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 teams from all over the viewing area competing for the Frank Miller Memorial Trophy and a cash prize that will describe at halftime 64 teams in the tournament this year for the 40th season of Scholars Bowl.

And two of those teams playing in a first round game today are Maryville High School and Severe County High School.

Point out that Maryville has put multiple teams into the tournament.

We very much appreciate your support and we'll see how things are going starting by meeting a lot of experienced faces from the Maryville Squad, beginning with Patrick.

Q Now in 12th grade.

Hey Patrick, how are you?

Hello, I'm good.

Weren't you in that heartbreaking tiebreaker between Maryville and Maryville last year?

Yeah, well, I won, so it wasn't.

Oh, okay.

You weren't doing that uplifting.

What a heartwarming tie breaker.

Last year.

And what else you've been up to since I'm the president of Mu Alpha Theta.

Now, that's great.

The Math Honor Society.

Yes.

Outstanding.

Well, congratulations.

We're delighted to have you back.

Let's say hi again to Olivia Odoi.

Olivia, Welcome back to Thinking about you.

Since last year, I'm the president of my school's model U.N. club, and I love candy corn.

Yes.

Have you ever made it with salted peanuts?

Yes, I know.

All right.

You and I.

All right.

Thank you.

I mean, we are, you know, the minority in terms of Candy corn.

Got to stay strong out there.

I'm with you.

All right.

I say hi to team captain.

This year is Mohammed.

Mohammed, congratulations on being the captain.

You'll answer bonuses on behalf of the squad or defer by name to one of your teammates.

What else you got going on?

I'm, uh.

Oh, shoot.

I play guitar.

President of something.

You have to be president.

Well, yeah, the key club.

But so, so far, we've had three presidents in a row.

I'm excited about it.

And what kind of guitar do you like?

I play electric right now.

I'm trying to learn jazz guitar, but I'm not going to jazz guitar.

You have to start somewhere that you weren't good at College Bowl at one point in your life either.

No, I was always good.

That's.

He's messing with you all over there.

Just keeping that in mind.

And also, we've got 12 Raider cast and Autry costume.

Welcome back to the show.

What are you president of High?

Well, I guess you're right in predicting that because I'm president student council see this?

And what else have you been doing since last year?

I'm beginning to finish polka music.

Is that better than Norwegian Polka?

Honestly, I haven't checked out like the Norwegian polka genre yet, but mainly I've been, like, looking at, like, finished, like the finished music around, like the Winter War and the continuation war, which is surprisingly good.

So you're serious?

I'm kidding.

And you're serious.

Okay, well, I'm glad to know about that.

Let's say hi to the alternates and coach from Maryville high school, starting with Anna Elam, Ava Oldham, Alex Velarde, Ava Cash and Dr. Corey DeHart, who's the coach and teaches physics and astronomy at Marvel, taking on the squad from Severe County High School, mostly returning players, except for junior John Mintz, who is new to us this year.

Welcome, John.

We're happy to have you.

Tell us about yourself.

I am our Schools DECA Club president.

Thank goodness I would keep the presidential streak alive and I am the number one fan of our tennis team.

Excellent.

All right.

We have got some tennis players maybe on the squad today.

Let's say hi to Sidney Crook.

What do you do, Sidney?

I'm unfortunately going to have to break the streak of presidents.

I'm vice president of scholarships and a lot of secretaries, but I don't have a president positions.

Okay.

Sorry for that.

I'm going to accept vice president because I got the word president in it.

What else do you like to do?

I'm on this team and I can say from last year I said I've been to 13 different countries.

This year I can update that to 14.

Oh, that's great.

What was the new one?

Panama.

Wow, that's fantastic.

Plus, you got a big fan of the tennis team sitting next to you.

So that's works out well.

Team captain this year is Adison Weirich Jr. What about you, Edison?

I am on the severe county high school tennis and golf teams.

You got a big fan, you know, John, of their coaches.

Okay.

scholarship ball is part of the president's scholarship also.

Oh, we're back to that.

Excellent.

Glad to hear that.

And we also have Kaden French, a sophomore.

Hi, Kaden.

What about yourself?

I'm not president of anything, not even vice president, so.

Oh, well, you got what was your aspiration to be president of what?

I don't know.

What are your other activities then?

I'm on the tennis team.

Oh, you know, John's a big fan.

Yeah, so everybody's on the tennis team.

That's why John said that.

Let's say I had the coach force of your county, Smokey Bears.

That is Jackie Brown, who teaches pre calc and calculus in Sevierville to the Seviere County High School Squad.

All right.

You all know how you play.

We've been here before.

Obviously, we've got 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.

Toss up in the category of government.

Which amendment to the U.S. Constitution voided a previous amendment?

Olivia The 21st is right to repeal prohibition and a government bonus for Marvel.

What country took over the rotating presidency of the EU in August 20, 23?

Not Germany.

So I mean, it's the German, right?

It's France.

Spain was that one.

But you can still get points by telling me what country will hold the presidency of the EU in February 2024.

During France, that was Belgium.

No points on the bonus.

Back to tossups in literature.

What Walt Whitman collection of poems represents the celebration of his philosophy of life.

Walden Pond No, his life and humanity changed the seals of your county Edison.

Walt Whitman's autobiography, it's called Leaves of Grass, is his famous work toss up now for all players in religion.

What is the title of the crowdfunded television series created by Dallas Jenkins that focuses on the apostles and their interactions with Jesus?

John the Chosen is right for ten and a religion bonus for Severe County Two parts.

What is the last book of the New Testament of the Bible?

Revelation is right and who is believed to have written the Book of Revelation Central?

The Apostle John.

That's also right.

20 points plus up now in health in humans.

What does the group of four large muscles located on the front of the thigh constant the quadriceps is right and a health bonus.

What are the two types of photoreceptors found in the retina?

Up to a defective costume cones and rods.

Those are both right.

20 points toss up now in algebra.

Solve for y in the equation.

Three y minus nine equals -21.

Constant negative seven plus three x equals y.

Not it.

You can still severe Sidney negative four.

Yeah.

Y is negative four and that one you get an algebra bonus for severe county solve for x if x squared equals to x plus three.

And I need both solutions.

negative x plus three x plus one.

No, I needed you to say negative one and positive three are the dancing around it there.

But you didn't say quite right.

Plus, up now in economics, according to a grocery delivery and pickup service, what was the most popular Halloween candy for 2023 in 11 states, including Tennessee?

Patrick Candy Corn.

I wish not a chance.

Still, Allison Snickers.

No, it is the Reese's Peanut butter Cups.

No points on that toss up for everyone in foreign language.

What is the phrase for good day in German customs?

Guten tag.

Yeah, and a foreign language bonus.

Now, what is the phrase for?

I love you in Spanish town, Tamar.

I defer to Olivia.

Te amo is right for ten.

What is the phrase for?

I love you in German.

Kevin's answer I defer to Boston Amaro in mind.

I think it's a for something like that toss up role players in art.

What is the term for a painter representing objects on a flat surface as they appear to the eye from a distance?

Constant linear perspective?

Perspective.

Is this all we needed?

But yeah, we'll take that and you get a visual bonus number.

We'll take a look at the screens, please.

No Known in English as the Mona Lisa.

What is the Italian name for the famous painting shown here for ten years?

I like the Mona Lisa.

No La Gioconda because I think her name was Lisa Gioconda.

And then second half of the question, who ordered the Mona Lisa to be removed from the Louvre in 1800 and hung on the wall of his bedroom until 1804 when he crowned himself Emperor of France?

Napoleon?

Yeah.

Napoleon Bonaparte.

You get ten on that.

Toss for all players in astronomy.

Which planet?

In our solar system is known for its great dark spot?

Kostin Uranus, Not it.

You can still see if you're counting.

Edison Mars.

No, the dark spot is on Neptune.

Toss up now in history.

The election that triggered secession is remembered as a race between mostly two candidates Who was Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas?

Yeah, they're going to take that as evidence for Lincoln's opponent.

But Stephen Douglas is the right answer.

You get a bonus now in U.S. history in 2022, President Biden's first White House state dinner welcome.

The president of which country?

That was America's first ally of Morocco.

From Morocco, you know, France was America's first ally, then the United States very first state dinner ever welcomed the king of Hawaii and was hosted by which president in 1874, 1874, Rutherford B Rutherford B, No.

One before Rutherford.

Answer I'm Ford now.

Ulysses S Grant was 1874.

You're thinking 1974.

Toss up in geography.

What city was previously known as Peking?

It's Patrick.

Beijing.

Yes.

And a geography bonus from travel.

Illegal gold mining in which mercury is mixed with river sediment to extract.

Gold is cited as the cause of illnesses in children along the Beni River In Bolivia.

The river rises near which city that is the seat of government in Bolivia is so gray.

So gray.

What's the other one?

It was La Paz for that particular river.

Toss up Now in vocabulary, complete the proverb.

People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

Yeah.

Make sure we're calling you all the way.

I know you're anxious that stones will get you ten points and a bonus in vocabulary.

what phrase that includes the word hand means caught in the act of doing something wrong.

It caught red.

Caught red handed.

Yes.

And what phrase that includes the word hand describes winning a race easily.

Upper hand.

Upper hand.

I'll defer.

I defer to Clawson having the upper hand.

Well, in this case, when you win easily, you win hands down.

So ten points toss up in miscellaneous.

In what country did Parmesan cheese have its origin?

Custom?

Italy.

Yes.

And a miscellaneous bonus.

What?

Ohio?

Private liberal arts colleges.

Athletic teams are nicknamed the Yeomen and young women and is known for being the first co-educational college in the US.

It is.

That's in Virginia.

That's a much more to say Don't Ohio Akron now.

No, I'm going to defer to you.

I defer to Patrick Akron.

Oh, it's Oberlin University was first toss up in chemistry.

18 karat gold contains what percentage?

75% of pure gold and chemistry bonus for Marvel.

What is the chemical name of Epsom salt?

It's oh, no sodium something.

I defer to Costin Potassium chloride.

It's magnesium sulfate.

You can still get points for telling me the chemical formula for magnesium sulfate, also for MGM, so forth.

That's right.

For ten toss up Now in math, what type of lines form right angles, No head perpendicular and of math.

Visual bonus.

Now for Marvel, take a look at the screens.

Find the area of a trapezoid with height of six feet and bases of 13.6 feet and 10.4 feet three times 66, 23, 67, 20, 69, 69 square inches.

Now it's 72 square feet in that one.

No points on the bonus.

Back to tossups in history.

What Middle Eastern group has a military wing known as is al-Din al-Qassam Brigades that conducted many anti-Israel attacks in both Israel and Patrick Hamas.

Yeah.

In since the 1990s and a history bonus now in August 1858 which Queen of England and which President of the United States exchanged congratulatory messages via the first trans-Atlantic telegraph cable with Victoria.

What?

President 1858 Yeah, I think Grant you know his performance before I know his answer.

Rutherford B Hayes and Queen Victoria ten points for Queen Victoria.

James Buchanan was still president in 1858.

Plus, if everyone in literature with a plot similar to a 19th century German short story, what Broadway and movie musical is about a mythical Scottish town that appears Libya Brigadoon for only one day every hundred years, and a mythology bonus for Marvel.

Name these places from mythology.

First City of the gods built by Odin Chief God of the Norse and Theon.

Oh, Scott of Asgard.

Asgard, Great city in ancient Greece.

That was the site of a celebrated Oracle of Apollo in Delphi.

Duffy Delphi also right 20 points toss up in architecture, which style of architecture often features red tiled roofs and stucco walls.

Custom adobe.

Now that you can steal severe John Roman, a Spanish revival style architecture concept.

Now in biology, oceanographers use what term to describe the amount of dissolved salts in ocean water.

Livia Salinity is right.

Biology bonus Nearly one fourth of the world's cacti species live in the Chihuahuan Desert, named two of the three U.S. states that are in the Chihuahuan Desert.

Mexico and Arizona.

Yeah, New Mexico and Arizona.

Those are both right.

Texas is the third.

You get 20 points toss up now in music.

What kind of portable instrument?

Sometimes called the squeezebox uses Livia accordion.

Yeah.

Hand pumped bellows and a music bonus.

Now, what is the main reason that the Cape hop group Beats went on hiatus in 2020 to learn the songs?

Military service?

Yeah.

Mandatory military service in South Korea pops up in history in 1837, which U.S. state created the first Board of Education after establishing the first free public schools coast in Ohio?

Not it.

It taught grade levels.

Addison, Carolina No, it was Massachusetts as the half runs out, so nobody gets points on that.

it looks like Marvel's trying to run up the score a little bit, build himself a bit of a cushion for our second half.

We'll see what severe accounting has to say about that in our next half of play.

One of these teams advances to the threshold of 30 to find out who it is 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.

This is Tennessee Scholars Bowl.

I'm Frank Murphy, back from halftime in a first round game between Maryville High School and Seviere County High School.

Maryville, one of the schools with multiple teams in the competition.

They brought an alternate into the game.

Let's say hi to 12th grader Anna Elam.

Anna, welcome back.

We remember you from last year.

What have you been up to since we saw you last?

I am the president of Outdoors Club.

Another president?

Yes.

Okay.

Well, that's great.

I'm glad you guys are all overachievers over there.

What do you where do you go?

In the outdoors club.

We hiked Le Conte two weeks ago, which was really hard, but it was really fun.

Wow, That's fantastic.

All the way up 13 miles.

That's amazing.

And did you spend the night up there because you know.

Or do you come, right?

No, we just turned around and came right back down.

Oh, wow.

Fantastic.

That's a that's an accomplishment.

All right.

Well, meanwhile, as your county's got the starting line up still in and a little bit of a deficit to overcome, we'll see who brings them fastest.

And our second half of Tennessee Scholars Bowl 2024 toss up role players in literature in the habit.

What item has the power to make someone bring invisible and a literature bonus for Marvel?

What literary term is a figure of speech in which something non-human is given?

Human characteristics Personification right for ten.

What literary term is a statement that reveals a kind of truth?

Although it seems at first to be self-contradictory, Paradox is right for 20 on the bonus toss up.

Now in games, a single player matching game that was introduced in early versions of Microsoft Windows used images of tiles from what?

John Mahjong Yeah from what popular Chinese game and similar rummy you get a games bonus of your counting what is an evasion type trick taking card game for for players who try to avoid picking up tricks with hearts or the queen of spades say old maid now it's called hearts actually toss up every one now in geology what do you spill?

Geologists study constant earthquakes now that you can steal severe, strong oil spills, caves when you go spelunking smelly ologist or philologist?

No points there.

Toss up now in geometry in a right triangle, the legs measure point five inches and 1.2 inches.

What is the measure of the hypotenuse?

Jun 1.3 is right and a geometry bonus for severe.

What is the sum of the measures in degrees of the exterior angles?

One per vertex of a rectangle three 6360 is right 20 points Toss up now in geography.

The city of Cincinnati is on what river constant.

Columbus, not it.

You can still severe, John the Mississippi that's on the Ohio River toss up now in architecture in what city is the Golden Gate Bridge located Livia San Francisco is correct.

And you get a visual bonus.

Take a look at the screens, please.

What is the name of this long bridge in the Florida Keys shown here that connects nights key to Little Ducky and was seen in the movie two Fast two Furious seven for the Seven Mile Bridge.

That's correct.

For 20 points toss up now in religion, the Hindu deities Brahma, Vishnu and Lakshmi are commonly depicted as sitting or standing on what flower lotus is right.

Religion Bonus.

In June 2023 contestants on an episode of Jeopardy were unable to name what missing word in the following line of the Lord's Prayer.

Our Father, who art in Heaven, blank be thy name, hallowed deferred.

Olivia, hallowed is right for 20 toss up.

Now in science, what term refers to the temperature at which the vapor pressures of the solid and liquid phases of boiling point are equal chance to steel Severe Sydney melting point is right for ten and science bonus now for severe county named four of the ten greatest scientists of all time as chosen by Discover magazine in 2017 due the door.

Anybody else?

Answer Newton, Einstein, Darwin and Churchill 15 points for Einstein, Darwin and Newton.

The ones you missed were Tesla, Rosalind Franklin, Ada Lovelace, Carl Linnaeus, Galileo, Marie Curie and Pythagoras.

15 points.

They're toss up now in government.

What book is the standard reference for parliamentary procedure?

No.

Have a Robert's Rules of Order.

Yes, and a government bonus.

Bosnia and Herzegovina have been recognized by the EU as a candidate country for accession and is on the current agenda for future enlargement of the EU.

Bosnia and Herzegovina was formed following the collapse of which country?

Yugoslavia.

Yugoslav.

I think it's Yugoslavia.

Yugoslavia is ranked 20 points tossup now in economics, in American publishing, which genre accounts for the largest amount?

My romantic of paperbacks and an economics bonus.

Who are the first two American billionaires?

Ford and Rockefeller.

Ford and Rockefeller.

Ford and Rockefeller as write Henry Ford and John Rockefeller 20 points Tossup in grammar when two singular subjects are connected by the word or nor what type of verb should be used.

Edison conjunctive not it.

You can still marvel.

Libya transitive and looking for singular verb singular subjects connected by a singular verb toss up for everyone in sports, which sport features sculls, strokes and slides.

Livia rowing.

Yes, in a sports visual.

Now take a look at the screens, please.

Quarterback Y.A.

Tittle, shown here, led what Big Apple team to the NFL's championship game in three of the final four seasons of his career.

Two Giants.

Giants, Also Giants.

The New York Giants.

That's right.

And the second half of the question the Giants played in what, Bronx baseball stadium from 1956 to 1973.

MetLife was the Jets answer MetLife Stadium.

Back in those days, they played in Yankee Stadium.

They shared it with the Yankees toss up in chemistry.

What is the name of the compound represented by the formula K2 C O3?

Now, potassium carbonate is right.

Chemistry is your bonus.

Who is credited with the discovery of hydrogen?

Oh, about the same answer, Lavoisier.

Now that is Cavendish, who is credited with the discovery of oxygen, as you say, Lavoisier now he named it, but Priestley is credited with discovering it.

Toss up in math.

What is the square root of three raised to the fourth power?

Olivia nine is right and a math bonus solve for x the quantity negative five minus x divided by three equals one negative negative.

Okay x equals negative eight.

Negative eight is right.

20 points Toss up now in U.S. history.

What was the journey of the Cherokee Indians to lands west of the Livia?

The Trail of Tears, Mississippi called and a history bonus.

Which President signed the act that created the Tennessee Valley Authority in 1933?

FDR, Roosevelt.

FDR, Yes.

And which president met Joseph Stalin at the Potsdam Conference in Germany in July 1945?

The story of Truman.

Truman.

That's right.

20 points.

Toss up in foreign language.

How many different tones are involved in Mandarin Chinese?

Sidney?

Six, not eight.

You can steal my head.

Four is right.

Foreign language is your bonus.

What is the Latin term that is used in English to mean in exactly the same words?

I mean.

Sorry, I defer to Ana verbatim is right for 20 toss up in music.

What kind of musical note is made up of a blackened circle attached Edison, an eighth note attached to a vertical stem?

Livia A quarter note.

Is it and music bonus Who composed the opera?

Fidelio.

Fidelio.

Oh, sorry.

No, no, I think it's very I think Verdi.

I think Verdi.

That was Beethoven who composed the opera Tristan and Isolde.

Oh, Strauss.

Strauss hammers.

Wagner.

Ah, I know.

Points on the bonus toss up in health.

What is the name for the relatively rare sleep disorder that causes overwhelming daytime drowsiness sitting apnea?

Not it.

You can still constant narcolepsy, right?

And a health bonus.

What is the medical term for an extreme fear of fire?

What's fire like?

Pyro phobia.

High risk pyro phobia.

Right.

For ten, What is the medical term for an intense, sometimes irrational fear of the sun, sunlight, or any bright light you feel for?

You heal your phobia.

Also write 20 points it for everyone in technology.

Google Sheets is compatible with spreadsheet files from what Microsoft program cost in Excel.

Yes, and a technology bonus Which Western state became the first to ban tick tock, citing fears that the app's Chinese owned parent company could be providing Americans data to the Chinese government.

Montana I think it's Montana.

Let's say Montana is right for 20 points.

Toss up now in geography, which canal is the most used waterway for shipping?

Sydney, Panama.

Now you can see Livia Suez.

Right.

And the geography bonus for Marvel named four of the nine TVA dams on the Tennessee River.

No Tellico in the one on the that one.

John Yeah.

Okay.

Oh, Loudon, what was your answer?

I defer to Coston Tellico Dam, Fort Lauderdale dam Loudoun damn and Maryville dam.

I don't think I can take any of those because I did specify the first of all, the Tennessee River.

Tellico dam on a different river.

The Fort Lauderdale Dam, I assume is in Florida, and that's the Fort Loudon Dam is the name of that other one.

So it's Fort Loudoun, Chickamauga, Guntersville Wilson, Kentucky.

What's Bar Nick A Jack Wheeler and Pickwick Landing.

A lot of those are not in the state of Tennessee, but they're on the Tennessee River, passed up now in literature.

John Bunyan wrote what book about Huston Paradise Lost about a man named Christian and his journey toward heaven.

Chance to steal Severe County Harrison Journey to Heaven.

It's called the Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan.

Toss up now in Art, what is the term for artwork that is applied directly to a wall or ceiling using techniques?

Costin fresco using techniques including painting, fresco, mosaic and graffiti?

Sydney mural is right and an art bonus.

What Dutch pioneer of 20th century abstract art is best known for using simple geometric elements like squares and rectangles and the three primary colors I defer to Sydney.

Salvador Dali, it's a mondrion is that going to stand for all players in physics?

What is the term for the process by which rainbows are formed?

Is light from the sun or have diffraction that's against diffraction?

No, that's not it.

but the time has run out anyway.

It's refraction, not diffraction.

So we can't use it as the game ends.

But it wouldn't have mattered because Maryville did hang on to the lead run at the score a little bit more Seviere county at least you broke the century mark, So we appreciate you doing that.

And lot of underclassmen here, right?

So we'll see many of you again next year on Scholars Bowl.

We always appreciate the support from the Smokey Bears And meanwhile, Maryville, congratulations.

You're going to advance now to the threshold of 32.

We'll see you again.

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