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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 and the name of this program is "the Alabama Scholars' Bowl," where we bring together some of the best and brightest high school students in the state of Alabama, to compete, answering some very tough questions on a variety of subjects.

I imagine you're already impressed.

If you're watching for the first time, you're gonna be impressed by how good these students are and how well prepared they are for our competition.

Our judges for the program today are Sharon Daily and Josh Rutsky.

We appreciate all of their help and all of the people here at Alabama Public Television for helping us put this program on.

We welcome to our studio today, from Mobile Baker High School, students, welcome to our program today.

And from right here in Montgomery, they didn't have to travel very far, Lamp Magnet High School, welcome to all of you, and we're glad you're here.

You'll meet our individual players just a little bit later on in our program.

Students, you know what we do to get started.

We ask you 20 questions, 10 points each.

Bonus goes to the team who answers it correctly.

Let's go through these 20 questions and see how we do.

What Novel, in which the Ludovico technique is applied with the Beethoven's and its will?

- Clockwork orange.

- That is correct.

Here's your bonus question?

The photo "Earth Rise" was taken during what 1968 mission William Anders, Frank Borman and James Lovell became the first to orbit the moon.

Apollo 10?

You've got the right program Apollo, but it was eight.

It was eight Apollo eight, was that one question for everyone in world war one, What country's air force included a unit nicknamed the Flying Circus led by the Red Baron whose real name and Will again?

- the U.S.?

United States?

- No, that's incorrect.

I'll finish the question for you.

Lamp, the Red Baron whose real name was Manfred von Richthofen - Germany?

- Germany is the right answer.

Here is your bonus question, Lamp.

What country whose Clark air base was formerly operated by the U.S. was the site of the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo on Luzon - Philippines?

- That is correct.

That's right.

Toss up question for everyone.

What organization, a successor of the revenue cutter service, has the motto Semper pariahs-paratus and is an armed forces branch that patrols U S waters (buzzer sounds) and its Will?

- Coast guard?

- Yes, judges that's good enough?

United States coast guard.

Your bonus question.

Now Baker, Jack Kilby's 1958 integrated circuit was made using non silicone, but what other metalloid that lies directly below silicone on the periodic table?

- Germanium?

- That's correct.

Next question.

What task, which can be done with algorithms called "radix", "bubble", "merge", and "quick"?

(buzzer sounds) Will?

- Sorting?

- Sorting is the right answer.

Your bonus question again.

Narendra Modi is a member of what political party, which advocates Hindutva and is the main rival of the more secular Indian national Congress?

- The BJP party?

- That is right.

Next question.

Number five of 20.

What river whose tributaries include the Iskar and Sava empties into the black sea in Romania and flows past four capital cities, Will?

- The Danube.

- The Danube is correct, your bonus question.

What author of the novel Starship troopers wrote about a man who comes to earth after being raised on Mars and stranger in a strange land?

- Antoine de saint-exupery.

- No, the correct answer is Robert Heinlein.

In what 2015 film is the dying Mr. White, a former associate of Ernst Stavro-Stavro Blofeld who leads the title terrorist organization against James Bond?

(buzzer sounds) and Mark?

- Death Royale.

- No, that is incorrect.

Do you have an answer for me Lamp?

The name of the film is Spectre.

It was Spectre.

Here is the next question.

What book series, which includes stay out of the basement and introduce the ventriloquist dummy Slappy consist of, (buzzer sounds) And it's Mark?

All right, I'm going to finish it for you Lamp and includes the dummy Slappy and consists of 62 horror books (buzzer sounds) by RL Stein jokes.

- Goosebumps.

- Goosebumps is correct.

Well done.

Here's your bonus question Lamp.

Although the Umayyads ruled from Cordoba until 1031 in 750, they were replaced in the middle east.

By what caliphate that ruled into the 13th century?

- Abbasid - Abbasid is right.

Question number eight and grab your pencil and paper for this math question.

What is the probability that an event will occur?

If the odds against it happening are five to two (buzzer sounds) And ringing in is Will.

- 60%.

- That is not correct.

Lamp, Do you have an answer (buzzer sounds) and Hari?

- Five over seven?

- No, that's not correct either.

The right answer is two over seven, two over seven is the right answer.

Next question.

What building is being renovated in hopes of being ready for the 2024 Olympics after it's lead covered, roof and Spire were destroyed 2019 (buzzer sounds) fire, Will?

- The Notre Dame Cathedral.

- That is correct in the Paris.

Your bonus question now.

Now what blind prophet appears in Euripides play "The Bacchae" and argues with the title character of Sophocles' play.

Oh-ep-Oedipus Rex - Tiresias?

That is correct.

You pronounce the word so much better than me.

Question 10 of our 20 what singer rose to fame in 1938 with a tisket a tasket, an improvised seat singing so well, she was nicknamed first lady of song and lady Ella (buzzer sounds) take a shot, Will?

- Billy holiday?

- that's incorrect.

Lamp, you have an answer?

(buzzer sounds) - Jackson, Jackson.

- No, it was Ella Fitzgerald, Ella Fitzgerald question number 11.

What king, who was known for his mistresses, such as Nell Gwynne was put in power by the restoration and was the namesake of his beheaded father?

(Buzzer sounds) - Charles the second, Charles the second.

- That is absolutely right.

Have a bonus question for you.

Lamp what neighborhood between Canal Street and Esplanade Avenue is home to Bourbon Street and is the center of New Orleans Mardi Gras celebrations?

- French quarter.

- French quarters is right.

Next question for everyone.

What countries islands include Rottnest island where most quokkas live and an island home to other marsupials, such as wombats and tasmanian devils, Will?

- Australia.

- Australia's right.

Here's your bonus.

What Serbian center who once recorded a triple double in less than 15 minutes was named NBA MVP in 2021 - Nikola Jovic.

- That's correct.

Well done.

Next question for everyone.

What national park, which contains the grand prismatic spring is the oldest national park in the United States.

It is home to the, (buzzer sounds) Mark?

- Yellowstone - Yellowstone is right.

It's where the Geyser is.

This is a bonus question for you.

"Confessions of a Mask" was written by which Japanese author of the temple of the golden pavilion and the sea of fertility Tetro-tetralogy - Yukio Mishima.

- That's correct.

Now question for everyone.

What former Soviet Republic, where Aleksandr Lukashenko (buzzer sounds) claimed victory, And it is Will?

- Belarus?

- Belarus is right.

Your bonus, in 1911, Francisco Madero became president of what country after overthrowing its longtime dictator, Porfirio Diaz, - Mexico?

- Mexico is right.

Five more questions in this round.

What novel in which Brian de Bois-Guilbert abducts a Jewish woman named Rebecca and jousts with the title knight and was written by Sir Walter Scott (buzzer sounds) Will?

- Ivanhoe?

- Ivanhoe is right.

You're a bonus.

The majority of Iceland's electricity comes from what type of energy that is derived from the internal heat of the earth.

- Geothermal?

- That's correct.

Four more questions.

What war in which Winfield Scott led an amphibious assault, Will?

- The Mexican American war.

That's correct.

Bonus question in Aldous Huxley's novel, "Brave New World", Linda consumes massive quantitatives of what drug, which is used to pacify the population of the world state?

- Soma - Soma is correct, question for everyone.

What office who's first female holder was Megan Brennan has been held since 2020 by Louis Devoy-DeJoy who leads an agency responsible (buzzer sounds) - Postmaster General.

- Say it again.

- Oh, Postmaster General.

- Very good.

I'm sorry.

I didn't hear you.

That is absolutely right.

Here's your bonus question, Lamp.

What avant garde American composer called for a pianist to sit at a keyboard and do nothing for a period of time in his work.

Four minutes, 33 seconds.

- John Cage.

- That's that's correct.

Two more questions.

Three of what mathematical changes, starting over, three of what mathematical things can be operated on by the triple product, which combines the dot and crossover product (buzzer sounds) and its Will?

- Vectors.

- Vectors is right.

Your a bonus question.

Mr. Republican was the nickname of what Ohio Senator, who, along with Fred Hartley names, the 1947 act restricting the power of labor unions.

- Taft - That's right.

Taft is the right other person.

What city which contains the Stormont parliament building was the site of a shipyard that built the Titanic and is the capital of Northern Ireland?

(buzzer sounds) I'm looking, Mark?

- Embro?

- That is incorrect.

(buzzer sounds) - Belfast, Belfast.

- Belfast is right.

This is, and here's your bonus question Lamp.

Henry Luce founded what American magazine whose 2018 person of the year award was given to journalists termed the guardians?

- People magazine?

- That's not right.

It's time magazine was the correct answer.

Last question of the round.

What man, who in 1994 led the LAPD on a low speed chase in his Ford Bronco and was acquitted.

And it's Mark?

- Simpson.

O J Simpson - That's correct.

That's right.

Here's your bonus question.

Last one of the round in the Harbor process, the product ammonia is purified by what technique?

That separates liquids based on differences in boiling point?

- Distillation - Distillation?

- That is correct.

Lay your buzzers down, relax for a moment.

I'm going to tell you the four categories for our lightning round, the team that is trailing at this point, we'll go first to select one of the categories, the leading team, which at this point is baker high school will choose second and choose two categories and play them both.

And then you'll be forced to play.

Whatever is left of the four categories.

I'll tell you the categories in, and we'd like to meet all of you.

The four choices are organelles, P in art, Super Mario and Elon Musk.

Organelles, P in art, Super Mario and Elon Musk.

Right now, though, let's begin with Henry and meet the players from baker high school.

- My name is Henry and I'm a sophomore.

And my favorite subject is European history.

- Very good.

- My name is Mark.

I'm in 10th grade and my favorite subject is chemistry.

- My name is Will.

I'm a senior and I'm currently writing a novel.

- Well, my name's Brenna.

I'm also a senior and I'm also on the archery team.

- Very good.

I read a novel once.

So we have something.

(Will chuckles) Thank you.

Welcome.

And you're playing so well so far.

Let's come over to Lamp, playing well as, as well.

Let's meet the players.

- Hi, my name is Nikhil.

I'm a sophomore and my favorite play is "A Raisin in the Sun".

- Hi, I'm Faith.

I'm a senior and I love studying French.

- Hi, I'm a senior at Lamp and I really love computer science.

Okay.

- My name's Joe.

I'm a senior at Lamp and my favorite subject is United States history.

- That's my favorite subject too welcome to you all.

Glad all of you are here today and you're all playing well, Well, we're proud of all of you and we'll come over to lamp high school.

You get to choose first and we'll play one selection that you have, which one have you decided to play?

- We choose organelles.

- Organelles.

Very good.

You have one minute from when I start to ask the question and we'll start asking the question after I tell you simply name these organelles.

Here we go.

The site of protein synthesis made of two subunits, - Ribosome.

- Nicknamed the powerhouse of the cell.

- Mitochondria.

- Mitochondria.

- It has smooth and rough portions.

- ER - Named for an Italian physicist-physician - Golgi.

- At the site of DNA transcription in eukaryotes.

- Nucleus.

- That's right.

The most acidic organelle it's full of digestive enzymes.

- Ly-lysosomes.

- Composed of chitin in fungi and peptidoglycan- - Cell wall - Yeah, way to go, where catalyst breaks down a compound with the formula H2O2.

- Pass.

In plants, it's surrounded by a membrane called the tonoplast.

- A cell membrane?

- that is incorrect used by cilium, anemones and jellyfish for defense and to capture prey.

- Flagella.

- That is incorrect as well.

We go back to number eight.

I believe where catalyst breaks down a compound with formula H2O2.

Time is up.

It is peroxisomes.

Peroxisomes is that one?

Alright, baker.

You've had time to think about it and choose two categories.

Will, what are you going to play?

- Oh, we were going to play Super Mario - super Mario, and then your second choice?

- Elon Musk.

- All right.

Well very good.

We'll do them in that order.

One minute on the clock.

Whenever I ask you the first question, you're going to name these characters from the super Mario video game franchise.

Here we go.

Mario's brother with the L on his cap.

- Luigi Typically green, egg laying, ally - Yoshi - Humanoid, mushroom, and attended to peach - Toad - Donkey Kong's hat wearing nephew.

- Diddy Kong.

- Ghostly figure who vanishes when directly looked at - Boo.

- Orange haired princess of Sarasaland - Daisy.

- Mario's arch enemy who- - Bowser - Women rescued in Donkey Kong, who is- - Pauline - City's, that's right Inventor of the Poltergus 3000 - Professor E. Gadd - Fire-breathing triceratops named for the singer of nine inch nails.

- Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.

Wait, wait, pass.

- That's the last one.

And you've got 18 seconds.

Fire breathing.

Triceratops - Ludwig.

- No, that's incorrect.

It's Reznor, Reznor.

I don't root for or against any team, but for some reason makes me happy.

You at least missed one of those.

So you're well done with that first round and you move right on into the next one.

You did say Elon Musk, correct?

One minute.

When I begin to answer asking the question answered the following about Elon Musk.

He is CEO of this electric car company.

- Tesla.

- He founded this rocket launching company.

- Space X.

- He co-founded x.com, a predecessor of his online payment firm.

- PayPal.

- He was born in this African nation - South Africa - In 2018, he sent a mini submarine to this nation, - Thailand - to help a trapped soccer team.

Say it again.

- Thailand.

- He dropped out of this California university after 2 days, - Berkeley - Incorrect.

He has the relationship with this Canadian musician - Grimes.

- That's right.

He proposed this tube based high-speed transportation system.

- Oh, the Hyperloop?

- that's right.

- He voiced Ilan tusk a character on a 2019 episode of this show, - Simpsons - that's incorrect.

And he founded this tunnel building company.

- The boring company, - The boring company is right.

I don't think you skipped any, you just missed two.

I believe, well done.

And the show was Rick and Morty was the show that he was on.

All right.

As you know, from playing before Lamp, we go back to you now with only one choice.

And so I assume you'll choose a P in art.

That's what we're going to do.

You have one minute to answer these questions identified these visual art terms that begin with the letter P a painting of a person's likeness, including their face and expression, - Portrait - Color tones with a paler softer hue, - Palette - such as that's right, say it again?

- Palette.

- That is incorrect.

You want to finish it such as a pale hue - pass.

- Alright.

Flat handheld board used for mixing paints, - palette - that's palette, an artistic medium of Alfred Stieglitz and Ansil Adams - Pointillism - a plain, that's incorrect, a plain based at a sculpture or a statue rest on.

- Pedestal.

- Pedestal - that's acceptable, wet gluey paper mixture that hardens when dry - papier-mache - that's correct.

Green, gray-green veneer that develops on bronze - Pass - main art movement associated with Andy Warhol - pop art.

- That's right.

What-White powder mixed with water to make rough cast and molds - Plaster-of-paris - That's right.

And ceramic pottery material made by firing kaolin in a kiln.

- Pottery.

- What did you say?

- Pottery?

- The answer is porcelain and I heard the correct answer on one that I said wrong, they, one of them said the right answer.

Did you hear it Judges?

Will we'll.

We can it's number six.

When wet gluey paper mixture, someone said a wrong answer.

I sit incorrect.

And then I believe faith said, papier-mache someone did.

I heard it so they should get credit for that one.

Alright, well, those were pretty fun.

Lightning round.

You all did well with all of them.

So well done.

We will now go to the speed round.

That means in our remaining six minutes, I'll ask questions.

You answer them no bonus questions.

And each one were 20 points.

Here we go.

What type of substance is confined in the Tokamak using the magnetic, Will?

- Plasma?

- That's right in Greek myth, Chiron was what type of half man half horse - Centaur - That's right.

What regionalist painter from Iowa showed a woman with an apron.

- Grant wood - That's right.

What play by Neil Simon contrast Felix Ungar- - the odd couple - that's right.

The "lion of the north" was a nickname for what Great Protestant King who died in 1632 at the battle of Lutzen.

- Richard.

- That is incorrect.

I'll finish it for you all Lutzen leading Sweden in the 30 years war, do you have an answer?

Yes.

- Adolphus - Adolphus is correct.

What Former Prussian army officer wrote a military guide nicknamed the blue book and train the continental army in valley forge, Will?

- Baron Von Steuben.

- That's right.

Quantum dots are microscopic examples of what materials used to make.

- Electrons - Joe say it again, - Electrons - That's incorrect.

I'll finish it for you.

Use to make transistors with properties between those of insulators and conductors - Semiconductors.

- That's correct.

What circuit components often include a dialectic place between two parallel, Will?

- Capacitor.

- That's right.

What city on the Huangpu river is home to the Oriental Pearl tower is at the mouth of the Yangtze river.

- Beijing - Say it again - Beijing - that's incorrect.

I'll finish it, the mouth- Will?

- Shanghai - Shanghai is right.

What kind of object is depicted in the best known sculpture by Myron, which shows an athlete preparing to throw this kind of objects?

- Discus - Discus is right.

What mythical object, which was stolen by the giant brim - golden fleece - Golden fleece is incorrect.

Go ahead, Will.

- the Mjollnir - Mjollnir is right.

Biryani is a dish made using what crop, whose Basmati - Rice.

- Rice is the right answer.

What scientists who standardized thermometers invented a namesake temperature scale.

Again.

- Calvin.

- That is not correct.

I'll finish it- Go ahead Nikhil - Celsius.

- That's incorrect to the answer.

If we'd gotten to the end of the question is Fahrenheit.

Next question.

Derek Bell Co-developed what theory, Will?

- Critical Race Theory.

- That's right.

What poet asks does it stink like rotten meat?

- Langston Hughes - that's right.

What woman who wrote the autobiography of Alice B. Toklas - Stein?

- Gertrude Stein is right.

What country is symbolized by a woman wearing a Phrygian cap named Marianne, yes Will?

- The France - France is correct.

We have three minutes left.

Claude Francoise de malet, was executed for leading a coup against what Monarch who's mallet claimed had actually died while invading Russia in 1812.

Yes?

- Napoleon.

- Napoleon is right.

Bonaparte.

What composer's last works include the little Masonic Cantata and free masonry-inspired opera featuring the queen of the night, The magic flute - Mozart.

- Yes.

Wolfgang, Mozart, pencil and paper for this math question.

How many edges are on a regular tetrahedron or triangular pyramid, Will?

- Six.

- That is right.

We have two and a half minutes left.

Bleda, was a king of what barbarian, Will?

- Huns.

- That's right.

What seven letter adjective describes the ancient king.

Leonidus as well as the elite, Will?

- a gouge - incorrect.

I'll finish it for you as well as the elite soldiers exemplified by master chief in the halo series.

Got anything lamp?

answer is Spartan, Spartan, pencil and paper with a minute 45 left.

What is the length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle, Whose legs have lengths of three and five, Will?

- Seven - That is incorrect, lamp.

Do you have an answer on that?

Yes.

- Five?

The answer is a square root of 34 or route 34.

Couple more questions.

Lake Nasser was formed during the construction of what dam, Will?

- Aswan High Dam.

- That's correct.

What character who says that ain't my style with a sneer on his lip is the star player for Mudville who nonetheless strikes out.

And it's Mark.

- Casey.

That's right.

Casey at the bat.

What branch of philosophy with the Greek name deals with concepts such as beauty and art?

Will?

- Stoicism - Incorrect.

- Yes.

Sorry.

- Epicureanism.

- No, it is aesthetics, aesthetics one or two more.

What scandal in which Elliot Richardson quit amid the Saturday night masscre, Will?

- Watergate.

That's right.

Pine trees.

And ginkgos belonged to what- - gymnosperms.

- That is correct as well.

Put your buzzers down.

We are about only seconds away from the end of the program.

You all played very well today.

A lot of hard questions today and congratulation goes to baker high school who came out on top and today's round.

You played well, obviously and lamps, So did you, you played well as, as well, and we're glad you're all here today.

And for taking part, we're proud of all of these young people.

It's great to be around them, to watch and listen to how smart they are.

And we enjoy bringing this program into your home every week here in Alabama, public TV.

My name is Mike Royer.

Thanks again for watching the Alabama scholars bowl and have a great day.