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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 I enjoy hosting this program each week statewide on Alabama Public Television.

We're glad you've joined us for another program today.

The competition is intense every week because the brightest students from all around Alabama come to compete, answering questions on a wide variety of topics.

Today, we welcome back to the studio, the fine students from West Point.

Up in Cullman County.

It's good to see you again.

And Baker High School from Mobile traveling up to Montgomery to be with us.

It's good to have all of you in the studio.

You ready to play?

As you know and as you may know, at home, we do 20 questions.

First, the team that answers correctly gets a bonus question.

Then the lightning Round four categories for the players to choose from.

And we end the program with the time remaining with 20 questions each worth 20 points.

And that could completely turn the competition around.

So we think it's exciting.

We hope you do, too.

Let's get started.

Everybody ready?

Buttons in hand.

Question number one What type of cell which is regulated by the Fox p three f0 XP three gene has a cytotoxic and helper varieties and is Henry T cell.

T cell is correct.

Bonus.

What port on the Red Sea is the second most populous city in Saudi Arabia or Hormuz?

It is Jeddah.

Jeddah is the city.

What empire lost Anatolia after the battle of Mansur Kurt and was governed by the Communist dynasty and by Justinian, the great from Constantinople.

Byzantine, Byzantine empires.

Right.

Your bonus mystic poet Rumi and polymath Omar Khayyam, who were both Muslim, wrote most of their poetry, not in Arabic, but in what other language as Persian.

Persian is right, everybody?

What quantity which is measured using the Cattell culture fair test.

And the Stanford-Binet test has a median Henry intelligence.

That's right.

IQ or intelligence.

Bonus question homo lytic cleavage forms.

What type of chemical species that are especially reactive because they have unpaired electrons?

What are those called?

Radicals.

Radicals is right.

Both.

James what?

Northeastern state in which Democrat Sarah Gideon lost a 2020 Senate election to incumbent Susan Collins is led by and will Maine.

Maine is the right state.

Bonus Which artistic movement included the female painters?

Eva Gonzales, Marie Breck, Armand Baird, Mosey, Mo zero and Mary Cassatt.

Bail me out.

Somebody impressionist.

Good enough.

Judges, Impressionism is the right answer.

That's right.

What country?

Which is home to the Riff Mountains also contains the western terminus.

BRADY Morocco is correct.

Bonus question for your team.

BRADY Characters named Snowball and Napoleon represent Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin in what allegory of the Russian Revolution written by George Orwell?

Animal Farm.

Animal Farm is right.

Next question.

What painter of Netherlandish Proverbs nickname for his Paintings of Peasants was a Flemish artist who painted landscape Henri Van Eyck.

That is incorrect.

He painted landscape with the fall of Icarus.

Icarus.

Thank you.

Yes.

Pieter Bruegel.

That is the right answer.

Well done, Brodie.

This is your bonus question.

What river that flows through or LAN tours and not is the longest in France the sin?

It is the larger Loire River.

Next question.

What molecule?

Whose concentration can be measured in Dobson units?

And buzzing in again is Brody Ozone.

Ozone is the right answer.

Bonus The Three Kingdoms period followed which Chinese dynasty fine founded by Liu Bang that was overthrown by the Yellow Turban Rebellion.

CHIN No, I think I heard the right answer earlier.

Hun is the right answer.

Here's the question for everyone again.

What British author rewrote six fairy tales in his 1982 book, Revolting Rhymes, and described golden tickets in Charlie and the End.

It is Brody Dahl.

Dahl is right.

Roald Dahl.

That's correct.

And you get a bonus question.

Here it is.

What quantity which equals the cross product of displacement and force is the rotational analog of force and is symbolized tall or to you talk?

Talk is correct toss up what theologian who equated knowledge of self and knowledge of God in his institutes of the Christian religion was a Protestant Henri Calvin John Calvin is right bonus what Spanish painter of the opening of the fifth seal and view of Toledo of Toledo is usually called by a nickname, referring to his birth on Crete.

El Greco.

El Greco is correct.

What primary color which is opposite cyan on a modern color we'll once use pigments extracted from cinnabar.

It has shades, including scarlet.

It's Brody Red.

Red is right.

Bonus question for you.

What two word English name is given to Israel's air defense system deployed in 2011 that intercepts incoming artillery shells and rockets.

I know.

I'm sorry.

I. I know.

The right answer is the iron dome.

The Iron Dome.

Here's everyone's question.

What material made from better keratin has high tensile strength, is produced by spinner jets and is used for ballooning and catching greedy spider web judges.

Yes, spider silk spider webs as acceptable.

Bonus question for your team What Englishwoman use twist endings in her mysteries The murder of Roger Ackroyd and Death on the Nile, which both feature detective Hercule Perot.

Agatha Christie.

Agatha Christie's correct.

What act, which was declared a federal hate crime in March of 2022, is an extra judicial attack.

And it's Bryant lynching.

Lynching is right.

Bonus question for you in what Jason Bourne franchise in the Jason Bourne franchise, Bourne suffers from what psychological condition that has retrograde and enter into pro grade types.

Amnesia.

Amnesia is right toss up everybody.

What president under whom?

The Departments of Energy and Education Reform gave up his Georgia peanut farm after defeating Gerald Ford.

Will Carter Jimmy Carter's write bonus question Which English king was overthrown after the immortal seven issued the invitation to William, thus beginning the Glorious Revolution?

Charles The second.

Nope, it's James the second next question What philosopher whose books include untimely meditations and the Gay Science wrote about and Bayesian in Brody Nature.

Nature is right bonus for your team the so-called classical test of what theory include explaining the perihelion process, precession of mercury and observing light bending around the sun, but.

Relativity general.

General general relativity is correct.

Toss up everybody in 2022.

What man who made Chris Pincher Deputy Chief Whip, despite misconduct charges, was forced by his cabinet to resign his Great Britain's prime minister.

Answer from I'm looking.

Will Johnson.

Boris Johnson is right.

Your bonus to answer is required here, gentlemen.

What two U.S. states share the longest border, much of it along the Red River.

Oklahoma and Texas.

That's correct.

Pencil and paper, everybody, for this toss up question, what is the sum of the fractions?

1/10 plus 1/11 answer for mark two two.

Okay.

Do you guys have a answer?

Yes.

21 over one.

21 Nope.

That's not correct either.

It's 21 over one, 1021 over 110 move in on what film?

Who's making is the subject of the T series?

TV series?

The offer features the line I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.

And as will the Godfather.

The Godfather is right.

Your bonus an oscillating crystal of what mineral is used to accurately keep time in modern clocks and watches.

Cesium that is incorrect answers.

Quartz.

Quartz.

Three more questions.

What colony where hidden wars settled became independent after the 1962 Evian accords and was France's Henri Algeria.

Algeria is correct.

Your bonus a magician brings the title puppet to life in the Petrushka, a ballet by what?

Russian composer of the Firebird.

Stravinsky.

Stravinsky is right.

Next question for everyone.

What objects have a planetary type formed by dying stars and a dark and it's Henri Nebula.

Nebula is correct bonus what author the first American woman to win a Nobel Prize for Literature wrote novels inspired by her youth as a daughter of missionaries in China.

Amy Tan it know it is Pearl Buck Pearl s buck.

Last question of the round what sea borders?

The Port of Rashed receives the waters of the Volga River and borders five countries including ever bhaijaan Iran and Henry Caspian.

Caspian Sea is right.

And one last bonus question the regions around 30 degrees latitude are named after what animals whose wild members in the American West are called Mustangs.

Horses.

Horses is correct.

Let your pens down.

Relax.

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

And this time the team that is trailing will choose first, choose one category.

The other team then will play two of the four and they'll remaining one goes back to the team that is trailing at this point.

And trailing in our competition right now is West Point.

And so West Point, you will choose from one of these be in science, opera, river cities and lines, and we will choose and play that after we meet all of you.

So, John Davis, if you would begin and would each of you just tell us a little bit about yourself.

John Doe, which of you know, I'm a sophomore at West Point High School and I'm on the maxim.

I'm Abigail Roy.

I'm a senior at West Point High School and I play the piano.

Good for.

You.

I'm Brody.

Henry.

I'm a sophomore at West Point High School, and I am also on the math team.

Good for you.

I'm Brady Laughlin, a freshman at West Point High School.

And I'm also on the math team very good.

We were all playing very well.

And I know your faculty and your family's proud of you all and you're playing well today.

Let's come over and meet the folks from Baker from down in beautiful Mobile.

Amaro I'm a junior.

And I turned 17 two days ago.

Happy birthday, Mark.

I'm Will.

I'm a senior at Baker, and I like playing soccer.

All right, I'm Brant.

I'm a junior at Baker.

And I like William Esper is very good.

And Henry and.

Henry.

I'm a junior at Baker, and I like William Yates.

Very good.

Well, we like you all being here, and we're glad you're here.

We're going to come back over to West Point.

Now, you've heard the categories V in Science, Opera, River, Cities and Lines and Brody.

Which one will your team play first?

These river cities.

All right.

Let's see how this goes.

60 seconds.

Once I begin asking you the questions and what you're going to do is which national capital sits on these rivers ready to go?

The Thames, London.

That's right.

Knee poor past Tiber, Rome to right the Potomac.

And Washington.

D.C.. That's right.

The scene.

In Paris.

River, Liffey.

Dublin, Hong Beijing.

No, that's incorrect.

It's South Korea, Seoul, either of the two.

Niger pass the Vltava in Warsaw.

Now it's Prague and the Tigris in Baghdad.

That's correct.

You skipped ne poor kilometer?

No, only poor is on Kiev and Hahn time is up and that's Seoul, South Korea.

All right.

Those were challenging, but you did pretty well.

We'll come back over now to Baker and you guys get to choose from what's left B in science, opera and lines.

What do you want to do in science?

And mine's.

Very good.

Let's do V in science first, if that's agreeable to you gentlemen.

And in 60 seconds you're going to identify these terms from science that start with the letter V. Simple enough.

Number one, a space completely devoid of matter, vacuum in math, a placeholder for an unknown value such as x electrons in an atomic outer shell.

Valence.

Density equals mass divided by quantity organelle that stores waste actual element with atomic symbol.

Then it is the body.

You got it anyway.

Body parts such as an organ that has lost its function pass a measure of a fluids resistance to flow essential amino acid with one letter abbreviation v pass a process of widening blood vessels kill pass.

All right back to essential amino acid with one letter abbreviation V if you just what else did they pass on judges seven body parts such as an organ that has lost its function.

This is a rule.

In process of writing the blood cells that we ever come up with that.

Venture occasion.

Okay, time is up there.

So based, so dilation and vestigial.

This did Joel was the one of an organ that's lost its function.

All right.

Let's move on and forget we ever saw that category.

What do you say?

Opera and lines.

And you're taking lines as your second choice.

Is that right, Henry?

You're going to answer the following about lines 60 seconds.

Here we go.

Number of lines in a typical haiku, three mathematician whose fifth postulate appeals.

That's right, British word for a line in which people wait.

Q You sport whose Mendoza line is a baseball article one.

These lines include the San Andreas One Fault in football standard number of offensive linemen on the field at one time five that's right longitude line that preceded or fight over the Oregon territory 49th.

No it's 5440 or fight host of Whose Line Is It Anyway and the Price is Right.

Barker No.

Drew Carey lines above or below a musical staff.

With.

Ledger lines.

Ledger lines is right fringe defensive line.

The Germans went around saying, you know, that's correct, that everybody got them all or just missed one or two.

Good job, you guys.

That was challenging, but you did a good job.

And West Point, I know you're excited to be handed the last category, which is opera.

We all love opera.

And I know you'll kill this.

Let's find out.

Okay.

You're going to answer the follo composer, Don Giovanni and The Magic Flute.

Mozart.

That's correct.

US city, home to the Metropolitan Opera, New York.

That's right, George.

Busy title.

Gypsy, who loves a bullfighter.

That's right.

Language of Giuseppe Verdi's La Traviata.

If you.

What's your answer?

Italian.

Italian is right.

German composer of the ring cycle.

And that's right Maria Callas voice type which is higher than alto soprano.

That's right.

Gioacchino Rossini Opera, whose title character shoots an apple off his son's head.

We all know.

That's right.

Orchestral piece that often begins an opera.

And or oratorio.

No, it's Overture, surname of Porgy and Bess, creator George and Ira Gershwin.

That's right.

And Giacomo Puccini's opera that inspired the musical rent.

Oh, La Boheme.

That's correct.

Didn't skip any, did we?

All right.

You guys did a good job with operas.

I would have avoided operas till the end of the program and maybe later.

But you guys all did great with those.

Now we will move on to our speed round.

In the time we have left, which is seven and a half minutes, we have 20 point questions.

Every one of these questions is worth 20 points.

If you know the answer, answer it.

Let's go and see how many we can do.

What man who popularized the idea of the African-American double conscious nurse in the soul of black folk, was a co-founder of the Boys Birdie Boys.

That's right.

DuBose is right.

A massacre of indigenous people and over 260 hangings were ordered by Governor George Arthur in what Australian state once called then demons land.

Henry Tasmania.

That's right.

John Kemeny and Thomas KURTZ developed what programing language which may contain lines like Godot ten go to ten and is named for its general simplicity.

Henry See?

No, that's incorrect.

You have an answer?

West Point.

Yes.

Python.

No, it's called basic.

Just basic.

What Planned City built east of Zuma Rock has served since 1991 is the capital of Nigeria.

Abuja.

Abuja is right will in what plays the rude mechanicals production of.

A midsummer Night's.

Dream that a midsummer Night's Dream is right.

What phase transition which is the opposite of sublimation?

Henry deposition.

That's correct.

What building, which was completed in 1800 and was designed by James Hoban, is depicted on the $20 bill.

Will the White House?

That's right.

The Palazzo Pitti was the main residence of what Florentine banking family that included Medici.

Medici is right.

What term?

That describes a piece played in response to applause.

Typically at the end of the concert.

Encore.

Encore is right.

Abigail.

Stereo Madness and Club Step are levels.

In one dash.

Geometry dash is right pencil and paper for this next one.

What is the square root of -121 given that the square root of negative one Henry.

11 I.

Yes, zero plus or 11 I pencil in paper again two answers required here.

The quantity for x squared -25 can be factored into what to buy no meals with integer coefficients and it's Henry two.

X minus five and two x plus.

Five.

That's correct.

Both answers are right.

What act?

Whose preclearance requirements were ended by Shelby County V Holder and banned literacy test and other forms of discrimination.

Henry Voting Act.

Judges need more information.

Polars act.

No, that's incorrect.

The Voting Rights Act.

Voting Rights Act?

That's correct.

It was done in 1965.

Next, William Wordsworth helped to create what poetic era that lasted from roughly 1800.

Romanticism.

That's right.

What author whose novel Oil was adapted into the film?

Brody Upton.

Sinclair.

That's right.

What current member of Joe Biden's cabinet was unsuccessfully nominated to the Supreme Court and is Will Garland?

That's right.

Merrick Garland, what producer of the 2021 film Candyman, who directed the horror films?

Henry Peel.

Peel is Right.

What adjective describes a factor that is that divides evenly into an integer in and is strictly less than in such as two with respect to 12 Henry.

These come in factor.

No here say again divisor no a least common divisor no.

The right answer is proper divisor.

Proper divisor.

One set of elements that Iupac defines as possessing partially filled d henry.

People.

Know I'll finish it for you.

Partially filled de orbitals includes copper and is found in the middle of the periodic table.

It is what.

Meadow's.

A little more.

Anything else?

It is transition metals.

Transition Metals.

In 2017, what British actress became the first woman to play the time lord protagonist of the BBC series Doctor Who The New One and Johnson.

Mark Johnson No, no.

Whittaker Next question.

What author wrote about two sisters who are murdered with an ax by pawn shop?

Clive Rodeo?

Dostoyevsky?

Yes, that is correct.

I had to read on to find it.

What 1990 law authored by Tom Harkin made closed captioning will ada.

That is correct.

What did he whose name sakes?

Gates were kept open only during wartime.

Janis.

Janis is right.

Moving on with two and a half minutes left.

What biologist proposed the law of segregation and the law of independent middle.

Mendel is right.

White man was the first European to see the Dry Tortugas was the first Spanish governor Henri Ponce de Leon.

Ponce de Leon is right.

What country is President?

Jovenel Moise was assassinated in July of 2021.

And Will Haiti?

Haiti is right.

What character who was given an enchanted girdle by Lady Bird Tilak participates.

Henry.

There will be.

No I'll finish this.

Participates in a beheading game proposed to the roundtable.

Sir Gawain.

That's.

That's right.

From 1957 to 1968, Martin Luther King led what?

Civil rights organization?

An alliance of religious leaders who organized the Poor People's Campaign.

Henry Southern Baptist.

No, that's incorrect.

The Poor People's Campaign.

Do you have an answer for that?

West Point?

Yes.

Pastors for Civil Rights.

No.

It's the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

In what sport do participants wear a conductive, low made garment?

Fencing marked fencing is right in lay miserable.

What daughter of 19 is adopted?

Henry.

Caroline.

I'll finish it for you.

Is adopted by Constance Cousins.

No, that's not right.

The right answer is cassette Cosette.

What organ that can be affected by scarring in cirrhosis is well, the liver is right.

What?

1990s R&B group said Billboard number one Longevity Records with songs like I'll Make Love to You and the Mariah Carey collaboration One Sweet Day Boys, Boys to Men.

Yes, sir.

That's right.

What Canadian territory moved to permanent Mountain Standard Time in 2020 is home to Canada's highest point, Mount Logan, and is led from Whitehorse Brant.

Yukon.

Yukon is right.

This is the last question that the core is a form of meditation used by diversions or practitioners of what mystical tradition within Islam it is called what Henry Sufism.

Sufism is correct.

Lay down your buttons, you guys.

I don't even know who won.

And you all just really played well.

So fun when the students do such a good job and you both did a great job and Baker, you came out on top in this round.

Congratulations to you.

And we're glad that you played so well.

And West Point, you guys played great.

You rallied there at the end.

It was a good match.

Congratulations.

We thank you so much for watching our program.

We hope you enjoy it as much as we enjoy bringing it to you.

It's called the Alabama Scholars Bowl.

My name is Mike Royer.

We're here every week on Alabama Public Television, and we hope you'll join us again next time.

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