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.

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 will describe at halftime 64 teams in our tournament this year.

And this is a second round game.

We are in the threshold of 32 Scott County High School taking on Knoxville Catholic High School.

Both of these teams scored a lot of points in their first round game.

So we're expecting an exciting match today.

Let's say hi first to the players from Scott County High School in Huntsville, starting with Connor Yancey, who's in 12th grade now.

Hi, Connor.

Welcome back.

Tell us about yourself.

I'm a certified nursing assistant.

Oh, cool.

Whereabouts do you practice that in your neighborhood?

I got my license at the Tennessee Tech College.

And then have you been able to start working anywhere?

Not yet, but probably going to.

Yeah.

I mean, you're still in high school, so it makes sense that you can wait another year on that.

That's cool.

Let's say hi to Jocelyn Floyd.

Hi, Jocelyn.

Welcome back.

Happy to have you told me about you.

I plan to pay.

Excuse me.

I plan to play the piccolo as a Scott Wait is this a tongue twister?

I plan to play Piccolo.

You're trying to get me to say I plan to play the piccolo in marching band next.

Okay, Well, cool.

I'm glad to hear that.

It's a fun tongue twister.

I'm going to try to add that to my repertoire.

Let's say hi to Brylan Orrick is in 11th grade.

Brylan, you're the team captain.

He'll answer bonuses on behalf of the squad or defer by name to a teammate.

What else is new with you?

Nothing new.

Just still Tennessee fan.

Yeah, that's good.

I mean, imagine if you weren't, then what would you do with your time?

Oh, probably a fan of Vanderbilt.

Okay.

Also in the state of Tennessee.

So you're very much within within the boundaries there.

Okay, Nice to hear that.

Also, we've got Cameron Parker, who's in 12th grade.

Welcome back.

Cameron, what are you doing?

I'm an Eagle Scout.

And what was your service project if I installed a museum exhibit at the museum at Scott High.

Oh, really?

There's a museum in Scott High?

Yep.

And who's in it?

I mean, what kind of famous or events or personalities?

Kind of, uh, Tennessee History Museum.

Oh, that's outstanding.

The exhibit I installed was to preserve some of the antique equipment they had there.

All right, Well, I'm glad to hear that.

Let's say hi to your coach at Scott High School.

That is Dr. Cindy Jeffers, who is the RTI coordinator at Scott, taking on a team from Knoxville Catholic High School.

Let's say hi first to Alvaro.

Pint.

Hello, Alvaro.

Tell us about yourself.

Hey, I'm a sophomore, Knoxville Catholic, and I'm the president of the Spanish Club and I'm a Boy Scout.

So as president of the Spanish club, do you only speak in Spanish at the meetings?

You give orders in Spanish.

Give us an example of how you would call a meeting to order of the Spanish club.

Now we're just talking English.

it sounds great.

Let's say hi also to Nate Hinden, who is a junior at Catholic.

What about you, Nate?

Hey, I'm Nate Jr, and I'm the president of the fun of the Sun Club at my school.

Do you listen to trop rock or yacht?

Rock or any of those various types of music?

You don't even know what I'm talking about.

Say, Oh, people love it.

Let's put it that way.

I mean, it's sort of in the Jimmy Buffett vein is what I was thinking.

What kind of music do you listen to in the Fun in the Sun Club when you're hanging out, having, I assume, fun in the sun?

Not too much, but no, just play pickleball.

That's it.

Yeah.

Let's say hi to team captain James Long, who is a senior.

And James are going to answer bonuses or defer by name to a teammate.

What about yourself?

Right.

So I am I play the saxophone in my school's band.

Yeah.

And also, I'm a huge fan of the Boston Celtics.

And why is that and family connections that way.

So my dad just grew up in the eighties in Knoxville, but at the time, Larry Bird was the was all over the place.

Sure became a big Celtics fan.

Yeah.

I mean what's anybody know what the closest NBA franchise to Knoxville would be probably and I guess yeah, probably.

All right.

Well, good.

Happy to have you here.

And also Thomas Murphy, no relation, is a junior at Knoxville Catholic.

Tell us about yourself, Thomas.

I've been playing the violin for going on six years.

You must be exhausted.

Quite.

And it's an old Groucho Marx joke, I'm pretty sure.

Yeah.

I enjoy building models of planes and cars.

Oh, okay.

I mean, it could have been model violins You needed to ask.

You needed more information.

Let's say hi to the alternate and coaches for Knoxville Catholic High School.

We've got Alexander Denker, Walter and he is joined by Dr. Kelly Pierce, who teaches chemistry.

And John, the forester, teaches biology at Knoxville Catholic High School.

In addition, we are delighted to have a very special guest with us here in studio observing today's game.

That would be Dr. Anthony Wise, who is the President of Philosophy State Community College.

Dr.

Wise and fellow City State are great sponsors of Scholars Bowl, and we're always happy for his support and happy to have him here again.

We'll see you again at the presentation at the end of the season, Dr.

Wise I'm sure.

All right, players, you've all won your way here with high scores.

In fact, you know how we play toss ups worth ten bonuses worth up to 20.

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

First toss up in the category of games.

What puzzle game has players complete lines of blocks by moving differently shaped pieces which descend James Scrabble, which descend onto the playing field Conner?

Tetris.

Is it for ten games is your bonus.

What fantasy action adventure Nintendo Games latest release is subtitled Tears of the Kingdom.

Zelda, Legend of Zelda and name the original creator of The Legend of Zelda, who also created Super Mario Brothers as her idol.

Isn't it?

Connor Minascory.

Now it's Miyamoto.

Shigeru Miyamoto.

It would have taken just the last name on that.

Plus up in geography.

What is the area in a desert surrounding a well or natural spring?

Alvaro Oasis.

Yes.

And geography bonus now which has a longer coastline, Maine or California?

California.

No, Maine is 51 miles longer.

They've got a lot of little inlets and whatnot.

They're tossup for all players in literature.

Who is actually the central character in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar?

Connor?

Marcus Aurelius, not him.

You can still Catholic James Brutus is right literature bonus now in which Leo Tolstoy novel does the title character have an affair with a cavalry officer named Count Vronsky.

War and Peace?

That's a good guess, but it was his other big one.

Anna Karenina.

Toss up now in physics.

What phrase?

Beginning with the letter Q means a huge, often sudden increase or advance in something, often due to new technology.

Connor?

Quantum leap is right.

Physics bonus.

What is the process by which heat energy is transmitted through a material substance conduction?

Right?

What is the process by which the heat of the sun is transmitted?

Radiation.

Those are both rate 20 points.

Toss up in math computation give the product of negative four squared and negative two raised to the negative three power Nate?

144.

Now that you can steal Scott Duh.

Jocelyn 24 No, that would be negative two.

You take 16 times negative one half to get negative two toss up in art, a tire, a pizza and a daisy have.

What type of balance?

Alvaro Symmetrical.

Now that you can steal, Connor?

Asymmetrical, radial balance because they're all circular toss up in history, which American founding document includes the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?

Brylan?

Declaration of Independence.

Right.

And a visual bonus now for Scott.

Take a look at the screens, please.

At a dinner party, a woman sitting next to the president shown here said she had a bet that she could get at least three words of conversation from him without looking at her.

He responded, You lose.

Who is this 30th president of the United States?

Yeah.

Yeah, I designate Connor.

Coolidge.

Yeah.

Calvin Coolidge is right.

Toss up now for all players in foreign language.

What Russian word means prison or a system of labor camps.

Connor?

Gulag.

Yeah, in the Soviet Union.

And a foreign language bonus.

Translate je voudrais un cafe from French to English cafe.

We know that she do able to play game for games Answer Let's play game cafe No it means literally I would like a coffee and I keep putting that in there every year, but no one ever brings me a coffee.

I would like one toss up in health.

What is the term that refers to any substance that causes a fluid to clot or thicken, Connor?

Hemiphelic.

Not it.

You can steal Catholic.

That is a coagulant toss up.

Now in government, if a person is charged with a DUI, what legal violation have they committed?

Brylan?

Driving under the influence.

Correct.

And a government bonus.

Now, which country that shares a long border with Russia and also borders Sweden and Norway formally applied to join Nito in 2022 Ukraine.

Now Finland I was describing toss up.

Now in sports, what is the national summer sport of Canada?

Thomas Hockey No, you can steal Scott County.

Rylan Canadian football.

No, it's lacrosse.

I mean you would think it would be hot curling, but it's lacrosse toss up now in economics.

What is the title of the person who serves guests in a hotel by booking restaurants and transportation?

James Concierge is correct.

Economics Bonus.

What are the two mottoes engraved on current US coins, which in God we trust and E pluribus unum?

Those are both right.

20 points.

Toss up now in spelling spell synonymous.

Cameron S Y N O N O M O U S .

not it.

You can steal Catholic, James?

S Y N O like you ran out of steam there, but you are on the right track.

Synonymous is s y n own y mo us toss up now in science what serves as an atoms central core consisting of a various mixture of cold and all the way protons and neutrons is a nucleus and a visual bonus for Catholic Sir Alexander Fleming, shown here.

The scientist who accidentally discovered penicillin, said about that day, quote, When I woke up just after dawn on September 28, 1928, I certainly didn't plan to revolutionize all medicine by discovering the world's first.

What a different innate antibiotic.

Correct.

For ten.

In 1945, Fleming won what highly prestigious award in physiology medicine the Nobel Prize.

That's right.

20 points up for all players in algebra, if F of negative two equals six and F of four equals negative six, what is the slope of the line connecting these two points No.

Brylan?

2 over 4.

Not it.

Chance to steal.

Nate?

2.

M equals negative 2. toss up in music.

What is the term for a device which holds a read onto the mouth?

Joslin mouthpiece holder, which holds a read onto the mouthpiece of a single read instrument such as a saxophone or clarinet.

James is ringing in.

Ligature.

Is what it's called.

You play saxophone, right?

And you say that somebody did music Bonus for Catholic which American musician composed Rhapsody in Blue Gershwin No, I do George Gershwin Correct.

Which English composer is best known for the orchestral suite?

The planets at the feet of Thomas Holst.

Yeah.

Gustav Holst.

20 points on the bonus toss up in history, which English King introduced Death by boiling and legalize the Killing of Gypsies.

James King Henry The Sixth.

Now That You Can steal Scott.

Brylan?

King Henry the Eighth.

Yeah, he did a lot of bad things and that's one of them.

History Bonus Now which African nation was once led by Idi Amin?

South Africa.

That's Uganda.

Which Caribbean nation was once led by Fidel Castro?

Cuba.

Ten points on the bonus toss up.

Now in English, the meat dish, mutton comes from what?

Animal Connor?

A sheep or goats?

Yes, and an English bonus.

Now, what is the term for an object, event, person or thing that is chronologically out of place in a piece of literature?

Yes.

And isn't that corner anachronism?

Yes, that's right.

for 20.

Toss up now in geology, what is the name for the hardest type of coal which gives off little flame or smoke when it burns?

Brylan?

Charcoal.

Now you can steal Catholic James Anthracite.

Yes.

And a geology bonus, which geologic era is associated with forests appearing and dominating the land?

A designate Thomas Jurassic.

That's Paleozoic which geologic era is associated with Homo sapiens appearing on the earth?

A designated Nate.

Mezizoic.

No that one is Cenozoic no points on that toss up.

Now in chemistry, which element has the Latin name of Natrium?

Brylan?

Nitrogen.

Not that you can steal Catholic can't look at each other on tossups though I'm sorry I have to dq you on that.

Na, sodium.

Tossup now in religion according to the book of Proverbs, what does a soft answer turn away, Alvaro?

Hard questions now that you can steal Scott Cameron Hard truth now wrath or anger?

Is it tossup now in government assault refers to the act of causing someone to reasonably fear imminent harm.

What term refers to actually Connor?

Battery.

Physically harming them and a government bonus for Scott.

What do the letters in the federal agency SEC stand for?

Southeastern Conference?

The Securities and Exchange Commission?

How about the letters FTC, Trade Committee, Foreign Trade Committee?

No, it's the Federal Trade Commission.

No points on that toss up in literature.

The concept of tilting at windmills comes from what literary, Connor?

Fighting imaginary foes.

Comes from what literary classic?

Alvaro?

Don Quixote.

Yeah.

Again, make sure I'm calling all the way that literature bonus.

Now, who wrote the poem?

Because I could not stop for death.

Poe That's Emily Dickinson, who wrote the poem Mending Wall.

I designate Robert Woods.

No, it was Robert Frost.

I'm sure their pals.

That's the end of the first half.

We get more exciting action coming up.

A very close game between Knoxville Catholic and Scott High School.

One of these teams advances to a round of the Smart 16. Who's it going to be?

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 Ball.

Hi, I'm Frank Murphy.

We're back from halftime in a very exciting second round match between Knoxville Catholic High School and Scott County High School of Huntsville, Tennessee.

Only one toss up and one bonus.

Only 30 points separate our two schools at this time.

At the end of our ten and a half minutes, one of them will advance to the round of the March 16.

Both have the starting lineup still in the game so we can get right back to it.

Players Fingers on the buzzer for Tennessee Scholars Bowl 2024.

Next toss up in the category of health gram for gram which category of nutrients has about twice as many calories as carbohydrates, Nate?

Proteins.

Not that you can steal Scott Connor.

FATS Yes.

And a health bonus now which human organ secretes insulin?

Pancreas, Correct.

Which human organ secretes bile liver, also, Right.

20 points plus up now in geometry, the diagonals of a square are both 12 square roots of two.

What is the area of the square?

Nate 144 Yeah.

Have you said that answer a lot today?

Because that is correct this time.

And the geometry bonus.

True or false?

Every parallelogram is a quadrilateral.

True.

And true or false.

Every square is a trapezoid That answer true.

That one is false.

You get ten points on that Toss up now in miscellaneous.

In the game of Monopoly, what is the cost of each utility?

Brylan?

Uh 200.

Not it you can steal, Alvaro.

250.

No it's 150 on that.

No points.

They're toss up now in geography.

Which American cities original name translates to the town of Our Lady, The Queen of the Angels.

Brylan?

Los Angeles.

Is correct and a visual bonus for Scott, take a look at the screens, please.

The territorial flag shown here representing what archipelago is the only one in the world that features a sinking ship.

It's the Netherlands.

Netherlands.

Now it's Bermuda.

I wonder if that's where they got the Bermuda Triangle idea from.

First up now in vocabulary, what six letter word, starting with T means a formal dinner jacket named in 1886.

Alvaro Tuxedo is right in a village in New York named after vocabulary.

Bonus for Catholic What seven letter word beginning with Q refers to a bitter crystalline alkaloid used to treat malaria and also used as an ingredient in tonic water to impart a bitter taste?

I defer to Thomas.

Quinine is right 20 points toss up now in science, which law mathematically describes the relationships between pressure and velocity in the horizontal flow of fluids?

James PV=nrt.

No chance to steal Scott.

I was just looking for Bernoulli's law, not the actual formula Toss up in arts.

What is the sixth letter show business term starting with B that means a movie dramatizing the life of a particular person, typically.

Brylan?

A biography.

No.

No.

Typically James?

Biopic.

Yeah.

Biographical picture biopic is right.

Arts Bonus Now for Catholic in 2023, what was the title of the biopic about a famous theoretical physicist known as the Father of the Atomic bomb?

Oppenheimer Correct.

For ten.

And in 2022, what was posthumously restored to him that had barred Oppenheimer from entering Department of Energy establishments?

Special Security is security clearance.

That's correct.

20 points on the bonus toss up in music.

Which type of musical composition is characterized by the systematic imitation of one or more themes overlapping?

Thomas No, now I didn't get to yet.

Just still Scott County Fugue or Rondo is right.

As Thomas has figured out, toss up in history who was the founder and first president of Tuskegee University?

James George Washington Carver.

Not him.

You can steal Scott.

Brylan?

John Quincy Adams.

No, Booker T, Washington is the guy toss up now in foreign language.

What is the three word Latin phrase used in commencement programs, meaning with highest praise, James?

Summa cum laude is correct.

Foreign language bonus e g, which is used to mean, for example, stands for what Latin phrase?

Example given.

Similar it's exempt e gracia i e which translates to that is stands for what Latin phrase?

Don't know.

That's id est.

Toss up for all players in biology, what is the scientific term for all 12 pairs of ribs?

Nate Vertebrae Now that you can steal Scott Conner Rib cage.

Thorax is the scientific term we're looking for Toss up in math.

What is 6/7 of 42?

Brylan?

35?

No you can steal Catholic, Nate.

36.

Is it?

And a visual bonus.

Now take a look at the screens.

Please square the binomial five Z minus six and give your answer in simplest form.

It's like this 25 Z squared -60 Z plus 36 is it?

And that's 20 points toss up.

Now in religion, according to all four canonical gospels, who was the man who assumed responsibility for the burial of Jesus after his crucifixion?

James Joseph of Arimathea is right for ten and a religion bonus for Catholic.

What is the title of the podcast?

Originally released on January one, 2021 and hosted by Father Mike Schmitz that examines the Scriptures in 365 episodes.

Bible in a year is right 20 points Toss up now in history.

In 1934, Adolf Hitler merged the offices of German Chancellor and President and declared his new title to be what?

Brylan?

Reich?

Thats not it.

You can still James Führer is right in the history bonus.

Now, in 1981, voters in Egypt participated in a referendum to elect Vice President Hosni Mubarak as their new president, one week after the assassination, of whom?

Anwar Sadat.

That's correct.

20 points toss up now in literature.

Who was the author of war and Peace?

James Leo Tolstoy.

Leo Tolstoy.

Correct.

And Literature Bonus.

What is the novel by Jack Kerouac that tells the story of a journey and its title emphasizes the imp Call of the Wild.

That's Jack London.

I think Jack Kerouac is known for on the road toss up now in chemistry.

What element is between lithium and boron on the periodic table?

Brylan?

Beryllium.

Is it?

And a chemistry bonus.

Now what is the electron configuration in exponential form for phosphorus?

No answer.

That's 1s2, 2s2, 2p6, 3s2, 3p3.

Toss up now in health, what ten letter word for the process of letting air out of the lungs during the breathing cycle is synonymous with exhaling or exhalation counter expansion.

Now that you can still Catholic.

Alvaro?

Expulsion No, expiration toss up in architecture which city in Poland lost about 85% Nate?

Warsaw.

Of its buildings in World War II architecture bonus which famous architect designed the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, the East Building of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC and the Louvre Pyramid in Paris defer to Thomas Charles de Gaulle.

That's I.M.

Pei spelled PEI toss up in geography, which Tennessee City is the sixth largest in population and the geographical center of the state?

Connor?

Nashville.

Not that you can stea, James.

Columbia.

No Murfreesboro is the answer.

Toss up.

Now in vocabulary, resignation is to office as abdication.

Is to what Connor?

Throne.

Correct vocabulary bonus What is a nine letter word beginning with Oh, that means to make something unclear, obscure or difficult to understand.

Kind answer No answer it was obfuscate.

You can still get points for spelling obfuscate, answer O B F U S C A T E. That's right.

You got ten points on that bonus toss up.

Now in astronomy, which planet in our solar system would float if it could be placed in water Connor?

Saturn.

Correct.

Astronomy Bonus.

What was the first known handheld analog computer that was capable of working out several different kinds of calculations relating to spherical astronomy and was invented around the first or second century BCE and continued to be refined as it remained in use into the 16th century.

I designate Joslin.

Gyroscope.

No, it's called an astrolabe Toss up for all players in algebra for the equation, ten minus y equals x squared plus three x.

Which direction does the parabola open up now that you can still?

Scott I see a couple of people trying to ring in camera.

Down.

Yeah.

Down is right.

Algebra is your bonus.

What is X in this linear equation?

The quantity of x minus four over negative six equals three.

Okay.

Nobody got it in time.

-14 is the x toss up in music.

Who wrote the musical score for West Side Story?

Alvaro.

Lin-Manuel Miranda.

Not him.

You can steal Scott.

Connor.

Tennessee Williams?

No, that's Leonard Bernstein wrote the music Toss up in U.S. history which Civil War General sent the message to President Lincoln stating, Brylan?

Robert E Lee, I present to you James Grant.

No, I was getting to Sherman.

I present to you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.

So that is the end of our game.

And it looks like Catholic has overcome the small deficit to actually increase their lead over an excellent Scott County team with a lot of experienced players.

So I hope I well, congratulations, first of all, to your upperclassmen.

We've enjoyed having you on here for the past four years.

Meanwhile, upper underclassmen, we'll see you again next year I'm sure on Scholars Bowl.

You've got an excellent training facility up there in terms of Scholars Bowl.

Lots of good students coming out of there.

And we appreciate you.

Knoxville Catholic.

Congratulations you now advance the round of the smart 16.

I think it's been a while since Catholic has made it that far in the tournament.

So we congratulate you on that.

Look forward to seeing you again on the show.

And of course, you can keep track of all of our teams by never missing an episode of Scholars Bowl.

Set your DVR, check your listings, whatever you got to do, or binge watch past seasons online, as the students do using the PBS app.

My name is Frank Murphy.

Thank you for watching.

Tennessee's Scholars Bowl 2024.