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

On the farm.

We would say we're getting into the short rows.

You farm folks know exactly what that means.

But this is a semifinal round.

As we get near the end of our seventh year on Alabama Public Television and the Alabama Scholar's Bowl, two fine teams back in the studio, you'll meet in a moment.

Our executive producer of the Scholar's Bowl is Mike Owsley.

Sharon Daly, Kate Wilson, Nick Frederick and then Harris serve behind the scenes as judges, scorekeepers timers, all the things that have to be done to make the show move on greased grooves.

Our teams today include Hoover High School.

Good to have them back for a semifinal round today.

They always play well, as does Gadsden City.

They're here to my immediate right.

Welcome back to you students as well.

At the midpoint of the program at the lightning round portion, we'll ask the students to introduce themselves and tell you a bit more about each one and what their interests are.

As everyone knows by now, we begin with 20 questions.

If your team answers the question correctly, you get a bonus question.

Let's see how we do and get started on this edition of the Alabama Scholar's Bowl.

What film character pretends to be Abe Froman, the Sausage King of Chicago, and rides in Cameron's dad's Ferrari while taking a very popular sunny Ferris Bueller?

Ferris Bueller's Day Off is the name of the movie.

That's right.

Here's your bonus question what California landmark, which was built on Mount Leigh to advertise a real estate development in the 1920s, once included the word land.

And you don't have to buzz in.

Do you have the answer?

Hollywood sign Hollywood sign is correct.

Next question.

What poet of ode on the death of a favorite Cat claimed the paths of glory lead but to the grave.

In his 1750 an elegy, Atiqah Thomas Gray is right.

Bonus.

What unit of mass named for an English chemist equals 1/12 of the mass of an atom of carbon 12 atomic mass.

You don't.

Dalton.

Dalton is the right answer.

Toss up everyone.

What city?

Which was ruled by the 30 Tyrants after losing Chris.

Sparta.

No.

I'll finish it for you.

Gadsden City.

Losing a war with 30 tyrants after losing a war, was the sight of a funeral oration given by Pericles during their war with Sparta and Corbin.

Athens.

Athens is right.

Bonus for you.

Gadsden City.

What German term, whose name translates to joining, refers to the 1938 annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany.

Anschluss.

Anschluss is correct.

Toss up everybody.

What quantity?

Which is?

Three heads are and it's sunny.

Temperature.

No.

That's incorrect.

I'll finish it for you.

Gadsden for an ideal gas and 4.18 for joules for water.

Is the heat needed to raise one gram of a substance by one degree Celsius?

Yes.

Kelvin calorie?

No.

That's incorrect as well.

The number what we want was specific heat.

Specific heat is the answer.

Next, what white material which beads used along with gold to create Christopher Marble?

No.

That's incorrect.

I'll finish it for Hoover.

Used along with gold to create the statue of Zeus at Olympia.

Is sourced from hippopotamus and elephant.

Chris Ivory is right.

Bonus for you.

Hoover.

What two word phrase for an embarrassing social remark comes from the French term for misstep.

Need an answer?

The Vermont no, it's, faux pas.

Faux pas is what we wanted there.

Toss up everyone.

What war.

Which is the subject of James Michener's novel The Bridges that Tokyo included the Battle of Inchon and the sport and Christian Korean War is right.

Bonus and what Alabama city did police brutally attack protesters on the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Bloody Sunday.

And it's Corbyn.

No, it's it's it's a bonus.

I'm sorry.

I fell for it as well.

Selma is the right answer.

Thank you.

Next.

This is for everyone.

What devices whose function is described by the Shockley equation are designed to conduct current in one direction.

The light and its carbon transistors.

No.

That's incorrect.

I can finish reading it if you want.

Grayish diode.

Diode is correct.

Bonus for you.

What kind of crescent shaped lake is left behind when a river meander is cut off?

Oxbow.

Oxbow Lake is right.

Now.

Everybody again, buzzers in hand.

What?

King was killed by Charles Henry Sanson after being convicted of treason by the Corbin.

Louis the 16th.

Louis the 16th is right.

Here's your bonus.

Gadsden City in February 2021, the Biden administration said it planned to remove the US terrorist designation for what anti Saudi Yemeni rebel group.

Who put these is correct?

Everybody.

What religious founder set in a slightly unmarked Christian Buddha is correct.

Rudolph bonus for you.

What last English king of the house of Wessex, who died in 1066, received his epithet because he lived a saintly life but did not die as a martyr?

Harold Godwinson say again Harold Godwinson no, it is Edward the Confessor.

Edward the Confessor is the right answer.

Next time.

What author of the novels Agnes Gray and Chris Bronte brought from more Emily.

Yeah.

That's incorrect.

Gets in Sydney.

Do you have an answer?

Would you like me to finish reading it?

What author of the novels, Agnes Gray in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, used the pseudonym Action Bell and was the younger sister of Emily and Charlotte and Bronte and Bronte is correct.

Bonus.

What type of object obscures the face of the subject?

In the René Magritte painting The Son of Man?

Apple.

Apple?

That's right.

What project?

Toss up everyone.

What project?

Facilitated by the 1986 Treaty of Canterbury and completed in 1994, connects kin with France.

And it is Latika, the Panama Canal?

No.

That's incorrect.

I'll finish reading it for you.

Hoover.

I'm sorry.

Canterbury, and completed in 1994, connects Kent with France by going under the Strait of Dover.

What is the first?

The tunnel crossed, underneath the English Canal.

Judges say it again, Chris.

The English Channel tunnel.

Yes, that's that's it.

Judges say yes, then I say yes.

Two bonus question for you.

What English author who wrote about a Prince of Abyssinia in the allegorical story restless, was the subject of a 1791 biography by James Boswell.

That's a bonus.

That's a bonus.

Johnson.

Samuel Johnson is right.

Here we go again.

This is a toss up question.

What state?

Which is home to the resort town of Kennebunkport, includes Acadia National Park and Chris, Maine.

That is Maine.

Your bonus in what European countries mythology do the dead cross a river to get to two of nella the land of the dead, as told in the text by Carlo Valla.

Finland Finland is right next, everyone.

What author who wrote the story of the open boat route about Chris Stephen Crane, Stephen Crane is right.

Bonus.

In the 16th through 18th centuries, French-Canadian laborers called Kourou du Bois and the voyagers made a living in what industry?

Which is up for fur?

Fur trading is fur is right pencil and paper for this.

When everyone.

What is the perimeter of a regular dodecahedron whose sides each have a length of four?

Given Christopher a 4848 is correct.

Here's your bonus.

What coefficient ranges from negative one to positive one measures the strength of a linear relationship between two variables and is denoted R. The correlation correlation.

That's correct.

Correlation is right number 15 of our Toss-Up questions in 2023.

What policy which had been upheld in Bruce versus Chris?

Affirmative action.

Affirmative action is right.

Your bonus.

The 1982 song Ebony and Ivory, was a collaboration between Paul McCartney and what blind singer whose own hit included superstition, Stevie Wonder?

That's right, toss up everyone.

What color appears in the title of a novel about Jack Gladney by Chris White?

White is right.

Bonus.

What author of the novel The Bonfire of Vanities depicted the so-called Merry Pranksters in his 1968 book, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test?

Wolfe, Thomas Wolfe is correct.

Toss up, everyone.

What decade during which the Wagner Act established the right unionize.

And I'm looking Christopher 1930s 1930s is correct pencil and paper for your bonus.

What is the cost of a single pen?

If someone using a $5 bill can buy three pens and receive $0.80 in change six when I was 24, $24.40, what's your answer?

$1.40?

That's correct.

Toss up everybody.

Three more of them.

What property possessed by bonds with small.

None.

Zero.

Differences in electronegativity is an unequal sharing of electrons and its Corbin polar polar polarity is correct.

Your bonus question gets in city.

In 1898, the USS Maine sank in the harbor of what city, contributing to the outbreak of the Spanish-American War.

Havana.

Havana, Cuba is right.

Two more.

In what country where Mount Merapi erupted in 2023, did a 2024 landslide kill at least 14 people on the lower Colossae island in Indonesia.

That's right.

Bonus in 2020 for the widespread theft of what metal led Los Angeles to put some statues in storage and caused major street light outages.

To silicon, you said what?

Silicon?

No, it's common in a lot of cities.

Copper.

There's copper out of the lights.

Last question.

In this portion of our round, what city is home to the San Corey Mosque?

Chris?

Timbuktu.

Timbuktu is right.

Your bonus.

What force is proportional to velocity by Stokes law and is balanced by gravity?

When an object falls at terminal velocity?

Yeah, it is more balanced.

Drag your left.

What do you have?

Guys and ladies?

Lift?

No, the answer is drag.

Drag force is what we wanted there.

Lay your pins down.

I'm going to tell you and our viewers at home what?

Our categories are for the Lightning Round.

And after we do that, we'll ask each of you to introduce yourself.

The Lightning Round categories are children's lit from the British Isles.

What's up?

In Zen X and the letter B?

We will ask Gadsden City, who's trailing slightly here at midpoint, to choose first in a few moments, and we'll play the first round and Hoover, you'll choose two, and we'll do two categories for you in a few moments.

Let's ask each student to tell us a bit about themselves, and we'll start with Unch.

Hi, my name is Uncle Paula.

I'm a freshman from Hoover High School and my favorite artist is Edvard Munch.

Hi there.

My name is Sonny Brockman.

I'm a junior at Hoover High School and my favorite artist is Winslow Homer.

Hi.

My name is Christian Nathan.

I'm a sophomore at Hoover High School, and my favorite artist is Gustav Klimt.

Hi.

My name is Hosni Grundy.

I'm a junior at Hoover High School, and my favorite artist is Renoir.

Hi.

My name is Christopher Holder.

I'm a junior at Gadsden City High School, said Hoover.

That would be bad.

And my favorite artist is René Magritte.

My name is Latika Prasad.

I'm in ninth grade at Carson City High School and I have a dog named bubbles.

Bubbles.

All right.

My name is Corbin Ho.

I'm a senior at Gadsden City High School and my favorite artist, if you were one would be Euler, which is a mathematician.

Alvin Lin.

I'm from Garden City High School.

I'm a junior, and I am taking a health internship class next semester.

It's very good.

Good to hear a little bit about each of you, your favorite things.

And we're glad how well both of your teams are playing.

We're proud of all of you.

Let's begin with Gadsden City.

Of the four categories I told you about Latika, which one would you like to try?

We have, children's, British literature.

Yes, you can have that.

And in 60s, you're going to name the British or Irish authors who created these characters.

Ready?

Here we go.

Matilda, Wormwood and Willy Wonka after Dahl, Peter Pan.

A very, very Peter.

Susan Edmond and Lucy Lewis.

That's right.

Peter.

Rabbit.

Rabbit.

Potter.

Potter.

That's right.

Winnie the Pooh, the wizard.

Hal, who is a moving castle.

Oh, man.

Pass.

Yeah.

Artemis Fowl, Artemis Fowl cover.

Teenage spy Alex Rider.

Patterson.

No, it's Horowitz, mole, badger and reckless driver, Mr. Toad Grimm.

That's right.

Lyra.

Bella Pullman.

Thank you.

You bail me out on that one you skipped was the wizard howl, who has a moving castle?

I don't know yet.

15 seconds.

Take your time.

I'm not.

It's not a.

That's only when they skipped.

Right, judges.

Okay, Ishiguro.

No.

The Jones is the answer to that.

The wizard howl.

Diane Wyn Jones will come over to you, Hoover, and you will choose to categories from what is left over.

What would those be?

Chris?

We'll pick the letter B and then what's a letter B?

And then what's up.

You'd like him in that order.

Yeah.

The what does the B stand for in.

And I'll give you the lead in to that 60s.

Here we go.

What does the B stand for in the colloquialism BF best.

Best.

That's right the sandwich BLT bacon.

The literary identifier ISBN number.

Book.

That's right.

The television channel NBC broadcasting, the oil company BP.

British, the date specification BC before the long range weapon ICBM.

Bullets ballistic.

That's right.

The postgraduate degree MBA.

That's a match up.

It's not, skip.

All right.

The baseball stat, RBI, runs batted.

That's right.

The investigative agency, NTSB.

Okay, you also skipped the postgraduate degree.

MBA.

Masters.

Just bachelor.

No.

It's business.

That's incorrect.

And, NTSB Bureau?

No, that is board.

The National Transportation Safety Board is what that is.

And let's see, are we going back to engine X or what's up?

What's up is what you want.

Right, Chris.

All right.

60s give these words that start with the consecutive letters s u p. Here we go.

Evening meal supper.

Amount of something available.

Supply.

Highest court in the US Supreme Court.

Extra or unnecessary.

Was, you just skip.

Skip need to ask for something humbly, especially of God.

Let's get the highest degree of comparison.

Such as the brightest us.

Superlative.

Superlative is right.

Soft and pliant.

Supple.

That's right.

Lying down on one's back.

Skip capable of exceeding Mark one us supersonic.

That's right.

To take the place of something.

As in an indictment of skip lying down on one's back.

Because when you skip got 15 seconds to, skip.

Okay, to ask for something humbly, especially if God the highest degree of comparison, such as the brightest superfluous was, that was you take that.

Thanks to me, the time is up.

But he.

They answered before the time ran out.

The highest degree of comparison.

Such as brightest.

And that.

Yes.

Ends in X is what's left and what you're stuck with.

Are you excited?

Ends in X you're going to identify these people, places or things whose names end in X city whose suburbs are home to the NFL's Arizona Cardinals.

The next day when the sun is directly above the equator.

Equinox, 1999 movie that features Keanu Reeves as Neo The Matrix.

Fuller for his received emails inbox.

Desert animal, nickname of Nazi general Edward Erwin Rommel.

Fox, possibly vestigial organ attached to the large intestine X cut.

Cock coccyx.

Is that your answer?

It's.

That's wrong.

It's appendix first U.S. Secretary of War.

Knock knock knock knock knock.

That's right.

Childhood disease.

It can reappear as shingles.

Chickenpox.

That's right.

Latin name for a priest.

That is the Pope's Twitter name.

Pontifex.

That's right.

Catalog whose entry 001 is Bob's Bulbasaur.

Oh, okay.

Pokédex is right.

Did you skip any, No, sir.

Good.

Well, we have five seconds to chat about it.

Well done.

All of those were pretty challenging categories, but you all handled them well and did well by yourself.

With each one of those, we have six minutes left on our program.

20 point questions, no bonuses.

Here we go.

In what Olympic event?

Whose world record holder holders include Sergey Bubka and Mundo de plantas?

Do athletes use the long and is Latika pole jump.

Pole jumping is acceptable.

Pole vaulting is the first answer.

What Utah senator, whose father, George was a governor of Michigan, was himself.

Chris Romney is right.

What type of number has an odd number of positive factors?

Outputs an Chris.

Perfect.

No, I'll finish it for you guys.

Sin city outputs an integer when taken to the power of one half and include 16 and 25 squares.

What perfect squares?

Squares, squares.

What we had to have for that.

What country musician released the 2023 album one Thing at a time, which included the chart topping single Last Night and Latika Wallen is right, Morgan Wallen what language is the original language of opera?

William Tell, as well as, no, that's incorrect, as well as Samson and Delilah by composer Camille sun songs.

Chris French is right.

What kind of place is translated in Spanish as player and in French as a beach?

Beach is the correct answer.

What religion's hymns?

The gay authors are credited with taking?

That is correct.

Quantum gravity aims to unify quantum physics.

With what?

Mainstream theory of space, time and gravitation?

Chris.

General relativity.

That's right.

What Titan, who was tricked by Heracles into retrieving Atlas?

Atlas is correct.

Korben.

Max.

There.

Timur co-founded what?

German school of psychology and sunny Freudian.

Oh, no.

That's incorrect.

I'll come back to you guys in City School of Psychology, which holds that objects can be perceived as more than the sum of their individual parts.

Yes.

Animism.

It's gestalt.

Gestalt is what we wanted.

What journey?

Which went from the Sabarmati Ashram to Dundee was made to protest the British salt marches.

Right.

Arthur Bailey's monkey is a partial translation of what 16th century Chinese novel Chris Journey to the West is right.

What disease?

Which is transmitted by genus, often awful.

I'm going to try to get this right for you all on a few lives.

Is caused by Plasmodium parasites that got their form.

Malaria is right.

Took me a minute.

What Chinese revolutionary who formulated the three principles of the people Chris Mao?

No.

That's incorrect.

The people was the first leader of the Ming.

1010 Sonja Watson is right.

What?

Broad field, whose early theoreticians included Auguste kommt and was practiced by see Wright Mills and focuses on studying human society.

What is that, Christopher?

Anthropology?

No.

That's incorrect.

Do you have an answer?

Hoover.

Yes.

Chris.

Cultural ism?

No.

Is socio sociology.

Sociology.

The Harz is a highland area in the northern part of what?

Your country, where it covers portions of Lower Saxony, Saxony and Halt Christian Germany.

Germany is right.

What set of battles in which militia held the Old North Bridge?

Lexington and Concord?

Lexington and Concord is correct.

What molecule, which is toxic to cells in large concentrations, acts as the final acceptor of the electrons that injured the electron transport chain?

Yes.

Latika ATP no.

Do you have an answer?

Hoover.

Yes.

Nope.

It is oxygen or O2.

Next.

What phenomenon?

Possibly modeled by quintessence or the cosmological constant?

Christopher.

Being the fifth element?

No.

That's incorrect.

I'm going to finish it.

Hoover or the cosmological constant, is a mysterious energy accelerating the expansion of the universe.

What is that, Chris?

Cosmic inflation?

No, it's dark energy.

What?

Explorer who sailed under Manuel one landed at what he called the Island of the True Cross, which was later Christian.

No.

Finish it for gas and True Cross, which was later named Brazil.

Yes.

Christopher.

Balboa.

Anyone know Cabral is the answer we needed for that?

Well, what politician?

The highest ranking enlisted man to ever serve in the House became governor of Minnesota.

And in 2024, Kamala Harris, his running mate Corbin Walz, Tim Walz is right.

Marine is the second most populous city.

Columbia.

Columbia is right.

What man who wrote the funeral march of his piano Sonata number two at George Sand's estate was a Polish composer, Christopher Chopin.

Chopin is right.

What Italian word starting with C is used in music to indicate that a performer should players sing more loudly.

Crescendo.

Crescendo is right.

What president's inaugural address, which followed a poem recital by Robert Frost Kennedy Kennedy is right.

What type of reaction releases heat to its surroundings?

Yeah.

Chris.

Exeter exothermic.

That's correct.

What game which features goals on high street, like get on TV and trap the boy in the phone.

This was made by and Corbin fall guys.

No.

And was made by house house and stars a horrible bird.

Stray.

No.

It's untitled goose game.

Two more questions.

What woman raised by Miss Havisham has an unhappy.

Do you have an answer?

That's it.

How to start?

I'm okay.

I'm going to start over.

What woman raised by Miss Havisham.

Say it again.

Yet?

No, that's not correct.

Estella.

Estella is correct.

That's right.

We don't have any more time for questions.

I was going to try to get one more in, but we're 20s from saying bye, so we'll say bye.

Congratulations to both teams who played so well.

It looks like Gadsden City pulled this one out today in a very close match.

And, thanks for watching our program.

This is a semifinal.

We'll have the final coming up soon here on the Alabama Scholar's Bowl.

I'm Mike Royer.

Thanks for watch