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

The game that calls for academic knowledge.

Let's meet our team.

History is the category players.

Get your fingers on the buzzer for Tennessee Scholars Bowl 2024.

Thank you for watching.

Tennessee Scholar's Bowl.

I'm Frank Murphy, our 40th season of competition with teams from all over the viewing area competing for the Frank Miller Memorial Trophy and a cash prize they'll hear about coming up at halftime.

This academic tournament is in the first round.

It's a first round game between Roane County High School of Kingston and Science Hill High School of Johnson City.

I point out that Science Hill has put multiple teams into the tournament this year, and this is one of them.

So that's why it may look different than the last time you were watching Science Hill Let's say hi first to the players from Roane County High School, all returnees.

First up is 10th grader Lucas Hines.

Welcome back, Lucas.

How've you been?

I've been great.

What do you been up to?

What's new with you?

So I'm still taking classes that Utah.

I'm studying math there.

And that's great.

Outstanding.

Oh, good.

Very happy for you.

That's great.

Ethan.

Oh, is in 11th grade this year.

What's up with you, Ethan?

Nothing.

Nothing.

Not a thing.

Well, come up with some activity.

That would sound interesting if I were watching at home and say, What's with that kid?

I'm in a school's drumline.

That's good.

That's good.

All right, so you obviously, you play drums or a different instrument, some other percussion instrument.

I can play all percussion.

Oh, wow.

That's nice.

All right, team captain this year is 12th grader Nathan Whittington.

So, Nathan, you're going to answer bonuses on behalf of the team or defer by name to one of your teammates.

Tell us about you.

I'm also captain of the science pool, which is harder.

Which is better?

How about that science for the honesty hurts.

Usually I get to you in time, to wit, to make you lie and seize scholarship ball.

But I'll accept it.

I'll accept your scorn.

Also, we've got a 10th grader, Maddox Scarborough, with us.

Maddox, welcome back.

Tell us about you.

I play trumpet in the in my school's marching band.

Yeah.

And is Ethan any good in percussion?

Does he help you with your playing?

Yeah.

Okay, good.

Yeah.

I just want to make sure he's gone.

Yes.

And what else do you do?

Um, it's one of my hobbies to go to as many National Park Service sites as I can.

Oh, that's nice.

Excellent.

Well, you certainly got plenty around.

Even that relatively new one right next to you in Oak Ridge at the Children's Museum for the Manhattan Project National Park.

Very good.

All right.

Glad to hear about that.

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

First up is James Ashcraft and Emma Hamby.

Jasmine, Mickey and Carter Puckett, joined by coach Ellen Warman, who teaches Spanish and senior transition at Rowan, taking on an experience squad mostly, I mean, coming out of four I think have been here before from Science Hill High School.

Let's say hi first to Isabella, her mentor.

Isabella, welcome back.

Happy to have you.

Tell us about you.

Um, I play violin and I do ballet.

Yeah.

And what are some productions you've done in either or?

They're a symphonic production or a ballet production that you especially enjoyed.

Um, well, this year for our school, our chamber orchestra is playing for Beauty and the Beast.

Oh, that's cool.

That's a lot of fun.

I'd like to hear about that.

We also welcome back Half second half.

So welcome.

Good to see you.

10th grade this year.

What else is new with you?

I like to make out in my free time and I've been to 19 different countries.

Oh, that is outstanding.

picked two and I mentioned them Maldives and Thailand.

Oh, those are good choices.

They're not nearby.

I love it.

Team captain this year is Emily Pious, who's now in 12th grade.

So, Emily, you're going to answer bonuses on behalf of the squad or defer?

Tell me more about you.

I'm in Beta Club this year.

That's a service organization or what is that?

Okay.

And I'm learning more Spanish.

Oh, good.

All right.

It's always helpful to be multilingual.

And we also welcome a new player this year.

It's Eric Trejo.

Eric, welcome.

Tell us about you.

Yeah, so I'm an active member of my school's coding club and I'm also the vice president of the French club.

Oh, really?

Yeah.

Okay.

So what's are some favorite phrases on Franzese to play as you met Ben Affleck?

Okay, I got to sing.

Got some of that.

Nice.

All right, let's say hi to the coaches for Science Hill.

We've got Michael Quiano, who teaches economics and world history, joined by Ben Davenport, who teaches history to the Hilltoppers of Science Hill.

Well, we've all been here before.

Many of you been here before.

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

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

First category is government.

What is the term limit for the vice president of the United States?

Lucas For years now that you can steal science.

Hill Emily, two terms.

Now the answer is no limit for vice president.

No points either.

Toss up now in games.

What is an eight letter word beginning with C for a long game in which players take turns throwing fabric beanbags?

Nathan Cornhole Yeah, and a raised angled board and a games bonus for Roane.

What childhood game is similar to hide and seek, but all players can be freed if someone knocks over an item with their foot.

Nothing that's called kick the can.

You might want to ask some older relatives about that one toss up now in biology, what is the term that refers to a certain place in which a species normally lives and grows Isabella, Habitat.

Yeah.

Mixture of cold and all the way before you answer Habitat is right and a biology bonus.

Two parts.

What is the branch of zoology concerned with the study of insects?

Etymology.

Does it again?

Etymology?

No, it's entomology.

Yeah, I think it gave me the study of words.

What is the branch of zoology concerned with the study of reptiles and amphibians?

No answer.

That is herpetology.

No points on the bonus.

Back to tossups in the literature.

What is the term for a comparison in literature, beginning with the words like or as Lucas simile?

Yeah, and a literature bonus now who at age 16 made satirical comments on Boston Society politics and religion using the name silence do good Benjamin Franklin is right for 20 plus up now in algebra.

Simplify the expression three plus two II times the quantity three minus two I where I look Lucas 13.

Yeah, nine plus four is 13 in that equation.

You're right where I the imaginary unit and then algebra bonus for Roane simplify the expression the quantity two x plus seven times the quantity two x minus seven for x squared -49.

That's correct.

For 20 points.

Toss up now in U.S. history, what document served as the United States first Constitution from March?

Ethan Articles of Confederation, March 1781 to 1789 is right in the US history.

Bonus What famous journalist and orator argued for black suffrage in a speech delivered at the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society in Boston in August of 1841.

Was Frederick Douglass correct for 20 toss up now on religion?

During an October 2023 trip to Latin America, New York Mayor Eric Adams was given a private tour of what Catholic Basilica in New Mexico City that houses a cloak with an image of Mary.

We would have taken the basilica or the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe percept for all players in science.

How many milligrams are in one gram?

Lucas 1000 is correct.

And a science bonus.

Take a look at the screens, please.

Ron County, who is the renowned theoretical physicist seen here, known for developing the theory of relativity and making important contributions to quantum mechanics.

Einstein Yeah.

And the second half of the question, what is his mass energy equivalence formula, which has been called the world's most famous equation E equals MC squared, both right for 20 plus up now in vocabulary, what is the 11 letter sociological term for the action of two or more individuals working together to achieve a common goal?

So yeah, make sure I called on you, though, before you say it.

So yeah, cooperation and a vocabulary bonus.

What word is used when a person's reputation is damaged by word of mouth?

For Emily to answer or defer?

Answer No answer.

That's slander.

What word is used when a person's reputation is damaged in print?

You ran out of time on that one, too.

That would be liable.

Tossup now, in sports, what US city has hosted the Winter Olympics twice.

Emily Beijing Not it.

You can still run.

Nathan.

Nevada Now Lake Placid, New York, hosted the Winter Olympics twice.

Tossup in geography.

What is the common name of the demarcation that is roughly based on the meridian of 180 degrees longitude in the Pacific Ocean?

Maddox International Dateline is correct.

Your ten and the geography bonus name the four U.S. states that begin with the letter I in any way, Indiana, Iowa and Illinois.

All right.

In Illinois, Indiana, Idaho, I tell you, different.

Maddox, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Idaho, all four of those are right.

420 points.

Toss up now in miscellaneous.

What style of humor involves exaggerated physical activity that exceeds the boundaries of normal physical comedy?

Even slapstick is correct for ten and a miscellaneous bonus in 2022, as part of a 150th anniversary celebration, the nonprofit partner of America's first National Park sold an inheritance pass for 1500 dollars, which will be valid for a year at which park in the year 2172.

Yellowstone is correct 20 points.

Tossup in geology.

What is the term for the gigantic pieces of the Earth's crust and uppermost mantle?

Look at continental plates know that are made up of oceanic crust and continental crust whose slight movement might cause earthquakes to occur Chance to steal Science Hill Emily Tectonic plates, that's what it is.

And a geology bonus.

Now, two questions.

What five letter geological term that begins with the letter F is a fracture in a rock body along which one side has been displaced relative to the other.

A fault?

Yes.

And what four letter geological term that begins with the letter F is a drifting section of Arctic ice.

A fiord.

Now that's a flow f l e tossup.

Now, in foreign language, what is the official language in Tunisia, Morocco, and Egypt after Arabic?

Correct.

And a foreign language bonus for science Hill.

What commonly used German phrase means bless you is intake, correct?

And what commonly used French phrase means that's life se la ve also, right?

20 points toss up now in math computation.

What is the quotient of 1.2 divided by 0.06 looks 20 also right?

That's ten points in a math bonus on the screen, please.

Ron, can you take a look?

If 5 pounds of hamburger cost $18, what is the cost for 6 pounds of hamburger?

Answer $21.60.

Yeah, that's it for 20 points.

Toss up in economics, which Native American is pictured on a gold dollar coin.

Has the suckered you Sacajawea Correct.

In an economics bonus name the forces of a diamond copper compression cinch.

Now, you ran out of time on that one because those answers were incorrect.

Cut clarity, carat and color.

It's a kind of a marketing thing for diamonds.

Toss up for all players in art.

Grisaille is a method of painting, often on glass, using only shades of what color?

Nathan Blue.

Now you can steal Science Hill Hafsah red.

Was it red?

No.

The answer is gray for grazale.

Toss up now in health.

What pale fluid bathes tissues, maintains fluid balance and removes bacteria in the human body.

That bile.

Now you can still say until that's lymph.

Toss up now, in mythology, who was the mythological Roman god of fire, including the fire of volcanoes, deserts, metalworking and the forge Lucas Saturn.

No, you can still signs hell.

Emily Hades.

No, Vulcan is the Roman God we're talking about.

Toss up in government.

In what year was the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote past Emily 1920.

Correct.

And a government bonus for Science Hill in 2023, Panama announced a new effort to control migrants trying to reach the U.S. by way of the treacherous darién gap that interrupts which 19,000 miles system of roads, the Transcontinental Road.

Now it's the Pan-American Highway that lets you almost drive from North America to South America.

Toss up in U.S. history.

In February 1870, who became the first African-American to serve in the U.S. Congress, that was Hiram Rhodes Revels.

No points pass up in music.

What is a person's ability to identify and reproduce a musical note without reference to a tuned instrument?

Emily Perfect pitch, Correct.

The music bonus.

Which of the famous three been named composers earned his living by playing the piano in dancehalls?

Beethoven?

No, that was Brahms.

Which of the famous beat named composers had fewer than a dozen of his compositions printed during his lifetime.

Beethoven, That one is Bach.

So we left out the most famous, probably toss up now in chemistry.

What chemical compound is a gas that smells of rotten eggs?

And as the formula, Ethan silver formula H2s.

Chance to steal Science Hill.

Emily Hydrogen sulfide.

That's right.

And a bonus in chemistry.

What is the name of the test to determine if a substance is an acid or base litmus test for ten?

What color does litmus paper turn?

If the substance is an acid red also right 20 points toss up in spelling.

A noncommissioned officer in the armed forces is a Sergeant spelling Sergeant Ethan s e a r g e a n t into and that's not it and I don't think we have a chance for forget still because time has run out on that one.

But if you're keeping score at home and need to write a letter to a sergeant, it would be s e r g e a n t e. That's halftime.

It's pretty exciting and closely match game here with Roane County and Science Hill.

One of the two will advance to the threshold of 32.

Let's find out who it is coming up after the break.

Tennessee Scholars Bowl 2024.

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

The championship team.

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

I'm Frank Murphy, back from halftime in this first round game between the Yellow Jackets of Roane County High School in Kingston and the Hilltoppers of Science Hill High School in Johnson City, it's a pretty evenly matched game, but right now Roane County has a lead of what eventually would work out to three questions In our Scholars Bowl universe, Both teams are keeping the starting lineups intact, and we'll find out in just about ten and a half minutes, which will advance to the threshold of 32 players.

Fingers on the buzzer for Tennessee Scholars Bowl, 2024.

Toss up for all players in geometry in the equation, quantity of x plus four squared plus the quantity of y minus six squared equals 49.

What is the diameter of the circle?

Lucas, 14 is correct in geometry.

Bonus two angles are complimentary with degree measures of two x and three x.

What is the measure of the larger angle?

54 is right for 20 points.

Toss up now in geography, which of the 50 U.S. states has more inland water than any other state?

Hafsah Michigan you can steal Roane Lucas, Alaska.

It is because it's so huge.

And a geography bonus.

What Fort is located on Locust Point in Baltimore Harbor.

Fort McHenry.

Fort McHenry is right now.

Tell me, in what war did Fort McHenry successfully defend against the British Navy with 18, 1812, War of 1812, Correct.

20 points.

Toss up one in religion, which religious tradition is most closely associated with Kabala?

Emily Ramadan Know that you can steal Roane County, not Hanukkah.

No, it is a form of Judaism that was popular for a while, but no points on that puzzle for all players in physics.

What simple machine is represented by a chisel after a wedge?

Correct.

In physics bonus, which component is used to convert one AC source into another AC source of different voltage and current a converter that's called a transformer.

So similar but not the same toss up for all players in literature.

Who is the only American poet to have been memorialized by a bust in the poet's corner of Westminster Abbey?

Lucas.

Edgar Allan Poe.

Not him.

You can steal Science Hill Isabella, Robert Frost.

And we love it when he pops up.

But no, this one is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Toss up for everyone in technology on a Windows computer.

What is the function of the keyboard Shortcut control.

Why Nathan redo?

Yes.

And a technology bonus.

Now, in 2023, a moscow court tried to silence criticism of the Russian invasion online and restrict public access to information by fining the nonprofit foundation that runs which free, publicly edited online encyclopedia.

Wikipedia.

Wikipedia, Wikipedia.

Wikipedia is right for 20 points tossed out for all players in history.

In what year was the Magna Carta signed?

The buzzer already sounded that is year 1215 No points toss up now in architecture for which architect designed the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum's building on Fifth Avenue in New York City.

That's a famous Frank Lloyd Wright building concept.

Now in vocabulary, Topaz is to yellow as amethyst Is to what?

Emily Green No, you can steal Roane, Nathan Purple.

Purple is right and you get a visual bonus.

Now Run County, take a look at the screens, please.

The carved limestone image shown here is of Pharaoh Akhenaten and what Queen, whose name translates to the beautiful woman, has come patrimony.

Cleopatra.

Cleopatra.

That's actually Nefertiti.

Akhenaten changed his name from Imhotep when he switched, shifted away from Egypt's traditional religious belief system to what type of religion Islam monotheistic didn't last long.

They changed back after him.

But toss it for all players in math.

The sum of twice a number and 14 is 32.

What is the number?

Lucas nine.

Right In a math bonus, what is the next number in this sequence?

416 832 2496 Answer They ran out of time there kind of a back and forth sequence we're adding and subtracting 88 is the next number toss up now in economics, paper money was invented in the seventh century.

In what country?

Nathan Egypt.

No, you can steal signs.

Hell, Emily Rome Now China back in those days.

Toss it for all players in science, which National Park is known as the Salamander capital of the world?

Maddocks Great Smoky Mountains is correct in a visual bonus.

Now for Ron, take a look at the screens, please.

The polymerase chain reaction machine shown here is used to amplify certain nucleotide chains through a process involving temperature cycling to produce results commonly known as what phrase that is used in fields such as forensics and genealogy.

Because then DNA fingerprint, well, it's DNA testing or genetic testing.

to several players in music.

What instrument gets its name from the Italian word for small, little or young and is pitched one octave above a flute Nathan Piccolo.

Right.

And a music bonus.

In which state is Elvis Presley's birthplace, Mississippi or Mississippi?

This is Mrs..

I think it's pretty sure Mississippi, correct.

For ten.

In which state is Elvis's mansion called Graceland?

Tennessee.

Tennessee.

That's also right.

20 points toss up now in biology.

What is the term for plants that have seeds which develop within structures called ovaries?

Those are angiosperms toss up.

Now, in foreign language, what does the Spanish expression Tango Dona de Cabeza translate to Emily?

I have a headache.

It does translate to that.

And a foreign language bonus for Science Hill China passed laws in 2000 to standardize spoken and written language at the expense of regional dialects such as Mongolian and Han.

Which language is now spoken by 80% of China's population?

Mandarin?

That's right.

For 20 tons up in literature.

In Shakespeare's play, who was the wife of Othello?

That's Desdemona.

Toss up now in geography.

What country is located between Nicaragua and Panama after Honduras now that you can steal?

Ron Nathan Costa Rica is right for ten and a geography bonus.

Foreign named four of the eight countries that contain land within the Arctic Circle Canada, Russia, Alaska.

Greenland.

Angry and Norway, Sweden, Norway, Sweden, Russia, Canada, Norway, Sweden.

All four of those are right with Finland, USA, Greenland and Iceland also being on the list.

That's 20 points toss up now in arts.

What Louisiana born comedian and host of the this past weekend podcast got his start on MTV's road rules and also won the title of fan favorite on Last Comic Standing, I think usually sells out when it comes to Knoxville, too.

That's Theo Von.

No points there.

Toss up now in astronomy, who discovered three laws that describe planetary motion.

Lucas Kepler.

Is it for ten?

Astronomy is your bonus.

A treasured manuscript at the University of Michigan that was exposed as counterfeit had been attributed to which Italian astronomer, who was born in 1564 and was known for heliocentrism and analytical dynamics Copernicus That was Galileo.

No points toss up in English.

What eight letter word beginning with a is the antonym of dismantle Ethan, a symbol?

Correct and an English bonus.

How many of the verbs in the following sentence are irregular?

Our athletes ran, swam, jumped, thought, rode bikes and played team sports.

Three It's actually got four irregular verbs toss up now in algebra to complete the square of x squared minus ten x.

What number must be added to the expression?

Lucas 25.

Right.

And an algebra bonus.

How many real routes does the quadratic equation X squared plus 25 equals zero have to know the answer is zero on that plus up now in US history, which President's autobiography is entitled Dreams from My Father?

Eric Barack Obama.

Yeah, Barack Obama's Right for ten History is Your Bonus.

What is the name of the practice of drawing political boundaries for Partizan Gain?

Gerrymandering?

Correct.

The word gerrymandering comes from the name of politician Eldridge Gerry.

And what animal Salamander is correct.

It's 20 points there.

Plus up now in sports to the nearest 10th of a mile, what is the approximate mileage covered Lucas, 26.2 on a race course of 10,000 meters chance to steal Science Hill No, nobody got that.

It's only 6.2 miles.

Although I know where you are going.

Toss up for everyone in chemistry.

What is the term for a compound that can be both an acid and a base?

Emily Buffer No chance steal Roane, just like it Lucas on.

It thinks, Oh, you're just killing the clock.

So what you're doing and taking a knee at the end of the game, it's called Amfo Taric compound, but you didn't need the points anyway.

Science Hill, great job.

Thank you for being here.

We always appreciate having you on the show, especially since your school is so supportive of Scholars Bowl putting three teams into the tournament.

We appreciate that.

So this squad's got to go home, but you can, of course, root for your teammates as they try their best in the tournament Roane, you will now advance.

You're onto the threshold to 32.

You'll play again and be able to keep track of your progress by never missing an episode, setting your DVRs, check your local listings, or as our students do, you can also binge watch past seasons online using the PBS app.

My name is Frank Murphy.

Thank you for watching Tennessee Scholars Bowl 2024.