Alabama Scholars Bowl is made possible by the Holley Family Foundation, established to honor the legacy of Brigadier General Everett Holley and his parents, Evelyn and Fred Holley.

Champions of servant Leadership.

Syntax investing in others.

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 in once again to the Alabama Scholars Bowl.

My name is Mike Royer.

It's been so much fun hosting this program throughout the process as we eliminate teams, as teams compete against each other, bright students from all around Alabama competing.

And now we've come to this, the championship game of the Alabama Scholars Bowl and our final two teams.

Hoover from Hoover, Alabama in Jefferson County and the Alabama School of Cyber Technology and Engineering.

You've all played so well all season, obviously, or you wouldn't be here.

Congratulations to what you've already done.

And good luck to you.

One more time.

We want to thank our folks who help us in the studio, officially the judges, Sharon Daly, Kate Wilson, Christopher Arthur, very important to the operation each time we do the program.

Mike Ousley, thanks so much for your leadership as the executive producer for the Alabama Scholars Bowl.

I'm not going to explain the rules if you don't know me by now.

We're all in trouble.

And I know you do.

20 questions with a bonus if you get it right.

Let's get started.

What national Park, whose namesake River flooded in June of 2020 to take Yellowstone.

Yellowstone is right.

What quantity your bonus measured in what's which is bounded by the Eddington limit quantifies the power radiated by an astronomical body luminosity.

That is correct.

Toss up what unit equal to just under 150 kilometers is approximately the distance between the earth and the sun and is abbreviated Kevin Astronomical Unit.

That is correct.

Here's the bonus question for your team.

Hoover.

Stephanie Beatriz voiced Mirabelle, the only non magical member of what family at the center of the movie Encanto.

Its madrigal Madrigal is correct.

Next tossup question What peninsula is west of the Kerch Strait is home to the city state?

Kamchatka No, that's not correct.

I'll finish it for you.

Hoover is home to the cities of Yalta and Sevastopol and was controversially annexed by Russia in 2014.

And a Crimea cry, meaning Crimea is correct, that peninsula.

Your bonus question What lake?

The largest in Africa by area contains the source of the White Nile.

Credit Victoria.

That's your answer?

Yes, that's right.

Next, what author who created Detective Dirk Gently wrote about a computer that gives the confounding answer 42 In The Hitchhiker's End, it's Kevin Golding.

All right, take Adams.

Douglas Adams is the right answer.

And here is your bonus question.

Aicte.

What Persian King, whose forces won the battle of Thermopylae, watched his Navy's defeat at the Battle of Solomon from a throne on Mount Argue.

Leo Xerxes Xerxes is correct.

Well done.

Moving on, what composed the Arias version?

Samarra, which is sung to an overcoat and che caliph.

And it is.

I don't see a light, is it meu Matthew?

Yes, sir.

Puccini.

Puccini is correct.

Well done.

Here's a bonus question for you.

What poem by Walt Whitman with 52 numbered sections describes a barbaric yawp sounding over the roofs of the world.

Song of myself?

That's correct.

Let's do a math question.

One, two.

Let's do it anyway.

Pencil and paper.

What is the only x intercept or root of Y equals X squared minus six x plus nine.

Given its vertex missing.

Three.

Three is the right answer.

Your bonus.

Vin Scully, who died in 2022 at the age of 94, served as the broadcast voice of white Major League team for 67 years.

The Yankees.

Yankees, Los Angeles Dodgers is the right answer there.

What author of this is everyone now who Abraham Lincoln called the little woman who wrote the book Take Stowe.

Harriet Beecher Stowe.

Bonus question for your team.

What character played by Kirsten Dunst and Florence Pugh in film adaptations of Little Women, is the youngest sister of Meg Jo and Beth March.

Amy That is right, Everybody.

And what country where Democrats?

66 and the DVD form part of the ruling coalition.

Do politicians like Mike Ruta and hurt the meet in The Hague and missing Netherlands?

Netherlands is right.

Your bonus.

What black religious leader mentored Malcolm X while leading the Nation of Islam from 1934 to 1975.

Farrakhan.

No, it was Elijah Muhammad that was the person.

Next question.

What predators have both kill lists Arri and spinner rats have Hobo brown and Matthew.

Spiders.

Spiders is the right answer.

Your bonus.

My one pencil and paper for this math.

How many rounds are needed for a 32 team single elimination tournament?

Assuming that no team receives a bye?

Yes.

31.

Correct answers.

Five Correct answer is five.

Next question.

What Greek goddess who preserved the eyes of the monster Argos.

Hara.

Hara is correct.

Bonus again after being convicted of gross indecency.

Oscar Wilde was eventually sent to what prison?

The title setting of a ballad that Wilde published in 1898.

Rikers.

Rikers.

No reading or the Reading Gaol.

Reading Gaol.

Next, everyone.

What author described a ruinous lawsuit in his book, novel Bleak House and depicted Tate Dickens.

Dickens is correct.

Your bonus in what country did Karachi born?

Benazir Bhutto served two terms as prime minister for war before being assassinated near Islamabad, Pakistan.

Pakistan is right.

Both teams what emperor was served by the minister Li C ended the war and its Matthew.

Chen Shi Huang.

Is that the right pronunciation?

Yes, that's it.

Bonus question for you in c g as units, a proportionality constant of one appears in what law which gives the inverse square electrostatic force between two point charges.

Cool.

Ohm's Law Collins Law is correct.

Next toss up what disease which develops when better beta cells in the pancreas are destroyed.

Diabetes.

Good enough, judges.

Type one or type two.

Diabetes.

Your bonus.

What Englishmen.

More In the 1833 death of his friend Arthur H. Column in the short poem Break, Break, Break, as well as the Elegy in Memoriam in Memoriam h h. Houseman.

Tennyson is the answer we wanted.

What novel depicts a dog named pilot who resides at Thornwell Hall?

Take Jane Eyre.

Jane Eyre is right.

Your bonus.

What German word names The eight month period starting in 1940, during which Londoners endured sustained Nazi bombing raids.

Blitzkrieg.

That's right.

Blitz or blitzkrieg?

Next question for everyone.

Not what national leader introduced.

The new economic policy took power in the October revolution.

And was.

And Tate.

Lenin.

Vladimir.

Lenin is the right answer.

Bonus what British chemists who used X-rays to show that an elements defining characteristic is its atomic number was killed in 1915 during World War One.

Dalton That's incorrect.

Moseley is the right answer.

Next question for everyone.

What building, which is depicted on the reverse of the bicentennial half dollar is named after a document that was approved there on July 4th date.

The Independence Hall.

That's the right answer.

Here's your bonus.

What congressional process against officials who have committed high crimes and misdemeanors leads to the chief justice presiding over a Senate trial.

Yeah, impeachment.

Impeachment is right.

Toss up.

What name is shared by Mass?

A massachusetts town that is home to the old North Bridge and a city.

And it's Aiden.

Lexington.

That's incorrect.

Finishing it for this team.

Old North Bridge in a city in Merrimack County that is the capital of New Hampshire.

And Tate Concord.

Concord is right.

Bonus In what state did the winning Republican gubernatorial candidate run a 2021 ad suggesting that the novel, Beloved, should be banned from schools?

Texas.

It was Virginia.

Three more questions in this round.

What devices are massless?

One of which forms part of an ideal Atwood machine and missing pulley pulleys is the right answer.

Here's your bonus.

Hoover.

What 19th century German philosopher was an idealist who wrote about the master slave dialectic in his book The Funnel Moon Log of Spirit.

Hegel.

Thank you.

That's right.

Next question.

Two more.

What author is usually credited with writing Prometheus bound and depicted King Kevin as Gillis?

That is right.

Your bonus.

What?

Former Texas congressman and director of the CIA served as vice president under Ronald Reagan?

No.

Reagan was all right.

H.W.

H.W.

Bush.

That that is correct.

Last question of this round, everyone.

What monarch?

Who is the sixth?

Wait till Otto Ni was succeeded by quit local following his death.

Daring.

Hernan.

And it is methane.

Montezuma.

Montezuma is right.

Your bonus pencil and paper for your bonus question and giving your answer in simplified radical form.

What is the product of the square root of ten times the square root of six?

Yeah, two root 15.

Two times the square root of 15.

That's correct.

And you all can relax.

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

The team that is trailing at the midpoint will choose first and play one of the lightning Round categories.

The other team will play two and then back to the other team for the last one.

Our categories are these.

The book of Exodus?

Conquerors and Commanders Famous Film Quotes and the letter H. Those are our categories.

As the teams think about that, we'll let you know that ACTU will go first.

Selecting first in this round, trailing slightly here at the midpoint.

And as you all discuss that, let's meet our players.

We'll ask each one of you to tell us your name, maybe your major, what your interest is.

And Matthew, if you would, start for us.

Hi, my name is Matthew Shin and I'm a senior I Hoover High School.

I'm interested in studying neuroscience at UAB.

And before I go on, I'd really like to thank our coaches, Coach Kain and Coach Hamley for bringing us all this way.

I'm glad you did that, Matthew.

Thank you.

Hey, I'm Aiden.

I'm a junior at Hoover.

I'd also like to thank our coaches, Coach Kane and Coach Henley.

Great coaches are my favorite subjects.

History.

Very good.

Mason.

My name is Mifflin.

I'm a senior Hoover High School, and I'd like to thank Coach Hammond and Coach Kane.

They're the best coaches I've had.

Very good kept.

I'm coming calling.

I'm not going to be the odd one out.

I'm also going to thank our coaches.

They brought us all the way here.

Great help.

If you hadn't thanked him, Kevin, you never hear the end of it.

They teach you all the way back to Birmingham.

All right, Aicte, let's meet these players.

Hi, I'm Elizabeth.

I want to thank Ms.. Watson.

Spring is only here.

I'm interested in biomedical engineering, and I'm a junior.

Hi, I'm Tate.

I want to thank Mrs. Watson and also my mom.

I'm a sophomore.

I'm Bryson.

I'm also a sophomore.

Ms.. Watson is an amazing coach and his mom is also a great assistant coach and I'm very interested in chemical engineering.

My name is Eugene Park.

I want to thank our coach and our assistant coach, Ms.. Watson and Ms.. Robyn for helping us get here.

And I am interested in computer science.

Very good.

You're all outstanding students.

We all know that you play well and we've enjoyed being with you throughout this competition.

Now then let's get back to work.

A.C.T.

What first category will you play?

Take conquerors and commanders.

Conquerors and commanders in 60 seconds.

When we get started, name these leaders and statesmen known for their military exploits already the first Holy Roman Emperor crowned in eight.

Hundred the.

Fearsome King of the Huns from four 3453, founder of the Mongol Empire.

Genghis.

Generalissimo, who won the Spanish Civil War.

Uh oh.

Franco.

Franco.

That's correct.

Roman General who joined Caesar in crisis in the first try trying to.

Pompey.

That's right.

Mexican caudillo captured at the Battle of San Jacinto.

Santa Ana?

That's right.

First president of Grand Colombia, who was.

On the.

Boulevard.

That's right.

Zulu leader.

Who favorite?

That's right.

Victor.

At the battle of Sigue Hara.

Who inaugurated the namesake Jack.

Japanese Shogun.

Tokugawa.

That's right.

President.

Who was NATO's first supreme Allied commander.

And you're Eisenhower.

That's right.

Well done.

Well played.

And that's one out of the way.

And now we'll come back over to you.

Hoover You have three to choose from.

What two would you like to play?

Anything we'd like to do?

The book of Exodus and H. H. The Book of Exodus and H will do Exodus first.

The Book of Exodus.

You're going to be answering the following about the book of Exodus.

Ready 60 seconds.

The book preceding Exodus in the Old Testament.

Genesis Prophet who leads the Israelites out of Egypt.

Moses, Moses.

Number of plagues God sins against the Egyptians.

See that parts for the Israelites on their flight from Egypt.

See Jewish holiday commemorating the.

Exodus Passover.

Edible substance sin by God during the Israelites wandered in the desert verb used twice in the English translation of God's statement.

A year Asher aa.

Pass pass.

Mountain upon which God dictates.

First hereditary high priest of the Israelites.

Aaron That's right.

Idol briefly worshiped by the Israelites before it was destroyed.

Golden Calf That's right.

And you skipped verb use twice in the English translation of God statement A Asher A It's E.H. dash y E.H. You've got 10 seconds.

Like I like the word 3313.

Am I am that I am.

I am what I am.

All right, well done though.

You got nine out of ten and letter H was your second choice.

Is that right?

Letter H What does the H stand for in these?

Here we go.

The sports league, NHL.

Hockey.

The sexually transmitted disease.

HIV.

No.

Human?

Yes.

A human.

Human.

That's right.

The Biomedical Research agency in I h Health.

The reality TV series.

R. H. O. N. Y.

Pass.

No.

The unit of measure mph.

Our the engineering system known as H Vasey Hydraulics.

It's like an H back.

It's kind of like.

The cassette tape format.

VHS home.

That's right.

The text shorthand.

TB q h. Honest.

That's right.

The web language.

Language.

HTML Hypertext.

The college descriptor.

HBCU.

Historically.

That's right.

You skipped the reality TV, See?

Maybe it's pronounced Ronnie, Ronnie, rh0ny.

I think.

Why the Hills, S.C. Hills.

Housewives.

Oh, that's the only one they skip.

Judges.

Six.

The engineering system known as HB a symbolic.

Oh, it's heating.

Because it's on my air.

Conditioning.

Yeah, heating and air conditioning.

That was good.

You guys did a good job with that.

And nobody wanted to play film questions.

But guess what, A.C.T.

You get to play it anyway.

Classic film quotes.

You may like this name.

The films from which these lines originate ready 60 seconds Ligers, Lions and tigers and bears.

Oh my.

Wizard of Oz.

Wizard of Oz.

That's right.

Nobody puts baby in a corner.

Oh, Dame Scat.

Yo, Adrian.

Don't know as.

Good as I can do.

Pass.

Here's looking at you, kid.

Skip, you're.

Going to need a bigger boat.

Ouch.

There you go.

Rosebud as a dying word.

Citizen Kane.

You get nothing, you lose.

Good day, sir.

My Fair lady.

It's Willy Wonka.

Do or do not.

There is no try.

Star Wars.

That's right.

I'm sorry, Dave.

I'm afraid I can't do that.

Oh, gosh.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

Dave.

Did you skip it?

Gentlemen, you can't fight here.

This is the war room.

All the President's Men.

That's Dr. Strangelove.

I'm sorry, Dave.

I'm afraid I can't do that.

Time's up.

Oh, Bryson, you're going to get.

You're going to, you know, this 2001, A Space Odyssey.

The computer says that in his computer voice.

You've not seen Dr. Strangelove.

Any of you had seen Dr. Strangelove?

All right.

I'm requiring you to watch it.

If within the next week.

That's just my one little thing here.

Is that.

Is that all of it?

Did we finish all four rounds?

I think we did.

We have 7 minutes and 15 seconds left.

And in those 7 minutes now 7 minutes, we're going to ask 20 point questions until we're out of time.

Everybody ready?

What painting technique in which artists paint into a layer of in total it neck and it's missing.

Fresco.

Fresco is right.

What type of kinetic sculpture exemplified by Alexander Calder's mobiles?

That's right.

What American author of Dragon Seed and East Wind West Wind wrote about land take back.

That's right.

What isolationist senator from Ohio who code names with Fred Hartley, a 1947 Tate McKinley.

Nope.

Aden's note.

No, it's the Taft-Hartley Act.

Next.

What?

Explorer and Scout who forced Navajo civilians into long walk to Bosque Redondo guided John C Fremont and named the capital of Nevada, Kit Carson.

Carson is right.

P waves in the earth and sound waves in the air exemplify what type of wave longitudinal that is correct.

Bryson What composer used a two note viola motif to depict?

And it's Matthew.

Vivaldi.

That is right.

What state is home to the tourist destination wall drug and to an annual motorcycle rally rally in the city of Sturgis?

Tate, South.

Dakota.

South Dakota.

Correct.

Why Religion whose adherents are divided into mentions and follow the vegetarian T Rastafari.

That's right.

What author who described a Bible salesman who steals a woman?

Take Flannery O'Connor.

That's right.

What?

Cabinet Department which until 2003 oversaw the Secret Service was led State Defense?

Nope.

And Aden Treasury.

Treasury is right.

What WNBA player who was named an honorary starter in the 2022 All-Star Game was detained in Russia in February.

Take Brittney.

Griner.

That's right.

What world leader who is general secretary of WP K Party, promotes the ideology of U K, and is the roles commander Commander Eden.

Kim Jong un.

That's right.

What Dutch scientist modified the ideal gas equation and it's within van rules.

Then it was right.

What musical which begins with an auction for chandelier contains songs like and it's Tate The.

Phantom of the Opera.

That's right What German author wrote about a love triangle between Albert Lutter and a sensitive artist.

Take Gerta.

Gerta is right.

What country contains the oil rich?

Ebbers?

Shut up, Sharon and Peninsula, which extends east into the Caspian Sea and includes the Tate Turkey.

No, that's incorrect and include and Eden.

As your.

Bhajan.

That is right in Roman history.

What nickname is given to the year A.D. 69, when Rome was ruled in quick succession by Golda and it is state.

The year of the five emperors.

That's incorrect.

Whoever can you answer and thespian vitellius and thespian Vespa shown.

Year of the four Emperors.

That is right for emperors.

What English title is shared by a play from 414 B.C.

featuring a city in the Clouds in an Alfred Hitchcock film Take Birds.

That's right.

What German city?

Whose a Commerzbank tower was until 2021, the tallest building in the EU, hosts the headquarters of the European Central Bank.

Take Munich.

That's incorrect.

Hoover That was the entire question.

Do you have an answer?

Aiden?

Berlin?

Nope.

Frankfurt.

Pencil and paper ready with three and a half minutes to go.

What is the median of the five numbers?

Four, 11, 15, nine and six and eight.

Nine nine is right.

Dizzy Gillespie wrote a song about a night.

In what?

African myth in Tunisia.

Tunisia is right.

What denomination?

Which has an African Episcopal branch grow out of the Oxford Holy Club and was led by George Whitfield and John Wesley.

And it is Matthew Anglican.

No, that's incorrect.

You have an answer.

Methodist.

Methodist?

Is that except Yes, that's acceptable.

Good.

In 1646, a monk used his ability to smell incense in a cathedral to produce the first modern estimate of what chemistry Constance sometimes written in sub a tape?

Avogadro's That's correct.

What actress played Nicole Barber opposite Adam Driver in marriage story and stars as Natasha Romanoff.

Scarlett Johansson.

Scarlett Johansson is right.

What Mexican born guitarist whose namesake band recorded 1999 Smooth with Rob Thomas collapsed from heat exhaustion and buzzing in is Elizabeth again.

Santana Santana is right.

Two and a half minutes to go.

The intermediate value theorem applies to functions with white property not present at jumps within continuity.

Continuity is right.

Prussian drill master, Baron von Steuben trained American troops At what site?

Tate Valley.

Forth Valley Forge is right.

What election in which Richard Daley used Gestapo tactic to quell protests at the DNC.

So George Wallace and Hubert Humphrey lose to Tate?

1964.

No.

Do you have an answer?

Hoover Go.

68.

68 is right.

Francine Pascal created many y a book series named for what?

Fictional California Town, which is home to the twins.

Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield.

Eden Esperanza.

Nope.

Any answer here?

All right, let's move on.

The answer We don't care.

Writers from what country created the Palm of the hand stories and the sea Captain.

Japan.

Japan is right.

Have a minute and a half left.

Lucy and Lossless are forms.

Of what task?

Aiden Compression.

That's right.

What mixtures?

Whose strength can be measured with the Henderson household back tape buffers.

Buffers is right.

What island, which contains the densely populated can top plane is home to the cities of no go.

Take Honshu.

Honshu is right.

One more question.

What on demand video service merging with discovery plus streams.

Gossip Girl missing.

Disney plus.

No Gossip Girl, as well as shows from its namesake cable network such as Game of Thrones.

Elizabeth Max.

That's correct.

Lay them down, gang.

Boy, that was fun.

It is so good when hardly had any wrong answers.

You're all are fast, you're smart, and that's fun.

We want to thank everybody who's made this season possible and supported the Alabama Scholars Bowl sponsors, people who work here at AP and our judges.

We appreciate it so much.

Sharon Point again.

Hoover came out on top in a very close match.

I think that's going to be very close.

I'll be interested to hear the score.

Do you have the difference right now?

Hoover is the winner of this season, but I know that was close.

Congratulations to all of you.

You played well.

Thank you for watching throughout the year on the Alabama Scholars Bowl.

For everyone here, I'm Mike Royer.

Thanks again for everything and for watching.

Have a great day.