Thank you for watching Tennessee Scholar's Bowl.

I'm Frank Murphy.

This is the academic tournament with teams from all over the region competing for the Frank Miller Memorial Trophy and a cash prize.

It's our 41st season on the air.

This is a second round game between Dobbins, Bennett High School of Kingsport and Scott County High School from Huntsville.

Let's say hi to the players from DB beginning with 10th grader Abdul Aleem Abdul, welcome back.

Good to see you.

Tell us about yourself.

And so I play bass and my favorite soccer player is Anthony your favorite soccer player.

Oh yeah is who Anthony.

Only three goals away from a hat trick.

Oh okay.

All right I just I should I know this player.

Yes.

What is the what's his team that he plays for.

Menu.

All right.

Well thank you I appreciate that.

And I don't know how many of the soccer players.

Let's say hi to Rishabh Day who is in 12th grade.

What about your shop?

I'm a senior now.

In the last time I did Scholar's Bowl I was a freshman.

So it's been a while since you've been.

It's been a while okay.

And how are you finding the experience now as a senior?

Just as fun as I remember.

Well, that's the right answer, because, you know, you said anything else?

We just edited it out.

Very good.

Let's say I had a 12th grader, Claire Lee, team captains.

You're gonna answer bonuses or defer by name to one of your teammates.

What about you, Claire?

I'm a drum major in our marching band and in the cat and dog debate.

I'm a dog person.

Okay, so what about a cake versus pie cake?

Oh.

Well, she has too much crust.

I think I would get dog and cake also on that.

It's a nice.

All right.

And, drum major means you get to boss people around.

Yeah, I try to.

And you do that here today to, You know how the blue.

That's all you work.

That's all you're doing?

Let's say it's 12th grader Michael Fanning.

Michael, hi.

Welcome back.

Tell us about yourself.

I like to, talk a lot.

So could you give us an example?

Perhaps?

I do speech and debate.

So, like, I talk a lot when I give my pieces.

Now, when you make a college decision, is that something that factors into it?

I went to a college that was known for its speech and debate team.

So I wonder if that's something that you would look into.

I'd like to continue it, but I just have to like, look into it.

Okay, great.

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

Bennett.

First up is Anton Pereira and Eli Garrett, joined by coach Joshua French, who teaches AP human geography and history at Dobbins.

Bennett taking on a very good squad from Scott County High School.

Let's say hi first to sophomore Jocelyn Floyd.

Welcome back.

Jocelyn, tell us about you.

I'm still a band kid.

A band kid, and remind me what instrument you play.

The piccolo.

Is that the best instrument?

I think so, okay.

Do you play it in the marching band or in the orchestra too?

Marching band.

And I also do concert season.

Oh, nice.

Okay, we've got Ryan Trosper is here.

She's a junior high.

Ryan, what about yourself?

Express convey to Netherlands, which means I speak a bit of Dutch.

Well, that's fancy.

I don't think I would have known that, except for the sprechen part.

I would have guessed good.

Or why?

Or how did you learn Dutch?

I really got into a music artist who speaks Dutch, and most of his songs are Dutch, so I just figured I'd learn Dutch so that anyone better we would have heard of in America.

His name is Yost Klein.

He got eliminated from Eurovision.

If anyone follows Eurovision.

Well, I remember when ABBA was on it.

That's what I love about me too.

All right, let's say I had a team captain, Brian Orrick, who is a senior.

Brian.

And answer bonuses or defer.

Tell us about yourself.

I'm still a Tennessee fan.

is it just football or is it all sports?

Oh, go balls and everything.

What did you do when the Vols won the baseball championship?

Well, I'm not really a baseball guy, but it was pretty cool.

I was pretty happy with the team.

I'm glad to hear that.

Let's say hi to freshman Haley Norris.

Hi, Haley.

Welcome.

What about you?

Still love snow globes?

And, are there any other precipitation related?

Is there a rain device?

Is there a, a sleet globe?

Anything else?

Just snow.

No.

Just no.

Just snow.

Oh, by all by itself.

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

First up is Naomi Napoli, Anna Bowling, Haley Butler and coach doctor Cindy Jeffers, who is the district RTI coordinator for Scott.

All right.

We got some very good players here today.

Let's see how this works out.

The winner will advance to the smart 16.

Let's get our fingers on the buzzer for the second round game of Tennessee's Scholars Bowl 2025.

Toss up for all players in foreign language.

Translate the question Como Toyama from Spanish to English.

Michael, what is your name?

That's right.

Foreign language bonus.

Now for DB.

Translate the Spanish phrase for lease compliance into French.

Everything has birthday bond anywhere.

Sir, I defer to rehab.

Bon anniversaire is right for 20.

Toss up in literature.

Which type of poem has 14 lines and a formal Jocelyn sonnet rhyming scheme.

Literature is your bonus.

Who wrote the poem Mending Wall?

Robert Frost wrote for ten.

Who wrote the poem?

Because I could not stop for death.

Dickinson.

Emily Dickinson.

Both write for 20 tossup in geometry, a triangles perimeter is 120 if its sides are in a four to 5 to 6 ratio, what is the length of the shortest side?

For sharp 24, not that you can steal, Scott.

Nobody got it in time.

32 is the answer.

Toss up in biology what carnivorous black and white mammal is in the genus or orcas?

Bartlett orca.

Yeah.

And a biology bonus.

What is the common name of the amber?

Mexican?

A salamander named after the Aztec god of fire and lightning that is a popular exotic pet salamander.

Heel monster.

I don't know, a gecko that's called an excellent old.

You can get ten points for spelling axolotl, I think, A x o OTL is right for ten points.

I do enjoy asking axolotl questions.

Geography is the tossup.

Which African country is closest to Antarctica?

I have to head South Africa.

Yes.

Visual bonus for DBE.

Look at the screens please.

The territorial flag shown here, representing what archipelago is the only one in the world that features a sinking ship.

Defender Abdul Bermuda is right for 20 points.

Tossup in art.

What American painter, who began her painting career at age 78, produced primitives of rural New England life and whose painting, titled 4th of July, was reproduced on a postage stamp in 1969.

Brian Georgia O'Keeffe, not it you can steal.

Clare Williams, That was grandma Moses toss up in vocabulary in the sentence you will rue the day you met me, Clare.

Regret what six letter word is the synonym of rue in a vocabulary bonus.

What 11 letter word beginning with C means a person with expert knowledge or discriminating taste, I'm assuming.

Yeah.

Kind of sewer.

Correct.

For ten.

A spell of sewer.

I don't know how to spell that.

I don't know how to spell it like that.

Answer.

I defer to Abdul.

A c o and n I se you are.

Now there's an o there in the middle c o n n. Oh, I see you are ten points on the bonus toss up in sports, what racket sport is played by hitting a shuttlecock across a net?

Michael?

Badminton?

Yeah, and a sports bonus for DB in 2024. Who became the first player in Major League Baseball history to hit 50 home runs and steal 50 bases in a single season.

Shohei I defer to Rishabh.

Shohei Ohtani correct for ten.

Ohtani plays for what team?

The dog.

Yeah Dodgers.

Dodgers is right for 20 points.

Toss up now in health in psychology.

What is the innate and typically fixed pattern of behavior in animals in response to certain stimuli Abdul.

Instinct correct health bonus known as the black death.

What type of plague wreaked havoc across Europe, Asia and North Africa in the 1300s?

Bubonic plague is right for 20.

Toss up now in economics, what is the currency of Japan?

Haley.

Yen.

Yes, I'm an economics bonus.

What is the official currency of South Korea?

Pound.

That's a one on.

What is the official currency of the South African Common Monetary Area.

That's why, doesn't that right?

Rupee.

That one is the rand.

Randy.

No points on the bonus tossup in sports.

How much does a regulation NCAA football weigh?

Rylan nonsense that it you can steal be rehab 14oz.

Yeah between 14 and 15 is right and a sports bonus.

What was the original name of the National Football League?

The American Football League.

American football League.

Well, it was the American Professional Football Association who was its first president.

Oh, almost dead.

Jim Thorpe.

No, no, it says Jim Thorpe is right for ten points on the bonus toss up.

Now, in English, what word is the antonym of divide?

Abdul?

Multiply knowledge.

You can steal.

Scott.

No, I was looking for a unite.

Divide and unite Toss up in math.

Walter rents a space for $250 a month.

How much is a year's rent, Michael?

30,000.

Yes.

And a visual bonus for TV.

Look at the screens.

Two angles are complementary.

One is 48 degrees less than the other angle.

Find both angle measures x plus x -49 to 22 times x -40.

So it's 6060 to 69 and 21.

And is it not 64 is not 69 to answer 16 and 64, 21 and 69 toss up for all players in chemistry, what is the particle that possesses only a fraction of the charge of an electron and seems to be a constituent of baryons and mesons?

Jocelyn A neutron, not it.

You can still dub a double neutrino.

I was looking for quark last up in U.S. history.

In which city did Martin Luther King deliver his I Have a Dream speech?

Michael Washington DC correct history bonus the Enron scandal, Hurricane Katrina, and the terrorist attack on 911 were major events during his administration, of which 21st century U.S. president and vice president George Bush and on to change Dick Cheney, George W Bush and Dick Cheney, both Ryan for 20 tossup now in arts.

What actor plays Doctor Strange in The Avenger movies?

Rishabh, Arthur or Benedict Arnold?

Not Jocelyn Benedict Cumberbatch yeah, Cumberbatch yeah, we'll take it.

Answers your bonus character actor Stanley Tucci is married to the sister of which actress who has played Mary Poppins and appeared in A Quiet Place and The Devil Wears Prada.

Meryl Streep doesn't that Jasmine Meryl Streep actually, it's Emily Blunt.

The movie A Quiet Place was directed by and also starred which actor?

Who is Emily Blunt's husband?

John Lynskey is right.

Ten points on the bonus tossup in literature.

What was the primary language of ancient Indian literature and Sanskrit?

Yes, literature.

Bonus what novel by Ray Bradbury takes place in a dystopian future where books have been outlawed and any that are found or burned by firemen high for 51, Bradbury meant for the title to refer to what is the temperature at which book books burn.

Yeah.

Which paper burns?

Yeah, I will take it.

20 points.

Tossup in biology.

What is the only bird that swims?

But does not fly?

Claire.

Penguin and a biology bonus.

In 2024, a nonprofit organization in Tanzania began training giant pouched rats to sniff out smuggled wildlife products, including the tusks and horns of which two species have large African pachyderms elephants and rhinos.

Those are both right for 20 tossup in astronomy, which is the dimmest of the zodiac constellations and has a name that is Latin for crab.

Haley cancer, right?

And an astronomy bonus in which constellation is the Lagoon Nebula?

Yes.

Try queries that Sagittarius.

In which constellation is the Ring Nebula?

Orion.

That one is Lyra.

There's no points there.

Toss up in geography.

What is the name of the chain of barrier islands that make up most of the North Carolina coastline?

For island ranks, right.

Geography.

Bonus name four of the six states that comprise the region of New England New Hampshire, new Jersey, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Delaware.

Well, I only need it.

You can only take your first four answers, all of which were correct Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont 20 points.

Tossup in music.

What kind of musical note is made up of a blackened circle attached to a vertical stem?

Abdul have no knowledge you can steal Jocelyn quarter correct.

Music bonus.

Who composed the tone poem also sprach Zarathustra, which was made famous as the opening theme music of 2001.

A space Odyssey.

That was finally give us a composer who composed The Planets, one Bach that was Richard Strauss.

Toss up in foreign language.

What is the official language in Niger?

Abdul?

Arabic knowledge.

You can steal Scott.

Brown in Spanish it's actually French.

No points.

Toss up in pre-calculus in the unit circle.

What is the sine of pi over six radians?

Random one half.

Right.

Pick out the bonus.

Determine the equation for a circle in standard form with a radius of three and centered at the point negative three four.

I got it.

X equals nine.

Answer okay x plus three squared plus y minus four squared equals nine is the right equation.

As the time runs out in our first half of play, this 20 points for you.

And it's a exciting game with right now DB a bit of a lead over Scott.

But anything obviously can happen in our second half of play.

One of these teams advances to the smart 16.

We'll find out who it's going to be after the break on Tennessee Scholars 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 Dobbins, Bennett High School of Kingsport and Scott County High School of Huntsville.

It's a pretty close and exciting game.

Either one of these two teams could win and advance to the smart 16. diamonds Bennett has brought one of their alternates into the game.

Let's say hi to ninth grader Eli Garrett.

Eli, welcome.

Tell us about yourself.

What do you like to do?

Hello I like to do, wrestling and I like, New Alpha Theta.

That's the math honor society.

Yes, sir.

Oh, fantastic.

And, you're going to be an officer.

And that's some day, like some of our other players.

What's up sir?

All right.

Good.

Nice to have you here.

All right.

Everybody else is, still here from the first half so we can get right back to it with fingers on the buzzer for the second round game of Tennessee scholar's Bowl, 2025.

Toss up in science.

Who invented the reflecting telescope?

Bishop Galileo.

Now that you can steal Scott.

Riley Newton is right for ten.

And a bonus now in science.

In which geologic era did forests appear and dominate the land?

Geologic area.

Answer.

Jurassic.

That one is Paleozoic.

In which geologic era did flying reptiles appear?

Jurassic?

That's right.

For ten toss up in history, which investigative journalist is renowned for her undercover work exposing the conditions of mental institutions in New York in 1887, Bishop Dorothea Dix, Norwich.

You can steal Scott Ryan, Ida Tarbell, it was Nellie Bly.

That's it for all players in sports.

If a contestant in a race overtakes the person in second place, what place are they, Claire?

Second, are they in?

And a sports bonus.

Now take a look at the screens, please.

Which men's soccer player shown here has won the most Ballon d'Or awards, given each year to the best overall player.

What?

Messi?

Yeah, Lionel Messi is right.

20 points.

Tossup.

Now in vocabulary.

Spell the word that can be a you were for water or a baseball player who throws the ball to the batter.

Rylan CAGR right vocabulary bonus Cisco a a phobia is the fear of what?

Bicycle.

Bicycle.

It's the fear of long words.

What is the literal translation of the Latin word Cisco?

Dallas go for long, but means a foot and a half.

Oh, so that's why they use it for long words.

Tossup in literature.

Who wrote Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?

Michael Rudolph and a literature bonus for DB in 2024.

Two mathematicians in Australia rejected as misleading the theorem that an infinite number of monkeys and or an infinite number of time a monkey pressing random keys on a typewriter might eventually reproduce the works of which Elizabethan playwright Shakespeare?

Yeah, Shakespeare is right for 20 plus up in physics, what is the term for the number that compares the anti knock properties of a gasoline with that of a standard?

Just fuel octane and in physics bonus.

Now what simple machine is represented by a doorknob?

Pivot.

Oh no.

Oh time ball and no no no no no no no answer.

Ball and socket.

That's wheel and axle.

No points.

Toss up in geography, which state's nickname is the Old Dominion State?

Michael, Oklahoma.

Got it.

You can steal Scott.

Island.

Virginia.

Right.

And a geography bonus.

Which four state capitals were named after U.S. presidents?

Okay.

Lincoln.

Lincoln.

Yes.

Lincoln.

Washington.

Washington.

Jefferson city.

Jefferson city.

Yes.

Jackson.

Magic.

Jackson.

Well, you get 15 points for that.

Washington is not a state capital, so.

Jackson, Mississippi, Jefferson City, Missouri.

Lincoln, Nebraska.

Madison, Wisconsin, 15 toss up in miscellaneous what Southeastern Conference school in Tennessee is included.

Bryant Vanderbilt Green's guide of the Hidden Ivies is Vanderbilt.

Miscellaneous bonus.

What is the middle name of President William J. Clinton?

George Joseph as Jefferson.

What was the middle name of President John F Kennedy?

John Frederick Frank, I think it's.

Frederick.

That was Fitzgerald.

No points on the bonus tossup in spelling.

The aardvark is a burrowing, nocturnal mammal.

Jocelyn a r d v a r k. Not it.

You can steal Michael a aardvark.

Yeah.

Is it the front spelling bonus defined as deviating from the ordinary or unusual is a aberrant spell.

Aberrant, aberrant, hyper and I guess I think hyper apparent abhorrent a b o r a n t. Oh, aberrant is aberrant.

Aberrant behavior.

Toss up in math.

What is the value of 3/8 times two and two thirds?

Two.

Michael one.

Correct math bonuses.

How long is a furlong?

Okay, the only reason I like it.

Oh, 12ft is no, no, it's answer two feet.

That's 660ft.

How long is a rod?

1000ft.

That's 16.5ft.

No points there.

Toss up.

In biology, what breed of dog is the fastest?

Capable of speeds up to 45 miles an hour.

Claire.

Greyhound and a biology bonus.

Now, what type of fish uses a disk on its head to attach itself by suction to sharks?

Other large marine animals and oceangoing ships?

No, no.

It was like a submarine.

Defer to Eli Minnow.

That's a remora.

No points there.

Toss up in economics what became an official federal holiday in 1894 and is observed on the first Monday in September.

Michael.

Labor Day economics bonus for DV.

What is pictured on the back of a US $10 bill?

That's Treasury.

During that Thatcher, the US Treasury, yes.

Whose picture is on the front of a US $10 bill.

Hamilton also right, 20 points tossup in art.

What is the resulting color when mixing red and blue?

Brown.

Yellow?

Not if you could steal DB Rishabh purple.

Correct in a visual bonus.

Now take a look at the screens.

Which Baroque painter was known for his dramatic use of light and shadow, as shown here in his famous work The Calling of Saint Matthew.

It's.

Been no, he's Mannerist.

The Syrian brand Rembrandt.

That one is Caravaggio.

Toss up for all players in foreign language.

What is the English translation of the German word wunderbar?

They're wonderful and a foreign language.

Bonus.

Now, the German word for tomorrow is Morgan.

What is the German word for the day after tomorrow?

It's so complicated.

There.

I forgot how to say day.

Honestly.

We talk there tog answer there tog, not Morgan.

Actually, it's Uber Morgan on a toss up in geology.

What type of rocks formed from molten magma from a sharp igneous and geology bonus the sea bed of the Cook Islands could become a source of critical strategic metals.

Although ocean experts warn of enormous damage to the marine ecosystem from deep sea mining of copper, nickel, manganese and which chemical element with the symbol C0 cobalt.

Cobalt is right for 20 knots up.

In chemistry, when amino acids are joined together to make proteins, what type of polypeptides are polypeptides or peptide bonds?

I guess I don't have to take your first answer on that.

What type of bond joins them?

A chance to steal Jocelyn peptide bonds is it?

And a chemistry bonus prefixes are used to identify the number of atoms of an element in a compound.

How many atoms for, the prefix penta for, and how many atoms for the prefix hector?

That's seven.

Seven.

Also right, 20 points plus up in U.S. history, considered one of the most viewed films in history.

What is the subject of the silent eight millimeter Zapruder film?

It's a film of the assassination of John F Kennedy is correct.

U.S. history is the bonus.

Which U.S. president was sworn into office by his father by the light of a kerosene lamp at 2:47 a.m. on August 3rd, 1923, in Plymouth Notch.

Vermont College may be Nora, but I wasn't 1923, so 1823 Coolidge.

Coolidge.

Coolidge is correct for 20 points.

Tossup.

In religion, the Seder plate is the centerpiece of what?

Jewish holiday feast?

Michael Passover.

Correct religion bonus.

What is the seven branched candelabrum depicted on the Israeli national emblem?

Menorah is right for 20 tossup in literature.

What children's book by E.B.

white is about?

One small mouse on a very big adventure.

Ryan Stuart Little corrected literature bonus who wrote the novel.

It, which features a clown as the main villain.

Stephen King, correct for ten.

What is the name of the clown?

Also write 20.

Toss up in math.

What is 25% of 25?

Michael 6.25.

Correct math bonus what four consecutive odd integers add up to 88 and even so, it's 19, 21, 23, 25.

Yeah.

1921 2325.

All four of those are correct for 20 points.

Toss up in health.

Name the group of peptide hormones produced in the pituitary gland and central nervous system.

Joslyn growth hormone that act on the opiate receptors of the brain.

Change to steal DB Michael.

Endorphins.

Yes.

Health bonus.

What part of the body has the metacarpal bones?

Carpal medical feet.

No, it's your hand.

Oh, it's a toss up in history.

Who led the Bolsheviks seizure of power in the Russian revolution was Chief Lieutenant Rishabh armors only read the question for Scott was chief lieutenant to Lenin, was exiled to Mexico and was assassinated in 1940.

Jocelyn Trotsky correct in the world history.

Bonus.

Which naval battle between a British fleet of 27 ships under Admiral Horatio Nelson and the combined fleets of the French and Spanish navies, took place on October 21st, 1805.

General.

What is it?

Spanish Armada?

No.

The Battle of Trafalgar is where we're going with that.

Not enough, though, to make a difference in the outcome of the game.

Scott County, great job.

It's always fun having you here.

We look forward to seeing you and your underclassmen again in years to come.

Is this your last year?

Rylan?

Congratulations and I know we'll look forward to great things from you in the future.

Meanwhile, Debbie, congratulations once again, Claire, you're moving on to the round of the smart 16.

And Michael, you've been there before too, right?

And the familiar territory.

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

Of course, you can keep track of all of our episodes.

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My name is Frank Murphy.

Thank you for watching.

Tennessee Scholar's Bowl 2025.