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Questions in science, technology, engineering, math and history.

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Up against the best high school students in Alabama.

Now here's your host, Mike Royer.

Hello, everyone, and welcome to another edition of the Alabama Scholars Bowl here on Alabama Public Television.

My name is Mike Royer.

We welcome you back to the program.

We're so glad you're with us.

Our good friend Sharon Daly is the judge of today's program.

We appreciate everyone that makes the show possible.

Mike Ousley, our executive producer.

And as you know by now, the purpose of the program is to bring bright students from all around Alabama into the studios, and they compete as I ask them questions, hopefully earning scholarship money down the road.

We welcome back to the studio today.

A past winner, Gadsden City.

Good to see you guys.

They participate in one of the closest rounds we've ever had a couple of weeks back.

You may have seen that and also back winning, I believe, last week's program.

Our friends from the Alabama School of Cyber Security and Engineering Technical Engineering.

It's good to have that team back with us as well.

Welcome, everybody.

You know how the game goes.

We'll start with 20 questions and a bonus if your team answers correctly.

Everybody ready?

Buttons in hand.

Here we go.

What book memorized by people with the title.

How is was ordered?

Compiled.

Take the.

Koran.

The Koran is the right answer.

Your bonus in what?

19th century European kingdom was the slogan God, country and king used by enemies of Isabella.

The second who opposed to rule in the car, lost wars.

Spain.

Spain is correct.

Toss up, everybody.

What composer whose namesake Broadway theater is the long time home of Hamilton, wrote The King and I with long time lyricist Tait Rodgers.

That's right, Roger.

Richard Rodgers is right.

Your bonus in 2022, what American company announced plans to split into three divisions, including a Model E division focused on electric cars.

FORD That's your answer.

And it's correct.

What molecules everyone produced in the Williamson synthesis had the generic formula o r prime and have a digital type once used by a general anesthetic.

Take alkanes that's incorrect gets and you have an answer this is proteins.

The answer was ethers.

Ethers is the right answer.

What man who beat Dave McCormick in a 2022 Republican primary is running against John Fetterman in Pennsylvania State?

Mehmet Oz.

That's right.

Oz is the right answer.

Cantaloupe terrain for your bonus Crayola via lakes and a retrograde orbit are among the unusual features of what largest moon of Neptune Triton.

Triton is right toss up question What country is home to the tune of Maddie at German and contains the junction of White Nile and Blue Nile at its capital, Sudan?

Sudan is correct.

Your bonus two answers are required for you.

This question What two countries faced off in the food showdown incident in what is now South Sudan before signing the Entente Cordiale in 1904.

Egypt and Libya.

The United Kingdom and France were the two.

We were looking for their what structures are covered with the hardest material in the body have some and tum pulp and dentin layers and it's little Elizabeth.

Teeth.

Teeth is the right answer.

Well done.

Bonus question What year in the Chinese zodiac, which began in February of 2022, falls between the years of the ox and the rabbit.

Need an answer?

You're the pig.

That's the tiger.

It's the tiger.

What dynasty?

Whose young girl?

The egg.

The Ming Dynasty.

The Ming Dynasty is right.

Your bonus.

What capital of the Indian state of West Bengal is the site of a missionary congregation founded by Mother Teresa Calcutta.

Judges that enough?

Yes, Calcutta is correct.

Next question for everyone.

What God?

Who is married to the golden haired scythe is the eternal and brazen Thor.

Thor is the right answer.

Your bonus.

The speaker claims to be bloody but unbowed in what William Ernest Henley poem that ends.

I am the master of my fate.

I am the captain of my soul.

Take a shot.

No answer.

Invictus.

Invictus.

Toss up What surname we shared by the author of the tragic play Camille, and by his father, who depicted 17th century French soldiers in the Three Musketeers.

Take DeMar.

Dumas correct.

Bonus What term denotes the position in baseball for a player who bats in place of the pitcher and does not play in the field.

The designated batter.

Judges?

That's incorrect.

The right answer is designated hitter.

That's the proper name, pencil and paper.

Everybody.

All all eight pencils up for this.

What is the fifth term of the arithmetic sequence?

Whose first term is four, whose second term is seven?

And his third term is take 16.

16 is right.

The third term is ten.

16 is right.

Your bonus what vertebra say came species named after it's used in controlling cane beetles secretes a powerful toxin that can kill crocodiles.

Slug Good guess.

And I've learned today it's toads.

Toads is the right answer.

Next question.

What discipline, which is the subject of the demarcation problem, ideally produces false if viable results, falsifiable results via a method that involves testing hypotheses and.

Bryson Science.

Science is the right answer.

Bonus What Nobel Prize winning author whose last novel was Wrestle Tine, also wrote The Adventures of Augie.

Augie in Augie March.

Saul Bellow.

Saul Bellow is right.

Next question in what country did the assassination of President Juvenile Habib Mira in 1994 sparked the mass murder of Tutsis in the Central African genocide?

Rwanda.

Rwanda is correct.

What Confederate General, this is your bonus.

Who oversaw the massacre of surrounding black?

Surrendering black soldiers at Fort Pillow became the first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.

Nathan Bedford Forrest.

That's right.

Here's a question for everyone.

What island where the linear a script was once used was home?

Tate Crete Crete is correct.

The bonus pencil and paper for the bonus question what speed in meters per second is equivalent to 18 kilometers per hour, given that there are 3600 seconds in one hour, God asked you to be as quick as you can.

I need an answer pretty soon.

What's you got?

20,000.

It's five meters per second or 18 kilometers per hour.

Times 1000.

Next question.

What constant?

Whose use is discouraged by the route by the Tao manifest sto is equal to the circumference divided by diameter.

Elizabeth Pi pi is the right answer.

You're a bonus.

In what country did Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, whose brother Gotabaya is the president, resign in May 20, 22 after violent protest in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka is right.

Feel free when I'm struggling just to jump right in.

What author who wrote the reviews under the pseudonym Cornell DBA Seto wrote, and the answer from Swift guessed Sagan Swift.

No, that's incorrect.

Wrote about a bed made by phonetics Professor Henry Higgins in Pygmalion.

Shaw.

Shaw is the right answer.

Your bonus.

What city on the Swan River is the capital and most populous city of Western Australia?

No answer.

Perth is the city they're looking for.

What politic?

Who was assassinated by Karl Weiss promoted a populist campaign called Share Our Wealth and was a kingfish from Louisiana.

Take Huey Long.

Huey Long is right.

The bonus mallet is converted to ox a lower send trade, which then reacts with a salt Alcoa in what metabolic cycle?

In Arabic respiration.

Krebs cycle.

Judges yes.

Krebs cycle is accepted.

Next question What task for which John?

John then funnyman created a merge algorithm can be done using quick or or bubble algorithms and take.

Sort.

Yes judges.

That's good enough.

Short or sorting your bonus question.

Arturo Toscanini stated At this point the manifesto died at the premiere of What Opera by Gian Amo Puccini that features the aria nessun Nessun Dorma.

Taranto.

That's correct.

Two, three more questions in this round.

What American composer of El Solo in Mexico arrange the fiddle tune, take Copland.

Copeland is right bonus in what US city were ten people killed and three injured in a May 2022 mass shooting at a supermarket in its East Side neighborhood.

Buffalo.

That is right toss up what TV show in which idealistic Philadelphia resident Janine Keys is played by Chris Elementary?

Abbott Elementary is right.

Here's your bonus question, Gaston What Swedish playwright depicted the miserable tenants of an apartment building in the Ghost Sonata and portrayed the cruel valet John in Miss Julie Darko?

The answer is August Strindberg.

August Strindberg.

Last question of this round gang.

What phenomena?

Whose semi-rural type cycles through high and low phases?

Twice a day are caused by the moon's gravity and tide?

Tides is the right answer.

You get the last bonus question What law enforcement official created COINTELPRO to spy on civil rights leaders in the 1950s and was the first director of the FBI?

HOOVER That's right.

J. Edgar Hoover Well done.

Good ending to the round for you guys.

Sin City, relax.

We're going to do a lightning round in a second.

I'm first going to tell you the four categories.

The team that's trailing at this point in our round, that will be Gadsden City.

You will choose first, then the Alabama cyber tech folks will choose second, and you'll choose two categories.

And whatever's left gets in city will play at the end.

Our categories are these numbers, laws and presidents, the Danube and finally governors.

Those are the OR four categories.

Think about those categories.

Gets into your shoes.

First in just a moment.

Before we do that, let's go over to Corbin and ask each of our players on both teams to tell us a bit about yourself, who you are, what grade, favorite subject, whatever you'd like to do.

Corbin Hi.

Uh, my name is Corbin.

Uh, I am a sophomore at Kansas City High School, and my favorite is my favorite subject is history already.

My name is Nick Nagarajan.

I'm a senior at Gaston City High School, and my favorite subject is math.

I mean, I'm a sophomore, I guess, in high school.

And my favorite subject history, Chris Holder.

I'm a freshman at Kaczynski High School.

My favorite subject is math.

Very good.

My name is Elizabeth.

I'm a junior at A.C.T., and my favorite novel is Little Women.

Hi, I'm Tae Osborne from A.C.T..

I'm a sophomore, and my favorite novel is 1984.

I'm Bryson.

I'm a sophomore at A.C.T., and my favorite novel is The Way of Kings.

My name is Eugene Park.

I'm a sophomore at A.C.T., and my favorite series is The Inheritance Cycle.

Very good.

Good to have you all with us.

You're all playing well.

I know your teachers and family are proud of you and so are we.

Let's do a little lightning round.

You answer ten questions in 60 seconds, girls in city.

You get to choose first.

And what is your choice?

The Danube.

The Danube?

Very well.

When I begin, you'll have 60 seconds.

And what you're going to do is answer the following about the Danube River.

Here we go, capital of Austria, through which it flows into Vienna, Eastern European Sea, in which it drains Black Sea, the only river in Europe longer than it the Volga.

That's right.

Austria-Hungary.

Syrian dynasty, sometimes called the Danube and Monarchy.

After.

Hapsburg.

That's right.

Country whose city of Bratislava is on its shores.

That's right.

Composer of the Blue Danube Waltz.

Yeah.

Cross country that is home to the Break River.

The Danube Source Germany.

That's right.

Organization that refers to the Danube as Corridor seven.

Past Oak River connected to the Danube and the Rhine via the rammed canal.

Elbow.

That's incorrect.

It's the mine.

Serbian city where the Danube meets the Sava River.

Well, no, it's Belgrade.

And what did we skip?

Number five is Time is up.

Time is up.

All right.

Pretty good job for those.

Those are pretty hard.

And you did a good job with those.

And now we come over to A.C.T.

and Gang.

You get to choose two categories.

What do you want to do?

We'll do numbers for the first one and laws and presidents for the second.

Very good numbers.

You're going to name these type solve on the gas numbers.

All right.

Here we go.

60 seconds integers divisible by two, even sequence beginning one, one, two, three.

Fibonacci numbers that equal an integer to the third power.

Perfect.

Q That's right.

Real numbers that equal an integ Right?

That's right.

Integers created then one that are not prime composite.

That's right.

Numbers whose square is a negative number complex.

That's incorrect.

It's imaginary subset of the integers denoted in natural.

That's right.

Real numbers that are not algebra, craic.

Transcendental.

That's correct.

Any number one less than a power of two.

Uh, Mersenne prime.

That's right.

Numbers less than the sum of their proper positive factors.

But Skip.

That's the only one they skipped, isn't it?

Numbers less than the sum of their proper positive factors.

Abundant numbers.

We heard of that before.

Join the club next.

Did you say laws and presidents for your next choice?

Is that right?

Laws and presidents in the 60 seconds, you're given you're going to given be given a piece of legislation named the president in office.

When the legislation passed.

Simple enough, easy for me to say.

Here we go.

Patriot Act.

George W Bush Civil Rights Act.

Uh, Lyndon.

Johnson, the first Homestead Act.

Uh.

Rutherford Hayes.

It was Lincoln Alien and Sedition Acts.

John Adams.

That's right.

Agriculture Adjustment Act.

Jimmy Carter.

FDR, Kansas.

Nebraska Act.

Uh.

Buchanan It was Pierce per Pure Food and Drug Act.

Theodore Roosevelt.

That's right.

Compromise of 1850.

Buchanan.

Fillmore.

Smoot-Hawley Tariff.

McKinley.

Hoover Interstate Highway Act.

Eisenhower.

That's correct.

Didn't skip any.

Just missed a couple.

Well done.

That was very well done.

So we'll go back now to Gadsden City.

You get stuck with governors.

Okay, name the state that is governor governed by these politicians in August of 2022.

Here we go, 60 seconds.

Ron DeSantis.

Or.

Florida, Gavin Newsom, California, California.

J.B. Pritzker, give Eric Holcomb.

Massachusetts.

It's Indiana.

Brian Kemp who beat Stacey Abrams in 2018.

New York, it's Georgia.

Greg Abbott, a Republican, first elected in 2014.

Skip Glenn Youngkin.

Skip Kathy Hochul, Rhode Island.

It's New York.

Gretchen Whitmer, the target of the 2020 kidnaping plot.

Texas.

Michigan.

Kate Brown, the first openly bisexual governor of a state.

Wyoming.

Oregon.

And you skipped JP Pritzker, who governs from Springfield, Illinois.

That's right.

Illinois is correct.

Well done.

That was kind of hard.

That's kind of hard.

We often don't hear governors names until they're in the news.

That concludes our lightning round.

We have 6 minutes and 35 seconds left in our program today.

During that time, all we do is questions and answers, each worth 20 points.

Good luck to you as we do as many of these as we can.

What war and which forces under Winfield Scott captured date Mexican-American War?

That's right.

A triangle with a vertical line at one vertex is the circuit symbol for what devices which ideally allow current to pass only diode.

That's right.

In 1965, what Western Hemisphere country replaced its national flag, the Red Ensign, with a new red and white flag that depicts a maple leaf of Canada.

That is correct, Eugene in what autobiography?

Autobiographical book by Laura Ingalls Wilder what titled term describes a dwelling in the big woods too.

Little.

House.

Little House is right.

What novel in which a vacation to New Mexico changes the life of Bernard Marx depicts a. Brave new world?

Yes.

A 2022 collaborative pixel and project called Place was hosted by what website nicknamed the front page of the Internet.

Yes, sir.

Google.

That's incorrect.

You have an answer?

Read it.

Read it is right.

What man who lives on a houseboat called Almost Heaven was instrumental in crafting the Inflation Reduction Act and is a West Virginia senator.

Joe Manchin That's.

Correct.

What phenomenon gives rise to BARC housing noise occurs below the Curie temperature and is displayed by cobalt and iron has electricity.

That is incorrect.

Right.

Right.

Judges, do you guys have an answer?

Yes.

Sublimation.

It's Ferro.

Magnetism is the right answer.

What unit is the energy needed to warm one kilogram of water?

Coulomb.

That is incorrect.

One cubic one kilogram water by one degrees Celsius and often appears on nutrition.

Take calorie calories, right?

What man who won the Pulitzer Prize for his 2019 novel about a Florida reform school, The Nickel Boys, also won one of the underground Round Railroad.

One one for that, the Underground Railroad.

Jensen Nova's Colson Whitehead.

Colson Whitehead.

After what battle in which Dottie's invading Persians lost to the.

Marathon.

Battle of Marathon is right?

What libertarian economist at the University of Chicago wrote the book Capitalism and Freedom Tape.

Milton Friedman.

What that's right.

What American author created Reverend T Lawrence Shannon.

Tennessee Williams.

Yes.

Which French dynasty whose founder said Paris is well worth a master bourbon.

That is right.

Little less than 4 minutes left.

What artist who included vampire and the sick child in the frieze of life?

Tate Monk.

That's right.

What item?

A symbol of authority was sought by the crew of the Argo, a ship led by.

The Golden Fleece?

That's right.

Golden Fleece.

What ruler?

Who drowned in the river?

Salazar.

Yes, Barbarossa.

That's correct.

Cinnabar is the most common mercury.

That's right.

What language was used to praise?

A woman called Leo knew Leo in u h in pioneering sonnets by Petrarch.

Italian.

Italian is right.

What artist whose works the table of silence and Endless column under Romanian Tate Frankish.

What state whose westernmost known of Canton is the mount is in the mountain time zone, has three Western counties, including Cimarron, that form it's Panhandle State.

Idaho.

No, that's incorrect.

Doesn't see it forms the panhandle of the state.

Yes, Oklahoma.

Oklahoma is correct.

La Venta is a major site of what ancient Mesoamerican civilization?

Take the Mayan.

No, that's incorrect.

Mesoamerican civilization, which sculpted many colossal stone heads.

Olmec.

Olmec says.

Right.

What country was ruled from 1936 to 1979 by the Somoza family, after which a war between the Sandinistas and the Contras take Nicaragua.

That's right.

And let's do a little math, pencil and paper.

If a pair of standard six sided dice are rolled, what is the probability that both dice show the same number?

Eight one in.

Six.

One in six is right.

What, 2013 saw on the subject of a copyright lawsuit filed by Christian rapper Flame Ask Are You Ready for the perfect storm in is by Katy Perry and over there to Aden dark horse dark horses right what 1979 correction starting over what 1719 novel by Daniel Defoe is narrated by a ship.

Robinson Crusoe.

Robinson Crusoe is correct.

A minute and a half left.

What organs are enclosed by membranes known as pleura are paired organs with functional tape.

The lungs.

The lungs, correct.

The quasi war pitted the US against what European country is for, and France.

France is correct.

Well done.

What action?

Whose egotistic and fatalistic types are discussed?

Suicide.

Suicide is right, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote a mass in what?

Minor key whose signature has three flats?

Yes, C minor.

C minor is right.

What president who dismissed Edward Stanton in violation.

Take Ulysses S Grant.

That's incorrect.

Do you have an answer for that?

He dismiss Edward sent in violation of the Tenure of Office Act and he became the first president to be impeached.

There you go.

Andrew Johnson.

Andrew Johnson's right.

One more question.

Which chemist who pioneered the atomic theory of matter is the namesake of a law, Tate Dalton.

Dalton is correct.

All right.

Lots of questions, lots of good answers.

Well done by all of you on both teams.

Good job.

Gadson City and our friends from the Alabama School of Cyber Technology and Engineering wins this round today.

Well-played again, gentlemen.

And Elizabeth and gentlemen from Gaston.

Good job today.

We enjoyed this round.

We hope you did, too.

The show is called the Alabama Scholars Bowl.

They call me Mike Royer around here.

And we hope you we'll see you again next week here on Alabama Public Television.