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Hello, everyone.

Welcome again to the Alabama Scholar's Bowl.

And we've got a bonus program for you.

Today.

We're wrapping up our seventh season by bringing in the All Stars, some of the best players from the best teams that have participated this season.

On the Alabama Scholar's Bowl.

Last week, we crowned the students from as CTE as our champions for this year.

They make up half of our team over on the far side, along with Latika and Christopher from Gadsden City, Tate and Leo from a CTE.

And on this side we have from Hoover, Sonny and Chris and from West Point, Brody and Sean, all fine players.

If you've watched regularly, you know all of these folks are really smart, really well prepared, and we've really enjoyed being around them.

I want to thank Mike Owsley, our executive producer, Sharon Daly, Kate Wilson, Nick Frederick and Harris for all the hard work they've done to make this the seventh season of our program a success.

We've enjoyed bringing it to you.

All right, let me see your game faces.

Really?

That's your game faces.

Are you ready to go?

We're going to play like always.

20 questions.

If you get it right, your team gets a bonus question.

What singer, who is featured on a 2023 remix of Lizzo's song special, released the 2022 album S.O.S., which included the singles and it is I Don't Even See a Light, Where's the light?

There we go, Sonny Sosa is correct.

Here's a bonus question for your team.

What South Asians?

River Valley was home to the ancient cities of Harappa and Mohenjo daro.

What was it in?

The Indus River is correct.

Well done.

Toss up for everybody.

What two countries which are fighting in the ongoing Abyei conflict separated after a 2011 referendum.

And that is Christopher Sudan and South Sudan.

Sudan and South Sudan is correct.

Well done.

Christopher.

Bonus question for your team.

What book which opens with a rat being found in a family's apartment in Chicago, was the first full length novel published by Richard Wright.

I think that's probably about Native Son.

Is the right answer.

Well done everybody.

What quantity can be measured by the rank and scale specified?

Date, absolute temperature.

Judges.

Yes.

Okay.

All right.

The answer temperature.

But we'll take your answer is you as a good one.

And your bonus question grab your pencil.

I know you're in the mood to do a little bit of math.

What is the height?

This is their bonus.

Now, what is the height of an equilateral triangle whose side links are two?

Given the height forms two, 30, 60, 90 right triangles I don't.

I have no idea.

You just write three.

Yes.

Root three or square root three.

That's right everybody.

What man who championed the contract with America leading.

And it's Chris FDR.

Oh no.

That's incorrect.

Over to you, Christopher Gingrich.

Gingrich is correct.

Bonus question for your team.

What grandchild of Helios killed her two children by her ex-husband, Jason?

Medea.

Medea is right.

Toss up everybody.

What architect who designed the Museum of Islamic Art.

And it is Tate.

I'm Pei.

I am Pei's correct bonus.

What?

British Prime Minister was criticized for his policy of appeasement toward Adolf Hitler.

Who was that?

Chamberlain.

Chamberlain is right for your bonus.

Now toss up both teams.

What mountain range contains the source of the Garonne river and the microstate of Gris Pyrenees is right.

Good job.

Bonus for your team.

What quantity?

Whose change is negative for a spontaneous reaction equals the change in enthalpy minus temperature times the change in entropy.

What is that?

Yes, Gibbs.

Free energy.

That's right.

Everybody.

What reaction?

Which is undergone by a substance when it combusts is contrasted.

Taste oxidation.

Oxidation is right.

Bonus.

What country's president, Alberto Fernandez, is a member of the justice justice your List party.

And was its former president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.

Argentina.

Argentina?

How about on this round?

If you know the answer while I start, just jump right in there.

What island?

Where a civilization used a linear inscription to the bronze Age in state.

Crete is right.

Bonus.

What woman who starred with Chris Hemsworth in Men in Black International plays Valkyrie in the Thor series, and Bianca Taylor in the Creed series?

Who is that?

Bianca Taylor, We miss it.

And I said yes.

I to you have an answer.

Smith.

No, it's, Tessa Thompson.

Tessa Thompson bonus.

Not bonus question for everybody.

What dessert?

Whose?

Paranal Observatory houses.

Latika or a comma is correct.

Your bonus.

The orchestral tune in the Hall of the Mountain King comes from what Norwegian composer?

Incidental music to play Peer Gynt, Edvard Grieg.

Grieg is right.

Toss up everybody.

What species?

Whose scientific name Diana Mushi Pulu is a plant that derives nutrients from bugs it captures.

Tate Venus Flytrap Venus flytrap is right.

Bonus George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion Henry Higgins makes a bet that he can turn what Cockney flower girl into a lady fit for upper class society.

Eliza Doolittle That's right.

All right, everybody, here we go.

What instrument?

That creates a melody through a chanter and a constant.

Christopher.

No.

That's incorrect.

You know, I can finish reading.

Bagpipe is right.

Good job.

Sean.

Bonus for you in 1780, what British major who collaborated with Benedict Arnold in plotting to betray West Point to the British, was hanged in New York.

Andre Andre is right.

Good.

Toss up everybody.

In 2023, Hamish Harding was enroute to.

What specific site?

Take the Titanic.

That's right.

Titanic.

Bonus for you.

What object discovered in 1801 is the largest object in the asteroid belt series.

Asteroid belt larger, I don't know.

Series.

Series is right.

Toss up everybody.

What popular programing language created by Guido, then Rossum.

Python.

Python is right.

Bonus.

Your question.

Bonus question for you.

What African countries building the iconic tower in its new administrative capital?

Whose construction began under President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi.

Egypt.

Egypt is right.

Toss up, everybody now get ready.

Sean.

What country?

Home to Nobel laureates.

Alice, Bella.

Art, ski and sled.

Janet and Tate.

Russia.

That's incorrect.

I'll finish it for you and Svetlana Alexievich is a former Soviet state ruled by, since 1994 by Alexander Lukashenko.

What is it?

Belarus is right.

Well done.

Bonus.

In what decade?

When the Black Monday crash caused the Dow Jones to lose 23% of its value, did a president implement trickle down?

Say it again.

2019 2020?

No, it's 1980s.

What?

Trickle down economics 1980s what we want, what art form whose performers may sport colorful, bold striped puma jewelry.

Leo.

Bunker rule.

No, that's not right.

I'll finish it for you.

Kumar.

Dairy makeup is a hyper stylized, men's only theater tradition in Japan.

Christian kabuki is right.

Bonus.

What collection of ancient texts includes the sama, a compilation of chants and melodies, and the rig, which contains hymns, Vedas, Vedas is correct, everybody.

What author who depicted himself as Peter Martin in the town?

In the city.

And it's Tate Swift?

Nope.

Wrote about Carlo Marx, Dean Moriarty and Sal Paradise on the road.

Catholic.

Correct is correct.

Here's your bonus.

What Amazon Prime Video series that ended in 2023 starred Rachel Brosnahan as the title 1950s housewife, who becomes a stand up comic.

I watched every episode of this.

No, it's not that Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.

No, that's not it.

You guys know Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is the right answer.

Moving on to question 17 of 20.

What class of rock makes up intrusions such as sills and its Tait igneous?

That's right.

Bonus for you.

Lynn Margulis proposed what theory?

That double membrane organelles like mitochondria and chloroplast originated as independent organisms.

Endosymbiotic.

That's correct.

What woman?

Everybody.

Now what woman whose reputation was damaged by the affair of the diamond necklace?

Marie-Antoinette.

Antoinette.

Net is right.

Bonus.

A group of pirates called the Vitol brothers targeted what medieval league that built trading post called contours and was led from Lubeck, Hansa.

That's correct.

Two more questions.

In what musical is the Heaviside layer?

Richard Tate Cats.

Cats is right.

Your bonus.

The French word chevre can refer to what animal?

Or to a cheese made from its milk.

Goat.

Goat.

Goat is right.

Last question here.

What author of how much land of the men need to Tolstoy?

Tolstoy is right.

Bonus.

What acid with molecular formula ACH3COOH is responsible for the tart taste of vinegar.

Acetic acid.

Acetic is right.

That's correct.

All right.

Lay your pins down.

Did I tell you the four categories before we begin?

I don't think I did.

I will now and I'll tell the viewers at home four categories for the Lightning Round and the they are sharks, presidents at war, English grammar and sevens and our All-Star team closest to me here you're trailing slightly here at the midpoint.

So you'll choose first and then are all stars made up of asked and gets.

And city will choose second and choose two categories before we do that, let's one more time have all of our students tell you a little bit about themselves and what their interests are.

Christopher, would you begin by.

Hi, my name is Christopher Holder.

I am a junior at Gadsden City High School, and my favorite movie is probably the original Star Wars A new Hope.

My name is Latika Prasad.

I'm in ninth grade at Gadsden City High School.

One of my favorite movies is good Will hunting.

Hi, my name is Tate Osborne.

Tate Osborne, I'm a senior at asked and my favorite movie is North by Northwest.

My name is Lee Osborne.

I'm a sophomore DC and my favorite movie is 12 Angry Men.

Hi, my name is Sunny Brockman.

I'm a junior at Hoover High School and my favorite movie is interstellar.

Oh, hi.

My name's Chris Nathan.

I'm a sophomore who are high school, and my favorite movie is All the President's Men.

I'm Brody Henry, I'm a senior at West Point High School, and my favorite movie is The Batman.

Hello, I'm Sean Harbison from West Point High School.

I'm a junior, and my favorite movie is Star Wars Episode three.

Very good.

Chris goes back a couple decades for his favorite movie, but I want to know my favorite movie.

Pride and Prejudice.

You've all seen it.

And to know Chris, you've got to watch it.

You got to watch it.

All right.

You guys choose first of those four categories.

Which one do you want?

Presidents, presidents, presidents at war.

You're going to name the president who led the U.S. during these conflicts.

Here we go.

60s World War one, World War two Franklin Delano Roosevelt Spanish-American and war.

McKinley.

McKinley.

McKinley.

Yes.

The War of 1812.

Madison.

That's right.

The Mexican-American War.

That's right.

The quasi war.

Adams.

John Adams, the Korean War.

Truman and the Bosnian War.

That's right.

Two more.

The invasion of Grenada, Reagan and the First Barbary War.

Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson, ten for ten with 32 seconds to spare, we come over to our other all star team and, take Latika.

What do you guys want to do?

Give me two of them, please.

We'll take English grammar first, followed by seven English grammar and then sevens.

You're going to answer the following about grammar concepts in English.

60s.

Here we go.

Part of speech of the word between.

Like the preposition preposition is right punctuation mark that may splice a clause incorrectly.

Comma is right base form of a verb such as to reach that can be split root.

No infinitive is the answer.

Process of inflecting a verb.

Inflecting a verb.

Giving.

I don't know what that means.

Conjugation.

Conjugation.

That's it.

Grammatical mood used to state facts.

Objective.

What's your answer?

Objective.

It's indicative elements such as es h that can be added to the end of a word and suffix.

Right?

That suffix suffix is right process that is doubled in the phrase don't go, don't got no time.

Like double negative.

It's double negative is good.

Definite article in English for the yes greatest degree version of an adjective such as worst superlative.

That's right.

And what's stands for in SVO word order in subject.

Subject subject is correct.

Time is up right in the nick of time.

Well done.

Now you want to do sevens, you're going to give these answers that contain either the word or the number.

Seven 60s vices.

That includes seven deadly sins.

That's right.

Group of liberal arts colleges, including Mount Holyoke, is a group of liberal arts colleges.

Seven had the word 7 to 7.

Art pass, 1954 film directed by Akira.

Seven Samurai That's right, conflicted include the French and Indian Wars for Boeing.

Plane who's Max?

947.

Seven what?

747 737 right answered.

37 Disney animated film based on a fairy tale Snow White, The Seven Dwarves.

That's right.

Nathaniel Hawthorne novel about a seven.

That's right.

Christian denomination that observes a Saturday Sabbath.

Seventh day Adventist Seventh Day.

That's right.

Board game featuring the Great Pyramid and Colossus.

That's right.

And play by Aeschylus depicting an assault on title city seven against thieves.

That's right.

And you skipped a group of liberal arts colleges, including Mount Holyoke.

Seven sisters.

That's right, seven sisters.

All right, well done.

Now we come back to you guys who have been on the edge of your seat anticipating sharks.

This is huge.

We're going to love this one.

60s to answer the following about anybody.

Sharks.

Exactly right.

Here we go.

Most massive shark species named after sea again.

Named after the largest mammal.

Great white, most massive sharks.

Orca.

No, it's whale shark.

Shark organ that contains buoyant oil and makes bile skip flexible material making up shark skeletons.

Right triangle shaped, thin on the shark's backside.

That's right.

Structures.

Sharks constantly replace while humans only grow two.

That's right, flattened shark relatives with eagle and manta species.

Let's get a relative of the Great White that grew up to 60ft long ago.

Megalodon.

That's right.

Number of chambers in the hearts of sharks and most fish for three, three, two fish that hitches rides by suckering their heads into sharks or barnacle remorse.

Remorse.

One carbon organic compound sharks used to eliminate excess nitrogen.

One carbon.

Methane.

Methane.

Urea is the answer we wanted.

Time is up.

The shark organ that contains buoyant oil makes bile.

Is the liver all right?

This way.

Hey, if you want to, I could dig back and find some more lightning rounds.

Yeah, let's go on.

Let's go on.

All right.

We're going to do, speed round questions, 20 points each.

We'll do this for the next little while.

All right, everybody ready?

What?

National park, which contains Hetch Hetchy Valley.

Somebody.

That's right.

The eight nation alliance to put down what boxer rebellion.

That's right.

What color which names a revolution led by agronomist Norman Butcher like Chris Red in.

That's incorrect.

Also names a third party that nominated Ralph Nader for president.

Tate Green is right.

Playwright August Strindberg was born.

In what European country?

Sweden.

That's right.

Sweden.

What astronomer who showed that a far off galaxies recessional speed is, That's right, Edwin Hubble.

Thalassemia can cause enlargement of what organ?

Responsible Tate.

Lungs.

No.

I'll finish.

You responsible for disposing of old red blood cells.

What is that?

What'd you say?

No, it's the spleen.

The spleen does that.

What's physiologist who wrote 1902 lectures on the work of the Digestive glands?

Yes.

Take public.

That's right.

I want to make.

Put that on our reading list.

What animal?

Which may be named after the mother of the Hydra and consort Typhon.

Echidna.

It kinda is correct.

That's right.

Well done.

In what play does a character reveal that he was born by caesarean section.

And it is Tate Macbeth.

Macbeth is right.

Tajikistan's eastern border is with what country?

Christian China.

China is right.

What region names?

The world's largest and highest plateau is home and Tibet take Tibet is right in Judaism, four ritual questions are asking you what traditional Christian Passover?

No, it for a traditional meal at the start of Passover.

It is.

Like Christopher.

No.

Seder.

Seder is what we wanted there.

Operational dynamo occurred during, what, 19.

Chris.

Dunkirk.

Battle of Dunkirk is right.

What U.S. president was in office when 52 Americans were taken hostage at the US embassy.

Chris Carter Carter is right.

Snell's law infection.

Say it again.

Refraction.

Refraction is correct.

Index or index of refraction.

There you go.

I would have gotten it anyway.

I think we did it together.

What word derives from Slavic term for labor was introduced by.

Yes.

To serfdom?

No.

Introduced by Karl Chapa in the play are you are robot?

That's correct.

What author wrote about the ship whose deck was once read with hero's blood in a poem?

Christopher.

Nope.

In a poem about the USS Constitution titled Old Iron Two at That Coast, Holmes wrote that what element whose halide salts were traditionally used in developing photographic and tape?

Silver.

It is silver that is used what televangelist was criticized in 20 state Billy Graham nope.

Criticized in 2017 for not housing victims of Hurricane Harvey at his Lakewood Church, his megachurch in Houston, Texas.

No, sir.

What you got, Chris?

Jeff gladney?

No.

That's wrong.

No.

That's wrong.

It's Osteen.

Joel Osteen next.

What author of the autobiography Long Walk to Freedom was released and it's Brody Mendell is right.

Chordata and anthropology are examples.

Phylum phylum is right tail.

What author who wrote about Ted Williams final game in a book called husbands?

Chris.

Oh, Smith.

That's incorrect.

Husband bid kid adieu depicted the salesman Harry Angstrom in such novels as Rabbit and Run Updike.

Updike is right.

What country's struggle for independence forms the backdrop of the English language plays?

The shadow of a gunman and the plow in the Sky state.

Taiwan, Ireland Ireland is correct.

Next of about five minutes left, what democratic politician who defeated Mehmet Oz after Adrian Fetterman is correct?

That's right.

Moving on.

What country was led by Francisco Solano Lopez and lost?

Chris Paraguay is right.

Pencil and paper.

What is the area of a circle whose diameter is 1881 Pi?

81 Pi is correct.

You guys.

In March 2020, for the stock price of Krispy Kreme, rose 40% after it was announced that it would begin selling its donuts at branches of what fast food chain this, McDonald's.

McDonald's is right.

What name?

Which identifies a figurine villain dwarf that is tens of thousands of years old and is shared by the Roman goddess of love and the planet Venus?

Chris Venus is right.

Italian artist Artemisia Gentileschi and its Leo female.

Now have you?

I've actually lost my place.

There we go.

That that is incorrect.

What depicted what biblical woman slain?

The Assyrian in general.

Sony Sunday.

Judith is right.

A mammoth national monument is in what, Texas city?

Chris?

Amarillo?

Nope.

I'm finishing it for you.

In what?

Texas city on the Brazos River, which is the home of Baylor University.

What towns in Waco?

Waco is right.

Good job.

Pencil and paper again.

What integer equals the product of the first three prime numbers given?

And it's Chris.

That's 3030 is correct.

In 2020, three pro-Russian generals representing the sea in ASP deposed President Mohammed by zoom in what West African country take.

Algeria.

That's incorrect.

West African country governed from Niamey, Niger is correct.

At what event?

Chaired by James Mott in 1848 Seneca Falls Seneca Falls is right.

In Triwizard Tournament, Harry Potter and Christopher.

The Goblet of Fire.

No, we'll finish it over here.

Harry Potter must confront what kind of spiked dragon whose alliterative two word name includes a European nationality.

Chris Romanian, Rome born.

It's something.

You answer so many.

Correct.

It makes me smile when you don't.

Hungarian horn Tail is from that book.

You read those books so long ago.

What poet?

Ask if winter comes and take Shelley.

Percy Shelley is correct in the ordered pair representing a point in the Cartesian coordinate system.

What is the term for the element that follows the ordinate and its state?

Coordinate?

No.

That's incorrect, I think I what?

I've read it all.

I think that follows the ordinate.

Anybody here?

Nope.

It is the abscissa.

Abscissa?

2 or 3 more questions.

Massless particles must travel.

At what speed?

Equal to three.

The speed of light is right.

What?

Son of King Yao the first to help capture Maurice Tate.

Prince Henry the Navigator?

That's correct as well.

Hey, I've only got one question left, so I've got to read it really slow.

When you fix all.

Last question.

What novel?

Whose protagonist is exiled to embittered Tale of Genji.

What's that?

No, but you're helping me fill time after shooting.

Easy.

Do son things fall apart, take things fall apart.

Well done.

And look at that.

Our time is just about gone.

And we've got.

We're all out of questions.

I'll tell you at home.

Our all star team over there ended up a little bit ahead of this team.

You guys all played great.

Whenever we bring new teams into the studio, I'm going to ask you the warm up question we ask our students at home.

And the question is, do you pronounce the capital of Kentucky, Louisville or Lewisville?

And at home you're answering that question right now, students, what's the answer for?

The answer is Frankfort, Kentucky.

Throw something at the TV if you like.

But most importantly, thank you so much for watching our program, the Alabama Scholar's Bowl, seen every week here at Alabama Public Television.

And we're proud of all of our students, thankful for all of our workers who make the program possible here.

And is there something else you'd like me to say?

I guess I think I said they came out on top, but you all played very well and congratulations to you again.

Congratulations to the folks from asked our champion team for this year that no one hangs their head after losing to that team.

Everybody played really well.

We're proud of all of you and I sincerely mean I enjoyed being with all of you.

We thank you so much for watching our program, the Alabama Scholar's Bowl.

We are completing our seventh season and we appreciate very much you watching.

Thanks to everyone who makes this show possible.

And thank you for watching.

I'm Mike Royer.

Have a great day everybody.