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Hi, everybody.

And welcome once again to the Alabama Scholar's Bowl, a program seen every week statewide on Alabama public Television.

My name is Mike Royer, and it's my privilege to host the program every week.

And it's very enjoyable to meet outstanding students from all across the state of Alabama who come to compete on our program for scholarship money.

And the prestige that goes along with winning the competition.

It's good to see teams with us today from Alexandria and also from South Side up in Etowah County.

Good to have you all with us.

We'll meet the players individually at the midpoint of our program.

Our program is made possible by people who do all the heavy lifting behind the scenes.

Mike Ousley is our executive producer.

Our team of judges, timers and officials are Sharon Daley, Kate Wilson, Nick Frederick, and then Harris.

They make the program go.

Are you guys ready?

Let's get started.

We will, do questions now that if you answer them correctly, you get a bonus question just for your team.

Buzzers in hand.

Let's get started.

What body of water receives the shuttle?

Al-Arab River system is connected to the Gulf of Oman by the Strait of Hormuz.

And is southwest of Iran.

What is that body of water?

And it is Jeremy.

Persian Gulf.

Persian Gulf is the right answer.

Here's a bonus question for your team.

Alexandria.

What country?

Whose monarch is called the Dragon King, is home to many Buddhist structures in its capital of Tim Poo.

Can anyone answer?

Yes.

Anybody?

Bhutan.

Bhutan is the right answer.

Yes.

On the bonus.

Just jump in when you know the answer.

Same with the next question for both teams.

What painting featuring a lute next to a globe includes an and more thick skull and a double portrait by Hans Holbein of the younger depicting diplomats.

What's the name of that painting?

And it's Jefferson.

The ambassador.

The ambassador's is correct.

Here's your bonus question.

South side.

In what, 1516 book by Thomas Moore, does Rafael Hethel a day travel to the title island and observe an ideal society and form of government?

What is that called?

Paradise lost?

No, it is Utopia.

Utopia.

You knew that.

Next question.

In what city's 2023 mayoral race did Paul Byas lose to progressive Brandon Johnson after helping unseat its first black woman leader, Lori Lightfoot?

What city is that?

Anyone taking a shot?

Jeremy.

Houston.

It.

No, it.

That's not right.

Do you guys want to take one?

It is Chicago.

You can never go.

You don't lose points by answering, so jump in there.

But Chicago is what we want.

Next question.

What object launched in 1957 from the Bikaner Cosmodrome, was the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth and its grant.

Sputnik?

Yes.

Sputnik one is the right answer.

Your bonus question.

Goats were often sacrificed when people consulted the Pythia at what temple dedicated to Apollo.

What's that?

The.

You have an answer.

The Parthenon.

I know it's Delphi.

Delphi is the answer we wanted.

Next question.

What emperor built the Golden House or Domus Aurea in the aftermath of the A.D. 64 Great Fire of Rome, during which he was said to have fiddled.

Who is that?

Grant?

Nero is the right answer.

Your bonus question for you.

What playwright who wrote Homebody Kabul made the Aids crisis the background for supernatural events in his two part play called Angels in America.

Who was that playwright?

I don't know, write.

Anything.

Virginia Woolf.

Tony Kushner is the answer we wanted.

Next question.

Both teams.

Now, what author who depicted the death of socialite Lily Bart in the novel the House of mirth, wrote about Ellen Zelinsky in The Age of Innocence.

Who is that author?

And it is called.

No.

That's incorrect.

You guys have an answer for that?

Alexandria.

You justified Kiara.

Yes.

Edith Wharton is good enough.

Judges.

You good with that?

I gave away the first name.

But you got the last name.

We would have accepted Wharton.

So.

Yes, you get credit for that, Kiara.

Good luck.

You and I kind of answer that together.

Did my next question.

Let's see.

Got a bonus here.

What?

Marian apparition.

A popular subject of veneration in Mexico, appeared to peasant Juan Diego in 1531.

What was that, anyone?

La Llorona?

No.

The answer is Our Lady of Guadalupe.

Our lady of Guadalupe.

Next question.

Both teams.

What city?

Whose neighborhoods include Anacostia.

Adams, Morgan and Foggy Bottom is circled by the Capital Beltway and is on the Potomac River.

What city is that?

D.C.. Washington, D.C.. Washington, D.C. is right triangle.

Bonus question for you.

The disease beriberi is caused by a deficiency of what?

B vitamin that is removed from rice when it is polished.

What is that?

B12.

B12?

No.

It's diamond.

Diamond is what we wanted next.

What ingredient?

Which is used to color Coca-Cola and in the sauce for flan.

Flan?

And what do you have for it?

Kasia?

Caramel.

Caramel is the right answer.

Bonus question for your team.

In 2024, the European Space Agency's BepiColombo probe had a glitch enroute to what planet visited in 2011 by NASA's Messenger probe.

Mars.

Mercury is the answer we wanted.

Toss up everybody.

What civil War general who supposedly declared war is hell.

Use scorched earth.

And it is Jefferson General William Sherman.

That's great.

Tecumseh's William Tecumseh Sherman.

Bonus question for you.

South side.

What activist became the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, honoring a settlement house she created in Chicago called Hull House.

Who was that?

Excuse me.

Nope.

Jane Addams Jane Addams is the answer.

Toss up question.

What particles are in the main product of spallation sources are made up of a made up of an up quark and two down quarks, and with protons from an atomic nucleus.

Anybody?

Yes.

Jeremy.

Neutron.

Neutron is right.

Good job.

Bonus for you.

According to Vesper theory, what molecular geometry is exhibited by the tri atomic molecule.

Carbon dioxide.

What molecular geometry?

Got anything?

Triathlon.

Linear is what we wanted.

There.

Next.

What?

Orphaned is mistakenly sent to live with Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, who owned a farm on Prince Edward Island in a series by Lucy Maud Montgomery.

What is the name of that?

Looking.

And it's Keziah.

Anne of Green Gables and of Green Gables is correct.

Bonus question for your team.

What last name is shared by Phil, the current governor of Vermont and a senator from Florida, who was that state's governor from 2011 to 2019.

What's the last name we're looking for?

DeSantis, Scott, is the answer.

We wanted.

Next question for everyone.

What politician whom?

Joseph Welch asked if he had no sense of decency during a 1954 hearing, was a Wisconsin senator and looking for Grant McCarthy.

Joseph McCarthy is right.

Bonus for you.

What states Arches National Park contains the 52ft tall Delicate Arch, which is depicted on its license plate.

What state?

Utah.

Utah is the right answer.

Good job.

Toss up everybody.

What?

Opera, which is based on a novel by prosper May rim, includes a abani Ray sung by the title Seductive Gypsy Woman and is by George Beasley.

Who is that?

What opera?

Jefferson.

Aida.

It is Carmen.

Carmen is the answer we wanted.

What region?

Which is home to two Tainos and Cuba.

One nose is closer to the sun than the Oort Cloud, and is a belt named for a Dutch astronomer.

What is that belt called?

Jefferson Kuiper belt.

Kuiper belt is right.

Bonus.

What artist painted his wife, Arlene.

Share ago.

Playing with a dog on a balcony in luncheon of the Boating Party.

Who was that?

Got an artist name?

Bangor.

Renoir.

Renoir.

That next.

What war?

Which is the setting of Anthony Dawes novel.

All the Light We Cannot See is also the subject of John Kerry.

World War II.

World War II is right.

Well done.

Bonus question for you, Alexandria.

Friedrich Nietzsche first book considered the birth of what literary genre from the spirit of music.

Got anything?

No.

Tragedy.

Tragedy is what we wanted there.

Moving on.

What country reached a 2022 peace agreement with the Tplf under Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to end the conflict of the Tigray region north of Addis Ababa.

What country?

And that's Grant.

Ethiopia?

That's right.

Ethiopia is right.

Your bonus.

What British author critiqued the lack of educational opportunities for women in her essays.

Three Guineas and a room of One's Own.

Who was that?

British author.

Smith.

Virginia Woolf is what we wanted there.

What country?

Where islanders exchanged gifts in the Coola tradition counts over 800 indigenous languages and is governed from and its grant to New Guinea.

Papua New Guinea is the right answer.

Your bonus?

What NHL franchise suspended operations in 2024, when its players and staff moved north to become the Utah Hockey Club?

What was the former club?

The Coyotes?

The Arizona Coyotes is correct.

Well done.

What's up everybody?

What woman who led three steamboats in South Carolina during the Columbia River raid, escaped slavery in Maryland before helping dozens more escape.

Grant.

Harriet Tubman Harriet Tubman is right.

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

If X is an integer with a unit with a units digit of seven, what must be the unit's digit of the integer equal to x cubed?

In.

That's incorrect.

Three is the answer we wanted three.

A couple more questions for both teams.

What city?

That was home to the house of the tragic Poet and the House of the Faun was buried in ash in 1879 by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.

And I'm looking for Kasia.

Pompeii.

Pompeii is right.

Your bonus question.

What poem, which describes how poppies blow between rows of crosses, was written by John McCrae to commemorate fallen soldiers in World War One.

What's the name of that?

Rose of flowers?

Nope.

It's a sad when called in Flanders field.

In Flanders field.

One more toss up question.

What single celled organisms, which include those in genus Candida, are a type of fungi, some of which are used to produce alcohol in fermentation?

Jeremy.

Yeast.

Yeast is right.

Last bonus question of this first part of our program today.

Backyard furnaces were encouraged as part of what failed 1958 to 1962 program ordered by Mao Zedong to rapidly industrialize China.

What was that called?

Chinese industrial revolution.

It was called the Great Leap Forward.

Great leap forward.

Lay your buttons down.

We'll take a slight break from answering questions to do our lightning round.

I'm going to tell you the four categories.

The team that is trailing and that's Alexandria trailing slightly.

Here at the midpoint of our program, you will choose the first category.

You'll play that one, then South Side, you'll choose to play them both.

And then you guys have the luxury of playing whatever's left over at the end.

The lightning Round categories are American Poetry, music by the numbers, classic film titles and seasons.

So think about that.

Decide which one you want to play in.

Just a moment.

Before we do that, we would like to know a bit more about each of our students.

They're all outstanding.

We enjoy being with them and enjoy having them in our program because I would you begin tell us your name, favorite subject, grade and all of that.

My name is Keziah Johnson.

I'm a senior at Alexandria High School, and this will be my first full year on the Scholar's Bowl team.

My name is Elaine Webb.

I'm a junior at Alexandria High School, and I do football and robotics.

My name is Jeremy White.

I'm a junior at Alexandria High School.

I play tuba, and I wrestle.

My name is Kara Brandt.

I'm a senior at Alexandria High School, and my favorite school subject is psychology.

My name is Evan Christopher.

I'm a senior at South Side High School, and I'm the five cross-country runner up.

My name is Jefferson Couch.

I'm a senior at South Side High School, and I am the tuba section leader of their marching band.

My name is Grant Mize.

I'm a senior at South Side High School, and I play soccer.

My name is Joe Shama.

I'm a senior at South Side High School and I play soccer.

Everyone cross country.

Very good.

Jefferson and Jeremy, you did bring your tuba stage because it's good to have you maybe do a little ditty for us over here at the midpoint.

Let's play our lightning round, and we're going to ask you if you would, Alexandria to choose one of the four categories.

What would you like to do?

Classic films, classic film titles.

You will have 60s to answer the questions.

Once I begin, you're going to give the word that completes the titles of these films.

All right.

60s, here we go.

The Wizard of Oz, Singin in the rain, gone with the wind.

Some Like It Hot 1968.

Night of the Living Dead 1946.

It's a Wonderful Life 1939.

Mr. Smith Goes to.

Lunch.

No.

Next, 1967.

Guess who's Coming to Town?

No.

It's dinner.

The treasurer of Sierra Leone, madre is the answer.

1957 the bridge on the River Styx.

The Bridge on the River Kwai.

And I'm requiring all four of you to watch that movie.

It's one of the greatest movie.

What, you didn't pass on any, did you, Mr. Blank?

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is an excellent film as well.

It did pretty well on that.

Good job.

Come over to South Side.

Now guys, you're going to choose two categories.

What do you like grant seasons and music by the numbers.

Seasons and music by the numbers.

Let's do seasons first.

You'll have 60s.

Once we begin to give these answers that include the name of a season ready.

Part of Antonio Vivaldi's The Four Seasons that depicts chattering teeth.

Winter.

That's right.

Protest in the Middle East in the 20 tens.

Spring.

That's right.

International sporting event held in Paris in 2024.

Summer.

That's right.

Igor Stravinsky, ballet.

At whose 1913 premiere audience rioted.

Rite of spring, Chinese festival, in which mooncakes are eaten.

Winter, no.

It's autumn, asterism with three vertices, including Deneb, that is, overhead in July.

Summer.

That's right, Rachel Carson's book that warned against DDT.

Fall and spring seven word opening line of Shakespeare's Richard the Third.

Summer now the winter of our discontent.

Aaron Copland's ballet titled for a mountain range.

Appalachian spring.

Spring is correct, judges.

Are you good with that?

Time is expired.

All right.

Good job with us.

Kind of challenging, but you did a good job with it.

Was the other one you chose?

Movies by the numbers.

Music by the numbers.

Music by the numbers.

You'll have 60s to give these numbers from music and answers may repeat.

Okay.

60s musicians in an octet, a Ludwig van Beethoven final completed Symphony nine lines on a treble clef.

Staff five.

That's right.

Keys on a grand piano 70 to 88.

Valves on a standard trumpet three either number in a time signature, also known as cut time two.

That's right, petals on a concert.

Harp.

Two seven.

Unusual number of movements in some funny, funds tastic number of movements.

For it is five beats in a whole rest in common time four.

That's right half steps in tritone in a tritone.

One you have.

No.

That's incorrect.

It's six we didn't skip.

And he did.

We.

All right.

We learned today that a harp even has pedals, let alone seven of them.

All right.

Very good.

You did good with both of those.

And let's see, that means leaves us with American poetry of the four categories.

And you guys, are excited about it.

I can tell by the looks on your face.

You're ready in 60s you're going to name the authors of these poems.

Here we go.

The Raven, Edgar Allan Poe.

That's right, Song of Myself.

Pass the road.

Not taken for us.

That's right.

A poem whose speaker enters a carriage with death and immortality.

Pass.

Anyone lived in a pretty Howe town which mostly avoids using capital letters.

Pass, 1956.

Poem called howl Hoa.

All to my dear loving husband, published in the 1600s.

Pass the Emperor of ice cream.

Yeah.

Me too, a poem about a musician on Linux Avenue playing a drowsy, syncopated tune.

Pass snowbound and the Civil War poem Barbara Freaky Hemingway.

No, that's Whittier you passed on song of myself.

I'll bet you know that.

And you also passed on a poem whose speaker enters a carriage with death and immortality.

Time is up.

Okay, I thought you might know.

Song of myself is Whitman all right?

Tough category.

The the ones left for last are almost always tough categories.

But you did pretty well.

We're going to now in the time we have left, which is just about five minutes.

Do our speed round.

I'll ask questions.

You answer them.

Go figure.

But no bonus questions here okay.

You just answer and keep going.

What Romanian playwright based conversations between the Smiths and the Martins on dialogs for English language learners in this play called and it's Jefferson Bram Stoker.

No, that's incorrect.

Finishing the question for you learners in this play the ball soprano.

Do you know who wrote that?

Ionesco.

Eugene Ionesco.

What data type named after an English mathematician can have only two possible values, usually denoted true and false.

And it is lame.

If then.

No, that's incorrect.

You guys have an answer.

South side absolute.

No.

It is boolean if I pronounce that right.

Nick.

Boolean.

Boolean.

Very good.

Thank you.

Next question everybody.

What dynasty which sponsored young whose travels across the Indian Ocean ruled China between 1368 and 1644, after which it was ousted by the Ching and it is grant Ming dynasty is right next.

What country hosts the world's oldest ultramarathon, the Comrades Marathon, an annual race between its cities of Durban and Patara?

Ma it's burg.

What country is that?

Anyone?

Yes.

Russia.

No.

Go, go take a shot.

Geoffrey's Netherlands?

Nope.

South Africa.

But always give an answer.

You can't lose anything.

Next.

What quantity proposed by SPL Sorensen is defined as the negative logarithm of hydrogen ion concentration.

And for pure water is typically pH is right, typically seven.

What author of Daughter of Fortune wrote about the clairvoyant Clara devil, devil in the House of spirits and is a magical realist writer from Chile and that is provincial of the musket?

That's right.

You guys have an answer over there?

Yes, Kira.

Quella.

No, it's a yes.

Isabel Allende is the answer.

Next.

What novel?

Whose protagonist presents two white flowers given to him by Weena, the Eloi, after describing a trip to the far future and is by Eve G. And it is Kira.

The time machine is correct.

Good job.

Guy Fox and Robert Kates B were leaders of what plot that aim to kill King James the First when he visited the House of Lords?

That called the plot is whatever the Gunpowder Plot.

Gunpowder plot is correct.

What structure?

Which was struck by the ship Dolly in March of 2024 and destroyed, is a Baltimore bridge named for the author of The Star Spangled Banner, and it is the Francis Scott Key Bridge.

Yes, the friend Scott Key Bridge.

Evan.

That is right.

Since 2023, what former cricketer and Prime Minister of Pakistan has been jailed on various corruption charges?

What is his name?

Anyone?

Imran Khan is the answer.

Next.

What?

Conquistador who was presented with ransom rooms after the Battle of Cajamarca, imprisoned author Walpole in 1532 while invading the Inca Empire.

Anybody?

Yes.

Jefferson.

Pizarro.

Pizarro is right.

Well done.

Pencil and paper for a little math problem here.

What is the smallest integer that is both a multiple of seven and greater than 2000?

But 5 or 6 more seconds need an answer from somebody.

And what do you have to.

Oh, no.

That's incorrect.

This is greater than 2000.

You guys have an answer?

It is what?

Jefferson three 2002 is the right answer.

What?

French physicist shared the Nobel Prize in physics with Pierre and Marie Curie, and is the namesake of the C unit of radioactivity.

Yes.

Geiger?

No.

It's Becquerel.

Becquerel.

Last question.

The album.

I've tried everything but therapy was released by what musician?

Who's saying something's got a hold of me lately in his song Lose Control?

And who is that?

Jeremy?

Radiohead?

Nope.

That's incorrect.

You guys have an answer.

Teddy swims is the right answer.

Lay your pins down.

We're out of time and almost out of questions.

Well done.

Both of you played well.

South side.

You come out on top in this round today.

But Alexandria, you played well.

You really did.

And we're glad to have all of you in the studio.

We're glad that you were watching our program today.

It's called the Alabama Scholar's Bowl.

We're here every week on Alabama Public Television.

I'm Mike Royer.

Thanks very much for watching.

Have a great day, everybody.