Thank you for watching Tennessee 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.

We are in the fourth round, the round of the educated eight.

And today's game is between Farragut High School and, Roane County High School let's, say hi to the players, beginning with those from Farragut High School.

It's Leighton Lu who is in 11th grade.

What about you, Leighton?

Hi.

I also like to think that, Playboi Carti should also drop an album this year because he.

Okay.

Who's this?

He's a rapper.

Playbook.

Hardy.

Yes.

He, he promised to drop his album, like, four years ago.

Can you write to these guys online?

I know they look at them every day, bro, and they don't drop, ever.

It's so sad.

Well, they gotta get to work and I know they don't do anything.

They just, like, make movie they like.

You can't sit an album that isn't hasn't been recorded.

It's leaked like they beat it and they just don't drop the album.

Okay, I see all right.

So that's that.

They're they're sitting on it for some reason.

All right.

Let's say had almond.

Okay.

Say almond.

Welcome back.

Tell us about yourself.

Hi.

I'm in, our school science club, and I play percussion in the choir.

Oh.

Are you any good?

Yeah, percussion.

There's a lot of things.

I mean, there's so many, so many things.

what do you play?

Usually depends, like, it's usually like timpani, like snare drum.

Snare drum.

So I like the more like classical stuff.

Yeah.

All right.

Like in the orchestra, there's a lot of things that just bang together and make interesting noises.

You know?

It's good stuff.

All right, let's say hi to Russian Ramanan, who is in 10th grade Russian.

Welcome back.

Tell us about yourself.

My last haircut was two days ago.

Oh, well, thank you for liking, spiffy here for our show.

You keep track of that closely on the calendar, or what do you use?

No, it was just a big change, and so I.

What did you have before?

It was a lot longer.

Okay, well, thanks for cleaning it up.

I've compiled, Nisha from the 90s here.

And you're looking at your.

Is that your brother?

Yes.

What was his haircut like before?

I won't say it was better.

Oh, his old haircut was better.

Okay, you're not going to say that.

Well, what about you?

Let's talk about you instead.

Nisha.

What about yourself?

I've been to six continents.

Oh, my gosh, that's all but Antarctica, I'm guessing.

Yes, I don't most people don't start with that one.

Most people say that was the last.

Yes, that is impressive.

So what's some of the places you visited?

Let's say South America, Africa, Asia, the hard ones.

South America.

I've been to like Peru and stuff.

I.

And then Africa and Morocco.

Oh, this is good.

And then Asia.

You won't believe it.

India.

Why wouldn't I believe that?

Is that where your family's from?

Yes.

Okay, well, I usually didn't know, but that's nice.

Okay.

Well, great.

Happy to have you.

Let's say hi to the alternates and coach for Farragut High School, beginning with Evan Conger.

Uday suggested Kumar and Aiden Wu, joined by coach Christopher Hampton, who teaches social studies at Farragut, taking on a very good squad from Roane County High School.

Let's say hi first to James Ashcraft, who is a senior.

Hey, James, tell us about yourself.

Well, I play, tennis for the high school team.

First seed.

And I also like to golf in my spare time.

Oh, good.

Okay.

Golf and tennis is a lifetime sports you can do.

And also you're sporting.

I notice a button with my, ugly mug on it.

Yes.

And where'd you get that?

From Lucas's, mom.

All right, well, we appreciate that.

Yeah, the comedy on that very much.

And speaking of Lucas, let's say hi to junior Lucas Hines.

Welcome back.

Lucas, tell us about yourself.

Yeah, I play trombone for the cancer.

Yeah.

Oh, congratulations.

You know, the guy, you know, it was an arm.

And over here.

I know a couple.

I know a couple of them, actually.

Oh, good.

All right.

Well, good.

I want to have some friendly competition.

Are you any good at, Oh, it's all right.

Because you do.

You have a lot of interests besides just music, right?

You got math and all the everything.

Good.

All right.

We're happy to have you here, Ethan.

Oh, shell is a senior this year.

You're a team captain.

So, like Rochelle on the other side, you'll answer bonuses or defer by name to one of your teammates.

What about you?

I play piano and percussion.

Are you any good?

Yeah.

And what kind of percussion instrument do you play?

Oh, I play marimba.

there.

Thank you for that.

Let's say hi also to Matt Scarborough, who is a junior.

What about you, Maddox?

I play trumpet in the band and, a part of the robotics team.

Oh, in robotics, what do you do?

Code or build or both?

I'm do mostly design things.

Yeah, it's just one of those things where you compete, like in, Is it first robotics nationwide or what do you do.

Yes.

Yeah.

Like that.

And how far have you gotten in that competition?

No, not far, but you enjoy it.

Yeah.

All right.

Well, good.

We're happy to have you.

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

We've got Brylee Carter, John Davis, Emerson Walsham, Bailey Wright and coach Ellen Warman, who teaches Spanish one, two and three and senior transition at Rone to the Yellowjackets.

You all have to win your way multiple times to get here.

This is a fourth round game.

She had to win three times to get here, and the winner of this game will advance to the round of the philosophical for players.

Get your fingers on the buzzer for this fourth round game of Tennessee Scholar's Bowl 2025 toss up for all players in geography, the city of Cincinnati is on which Lucas.

The Ohio River.

Which river is the Ohio geography bonus?

In which time zone is Las Vegas, Nevada?

It's Pacific, I'm pretty sure.

Pacific.

Right.

And in which time zone is Indianapolis, Indiana?

Central.

It's it's eastern.

It's eastern.

I'm pretty sure eastern is ranked 20 on the bonus toss up in geology, rounded to the nearest ten.

What percentage of the Earth is covered in oceans?

Lucas 70%.

Yes, and a geology bonus.

As of September 2024, there were an estimated 23,490 active lithium prospecting claims in which U.S. state that is already the nation's largest producer of gold and second largest producer of silver.

I think it's I that I but yeah, Nevada is right for 20 tossup in literature.

Haiku contains three lines of poetry with a total of how many syllables?

Late 17, right.

And a literature bonus.

Which Pulitzer Prize winner wrote?

The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep.

Oh, Robert.

Robert!

Yeah.

You know, Robert Frost is right for ten.

What is the exact title of the poem?

The Road not taken?

Not too sure.

The road not taken.

That's one of his.

But this particular one was from stopping by woods on a snowy evening.

Ten points on the bonus tossup in art.

In which country did the type of dance drama known as kabuki begin in Japan?

Correct.

And a visual bonus for Fahrenheit.

Take a look at the screens.

What is the title of the painting shown here?

Created in 1818 by the German artist Caspar David Friedrich and considered to be one of the masterpieces of the romantic movement.

Just a Snowy Mountain to Mount a man on the mountain.

Yes, man on the mountain.

Well, it's wanderer above the sea of fog.

So no points there.

Toss up in health.

Which medical specialty?

Field studies, changes in the body that caused disease or that are caused by disease.

Latent pathologies.

Yes.

Health bonus.

The middle ear fills with air that comes from the mouth or nose via what passage nasal, nasal or middle ear?

Nasal canal.

Yeah.

Nasal canal.

It's the Eustachian tube.

No points on the bonus toss up.

In economics, what currency is used in Mexico?

Pesos, yes.

And an economics bonus.

What country's official currency is the renminbi?

Is it mom?

Not and not India.

Pakistan, I don't think.

I think so you said Zimbabwe.

I don't know, just Pakistan.

Pakistan.

It's actually China.

The renminbi toss up in algebra in the equation three x plus six equals three x.

Solve for x Lucas.

No solutions.

Correct algebra bonus.

What is the reduced slope of the line with the equation for x plus eight, y equals zero.

The of Lucas negative one half and now name its y intercept in coordinate form.

The father of Lucas zero zero.

That's right 20 points.

Tossup in vocabulary.

What 12 letter word beginning with B refers to the practice or study of predicting the participants in or outcomes of elimination.

Lucas Bracketology tournaments or competitions like this one.

Vocabulary bonus what eight letter word starting with P means a person who knows and is able to use several languages.

Polly pop, polygon or different polygon?

Well, it's, polyglot.

Get ten points for spelling it pop.

I want to go to polyglot.

Yeah.

So a ten on the bonus tossup now in miscellaneous, in what state is Old Dominion University located?

Lucas.

Indiana.

No chance to steal Farragut, Virginia.

Right.

And a miscellaneous bonus.

In what city and state is Brown University located in Providence, Rhode Island.

It's around Providence, Rhode Island.

Both right.

20.

Toss up in astronomy, what is a huge cloud of dust that swirls among the stars?

Almond nebula.

Yes, and astronomy bonus what celestial event occurred on April 8th, 2024, in parts of Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York.

Vermont.

Hampshire.

In Maine.

Solar eclipse is right.

toss up in government.

What is the term for trying to get someone to do wrong by offering him or her special favors or bribery, or money and a visual bonus and government look at the screens, please.

On its 1976 bicentennial series of state flags, the US Postal Service made what error on the Tennessee stamp seen here?

The banner.

I think that's supposed to be the bar.

Is it on the other side of the thing?

I think some of the bar the bar should be on the other side.

the stamp actually is the flag is actually upside down.

So the whole thing is upside down.

You can't give that to a toss up in geography, the sources of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers are in what country?

Amen.

Iraq?

Not it.

You can still run.

It makes your iron no turkey toss up in English.

What is the term for a verb that requires a direct object to complete its meaning?

Russian transitive yes, and an English bonus, which for words need to be capitalized in the following sentence William the Conqueror was the first Norman King of England.

William the Conqueror Norman England, yes.

William William Conqueror, Norman England oh four, correct for 20 points.

Toss Up in Music, a platinum award from the Recording Industry Association of America.

Represents sales of Lucas 10 million.

How many units chance to steal Farragut late.

1 million is right.

Music bonus If the time signature is six eight, how many beats would a half note get?

No.

It's a four for four for have.

No, no, it's six points for correct for ten points for the same time signature.

How many beats would a dotted quarter note get?

3 to 3.

Yeah 30 also right 20 points.

Toss up in science what prefix means things or activities connected with air or movement through the air?

Rushing arrow.

Yes.

Science bonus.

What chemical element is named after the mythological Greek goddess of the rainbow?

And in the Iliad, the female messenger of the god of medium iridium.

Correct for ten.

What is the name of that mythological Greek goddess?

Iris?

Iris.

Also right 20 plus up in U.S. history.

Who said, I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty.

Russian, give me liberty or give me death chance to steal, run!

Lucas.

Thomas Penn.

That was Patrick Henry.

Plus up in pre-calculus.

What is the value of the base five?

Logarithm of 125 Lucas three.

Correct.

Pre-Calculus bonus.

What is the value of the tangent of 135 degrees in the unit circle?

Defer to Lucas.

Negative one.

Correct for 20.

Tossup and spelling.

According to Reader's Digest, the most misspelled word in Tennessee is Parliament, spelt Parliament.

Ahmed p a r, l, I, a m, e, and t for ten.

Spelling bonus spelled Brandeis as in Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Yes.

Okay, I'll defer to them on b r a and d I c e. It's actually dies at the end.

It's a little weird.

So no points on that toss up in foreign language.

What is the English translation of K to S Russian.

What time is it?

Right in a foreign language.

Bonus.

What is the English translation for the Spanish word Fuego?

Fire, fire, fire.

I think it's fire.

Fire.

It's like fires, right?

For ten.

What is the English translation for the Spanish word naive?

Yes.

Snow.

Snow.

It's not like snow also.

Right?

20 points.

Toss up.

In biology, a honeybee getting nectar or pollen from a flower is an example of which type of associate Russian symbiosis.

No, that's not it.

Chance to steal Matic's mutualism Yeah.

That's right.

biology bonus for Ron list four of the eight levels of classification in the Linnaean taxonomy system.

Defer.

Defer to Lucas order.

Family.

Genus.

Subgenus, order, family and genus are all correct for 15 points domain, kingdom, phylum, class and species are the others plus up for all players in history.

In 30 BC, Cleopatra killed herself following the defeat of her forces by what future first Emperor Augustus Caesar?

Yeah, of Rome.

Octavian, later known as Augustus Caesar, and history.

Bonus, which Native American leader known as the last Apache War Chief, fought against both Mexican and American forces in the second half of the 19th century?

Sitting bull, sitting bull.

Yeah.

Sitting bull and that was Geronimo I described.

Toss up in art.

What is the term for the style of art that uses shapes, designs, textures and colors in a way Lucas Abstract have to emphasize moods or feelings.

Art bonus A junk dealer discovered a painting on a rolled up canvas in 1962, but his wife thought it wasn't pretty enough to sell, so it hung in their home for about 50 years until one of their children realized that the painting, which was authenticated in 2024, was an asymmetrical portrait of Dora maar by what famed Spanish artist known for the Cubism movement.

No, no, just say nothing.

We didn't even get that.

For, I don't know, Pablo Picasso.

No points.

Toss up in literature.

Actually, we'll save that for the second half and see which of these teams is going to make it to our philosophical four.

Both of them have kind of looks of astonishment on their face.

We'll see what plays out and maybe even go over the tiebreaker rules during halftime.

Farragut versus Roane County, who advances?

We'll find out after the break on Tennessee's scholars Bowl 2025.

You're watching Tennessee Scholar's Bowl.

I'm Frank Murphy back from halftime in this fourth round game between Farragut High School and Roane County High School of Kingsport, Tennessee.

It's closer than the score indicates with both teams being very talented and quick on the buzzer.

And Farragut has brought one of their alternates into the game.

Let's say hi to 10th grader Evan Conger.

Hey, Evan.

Welcome.

Tell us about yourself.

What do you like to do?

It's been 19 days since my last haircut.

Oh, and how long are you gonna let it grow?

Maybe.

Maybe a couple more weeks, I don't know.

I think I like it a little shorter.

Oh, really?

Yeah.

Okay.

Cause you got to keep it out of your eyes.

Maybe.

Yeah, I'm getting close to that point.

I guess we need to go have it trimmed.

All right.

Well, everybody else is still here.

The starting line up on Roan still intact.

Let's get back to it.

Everybody.

Fingers on the buzzer for Tennessee scholar's Bowl, 2025.

What poem by Rudyard Kipling contains the famous line, you're a better man than I am.

Amen.

If not it, you can still run.

That is Gunga Din to for all players in architecture, which architect designed the Solomon Art Guggenheim Museum is building on Fifth Avenue in New York City?

Layton, Frank Lloyd Wright, correct for ten and a bonus.

Now in architecture, the Newgrange mound in Ireland is a Neolithic monument, older than both Stonehenge and the Egyptian pyramids, and was constructed so that the rising sun would illuminate its innermost chamber.

During what celestial event in December.

Oh so some distant summer solstice.

In the winter?

In the winter solstice or winter solstice?

That's right.

For 20 plus up in geology, which fault line runs along the borders of West Tennessee, Arkansas and Missouri?

Seven new metric?

Yes, and a geology bonus.

What does a paleontologist study of fossil fossils?

Fossils for ten now spell paleontologist.

Hey, Alioto.

Longest.

Yeah.

Okay.

Can p p a l e o n t o l o g s t exactly right.

For 20 points.

Toss up in government.

What is the only crime defined in the US?

Lucas?

Treason.

Constitution.

Government bonus.

The Ottoman Empire was abolished in 1922 and succeeded.

By which nation state?

Turkey.

Turkey is right for 20 plus up in math.

How many minutes are in 2.25 hours, Lucas?

135.

Right.

And a math bonus on the screens.

Take a look, please.

The first term of an arithmetic sequence is 20, and the common difference between terms is -12.

What is the 12th term of the sequence?

Different.

Lucas.

-112 is right for 20 points.

Toss up in foreign language.

What is the literal English translation of the Spanish words salsa?

Maria 11.

Yellow salsa knowledge.

You can still run.

Games.

Green salsa.

No, it's yellow sauce you can't get.

I gave you salsa.

You can't give me salsa back.

Yellow sauce.

it's delicious.

By the way, you should try it Toss up.

In sports, in.

What year did the University of Tennessee football team last?

1998, when the national championship sports bonus for running.

What is the current name of the Major League Baseball team in Cleveland, Ohio?

The equivalent since Guardians?

And what is the current name of the National Football League team in Washington, DC?

Commanders.

No, no.

Yeah, that's the commanders.

Yes, commanders.

Both right for 20 points.

Toss up in chemistry, what is the common name for H2CO3 Layton hydrochloric.

Not it.

You can still run.

Ethan.

Methanol carbonic acid tossup for all players in economics which company introduced the first automatic drip coffee maker brand in 1972?

Lightning Keurig.

No I don't you can steal rum.

Maddox.

Folgers.

That's Mr. Coffee tossup in religion.

Which of the apostles was a tax collector before following Jesus?

Lucas.

Jeremiah.

Norwich.

You can steal Farragut.

Evan.

Paul.

No.

Matthew.

Toss up in vocabulary.

A singer breathes from the diaphragm.

Spell diaphragm.

Ethan died a p h rag is correct.

Vocabulary bonus.

What seven letter word starting with O means foreboding or foreshadowing.

Evil or horrible?

Ominous is right for 20 plus up in music.

What rock band popular in the 70s and 80s shares its name with a river that forms the boundary between Earth and the underworld in Greek mythology, Styx and Music Bonus now identify the other half of the famous duo Brooks and Dun Dun.

Wreck for ten.

Identify the other half of the famous singing duo Sonny and the Sunshine Band.

And the Sunshine Band.

It's Sonny and Cher.

Toss.

Tossup in physics for everyone in radio broadcasting.

What words do the letters Am represent?

Amplitude modulation is right.

Physics bonus.

What is the instrument that has a u shaped tube and measures pressure in a closed system barometer?

That's a manometer.

Who invented the manometer in 1661?

In addition to inventing a vacuum pump and an electrostatic generator.

And Maxwell Maxwell.

That's Otto van Gelder key toss up in geography, in which state is Cape Hatteras National Seashore?

Maddox, North Carolina is right.

And a visual bonus foreign.

Take a look at the screens.

What geologic oddity shown here was designated as America's first national monument in 1906 by President Theodore Roosevelt.

Devil's tower, Devil's tower, which you believe.

I took that picture myself.

In what Steven Spielberg movie does, a character played by Richard Dreyfuss use mashed potatoes to represent Devil's Tower?

Close encounters of the Third Kind.

Close encounters of the Third Kind also rank 20 points.

Tossup.

In math, what is the more common name for a number that cannot be written as a fraction of two integers?

Latent?

Rational?

What is it?

Rational now that you can still.

Lucas.

Irrational.

Irrational is it math is your bonus in a certain geometric progression, the third term is 12 and the fourth term is 48.

What is the fifth term in the progression?

To defer to Lucas?

144 I'm looking for 192.

See if you can figure out what the first term in the progression is.

Oh, God.

Answer the Lucas three fourths is correct.

Ten points on the bonus tossup in mythology, which mythological Greek god was a messenger who wore winged sandals, lightning?

Hermes, and a mythology bonus with a plot similar to a 19th century German short story.

What Broadway and movie musical is about a mythical Scottish town that appears for one day every 100 years?

I don't know if.

I don't know.

No answer.

That is Brigadoon.

No points.

Toss up in foreign language.

What is the German word for the color?

Black?

Look at spots.

Yeah, in a foreign language.

Bonus.

What is the literal translation of the French phrase my shoe, which is a term used for endearment of someone whose much loved.

My.

My little something.

My little baby.

It's my little cabbage.

So no points on that toss up in science.

What temperature in Celsius is equal to 95 Russian answer 95°F.

Still run.

Lucas 30 to 35 degrees is the same as 95 degrees tossup in history.

Who was the Prime Minister of Japan responsible for the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941?

Arman Tojo yes.

History.

Bonus.

Which two wives of Henry the Eighth were cousins and were beheaded five years apart at the Tower of London Catherine of Aragon no, no, no, not Catherine Anne Boleyn and you, and of Cleves and of Cleves, captain Howard.

Yeah, Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard are both right for 20 plus up in government in the U.S.. What distinguishes a bench trial, Lucas?

No.

Jury correct.

Government bonus.

In 2024, the Louisiana state government began accepting what type of digital payments for state services cryptocurrency?

Yeah, they probably wait.

Wait a second.

Wait until the buzzer.

Cryptocurrency is right for 20 tossup in literature.

One of Shakespeare's plays is titled Two Gentlemen of which city?

Even Verona.

Right.

Literature.

Bonus!

Which of Homer's epic poems recounts the arduous journey of a king returning from war on his odyssey?

Correct.

From which war is he returning the children in the Trojan War also write for 20 plus up in art in the 1820s, which Spanish artist painted Saturn Devouring his son?

Maddox Picasso, Norwich.

You can steal Farragut Evan Dally.

Now that was Francisco Goya.

Toss up in health.

What is the location of the in nominate bone in humans?

Lighten the elbow.

Norwich.

You can still run.

Lucas.

The leg?

No.

The hip or the pelvis.

Toss up in U.S. history, which inventor was known as the Wizard of Menlo Park?

Mannix.

Tesla.

Now that you can steal Farragut or Edison.

Right.

And a history bonus.

Which U.S. president prior to his presidency filed a patent for adjustable, buoyant air chambers that would be attached to the sides of a boat, allowing them to navigate shallow waterways.

What?

See, we got to like Thomas Wilson.

That was Abraham Lincoln.

Plus, up in geometry.

What type of conditional sentence is the inverse of its converse?

Harmon.

Which is still Lucas.

Contrapositive is right.

Geometry bonus.

What number is the midpoint between negative four and positive seven?

You don't say this way.

Different Lucas three halves Three halves.

Yeah.

Was 1.53 house.

Is that a tossup in music?

Who composed the opera Lohengrin which includes a bridal chorus?

Lucas I would have no idea the answer to that question.

But of course, generally known as Here Comes the Bride.

Bognor.

Yes.

And a music bonus.

What Italian words meaning for two.

That was so close.

And even if he got the 20 points on the bonus, it was not enough, to get us all the way to the top.

And by the way, I do a is for two in Italian.

What a great game that was and how close that was.

Both teams did really, really well and worked hard to get to this point.

But only one of you can advance to the philosophical four, and it's going to be Rome County.

First of all, we're Farragut.

You guys are fantastic, and I hope to have you for many more years on Scholar's Bowl.

We enjoy having it all.

Pretty much all underclassmen on this team, right?

Yeah, absolutely.

You guys are going to do really well in future years.

Meanwhile, Roane County, congratulations with your stylish Frank Murphy pins, you'll have to take take those on now, I guess, to the next round of the philosophical for and we appreciate you guys being here.

We'll see you real soon actually for that game you can keep track of all of our games, all of our players.

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