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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, and I'd like to welcome you into this edition of the Alabama Scholar's Bowl here on Alabama Public Television.

We appreciate you watching every week.

And it's hard to believe this is our eighth season of the Scholar's Bowl here on statewide television on apt.

We're glad you're with us today.

In the studio, we have, two fine teams from Oxford High School and also Alexandria.

We're glad to have you all in the studio.

I would want you to know that our executive producer is Mike Ousley.

Our judges are Sharon Dailey, Nick Frederick, Josh Ruski, and Rhonda Brewer, an educator here in Alabama who helps us outside of this room, just herding the students around and getting them to the right place at the right time.

And we appreciate everyone here at Alabama Public Television for the fine work they do in helping us do this program.

Well, you guys know how this works.

I'm going to ask you 20 questions.

If your team gets the question right, you get the bonus question.

Then we got 20 questions.

Let's see how we do.

Buzzers in hand.

Here we go.

This leader defeated guy of losing none near the extinct volcano of Hattin.

What higher bid leader led Muslim armies against Richard the Lionheart during the Third Crusade?

And we got an answer that.

Take a shot at it.

The right answer is Saladin.

Saladin is the answer we want.

Next.

This movement, which has a two word name, is concerned with long termism and catastrophic events.

Sam Bankman freed donated generously to what movement, whose adherents use evidence to try and figure out how to maximally benefit others.

What is that called?

Anyone?

Yes, Jeremy.

Utilitarian movement.

It's called the effective altruism.

Effective altruism.

Next question.

Pencil and paper.

Convert 48 into base three.

Give you a little bit more time than usual on questions.

Anyone got an answer yet?

What?

You.

What do you have?

Jackson 33.

No.

That's incorrect.

Any answer here from Alexandria?

One two.

One zero.

Base three.

Is the answer to that.

Moving on.

A lawsuit concerning this action was recently filed against the developers of the app use zoo.

Why use EU?

What action is often performed by individuals wanting to play certain video games on unoriginal hardware?

Policies that call Cori piracy?

No, that's not correct.

You guys have an answer for that.

Are you familiar with that term?

Yes.

Jeremy.

Jailbreak.

It's called emulation.

Emulation is what I just called.

This body took over the U.S.

Digital Service before sending out emails to federal employees, asking them to report what they did at work.

What agency has been directed by President Trump?

And is Corey?

President the government?

No.

I'll finish it for you.

Alexandria.

Asking them to report what they did at work.

What agency has been directed by President Trump to fire federal employees?

What is that called?

Jeremy.

Dodges the right answer.

Very good.

I have a bonus question for you, Alexandria.

This ruler who succeeded Esarhaddon conquered Elam in what many scholars consider to be a genocide.

What Assyrian ruler built a grand library in Nineveh?

No.

A second?

No.

The right answer is Ashurbanipal.

Ashurbanipal.

Up.

Question, everybody.

These organisms can form a biofilm that fossilize to form stromatolites.

Banded iron formations were formed by these organisms during the oxygen catastrophe.

What phylum of prokaryotes are known as blue green algae?

And what do you have, Jeremy?

Protists?

No.

Do you guys have an answer?

After that?

It's called science.

I know bacteria, cyanobacteria.

Next, in a play by this author, the British civil servant Simon Pill gains arrest.

A man who had failed to perform ritual suicide.

Ellison.

Name this Nigerian playwright of death and the king's horseman.

Anybody?

Yes.

Camus.

No, that's not right.

You guys have an answer.

Wole Soyinka.

So why I eNCA is the answer.

Next.

This album's cover includes 68 cardboard cutouts of famous people.

The title character of this album taught the band to play.

What album by the Beatles contains.

With a Little Help from My Friends and Lucy, and it's Ethan Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club.

That's right.

I've got the whole thing memorized.

You'll hear it.

Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band bonus for you, Oxford.

One ruler of this name was nicknamed the Queen of Sad Mischance.

Opposed by the card list, and was the highest ranking subject of the affair of Spanish marriages.

What is the name of the Castilian queen who married Ferdinand of Argon?

Anybody?

Isabella.

Isabella is what we wanted.

Next question for both teams.

This pork chop pork chop shaped member of the Volcano Islands is home to Mount Suribachi during the 1945 battle.

Joe Rosenthal took a photo of six Marines raising an American Legion.

Five judges.

Good.

He would.

Jima is the right answer.

Here's your bonus question for you, Alexandria.

A work of sociology claims that starting in the 16th century, these people dignified lower professions and were more likely to seek wealth.

What people's ethic was studied in a famous book by Max Weber.

Got an answer?

Robber baron.

Protestants.

Is the study in that?

Next question.

Both teams.

What?

U.S.

vice president.

The only one born in Maryland in the first to serve under Richard Nixon, resigned after pleading guilty to tax fraud, who was succeeded by Gerald Ford in 1973.

Who was that?

V.P.?

That was Spiro Agnew.

Spiro Agnew was the vice president.

Next.

You want a paper and pencil for this?

Dan needs to hide for identical balls in any of six cups without placing multiple balls in any given cup.

How many ways can the four balls be placed in the six cups?

Knowing that this is equivalent to six, choose four.

Give me a little more time.

We'd like an answer pretty soon.

Take a shot there.

Lane 48.

That's not correct.

You guys want to throw a number?

But what you got?

Jackson 2415 is the correct answer to that question.

In this state's first district, Wesley Bell beat out progressive squad member Cori Bush in a recent Democratic congressional primary.

Mike Parson serves as the governor of what state to Senator Josh Hawley.

What state are they from?

Texas is incorrect.

You guys want to try?

You, the right state is Missouri.

Missouri.

Next.

What nation?

Whose expeditionary force?

The only one from South America, fought at the Battle of Monte Castelo during the Gothic Line campaign.

And joined the allies against Germany under Estado Novo regime led by Jean Tulio Vargas.

What nation need a country?

And yes, Jeremy, Brazil.

Brazil is the right answer.

Here's your bonus question.

Benjamin Banneker worked with a major with this other profession named Andrew Ellicott on developing Washington, D.C.

the Mason-Dixon line was named for two people with what profession of mapping territories and city layouts.

Cartographer.

Yes.

Cartographer is acceptable.

Right, Joe?

Just very good.

Well done.

Toss up for both teams.

This player was nearly the unanimous winner of the WNBA rookie of the year award after receiving 66 out of 67 votes.

Jackson Clark.

Caitlin Clark is right.

Here's your bonus.

This architect who drew on and and as and as Zaza cliff dwellings for Boulder.

Colorado's Messer Laboratory, designed the JFK Presidential Library.

Name this architect who utilized pyramid shapes for buildings like the Rock and the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame and the Lou.

Do you know the name of him?

Any answer?

I am Pi.

You did that.

Next question.

This city fought flower wars with the Triple Alliance, have comprised, along with Texcoco and Clock Japan.

The Templo Mayor was found in the center of what?

Aztec capital.

On top of which, Mexico City was built.

And as tech Camp capital, it is ten oh.

Chitlin.

You know Chitlin.

Next question.

Four more to go.

The band covered the David Bowie song The Man Who Sold the World on MTV unplugged.

Jeremy.

Nirvana.

Nirvana is right.

Bonus question for you.

A poet with this surname wrote the line.

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free.

What is the name of the poet who wrote The New Colossus?

Emma.

The right answer is God.

Anything?

Emma Lazarus is the answer.

Number 17, on the way to 20, Jews from this country were evacuated in Operation Solomon, Germany.

That's incorrect.

Finishing it for you.

Alexandria and the dirges regime.

Forced collectivization led to a famine that received some relief through Live Aid.

What country in Eritrea faced a civil war in Tigray?

What country are we looking for?

What do you have, Jeremy?

Ethiopia.

That is correct.

Ethiopia's right.

Bonus for you.

Vendor walls and bore name.

Types of this quantity.

Usually measured in pixel meters.

What quantity?

Whose covalent type is half the length of a covalent bond is used to measure a topic.

Atomic size and is half of an atom's diameter.

Atomic radius.

That's correct.

Well done.

Next question for both teams.

This political term began with an 1812 cartoon showing Massachusetts as a monster.

It takes its name from a combination of a Massachusetts governor, and the buzzing in is, say, on the Boston Tea Party.

No.

That's incorrect.

Combination Massachusetts governor and then amphibian.

What term describes the drawing of political district lines for political purposes?

That said, call Jeremy gerrymandering.

Gerrymandering is right.

Your bonus.

This book of the Bible includes the line here, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one which became the theme of prayer.

Moses dies in this book, which comes after numbers.

Which book has the title meaning Second Law?

Deuteronomy.

That's correct.

Deuteronomy.

Question 19 A city with this name is home to a namesake headlight, and is on a peninsula that extends into Casco Bay.

What name is shared by Maine's largest city and the city on the Columbia and William Rivers?

That is Oregon's largest.

Yes.

Portland is the right answer.

Nate, I couldn't see your light.

There you go.

Here's your bonus question.

Myths associated with this figure include the egg born thanes, and cereus.

This hero protected the Argonauts from the Song of Sirens.

Name this musician who traveled to Hades to bring back his wife, Eurydice.

Hermes.

The Orpheus is the answer we needed.

Last question.

The writer defended these sans culottes in this.

His newspaper, the friend of the people.

And he was killed by Charlotte Corday while taking the bath.

The death of what writer is depicted in this as Louis David painting.

Anybody?

Jean-Paul Marat.

Lay your buttons down.

I'm going to tell you and our viewing audience what the four categories will be for our lightning round.

Oxford, you're trailing slightly at this point, so you'll choose first in our lightning round from one of these four categories.

Moons, the Crusades, Indonesian geography, and the Holocaust.

In literature, moons, the Crusades, Indonesian geography.

The Holocaust in literature.

Before we do our lightning round, we'd like to meet all of you.

So we'll start with, seven.

And tell us your name a little bit about yourself.

Come around this way.

My name sound, and I'm from Oxford High School.

Sophomore.

My name's Corey Hemmings.

I am a senior at Oxford High School, and I like horror movies.

Name's Jackson Smith.

I'm a senior at Oxford High School and I'm going to Auburn for aerospace engineering.

There's Ethan Jennings I'm a junior doctor.

Pascal, this is my first year on the scarlet ball team.

Very good.

And I am a sophomore, and I was international.

I enjoyed doing robotics.

I'm a senior.

I'm Wayne senior at Alexander High School, and I'm going to Auburn for chemical engineering.

My name's Jeremy White.

I'm a senior at Alexandria High School, and I'm going to UAB for cancer biology.

My name is Dare Us.

I'm a senior at Alexandria High School, and I love to read about history.

Very good.

We appreciate all of you being here.

You're playing well, and we'll continue with our lightning round in a second.

That's brought to you by the Alabama Community College System.

We appreciate their support.

So we come over to you, Oxford.

Of the four categories, I told you, Jackson, which one would you like to try?

Oh, the Holocaust in the term the Holocaust in literature.

Very good.

When I start asking the questions, you'll have 60s.

Name the following regarding literature about the Holocaust.

Object stolen by the title thief of a Marcus Zizek novel.

Due to her love for reading.

Oh, not you.

So you can pass and move on if you want to.

Nazi soldier no books is right, man, whose arc is described in a book by Thomas Keneally which inspired a film about his namesake list, Schindler's List.

That's right.

Form of a work by Anne Frank about her experience living in an attic in Amsterdam.

That's right.

Memory in which the violinist Juliet died in Auschwitz.

Written by Lev Eisele.

Tass.

The author of the novel number of the stars.

Who?

Lowry.

That's right.

Woman who titles a novel by William Styron about her choice.

A novel by John Bourne in which Bruno sneaks into Auschwitz to help Schimmel find his father.

First language, in which a 14 year old boys experience is described in the novel Fatal Illness by Emir Keres that Curtiz's time is up, okay.

Woman.

The choice was Sophie's Choice.

It's a heck of a movie if you ever have a chance to see it.

Now we come over to Alexandria and you guys are going to choose two categories Jeremy and play them both.

Which two would you like?

Anybody.

Indonesian geography.

And what are the other two.

The other two are the, the Crusades and Moons.

Moons.

Moons.

All right.

We'll do Indonesian geography didn't come back.

Two moons when I started asking the questions.

You'll have 60s to answer the following about Indonesian geography.

The island that lends its name to a brew of coffee that inspires a coding language.

Capital of Indonesia Jakarta island, home to orangutans, also shared by Malaysia and Brunei.

Pass Island, home to namesake dragon and largest living lizard Komodo Island, the eastern part of which gained independence from Indonesia.

Pass, Hindu majority popular resort island with capital Denpasar.

Has the second largest and northernmost island, home to as a province.

ACH Province pass type of trade goods that the Maluku Islands were formerly named for past the highest peak of Indonesia situated on New Guinea, making it the highest peak of Oceana.

Two parts Peninsular island with largest city Macassar Pass a couple of you past Hindu majority pop popular resort island, capital of Disney's Spa and time is up.

That's Bali.

Second largest northernmost island is some matra.

So Matra we're going to do moons next, right?

Yes, sir.

We'll kill this one.

You have 60s given one or more new moons.

Name the planet or dwarf planet that they orbit.

Here we go.

The only moon on which humans have walked Earth.

Ganymede.

The largest moon in the solar system.

Jupiter?

That's right.

Titan, which has a dense atmosphere and was visited by Cassini mission.

Saturn Sharon, which is nearly half the size of its parent body.

Mercury, its Pluto, Janus and Epimetheus, which helped shepherds this plant's rings.

Neptune, Saturn.

Io, a heavily volcanic moon which is part of a group name for Galileo Pass, Miranda, Titania and Oberon, all name for Shakespeare.

Characters.

Neptune it's Uranus Triton, which orbits the opposite direction from other moons Saturn, Neptune, and dressier.

Alma, Thea and Phoebe, which orbit in less than a day.

Mars.

Jupiter does.

So many are the second largest moon of a dwarf planet Pluto.

Eris.

All right.

That was a little harder than I anticipated it to be, but we're all done with our lightning round, so we continue now with about, 5.5 minutes left, we're going to do questions to the.

Oh, you didn't do your you have one more.

We have to come back to you Crusades.

Is this what's left?

Sorry about that.

Would you like to skip it, though?

We could just move on.

All right, let's do crusades.

You got 60s Jackson to name to answer these questions.

Holy city.

That was the primary target of the First Crusade.

Jerusalem.

Jerusalem.

That's right.

Pope who issued the call for the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont in 1095.

Alexandria.

The search tower or the sixth?

No.

Urban, the second English monarch who led the Christian forces, earning the epithet the Lionheart.

Richard.

That's right.

The First Crusade, who was called to defend against the Empire founded on to Grill and Shangri Pass, a crusade that ended with the Crusaders sacking Constantinople and third.

Third.

It's the fourth.

The subtitle of Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five references a crusade for these people.

To pass military order established to protect pilgrims traveling to the Holy Land and to fight against Muslim forces.

A crusade considered the last major crusade, ending with the fall of the city of Akbar in 1291.

Fourth, it was the night.

Now I was a little getting in a hurry to move on from the lightning round.

And I don't know about y'all, but I'm kind of glad to move on to the lightning.

Yeah, we're going to finish our program today with asking questions worth 20 points each so you can take a lead or catch up during this part.

After losing the Iowa caucus to this man, Howard Dean emitted a shrill scream.

This politician was the first special presidential envoy for climate or climate czar.

What former senator from Massachusetts lost the 2004 presidential election to George W Bush?

Yes or no?

No.

That's incorrect.

Do you guys have an answer?

Alexandria.

It was Jill Stein.

No, it was John Kerry.

John Kerry was the man.

This man was invited to the white House under Teddy Roosevelt, making him the first Booker T Washington.

Booker T Washington is right.

That was quick.

Next question.

A function named after this mathematician contains a critical strip of nontrivial zeros and is the namesake zeta function.

A definite integrals can be approximated using the namesake sums of what German mathematician?

Yes.

Just set up.

Nope.

You guys have an answer.

Anybody?

It is Riemann.

Riemann.

In these two adjectives or geometric describe compounds with the restriction of bond rotation causes groups to be in a different 3D orientation.

What two words describe isomers where groups are on the same or opposite side of a bond?

What is that called?

Yes, Jeremy.

Trans configuration judges prompt a little bit more.

Trans and cis configuration.

There you go.

That's right.

System trans.

Well done.

One architect from this country designed a shoe factory called the Vegas Factory.

The motto Less is More was used by Meis van der Rohe, an architect.

From what country that saw the founding of the Bauhaus school in Weimar.

What country?

Yes, Jeremy.

Germany.

Germany is right.

The sculpture, which was intended to be placed directly below the three shades, was originally titled the Poet name.

The sculptor of Dante El Aguirre by who goes to Rodin?

Corey the thinker.

The thinker is correct.

A book by this philosopher used a functional hammer to demonstrate ready at hand objects.

The concept of design was expounded upon in what German philosophers magnum opus, Being and Time.

Everybody.

Yes, Jeremy.

Immanuel Kant.

Nope.

It is any answer over there?

Martin Heidegger, Martin Heidegger although this opera's final line was originally assigned to a character who also sings the prolog, it is traditionally sung by Anita's husband, Canio.

Vesti la Georg is sung in what Ruggero Leoncavallo's opera about the title clowns.

And the circus?

No, it's called I Pagliacci.

During this country's namesake enlightenment a theory of moral Sentiments was published by a student of Francis Hutchison, named this home country of the author of The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith.

Where was he from?

And what do you have for United States?

Nope.

Do you guys have an answer, Jeremy?

Nope.

Scotland is the right answer.

This will be our last question.

This process creates mid-ocean ridges as rocks move upward to fill the space where tectonic Jackson.

Say again?

Subduction.

No, I'll finish it for you.

Where tectonic plates diverge.

What geological process leads to new rock formation at the bottom of the ocean?

What's it called?

Lane.

Seafloor.

That's exactly right.

Well done.

Lay your buzzers down.

We are out of time.

And, in this particular round, Alexander, you come out on top.

Congratulations, Oxford.

You played well, but a little bit short of them today.

But it was a good round.

And we appreciate all of you being here.

I know your teachers and family are proud of you.

And so are we.

We're very glad that you watched our program today.

The Alabama Scholar's Bowl will be back to you next week.

We hope you'll be back too.

I'm Mike Royer.

Have a great day everybody.