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Hi, everybody.

And welcome once again to the Alabama Scholar's Bowl.

I once won a free throw trophy.

Seventh grade, I think.

And it was this big.

Look at the size of this trophy.

And this is the trophy that we will send home with the team that wins all of the round in the championship in this, the seventh season of the Alabama Scholar's Bowl, whether the team wins a trophy or not.

We're proud of all of the teams, all of the players that come from schools and communities all around the state of Alabama.

We mean this.

It's enjoyable to be around these young people.

They're just good young people.

Smart, of course, but they're a pleasant to be around.

And so we're glad you're here.

We welcome today the students from Fairview High School up in Cullman County.

Good to see you all.

Welcome to our studio.

And Gadsden City High School joins us two.

They've been with us before and glad to have you back.

We want to thank our executive producer, Mike Ousley, who is off to my left and keeps a very close rein on everything that happens.

Sharon Daley, Kate Wilson, Nick Frederick and Ed Harris are the folks that worked so hard behind the scenes and making sure that all the questions and answers go just right in our competition.

So is everybody ready to go?

Buttons in hand.

We're going to begin with the math math question.

So pencil and paper ready.

What is the volume of a rectangular prism whose length is four.

Whose width is five and whose height is seven?

And buzzing in is Latika 140?

Is the right answer quickly done.

Well done.

Your bonus question.

Lewis Hamilton won six of his seven world championships while driving.

What Formula One team name for a German luxury brand.

Mercedes Benz.

Mercedes Benz is the right answer, everybody.

What politician ran on a ticket with Indiana Senator Dan Quayle when he defeated Michael Dukakis?

And its Christopher George H.W.

Bush.

That's correct.

Another bonus for you.

AZT or z w Dean, is a medication originally developed to treat what retroviral disease HIV.

HIV?

Yes, HIV Aids.

Everybody.

What?

Jellyfish.

Like beans, which are native to the planet Z088 and are also seen on Z.

Bees are hunted in a namesake Nintendo series by Samus Aran.

What is that called?

Christopher.

Metroid.

Metroid is the right answer.

Your bonus?

What state's flagship university is in the city of Missoula?

Which is near the confluence of the Bitterroot and Blackfoot rivers?

Montana.

Montana.

Montana is the right answer.

Next.

What boy who dies when Roger releases a boulder at Castle Rock?

Christopher.

Oh.

Piggy.

Piggy is right.

Bonus question.

The young la emperor commissioned the Forbidden City palace complex.

In what?

Northern Chinese city?

After making it its capital in 1403.

Beijing.

Beijing.

Beijing is correct.

Pencil and paper.

Everybody.

What is the fourth value in a data set whose sum is 40 and is three?

Other values are 13, 16 and five.

Christopher six six is right.

Bonus a French scientist names what fictitious force that acts upon objects considered as lying within a frame, rotating with respect to an in inertial frame.

This is a circular French line.

Okay.

Coriolis.

That's correct.

Toss up everybody.

What peninsula?

Whose north is spanned by the Ken content.

Brian Mountains is home to the Tagus River, which empties into the ocean.

Latika.

Iberian.

Iberian Peninsula is what we wanted.

Your bonus master is one of the first English words taught.

To what character?

Who becomes a servant after being saved from cannibals?

In the book Robinson Crusoe.

Friday.

Friday is right.

Next.

What?

Former shadow Minister for exiting the EU replaced Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the Labor Party, and in 2024 became Britain's prime.

I'll say again, Starmer.

Starmer is right.

Rodney Starmer.

Bonus question for you Gadsden City.

What composer of a set of 12 transcendental a two words was a Hungarian piano prodigy?

Hungarian listeners answer is list.

That's right.

Toss up everyone.

What writer described her feelings for Peter van Pels in letters with Taika?

And Frank is right.

Your bonus again.

In statistics, what term refers to data points that are a significant distance from the mean, possibly indicating some sort of error or outlier?

That's right.

What?

God whose bar was represented by Celtic rah rah is what we wanted.

Bonus.

What cyber security company caused major business disruptions in July of 2024, after a flawed update to its anti hacking software, Falcon Sensor ignored.

I don't know, I think you've got Norton.

No, it's CrowdStrike, CrowdStrike Holdings.

Toss up everybody.

What radioactive isotope, which can be synthesized by neutron bombardment of lithium six, is an isotope of hydrogen that has two neutrons.

What is it, Christopher?

Deuterium.

Say again?

Deuterium.

No, no.

That's incorrect.

I finished reading it.

Do you guys have an answer for this?

Yes.

Uranium?

No.

It's, Tritium.

Tritium is what we wanted for that question.

What composer who used blue progressions in his piano concerto in F included a clarinet glissando at the start, and it is Christopher Gershwin.

Gershwin is right.

Your bonus?

What English infinitive verbs equivalents include the Italian verbs Ceri and Starry, and the similar Spanish verbs sair and estar to be, to be, to be.

That's right.

What author wrote about the social reformer Romney in the poem Aurora Lee and published love poems?

Latika Browning is right.

Pencil and paper for your bonus.

How much would it cost to fill up a car with three gallons of gasoline?

If each gallon cost $4.74 for water?

So five seconds, $14.22.

That's right.

What artist whose 2017 documentary Five Foot Two shows the making of Perfect Illusion and her album Joanne sang the songs Telephone and Bad Romance and That's the ticket.

Lady Gaga is right.

Bonus.

In what country was dictator Fulgencio Batista toppled by?

I'm sorry.

I'll finish reading it for you, if you like.

You want to answer now?

I know, just keep reading.

Thank you.

Toppled by the 26th of July Movement in December of 1958.

Cuba.

Cuba.

Cuba.

Cuba is correct.

Okay.

What tribal group whose member Red cloud signed the Treaty of Fort Laramie, led the coalition that killed George Custer at Little Bighorn.

Corbin.

Lakota.

Yes, judges, you'll take that Lakota or the Sioux?

Your bonus question.

What American woman painted a child's feet being washed in her work?

The child's bath so different.

Her.

Because author casada is right.

What quantity for which pauses can be used to measure its dynamic type is zero for superfluids and its Kristofer.

Viscosity.

Viscosity is correct.

Bonus.

What molecule which can be oxidized to produce formaldehyde is the simplest alcohol.

What is it?

Corbin.

I'm sorry.

Methanol.

Methanol is right.

Next tossup.

That was your bonus.

Next tossup question.

What tourist sites include Connecticut's late compounds.

Virginia's Busch Gardens and Ohio's Cedar Point.

Latika.

Nope.

I'll finish it for you.

Fairview and Ohio's Cedar Point, which has the Blue Streak roller coaster.

What are those sites?

Amusement parks is correct.

Bonus question for you, Fairview.

What German philosopher expanded his concept of supplicate, or ethical life rooted in tradition, in his 1807 work, The Phenomenology of Spirit.

Got an answer?

Freud.

It is Hegel.

Hegel is the answer we needed there.

Here's a toss up.

What president was so notoriously soft spoken with writer Dorothy Christopher Coolidge?

Calvin Coolidge is right.

Your bonus question.

What mountain nymph who wasted away after falling in love with the handsome Narcissus, was cursed to only be able to repeat what others say.

Echo appropriately.

Echo.

Three more questions in this portion of our round.

What explorer who was set adrift by the crew of the discovery while trying.

And it's still Taika Magellan?

No.

That's incorrect.

Hudson.

Hudson is right.

Well done.

Bonus question for you.

Fairview.

The southern German region called Schwarz vault, which is the source of the Danube River, has what?

Colorful two word name in English.

So southern region is called yellow River.

It's called the Black Forest.

The Black Forest in Germany.

Next for everyone.

What condition defined in the DSM five as a persistently elevated, expansive and irritable mood combines with depression in type one and Christopher.

Anxiety?

No.

I'll finish it for you.

Fairview with depression in type one.

Bipolar disorder.

Do you know what that condition is called?

Yes.

Daisy.

Manic is right.

Or manic or mania?

That's correct.

Here's your bonus question.

Fairview.

What former World War One general appointed Adolf Hitler as chancellor?

Oh.

I'm sorry.

It's okay.

Let me finish.

Let me do that.

Appointed Adolf Hitler's chancellor in 1933 while serving as president of Germany.

Do you know who that was?

Heidelberg.

No.

It's, Hindenburg.

Paul von Hindenburg.

Last question of this portion.

What feat?

Accomplished by Barry Sharpless in 2001 and 2022, also accomplished by Marie Curie and Linus Pauling, who won in chemistry and Nobel Prizes.

Correct.

Last bonus question of this portion of the round.

What contemporary author wrote about symbology Robert Langdon in his novel Angels and Demons and The Da Vinci Code.

Who is that author?

Brown.

That's right.

Dan Brown is right.

Lay your buttons down.

Relax a bit.

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

Fairview.

You're trailing slightly here at the midpoint of the program, so you'll choose first one and play that one.

Then we'll come over to you.

Get sensitive.

You'll choose two categories.

Do them both, and then what's left will come back to you.

Fairview for the end.

The categories are Solar system objects, the Great Lakes athletic sites, and only AIS.

Those are the four categories.

Before we begin the Lightning round, we'd like each of our players and students to tell us a bit about themselves.

What grade you're in, your favorite subject, whatever you want to say.

Aaron, would you start for us?

My name is Aaron Tankersley, and I do student council and Scholar's Bowl.

My name is desperate.

I'm a sophomore, and I want to be a neuro anesthesiologist.

My name is Ava Pruitt.

I'm a freshman, and I know how to drive a school bus.

My name is Tucker Kimbro, and I'm a Sinton drum major.

And I do cross-country and track.

Very good.

My name is Christopher Holder.

I am a junior and I am the concertmaster of the Ottawa Youth Symphony Orchestra.

My name is Latika Prasad.

I'm in ninth grade, and I'm on the varsity tennis team.

My name is Corbin Ho.

I am a senior at Gadsden City High School.

I love Dungeons and Dragons, I love calculus, and I love astronomy.

My name is Alvin Lin.

I'm a junior at the high school, I also do.

Did you club and beta club.

And I'm also in the National Honor Society and Hosa.

Very good.

Thank you.

David, knowing how to drive a school bus is interesting, but can you legally drive a school bus yet?

Okay, good.

So you're not actually doing it as far as the law enforcement knows, right?

All right.

Very good, very good.

All right, lightning round, you get to choose first and play one of our categories.

And Ava, as your team, decide what you want to do.

Athletic sites.

Athletic sites.

Very good in 60s.

It doesn't begin until I start asking the questions.

Given an athlete and sport named the US city where their professional team is based.

Ready to go?

Let's get them all.

Aaron Judge in baseball.

New York LeBron James basketball, Los Angeles Lionel Messi, soccer pass Joe Burrow, football.

Cincinnati that's right Sidney Crosby, hockey pass Bradley Beal, basketball pass Justin Jefferson, football.

Green Packers green Bay.

That's Minneapolis.

Julio Rodriguez baseball.

That's right.

And A'ja Wilson basketball.

Las Vegas that's right.

Tiago Almada soccer Barcelona that's Atlanta.

And you skipped on Bradley Beal basketball.

Sidney Crosby hockey and Lionel Messi soccer.

You have seven seconds Barcelona Messi Messi no that's Miami.

He came to Miami.

You knew that.

And our time is up.

But you did pretty well with those.

Good job.

Now we come over to Gadsden City and as you all likely know you're going to choose two categories.

Leticia, you want to tell me or somebody else, can we have, solar objects and the letter I solar objects and the letter I.

Yes you may.

In 60s, you're going to need your pencil and paper ready.

Because you have three categories to identify.

Given an object in the solar system, identify whether it is a planet, a moon, a comet, or an asteroid.

Okay.

Planet.

Moon.

Comet.

Asteroid.

Tell me which one it fits into.

And here we go.

Series.

Moon.

But it's an asteroid.

Mercury.

That's right.

Callisto.

No.

Moon is right.

The most.

Right.

Neptune.

Yes.

Vesta.

Okay.

A comet.

What's your answer?

Pass.

Okay.

Shoemaker-Levy.

That's right.

Hale-Bopp.

How come?

Comet.

That's right.

Real.

It's a movie.

Moon.

Moon is right.

Hi, Gia.

Hi, Julie.

It.

That's right.

That's what asteroid.

Asteroid it is.

You skipped Vesta.

I think it's a moon or not.

Asteroid?

Asteroid is correct.

That's you.

Did you.

You got Hale-Bopp, didn't you?

Yes.

Then that's all of them.

Good job.

And was this what was your second choice?

Latika?

The letter I.

The letter.

I thank you for reminding me.

Give these answers.

Whose only vowel is the letter I 60s when we begin.

And let's begin.

Common type of local wireless internet network Wi-Fi.

Very good.

Just say about metal with atomic symbol S in.

Answer ten is right.

Winter Olympic sport with a downhill type.

Skiing.

Skiing is right.

Colored portion of the eye.

Retina.

No, no.

What's your answer?

Iris is right with the ego and superego.

A part of Sigmund Freud's model of the psyche.

That's right.

Long, thick tube shaped pasta is the umbrella.

No.

Best five letter synonym for the word municipal means cities.

Yes.

City and five letter.

Some.

Yes.

Based on which a sculpture is placed.

Sculpture.

Oh.

Sculpture based 15 seconds.

A type of real showcasing key moments.

That's right.

Overall female reproductive organs of a flower.

Pistil.

That's right.

Five letter synonym for the word municipal and long, thick, tube shaped pasta.

Time is up.

The pasta with ziti and the municipal is civic.

That's what we wanted for that.

Oh, and does that leave us the Great Lakes is.

That's right.

All right.

Fairview, you get to tell us which of North America's Great Lakes.

Here we go.

60s shares its name with a state.

Michigan.

That's right.

Shares this name with a Canadian province.

Ontario.

Ontario, correct.

Shares its name with a canal in New York over 300 miles long.

Erie Erie is right.

Shares this name with the North American people.

Also known as the Wyandot.

Yes is the largest by volume.

Superior.

That's right, is the easternmost.

Huron.

It's Ontario is the northernmost.

Huron, its superior, receives the Detroit and the Cuyahoga rivers.

Michigan.

That's.

Erie has the cities of Racine and Kenosha on its shores.

The new ready superior that's Michigan and contains Mackinac Island superior Michigan.

Huron is the right when there.

Did you skip any?

I don't think you did.

Number four shares his name with North American people, also known as the Wyandot.

Huron.

Huron is correct.

Well done.

Finally, if you say Huron enough, you're going to get it eventually.

That was not an easy category, but good job.

Always remember in size and North Superior is the answer going forward.

I'm sure that will come up later today in something speed round finishes our program.

No bonus questions for these.

You answer the question and each one's worth 20 points.

We have a little over six minutes to do this.

What country?

Whose lake Cuyahoga lies north of Jinja has its largest airport at Entebbe, and it houses Alvin.

Uganda is the right answer.

Pencil and paper for this.

How many days were there in the full ten year span from January 1st, 2010 to December 31st, 2019 inclusive.

And buzzing is Christopher 3652.

That's exactly right.

Well done.

What author ask if the body were not the soul, what is the soul?

In his poem I sing the Body Electric, which is in his collection Leaves of Grass.

Whitman?

Yes.

I did not hear you.

Buzz in.

Whitman is the right answer.

We are the only one that buzzed in.

All right.

Since 2021, what comedy group consisting of Ben Marshall, John Higgins and Martin Hurley.

He has created prerecorded videos for Saturday Night Live.

And what's the name of that group?

Latika?

No.

That's incorrect.

You guys have an answer for that?

Fairview.

They're called.

Please don't destroy the name of that group.

What country?

That joined with Egypt in 1958 to form the United Builders Public.

Alvin Siri is right and have been a key leader named Somerset.

Was the first indigenous leader to make contact with what colonies.

Christopher.

The pilgrims.

No, that's not correct.

I'll finish the question to make contact with what?

Colony?

Settlers who were also aided by Squanto.

Who were those?

Yes.

Plymouth is the right answer.

Well done.

What country?

Which lies to the south and east of Adams Bridge, has its most populous city of Colombo and Latika.

Sri Lanka is right.

What African country's 2024 presidential election was won by patriotic salvation movements?

Mohamed Deby, the son of former President Idriss Deby.

It's pronounced Deby.

African country.

Anyone?

Yes, doctor?

Nope.

Anybody else?

Latika?

Chad is right.

What?

June 20th tour starting over.

What June 2024 event in which more than 1000 people died as temperatures exceeded 120°F, is an annual pilgrimage to Mecca.

What's that called, Alvin?

Hajj is right in Homer's Iliad.

What?

Trojan prince kills Patroclus and Corbin.

Hector.

Hector is right.

What state, home to a failed settlement at Cape Fear, was the site of the lost.

And Christopher, North Carolina.

North Carolina is right in a process called cars in the watch, which has happened at least five times, marine animals evolved to resemble what crustaceans and desi crabs, crabs is the right answer.

What continent?

Which should evoke a sad I expected so much tone.

According to Binyavanga, why Nana essay is the setting of works by Chinua Achebe.

Africa Africa is right.

You know it's okay to buzz in long before I get to those really hard words.

Next question what nomen or family name was shared by the fifth and seventh kings of Rome, the latter of whom was known as the proud and replaced by the.

And it's Corbin Tarquin tart.

Yes.

Judges.

That's good.

Yes, we accept that next.

What?

An analytical device which can be approximated by a phone coffee cup measures the transfer of heat during the physical calendar.

That's right.

Calorimeter is right.

What?

American author depicting a Union strike among taxi drivers.

In his 1935 play waiting for lefty Attica Odets is right.

What English leader commanded the siege of Drogheda?

Working with Thomas Fairfax in the New Model Army and beat Corbin Cromwell?

Cromwell is right.

What expansion by standard is used for sound cards and other expansion cards on desktop computers, typically in its Modern Express variant.

And Christopher American Express no, that's not correct.

Peer review doesn't.

By.

No, that's not correct either.

PCI express PCI express what author wrote about 19 girls with the same name and Christopher Green?

John Green is the author.

What complex, whose name means City of temples was built as a Hindu religious site.

Latika Angkor Wat Angkor Wat is right.

What river, which formed Hells Canyon near the eastern border of Oregon, is the largest tributary.

Latika, Columbia.

No.

That's incorrect.

Finishing it for you.

Fairview, in the border of Oregon, is the largest tributary of the Columbia River and is named for a reptile.

That's right.

Snake River is correct.

Well done.

ABBA.

What five letter word coming from the cash language refers to a highly effective fertilizer made out of a bird or bat.

Latika, guano is right.

What organelle?

Which, like the E-R, is formed from sister ni uses best in Christopher Go.

Golgi is right minute and a half left.

What open star cluster in the constellation Taurus contains the star marrow P and is also known as the Seven Sisters and Corbin Ladies play.

These is correct.

A couple more questions.

What politician?

Donald Trump's first ambassador to the US in the South Carolina's Christopher Haley?

Nikki Haley is right.

The poem at Melville's Tomb was written by what American poet who depicted the Brooklyn Brooklyn Bridge in his 1930 book The Bridge.

Yes.

Hello?

Nope.

Right.

Do you know Latika Crane was the author?

What man wrote about his childhood in Omaha in an autobiography depicting the Nation of Islam?

Latika Malcolm X Malcolm X is correct.

We're out of time.

You can lay your buttons down and relax.

That was well played by all of you.

You answered a lot of tough questions, and, guts and city.

You come out on top in this particular round.

Very.

You played very well, represented yourself well.

We're proud of you as your folks back home are.

Two.

Thanks for being with us today and thank you all.

Thank you all for watching our program.

It's the Alabama Scholar's Bowl.

We are here every week on Alabama Public Television.

My name is Mike Royer and I thank you so much for watching and hope you'll join us again next time.

Have a great day everyone.