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.

We're in our 41st season, and we are now in the third round of the tournament, the smart 16.

Today's match is between Corbin High School of Corbin, Kentucky, and Farragut High School from far west Knox County.

And we've got a bunch of experienced players who obviously won their way here, actually won twice to get here.

So let's get started by meeting the players from Corbin, Kentucky, beginning with senior Sam Elliott.

Welcome back.

Sam, tell us about yourself, what you like to do.

Well hi there.

I'm pretty happy to be here today.

Thank you.

We're happy to have you.

I really haven't had much time for hobbies lately.

I committed to a college back in.

Back in, September, so I've been pretty, pretty busy getting ready to move in.

Where are you going to go?

You go.

Oh, fantastic.

All right.

Good.

in-state tuition and everything.

Right?

Yeah, in-state tuition is good.

I don't know how you would pay out of state.

Well, I hope you do really well.

All right.

Congratulations on that.

By the way.

Jasper Blankenship is a junior.

Welcome back with Jasper.

Tell us about yourself.

You know, junior year, the hardest year schools.

Just trying to get through that.

Joining band of club.

And what does that, a service organization?

Yeah.

So what do you do?

Good deeds around school or what?

What, like volunteer work?

Like soup kitchens?

Oh, that's excellent hospitals.

That'll help on your college applications, too, I would imagine.

Right.

Yeah.

Just ask him.

He seems to have it all under control.

No.

All right, let's say hi to team captain.

That's Will Taylor.

So will you're going to answer bonuses on behalf of your team.

Or you can defer by name to a teammate.

What about you?

I'm in some.

I wrote to Sam, admitted to a University of Louisville.

Oh, wow.

So I'm just kind of waiting to finish the year and move there.

All right.

Well, fantastic.

I hope you enjoy that very much.

And we've also got Hudson Co, who is also a senior this year.

Hudson, what about yourself?

Well, I've applied to some colleges.

I'm not really sure where I'm going to end up yet, but, is, finishing my senior year with the TSA and now heading into my ninth season of archery, what is TSA?

The Technology Student association.

What's your particular interest in technology?

There's a lot of things you could be into coding or building or definitely on going into engineering.

So kind of more the design concept, I love it.

Nice.

Okay.

Let's say hi to the alternate and coaches for Corbin High School.

We've got Eli Skeen joined by coaches Chris Kinzel who teaches social studies, and Darren Higgins, who teaches math at Corbin, taking on a squad from Farragut High School with some experienced players here as well.

First up is 11th grader Leighton Lou.

Hey, Leighton, welcome back to the show.

Tell us about yourself.

What do you like to do?

I like to listen to Frank ocean, but he doesn't drop music has been dropping like nine years and I'm very sad about that.

So you call him or something?

Maybe.

I know I was making a movie instead of dropping another album, which I'm like, well, maybe there'll be music in the movie, I doubt it.

Yeah, he's allergic to dropping music.

I don't know, I'm I'm very sad for you.

I don't I barely know who the guy is.

But, you know, you should listen to to blond.

Okay?

It's a phenomenal album.

All right, I'll check it out.

We got Arman Argos, who is with us again?

Armin.

Welcome back.

Tell us about you.

Hi.

I'm in our school's math club, and I've been playing piano since fourth grade.

You must be exhausted.

Perhaps.

What are you?

You've probably told me this before, but what do you play?

What kind of music?

A little bit of everything.

So, Chopin.

So Mozart, so Scott Joplin.

So I have not heard of that.

You've not heard of Scott Joplin?

Nope.

But look it up.

It's, It's fun.

It's ragtime from the early 1900s.

I think you'll enjoy it.

Let's say hi to Russian Ramanan, who is in 10th grade.

Your team captain.

Russian.

So you're going to answer bonuses or defer to a teammate by name?

What about you?

I've been to 43 different countries.

Is that the same as the last time you were here?

Or if you added in that way, it's should be two more in the in the past year.

Oh my goodness.

Wow.

What are the two new ones?

Uzbekistan and Qatar.

Oh that's fantastic.

Yeah.

so that's, you've been on pretty much every continent, I'm guessing, except Antarctica.

Yeah.

Or will that be, on your bucket list?

I mean, why not?

If you're going to go everywhere else, why not go to an Arctic?

Yeah, yeah.

All right.

Good.

Let's say Indonesia.

Ramadan.

Who is in ninth grade?

What about you, Nisha?

I play violin for the KOCO orchestra.

Outstanding.

And what's, what are some of your favorite pieces to play or composers to play?

I'm still figuring that out.

Well, there's a lot of great, violinists in the KSO, and, you know, they will, of course, guide you and mentor you as, I think as you go through the youth orchestra.

That's fantastic.

I hope you do real well with that.

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

We've got Evan Conger, Uday Suchith Kumar, and Aiden Woo, and they are joined by coach Christopher Hampton, who teaches social studies.

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

Let's say hi to Katelyn Word, who is the senior admissions counselor at Lincoln Memorial University.

Thank you for being here, Caitlin, and thank you to LMU for your consistent support of Scholar's Bowl.

We're joined by a special guest in our studio today that is Sarah Davis, manager of recruitment at Pellissippi State Community College.

Thank you very much to Pellissippi for sponsoring Scholar's Bowl.

And we're delighted to have Sarah here as a representative.

All right, players, you've all been here before.

You know how it works.

Toss ups worth ten bonuses worth 20.

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

This smart 16 round game of Tennessee Scholar's Bowl 2025 plus app for all players in the category of literature.

Which Shakespearean play is about the assassination of a Roman emperor?

Almond Julius Caesar?

Correct literature bonus in hamlet, which two characters escort hamlet on the voyage to England?

I know beetroot is.

And I know who I see.

So you say your answer.

Defer to Leighton.

Gertrude, that's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.

Try this.

What is the name of the dead court jester whose skull is exhumed in act five, scene one.

Okay, I don't remember this.

You do not.

There.

You not answer.

Defer that.

Leighton George begins.

That one is.

Alas, poor Yorick.

toss up for all players in economics.

Which country is the world's largest producer of corn?

Eight United States, correct.

And an economist bonus who is pictured on the front of a $2 U.S. bill.

Is it Jefferson?

Maybe.

Jefferson?

Jackson?

Yeah.

Thomas Jefferson for ten.

What event is depicted on the back of the $2 bill signing of the Declaration of Independence, the signing of the Declaration of Independence?

Also right 20 points on the bonus tossup for all players in biology, what is the genus and species for a human being?

Hudson, Homo sapiens and right and a biology bonus.

What is the branch of zoology concerned with the study of insects?

I told you anthropology.

No.

It's entomology.

What is the branch of zoology concerned with the study of reptiles and amphibians?

Anthropology.

That one is herpetology.

No points on the bonus toss up in math.

What is the next number in the geometric sequence?

Three 1575.

Russian 225.

Not it.

You can steal Corbin.

Hudson to 85.

No, it's 375.

We're multiplying, I think, by, by five as we go up.

Plus that for all players in architecture.

What?

Brick building in Nashville that was originally built as a church was home to the Grand Ole Opry.

Sam Gaylord Building and Grand Ole Opry from 1943 to 74 and still hosts concerts and performances today.

And still, Farragut.

At the buzzer, Layton George begins.

Now.

That one is the Ryman Auditorium.

No points there.

Toss up in vocabulary.

What is the meaning of the psychological term ergo phobia?

Russian fear of work is right.

And the visual bonus.

Now take a look at the screens.

Two cords intersect inside a circle.

One cord is divided into four and six units, named two possible integer combinations that the second cord could be divided into other than four and six, three, eight and two, and 12.

Three and 8 or 2 and 12.

Those are both right, with one and 24 being the other option.

20 points.

Tossup.

Now in geography, which African country was formerly known as Rhodesia?

Sam Zimbabwe.

Right.

And a geography bonus.

As of 2024, the organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries has 12 members.

Name.

Four of the six OPEC nations that are in Africa.

Libya.

Egypt.

Libya.

Nigeria.

Chad.

We've got Libya and Nigeria.

That's ten points.

Algeria, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and Republic of the Congo are the others.

Ten points on the bonus tossup 19 chemistry.

In which group on the periodic table are the alkali metals?

It's Armen won.

No chance to steal Corbin puts in two and it's won a toss up for all players in technology.

What video conferencing app that allows users on any major desktop or mobile operating system to participate in virtual meetings.

SIM zoom yeah.

Became a household name during the Covid lockdown.

Technology is your bonus.

What is the term for a form of cyberbullying in which someone's personal information, such as their real name, home address or physical location is revealed online?

Doxing is right for 20 thumbs up in foreign language.

What Latin phrase is shortened to mo when analyzing a criminals pattern of behavior?

Russian modus operandi is right for ten foreign languages.

Your bonus.

What is the Latin phrase meaning let the buyer beware?

You know this, I know.

Let the buyer act.

I don't know this one.

No, my, I don't know this one, but I don't know.

You know, that is caveat emptor.

Not several players in English.

What four letter word completes the following antonym analogy.

Keen is to blunt as sharp is to what will dull right?

And an English bonus two parts.

What is the past simple for the verb drive.

Drove, drove and drove.

No, no, just drove on that just past.

Simple.

What is the past participle for the verb drive driven is right ten points on the bonus tossup in U.S. history.

What is the name of the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb?

What?

Sam an agree not it.

You can steal almond and all gay.

Yes, and a history bonus.

Which two U.S. presidents were born in Texas?

A Bush like George W Bush and George H. George.

We can do both Bush's.

Yes, George W Bush and George H.W.

Bush.

Believe it or not, they were born in New England, although they lived in Texas.

It was Dwight Eisenhower and Lyndon Johnson who were born in Texas.

Toss up in science to the nearest hour.

How long is it between low tide and high tide?

Six is right.

And a visual bonus for Farragut.

Look at the screens, please.

What is the chemical compound represented by the diagram shown here that is used in fertilizer manufacturing, drain cleaners and lead acid batteries.

What do you think?

I don't know, sodium tile?

Maybe it's, I guess.

What is the answer?

Six.

Honestly, I'm not sure what this is.

Answer sulfur hydroxide.

Well, it's sulfuric acid.

Concept in geometry.

Point T bisects line segment eight B what is the length of a b?

If a t equals 23.8cm?

Boot Hudson 47.

By that, you can steal Farragut Nation 47.6.

That's right.

And the geometry bonus the width of a rectangle is twice its length and the area is 72.

What is the length of the rectangle?

Six.

Right.

With this twice length.

All right.

Six.

That's right.

For 20 points.

Toss up.

In music, the modern version of what instrument has 47 strings and seven pedals which raise or lower.

Nisha harp.

Yeah.

Each pitch class of strings.

Music bonus for Farragut.

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

When the key signature has two flats, two before?

Yes.

B-flat, yes.

And what is the major key for an instrument like a piano?

When the key signature has three sharps, a a also.

Right.

20 points plus up in foreign language.

Translate the French words le Poisson Hudson.

Lacrosse on Norwich.

You can steal Farragut.

Near the door.

No.

The fish they Poisson's the fish.

Toss up in government.

Who was U.S. president on January 2nd, 1890, when Alice Sanger became the first woman to join the white House staff.

Leighton, balk at it.

You can steal Corbin.

Sam Hayes now.

Back in 1890, Benjamin Harrison passed up in physics.

What force acts on an object perpendicular to the surface?

Latent normal?

Yes.

Physics.

Bonus.

Who were the two physicists who isolated the radioactive compound radium chloride in 1902?

Marie Curie.

What's her house?

Pierre, Pierre Marie and Pierre Curie both write for 20 tossup in chemistry.

What is the chemical symbol for barium?

Russian ba.

Yes.

Chemistry bonus.

Although steps taken since 1986 have reduced exposures, certain pipes that carry drinking water from the main water source to homes may contain which element with the symbol PB lead, and the symbol for lead comes from what Latin word god?

No, no answers.

For us, it's a plum toss up in religion, which religion is represented by a star and crescent?

Will Judaism knowledge you can steal nation.

Islam.

Correct religion bonus.

In 1604, which King of England convened a group of scholars to translate the scriptures from Hebrew and Greek into English.

James.

James the first.

James the first is right for 20 tossup in spelling.

To be experiencing worry, unease or nervousness is to be anxious spell Leighton an x I o us is correct spelling bonus for Farragut spell altar as an a place for a religious right.

Alta or yeah, Alta or spell alter as in to change something a yeah.

Altair.

Those are both right for 20 tossup in world history.

On what date and at what hour was the assist to end World War one?

Russian.

November 11th at the 11th hour.

Yeah in 1918.

And a history bonus.

Now what explorer who established the lost colony of Roanoke was beheaded for treason by James the First in 1618.

Walter Raleigh Walter Raleigh, correct for 20 plus up in health.

Medic Regional Blood Center allows donors as young as what age?

If they meet the health requirements.

Sam 16.

Yeah.

And sign the form.

Health bonus.

What separates the left and right airways of the nasal cavity dividing the two nostrils real quick.

Oh, sinus.

No, it's a septum.

No points on the bonus.

That is the end of our first half of play in this smart 16 round game right now.

Firing.

It's ringing in a little quicker than Corbin, but we'll see what happens in our second half of play.

Anything can happen on Tennessee Scholar's Bowl 2025.

You're watching Tennessee Scholar's Bowl.

I'm Frank Murphy, back from halftime in this third round game, this smart 16 round game between Corbin High School of Corbin, Kentucky, and Farragut High School of Knoxville.

Right now, Farragut has got a bit of a lead.

They've been ringing in very fast, but we'll see what happens if Corbin can catch up in our second half of play.

Corbin has brought their alternate into the game with saying hi to sophomore Eli Scheme.

Eli, welcome back to the show.

How have you been since last time we saw you?

I've been good.

I no longer have a cast on.

Oh I can write.

That's fantastic.

So, tell us about your other hobbies and interests.

I'm not really a big fan of fishing.

Just so that's a kind of a instead of asking what you're interested in, you're telling me what you're not interested in.

Yeah.

the people try to force you to fish.

No, no, I mean, even when we're okay.

So just in Kentucky, you just thought I'm not.

I don't like to fish.

Is that popped in your head that you don't want to go fishing somewhere?

All right, well, fair enough, I guess.

There anything else you don't like?

No.

That's it.

That's the only thing just fishing.

Fantastic.

All right.

Everybody else is still here.

The paragons keeping their starting lineup.

Let's get back to it.

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

Plus that from players in pre-calculus.

What is the sine of 90 degrees times the sign of 180 degrees?

Version zero.

Correct pick out bonus.

In which two quadrants are the solutions to the equation.

Sine x equals cosine x.

It's in the first and the first and third degree the first and third.

That's right.

For 20 points.

Toss up.

In sports.

The Kentucky Wildcats of the SEC play their home games.

In what city?

Sam Lexington.

You should know that.

All right.

Sports bonus.

Now what?

Two countries hosted the women's FIFA World Cup in 2023.

Two women's soccer, UK and Spain.

That one is Australia and New Zealand, named two of the three countries that will host the men's FIFA World Cup in 2026 Mexico, Mexico and the United States.

That's right, with Canada being the third ten points on the bonus toss up in literature, who wrote The Cask of the Amontillado?

Edgar Allan Poe and Literature Bonus, who created the character referred to in the title of Bruce Springsteen's 1995 album The Ghost of Tom Joad.

What it is they're not, Mark Twain and Sir Mark Twain, that's John Steinbeck.

What was the book?

Grapes of Wrath?

Grapes.

Okay, Grapes of Wrath is right for ten points tossup.

Now, in geography, what is the world's largest river?

By discharge of volume?

It's an Amazon, right?

And a visual bonus.

Now, take a look at the screens.

Corbin.

The delta shown here covers over 150 miles of Mediterranean coastline and is the mouth of what river that flows south to north Nile.

Nile is right for 20 tossup now in chemistry.

What is the process that is used to separate components of a liquid mixture by their Hudson chromatography, by their boat boiling points?

Steel?

Russian distillation is the answer and a chemistry bonus.

An estimated 12 million tons of electric car batteries that will stop working in the next ten years will end up in landfills, unless experts are able to find better ways to recycle the batteries.

Raw materials, including which one that is the lightest solid and what they'll do with lithium is right for 20 plus up in science, what is the simple machine consisting of a rod free at both ends and a steady object on which the rod like a lever which the rod rests?

Science bonus according to a 2022 study, almost half of the bald eagles and golden eagles in the U.S. showed signs of chronic lead poisoning from eating carcasses of animals killed by hunters.

What manmade items were the birds ingesting?

Bullets, right, for 20 points plus up in foreign language, what is the French word for yellow?

Nation.

Amarillo.

Knowledge.

You can steal Corbin.

Tim Runge no, it's John Giannini.

Toss up for our players in vocabulary.

What is the seven letter word beginning with P?

That means swearing under oath to something that is not true.

Sam.

Perjury.

Right?

Vocabulary bonus.

What bird can be used to describe the personal characteristics?

A vain, self-conscious, strutting person.

Yeah.

Peacock.

Right?

What small furry mammal can be used to describe the personal characteristics?

A sneaky and sly person or a cheat box?

Well, the cheat makes it a weasel more than a.

So we looking for that ten points on the bonus tossup in economics, what country is the world's largest producer of gold, platinum and chromium?

Ahmed.

South Africa correct economics bonus.

Which Scottish philosopher, who is considered the father of modern economics, is the author of The Wealth of Nations and Adam Smith is right for 20.

Toss up in geology what activity forms gremlins, whiskers and hanging valleys, Russian glaciers moving.

Yeah, and in geology.

Bonus the exterior of the east and west buildings of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. are clad in what distinctive material known by three words that identify our state, its color, and the common term for the crystalline limestone in our area.

Yeah, maybe the pink.

Yeah, pink Tennessee marble is yeah, it's Tennessee pink marble.

But those are the three words.

We'll take it 20 points.

Toss up in algebra.

Give both solutions in the equation x squared equals 25 x.

Well x equals five and negative five.

Not it.

You can still latent x equals 0 in 25.

That's right.

bonus.

Now give two solutions for x in the equation x squared plus 15 equals eight x.

So they need three and the five and three I think x squared plus 28 plus answer x equals root seven and minus root seven.

I was just looking for x equals five and x equals three.

Oh I got no points there.

Toss that for all players in architecture.

What is the name of Thomas Jefferson's home in Virginia.

Well Monticello is right.

And an architecture bonus take a look at the screens.

Corbin.

What style of architecture that included gargoyles, vaulted ceilings and pointed arches was prevalent in Europe from the late 12th to the 16th century.

Gothic is right for 20 plus up in spelling something that is extremely funny.

It's called hilarious spell Almon h I l a r I o us is hilarious.

Spelling is your bonus spell.

The seven letter word beginning with a that refers to one who engages in pursuit of something on an unpaid level.

Immature immature immature immature.

Yeah a m a t e u r is the correct spelling for immature 20 points.

Tossup in geography, in which world capital is Westminster Abbey located Sam London, right.

And a geography bonus named four of the eight U.S. states that have a panhandle.

Voting Oklahoma.

Tennessee.

West Virginia, Florida, Oklahoma.

Kentucky.

West Virginia.

Three of those are right.

We've got Alaska, Florida, Idaho, Maryland, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, and West Virginia.

So that's 15 points on the bonus tossup.

Now in health, one of the translations of what pledge contains the phrase Russian Hippocratic Oath.

I will abstain from all intentional wrongdoing and harm.

Health is your bonus.

Farragut.

What large muscle that lies on the front of the upper arm, between the shoulder and the elbow, is used when lifting dumbbells.

Bicep.

Bicep is right for 20 tossup.

Now, in astronomy, what area of the moon was the landing site for Apollo 11?

Lunar Hudson Sea of Tranquility module and an astronomy bonus for Corbin.

What is the name of the spacecraft that experienced malfunctioning thrusters and leaking helium on its journey into orbit in June 2024, forcing two NASA astronauts to remain on the International Space Station until February 2025.

Artemus.

That was the Boeing Starliner.

What company sent a spacecraft with two crew members and two empty seats to the International Space Station to rescue the stranded astronauts, but space X is right.

Ten points on the bonus tossup in literature.

Who was the author of War and Peace?

Sam Tolstoy write literature bonus.

Which book in the Lord of the rings trilogy begins when Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bang End announced that he would be shortly celebrating his 71st birthday.

The fellowship of the ring.

Jump ring.

Ship of the ring.

Fellowship of the ring.

Yes.

And who is the author of the trilogy?

J.R.R.

Tolkien also write 20 on the bonus tossup in U.S. history.

Where did the Wright brothers fly their first powered Sam North Carolina powered plane anymore?

Kitty Hawk, yes, and a history bonus.

In 1861, which Colonel and West Point graduate turned down the offer to command the Union Army's Clint lately Lee.

Yes.

And which states secession from the Union on April 17th, 1861, caused Lee to resign from the Union Army in Virginia.

Also write 20 plus up in science.

What is the property of fluids that causes them to resist flowing Russian viscosity?

Correct science bonus what temperature in Celsius is equal to a normal human body temperature of 98.6°F?

37.

I think that's 3737 is right for 20 plus up in math.

What is the difference when $12.43 is subtracted from $20?

Hudson 757.

Correct.

And a math bonus.

Emily purchased a skirt on sale for $16.

The regular price was $20.

What was the discount rate on the skirt?

20%.

20%.

Also right 20 points.

Tossup in games.

What video game character enjoys eating power pellets while evading ghosts?

Will Pac-Man, Blinky, Pinky and Inky and so on.

Games bonus now in what video game series by Rovio Entertainment does a flock of colorful creatures try to save their eggs from green colored pigs?

Angry birds is right for 20 plus seven vocabulary.

How many issues per year does a bi monthly magazine publish?

Sam 24.

Not it.

You can steal Farragut Harmony six.

Correct vocabulary bonus what ten letter word beginning with L is a description of someone who is full of trivial conversation.

No, don't I don't know review.

I don't know I wasn't fair, no ends, no answer that is loquacious.

Toss up in government.

Which cabinet position is fourth in the presidential line of succession after the vice president, speaker of the House and president pro tem.

Secretary of state.

I didn't call on you all the way.

Stand still.

Calling will.

Secretary of State is right.

And the government bonus.

What words are represented by the letters?

ICC, which is an intergovernmental organization with I defer to slam International Circuit Court.

What's international criminal court?

So I can't give it to you.

And I was going to ask you where it was located.

But that is the end of the game.

I don't think those last 20 points were enough to to save you, though.

Although you did make a great run in our second half of play.

Thank you very much, Corbin.

We do appreciate you guys coming all the way.

And I know you compete in other tournaments around the region.

Two we're very thankful to have you in ours.

Meanwhile, Farragut, congratulations.

You're going now.

Advance to the round of the Educated eight.

You've done real well in the tournament so far.

We look forward to seeing you again on Scholar's Bowl.

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