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Alabama Scholar's 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.

Welcome into the Alabama Scholar's Bowl, seen statewide here in Alabama public television.

My name is Mike Royer.

Thank you for joining us.

And we hope you're watching every week.

Many people tell us they play along and I hope you do well against the students.

We had some fine students in the studio today.

The students from Gadsden City, they've been on our program in years past and joining us this year as well, the students from Danville High School.

Welcome to you all.

We're glad you're here.

I know your parents and your coaches and your faculty are proud of you all.

And so are we.

We're glad you're in the studio.

We have 20 questions for them.

The team that answers correctly in this first round.

We'll get a bonus question a lightning round midway through the program, and then 20 more questions that are very important at the end.

Buzzers in hand.

Let's get started.

Students.

Question number one.

The use of these objects was reaffirmed by the Second Council of Nicaea by Empress Irene after their ban under Leo the Third.

And buzzing in is is Chris icons?

Icon or iconoclasm is correct.

Bonus question for guys sin City, the earliest known use of the word idyllic.

Idyllic is in What Woman's 1856 novel dread, a tale of the Great Dismal Swamp.

Okay, like maybe like George Eliot.

I don't know, Eliot.

Nope.

It's, Harriet Beecher Stowe.

Harriet Beecher Stowe.

Toss up for everyone.

Now, a church in this country is led by an Buna, and considers the Book of Jubilees and Enoch to be canonical.

The title.

And it is in Egypt.

Nope.

I'll finish it for you.

De ville.

The tire tea.

What?

I hope I want to say this correctly for you.

T wa Addo Orthodox Church of what African country claims to have the Ark of the Covenant in Axum.

Axum a city?

Do you know what country that is?

Got a shot or take a shot at it?

The answer is Ethiopia.

Moving on now.

Next question.

One of this author's words follows the poet Kafka and the suicides of the headscarf girls.

Name.

This Turkish author is Chris Pamuk.

No, that that is correct.

That is the right answer.

Here it is from Luke and your bonus question.

These devices are often laminated to reduce eddy currents, and are the primary reason for using AC over DC for power.

Two inductor coils wrapped around corners comprise what devices used to step up and step down voltage.

What's that called?

Transformers.

That's correct.

Toss up everybody.

The West Country farmhouse variety of this cheese is required to be produced in southwest England.

Andrew Jackson and it's Andrew.

Cheddar.

Cheddar is correct.

Bonus question for you.

The author described the title professor's dismissal from Wendell College in his novel Pun in Charles Kin Boat and John Shade appear in the novel Pale Fire by what Russian American author Nabokov?

Nabokov.

You could have answered that much earlier.

You can bail me out there.

Okay.

Moving on.

Next question everybody.

This pianist whose band preceded Cab Calloway's at the Cotton Club, popularized in Chris Duke Ellington.

Duke Ellington is right.

Your bonus.

A building designed by this architect that is nicknamed the whale is the David S Ingalls Rink at Yale.

Named this Finnish architect of MIT Kresge Auditorium and a monument in the shape of an inverted Cantona curve.

The Gateway Arch Saarinen.

That is correct.

Number six question both teams.

An imaginary child in this play is killed after a car swerves to avoid, grim.

Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?

That's right.

Your bonus.

This man forgave his attempted assassin, the Gray Wolves member Mehmet Ali Agca.

A visit by this religious figure to his home country sparked the solidarity movement.

Benedict the 16th succeeded what Polish Pope John Paul the second.

That's right.

John Paul the second is correct.

Carol.

What?

His actual name?

Toss up everybody.

This adjective partially title is a Conan Gray album that includes people watching.

This adjective is the first word in the title of a song that asks the listener to wait a minute, while I make you mine.

What adjective title is a new Gene song?

Along with Shy?

Anybody, anywhere?

And what do you have?

Scarlet.

No, that's not correct.

Brian Little.

No, it is super.

Super was the word we wanted.

Next question everybody.

The protagonist of this work obsessively reads the works of ocean to his lover, Charlotte.

Name this novel about the title suicidal character written by Johan von Gerta.

And it's Chris, the Sorrows of Young.

That is correct.

And your bonus question.

The 1989 to Life agreement ended a 15 year civil war in this country and reduce the power of its American I Christians.

Iran backs the Shia militant group Hezbollah.

In what Arab country led from Beirut, Lebanon.

Lebanon is right.

Almost halfway through the first 20 questions, here's number nine.

This character gives birth to sorrow out of wedlock before working.

And it's Chris.

Test.

Test is right.

Bonus.

This author begins one poem by describing one long party where all hearts were open wide.

Name this French poet of a season in hell.

Who described the furious lashing of the tides in the drunken Boat.

Rimbaud.

Rimbaud?

Yes.

That's correct.

Question number ten.

Both teams.

A city with this name was the location of the final major battle of the English Civil War, which led to the exile in Marston.

Nope.

I'll finish it for you.

De Ville.

Civil war which led to the exile of Charles the Second.

What is also the name of the heart of the Commonwealth?

The second largest city of Massachusetts.

Do you know the name of that city?

And Francis?

Nope.

But it's good to take a shot.

Always.

The answer is Worcester.

I mispronounced that one for years.

Worcester is the correct pronunciation.

Here is a toss up for everyone in this election year.

The 12th amendment was passed shortly after its winning candidate faced the appointment of midnight judges.

Allegan.

It's Chris 1800 singing 1800.

That is correct.

1800 is right.

Bonus question.

This quantity in the ocean dropped steeply at the pace of plant pie supplying lime.

Because seawater has more dissolved ions, it has a higher value of what quantity when compared to freshwater by about 0.025g/ml.

What's the word?

We're looking for someone in salinity?

No.

Density is what we wanted for that.

Question 12.

One figure in this country's folklore trades magical horses conjured from mushrooms in exchange for pigs from a noon.

Characters from myths of this country include.

Primary name this country home to myth told in the Mobbin og located west of England.

What country are we asking for?

Oh, Chris Wales.

Wales is right bonus for you.

In one myth, this deity turns into a deer, causing Otis and Heifer alts to stab each other.

In another myth, Callisto, a follower of this goddess, is turned into a bear after being impregnated by Zeus.

Identify this goddess, the Greek of representation of the hunt.

Are you still with me?

Artemis is correct.

Well done.

Toss up everybody in this state.

In 1864, many black soldiers were slaughtered by Confederates commanded by Nathan Bedford Forrest.

After the Battle of Fort Pillow.

Name this state.

Chris.

Tennessee.

Tennessee is where that and Shiloh were fought.

Your bonus question.

Dennis Kearney of the Workingmen's Party targeted residents of these locations, including those who ran Tom gangs.

San Francisco hosts the US oldest, one of what locations that in the 1800s attracted people from Fujian Chinatown's Chinatowns.

That's correct.

Chinatown is right.

Moving on.

This task is done by using the OLS method in R. This process creates a line that always passes through x bar and y bar.

Least squares might be estimated in the linear Kris regression.

Regression is correct.

Here's your bonus.

What author of the 2025 novel Emperor of Gladness described Little Dog's complicated relationships with his Vietnamese immigrant mother?

Rose and his friend Trevor in On Earth were briefly gorgeous on Vu Wong Foo Wong.

Yes, that's correct.

Chris's pronunciation was a little better.

Just a little.

But no, it's fine.

Next, Theodora Kroeber documented the life of one of these people in her book Ishi in Two Worlds a syllabary.

Celebrate syllabary was designed by Sequoyah for the use.

Chris, the Cherokee, know that.

Yes.

You accept that the judges say yes.

So here's your bonus.

This force equals charge times flux density times the sign of the angle for a moving charge.

This force acts perpendicular to both the field and the current.

Per Fleming's left hand rule, what force is combined with electricity in Maxwell's equations?

Magnetism, magnetism and magnetism.

That's correct.

Yes.

Number 16 of 20.

Both teams.

This Roman emperor issued the Edict of maximum prices.

One Emperor, Chris Diocletian.

Diocletian is correct.

Here's your bonus.

Frederick Bolas synthesis of this compound from inorganic ammonium cyanide provided evidence against the theory of vitalism.

What nitrogenous compound carries waste, nitrogen and humans as the main component of urine.

You're you're you're you're you're that's correct.

Number 17.

Everybody in this novel, Le Pyramid, inversely marks the location of the coffin of Mary Magdalene.

Sophie Nauvoo learns she is descended from Jesus at the end of a journey with Robert Langdon.

In what?

Novel by Dan Brown Chris the Da Vinci Code.

Da Vinci Code is correct.

Your bonus.

The mythological figure took Andromache as a concubine and dropped Hector's son Ares.

Tie it next off the walls of Troy.

King Priam was killed at an altar.

By what?

Son of Achilles son.

You, It's, felicitous.

No, go for that.

I have no idea.

Felicitous?

No, but it sure sounded right.

And knee up.

Tolerance.

Neapolitans.

We'll know next time.

What we.

Two more questions here.

This quantity equals Boltzmann's constant times the natural log of a number of possible microstates of a system.

What quantity which never decreases in an isolated system.

Kriss entropy.

Entropy is right.

Your bonus in this conflict.

Titus Labienus secured a win for Rome by leading reinforcing troops in the Battle of Alesia.

Name.

This conflict between verse in geriatrics and Julius Caesar, allowing Rome to annex Celtic lands in France.

Garlic War, Gallic Wars, right number 19.

Everybody else 99 was a purported room temperature type of these materials that partially levitated.

BCS theory explains the properties of what materials that, when cooled beyond their critical temperatures, have zero resistance to electric current.

And it is Chris superconductors.

That's right.

Bonus a character created by this author continues fighting the Magisterium and dealing with armored polar bears in The Book of Dust.

What author popular popularized the name Lyra by writing the first book in his Dark Materials series, called The Golden Compass.

Pullman.

I think Pullman, Pullman, Pullman, Pullman is right.

Last question before we take a little break.

Diffusion rate is inversely proportional to the square root of this quantity per grams law.

Avogadro's number is the ratio between average mass and this quantity.

What quantity measured in Dalton's is the sum of the atomic masses in a molecule.

And Andrew.

Atomic mass.

No.

That's incorrect.

You guys have an answer for that date?

Bill answer we were looking for is molar mass.

Molar mass or molecular weight would have been accepted.

Let your buttons down.

Take a breath.

Relax.

I'm going to tell our audience and tell our students what the categories are for our lightning round.

There are four categories.

The team that trails midpoint will go first.

In this case, they will choose first and play one of the categories.

We'll come over to you, Gadsden City.

You'll choose two and play them both.

Then what's left comes back to you.

Gadsden for the last.

The four categories for our lightning round today, three states in a city California, Texas, Florida and Memphis.

You all think about what you ones you want to do.

And while you do that, we'd like to meet all of our students.

We'll ask each one of you just to tell us your name, favorite subject, whatever you'd like to tell us about yourselves, because our folks at home would like to know more about you.

Chris, would you start?

Hi, I'm Chris Holder.

I'm a senior at Gaston City High School, and I will most likely be studying history at the Universi I am Andrew in and I'm a sophomore, gets a high school, and my favorite subject is history.

Hi, I'm Ren Gaines, I'm a senior at Cincy High School and my favorite teacher is Mr.

Hey, Alvin, when I'm a senior in high school and I really like biology.

All right, my favorite subject is English.

I'm starring on a night in, in the band at day old high school.

I'm Francis Feinberg, I'm in 10th grade, and I love reading.

Jim and Lunsford.

I'm in ninth grade, and I do cross-country.

They're good.

How far are you running in cross country in high school these days?

33 miles.

Very good.

We're glad you're all here.

You're all doing well.

We're proud of all of you.

As I know, your, sponsors, your faculty and parents and family at home are proud of you.

As well.

So it's up to you, day.

Dale, of those four categories I mentioned, which one would you like to try?

Did you choose one?

California.

Very good.

Obviously the answers you're going to answer the following questions about California.

You have a minute.

So let's go.

Former U.S.

senator from California.

Who is Joe Biden's vice president?

Carla.

That's right.

City that contains many cable cars and the Golden Gate Bridge.

San Francisco.

That's right.

Precious metal discovered at Sutter's Mill in the late 1840s.

That's right.

NBA team, the retired, the jerseys of Magic Johnson and Kobe Bryant.

And past.

Okay.

Bay area prison named the rock Alcatraz.

That's right.

Prestigious university in Palo Alto, whose school colors include Cardinal red.

Past author who said Cannery Row and Of Mice and Men in the state.

And Pets National Park, home to the rock formation El Capitan and Red band.

Nope.

That's Yosemite.

Namesake of a Los Angeles concert hall designed by Frank Gehry.

US and chocolate company founded in the Bay area by an Italian man in 1852.

That's correct.

They got in there in time, and the time is up.

Well done.

Yosemite Park and that Los Angeles concert hall was Disney named for Walt Disney.

All right, we'll come over to you.

Gadsden City, you get to choose between Texas, Florida and that other state, Memphis.

What?

Which ones would you like to do in Texas and go and choose the other one?

Two?

Florida, Texas and Florida.

Very good.

Just one minute.

Answer these questions about Texas.

Texas Hold'em is a variant of this card game, Poker City, that hosts the South by Southwest festival and is the state's capital.

Austin.

Austin.

San Antonio mission where James Bowie and Davy Crockett.

Alamo.

That's right.

City, whose professional sports team include the Mavericks and the Cowboys.

River that separates Texas from Mexico.

Rio Grande.

U.S.

Senator from Texas who defeated Beto O'Rourke in 2018 and colon already in 2024.

Cruz.

That's right.

Texas Panhandle city that shares its name with the Spanish word for yellow.

I'm real.

I'm a real.

I'm a real.

Yes.

That's fine.

City home to William Hobby Airport and George Bush Intercontinental Airport.

Who would like Houston?

Houston.

Like Houston is right.

City on the Gulf of Mexico that was devastated by a 1900 hurricane.

Galveston.

That's right.

The case Texas v Johnson ruled that the burning of one of these objects.

American flag.

That's correct.

With three seconds to go.

Good job.

We'll try Florida next.

Yes.

All right.

Answer these questions in 60s about Florida, southern city that names the NBA's heat and NFL's Dolphins.

Its most populous city, which is named for the 70th.

Jacksonville.

That's right.

Its capital, which contains the main campus of Florida State.

Governor of Florida, who was sued by Disney in 2023.

Large lake in the southern part of the state whose name means big water.

Lake.

Okeechobee.

Okeechobee.

That's right.

Native American people who fought three wars against us.

That's right.

Disney theme park that contains test track.

Disney World test track and world showcase in Spaceship Earth.

And court judges.

You're good with that.

Epcot's.

Good island, home to Ernest Hemingway.

House and mini holodeck.

That's right.

City south of Jacksonville that was founded in 1565.

Saint Augustine.

That's right.

Plenty of time left for the last one.

Kate DiCamillo book set in Florida in which Opal names a dog after a supermarket chain because of Winn-Dixie.

That's correct.

Three seconds to spare.

Good job on both categories.

We come back to you now.

To, take on the last category, de ville, and you get to choose Memphis because it's the only one that got left.

Answer these questions about Memphis in 60s here we go.

State connected to Memphis by two different bridges across the Mississippi.

Pass.

Okay.

Civil rights leader who was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis.

King.

That's right.

NBA team which moved to Memphis from Vancouver, passed musician who rose to prominence in Memphis before recording Folsom Prison Blues.

Cash.

That's right.

College, which beat Memphis in the 2008 NCAA basketball championship, coached by Bill self.

That's a state south of Memphis, which was once the home to Elvis.

Author from the Memphis suburbs whose novel The Firm was adapted into a Memphis short movie.

Past Memphis born pro-wrestler nicknamed Nature Boy.

Pass shipping company which makes Memphis the world's biggest cargo airport.

Nope.

That's Fedex.

Historic street in Memphis, home to numerous blues clubs.

We're out of time.

Did you know the last one?

Beale Street was the last one.

All righty.

Done with the lightning round, which is brought to you by the Alabama Community College System.

And we appreciate their support of our students and our program.

We have five minutes left.

In those five minutes.

I'm going to rattle off questions pretty quickly to, you know, bonuses.

Now, you answer the question.

We move on.

So let's move on.

Now.

The presence of this element in Gubbio, Italy, is cited as support for the Alvarez asteroid hypothesis, and this element is often used to create the ball tip of fountain pens.

What very rare D-Block metal has the symbol I r?

Yes, Andrew.

Iridium.

Iridium is correct.

During this decade, Alexander Burkman attempted to assassinate Henry Clay Frick during a steel mill strike in Pittsburgh named this decade during which the homestead strike occurred.

Which decade was it?

1118 years?

Nope.

That's incorrect.

You guys have an answer to the shot, but 1890s is right.

Good job.

Next, the artist of the execution of Emperor Maximilian use the model Victorian neurons.

Yes, many, many is correct.

Next, these organisms transmitted disease caused by Borrelia.

Dr.

ferry bacteria that is characterized by a bullseye shaped rash.

Name these and its vectors.

Say again.

Vector.

No.

That's incorrect.

I'll finish it for you.

Name this very small, bloodsucking parasites that are the primary vector of Lyme disease.

What is it?

Scarlet ticks is correct.

Well done.

Optical pumping by these devices results in population inversion units.

Chris.

Lasers.

Yes, that's the right answer.

Next in 2018 email.

In a 2018 email, this man was called an abuser of women by his mother, Peter Seth.

Hex Seth is correct.

In this country, the Ujamaa ideology was promoted by its first leader, Julius Nairobi.

Nay, Riri.

The Arusha Accords were signed in what East African country formed from the merger of Zanzibar and it.

I'm looking.

Alvin.

Yes.

Tanzania.

Zenia is correct.

Moving on with three minutes to go.

Sextus Pompey opposed Augustus.

From this island where Alcibiades led a failed expedition during the Peloponnesian War.

On what island between Rome and Carthage was Syracuse located.

And Andrew.

Sicily.

Sicily is right.

What is the circumference of a circle?

At the base of a cylinder with a height of 30cm and a volume of 270 pi cubic centimeters.

No copying off your neighbor.

Anybody got an answer?

Give it a shot, Chris.

Nine centimeters.

That's incorrect.

You guys have a shot.

You want to take one?

It is six pi centimeters.

A couple more questions or a few more.

In this novel, the protagonist is disillusioned by her marriage to Edward Kasabian, whose will forbids her from marrying.

Will Landis name this novel?

In Middlemarch, Middlemarch is right.

The Sassanid king carved the second, gave this object to Hercules as a goodwill gesture.

Constantine the Great's mother found this object at the church of the Holy Shroud of Turin.

No.

That's incorrect.

I'll finish it for you.

De Ville.

Constantine the Great's mother found this object at the church of the Holy Sepulcher.

Name this object used as at Golgotha.

Place between two similar ones.

Used to crucify thieves.

What is the object?

Scarlet.

A cross is correct.

Well done.

Next.

This country was previously led by the four communes and its houses.

It houses a memorial to victims of the Middle Passage known as the House of slaves.

Leopold and its are in Senegal.

Senegal is correct.

We've got a minute left.

This man depicted a man staring at the back of his head through a mirror and not.

And it's Gris.

Magritte.

Magritte is right.

In one novel, set in this city, Mina is not allowed outside after getting in the car accident.

The novel Palace Walk is set in the city.

Chris Cairo Cairo is right.

Let's do one more.

A renovation of this location restored the Farley Building, which now contains Monahan Hall.

What location?

Whose 1963 demolition led to the preservation of Grand Central is the main intercity train station in New York City.

What is it called?

Anybody?

It is called what?

Francis Central Station, not Grand Central, but Penn, Pennsylvania station is what we wanted.

Lay your pins down.

Our time is gone.

And, that was a good round.

All of you played well.

We're proud of all of you.

And in this particular one, Gadsden City, you come out on top on this one.

And so we'll see you again.

But, win or lose, we're proud of all of you and glad that you came and wish you all the very best.

As we go forward.

We invite you to join us again next week for the Alabama Scholar's Bowl.

I'm Mike Royer, so long everybody.