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

The game call for academic knowledge.

Let's meet our team.

History is the category players.

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

Thank you for watching.

Tennessee Scholar's Ball.

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.

It's our 40th season of Scholars Bowl, with 64 teams competing.

And today we have a first round match between Seymour High School and Career Magnet Academy.

Let's say hi first to the players from Seymour, starting with senior Dhruv Patel, who was here last year.

Welcome back, Dhruv.

Good to see you.

Tell us more about yourself.

I'd like to go hiking with Ty, and I like to go play golf.

Not at the same time, though, getting in more of a flat place to wait.

You could go to the There's a hillbilly golf over there.

You could play on the mountain side, couldn't you?

Yeah.

You play real golf.

Yeah.

I think a pigeon forge, you know, is right near Seymour.

You could take a visit.

All right.

What fun.

Let's say hi to Eli Henderson, who is a senior.

What about you, Eli?

Well, I play golf as well with Dhruv, and then I go hiking with Ty sometimes.

Who's better?

At golf or hiking.

Very good question.

How about with golf?

I got to a Dhruv on that one.

And how about hiking?

Probably Ty.

Okay, well, I like your.

Your honesty and your modesty.

Let's say how the team captain Timothy Morris teams.

Timothy, you're also a senior.

This year.

You're going to answer bonuses on behalf of the squad or defer by name to one of your teammates.

Tell us what you've been up to since we saw you last.

Well, I'm going to graduate high school early and attend UTK in January.

Wow.

Congratulations.

Yes.

Thank you.

Outstanding.

And then I also like to go hiking with Tash.

Just I can really good hiker.

He's a really good hiker.

We all love him.

So if you get in trouble, he's the guy.

He's the go to guy.

Yes.

All right.

Well, let's say hi to Ty, Ty, Collie, who's a senior also.

So tell us about yourself, Ty.

What makes you so good at hiking?

I'm the vice president of the hiking club.

Oh, well, I mean, but why not the president?

I just, you know, I don't like the spotlight that much.

He's a humble man.

Well, where do you hike?

Obviously, the Smokies.

But more.

More specific.

Yeah, And sometimes we go to times.

Sometimes what?

A house.

Mountain.

Oh, that's cool.

House Mountain is is an excellent place.

Well, good.

We're happy to have you here.

Let's say hi to the coach for Seymour High School.

That is Kristi Williams, who teaches marketing to the folks at Seymour.

I'll point out that Seymour has put multiple teams into the tournament this year, I believe two teams.

So you'll be seeing them on other occasions as this squad takes on a team from Career Magnet Academy.

Welcome back.

We're happy to have you on the show again this year.

Let's say hi first to senior Cooper Williams.

Tell us about you, Cooper.

What do you like to do or tells?

I like to program games in my free time.

I'm a big computer guy.

Yeah.

And we're talking role player games or mental acuity games.

What kind of games?

Usually I program with arcade games.

Arcade games.

So those are always fun.

Nice.

All right.

We'll hear more about that as we proceed through the tournament.

DJ Zeller is back again this year.

Hi, D.J., What about you?

I have a personal library of over 200 books.

Whoa.

Not with you, though, right?

No, not on me.

Yeah, because you're not allowed to cheat.

There'll be cheating and bring all your libraries.

Hang on a second, Frank.

Let me look that up.

What kind of books are we talking?

Fiction?

Nonfiction.

Most of it's fiction.

Fantasy.

Nice.

All right, well, good and happy to hear about that team captain this year is Atticus Vaden.

So, Atticus, you're going to answer the bonuses or defer by name to a teammate.

Tell us about yourself.

I'm majoring in geosciences and my favorite animal is the Boyens Python.

Oh, okay.

specific type of python.

Again, it's Boylan's Python.

All right.

Excellent.

And what is different about that from the other pythons that we see in the news, the Burmese and the others?

One, it's not invasive in the United States.

It's helpful.

Hopefully it'll stay that way.

I just think they're very attractive looking snakes.

Nice.

All right.

And we're also joined again this year by Clotilda Boudoir.

Clotilda, welcome back.

Tell us about you.

Since last year, I've kind of changed, but I wanted to do it.

Now I want to be a physical therapist.

Oh, that's a great career.

Excellent.

Happy to hear about that.

What prompted the change?

I've been having a lot of back issues lately because I was diagnosed with scoliosis and I want to help people in the future who deal with those kind of problems.

I love it.

That's fantastic.

Thank you for telling us.

It's also Meet the Alternates and coach for Career Magnet.

We've got Marcia Chang and Ella Clarke, and they are joined by coach Michael Childers, who teaches math at Career Magnet.

Happy to have your team back on the show again this year.

You've all seen the show before.

In fact, I think all of you have been on before.

You know how we play with toss ups.

Were ten bonuses worth up to 20 players?

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

Toss up in the category of religion.

The most famous example of preaching of terror was the 1741 sermon Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God by which Puritan theologian Atticus, Martin Luther, not him.

That gives you a chance to steal.

See more Timothy John Well, I would need more than that because his name is Jonathan Edwards.

But you were on the right track.

No points on that toss up.

Next one is in geography.

In which state is Mt.

Rushmore located, Eli?

South Dakota is right for ten.

And the geography bonus now for Seymour named four of the eight U.S. states that have a panhandle to prop up.

Answer, I defer to Elias, Florida, Oklahoma, Alaska, and Massachusetts.

Well, I can give you points for the first three Alaska, Florida, Idaho, Maryland, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, and West Virginia.

So not Massachusetts, but 15 points on the bonus toss up.

Now in literature, who is the author of the Harry Potter series?

Atticus J.K. Rowling is Right.

Literature Bonus for Career Magnet What Book by E.B.

White takes place on a farm and concerns a pig and is devoted friend, a spider who manages to save his life by spinning words about him.

Charlotte's Web and second half the question What is the name of the rat who goes searching for words at night?

Jonathan, that is Templeton.

Our older viewers might remember Paul Lynde played him in the cartoon toss up for all players in math name, the only one digit number.

That is not a factor of 720 Atticus three at it you can still see more Timothy seven is right for ten points and a math bonus for Seymour.

What are the only two perfect cubes?

Between 204 hundred and answer 216 and 343 Those are both correct for 20 points plus up now in geology, what event created Real Foot Lake in Upper West Tennessee?

Atticus sinkhole?

Not it.

You can still see more.

I know.

Sorry the buzzer sounded is an earthquake created that lake plus up for all players in music in a chorus.

What is the lowest male vocal part Timothy Bass?

Yes, for ten and a bonus now on the screen.

Take a look.

Seymour, this is a common musical time signature.

What is the top number in any time signature indicate beats the number of beats anymore.

The number of beats per second now.

Well, you needed more on that.

It was beats per measure.

Try this.

What is the bottom number in any time signature indicate the number of measures.

No, it's which note value gets one beat toss out for all players in economics.

What car company makes Grand Cherokee Renegade Atticus Jeep?

Yeah, and the Rubicon of the Wrangler.

Bonus Now an economics for career magnet.

What is the term for the supply on hand of a product such as raw materials or goods for sale stock?

Well, the word, the official word, there would be inventory to differentiate it from stock, which has multiple meanings.

All right, toss up everyone in vocabulary.

What nine letter word beginning with F and meaning, witty or jocular, especially at inappropriate times, has all the vowels in alphabetical order.

Atticus, facetious is right for ten and a vocabulary bonus.

A rearrange the following letters to spell a word meaning a vital organ of the body.

Now rearrange those same letters to spell the name of a planet in our solar system.

Earth.

Those are both right.

20 points Toss up in history.

What age was between the Stone Age and the Iron Age?

Timothy The Bronze Age?

Yeah.

Bronze Age is right.

And a world history bonus.

Now, in 2022, Egyptologists discovered hieroglyphics inside King Tut's tomb, indicating that his burial chamber could contain a hidden door to his stepmother's secret tomb.

Who was King Tut's stepmother?

Agatha was never teased, no points on the bonus toss up in chemistry.

What is the most common element in the Earth's atmosphere?

Timothy Nitrogen is right for ten Chemistry bonus.

What is the formula?

First for sodium hydroxide.

in H. And what is the formula for phosphorus acid.

And so h2po3.

Well, phosphorus is h3p03 Okay, So that's why I emphasize the pronunciation on that too.

It's ten on the bonus toss up in sports, which NFL teams stadium is about 33 miles south of Boston at the Patriots.

Yeah, New England Patriots and a sports bonus Now the Missouri Tigers of the SCC play their home games in what city Timothy the answer or defer I defer to Eli.

Columbia yeah Columbia Missouri is right 420 toss up and government for all players.

What procedure is the use of obstructionist tactics like prolonged speechmaking Atticus filibuster.

Yeah, especially in the Senate and a government bonus for career magnet.

What does OSHA OSHA stand for?

Organizational Safety Hazards Association.

Well, you're close.

It's the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

You can still get ten points if you tell me under which federal department is OSHA?

Department of Labor.

That's right.

Ten on the bonus toss up.

Now, in foreign language, what is the English translation of the French phrase?

AP ed tie to the right of not it you can steal career magnet that's a on foot toss up now in math.

What place value does the three have in the number 24.5 for three Cooper The 10,000th place not it you can still see more Eli I know thousandths is the answer.

Toss up now in health, what is the name of the upper arm?

Bone humerus.

It is humerus and now a health bonus for career magnet, which joint is formed by the articulation of the tibia, the malleable less of the fibula and the convex surface of the talus.

Defer to D.J.

ankle.

Yeah, it's a long way to go to, say ankle.

Isn't it tough time for all players in games?

Which chess piece makes an L shaped move athletes?

Yeah.

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

But night is right and a visual bonus.

Now take a look at the screens.

Please give the equation of a parabola in standard form with x intercepts at three zero and negative two zero with the quadratic coefficient of negative two.

Sir, would that be negative two times parentheses x minus three times parentheses x plus two.

Now I needed y would equal negative two x squared plus two x plus 12, so no points on the bonus.

Back to toss ups in U.S. history.

What name was given to the fortune seekers who rushed to California after the discovery?

Elaine Miners.

The discovery of gold chance to steal career magnet Cooper beggars.

Those are the 40 Niners 1949 toss up now in literature who is the devoted friend and associate of Sherlock Holmes who was also Eli Watson?

Yeah, the narrator of the novels, Dr. John Watson Literature Bonus Now in the comic strip.

Garfield What is the name of Garfield's owner?

John is Right for ten.

What's the name of the pet dog Odie?

Also write for 20 on the bonus tossup in geography.

The Parthenon is in Athens, but Timothy Treece is in Athens.

But in which European city is the Pantheon Chance to steal career magnet?

bonuses, you're allowed to confer.

But tossups, you're not.

So I can't take that.

It's Rome would have been the answer.

Toss up now in physics, radio and light waves, microwaves and X-rays are classified as what kind of waves?

Atticus Radiation.

Not.

You can still see more flights.

Well, nobody rang in.

It's a toss up again.

The same thing.

You had a ring in a tossups, not on bonuses.

Electromagnetic toss up in music.

Antonio Stradivari is well known for perfecting the design of what instrument Atticus Violin writes and a music bonus.

Vivaldi is associated with which musical period Baroque and Mozart is associated with which musical period.

Classical.

Those are both right?

20 points.

First up in government, which federal agency is the regulator that can penalize networks for indecency shown on television?

Eli FCC is right and a government bonus for Seymour, which too rights are provided for by Miranda versus Arizona lawyer a right to an attorney and the right to remain silent.

Those are both correct as the first half ends in this pretty close game between Seymour High School and Career Magnet Academy, one of these two teams will advance to the threshold of 30 to find out who it's going to be.

Coming up 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 first round game between Career Magnet Academy and Seymour High School.

It's a very close game and looks like career Magnet has brought an alternate in.

We'll see how that affects our play.

Let's say hi to Marsha Chiang.

Hi, Marci.

Welcome.

What year in school are you in?

Tell us more about you.

I'm a sophomore.

And I'm from Taiwan.

Oh, really?

And how do you like Tennessee?

What do you what do you enjoy about being here?

I like the weather here a lot more.

Now, how long ago did you live in Taiwan?

I moved here about six years ago.

Oh, wow.

Okay.

So you definitely remember growing up there.

Excellent.

Or happy to have you.

Welcome.

And we'll get right back to it.

Meanwhile, Seymour is obviously keeping their starters in because they don't have any alternates on this squad.

So we'll see which of you advances to the threshold of 32 in about ten and a half minutes time.

Fingers on the buzzer.

Players for Tennessee Scholars Ball 2024 toss up for all players in foreign language.

If you cooked spaghetti al dente, how would you want it prepared?

Atticus firm.

I think I need a little more see more chance to steal tequila Woorabinda.

Well, technically, al dente means a little chewy to the teeth, so it's not quite bendy, it's not quite firm.

It's a very specific, you know, food, foreign language answer.

So I can't take that pass in algebra.

In which direction does the graph of the equation x equals y squared open E line up Now don't you can still career D.J.

down to the right is the answer on that one toss up.

Now in biology, what is a major component of plant cell walls that provides flexibility and stability?

Timothy Cellulose Yes, and a biology bonus.

What is the term for the green pigment in plants or Chlorophyl?

Correct.

Now spell chlorophyl.

Answer c h. L o. R o. P h. Y. L. L. That's right.

20 points on the bonus tossup Now in geography.

What is the capital of Australia?

Atticus?

Brisbane.

You can still see more.

Eli, though.

Sydney.

Now it's Canberra.

Tossup for all players in religion in what use city is the headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints, located to Salt Lake City, is run for ten and the religion bonus.

Take a look at the screens please.

Seymour who was the Lord High Chancellor of England, shown here who was beheaded in 1535 for refusing to approve Henry The divorce, remarriage and the establishment of the Church of England.

Canonized as a Catholic saint in 1935 and was the subject of an Oscar winning film titled A Man for All Seasons.

John that is Saint Thomas more you know, points there pass up for all players in art.

Claude Monet, Edgar Degas and Pierre Auguste Renoir were what style of painters type impressionism?

Correct.

Are the impressionists?

I'll take it, though.

Art is your bonus, saying he wanted to permanently transition it to the metaverse.

A cryptocurrency entrepreneur claimed in 2022 that he burned a drawing worth $10 million by which famous Mexican artist who was known for self-portraits and works inspired by nature.

Frida Anymore?

I prefer to ello.

Well, I think that the judges are usually the last name more than the first name.

But it was Frida Kahlo.

All right, I'll see what they say about that.

That's up in astronomy.

The first American satellite was placed in orbit.

From what launch site?

Atticus.

Cape Canaveral?

Yes.

And an astronomy bonus.

Now, in 2013, NASA's Curiosity rover discovered bright white veins with elevated levels of calcium sulfate.

What is the chemical formula for calcium sulfate?

S.A..

So three closed at case.

So for you can still get points, though, by telling me which planet did Curiosity explore?

Mars right.

410 on the bonus pass up Now in music, which drums are the only drums that can be tuned to a definite pitch?

Scuba What?

Steel drums.

Now that you can still see more, you like snare drums, You know, those are the timpani or the kettle drums has it for everyone.

In economics, what is a signed authorization for someone else to vote a stockholder's share Atticus affidavit that you can still see more Now it's a proxy vote pass up in vocabulary.

What seven letter word starting with O means a view or judgment formed about something not necessarily GE observation?

No, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge.

Timothy Opinion.

Right.

And a vocabulary bonus.

The name of what dog breed can also be used to describe a person who is a sleuth or who pursues something keenly or relentlessly hound.

No, I needed bloodhound specifically on that one.

A no points there.

Toss up now in geometry, what is the longest chord in any circle called capacitor?

Yeah.

Make sure I've called on you all the way with diameters.

Right.

You get a visual bonus.

Now, career magnet.

Take a look at the screens.

This theorem is a fundamental relation in Euclidean geometry between the three sides of a right triangle.

Name the theorem.

Pythagorean theorem is right.

20 points plus up now in chemistry.

What is the formula for die?

Nitrogen monoxide.

Bernoulli Atticus into.

Oh, yeah.

Formerly called nitrous oxide is right chemistry is are bonus curve magnet namely two elements that compose the alloy brass, copper and zinc.

Those are both right 20 points pass up.

Now in sports, in which sport do players win the Cy Young Award?

You like baseball?

And a sports bonus for Seymour, who was born as Edson Arantes do Nascimento, but was known by what one word name that is the most recognized name in soccer history.

Paper I refer to Eli Pele is right 20 points toss up now in geography, which small island sits just to the south of Cuba in the Caribbean and has Kingston as its capital, Atticus, Jamaica.

Right.

And a geography bonus.

What river is the boundary between Washington and Oregon?

And is the largest North American river that empties into the Pacific Ocean Snake River, and that's the Columbia River pass up in mythology, what hybrid mythological being is half human female half fish.

Atticus Mermaid right for ten mythology bonus What Greek mythological creature is half human half bull minotaur also right toe on the bonus toss up in foreign language.

What is the French word for shirt Big blouse?

No, that you can still see more.

That's a chemise toss up now in chemistry.

What is the term for a solution with the ability to maintain a constant p h Cooper neutral?

No.

You can still see more type buffer.

Buffer?

Is it chemistry as a bonus?

What kind of luminescence causes materials to glow as they absorb radiation iridescence?

That's fluorescence.

Try this.

What kind of luminescence causes materials to glow for minutes or even days longer?

Iridescence.

That's phosphorescent.

Okay, no points there.

Toss up in art.

What is the ten letter word beginning with C, that means a drawing which exaggerates the physical features type character.

Exaggerates the physical features of a person chance to steal career magnet character to it.

It's really.

Yeah, well, she did put the cut in there so caricature is yes I'm going to take that in an art bonus.

Which influential artist of the Flemish Baroque tradition painted Massacre of the Innocents, in which the Biblical massacre of Bethlehem is depicted Francis That's Peter Paul Reubens on that one.

Many artists did, but I was specifically looking for him toss up in U.S. history.

Which political party included us presidents Washington and Adams?

Timothy Federalists.

Yes, and a history bonus.

The Battle of Gettysburg was the largest ever fought on American soil.

Who was the commander of the victorious union forces at Gettysburg?

I defer to Ty Grant.

No, that was General George Meade.

How about this?

Who was the commander of the Confederate forces at Gettysburg?

Andrew Jackson.

That was General Robert E Lee.

No points on the bonus toss up Now in foreign language, in Spanish, what does Kurtulmus mean?

Atticus?

More, please.

Yeah, I want more.

We'll take that foreign language bonus.

How do you say I speak Spanish in Spanish?

You are espanol.

And how do you say I read a lot in Spanish?

Mi Ramos.

I was looking for Julio Mucho in that one.

So at least ten on that bonus up now in geometry, what is the name of a non square equilateral quadrilateral Eli Rhombus.

Yeah.

And the geometry bonus.

A triangle has angle measures of two x, three x and 115.

What are the measures of the two missing angles are 46 and 69.

No, it's 26 and 39.

Sounds like x must be 13 in that equation.

Toss up in health.

What is the standard six letter term for the removal and examination of body cells?

A biopsy?

Yes.

And a health bonus.

Who is credited with developing the earliest effective vaccine against rabies?

Williams.

And that's Louis Pasteur.

Try this.

Louis Pasteur demonstrated that abnormal fermentation of wine and beer could be prevented by heating the beverages.

What does that process called?

Pasteurization is right for ten on the bonus concept for all players.

Miscellaneous according to the proverb which the early bird catch.

But the time has run out as a foul five point game.

Is that right?

Oh wow.

Career magnet.

You did a great job.

So did Seymour.

But not enough for career magnet to continue in the tournament.

Seymour will play again in threshold of 32.

We love having you here, Career magnet.

I hope We'll see you again next year.

Get some underclassmen on the team.

Right.

Good, good, good.

Well, wow, only five points.

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