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.
This is a first round game between the students of Maryville High School and Oak Ridge High School.
Now, Maryville has put multiple teams into the tournament, so this is one of them.
Let's say hi first to Avery Smith, who's in 11th grade.
Avery, tell us about your interests, your hobbies, your activities, all about you.
I'm on the Marvel rock climbing team and I'm a part of Key Club.
And where are the rocks that you climb on the walls?
Okay, because I think a rock climbing is an outdoor thing, but really more it's more of a for a sport, it's usually more a controlled environment, right?
Yeah, it's indoors.
It doesn't matter if it rains or not.
Yeah.
I also don't want to fall off into nature, you know?
So that's how it takes communing with nature to an extreme.
Let's say hi to Ashley McQueen, who's in 12th grade.
Hi, Allie.
What about yourself?
I'm in the ASL Honor Society and you are for theater.
Now, I know you have a thing that is math honors, but what is the other one?
ASL, American Sign Language Honor Society.
Oh, wow.
Outstanding.
I thought so, but I thought if I guessed it, it would make me look foolish.
Somebody told me.
Happy to have you here.
Let's say also to 12th grader Abby Causey.
Welcome back, Abby.
Good to see you.
Tell us about yourself.
So this year, I'm choreographing our schools musical and I'm also in our model.
You and club.
Wow.
What musical is it?
It's The Lightning Thief musical based on the Percy Jackson books.
Yeah.
Wow.
So there are a lot of dancing, I guess.
Yes and no, but I'm still having a lot of fun.
Good.
All right, let's also blocking.
You can't tell people where to stand.
Yes.
Lovely.
All right.
We'll hear more about that, maybe another time.
And also, we've got Qaswa Gul Qaswa welcome.
Tell us about yourself.
I'm a member of our ski club and I'm an outreach coordinator for our club's model year one oh model U.N. And then the Key Club is a service organization.
So I love asking an example.
I mean, you're in 12th grade, so over the course of your time, you must have done some memorable activities as a service.
What was one of them?
One thing that I like to do in Key Club is Meals on Wheels, where we just basically bag canned food into bags and give them to people.
That's outstanding.
All right.
An important part for our community.
We love to hear it.
Let's say hi to the alternates and coach for Maryville High School, starting with Rebecca Boone, Connor Faller, Tanya Barwad and Ballion Denton, joined by coach Dr. Corey DeHart, who teaches physics and astronomy at Maryville taking on team from Oak Ridge High School.
The Wildcats of Oak Ridge are back again this year.
Hi.
Happy to have you guys.
Let's say hi first to Will Edwards, who's a junior.
Are you the new player on the team this year?
Will Yes.
Welcome I for I moved here from California last year, so.
Oh, the first year you ever do anything out there like academic decathlon or similar contest?
Oh, no.
This is my first time doing something like this.
Well, good.
We're glad that you're here.
Tell us a little more about yourself.
You're a junior.
What else?
I'm in the Oak Ridge model U.N. Club, and I like playing Minecraft.
Excellent.
All right.
Happy to have you.
Let's say hi to Carter Castrita, who is a senior.
What about you, Carter?
Uh, I like playing guitar, and I have a twin brother named Jack.
He's also on the team, Right?
He's one of our alternates.
I've got to sit.
Make sure I say your name correctly again.
Right.
Who's smarter?
Are you a Jack?
Um, probably.
Probably you.
Yeah.
Okay.
I was thinking it had to be equal.
Right?
Or twins.
Well, I guess you get to quiz each other at home.
Team captain for Oak Ridge is Dakota for Al, who is a senior.
So, Dakota, you're going to answer bonuses on behalf of the team or defer by name to one of your teammates, much like Abby.
Well, on the other side, tell us about yourself.
I'm a member of NHS, but also the French National Honor Society.
Oh, what is that one called?
Well, French National Honor Society.
I mean, as as my as my play.
All right.
You know.
No, fair enough.
Let's also say hi to Maddie Stone.
Hi, Maddie.
Tell us your name and student council.
And I'm also good friends with Dakota right here.
And student council meaning you just you have a specific role, or would you, like, just make stuff for the school?
We did like the pep rally for last week.
Oh, fantastic.
All right, we'll go.
Always happy to have you guys on this team.
Let's say hi to the alternates and coach for Oakridge High School.
Let's sing.
Hi.
First to Jack Castrita whose twin brother we just met, and William Schenn, joined by Coach Parker Jernigan, who teaches world history and psychology at Oak Ridge.
Players, you've all seen the show before.
You know how we play the toss ups worth ten bonuses worth up to 20.
Get your fingers on the buzzer for this first round game of Tennessee's Scholars Bowl 2024.
First, toss up for all players in the category of art, which Spanish surrealist painted the persistence of memory in which Ali Salvador Dali pocket watches are melting and a bonus in art, which style of art, known in English as modern style, flourished between 1890 and 1910.
Expressionism.
And that's called Art Nouveau.
No points on the bonus toss up for everyone in geography.
What does the capital of Northern Ireland Every Dublin not you can steal Oak Ridge.
Well, Belfast.
Yeah, Belfast.
Is it Geography bonus for Oak Ridge?
What city was formerly known as Saigon?
Ho Chi Minh City, which means Ho Chi Minh City City is right for ten.
What city was formerly known as Bombay?
I don't.
They ran at of time.
That's Mumbai.
A toss up now for all players in foreign language.
Which Greek letter is the math symbol for some Caswell Theta for summation is the rest of the question.
Oak Ridge tends to steal That would be sigma when we get to summation toss up.
Now in geology, Earth's magnetic poles are part of the magnetic field generated by what substance?
In the Earth's core ebbing iron.
Yes.
And a geology bonus for Marvel.
In 2021, scientists reached the bottom of the third deepest ocean trench on earth and found pollution of plastic bags, clothing and even a teddy bear.
What is that third deepest trench on earth?
The Mariana Trench?
Well, that third deepest is the Mindanao Trench, the deepest point on Earth.
Challenger Deep is at the southern end of what trench?
Mariana Trench.
Yeah.
Which makes it the deepest trench.
Exactly.
Ten points plus up.
Now, in geometry, what happens to the length of a cord as it locates farther away from the center of a circle?
Ali It gets smaller.
Yeah.
Decreases is right.
Geometry is a bonus.
What is the sum of the measures in degrees of the exterior angles, one per vertex of any triangle 6360 degrees is the exterior.
And that's right.
That's 20 points toss up in music.
A typical bluegrass banjo has How many strings, Eddie Six.
It you can steal Oak Ridge.
Carter five is right.
Music bonus for Oak Ridge two parts.
How many strings are in a double bass instrument?
Six.
Answer That's only four.
How many strings are on a Russian balalaika?
Three is correct.
Ten points toss up in U.S. history.
Who was the first president to live in the White House?
Well, John Adams is right for ten and a visual bonus for Oak Ridge.
Take a look at the screens, please.
The 1868 gallery ticket shown here was for the impeachment of which President Andrew Johnson.
Andrew Johnson is right for ten, the 35 guilty votes fell short of the required two thirds majority by how many votes answer to just one toss up now in spelling for all players, a percussion instrument that has loose jingles called Zille's attached to a handle and sometimes also has a stretched skin, is a tambourine spelled tambourine.
Ali t A and b0u, r, i and E correct for ten spelling bonus Now for marital spell a seven letter word beginning with the letter B, that means very strange or unusual, especially so as to cause interest or amusement.
B i z a r r e. Correct.
Now for ten more points to spell a six letter word, beginning with the letter B for a marketplace consisting of multiple small stalls or shops, especially in the Middle East.
R B, a, z, a r. Well, it's actually two A's in that version.
So that from a bazaar back, two words a sound alike that means something different.
Toss up in chemistry.
Which element has the symbol B e every beryllium ten chemistry.
As your bonus, prefixes are used to identify the number of atoms of an element in a compound.
First, how many atoms for the prefix penta?
Five.
Correct.
How many atoms for the prefix?
Hepner Yeah.
Seven.
Also write 20 points pass up.
Now in mythology, who is the mythological Roman goddess of the hearth, home and family who was often represented as the fire of her temple in the form Abbey Helena Now that you can steal Oak Ridge, Well, Artemus, that is Vesta.
You may have heard of the Vestal virgins who surrounded that fire toss up in miscellaneous.
although sometimes thought of as a vegetable.
What is the official state fruit of Tennessee having tomato Correct and miscellaneous bonus for marble.
What is the Tennessee State tree?
Tulip.
Poplar.
Yes.
And what is the Tennessee State beverage?
Milk also, Right.
20 points toss up now in government.
What is the term for the opposing party Questioning A witness who has already testified during a trial, Ali, cross-examining.
Yeah.
And a government bonus from a group of citizens or businesses that attempt to influence congressional decisions is referred to as a PAC.
What do the initials P. AC represent People at Congress?
It's a political action committee.
No points on the bonus.
Back to tossups in English.
In the sentence, the running water makes a pleasant sound.
What part of speech is the word?
Running Part of her notes and still memorable.
Adding adjectives?
Yeah, it's modifying water and English bonus Now, based on analysis of the Oxford English Corpus, named four of the ten most frequently used in written English used to be for and but why?
I'll give you five points for and the actual order in order from 1 to 10 is the two and in have B of A that I so I think it's five points if I remember correctly, toss up for one in biology.
How many vowels does a human heart contain?
Carter, four four is right and a visual bonus.
Take a look at the screens, please.
In biology, what is the name of the small semi-aquatic mammal seen here that is found in moist, low elevation areas in parts of North America and is functionally blind, but uses the 22 tendrils around its nostrils to explore its environment.
A different Carter, a muskrat.
Now that ugly critter is called a star nosed mole.
The points are a bonus toss up in math.
If someone drives 40 miles per hour for 15 minutes, how far have they driven, Ali?
Ten miles, Correct.
And a math bonus.
If someone is traveling at 70 miles per hour, how long will it take them to go?
175 miles.
Two and a half hours.
That's right.
420 points.
Toss up now in sports in which Olympic sport, two athletes slide stones toward a target area segmented curling on the ice.
And curling is right.
Sports is your bonus.
In 2022, the German government agreed to pay further compensation to the families of 11 athletes from which nation who were killed by members of a Palestinian terror group at the 1972 Olympics in Munich, Israel.
That's right for 20 points toss up in history.
Who succeeded Lennon as leader of the Soviet Union in 1924?
Qaswa Stalin.
Yes, and a world history bonus.
In 2022, archeologists discovered that snacks of olives, fruit and nuts were eaten by gladiators in what ampitheater That was the biggest in the Roman Empire, the Coliseum.
And sounds like they had trail mix or something.
Doesn't it toss up in literature?
What series of books by Jeff Kinney follows Greg Heffley as he records every Diary of a Wimpy Kid.
That's a series of books and a literature bonus.
Now an unpublished screenplay treatment of Moonraker, written by the book's author in 1956, revealed his more serious vision for a James Bond movie, who was the author of all 12 zero seven novels.
John John Smith.
Ian Fleming is the guy's name, turns up now in Health.
What human organ is monitored with an EEG plasma?
The brain, Yes.
And a health bonus because of the effect of the war in Ukraine on food supplies, Mozambique decided to produce its own grain, including what?
Starchy food that is a staple for over half of the world's human population.
Potato.
Now, rice is the food thing about Asia.
Toss up in geography.
Hamilton is the capital of which British territory about 650 miles east of Cape Hatteras.
Well, Bermuda, Yeah, Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
Now a bonus for Oakridge in geography.
The government of the southern state of Karnataka, in which country launched a program of free bus transportation for women in 2023.
Think of Argentina.
Argentina.
No, Karnataka is in India.
Concept for all players in music, in I think it is the time runs out right there, so we'll save that for the second half.
The music Question.
It looks like Marvel has a lead right now over Oak Ridge.
Anything can happen in our second half of play.
Which of these two teams advances to the threshold of 32?
Find out after the break.
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.
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I'm Frank Murphy, back from halftime in this first round game between Maryville High School and Oak Ridge High School.
Nerves got a lead right now, but anything can happen in our second half of play, just like it did in the first half.
And both teams have brought alternates into the game.
Let's say hang on the Maryville side first 2 billion Denton High, Ballin, a C or junior.
Tell us more about yourself.
I love music and I have currently been playing violin for seven years.
You must be exhausted yet.
What genre of music do you prefer to play?
I love a pop classical kind of mix.
That sounds fun.
I'm glad to hear about that.
Another alternate for Marable is Tanya Bar Ward.
Hi, Tanya.
Welcome.
Tell us about yourself.
I'm in.
I play tennis and I'm in kick club.
And what's the service project that you remember from Kick Club?
Have you mentioned one earlier?
Welcome tables and welcome tables.
Okay, well, that sounds good.
Nice to have you here.
We've also got two alternates on the Oak Ridge side.
Let's see.
Hi.
First to Jack Streeter, who's replacing his twin brother on the podium.
Your different shirts, right?
Because I don't remember what your brother had on.
Is that right?
In a blue.
But I got that all right.
Yeah, because you'll know.
Because you'll be able to wear that shirt tomorrow.
Jack, tell us about yourself.
Um, I also like to play guitar and play some soccer.
And you and your brother, both seniors this year?
Yes.
And what kind of guitar style do you play?
Um, mainly metal.
Oh, really?
And rock is an electric guitar acoustic than electric.
Fantastic.
All right.
Also, William Chen is back with us again this year, Junior this year.
William Heine.
Tell us about yourself.
I'm a president of student council and a member of I'm not.
I'm a member of student council.
I'm president of U.N.. What did you do to become president of the U.N.?
And you have to convince everyone to vote for you.
Had that work kind of just showed up.
Showed up?
Well, that happens.
I've been made president of things by just showing up myself.
I get it.
Well, good.
All right.
We're happy to have you here.
Maybe we'll hear more about that in an upcoming episode.
So I think we're ready now to get our fingers back on the buzzers for Tennessee's Scholars Bowl.
2024 Toss up for all players in the category of music in which musical instrument family is the flugelhorn?
Well, the woodwind, not it.
You can steal Abbie Brass.
brass is rank.
Get your bonus Marvel in music.
What?
Three valve brass instrument that is pitched in B-flat or C was derived from the cornet and flugelhorn in the 19th century.
Joy the French horn.
Now, I was talking about the baritone in that specific case.
Toss it for everyone in economics.
In what country is there a film industry called Bollywood?
Tanya India Correct.
In an economics bonus, what is the most commonly used measure of the general inflation rate in the United States?
GDP Now this would be the CPI, the Consumer Price Index within the country plus up.
Now in vocabulary, what word can mean to get well, to get something back and to really holster will to recover.
Yes.
And a vocabulary bonus for Oak Ridge.
What, seven letter word that begins with the letter I means illegal, as in drugs or affairs?
Both.
Illicit is correct.
20 points toss up.
Now in astronomy, which planet spins on its side relative to its orbit around the sun?
Jack Neptune.
Not it.
You can still marvel at Uranus is right.
Astronomy is your bonus.
The sun is composed mainly of what two elements?
Helium and hydrogen.
Those are both right.
20 points Pass up in algebra.
Solve the equation negative for a plus.
28 equals eight a -40 for the variable.
A Nobody rang in in time, eight equals 17.
So, you know, you're right if you're following along at home plus up now in religion, which religion is represented by a 6.2 star Judaism.
Correct.
And a religion bonus.
Now what is the seven branched candelabrum depicted on the Israeli national anthem?
A menorah is right.
points plus up in U.S. history.
Where did the Wright brothers fly their first powered plane?
Abby Kittyhawk North Carolina.
Yeah, we also would have taken the in the more specific answer Kill Devil Hills so ten points there and a bonus in U.S. history.
Who was president of the United States when the Berlin Wall was taken down?
Okay.
Over again.
Ronald Reagan.
That's right.
For 20 points.
Toss up now in chemistry.
What is the common name for and ahco3, which is used as a leavening agent.
Abbie Baking soda.
Yes.
And a visual bonus.
Now take a look at the screens.
Marvel formerly named Hydrogen atom.
What is the element with atomic number 80 as shown here?
Uranium.
Well, it's mercury, but you can still get ten points if you tell me it's symbol HD, which is where the hydrogen atom comes from.
Yeah.
210 points plus up.
Now in foreign language, what would a customer in a Central or South American restaurant get if they ordered Hugo Abbie, Beans, No Oak Ridge, chance to steal Jack Rice.
I was looking for juice on that toss up for everyone in government.
What is the term that means reduction or elimination of a country's military forces in an effort to promote peace, save money or reduce the tensions?
Demobilization.
No chance to steal.
Miracle, Ollie, Demilitarization.
No Disarmament is what I was describing.
Place up in architecture In 1947, the Congress and President Truman restored the name of what structure on the Colorado River that had been renamed Boulder Dam.
William The Hoover Dam.
Hoover Dam?
Yeah.
Franklin Roosevelt's secretary of interior renamed it.
And then architecture now is your bonus.
What is the name of James Madison's home in Virginia?
Monticello.
No, that's Jefferson.
Madison was Montpelier.
Montpelier was built in what architectural style?
No, classical neoclassical.
Well, he used the Georgian style snow points on the bonus toss up in geography.
Which river flows over the Holland Tunnel and the Lincoln Tunnel?
Abbie.
The Potomac.
Not it.
You can steal Oak Ridge, Jack, Mississippi.
No, that's the Hudson River in New York.
Toss up for all players in literature in 1945 who wrote a political fable that produced the catchphrase.
William George Orwell.
Yeah.
Big Brother is watching you.
Literature Bonus for Oak Ridge In 2021, a rare third century Roman mosaic was found in a field in England.
The mosaic depicts the final battle between Achilles and Hector as described by Homer.
Which country did Achilles represent?
Is the first part.
Troy Greece is right.
Which country did Hector represent?
Troy Both right.
20 points plus up now in health, What is the name for the lower jawbone?
Jack the mandible is right for ten.
Health is your bonus.
Which human teeth are the front or cutting teeth incisors for ten?
Which human teeth are the back or grinding teeth molars also right 20 on the bonus toss up now for all players in math computation, what is the fifth root of 243?
Ali Three is right and a visual bonus for Maryville Look at the screens, please.
Simplifying three times the quantity, two x minus four minus four times the quantity.
Three x minus two plus 18 completely negative six minus four.
Well, I needed more than that.
I needed a negative six x plus 14 or we would have taken 14 minus six x. no points on that toss up.
Now in games, which chess piece has the ability to move in four directions, but only on the diagonal?
William The Bishop is right and a games bonus for Oakridge, an early version of what game was created by French mathematician Blaise Pascal in his search for a perpetual motion machine.
Chutes and Ladders.
Chutes and Ladders.
Now it's the roulette wheel.
What we're talking about no points on the bonus.
Toss up in world history.
The Great Fire of 1666 destroyed over 13,000 Abbie London.
In what city?
And a history bonus Now, Liz Truss was prime minister of the United Kingdom for only 49 days, who replaced her as prime minister in October 2020.
To God, I guess.
John Smith.
That's Rishi Sunak.
No points on the bonus toss up in vocabulary.
What is the 15 letter word for the act of unnecessarily postponing decisions or actions?
William Procrastination Correct and vocabulary bonus.
What ten letter word beginning with C H is described as the science of arranging time and periods and ascertaining the dates and historical order of past events.
Chronological talk of the science is chronology, but you can still get ten points for spelling chronology.
So answer c h, r o, and l o by you.
Yeah, you're going to head there.
It's like cranz row n0log.
Why?
So that's no points there.
Toss up Now in physics, the proton and neutron are composed of fundamental particles called what spelling bones.
Now you can steel Oak Ridge jack or is right physics bonus for Oak Ridge.
Name two of the three methods by which heat is transferred.
Such in that we needed either conduction convection or radiation.
Two of those three plus up now in art name the early Renaissance Italian artist who created the work The Birth of Venus William Botticelli is right for ten and it art bonus for Oak Ridge at the 2023 Burning Man Festival, a large wooden box was burned to reveal a steel sculpture of what mythical bird in Greek mythology said to be reborn from its ashes at the Phoenix.
Yes, sir, Dakota answered the first right, Phoenix and Religion toss up for all players.
Now, Lakshmi is one of the principal goddesses in which religion, Tanya Hinduism erect and a religion bonus for Maryville.
In May 2022, the Taliban ordered women in Afghanistan to wear head to toe clothing in public, including covering the face with a panel of woven mesh.
What is the name of this garment?
Okay.
Burka.
Yeah, I think we also have taken Choudary but burka is the answer.
We're looking for 20 points toss up in government.
What is the term for the power of the government to take private property with payment?
William Eminent domain, they call it stolen.
Yes.
I can't give it to you.
take private property, Abbie, Eminent domain, is it?
And convert it to public use.
Government Bonus for Maryville.
Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin blamed her loss in a special congressional action in 2022 on a new system of marking ballots in order of preference.
What is this election system used in Alaska and Maine called?
I defer to Ali.
Ranked choice voting.
That's correct for 20 points, passive for all players in foreign language.
What is the Spanish word for bakery, Tanya, Puerto Rico.
No, that's not it.
But that is also the end of the game.
panaderia is what was Yeah I make sure it's I know you won't take notes for next time.
Well it sounds congratulations Maryville for winning and now you've got multiple teams advancing in the tournament.
Meanwhile Oak Ridge, great game today.
Study hard and we'll see.
I hope all your underclassmen again on next year's show.
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