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Hi, everybody.

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

My name is Mike Royer.

I enjoy hosting this program every week statewide on Alabama Public Television.

The best and brightest students from all around the state of Alabama come to the studios here at Alabama Public Television in Montgomery to participate in our program.

You'll meet them in just a moment.

I want to say thank you to our executive producer, Mike Ousley, also to the people who time and judge our competition and keep us on track and correct me from time to time.

That's their favorite thing to do.

Sharon Daley, Kate Wilson, Nick Frederick and Ed Harris do an outstanding job and they give a lot of their time and effort to make this program what it is, and we appreciate that.

Thanks to Wayne Reed, the CEO and his team at Alabama Public Television, for their support.

In the studio today, the students from Hoover High School just south of Birmingham.

I think everyone knows where Hoover is.

And Lampe High School back with us.

The team that's been with us before always plays well.

This should be a very good round.

We'll look forward to to seeing how everyone does today as the competition gets a little tougher as we go further into what is our seventh season of the Alabama Scholar's Bowl.

Everybody ready?

Any questions?

I have a bunch of them.

Here we go.

Let's start.

You get a bonus if you get the right answer.

What monarch depicted the rainbow portrait employed Francis Walsingham.

And Christ the first.

Elizabeth the first is right.

Your bonus.

Hassan Nasrallah leads.

What political group and militia based in Lebanon that supports Palestine and opposes Israel.

Hezbollah.

Hezbollah is right.

Next question everybody.

What?

Modern day country, home to expressionist movements called the blue Rider and Germany.

Germany is the right answer.

Sonny.

Your bonus question.

Under leaders like a cola.

What indigenous people thought three wars against the United States to defend their homes in Florida.

Seminole Seminole is right.

Next.

What law holds up to the elastic limit is named for an English scientist and is expressed as for minus k x, where k is the speed.

Chris Hooke's law is right.

Bonus.

What chemicals?

Chemical elements.

Atomic symbol is derived from the same Latin word as is plumbing.

Plumbing led.

LED is right.

Toss up everybody.

What?

Greeks stole ambrosia from the gods.

Tried to feed his son Pelops and was punished with the crush.

Oh.

Sisyphus.

That's incorrect.

I'll finish it for you.

Lamp.

And was punished with an eternity just out of reach of fruit and water.

Do you have an answer for Tantalus?

Tantalus is the right answer.

Well done.

Here's a bonus question for you.

Lent the name of what type of flower appears four times in a line from Gertrude Stein's poem Sacred Emily.

What is the type of flower?

Daisy.

It's a rose.

It's a rose is the right answer.

Here we go.

Toss up everyone.

What TV show which spawned two spin offs featuring Isabel May as the narrator Elsa, titled 1883 and 1923, is a neo-western starring Kevin Costner from Yellowstone.

Yellowstone is the right answer.

Your bonus?

What queen succeeded her half brother Edward the Sixth, after wresting control of England from the supporters of Lady Jane Gray, Mary said good enough.

Judges Mary's.

Yes, Mary, the first Mary is right.

Here's your toss up for everybody again.

What city?

Which France is the first of France retook in the battle of Marin, you know, in 1515, was long ruled by the Wisconsin.

Chris Moulin is right.

Bonus.

In June of 2024, New York Governor Kathy Hochul postponed what policy that would levy a $15 fee on cars entering lower Manhattan during the day.

What was that called?

Toll policy?

The answer we wanted was congestion.

Like, what answer did you give me?

Toll.

Just toll policy.

It seemed more.

No ground control.

Yeah.

We don't know.

The answer is congestion pricing.

Not.

We'll talk about that later.

Next question.

What British playwright depicted a man who uses his own hot blood to sign a contract with Mephistopheles servant, Chris Marlowe?

Marlowe is right.

Bonus.

The Senedd is a parliament based in what city?

The capital of Wales.

Cardiff.

Cardiff?

It is Cardiff.

Toss up everyone.

What disease?

Commonly monitored using hemoglobin A1C diabetes.

Diabetes is the right answer.

Sunny bonus the name of what type of location appears in the title of all five books in a Sarah J. Moss series of fantasy novels set in a world of fairies, correct?

Crescent city I think.

Nope.

That's incorrect.

The answer we won was court or fairy court.

Toss up what Bohemian born composer of the dumb key trio in E minor uses themes inspired by spirituals he heard while visiting Iowa.

Christian Jack is right.

Bonus what Alabama governor, who was shot by Arthur Bremer while running for president, made the stand in the schoolhouse door to oppose integration.

Wallace.

That's right.

Toss up.

What man to whom Charles the Second granted land in America in exchange for debt relief, led Quakers in founding a nation's colony.

Chris Penn Penn is right.

Bonus.

The Sunderbans are a mangrove forest that lies on what bay the world's largest Bay of Bengal.

They have been.

Galle is the one we wanted.

What number is sometimes called Archimedes constant is the number eat, eat.

No.

That's incorrect and is sometimes is the number of is the number of radians equal to 180 degrees lamp and is the irrational number equal to about 3.14 pi.

Pi is right.

Well done.

Your bonus question.

In July of 2024, Italian police seized 42 tons of a product falsely labeled as What good, whose common varieties include one called ev o o.

During a bell with anyone six eggs, it was olive oil.

Olive oil.

But always take a shot.

Here we go.

What?

School of psychology a focus of book B on freedom and dignity included John Watson and operant conditioning researcher B.F. behaviorism.

That's right.

Bonus.

What director of the film adaptations of the BFG and Ready Player One fictionalized his upbringing in the 2022 film Fabelmans.

What's your answer?

Go to Spielberg.

Spielberg is right next, what, 105 Day war?

In which Simo?

How far had winter War?

Winter War is right.

Bonus.

What term describes types of stored energy that can be 100% converted to kinetic energy?

Potential?

Yeah, just potential.

Potential is right.

Pencil and paper ready both teams.

What is the difference that results when calculating 3/5 minus one 10th which requires a common one half one half is right bonus.

Before proclaiming himself emperor, Napoleon Bonaparte held what title inspired by Republican Rome in the French government from 1799 to 1804.

Console.

Console is right on, everybody.

In July 2024, what junior senator from Ohio and author of the book Hillbilly Elegy.

And right here, right, J.D.

Vance is the right answer bonus for your lab.

What city at the mouth of the Swan River is the capital of Western Australia.

Melbourne.

It's Perth, it is.

Perth is the right answer for that.

Toss up everybody.

What transition metal.

Who's carbide is used to cut steel is used as a filament.

An incandescent light bulb is.

And I don't see who bust in there.

You are hissing tungsten is right.

Bonus question.

What class of low mass particles which are pheromones fermions and do not experience the strong force includes electrons and neutrinos.

What are those?

We need an answer.

Baryons?

No, it is LEP.

Leptons.

Leptons is what we wanted.

Next question.

The furthest planet visited by Voyager two is what body?

That sometimes displays a great dark spot.

Neptune.

Neptune is right.

Well done.

Arch.

What character agonizes about a bloodstain on his sock after he murders a pawnbroker and a witness to Theodore Dover's Chayefsky novel, Crime and Punishment?

Raskolnikov.

That's correct.

Three more questions.

What novel?

In which nuns at the Petit convent educate Cosette centers on former prisoner crush.

Limiter.

That's right.

Your bonus.

What?

Architectural style?

That used lavish ornamentation with a modern industrial influence is exemplified by the Chrysler Building.

Art Deco.

That's right.

What city?

This is both teams.

What city?

Whose oldest building is the Al Vahid Fort has a Tom Wright designed hotel called the Burj Al.

And Christian Dubai's right bonus.

What 19th century philosopher who collaborated with his wife, Harriet Taylor, to write The Subjection of Women was a united unit, utilitarian, utilitarian.

There we go.

Because I feel like it's melted.

Bentham.

Chicken.

Bentham.

No, it's mill John Stuart Mill.

Last question in this portion of our round what riots whose participants included Marsha P Johnson occurred at Greenwich Village bar Cassini Stonewall riots is correct.

Here's your bonus.

Edward Bulwer Leighton's book Paul Clifford begins by describing the weather with what?

Seven word phrase, which is now emblematic of cliched first lines.

Our story.

Go.

What do you start?

Say together?

Very good.

That's the right answer.

All right.

Lay your lay your buttons down now, and I'll tell you what the lightning round choices are.

The team that is trailing at the midpoint of our program.

You're trailing a bit at this point.

You will choose first of these four categories.

And the categories are the nervous system, numerical novels, fictional redheads, religious holidays.

Those are the four choices.

As you think about that and discuss that, you'll choose first and choose one Hoover.

You'll choose two categories and play them both, and then whatever's left lamp you get, as we like to say, stuck with the last one that is left over at the end before we play our lightning round, we'd like to know a bit more about our students, and we'd like you to know a bit more about them.

We'll ask them to tell us their name and their main interest in their school, where they come from, and and say your name properly for me.

Hi, my name is Unseeable.

Very good.

Go ahead.

I'm a freshman from Hoover High School and my favorite subject is world history.

Thank you.

Hello there.

My name is Sonny Montes.

I'm a junior at Hoover High School and my favorite school subject is math.

Hi.

My name is Chris Nathan.

I'm a sophomore at Hoover High School, and my favorite subject is American history.

Hi.

My name is Tammy Grundy.

I'm a junior at Hoover High School, and my favorite subject is English.

My name is Neon Patel.

I'm a freshman at Lamp.

My favorite subject is history.

My name is Carmen Park.

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

My name is Jessica Patton.

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

My name is Riley Godwin.

I'm a sophomore at Lamp High School and my favorite subject is U.S literature.

Very good.

We're glad to have all of you with us.

I know you're educators back at school and your families are very proud of you and we are too.

We're glad you're in our studio today.

All right.

Lamp.

Ready?

Which one of the four choices have you all decided to try?

Religious holidays.

Religious holidays?

You'll have 60s.

When I begin asking the questions and you're going to name these religious holidays, we will provide the month in the appropriate calendar.

Are you ready?

60s December.

Commemorating the birth of Jesus.

Christmas Nissan celebrating the Israelites escape from Egypt Passover.

Ashwin and Kartikeya, the Hindu festival of lights.

Diwali.

That's right.

Kislev candles are lit on a menorah.

Hanukkah?

That's right.

March or April.

Christian celebration of the resurrection.

That's right.

To share to Shiri, shofar is sounded for the new year, Rosh Hashanah.

That's right.

Shu wall marking the end of Ramadan.

Eid said Eid prompt a little more.

Do you have more?

Mubarak?

No.

That's incorrect.

Falguni.

Hindu festival of colors.

Holi.

That's right.

Tisha.

Re Jewish day of atonement.

Question.

Yom Kippur.

That's right.

And far bar.

Dean Persian New year on spring equinox pass.

All right.

Did you pass on any others?

I think that's the only one far reading time is up.

That is, the answer is no.

No.

Nowruz.

All right.

Pretty good job on those.

Those were not easy.

But you did a good job.

We're coming over to you, Hoover.

Tell me.

Two.

In which two do you want to do, Chris?

Novels and nervous system, in that order.

Novels and the nervous system in novels.

Are you going to name these novels with numbers in their titles?

Ready.

George Orwell, book about Big Brothers, 1984.

Ray Bradbury's novel about book burning Charles Dickens novel set in Paris, London, second book in the Lord of the rings trilogy It's Too Dangerous, The Towers, Two Towers, that's right, Arthur C Clarke novel and introduced the computer Hal 2000 to 2000 Space Odyssey.

That's right.

Astronaut evil about Hannah Baker's suicide.

Yeah, 13 Reasons Why.

That's right.

Adventure novel featuring Phileas Fogg.

Around the world in 80 days.

Why a mystery by Karen McManus about Simon's death.

I skipped second Sherlock Holmes novel which introduced Mary Mawson.

Let's get Taylor Jenkins read novel about the 1970s rock band.

Queen.

No.

That was your answer.

No.

We'll go back to the ones you skipped.

Why?

A mystery about Karen McManus?

About Simon's death.

Three days.

One of us is lying in second, Sherlock's home novel, which introduced Mary more.

Stan, time is up.

That's the sign of for the sign of the four.

All right, we go back.

Nervous system.

Is that right?

Christian?

Nervous system.

Answer the following in 60s about the nervous system.

Here we go.

The largest part of the brain above the cerebellum.

Cerebrum.

That's right.

Division of the nervous system contrasted with the central nervous system.

That's the right type of nerve that relays information to the brain.

Yeah, sensory.

That's right.

Spaces that separate neurons synapse.

That's right.

Part of the brain often described as the oblongata.

Medulla.

And give me your answer again.

Medulla.

No, that's incorrect.

But you accept that.

Okay.

Very good substance forming a sheath around many nerves.

That's right.

Neurotransmitter often called the feelgood hormone.

Skip, skip skip.

Nervous system.

Division activated in a fight or flight response.

Sympathetic.

Yes.

That's right.

Lobes in the back of the brain involved in vision control.

That's right.

Membranes surrounding the brain, one of which is the dura mater.

Cerebral cortex.

Yeah.

Yes.

Answer time is up.

And meninges is the answer to that one.

You skip neurotransmitters.

Dopamine.

Dopamine.

Right.

So tell me, lamp, how how excited are you about fictional redheads, Okay, I know you're excited.

I am too.

Let's see.

Let's see how we do here.

60s.

You're going to name these fictional characters with red hair.

Harry Potter's best friend Ron, lead singer of the Part of Your World in The Little Mermaid.

Little mermaid?

That's right.

A member of the mystery Gang.

Fred, Velma, Shaggy, and Scooby Doo.

Get Skip, teenage spy who fought She go and Doctor Drake in on the Disney Channel show Kim Possible.

That's right.

Adopted by Daddy Warbucks in a namesake Broadway musical.

Let's get the heroine of the 2012 Pixar film brave Murder.

That's right.

The oldest of the rug rat babies.

Skips.

What do you say?

Skip supervises elementary school field trips aboard the Magic School bus?

That's right.

American greeting character who shares her name with a fruit based dessert.

Skid row rose Leslie's character on Game of Thrones pass all right, back to adopted Daddy Warbucks in a namesake Broadway musical.

Annie.

Yes.

Very good.

And you skip American greeting character who shares her name with the fruit based dessert.

Time is up.

That's strawberry shortcake.

That's the one.

I knew you did pretty well with that.

No one wanted to play it, but you guys did a good job with that.

Well done.

We have seven minutes left in our program, and as you know, we're going to use the rest of the time asking questions in the speed round.

No bonus.

You just answer the question and we move on and get as many questions in as we possibly can.

Here we go.

cabinet member who was criticized for not visiting East Palestine after a 2023 disaster, is the first gay man to be Secretary of Trent Santos?

No.

That's incorrect.

You have an answer for me?

Yes.

Boudicca.

She again.

Boudicca.

That's the right answer.

Well done.

Next question.

Interactions between groups without a common language spur the creation of what?

Simple shared languages and Riley pigeon.

That's right.

What poet claimed that God is served by those who only stand in wait in the sonnet?

Oh, his blindness in the Christian Milton.

Milton is right.

In what form of asexual reproduction does a new organism form when a small portion of the original organism budding say again, budding, budding is the right answer.

Good job.

What quantity, which is zero by definition for inertial frames, is the second time derivative of displacement.

Acceleration.

Acceleration is right.

What singer followed up her 2023 album The Rise and Fall of Midwest Prince's Chapel, Rhone Chapel, Rhone is right well done, sunny one extra buzz in.

Try it again.

What city was the capital of Ptolemaic Kingdom?

Alexandria.

Alexandria is right.

What character in a Tennessee Williams play moves into her sister Stella's home in New Orleans?

Chris Lynch yes.

Blanche Dubois that's right.

In what country did a train crash on its way to Rawalpindi in 2023?

Pakistan?

That's right.

Chris, well done.

What term describes molecules such as glue to thiamin and vitamin E that scavenge and neutralize free radicals?

Anyone?

No penalty for guessing.

Antioxidants is what we wanted.

What game, whose champions include Nigel Richards, was invented by Alfred Butts and featured a 15 by 15 board on which tiles are placed to form words that called Scrabble.

Scrabble is the right answer.

Leonore masquerades as the title prison guard to save her husband Flora in What opera the Only One by Ludwig van Beethoven.

Chris.

Fidelio.

Fidelio is right.

What insects known to use hot balls to kill Japanese hornets have been afflicted by colony collapse disorder and name bees.

Bees is the right answer.

Good job.

The cut.

The country of Zimbabwe was formed from what predecessor, say, Chris Rhodesia.

Rhodesia is right.

What family?

Whose patriarch Abdu Aziz fought the Rashid owns the largest oil company in the world and controls Chris South Saudi.

Yes, that's right.

Saudi dynasty.

Grab your pencil and your paper.

An answer must be given as a percentage.

What percentage of a pizza remains uneaten if five of its eight equal slices have been eaten?

Chris.

For, 62.5.

That's incorrect.

I finished it all.

Lamp.

Do you have an answer?

Give you about five more seconds.

Anybody close?

All right.

The right answer is 37.5.

37.5.

Next.

And what novel does physician Roger Killingsworth, Chris Scarlet letter, Scarlet letter is right.

What Indian poet was awarded the 1930 Chris Tagore?

Tagore is the right answer.

What quantity which for an analyte can be determined via titration is the amount of solute?

Chris.

Oh, saturation.

Nope.

I'll finish it for you.

Lamp via titration is the amount of solute in a solution and could be measured in moles per liter.

What are we looking for there?

It's a quantity called concentration.

Next, the U.S. justified the Iraq War by claiming that Saddam Hussein represents destruction.

That's right.

What street whose Federal Hall hosted George Washington's inauguration is home to Goldman Sachs crash Pennsylvania Avenue.

No lamp.

I'll finish it for you.

Is home to Goldman Sachs and is the hub of New York City's finance sector.

What's that area and writing?

Wall Street?

It is Wall Street.

What adjective can describe an isotope that existed when Earth first formed, or to the soup of chemicals from which early life emerged?

Yes, Sagan has primordial is right.

Yeah.

What MLB team employs Stephen Kwan and Jose Ramirez plays at Progressive Field and change this nickname in 2022 to avoid Chris.

Guardians.

The Cleveland Guardians is right.

What jazz trumpeter and longtime director of jazz at Lincoln Center Marsalis Sonny.

Wynton Marsalis is right.

What Western state is home to Mount Mazama?

Christian?

Oregon is right.

Spanish verbs like love, our say and Jamar say are examples of what kind of verbs and subject Christian reflexive, reflexive verbs.

What scandal in which Howard Hunt was arrested for trying to bug a building in Washington, D.C.. And I'm looking the name Watergate.

Watergate is the right answer.

About a minute and a half left.

What Italian explorer, the first European to discover Cape Cod Bay, names a bridge that spans the narrows separating Staten Island is like an others.

No.

That's incorrect.

Separating Staten Island from Brooklyn.

What's the name of that Italian explorer lamp?

Do you have an answer?

It's the Verrazano.

Verrazano bridge?

Let's do a couple more.

What?

Author of the poem not in a Silver Casket wrote a long poem.

Renaissance.

And asserted in her first fig and the Saint Vincent Millay.

That's right.

What portly, drink loving character is depicted in three Shakespeare plays, including The Merry Wives of Windsor, Chris John, Falstaff, Falstaff is correct.

Last question.

Pencil and paper.

What a fun way to end.

In.

How many different ways can four figurines be arranged in a line on a shelf?

Chris 24.

There are 24 ways.

That's right.

well done, well played.

And Hoover comes out on top today.

Lamp you played well as, as well.

We're proud of all the students who come in and participate in our program.

Good job.

We thank you very much for watching the Alabama Scholars Bowl.

We're here every week statewide on Alabama Public Television.

We appreciate you supporting the students in your communities and for watching our program every week.

My name is Mike Royer.

Thanks very much again for watching.

Have a great day, everybody.