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Questions in science, technology, engineering, math, and history.

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Now here's your host, Mike Royer.

Hello, everyone, and welcome into another edition of the Alabama Scholar's Bowl.

I'm Mike Royer.

It's my privilege to host this program each week here on Alabama Public Television.

We're glad you've joined us once again.

We have some fine teams in our studio from the Anniston area, Donahue School, the gentleman from that school with us.

We're glad to have you back on the program.

And from Calhoun County, the students from Alexandria.

Welcome back.

And we're glad you're on our program today as well.

Our executive producer for the program is Mike Ousley.

Our judges are Sharon Daley, Nick Frederick, Josh Ruski, and Rhonda Brewer.

Help us out behind the scenes.

We appreciate all of them and all the work they do to make this program happen.

Are you guys ready to play?

All right, buzzers in hand.

We have 20 questions.

And if your team answers correctly, you get a bonus question.

Let's see how we do.

We'll start with this question.

Glenview Capital, the major shareholder of this company, began significantly pushing for changes, as it called for a new board of directors.

In October of 2024, David Joyner succeeded Karen Lynch, the former CEO of What American Retail Pharmacy does in in is Lauren.

CVS pharmacy is correct.

And a bonus question for you, Alexandria.

Chris Burke, who played Corky on Life Goes On, and Lauren Potter, who played Becky on Glee, have raised awareness of what condition that is characterized by brush field spots on the iris eponymous condition that is characterized by that.

Give an answer.

Floaters.

No.

It's Down's syndrome.

Down's syndrome is what they draw attention to.

Next question for everyone.

The release of this molecule is prevented by botulinum toxin, and this molecule is degraded by its namesake s estuaries.

Josh, you like that?

Great.

What main peripheral neurotransmitter is released at neuromuscular junctions and is synthesized from acetyl CoA.

CoA.

What's you got, Jeremy?

Oh, Colleen, look at you.

That's the right answer.

Good job.

Bonus for you.

This man was sentenced to seven years in jail for marrying butcher a Bebe during her Ida period, but appealed and was acquitted.

What founder of the PTI was a cricket star who served as Prime Minister of Pakistan from 2018 through 2022.

Do you know that name?

Ali.

I know it's Imran Khan.

Khan was the last name we needed.

Next question for everybody.

Pathogens.

With this disease.

Oh one serotype are used in its oral vaccines, including Duke Rall.

This disease is caused by bacteria in the genus Vibrio.

Jon Snow showed the water borne nature of what disease that causes severe dehydration through diarrhea.

What is that disease?

David.

Cholera.

It is cholera.

Good bonus for you, Donohoe markers.

Count to ten while stalling in this sport, which is played by Marcus Brownlee.

Common ways to throw the central object in this sport include the hammer as well as flicks.

Name this sport in which points are scored by catching this in in zones.

What's it called?

Frisbee.

Say again.

Frisbee.

Prompt a little more.

Ultimate frisbee.

Ultimate frisbee is the right answer.

Good job.

Next, the movie castaway was filmed in Eureka Island in this country, which shares its name with a brand of water that comes in rectangular bottles.

Chris.

Fiji Fiji is the right answer.

Your bonus?

In one novel by this author, the composer Adrian Lever can purposely contract syphilis to increase his creativity.

Hence, Kass Daubs experiences in the Swiss sanatorium are chronicled in a novel by what?

Author of The Magic Mountain man?

Man is right.

Thomas Mann.

Toss up everybody.

During the campaign on this island, George Patton slapped two American soldiers during Operation Husky.

Mount Etna was a key position.

In what?

Triangle shaped island in southern Italy.

Where was this, David?

Sicily is right.

Your bonus.

Penzias and Wilson discovered this field of radiation after confusing it with the effect of bird droppings observed by the Map spacecraft.

What field of radiation is left over from the Big Bang?

Cosmic background.

Good enough.

Judges.

Cosmic background was his answer.

From a little more cosmic background radiation.

No microwave is the word in the middle of it.

The judges wanted to hear.

Next question for everyone.

A man in this painting, believed to be the artist, has a red cross on his chest and works as a at a large easel.

A dwarf and a dog.

A company made of honor in what Diego Velazquez painting depicting the Infanta margarita.

Yes, David, Las Meninas.

That's correct.

Bonus for you.

Transformers using this 3D shape reduce the leakage of magnetic flux.

A type of fusion reactor called a tokamak.

Has this shape topologically equivalent to a coffee cup.

Name this shape that looks like a donut.

Taurus.

Taurus is right.

Good job.

Toss up everybody.

This author depicted the merge family in the Jewish quarter of Vienna and in his play Leopold Stott, and depicted two characters flipping a coin 92 times.

In Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.

What Czech British playwright wrote Arcadia.

Anybody know that playwright?

Tom Stoppard is the name we wanted.

Next question.

This book declares that every virtue is the middle ground of two vices in its doctrine of the mean.

Name this text by Aristotle, which was named for his son.

Murray.

Jeremy took a shot.

Plato.

Nope.

Anybody else?

Nicomachean ethics is the answer to that one.

Climbers on this mountain make camp overnight at Mira Lake.

After following lone Pine Creek upstream, Sequoia National Park contains the summit of what California Peak, the highest in the contiguous United States J.R.

Whitney.

Mount Whitney is correct.

A bonus for you, Donohoe.

This country was home to a composer whose Fourth Symphony was dubbed his romantic.

Anton Bruckner.

Arnold Schoenberg founded what nation's second Viennese Viennese school?

Austria, after his correct question number ten on the way to 20.

Function name for this man gives the amount of numbers less than n co-prime to n and its total end function.

What mathematician who solved the seven bridges of Königsberg discovered the constant that is, the base and its buzzing is David Euler.

You said Euler.

Yes.

That's correct.

Bonus question for you.

Zach LaVine was traded from the Chicago Bulls to the Sacramento Kings in a three team trade that led De'Aaron Fox to join this team.

What NBA team does fringe center Victor Wembanyama play for Timberwolves?

Now he plays for the Spurs San Antonio Spurs next.

A leader of this family won the Battle of Sabah Sabah La against the IC one militia.

He previously used to conquer.

Hey, jaws, what family's Mohammed bin Salman is the de facto ruler of the largest country in the Arabian Peninsula.

That his name for.

Who is it?

I don't feel like David.

Saudi or Saudis, right?

Good enough.

Judges.

Very good.

Your bonus.

This figure descendant Le mesh states that if he was a bin seven times, he will avenge himself 77 times the mark of what figure protected him after he killed his brother Abel.

Okay.

Yes.

Cain King's right.

Yes.

Here's a question for everyone on Olivia Rodrigo song with this title claims I'm sorry I couldn't always be your and Lauren American girl.

No.

I'm going to continue reading the rest of the question.

A Katy Perry album titled for this concept includes the song firework.

Now, J.R.

Teenage Dream is the right answer.

Bonus.

This reaction most commonly occurs when weak acids and bases dissolve.

Then this decomposition reaction adds hydrogen and hydroxide ions to its product.

What type of reaction uses water to break covalent bonds and the opposite of dehydration synthesis?

What's that process called?

Dissolution?

Nope.

It's hydrolysis.

Hydrolysis is the answer.

Next, everybody.

The author who used the pseudonym Mr.

Coney Gaber to parody Samuel Richardson when writing the novel Shimla.

Name this founder of the Bow Street Runners who wrote about the title fondling Tom Jones.

Who's that author?

Yes.

Chris.

Mark Twain?

Nope.

Anybody else?

Yes.

Jerry Jane Austen?

Yeah.

Henry Fielding.

But always take a shot at it.

You'll never go wrong.

Next question in a movie title for this number, Max von Sydow plays Antonius Block, a knight who plays chess with the devil.

Ingmar Bergman directed a film titled For What Numbers?

Seal.

And the answer is seven is right.

You get a bonus question.

Now what is your bonus question?

Sorry, no.

Here's your bonus question.

In a story of by this author, Piney Woods and Mother Shipton are stuck in a storm while John Oakhurst commits suicide after being exiled.

The outcast of Poker Flats is by what?

Author of The Luck of Roaring Camp?

Do you know that author of Longfellow?

It's Bret Hart, Bret Hart next five, number 15 alongside Ragnar, are a ruler of these people.

Defeated by Greece at the Battle of Soissons.

Clovis the first led.

What?

People's mayor of Aegean dynasty, Merovingian dynasty.

Anybody?

David the Franks.

The Franks is right.

Your bonus.

What's the length of the third side of a triangle with the sides?

Side length nine and four that meet at a 60 degree angle.

What is the length of the third side of a triangle with side length?

Nine.

And for that meet a 60 degree angle.

Give you a few more seconds.

3123 root two.

Square root 61.

Square root 61.

Next question.

Both teams.

This speech calls its audience the salt of the earth and the light of the world.

Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth is said in what?

Speech by Jesus from the Gospel of Matthew.

David, the sermon on the Mount.

That was the sermon on the Mount.

Your bonus question.

This city was where the USS Tecumseh sank during the 1864 battle, during which an admiral shouted, damn the torpedoes!

David Farragut won a battle at a bay named for what southern Alabama city?

Mobile?

Mobile is correct.

Very good.

Moving on.

This man was the victor at the Battle of Flamborough Head, where he commanded the USS Bornholm.

Richard, the stage name of LED Zeppelin's basis, was inspired by what naval hero who in 1779.

And it is Jeremy John Paul Jones.

John Paul Jones is right.

Bonus for you Alexandria.

This piece called for the possibly nonexistent soprano saxophone in F, was commissioned as a ballet score by Ida Rubinstein.

A repetitive snare drum ostinato characterizes what Maurice Ravel's piece, named for a Spanish dance.

The bonus got it conceptually, no.

It's from the movie ten called Bolero.

Next question for everyone.

In January 2025, Indonesia officially joined this inter-governmental organization that also includes the UAE, Egypt and Ethiopia, proposing a currency as an alternative to the US dollar.

Russia, India and other countries found in what Geo and it is David BRICs BRICs is right bonus what effect which can be heard at the beginning of Foxy Lady by Jimi Hendrix, is created when sound from a speaker reaches a microphone that is connected to producing a high pitched squeal.

What's that call?

Feedback.

Say it again.

Feedback.

Feedback is right.

Grab your pencil.

Find the sine of a 30 degree angle.

In simplest radical form.

Yes, Jeremy.

The square root of three over four.

No.

That's incorrect.

Do you guys have an answer?

Yes.

Chris Root three over 20.5.5 is the right answer.

Next, in 2024, our last question, this European city banned demonstrations for three days following a set a soccer match that Maccabi Tel Aviv lost five to nothing.

Femke Halsema is the mayor of what city Chris helped city.

And I'm sorry.

That's all right.

I'll finish this for you.

Alexandria.

Femke Halsema is the mayor of what city?

That is home to the football club Imax and is the capital of the Netherlands and Germany.

Amsterdam.

Amsterdam is right.

You get the last bonus in this country.

The Partido Popular was defeated in 2004 elections after separatists bombed four trains in this country's capital.

It's not France, but Basque separatists operate.

In what nation?

Where?

Pedro Sanchez leads a coalition that includes the Catalan separatist separatist.

What country is that?

Spain.

Spain is right.

Let your buttons down.

We're going to get ready to do the lightning round and ask you all to tell our viewers at home a little bit about yourself.

Speaking of the viewers at home, I'll tell you what the categorie Each question answer begins with the letter R or T or L or S, and at the halfway point, Donohoe Alexandria is slightly trailing at the midpoint.

So you'll choose first.

You guys will choose two categories, and we'll use the last one back over here right now though, Carlton, you would you begin and tell our viewers a little bit about yourself.

I'm Carlton, I'm a freshman at all I know, and I keep chickens in my home.

I'm David, I'm a senior at Donohoe, and I enjoy traveling.

Well, I'm Chris, I'm a senior.

Donohoe and I plan to attend Auburn next year.

Mjr I'm a junior at Donohoe and I love to bake.

I'm Hailey, I'm a sophomore at Alexandria High School and I'm in my first year of band.

I'm Lauren, I'm a junior at Alexandria High School and I have a pet lizard.

I'm Jeremy, I'm a senior at Alexandria, and I play the tuba.

I'm Wayne, a senior at Alexandria, and I like robotics.

Glad to have you all with us.

What do you name your lizard?

Oh, Godzilla.

Godzilla?

Of course.

I should have guessed that one.

All right, let's play some, lightning round here.

We're going to begin with you, Alexandria.

Tell me which one of those letters you'd like to try.

We want to ask.

You're going to go with S. All the answers start with S. That's the only hint you've got.

60s.

Here we go.

Superhero played by Tom Holland.

Holland.

Spider-Man.

Beethoven's 14th for piano is called the Moonlight.

One leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 53.

Mythology.

Mythological figure who pushes a boulder up a hill only to watch it roll back down this river that French President Emmanuel Macron promised to swim in before the Paris Olympics.

Sign.

Oh yes, polytheistic Japanese religion whose deities include Emmett to Rosa Shintoism.

Yes, California University, where Philip Zimbardo ran his famous prison experiments.

Stanford.

That's right.

Phase transition from solid to gas with no liquid state in between.

Sublimation.

French composer of the Carnival of Animals in the dance Macabre past Dutch speaking nation west of French Guiana that is led from para rainbow.

Surinam.

Suriname is correct.

And the other one that you passed on French composer of the Carnival of Animals and the Dance Macabre.

Saint-Saens.

That's correct.

Right on time.

Well done.

Good job.

All right.

We're coming over to you, Donohoe.

And you get to choose between art and oil.

What would you like to do, Chris?

We're choosing l l l is one of my favorites.

You have 60s all the answers start with l toxic heavy metal found in many old paints and has the symbol PB lead animal nickname of the NFL team quarterback by Jared Goff and based in Detroit Lions William Golding novel syndrome on Ralph and Jack's attempts to survive on a deserted island.

Lord of the flies.

Hector, electromagnetic radiation that is made up of photons.

Light capital city of Nebraska.

This name for the 16th president of the United States Lincoln Bridgman, nicknamed the Sun King Louis the 14th.

That's right, leader of the Protestant Reformation who wrote 95 theses.

Luther.

Yes, mother of Artemus and Apollo in Greek mythology.

Carter later.

That's right.

Wife of Jacob, who mothered the 12 sons that became the 12 tribes of Israel.

Leah.

That's right.

Composer of Hungarian Rhapsodies and namesake of a 19th century mania.

You have 10s Leo.

Kabbalah.

Sagan Lang.

Kabbalah.

Nope.

That's, list list on that one.

You got all the rest of them?

Well done.

And you're going to play another one.

I think we have our left.

What would you like to do?

We're taking t t I'll answer.

Start with t 60s.

Here we go.

The only even prime number to the study of heat and energy transfer thermodynamics.

Capital city of Iran, Tehran.

A cassava derived starch used to make pearls for boba drinks.

Tapioca?

That's right.

Shakespeare comedy about Prospero's revenge plot.

Tempests, infectious bacterial disease that affects the lungs and was formerly called consumption.

Tuberculosis dissonant devil's interval equivalent to an augmented fourth or diminished fifth tritone.

August.

Rodin's sculpture of a man in a pensive pose.

The thinker, desolate planet from Star Wars, ruled by Jabba the Hutt.

Tattooing hormone released in Oregon, found in human neck's thyroid.

That's right.

You nailed that one.

Good time to spare.

Well done.

Does that leave us with our very good.

We're coming back to you, Alexander.

You get this one.

All answers.

Start with the letter R.

60s.

Cold blooded, starting over.

Cold blooded class of animals that includes turtles, crocodiles and snakes.

Body of water that Moses crossed after it parted.

In the book of Exodus.

Brazilian city, home of Christ the Redeemer.

Statue phase in Europe.

Country led by Vladimir Putin.

Twin cities of Remus who founded Rome.

According to myth passed Si unit for measuring angles.

Stand up.

That's right, 2007 Pixar movie about a rat named Remy who wants to be a chef, right?

It's a process in which a wave changes direction as it crosses a boundary pass.

Official language of Moldova past 13th century Persian poet who wrote the spiritual couplets.

Yes, you got some time left.

Process in which a wave changes direction as it crosses a boundary.

Reflection.

No.

It's refraction.

Official language of Moldova Russian through Romanian.

13th century Persian poet who wrote the spiritual couplets time is up.

Si unit for measuring angles is radians.

And the other brother was Romulus.

All right.

We are done with the lightning round.

Well done everybody.

We have, the lightning round brought to you by Alabama Community College System.

Always wanted to make sure and mention that we appreciate their support.

Now let's move on with, 3.5 minutes left we're going to do the speed round.

Questions worth 20 points.

No bonus.

Let's go.

This was the first organism to have its connect dome or full nervous system mapped out.

This organism is where the and Chris nematode.

No I'll finish it apart.

DCIs genes were discovered.

The first multicellular organisms to have its DNA sequence was what model species of roundworm.

What is that called?

Sherry?

Yes, Lauren?

Nope.

Elegans.

Elegans is what we wanted.

A book targeting these people was coauthored by Jacob Springer and written by Henrik Kramer.

Malleus Mel fair Karam.

Women were often burned after being accused of being what people and witches is, right?

Good.

After stealing some of these items from Laban, Rachel hides them under a saddle.

Revelation 920 and its Carleton idols is right.

This creature was linked to the collapse of the Silver Bridge.

Point pleasant was where what winged humanoid creature was spotted in West Virginia?

Yeah, Mothman is right.

What operation?

Which can only be performed in 3 or 7 dimensions, outputs zero when its inputs are parallel, is written with an X like multiplication, and can be computed with the help of the right hand rule.

A lot of words got an answer?

Lauren?

Nope.

Anybody else?

What you got?

David?

Derivatives?

Nope.

Cross, cross, cross is the answer.

We have a couple minutes left.

What author wrote about the African mask collecting father, whose in a bend in the river and 11 fingered protagonist hired to paint signs as Hanim Hana Hanuman house in a house for Mr.

Biswas.

Anybody?

Nepal is the answer.

This character comments that a girl at the ball is not handsome enough to tempt him.

Katherine did and Mr.

Darcy, that's Mr.

Darcy, my favorite movie.

Next, in a short story by this author, an artist tortures his apprentices and sees his daughter burn in a carriage.

In another story by this author, a woodcutter, bandit, priest and a ghost give different accounts of a murder.

What author wrote the stories in a grove and a mountain?

And it's up to.

Oh that's correct, well done.

Next question.

This industry was investigated by an author who said, I aim for the public's heart.

Chris, meatpacking is right.

This man depicted a headless statue modeled after the Borges, a gladiator that looms over the destruction of a city shown in his Course of Empire series named this American leader of the Hudson River school.

Yes, sir.

Noam Chomsky?

Nope.

Anybody else?

Cole.

Thomas Cole.

One more question.

This author created the jazz drummer Rufus in the novel Another Country, and one of the novels was made into a Barry Jenkins film name.

This African American author of If Beale Street Could Talk and Go Tell It on the mountain.

Anybody know the answer to that?

Our last question and the answer is James Baldwin.

James Baldwin, lay your pins down.

I was a good competitive round.

You all did well.

And in this particular one, Donahoe, you come out on top of this one.

But you guys were not far behind you played well.

Proud of you as I know all of your folks back home are.

And we appreciate you watching our program.

It's called the Alabama Scholar's Bowl.

I'm Mike Royer and we'll be back next week.

We hope you hope you'll be back to have a great day.

Everybody.