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Hello, everyone.

Welcome once again to the Alabama Scholar's Bowl.

My name is Mike Royer.

We're glad you're watching, and I hope you join us every week on statewide Alabama public television.

We've got two great teams in our studio today competing for scholarship money.

The students from West Point High School from the Cullman area are back with us.

Good to see you all again.

And, the players from Bob Jones up in Madison, Alabama, to beautiful parts of the state and teams that have been with us before and have been very successful.

So we're proud of all of them.

The executive producer of our program is Mike Owsley.

Sharon Dailey, Cade Wilson, Nick Frederick and Anne Harris make up the team behind the scenes to do all the heavy lifting to make this show what it is, and we like what it is and we hope that you do too.

We are so glad that you've joined us again today.

Are you all ready to compete here?

We've got some great questions for you.

As you all know, the first 20 questions also includes a bonus question.

If you answer the question correctly, your team and your team only will get the bonus question.

Any questions?

Let's go.

What country's strongest recorded earthquake struck in September of 2023?

You know, and it's Stephen Turkey.

That's incorrect.

I'll finish it for you.

West point in our house with its epicenter in the Atlas Mountains southwest of Marrakech.

What country?

Yes, Sean.

Morocco.

Morocco is correct.

Bonus for you.

In May of 2023, Bola Bola Tinubu was inaugurated as president of what most populous country in Africa?

Nigeria.

Nigeria is correct.

Toss up everybody.

What river's course depends on the water levels of the tunnels.

Sir Sean.

Mekong.

Mekong is the right answer.

Bonus again for you.

What?

Two adjectives in English denote the two main forts of the Nile River, which converge near the city of Khartoum.

Blue and white.

Blue and white is the right answer, everybody.

What author who wrote about a lovelorn artist suicide in The Sorrows of Young wrote.

And it's Brody.

Gerta is correct.

Bonus the title 4 to 4 tough man punches and kills Klinger.

In what?

Novella by Herman Melville.

Billy Budd.

Billy Budd is right.

Toss up everybody.

What?

Royal house which acquired the infertile from Bavaria in the potato war, included Joseph the Second.

Maria Teresa.

Hapsburg is right.

The dynasty.

Bonus for you, Bob Jones.

A venturi meter illustrates what principle named for a Swiss scientist who often means that as a fluid's velocity increases, its pressure decreases.

Which also comes.

All right, Charles?

No.

It's Bernoulli's.

Bernoulli's.

Bernoulli is the pronunciation.

Bernoulli's principle.

Next question for everyone.

What medal which can be smelted in the hall?

Andrew.

Process is found in the ore. Bauxite and is Brody.

Aluminum is right.

Your bonus.

The first European explorer to reach New Zealand was what?

Dutchman?

The namesake of another country's largest island.

Tasman?

Yes, that's the correct answer for your bonus.

Toss up for both teams.

What city?

Whose Centennial Park contains a replica.

Brody.

Atlanta.

That's incorrect.

I'll finish it for you.

Bob Jones, that contains a replica of the Parthenon.

Host country music shows at the Grand Ole Opry and is the capital of Tennessee.

Nashville.

That's right.

Bonus for you, a May 20th tour.

Have a long.

Have a mean.

Reduce the creation rate of what commodity?

Which is limited to 21 million units.

Oil?

No, it's the Bitcoin.

Bitcoin is the answer.

What?

President.

Toss up everyone.

What president?

Whose popularity fell after he repressed the bonus army.

Brody.

Hoover.

Hoover is right.

Bonus.

What character who claims he doesn't share food and who uses the pickup line?

How are you doing?

Is the struggling actor played by Matt LeBlanc on friends?

Who is that?

Yes.

Or is it definitely Jeremy?

The character's name?

Chandler.

No, it's Joey Tribbiani.

Joey Tribbiani.

Toss up!

What British scientists helped lay the first transatlantic cable and names a temperature scale that begins at absolute zero.

Stephen.

Lord Kelvin is right.

Your bonus?

Bob Jones.

What?

Colorless but not odorless compound of hydrogen, carbon and chlorine with a molecular formula of CHC, L three is a volatile liquid used as a solvent.

Have you got an answer?

Bleach?

No, the answer's chloroform.

Chloroform is the answer.

Next.

What author wrote that beauty is in its own is its own excuse for being.

In his poem The Dora and wrote an essay titled nature.

Brody.

Emerson.

Emerson is right.

What U.S. bonus.

What U.S. auto manufacturer was acquired by Fiat in 2014, before merging with Peugeot in 2021 to form the company called Stellantis.

It's even cheaper.

Dodge Jeep.

It's actually the Chrysler Corporation.

Toss up everybody.

What leader whose foreign minister is Penny Wong, led the opposition during most of Scott Morrison's term and is the prime minister of Australia.

Stephen, you know, it's up.

You didn't have an answer.

That's right.

Do you have an answer?

West point?

Yes.

Smith.

Anthony.

Albanese.

Next question.

What American composer whose music of changes was inspired by etching had pianist David Brody cage?

John Cage is right.

Your bonus vellum is a fine version of what, then?

Material made from unten sheep, goat or calf skins that can be bound into a codex.

They're just like leather parchment.

That's what we wanted.

Next question for everyone.

What process?

During which a tattoo box helps position RNA.

Brody.

Transcription.

That's right.

Your bonus suggests pencil and paper for this.

This is the bonus question for them.

What is the x coordinate of the vertex of the parabola defined by the equation y equals x squared plus eight x plus 15.

So it's sort for two ways.

It's a negative eight over two.

So negative four I think.

So I need I need an answer of negative four.

Negative four is right.

Well done.

Toss up everybody.

What team which won the World Series in both 1992 and 1993, now stars first baseman Vladimir Guerrero and Toronto John Davis.

Toronto.

That's right.

The Blue Jays.

Your bonus.

In what state was actor Hill Harper supposedly offered $20 million to end a Senate campaign and run against its congresswoman, Rashida Tlaib.

What state is that?

Minnesota.

Minnesota.

Close.

Michigan is the right answer for that one.

Toss up everybody.

What state, which is named for an alternate name of the liane people, is governed by John Carney and was the first state to ratify the constitution.

Yes.

Lewes, Delaware.

Delaware is right.

Bonus for you, Bob Jones.

Henry the eighth is fourth wife who hailed from Germany.

Duchy of Cleves.

Had what?

First name?

And Anne is right.

Five more questions.

What mathematical operation which can be defined using Riemann sums.

Sean.

Differentiation.

No.

That's incorrect.

I'll finish it for you.

Unless you want to jump in.

Steven.

No.

You want the rest?

Yes.

The Riemann sums is a technique in calculus that consists of finding the area under a curve.

What's it called?

Integral.

Yes.

Integral or integration is right.

Bonus for you.

What American author became the fourth two time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his novels The Nickel Boys and the Underground Railroad?

Do you remember?

I don't know Woodson.

Colson Whitehead is the answer.

Next.

What island?

To the northeast of the Cabbage Strait contains the remains of Lawrence of Meadows and comprises a Canadian boat, Brody Island.

Newfoundland is correct.

Bonus.

In what effect?

What effect?

Which occurs when the energy of a certain particle exceeds the work function.

Was mentioned in Albert Einstein's Nobel Prize citation for photo electric.

That's correct.

Next for both teams.

What?

King, who was imprisoned by Leopold the Fifth after fighting Brody Richard the Lionheart.

That's right.

Bonus.

What?

Trojan prince, who is the son of an disease caused the suicide of Dido when he fled Carthage.

Aeneas?

That's right.

Next question.

Pencil and paper for this one, please.

If a jogger is going at a constant speed of 2.5m/s, how many seconds will he need to finish a 400 meter?

Answer.

Stephen one 6160 is correct.

Your bonus.

In a ballet studio, dancers usually warm up while holding what handrail?

I know.

Got an answer bar?

It is Bach, spelled Bari.

Well done.

Next question.

What woman?

Whose memoir, The Woman in Me, details her quest to end her conservatorship.

Is a singer who recorded toxic and Baby and its star.

Britney Spears is right.

Well done.

Bonus for your team.

Mount Pico, the highest point in Portugal, is in what archipelago?

In the middle of the Atlantic.

Azores.

So, Azores.

Azores is right.

Well done.

Last question before we take a quick break.

What event planned in the Green Dragon Tavern?

Brody greenhouse.

Taiping rebellion.

No.

That's incorrect.

You're going to finish it.

I will wait there.

Yes.

Dragon tavern was punished by the Intolerable Acts after the Sons of Liberty through British cargo into the Boston Harbor.

And that is Boston Tea Party.

That's right.

Your bonus.

What hydrated magnesium silicate mineral defines a hardness of one on the most scale and is used in baby powder talk.

Talc is right.

That's the right answer.

Lay your buttons down.

Relax a bit.

As I tell you what, the four categories are for the Lightning Round.

The choices are fictional authors, civil rights leaders, big words that begin with B.S.

and the last category will be windows.

We'll find out about which one the folks from Bob Jones will play, but first, let's have each player tell us a little bit about themselves.

Star would you begin?

I'm star Boyd.

I'm a junior at West Point High School, and I want to go to UAB.

I'm John Vino.

I'm a senior at West Point High School, and I'm going to study civil engineering in college.

I'm Brody Henry, I'm a senior at West Point High School, and right now I plan to get a business degree.

I'm Sean Harbison, I'm a junior and from West Point High School, and I plan to major in education.

My name is Stephen Pan.

I'm a senior from Bob Jones, and I. I plan to do much long computer engineering.

My name is Louis Johnson.

I'm a sophomore at Bob Jones, and I plan to be a doctor when I grow up.

My name is Alex.

No, Annapolis.

I'm a junior at Bob Jones, and I plan to be an electrical engineer.

Very good.

You're all playing very well.

I think we have a pretty close match going here today.

Let's find out from our players, from Bob Jones, of those four categories.

Louis, which one would you like to try?

Civil rights leaders.

Civil rights leaders, as the name implies.

What you will give me?

What civil rights leader blank.

And we have 60s.

When I begin the first question here we go gave the I have a Dream speech.

Founded the Tuskegee Institute.

Booker T Washington declined to move from a bus seat in Montgomery.

Rosa Parks gave the speech.

What to the slave is the 4th of July led the Nation of Islam.

And I.

Did you answer?

I wasn't finished?

Malcolm X is the right answer, wrote the souls of Black folk and co-founded the NAACP, W.E.B.

Dubois.

That's right.

LED the rainbow Push coalition and won the 84 Democratic primary in Louisiana.

Skip let him march from Selma and became a congressman from Georgia.

Founded the Black Panthers with Bobby Seale.

Yeah.

Newton headed the poor People's Campaign and president of the NC, SClc in 1968.

Let's skip okay.

We go back to when you skip led the rainbow Push coalition, won the 84 Democratic primary in Louisiana.

Long no time is up is Jesse Jackson and, Ralph David Abernathy.

Did the poor people's campaign well done a good job with that.

We come over to you now, West Point, you choose two and play two.

Brody, what would you like to do?

Fictional authors and biz bits.

Okay, let's do fictional authors.

First name the author who created these fictional writers, journalist or diarist, and you have 60s when we begin.

So let's begin.

Travel writer Lemuel Gulliver Swift, Jo March, and Little Women, Alcott, Kilgore Trout in the novels such as Slaughterhouse-Five, Stephen Dedalus and, of course, Emanuel Goldstein, whose book is read by Winston Smith, diarist Mina Harker and Lucy Westerner Stoker, playwright Clare Quilty and Lolita Jack Torrance in The Shining King, the title poet of Doctor Zhivago.

Pasternak Stingo in Sophie's Choice.

Oh crap.

Gordimer.

That's William Styron.

You got nine out of ten.

Well done, well done.

With plenty of time remaining, and now we'll move on to beaches.

You're going to give the answers that begin with the consecutive letters B, I s 60s.

Here we go.

Large mammal, often called buffalo bison.

Chess piece that moves diagonally metal with atomic number 83 to divide into two parts, but bisect a British word for sweet dry baked bread off in circuit T, the capital of North Dakota.

A thick, creamy shellfish soup.

Bisque, a type of small, modest restaurant originating in Paris.

Skip.

Arabic word meaning in the name of God, repeated in Bohemian Rhapsody.

Bismillah, oblong, crunchy Italian almond cookies.

Biscotti.

That's right.

Going back to a type of small, modest restaurant in Paris.

Bistro.

Bistro?

That's right.

You got 20s left if you want to chat about anything.

No.

Well done.

Well done.

I believe that leaves windows.

Is that right?

Yes.

Are you excited about windows?

I can see.

Here we go.

You're going to answer the following about windows 60s.

Here we go.

A company that created the windows operating system.

Microsoft Microsoft Shakespeare.

Play with the lion.

What light through yonder winter breaks.

It's good, it's good.

14 letter word for pushing a person from a window is transparent material found in most windows.

Glass, sensory organ and round window and oval window.

Ear and ears.

Right Cathedral, whose rose windows survived a 2019 fire Notre Dame that's right.

Rapper who puns on window pane in love.

The way You lie.

Oh my God, correct?

No, it's not correct.

But do you have an answer?

Skip skip skip.

Circular window on a ship.

Porthole.

That's right, Alfred Hitchcock film, which Jimmy Stewart plays a photographer through the window.

That's.

It's called Rear Window.

Political window denoting range of policies.

Do you?

Said Overton.

Yep.

And you skip Shakespeare.

Play with the line.

What light through yonder window breaks.

Time's up.

Romeo and Juliet.

Good job, good job.

Tough.

Categories.

Both teams played very well.

We have eight minutes left in those eight minutes.

We're going to do what we love to call our speed round.

As many questions as we can get to know bonuses.

Just answer and move on.

Everybody ready?

Buttons in hand.

What Arthurian knight conceived when his mother Ellen was mistaken by Lancelot.

Lotte?

No.

That's incorrect.

Mistaken by Lancelot for Guinevere.

Went with the boars and Percival to seek the Holy Grail.

Now, Bertie, the Galahad is right.

What European countries army installed Maximilian as Emperor of Mexico?

France is right.

What artist who with Paul Morrissey made the film Chelsea Girls, founded the factory and made iconic reproductions.

Brody Warhol.

That's right.

What author described a magical technique for winning card games in his story the Queen of spades and depicted birdie Pushkin.

Pushkin is right.

What smallest double read member of the woodwind family usually plays the A above middle C, to which an orchestra tune.

What is that?

Birdie?

English horn.

No, that's incorrect.

You guys have an answer?

I read it all.

Louis.

Oboe.

Oboe is right.

What device is the primary application of both platinum and palladium?

Remove polluting gases from automobile exhaust.

What's that called?

Stephen filter.

No.

That's incorrect.

And John Davis catalytic converter.

That is the right answer.

Pencil and paper for this one.

What is the only value of x that satisfies the equation three x plus seven equal one?

Given that the answer Stephen C again, c again.

That's right.

Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh were members of what committee founded at Yale in 1940 that opposed U.S. entry into World War two?

And what do you got, Brody?

Committee for Public safety.

That's incorrect.

You guys have an answer?

The American First Committee next.

What?

1990 short story collection, which includes the man I killed, is set during the Vietnam War and is by Tim O'Brien at Brody.

The things they carried, the things they carried is correct.

Next question.

What building, whose construction began in 1882, is a still unfinished large church in La Sagrada Familia.

That's correct.

What novel in which Brian de boy.

Gilbert.

Ivanhoe.

Ivanhoe is right.

Pencil and paper for this one.

What is the measure of the central angle of a sector of a circle whose area is 30% of the entire area of the circle?

Stephen 108 108 degrees is correct.

Next, Kip Thorne won a wager about Cygnus X-1 being what kind of body?

Which has a gravitational pull so strong.

Brody.

Black hole.

This black hole is right.

What cities?

Haight-Ashbury neighborhood.

San Francisco.

That's right.

What modern day country was the site of the Iuto?

Your kingdom is ruled by Rama, the 10th tyrant.

Thailand.

That's right.

Dwight Eisenhower National Airport serves what most populous city in Kansas, which is Louis, Kansas City?

No, which is on the Arkansas River.

West point.

What you got there, Topeka?

Nope.

It's Wichita.

Wichita.

What 1941 movie begins in a mansion named Xanadu owned by Brody, Citizen Kane?

That's right.

What Latin name is given to the constellation that contains Polaris and Astor?

Is it the Ursa major?

Is what you said.

That's incorrect.

West point, do you have an answer?

Finish the question.

And asterism known as the Little Dipper.

Ursa minor.

Ursa minor is correct.

What university?

Where Hamilton Hall was renamed Heinz Hall during pro-Palestinian protest in April of 2024.

Columbia University is correct.

What Japanese emperors restoration mighty Meiji?

That's correct.

What Asian country led for decades by Kim King Norodom Sihanouk Cambodia Cambodia is correct.

We have a little over three minutes left.

Gabriel Union dressed up in a mermaid dress designed by Michael Kors for the 2024 edition of What Animal Fashion Louis Met Gala Met Gala is correct.

What self-described mayor of Castro Street who was assassinated along with George Mosconi in 1978, was California's Brody Harvey Milk.

Harvey milk is right.

What?

Moon of Jupiter.

Whose eclipses by Jupiter used in the first determination of the speed of light, has hundreds of active volcanoes.

Yes.

Ganymede.

That's incorrect, because io.

Io is correct.

What term for the part of a syllable between the onset and coda names an atomic region?

Alex.

Nucleus is right.

Good job.

What story by W.W. Jacobs is named Bernanke's poor.

So you get the monkey's paw.

Yes.

That's right.

What author who collected folk tales in Mules and Men with Brody.

Yes or no?

Hurston.

That's correct.

Moving on.

With two minutes left in 1953, what head of World War two Partizans changed his title.

Joe.

That's right.

Stephen Tito is correct.

What economist wrote the essay?

The social responsibility of Business is to increase its profits and promoted free markets in capitalism and freedom.

Friedman.

Friedman is right.

Milton Friedman.

In genetics, a population bottleneck can lead to what phenomenon in which little frequencies change because Brody.

No, I'll finish it.

Frequencies change because of chance.

What's it called?

See again?

Mutation.

No, it's genetic drift.

Genetic drift?

What?

Husband of nephew Todd Torrey.

Brody Ramsey is the second.

That's right.

A 1999 edition of Beowulf was translated by.

What?

Irish author who described Brody Haney.

That's Seamus Heaney.

That's right.

What devices who katanas type is used to measure gravitational acceleration?

Are approximate harmonic oscillators used in the grandfather clock?

What's it called?

Brody pendulum.

Pendulum is right.

One Norwegian adventurer wrote about Brody Munson.

No, I'll finish it for you.

Wrote about how he and others sailed on a raft from South America to Polynesia in his book Kon-Tiki.

You answer.

Hey, Tora doll, 1 or 2 more questions.

What character?

Who's just having good fun that is funny, brings in a red box that holds thing one and thing two.

Brody.

That's right.

What British empiricist philosopher invoked a version of Tabula Rasa groaning.

Locke.

That's right.

Let's make this the last question.

What would describe the sleeping town of Thora?

Gabe in the radio play under Milk Wood and wrote, Brody, Dylan Thomas.

Dylan Thomas is right.

All right.

Lay your buttons down.

Well done.

Well played by both teams.

And we thank you all for being here for playing well.

And West Point High School comes out on top this time.

Bob Jones, you played very, very well.

Congratulations to you.

We thank you so much for watching our program.

It's called they can't Even Stop Buzzing.

And even when the program's over it's the Alabama Scholar's Bowl.

We thank you for watching I'm Mike Royer.

Thanks again for watching.

Have a great day everybody.