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 64 teams from all over the viewing area competing for the Frank Miller Memorial Trophy and a cash prize that will describe at halftime our 40th season on the air.

And we're delighted today to have Temple Baptist Academy versus the King's Academy.

And we'll see which of these academies comes out on top.

We'll start off by saying hi to the team from Powell.

That's Temple Baptist Academy, beginning with Parker Kelly, a sophomore.

Tell us about your hobbies and interests.

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

Do people get mad at you for being from Connecticut, or is it okay?

Sometimes not many people are from north here.

Well, I grew up in nearby in Westchester, New York, so not too far off.

Let's say hi to Easton Jones.

What about you, Easton Senior, Welcome back.

Good to see you again.

I played basketball and soccer at the same time.

That's a talent.

It is.

Let's say hi to team Captain Wil Campbell.

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

Tell us more about you.

Well, I'm captain of the debate team and I'm an avid kazoo player.

An avid kazoo.

That means every day.

Oh, a constant.

Ah, What is your top kazoo hits?

My top kazoo hits.

Let's see.

What a wonderful world.

Oh, that's a great one of my favorites.

Yeah.

Happy birthday.

Big demand for that.

Oh, yeah, That's what I'm saying.

Also to Kayla Carter.

What about you, Kayla?

You're a junior this year.

Yes, I am.

I'm the volleyball varsity captain of our high school team, and I play basketball as well.

All right, So you like the leadership role there or do you think that's something you can pursue in later in life?

We'll see.

Okay.

Well, let's say hi to the alternate and coach for Temple Baptist Academy.

Say hi to Micha Vixama and coach Jessica Sexton.

We're happy to have you both here at Scholar's Bowl taking on a team from the Kings Academy.

Am I supposed to say it like OSU, right?

The Kings Academy in Seymour, Tennessee.

Let's say hi first to Jonah Weber, who is a junior high.

Jonah, tell us more about you know, I play tennis for my school and golf with the friends.

Okay.

So you don't play golf for the school.

You never play tennis with friends.

Oh, yeah, I do.

Okay.

I just check.

Yeah.

So you can mix it up sometimes.

Great.

What's your favorite scholar's bowl subject or category?

Like sports?

Good.

All right, we have a few of those.

I think maybe Jack Townsend is a junior.

How are you, Jack?

I'm doing good.

How are you?

Very well, thanks.

Tell us more about yourself.

I play basketball and I'm bilingual.

Oh, Which two languages?

I can speak Spanish and English.

Well, good.

That could help you in the game today, As I'm sure you know from watching past episodes.

We'll will look forward to you for those.

And also, Junior Grady Brannon is a team captain, so that means you're going to answer or defer to the guys on either side of you if you want.

What's your interests and hobbies?

Oh, I played basketball for a school.

You know, a lot of basketball.

We have enough people to play a basketball game here.

I mean, to be able to do a pickup game in the parking lot afterward.

And what's your position?

I play everything.

Everything in basketball.

Nice.

All right.

Do you have any interest in pursuing that?

Later, Going to Lawford for college to play basketball?

Oh, I have a friend who I think who played football there.

That's a great school.

Excellent.

Congratulations.

And we also welcome Glace as in Glacier White.

Tell us about you.

Uh, I play soccer for my school, and you're a junior.

What else about yourself?

Uh, playing the band.

What instrument?

Percussion, mostly.

The drum set.

How do you have time to manage those?

It's an all in scholar's bowl and studying it is a question for early everybody.

Yeah, it's a lot, but I get it done.

All right.

We're glad to have you.

Let's say hi to the coach for the Kings Academy.

That is Jackie Castle who teaches science down in Seymour.

And we're delighted, Jackie, that you came back again this year with another great team.

We look forward to seeing who of the two of you will advance to the threshold of 32.

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

Get your fingers on the buzzer for this first round game of Tennessee's Scholars Bowl 2024 toss up in the area of technology.

In 1968, Doug Engelbart invented a small hand sized object he called an X-Y position indicator.

Kayla, Mouse is now known as a computer mouse and a technology bonus.

Following his 2022 trial against Amber Heard, Johnny Depp donated nearly $800,000 to children's hospitals by selling unique digital assets traded through blockchain technology of his Never Fear Truth art collection.

By what name are these digital assets known as Nfts?

Yeah, that's right.

For 20 points toss up now in math.

What is the product of 3000 times 400 times 20?

Nobody got 24 million in time, so no points on that toss up for all players.

Now in art, in which country do the type of dance drama known as Kabuki begin?

Well, Japan is right and it gets you an art bonus.

Take a look at the screens, please.

Temple Baptist, Which American artist created the photorealistic oil painting shown here that was published on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post in 1962.

Norman Rockwell is correct.

For ten, the illustration, titled The Connoisseur, shows a man viewing an abstract expressionist painting in the style of what artist Picasso.

That's a Jackson Pollock imitation in that picture.

So ten points on the bonus toss up in U.S. history.

On April nine, 1865, at what location did General Lee surrendered to General Grant?

Easton Arlington.

Not it ultimately ending the Civil War, a chance to steal the King's Academy.

You can't look each other on on toss ups.

No.

There's a couple of hours south of Arlington, Appomattox, closer to Richmond.

Plus that for all players in mythology, in Greek mythology, what was the traditional weapon of the gods?

Zeus Parker, Lightning bonus, then to Temple Baptist Academy.

Who parts in mythology?

What is the Roman mythological equivalent for the Greek goddess Artemus?

Venus.

That's Diana.

What is the Roman mythological equivalent for the Greek goddess Aphrodite?

I think Venus.

That's right.

Ten points on the bonus plus up in biology.

Which tree lizard is notable for its ability to change its color?

Will chameleon and a biology bonus now named two of the three distinctive structures found in plant cells.

Oh, I'm so cell wall and chlorophyl.

I'll give you points for cell wall.

That's chloroplast and vacuole of the other 210 on the bonus plus up now in government what process allows a case to be brought up from a lower court to a eastern appeal?

Yeah, to a higher court and a government bonus.

Now, in 2023, an advocacy group filed a federal complaint alleging that Harvard violated the Civil Rights Act for practice of giving preferential treatment to applicants with family ties to wealthy donors and alumni.

What is that practice called?

Affirmative action now it's called legacy admissions.

When they bring in the family and friends that way, toss up in music.

What is the title of the National Anthem of Great Britain?

Will God Save the King is Right and a music bonus Now, who was born in Memphis in 1942 and is known as the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin 410.

What was the title of the 2021 Aretha Franklin biopic starring Jennifer Hudson that is named after her signature song Respect?

That's correct.

For 20 plus up now in economics, which company is the largest producer of motorcycles in the U.S.?

Brady Harley-Davidson wrecked for ten economics bonus.

What product uses the slogan Taste the Rainbow Skittles?

What product uses the slogan The snack that Smiles back?

Goldfish.

Yeah, that's right.

20 points plus up now in spelling to make repeated small scale attacks on an enemy is to harass them.

Spell, harass.

Easton H A R A S S is right spelling bonus.

Now someone providing supplementary or additional help and support would be an auxiliary spell.

Auxiliary defer to Easton, a U.S. air.

Why?

That's right.

For 20 points toss up for all players now in chemistry.

What is the common name for sodium chloride?

Parker Table salt.

Yes.

And a visual bonus.

Take a look at the screens, please.

What is the symbol for tennis scene?

A synthetic chemical element that is the second heaviest known element, TNT?

No, it's actually PTS.

They didn't go with ten because that was already taken as the state capital or so I learned when I Googled it.

Plus that for all players in algebra, what is the value of x?

If seven x plus 12 equals five x -12 will zero.

Now you can still Kings Academy and nobody got it in time.

X is -12 in that one.

Tossup for all players in religion.

How many books are in the New Testament of the King?

James Easton 27.

They are Bible and a religion bonus now which religion is represented by a star and crescent Islam?

That's right.

For 20 plus up in geography, which of the 50 states is called the last frontier?

Brady Alaska.

Right for ten geography bonus now for Kings Academy, the northernmost city in Alaska, which changed its name in 2016, attracts birdwatching tourists who are hoping to see snowy owls, riders and many other species.

What is its former name for ten?

No answer.

It's Barrow, but it changed in 2016.

To what current name?

No answer.

It's fun to say though.

You should practice it.

It's good.

Chaotic toss up for all players in foreign language.

What six letter French word beginning with C is a term for an overused phrase or opinion.

Parker Cliche.

Cliche is it that betrays a lack of original thought foreign language bonus.

Now the mayor of Helsinki said it should become an English language city to attract more foreign workers.

What are the two current official languages of Helsinki, Finnish and Swedish?

Those are both correct for 20 points toss up for everyone in astronomy.

Which star system has been identified as the nearest star to our sun?

Brady Jupiter.

Now you can steal Temple.

The star system is Alpha Centauri.

No points there.

Toss tossup in geology.

What is the term for a massive tidal wave caused by earthquakes?

Well, tsunami under the sea floor and a geology bonus.

Now, the Cook Islands could become a source of critical strategic metals, although prominent ocean experts warn of enormous damage.

The seabed is rich in copper, nickel, manganese and which chemical element with the symbol CO of cobalt right for 20 plus.

Up now in art, which famous artist carved the Medici tombs in Florence?

Well, Da Vinci, not him.

You can steal King's Academy.

The Michelangelo is that guy.

No points there.

Toss up now in world history, who was the first democratically elected president of Russia?

Will Vladimir Putin know you can steal the King's Academy?

Boris Yeltsin is back before Putin.

Putin pops up in literature in which Jane Austen playing does Miss Marianne end up marrying Colonel Brandon?

Will Pride and Prejudice?

No.

You can steal the King's Academy.

That is Sense and Sensibility.

No points there.

Toss up now in health, where are red blood cells created place bones anymore?

No, I'm still.

Well, bone marrow.

Yes.

Is it?

And a health bonus now.

President Franklin D Roosevelt is pictured on the ten cent coin, partly because of his involvement in the creation of what charitable organization the Dime Foundation was.

It's called March of Dimes.

Although its current focus is on premature babies, what disease did March of Dimes originally?

Combat defer to Kayla Polio is right.

You get ten on that bonus toss up in math computation.

What is the greatest common factor of 48 and 72?

Well, 24 is the correct answer.

And a bonus now in math computation change 125 over 625 into a decimal to 2.2.

That's right.

For 20 points.

Toss up in sports when keeping score in baseball, which letter represents a strikeout?

Well, okay.

Is it sports bonus?

The number 42 is retired by every Major League baseball team and is displayed on all MLB jerseys every April 15th to honor which player Jackie Robinson.

Correct for 20 toss up now in government, what is the common name for a political meeting in which voters publicly discuss their preference for a party nominee Will town hall not it You can steal the King's Academy place rally that is a caucus toss up in vocabulary.

What human features have arches, loops, whorls?

Well, fingerprints is right and a vocabulary bonus which we don't get to because the half ran out right now.

Looks like Temple Baptist is running up a lead over the King's Academy.

But what will happen in our next half?

Stick around and find out.

In 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 Temple Baptist Academy of Powell and the Kings Academy of Seymour.

And we'll find out which of these two teams will advance to the threshold of 32.

Right now, Temple Baptist has run up the score, but the Kings Academy can catch up in the second half if they ring in enough times.

I mean, we're looking at a one half score.

We'll see what happens in our second half of play.

Both teams have their starting lineup still on the dais, so we'll get right back to it.

Players fingers on the buzzer for Tennessee Scholars Bowl 2024 toss up for all players in chemistry.

The presence or absence of which element separates inorganic chemistry.

Western carbon from organic is carbon and a bonus in chemistry.

Also, in 2023, a customer misusing a New Zealand's supermarket Artificial Intelligence Meal Planner app got it to somehow generate a recipe for what deadly gas with the Formula cl2 mustard gas as chlorine gas and a points there pleasant for all players in geometry.

A Penta deca gun has how many sides eastern 15 is right in our math bonus for Temple Baptist.

Look at the screens please.

What is the distance between the points?

Three negative ten and negative to two on the coordinate plane 2144 to don't answer seven now it's on it's 13 points on that toss up.

Now in music.

Who wrote the Stars and Stripes Forever March will Francis Scott Key chance to steal the Kings Academy.

The March King is John Philip Sousa does it for all players in US history.

Which former US president was named William Blithe the third until he was 15 years old and moved to Hot Springs, Arkansas.

Will Garfield Not him.

You can steal the Kings Academy place.

Pierce No, Arkansas was kind of the clue in that when Bill Clinton pass for all players in English, correct this sentence if necessary.

James has already eaten his candy bar.

Brady, 38.

No chance.

Still, Easton has eaten.

No correction was necessary.

It was a trick question.

There is find the way it was toss up for all players in science.

How many watts are in three kilowatts?

Well, 3000.

Correct.

And a science bonus.

Now, what is the word for water suspended in the air?

Water vapor?

Well, that is what it is.

But the word for it suspended in air is specifically cloud or fog.

So no points there.

Toss up for one in art in the Peanuts comic strip and Charlie Brown cartoon specials, which character offers psychiatric help for place?

Lucy for a nickel and an art bonus now for Kings Academy.

In 2023, the Netherlands returned 472 wrongfully acquired objects of cultural significance to what archipelago nation that was under Dutch colonial rule until World War Two.

Different answer Intrigued No answer.

Indonesia is the former Dutch colony that I was describing toss up in miscellaneous.

What is the message if a flag is flown upside down in danger?

No, it can take just the of the King's Academy.

Brady surrender, not its distress.

Need help?

No points there.

Toss up in geography.

Which African country is closest to Antarctica?

Well, South Africa is right in our visual bonus.

Take a look at the screens please.

Temple.

This flag represents what country that gained its independence on July nine, 2011.

South Sudan is correct.

And now four more points.

Name one of the six countries that border South Sudan, Scotland, Scotland and Sudan.

That's kind of the give me answer.

Yeah, you're right.

Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda are the others.

1020 points plus up in foreign language.

Translate the Latin phrase caveat emptor.

That is, let the buyer beware.

Plus, A for all players in physics, the Rockwell number, the Brunell number, and the Moz scale all measure what physical property, Eastern gravity.

No, you can steal the King's Academy.

Brady Mass.

No, The most scale is for hardness of a rock or something like that.

No points toss up in literature.

What was the name of King Arthur's sword?

Excalibur.

Yes.

And the literature bonus now.

First Lady Jill Biden, who works as an English professor at Northern Virginia Community College, said one of her favorite books to teach is what classic novel about a self-made millionaire and his pursuit of a woman named Daisy.

In Jazz Age, Long Island, New York, it's someone just great.

And it's a Wonderful Life.

That is The Great Gatsby.

But you can still salvage some points if you tell me who wrote The Great Gatsby.

Scott Forster.

Defer to Easton.

Oh, Henry.

And that is, if Scott Fitzgerald started with an initial toss up from players in religion followers of Hinduism consider the waters of which river to be sacred Eastern Euphrates.

Now that you can steal the King's Academy, let's Tigris.

No, the Ganges in India.

No points.

Toss up in economics.

What type of economic system is based on private ownership of the means?

Well, capitalism of the means of production is capitalism.

Economics.

Bonus.

What is the word?

For one who calculates risk and determines premium payments for insurance customers that premium?

Statistician Actuary is that specific job that looks at statistics to decide how long you're going to live.

Toss up in vocabulary.

What is the past tense of forbid?

Well, for Bode that you can steal the King's Academy, Jack for forbid.

Now it's for Beijing.

It's for bad toss up for all players in geology.

What scale is used to measure the intensity of an earthquake?

Well, the Richter scale.

Yes.

And a geology bonus.

What is the five letter Norwegian word for a deep, narrow U-shaped valley eroded to a depth below sea level by glaciers and then flooded with seawater.

Is right for toe toss up.

Now in pre-calculus, name two of the x intercepts of the graph.

Y equals x cubed minus nine x well zero one and zero negative one.

No, I need a two of them.

And those are not right chance to steal the King's Academy.

And I needed zero and three or negative three.

Those are the choices zero three and negative three.

I needed two of those plus up in architecture.

What is a parallel building element used to support a floor or ceiling?

Brady Beam.

No chance.

Still, Temple Well, a column or a joist is the term toss up.

Now in geography, what part of the Atlantic Ocean is between the West Indies and Central and South America?

Well, the Pacific Ocean, no.

You can steal the King's Academy.

That part of the Atlantic is the Caribbean Sea.

Toss up in English.

What is the direct object?

In this sentence I gave Tom my donation for charity Eastern donation.

Right.

And an English bonus.

If the case of the pronoun her in the sentence, her days were numbered as queen.

Possessive?

Yes.

Give the case of the pronoun her in the sentence.

John likes her, but she doesn't like him.

Objective also right 20 toss up now in science.

What is the term for the temperature at which a liquid is converted to vapor?

Will boiling point right.

And a science bonus?

Which element in each pair has more mass for the same volume?

First iron ore led led, Yes.

Copper or aluminum.

Copper.

Also right.

20 on the bonus plus up now in literature.

In 1599, William Shakespeare and six associates became owners of what outdoor theater?

Eastern the globe in the London area is right and a literature bonus now for Temple in 2023.

HarperCollins edited language about ethnicity and removed some entire passages from new editions of classic detective novels featuring Miss Marple and Kill Poro that were written by which bestselling author Agatha Christie is right for 20 plus Up now in music, what group of instruments would play a street beat or a cadence?

Eastern percussion?

Yeah.

Looking for drums or percussion there.

Music Bonus.

What is the musical term for a difference in pitch between two tones?

A note.

That's the interval I was describing Toss up now in history.

Who was the cold blooded killer who murdered at least six prostitutes in London in Parker, Jack the Ripper, 1888, and a world history bonus.

Who was the son of King Henry the eighth?

And Jane Seymour, who reigned as king from 1547 to 1553 and died.

Edward Yes.

Any more?

Edward The first.

Now it's Edward the sixth.

But you may still get points if you tell me.

The daughter of King Henry the Eighth and Anne Boleyn, who reigned as queen from 1558 to 1603, the Mary Queen of Scots, that is Queen Elizabeth, the first on that one.

No points toss up.

Now in literature, which type of poem has 14 lines and a formal rhyme scheme that is a sonnet toss up in vocabulary.

What seven letter word beginning with the letter B is a synonym for breakable, crumbling and fragile.

And Jack is going to shout it out now again, nothing.

Okay, well, brittle would have been the answer, but it was too late as time ran out.

Congratulations, Temple Baptiste.

We look forward to seeing you again.

But first of all, thank you to the King's Academy of Seymour.

You're a fun group, and we look forward to seeing your team again next year on the show.

So keep studying hard and keep practice ringing in.

Meanwhile, Temple Baptist, you advance to the threshold of 32.

We will see you again on Scholars Bowl and you, of course, can keep track of all of our games.

Make sure you set your DVR, check your listings and watch every single episode.

Or as our players do, binge watch past seasons online using the PBS app.

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