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Hi, everybody.

I'm Mike Royer, the host of the Alabama Scholar's Bowl here on Alabama Public Television.

Welcome into a special edition of our program.

We crowned our champion Hoover High School on our last program.

And now we have our annual all star competition.

The best and brightest student from all the best teams.

Our students in the studio today are from West Point and Gadsden City on one side, and Hoover and the Donohoe School on the other.

And, this is kind of a fun round, but something tells me they're going to be as competitive as ever as they always are.

So we welcome you into the program we want to thank for the season and for today.

Our executive producer, Mike Ousley, the judges all season long, Sharon Daley, Nick Frederick, Josh Rusedski and Rhonda Brewer.

Thanks to them and again apt.

Thank you for your hospitality and taking your good care of us here in Montgomery.

The rules haven't changed, so I need to go over the rules with y'all.

I don't think so.

Let's get started.

20 questions bonus if you answer it right.

Here we go.

In 2024, this man said he wouldn't resign for Donald Trump after announcing a quarter percentage point cut in interest rates.

Name this banker Sonny Mike Powell.

That's right, Jerome Powell.

And your bonus.

What compound which can be referred to as a dihydrogen monoxide, but is better known by a five letter name is the universal solvent water.

Water.

Well done.

Chris.

Toss up for everybody.

The team traded De'anthony Melton to the nets in exchange for Dennis Schroder.

This team and it's Chris Lakers.

Nope.

Coming back over here to you guys.

Do you want me to finish reading it to the Dennis Schroder.

This team then traded Schroder to the Pistons and Andrew Wiggins to the heat.

What team in the Pacific Division traded for Jimmy Butler and features Steph Curry.

There you go Ava Warriors.

That's right.

Golden State Warriors.

Bonus question for your team.

This announcer frequently appears on MSG networks to cast the new York Knick games alongside Knicks Hall of Famer Clyde Frazier.

What Basketball Hall of Fame commentator is known for his signature bang when someone hits a basket.

Anybody know something?

I think Alex, he, His name is Mike.

Mike Breen is the guy we look for.

Toss up everybody.

This country's president is a member of the RPF.

And when a fourth term in office in 2024, after securing 99% of the vote, what country in East Africa is led by Paul God Gaming.

And it is Tanzania.

Nope.

That's incorrect.

Who gave a victory speech in its capital of Kigali and now Sean Uganda?

Nope.

It's Rwanda.

Rwanda is what we wanted next.

This city's Edmund Pettus Bridge.

So Selma.

Selma is right.

Bonus question.

The Snyder Act granted US citizenship to these people who were the subject of the Doors Civil Rights Act.

Charles Curtis was the first vice president.

Belonging to what?

General group of people who inhabited America before the European settlement.

Native Americans.

Native Americans is right.

Everybody back on this question.

One poem in this collection opens with.

Time is endless in thy hands, while another states, thou hast made me endless and buzzing in.

I'm lookin.

It's Chris.

Do we know allergies?

Do we know allergies?

No, that's not it.

I'll finish it for you.

The other team.

Such is thy pleasure.

Name this collection of song offerings by Rabindranath Tagore.

Who is it?

Gitanjali.

That's correct.

Bonus for you.

One holder of this American office was inaugurated in Cuba while dying of tuberculosis.

And a former governor of Maryland who held this office, resigned following a tax scandal.

What office was held by Aaron Burr when he dueled with Alexander Hamilton, vice president?

Yep.

Vice president is right.

Next toss up.

This material is used in the Pure Land style of an art form.

And what?

Folding is a technique.

Akira.

Yo, yo Osawa invented clay in clay.

Nope.

I'll finish this.

Name this material used in origami where it can be folded to make cranes.

What's it called?

Chris.

Paper.

That's right.

Paper is the object.

Bonus for you to treat this disease.

Hydroxyurea urea is used to induce the production of a fetal protein.

This disease's heterozygote advantage grants resistance to malaria.

What disease?

That affects 1 in 400 African Americans cause red blood cells to take on a crescent shape.

Sickle cell.

Sickle cell is correct.

Toss up everybody.

Amos.

Ta ta ta!

Ola drew heavy inspiration from urban versions of these things when writing The Palm Wine Drinker and My Life in the Bush name this kind of work, collected by Andrew Lang and Brothers Grimm.

Yes, fairy tales.

Fairy tales as good fables.

Folk tales.

Bonus in a novel by this author, the café owner Tarzan, offers shelter to, said Moran when he is released from jail.

Name this Egyptian author of works such as The Palace Walk, Sugar Creek, which make up his Cairo Trilogy.

Mrs.

Matthews is right, everybody.

The city's Piff Tower lies within its King Abdullah financial district, and its Chris is, Casablanca.

Nope.

Finishing it for over here.

It is the most populous city of the Najib region.

ND the Maz MCC fortress is located in what capital and most populous city of Saudi Arabia.

And there you go, Chris.

Riyadh.

Riyadh is the right answer.

Here's your bonus.

This quantity, whose magnitude equals power divided by angular speed around the same axis, gives work when integrated with respect to theta tau.

That, maybe moment of inertia times angular acceleration equals what rotational analog of force torque is.

Right?

You can jump in there anytime and see me.

A region of this polymer is the third most widely produced synthetic plastic in the world, and it's often used to make pipes, white plastic.

And it's rare in nylon.

No, if it's, if you want to finish it, sunny, you want to jump in.

Okay.

I'll finish it.

Used to make pipes.

What?

Plastic is a polymer of vinyl chloride?

PVC, like PVC is right.

Bonus for you.

A former mayor in this country, Alice Gill duo duo was accused of collaborating with China, whose boats have rammed this country's vessels in the South China Sea.

Bongbong Marcos is the current president of what southeast country?

Philippines.

Yes.

This concept for which a Vince Cena propounded a correspondence theory.

Chris.

Oh, I don't know.

Medicine?

Nope.

I'll finish it here.

Appears alongside language and logic in the title of an AJ air book.

Ludwig Wittgenstein invented tables named for what concept, which are used to express validity in logic.

Yes, John, truth is right.

Bonus for you.

Deborah Smith translated a novel by his by this author in which a character is soaked with rain, as if she herself were one of the glistening trees.

The novel of The Vegetarian was written by white, South Korean author and winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Hong Kong en Kong is right.

Both teams.

What president, once Secretary of the Northwest Territory and governor of the Indiana Territory campaigned.

Chris.

So Harrison cept Harrison, William Henry Harrison.

William Henry Harrison is right.

Bonus question verse characterized by this technique includes works by the inklings and a middle English retelling of the death of King Arthur.

Beowulf and other English poems are characterized by the replacement of rhyme for the material structure with what technique to do either let's just say I think it's one meter.

Nope.

Alliteration.

Alliteration is what we want it.

Grab your pencil.

What is the value of the sign of 60 degrees times the cosine?

Oh, you've got to be kidding me.

One.

No.

Finishing it here times the cosine of 30 degrees.

Sine of 60 degrees times the cosine of 30.

But you got Sean.

Three root.

No, thank.

No.

It's okay.

Yep.

I don't have an answer from you.

Do you want to give me one root?

Three, three over four is the answer bonus?

No bonus question there.

This thinker posited the idea that the state has a monopoly on violence in one work.

Sunny neighbor.

Yes.

Next neighbor.

Bonus.

This figure created Mount Hood by putting stones on his campfire.

And he created the Grand Canyon by dragging his ax.

Babe, the blue ox, it called me is what giant Paul Bunyan?

Paul Bunyan is right.

Question 14.

On our way to 20 questions, this country is expected to spend over 400,000,000,000,000 trillion rupiah to move its capital.

Chris India no to Nusantara, Indonesia Indonesia is right bonus for you.

A musical score from the city included Alban Berg and the composer of Transfigured Night art.

Vienna is right.

Thank you.

In 2023, this country banned short haul flights that could be replaced by a train journey under 2.5 hours.

In what country did Marine Le Pen's party join France?

France's right.

Your bonus in this organism quite.

Eyes were discovered to be a sex linked recessive trait by Thomas Hunt Morgan.

What insect model?

Fruit fly.

Fruit flies.

Right.

Thank you again.

Toss up everybody.

What type of forces were used by the Allies in Operation Varsity in Germany?

In Operation Market?

It is.

I don't see a light anywhere.

Oh, I couldn't see it because of that, Chris.

Nuclear bombs?

Nope.

Chemical weapons?

Nope.

Paratroopers.

Oh, yes.

I'll bet you would have gotten that if I'd have read up further.

But we're not going to.

Next question.

Members of the ethnic group were targeted by the Batak massacre.

Batak massacre during the April uprising.

Whose horrors?

Sean.

Rwandans.

No were campaigned on by William Gladstone.

What ethnic group name is a Balkan country governed from Sofia, Bulgaria?

Bulgaria is correct.

Bonus.

This dynasty defeated King Kurd ten.

The Guerras Kadiri kingdom and shortly after attempted to subjugate a nascent magic magic fat Empire.

But failed.

Kamikaze wins led to the failure of a campaign to conquer Japan by what?

Mongol dynasty of China?

Yuan yuan is right.

A portrait of this Roman god likely depicts Mario Minuti gripping the black tie of a loose Chris Paula, no loose white robe.

Caravaggio depicted himself as a young version of what God who appears surrounded by grapes in several paintings.

What you got anymore?

No.

Keep it.

Or what?

As I keep it.

No cupids, no one.

The answer to Bacchus.

Bacchus is the answer.

All right, so nobody got that one.

On to 19.

These molecules are produced by hybrid domes in their mono mono clonal type and are composed of two heavy chains.

Chris antibodies is right bonus for you.

In some myths, this deity is born from a mirror made of white copper in his energy's right hand.

Amaterasu refused to look at this didi after he killed the food goddess Ruka.

Mochi.

What Shinto deity is the kami of the moon?

Yes, if you say sugar yummy, it's like no.

That's correct.

Yeah.

Okay.

We're getting very generous in our judging.

Like.

Like the queues.

This data structure can be manipulated using push and pop.

What last in first out data structure.

Chris stacks.

Stacks is right.

Two girls are depicted this year.

Bonus two girls are depicted in a garden holding lanterns in this man's carnation.

Lily, Lily rose named the artist of Portrait of Madame X. Singer.

Sergeant.

Singer.

Sergeant is right.

And that's the 20 questions we got through.

We're going to do a lightning round now.

And, West Point, Gaza City, you guys are trailing just by a smidgen here at the midpoint.

So we're going to have you choose first from these exciting categories.

Starts with letter P, starts with letter B, starts with letter V and starts with letter W. Before we do that, let's.

And this is brought to you by the Alabama Community College System.

We always want to remind you of that.

Before we do the lightning round, let's meet everybody.

Tell us a little bit about yourself.

My name is Chris.

I'm a senior at Donahoe, and I play tennis.

My name is Chris Nathan.

I'm a junior at Hoover High, and I'd like to take a moment to thank everyone who made this possible, including the AP, TV staff, the, the, Community College System of Alabama and Asca.

Thank you guys so much.

Hi there.

My name is Sonny Brockman.

I am a senior at Hoover High School.

I'd like to echo what Chris said and more importantly, I think my parents once again, my name is David.

I'm a senior at Donohoe and I enjoy traveling.

My name is Chris Holder.

I'm a senior at Gadsden City High School, and I will be playing Quiz Bowl for the University of Alabama next year.

I'm Brian Gaines, I'm a senior at Sin City, and I just also want to thank everyone who made this possible.

My name is Sean Harbison.

I'm a senior at West Point High School, and I'll also be playing Quiz Bowl for the University of Alabama.

Exciting next semester.

My name is Ava Fruit.

I'm a sophomore at West Point, and I'm on the mat team.

Very good.

Proud of all of you.

You're doing a great job.

And sunny, you can never overthink your parents about sports, so I'm glad you did.

All right team here to my immediate right from we'll take B you'll take B. Ooh.

Very risky.

Ready to go?

All answers.

Start with the letter B, one of the most visited cities in the world.

It is the capital of Thailand.

Oh, Bangkok.

Alternate alternate name for Siddartha, Guatemala.

Yes.

English speaking Central American country that is on the Yucatan Peninsula.

Element with the symbol B and atomic number five on dystopian novel by Aldous Huxley.

New world, brave New World, coming of age ritual for Jewish boys at age 13, our mitzvah French composer of the opera Carmen.

Yes, coming of age ritual for Jewish girls at age 12.

That's right.

Chinese technology company that developed the app TikTok by dates.

That's right.

Subatomic particles exemplified by the photon and gluon.

Yeah.

Baryons?

No, it's bosons.

Oh, am I saying that right?

Boson.

It's both.

Well done though.

You got nine out of ten.

You nailed that.

We're coming over to you.

Hoover b v and W Chris, what do you want.

We'll take starts with P and then it starts with the v, b and v correct P and b p p. And there we go.

Here's p. All answers.

Start with the letter p. You're ready.

60s Greek hero who beheaded Medusa and yes US state where the Battle of Gettysburg was fought Pennsylvania animal species of Napoleon, snowball and Squealer on Orwell's Animal Farm.

Okay.

Brazilian soccer player who played for Palace.

That's right.

Christian holiday that celebrates the descent of the Holy Spirit on the apostles.

And after the crucifixion and Pentecost.

That's right.

Carbohydrates such as glycogen and starch, which can be broken down into two or more sugar molecules and polysaccharides.

So you have polysaccharide.

That's right.

Region of South America shared by Chile and Argentina.

Patagonia, European kingdom led by Frederick the Great, German physicist and originator of the quantum theory, whose namesake symbolized Planck, an English Baroque composer who wrote the opera tell Sagan how Purcell is right.

Very good.

All righty.

And now we're doing V. That's insane.

Yes, sir.

All answers start with the 60s quantity that is measured in cubic meters and can be multiplied by an Italian city, home to Venice and Canal.

Term of the Scandinavian seafarers such as like Ericsson, Hindu preserver, goddess, a string instrument made by the Stradivari fan.

While island shield maidens who bring the dead to the harbor.

Riot games first person shooter car company founded by German Labor Front.

Looks like Volkswagen Alfred Hitchcock directed movie Vertigo.

Say it again.

Vertigo.

That's right.

French city where Phillipe Patton commands.

Forces.

What?

Vichy.

Vichy.

Longest battle of World War one.

Verdun.

Yeah.

Very good.

Oh, that's your star w. All right, guys, I just haven't talked enough today.

That's my problem.

All these answers start with the letter W technology.

Advanced African kingdom.

That is the source of vibranium in the MCU.

Animal pursued by Captain Ahab.

Ship Moby Dick, whale C unit that measures the rate of energy transfer over time.

Constituent country of the United Kingdom.

Japan.

Japan wrote a king who led the Norman conquest of England and commissioned the dome William the Conqueror city in China, where Covid 19 pandemic allegedly started.

Wuhan.

German composer of the Ring cycle, which includes playwright who wrote about Blanche Du Bois, moved to New Orleans and last German emperor who abdicated in 1918.

Johann the Second Wilhelm seconds.

Right.

I think you all are kind of showing off now.

That's what I think.

Well done.

All right.

We're going to take our last 6.5 minutes and, answer these questions.

No bonuses, just answer and go.

We could really run out of questions here, folks.

Let's see how this goes.

One of the artist paintings show a burning synagogue with the white shot.

Chagall is right.

In one poem, this poet wrote about a prince of cloud and sky whose wings dragged beside them like oars.

What poet wrote such poems?

Er.

Baudelaire's right.

One type of these phenomena has a shadow zone.

Since, unlike second wave waves.

I'm sorry.

I just couldn't hear you.

Thank you.

The standard model of this market structure is a static, partial equilibrium model where the labor supply is upward sloping.

What labor market often yields low wages for workers?

Since Sony, like a monopoly?

No.

We have to reject that and finish the read.

What?

Labor market often yields low wages for workers, since only one firm can buy goods and services in an economy.

And I can see how you'd want to answer monopoly.

Do you guys have an answer?

Oligopoly?

No.

But how do you just say it's a monopsony?

Monopsony?

That's how you said monopsony.

You just join a little less in there.

You'd have been golden.

This molecule and oxygen are made through this proportion carried out by superoxide dismutase due to its easy photo.

Photo Fotolia photo source.

This molecule is stored in dark bottles as a skeptic and shone hydrogen peroxide.

That's correct.

This adjective names an 1808 concerto by Beethoven that has a relatively easy piano parts since.

Easy if you can play the piano.

Chris know since it was written for Archduke Rudolph of Austria, what six letter adjective also names the meter used for waltzes, which are in three four time?

Triple.

Triple is right.

Good job Sonny.

In a James Bond tribute at the 2025 Oscars, this singer covered Adele's Skyfall.

The chorus in one song by this singer claims baby, you can go ahead.

Cry those Oscar winning tears.

Name the singer Ava Eilish.

No name the singer of escapism.

You guys know that?

Yeah, you always go with Smith.

It's rah rah y e next, the development of this modern version of this form began with a hygiene parser poem, and it's modern.

Examples include Elizabeth Bishop's Modern Art and Wren sonnet no.

What repetitive 19 line poetic form features three five line stands doing it what?

Villanelle?

Villanelle?

That's right, a person with this profession uses his ivory hands and does a lazy sway on Linux Avenue.

And it's Chris, a musician.

A musician is right.

This woman played Amber in Hairspray Live alongside Kristin Chenoweth, who also played her mother in descendants.

Chris.

Idina menzel.

No.

What artist starred in Live and Matty before releasing Breakfast in Boyfriend?

Sabrina Carpenter it's Dove Cameron, dove Cameron moving on with 3.5 minutes to go.

John John Deal in an E compares lovers to twin examples of these things.

Chris, please no.

A valediction forbidding mourning.

Euclidean construction uses only a straight edge.

And one of these things what tools are used to help draw a circle like compasses?

Yeah, compass took a while to get there, but we got there.

This molecule is the final product of better oxidation and is produced during the link reaction offset.

Thank you.

Glucose.

No I did I was you're about to bail me out of having to try this word.

Oxalate acetate reacts with in the first step of the Krebs cycle.

What molecule that is derived from coenzyme A. Yes, Chris okay.

That's right.

Thank you.

Next, in a novel by this author, private L.G.

Williams stands by Lenora Henderson's bed.

This author wrote about the deaf mute man, John Singer, who becomes the confidante.

And it's Chris again.

McCullers.

McCullers is right.

Operation Searchlight was conducted in this country.

Bangladesh.

Bangladesh is right on a roll here.

This woman's rendezvous with Dornish car and Grand Inquisitor ends with her lover when her lover kills them.

Name this daughter of barren thunder.

Ten trench.

Who is the student of Doctor Pangloss and lover of Irish.

Jack over here only had left the lover of Candy.

Anybody gone?

That's right.

Way to go, Eva!

In 1999, protests against the organization in Seattle were led by the Direct Action Network.

Donald Trump criticized this organization for allowing China to accede to it.

What organization is the primary regulator of international trade, Chris?

The U.N.?

Nope.

You guys have an answer?

WTO, World Trade Organization.

In what country were the Tuol Sleng Museum?

Two ol slaying museum and the killing field used to suppress Sean.

Cambodia.

Cambodia is right.

Let's do a couple more.

The Galarian form of this first stage Pokémon has a yellow head and a yellow at the tip of its tail.

And Team Rocket Rin.

Pikachu.

No collects the tails of this Pokémon in Gold and Silver versions.

What Pokémon can evolve into Slowbro and Slow King?

What is that?

David?

Slowpoke is right.

This figure created these spark toy from the teeth of a dragon that was sacred to Aries.

Got is right.

One more.

Just for old times sake.

This composer of the tales of Hoffmann wrote a piece.

Offenbach.

Offenbach is right.

Close your books.

Lay your heads down and we're going to take a nap.

That's going to wrap it up.

That was a good round.

Good competition.

And the folks over here on this side, West Point and Gaston City came out on top.

Must have been very close.

And Hoover Donohoe, you showed up well and we're glad you did.

You all played very well.

Congratulations to you.

And thank you so much for watching our program.

We are wrapping up our eighth season of the Alabama Scholar's Bowl.

Thanks to everyone who made it possible.

Thanks to you for watching.

We appreciate the positive comments we hear from you and we hope you'll join us again next time.

Thanks again for watching.

I'm Mike Royer.

Enjoy your day.