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 high schools from all over the viewing area, competing for the Frank Miller Memorial Trophy and a cash prize that you'll hear about coming up at halftime.

We are in the second round, the threshold of 32.

And today's game is between Roane County High School of Kingston and Cocke County High School of Newport.

Let's say hi first to the players from Roane County who won their way here, beginning with Lucas Hines in 10th grade this year.

Welcome back, Lucas.

Tell us about yourself.

Hi, I'm Lucas Hinds, and I play trombone in the school marching band.

And you're the best at it.

I don't know about that, but I think I'm pretty good.

Pretty good.

Okay, good.

You got a lot of great hobbies.

That's a good one.

Let's say hi to Ethan.

Oh, Shel, who's in 11th grade?

What about you, Ethan?

I'm an All-State musician.

Really?

That means you play for insurance commercials, or what exactly do you know?

Um, uh, I play percussion, and you audition and.

Wow, I got fourth in the state.

Well, that is quite an accomplishment.

Congratulations on that.

You must be very proud.

Let's see.

Had a team captain, Nathan Whittington.

So, Nathan, you're going to answer bonuses on behalf of the team or defer to a teammate by name?

12th grade this year.

What else?

I made All-State Jazz on trombone.

Oh, really?

All you guys with the all state musicianship.

That's fantastic.

Is it because you're that much closer to Nashville, or how did you as anyone in this state can audition?

I'm just teasing because you guys are obviously good at it.

Let's say hi to Mattox Scarbrough, who is in 10th grade.

Mattox, what about yourself?

I play trumpet.

Yeah, and I'm on our schools robotics.

Oh, cool.

And are you in the coding side?

The building side where?

All of the above.

The design.

Design side.

Okay.

Nice to hear that.

Let's see kind of the alternates and coach for Roane County High School, we've got James Ashcraft, Emma Hamby, Jasmine McKee, Carter Puckett, and Coach Ellen Warman, who teaches Spanish and senior transition at Roane.

Taking on the squad from Cocke County High School.

And Cocke County is one of the schools that put multiple teams into the tournament.

We appreciate that level of support.

Let's say hello to this team, starting with senior Luke Jones.

Luke, welcome.

How are you?

I'm good.

Now, last time you were here, you were an alternate, is that right?

Yes.

We're so excited to have you in the chair.

Tell us more about yourself.

I'm the president of Mu Alpha Theta.

Oh, that's the Math Honor Society.

So I hope you're good at math.

Or do they just pick somebody who's good at leadership?

A little bit of both.

You're joined by senior Lucy Franks.

And, Lucy, welcome.

Tell us about yourself.

I'm the president of Key Club and I'm on the school's cheer team.

Cheer team?

Do they throw you up in the air?

Yeah.

I don't know how, I guessed.

Let's say hi also to team captain this year is senior Dhruv Patel.

Welcome back.

Dhruv, tell us about yourself.

Hi, I'm the president of the National Honor Society at my school.

Wow.

A lot of presidents here in our days.

Congratulations.

Thank you.

Look forward to hearing great things from you.

Good at your senior.

a junior this year is hiatus.

Okay.

I had to welcome.

Good to see you.

Tell us about yourself.

I made in Japan.

Well, that's funny.

I appreciate that very much.

Let's say hi to the coaches for Cocke County High School.

We've got Tracy Groth and Katie Banks, who are, coaching two teams in the tournament this year.

All right, players, you've all seen the show.

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

Get your fingers on the buzzers for this second round game of Tennessee Scholars Bowl, 2024.

Toss up for all players in biology, which 19th century Austrian monk Discovered principles of heredity drove Gregor Mendel correct.

And a biology bonus for Clark County thought to be extinct for more than a century.

A rare species of giant tortoise was found in 2022.

On what volcanic archipelago in the Pacific Ocean that has plants and animals found nowhere else.

Because Galapagos defer to Luke, the Galapagos Islands.

That's right.

20 points.

Toss up now in foreign language.

Translate je mappelle francois from French to English.

Maddox My name is Frank.

Yeah, I'll take it because that's what I would say.

But Francis is my name too.

And a foreign language bonus Now for Ron County.

What phrase meaning of nothing is used to say You're welcome in Spanish.

They don't have de nada.

Correct.

For ten what phrase?

Meaning much pleasure is used to say.

Nice to meet you in Spanish.

Answer and you ran out of time there.

That's mucho gusto.

Tossup up now in geometry in the equation, quantity X plus four squared plus the quantity y minus six squared equals 49.

What are the coordinates of the Circle center?

Lucas?

Negative four comma six.

Correct.

Geometry is your bonus name.

The triangle that has no congruent sides scaling right For ten, name the triangle that has at least two congruent sides.

Isosceles also right 20 points toss up now in music.

Who composed the 1812 Overture?

Lucas Tchaikovsky for 10.

Music Bonus.

In which two languages did composer J.S.

Bach write the texts for his work?

Germany No German and German.

German, German and Latin.

Those are both ranked 20 points toss up now in economics, which Suffragette was featured on a 1979 US Dollar coin at the buzzer?

Nathan.

Harriet Tubman.

Now that gives you a chance to steal.

Now, Clark County.

Luke.

Mother Teresa.

No, it was Susan B Anthony, the famous suffragette.

Toss up for all players in science.

What is the regular periodic rise and fall of the Sea called Druv?

Tides.

Correct for ten, A visual bonus.

Take a look at the screens, please.

What type of scientific instrument shown here is used to detect and record vibrations and movements in the earth, especially during an earthquake?

Defer to Luke.

Richter scale.

No, that's a seismograph or seismometer that records the shaking toss up in the literature.

What was the final item revealed in Pandora's Box?

Luke Hope Correct.

Literature Bonus Two parts which bestselling author of Carry and The Shining testified in 2022 to oppose a $2.2 billion merger between Penguin, Random House and Simon and Schuster, which would have reduced the big five U.S. book publishers to four for you to defer to Lucy Steinbeck.

That was Stephen King who wrote those books.

Try this.

What is the name of the collection of federal laws that regulate the conduct of businesses to promote competition and prevent unjustified monopolies that led to the collapse of the proposed merger of those book publishers.

Defer to Lucy antitrust laws.

That's right.

For ten points on the bonus toss up in mythology, which mythological Greek god was one of the titans, son of Hyperion, brother of EOS, and was a personification of the sun.

Luke?

Helios.

Correct for ten mythology bonus In 2023, the biggest hunt in half a century was held in Scotland, for which fabled aquatic creature, the Loch Ness Monster.

That's right.

For 20 plus up now in religion, which Christian holiday is on the first Sunday after the first full moon after March 21.

Lucas Easter.

Correct.

And a religion bonus in the Gospel of John, who was the brother of Martha and Mary, who Jesus raised from the dead.

Answer Different of Lucas.

Jeremiah Lazarus was the guy's name.

No points there.

Tossup in geography of what country is Budapest, the capital Druv?

Hungary.

Correct.

And a geography bonus now.

In 2022, construction began on a wall across the island of Hispaniola for the purpose of stopping migrant crossings, drugs and contraband between which two countries, Hispaniola, Colombia and Venezuela.

Now, Haiti and the Dominican Republic are the two countries on that island toss up now in technology.

What are the two numbers used in a binary system?

Drift one and zero, correct.

In a technology bonus, two parts in 2022, several airlines canceled flights due to the deployment of what?

Mobile phone technology near some U.S. airports.

5G.

Correct.

Now, the second half, it was feared that 5G could interfere with which piece of equipment that measures the height of the aircraft above terrain.

Answer Radio Altimeter.

Yeah, altimeter.

But yeah, they're going to take that as fine 20 points on the bonus toss up in vocabulary, which ten letter word beginning with P is an antonym of poverty and a synonym truth prosperity.

That's a synonym of well-being and happiness.

Vocabulary is your bonus.

Not counting elk is two hooves as hawk is to what?

Two feet?

So there was the feeling Talons.

Yeah.

We're asking you to describe their feet.

That's right.

That's 20 points.

Toss up in math computation.

Multiply 0.065 times 0.005.

The buzzer Nathan .000325 Is it?

And a math bonus.

Now find the perimeter of a right triangle that has legs of 16 feet and 30 feet.

Answer Nathan.

Defer to Lucas.

80?

Yes, that's right.

20 points plus up for all players in art.

In the field of art, what shape is referred to as a perfect shape, not a circle.

Correct.

And a visual bonus now for Ron County.

Look at the screens.

First, tell me, who is the artist shown here in his 1845 self-portrait?

Ken Barrow.

No, would we have taken Johnny Depp on that?

That's a Gustav Corvair.

What is the title of that famous self-portrait?

Self-portrait.

It's a good answer, but it was called The Desperate Man Turns Up Now in U.S. history.

When Benedict Arnold betrayed the United States in 1780, what did he offer in exchange for £10,000?

And a British military commission?

Mattocks troop movements?

Not it.

You can steal Cocke County.

And he offered to surrender the fort at West Point to the British doorstep.

Up now in chemistry, what is the atomic number of the element?

Tennesseean Ethan 118 Now you can still Park County look to 14 117 as you realize right after you said it.

No points on the toss up.

Next one is in English.

What word beginning with t is the antonym of Savage, Ethan?

Tame?

Yes.

And an English bonus.

Now two points.

What is the past?

Simple for the verb.

Choose justice.

Chose?

Yes.

What is the past participle for the verb Chose, chosen, chosen.

It's also right.

20 points plus up now in health.

Which structure in the eyeball contains the photoreceptors?

Luke?

Iris.

No, you can steal Roane.

Nathan?

Cornea.

No the retina.

Toss up in miscellaneous.

What is a countertop cooking appliance that combines a heating element and a powerful fan to circulate heat similar to a convection oven.

Lucas Stove.

Now you can still count counting the microwave now as an air fryer on the countertop toss up in government.

How many votes are needed to end a filibuster in the US Senate?

Let's see.

Lucas?

67.

No you can steal Cocke?

Luke?

Two thirds.

Well, the number of votes is what I'm specifically asked for, because we do have other questions.

We ask for the percentage that one is 60 votes toss up in physics, atomic sizes are measured in what unit?

Nathan Angstroms.

Yes.

And a physics bonus.

What simple machine is represented by a block and tackle pulling pulley and movable pulley, and what simple machine is represented by the claw end of a hammer of a lever.

That's also right.

20 points on the bonus, which I believe just breaks our tie.

Right.

We had a tie going there Rowan County has a slight lead going into our second half of play.

Anything can happen, obviously.

And one of these teams will advance to the round of the smart 16. Who's it going to be?

Find out after the break.

On Tennessee 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.

You're watching Tennessee Scholars Ball.

I'm Frank Murphy, back from halftime.

In this second round game, this threshold of 32 round game between Cocke County High School and Roane County High School.

They're both keeping the starting lineups intact.

The winner of this game will advance to the round of the Smart 16.

The loser sadly goes home, but they've actually done well to get here.

So let's get back to it, everybody.

Fingers on the buzzer for Tennessee Scholar's Bowl 2024.

Toss up for all players in the category of literature.

What is the term for a passage in a literary work that interrupts the action to describe an event that occurred?

Lucas Flashback Flashback is what I was going to describe and literature bonus Now what are the four styles of writing for essays?

Persuasive.

Persuasive.

Well, they're a little called expository expository that offer answers.

Nathan?

Argumentative, persuasive narrative.

Expository.

Well, I think argumentative and persuasive are kind of similar, but narrative is the one that you missed, but it is descriptive, persuasive, and expository.

So we'll give you 15 on that toss up.

Now, in algebra, what value must be added to the expression x squared -24 X in order to make a trinomial?

Lucas 144 Square and algebra bonus.

Now what is the sum of the square root of 50 and square root of 18 in simplified radical form?

A 4 to 8 root two.

That's it for 20 points plus seven games.

What is the game in which two long jump ropes turning in opposite directions are jumped by one or more players jumping simultaneously?

Ethan Double Dutch?

Yeah and a games bonus first introduced on the Nintendo Gamecube.

What video game series has the player control a horde of plant like creatures with a leaping blood or flower sprouting from each of their heads, using them to navigate obstacles, fight off predatory fauna and collect items for continued survival.

Pikman.

Thank you.

My son wrote that and I didn't understand it, but now I get it.

Tossup In astronomy, what unit of astronomical distance is equivalent to 5.88 trillion drove one light year miles astronomy bonus now forgot counting in 2023 the journal Icarus reported that an abundance of clouds has all but mysteriously vanished since 2019.

On which planet that is more than 30 times as far from the sun as earth.

Jupiter.

It's actually Neptune.

No points there.

Toss up now in biology, which scientist is credited with research that determined dogs developed conditioned reflexes?

Drew Sigmund Freud No, you can still run counting.

Nathan Pavlov is him.

And a biology bonus which Native American tribe on the Rosebud Reservation aims to establish.

The largest indigenous owned and managed bison herd that Navajo.

It's the Sioux, the Lakota Sioux.

How about this?

In which state is that Rosebud reservation?

South Dakota is right.

Ten points toss up now in foreign language.

What is the official language in Myanmar?

Nathan Hindi.

Now you can still Park County.

Lucy French No, it's Burmese toss up now in history.

Who was President of the United States between Bill Clinton and Barack Obama?

Lucas George H.W.

Bush, not him.

You can steal Clark County.

Look, George W Bush is right.

And now a visual bonus for Clark County.

Ulysses S Grant, shown here, did not want to attend which college where he was sent by his father in 1839, Cambridge University.

Defer to Luke Cambridge University.

Now.

It was the US Military Academy at West Point.

Try this as a battlefield commander in February 1862, Grant won the union's first major victory, capturing Fort Donelson in what state?

Virginia.

It's actually in Tennessee, not far from the Kentucky border.

Toss up in music.

What country singer who grew up in Knox County has had hits with here and now.

And the Good Stuff.

Look, Luke Combs, not him you can steal Roane county.

that was Kenny Chesney Gibbs High School toss up in geography which of the Great Lakes does not border the state of Michigan?

The Luke Ontario Correct.

And a geography bonus.

Which state capital is the highest in elevation is the first question.

Yeah, I think answer Salt Lake City.

It's actually Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Which state capital is Western Most?

Honolulu.

That's right.

Ten points toss up now in geology.

What branch of geology studies, how groundwater eater is transported and distributed in the soil, rock and Earth's crust.

Nathan Hydrology.

Now that you can steal county driven environmental science, No, you were close.

But it's specifically hydro geology is a different term tossup in spelling spell the eight letter word beginning with C, that is an excellent tool for keeping track of one's daily tasks.

It Lucas.

Calendar.

Have a chance to steal Cocke county.

Dhruv.

C A L E N D A R. Is right for ten and the spelling bonus Now spell the eight letter word beginning with s. That means to arrange or plan an event to take place at a particular time.

S C H E D U L E. Is schedule or schedule, as they say in England.

That's right.

20 points toss up in math.

If one half a number minus four is equal to ten, what is the number?

Lucas 28.

Correct.

In a visual bonus for math for Ron County, look at the screens.

The area of a circle is 196 pi.

What is the diameter and circumference of this circle?

20 and 28 is the diameter and 28 pi the circumference.

Elizabeth Correct.

For 20 points.

Toss up now in sports, which type of athletes traditionally ask the Virgin of Macarena to pray for their protection?

Luke?

Buddhists.

No chance to steal Roane.

Those athletes are bullfighters toss up now in world history.

Doughboy was a popular nickname for the American infantryman.

During what conflict Dhruv?

World War I.

Is correct and a bonus in world history.

In 2022, the prime minister of Poland said Vladimir Putin has deadlier weapons at his disposal and is more dangerous than which two men who led Germany in the Soviet Union during World War two Stalin, Hitler, Stalin and Hitler.

That's right.

20 points.

Toss up in health.

Acetone is a chemical found in nail polish remover.

If a urine test reveals the presence of acetone, what disease is suspected?

Nathan Kidney stones, No chance to steal Cocke county.

Luke.

Pneumonia.

No it's diabetes.

Or, as Wilford Brimley would say, diabetus.

Toss up in vocabulary in a sentence you will rue the day you met me.

What does the word rue mean?

Luke.

Regret, Yes.

And a vocabulary bonus.

Name the phobia for the following description.

The first one is fear of thunderstorms.

Answer.

Thunder phobia.

It's Astra phobia.

How about the phobia for fear of needles?

Answer Defer to Luke.

Paniphobia.

It's tripaniphobia.

No points.

There.

Toss up now in government.

What was word for members of an activist women's organization in the early 20th century who helped Maddox?

Suffragettes.

Helped women vote and government bonus.

In 2023, hundreds of ethnic Armenians were killed and thousands fled, saying a campaign of ethnic cleansing and a land grab was underway.

By what country that lies along the Caspian Sea and borders Armenia to the east and Georgia.

Now it's Azerbaijan toss up now in architecture, which bridge that currently crosses the Thames River is a box girder bridge Maddox?

Tower Bridge.

No, it's a type of with its main beams Dhruv?

London Bridge.

Is the one with the girders in the shape of a hollow box.

Architecture bonus.

Now, architect Eero Saarinen, who is known for designing the Gateway Arch in St Louis, also designed the main terminal of what major airport 26 miles west of Washington, DC, Delaware's airport.

But Delaware Airport, No, it's Dulles International Airport.

Toss up for all players in economics.

What?

Ten letter word?

Beginning with the letter A refers to the process of determining the value of property to be taxed?

Lucas?

Appraisal.

Not it.

You can still Cocke County.

That is an assessment.

I heard the user toss up now in science, what is the property of fluids that causes them to resist flowing?

Lucas Viscosity and a science bonus for Roane County.

What temperature in degrees Fahrenheit is equal to 30 degrees Celsius 20 whenever?

Answer?

20.

No, it's one of my favorite temperatures, 86 degrees Fahrenheit plus.

Up now in foreign language, what is the French word for umbrella?

Lucas?

I have no idea.

A chance to steal Cocke county as time runs out in the game.

It's a parable, Louis for the rain panoply.

Well, first of all, congratulations to Roane County.

We'll get back to you in a second.

But thank you to Cocke County with a great score and putting multiple teams into the contest.

We appreciate you all very much.

You can keep track of all of our teams, including Roane County.

Congratulations.

You're headed back to the round of the Smart 16.

Some of you've been there before, maybe.

Oh, fantastic.

We'll go to Will be familiar territory for you.

We'll look forward to keeping track of you and all of the teams on Scholars Bowl as you can by never missing an episode.

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Thank you for watching.

Tennessee's Scholars Bowl 2024.