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Hi, everybody.

And welcome once again to the Alabama Scholar's Bowl.

I want you to see right out of the gate the beautiful trophy that one of our teams will take back to their school at the end of our competition.

This is the seventh season for the Alabama Scholar's Bowl, and we're proud of all the teams to participate and not only honor them with scholarship money, but with a nice trophy at the end of the day as well.

We're glad that you've joined us for our program.

We're here every week statewide on Alabama Public Television.

My name is Mike Royer, but the important names of the folks who worked so hard to make this happen are executive producers Mike Owsley, Sharon Daly, Kate Wilson, Nick Frederick, and N Harris do all the work behind the scenes of judging, scorekeeping, timing, and all of that.

That makes the wheels go round and round and round.

We welcome West Point from the Cullman area, West Point High School back into the studio, and the Alabama School of Cyber Technology and Engineering from now will be called a CTE from now on.

We're glad to have you back as well.

You all have played so well in previous rounds, and we think we're in store for a good round here today.

Is everybody ready to go?

First questions.

As you know 20 of them with a bonus question if you answer correctly.

So let's get started.

What state where Congressman Ruben run by Yago is running in 2020 for Tate Arizona.

Arizona's right.

Your bonus.

Keep Angella which contains the northernmost point on mainland Africa is found.

In what country?

Tunisia.

That is right.

Pencil and paper for you.

If you need it.

How many minutes will a round trip take?

If the first leg takes 15 minutes and the last leg takes one fifth less time.

What you got there?

27 minutes.

27 is correct.

Bonus question.

I haven't.

What?

Polyatomic ion with chemical formula M in O four minus is known for its intensely purple potassium salt permanganate.

That's correct.

Toss up both teams.

What surname is shared by a California governor recalled in 2003 and Brody Brown?

No.

That's incorrect.

I'll finish the question for you here.

California governor recalled in 2003 an actress known for her eyes named Betty and the president of the Confederacy.

Yes, Brooks.

Davis is right.

Bonus question for your team.

What Italian author wrote about William of Baskerville, a friar asked to investigate a murder in the philosophical mystery.

The name of the Rose Taco?

That's correct.

What kingdom used in USO regiments to trigger a series of population.

Tate.

Zulu.

Zulu.

Kingdom is right.

Your bonus.

In 1971, Daniel Ellsberg leaked what set of documents which concluded that the US military had lied to Congress about the Vietnam War.

Pentagon papers.

That's correct.

Toss up.

What book?

Whose sequel, White Bird continues the story of the bully Julian was written by R.J. Palacio about Auggie, a boy with a facial.

It's Brody.

See you again.

Wonder.

Wonder is right.

Your bonus.

The bridal chorus comes from what?

Richard Wagner opera named after a night of the Holy Grail.

Right there.

Oh.

Crap.

You have an answer?

Ring cycle.

It is Lohengrin.

Lohengrin.

All right.

Question for both teams.

What scientist names a statement about fair?

Fair means.

That means that at most Tate Poly poly is correct Wolfgang Pauli.

Bonus.

What?

Ten letter adjective describes novels written in the form of letters, such as Samuel Richardson's Clarissa.

Epistolary.

That's correct.

Next.

What royal house descended from Electra Sophia, due to the act of settlement, preceded sex.

Go to and produce for monarchs.

State.

Hanover.

Hanover is right.

Your bonus.

What physical vector quantity whose magnitude is net distance is given by the final position vector minus the initial position vector.

Displacement.

Displacement is right.

Everybody.

What?

Novel in which Pete, Georgie and Jim speak a futuristic.

Clockwork orange.

That's right.

Bonus.

Charles Barkley began his NBA, NBA career with what team?

Which won the 1983 NBA Championship behind center Moses Malone 76 ers good enough judges.

Philadelphia 76 years.

Next.

Everybody what molecule which can be added using Wilkinson's catalyst is added to alkenes and alkenes to reduce them to alkanes.

And is the lightest best weight oxo.

Oxygen.

That's incorrect.

I retinol.

Do you have an answer?

You didn't read it.

Okay.

You do?

Okay.

Do you have an answer?

Brody?

Hydrogen.

Hydrogen is right.

That's the correct answer.

Bonus for you.

A plain, unadorned capital is typical.

Of what?

Order of columns in ancient Greek architecture.

Sean.

George Doric is right.

Yeah.

You don't have to ring him, but that's.

That's right.

Toss up for both teams in July 2024, what party lost 234 seats, including that of former leader Liz Truss?

Conservative party?

That's right.

Bonus question.

In what country did Patriarch Nixon's 1653 reforms caused a major schism, which resulted in a movement of so-called Old Believers?

Scotland.

Russia is the answer next for everyone.

What landmark?

Which formed a iron tape.

We in Connemara National Park is named for an American aviator.

Sean Angel falls is right.

Bonus question for you.

West Point Australia is planning a national park.

For what?

Marsupials that scientists have begun vaccinating against chlamydia.

Koala.

Koala is correct.

Next for both teams.

What title character who walks to Stonehenge with her husband?

Angel.

Claire.

Brody.

Good enough.

Judges.

Yes.

Tess.

Darby field.

Bonus question.

Theodore Roosevelt's presidential library is scheduled to open in July 4th of 2026, near Theodore Roosevelt National Park.

In what state?

Montana.

South Dakota is where it's going to be.

Both teams.

Here we go.

What former secretary for E.D.

Nixon sparked a widespread boycott in 1955.

In Montgomery, Alabama state Martin Luther King, Jr. No.

In Montgomery, Alabama, after she refused to give up the seat on the bus, Rosa Parks.

That's right.

Bonus question.

In 1865, Henry Wirz was executed for his role in running what kind of facility?

Near Andersonville, Georgia, where almost 13,000 people died.

Prison judges preserved prisoner camp like prisoner camp.

That's.

That's correct.

Prisoner of war camp.

That's right.

Toss up everybody.

What philosopher who described the possibility of being misled by a demon.

And it's Leo Nietzsche.

Is not correct.

His, demon in his meditations on First philosophy.

And I think, therefore, I am Descartes is correct.

Bonus question for you.

Carlos Fuentes novel The Old Gringo, fictionalized, is what other author who disappeared in Mexico and wrote the satirical The Devil's Dictionary?

That is right.

Toss up everyone.

What circuit element whose strength is measured in the Faraday's.

It can be capacitor, capacitors.

Right?

Bonus for you.

In July 2023, the World Health Organization named.

What?

Artificial sweetener derived from amino acids as a possible carcinogen.

Stevia.

For stevia?

No.

It's aspartame.

Aspartame with an Im toss up.

Question four more to go.

What?

Black pianist notes.

So that's how I ended up at Juilliard.

In a 2023 documentary for which he wrote the song, It Never Went Away.

American Symphony.

No.

Yes.

Sean Smith.

No.

That's incorrect.

Stevie Wonder.

Nope.

It's Jon Batiste.

Jon Batiste wrote that.

What novel?

Whose protagonist is from J4 in the Gambia, is subtitled The Saga of an American Family is about Int8.

Roots.

Roots is correct.

Bonus for you.

What word can mean a device on the back of a car that improves its aerodynamics, or certain types of unwanted information.

It's a tail.

No, it's called a spoiler.

My 68 Camaro had a spoiler.

Does that make me old?

Yes it does.

Next question.

What state?

Which is home to block Island Sound and most of Narragansett Bay state.

Virginia.

No.

I'll finish the question for you.

Narragansett Bay is known as the Ocean State.

And governor, govern from Providence and Bertie, Rhode Island.

Yes, sir.

That's right.

Bonus for you.

A trill is a special case.

Of what?

Musical effect denoted by heavy bars.

That is, a rapid alternation between two notes.

Ostinato?

No, it's called a tremolo.

Tremolo.

A couple more questions.

In what election did the first Third-Party campaign of Texas billionaire Ross Perot help Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton?

And it's Tate.

1992 1992.

Is the right answer.

Your bonus one.

What international organization is responsible for approving the names of elements and standardizing the rules for naming compounds?

Are you are you PAC is correct.

Last question in this portion.

What planet which was hit in 1994.

Jupiter.

That is correct.

Jupiter is the right answer.

Here's your bonus.

What creature produces a blue, uncertain, stumbling sound in an Emily Dixon poem about hearing it when I died?

Fly.

The fly is correct.

Lay your buttons down.

Take a breath along with me.

I'm going to tell you what our four categories will be for the Lightning Round.

And as the players think about which ones to play, I'll ask them to introduce themselves.

West point you're trailing at this point, so you'll choose first and play one of these.

Then asked will choose to play them both.

And back to you for the last one.

The categories are the three B of classical music.

Women in sports.

Three letter surnames and three consonants.

Those are our four categories.

As you think about that and decide which ones you want to do.

Let's ask our students to tell us a little bit about themselves.

Would you start for us, please?

I'm star Boyd.

I'm a junior at West Point High School, and I want to be an orthopedic surgeon.

I'm John vino.

I'm a senior at West Point High School, and I'm also a member of the math team.

I'm Brody Henry, I'm a senior at West Point High School and I plan on continuing to play Scholars Ball in college.

I'm Sean Harbison, I'm a junior from West Point High School, and my favorite scholars book category is geography.

Hey, my name is Holton.

I'm a freshman and I am I for president is William Henry Harrison.

My name is Leo Osborne.

I'm a sophomore act, and my favorite president is Dwight Eisenhower.

Hi.

My name is Tate Osborne.

I'm a senior act, and my favorite president is Calvin Coolidge.

My name is Brooks Phillips.

I'm a senior at A.C.T., and my favorite president is Ulysses S Grant.

I was a history major.

I'm going to have to ask you after the show today to tell me why those presidents are your favorite.

It might be interesting.

And then again, it might not be interesting.

Let's do the lightning round.

We are going to begin with U.S. Point and Brody.

Which one do you want to do?

Three letters surnames.

Three letter surnames.

You'll have 60s to name these people whose surnames in English are three letters long.

Ready?

Boxer who fought the Rumble in the jungle against George Foreman.

Educator known as the science Guy.

Now comedian Keegan Michael, who worked.

That's right.

Window of Beatles songwriter John Window.

Widow of Beatles songwriter.

Sorry.

Architect of the Louvre.

Pyramid.

Former Prime Minister of Japan.

Assassinated in 2022 of UB.

That's right.

First Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

J.

Actress who played Monica Geller on Friends.

Skip, Mexican writer who won the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Skip.

Founder of the Quakers.

Penn.

No.

That's incorrect.

Mexican writer who won the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Actress who played Monica Geller on Friends.

Get he.

What did you say?

He.

Know the time is up.

Monica Geller was played by mountain Brook native Courteney Cox.

All right.

Well done.

Pretty tough category, but you did a good job with that.

We come back over to you asked and you've got three to choose from which to do like Tate.

We'll take the three B's of music first and then three consonants.

Very good little threes here to see how we do.

The three b's of classical music.

Given a statement, state whether it applies to J.S.

Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven or Johann Brahms or none of the above.

Okay.

Did I hear you say that's easy.

Let's find out.

Here we go.

His Ninth Symphony ends with the setting of ode to Joy was born in England.

No.

None of them.

That's right.

Wrote more than 200 cantatas.

Bach composed a German Requiem.

Brahms.

Fidelio was his only opera.

It is considered a composer of Baroque period.

Bach died before the age of 40.

Yeah.

Brahms?

No.

None of them was a close friend of Robert and Clara Schumann.

Brahms, from his oratorios based on the life of Christ, included a Saint Matthew Passion.

Yeah, yeah, Bok bok is right.

A movement from a string quartet became his Adagio for strings.

None of the above.

That's right.

You said it would be easy, and you kind of proved it was for you guys.

Anyway, your other choice is three letter surnames.

You're going to name these people whose surnames in English are three.

We're doing two consonants.

I was trying to talk you into the other one.

Three consonants.

You're going to give these set of initials like JFK for John F Kennedy, composed of three consonants.

Ready?

I won't switch on you again.

60s.

Nickname for the president.

From 1933 to 1945 FDR fast food company founded by Colonel Sanders C, a Adobe format to preserve file formatting.

Is it a PDF?

That's right.

UK's national broadcaster BBC Navigation System, based on US satellites.

GPS, nickname for Saudi Arabia's crown prince.

Mbes.

That's right.

Music notation meaning extremely quiet o p e g peep.

That's right.

Official initialism for East Germany.

No, it's not, it's not.

Pass.

Salt of glue.

Matic.

Glutamic acid used as a food additive.

Pass.

Organization for which Kennesaw Mountain Landis was the commissioner.

You got five six seconds.

Organize for Kenesaw Mountain Landis was commissioner.

CDC.

Okay, time is up.

MLB baseball.

Germany is GDR, and I think you got all the rest of them right.

I believe.

Well done.

We're coming back to you, West point.

I tried to get them to do, three letter surnames.

Now, wait a minute.

Now, what's left for women in sports?

Women in sports.

There we go.

You're going to name the primary sport played by these women.

Obviously.

Ready?

60s.

Simone Biles, gymnastics.

Naomi Osaka.

Tennis.

That's right.

Katie Ledecky, swimming.

Sha'carri.

Richardson.

Sha'carri Richardson.

Track.

That's right.

Angel.

Reese.

Basketball.

Trinity.

Rodman.

Basketball.

Yes.

No.

Soccer.

Carey.

Walsh.

Jennings.

Pass.

Chloe.

Kim.

Archery.

Snowboarding.

Philip.

Pullman.

Swimming.

Ice hockey.

For that one.

Nelly Korda.

Archery.

Tennis.

She's a golfer.

You skipped Carrie Walsh.

Jennings.

Soccer.

She played volleyball.

Very good.

Not bad.

You did pretty well with those.

A couple of them were pretty obscure.

So good job.

We have 7.5 minutes left in our program today.

And I'd like to suggest that we use that time by answering as many questions as we can.

These, speed round questions are worth 20 points each.

So if you are trailing a bit, here's your chance to catch up.

Off we go.

What country with which Great Britain thought the Cod War was home to Nobel.

Iceland.

Iceland is right.

What pro-slavery merchant from South Carolina was the namesake of a yellow flag depicting a snake in the.

Gadsden.

That's right, Christopher Gadsden.

What battle in which a charge by the 20th.

Maine.

Gettysburg.

Gettysburg is right to eight.

A 2024.

In 2024, the IOC banned Russia and Belarus from sending teams of athletes to physical limitations.

Say again, Olympics.

Oh, did you say Olympics?

Yes, I said, that's incorrect.

Physical limitations to what?

Competition in Paris.

Take the Summer Olympics?

No, that's incorrect too.

It's the Summer Paralympics for people with physical limitations.

Pencil and paper.

What's the measure of an angle whose supplement measures 65 degrees?

And it's, Sean?

115.

That's correct.

Next.

What title is traditionally granted to a male heir apparent to the British throne?

Kate.

Prince George.

That's not correct.

More Prince of Wales.

Prince of Wales is right.

What Dutch artist depicted a kitchen servant.

Vermeer.

Vermeer is right.

What kind of wave?

Which has fixed nodes and add to nodes.

And which Birdy.

Say again?

Longitudinal.

No.

In which can arise on a rope fixed at both ends.

Appears to oscillate in place.

What's it called?

A standing wave.

Standing wave is correct.

What body of water is fed by the Selene River?

Like Michael?

That's correct.

In a Little Shop of Horrors, Seymour names his strange and interesting new plant.

After what woman?

His coworker who sings somewhere that's green, which got broody.

Rachel?

Nope.

Do you guys have an answer?

Leo?

No.

Audrey is the name we wanted.

What faction which toppled Alexander Kaczynski's government rivaled the Mensheviks and seized Tate?

Bolsheviks is right.

What?

Monarch owned the horse Persepolis under the great Alex?

That's correct.

What quantity?

Which for carbon 14 is roughly $5.

Half life?

Half life is correct.

In June 2024, what state mandated that all schools teach the Bible?

Even state Louisiana.

That's incorrect.

Finishing it for you.

Even as its Supreme Court blocked approval of a religious public charter school.

Brody.

Florida.

It's Oklahoma is the answer.

What?

Woodwind represents the grandfather and Peter Brody.

Clarinet?

Nope.

Finishing unit.

Peter and the Wolf plays a high solo to open the Rite of Spring.

Bassoon.

Bassoon is the right answer.

Four minutes left.

Fat and connective tissue are found.

In what deepest layer of the skin state?

Subcutaneous.

That's correct.

What?

King who joined a US and rut a month as one of the judges of the dead, was married to fully animated.

And it's Tate again.

You, Eurystheus.

Now I'll finish it for you.

Who mated with a bull in his realm of Crete?

Minus.

Minus is right.

What?

Dominican friar temporarily expelled Leo.

Martin Luther.

No.

I'll finish it over here.

What?

Dominican friar temporarily expelled the Medici from Florence before leading a 1497 bonfire on a roll.

That's correct.

What law?

Which Theodore Roosevelt deployed against the Northern Securities Company.

Brooks antitrust.

That's right.

What Netflix show in which former students of area make up the Oxford Five is based on a science fiction novel by Chinese author.

You swooshing and tape Seoul mountain?

No.

That's incorrect.

You guys have an answer?

I read it all.

No.

No answer.

The three body problem.

What letter?

That can denote the coefficient of friction.

The mu mu is correct.

Next, pencil and paper.

Ready?

Three minutes left.

What is the measure of each external angle of a regular convex 15 sided polygon?

And the answer from Brody.

Well.

That's incorrect.

You guys have an answer?

All rotate 15.

Nope.

It's 24.

What band?

Whose song?

Lux.

Turner appears on Metallica's right.

What young man spends the first four books of the Odyssey searching for news of his father?

Tate.

Telemachus.

That's correct.

Telemachus is right.

What author wrote the novel A House divided?

Which, Brody.

Buck.

Buck is right.

Leonard.

How's the promised key in Robert Roger's book?

Holy pibs are important.

Brody.

Russell.

That's right.

What feature?

The subject of George Mallory's quip.

Because it's there.

Mount Everest.

Mount Everest is right.

Snowdon is the highest peak body to catch 22.

Yup.

I'll finish it for you, if you like.

Is the highest peak in what constituent country of the UK, whose second most populous city is Swansea?

Take Wales.

Wales is right.

What club, whose current roster includes Lamine Jamal, employed Lionel Messi for 17 years.

And I'm looking Hilton.

FC Barcelona.

FC Barcelona is right.

What nonmetal is the only one that exists at room temperature?

Brody.

Bromine is right.

What positive number is equal to one plus its own reciprocal and is the limit and buzzing in this state.

Golden ratio.

Golden ratio is right.

1 or 2 more questions.

What verb used figuratively means to rebuke severely?

Originally referred to a punishment of dragging a mutinous state and vessel.

Right?

Nope.

Do you want me to finish it for you?

Punishment of dragging a mutinous sailor under a ship.

What's that called?

Pass.

Pass.

Kiel Hall.

What character stabs a Jesuit baron in Paraguay and declares we must cultivate our Garden State?

Doctor Pangloss.

No.

That's incorrect.

The Candide is correct.

What town's baseball team suffers a heartbreaking defeat?

Brody.

Mudville.

Mudville is right.

What Roman general was enraged by receiving a rival's head?

Tate.

Caesar Augustus.

No.

That's incorrect.

Rivals had illegally crossed the Rubicon, was assassinated.

Brody.

Julius Caesar.

That's correct.

We're out of time.

And now to questions.

That was a heck of a round.

Both teams played well.

I usually kind of know who won, but I didn't this time.

The judges tell me that as CTE comes out on top.

But that was very, very close.

I'll be interested to hear the final score.

Congratulations.

Congratulations to West Point.

You guys played great.

We thank you for watching.

You watched great today.

I thought you did some of your best watching during this program.

Our program is called the Alabama Scholar's Bowl.

We do appreciate you watching.

We hope you'll join us again next time.

I'm Mike Royer.

Have a great day.