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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.

Scene Weekly right here on Alabama Public Television, statewide in the state of Alabama.

My name is Mike Royer.

We thank you for joining us today as we welcome to fine teams from opposite ends of the state.

In the studio today, Grissom High School from down in Mobile, up in Huntsville, Alabama, and Baker High School from Mobile.

It's good to have all of you with us and thank you for coming.

Our judge for today is Sharon Daly.

Mike Allen is our executive producer.

And we enjoy bringing this program into your home and we hope you enjoy it and are able to join us.

Pretty often we go through 20 questions.

If you answer the question correctly, your team gets a bonus question.

Lightning round in the middle speed round at the end, and it all is over in about 26 minutes.

Let's see what we can do in that time.

Ready, students?

Let's get started with 20 toss up questions followed with bonuses.

Here we go.

The Triple Alpha process produces nuclei of what element, whose electrodes include the fullerenes and graphite, and whose atomic number?

Henry Carbon.

Carbon is the right answer.

Bonus question for your team.

In 1911, the United States Supreme Court held that what company founded by John de Rockefeller was an unreasonable monopoly that violated the Sherman Antitrust Act, Standard Oil, that is correct.

Next question number two, what Mann coined the term Banana Republic depicted a bratty kidnaped boy in the ransom of red chief and Henry O. Henry very well done.

So that funny Henry.

Henry what element in which Dmitri Mendeleev Mendeleev predicted as eka silicon lies under silicon on the periodic table and is named after a European country germanium that is the right answer for the bonus toss up everyone.

What institutions which were targeted in Viking raids on Iona and Lindisfarne faced a disillusion and its Paice church that is incorrect dissolution by Henry the eight that ousted many Catholic monks.

Monasteries.

Monasteries is the right answer.

Another bonus What adjective, meaning suave or sophisticated, comes from a French phrase literally meaning of good family or of good nature.

Have an answer.

Decent.

You're on the right track.

Debonair.

Debonair is the right word.

What quantity?

Which appears on the y axis of the phase diagram for water has a standard value of about 101.

Kill a pascals or one, Henry.

Pressure.

Pressure is right.

Your bonus the book call us.

What we carry is by what author who read her poem The Hill We Climb at Joe Biden's inauguration show.

Maya Angelou.

Nope, that's incorrect.

It's Amanda Gorman.

Amanda Gorman Next question for everyone.

What arena that host the Westminster Kennel Club Show is near?

Penn Station, is home of the New York Knicks and is abbreviated.

And it is I'm looking Mark Madison Square Garden.

Madison Square Garden is the right answer.

Your bonus question.

The London Conference of 1832 confirmed what country's independence from the Ottoman Empire under new King Otto, then victuals buck Greece.

Greece Greece is right toss up everyone what explorer who popularized the term New World was immortalized?

Henry Amerigo Vespucci Amerigo Vespucci is right your bonus not Lucent clouds form in what layer of the Earth's atmosphere located directly above the stratosphere.

Focus on Thermosphere No, it's the mesosphere.

Mesosphere?

What composer of the wanderer Fantasy and the Trout Quintet only fully orchestrated two movements of his eighth Symphony called The Unfinished and Henry Schubert.

Schubert is right bonus in Philip Pullman's series His Dark Materials.

What term is used in Lyra's world for external souls such as Pantilimon, which take the form of animals?

Peter Attorneys Patronus No Demon or Damien Demons Day day emotions like the spelling matters next.

What 2020 presidential candidate about whom Mitch McConnell said, nevertheless, she persisted, is a Democrat senator from Massachusetts.

Will Elizabeth Warren That's right.

Bonus question What man gave the sport PW last speech advocating for total war as part of his role as the Nazi propaganda minister against gerbils?

Googles gerbils is right and next question What man who was succeeded as King Numa Pompilius was a son of Reyes, Silvia and the twin brother of Remus and the founder, Henry Romulus.

Romulus is right.

Bonus suggests pencil and paper for a math question.

If rotated and reflected, boards are considered the same, how many different moves exist for x in tic tac toe?

How many different first moves exist for X in tic tac toe?

Thank you, Judge.

Nine on the answers three answers.

Three Toss up question What town whose redoubt?

Number ten was taken by Alexander Hamilton's troops is where French and American armies drove Charles Cornwallis to surrender.

Where that happened?

Graceland.

Yorktown.

Yorktown is right.

Bonus question for you.

Grissom.

The dashing Frank Churchill visits the town of Highbury in what Jane Austen novel named for a headstrong young woman, Emma.

That's right, Aaron.

Emma is correct.

Next question.

Both teams.

What landmark which is supposedly protected by a group of cats.

Dave Ravens was once used as a prison and is now home will Alcatraz.

That's incorrect I'll finish it for you used as a prison it is now home to the British crown jewels and Graceland.

Tower of London.

Tower of London is right.

Your bonus question taken was an ancient Egyptian term for what tall, pointed structures exemplified by Cleopatra's Needles and the Washington Monument?

Asks Obelisk.

That is correct.

Here's everyone's question What specialized cells have nodes of Ron VA add on Maya Lin nated spots along their actions and transmit henry neurons.

Neurons is right bonus what countries men's basketball team won EuroBasket 2017 qualified for their first Olympics in 2020 and features NBA star Luka Doncic Slovenia.

That is correct.

Toss up what four letter word which in French can mean expensive or dear, is the stage name of the singer of If I Could Turn Back Time and believe Aaron.

Share.

Share is right.

Bonus question for you What city on the China River is named for Theodore Roosevelt's vice president and is the second most populous city in Alaska in Anchorage, maybe Fairbanks.

I'd say Fairbanks.

Fairbanks is the right answer.

Well done.

Toss up what monarch who took power by deposing her husband Peter, the third in 1762 Graceland.

Catherine the.

Great.

Catherine the Great is the right answer.

Another bonus for you what?

18th century British author wrote about a man whose nose is damaged by Dr. Slump in the comic novel Tristram Shandygaff.

Okay, Thomas Hardy.

Now, Laurence Sterne is the answer.

We want it next.

What author who had a long relationship with the feminist Simone de Beauvoir wrote Sartre Yes, Sartre is right.

Bonus What company which in 2020 launched a satellite internet constellation named StarLink its space x?

That was a bonus question, right?

That's a bonus question for over here.

It's okay, though.

I'll finish it.

Name StarLink has produced such rockets as the Falcon nine, but space x.

Space X is right.

Here we go.

What city?

Where the international fountain was designed for the century 21 exposition contains the Museum of Pop Culture and the Space Needle.

Henry.

Seattle.

Seattle.

Washington.

Bonus question the original kamikaze were storms that destroyed fleet sent to invade Japan by what empire they controlled?

China.

Yuan.

Yuan Judges.

Yes.

Yes.

Yuan Dynasty or Mongol Empire.

Pencil and paper for everybody.

What is the length of the longest cord of a circle whose radius is six given to sic 12?

1212.

Your final answer 1212 is right.

Bonus question for you the most covered pop song ever is often said to be what track from the Beatles album Help, which describes how love was such an easy game to play yesterday.

Oh, I'm so happy you knew that.

Next, what empire once led by Whisker Scar, had his capital of coups go and was dissolved after an anchor intern in Empire.

What class of bonus question?

What class of drugs of which ibuprofen is an example helps to reduce fever and inflammation and is commonly known by five letter acronym NSAIDs.

That's correct.

Two more questions in this first round.

What TV show on which Matteo Roach, Amy Henry Jeopardy!

Jeopardy is right.

Bonus question.

Cigars made from seaweed are enjoyed by wide captain of the submarine.

Submarine Nautilus in Jules Verne's novel, 20,000 Leagues under the Sea Nemo.

That is right, Captain Nemo, last question.

What country is home to the port of Guayaquil?

Is the northernmost and its will.

Ecuador.

Ecuador is right.

Last bonus.

What constitutional amendment which was demanded by protesters called the Silent Sentinels, was ratified in 1920 and gave women the right to vote.

Think I 19/19 amendment is right.

Everybody lay your buttons down.

I'm going to tell you the four categories for our lightning rounds today.

The team that is trailing here at the beginning and that would be Grissom trailing slightly here at the midpoint.

You will choose first from these four and then folks from Baker will pick two categories, then back to you for the last one.

Our categories are Romeo and Juliet, US, Lakes Graham's and Ram Graham's Grimes and Ram Ram.

Those are our four categories.

And we'll ask you to choose in just a moment.

First, if you would, let's ask all of you to introduce yourself.

Tell us who you are, what grade you're in, favorite subject, anything else you're involved in that you'd like to share?

Bass, would you start for us?

All right.

My name is Pace.

I'm in 10th grade and this is Gracelyn.

My name is Gracelyn.

I am a junior and this is Erin.

My name is Erin.

I'm a senior and this is Connor.

My name is Connor.

I'm a junior and this is Mike.

This is Mike.

I thought you might head into Mark, but you can't see his name tag.

Let's come over to Mark.

Well, then I'm Mark.

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

Okay, my name is Wil.

I am a 12th grader and I like science.

My name is Brandt, I am a junior and I like philosophy.

My name is Henry, I'm a junior and I like geography.

Very good.

All right.

Grissom, of the four categories it gave you, Aaron, which one do you want to play?

Me?

Okay.

Do you have anything wrong?

Okay, I'm going to go.

Romeo and Juliet.

Romeo and Juliet.

You can never really go wrong with Romeo and Juliet, can you?

In the 60 seconds that start when I begin asking questions, you're going to answer the following about William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

Here we go.

Romeo is finally caught in a feud with the Capulets.

The Montagues.

That's right.

Italian city where it is set.

We're the Verona friar who aids Romeo and Juliet Lawrence.

Hot tempered man.

Romeo kills to avenge Mercure show.

Tybalt.

Rude gesture.

Samson makes in the opening scene.

Biting his thumb.

Ruler who's a rival in the opening brawl.

Who passed.

Girl whom Romeo is lovesick for in Act One.

Rosalind.

City, where Romeo resides after his exile.

Venice.

That's incorrect.

A Capulets foolishly illiterate servant.

Oh, yes.

Nobleman, to whom Juliet is betrothed.

Paris?

That is correct.

You skipped the Capulets, foolish, illiterate servant when?

Take a shot.

So what would you say, Smith?

Try.

And the city where Romeo resides after his exile, time is up.

The answer to that was men.

Sure.

And Hugh is the answer to that pretty good job.

It's Romeo and Juliet.

Well done.

Well, come over here to Baker High School.

You guys are going to choose, too.

Which ones will they be?

What is that last round?

Round two grams.

U.S., leeks and grams.

Very good.

We'll start with U.S. lakes 60 seconds.

You're going to answer ten questions.

In what state are the following lakes?

Here we go.

Lake Pontchartrain Pass Lake Itasca, Bass, Lake Okeechobee, Florida, Lake Placid, near the site of the New York Olympics.

Great Salt Lake, Utah.

Franklin D Roosevelt, Lake, formed by the Grand Coulee Dam.

Past Lake of the Ozarks, Arkansas.

It's Missouri.

Lake Yosemite, California.

California.

That's right.

Lake Cumberland, near this state's border with Tennessee.

Kentucky.

That's right.

Grand Lake of the Cherokees pass.

And we'll go back to Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana, and that's correct.

Lake Itasca head water of the Mississippi River, Minnesota.

And you got Lake Okeechobee six, Franklin D Roosevelt Lake, formed by the Grand Coulee Dam.

You have 7 seconds.

Colorado, Colorado, it is Washington.

Is that all of them?

Ten as well.

Grand Lake of the Cherokees, Alabama at Oklahoma.

All right.

Pretty good job.

That was kind of hard.

But we're moving on to Grams, which I'm sure will be easier ready in the 60 seconds.

When I start, you're going to give these words that end with the consecutive letters g r a m. Here we go.

Image made of Diffracted Light Pass Photo Sharing Service owned by Facebook, Instagram.

Word made by rearranging letters of another word anagram.

Visual depiction of ground motion during an earthquake seismograph.

That's right.

X ray used to test for breast cancer.

Anagram five pointed star often used in pagan religions.

Instagram representation of the distribution of a single variable similar to a bar graph plastic histogram.

That's right.

A brief, witty statement can pass a symbol that represents a word such as a Chinese character.

Ask a motive, Graham.

It's luggage.

Graham Personality scheme or test with nine different types and Enneagram.

That's correct.

A brief, witty statement image made of Diffracted light type pictogram.

It's a hologram and what's that?

A brief, witty statement.

A funny Broome epigram is the answer to that.

That's all right.

We come back to you, Grissom and you don't get to choose.

You're stuck with Ram, and you're going to give these people places or things that start with.

The letters are am0 ready.

The holy month of the Islamic calendar, Ramadan defensive boundary of a castle referenced in The Star-Spangled Banner.

Rampart.

That's right.

New York punk rock band of I Want to Be Sedated.

The Ramones.

That's right.

Pharaoh, known as Ozymandias in Greek, who fought the Hittites at Kadesh.

Ramses.

That's right.

Long metal device used to load muskets or cannons.

That's right.

A Sanskrit epic about a prince of.

I admire.

Ramayana.

That is correct.

Japanese Noodle Soup Flavored with miso soy sauce.

Robin Wright, U.S. Air Force Base in southwest Germany.

Past.

De facto capital of the Palestine National Authority.

Past inelastic scattering of photons by matter.

Raman Scattering, that's correct.

Back to de facto capital of the Palestine National Authority or U.S. Air Force Base in southwestern Germany.

Time's up.

Ramstein is Air Force Base and Ramallah is the answer to the other question we skipped.

Good job.

All four teams, all four categories are taken care of.

That means we move on to the speed round.

The rest of the time we have, which is seven and a half minutes, I'll ask you questions.

Each one worth 20 points.

No bonus questions.

If you know the answer, answer.

Here we go.

What novel in which an operation on the clubfoot of EE Polly Henry, Madame Bovary.

That's right.

What?

Six letter word from the Greek for tactile describes feedback detected by touch, such as vibrations of a cell phone with haptic.

Haptic?

That's correct.

Pencil and paper for this.

If a logarithm of X equals three, what is the logarithm of the quantity x raised to the fifth power?

Henry 15 That's right.

In what book of the Bible does the bill in Heyman attempt to kill all the Jews in Persia?

Henry Exodus.

That's incorrect.

You have an answer for us?

Grissom And it is Esther, the book of Esther next.

And a pad love signature dance portrayed a dying one of what animal in which Odette is a swan looking I can't find you, Mark a swan is right swans are correct.

Next, which former British king served as governor of the Bahamas after abdicating to marry Wallis Simpson?

And it is Graceland Edward.

More specific.

The six.

That's incorrect.

You have an answer to the eighth, Edward?

The eighth is the right answer.

What?

Youngest living member of the Baseball Hall of Fame was the only man inducted by Bbwaa vote in a 2022 and is a former Red Sox is known as Big Poppy Ortiz That's right.

David Ortiz What philosopher equated God and nature in a work written in geometric order and posthumously published in 1677?

Branch Spinoza is right.

What materials whose high temperature variety is exemplified by Henry superconductors?

Yes, that's right.

Nathan Evans, 2021 tech talk performance of the Wellerman helped popularize what type of song?

Mark Sea Chanties That's correct.

Sea Chanties What objects?

One of which is scheduled to be redirected by NASA's pro asteroid.

Mark Asteroid happened a couple of days ago.

What physics law states that the force between two stationary charges is proportional.

Henry Cullen's Calhoun's is right.

What protagonist has lunch with the Lexicographer Lexicographer sign at the Ministry of Truth and writes down the Big Brother Winston.

Winston Yes, that's right.

Winston Smith What noun refers to favoritism based on family ties, nepotism.

Nepotism is correct.

Well done.

What psychologists linked moments of fulfillment called peak experiences to self.

Henry Maslow Marzluff is right.

In 1976, Missouri rescinded an 1838 extermination order targeting members of what religion?

Well, Mormons.

Yes, that's correct.

Or latter day saints.

What numbers can be plotted on an argon diagram can be written as a distance and angle in popular form.

Henry Cardinal numbers.

That's incorrect.

I'll finish it for you.

Distance and angle in polar form and have both real and imaginary parts.

Yes, complex, not complex numbers is right.

What did you answer?

As I said, a cardinal.

Okay.

All right.

There's another answer.

I want to make sure I didn't miss that judges would have spoken up.

Let's move on.

Freezing point depression is an example of what class of properties whose strength depends only on the number of particles in the solution.

Henry Extrinsic.

That's incorrect.

You guys have an answer?

I read it all.

Yes.

Conner Polarity.

No, it's Coughlin.

Quigley here.

Well said, Mike.

What ancient civilization.

Whose major cities include Babyliss and Tyr, was a sea power of the Phoenicians.

Phoenicians is correct.

Well done Pace.

What chair of the Select Committee investigating the January six attack on the Congress is the only Democrat in Mississippi's will.

Bennie Thompson.

Bennie Thompson is correct.

What Canadian province, which was the most recent to join Canada, changed its name?

No, no, no, no, no.

That's incorrect.

Changed its name in 2001 to include its mainland peninsular portion of Labrador.

And it is Pace Newfoundland.

Newfoundland is right.

What Lake?

The largest by volume in Africa, is found in Africa's Great Rift Valley, Lake Victoria.

No, that's incorrect.

Between Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Yes, sir.

Tanganyika, that is right.

A black hole surface area is proportional to what thermodynamic quantity?

That never decreases in an isolated system.

Henry Entropy.

That's right.

The s r y gene is found on what chromosome that is characteristically present in all humans who sex is Henry X that's incorrect.

Whose sex is hetero dramatic?

Do you have an answer for so yes.

But I got her.

Why?

What author whose first book of poetry was 1923 Tulips and Chimneys wrote.

I sang of Olive Glad and Big Henry coming.

That's right.

And we 2 minutes left.

In what state did the failure of Southfork Dam on the Little Conemaugh River in 1889 lead to over 2000 deaths in the Johnstown flood?

Brant, Illinois.

Now, that's incorrect.

You have an answer for Grissom?

Yes.

Got Indiana?

No, it was Pennsylvania.

That's where the Johnstown flood was.

What president?

Whose secretary, Orville Babcock, was tied to the whiskey rings scandal.

And it's Will Grant Ulysses S Grant.

That's right.

What author of the commencement address This is Water wrote about the Einfeld Tennis Academy in his lengthy 1996 novel called Infinite Jest.

David Foster Wallace.

That's right.

What compound produced by molds like P no top tomb contains beta lactam ring and is an antibiotic discovered accidentally.

Henry Penicillin penicillin is right.

Let's do one or two more pencil and paper.

Probably one more.

What is the product of the quantity?

Two raise to the third power times the quantity of two raised to the negative fourth power.

Yes, it is pace one that is incorrect.

Baker point five.

Yes, point five or one half is the right answer.

Last question What archipelago Pogo, whose fifth largest island suffered from volcanic eruption in September of 2021, lies west of Morocco and is Conner, Hawaii.

That's incorrect and is owned by Spain's Henry Cabo Verde.

Now, if the answer is the Canary Islands, the Canary Islands, that's it.

Time is up.

That was a good competition.

All of you played well.

And we thank you all for playing from Decatur and from Mobile, actually from Huntsville and Mobile.

Do we have a winner here?

Judges, let's bake.

Grissom Baker has won this time.

All right.

A good close match.

Good job to all of you.

Baker Congratulations.

Well played as well.

GRISSOM Thanks for being here today.

Thank you for watching our program.

I'm Mike Royer.

We'll see you next time.