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♪♪ Alabama Scholars Bowl!

Where high school students from all over the state compete for scholarship money.

These are dedicated students who work hard everyday to do their best academically.

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 once again, everyone.

My name is Mike Royer, hosting the Alabama Scholars' Bowl.

We're so glad that you've joined us once again.

And if you're a regular viewer, you know by now that we bring together the brightest and best students from high schools all around the state of Alabama, and they compete in answering some tough, tough questions on a variety of subjects.

So we hope you'll stay tuned for the entire half hour, and follow along and root for students from your area, or just root for students, 'cause they're good kids and smart students.

We have judges today that will be monitoring everything we do and make sure we do it right.

Christopher Arthur and Kate Wilson are the judges for our program today.

And our teams come from all around the state of Alabama.

From the Alabama School of Technology and Engineering up in the Huntsville area, a relatively new school joining us on the program for the first time.

Welcome.

We're glad to have you with us.

And the students from Irvington, Alabama, down in Mobile County from Alma Bryant High School.

It's good to see you as well.

Thanks for traveling up from south Alabama to be with us today.

You'll meet all of our students individually a little bit later on in the program.

As you guys know, we begin now with questions worth 10 points each.

If you answer the question correctly, your team gets a bonus question just for you.

Here we go.

Question number one, what scientist coined the names alpha decay and beta decay?

(buzzer ringing) And buzzing in is Tate.

- Rutherford.

- Rutherford is right, and a test buzzer jumps in again.

This is a bonus question just for your team.

In 1969, what Central American country invaded it's much larger neighbor, Honduras, after riots during a World Cup qualifier, beginning the Soccer War?

- Belize?

- No, the right answer on this one is El Salvador.

El Salvador was right.

Question for everyone now.

What man who planned the Cape to Cairo Railway founded the diamond company De Beers?

(buzzer ringing) And buzzing in is Braden.

- Rhodes.

- Rhodes, Cecil John Rhodes is correct.

Here's your bonus question just for you, Alma Bryant.

What author of a long elegy for John Keats titled Adonais asked, "If winter comes, "can spring be far behind?"

in his Romantic poem, Ode to the West Wind?

- Um, Shelley.

- I love it when they see um.

Go ahead and try that.

Shelley's right.

Good job.

Question for both teams.

What artist who depicted a warship's last voyage in The Fighting Temeraire showed a train crossing Maidenhead?

(buzzer ringing) And it is Tate.

- Turner.

- Turner is right.

J.M.W.

Turner.

Your bonus question just for you.

UTF-8 is an encoding used with what standard for representing text in computers, which includes over a million characters in many languages?

- Unicode.

- That is correct.

Good job.

Question for everyone.

In November of 2020, what country accused terrorists of assassinating Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, a nuclear scientist?

(buzzer ringing) And it's Braden.

- Iran.

- Iran is the right answer.

Your bonus question, Alma Bryant, what team, which was upset by the Atlanta Hawks in the first round of the 2021 NBA playoffs, is coached by Tom Thibodeau?

- Sorry, Sixers?

- The right answer is the New York Knicks.

New York Knicks, everyone.

What empire's army inflicted hundreds of casualties on British Calvary at the 1854 Charge of the Light Brigade, But, (buzzer ringing) and it's Tate.

- The Crimean.

- That's incorrect.

I'll finish it for you, Alma Bryant.

Charge of the Light Brigade, but ultimately lost the Crimean War.

(buzzer ringing) And what do you have Braden?

- Russia.

- Russia, or the Russian Empire.

That's good.

Here's your bonus question.

What country's external territories include the uninhabited Ashmore and Cartier Islands, the Cocos Islands, Norfolk Island, and the Christmas Island?

- Australia.

- Australia is right.

Now pencil and paper for a math question.

What is a student's mean average score on a series of four tests on which she scored 60, 60, 70, and 90?

(buzzer ringing) And Tate's buzzed in.

What is it?

- 70.

- 70 is the right answer.

Bonus question.

India's COVID-19 efforts have hampered the fight against what endemic bacterial illness, whose symptoms include night sweats, fever, and weight loss?

Got an answer?

- Cholera.

- Tuberculosis was the right answer this time.

Next question.

What author of the essays The Rebel and The Myth of Sisyphus wrote about- (buzzer ringing) Tate?

- Camus.

- Camus is right, Albert Camus.

Your bonus question.

Eris throwing the Apple of Discord led to what event in which Aphrodite, Athena, and Hera competed?

- The contest for who's the most beautiful goddess?

- That's incorrect.

The answer we were looking for is the Judgment of Paris, is what it's called.

The Judgment of Paris.

What senator who wrote ope eds, or I'm sorry, op-eds in the 2021 opposing the For the People Act and abolishing the filibuster- (buzzer ringing) And it's Braden.

- Joe Manchin.

- Joe Manchin is right.

Your bonus.

After foreseeing the last Merovingian king Childeric III, Childeric III into a monastery, what mayor of the Palace and father of Charlemagne became King of the Franks?

- Charles Martel.

- That is incorrect.

The right answer is Pepin the Short.

Pepin the Short.

What organisms, both teams, what organisms, which are connected by a tissue called coenosarc are affected by bleaching accelerated by climate change- (buzzer ringing) And it's Jonah?

- Coral.

- [Mike] Coral is the right answer.

Your bonus question.

What 19th century French author denounced anti-Semitism in his political writings and depicted lower class life in novels, such as Nana and Germinal?

- Zola.

- Zola is right.

Next question, everybody.

What territory governed from a city once called Frobisher Bay and now named Iqaluit?

(buzzer ringing) Tate.

- Nunavut.

- That is correct.

With my reading of that question, and you got it right.

Well done.

Your bonus.

Pencil and paper ready.

Math question.

If three-fourths X equals 225, what is the value of one-tenth X?

Someone have an answer?

- 30.

- That is correct, Elizabeth.

Good job.

Next question for both teams.

What woman who cut an oxhide into strips while founding a city and killed herself on a funeral pyre was a mythical queen of Carthage who loved (buzzer ringing) Aeneas?

- Dido.

- That is right.

Dido is correct.

Your bonus question for your team.

What writ with a two word Latin name requires that a detained person be brought before a court to determine if their detention is lawful?

- Habeas corpus, habeas corpus.

- Habeas corpus.

- That's correct.

Came up with a just in time.

Good job.

Everybody, what poet wrote about a house that seemed a swelling of the ground, and a carriage that contained immortality, (buzzer ringing) and Tate?

- Emily Dickinson.

- Emily Dickinson is right.

Bonus question for you.

What British poet described World War I soldiers who are bent double while marching through sludge in his poem, Dulce et Decorum Est?

- Owen.

- Owen is right.

Question number 13 of our 20.

Paper and pencil ready.

What is the largest integer that is both a multiple of nine and less than 500, given that it's digits must have a sum of 18?

(buzzer ringing) Yes, Jordan?

- 495.

- [Mike] 495 is the right answer.

Well done.

Your bonus question for your team.

What Italian born physicist lends his name to particles with half-integer spin, and oversaw the first artificial nuclear chain reaction?

- Fermi.

- Fermi is correct.

Next, what New York governor who lost the 1944 presidential race to Franklin Roosevelt- (buzzer ringing) And it's a Braden.

- Dewey.

- [Mike] That is right.

Thomas Dewey lost to FDR.

Your bonus question.

In June of 2020, protesters declared an autonomous zone named for what neighborhood in Seattle?

- Capitol Hill.

- Capitol Hill is correct.

And that was your bonus.

That was your bonus question.

Here's a question for everyone.

What author invented a cipher called the Code of Claw for her Underland Chronicles and created the dystopian Panem in her series- (buzzer ringing) And it's Braden again.

- Collins.

- [Mike] Suzanne Collins wrote the Hunger Games.

Bonus for your team.

What AD 313 proclamation by Licinius and Constantine I formalized toleration of Christianity throughout the Roman Empire?

- Edict of Constantinople.

- Edict of Milan.

Edict of Milan.

Both teams.

What country, whose Tadawul stock exchange had a 2019 IPO for the oil company, Aramco- (buzzer ringing) Braden?

- Saudi Arabia.

- [Mike] Saudi Arabia is correct.

Your bonus.

Which island in the US Virgin Islands, the largest, is home to Charlotte Amalie, it's capital?

- St. Thomas.

- St. Thomas is correct.

Few more questions.

What president, who created the Interstate Commerce Commission- (buzzer ringing) And it is Tate.

- Eisenhower.

- [Mike] Nope.

Let me finish it for you on this side.

What president, who created the Interstate Commerce Commission, defeated Benjamin Harrison in 1892 to win his second, non-consecutive term.

(buzzer ringing) And it's Braden.

- Cleveland.

- [Mike] Grover Cleveland is right.

Interstate commerce.

I knew you thought of Eisenhower.

I did too.

Here's your bonus question.

Schwann cells are found in what division of the nervous system that includes everything except the brain and spinal cord?

- Limbic.

- No, it's the peripheral nervous system.

Two more questions in this part of the program.

What member of the Shakyamuni clan meditated under a bodhi tree- (buzzer ringing) Tate?

- The Buddha.

- Buddha is right.

Your bonus.

What country's 1918 Parliament Act was also called the Qualification of Women Act because it allowed women over 21 to stand for election?

- Canada.

- Right answer is United Kingdom or Great Britain.

Two more questions.

What metallic element, whose alloys are known as amalgams, was used- (buzzer ringing) Looking for Brycen.

- Gallium.

- [Mike] That's incorrect.

I'm going to finish it here.

Amalgams was used in Evangelista Torricelli's barometer and at a room temperature it becomes a liquid.

(buzzer ringing) Braden?

- Mercury.

- Thank you.

I didn't want to read that again.

Mercury is right.

Your bonus question.

What pop rock band, whose 2020 album Women in Music Pt.

III contains the song The Steps, consists of three sisters named Este, Alana, and Danielle?

- 1975?

- No, do I pronounce it right?

Haim?

Is that the group?

Anybody know that group?

That is.

One guy in the back knows the group.

Last question.

What brand, which released the Vaporfly in 2017, owns (buzzer ringing) and it's Elizabeth.

- Nike.

- Nike is right.

Well done.

You get the last bonus question of the round.

What suite by Camille Saint-Saens appropriately includes sections named Tortoises and The Elephant?

- The Carnival of the Animals.

- That's exactly right.

Good job.

Lay your buzzers down, because we've come to that point where we're going to do our lightning round.

We have four categories to tell you about.

I'm going to tell you about them, and the team that is trailing at this point will choose first.

Choose one and play that one.

And that would be our friends from the School of Cyber Tech and Engineering in Huntsville, slightly behind at this point in the program.

You'll choose first, play first.

Alma Bryant, you will choose second, and choose two.

Play them both, and you'll get whatever's leftover.

Our categories today are chemistry by the numbers, musical notation, silent first letters, and repeated sounds.

Jot those down.

Think about them and decide which one to choose.

As you do that, we'd like you at home to meet the students from these fine schools here in the state of Alabama.

If you would Brycen, if you would start tell us your name and a little bit about yourself.

We'll come right down the line.

- I'm Brycen Borden, and I am from Huntsville, Alabama, and I play the bassoon and I like Pokemon and Legos, and pretty much I'm a nerd.

- [Mike] No, you're not.

Only in the most positive way.

All right, next.

- My name's Amie Connery.

I'm originally from Mobile, but I go to school in Huntsville for ASCTE, and I enjoy Scholars' Bowl and reading and writing.

And I want to be an aerospace engineer.

- Good.

- My name is Elizabeth Orton.

I'm a sophomore at ASCTE, and I play soccer and volleyball.

- [Mike] Okay, and Tate.

- My name is Tate Osborne.

I am a freshman at ASCTE.

I am from Huntsville, and I want to be a mechanical engineer when I grow up.

- Very good.

Your team's doing very well today.

We're glad to have you with us here on the Alabama Scholars' Bowl.

And the fine players from Alma Bryant High School.

Let's begin, Thomas, and just tell us a bit about yourself.

- I'm Thomas Harveson.

I'm in the 11th grade at Alma Bryant High School, and I aspire to become a professor in astrophysics one day.

- [Mike] All right.

- Braden Vick, a senior Alma Bryant High School.

And I'm gonna use my time to shout out the Ion Network, a student-run broadcasting organization that we've run down here.

We believe it's one of the premier broadcasting organizations that are student run in the state, so check us out.

The morning announcements, our sports broadcast, and subscribe, hit that notification bell, and watch our videos.

- Jonah, do you have something you'd like to promote?

- No, not quite.

Just my name.

I'm Jonah Deer.

I like tennis, golf, and stuff like that.

And I'm not a fan of milkshakes.

- [Mike] Okay, good to know.

And Abigail.

- I'm Abigail Tipton.

I'm a junior at Alma Bryant, and I am also an archer.

- Very good.

It's a fun sport.

Very good.

It's good to have you all with us.

Let's play our lightning round, and Cyber Tech and Engineering from Huntsville, you get to choose first.

Which category would you like?

- The silent letters one.

- [Mike] Silent letters, okay.

Silent first letters.

Once the clock starts, when I start asking the questions, you will give these words whose first letters are silent.

Pretty simple.

Ready?

Joint between the arm and the hand.

- Wrist.

- [Mike] Title of address used to show respect, such as doctor or reverend.

- Pass.

- [Mike] Prehistoric flying reptile whose name means winged finger.

- Pterodactyl.

- [Mike] To chew persistently, perhaps to the bone.

- Gnaw.

- [Mike] A person who benefits from another person's will.

- Pass.

- [Mike] A pattern, acronym, or another trick used to help remember something.

- Mnemonic.

- [Mike] One of the seven deadly sins, meaning significant anger.

- Wrath.

- [Mike] Golden mascot of Las Vegas' NHL team.

- Pass.

- [Mike] Insane, as in the title of an Alfred Hitchcock film.

- Psycho.

- [Mike] Small humanoid ornamental statues often placed in a garden.

- Gnome.

- That's right.

And do we go back to three, judges?

Two, title of the address used to show respect, such as doctor or reverend?

Right and time is up.

It's, is it pronounced honorific?

Honorific.

It starts with an H, but it is silent.

All right, good job with that first batch of questions.

We come over to Alma Bryant High School now.

You are going to choose two categories.

Braden, what did you come up with?

- The first one we're going to do is the repeated sounds.

The last category.

- [Mike] Okay.

- And then we're going to choose the Chemistry by the Numbers.

- [Mike] Very good.

So you are going to do repeated sounds.

The clock will start when I start asking the questions.

You're going to give these words or names that consist of the same syllable or word twice.

Got it?

A dress worn by a ballerina.

- Tutu.

- [Mike] Excited whispers or unusual sounds heard during a heartbeat.

- Murmur.

- [Mike] Small confection coated in chocolate.

- Bonbon.

- Answer.

- [Mike] Yes, that's fine.

If I hear the right answer, I'll go on.

Extinct flightless bird native to Mauritius.

- Dodo.

- [Mike] Prison north of New York City?

- Pass.

- [Mike] Real name of the title character in the opera Madame Butterfly?

- Pass.

- [Mike] French Polynesian island whose cities include Vaitape.

- Bora Bora.

- [Mike] That's right.

1950s uprising in British-controlled Kenya.

- Mau Mau.

- [Mike] Type of dolphinfish, whose name is Hawaiian for very strong.

- Mahi-mahi.

- [Mike] Judges, where do we go back to?

Four, a response to a ship's captain?

No, no, yeah.

- You skipped it.

- Aye aye.

- [Mike] I skipped it.

Aye aye is right.

So they got that in, and our time is up, but I'm glad we had time to go back to the one and why I skipped it, we'll never know.

But you got quite a few of those right.

Well done.

Good job.

All right.

We go back now.

Did you say chemistry for the second one you guys want to do?

Alrighty.

It was my chemistry teacher who recommended I major in history, so this is one of my favorites.

All right, you ready?

In this one when the clock starts, you're going to give these numbers from chemistry.

Total number of atoms in one water molecule.

- Three.

- [Mike] In degrees Celsius, the boiling point of water.

- A hundred.

- [Mike] The exponent in Avogadro's constant, or one mole of particles.

- 23.

- [Mike] Rounded to the nearest Kelvin, the freezing point of water.

- 257.

- [Mike] That's incorrect.

Two atoms joined by a triple bond share this many electrons?

- Six.

- [Mike] Maximum number of electrons in one orbital?

- Two.

- [Mike] Correct.

Within two, the total number of known chemical elements.

- 121.

- [Mike] That's incorrect.

Total number of quantum numbers an electron in an atom has.

Total number of quantum numbers an electron in an atom has.

- Three.

- [Mike] The atomic number of boron.

- Five.

- [Mike] That's right.

And which one?

(Judge speaks indistinctly) The last one?

The atomic number of boron, five.

They got that.

- [Kate] One more.

Number of atoms in- - [Christopher] Number of atoms in a quantum?

- [Kate] In a buckyball.

- [Mike] Oh, atoms of carbon in a buckyball.

If you know the answer, we're giving you credit for that.

- 40.

- Okay, the answer is 60. but I was not going to penalize you because I messed up.

What was the one I was rooting for you to get?

Oh, you had to be within four in the range was 116 to 120 and you went to 121.

Still, good job.

Guess what?

You guys get what's left over, right?

Musical notations.

You're going to answer the following about musical notation.

All right, our bassoon player better know this stuff.

Here we go.

Pair of numbers indicating the length of a measure.

- Time signature.

- [Mike] That's correct.

Markings such as andante that indicate the speed.

- That's.

- Tempo.

- Tempo.

- [Mike] That's right.

Large symbol at the start of a staff, specifying the staff's pitches.

- That's the key signature.

- Key signature.

- [Mike] Symbol to raise a note a half step.

- That's the sharp.

- Sharp.

- [Mike] Symbol extending a note's duration by 50%.

- That is the dot.

- Lines above or below the staff.

- Ledger lines.

- [Mike] A less than sign, or crescendo, means to do this.

- Get louder.

- [Mike] That's right.

Italian name for a symbol indicating a note is held.

- Tenuto.

- Ten, what he said.

- Wait.

No, no, no, wait, no, that's fermata.

- [Mike] That's right.

Way to go.

Orchestral group most often found at the bottom of a score.

- Bass?

- [Mike] Abbreviated SF, it means to heavily accent a note.

- Sforzando.

- Sforzando.

- [Mike] And that's it.

Time is up just as you got out.

Which one did you miss there?

- I think we got all of them.

- Did you get them all?

Way to go.

Good job.

Well, that was a fun all four rounds of lightning rounds, and you all did a good job on those, so good job.

Everybody know what we do now?

'Til time is out, which is not, it's almost out, is as many questions as we can answer.

20 points each.

What author who wrote about a wind that blew out of a cloud and killed the title character- (buzzer ringing) And Tate.

- Poe.

- Poe is right.

What rally organized by the Big Six leaders, including A. Phillip Randolph, took place in 1963 and included Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream speech?

(buzzer ringing) - March on Washington.

- [Mike] That's right.

What battle, whose landmarks include Devil's Den, Cemetery Hill- (buzzer ringing) And Tate?

- Gettysburg.

- [Mike] Battle of Gettysburg is right.

What hypothetical substance may take the form of WIMPs, or weakly interacting massive particles?

Anyone?

(buzzer ringing) What you got?

- Virtual particles?

- [Mike] No, that's incorrect.

You got an answer?

It's dark matter.

What key signature used for Ludwig van Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is a minor key with three flats whose tonic is on- (buzzer ringing) And Tate.

- Flat A.

- [Mike] No, so-called middle note.

(buzzer ringing) What you got?

- C. - [Mike] Accept that judges?

C or C minor.

- C minor.

I think we both get credit for that.

Our time is up.

We didn't get to as many of those questions as we should have, and that's probably my fault for talking too much.

You both played well, and that was a very competitive match by all of you.

Everyone did a good job.

Judges, do we know yet the final score?

Which team won?

We can calculate that in a moment.

So Alma, Alma Bryant High School won.

That was close.

You guys did great.

Thank you all for playing.

Thank you all for watching.

We hope you'll join us again next week for the Alabama Scholars' Bowl.

So long everybody.