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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 to the Alabama Scholars Bowl.

My name is Mike.

For all year by now, we hope that you and your family are regular viewers to our program statewide on Alabama Public Television.

On the Alabama Scholars Bowl, we bring the best and brightest students from all around the state to compete, answering questions from a variety of topics and earning scholarships, winning trophies towards the end.

And it's a fun half hour.

We're glad that you joined us today.

We have our favorite judge in the studio.

That is Sharon Daly.

We always appreciate her support.

Our executive producer is Mike Ousley.

We welcome to the studio the four students from Moody High School.

It's good to see you all with us today.

And Real Town High School joins us, too.

It's good to have the players from real down here.

Are you all ready?

And you know how we do this, right?

We start with 20 questions and if your team answers the question correctly, you get a bonus question.

We have a lightning round.

That's my favorite part in the middle of the program and then the speed round to wrap up the program at the end.

And we'll see who comes out on top today.

Everyone's winners at the beginning.

The good news is everyone's winners at the end as well.

Let's go.

Question number one, what particle oscillates between three flavors has a tiny but nonzero mass, barely interacts with matter.

It has a name meaning little neutral one and it's Brianna Neutron.

It.

Is that acceptable?

No, it is not.

Anyone else got an answer?

Yes, Blake.

Porque?

Nope.

The correct answer is neutrino.

Neutrino is the right answer.

So no bonus question on that first one.

Let's move on.

What city whose jumbo floating restaurant and sank in 2022 contains Kowloon, north of Victoria Harbor, and in 1997 was handed over from the UK to China and Blake Hong Kong.

Hong Kong is the right answer and Blake here is a bonus question for you and your team.

What British author wrote about Tony's trip to Brazil in a handful of dust and portrayed the alcoholic Lord Sebastian flight in Brideshead Revisited?

Anybody got an answer?

No answer.

No answer for that.

It's Evelyn Waugh.

Next time you're asked, you'll have the answer.

Evelyn Waugh Next question for everyone.

What battle in which strong Vincent led a defensive of little round top and Pickett's Charge failed and was an 1863 Union victory in Pennsylvania and that battle was what?

Blake Gettysburg.

The Battle of Gettysburg is right.

Bonus question for you What are usually colored animal titles?

A book by Nassim Nassim Taleb about improbable events and a 2010 movie starring Natalie Portman as a ballet dancer.

You know the name of that, can you think?

No, it's all right.

Black Swan is the what we're looking for both teams now.

What term coined from the Greek for a way down by Michael Faraday is an electro that is a site of reduction and is connected to an anode.

Yes.

Brianna, cathode.

Cathode is correct.

Well done.

Here's your bonus question for you, Moody.

The hover batch process is used to produce over 200 million tons per year of what gas used to make fertilizer nitrogen.

No, the correct answer is ammonia.

Being a farm boy, that's the only question.

I may know this round, but I didn't know that one.

Here we go for everyone.

What author described a rough beast that slouches toward Bethlehem in his poem The Second Coming, and also wrote many poems about his native Ireland.

Who is that?

Author?

Any answer from anybody when anybody want to take a shot, it is William Yeats.

Next question for everyone.

What first ever U.S. delegate to the United Nations previously organized Marian Anderson's concert at the Lincoln Memorial as FDR, as first lady.

Okay.

And looking for Hannah.

Eleanor.

Roosevelt.

That is right.

Hannah.

Helen, Eleanor Roosevelt.

Your bonus question.

What band whose album Aqualung contains?

Locomotive Breath is led by flutist Ian Anderson and shares its name with the inventor of the seed drill.

In the answer.

No.

Jethro Tull.

You might have to be close to my age to know that one.

Here's the next question for everyone.

What triggered metric functions?

Namesake law extends the Pythagorean theorem to non right triangles and is the reciprocal of the second function and Bayesian is Brianna cosine.

Cosine is right.

Your bonus question.

Bed nets help protect against what insect which Carlos Finlay and Walter Reed proved was responsible for spreading yellow fever.

What mosquito?

Mosquito is right.

Well done.

Next question.

Now toss up for both teams.

What island known before 1956 as Bed Low's Island was renamed after a statue on the island with a tablet reading July 4th, 1776 and holding a torch.

What island is that?

Hannah Ferris.

Island?

Nope.

That is incorrect.

You guys have an answer?

Yes, sir.

Will Liberty Island?

The Liberty Island is right where?

The Statue of Liberty is.

Your bonus question now.

Real town.

What Big Ten school whose men's basketball team is coached by?

Joanne Howard featured a group of players back in the nineties known as the Fab Five.

Ohio State just one state off Michigan.

The University of Michigan had the Fab Five in 2022 for both teams.

What literary medal marking its 100th anniversary went to Donna Barba, eager as the last queen to star as the ALA's most esteemed book for children.

Anybody?

John, are you ringing in time, Blake?

What do you have?

Peabody Award?

It's no, that's not correct.

Anybody else?

John Newbery The Newbery Award.

Next question.

What event?

Whose 109th edition began in Copenhagen in July of 2022 is a major annual cycling race that always finishes on the Shamsie lazy in Paris.

What's it called?

Tour de France.

Tour de France is right.

Very good.

Your bonus question now in what type of fraction, such as 5/3 is the numerator greater than the denominator?

Improper.

Improper fraction is right.

Correct.

Well, don't toss up for both teams.

What painting in which the God Zephyr blows the title of Goddess Toward the Shore is by Sandro Botticelli and depicts a love goddess on a show.

What is that called?

Hannah Aphrodite?

Nope, that's incorrect.

You guys have an answer?

Real town.

Nobody.

It's called the Birth of Venus.

The Birth of Venus.

Next question.

Theodore Maiman built the first of what devices which uses a gain medium to achieve a population inversion that generates coherent beams of light.

Anybody complicated wording of the question with the simple answer lasers.

That's the kind of light that is.

Next, what political party currently led by Keir Starmer and previously led by Jeremy Corbyn and Tony Blair is Great Britain's main left wing party.

What's it called?

Anybody want to take a shot at that?

It is called the Labor Party.

The Labor Party?

What field of study which was practiced by Clifford Gertz and Margaret Mead, concerns human culture and has a name meaning, step, meaning, study of man.

What is that called?

Humanism.

That's incorrect.

You guys have an answer?

Moody The study of man yes.

HANNAH Sociology.

No, it is anthropology.

Anthropology is what we wanted in what year in which John Bell ran for president on the constitutional union ticket.

That a victory by Abraham.

Abraham Lincoln lead to South Carolina seceding from the union.

What year was that?

Just like 1860.

That is exactly right.

Well done.

Your bonus question, do fools Ballad of the Army Carts and Alibis, Drinking Alone by Moonlight are poems from which Chinese dynasty under which literature flourished.

Which dynasty need an answer?

Chang?

No, it's Tang sounds about the same, but wrong Let's go on pencil and paper now.

Don't you love a good math question?

If a seven is dealt from a standard 52 card deck, what is the probability the next card from the remaining 51 will also be a seven?

What is that probability?

I need an answer in a few seconds.

If someone's got something, anyone want to take a shot?

The buzzing in hair three.

And 51.

That is correct.

That's down near the bottom.

Well done, Hannah.

Pull that one out.

Right at the last second, one over 17 was another acceptable answer.

This is a bonus for your team.

MOODY Andre Leon Talley was hired by Anna Winter to work at what U.S.

Fashion Magazine magazine, whose name means style in French.

Folk.

Vogue is right.

Well done for the bonus answer.

Good toss to both teams.

What city which is the origin of fado music lies at the mouth of the Tigris River contains the Vasco da Gama bridge and is the capital of Portugal and buzzing is Blake Lisbon Lisbon is right your bonus question what devices which contain a tube filled with inert gas produce audible clicks when radiation is detected?

What is that device called?

Need an answer?

Blink radiometer.

It was called a Geiger.

Geiger counter.

Next question.

We have three more in this round.

What instrument provides the nickname of Camille Song Sun Swansea Third Symphony.

Well, that was close enough.

It sometimes operated with a bellow and has a massive pipe horn.

One instrument is that will bagpipes.

No, that's incorrect.

You have an answer for that, Moody?

What instrument are we looking for?

Don't.

Accordion.

It's no, it's the organ.

It is the organ with pipes.

And we'll move on to the next question.

What poetic form used in John Donne's death?

Be not proud and William Shakespeare's shall I compare the to a summer's day is 14 lines long what is that form anyone take a shot before time runs out?

Yes.

Blank free verse?

No.

Anyone else?

What do you have?

Sonnet.

Sonnet is right.

Sean, push that button.

Take a guess before time runs out.

Well done.

Your bonus question just for your team.

Beauty.

The tomb of Napoleon is in what Parisian complex originally built as a home for disabled war veterans.

You have an answer?

It is.

And I'm going to ask Christopher for help here.

Lay lays invalid.

Was that close?

Christopher, you're being very kind, but that's the right answer.

We have one last question in this round pencil and paper will end with a math question.

What is the value of the whole number X given that the logarithm of X plus the logarithm of six equals the logarithm of 12?

We'll give you about 10 seconds and we'll have to move on if we don't have an answer.

Anyone.

All righty.

The answer is X equals two.

X equals two layer buttons down.

And relax.

We'll take a somewhat of a break here.

As I tell you what, our four categories are for, our lightning round Moody is in trailing right now.

So you will select first from the four categories I'm going to tell you about.

And before we play The Lightning Round, we're going to ask each of you to introduce yourself to our viewers at home.

The choices today stars Italian Renaissance artist, Italian Renaissance artist, then Super Bowl 56 and two W's.

Those are the four categories.

Think about it, talk about it.

And after we introduce ourselves, your team will choose first.

Dalton on which category you play.

All right, Hannah, would you begin by telling us a little bit about yourself?

Hi, my name is Hannah, and my favorite subject in school is English.

Hi, my name's Shawn.

My favorite subject is science.

Okay.

Hello.

My name is Dalton.

My favorite subject is subjects are math and history.

Okay.

Hi.

My name's Brianna, and my favorite subject is math.

Okay, let's meet the players from Real Town.

My name's Constance.

I'm a freshman, and my favorite subjects is math.

Okay.

Uh, I'm.

Well, I'm in 10th grade, and my favorite subjects are math and science.

Uh, hi.

I'm Blake.

I'm in ninth grade.

My favorite subject is history.

Hello.

I'm in.

I'm in 12th grade, and my favorite subject is physical education.

And I like biscuits and jelly.

And who doesn't?

All right, let's play our lightning round.

And Moody, you choose first of the four I gave you.

Which one you want to play?

Dalton or whoever speaking up.

Which one?

Italian Renaissance.

Italian Renaissance artist.

Very good.

We'll go to that category.

When I start asking the questions, you'll have 60 seconds.

Given a work indicate whether it was created by Michelangelo Raphael or Leonardo or Donatello.

All right, it will.

The art will be done by one of those four.

Here we go.

Let's start easy.

The Mona Lisa.

Michelangelo.

I'm sorry.

Speaking.

Michelangelo.

No, that's incorrect.

It's Da Vinci, the creation of Adam in other works on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

Raphael No, that was Michelangelo.

The school of Athens.

DONATELLO That's Raphael.

A drawing of ideal body proportions called Vitruvian.

Vitruvian Man.

DONATELLO That's Da Vinci.

A 17 foot tall marble statue of David Michelangelo.

That's correct.

A bronze sculpture of David created around 1440.

Donatello.

That's correct.

The painting of The Last Supper.

Da Vinci.

That's correct.

A sculpture of Moses with horns.

Okay, time is up.

Kind of a slow start.

But you were rallying there at the end and got quite a few of them, right?

Well done.

Well done.

All right.

We will come over to Rialto now.

And you guys get to to to choose two categories.

Blake, which two do you want to play?

Oh, we will do two WS and Super Bowl 56.

Very good.

You care what order we do them in?

No, sir.

Let's do super Bowl 56.

Since that's the order, they are my sheet.

And the simpler it is for Mike, the better we all do.

All right.

Super Bowl 56, you're going to answer the following questions about Super Bowl 56, 60 seconds, the Los Angeles based team, one Rams.

That's right.

The team from Ohio lost Cincinnati.

That's right.

L.A. quarterback who threw three touchdowns, Matthew Stafford.

That's right.

The rapper performed Lose Yourself at halftime.

Eminem.

L.A. receiver named the game's MVP, Cooper Kupp.

That's right.

Trophy name for a former Packers coach given to L.A. after the game.

Lombardi Trophy.

That's right.

TV network that aired it and broadcast Sunday Night Football.

NBC, NBCU is right.

LA's coach who became the youngest head coach to ever win a Super Bowl, Sean McVay, former Broncos linebacker who had two sacks for L.A.

Pass and number ten.

This play by play announcer for the game joined Amazon's NFL coverage in 2022.

The playbook like okay you pass on that and you placed on the former Broncos linebacker who had two sacks for L.A. You've got 6 seconds that or the announcer either one time is up von Miller was the guy that got the two sacks and Al Michaels was the broadcast.

Well done, though.

You got eight out of ten and now two WS was your next choice, is that right?

Yes, sir.

Like, all right.

Very good.

In the 60 seconds we have when I begin asking questions, you'll give these words or names that contain the letter W at least twice.

Is that clear?

Here we go, the capital of Poland, Warsaw.

That's right.

William Carlos Williams wrote a poem about a red one, ask Steven Schubert Ski wrote a book about the perks of being one of these widow.

No Wallflower Next employee who reveals illegal activity in a company is called a whistleblower.

That's correct.

Tree with a weeping variety.

Well, that's right.

To narrow or reduce in number past term for a woman whose spouse has died widow Native American gathering whose name comes from the Narragansett word pass Byrd, to which William Cullen Bryan dedicated a poem to swallow waterfowl Chinese dog breed with a thick coarse coat that's a chow chow and pow wow was the Native American gathering of pow wow.

All right, good job.

We come back to you, Moody and we like to say that you get stuck with the last category, the one that no one chose, but sometimes it works out well.

And that category is stars.

In your 60 seconds, you're going to answer the following about guess what?

Stars exactly?

Here we go.

Noble Gas, formed by fusion of hydrogen in the sun.

A star.

That.

No, that's incorrect.

Helium.

Next North Star found in the tale of Ursa minor.

Sirius.

Polaris.

Brightest star in the night sky.

Sirius.

That's correct.

Event who's tied to involves core collapse and explosion of a high mass star.

Black hole.

That's called a supernova small dim star type that is the most common in the universe.

Pass group of stars nicknamed the Seven Sisters.

Pass.

Letter denoting the spectral class of the sun.

D. It's G next red supergiant on Oregon's left shoulder.

Pass.

In Time's Up.

And that was Beetlejuice was the answer to that one.

And the sun lettering class was G just for future reference.

All right.

Both played well in the lightning round.

Good job, everybody.

We killed Super Bowl 56.

You guys nailed that one.

And you know what we do now?

We complete the rest of the time we have, which is just under 5 minutes with 20 point questions.

No bonus buzz in if you know the answer.

Answer here we go.

The house of the faun is in what city?

On the Bay of Naples, which was preserved in volcanic ash by the 8079 eruption of Mount Vesuvius.

Will Pompeii.

Pompeii is right.

The Good Friday agreement largely ended violence in what constituent country of the UK where Unionists fought Republicans during the troubles and Blake Ireland judges just wrong are you need him to expand.

No, no no no.

It's wrong.

Anyone else got an answer?

Answer is Northern Ireland is the right answer.

Next, in what film are General Erin Moore's orders by Colonel Mackenzie carried on foot by two lance corporals in World War One during the title year.

That movie is 1917.

What piece with a seven word name?

And an excerpt from Act Two of Edvard Grieg.

Peer Gynt is known for its increasingly frenetic tempo.

Yes, Dalton in the Hall of the Mountain King.

That is exactly right.

Well done.

What molecule, whose auto ionization constant is the product of hydroxide and hydronium ion concentrations and is known as a universal solvent?

What do you have, Brianna?

Water.

Water is right.

What quantity, which is proportional to the average kinetic energy of molecules in gas is related to a gas volume by Charles Law.

Yes, Blake.

Atomic weight.

No, that's incorrect.

You have an answer, Moody is temperature, absolute temperature.

Next.

The battle of Stamford Bridge fell through three weeks before.

What battle at which?

Harold Godwinson was slain by forces under William the Conqueror in 1066.

And that battle is what?

Battle of Hastings.

That is right next.

What civil rights leader and chairman of Snick, SNCC, was beaten while leading the Selma marches in 1965 and later served as a congressman from Georgia.

Blake No, no answer.

All right, Moody, do you have an answer?

Yes.

JUNIOR.

Say again, Jesse Jackson.

Junior No, it was John Lewis.

John Lewis, the congressman.

Next what man who was killed when two Hellfire missiles struck a house in Kabul in July of 2022 in a drone strike, helped plan 911 and was head of Al Qaida.

Yes, it is.

Hannah Saddam.

Hussein?

No.

Blake.

Osama bin Laden?

Nope.

It was Ayman al al Zawahiri here.

He just happened a few months ago.

What?

Trojan Hero Prime's eldest son was dragged around the walls of Troy after his death.

The answer is, Hector.

What leader of the Merry Pranksters wrote about Randall McMurphy, who is lobotomized in a mental asylum in his novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and series Kesey.

Kesey Why?

A controversial study of delayed gratification by Stanford psychologists were Walter Mitchell is named after what food item offered to children in the study.

Yes Hannah Marshmallow marshmallows is right where to go what protein which forms stiff changed when mutated in sickle cell disease has four iron atoms that bind to oxygen and is found in red blood cells and black sugar.

That's incorrect.

Mary, you have an answer.

It is hemoglobin.

Last question.

A young member of the Liddell family was supposedly the basis for what literary character who attends a Tea Party with the March Hare and the Mad Hatter and buzzing in is Shaun Alice.

That's right.

Alice is the right answer.

Lay your buttons down.

The game is over.

And it was a good one.

Both teams played well.

And we're proud of your performance today.

I hope you felt good about it.

And coming out on top today is a real town right here.

Came out in a pretty close match.

So well done team and well done to you as well.

Moody did a good job today as well.

You did a good job watching.

I thought you were extra good viewers today.

Thanks so much for watching our program.

It's called the Alabama Scholar's Bowl, and we're here every week on Alabama Public Television.

My name is Mike Royer.

Thanks for watching and have a great day.