Thank you for watching Tennessee Scholar's Bowl.

I'm Frank Murphy.

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

Today we have a second round game, a threshold, a 32 round game between Maryville High School and Webb School of Knoxville.

We'll see which of these teams will advance to the round of the smart 16.

Let's say hi to the players from Maryville, starting with 10th grader Peggy Chen.

Welcome, Peggy.

Tell us about yourself.

I'm in the Science Olympiad, and I'm also in the Key Club, so which is better?

Science Olympiad or Scholar's Bowl?

Scholar's bowl.

Thank you.

I know I'm leading the witness, but I appreciate the right answer.

Thank you very much.

Let's say hi to Leanne Wilson, who's in 10th grade.

What about you, Leanne?

I am in Science Bowl and I dance for the Appalachian Ballet Company.

Oh, fantastic.

So we think of Nutcracker as the big production.

But have you done any other classic ballets as well?

Later this year, we'll be doing Swan Lake.

Oh, fantastic.

Let's say hi to team captain Luna.

Vincent and Luna.

As a 10th grader and team captain, you're going to answer bonuses or defer by name to one of your teammates.

Tell us about you.

Hi.

I'm part of Maryville's swim team and model, model U.N. and Boeing.

The model, is the University of Michigan that have out there.

Yeah.

So what's your what do you represent in model UN?

In this upcoming conference, I'm representing Syria and, you what's your best event?

Someone was, I'd say the 100 breaststroke.

Fantastic.

All right.

That's a tricky one, because it's so easy to get dq'd.

And it's hard.

Yeah.

Let's say hi to Elizabeth Chamberlain, who's in 10th grade.

What about you, Elizabeth?

I am on the bowling team, and I volunteer my time as an assistant cheerleading coach.

Oh, outstanding.

All right.

That sounds like fun.

What was your high score?

Bowling was, not very hard, I think last year.

Okay.

Well, good.

We're happy to have you here.

Let's say hi to the alternate and coach for Maryville High School.

That is Adam Fuller, joined by coach Doctor Corey to hard to teach us physics.

And I'll point out that Merrillville put I think three teams into the tournament this year.

So you'll see them in your TV listings quite a bit this season, taking on a school that has put two teams into the tournament this year, that's Webb School of Knoxville.

Let's say hi to the returning players who won their way here.

Sam Kowalsky is a sophomore.

Hi, Sam.

Tell us about yourself.

Hello.

I'm Sam Kowalski, and my favorite Minecraft football college team is Michigan State.

And my favorite player is Quinn.

So Michigan State.

Yeah, it's, college football, but they're with Minecraft punts.

Oh, okay.

I thought it was maybe all cows.

That would be okay.

Fantastic.

Let's say hi to Jackson White, who's a senior this year.

What about you, Jackson?

My favorite Minecraft college football team is big state fair players.

Deebo Samuel.

Are these real?

I miss from the game.

They're really they're very very very okay big state.

How about, Penny Willoughby?

Who is team captain?

She'll answer bonuses or defer to a teammate.

And your senior this year.

But what about you?

My favorite Minecraft college football team is all new.

And my favorite players.

DK Metcalf.

So it's just cow puns.

It's a all that's that basically we're doing here is cowboys.

All right I love it.

Thank you very much.

And Stephen Cola it was a senior.

What about you.

My favorite Minecraft football team is villager tech okay.

And favorite player?

It's been a rough season.

Very good.

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

James Overall and Ridge Long and coach Jenny Fields, who teaches Latin.

We're also delighted to have a very special guest with us in the studio modeling the brand new Scholar's Bowl t shirt.

It is opera bass Allen Michael Jones, who has sung with Knoxville Opera, Atlanta Opera all over the world, the Dutch Opera.

And delighted to have your support.

Allen, Michael, thanks for stopping by to visit us on Scholar's Bowl.

All right, players, you all know how it works.

We've got tossups worth ten bonuses worth 20.

Get your fingers on the buzzer for this second round game of Tennessee's Scholar's Bowl 2025.

First toss up in the category of foreign language.

What is the literal translation of the name of the archipelago at the southern tip of South America known as Tierra del Fuego?

Sam.

Land of fire?

Yes, and a foreign language bonus.

Now named two of the European countries where Catalan is spoken in Spain, Portugal, Spain and Portugal.

Spain is right, but France, Andorra and Italy are the other three.

That's ten on the bonus tossup.

Now in literature.

Who is the author of the play Pygmalion?

Stephen Sophocles Norwich.

You can steal Marvel.

But you can't confer with each other on toss ups.

I'm looking for the, British version of George Bernard Shaw.

Toss up in vocabulary.

What term describes words of two languages that have almost the same spelling with the same meaning?

Sam.

Cognates.

Yes.

And a vocabulary bonus.

Now, Merriam-Webster's word of the year for 2023 was what, nine letter word beginning with a that means genuine, honest, true or real awesome I thought was.

Authentic.

Authentic is right for 20 plus up in physics, which branch of physics deals with the properties of light?

Sam optics, yes.

And a physics bonus named two of the three words represented by the variables in Ohm's law e equals I, r I current and resistance.

That's the I in the r and e is voltage.

That's 20 points.

Tossup for all players in geography.

Which state has the smallest land area?

Sam Rhode Island.

Right.

And a visual bonus.

Now for web.

Take a look at the screens please.

The flag shown here represents which Canadian province that is the country's most populous and borders four of the five Great Lakes, as well as the states of Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York.

Ontario is right for 20 plus up for everyone in art, which art movement lasted from 1600 to 1750 and included artists such as Bernini and Rembrandt.

Go ahead, Leon Burrows is right.

And an art bonus now, which artist pranked the art world when his balloon Girl was sold at auction in 2018, and was then partially destroyed by a shredder hidden inside the frame?

That I was a student.

Dancer.

I had a furtively in.

Da Vinci, it was Banksy.

Banksy's answer.

No points there.

Toss up in English.

He was as brave as a lion is an example of what type of figure?

Penny metaphor.

What type of figure?

Of speech?

Chance to feel.

The end simile is what it is, and English is your bonus with punctuation.

If necessary, spell the plural form of the last name Jackson, as in Happy Holidays from the Jackson's.

I, I defer fertile in Jack s o in apostrophe s. Well, it's a trick question to get you to not say apostrophe.

That's the possessive version.

The plural version has no apostrophe tossup for all players in math.

What is the equation for a line that crosses y axis at three with slope of one half penny, y equals one half x plus three.

Correct, and a math bonus.

Now two parts change three over 20 into a decimal five.

I the same .15.

Correct change 125 over 625 into a decimal point.

2.2 is right 20 points on the bonus tossup in chemistry.

methane file is added to what normally odorless mixture of methane and methane to provide its characteristic pungent scent.

Stephen.

Natural gas at the buzzer.

Yeah, and a chemistry bonus.

Now, what is the periodic trend that measures how much energy is required to remove an electron from an atom?

Negativity.

Electronegativity.

I was looking for ionization energy.

No points on the bonus tossup in U.S. history, also called Emancipation Day.

What is the holiday that Jackson Juneteenth commemorates?

The date in 1865 that enslaved people learn they were free and a history bonus.

Now two parts.

Who was president of the United States when Saturday Night Live first aired on October 11th, 1975.

Ford.

Ford is right, and which original SNL cast members ridicule of Gerald Ford as being accident prone may have affected the 1976 election?

Oh man, for sure.

Yeah, Ackroyd I don't know because he, I defer to Stephen Jay Leno.

It was Chevy Chase.

ten points on the bonus tossup.

Now, in technology, the keyboard shortcut control R is commonly used in web browsers to do what?

Any new tab?

No chance to steal Marvel lunar new window.

No, it's to reload the page that you're on.

No points there.

Toss up in spelling.

A meteorologist studies the weather spell.

Sam m e t e o r o l o g s t is right for meteorologist spelling bonus.

Now for web.

Saccharin means excessively sweet or sentimental spell.

Saccharin, I got it.

I heard Sam s a c c h a r I and he.

That's correct.

For 20 on the bonus toss up for everyone in literature.

In the Shakespeare play, who tells Julius Caesar to beware the Ides of March.

Jackson soothsayer.

Right.

Literature bonus for web.

In 2024, the Clarence Brown Theater presented a new musical titled Knoxville that was adapted from a novel by which author who was awarded a posthumous Pulitzer Prize in 1958.

I don't know Alex Haley, Alex Haley, that's James Agee.

And what is the title of Agee's Pulitzer winning novel that was also made into a 1963 movie titled All the Way Home?

No idea.

No answer.

That is a death in the family.

No points on the bonus tossup in science.

What is the science and art of extracting metals from their ores and modifying penny metallurgy?

The metals for use is metallurgy.

Science is your bonus.

Which metal is the primary component in the ore?

Galena.

Gallium.

Gallium.

That's actually lead.

Which metal is the primary component in the ore?

Hematite.

It's got to be iron.

Iron is right ten points on the bonus tossup in government.

Which document begins when in the course of human events, it's Jackson Declaration of Independence.

Correct.

And a visual bonus of both screens, please.

Who are the two elected officials shown here to represent Tennessee in the US Senate?

I'd for Jackson, Marsha Blackburn and Tim Burchett.

Marsha Blackburn gets ten points.

But the other guy is Bill Hagerty.

That's it for all players in music, which type of musical composition is characterized by the systematic imitation of one or more themes overlapping?

Many an arrangement.

No chance to steal.

Merrillville.

It's a fugue or a rondo.

Tossup in vocabulary.

What seven letter word starting with P means a hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases.

Sam.

Panacea.

Correct vocabulary bonus.

What seven letter word beginning with I means to cause something or someone to be alone or apart from others.

Isolate is right for 20 tossup in geometry, what is a line that intersects a circle in exactly one point?

Penning a tangent line right in the geometry.

Bonus two similar quadrilaterals, A and B, have perimeters of 30m and 45m, respectively.

What is the reduced scale factor comparing quadrilateral A to B 2.25 A 2.25m square?

reduced scale factor would be two thirds, so no points on that toss up.

In geology, what geological era means middle life and includes Sam Mesozoic?

Yeah.

Jurassic and Cretaceous.

And as geology bonus.

Now what stone is said to have been given to Abraham by Gabriel and kept in the Kaaba in Mecca.

Black stone.

The black stone is right for 20 tossup in economics.

What is the official currency in Egypt?

Stephen.

The rupee, not it.

You can still marvel.

It's the Egyptian pound tossup in religion.

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

Minister, prelate, parishioner, pontiff.

Pontiff.

Norwich.

You can steal Jackson.

Parishioner.

Yeah, because others are clergy and parishioners, not religion.

Bonus.

Now what is an Indian religion that traces its spiritual ideas and history through the succession of 24 supreme preachers of Dharma and the three main pillars translating to nonviolence, not absolutism and asceticism.

Sure, Buddhism, that is, Jainism or Jain dharma.

No points on the bonus toss up.

In mythology.

In Norse mythology, who were the female figures who served Odin and guided the souls of dead warriors to Valhalla?

Liam.

Valkyrie, right, and a mythology bonus for Merrillville.

What day of the week is named for Frigga, the Norse goddess of marital love and the hearth?

Friday is right 20 points.

Tossup in geography.

What is Australia's largest city?

It's m Sydney.

Yes, and a bonus in geography in 2020, for which two European countries discussed a change to their border that had been determined by glacier ridge lines in an area near the Matterhorn.

Martyrs of Italy, such Switzerland and Italy are both right for 20 tossup in health.

What is the branch of medicine devoted to the care of the muscular and skeletal systems?

Penny?

Orthopedics, yes, and a health bonus.

Histology, also known as microscopic anatomy, is a branch of biology concerned with the what for blood.

Well, no, it's the tissues and cells.

It's histology.

So no points on the bonus as you're trying to run up the score against a good squad from Maryville.

It's got to get a little faster on the buzzer in our second half.

We'll see if, how that affects and which of these two teams will go on to the smart 16 coming up after the break.

Tennessee Scholar's Bowl 2025.

You're watching Tennessee Scholar's Bowl I'm Frank Murphy back from halftime.

In this second round game.

This threshold of 32 round game between Maryville High School and Webb School of Knoxville.

Right now Maryville is getting beaten to the buzzer by a team from Webb.

But both squads have brought alternates into the game.

So anything can happen in our second half.

Let's say hi to the alternate for Maryville.

That is 10th grader Adam Fowler.

High Adam welcome.

Tell us about yourself.

I'm in the Maryville High School marching band, and last year I made All-State as a freshman and, Maryville High School marching, concert band.

Well, congratulations on that.

What's your instrument?

Clarinet.

Really the best instrument of them all.

Absolutely.

No, no.

Oh, really?

What is your.

What would you say is better than clarinet, brother quarter would be.

Okay, well, I didn't see that coming, but it's, it's got a long, ancient history, so I have to let go.

I agree with you on that.

Let's say hi to the alternates for web, starting with Ridge Long, who's a senior this year.

What about you, Ridge?

Hi.

My name is Richard Long, and my favorite Minecraft Football League team is Pig State.

My favorite player is Stefon Diggs.

So that's two on your team who are going for Pig State.

So you can get together and discuss I'm sure and also James Overall joins us another senior.

What about you James?

Hey, I'm actually a big fan of Michigan, with J.J. McCarthy.

Yeah, solid player right there.

So Michigan is this good, right?

All right, I love it.

Fantastic.

Let's get back to it and see which of you will advance to the smart 16.

Fingers on the buzzer for Tennessee Scholar's Bowl 2025 tournament for all players in world history.

Who was Lord Protector of England from 1653 to 16?

Penny.

Now 1653 to 1658.

After the defeat of King Charles the First, she blurted out chance to steal Merrillville win Charlemagne.

That was Oliver Cromwell.

No points there.

Toss up in games.

What is the classic game of strategic naval combat that involves two players?

Penny battleship and searching for the opponent's fleet, and a games bonus for web two parts?

What is a dice game made by Hasbro, with the objective to score points by rolling five dice up to three times per turn to make certain combinations.

Yahtzee is right now, what is the highest Yahtzee score attainable under standard rules?

Well, you can roll Infinite Yahtzee, right?

2500.

It's a 1575 points tossup in foreign language.

How many basic pitched tones does Mandarin Chinese have a penny for?

Correct in a foreign language?

Bonus.

What is the Spanish translation of more coffee, please?

Most cafe por favor.

Most cafe por favor.

That's right.

For 20 plus up in math, if you drive 48mph for 15 minutes.

How far have you, Sam?

12 miles.

Right.

What a visual bonus for web.

Look at the screens, please.

What is the correct change from a $100 bill for a meal costing $75.53?

2447.

That's right.

For 20 points, toss up in astronomy launched by the Soviet Union in 1957, what was the world's first penny?

Sputnik memorial one world's first artificial satellite and astronomy is your bonus.

A taco, not is an astronaut.

From what country?

Take Taiwan 80.

To Italy.

I take a wrong answer.

Italy.

It's actually China, so no points on the bonus tossup and government.

What general name is given to people who are already in office and sometimes running for reelection?

Sam.

Incumbent yes.

And a government bonus.

Give the modern names of four of the 12 Tennessee counties that comprised the state of Franklin.

Knox.

State of Frank.

Franklin.

Right.

So in the Franklin Knox, once of your, I don't know, Franklin Knox.

Blunt, severe.

You get five points for blunt and five for severe, but actually, it's not Knox.

It's almost everything to the northeast of Knox.

It's blunt car.

Campbell and Jefferson.

Severe.

Unicoi.

Carter.

Green.

Hawkins.

Johnson, Sullivan and Washington.

So ten points on the bonus tossup in miscellaneous.

Garmin, Tomtom and Magellan all make devices that use penny watch.

What type of technology chance to steal Merrillville.

Luna.

Think clock.

No, they are brands tossup in literature.

Which French author created the character Jean Valjean?

Victor Hugo correct and a literature bonus.

Which Irish author wrote Dracula?

Mary Shelley?

No, no.

She was very good at.

I defer to Ridge.

Bram Stoker, correct for ten.

Which Irish author wrote The Chronicles of Narnia?

Yes.

C.S.

Lewis C.S.

Lewis also write 20.

In the bonus tossup in architecture, what is a parallel building element used to support a floor or ceiling?

Elizabeth a column that you can steal.

Penny pillar I'm looking for joist on that toss up in biology.

What type of farming depends on natural substances rather than synthetic materials to fertilize soil?

Organic.

I blurt out the person's calling on your chance to steal Maryville blooming Organic.

Yes, organic farm and biology bonus.

Now, two parts derived from the old French word for apple.

What is the four letter word meaning?

A type of fruit produced by flowering plants, including apples, pears and quinces.

Any.

Answer I defer to liane citrus.

It's pom pom in Roman mythology, who was the goddess of fruitful abundance?

Luna.

Stephanie.

Pomona.

So it's kind of a variation on that toss up.

In geography, 55% of the population of Indonesia lives on which island?

Penny?

Sumatra.

Not it.

You can steal Merrillville.

The island is Java.

Toss it for everyone in sports.

What part of the backboard does an air ball touch?

Penny?

None.

Correct.

And a visual bonus for web.

Look at the screens, please.

Who is the seven foot seven inches tall Romanian former NBA player shown here, who is one of the two tallest players in NBA history, is a Jokic.

Whatever.

You have no idea who told you.

I have no idea.

I can't hear you.

Your future Serbian I preferred orange Dirk Nowitzki.

That was George Morrison maybe Gaylord Morrison toss up in vocabulary.

Resignation is to office as abdication is to Sam throne.

Right.

And a vocabulary bonus.

What four letter word ending in X means a mineral variety of agate and precious stones, Onyx, rock for ten.

What four letter word ending an X means a medium sized wild cat with a short tail.

I defer to Sam to Lynx.

Yes 20 points.

Tossup.

In algebra, what type of polynomial is x to the third flower?

Sam.

Cubic.

Yeah, X to the third power plus four x is a cubic polynomial and an algebra bonus.

Solve the equation two thirds x plus y equals two for x.

If the value of y is 14.

X equals -18.

-18 is right 20 points.

Tossup.

In science, what unit is commonly used to measure the energy value of a food?

James.

Calorie yeah a science bonus.

Now What is the Si unit of amount of substance?

Ram mole.

Mole rat for ten.

What is the Si unit of measurement for temperature?

Kelvin.

Kelvin.

Kelvin anymore?

Degrees Kelvin.

Right.

For 20 tossup in U.S. history in February 1870, who became the first African-American to serve in the U.S. Congress?

Any Booker T Washington?

No chance.

Still, Merrillville.

That's Hiram Rhodes.

Rebels.

No points there.

Toss up in foreign language.

What is the German translation for?

Good morning, Sam.

Guten tag.

Norwich.

You can steal Maribel, Luna and Morgan.

Yes, in a foreign language.

Bonus.

What Latin phrase is used in English to say something is done to a sickening degree?

Answer I defer to liane.

Oh, I ran out of time there ad nauseum to the point of nausea.

Toss up in English.

What eight letter word beginning with a is a synonym for proponent Sam advocate.

Yes.

And an English bonus.

Now using alliteration.

What two animals could each complete the idiom as busy as a beaver?

Yeah.

Being beaver.

Both right for 20 tossup in music.

What billionaire singer songwriter has had number one hits with Anti-Hero and cruel Summer?

James Taylor Swift and a music bonus now for Webb.

Which English singer songwriter was cleared of copyright infringement when a New York jury declared he didn't steal key components of Marvin Gaye's 1973 song Let's Get It On.

When creating his 2014 hit Thinking Out Loud.

Ed Sheeran right for 20 plus up in Health and What speed do x rays travel?

James?

Speed of light correct and health bonus what words do the letters in the term MRI represent?

Magnetic, rotational image.

Magnetic rotational energy right?

Mirror image, magnetic rotational imagery.

Well, it's magnetic resonance imaging.

So I don't think we can give it to you.

Toss up in geography.

What is the name of the wind belts that are located just north and south of the equator?

Loon at the buzzer.

The Pacific wind power.

Not it, but gives you a chance to steal.

No web sheet, but some time rich Gulf Stream.

Now, those are the trade winds.

No points.

Toss up in arts.

In the 1960s, the co-founder of the children's Television Workshop asked what puppeteer to create a family of characters to populate Sesame Street.

Bridge.

Jim Henson.

Yeah, and an arts bonus.

Now, what is the English translation of the Latin phrase Ars Grazia artists that appears surrounding the lion's head in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios?

Logo art for the sake of art.

That's right.

For 20 tossup in literature, the Iliad tells the story of which war win the Trojan War, correct in a literature bonus.

What influential American writer who would go on to write Cat's Cradle and Breakfast of Champions received Army training at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in 1943.

Answer why it's Kurt Vonnegut.

Tell me.

After being captured during the battle of the bulge, Vonnegut was imprisoned in an underground meat locker in Dresden, which was the inspiration for which of his novels.

The Cat's Cradle that one is Slaughterhouse-Five.

No points on that toss up for all players in pre-calculus.

What is the measure in degrees of the angle in radians of seven pi over six?

Sam 210 degrees is correct, and that is the end of the games.

We don't need to go on to the bonus there.

So congratulations, Webb.

Meanwhile, Maryville, thank you so much for putting three teams into the tournament.

And you are all new players.

So yeah, a little trial by fire there, but I now you're going to come back stronger than ever next year.

So thank you for being here.

And congratulations to your school and your coach for being so supportive of scholars.

Bill, we appreciate that.

Meanwhile, Webb, congratulations, you now will advance to the round of the smart 16. Who knows who you might be playing in the next round, but I know that whoever sent many teams to the smart 16 in the past.

So we'll see if it plays out again like it has in the past with you guys.

So congratulations.

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

Meanwhile, you can keep track of all of our teams, all of our players by never missing an episode, binge watching past seasons online to study the answers like they do on the PBS app.

My name is Frank Murphy.

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