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Scholar's Bowl, where high school students from all over the state compete for scholarship money.

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

Keep track and see how well you do up against the best high school students in Alabama.

Now here's your host, Mike Royer.

Hello, everyone.

Welcome in to this edition of the Alabama Scholar's Bowl semifinal competition.

Now, as we welcome two great teams back into our studio, the students from West Point High School and also Gadsden City will begin asking them questions in just a moment.

Our executive producer of the Scholar's Bowl is Mike Ousley.

Our judges are Sharon Daley, Nick Frederick, and Josh Ruski, and, Rhonda Brewer, an educator here in Alabama, may have the toughest job on this program hurting all these student students from one part of the building into the studio.

And we appreciate Rhonda helping us out as well.

Welcome back into the studio, everybody.

Are you ready to try this and see how we do 20 questions?

You know how this works.

If you answer correctly you get a bonus question.

Time's a wastin.

Let's get going.

In 2024, this man became the oldest Grammy Award nominee for his audio book, Last Sundays in Plains A Centennial Celebration what former U.S.

President Taft is.

It's in.

Jimmy Carter is correct.

Your bonus an NBA player who wore number 12 jersey against the magic in 1990 after his regular jersey was stolen, briefly wore number 45 after retiring in 1995, but usually wore number 23 for the Chicago Bulls.

Oh yeah, Michael, Michael Jordan is right.

Toss up everybody.

An attack on this country was done in retaliation for a West Berlin discotheque bombing called Operation El Dorado.

Chris.

No.

No.

That's incorrect.

Wow.

That's quite a buzz in there.

Sean, you have an answer.

Libya.

Libya is the right answer.

Bonus question for you.

West point.

These particles are detected by the sure knockoff radiation they emit in massive water tanks.

What nearly massless particles oscillate between the electron, Tao and muon flavors and have a name meaning little neutral one.

Neutrinos.

That's correct.

Everybody.

Both teams.

A character has hallucinations of performing this activity while growing black wings after stabbing him herself with a mirror shard.

Perfection at what activity is obsessed over by ballets, correct?

Good job Erin.

Your bonus question now Gadsden City, the 2023 rom com anyone but You is primarily set in what southern hemisphere city, which is also the first name of the actress who starred in the movie with Glen Powell.

Okay, let's see.

Oh, city since the last one.

Which Sidney Sydney is correct.

Good.

Both teams.

This question this leader was assassinated in his blue 1957 Chevrolet.

Bel air and himself attempted to assassinate Venezuelan President Romulo Betancourt.

Haitian neighbors were targeted by the partially massacre.

Chris Trujillo Trujillo is correct.

Bonus for you.

This figure traveled to the Taureans and saved his sister.

If a genie, while accompanied by his friend pilot dies the death of Agamemnon, bond and Agatha.

This was avenged by what son of his who killed his mother Clyde to Mr.

Orestes.

Orestes is right.

I'm exhausted.

I'm just.

I may need a moment here to rest.

Next question.

Both teams.

The father of this school of thought, penned the essays The Fixation of Belief and How to Make our Ideas Clear.

Chris.

Pragmatism is right.

Bonus in an opera by this composer, a firing squad kills Mario Carver for a dose and ends with the death of Barings.

Puccini.

Puccini is right.

Yep.

Good.

Toss up everybody with Alonzo Church.

This man needs a thesis.

Turing.

Turing is correct.

Bonus this former Microsoft executive said areas without precious stuff are America's balance sheet.

What former governor of North Dakota serves as Secretary of the interior.

Pass it is Doug Burgum, Doug Burgum.

Both teams.

A poem in this language opens with listen to the story of the read.

A quatrain heavy poem in this language describes Paradise as including a jug of wine.

Chris.

See?

Yes.

Persian or Farsi?

Your bonus in a novel by this author, Caspar Good.

Wood's marriage proposal is rejected by Isabelle Archer.

The portrait of a lady is a novel by what author who included Peter Quince ghost in this novel, the turn of the Screw James Henry James, right.

Question eight.

On the way to 20, this empire built the Great Mosque of Samarra named this empire, whose leader, Haroon Al Rashid, started the Islamic Golden Age by commissioning the House of Wisdom in Baghdad.

Chris opposite opposite is the right answer.

Another bonus for you this character meets a king who commands the sun to set.

This character is bitten by a snake and meets a narrator, the little Prince.

That's right.

Thanks for saving me the trouble.

Preciate it.

Question nine both teams.

This person claimed to see the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God before being executed.

Chris.

Paul.

That's incorrect.

I'll finish it for, you.

West point, executed by the Sanhedrin.

People laid down their clothes at the feet of Paul during the stoning.

Of what?

Christian martyr.

Mark.

Oh, no, it was Stephen.

Stephen was the one that was stoned.

Moving on to the next question, this title was first bestowed by Alton Conn to a leader of the Gillig School.

Tenzin Gyatso is the 14th holder.

Chris Dalai Lama is right.

Your bonus.

These cells are described by the Hodgkin Huxley model.

What cells are coated by a myelin sheath?

Communicate via synapses, contain an axon and transmit electrical signals.

Neurons is right.

Thank you.

Next, everybody.

In a poem by this author, the narrator says every woman adores a fascist.

And Chris was first.

Sylvia Plath Sylvia Plath is right.

Your bonus?

An equation name for this man, gives the time evolution of the wavefunction and states that h c equals e c. What Austrian physicist demonstrated quantum superposition by imagining a Imogene?

No, imagining a cat that is both dead and alive.

Schrodinger.

Yes, that's correct everybody.

What value which is between 0 and 1 for an ellipse and is greater than one is interesting.

That's correct.

Your bonus for your team, Sean.

The city's international airport lies in a neighboring states, Boone County, and its airport code references the city suburb of Covington, a Revolutionary War officer's society named what city in southwest Ohio?

Cincinnati.

Cincinnati.

Cincinnati is correct.

That's right.

Toss up.

This leader caused a famine by banning the consumption of milk after the death.

Chris.

Shaka Shaka Zulu is right.

Your bonus.

A little math quiz real quick here.

Solve for x if four x plus three equals five x minus eight.

Let's see x minus eight.

It's just a 11.

Got an answer 1111 is right.

Next question everyone.

The company constellation announced that this site would be renamed the Christopher M Crane Clean Energy Center and be restored to generate power for Microsoft.

Eva Chernobyl.

Nope.

I'll finish it for you.

Gadsden City, generate power for Microsoft.

What?

Pennsylvania nuclear power plant.

Andrew Island.

Three Mile Island is right.

Your bonus.

What?

Storage devices developed by IBM came in 3.5, 5.25, and eight inch varieties and had a name referencing the flexible jackets they were housed in floppy disk.

Floppy disk?

You guys have never even seen a floppy disk.

Next, this word is used to refer to the Copenhagen School, which argues a unified kingdom of Israel never existed.

Composers like Steve Rich and Philip Glass minimalist minimalist is correct.

Bonus a composer from this country is best known for his Third Symphony, nicknamed the Song of the night.

The heroic and military polynesia's were composed from what home country of Frederic Chopin?

Comfortable with.

Yeah, yeah.

Poland?

Yeah.

Poland.

Well, then a few more questions.

In this part of the round, an author with his last name wrote a novel about Edward Weston, a parson who falls in love with Agnes Gray.

Another author with his last name, Bronte is right.

Another bonus.

This God was born after his mother disguised herself as ISIS and slept with a Osiris.

This son of Nephites weighs a person's heart against the father of my heart.

In a ritual recounted in the Book of Dead Name this Egyptian god of the afterlife and movies.

All righty.

Next, the central panel of the ice in the Haim Altarpiece by Matthias Grunwald depicts this scene.

Chris The Crucifixion, the crucifixion.

Bonus.

Urim and Thummim translated writing on these objects in Reformed Egyptian, the angel Moroni led a religious founder to these objects.

From what objects did Joseph Smith describe the Book of Mormon?

The golden plate.

The golden plates.

Question 18.

Competitors in this activity might spread while speaking and call finding evidence.

Cutting cards.

What high school competition has types of debate?

Debate is correct.

This bonus.

This symbol is used in the LA text to indicate a mathematical region, and in Excel to dead to denote a fixed cell reference name.

This symbol used by the U.S.

to denote a unit of currency or dollar sign.

Dollar sign is right next to hypothetical, one of these places that allows all of its inhabitants to be viewed from room.

Note I'll finish this for you.

West point inhabitants to be viewed from a single point is called the pen up tees taken.

Josh.

Panopticon.

Thank you Michael.

Foucault's Discipline and Punish analyzes what institutions which are opposed by the antique car serial movements and its prison prisons is correct.

Don't mind Josh helping out to make sure you students know what we're talking about.

Here's your bonus question.

This figure fights off the Trojans single handedly when they reach the Greek ships, and later, with Menelaus guards the body of Patroclus.

What son of Telamon is discussed, distinguished from a lesser figure of the same name, a or a Ajax.

Is that enough?

Judges.

Ajax a little more.

The lesser Ajax the Great.

Ajax the Great is over.

One last question before our lightning round.

The book of Joshua records a Jewish tradition that this man killed Nimrod.

Nimrod right before he demanded stew.

In Genesis 25, Chris Esau, he saw his right bonus for you.

A short story titled For these Animals, centers on a princess whose lover chooses between two doors, one which hosts a savage beast named this feline animal paired with the tigers.

Correct?

Well done.

Lay your buttons down, grab a breath, and get ready for the lightning round.

Brought to you by the Alabama Community College System.

I've already told the students before we begin with the categories are and they are these for you at home.

The Republic of Texas, wonders of the world.

Ancient and modern Cellular secretion, turn and then expensive paintings is the last one.

West Point.

You're trailing a little bit here at the midpoint.

You'll choose first and play one.

Then we'll come over to you.

Get sensitive.

You'll choose two categories and play them both and one left over back to West Point.

Before we do this, let's meet our, students.

Outstanding young people that we enjoy being around.

Here on the program.

We will begin with Abraham.

My name is Ivor Mo.

I'm a freshman at West Monroe High School, and I do math team.

My name is David.

I'm a sophomore at West Point, and I do Beta Club.

My name is Sean Harbison.

I'm a senior at West Point High School and I hope to attend the University of Alabama.

I am, but is often a senior at West Point High School and I am on the math team.

Alvin Win, I'm a senior from Guess High School and I hope to attend UAB.

I'm Ron Gaines, I'm a senior at Gadsden C High School and my favorite subject is English.

I'm Andrew in.

I'm a sophomore from USC high school and I do JROTC and plan on doing Jlab for them.

Hi, my name is Chris Holder.

I'm a senior Gadsden Senior School and I want to shout out my neighbors, miss Pat, Miss Janice and Miss Donna watching at home.

I think you guys are great.

Very good.

Thank you all.

Couple of you said you hope to go somewhere.

I'll bet you're going to go wherever you want to go.

You guys are smart, and I'll bet you end up exactly where you want to be and where you need to be.

Well, let's play our lightning round and West Point.

Of the four I mentioned, what would you like to do?

Sean will take wonders of the world.

Wonders of the world in seconds.

These are both ancient and modern.

Name these wonders.

Here we go.

Collection of Egyptian tombs built in this 3D shape.

Pyramid country, which contains the Great Wall, China.

Mughal era mausoleum in Agra, India.

The Taj Mahal.

That's right.

City which contains the Flavian Amphitheater.

Babylon.

No.

That's incorrect.

It's Rome.

The port of Alexandria had this type of building, library and, sorry, lighthouse.

Can't accept that.

They say.

They say Greek city in Anatolia, which contained a mausoleum pass Greek Island, which contained a statue of Apollo Rhodes.

That's right.

Statue of this Greek god was found in Olympia archeological site in Jordan, built by Hydra.

That's right.

Main pyramid in chicken.

It's, Pass.

Okay, that was kicked in.

Is is that last one?

And I'm sorry.

Nevermind.

The other one you passed on was a Greek city in Anatolia which contained a mausoleum.

Halicarnassus is the answer for that one.

All right, let's let's go over now to Gadsden City.

You're going to choose two.

In which two would you like to do?

Could we do paintings in the Republic of Texas, please?

Sure.

You want to, in that order.

Expensive paintings in 60s answer the following about paintings that have sold for at least $150 million.

Here we go.

This artist who's Salvator Mundi sold for DaVinci.

That's right.

Gorgon painting.

When will you marry?

While on this Pacific island, Tahiti.

Laravel was painted by this Spanish co-developer of Cubism.

Oh, oh, it's baroque.

Baroque?

No, it's Picasso seasons.

The Card Players was bought by this Middle Eastern country led by Doha, Qatar.

Country?

Yes.

Shot sage blue Marilyn was created by this pop artist who worked at the factory.

Warhol is right.

Number 17 was created by this abstract expressionist nicknamed Jack the Ripper.

Pollock.

That's right.

This Dutchman, the standard bearer was brought, was bought by the Reichs Museum, which also contains his The Nightwatch, Rembrandt Mata.

A Giuliani's new cachet was sold through this auction house.

Arrival of Sotheby's.

Oh, a rival of Sotheby's passed this pop artist masterpiece was made using Ben Day de dots.

Oprah Winfrey sold this Austrian painter's portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer.

Time is up.

They get Clinton in time.

All right.

Very good.

Good job though.

Let's talk about shifting gears.

We're going from expensive fancy art to the Republic of Texas.

We'll change our accent just a bit as I do.

Texas don't.

You're going to answer the following about the Republic of Texas.

Here we go.

Country.

The Republic of Texas joined to become the Panthers.

Yeah, the Republic of Texas claim this river.

It's its southern border.

Its flag features a lone one of these five pointed shapes.

Memorable, memorable San Antonio mission where Davy Crockett was killed.

First Secretary of State of Texas, who?

The namesake of the state capital of Houston.

So what's the answer?

Austin Austin, first president of Texas, was the namesake of the state's most populous city, the 11th U.S.

president who supported the annexation of Texas.

One legged Mexican, whose repeal of the Constitution led to the Texas Revolution in the final battle of the Texas Revolution, San Jacinto that's right.

Massacre of 400 Texas prisoners by the Mexican army in the namesake town.

Namesake Alamogordo.

Alamogordo.

No.

That's incorrect.

It's the Goliad massacre.

You didn't skip any, did you?

That was it.

Good.

Good job.

I think you got nine, 8 or 9 out of ten, and.

I could have sworn cellular secretion would have gone earlier, you know.

Are you ready to do this?

Yeah.

All right.

Name the following regarding cellular secrete secretory pathways.

Okay.

Compounds that make up secretory signals in make up proteins.

Amino acids, organelle that sends vesicles to the Golgi apparatus and comes in smooth into the cell.

Yes.

Organelles that are the final destination for waste and proteins to be degraded.

Lysosome.

That's right.

This Cristo skeletal components made of tubulin that help transport vesicles.

Micro tubules.

That's right.

Process of programed cell death.

That involved process.

That's right.

Structural network outside the cell made of secreted molecules by glycoproteins.

Cell membrane.

That's incorrect.

Disease caused by bacteria in genus Vibrio, whose namesake toxin is expelled via the secretory path.

Oh, Shiga.

No.

It's cholera process of importing substances by building of a vesicle and balances the secretory secretary pathway past protein that coats vesicles destined for the late endosomes with a skeleton structure.

Time is up to get an answer in Golgi apparatus.

No, that wasn't right.

Anyway.

Well, that was fun to read.

Equally funny, fun to try to answer.

Let's move on.

20 questions.

They're all for as many as we can get in in five minutes.

And 50s.

These are worth 20 points each.

If you're a little bit behind, you can do some catching up.

No bonuses, just a question and move on.

The substances namesake streaming helps transport molecules and organelles extensions of this substance called pseudo dopey, a dope dope Padilla are the amoebas for movement.

Name this gel like substance cytoplasm sig in cytoplasm.

Yes that's correct.

This war was prompted by the ascension of the Protestant the Winter King Frederick the fifth name.

This conflict that resulted in the death 30 Years War.

That's right.

This city is home to the African Renaissance monument and the house of slaves on Goree Island.

Sean, Dakar Dakar is right.

Kevin Buzzard received 1 million pounds to formalize the proof of this theorem in lean.

What theorem?

Fermat's last.

That's right.

In eukaryotic eukaryotes, proteins are targeted to this organelle by signal recognition.

Particles are endoplasmic reticulum from rough endoplasmic reticulum.

Well, you prompted a lot.

A member of this ethnicity allegedly had the 1917 World Series fixed, while another.

That's right Jewish is right.

This thinker who taught in a garden founded a namesake school of thought that included Lucretius.

What ancient Greek thinker names a philosophical school often contrasted with stoicism because Sean Plato no, because of its focus on pleasure.

The answer?

Chris.

Oh my gosh, I can't think of his name.

Okay, Epicurious is what we wanted in this city.

Allegations of Gestapo tactics being used by police and Abraham.

Chicago.

That's right.

In one play by this author, the maid Sabina serves Walter Wilder's right.

One of this artist six footers shows really lots, Constable.

That's right.

In a novel by this author, Jesus is taught by a shepherd who turns out Saramago.

That's right.

Plutarch.

Plutarch first discussed this thought experiment while relating a debate over theories of identity.

What thought experiment?

Ask if an object belonging to a mythological hero.

Theseus.

That's right.

This quantity, which is proportional to the fourth power of a star's temperature or its radius squared, is on the y axis of a luminosity.

That's right.

Luminosity.

NASA has invested in research in this technique to grow lettuce in order to sustain human life in space.

What technique uses mineral nutrient solutions in an Aquis environment to grow plants without soil?

What's it called on hydro planting?

Sagan hydro planting.

No, that's incorrect.

Bryn hydro farming.

No, it's hydroponics.

Hydroponics is what it's called.

What type of tubing which rots from the inside and was used as an alternative to lead plumbing until the 1960s, consist of a steel pipe, hot dipped with a zinc coating.

What's it called, Chris?

No, Sean galvanized.

Galvanized is correct.

This explorer, who led the formation of the Eastern Settlement, deceptively named its best known discovery to attract settlers.

Leif Erikson.

No.

That's incorrect.

Do you have an answer?

Was John Erik the Red?

Erik the Red is right.

This man's time as the Bishop of Attune led to him being the first bishop to embrace the Civil constitution of the clergy.

What diplomat demanded bribes during the XYZ affair?

Chris Talleyrand is right.

We have two minutes left.

Jacqueline Dupre performs in E minor.

Elgar Elgar is right in this city.

Charles Vane was hanged on the gallows point where other criminals like calico Jack were also hanged.

Henry Morgan operated from what non-capital city in Jamaica.

Andrew now portrayal is the right answer.

Born in Nickel Cow open zoo, this animal has two siblings named now Dead and New Tun Sean.

Oh, no.

No answer.

I'll finish reading it.

What?

Pygmy hippopotamus.

His name translates to bouncy pork and went viral on social media.

Moody.

Moody is right.

Potato meters are used to measure the rate of this process, which is driven by capillary action and differences.

John.

Osmosis.

No, that's incorrect.

Differences in water potential.

What process of water loss occurs in the leaves of plants?

What's that called?

Crisp diffusion.

No, it's called transpiration.

Transpiration.

This novels protagonist attends a debauched Val, purges night party and falls in love with Cabiria.

I was afraid of Virginia Woolf.

No.

I'll finish it for you.

Name this Thomas Mann novel by Hans Castro.

Stay in the title Swiss Sanatorium, the Magic mountain.

The Magic Mountain is correct.

One more.

These particles were discovered at slack using deep inelastic scattering.

Gluons hold these particles together.

Sean.

Quarks.

Quarks is the right answer.

We're out of time.

We're done.

I don't think I can read anymore anyway.

I'm just worn out.

You guys did a good job.

Very close, competitive round.

Congratulations to all of you.

And winning this particular round is, Gadsden City.

Congratulations to you.

We'll get the score to you when the judges figure they're tabulations.

Have you seen this?

This trophy is going to go to the winner.

We're in the semifinal rounds now, but pretty soon we'll be getting right into the finals.

Very exciting times here on the Alabama Scholar's Bowl.

We're glad that you're watching and hope you'll join us again next time.

I'm Mike Royer.

Have a great day everybody.