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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 here on Alabama Public Television.

My name's Mike Royer.

Welcome to the program today.

As you hopefully know by now, every week we bring together the brightest, most polite and best students in the state of Alabama.

And I'm not exaggerating.

We really enjoy meeting all of these students and enjoy being with them as they compete, answering questions on a variety of topics.

We welcome to our studio today, the folks from Athens High School back with us.

Gentlemen, good to see you.

And back in the studio from Hoover High School.

The four players from that fine school.

Good to see you as well.

We want to thank our judges and people who assist us in the studio, Sharon Daly, Kate Wilson and Christopher Arthur.

Mike Ousley is our executive producer.

And of course, thanks to all the crew that works here at Alabama Public Television to bring the program into your home every week.

Let's get started.

These guys, all guys today know the rules.

We do 20 questions with a bonus to the team that answers correctly.

A lightning round, a speed round.

And this should be fun.

Let's find out if it is.

Everybody ready?

Buttons in hand.

What?

Businessman who founded the Boring Company And Kevin Elon Musk.

Elon Musk is correct.

What?

Try this your bonus.

What child of Amanda Wingfield, whose play process leads to the nickname Blue Roses from Jim O'Connor, owns the title collection of The Glass Menagerie.

Laura Laura is right.

Laura Wingfield.

Question for everyone What is the profession of a character who is taken to a valley by a rock, gives a cup to Haroon Al-Rashid, is named Sinbad and goes on seven voyages.

Kevin Sailor.

Sailor is right.

Your bonus.

In 1936, Dorothea Lange took what photograph?

Whose title figure is Florence Owens?

Thompson and is now symbolic of the Great Depression?

Migrant Mother That.

Is right now a pencil and paper math question for you What is the greatest common factor of 56 and 70?

Given that 56 and 70 and it's Middleton.

Seven.

That's incorrect.

I'll finish it for you.

Athens, given that 56 and 70 are both divisible by seven.

And one other prime factor.

Athens, Do you have an answer?

Kane A 14 is what we were looking for.

Let's go on to the next question and forget that one.

What do you say?

What legume is used whole in the Indian dish?

Chana masala and buzzing in is Mithun da.

No, no.

It is ground into a flower in Middle Eastern falafel and cooked and mashed in and dipped in hummus.

Do you guys know what it is, Charlie?

Chickpea.

Chickpea is the right answer.

You get a bonus question now.

What author portrayed a clairvoyant in his story?

The rocking horse winner and privately published his controversial novel, Lady Chatterley's Lover.

D.H. Lawrence.

That's right.

Toss up, everybody.

What Queen who was wrongfully accused of fraud in the diamond necklace affair.

And it is Charlie.

Marie-Antoinette.

Marie Antoinette is right.

Your bonus for Athens.

Cars are banned on what island, which shares its name with the strait that separates Michigan's Upper and Lower Peninsula.

Long Island?

No, it's Mackinaw Island.

Visited some day if you get a chance.

Next question for both teams.

What poet described seeing the margin of a bay covered with a never ending line of daffodils In the 1807 romantic poem, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.

Kevin Whitman.

That's incorrect.

I finished the year read Athens.

Do you have an answer?

I wandered lonely as a cloud.

Take a shot came Frost.

William Wordsworth.

William Wordsworth is the right answer.

Next.

What element?

Whose carbonate salt was used in white paint before its neurotoxicity was proven is used in healing for X-rays and in car batteries.

What is it within lead?

That is right.

Lead is the correct answer.

Your bonus.

What future US President defeated a British invasion of Louisiana in January of 18, 15 weeks after the trivia event officially ended the war of 1812.

Jackson Andrew Jackson.

Correct.

Toss up everybody.

What painter who painted a portrait of Thomas Moore while living in England in the 1520s, included a highly distorted skull.

And yes, Mithun.

Holbein the younger.

That is correct.

Bonus question for you.

Hoover Vienna lies only about 35 miles from what other European capital city, which became a capital following the 1993 velvet divorce.

Yeah.

Differ frog.

That is not correct.

Brussels Bratislava is the capital of Slovakia is the right answer.

Everyone what philosopher Whom oeuvre?

We called the first teacher founded the Pera Peut Technik School, taught at the Lyceum and tutored and within.

Plato.

Know and tutored Alexander the Great is the rest of the answer.

Hayat Aristotle.

Aristotle is right.

Bonus question for you, Athens.

What type of machine is an emulation layer used by Java to run platform independent compiled bytecode?

No, what it's called binary.

It's a virtual machine is the answer.

Next question What disaster which coincided with a similar event in Peshtigo, Wisconsin, was blamed and Christian the.

Great Chicago Fire.

That's correct.

Bonus question Hoover While the interval from C to G is a perfect fifth, what adjective describes the interval of a fifth from C to G sharp, which is a half step larger?

Okay.

Anyone have any perfect day?

No, it's augmented.

Augmented is the term next.

What drug similar to an ancient remedy made from the willow tree was made by Yes, Kevin Tylenol.

No, I'll finish this for Athens.

Made by Bayer is also called a cell t cell.

Cilic acid and is a common painkiller.

Athens aspirin.

Aspirin is the right answer.

Your bonus trumpet the winner of best in show at the 2022 Westminster Kennel Club show is what Breed whose name may be used to refer to detectives Have an answer.

Hound got.

A little more.

Basset hound?

No Bloodhound.

A good detective is like a bloodhound.

Next question.

What baseball stadium is home to a mascot?

Wally has a left field wall called the Green Monster.

And Chris.

Fenway.

That's right.

Fenway Park in Boston.

Bonus for you in 2022.

Gavin Newsom blocked the release of what Palestinian man who assassinated Robert F Kennedy in 1968.

Sirhan Sirhan Sirhan.

Sirhan.

That's correct.

Next question for everyone.

What book which contains the lines?

Simplicity.

Simplicity.

Simplicity.

Is a memoir about life near a Pond in the Woods by Aiden Walden.

Walden is the name of it.

Correct.

Your bonus, the E type who dam is shared between Brazil and what's smaller?

South America's two landlocked countries.

Paraguay?

Yes.

Do we need two answers or just one?

Just one.

Paraguay is correct.

Next.

What?

Former general promoted the six arrows introduced the Latin Adan Ataturk.

Ataturk is right.

Kemal Ataturk.

Bonus for you in 2022.

What set of nations plan to cap the price of petroleum from Russia, A nation its predecessor expelled after the 2014 invasion of Ukraine?

OPEC?

No, that is incorrect.

Jesus.

Heaven is the answer.

Next, what TV character who grew up in Nebraska before becoming a waitress at a Cheesecake Factory?

Adan Penney.

That's right.

Penney is the answer.

Next, bonus question for you one second.

After Big Bang, the universe was an epoch named after what?

Class of six Low mass particles, including electrons and neutrinos.

Leptons.

Leptons is right.

Pencil and paper.

A fun math question.

What's the value of the exponent when the number 820,000 is written in scientific notation?

Yes.

Seven, five, five or fifth power?

Bonus Question Hoover.

What President Whose Secretary of State died in an explosion aboard the USS Princeton replaced his cabinet after succeeding William Henry Harrison.

Tyler.

John Tyler is right.

Next question.

Nearing the end of this round, what city state was ruled by the EGAD?

And you re punted.

Kings was served by slaves hired Sparta.

Sparta is correct.

Well done.

Bonus question.

An innkeeper fought about his question for Athens and innkeeper pretends to night what character Who is assisted by Sancho Panza and mistakes windmills for giants in the novel by Miguel de Cervantes.

Don Quixote.

Don Kyoto is correct.

Thank you.

Next, what character has his gold stolen by done sea Cas adopts Kevin Candy?

No, that's incorrect.

Adopts the young girl EPI and is the title Weaver of Ravello in a novel by George Eliot.

Can you come up with something?

Yes, sir.

Svengali?

No, it's Silas Marner.

Silas Marner.

We'll move on to question number 19 two more here.

What country contains most of the world's Wolof speakers is the western most countries.

Senegal.

Senegal is correct.

Your bonus question What man evacuated his government to Taiwan after his common Tang nationalist regime lost the Chinese civil war to Mao Zedong's Communist East.

That's Chiang Kai shek.

Shinkai shek is right.

Last question, guys.

What vehicle which the Rogers Commission found had suffered O-ring.

Chris Challenger The Challenger Space shuttle is right.

Last bonus question goes to Hoover.

In 2022, Amanda Lee became the first demonstration pilot for what Navy Squadron?

The US oldest aerobatics team.

Is it just the Blue Angel?

I think that is right, yeah.

I love the Blue Angels.

Blue Angels is the right answer.

All your pins and buttons down, fellas.

We'll take a look now at our lightning round.

There are four categories.

The team that is trailing will choose First one category, then the other team will play two of the four categories as the last remaining category goes back to the beginning team.

So the categories are tea and math plays by country Q, QED, the letters, Q, E and State nicknames.

Those are our four categories.

After all of our players as they think about those categories and which ones they'll play, let's meet our participants today.

We'll begin with Drew from Athens.

Tell us a bit about yourself.

Yes, I'm Drew Hubbard from Athens High School.

And after high school, I plan on staying in computer science.

My name is high at Luton.

I'm a junior at Athens High School and at college I plan on studying Asian history.

Okay.

I'm Charlie Martin.

I'm a senior at Athens, and I plan on studying law after high school.

Hello, my name is Kane MATTHEWS.

I'm a senior at Athens High School, and I plan on attending the University of Alabama.

All right, very good.

Maybe I'll see you there.

All right, let's meet the players from Hoover High School.

Oh, hi.

My name is Krish.

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

Okay.

Hey, I'm Ed, and I'm a junior at Hoover.

My favorite subject is history.

My name is Mithun.

I'm a senior over high school, and I'm interested in science.

My name is Kevin.

I'm a senior Hoover High School as well, and my favorite subject is Pop Culture.

Very good.

Good to have you all here.

You're all playing well.

Athens, You've had a couple of minutes to think about the categories.

Which one would you like to play?

State nicknames.

This state nickname is, I believe the description speaks for itself in 60 seconds, when I begin asking the questions which U.S. state is known by this nickname?

Here we go.

The Empire State.

New York.

That's right, The Golden State, California, Land of 10,000 Lakes.

Minnesota.

The last frontier.

Alaska.

The Old Dominion.

Virginia.

The Show Me State.

Missouri.

The Bluegrass State.

Kentucky.

The Equality State, Massachusetts.

It's all starting over for you and giving you a break on some time.

The Equality State.

It's also called the Cowboy State, Texas.

All right.

It's Wyoming, the Magnolia State, Mississippi and the Treasure State also called the last best place, Idaho.

It's Montana.

We didn't skip any, I don't believe did pretty well with that.

We're on a good roll at the beginning.

Well done.

Now we're going to come back over to Hoover.

And Hoover.

As you guys know, you will choose two categories.

Anything you want to tell me what you want to do?

Can we do t and math and then plays by country?

Yes.

Let's do T in math first and the title gives it away.

When we start, you will give these mathematical terms that start with the letter T. Here we go.

Number.

That is the base of the decimal system.

Ten polygon with the fewest sides triangle trig function equal to opposite over adjacent.

Oh yeah.

Tangent donut shaped solid.

Taurus.

Transformation that slides a shape without rotation or reflection.

Translation platonic solid with four faces.

Headroom.

Reflecting a matrix over its main diagonal transpose primes that differ by two also called prime pairs quadrilateral with one pair of parallel sides.

So they tiling the plane with shapes that do not overlap or have gaps.

Tessellation.

That's it.

Very well done.

Might have been one of the fastest ones we've seen.

And was the other one plays by contrast.

Is that right?

Yeah.

I'm sorry.

Country.

Yes, by country.

That's right.

Given a play, you're going to name the modern day country that contains the author's birthplace.

Clear on that.

Here we go.

60 seconds.

Tartu of France.

Uncle Vanya, Russia, our town.

Thornwell.

Where is it from?

This is an American America.

All right.

It judges All's well that ends well.

Shakespeare So, England.

This is strata agrees Greece.

Hedda GABLER.

Ibsen.

So Norway.

The importance of being earnest.

About Yes Ireland.

The House of Bernarda Alba, Spain.

Mother Courage and her children.

Bertolt Brecht, Belgium or Belgium?

It's Germany.

Six Characters in search of an author Pirandello Yes.

Italy.

Italy.

That's correct.

Very well done.

Very good.

And we go back to you, Athens.

You get the Leftovers series.

You know what's left of our four categories, and that is the letters Q u E. What we're going to ask you to do in 60 seconds is give these words that either begin or end with the consecutive letters.

Q You.

E Here's an example.

Ready one of a kind unique, a long journey with a noble mission.

Past.

A very old fashioned item, antique, nontransparent.

Opaque.

A mexican dish of melted cheese and a grilled tortilla.

As an exclusionary social group, click nauseous and dizzy.

Queasy.

The condition of someone's body, especially if fit and attractively muscled.

Pass.

To satisfy a thirst or desire.

Quench.

A French soup made with crustaceans.

Pass.

Already and you passed a long journey with a noble mission.

Quest is right and you pass from a mexican disability case.

D is correct.

And you passed on a French soup made with crustaceans.

You have 9 seconds.

Oh, pass and pass eight.

The condition of someone's body.

What the physique is right, Fred Soup made.

Okay.

Bisque.

Bisque was the soup.

Well done, though.

You got almost all of those, correct?

In 60 seconds.

So well done, everybody.

Now, with just 8 minutes left in our program, we're going to go to our speed round 20 questions, not 20 questions, questions until we're out of time, each one worth 20 points.

And that can sometimes change the way around is going.

Everybody ready?

No bonus questions if you know the answer.

Answer.

Here we go.

What country Los Celeste, Vic Holstein and Charlie Germany know that Aiden, Denmark, Denmark is right.

Dutch Van der Linde and John Marston disappeared.

Drew Red Dead redemption.

That is correct.

What character reads Dover Beach to his wife Mildred and her friends is a book burning and it's missing Guy Montag.

Montag is right.

Ruby and Sapphire reforms of what?

Aluminum oxide mineral and nothing again condemn.

That's right.

What country controls the Lighthouse Reef?

And the great blue hole is the only English speaking Belize.

Belize is right.

Gail Halvorsen dropped candy to children in what city?

And Chris, you're in Berlin.

Berlin is right.

What force?

Must have a strength of mass times velocity squared over radius for a uniform circular motion.

And it's missing the French.

Say again?

Gravity.

No, I'll finish it for Athens.

Radius for uniform, circular motion and points inward.

Unlike centrifugal force.

Any answer?

The opposite centrifugal usually centripetal centripetal force.

What dialog between Fred Prince, Arjuna and his chariot driver Krishna is a part of the Thank you, Ms.. Then talk about Geeta.

That's it.

Thank you.

Next, what country's president case said spearheaded a July 2022 referendum that undid reforms from when this North African country began the Arab Spring crush Tunisia.

Tunisia is right.

What singer, whose 2000 song seven song Glamorous was sampled in Jack Harlow's 2022 hit First Class is a former member of the Black Eyed Peas.

Well, I am, yes.

No, that is incorrect.

I read it all.

Hoover Do you have an answer?

Yes.

Aiden Pepper Nope.

It's Fergie.

Next question.

What book?

Series that began in 1992 depicted the ventriloquist dummy Slappy in a haunted mask.

Charlie Goosebumps.

Goosebumps is right.

What activist who texted Mark Meadows, Release the Kraken and save us from the left.

Charlie Sidney Powell.

No, I'll finish it for you.

Hoover Save us from the left.

Taking America Down is the wife of a Supreme Court Justice.

And then Thomas.

Thomas is right.

What profession is practiced in Italy by people known as Carabinieri, in France?

By people known as.

And it's hired.

Mercenary?

No, I'll finish it for Hoover in France by people known as Zadar and in London, by people called bobbies.

What are they?

And a.

Police.

Police, Police officers.

What author who wrote about high school basketball star Harry Angstrom.

Kevin Updike.

Updike is right.

What men who spoke about his dog checkers when he was Dwight Aiden.

Nixon.

Nixon is right.

What Duchess of Aquitaine and his wife Henry the sickened Chris Eleanor.

Eleanor is right.

What country whose Klang Valley content contains the administrative center of Putrajaya is home to the Petronas and Malaysia.

Malaysia's right the platypus and forest species of kidneys make up what order of animals?

The only mammals that admit missing.

Monotremes.

Monotremes they lay eggs.

What mathematic motion develop graph theory with the problem of about seven bridges in Kearney's and myth missing again.

Euler.

That's correct.

An American woman named Jack Staab, right, is the guardian of what teenage British spy who is the hero of Anthony Horowitz.

Novels such as Stormbreaker missing.

To anybody else.

That's the correct method.

Do you have an answer?

Charlie?

Val, it's Alex.

Writer Next.

What country?

Which, from 1878 to 1980 was ruled by the true Whig Party, was settled by formerly enslaved people from the U.S.. Smith In.

Liberia.

Liberia is right.

Moving on, what mythological figure?

The father of Icarus designed the labyrinth and the buzzing in I'm looking Drew the data.

That is correct.

What building?

Whose competition?

Winning designed by Danish architect Jaan Uzun and Chris Gabriel.

Nope.

I'll finish it for you.

Athens by Danish architect Bjorn Uzun features a concrete shell.

Is a musical in an Australian harbor and Charlie.

Sydney Opera.

House.

That is right Next.

What joint Stock Company lost the Battle of Plessey and was bankrupted and Aden, British East India, French, East India is right.

Moving on quickly what country where 2022 oil facility explosion caused the fire in and within Lebanon?

Nope.

And Hayat Russia?

Nope.

Answer is Cuba.

What athlete who is traded by the Washington Wizards to the Los Angeles Cain?

Russell Westbrook.

Westbrook is right.

What seven letter term refers to materials described by Young's modulus that return to their original shape.

And it is methane elastic.

Elastic is right.

The rose of Pascal's triangle.

Give the coefficients name for what type of methane binomial binomial is right?

What composer who called for four taxi horns and an American in Paris Smith And again Gershwin.

Gershwin is right.

Railways and utilities can be examples of the natural kind of what market structure characterized Kevin Monopoly monopolies.

Correct.

2 minutes left.

What deity whose body Plutarch claimed was found in a pillar holding up a place roof and within.

Cyrus That.

Is right.

King Numa created the cult of vestal virgins.

In what city?

Whose last?

And it is high.

It Rome.

Rome is correct.

What human organ whose core d tendency attached papillary muscles to its vowels can be accessed with an EKG and pumps blood through the body.

Missing heart.

Heart is right.

Pencil and paper.

A math question.

If January 1st is a Sunday, on what day of the week will February 1st of the same year fall?

Yes, came.

Monday.

That's incorrect.

Cooper, You got an answer Thursday?

Nope, I'm going to go with Wednesday, but I have it right here on the paper.

Wednesday is the answer.

What island?

The subject of the Austin, the manifesto and Aiden, Cuba.

That's right.

Last question.

What British author described the man stumbling and choking in the thick green haze of a poison gas attack in World War One poem, Krrish.

Owen.

Owen is correct.

Lay down your buzzers and relax, gentlemen.

That was fun.

You all play really well.

An exciting round between Hoover and Athens High School.

And we're proud of all of you participate in doing such a great job today.

Final score.

We don't know the score, but did Hoover come out on top in this particular match?

But Athens, you played very well.

Proud of all of you for participating.

We appreciate you watching our program.

It's fun, isn't it?

The Alabama Scholars Bowl.

We love watching these students compete.

And we appreciate you joining us every week statewide on Alabama Public television.

I'm Mike Royer.

Until next time, thanks again for watching and have a great day.