Hi.

My name is Spencer Watson, and I played Quiz Bowl for Benton High School from 1997 to 1999.

And I have a question for you.

Can you identify the man who lends his name to what is now generally considered a financial scheme, in which new investment is used to pay out dividends to the original investors?

Live from the Arkansas PBS studios in Conway.

It's Quiz Bowl 2025.

This.

This year marks a special milestone for Quiz Bowl and Arkansas PBS.

We celebrate 40 years of partnership and bringing you the quiz Bowl state championships.

We are so delighted that you're joining us today.

These 14 teams have competed throughout the season to reach the state championship stage today, seven of those teams will earn the title of state champion.

Right now we have the for a state championship featuring the Arkadelphia Badgers and the Truman Wildcats.

Let's meet the teams.

I'm Bryce Martin, I'm a senior.

And one last time not talking it in.

Hello, I'm Jared Campbell, and I'm a senior Sully day.

Oh, Gloria, my name is really Babb.

I'm a senior, and I'm just glad I didn't slip through my alarm this time.

My name is Daisy Paige.

I'm a senior.

And to quote Hamilton, I'm not throwing away my shot.

Hi.

My name is Julia Green, and I'm a senior at Arkadelphia High School.

I fiddle to a senior editor, operated with plenty of success.

So I'm Timothy LaVar.

I'm a junior and I feel like I've been here before.

My name is Spencer Seal.

I'm a sophomore Arkadelphia High School.

And in the words of Gretchen Wieners, this is so Fitch.

Hi, I'm Anita Davis, I'm a sophomore.

And Spencer, stop trying to make that happen.

It's not going to happen.

Hi, I'm Carly, I'm a sophomore, Arkadelphia High School, and I'm just Bryce's little sister.

Roses are red.

Truman's afraid.

My name is Henry Harrell, and I'm in the 10th grade.

I'm Mr. Campbell, I'm a sophomore.

I'm just happy to be here.

My name is Laney Metcalf.

I'm a sophomore at Arkadelphia High School, and my mom told me not to embarrass her.

Hi, mom.

My name is David Garrett.

I'm a ninth grader from Arkadelphia High School, made it more top of the world.

Grant Reimers, assistant coach, Arkadelphia High School I'm just eager to see my team play.

My name is Beverly Slavin, 56 years of teaching, 46 at Arkadelphia High School, nearly 30 for quiz Mo.

I love Louis, Mo.

Hello, my name is Jason Suman.

I'm a junior Truman High School and I suck at German.

Hello.

Hi, Jason.

Ethan, I'm Don cough.

My name is Sam hatcher.

I'm a junior at Truman High School.

Not necessary legal.

Hi, my name is Anna Vickers.

I'm a junior at Tru High School and how do you spell PBS?

Like, actually like, how do you spell PBS?

Like for.

I'm serious.

Okay.

I'm not.

Hi, I'm Tabitha Tyler.

I'm a senior at Truman High School, and.

Hi, mom.

Hi, dad.

I'm on TV again.

Hello.

My name is Samuel Smith.

I'm a senior at Truman High School and Cataldo de Linda este.

My name is John Skaggs.

I'm a sophomore from high school and UT Coombs, Utah up in Utah.

Hello, I am Gage Cubit.

I am a junior at Truman High School and Zach Pouliot of Victory C emergency.

Hi, my name is Jonah.

I'm a junior at Truman High School and Isaiah 4031.

Hello, I'm Quentin Busby, I'm senior at Truman High School and per aspera ad astra.

My name is Maverick Atkins.

I'm a junior at Trump High School and God is good.

God is great.

God is everywhere.

Oh, hello, I'm calling Busby.

I'm a junior at German high school, and the effects of the enemy on me scares me when I realize how closely it resembles my, Hi, everybody.

My name is Noah Clayton.

I'm a senior at Truman High School, as well as a captain in this team.

And in the words of the Roman Legion, Hannibal AD Porter's.

Hello, my name is Alex Cole.

The kids call me coleslaw.

I am the co-coach for Truman High School.

I'm so happy to be here.

We're so proud of our students.

Go, Wildcats!

My name is Chase Fowler.

I'm the coach for the Truman High School quiz bowl team.

We're the first team in our school's history to have Back-To-Back state championship appearances.

And I can't wait for you to see the team of which I'm proudest.

And there's a look at the hardware these teams are competing for.

Who is going to take home the state championship.

Let's find out right now.

Let's get started with round one a 20 question toss up round.

To do that, we're going to turn it over to the quizmaster for this match, Josh Adams.

All right.

Thank you Christina.

First off on a welcome back.

Arkadelphia and Truman.

This was our state championship game last year in 4K.

So, those of you who watched last year, you're not seeing a replay of last year's game, so we'll see if it turns out any different.

But I heard it was a pretty good game last year.

And so, with that, I think we are going to be ready to start round one.

Round one.

All right, everybody ready?

All right.

Here we go.

This bird is the fastest bird on land.

It is Trenton.

It's actually Truman.

Quinton.

Peregrine Falcon.

That's incorrect.

Bird on land in a common myth, holds that they bury their heads in sand when frightened.

The world's largest eggs belong.

To which large flightless bird found in Africa.

Arkadelphia.

Bryce.

Ostrich.

That is correct.

Number two is a math computation question.

Arrive has a bag of marbles with five red marbles, three green marbles, eight blue marbles, and eight white marbles.

What fraction of the bag is white marbles?

As can be.

Arkadelphia.

Timothy one third.

That is correct.

Question number three a process name for this substance contributes to climate change when breakdown of the substance reveals darker, more heat absorbing parts of the Earth, climate change is causing what substances polar caps to melt Arkadelphia Laney ice.

It is ice.

Number four.

Multiline examples of these things may begin with a slash and an asterisk.

These things begin with a pound sign in Python and with two slashes.

Arkadelphia.

Timothy.

Comments.

These are comments, yes, or programing comments here.

Number five a white king of these animals named errata, is often depicted being ridden by Indra, the head of what animal is possessed by Ganesh Truman.

Quinton elephant.

That's correct.

Number six.

Pope Julius the Second commissioned this artist to design a tomb that included a sculpture derived from a mistranslation of the Hebrew Bible.

Moses with horns as Truman calling Michelangelo.

That is correct.

Number seven, three of these creatures are prophesized to have the power of the stars.

Despite the prophecy, one of these creatures, Holly leaf, is powerless.

She is Arkadelphia as Laney.

Is it cats?

They.

It is the cats.

That's correct.

Number eight, this state is the northernmost split by the Central and Eastern time zones.

What state?

East of Wisconsin observes Arkadelphia.

Bryce, Michigan.

That's correct.

Question number nine.

Two grass examples of these objects were given to Publius Decius Moss and were the highest military honors of Rome during the crucifixion.

Jesus war.

What type?

That is Truman.

That is Noah.

Crown.

It is a crown.

Number ten.

That's correct.

Christina moss.

Luxe intervention stopped this unethical experiment, which was recorded in the Lucifer effect.

Guards.

Truman Asher.

The Stanford prison experiment.

That's correct.

Number 11.

This diagram allegedly came to Dimitri Mendeleev in a dream.

Arkadelphia rice periodic table.

That is also correct.

Number 12.

In a poem from this country, the narrator says that they quote, raise their head and look at the bright moon named this country where Tang dynasty poet.

Poetry.

Arkadelphia.

David.

China.

It is China number 13. International opinion of this system greatly changed following the Sharpeville massacre followed as Truman, Noah.

Apartheid.

That is correct.

Nicely done.

Number 14 a Gigi Perez song titled for one of these people claims.

And let's go Truman Noah again.

Sailor.

It is sailors.

Very nice.

And we're going to number 15.

Arianism rejected this doctrine because it considered Jesus to be a creation of God, and therefore distinct.

Monacan ism rejects what doctrine that states God is composed of Arkadelphia, David the Trinity.

It is the Trinity doctrine.

That's correct.

Number 16, a poem by this author claims the title location has, quote, Big Shoulders and is Truman Quinton Sandburg.

That is correct.

Number 17, the energy of a wave is directly proportional to the square of this quantity.

Two times this quantity is equal to the distance between the peak and a trough.

Truman NOAA amplitude.

That is correct.

Number 18.

In this play, a character is originally called the flower girl before Henry Higgins decides Truman.

And that is Quinton.

Pygmalion.

It is Pygmalion.

Nicely done, number 19.

This material is used in the Pure Land style of an art form, and wet folding is a technique.

Akira Yoshizawa invented to handle this material.

Name this material used in origami.

Truman Quinton.

Paper.

Yes, and our last question of the first quarter is a math computation.

For D in hexa, hexadecimal represents what value in base ten.

Arkadelphia.

Timothy 28.

It's not 28.

Crime has been called.

That was 77, right?

So at the end of the quarter, by my checking on a check with my judges, I have, Arkadelphia at 80, 90, I can't add, and Truman at 100.

I had had that.

Right.

Okay.

I'm missing one of them.

So very close game.

So Arkadelphia at 90, Truman at 100.

We're going to check for challenges and do some potential substitutions.

So with that we're going to throw this over to Christina okay.

Thank you so much.

Have a little bit of technical difficulties going on and getting the internet back up here and running.

But in the meantime we now have Paul Gray, president of Friends of Quiz Bowl, and Patty bottoms, treasurer of Friends, to present the overall junior and senior high coaches of the year for 2024 2025.

Welcome and thank you for being here.

Thank you very much.

We've got two great coaches to honor today.

And we have sponsors for our, our, coaches of the year this year, our, precise junior high coach of the year this year is Walter Woody from Fort Smith South side.

Round of applause.

Come on over.

Thank you.

Surprised?

I'd like to thank, Josh Adams, the high school coach, for his help.

Principal Jeff Pruitt, superintendent.

Now it's Marty Marchand, and until recently, it was Doctor Terry Moran.

All the teachers, because they make the students, with all the classes that they take.

Good.

And also appreciate all the parents.

Wonderful.

Well, congratulations.

And you also have.

Yes.

Our high school, coach of the year is sponsored by far Co this year.

And that is Steven Close of Russellville High School.

Come on over.

Congratulations.

Thanks.

Anything you'd like to say?

Just want to say thanks to all the students this year.

They, they listen and they study, and they do, really work really hard for us, which is amazing.

We have great administration, great teachers at Russellville, and we couldn't do without their help either.

So a big team effort for everybody.

And the assistant coaches, my wife and coach, Andrew Taylor, we couldn't do without them either, for sure.

So, this is kind of a reward for all three of us, so thank you.

Welcome.

Congratulations.

That's wonderful.

And we also have some scholarship recipients you want to share about.

Yes.

We have three scholarships this year.

Fargo again was was generous to sponsor this scholarship.

The $1,500 Fargo scholarship, this year is going to be awarded in memory of Jeffrey Stuard, the son of Martin and Andrea Steward.

Jeffrey was a two time, quiz Bowl state champion and MVP.

He graduated from Cedar Ridge in 2014 and majored in voice at ASU.

He sadly passed away in 2019, so this award is in memory of him this year.

Our winner could not be with us today as Nora Carpenter from Center Point High School.

He's been playing Quiz Bowl since elementary school.

And he is attending Henderson State University, majoring in education.

He is led by coach Joanna Sutton.

Well, congratulations to know a round of applause.

Very good.

Well, thank you guys very much for being here.

We really appreciate it.

Thank you.

And we have a close match going on.

So we're going to head back over to the quizmaster for round two.

All righty.

Well congratulations to our coaches and scholarship recipients.

Also while that was going on we did not have any challenges or substitutes for either team.

So this will be our second round which is toss ups.

Leading two for bonuses.

And those bonuses have to be answered by our captains.

And just so we can recognize for the for the audience.

Arkadelphia.

I believe Timothy is our captain.

And over here on Truman is going to be Noah.

All right, so with all of that out of the way, let's begin round two.

Round two.

All right, toss up for both teams.

Here we go.

This village in paraquat is an extremely powerful one of these substances.

The epi sp synthase enzyme has caused many organisms organisms to become resistant to types.

Truman.

Noah.

Herbicide.

That is correct.

I'm very impressed that you knew that.

Oh, those are those really crazy words I was saying.

You have earned a bonus round on waves.

Waves are known as disturbances that travel through matter or space.

And so the thing about waves and their properties.

All right.

So answers for Noah and here we go.

Number one the maximum speed any wave can travel is at this speed, named after a type of wave that can be seen by the human eye.

Like one answer speed of light.

That's correct.

Second one, waves can go through this phenomenon in which they bounce off a surface for a complex answer reflection.

That's correct.

Number three light waves cannot pass through surfaces with this property.

Yeah.

Answer.

Opaque.

Yes.

And our last one, this quantity measures how many waves pass through a point in a certain period of time.

Answer frequency as all four.

Nicely done.

And we will have a toss up for both teams.

This novel begins and ends with the same words.

Quote Barabbas came to us by sea.

The green haired character Rosa the Beautiful dies of poisoning.

In this novel, in which Esteban marries Clara de Valley, the multigenerational true true family is depicted.

Truman, Quentin.

The House of the spirits.

That is correct.

You have earned a bonus.

And that bonus is going to be about short stories with twist endings.

You get to read the whole thing to see how it ends.

All right.

So, again, answers again from NOAA.

Here we go.

The title character realizes he shot his brother in The Cipher, which is set during this country's civil war, during the Battle of Dublin or Ireland.

Answer Ireland as correct number two.

Della and Jim learned that they sold their valuables to pay for gifts to give to each other.

In this author short story The Gift of the Magi.

Answer.

Oh, Henry.

Yes.

Number three at the end of this story, Matilda Lossl found out the title object is worth 500 francs.

This guy, the Malpass short story was reimagined by Henry James in Paste.

Answer the necklace.

Yes it is.

And our fourth one, this character.

Here's a cannon shock after escaping hanging in a short story by Ambrose Bierce.

At the end of that short story, it is revealed that this character imagined his incredible escape.

Answer the devil as incorrect.

I have Peyton Farquhar, right?

So we return to toss ups for both teams, and it's going to be a math computation.

What is the expected value of a game that has a 10% chance of winning?

Nothing, a 50% chance of winning $10 and a 40% chance of winning $5.

The time has been called.

The music has ran out before you buzzed in.

It was $7.

Do you have that, Noah?

A little bit faster.

All right.

Toss up for both sides.

Here we go.

In one myth, this figure makes the sign of the cross over a cup of poison and drinks it safely.

Truman.

Quentin Lokey, that is incorrect.

In the Golden Legend.

As a Libyan city, Selene is about to sacrifice a princess.

This figure defeats a dragon who is the patron saint of England, who names the cross on the flags of Genoa and England.

Arkadelphia, David Saint George It is Saint George, so Arkadelphia you have earned a bonus on cabinet positions.

I'm going to give you the name of an individual that currently holds a position on the US cabinet.

You're going to name the cabinet position.

Right.

And Timothy, here we go.

Number one Marco Rubio is is he Secretary of state.

Try it.

Secretary of state.

That is correct.

Number two Pam Bondi she education education Secretary of education.

That's incorrect.

Number three, Kristi Noem.

She must be secretary of education.

It's also incorrect.

Number four, Linda McMahon.

Is she the president to the press secretary?

No.

Need to answer, please.

Secretary of education.

Secretary of education.

Yes.

I got there eventually.

So the two that you miss, Pam Bondi, is our attorney general, and Kristi Noem is the secretary of Homeland Security.

All right.

We have one more bonus category to go, and we'll see who earns it.

Hopefully with this toss question in a work by this author, Stephen Albert is killed by a character whose ancestor, Suey Pin, created the title labyrinth.

In addition to the garden of forking Truman Quentin, Borgias.

That is correct.

Your bonus category is answer the following about playing card games in America.

All right, answers from Noah.

Here we go.

Number one, the highest rank of the face cards depicts this royal position.

Can you please answer King?

Yes.

Number two.

In this game, players can grab a namesake utensil once they achieve four of a kind and trigger a rush among all players for these utensils, answer spoons.

Yes, it is number three.

This brand of United States playing card company is the most popular in the U.S.. Answer.

Bicycle.

Yes, it is.

And our fourth one.

This trick taking game that is popular in the Midwest and especially in Michigan, uses a reduced deck.

Players of this game often called jacks, Bowers, and King, go alone to score extra points.

Answer spades, not spades.

It is Euchre.

Euchre.

All right.

And that is our fourth bonus round.

So just a real quick brief check.

Anybody challenges I see no challenges.

So, right now we have a score of Truman at 180 and Arkadelphia at 110.

So Arkadelphia will have first choice of our lightning round.

So let me give you some descriptions, and then we will take a small break to decide those.

Your first choice could be Judgment Day.

Given a description, identify these landmark Supreme Court cases.

Or you could choose where's the beef?

Answer these questions regarding authors who had fights with each other.

Or you could say, stop me if you've heard this before, answer the following questions about cell organelles.

So we will have a couple minutes aside.

And with that I will throw this back to Christina.

Some very interesting categories to choose from there.

And as those choices are being made for the next round and we'll let them strategize a little bit, we're going to take a short break, but don't go anywhere.

We'll be right back after this.

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It is time now for the Lightning Round.

The teams have made their choices, so let's turn it over to our quizmaster for round three.

All right.

Thank you.

Christina.

We had some lightning round choices.

And, from what I was told, Arkadelphia has chosen judgment day to talk about Supreme Court cases.

And Truman has talked about the cell organelles as their choice.

Stop me if you've heard that before.

Both teams also chose to not do any substitutions for a round, so we will be able to go into our 62nd lightning rounds, which is ten questions answered very quickly from our captains.

And the other team will have a chance to answer any questions that you missed.

So with all that out of the way, we can now start our round three.

Round three.

All right, so, Arkadelphia, you've chosen judgment day.

Get a description.

Identify these landmark Supreme Court cases.

Answers are going to come from Timothy.

I don't think we're designating Henry as our captain for this lightning round.

All right, Henry, given a description, identify the landmark Supreme Court cases.

Are you ready?

Yes.

All right, then, here we go.

Overturn a prior case to declare segregation unconstitutional.

Brown.

New board of education.

Brown v Board of Education legalized abortion, but was later overturned by Dobbs v Jackson.

Roe v Wade established the power of judicial review.

Marbury v Madison.

Marbury v Madison ruled that enslaved people were not citizens of the United States, and therefore could not.

In Dred Scott v Sampras declare that students First Amendment rights do not stop at the schoolhouse gates.

Des Moines designated Tinker v Des Moines, yes declared that people under arrest me must be read their constitutional rights before interrogation.

Miranda v Arizona.

Yes.

Legalized gay marriage in 2015.

Following the Virginia designate Timothy Loving v Virginia, no.

Allow corporations to donate to political campaigns without limits.

Citizens United versus FEC.

Citizens United versus FEC.

Yes.

Declared that any public school prayer is unconstitutional.

Engel v Vital Signs.

Time was called and Henry was designated captain.

I cannot take Timothy's answer, so that question will not come across.

Only number seven will come over to Truman.

Number seven is legalized gay marriage in 2015.

Answer Obergefell v Hodges.

That is correct.

All right.

So Truman has chosen.

Stop me if you've heard this before, answer the following questions concerning cell organelles.

I know it would be giving me answers.

Are you ready?

Yes, sir.

All right, here we go.

Organelle, known as the powerhouse of the cell that produces mitochondria.

Yes.

Rigid external layer that produce.

That provides external support around the cell membrane in a plant cell.

Answer.

Cell wall.

Yes.

Gelatinous liquid fluid composed of organelles and cytosol.

Answer.

Cytoplasm.

Organelles to digest nutrients and breaks down excess cell parts.

Supplies.

Answer.

Lysosome energy driven process whose membrane proteins transport molecules across cell.

Answer.

Exocytosis.

No organelle that has cell.

Sapp cell membranes known as tono.

Plants.

Answer.

Vacuole sensory organelle that enables bacterial locomotion.

Oh.

Answer.

Flagellum.

Yes.

Organelle named after an Italian scientist that packages and modifies proteins.

Answer.

Golgi apparatus theory suggesting some organelles and eukarya.

Otic cells were once prokaryotic microbes that one will not go across.

For curiosity purposes.

That was the endosymbiotic theory.

All right.

So I only have one to come across to Arkadelphia.

And that's going to be number five.

And since Henry was designated as captain, answer will have to come from Henry.

Right.

Energy driven process whose number of proteins transport molecules across cells.

Active transport.

It is active transport.

Good job.

So that will do it for our lightning round.

And right now we see a score of Arkadelphia at 190 and Truman at 260.

We're going to check for any challenges and substitutions before our fourth quarter.

And with that I want to throw it back to Christina.

All right.

Thank you so much, Josh.

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Which means we are ready for the final round.

This has been an impressive match to watch.

And so let's head over to the quiz master to wrap it up.

All right.

Also, we also had no substitutions, so we have no new, new fresh faces to join us here.

This is our fourth quarter.

This is 20 more toss ups at the end of this game.

We should know who our state champion for 40 is going to be.

So good luck to both teams.

Take a deep breath.

And with that, let's start round for round four.

Our first question will be a math computation.

Please give the indefinite integral of secant squared x minus seven.

Music is ended.

Yes it is tangent of x minus seven x plus our ever favorite plus c. So number two, Sextus Pompey opposed Augustus from this island, where Alcibiades led a failed expedition during the Peloponnesian War.

On what island between Rome and Carthage was Syracuse, located.

Truman.

Quinton, Cyprus.

It is not Cyprus.

Arkadelphia.

Bryce, Sicily.

It is Sicily.

Number three.

This metal is used as a reducing agent to produce titanium in the Kroll process, and its sulfate is called Epsom salt.

What alkaline earth metal has atomic number 12.

Truman.

Quinton.

Magnesium.

Yes, it is number four.

In a poem this author wrote, quote.

Twas mercy brought me from my pagan land.

The poem was to His Excellency George Washington, and it was written by what black author of On Being Brought from Africa to America, Truman.

Clinton, Olaudah Equiano.

That is incorrect.

We'll call time.

I was looking for Phillis Wheatley.

Number five.

This sculpture's first major work, the Age of Bronze, was so, like Arkadelphia, Bryce Rodin, it is written.

Good job.

Number six.

Molasses law measures the change in this quantity across the polarizer.

The candela measures the luminous type of this quantity.

What quantity in physics is equal to the power of a source divided Truman, NOAA intensity.

It is intensity.

Good job.

We need number seven.

This game titles a Thomas Middleton play in the second section of T.S.

Eliot's poem The Wasteland.

Truman SIM chess.

It is chess number eight.

Fans accuse Angel Reese of snubbing this player from being the union.

This winter.

Arkadelphia.

Bryce.

Caitlin.

Clark, it is Caitlin.

Clark.

Number nine.

A function named after this mathematician contains a critical strip of nontrivial zeros and its namesake zeta function.

Definite integrals can be approximated using the namesake Truman.

Noah Riemann is Riemann.

Yes.

Good job.

Number ten.

When this quantity is near zero, the zero lower bound problem occurs, causing a liquidity trap.

The Federal Reserve sets what quantity, which is simple and compound types.

Truman NOAA interest prompt interest rate.

Yes.

Number 11, the central character of this novel raises her daughter, Pearl, on the outskirts of society after being shunned in this Truman Noah The Scarlet Letter.

It is a scarlet letter.

Number 12 Nicholas Salvi designed this structure, into which tourists throw coins before departing Arkadelphia.

Bryce Trevi Fountain It is the Trevi Fountain, number 13.

On these diagrams, the Clausius Clever on equation describes coexisting curves before they end at critical points.

Name these diagrams that plot differences between solids, liquids, and gases.

Arkadelphia Laney phase change diagram.

Judges.

Yes, it will accept that as had phase diagrams, I had to check.

All right, number 14.

This country was home to the new Jewel movement, which was led by Maurice Bishop.

Concerns about the safety of hundreds of medical students led the U.S. to intervene in this country in Operation Urgent Fury named this Caribbean island that Ronald Reagan.

Arkadelphia.

David, Cuba.

It's not Cuba that Ronald Reagan ordered the invasion of in 1983.

Truman, NOAA, Haiti.

Also not correct.

We're looking for Grenada, number 15.

In this disease, DNA polymerase undergoes replication slippage due to CAG repeats, resulting in uncontrollable jerking movements.

What autosomal disease presents itself as involuntary movements called chorea.

Truman.

Noah.

Tourette's, not Tourette's.

Arkadelphia.

Bryce.

Parkinson's?

No.

I was looking for Huntington's.

Huntington's 16.

A video counting to 100,001st propelled this creator, Truman Carlin.

Mr. beast, it is Mr.

Beast.

Did you watch that one?

No.

Okay, I didn't either.

It's all good.

All right, number 17, works by Flannery O'Connor exemplify the southern form of this stuff.

Truman.

Asher.

Gothic.

It is Gothic.

18.

This place call for the possibly nonexistent soprano saxophone in F and was commissioned as a ballet score by Ida Rubinstein.

A repetitive snare drum ostinato characterizes what Maurice Ravel piece named Truman sang Bolero, boleros, correct 19, is a science computation.

What is the period of a pendulum whose length is four times that of a pendulum, whose period is 3.4 seconds?

Truman, Sam 3.13.

That's incorrect.

Arkadelphia.

Laney 13.6.

Also incorrect.

I need a 6.8.

There's a square and a square root and some stuff like that.

And number 20, our last tossup of the game.

This thinker who described five methods of induction in his work A System of logic, argued that individuals have the right to all actions that do not hurt others.

A harm principle was theorized by a philosopher who wrote on liberty Truman, Quentin Locke, not Locke.

Arkadelphia.

Bryce Paine, also not Paine's.

John Stuart Mills.

And with that, let me double check real quick if we have any challenges.

So no, no.

So we have no challenges.

So I see that I have a score of Truman 350 Arkadelphia, 240.

Very well played game.

But Truman, you have won the four state champion, and Arkadelphia will be our for a runner up this year.

Graduations both teams.

And we will throw back to Christina.

Exactly as you said.

Congratulations to both teams.

It was a great match.

We will be right back.

But first, let's take a moment to meet some students that we may very well see on this stage in a few years.

Here are the 2025 Quiz Bowl, junior high MVP's and high point players.

And welcome back.

I'm here with Josh Duggins, president of Arkansas Governors Quiz Bowl Association.

And, boy, we have some awards to give out, don't we?

We do.

So, major, congratulations to both teams.

This was such a fun game to watch.

So for our for a, runner up, it is Arkadelphia this year.

Round of applause.

Congratulations.

And our four a state champions.

Are the Truman Wildcats.

Another round of applause.

Congratulations.

What a matchup.

It was so much fun to watch.

So you guys are such a group of impressive kids all the way around.

So congratulations.

And do we also have some other awards to hand out?

A names to mention.

We do.

So we have our state MVP and all day it has been back and forth.

There have been so many close contentions for who could be the state MVP.

And we had three young men today that were just neck and neck with each other.

But our winner, our state MVP from Truman is Noah Clayton.

Round of applause.

You got a lot of gear there.

Yeah, he's got some hardware today.

So our other all tournament members that are present in the room right now, we have Bryce Martin from Arkadelphia.

Quentin Busby from Truman.

And David Garrett from Arkadelphia.

Wonderful.

Now, on the screen, there should be, graphic where you're seeing the other all tournament players.

There is one that I do want to highlight.

From Dardanelle.

Mr. Jonathan Sykes is our, our high point player.

Okay.

And so congratulations, everybody.

They did great.

Round of applause for everybody.

I want to bring back our friends of Quiz Bowl.

We also have a scholarship recipient to announce.

So come on over.

Yes.

Thank you.

Again we have our oldest scholarship we've given is the Friends of Quiz Bowl Memorial scholarship is presented each year in memory of Drew Bottoms, a son of Patty and Carrie Bottoms.

This year, it goes to Quentin Busby of Truman High School.

Come on up here.

Clinton.

And, we've had some awfully nice things said about you.

You hear about your coach humble, graceful, relentless in his pursuit of knowledge, ultimate team player.

And he'll be attending Arkansas State.

And they people now, you know he's going to be majoring in but actuarial science.

So look that up if you don't know what that means.

But he's obviously a very smart guy.

Quentin, congratulations.

The 2025 forensic quiz bowl.

Drew bottoms memorial scholarship.

Well, congratulations.

Big round of applause.

And congratulations to everyone.

And thank you so much for being with us here today.

That is four down and three more matches to go up next we have the three A state championship with Hawes Hall Fayetteville taking on Hawes Hall Bentonville.

That's coming up in just a few minutes.

Right here live on Arkansas PBS.