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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, and welcome once again to the Alabama Scholar's Bowl.

I'm Mike Royer.

So glad you're joining us today.

We hear from folks that they play along in our program.

And we hope you do well at home.

We expect both of our teams to do well today because we've got two excellent, schools represented and great students from Bob Jones High School up in Madison, Alabama.

Good to have these gentlemen with us back with us again and, Hoover High School back with us as well.

A familiar team from the Alabama Scholar's Bowl.

Over the years, we, are ready to play the round.

Everybody ready to go?

Buttons in hand, remember?

And you all know this.

We've got 20 questions.

If your team answers it correctly, a question correctly, you'll get a bonus.

Ready.

Here we go.

Question number one.

This political alliance which called for the scrapping 2023 pension reform laws, includes place public.

Francois Ruffin was one of the founders of what left wing electoral alliance in France that opposes.

And it is I'm looking it's miles.

No, that is incorrect.

I'm going to finish just the last part of it for you.

Hoover Francois Ruffin was one of the founders of what left wing electoral alliance in France that opposes the National Front.

You know what that's called?

Take a shot at left front.

It's called the new Popular Front or nouveau front in FP.

Moving on to number two.

We'll do better on this one.

What part described being able to hear the immense night in a poem that opens tonight?

I can write the saddest lines.

Chris Neruda is write your bonus hoover.

In one poem by this author, the narrator asks, forgive me for eating plums.

Delicious, so sweet and so cold.

What modernist poet of this is just to say, wrote the Red wheelbarrow, William Carlos Williams is correct.

Toss up both teams.

What character is enslaved by the old man of the sea and transported to a valley of diamonds by giant birds.

Christian by Sinbad the Sailor.

Bonus a song from this country.

Whiskey in the jar describes a robbery on a mountain road.

The lyrics fight me like a man appear in come Out ye Black and Tans, a song by members of what Country's Republican Army I Island.

Ireland Ireland Ireland is correct.

Question four.

On the way to 20, Dave Mustaine is the frontman of a band in this genre, and it's typically held that the band Black Sabbath founded this genre.

And buzzing in, I'm looking at sunny rock.

Nope.

That's incorrect.

Finishing it for you.

Bob Jones held the band.

Black Sabbath founded this genre.

Enter Sandman is a song by a band whose name references what genre of music you guys know.

Miles.

That's right.

Metal or heavy metal is right.

Bonus for Bob Jones a dance class inspired by this artist was the site of a mass stabbing in Southport, England, which led to anti-immigrant riots.

What artist had a concert canceled in Vienna after a terrorist threat?

As part of her Eras Tour?

Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift I didn't even need to read all that, did I?

Next question for everyone.

This thinkers studied the relations of the figures in Los men and men and not in the introduction.

And it's sunny call Foucault.

Michel Foucault is right.

Your bonus.

This artist showed two women whom his wife Joe model for separated by a teapot in Chop Suey.

This artist also depicted a restaurant late at night with an advertisement for Phillies cigars.

That's their bonus there.

Do you want to finish the read?

No, I got no hopper.

Hopper is right.

Okay.

Moving on now.

Question six.

This country's current president, who often goes by his initials ACD, was elected in 2024 with the JJB party in 2022, protesters in this country occupied the president's House in Colombo.

What country?

Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka is right.

Your bonus an artist from this school depicted a boxing match in staggered Sharky's.

George Bellows was part of the art movement that depicted urban life in New York.

Ashcan.

Is that enough?

Judges that scan school is right.

Toss up everybody.

A state that broke away from this country's lead from Hargeisa and Somalia is right.

Bonus.

What quantity is always half integer for fermions is described as the intrinsic angular momentum of a particle, and can be up or down for electrons, spin is right.

Next, John Ruskin.

Ruskin sued this artist after the exhibition of.

And Charlie Whistler is right James McNeill Whistler.

Bob Jones.

Here's your bonus.

In a battle off the coast of this modern day country, the Musashi was sunk in the late Gulf.

Douglas MacArthur said, I shall return.

To what country?

Where the Bataan Death March occurred and where the Japanese occupied Manila, Philippines is.

Right.

Good job.

Next, one leader of this country organized forced sterilization for those Krrish India.

No.

That's incorrect.

We're going to finish it for Bob Jones.

Forced sterilization for those not the people's home.

And was named Taj Erlanger.

That stage is to GE.

Olof Palme was the leader of this country once ruled by King Gustaf the Fifth and is governed from Stockholm.

Yes, sir.

That's right, Lois, good job.

Bonus for you.

The story of this man was told by Neil Miller when working on the Big Bend Tunnel.

What African American freedom freed man died after steel driving in a contest with a steam powered rock drill.

John Henry John Henry is right.

Bonus toss up for everyone.

Rather, in January of 2025, Belize replace the face of this woman with George Kettles.

Price's image on its banknotes.

Name this woman succeeded by Charles the Third as the monarch and Queen the second, Queen Elizabeth the Second is correct.

Good job miles bonus for Bob Jones non top 25 examples of these places may be referred to as wild chickens.

In one country.

The local exam determines an individual's acceptance into what locations similar to the cities in our country.

University judges.

You're good with university?

Yes.

Chinese universities.

Next question for both teams, a work by this sculptor housed in the Galleria Borges that depicts a woman turning into a laurel tree, is titled Apollo and Daphne.

What sculpture depicted in its Charlie Bernini?

That is right.

Very good.

Say it with more confidence when you're right.

Good job.

Charlie.

Bonus for you to establish this bacteria's danger.

Barry Marshall drank a broth containing it.

The bacteria decreases its environment's acidity by inhibiting parietal cell activity.

What?

Helical bacteria causes gastritis and stomach ulcers.

E coli?

Nope.

That's incorrect.

Helicobacter pylori.

Or in that ballpark.

All right, for next time, question for everybody.

The YouTube channel Wintergatan uses these things to make music.

And during Covid 19, Gel Baker became famous for his videos about these things competing in sports.

What toys often made Christian marbles?

Marbles is right bonus for you.

At the end of this decade, dictators Manuel Noriega and Augusto Pinochet were removed from power.

In what decade did the U.S.

covertly support the Contras in Nicaragua?

1980s 1980s is right.

Moving on, the philosopher drew on Hegel to formulate a subject other dialect, in a book that argues one is not born, but rather becomes a woman.

And it's sunny before April.

VAR is correct.

Your bonus during this war, Eugene of Savoy and the Duke of Marlborough defeated Louis the 14th forces at the Battle of Blenheim.

The Treaty of Utrecht ended what war in which Philip the Fifth took the throne of an empire governed from Madrid for the Spanish succession.

That's correct.

Toss up both teams.

The protagonist of this work meets Constantine while interning at Ladies Day Magazine.

Esther Greenwood is the protagonist.

Go ahead.

Great.

Jar Bell Jar is right.

Your bonus an opera by this composer centering on the lovers Mimi and Rodolfo, inspired the musical rent.

Name this Italian composer of laburnum and bullion and Madame Butterfly.

Puccini.

Who is right?

We have to question 15 now of 20 buildings in this style that were restored by Eugene Viola.

They duke as part of his revival.

Stunning Gothic.

Gothic is right in this your bonus now Hoover in this novel, orange juice is killed by a hyena.

The novel protagonist sees an island of algae inhabited by meerkats and gives two versions of his story.

Pacini Patel gets stranded on a raft with a Bengal tiger in what John Martel novel Life of Pi, Clive reply you know you can jump in anytime, right?

Question 16 in a movie that Rotten Tomatoes claimed has little replay value and is hardly worth a quarter, this actor stars as Sam Brenner, who starred as the protagonist of Pixels, and Billy Madison as well.

Chris Adam Sandler Adam Sandler is right.

Here's your bonus an IRS office in Peoria, Illinois, provides the setting of this author's unfinished novel.

The Pale King named this author the describe Quebec law.

Thank you, Josh.

Radicals and the infield tennis academy.

In his novel Infinite Jest.

David Foster Wallace David Foster Wallace is right.

A few more questions here.

Before our lightning round with Barney Frank, this politician co-founded the congressional Lgbtq+ Equality Caucus.

This politician defeated Eric Hovey to win reelection into 2020 for the first open lesbian elected to Congress is what Democratic senator from Wisconsin?

Yeah.

Anybody?

Have we stumped everyone with this one?

It's dumb to me.

No one Tammy Baldwin is the name we wanted next.

Ancient historians believe these people had migrated from Lydia, and Vah was in their namesake 12 city league.

The TR coins descended from what people who spoke a pre-Christian Etruscans.

Etruscans is right.

Here's your bonus.

This author created a character who is plied with alcohol and given a pistol so he can commit suicide.

Quote beautifully Judge Brack and his love Borg appear in a game.

Ibsen.

Thank you.

Ibsen is right.

Two more questions.

During the administration of which president, a northern Democrat from New Hampshire who signed the Gadsden Purchase and whose cabinet issued Chris, Fillmore.

Incorrect.

I'll finish it for you.

Bob Jones, whose cabinet issued in Austin the manifesto did tensions in the Midwest erupt into bleeding Kansas?

Which president is that?

Louis Pierce's right.

Franklin Pierce.

Bob Jones, here's your bonus.

This ruler's attempt to impose the Book of Common Prayer in the Church of Scotland led to the Bishop's War.

The Short Parliament was dissolved by what English king, who was overthrown and executed during the English Civil War.

Yeah, yeah.

What you got, Charles Carson?

That's correct.

Thank you.

Last question.

This city is the setting of poems like we real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks.

And it's, Louis, New York.

No.

That's incorrect.

I'll finish it for you.

What city described as the hog butcher of the world, Chris.

Chicago.

Chicago's right.

Last bonus.

This Broadway actor played Light Yagami in Death Note the Musical.

This actor took the role of Jay Gatsby in 2024.

What Broadway actor originated the role of Jack Kelly in Newsies?

Newsies.

I don't like, Oh, wait, what?

Who's the who's Logan?

Who's that?

Wolverine.

Jackman.

Second.

Jackman.

No.

Jeremy Jordan Jeremy Jordan is the answer.

One.

Lay your buzzers down.

Take a breath.

I've already told our players before we began.

What?

The four categories are for our, like, Lightning round.

And now I'll tell our viewers at home.

The four categories are Harry Potter, early 20 tens music hits, sports, early 20s music, kids sports teams, home cities, and musical theater.

Our Lightning Round is brought to you by the Alabama Community College System.

We appreciate their support.

So at this point, Bob Jones, you're trailing slightly here at the midpoint.

You get to choose first whoever.

You'll choose two.

After they do, which one will you want to do.

And we're going to meet our players in a second to, on city sports, you're going to do, sports teams, home cities.

Very good.

And we'll do that one.

Then Hoover will select before we do the lightning round.

Let's meet all of our players.

Will you just tell us your name, your main interest, and we'll begin with you, Hassani.

My name is Hosni Grundy.

I'm a senior at Hoover High School, and my favorite historical figure is Harriet Tubman.

Oh, my name's Allen.

I'm also a senior, Hoover High School.

My my favorite historical figure is Christian Nathan.

Okay.

Hi, I'm Chris Nathan.

I'm a junior at Hoover High School, and my favorite historical figure is Alan Yuan.

Yeah, my name is Sonny Brockman.

Is.

I am a senior at Hoover High School, and my favorite historical figure is Emiliano Zapata.

We usually get into the much later rounds before you guys try to be funny.

Let's come over to Bob Jones.

Miles.

My name's Miles.

Diesel, junior at Bob Jones.

And, I like programing.

My name is Lewis Johnson.

I'm a junior at Bob Jones, and I like soccer.

My name is Carson Wallace.

I'm a senior at Bob Jones, and I love piano and guitar.

My name is Charlie Huang.

I am a junior at Bob Jones, and I want to be a dermatologist when I grow up.

Very good, very good.

We're glad all of you are here.

You come from two fine schools, two fine communities, and we're glad you're in the studio with us today.

Let me mention also our executive producer for our show is Mike Owsley.

Our judges here in the studio are Sharon Daley, Nick Frederick, Josh Ruski and Rhonda Breweries.

She helping us again today.

She helps us herd all these students around Alabama public television.

All right, let's get on with the lightning round.

Bob Jones, you ready for sports teams?

Home cities.

When I started question one, you'll name the city where these sports teams currently play the majority of their home games.

Number one Yankees and Mets.

New York NBA's Lakers and MLB Dodgers, MLB, Cubs and White Sox go NHL Fliers and Eagles NHL, Capitals and Wizards Washington, DC.

That's right.

Wba's, Valkyries and WNBA's Warriors San Francisco.

That's right.

And NFL's New York Giants and New York Jets in New Jersey.

That's right.

The NBA's Dallas Wings and MLB's Texas Rangers in between Dallas and Fort Worth.

But yeah, NWSL and MLS is Dynamo Houston.

That's right.

Pete WHL Scepters and CFL's Argonauts carry it.

Pass.

Yeah, you pass on the NBA's Dallas Wings and MLB's Texas Rangers.

You have 10s in between the two cities of Dallas in Fort Worth, Austin, it's Arlington, and the last one is Scepters in it and C Argonauts.

Yeah, it's Toronto.

You did good though.

You got eight out of ten.

That's pretty good.

All right.

We'll come over to Hoover.

Now folks you have to choose two.

Chris which two do you like?

We'll take Harry Potter.

And then early 20 tens music hits in that order.

Very good.

Harry Potter.

When I start the questions, you're going to name the follower following regarding Harry Potter, author of the series, Rowling, dark wizard who killed Harry's parents and tried out all Harry Owens had had a game played on broomsticks at Hogwarts.

Quidditch Hogwarts gamekeeper, who is known for.

Potions master at Hogwarts who initially appears.

Say it again.

Snape.

Magical objects that select participants for the country's wizard tournament.

The Goblet of Fire.

Dark witch, known for her role in the torture of Neville Longbottom, spells serpent and serves as a companion at Horcrux for Lord Voldemort.

You say it again.

The object in enchanted to transport wizards from one location to another upon touch Portkey.

Let's go!

What do you wanna do for the last seconds?

All right.

Good job.

We'll move on to, You did say early 20 tens music hits.

When I begin asking the questions, you'll have 60s given two tracks from the early 20 tens.

Name the main artist.

Number one, I Knew you were trouble.

And we were ever getting back together.

Rolling in the deep and slow like you just the way you are.

Grenade.

Oh no.

Dark horse in California.

Girls love on top and run the world.

Skip, skip.

Diamonds and what's my name?

Brianna.

Judas and born this way.

Get lucky and I instant crush.

But give me everything and timber, you know that's right, I love it.

We got the world.

Oh, it's.

It's nothing.

Skip.

Okay.

And you also skipped love on Top and run the world, girls in parentheses.

Like, I don't know is it's a girl.

I think you got time.

You got 15 seconds.

Love on top and run the world.

You also skipped I love it and we got the world Beyonce for both of them.

Both of them a Beyonce is right for love on top.

And it's not right for the last one, which is Icona Pop.

Okay.

All right.

Here's the exciting thing for you Bob Jones.

You don't have to choose.

You just get stuck with the last one.

You ready?

It's musical theater is what we're doing in 60s.

You're going to answer the following about musicals.

Number one musical about an American founding father who declares, I'm not throwing away my musical set in 19th century France, where ex-convict adopts Cosette, is Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, in which an opera singer performs Think of Me and All I Ask of You musical, in which Catherine of Aragon sings about her loyalty to a monarch in the song No Way six That's Right, rock musical set in Manhattan's East Village during the Aids crisis.

That's right.

Green skinned protagonist of wic Oh yeah.

Elphaba.

That's right.

Titular character of a musical, a love for Dimitri, and sings journey to the past past teenage love interest of Veronica Sawyer in Heathers The Musical I was Past musical, in which an extra terrestrial, cornered carnivorous plant demands to be fed off of human blood.

That's right.

Musical that follows the life of Sally Bowles, who sings at the Kit-Kat club.

Cabaret.

Cabaret is correct.

Well done.

Time is gone.

But we, passed on during to the past was.

And Stasia and love interest of Veronica Sawyer was in JD Jason Dean.

You all did pretty well with those.

You nailed the first seven of those.

Bob Jones good job.

They know.

And now I'll tell you at home we have just under six minutes left and we're going to ask 20 point questions.

No bonuses here.

Answer it and move on.

Ready.

These two deities sent a monster and a plague on one city.

After being sent there for rebelling against Zeus.

What two deities?

Helen?

Apollo.

And that's correct.

In this campaign, the mass killing of sparrows led to an increase.

Christian a great leap forward.

That's right.

This is the most common chemical whose organo lipstick effects are measured in shoes.

Successes on the Scoville scale, the Carolina and its Louis capsaicin is correct.

These objects are the subject of Jenna's, prayer, and they are attended by the chevre Kaddish.

In Judaism, what objects may be cremated or buried?

And it's Louis judges.

Good enough corpses is down on my paper.

But bodies is good enough.

What creature?

Originally a nymph was turned into a monster by Nazi and Picts.

And, it's Alan Scylla.

Scylla is right.

The author uses unadorned stanzas in this verse novel.

The Golden Gate.

In another novel by this author, Kabeer refuses to show up to the wedding of Haresh and Lata and Chris Cassini.

No, that's incorrect.

Coming back to you, Bob Jones, what author announced the unfinished sequel A Suitable Girl to his novel A Suitable Boy?

Who is that author?

Yes, Lois.

I'm sorry.

Okay.

It's Seth, Vikram.

Seth is the answer.

Next.

Buildings designed by this man include Chicago's IBM building, the Farnsworth House in New York.

Seagram and sunny.

Mies van der Rohe.

Yes, that's correct.

Ludvig.

First name.

Moving on.

In this poem, there are two outs.

Bottom of the ninth for the Mudville Nine.

That's right.

To paint a third of the house alone.

It would take Sandra two hours.

Margaret three hours and Ashley 1.5.

I'm going to read that again for everyone to paint a third of a house alone.

It would take Sandra two hours, Margaret three hours and Ashley 1.5 hours.

How long will it take all three of them to paint the entire house, Alan?

6.5 hours.

No.

That's incorrect.

Last few words in miles.

Three hours?

No, two hours is how long it would take.

All three.

They're very good workers.

Moving on.

A bitter alkaloid name for this element is found in cocoa and chocolate.

This halogen is uniquely a liquid at room temperature bromine.

Looking at Alan Bromine, bromine is right.

This quantity is equal to three are for many solids by the do long Pettit law Alan specific yes.

Heat capacity or specific heat is right.

Question 12 what organization where Wang yi jing y jing.

We competed with a man Joe Stilwell, called the peanut and its smiles.

No answer.

All righty.

Finishing it for you.

Hoover called the peanut to succeed.

Sun Yat sen led the nationalist government commenting.

Commenting is right next.

This man used broken pottery shards in a mosaic like technique that he used to depict a salamander at the entrance to his park.

Alan.

Sonny, Gowdy Gowdy is right.

Antonio Gowdy, in a painting by this artist, Saint Stephen and Saint Augustine carried a man's dead body as his soul floats to heaven.

Charlie.

Caravaggio.

Nope.

That's incorrect.

The last sentence says name the Crete born artist of the burial of the count of August.

And it is sunny El Greco.

El Greco is right.

This playwright included Eugene Jerome in a trilogy of semi-autobiographical plays that include Brighton Beach Memoirs and it's, Louis.

O'Neill.

Nope.

Memoirs named this playwright, who included Felix Unger and Oscar Madison in the play The Odd Couple.

For Simon.

Neil Simon is right under two minutes left.

What ruler freed Judea from the Babylonian captivity was succeeded by Cambyses and founded the recommended mark a minute.

Come on.

Mike.

Achemenid Persian empire.

There.

We got it.

Is that good enough, Chris?

Cyrus.

For Cyrus, right.

This shaped wafers are a type of this class of materials that are produced in fabs.

Silicone is the most common.

Of what class of materials?

Allen plastics.

Nope.

I'll finish it for Bob Jones.

Class of materials with a conductivity in between that of an insulator and a conductor.

What do you have, Lewis Semiconductor is correct.

What company which purchased Zelnick s x Eli index in 2020 and introduced the Threadripper in 2017, and sunny AMD.

AMD is right a site in this city called L Caracol was where Chris.

What?

Chichen Itza?

That's correct.

In a story set during this war.

Cora that Cora and you debt begins to whistle la marseillaise during a carriage.

Chris.

Oh, I don't actually know.

World War one.

I'll finish it for you.

Bob Jones during a carriage ride before the central group is not allowed to leave.

Toads name this conflict where Otto von Bismarck annexed the region of Alsace.

Lorraine.

What was that?

That's right.

Lots of reading to get there.

But we got there.

We're out of time.

We only have 20s left.

Lay your pins down.

Well played.

Answered a lot of questions, did a great job.

And, Hoover came out on top on this particular round.

And we appreciate you watching today.

Bob Jones, you played well today.

We're glad to have you here in our studio today.

And we were glad to have you watching at home.

The Alabama Scholar's Bowl comes your way every week here on Alabama Public TV.

I'm Mike Royer and I hope you'll join us again next time.