Live from the Arkansas PBS studios in Conway.

It's Quiz Bowl 2024.

Right now we have the two a state championship featuring Hobbs Hall, Bentonville and LifeWay Christian.

Let's meet the teams.

I'm Alex Mueller.

I am a senior and the captain of this team.

I plan to study nuclear engineering in college.

And please, please don't like the radioactive sources.

My name is Urrutia Wachter.

I'm a sophomore on this team, and the 2019 LSU Tigers were the best college football team ever assembled.

Go, Tigers!

And that's what the GPA.

My name is Juan on those Calzada.

I'm a sophomore and the 2001 Miami Hurricanes.

The best college football team ever assembled.

Go, canes.

My name is asked tomorrow.

I am a senior and released beyond the Spider-Verse.

Sony.

Hey, I'm Pranav Nappanee, I'm a senior, and I crushed everybody here at laser tag yesterday.

I'm Azra mueller, I'm a sophomore, and I did not crush everyone here at laser tag yesterday.

I'm Andrew Longwell, I'm a junior.

And you don't make friends with salad.

My name is Jackson Corbin.

I'm a senior and cash is everything around me.

I'm Reece Smith, I'm a junior and just want.

I'd like to for someone to call me ma'am without adding.

You're making a scene.

My name is Shruti.

I'm a junior, and I thought we were going to be playing laser tag, but I guess this is fine too.

Hi, I'm Mrs. Lovings and I'm the coach of this team, and I just want to thank everybody, all the faculty, staff and parents who have supported this team to get us this far.

I'm Emmanuel Peter.

I'm a senior.

Go, warriors.

my name is Connor Nowlan.

I'm a sophomore and you're watching Disney Channel.

Oh, wait, isn't that wrong thing?

So I love the little wand effect.

hey, Kyle Fields, freshman.

I'd like to give a shout out to, any friends and family watching this.

Go do something worthwhile today.

Stop.

Stop watching this.

Thank you.

I'm Zane Selby from LifeWay Christian School and ninth grade and Go Chiefs.

Hi, I'm Laura tidwell.

I'm the coach of the Warriors and the Life We Live stream is very excited to be here.

And thanks, Lisa goats for watching today.

Congratulations.

There are a lot of schools in today that wanted to be here today, but you all have risen to the top.

So I'm very proud of both teams.

All right, if you'll put your hands on your buzzers, we're going to begin round one.

Round one.

Scientists believe that this involves particles popping in and out of existence in empty space.

It has a very low density and was first measured in supernovae.

Name this hypothetical energy, which is believed to be 90.

Samuel.

Pardon me.

Emmanuel.

Dark matter.

yes.

I had dark energy, so I was making sure math computation for number two.

What is the product of the binomial x minus six and the trinomial x squared minus x plus two.

All right Alex x cubed minus x squared plus two x.

No.

Emmanuel x cubed minus seven x squared plus eight x -12.

That's correct.

All right.

This French artist painted mostly still life pieces and was a revolutionary thinker in the art, along with Pablo Picasso.

He developed the art techniques and style we know as Cubism.

Chuck Brock.

You're right, Jack.

All right.

this river's featured in the 1960s song Ode to Billie Joe.

When he jumped off the bridge into the river.

It is also the river in which Emmett Till's mutilated body was found.

Alex the Teller.

Statue.

River.

Yes.

When he out?

Yes.

Tell me what you said.

Exactly.

Become attached.

So we're going to say no.

Okay.

Emmett Till's mutilated body was found with a cotton gin fan tied around his neck.

Name?

This river that is Choctaw for rock of rivers located in Mississippi.

Emmanuel.

Tele2.

Angie.

River.

Now, the correct pronunciation is Tallahatchie.

Tallahatchie River.

All right.

this Jewish holy day is a commemoration of saving the Jewish people from destruction.

Connor.

Purim.

Right.

Good job.

This kind of triumph is one where the winner gains his or her goal.

But in the process, Jack, a pyrrhic victory.

You're right.

In 1984, a Union Carbide plant in this city leaked large amounts of the organic compound ingredient in many pesticides called methyl.

so assassinate.

This leak is considered the largest industrial disaster in history, with over 2200 people killed and approximately half a million people injured.

Name this city in India where?

Alex.

Bhopal?

Yes.

This music performance genre has its origin in the early 18th century Paris.

It became popular in the United States in the early 20th century, featuring English music halls, Yiddish theater and minstrel shows, many of which were body in style, named this music and show type that features Jack vaudeville.

Yes, this is the study of small plants that did not have vascular tissues.

Alex.

Biology right.

Math.

Computation.

Using rectangles to approximate an integral is a Riemann.

Some, What is the, of a left hand remains, using a width of one for the curve F of x equals five plus 200.

Pardon me, five plus 200 over x.

No, 20 over O.

It is 20.

All right.

Let me reread the whole problem.

F of x equals five plus 20 over x for x from 1 to 3.

I say, and it answers.

All right.

62 was the correct answer on that one.

I don't know what I would do with my judges to keep me going over here.

All right.

This ruler was the fifth pharaoh in Egypt's 18th dynasty.

She, opted for a male persona.

Kyle.

Nefertiti.

No, for a and chose to be depicted as a male in clothing and roles in government.

Name this daughter of Thutmose, the second, who ruled as Queen regent to win her, while her son turned most.

The third was a child.

Alex.

Hatshepsut.

Yes.

All right.

He was part of the Rogers Commission, a panel that investigated the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.

But he is most known as a pioneer in the field of quantum computing, as well as introducing the concept of nanotechnology.

Name this famous theoretical physicist who assisted in the development of the world's.

Alex.

Yes.

Math.

Computation.

And infinite geometric series has first term 24 and second term six.

What is the value of this series?

Emmanuel.

32.

Yes.

And I'm going to hear that music in my sleep.

All right.

it was written in cuneiform on a clay tablet.

Emmanuel.

Hammurabi's code.

No.

in a clay tablet dating to 1269 BCE.

It is a treaty document found in 1906, in Turkey, in the old capital city of an ancient empire.

Name this oldest known treaty in the world between Egypt and the Hittites, signed by Pharaoh Ramses and King Hood, who tacitly the third.

Raise the dead.

Oh, it's the Treaty of Kadesh!

Kadesh.

Question number 15.

Born in Rhode Island in 1933, this Western, post-apocalyptic writers spent most of his Jack Cormac McCarthy.

You're right.

Job injured in a buck's bus accident when he was 18.

Pardon me?

When she was 18.

Jack, Frida Kahlo.

Say it again for me.

Frida Kahlo.

Yes.

This astronomical region was first introduced in 1953, and, according to astrobiologist, may number as many as 11 billion possibilities.

The region is measured by the possible radiant energy an exoplanet might receive from a nearby star.

Name this metaphysical zone.

Alex.

Goldilocks zone.

That's correct.

I never heard that before.

Science.

Computation.

Phosphoric acid is put into a solution.

If three moles of acid are added to 0.5l of water.

What is the normality?

Alex.

Six molar.

No.

Mol.

Normality of the solution.

Emmanuel.

Well, if molar, I have 18 normal.

All right.

Name this literary device where the speaker refers to all of the characters as he or she or they are some famous person using their own name to describe their actions and actions.

Connor.

Third person point of view.

That's correct.

Sophomore knows something and all right.

Some 20 years before Amelia Earhart was born.

This woman started a stint as a journalist in New York City.

Jack Nellie Bly.

No.

She became interested in aviation and sought a flying license.

She finished flying school in 1911, and by 1912, she became the first woman to fly over the English Channel.

Name.

This pioneering American woman of flight.

Nathan.

Connor, I just complimented you.

Harriet Quimby.

Quimby.

All right.

And that was the last question of round one.

So do we have any challenges?

None.

Here.

No challenges over here.

Okay.

what about substitutions?

Do we have any?

Some will yell.

Don't know none.

All right, well, we're going to go quickly to Christina for an update.

Thank you Steve.

And we are going to cut away briefly just to do a bit of quiz bowl housekeeping.

But don't go anywhere.

We'll be right back with more after this.

The state's best baseball and softball teams are back in Conway this summer as a Centennial Bank.

State baseball and softball championships are live on Arkansas PBS sports.

That one is lifted to last, and it is gone.

Sends this into center field.

It's a walk off for the Warriors, for state championship, for a complete schedule and all the ways to watch it go to my R PBS.org slash sports.

And we're back.

There were no challenges, so we still have a pretty tight match going on.

So let's get back over to the quizmaster for round two.

Thank you Christine.

And we're, ready to begin round two.

And, hopefully we'll buzz in with the correct answer and your team gets a bonus.

four questions for five points each.

All right, the first question for both schools is this opera was first performed in Rome's Teardrop Valley in January of 1817.

As with many new works during this time, its debut was less than enthusiastically received.

Name this opera by Rossini, which is the basis of the modern story Cinderella.

And Cantillon.

Say it again for me.

Cantillon.

No, no.

Where is Carmen?

No.

It's, Latin.

Earl into Tula.

So a little mispronunciation in there, but it has both a posterior and interior surface.

Said, have both Celia and, goblet cells.

It is attached to the entrance of the larynx, and it projects beyond, under the nose.

No.

And connects.

there was a it is attached to the entrance of the larynx and projects behind the tongue in the high Boyd phone.

Hi.

Void the bone.

Name.

This leaf shaped flap in the throat that prevents food and water from entering the trachea and the lungs.

Alex.

Epiglottis.

Yes.

And you've earned your team.

the first bonus, which is in Russian literature, given the work name the Russian author who wrote it.

Uncle Vanya.

That's Chekhov.

Yes.

How the steal was tempered.

Pasternak.

Pasternak?

No.

Eugene Onegin.

Pushkin.

Yes.

The gulag archipelago.

That was Solzhenitsyn.

Yes.

And the only one you missed was, how the steal was tempered by Austrian off ski.

All right.

Let's go back to the, tossup questions, and we're on number 23.

This author was born to a Puritan family on July 4th, 1804.

However, most of his writings were anti Puritan.

Connor.

Nathaniel.

Hawthorne.

You're right.

All right.

So bonus number two is called Arkansas Superlatives.

Given a clue about an Arkansas superlative, provide what is being asked for the oldest national forest in the South.

Mark Twain.

Give it.

Answer, please.

Pass.

the first permanent white settlement in Arkansas was Arkansas Post.

Yes.

Town where the highest recorded temperature of 120 degrees occurred.

This past.

All right.

And largest wild mammal in Arkansas.

Second place.

Answer.

Past that one is elk.

And the oldest national forest in the south is the Washington.

And, the town that has the highest recorded temperature is Ozark.

Ozark.

All right.

two bonuses left.

Let's see if we can get them with this math computation.

Matrix A is a two by two matrix with first row two negative two and second row three and negative three.

Matrix B is a two by one matrix with first row one and second row negative one.

What is the value of a times b?

All right Emmanuel.

first row for second row six.

Yes.

Another math computation immediately for oh wait.

First I'm going to give you your bonus.

And I. Ooh, I almost forgot then.

Deep lakes in the world.

Given the country or countries that home border it.

And a fact about a deep lake in the world, name the lake.

Zambia.

Burundi, Tanzania and DRC.

The second deepest lake Victoria or lake.

Continue to follow.

It's got be good.

No Lake Victoria?

No.

I think Antarctica buried 2.5 miles below ice in Africa.

Pass.

All right.

Number three.

Argentina.

Chile.

Border fed by titular Glacier City.

Central America.

Lake Titicaca.

No.

And Canadian Northwest Territory.

Deepest lake in North America.

Great Bear Lake, maybe.

Great Bear Lake?

No.

That one is the Great Slave Lake.

Argentina.

Chile border is San Martin Lake.

Antarctica.

Buried 2.5 million miles below ice was Vostok Lake and the first one Zambia, Burundi.

Tanzania is, Lake ten gum ten Galaxy, which I probably miss, pronounced terribly.

All right, we have one bonus left.

Let's see if we can get it here with this next tossup.

And it is a math competition.

Josh wants to make a kite if he wants it to have an area of 432in².

How tall and inches can the kite be if he needs it to be 16in wide?

a route 52in.

No.

second answer, please.

Emmanuel.

24in.

54in.

54 inch is very closer.

Is all right?

this type of architecture, decoration and art is sometimes called the late Baroque.

It began in France in 1730s and spread quickly across, through three Art Nouveau.

Say it again, Art Nouveau.

No.

Spread quickly across Central Europe and Russia.

Name this final expression of the Baroque art movement that featured symmetry, scrolling curves, pastel colors, and frescoes that give the illusion of motion.

Connor.

Romanesque.

No.

I needed the word Rococo.

Rococo.

All right.

The Arab and French traders called this place Serenade DB and was later colonized by the Portuguese.

Name.

This country is Emmanuel.

Angola?

No.

This up and country whose capital is, sere.

Julia Ward and the pure, Kota and Colombo.

Jacques.

Sri Lanka?

Yes.

So you've earned a bonus for your group.

Called elemental Roman numerals.

Math.

Given the name of an element on the periodic table, provide the atomic number of that element in Roman numerals.

You get 20s to answer each of these.

Aluminum.

X I, say it again for me.

X I yes.

Berkelium.

Numbers.

One x, I think 103.

See, I know radon from 80 8XXEXXXBILXXX.

The you know too many eyes.

ruthenium indium.

Yes.

I think it's 43.

That's 40.

It x. Oh my answer XlII.

No.

the first one you got right.

The second one was x c v the third one was l x x x I.

And the fourth one was Excel Ivy.

Okay.

Those are tough.

My, team does not know atomic numbers.

I can tell you that.

All right, that's the end of round two.

Are there any.

Challenges?

No, none.

All right.

So I'm going to read the categories off to you and, live for you.

You get to go first on picking your category.

You might choose literary villains given, given the, major antagonist of a literary work name, the literary work they're in, you might want heads of state given a country name, the current president, Prime minister, our name of the person who leads the actual government of the named country.

You might want civil rights movement.

Given a description of a law, event, person or organization, or other clue about the civil rights movement.

Name that law, event, person, organization, etc.

teams, you have one minute to decide and make your substitutions.

Christina, we're going to go to you for this minute.

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Welcome back.

It is time for the Lightning Round.

The teams have made their choices, so let's turn it over to our quizmaster for round three.

Well, welcome back to what we call the Lightning Round.

ten questions, to try to get in a minute.

And, we've made some changes up here for us for Bentonville, but we're not sure about the names.

Head.

So of you.

They're about to get them over there to you.

But we won't name names, except for our captain.

Who's going to be the captain and, me captain.

And you're Reese.

Yes, sir.

Okay.

Reese and Emmanuel, you're the captain over here.

All right.

But you get to go first life way.

and you chose heads of state.

Given a country name.

The current president.

Prime minister, our name of the person who basically leads the government of that country.

All right.

Are you ready?

Sure.

Let's go.

North Korea.

Kim Jong un.

Yes!

Germany.

Schultz.

Yes, yes.

France.

Macron.

Yes.

Australia.

Morrison.

Yes.

No.

Kenya.

Pass.

Japan.

It's not.

It's not.

It's Fiji.

no.

China.

see if you see anything.

Yes, Canada.

Trudeau.

Trudeau.

Yes.

Mexico.

let's face Obrador.

Yes.

Yes.

United Kingdom Senate.

Yes.

All right, so they didn't get, perfect.

They're, Reese.

But they've left you a couple here to try to pick up the three in the middle.

Right.

Judges?

Yes.

All right.

the first one is Australia.

Albornoz.

Yes.

Kenya.

I'm not sure.

What do you think?

Just pass.

Okay.

And Japan.

Kishida?

Yes.

And the one that we missed was William Ruto for Kenya.

All right.

Very good.

Good job on both sides.

Now, it is your turn over here.

Reese, to get these literary villains, the descriptor says given, they're a major antagonist of a literary word name.

The literary work they're in ready?

Bob Ewell, that's, To Kill a mockingbird.

Yes.

Cruella de Vil, 101 Dalmatians.

Yes.

Grendel, I they'll say a wolf.

Yes.

Edmund, I think King Lear.

King Lear?

Yes.

Satan in 17th century.

Long poem.

is it hard versus Paradise Lost?

Yes.

my little minder.

Bender.

catch me to catch 22.

Yes.

Napoleon.

Animal farm.

Yes.

Simon Legree, uncle Tom's cabin.

Uncle Tom's cabin.

Yes.

Bill Sykes.

Oh, yes, it's, past, Uriah Heep.

Is it David Copperfield?

David Copperfield?

Yes.

All right.

you got nine out of the ten.

Good job.

And they have one to pass over to you, Emmanuel.

And there is a Bill Sykes.

Bill Sykes.

Yes, I'll pass that one.

Is Oliver Twist.

Just a little dog and.

He's a mean man.

All right, now we're going to go over here to life for a Christian.

how did we ever do that?

We did do that.

I thought that seemed like we'd done it.

So that's the end of round three in here at the, Arkansas PBS studio.

And right now, if we have no challenges, we have a score of 250 to 145. still 200 points up in the air.

All right, we're going to go to Christina and see if we have any substitutions out here.

Okay.

Thanks so much, Steve.

And like you said, there's still plenty of time and plenty of points up for grabs, so you never know who's going to come out on top.

So stay with us.

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We are back and almost ready for that final round, but I wanted to bring our Quiz Bowl expert in one more time.

Bill Davis to talk a little bit about.

We haven't seen only four players today, and that's the case for one of the teams here.

So talk about how that's actually okay.

Yeah this is the team LifeWay Christian.

And there is no rule that says you can have less than five.

It just says that you can't have more than five.

And we've seen teams show up here at this level and win a championship with two.

Wow.

So the number that you have up there doesn't necessarily tell you about the quality that you have up there.

And LifeWay Christian has played a good game.

Absolutely.

Like you said, there's plenty of time and plenty of points plenty of point.

So let's get back to it for that final round.

And head over to the quizmaster, Steve.

All right.

Thank you, Christina.

And, we are having a good game here for the two.

A state championship still 200 points up in the air, with these 20 questions.

So I wish good luck to both schools.

Are you ready?

Hands are on our buzzers.

Let's go.

This French composer was deeply religious and almost became a priest.

He composed a lot of church music early in his career, but later turned to operas, writing 12 in his career.

Name this composer romantic operas, including Foust and the Romeo and Juliet.

Reise Hondo no Emmanuel Klimt, it is Charles Giorno, you know.

All right.

This comedic, pretty is in two acts and has a general plotline about a couple who really wanted to stay single.

The play follows parts of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, nameless opera that has a young couple reconsider when the tide Ted Tide toddler woman is overheard saying she's in love with the toddler man, a work by Hector Berlioz.

Okay, the answer is Beatrice and Benedict.

John Vanek was known for his willingness, often signing his works in a fun ways.

oh.

That word is wittiness.

willingness, wittiness.

Often signing his works in fun ways.

In this work, he signed Jack the Arnolfini Wedding.

You're right.

Nice.

This British biophysicist turned from his work during World War two to design and build magnetic mines for the Navy after the war, and soon joined by American James Watson and New Zealander, Connor Crick.

Yes.

All right.

He was a character in a minor Greek epic poem of moose.

Some moose, famous.

he swam across the Hellespont every night to see his lover in her solitary tower at Lesbos.

Name this young man from, Abydos who drowned while swimming to visit his lover.

Hero.

Greece.

Agamemnon.

No.

Emanuel.

Icarus.

It's Leander.

Lindow, hero and Leander.

All right.

Math, computation.

All right.

Solve for X2X squared of minus four x minus eight equals zero.

X. Reese x equals negative four x equals two.

No.

Manual time was called.

I'm afraid the answer was the one plus or minus the square root of five.

All right.

In geology this is a fold where the with the younger layers closer to the center of the structure, they are typically in a downward fold in the strata caused by compression during mountain building.

Name this term in mountain building, that is a downward fold fold, causing a trough, basin or valley between two large hills or mountains.

Emmanuel depressed no Austin Fjord no.

It is a syncline.

Syncline.

He was born in Ghent, Belgium and hailed from the House of Hapsburg.

His parents, his grandparents, were Holy Roman Emperors Maximilian and Mary of Burgundy.

His maternal grandparents were Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain, and he became King of Brussels and Germany.

Name.

This Holy Roman Emperor, who abdicated his throne in in 1555 and 1556.

Pevsner of Charlemagne, no.

Kyle, Otto.

Charles the fifth.

Charles the fifth.

This biochemical term comes from the Greek meaning falling off blubbing, nuclear fragmentation and m RNA decay or characteristics of these changes in the cell of a multicellular organism.

What is the name of this program?

Cell death.

An example of which, of apoptosis.

Yes.

Math.

Computation.

Over the last ten years of operation, NASA launched the Space shuttle on missions three, three, five, 433101 and five times over the course of these ten years.

What was the model number of launches per year?

Reese three.

Right.

This 2023 version of a Nintendo ongoing game is a classic.

The main character's new skill.

This new skill is Ultra Hand, which allows him to build all kinds of vehicles.

Jack, the Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom.

Yes, in humans, this study can involve archeological remains, the growth in anatomy and physiology of skeletal material named this medical study of the bones and, Kyle, osteology.

Right.

So, yes, it.

It began as a 67 word sentence to the scientist Federation of Great, manual Balfour declaration.

Right.

Math, computation.

Sarah is building an obstacle course and wants to make large foam spikes shaped like cones for a pit.

If she wants the cones to be four feet tall and two feet across at the base.

How much foam in cubic feet?

And in terms of pi is required for each foam spike?

Manual 4/3 Pi feet.

Cube.

Yes.

That's right.

All right.

That's correct.

This type of, Who's coming at them?

Okay.

hustle.

Bentonville is going to take a 32nd time out and will pitch to Christina.

While they are doing that.

Okay.

Sounds good.

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And we just wrapped up a quick time out.

So we're going to go back to the quizmaster to finish up the round.

All right.

Welcome back.

And we've got a few new folks in.

And it's good to have y'all.

one I know you're in and Audrey and, Ezra.

So it's good to see y'all and have you in the game.

All right.

This type of dance was fashionable in the late 18th and 19th century in Europe and the colonies.

It spawned several popular types of dances, such as square dancing.

Name this type of dance that used a lobster version in Alice in Wonderland.

Audrey.

Quadrille.

Yes.

She was born in Alabama and became a physician.

She is most renowned for her 1992 orbiting the Earth aboard the space Shuttle.

Endeavor named this first female one Eleanor Chawla.

No.

First female African American astronaut.

Emanuel.

Betty.

No, it's Mae Jemison, Houston 47.

This 1936 novel details the life of Thomas Suppan through the narration by his Harvard roommate, Quinton Compton.

Connor.

The sound and the Fury.

No, it is said before, during and after the Civil War and has an exclamation point in the title name.

This book, named for a second Samuel biblical story with a repetitive two word title by William Faulkner.

Alex.

Absalom, Absalom!

Yes, that's the one we were looking for in question 48.

In 1897, this English physicist demonstrated the cathode rays were composed of previously unknown particle that he called a corpuscle.

His discovery of a negatively charged particle.

Emanuel Thompson.

Thompson is correct.

All right.

He sparked to the Mexican Revolution in 1910 by persuading, by inspiring Pancho Villa, Emmanuel Zapata.

No.

And the millionaire saboteur to immobilize their followers.

Named this man who became president in 1911, promising democracy in Mexico.

It is Francisco de Mero.

This musical term should be interpreted by musicians to create an atmosphere of softness and tenderness for the audience.

It is an Italian term that instructs musicians to be adoring when playing or singing.

What is this music term that means to play or sing sweetly or gently, and may indicate a slow, gentle tempo?

Emmanuel piano no.

Jack Alegria.

No.

The drummer needed was Dolce.

Dolce.

All right.

And with that close to number 50, we're finished with the game.

And it was a great game.

Has all been well.

Has won our state championship for two way with 310 and live for you Christian, you are runner up with 195.

Good job.

All right.

We're going to go to Christina for awards.

That's right.

Well congratulations to both teams.

We're going to take a short break and we'll be right back after this.

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Hello and welcome back to the final match of the day.

I'm here with Carolyn and Melinda and friends with Arkansas Governors Quiz Bowl Association.

We've got awards to hand out, so let's get to it.

Go ahead.

So for our last game of the day, we have for our class two a state runners up LifeWay Christian.

Big round of applause.

Congrats.

Got to get the big check.

Check.

That's right.

Congratulations you guys.

And then for our, two way state champions, we have hostile Bentonville.

Congratulations to Big Tech.

And here is your banner.

Gotta have the banner to you.

Get to display it proudly when you get home.

Yes.

Okay.

And Carolyn has a few more announcements.

the other teams in this category, the third place was Saint Joe.

And the fourth was Household Springfield.

But we also need our All-Tournament team.

And they are our a, MVP.

And that is Emmanuel Peter.

Congratulations.

we also have on the ultimate team Alex Muller from Burtonsville.

And congratulations to you as well.

Okay.

Bryce Mallet is also on there as well as on the team.

And he is the HPV.

He is from Saint Joseph.

The Parker referral is also on the all tournament team, as is Andrew Dettmer.

He is from cutter Morningstar.

Caitlin Keane.

She is from Hazel Rogers.

Kaiser, Piqua or no Kaiser Parker.

Sorry about that.

cross country, Austin Hitchcock from Southside B branch and, one last one here that we couldn't decide for sure if it was the same person or not.

But we did.

And here, on behalf of so Burtonsville, we need to have a for, it's, a medal for, Jack Corbin.

Congratulations to, okay, that is our all tournament team.

Okay.

Wonderful.

And we have one more presentation if you want to come on in.

Thank you.

If you want to come on this side, I can kind of help you out here.

Here you go.

back from friends of Quiz Bowl.

many a coach has sat around after practice and talked to another coach, like, who's the greatest?

five players, ten players we've ever had.

then it's who's the the best ten players ever to play Quiz Bowl.

And so we kept kicking this around.

And we've been sitting on this for almost a year now.

And I am super excited to announce that we are friends.

The Quiz Bowl is starting a Quiz Bowl Hall of Fame that will be housed on our website.

And the first, the first class is going to be this year.

There's going to be a class of one because the quiz bowl had a building.

We had have a statue out in front or inside of Carolyn Shrine.

Congratulations.

You're the you're the inaugural member of the Quiz Bowl Hall of Fame.

Big round of applause.

Let's hear it.

So okay, how does that feel?

Oh that's fabulous I, I can't imagine it's just amazing.

Well, congratulations I think very fitting.

Thank you.

So much for doing that.

And we have one more thing before we wrap up.

Right.

So in addition to sorry, in addition to, Hall of Fame, we also wanted to appreciate from the Bcba board.

Carolyn has been our state director since we started.

And so for 40 years she has been involved in Quiz Bowl.

She has been involved in everything that we do and every facet.

And so we got you these flowers, and we wanted to say, thank you so much for 40 years of amazing competition and quiz bowl and camaraderie and we just love you.

I'm going to have you go ahead and present those to Carolyn.

Congratulations.

Go ahead.

Go ahead.

there you go.

Wow.

40 years.

So we just want to say thank you very, very much.

And again congratulations to all the players, the coaches, everybody here today.

We appreciate all the work that everybody puts into this.

So that is it seven games and seven state champions.

Congratulations to all the students who participated in Quiz Bowl this year.

This is truly a special competition.

And we here at Arkansas PBS are always so honored to be able to bring it into your homes every year.

So until next year, stay curious and keep learning and we will keep the questions coming.

Thank you for watching and have a great evening.