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Hello and welcome to the WCTE TV Academic Bowl.

I'm Molly Risley, and I'll be moderating today's high school winners bracket final.

So the winner of this match will move on to our championship round.

The loser of this match will play DeKalb County to determine, third place team in our Academic Bowl tournament for 2024.

Let's get started by meeting our contestants from Gallatin High School's A-Team.

Hi.

My name is Marley McDaniel, and if I were an animal, I'd be lethal.

I'm Bryce , And if I was an animal, I'd be raccoon.

Hi, my name is Gareth Turner If I was an animal, I'd be a crow.

Hi, my name is Andrew.

Right.

And if I were an animal, I would be a bear.

All right, thank you, Gallatin High School.

Best of luck to you guys.

And let's meet our contestants from Cookeville High School's A-Team.

Hi.

I'm Lizeth and I got lost at Olive garden.

Hi.

I'm Riley, and I play viola.

Hello, I'm Katherine Smith, and my dog's name is James Michener.

Hello.

My name is Eli.

And I'm the reason that Olive garden just ran out of cheese.

Wow.

Okay, well, Cookeville High School's A-Team.

Best of luck to both teams.

So let's get our signaling devices ready.

And we're going to start with a toss up.

What modern instrument succeeded the harpsichord as the modern instrument?

Eli?

The piano.

Piano is correct for ten.

Your bonus opportunity for ten points.

Find X is log base five of x equals negative two.

Is one over 25, one over 25 one over 25 is correct?

Also for ten points, find x is log base three of x equals three.

One.

27.

That is correct.

Just in time.

So 20 on the bonus and ten on the toss up gives you 30.

Next toss up.

What liquid is known as the universal solvent.

That is correct for ten.

Your bonuses for ten points.

What numbered Bill of Rights Amendment deals with a person's right to an attorney.

[whispering] 6.

Also, for ten points.

What amendment prohibits cruel and unusual punishment?

Eight.

Eight is correct.

So 20 on that bonus and ten on the toss.

It gives you 30.

Next toss up.

A light year is a unit of what?

Eli.

distance.

Distance is correct for ten.

Here's your bonus, including the current one.

Name for five points each.

The four most recent secretaries general of the United Nations.

Defer.

Ban Ki moon.

I couldn't name one.

I know, that's it.

[whispering] Answer.

No answer.

No more.

All right.

Ban Ki moon is correct.

For five, we needed Antonio Guterres, Kofi Annan, and Boutros Boutros-Ghali.

Round out the last four.

So you got five on the bonus and ten on the toss up gives you 15.

Next toss up.

Identify the term used to designate the zone of high velocity, high winds moving from west to east around the Earth.

Andrew.

Jet stream.

Jet stream is correct for ten.

Here are your bonuses for ten points.

In biological studies, what is the subdivision of a phylum called?

class?

Class.

Class.

Class is correct.

Also, for ten points, an organism is named by combining its genus name with what other name?

Species.

Species is correct.

So 20 on the bonus and ten on the up give you 30 next toss up.

Partly submerged glacial valleys along a sea.

Gareth.

Sorry at a time.

I'm going to complete it for Cookville.

Along a sea coast are called.

What?

Hint.

Think Norway.

Fjords.

Fjords is correct for ten.

Here are your bonuses for five points each.

Give answers that begin with the letter L for these description.

He delivered the Gettysburg Address.

Lincoln.

Tampa Bay professional hockey team.

[whispering] Lightning.

That's correct.

Hungarian pianist who wrote 12 Rhapsodies.

List.

That's correct.

Her signature song was Coal Miner's Daughter.

Loretta Lynn.

Loretta Lynn.

That's correct.

Got them all.

So, 20 on the bonus and ten on a toss up.

Gives you 30.

Next toss up.

What was the last year in which men walked on the moon?

Eli.

1974.

That is incorrect.

Can you take it?

Gallatin.

Gareth.

1972.

1972 is correct.

So ten points on that.

Toss up and here's your bonus.

Yeah, for ten points.

Who hypothesized that it would be impossible to know the exact location and exact momentum of a particle at the same time?

Heisenberg.

That's correct.

Also for ten points.

Which Nobel Prize winner in chemistry later receives the Nobel Peace Prize?

Chemistry.

Peace prize.

Need an answer.

Fermi?

Incorrect.

It is Linus Pauling.

So you got ten on the bonus and ten on the toss up, giving you 20.

The fall of which empire is considered to herald the beginning of the.

Gareth.

Rome.

Rome is correct.

Roman Empire.

Bonuses for ten points.

Who was the first to successfully determine the mathematical value for the universal gravitational constant?

[whispering] [whispering] Cavendish.

Cavendish is correct.

Also, for ten points, two spherically symmetric planets have the same surface acceleration of gravity, but one has twice the radius of the other.

If the mass of the smaller radius planet is M, what is the mass of the larger radius planet?

For one quarter m. Incorrect for m, so you got ten on the bonus and ten on the toss up, giving you 20.

Next toss up.

What are the first three words of the preamble of the US?

Andrew.

We, the people.

We the people is correct for ten.

Your bonuses for ten points.

What term is given to a long narrative poem that describes heroic deeds such as Beowulf or the Iliad?

Epic.

That's correct.

Also, for ten points.

Who was the wife of Odysseus who remained faithful to him despite his 20 year absence?

Penelope.

Penelope is correct.

So 20 on the bonus and ten on the toss up gives you 30.

Next toss up.

The art of arranging dance movements for performance.

Mali.

Choreography.

Choreography is correct.

Your bonus opportunities for ten points give the chemical formula of the hydroxyl group.

OH .

That's correct.

Also, for ten points, give the chemical formula for the carbonyl group.

CO. CO is correct.

All right.

So 20 on the bonus and ten on the toss up gives you 30.

Next toss up, in Cookeville.

How many times a year is the sun directly overhead.

Gareth.

Twice.

That's incorrect.

Can you take it Cookeville.?

Catherine.

Zero.

Zero is correct.

For ten points, here's your bonuses.

For ten points.

How many elements are in the set which contains the letters of the word Tennessee?

Oh.

An answer!

Four.

Four is correct.

Also for ten points, if the set S consists of the elements seven and eight, what are all of the subsets of S?

Seven and eight.

187 00:09:26,766 --> 00:09:29,769 and seven and eight.

That's correct.

I was like, yeah.

All right.

So 20 on the bonus and ten on the tossup.

Give you 30.

Next tossup.

What mountain range runs along the west coast of South America?

Andrew.

The Andes.

Andes is correct for ten.

Here's your bonus opportunity for five points each.

Give answers that begin with the letter O for these descriptions.

It knocks, but once.

Opportunity.

Opportunity.

Correct.

The Beaver State.

Oregon.

Correct.

Murder train of Agatha Christie fame.

Orient express.

That's correct.

Forming a word for something from its sound.

Onomatopoeia.

You got them all.

So, 20 on the bonus and ten on the tossup.

Give you 30.

And that brings us to the end of round one with a round one score of Gallatin A 190.

Cookeville A 105.

When we come back from the break, Cookeville will choose first in the Lightning Round.

Stay with us.

Welcome back.

Before we get to our lightning round, we do have a substitution on the Cookeville High School team.

We've got Adalay coming in to join us.

Welcome, Adalay and Cookeville High School is going to get to choose first in the lightning round between United States and Canada.

You choose United States.

United States it is.

All right.

So you're going to tell me what's what state immediately precedes each of these states.

Alphabetically, you'll have ten points for each correct answer, and you'll get 20 bonus points if you get them all correct.

We've got 60s on the clock.

Here we go.

Georgia.

Florida.

Yeah.

Florida.

New York.

New Jersey, New Mexico.

Okay.

New Mexico.

Tennessee.

Texas.

Oh.

[whispering] [whispering] Mark.

Pass.

Connecticut.

California.

California.

Mississippi.

[whispering] Missouri.

Missouri.

Kansas.

Oh, gosh.

[whispering] [whispering] [whispering] Pass.

Wyoming.

My gosh.

All right.

Washington.

All right.

We're out of time.

That was a tough one.

All right, so we got 20 on the bonus.

Florida and New Mexico.

You got South Dakota precedes Tennessee.

Colorado precedes Connecticut, and Minnesota precedes Mississippi.

Iowa precedes Kansas.

And we didn't get to our last four.

So 20 points for Cookeville brings you up to 125 and Gallatin.

You're, Gallatin.

You're going to get to deal with Canada.

List the ten provinces in Canada, not counting the territories.

60s on the clock.

Time starts now.

Quebec.

[whispering] British Columbia, British Columbia.

[whispering] [whispering] [whispering] [whispering] [whispering] [whispering] Quebec, Ontario, New Brunswick, British Columbia.

Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador.

Alberta.

285 00:13:44,290 --> 00:13:47,293 Saskatchewan.

Manitoba Prince Edward Island.

Got them all.

Nice.

So at 100, and 20 points for Gallatin, bringing their score up to 310.

Please stay with us.

We'll be back after a short break.

Welcome back to our match between Gallatin High School's A-Team and Cookeville High School's A-Team.

We've got a current score of Gallatin A 310 Cookeville High School.

125.

We're getting ready to start round two.

So contestants ready?

We've got a toss up coming your way.

Name the town in Italy that was the home of Saint Francis in the 12th.

Gareth.

Assisi.

Assisi is correct for ten.

Here's your bonus for ten points.

The medicines Alexion, neomycin and streptomycin belong to what family of drugs?

Antibiotics.

The answer?

Antibiotics.

Antibiotics is correct.

Also, for ten points, what serious disease sometimes called fair variola was declared eliminated as a human disease in 1979.

Smallpox.

Smallpox is correct.

So 20 on the bonus and ten on the toss up give you 30.

Next toss up.

Valley Forge National Historical Park is.....Eli.

Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania is correct for ten.

Here are your bonuses.

Cookeville for ten points in organisms.

What system collects information and uses it to coordinate the activities of the organism?

DNA.

DNA is incorrect.

It is nervous system.

Also for ten points.

What are the two main components of the central nervous system?

Brain.

The brain and the nerves.

Incorrect.

We're looking for brain and spinal cord.

Next, toss a no points on the bonus, but you got ten on the toss up.

Next toss up.

A moratorium is which of the following- a piece of music.

An undertaker, a Tim Eli Undertaker?

That's incorrect.

I'll finish it for Gallatin.

A temporary ban.

Andrew.

Temporary ban.

Temporary ban is correct for ten.

Here are your bonuses for ten points.

Which of the terrestrial planets is the largest?

Earth.

Earth?

That is correct.

Also for ten points.

Which planet has the shortest year?

Mercury?

Mercury?

Mercury is correct.

So 20 on your bonus and ten on your toss up give you 30.

Next toss up.

What German composer of the ring operas also... Eli.

Wagner.

Wagner is correct.

For ten, your bonuses for ten points.

Identify the American artist who worked for several years as a school teacher in Iowa, but who is best known for painting his stoic painting American Gothic.

Answer.

No.

Answer.

That's Grant wood, also for ten points, name the artist who painted mandolin and guitar and still life with mandolin.

In the early 1920s.

[whispering] O'Keeffe.

Incorrect.

That is Pablo Picasso.

So.

No.

No points on the bonus board.

You got ten on the toss up.

Next, toss up, the hereditary social divisions in Hinduism are known as elan castes.

Caste is correct for ten.

For ten points.

Your bonus.

A set contains four distinct elements.

How many subsets of size two can be found in this set?

[whispering] Pass.

Also for ten or answer is 6.

Also for ten points.

In how many ways can we seat four students in a room with four chairs?

16.

That is incorrect.

We're looking for 24 or 4 factorial, so no points on the bonus, but you got ten on the tossup.

Next tossup.

What Spanish explorer of the 16th century is looked for?

Is looked for the fountain of youth?

Eli.

De la Cortez.

It's incorrect.

Can you take it?

Gallatin.

Garrett.

De Soto.

Incorrect.

Ponce de Leon.

So no points on that toss up.

Next tossup.

What best known comedian of the 20th century was named at the age of 94?

An honorary U.S. veteran because of his work in USO shows?

Charlie.

Charlie Chaplin.

Incorrect.

Can you take it Cookeville?

Eli.

George Carlin?

We're looking for Bob Hope.

So.

No points on that toss up.

We'll go to our next tossup.

What Russian physiologist is famous for working with the concept of conditioned reflex?

Gareth.

Pavlov.

Pavlov is correct for ten.

Here's your bonus opportunity for ten points.

What island nation in the southwest Pacific did Abel Tasman, a Dutch navigator, discover and name on December 13th, 1642, [whispering] Answer.

You're out of time.

It's New Zealand also.

For ten points, identify the name of the island state of the Australian Commonwealth, located just off the southern coast of that country.

Defer to Andrew.

Tasmania.

Tasmania is correct.

So turn on the bonus and ten on the toss up give you 20.

Next toss up.

What are the first and last colors of the visible spectrum?

Riley.

Red and purple or violet?

Red and violet is correct.

Your bonus for ten points.

What term is used to describe an organism which is missing an entire chromosome?

No answer.

Also for 10 points What type of mutation has occurred when a plant inherits a complete extra set of chromosomes?

Defer Klinefelter syndrome.

We're looking for poly toity, so no points on the bonus.

You got ten on the tossup though.

Next tossup.

What organ does the condition?

Encephalitis first Eli.

Lungs.

It's incorrect I'll finish it for Gallatin.

First effect Garrett.

Brain.

Brain is correct for ten.

For ten points.

What is the name?

Are your bonuses for ten points?

What is the name of the child born to Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter?

Deferred tomorrow?

Pearl.

Pearl is correct.

Also for ten points, the pigeons are the main characters in which Nathaniel Hawthorne work.

Let's go.

[whispering] Answer.

Defer.

to Gareth.

Hills like white elephants.

Incorrect.

We're looking for House of the Seven Gables.

So ten on the bonus and ten on the tossup.

Give you 20.

Next tossup.

What European country is located on the Jutland peninsula?Andrew?

Denmark.

Denmark is correct for ten bonuses for ten points each.

Name.

These leaders of the ancient world.

Under this leader, Athens reached its zenith.

A 14 year truce with Sparta was achieved in 430 BC.

The Athenians drove him away, and he died one year later.

A member of.

Answer.

Answer.

No answer, it is Pericles, founder of the Persian Empire.

He conquered Medea, Lydia and Babylonia.

Defer to Gareth.

Cyrus.

Cyrus.

Prompt.

The Great.

That's correct.

All right, so ten on the bonus and ten on the tossup.

Give you 20 next tossup.

What nation bordering Algeria is the smallest African Eli.

Tunisia.

Tunisia is correct for ten.

Here's your bonus.

The electromagnetic spectrum is made up of seven major parts.

For five points each.

Name any four of them.

Gamma, X-ray, microwaves, microwave, radio.

Got them all.

All right, so 20 on the bonus and ten on the tossup give you 30 next toss up, name the 1787 ordnance in the US.

Eli.

Northwest.

That is correct for ten bonuses.

The first generation of computers used vacuum tubes as their basis of operation for ten points.

What are the second generation use?

Cathode ray [whispering] Cathode ray tube.

Incorrect.

We're looking for transistors also for ten points.

What did the third generation use?

Microchips.

Chips?

Microchips, chips is correct.

So ten on the bonus and ten on the tossup give you 20.

And that brings us to the end of round two.

The final score of Gallatin A430.

Cookeville A 215.

So Gallatin a will be moving on to our championship match.

Cookville A will face DeKalb County to see who's going to be third for third place in this year's WCTE TV Academic Bowl.

Come back for more Academic Bowl after this.

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