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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 the Alabama Scholars Bowl.

My name is Mike Royer, and it's really a privilege to host this program every week here on Alabama Public Television statewide.

We're glad you're joining us to see some of the best and brightest students from all around the state of Alabama compete for scholarship money and answer questions on a variety of subjects if you're a regular viewer.

Welcome back.

If you're joining us for the first time, welcome.

And we hope you enjoy our program.

We have our judge in the room with us today, Sharon Daly, who's been a friend of the scholar's bowl for some time.

She will help me out if we need something solved during the program.

Mike Housley is the executive producer of our program.

We welcome to the studio teams that have not been on our program before, the four fine students from Gadsden City High School.

Gentlemen, welcome.

And Hewitt Trussville High School on my immediate right.

Welcome to you students as well.

We're glad you're here.

Midway through the program, we'll ask each student to introduce themselves, maybe tell you what grade they're in and what their favorite subject is.

Is everybody ready?

All right.

Buttons in hand if you know the answer.

Answer if your team answers it correctly, you'll get a bonus question just for your team.

Here we go.

And I don't know whose idea this was, but somebody started with a math question this round.

So pencil and paper ready.

If the base angle of an isosceles triangle measures 57 degrees?

What is the measure of the vertex angle and buzzing?

It is 1976.

That is incorrect.

Do you have an answer for us?

Hewitt?

Take a shot with an answer if you got it.

Yes.

6666 is the right answer.

Here's your bonus question.

In 1782, what Asian countries currently reigning chakra dynasty was founded by Rama, the first after a coup deposed Thaksin, the great but country need an answer.

Bangkok, Thailand.

Thailand is right.

Look at you.

Well done.

Next toss up question for everyone.

What country in which the perfume river?

Perfume river flows through?

The former capital of Wey contains the delta of Mekong River.

And the answer from Aden.

Cambodia.

That is incorrect.

The Mekong River, south of Ho Chi Minh City.

What's country is that?

Vietnam.

Vietnam is correct.

Well done, Andrew.

Your bonus question.

What poem?

Whose speaker describes eating men like air claims that dying is an art and is by Sylvia Plath.

Lady Lazarus.

That is the right answer.

Here is that's the right bonus question.

Toss up for both teams.

What comic strip featured a psychiatric booth run by a girl as well?

It is Chris Peanuts.

Peanuts is right.

Always giving good advice there.

Here's your bonus question.

What effect which vanishes at the equator arises from two times angular velocity crossed with velocity term in rotating reference frames.

Do you have the answer for that bonus question effect?

Angular momentum?

No, it's pronounced the correlate Coriolis effect quarterly effect to next for everyone.

What mathematical service for which seven colors is always sufficient to color a map is topographically equivalent to a mug and shaped like a donut.

And you want to go an answer?

That.

And what's your shot there needle volcano.

No that's incorrect.

Answer is tourist is pronounced, right, Sharon?

Tourist, is that right?

Here is the next question, then a toss up for everyone in June 2022.

What one time public defender who clerked for Stephen Breyer was sworn in as Breyer's replacement as justice on the Supreme Court.

The one and only Coney Barrett?

Nope.

That's incorrect.

No one else?

The most recent to join Cattani Brown is the new justice on the court.

Next question What numerical name is given to the 1972 law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex and educational institutions, including college sports?

The answer neither.

Title one.

You said Title one.

No, that's incorrect.

Do you have an answer for us?

You it.

It is what?

Title nine.

Title nine is the right answer.

Bonus question for you.

A trustful diffusion precedes down a gradient of what quantity which can be measured in the units of more clarity and more clarity.

Concentration that is right.

Concentration is the right answer.

Well done.

Next question.

Both teams what play whose characters include Donald of Bain?

And Malcolm has a title that is considered bad luck in theaters where it is called This Macbeth.

Macbeth is right.

It's called the Scottish Play.

Bonus question for your team.

What chief exec starting over what?

Chief Justice who served over 25 years starting in 1836, wrote that African-Americans could never be citizens in his decision in Dred Scott.

Harlan No.

2020 was the justice.

Next question, everybody.

What letter?

Which names a marvel Comics character called The Unknown, is the final letter of the Greek alphabet and is paired.

And the answer, Chris Omega Omega is right.

Bonus question for you guys.

Gadsden City What 17th century Englishman regretted that he lacked world enough and time to pursue a pursue a lengthy courtship to his carpe diem poem to his coy mistress.

Over Marvell.

Marble is correct.

That's the right answer.

But this is a toss up, everyone.

What general who led the fake first U.S. Army group after slapping two shellshocked soldiers?

And it's Peyton.

That's right, Addison.

Peyton is the right answer, George, as to be specific, bonus question for you.

What word refers to the bottom part of a fraction?

For example, the number nine in the fraction 7/9 denominator.

That is the denominator.

Everyone knew that.

What city?

Everybody.

The home of youngers in Lorain Ha's buries they reason and it's little Chicago.

Chicago is correct.

Bonus question for you What amendment superseded the Supreme Court's ruling in Chisholm versus Georgia?

And for bad citizens of one U.S. state from suing another state?

What amendment is that then?

It's not first ten.

Take a shot.

But in 1222.

No, I mean, it's the 11th.

It is one of the more obscure once toss up question for everyone what scientists proposed.

The idea of hybrid orbitals rated fluorine a 4.0 on his namesake electronegativity scale and advocated for Vitamin C. Who is that?

Anyone?

BRUNELLI No, it is Pauline.

Pauline it's news to me as well.

Next question.

What knight who helps, sir?

Aggravation expose Gwyneth Veers Affair with Lancelot fights a mutually fatal duel at Cannes.

LAMB with his uncle, Chris Gawain.

No, that's incorrect.

I'll finish it for you.

Cured a mutually fatal duel at Cannes Lane with his uncle, King Arthur Green Night.

No, it is Madrid.

Madrid?

And next question.

What president decided the do nothing.

Congress derided the do nothing Congress for opposing his fair deal and surprisingly won.

Andrew FDR.

That's incorrect.

Do you have an answer?

I'll finish it for you.

The Fair Deal and surprisingly won the election of 1948 by defeating Thomas Dewey.

Go ahead, Eisenhower.

No, it was Harry Truman.

Harry Truman.

Which city is the primary setting of the opera?

Don Giovanni, Carmen and The Marriage of Figaro, as well as another opera with Figaro as the Barber.

And it's Katy Seville.

Seville is right.

Bonus question for your team What four letter term denotes unsorted sediments that can be deposited in more rains during the movement of a glacier.

Silt, silt, silt.

The answer they're looking for is till till l. Question number 15 five more in the round what material often coated with k lignite to make it more opaque and made by pressing cellulose fibers from wood into thin sheets used in books.

And what's the answer, Sarah?

Paper.

Paper is right.

Complicated question, simple.

Answer your bonus Bodrum Castle is built from remains of what?

Ancient structure?

A tomb for the ruler.

You Caria.

That was one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.

The Great Pyramid.

No, its mausoleum of Halicarnassus.

Next question.

After what country's 2020 elections, 2021 elections did a coalition of the FDP, Greens and Social Democrats allow Olaf Schulz to replace Angela Andrew Germany, that is Germany and Merkel.

Your bonus question What character becomes stuck in the front door to Rabbit's house after eating too much milk and honey in a book by A.A.. Milne, Winnie the Pooh.

Everybody knows and loves Winnie the Pooh.

That's right.

What poet for both teams who wrote about objects that keep time in a sort of runic?

Runic rhyme in the bells depicted a bird and a pope.

Edgar Allan Poe is right.

That's right.

Well done, Edison.

Bonus question for your team.

A religious organization known as the Vishwa Hindu or Perish Prasad or VHP supports what Indian political party of Prime Minister Narendra modi.

Do you have an answer?

The Nationals?

No, its c VIP party is the answer we're looking for.

Couple more questions.

What man?

The only player in NBA history to be unanimously voted league MVP was the NBA Finals MVP in 2022 as a guard for the Golden State Warriors.

And the answer from Katy Curry.

That's right.

Stefan Curry is correct.

Your bonus question, what ology is a branch of medicine that deals with disorders of the joints and connective tissues such as a namesake type of arthritis rheumatology?

That's the right answer.

Two more questions.

What author wrote a book whose chapters are named after the Muses detailing the Persian wars leading to his nickname, The Father of History and Andrew Homer.

That's incorrect.

And Herodotus.

Herodotus is right.

Well done, Corbin.

Bonus question for Gadsden City What country is the birthplace of playwright Wole Soyinka and the setting of China and Achebe's novel Things Fall Apart.

Niger.

Nigeria.

Nigeria is the right answer.

Well done.

Last question of this round.

What element whose atoms have two neutrons is the isotope called tritium forms at the cathode during electrolysis of water and has an atomic number of one.

And the answer from I can't find it Sara hydrogen.

Hydrogen is the right answer.

You get the last bonus question What short lived socialist government ruled a European capital for two months in 1871 before being suppressed in the bloody week.

Say it if you know it.

Fine Art.

Now it's the Paris Commune.

The Paris Commune.

Later buttons down.

Now you can relax for a second.

That's the end of our first round of questions.

We now come to a part that I like, the lightning round.

We have four categories for the teams to choose from.

The trailing team Gadsden City.

In this case, not by much, but you're trailing.

Well, choose first.

You'll choose one of the four categories I'm going to tell you about then Hewitt.

You'll choose to play them both, and then you get the last one that no one chooses.

That's how that goes.

I'm going to tell you the categories.

Then I'd like to begin with Corbin and have each player tell us a little bit about yourself, your name greater in your favorite subject, whatever you want to say.

The four categories are these American novels and wars, American novels and wars, holy places, state flags and all things.

Those are the four categories that we'll play right after we meet our players.

And after that, then you guys from Gaston will choose the first category.

Corbin, will you begin for us?

Uh, hi.

My name is Corbin Ho.

And so, um.

What what grade are you in?

And what's your favorite subject?

Corbin Yes, sir.

Uh, I am a sophomore, uh, 10th grade and my favorite subject is history.

Very good.

My name is Nick Nagarajan.

I'm a senior at Yes and City.

And my favorite subject is math.

I'm a max.

I'm a sophomore, I guess.

And City.

My favorite subject is history.

My name is Chris Holder.

I'm a freshman at Gadson City.

My favorite subject is math.

Very good.

My name is Sarah Parton.

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

My name is Katie Smith.

I'm a junior and I don't really have a favorite subject.

You like them all?

Yeah.

There you go.

My name is Allison Olive.

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

I'm Andrew Bryan.

I'm a senior at your trust for high school.

And I my favorite subject is history.

Very good.

Good to meet you all.

We're glad you're here.

We hope you're enjoying yourself.

You're all playing very well today, so we'll go back over to Gadsden City.

Of those four categories, I read, which one would you like to play, fellas?

Novels and awards, state Flags of Things, American novels and.

Very good American novels in words.

You're going to 60 seconds to answer these questions.

During what wars?

The clock doesn't start to last.

The first question during what wars are these novels partly or completely set?

And the answers may repeat ready.

Here we go.

Number one, Irene hunts across five Aprils innocence.

The Civil War.

That's correct.

Joseph Heller's Catch 22.

This one or two World War Two.

That's right.

Ernest Hemingway.

Hemingway's For Whom The Bells Toll Civil War.

Nope.

Tom O'Brien's going after.

Cheerio to keep you going after World War Two Yom Kippur War to that Yom Kippur War.

No, that's Vietnam.

Michael Sharon's the killer angels.

Killer angel angels.

I don't know.

A civil.

War.

That's correct.

James Fenimore Cooper's The Spy, which was based on a real life spy who helped John J. John Jordan.

When I was younger, I have the Revolutionary War.

That's right.

Kurt Vonnegut.

Slaughterhouse-Five.

Slaughterhouse-Five.

It sounds like World War One.

World War One, it's two.

Richard Hooker's MASH, a novel about three Army doctors.

Korean War.

That's right.

Esther Forbes, Johnny Tremain.

For what did you say?

Civil War.

Yeah, that was incorrect.

I'm not sure you got it in time anyway, but well done.

You got quite a few of those.

Correct.

And now we come over to you at Trussville and you're going to choose two categories.

What two have you all chosen?

Old things and state flags.

Old things and state flags.

Let's go to all things.

When the clock starts, you'll have 60 seconds to name these things that include the word old.

All right.

My name is I'm not in this.

Okay.

Here we go.

60 seconds, guys.

You're in Yellowstone National.

Park of Old Faithful.

Title dog of Fred Gibson's children's book.

Old Yeller.

University in Richmond, whose sports teams are named the Monarchs.

Pass.

Nickname of the American Flag.

Oh, pass.

Nursery rhyme character with a pipe bowl and three fiddlers.

Pass.

Debut single of Lil Nas X.

Old Town.

Road.

That's right.

Charles Dickens novel featuring Little Nell.

Pass.

Nickname for the Central Criminal Court of England and Wales.

Old Court.

No Home Stadium of Manchester United.

Pass.

Stephen Foster's song that is Florida's official state song Pass.

What's the nickname for the American flag?

Going back to when you skipped Old Faithful?

And what was the other one they did they skip three times up anyway.

Oh.

No, I said time wasn't up.

There was about 4 seconds left.

University of Richmond is when you skip.

Do you know the answer to that in Richmond?

No, sir.

All right.

It's Old Dominion.

I think we cut you off for 3 seconds early, but there you go.

All right.

You did pretty well.

What was the second category you wanted?

A state flag, state flags.

Let's go to that 60 seconds.

Name the state whose flag includes these things.

All right.

Here we go.

Number one, a white crescent with a Palmetto.

Mississippi.

No, it's South Carolina.

The words Mount Rushmore State.

So South Dakota.

That's right.

A green background and an image of its presidential namesake, Washington.

That's right.

A white star between the letters in NC.

North Carolina.

North Carolina.

That's right.

A white shield with three grapevines.

And the Latin motto could translate.

That's it.

Pass.

Okay, I would, too.

Next, 17 stars and a white.

Oh, that resembles a Buckeye nut.

Ohio.

That's right.

You just shout it out.

A white magnolia blossom, which was adopted in 2020.

Mississippi.

That's right.

Gold stars in the shape of the Big Dipper.

Pass a beaver on the reverse side.

Vermont.

That's incorrect.

Green sagebrush in the words battle born.

Virginia.

That's Nevada.

What did we skip?

Gentleman number five, a white shield with three grapevines.

And the Latin motto Q translate it.

Nebraska.

That's Connecticut.

I learned something on that one myself.

All right.

Good job.

Good job.

And so we come back over to you, Gadsden City and we'll be playing holy places.

Is that the one that's left over?

I believe in the 60 seconds you have you will name the country home to these sacred landmarks.

All right.

Here we go.

Holy places, name the country home to these sacred landmarks.

Potala Palace and Mount Kailash.

Mount High, large Potomac House, Israel.

No, it's China, Sea of Galilee and Jacob's.

Well, Israel.

That's right.

The body tree and the surrounding Mu Ha Bodie Temple India.

That's right.

Salt Lake Temple and a hill named Kumara.

For the temple, for example.

US.

That's right, Fatima, the site of the miracle of the sun.

But Optimum South Africa.

Incorrect is Portugal the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Addis Ababa, a church sacred.

Ethiopia?

That's right, the Kaaba.

The Kaaba in Saudi Arabia.

That's correct.

The I say Grand Shrine, which is dedicated to the Shinto God almighty Russell.

Japan.

That's right.

Mount Harriet.

Now area.

Turkey.

Turkey.

That's right.

The grotto in the village of Lord.

Grotto go toward England.

No, it's France.

They skip in here.

I don't think they did.

Time's up, anyway.

Good job.

You guys did better on that than many of us would have done.

Well done.

All right.

Well, we continue now, and you all know how we continue, right?

These questions that I'm going to give you now are worth 20 points each.

There are no bonus questions.

If you know the answer.

Buzz in.

Don't wait on me to call.

Just answer it.

We'll get as many in in the 4 minutes and 42 seconds that we have left in our program.

Here we go.

What composer of the middle period, lizard ya op Pass, Joe Nata and Valda Stein.

Senators also wrote a piece marked quasi un fantasia in his moonlit sonata.

Beethoven.

That's right.

Beethoven is right.

I never want to read that question again.

Take that out, everybody.

Mount Whitney in the giant forest which contains the enormous general Sherman tree, are in what, National Park in California.

And it's Sarah.

Sequoia.

Sequoia is right.

What author described a vacationing bankers affair in his story.

The lady with the dog and portrayed Russia's theatrical Edison Chekhov.

That's correct.

Pencil and paper for a math question.

What is the base ten equivalent?

Is that minus ten judges?

What is the base minus ten equivalent of the hexadecimal number AA given that the digit A represents ten in hexadecimal, I need an answer from somebody, anyone and yes net too.

That's incorrect.

You have an answer before we move on to the NC eight.

No, it's one 7170.

What military contingent which was defeated by the Battle of Great Baleen, was sent by Philip, the second in a failed Spanish attempt to invade England.

This armada, Spanish Armada is right.

Earl Scruggs developed a namesake style of using finger and thumb picks to play what instrument would usually has between Chris Mandolin that's incorrect, which usually has 4 to 6 strings.

Hewett Guitar note The answer is the banjo.

What Peninsula, which is east of Buzzards Bay and north of Martha's Vineyard, is in the southeastern Massachusetts area and takes its name from a whitefish.

Yes, Cape Cod.

Cape Cod is right.

Well done, Aiden.

What first vice president under Richard Nixon resigned in 1973.

Spiro Agnew.

Spiro Agnew is right.

What romantic poet who wrote Hail to the Blithe Spirit in the Sky Lark Shelley.

Shelley is right.

Well done, Edison.

What playwright was inspired by two minor characters from Hamlet to write Rosencrantz Stoppard Is Right, what organization, which is led by Angela McArdle, nominated Jo Jorgensen for president in 2022 and is a third party that promotes limited government.

Libertarian.

Libertarian is right.

Chris.

The weak interaction is mediated by the W and Z types of what particles which have integer spin quarks.

That's not one of the answers.

Do you have an answer for force?

Yes.

Sarah Electrons.

No, it's vector bosons.

Bosons what city?

Where a three eyed fish called Blinky was found near a nuclear plant owned by Montgomery.

Burns is home to Lisa and Bart.

Springfield.

Springfield, of course, what Anglican Cathedral on the Ludgate Hill was built by Sir Christopher Wren after the 1666 Aden St Paul's Cathedral.

St Paul's is right.

We have a minute and a half left.

What institution which assigned territorial mandates in the Middle East was created in 1920 as a global governing body before the United Nations, and that is.

League of.

Nations.

That is correct.

John Dennis, do the deal.

Neuve directed what, 2021 film that starred Timothy, Charlotte and Corbin do Dune is right.

What vector quantity which can be found with Emperor's law, is a field that oscillates in a light wave perpendicular to the electric field.

The magnetic field.

Magnetic field is right in one US city where at least 11 people killed after a bomb was thrown during the 18th Chicago.

See again?

Chicago.

Chicago is right.

Thank you.

What last name was shared by the author of The Varieties of Religious Experience and his younger brother Henry, who wrote The Turn of the Screw.

If James James is right and Our Time is up, that's going to wrap up our show for today.

One of the closest matches we've ever had.

Gadsden City winning this particular match only by ten points.

Very, very close.

All of you played so well.

Congratulations to Gadsden City for today's win.

Thanks for watching our program.

It's the Alabama Scholars Bowl.

I'm Mike Royer.

Have a great day, everybody.