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

The game call 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 ball.

Hi, I'm Frank Murphy.

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

Our 40th season of Scholars Bowl.

Today's first round match is Scott County versus Oliver Springs High School.

And both of these schools have put multiple teams into the tournament.

So as you follow along on Scholars Bowl, you may see them and you're listening more than once.

Let's say hi first to the players from Scott County, beginning with 10th grader Ryan Trosper.

Hey, Ryan, welcome.

Tell us about yourself.

Hi.

I'm 16 years old and I am a future actor.

Oh, really?

What kind of stuff you've been in?

I'm right now in a production called Bright Star, so I like to be in a lot of like, musical things.

Oh, all right.

Well, good.

That terms turns up on the show quite frequently, so I'm glad to hear about that.

Let's say hi also to Colton Hatfield, who is in 11th grade.

Colton, welcome.

Tell us about you.

I listened to Hank Williams Junior at least 5 hours a day.

Okay.

That's still hey, that's still is 19 hours for everything else, right?

Or do you multitask?

I multitask.

What?

While you're listening to Hank, you're also doing what?

Usually the dishes.

Nice.

Fantastic.

Let's say I had a team captain who is 10th grader.

Hailey Butler.

Hey, Hailey, welcome.

And you're going to answer bonuses on behalf of the squad or defer?

Tell us about you.

I'm on my high school soccer team.

And what's your position on soccer?

I'm a full back on that.

Are you for it or against it?

But yeah.

Okay.

Yeah.

So is it hard to be a full back?

I don't even know.

It's not too hard, but.

Okay.

It's not the most difficult position.

All right.

Well, we look forward to you answering bonuses for your team.

And we also recognize from past seasons, Ana Bowling is back high on it.

Welcome.

11th grade this year.

What have you been up to?

Um, I'm joining the front and in the French club.

Oh, really?

And what's your favorite thing about to say in French?

There's so many beautiful things you can say in French.

I like to count in France.

Oh, un du twa Yes.

All right, good.

Just checking to see if I still remember any of my high school French.

Lets say hi to the alternate and coach for Scott County High School.

That is Naomi Napal, joined by coach Dr. Cindy Jeffers, who's the RTI coordinator at Scott, taking on a team from Oliver Springs High School.

A lot of new faces on this side and you've got two teams in the tournament as well.

First up is Jackson Houston in 12th grade.

Tell us about yourself.

JACKSON Right now, I'm taking enrollment classes at Brown State Community College.

Oh, wow.

And what is your field of interest over there?

I want to do something in computer science.

Excellent.

Right.

What was a lot of business to be done in that field?

Good and happy to have you here.

Sarah Oakley is in 10th grade.

Welcome, Sarah.

Tell us about you.

I'm 15 years old and I'm in my high school's marching band.

What are you playing?

Alto saxophone?

Is that the hardest instrument of all?

It Sometimes it varies, but you enjoy it and you'll pursue that maybe even beyond high school.

Oh, yeah, definitely.

Good.

I'm glad to hear that.

Let's say hi to team captain Tristan Morgan.

So, Tristan, you're going to answer bonuses on behalf of the squad or defer by name to a teammate.

Tell us about you.

Over my junior summer, I was the delegate for Boys State from all over Spring High school.

Well, that's quite an accomplishment.

Well, congratulations.

We're happy to have you here.

And also, we welcome Jonah Robins in 10th grade.

What about you, Jonah?

15.

I'm on my high school football team.

What do you play?

Offensive line and defensive line.

That's the most difficult, right?

Yeah, of course it is.

I always say yes, I will ask that every time.

Always say yes.

I would say hi to the coach for Oliver Springs.

That is Eva Robins, who teaches STEM at Oliver Springs.

Players.

You're all familiar with the game.

You know how we play with UPS worth ten bonuses worth up to 20.

Get your fingers on the buzzer for this first round game of Tennessee's Scholars Bowl 2024.

First toss up is in the category of health.

The pulmonary artery carries blood from the heart to which part of the body Hailey lungs is right for health is your bonus.

What Scottish surgeon received the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1945 for his studies in bacteriology and his accidental discovery of a miracle drug.

Answer I defer to honor Darwin.

That was Fleming.

Alexander Fleming.

What did he discover for ten points?

Penicillin is right for ten toss up.

Now in architecture, which type of zoning designates an area for houses and departments?

Tristan Residential is correct and a bonus.

Now in architecture, Italy is restoring what ancient highway that symbolized the might of the Roman Empire and stretched 360 miles from Rome to Brindisi.

Answer I don't know, sir.

That is the Appian Way.

No points on that toss up for Verona.

Miscellaneous Before you leap is the fictional autobiography of what Muppet Who says that he was born in a swamp in Leland, Mississippi, alongside approximately 2353 siblings.

Sara Kermit Yes, and a miscellaneous bonus.

Now what toy is an American brand of scale model cars introduced by American toymaker Mattel in 1968 to compete with Matchbox Bobby.

Hot Wheels is right for ten.

What is an American electronic robotic toy?

Originally released in 1998 by Tiger Electronics that resembles a hamster or owl like creature and went through a period of being a must have toy.

In the early 2000s, Barbies also ranked 20 points toss up now in U.S. history.

In What U.S. state is Fort Sumter located in?

Jackson?

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

That's your warning.

South Carolina is right and it gets your bonus now for Oliver Springs, which two states were added to the union during the Civil War.

It's Virginia Answer, West Virginia and New Mexico.

Ten points for West Virginia.

But Nevada was the other one toss up for every one in vocabulary.

How many times is the letter s used in the word possession?

Less Jackson or not, you could still start on it.

Three.

No, it's six times in the word possession less no points.

Toss up in chemistry, the presence or absence of which element separates inorganic chemistry from organic chemistry each.

Coulton Carbon right for ten Chemistry Bonus.

What is the chemical element with the symbol?

P You answer I refer to Coulton Plutonium and was perhaps plutonium, but I think we can take that.

And what is the chemical element with the symbol I got out offered on a silicone silicone is right so you get 20 on that bonus toss up now in geometry in an isosceles triangle, the vertex angle measures 42 degrees.

Give the other two angle measures.

Nobody rang in in time.

They're each 69 degrees.

No points toss up now in the arts what 1937 Walt Disney Productions film was the first full length cel animated feature.

Just a steamboat, Willie not it You can steal Scott County.

Brian Snow White Yeah.

Snow White in the Seven Dwarfs is it an a arts visual?

Take a look at screens Scott County although the official title of the painting seen here is longer by what name is this famous portrait of militiamen during the Dutch Golden age, commonly known answer Art of vertical Minutemen that's called the Nightwatch.

You still get ten points if you tell me the artist who painted it, answer Bango.

That was Rembrandt on that one.

No points toss up.

Now in geography, what is the name of the chain of barrier islands that make up most of the North Carolina coastline?

Sarah Outer Banks is right.

And the geography bonus.

Which U.S. city has the nickname City of Brotherly Love?

Philadelphia.

It right for ten.

Which U.S. city has the nickname The Big Easy answer?

Chicago.

That one is New Orleans, the Big Easy toss up Now in foreign language, what is the phrase for I believe in Spanish.

That is Creole or you're Creole.

No points pass up in geology.

What type of geologic action causes a caldera on a fracking?

Not it.

You can steal our springs.

Sara Erosion.

Now a volcano causes a caldera toss up in literature.

What Alfred Hitchcock film, based on a short story by Daphne du Maurier, focuses on a series of unexplained aerial attacks on the people of Bodega Bay, California.

Sarah Birds.

Yeah, the birds, is it?

And a literature bonus Now, a 1958 letter from a father to his teenage son about first loves that was auctioned in 2022 was written by which Nobel Prize winning author known for Of Mice and Men.

It's Steinbeck.

John Steinbeck is right for 20 points toss up.

Now in sports, who was the only athlete to play in both a Super Bowl and a World Series?

Jonah.

Bo Jackson, not him.

You can steal Scott.

Deion Sanders.

No points toss up now in government, What is the only crime defined in the U.S. Constitution?

Haley Murder, Not it.

You can steal Oliver Springs.

Kristen Treason.

Treason.

Is it?

Government is your bonus.

What were the first two states to ratify the US Constitution?

Don't go with it.

Go with Delaware or Massachusetts.

Ten points for Delaware.

But Pennsylvania came in second down on the bonus toss up.

Now, in vocabulary, what is the comparative form of the word bad on a worse yes and a vocabulary bonus for Scott.

What is the plural form of daughter in law?

Daughters.

Daughters in law.

Right.

What is the plural form of Notary Public?

Notary.

Notary Public?

Yes.

That's 20 points toss up now in biology, RNA is the abbreviation Hailey Bravo.

Nucleic acid for that and a visual biology bonus.

Take a look at the screens, Scott.

The echidna and the platypus, which are shown here, are the only two living species in the order mantra.

Tamara Which are the only animals to do what?

Lay eggs?

Correct.

And on what continent are platypuses found in Australia?

Those are both right for 20 plus up now in algebra, what is the discriminant of X squared plus four x minus five equals zero.

Nobody got it in time.

The discriminant is 36 plus up.

Now in religion, the root word of what?

Indian religion that originated in the Punjab region around the end of the 15th century means seeker of truth on the Buddha.

Not it.

You can still Oliver Springs, Sikhism?

Sikh is right.

Sikhism, is it?

And a religion bonus for Oliver Springs.

What religion?

Founded in 1863.

Whose symbol is a nine pointed star, espouses the essential worth of all religions and the unity and equality of all people.

Answer Hinduism, That is the Baha'i faith I was describing.

First up in economics, what type of business uses actuarial tables to calculate the remaining life expectancy for people under law?

Now that you can steal, all of this brings it has legal applications in court, but the actual business that makes money doing it would be an insurance company concept.

Now in grammar, if an opinion adjective and a fact adjective are used before a noun which comes first.

COULTON The opinion adjective is right.

Grammar is your bonus.

What is the term for a verb form ending in i n g when used as a noun gerund right for 20 plus up Now in physics, what is the form of energy that an object or a particle possesses due to its motion kinetic energy?

Yes.

Physics Bonus.

Who were the two physicists who isolated the radioactive compound?

Radium chloride in 1902?

Curie and Darwin.

We'll take one.

Marie Curie and Pierre Curie.

They were married.

So was two.

Curies was the answer.

Pierre and Marie plus everyone in geography.

What Mexican city is closest to San Diego, California?

Just in Baja.

Not it.

You can still no honor.

San Juan?

No, it's Tijuana that is just over the border.

Pass up in music.

What six letter word beginning with R refers to the recurrence of notes and rests in time.

Sara, repeat it.

You can still Scott.

Honor, repetition, repetition.

No rhythm.

I was doing the dictionary definition of rhythm on that.

No points on that.

It is a first round game between Scott County High School and Oliver Springs.

Which of these teams advances to the threshold of 32?

We'll find out coming up after the break.

On Tennessee's Scholars Bowl 20, 24.

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

The championship team.

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

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

Thank you.

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.

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Hi.

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

It's a very close match with only one toss up and one bonus separating these two teams.

One of them will advance to the threshold of 32.

And Scott County has brought their alternate into the game.

Let's say hi to 10th grader Naomi Nagpal.

Hi, Naomi.

Tell us about yourself.

I have two cats.

Very much.

What are their names?

Cleopatra and FTD.

All right.

So nice.

I like the way you've got the historical tie in that could maybe help you at some point in a college ball game, right?

Assembly.

Not that there's going to be a question about your specific cats, but you know what?

I think you get the basic gist of it.

That'd be amazing, because I know everything about them, so.

Okay.

Of course you do.

All right.

Meanwhile, Oliver Springs has the same lineup, so we'll get right back to it and see who's going to advance on this game of Tennessee Scholars Bowl 2024.

Toss up for all players in U.S. history.

Which of the 13 colonies refused to send a delegate to the Constitutional Convention?

Jackson, Rhode Island is right for ten in a bonus in U.S. history.

Which Founding Fathers proposed.

Bill of Rights was published in the Gazette of the United States on June 13, 1789.

Just go.

Go with whatever.

Thomas Jefferson and James Madison is the one who proposed that Bill of Rights toss up for everyone in foreign language.

What word is the same in English and Dutch and means a vehicle specially equipped for taking sick or injured people to and from the hospital on an ambulance?

Yes.

And a foreign language bonus.

What kind of merchandise is sold in a Dulcinea?

Answer Food.

Candy.

It's a sweet shop.

What kind of merchandise specifically is sold in a can't associate?

Answer meat.

Meat is right for ten points plus up in chemistry.

What is the chemical change that produces alcohol in wine now?

Fermenting?

Yeah.

And a chemistry bonus now named two of the three German scientists who discovered the atomic fission of uranium.

Answer Einstein.

That's all you got.

Okay.

I think you're out of time to end.

Otto Hahn.

Lise Meitner and Fritz Strassmann.

No points there.

Plus, up now in math, which is greater to raised to the fourth power or four squared, trusted to to the fourth.

Now you can steal Onna four square.

Now they're actually the same as a trick question.

Toss up in sports.

The Slam Awards have been presented periodically to athletes such as Roman Reigns and Drew McIntyre.

In what sport?

Honor wrestling.

Yeah, Professional wrestling will take that.

And bonus now for Scott.

In what sport was Muhammad Ali, a world champion?

Kickboxing, Boxing Direct.

And what was Muhammad Ali's birth name?

Cassius Clay.

That's also right.

For 20 points on the bonus puzzle for everyone in government.

What are pretrial negotiations in which the defendant agrees to plead guilty to a lesser charge in return for a less severe penalty?

John, a A plea deal?

Now, can't take that chance, Your Honor.

A plea and take that either.

Specifically bargaining.

A plea?

Bargaining is the process.

Percept for one is spelling inappropriate, joking or jesting, which is meant to be funny is called facetious.

Spell facetious, Sarah.

F. A. C. E. T. I. O. U.S. is right.

And now a spelling bonus to give one's good wishes when sending something special or pleasant that has happened is to congratulate, spell, congratulate and defer to Sarah, c. O, and g r. A. T. U. L. A. T. E. That's right.

420 points on the bonus toss up in astronomy.

The North Star appears to be stationary because it's located only one half degree.

From what Sarah North Pole.

Yeah, the North Celestial Pole will take that.

And an astronomy bonus.

Europa and Ganymede are both moons of which planet?

Jupiter.

Yes.

And what element makes up 89% of Jupiter's atmosphere?

Answer methane.

Now, hydrogen is the element tasked for running religion.

What title, which is a five letter word beginning with V, is given to certain priests or ministers in the Roman Catholic and Episcopal Churches and the Church of England.

Let's say Vicar has it for everybody in geometry.

What is the effect on the area of a circle if the length is doubled, healing diameter, no chance to steal the springs and the area becomes four times as large if the length is doubled.

Toss up for one In art, who is credited with painting the frescoes, including the School of Athens in the Vatican's stanza Della Second Editori honor Michelangelo.

Now you can steal Oliver Springs, that is Rafael.

No points there.

Toss up in literature in the Scarlet Letter.

How does Hester support herself on a nursemaid?

Not it.

You can steal Oliver Springs now.

She works as a seamstress in that book.

Toss up for everyone in biology.

What is the top layer or habitat zone of the tropical rainforest called Sierra Canopy?

Yes.

And it gets you a science or math, actually.

Bonus.

Take a look at the screens, please.

Oliver Springs, convert the fraction 17 over eight into both a decimal and a percent.

Good for you is the percent 225 Answer 2.8 for the decimal and 212%.

Well, I needed know more than that.

It's a 2.1 to 5 for the decimal and the 212.5%.

So close but not exact.

Can't give it to you.

No points there.

Plus up now in music, what is the interval between notes in a chromatic scale?

Sarah Half steps.

Yes.

And a music bonus for Oliver Springs, in which orchestral family are symbols, percussion and in which orchestral family aren't saxophones.

Woodwind, woodwind.

Both right.

20 points plus up in geography.

What is the capital of the United Kingdom?

Honor England.

Now you can steal Jonah.

London, London And the geography bonus.

Now what four countries make up the United Kingdom.

Let's go.

Let's go.

Wells Ireland, Scotland, Wales, England, Scotland, Ireland.

You get 15 points for Wales, England, Scotland.

But you didn't specify Northern Ireland as opposed to Republic of Ireland, which generally is the known as regular Ireland.

I guess So 15 points there.

Toss up in foreign language for everyone.

Translate the question, Homo Tejanos from Spanish to English.

Tristan, what's your name?

Frank.

But thank you for asking.

And you get a bonus.

Now, in foreign language, what is the Latin phrase?

That means I came, I saw, I conquered and say it very clearly.

Answer Vint, are you ordering from Starbucks?

No.

It's a very, very, very no points on the bonus toss up for all players in history in World War One.

What word came to be used for close combat between military aircraft, dogfights?

Dogfight is right and a visual bonus for Scott.

Look at the screens, please.

Experts believe the Great Pyramid of Giza, shown here, was built in 2550 BCE, by which Pharaoh to be used as his tomb, King Tut.

Now, it was the Pharaoh, was Khufu K you nephew.

What was the main material used to build the Great Pyramid of Giza, including its core and outer casing?

Limestone, That's right.

Ten points on the bonus toss up now in science posit drive and flathead are types of what honor screws.

Yes.

And a science bonus.

Now, what type of clouds are described as layered clouds from which precipitation occurs out of or to Naomi Columbus.

No, those are Nimbus stratus.

Try this one.

What type of clouds are described as puffy heaped up?

Clouds are come out of vertical and cumulus.

Cumulus, is it?

Yeah.

I'll take that Plus up now in biology.

In what part of the digestive tract in humans is digestion completed for proteins, fats and carbohydrates on the stomach now just still our springs.

Sarah A large intestine.

Now the small intestine is the answer.

Toss up now in games.

What physical skill game marketed by Hasbro has players take turns.

Naomi Worcester and I did take turns removing one block at a time from a tower and then placing it on top of the tower, creating a progressively Jonah Jenga is it for ten and a games bonus.

Now what game uses the terms hunching, hissing and knuckling down Mortal Kombat as they're in the game of marbles.

When you're moving your marbles, toss up an economics.

What is the six letter word beginning with o meaning to sell a share or commodity at a specified price at a future date, a ovulation.

Now that you can steal Oliver Springs.

Now the six letter word I'm looking for is option toss up in vocabulary.

Finish this phrase.

The pen is mightier than the Tristan the sword.

Yes.

And a vocabulary bonus.

First define the word dank day and k moist.

Moist or dark?

Yeah, moist is it?

But that is the end of the game.

We don't even get to the second half.

That was ten points.

There you got but it added your score and you edged out a team from Scott County.

It looks like the lead has shifted and things have changed.

Scott County, I know you've got a lot of underclassmen here and two teams in the contest will look forward to seeing your players again next year on Scholars Bowl.

Meanwhile, congratulations, Oliver Springs.

You'll play again.

You're going to move on to the threshold of 32 and you can keep track of their progress and all of our teams by never missing an episode.

Make sure you set your DVR hours or you can binge watch past seasons online as they do to prepare for the game.

When you go to the PBS app, My name is Frank Murphy and this is Tennessee Scholars Bowl 2024.