Thank you for watching Tennessee's Scholar's Bowl.

I'm frank Murphy.

This is the high school academic tournament with teams from all over the region competing for the Frank Miller Memorial Trophy and a cash prize.

And we have made it to the final game.

This is our championship game between Webb School of Knoxville and Jefferson County High School of Dandridge.

One of these two teams takes home the trophy and the prize.

The other, well, they get a consolation prize, but that's not important right now.

We're so excited that you've both won your way here.

I think you have to win five games to get this far, and we appreciate you being here.

So let's say hi once again to all of the players on both sides, beginning with Sam Kowalski who is a sophomore.

Hey, Sam, tell us about yourself.

What's new?

Hi.

I would like to thank my history teacher, Miss Ruby, for widening my perspective on the world.

Well, good.

It certainly has helped you in this game, for sure.

How about Jackson White, who is a senior?

What about you, Jackson?

I would like to give a shout out to Mr. Leticia and Mr. Brown for making math manageable.

Oh.

Very good.

Okay.

Team captain for Webb is Penny Willoughby.

So, Penny, you're going to answer bonuses or defer by name to a teammate.

What about yourself your senior this year?

What else?

I would like to thank my physics teacher, Doctor Laurie, for teaching me how to integrate.

Oh, good.

Good.

Okay.

And Stephen Cola, another senior, which means the three of you will never see again after today.

Sam, we might see next year.

But what about you, Stephen?

I would like to think the land teacher who's the best land teacher this side of the Tiber.

And our coach, Miss Fields.

Oh, okay.

Well, that worked out well because we're about to now meet the alternates and coach for Webb School of Knoxville.

We've got James Overall and Ridge Long, both seniors, joined by coach Jenny Fields, who, as you mentioned, does teach Latin at Webb, taking on an excellent squad from Jefferson County High School have been riding the Hawaiian theme all year long.

Actually, this has been a thing going back for years with Jefferson County.

We appreciate that.

Let's say had a 10th grader Zach Matheny.

Welcome back.

Zach.

What's up?

My new favorite song is or I don't for fun kidnaping and it's a really controversial song, but I really enjoy it because I love China.

Okay.

Now, Elaine, who understands what you just said, it seems to be cringing.

What is that, a cringe moment there?

Elaine, you're Elaine Zang, 11th grade.

Hi.

Let's ignore that for right now.

I mean, do I need to edit it out?

Is what I'm asking now?

It will be fine.

Okay.

Oh, it should be fine.

And what?

And your parents will agree when they watch the episode?

Well, they watch it.

I have.

So I've learned over the years that so many parents have no idea that their kids are on this show and even know what's going on with this.

All I do is I'm in competition.

It's not just you though.

You're not alone in that regard.

It's kids from school, every practically every school.

Okay.

We're happy that you're here.

Let's say hi to team captain Max Maxwell, who is in 12th grade.

So, Max, you'll answer bonuses or defer.

What's up with yourself, man?

I've been listening to this one song by Over the Rainbow.

By this.

Like this bigger gentleman who plays the ukulele.

He died.

Yeah, like pretty guitar.

Oh, I know the one you're talking about.

Yeah, it was a they played a lot of weddings and sad videos and things like that.

I know exactly who you're talking about.

Don't get me started.

Okay?

Let's.

Stansberry who's in 11th grade.

What about you, Amy?

One of my favorite fish is the human homo nuka Nuku plant, which is from Hawaii.

It absolutely is.

I remember my kids had to learn how to say that for school too, and I wish put that in the game.

That's a great fish name.

thanks for being here.

Let's say hi to the alternates and coach for Jefferson County High School.

We've got Eli Jones, Evan Roberts, Isabella Broadwater, Laurel Hirsch and coaches Ray Pedigo, who teaches science and math, and Michael Edwards, the media specialist.

We're also delighted to have a very special guest with us for the championship game, as we do every year.

Doctor Anthony Wise, president of Pellissippi State Community College, is here for the check presentation and the trophy presentation.

Thank you as always, Doctor Wise, for your support and for the support of Pellissippi State.

All right players, it's the championship game.

You know how it works.

Toss up.

It's worth ten bonuses.

Worth 20.

Get your fingers on the buzzer for this championship game of Tennessee scholar's Bowl 2025.

Toss up for all players in literature.

What is the name of the inspector relentlessly pursuing Jean Valjean.

Zach Xavier.

Yeah.

And Missouri and literature bonus for Jeff Cohen.

Which author created the literar Oh, what's the guy who wrote that?

Victor Hugo?

It might be Victor Hugo.

That's Washington Irving.

Which author created the literary character Silas Marner?

Oh, Lewis Carroll, I don't know.

Sure.

Yeah, because I'm not sure.

Yeah.

Lewis Carroll that one is George Eliot.

No points on the bonus tossup in geography.

Which of the Great Lakes provides shoreline to the state of Ohio?

Max.

Erie.

Yes.

Geography.

Bonus.

What river is the boundary between Washington and Oregon?

And is the largest North American river that empties into the Pacific Ocean.

Oh, Pacific Ocean, should you do you me river or you know river?

Sure, sure, sure.

The Oregon River, it's the Columbia River.

Very beautiful scenery up there.

And toss up in astronomy, what type of galaxy is the Milky Way?

Max spiral.

Right.

And astronomy bonus.

What are two of the three forms of energy released by the sun that can disrupt Earth based communications?

Solar flares also, what kind of energy though?

Solar flare is it?

Electromagnetic and electromagnetic and solar?

Sure.

Thermal, electrical, magnetic and thermal.

I'm looking for prominences, solar flares and coronal mass ejections.

No points on the bonus tossup in geometry.

In an isosceles right triangle, what is the length of the hypotenuse in radical form with side of 20 Sam 20 root two.

Right.

And a geometry bonus if the diameter of a circle is 16, what is the circumference of the circle?

What's 1616 pi 16 Pi.

Right.

What is its area?

64 Pi 64 pi also right.

20 points plus up.

Now, in architecture, what is the name of the approximately 555ft high marble obelisk in our nation's capital?

Zach Washington Memorial, right, no chance to steal Sam.

The Washington Monument is the exact title and a visual bonus now in architecture for web.

Take a look at the screens.

With a total height just over half a mile high.

What is the world's tallest structure shown here?

Burj Khalifa is right for ten.

In what city is it located to?

Dubai also right 20 plus up now in music.

Which classic rock bands album titled escape includes the songs Open Arms, Who's Crying Now, Zach Green Day and Don't Stop Believin?

Jackson journey?

Is it a music bonus now?

Which band's 2004 album American Idiot is the basis for a Broadway musical of the same name.

Green Day right for 20 tossup now in U.S. history.

In which year did Abraham Lincoln officially issue the emancipation?

Zachary 1863 proclamation?

History.

Bonus, who was the first and only speaker of the House to also serve as president?

Oh oh, could he have l Joe Biden?

No, no.

Jimmy Carter, Reagan, Taft, Bill Clinton, Bill Clinton.

That was James K Polk.

toss up in government.

What word besides USA has appeared on all first class postage stamps since 2011?

Jackson.

In God we Trust Norwich, you can steal Jefferson County.

Jack.

People.

It's forever.

Those are forever.

Stamps toss up in foreign language.

What is the French word for Friday?

Zach von dirty.

Yes.

Foreign language bonus.

What is the English translation of the German phrase?

But is there a fluke happen?

Where is something and where is the, Where's the flower?

Where's the flower store?

You sure defer to Zach.

Where is the flower store?

Well, fluke Hoffman is apparently is airport.

Oh, where's the airport?

No points.

Toss up in vocabulary.

What?

Six letter word beginning with Z means a fervent and even militant proponent of something.

Zach Zany.

I think it's still Sam Zell.

It.

That's right.

For tabular bonus.

What nine letter word beginning with S means to supplant or take the place of a person or thing previously in a foreign that is supersede supersede is right now spell supersede I defer to Sam.

Supersede right 20 points on the bonus tossup in economics.

What economic term refers to the amount of goods that consumers want for demand?

Correct economics bonus in January 2024, what socialist government put an end to the Petro cryptocurrency that was launched seven years ago to sidestep U.S. sanctions, but which never took off and became embroiled in a graft scandal?

Maybe Norway?

Norway?

Socialist.

That's never me.

I'm fine with Norway.

Norway now, Petro implies Petroleum Exporting Countries is Venezuela toss up in health?

What is the term for a blood filled sac formed by a ballooning sac aneurysm in an arterial or venous wall?

Health bonus for Jeffcoat.

In what city and country did Doctor Christian Barnard perform the first successful heart transplant operation?

Its Cape something in South Africa.

Keep a Cape Cape Hope, South Africa no.

Okay.

Sure.

Cape Hope, South Africa well, it's Cape Town, South Africa.

They Toss up.

Now, in math, a cup and a saucer together weigh 12oz.

The cup weighs twice as much as the saucer.

How much does the cup weigh, Sam?

Eight.

Right.

And a math visual.

Take a look at the screens.

Given the two functions, f of x equals four x plus five and g of x equals x plus six, evaluate the expression f of g of four.

45 is right for 20 points plus.

Yep.

Now in music, how many encores did Elvis Presley usually give?

Zero correct music bonus.

In which state is Elvis Presley's birthplace?

Memphis.

I think it's Memphis, Tennessee.

Tennessee.

He was born in Tupelo, Mississippi.

In which state is Elvis's mansion called Graceland in Tennessee.

Okay, Tennessee?

Yeah.

In Memphis.

That's right.

Ten points.

Toss up in foreign language.

What is the English translation of the French word école Jacques school.

Right.

And a foreign language bonus.

What is the English translation of the German question?

The field costs lettuce.

How much exactly?

How much does it cost the farmer to Zach?

How much does it cost?

Is right for 20 plus up now in geography, what state not known for cheese heads is America's salmon.

California leading producer of dairy products.

Geography bonus for web what four U.S. states border Mexico.

Calexico, California for the season.

I defer to Stephen, New Mexico, Arizona, California and Texas.

All for correct for 20 points.

Toss up in chemistry.

Which element has the symbol P penny?

Palladium.

Yes.

Chemistry.

Bonus.

What is the electron configuration for the alkali metal?

Potassium in noble gas notation.

Argon for us one.

Argon for us one is right for 20 plus up and miscellaneous.

In which country did parmesan cheese originate?

Penny.

Italy.

Miscellaneous.

Bonus.

Which member of the Royal family founded the Earthshot Awards to reward solutions to improve the environment?

Only Kate Middleton was Kate Middleton.

It was Prince William.

No points on the throne.

It's a toss up in religion.

What is the collection of prayer beads separated into decades?

Max rosary beads that is used by Catholics?

Religion bonus noun what Catholic saint who was born in what is now Macedonia in 1910 established the missionaries of Charity in India in 1950.

Was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979, died in 1997, and was canonized in 2016.

Teresa, Saint Teresa, his mother, who sent me so young.

Saint Teresa, Yeah, the thing, Teresa of Calcutta is what she's called.

But Mother Teresa, is she still known?

We'll take that 20 points tossup in literature.

Which Shakespearean play is about the assassination of a Roman emperor, taming the tragedy of Julius Caesar and a literature bonus.

Now for Jeff Cohen.

The First Folio, which is regarded by many as the most important book in the history of English literature, contains 36 of William Shakespeare's comedies, histories, and tragedies, including which two comedies that have the word night and The 12th Night and a midsummer Night's Dream The Father, Alain the 12th Night in a midsummer Night's Dream.

A midsummer Night's Dream tossup.

Now in government, which amendment to the US Constitution says a person cannot be forced.

Jacques fit to testify against himself.

Government bonus for Jefferson.

Name the four U.S. presidents who did not make any nominations for Supreme Court appointments, as there were no vacancies while they were in office.

Oh crap.

Just just name 20 years and Coolidge.

You have it.

Zach.

Benjamin Harrison just names.

Just gets him down, I got you.

I can't remember the third.

Zach.

Benjamin Harrison.

Coolidge.

Roosevelt and Carter.

Five points for Carter, Jimmy Carter.

The others were Andrew Johnson, Zachary Taylor and William Henry Harrison.

Plus, up in physics.

How much work is done in a system?

If a 20 Newton stack, 8080 joules is where I was going with that.

Yeah.

To move an object four meters.

And a physics bonus, which is we don't get to that, because the cash has run out.

This is going to be an exciting game to watch all the way through the end.

In fact, we probably should go over the tiebreaker rules with these two.

Absolutely excellent teams.

Webb School of Knoxville Jefferson High School, the winner receives the Frank Miller Trophy and goes on to well, doesn't go on there.

They just win.

That's the end of it.

It's our last episode of the season on Tennessee Scholar's Bowl 2025.

You're watching Tennessee Scholar's Bowl.

I'm Frank Murphy back from halftime in the championship game for the 2025 season.

Our 41st season on the air.

A very close and exciting game between Webb School of Knoxville and Jefferson County High School of Dandridge.

One of these two teams will win the Frank Miller Memorial Trophy and the cash prize.

The other will be our runner up for the year.

Who's it going to be?

We have no idea.

And in fact, we went over the tiebreaker rules at halftime just in case this game ends in a tie.

That's how close it is.

All right.

We've got some alternates on both sides of the dance.

Let's say hi first to on the website to James Overall who is a senior.

So this is a James.

We'll never see you again after today.

Tell us about yourself.

Hey, I'd like to shout out my English teacher, Mr. Rigoletto, for inspiring a deeper love of reading in me.

Well, good and nice to hear about that.

Meanwhile, Jefferson County has brought Evan Roberts, so you're probably one of the few seniors on this squad.

You and Max.

Right.

So this is your last shot at scholars Bill.

Also, tell us about yourself.

I'm very happy to be here, and I. I can promise you that Mohamed Salah will be winning the 2025 Ballon d'Or.

What is a Ballon d'Or?

It's, given by the France Football Association to the best soccer.

000 right now.

I'm sorry.

Yes.

Golden balloon.

All right, I know what you're talking about.

The soccer trophy.

Now they mention it.

All right, well, I think we got a question about that.

Earlier this season on Scholar's Bowl.

I had to learn how to pronounce that.

Whatever you just said.

Fantastic.

All right, everybody, let's get to it.

Let's find out who's going to win this thing.

On Tennessee Scholar's Bowl 2025 A tossup for all players in Pre-Calculus.

What is the limit of sine x divided by x as x approaches infinity?

Sam zero right.

And a pre-calc bonus if the sine ratio of an angle is 5/13.

What is the cosine ratio of the same angle 12 over 1312 over 13 is right for ten.

If the sine ratio of an angle is 5/13, what is the tangent ratio of the same angle?

Five over 12 five over 12 also right 20 points plus up in art.

What 13 letter word describes paintings or other artwork done in shades of only one color or hue?

Any monochromatic right art bonus the Apotheosis of Washington, a fresco depicting George Washington rising to the heavens in glory, is located in what building?

Oh yes, the Oval Office, Capitol and the Capitol.

Yes.

Specifically, where in the Capitol is the apotheosis of Washington?

Oh, the Oval Office now it's in the eye of the rotunda.

Ten points tossup in English.

Which figure of speech is used in the following sentence?

The snow is a white blanket.

Penny simile.

No chance.

Steals accurate metaphor, right?

English bonus.

Which figure of speech is used in the following sentence?

Maria heard the last piece of pie calling her name.

Personification.

Personification.

Write for ten.

Which figure of speech is used in the following sentence?

My love is like a red rose simile, right?

For 20 on the bonus toss up in history.

Which country's capital stands on the site of the ancient Roman capital of Britannia?

Pini.

Turkey.

No chance to steal web games.

Britain.

Yeah, it's in London, England.

All right.

And history bonus.

Now, which event led to the US and the USSR setting up a hotline in 1963 to facilitate communication between the US president and the Soviet prime.

Cuban missile crisis.

Right for 20.

Toss up in health.

What is the term for a sudden increase in the birth rate, as happened in the US and Britain?

Baby boom.

Yeah.

After World War two.

Health visual.

Take a look at the screens.

What are the common names for the ossicles, which are the tiny bones, malleus, incus and stapes?

Pelvis.

Oh, yeah.

Pelvis.

Right.

Okay.

You I found with that.

I think so, pelvis bones.

No.

Those common names are hammer, anvil and stirrup.

And what part of the body of they located?

Oh, it's probably the pelvis, right.

Yeah.

Because there's the look at that pelvis.

Now they're in your, in your ear.

They're tiny little bones in your ear.

Toss up in history which American founding document includes the right to life.

Zach.

The Constitution, right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Chances do a web penny.

Declaration of independence is right for ten.

History bonus.

Now, a Tennessee state park in Green County that was significantly damaged by the flooding of the Nola Truckee River during Hurricane Helene, honors the birthplace of what man, who was born in 1786, served in Congress and died at the Alamo in 1836.

Davy Crockett is right for 20 Toss up in music, which 19th century American composer and bandleader is known as the March King.

Any John Philip Sousa and a music bonus for Jefferson County.

Two parts who wrote the operetta The Mikado?

Ooh ooh, could it be Uncle Moe?

The tour?

The third is act Giacomo.

That's booty.

No, that one is Gilbert and Sullivan.

What is the musical term for the introductory music?

At the beginning of The Mikado?

Prolog?

Prelude I prelude.

In that case, it's the overture 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 Superior no chance.

Still Jeff Campbell, Ontario now Lake Huron wraps around the mitten toss up in astronomy in 1983, who became the first American woman and third woman of all time, Sam Sally ride to go into space when she wrote on the challenger astronomy bonus for Webb, the Jupiter icy Moons explorer known as juice, which did a flyby of the moon and Earth in 2024 and will fly by Venus in 2025 on its way to arrive at Jupiter in 2031, is operated by what agency space X space to try and NASA?

No, it's by the European Space Agency.

Toss up in algebra to complete the square of x squared -16 x, what number must be added?

Psalm 64 to the expression algebra bonus.

Now Sam was getting 22 miles per gallon before working on the carburetor of his car.

Now Sam gets 27.5 miles per gallon.

What is the percent of increase?

Sam, I don't think I'm gonna get this into, oh, a 25%.

Don't get us all.

Just go.

25% is right for 20 points.

Tossup in sports.

Which university has permission from Disney to use Donald Duck Sam Oregon as their official mascot?

Sports bonus.

Yes.

In what city is the Kentucky Derby held?

Louisville.

Louisville, Kentucky.

And on what racetrack is which?

Kentucky Derby?

Churchill Downs also right 20 plus up now in literature.

In what fictional work is Newspeak the official language?

Sam 1984 is right.

And a visual bonus.

Take a look at the screens, please.

What writer shown here became the first poet to speak at a presidential inauguration?

Whitman.

Maybe Keats.

Would you believe Robert Frost?

Which vice president is trying to use his top hat to block the sun on the paper?

That was too bright for frost to read?

Write?

I don't know.

Lyndon Johnson.

Who's winning?

B Johnson is.

Lyndon Johnson is right.

Ten points on the bonus pass up in U.S. history.

What is the first and last name of the person after whom America was named?

America.

Vespucci.

And a history bonus.

Now, which Medal of Honor recipient and famous pilot was the first to fly across the North American continent in less than 24 hours in 1922 and led the bombing of Tokyo in 1942.

James Goodyear It's a good James Goodson.

It's maybe James Goodson, it's James Doolittle, no points.

Toss up now in biology.

What 13 letter word beginning with t is the term sac transpiration for the process of plants taking up liquid water and a biology bonus.

Now, which scientist is credited with discovering human Abo blood groups?

Fleming is the antibody.

I don't know Fleming.

That's Carl Lance Steiner, which scientist is credited with discovering penicillin?

Oh, no they don't.

Don't worry.

Edward Lewis Fleming is right.

Ten points on the bonus Alexander Fleming toss up in geography, in which country are the Apennine Mountains located?

Sam, Italy.

And a bonus in geography.

On Veterans Day 2024, the US and Australia announced that the Royal Australian Navy had discovered the wreckage of the USS Edsel, which was sunk by the Japanese during World War Two, about 250 miles south southeast of Christmas Island.

In what ocean?

Christmas.

The Southern Ocean, right way?

Yeah.

Southern ocean, it's still the Indian Ocean, about point.

No points.

Toss up.

Now in foreign language, what is the English translation of the Spanish word Hefei?

Is that bus?

Yes.

And a foreign language.

Bonus.

What is the Spanish word for 15 of the far right.

What is the Spanish word for 16?

Yes, it's the third.

Zach is also right.

20 points.

Tossup.

Now in spelling spelled a nine letter word beginning with P. That is a synonym for believable.

Zachary p l a u s I b l e is plausible and ten points bonus.

Now in spelling for Jefferson.

What 11 letter word beginning with r means to echo or produce an after effect.

Very correct.

Someone from spelling it.

Got it reverberate right for ten.

Now spell reverberate.

Who hasn't?

Okay.

Defer to Amy.

R e v e r b e r at 20 points on the bonus toss up in government.

What kind of legislative bill packages together?

Several measures are diverse.

Zach.

Omnibus subjects into a single bill is an omnibus and a government bonus.

Who considered a career as a concert pianist before eventually becoming a professor of political science at Stanford.

The National Security Adviser in 2001 and Secretary of State in 2005.

Roy Roy welcoming Roy, that's Condoleezza Rice toss up in chemistry.

What sweet smelling organic compound.

Zach diethyl ether with the chemical formula C4.

Oh, is it chemistry bonus commonly called buckyballs.

What is the name for C60 which has a cage like fuzed ring structure made of 20 hexagons and 12 pentagons and resembles a soccer ball?

It's no answer.

That is Buckminster Fuller in concept.

In geometry, a 120 degree angle is bisected, and those two angles are tri sect.

Jackson.

I don't know.

What is the measure of each final result in angle, Zach?

20 degrees.

Well, you get ten points there at the end of the game, but not quite enough, to after a very close, very exciting game, Webb has won.

I want to say congratulations to the, Hawaiian shirt clad team from Jefferson County.

And they compliment you.

Max, on some excellent teamwork throughout the course of the season.

We've noticed, that you guys did an excellent job of deferring and preparing, especially for those spelling questions.

Thank you guys for being here.

Evan and Max.

Goodbye forever.

Amy and Zach.

We'll see you guys next year.

I'll miss you so much.

And the first and last thing I think of each dish.

Oh, yeah.

Okay, you'll get over it very, very quickly, I promise.

Meanwhile, Web school of Knoxville.

It's been a while since you've won the championship trophy.

In fact, I think my first season of scouting for web was the winner.

And here you are again in my ninth season as winners yet again.

Congratulations, Kenny and all of the guys on your squad.

We're very proud of you and happy for you, especially for your seniors.

As you go out the door.

Champions.

now celebrate the end of another great season of Tennessee Scholar's Bowl, we have a message from our CEO, Vicky Lawson.

East Tennessee PBS proudly congratulates the outstanding players, coaches, and staff who contributed to this season of scholarship.

Bo, your commitment to academic excellence and spirited competition sets a shining example for students across our region.

Doctor Anthony Wise, president of Pellissippi State Community College, is with the team from Jefferson County to award them the second place trophy.

Doctor wise.

On behalf of Pellissippi State Community College, I would like to congratulate Jefferson County High School on an outstanding season of Scholar's Ball.

And today's runner up finish.

I'm thankful for the opportunity that PBS has provided for my team in my journey on this mission.

I'm very proud of my teammates who have grown, and I've been become challenge with this competition.

I'm very thankful for my coach, Miss Pedigo, who has done this for now, well over ten years and has been a leading figure to help us get to where we are today.

And I'm just very valuable for what this school and what this has been provided for us.

Thank And now the moment we've all been waiting for, as Webb School of Knoxville receives the Frank Miller Memorial Trophy and is crowned champions of Tennessee scholar's Bowl 2025.

Doctor wise.

On behalf of Pellissippi State Community College, I would like to congratulate Webb School of Knoxville for their championship winning season on Scholar's Bowl this year.

They are the recipients of the Frank Miller Memorial Trophy.

I'd like to thank the judges and crew here at eastern PBS and then Frank Murphy and Ernie Roberts additionally for helping us here and from Webb School of Knoxville, I'd like to thank Doctor Sanders and Mr. McDonald's and most importantly, my teammates and Miss Fields, our coach.

And I'll add my personal congratulations to the Webb School Spartans on a season well played on Scholar's Bowl.

We're so appreciative to you and to all the teams, all the students and all the coaches who put in the hard work and dedication to make this season absolutely great.

Thank you so much for watching each and every episode of Scholar's Bowl.

Whether you set your DVR or binge watch past seasons online, as our students obviously do.

My name is Frank Murphy, and thank you for watching Tennessee Scholar's Bowl 2025.