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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.

My name is Mike Royer, and it's my privilege to host another edition of the Alabama Scholars Bowl here on Alabama public TV.

We hope you've been able to watch fairly often and enjoy watching our teams advance to find.

Teams have arrived here at the championship game for the Alabama Scholars Bowl for this period.

We're so proud of all of our students who have taken part from all around the state.

We've enjoyed meeting them.

We've enjoyed watching them compete and been so impressed by how well they play the game.

We welcome back into the studio for this championship game.

The students from the Alabama School of Cyber Technology and Engineering played so well in every game, and they're back with us for today's game.

And the students from Hoover High School.

It's good to have you guys back with us as well.

So we'll waste no more time except to thank all the folks here at Alabama Public TV.

Thanks to Christopher Arthur, the president of Alaska, who is here in the studio, along with Sharon Dailey, Claudette Smith, a big supporter, and Kate Wilson is the judge for our competition.

Michael Ousley has provided the leadership, is our executive producer, and we appreciate him.

Ready to go, gang?

Get your buzzard buzzers in hand.

We'll ask you 20 questions You answered, right?

You get a bonus question.

Here we go.

What book depicting a boarded up larkham where the word unless is pondered by the answer law was written by an environmental Tait The Lorax.

The Lorax is right.

Bonus for you what string instrument played a Regina Carter was also played by 18th century composer.

The composer Chevalier de Song, George's sometimes dubbed the black Mozart.

What instrument?

A violin.

Violin is right?

Toss up, everybody.

What element?

The second most abundant element in the Earth's crust is found in both sand and quartz and state calcium.

That's incorrect.

You have an answer?

I almost finished it.

Let me finish.

And there's a metal Lloyd used in computer chips.

So the silicon Keith is right.

Your bonus question.

What word did the Daily Mail coined in 1906 to refer to women such as Emmeline Pankhurst, who advocated for women's rights to vote in Britain?

What is the word Suffragette.

Suffragette is correct.

Toss up, everybody.

Duel Cave, National Monument and Win Cave National Park Career Dakota.

South Dakota is correct.

Bonus Amazon Web Services provides what type of computing in which users manage resources over the internet without regard to physical infrastructure.

The cloud Cloud is right Cloud computing everyone.

What Senator who wrote the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act with Russ Feingold came from Arizona and lost the 2008 eight McCain.

John McCain is right.

Bonus question for you What poem by William Ernest Henley triumphantly declares, I am the master of my fate and thanks whatever gods may be for an unconquerable soul.

Invictus.

Invictus is correct.

Here's your next toss up question.

What play in which a plan to build summer cottages is rejected by Madam Ra Nesse Gaya and was written The Cherry Orchard.

The Cherry Orchard is right.

Your bonus what 732 Battle was a victory for Charles Martel over the umayyads and is often credited with halting the spread of Islam in Western Europe.

The Battle of Tours.

Battle of Tours is correct.

Next, What company?

Whose CEO David Coleman, was criticized for a new African-American studies curriculum, runs the high school AP and State College Board.

College Board is the right answer.

And here's your bonus.

You'll need pencil and paper.

What product results from multiplying the square root of 20 times the square root of 80 have an answer.

4040 is the right answer.

Next, what collection of right wing rebel groups that oppose the Sandinistas in Nicaragua?

Chris Connors Contrast is right Your bonus What American playwright depicted George and Martha's toxic marriage and who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Albee That's correct.

Toss up what American author who wrote about Boy Willie and Bernice in the Piano Lesson depicted garbage trucks.

Take Wilson.

Wilson August Wilson.

Bonus Question In June of 2023 what Middle Eastern countries lawmakers warmed its cistern and Ballou Key Keystone provinces could be uninhabitable within months due to drought.

What country?

Yemen.

We were looking for Iran.

Next question What businessmen who claim to own a half monkey, half fish called the Fiji Mermaid promoted hoaxes as part of a circus.

He ran Tate P.T.

Barnum.

That's right.

P.T.

Barnum is correct.

Your bonus, Swae Lee sings.

You're left in the dust.

Unless I stuck by you in the chorus of what 2018 song?

A collaboration with Post Malone Sunflower.

Sunflower is right.

Toss up.

What kind of measure was infamous?

Infamously botched in 1936 by the Literary Digest and is provided by firms such as Zogby and Gallup to gauge public opinion Tate poll polls is correct.

Bonus What type of elastic wave cannot propagate in liquids with low viscosity and is detected by seismographs after PE waves as wide as waves is.

Right.

Here's a toss up.

What quantity denote denoted z that is proportional and looking take charge.

No, that's incorrect.

I'll finish for you.

That is proportional to hydrostatic pressure is high for hey double zone such as the Mariana Trench and increases downward driven answer.

Sure, that's incorrect.

It is depth.

We'll move on to the next question.

What emperor reclaimed power by ordering the execution of Sage?

Ines spent years secluded on Capri and preceded Caligula as the second Tiberius Tiberius is right.

Here's your bonus.

What Norse goddess was the owner of the necklace Brie, cinnamon and a chariot pulled by cats and was associated with both love and war.

Freya is right.

Toss up what chess piece which is captured when winning the exchange, begins a game on a corner space and can move in it.

Chris Rook A rook is right.

Bonus at what 1954 battle did the Viet men led Vo Nguyen Zeb defeat the French colonial forces driving France out of Indochina Didn't mean to be Indian Fu is the right answer for the bonus.

Now toss up again.

What city contains the seat of the Maronite Church and was the site of a massive take Beirut.

Beirut is right.

Bonus what European language was used by poet Constantine Cafe C, whose poems Waiting for Barbarians and Ithaca were inspired by the ancient world.

Greek.

Greek language is right next to art empire committed by Herero genocide in Nambia and defended its African colonies.

Tate Germany.

Germany is right.

Bonus question.

The energy of a photon equals its frequency times what constant whose reduced form results from dividing it by two pi Planck's constant blocks concept is right Toss up everybody what God who married era arie ad ne after Theseus abandoned and it is Isaac Marcus or denies this diagnosis is correct.

Next a bonus for your team.

Dr. Frank Jobe performed the first ulnar collateral ligament replacement on the elbow of what Dodgers pitcher for whom the surgery is commonly named.

sorry, you didn't answer.

Young.

Nope.

From my hometown, Tommy John was the pitcher.

Next toss up question What cellular process which terminates upon reaching you a G. Keith Translation That's right.

Bonus U.S. troops under James Forsyth committed, what, 1890 massacre in which hundreds of Lakota civilians were killed during the Ghost Dance War.

Wounded Knee.

That's right.

Toss up.

What TV show introduced a men's lodge called the Loyal Order of Water Buffaloes and was set in the town of Bedrock, the home of Fred's Stone Age family.

And it Stephen Flintstones.

Flintstones is correct.

What bonus for you what annual meteor shower is caused by the Earth passing through debris left by the Swift-Tuttle comet and peaks between July and August.

What's what's the peak point this year?

I got it polluted.

I'm sorry.

Polluted?

No, it's the Perseid next What treaty, which gave the US fishing rights in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence Chris Tree event.

No, that's incorrect.

I'll finish it for you.

What treaty?

Which gave the US fishing rights in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence was signed in 1783 to officially end the American Revolution.

Yes, the Treaty of Paris Treaty of Paris is right.

Your bonus.

In July 2023, pro Russian soldiers in white African country launched a coup that deposed President Mohamed Bazoum Sudan.

No, it's Niger.

Niger is the answer.

Last of the questions In this first round, what play?

Whose heroine is helped by Touchstone includes Tate.

As you like it As you like It is correct.

Here's your bonus.

What Republican is the only man to have served as both president and Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court?

Taft.

Taft is the right answer.

We're very good.

Both teams.

Very good.

Lay your buttons down.

We're going to tell our viewers at home and our teams the four categories for our Lightning round.

And those are 20th century painters ends in ice, postal Abbreviations and 1920.

Those are the categories to consider.

Whoever is trailing here at the midpoint of our program.

So you all will choose first one category will come over to you A.C.T., you will choose two categories.

We'll do them both, then come back and play whatever is left over.

However, at this time, let's briefly meet all of our students, fine students who've we've enjoyed being around.

Tell us a little bit about yourself.

Leo Begin, please.

My name is Leo Osborne.

I'm a freshman at A.C.T.

and I would like to thank Mr. Massey, the president of A.C.T.. My name is Eugene Park.

I'm a junior A.C.T., and I think I coached Ms.. Watson for everything she does for us.

My name is Kate Osborne.

I'm a junior Aicte and I would like to thank my mom for all the help she's given me and the entire team.

My name is Elizabeth Horton.

I'm a senior at East SCD and I would like to thank my mom for being my biggest supporter.

Very good.

Sounds like you've got some good moms over there.

You all have played very well.

Congratulations on all you've done so far.

Let's meet the guys from Hoover.

My name is Steven.

I'm a senior, and I'd like to thank Coach Henley and Coach Kane for helping us get to this point.

My name is Chris Nathan.

I'm a freshman at Hoover High School, and I'd like to thank our wonderful coaches, Mr. Henley and Mr. Kane.

You guys are the best.

Thank you so much.

My name's Isaac McCollum.

I'm a senior at Hoover High School.

I would like to thank both our coaches, Mr. or Mr. Hamilton, Mr. Kane, and also Mr. Joshua Rescue for helping all of us advance in Quiz School.

Hello, my name is Keith Dela Rosa.

I am a senior at Hoover High School.

I would also like to give thanks to Coach Kane and Coach Shanley and also shout out to my mentors, Joshua Brodsky and Mithun Sadan.

Very good.

Thanks for sharing that.

Thank you all for being polite and kind and thanking the people that are important to you.

Chris, you guys are going to go first and select first.

Which of the categories do you like?

And if you feel confident that both will be sure.

Okay, we'll go with postal abbreviations.

Postal abbreviations.

Very good.

In 60 seconds.

You will be given an official two letter U.S.

Postal Service abbreviation.

Name the state or U.S. position that it stands for.

Here we go.

Texas.

Texas.

FL, Florida.

VA. Virginia.

K y. PR about Puerto Rico.

That's right.

G You got one, Skip.

Skip i a Iowa ace.

it's the last guy.

Alaska?

No, Arkansas.

Arkansas.

Those are all wrong.

It's American Samoa IMO.

Missouri and MP.

And let's get.

Okay.

We'll go back to you probably.

It's from Guam.

Guam is correct.

And MP here.

So I don't think it's 10 seconds.

Island like micro pop?

I don't know.

Something for me.

What do you Montpelier.

Yeah, it is Northern Mariana.

If anybody in the room knew that, I would have been a little surprised.

I'm sure there's somebody did.

All right, now we're going to come over to the team from A.C.T.. You guys are going to select two categories and take which one you like.

Which two would you like?

We will take 20th century painters and 1920s 20th century painters first and 1920.

And when the clock starts, you will name these artists who created their major works between 1919 99.

Okay.

20th century painters.

Here we go.

Painter of number five, 1948, known as Jack the Ripper.

Pollock, Mexican woman who painted the broken column.

Frida Kahlo, French diarist, painter of nude descending a staircase.

Duchamp.

Duchamp.

Spanish surrealist painter of the persistence of memory.

American pop artist Marilyn Diptych Warhol.

That's right.

Austrian creator of the goal of painting the Kiss Klimt, Dutch Square and line painter of Broadway Boogie woogie Mondrian, Spanish cubist painter of the old guitarist Picasso, American painter of the Red Can, a series which featured Lily Flowers of O'Keeffe, Dutch abstract painter of the woman series de Kooning.

That's correct.

All ten Correct.

And we will now go on to 1920.

Is that the next one you chose?

Very good.

When the clock starts, you will answer the following.

About the year 1920.

Here we go.

Senator.

Who was elected president?

Harding.

Harding?

No, that's correct.

Field of chemistry.

The studies heat for which Walter Nernst won a Nobel Prize in thermodynamics.

German party led by Adolph Hitler that formed that year.

Nazi party.

Author who published her first book about Detective Piero Cristi International Group and U.N. precursor that began meeting a League of Nations pandemic that killed 50 million Spanish flu.

Author who published The Side of Paradise, His first novel.

Yeah.

Fitzgerald.

Belgian city that hosted Olympics.

Brussels.

It's Antwerp.

Sociologist of the Protestant Ethic, who died in 56.

Montesquieu.

That's your answer?

Yeah, that's incorrect.

Sculptor who finished the statue at the Lincoln Memorial.

French.

French?

That's right.

Time is up.

All right.

Pretty good job on that one.

Great job on the first one.

And what do we have left here, folks?

I believe it would be just letters that in consecutive letters, ice in these nouns give these nouns that end in the consecutive letters.

I see.

Ready to go.

60 seconds opposite a virtue based cost of buying something from law enforcement officers.

Police care for terminally ill patients.

Lack of courage.

Cowardice.

Someone learning a trade from an expert novice.

Its apprentice drinking a cup of cup or goblet.

Chinese water channel with a movable gate.

Pass Preconceived judgment or opinion.

Prejudice.

Yellowish discoloration of the skin is unnecessary.

And you skipped water channel with a movable gate.

You have 23 seconds.

Lot of that is honest.

I don't think so.

Let us know.

It is Lewis spelled sl ui c e. That's a tough one.

A new one on me.

But there's so much that's new to me as we go along.

As you all know now, what we have left is 7 minutes and 45 seconds left in our program.

We will use all the time we have to go through the speed round.

Questions are worth 20 points, no bonus questions answer and go.

Let's see how many we can do.

What Central American country where former figure skater Michelle Kwan has served as U.S. ambassador since 2022 has its capital Bel Maupin really believes is right.

What being queen from Greek myth was the mother of Andrew mia meter and gave her name Cassiopeia.

That's right.

The no hair theorem.

Black holes.

Black holes is right.

Con man Victor Lustig twice tried to sell what wrought iron lattice Eiffel Tower.

The Eiffel Tower is correct.

Well done, Elizabeth.

What religion?

Whose Gurdwaras temples.

Take Sikhism.

That's right.

What?

Anglo-American poet described the brutality of warfare in the shields of Achilles and wrote Kate Smith incorrect finishing.

We must love one another or die.

And Stephen on Auden is correct.

What opera in which the catalog aria is sung by love, and that is Isaac.

Don Giovanni.

Don Giovanni is correct.

Antibiotics and Proton pump inhibitors are used to treat what GI condition now known to be caused primarily by H. Pylori.

What is it, Keith?

Stomach acids or no?

Anyone else got an answer?

E coli?

Nope, it is ulcers.

You're on the right track.

In what country did John Paul practice recently become?

CEO of the state owned petroleum firm Petrobras.

Brazil.

Brazil is right.

What actress who was born in Cuba portrayed Marilyn Monroe in blond on a de armas?

That's correct.

Well done.

What plant?

Whose golden form is genetically modified rice?

That is right.

The 1492 Alhambra Decree, Christian Ferdinand and Isabella.

No, that's incorrect.

I'll finish it for you.

That decree expelled Jews.

From what?

Newly united European country.

Tate, Spain.

Spain is right.

What wars?

One of which ended by the Treaty of Tungsten.

Take opium or Opium Wars is right.

What device name for a German physicist is used to detect ionizing radiation?

Take Geiger counter right.

What structure contains the Y and Z holes aligns with the summer solstice and is circular collection of upright rocks in southern Stonehenge.

Stonehenge is correct.

What Hawaiian Island was hit by an August 20, 23 Maui.

Maui is right.

What last name is shared by the English author who wrote the novel Suns and Lovers and the actress who played cards?

Lawrence is correct.

The Saint John River flows into what bay to the south of New Brunswick.

Take Bay of Fundy.

Bay of Fundy is right what 1976 novel in which Doctor William Waller buys the protagonist centers on an enslaved Gambian named Kunta Kinte and is written by Stephen Roots is correct.

What English philosopher defended absolute Monarchy in his 1658 Hobbs Hobbs is right.

What 12 letter term names a vector quantity given by a definite integral or velocity, or by the change in position that is distinct from distance displacement.

Displacement is right pencil and paper.

Now for a well-timed math problem, what is the value of x?

If five raised to the x power equals one, 25 reads to the fifth power.

Take 15.

15 is right.

What composer who wrote several operas called Orlando for so tape Vivaldi.

Vivaldi is right.

Terence The Powder Lee served as the Grand Master Workman of what labor organization that gained prominence in the 1880s before losing ground to the AFL Knights of Labor.

Knights of Labor is right.

What author claimed a thing of beauty is a joy forever.

Take Keats.

Keats is right.

What River, which eventually merges with the Elba, is the longest river.

Chris Vistula.

That's incorrect.

It's the longest river in the Czech Republic and flows past Prague anti Danube.

Nope, it is the evil tava River.

What regional name was shared by the 13th century?

King known as Longshanks Tate?

Edward Edward is right.

Three and a half minutes left in 2019, the mole was redefined in terms of what constant meter know what constant that approximately equal 6.02 times ten to the 24 Avogadro's constant.

That is correct, Leo Pencil and paper again, what is the surface area of a cube whose edges each have a length of four given?

And it's I'm looking tape 92.

No, that's incorrect.

Has a link to four given it has six identical squares.

Stephen 9696 is the right answer.

Samuel Peeps described the Great Fire of London Tape 1666 No diary.

Diary is the right answer in what painting does Judas knock over a salt shaker?

Take the Last Supper.

The Last Supper is correct.

The Battle of Protea, at which Pausanias defeated Madonia was the decisive land battle position.

No, that's incorrect.

Decisive land Battle of what war?

Greco Persian.

More.

Grego Persian is right.

What language was was used to write the science fiction novel The Three-Body problem and the uptight Italian no Three-Body problem in the epic journey to the West is spoken by lu cease in the language is what anyone who's Chinese is right.

What blue green color partly names bacteria such as and a veena say cyan Cyan is the right answer there men and a half left.

What term describes quantity such as a mass, but not density that depend on the amount of material in a system take extents are intense of which intensive?

No, it's incorrect.

You had an at first extensive.

What you still had are sorry extensive.

In 2012 to 2016, a prolonged siege devastated.

What city in northern Syria which along the Damascus Chris Aleppo Aleppo what country whose post-world war two occupation ended with the treaty of san Francisco officially surrendered on the USS missouri?

TATE Japan japan is right.

That is going to do it.

Wow, that was exciting.

The judges will have all the final scores and everything, but congratulations to the Alabama School of Cyber Technology and Engineering for coming out on top in this round.

We have a lovely trophy that we're going to present to them.

And I will say this the players from whoever is no stranger to this trophy, they have won it.

I don't know how many times, but quite a few times.

We'll be presenting this to them.

Thank you for watching our program throughout the season here on Alabama Public television.

The Alabama Scholars Bowl brings the brightest and best students to the studios here.

We enjoy working with them.

We hope you'll keep watching.

Watch for the middle school students coming up soon here on Alabama Public Television as well.

I'm Mike Royer.

Thanks very much for watching.

Thanks for supporting these students wherever you live.

And again, have a great day, everybody.

So long.