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Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Alabama Scholar's Bowl, a program seen every week here on Alabama Public Television.

We're glad you've joined us.

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

Each week we appreciate you watching students from all around the state, the best and brightest, we think, come into our studios to compete for scholarship money and to answer a lot of tough questions, and they do a great job, as you know, from watching over the past few weeks, we're glad you joined us every week here on a team.

We want to thank Mike Owsley, our executive producer and the team behind the cameras in the studio, though keeping us on track.

Share in daily Kake Wilson, Nick Frederick, and Anne Harris.

Thanks to them and to all the folks here at Alabama Public Television.

We welcome to our studio today.

Hoover High School, good to see you all back in the studio.

Participated in years past and Ashford High School from down in Houston County in southeastern Alabama.

Welcome.

We're glad to see you all.

They know how the game goes.

You probably do too.

We ask questions.

They answer them.

And on these first 20 questions, if your team answers the question correctly, you get a bonus question just for you.

Is there all the housekeeping everybody ready buttons in hand.

Then let's get started.

What show in which Michael suicide leads his brother to inherit a business called the Original Beef.

Do you think Jeremy and Buzz Union is Gabby Bear?

The bears the name of that show?

Good start.

Pardon me.

Here is your bonus question.

Some myths claim that the Egyptian god Horus was the son of what goddess?

The sister wife of Osiris.

ISIS.

ISIS is the right answer.

Well done.

Need a pencil and paper right out of the gate here for our next question.

How many different ranks are in a standard 52 card deck?

Given each suit has the exact same rank for units?

Sonny 1313 is the right answer.

Hoover.

Here's a bonus for you.

What punctuation mark is used to terminate statements in many programing languages, such as Java and C?

Punctuation mark or backslash.

Slash.

Slash.

Slash.

No.

It is semicolon.

Semicolon.

I heard you mention that, but that's the right answer.

Next question for everyone.

What country where an art museum contains the headless wing.

Victory Wing Victory of Samothrace features sculpture celebrating victory on the arc de Triomphe.

Is that Chris?

France?

France is right.

Here's your bonus.

What surname was shared by Virgil, Morgan and Wyatt?

Three lawmen who killed cowboys during the shootout at the okay corral in 1881.

Earp is the right last name, everybody.

What country is home to Lake ball?

Cash is the largest Irish.

Hungary.

That's incorrect.

I'm going to finish it for you.

Ashford.

The largest landlocked country by area in the world and is a Central Asian country governed from Astana.

What country is that?

Astana is the capital.

Yeah, the country.

Nothing.

It's all right.

Kazakhstan is the Kazakhstan is the answer to that one.

Next question for everybody.

What celestial body whose geologic history includes a no Archean period is orbited by the moon's dimmer and the Chris Mars.

Mars is the right answer.

Bonus.

A line drawn through Rigel and Beetlejuice in Orient will pass between what?

Zodiac constellations?

Two brightest stars, Castor and Pollux.

Gemini.

Gemini is the right answer.

Both teams.

In September 2014, a court in what country gave a life sentence to Ilham Uygur, economics professor, for promoting separate Tim ism in Chin Asia and Chris China with my read you still got that China?

Here's your bonus.

Ray Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451 depicts firemen whose job is to destroy what objects books.

Books is the right answer.

All right, toss up again, everybody.

What playwright who based a character from his play after the fall on his ex-wife, married to Monroe, Chris Miller.

That's right.

Arthur Miller was the author.

The bonus question for you.

What?

Son of Saleem.

The first ruled the Ottoman Empire from 1520 to 1566, conquered Rhodes and Belgrade and became the empire's longest ruling sultan.

Mehmet.

No.

It's, Suleiman.

Suleiman was the answer for that.

Now a toss up again.

What?

Prime minister sign the Lateran treaty?

Benito Mussolini Mussolini is right.

Your bonus.

What 18th century Swiss mathematician proved that the power series with the terms X to the n over n factorial converged up to.

You should just give him.

You can be compared.

Euler Euler is the right answer.

Next, what process which is governed by Fick's laws of diffusion?

Diffusion is right.

Bonus question two guitars appear behind a Spanish dancer in El Hollow, a painting by what American born artist who painted the portrait of Madame X defer to Sonny.

Jay's sergeant.

Sergeant is right.

Toss up, number ten.

What?

Austrian composer who depicted a hurdy gurdy player and a linden tree in an Irish, Schoenberg?

Nope.

That's incorrect.

I'm going to finish it for you.

Ashford and a Linden tree inventor.

Riser left his two movement eight symphony unfinished.

Two is that you have an answer?

Beethoven.

That's incorrect.

But always take a shot, because you never know.

Schubert is the answer that we wanted for that question.

Everybody.

What play?

Whose second act occurs in the garden of a of Woolton Manor house, ends with Jack Worthing realizing the title.

Chris Importance of Being Earnest.

That's right.

Bonus.

What 1963 Supreme Court case concerning a man who broke into a pool hall held that a defendant has the right to be provided with legal counsel.

Gideon Vane.

Right.

That's that's the right one.

Toss up both teams.

What state whose amendment for enfranchised felons in 2018 was severely affected by Hurricane Ian in 2022, and is led by Governor Ron DeSantis and Chris Florida.

Florida's right.

The Balboa and the U.S. dollar are the official currencies of what Central American country that contains the northern part of the Dorian Gap?

Panama.

That's right.

Moving on.

About half done with our first round questions.

What man who is the namesake of the radius between the proton and electron in hydrogen was a Danish physicist.

More Niels Bohr is right.

Bonus.

What economist is the namesake of a curve that links tax rates and revenue, which was reportedly drawn on a cocktail napkin.

Bill in an answer.

Phillips.

It's the Laffer Laffer curve.

Next question for both teams.

What author whose gay love story Morris was only published posthumously wrote about Lucy honey.

Churches.

Trip to Florence in a room with a view.

Krish.

Forster.

E.M. Forster is right.

Your bonus in what 2024?

Third person shooter developed by Arrowhead.

Do players kill cyborg bugs and illuminates as a as shock troops for the Super Earth Empire?

I think there's a hell divers hell drivers is right.

Two two is right.

You were right both times.

What?

Singer's manager.

This is for everyone.

What?

Singer's manager, Colonel Tom Parker, encouraged him.

And it's mainly Elvis Presley.

Elvis Presley's manager is right.

Here's your bonus.

Commodus was the son of what Roman emperor and author of the stoic philosophical treatise meditations, who was the last of the Five Good emperors.

Defer to Michael, Marcus Aurelius.

That's correct.

Next.

What King issued the edict or form to move?

Louis the 14th.

Louis the 14th is correct.

Bonus.

A rabbit named fiber foretells the destruction of sand of Lord Warren at the beginning of what?

Novel by Richard Adams, Watership down.

Watership down is right.

What novel?

In which father Penny Lou's death is recorded as a doubtful case by Doctor Rhea, depicts an epidemic in Oran.

The plague.

The plague is right.

Bonus, a Dutch astronomer, proposed the existence of what cloud of icy planetesimals surrounding the sun thought to be the source of long period comets.

Oort cloud word cloud is right.

Grab your pencil and grab your paper and give me the answer to this.

What integer is equal to 55% of 120?

Given that 55% can be rewritten as the fraction 11/12.

6666 is right.

Bonus.

What two word Latin phrase, which translates to with praise denotes the most widely given Latin honor in American universities.

Defer to Michael cum laude cum laude.

He is right.

Two more questions.

Again, what man who in 1946 New Year's Day speech, formally renounced his divinity rule during the Showa era and was interred Japan.

Christ, Hirohito.

Hirohito is right.

Bonus Abraham Lincoln was assassinated while watching our American cousin at what?

Washington, D.C. theater.

First Tony Ford's theater.

That's right.

Next, last question.

In this part of the round, what author who described Hearing Marshall music while in his bean field wrote about living deliberately in a cabin in the woods?

Is Thoreau Thoreau's right?

Your bonus?

What quantity named after a British physicist, which equals tensile stress over strain, is a modulus that characterizes the stiffness of a material.

What's that called?

Rigidity.

Yeah, a different Michael rigidity.

No, it is Young's modulus.

Young's modulus is what we want to lay your buttons down.

At this point I'm going to tell you what our four categories are for our lightning round.

The team that is trailing at this point will choose first and play that round.

The other team will then choose and play two.

And then what's left over will come back to the trailing team.

Ashford, you're trailing a bit here at the midpoint of our program.

So you will select first from French science, short stories, airports or one.

Those are the four categories.

You think about that talk about that if you like.

And while they do that, we'd like to find out a bit more about the students who come to us from all across the state of Alabama.

Let's begin with the students in the studio from Hoover.

And Michael, would you begin?

Sure.

My name is Michael Carey.

I am a senior at Hoover High School.

Along with Scholars poll, I do ethics poll, I host a philosophy club and, as well as a GSA and, our student diversity council.

Not a lot of spare time in your schedule.

It sounds like sunny.

My name is Sunny Brockman.

Yes.

I am a junior at Hoover High School, as well as Scholar's Bowl.

I do math team as well, as well as ethics board with Michael.

And I'm on the leadership team from the Student Diversity Council.

Right.

Chris.

Hi.

My name is Chris Nathan.

I'm a sophomore at Hoover High School.

And some of the extracurricular activities I do or Scholar's Bowl math team and Stem team.

Hi, my name is Miley Hanson.

I'm a senior at Hoover High School and I also do theater, Hoover Junior Arts and student diversity council.

All right, let's meet the students from Ashford High School.

Hi.

My name is Gary Greer.

I'm a senior at Ashford High School along with scholars.

Well, I'm a leader in the band.

I do track and field and I'm in the Beta Club.

Very good.

My name is Tristan Martin.

I'm a senior at Ashford High School along with Scholar's Bowl.

I am leadership in the band and I plan to go to Auburn once I graduate.

Good for you.

My name is Travis Coy.

I am a sophomore, Ashford High School.

I'm in the band and I'm in Beta Club.

And Lacey Coy, a senior at Ashford High School.

I'm in the band Beta Club and Deca club.

Very good.

We're glad to have you in the studio along with Hoover, who's been with us before, but glad to have all of you back here.

And Ashley will ask you now, of the four categories I mentioned, Tristan, which one would you like to try?

One.

The number one.

And in the 60s that will begin when I begin asking you the questions, you're going to give these answers that contain either the word or the number one.

All right.

Here we go.

A motor sport whose drivers include Lewis Hamilton.

That's right.

1770 1776ft tall New York sky scraper that replaced the Twin Towers past 2016 Star Wars film in which Jin and Cassadine help steal Death Star.

Say it again.

That's right.

Microsoft cloud storage service Microsoft One.

It's one drive mag manga and anime in which Luffy leads the Straw Hat Pirates.

That's right, Karen McManus novel about the Bayview Force suspected of murdering Simon.

Pass Boy band that saying story of my life.

That's right.

Ben Kesey novel in which psychiatric patients oppose Nurse Ratchet.

Pass, a 2023 fighting game whose cameo fighters include Sub-Zero and Goro.

But that's right.

And dimensionless quantity.

Quantity equal to the speed of sound.

Mach one is correct, and time is up.

All right.

You only passed on a couple, and you did very well with that.

Well done Ashford.

Good job.

We'll come over to you.

Hoover.

And now you're going to choose two of our categories that remain.

And Chris, what do you guys want to do?

We'll take short stories and airports in that order are writing short stories in the 60s.

You'll have you're going to name the authors of these short stories.

Very simple for me.

Here we go.

The lottery.

Shirley Jackson, young Goodman Brown, Arlington Robinson.

That's incorrect.

The fall of the house of usher, rip van Winkle.

Irving.

The gift of the Magi.

Oh, Henry.

An occurrence at Owl Creek bridge.

A good man is hard to find.

O'Connor.

And to build a fire.

London.

That's right.

And two more to go.

The Yellow Wallpaper.

Gilman.

That's right.

An interpreter of maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri that's correct.

Very good.

The.

That was pretty well done.

You got 27 seconds left.

The one you missed was young Goodman Brown was in.

It was Hawthorne.

Yeah.

All right.

And you want to do airports with the other.

Is that right in this 60s you're going to tell us what country is served by a major international airport named after these people.

Okay.

60s Charles de Gaulle, France.

Leonardo da Vinci, Italy.

Edward O'Hare, USA.

That's correct.

Indira Gandhi, India.

Nikola Tesla, skip Franz list, Hungary.

That's right.

Lester Pearson, Canada.

David Ben-Gurion, Israel.

Oliver Tambo, Skip and Nino Aquino.

Skip.

Okay.

Nino Aquino, Oliver.

Tambo, Serbia.

Tesla is Serbia.

That's correct.

Oliver Tambo, you skipped.

Got plenty of time for candles.

God damn.

You have Tambo and Aquino.

Aquino.

Aquino's Mexico.

It's the Philippines.

And the last one is Tambo eight seconds.

Oliver Tambo, Algeria.

It's South Africa.

That was a kind of a tough, tough one.

And let's see, we come back to you, Ashford, and let's see you get I know you're excited about French scientist.

Is that like your all time favorite topic?

Let's see how we do though.

You never know.

60s you're going to identify these things named after French scientist.

Here we go.

See unit of current abbreviated a.

It is an upper heating process used to kill bacteria in food.

A pass okay force arising from Earth's rotation.

Pass.

Okay.

Law governing the force between two point charges.

Triangle diagram.

Whose fourth row is 1331.

You say again?

Fibonacci?

No.

That's Pascal's plane.

Used in analytic geometry.

Pass.

Okay.

Prime number is equal to a power of two minus one.

Pass the thermodynamic heat engine cycle with the highest possible efficiency.

Law stating that a gas is volume is proportional to temperature.

Mass and type of series in sines and cosines.

Use time is up.

All right.

Very good.

That is why French science is hardly ever chosen voluntarily.

A very tough category.

All right.

Let's get back to questions for everybody.

And in the time we have left, which is just about 7.5 minutes, we'll do our speed round.

I'll ask questions, you answer them and there'll be no bonus questions.

Just answer and go.

Here we go.

What country contains the avenue of Barbados?

Madagascar.

Madagascar is right.

What?

Composition.

Composition by George Frideric Handel takes its name.

Messiah.

Say again.

Messiah.

No.

I'll finish it for you.

Ashford takes its name from the fact that it is was written in for a 1717 concert performed on the River Tim's.

It takes its name from that.

Do you have an answer?

It is called water music.

Water music.

Next.

What regular polygon has nine diagonals has the most sides of any hexagon?

Yes, regular hexagon is right.

The title swashbuckler of Edmond Rostand's play you know the Birds.

Yes.

Chris.

Nose.

Nose is right.

What officer whose legacy was defended by his wife, Libby, after he died in the battle of 1876, which crushed Christian George Armstrong Custer?

Custer is right.

What center left British political party lost power following the Winter of discontent in 1978, Chris labor, labor is right.

What musician who wrote the jazz standard Billies Bounce and co-wrote the song or anthology was a bebop Parker.

Charlie Parker's right, right.

What phylum includes about 13,000 species of mostly parasitic flatworms, including flukes, nematodes?

No.

That's incorrect, including flukes and tapeworms.

Do you have an answer for that?

I should know Plata Hellman.

These or something along those lines.

Next question.

What scientists whose name is a paradox about the absence of aliens is the namesake of a lab.

Fermi.

Michael.

Yes, Enrico Fermi is right.

What August Wilson play, which is fences.

Fences is correct.

What poet wrote that?

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

And tonight I can write the saddest lines.

Neruda.

That's right.

Neruda.

The old islands are not Finland.

No.

That's incorrect.

Ashford.

The lowland islands are in what?

Northern arm of the Baltic Sea that separates Sweden from Finland.

Do you have.

You know, it's the Gulf of Bothnia.

What process?

Who's there?

Me form uses bins of earthworms.

Involves organic materials decomposing to become a nutrient rich soil condition.

What is it called, Michael?

Composting is right.

What?

1964 resolution name for a body of water.

The Chris.

Oh, that's from Atlantic.

No.

Ashford.

I'll finish.

Body of water gave President Lyndon Johnson authority to send more troops to Vietnam without the declaration of war.

What was that resolution called?

Yeah, it was the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.

I only know that because I remember it.

Next question in Greek myth, Ganymede was born in what city?

Ruled by King Priam, whose sons, Hector and Parrish fought Chris?

Troy.

Troy is right.

What French physicist gives his name to a wavelength equal to plants?

Chris Sagan, glia.

Yes, yes.

That's correct.

Next.

What disease?

Whose A-type results in an insufficient level of clotting factor eight can cause its sufferers to be unable for sunny Christmas disease?

No.

Ashford.

It's called clotting factor.

Aid can cause its sufferers to be unable to stop bleeding.

What is that called?

It's called hemophilia.

What?

Pacific Island country earns about 10% of its revenue by leasing the internet.

Domain names at the end of Tuvalu.

Tuvalu is right.

TV is what they own.

A few more questions.

What politician who proposed high tariffs and a national bank in his American system organized the Whig Chris Henry Clay.

Henry Clay is right.

Belinda is watched over by a loch.

The rape of the loch is correct.

What state is home to Devil's Post Pile National Monument?

Near the city of Mammoth Lakes and Mere Woods National Monument, north of San Francisco.

And Chris, California.

That's right.

Moving on.

With about three minutes left, what Native American chief, who was killed in 1540 at the Battle of Marbella, gives his name to a city that is home to the University of Alabama, Chris Wright.

What city?

Where Devonte Mitchell was killed at a Hyatt hotel in July of 2024, hosted the 2024 Republican National Convention and is in Waukee.

Milwaukee is correct.

Miley and next.

What American filmmaker directed the 2019 film The Irishman and the 2023 film killers of the Flower Moon and Sunny.

Second Scorsese.

Thank you.

Yes that's right.

What country where t rod dentists led the in confidential mineral rebellion declared its independence from Portugal under Don Pedro.

The first to crush Brazil is right.

Yann Martel's Life of Pi tells the story of an Indian boy who gets stranded.

Chris Tiger say again, Tiger?

No, that's incorrect.

I'll finish it for you.

Ashford tells the story of an Indian boy who gets stranded with a tiger that has what relatively normal name?

Anybody?

Richard Parker is the name we wanted in, what, 22,002 film starring Tom cruise.

Do three clairvoyant humans called Precogs enable the Pre-Crime program to stop murders before they happen.

Sonny iRobot.

Nope.

Anyone else?

Minority report is what we wanted.

Sorry if I jumped on you next.

What German word identifies coup attempts, such as the 1923 one minute Chris Putsch?

That's correct.

What philosophical movement works include The Ethics of Ambiguity and Being and Nothingness, respectively, by Simone de Beauvoir and John Paul Smart.

That's right.

What chemist proposed the law of conservation of mass gave oxygen in its name, and is sometimes called the father of modern chemistry, Chris Priestley no, that's incorrect, I do you have an answer?

I finished the read Lavoisier.

Antoine Lavoisier is the answer.

Let's do one more question.

What ally of Andre's car stalled against Johann Eck in the Leipzig debate, was excommunicated by Pope Leo Christian Luther Martin Luther is correct.

Lay your buttons down.

Let's take a breath.

And, that's the end of this round.

And, well done by both teams for.

Glad you're both here.

Today's win does go to Hoover.

Today.

Ashton, thank you for participating.

We're glad you were here.

And I know your community and your school is proud of you and everything that you do.

We appreciate you watching the Alabama Scholars Bowl.

We're here every week on Alabama Public Television.

We hope you'll be here every week as well.

I'm Mike Royer.

Thanks again for watching and have a great day.