Welcome once again to the high school battle of the brain at the Scholars Bowl.

The game that calls for academic knowledge.

Let's meet our team.

History is the category players.

Get your fingers on the buzzer for Tennessee Scholars Bowl 2024. thank you for watching Tennessee Scholar's bowl I'm Frank Murphy.

Today is the day that we wrap up our 40th season of competition with high schools from all over the viewing area, competing for the Frank Miller Memorial Trophy and a cash prize that we will award today.

This is the final match, the championship match between Hardin Valley Academy of West Knoxville and Science Hill High School of Johnson City.

Both these teams had to win, I believe, what, five times to get here the championship round game.

So congratulations to all the players you see on the screen.

Let's get started by saying hello to them and meeting them.

First up is Zainab Hassan.

Zainab, welcome back.

You're a sophomore.

What else is new?

Hi.

I would like to thank my parents for bringing me to all these competitions and making me study even when I don't want to.

That is that is fantastic.

I know as a parent myself, I'm glad that sure they're glad to hear it, too.

Next up is 12th graders Zack Gerber.

Zack, tell us about you.

Thank you.

I would like to thank the Lord Jesus Christ who died for my sins, for blessing this team, for bringing us all the all this way.

My parents for supporting me.

My coach was Nancy Bush, who is one of the best in the in the game.

And I also must add that I, too, miss Silas.

Team captain is David Hart is in 12th grade.

Welcome, David.

Good to see you.

Tell us about yourself.

I would like to give a big shout out to the four Nikos brothers.

This is the first year and a couple like five years that has not had on competing.

So and you guys have made the finals, or at least the philosophical for multiple years in a row, is that right?

Yes, I think most of, if any, goes well.

All right.

Well, good.

for you for being the captain.

So you can answer bonuses or defer by name to a teammate in our championship game, such as Brock Canaster, who is in 11th grade.

Tell us about you Brock I learned how to make macaroons over the weekend.

Those are the best let's see.

How do the alternates and coaches for Harden Valley Academy, Julian Lee, Gary Park, Ryan Moon, Samir Nathawat?

And coaches Nancy Bush, who teaches science, and Nick de la Santos, who teaches history at Harden Valley Academy.

And obviously they do a fine job of it because your teams have been in the higher ground so many times, taking on a very good squad from Science Hill High School at These are all seniors, all 12th graders, first up is Arushi Raj.

Welcome back.

Arushi, what's new?

My favorite color is Henry Clay.

All right.

I've seen Clay of many different colors, but what color is Henry?

Pale blue.

Okay.

Nice.

Let you know that.

Amanda No, he is in 12th grade.

What's new?

Amanda My favorite color is Taylor Swift's 2020 album Evermore.

plugin for the Swifties?

Yes.

Once again, team captain is Owen Hoover soil answer bonuses or defer by name to a teammate?

What's up?

My favorite color is independence, otherwise known as maroon and gold.

What?

Do you still have some grades to make up before the end of the year?

You got to know.

I mean, I'll be free from eventually.

Yeah, I just remember them fondly.

And let's say hi also to Shiven Jane, welcome back, Shiven, your last game as well today.

Tell us about yourself.

My favorite color changes every time I see you in a different time.

So today, the favorite color is bright yellow.

Well, actually, this is Pelosi Happy blue in yellow that today.

All right, fair enough.

Let's say hi to we've got the alternates and coaches for Science Hill.

First up is Sam Hailey.

Selena Wheeler, Ayush Joshi, Molly Wilson and coaches Ben Davenport and Michael Viviano, who teaches economics and world history.

And people are just taken aback with the emotions of our championship game.

They work on the choreography pretty.

They constantly.

Right.

Okay.

Yeah.

Good, good, good.

We are delighted also to welcome a few other special guest for our championship game, including Anissa Rowland at Pellissippi State Community College.

And thank you for your continued support of Tennessee Scholars Bowl.

We appreciate that.

And representing Lincoln Memorial University in Harrogate, we're delighted to have Emily Martinez with us from LMU.

Another fine sponsor of Scholar's Bowl.

We could not do it without their support.

So thank you to both schools for doing that.

Now, players, you had to win.

What did we decide five times to get here?

You certainly should understand by now that we've got concepts worth ten bonuses worth up to 20.

Get your fingers on the buzzer for this championship game of Tennessee's Scholars Bowl 2024.

First, toss up in the category of music.

Who is the songwriter and lead singer of Queen's Freddie Mercury, Queen song, Bohemian Rhapsody, and a music bonus forHardin Valley fans, of which classic Pink Floyd album sometimes listen to it while watching The Wizard of Oz Yellow Brick Road on the Yellow Brick Road that is the dark side of the moon.

They say the beginning of it syncs up weirdly with the movie toss up in US history.

Who was the only U.S. president to have a Ph.D.?

Zach Wilson Write in History bonus, which Native American chief and orator said, Sell a country.

Why not sell the air the great Sea as well as the Earth?

Didn't the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?

Do I free Zach Tecumseh Correct.

For ten too.

Which tribe did he belong on?

Shawnee.

Oh, like the fox, Right.

I heard Zach Shawnee also.

Right.

20 on the bonus toss up.

Now in English, identify the direct object in the sentence Hannah gave Madison a birthday.

Zach gift is where I was going with that.

Yeah, and an English bonus now is the word was an action or linking verb in the following sentence.

Mary was happy.

She grew a variety of flowers in her garden, thinking, That sounds right.

And a very baroque linking.

Yes, 20 points toss up in biology.

What type of animal has an exoskeleton?

A head, Zach insect, a thorax and so on.

And a biology bonus for Hardin Valley.

What is the meaning of the prefix pseudo think fake?

Yeah, it's a fake.

Correct.

What prefix means things Are activities connected with air or movement through air arrow Arrow.

Yeah.

A E R O is aero.

Right.

20 on the bonus toss up in geometry.

It's a 57 inch segment is tri affected.

What is the length of each segment?

Zach 19.

Yes.

And a geometry bonus In a blueprint for a new building, one third of a centimeter represents nine meters in the finished building.

If a hallway shown on the blueprint is four and two thirds centimeters long, how long will the hallway be in the finished building?

So 327 times four.

Um, just over to me.

126 meters?

That is correct.

For 20 points toss up Now in art, what American painter who began her painting career at age 78, Zach Grandma Moses produced primitive images.

Right, right.

And an art bonus.

Now, what Auguste Rodin sculpture was originally designed to represent the contemplation of the fate of the damned for a larger work inspired by Dante's Inferno.

Thanks to The Thinker.

That's an, I think, a thinker, right?

For ten, the original sculpture of the thinker is made from what material?

You know, like marble.

Like that marble and makes a marble.

Now that one is bronze, ten points on that torso for all players in geography.

In which state is Cape Hatteras neck?

Amanda Massachusetts now head Zach North Carolina National Seashore Cape Hatteras and a visual bonus for Hardin Valley.

Take a look at the screens which Dutch city referred to as the Venice of the north for its large number of canals made headlines in 2023 with an unusual dissuasion campaign that told young British men wanting a messy weekend to stay away.

Yeah, I think it's Amsterdam Innocence Rotterdam, which is the largest seaport.

But I think it's a fantastic yeah offer Zainab Amsterdam is right 20 points.

Toss up for Virgin in literature which 1882 novel was written Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson and a literature bonus.

What was the pen name of Charles Dodgson, who wrote through the Looking Glass?

I presented Lewis Carroll.

Yes, 20 points.

Tossup in geology.

What?

Stone That was once 15 feet long.

Amanda The Rock of Gibraltar and 15 feet long and three feet wide is the traditional site of the pilgrims disembarking from the Mayflower.

David US Pass Plymouth Rock was the answer.

No points.

Truss up in religion.

The image of Venetia with the head of an elephant and forearms is a good luck symbol for followers of what Amanda Hinduism, religion and or religion.

Bonus for Science Hill In 2022, Afghanistan's Supreme Leader ordered judges to fully enforce aspects of which Islamic law system that includes public executions, stonings, floggings and the amputation of limbs for thieves defer to Shiven.

Sharia law, correct for 20 toss up and sports In which major metropolitan area is Sofi Stadium?

Los Angeles.

Located in a sports bonus.

Two parts.

How many players on a fielded soccer team?

11.

11.

Correct.

How long as a regulation?

Half of a soccer game?

45 minutes.

Yeah, 45 minutes also.

Right.

20 toss up in history.

Whose pamphlet, Common Sense Commander Thomas Paine was published in 1776 and a bonus for Science Hill in history, who was credited with the war?

Quote, I only regret that I have about one life to live for my country.

Well, Patrick Henry, now it was Nathan Hale.

I only have one life to lose for my country.

Toss up now in foreign language.

What is the English translation of que ora es?

Shiven?

What time is it?

It is right and a foreign language bonus.

What is the French translation of?

Where is your house?

I know.

Answer That is good.

Thomson up for all players in science.

What type of snowstorm is defined?

Zach Blizzard Yeah, by strong sustained wind, not by amount of snowfall.

Science Bonus.

Who is the daughter of Lord Byron, an associate of Charles Babbage and considered to be the first computer programmer.

Lovelace I heard.

Zachary.

Ada Lovelace you can say.

Ada Lovelace I think we can take that toss up for all players now in math computation, evaluate three plus X over Y.

If x equals .16 and Y equals 0.64.

David Three and one fourth.

Yeah, 3.2, five or three and one fourth.

And a visual bonus for Hardin Valley.

Take a look at the screens.

What is the equation in slope intercept form of the straight line?

Passing through the two points to negative six and four zero is three equations gone?

So this £3 of Y is equal to three x plus six minus x, right?

Y equals three x -12 is the right answer.

20 points Toss up.

Now in art, which American artist was known for images that portrayed the relationship between mothers?

Zach Norman Rockwell relationship between Aarushi.

Mary Cassatt.

Yeah.

Mary Cassatt is right and art bonus now for Science Hill which for great artists were considered the masters of the Renaissance and were the inspiration for Ninja Turtles.

Conjoined twins deferred deferred to Amanda, Rafael Donatello, Da Vinci and Michelangelo.

Yeah, I mean, we would have said Leonardo because the name of the turtle, but the same guy will take it.

And it's 20 points.

Tossup in economics for what crop is the state of Idaho known as potato and the economics bonus for Hardin Valley.

When Russia invaded Ukraine, the president of Ukraine urged for Russia to be cut from swift.

What is swift?

Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication.

The first one of us out of fear is Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication.

That's correct.

20 points.

toss up now in vocabulary.

What is the 11 letter word beginning with ESP that refers to someone who spends money freely and Amanda No answer in an irresponsible way.

Zainab Spendthrift is right in a vocabulary bonus.

What ten letter word beginning with L is a description of someone who was full of trivial conversation lingo mean and very nice, lethargic mean.

That sentence.

I don't know my best guess even though it's nine.

Lethargic.

It's loquacious.

No points on the bonus toss up in astronomy.

Which type of telescope is used for examining the moon and other planets of the fraction?

refracting telescope with the same thing in other planets of the solar system.

Astronomy is your bonus.

Two parts in which constellation is the Great Nebula?

Orion.

Orion.

Correct.

In which constellation is the Crab Nebula?

Which?

The Crab Ursa minor Talons in Taurus.

Ten points on the bonus toss up in government.

What is an early release of a prisoner before parole?

The completion of the sentence and a government bonus for Hardin Valley.

A 2023 study by scientists at Notre Dame University revealed the use of watermarks, tiny colored threads and imprints of leaves in colonial currency printed by which founding Father as a deterrent to counterfeiters.

Ben Franklin I would assume because he was the guy who went to the smart.

Yeah, he's the guy who went to this effort to do this thing though.

Yeah.

I don't know if that's your choice.

I mean, Ben Franklin is right for 20.

Toss up now in miscellaneous, a contraption intentionally designed to perform a simple task in an overly complicated Rube Goldberg machine.

Yeah, it's named after which American cartoonist.

And a miscellaneous bonus.

What fad gift of the 1980s that is still sold today is a grooved terracotta figurine to which moistened seeds are applied so that the plants that grow would look like the figurines, fur or hair.

You know, I've heard Brock, a Chia pet, is right for 20 toss up now in geography.

Mount Olympus at 9570.

Zack Greece is the highest point in Greece and geography bonus.

Which two countries does the Chunnel connect?

Yeah, France and England.

Those are both right for 20toss up now in literature.

In the play Hamlet, which character says the lady doth protest Zach Hamlet.

Now the lady doth protest too much and steal Science Hill.

Aarushi?

Polonius, that is Queen Gertrude.

No points on that.

Up in chemistry.

What sweet smelling organic compound with the chemical Formula C4H10.

Amanda Sucrose no is often used as a chemical solvent and can be abbreviated as ET20 Zach fructose.

No that is diethylene ether toss up now in algebra simplify one half x plus four plus one third x -12.

Zach, stall.

Chance to steal Shiven.

56x plus 12.

No it's 56x minus 8 So no points on that one at the end of the first half.

Hardin Valleys trying to build themselves up a cushion because they know they're up against an excellent Science Hill squad.

We'll see what happens in our second half of play.

Which of these two teams will be our champion for Scholars Bowl 2024?

to enter your high school in next year's Tennessee Scholars Bowl.

Or for more information on this year's tournament, please write to the address shown on your screen.

You're watching Tennessee Scholars Bowl.

I'm Frank Murphy, back from halftime in the championship game, our final match for the season in Tennessee.

Scholars Bowl 2024 between Hardin Valley Academy and Science Hill High School.

Both teams trying to win the Frank Miller Memorial Trophy and the cash prize that you just heard about.

Looks like both teams that put alternates into the game and we'll see which of them takes home the trophy at the end of today's show.

Let's say hi first to junior Ryan Moon from Hardin Valley.

Ryan, welcome back.

Good to see you.

Tell us about yourself.

Hello.

I like my teacher Doctor Quick, because he answers all the questions I have no matter how many I have.

That's important.

That's Very good.

Let's say hi also to Julian Lee, who is a junior.

What about you, Julian?

I play the cello.

Yeah, And you're good, right?

We determine that you're one of the best Okay.

There's also three alternates on the Science Hill side.

Let's say hi first to 12th grader Molly Wilson.

Welcome back, Molly.

How are you?

Hi.

I'm good.

I'd just like to say that my favorite color is Frank Murphy, Let's say hi to Selena Wheeler, who's another 12th grader at Science Hill.

Hi, Frank Murphy.

Hi Selena Wheeler.

Okay.

Well, I agree that Frank Murphy is a great color.

My favorite color is currently my new podcast called Selena and Friends.

Is that for a real thing?

And it's going to be okay.

Yeah.

Fantastic.

I'd love to hear more about that.

And also, we welcome back 12th grader Ayush Joshi.

Tell us about you.

Hi, my favorite color, I think, is Harry Potter's invisibility cloak.

Oh, that would be very handy.

All right, players, let's get back to it for the championship game of Tennessee's Scholars Bowl 2024.

Toss up for all players in spelling to be experiencing worry, unease or nervousness about an imminent event or something with an uncertain as- Zach?

a and xi0ty is to be anxious to spell anxious Owen?

A N X I O U S. Is right and a spelling bonus for Science Hill to give adulation is to give praise for something or someone spell adulation.

A D U L A T I O N. 20 points toss up in U.S. history.

What women's organization won with the initials WCTU was formed after the Civil War.

Zak Women's Christian Temperance Association now a dedicated to prohibiting the sale Owen.

Women's Christian's Temperance Union.

Yeah, you needed the u word in there and a history bonus.

Who was the civil rights and women's suffrage leader who in the 1890s drew attention to violence against African-Americans through her pamphlets Southern Horrors lynch law in all its phases and the red record?

Ida B Wells.

Is right 20 points up now in art.

The self-portrait by Belgian surrealist René Magritte, titled The Son of Man, shows a man in an overcoat and a bowler hat with his face Owen?

Green Apple.

Obscured by what?

And a visual bonus.

Now for Science Hill.

Take a look at the screens Vincent Van Gogh lived in.

What coastal city in the south of France from 1888 to 1889, when he produced over 300 paintings and drawings, including the self-portrait with bandaged ear and pipe shown here, Arles is right for Tim Van Gogh cut off part of which of his ears with a razor.

Its left ear is right 20 points.

A lot of people mistake it for the right, but he uses a mirror image on the self-portrait Biology toss up.

What 13 letter word beginning with t is the term for the process of plants taking up liquid water from the soil transpiration and releasing water vapor of biology.

Bonus What six letter word beginning with t describes the state of decreased physiological activity of bears during the winter months in the Appalachian Mountains that dormancy.

Is it Bermondsey as tired I might be.

A lot of people mistakenly think they hibernate, but they go into something called torpor.

T O R P O R. Toss up for all players in health.

What term refers to a persistent and prolonged inability Owen.

Insomnia to sleep in a health bonus?

In 2023, the water company in Johannesburg, South Africa, investigated blue water that flowed from residents taps.

The suspected contaminant was which chemical element with atomic number 29 and symbol Cu?

Copper is right for 20 points.

Toss up for everyone in music.

What type of chord is a triad with a minor third from the Root?

Zac Minor Yeah, that type of court is a minor chord in perfect fifth from the Root Music bonus for Hardin Valley.

What composer, who was one of the most prominent pianists of the romantic era, was also married to a composer named Robert and was the mother of their eight children.

Schumann.

Clara Schumann.

Clara Schumann.

Yeah, I forget Clara Schumann.

That's right.

20 points Toss up in physics.

What 11 letter word, beginning with E is the stability of physical forces for which the state universe equilibrium.

Yeah.

Is always seeking and a physics bonus for Hardin Valley independently from Sir Isaac Newton, which German philosopher discovered a new math system called calculus unknowns.

I for Julian Omelets.

no it's Gottfried Lieb, Leibniz.

Toss up in foreign language.

What is the Spanish word for yellow?

Zach?

Amario.

Yes, and a foreign language bonus.

What is the English translation of the German question?

de field course that s what time?

I don't know.

What time is it?

Maybe three.

How are you?

It's something.

Is it.

Oh, what time is it.

That's.

How much does it cost.

Like if you're trying to buy something in Germany.

Toss up for all players in geography.

Which states capital is Olympia Zach Washington.

Right.

And a visual bonus for Hardin Valley.

Look at the screens please.

flag shown here represents which Canadian province that is the country's most populous and borders four of the five Great Lakes and borders the states of Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York, I defer to Ryan, Ontario.

That's right.

For 20 points.

Tossup for all players in math computation.

Simplify the quantity, three X plus eight times the quantity, three X minus eight Zach?

nine X squared -64 is the right answer.

And a math bonus for Hardin Valley.

Simplify into exponential form.

Five to the fourth power divided by five to the negative two power.

45 to 6 five.

Yes, I for Julian fourth to the six.

Yes.

Right.

For 20 points.

Tossup and religion by number of chapters and total number of verses.

What book with 150 chapters Zach?

Psalms?

Is the longest in the Bible and a religion bonus for Hardin Valley.

Which of the following four words does not belong with the others?

Minister parishioner or pontiff?

Parishioner.

Parishioner is correct for 20 Toss up for all players.

Now in vocabulary, what?

Seven letter word beginning with P means to fall or drop- Zach?

Plethora ball or drop straight down of high speed Owen?

Plummit.

Right and a vocabulary bonus.

What is the term for the phobia Fear of 13?

Triscadecaphobia.

Correct.

What is the term for the phobia?

Fear of clowns.

Good for phobia.

It's coolraphobia.

Two of the most popular phobias.

Toss up now in health.

What is the term for a blood filled sac formed by Zach Aneurysm, a ballooning in an arterial wall and a health bonus.

Now, what is the disorder in which the blood has a reduced ability to carry oxygen due to a lower than normal number of red blood cells or a reduction in the amount of hemoglobin anemia.

Just simply anemia.

Just anemia.

I defer to Ryan.

Anemia, That's right.

For 20 points.

Toss up in music, which Broadway musical includes the songs The Lady in the Long Black Dress Sister Act, How I Got the Calling and Others Music Bonus for Hardin Valley.

Following the injuries of dozens of fans at a 2023 Travis Scott concert, officials in Rome said there would be no more concerts at what stadium that was used for chariot racing in ancient Rome.

Calcium?

Yeah.

The Coliseum.

No, it was the Circus Maximus.

toss up in economics.

What is the currency of Switzerland Owen?

Swiss franc?

Yes.

And an economics bonus.

What German automobile companies logo is for interlocking rings symbolizing the merger of four Saxon automobile companies?

Yes.

20 points.

Toss up in English, which rodent completes the idiom as quiet as a mouse and an English bonus.

Identify the indirect object in the sentence.

Austin passed Michael a note in class when the teacher wasn't looking.

Michael is right for 20 Toss up in health, which medical specialty field studies changes in the body that cause disease or that are caused pathology or caused by disease?

Health bonus Name two of the three parts of a nucleotide.

Just refer to me.

It's the nitrogenous base and the sugar.

Okay, well, I guess I defer to Zach.

Nitrogenous base and the sugar and phosphate group is the third 20 points toss up for all players in sports.

Who is the current commissioner of the National Football League Zack Goodell at league And a bonus now in sports for Hardin Valley two parts.

What is the team nickname for George Mason University Patriots.

Patriots.

Patriots for Julian Patriots.

Yes.

What is the team nickname for James Madison University?

The Dukes.

The Dukes.

I defer to Ryan.

The Dukes also.

Right.

20 points, tossup in geography.

If someone is living on Tulsa time, in which time zone are they located?

Central.

Yes.

And a geography bonus name two of the three states that border Connecticut.

I get the message usage in Rhode Island.

Rhode Island?

Yeah, fine.

I'd just go with those two.

Yeah, of course.

Massachusetts and Rhode Island are both right.

New York is the third toss up now in foreign language.

What is the English translation of the Japanese phrase?

Gomer Nozaki?

Sorry.

That's right and a foreign language bonus, what is the literal translation of the French phrase myopathy shoe, which is used as a term of endearment for someone who is much loved my little bun.

It's actually my little cabbage, which they also used to describe Brussels sprouts and someone who's especially dear to you toss up in astronomy.

How many times larger is the radius of the sun than that of the earth?

Zach?

84.

Now it you can steal Science Hill.

Selena.

96.

109 times bigger toss up in biology.

Which vitamin is produced when skin is exposed Owen?

Vitamin D. Biology is a bonus.

Proponents of the Klamath River Dam removal project are hopeful that the destruction of four hydroelectric dams in which two states will improve water quality in the river and restore the habitat of salmon.

Frank Murphy State.

And thank you for having us.

It's California and Oregon is where the Klamath River is.

But thank you for being here.

Science Hill.

We appreciate it.

And especially all of your wacky player introductions over the past season.

It's been an absolute joy.

Might want to make sure you go back and watch every one of their episodes.

Meanwhile, congratulations to Hardin Valley Academy champions once again, delighted to have you guys here.

And you've earned your way, of course, to this spot.

And we wish Hardin Valley all the best in the future.

Now, of course, we want to acknowledge all the teams and all the players who participate in Tennessee Scholars Bowl, and here with a message of congratulations to all of them is East Tennessee PBS President Vicki Lawson.

Congratulations to all the players, coaches and staff that have participated in this years Scholars Bowl.

Your commitment to academic excellence is an example to us all.

Thank you.

And here to present Science Hill High School with the second place trophy is Emily Martinez of Lincoln Memorial University.

on behalf of Lincoln Memorial University?

We are proud to congratulate Science Hill High School on their runner up finish in this year's Scholar Bowl.

Congratulations to you and to your entire team.

Thank you so much.

I would like to thank PBS for hosting this tournament.

I would like to thank our parents for supporting us through our journeys with Scholars Bowl.

I would like to thank our lovely coaches, Ben Davenport and Michael Laviano, who, despite our previous introductions, are not overrated.

And of course, I would love to thank all of my amazing teammates who have spent so long working on this and who have really made this tr to have with us in the studio today.

Anisa Roland, executive director of the Pellissippi State Foundation, here to congratulate Hardin Valley Academy and present them as winners of Tennessee Scholars Bowl 2024, the Frank Miller Memorial Trophy.

On behalf of Pellissippi State Community College, it is my honor to congratulate Hardin Valley Academy on an excellent Scholars Bowl season.

Congratulations to our coach, Nancy Bush and Nick Dela Santos.

Thank you.

I would like to give a big thank you to Pellissippi State Community College for sponsoring this competition.

Furthermore, I would like to thank the judges and host to workers who worked tirelessly throughout the season to make this a possibility.

Finally, I would like to give a big thank you to our coaches who have helped prep us to win this award.

Thank you Thank you again to the Hilltoppers of Science Hill and the Hawks of Hardin Valley for a great championship game here on Tennessee Scholars Bowl.

We appreciate them.

And all of the students who participated over the course of the season to win that Frank Miller Memorial Trophy, as Hardin Valley did again this year.

We hope that you'll never miss an episode of Scholar's Bowl.

Check your local listings, set your DVR hours, or, as our students do, binge watch past seasons online using the PBS app.

My name is Frank Murphy and thank you for watching.

Tennessee Scholars Bowl 2024, Yes, Thomas Paine.

And a bonus in U.S. history who is credited with the war.

Quote, I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

Congratulations again to the Hilltoppers of Science Hill and our 2024 champions, the Hawks of Hardin Valley, who have once again taken home the Frank Miller Memorial Trophy.

It's been a great season and we do appreciate your watching.

Never missing an episode, setting your DVR or as our students do, binge watching past seasons online using the PBS app.

I'm sorry, I'm getting excited.

This is the last thing I say all next year.

I'm going to try.

Sorry.