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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, everyone, and welcome once again to the Alabama Scholars Bowl here on Alabama Public Television.

My name is Mike Royer, and it's my privilege to host this program here on Alabama Public Television.

We thank you for watching, and I hope that you've become a regular viewer of our program as we welcome excellent students from all over the state of Alabama who come together to ask questions.

On our program.

And some of them are kind of easy.

A lot of them are kind of hard, but they all do such a great job.

We welcome back to the studio, the students from Lamp High School here in Montgomery.

It's good to see you again and back once again with this Hoover High School.

Gentlemen, it's nice to see you in the studio today as well.

Everyone knows how we play here.

I'll remind you at home, we have 20 questions to start.

The team that answers correctly gets a bonus question for categories of the lightning round in the middle part of the program.

And then the speed round is just question after question, each one worth 20 points until we run out of time.

That's how the game goes.

It's pretty simple.

Let's get started.

Buzzers in hand.

What?

Felsic rock.

Which is the intrusive equivalent of rail light, makes up most of the continental crust and is sometimes within basalt.

No, that's incorrect.

And for you, lamp makes up most of the continental crust and is sometimes used for countertops and it's nickeil granite.

Granite is correct.

Here's your bonus question.

Lamp.

What?

Seven letter word was the name of the medieval region of England, where Norse invaders settled and asserted their own culture and government.

Saxony No, it is Dan Law.

Dane Law, I believe, is the pronunciation.

Next toss up question What Caribbean country includes the islands of Andros, Great Eczema and New Providence, the last of which contains the capital, Christian Bahamas.

The Bahamas is the right answer.

Bonus question for Hoover Electric flux equals enclosed charge over Epsilon not according to what law whose analog for magnetism assumes no magnetic monopoles.

Well.

I mean gauss's.

Law.

That's correct.

Next question for both teams.

John Carpenter was the first American winner of the jackpot on what gameshow once hosted by Regis Philbin and buzzing in is Mithun.

Who Wants to be a millionaire?

Who Wants to be a millionaire is right.

You get a bonus question.

HOOVER The archeological site of Lyness on Meadows, is on White Island, which is home to the Canadian provincial capital of St John's.

Then we need an answer.

Newfoundland.

Newfoundland is correct.

That's the right answer.

Toss up, everybody.

What party which largely absorbed the anti Masonic party had its first Aidan.

Wig.

Whig Party is right.

Bonus question now what union calvary commander devastated Virginia's Shenandoah Valley in 1864 and helped trap Confederate forces at Appomattox.

Who was that?

Commander Grant?

No, it was Sheridan.

Sheridan was the answer to that one.

Grab your pencils.

Let's do a little math here today.

What is the value in sense of six coins, given the coins include one quarter, three dimes and two nickels and the answer from within 75, that's incorrect.

Do you have an answer for me?

What do you have?

65.

$0.65 is correct.

Bonus question for Lampe What is the name of a part of a circle bounded by two radii and an arc resembling a slice of pie?

What's that.

Called?

Sector.

Sector is correct.

Tossup question What author who wrote about the marriage of Jack Potter in his story, The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky wrote the novel The Red, and it's I Don't See a Light.

There it is.

Chris Crane.

That's right.

Steven Crane is the right answer.

Your bonus question, what city where Amazon canceled plans to build its HQ two campus contains an Amazon warehouse that was unionized by Christian Smalls in 2022.

What city?

New York.

City.

New York City is correct.

Next question for Avery.

One, What European country whose traditional dishes include paprikash and goulash, has a namesake?

None.

Indo European language and is home.

Aiden Hungary.

Hungary.

Hungary is the right answer bonus for you.

The Shepherd Gabriel Oak wishes to marry landowner Bathsheba Everdeen in what Thomas Hardy novel, whose title refers to its rule setting.

0000.

Or elegy set in a country churchyard.

No, it is far from the madding crowd.

Toss up, everyone.

What country which joined Argentina and Uruguay in the war of the Triple Alliance.

Aiden Brazil.

Brazil is correct.

Another bonus and you'll want to do some pencil and paper with this one.

What integer can be expressed in scientific notation as four times ten raised to the eighth power?

400?

Yeah, 400 million.

That is correct.

Next question.

Both teams.

What sculptor who created man with the broken nose names the Philadelphia Museum that displays his works, the burghers of Calais and its myth in Rodin.

Rodin is correct.

Auguste Rodin Bonus question What Greek God made the first horse, carried a Triton and ruled the seas?

Poseidon.

Poseidon is correct.

Toss up question What city whose territory includes the glassmaking island of Murano was once ruled by Dodges and has gondolas and buzzing in Venice.

Venice is right.

Bonus question What French novella is named after a childlike character who uproots?

Bao Bao Bao tab trees that threaten the asteroid where he lives.

Yeah, the little prince.

Little prince is right.

Next question.

What British author imagined a damsel with a dulcimer and wrote about caves of ice?

Kevin Coleridge Coleridge is right.

Bonus question for Hoover What Portuguese speaking country is governed from Maputo and lies due west of Madagascar.

Mozambique?

That's correct.

Cause of question, pencil and paper for a little quick math, what is the measure of the third angle of a triangle?

Whose other two angles measure 105 degrees and 55 degrees respectively?

2020 is correct.

Your bonus question What alias is used by Jewel thief Selina Kyle?

Who first appeared in a 1940 issue of Batman captioned.

Oh yeah, I got to her.

Catwoman is correct.

That's right.

Next question, everybody.

What policy enacted by executive order 9066 and anti-drug.

Japanese internment camps?

Yes, that is correct.

Japanese American internment camps.

Bonus question for you.

Lamp What car brand whose mid-size SUVs are sold as are ex models, was the first Japanese luxury car made to launch in the United States and is a division of Toyota.

What car is that?

Mitsubishi?

No, it's the Lexus.

The Lexus is made by them.

Toss up what adjective which precedes dark in the title of Nintendo 64 SPS describes numbers such as six and 28 and is a synonym.

Kevin Perfect.

Perfect.

A synonym of immaculate perfect bonus for Hoover.

Two answers required for this what two biochemist name the standard pairing of bases that hold strands of DNA together.

Yeah, yeah.

Watson and Crick.

That's correct.

Toss up question In June of 2020 to what federal agencies cited safety concerns in banning sales of dual e-cigarettes.

And within.

FDA.

FDA is right bonus on re is the reigning Grand Duke of what small European country that shares borders with Germany, France and Belgium, Luxembourg, Luxembourg is right.

Next question, everybody.

What conflict in which Charles Gordon led the ever victorious army against a man?

Aiden Boxer Rebellion.

Judges, that's not correct.

Help me.

No, that's incorrect.

I'll finish reading that for you.

Lamp, who claimed to be Jesus brother occurred during the Qing Dynasty and it's Isaac Taiping Rebellion.

Taiping Rebellion is right.

Bonus question for you LAMP John Pershing led a campaign against what Mexican revolutionary who raided a border town called Columbus in 1916.

Pancho Villa.

That's correct.

What structure in the human eye has a phobia with a high concentration of within the retina?

Retina is right.

Hoover Here's your bonus.

What economist used trade between Britain and Portugal to describe comparative advantage in 1817 on the principles of political economy and taxation?

Okay.

Smith No, it's Ricardo.

David Ricardo.

Three more questions in this round.

What city?

Whose first NFL team moved to Tennessee in 1997?

Buzzing in is Chris Houston.

Houston, Texas is right.

Here's your bonus question.

What German physicist discovered a loop rule and a junction rule that can be used to analyze voltage and current in circus Kirchhoff.

Kirchhoff is correct.

Two more questions.

What composers him.

I vowed to the my country is based and buzzing in Chris Haydn that's incorrect I'll finish it for you.

Lab is based on a movement subtitled The Bringer of Jollity, the fourth movement in his suite, The Planets.

And you have an answer to kill Ragnar.

No, it is Holst.

Holst is the right answer.

Last question here, gang.

What non-conservative force whose magnitude is often modeled as a namesake coefficient times the normal force and within.

Friction.

Friction is right.

Here's the last bonus question of this round.

Residents of what?

West Coast City, led by Mayor London Breed, voted to recall Progressive District Attorney Chase Sue Boudin in a June 2022 election in Seattle.

San Francisco is the answer we wanted on that layer buttons down.

Relax.

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

The team that is trailing at the midpoint of our program chooses one category.

The other team then chooses two, and then the one that's left over goes back to the original team that started our categories today.

T in anatomy, national parks, alliterative comic book characters that's alliterative comic book characters and Missourians.

Those are our four categories.

And as you think about that, discuss if you want.

Let's ask our players to tell us a little bit about themselves, who you are, what grade you're in, and maybe your favorite subject, whatever you'd like to do.

And Catherine, would you start for us?

Yeah.

Okay.

My name is Catherine.

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

Very good.

So I am a teenager.

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

My name is Nick Hill.

I'm a junior and my favorite subject is English.

Hey, my name's Isaac.

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

Very good.

We're glad you're here.

Lamp in your plane.

Well, gentleman from Hoover, would you introduce yourself?

Hi.

My name is Crush.

I'm a player for the Hoover Scholars team, and my favorite subject is history.

Hey, I'm Ed, and I'm a junior at Hoover, and my favorite subject is history.

Hi.

My name is missing.

I'm a senior Hoover High School, and my favorite subject is science.

Okay, my name is Kevin and I'm a senior Hoover High School, and my favorite subject is pop culture.

Very good.

You're all playing well.

We're glad you're here.

Now we're going to do some quick answers in our Lightning Round and Lamp High School.

What category are you going to play first?

Could we do national parks, please?

Yes, you can do national parks first.

And you are in 60 seconds going to answer in what state are these national parks located?

I need a state.

60 seconds.

Here we go.

Petrified forest in the same state is the Grand Canyon, Arizona.

That's right.

Olympic, which is on the Pacific Ocean.

Washington That's.

Right.

Biscayne, which includes a mangrove forest.

Florida.

That's right.

Mammoth Cave.

Kentucky.

White Sands, which is in a missile range where the first atomic bomb was tested.

New Mexico.

Acadia, which includes Mount Desert Island.

Maine.

That's right.

Grand Teton.

Wyoming.

That's right.

Glacier, which is near the Canadian border.

Montana.

That's right.

Arches and Bryce Canyon, Utah.

That's right.

Isle Royale, which is in Lake Superior, Michigan.

And you got them all well done and had plenty of time.

We could chat for a while, if you like, but let's just move on back over to Hoover now.

And Hoover, you have two to choose from and myth in which to do you like.

And I'll start with alliterative comic book characters and then anatomy and anatomy.

All right, alliterative comic book characters identify these comic book characters with alliterative names.

Here we go.

60 seconds.

Spider-Man's alter ego, female hero with a lasso of truth, Rival of Superman played in movies by Jesse Eisenberg, Lex Luthor, Animal Companion of Groot, Volkswagen Droid Herald of Galactus, whose original name was Norton read.

As.

Tony Stark's primary love interest, who also includes the name Rescue.

That's right, alter ego of the Winter Soldier.

Bucky.

Barnes.

That's right.

Head of the Daily Bugle, generally depicted as hating Spider-Man.

Um.

Ooh.

Pass detective who marries Luke Gage.

Have you past.

Did you give me an answer?

What was it?

Sam Spade.

That's incorrect.

Name used by Sally Jupiter and her daughter in Watchmen.

Uh, yeah.

All right.

We go back to Herald of Galactus, whose original name was Norton.

Read Green Goblin?

No, it's Silver Surfer.

And head of the Daily Bugle.

Generally depicted as hating Spider-Man.

You know, it's like it's I think it's like J. James J. Jar out of time.

Jamison, you were real close to getting that.

All right, now we're going to go back to t in anatomy.

And what you do here, gentlemen, is give these anatomical terms, beginning with the letter T 60 seconds mouth organ covered in taste buds.

First digital in the hand pass thumb.

Oh, thumb is correct anatomical name for the shinbone.

To yeah tissue.

Lymphatic throat organs often removed in children tissue that connects muscle to bone.

Tendon.

Endocrine endocrine gland affected in graves disease.

I think I think it's possible, but thyroid.

Thyroid is correct there.

We'll have the judges rule on the other three part muscle responsible for elbow extension.

Tissue tibial differ.

You see.

No triceps male gonad where sperm is produced.

Testes.

Yes.

Lobe of the brain.

The process is sensory information.

Temporal.

That's correct.

Immune system organ located behind the breastbone.

Um, pass.

Okay.

That's the last one.

Tom.

12 to 10.

Say it.

TEAGLE It's on.

I think time is up.

Thymus or thigh.

Did I accept their answer on tonsils too quickly?

I think they said tonsils and they answered it correctly.

Yes.

Okay.

Very good.

All right.

We come back to you, Lamp.

And as you know, you don't get to choose.

You just get stuck with this one.

But sometimes these work out pretty well.

Let's see how you do with Missourians.

You're going to name these people who live or lived in Missouri, 60 seconds President who succeeded FDR Truman, author of Huckleberry Finn Twain, current junior senator from the state with Roy Blunt, passed King of Ragtime who composed Maple Leaf Rag Joplin, namesake of a telescope who showed that Andra Maeder is a Galaxy Hubble.

That's correct, Congresswoman.

In the squad who represents Saint Louis, I honor Presley.

Nope.

It's Bush rhythm and blues singer who recorded Maybellene, Gene and Johnny B Good pass.

Oh, that hurts Regionalist Painter of the mural American Today Pass, pioneer of conservative talk radio who died in February of 2021.

Pass and the last one jazz saxophonist who composed the Yardbird suite.

Uh, Armstrong.

That's Charlie Parker.

You passed on pioneer, conservative talk radio host who died in February of last year.

Will pass again.

Okay, Regionalist Painter.

Time is up.

That was Rush Limbaugh who died last year.

And Benton was the regional painter.

Painter who did American Today pretty well.

That category was called Missourians, but it should have been category senior adults.

Senior adults would have gotten a lot of those just for being around when that was there.

We have a little less than seven and a half minutes left in the program.

We're going to use every bit of that time, except for about 20 seconds, to answer as many questions as we can in the speed round, 20 points for every question.

No bonus.

If you know the answer, answer, here we go.

What English born explorer of the Future.

New York Sailed the half moon.

Hudson.

Hudson is right.

What?

Author of the autobiography Black Boy wrote a novel that depicts the trial of bigger Thomas Kevin, right?

That's right.

What biblical character was hidden by his mother?

Yoki, buried in a basket was the brother of Aaron.

And it's a moses.

Moses is right.

The US Constitution is based partly on the oral constitution.

Of what Confederacy?

Aden.

United Kingdom.

No, I'll finish it for you.

Lamp constitution of what?

Confederacy of Native American tribes.

And the answer to kill Iroquois.

Iroquois is right.

That's the right answer.

Which Zodiac constellation contains the black hole at the center of the Milky Way depicts a center Mithun Sagittarius.

Sagittarius is right pencil and paper.

What decimal is equivalent to the fraction?

31 over 40 given that 30 over 40 equals 0.75 and Kevin has an answer zero.

.775.

That is the right answer.

Next.

What country, who's Cape Reinga is sacred to its indigenous people, has two main islands North and South Island and buzzing is Chris New Zealand.

New Zealand is right next.

What poem that describes life as a darkling plain where ignorant armies clash.

And it's Kevin over beach.

Dover Beach is correct.

What country was home to the poet of Sonnets of Death, Gabriela mistral and the author of 20 love Poems and a song of Despair?

Kevin Chilla Chile is right what nationalistic political faction depose Sultan Abdul Hamid, the second in 1909 in its efforts to bring liberal reforms to the late Ottoman Empire.

Aden Young Turks.

Young Turks, his right.

Moving on.

What director depicted a search for gold in Vietnam.

And a Colorado detective posing as white on the phone in his films, DA Five Bloods and Black Klansman who did that myth and.

PEELE.

No, that's incorrect.

LAND We have an answer for Spike Lee did that next.

Aristotle and Galen both performed what procedure in which a human cadaver is cut open to study its anatomy within dissection?

That is right.

Next, what composer wrote the chorus of the Hebrew slaves for Nabucco and the aria La Donna amo Bella for his opera about a court jester named Rigoletto and Martin Verdi.

That's right, yes.

Every Verdi next year, Cata Grinberg lies on the eastern side of what?

Russian mountain range that forms part.

And, Chris, you're there.

You're all mountain range.

Next, what linear try atomic molecule, which is produced with water, is complete combustion of methane.

Methane CO2.

CO2 or carbon dioxide.

What two countries whose joining was banned by the Treaty of Versailles.

They were unified by the 1938 and Isaac West Germany, East Germany.

No I'll finish.

That was unified by the 1938 Anschluss.

What were the two countries?

Chris Germany.

And Austria.

That is the right answer.

And moving on, what author included a speech about the first mover in a story about the rivals, parliament and Air City, which the night narrates in the Canterbury Tales.

And that is Nathan Chaucer.

Chaucer is right.

A 1793 painting by Jacques-Louis David depicts the death of what protagonist or that Murat is what you said.

And that is correct for lamp.

Well done.

What?

British Prime Minister was replaced by Anthony Eden in 1955 by Clement Attlee and buzzing in is Eden Churchill.

Winston Churchill is right.

Which English philosopher and proponent of racism presented a version of the scientific method in his 1620 treatise, Methane Bacon.

Francis Bacon is the right answer.

We have a little less than we have 3 minutes left.

What polymer which a Chinese team led by Tao sai synthesized without cells in 2021 concerned consist of linked glucose units and stores within glycogen.

No, I'll finish it for you.

Lamp and contains glucose units and stores energy in potatoes and NyQuil.

Starch.

Starch is the right answer.

What extremely toxic noble gas causes lung cancer and often accumulates in basements.

What is that?

Gas.

And it's the radon.

Radon is right.

What author whose pet boasts one boson, inspired his epitaph to a dog, also wrote the humorous 1819 epic Don Juan and was an.

Byron.

Lord.

Byron is the right answer.

Tone color is another term for what musical quality?

The unique sound, the distinguishes different musical instruments and voices from one another.

And what is your answer?

Antidrug pitch?

No, that's incorrect.

Hoover Do you have an answer?

What?

Take a shot.

Color.

No, it is timbre.

Timbre.

Next, what phenomenon that has missense and frames shift varieties can be caused by ionizing radiation and causes changes in Aden.

Mutations.

Mutations is right.

What Vice President under Jimmy Carter won only D.C. and his home state, Aden Mondale.

Walter Mondale is right.

What God is the rival of Jaguar God today's cat, the polka.

And within.

Quetzalcoatl.

That is correct.

Pronunciation.

Okay, judges, everybody's happy.

The ferryman.

Vasu, Vasu.

Dave who teaches wisdom to the title character?

Kevin Siddartha.

That's correct.

What country?

Where in 2018 a skull of homology or Dragon Man was rediscovered was where the Homo erectus subspecies Peking man was excavated.

What country was that in?

Attenborough China.

China is right.

QUESTION Again, what nine member K-Pop girl group sings I want to be and it is Christian.

Blackpink.

No, that's incorrect.

Lamp in their first English language single in 2021 called the Feels nine member group and kills twice twice as right what French king who revoked the edict of nent and anti-drug 14th?

That is right last question in 2022, what country led by the House of Sabah received the last payment and reparations plan created after it was invaded by a neighbor in 1990?

And the answer within Kuwait.

Kuwait is right later buttons down.

Let's think our viewers at home for watching.

Thank you.

We hope you have enjoyed another edition of the Alabama Scholar's Bowl, where every week here on Alabama Public TV on statewide television.

We're glad you watch.

Our winner today in this match is Hoover High School.

Congratulations to you.

LAMPE You played very well, as you have always when you've appeared on the program.

We're glad to see you all.

We'll see you again and we hope to see you again next time.

For the Alabama Scholars Bowl, I'm Mike Royer.

Have a great day, everybody.