The Arkansas Governor's Quiz Bowl is a statewide celebration of scholarship.

This tradition has been testing students knowledge and highlighting future leaders since 1985.

Thank you to everyone who participated in Quiz Bowl this year, and congratulations to those who have made it to the finals today.

Here's a question to get you started.

What city served as the first capital of the Arkansas Territory?

Live from the Arkansas PBS studios in Conway.

It's Quiz Bowl 2024.

Right now we have the six, a state championship featuring little Rock Catholic charging Wildcats and Russellville Cyclones.

Let's meet the teams.

Hi.

My name is Douglas Connell.

I'm a senior, a Catholic high, and I'm six foot three.

But my sister, my five foot four sister calls me Shorty.

So thank you.

Hi, I'm Alex Ferris.

I'm a freshman at little Rock Catholic, and I'm missing a piano recital to be here.

Go, rockets!

Hi, I'm Jacob Greenway.

I'm a senior at Catholic High, and I like to hunt.

Go, rockets!

Hi, I'm William Mercer.

I'm a junior, and my favorite cereal is Cinnamon Toast Crunch.

Good morning Chad.

I'm Antonio Nimmo.

I'm a senior at Catholic High.

And let's just say I didn't come here to make friends.

Hello.

My name is Mitchell Ashford.

I'm a senior at Catholic High and a fight on.

Hello.

My name is Stephen Edwards.

I'm a sophomore at Catholic High and ski near East Bona.

Knowledge is good.

I'm Harrison brooks.

I'm a sophomore at Catholic High.

I've been reading a book on anti-gravity, but I can't put it down.

Hi, I'm ether Tyler.

I'm a sophomore at Health Kai, and I'm on the track team.

Go, rockets.

I'm Lisa connell.

I'm the coach for Catholic High.

And rumor has it I am the most favorite teacher at Catholic.

Hello, I'm Daniel, I'm a senior and the captain of the team.

Malachi and Viren are two of my teammates, and I am one of 30.

Hi, I'm Renee Baker and I'm a senior.

I'm also a co-captain of the team.

Thank you to Korean Natalie, who is a part of our team.

And this is hot dog, a mascot, and I'm one of 13 at 12 go bears.

Hello.

I'm clearing up a senior co-captain.

Shout out to Paige house, Nick and Alex.

Dunaway and Sarah.

You remind me of the babe.

I'm Zane McArthur.

I'm a senior.

Shout out to Japhet.

And you know I'm just here for the third quarters.

Hi, I'm Croft rash.

I'm a senior on the quiz bowl team.

Shout outs to Wil and Sam for helping us all year with challenges and whatnot.

I'm one of 30 chat.

What's up guys?

My name is Avery Fisher, senior at Roosevelt High School and Matthew and me, we're part of the 3D printer gang.

Bye bye.

Hi, my name is Logan Greggs.

I'm a junior here, apparently.

And shout out to my boy Noah Wound, who's chilling in a different studio right now.

I'm Sarah Sharp, tall.

I'm a junior and also one of the co-captains of the Russellville team.

Shout out to my teammates Allie Hernandez and Hannah Etheridge.

I am one of 30 and clean cut babe.

Hi, my name is Shirley.

I'm a junior.

Shout out to Tyler, Max and Brian Scott and the 1% rule.

Hi, my name is Ian Wernick.

I'm a sophomore Noah Beaver, and I'm 130.

Hello.

My name is Gideon Fuller.

Shot up America.

And people have really got to stop naming their kid Thomas Mann.

There's too many.

Hi, I'm Didier fuller, I'm a sophomore.

And shout out to Beckett.

I'm one of 30.

I'm coach Drew Taylor.

I'd like to thank the other coaches and students for making this such a fun year.

Hi, I'm Becky, co-coach of Russellville Quiz bowl team.

I'd like to thank all of our families, faculty and administration for the support this year.

And I coach 30 Stephen Qualls, head coach at Russellville.

I am blessed to coach 30 uniquely talented, dedicated and hardworking students that we wish all could be featured today.

Big thank you to Amy and John Mims for driving us throughout the state of Arkansas this year.

Go cyclones!

There you go.

And my apologies.

We have the Catholic high rockets in the studio with us, not the Wildcats.

So we have four rounds of questions before we find out which of those two teams will be taking home the four.

A quiz bowl state championship.

So let's get started.

Round one is a 20 question tossup round.

To do that, let's turn it over to our quiz master for this match Steve Patterson Steve.

Thank you so much Christina.

And it is good to be back here in the studios of Arkansas PBS.

And it's good to see these two schools here today.

Bunch of great kids and great quiz bowl players.

Y'all at home should be very proud of your, young people.

All right.

We're going to begin with round one.

Round one.

All right, here we go.

Hands on our buzzers.

Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball with the National League Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947.

Name the player who broke the color barrier later in the same year in the American League.

Alex Paige.

No.

debuting for the Cleveland Indians.

Correct answers.

Larry.

Doby.

Doby.

In astronomy, this is where two celestial bodies appear across from each other in the sky.

Because most orbits in the solar system are nearly complainer to the ecliptic, the Earth, sun, and the other astronomical bodies are in basically a straight line.

Name this astronomical circumstance that occurs only for superior planets.

Crawford alignment.

No.

Nicholas.

Linear orbit.

It is opposition.

Opposition.

All right.

In which short story is a drunken Fortunato?

Alex.

The cask of a Montero.

You're right.

This holiday has a specific prayer.

The consist of two records or units that is performed in an outdoor open area or large hall.

This Islamic holiday was sung Alex Ramadan.

No, This Islamic holiday was signified by the Prophet Mohammed when he saw people celebrating in Medina.

Name this Islamic holiday that celebrates the breaking of the fast and the end of Ramadan.

Sarah Ede.

More specific justice.

More specific.

Heat offered here.

Yes.

Math.

Computation to celebrate.

Then.

All right, here we go.

Josh and Walter have started a moving company.

If Josh can pack up a 2000 square foot house in eight hours.

And Walter can do the same in 12 hours, how long and hours would it take them working together to pack up a 4000 square foot house?

Hayden 9.6 hours.

Hayden.

You're absolutely right.

All right.

This composer's work was influenced by Frederic Chopin, Bela Bartok and others.

His compositions have been described as the equivalent of musical impressionism, something this French composer did not like.

Alex Debussy.

Right.

I don't like Debussy, so I understand.

All right.

It was invented in 1983 by biochemist Carrie Mullins.

Hayden polymerase chain reaction.

Would you say it again?

Polymerase chain reaction.

That's absolutely right.

She was only 31.

And then to the legal age to run for president.

And in 1872, nonetheless, she staged the first campaign by a woman for president of the United States.

Alex Ferrara.

No, she never made it on the presidential ballot, but was the first woman to seriously seek the author's name.

This woman who was a suffrage leader and whose Equal Rights Party nominated Frederick Douglas as her running mate.

Hayden.

Anthony.

No, it is Victoria Woodhull.

Martin.

This novel has been called one of the most controversial ever written.

The laws.

Hayes is the object.

Sarah.

Lolita.

Right.

The European Union had many seminal moments as it became the largest economic union of countries in the world.

On February 7th and 1892, the 12 countries of the European Community signed this treaty.

Designed to integrate Europe, name the treaty that created the euro currency and formed the European Union.

Nicholas.

Treaty of Paris.

No.

In Brussels.

No.

It's the Treaty of Maastricht.

Maastricht.

Question number 11.

This medical study is also called microscopic anatomy or micro anatomy.

It involves sectioning, staining, and examining those sections under a microscope.

will pathology.

No.

Name this study of tissues and how tissues are organized at structural levels.

That is, histology.

Okay.

Math computation.

Solve the following equation for x log base two of x plus log base x of 64 equals five.

Call daddy x equals four.

No.

Antonio x equals eight.

Yes.

In Greek, this term means virgin creation.

This scientific term is a common occurrence in some plants, algae and some invertebrates, such as scorpions and nematodes.

Name this term for the production of young from an egg cell without involving Sarah.

Parthenogenesis.

You're right.

The Rhone River has a significant part of its course, running throughout, running through this lake that is on the border between France in Lake Geneva.

You're right.

math computation.

Solve for x. X squared plus four is greater than six.

credit x is equal to the positive or negative square root of ten.

No.

Nicholas x is equal to plus or minus root two.

Yes.

All right.

At first, Juster Lister is portrayed as an ignorant and sinful man.

In this 1932 southern novel.

It is a dark story of social realism.

The details are hard and desperate lives of poor Alex, Tobacco Road.

I don't know how you did it, but you're right.

Good job.

Alex.

All right.

The National Assembly, our third estate, which represented the French people, were looked out.

Pardon me, were locked out of their usual meeting place.

They assembled in an alternative location.

Ian in his escort.

No.

To do their business of writing a constitution.

Name this agreement with a sports themed location.

Antonio.

The tennis court constitution?

No, it's the tennis court oath.

Oath?

this Austrian born artist and architect was opposed to the straight line.

Clarin Saarinen.

I'm sorry.

Saarinen.

No.

His work is often characterized by bright colors and spirals, and depicts unique and strange shapes in his architecture.

Name this Austrian artist whose buildings are spread around Central Europe, the most famous of which is a popular tourist attraction in his birthplace of of Vienna, Austria.

Nicholas Botticelli.

No, it's Stella, sir.

Stella, sir.

All right.

This man was, twice the president of Cuba.

First from 1933 to 1944, and then from 1950 to the night.

Ian Easter.

I'm sorry, sir, I can't hear you.

Battista.

Yes, that's at the age of ten.

He was able to translate Oscar Wilde's The Happy Prince into Spanish.

He is an Argentine author known for his short stories, poems and essays.

Name this author of works including labyrinths.

Hayden.

Borgias.

You're right.

And that was the last question of round one.

Do we have any challenges?

Yes, we have a challenge here.

but over here.

Do we have a challenge?

All right, so, we'll pause for just a moment while we take up this challenge.

Okay.

Well, thank you so much.

I'm going to bring in our expert over here, Bill Davis, to talk a little bit about this challenge that's going on.

I always love to pick your brain and wonder, do you know what the challenge is regarding?

I do not know what this challenge is.

Russellville is bringing it in and it won't be lightly.

So, we'll have to wait and see what it is.

But, this is a close game.

A real close game.

And I've noticed all day that, math questions that and that might be one of the, some of the challenge, but the math questions are a little more difficult than I've seen in the past.

Okay.

And remember, they only have pencil and paper and 20s, no calculators, no digital, no nothing like that.

So and 20s, I mean, even if you gave them 30s on some of these, it would be remarkable that they could get them.

So what the students are doing, they're doing a lot of the calculation in their head, and they're just writing the problem down that he reads.

And it's pretty remarkable across the board.

We've seen I have I've watched all day long and the the students are prepared for that much more than I.

Yes.

I guess at my age I don't figure as fast as I used to could.

But anyway, And once again, a challenge takes only five minutes.

Russellville coach, one of their coaches will have to come up to the, judges table and they'll have to present the material.

And again, I'm not sure what the challenge would be.

I will say this, Linda Smith is on that judges table right now.

I visited with her.

She and I used to coach together.

Coach against each other, many, many years.

And she reminded me of something that we don't want to overlook.

The success of these teams is really connected directly to the students study and and a lot of times that means they study on their own.

when Linda was coach and she had, nine years in a row that she brought a team here and won six of those.

I'm telling that story to tell this.

Russellville this year is their ninth year in a row.

Oh, wow.

And they've only lost the first year they came.

Wow.

They are quite a remarkable program.

Impressive track record there.

We are going to let them take a little bit more time to try to figure this out and take a break, but we'll be right back after this.

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That's genuinely classic.

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And welcome back to the State Championships of the Quiz Bowl.

We've had a little bit of excitement here because this will affect the actual score.

Oh yes.

Yes.

What's happened is, is there was a challenge by Russellville and it was a successful challenge.

It involved a math problem.

And, Steve might explain this a little bit when he gets back, but that means we're going to take ten points from, little Rock.

Catholic.

And you're going to award ten points to Russellville.

Okay.

That was a successful challenge.

Okay.

So let's go back over to Steve, the quizmaster for more.

All right.

So welcome back.

We did have that challenge that, Russellville, proved that, there was two alternate, two answers to the to the problem.

And, so they gave the first answer, which the judges accepted.

And so we took ten away from Catholic and added ten over here to Russellville.

All right.

We're ready now to begin the second round.

If we need to make any substitutions over here and no subs over here.

Okay, well, try to get the tossup right so that your team can earn a bonus.

All right.

And the first one is science computation.

A certain spring has a spring constant of pi squared newtons per meter.

If a 16 kilogram mass is attached to the spring, what will be the frequency of its oscillation in hertz?

All right.

Crawford.

square root of pi divided by two seconds.

That is not what I have.

okay.

Correct answers one eighth hertz, one eighth hertz.

Okay.

Next toss up.

Born in a Hasidic Jewish community in Hungary in 1928, his family was sent to a switch where his mother and sister were killed and father died later on.

Clarin.

All right.

Good job.

And you've earned a bonus for your, team as well, if I can find it here.

Okay.

It's called elemental math.

Given a set of elements, you must identify the atomic numbers of each.

Add them up and provide the sum of these atomic numbers.

You get 20s for each problem.

Just like math.

All right, here we go.

Carbon plus chromium plus beryllium.

Six.

It's chromium.

Whatever chromium is.

Answer.

32.

No, we have oxygen plus manganese plus scandium.

Sorry.

Answer.

Pass.

Okay.

Iron.

Plus californium plus titanium.

That's right.

Now, what do you.

Need for those titanium?

Answer, please.

146 146.

That's correct.

But it was after the time was in the judges.

It was.

So I can't give you credit for it.

All right.

Mendelevium.

plus die, spare dysprosium plus neon.

Answer.

Hayden 207.

No.

The answer to that one was 177. the first one, carbon, chromium and beryllium was 34. oxygen and magnesium and scandium, add up to 54.

And I already told you I don't want in 46, but we couldn't give you credit for that.

All right.

Well, you are ready for the next tossup question.

And it happens to be, math computation.

Line segments A, b and c, d share midpoints.

If point A is had three two and point B is at negative two three, what is the location of point D?

Given that point C is at negative five.

Negative five.

All right.

Crawford 11 comma five.

No.

Answer.

Sir.

Nicholas four commas, four comma.

Six.

I have six comma ten.

All right.

These math math problems are hard.

rough and smooth are two types of this membrane system.

Hayden.

Endoplasmic reticulum.

You're right.

All right.

And you've earned a bonus with that.

And it is called Shakespeare.

This and that.

Given a fact or facts about William Shakespeare are one of his works.

Name what is being described?

A midsummer Night's Dream is said outside what city it's.

With what answer name a city in Italy.

And it's Rome.

Venice?

No.

Shakespeare's words have for your careless times when you are young.

You call me crazy, correct?

Okay.

Answer thinking.

Oh, I don't know.

I got used to the carefree.

No idea.

All right.

I'm going to have to call time on that one.

Shakespeare's shortest play.

Come to me.

There's a comedy.

There's a comedy of errors.

Yes.

Globe theater burned down during this play.

It was then shut off.

That's it.

We're looking for.

Okay, Henry Ford, let's go with it.

Henry the fourth.

No, it was Henry the eighth.

Midsummer Night's Dream is set outside Athens.

Shakespeare's words for your careless, carefree times are called salad days.

And, you got the comedy of errors.

Correct?

So one out of the four, but 15 points.

All right, here's another toss up for both of you.

And it happens to be another math computation.

We are loading you up with the math and science today.

Math wants to start making custom D fours, a four sided dice that has four faces of equilateral triangles.

If he wants the dice to have a side length of one inch, what is the volume and cubic inches of each die?

A. Alex.

One third inches cubed.

No, seconds.

Crawford.

Root three inches.

No.

I have, root two over 12.

All right.

Number 26 wealthy French landowners tried to establish a monarchy under the under Austrian archduke Maximilian in Mexico.

Cinco de Mayo celebrates the under, equipped Mestizo and Zapotec forces victory over the French.

Ian battle of Puebla.

You're right.

And you've earned a bonus called Arkansas History.

All right.

And it goes like this.

Given a description of an early European Arkansas explorer.

And name this person considered the father of Arkansas, French explorer, granted land at Arkansas Post.

And sir.

Champlain.

Champlain, no.

Spanish leader of first Europeans to cross the Mississippi River in 1541 into what is now Arkansas.

Are you sure?

Okay.

DeSoto?

Yes.

Let's.

All right.

Either one of the French explorers who wanted to find a waterway from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico is this.

And one of them is French.

Maybe he did the Mississippi LaSalle.

No.

Yeah.

Didn't, for, Let's see this one more, isn't there?

Okay.

French explorer who is credited with naming what is now little Rock.

We've tried it for lunch, sir.

What the heck?

LaSalle?

No, that one is a harp.

the father of Arkansas is on.

Read the 20.

And, the other one.

Either one of the French explorers is Marquette or Joliet.

Either one.

All right, we have one bonus left.

And let's see, who can get there with this next tossup?

Number 27.

He was an Old Testament leader who brought the Israelites into the Promised Land after the death of Moses.

Alex.

Joshua.

Joshua was correct.

All right, then, you've earned a bonus called the Vietnam War.

Okay.

Given a prompt about the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, provide the person, place, or thing, general.

Put in charge of the war by President Johnson.

MacArthur.

Well, he was in charge of every other war, but not this one.

Nixon attempted to hide bombings of this neutral neighbor country.

Where else?

No defoliant used by the United States.

Napalm?

No hue.

It was this kind of vehicle used in the war.

Helicopter?

Yes.

William Westmoreland was the general put in charge of the war?

the neighbor to the north.

was Cambodia, and the, defoliant was Agent Orange.

Okay.

So, do we have any challenges?

None over here.

None back here.

So, what I'm going to do is announce to you the categories, and then we'll give you the minute break, and then you can tell me what you picked and, Catholic, you get to go first.

You might choose category one, which is CS and Bayes.

Given two or more countries provide the body of water between these countries.

no answer will be an ocean.

you might choose number two debut novels and their authors given the title of a first novel.

Name the famous author of that debut novel, are you my One?

Number three women of the Bible.

Given a short description of a significant woman in the Bible, name that woman.

Teams.

You have one minute to decide.

Oh, Lord, you go to Bill.

Okay, so as the teams are choosing their categories, just wanted to pick your brain a little bit about the focus.

Is that what the kids focus on, whether overall, as much as you can possibly learn or to have some specifics so that you can really help with these categories.

You know, that's an excellent question for this, quarter here or this round, because a lot of times coaches will have a student that's just they know everything about dinosaurs or they know everything about cattle and they know nothing else.

Right?

All right.

That's deep knowledge.

And in this category or this round, if you've got a student that knows a lot about the women in the Bible, you're going to put him in there, you know, right away that's your absolutely that's what you're going to do.

And and I might be for sumptuous in saying, I think maybe Catholic that might be the 62nd round I pick, but I might be, sir.

all both of these teams are capable of running the 62nd round.

Right.

And it's odd we've seen 2 or 3 62nd rounds run.

Yeah.

And I've been at tournaments where none of the 62nd rounds were.

Wow.

So it's it's an odd thing for that to happen.

However, Catholics kind of got their back against the wall and they've got to get some points.

Yep.

This is a time when you can rack up a lot of huge opportunities.

So I know that the time is up.

So we are going to go head over back to the quizmaster to see what category these teams have chosen.

All right.

Welcome back.

Our teams have chosen, their categories.

And I thought sure, Catholic high school would take the Bible question, but that's all right.

they chose the seas and Bayes.

and then the women of the Bible question went to Russellville.

So those are two and we're making some substitutions here, for Russellville.

Do we have any for Catholic?

Okay.

Catholics going to stay the same as they are.

And, That Zion.

Good to see you, Zion.

All right.

Are we ready to go?

All right.

We're going to start with, Catholic and Nicholas, speak very loudly and clearly.

When you give me an answer.

All right.

The descriptor says, given two or more countries provide the body of water between these countries, and none of them will be an ocean.

Okay.

You ready?

Jamaica.

Columbia?

Caribbean sea?

Yes.

India.

Oman.

I think Arabian Sea.

Yes.

Austrian.

Papua New Guinea.

Coral sea.

Yes.

Vietnam.

China.

Philippines.

South China sea.

Yes.

Connect Canada and Greenland.

Hebrides.

Labrador.

Sea.

Yes.

Noah.

And South Korea and Japan.

Sea of Japan.

Yes.

United Kingdom, Norway.

Denmark.

Sea.

North.

Sea.

Yes.

Finland.

Sweden.

Estonia.

Baltic Sea, Baltic sea.

Yes.

Australia.

New Zealand.

Okay.

That's all right.

We didn't get an answer from you on that, so that won't pass over.

but great job.

You got eight out of the ten.

All of the ones that you had time to answer.

And that was very nice.

All right, so none to pass over to you, Hayden.

I'm sorry.

they just weren't obliging it all to you.

okay.

Hayden, I'm going to ask you to give, the name of a woman provided with a short description of the significant woman in the Bible.

All right.

Are we ready?

Yes.

Okay.

Mother of Joseph and Benjamin, sister of Leah.

Rachel.

Rachel?

Yes.

Woman of Genesis.

two and three.

Eve.

Eve.

Yes.

Only female judge mentioned in the Bible.

Deborah.

Yes.

Jewish wife of Xerxes.

The first.

Esther.

Esther.

Yes.

Witness Jesus's crucifixion, burial and resurrection.

Like Julian or Joanna or Mary Magdalene?

Yes.

sister of Lazarus and Mary.

Martha.

Martha?

Yes.

Wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac.

Sarah.

Yes.

Mother of John the Baptist.

Elizabeth.

Yes.

Wife of Uriah the Hittite.

And mother of Solomon.

Bathsheba.

Yes.

Wife of Isaac, and mother of Jacob and Esau is no Rachel.

We already did Rachel.

Right.

I am.

Yes.

Leah.

No, that's all right.

So you got nine out of the ten.

Very nice.

But they do have one to turn over to you, Nicholas.

And it is the wife of Isaac and mother of Jacob and Esau.

Rebecca.

Yes, we all right, so you got ten points out of that deal of getting the bounce back.

I don't think, Rossetto give an answer on the last one.

Yes.

Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't hear it.

Okay.

Thank you.

I don't remember what it was, but it wasn't the right one.

All right.

we're at the end of, round three.

And so, let me toss it over while we look at substitutions to Christina.

Okay.

Thank you so much.

See, that was impressive.

Even that wasn't a run that was still a lot of correct answers.

So kudos to all of these players.

We're going to take a quick break and be right back after this.

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We are back and ready for the final round.

It sure certainly does go quickly.

So for that, let's go right to the quizmaster.

All right.

it's great lightning round for both schools and fairly close game.

So y'all keep up the good work.

We have 200 points available in this last round, so, y'all be ready to go.

I think we've brought crawdad is back, and, Clarion is back, and Steven's in, and Mitchell's in, and Harrison is in.

Well, good to have all of y'all into the game.

Okay.

You gotta make the difference now down there, Mitchell Harrison.

so they can catch up.

All right.

Here is our first toss up in round four.

It is the story of a man trying to break out of a prison on French Guyana's.

Alex, the count of Monte Cristo.

No.

Devil's Island, the titular main character, is incarcerated for 14 years for a murder in France that he did not commit.

Named this novel by Emery.

so sorry about a man whose nickname means butterfly and French Clarin.

Leon.

That's right.

This earlier, pardon me, the earlier 2020 version of this game was deemed a disaster by most players.

Poland Cdiz Projekt Red launched this new escape from New York.

Crawford.

Cyberpunk 2077.

Yes.

All right.

In March of 1992, just under 69% of white voters packed the plan.

A pardon me backed the plan of this South African leader.

Alex Mandela.

No.

His reforms included the repeal of racially discriminating laws, including apartheid.

Name this president of South Africa from 1989 to 1994, and deputy president under Nelson Mandela from 94 to 96.

Hayden de Klerk.

Yes, math, computation.

In a school cafeteria, you can have your choice of one of three main items and two choices of six side items, and you can get a devil of a side.

How many different lunch meal combinations are available?

If you must use all three item slots?

Crawford 108.

No.

Mitchell 48.

No.

I have half of what Crawford gave us.

I have 54.

All right.

This group, a form of strep throat, is caused by the streptococcus paragons, bacterium.

This infectious disease has symptoms that include whole body rash, swollen lymph nodes, headache, and sore throat.

Name this disease that mostly infects children from 5 to 15 and has a partial common name with a color shade.

Nicholas yellow fever.

no.

Which is a color shade of red.

Crawford.

Scarlet fever.

Yes.

Math.

Computation.

I think they think we love math.

All right, if a function f of x represents the amount of power Josh's house makes with x equals zero being, midnight and negative numbers, meaning he is using electricity, what is the domain of time during which he is using power rather than making it?

Crawford.

The day before or zero from zero to negative infinity.

No.

Five seconds.

He didn't answer.

Nicholas X is greater than five.

I have x is equal to 2 to 4.

Exclusive.

In Homeric poetry, her name has meanings of cunning, plotter and scheming.

She was the lover of Aegisthus and mother of Electra and Alex Lie.

Master?

Yes, smaller than it used to be.

The, Northwest Territories in Canada is massive in area and home to the Inuit indigenous peoples.

In 1999, this political unit was carved up.

Ian and Evert.

You're right.

Question number 39.

What alloy usually made of leather.

And ten sometimes contains copper to increase Darcy.

Thus does Sicily or antimony for harder version of the allow.

And I don't have an answer on this.

What's that?

Yeah.

I'm going to have to go to an alternate question.

That's the one.

Carolyn, I mentioned to you earlier.

All right.

Here it is.

I guess I'll just do number one.

They were about 230, a long and 40ft wide, armed with 6 to 7ft partial, pardon me, frontal iron spears.

Alex.

Phalanx.

No iron plating and could travel at ten knots per hour.

These British built blockade runners caused an international dispute between the United States and England.

Name.

This style of ship that became popular with cotton smugglers during the Anaconda Blockade of the Confederate States of America.

Sarah.

Frigates, no.

Way to give an answer.

Oh, the correct answer is Laird.

Rams la I r d. All right.

Russellville has asked for a 32nd timeout.

So we're going to pause right here.

Okay.

And we're going to bring in Bill Davis for this again.

timeout.

Kind of talk to us about why you think this was taken at this point time.

The same thing we've seen from other teams.

They're going to get players in and allow them to play, allow them to get used to this environment, building programs or continuing programs.

We mentioned this earlier.

Russellville has been here.

This is their ninth year in a row, and the only time they've lost was the first year they came.

So, I mean, they've got a program that they're continuing, not building.

They're reloading every year.

let me mention this to little Rock Catholic's got a good team and there were several young players that's on that team.

So won't be surprised at all if we don't see little Rock Catholic come back.

What kind of signs do you look for from the players that they're either nervous or confident.

What do you kind of pick up on when you you know, we kind of mentioned this earlier when we were talking about Truman, but you've got to have a, concentration.

You've got to be able to focus on the moderator, listen and listen for key word.

You may miss the first part of the the question, but you're looking for that key word that tells you where you can go.

And if you'll notice, some players are anticipating and they're pretty good at it.

We've had 3 or 4 of them that were up here.

sit Hart was very good anticipation and he would just anticipate where the question was going.

Did he get them all?

No.

And that's another thing.

Students that play this game have to be like students who play basketball.

Shoot five times and you hit three hits if you're willing to shoot again okay.

Same thing here.

Answer three questions and you get one right.

But you got to be willing to answer the next one in the next one.

Don't sit there thinking, well, I've missed two.

I probably don't know the answer.

That's not the way you play this game.

You have to be aggressive and not overly aggressive.

That's where the coaches play a part.

They'll tell them in earlier games.

All right, you're being too aggressive.

Back off a little bit.

Wait for 2 or 3 more words and then you'll get the answer.

Okay.

I'm curious to know a little bit more about the questions.

We seem to be getting a lot of math computations.

Is it random?

Is it selected?

How does that work?

The questions are designed to cover all of the basics that they study.

A lot of the questions that they get, the answers were found in their classrooms.

Now a lot of the questions I get, that's not the case.

They've got to go outside of the classroom, visit the library, get on the computer, do some searching and find those things.

Another thing that we emphasize about players is read.

I don't care what you read this read, read.

If you're a not good reader, you're not going to be taking in a lot of this knowledge, especially the trivial part.

There'll be some trivial questions in there.

We've heard them today.

The the math questions.

They're going to be included.

Science questions.

Most of those to come from classroom.

If you've got a good math teacher and you've got a good science teacher, that's going to give you a leg up.

literature.

Same thing.

Your English teacher that's going to give you a leg up.

But then you got to go out and do more than just learn the author and the book.

Read the book.

Yeah.

Comprehend what you're reading.

Was, some great advice and a big thank you to all the teachers out there.

We had a time out and some substitutions, but I believe we are ready to continue.

Let's go back over to the quizmaster.

Well, welcome back.

And, we've brought in a few new players.

Heathens in the game you might have been in earlier, but these back, Gideon is in for, civil and Avery and Rainey and Logan and Geno.

they've replace their whole team up here.

All right.

We, And we were on question number 40 when we, took the break.

and here we go.

He was a Canadian who studied theology, excelled at several sports, and came up with the idea for a protective helmet for American football players named this man, who, ironically, is the only basketball coach with the losing record at Kansas University and is most known for inventing basketball in Springfield, Massachusetts.

Nicholas Smith no.

It is Naismith, James Naismith.

This 1962 novel is a fictionalized account of an American who became a Nazi propagandist.

It is Kurt Vonnegut's third novel and warns that eventually we are what we pretend to be.

Name this word based on American born British agent named Lloyd Hall.

Hall, who worked for the Nazis in World War Two and was hanged for treason.

Gideon Cat's cradle no.

Nicholas.

One hour to midnight.

Now.

It's a book called Mother Night.

Another night.

This English physicist contributed to both quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics.

He formulated an equation describing the behavior of fermions and predicted the existence of anti-matter.

Name this man who won the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics, along with Erwin Schrödinger.

Jacob Voltaire, no.

Logan Boltzmann, no.

It's Paul Dirac.

Dirac.

All right.

He was assassinated in 1995 at a rally for peace in his own country.

He won the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize for his part in the Camp David Accords and, along with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, named this Israeli prime minister assassinated by Jewish extremist.

Nicholas, then Yahoo!

No.

Russellville.

Nothing.

It is, Yitzhak Rabin.

Rabin.

Math.

Computation for number 44.

For a function of f of x equals the opposite of x over two plus the square root of x.

What is the area in the square unit under the curve for curve from x equals 0 to 4 equals zero.

four equals four.

I'm sorry.

X equals oh.

So it should read as x equals zero and two x equals four.

Not a math guy.

Okay.

Looking for.

No okay.

Answer Catholic.

All right.

Antonio.

like two pi.

No, it's 4/3 or one and one thirds.

unit squared.

This playwright died in 1965 at the age of 34.

She wrote a parody avoiding for Godot called The Arrival of Mr. Toad.

her most famous work was.

Her first was the first play on Broadway written by a black woman named this author of raisin, Gideon Hansberry.

Yes, this painting features a peasant man in white clothing and wearing a white sombrero and a woman assisting him.

He is down on all fours in what appears to be an agonizing struggle to lug an oversize basket of purple and red colored plants.

Name.

This artwork, known for its bright colors and theme of a worker in a capitalistic world by Diego Rivera.

Gideon, a man at the crossroads.

No.

Nicholas Burden of humanity.

Where you both have good answers, but they're nowhere close to the right one.

the flower carrier.

The flower carrier.

All right.

These two fictional islands are said to be located to the south of Hogg's Island, just off northwest Sumatra.

In a famous novel, the ship antelope sailed toward the East Indies before being blown off course to these islands.

Named either one of these fictional islands in Gulliver's Travels.

Antonio Lucia.

no.

No answer.

Yeah.

Lily put is what I have.

Lily pond.

Or you could have, the other one is a best fuchsia.

All right.

Question number 48.

This French king is most known for his failure to reestablish the the Bourbon monarchy in the wake of the French Revolution.

He was the first member of the French royal family to be sent into exile during the revolution.

Named this man who became King of France upon the death of Louis the 18th.

Jacob Louis no.

Gideon.

Henry the Fourth.

It is Charles the 10th.

It is an elastic, rod like structure in which the, anus develops before in the mouth.

During embryonic development.

This midline structure is common to all members of the phylum Chordata.

Name this structure the lies between the central nervous system and, Logan spinal cord.

No, lies between the central nervous system and the alimentary canal that forms the early skeleton and is eventually replaced by the vertical column.

Jacob Thorax, I have notochord, notochord.

All right.

And finally, question number 50.

He is credited with inspiring the beginning of the Barbizon school of Art.

This English artist who revolutionized the landscape paintings honor using his surrounding area, as inspiration as well as the use of more realism.

Named this painter of works, including Dedham Vale View, with and Wivenhoe Park and the Hayward Gideon Constable.

You're right, and we end on a positive note there.

Do we have any challenges?

None over here.

Challenges over here?

None.

All right.

So good job.

with that, Russellville finds itself back in the position of being the, state champion for six AA and Catholic.

The state runner up in six.

Say, good job, y'all.

Now we're going to go to Christina.

Yes.

Congratulations to all the players and both teams.

It was a great match.

We're going to take a quick break and be right back after this.

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Okay.

I'm here with Carolyn and Melinda and friends with Arkansas Governors Quiz Bowl Association, and we have got some awards to hand out, so I'm gonna hand it over to you.

So we are so excited to recognize little Rock Catholic as our six state runners up.

So there's your trophy and there's your really big check.

Big round of applause.

Congratulations.

And then our six state champions, Russellville High School.

So there's your trophy and your big scholarship check.

And your banner and the banner.

Let's display it all and give them a round of applause.

Fantastic.

You guys.

Congratulations.

And then a few more announcements from Carolyn.

Definitely.

the third place, won in this champ in this state competition was Greenwood.

And the fourth Benton.

And we need our MVP over here from Catholic who was Alex Roose.

Congratulations.

You get your medals and stuff, too, okay.

We also have on the All-Tournament team Ian Warnock from Russellville.

And you get a congratulations as well.

Ian.

Yes.

And, also Hayden.

Daniel, congratulations.

Round of applause.

It's a lot of hard work.

Yeah.

We have, John Wagner from Greenwood.

Owen Schwartz from Benton, Katie Wagner from Green County, and also Sarah Shropshire.

One more round of applause.

Congrats to all All-Tournament team.

Congratulations, all of you.

One final round of applause for all of the students.

You guys did a wonderful job today.

You can breathe.

You did it.

You're done.

Congrats.

Well, thank you so much.

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