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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.

I'm Mike Royer.

Welcome into another edition of the Alabama Scholar's Bowl here on Alabama Public Television.

We're having a great season and we're into the semifinal rounds and getting near the end of this championship.

Have you seen our cool trophy?

I want you to see this.

This is not just any old trophy.

A beautiful trophy that'll be presented to the winning team on our last program of this, our eighth season.

Can you believe eight years the program has been on the air?

And we appreciate all the support of the folks at Alabama Public Television.

Mike Housley is our executive producer.

The judges on the program today, Sharon Dailey, Nick Fredrick, Josh Ruski and Rhonda Brewer helps us in a valuable way getting the students moved from place to place, and right in the place they are now is where they're supposed to be because we're going to begin our program.

Everybody ready?

Buttons in hand.

Let's get started.

As part of an extradition effort, this man was freed from Belmarsh prison in 2024 after a motion was put forward by Australian Prime MP Andrew Wilkie.

White men received classified information from Chelsea manning and published it on his website Wikileaks.

Who was that?

Thomas.

Julian Assange is correct.

I have a bonus question for you.

Here it is.

What unit of currency proceeds?

Pluma in the alliterative stage name of a Mexican singer who performed the song La Baila Sola with the group El Laban.

Our motto peso, peso is correct.

Well done.

Next question.

Both teams at most three numbers of this type can be summed to make any positive integer according to Gauss's and its semi prime.

Nope.

I'll finish it.

For you.

The rest of the question is to Gauss's Eureka theorem.

What numbers are constructed by starting from one and adding successive integers to create a pattern b beginning one, three, six, ten.

What do you have, Jacob?

Fibonacci numbers.

Note the triangular.

Triangular is what we were looking for.

There.

Toss up question for everyone.

This leader had a secret police force called the sick Securitate and was executed alongside his wife, Elena, on Christmas Day.

Anders Perone.

Nope.

I'll finish it.

For you, Florence was executed alongside his wife, Elena, on Christmas Day.

Name this dictator who failed to escape Bucharest at the end of his two decade rule in Romania.

Romania?

Tomas.

It occurred to su.

Pronounce it for him.

Josh tried to ask you.

There you go.

We'll move on from that one.

Next question.

What particle produced along with a neutron and electron neutrino in beta plus decay is the positively charged antimatter counterpart?

Semi positron is right.

A bonus question for your team.

Counter transference can interfere with this practice, in which the patient lies on a couch and freely recounts their thoughts and dreams to a doctor.

What kind of psychotherapy was developed by Sigmund Freud?

What's it called?

Dream therapy?

No, it's called psychoanalysis.

Psychoanalysis is the answer.

Next, for both teams, the author wrote a novel from the perspective of a Neanderthal tribe.

Out competed by humans.

The inheritors.

Jack hallucinates the beast while stranded on an island with piggy and buzzing in his Sammy, Lord of the flies.

That's the rest of the question.

While stranded on an island with piggy, in which author's novel Lord of the Flies Leo Golding, William Golding is right.

Pencil and paper for a quick math question.

Quick for you.

What is the derivative of three x squared plus 5X66X plus 56X plus five?

That's correct.

Moving on.

Number six on the way to 20 questions in a novel by this author, Ned Land and Pierre Arnaud, X survived the wreck of the Abraham Lincoln and Leo Jules Verne.

Jules Verne is right.

Your bonus question asked.

This composer wrote an opera in which a character sings softly and gently over her lover's dead body in the least.

The stud name this German composer who wrote the opera Tristan and I so loud, as well as the Ring cycle Richard Wagner.

Wagner is right.

Next question.

For both teams, the Commerce Clause was used to uphold the Civil Rights Act in a case from the heart of this city's motel.

Leo.

Atlanta.

Atlanta is right.

I got your bonus.

The simplex method can be used to help solve this type of problem.

What kind of problem involves creating a feasible region bounded by various constraints that doesn't actually require writing computer code?

What's that called again?

Yeah.

Got anything?

Day zero problem.

It is a linear programing linear program.

Mitt.

Yes.

Mithras slayed a bull in one of these places.

One of these places on a mountain was where the Koran was revealed to Muhammad.

The Seven Sleepers.

Jacob Cave.

Cave is correct.

Bonus.

This woman won the Oceana breaking championship in 2023.

What Australian break dancer stepped down from the sport in November of 2024, after receiving backlash from her performance at the Paris Olympics.

Do you know the name?

Kangaroo?

No, it's Rachel Gunn is the answer.

Gunn.

Next question for both teams.

The music video for this song was filmed on a rooftop in Calgary, using a phone taped to a car.

The song's chorus opens now.

Suddenly you're asking for it back.

Could you tell me where did you get the nerve?

Name this 2020 song by Tate McRae.

I know that song.

What you got, Jacob?

One day?

No.

You guys have an answer over here.

Florence must be one of your favorites.

Called you broke me first.

You broke me first.

You probably look it up later.

Next question.

What republic?

Which held the Bank of Saint George and was led by Andreas Doria, fought the war and enters Venice.

Nope.

I'm going to finish it for you.

Florence.

Andreas Doria fought the War of Chioggia against Venice and lost its influence.

Influence in the Adriatic.

Do you know the answer to that, Thomas?

Genoa.

Genoa is right.

Well done.

Bonus question for you.

This figure used the nails of Tara mattia to bring fire to mankind, and slowed the sun by catching it in a net using a magic fishhook.

What Polynesian trickster and demigod shares his name with an island in Hawaii?

Maui is right next easy ball is a meeting ground in this place, where the thrown high lead skills allows one God to see and listen into all the realms.

Bifrost connects Leo.

Asgard.

Asgard is right.

Here is your bonus in a Jubilee address.

Pope Francis warned that this two word condition could be caused by excessive scrolling.

Oxford Dictionaries 2024 word of the year is what condition a term defined as the impact consuming, excessive amounts of low quality online media.

What's it called?

Brain rot.

Brain rot is right next, with a pencil and paper, find the area of a regular hexagon with sides lengths of 14 units.

Somebody come up with something.

Math ones.

We allow a little more time.

I'll need to go and give the answer.

Jacob.

Try it.

62 nerves a try.

The right answer is 294.

Radical three 294.

Radical three.

Next question.

Faker won five world championships in this video game with SKT.

T1 champions fight on Summoner's Rift.

In what Riot Games developed a video game that inspired the animated Netflix series arcane and it's, Jacob.

League of Legends, League of legends is right.

Your bonus James Maxwell attempted to disprove this law by proposing a demon who sorts gas particles according to speed.

What law of thermodynamics states that the entropy of a system will increase naturally over time?

Second law of thermodynamics?

That's correct.

Next question for both teams.

One of these animals who eats the tree rod and provides the meat for an hajar is named hydrogen.

The Alfie becomes Thor's servant after breaking the bones.

And it's Anders.

Goat.

Goat is right next.

This is your bonus.

This man played data in The Goonies and remained friends with the costar for many years.

This man played or Boris in season two of Loki.

What actor played Waymond in Everything everywhere, all at once?

Do you have an answer?

Seong Kuan Yew Kuan is the answer there.

Next question.

Donald Rumsfeld said there are unknown unknowns about these objects.

Operation opera and I'm looking.

Thomas.

Weapons of mass destruction.

Yes.

That's acceptable.

Nuclear weapons are weapons of mass destruction.

Good job.

Your bonus question.

These artist reestablished.

This artist reestablished himself in Naples after he was sentenced to death for murder.

Jesus points at a tax collector illuminated by a beam of light in a painting by this Baroque artist who painted the Calling of Saint Matthew.

We'll take a shot.

Rafael.

Cargo.

Caravaggio.

Next question.

Both teams.

What operation?

Which is generalized by the inner product, outputs a scalar equal to the product of the magnitudes of the inputs times the cosine of the angle between them.

Please don't make me read that here.

Yes.

Whose?

I don't see a light there.

Jacob.

Like, dot product dot is right.

Good.

Your bonus if you have ten different colored socks in a drawer.

How many different pairs can you make?

Ten different colors.

I need to prepare.

The.

You didn't answer.

Leo 2045.

You can make 45 Cubanos and the blue ten US are objects found in this region.

And Leo, like the Kuiper belt, Kuiper belt is right.

Your bonus.

In Homeric literature, this realm is described as wine dark, and Theseus, his father, is described as the old man of this realm.

Pontus is a primordial deity.

Of what realm?

Presided over by Poseidon.

The sea?

Yes.

The sea or ocean.

A couple more questions.

This type of galaxy is on the left side of the Hubble tuning fork diagram, and its shape is hypothesized to arise from collisions between smaller galaxies.

The two major classifications of galaxies galaxies are spiral and one other type, Jacob Elliptical Elliptical is correct.

Your bonus question a play written during this period that revolves around Captain Gilmore's experiences in Naples, is titled The Rover, after a Ben was a female playwright.

During what period that followed Charles the Second's return to the English throne?

Yeah.

The restoration.

That's correct.

Two more questions here.

This song, originally titled, In Other words, was played by Apollo ten and 11 astronauts while in space.

What song which implores a lover to fill my heart with the song and Let Me sing forevermore, had an extremely popular recording by Frank Sinatra.

What's the name of the song?

Leo.

Fly me to the moon.

Fly me to the moon.

Let's.

If we had time, we could sing it together.

But we'll do that later.

Bonus question for you.

This figure son sacrificed himself to save him from Memnon and was named.

And to cloak and to luscious.

What wise king of Pylos advised Agamemnon during the Trojan War.

I need an answer.

Pylos.

Nestor.

Nestor.

Last question.

Explanations for this effect include group cohesiveness and the diffusion of responsibility in action during the Kitty Genovese murder was blamed.

On what?

Thomas the Bystander.

But bystander effect is right.

Bonus question for you.

The last one of this round, this former chemical engineer, is frequently censored Winnie the Pooh in his country due to unflattering meme means.

Which politician succeeded hugely in Otto and general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, XI Jinping?

XI Jinping is right.

Lay down your buzzers and take a break.

We're going to do our lightning round in a second.

The team that is trailing will choose first.

And, Florence, you trail here at the midpoint, so you'll choose first.

Our categories are very exciting.

Yes, I know you'll agree.

At home, they are words that start with E, words that start with P, words that start with O and words that start with k. I don't think anyone finds this as humorous as I do, but anyway, those are the categories you'll choose first, and then asked you'll choose second.

You'll play two of those categories before we do the lightning round, let's meet our players.

Let's begin with Hilton.

Just tell us a little bit about yourself.

Hilton.

Hey guys.

My name is Hilton.

I'm a sophomore and asked and my favorite subject is cyber.

Hi my name is Anders.

I'm a junior at ACG.

My favorite band is tool.

Hello, my name is Leo.

I'm a junior at asked and my favorite class right now is AP United States history.

Jacob Wilkinson I'm a junior at asked and I would like to double major in political science and electrical engineering.

Hi.

My name is Wayland Ballantyne.

I'm a junior at Florence High School, and I've got to go to a swim meet directly after this.

Wow.

Hi, my name is Margaret Hamburg.

I'm a sophomore at Florence High School and I'm on the cross country team.

Hello, my name is Thomas Padgett.

I'm a junior at Florence High School and my favorite artist is Livy.

Hi, my name is Sammy Grande.

I'm a sophomore at Florence High School, and I'm in my school's band, and I have to go to a football game right after this.

Wow.

That game tonight?

Yes.

And then what event do you swim in, Whalen?

Freestyle.

Okay, 150, probably.

Okay.

Freestyle is the only stroke I know, so I'm.

We're on the same team.

Let's do our lightning round.

And you guys are going to go first.

I know it's a hard choice.

Which one do you want to do, Thomas?

I think we'd like to do, beginning with letter K. Beginning with the letter K, you're going to have 60s.

When I begin answering, asking the questions, all answers start with the letter K. Here we go.

16th century German astronomer with three laws of planetary motion.

Kepler.

Yep.

Nice and loud.

Thank you.

Type of oven used for the firing of pottery being shaped.

Organs that filter toxins and excrete waste.

Kidney safe.

Yes.

Mexican woman with a unibrow who painted the two Frida's.

That's right.

Educational level generally placed before first grade kindergarten.

That's right.

A Shakespearean tragedy in which Cordelia is banished by her father, King Lear, country on the Persian Gulf that was invaded by Iraq in 1990.

That's right.

Author from Maine, whose horror novels include The Shining.

That's right.

Terms for spirits and deeds that are venerated by Shinto religion.

Oh.

It's good.

Yeah.

University, where four students were killed by the Ohio National Guard in 1970.

Yes.

Back to team for spirits and deeds that are venerated in the Shinto religion.

Like, like.

Got an answer?

I think that's enough time.

Okay.

Kami.

Kami is what we wanted there.

We're going to come over to you now.

A s CT, and you are going to choose from the remaining AP and.

Oh, Leo, what would you like to do?

We'll take piano.

Piano, in that order is.

Okay.

Sure.

Like it matters.

Right.

All right.

In 60s, all answers start with the letter P. Here we go.

Greek mathematician who names the theorem stating a squared plus B squared.

That's right.

Saint Peter and Leo the 10th have held this position.

American author of the stories The Cask of Amontillado.

Oh, that's right, Asian country whose islands include Luzon and Mindanao, Philippines.

Audition process in which plants transform light energy into chemical energy.

That's right.

11 to U.S.

president whose middle name was Knox James.

Kapok.

That's right.

Jane Austen's novel in which Jane Bennett marries Charles Bennet.

Prejudice.

That's right.

Baroque composer of the canon in D, which is commonly heard.

Weddings.

That's right.

Empire that lost the Battle of Marathon in 1490.

Persian.

That's right.

Gilbert and Sullivan's opera that includes the Paterson War.

That's right.

You got them all, didn't you?

Did we get.

Yes.

You got them all?

All ten of them.

What's that?

What's that?

Okay.

The last one is incorrect.

Pirates.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

What did you guys say?

HMS.

Okay.

Very good.

And oh is next, you guys we're doing.

Oh, and here we go in 60s all answers in with, begin with though Hawaiian born, first black U.S.

president Obama multiple sports event whose symbol is five interlocking rings.

Substance with formula oh three that is found in country east of Yemen that is led by a man author of a novel, Animal Farm, which includes a pig and well physicist known as the father of the atomic bomb.

Oh.

I'm an Egyptian deity who ruled the underworld.

Pen name used by William Sidney Porter to write The Gift of the Magi.

Oh, Henry, composer of the operetta Orpheus in the underworld, which contains the Can-Can.

Offenbach.

That's right, 1998 Legend of Zelda game where Nobby guy killing time.

That's right.

That's all of them.

All ten of them.

Well done.

Now we come back to you on this side, Florence.

And what is left over E I think he's probably the best one.

So I think really, you're kind of getting lucky here on E all.

I'm going to stop joking about this.

All answers start with the letter E, southernmost of the North America's Great Lakes.

You're your biological catalyst.

That includes his trip.

That's right.

South American country where the battle of China was fought near Quito, Ecuador.

Bird whose ball type is the national symbol?

2021 animated Disney movie in which Stefani the trees.

That's right.

Biblical woman who saves the Jews from being exterminated by Ham on Easter.

That's right.

Chilean island where no statutes.

That's right.

African country that won the battle of AD was against the Kingdom of Italy.

Ethiopia?

That's right.

English king known for the hammer of the Scots and Longshanks.

Edward Moore.

Edward the first, yes.

Frequent collaborator of Tim Burton, who wrote the score for The Nightmare Before Christmas.

You have plenty of time.

You've got 13 seconds.

Frequent collaborator of Tim Burton.

What?

That's the only one you skip.

So, score of Nightmare Before Christmas two.

Edwin, what did you say?

Edmund?

Oh, it's Elfman, you're in the ballpark.

You could see it in your brain.

All right, those are the lightning rounds.

Very exciting part of our program.

We'll put them aside now and move on.

In the last five minutes, we're going to just do toss up questions.

No bonuses for these.

Each one's worth 20 points.

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

This thinker responded to the problem of evil with the claim we live in the best of all possible worlds.

Name the author of the Odyssey, Leo.

Voltaire.

Nope.

The Odyssey and monads who created calculus independently from Isaac Newton.

Do you have an answer for us, Florence?

Yes, Thomas.

It is Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.

Leibniz.

Liebe I in Izzy.

Next question.

This thinker argued that Africa has none of the title concept in lectures on the Philosophy of History, a thesis and antithesis that leads to a Leo Hegel.

Hegel is right.

This is the country from which Bougainville is gaining its independence by 2027.

Jacob, Papua New Guinea that's correct.

This food is served alongside Go Abada in the desert.

Roma Ale Giulietta minus Guerra's name, is a cured variety of this food.

Cassava flour Leo Ham no coming back here cassava flour and cat catcher pourri are used to make one bread roll filled with what dairy product?

Wayland cheese is right?

This concept's purpose is to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven.

This state purifies those who died in the state of grace in Catholic theology.

Purgatory.

Purgatory is right.

Jacob.

Next, might want a piece of paper and pencil.

X is directly proportional to Y and is proportional to the inverse square of z. When x equals 12, y equals ten, and z equals two.

Find y when x equals 16 and z equals three.

We're going to wait this one out because someone's going to get it.

Come on in Leo.

Nine.

That's incorrect.

Do you have an answer Florence.

Anybody take a shot?

Yes.

With just a good shot, but wrong.

It's 30.

30 is the right answer.

Always give an answer.

You never know.

Next question.

Six and 28 are the first two numbers.

And Leo.

Perfect, perfect numbers.

Enthusiasts of products created by these people might use sites such as Top Sitter and Rim Nerd frequently interview these people and it's Jacob.

Musicians.

Musicians is right.

This composer's friendship with Auguste Francia inspired a G minor work titled Sonata for Cello and Piano.

Many mazurkas were written by what composer of raindrops, freeload and minuet.

Leo Chopin.

Chopin is right next.

In 1993, a car bomb damaged the frescoes in this museum.

Niobe room beyond repair.

The Vasari Corridor is in this museum, which houses.

But is Shelley's The Birth of Venice.

The Medici Art collection is held in one museum in Florence.

Margaret Ricci Gallery is correct.

Good job.

Leonora Carrington spent most of her adult life in this country, while another artist from this country was forced to destroy a depiction of Vladimir Lenin.

Name this country Leo.

Mexico.

Mexico is right.

This man led an army of 300 who played trumpets to scare, defeat.

A much larger myth.

Say again.

Joshua.

No.

That's incorrect.

I'm going to come back here for the rest of the question.

Which biblical judge gives his name to an organization that gives out free Bibles?

Any answer?

Margaret?

No.

It's, Gideon's.

There used to be a Gideon Bible in every hotel in America.

Next question works for this type include Lydia Davis is the outing and Augusto Monteiro also is the dinosaur and may be classified as Drabble or Twitter Archer.

What form exemplified by Hemingway's For sale baby shoes, never worn, is defined by being extremely brief.

What is that called?

Wayland?

Nope.

That's incorrect.

You guys have an answer, Leo.

It's called flash fiction or micro fiction.

Pulse chase.

Analysts of these animals were used by Tim Hunt to first discover cycling's name.

These model organisms whose embryos are used in developmental biology, a class of X and Anders mice.

Nope.

That's incorrect.

I'll finish it here for you.

And this is our last question.

Name the model organisms whose embryos are used in developmental biology.

A class of no derms with rigid bodies and large spikes.

Yes.

Wayland urchins is right.

Put down your buttons.

We have 22 seconds to congratulate both teams for playing well today.

A lot of tough questions today and the players from asked come out on top in today's competition.

But Florence High School, you all played very well today and we're very happy.

You were in our studio today.

That's going to do it for this edition of the Alabama Scholar's Bowl.

I'm Mike Royer inviting you to join us next time.

Have a great day everybody.