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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 in to this, the championship round of the Alabama Scholar's Bowl.

I'm Mike Royer and we're so glad you've joined us today.

And every week on Alabama Public Television.

It's been a great eighth season.

And we're excited to have this round today.

In the studio, the students from Hoover High School and from Gadsden City High School.

We appreciate all of the fine students for being here, and we wish you all the very best of luck.

Luck really isn't needed when there is prepared as these students are.

Our executive producer for the program is Mike Owsley, Sharon Daly, Nick Frederick, Josh Rusedski, Rhonda Brewer.

Our judges who assist us and make this show possible.

And if we haven't said it enough, we want to thank the folks from Alabama Public Television for their hospitality and hard work on making this program work every year.

So let's get started.

Both teams ready, buttons in hand, 20 questions and correctly.

You get the bonus.

I don't have to explain the rules to this group here we go.

This world leader played a teacher turned politician.

And Chris Zelinski is correct.

Your bonus one of these tax claims form is emptiness.

Emptiness is form and is named for the heart.

In Buddhism.

What text such as one name for a lotus record.

The oral teachings of the Buddha Sutra Sutra is correct.

Question for everyone.

A 2013 explosion at a plant producing this compound destroyed part of West Texas, and this was the primary feedstock.

And it's Andrew nitrate.

Ammonium nitrate is the answer.

We're going to get you your bonus in 2024, this agency banned nearly all non-compete agreements allowing workers to have better working conditions.

Name this agency, formerly led by Lina Khan, that enforces antitrust law and protects consumers.

Yeah.

Go ahead.

It's not the FDIC, FDIC, it's FTC, Federal Trade Commission.

Question for everyone.

Grab your pencil.

Find the common ratio of a geometric sequence with a second term, 27 over two and a fifth term 256 yes eight over three eight over three is the right answer.

Bonus for you.

One novel by this author features two characters who take on the personality of an angel and a devil.

After surviving a plane crash course, rusty.

Yes.

Rushdie.

Salman Rushdie, nice and loud for me.

Next, in a work about the history of this time period, the state is defined as a work of art by Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt.

Chris.

The Renaissance.

The Renaissance is right.

Your bonus in one of this author's plays, a character admits to beating his dance partner Hilda.

Name this South African author of Master Harold and the boys and the blood, not Fugard.

Fugard is correct.

Everybody the country's president had this country's president had an approval rating of 5% after the Rolex Gate scandal.

Dina Bulat is the president of what?

South American.

Chris.

Go.

Olivia.

Nope.

I'll finish it for you.

Hoover.

She is the president of what?

South American country in which Pedro Castillo attempted a coup in Lima, Peru.

Peru's right bonus for you.

In this process, a ring of actin interacts with myosin and contracts to create a cleavage furrow.

What part of in phase succeeds mitosis and results in the replicated cell being split from the parent?

Cytokinesis says Kinesis is right.

Here's a toss up for everyone.

This author described the theft of examination papers by cadets in the time of Chris Vargas yourself.

That's correct.

Your bonus one of these objects was the first reversible hydraulic machine and is named after the Greek mathematician Archimedes.

What helical threaded fasteners are tightened clockwise using their namesake drivers screw screws is correct.

Now.

Number seven, toss up for everybody.

This composer's eighth Symphony was completed by Brian Newbold.

And buzzing in is Sonny Schumacher's right.

This is your bonus question.

In one myth, strenuous tasks given by this figure are completed by a doll in place of a cell of the beautiful.

To escape this figure, Ivan jumps on the back of a firebird.

What Slavic witch lives in a hut with chicken legs?

Baba Yaga, Baba Yaga good, nice.

They got through it.

Thank you very much.

Now this is a toss up for everybody.

A text name for this city is the source of the phrases.

Through a glass darkly.

And love is patient.

Chris.

Oh, Jerusalem.

No.

That's incorrect.

Finishing it for Hoover.

Love is patient, love is kind.

Thessalonica.

And which other Greek city both received two letters from Paul the Apostle.

Do you have an answer, Chris?

Corinth.

Corinth is right.

Here's your bonus.

This man depicted Princess Marie Bonaparte in his sculpture Princess X name this Romanian sculpture of bird in space.

Brancusi is right, everybody.

In response to an 1819 event in this city, the British government, Chris Manchester Manchester is right.

Bonus.

A member of this family prepares dinner to help secure a gentleman caller who nicknamed her daughter Blue Roses.

Members of white family such as Amanda and Laura maybe stand ins for Tennessee Williams, real family members in The Glass Menagerie.

Wingfield.

Wingfield is correct, everybody.

An encounter with this 300 qubit long and 50 qubit wide object.

Chris Noah's Ark is correct.

Bonus for your team.

An author from this country wrote about a woman who slits her wrist and quits eating meat.

That writer won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature.

The vegetarian is a novel from what native country of Han Kong, South Korea, South Korea is correct.

Toss up everybody barriers named for being pre or post.

These cells cause reproductive isolation through means like hybrid breakdown.

Cara results in the formation of what diploid your cratic cells formed after fertilization event.

Zygote.

Zygote is right Alan.

Your bonus during this specific phase synapsis is undergone by Homo homologous chromosomes when they cross over.

Similarly to mitosis, the nuclear envelope breaks down in what first stage of meiosis prophase one, copays one is right.

Here is the toss up for you both.

The word electricity comes from the Greek for this substance, which names a room that was destroyed at Constant Bourg after being looted from Saint Petersburg.

What yellowish fossilized tree resin Hasani Amber amber is correct.

Your bonus the substitution of three hydrogen atoms with chlorine in this molecule results in chloroform.

The complete combustion of this compound creates two water and one carbon dioxide.

What simplest alkane has the formula for methane is right.

Alrighty, everybody back in this.

This part of the E.M.

spectrum is detected by an organ between the eyes of boas and other snakes, vampire bats and other animals detect warm blooded prey at night.

And its in infrared.

Infrared is correct.

Here's your bonus for you Gadsden City.

This channel's host have included Mike Betts and Stephanie Abrams, the latter of whom host America's Morning headquarters and pattern name this channel name for specializing in coverage of hurricanes and other meteorological events.

The Weather Channel The Weather Channel is right, she says with a smile.

Toss up for everybody.

Kadence tries to recall why her island, home of Clermont, disappeared.

In a novel titled For People Who Perform This Action by E.L.

Lockhart, Simon dies in detention.

In a Karen M McManus novel titled One of Us is Performing and Chris Lying, lying one untruthful action.

Your bonus question Gadsden City.

This character receives a letter at the bottom of a basket of apricots, from which this character's husband eats one.

The character's husband botches a club foot operation.

Name.

This title character of a Gustave Flaubert work who commits suicide by swallowing arsenic.

Madame Bovary, Madame Bovary is correct, or Emma Bovary.

Well done.

Here is the next toss up question in a diplomacy opening name for this battle, Austria and Italy convoy an army to Syria to attack Turkey.

The Holy League defeated on Ottoman Christian Lepanto.

Lepanto is the right answer.

Here's your bonus.

One of these locations in show is now the Museum of the King of non-EU statues of turtles and the Spirit Way are common features of what locations exemplified by Hill in GI UN that supposedly contains rivers of Mercury.

It's a tomb.

It's a tomb.

Becaus A few more questions here.

The death of an actor playing King Lear serves as an early warning of one of these events.

In Emily Saint John Mandel's novel Station 11, people like Griselda and Apocalypse.

No, that's not in.

The answer is a judge.

Okay?

People like Griselda fleeing from what type of event tell stories in Giovanni Versace shows Decameron.

Plague, say again, like plague.

Plague is acceptable.

Pandemics, epidemics, disease.

All right, next question.

The disc version.

Did I give you a bonus?

No, I think I will.

What is the slant height of a conical hat whose base has an area of 64 pi units squared, and whose height is 15 units?

That's correct.

Next question to three more.

This city is home to the Charles the Fourth bridge, and an astronomical clock called Chris Frog is right.

Bonus.

This element is commercially extracted and purified through the Mond process, and with copper.

It is used to produce most coins in the United States.

What ferromagnetic metal found with iron in the inner core has the symbol in a nickel.

Nicholas right.

The disk version of this device reduces fade carelessly.

Activating this device on the front wheel of a bicycle is likely to cause a flip over runaway truck's emergency brake.

Judges, you'll take it.

Breaks is the answer bonus.

While fishing with high mirror, this figure is caught by Thor, who kills it during Ragnarok and is then killed by it after taking nine steps.

Loki an angry Rhoda fathered what Norse word serpent that bites its own tail.

Like you, my God.

That's correct.

Now I'm back to 19.

Yeah.

Very good.

This straight lies between Question Island and Moon sand.

What is it?

Hormuz.

Hormuz is right.

Echinoderms switch between two forms of this property from larva to adult.

As adults uniquely share with Cindy Sindarin this property radio form sponges are the only animals without what structural property whose bilateral forms humans have symmetry symmetries correct.

One more question.

A book from this school of thought judges that ideas worth based on its cash value crisp pragmatism.

Pragmatism is correct.

You get the last bonus.

This conflict inspired the memoir Storm of Steel.

The teacher, Ken Turek, encourages Paul Bawumia to enlist in this war.

Say it again.

We're war ones, correct?

Lay down your buttons.

We're getting ready for the lightning round.

You guys are doing great.

Both teams.

The categories for our Lightning round, which is brought to you by the Alabama Community College System.

The categories are transcription, Holy Roman Empire, Japanese art, and anthropology.

In a moment, we'll ask the team that is trailing here at the midpoint, and that is you get Sin City slightly right now.

You will choose first.

You guys Hoover will play two, and we'll come back to Gadsden City for the last one.

Before we play the Lightning round, we'd like to meet our players.

Let's begin with the students from Hoover and come right around.

My name is Hassani.

I'm a senior at Hoover High School, and we'd like to thank our coaches, my parents and my family and friends.

Now.

My name is Alan.

I'm a senior from Hoover High School, and I want to, especially thank Coach Dennis.

He's our new coach.

He's been really great this year.

And, you know, I'm really excited to keep, you know, playing under, hi.

My name is Chris Nathan.

I'm a junior at Hoover High.

And I want to also thank my coaches, my family and my friends for doing all that.

They can.

And you guys are the best.

Thank you so much.

My name is Sonny Montes.

I am a senior at Hoover High School.

I too would like to thank my coaches and my friends and most importantly, my parents.

They've been my biggest supporters.

Hey, I'm Alvin Wynn, I'm a senior at Kansas City High School, and I would like to thank our coaches and my parents and our teachers and, well, everyone supporting us today.

Very good.

Hi, I'm Ryan Gaines, I'm a senior at Gadsden C High School.

And I also especially love to thank our coaches, Colonel Davenport and Miss Miller.

They've been really great to us this whole year.

I'm Andrew Wynn, I'm a sophomore.

Guess the high school.

And I don't only like to thank our our teachers, students, teachers, friends, team members, coaches and other parents who are watching us, but also of the all the other teams, their coaches, their team members, their friends, family, all other people that they love as well.

And and I think and honestly, I hope we all have a good time here in general.

That's a good wish.

Hi, I'm Chris Holder, I'm a senior at Gassin City High School, and I too would like to thank the wonderful Colonel and Miss Miller and my wonderful teammates and my wonderful teachers and my parents and everyone in the world who has supported me in this life.

Very good.

I'm glad you all thanked all those people.

I just I have a odd sense of humor.

I was just hoping to get to you and you go, I'd like to thank me for all the hard work I've done in preparing for this and being a part of the team.

You all sincerely thank the right people and I'm glad that you did.

All right, lightning round you guys are up Gadsden city of the.

For which one do you want to do?

Anthropology, please.

Anthropology will begin with that one.

You'll have 60s from when we begin to name the following concerning the field of anthropology.

Ivy League school located in New York City where the first American Department of Anthropology was created.

Columbia.

That's right.

Empire with capital at ten.

Oh, Shetland.

Who's city?

That's right.

British evolutionary biologist who's on the Origin of Species kick started study of the culture by its material remains, which names a subbranch of anthropology.

Archeology.

Father of American anthropology.

Who wrote?

That's right.

Cultural anthropologists who analyzed Polynesian adolescents in coming of age in Samoa, a country whose post-World War Two shame culture was described.

It's right pseudo science in which skull bumps are used to predict mental qualities pioneered by Caesar Ambrosio.

Eugenics?

No.

It's phrenology.

Anthropologists who analyze Balinese cockfights in the 30s is right.

French structuralist, who analyzed bricolage in The Savage mind and wrote Christie's Levi-Strauss is right.

You missed one, but didn't skip any.

Well done.

Good job.

We come over to Hoover now, and your team will choose two of our categories and play them both back to back.

What would you like to do?

What do you like?

Japanese art.

And then the Holy Roman Empire.

Very good Japanese art first, then the Holy Roman Empire.

Answer the following about Japanese art 60s starting now.

Tallest mountain in Japan, which was the subject.

Fatigue is right.

Japanese art of folding paper into figures.

Yeah.

Artists inspired by Japan to paint bedroom in RL.

And who also say in manga Japanese art form of planting and take care of miniature trees.

A bunch of French impressionists who painted water lilies in the Japanese bridge.

American Impressionists who use Japanese science, the creator of woodblock print, the great wave kind of Hokusai Japanese performance artist who took part in bed ins with her husband John Lennon and Yoko Yoko Ono, genre of woodblock prints that translate to pictures of the floating world.

Ukiyo e and contemporary artist who loves polka dots and created mini Infinity Room installations.

Oh, it's that one guy.

You got six.

You think?

Think you have 15 seconds?

You did this in school.

Mitsubishi.

Let's go.

Did you say now you've got the answer.

Say again.

Okay, director.

Now, if Kusama Kusama was the right one and you want to do Roman Empire next, we're saving transcriptions to last.

Okay, Holy Roman Empire, you're going to answer the following questions in 60s about the Holy Roman Empire.

Number one, modern day country where the Holy Roman Empire was based, now governed in Berlin, oh, Germany.

French emperor and military leader who sparked the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806.

Oh, oh.

Napoleon.

Napoleon.

Yeah.

More.

Napoleon Bonaparte, first Holy Roman Emperor, crowned by the Third Austrian dynasty.

The continuously ruled 1618 to 1648.

Conflict 30 Years War thinker who claimed it was neither holy nor Roman nor an empire, and also wrote can you hold her first emperor to not be crowned by the Pope, who shares his name with an emperor of Mexico?

Oh, Maximilian.

Yes, that's right.

Woman given the throne of Austria via the Prague Madrasa.

Emperor who submitted to Pope Gregory the Seventh.

In the fourth?

That's right.

Final emperor of the air, who abdicated following the formation of the Confederation of the Rhine.

Franz Joseph.

Is that good?

Francis the second?

Yeah.

You got it.

That's all right.

That's all right.

Now we come back to transcriptions.

How you feel about this guy sin.

Pretty excited.

All right, 60s name the following regarding transcription.

Organelle where transcription where transcription takes place in House's DNA.

Oh, what's your answer?

Nucleus.

Nucleus is right.

Type of single stranded nucleic acid made from DNA during transcription in RNA.

Yes.

Process that happens after transcription.

Translation.

Translation.

Yes.

Nucleotide that is synthesized opposite a DNA in transcription found in place of thymine.

You're you're you're so you're yourself.

Yes.

Virus that can perform reverse transcription and infects T cells to cause immune immunity.

No deficiency HIV.

That's right.

Enzyme that builds RNA by adding nucleotides nucleotides one by one from a DNA template in transcription is there a fast, unorganized, spaghetti like of DNA that can block transcription?

You're like prions.

No chromatin process that occurs after transcription in which introns are removed from m RNA.

That's right.

Type of system in which transcription is controlled by a repressor binding to an operator.

Time is up.

That was operands.

All right.

That was a tough one too.

Well done with all the lightning round I think we did all for.

So all we have left to do in this championship round is get to the finish line, and we'll get to the finish line in just under five minutes by asking 20 point questions.

No bonuses.

Here we go.

A film during this conflict features the ritual killing of a water buffalo and inspired Chris American Civil War I'm coming back to you for the finish.

To the question inspired by Heart of Darkness, Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now is set during what were in the 70s.

Hey, Chris, Vietnam.

Vietnam War is right in this country.

Dictator Sonny Abarca ordered the execution of Kino.

Sara we are due to is actually Nigerians, right?

In a book this author co-wrote with his son Elisa and her brother.

Search for her parents in the midst of a drought.

Named this author, who described a world where parents give up their children to harvest camps, and Chris Margaret Peterson.

Well, I'll finish it for you, Hoover.

Give up their children to harvest camps and unwind, and also wrote sci fi trilogy.

Meyer.

Nope.

It's Shusterman.

Neal Shusterman is that next question.

The Blaine Act rendered this legislation unconstitutional, though it was pushed for by Anti-Saloon League.

The 18th Christian Volstead Act is right.

This number squared over six is the solution.

Pipe pie is right.

This style of music was employed by Estonian composer Arvo Part.

Crisp minimalism minimalism is right.

What term is given to soil that is not predominantly sand, silt or clay, and often contains more nutrients and humus than its counter hummus than its counterparts, making it ideal for agricultural uses.

What's it called for?

No, it's, no.

Do you have an Alan?

I'm sorry.

No.

It's loam.

Loamy is the right answer.

This thinker advocated for the preservation of cultural prejudices.

In a work responding to a speech by Richard Price.

Reflections on the Revolution in France.

Burke Burke is right.

Cyclone Cheeto Idaho made landfall in this country city of Pemba.

Opposition leader the nuncio.

Chris.

Kenya.

Nope.

Coming back to finish it.

Valencia.

Man laying claim to a rigged election against Daniel Chapo's ruling party for Alamo is what country governed from Maputo.

What do you have?

Mozambique.

Mozambique is right.

The release of the Astron 35 Esq caused a quartz crisis in this country, forcing manufacturers like Patek Philippe to rebrand their products as luxury goods.

Name this industry, whose many Swiss watches watchmaking watches is right Rama Chandra and plots can visualize dihedral angles between components of watch.

Makram and Alan.

Proteins is correct.

Two minutes left A painting of this scene depicts a burning synagogue and the Lithuanian flag like a crucifixion.

Crucifixion is right.

One of these objects was made out of the bones of a sea monster and grew barbed each time it penetrated skin, Allen Spear Spears writes.

This author wrote about a man hitting his brother on the head with a root in the story.

Good bye, my brother.

What American author of the enormous radio, Chris Cheever?

Cheever is right at the end of this play, the protagonist brother attempts to open the gates of heaven using his trumpet at a funeral.

Vince, this is right.

What author interwoven the narratives of 12 characters with streams of consciousness called the camera I, Sonny Joyce?

Nope.

Finished.

Chris the Passos is right.

This election's victor ran on the campaign slogan Happy Days are Here again and ran with John Nance Garner.

The Bonus Army Chris 1932 1932 was the year.

That's right.

The independence of three countries along this body of water was established after a human chain.

Chris Baltic Sea Baltic Sea is correct.

1 or 2 more questions.

The beginning of this battle centered around Miller's Cornfield in Dunkirk church.

Antietam.

Antietam is right.

Terry Straub made an audio recording of this event, and its victims were protesting the invasion of Cambodia during the Vietnam War and, say Kent State massacres.

Judges are good with Kent State only a Kent State massacre.

May 4th, 1980.

Very good.

This one precedes this word precedes clearing price.

When describing a price at which supply equals demand, the ability of a firm to manipulate price is a power described.

Chris.

Purchasing.

Know where people buy and sell things, but, Alan.

No, it wasn't me.

Anybody.

Market is right.

That's it.

That's all the time we had.

I wanted to get another question or two, but we are out of time.

That was good.

Both teams are good.

We knew that going in and in a pretty close round.

We have a result here.

We're going to give the trophy to somebody and Hoover comes out in the Hoover comes out in a very close, match.

Congratulations to you.

And you guys played great to get that Sun City.

You were great.

Thanks so much for watching our program this the eighth season of the Alabama Scholar's Bowl I'm Mike Royer.

Hope you've enjoyed this season.

And thanks again for watching.

So long everybody.