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

This is season number seven, and we're so excited to be back here on Alabama Public Television.

We're glad that you're watching our program once again.

We bring the best and brightest students from all around the state of Alabama to the studio to compete for scholarship money and the prestige that goes along with doing well in our competition.

We welcome to the studio today, students from Danville High School ladies will look forward to meeting you after a while.

And the students from Lamp High School as well.

It's good to see you all.

I'll just tell you briefly, since it's the first program of the season, we'll have 20 questions.

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

A lightning round midway through the program and then, rapid fire speed round.

Questions towards the end of the program.

It's fun to do.

We hope it's fun to watch.

And we're glad you're with us.

Everybody ready?

Buzzers in hand.

Then let's get started.

Oh, let me say this before we begin.

We have a team that make this program possible.

Mike Ousley is our executive producer, our timers and judges and all the folks that work behind the scenes Sharon Daly, Kate Wilson, Nick Frederick and and Harris.

Now the housework is done.

Let's get started.

Here's question number one.

What basketball team, which used its first overall pick on Aliyah Boston in 2023, picked first overall again in 2024 when it's selected Caitlin Clark what is that team and buzzing in is common Indiana Fever Indiana Fever is correct.

That's a good answer.

And the right answer.

And now a bonus question for you Lamp.

What capital city, which was formerly known as Batavia while under colonial rule, is the most populous metro list in Southeast Asia.

What is that city?

Capital city?

Do you have an answer?

Bangkok.

Not Bangkok, but Jakarta.

Jakarta is the answer.

One question for both teams.

What author wrote the memoir knife about a 2022 incident at the Chautauqua Institution where Hadi Matar stabbed him?

Per a fatwa issued by Iran.

Who was that?

It got stabbed.

Anyone?

The answer is Salman Rushdie, Salman Rushdie.

Next question for both teams, what collection of quatrains was loosely translated in 1859 by Edward Fitzgerald from work attributed to Persian astronomer poet Omar Khayyam.

Any answer from anybody?

The answer is Rubaiyat.

Rubaiyat is the right answer.

Next to Mino rescues Pamina and joins sarod.

Stros temple in what opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Which opera is that?

A hush falls over the crowd.

The answer is The Magic Flute.

Moving on to a question I know you'll know.

What hero avenge his father Agamemnon, by killing his mother, Clytemnestra.

And buzzing in.

I don't see a light who buzzed in it.

Was that you, Francis?

Do you have an answer, Odysseus?

No.

That is incorrect.

Do you have an answer?

It's our Estes or Orestes is the answer.

But buzz in and take a shot.

You, That's the only way to get an answer, right?

Let's see if we can get this one.

What?

Media tycoon and leader of Ford's, Italia party resigned as Italy's prime minister in 2011 amid a scandal regarding his bunga bunga parties.

Anyone Berlusconi is scold ni is the answer we're looking for.

They're moving on.

What?

Canadian river flows from the Great Slave Lake through the town of Inuvik in Northwest Territories, before reaching the Arctic Ocean.

What's the name of that river?

No one Mackenzie River is what we wanted there.

Next, wings, propellers and sails are examples of what objects that can produce a high lift and low drag, depending on their angle of attack and buzzing in, is common propellers.

That's incorrect.

Do you have an answer for force for that?

Danville.

What are those called?

They are called airfoils.

Airfoils is the right answer.

Next, the first free standing nude male since antiquity was a depiction of what biblical figure and buzzing in is Kingdom.

David is correct.

Well done.

Eddie.

Here's a bonus question just for your team.

What battle where Charles O'Hara led the surrender to George Washington and took place in 1781, in Virginia and mostly ended the Revolutionary War.

Do you know the name of that battle?

Jamestown.

Yeah, it was the Battle of Yorktown.

Yorktown?

I bet you were thinking that.

Next question for both teams.

What once enslaved general emerged as the most successful commander in the Haitian Revolution?

Prior to his arrest by sharp and buzzing in here is Riley Louverture.

Louverture is correct.

Well done.

Riley.

Bonus question for you, lamp.

What man?

Whose yacht crew was the subject of a 2022 dispute involving a Rotterdam bridge, owns Blue Origin and founded the online retailer Amazon.

Who is that?

Bezos.

Bezos is the right answer.

Well done.

Toss up question for everyone.

Lavinia has her tongue torn out in what extremely bloody Shakespeare tragedy named after a Roman general and Riley Caesar?

Nope.

That's incorrect.

Do you have an answer for us?

Stateville?

The answer is Titus Andronicus, and we'll move on to next question.

The extreme extremely large galaxy S0 three 8376 belongs to what common class of gas poor galaxies that lack arms, unlike spiral galaxies.

What are those called and buzzing in is Francis Nebula?

Nope.

That's incorrect.

You guys have an answer?

Yes.

Is it name who buzzed in here?

You guys have an answer for that question?

All right.

The answer is elliptical galaxies.

Elliptical galaxies.

Both teams question for you.

What civilization whose colonists founded Carthage also devised an alphabet based on Riley.

Phoenician is the right answer.

Here's a bonus question for you.

Lamp.

What river?

Which gives its name to the extent Baiji, species of dolphin, is spanned by the Three Gorges Dam and is the longest river in China.

Being serious, Yangzi River Yangzi is the right answer.

Well done.

Toss up for everybody.

What author who wrote about Princeton Student Armory, Blaine in This Side of Paradise, followed it with the novel The Beautiful and Damned.

Who wrote that?

And wouldn't want to take a shot at it?

The answer is F Scott Fitzgerald.

Next, in 2023, the US Supreme Court adopted a voluntary code of ethics in response to ProPublica, Parker's investigation into gifts received by what Justice?

What's the name of that Supreme Court justice?

The answer is Clarence Thomas.

Clarence Thomas.

Next question.

A type of sweet orange is named after what third most populous Spanish city, which sits along the Mediterranean Sea.

And Riley.

Barcelona?

No.

That's incorrect.

Do you have an answer?

Davao?

It is Valencia.

Valencia is the orange.

And the name.

Next question.

Billie Jean and Beat it are found on what album?

By Michael Jackson.

And buzzing in is Jessica.

No answer.

Okay.

Do you guys have an answer for that?

The best selling album of all time.

Those two songs were on it.

What's the name of the album?

Take a shot.

Thriller.

Thriller is the right answer.

Good shot.

Here's your bonus question for you, de Ville.

What Englishman has a namesake effect that causes rotation of lights?

Polarization?

Study the electrolysis and developed a namesake law of induction.

Do you know who that was?

Nope.

Not Tesla, it is Michael Faraday, Michael Faraday next question.

In 2005, Huygens probe landed on the surface of what largest moon of Saturn and name Titan.

Titan is correct.

Here's your bonus question.

Lamp.

What poem?

Whose protagonist is given a girdle by Lady Bird?

Clack describes a Knight of the Round Table who beheads an oddly colored opponent.

Anybody got it?

Now, judge, is that good enough?

Need a little more.

The proper full name.

You got part of it.

The battle with the Green Knight.

Good.

Good try.

It's Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is what we were looking for.

There are a couple more questions.

In 1488, what Portuguese explorer became the first known European navigator to reach the southern tip of Africa?

Who was that explorer?

Yes, Eddie.

No.

That's incorrect.

Thank.

Do you have an answer?

And Gattaca, the gum?

No, it was Diaz.

Bartolomeu Diaz is the answer.

Here's one more.

What?

King suppressed the pilgrimage of Grace, a revolt that began after he established a separate Church of England and divorced Catherine of Aragon.

And who was that?

Henry the Eighth is correct.

Well done.

Cogman.

Here's your bonus question.

What Sanskrit word meaning great vehicle is the largest branch of Buddhism and predominates predominates among Buddhist in China, South Korea and Japan.

What is that called?

Mahayana Buddhism?

That is the right answer.

Well done.

Lay your buzzers down.

Relax.

We're going to have our lightning round in just a second.

I'm going to tell you the four categories of the Lightning Round.

The team that is trailing will choose first and play one category.

The other team will play two that they'll choose.

And then we'll go back to the other team for the last, I believe they'd will is trailing slightly at the midpoint.

So you will go first and you'll choose from female literary literary title, characters, American landmarks, con words, words that begin with c o in in Catholicism.

Those are the four to think about in a moment, we'll ask you to choose one of those to play.

But first, at this point, we'd like to know a bit more about our students.

So let's meet them all.

Tell us your name.

They were subject to anything you want to say, literally.

And let's start with you.

My name is Lillian.

I'm a senior at David High School, and I'm in the band and I play piccolo.

My name is Madison Thomas.

I'm a senior at Davis High School.

And my favorite subject is science.

My name is Francis Fineberg.

I'm a ninth grader at Denver High School, and my favorite subject is history.

My name is Addie Caldwell.

I'm a junior at Daigle High School, and I played for sports.

Wow.

My name is Neil Patel.

I'm a freshman at Lamp, and my favorite subject is history.

My name is Jessica Buchanan.

I'm a sophomore at Lamp, and my favorite subject is science.

My name is Conklin Park.

I'm a sophomore at Lamp, and I like playing tennis.

My name is Riley Godwin.

I'm a sophomore at Lamp, and I love running cross-country.

All right.

Glad to meet you all.

Glad you're all here.

You're all doing just fine.

We're going to ask you, De Ville, to select from one of those categories.

Which one do you want to do?

Very good.

Let's do cotton words then.

And the clock will start.

When I begin to answer the question, you'll have 60s give these words that start with the consecutive letters C, o in ready 60s faith in something often preceded by self confidence.

Confidence is right to admit to a crime, a legally binding agreement contract.

That's right.

Bits of paper made for throwing.

That's okay.

Protruding outward corner.

No.

That's incorrect.

It's convex.

Opposite of abstract complex.

It's concrete type of twins.

Once known as Siamese conjoined.

That's right.

The implied meaning of a word.

All right.

Going back to when you passed bits of paper made for throwing.

9010.

And we're going to finish this performed in unison, often describing an effort.

Conjunction.

Concert at a gathering space, such as one in an airport terminal.

Time is up.

That is concourse and you pass.

Oh, the paper you throw is confetti.

Oh, I know you knew that.

You knew that we're going to come over to Lamp High School.

Now I need you to choose two categories.

We'll play them both back to back and then whatever's left we'll go back to date.

But what would you guys like to do?

American landmarks and Catholicism.

Very good.

Let's do American landmarks first.

You'll have 60s.

When I begin to ask the question, you're going to name the states that are home to these landmarks, you're going to give me a state, the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas, Independence Hall and Liberty Bell, Pennsylvania.

That's right.

Empire State Building, New York, Golden Gate Bridge, California, California.

That's right.

The Gateway Arch, Missouri.

That's right.

Mount Rushmore, South Dakota, craters of the moon, which is in the snake River plain.

That's Idaho, Fort Laramie.

Pass.

And the Grand Hotel in Mackinaw Island.

We're going to move on to the next one, Castillo de San Marcos, which was built in the late 17th century.

Florida Florida is right.

Fort Laramie.

Kansas.

It's Wyoming.

You got 10s left the Grand Hotel in Mackinaw Island.

Any answer?

Massachusetts?

Nope.

It is Michigan.

Michigan's like this.

The Upper Peninsula.

And right by the bridge is a little island called Mackinaw.

You should visit that sometime.

Your second choice you did well with that is Catholicism.

Is that right?

You're going to have 60s.

When I begin answering and asking these questions, your answers will be about Catholicism.

But you knew that, didn't you?

Already?

The current Pope.

Francis?

That's right.

City that surrounds the Vatican.

Rome.

A church that is the seat of a bishop.

Pulpit.

Cathedral.

The first pope who names a Vatican square.

Has college that elects popes.

Past primary liturgical service, during which communion is served at the Eucharist.

Active.

Declaring a person to Saint.

Passed, a prayer sequence made of decades encountered on beads of prayer.

This year.

Said out loud.

Rosary.

That's right.

It's a concept of bread becoming the actual body of Christ.

Substantiation.

That's incorrect.

But clothes often use Latin, and we're out of time.

It's transubstantiation.

You're on the right track there.

All right, that was a challenging one.

We come back to you, de Ville.

And what's left?

The category is female literary title characters.

In 60s, you're going to name the authors who created these female title characters.

Ready?

60s Jane Eyre.

Has Emma Bovary.

Emma Woodhouse.

Moll Flanders and Antonio Shmurda.

That's Daisy Miller.

The deceased title character of the novella, Rebecca.

Pass.

Maggie, who is called a girl of the streets.

Carolyn member also known as Sister Carrie.

That's the title character of the French novel Cousin Bette.

Yes.

Let's see, I can go back to any of them.

The first one.

Charlotte.

Let's see, Emma Woodhouse, Moll Flanders, and time is up.

You and I had something in common.

I would not have gotten any of that.

So that was a tough category.

It's why I was the last one.

Chosen two.

We've learned that in the past.

That was a tough category.

And we will move on.

And we'll put that in the rearview mirror in the time we have left, which is just over seven minutes, we're going to do our speed round questions, answer them as best you can, but no bonus questions.

We just get as many in as we can.

Everybody ready?

Buzzers back in hand.

And here we go.

In the cyclic quadrilateral, opposite angles add up to how many degrees, which is also the number of degrees in pi radians or in a straight angle and buzzing.

You can come in.

No.

That's incorrect.

Do you have an answer, Francis?

One 8180 is the right answer for a two by two matrix?

What quantity equals the product of the elements on the main diagonal minus the product of the other two elements?

What is that called?

Anyone?

Determinants is the right answer.

What novel?

Whose title character travels to the Orkney Islands while trying to create a female companion for a monster, and was written by Mary Shelley and Bazin?

Is A.D. Frankenstein is the right answer.

Well done.

The Awami League advocated for the independence from Pakistan of what country?

Whose first president was Sheikh Mujibur and its name?

Bangladesh.

Bangladesh is the right answer.

Next question.

In 2023, what country had a major wildfire on its island of Rhodes?

Weeks after an election kept Prime Minister Kira Jaco Mitsotakis in power in Athens.

Neom, Greece Greece is right.

What man was declared dead in August of 2023, in a plane crash?

Two months later, he led a short lived rebellion within Russia as head of the Wagner Group.

Anyone?

You give me, Prigozhin is the right answer.

Next question.

What war during which the plan of a yalla was laid out by Emilio no Zapata lasted through the 19 tens, after the overthrow of Porfirio Diaz as president.

What was that war called the Spanish Civil War?

No.

That's incorrect.

You guys have an answer.

Lamp.

It was called the Mexican Revolution.

The US evolved process is used to convert ammonia into what strong acid?

Yes.

Riley, nitric acid is correct.

What element whose transport in the body requires?

Transferrin is a transition metal that is deficient in one of the most common types of anemia.

What is that?

Riley iron is the right answer.

Next.

What?

1929 novel.

Whose fourth section depicts a church service attended by dill Z, centers on the common family and is written by William Faulkner.

What's the name of that novel?

Yes, Eddy, the picture of Dorian Gray.

Nope.

That's incorrect.

Lamp got an answer.

The sound in the Fury is the right answer.

Next, the Unity Temple in Oak Park was designed by what?

Pioneer of the Prairie style, who designed a house built over the Bear Run River called Falling Water.

Who's that?

Designer.

And Riley Lloyd?

Nope.

That's incorrect.

You guys have an answer?

You had his middle name.

Riley.

It's Frank Lloyd Wright is what we were looking for.

What preacher was captured in Southampton County in 1831.

After leading a revolt among enslaved people in Virginia.

The preacher's name was Nat Turner.

Next.

What man?

After being pursued in 1885 by George Crook's forces, surrendered at Skeleton Canyon to officially end Apache resistance to the U.S. Army.

Who was that?

Riley.

It was Geronimo.

What quantity, which is conserved in elastic collisions, has a translational form equal to momentum squared, divided by twice an object's mass.

What quantity is that?

Gattaca.

Jessica.

Acceleration?

Nope.

That's incorrect.

You guys have an answer for that?

It is called kinetic energy.

What?

Author of the 1941 essay One More to the Lake revised William Strunk, Juniors, The Elements of Style, and wrote the children's novel Charlotte's Web.

And the answer from Common white is correct.

E.B.

white, next.

Millions have fled what Latin American country due to hyperinflation and food shortages.

Neal.

Venezuela.

Venezuela is correct.

What element whose hexafluoride is processed from yellowcake is enriched by increasing the amount of isotope 235 for use in nuclear reactors?

What is that element?

And is that uranium?

Uranium is correct.

Well done.

Next, in a song from Fiddler on the roof, what is the title profession of yenta?

The woman whom three daughters hope will find me a fine.

Catch me a catch.

Who is that?

And Riley.

Matchmaker.

Matchmaker is right.

Well done.

What battle which ended when Friedrich Paulus and the German sixth Army surrendered in 1943, was fought in a city named for the Soviet Union's leader.

What is the name of that town, Eddie?

Stalingrad.

Stalingrad is correct.

What phylum?

Which includes the genetic model organism C elegans includes the parasitic hookworm and consist of UN segmented roundworms.

Adi.

Ringworm.

Nope.

That's incorrect.

You guys have an answer?

Limp.

Nematode is the answer.

We wanted to couple more questions.

What TV shows pilot opens as Robin is accidentally killed by a blue clad speedster named A-Train, who is a member of the seven alongside the boys is correct.

Well done Lillian, we have a minute left.

The farmer, William Bollywood receives a provocative valentine from Bathsheba Everdeen in what English author's 1874 novel far from the Madding Crowd, who wrote that?

And yes, Adi, that's incorrect, lamb Thomas Hardy is the answer we wanted.

What author portrayed a journey above Africa in Five Weeks in a balloon and Phileas Fogg far flung travels in around the World in 80 days.

And is Riley Verne is the right answer.

Let's do, let's call it a day that we don't have enough time for another question.

Lay your pins down.

Well done.

That was good.

Some tough questions in there.

A lamp comes out on top in this particular competition.

Well done.

But, David, you played very well.

And we appreciate you being here and we'll look forward to seeing you all again.

That's what we call the Alabama Scholar's Bowl.

I'm Mike Royer.

We thank you for watching and remind you we're here every week on Alabama Public Television.

Have a great day everybody.