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

I'm Frank Murphy.

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

It's our 41st season, and we've made it all the way to the round of the philosophical.

For this is a fifth round game between Webb School of Knoxville and Hall's High School, also of Knoxville, and one of these two teams will advance to our championship game to try to play for that trophy.

Let's say hi first to the players from Webb, who obviously had to win four times to get here.

Let's say hi first to Sam Kowalski, who is a sophomore.

What about you, Sam?

Hello.

The weirdest category I've had to study in preparation for Scholar's Bowl is lines and standard form.

What does that mean?

I don't even I mean, I don't even know.

It's just a different form of how to write a line.

I can't elaborate too much of a case in case there's a question on it.

Oh, okay.

All right.

Great.

Because.

There could be.

Who knows.

Let's say hi also to Jackson White, who is a senior.

What about you, Jackson?

The most obscure category I've had to study is assassinations.

Oh, it's such a sad category.

All right, fair enough.

But they do pop up in history.

Of course.

Team captain is senior Penny Willoughby.

Hey, Penny.

Welcome back.

As team captain, you'll answer bonuses or defer by name to one of your teammates.

Tell us about yourself.

The weirdest thing I've studied in preparation for Scholar's Bowl is rivers and waterways around the world.

And my favorite being the Strait of Gibraltar.

Oh, that's a fantastic one.

What a choice.

How did you come across that one?

Is your favorite?

Well, after being unable to pronounce it for many years of my life, it has become my favorite.

Oh yeah, once you learn a word, I understand that you can't stop saying that.

I'm totally with you on that.

Let's say hi to Steven Cola, who is a senior.

Steven, what about yourself?

The oddest category I've had to study for Scholar's Bowl is mother sauces.

All right, this one you'll have to explain to me.

I can't go too far in, of course, but it's there.

In French cooking, there's mother sauces.

Oh, okay.

Okay.

I think I know how you guys who are seniors, which is everybody except Sam.

This.

You know, you're going to wrap up your scholars bill careers, in this next couple of days so you can send me some of these questions.

I'm becoming can use them for next year, maybe.

let's say hi to the alternates and coach for Webb School of Knoxville.

We've got James Overall and Ridge Long joined by coach Jenny Fields who teaches Latin taking on an excellent squad from Halls High School, I imagine just barely still recovering from, from the last time you were here.

But you all have a chance to go home, get some rest, and put on some spiffy clothes for the semifinal game.

Let's say hi to Levi Dooley, who is in 11th grade.

Hey, Levi.

Welcome.

Tell us about yourself.

Hi, I'm Levi and, my favorite classical poet is Sappho, so.

Oh.

All right, fair enough.

Nice.

Any, extra tip ins or you don't want to give anything away?

That might mean she is one of the few, female poets that we actually have.

You know, enough surviving stuff to piece together some.

So.

but you can send that in as a question as well.

Let's say hi to Amanda Lane, who is in 12th grade.

What about you?

Amanda?

Hi.

This summer I got to perform in concerts around Europe.

Wow.

And, remind me, what is your method of performance?

I play the French horn.

Yeah.

And what are some of these places that you visited?

Italy.

Croatia, Austria, Germany, Germany and Switzerland.

And inside Italy we visited multiple places like Rome and Venice.

And you got to play the French horn in those places.

Outstanding.

With your translations on that team captain is Sophia Elkins, 12th graders.

So, Sophia, you answer bonuses or defer, as you know, what's new with you this summer?

I got to go to LA and Alaska.

Really?

Which would you prefer?

I prefer Alaska, of course you do.

It's a loaded question.

What did you get to see while you were there?

I got to see a juvenile wolf on the side of the road.

It was just crazy and bears.

It was really nice to see all the wildlife there.

Excellent.

All right.

Good.

Glad to hear about that.

And then Joe Atkins in 11th grade.

Joe.

Welcome back.

What's new with you?

I just wanted to thank our, coach, Mr. Reeves, for getting us this far.

And my dad for supporting me through all of these matches.

Yeah.

You've been in.

This is not only 11th grader, but you've been here since freshman year.

Is that right?

Yeah.

Good.

All right, well, we're happy to have you back.

Let's say, to the alternates and your coach that you just mentioned, that is Olivia Price and Ella Wolf, Ty Davis and Morgan Humphries and coach Tim Reeves, who teaches European history and geography.

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

Doctor Anthony Wise, president of Pellissippi State Community College, is here for our finals and semifinals.

And we appreciate the support from Doctor Wise and from Pellissippi State, a proud sponsor of Scholar's Bowl.

All right.

Players yet to win what, four times to get here.

You know how this works.

Toss ups worth ten bonuses worth 20.

Get your fingers on the buzzer for this philosophical four round game of Tennessee scholar's Bowl 2025 plus up for all players in geography.

Which South American country has its legal capital?

It's Sue Gray and Sweet Sam Bolivia of government of past geography bonus Georgetown is the capital of what South American country with an indigenous name that means land of many waters down towards giant no.

Of Peru.

That one is Guyana.

Montevideo is the capital of what South American country, with an indigenous name means may mean bird River.

Uruguay is right for ten on the bonus plus up now in astronomy, Earth's magnetosphere is made up of invisible lines of magnetic field that radiate out into space from where on Earth the poles?

Yes.

Astronomy bonus.

In our solar system, which planets orbit is nearly circular.

Venus answer Earth.

That one is Venus.

Which planet in our solar system has the shortest day?

Great Mercury.

It's Jupiter concept for all players in art.

What is the term for artwork that is applied directly to a wall or ceiling to mural?

Yeah, using techniques including painting, fresco, mosaic and graffiti art.

Bonus.

What are the three primary colors of light?

Oh, for light green, it's light green and red, yellow and green.

But first I defer to Sam red, blue and green.

All three of those are right.

And it was an all or nothing question.

So 20 points tossup.

Now in vocabulary.

What is the comparative form of bad Sam.

Worse and vocabulary.

Bonus what nine letter word beginning with O means to make something unclear obscure or difficult to understand.

Oh, up you skate.

I defer to Sam.

Obfuscate is correct for ten now spell obfuscated at a first okay o b f u s c a t e correct 20 on the bonus tossup.

Now, in geometry, point T bisects line segment AB.

What is the length of AB?

If a t equals 23.8cm 47.6 is right.

And the geometry bonus if an 18ft ladder reaches nine feet up a wall, what angle does the ladder make with the wall of 18ft 1930 degrees 30 degrees?

I want the ladder in the wall is 60 degrees.

What angle does it make with the ground?

30 degrees is right.

It's a weird, weird way to use a ladder, but it's the answer.

It's up in U.S. history, what was the informal name for the radio addresses that President Franklin D Roosevelt used to communicate directly as Joe Fireside talks?

Communicate directly with the American people during the Great Depression.

Chance to steal when Penny fireside chats.

Yeah, I need the exact term and a visual bonus.

Now for web.

Take a look at the screens.

The Luxor temple shown here was built in approximately 1400 BC.

And what ancient Egyptian city?

That was the capital of Upper Egypt during the New Kingdom?

I defer to Stephen.

Thebes is right for 20 tossup now in chemistry.

What element has the Latin name of Natrium Sam sodium, right.

And a chemistry bonus.

Which elements electron configuration is argon for s two arms in foreign.

No no no no calcium.

Calcium is right for 20 tossup in religion, the root word of what?

Indian religion that originated in the Punjab region around the end of the 15th century means Joe.

Hinduism means seeker of truth.

Chance to steal web any Buddhism that one is Sikhism.

Toss up now in literature with which war is Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms Joe.

World War One associated literature.

Bonus.

Which Hemingway book featured the running of the Bulls from the belt?

No.

It's okay, it's okay.

I defer to Joe for whom the Bell Tolls.

That one is The Sun Also Rises.

Which city is famous for the running of the bills?

During the festival of San Fermin?

It's not Madrid, Barcelona, it's Pamplona, Spain.

No points on the bonus toss up in geography.

What is the capital of Michigan?

Joe Lansing.

Just in time.

And a geography bonus in 2024, during the heavy rainfall from Hurricane Helene, a section of the eastbound lanes of Interstate 40 in North Carolina near the Tennessee border crumbled into the gorge of what river?

Tennessee.

The Cumberland.

That's the pigeon River.

No points on the bonus toss up in history.

Which of the candidates in the four way race for president in 1860 had famously debated and defeated Abraham Lincoln in the 1858 election for U.S.

Senator Sam Douglas?

Yeah.

Stephen Douglas and a history bonus which US founding father is known for.

The quote I answered that the die was now cast.

I had passed the Rubicon.

Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination.

I was thinking, George Washington, no, he's dead.

Okay.

Make go.

Hancock.

That's John Adams.

Toss up in biology.

Name the chemical that carries energy from one reaction site to another inside Sofia ATP living cells.

Biology bonus.

What popular green vegetable was engineered by the Etruscans around the sixth century BC, and has a name that comes from the Italian word for the flowering crest of a cabbage.

Cauliflower.

well that also was derived from the same thing, but the word I was describing was broccoli.

toss up in music.

Who composed the cantata Carmina Burana?

Joe Bizarre.

No chance to do a web.

Jetsam.

Bizarre.

That one is Carl Orff.

Toss up in English.

What is the past tense of the verb bear, spelled bary?

Sam Baugh no chance to steal Hull's.

Sophia.

Chad.

No, it's just bear to be ready.

Toss up in math 80 is what fractional part of 120 Stephen 60% and no chance to steal Hall's.

Amanda de force.

Now two thirds is the answer to pass up now in economics, what women's fashion and lifestyle brand.

With over 120 boutiques across the US, moved its headquarters from Maryville to the former discovery campus.

Penny altered state?

Yeah, in West Nashville in 2023.

Economics bonus.

What is the term for a private good if its consumption by one person diminishes the amount available for consumption by another person?

Scarce.

Scarcity.

Scarcity.

That's called a rival.

Good.

What is the term for a private good?

If it is possible to prevent individuals from consuming it without purchasing it.

Public.

Private good.

Private good.

That's called an excludable good.

Like a concert ticket pops up now in health.

What is the series of involuntary muscle contractions that moves food along the esophagus?

Sam peristalsis through the intestines.

Health bonus what organ to the left of the stomach destroys worn out red blood cells, and is a site of white blood cell production.

Yet in the skin, your liver may be liver.

Liver.

That one is the spleen.

Toss up now in foreign language, what is the Spanish word for school?

Sam Escuela.

Yes.

Foreign language bonus.

What commonly used Latin phrase translates to through my own fault, Stephen for the like.

Oh, it's.

I defer to Stephen.

Nihilist.

That's Mia culpa.

What commonly used French phrase translates to have a good trip.

Bon voyage is right for ten on the bonus tossup and spelling spelled a five letter word beginning with a that means to make amends or repair the damage caused by wrongdoing.

A penny atone atone.

Yeah, you got that in a time.

And a spelling bonus.

Now what?

12 letter word beginning with a means of or relating to the period before the biblical flood.

Alter.

It's going to be in.

And something I don't know.

And so I defer to Sam anti-Christian I don't know.

It's antediluvian.

Get ten points for spelling antediluvian.

Such a person a n t e di louvin is right.

Ten of the bonus must have been miscellaneous.

What style of humor involves exaggerated physical activity that exceeds See them slapstick that exceeds the boundaries of normal physical comedy, and a miscellaneous bonus.

In 2024, the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency offered $250,000 in grant money to help local communities and businesses purchase certain bear resistant containers, and the agency's black bear coordinator, Dan Gibbs, said the reason bears are coming into Gatlinburg so often can be summed up in what one word delinquent, sure to be clear, is Dollywood.

It's trash.

Is that garbage?

That's why they needed the containers toss up in government.

What are the taxes placed on the production?

Transportation, sale, or consumption of goods and services?

Excise?

Yes.

Government bonus.

Who has served the most terms as governor of Tennessee?

Because no more Alexander.

No.

He's Haslem.

That is William Carroll, who served six terms.

Toss up in physics.

What experiment, first conducted by Thomas Young in 1801, demonstrates the wave particle duality of light.

Joe double slit experiment correct physics bonus independently from Sir Isaac Newton, which German philosopher discovered a new math system called calculus?

I defer to Joe Leibniz.

Yes.

20 points.

Toss up.

Now in sports, What words do the letters WWE represent Jackson.

World Wide Entertainment now on WWE SmackDown and WWE raw, a chance to steal Levi.

World Wrestling Entertainment is right.

And a sports bonus if I don't know, we have time for that.

The phrase fear the turtle is used by fans.

What colleges, athletic teams, know, we ran out of time.

There was going to do Fear the Turtle, which is University of Maryland Terrapins.

No points on that.

Right now Webb is running up a lead, but anything obviously can happen in one half of play.

Which of these teams advances to the championship game?

We'll find out after the break.

On Tennessee's Scholar's Bowl 2025.

You're watching Tennessee Scholar's Bowl.

I'm Frank Murphy, back from halftime in this philosophical four round match between Webb School of Knoxville and Hall's High School.

Also of Knoxville.

It's our fifth round.

The winner of this game advances to the championship game to play for that Frank Miller Memorial Trophy.

Webb has a lead and has brought one of their alternates into the game.

Let's say hi once again to senior James Overall James, welcome back to the show.

What about yourself, Watson?

Hey, so I'd like to say the most obscure category I've studied for scholars fall is NASA astronauts who invented Nerf guns.

Okay.

I imagine there's probably just one side, but you never know.

There needs to be more.

You never know.

Okay, well, I mean, what would it be?

Do in a world without Nerf guns, my grandchildren would be just, you know, they have all that extra free time on their hands.

and meanwhile, Hall is keeping the same starting lineup intact.

So we'll get right back to it, everybody.

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

Toss up for all players in literature.

Who wrote the muckraking work The Jungle?

Joe Upton Sinclair is correct.

Literature is your bonus.

What is the title of the memoir by Cory ten boom that recounts her family's experience during World War Two in the Netherlands?

Therapy of maverick.

War of mine.

I deferred to Levi.

This war of mine.

It's called the hiding place.

No points on the bonus toss up in pre-calculus and trigonometry.

What term describes the multiplicative inverse of a tangent?

Amanda.

Cotangent right Pre-Calc bonus.

Now what is the maximum value of the function y equals three sine of two x.

Answer I defer to Amanda.

33 is the maximum value concept for all players in geography.

The Great Barrier Reef is located off the coast of Australia.

Australia in a geography bonus now?

a look at the screens, please.

Although it is entirely in one country, a common misconception about Hadrian's Wall depicted here is that it divides which two UK countries, England and Scotland.

Those are right for 20 plus up in biology, what term describes the emission of light by a living organism?

James Bioluminescence.

Correct.

Biology is your bonus.

What are two contractile proteins that make up the myofilaments of muscles?

Protein?

These I don't know.

I have no idea.

Try creatine.

Creatine and amino acids.

It's actin and myosin.

No points on the bonus toss up in religion.

How many plagues of Egypt were sent by God after Pharaoh Levi?

Ten, refused to free the Israelites religion.

bonus What is the title of the podcast?

Originally released on January 1st, 2021, and hosted by father Mike Schmitz, that examines the scriptures in 365 episodes?

Bible.

Look back at the interesting The Joe Rogan Experience.

Well, this one's called the Bible.

In a year toss up in games, how many colored dots are on a twister mat?

Amanda 36.

Castiel.

Sam 1624 is the answer.

Toss up in astronomy what 13 letter noun beginning with C is the term for the twinkling of stars, caused by the refraction of starlight as it passes through the atmosphere.

Sam scintillation.

Right, and an astronomy bonus.

In 2023, for the first time, scientists saw the dark spots on which planet in our solar system that is farthest from the sun and one of two ice giants.

Wait.

Neptune, right.

And the blue hue around Neptune is due to which gas?

That is a symbol for methane.

Also, right.

21st up in U.S. history.

After which war did Puerto Rico become an American possession?

Joe Spanish-American War write U.S. history bonus.

In 1865, President Andrew Johnson offered a $100,000 reward for the capture, of which President.

Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis toss up.

Now in science, what is the term for the temperature at which liquid is converted to a vapor?

Jo melting point.

Not it.

You can steal.

Sam.

Boiling point is right.

And a science visual.

Take a look at the screens.

What principal states that is impossible to simultaneously know a particle's exact position and momentum with absolute certainty.

Heisenberg uncertainty principle.

It's the uncertainty I defer to James.

The uncertainty principle.

The more Heisenberg uncertainty principle.

There you go.

20 points on that concept in music.

What is the major key for an instrument like a piano?

When the key signature has James Key has five sharps chance to steal horns.

Go D, it's B major.

I'm describing toss up now in foreign language.

What is the English translation of the Spanish word ahora?

Penny Hart.

No chance to steal horns.

Go airport.

It means now toss up in algebra.

Solve for x in the equation five x over six equals 25.

Sam 30.

Right.

And algebra bonus give one of the two solutions to the equation 25 x squared minus six equals 1010.

For fear of.

Four I defer to Sam.

4/5 is one of them.

Yes.

And we'll take that.

And the other one is negative four fifths points on the bonus toss up in economics what is the currency of Brazil?

Any peso that you can steal hauls.

Yo Brazilian dollar.

It's the real the Toss up in geology.

What is the name of the supercontinent that existed millions of years ago?

Levi.

Pangea?

Yeah, consisting of all the Earth's landmasses.

Geology.

Bonus.

In one method of creating artificial diamonds, what words do the letters h p h t represent?

Temperature.

Dry temperature.

High pressure.

Temperature.

Pressure.

Right.

Well, we might be able to take your partial credit on that.

The four words are high pressure, high temperature.

So they might give you 10 or 15 on that toss up.

Now, in games, what popular playground game has players toss a small object called a lager into number triangles, or pattern of penny, hopscotch, a pattern of rectangles, etc.

and hopscotch Z games is your bonus.

What daily word game that gives players six chances to guess A56 word is projected to reach the end of its current word list in 2027, and you can defer if you want not to make it out of words.

Wordle is right for 20 toss up role players in literature.

Which Greek tragic playwright wrote the plays Ajax, Antiquity and Oedipus Rex?

Sam Sophocles.

Right.

And a literature bonus.

What 1956 play by William Gibson is based upon the teacher who changed Helen Keller's life.

Goethe, Oklahoma!

I think it is, but still waiting.

Six Alabama.

That's called the Miracle Worker.

Who was the teacher of Susan's character?

Just say Susan.

Susan, Annie Sullivan is the answer for all players in government.

What is the power of a governor or president to forgive a person convicted of a crime?

Joe.

Pardon and freedom from serving out their sentence.

Government bonus for halls in January 2024 Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran and the United Arab Emirates became members of the inter-governmental organization known as BRICs.

BRICs, which was formed in 2009 by what four countries represented by the initials Bric Brazil, Russia, India, China, Brazil, Russia, India, China.

All four right for 20.

Toss up in geography, Ankara is the capital of what country, Sam?

Turkey or Ankara is the capital of what country?

Turkey is right?

Geography is your bonus.

What is the name of the peninsula that separates the Gulf of California from the Pacific Ocean?

Oh, California.

Baja Peninsula.

Yeah.

Or the Baja California peninsula would take the both of those 20 points.

Tossup in chemistry, which chemical element is named for the Norse god of thunder?

Stephen.

Thorium?

Yes.

Chemistry.

Bonus.

What word did the letters in the abbreviation for the explosive TNT represent?

Oh, that's on no spelling.

What?

Answer I trial.

I defer to James.

Try nitrile.

Titrate it close.

But it's try nitro.

You mean no points on the bonus tossup now in arts what performing arts venue in New York City that is home to the Metropolitan Opera?

Joe Carnegie Hall now has 30 indoor and outdoor facilities and 5 million visitors per year.

Penny Lincoln Center is right, answers your bonus.

What 2023 comedy horror film directed by Elizabeth Banks that was loosely inspired by the true story of a botched drug smuggling operation that resulted in a pilot falling to his death in Knoxville and an animal overdosing on several million dollars worth of illegal narcotics.

What's the title?

Cocaine bear is correct for 20% in sports.

Which stadium was nicknamed the House that Ruth built?

So Yankee Stadium is right.

Sports is your bonus.

Which college bowl game is played in New Orleans, Louisiana?

Oh, is it the Fiesta Bowl, the Fiesta Bowl that wins the Sugar Bowl?

Which college bowl game is played in Pasadena, California?

Fiesta Bowl, the Fiesta Bowl.

That was the Rose Bowl.

No, that must have been math.

What is the value of 17 squared?

Sam 289.

Right.

And a math bonus.

The sum of twice that number and 14 is 32.

What is the number?

Nine.

Nine is correct for 20 points.

Toss up in history.

During Washington's administration, which country controlled more than half of the area?

Sam Spain that later became the continental U.S. and a history bonus, a bike horn hat that was auctioned in 2021 once belonged to what man who died at age 51, in exile on the island of Saint Helena?

Oh, Napoleon, Napoleon Bonaparte is right for 20 points.

Plus the football players in science.

What kind of light is the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum of wavelengths of light?

Yeah.

Ten points.

That falls right at the at the buzzer with visible light there.

And we didn't even get to the part about 400 to 700 nanometers.

But that is the end of the game.

Great effort by halls.

We appreciate you guys so much.

But, Webb rang in a little faster.

So halls, you guys are fantastic.

Thank you very much for being here.

Good luck to your seniors, Will.

I guess never seeing your seniors again.

But your underclassmen will be back next year, I'm sure.

Meanwhile, Webb, we do get to see you guys again.

You're not going to play in the championship game.

It seems like it's been a few years.

I know my first year hosting scholars.

Bill Webb played in the championship game.

Well, congratulations on that.

We look forward to seeing you again on the show real, real soon.

Meanwhile, you can keep track of all of our episodes.

Never miss the ones that your DVR and binge watch past seasons online using the PBS app.

My name is Frank Murphy.

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