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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 welcome to our program.

This another season of the Alabama Scholars Bowl, where the brightest and best students from all around high schools in the state of Alabama come together in the studio to answer questions and earn scholarship money.

And we hope they enjoy themselves.

We appreciate you watching.

Statewide on Alabama Public Television.

We welcome to our studios today, Vestavia Hills, the four gentlemen from the lovely city just beneath Birmingham on the map.

Good to have you guys back with us.

And from the Alabama School of Cyber Technology and Engineering, we welcome the players from that school as well.

Good to see you all today.

Both teams have participated or their schools have in the past.

We welcome them back to today's competition.

As they know and as I'll share with you the first part of our program, we ask 20 questions.

The team that answers the question correctly then gets a bonus question for their team.

Only lightning round in the middle speed round in the end.

This half hour goes by pretty quickly.

Buttons in hand.

Let's get started, everybody.

White scientist who coined the term statistical mechanics names a quantity that is negative for spontaneous reactions hit.

And that is take Gibbs.

Gibbs is the right answer.

Bonus question for you.

In 1964, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin wrote A Nobel won a Nobel Prize for using what analytical technique described by Bragg's law to study crystal structures.

Like, uh.

I still have.

An answer for me.

Crystallography it is X-ray.

Crystallography is that accepted by itself?

Judges?

No, it's not.

X-ray is the right answer we were looking for.

Question for everyone.

What countries invading troops overthrew highly Selassie during its conquest.

Take Italy.

Italy is the right answer.

Now another bonus Esteban ultimately regrets helping overthrow Salvador Allende's government in 1982, Isabel Allende novel about the truth about family.

The house of the spirits.

That is the right answer.

Well done.

Toss up, everyone.

One author who wrote about the Tolliver siblings in the mill on tape.

George Eliot.

George Eliot is right.

Bonus the dyad o key fought for control after the death of what King and general who won the battle of Ice us.

Alexander the Great.

That is correct.

Now a fun question.

Pencil and paper ready for a math question.

What is the common logarithm of 10 million given the common logarithm uses a base of ten and the log rhythm of 1 million is and the answer is, I don't see you buzzed in there.

Are you.

Seven.

The answer is seven.

Well done.

And that's you get the bonus question in Greek myth octopus defeated.

What monster with the head of a human in the body of a lion by answering her riddle.

The Sphinx.

The Sphinx.

The Sphinx is correct.

Toss up both teams one author of the 1909 book Hind Suarez, led a group of Dundee during the 1930 Salt March and was a nonviolent advocate.

Take Mahatma Gandhi.

Mahatma Gandhi is right.

Bonus question Ray Bradbury Stories The Long Rain and all summer in a day and set on what planet whose surface was mapped in the 1990s by the Magellan probe.

Oh, yeah, Venus.

Venus is right.

That's correct.

Next, everybody, what architect who designed Doha's Museum of Islamic Art and Cleveland's Rock and Roll Museum?

Tate I.

Am pay.

I and pay is right bonus bearing Houseman redesigned Paris under what French monarch who was elected as president in 1848 before declaring himself Emperor.

Napoleon.

Napoleon judges need more information.

The third.

The third is correct.

That is right, everybody.

This question, what country?

Whose mount I can come?

Gua is one state.

Argentina.

Argentina is right.

Your bonus Cramer's rule solve systems of equations using determinants of what arrays of numbers which are in vertebral.

If the determinant is not zero matrices, that is correct matrices the right answer continuing on with the question for everyone what activist who shouted How dare you in a speech at the 2019 date?

Greta Thunberg That is correct.

Bonus question In July of 2022, what leader of the centrist yes and ahead party replaced Neftali Bennett as Prime Minister of Israel?

Netanyahu that is incorrect.

It's Yair Lapid.

Yair Lapid, toss up everyone.

What Old Testament book says Trust in the Lord with all your heart and Bryson is a it's incorrect.

I'll finish it for you Vestavia it is credited to Solomon follows psalms and collects wise sayings and it's Barker Proverbs.

Proverbs is the right answer.

Your bonus question best debut the newspaper The Daily Examiner first published what poem by Ernest Thayer that claim that there is no joy in Mudville, no answer.

There's no joy in Mudville because Casey is at the bat his the poem we were looking for everyone.

What name is shared by a law filibustered by Strom Thurmond for 24 hours in 1957 take civil rights?

That's correct.

The Civil Rights Act is what the what he filibustered against bonus pencil and paper.

You'll need to answer as required which two of the six basic trigonometric functions are undefined and x equals zero?

You need an answer.

Tangent and cotangent is no.

That's incorrect.

The answer is cotangent and cosecant.

All righty.

Next question.

What diseases caused by the virus cell source steer virus can recur in adulthood as shingles and commonly caused itchy parker tuberculosis.

That's incorrect.

I'll finish it for you.

As shingles and commonly caused itchy blisters in children.

Yes.

Chickenpox.

Chicken pox is correct.

Elizabeth, your bonus question.

Iman Vellani plays the title character of what Disney Plus Show, which is the first work in the MCU to focus on a muslim superhero.

Ms.. Marvel.

Ms.. Marvel is correct.

Toss up everybody.

What musical whose characters include Lazar Wolf and the Matchmaker tape?

Fiddler on the Roof.

Fiddler on the Roof is right.

Your bonus.

The nightlife destination of Ibiza is part of what Mediterranean archipelago, whose largest islands are Mallorca and Menorca.

The Madeira Islands?

Nope, that's incorrect.

The Balearic Islands is what we were looking for.

Next question What author wrote about a troubling dog named rib ski?

Rib, sea?

Not Rib.

Sea is the right pronunciation.

Elizabeth Beverly Cleary.

Beverly Cleary is right.

Bonus question for you in what state did Americans Occupy Sonoma and proclaimed the bear flag in 1846?

California.

California is right.

Everyone.

What scientist whose name say constant is about 6.626 times Bryson Monk clock is right.

Correct.

Bonus for you.

What world leader who is engaged to TV host Clarke Gayford responded to two 2019 mosque shootings in Christchurch as Prime Minister of New Zealand.

Jacinda Ardern That is right.

Toss up five more questions.

What country soldiers perpetuated the parsley massacre on orders from dictator Rafael Trujillo to exterminate.

The Dominican Republic?

That is correct.

Bonus question for you what quantity equals the change in the systems?

Mechanical energy is produced at a rate known as power and equals force times parallel displace mint work.

Work is correct toss up both teams.

What King entertained the sator silliness for ten nights, after which Dionysus granted him the ability to touch object state.

Midas King Midas is right, blue team this is your bonus lutein sales were a key component of what Portuguese develop type of ship whose name derives from the non-overlapping planks of its shallow keel.

Caravel Caravel is correct.

Next question What author who created the trivia game extensive Thorne extent a thorn in Oryx and Crake described Republic Date.

Margaret Atwood That is correct.

Bonus question What tight end who leads the New England Patriots in career touchdown receptions retired a second time in 2022 after two years with Tampa Bay, Tom Brady.

That's incorrect.

He's the quarterback.

Rob Gronkowski was the tight end.

Next question.

What heavenly body was visited by the Phenix Lander in 2007 by Mariner nine and the Viking probes in the seventies and Tate Jupiter.

That's incorrect.

I'll finish it for you.

Best debut the Viking probes in the 1970s and in 2020.

The perseverance.

What planet and are you, Venus?

That is incorrect.

The right answer is Mars.

That's where we're sending them.

So no bonus question there.

We have two more questions.

What musical genre which comes in modal, cool and bebop types also names an NBA team and it's Bryson Jazz.

Jazz is right.

The Utah Jazz Bonus Question A monochromatic green radiation source is used to define what s i base unit of luminous intensity.

But not just.

No, it's.

Got one.

Lumens.

The answer is candela candle.

The last question in this round what organization whose first president was?

Samuel Gompers was a group of unions and its aria.

The Boston Tea Party?

Nope.

We'll finish it over here.

Samuel Gompers was a group of unions that split from the Knights of Labor and later merged with the CIO.

And take the American, the American Federation of Labor.

The American Federation of Labor is correct.

Bonus question for you.

Jack Worthing uses the title alias while driving living a double life in London in what comedic play by Oscar Wilde?

The Importance of being earnest.

That is correct.

The importance of being earnest.

Relax.

We're going to take a short, short break here so we can meet our players in today's round.

And also, I'm going to tell them what the four categories are for the lightning round.

The team that's trailing at the midpoint of our program will choose first, choose one of the categories.

The trailing team will play the next two that they choose.

And then the other team will play the one that is remaining our categories.

Players are halogens, ancient, ancient Greek cities, IDI words and Smiths and smite Smiths.

Those are the four categories as you think about those.

Let's meet our players.

And Bo, if you would, start for us.

Everybody, tell us a little bit about yourself.

I'm Beau.

I'm a senior at Vestibules High School, and my favorite subject is History.

I'm Aria.

I'm a senior of serious high school, and my favorite subject is math.

I'm around.

I'm a junior at Vestibules High School, and my favorite subject is also math.

I'm Parker.

I'm a sophomore at the State Hill's High School, and my favorite subject is History.

Very good.

Let's meet the players from the Alabama School of Cyber Technology and Engineering.

My name is Elizabeth.

I'm a junior at A.C.T., and my favorite subject is biology.

My name is Tate.

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

I'm Bryson.

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

and my favorite subject is cyber.

My name is Eugene, I am a sophomore at Aicte and my favorite subject is math.

Very good.

Good to have you all with us.

You're all playing well and we appreciate you being with us today.

Trailing here at the midpoint is Vestavia Hills.

So, gentlemen, you get to choose first of our choices halogens, ancient Greek cities, ID words or Smiths.

What would you like to try?

I wanted ID.

Words.

I d words.

All right, you'll have 60 seconds when I start asking questions to give these words that end with the consecutive letters, I'd be simple enough.

Here we go.

Let's see how simple it is.

The Roman equivalent of the God Eros, Cupid.

That's right.

Scared or fearful.

More than one answer is acceptable.

Frightened?

No, that's incorrect.

Like whether when there is a lot of water vapor in the air.

Humid.

That's right.

An ill or bedridden person.

Skip a baby, go.

Skip.

Plastic like material used in early film stock skip pre molar tooth located behind the canines.

Skip.

Checkered textile pattern known as tartan in Britain.

Skip and enter a pod such as a tick or scorpion arachnid.

That's correct.

A plate of intertwined hair.

Skip.

Okay, we go back to Time's Up, all right?

We won't go through and answer all those, but we'll move on to the folks from Alabama cyber tech.

You get to choose two categories here.

Which ones do you want?

We'll do halogens first and then Smiths.

Halogens and then Smiths.

You'll have 60 seconds to give these answers related to halogens.

Did you know that was coming?

Here we go.

60 seconds to add a molecule like all stable halogens.

Chlorine, die, diatomic.

That's correct.

The third halogen, which is a reddish liquid at step.

Bromine.

Halogens, have this many valence valence electrons.

And.

That's correct.

Fluorine containing nonstick polymer called ptf e uh.

Teflon.

That's correct.

Going directly from a solid to a gas is iodine can do something.

That's right.

H.f. is this kind of acid that is not fully disassociate in solution hydrofluoric?

We can interpret the judge's gland in the neck that requires iodine.

Thyroid.

Fluorine reacts with some of these group 18 elements.

Uh.

That's right.

Energy required to remove an electron which is high for halogen ionization energy.

And the newest halogen named after a tensing.

That's correct.

What do they skip?

Nine.

Yeah, none.

They didn't skip none.

They didn't skip none.

That's all for you, all for your English teachers out there.

And the other one.

Did you choose ID words?

Smiths.

Smiths.

I'm sorry.

Let's go to Smiths 60 seconds to give the first names of these people with the surname Smith Explorers saved by Pocahontas.

John.

John, actor who slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars.

Well.

Founder of the Mormon Church, Joseph Singer of Stay With Me Skip, actor who played the 11th Doctor Skip, four term governor of New York, the 1928 presidential.

Candidate, Al.

Singer of the album Horses, who co-wrote Because of Knight because of the Knight.

Skip.

Captain of the Titanic.

Oh.

I want to say, Patrick.

Edward, all time leader in NFL rushing yards.

No, Robert.

Protagonist on the TV show American Dad.

Skip.

All right.

That one all time leader in NFL rushing yards.

Captain, the Titanic singer of the album Horses.

And the answer singer of Stay With Me.

Stay With Me and Sam.

Sam is right.

An actor who played the 11th Doctor Time is a hoot.

That was a little harder than I think some of us anticipated.

And this leaves us with shockingly ancient Greek cities was saved till last in this Davy, you get to play this 160 seconds in ancient Greek civilization.

Your answer What city may or may not be within Greece's modern borders?

And was the home of.

Is that convoluted enough for you?

Here we go.

The Parthenon, built on the Acropolis under perfectly Pergolesi's.

Pericles.

Sorry, Athens.

That's right.

We're training in the Ego GA system under two co ruling kings.

Sparta, an elite military unit called the Sacred Band Thebes.

That is correct.

A statue of Helios known as Colossus Rhodes.

That's right.

A lighthouse and a vast library founded by Ptolemy Alexandria.

That is right.

The fields that hosted the Isthmian games.

The marathon marathon.

It's Corinth, a mega run colony and namesake, a future empire called Constantinople.

Istanbul.

Byzantine is right.

Apollo's most prestigious Oracle, Delfin.

That's right.

The seed of he run a tyrant who ruled the Greeks in Sicily.

Syracuse.

That's right.

The mythical king Agamemnon and the Lion Gate time.

Mycenae.

Too late on the last one, judges.

You give it to a little late on the last answer.

Well played.

That sounded like the hardest one.

You guys did a great job with that.

Well done.

I should not underestimate you before we even begin the questions.

Everybody knows what we do for the remainder of our time and the remainder of our time is just under 6 minutes and 30 seconds.

20 point questions, no bonuses.

Don't wait on me to call on you if you know the answer, just shout it right out.

Here we go.

What function?

Which is extended to complex numbers by the gamma function?

Factorial That's correct.

In what state was the head ear cut, which operates its electrical grid fired in 2021 after the state suffered massive Texas?

That's correct.

What Asian countries?

Native Arts include the cloth dyeing boutique and the percussion heavy ensembles called Gamma Lons, which both developed on Java, Indonesia.

Indonesia is correct pencil and paper for math.

What's the only value of x that satisfies the equation?

Nine X plus two equals four x plus 12.

And the answer are two.

Two is right.

The period from roughly 3300 B.C.

to 1200 B.C.

is named for what alloy of copper and bronze?

Bronze is right.

In 1932, what army of World War One veterans converged on Washington US Army.

You said bonus army?

That's right.

What material that forms on the end there of Stamen is a powdery substance.

Pollen.

Pollen is right.

What title character of a play by Edmund Rose Stone is afraid tape?

Senator Bergerac That's right.

What?

Author of the book The Conduct of Life Proclaimed a foolish consistency is the home of and Emerson.

Emerson is right.

What Swedish chemist developed a namesake equation that relates reaction rate to activation and art of that's correct.

What product line was introduced in October of 2001 had its touch model discontinued by Apple in May of 2022 and area Macintosh.

No, that's incorrect in 2022 and was the line of portable music player is tape iPod.

iPod is right.

What American artist often painted animal skulls flowers and western Georgia O'Keeffe?

That is correct.

What devices can consist of a dielectric inserted between tape capacitor?

That's right.

During what war where US soldiers convicted of torturing naked prisoners of war and Iraq?

That is right.

Iraq is correct.

What document drafted by Archbishop Stephen Langton was signed at Runnymede?

Carter That is right.

What?

Two countries are connected by the Khyber Pass to.

Pakistan and India.

That is incorrect.

Finishing it for you, Vestavia, which was once part of ancient of the ancient Silk Road.

Yes, Pakistan and Bangladesh.

It's Afghanistan and Pakistan were the answers we were looking for.

What state?

Whose only member of the House of Representatives is Peter Welch and Tate, Alaska.

That's incorrect.

Finishing it for you is Peter Welch is represented by the Senate, by independent Bernie Sanders.

Yes, Vermont.

Vermont is right.

What actor who died in 2022 played Virgil Tibbs in the Heat of the Night and a woman's black fiancee.

And guess who's coming to dinner?

Yes.

Say again, Bozeman.

No, that's incorrect.

The table.

You have an answer for that?

You should see.

Guess who's coming to dinner.

Sidney Poitier was the actor.

What author's series of Waverly books included a historical novel.

Tate Sir.

Walter Scott.

That's right.

At the Battle of Death again in 1743, which king of the House of Hanover became the last reigning British monarch to participate personally in a battle?

Kate James Nope, that's taken.

Good answer.

George More specific.

The first.

It's.

George the second what civilization which was organized by the Cole Pooley and grew food on China and Tate.

Aztecs.

As Texas.

Right what whip like structures used by many bacteria take.

Flagella.

Flagella is the right answer.

A couple of minutes left.

What semi-conductor devices provide renewable energy through photo voltaic effect and solar panels.

Solar panels or solar cells is correct.

What poet claimed they also serve.

We only stand and wait.

Tate done?

No, that's.

Incorrect.

This debut only stand and wait in the 1673 sonnet when I consider how my Light Is Spent, which describes his blindness.

Who did that?

Yes.

Argue courage.

No, John Milton did that.

One author who wrote about the death of socialite Lily Bart in the House of Mirth tape.

Edith Wharton.

That's correct.

The sugar is a traditional cloth worn by white African ethnic group known for their height, who live in Kenya.

Are you.

The Bantu?

No, that's incorrect.

Known for their height.

Who live in Kenya and Tanzania and take Swahili.

No, it's the Maasai.

The Maasai white emperor.

After defeating his rival Maxentius at the battle of Tate Constantine.

Yes, that's good enough, judges.

Yes.

What?

What?

British overseas territory, whose capital is Hamilton, is about 600 miles to Bermuda.

Bermuda is right.

What?

Canadian province, which includes Bend National Park, British Columbia.

That's incorrect.

That's debut home to the NHL, Edmonton Oilers and an annual stampede in Calgary.

Yes, the answer say Alberta is the right answer.

That's going to do it for this edition of the Alabama Scholars Ball.

Very well played and very well done.

Vestavia Hills You played well today and the students from the Alabama School of Cyber Tech and Engineering, an outstanding round for you.

And they are the winners in this round today.

Judges confirm that for me.

Yes, they are.

So congratulations to you.

Congratulations.

You best, David, for playing well.

A lot of tough questions and you all did a great job.

We will see winning teams back on our program throughout this season of the Alabama Scholars Bowl.

We hope we see you back next week as we are statewide on Alabama Public Television.

Until then, I'm Mike Royer.

Thanks for watching.

Have a great day, everybody.