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 competition with high schools from all over the viewing area, competing for the Frank Miller Memorial Trophy and a cash prize that you'll hear about coming up at halftime.

We are in the Smart 16, the third round of our tournament.

And today, if you've got deja vu, it's because Webb versus Webb has happened countless times, as far as I'm concerned, in the Smart 16.

And it's time once again for one of these squads to knock the other one out of the game and send them home with nothing.

Let's say hi to one of the squads for Webb, starting off with Nicholas Kazak, who's a senior.

Nicholas, welcome back.

Happy to have you.

Tell us about you.

Hey, I got to see James's amazing taekwondo moves today and James is on the other squad.

He is competitors.

So you're complimenting a competitor?

I am.

That's a kind of a good way.

Kind of still a mind game.

I see what you're doing there.

Good.

Let's say hi to another senior.

It's Andrea Munteanu.

Andrea Welcome back.

I've had you for many years on the show.

Tell us about yourself.

I think Penny has a wonderful taste in ties.

Oh, she does, In fact, so do you.

There's the same.

You're all wearing the same tie.

Okay, good.

So you're talking about your team captain on the other side.

Now, team captain for your squad is Steven Kola, who's a junior.

Steven, welcome back.

Good to see you.

Tell us about yourself.

I'd really like to compliment Sam for being a freshman and one of our best Scholars Bowl team members.

He's a real hard work.

Really.

Okay, Again, this is a total mind game of what's going on over here.

I see.

I see right through it.

Daisy Howard is a junior high.

Daisy, tell us about you.

Jackson is very good at sports trivia.

He's the best one I've ever encountered.

Really.

And you guys are not good at any of this stuff.

Also, we are.

No sector is the opposite of smack talk.

Okay.

You've got two alternates for your team from were able to have first to Anna Tanaka who is a senior and Nolan Humphrey and they're joined by coach Jenny Fields, who teaches Latin and obviously coaches both sides of the dais.

So she can't lose today, even though four of you will.

If you're not going to smack talk, I'll do it.

Let's say hi to the other squad for Webb, starting off with Sam Kowalski, who is a freshman.

Sam, Hi.

Tell us about yourself.

Hi.

I think Stephen is the nicest person on the scholar's ball team.

Really?

The captain of the other team.

And will you just compliment you?

That's very nice.

James Overall is a junior.

James, tell us more.

I'd like to say that Nicholas is probably the best fashion icon I've ever met.

Really?

Okay.

Well you're wearing the same thing today.

So therefore, you're also tied with him, right?

No, no, he's much better.

The better.

Well, he seems to know how to use an iron, so we'll give it to him on that.

Let's say hi to Penny Willoughby, who's the junior Penny, your team captain.

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

Tell us something.

Well, I think Andrea Montano is my personal Roman empire, so.

Really?

So you think about her every day?

Oh, I think about her every single every day.

Yeah.

She's blushing, I think.

Over there.

Good.

Good.

Let's say hi to Jackson White, who's a junior.

Tell us about yourself.

Daisy really likes trees, but she's like, She's quite good at trees.

Okay, Good at trees.

Okay, Well, I'm glad to hear that.

Let's say hi to the alternates for this squad from Webb, couple of seniors.

First up is Henry Shamila and Alex Callanan and, of course, Jenny Fields, the Latin teacher and Scholars Bowl coach.

who does an amazing job with all the students getting you guys back to the Smart 16 again this year.

Amazing.

We have a special guest with us in the studio today.

We're delighted to welcome Wendy Clayton, who is the partner engagement officer at the Knox Education Foundation.

Wendy, thank you for supporting Scholars Bowl and for observing our games today.

All right, Players, you all had to win twice to get here.

You know how it works.

We've got toss ups worth ten bonuses worth up to 20.

Get your fingers on the buzzer for this third round game, this smart 16 round game of Tennessee Scholars Bowl 20 24% for all players in biology.

What 11 letter term beginning with E is used to describe an animal with a constant body temperature that's endothermic.

So a fancy word for warm blooded toss up in literature in which adventure novel is Edmond Dante's the title character?

Andrea The Count of Monte Cristo is correct in the literature bonus.

In 2023, an auction house sold a collection of handwritten letters that were written between 1939 and 1958 by what famous author who discussed the price of his book to have and have not, and described how he survived two plane crashes while on safari in Africa.

Sonic Sabri had a plane crash, but I don't think it's him that's going to be.

Defer to Andrea.

Sonic Sabri?

Ernest Hemingway wrote To Have and Have Not.

No points on the bonus.

Back to Tossups in Music, a platinum award from the Recording Industry Association of America represents sales of how many units?

JACKSON 1 million is right and a music bonus named four of the five instruments that most commonly comprise a woodwind quintet.

Okay, so in French, horn is clarinet, Beethoven, French horn, oboe, other one clarinet.

So that's kind of blew off the penny.

Flute, clarinet, oboe and French horn are correct.

Bassoon being the fifth 20 points on the bonus toss up.

Now in geography, the Upper Peninsula of Michigan is separated from the Mitten, mostly by Lake Michigan, and partially by which other Great Lake?

Sam?

Superior.

No chance to steal Webb.

Oh, of course it's Webb.

But Stephens team.

Andrea Erie.

No, it's Lake Huron is up there just between a little bit of the upper Peninsula, toss up for one in foreign language, which family member is addressed as “Obaasan” in Japanese?

Andrea grandfather No.

Penny grandmother and foreign language bonus for Penny's team in German.

What is the three letter familiar term for grandma OPA?

Another hopeless grandfather I think is Oma.

Oma is right for 20 toss up now in science, what is the chemistry term for the mixture of a solid and a liquid where the salad will not dissolve in the liquid such as muddy water?

Steven No chance to steal Penny's team colloidal suspension.

Yeah, or suspension.

It's a fancier, but I'm just looking for the basic suspension.

Will take that and give you a visual bonus here.

What term is used to describe the natural movement of particles from an area of higher concentration to an area of lower concentration due to random molecular motion Diffusion is right for 20.

Toss up in miscellaneous vinyl figurines of Dolly Parton that debuted in 2023 are made by Watt company that creates James Funko collectibles with large square-ish heads, etc.. Miscellaneous Bonus.

What is the stage name of actor, writer, stunt performer and Tennessee native Philip John Clap.

Johnny Knoxville.

Is correct for 20.

Toss up in U.S. history.

Who was the first U.S. president to be photographed at his- Penny?

John Quincy Adams?

At his inauguration?

A chance to steal Stephen's team.

Stephen Abraham Lincoln is right in a history bonus.

Who was president of the United States when Napoleon Bonaparte crowned himself Emperor of France in December 1804?

Answer.

Thomas Jefferson.

Correct.

Second half of the question which future U.S. President attended Napoleon's coronation at Notre Dame Cathedral?

John Quincy Adams.

Now, that was James Monroe.

Ten points on the bonus.

Toss up.

Now in vocabulary, fix the Spoonerism in the following sentence.

Supermarket Flowers by Ed Sheeran is a bad salad.

Penny Supermarket Flowers by Ed Sheeran is a bad song.

Well, that's your opinion but chance to steal Stephens team.

Daisy?

Supermarket flowers by Ed Sheeran is a poor song.

No bad salad would transposed to sad ballad.

That's what a spoonerism is if wipe out two of the beginning sounds toss up in geology which mechanically weak region of the upper mantle lies below the lithosphere at a depth between 50 and 120 miles below the surface.

Steven The mantle No change.

Steal.

Pennys team.

Penny?

The crust.

That's the Asthenosphere toss up.

Now in astronomy, what is the dimmest of the Zodiac constellations and has a name that is Latin for crab Daisy?

Cancer.

Right.

And then astronomy bonus.

Now, in 2023, for the first time, scientists saw the dark spots on which planet in our solar system that is farthest from the sun and one of the two ice giants to try to Neptune.

Yes, the blue hue around Neptune is due to which gas that has the symbol CH4?

Methane.

Is right for 20 points on the bonus.

Toss up for everyone in the category of art.

What fundamental of art adds a sense of physicality to an artwork by creating an illusion of three dimensional surfaces?

Sam Cubism.

No and shapes that can be seen and felt?

Daisy?

perspective just looking for texture on that.

Toss up now in government.

what term beginning with P L is a form of government in which members of the wealthy are the rulers?

Penny?

Plebeian style government.

Not it you can steal.

Andrea Plutocracy is right and a government bonus.

Now what do the letters in the abbreviation POTUS represent?

President of the United States.

President of the United States?

And what do the letters in the abbreviation flow to us represent?

First Lady of the United States.

Those are both right for 20 points.

Toss up now in English.

What six letter word beginning with s is the antonym of abundant James Scarce is right and you get a visual bonus.

Take a look at screens, please.

What is the ancient statue seen here that depicts the Greek goddess of victory and has been on display in the Louvre since the late 19th century.

Something like Nike's Nike side or something dirty Nike.

I don't think, is her Nike's archangel.

Well, now I can't give it to you because the full title of it is Nike of Samothrace, sometimes called The Winged Victory of Samothrace.

But you have to get the Samothrace in there.

No points on the bonus toss up in chemistry.

What is the chemical formula for calcium carbonate, which is the main ingredient?

Andrea?

CaCO2.

Now that the main ingredient in some chewable antacids.

Chance to steal Pennys team.

Penny?

Ca3CO2, sub two.

Well, if you took all that and jumble it around, you might come up with aco3 because Andre I think was off by one atom.

So no points on the toss it back to tossups in geometry for everyone, a semicircle is divided into two arcs with a 3 to 1 ratio.

What is the measure of the larger arc?

Sam 135 degrees is correct in the geometry bonus for Penny's team, the measurement of one of two complementary angles is two degrees, less than three times the measurement of the other angle.

What is the measurement of each angle?

One is 22 points.

2323 okay.

Answer?

Defer to Sam.

23 and 67.

Those are both correct.

20 points Toss up now in games in the backyard version of what game do players use mallets to hit colored balls through- Penny?

Croquet.

Nine hoops, often called wickets and in games bonus What tile based game uses rectangular pieces marked on each end with a number of dots for players to match ends to another tile with the same number of dots.

Dominoes is right for 20 plus up in world history.

In 476 after Rome fell.

What city became the capital of the Byzantine Empire?

Stephen Constantinople is right in the history bonus for web who became king of the Franks in 771 and was crowned Holy Roman Emperor on Christmas Day in the year 800.

Charlemagne correct Now spell Charlemagne and defer to Andrea c h a r l e m a g n e. Is right.

20 on the bonus.

Toss up Now in literature, what is the title of the Arthur Miller play that takes place during the Salem James The Crucible, which trials and a literature bonus for Penny's team.

What was the title of an annual publication containing seasonal weather forecasts, practical household hints, Puzzles and other Amusements that was published by one of our Founding fathers from 1732 to 1758.

Poor Richard's Almanac ranked who was the founding father who used the alias of Richard Saunders to write anonymously for his almanac.

Is it?

Ben Franklin is right.

20 of the bonus toss up now in science.

What eight letter word beginning with n is the term for a surgical examination of an animal's carcass to determine the cause and manner of death.

Steven Necrosis Not it.

You can steal Penny steam.

It's a necropsy.

So like autopsy.

But that's for humans.

Animals you do.

Any crop necropsy.

Toss up in U.S. history in 1948, President Truman signed what plan aimed to help European countries.

Nicolas?

The Marshall Plan from World War to recover and a U.S. history bonus.

Now, in 2023, a Chattanooga man was recognized for his Vietnam War helicopter rescue missions and was awarded which medal?

That is the highest decoration for U.S. military service members.

Medal of Honor.

Right for 20.

Toss up in music.

Beethoven originally titled his third symphony, Bonaparte.

But when Napoleon declared himself Emperor, Jackson was Beethoven gave the piece what, six letter name by which it is still known a still Stevens team.

Sir Nicholas release.

Now the Third Symphony is the Eroica, meaning heroic Symphony Toss up for everyone in geography.

The Alboran Sea in the Ionian Sea are both part of what larger sea Penny Mediterranean is.

Right.

And we'll see if we have time for the bonus at the half hour.

We do not.

Save those for another day.

Right now, Penny's team has working up a lead over Stephen's team, but it's such an even match.

We know that Webb is going to win.

Which side is going to be the winner and go on to the round of the educated eight?

Find out after the break on Tennessee Scholars Bowl 2024.

The 40th season of Tennessee Scholars Bowl is a single elimination tournament featuring 64 high school academic teams.

The championship team.

And this year, Scholars Bowl receives the Frank Miller Memorial Trophy.

The scorekeeper timekeeper and judges for this year's Scholars Bowl are Chandler Vincent, Rebecca Longmire, Stephen Hensley, Cathy Coley, Ernie Roberts, Cathy Waddell, Jerry Doherty.

Thank you.

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I'm Frank Murphy, back from halftime In this third round game, the Smart 16 between Webb School of Knoxville and Webb School of Knoxville.

Right now, Webb has a lead.

And in fact, actually, it's Penny's team that has the lead over Stephen's team.

Both have brought alternates into the games.

We'll see how that affects and which of these two squads will advance to the round of the educated eight.

Let's say hi to sophomore Nolan Humphrey.

Welcome, Nolan.

Good to see you again.

Tell us about yourself since last time you were here.

Well, I would like to say that Henry is has done a great job at being the robotics safety team captain.

There have been no incidents as far as I knew under him.

That's great.

As far as we know, there's been no incidents.

And of course, he's the ultimate of the other squad.

Nice.

Let's say hi to Anna Tanaka, who's a senior.

Welcome back Anna good to see you again.

Tell us about you.

I like to say that Alex is also a robot whisperer.

Oh, well, everyone knew.

We've known that for a long time.

I think about Alex, he's told us proudly on previous episodes.

And speaking of, let's say hi to the alternates for Penny Squad, starting with Alex Calanan.

Welcome back.

Alex, you're a sophomore.

What else is new?

I'd like to say that I think I think Anna is an excellent swimmer.

Like, exceptionally good.

Really good.

Okay.

What's her best event?

You know, Anna, what's your best event?

Water polo.

Oh, that's super difficult.

Oh, my gosh.

Wow.

Fantastic.

We also got Henry Shamia, who I think is the only senior on this side of the dais.

So, Henry, tell us about you.

I think Nolan has, like, a really awesome wave in his hair.

Oh, the wave.

Oh, when he waves high.

Oh, at the beginning of the show, of course.

Yes, he did.

It was quite, quite spectacular.

We'll probably have to save that one and show it.

See it again at the Christmas party here at PBS.

Well, good.

All right, let's get back to it.

Fingers on the buzzer for Tennessee's Scholars Bowl 2024, toss up for all players in spelling a musical instrument with bellows is an accordion spelled Penny.

A C C O R D I O N. Is right and a bonus now in spelling.

Ventriloquism is the art of producing vocal sounds that appear to come from another source.

Spell ventriloquism.

I pronounce it.

Okay.

Defer to Alex.

V E N T R I L O Q U I S M. Is right, and I put that in there because I thought it'd be an interesting act to see a ventriloquist accordionist at the same time.

20 points Tossup in physics.

The symbol F represents what is a unit of electrical capacitance.

Alex The where the.

Andrea Farad Yes, where it's the ability of a body to store an electrical charge.

Physics bonus.

Now for Stephen's team, who was the French mathematician, physicist and philosopher who developed the modern theory of probability.

Just say Descartes, that's Pascal still get points.

If you can answer this one.

What is the instrument that has a U-shaped tube and measures pressure in a closed system barometer?

Now it's a manometer in that one.

U-shaped tube, I think is the clue.

Toss up for everyone in math computation evaluate a X plus a Y, if a equals five X equals 18 and Y equals 12, James 30.

No chance to steal 150.

Yeah.

Make sure I've called Ernie all the way.

But yeah, 150 is it.

And a math visual.

Take a look at the screens please.

If X equals one fourth and Y equals 3/5, What is the simplified product x, y and quotient x over y of these two fractions.

So I need to know which is the product and which is the quotient.

Obviously.

313 divided by 12.

Defer to Andrea.

3/20 and 5/12.

Which is which?

3/20 is the product, the quotient is 5/12.

So you got 20 points on that.

Toss up now in sports, what should you find people doing in a natatorium Anna Swimming, as you would know, ten points and a bonus now for Steven's team in a 25 meter pool.

How many lengths is the 500 meter freestyle event?

2020 is right for 20 points.

Toss up now in economics, what is the term for the influx of more affluent residents and businesses that change the character of a neighborhood by driving up housing costs and displacing low income residents?

Andrea The homeowners association has no chance to steal Pennys team.

Henry?

Gentrification.

Is right and an economics bonus.

If someone puts $500 into a savings account that paid a fixed interest rate of 2% compounded annually, how long would it take for their money to double in value?

15 52%.

Okay, so it's 50 times, what, 100%?

Answer 100 years.

It's only 36 years.

So no points on the bonus.

Back to toss ups in foreign language.

What is the French word for the number five?

Andrea?

Cinq.

Is right and a foreign language bonus for Stevens team.

Translate the French phrase je ne parle pas anglais into Spanish.

I know English.

no hablo ingles.

Is correct for 20 points.

Toss up in health.

What is the name of the muscular wall that divides the heart lengthwise?

Penny the cardiac sac.

Not it.

You can steal Stephen's team Anna?

The atria.

Now the septum, youve got one in your nose and you get one in your heart.

Youve got more than that two.

Toss up now in religion, which pope who was head of the Catholic Church from 1963 to 1978, wrote the encyclical Humanae Vitae, and became the first reigning pontiff to visit the Western Hemisphere.

Andrea Benedict, not him.

You can steal Penny to penny, John Paul the fifth.

Now, it was back in 1965 when he spoke to the United Nations.

Popes are now saint Pope Paul the sixth are PVI as they're my Catholic friends column turns up in art Pablo Picasso's The Old Guitarist is on view in the Art institute of what city that is the most populous in the Midwest.

Penny the Chicago Museum of Art.

I just needed.

Chicago is all I needed there.

The Chicago Art Institute.

Visual Bonus Now for Web.

Take a look at the screens, please.

The Picasso painting shown here is named for what city that was bombed in 1937 by German aircraft allied with fascist leader Francisco Franco, Spain, Germany, Portugal.

Answer?

Madrid.

That's Guernica During what conflict was Guernica bombed?

The Spanish Civil War.

Is right ten points on the bonus.

Toss up in U.S. history.

First, ladies Julia Gardiner, Tyler and Sarah Childress.

Polk began a tradition by instructing the band to play what song when their respective husbands arrived at an official event.

Penny Star Spangled Banner, No chance to steal Stephen's team.

Andrea Pomp and circumstance.

Hail to the Chief.

They started that tradition toss up now in literature, which 1961 children's book written and illustrated by P.D.

Eastman, describes the actions and interactions of a group of highly mobile canines.

Stephen, Go, dog, go.

That's right.

And the literature bonus now two parts.

Who is Jay Gatsby's neighbor in The Great Gatsby?

Nick Carraway.

And who wrote The Great Gatsby?

Scott Fitzgerald.

Yeah, those are right for 20 points.

Toss up now in science, in which layer of the atmosphere are the jet streams located?

Andrea The troposphere is right.

Science bonus.

What is the word for belts of trees planted along the edges of fields in order to prevent soil erosion?

Bury tree barrier trees.

Well, their name is called Windbreaks.

They certainly do that function toss up now in pre-calculus.

Solve this equation for x.

The square root of quantity x plus six equals four.

James x equals ten is right.

And if we count bonus now what is the product of the two complex binomial the quantity three plus I times the quantity three minus I where I is equal to the square root of negative one and then it's minus.

That's squared minus nine plus ten.

Yeah.

Nine plus one is ten and that's the right answer.

20 points toss up now in music.

What pop singer who was born on February 20th, 1988 in Barbados, James No answer recorded the hit songs Lift Me Up and Ponder.

Replay.

Stephen?

Rhianna?

Right.

And a music bonus for your team.

Mookie Blaylock was the original name of what Seattle grunge band Nirvana.

No, it's Pearl Jam, but good effort.

Toss up now in geography.

After the original 13 colonies organized into the United States, which new city was at the geographical center of the Union?

Penny Philadelphia.

No chance to steal Nola Washington, D.C. was the new city created when that happened?

And a geography bonus now for your team.

In which state is Zion National Park?

Washington, Washington, Washington.

That's in Utah.

In which state is Acadia National Park to the Southwest, to New Mexico?

New Mexico.

No, this may be where the Cajuns came from, but it's actually in Maine, Acadia.

Toss up now in vocabulary, spell cite as in the sentence.

Students must cite their sources in a research James?

C I T E. In a research paper and a vocabulary bonus for your team.

Sesquipedalophobia is the fear of what?

it's called.

Answer?

Adults.

It's the fear of long words.

What is the literal translation of the Latin word sesquipedalopedalis.

Answer?

Defer to Alex.

Long foot?

Well, it's specifically a foot and a half.

That's what the sesqui is.

So it's something that would be a foot and a half long, 18 inches.

No points on that toss up now, in health, a goiter is the enlargement of which gland Penny?

Uh- Thyroid?

Yes.

And a health bonus.

Which human gland is connected to the hypothalamus by a stock like structure and is important in controlling growth and development?

Pituitary?

Pituitary.

Is right for 20 points.

Toss up now in government.

How many electoral votes did Tennessee have in the 2020 presidential election?

Nolan?

Seven.

No chance to steal Pennys team.

Penny.

9?

11 is the answer.

No points tossup in religion which Old Testament figure interpreted the Pharaoh's dream of seven lean cows?

Anna Joseph devouring seven fat cows and a religion bonus for Webb.

Catholics who attend the Tridentine Mass, also known as the extraordinary form, sometimes refer to it by the nickname t l m, which stands for what, The last meal?

I don't know.

The last meal?

It's called.

They call it the traditional Latin mass they refer to as tlm.

Toss up now in world history, which conquistador scuttled his ships after arriving- Stephen?

Cortez.

On Mexico's coast.

World History bonus which naval battle between a British fleet of 27 ships under Admiral Horatio Nelson and the combined fleets of the French Navy and Spanish Navy took place October 21, 1805?

Yorktown?

No that was the Battle of Trafalgar and almost, almost enough to pull you closer.

It looks like.

Penny, did you hang on to win?

I think by just barely, by literally one question and one bonus.

This game was decided, Well, what a great fun it has been to have you both here.

Meanwhile, Anna, Stephen, Andrea, Nolan and of course, your other players, Nicholas and Daisy.

Thank you for being here.

We always enjoy having Webb.

I know you stick around to cheer for your teammates when they show up to compete again in the next round.

Meanwhile, Penny's team Yay for you.

You are moving on to the round of the educated eight.

You will play again.

We'll see you again on this show.

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