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 Scholars Bowl.

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 at halftime in our 40th season of competition.

And today we are in the third round, the round of the Smart 16.

Today's game is Science Hill High School versus Roane County High School.

And we're proud that Science Hill has been able to support the tournament by putting multiple teams into the competition.

But at this point, only one remains.

In our round of this March 16.

So let's say hi first to the players from Science Hill, beginning with Aarushi Raj.

Welcome back.

Aarushi, you're in 12th grade.

Tell us more about you.

I think that you would be best friends with Henry Clay if you ever had a chance to know him.

Henry Clay?

Yeah.

Okay.

Well, a famous person from history, right?

Yeah.

Oh, have you written a paper about him that I could read and study up on Henry Clay?

No, not yet.

But I think we need more Henry Clay questions in the Scholars Bowl tournament.

We certainly do.

I don't believe you.

Well, you're going to graduate, right?

Yeah.

Well, I will challenge you like I did with the teams from Maryville.

Email me the questions after you graduate.

I'm fine.

Well absolutely use them next year.

Let's see how you do another 12th grader, Amanda Nowy.

How are you, Amanda?

Tell us more.

Good.

I think your favorite Taylor Swift album would be Lover.

I don't know that one off the top of my head.

You should.

Is it Taylor's version?

Uh no, it's one of the ones that she already owns, so.

Okay, every recording.

I'll check.

That was it.

All right, Lover.

I will investigate that.

I have a friend who is an enormous swifty.

And sure, I mean, he's older tha let's say hi to team captain.

Who is Owen Hoover.

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

What's new with you?

Now, Frank, I don't have proof of this, but I do believe that in your spare time, you are the Knoxville equivalent of Batman.

Oh, really?

Yeah.

Crime fighting, vigilante, but still believes in justice.

I was going for the Knoxville equivalent of Regis Philbin, but I will accept.

I will accept Batman.

He has always been my favorite superhero.

Going back to when I was a little kid and I was Batman at Halloween.

Well, I'm going to tell Kurt Tekmeier ripped my mask off and ruined the whole night Tekmeier.

Let's say hi to Shiven Jane, who's in 12th grade Shiv, and tell us more about you.

Frank I think your go to Starbucks order is a grande iced white mocha with no whipped cream.

Oh, you are way off.

Really?

I mean, you couldn't be.

Couldnt be further from the truth on that.

What's your go to drink?

Well, yesterday I just got a grande latte, just boring as all get out.

But if they still have the gingerbread latte, I might have considered that.

Or, you know, maybe a mocha once in a while.

I don't get too fancy at Starbucks.

No strawberry pink drinks?

They make those.

Yeah, well, good.

I have to look.

Tell me more about that.

Maybe make a question about that for scholar's bowl and e-mail it to them.

Lets say hi to the alternates and coaches for Science Hill High School in Johnson City, Tennessee.

First up is Sam Haley, Selena Wheeler.

Ayush Joshie Molly Wilson and coach is Ben Davenport and Michael Laviano, who teaches economics and world history.

What are they doing now?

take them out on the team from Roan County High School, who also had to win twice to get here.

Welcome back.

You guys say hi.

First to 10th grader Lucas Hines.

Hi, Lucas.

What's new with you?

Oh, well, just fun fact.

I co-hosted at Mathline when I was nine years old with Ernie Roberts.

That is fantastic, right?

Oh, that cohosted Mathline?

Yep.

At age ten.

That would explain how you did so well in the last game where you answered all the math questions.

Well, good.

I like to hear that.

11th grader Ethan Oshell is with us.

Ethan, welcome back.

What's new with you?

I've been playing a lot of piano.

Yeah?

Uh huh, Well, any good ones, Any good songs and you think you know any of the Taylor Swift songs?

The other team wants to hear any of that kind of stuff.

Or classical.

Classical.

Okay, I like classical.

All right.

Fantastic.

Team captain is Nathan Whittington, 12th grade.

Nathan, you're going answer bonuses or defer by name.

What's new?

Oh, I play trombone.

Yeah, I made All-State Jazz.

This is all good.

You guys seem understated.

Like, is it like you just want to win?

You just want to get to the game and win is what I'm getting going.

I'm reading in your faces.

Might as well.

What?

What's the point of the game, Lucas?

To score the most points.

There you have it.

Let's say hi to 10th grader Maddox Scarborough.

Maddox, welcome back.

What's new with yourself?

Well, um, I'm on.

I'm in the school's band and robotics team.

Okay, good.

So you got music talent?

What's your instrument?

Trumpet, trumpet.

So weve got trumpet, trombone, piano and math.

I also play trombone.

What you do?

Yeah.

Okay.

We get to sort of put a band together after the show.

Let's say I hi to the alternates and coach for Roane County.

That is James Ashcraft, Emma Hamby, Jasmine Nickie, Carter Puckett and Coach Ellen Warman, who teaches Spanish and senior transition at Roane.

As we mentioned, you all won twice to get here today.

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

Players get your fingers on the buzzer for this third round game, this smart 16 round game of Tennessee Scholars Bowl 2024.

First toss up is in the category of Science Express, the number 30,000 in scientific notation.

Lucas 3e4.

Yeah, that's what I'm looking for.

And a science bonus there.

At Mount Kilauea, when sulfur dioxide gas dissolves in groundwater, it can be remitted as hydrogen sulfide gas producing a rotten egg scent.

What is the formula for sulfur dioxide?

S02?

Yes.

Second half of the question.

What is the formula for hydrogen sulfide?

It's just two HS two and that's h2s on that one.

Ten points on the bonus.

Toss it now in algebra if 6x = -18, find the value of two.

Lucas negative six.

No, I'm still working on the equation.

Let me read the rest of it for Science Hill.

If six x equals -18, find the value of two x plus four Shiven?

Negative two.

Is right and get you an algebra bonus.

What is the x intercept of the line with the equation?

Three x minus five y equals -21 in coordinate form sensor one negative seven zero.

Both right.

20 points toss up in music.

Who was the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?

Nobody got Aretha Franklin on that.

Toss up now.

In geography for all players.

In September 2023, vandals cut down one of the most photographed trees in the UK, the Sycamore Gap tree, which was alongside what barrier built to defend Britannia in the second century.

AD Owen?

Hayden's Wall.

Not that you can steal Roane County.

It's not Hayden, it's Hadrian.

I needed all of that because there might be a Hayden who has a wall somewhere else.

Toss up.

Now, in foreign language, what is the Spanish word for the number nine?

Shiven?

Nueve?

Is right.

And now let's do that visual bonus.

Although it is entirely in one country, a common misconception about Hadrian's Wall depicted here is that it divides which two UK countries and in Scotland, Scotland and England.

Yeah, it's actually all in England, but people think it divides the line.

Toss up now for all players in biology, a honeybee getting nectar or pollen from a flower is an example of which type- Owen?

Pollinator.

Uh-no.

Which type of association?

Chance to steal Roane?

Lucas.

Symbiotic?

No, mutualism is the association tossup up now in religion, which of the Gospels tells the lineage of Jesus Christ, beginning with Abraham, Amanda Matthew Yeah, and names 41 generations and a religion bonus for Science Hill 2 million Muslim pilgrims made the annual Hajj pilgrimage in 2023.

After making their way out of Mecca, they traveled to what Mount, where Muhammad delivered his final sermon on Mount Sinai.

Now it's called Mount Arafat.

Toss up for every one in sports, which Canadian born hockey player, nicknamed the Great One played on four Stanley Cup winning teams.

Maddox?

Gretzky.

Yes.

And a sports bonus.

Wayne Gretzky in ice hockey.

What is the name of the infraction that is called when a player shoots the puck over the It's a red line and the opposing teams red goal line in that order and the puck remains untouched without scoring a goal.

I see this I think I see I think icing?

Is right for 20.

Toss up now in U.S. history.

In 1957, with 300 U.S. Army troops standing guard.

Nine African-American children were escorted to Central High School in, what, Arkansas, Shiven?

Little Rock.

What Arkansas city in a history bonus for Science Hill.

Two Parts.

Who was the youngest man to take the oath of office as president of the United States?

Okay.

It's JFK.

JFK.

No, he may be the youngest elected, but Teddy Roosevelt was the youngest to take the oath, who was the oldest man to take the oath of office as president of the United States.

Biden is right.

Ten points on the bonus toss up now in literature.

Taylor Swift owns a cat named after what title character of a 2008 film that was based on a 1922 Samantha Benjamin Button.

F. Scott Fitzgerald story is right and literature bonus now what 1956 play by William Gibson is based upon the teacher who changed Helen Keller's life miracle worker and who was the teacher?

Annie Sullivan differ to Aarushi.

Annie Sullivan.

Both right 20 points.

Toss up now in geology, which precious gem is the birthstone for April- Aarushi?

Emerald.

No chance steal Roane.

Lucas?

Jade?

No, Diamond is April.

Toss up now in pre-calculus in the first quadrant of the unit circle.

If the cosine of an angle is one over two, what is the measure?

Lucas 60 degrees.

Yeah, 60 degrees is the angle formed and a pre-calculus Bonus Now for Roane.

In degrees or radians.

What a cute angle has a second of 262, 60, 60, 60, 60 degrees.

Yes.

We're trying to see if we can trick you up.

And that's the same answer.

We did it on purpose.

Toss up now in music, what does the musical term Lento mean?

Nathan?

Slow?

Yeah, and a visual bonus for Roane.

Look at the screens, please.

Which musical note is indicated on the treble clef shown here?

C-sharp is right for 20.

Toss up now in economics, what is the currency of Saudi Arabia?

Owen?

Ruble?

Not it.

You can steal Roane, Nathan.

Danar?

No, that's the rayal.

All right, toss up for everyone in vocabulary.

What six letter word beginning with V is a synonym of possible?

Owen?

Bible.

Is right.

Vocabulary Bonus Name the two word phrase beginning with Q that describes a style of Victorian home and architecture.

Quaint, Gothic.

It's actually Queen Anne is the style of the homes toss up now in Health Medic Regional Blood Center allows donors as young as what age if they meet the health.

Maddoz?

16.

Yeah, and have the parent or guardian sign the form 16 is right and now a health bonus.

What word means the process for the sorting of and allocation of first aid treatment to victims on the basis of urgency.

Drill, drill, drill, triage is right for ten.

What is the identification of the nature of an illness or other problem by examination of the symptoms?

Diagnosis.

Also right.

So that's another ten.

Toss up now in government.

In Tennessee, crash helmets are required for motorized bike riders of what age Lucas?

All ages.

Is correct and a government bonus after securing pay raises for United Parcel Service Workers in 2023.

What labor union for truck drivers called off what would have been one of the largest strikes in U.S. history, the Union of Motor Vehicles.

It's called the Teamsters or International Brotherhood of Teamsters Tossup, an arts for all players in arsenic and Old lace.

The victims of the Brewster sisters are buried by a character who believes himself to be which American president At the buzzer, Owen?

Teddy Roosevelt.

Is right for ten.

he thinks he's digging the Panama Canal in the basements.

They haven't burried the dead guys.

And an arts bonus now for Science Hill to front row balcony ticket stubs that were auctioned for $262,500 in 2023 were from a tragically historic performance of what play by Tom Taylor that took place on April 14th, 1865.

Lincoln was making cousin the French word Rucci.

Our American cousin is right for ten.

What theater staged the production on that date?

Ford's Theater.

In Washington, D.C. is it 20 points.

Tossup in geography.

What is the name of the African country formerly known as Rhodesia?

Owen?

Sudan.

Not that you can steal Roane.

Nathan?

Rwanda.

Now that area is now Zimbabwe.

Tossup in spelling.

A meteorologist studies the weather spell the word meteorologist Ethan?

M E T E O R O L O G I S T. is right for ten and the spelling bonus for Roane.

To express or feel sympathy or pity or to sympathize is to commiserate, spell commiserate.

Defer to Ethan.

Um, let's C O M I S S O R A T E. No, you missed it in the middle there at C O M M I S E R A T E. 80 no points on the bonus toss up in chemistry.

What long theorized subatomic particle was finally discovered in 2020?

Lucas.

The Higgs Boson, Yeah.

2012.

And the God's particle is Higgs boson and a chemistry bonus.

Astetine and Tennessean are two of the elements in the halogen group.

Name the remaining four.

Are helium, chlorine for you to get the.

Answer.

Chlorine, Bromine.

Yeah, that's all we have the time run out in case you blurted one more out.

But now that's so you get ten points for those two correct answers.

You missed fluorine and iodine toss up.

Now in math computation, what is the first derivative of three x squared plus 10.

Owen?

6x + 10?

10x is right and a math bonus now.

What is the product of the cube root of 125 and the fourth root of 81?

Sorry, 15 is right for 20 points Toss up for all players in sports, but it looks like the it looks like we can save that question for the second half of the game since we didn't get it out there.

Very close game with the lead going back and forth.

Which of these two teams will advance to the round of the educated eight?

Find out 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.

You're watching Tennessee Scholars Bowl.

I'm Frank Murphy, back from halftime in a very exciting third round game between Science Hill High School and Roane County High School.

Only ten points separate our teams at this point.

Either one of them could win and advance to the round of the educated eight, and both teams are keeping the starting lineup soon.

I mean, you know, if it aint broke don't fix it, right?

You're both doing so well.

All right, everybody, let's get our fingers back on the buzzers for Tennessee Scholars Bowl 2024.

Toss up for all players in the category of sports.

What is the name of the stadium where the Tennessee Titans play their home games?

Lucas Nissan Stadium is correct.

And a sports bonus with which NFL team did Tom Brady end his football career?

Patriots?

Buccaneers.

Yes.

Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Buccaneers.

Yeah.

And for which team did he play from 2001 to 2019.

The Patriots also correct 20.

Toss up now in history which Nordic island country topped the global peace index Amanda?

Iceland.

Each year since 2008.

And a bonus for Science Hill in history in the late 1920s and early thirties, Constantinople began to be known by what name?

Istanbul.

Correct.

The area that is now New York City was known by what name from 1626 New Amsterdam to 1664 20 points toss up in literature, which ancient Greek historian is referred to as the father of history, Aarushi?

Herodotus or Herodotus.

But that's right.

A literature bonus which Greek comic playwright wrote The clouds, the wasps and the frogs.

Aristophanes also ranked 20 points on a bonus toss up now in technology.

In a photo editing application, what tool is used to trim the outside edges of a digital- Owen?

Crop.

Image and a technology bonus.

What software was originally called sky peer to peer and is known for VOIP based video telephony and video conferencing.

Skype.

That's right for 20.

Toss up now in geology, what is the term for an enclosure or basin located in the course of a canal or river with gates at each end within which the water level may be varied?

Lucas?

A damn?

No, varied to raise or lower Owen?

Loch.

Boats in a canal and a geology bonus In the next decade.

NASA aims to mine resources on the moon, including which chemical element with the atomic number 26?

Iron.

Is right 20 points.

Toss up now in art.

What kitschy series of paintings by Cassius Marcellus Coolidge that were commissioned to advertise cigars depicted canines surrounding a gaming table.

Nathan Dogs playing poker is right and an art visual for Roane.

Look at the screens, please.

What is the title of this famous painting by a Dutch artist, which is said to express sadness and extreme loneliness, but at the same time show what is healthy and fortifying about the countryside.

The countryside.

Answer?

Countryside.

The name of it is Wheatfield with crows, but you can still get points in the second half.

Although painted in his final weeks, a persistent myth erroneously claims Wheatfield with crows was which artist's final work on?

Answer?

Monet.

Vincent Van Gogh painted that one.

Toss up now in government, what is the term length for the US House of Representatives?

Lucas Two years and a government bonus for Roane.

The ESA was enacted in the 1970s as a landmark legislation to save declining species from extinction.

What did the initials ESA stand for?

Is it environmental justice?

The Endangered Species Endangered Species Act?

Is right.

20 points.

Toss up in English.

What five letter word beginning with C is synonym for influence?

Lucas?

Cost?

No.

You can steal Science Hill.

Amanda.

Clout?

Yes, that's right.

And an English bonus.

Now, what is the subject?

In the following sentence?

The old abandoned church caught on fire.

The old church church?

Right.

For 20.

Toss up now in biology.

What is the name for a group of porcupines, Amanda?

A prickle?

Yes.

And in a biology bonus, how do plants transport water against gravity?

Capillary effect?

Yeah.

Capillary action or effect will take it.

Toss up for all players in geometry.

An isosceles, right triangle has what three angle?

Lucas?

45-45 and 90.

Measures is right.

And a geometry bonus A line has slope of two over three passing through the .35.

What is its equation in slope intercept form?

Y defer to Lucas.

Y equals two thirds X plus three.

That's right.

20 points.

Toss up for all in music.

Who is the lead singer of the band?

Aerosmith?

That guy's name is Steven Tyler.

Toss up for all players in geography.

The Statue of Christ the Redeemer stands on Corcovado- Owen?

Rio de Janeiro.

Overlooking what city?

And a visual bonus for Science Hill in geography.

The Bosporus Strait, shown here is a naturally formed waterway that connects the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara and serves as the border between which two continents, Asia and Europe.

Both right for 20 points.

Toss up in foreign language.

What is the English translation of the Spanish word, oso?

OSO.

Owen?

Bear?

Yes and a foreign language bonus.

What is the Spanish translation of Where is the beach?

Defer to Amanda.

Donde esta la playa?

Is correct.

20 points.

Toss up in science.

What is the freezing point of water on the- Lucas?

Uh, 216.

On the Kelvin scale?

Chance to steal Owen?

273 degrees.

Is the freezing point of water.

Oddly, yes.

And a science bonus.

Now, which German scientist took the first X-ray of a human being?

Defer to a Aarushi.

William Röntgen.

Is right.

And who was the person that he x rayd?

His wife.

Also right 20 points.

Toss up for all players in economics.

What American Mobile Payment service that was founded in 2009 and owned by PayPal since Owen?

Venmo.

Since 2013 is Venmo in an economics bonus.

Which union that went on strike in the summer of 2023, uses the abbreviation WGA?

Writers Guild of America, Writers Guild of America.

Correct.

And which union that went on strike in the summer of 2023 uses the abbreviation UAW?

United Auto Workers.

Also right.

20 on the bonus.

Toss up everyone in religion.

In the Book of Exodus while Moses was on Mount Sinai.

The Two Commandments.

No, let me finish the question.

While Moses was on Mount Sinai to receive the Ten Commandments, Aaron made What type of idol?

Owen?

Golden Calf.

Is it in a religion bonus.

Who sent Uriah the Hittite to the battlefront to be killed so that his wife Bathsheba, would be free to remarry?

David David?

Correct for ten.

Who was David and Bathsheba, his son, who would go on to become a wise king of Israel.

Solomon.

Also right.

20 of the bonus toss up in U.S. history.

Who was the first African-American to be pictured on a postage stamp?

Owen?

Harriet Tubman.

Not it.

You can steal Roane.

Maddox.

Booker T Washington.

Correct.

And a history bonus for Roane.

Who was president of the U.S. on the day that both Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were born.

February 12, 1809.

Sam Jackson.

Jackson?

No, it's Thomas Jefferson, who only had less than a month to go in his term.

But he was still president.

Toss up in literature.

Who was the author of Don Quixote Aarushi?

Miguel Servantes.

Yes, and a literature bonus.

What is the pen name of Theodore Gazelle, the author of O the Places You'll Go?

Dr. Seuss.

Right for 20.

Toss up in health.

One is the large dome shaped muscle that contracts rhythmically and continually Owen?

Diaphragm.

Yeah, and a health bonus.

Now, how many bones are in the human hand, including the wrist?

Since I don't know how much?

26?

54.

Toss up now in games.

What video game character that debuted in 1980 enjoys eating power pellets?

Owen?

Pac-Man.

Yeah while evading the ghost and games bonus what series of video games features the Belmont Clans struggle against Dracula and spawned an animated TV adaptation on Netflix?

Buffy?

Defer to Shiven.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

That's called Castlevania.

Toss Up now in Geography, Angel Falls, the tallest waterfall in the world is located in what South American country?

Amanda?

Argentina.

No, you can steal.

Lucas?

Zimbabwe.

No, that's in Venezuela.

Toss up in vocabulary.

What six letter word beginning with E is a synonym for abscond?

Owen?

Exodus.

Not that you can steal Roane.

Escape, abscond means you get away.

Toss up now in chemistry.

What Organic chemical.

But the formula hch0 is commonly used to preserve biological specimens in glass jars.

Owen?

Formaldehyde.

Yes, and a chemistry bonus.

What is the oxidation state for phosphorus in phosphoric acid?

h3o for one plus five is correct.

20 points Toss up now in biology.

What is the location of a plantar arch?

Lucas.

The foot.

Biology Bonus Now for Roane County, Afghanistan's wheat crop suffered an infestation in 2023 of what economically damaging plant pest that was also a biblical plague in Egypt.

Locust.

Is right for 20 points.

Toss up now in miscellaneous.

Which Israeli born actress and model was Miss Israel?

Amanda?

Gal Gado.

Yeah in 2004 and played Wonder Woman.

And we don't have time for the bonus, but it looks like you.

Oh, you did really run up the score in the second half there, didn't you?

Well, congratulations Science Hill against an excellent squad from Roane County High School.

We just got out buzzed.

I think you knew a lot of the material, but we enjoyed having you here.

And we've got several underclassmen on the teams.

We look forward to seeing you for years to come.

Nathan, you're the senior, right?

Thank you for your time on Scholars Bowl we've always enjoyed having you here.

We wish the best in the future.

Meanwhile, Science Hill, congratulations.

You will play again to tease me yet one more time as you advance to the round of the educated eight, we'll look forward to seeing you on Scholars Bowl Well, of course you can keep track of all of our games, all of our players by never missing an episode, setting your DVR, checking your local listings, or binge watching past seasons online using the PBS app.

My name is Frank Murphy and this is Tennessee Scholars Bowl 2024.