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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 once again, everyone, and welcome into the Alabama Scholars Bowl.

My name is Mike Royer.

We're glad you're back with us.

Our program is seen every week statewide on Alabama Public Television as we bring together the best and brightest students from all around the state to compete, answering some sometimes easy, sometimes hard questions.

And they all do such a great job.

We're proud of them all.

Also proud of the team that supports our broadcast every week here in the studio, our judges Sharon Daly and Kate Wilson.

Christopher Arthur, a valuable part of the judging team as well.

Mike Ousley is the executive producer, which means he gets us lunch every day.

And we appreciate that.

Let's get started.

20 questions.

And if your team answers the question correctly, as you know, players, you get a bonus question.

A lightning round in the middle of our program today.

And then 20 questions, 20 point questions to wrap up the end of the program.

Everybody ready?

Buzzers in hand.

Let's get started.

What French painter use Victorian Meuron as the model both for his painting Olympia and for the depiction of an outdoor picnic luncheon on the grass and who is that, Charlie?

Many money is right, and you can get a bonus question right out of the gate.

The charter oath was a declaration by what Japanese emperor who took power as part of a namesake restoration that ended the taco gala.

Sugar net.

Information.

Sagan.

Meiji.

That is correct.

That is right.

Well done.

Pencil and paper, both teams.

Now for a math question, if a two thirds majority is required and 186 ballots are cast, what is the minimum?

And buzzing is Thomas 62.

That's incorrect.

That is incorrect.

I'll finish it for you.

What is the number of yes votes needed for passage?

The minimum number?

Athens.

Do you have an answer?

Do you have 163?

No, it's 124 124.

Next question, what president who fled to Germany during the May 1968 student protest founded the Fifth Republic.

Charlie Charles de Gaulle.

Charles de Gaulle of France.

That's right.

Bonus question for you.

Athens What poem by John Keats describes a beverage from the Warm South and uses the phrase light winged dryad of the trees to refer to the title Creature.

Ode to a Nightingale.

Ode to a Nightingale is correct toss up for both teams.

What country which ceased issuing pennies in 2013 introduced a Charlie Canada.

Canada dropped the penny.

That's right.

Another bonus question for Athens in Norse myth what plant from which Frigg did not extract an oath did Loki used to make the spear that killed Balder?

Mistletoe.

Mistletoe is right.

Well, then toss up both teams.

What substance, whose depletion after death causes.

Rigor mortis consist of nuclear side bound to an iron containing three atoms of phosphorus.

What is the substance?

Anyone and buzzing in is Thomas Phosphate?

No.

Do you have an answer?

Athens Charlie Gloaming.

No, it's ATP.

ATP.

Next question.

What event?

Whose pretext was the murder of diplomat Ernst Von Wrath and Charlie?

Kristallnacht.

Kristallnacht was the word we were looking for.

Another bonus for Athens.

Pope Paul, the sixth enacted a program called Add Your Name and Tow or Updating it.

What?

Modernizing 1960s Ecumenical Council?

The Second Vatican Council?

That is correct.

Vatican to toss up for everyone what character says that a man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Mentors Monoline and catches a marlin in an Ernest Hemingway book set on the sea and Cain.

Old Man in the Sea.

Yes, judges, that is good.

Santiago, the old man of the sea.

Bonus question for Athens.

What golf tour sponsored by Saudi Arabia?

Who CEO is Greg Norman allegedly offered Tiger Woods more than $500 million to join living golf.

Libby is right.

Toss up everybody.

What rock formed by compression of organic matter has varieties including anthracite by Terminus and Lignite and is a solid fossil fuel.

Thomas Coal.

Coal is right.

Bonus Open your head was one of the unusual performance directions provided by what French composer whose works for piano included Zim no payday got to guess Japan nice.

No city city is the answer.

Next question everyone what author of fraud tailored to t a 2020 in cyclic charlie.

Pope Francis.

Pope Francis is correct.

That's right.

Another bonus for you.

Athens, 1854 Supernova observed by Chinese, Arab and indigenous American astronomers created what nebula visible in the constellation Taurus?

Andromeda.

No, it is the Crab Nebula.

Crab Nebula.

Next question for both teams.

What fruit whose varieties include?

Kara.

Kara Blood and navel is known in Spanish tones.

Orange is right.

Your bonus now.

Alma Bryant in September 2021, a new defense pact was signed by the United States, Great Britain, in what country then led by Prime Minister Scott Morrison.

Need an answer?

Sweden?

No, it's Australia.

Australia was the answer.

Toss up in white battle fought at Freeman's farm and Bemis Heights.

Did Horatio Gates capture a British army in a 1777 turning point in the Revolutionary War?

What was that battle, Charlie?

Battle of Saratoga.

Battle of Saratoga is right.

Your bonus sicko mode is a song on what, 2018 Travis Scott album that lent its name to a 2021 festival where ten attendees died in a crowd.

Rush Astroworld That is right, everybody.

Both teams what writer described the officers painful execution in the story in the penal colony and wrote about Gregor becoming a bug.

Charlie Kafka Kafka is right bonus what system that assigns five 1 to 2 algebra and codes starting with 9812 books on the history of Brazil is a classification system used by libraries.

Dewey Decimal.

Dewey Decimal is right toss up for everybody.

And what building which Brian Sicknick died a day after defending was actually Babbitt shot as part of a mob that over Charlie.

The US Capitol building.

That happened at the US Capitol Building.

Bonus question In 2021, a Canadian group decided to release £50 million from its reserve of what sweet food made by gathering sap from a specific type of tree maple sirup.

Maple sirup is right.

Continuing on for a question for everyone.

What metallic element is found in the mineral aragonite and is used by corals to build their skeletons?

It is combined with phosphate in human bones.

Yes bazillion thomas.

Calcium.

Calcium is right.

Bonus question for you, Alma.

Brian.

Long range weather forecasting is difficult, partly due to what phenomenon in which a system is highly sensitive to its initial conditions.

There's that is called chaos.

That's right.

Toss up.

What author who began writing the gay romance, Morris.

Morris in 1913 described a false accusation that Adela makes against Dr. Azeez in a passage to India.

Who is the author in Charlie Eliot?

No, that's incorrect.

Alma mater.

Do you have a brain?

Do you have.

Answer Burns Forster is the answer.

E.M. Forster Next question.

What U.S. streaming service, which streamed the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest and the reboot Charlie?

Peacock.

Peacock is the network bounce question for you, Athens.

Which Russian czar defeated the Decemberists revolt after succeeding his brother Alexander, the first in 1825 and shares his name with a czar shot in 1918.

Nicholas the first.

Nicholas the first is the right answer.

Only a few more questions in this round.

What mountain under which the giant Typhon was said to have been buried?

And did Charlie Mount Etna?

Mount Etna is the right answer.

Bonus.

If the original statement of a conjecture is if P, then Q what logical position is represented by the statement?

If not Q then not P. No answer.

Is.

I don't have one either.

If it wasn't on the paper contra positive.

Have you heard of that before?

Contra positive.

Next question.

What colorful object is used to create a deserving porcupine, an apple tree and a moon in a Crockett Johnson picture book about a child named and Brianna.

Purple crayon.

Purple crayon is right, Brianna.

Well done.

Bonus question for Alma Bryant.

Aunt Lydia is the narrator of what, 2019 Margaret Atwood novel that is a sequel to The Handmaid's Tale.

I didn't think that's all right.

The answer is the Testaments.

The Testaments.

Two more questions.

What man?

Who?

A civil jury found liable for Ron Goldman's death was acquitted.

And it's Drew O.J.

Simpson.

O.J.

Simpson is right.

One extra beat there.

Here's your bonus question.

Athens, what?

1963 Supreme Court case held that the Sixth Amendment requires that states provide indigent defendants with an attorney.

Escobedo versus Illinois?

Nope.

Gideon versus Wainwright.

Gideon Wainwright.

Last question of this round.

What's social science, which received its own Nobel Prize in 1968, was studied by Charlie Economics.

That's right.

John Maynard Keynes on economics.

Your bonus, the last one of the round, what company that operates a Gigafactory in Nevada moved its corporate headquarters from Palo Alto to Austin, Texas, in 2021.

Tesla.

Tesla.

That's right, everybody put your buttons down.

Relax a little bit.

I'm going to tell you what our four categories are for our lightning rounds.

The team that's trailing in the match will select first one category.

The other team will play two, and then the first team will play what is left over in the round.

Our categories are 20th century artist, NBA beginnings, Sam's and finally I am and trailing in the match so far is Alma Bryant here so you guys will choose first then Athans you'll choose two after they select.

While you all think about that and decide what you want to do, we'd like to meet each of our players so you can know a bit more about them at home.

Let's start withdrew from Athens High School.

Tell us a bit about yourself.

Yes, I'm a driver.

I'm a senior at Athens High School.

And after high school I plan on studying computer science.

Very good.

Um, my name is Hayat Luton.

I'm a student.

Athens High School.

And after college, I plan on studying, um, ancient history, like Roman stuff.

Very good.

I'm Charlie Martin.

I'm a senior in Athens, and I'm also on the swim team.

Very good.

Hello.

I'm Kane MATTHEWS.

I'm currently a senior at Athens High School, and I plan on studying law.

Very good.

All right, let's meet the players from.

I'm a Bryant if we.

You start for us Morgan.

I'm Morgan.

I'm a sophomore at Allen at high school and my favorite subjects history my name is Brianna Sprinkle.

I'm a senior at Elma Bryant High School.

My favorite subject is English.

My name is Thomas Hardison.

You probably already know what high school I go to.

And my favorite subject is physics.

I'm Abigail.

I'm a senior.

Elma Bryant and I here at Subject is lecture.

Very good.

We're glad you're all here.

You're both teams playing well at this point.

I'm a Bryant.

You're going to start us in the lightning round of the four I gave you.

Thomas, which one do you want to try?

20th century artists.

Very good.

20th century artist.

As you know, you'll have 60 seconds when we start with the questions.

You're going to name the creators of these 20th century paintings.

Here we go.

The persistence of memory, which shows melting clocks.

That's right.

Guernica.

Picasso.

That's right.

American Gothic would write the treachery of images.

A pipe.

I'm sorry.

Do you want to finish to read a pipe with this is not a pipe written below it pass Nighthawks depicting a city diner hopper.

That's right.

Broadway boogie woogie with straight lines in blocks of primary colors as I in the Village past lavender mist one of his drip paintings Warhol notes Pollock Freedom from want, which he created from the Saturday Evening Post.

ROCKWELL That's right.

And Christina's world would know it's Wyeth.

Let's see.

We skipped the treachery of images of pipe with.

This is not a pipe written below it.

Manet No, that last one was Margaret.

Margaret was last.

But you did well with that.

Abigail.

Good job.

We'll go back over to Athens High School.

And gentlemen, you get to choose to categories.

Charlie, which two of you like.

Will take NBA beginnings?

And I am very good.

Let's start with NBA beginnings.

National Basketball Association.

Name the teams for whom these members of the NBA 75th anniversary team played their first NBA games, 60 seconds.

I'll give you a name.

You tell me where they played their first NBA games.

Ready?

Here we go.

Michael Jordan, Chicago Bulls, Kobe Bryant, Lakers, LeBron James Cavaliers.

Larry Bird Celtics.

Dirk Nowitzki.

Mavericks.

Dennis Rodman.

Pistons.

Shaquille O'Neal.

Magic.

That's right.

Charles Barkley Suns.

Dominique Wilkins.

That's incorrect.

Dominique Wilkins pass and Clyde Drexler Trail Blazers.

That's correct.

The only one you missed was Barkley.

He started with Philadelphia.

He started with Philadelphia when he left Auburn University.

Good job with that.

And was the last choice I am.

Is that what you selected in this one?

You're going to answer the following about phrases containing the words.

I am 60 seconds number one play in which Mercutio says I am hurt to play both your house yet.

That's right.

Religious figure who says I am the light of the world.

Jesus Sith Lord, who proclaims I am the Senate?

Palpatine.

That's right.

Frenchmen who said cogito ergo sum.

And I think before I am.

That's right.

God, who's Avatar Krishna proclaims I am become death Vishnu.

That's right.

Movie franchise in which Lightning McQueen boast I am Speed Cars philosopher who wrote the essay Why I Am Not a Christian Nature, no Russell Biblical character who says I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

Moses That was Joab, French king who said Lord Cain said again.

Louis The 14th well.

Done president who said, I been ein Berliner.

Kennedy.

Kennedy is right.

We skip any.

I don't think we did.

That's it.

Good job.

You had 8 seconds left.

Got him all but one, I believe.

Good job.

Good job, Athens.

And we're going to come back to you, Alma Bryant.

And I know you're just thrilled to be stuck with the last category, but it may turn out to be good for you.

It is.

Sam's in the 60 seconds.

It begins when I begin the questions.

You're going to answer the following about people whose names start with Sam.

Number one pen name of the author, Samuel Clemens.

Mark Twain.

Samantha Power was ambassador to this organization, past singer of Stay With Me and James Bond themes writing on the wall.

Sam Smith.

That's right.

First president of the Republic of Texas, Sam Houston.

That's right.

AFC East team that drafted quarterback Sam Darnold.

Past.

Sam Spade in the protagonist of this detective novel In Cold Blood, Maltese Falcon is the answer.

This man's diary describes London's Great Fire.

No Pass.

Sammy Brady is a character on the soap opera set in Salem Bath Explorer, whose name is a lake between New York and Vermont.

Hudson notes Champlain, composer of a 1936 Adagio for Strings as a righty.

And I think Samantha and we're out of time.

That was a tough category.

You guys probably knew that.

And that's why no one really wanted to play Sam's.

But you all did well in all of those categories.

We have 8 minutes left in our program today.

And as you all know, we do 20 point questions until we're out of time.

Could save myself about 30 seconds to thank everybody at the end.

But let's see why we could do it.

We're going to start with pencil and paper in hand.

What is the simplified form of the product?

Six A, B squared multiplied by three and Thomas.

Three A over to be.

Judges.

All right.

Finishing the question for you, Athens six A-B squared multiplied by three A cubed B as soon as you can.

18 A for B three.

That is correct.

Well done.

What structures in which barbs are attached to a stem known as rakes have a down type.

Anyone as in a pistol?

No, that's correct.

Incorrect.

Athens.

Anything down is in down feather.

Next, what city is home to?

Berkshire Hathaway shares a metropolitan area with Council Bluffs, Iowa is the most.

Charlie Omaha, Nebraska.

That is correct.

CC Meute is the second most populous city on White Island whose native name is color lit new not Charlie Greenland.

Greenland is right.

What was the classical name for the area where the siege of Lisa took place?

Daring versus synergy two Race War with Julius Caesar in present day France.

Hayat Gaul.

Gaul is right in.

What city did Martin Luther King deliver his?

I been to the and Thomas.

Washington, D.C.. No that's incorrect I'll finish it for Athens.

His I've been to the mountaintop speech during a strike by sanitation workers in 1968.

You have an answer for him?

No.

It was in Memphis just before he was assassinated.

Next what group?

14 Element, which can be purified by reducing quartz, is used in most semi-conductors and is a silicon silicone is right.

What director of Pacific Rim and Pan's Labyrinth won Best Director for the best picture winning film The Shape of Water.

Yes, that's true.

That's correct.

Well done, Morgan.

What Greek goddess was the daughter of chaos?

Had numerous children with Uranus, including.

And it is Charlie.

Gaia.

Gaia is right.

What convert to Christianity was struck blind on the road to Damascus.

Charlie the.

Apostle Paul.

That's right.

Continuing on 20 points each in 1972, which country repudiated its dominion status, became a republic under Prime Minister Sir Sir Rima vo Bandar run.

I thank you so much, Charlie.

South Africa.

No, that's incorrect.

And changed his name from, say, Lon.

Do you have an answer for me?

I'm a Bryant Thomas.

Iran, not Sri Lanka is the answer.

What highest point of Turkey is?

About 40 miles from Armenia's capital, Charlie Mount era.

That is right.

What author describe memories evoked by the song The Last of All?

Graham in his story, The Dead, and depicted Dublin life in his modernist novel, Ulysses Charles Joyce.

James Joyce is right.

What field of philosophy in which the get to problems pose issues of the concept of justified true believe concerns the nature of knowledge?

Yes.

Charlie Epistemology that's correct as well.

What organelle that contains stacks of thigh liquids called guarana also contains the pigment chlorophyl and performs and Thomas Sagan please chloroplast.

Yes that's correct.

A 1949 painting by Frida Kahlo depicts the face of what man whom she married, Charlie.

Diego.

Rivera.

That is right.

4 minutes left.

A 2021 military coup deposed what country's ruling NLD party, which was criticized for enabling the Rohingya genocide and is led by Aung San Suu Kyi.

And Charlie.

Myanmar.

Myanmar or Burma is acceptable, right?

Next.

What type of poem which has 19 lines, is exemplified by Elizabeth Bishop's one art and Dylan Thomas's Do Not Go and Thomas Villanelle.

Villanelle is right.

What law which was upheld in NFIB versus Subi Solus created a Cadillac tax.

Charlie Obamacare?

Yes, yes.

That's one of the answers.

Acceptable Affordable Care Act as well.

According to Vesper theory, what molecular geometries possessed by the water molecule, which has a bond angle?

Thomas Oh, angular.

No, that's incorrect.

Has a water molecule, Athens, which has a bond angle of about 104 degrees.

Charlie Trigger no.

Planner No.

It's a bent molecular geometry.

What building on the Platts Dear Republic, for which architect Norman Foster designed a glass dome is the meeting place.

Charlie the Reichstag.

Rock star is the German parliament.

The Magdalena River is the longest river in what South American country whose cities include Medellin and Cali and Charlie.

Columbia.

Columbia is right.

What unit equals one kilogram meter squared per second cubed or one joule per second is the c unit of power in the name and it's Thomas.

What what is right?

William Calley was convicted of leading, what, 1968 massacre in which U.S. soldiers killed up to 500 Vietnamese civilians.

And My Lai massacre?

That is correct.

My Lai massacre is right.

What show in which Max is saved by Kate Bush's song Running Up Stranger Things?

That's right through what term derived from the Tongan and Fijian for disallowed or prohibited reversed.

Charlie Taboo.

Taboo is right.

What composer of pay ven for a dead princess Daphnis, Ella, Chloe and Gaspar Dula.

We also wrote a repetitive snare drum rhythm for his boléro.

And who is it?

Ravel.

Ravel's Bolero.

Correct.

And a minute and a half left the black market dealer Qatar goes insane after profiting from the title epidemic, which Dr. Raya helps to combat.

Charlie Love in the Time of Cholera.

No for you Alma my to Combat in What Novel by Albert Camus.

You have an answer to this, Thomas the Spanish flu called the Plague.

The Plague What Lake, which contains the roosting and the Sisi Islands, lies on the border of Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.

Mia and is named Dave Charlie Lake Victoria.

Lake Victoria is right.

One or two more questions.

Let's do a pencil and paper and do one more question.

What is the degree of polynomial that results from multiplying a cubic polynomial by a quadratic polynomial?

That's the degree.

Thomas six.

Though.

That's incorrect.

Athens You have an answer?

Yes.

John seventh.

No, we went wrong way.

It's five is the last question of the day.

So lay your pens down.

Thank you all for playing.

Both of you.

Played well.

A very competitive round between Alma Matter and Athens.

I'm a Bryant.

I want that does it right.

The only one that does that is someone else do that occasionally.

I'm a bride.

I'll get it right at the end.

That's going to do it for our show today.

The winner of today's round is Athens High School.

You guys played well.

You all played well as well.

Congratulations to you as you continue on on the Alabama Scholars Bowl.

We thank you for watching every week here on Alabama Public Television.

My name is Mike Royer.

We'll be back again and we hope you'll be back to have a great day, everybody.