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

I'm Mike Royer.

So glad you've joined us today.

We have to find teams in the studio.

You're going to enjoy the next 30 minutes.

Gadsden City back into the studio with us.

Good to have them back.

And also winning their last round.

Lamp school is back with us as well.

Gentlemen, it's good to see you.

You ready to play?

As you know, we have 20 questions added to it, right?

You get a bonus question.

We'll do a lightning round and some other fun things a little bit later on.

Let's get started.

Question one.

Here we go.

In this country, the villas mutiny protested the rule of the regime of the colonels.

The tap on PAP and Dro family ruled.

What country?

That after gaining independence from the Ottomans, established its capital in Athens.

And it is Riley.

That's right.

Bonus for you.

Lisa Lane, who appeared on the cover of a 1961 issue of Sports Illustrated and was the subject of the article Queen of Knights and Pawns, is best known for playing what board game she chess is, right?

Toss up everybody a royal with this regnal name won the Battle of Creasy and was nicknamed the Black Prince.

Chris.

Edward Edward is right.

Bonus sure.

Merrill, meaning Little Mushroom, was a nickname of what?

Composer of winter rice and er, König?

Schubert.

Schubert.

Franz Schubert is correct.

Well done.

Toss up everybody.

This battle was the culmination of the great retreat after the Battle of Mons Joseph Galliani brought taxicabs to what?

World War One battle that halted it is Alvin.

Verdun?

Nope.

That's incorrect.

I'll finish it for you.

Lamp.

The World War One battle that halted the German advance into Paris at a namesake river.

What battle?

And that is a delay war.

Prompt, prompt, a little more.

Second, it was the first, sorry, first battle of the Marne.

Moving on to questions for the object names.

This object names a movement that was adapted into Thaxted and was inspired.

And it's Chris.

Saturn?

No.

That's incorrect.

I'll finish it for you.

Lamp was inspired.

I vow to thee my country name.

This object called a bringer of jollity and Gustav holds the planets in a movement before Saturn.

And what is it?

Serum Jupiter.

Jupiter is correct.

Bonus for your team lamp.

This author created the detective Maxine Tano in his 2013 novel Bleeding Edge V2.

Rocket strikes are connected to Tyrone Slaughter rope in what?

Author's novel Gravity's Rainbow.

Tension.

Tension is correct.

Toss up everybody.

The protagonist of this novel sees a cheerio being interviewed on the Patty Winters Show.

This novels title investment banker confesses his murder of Paul Owen to Harold Kane's.

Bret Easton Ellis wrote what satirical novel about Patrick Bateman, Chris.

American Psycho American Psycho took a while to get there, but we did.

Bonus question this city was the capital of the state of Teutonic Order.

The city's bridges were used as the basis of a graph theory problem by Leonhard Euler.

What city gives its name to a Russian exclave in the Baltics?

Like its colony, grad students working for Canonsburg.

Konigsberg is correct.

Number six of 20.

This city where Alice Waters opened the first farm to table restaurant, saw protests led by Mario Savio as part of the free speech Movement.

Name the city north of Oakland.

Home to the original University of California campus.

And what is it?

Did you ever think Berkeley is right?

A bonus for you people of this ancestry compromise.

Just under half the population of fall River and New Bedford.

Immigrants of this nationality from Madeira brought the ukulele to Hawaii.

And many people of what nationality immigrated to the US from the Algarve and Lisbon.

Portuguese.

Portuguese is correct, everybody.

Next question.

The opening poem of this collection describes dark riverbeds where the eternal thirst flows and is titled The Body of a woman.

A poem of this collection and its Chris.

20 love poems and a song of despair.

That's correct.

Bonus for you.

The Margaret Fuller edited this literary movement's journal, The Dial.

The essays, circles and Self-Reliance were published by Nature loving member of this movement.

To what movement did Ralph Waldo Emerson belong?

Principally.

Transcendentalism.

That's correct.

Moving on.

This fantasy novelist started her circle of magic with Sandra's book in 1997.

The author's character, Audrey, trains from a page to a lady night.

What fantasy novel is song of the lioness quartet begins with a twin switch of Alana and thumb, or maybe Tom to him.

Anybody?

And it's Chris Haddix.

Nope.

That's incorrect.

Do you have an answer?

You want to take a shot?

Nobody.

Tom Tamura Pierce is what we wanted.

Next question.

In this region, a leper colony was helped by Father Damien on the island of Molokai.

David Kala Kalakaua was the last male ruler of a kingdom.

Based in what state?

And it's right here in Hawaii.

Hawaii is correct.

Bonus for your team.

Bonds between two atoms of this element can be created by son of Garcia.

Coupling.

Friedel crafts alkylation and deals alder reactions.

Hydrogen.

And what element are found in all organic molecules?

Carbon.

Carbon is right.

Good job everybody.

Toss up.

In this region, the potato war was fought against the Habsburgs.

Name this region whose?

Newswatch Stein Castle, which was created by Ludwig the Second.

And I'm looking.

Albin.

Bavaria is right.

Good job.

Your bonus.

What is the sign of an angle in a right triangle, which is adjacent to a side with length four and opposite to the side with length five?

Oh, it's three.

Four.

Five.

Right.

So it's that angle.

But what does it say adjacent to the side for an opposite the side five.

We need an answer 3 or 5.

Three over five.

Three over five is right.

Question 11 on the way to 20.

These structures name a chamber used to discover the positron and the muon.

These structures also named denser regions of the interstellar medium.

Nimbus.

Stratus is a type of white and is Chris cloud.

Cloud is correct.

Bonus one man who desires this person is told you O. Sheppard, are the heartless man of this tale.

In the parable of the Ulam by Nathan.

Uriah was the Hittite husband of what woman?

The David David falls in love with fish.

Is that she?

Was she that Sheba?

That's right.

That's correct.

Question for everybody.

Now what French fashion house and creator of the Papillon, whose products feature its iconic check the mirror pattern, is known for creating leather handbags with the monogram LV and its Riley.

Louis Vuitton is right.

Bonus for your lamp.

What was river's average speed in miles per hour at which they drove on the highway?

After driving at 60 miles an hour for 30 minutes, 75 miles an hour for 40 minutes, 80 miles an hour for 30 minutes, and 90 miles an hour for 20 minutes.

How are you doing at home?

Playing along.

Need an answer from you?

As soon as you can.

Including my computer.

Better move on, folks.

Give me something.

70.

What's your final answer?

75 is the right answer.

75.

Next.

After leaving the fortress of you, Marta, you mayta this country's navy lost the Battle of Richelieu.

Francisco Solano Lopez lost the War of the Triple Alliance.

Chris.

Paraguay.

Paraguay is the right answer bonus for you while being bound by the chains glyph in the air.

This figure bites off tears, hand.

This figure is later killed by Odin's son, the da.

Odin is killed by what?

Giant wolf from Norse mythology who was fathered by Loki.

Fenrir.

That's correct.

Well done.

Next question 14.

In 2025, women's college basketball coach with this name inexplicably guided Minnesota to three state straight wins after starting out.

Oh, and six in big in the Big Ten and was later fired.

A Detroit Lions offensive coordinator with what name was hired to coach the Chicago Bears.

Johnson.

Johnson.

That's right, Ben Johnson.

That was obscure.

This protagonist of this graphic novel is sent to a boarding school in Vienna.

This is your bonus, where she can once again listen to American music and bear her hair.

Name this Marjane Satrapi graphic novel title for an ancient Iranian city.

Press.

That's correct.

Neon.

Well done.

Question 15 this man wrote.

This is too much, and I'm about to die.

In his memoir, Patriot, which discusses being poisoned with the nerve agent Novichok.

What opposition leader died in the polar wolf penal colony in 2024?

In Russia?

Who was that?

Chris Navalny.

Navalny is right.

Bonus for you what type of accent characterized by vocal fry, rising inflections and heavy use of words like whatever.

And oh my God was associated with upper middle class residents of La and San Fernando in the 1980s.

What do we call it?

Valley girl.

Valley girl speak is correct.

Toss up question, everybody.

The able Ruffini theorem places limits.

Chris.

Quintic polynomials.

Judges.

Yes, we'll take that.

Just polynomials is all we needed.

Here's your bonus.

This artist inspired the background of Eugene Delacroix's painting The Massacre at Chios with a painting that depicts Willie Lot's Cottage.

Name this English landscape artist who depicted a farm cart crossing a river in the Hay Wain.

Constable.

Constable is correct, everybody.

This leader consolidated control over the Delian League and was called the First Citizen.

And it's, Niamh Perry.

Cleese.

Perry.

Cleese is correct.

Good job.

Bonus for Lampe in this novel, the cone koan.

If you meet the Buddha, kill the Buddha is told to a character who borrows money from Kashiwagi and burns down the title structure.

What novel by Mr.

Joshi was written by Yukio Mishima.

The Golden Pavilion a little more, I think, where the judge is more precise.

You know.

What's your final answer?

Very good.

It's temple of the Golden Pavilion, is what the judge wanted.

You know how the judge can be sometimes.

Moving on.

The painter.

This painter created the series The Course of Empire.

In addition, and in color.

That's right, Thomas Cole.

Bonus for you.

The second Ogre Battle game is partially titled for this word, which is contrasted with strategy in chess and includes actions like pins and forks.

What word follows?

Team fight in the name of a riot?

Games auto battler tactics.

Tactics tactics is the right answer.

Good.

Two more questions for both teams in this work.

Originally titled And the World Remained Silent.

The narrator witnesses his father's death.

Night.

Night is correct.

Bonus for you.

Voter eligibility was expanded in this state by the Dorr Rebellion, and it was founded by Roger Williams.

A university named after Nicholas Brown's family is in what state?

Capital of Providence, Rhode Island.

Rhode Island is right.

Last question.

Everybody, before we take a slide break, a novel by this man includes a vacuum cleaner salesman who becomes a spy.

And that is Chris Graham Greene.

Graham Greene is right.

Bonus the last one.

This province's namesake religious schools question occurred shortly after its Red River rebellion was launched by Lewis Real.

The first of Canada's prairie provinces.

Admitted was what province?

With the capital of Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Manitoba is correct.

Lay your buttons down.

We're going to begin the Alabama Community College System's Lightning Round, which comes up next.

I've already given the players the four categories.

Donald Trump, second cabinet Donald Trump second cabinet is one female governors is two, US senators is the third one.

And the last choice would be world leaders.

Lamp, you're trailing slightly here.

So you'll select first and play one category, then over to Gadsden City.

You'll choose to do them both, and what's left will come back to you guys.

Speaking of you guys, let's begin over with Chris.

Please introduce yourself and tell our viewers a little bit about yourself.

Hi, I'm Chris Holder.

I'm a senior at Gadsden City High School, and I play violin in the youth orchestras.

I am Andrew and I am a sophomore.

Yes, a high school.

And I like to study weather.

Hi, I'm Ryan Gaines, I'm a senior at Gadsden City High School, and I plan to attend the University of Alabama in the fall.

Hey, I'm Evan Win.

I'm a senior at Kent City High School, and I'm really into medicine to, Hi.

My name is.

You're.

I'm a daddy.

I'm a freshman at lamp, and I also play the violin.

Hello.

My name is Paula.

I'm a junior at Lamar High School, and my favorite color is.

Right.

I'm Riley, I'm a junior, and I love to run cross-country omnium pato I'm a sophomore and I like to play tennis.

Very good.

Good to have you all here.

Thanks for sharing a little bit about yourselves.

Lamp.

Have you decided of the categories I mentioned, which one you'd like to try first?

Donald Trump, second cabinet, Donald Trump's second cabinet 60s are going to answer these ten questions about that subject.

I'll give you a name.

You tell me what their job is.

JD Vance, Vice President Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense Marco Rubio, Secretary of state Pam Bondi, attorney general Robert F Kennedy, Jr, Department of Health and human secretary Kristi Noem, department or secretary of Department of Homeland Security.

That's correct.

Scott Best, Secretary of the Treasury.

Sean Duffy.

Duffy, Secretary of Transportation.

Linda McMahon.

Secretary of Education.

Doug Burgum, Secretary of the interior.

Well done.

Got 30s.

We could just chat a little bit if you want to write.

All right.

We'll come over to you now, guys.

Sin city, you're going to choose two categories.

Random playing both back to back.

What would you like to do.

We'd like world leaders and U.S.

senators.

Very good.

You want to do them in that order?

Yes, sir.

Very good.

World leader 60s answer these questions about world leaders.

Name the country, at least partially in Asia, where the following people are the heads of state or government.

I'll repeat that if you want me to.

You good.

Here we go.

Vladimir Putin, Russia, Russia, XI Jinping, China, Narendra modi, India, India, Kim Jong un, North Korea, North Korea, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, Emperor Naruhito, Japan, Mohammad bin Salah Salman oh, Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabia, Recep Tayyip Erdoan, Erdogan, Turkey, Ali Khamenei, come on.

Yeah, you're right there in Iran.

Bow bong Marcos Marcus, Philippines.

That's correct.

Got them all with plenty of time left.

Well done.

And the second category was female governors.

U.S., U.S.

senators.

Okay, U.S.

senators name the state served by these U.S.

senators.

Here we go.

Peter Welch and Bernie Sanders, Vermont, John Cronin and Ted Cruz, Texas Christian Gillibrand and Chuck Schumer in New York, New York, Rand Paul and Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Dave McCormick and John Fetterman, John Fetterman, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff, California, Andy Kim and Cory Booker, oh, new Jersey, new Jersey Angus King and Susan Collins, Maine Ron Johnson and Tammy Baldwin.

Terrible.

Oh, ding.

Baldwin shoot, I don't know.

Pass.

Bernie Marino and John Houston.

John Houston and I have no idea like Wyoming, Wyoming it's Ohio.

And the one you skipped was Ron Johnson and Tammy Baldwin.

Ron Johnson you got 20s Wyoming.

No, it's Wisconsin.

All right.

Good job.

You got, I guess, eight out of ten on that.

We come back to you now laugh and you get female governors.

Are you excited about female governors.

Feel good about this.

Let's find out how we do.

Answer the following about female governors.

60s the governor of this state, Laura Kelly, lives in the mansion Cedar Crest in Topeka, Kansas.

Maura Healey governs this New England state whose senators include Elizabeth Warren, Massachusetts.

That's right.

Nashua Nashua born Kelly Ayotte succeeded Chris Sununu as governor of the Granite State, New Hampshire.

That's right.

Michelle Lujan Grisham, who governs the southwestern state, was born in Los Alamos, New Mexico.

That's right.

Kim Reynolds governs this Midwest state known for its early caucuses.

Iowa.

That's right.

This woman succeeded Andrew Cuomo as New York Governor Hochul.

That's right.

This woman served as white House press secretary before becoming the governor of Arkansas.

Past this governor of Michigan was the target of a 2020 kidnaping plot.

Whitmer that's right.

This state's governor, Janet Mills, told Donald Trump.

See you in court after a disagreement.

Maine.

That's right.

In this western state, Katie Hobbs defeated Kari Lake in the 2022.

We're out of time.

We're out of time.

The one you passed on governor of Arkansas is Sanders.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

All right.

You all did good in all of those categories.

That's my favorite part of the program.

I like those lightning round questions.

And you did.

Well, we have a little over six minutes left in our program.

We're going to do a 20 point question.

So if you are trailing slightly here's your chance to catch up.

No bonuses.

Now answer and move on.

Plastic chairs appear in a parody of this painting by Banksy that preserves Chris Nighthawks.

That's right.

This philosophical position names a school of ancient philosophers, including Sextus, in accurate empirical state that was founded by Pharaoh named.

This philosophical attitude to claims that knowledge is uncertainty.

Skepticism, skepticism is correct.

Graham Allison popularized this historian's trap, describing the tension and Chris Thucydides, The city's is right, Fretilin led an independence movement in this modern day country where Amy Goodman was beaten during the Santa Cruz massacre.

What Asian country was once a Portuguese colony?

And it is.

It.

Yeah.

Yep.

Japan.

I'm sorry.

Japan.

No.

That's incorrect.

I'll finish for you guys.

What Asian country was once a Portuguese colony and was occupied by Indonesia.

Okay, Andrew.

East Timor, East Timor is right next.

Joel Barlow was among a group of wits from this non New Haven city that formed at nearby Yale College.

The Charter Oak was located in what New England city the name the convention Hartford.

Hartford is right in a novel by this author Saleem Sinai and Chris Rushdie.

Rushdie is right on Salman Rushdie.

Next, these upper world creatures are contrasted with the underwater panther found in the underworld in Native American mythology.

What avian creatures created the sound after lightning by flapping their wings?

What were they called?

And it's Chris Bird's no answer, lamb shock.

What you got?

Sorry, Ravens.

No, they're called Thunderbirds.

Thunderbirds?

Next question.

France intervened in this country and operation Serval, where the Tuareg people declared the separatist Republic of Azawad.

The San Cau University was among the buildings threatened.

And it's Andrew Molly.

Molly is right.

Works in this form often contain a cutting word and a season of reference.

Chris.

Haikus say haikus.

That's correct.

The Inca Trail contains one of these places called Dead Woman, while another, named The Wrong Law, is the highest point in the Annapurna Circuit.

Kruger's job and Khyber name examples of what and looking it is a deejay passes passes right mountain pass next.

The colony name for this body of water was first governed by Prince Rupert of the Rhine, and fought the Pemmican War with the Northwest Company that it later merged with.

What bay named for an explorer in dense northeastern Canada.

What's it called?

Chris Hudson Bay Hudson Bay is right 3.5 minutes left.

While designing one of these places, the architecture firm Herzog and de Meuron converted the Bankside Power station.

A white spiral ramp is the central feature of a Frank Lloyd Wright designed example of what places which include and it's Chris houses.

No.

That's incorrect finishing it for you lamp A white spiral ramp is the central feature of a Frank Lloyd Wright designed example of what places, which include the Guggenheim and what is it?

The museum is right.

Characters who testify at this character's trial include the cafe owner Celeste, and the abusive dog owner Sal Amano.

This character opens a novel by narrating Merman died today.

What character shoots an Arab and its Syrian?

Meursault?

Warsaw is right next.

A couple more, maybe three more questions.

A king of these people named Swen Forked beard launched an invasion.

And it is Andrew.

Vikings.

Nope.

Finishing it for you last.

I'm sorry.

You want more?

The judge wants more.

Can you give us any more?

Andrew?

Danes.

Danes is correct.

Nice recovery.

Well done.

Next.

These trees name a revolution sparked by the death of Rafik Hariri that occurred in Lebanon, whose flags criss like cedar cedars.

The answer next.

Abuses in these places are recounted in the Sundance winning Sugar Cane The Truth and Reconciliation prisons.

Prison.

No.

Finishing it for Lamp.

The Truth and Reconciliation Committee investigated what places in Canada where indigenous children were forcibly assimilated.

What were those called em?

I'm sorry.

Writing schools.

Schools is right.

Next.

A major League soccer team in this city was formerly known as the impact, and a former baseball team in the city were named the Expos.

What city host?

Chris.

Montreal.

Montreal is right.

What is the surface area of an iko sa hydrant with an edge length of four inches?

Given that each of its 20 faces is an equilateral triangle?

Yes.

Chris.

240.

No.

That's incorrect.

Let me answer.

What do you have?

What do you see?

I get 160.

No, the right answer is 80 times the square root of three.

Let's chat about that.

After the program today, I want to couple more questions.

A letter attempting to stop the import of this commodity was written by Lin.

Help me.

Josh says you what drug that was consumed in name.

Second, it's Andrew.

Opium.

Opium.

Very good.

That's right.

Last question.

The narrator of this novel recalls a girl whose name means green and the suicide of his best friend Keisuke as he lands in Hamburg.

What novel by Haruki Murakami about Toru is named after a Beatles song.

And what is the answer?

Chris a Norwegian wood.

The Norwegian what is right?

Lay your buttons down.

We're out of time.

That was a fast 30 minutes.

You all did well.

Both teams did well.

And, dead Sin City, you come out on top.

I think it was a pretty close competition, but you all did a good job.

Lynn.

We're glad you were here as well.

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

I'm Mike Royer.

Thank you for watching and hope you'll join us again next time here on Alabama Public Television.