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Now here's your host, Mike Royer.

Hello, everyone, and welcome once again to the Alabama Scholars Bowl program.

I hope you've grown accustomed to seeing here on Alabama public television, on statewide television.

We're glad you've joined us once again throughout our program, we hear from students from all around the state, some of the best and brightest students who compete for scholarship and trophies at the end of the competition.

And it's just a lot of fun.

And we hope you enjoyed the program.

We welcome back to the studio today.

Some familiar faces, the students from Baker School, Baker High School back with us.

Good to see you all.

And also the students from the Alabama School of Cyber Technology and Engineering.

They're back with us as well.

Two good teams who have played very well in the past and we're looking forward to today's competition.

We want to thank those who work hard in the studio to keep us on track and on time.

Sharon Daly, Kate Wolfson, our judges, Christopher Arthur helps us with all of the questions to make sure we're doing this correctly.

Mike Ousley is the executive producer of the Alabama Scholars Bowl.

I think that covers all the.

Thank you.

Let's get into the questions.

We have 20 questions with bonuses to the team that answers correctly by now.

Everyone knows how this works.

Well, let's get started.

One of those days where we're starting with math, So grab your pencil.

What is the fourth term of the arithmetic sequence?

Whose first term is seven and whose common difference is five and takes 20 to 22 is the right answer.

Here's the bonus question for you.

What politician from the Social Democratic Party served as mayor of Hamburg before replacing Angela merkel as chancellor of Germany in December of 2021?

Schulz Schulz is correct.

Both teams.

What character who was given a photograph as a reward in the story?

A scandal in Bohemia and Tate?

Herr Cupra?

No, that's not the answer we need.

I'll finish it for you.

A scandal in Bohemia lives at 221 B Baker Street and solves crimes with Dr. Watson and Mark.

Sherlock Holmes.

Sherlock Holmes is right.

Your bonus.

A 1982 Thomas Keneally novel is titled For The Art of White German Industrialist who saved 1200 Jews during the Holocaust.

Schindler.

That's right.

Oskar Schindler.

Toss up for everyone.

What composer of a two hour long mass in B minor and the St Matthew Passion included 48 preludes and fugues in his well-tempered.

And Tate Bach.

That's right.

Johann Sebastian is his name.

Your bonus question and the elements, reduction, potential and density are examples of what properties and values do not depend on the amount of the element present.

Intensive.

Intensive is correct.

Everyone.

Both teams.

What transition metal with the highest boiling point of any metal.

And that's Henry Tungsten.

Tungsten is correct.

Bonus for you, Baker.

What American seamstresses family claims that she created the first U.S. flag which featured 13 five pointed stars in a circle.

Betsy Ross.

Betsy Ross is right.

What Dynasty Founded by the icing on Zero Clan, included the Emperors, Chee Long and Kong Xi and was led by the Manchus and was the last and Henry Ching.

Yes, that is correct.

Thank you.

Your bonus.

Two answers for this bonus question.

What most populous island of Indonesia and what largest island own completely by Indonesia are separated by the Sunda Strait, much like Java and Sumatra?

That is correct.

Well done, everyone.

What author who depicted the substance?

Less blue paw of tau and distances in her poem, Ariel also wrote the autobiographical tale Sylvia Plath.

Sylvia Plath is right.

Your bonus Kath composes stories about magician Simon Snow in the novel Fangirl, which was written by White, author of The Young Adult Romance.

Eleanor in Park.

Rainbow Rebel Rainbow Rallies.

Correct.

Elizabeth Well done, everyone.

What country?

Which officially is Cooperative Republic A cooperative Republic disputes land west of the and tate Andorra.

No, I'll finish it for the other team west of the is say Kebo river with Venezuela and is governed from Georgetown and will Guyana.

Guyana is correct.

Bonus What German scientists names three laws of spectroscopy as copy as well as a pair of laws that include a loop rule that I read that well enough that you can answer it.

Kirchhoff That's correct.

Well done.

Next, a police raid on what establishment on Christopher Street in Greenwich Village in 1969 sparked and take Stonewall, the Stonewall Inn is correct.

Bonus What Latvian American painter made color field paintings with irregular rectangles of color, such as those found in a Houston chapel named for him.

Rothko.

Rothko is right, everybody.

What condition?

Which the DSM five renamed Major And it's Henry Depression.

That's incorrect.

I'll finish it.

A neurocognitive disorder is a deterioration of mental function.

Most often caused by Alzheimer's disease.

Dementia.

Dementia is right now your bonus because of poor sanitation.

In the wake of the 2010 earthquake, Haiti suffered an outbreak of what?

Intestinal infection that can cause lethal diarrhea.

Cholera.

Cholera.

Cholera is the right answer.

Toss up what men who signed into law the 2022 woke Act targeting critical race theory also backed will Ron DeSantis.

Ron DeSantis is correct.

Here's your bonus.

What character who wore a hat with a pencil on it in a 2021 viral video in which he said Never forgot You was a host of the TV show Blue's Clues.

You see, Steve?

That's right.

I'm a huge Blue's Clues fan.

Next question What rapper who in 2022 released the EP Red and White and adopted they them pronouns.

And that is Henry again.

Uzi Vert Uzi vert is correct Bonus in physics.

What quantity which measured the strength of certain electronic circuit components can be measured in Faraday's capacitance.

That's correct.

12th Question of 20 What present day country first circumnavigated by Matthew Flinders was where the endeavor under James Cook landed at Botany Bay to Australia.

Australia is right your bonus in July 2022.

I do.

Lamond was appointed by light by library of Congress Carl Hayden to replace Joe Harry Joe in which position?

Second Secretary of Agriculture.

So Secretary of Agriculture I The United States Poet Laureate.

Poet Laureate everybody what covalent solid with ESP three hybrids sized atoms is used in namesake anvils to apply extreme pressures and is an electrode of carbon.

That is very hard.

Henry Diamond Diamond is correct.

Your bonus What American billionaire who founded a philanthropic initiative with his wife Priscilla Chan or Chan, dropped out of Harvard in 2004?

Zuckerberg That's right.

Here's a toss up for everybody.

What novel in which Zydeco musician Justin Dates fellow high schooler Via is by R.J. Palacio and depicts Auggie and it's Elizabeth Wonder.

Wonder is correct your bonus what monument a 630 foot tall inverted catenary curve was designed by Eero Saarinen to symbolize westward expansion.

The Gateway Arch in Saint Louis, Missouri.

You're right.

Next, what country, which lies to the north of Kaliningrad, Exclave, and to the south of Latvia borders?

Well, Lithuania, Lithuania is correct.

Bonus along with Andrew Moray, which Scottish independent leader commanded the victorious side at the Battle of Stirling Bridge in 1297?

Yes, Godwinson No, it was William Wallace.

William Wallace Toss up question what art style, which had analytic and synthetic forms and it's Tate Cubism.

Cubism is right.

Your bonus a lack of the chemical hypo creten is believed to be one factor in what brain condition characterized by brief attacks of deep sleep.

Narcolepsy.

Narcolepsy is right.

Toss up for everybody.

What language?

Whose name for itself translates as one who hopes is described in the book Una Libro by L.l Zamenhof, who created it in 1888.

Esperanto Esperanto is right your bonus.

What arm in the Mediterranean Sea lies east of Sardinia and west of the Italian Peninsula.

The Adriatic?

Yeah, Adriatic.

No, it is the tyranny in sea.

18 Number 18.

What persons?

Words and deeds, the most verifiable of which are called Saami, are recorded in the Hadiths and are the primary will Muhammad Muhammad is right.

Bonus What 1886 novel by Thomas Hardy describes how the drunken Michael Hinch guard auctions off his own wife and daughter before rising to the title office of the Mayor of Casterbridge.

That is correct.

Two more questions.

What bone runs from the thumb to the elbow parallel to the ulna and shares its name?

Will Radius.

Radius is correct.

Your bonus question What's the starting over?

What last leader of the Soviet Union who was challenged by the Gang of Eight in 1991 coup attempt, died on August 20 of 2022 at the age of 91.

Gorbachev Mikhail Gorbachev is right.

Last question is around what region, which was once ruled by a council called the cash shag, is home to the Potala Palace and take Tibet.

Tibet is right.

The last bonus of the round.

What actress played the singer in an all woman band?

Some like it hot and saying diamonds are a girl's best friend in gentlemen prefer blonds.

Marilyn Monroe.

Marilyn Monroe is correct.

Well done Layer buttons down if you'd like.

Relax your fingers a bit.

I'm going to tell you now what the Lightning Round categories are.

There are four.

The team that is trailing.

We'll go first, choosing one category, the other team will play two.

And the last one that's left over will go back to the other team.

Right now in this match, A.C.T.

is slightly behind.

We have a very close match.

So you will choose first, then Baker.

You will choose two categories.

While you think about that and decide, let's meet all of you.

Just tell us a brief word about each one of you.

Mark, would you start for us?

I'm I'm a junior and I'm an AP capstone.

Very good.

My name is Will.

I'm a senior, a baker, and I like playing video games.

My name is Brant.

I'm a junior at Baker, and everybody should come to Mobile for Mardi Gras.

A good invitation.

Thank you, Brian.

My name is Henry.

I'm a junior at Baker High School, and I know favorite class of science.

Very good.

All right, let's meet the players from A.C.T.. My name is Elizabeth.

I am a junior at A.C.T., and my favorite movie is Ten Things I Hate About You.

Hi.

My name is Tate.

I am a sophomore A.C.T.

and my favorite movie is Gone With the Wind.

I'm Bryson and I'm also a sophomore at A.C.T., and my favorite movie is The Other Side of Heaven.

My name is Eugene Park.

I am a sophomore at A.C.T.

and my favorite movie is Topgun.

Very good.

The newest one and the first one.

The newest one.

Okay, those are the categories I told you earlier.

Literary colors, 20th century battles, Recent popular songs and ladies.

Actually, I think it's the first time I've read them to you.

Literary colors, 20th century Battles, recent popular songs and Ladies and ACTU choose First take.

What do you want to do?

Colors and literary colors in the 60 sevens you have.

When we start asking the questions, you'll give the colors that complete these literary titles.

Here we go.

And of Blank Gables Green The Blank Letter Scarlet, A Clockwork Orange Island of the Blank Dolphins The Color Purple Where the Blank Ferns Read The Blank Wallpaper Yellow The Red and the Black The Devil in the blank City White and the blank bug Gold.

That's right.

That was made girl.

Paul I was supposed to be part of the clue.

I didn't give it to you very quick.

Very efficient.

All ten.

Correct.

We now come back over to you, Baker, and you choose two categories.

We can play them in any order you want.

What do you want to do?

Ladies and pop songs?

Ladies and pop songs.

One want to care about.

Which ones?

Verse does it matter?

Let's do pop songs first, then recent popular songs.

Name the primary singer of these recent popular songs.

Good for you, Olivia Rodrigo Montero Well, another Easy on Me from her album, 3830 Adele, Holly and Peaches.

Sam Smith.

Justin Bieber.

That's right.

Kiss Me more and say so.

Those are things that don't start now in levitating but noticed in Blueberry Faygo But the music is right.

Hands to myself and lose you to love me best.

Lemon pepper, freestyle.

Drake That's that's right.

And the country hit fancy like Walker.

HAYES That's right.

You passed on hands to myself and lose you to love me.

You got 16 seconds.

One republic.

Is that your final answer?

It's Selena Gomez.

That's her song.

That's everybody in it.

That's all the answers.

Well done.

And then we're going to ladies for your next category, answer the following about Ladies, Good luck.

President, whose wife was known as Lady Bird, LBJ Enchantress, who gave the sword Excalibur to Arthur, Lady of the Lake, British Prime Minister known as the Iron Lady.

Better Disney Lady and the Tramp.

Are these animals dogs Woman who appeared as Our Fair Lady of Fatima Mary, nickname for the New York Times inspired by its former appearance, Skip 2008 song subtitled Put a Ring on It.

BE If you like it answer is Sing a Single Ladies next.

The state barrier islands include Lady's Island and Hilton Head Skip, author of The Portrait of the Lady and Daisy Miller, Henry James and Monarch known as the Nine Days Queen Mary.

Queen of Scots.

No, brother.

What's your final answer on that, Jean Gray?

Jean Gray is correct.

You skipped 2008 songs subtitled Put a Ring on It Single Ladies, Minnesota.

You got six nickname of The New York Times.

Inspired by its former appearance that your liberty, the Gray Lady, is the answer to that as time expires.

Good job.

A little harder than we may have thought or I may have thought.

And we come back over to A.C.T.. And gang, you get to play 20th century battles.

I'm going to name the present day country in which these battles took place.

You will name them, not me.

And the answers may be repeated.

Everybody clear?

Here we go.

60 seconds.

Pearl Harbor, 1941, United States, the Somme, 1918, France, Ramallah during the first Gulf War.

Ramallah, Iraq.

That's right.

Pusan Perimeter in 1953.

Korea.

That's right.

More answer.

South Korea.

Okay, that's good.

Spy on COP in the second Boer War.

South Africa.

Gallipoli 19/5.

Turkey.

Dien Bien Phu Fu 1954.

Vietnam.

The Battle of the Bulge 1944.

France.

It's Belgium, let's say golf 1944 Philippines.

That's right.

And El Alamein, 1942 Egypt.

That's right.

We skip any look.

We answered them all, didn't we?

Good job, gang.

The lightning rounds are fun.

Sometimes a little easier than we expect, sometimes a little bit harder.

We have left in our program 8 minutes.

And in those 8 minutes, we're going to answer as many speed round questions as possible.

Each one of these, as all of you know, worth 20 points.

No bonus if you know the answer.

Answer.

Here we go.

What video game?

Whose sixth season added the sweet themes mode is set in an arena called the Blunder Dome, where beans play battle royale mini games and will plants versus zombies.

No more guys fall Guys is the right answer.

What American migratory butterfly is and Henry Monarch.

Monarch is right.

What insects named after a Greek word meaning prophet are known to practice sexual cannibalism.

And it's Henry again.

Mantis.

That's right.

Praying Mantis.

During the 1922 March on Rome, KING Victor Emmanuel, the third gave the role of prime minister to what leader of the Blackshirts Mussolini.

Mussolini is right, Tate.

What title Outcast dies at a secret location near Cologne.

US and Tate again at a post That is right, A 2022 rule change by the FDA allows the sale without a prescription of what medical devices Early examples of which were trumpet shaped and Henry inhaler?

No.

And I'm looking.

Who else would you say, Elizabeth?

Hearing aids?

That's exactly right.

Hearing aid.

What Pharaoh commissioned the new capital city of Armada was an effort and it's Bryson.

I can answer even move on.

Okay.

Was never TD's husband and two ton Carmen's father and briefly converted Egypt to monotheism and Henry Akhenaten.

That is correct.

The quanta zation of what intrinsic form of angular momentum was demonstrated.

Henry Spin.

Spin is right.

What man who won an Oscar for his role in the 1953 film From Here to Eternity, was part of the Rat Pack, was nicknamed Old Blue Eyes and sang My Way Rent.

Frank Sinatra.

Frank Sinatra.

What British author who coined Portmanteau Oxbridge depicted Becky Sharp flinging a dictionary.

Henry Thackeray.

Thackeray is right.

What shape is the simplest, non or rentable surface can be created by cutting a Klein bottle tape Mobius strip?

That's right.

What process first used in 487 BCE against Hipparchus was named for the pottery shards used for voting to exile a citizen from Henry Stoney.

Finished it for you voting to exile a citizen from Athens for ten years.

Hey, Tate.

Ostracism.

That is right.

What officer ordered the lines of tore erase they dross built during the Peninsular War and commanded victorious state Napoleon.

No, that's not right.

I'll finish the question.

Commanded victorious British troops against Napoleon at Waterloo and Henry Wellington.

Yes, yes.

Except Wellington or Wesley.

Cardinality measures the size of what mathematical constructs Tate sets.

Sets is right.

What Democrat who narrowly won the 2020 Iowa Presidential Caucus now serves as Secretary of Transportation.

Take people to judge.

That is right.

In 2022 what Latin American countries President Najeeb Boo Kayleigh responded.

And will El Salvador Alva Salvador is right.

What structure takes up crystal violet dye when it has a thick peptidoglycan?

Layer is made of cellulose in plants and its t cell wall.

Cell wall is right.

What wig Senator from Massachusetts declared Liberty or Union take Webster Webster is right.

What literary work in which Harry Bailey leaves the tabard in to travel The Canterbury Tales?

That's right.

Of the four major groups of orchestral instruments, which one includes the Korean Django and Japanese Tycho, and it is Mark Percussion.

Percussion is correct.

In the Civil War, what state witnessed the siege of Fort Pulaski?

William Rosecrans defeat Will Tennessee.

That's incorrect.

I'll finish for you.

Defeated Chickamauga and William Sherman's March to Savannah, Georgia.

Georgia is right.

Pencil and paper.

A little math here.

What is the coefficient of the term in the polynomial equal to the quantity x minus six times the quantity x plus four?

And the answer from Henry one.

That's incorrect.

You have an answer.

Negative two.

Negative two is right.

Kyran gave up his immortality to free.

What figure?

Henry?

Prometheus.

Prometheus is correct.

Three and a half minutes left in 2020, Argentina had three days of national mourning.

For what?

Soccer star.

Take Renaldo.

No.

Back over to you.

Do you have an answer, Will?

Diego Maradona?

That's correct.

Continuing on what Mexican state is the largest by area is to the east of Sonora and south.

And Mark.

Okay, that's incorrect.

Finish unit here and south of New Mexico and Texas and shares its name with a breed of small dogs.

Chihuahua.

Chihuahua is right.

One author of the novel A Scanner Darkly wrote about a world in which the Nazis won.

World War Two in The Man in the High Castle.

Brant That's correct.

Pencil and paper.

Again, how much total interest will be gained over five years by a $100 investment, earning simple interest at 9%, $45.40 $5 is exactly right.

So keep your pencil in your hand.

If a train ride lasts three and one quarter hours and begins at 3:50 p.m., at what time in the evening will the ride end?

And it's take 715.

That's incorrect.

Do you have an answer?

Baker and Henry 7057i love it when some smart people still use their fingers like us.

Not so smart people do.

Next question What organization led by Audrey Azula is a UN agency that designates examples of intangible and take UNESCO's UNESCO's write what philosopher who discussed definite descriptions in his essay on denoting he worked with Alfred North Whitehead on Tate.

Russell Russell is right in what city which lost the 1284 battle of malaria to Genoa.

Did native son Galileo supposedly drop cannonballs take his pieces right?

What realm constructed from the eyebrows of the primordial giant Emir was home to at Henry Bahala?

No.

And was home to mortal humans in the Norse myth and Bryson Midcard mid guard is right.

What sebaceous base unit is defined using properties of cesium 133.

And it is Henry Second.

Second is right What current geological area era has been dominated by mammals has generally had a cooling climate and is named Bryson Anthropocene.

No, I'll finish it.

And his name from the Greek for recent life.

Henry Mesozoic.

It is Cenozoic.

Last question What man who described eating in the kitchen when company comes in his poem I two Hughes Langston Hughes is correct.

Well done, everybody.

That's fun.

These these rounds get more fun as we go because the teams are competing very hard.

They're all very smart and we are impressed by them and enjoy being with them.

This was a very close match between Baker and the Alabama School of Cyber Technology and Engineering, and A.C.T.

came back to win this round today.

Very exciting.

Both of you played so well and we're very proud of all of you.

And I know your families and your coaches and your teachers back in your schools are as well.

These shows are fun.

I love hosting them.

I hope you love watching them and we hope you'll join us again next time.

On the Alabama Scholar's Bowl.

I'm Mike Rowe.

You're so long, everybody.