Thank you for watching.

Tennessee scholar's bowl I'm Frank Murphy.

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

Today, we have not just two cross-town rivals, but two cross campus rivals.

It's Webb School of Knoxville playing their two teams against each other again this year.

In the round of the smart 16.

The winner, one of these two teams will advance to the round of the Educated eight.

So we've got pennies team and Daisy's team.

Let's say hi first to the folks on Penny's side.

That's.

First up is Sam Kowalski, who is a sophomore.

Hey, Sam, tell us something about yourself.

Hello.

My name is Sam Kowalski, and I am highly impressed by Alex Collins.

Incredible standardized testing scores and proficiency in mechanical engineering.

Oh.

All right.

All I can say is very impressive in college ball, too.

Yes.

Nice.

All right.

Jackson White is a senior this year.

What about yourself, Jackson?

Object smart.

And I'm impressed by Nolan Humphrey's ability to know more geography about Europe and America.

Wow.

So you know a lot about the othe Team captain for Penny's team is Penny.

Penny Willoughby.

So, Penny, you're going to answer bonuses or defer by name to one of the guys on either side of you.

Tell us about yourself, your senior, and what else?

Yeah, my name is Penny, and Daisy Howard is the Livvy Dunn to my baby.

Gronk.

Okay, you might have to, like, write that out so you can put it into the captions later.

So I'm going to note for the folks at home that explain what that means.

Then also we've got Stephen Koehler who is a senior.

Welcome back Stephen, tell us about yourself.

I would just like to say Alexandra is the best sot.

Oh my gosh, Stephen, the best lab student this side of the Mississippi.

The best Latin student student.

Okay, that's Fenton's it's a little bit tongue twister, really.

It turns out that's Latin student this side of the Mississippi.

Yeah, that's not easy to say, but I'll use it in my warmups from now on.

Let's say hi to the alternates for Penny's team.

We've got James Overall and Ridge Long.

And they are joined, of course, by coach Jenny Fields who teaches Latin.

And she would know how good of a Latin student Alexandra is.

Well, I suppose let's say hi to Daisy's team, starting with the aforementioned Nolan Humphrey, who is a junior.

Welcome, Nolan.

What about yourself?

I am impressed by, Jackson's, ability to know, more about sports than everybody else on the team combined.

Okay, on both teams, in fact.

So it's not a evenly spread out information.

I see he's hoarding it all.

We've also got Alexander Mirage knockoff.

Alexander.

Welcome back.

Tell us about you.

Hi, I'm Alexandra.

I think it should be noted that Stephen is the most enthusiastic calculus student on the side of the Mississippi.

Oh, really?

Are there other equally, excited to people on the west side of the Mississippi that you've met?

Well, I can't imagine it because Stephen really has that.

So why don't we just make you the best Latin student, the country and make him the best calculus dude in the country?

Why do we have to.

Why limit.

Why are we limiting it?

Okay.

Fair enough.

Team captain for this squad is Daisy Howard, who is a senior Daisy.

Welcome back.

You'll answer bonuses or defer.

What about yourself?

Well, Penny is the Alice Cullen to my Bella Swan.

Okay.

What is that, a Twilight reference?

I don't even know where it is.

Okay.

At least I was close.

I had to figure out something there.

Very nice.

And then Alex Callanan is here.

He's a junior this year.

Alex.

Welcome back.

What about yourself?

I'd like to say that, Sam is he will run out of math.

Math classes to take before he finishes high school.

Oh, really?

Okay, so any more, any more math for Sam?

All right.

Well, good.

Maybe you can work up some new problems for him to practice at home.

Let's say hi to the alternates for Daisy's team.

That is Isaac Lowry and Kaiser Ramji.

And once again, Jenny Fields, who is still teaching Latin with the other set of alternates.

All right.

You had to win twice to get here.

You both did.

And you know how it works.

We got toss ups worth ten bonuses worth 20.

Get your fingers on the buzzer for this.

Webb versus Webb.

This smart 16 round game of Tennessee scholar's Bowl 2025 toss up for all players.

In literature.

Snead ville is the setting for a film, Penny The Lorax, based on which 1971 Doctor Seuss book Literature Bonus which series of books includes the characters name fedora, Tonks and peeves Harry Potter, and who wrote the Ramona Quimby series of children's books?

Beverly Cleary Beverly Cleary, both right for 20 points.

Toss up in history during World War two, what computer scientist played a crucial role in Allen turning, not a crucial role in cracking intercepted, coded messages that enabled the allies to defeat the axis powers in many crucial engagements.

Jim Steele, Daisy's team is the Navajo code talkers.

Now it's Alan Turing.

He had an Mr. by one letter tossup for all players in chemistry.

18 karat gold.

Contains what?

Percentage of pure gold?

Nolan?

60%.

Know that you can steal pennies.

Team Penny 80%.

It's only 75% plus up in algebra.

What type of polynomial is three x squared plus four x plus six penny?

A quadratic right and an algebra bonus.

What is the sum of the square root of 48 and square root of 27?

In simplified radical form?

Okay, so what did they say 48 and 27?

Seven root 373.

That's right.

For 20 points plus up in foreign language what is the national language of Senegal Alex French is correct.

Foreign language bonus.

What is the French word for a pastry shop which is more specialized than a bakery?

Patisserie is right for 20 tossup in vocabulary.

What nine letter noun beginning with O means exclusion from a society or group.

Penny ostracism?

Yeah, by general consent and a vocabulary bonus.

What 12 letter word beginning with E is the antonym of understatement exaggeration.

Exaggeration is right now spell exaggeration.

I for Sam e x a g g e r a t I o n is right 20 on the bonus tossup in geography.

What is the name of the body of water that separates Spain from Africa?

Penny Straight of Gilbert Trier.

No chance.

Still, Nolan.

The Strait of Gibraltar is it?

And a geography bonus.

In which state is Devil's Tower National Monument?

Arizona.

Arizona.

That's in Wyoming.

In which state is the general Grant National Memorial?

Virginia.

Yeah.

Answer.

Pennsylvania.

Now, Grant's tomb is in New York.

Toss up in biology.

What type of animal has an exoskeleton ahead of thorax, sam, insect and an abdomen, and so on and so on.

And a visual bonus now for web.

What is the term for the insect shown here that is marked with nontoxic paint?

Maybe.

Maybe Queen bee.

Right.

And what is the 11 letter word beginning with S that is used by beekeepers to describe the replacement of an existing queen by her daughter, by their.

Certain, summation.

It's called supersede procedure.

So ten points on the bonus tossup in geology, what is the name of the widely used system to measure the strength of earthquakes that was introduced?

Alex?

The Richter scale.

The Richter scale?

Yeah.

Introduced in 1935.

Geology bonus.

In the next decade, NASA aims to mine resources on the moon, including which chemical element with the electron configuration argon for S2 three d6.

Okay, so.

Johnny.

Answer copper.

It's iron and no points on the bonus tossup in art.

Which artist who hosted the PBS television program the Joy of painting was recognizable?

Penny Bob Ross by his curly hair and happy little trees.

Art bonus now what French artist with a large following on social media teaches oil painting for beginners using the 19th century Italian method in a YouTube video with 3.8 million views, idea.

Mr. beast, you could guess his name is Florent Farge.

Toss up in English.

In binomial nomenclature, is the genus or species, or both or neither capitalized.

Sam.

The genus is right and actually the whole thing supposed to be in italics.

I learned English bonus.

Now what is the term for a word that introduces a dependent clause?

Subordinate conjunction, subordinating conjunction?

I defer to Sam.

Subordinating conjunction is right for 20 tossup in U.S. history.

How was the numerical order of the original 13 states?

Sam the order they ratified the Constitution determined right and a history bonus.

Which general was removed from command of the Army of the Potomac by President Lincoln in 1862, and then ran unsuccessfully against Lincoln in the 1864 presidential election.

McClellan.

Yes.

And McClellan commanded the Union forces on the bloodiest day in U.S. military history, during which battle, indeed.

Is right 20 points tossup in science.

What is the term for a material containing hydrocarbons such as coal, oil, or natural gas that is formed naturally?

Penny fossil fuel in the Earth's crust and a science bonus.

Now what temperature in Celsius is equal to 50°F?

Okay, two times.

I'm not going to get this entire answer.

120 it's only ten degrees Celsius.

Toss up in math.

What is the least common multiple of 12 and 18?

No one to know.

Just steal.

Penny.

Steve Stephen three, now 36, is the least common multiple toss up in religion.

What is the only miracle of Jesus that is recounted in all four gospels?

Sam feeding 5000 is correct and religion bonus.

What were the two sinful cities that God destroyed with fire and brimstone in the book of Genesis?

It's like Jericho in Nazareth or something, I don't know.

Jericho and Nazareth.

It was Sodom and Gomorrah.

No points on the bonus toss up in foreign language.

What is the Spanish word for Wednesday, Sam?

Miracles write in a foreign language.

Bonus.

Translate the French phrase junior pol par anglais into Spanish.

Oh, you're no espanol.

No, abla espanol.

Oh, it's no abla in glace.

Oh, no.

Oh!

My back!

Sorry, I, I said we couldn't speak English.

Neither one of those, toss up in government, a state law requires people using the waterways in Tennessee to wear a lifejacket.

If.

Under what age?

Stacy 12.

Yes.

That's right.

And a government bonus under which two presidents to the Indian Removal Act occur.

It was Jackson's.

Yes.

And Van Buren, maybe Jack Jackson, Martin Jackson and Van Buren both rank for 20 points.

Tossup.

In physics, what is an instrument that measures wind speed and wind pressure?

Alex.

Anemometer and a barometer.

I anemometer is what I needed there.

Yeah.

Ten points and a physics bonus.

Bring your whys.

Barry Barish and Kip Thorne were awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics for detecting what cosmological phenomenon that had been predicted about 100 years before by Albert Einstein.

Gravitational waves defer to Alex.

Gravitational waves is right for 20 plus up in geography, which landlocked South American country borders Chile and Brazil?

Daisy.

Bolivia, right?

Geography bonus in 2023, a Chinese dissident fled to South Korea by riding a jet ski approximately 200 miles across which body of water a yellow sea.

The Yellow Sea, is right for 20 tossup in music.

Who was the songwriter and lead singer of Queen's song Bohemian Rhapsody?

Daisy Freddie Mercury is right music bonus give the title of the classic country music song that begins Blame it All on my roots.

I showed up in boots Garth Brooks Friends of My Friends in Low Places is right.

Which country music superstar had an award winning hit with that song?

Garth Brooks is right 20 points.

Tossup in literature.

What is the title of the novel by John Green about a 16 year old girl with thyroid cancer?

Daisy.

Looking for Alaska knowledge?

You can steal Penny's team.

Penny me, Richard in The Dying Girl.

It's called the Fault in Our Stars.

Toss up in economics.

What is the official currency in Lebanon?

Nolan?

The pound anymore?

The Lebanese pound.

Right.

In an economics bonus, what company's logo of four interlocking rings symbolizes the 1932 merger of four previously independent German automobile manufacturers.

Audi is right for twang plus up in health.

What field of medicine deals with the use of medicines to prevent pain during surgery and other procedures?

Penny anesthesiology right.

Health bonus what is the large triangular bone at the base of the spine with a name derived from the Latin word for holy, possibly because of an ancient ancient belief that it would be indestructible after death, or that the soul resides.

Their thorax.

It's the sacrum.

Sacrum tossup.

In geometry, point B is located between points and.

See if ab equals nine and AC equals 31.

What is the length of E c?

Alexandra.

To 20.

Can't steal.

Sam 22 is right a visual bonus.

Take a look at the screens.

Solve the combined inequality 12 is less than six plus three is less than 30.

Describe the graph of the solution on a number line.

got it.

Defer to Sam two is less than x is less than four.

Oh two is less than x is less than eight.

And then we also needed the U to describe how it had open circles and shading and all that.

So we didn't get to that.

Unfortunately, as time ran out in the first half, web versus web, we know that web is going to win, but we don't know which side is going to win.

We'll find out after the break.

On Tennessee's Scholar's Bowl 2025.

You're watching Tennessee Scholars poll I'm Frank Murphy back from halftime in this third round game.

This smart 16 round game between the two squads from Webb School of Knoxville.

It's Penny's team versus Daisy's team.

And Penny has basically a one question edge right now at one toss up and one bonus lead over Daisy's squad.

Both of them have brought an alternate into the game.

We'll see which of them will advance to our round of the educated eight, but let's say hi first to senior James Overall on Penny's team.

Hey James, welcome back to the show.

Tell us about yourself.

Hey I'm James.

Overall I'd like to say, Kaiser on the other side is one of the best coders I've ever met.

Best coders.

Okay, nice.

Well, speaking of Kizer, let's that's a great way to introduce him on Daisy's team.

The alternate day brought into the game is sophomore Kaiser Ramsey.

He's Kaiser.

What about yourself?

Hi I'm Kaiser and I just want to say James is one of the best code teachers I've ever had.

Oh, so he says you're the best coder, and it's because you learned it from him.

Definitely.

Okay, so that was a backhanded compliment that James gave himself.

Okay.

I think I'm starting to see the dynamic here.

It's very well done, James.

Well played, well played.

All right, let's get one of you off here on your way to the educated eight.

Get your fingers on the buzzer for Tennessee Scholar's Bowl 2025.

Toss up in miscellaneous.

Which phobia is a fear of corpses?

Sam.

Necro phobia is right.

Miscellaneous is your bonus.

Which one of Tennessee's official state wildflowers that is also commonly known as the May pop or the Ocoee, derived its name from early Christian missionaries to South America, who saw parts of the flower as symbols of the crucifixion.

Iris.

Maybe Iris.

It's the passion flower.

Passion, love plus EP.

In games, the word checkmate in chess comes from the Persian phrase Penny the king is dead.

Sean Marcus translates to that games is your bonus.

What puzzle game has players complete lines of blocks by moving differently shaped pieces that descend onto the playing field, because Tetris is right for plenty.

Toss up in history.

What word beginning with the letter S is the formal term for the right to vote.

Sam suffrage is right, a visual bonus.

Now take a look at the screens.

In 2023, scholars trained AI algorithms to detect the presence of ink on virtually unwrapped CT images shown here of charred scrolls that were first discovered in 1752, in the ruins of Herculaneum, a small town in Naples that was destroyed in 79 AD by the eruption of what volcano?

Vesuvius.

Mount Vesuvius, that's right.

For 20 tossup.

In biology, the type of pet parakeet known as a budgie is native to what continent?

Daisy, Australia.

Right.

And a biology bonus.

In 2019, a trove of Aztec sacrifices were discovered in Mexico City, including the remains of an animal dressed as a warrior belonging to what species of large cat that was worshiped by the Aztecs, Incas and lions.

A jaguar right for 20.

Toss up in religion.

What is the title of the spiritual leader of a Jewish synagogue or temple?

Rabbi and a religious bonus in 2022.

Mummies with gold chips for tongues were discovered in Egypt.

Experts believe the chips were placed so the deceased could speak, to which ancient Egyptian god of the underworld abominable, Anubis.

When it was it on the road?

Anubis.

That was Osiris?

Toss up in architecture, what is the name of the crowning feature of a column?

Jackson Capital.

Yes.

And an architecture bonus.

What?

Modern Art Museum on the National Mall in Washington, DC is located in a unique cylindrical building with a sculpture garden.

Courts.

Museum.

Art.

I defer to Jackson.

Smithsonian Institute of Art.

That's the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.

No points.

Tossup in vocabulary.

What?

Eight letter word?

Beginning with R is a synonym for Germaine.

That word would have been relevant.

I mean, it is relevant.

Toss up in geography.

In which state does the snake River start before flowing through Idaho?

Daisy, Arizona.

Between Washington and Oregon.

Penny.

Oh.

Montana.

The snake River starts in Wyoming.

Toss up in astronomy, which type of telescope is used for examining the moon and other planets of the solar System?

Daisy lunar.

Now that you can steal Penny's team.

Any Hubble?

No.

A refracting telescope is the type toss up in pre-calculus.

What is the value of cosine 120 degrees in simplest form?

Sam.

Negative one over two.

Correct pre-calculus bonus.

What trigonometric function is the result of the quotient of cosine x divided by sine x cotangent x cotangent x. Cotangent x is right for 20.

Toss up in foreign language.

What is the Spanish word for Monday?

Daisy?

Luna?

I nodded, you can steal Jackson Lunas.

Yes, and a foreign language bonus.

Take a look at the screens, please.

Pennies, team translate the road sign reading man tenga sudah racha as shown here from Spanish to English sheep, right?

Just wait.

Keep her keep rain.

Keep right is correct for 20 tossup in spelling spell labyrinth Daisy l a b y r I n t h right for ten.

Spelling bonus.

Now ignominious means deserving or causing public disgrace or shame.

Spell ignominious.

I g n o n I n I owe you is right for 20 tossup in U.S. history.

Who was the English Quaker leader?

who oversaw the founding?

Daisy William Penn of Pennsylvania and U.S. history bonus Warren G. Harding's term as U.S. president was between that of which two other presidents.

I don't know.

Harding.

I want to say, was he the between the two?

Cleveland's, Cleveland and Monroe.

Now, he was between Woodrow Wilson and Calvin Coolidge.

No points on the bonus tossup in Science Express.

The number 30,000.

In scientific notation, Alex.

Three times ten to the third.

No chance to steal James three times ten to the fourth.

Is it?

Science is your bonus.

Exactly how many centimeters are in an inch?

2.5 for weight and then defer to me.

I defer to Sam 2.5 for correct.

How many ounces are in a quart?

16 in a pound is eight eight.

It's 32oz in a quart ten points.

Tossup in literature.

What Classic Chinese novel, published in the 16th century, features a monk's legendary travels with the Monkey King to James journey to the West?

Yeah, to retrieve sacred texts.

Literature.

Bonus, a British author's opinion column about her top ten favorite aunts in literature include what character?

Who is a sister to Lily Potter and who, along with her husband, allow Harry to live in the cupboard under the stairs for the first out of her sim?

Petunia Dursley.

Correct.

What is the name of Petunia son?

Who is Harry Potter's cousin?

Wait.

Don't be Dudley Dursley.

Also right, 20 points.

Tossup in sports.

What international sport?

Especially popular in India and other former cricket.

British colonies as wickets and so on.

Sports bonus in football.

What virtual marker separates the two teams at the beginning of each play?

Line of scrimmage.

Line of scrimmage.

And what term is used to describe a defensive player catching a pass intended for an interception?

Player reception.

Interception.

Both rank for 20 plus up in music, which style of music was composed mostly between 1600 and 1750?

Sam Baroque and a music bonus.

what word on a score instructs a string player to use their bow, as opposed to plucking the strings by hand.

Idea, but is to wait.

I know this one not on.

I don't know it does.

Do you?

Anyway?

I defer to James, staccato.

It's arco tossup in government.

What Latin word meaning, I forbid, is used to describe a government's rejection of a proposal.

Alex.

Veto.

Correct.

Government bonus.

What is the term for a symbol or words legally registered or established by use as representing a company or product?

Trademark?

Yes.

The United States Patent and Trademark Office is a federal agency.

Within what cabinet level Department.

Treasury.

Yeah, that sounds right.

Treasury.

No, it's Commerce, Department of Commerce.

Ten points tossup in biology.

What is the carbohydrate material in insect exoskeletons?

Alex.

Chitin.

Yes.

Biology.

Bonus.

Generations of Inuit hunters have hunted and consumed narwhals, which have skin.

That is an important source of what vitamin also found in citrus fruit.

Vitamin C right for 20 plus up in Math Express, in simplest form, one half raised to the negative for power.

Sam 16 right.

Math bonus the first two terms of an arithmetic sequence are 12 and seven.

Find the 10th term of the sequence okay 12.

I think it's -33, but just.

-33 is correct for 20 points.

Tossup in religion, what is the name of the group of Roman Catholic bishops and archbishops who advise the Pope and diocese who advise the Pope and elect new popes?

James.

The cardinals need more.

The cardinals of no, it's specifically the College of Cardinals.

That's a toss up in literature.

What was the name of Doctor Seuss's egg catching elephant, Alex Horton?

Correct literature bonus.

What children's novel includes the quote you don't have to live forever, you just have to live.

Harry Potter?

Maybe Harry Potter.

It's Tuck Everlasting who wrote Tuck Everlasting?

SC Hinton, that was Natalie Babbitt.

Toss up.

Now in geography, Winnipeg is the capital of which Canadian Penny?

Ontario.

Which Canadian province tends to steal disease?

TB Nolan Alberta.

That's Manitoba toss up in astronomy, how many times larger is the radius of the sun than that of the Earth?

Alex 1000 it.

You can steal.

Damn.

400.

It's 109 times larger.

Toss up in art in the peanuts comic strip and Charlie Brown cartoon specials, which character offers psychiatric help for a nickel?

James.

Lucy.

Right, aunt bonus.

In 2023, the town of Shrewsbury, England, displayed surrealist sculptures by what Spanish artist who is well known for his painting of softened, solid objects that was inspired by seeing a piece of runny Camembert cheese melting in the sun.

Wait, just Dali is right for 20 points tossup for all players in music who composed a collection of preludes and fugues known as the Well-Tempered Clavier.

James.

That's hard.

Not to, but that's the end of the game and the points wouldn't matter at that point.

Just like Whose Line Is it anyway?

But, Penny's team has run up the score a bit and gone on to win against a very good squad of Daisy and her classmates.

So congratulations, you guys.

We appreciate you being here.

I know you probably will come back when, your teammates are on so you can cheer them on.

We appreciate the support that Webb School gives us every year on Scholar's Bowl.

Meanwhile, Sam Jackson, Penny James, and, who's who's not here?

Stephen and Rich.

Congratulations.

You guys will advance to the round of the Educated Eights.

You live again to play another day, and we'll look forward to having you back on Scholar's Bowl.

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