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

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(bright 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 Portland High School and Scott High School.

Let's meet our teams and the match officials.

(upbeat music) - My name's Yeimi Flores, I'm in 12th grade.

I go to Portland High School, and it's my birthday today.

- My name is John Watts, I'm in eighth grade.

I go to Portland West Middle School and I play the saxophone.

- I'm Emerson Bean, I'm in 12th grade.

I go to Portland High School, and I've broken a bone in both of my feet, twice on both of them.

- I'm Camden Bean, I'm in 10th grade.

I go to Portland High School, and I'm a Swifty.

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

- I'm Brylan Orick, a junior at Scott High school.

I'm a (indistinct).

- My name is Cameron Parker.

I am a 12th grader at Scott High, and I can do a cartwheel.

- I'm Connor Yancey of Scott High School.

I'm a senior, and I lack any interesting facts about myself.

- I'm Mariah Trosper, I'm in 10th grade, I go to Scott High School, and I'm a future Broadway actor.

- Okay, those are the good folks here, so let's begin our match.

Teams, are you ready?

Good luck.

Here's your first toss-up question.

What is 10 times the square of three?

(buzzer beeps) Connor.

- 90.

- [Brian] 90, correct.

10 points there.

Here's your bonus question.

For 10 points each, the Niagara River connects what two lakes?

- Is it the Great Lakes?

- No, Niagara River is in South America - Oh.

- Time.

- Lake Superior, Lake Ontario.

- No, Lake Erie and Lake Ontario.

No points there.

(contestants whispering) Next toss-up question.

If the Aurora Borealis is the Northern Lights, what must Aurora Australis be?

Connor.

- The Southern Lights.

- The Southern lights, correct.

10 points there.

Bonus question: For five points each, in which family of musical instruments does each of the following belong?

English Horn.

- Brass?

- Brass.

- [Brian] No, woodwinds.

Marimba.

- Percussion.

- Percussion.

- [Brian] Percussion is right.

Sousaphone.

- It's?

- Brass.

- Brass.

- [Brian] Brass is right.

And Celesta.

- Woodwind.

- Percussion.

- Percussion.

It sounds funny.

- Percussion.

- Percussion is right.

15 points on that bonus question.

Next, toss-up.

(buzzer beeps) - Excuse me, I'm sorry.

- I'll start over.

Toss-up.

The pattern of the Big Dipper in the night sky is obvious.

These seven stars of the Dipper are part of what Latin-named constellation?

(buzzer beeps) Brylan.

- Orion?

- [Brian] No, can you take it, Portland?

- Time.

- Time.

That's Ursa Major.

Next toss-up.

Name the French expression for pie served with ice cream.

(buzzer beeps) Joslin.

- A la mode.

- [Brian] A la mode, correct.

10 points there.

- Good job.

- [Brian] Here's your bonus question.

Certain metals may have the properties of malleability and ductility.

For 10 points each, tell what these terms mean.

First, malleability.

- Is it like how we can't smash- - Yeah, can be bent.

- Can be bended.

- Can be what?

- Able to bend.

- [Brian] Um, no.

Can be hammered into sheets.

Can't accept that.

And second, ductility.

- I think it's- - Turn into a wire, right?

- Yeah.

- What was it?

- Being able to turn into a wire.

- Being able to turn into a wire - Can be drawn into wires, correct.

10 points on that bonus question.

Here's your next toss-up.

Which ancient trade route between China and Europe- (buzzer beeps) Uh, Connor.

- The Silk Road.

- [Brian] Between from 100 BC to 1500 AD China to Europe, the Silk Road, correct.

10 points there.

Here's your bonus question, a math problem for you.

70% of the workers at a factory are on strike.

There are 560 workers on strike.

How many workers are there in all for 20 points?

- Did you say 560 or 516?

- [Brian] Five-six-zero workers on strike.

70% of the workers are on strike.

- 800.

- 800.

- [Brian] 800 is correct.

20 points on that bonus question.

Next toss-up.

What U.S. General said at Appomattox, in 1865- (buzzer beeps) - Brylan.

- Robert E. Lee?

- [Brian] No, I'll continue for Portland.

(buzzer beeps) I won't.

- Grant?

- John.

- Grant.

- [Brian] Ulysses Grant.

"The Confederates are our prisoners "and we do not want to exalt in their downfall."

10 points on the toss-up.

Here's your bonus.

First, for 10 points, what device converts mechanical engineering, mechanical energy into electricity?

- That's a motor, right?

- Yeah, should be.

- Motor?

- [Brian] No, a generator.

And second, for 10 points.

This simple electrical device is used to reduce the current in a circuit.

Name it.

- Resistor?

- Yeah, right?

- Is it resistor?

- I think so.

- Resistor?

- No, a rheostat.

No points on that bonus.

Here's another toss-up.

In what present-day state did several Indian tribes move to in a forest removal during- (buzzer beeps) Uh, Emerson.

- Oklahoma.

- Oklahoma, 1830s and 1840s from the Southeastern U.S. Oklahoma is correct.

10 points there.

Here's your bonus question.

For 10 points, what Major League Baseball player holds the record for the most consecutive games played?

(contestants whispering) - I don't know sports.

- Do you know sports?

- DiMaggio?

- [Brian] No, Cal Ripken, Jr. And for 10 points, who holds the record for the most home runs hit in a career?

- That's Babe Ruth.

- Babe Ruth.

- [Brian] No, Barry Bonds.

No points on the bonus.

Next toss-up.

When the critical angle is reached with light, what is the angle of refraction?

(buzzer beeps) Connor?

- Zero?

- No.

Can you take it, Portland?

(buzzer beeps) Yeimi.

- 180.

- [Brian] No.

90 degrees.

- Oh, that was my second answer.

(Brian clears throat) - Excuse me.

Next, toss-up.

The sales tax is characterized as a type tax unfair to poor people because it is this type of tax beginning with the letter R. What is the term?

(buzzer beeps) Brylan.

- Retail.

- [Brian] No, can you take it, Portland?

- Time.

- Time.

It's a regressive tax.

No points there.

Next, toss-up.

The name of what constellation of the zodiac is a crab?

(buzzer beeps).

Connor.

- Cancer.

- Cancer, correct.

10 points there.

Here's your bonus question.

For 10 points each, give the formulas for each of the following chemical compounds.

First, propane.

- Propane.

- I don't know.

No.

I should know this.

- Uh, C-H-4-O-5.

- What?

- C-H-4-O-5.

- Time.

- C-H-4-O-5.

- [Brian] C-3-H-8.

And also for 10 points, the chemical formula for butane.

- Similar to (indistinct).

- What is that?

- It's similar to (indistinct).

- It's one and the same thing?

- No, I don't- - Time.

- C-H-4-O-5?

- C-4-H-10.

No points on that bonus.

Next toss-up.

Identify the discoverer of New York Harbor.

This Italian sailed there in 1524.

(buzzer beeps) - [Brian] Joslin.

- Amerigo Varcia?

- [Brian] No, can you take it, Portland?

- Sorry.

- Time.

Giovanni da Verrazzano.

No points there.

Next, toss-up.

In the sentence, "She enjoys talking with her friends," what is the function of the word talking?

(buzzer beeps) - [Brian] Brylan.

- Verb.

- [Brian] No, can you take it, Portland?

(buzzer beeps) John.

- Adjective?

- No, it's a direct object.

That's what she enjoys doing.

So, no points on that toss-up.

Here's another toss-up.

If a fair coin is tossed four times, what is the probability that all four times the coin will show heads?

(buzzer beeps) Yeimi.

- Uh, 1/64th.

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

(buzzer beeps) Connor?

- 12.5%.

- No, 1/16th.

No points there.

Next toss-up.

Of the following processes, which is now the most active on the moon?

Is it A, bombardment by meteorites, B, volcanism, C, weathering, or D, oxidation?

(buzzer beeps) Connor.

- A?

- A is correct, bombardment by meteorites.

- Good job.

- 10 points there.

Here's your bonus question.

For five points each, name the Bronte sister who wrote each of the following.

First, Jane Eyre.

(Connor snickers) - What's a Bronte?

- I don't know!

No answer.

(buzzer blares) - That was Charlotte Bronte.

That's the end of our first round, and the score is Scott, 100 and Portland, 20.

Come on back for the lightning round.

(bright upbeat music) - Welcome back to WCTE High School Academic Bowl.

Got a match going on here between Portland High School and Scott High School.

And the score at the end of the first round is Scott, 115 and Portland, 20.

We're gonna have our lightning round now, and the categories are the 50 states and the U.S. military.

So Portland, which would you like to choose?

- The 50 states.

- [Brian] 50 states.

Here we go.

If the states are listed in alphabetical order, name the last 10 states that appear on the list.

You don't have to place them in alphabetical order.

Just name the last 10 states.

Take a list from the captain.

- Start saying them.

Start saying them!

- Okay, Wyoming, Wisconsin- - Tennessee.

- Tennessee.

- Texas.

- Texas, Vermont, Virginia.

- Wyoming.

- I said Wyoming.

- Okay.

- Rhode Island?

- No.

- Did you say West Virginia?

- West Virginia.

- Montana?

No.

- South Dakota, maybe?

- South Dakota.

- Tennessee.

- You said that.

I think you already said that.

- Did I say Tennessee?

- I think you did.

Say it again.

- Tennessee.

- West Virginia.

- I already said West Virginia.

- Oh.

(contestant snickering) - Utah.

- Yeah!

- Utah.

(buzzer blares) - [Brian] You got nine, correct.

The one you missed was Washington.

- [Emerson and Camden] Oh!

- 90 points on that lightning round gives you up to 110.

So now we come to Scott with the category the U.S. military.

The U.S. Army, Marines, and Air Force have the same ranks from lowest officer to the highest.

There are 10 grades of ranks in these services.

Name all 10, not necessarily in specific order, but you have 10 guesses to name them all.

Be specific on the rank.

- Lieutenant.

- Lieutenant.

Lieutenant.

Is colonel?

- Colonel.

- Colonel.

- Cadet.

- What?

- Cadet, right?

- Designate Connor.

- Cadet.

- Lieutenant colonel.

- Already got that.

Wait, is that one thing?

- That's a different rank.

- Try Sergeant.

- Sergeant.

Lieutenant colonel, you wanna try it?

- Yeah.

- Lieutenant colonel.

- Sergeant major?

- Sergeant major.

- Petty officer.

Petty officer.

- I designate Cameron.

- Petty officer.

- Okay.

- Uh, private?

- Private.

Corporal.

(Brylan whispers indistinctly) - General?

- General.

- Did we say- - Is captain?

- Yeah.

- Captain.

- Did we say major?

- Yeah.

- Major.

- How many have we said?

- Dude, we said a lot.

What?

- Too many.

(snickers) (buzzer blares) - You have five correct.

General, colonel, lieutenant colonel, major, and captain.

The other were lieutenant general, major general, and brigadier general, and also first lieutenant and second lieutenant.

You have to specify those separately.

So five correct on that, 50 more points.

Brings you up to 165.

(energetic music) All right, we're ready to start our second half.

Teams, are you ready?

Let's do it.

Here's your first toss-up.

What two-word phrase is used to identify a group of individuals of the same age or status?

- Time.

- Time.

Peer group.

Next toss-up.

Which body of water is separated from the Gulf of Oman by the Strait of Hormuz?

(buzzer beeps) John?

- The Indian Ocean?

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

(buzzer beeps) Brylan.

- Red Sea?

- No, the Persian Gulf.

No points there.

Next toss-up.

In a meeting using established rules, what phrase is used to question whether a parliamentary procedure is allowed by the rules?

(buzzer beeps) Emerson.

- A question of privilege?

- [Brian] No, can you take it, Scott.

(buzzer beeps) Connor.

- Constitutional?

- [Brian] No, point of order.

- [Contestant] I should know that.

- [Brian] No points there.

(bright upbeat music) Next toss-up.

On what street in New York City is the financial district located?

(buzzer beeps) John.

- Wall Street.

- [Brian] Wall Street, correct.

10 points there.

Here's your bonus.

For 10 points, what term is used to name an implied comparison between two unlike things?

- An oxymoron?

- Metaphor?

- Is it an oxymoron or paradox?

- A paradox.

- Paradox?

- [Brian] No, a metaphor.

- I told you!

- And second, for 10 points, "The wind howled like a vicious dog," is an example of what type of figure of speech?

- A simile.

- Simile.

- Simile is right.

10 points there on that bonus.

Next toss-up.

What is the current if the voltage is 110 volts and the resistance is 10 ohms?

(buzzer beeps) Connor.

- 100 volts?

- [Brian] No, can you take it, Portland?

- Time.

- Time, 11 amperes.

Next toss-up.

Part Saint Bernard, the big dog, Buck, draws a 1,000-pound load on a sled in order to win a bet in what Jack London- (buzzer beeps) - "Call of the Wild."

- [Brian] "Call of the Wild," Jack London novel.

Correct, 10 points there.

Here's your bonus question.

For 10 points, what is the term for plants that live for only one growing season?

- Perennial.

- Perennial?

- No, annual.

- Annual.

- No, not annual.

Perennial.

- [Brian] No, annual.

- Listen to me!

- Also for 10 points, what's the term for plants that regrow every spring?

- Perennial.

- That's perennial, correct.

10 points there.

- I'm sorry, I thought annual was, like, it comes back every year.

- Next toss-up.

The fourth largest city in the U.S. was named after a fort- (buzzer beeps) Brylan.

- Chicago.

- [Brian] No, I will continue for Portland.

(buzzer beeps) I will not.

John.

- Houston.

- [Brian] Named after a former Tennessee governor, Houston.

Correct, 10 points there.

Here's your bonus question.

Including the current one, name, for five points each, the four most recent secretary generals of the United Nations.

(Camden whispers indistinctly) - What?

- I don't know.

- I don't know.

- I don't know politics.

- I don't know anyone either.

- Smith.

(laughs) - No answer.

- [Brian] Antonio Guterres, Ban Ki-moon, Kofi Annan, and Boutros Boutros-Ghali.

No points on that bonus.

- We're not getting that.

- Next toss-up.

Who was the U.S. president at the time of the 1948 Berlin Airlift?

(buzzer beeps) John.

- Truman.

- [Brian] Truman is correct.

10 points there.

Here's your bonus question.

For 10 points, the chemical formula CABR-2 identifies what compound?

- Uh, calcium bromide.

- Calcium bromide?

- [Brian] Calcium bromide is correct.

Second, for 10 points, the chemical formula NH4NO3 identifies what compounds?

- Oh, that's one of the fancy ones.

- No, it's not sodium.

- That's one of the- - NA is sodium.

- Like, with the prefix.

I don't know though.

- I still don't.

- Time.

- No answer.

- [Brian] Ammonium nitrate.

10 points on that bonus.

Next toss-up.

What European capital city is known as the Eternal City?

(buzzer beeps) Brylan.

- Paris?

- [Brian] No, can you take it, Portland?

(buzzer beeps) John.

- Berlin?

- [Brian] No, it's Rome.

- Oh!

I knew that.

- Next toss-up.

What country in the Western Hemisphere is the leading producer of crude petroleum?

(buzzer beeps) Connor.

- U.S.A. - [Brian] U.S.A is correct.

10 points there.

Here's your bonus question.

Some questions about third-party presidential candidates for five points each.

First, this former president ran in the Bull Moose Party in 1912.

- Is that Roosevelt?

- Uh...Yeah.

- 1912.

- What?

- Zachary Taylor, maybe?

(contestants whispering) - Time.

- Answer?

- Zachary Taylor.

- [Brian] No, Teddy Roosevelt.

- Oh!

- Next, he challenged Carter and Reagan in the 1980 campaign.

- Nixon?

I can't remember.

- Time.

- Nixon?

- No, it's John Anderson.

Next, he gained 46 electoral votes in the 1968 election.

- FDR?

No.

- What?

- Would it be FDR?

(Connor speaks indistinctly) - Time.

- Answer.

- FDR.

- [Brian] No, George Wallace.

And finally, he won over 18% of the votes in the 1992 election.

- '92.

Was it Bush?

- Bush.

- Bush?

Was it Bush?

Which one came first though?

(contestants whispering indistinctly) - Time.

- Bush.

- No, Ross Perot.

No points on that bonus question.

Next, toss-up.

In some mammals, there is a structure which serves as an interface between mother and offspring in the womb.

This structure is formed- (buzzer beeps) Joslin.

- Placenta?

- Placenta, correct.

- Good job.

- [Brian] Formed by a layer from each.

Bonus, for 10 points each, here are some questions about well-known legends.

First, name the sword that young Arthur pulled from its position in a huge stone.

(contestants whispering indistinctly) - Time.

- I designate Connor.

- Calibur?

- [Brian] No, it's Excalibur.

Cannot accept that.

Next, who is the most courageous knight of the round table?

He had an encounter with the Green Knight.

- Lancelot.

- Lancelot!

Lancelot.

- Designate.

- I designate Cameron.

- Lancelot.

- No, Sir Gawain.

No points on that bonus.

(clears throat) Here's another toss-up.

The mineral magnetite contains iron.

What other chemical element is present in magnetite?

(buzzer beeps) Connor.

- Carbon?

- [Brian] No, can you take it, Portland?

(buzzer beeps) Camden.

- Magnesium?

- [Brian] No, it's oxygen.

- Oh!

- Next toss-up.

Who wrote the 19th-century novel entitled "The Old Curiosity Shop?"

(buzzer beeps) Brylan.

- Mark Twain?

- [Brian] No, can you take it, Portland?

(buzzer beeps) John.

- Jules Verne.

- [Brian] No, it was Charles Dickens.

- [Contestant] It was a good guess.

- Next toss-up.

Who was the first U.S. president to hold- (buzzer blares) Oh, that's it.

185 to 180, even closer than I thought.

So, thank you, teams.

We really appreciate it.

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