Thank you for watching Tennessee Scholar's Bowl.

I'm Frank Murphy.

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

We are in the second round, the threshold of 32.

And today's game is between Dobyns Bennett High School of Kingsport and Cedar Springs Home School of Knoxville.

These teams had to win their way here.

We've got some very good players.

I'm expecting an exciting match.

Let's get started right away by saying hi to the team from Dobyns Bennett, beginning with 10th grader Payton Morlock.

Hey, Payton.

Welcome back.

Tell us about yourself.

Thank you.

I was going to wear a tux today, but my mom didn't let me.

And she would have been so nice and so formal.

Maybe if you win again.

I mean, no, I don't want to jinx the other side, but I know somebody.

If you don't win, give it to the tuxedo to one the other kids, they can, let's say hi to a 10th grader.

Mullen.

Mike Mullen, welcome back.

What about yourself?

I would like to say that I'm a little disappointed in Emory for not wearing black today.

Oh, everyone.

Oh, well, here's my gray.

So that's not black enough, obviously.

Right.

So it was a plan move.

Interesting.

I didn't realize it was coordinated.

Okay.

All right.

Well, what are you going to do about it?

I guess we'll have to win.

And he'll have to wear black next time.

Okay.

Team captain is Aisha Katari, who is in 11th grade.

Aisha, as team captain, you'll answer bonuses or defer.

What about yourself?

I have a total of 36 different stickers on my laptop at home.

Why?

Well, I've started collecting, like, Stem and technology related stickers, and there's not a better place to put tech related stickers than on my computer.

Okay?

And it doesn't affect the performance.

No.

All right.

Good.

Although I'm running out of room, so then I might have to put up places that might affect the performance.

I think that's an excuse to get a new computer.

Don't put them across the keyboard.

That would be terrible.

Let's say hi to 11th grader Emery Korp Stein.

Hey, Emery.

Welcome back.

Tell us about you.

Hello.

It by the fence.

I would like to say that gray is just a shade of black with some added white in there.

All right, when you're not, darken the others.

So I think, you're on Team Payton, then?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Okay.

Well, good.

All right.

Glad to hear you've got the, the camaraderie there.

Let's say hi to the alternates and coach for Dobbins.

Bennett first is Derek Winsome in and then Quinn better joined by coach Joshua French who teaches AP Human geography and U.S. history at DB, taking on an excellent team from Cedar Springs Home School.

Let's say hi first to 10th grader Maggie Wood.

Hey, Maggie, welcome back.

Tell us about you.

I like writing and I like playing piano.

What genre of writing?

What style of music?

I really like writing historical fiction, and my favorite genres of music are probably classical and jazz.

Maybe you can put some classical music into your historical fiction.

Maybe.

I know I'll tie it all up in a nice little bow.

Very good.

Leo Messenger is in 11th grade.

What about yourself, Leo?

I'm currently learning some computer programing, and I recently forged something for my Halloween costume.

Oh, because you're a blacksmith.

What did you make?

Shepherd's hook.

I probably made it too long.

It was, like, eight feet long, which made it hard to, like, maneuver through hallways and stuff.

But, hey, it was worth it in the end.

Pretty impressive.

You know, if you're playing like a wizard type character, that's pretty good.

All right.

Team captain for Cedar Springs is 12th grader Kathryn Eastwood.

So you'll answer bonuses or defer.

Kathryn, what about you?

I really like to crochet.

What have you made crochet wise?

I've made a couple hats and gloves, and then a little scarf.

What's the biggest thing you might ever want to crochet?

I mean, what's, definitely a sweater.

Okay, good.

All right.

You can start working on that and then wear it, to college next year.

Good.

Let's say hi to ninth grader Wyatt Wood.

Hey, Wyatt.

Welcome.

Thank you.

So, over the summer, I went to the Appalachian Stem Academy, and I got to see the fastest supercomputer in the world, Oak Ridge National labs.

Oh, that's a big deal.

I won't ask you for any more, because that could turn up as a question.

The show, without you knowing it.

But that's fascinating.

Excellent.

All right, that's a b.

Sounds like a big deal.

Let's say out of the coaches for Cedar Springs homeschool, we've got Meryl VanderMeer and Liz Jones.

And thanks as always for both teams being here today.

Some excellent players.

Get your fingers on the buzzer everybody for this second round game.

This threshold of 32 round game of Tennessee Scholar's Bowl 2025.

First toss up in the category of economics.

What is the job title of a person who serves customers at a bank counter?

Leo Teller yes, and in economics, bonus what product or service uses the slogan Capture and Share the World's moments is a Facebook mini.

Facebook that one's Instagram.

What product or service uses the slogan make every second count?

Maybe like tick tock, tick tock is right ten points plus up in health.

Which system of the body collects, processes and acts on information?

We are the brand.

Now that you can steal TV Asia nervous system.

Yeah, more than just the brain.

The whole nervous system.

Health bonus for young siblings, including an 11 month old, survived in the Amazon jungle for 40 days after a plane crash in 2023.

In which country that has coastlines on both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

Oh, it's it's Colombia.

Colombia is correct for 20 plus up in English.

What five letter word beginning with I describes phrases such as memory, idiom.

Make the batter change your mind.

English bonus.

What is the nine letter psychology term beginning with the letter I for quick impulsive thought that does not make use of formal logic or clear reasoning.

Both of you.

Impulsive, that is intuition.

No points on the bonus toss in arts.

What 2005 movie was directed by Tim Burton and starred Johnny Depp.

Catherine, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory as a retiring owner of a confection company.

Arts bonus take a look at the screens.

Cedar Springs which actor director, who was one of the film industry's most important figures, is seen here as the character the tramp in the silent film The Kid.

Charlie Chaplin is correct for ten.

The kid who we just saw was played by Jackie Coogan, who later played Uncle Fester on what TV series?

Pretty much The Brady Bunch.

That would be amazing.

It was the The Addams Family, a toss up for all players in biology.

What is the process by which different kinds of living organisms developed and diversified from earlier forms during the history of the Earth?

Leo.

Evolution, right.

And a biology bonus named the only two types of eagles that breed in the United States bald and gold.

The bald and the gold eagle.

Well, definitely bald, but gold in is the other one.

So at least ten, maybe 20.

Toss up in U.S. history.

Which U.S. Army general accepted the Japanese surrender in 1945?

MacArthur.

Yeah, it's aboard the Missouri.

And a history bonus.

what was Woodrow Wilson's first name?

Thomas.

Yes.

Answer.

Thomas.

Correct for ten.

What was Richard M Nixon's middle name?

Milhouse.

Milhouse is right.

20 on the bonus tossup.

Now, in math, what is the square root of 256?

Emory 16.

Right?

Math is your bonus.

The diagonals of a rhombus are 12 and 16in.

What is the perimeter of the rhombus?

12.

Oh, I don't I don't know.

Answer 40 is right.

20 points.

Tossup in literature.

Who is actually the central character in Shakespeare's Nation?

Brutus, Julius Caesar.

You've heard that question before, I guess.

Literature bonus.

Which Shakespearean play contains the line all the world's a stage.

The world's most answer Romeo and Juliet as you like it.

Which Shakespearean play contains the line, now is the winter of our discontent.

And despair.

Answer.

Oh, winter's tale.

That one is Richard the Third.

No points on the bonus tossup in foreign language.

What is the three word Latin phrase used in commencement programs?

Meaning with highest praise.

Maggie Loud, Norwich.

You can steal TV.

Aisha.

Summa cum laude is right.

Foreign language is your bonus.

Translate risk reward unpacking from Latin to English.

Risk rescue.

Rest in peace.

Rest in peace is right 20 points.

Tossup.

In physics, which force of energy is possessed by an object that is currently at rest?

Potential.

Right.

And a physics bonus.

What?

21 year old inventor patented his dissector tube in 1927 and then designed and built the world's first working all electronic television system television.

Best equipment wasn't it?

My answer.

Tesla, that is Farnsworth pilot Farnsworth.

No points on the bonus toss up in geography.

In which city is the Wailing Wall?

That's from Berlin.

Norwich.

You can still dub it Asian.

They can't look at each other at all on toss ups.

That's the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem.

No points on that toss up in religion.

Which Puritan theologian delivered the influential fire and brimstone sermon?

Kathryn Jonathan Edwards sinners in the hands of an Angry God and a bonus for Cedar Springs in 2024, a statue of what North Carolina native, who was a Baptist minister and internationally known evangelist, was added to the National Statuary Hall Collection in the US Capitol.

Is it military?

Billy Graham is correct for 20 plus up in vocabulary.

What is a ten letter adjective beginning with the letter M?

That means excessively careful of small and minor details.

Kathryn.

Meticulous is correct.

Vocabulary bonus.

What 11 letter word beginning with G comes from the title of a 1944 movie and is defined as psychological manipulation, causing the victim to question their perception of reality.

Gaslighting is the right answer.

20 points toss up in music.

Which of handle's oratorios includes the Hallelujah Chorus, Catherine, a messiah, and a music bonus named The Broadway Musical, with the songs Castle on a Cloud and Bring Him Home.

Prince of Egypt.

That One Is Lame is a lab, namely Broadway musical with the songs Grizabella and Memory.

Oh, Cats is right for ten tossup in chemistry, what is the process which breaks down glucose and other sugars that release energy without using memory?

Photosynthesis without using oxygen?

Chance to steal Cedar Springs.

Maggie.

The Calvin cycle that's a fermentation toss up in government.

What is the legal process by which a person becomes a citizen of another country?

At some time?

Catherine.

Naturalization sometime after birth is right a visual bonus.

Take a look at the screens, please.

The Bosporus Strait shown here is a naturally formed waterway that connects the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara and serves as the border between which two continents, continents, Europe and Asia is right for 20 points.

Tossup.

Now, in geometry, what is the next term of the sequence?

One eight, 27 Emery 64. right.

Bonus.

Now in geometry based on angles, what type of triangle do the sides six, eight and 11 represent?

Obtuse sides answer scalene.

That's obtuse based on angles.

What type of triangle do the signs five, seven, and nine represent?

A cube on six based on signs equals b some angles.

Acute answer acute is right ten points on the bonus tossup.

In spelling, spell the word fluorescent as in a fluorescent memory f l u o r e s c e n t as a lamp, right?

And a spelling bonus.

Now spell the ten letter word that begins with b u, meaning an official in a government department particular one being perceived as concerned with procedural correctness at the expense of people's needs.

I'll defer to you.

Okay, that sounds great.

Okay.

Defer to Emery.

B u r e a u cratty a bureaucrat is spelled that way.

20 points.

Tossup.

Now in miscellaneous.

Which American law man and gambler in Dodge City and tombstone was the last surviving participant of the gunfight at the okay corral.

What patent bingo holiday?

Not him.

You can steal Cedar Springs.

Wyatt.

Wyatt Earp is the right answer and a bonus in miscellaneous.

Who was the legendary gambler who died holding eights and aces, and which became known as the dead man's hand?

Al Capone.

That was wild Bill Hickok in what Old West Town was wild.

Bill shot and killed tombstone.

Sure.

Tombstone.

That was Deadwood, South Dakota.

No points on the bonus tossup in biology.

Which vitamin is produced when skin is exposed to sunlight?

Maggie.

Vitamin D correct?

In a biology bonus, what type of skeletons do earthworms and jellyfish have?

Skeleton hydro skeleton for ten.

What type of skeleton do lobsters and crabs have?

Exoskeletons also write 20 on the bonus plus up in history which South American country was ruled by Francisco Pizarro and his brothers from 1531 to 1547?

Catherine Olivia Norwich.

You can still be, but you can't look at each other no matter what.

That's at your side there.

Peru is the answer.

Toss up an architecture.

Which monument located alongside the Tidal Basin in Washington, D.C., and honoring the founding Father, Catherine.

The Washington Monument, that it has design partially inspired by the honorees own design for the rotunda at the bizarre Mellon, Jefferson Memorial.

And we'll see if they give that to you right at the buzzer.

That is the right answer.

But it's very close and exciting game between Dobbins, Bennett and Cedar Springs.

One of these two teams will advance to our round of the smart 16.

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

Tennessee Scholar's Bowl 2025.

You're watching Tennessee Scholar's Bowl I'm Frank Murphy back from halftime in an exciting in fact, a tie game between Dobbins Bennett High School of Kingsport and Cedar Springs home School of Knoxville.

We just went over the tiebreaker rules during halftime because any one of these teams could win and advance to the round of the smart 16.

We're currently in the threshold of 32 diamonds.

Bennett has brought one of their alternates into the game.

Let's say hi to 10th grader Quinn Vetter.

Hey, Quinn, welcome to the show.

Tell us about yourself.

I'm on the lacrosse team at DB.

Are you any good?

I like to think I'm pretty decent.

And did they deliberately swap you in because you're wearing a black shirt?

That's kind of the plan.

All right.

Meanwhile, Cedar Springs has got the starting lineup still in the game.

All right, everybody kidding aside, let's get back to it.

Fingers on the buzzer for the second round game of Tennessee scholar's Bowl, 2025 toss up for all players in literature.

Who is the author of The Catcher in the Rye?

A story about Kathryn J.D.

Salinger, about Holden Caulfield.

Literature.

Bonus, which of Jack Kerouac's novels chronicle a journey across America?

I'm gonna go.

Like Morgan train the Oregon Trail.

It's called on the road.

No points on the bonus toss up in sports.

What is the national summer sport of Canada?

Kathryn.

Volleyball.

Now that you can steal TV.

Yeah.

Rugby.

No.

It's lacrosse.

Pass up for all players in health.

Which structure in the eyeball contains the photo receptors in the retina?

Yes.

Health bonus.

Name the four bones in a human leg.

Venus, if you let tibia and femur tabula femur.

Foot.

Tibia, tibia.

And to answer feet.

Defer to Emery.

Fibula.

Femur.

Tibia and fibula.

femur and fibula are right.

so that's ten points there.

But it's the femur, the patella, the tibia and fibula.

I think you're ten on the bonus there.

Toss up in economics, which suffragette was featured on the 1979 U.S.?

Maggie Susan B Anthony scholar.

Coin economics bonus.

What country's official currency is the Zeta?

Zimbabwe.

No, wait.

No, it's maybe like Zambia or something.

What was that?

Uganda.

It's actually Poland.

Tossup for all players.

Now, in math, 72 is 25% of what number is 288.

Correct visual bonus in math.

Look at the screens.

D.B., how much simple interest can you earn by investing $4,000 at 12% for six months?

Sure.

Think of this country.

I feel like I've seen this in my answer.

Defer to Emory 300.

It's $240.

Toss up for all players in mythology.

Who was the mythological Roman god of fire, including the fire of Emory, of faces, no chance.

The.

The fire of volcanoes, deserts, metalworking.

In the forge, Leo Falcon has the blacksmith answers that correct most correctly.

Two part mythology bonus for Cedar Springs.

According to the acts of the apostles, when Paul and Barnabas healed a crippled man in Lystra, the crowd mistakenly called Barnabas by the name of what king of them?

It's a logical Greek, God's.

Yeah.

Zeus.

Correct.

Because he was the chief speaker.

They called Paul by the name of what?

Mythological messenger of the Greek gods?

Apollo.

That one is Hermes.

Ten points.

Toss up in foreign language.

What was the writing system used in the ancient Middle East, consisting of cuneiform form of wedge shaped symbols and a foreign language?

Bonus.

How is the Canadian national motto?

Amharic Amari, Husky admiral, expressed in English.

Answer.

Defer to Emory.

Glory to the Queen.

It means from sea to sea.

Tell me how that Canadian national motto is expressed in French?

CDC yeah.

Defer to Emory.

La mer.

Er, it's actually doing ocean a little, which is from one ocean to the other.

Toss up in geology what branch of science deals with the physical and biological properties and phenomena of the sea?

Melon.

Oceanography.

Right.

And a geology bonus.

What extremely porous volcanic rock can float on water and is often used as an abrasive.

Thomas, I think I know how to pronounce it.

Defer to Mulan.

Pumice.

Right.

For 2017.

Geography.

In which state does the Potomac River have its origins?

Emory, a West Virginia right.

Geography bonus.

In what state is the Citadel located in South Carolina?

Carolina.

South Carolina.

Correct.

In what state is Purdue University located in Indiana?

Philip.

It's Indiana.

Indiana is right.

Also 20 points, seven sports.

The Slammy Awards have been presented periodically to athletes such as Roman Reigns and Drew McIntyre.

In what sport?

Kathryn.

Wrestling and more WWE wrestling.

Yeah, professional wrestling is right.

And a sports bonus now for Cedar Springs, one of the top trending Halloween costumes on Google's 2020 for Fright Ghost Guide was a green and yellow hat, shirt and pants like the outfit worn by Rachel Louise Gunn, also known as Raygun, when she represented which country in the Olympics?

Australia correct for ten.

In which sport did Raygun compete in?

Breakdancing?

Also right for 20.

Toss up in English.

What is the term for a word that indicates the location or direction of something?

Milan.

Preposition.

Chance to steal Cedar Springs.

Catherine.

Noun she was right preposition, but didn't get to it right away, so no points on that up in art which Spanish surrealist painted the persistence, ambition, Salvador Dali persistence of memory and watches melting, and so on.

What type of art is a sculptural method in which these sculpted pieces are bonded to a solid background of the same material, to give the impression that the sculpted material has been raised above the background plane relief is right for 20 plus up in biology.

Chinook, coho, chum, sockeye, and pink are five species of what raith and fish found.

Emery trout found in North American waters chance to steal Cedar Springs thunder.

Sorry, but you can't speak or talk to each other.

Unfortunately, salmon would have been the right answer.

U.S. history is the toss up.

What name was given to President Franklin Roosevelt's collection of political and economic policies aimed at resolving Quinn?

Fireside chats aimed at resolving the crises of the 1930s.

Chance to steal Wyatt, the New Deal.

Yes.

History bonus.

The City of Oak Ridge was created to house what aspect of the Manhattan Project nuclear weapons defer to Maggie, the atomic bomb, specifically uranium enrichment.

Its role in World War II.

Who earned Oak Ridge what nickname?

Secret City.

The secret city?

Ten points on the bonus tossup in pre-calculus.

What is the tangent of 90 degrees?

Catherine zero knowledge.

You can still issue undefined is the right answer and free calculus bonus which famous mathematicians name is attached to?

The rule of sines or any polynomial equation.

Both sides are.

Oh wait, Euclid, did you?

Sure.

Euclid.

That is.

Descartes no points on that toss up.

Now in literature, what epic poem ends with Hector's funeral?

Emery?

The Iliad is right.

And a visual bonus now for Thomas Bennett.

Look at the screens, please.

Using either the past, past or past said, spell the word that correctly fills the blank in this sentence shown here.

I sent them a sympathy card when their grandmother, blank Pierce, died last.

Pierce City.

Yeah, Perseid is the right answer for 20 plus up in technology.

Who is credited with inventing the Kinetoscope, a forerunner of the motion picture film projector?

Wyatt Thomas Edison, right, and a technology bonus in the distribution of podcasts, blog posts and other website updates.

What words to the letters RSS represent?

Radios?

Oh, I'm not sure.

Radio self-supporting.

Radio cell supply.

It's really simple.

Syndication.

No points on the bonus toss up in chemistry.

What principal states that we cannot know both the position and speed?

Emery, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle of a particle, and so on.

Chemistry bonus.

Now, what is the chemical formula for propane?

It's a safety lesson c3, c3, h8 correct for 20 tossup.

In geography, Caracas is the capital of what country?

Emery?

Morocco?

Not it.

You can steal Cedar Springs.

By it.

Mozambique.

Caracas is in Venezuela.

Toss up in health.

The word gustatory refers to which, since Catherine taste.

Yes.

And a health bonus.

In 2022, Texas sued Google for capturing data of Texans without their consent, including what type of data that includes voice prints and face geometry.

What?

Personal data.

It's called biometrics up for everybody in vocabulary.

What is the 14 letter word for a person who is 70 to 79?

Septuagenarian is right.

Vocabulary bonus.

What's the word for a female fox?

Oh it's okay.

Yeah, it's fiction Vixen.

And what is the term for a male duck?

All right.

Yes, it's a drinks.

Oh, wait.

No answer.

Drake is right.

20 in the bonus tossup in music, what is the fewest number of notes required to form a chord?

Maggie to Norwich.

You can still audition for no.

Three is the answer tossup in science.

Which astronomical event cannot last longer than seven minutes?

32 m3 a black hole seven minutes 32 seconds.

Catherine.

An eclipse?

Yeah, solar eclipse is the right answer.

As time runs out.

Not enough for Cedar Springs, although we were so close and such evenly matched teams got out buzzed a little bit there by has been, first of all, Cedar Springs.

What a delight to have guys on the show.

In fact, you have two teams in the competition again this year.

Congratulations on that.

We appreciate that level of support.

And if you're underclassmen, we'll see you all again next year.

Meanwhile Dobbins Bennett congratulations.

You're coming back.

You're advance now to the round of the smart 16 someplace that D.B.

has been before.

You guys have multiple teams in the tournament.

Two this year, right?

I forgot to mention that.

So we appreciate that.

To keep track of all of our games, all of our players.

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