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Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Alabama Scholar's Bowl.

My name is Mike Royer.

Welcome to the program.

As I hope you know, by now, you can see the Scholar's Bowl every Saturday here on Alabama Public Television.

This is our seventh season.

Thank you for watching every week and supporting the program and supporting these fine students who come to us from your communities around the state.

Have you seen our cool trophy?

This is our cool trophy.

The winner of our competition will receive this at the end of this season, and we are proud of all of the students who come, the ones who win the competition, the ones that finish second and on down the line.

We're proud of all of them.

They all represent their communities and their school well.

Also, doing the hard work that makes this program work is our executive producer, Mike Owsley.

Judges and timers include Sharon Daley, Kate Wilson, Nick Frederick, and then Harris.

Thanks to them for giving up their time and dedicating their time to our program.

Are you guys ready to play?

We've got West Point over on that side of the studio and closest to me, Florence High School.

It's good to have you all with us.

If you're ready, get your buzzers in hand.

As you know, these first 20 questions include bonus questions.

If you answer the question correctly, then you get a bonus just for your team.

Let's start with this.

Abraham Lincoln briefly served in, what, 1832 war in the Midwest, during which the U.S. won the battle of Bad acts over a leader of the Sock Tribe.

What was the name of that war?

Anyone?

It was called the Black Hawk War.

Let's move on then.

What?

Insects engage in behaviors like keeping aphids for their honeydew and growing fungi.

Star ants.

Ants is the right answer.

Good job.

Bonus question for you.

West point.

What country which celebrates the bar Kia Carnival before lent is the birthplace of actress Sofia Vergara and singer Shakira.

What country is that?

Colombia.

Yeah, I think Columbia.

Columbia is right.

Brody.

Good job.

Toss up for both teams.

What woman wrote about a dog who becomes a football hero in ribs Z and portrayed an Oregon girl known as the brave and the past.

And it is Kate Cleary is correct.

Well done.

Bonus question for you, Florence.

In 1971, an uprising at what kind of place in Attica, New York, was suppressed by state police who killed over 40 people.

What kind of place was that?

Stonewall riots?

No.

We're asking for the place.

It was a prison, a correctional facility.

Toss up question, everyone.

What composer?

Whose cello concert Concerto in E minor made Jacqueline Dupré famous included Brody.

You're gonna say it again, Yo-Yo Ma.

No.

That's incorrect.

I'll finish it for you, Florence.

Jacqueline Dupré famous included the tune land of Hope and glory in his pomp and circumstance.

Who was that composer?

Do you have an answer?

Yes.

Like Bach?

Nope.

It was Edward Elgar.

Edward Elgar is the right answer.

Here's the next question for everyone Joseph Fourier.

Fourier first described what effect in which water vapor, methane, carbon dioxide, and certain other gases traps some of the sun's energy.

What is that called?

And it is Richie.

Greenhouse effect.

Greenhouse effect is correct.

Your bonus in 2021.

What wide receiver led the NFL in receptions, receiving touchdowns and receiving yards as a member of the Los Angeles Rams?

Who is that Cooper Kupp Cooper Kupp is right.

Good job.

Next everybody.

What event which led to Giles Corey's death by pressing Brody Salem witch trials is correct.

Your bonus.

What country whose highest peak is named after Arthur Conan Doyle contains ancient Maya ruins at Caracol and is governed from Belmopan.

What country is that?

Belize.

Belize is right.

Toss up everyone.

What country contains both gear?

Forest.

The last wild.

India.

India is the right answer.

Sean.

Sean, move your nametag that way.

Just a little so I can see your light.

I couldn't see your ringing.

Thank you very much.

Bonus question for you.

In an annual Virginia tradition suspended due to Covid, what animals swim across the channel between China, Teague and Assateague Island?

What animal?

The bear.

It's, ponies.

Ponies do that.

Swim.

Next question for everyone.

What type of materials?

Which Lee and Kim claimed like 99 was it?

Sean?

Superconductor.

Superconductor is right.

Bonus question for your team and you'll need your pencil and paper.

What integer equals the quantity 101 squared -99 squared, which can be found using a difference of squares.

What integer?

Not true.

What you got, Brody?

9900.

It is 400.

400 is what we wanted there.

Toss tossup.

What?

Liberal party head whose government passed the Official Languages Act enshrining bilingualism, was Canada's prime minister through the 1970s.

Brody.

Trudeau.

Trudeau is right.

It was Pierre Trudeau.

Pierre Trudeau.

I just gave it away to Pierre Trudeau is correct.

Bonus question.

What Duchess of Aquitaine was married to both Louis, the seventh of France and Henry the Second of England during the 12th century.

Eleanor.

Eleanor is correct.

Next question for everybody.

What anthropologist whose methods in the 1920s were criticized by Derek Freeman, described Brody Mead Margaret Mead is right.

Bonus for you.

A modern aristocrat mimics the title emperor in Henry the Fourth, a drama by what absurdist Italian writer of the play six Characters in Search of an author and ELO.

Pirandello is right, everybody.

What property is possessed by vectors whose cross-product is zero and is possessed by lines shorn perpendicular?

That's incorrect.

I'll finish it for you, Florence, and is possessed by lines in a plane with equal slope.

Since they never intersect.

What is that called, Charlie?

Parallel.

Parallel is correct.

Bonus question for you, Florence.

What African American singer whose 1939 recording of Strange Fruit protested southern lynchings and was nicknamed Lady Day?

Who was that?

Any answer?

Aretha Franklin?

Billie Holiday is the answer we wanted.

Next question for everyone.

What teenage boy who watches interdimensional cable TV with his sister Summer appears on an Adult Swim show along, and it's Sean Morty.

Yes, Morty.

Morty Smith is right.

Bonus question for you.

In the 1990s, Israel and the Palestinian Palestine Liberation Organization made steps towards peace by signing a pair of accords named for what European capital?

You have an answer.

Geneva.

Oslo is what we wanted.

Moving right along what lake that receives the Chari River is found in the Sawhill region and borders four African nations, including Sean, Chad.

Chad is right.

Lake Chad.

Your bonus.

Earth's magnetic field deflects what stream of charged particles coming from the sun's corona, whose entry into the Earth's atmosphere creates auroras?

Solar wind solar wind is right, everybody.

What businessman gave his name to the colony in what is now Zimbabwe?

Founded the diamond company DeBeers and Brody Rhodes.

Rhodes is right.

Your bonus.

What?

Philosopher established a school in Athens known as the Lyceum and wrote the poetics and the metaphysics.

Metaphysics X who is that?

Aristotle is right.

Five more of these questions.

What type of four equations, which includes Gauss's law and Faraday's law?

Brody Maxwell's Maxwell's equations is right bonus for you.

A 494 BC secession was fomented by what landowning class of ancient Rome, which had lower rank than the patricians.

Plebeian.

Plebeian is right next.

What element whose deficiency causes the goiter is a dark and Brody iodine is right.

Another bonus for you.

What author of the two line poem In a station of the Metro included Chinese characters in his long poem The Cantos.

Pound.

Pound is right.

Moving on.

What composer who referenced gossip in the title of his Trish Trash?

Polke was an Austrian who wrote many waltzes, including Brody.

Bartok.

That is incorrect.

I'll finish it for you, Florence.

Including the Blue Danube.

Who was that composer?

What you got for?

She was our.

Nobody is Strauss, Johann Strauss.

Next question for everyone.

What party whose members discussed secession during the Hartford Convention rivaled the Democratic Republicans and supported it.

Is John Davis Federalist?

Federalist is right.

Bonus question for your team.

A number of U.S. cities have banned new dollars stores from opening to reduce what areas, which feature limited access to affordable fresh food.

What's that called?

Like a.

Little like a low income.

They call them food deserts.

Food deserts.

Two more questions.

What city which names a trilogy that includes Cairo.

Cairo is the right answer.

Well done.

Your bonus question.

The death of the childless Charles the Second in 1700, began what war that ended with the signing of the Peace of Utrecht in.

No, no, that's Austrian secession.

Spanish secession is the answer we wanted.

Last question and grab your pencil and paper for this one.

What is the third term of an arithmetic sequence?

Whose first term is six, and whose fifth term is 30?

When it is shown, 1818 is correct.

Last bonus what fundamental interaction which is carried by gluons, holds together the protons and neutrons in an atomic nucleus.

Strong.

Strong is correct.

All right.

Lay your buttons down.

Relax for a second.

I'm going to tell you what our four categories are for the lightning round.

The categories are literary families, islands, U.S. houses, and groups of five.

Okay, those are the four categories we'll ask you to choose in just a second.

Florence.

And for now, though, we'd like to meet each of you individually.

If you would tell us your name a little bit about yourself and start, would you begin?

Sorry.

Boyd.

And, I want to go to UAB.

John Davis, you know, I'm a senior at West Point High School, and I plan to go to the University of Auburn.

Brody Henry, I'm a senior at West Wayne High School, and I also plan on going to Auburn University.

I'm Sean Harbison, I'm a junior from West Point High School, and I'm not sure what college I want to go to.

Yes.

All right.

Let's meet the players from Florence.

I'm Charlie Graves, I'm a junior at Florence High School, and I like to play football.

I'm Kate Little, I'm a junior at Florence High School, and I like to play tennis.

I'm really tall.

And I'm a junior at Florence High School and I like to play tennis.

I'm like, hang back.

I'm a junior at Florence High School and I like to play football.

I've got the whole football and tennis teams here with us today.

Well done.

All right.

Let's, start with Florence.

You're going to choose a category from the four I described.

Which one would you like to try?

Ireland.

You want to do islands and you'll have 60s.

When I begin to ask the questions, you're going to be given an island name.

The country that controls that island.

Here we go.

Greenland.

Yeah.

That's right.

Java.

Indonesia.

That's right.

The Baffin Island.

That's Canada.

That's right.

Luzon.

Belgium.

Philippines.

Okay.

Tasmania, Australia.

That's right.

Snorkeling Norway, Russia, South Padre Island.

Spain.

United States, Madeira, Portugal.

That's right.

Socotra, Skip and Ibiza.

Spain.

That's right.

You skipped.

So true, so true.

Well, I didn't skip any others, did we?

China.

It is Yemen.

Yemen?

That's a hard one.

That's a pretty tough category.

Well done.

Now we come over to West Point.

You're going to choose two of these categories that remain and play them both back to back.

Brody, what do you like?

Literary families and then groups of five literary families and groups of five will do literary families.

First, you're going to name the authors who created these fictional families.

60 seconds when we begin.

So let's begin the title family of the Brothers of Karamazov.

I ask the Finch family to kill a mockingbird.

The bold dear orphans in A Series of Unfortunate Events.

So, Snicket.

That's right.

The Wingfield family in The Glass Menagerie.

Williams.

The Caulfield family in The Catcher in the Rye.

The Pevensie children in The Chronicles of Narnia.

Lewis.

That's right.

The Tyrone family and Long Day's Journey into the night.

Oh, O'Neill, the Darling family and Peter Pan.

Barry, the unnamed father and son known as the Men and the boy in the road.

McCarthy.

That's right.

The Zhong and Wu families in the Joy Luck Club.

Amy Tan.

That's correct.

And now is the other one.

US houses, groups of five.

Groups of five.

All right.

US houses will be what we're left with for you guys in groups of five, you have 60s to answer the following about the groups of five people or things ready?

First of the five books of the Torah.

The took center.

No, it's Genesis pilgrimage.

That is one of the five pillars of Islam.

Hajj.

That's right.

Largest of the Great Lakes.

Superior five member boy band that included Justin Timberlake.

In-Sync mathematician who proposed five postulates in the elements Euclid Nation led from Wellington.

That is the Five Eyes Alliance US city in which the five families ran the Mafia, in New York, New York.

That's right.

Psychiatrist who developed five stages of grief.

No.

Grief.

Erickson.

Yeah.

No, that's, Kubler-Ross, the stoic philosopher and last of the five.

Good.

Marcus Aurelius.

That's right.

And the Mesoamerican civilization that believed in a cycle of five suns.

Aztec.

That's right.

Very good.

Good job on God.

I think you got nine out of ten, and we come back to you, Florence, for U.S. houses.

Are you excited about this one?

I know I am in 60s.

You're going to give the name, not the address of these residences.

Ready?

President's home in Washington, DC, the white House, Virginia, state of George, Washington, Mount Vernon, Pennsylvania.

House on a river designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for Edgar Kaufman.

Fallingwater.

That's right, San Simeon, a state of castle built for publishing for a publishing tycoon.

Skip Thomas Jefferson's plantation that appears on the Nickel.

Monticello, Elvis Presley's mansion in Memphis.

Graceland, Marilyn's Lodge that is a retreat for the president.

Camp David, California, ranch that was Michael Jackson's home and amusement park.

Neverland.

That's right.

Residents of New York City's mayor skip mystery House near San Jose with hundreds of rooms.

Yep.

Going back to residence of the mayor of New York.

And also San Simeon Estate, a castle built for a publishing tycoon.

You get six seconds.

Any of those?

Buckingham Palace?

That's incorrect.

San Simeon is Hearst Castle and New York City's mayor.

If it ever comes up in your life again, is Gracie Mansion and the mystery houses Winchester Mystery House.

All right, lightning round is completed.

And now, with the time we have left.

And that's about 7.5 minutes, we'll do our speed round 20 point questions so you can do some catching up if you need to do some catching up.

No bonus questions, just one question and keep going.

Here we go.

What novel, which describes how 96 humans are produced from one egg and its Brody.

Brave New world.

Brave New World is right since 2021, what country's crackdown on alleged monopolistic practices by companies such as Tencent and and Brody?

China.

That's right.

What state's 2022 gubernatorial election, the closest of the year, saw former TV anchor Kari Lake defeated by Katie Hobbs, who took office in Phoenix, Arizona.

Brody Sagan, Arizona.

That's right.

What politician often considered Britain's first prime minister resigned?

Brody Walpole.

Walpole is right.

What war during which retreating troops used the highway of death and set many oil fires burning first Gulf War judges.

Good.

Gulf War is right.

What author who wrote the alternative history novel The Plot Against America, depicted fictional writer Nathan Zuckerman in many of his books.

Brody Dreiser that's incorrect.

You guys have an answer.

Correct answer is Philip Roth.

Next question.

What religion?

Whose concept of Mary period combines temporal and spiritual authority, regards the Audie Grant as a holy text.

Sikhism is right.

In 2024, Kenya called on Tanzania to stop issuing hunting licenses for what large animals to curb elephants?

Elephants is correct.

Well done Charlie.

Next.

What novel?

Whose protagonist writes to her sister Nettie and becomes Shug, Avery's lover.

Birdy color purple.

That's right.

Theo.

Bromine, theobromine and caffeine are examples of what molecules with two fuzed aromatic rings, two of which bind pyrimidines in DNA.

What do you call that?

I don't see ring?

Is that you, Sean?

Hydrocarbons?

No.

That's incorrect.

You get an answer.

What do you have, Ricci?

Purines is correct.

What actress who appeared in ET and has her own daytime talk show, costarred in See You Again?

Drew Barrymore is right.

What?

Mountain in Argentina's Mendoza Province is the tallest mountain?

Brody.

Agua.

That's correct.

What man who called the English mad as March Hares filmed the second?

Say again.

Kaiser Wilhelm the second.

That is correct.

We have five minutes left.

What?

Nobel laureate included stories of music and nightfall in his 2009 book Nocturnes, and wrote about the butler Stevens and the remains of the day.

Brody yes, you guru.

That's right.

What state, which contains the eastern portion of Washita mountains, shares its name with a river that flows through Pine Bluff and Little Rock, Arkansas.

Charlie, Arkansas is correct.

In what type of fraction does the numerator exceed the denominator?

Brody proper.

That's right.

What novel in which a syndicate is run by meth officer Milo mind Bender, catch 22.

That's right.

Ezra Koenig is the lead singer for what band that released Brody?

Vampires.

I'm sorry.

Vampires?

No, that's not correct.

I'll finish it for you.

Florence band that released the 2024 album Only God Was Above Us.

And the song's Harmony hall and your hey, name of the band.

He was close.

It's vampire weekend.

Vampire weekend?

What materials that include both alloys and suspensions.

Maybe categorize Brody Colloids?

No.

That's incorrect.

May be categorized as homogeneous or heterogeneous.

And Charlie mixtures is right.

What Romanian sculptor of the endless column Frankish?

Frankish is right.

What novel in which Captain Phoebus is stabbed in the back?

Brody, Hunchback of Notre Dame.

That is correct as well.

Next for everyone.

What tightness.

Who had the critics and tills guard her infant son in a cave on Mount Ida.

Was the sister of the wife of Cronus.

Triton.

That's right.

William of Tire wrote a chronicle of what?

Conflicts?

That conflicts that began in 1095 and were attempts by European Christians to reconsider crusades.

That's right.

What English soldier described a poisonous gas attack to debunk the old lie who already owns judges.

Is that okay?

He said owns.

That is incorrect.

Old lie that patriotic deaths are sweet.

And his World War One poem duel.

Okay.

Monday columnist.

Do you guys have an answer?

He just put an S on the right answer.

Owen.

Wilfred Owen is right.

The Olson farmhouse is in the background.

Of what?

Painting.

Verde.

Christina's world.

That's right.

The pressure unit known as an atmosphere can be defined using a 716 millimeter tall column.

Of what metal star?

Mercury.

That's right.

What system?

Which includes a red dwarf named Proxima.

Just over four light years from Earth, is the closest star system to our solar system.

What's it called?

Date.

No.

That's incorrect.

Closest to our solar system.

Centauri?

Yes.

Centauri is correct.

Alpha Centauri.

That's correct.

What author of The Rights of Man wrote part of the book The Age of Reason in France?

Sagan.

It wasn't cleared.

Okay.

Finishing the question wrote the part of the book, The Age of Reason in France during the 1790s.

Who was that?

Brody.

Locke.

Incorrect.

You guys have an answer?

Bacon.

No, it's Thomas Paine.

Thomas Paine is what we wanted a minute and a half left.

What lawyer whose victory in the Shelly versus Kramer ended racial covenants, argued Brown versus board, and became a Supreme Court's first black just Marshall.

Thurgood Marshall is correct.

What presidential election?

The first to be won by a Catholic politician, 1960 1960, is the right one.

Kennedy.

What name is shared by the person who baptizes the title character of Laurence Sterne's novel Tristram Shandygaff, and by a dead court jester in hamlet?

Brody, Yorick.

York is right what picture book by Chris Van Ellsberg is named for a train that transports wrote express.

That's right.

Pencil and paper.

And we'll make this our last question.

What is the final total cost of a $25 keyboard?

If a 6% sales tax is added on to its original price and $26.50, $26.50 is correct, lay your buttons down.

That was a good round.

You all played well and I believe West Point came out on top in this match.

Good job.

Well done Florence.

You played well as well.

We're glad you were here.

We look forward to seeing you all back on the program and we look forward to having you join us for our program, the Alabama Scholar's Bowl, every Saturday here statewide on Alabama Public Television.

Thanks again for watching and have a great day.

Everybody.