Thank you for watching.

Tennessee scholar's bowl, I'm Frank Murphy.

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

Now, in our 41st season, we have made it to the round of the Educated eight.

This is our fourth round, and today's game is between Dobyns Bennett High School of Kingsport and Hull's High School from North Knox County.

Let's say hi first to the players from DB, beginning with 10th grader Abdullah Abdullah.

Welcome back.

Tell us about yourself.

What's new.

So hello my name is Abdul and I really think that Rishabh and Michael's outfits are magnificent.

Well, that would mean yours is also magnificent.

Yes, I suppose.

Let's say hi to 12th graders off day.

Welcome back.

Or what about yourself?

I really think Abdul and Michael's outfits are, magnificent.

Wouldn't that also make yours magnificent, I suppose.

Okay.

For Clare, let's say hi to Croft raider Claire Lee, who is the team captain.

So you'll answer bonuses or defer by name to a teammate.

What about yourself, Claire?

As you can see, I'm the only person with a black shirt.

But that's just because I'm the only person who's a captain.

That's.

Oh.

All right, so it's a rank.

Has its properties.

Okay.

Very nice.

And then 12th grader Michael Fanning is back.

Hey, Michael, welcome to you.

Tell us about yourself.

To quote, arise, a wise friend of mine, Rishabh Day.

I think Rishabh and Abdul's outfit luck dripped out.

Oh, dripped out.

And yours must also, I suppose, impose on you to say something nice about Claire.

Claire, you're a wonderful person, and you're really smart.

And you're a really good drum major.

But what about an outfit?

Your outfit is also really good.

I guess.

Thank you.

Because you wasn't getting any.

Any lessons or outfits.

Oh, Claire chose everyone's outfits.

Oh.

All right, so that's where they.

Yeah, she's on the desk.

So if you don't know, if you don't obey Claire, you get the death stare, right?

Yeah.

There it is.

All right.

Very good.

Let's say hi to the alternates and coach for Dobbins.

Bennett High School.

That is, Anton Barrera and Eli Garrett, joined by coach Joshua French, who teaches AP human geography and U.S. history, taking on an excellent squad from Halls High School.

Welcome back, you guys.

Let's say hi first to 11th grader Levi Dooley.

Levi, tell us about you.

Yeah.

So I'm Levi, and my favorite Roman emperor is Aurelian.

The rest tutor Orbis.

Oh, wow.

You've been studying up.

Okay.

Very nice.

I'm impressed.

12th grader Amanda Lane is next.

What about you, Amanda?

Hi.

I was voted most academic for senior superlatives, and my best friend was voted most likely to succeed.

Oh.

Who's that?

Oh, okay.

You've also got the quick stare, I like that.

Team captain, I assume referring to Sophia Elkins is another 12th grader.

Sophia, welcome back at Lancer Bonuses or defer by name.

What's new with you?

I was voted Most Likely to Succeed for my Senior Superlative, and my best friend was voted most academic.

I wonder who that is.

Okay, I think we got it figured out.

Thank you so much.

And then 11th grader Joe Adkins is back.

Joe, welcome to you.

Tell us about yourself.

Well, I don't have any friends, but, I made the all East choir.

That's big.

How big it is?

All east, comprise how many states?

How many counties?

How many?

It's.

It's all of East Tennessee.

Like a few thousand people try out maybe like, 300.

Make it.

And where will you sing?

Where do you perform?

Lee University.

Oh.

That's fantastic.

They have a great, choral program down there, I love it.

All right, let's say hi to the alternates and coach for Halls High School, beginning with Olivia Price, Sarah Brown, Ella Wolfe, Ty Davis and Morgan Humphries, joined by coach Tim Reeves, who teaches European history and geography.

We're also delighted to have a special guest with us in the studio today.

Let's say hi to Robert Peets, who is an undergraduate admissions counselor at Lincoln Memorial University, and we are very thankful to LMU for being one of our sponsors of Scholar's Bowl again this year.

All right, players, you all have to win multiple times, right?

You have to win three times to get here now to the fourth round.

So you know we absolutely know how it works.

With toss ups worth ten bonuses worth 20.

Get your fingers on the buzzer for this educated eight round game of Tennessee Scholar's Bowl.

2025 toss up in literature in Shakespeare's Othello, which character plays on Othello's jealousy to drive him to murder?

And rash up his wife not hitch.

You can steal horns with him.

That is Iago.

Toss up now, in geography, what term refers to the angular distance north or south of the equator?

Rashad.

Latitude is right.

Geography is your bonus.

Two parts.

Which Tennessee city is nicknamed the Scenic City?

Scenic?

Maybe Gatlinburg or Lake Pigeon, which Gatlinburg.

That one is Chattanooga.

Which Tennessee city is nicknamed Bluff City.

Answer Memphis is right for ten tossup.

Now in biology, what vascular tissue transports water and minerals from the roots to the leaves of a plant?

Claire Xylem.

Right.

Biology bonus what type of birds have eye tubes or cylinders that do not move in their sockets, causing them to move their bodies or heads in order to look around our house?

Owls is right for 20.

Toss up in math.

What is the result of 2.6 -4.4?

Then adding that result to four.

Which are 2.2?

Correct math bonus.

Now, if a sales person received a 12% commission for selling 15 ads at $60 each, how much commission did they earn?

How much money was 910% of 912 times nine is 100 times nine 121.18.

Yeah, 108 is right 20 points plus up.

Now in art, what is the term for a color that can't be made by mixing other colors together?

A primary color, right.

And a visual bonus.

Now look at the screen stealing.

What is the title of this artistic interpretation of the 1954 coup de to to overthrow the President of Guatemala from other countries.

Countries like some countries that deferred him for them.

I defer to Abdul the Contras.

That's called glorious Victoria.

And who was the artist for ten?

Answer Salvador Dali.

That was a Diego Rivera.

No points on the bonus toss up in vocabulary.

Fish is too thin as bird is to Joe Wing.

Correct.

And a vocabulary bonus for Hals.

What seven letter word beginning with I means to protest or complained bitterly or vehemently to.

I guess so deter.

Iterate.

That's in vain.

I invite toss up now in history.

In 2001, during the largest maritime evacuation in world history, approximately half a million people were boat lifted.

From what island?

to Java, not it.

You can still Joe Haiti.

Now that's Manhattan Island in New York City.

Toss up in health to avoid the bends.

Divers breathe pressurized air made up mostly of what gas?

Abdul.

Nitrogen.

Right.

Health bonus.

What are the muscles located on either side of the abdomen that help with twisting and bending movements of the trunk?

Obliques is correct for 20%.

In arts.

What is the title of the artwork by Charles L Schulz that started appearing in seven different newspapers mechanical peanuts in 1950 and an arts bonus for D.B..

The 2024 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade included the first appearance of a balloon likeness of what Disney cartoon character that debuted dressed as a flapper in the 1928 animated short Steamboat Willie.

Oh, it must be flappers like the dress.

What, like the big head?

Pete?

Answer.

I defer to Abdul Pete.

No, it's Minnie Mouse.

Oh, must have been religion.

They should make a balloon of Pete.

That would be something.

What is the Hebrew word for Sabbath, Michael?

Sacred knowledge.

You can steal horns.

That's Shabbat.

Toss up in English.

What part of speech is the word umbrage?

Meaning a sense of injury?

Abdul.

Noun.

Correct.

English.

Bonus.

What part of speech is the word ultra mundane meaning beyond the universe or outside the sphere of physical existence?

Yeah.

Adjective.

Adjective is right for 20 tossup in economics.

Which animal is the symbol of a rising stock market?

Rishabh a bull right?

Economics bonus.

The Laffer curve illustrates the relationship between what two economic variables allow for unbuttoned pricing or pricing commodity and, capitalism like supply and demand.

No, it's not because quantity.

It just gets on price and quantity.

And that's the Arthur Laffer big thing was the difference between tax rates and government revenue.

Toss up now in science what is the regular periodic rise and fall of the sea Joe tides.

Yes.

And a visual bonus.

Take a look at the screens.

Who is the Serbian American inventor and engineer shown here?

Best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current system.

I defer to Joe.

Nikola Tesla is right for 20 plus up in algebra.

Solve for X if -18 equals three minus seven x Michael 21.

Now you can steal horse Amanda three.

Right.

And an algebra bonus and an arithmetic progression with the first term of four and a common difference of three.

What is the eighth term?

July 25th is correct for 20 points.

Concept in games.

What kind of puzzle requires the numbers one through nine?

Sophia.

Sudoku.

Yeah.

To be entered into squares games.

Bonus in the 1972 World Chess Championship in Reykjavik, Iceland, which is known as the match of the century and has inspired movies and a Broadway musical.

Defending champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union was defeated by what American Grandmaster Bobby Fischer Bobby Fischer Bobby Fischer is right for 20 plus up.

In literature.

In the Iliad.

Who kills Hector?

Levi.

Achilles.

Yes.

Literature.

Bonus.

which work of literature is associated with this first line?

It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking 1330.

1984 correct.

Who is the author?

George Orwell also write for 20 tossup now in U.S. history.

What was Paul Revere's occupation?

Rishabh a lawyer it you can steal Levi silversmith correct history bonus.

Which of the 13 American colonies was founded first in Delaware.

Virginia?

Virginia is the colony or is it Jamestown, Virginia?

Correct for ten.

Which of the 13 American colonies was founded?

Blast.

Georgia.

It's Georgia.

Georgia also.

Right 20 tossup.

In astronomy, how many moons orbit the planet Venus?

Joe zero Correct astronomy bonus.

Who is the father of astronomy who first proposed to the planets revolve around the sun.

Is it Galileo?

It's Copernicus.

Copernicus is correct.

And in what country was Copernicus born?

Poland also.

Right.

20 plus up in government in Tennessee, helmets are required for people riding bicycles all ages who are under what age stands to steal DB for rent bicycles?

Michael 1216 is that one toss up in foreign language.

Translate the motto of the 45th Infantry Semper Antiochus into English.

Job fight against Norwich.

You steel halls.

Levi always fighting.

It's always forward, so it can't quite give it to you.

But you got the always part.

Toss up in spelling.

Orangutans are great apes.

No.

So r a in t a n g. No.

Orangutans are great apes native to the rainforests of Indonesia and Malaysia.

Spell orangutans.

Abdul.

0RANGUTINS.

Yeah, right.

Now spell the word as your bonus.

Spell.

The word for an ornamental bush with deep pink, red and purple flowers that hang mistletoe.

Yeah.

You sort of.

Yeah.

Mr.. Oh, that's interesting, but I think fuchsia is the word that we were looking for.

Toss up in geography.

What was the ancient Greeks name for?

The triangular area between the Tigris and Euphrates River.

Michael, Mesopotamia.

Correct.

Geography.

Bonus named four of the six time zones that include the 50 United States Pacific, mountain, eastern, you know, Eastern time.

You defer to Michael, central, Pacific mountain, eastern.

All of those are correct.

Alaska and Hawaii are the other two.

Toss up in chemistry what indicator, often abbreviated SH, undergoes a change from orange to colorless to purple pink player phenolphthalein?

Yes.

And a chemistry bonus.

Which element's electron configuration is neon?

Three s2 3P5.

It's going to be is a it's it's a iodide in chlorine.

What it's called chlorine that's going to be.

Chlorine is right for 20 tossup now in pre-calculus.

What word is the number two in the function y equals two.

Cosine x represent Michael.

Amplitude is right pre-calculus bonus.

What is the limit of sine x as x approaches infinity.

Doesn't it's zero doesn't it does not it does not it does not exist.

It is right for ten.

But that is the end of the half.

We don't get to the second half of that bonus.

So ten more points for Debbie.

It's been a very close game with you guys just pulling ahead in the last few seconds.

After being tied, we'll see which of these two teams advances to the round of the Philosophical Four.

That's right.

This is the educated eight.

We're advancing to the Philosophical Four coming up after the break on Tennessee Scholar's Bowl 2025.

You're watching Tennessee Scholar's Bowl.

I'm Frank Murphy, back from halftime in a very exciting fourth round game.

An educated eight round game between Dobbins, Bennett High School of Kingsport and Hall's High School of North Knox County.

The lead has gone back and forth a little bit right now.

Dobbins Bennett has a slight lead, but obviously anything can happen in our second half.

The winner of this game goes on to the Philosophical four, and we'll find out who it's going to be after, I guess, ten more minutes of play.

Both teams keeping their starting lineups intact.

So get your fingers back on the buzzer for Tennessee Scholar's Bowl 2025 pass up in architecture, what are structures that are built to cross or span physical obstacles without blocking Joe Bridge?

Yeah.

Or obstructing movement below architecture bonus.

In 1947, Congress and President Truman restored the name of what structure on the Colorado River that had been renamed Boulder Dam by Franklin Roosevelt's politically motivated Secretary of the interior for Hoover.

Yeah, Hoover dam is right for 20 plus up in foreign language.

What is the English translation of the Spanish phrase fin de semana?

Go end of the week.

end of the week or weekend.

Foreign language bonus for Hull's.

Which two British literary characters are known in French as Winnie Lawson?

A person, a Winnie the Pooh and Piglet, both right for 20 points plus up in government.

What holiday in May was originally known as Decoration Day?

Michael Memorial day.

Right.

And a visual bonus.

Take a look at the screens which U.S. president shown here was the only one to have served more than two terms.

FDR is right 20 tossup in geology.

What are the enormous moving pieces of the Earth's crust and upper mantle reshape tectonic plates that cause earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.

Geology bonus.

What is the name of the horseshoe shaped belt around much of the rim of the Pacific Ocean, where many volcanic eruptions and earthquakes occur?

Ring Ring of fire is right for 20 plus up in art.

The old guitarist is an example of which artists Blue Picasso, his blue period, right, and an art bonus.

Now, in 2023, the Netherlands repatriated 472 objects of cultural significance to what archipelago nation that was under Dutch colonial rule until World War two.

Phoenicia Indonesia is right for 20 tossup in miscellaneous.

What is a countertop cooking appliance that combines a heating element and a powerful fan to circulate heat?

Joe Air Fryer similar to a convection oven.

Miscellaneous bonus.

What is the name of the stew?

Usually made with goat meat that originated in politico Mexico and is often served at celebratory occasions?

The glaucoma soup.

It's called birria pops up in literature, which 1961 children's book written and illustrated by woman, describes the actions where the wild things are, the actions and interactions of a group of highly mobile canines to steal TB.

Claire.

Call of the wild.

Let's go, dog!

Go!

Time's up.

Now in history, what future Prime Minister of Britain was captured during the Boer War?

Levi Winston Churchill while serving as a journalist.

World history bonus.

During the Cultural Revolution in China in the 1960s and 70s, the Red guards persecuted millions as they sought to destroy what concepts known as the Four Olds.

Interpretive flexibility just hold traditional Chinese ability.

I defer to Levi.

Respect to parents.

Religion ability, arts and nobility.

Well, I see where you're going with it, but the technical for olds are ideas, culture, customs and habits.

So I needed those four words.

No points.

They are a toss up in science.

What is allergy?

Levi?

The study of seashells.

Correct.

Science bonus.

in 1808.

What English chemist postulated that all matter was made of atoms, which are small invisible particles?

Dalton.

Dalton.

I think.

I don't know what Thomson.

That was John Dalton that's points toss up in math three raised to the fourth.

Power is equal to what number was 81.

Correct.

Individual bonus.

Now look at the screens.

Find the surface area and volume of a cube.

If the edge of the cube measures six inches and be sure, listen carefully.

Be sure to give appropriate units of measure.

You can just surface in 616in, and then it's just cubed for 262 56 for cubed for the volume in square for the surface area.

Make sure you're specific.

So there particular 1916 you can surface area is two 16in.

Volume is two 16in.

That's correct for 20 points.

Toss up in music in four four time.

How many beats of silence should there be?

Up to four with a half rest.

Simple chance to steal falls.

Amanda two.

Correct music bonus.

What type of secular polyphonic song usually performed acapella and with a romantic or pastoral theme.

Originated in Italy and became popular during Europe's Renaissance and early Baroque periods.

Upper opera that's madrigal.

Oh house up in vocabulary.

What ten letter word beginning with you means one sided, as in an action or decision by one involved in a situation without the agreement.

Abdool unanimous not without the agreement of others.

Chen still.

Joe.

Unilateral is right and a vocabulary bonus define the word danke.

Besides, what correct?

Define the word haggle to argue a barter.

Argue.

We have to take your first answer But it is.

Argue or negotiate a toss up in history which 1947 foreign policy made by the president stated Truman doctrine that the U.S. should help other nations history bonus now, which U.S. battleship exploded in Havana harbor in 1898?

6,000,260 crewmen a leading to the U.S. declaring war against Spain.

USS Maine, correct.

Which U.S. battleship named after the 48 state remains where it was sunk during the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 and is now a national memorial and resting place of 1102 sailors and marines.

Answer.

I defer to Abdul, the North Dakota.

That one is the USS Arizona.

Ten points on the bonus tossup in health.

What part of the body has the calcaneus bone?

Which of the foot?

But like the heel?

I have to take the first answer.

Chance.

Still halls.

Sophia, the heel.

Yes.

And a health bonus.

What is the nerve layer lining the back of the eye that senses light and creates electrical impulses sent through the optic nerve to the brain.

Nerve in the retina.

The retina.

Correct for ten.

What is the area in the retina containing special light sensitive cells responsible for central high resolution color vision in good light.

The cornea.

That's the macula.

Ten points on the bonus tossup.

In sports.

The Paralympic Games started as the Stoke Mandeville Games in 1948 with an effort to rehabilitate soldiers, after which War Joe World War two right sports bonus what city will host most of the events of the 2028 Olympic Games?

That's less a 2028 summer winter.

It's Los Angeles, Los Angeles, correct for ten, except for the canoe slalom and softball events, which will take place 1200 miles east of Los Angeles.

In what city that hosts the annual women's college World Series and is home to the National Softball Hall of Fame?

I know it's a small it's Omaha.

Should I say Omaha?

No, that is Oklahoma City.

Toss up in foreign language.

What is the French word for July?

Yo, yo.

Not it.

You can steal hauls.

Sofia, chill today.

Now it's a toss up in music.

What is the meaning of the mezzo forte?

Dynamic marking in music, Joe.

Moderately loud.

And a music bonus.

Now for halls.

Which Broadway musical includes the songs Practically Perfect and Chim Chim Cherry?

Oh, it's Mary Poppins.

Mary Poppins for ten.

Which Broadway musical includes the songs Circle of Life and I Just Can't Wait to Be King?

Yeah, I spent this okay.

Lion King also write 20 tossup in geography.

In which state does the Rio Grand River begin?

Muschamp, Texas.

Got it.

You can steal Paul's Joe New Mexico no, it starts in Colorado.

Toss up in biology what is the largest species of salamander in North America which can be found Joe Hellbender in clean flash following streams in the Smokies.

Biology.

Bonus Zoo Knoxville is the top zoo in the world for breeding what species that was formerly thought to be a relative of raccoons, but is now classified in its own taxonomic family?

It's a red panda ready to be.

Do you know the answer?

I defer to Amanda.

Red panda is right for 20 plus up.

In geometry, if a room is 8.5ft by 12.5ft, what is the perimeter of the room?

Of 42ft.

Correct.

Geometry bonus A rectangular solid has a length of eight inches, a width of six inches, and a height of three inches.

What is its total volume?

It's three 2144, 51, 44in.

Cubed is right for 20 tossup in technology.

In programing languages like C and C plus.

Plus what seven letter word is used to refer to a variable that stores the memory address of another variable, a dual runtime, not it.

You can steal Hal's object.

Sofia known.

That's called the pointer tossup.

In art.

Grisaille is a method of painting, often on glass, using only shades of what color or sharp wine block not.

You can still has Joe Blue, no gray shades of gray.

Toss up in government which U.S. government agency is abbreviated as TSA?

Joe no John Silver transportation, security, industry or administration?

I can't take it.

It's administration.

Toss up in astronomy what is a massive and extremely remote celestial object emitting exceptionally sorry, that's the end of the game, and it looks like, horses managed to win from an excellent squad of DB players.

Wow, that went back and forth quite a bit.

First of all, congratulations.

Halls will get back to you in a moment.

Secondly, thank you, Thomas Bennett.

What an amazing game and what an amazing run you've had.

Some of you, for four years, an amazing run.

So goodbye forever.

But but but, congratulations in your future endeavors and all the nice things that we would say.

We really do appreciate our seniors on DVD.

You guys are fantastic.

And, I know you're going to do great.

Meanwhile, halls.

Congratulations.

You look a little surprised after taking down such a great team as, diamonds.

Bennett.

Congratulations.

Now, you move on to the round of the philosophical for we get to see you another day on Scholar's Bowl.

As you try to get even closer and closer to the Frank Miller Memorial Trophy.

Meanwhile, you can keep track of all of our games and all of our players by setting your DVRs and never missing an episode.

Even binge watching past seasons online using the PBS app.

My name is Frank Murphy.

Thank you for watching Tennessee's Scholar's Bowl 2025.