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.

Now in our 41st season.

And now we are in the fourth round, which means the educated eight.

And today's match is between Ellen Stem Academy of Knoxville and Jefferson County High School of Dandridge.

Let's start by saying hi to the players from Ellen.

Beginning with 10th grader Tony Allen.

Gavin.

Hey, Tony.

Welcome back to the show.

Tell us about yourself.

Thank you.

I'm a part of my school Science Olympiad team.

Which is better?

Science Olympiad or scholarship scholars, boy or you know, you feel he's been through this drill before?

Yeah.

And why is it so much better?

Tell me.

It's more.

I like the trivia part of it.

Yeah.

It's fun.

Let's say hi to Dominic Elia in 10th grade.

Hey, Dominic.

Welcome back.

Tell us about you.

I'm the chief administrator for high school Science Olympiad team.

Which is better?

Yeah.

Okay.

Why is that?

I think you're right.

You're a good host.

I'm.

Of course I'm playing, but, yeah.

It's fun.

Let's say hi to our team captain, Jordan Lyons, and you're in 12th grade.

So you're going to answer or defer by name to one of your teammates.

What about you, Jordan?

Part of our science, computer science honors society.

And I am also a captain for Quiz Bowl, which I'm pretty sure everyone here also does.

Oh, this quiz bowl and science we get in Scholar's Bowl.

Which is better?

I'm going to say Scholar's Bowl because that's expected.

Yes that's correct.

That's great.

What's there?

I don't care if it's true or not here on the show is we just we're looking for the unnecessary platitudes.

also have Matty Everett, who is in ninth grade.

Tell us about you, Matty.

Recently, I've been getting into photography a lot.

What do you like to photograph?

Sunrises and sunsets on the lake.

Oh, wow.

That's fantastic.

I've seen a lot of beautiful sunset sunrises this time of year, actually, because that when the sun comes up later, I get to actually see it naked.

Well, let's say hi to the alternates and coach for Ellen Stem Academy.

First up is Chloe Kemper and Charles Roberts, Blake Bishop and coach Glen Arnold to teach us chemistry at L and taking on an excellent team of Hawaiian shirt clad students from Jefferson County High School.

The Patriots versus the Griffins today.

start with saying hi to Zach.

Bethany, who is in 10th grade.

Zach, tell us about yourself.

So again, I'm still fluent in Spanish, but my new favorite food is butter because I think that saturated fats are the secret to longevity.

But I do love butter.

You have you have a particular brand that you enjoy.

It's like Irish.

Yes.

Something.

Yeah.

It's really I buy the off brand at the discount store, but I still, I do buy the Irish butter and some.

Once in a while I splurge for the Kerrygold.

That's what I use.

Yeah.

Okay, good.

I'm glad we're in better alignment over here.

Let's say hi to 11th grader Eli Jones.

Hey, Eli.

How come you're amused at this butter conversation?

What about you?

So my dream is to one day move to Hawaii and own a pineapple to alleviate the pineapple shortage, like globally.

So really I also enjoy pineapple.

That's fantastic.

Glad to hear about that.

So for some reason, Max's team captain, Max is cracking up over here.

Is it the pineapples or is it the butter?

All I know it's all yellow foods.

Is the is the theme so far.

Just love the team.

Love the team.

Okay.

Do you have a yellow food that you enjoy?

I like Twinkies.

I'm sorry.

Twinkies.

I also a big fan of a good Twinkie, but also our school is now representing us and having a Hawaiian day to support the Scholar's Bowl competition.

Oh, fantastic.

That's outstanding.

All right.

Thank you for that.

All right.

Good.

Very good.

And Elaine Zang in 11th grade.

Elaine.

Welcome back.

Tell us about you.

I'm really helping you, like, get started with a pineapple plantation soon, because my favorite food is pineapple fried rice.

I have a fried rice.

That sounds delicious.

My mother makes it.

Do you guys have an opinion on pineapple pizza?

Hey, do I like it?

Yes.

All right, so mix.

Definitely mix two and two.

All right, let's say hi to the alternates and coaches for Jefferson County High School.

First is Evan Roberts.

Then Isabella Broadwater, Laurel Hirsch Amy Stansbury and coaches Ray Pedigo, who teaches science and math, and Michael Edwards, the media specialist for the Patriots and Jeffco.

All right.

Players had to win multiple times to get here.

You know how it works.

Toss ups worth ten bonuses worth 20.

Get your fingers on the buzzer for this fourth round game.

This educated eight round game of Tennessee Scholar's Bowl 2025 toss up for all players in religion.

Which group of religious followers did Bloody Mary Tudor persecute because she feared they would?

Elaine.

Puritans, feared they would revolt.

No chance to steal Ellen Gordon.

Protestants.

Yes.

Let's specifically just Protestants in general.

Religion bonus.

Now, in the book of judges who was called by the Lord to help free the Israelites from the Philistines.

He had long hair that gave him strength as a sign of his covenant with the Lord Samson, and who had Samson's hair shaved while he slept in order to make him weak so the Philistines could attack and capture him.

Delilah is also right.

20 points.

Tossup in literature.

Who is one of the greatest Roman poets and author of Rome's national epic poem, The Aeneid.

Jordan, Virgil and a literature bonus.

Now what book has the characters of Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale and Roger Chillingworth in the idea?

Any idea on this one?

Answer the Great Gatsby?

That's the scarlet letter.

Who wrote The Scarlet Letter?

Nathaniel Hawthorne is right for ten tossup in science, what is the term for a hurricane that occurs in tropical waters of the, Zack typhoon, Western Pacific science bonus for Jeffco A study published in 2024 revealed the lasting effects of a team of gophers that, for only one day in 1983, burrowed into the ash and unearthed bacteria and fungi essential for soil health in the area around what volcano that had erupted in Washington in 1980.

Yeah.

I'll defer to Zach.

Mount Saint Helens is right for 20.

Toss up.

Now in biology what is the location of a plantar arch.

Zack the correct biology bonus.

What is the two word common name for an ace or sacrum tree, the sap of which is used to produce pancake sirup?

Maple tree.

Maple tree.

Well, I need sugar maple.

Is it for the two word phrase tossup in geography?

What circle of stones in England is 97ft second?

Stonehenge in diameter.

Right.

And a geography bonus.

What is the capital of Kansas?

Kansas.

Oklahoma.

Oh, no.

Oh, I'm not sure.

Yes, I am Kansas City.

That's Topeka.

What is the capital of Massachusetts?

Augustus, Massachusetts?

No, Boston.

Boston.

Yeah.

Boston is right for ten points.

Tossup.

Now in art.

What is the most distinctive characteristic of the statue of Venus de Milo?

Elaine.

She has no arms.

Correct.

And a visual art bonus.

Now for Jeff.

A look at the screens, please.

Who was the artist shown here in his 1845 self-portrait?

Oh, I know he's going to call you the French.

What?

Just give me a name.

Any artists?

Frida Kahlo, Frida Kahlo, that's a Gustav Courbet.

What was the title of that famous self-portrait?

Man, I look ugly.

Insanity.

It's called The Desperate Man.

I think he looks like Johnny Depp personally.

But moving on.

Vocabulary.

Toss up.

Finish the Nietzsche expression.

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

And a vocabulary bonus.

What nine letter word starting with n e means very wicked or evil.

Nefarious.

Let's spell it.

Start spelling it.

Nefarious.

Correct for ten.

Now spell in the fairy who has it?

It's within the half, I'm pretty sure.

Okay, I'm going to defer to you, Eli.

Just make sure you get it.

Yeah.

I don't know how to spell.

Defer to Eli.

An e f a r I o u s is correct.

20 on the bonus plus r for all players.

In geometry, the perimeter of a square is 48in.

What is its area?

Jordan 144.

Correct.

Geometry bonus.

The measures of three angles of a quadrilateral in degrees are 105, 95, and 80.

Find the fourth angle measure.

80, 8080.

Also right 20 points.

Tossup.

In astronomy, which planet in our solar system takes longer to turn on its Zach Venus axis and then it takes to orbit the sun?

Astronomy bonus, which was the first planet in our solar system discovered on the basis of theoretical calculations, Uranus, with one of the four ones.

Oh, maybe Neptune.

I thought it was Mars.

Okay, what if we can see Uranus?

No.

It's Neptune.

What was the first planet in our solar system discovered?

With the aid of a telescope.

Let's go.

Maybe Uranus should have Uranus.

Uranus is right.

Ten points on the bonus tossup in government.

What is the word for a one house only legislature like that in Zach unit?

Carmel?

Unicameral.

Yeah, but we'll take it in Nebraska.

And a government bonus.

What 14 letter word is used to describe the basic physical systems of a region or nation, which might include transportation and sewage systems or communications networks, infrastructure, infrastructure.

Spelling it just in case.

Oh, that is okay.

Yeah.

Pretty infrastructure guarantee is right for 20 plus up now in miscellaneous.

What toy that caught on as a fad in the 1950s and is still sold today.

Zach.

Rubik's cube at it.

You can consist of a plastic ring that is twirled around the waist, limbs or Jordan hula hoop or neck and miscellaneous bonus.

Now what is the name of the prehistoric native American statue, made of sandstone and depicting a kneeling male figure that was designated the official state artifact of Tennessee in 2014?

The kneeling Indian.

Kneeling Indian.

They call him Sandy and that's up in spelling spell.

Pharynx.

Dominic.

P h a r a y and not it.

You can steal Jefferson County.

Zach p h a r y and x.

Is it spelling bonus for Jefferson County and event causing great and often sudden damage or distress?

Is a calamity spelled calamity.

Who has it?

I got it, okay.

Yeah, I defer to Eli.

C a l a m I t y is right.

20 points.

Tossup now in economics, what is the term for the influx of more affluent residents and businesses that change the character of a neighborhood?

Dominic.

Gentrification by driving up housing costs and displacing low income residents.

Economics bonus.

In October 2024, the FDA sent out a recall notice due to an undeclared allergen in 79,200 pounds of Kirkland Signature butter.

Because the packaging did not include a warning that the butter contains what.

Milk is right for 20 points.

Toss up in science.

What does the Kelvin scale measure?

Jordan, eat temperature.

Chest seal, max temperature.

Yeah.

That's right.

science visual now for Jefferson County.

who was the scientist shown here who jotted down the symbols for the chemical elements in an order according to their atomic weights, in such a way that they ended up grouped on the page according to known regularities or curiosities of behavior.

That's how you say it, Michael.

Okay, I'll keep this one.

Okay.

What's his first?

Who knows?

Mendeleev.

Mendeleev.

But sure.

Dmitri Mendeleev, 20 points tossup in U.S. history.

Which British commander surrendered to General Cornwallis?

George Washington at Yorktown, U.S. history.

Bonus, who was the author of the pamphlet that opens with the sentence.

These are the times that try men's souls.

I've spent, Thomas.

We're fine with that.

Maybe it could be Benjamin Franklin.

I'm pretty sure these could be.

Yeah.

Thomas with Thomas Paine.

Right.

For ten.

The pamphlet is the first of 13 in a series.

With what title?

Common sense.

Common sense.

Or is it the crisis?

It might be the crisis, I'm pretty sure.

I don't know, I'm going to go to common sense.

It's the crisis or the American crisis.

Plus, up now in music, what is the major key for an instrument like a piano?

When the key signature has no sharps or flats?

G no.

You can steal Jefferson County marks a C major as the major key tossup.

Now in English, what type of verb doesn't require a direct object to function correctly?

Zach.

Auxiliary.

That you can steal.

Ellen.

Dominic A gerund.

It's an intransitive verb.

Doesn't need a direct object.

Toss up in pre-calculus.

What is the absolute value of the complex expression?

12 plus five I Zach 13.

Correct the calculus bonus if the cosine ratio of an acute angle is 15 over 17.

What is its tangent ratio?

615.

So do we have any 8 or 15 I don't know.

Okay.

Something eight over 15 is correct for 20 points.

Toss up.

Now in health, what is the process of freezing bodies at the moment of death with the aim of resuscitation?

Cryogenics?

No chance to steal Jefferson County.

Eli crater preservation.

Yeah, it's cryopreservation or cryonics.

Health is your bonus.

Now, what is the 11 letter word beginning with M for an inflammation of the heart muscle, usually as a result of infection or inflammatory disease, I don't know, so I don't, knock.

What do we have?

Right now, defer to Zach.

Macro.

Right.

Is that is myocarditis.

Toss up.

Now in geography, what watershed runs north and south through the peaks.

Zach.

Continental divide of the Rocky Mountains is the continental divide.

Geography is your bonus name.

The capital of the state that also contains the major city of Chicago, Illinois.

The capital is yet to find Springfield's correct name, the capital of the state that also contains the major city of Buffalo.

Oh, that's Albany.

Albany also.

Right.

20 points at the end of the first half.

Jefferson County trying to run up a lead.

Also playing a good game, stalling and, speeding up when they need it.

Ellen Stem Academy has a chance to catch up on our second half of play.

One of these teams advances to the philosophical four.

We'll find out who it's going to be after the break.

On Tennessee Scholar's Bowl 2025.

You're watching Tennessee Scholar's Bowl, I'm Frank Murphy.

We are back from halftime in this fourth round game between Elon and Stem Academy and Jefferson County High School.

The winner of this game advances to our round of the Philosophical Four.

Right now, Jefferson County has a little bit of a lead, but Elon will try to catch up in this second half by bringing two alternates into the game.

Let's not too much pressure.

There is.

Let's say I had a Charles Roberts.

How are you Charles?

Welcome back.

I'm doing good.

Tell us about yourself.

Well, nothing really has changed since the last time I seen him.

But something else about yourself that we didn't already know would be what?

There's not really much else to me.

I mean, you're an open book.

We know everything there is to know.

I mean, the only thing that I think I may have not said is I'm an Eagle Scout.

Bingo.

That's exactly the kind of thing I was looking for.

What was your Eagle Scout project?

I made incubators for the, for the local, animal shelter.

I love it.

That's fantastic.

Thank you for sharing that with us.

And we also welcome Chloe Kemper, who's another junior.

Hey, Chloe.

Welcome back.

Tell us about you.

I am a junior, and I'm in choir.

And for H. So, choir.

What do you get to sing?

It was just with the school.

And you get to go outside school with the school.

All right.

What have you sung so far?

We've done a couple pieces in Latin, and my favorite song we're working on right now is where I met Jamie Corazon.

something about the heart, maybe.

No, it's a Bolivian lullaby.

It's like sleep, my child, I think.

Or might be sleep my heart.

Oh, nice.

Okay.

Well, good.

I'm glad you're working on that.

Meanwhile, Jefferson County is keeping the same starting lineup intact, and we'll see which of these teams advances right after.

Well, we read these questions.

Let's get back to it, everybody.

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

Toss up in foreign language.

What French phrase that literally means outside the work is also used in English to describe a small dish served before a meal.

Dominic Andre.

Now that you can steal Jefferson County.

Elaine.

Appetizer, that's for d'oeuvre or delivery.

Toss up now in vocabulary.

What six letter word beginning with T means showy but tacky.

Tasteless.

Guardian cheap.

Dominic torney on it.

You can steal Jefferson County backs.

Tacky.

It's tawdry.

Toss up now in arts from which Broadway musical is the song?

Defying gravity.

Elaine.

Wicked.

Right.

And an arts bonus.

Now, what was the name of the actor known for his roles in The Great White Hope, Field of Dreams and as the voice of Darth Vader in Star Wars, who died in September 2024 at age 93.

But until what is his name is awesome.

I can't I can't tell you actors.

George.

What's that?

Freeman.

Morgan.

Freeman.

Morgan.

Freeman.

That was James Earl Jones.

May he rest in peace.

Toss up in chemistry.

What?

Organic chemical with the formula h c h o jack.

Formaldehyde is commonly used to preserve biological specimens.

Chemistry bonus for Jeffco.

The atomic number of chromium is 24.

What is chromium is electron con So what I want us to do is to just stick to you.

Do you have a 3D?

Two and 1S22223632364 US two five.

Oh.

You got it almost down to the end there.

it's one as two, two as 2263 as 2364 S1 3d five.

That's a hard one.

Toss up.

Now in history whose 37 year reign was characterized by Russia's transformation.

Ivan the Terrible.

Yeah, from a medieval state to an empire and a history bonus.

Now, what was the fortified region that overlooked ancient Athens?

The parent, the Parthenon?

I don't want to say that.

So I'm defer to Zach.

Parthenon.

That's the Acropolis.

What was the most famous of the temples overlooking Athens?

Okay, defer to Zach.

Parthenon is ranked ten points on the bonus toss up in sports when keeping score in baseball.

Which letter?

Zach.

Okay.

Represents a strikeout on sports bonus.

In gymnastics, every gymnast starts their routine with what score from which the judges deduct points.

As the routine progresses.

At ten, I can go higher and lower.

Pretty sure.

Is it ten one with that?

Yeah.

Okay.

Ten.

Yeah.

Perfect.

Ten is it.

And the music toss up now for all players whose first documented composition a minuet in trio Zach Mozart in G major was composed when he was just five and a music bonus for Jefferson County.

What is the genre of popular music that originated with blues, southern gospel and spirituals?

Old time and American folk music forms, including Appalachian, Cajun, Creole in the cowboy Western music styles of New Mexico and Texas.

So it's a soul in this, not soul.

I thought, just do we have anything?

I just it those jazz, I don't know, you just say so I'm going to say solve.

Okay.

Soul.

No.

That was the world's longest definition of country music.

What?

Toss up now in math, what is 600 divided by 25 Max?

24 is right.

And a visual bonus for Jeff Co. Look at the screens, please.

Given the function evaluate f of three.

Negative four 3915.

Yeah I got 39 okay 39 is correct for 20 points.

Tossup.

In geology what is the geological term for a flat?

Zach.

Plateau is elevated.

Land form is a plateau.

I'm guessing you're watching these old shows, right.

And then a geology bonus now for Jefferson County named four of the ten mountains that could be classified as the Seven Summits, the highest mountains on each of the seven continents.

So there's Mount Everest?

Yes.

Oh.

Just.

Yes.

Maybe.

Yeah.

Ever since I assume Saint Helens.

I think it's in Alaska, actually.

But, you know, structurally, Calvert Mountain, Mount Everest, Mount Vesuvius, Mount Helen, Mount Australia, you get one of those is right.

You get five points there for Mount Everest, right in.

I'll send you the list.

up for all players in government.

Which military institution is referred to as the long Gray Line?

Jordan.

West point is correct.

And a government bonus.

What do the letters in the abbreviation pot U.S. represent has a person.

President of the United States for ten.

What do the letters in the abbreviation float U.S represent the United States first lady of the United States.

All right, 20 points.

Toss up in religion, then the pillar of Islam that describes as sincerely reciting the Muslim profession of faith.

Dominic Shehata.

Yes, and a religion bonus in the pillar of Islam that is described as paying alms or charity tax to benefit the needy.

Zakat also write for 20 points.

Tossup in literature.

Who was the American coauthor of mastering the Art of French Cooking and host of a Dominic Julia Child host of a TV show inspired called The French Chef.

Literature.

Bonus.

What place, subtitled A Trivial Comedy for Serious People, revolves around the characters Algernon Moncrieff, Gwendolyn Fairfax, Lady Bracknell, Miss Prism and Canon Chasuble.

Yes, yes, Hairspray has held The Importance of Being Earnest, but you can tell me who wrote it.

Noel Coward no.

Defer to Dominic.

Noel Coward, it was Oscar Wilde.

So no points on the bonus tossup in technology.

What are the two numbers used in a binary system?

Exactly zero.

One and a technology bonus.

Now what?

Former NASA engineer who is known for his YouTube videos and Crunch Lab subscription boxes, offered a $10,000 prize in 2024 to anyone who could defeat his rock, paper, scissors robot.

Do we want to speed up or slow down?

I think slow down.

Yeah, I think that's fair.

Mark Roper is right for 20 points plus up in biology which blood type is the universal donor Zach.

Oh negative.

And a biology bonus.

What is the term for a part of the cell cycle in which replicated chromosomes are separated into two new nuclei which give rise to genetically identical cells in which the total number of chromosomes is maintained by terminus.

It's asking for a specific base.

Its prophase is the most specific one.

Is it perfect?

Yeah, I think so.

Okay, I'm fine with that.

Wait, no, no.

Prophase mitosis is the answer.

Toss up now in U.S. history, which U.S. president coined the name United Nations dynamic.

FDR a chance to steal Jefferson County Zach FDR and they called time on Dominic FDR is right.

Visual bonus for Jefferson County.

Look at the screens in the 1851 painting shown here, which two future presidents are depicted.

So there's George Washington, maybe Adams, maybe Adam, maybe.

Maybe it's the last one.

Jefferson.

Oh, maybe Jefferson, maybe Jefferson, I don't know.

George Washington and Jefferson.

Ten points for George Washington.

But actually, James Monroe was a soldier under Washington.

It was on that picture toss up.

Now, in art.

What?

Earthenware substance with a name that means cooked earth.

Zach.

Terracotta in Latin Art bonus now, which for great artists were considered the masters of the Renaissance and were the inspiration for Ninja Turtles.

Who knows them?

Well, you got them all, Michelangelo.

Okay, I'm going to go to you because I don't know, turtles defer to Zach, Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael, and Michelangelo.

All four correct for 20 points.

Toss up in spelling the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform.

Is hypocrisy.

Spelled it c Dominic h y p r o c I s y not h. You can steal Jefferson County n h y p o c r I s. Why is hypocrisy spelling bonus now to give one's good wishes when something special or pleasant has happened is to congratulate.

Spell.

Congratulate?

Who has it?

I have it, can check with you too.

Yes, it's probably this.

Yeah.

Defer to Eli.

C o n g r a t u l a t e is correct for 20 tossup in algebra.

What is the value of three over two raised to the negative two power?

Jordan for 4/9 algebra bonus.

What is the ninth term of the sequence with first term of ten and common difference of four?

Time major 10th or was it ninth?

I thought it was ninth.

Whatever the.

Two -26 for Dominic?

-26.

No, it's 42.

You go up 32 and then add the ten that we started with.

Toss up in physics, a figure skater who tucks in his or her arms and legs during a spin will begin.

Jordan.

Centrifugal, turning faster to do the conservation of what form of momentum.

Zach.

Rotational at the buzzer.

Ten more points for Jefferson County.

Not that you needed them, but rotational momentum is correct.

Well, that's the end of the game.

And now congratulations to Jeffco.

But first of all, we're going to say thank you very much to Ellen and Stem Academy for putting multiple teams into the tournament.

Then you guys had to knock out your classmates to get this far, didn't you?

So congratulations.

We're delighted that you guys are here, and we look forward to seeing your underclassmen in the future.

On scholarship.

Making all the way to the educated eight is a big deal.

Meanwhile, in Jefferson County, you now advance to the round of the Philosophical Four.

I think it's been a couple of years since Jeff County has made it that high.

I know you have in the past, but it's been a few years, so congratulations on that.

We'll look forward to seeing you again in just a few days here on Scholar's Bowl.

So thanks for being here.

You can of course, keep track of all of our players.

All of our teams.

Never miss an episode, set your DVRs and watch every single day on or binge watch past seasons online, as I'm pretty sure Zach has been doing on the PBS app.

Thanks so much for watching.

My name is Frank Murphy and this is Tennessee Scholar's Bowl 2025.