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

I'm Frank Murphy.

This is our 41st season of the academic tournament, with teams from all over the region competing for the Frank Miller Memorial Trophy and a cash prize.

We are in the third round, the round of the smart 16.

And today the winner will be Elon Stem Academy, because two teams from that school have advanced this far in our tournament, they had to each win multiple times to get here.

So let's get started by meeting one of the teams from Elon, the one, on my left, that's Harshita Nagar is first up this high here she.

You're in 11th grade.

What else is new with you?

Not much else.

I'm still camping, like I was last time I was.

Where is your camp?

Remind me.

I've been to Indian Boundary, and we camp a lot at, where we meet.

It's a church.

Yeah.

So we just camp around in that area as well.

That's very nice as that.

With scouting or what else it is.

What?

Scouting?

Yes.

I'm good.

Okay.

And we've got Manaf Nigar, who is in ninth grade.

Any relation?

Oh, yeah.

What about you?

And what do you like to do?

I also like, camping, and I'm in Boy Scouts.

Where do you go camping?

We we go to, the Great Smoky Mountains and, the National Forest and North Carolina.

Oh, cool.

All right.

I hope you had a great experience there.

Good team captain is Cameron Marshall, so I'll refer to you guys as Cameron's team.

Cameron, you're gonna answer bonuses on behalf of the squad or defer by name to a teammate.

What do you do?

I'm doing model you in an ethics bowl right now.

Okay, so model U.N., usually you represent an issue or a country, is that right?

Yes.

What have you represented?

Right now, I am the UK and Security Council, and, I'll be talking about the conflict in Sudan.

Is that rotated for different times?

I mean, do you play like UK right now?

But earlier in the year you were somebody else.

Yeah.

Last meeting I was Russia.

Okay, interesting.

I was wondering how that rotated through.

And let's say also hi to Timothy Powers in ninth grade.

Hey Timothy.

Welcome back.

Tell us about yourself.

I'm still playing piano and cello.

Okay.

Which do you prefer?

Piano.

And remind me of some of the, the great compositions that you're able to play without looking down.

Beethoven sonata.

Pathetic first.

Oh, that's fantastic.

All right, I'll have to look that one up, because I'm sure I like it.

He's.

I think Beethoven is probably my favorite composer.

Based on the symphonies alone.

Let's say hi to the alternates and coach for Ellen Stem Academy, starting with Stuart Wang, Isabella Harmsworth and Tiger Cheng, joined by coach Glenn Arnold, who teaches chemistry to the Griffins at and taking on a squad from Ellen Stem Academy.

Some familiar faces on this side of the dais to, let's say hi first to junior Chloe Kemper.

Hey, Chloe.

Welcome back.

Tell us about yourself.

Hi.

I'm in for H, and I like to travel.

where have you been that you haven't told us about yet?

I've been to Paris and Rome.

Those are big ones.

Yes, that's.

That's the top of a lot of people's bucket list.

What's the most unusual place you visited?

I really enjoyed going to the Dominican Republic because I got to pet a dolphin.

Okay, well, that that is a great a great response.

Yeah.

Let's say hi to Charles Roberts, who's also a junior.

What about you, Charles?

Well, I personally don't really like traveling too much, but contrary to what?

That, exactly the opposite.

I like staying home.

And what do you do at home?

I typically play video games or listen to, good war stories.

Cool.

All right.

Let's say hi to team captain Jordan Lyons or for you guys as Jordan's team and Jordan, you'll answer bonuses or defer.

What about yourself?

I like playing chess and coding.

You're a senior this year.

Yeah.

And where do you go to play chess?

Is it something you can do at school, or do you travel around?

I play a lot online because, oh, it's a big thing online.

You can play anywhere in the world that way.

Yeah.

Oh cool.

All right.

And then Blake Bishop is a junior.

What about you, Blake?

Hey, recently, I joined Elon's rock climbing team.

That's an indoor rock climbing team.

Yeah.

All right, they have a facility on campus.

Or do you have to go somewhere?

No, we go to on site.

So it's a nearby facility.

What's the thrill of it?

Is it the thrill when you finish it and you don't fall?

Where's the, the, the high that you get for climbing?

Completing a difficult wall is a great feeling, but also, it's kind of just fun to climb around, because that's not something that you're usually able to do.

Exactly.

All right.

Very cool.

And did they change the face of it and they move the rocks around.

How do they do that?

Occasionally they'll change the path thing like once a year.

Okay.

Let's say hi to the alternates and coach for this squad from and we've got Tony Elangovan, Dominic Player and Matty Everett.

And of course, Glenn Arnold is still with us as the coach of Elena and Stem Academy.

And congratulations, Glen, for getting two teams into our smart 16.

The winner advances to the round of the educated eight players.

You all one year right here.

You know how it works.

Fingers on the buzzer for this third round game.

This smart 16 round game of Tennessee Scholar's Bowl 2025.

First toss up in the category of literature.

In which literary anthology did Rudyard Kipling introduce?

The mongoose character Rikki Tikki Tavi?

Jordan, the Jungle Book correct.

And a literature bonus.

What are the four styles of writing for essays?

For rhetorical analysis?

What rhetorical analysis?

Argumentative.

Answer.

Rhetorical analysis.

Argumentative, informative and narrative.

Well, those I had narrative on my list.

Let the judges decide that narrative descriptive persuasive which they might give you an expository So I'll give you one on that five points toss up for all players in geography.

The Erie Canal runs from Lake Erie to what?

River Jordan, the Hudson.

Correct.

And a geography bonus.

Which great lake is the smallest by surface area?

I don't think it's Ontario.

Erie.

That's Lake Ontario, which great Lake is smallest by volume.

Then maybe.

Maybe Erie.

Yes, it is Lake Erie.

Ten points.

Tossup in geology.

What?

Nine letter word beginning with P means the study of rocks.

And when got that it's petrology tossup for all players in math.

What is the probability of tossing tails three consecutive times with a fair coin?

Jordan one and eight.

Yes.

Right.

And a visual bonus.

Now take a look at the screens.

What is the measure?

In degrees of each interior and exterior angle of a convex regular hexagon.

Answer.

Interior is 120 and exterior is 240, while interior is 120 is correct.

You get ten points for that, but the exterior is 60.

Tossup for all players in music who composed the ballet.

The Nutcracker, Timothy Tchaikovsky correct.

And the music bonus.

What is the musical term for a difference in pitch between two tones?

For two Timothy.

Diminuendo.

That's an interval.

What is the interval in the key of C major between D and G?

And you answer the first Timothy major fourth.

Well, it's a perfect fourth so I can't give that to you.

Next toss up is in spelling destruction or slaughter on a mass scale here Sheila d e s t r u c t I o n. Well, that may be good, but let me read the question or the question for the others.

Team destruction or slaughter on a mass scale is a Holocaust spelled holocaust.

Charles h o l o c a u s t correct and a spelling bonus spell a seven letter word that means very strange or unusual, especially so as to cause interest or amusement.

Peculiar.

Peculiar.

I think of answer PCULIR1 hundred.

I didn't count the letters on that one.

I was looking for.

Bizarre.

How about this spell?

A six letter word for a marketplace consisting of multiple small stalls or shops, especially in the Middle East.

Are you?

Bazaar is how you spell the other kind of bazaar.

Right.

So ten points tossup in government.

What is an early release of a prisoner before the completion of a sentence on the promise?

General.

Right.

And make sure calling all the way promise of good behavior, government bonus.

What are the four officer ranks between first lieutenant and brigadier general in the US Army?

A colonel is the last one a British answer?

Captain?

Colonel.

Then on any others, those are both right.

It is captain, then major, then lieutenant colonel, then colonel.

So ten points.

Toss up in biology, where in a tree does photosynthesis occur?

Timothy the leaf.

Correct.

In a biology bonus noun two parts.

What popular ornamental tree that blooms early in the spring with white flowers, followed by bad smelling berries, is included on the Invasive Plants of Tennessee list, which recommends removing the tree and its roots.

Blossom.

That's called a Bradford pear, named one of the five native species of trees suggested by the Nashville Tree Conservation Corps as a replacement for a Bradford pear tree.

Pine.

No.

They recommend dogwood or service berry, redbud, American plum or cherry, plus a for all players in architecture, what is a facade in architecture?

In front of a building?

Yes.

The outside walls are front and the architectural bonus.

Now, in 2024, tension arose between France and Italy about who owns and should maintain a staircase located in Rome, but built with French funds in 1726.

That is the longest and widest staircase in Europe and is known by what name?

The grand staircase.

It's called the Spanish Steps, which is strange because France and Italy are fighting over it.

Toss up foreign players in foreign language.

What is the French word for April?

Anything of real?

Yes, and a foreign language.

Bonus.

What is the English translation of the Spanish phrase?

Seem to run de seguridad?

See you tomorrow.

It's actually just your seatbelt.

No points on the bonus tossup in English.

Correct the following sentence if necessary.

Megan and him went to the park.

Cameron.

He and Megan went to the park.

Okay.

They're going to accept that.

And the English bonus.

What is the verb tense in the following sentence?

It had been snowing all week past him.

Past participle.

It's a past perfect continuous, so no points on the bonus plus up in U.S. history in September 1975, which U.S. president survived two assassination attempts by women at Cameron?

Gerald Ford is right, and the history bonus, which two expansion trails of the 1800s led west out of Saint Louis, Missouri.

Oregon Trail.

Oregon Trail and the Santa Fe Trail are both right for 20 plus up in astronomy.

What is the name of the single point of light that we see as the North Star?

That is actually a triple star?

Jordan Polaris triple star system.

Yeah, with three stars orbiting a common center.

Astronomy is your bonus.

Which constellation represents a winged horse?

Pegasus is right for 20 Plus that for all players in art.

Who painted the mural The Last Supper?

Jordan.

Leonardo da Vinci.

Yes.

In an art visual bonus.

Take a look at screens, please.

What is the title of the famous French painting shown here, in which Jacques-Louis David use the neoclassical style to depict a scene from a contemporary event?

The 1793 assassination of a revolutionary leader off of Morocco.

Because that's the guy at the guy who died.

Death of Maria.

Yeah.

That's it.

In fact, I think it says so on the bottom of the screen, if you look closely.

20 points.

That's up in literature.

What?

Children's picture book by Chris Van Ellsberg tells of a boy's travels to Santa's workshop on Christmas Eve.

Chloe.

The Polar express correct.

And the literature bonus now.

What is the title of the musical theater adaptation of Pygmalion?

Any ideas?

Because.

Answer.

No.

Answer.

That is My Fair Lady.

In Greek mythology, Pygmalion falls in love with what?

Maybe it's reflection.

Different, dude.

His reflection actually falls in love with one of the sculptures that he made named Galatea.

Toss up in economics.

What is the unit of currency used in Australia and New Zealand?

Jordan.

Dollar.

Yes, and an economics bonus.

What is an economic system based on supply and demand with little or no government control?

Free enterprise.

You know, free market is.

We'll take that.

And what is the term for money that can be invested in business?

Capital is correct.

20 points.

Toss up in science.

What is the term for the parts of a machine that hold or guide moving parts to reduce friction, and where to allow the rotating and sliding parts to move more smoothly.

Jordan gears at it.

You can steal Camerons steam enough lubricant.

No, it's the ball bearings.

Is that so?

No points on that one is the end of the first half.

Jordan's team versus Cameron's team.

One of these two will advance to our educator Day.

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

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 this third round game, this smart 16 round game between two teams from Elon Stem Academy in downtown Knoxville.

Right now, Cameron's team is behind Jordan's team.

But it's a whole new ball game because they have literally brought all of the alternates into the game.

So we've got all new faces except for the team captains.

You're not allowed to swap out captains and Scholar's Bowl.

Let's say hi first to sophomore Stuart Wang who is on the Cameron team.

Stuart, welcome.

Tell us about yourself.

As of last time I was on here, just been coding in Python mainly because school and whatnot.

Yeah.

So you keep busy with school.

Is that your main focus then?

Yeah.

I hope you get good grades to show for it.

I do, yeah.

Naturally.

You're on scholarship ball.

Of course.

Let's say hi to Tiger Chang, who is a freshman this year.

Welcome, Tiger.

Welcome back.

We had you here last time Ellen and played, I believe.

Tell us about yourself.

I play clarinet for our school.

Is a concert band.

Do I remember correctly that I met your sister who plays Scholar's Bowl for a different school?

Yeah, she plays on the CMA team, which stands for Career Magnet Academy.

Okay.

Very nice.

Well, she didn't.

They mentioned you while.

Well, she was here.

So glad to have it.

Well, jump over Cameron, because you're still here and say hi to freshman Isabella Harmsworth.

Hey, Isabella, welcome back to the show.

Tell us about yourself.

I'm still really enjoying dance.

And you dance for go.

Contemporary dance works in studio arts for dancers.

Yeah, they have great productions all year long.

And I guess we saw each other at the Go gala back in November, which was nice.

I hope you enjoyed that party.

Good times.

Okay, on the other side, we also have three alternates.

Let's say hi first to sophomore today, Elangovan tonight.

Welcome back.

Tell us about you.

I'm a part of our school's rowing team.

Oh, and where do you do that?

On the Tennessee River some days.

But now we're in winter conditioning, so we.

Okay, sometimes they go out to Oak Ridge and compete out there, too.

Oh, good.

All right.

And then a sophomore, Dominic Polya, is back.

Hey, Dominic.

Welcome.

Tell us about you.

I like to draw sometimes my free time.

Okay.

Realistic looking stuff for fantastical, you know, imaginary things.

Realistic stuff, like, mostly objects I see, like.

All right, that takes a lot more into me.

It's much harder to draw something that looks real than something that looks fake.

Yeah, let's say hi to Matty Everett, who's a freshman.

Welcome back.

Matty, what about you?

I also like to draw.

Oh.

Are you better than than Dominic?

Probably.

Oh come on.

Okay.

What do you draw?

Ducks.

Just ducks.

Yes.

Realistic.

What's realistic looking ducks makes okay.

Because if this is a hard to draw right.

Yeah a little bit okay.

All right.

Well, well maybe you'll show us a picture.

And I hope you're with us for many more years.

But think about that next year or whenever.

Bring us back a picture of a duck and Dominic.

You too, Sam.

All for a plus.

And if any of y'all draw on the other side, bring it, bring it.

We'll see it all.

All right, let's get our fingers back on the buzzer for Tennessee scholar's Bowl 2025 toss up for all players in chemistry.

What chemical element has the symbol HG?

Atomic.

Mercury.

Yes.

And a chemistry bonus.

Recent studies show that Americans are exposed to toxic BPA levels 5000 times higher than what the European Union considers safe.

BPA is produced by the condensation of phenol, and what organic compound with the formula C3, H6.

Oh, I think that's done.

I think so ecosystem.

Acetone is right for 20 points.

Toss up in religion.

What eight letter term beginning with O is used to describe a person who accepts and closely follows the traditional beliefs and customs of a religion.

That would be someone who is orthodox.

Toss up in vocabulary what nine letter word beginning with F means courage in pain or adversity ten A fearless knowledge.

You can steal cameras, team.

That is fortitude.

Toss up in history which Mexican general and his army were defeated at San Jacinto.

Santa Ana.

Yeah.

On April 21st, 1836.

World history bonus.

Who was the Russian mystic who was killed in 1916 by Russian nobles eager to end his influence over the royal family.

ESPN is right for 20 plus up in chemistry.

What is the odorless gas?

C two, H six.

Stuart.

Fine.

Yeah.

And a chemistry bonus.

Now what is calcium electron configuration in exponential form.

One of the first Stuart one turns to two as to 2P632.

Is that it?

Yeah, I was waiting for three, P six for S2 at the end, so I can't give it to you.

Now, no points on the bonus tossup in math in the number 345,102, what place value does the digit four hold?

Jordan?

10,000.

Yes.

And a math bonus.

Now raise the expression quantity x plus two to the third power.

X plus.

It's three.

It's six.

It's an answer.

Defer to Dominic.

X cubed plus six x squared plus eight x plus eight.

Well it's plus 12 x plus eight.

So it was close but not quite.

It concept for all players in mythology.

What was the Roman equivalent of the mythological Greek goddess Aphrodite?

Dominic.

Venus?

Yes.

And a mythology bonus in Greek mythology.

Which king of Thebes unwittingly killed his father and married his mother?

Oedipus.

Oedipus is right for 20 tossup now in geography.

Which state capital is westernmost?

Jordan.

Juneau.

Norwich.

You can steal Cameron's team.

Cameron.

Honolulu.

Honolulu.

We'll take it.

And a visual bonus now for Cameron's team.

What mountain range shown here separates the Iberian Peninsula from the rest of Europe.

Guarantees?

Yes.

20 points.

Tossup in physics, on average.

How many minutes and seconds does it take for light to travel from the sun to the earth?

Hamlet at eight minutes, 36 seconds at it you can steal Elon.

Steal Jordan.

Dominic.

Eight minutes, 24 seconds.

Well, I need, eight minutes and 20s or eight minutes in 19, so I don't think we can do that.

One toss up in sports.

Which sport features skulls, strokes and slides.

Jordan.

Rowing?

Yes.

And a sports bonus.

Now What?

University of Iowa basketball player became the NCAA Division one all time leading scorer in 2024, before being drafted by the Indiana Fever.

Caitlin Clark is right for 20 points.

Tossup and arts what Louisiana born comedian and host of this past weekend podcast got his start on MTV's Road Rules and also won the title of fan favorite on Last Comic Standing.

Hammering Matt Rife know you can steal Jordan's team.

Nobody got that in time.

It's Theo Von toss up in vocabulary.

What eight letter noun starting with M means wearisome uniformity or lack of variety, tedious repetition and routine.

Dominic.

Monotonous, knowledge.

You can steal Cameron's team.

Isabella.

Monotony.

Yes.

And a vocabulary bonus.

Now what?

Ten letter word beginning with L is a commissioned naval officer and could also mean a deputy or substitute acting for a superior.

Lieutenant now spell lieutenant.

Pick catch up on the time left.

Answer.

Deferred.

Isabel.

L I u t e and a n t. Well, you missed an e there.

le EU, tna and t. Ten points on the bonus tossup in government.

Which amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees the rights of criminal defendants, including the right to a public trial.

Cameron.

Sixth amendment, and without unnecessary delay, and so on.

Government bonus named four of the six states that gained one or more congressional seats after the 2020 census.

Answer.

Nebraska.

Texas.

Arizona.

Minnesota.

Five points for Texas.

The others are Colorado, Florida, Montana, North Carolina, and Oregon.

It's a five on the bonus tossup in health.

Which of the following four words doesn't belong with the others?

Ulnar.

Triceps.

Biceps.

Deltoid.

Dominic.

Ulna.

Right.

That's a bone.

The others are muscles.

Health bonus.

Which branch of medicine deals with tumors and cancers in college biology, oncology ranks for 20 plus up in geometry.

Find the perimeter of a triangle with sides 24, 35 and 45m.

Stuart 104m.

Right, and a geometry bonus.

How many total degrees in the interior angles of a convex dodecahedron?

Is 12 times something.

I'm leaving.

Just go for like 1040.

I don't know it for you.

The third, Stuart 1040.

It's 1,800% for all players in miscellaneous.

What was the first toy to be advertised on television, with an ad aimed at children that showed consumers using their own Jordan slinky, using their own root vegetables as part of the toy chain's steel.

Cameron's team.

Member Barbie.

That was Mr.

Potato Head that made you use your own potato when I was a kid.

Tossup for all players in foreign language.

What is the Spanish word for shoes?

Dominic Zapata yes, in a foreign language.

Bonus for Ellen.

Take a look at screens.

According to French law, a store like the one shown here must make what on premises in order to carry the title of woolen jelly and paint it probably, Max to just touch champagne.

Now they have to make bread.

It's a type of bakery that makes bread toss up in geography, Halifax is the capital of which Canadian province?

Jordan, British Columbia, not it.

You can steal Cameron's team.

Cameron, Alberta.

No.

Nova Scotia.

Halifax is in toss up in chemistry.

What is the symbol for the element platinum.

Stuart.

Yes.

Chemistry.

Bonus.

What type of chemical bond is formed when electrons are completely transferred from one element to another?

Covalent.

No ionic or electro valent toss up in technology what device that forwards data packets between computer networks is used to connect Tiger a firewall used to connect a personal computer.

Dominic.

Router.

Yeah to the internet.

The service provider technology bonus.

Heretic, a movie starring Hugh Grant that was released in November 2024, included a message in the closing credits declaring that what type of technology was not used in the making of the film?

CGI, CGI actually, it was generative AI artificial intelligence they wanted to point out toss up in sports.

Who is the current commissioner of the National Football League?

Cameron Robert Goodell it's Roger Goodell.

So can't at the time is up.

So I can't even give Jordan's team a chance to steal their.

But I don't know that you needed it because if I'm not mistaken, Jordan's team has held on to win over a very good squad on the other side of the dais.

So first of all, thank you to Elon for putting multiple teams into the tournament.

Sorry that we won't see you guys on Cameron's team any longer, but Jordan's team, you will advance now to our round of the educated eight.

We do see you guys again on Scholar's Bowl real soon.

You can keep track of all of our episodes and all of our players by never missing an episode and watching every single day, or binge watching past seasons online using the PBS app.

My name is Frank Murphy.

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