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Hello, everyone.

Welcome again to the Alabama Scholar's Bowl.

My name is Mike Royer.

I want to show you this.

This is the championship trophy that will be awarded at the end of our competition.

The finest, brightest students from all around the state of Alabama are in our studio during this, our seventh season of the Alabama Scholar's Bowl.

We are enjoying doing the program, and we certainly hope that you are enjoying watching the program every week statewide here on Alabama Public Television.

We welcome you to our studio today.

The students from the Alabama School of Cyber Technology and Engineering, or A.C.T., and the team from South Side back with us successful in another program.

We're glad all of you are here.

At the midpoint of our program, we'll ask each of these fine students to introduce themselves and tell you just a bit about them.

Our team that makes this program happen consist of our executive producer Mike Owsley, our judges timers, Sharon Daly, Kate Wilson, Nick Frederick and and Harris.

And we appreciate you most importantly, joining us for our program.

You guys ready?

We've got questions with bonuses.

If you answer correctly, you get a bonus question just for your team.

Here we go.

What Roman emperor who deified his lover and and to know us ordered the Scottish frontier and Roman Britain defended in A.D. 122 with a namesake wall.

Hadrian.

Hadrian is the right answer.

Well done.

Grant your bonus question.

What Bulgarian born artist worked with it?

With his wife Jeanne-Claude, and wrapped such landmarks as the Reichstag in fabric?

Who was that?

You have anything, Grant Smith?

Bartok.

Christo is the answer.

We wanted to toss up everybody.

What?

Solar system?

Planet host a hexagonal storm over its north pole.

Tate.

Neptune.

I know that's incorrect.

I'll finish it for you guys.

Over.

Its north pole has a density less than waters, and it has the most extensive ring system.

Grant, Saturn.

Saturn is right.

Your bonus.

In the 1870s, what state elected Hiram rebels and Blanche Bruce as the first black senators filling Confederate President Jefferson Davis old seat.

What state was that?

Virginia.

No, it was Mississippi.

Mississippi.

Close up everybody.

What state's House delegation includes Republican Elise Stefanik, minority leader Hakeem Tate, new York new York is correct.

Bonus question for you.

A valet with at Triffid eyelids escorts Garson to a room at the start of what?

Play by Jean-Paul Sartre.

No exit, no exit is the right answer.

Next for everybody?

What poem that describes a retreating sea of faith and imagines a plane where Indian armies clashed.

Dover Beach, Dover Beach is right.

You're a bonus.

What nebula name for an animal was formed by a supernova observed by Chinese astronomers in 1054, Crab Nebula.

That's correct.

Toss up everybody.

What organs?

Which in insects have a receptor containing units known as omal.

TDA have a mammalian version.

Tate.

Eyes.

Eyes is right.

Your bonus.

In 1921, Shoji Effendi became the guardian of what religion that originated in the 19th century Persia and believes in the unity of all faiths.

Baha'i?

That is correct.

Here's a toss up for everyone.

What artist collaborated with Thomas Jekyll on the Peacock Room and painted arrangements?

Leo Whistler Whistler is right.

Bonus for you.

Asked what painter of the monumental Sky Above Cloud series was married to Alfred Stieglitz and often painted the hills and Flowers of the American West.

Georgia O'Keeffe.

Georgia O'Keeffe is right.

Tossup.

What word which names the mascot of the NFL's Seattle Seahawks is German.

And I'm looking for.

I don't see who buzzed in.

Who is.

There he is Evan Seahawk and no, that's incorrect.

I'm going to finish it for you.

Seahawks is German for lightning and names a World War Two bombing.

Hilton.

Say it again.

Blitz.

Blitz is correct or Blitzkrieg is the full name.

Your bonus question in July of 2024, what former Donald Trump strategist and Breitbart co-founder reported to prison after he was convicted of contempt of Congress?

Who is that?

Got an answer?

Johnson Steve Bannon is the answer we needed there, everybody.

What confessional poet described a man with one great toe big as a Frisco seal in a poem from her collection, Ariel, as she titled Daddy and Intimate Sylvia Plath.

Plath is right.

Bonus what Russian czar emancipated his country's serfs in 1861, but was assassinated by the socialist group people's Will in 1881.

Alexei the third, yes, Alexander the third.

It was the second.

Just one off.

Next, everybody.

What man murdered J.D.

Tippit soon after he fired a shot.

Tate Lee.

Lee Harvey Oswald.

That's right, Lee Harvey Oswald.

Your bonus, low pistols rule can sometimes be used to find what quantity?

The value of a function of the f of x approaches x, gets a near specific value.

Yeah.

Right.

Do you have an answer?

Limit.

Limit.

Limit is correct.

That's the right answer.

Next question everybody.

What man who names the Broadway theater where Hamilton plays wrote the music for the King and I in collaboration with lyricist Oscar Hammerstein.

Rodgers.

You said Rodgers.

That's right, Richard Rodgers.

Bonus question in November of 2022, what man defeated Zaire Bolsonaro to win a second nonconsecutive term as president of Brazil?

Lula da Silva.

That's right.

Toss up everybody.

What islands contains the town of Havana.

Hunga Roja is inhabited state Easter Island.

Easter.

Thank you very much.

I owe you one bonus question.

Oliver Cromwell's protectorate abolished what parliament the remnant produced after Thomas Pride purged the Long Parliament.

What is that Barebones Parliament?

No, it is the rump.

Rump Parliament next, everybody.

What medal which oxidizes to form a green layer known as state?

I'm sorry.

It's over here.

Grand copper.

Copper is the right answer.

Pencil and paper for your team.

For a bonus math question, what is the smallest number that, when rounding to the nearest hundredth, could be rounded up to 0.13?

Got an answer?

Don't know anybody.

0.1350.

You were close.

0.125 or 1 eight.

Oh, boy.

I'm sorry.

That's all right.

Next question everybody.

What religion which reveres the creator deity Bunny and venerates lower such as and it is today.

Voodoo.

Voodoo is right.

Bonus question.

Kit Carson is buried in the town of Taos.

Which is in what state?

Which cities include Clovis and Rio Rancho.

What state?

Nevada.

Nevada.

New Mexico is the right answer.

Next question in what decade?

Which Thomas Wolfe called the mid decade, did an Arab oil embargo fuel stagflation amid celebrations?

Tate 1970s 70s is right bonus.

The Gracie brothers developed a popular Brazilian form of what Japanese martial art, whose name means gentle art, jiu jitsu.

That's correct.

In toss up, we have five more to do.

What character smuggles goods to the falsely imprisoned Potter is raised by Aunt Polly and courts Becky Tate.

Tom Sawyer.

Tom Sawyer is right.

Bonus what viral disease whose A and B types are preventable by vaccines, has a C type that can cause cirrhosis and liver cancer.

Hepatitis.

Hepatitis is right course up everybody.

What program, which is no longer supported in China due to its use in malware, produces images when integrated with Dolly and was created by open AI.

What is that call?

And Jefferson ChatGPT?

That's correct.

Here's your bonus question.

Ports on what body of water include Octo Octo in Kazakhstan and Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, the Caspian Sea.

Caspian Sea is right.

Everybody grab your pencil.

What is the value of X?

If a triangle has angles measuring X2X and three x degrees given, they must sum to 180.

Take 15.

That's incorrect.

You guys have an answer?

What do you got, Jefferson?

60.

No, it is 30.

30 is the answer we needed.

There.

30.

Next.

What novel?

Whose epilog is narrated by Professor PA Shoto Features and Lydia Tate.

The Handmaid's Tale Handmaid's Tale is right.

Bonus.

In March 2024, what state passed a law protecting in vitro fertilization after it state Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos are children.

Alabama.

That's right.

Alabama is right.

A couple more of these questions.

What series in which Jack McBrayer played the seemingly immortal page Kenneth starred?

Tina Fey is writer Liz Lemon and was set on the Brooks 30 Rock.

30 Rock is the name of that TV show.

Your bonus question what character?

The so-called Napoleon of Crime has a fatal struggle with Sherlock Holmes at Reichenbach Falls?

Moriarty.

Moriarty is right.

Last of the toss ups.

In what effect?

Whose transverse form was measured in the Ives Stilwell experiment tape Doppler effect.

Doppler is right.

You need pencil and paper.

For our last bonus question.

Two answers are required here.

What are the only two prime numbers that, when added together, produce the sum of 21?

I need something tape.

Two and 19.

That's correct.

Well done.

Lay your buzzers down.

We're going to do our lightning round here in a second.

First of all, I'm going to tell you the four categories for our lightning round today.

They are taxonomic kingdoms, cities of the British Isles, fictional mice and muds and, south side.

You'll be going first and you'll select first when we get to that in a moment, then, a c asked Will choose two categories.

Play those and you get what's left at the end.

You understand that?

Let's, before we play the lightning round, though, let's meet our players from both teams.

Let's, begin with, the gentleman from asked E would you begin and tell us your name a little bit about yourself?

My name is Sultan.

I'm a freshman and asked, and my favorite class is engineering.

My name is Leo Osborne.

I'm a sophomore at A.C.T.

and my favorite, subject is chemistry.

My name is Tate Osborne.

I'm a senior at AICTE.

My favorite subject is chemistry, but I want to pursue engineering.

My name is Brooks Phillips.

I'm also a senior.

Asked, and my favorite subject is history.

Very good.

Let's meet the players from South Side.

My name is Evan Christopher.

I'm a senior at South Side, and, I'm currently ranked third in six for cross country.

Very good.

My name is Jefferson Couch.

I am a senior at South Side High School, and my favorite class is Music Theory.

My name is Grant Bice.

I'm a senior at South Side of high school, and my favorite class is Live Connections.

Project Shama, I'm a senior, is outside high school.

My favorite class is access.

Very good.

Good.

Have all of you with us today for our competition and South Side.

Grant, have you decided what you want to do?

Yes.

We want, cities of the British Isles.

Cities of the British Isles as you know by now, you have 60s to answer the questions.

Once I begin, you're going to tell us what city in the present day United Kingdom or republic of Ireland was.

Where?

And I'll give you in a bit.

Okay.

So you're going to tell me either the present day United Kingdom or Republic of Ireland.

Here we go.

A great fire threat in the British government in the 1660 London.

That's right.

Irish independence was sought during the Easter Rising.

Dublin?

That's right.

The Scottish Parliament reopened in 1999.

Edinburgh.

That's right.

The troubles raged in the capital, Belfast.

Northern.

That's right.

The oldest English speaking university was founded in 1096.

Cambridge.

Oxford Archbishop Thomas Becket was murdered in 1170.

Canterbury.

That's right.

The Beatles formed in 19 Liverpool.

The nickname Cotton Opolis arose during the Industrial Revolution.

That's right.

Plastic was invented in England's second city.

Skip city on the River Clyde.

The dominated the colonial tobacco trade.

Glasgow.

Glasgow is right.

Plastic was invented in England's second city.

You have 11 seconds.

Shrewsbury?

No.

That's incorrect.

It's Birmingham, all Birmingham or Birmingham, as we Brits like to say.

All right, well done with that.

We'll come over to you now.

Ask and you will choose two categories and you'll play them both.

Tate, what do you want.

We'll take taxonomic kingdoms and then months mice in taxonomic kingdom.

No.

Months.

Months, months.

Mice.

Same thing.

Taxonomic kingdoms.

And, as you as I know, you'll understand.

With your pencil and paper, you need to make note in the five Kingdom classification system, are these organisms considered animals, plants, fungi, protists or bacteria?

You understand?

60s.

Here we go.

Giant panda animal.

Octopus.

Animal.

Bacillus anthracis.

The cause of anthrax.

Oh, bacteria.

Archaea.

Protist.

It's bacteria.

Moss.

Plants, fungi.

It's plants.

Bakers, yeast, fungi.

The photosynthetic.

You'll gleaner.

You gleaner.

Could be, protists.

That's right.

Fern plant.

Pea.

No.

Tatum.

The source of penicillin bacteria.

That's fungi.

And C anemones.

Plant animals.

We didn't skip any, did we?

Weren't you glad you chose that category?

All right.

And the next one you want to do?

Months.

Is that right?

Yeah.

Here are the very complicated instructions for this category.

Name these months.

Here we go.

60s contains Veterans Day and Thanksgiving.

November can end with a leap day.

February it's first.

Monday is Labor Day.

September on the Muslim calendar, the holy month of fasting.

Okay.

Okay.

August.

Judges.

It's 26.

Day is Boxing Day in the UK.

July.

It's December.

Named for the Roman god of war.

For various.

Okay.

April.

It's March called a narrow in Spanish.

You have 16 seconds.

Plenty of time.

Called in narrow in Spanish or.

Yeah.

January, January.

January is right.

Some chemists observe Mole Day on its 23rd day.

October.

October.

That's right.

We didn't skip any.

That's everybody.

But you did good on that.

On the Muslim calendar, the month is Ramadan.

Have a very good.

All right.

And South side, how excited are you to do fictional, miss, this is going to be huge fictional.

You're going to talk about this one for years to come in 60s.

Gentlemen, you're going to answer the following about mice in fiction cartoon mouse chased by the cat named Tom.

Jerry, mascot of Disney in love interest of many Mickey Mouse.

If you didn't get that title mouse of Daniel Keys book.

Stuart Little, Algernon mouse whose burrow is saved by the title rights of NiMH.

Skip author who created the mouse?

Ricky Rokita and Captain Underpants.

Skip Disney film in which the mouse rogue for saves the titles felines from death.

The The rescuers know the Aristocats.

Number of blind mice in an English nursery rhyme three fastest mouse in all of Mexico in the Looney Tunes cartoon Genie Gonzalez.

That's right named shared by the fictional mouse reporter Stilton and an Apache chief.

Geronimo.

That's right.

Author who wrote about Ralph as Mouse in The Mouse in the motorcycle.

Smith.

Cleary.

Mouse who's burrow is saved by the rats in NiMH mode from Brawl Stars.

Time is up.

That was, NiMH, Mrs. Frisby.

All right, well done.

Well, let's put the lightning round in our rearview mirror.

What do you say?

And we have about seven minutes left.

And in those seven minutes, we're going to ask a lot of questions.

No bonuses here.

Just answer the question.

Get all the points you can and you can do some catching up here.

Let's get going.

What country's revolution in which the ABH secret police were broken up by the Imre MNAs in 1956, ended with the arrival of Soviet tanks in Budapest.

What was that?

Tate Hungary Hungary is right.

In what state was March of Our Lives?

Founded by survivors of a 2018 school shooting in parkland, Florida.

That's right.

What instrument, whose virtuosos include JJ Johnson and Glenn Miller had an earlier form Leo trombone.

Trombone is right.

What American author of the novel Babbitt also wrote Arrowsmith Tate.

No, you answered Southside.

Do you have an answer?

John Lewis Sinclair.

No, it's Sinclair Lewis.

Sinclair Lewis is the right answer.

What?

Acid used in the wet method to make phosphoric acid can be made using the contact process.

And is a strong Tate hydrochloric acid.

Say again.

Hydrochloric acid.

No.

That's incorrect.

I'll finish it for you.

South side.

Using the contact process.

And is a strong acid with chemical formula H2So4.

What is that.

And Jefferson acids if uric acid is right now modern Tanzania was formed by the union of Tanganyika Zanzibar Zanzibar is correct.

Grant.

What politician who was CEO of Halliburton in the late 1990s, Dick Cheney?

Dick Cheney is right.

What word follows Bose?

Einstein name in the name take condensate.

Condensate is right.

What cities Los Feliz neighborhood contains the Griffith.

Griffith again.

The Griffith Observatory.

Leo Los Angeles.

Los Angeles is right.

Question ten what rapper's 2021 album Hall of Fame, which starts and ends with the songs painting, Pictures and Bloody canvas, includes the hit rap star and it is Hilton polo G polo G is right what nutrient isolated by Albert since Georgie is called absorbing acid because it treats take vitamin C. Vitamin C is right.

What 1959 play by William Gibson depicts and Sullivan's real life work teaching language and discipline to young Helen Keller.

What's that called?

The miracle worker?

That's right.

One of what events which cut power to Jamaica in 2024?

Hurricane.

Grant.

Hurricane.

Hurricane is correct.

In what experiment did Thomas Young observe the formation take?

Double slit experiment.

Double slit experiment is right.

What novel set at Missal Thwaite Manor by Francis Hodgson Burnett and portrays an orphan named Mary Lennox, who discovers the title secluded place.

What is it called?

Secret garden?

That's right.

Scott Joplin, who wrote the song The Entertainer, is often called the King of Ragtime.

King of ragtime or Rags is right.

Well done.

Next, what home country of Nobel Prize winning author Orhan Pamuk contains Turkey.

Turkey is right.

During an argument over the Bleeding Kansas crisis, Preston Brooks King what abolitionist Senator Sumner Charles Sumner is right.

Pencil and paper.

What is the largest prime factor of the number?

132, given that 132 is a multiple of both four and three.

And buzzing in estate, 1111 is right.

In 1866, what Austrian monk published his Laws of Independent State.

Mendel.

Mendel is right.

What explorer who wrote the Moon Douce Novus letter in 1503 was honored by mapmaker Martin Lund Zimmer Lee for the murder of Leo American Amerigo Vespucci.

Yes.

That's right.

Next, in Norse myth, what owner of the yellow horn will kill and be killed by Loki Tate?

Sir.

That's incorrect.

I'll finish it for you.

Will be killed by Loki during Ragnarok.

Yes.

Grant.

Heimdall.

Heimdall is right.

What?

NFL team which won Super Bowl 37 within BP safety Dexter Jackson also won Super Bowl 55, in 2021 with Rob Gronkowski and Tom Brady.

Jefferson, Tampa Bay Buccaneers that's correct.

What dictators regime murdered singer Victor hurrah following in 1973.

Two that overthrew Pinochet.

Pinochet is right.

What river which is overlooked by the coastal Sant'Angelo, empties into the Tyranny Sea at the port of state Po Po River.

No, you said what?

Say it again.

Po River.

No.

That's incorrect.

That flows through Rome.

Do you guys know a river?

Want to take a shot?

The right answer is Eve.

Heaven.

The Rome river.

It is the Tiber.

Gilbert Louis proposed a rule that main group atoms, such as carbon forms bonds so that they have.

How many valence electrons for.

That's incorrect.

I've been sick.

All you gotta give an answer.

Eight, eight, eight is right.

What title character of the poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge inexplicably shoots an albatross?

Leo Kublai Khan.

No.

That's incorrect.

South side.

Do you have an answer for that?

Accidentally shoots an albatross?

Fragile?

No, no, my whole field.

That's not it.

But you know the answer.

Ancient Mariner, you have about a minute left.

Will Smith won an Oscar for best actor for playing the title character of, what?

2021 film about the father of Venus and Serena Williams.

What was that called?

Grant King Richard?

King Richard is right.

One more question.

What author described a dangerous boojum in The Hunting of the snark and depicted and Tait, Lewis Carroll Lewis Carroll is correct.

Lay your pins down.

Well done everybody.

That was a competitive round by both teams in this particular round asked comes out on top.

Congratulations South Side.

You've played well every time you played including today.

Good job and we congratulate you.

Asked for winning today's round.

Good job.

We thank you so much for watching our program.

It's called the Alabama Scholar's Bowl.

It's here every week on Alabama Public Television.

We're glad you're watching.

We know in each community where these fine students come from, you support them in everything that they do.

I'm Mike Royer, thanks so much for watching our program.

And we'll see you again next time on the Alabama Scholar's Bowl.