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 64 teams from all over the viewing area competing for the Frank Miller Memorial Trophy and a cash prize that you'll hear about at halftime.

We're getting closer to that final round.

We are now in the threshold of 32, the second round of Scholars Bowl.

And this second round match is between Temple Baptist Academy of Powell and Somerset High School of Somerset, Kentucky.

So we appreciate you guys making the drive from Kentucky to be with us here today.

Let's get started by meeting the players from TBA, starting with sophomore Parker Kelley.

Hi, Parker.

Welcome back.

Tell us something about yourself.

I'm from Connecticut and I like to watch and play football.

What part of Connecticut?

Uh, the southeastern part.

What city?

Uh, Groton, Connecticut.

Oh, that's where they make.

They do submarines, right?

Yes, There have been in the submarine.

Uh, no, but my dad has.

Okay, that explains a lot.

Let's say hi to Easton Jones, who is a senior.

What about you?

Eastern.

Um, I'm a Lions fan, So they're doing pretty well this season, and I, I, I play basketball.

And what is the.

The mascot for Temple Baptist?

It's a line as well.

Okay, I thought so.

Yeah.

It might be appropriate that you keep that in the the whole family there let's say had a team captain Will Campbell will a senior this year but you're going to answer bonuses on behalf of the squad or you can defer by name to one of your teammates.

Tell us more about you.

I play soccer and I'm captain of the debate team.

Oh, who do you like to argue against?

Everybody.

Everybody?

Anybody here, Anybody here on the squad?

They maybe you.

I don't know.

Oh, I'd be great.

I see how that goes.

I mean, sometimes, you know, if teams do challenge a point at halftime or at the end of the game, let's say hi to Michael Vick sama.

Michael, welcome to the show.

Happy to have you here.

Tell us more about yourself.

I play the flute and I have a terrible fear of escalators.

You know, I can understand that my son, when he was a kid, hated them and we had to pick him up and get him over that.

So what is it about escalators that I fell down?

One heading down at the airport?

Oh, that's never like them since.

That's no good.

And you got to be careful.

I mean, people have gotten really badly injured because they let their shoelaces get eaten by an escalator, which is escalator talk.

And we'll get back to our regular program in just a moment after we say hi to the alternate and coach for Temple Baptist Academy.

That's Kayla Carter.

And she is joined by coach Jessica Sexton, who teaches history at TBA, taking on a squad from Somerset High School.

It's Welcome back, Quentin Mobley.

Hey, Quentin, How are you?

I'm good.

You're a junior.

And what else is new on on Decker and I like UK basketball.

What is the significance of DECA?

I know it's a leadership type thing, right?

And that's why, like, it's like business.

Okay, well, good.

I see.

Yeah.

We have several DECA members on the squad, including Blake Pointer, who is a junior.

What about you, Blake?

I'm a college football fan and I like the university in Turkey, too.

Well, you have me.

You live in Kentucky.

It's quiet, isn't it?

Yes.

You can be a little fan, but that's not good.

It's funny you should mention them because they're one of their team busses was on the interstate as I was driving earlier today.

It said at go cards, as I recall.

All right.

Well, anyway, nice to see you here again today.

Team captain is John Lackey, who is a junior.

So you can answer bonuses or defer.

John, tell us about you things.

I do.

I run cross-country and track my school and I also play the piano.

And piano is something you've been doing for for a long time or recently?

Since elementary school.

Wow.

That's great.

All right.

I hope that's something you can do for the rest of your life.

And I hope you do continue that.

Let's say hi to Caroline Horn, a sophomore.

Tell us about yourself, Caroline.

I'm in the marching band and a pretty big musical theater fan.

So if you had a free ticket to any show currently on Broadway, what would you sing?

Um, currently.

Or if you could travel in time and go back and see some old classic show time would be 2017 to see Natasha Pier in the Great Con of 1812.

Wow.

Underrated music, that is.

You need to write me a question about that because I'd never even heard of it.

We can use it on a future show for the saying hi to the alternate and coach for Somerset.

That's Kate Yoest, and she's joined by coach Johnny White, who teaches English and social studies players.

You all won your way here.

You know how we play with tossups, where ten bonuses worth up to 20.

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

First toss up is in the category of health.

What is the branch of medicine devoted to the care of the muscular and skeletal systems?

Quentin, Osteopathic not it you can steal Temple Will orthopedics is that and a health bonus now namely four bones in a human leg tibia, femur tibia, tibia and fibula, femur and hip.

I can take tibia and femur, but fibula is the other one.

And then patella, everyone forgets their knees.

So we'll give you ten points on that toss up.

Now in literature, What Children's Novel by Katherine Patterson is a story about two children named Leslie and Jessie, who create a magical forest kingdom in their imaginations.

Caroline The Bridge Terabithia is right for literature.

Bonus Now, what book has the characters of Mr. and Mrs. Wormwood Matilda?

Matilda is right for ten, who's the main antagonist and headmistress at Crunch time Hall in Roald Dahl's 1988 novel, Matilda Not a Fairy.

Caroline.

Ms.. Trunchbull Yeah, Agatha Trunchbull is her 1020 points.

They're passed up now in geometry.

What is the some of the interior angle measures of a dough deck gone in degrees?

John 1080 degrees.

No, you can.

Steel Temple.

Easton 1280 degrees.

Now it's 1800.

You said 1080.

So it's 1800.

No points.

They're tossup in music.

What is the professional title of the person who creates the dances for musical production?

Choreographer for.

Yeah.

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

Choreographer is right.

Music is your bonus name.

The Broadway musical with the songs Grizabella and Memory B Wicked.

Now Caroline's Dyin over Here on the other team.

That's Cat's Name, the Broadway musical with the songs Castle on a Cloud and Bring Him Home.

Defer to Easton The Lion King.

That is Les Miserable.

As Caroline could have told us, easily toss up for all players in history who succeeded Julius Caesar as Emperor of Rome.

Will Augustus Caesar is right.

History bonus Julius Caesar was stabbed to death in what year?

I defer to Micah.

Uh, 325 B.C.

was only 44 B.C.. Can you tell me on what day of the year?

March 15th?

Yes.

The Ides of March.

Be where it happens to be my wife's birthday.

So I just have to be very careful not to forget that Toss up for all players in chemistry.

All proteins contain carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and what other element?

John Nitrogen is right for ten chemistry as your bonus.

Name four of the seven elements classified as noble gases solid answer are argon neon xenon and then you know well those three do get your 15 points helium radon and ogenesson are the others and krypton can't forget Krypton does that for all players.

Now in mythology what is the giant one eyed creature?

Well, Cyclops in Greek mythology and a visual bonus, please take a look at screens.

Temple Baptiste.

What is the name of the temple shown here?

That is the largest structure at the Acropolis in Athens.

The Parthenon is correct for ten it was built to worship.

Which mythological?

God.

You know, Athena is right for 20 points on the bonus toss up now in biology in 1831, Charles Darwin started his five year research expedition as the ships.

Well, the Galapagos Islands, No, but as the ship's naturalist aboard what ship?

Somerset is still Caroline.

HMS Beagle.

Yes.

And a biology bonus.

Now, since 2020, hundreds of boats have been attacked by pods of orca whales in what narrow strait that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea?

Another answer?

John Iberian No, that's the Strait of Gibraltar is that strait toss up now in religion, which English King embraced the Protestant Reformation and made himself head Parker Edward the eighth, No head of the Church of England chance to steal Caroline Henry the Eighth Henry the eighth is the guy in a religion.

Bonus now for Somerset, which English brothers were ordained in the Anglican Church but became known as Methodists, owing to their conspicuously pious ways, methodical approach to Bible study and daily prayer.

John Wesley and Charles Wesley Those are both correct 20 points Toss up now in government airports in the USA have TSA checkpoints.

What does TSA stand for?

My terminal security agents, not it.

You can still Somerset Quentin Terminal Security Administration It's the transport station Security Administration points dressed up in astronomy.

According to folklore, the second full moon in a calendar month is known.

Will the Blue Moon as a blue moon astronomy bonus?

In 1983, who became the first American woman and third woman of all time to go into space when she wrote aboard the space shuttle Challenger, Defer to Mica Sally Ride correct for 20 points.

Toss up now in foreign language, what five letter Spanish word is commonly used in English to mean manly or masculine in a noticeable hairline.

Macho.

Yeah or exaggerated way.

Foreign language bonus Now Somerset what Swedish word that can mean a wide range of something is actually a type of Swedish meal served buffet style with multiple hot and cold dishes.

Answer not answer.

That is a smorgasbord toss up for everybody in algebra.

What is the value of x if negative three fourths x plus 20 equals eight?

John -16 No, you can steal Temple it's positive 16 is the answer.

No points toss up for everybody in art.

Which museum houses the Mona Lisa and Venus?

Easton, Louvre de Milo among other treasures.

And now an art bonus.

Take a look at the screens, please.

The National Gallery of Art says this impressionist painting is one of the most popular works in their collection.

First, tell me, who was the artist?

Drew Vermeer, That is Renoir.

How about the title of that painting Girl in the Dress?

It's a girl with a watering can, so you're on the right track, but no points toss up in geography.

Which river runs through Nashville, Tennessee?

Will, the Cumberland.

Yes.

And a geography bonus.

The Colorado River traverses seven states before reaching Mexico.

Other than obviously Colorado.

Name four of those seven states.

Do you defer to Easton.

New Mexico, Nevada, Montana and Wyoming?

Well, I can give you three of those because it goes through Arizona, as in the Grand Canyon and California.

You mentioned Nevada and New Mexico.

Utah, you missed, but Wyoming, you got 15 on the bonus pass up.

Now for all players in geology, what layer of the earth just outside the core is made up mostly of, Will, the mantle silicates and a geology bonus.

In which geological period did mammals first appear?

The Mesozoic that is called the tertiary period.

In which geological era did mammals first appear in the Mesozoic?

Well, you're on the right track, but it's the Cenozoic for mammals.

No points on the bonus tossup in literature in Greek mythology, which King of Thebes unwittingly killed his father and married his mother.

Caroline Oedipus literature bonus?

What is the name of Homer's epic poem that tells of a king's perilous ten year journey home from war?

The Odyssey.

And from which war was he returning to?

The Trojan War?

Elizabeth Right.

20 points plus up for everyone in government.

What is the title for a U.S. representative who presides over the House and is elected by a majority party Micah, Speaker of the House is right and then the government bonus now for Temple.

In 2022, the UN and the G-7 condemned a Russian attack on Ukraine's energy infrastructure as a possible war crime other than the European Union.

Name four of the G7 countries after the US, Great Britain, Canada and Russia know well.

We can take us and we'll take the United Kingdom.

I think we'll take that.

And Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan are the others.

Russia I don't think would have condemned itself, but.

Okay.

Yeah.

15 on the bonus toss up in sports in the year 2000 who became the youngest golfer to complete a career grand slam.

Well Tiger Woods correct in a sports bonus in what sport is the Ryder Cup awarded golf and how often is the Ryder Cup played?

Every other year.

Every other year?

Yeah, every two years in odd numbered years, in case you're keeping track.

Plus, up in world history, which we will save for our second half of play, it's Temple Baptist versus Somerset High School.

One of these two teams advances to our round of the smart 16. Who's is going to be anything can happen in our second half of play.

Stick around for more exciting action 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 their second round game between Temple Baptist Academy and Somerset High School.

Looks like either team could win and make their way to the Smart 16.

We'll find out who it is after the next ten and a half minutes of play.

But both have brought alternates into the game.

We'll see how that helps them.

Let's say hi to Kayla Carter, who's been here before.

You're junior.

Kayla, tell us more about you.

I played two sports and I have a job as well.

A job?

Well, what do you do?

I make smoothies.

That's a great job.

And what are the sports you play?

I play volleyball and basketball.

They all come in.

The teammates.

I'll come in for smoothies with extra sometimes added.

Okay, Well, good.

Everyone loves a smoothie.

Thanks for being here.

We also on the Somerset side are welcoming Kate Yeast.

Hi, Kate.

Welcome.

Happy to have you on the show.

Tell us something about yourself.

You're a sophomore and what else is new?

I play tennis and I'm on the feature problem solving team.

Does that mean you're waiting to solve problems or does that mean you're starting now to solve problems of the future?

Starting now to solve what's a future problem?

You get a scenario that's set 40 years into the future.

Oh, my goodness.

Yeah, well, you'll still be alive.

My insurance company says I will.

Not if you're interested.

All right, well, we're happy that you're here and appreciate it.

Just let's get back to the game.

Fingers on the buzzer for the second round game of Tennessee Scholars Bowl 2024.

Toss up for all players in world history.

The Good Friday Agreement is a pair of agreements signed in April 1998 that ended most of the violence.

In what country?

Clinton United Kingdom, Not it.

You can still take Easton, Afghanistan now, specifically Northern Ireland is the answer there.

Toss up in chemistry.

What is a mixture of chemical elements of which at least one is a metal that will retain all the properties of a metal in the resulting material such as John Elway?

Yeah, conductivity and so on.

Chemistry Bonus Now Aluminum's atomic number is 13.

What is the electron configuration of aluminum in exponential form?

1s2, 2s2, 2p6, 3s2, 3p1 That's right for 20 points plus up now for everyone in geography, in what country is the great Sphinx of Giza located Easton.

Egypt.

Right.

And a visual bonus now for Temple.

Take a look at the screens, please.

Which Southeast Asian country is highlighted on the map?

Vietnam.

Correct.

And what is its capital?

Sure.

Hong Chao.

No, it's Hanoi is the name of it.

Ten points.

Toss up in vocabulary.

Spell the word that can be a you were for water or a player who throws the ball to the batter.

Well 0pitcher.

and a vocabulary bonus.

What ten letter word beginning with u means seeming to be found everywhere at the same time.

What is definitive mica ubiquitous That is correct.

Architecture Toss up.

What is the name of our nation's tallest monument located Easton.

Washington Monument?

Uh No, it's located in the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial in Saint Louis.

Caroline Arch anymore?

It's Saint Louis Arch.

No, It's the name of it is the Gateway Arch, because it's the gateway to the West.

I can't give it to you.

Toss up Now in economics, what is the organization of two or more firms into one firm Eastern Merging?

Yeah.

Merger.

Is it economics bonus Now what term means to decrease in value because of wear and tear depreciate.

Depreciate.

Yeah.

Depreciation.

We'll take that 20 points toss up.

Now in science what are horizontal movements of water called.

Well tides not it.

You can still Somerset but oh no currents toss up in foreign language English.

And what other language are the official languages of India?

Quintin Uh, Hindu and Sanskrit.

I don't think I can take that and steel.

Temple Well, Hindi.

Hindi is the language.

Hindu is the religion.

That's right.

Hindi for ten and a bonus in foreign language.

What are the two official languages of Iraq?

Urdu, Urdu and Arabic.

I'll give you ten for Arabic.

Kurdish is the other official language tossup in math computation.

What is ten minus six and 5/9 as a mixed number fraction, John three and 4/9 is correct in a math bonus for Somerset.

Look at the screens, please.

In a circle, the measure of a major arc is four times the measure of its minor arc.

Find the measures of both arcs 288 degrees and 72 degrees, which is which terminates the major.

It is a minor.

Yeah, that's right.

20 points toss up now in religion.

What is the city that no one but Muslims are allowed to enter and was the birthplace?

Well, Mecca of Muhammad and a religion bonus.

In spring 2023, Iran's chief justice threatened that women appearing in public without their veils would be prosecuted without mercy, by authority of which set of religious laws that obliged women to cover their hair and wear loose clothes to disguise their figures.

So the Koran that is called Sharia law, no points toss up in art, which art movement lasted from 1600 to 1750 and included artists such as Bernini and Rembrandt.

John.

Baroque.

Is right and art bonus of Claude Monet and Edvard Munch, which was the Expressionist and which was the Impressionist.

Monet was Impressionists.

Munch was Expressionist.

Those are both correct.

20 Tossup in Health.

What is the term to describe tumors or growths that are not malignant Easton.

benign.

Or cancerous and a health bonus now what common disease is an infection that causes an itchy rash with small fluid filled blisters and might be prevented by the varicella vaccine?

So chickenpox is right for ten.

What typically adult virus is a reactivation of the chickenpox virus in the body, causing a painful rash shingles that's about right for 20 plus up now in spelling for all players first in order of importance or the head of a school is the meaning of principal spell Principal Caroline p r i n c i p a l correct for ten spelling bonus dilate means to make or become wider, larger or more open as in the doctor will dilate my eyes spell dilate and designate Caroline d i a l a t e You threw an extra letter in there.

Just d i l a t e no points Toss up now in literature with which war is Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms Associated Caroline World War One.

Right.

And a literature bonus.

In 2023, Gabriel Garcia marquez became the most translated Spanish language writer of the century, surpassing which author known for writing Don Quixote.

I defer to Caroline Cervantes is right 20 points Tossup in music.

What is a cappella music?

Will, without instruments, Yeah, without an instrumental accompaniment and a music bonus.

Now, who composed the oratorio Elijah and a concert overture for Shakespeare's?

A midsummer Night's Dream.

Don't defer to Micah.

Handle.

That is Mendelssohn.

Felix Mendelssohn.

No points there.

Toss up in U.S. history.

Davy Crockett and many others died while defending Quenton, you know.

Yes.

And a history bonus now in which U.S. city was John F Kennedy assassinated?

That was Dallas.

Correct.

And what was the name of the first lady who was in the car with him?

Jacqueline.

Jacqueline Kennedy, Both correct.

20 points.

Toss up now in physics, what is the term for the tendency of a solvent like water to diffuse through a membrane until the concentrations of the solutions are equal on either side?

Instant and permeable, Not it?

You can steal Somerset.

That is osmosis.

No points on that toss up in vocabulary words that have different meanings but are spelled Easton onomatopoeia.

No, but are spelled in pronounce.

The same are homophones.

Now Homonyms is where I was getting to with that.

No points toss up now in pre-calculus for what value of x is the fraction 20 over the quantity x squared plus five x -14 undefined John negative two in seven.

No chance.

Still Temple Well negative two.

Now you had it flipped It's negative seven and positive two.

No points there.

Toss up miscellaneous in what state is Old Dominion University located?

Will Virginia is the Old Dominion bonus.

Now in what state is the university of Miami located in Florida?

Yes.

And what state is Miami University located?

Ohio.

Those are both right for 20 plus up now in government.

What is the legal process by which a person becomes a citizen of another country at some time Quentin naturalization after birth and a government bonus?

Now name two of the three documents collectively known as the Charters of Freedom Constitution, an American Constitution and Declaration of Independence, both correct with Bill of Rights being the third 20 points toss up in science.

What is the process by which a gas changes to a liquid?

Cate.

No, you ran out of time on that chance to steal a Temple.

Micha.

Condensation is correct for ten and a science bonus which material in each of the two pairs I'm about to read has more mass for the same volume.

First brick or glass.

Glass.

Glass.

Correct.

Water or gasoline?

Water?

Both.

Right.

20 Toss up in literature.

Who is the author of The Catcher in the Rye?

A Story Caroline J.D.

Salinger and a literature bonus named the novel, written by Ray Bradbury that presents an American society where books have been Fahrenheit 451, and Bradbury meant for the title to refer to what he which he did.

Which paper burns That's right.

20 points.

Tossup in pre-calculus.

Which famous mathematicians name Will Sir Isaac Newton?

No.

And that's the end of the game as I see what you did there.

They're playing the clock game pretty well over at Temple.

Well, first of all, congratulations to Somerset.

You did outstandingly well in the two games that we had you, and we hope to see you again on Scholarship Bowl.

And we do appreciate your making the journey from Kentucky to be with us today.

Meanwhile, Temple Baptist, congratulations.

You're going to advance now to the round of the Smart 16.

Some of you are familiar with that, I believe, from last year.

We look forward to seeing you again on Scholars Bowl.

You, of course, can keep track of all of our games.

Make sure you set your DVR, check your listings.

Don't miss any of the action on Scholars Bowl 2024.

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My name is Frank Murphy.

Thanks for watching.

Tennessee Scholars Bowl 2020 for.