Alabama Scholars Bowl
ASCTE vs Gadsden City
Season 7 Episode 14 | 26m 39sVideo has Closed Captions
Scholars bowl team ASCTE vs Gadsden City
School teams from across the state compete for scholarship money in the Alabama Scholars Bowl. Questions in science, technology, engineering, math and history are provided by National Academic Quiz Tournaments and the competition is certified and operated by the Alabama Scholastic Competition Association (ASCA). Recorded at APT’s Montgomery studio.
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Alabama Scholars Bowl
ASCTE vs Gadsden City
Season 7 Episode 14 | 26m 39sVideo has Closed Captions
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Hello everyone I'm Mike Royer.
Welcome in to the Alabama Scholar's Bowl.
Here's the good news.
This is the last day I have to lug this thing around everywhere I go.
At the end of today's championship round will present this trophy to the winner of this, the seventh season of the Alabama Scholar's Bowl.
It has been an exciting year.
We enjoy all the teams from the ones who maybe lost in the first round to the ones who are with us today.
Proud of all of these students.
The hard work they do, and the preparation that goes into competing in this competition we're proud of all of them, will welcome our teams in just a moment.
First, let me mention the executive producer of our program is Mike Owsley, Sharon Daly, Kate Wilson, Nick Frederick and Harris do the timing, the judging, and make sure everything is done the proper way for the show to be successful.
Every season we welcome back into the studio the teams from the Alabama School of Cyber Technology and Engineering, or CTE, and the folks from Gadsden City High School.
Welcome to all of you.
You've all played so well and we're looking forward to today's match.
And on this program, let me also say thanks to everyone here at Alabama Public Television.
They've been great as they always are in welcoming welcoming us to the studios here in Montgomery.
Thank you for watching.
Throughout the season.
Are y'all ready to play this championship game?
Let's go.
What Dutch painter who showed and buzzing in is Christopher?
Rembrandt?
Nope.
I'll finish it for you.
As CTE, who showed sinful peasants around Descartes in triptych The Hay Wain depicted hell in his work The Garden of Earthly Delights.
And what is that, Leo?
Hieronymus Bosch?
That is correct.
Here's your bonus question what type of magnetism which occurs when vice domains align, is only present below the current temperature, and can permanently attract other objects?
What's that called?
Magnetism?
That's correct.
Toss up.
Everybody grab your pencil early on here.
How many blue stickers are there on a standard Rubik's Cube?
Given all the blue stickers can be gathered, eight, nine, nine is right nine blue stickers.
Bonus question for you.
The U.S. Navy crushed Japan's in, what, 1944 battle name for a body of water off the coast of the Philippines that featured the first kamikaze attacks in, battle of the Gulf?
Late Gulf is right.
Next question for everybody.
What city where Grover Cleveland served as mayor has an NFL team tape Buffalo.
Buffalo is correct bonus for you.
The line we were good.
We were gold opens what 2023 song in which Miley Cyrus repeatedly states, I can love me better than you can.
Flowers.
Flowers is right.
Toss up everybody.
What hero who went to the underworld and pirates to abduct Percy.
But he used a ball and it's Latika.
Heracles?
No!
That's incorrect.
Use the ball of string to escape the labyrinth after killing the meta TR.
Who is that?
Hilton.
Theseus.
That's correct.
Here's a bonus for your team.
Pollen is produced.
In what part of a flower which consists of an anther and a filament.
I think it's stamen.
Stamen is the right answer.
Question number five of 20.
What inanimate objects whose formation is studied in Nephi?
Biology have serious clouds?
Clouds are right.
Bonus question for you in coin collecting, what seven letter term is used to denote the heads side of a coin, as opposed to the tail or reverse side of the coin?
What is that called?
I got an answer frontispiece.
It's something we'll all learn today.
Obverse.
Obverse is what that is called.
Toss up for both teams.
What character who is seen near a bicycle rack by Mr. Brown which created Tate Oliver Twist?
No.
That's incorrect.
I'll finish it for you.
Get Sin city was created by Michael Bond.
Comes from the darkest Peru, and is a bear who loves marmalade.
And Christopher Paddington is right, Paddington Bear.
Here is your bonus question Gadsden City, Gerhard Schroeder and Willy Brandt were among the chancellors who belong to what center left party that currently leads Germany's governing coalition of center?
Center left Germany.
What's your answer?
As a Christian Democrat, it's social democratic.
Social democratic is what we needed.
What president whose Montenegro's supporters were targeted in the state.
Juan Peron won.
Peron is right.
Bonus in the Forbidden Forest.
Harry Potter speaks with what Munch Allah or giant spider, who is the mate of most Zog and was raised by Hagrid at Hogwarts.
Eragon.
Eragon.
You read those a few times.
I'm guessing.
Next question.
What phenomenon which creates beat frequencies via its constructive and destructive five state interference.
Interference is right bonus for you, Walter Dale bridge crosses the North Saskatchewan River.
In what Canadian city that is the capital of Alberta.
Yeah, yeah, I think it's actually Calgary.
It's Edmonton.
Edmonton is the capital.
Hang with me on this one.
Question number nine.
What country is the primary setting of Sadeghi Hedaya, the behind Al Tate Switzerland.
No.
That's incorrect.
I'll finish it Gadsden City, the blind Al and Marjane Satrapi graphic novel Persepolis, which is about her life in the Terror in Tehran and Latika, Iran is correct bonus for you Destin City in 2023, Joe Biden nominated Julie Sioux to assume what Cabinet Office, which Marty Walsh had resigned to take over the NHL players union.
What job is that?
Resigned to cabinet position?
Yeah, I think it's, no, no, no, agriculture, I think, let's go with go with what you think of agriculture.
Secretary of labor.
Secretary of labor.
Next question.
Everyone.
What agencies?
Director Kimberly Cheadle resigned to secret service.
Secret services.
Right.
Bonus.
What class of especially stable molecules must satisfy who goals rule by being planar and having four in plus two pi electrons?
Yeah.
Or is it?
Cyclic compounds.
No.
It's aromatic.
Aromatic compounds.
Next, everybody.
What?
Building on the site of the former walled all Waldorf Astoria hotel Leo one world Trade Center.
Nope.
I'll come back to you guys.
Sun City, the Waldorf Astoria Hotel is a 102 story, art Deco Manhattan skyscraper named after a nickname for New York.
What is that building?
Yes, Latika.
Empire state is right.
Here's your bonus.
What?
English king defeated Philip the Sixth at the Battle of Crazy.
After initiating the 100 Year War, initiating 100 Years War.
English King who did hundred years.
You need an answer?
Go.
Henry the fourth.
Edward the third is the answer.
Next.
What country?
Which was led by Street to New route after a 1957 coup against F.E.
Boone, has been ruled by many kings named Rama and was formerly.
And it's Latika.
Thailand is right.
Bonus for you.
Saint Jerome writing is a painting by what Italian artist whose mastery of qui, a rogue sicuro is seen in such works, is the calling of Saint Matthew's Caravaggio.
Caravaggio is the correct answer.
What mathematical things are the result of an inner product or dot product that magnitude but notate scalar scalars is correct.
Bonus.
What symptom, also called Pyrex IGA, increases the hypothalamic set point and typically improves what anti paramedics such as acetaminophen.
Oh, fever.
Fever.
After all that reading fever is the answer.
Next question for everyone.
What grain which is polished and then fermented to make the Japanese beverage.
And it is Corbin rice.
Rice is what's used.
Here's your bonus Gadsden City.
What eight letter word which comes from the Greek for many tongues, refers to a person who can speak more than one language.
Polyglot.
Polyglot.
That is correct.
Next, what city is the mouth of?
The Yukon River is north of the ancient port of Jaffa and is a coastal city state.
Tel Aviv.
Tel Aviv is right.
Your bonus.
The reader is called a hypocrite and a brother in the poem that introduces what scandalous 1857 collection by the French author Charles Charles Baudelaire, La Florida.
That is correct.
Well done.
Number 16 of 20.
What material?
First isolated in 2004 by Constantine Novoselov and Andre John Geim, uses adhesive tape from graphite tape.
Graphene.
That's correct.
Graphene is the right answer.
Bonus question for you.
What 1906 law partly inspired by Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle, established the FDA and created protections against dangerous consumable goods?
Yes.
Food and Drug Act from pure food and drug.
That's right.
Well done.
On we go.
What novel in which a family relocates to Barton Cottage is named after the contrasting personalities.
Date, Sense and Sensibility.
That's right.
Your bonus.
What 2024 rom com stars Anne Hathaway as a 40 year old mom who, after going to Coachella with her daughter, falls in love with members of a member of a boy band.
No answer.
Not one of your favorites.
The idea of you is the answer.
Next, the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve is in what state whose southern border is formed by the Red River of the South in the city.
Tate, Oklahoma.
Oklahoma's right composers, Terry Riley and Steve Reich were pioneers of what 20th century musical style whose name refers to its limited and or short themes.
Minimalism.
Minimalism is correct.
A couple more questions in this part of our round.
What politician who succeeded John Smith as leader of a party that he rebranded as New Labor third State Tony Blair, second Tony Blair.
Yes, that's right.
Bonus.
What mineral whose hydroxy form makes up most of human bone represents a five on the original, most scale of hardness.
Appetite.
Appetite is correct.
Last question in this part, what scientist who names a telescope launched in 2009 to find the Milky Way and its Christopher Webb?
Nope.
I'll finish the question to find Milky Way exoplanets was a German astronomer who developed laws of planetary motion.
Kepler.
Kepler is right.
Your bonus what text with the Sanskrit name meaning Song of God, is a dialog between Prince Arjuna and his charioteer Krishna, and is part of the Mahabharata Bhagavad Gita.
Thank you.
That's it.
Lay your pins down.
Relax.
We're going to do a lightning round fun here.
In just a moment.
I'll tell you.
And I'll tell our viewers at home what the four categories are for the Lightning Round.
And they are Nobel laureates in literature.
Ship captains begins with B, R, O and Kansas is the final category.
I believe God Sin City is trailing slightly here at the midpoint.
You will choose first in just a moment, and then, we'll come back over to a asked.
You'll choose two categories and play them both.
Right now though, let's find out a bit more about each student who's playing such a good game here in our championship round.
Hilton, would you begin, please?
My name is Hilton.
I'm a freshman.
I asked, and I'd like to thank Mr. Massie, our president, who supported us in our tournaments.
My name is Leo Osborne.
I'm a sophomore at Citi and I would like to thank our thank our assistant junior varsity coach, Mr.
Speak for supporting us.
Hi.
My name is Kate Osborne.
I'm a senior at a CTE and I would like to thank our head coach, my mom Robin Osborne, for putting in a lot of work for our team this year.
My name is Brooks Phillips.
I'm also a senior at HCC, and I would like to thank tritium for allowing me and Tate to take two days off of our internship to come here.
Hi, my name is Christopher Holder.
I'm a junior at our school.
I would like to thank our amazing coaches, coach Wayne Davenport and Miss Shyla miller.
My name is a teacher.
I'm an eighth, ninth grade Carson City High School.
And I'd like to thank our awesome coaches, my mom, and all the people watching and supporting us in Gadsden, and that it helped helped us along the way.
My name is Corbin Ho.
I am a senior at Gets in City High School, and I would like to thank, the teachers that have helped me get here.
My name is Alvin Wynn.
I'm a junior against City High School, and I would like to thank all of you all for watching this game go on and supporting all of us in this journey.
Very good.
You're all doing a great job in all of the matches you've played.
Back to the question at hand, Gadsden City.
Of the four choices, which one do you want to do?
Latika, can we get, Nobel laureates, Nobel laureates in literature in 60s.
You're going to be given a pair of works.
Identify the Nobel laureate who wrote them.
Here we go.
The Jungle Book and Kim Kipling, Of Mice and Men and Grapes of Wrath.
The plague in The stranger came in the poems The Lake, Isle of Innisfree and The Second Coming, Sula and Beloved Emerson Morrison.
No One writes to Colonel and Love in the Time of Cholera.
Garcia marquez.
It's right.
Cancer Ward in The Gulag Archipelago, Solzhenitsyn, Klara and the sun and the remains of the day each year.
That's right.
South African born author of Disgrace and Life and Times of Michael K. That's right.
And Henderson, The Rain King and The Adventures of Augie March, Wonder Woman no, Bella Bello is correct.
That was quick.
Got them all in with time to spare.
Well done.
All right.
We've come over to you asked.
You have to choose two at this point.
Tate, what would you like to do?
We'll take Kansas first and then ship captain.
All righty.
We'll do Kansas first.
You're going to answer the following questions about Kansas.
That's right.
Ten questions.
60s.
Here we go.
It's capital Topeka.
It's most populous city, Wichita.
Violent nickname for Kansas in the 1850s.
Bleeding character from 1939 film.
Who says I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore?
That's right.
President who was raised in Abilene, Kansas.
Eisenhower?
That's right.
Nickname of teams at the University of Kansas.
Jayhawks.
Yes.
Fictional Kansas town where Superman grew up.
Smallville.
That's right.
Author whose book In Cold Blood is set in Kansas.
Capote is right.
Well done.
Now let's go.
What?
I had two more.
Don't penalize them for my mistake.
Hatchet welding prohibition.
That's right.
An old west town, home to long right saloon.
Old West Town, home to the Long Branch Saloon.
Johnstown.
Yeah, it's Dodge city, Matt Dillon, Chester.
And you got to be my age to even remember that.
Apologies for the time thing, but you got all the time you needed to answer as best you could.
And you want to do ship captains next.
Okay.
Ship captains, you're going to name these notable captains of ships.
60s.
Here we go.
Genoese explorer who captained the Santa Maria in 1492.
English privateer who circumnavigated the globe and Golden Hind.
American who cried.
I have not yet begun to fight.
Leading the bowmen.
Richard, jump, jump!
That's right.
British explorer who led the endeavor to Australia.
Thank you, said James Cook, captain of the Ark Royal, who founded the Lost Colony of Roanoke.
Right.
Yeah, sir Walter Raleigh.
That's right.
Let the half, half moon up a names.
That's right.
Chinese admiral who led seven Ming dynasty treasure voyages.
That's right.
Pirate who captained the Queen Anne's Revenge.
Blackbeard.
That's right.
Commander overthrown by mutiny on the bounty.
Fly.
Bligh is right.
LED the endurance to an Arctic where it was trapped in ice.
Sir?
Shackleton.
Shackleton is right.
Well done.
That's all of them.
And you did a good job with that.
So, guests and city are you all prepared to do?
Begins with bro.
Okay.
Let's see.
Let's see how we do with this begins with the arrow.
You're going to give these words that begin with the consecutive letters b, r, o male sibling, brother, brother.
Metal alloy of copper and tin.
Bronze ridge over the eyes.
Ridge over the eyes.
Pamphlet or leaflet.
Brochure.
Pressure.
Inflammation of the airways leading to the lungs.
Wide or spacious spaces.
The brass broad.
Broad is right.
Wild horse or Mustang?
Rover.
Is it correct?
Up past Castle jewelry held by a pin or clasp and worn around the neck.
Brooch group of animals young that are hatched or raised together.
Brood.
Brood.
That's right.
And period of reduced electric voltage.
Reduced electric voltage.
Me some get Okay.
We go back to wild horse or Mustang.
Is it brogue or like and period.
That's incorrect period of reduced electric voltage.
You get eight seconds period of reduced electric voltage okay.
Like brownout.
Brownout is right.
That's it.
All right.
Good.
Good job.
All right.
Lightning round is history, which may make you happy.
And we have seven minutes left in our championship round in a very competitive close match.
All of these questions are worth 20 points.
We'll get to as many as we can.
No bonuses.
What country where the feminist for B movement began, has the world's lowest birth rate and abolished its gender equality?
Japan?
No.
That's incorrect and abolished its gender equality ministry under Eun Sook.
You.
And what is it?
South Korea is correct.
What Thomas Gainsborough painting.
Once the blue boy.
The blue boy is right.
What author who depicted Spanish bullfighting in his book death in the afternoon?
Latika Hemingway.
Yes, that's right, Next question?
What theory in which motion is depicted on Minkowski diagram tape?
Special relativity.
That's right.
What materials?
Which have a Leo tropic and thermal tropic types had pneumatic state plastics?
No.
Finishing it for you.
God sin city and have pneumatic and smack tick phases and make up name say displays called LCDs.
What are those Christopher liquid crystals is right.
What officer was denounced by Edward Drummond and defended by Emile Zola's Dreyfus Dreyfus's correct.
Well done Alvin.
In novels by PG Woodhouse.
Wealthy Bertie Wooster, Latika Butler.
No is often saved from difficulties by what brainy servant who displays a feudal spirit.
Take Jeeves is right in July 2024.
What airline that is based in Dallas is Love Field Airport.
Alvin.
Southwest.
Southwest Airlines is right.
Catholic.
Friar.
You know Pirro.
Sarah established state California.
California is right.
What phenomenon measures by and monitors were represented.
Christopher.
Wind speed.
Wind is right.
What?
Taiwanese American entrepreneur and founder of venture for America ran for president as a Democrat in 2020.
No, that's incorrect.
In 2020 and later for mayor of New York City State Andrew Yang, it is Yang.
That's right.
Next, what TV channels past reality show includes Teen Mom, The Real World, MTV.
MTV is right pencil and paper for this one.
What is the largest value of X for which the square root of the quantity, 144 minus x squared yields a real number value?
Christopher 1212 is right.
What cabinet post did Cordell Hull hold?
Tate, Secretary of War?
No, I'll finish it for Gadsden City.
Cordell Hull home for 11 years under Franklin Roosevelt, from which he helped form the United Nations and was America's top diplomat.
What cabinet Secretary of state?
Secretary of state is right.
In what decade of the 20th century did the Shanghai Revolution topple Puyi?
Tate 19 tens 19 tens is right.
What mountain range, which has a sub ranges named Emmental and Bernese contain such peaks and Tait Alps.
The Alps is right.
What in field position in baseball is represented by the number five on a scorecard, and sometimes called the hot corner and it is to third base is right.
What natural polymer in which beta one for glycine sodium bonds link glucose molecules is the main Tate?
Glycogen?
Nope.
I'll finish you guys in city.
The main structural component of the cell walls of plants.
What is the cellulose?
Cellulose is correct.
Next, an 1891 story titled The Five Orange Pips.
Latika Doyle no, I'll Finish It for you is narrated by what?
Doctor who shares a flat at 221 B Baker Street with Sherlock Holmes.
Tate Watson Watson is right.
What play in which the deposed Duke of Milan is served by Ariel and its, Corbin, the Tempest is right.
Three minutes.
What?
Brett.
What?
Brett.
An explorer who named Mount Royal after King Francis the first was the first European to map the Gulf of Saint Lawrence in modern Canada.
Christopher Champlain.
No, that's incorrect.
I read the entire question.
Do you guys have an answer shot, Katia?
That's correct.
What tribe who was forced on the long walk to Bosque State?
Navajo.
Navajo is right.
What's second longest river in China is named Tait.
Yellow.
Yellow is right.
What?
Cells which mature from monocytes and moving Tate red blood cells.
Nope.
I'll finish it for you.
Get city and moving pseudo podia engage in phagocytosis to break down microbes and have a name meaning big eater.
Oh, do you have anything, Latika?
Macrophages.
That's the right answer.
What 18th century poet usually considered the first African-American to publish?
Tate.
Phillis Wheatley.
Phillis Wheatley is right.
What rates an example of which is the federal funds rate charged by banks take rates.
Interest rates is right in 2024.
What small country's Grand Duke on re began the process of transferring power to his son, Prince William and Alvin.
Indoor.
That's incorrect.
I read it all.
Okay.
Monica Luxembourg is the right answer.
Minute 15 left.
What philosophical theories?
Modern version was founded by designer pan up to con Jeremy and it is Leo utilitarianism.
That's right.
The moon disk.
No mirror orbits.
What body which ranks ahead of Pluto as the most massive known dwarf state series.
No.
That's incorrect.
The most massive known dwarf planet in the solar system.
Do you have an answer?
Gadsden City?
Yes.
Planet X, it is.
Eris is the answer.
What musician sang Cole Porter's songbook on a 1956 album popularized a tisket a basket and was Fitzgerald.
Fitzgerald is right.
A couple more questions.
What city was formerly the capital of Nigeria and remains by far Tate Lagos is right.
In what state did fighting at Miller's Cornfield in Burnside Bridge, Tate, Maryland?
That's right.
In Slavic folklore, two evil older brothers kill Prince Ivan so they can take credit for capturing what elusive golden feathered creature and its Christopher the golden goose.
That's incorrect.
You guys have an answer?
Last answer.
What do you got to eat, Golden rooster?
You liked his answer so much you went with it to Firebird is the answer.
Lay your pins down.
We're out of time.
And, a CTE comes out on top of this competition.
You guys played well in every round you played, as obviously you guys did too.
Congratulations to you.
Will bring your trophy down to you and will thank you for watching this.
The seventh season of the Alabama Scholar's Bowl.
I'm Mike Royer.
Thanks again for watching and have a great day.
Everybody.

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