Thank you for watching Tennessee Scholar's Bowl.

I'm Frank Murphy.

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

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

And today's game is Morristown Hamblen East High School versus Jefferson County High School from Dandridge, Tennessee.

Let's get started by meeting the players from Motown, the hurricanes, starting with junior Caleb Renner.

Hey, Caleb, welcome back to the show.

Tell us about yourself.

Frank, my favorite type of boat is an efficient ski boat.

Okay, so you catfish.

No way that you can't fish and ski at the same time, can you?

Not quite yet, because that would be.

You have to catch very fast fish.

Yeah, I like the idea of it, though.

Kingston Crockett is a senior this year.

What about you, Kingston?

Well, my favorite type of boat is a kayak.

A kayak.

And do you go kayaking?

And if so, where.

We do, we do sometimes we actually went cocking at the, the Whitewater Center in Charlotte.

Okay.

You got good lakes up near Morristown too.

I mean, Danvers doesn't have an exclusivity on that.

Oh, good.

All right.

And then team captain is junior Hayden Hall.

What about you, Hayden?

I got a boat as a canoe.

Canoe versus kayak, maybe.

Help me out.

What's the difference in difference?

I don't know the difference.

I'm guessing the kayak is like one person.

And you.

There's kind of a sealed top and a canoe is, open boat.

Oh, no.

It's at the bottom of a canoe is flat.

Oh, well, I should have just waited for Boyd.

I mean, thank you for the bottom.

A canoe is flat in a kayak is pitched.

Yeah.

Okay.

Tapered.

And what?

Boyd, what about you?

You're a senior.

Boyd.

Hopkins.

What else is new with you?

I like sailboats.

Those are great boats.

Fantastic.

Have you done sailing?

Not yet, but I long for the day.

Absolutely.

Fantastic.

let's say hi to the alternate and coaches for Morristown Hamblen East High School.

Emery Galbreath Sarah Arnold, the librarian.

and Katie Collins, librarian Taking on a very good squad from Jefferson County High School.

The Patriots are back.

We'll start by saying hi to 10th grader Zach Matheny.

Hi, Zach.

Welcome back.

Tell us about you.

Hey again.

So I'm still fluent in Spanish and well, I'm glad you didn't lose that skill last time you were here.

Easier than you think, but, yeah, I'm still studying Mandarin and a couple weeks ago, I hit 3000 characters that I recognize, so I can read pretty well.

That's fantastic.

You're fascination with language is because you like to read or because you want to travel.

Or both.

Reading.

Okay.

Yeah.

That's outstanding.

Let's say hi to 12th grader Evan Roberts.

Hey, Evan.

Welcome back.

What's new with you?

Nothing much.

Still fan of Liverpool football Club and still just going out school and working on my German.

And where do you watch Liverpool?

I do have to buy a subscription for that.

Or.

Yeah.

The games are split up across a couple different services.

Peacock.

Hulu has some of them ESPN oh, so it's easier to find them than I would have thought.

Yeah, but still, sometimes you can only get some games here.

And then for different competitions it's different platforms.

So it's always kind of a mess.

Oh okay.

All right.

Well that's interesting.

We've got Max.

Herta is here in 12th grade, and during the soundcheck, I thought I heard you say a different.

What is your name?

Maximus.

Is your actual first name?

Yeah, I just go by Max.

Okay.

Well, that's what I'll call you.

What else is new with you, Max?

Well, I'm still the tennis captain.

And now I'm going to be double majoring in chemistry and biology in college.

Wow.

That's fantastic.

Have you settled on a school?

I'm down the 1001.

Give me the most money.

Smart move there.

Yeah.

Get your best scholarship deal.

That's fantastic.

With that kind of major, though, I think you'll be, in demand as a student.

That's good stuff.

Let's say hi.

Also to 11th grader Amy Stansbury.

Hey, Amy.

Welcome back.

What about you?

I still play the flute in our school's band.

Are you any good?

Arguably.

Okay.

Yeah.

And I like to write poetry.

Oh.

I remember you told us about this before.

And have you written a lot more since last time you were here?

I see, so how often?

I mean, how disciplined are you in writing and how often do you do it?

Every day.

Every day?

Every once in a while.

When?

When the spirit leads, you know the matrix.

Okay, let's say hi to the alternates and coaches for Jefferson County High School.

We've got Elaine Zhang, Isabella Broadwater, Eli Jones and Laurel whoosh, joined by coaches Ray Pedigo, who teaches science and math, and Michael Edwards, the media specialist for the Patriots at Jeffco.

We're also delighted to have a special guest with us in the studio today, the undergraduate admissions counselor for Lincoln Memorial University, that's Shane Sumner.

We appreciate EMU's continual support of Scholar's Bowl.

Thanks for being here, Shane.

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

How to win your way to get here.

We've got ten steps worth ten bonuses worth 20.

Get your fingers on the buzzer for this third round game.

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

What is the eight letter word beginning with F used to describe a system designed to protect and secure a computer network from external firewall.

Security risks technology bonus from Motown.

What software was originally called Sky Peer to Peer and is known for VoIP based video telephony and video conferencing.

Skype is right for 20 plus up in English.

What auxiliary verb should be used to complete the following sentence in the present perfect tense?

She blank.

Never been to France.

Hidden as correct English bonus.

What 11 letter word completes the following antonym analogy.

Hopeful is to despairing, as optimistic is to what pessimistic pessimistic is right for 20 plus up in religion according to the Bible.

In what city did Jesus live during much of his childhood?

Max Nazareth yeah, and young adulthood.

Religion bonus for Jeffco In 2023, Israel evacuated over 200 Jews, first to Addis Ababa, then on to Israel in order for them to escape the violence in the Amhara region.

Of what country?

Palestine.

Jordan.

Pastor, when are you going to go with the Palestine?

Palestine?

They were in Ethiopia, which is why they went to a survivor toss up in health.

What field of medicine deals with children's diseases?

Boyd.

Pediatrics.

Yes.

Health bonus.

What is the disorder in which the blood has a reduced ability to carry oxygen due to a lower than normal number of red blood cells, or a reduction in the amount of hemoglobin?

Anemia.

Anemia?

Anemia is right for 20 plus up in government.

Which amendment to the US Constitution abolished slavery?

Caleb 13th correct government bonus what fraction of members votes in both the House and Senate is required to overturn a vetoed bill?

It's two thirds, yes.

And what percentage of the states is necessary to ratify an amendment to the Constitution?

75% to 75%.

Those are both right for 20 toss up in literature.

What war is the setting for the Book Thief in World War One?

Not it.

You can steal Jack.

World War Two is right.

And a literature bonus on the screens.

Take a look.

Go.

Who is the Nobel Prize winning Colombian author shown here?

Known as the father of magical realism and for novels like love in the Time of Cholera and 100 Years of Solitude, is where Gabriel, what effect do you defer to Zack Gabriel Garcia marquez is right for 20 points.

Tossup.

Now in math, what is the next term in the geometric progression?

Two six 1854 Hayden.

160.

12 I'm 62.

I had to take your first answer.

Can't take it, Max.

162 is right.

And a math bonus if someone is traveling at 80 miles an hour, how long will it take them to go 180 miles.

Two hours and 20 minutes.

Cheers.

And that sounds right.

Right.

Two hours and 15 minutes.

Yes.

20 points.

toss up in world history, which landlocked European country remained neutral in both World War one and two?

Hidden Switzerland?

Yes.

History bonus.

During ancient medieval times, religious texts, literature and other documents were written on parchment, which is made from what type of material?

I think was sheepskin.

Sheepskin?

Sheepskin?

Yes.

Animal skins in general.

But, you know, they do these a lot of sheepskin.

That's 20 points.

Toss up in foreign language.

What is the English translation for the Latin phrase prima facie?

Hidden.

First place, now that you can steal Jefferson County.

Zach.

The first occurrence, might be able to take that is at first sight.

So at first occurrence.

Yes.

And foreign language bonus.

Now, if the English translation of the French phrase civil play, please, just please.

Yeah, just please, please.

And now, Bonnie.

Good night.

Good night.

Both.

Right.

For 20 plus up in vocabulary, complete the proverb.

People in glass houses shouldn't throw snacks, stones.

Correct.

And a vocabulary bonus.

What vital organ of the body can be spelled by rearranging the letters a, r, e, t, h, heart.

And which planet in our solar system can be arranged by spelling the same letters on Earth or Earth?

Also right 20 points toss up in government.

What is the standard six letter term for a tax on imports?

Zack tariff.

Yes.

Government bonus.

Which country that joined NATO in 2023 shares a long border with Russia and also borders Sweden and Norway and then Finland and Finland.

Finland is right for 20 Tossup.

In geography, the statue of Christ the Redeemer stands on Corcovado mountain, overlooking Rio de Janeiro.

Yeah, and make sure calling you all the way a visual bonus.

Now for Jefferson County.

Look at the screens.

El Castillo, also known as the Temple of Hueco Kon, shown here, is a meso American step pyramid that dominates the center of what?

Archeological site in the Mexican state of Yucatan, a statue to land or sea?

Yeah.

I don't know what to say.

That's unusual, given defer to Zack.

Tenochtitlan.

It's a chichen Itza.

Oh, okay.

It's what it is.

And no points on that toss up in architecture, what is the term for a building or structure that is designed to keep birds confined?

It's max birdhouse.

Not nice.

You can still.

Boyd aviary is right.

And an architecture bonus.

What structure?

On the Columbia River near Spokane, Washington is the largest power station in the US.

Washington power station.

Well, it's the Grand Coulee Dam.

No points on the bonus toss up.

Now, in spelling to annihilate is to completely destroy spell seven.

A and and I h a l a t e not h you can steal Moorestown Kingston a in in, h l a t e. That's right.

You get the A's in their spelling bonus for Morristown spell.

Gallaudet as in Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C.. Gallaudet for two years defer to Boyd Gallaudet.

No, that's one of these words.

It doesn't sound the way it's spelled.

You'd have to really have seen it in writing.

It's like a you get a tossup for all players.

Now, in geometry, the area of a triangle is 48ft.

If a base is 16ft, what is the height length to that base?

Six hidden six.

Right.

And the geometry bonus.

What is the area of a right triangle with a hypotenuse of five feet and leg of three feet?

Yes or no?

It's six square feet.

Tossup.

Now in science, what law states that pressure increases as the volume of gas?

Zach Boyle's law.

Science bonus in the name of the product.

WD 40.

What words to the letters WD represent?

Yeah, I didn't think tanks.

Tungsten.

I don't know.

Whether destroyer, whether distractor.

That's a great answer, but it's water displacement.

No points on the bonus tossup in U.S. history.

Who was president when the U.S. made the Gadsden Purchase in 1853, securing Caleb Zachary Taylor and securing present day Arizona and New Mexico.

Zach Franklin Pierce is correct in a history bonus after no candidate won the necessary majority, the House of Representatives decided the 1824 presidential election by choosing which man to be the sixth president of the United States.

Quincy Adams.

Right.

Yeah, yeah.

John Quincy Adams, correct for 20 tossup.

In religion, the holy month of Ramadan commemorates the month when what was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad.

What?

The Koran?

Yes.

And a religion bonus.

Each year, millions of people travel to what town in France to visit the grotto where Saint Bernadette saw visions of the Virgin Mary in 1858.

I'm sorry.

You don't know.

Sitcoms, Defer to Boyd Switzer, That's Lourdes.

And what mountain range is Lourdes located?

Near the Alps.

Alps, especially in the Pyrenees.

No points on the bonus tossup now.

In literature.

What TV series, now in its fifth season on PBS, is based on books by a veterinarian in the Yorkshire Dales.

And who is the pen name?

James Herriot?

Even Doctor Doolittle.

No, you can steal Morristown Boyd.

Doc McStuffins.

No, that is called All Creatures Great and Small.

Toss up in music.

How many flats are in the key of A-flat major?

Any four?

Yes, and a music bonus.

During the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards, Taylor Swift referred to which rapper by his real name, Austin, when they won the Best Collaboration.

Just jump in Max Drake.

No, it was Post Malone is where I was going with that.

His real name is Austin Richard Post, for their best collaboration on Fortnite.

It's a very close game between Jefferson County High School and Morristown Hamblen East.

One of these two teams advances to our round of the eight.

We'll find out who it's going to be coming up after the break on Tennessee's Scholar's Bowl 2025.

You're watching Tennessee Scholar's Bowl.

I'm Frank Murphy.

We are back from halftime in this third round game, this smart 16 round game between Morristown Hamblen East High School and Jefferson County High School.

It's been back and forth very close in the first half.

In fact, we even went over the tiebreaker rules during halftime so that our students are prepared for that.

Should we end in a tie?

Let's say hi to the alternates that both teams have brought into the game, starting with on the north side.

Junior.

Emery.

Galbreath.

Emery, welcome back to the show.

Tell us about yourself.

I'm so my favorite boat is cruise ships.

I've never been on a cruise but I would really love to.

Yeah.

And as you know, I went to the US open, in September.

And when I got back, they didn't article about, my trip there, for the magazine, in our town, Georgetown.

Oh, that's fantastic.

Oh, I hope you had a great experience.

Because you like playing tennis yourself, right?

Yes, I do, yeah.

Oh, good.

Nice.

All right.

Well, glad to hear about that.

And maybe I've even heard that some cruise ships might have tennis courts on them.

Really?

Oh, my gosh, I would love to play the cruise ship.

And I think they have everything.

They they keep making them bigger and bigger and bigger.

Just adding stuff to it.

All right.

Great.

Let's add the alternates for Jefferson County, starting with senior Eli Jones.

Hey, Eli.

Welcome back.

Tell us about yourself.

Hi.

So I actually cross-country season is over.

So I've traded my running for dancing in our school senior play.

Oh well, what's the production?

any of your guy?

Oh, fantastic.

All right.

That's, everything's coming up roses.

There ain't no business like show business or some of the songs that right?

I don't know, I'm trying to remember.

I barely can figure it out.

Max is nodding like I.

Maybe I've got one.

Right?

I get ten points.

I think I get ten points for that.

Let's say hi to Elaine Zeng, who is a junior.

Hey, Elaine.

What about you?

I'm.

I'm the vice president for our schools.

Me?

I'm a theta, and I'm also part of our school's, science national honor society.

So that's the math honor society and the science honor society.

That means you got some pretty big decisions to make when you start looking at colleges.

What are you going to pursue?

Biochemistry.

Nothing that you're already decided on.

That is good.

All right, well, we're happy to have you here.

All right, players, you know how it works.

Get right back to it.

Fingers on the buzzer for the second half of this third round game of Tennessee scholar's Bowl 2025.

Toss up in physics, what simple machine consists of two inclined planes back to back void.

A lever that you can steal.

Jeff, come.

Max ramp.

Well, it's just a wedge in that situation.

Toss up.

Now, in economics, what is the currency of Switzerland?

Kingston, The Swiss franc.

Yes, and an economics bonus.

Maya Angelou, doctor Sally ride, Wilma mankiller, Nina Otero Warren and Anna may Wong were honored in 2022 when the US mint placed their pictures where?

Up to a dollar bill or something.

On the $20 bill there on quarters.

A union shield is on the reverse of which U.S coin.

Time, time, time.

It's on the back of a penny.

Toss up.

Now in art, what is the name of the divine proportion often represented by the Greek letter phi point oh?

The golden ratio?

Yeah.

That has been used by artists for centuries to create beautiful and balanced works.

Art is your bonus.

Who was the American painter from Rhode Island colony whose best known works are unfinished portraits of George and Martha Washington that he began in 1796.

I'm sorry, I don't know Frida Kahlo.

That's Gilbert Stuart toss up in foreign language.

What is the national language of Pakistan?

Zak?

Urdu.

Right.

Foreign language.

Bonus.

The Basque language is spoken on the border of which two European countries, Spain, France and Spain.

Those are both right for 20 tossup in math.

What is 75% of 120?

Hidden 90, right.

Visual bonus for Mars ten.

Look at the screens, please.

Given the geometric series 150 25, name the next three members of the sequence so far five.

1.56.253.1.

Two.

Five and 12.5, 6.25, and 3.125.

Those are all correct as we just keep having your right 20 points.

Toss up now in biology what 11 letter term beginning with E is used to describe an animal with a constant, endothermic constant body temperature.

Biology bonus.

What is the process of change that takes place before animals such as butterflies and frogs become adults?

Metamorphosis number.

Yeah.

Metamorphosis.

Correct for ten.

Now spell metamorphosis.

Who's going to spell E.T.A.?

Just don't just tell me who you are.

You can defer to Eli.

M e t a m o r p h o s I s is right.

20 points total on that bonus toss up.

Now, in geography, what is the capital of Lebanon?

Kingston.

Beirut.

Right.

Geography bonus.

What part of Egypt has shores on the Mediterranean Sea, the Gulf of Suez and the Gulf of Aqaba?

Doesn't fit the peninsula bit, dear?

I know the answer.

Sign up on Sinai Peninsula is right with what other middle Eastern country does the Sinai Peninsula share?

A land border?

Israel is right 20 on the bonus tossup in miscellaneous.

What recent fad toy consists of a ball bearing in the center of a multi max fidget spinner?

Multi lobe structure.

Miscellaneous bonus.

Now, what mythical creature is the official national animal of Scotland?

Unicorn.

Unicorn, right?

Yeah, yeah.

Unicorn.

Correct.

For 20 tossup.

In mythology, who is the mythological Roman goddess of the hearth, home and family who was often represented?

Elaine.

Vesta.

Yeah, by the fire of her temple in the foreign mythology.

Bonus in the creation myth of which Native American people did a great buzzard fly over the land while it was still soft and wet.

And when he grew tired, his wings brushed the mud, forming valleys and mountains.

Cherokee.

Maybe a Cherokee is the only one.

Yeah, yeah, I'm slowing down.

Okay.

If think you're good for that, Cherokee is right for 20 points.

Tossup in arts.

Which Disney Pixar feature was about a rodent who liked to cook?

Elaine.

Ratatouille.

Right answer.

Bonus.

What was the name of the British actress known for playing lady Violet Crawley and Professor Minerva McGonagall, who died in September 2024 at age 89?

She just died.

Oh, no.

I don't know her name.

You're a nerd, right?

You like?

Oh.

Defer to Elaine.

Mary.

That's Dame Maggie Smith.

May she rest in peace.

Toss up in chemistry.

What isotope of hydrogen has one proton in one?

Metallic deuterium.

Yeah, and one neutron.

And appears in heavy water.

It's deuterium.

Chemistry is your bonus.

Give the electron configuration in exponential form or sodium.

Want us to.

Two and three us one.

Right.

Yeah.

So one is two to us 2262363.

Yes.

One.

Yeah.

One S2 22263 S1 is correct for 20 points plus in government which amendment to the US Constitution voided a previous amendment.

Hey 19th Norwich.

You can steal Zach the 23rd.

No, it was the 21st that repealed prohibition for all players in games.

What is the device included in some board games?

It looks like a miniature hourglass timer.

Yeah.

And, visual bonus for Jefferson County.

Look at the screens, please.

What game?

Pictured here and released for the Philips Cd-I, was the first of its series to feature the titular princess as the playable character.

That's the Legend of Zelda game, though I don't know the Zelda Ocarina of Time.

No, it's not, just entirely.

I'm just gonna say that Legend of Zelda The Legend of Zelda.

Well, it's more specific than that, and it is pretty obscure.

And you can thank doctor Frank in your PhD for this one.

Zelda Wand of Gamma lan.

So that's my son.

He came up with that question toss for all players in vocabulary.

What does a movie ometer measure, Zack?

Rainfall.

Correct.

And a vocabulary bonus.

What?

Nine letter word beginning with L means acting slow or sluggish.

Lethargic, lethargic.

Okay, someone start spelling it.

I got it.

This was lethargic.

Correct for ten.

Now spell lethargic.

You got it.

Is it the same thing?

Yeah okay.

Oh wait I think that one might defer to Eli.

L e t h a r g I c is correct for 20 points.

plus it for all players in geology.

In which of the US states have the most Tyrannosaurus rex fossils been discovered?

Zack, Arizona.

No.

You can still March 10th point Montana.

Correct.

Geology bonus.

In which geological period did mammals first appear?

Mesozoic.

Let's try Mesozoic.

That's tertiary.

In which geologic era did mammals first appear?

No.

And dry.

Mesozoic.

As a zone that is Cenozoic.

No points on the bonus tossup in history.

In 1867, Russia sold what parcel of land to the U.S.. Hayden, Alaska, for 7.2 million and a history bonus, as told in her autobiography, which First Lady functionally ran the executive branch after her husband's debilitating, near-fatal stroke in October 1919 until the end of his term in March 1921.

Eleanor Roosevelt now that was Edith Wilson toss up now in foreign language, translate the Spanish question into English.

Quién sabe?

Zach?

Who knows?

Correct.

Foreign language bonus.

What is the word for juice in Latin?

Oh, crap.

Some suck, suck, suck.

I'll go for you.

Defer to Zach.

Sucrose at sucrose.

What is the word for juice in German?

That's the citrus.

I think that's what you said.

Yes, I defer to Zach.

Zoloft?

Yes.

Is right for ten points.

Tossup in literature.

In what year was the first Harry Potter novel published?

Zach, 1997.

Correct and literature.

Bonus idols of the King, which retells the legend of King Arthur, was written by which poet laureate, who was a favorite of Queen Victoria?

No poet.

It's.

I pretty sure it's Poe.

Is it?

Though?

He was American, I thought.

Oh, well, I have no idea.

William something.

William Blake, William Blake, it's Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

Toss up.

Now in sports, when a surfer hangs ten on a wave.

To what does the ten refer?

Max fingers.

No chance.

He still had ten toes.

Yeah.

Ten toes.

Sports bonus.

What is the name of the radio announcer known as the voice of the Vols, who will retire in 2025 at the end of the college basketball season after 26 years of calling the play by play for the University of Tennessee football and basketball games.

I don't remember.

Frank Murphy I wish that's the great Bob Kissling toss up in health.

How many bones are in a human foot?

Boyd oh, 52.

No, you can steal.

Max 43 and 26 toss up.

In geography, Bhutan is part of what ancient network of trade routes Ellen Silk Road.

Yeah.

Connecting east and west.

Geography.

Bonus.

What city was formerly known as Bombay?

Bombay?

Beijing maybe.

I don't know.

Sure.

Beijing.

That's Mumbai.

What city was formerly known as Saigon?

New Delhi.

Yeah.

New Delhi.

That one is Ho Chi Minh City, as I know.

Points on the bonus.

But you pulled ahead during the second half of play to defeat an excellent squad for Morristown Hamblen East.

And we enjoy always having you guys here and, a lot of some seniors and some underclassmen.

So the seniors, we say goodbye, but the underclassmen, we say, see you next year to Morristown East.

Thank you for making it this far into our tournament.

Meanwhile, Jefferson County, congratulations.

You and your spiffy Hawaiian shirts will, live on another day and move on to our round of the Educated Eights.

Of course, you can keep track of all of our episodes by never missing an episode.

Setting your DVR is binge watching past seasons online using the PBS app, and we appreciate your support and watching us on Scholar's Bowl.

I'm Frank Murphy.

Thank you for watching Tennessee Scholar's Bowl 2025.