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Scholar's Bowl, where high school students from all over the state compete for scholarship money.

Questions in science, technology, engineering, math, and history.

Keep track and see how well you do up against the best high school students in Alabama.

Now here's your host, Mike Royer.

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

We appreciate you joining us.

Each week as students from all across Alabama come in and are smart students and compete for scholarship money and a trophy we're giving away.

In fact, it's not a little trophy.

Let me show you the cool trophy.

This trophy will go to the winning team.

We're only a few matches away from finishing up season number eight, and this trophy will go to the winner a little bit later on in our program.

We're glad you've joined us today.

Our executive producer is Mike Owsley.

Our judges are Sharon Dailey, Nick Frederick, Josh Ruski, and Rhonda Brewer helping us out as well.

We appreciate all that they do and all the folks from Alabama Public Television who make us feel at home here in their studios, in our state's state capital.

Let's get started.

And we have our buttons in hand and we're ready.

And, you know, I'm going to ask you a question.

If you answered correctly, you get a bonus.

Here we go.

The anticoagulant harridan is possessed by these hemo bogus worms.

What parasites attach themselves, Chris?

Leeches, leeches.

Thank you.

That's right.

Bonus.

A ruler of this city, nicknamed IL Moro commissioned Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper and was named Ludovico Vasa.

What Italian city is the capital of Lombardy?

Florence.

Nope.

It's Milan and Milan is the capital.

Everybody.

And a story in this language.

A man takes a bet to spend 15 years in total isolation.

Got a ghost and it's Carlton.

Russian?

Yes, Russian is right.

Your bonus question.

The title woman of this sculpture stands on a base in the shape of a ship's prow.

Name.

This partially destroyed ancient Greek sculpture, which depicts a headless and winged goddess of victory.

What's it called?

I think Nike.

It's called the Winged Victory.

Oh, wait.

And you said Nike.

That's the second answer.

That's the right answer.

Good job.

Toss up everybody.

The finale of a symphony by this composer potentially draws on incidental music to his Rosamond Quartet.

What composer's great C major ninth Symphony.

And it is.

I don't see a light who buzzed in.

I couldn't see your light, Sonny.

Go ahead.

Schubert.

Schubert.

Right.

Bonus question for you.

One philosopher from this country proposed the here is one hand argument in a defense of common sense.

Name this country home to G.E.

Moore and a philosopher who argued about a teapot in space.

Bertrand Russell.

UK, UK or Britain or England.

All correct.

Good job.

Toss up everybody.

This man ordered his wife more rope or a rope to throw his corpse.

Go ahead.

Scissors.

This is right.

Bonus question for Hoover.

A volunteer force named after this region fought Irish republicans during the troubles.

Who?

Kullen is the hero of a mythological cycle.

Ulster.

Ulster is right.

Well done.

Now question for both teams.

Again, a song title for these people is performed by Bucky and Willa to teach Wyatt how to win over Eliza.

In another song, Willa claims she is one of these people as well as the leader.

What Greek letter names a group thought to characterize dominant wolves?

What are they called?

Alan?

Alpha.

Alpha is right.

Your bonus in a play in this language, Hugo Plutarch learns to use bureaucratic cliches.

Helena Glory advocates for the liberation of automations in a play in this language that originated the word robot.

Check.

Check is correct.

Here's a question for both teams.

This country's military offensive in the Republic of Artsakh caused its dissolution during its most recent Nagorno Karabakh conflict.

And Chris.

Azerbaijan Azerbaijan is right.

Your bonus this composer's eight string quartet is dedicated to the victims of fascism in the war.

What Soviet composer employed a snare drum ostinato known as the invasion theme in his Leningrad Symphony?

Shostakovich?

That's correct.

Toss up everybody.

A document signed at this event outlined a history of repeated injuries and was called the Declaration of Sentiments.

Seneca Falls Convention.

The Seneca Falls Convention is right.

Your bonus the right kingdom.

So the rise of this country's Jewish community that was airlifted to Israel in Operation Golden Carpet, Aden is the city.

In what country led from Sana'a, Yemen?

Yemen is right now.

Everybody again, this molecule is produced in the contact process and is the Allen orgasm.

Sulfuric acid is right.

Bonus.

The suspension of this right was ruled by Roger Taney as unconstitutional.

In the case of ex parte de Maryland.

Name this legal writ.

Habeas corpus is correct.

We move on almost halfway done with this first part of the round.

This thinker arrived at one of Plato's lectures with a plucked chicken and asked Chris Diogenes, Diogenes is right.

Here's a bonus for you, Donahoe, this man and Gustavus Adolphus signed the Treaty of Sto Bavo after his country lost the injury in war.

This ruler was elected in 1613 by the Zim ski saber.

The Time of Troubles was ended by the ascension of what first Romanoff czar.

Ivan.

Mikhail.

Mikhail Romanoff is the answer we needed.

Question number ten.

This author wrote about Agnes, a daughter of the god Indra, in a dream play in another play by this author, Jean Chris Hansberry.

Nope.

That's incorrect.

I'll finish it over here in another.

In another play, this author, Jean, wishes to open a hotel in Lugano.

The title character presumably commits suicide in what sweaty Swedish playwrights Miss Julie.

Have an answer.

August Strindberg is the answer for that.

When moving on to question 11, Alfred Stieglitz photographed a sculpture by this artist that the Society of Independent Artists had earlier failed to display.

Sonny Duchamp Marcel Duchamp is correct.

Bonus for you.

Politicians often mimic this president's namesake thumb gesture to add emphasis.

What president gained popularity after appearing on the Arsenio Hall Show and playing the saxophone?

Who was that?

It's not quite.

It's a little something.

So I think it is perhaps.

No, no, no, this Clinton settling on Clinton.

That's correct.

Next question.

A statue in this man's namesake shade of red stands in Chicago's Federal Plaza.

Sonny.

Calder.

Alexander.

Calder.

Your bonus, a look back type of this value begins with 127 and is known as local host.

Coming in v4 and v6 types.

Numbers in these values are separated by four dots.

What addresses are used to identify devices on the internet?

IP.

IP is right everybody.

While studying these entities, Linus Pauling proposed the idea of hype.

Yes.

Alan.

Orbitals.

Atomic orbitals.

Bonus.

In 2024, this country in Russia signed the Treaty of Comprehensive Strategic Partnership.

This country recently deployed soldiers to fight for Russia in Ukraine.

What country is led from.

And it's J.R.

It's bonus.

It's a bonus.

Oh it's a bonus I'm sorry J.R.

my bad bonus I'm going to finish it.

To fight for Russia.

Ukraine.

What country is led from Pyongyang by Kim Jong un made me read the whole thing.

You knew it when I start next.

The Alvarado Palace in this city is located on a peninsula jutting out into Lake.

Paranoid paranoia.

While the monumental axis divides the city into two wings of an airplane.

Name this planned city, Brasilia, is right.

Your bonus.

The poem's narrator describes oceans gray and melancholy waste, and instructs the address to lie down to pleasant dreams.

The narrator instructs go not like the quarry slave at night.

In what William Cullen Bryant poem about death ten times.

That's correct.

Tossup number 15.

This author wrote about Eliza Summers pretended to be a homosexual man and daughter of fortune.

Clara, the valet, refuses to speak after Rosa the Beautiful dies in what Chilean author Chris I and I and His Right Bonus, a painting from this country featuring a pyramid of skulls is called A path.

The Apotheosis of War, and another artist from this country painted barge haulers on the Volga.

What country was home to artists called the Wanderer, such as Ilya Repin and Vassily Vert shot in Russia?

Russia is correct.

Everybody.

Both teams.

This novel is compared to Uncle Tom's Cabin at the end of the essay Everybody's protest novel, after Mrs.

Dalton walks into a room.

Yes, native son, the son is right.

The bonus the Armenian figure is warned to be careful not to say anything, either good or bad, to someone he pursues for fleeing with his daughters.

Rebecca was the sister of Watts Shepherd, who had his older daughter Leah married instead of Rachel to Jacob, sister of white Shepherd.

Yeah.

Just just.

Give me an answer, Joseph.

Laban.

Laban.

Next question for everyone.

This person names a city where Francisco Medeiros forces under Pancho Villa and Pascual and Christian Boulevard.

No.

I'll finish this for you.

Donahoe, Pancho Villa and Pascual Orozco defeated Porfirio Diaz, leading to his surrender.

What indigenous president of Mexico names a city on the border of El Paso?

His namesake, Ciudad.

Do you have a name of that guy for me?

Yes.

David.

Over there.

No, it's Benito Juarez, Benito Juarez.

One more.

Three more questions.

This game is a Thomas Middleton play.

And the second section of T.S.

Eliot's form The Wasteland.

In Through the Looking Glass, Alice plays a human sized Chris chess.

Chess is right.

This company produces.

This is your bonus.

This company produces a 99 dash 44, 100% pure soap called Ivory.

And this company owns both Oral-B and crest.

What personal Care Products company which sponsored the first soap opera makes Old Spice Body Wash and Tide detergent.

I have you right.

Yeah.

Procter and gamble.

That's correct.

Two more by Lucy's law measures the change in this quantity of light across a polarizer.

AC units of candela measures the luminous, crisp luminosity.

No, I'll finish this type.

It's a loop.

Give me measures the luminous type of this quantity.

What quantity is equal to the power?

Allen.

Intensity is right.

Bonus question.

A family of proteins essential to the function of this tissue.

Perform power strokes on a protein attached to the z line of its functional unit, the sarcomere.

What striated tissue is contrasted with cardiac and smooth counterparts.

Muscle good enough.

Judges.

You want a prompt there from, skeletal skeletal muscle.

Last question.

An equation relating this quantity to the reaction quotient at a given temperature can be used to derive the Nernst equation.

What quantity which quantifies the amount of useful work extractable from a system?

Allen Energy Gibbs free energy is right.

Here's the last bonus to afford attending the 1932 Olympics.

This country had its athletes sell coffee while sailing there.

Rebecca Andre is from this country which has the most FIFA FIFA World Cup wins.

Which country hosted the 2016 Olympics in Rio?

Brazil.

Very good.

Lay your buttons down.

Take a breath.

We're going to get to the very exciting Lightning Round, which is brought to you by the Alabama community College System.

We have four categories.

I will tell you at home what they are.

The team that is trailing here at midpoint, will be, Donahoe.

You're going to choose first in these four categories constellations and Greek mythology, 1920s U.S.

history, geometric shapes and 4040 the number 40.

Let's, choose that after we meet our players.

Carlson, would you begin?

Come all the way around.

Tell us a little bit about your son, Carlton.

I'm a freshman, and I keep chicken in my house.

I'm David, I'm a junior, and I like traveling.

I'm Chris, I'm a senior, and I played as an Auburn next year.

I'm j.r.

I'm a junior, and I love to bake.

Hi there.

My name is Sonny Baraka Montes.

I am a senior at Hoover High School and I'm planning to pursue materials engineering a college.

Hi.

My name is Christian Nathan.

I'm a junior Hoover High School, and I'm planning on pursuing a career in orthopedics.

My name is Allen.

I'm a senior Hoover High School, and I want to do math science in college.

My name is Alex Hambly.

I'm a senior at Hoover High, and I'm looking to pursue linguistics and specifically linguistics and diachronic.

Very good.

Glad to have you all here.

David.

You like traveling?

Where's the coolest place you've ever been?

Probably Japan.

Oh, wow, that is pretty cool.

Very good.

I hope you get to see a lot more places.

Let's do this lightning round.

You guys choose first.

Which one do you want?

We're choosing geometric shapes.

Geometric shapes?

You'll have 60s to identify the following geometric shapes.

Here we go a regular four sided polygon quadrilateral.

No, that's a square a regular ten sided polygon deca.

That's right.

A portion of a line with one endpoint ray.

Ray.

The graph of the function y equals x squared parabola.

Right.

The regular polyhedron with the most vertices.

Rectangular prism.

No, it's a dodo.

Chi drawn the math term for a shape of a donut or inner tube.

Taurus.

Towards his right, the regular polyhedron that's dual to itself.

Trapezoid.

Tetrahedron.

The shape formed by hanging a chain or gateway arch formed by a hanging chain or gateway arch, past the shape formed by graphing y squared minus x squared equals one circle.

No.

It's, Hi.

Hyper hyperbola.

The four dimensional analog of.

Is time gone?

Yes.

All right.

Those are kind of hard, but you did pretty well.

Let's, come over to Hoover.

You guys are going to choose two plays to play to Grace.

What do you want to do?

We'll start with constellations and then 1920s U.S.

history.

Very good.

We'll do them in that order.

Yeah, sure.

Answer the following about Greek mythology and constellations.

60s from now ship of Jason, used on his quest to obtain the Golden Fleece.

A mythical monster killed by Hercules whose heads grow back.

Double Hydra creature with the upper body of a human and lower body of a horse like Huron.

Sent aka a hunter and lover of Artemis.

Killed by a scorpion.

Two twins of Leda, represented by Gemini.

Castor and Pollux.

Princess saved by Perseus from the sea monster.

Another follower of Artemis who became Ursa major, who is Callisto.

Trojan priest who is represented by the constellation of viscous.

Skippy creature who aided Poseidon in moving effort and for right and for tracked skip crown given to Aria Riordan by Dionysus for their wedding.

Skip.

All right.

If we go back to Trojan priest who represented by the constellation.

Oh.

Fetch us.

Hector, lagoon creature who aided Poseidon in the moving effort.

Right.

Delphinus.

Delphinus.

That was a little harder.

All right, let's see how we do with 1920s U.S history.

No, I wasn't alive then, so don't even start.

Answer the following questions about U.S.

history in the 1920s.

Policy imposed by the 18th amendment that upheld alcohol monkey trial, which it sure was fine pilot and who flew the first solo flight aboard Spirit of Saint Louis Lindbergh.

As you may have used to describe the 1920s that referred to its, Tulsa's Greenwood District was the black version of this New York financial street after Gertrude Stein term for disillusioned generation after World War one last gangster who committed the Saint Valentine's Day massacre.

Comic actor who played the little tramp in the movie The Gold Rush.

Skeptical, but VPI, whose namesake plan aimed to help Germany pay reparations.

Animated film set on a ship that included the first appearance of Mickey Mouse.

Oh, a Steamboat Willie.

That's right.

And the comic actor who played the little tramp.

You know, Jack, I think Chaplin Chaplin is right.

That's it.

All right, guys, all right, we have one left.

I believe it would be the number 40.

Are you enthused about this, Donohoe name?

The following related to the number 40.

60s.

Here we go.

Men who sailed for 40 days and 40 nights during the biblical flood.

Sport, whose athletes run the 40 yard dash for scouting a board game whose 40 spaces include Park Place and Boardwalk.

Monopoly state, which contains the western end of I-40 near the Mojave Desert.

Nevada.

It's California religious period, comprising the 40 days before Easter, and yes, sport, in which a score of 4040 is called Deuce Tennis, and it will offer to free slaves along 40 with 40 acres of land.

Mule mules.

Right?

Arabic folklore folk tale character who steals treasure from 40 thieves.

How about Alibaba?

That's right.

Country whose name means 40 tribes.

And it has a capital of Bishkek, Uzbekistan.

It's a state whose town of 40 Fort lies near Scranton.

Pennsylvania?

Pennsylvania is right.

You got that in in time.

Well done.

All right, that takes care of our lightning round.

Good job.

Both teams.

We have a little under seven minutes left.

We're going to get as many 20 point questions as we can.

There's no bonus here.

We'll answer and move on.

In this novel, the boss has an affair with hand, leading Adam Stanton to murder him.

In this novel depicting Jack Burton and Willie Stark.

That's right.

One of these works premiered alongside Wellington's Victory and was called The Path the Cause of the Dance by Richard Wagner.

Works.

Nicknamed pastoral.

Coral and Eros and it's Krish.

Oh, Symphony.

Symphony is right.

The C unit is used for electrical reactance.

A material's opposition to an alternating current, a capital.

Alan?

Resistance.

No.

I'll finish it for you.

Donohoe.

A capital omega is used to denote what C unit is also used for.

Impedance and resistance.

J.R ohms is right.

Next question.

Diseases that affect this organ can cause weight loss, goiter and eye popping.

Thyroid.

Alan.

Thyroid is right.

This river gets its water from the Bald Hills and its tributaries include the Karma and Oka rivers.

Samarra and as Astrakhan are on the banks of Volga River is right.

These constructions can be solved by Cramer's rule goals and Alan linear equations.

That's right.

This element is responsible for the bluish white color in car headlights and flash lamps, and its solid hex, the floor platinum.

Tonight was the first in Earth's compound to be discovered.

Alan Xenon is right.

This composer depicted the beheading of York Nun following the dance of Seven Veils in his opera Salom, and wrote ascending c, g, c I'm looking there you are sending our Strauss.

Our Strauss is correct.

The distribution of this quantity for random samples approaches the normal distribution according to the central limit theorem.

What quantity is equal to the sum of values divided by the number of values?

Alan means right.

This element is the third most abundant gas in the atmosphere, behind nitrogen.

Alan argon.

In this story, a tree struck by lightning had served as the place where and Legend of Sleepy Hollow.

That's right.

Movement across the body of water is the subject of slogans.

Smash the gangs and stop the boats.

Small boat crossings by migrants across this body of water typically began.

Sunny like the Rio Grande.

Nope.

I'll finish it for you.

Donohoe by migrants crossing the body of water.

Typically begin in Calais.

What body of water divides France from the UK?

Yes, David.

The English Channel, the English Channel is right.

Calculate with your pencil the value of the tangent of 30 degrees.

Three over three.

No, that's.

I'll finish this.

Calculate the value of it.

I barely started to calculate the value of a tangent of 30 degrees, divided by the sine of 30 degrees.

In the simplest radical form.

What you got?

Yes.

You're losing 3 or 3 over two.

Nope.

The answer is two over the square root of 3 or 2 times the square root of three over three.

I can't believe y'all didn't know that.

Which battle for which a namesake line in the sand was drawn to rally troops.

Chris Alamo is right.

In a spacetime diagram.

Light is always shown at this angle to the x axis.

Alan.

No.

That's incorrect.

Finishing it for you.

Donohoe.

With constant vertical acceleration, the optimal launch angle for a projectile is what angle for which the two components force 45 is correct 45 degrees.

This deity escorts Priyam to Achilles to retrieve the body of Hector, and uses a staff of two entwined snakes.

Allen Hermes Hermes is right in this city in a shuck stacked rock.

Sculptures were displayed during Expo 86.

Gastown is a neighborhood in what the largest city of British Columbia and Chris think of Vancouver the 30th of September movements in this country.

In addition, say it again, Indonesia.

That's right.

This building's architect used corner windows and concrete terraces to evoke organic architecture in this building, which is the cantilevered, which is cantilevered over the river.

And there you are, stunning falling water.

Falling water is right.

An artist from this movement depicted the poet William Cullen Bryant looking at the Catskill Mountains in the painting Kindred Spirits.

Sonny Hudson River school.

School.

That's right.

This character is told that a harbor in Lisbon was created.

So Jack, the at a Baptist Christian, can right.

Paintings titled for this figure include Francois Boucher works depicting her triumph and toilet nameless goddess and his stunning Venus.

Venus is Right, a song named for this word, which asks can you help me occupy my brain?

Titles.

The 1970 album by Black Sabbath.

What is the first title word?

Chris.

Paranoid.

Paranoid is the right word.

Good.

This law is named for a Georgia nursing student killed in 2024 by the Venezuelan immigrant Jose Antonio Ibarra.

What law signed by President Trump orders non-citizens to commit certain crimes to be deported?

What's it called?

Anybody?

Yes, Alan.

No.

It's named for the girl who died.

Lincoln.

Riley.

Act next.

Blaze.

Kappa aura.

Over through this country's first president, Thomas Sankara.

And it's Chris Garner.

Say again.

No.

Who changed its name from Upper Volta to its current name?

What country is governed from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

But current fossa is correct.

That is all the time.

We have.

Well played, lots of good questions, lots of good answers.

Proud of all of you.

Donohoe school, you came out on the short end of this particular competition, but you played well, represented yourselves and your school well.

We're proud of you and glad you were here.

Hoover.

We will see you again and we hope to see you again.

Two for the next edition of the Alabama Scholar's Bowl.

We're here every week on Alabama Public Television.

My name is Mike Royer.

Thanks again for watching.

And have a great day.

Everybody.