(upbeat music) - [Announcer] This program was made possible by contributions to your PBS station from viewers like you, thank you.

(electronic music) (fast electronic music) - Welcome to the WCTE High School Academic Bowl.

I'm your moderator, Brian O'Connor, a math professor at Tennessee Tech University.

Our match today features teams from Allen County- Scottsville High School and Scott High School.

Let's meet our teams and our match officials.

- I'm Joslin Floyd, I'm 15 years old.

I go to Scott High School and I play the flute as a Scott High Marching Highlander.

- I'm Cole Metfield.

I'm a junior at Scott High School, I listen to Randy Travis seven hours a day.

- I'm Brylan Horton, a junior at Scott High School.

I'm a (indistinct).

- My name is Cameron Carter.

I am a 12th grader at Scott High and I like to do a cartwheel.

- I'm Connor Yates of Scott High School and I'm a senior and I like any interesting facts about myself.

- I'm Ryan Trosper, I'm in 10th grade.

I'm in Scott High School and I'm a future Broadway actor.

- Hi, I'm Connor Reed, a Senior at Allen County Scottsville High School and I'm in Professional Academy.

- Hi, my name's Ethan Edwards, I'm a senior at Allen County Scottsville High School.

I'm unemployed and I live in my grandma's guest room.

- Hi, my name's Eliza Hawkins.

I'm a senior Allen County-Scottsville High School and I'm a professional (indistinct).

- My name is Christian Gonzales Garcia and I'm senior at Allen County-Scottsville High School and I just got picked.

- My name's Meah Coleman.

I'm from Allen County-Scottsville High School and I really love Chick-fil-A.

- Thank you much.

You've met the good folks here so let's begin our match.

Teams, are you ready?

Good luck.

Here's your first toss-up question.

What are the primary colors from which all others are obtained?

(buzzer blaring) Connor.

- Red, blue and yellow?

- [Moderator] Red, blue and yellow, correct.

10 points there, here is your bonus question.

For 10 points each named the two largest cities by population in Australia.

- (whispering) Sydney and what?

- (whispering) Is it Melbourne?

- (whispering) Melbourne and Sydney.

- Melbourne and Sydney.

- Melbourne and Sydney, correct.

20 points on that bonus question.

Next toss up, find 3/7th of the number 42.

(buzzer blaring) Ethan - 21.

- [Moderator] No, can you take it Scott?

(buzzer blaring) Brylan.

- 18.

- 18 is right.

10 points there, here is your bonus question.

For 10 points, who is known as the Wizard of Menlo Park?

(indistinct whispering) - Jackie Robinson.

- [Moderator] No, it was Thomas Edison.

Also for 10 points, what future US President was the hero of the San Juan Hill Battle?

- (whispering) Jackson, is it Jackson?

- (whispering) That's what I said, "Jack."

- (whispering) Yeah, Jackson.

- Jackson.

- No, Teddy Roosevelt.

No points on that bonus question, here's another tossup.

When light travels from air into water, it gets bent toward the normal -- (buzzer blaring) Brylan.

- Refraction.

- Say it again?

- Refraction.

- [Moderator] Refraction, by what process?

Correct, 10 points there, here's your bonus question.

For 10 points, no, we've used that one already.

Lemme get another tough bonus question.

For 10 points, what disease spread by the bite of the Anopheles mosquito has a name meaning bad air.

- (whispering) Malaria.

- Yeah.

- Malaria.

- [Moderator] Correct, for 10 points, what is the common name of pneumoconioses silicosis?

- Tuberculosis.

- No, black lung disease, 10 points on that bonus.

Here's another toss up.

What is the normal number of human rib pairs?

(buzzer blaring) Connor.

- 13?

- No, can you take it Allen County?

(buzzer blaring) Ethan.

- 26?

- No, 12 pairs, next toss up question.

Who wrote "The Spy Who Came in From The Cold?"

(buzzer blaring) - Brylan.

- Orwell.

- No, can you take it Allen County?

(buzzer blaring) Ethan.

- Shaw.

- No, that was John Le Carre.

No points there, here's another tossup.

What term refers to the division of a cell into two approximate -- (buzzer blaring) - Ethan.

- Mitosis.

- [Moderator] No, I will continue for Scott.

Cell into two approximately equal parts.

(buzzer blaring) Connor - Myosis.

- No, binary fission.

No points there, here's another tossup.

When the British took over the Dutch colony in America, what did they rename the -- (buzzer blaring) Joslin.

- New York?

- New York, correct.

10 points there, here's your bonus question.

For 10 points, what scientist invented the mercury thermometer?

(indistinct whispering) - I designate Connor.

- Fahrenheit?

- Fahrenheit is correct, 10 points there.

Also for 10 points, who invented the electric razor?

- (whispering) Is it Gillette, Gillette?

- (whispering) Yeah.

- Gillette.

- No, Jacob Schick.

10 points on that bonus question.

Here's another toss up.

The light gathering power of a reflecting telescope depends on which of the following.

Is it A, the area of its objective mirror?

B, the focal length of its eye piece?

C, the focal length of its objective mirror?

(buzzer blaring) Ethan.

- C. - [Moderator] No, I will continue for Scott.

Or D, the ratio of the focal lengths of objective and eye piece?

(buzzer blaring) Connor.

- D?

- No, it's A, the area of its objective mirror.

No points there, next toss up.

In which state would one find Temple University?

(buzzer blaring) Brylan.

- Pennsylvania.

- Pennsylvania is correct, 10 points there.

Here's your bonus question.

For 10 points, what brings amino acids to the sites of protein synthesis?

(indistinct whispering) - (whispering) Is that the RNA?

- RNA.

- [Moderator] Need a little more information.

- (whispering) mRNA.

- (whispering) mRNA.

- mRNA.

- No, transfer RNA, tRNA.

No points there, next one.

For 10 points, the building blocks of DNA are each composed of a sugar, phosphate and a nitrogen base.

What is this compound called?

(buzzer blaring) Bonus.

- (whispering) What is it?

- (whispering) DNA maybe.

- (whispering) What is it?

- (whispering) I have no idea.

- DNA?

- No, it's nucleotide.

No points on that bonus, here's the next tossup.

What does the French term for potato, Pommes de Terre, mean literally?

(buzzer blaring) Cameron.

- Apple of the earth.

- Apple of the earth, correct, 10 points there.

Bonus question.

For 10 points, what is the unit prefix for one times 10 to the plus six power?

- (whispering) Six power.

- (whispering) That's a million.

- [Off Camera] Time.

- A million.

- [Moderator] The unit prefix.

- (whispering) Nil.

- Nil.

- No, it's mega, and second for 10 points what is the prefix for one times 10 to the negative ninth power?

(pencils scribbling) (indistinct whispering) - Time - [Moderator] Answer.

- No answer.

- Nano.

No points on the bonus, here's another toss up.

As lightning travels, it heats the air it passes and causes the warm air to expand violently, which presses the cool air into a smaller space.

This eventually results in what?

(buzzer blaring) Meah.

- Thunder.

- Thunder, correct, 10 points there.

Bonus question.

For 10 points, an infinite geometric series with common ratio one third has a sum of nine.

What is the first term of the series?

- (whispering) I don't know.

- Three?

- [Moderator] No, it's six.

The second part for 10 points.

How many cards must be drawn from a standard 52-card deck in order to ensure drawing four of a kind?

- (whispering) Is that four into 52?

17?

- (whispering) 15.

- 15?

- No, 40.

Three of each of the 13 plus one to guarantee four of a kind.

No points on that bonus question, next toss up.

Name the author of the sonnet, "That Time of Year Thou Mayst in --?

(buzzer blaring) Brylan.

- Shakespeare.

- William Shakespeare, mayst in me behold.

10 points there.

Bonus question for 10 points each, fill in the blank with a B word.

First, to find a new path means to blank a trail.

- (whispering) Is it blaze?

- Blaze.

- [Moderator] Blaze is right.

Second, a dead end often means a blank alley.

- (whispering) Black?

(indistinct whispering) - [Off Camera] Time.

- Black.

- No, blind alley, 10 points on the bonus.

Next toss up.

Benjamin Franklin Goodrich founded this industry in Akron, Ohio, named this industry?

(buzzer blaring) - Brylan.

- Goodyear.

Tires.

- [Moderator] Industry.

No, Allen County, can you take it?

(loud buzzer blaring) Ethan buzzed in.

We'll take it.

- Tires.

- Tires, industry, the rubber industry, that is correct.

10 points on that bonus.

And that is the end of our first round.

So the score is Scott, 110 and Allen County I guess up to 20 now.

So come on back for our lightning round.

(upbeat music) Welcome back to WCT High School Academic Bowl.

Got a good match going on here.

Allen County-Scottsville and Scott High School.

And Scott is winning at the end of the first round, 120-20.

We have a substitution to tell you about.

For Allen County, Christian has replaced Connor, welcome.

Our lightning-round categories are literary characters or ology as a suffix, dash-ology.

So Allen County, which would you like?

- Ology.

- Ology, all right.

I will give an ology and you tell what these scientists study.

First, cardiology.

- Hearts.

- [Moderator] Meteorology.

- Weather.

- [Moderator] Pharmacology.

- Agriculture.

- Drugs.

- (whispering) Pharmacology, I thought that was drugs.

- Drugs.

- [Moderator] Toxicology.

- (whispering) Medicine.

- (whispering) Drugs.

- Drugs.

- [Moderator] Hematology.

- Blood.

- Blood.

- [Moderator] Speleology.

- Pass.

- [Moderator] Cytology.

- Pass.

- [Moderator] Hydrology.

- Water.

- [Moderator] Nephrology.

- (whispering) Dead bodies.

- (whispering) I think it's liver.

- Livers.

- [Moderator] Oncology.

(indistinct whispering) - I design Eliza.

- Cancer.

- [Moderator] Speleology.

- (whispering) I dunno.

Say something.

- Brain.

- [Moderator] And cytology.

- (whispering) Cells, cells.

- Cells.

- [Moderator] You have seven correct.

The ones you missed, toxicology is poisons.

Speleology is caves and nephrology is kidneys.

The other seven I believe were correct.

- That's okay.

- I mix up kidney and liver.

- Gives you 90 points now, and we come to Scott High School with the category literary characters.

I will name a literary character, you name the work he or she appears in.

60 seconds, Atticus Finch.

- "To Kill a Mockingbird."

- "To Kill a Mockingbird."

- [Moderator] Becky Thatcher.

- (whispering) Pass.

- Pass.

- [Moderator] Arthur Dimmesdale.

- (whispering) Pass.

- Pass.

- [Moderator] Jo, Beth, Meg and Amy.

- (whispering) "Little Women."

- "Little Women."

- [Moderator] Holden Caulfield.

- Pass.

- [Moderator] Queequeg.

- Pass.

- [Moderator] Hermione Granger.

- (whispering) "Harry Potter."

- "Harry Potter."

- [Moderator] Sancho Panza.

- (whispering) Pass.

- Pass.

- [Moderator] Ashley Wilkes.

- Pass.

- [Moderator] Pip.

- Pip, pass.

- [Moderator] Becky Thatcher.

(indistinct whispering) - (whispering) "Little House on the Prairie."

- "Little House on the Prairie."

- [Moderator] Arthur Dimmesdale.

- (whispering) Oliver Twist.

- Oliver Twist.

- [Moderator] Holden Caulfield.

- Pass.

- [Moderator] Queequeg.

- (whispering) Don Quixote.

- I designate Conner.

- Don Quixote.

- [Moderator] Sancho Panza.

- Pass.

- Ashley Wilkes.

(loud buzzer blaring) - [Moderator] Three correct, 30 more points.

The ones you missed, Becky Thatchers in "Tom Sawyer."

Arthur Dimmesdale, "The Scarlet Letter."

Holden Caulfield, "Catcher In The Rye."

Queequeg, "Moby Dick".

Sancho Ponza was Don Quixote's sidekick.

Ashley Wilkes, "Gone With the Wind," and Pip, "Great Expectations."

So 30 more points there and, (faint upbeat music) we have 150 for Scott, and 90 for Allen County.

(upbeat music) - All right, we're gonna begin our second half now, and teams, are you ready?

Good luck, here's your first toss up.

In bowling, a railroad occurs when a ball leaves two or more pins standing that are not close together.

What is the more common name for it?

(buzzer blaring) Meah.

- A split.

- A split is right, 10 points there.

Here's your bonus question.

For five points each, all of these answers end in the letter X.

First, salty, smoked salmon good with cream cheese.

- (whispering) What's the bagel, what's the bagel?

- (whispering) I dunno, I dunno, I dunno.

- (whispering) God.

- (whispering) No answer, I dunno.

- No answer.

- [Off Camera] Time.

- [Moderator] It's lox, L-O-X.

Ancient Greek hero who fought in the Trojan War.

- (whispering) Oh, my God, I don't know.

- No answer.

- [Moderator] Ajax.

Next, mineral variety of agate.

(indistinct whispering) - Cox.

- [Moderator] Onyx.

And finally innate contradiction.

- A paradox.

- Paradox is right.

Five points on that bonus question.

- (whispering) (sighing) I knew that bagel.

Here's your next toss up.

The treasury department introduced by Henry the first was known as the what?

(buzzer blaring) Ethan.

- Federal Reserve.

- [Moderator] No, can you take it Scott High School?

(buzzer blaring) Connor.

- Parliamentary.

- No, the Exchequer.

No points there, next toss up.

In the complex number system, what is the absolute value or modulus of three minus -- (buzzer blaring) Brylan.

- Three.

- [Moderator] No, I'll continue for Allen County.

What is the absolute value or modulus of three minus four I?

(buzzer blaring) Christian.

- Seven I.

- No, five.

Pythagorean theorem type of relation.

Next toss up question.

Who was the first person to break the sound barrier?

- (whispering) Oh, my God.

(buzzer blaring) - Joslin.

- George Orwell?

- No, can you take it Allen County?

Time, that was Chuck Yeager.

Next toss up.

What type of hypoxia is involved when inadequate amounts of hemoglobin are present in the blood?

(buzzer blaring) Joslin.

- Anemia.

- Anemia, correct, 10 points there.

Here is your bonus question.

First for 10 points, during which war did the bombing of Guernica on the Iberian Peninsula inspire a painting by Pablo Picasso?

- (whispering) Okay, so that's like -- (indistinct whispering) No, no, no, wait, maybe.

(indistinct whispering) - Time.

- Answer.

- World War I.

- [Moderator] No, the Spanish Civil War.

Second for 10 points, what country with capital Lisbon shares the Iberian Peninsula with Spain?

(indistinct whispering) - (whispering) Portugal.

- (whispering) Portugal?

- Portugal.

- Portugal is right, 10 points on that bonus.

Here's another tossup.

This senator claimed that many government officials were communists and thus created a climate of sus -- (buzzer blaring) Ethan.

- McCarthy.

- McCarthy, Joseph McCarthy.

Suspicion and fear in the 1950s, 10 points there.

Here's your bonus question.

For 10 points, what 1896 Supreme Court case upheld the doctrine of separate but equal facilities for the races?

(indistinct whispering) - No, I dunno.

- Plessy v. Ferguson.

- Plessy v. Ferguson, correct, 10 points there.

Also for 10 points, what 1963 Supreme Court case provided for lawyers for indigent defendants?

- (whispering) Miranda (indistinct).

- (whispering) I don't know, I don't know.

- I designate Meah.

- United States versus Miranda.

- No, it's Gideon versus Wainwright, 10 points on the bonus.

Here's another tossup.

Spell the Canadian province of Saskatchewan.

(buzzer blaring) Ethan.

- S-A-S-K-A-T-C-H-A-W-A-N. - S-A-S-K-A-T-C-H-A-W-A-N. - Nope, Scott, can you take it?

(buzzer blaring) Cameron.

- S-A-S-K-A-T-C-H-U-A-N?

- [Moderator] E-W-A-N is the last four letters.

So no points on that one, sorry.

Reset.

Next, toss up.

Who's the most famous Italian plumber or handyman in the -- (buzzer blaring) Ethan?

- Mario.

- Mario, in the world of computers, correct.

10 points there.

Bonus, for 10 points each, find the value of the discriminant for the following quadratic equations.

X squared minus five x plus eight equals zero.

- I designate Meah.

- Radical of negative three.

- No, it's negative seven.

Next one, X squared plus eight x plus seven equals zero.

- Time.

- I designate Meah.

- No answer.

- It's 36.

It's your B squared minus four AC buddy.

All right, no points on that bonus question.

Here's another tossup.

On what continent are the Carpathian mountains?

(buzzer blaring) Brylan.

- Australia.

- [Moderator] No, can you take it, Allen-County?

(buzzer blaring) Ethan.

- Asia?

- No, it's Europe.

No points there, next tossup.

What Tennesseean was the first and only Speaker of the US House to become President?

(buzzer blaring) Allen County.

- Polk.

- Polk is correct.

Says the person from the school in Kentucky, very good.

10 points on that toss up.

Here are your bonus questions.

First, for five points each, tell what each of these scientists studies.

First, cartographer.

- (whispering) Mapping.

- (whispering) Maps.

- [Moderator] Maps is correct.

Mycologist.

- (whispering) I dunno.

- (whispering) It's brains.

- (whispering) Maybe.

- (whispering) Go for it.

- Hearing - No, fungi.

Next, limnologist.

- (whispering) Lymph nodes, lymph nodes.

- Lymph nodes.

- [Moderator] No, lakes or fresh water.

And finally, hypologist.

- (whispering) No, I dunno, what is it?

What does a hypologist do?

- English.

- No, horses.

So five points on that bonus question.

Next toss up.

In what fictional town did the Mighty Casey strike out?

(buzzer blaring) Joslin.

- Mudville.

- Mudville, correct.

10 points there, here's your bonus question.

Brandon rolls two standard dice.

For 10 points, what is the probability that the sum of the two dice is 12?

(indistinct whispering) - [Off Camera] Time.

- 1/18th.

- [Moderator] One in 36.

Nope, also for 10 points, what's the probability that the sum is strictly less than five?

- [Off Camera] Time.

- [Moderator] Answer.

- 1/6th.

- 1/6th is correct, 10 points on that bonus question.

So here's your next toss up.

What is the term for a company that is required by contract to hire only union members?

(buzzer blaring) Brylan.

- Unified, no.

- [Moderator] No, can you take it Allen County?

(buzzer blaring) Ethan.

- Shareholders?

- No, it's a closed shop.

No points on that toss up.

(loud buzzer blaring) End of the match, very hard-fought match.

Good job teams.

Scott, 190, Allen County, 150, appreciate it.

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