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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 once again to the Alabama Scholar's Bowl here on Alabama Public Television.

My name is Mike Royer.

Enjoy hosting this program every week.

We appreciate you watching every week.

In our studio today, our team from the Donahoe school, from the Anniston area in Alabama and from down south in Houston County, the team from Ashford High School.

All of you gentlemen, we're glad to have you in the studio.

Thanks for joining us.

Good luck to both of your teams.

Our executive producer on our program is Mike Ousley.

Our judges are Sharon Dailey, Nick Frederick, and Josh Ruski.

Also thanks to Rhonda Brewer, who helps us out during our recording by, kind of managing where these students are.

And that may sound easy, but it's not.

We're glad that these students are here.

We're glad that you're watching at home.

And we'll get started.

We start with 20 questions.

If your team answers the question correctly, you get a bonus.

You know that.

Let's see how we do.

Here we go.

A worker from this government agency was dismissed after instructing their relief team to avoid homes displaying Trump signs.

Employees?

From what agency?

David.

FEMA.

FEMA is the right answer.

Well done.

Your team gets a bonus question now.

If you have a structured settlement and you need cash now, you could reach what financial services company by calling 877.

Cash now.

J.G.

Wentworth.

You know that commercial.

Well done.

Good job.

Next question for both teams.

This painting, which lends its title to a picture of Ella Watson holding a mop by Gordon Parks, was modeled by the artist, sister and dentist, a woman and a man holding a pitchfork stand in front of a farmhouse.

Chris.

American Gothic is correct.

Here's your bonus.

This man stands in front of the dead to stop a plague and secure his priesthood from the tribe of Levi.

When his rod sprouts almonds, this first High Priest of Israel constructed the golden calf.

Named this older brother of Moses.

Who am I talking about?

Aaron.

Aaron is correct.

Well done.

Toss up everybody!

This ruler defeated the Roman rump state, the Kingdom of Schwann, under its leader.

Sigrid was the Merovingian.

Dynasty was founded.

By what ruler?

Who united with the Franks.

And it's David.

Charlemagne.

That's incorrect.

I read all the questions.

You guys have an answer?

Anybody?

We were looking for Clovis is what we wanted.

Next question.

On these diagrams, the Clausius Klapper on equation describes coexistence curves before they end at critical points.

A negative slope on one of these diagrams depicts ISIS low density.

What diagram plots pressure against temperature to show solids, liquids and gases?

What's it called?

Anybody?

Yes.

Chris.

Boltzmann.

Nope.

That's not correct.

But always take a shot if you think of one.

Anybody?

We were looking for phase diagrams.

These diagrams is the answer.

This leaders administration championed the Clean Industrial Deal and AI factories initiative.

The EP nominated this woman who courted Giorgia meloni to win reelection in 2024.

Which woman has led the European Commission since 2019?

Yes, they are.

Merkel.

No, that's not correct.

Astrid, you guys have an answer.

Ursula von der Leyen is the answer.

Next.

One place set in this country centers on the ritual suicide of the title King's Horseman.

Okonkwo is the protagonist of a novel from this country.

Things fall apart.

What country is home to?

And it's David.

Nigeria.

Nigeria is correct.

Well done.

Here's your bonus question for your team Donohoe.

One novel from this country features Ted de la Garza's recipes and another fictionalized Ambrose Bierce's disappearance in The Old Gringo.

Name this country home to authors like Laura Esquivel and Carlos Fuentes.

Mexico.

Mexico's right took a shot.

And you're right.

Good job.

Toss up everybody.

This location was home to the grid painter Agnes Martin in her later life, and was home to the wealthy patron Mabel Dodge Luhan.

What New Mexico town house artist like Georgia O'Keeffe and was named Kris Albuquerque?

Nope.

That's incorrect.

And was named for a Pueblo complex.

Do you guys have an answer?

Just a little short drive north of Santa Fe.

Taos.

Taos, New Mexico.

Next question.

The NBA coach.

This NBA coach implemented his killer whale offense after replacing Emilio Doka in the 2022 season.

The youngest NBA coach to win a finals is what man who coaches players such as Jayson Tatum.

On the Boston Celtics, what's his coach's name?

You might.

Missoula.

Missoula.

Missoula is correct.

That's right.

Well done.

Bonus question for you.

One of these animals is submerged in formaldehyde in a work by Damien Hirst, while another painting depicts one of these animals being harpooned in Havana harbor.

Name these animals.

That title, a John Singleton Copley painting with Watson.

What animal are we talking about?

Dolphin.

Sharks.

Sharks is what we wanted there.

This question for both teams.

Saint Augustine coined the term for this concept, which forms the basis of the doctrine of total depravity and results in con Cupid.

Come to science.

And David.

Original sin.

Original sin is right.

Thank you.

Bonus for your team only.

This quantity is kept constant in the dual Thompson throttling process.

This quantity can be calculated using Bourn, Haber, Cycles or Hess's Law.

Name.

This physical constant symbolized H that represents a system's total heat energy.

Enthalpy.

Enthalpy is the right answer.

Good job.

Moving on.

Following this battle and note reading, we have met the enemy and they are ours was sent to William Henry Harrison.

Oliver Hazard Perry was victorious.

At what?

War of 1812?

Battle fought on a great lake.

What was that battle?

Anybody?

Nobody wants to pick a lake.

It's the battle of Lake Erie.

Battle of Lake Erie.

Next question.

This island's first ruler of Norman descent was Roger Baso.

Nix died leading a failed Athenian expedition onto what largest island in the Mediterranean Sea?

Yes.

Jacob.

Cyprus?

No.

That's incorrect.

You guys have an answer, Astrid.

The largest island is Sicily.

Sicily?

Moving on.

What is the name of the mood used to express hypothetical or contrary to fact situations?

As in the sentence.

If I were better at math, I could do well on the SAT.

What kind of sentence is that?

Travis?

Conditional?

No.

That's incorrect.

You guys have won the citrus oxymoron?

No.

It's subjunctive.

Subjunctive is what we needed in this conflict.

One general who won the Battle of Adolphus Bridge was assassinated by Irish and Scottish officers in the town of cheap.

The Count of Tilly lost the Battle of Britain field.

In what conflict fought over religion and ended by the peace, the Peace of Westphalia.

What war is that?

And Jacob?

That's right.

30 years was the right answer.

Here is your bonus question.

Donahoe.

Scottie.

Skadi.

Scottie accidentally marries the sea god jawed after mistaking his feet for the feet of this deity.

The giant thought refuses to weep.

For what?

Norse deity who was killed by mistletoe, thrown by holder at the behest of Loki Bowler alter is right.

Good job.

Toss up everybody.

The Mirabel sisters largely oppose this dictator who used the Parsley Massacre to target Haitians moving to this country.

Name the dictator who harshly ruled over the Dominican Republic.

Anybody got an answer to that?

Yes.

David Batista.

No.

Ashford.

You want to take a crack at it?

The right answer is Rafael Trujillo.

Next question.

Number 15.

To determine the stopping potential voltage is increased until this effect is no longer observed by a collector plate.

Einstein was awarded a Nobel Prize for studying what effect in which light shining on a metal causes electron ejection.

E electric effect.

Photoelectric is the right answer.

Good job.

Bonus this document, deciphered in room 40, begins on February 1st.

We intend to begin submarine warfare without restriction.

What documents sent by Germany intended for Mexico led to the United States joining World War One.

The Zimmermann Telegram.

That's right.

That's what it was called.

You get a bonus that.

No, that was the bonus question.

Moving on.

Michael, pairs of lovers referenced in this collection include Pyramus and his Bee and Pygmalion and his statue.

What collection of stories of transformation was written by the ancient Roman poet Ovid?

Yes, Chris.

Metamorphosis.

That's correct.

Bonus.

These devices are shown as two parallel lines of equal length in a circuit diagram representing their two parallel plates, alongside resistors and inductors.

These devices form RLC circuits.

What devices can temporarily store charge capacitors?

Capacitors is right.

Moving on everybody.

A 22 year old prince of this country died of polje mitochondrial disease in March of 2025.

What grand, douchey duchy is the smallest of the Benelux nations?

Yes, yes, Luxembourg is right.

Bonus for you Goths.

SS needs to find the sum of all the integers from 1 to 100, inclusive, by realizing that he can instead find the sum of each outer pair and multiply by the numbers of pairs.

Gauss computes what number equivalent to 101 times 50.

5050.

That's correct.

Amazing.

Next question.

An autumn sunrise makes the landmark appear red in the painting.

Find fine wind, clear morning and they Who cure a print by hooker say that depicts the great wave of can go to features.

What Japanese mountain and what is it, David?

Mount Fuji Mount Fuji is right.

Your bonus during a flash of this element in some red giant stars, heating of the core kickstarts the triple triple alpha process of fuzing three atoms of this element into carbon 12 stars begin their lives by fuzing hydrogen.

Into what element?

Helium.

Helium is correct.

Toss up everybody.

Two more questions.

What is the largest number whose digits multiplied to six and add to eight?

Two.

No.

Do you have an answer?

Yes.

Two and four.

No, it's 3211 3211.

Let's all get our heads together and work that out.

After the program.

Today, the hilltop is the student newspaper of this university where Blackburn takeover protests occurred in 2021.

Kamala Harris got her bachelor's degree from what historically black university in Washington, D.C.. Historically black university in the nation's capital.

Anyone?

It is Howard University.

Lay your buttons down.

Relax.

We're going to play our lightning round in a moment.

And the four categories for today's Lightning Round include Mississippi River border states, state quarter designs, Alaska and highest points and Ashford.

You're trailing slightly here at the midpoint, so you'll select first play one category, then Donaghue.

You'll select two and play them both.

What's left will come back to you guys before we play the Lightning round.

We'll ask each of our students to introduce themselves and tell you just a bit about themselves.

Carlton, would you start?

I'm Carlton, I'm, freshman, and I take care of tickets in my house.

I'm David, I'm a senior, and I enjoy traveling and seeing new places.

I'm Chris, I'm a senior, and I plan to major in chemical engineering.

I'm j.r.

I'm a junior, and I love to play tennis.

I'm Tucker, I'm a junior.

And, in the band.

So I'm a junior and I'm the band captain.

I'm Chris, I'm a junior, and I play baseball.

I'm Travis, I'm a junior, and I really enjoy doing college ball.

Good.

We enjoy having you here.

We enjoy having all of you in the studio.

You're all playing well and we're proud of you.

So we're going to do one category first with you.

Ashford.

Team, which one would you like to do?

Mississippi River blues, Mississippi River border states.

When I start asking the question, you'll have 60s to name these states whose borders include the Mississippi River contains the Twin Cities, Saint Paul and Minneapolis, is led from Jefferson City and contains the Gateway Arch.

Missouri contains the airports midway and O'Hare.

Let's get, pastor.

Divided into parishes such as Acadia and Lafayette, Louisiana.

Its city of Kenosha is home to the Mars Cheese Castle, Wisconsin.

That's right.

Contains Churchill Downs and Mammoth Cave, Kentucky.

Contains Fisk University and Vanderbilt University.

Tennessee.

Its city of Bentonville contains the headquarters of Walmart Arkansas.

Its City of West Branch contains the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library.

Yes, its capital is on the Pearl River.

Pass back to, Well, here you skip contains the airports midway and O'Hare.

That's Illinois.

Yeah.

We're out of time.

West branch contains Herbert Hoover.

Library is Iowa, and the last one, its capital is on the Pearl River is Mississippi.

All right, so, fellows from Donahoe School, you've got a choice of three that's left over.

Which two would you like to do, Chris?

We're going to be taking highest points and stakeholder designs.

Very good.

You won't do them in that order.

Yes.

All right.

Highest points.

You'll have 67 seconds.

Given a mountain name, the state that it is the highest point in grammarians.

I'm not sure that's well written, which.

So are you ready?

All right.

After all of that Denali, Alaska, Mount Rainier, Washington.

Monarchy.

Hawaii.

Mount Whitney.

Yes.

Mount Elbert pass, Mount hood, Texas, it's Oregon, sassafras mountain, Nevada, South Carolina, Mount Katahdin, Mount Katahdin.

Pesky black Elk peak.

Montana.

South Dakota.

Mount Merced.

Mount Marcy, Marcy.

Mount.

Marcy, you have 12 seconds.

All righty.

We can go back to Mount Whitney.

North Carolina, that's California, Mount Elbert, Washington.

Carolina.

That's right.

It's good to take a shot at it.

Colorado is the answer.

We're out of time.

That wasn't as easy as I expected it to be, but I didn't choose it.

You did?

What other one would you like to do?

Cross state quarter designs.

State quarter designs.

Let's see how this one goes.

You're going to identify the states whose state quarter designs featured the following.

Ready 60s the words the first state.

That's right.

The Statue of Liberty and a map of the Erie Canal.

New York, Mount Rushmore, South Dakota, the state outline and a peach for Georgia.

Yep, the state outline and a keystone, Missouri.

Pennsylvania.

A man harvesting sap from maple trees.

Vermont.

That's right.

A portrait of Helen Keller, Alabama.

The old man of the mountain, Wyoming, New Hampshire a scene based on a Grant wood painting.

Oregon, Iowa.

A confessed Doga wagon in front of chimney Rock.

Colorado, that is Nebraska.

I don't believe you passed on any.

Well done.

You did pretty good with that round.

Now let's see.

I think we come back now to Ashford High School.

And I know you're excited about Alaska in 60s.

You're going to answer the following questions about that state.

Here we go.

Pacific Island state that with Alaska is not part of the contiguous United States.

Okay.

Major export in which is later refined into petroleum products.

Oil large mammal with a Kodiak variety.

Polar bear.

Bear bears.

Correct.

Capital of Alaska.

Anchorage.

It's Juneau, tallest mountain in North America.

Once named after President McKinley.

Mount.

Denali.

Denali two word term describing the purchase of Alaska, which was thought to be silly.

Yes.

Okay.

Strait of water to Alaska's West Bering Strait.

That's right.

Apart from British Columbia, the only Canadian province or territories by Alaska bordered by Alaska.

Saskatchewan.

It's Yukon City where the Iditarod dog sled race ends.

Anchorage.

It's in Nome, Alaska.

Good job.

You did pretty well with that.

Some of those were.

Seward's folly was the silly thing.

I knew you knew that.

And all of our lightning round, by the way, are brought to you and sponsored by the Alabama Community College System.

We appreciate them very much.

Have we done all the lightning round, folks?

Can we move on now?

Let's do we have, just under six minutes left.

We're going to ask 20 point questions.

No bonuses here.

Answer and move on.

Ready.

This country's mythology includes a story where Lemon Canaan tries to woo the mistress Po heal us, daughter.

To obtain a magical mill called the Sampo name.

This country, whose myths are collected in the Kala Bala.

Give me the country.

Yes, Carlton.

Say it again.

Ireland?

Nope.

Do you guys have an answer?

Yes.

Travis.

Norway?

No.

Is closer.

Finland is the right answer.

A museum dedicated to this player is located at Montclair State University.

Seems like when you come to a fork in the road.

Take it were coined by what?

Baseball player who caught for the Yankees in the 50s and wore number eight, which the number is retired now.

You have an answer.

Anybody?

Chris?

No.

He also said nobody goes to that restaurant anymore.

It's too crowded.

Yogi Berra, this next question this country has faced many migrants attempting to reach its island of Lampedusa.

In what country?

LED by Giorgia meloni, have migrant ship sunk?

It's David, Italy is right.

Nicola Salvi designed this structure into which tourists throw coins before departing the Eternal City travertine stone was used to create the Baroque fountain in Rome.

What's it called?

David the Trevi Fountain Trevi fountain is right in a reimagining of the Iliad, this poet wrote about the fishermen Achilles and Hector fighting for the hand of Helen, named this poet of Omeros a Nobel laureate from Saint Lucia.

Anyone?

Walcott David Walcott is the answer.

This quantity can be determined by the Debye.

It's Debye E and the do long Pettit models.

Water has a value of 4.184 joules per gram, and looking for specific heat?

Specific heat is the right message.

Keith.

You're right.

Next question.

This poet depicted petals on a wet black bow in his extremely short poem, In a Station of the Metro name.

This modernist poet, who study of Chinese characters led him to write the unfinished epic of The Cantos.

Anyone?

Ezra Pound is the answer.

Three of these creatures are prophesied to have the power of the stars.

Despite the prophecy, one of these creatures, Holly leaf, is powerless.

She is a member of the Thunder Clan and grandkid of Firestar.

What animals and Carlton Cats is the right answer.

This artist depicted two maids rummaging through a chest and a brown and white spotted dog that lies next to the title Woman of one of his paintings.

What artist depicted a nude reclining goddess of love in Venus of Urbino?

Oh no.

That's incorrect.

You guys have an answer?

We'll try.

Chris Vermeer, it's Tyrion.

Tyrion?

What?

General?

Who planned the muse argon offensive during World War one and served as U.S.

Army Chief of Staff during World War two, names a postwar European recovery plan from his time as secretary of State.

And I'm looking David Marshall.

Marshall.

That's right.

The Marshall Plan.

Dick Roland was lynched in this city, after which rioters destroyed businesses in the Greenwood District nicknamed black.

David.

Tulsa.

Tulsa is right.

Good job.

Moving on.

What element whose tried fluoride is a common Lewis acid violates the octet rule due to its six valence electrons, and also has an atomic number.

Five.

What are we looking for there?

Jar boron is correct.

What?

Astronomical bodies, which were studied by Tularosa and Mayor, can have massive hot Jupiter types and can be found outside the solar system in Goldilocks zones.

That's it.

Call Chris habitable planets.

Now that's incorrect.

You guys have an answer.

It's called exoplanets.

Exoplanets.

A couple more, a few more questions.

This function of N is the big O runtime of binary search.

John Napier introduced this function, whose derivative is one over x, known as natural.

Chris log.

Yes, logs acceptable logarithm or log.

When these objects accelerate nearby matter into orbit near the speed of light, AGN such as quasars, form around them.

What objects are often at the center of galaxies like the Milky Way?

Chris.

Black holes black holes is correct.

Next, under the ruler, Baron Haussmann led redesigns of his city before the ruler was captured at the Battle of Sudan.

Name.

This last emperor of France who led his country during the Franco-Prussian War.

Who was that?

David.

Napoleon the third.

Napoleon the third is correct materials with a different refractive index for different types of this property are called by infringement.

This property describes the orientation of the oscillation of light waves.

What property is used in sunglasses?

What is it called?

Polarization.

That is correct and we're out of time.

Lay your buttons down.

But all of you played well.

It was a good round.

And the winners of this particular round are the folks from the Anniston area Donahoe School.

Congratulations, Ashford.

You played well as well and we're glad that you all were here today.

We thank you for watching our program.

It's called the Alabama Scholar's Bowl and we're here every week on Alabama Public Television.

I'm Mike Royer.

Thanks again for watching.

Have a great day everybody.