was going to say Wisconsin.

Now that's in New Hampshire.

There's a Bill Murray movie set there, Tossup Mountain Health.

What part of the brain controls balance, movement and coordination, Brian?

Summer cerebellum.

Cerebellum is it health bonus for Sequoia.

What part of the human body is a SAC that stores and concentrates bile?

gallbladder and what part of the human body is a flap of cartilage that closes the upper end of the trachea when swallowing equals out of her to burn?

Epiglottis is right.

You get 20 on the bonus toss up now in vocabulary spells stationary as it is used in reference to writing supplies Iroin stati0 and a r y.

That's not it.

It gives you a chance to steal to.

But you can't look at each other.

It's a toss up.

So unfortunately, I can't let you ring in at this point.

Stationary with writing supplies has e r y at the end.

R y means not moving toss up now in math, what shape of graph is represented by the equation?

Y equals x plus four?

Brian A linear yes and a visual bonus for Sequoyah Take a look at the screens please.

Given that I is the imaginary unit, simplify the quantity.

Three plus five I times the quantity three plus five I answer I defer to Brian.

Now you got to say something right away.

It's a -16 plus 30.

I was the answer.

There are no points toss up now in music during which musical period was the piano invented?

Done baroque, not it.

You can steal Sequoyah Classical.

That would have been good had you rung in.

Oh, but the rules say you have to ring in to call.

You pass that for all players in government.

A fundamental principle of what political theory is that people should work according to their capacity and receive Marxism I don't think I can take that John communism.

Yeah it's a little different and government bonus for Maryvile after South Carolina disputed certain tariffs which president issued a nullification proclamation in 1832 saying it would be incompatible with the existence of the union for one state to assume the power to annul a law of the US by definition, Answer Jackson Yeah, in 1832 is Andrew Jackson.

Toss up now in astronomy and the only planet in our solar system that is not named after a Greco-Roman god.

Brian Earth is right for ten.

Astronomy is your bonus.

What are the names of the two bright stars that mark the shoulders of the constellation Orion to right.

Answer that.

Yeah you got to blurted out when that buzzer sounds I'm only going to say at one time Beetlejuice and Bellatrix I started laughing at myself.

Toss up now in foreign language.

What is the German word for Please?

Erroneous dunker?

Not it.

You can steal Sequoia No engine.

Well, yeah, it was bitter.

Is bitter.

Shane Dank ashamed means thank you.

Toss up.

Now in literature, Fagin is the greedy villain in which Dickens novel, John Oliver Twist is right.

Pretend literature is your bonus.

A member of Congress wore a t shirt with a red letter A on it to symbolize being demonized for her 2023 vote to oust Kevin McCarthy as House Speaker.

It was a reference to what 1850 novel and who was the author for two answers scholarly or anything else?

Answer The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

That's right.

For 20 points plus.

Up now in Miscellaneous, which animal is featured on the Ferrari logo?

Thomas Prancing Horse.

Yes.

And a miscellaneous bonus named four of the Ivy League schools.

You can cover Cambridge.

We like it here.

Yale Brown For now.

We can just keep going.

Yeah, I know.

I actually hate answer.

Harvard, Princeton, Yale and Brown are all on there.

Brown, Cornell, Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, Dartmouth, UPenn and Yale.

Plus, up now in U.S. history in 1860, which political party nominated Abraham Lincoln?

Bryan, Republican and a U.S. history bonus for Sequoia.

In 1832, John Calhoun became the first U.S. president to resign after a disagreement with which president Teddy Van Buren now sounds like 1832.

Mr..

In a big year for Andrew Jackson as he's back.

No points on that one toss up now in biology, name the genus and species for a human being.

John Homo sapiens and a biology bonus now from arable.

What type of fruit has varieties called bing and reindeer, apple and grape grasshoppers just before the final answer?

Apple.

Now those are cherries.

What type of fruit has varieties called Bill of Georgia and Donut Hole teaches peaches.

Those are nuts, right?

So you get ten points on the bonus there as the game ends.

Ten more points for Marvel as Sequoia did their best to try to get some points on the board.

And we do appreciate at least breaking the century marked there.

So we look forward to seeing your team again next year on Scholars Bowl.

Sequoia, thanks a lot for being here.

We appreciate it very much.

Meanwhile, Marable, one of the three squads from Maryville High School, will advance to the threshold of 32.

You'll play again.

You can keep track of all of our teams and all of our episodes.

Don't miss an episode.

Set your DVR or binge watch past seasons online, as I strongly suspect some of the players have done at the PBS app.

My name is Frank Murphy and thank you for watching Tennessee Scholars Bowl 2020 for.