Alabama Scholars Bowl is made possible by the Holley Family Foundation, established to honor the legacy of Brigadier General Everett Holley and his parents, Evelyn and Fred Holley.

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Alabama Scholars 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 another season of the Alabama Scholars Bowl.

My name is Mike Royer.

It's my privilege to host this program here on Alabama Public Television.

We're so glad you've joined us today.

The whole point of the program is to bring together the brightest students from all around Alabama who compete against each other for scholarship money.

And many of them, I think almost all of them, if not all of them, walk away with at least some scholarship money for taking part.

We're proud of our students and proud of all the teachers and adults who work with them and prepare them to compete.

On our program.

Our judge for the program today is a longtime friend of the scholar's bowl, Sharon Dailey.

And Mike Ousley is our executive producer.

We're so glad they put this program on and we're glad to be back on Alabama Public Television.

We welcome to the studio from right here in Montgomery.

The students from Lampe High School students, it's good to see you.

And from Shelby County up to the north.

We had the students from Pelham High School.

Good to have you back.

And we see some some Phil, some familiar faces from past seasons.

And we're glad they're back with us.

And we're glad you're back with us as well.

Everybody ready?

Let's get our buzzers in hand.

As you know, we have 20 questions if your team answers the question correctly.

I'll have a bonus question just for your team.

Here we go.

Question number one of a brand new season.

What man was the subject of a massive seated sculpture by David Chester French?

And buzzing in is Conner from Pelham.

Abraham Lincoln.

Abraham Lincoln.

The Lincoln Memorial happens to be my favorite memorial.

Here is your bonus question.

Pelham In 1807, tensions between the United States and Great Britain increased when what American frigate was attacked and boarded by the HMS Leopard near Virginia.

The Alabama note it was the USS Chesapeake.

USS Chesapeake.

Question for both teams, what city were a British diplomat was kidnaped by AFL?

Q in the October crisis is home to McGill University and is Quebec's most populous city, buzzing in is Nicky or Montreal?

Montreal is correct.

That's the right answer.

Here's a bonus question for you.

LAMPE In May of 2022, shot Sage Blue, Maryland, a silkscreen painting by what American artist set a new record when it was sold for $195 million.

The name of the artist Banksy.

No, that's incorrect.

Andy Warhol was the right answer for that.

Next question for everyone.

What poem?

Whose elderly narrator vows not to yield?

Was written by Alfred Lord Tennyson and has a Latin title referring to the Hero Odyssey.

And the answer comes from the keel in memoriam.

That is incorrect.

Did I complete the question, judges?

So move on next.

The answer was Ulysses, I. I gave that as the answer.

So there's no bonus to anyone.

No one got the answer right.

Next question.

What type of animal?

Animal within penetrable skin was strangled to death by Hercules in.

And the answer comes from Cliff.

A lion.

Lion or lions is acceptable.

That's right.

Bonus question for you, Pelham.

What politician became Speaker of the House after his Contract with America helped Republicans win control of Congress in the 1994 midterm elections?

Newt Gingrich.

Judges.

That's incorrect.

Very good.

It's Gingrich.

Newt Gingrich got you on pronunciation, but nice try, Connor.

Toss up question for everyone.

What structural protein that comprises much of the intermediate filaments in animal cells also makes up horns, feathers, fingernails and hair and is Conner Keratin?

Keratin is the right answer.

Bonus question for your team.

A man works as a cab driver to take revenge on two former Mormons in What novel?

By Arthur CONAN Doyle, which introduced detective Sherlock Holmes.

A Study in Scarlet.

A study in Scarlet is right for the bonus and toss up everybody.

What founder of the Deist cult of the Supreme being lost power in the third need Dorian reaction after heading the committee answer comes from.

And enter draw answer the question then give me your name again.

Maximilian.

Maximilian is the right answer.

Say your name for me, Oettinger.

I'm going to get it right.

If I have to ask you five times.

It's Indra.

Thank you.

Bonus for your team in 2022.

What?

Former White House press secretary under Donald Trump won the Republican primary for the governor of Arkansas.

No answer.

No.

And Sarah Huckabee used to be the White House press secretary.

And next question for everyone.

What state whose layman caves and Wheeler Peak are in Great Basin National Park shares Lake Tahoe and Death Valley National Park with California.

What state and a Tendra nevada.

Nevada is right.

Thank you.

Bonus question What astronomer developed a tuning fork diagram to classify galaxies and discovered a law for the recession velocity of distant galaxies?

Who did that?

Hubble.

Hubble is the right answer.

Is that a guess?

Yeah, it was a good guess.

Next question.

What NFL team, which plays at First Energy Stadium, made a trade in 2022 for quarterback Deshaun Watson.

And it's based and it is a tender again Browns the Cleveland Browns is right your bonus question in 1624 what cleric replace Charles de Charlie Le v e le as Chief Minister of France under King Louis the 13th Richelieu.

Very good.

After all that pronunciation stumbling.

You got it right, everybody.

Your question, what element, whose trioxide is added to pi rex and other glass wares to increase their thermal resistance is a metal void with an atomic symbol.

And Conner silicone?

Nope.

I'll finish it.

It has a atomic symbol.

This is just for you.

Lamp has an atomic symbol of B and the answer from Tokyo.

Boron.

Boron is right.

Your bonus question.

W.W. Jacobs wrote what 1902 short story whose curse title object fulfills the wishes of Mr. and Mrs. White in an ironic and horrifying manner.

Monkeys, power.

Monkeys.

Paws, correct.

Next question.

Number ten.

Halfway through what novel in which Brazil.

How word creates an object that becomes increasingly loathsome in response to a man's depravity.

And it was written by Oscar and it's Connor Amir.

You know, that's incorrect.

Last word was it was written by Oscar Wilde.

Do you have an answer for that?

Yes, sir.

Picture of Dorian Gray.

That is the right answer.

Your bonus question lamp.

What adjective describes collisions in which momentum is conserved but kinetic energy is not conserved.

Elastic?

No, it is inelastic.

In elastic is the right answer.

Next question.

What monarch who was named the successor of Charles the sixth in the pragmatic sanction, opposed Frederick the second in the war of Austrian succession.

And the answer from Lamp Ferdinand.

No, that's incorrect.

You have a quick answer for me.

Column?

Yes.

Connor Philip maria Teresa is the right answer.

And so let's go on to question number 12.

What mountain range has its eastern terminus at the cap?

De Cruz is the home of Basque people and separates France from the Iberian corner.

The Pyrenees is right.

The Pyrenees Mountains.

This bonus question for Pelham what jazz singer discussed her 1939 recording of the anti-lynching song called Strange Fruit in an autobiography titled After her album Lady Sings the Blues.

Ella Fitzgerald.

Nope, it's Billie Holiday.

Billie Holiday's next question, everyone.

What long poem, which is dedicated to Carl Solomon, describes the best minds of my generation Destroyed by Madness and is by Allen Ginsberg and Conner.

The Lost Note.

That's incorrect.

Do you have an answer?

LAMB Yes, sir.

CHICAGO Nope, it is.

Howl is the name of it.

How is the answer?

Next, what man whose namesake time independent equation sets CI equal to each side proposed a thought experiment about a box within the live and Andrea entry.

Try I cannot do it.

Schrodinger Say it one more time.

I Tendra No Tendra I'm going to work on this and will take it home tonight.

I'll get it down.

And your answer was Schrodinger That's right.

I spent too much time there.

Here's your bonus question in what class of reactions that includes disproportion nation reactions are electrons transferred from one species to another?

Ionic Nobody is redox.

Redox is the answer in July of 2020 to everyone.

What number went into effect nationwide is a three digit toll free shortcut to mental health encounter.

411.

No, that's incorrect.

I'll finish it for you.

Lamp A shortcut to mental health hotlines and as a complement to 911.

What's the answer?

991 note the answer is 988.

Anybody ever dial 988?

Next question What surname does Oklahoma and Rodeo choreographer Agnes share with the director of the Ten Commandments, who was Agnes's uncle, Cecil B?

What's the name they share?

And Conner Scott?

Nope, that's incorrect.

Pelham got an answer.

It is.

D.M.

De Mille is the answer.

Question 17 What language was used to write a novel about a parallel earth with two moons titled one Q 84, as well as a Norwegian Wood two books by Hank Mura Murakami and the answer Connor French No Lamp Japanese.

Japanese What man who promoted philanthropy in his 1989 essay, The Gospel of Wealth, was a Scottish American and Nicole Smith No, that's incorrect.

I'll finish it for you.

Pelham The Gospel of Wealth was a Scottish American businessman who founded a namesake steel company and Connor Carnegie.

Carnegie is right your bonus what achievement accomplished in June of 2022 by singer Jennifer Hudson takes its name from the four competitive awards that must be won to do so.

He got he got his correct two more questions getting pencil and paper.

Now we have a fun math question.

What integer equals the value of the quantity?

One third raise to the negative two power and lamp.

What's your answer?

Nine nine is correct.

Bonus question for you send Cory Madrasa was a center of learning in what city?

There was a major trading hub of the Mali empire, Timbuktu.

That is correct.

Last question.

What university, which is home to the Ashmolean Museum and the Bodleian Library, publishes in the English dictionary and has a and it's lamp again Oxford Oxford is right last bonus question Pelham you can relax right here what queen who co ruled with her stepson suit most said the third was the second woman after so big net for you to become Egyptian pharaoh?

No.

Nefertiti nope.

It is hot ship suit is the answer to that one.

Lay your pins down, relax.

And this brings us to a little bit of a break here where we're going to do our lightning round for different categories.

The students have to choose from.

The team that is trailing at the midpoint of our program will choose First Pelham.

You will choose from these four and then lamp.

You will choose two categories to play whatever's left over you get kind of stuck with at the end.

Everyone knows how that works.

The categories are good reading with emphasis on AI in G, African leaders A, B, C, and I's.

Those are the four category.

So think about those and we'll ask you, Pelham, to choose in just a moment.

Which one?

Before we do our Lightning Round, though, we'd like you to know a bit more about our students who take part.

We're very proud of all of them in their participation.

And so let's start over with the folks from LAMP.

And Amy, would you begin?

Hello, my name is Amy.

I'm a senior and my favorite subject is biology.

Hi, my name is Attenborough, I'm a junior and my favorite subject is chemistry.

Hi, my name is Nick Hill.

I'm a junior and my favorite subject is English.

Hi, I'm Nick.

I'm a senior, and my favorite subject is math.

Uh, hi.

I'm Owen.

I'm a sophomore, and my favorite subject is English.

I'm Claire.

I'm a sophomore, and my favorite subject is also English.

I'm Cliff.

I'm a sophomore, and my favorite subject is history.

I'm Connor.

My favorite subject is history.

And I'm a junior.

You all are playing well.

We're proud of all of you and Pelham.

You do trails slightly here at the midpoint, so you get to choose from good reading African leaders A, B, C or I's.

Which one would you like to try first?

One African leaders.

Okay.

ABC, please.

ABC Very good.

What you're going to do is answer these questions that contain the letters A, B and C in any order.

All right, ready?

Here we go.

60 seconds color that absorbs all light black Hasbro game involving making words with titles.

Scrabble saved correct seafood used in a cake popular in Maryland crab.

That's right.

Counting device with columns of beads abacus.

That's right having a page greater than seven basic.

That's right.

A signal fire on a lighthouse.

All right.

Next to the B in a degree stands for bachelor.

That's right.

Handheld instrument composed of two telescopes.

Binoculars.

That's right.

Type of Italian vinegar made from grape must.

That's right.

A person who receives the proceeds of a life insurance policy benefactor.

And you skipped number five, is that right?

Is that correct?

Just say out loud, number six, very good.

A signal fire beacon.

A lighthouse beacon is correct.

And you had 3 seconds left.

Well done.

I think you got every one of them.

Right.

So well done.

We will now go back over to lamp and lamp.

You are going to choose two different categories from the one left over.

That is your choice.

Which two would you like?

Could we do African leaders and good reading, please.

Yes, you can do that.

And we will begin with African leaders.

African leaders.

You're going to have 60 seconds when I begin to name the African country where these politicians or monarchs are in power.

Okay, here we go.

Question number one, Anwar Sadat, Egypt, Nelson Mandela, South Africa, Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya.

Idi Amin, Uganda.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberia.

Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe.

Haley Selassie, Ethiopia.

Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana and Mobutu Sese Seko, Tanzania.

That is incorrect.

And you got two and three queens named Reign of the Lona.

Libya.

I'm sorry, Libya.

No, that is Madagascar.

We covered them all.

Judges that everything all right?

You did well, I think we only missed the one that you had skipped earlier.

Good job.

In your other category that you chose is good reading with emphasis on I enjoy good reading name these literary works whose titles contain a word which may not be the last that ends in I in g ready 60 seconds first sequel to The Hunger Games Catching Fire absurdist play about Vladimir and Estragon Waiting for Godot.

That's right.

Shel Silverstein book whose title subject becomes a stump the Giving three Shakespeare play about ill tempered Katrina Taming of the Shrew novel by Jane Crawford by Zora Neale Hurston.

Their Eyes Are Watching God 28 Memoir by Michelle Obama Becoming Stephen King novel set at the Overlook Hotel and Running Man.

I'm sorry.

The answer The Running Moon.

Nope, it's incorrect.

It's the Shining Irvine Welsh novel about Scottish drug addicts.

First get third book in Madeleine Engel's time quintet Get Plenty of Time.

Michael Chabon novel about makers of superhero comics.

Let's get a very good back to number 9/3 book in Madeleine Le Ingles Quintet Time Quintet Wrinkle in Time.

No, that's incorrect.

And what was the other one?

I can't see that.

Just tell me.

One, seven, eight, nine, ten and eight was Irvine Welsh.

His novel, Irvine Welsh, a novel about Scottish drug addicts is Trainspotting.

All right, very good.

So, pal, I know you're excited to be stuck with the last of the four categories.

No one chose it, but you play it anyway, and it is ays maybe easier than you think.

Let's see.

You'll have 60 seconds to answer these ten questions.

How many i's do these things or people have?

Some answers may be repeated, but none is not an answer.

Ready Polly Face.

Ms..

In Greek mythology one that's right.

A person who wears glasses is a common saying for.

That's right, Shiva in Hinduism two to its three.

SARON, as depicted in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings films.

One.

That's right, the International Intelligence Agency created by UK USA Agreement.

Yep.

The Jack of clubs in a standard 52 card deck for it's to Argus a giant from Greek mythology 1100.

Mike was Scott was zulawski in Monsters Inc one that's right brown recluse spiders two fewer than most spiders six six is right.

Oh dear.

And after visiting murmurs.

Well, in Norse myth one.

That's right.

What did he skip?

Number five, the international intelligence Agency created by UK, USA.

What were you going to say?

Yeah, it was five on that one.

Yeah, I really can't see that.

So just shout it out.

I don't think our viewers at home mind one bit.

And you can say you were on the air with us here on the Alabama scholar's bowl.

You know what we do now, 20 point questions to in the round, no bonuses if you know the answer buzzer and answer it.

If you're behind, you can catch up right here.

Let's go.

What country's 2022 election to replace President Ivan Duque was won by one time Im 19 guerrilla fighter Gustavo Petro, a former and Connor Chile.

That's incorrect.

Finishing it for you lamp petro, a former leftist mayor of Bogota.

And just say it, Colombia.

Colombia is right.

What author wrote about Mrs. Mr. Hooper, a clergyman who refuses to let his face be seen by his fellow townspeople in his story called the Minister's Black Veil.

Anyone take a shot?

Hawthorne That is right.

Nathaniel Hawthorne.

What rule that explains the common ion effect.

His name for a Frenchman and says an equilibrium will shift to counter Conner Lavoisier.

No, that's incorrect.

I'll finish it for you.

Lamp a Frenchman and says an equilibrium will shift to counter a change in concentrations.

It's Lu Sean to liaise.

All right.

24 What adjective of nationality describes a film camera angle set on a diagonal and a treat in which each person pays for himself?

Anyone.

If everybody pays, you're all going Dutch.

What king who executed Robert ask for his role in the pilgrimage of Grace, counted Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn.

And I can't see who Rose did say it again.

Henry De That is correct.

You'll have to wait on me to call on you.

Just answer the slope of the straight part of a stress strain curve equals what modulus which quantifies the material's tensile stiffness can you one elasticity young's modulus or of plasticity?

What country whose very large telescope is in an observatory in the Atacama Desert?

And the answer?

Chile.

Chile is right.

In 1946, lucky Luciano organized a summit of mafia leaders at a hotel in what non American capital city that was long popular with U.S. mobsters.

Where was it?

Corner into Havana.

Cuba is right.

What?

Why?

A novel, whose sequels include The River, was written by Gary Paulsen about Britain's efforts.

Cliff no answer.

All right.

For you, lab Paulson about Brian's efforts to survive in the wilderness.

And the answer Hatchet is right.

What 19th century American novelist wrote a number of rags to riches novels such as Ragged Dick and the Answer.

Alger.

Alger is right.

We have a little under 3 minutes left.

What particles were discovered through deep inelastic scattering experiments, having flavors including up in charm courts, is right.

Lightning strikes are a biotic cause.

A fixation of what element, whose fixation is also accomplished by bacteria.

Carcinogen.

Nitrogen.

Did you say nitrogen?

That is right.

What president who sent Marines to occupy Haiti and the Dominican Republic outlined his 14 points after leading Wilson.

Woodrow Wilson is right.

The photograph of Earth known as the Blue Marble, was taken by Harrison Schmitt and Ronald Evans during what final Apollo mission to the moon in 1972?

Carter Apollo 1717 was the last one.

What singer who sparked a boycott of Pepsi after the Vatican condemned a commercial featuring her song Like a Prayer, also recorded Connor Madonna.

Madonna.

That's right.

What German philosopher who included anti Semitic remarks, Semitic remarks in his black notebooks discuss the concept of desire nine in his 1927 book entitled Being and Time and Connor Nietzsche?

Nope.

Anyone else?

Yes.

Hunt Nope.

It is Haydn.

Haydn, gut.

Haydn Ger.

Haydn.

Gerber What play in which black male threats made by Krug's stead led to the dissolution of Torvalds marriage to Nora Helmer and was written by Heinrich and A Doll's House.

A Doll's House is Right in 2020.

Rhode Island formally changed its full name to remove a reference to what type of location due to its racially charged history.

Plantation.

Plantation is right.

A couple more questions.

An attack on what location?

Whose bombardment from Fort Moultrie forced Robert Anderson to surrender near Charleston.

Fort Sumter.

Fort Sumter is right in.

That was it the Civil War?

What federal corporation founded in 1933, oversaw the creation of dams and electric plants throughout a namesake region of the South Tennessee Valley of the TVA.

That's correct.

What what saint, who is also known as Thaddeus, is one of the 12 apostles, the patron saint of lost causes.

Connor Thomas.

No, that's incorrect.

Finishing it.

The patron saint of lost causes and names.

A Tennessee Children's Hospital.

And.

Yes, Paul?

Nope.

St Jude.

St Jude.

That's all the time we have.

We have 20 seconds to thank you all for playing well.

And the winner in our first round today is Lamp from here in Montgomery.

Congratulations to you, Pelham.

You played well and I think you closed there at the end as well.

Thank you all for playing.

Thank you all for watching.

It's our first program of this season's Alabama Scholars Bowl.

We're glad you joined us today.

I'm Mike Royer.

Thanks for watching so long.