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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 and welcome to the Alabama Scholars' Bowl.

My name is Mike Royer, and it's my real privilege to host this program statewide on Alabama Public Television.

It's called the Alabama Scholars' Bowl, and we bring high school scholars to the studio every week to compete against one another, answering some very challenging questions on a variety of subjects.

Our judges for the program today are Kate Wilson and Sharon Daily.

We appreciate them, and all of the folks and the crew here at Alabama Public Television, for putting this program on every week.

We welcome to our studio two fine teams, one from Sparkman High School, up in Huntsville, Alabama, and Athens High School, also to the north.

They're almost neighbors, up in north Alabama.

Welcome to all of you.

We're glad you're here.

In just a little while, you'll meet each individual student as they introduce themselves to you.

But first, we get started with questions.

And everyone knows what we do.

Twenty questions, buzz in if you know the answer.

If you have the right answer, your team gets a bonus question.

Everyone got their buzzers in hand and ready to go?

Here we go.

Question number one: What particles theorized by George Zweig and Murray Gell-Mann are held together by gluons in hadrons, and come in six flavors, including "up" and "charm"?

(buzzer beeps) Caleb?

- Quarks.

- Quarks is the right answer.

Your bonus: In 2007, what country's Cristina Kirchner became its first woman directly elected as president, representing the Justicialist Party?

- Argentina.

- Argentina is right.

Next question for everyone: What author's story, "The Final Problem," describes a confrontation at Reichenbach Falls that seems to- (buzzer beeps) And it's Ethan?

- Doyle.

- Conan Doyle is right.

Arthur Conan Doyle.

Your bonus question again for you, Sparkman: To grow most arthropods, arthropods must undergo what process in which they shed their exoskeletons?

- Molting.

- Molting is right.

Everyone: What artist of "Monument to Balzac" depicted an event from the (buzzer beeps) Hundred Years'- and it's Andrew?

- Rodin.

- Auguste Rodin is right.

Your bonus question: In 2021, pizza toppings were used to explain what election method in New York's mayoral primary, in which voters listed up to five candidates, in order?

- Ranked-choice voting.

- It is called ranked choice.

That's right.

What state, where the PlumpJack Group was founded, is governed by Kimberly Guilfoyle's ex-husband?

(buzzer beeps) It's Eshan.

- Michigan.

- [Mike Royer] That is incorrect.

I'll finish the question for you: Guilfoyle's ex-husband Gavin Newsom, who was also (buzzer beeps) the mayor of San Francisco.

Charlie?

- California.

- [Mike Royer] California is right.

And Athens, here's your bonus question: What Roman emperor ended the Crisis of the Third Century by creating the Tetrarchy?

- Diocletian.

- Diocletian is the right answer.

Next question: What city is home to the popular Teramachi Street, was Japan's capital before it was moved to Tokyo?

(buzzer beeps) And buzzing in is Charlie.

- Kyoto.

- Kyoto is correct.

Another bonus: The gene that causes Marfan syndrome is an example of what type of gene that affects multiple distinct phenotypic traits?

- An X gene.

- No, the right answer is pleiotropic.

The pleiotropic, pleiotropic gene.

Question for everyone: What subset of white blood cells that can express the glycoproteins CD4 or CD8, have "memory" and "helper" varieties, varieties, and mature in the thymus?

(buzzer beeps) Rebecca?

- T-cells.

- T-cells is the right answer, Rebecca.

Good job.

Here's the bonus for your team: What artist, whose "14 Black Paintings" include "Saturn Devouring His Son," showed Madrid rebels being executed by firing squads in "The Third of May, 1808"?

- Goya - Goya is right.

What philosopher who denounced Christian pity in his book "The Antichrist," also wrote the book "Thus Spake-" (buzzer beeps) And buzzing in is Charlie.

- Nietzsche.

- [Mike Royer] That's right.

Friedrich Nietzsche.

Bonus question for you, Athens: The Great Dismal Swamp lies mostly in what US state, whose southeast is also home to the cities of Norfolk and Newport News?

- Virginia.

- Virginia is right.

Our eighth of 20 questions: What playwright of "Three Sisters" wrote about Lopakhin's purchase of Madame- (buzzer beeps) Andrew buzzed in quickly.

- Chekhov.

- Chekhov is right.

Your bonus question: Thomas Cromwell and Thomas Moore were both executed on orders of which king, whose dissolution of the monasteries led to the Pilgrimage of Grace?

- James I.

- It's not correct.

It's Henry VIII, Henry VIII.

What energy that appears in the Arrhenius equation is reduced by catalyst and is the energy that must be added for a reaction- (buzzer beeps) Rebecca?

- Activation energy.

- That's correct.

Your bonus question: What author of the screenplay for the 2012 film "Lincoln" explored the AIDS crisis in his two-part play "Angels in America"?

- Kushner.

- That's correct.

Tony Kushner.

Question for everyone: What general, who lost an arm to friendly fire (buzzer beeps) at Chancellorsville- Eshan?

- Stonewall Jackson.

- Stonewall Jackson is right.

Bonus question: An abstract computer that operates on an infinite "tape" was theorized by what British polymath, who developed a namesake artificial intelligence test?

- Turing.

- Alan Turing is right.

Everyone: What language, which was used to write the work "Spiritual Couplets" by the poet Rumi, as well as the "Rubaiyat" (buzzer beeps) by Omar- And it's Charlie buzzing in.

- Persian.

- [Mike Royer] Persian is right, the Persian language.

This is your bonus question, Athens: Charles VI's Pragmatic Sanction legitimized the rule of what queen, who lost Silesia to Frederick the Great?

- Maria Theresa.

- That's correct.

Well done.

Question number 12 of 20: What artist of the "Swans Reflecting Elephants" painted by Catalonian coast in the background of "The Persistence of Memory," which depicts- (buzzer beeps) And Caleb?

- Dali.

- Salvador Dali is right.

Your bonus: What author who mocked the Reformation in "A Tale of a Tub" satirically suggested that Irish children should be eaten in his essay "A Modest Proposal"?

- Swift.

- Jonathan Swift.

You're right.

What city near the confluence of the Saint-Charles and the St. Lawrence rivers is the namesake and capital of the largest province (buzzer beeps) in Canada.

Buzzing is Charlie.

- Quebec City.

- [Mike Royer] Quebec City is right.

Your bonus: What Greek letter has a lowercase version used in defining limits with epsilon, and an uppercase version that represents change?

- Delta.

- Delta is right.

Both teams, here's your question: What novel, in which Dr. Manette is freed from the Bastille, begins with "It was the best of times, (buzzer beeps) it was the worst-" Charlie.

- A Tale of Two Cities.

- [Mike Royer] That is right, your bonus question: An Italian word meaning "sustained" names what piano pedal, the middle one on a modern piano, which allows a player to sustain some, but not all notes?

- No answer.

- It's known as the sostenuto pedal.

Sostenuto pedal.

There you go.

Next question: What club-wielding character who attacks Merope is turned into a constellation after he is killed by a scorpion, and is a mythical- (buzzer beeps) And buzzing in is Rebecca.

- Hercules.

- [Mike Royer] It's incorrect.

A few more words to finish the question for you, Athens: after he is killed by a scorpion, is a mythical Greek hunter?

(buzzer beeps) And what do you say Charlie?

- Orion.

- Orion is correct.

(buzzer beeps) Now your bonus question: The so-called Babylon Captivity of papacy began in 1309, when Pope Clement V set up his court in what city in southern France?

- Avignon.

- Avignon is right.

Four more questions in this round: What name given to a fertility figurine found in Willendorf, Austria also refers to the Roman goddess of love and the second planet- (buzzer beeps) Charlie?

- Venus.

- [Mike Royer] Venus is right, another bonus: What five letter physics term describes an idealized body with zero deformation, so its shape and size remain constant when force is applied?

- Non-polar.

- The answer is a rigid body.

Rigid body.

What element, whose value of 3.98 on the Pauling scale makes it the most electronegative element- (buzzer beeps) And buzzing in is Andrew.

- Fluorine.

- Fluorine is right.

Bonus question for you, Sparkman: What title is held by the monarchy's representative in former British colonies, such as Canada and New Zealand?

- Dominion.

- It's not correct, we were looking for Governor-General as the title.

Two more questions: What president of Giuseppe Zangara... Let me do the last name better: Zangara.

Tried to assassinate, imposed a "bank holiday," and signed the National Recovery Act while launching The New- (buzzer beeps) And it's Eshan.

- FDR.

- That is right.

The New Deal, by him.

Your bonus: In 1958, businessman Harry Winston donated what blue gemstone, which is over 45 carats, to the Smithsonian Institution?

- The Hope Diamond.

- That's correct.

Next question for everyone: What NBA team, which plays home games at Capital One Arena made a trade- (buzzer beeps) And it is Eshan.

- Washington Wizards.

- That is right.

Another bonus question for you: Seoul, South Korea, lies on what river, which empties into the Yellow Sea near Inchon?

- Yangtze.

- No, the right answer was the Han, or Hangang River.

Last question in this round: Oval BA lies beneath what structure, an anticyclonic storm, approximately twice as wide- (buzzer beeps) And it's Caleb.

- The Great Red Spot.

- The Great Red Spot is right.

Last bonus question of the round, and you'll need pencil and paper for this: What quotient results when three raised to the seventh power is divided by nine squared?

- 27.

- 27 is right.

Lay down your buzzers.

Take a little break.

I'm going to tell you what our four categories are for our lightning rounds.

As I know, you know, from playing in the past, the team that's trailing at this point will select first, select one, the other team will select two, play both of those, and then the remaining category played by them.

Let me tell you what they are, and then we want to meet all of our players today.

The four categories for the lightning round are: Alternative Names, - [Judge] (faintly speaking) - Alliterative Names.

There we go.

Thank you, judge.

Alliterative Names, Latin Phrases, Constitutional Amendments, and Joe Biden's Cabinet.

Those are the four categories.

Think about that.

We'll come back, and ask you which one you choose.

Am I correct, judges, Sparkman is ahead slightly at this midpoint?

That's right.

So, Athens you'll be selecting first, after we meet the players.

Andrew, would you start for us?

Tell us who you are, and a little about yourself.

- Hi, my name is Andrew.

I am a senior at Sparkman High School, and my specialty is literature, and I am very interested in data science.

- [Mike Royer] Very good.

- Hi, I'm Eshan Pokhrel.

I'm also a senior at Sparkman.

I play football and soccer at Sparkman High School, and I am most likely looking at law school in the future.

- [Mike Royer] Good for you.

- Hi, I'm Caleb Ethridge, I'm again, a senior from Sparkman, and my favorite subject is math.

- My name is Rebecca Jensen.

I'm also a senior at Sparkman High School.

We've actually all been playing together since sixth grade.

- [Mike Royer] Wow.

- And I am interested in biology at UAB, with the possibility of a minor in journalism, so.

- [Mike Royer] Very good.

Eshan, did you have a game last night?

- [Eshan] We had a off week.

- Good for you!

That's always a winning Friday, if you have an off week.

- [Eshan] Sure is, sure is.

- Now, let's meet the players from Athens High School.

If you would begin, Drew.

- I'm Drew Hubbard.

I'm a junior at Athens High School, and I play football as well.

- I'm Charlie Martin, I'm a junior at Athens High School.

This is my third year of Quiz Bowl, and I'm also on the swim team.

- I'm Caine Matthews, I'm a junior at Athens High School, and I'm also considering going into law.

- I'm Payton Bright, I'm a junior at Athens High School, and I'm on the swim team as well.

- Very good.

Welcome to all of you.

You're all playing well.

We're proud of each and every one of you.

Athens, you've had enough time, I think, to choose one of the four categories.

Which one would you like to play first?

- Constitutional Amendments.

- [Mike Royer] Constitutional Amendments.

We will get to that.

And as you know, you have 60 seconds to answer these questions.

The clock starts when I've asked you the first one.

And the constitutional amendments, which amendment to the US constitution, here we go, allows defendants to not testify against themselves?

- The Fifth.

- [Mike Royer] Contains the equal protection clause?

- Fourteenth.

- [Mike Royer] Guarantees the right to keep and bear arms?

- Second.

- [Mike Royer] Guarantees the right to a speedy trial?

- Sixth.

- [Mike Royer] Is the only one that was later repealed?

- Eighteen.

- [Mike Royer] Has "free exercise" and "establishment" clauses related to religious freedom?

- First.

- [Mike Royer] Gave women the right to vote?

- Nineteen.

- [Mike Royer] Prohibits forced peacetime quartering of soldiers in civilian homes?

- Third.

- [Mike Royer] Reserves powers for the states and the people?

- Ten.

- [Mike Royer] And lastly, moved the presidential inauguration day to January 20th?

- Twenty-second.

- [Mike Royer] Ah, you've got them all.

You got nine out of ten.

The last one was Twentieth.

The Twentieth Amendment.

Well done.

You did a good job with that category.

Now Sparkman, you get to choose two categories and play them both back to back, what would you like to do?

- We're going to do Biden's Cabinet.

- [Mike Royer] Biden's Cabinet, followed by?

- Alliterative Names.

- [Mike Royer] Very good.

Let's start with Biden's Cabinet.

You chose that first.

You have one minute to answer these questions on what member of Joe Biden's cabinet is.

Here we go.

The first female vice-president?

- Kamala Harris.

- [Mike Royer] Secretary of Transportation and a former mayor of South Bend?

- Buttigieg.

- [Mike Royer] Attorney General and former Supreme Court nominee?

- Merrick Garland.

- [Mike Royer] Treasury Secretary and a former chair of the Federal Reserve.

- Janet Yellen.

Secretary of State?

- Pass.

- [Mike Royer] The first African-American Defense Secretary?

- Lloyd Austin.

- [Mike Royer] Secretary of Agriculture and a former governor of Iowa?

- Pass.

- [Mike Royer] The Cuban-born Secretary of Homeland Security?

- Mayorkas.

- [Mike Royer] Secretary of Labor and a former mayor of Boston?

- Kerry.

- [Mike Royer] That's incorrect.

Secretary of Education?

- Pass.

- [Mike Royer] All right, let's go back to another you passed.

Secretary of State?

- Blinken.

- [Mike Royer] That is correct.

Secretary of Agriculture and former governor of Iowa?

- Fudge.

- [Mike Royer] That is incorrect as well.

Your time is up, Tom Vilsack is the Secretary of Agriculture, but good job.

Now we're going to go to, let's see here.

Alliterative Names.

You're going to be given the title of a written work, and you're to identify the author and an alliterative name who wrote it.

And a last name is all we need for your answers.

Okay?

You clear on that?

Here we go.

"The Giving Tree"?

- Lowry.

- [Mike Royer] That is incorrect.

"Leaves Of Grass"?

- Whitman.

- [Mike Royer] That's right.

The novel "Ulysses"?

- Joyce.

- [Mike Royer] "Gone With The Wind"?

- Mitchell.

- [Mike Royer] "The Giver"?

- Lowry.

- [Mike Royer] "Robinson Crusoe"?

- Defoe.

- [Mike Royer] "The Lightning Thief"?

- Riordan.

- [Mike Royer] That's right.

"The Tin Drum"?

- Grass.

- [Mike Royer] That's correct.

"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"?

- Kesey.

- [Mike Royer] The German novels "Steppenwolf" and "Siddhartha"?

- Hesse.

- [Mike Royer] That's right.

And that was, that was 10.

That was fast.

And you only missed one.

I believe that's right, but well done with that round.

So that's your two, and Athens, you know what that means.

You don't have to choose.

You get stuck with the last one, and it is Latin Phrases.

Everybody wanted to avoid that one, but I'll bet you'll do just fine.

Let's see how we do in the minute that you will have.

What Latin phrase often used in English can be translated as, number one, "seize the day."

- C'est la vie?

- No.

Carpe diem.

- [Mike Royer] That is correct.

"Great work" or "greatest work"?

- Magnum opus.

- [Mike Royer] "And so on"?

- Et cetera.

- [Mike Royer] "Stiffness of death"?

- Pass.

- [Mike Royer] "My fault"?

- Pass.

- [Mike Royer] "This for that"?

- Quid pro quo.

- [Mike Royer] "For the good"?

- Pro bono.

- [Mike Royer] "The other way around"?

- Pass.

- [Mike Royer] "It does not follow"?

- Pass.

- [Mike Royer] Back to: "stiffness of death."

- [Judge] (faintly speaking) - [Mike Royer] "Remember..." You had another one.

"Remember that you must die."

And I failed to give you that one, and you- - Memento mori.

- [Mike Royer] That is correct.

"Stiffness of death" or "My fault"?

- Rigor mortis.

- [Mike Royer] Rigor mortis is right.

"My fault"?

All right.

That's time.

"Mea culpa" is "my fault."

Well, you all did well with all of those categories.

The Latin wasn't that bad.

You guys did a good job with it.

Well done.

We have six minutes and fifteen seconds left in our program, and that means that we now move on to answering our speed-round questions.

These questions are worth 20 points.

We'll do as many as we can in the time remaining.

No bonus.

Buzz in and answer.

And here we go.

The "one country, two system policy" was enacted- (buzzer beeps) And it's Eshan.

- Hong Kong.

- [Mike Royer] Hong Kong is the right answer.

Next: what European country's namesake national party is led by the first minister Nicola Sturgeon, who supports a second independence referendum?

(buzzer beeps) and it is- - Scotland.

- [Mike Royer] Charles is right.

Charlie is right.

Scotland.

What country disputes the region of Nag- Nagorno- (buzzer beeps) Thank you, Eshan.

- Azerbaijan.

- [Mike Royer] Thank you.

I can't thank you enough for making me not have to read the rest of that.

A book of stories about life in the fictional town of Morgana, Mississippi, titled "The Golden Apples," is by what author of "Why I Live at the P.O."?

Anyone?

(buzzer beeps) Take a shot at it.

Rebecca?

- Smith.

- [Mike Royer] Nope.

It's Eudora.

Eudora.

What country, whose major cities include its economic center of Abidjan (buzzer beeps) is west of Ghana- And it is Eshan.

- The Ivory Coast.

- [Mike Royer] I, yes, that is in there as one of the answers.

There's several others.

We accept that.

In 1898, Congress passed the Newlands Resolution, allowing the US to annex what territory two years later?

(buzzer beeps) And it's Charlie.

- Cuba.

- [Mike Royer] That's incorrect.

I read it all.

Do you have an answer?

(buzzer beeps) Yes, Eshan.

- New Mexico.

- [Mike Royer] No, it's Hawaii.

Hawaii is the answer.

What particle is a charged lepton less massive than the moon, less massive than the muon, is emitted by beta-minus decay, and occupies orbitals around atomic nuclei?

(buzzer beeps) And Charlie?

- Electrons.

- [Mike Royer] Electrons is right.

What sprinter, who ran the 100-meter dash in 10.72 seconds in April of 2021, was barred for the Olympics (buzzer beeps) after testing- Eshan?

- Richardson.

- [Mike Royer] Richardson?

Yes, that's correct.

The Monteagle Letter helped to expose what 1605 plot, which was led by Robert Catesby?

(buzzer beeps) And buzzing in is Eshan.

- Gunpowder Plot.

- [Mike Royer] The Gunpowder Plot is right.

Moving on.

Special relativity is partly based on an axiom stating that what physical quantity is the same in all reference frames?

(buzzer beeps) And that's Caleb.

- The speed of light.

- [Mike Royer] That's right.

What color, which represents a Northern Irish Protestant fraternal order, is the actual color of airplane "black boxes" and a symbol of the Netherlands?

(buzzer beeps) Eshan?

- Orange.

- [Mike Royer] Orange is right.

Tens of thousands of women protested what mostly Catholic European nation's October 2020 Supreme Court ruling banning most abortions?

(buzzer beeps) And Charlie?

- Poland.

- Poland is right.

What author of the story "My Kinsman, Major Molineux" wrote about an Italian scientist whose daughter is poisonous in his story "Rappaccini's Daughter"?

(buzzer beeps) And that is Andrew.

- Hawthorne.

- [Mike Royer] Hawthorne is right.

In what presidential election, in which Lloyd Bentsen called Dan Quayle "no Jack Kennedy"- (buzzer beeps) And buzzing in is Charlie.

- 1992.

- [Mike Royer] That's incorrect.

I'll finish it for you.

"no Jack Kennedy", did George W. H. Bush defeat Michael Dukakis?

Do you have an answer for me?

(buzzer beeps) - 1988.

- [Mike Royer] 1988 is right.

Pencil and paper, everybody, for a fun math question: What expression in simplified radical form is equivalent to the square root of 50, given that 50 equals two- (buzzer beeps) And it's Caleb.

- Five square root to two.

- [Mike Royer] Judges?

Yes, we'll accept that answer.

Thank you.

The practice of dividing a larger state into smaller states is named after what European peninsula?

(buzzer beeps) And buzzing in, Eshan.

- Balkan.

- [Mike Royer] That is right.

(buzzer beeps) What two men, who hired Toussaint Charbonneau at Fort Mandan and led the Corps of Discovery, explored western lands- (buzzer beeps) Caleb?

- Lewis and Clark.

- [Mike Royer] That's right.

The land of Tortall is the setting of many young fantasy novels by what woman, whose "Song of the Lioness" quartet depicts a knight named Alanna?

Nobody wants this one?

Tamora Pierce is the answer.

What company, whose Topeka workers complained of 84-hour work weeks- (buzzer beeps) And it's Eshan.

- Nabisco.

- [Mike Royer] Say again?

- Nabisco.

- [Mike Royer] That is incorrect.

I'm going to finish it for you, Athens.

84-hour work weeks and went on strike in July of 2021, is a PepsiCo subsidiary that makes potato chips?

(buzzer beeps) And Charlie?

- Lays.

- [Mike Royer] Nope.

Answer is Frito-Lay.

Wait a minute.

He said Lays.

No?

Can't accept that, the judges say.

Daniel Caesar sings, "I left my girl, I'm in Mallorca" in what 2021 song, which is named for items that Justin Bieber claims to procure "out of Georgia"?

(buzzer beeps) Charlie.

- Peaches.

- [Mike Royer] Peaches is right.

What composer, who included "The Girl with the Flaxen Hair" among his preludes, also "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun"?

(buzzer beeps) And it is Caleb.

- Debussy.

- Debussy is right.

We have time for one or two more questions.

The 660-kilometer discontinuity separates the upper and lower portions of what layer, which lies just below the Mohorovicic discontinuity?

(buzzer beeps) Caleb.

- The mantle.

- [Mike Royer] The mantle is right.

One more.

What author described a "voice from above" that announces the salvation of Gretchen at the end of an 1808 play named after German scholar Faust?

(buzzer beeps) Charlie?

- Goethe.

- That is... uh, yes, (buzzer beeps) Goethe is right.

I read, didn't read far enough.

Goethe is correct.

You are correct.

And that is all the time we have.

Good job, everybody.

A lot of questions.

We got to a lot of them.

You all did well.

Congratulations to all of you.

We're proud of your performance today.

In this particular round, Sparkman.

Judges?

Comes out on top, in a very competitive match.

Good job, Athens.

You guys did a good job, too.

We're glad you were all here today.

We'll look forward to seeing you again, and we'll look forward to seeing you again, next time for the Alabama Scholars' Bowl.

I'm Mike Royer.

Thanks for watching.