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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 everybody and welcome to the Alabama Scholars' Bowl.

My name is Mike Royer, and we welcome you back in to a brand new season of this exciting program that you'll see here on APT throughout the fall and winter months and it's going to be a great time.

The program is one where we bring together the brightest high school students from all around the state of Alabama and they compete throughout this entire program for the weeks ahead.

And I think you'll enjoy the program.

Our judges for program number one are Christopher Arthur and Kate Wilson.

We appreciate them and everyone who supports what we do.

We will begin with the introductions of our team.

You'll meet the teams individually a little bit later on in the program, but we welcome to the studio.

Holy Spirit Catholic High School, and Brewbaker Technical Magnet High School, both from the Montgomery area, students, welcome.

It's good to see you all and good luck to you as we begin our competition, as they know and as I'll share with you, we begin with 20 questions, each one worth 10 points.

The questions will be answered by someone on the team.

And if their team answers the question correctly, they'll get a bonus question that only they will answer.

Everybody ready?

Buzzers in hand, let's get started.

Then question number one of 20.

What state where Denmark Vesey planned a slave rebellion was the first to succeed from the US and is home to Fort Sumpter- (buzzer goes off) And it's Holy Spirit - South Carolina.

- South Carolina is the right answer, Here's your bonus question, Holy spirit.

And you'll need pencil and paper for this, as we have a math question.

What is the discriminant of the quadratic polynomial 2X squared plus X minus seven given the formula is B squared minus 4ac?

I need an answer.

- Negative 51.

- The right answer is 57, 57 a short time to try to come up with that.

Here's a question for both teams.

What five letter word for an Icelandic letter representing the "th" sound follows "haw" in the name of a shrub and can refer to the spines found on roses?

(buzzer goes off) And again, it's holy spirit.

- Thorn.

- Thorn is correct.

Well done, Hayden.

Here's your bonus question.

Mercredi, which refers to the Roman God Mercury, is the French word for what day of the week?

- Wednesday.

- Wednesday is the right answer, well done.

Question for everyone.

What quantities "elementary" value was measured in the Millikan oil drop experiment and can be expressed in coulombs and for the electrons- (buzzer goes off) And it's holy spirit.

- Charge - Charge is the right answer, your bonus question.

What civil rights organization's legal defense fund, led by Thurgood Marshall, challenged school segregation in the 1954 case of Brown vs. Board - NAACP.

- That is correct.

Next question.

What Pope published the Catechism of the Catholic Church and officially apologized for the persecution of Galileo during his tenure in the 1990s?

(buzzer goes off) And holy spirit, do you want a crack at that?

- Pope Benedict the 16th.

- That is incorrect.

The right answer is Pope John Paul the 2nd.

We'll go onto the next question.

What art movement's painters included Marie Bracquemond, Berthe Morisot, and Mary Cassatt, as well as the painter of Water Lilies, Claude Monet?

(buzzer goes off) And holy spirit.

- Impressionism.

- Impressionism is correct.

I don't know if you noticed my French is getting a lot better.

French teachers all around the state are going, no, I don't think so.

Here's your bonus question.

The Delmarva Peninsula forms the Eastern border of what inlet of the Atlantic ocean, which is fed by the Susquehanna and Potomac Rivers?

- Chesapeake Bay - That is correct.

Next question.

What character, who was named for Nintendo's lawyer, is a native of Planet Popstar who often fights king Dedede and is able to inhale his enemies.

(buzzer goes off) And it is Brew Tech - Kirby.

- Kirby is correct.

Here's your bonus question, Brew tech.

'Saturnism' refers to poisoning by what heavy metal, whose Latin name is the origin of an English word reflecting its former use in water pipes?

- Lead - Lead is right old water pipes, that's right.

Question for everyone.

What organelle in which RuBisCo catalyzes carbon fixation as part of the Calvin cycle and contains thylakoids?

(buzzer goes off) And it's I'm looking at is Brew Tech.

- Chloroplast.

- Chloroplast is the right answer.

Well done your bonus question just for your team.

What cryptocurrency, based on an internet meme, lost nearly 30% of its value in the hours after Elan Musk referred to it on Saturday Night live?

- Dogecoin.

- That's correct, Dogecoin is the correct answer.

Question for both teams.

In what year was the Schlieffen Plan activated after Germany declared war on France, after the murder of Archduke Franz- (buzzer goes off) And it's Austin.

- 1914.

- 1914 is right.

Your bonus question.

Which man, who commanded British forces at the battle of the Nile, died aboard the HMS Victory during a battle in 1805?

- Trafalgar.

- No, the right answer is Horacio Nelson, Admiral Nelson.

Both teams, here you go.

Vinson Massif is on what continent that has the highest average elevation, is surrounded by the Southern ocean, and has the coldest climate?

(buzzer goes off) And yes, Holy Spirit?

- Antarctica - Antarctica is right, your bonus question.

The Tsugaru Strait separates Honshu from what northernmost of the Japanese main islands whose capital is Sapporo?

- Hokkaido.

- That's correct.

Very well done, both teams.

What force, whose study is called tribology, has a magnitude of at most a coefficient mu times the normal force- (buzzer goes off) And it's holy Spirit - Friction.

- That is incorrect.

Do you guys have an answer for that question?

Anyone?

The correct answer is Kinetic.

Kinetic is the right answer.

Did you want to accept that question?

The answer was correct.

So they are accepting, The judges are accepting your answer on that.

I had kinetic, but there's more there and you get the, you get it.

So here's your bonus question.

The opening line of To Kill a Mockingbird refers to the broken arm suffered by what character in his altercation with Bob Ewell?

- Tom Robinson - That is incorrect.

It's Jem Finch is the right answer.

Question for everyone.

What city was home to Tempelhof airport, which was used to receive goods during a 1940s- (buzzer goes off) Soviet blockade, Holy spirit.

- Berlin - Berlin blockade is right.

Your bonus question, Henry the fifth led English forces at what battle of the Hundred Years' War, which occurred on St. Crispin's day in 1415?

- Agincourt.

- Agincourt is the right answer.

Everyone, here you go.

What character meets Tom O'Bedlam on a heath, has daughters named Reagan, Goneril and Cordelia, and is the title king- (buzzer goes off) of a Shakespeare tragedy?

Holy spirit.

- King Lear - King Lear is right.

You're a bonus question, Holy spirit.

What principle states that a system in equilibrium will shift to counteract certain changes, such as changes in pressure or volume?

- Le Châtelier's.

- That's correct and your French is better than mine.

Everybody.

What decade, in which Mr. T starred on an NBC action series The A-team, is the setting of a contemporary shows such as The Goldbergs and Stranger Things?

(buzzer goes off) And it is Brew Tech.

- The 1980s - The 1980s is correct.

Here's your bonus question.

What mustachioed Belgian detective uses the little gray cells of his brain to solve murders in novels by Agatha Christie?

Do you have an answer?

Poirot, Hercule Poirot.

Everyone, pencil and paper, ready for a math question.

How many seconds does it take to wash one dish, if 15 dishes can be washed in three minutes?

(buzzer goes off) Holy Spirit.

- 12.

- 12 is the right answer.

Your bonus, what modernist painter who was born near the town of Vitebsk in present-day Belarus, showed a green human facing a goat in I and the Village?

- Chagall.

- Yes, that is the right answer.

Well done.

You're- the next question for everyone.

Which king, who may have ordered the deaths of the princess in the tower was succeeded by Henry the seventh after he was defeated at the battle of Bosworth?

( buzzer goes off) And Austin.

- Edward the 2nd.

- That is incorrect.

The correct answer is Richard the 3rd.

Question number 16, all the way to 20.

What playwright created the fathers Eddie Carbone in A View from the Bridge, Joe Keller in All My Sons and Willie Lo- (buzzer goes off) And it is Jadyn.

- Arthur- that's not- I'm sorry, I lost it.

- That's all right.

Anyone else got an answer?

You were close, Jadyn, Arthur Miller, right on the tip of your tongue.

Next question, what composer of The Thunderer, Fairest of the Fair and Semper Fidelis was nicknamed the "March King" and also composed The Stars and Stripes Forever?

No one?

(buzzer goes off) Want to take a crack at it?

- Jones.

- No that's incorrect, the right answer is John Philip Sousa.

John Philip Sousa.

What condition, whose fixation type is a symptom of Korsakoff syndrome has anterograde and retrograde types and involves deficits in memory?

(buzzer goes off) Yes, Holy spirit.

- Alzheimer's - No, that's incorrect, anybody got an answer?

(buzzer goes off) - Dementia.

- Judges know the right answer's, amnesia, amnesia.

Two more questions.

What ruler replaced the han system with prefectures in 1871, a few years after he took power as emperor of Japan in his namesake restoration?

(buzzer goes off) Yes, Holy spirit - Meiji.

- Meiji is the right answer.

Your bonus, although Let It Be was released later, what 1969 album containing Something and Come Together was the last studio album recorded by the Beatles - Say it, say it.

- Help.

- Nope.

That's incorrect.

The right answer is Abbey Road, Abbey Road.

Last question, what object, whose debris causes the Orionid meteor shower was observed by its namesake in 1682, and will pass near Earth in 2061.

(buzzer goes off) Holy spirit.

- Halley's Comet - Halley's Comet is right.

Last bonus question.

What country, of the Logone and the Chari rivers, is governed from N'Djamena and names a large African lake?

- Chad.

- Chad is correct, well done.

Lay your buzzers down and relax for a second, we'll get ready to do our lightning round, which is coming up.

I'm going to tell you the four categories, the trailing team Brew Tech will go first, you'll get to select first, one of these four categories.

And the categories for our first lightning round, literary terms, teams not ending in "S", "OO" and "SH", those are the four categories.

And you'll select one of those in a moment.

But before we do our lightning rounds, let's meet our players.

We'll start with Holy Spirit and just come down the line and tell us a bit about yourself.

Jadyn, would you start please?

- Hi, my name is Jadyen Fording.

I am in 11th grade at holy Spirit Catholic High School and I play jazz piano.

- I'm Alex Hovoslaben,, I'm in 11th grade and I like computer programming.

- I'm Austin Johnson.

I'm a senior at Holy Spirit Catholic High School and I love history.

- I'm Hayden Pilkington.

I'm a senior at Holy Spirit High School and I like science and mythology.

- Very good.

And, so Austin you're rooting for lots of history questions, right?

- Yeah, totally.

- Those are the ones you want.

All right, Brew Tech, we're glad to have you on our program.

First one of our season, if you would, let's go down the line and learn something about each of you.

- I'm Hayden Norrick.

I'm a junior at Brew Tech and I play baseball.

- I'm Katherine McKinney.

I'm a junior at brew tech and I really like Marvel movies.

- I'm Molly Mitchell.

I'm a junior at brew tech and I'm interested in nursing.

- Name is Alejandro Perez and I like architectural design.

- Very good.

We welcome all of you glad you're here and, just happy you're participating in our program.

Brew Tech, as I mentioned, you're trailing here at the mid point of our program.

So you get to choose first from literary terms, teams not ending in S double O and S H, which one of those would you like?

- We'll do the teams.

- Teams that don't end in S I believe, right?

All right, here we go.

You, you have a minute for the lightning round, is that right?

One minute for these questions, here we go.

Just answer out.

You don't have to buzz in or anything.

Massachusetts MLB team that plays in Fenway park.

- Boston Red Sox - South Florida team that lost in the 2020 NBA finals.

- Miami Heat - Pacific Northwest NHL team debuting in 2021.

- Pass.

- Okay, NBA team that relocated to the Sooner State in 2008.

- Oklahoma City Thunder.

- NHL team that shares in the arena with the Denver Nuggets - Avalanche - That's correct.

NBA team, starring Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell.

- The Jazz.

- That's correct.

MLB team that thew the 1919 world series.

- Chicago White Sox.

- That's correct.

NHL team that won the 2020 and 2021 Stanley cup finals.

- Pass - Okay.

And NBA team that drafted Shaquille O'Neal back in the day.

- Lakers, no.

- Okay.

And last question for you, NHL team that plays at the Xcel energy center in St. Paul.

Time is up.

The hockey wounds were the tough ones.

Weren't they?

All right.

Good job though.

You've got seven or so, right, of those.

You did a good job with those, good job.

Now, Holy Spirit, you're going to choose two of our categories and play both of them right now of the remaining ones.

Which would you like to play?

Which two would you choose?

Do you need me to repeat them?

- Yes, sir.

- Alrighty.

Literary terms, double O and S H are left on the board.

Which of those, pick two of those, please.

Literary terms, double O and S H - Literary terms and sh - Alrighty, let's do literary terms first, all right?

Here we go.

Give me an answer.

You got one minute to answer all these questions.

A story's time and place.

- Setting - An out of order scene set before the main storyline - In media res - That's incorrect.

A character whose traits starkly contrast with another.

- Foil.

- That's correct.

Presenting hints about future action.

- Foreshadowing.

- A conversation between two or more characters.

- Dialogue.

- That's correct.

A protagonist who lacks conventional heroic qualities.

- Tragic hero.

That's incorrect.

Background info, or the very beginning of a story.

- Exposition.

- That's right.

Extreme pride that may serve as a tragic flaw.

- Hubris.

- A work directly mocking or lampooning other works or genres.

- Allusion - That's incorrect.

A story's resolution from the french for unknotting.

- Pass - Dénouement is the correct answer to that.

Do you have any answers for the others we skipped?

I don't- I think we didn't skip any, we just had incorrect answers.

Well done on that though.

And you get to choose another category, which, which was the other two?

Sh?

- Yes.

- Yes, Alrighty.

I'm reminding myself on show, number one, take the lightening questions out of your folder, so you can just have them immediately in hand and I'm almost there.

So I beg, I beg your patients.

Here we go.

Give these words that begin with the letters, A, S and H, ready?

To harvest a sheep's wool.

- Sheer - Computer key held down to capitalize a letter.

- Shift.

- A style of a long fiber carpet popularized in the 1970s.

- Shag.

- A type of solid oily cooking fat.

- Shay.

- That's incorrect.

Fetters that bind prisoners ankles.

- Shackles.

- Deadly debris from a bomb.

- Shrapnel - A non-stop bus or train service that mainly serves only two locations - Shuttle.

- That's right.

And Tibetan ethnic group, whose members are renowned for mountaineering - Sherpa.

- That's right.

- A victory in which the opponents score is zero.

- Shut-out.

- And to destroy something by rendering it into tatters.

- Shred.

- Very well done.

That's good.

All right.

And so we come back to you brew tech.

I know you're very excited to be playing letters with double O's, correct?

And we're almost back to that page.

And here we are, one more.

Now that wasn't too long of a wait double O, give these words that either begin or end with two O's.

- Synonym for a lot.

- Pass.

- An act that is culturally forbidden.

- Taboo.

- That's right.

To slowly flow out, or a substance that does so.

- Ooze - That is right.

Fast growing plant eaten by pandas.

- Bamboo.

- Semi-arid region of Southern Africa.

- Pass - Type of tea whose name means black dragon.

- Oolong.

- That's right.

Droning instrument played by the Aboriginal people of Australia - Didgeridoo.

- That's correct.

- The study of birds and eggs - Pass - To praise extravagantly, or the act of doing so.

- Woo.

- That's incorrect.

Vocalization of sports fans who disagree with the call.

- Boo.

- Very good.

Do you want to go back to, let's see, there is time up.

We had, we skipped one and that was the semi arid region of Southern Africa.

The answer to that is Karoo Alright, well done by both teams.

I'll be better organized with my questions next round.

Now, as you all know, we now go to the end of our program by going through our speed round, we will ask these questions and they are worth 20 points each, each one, buzz in if you know the answer and there's no bonus question here.

You ready to go?

What author of "Vengeful Creditor" wrote about an Igbo man who hangs himself during the British colonial rule of Nigeria in his novel Things Fall Apart?

(buzzer goes off) And Holy Spirit.

- Achebe - That's correct.

Which property of equality states that A = A, or in other words, that a number always- (buzzer goes off) Holy Spirit - Identity.

- That's incorrect.

Do you have an answer for that?

That number always equals itself, reflective is the answer.

Next question, what daughter of Zeus celebrated with her mother in the Eleusinian mysteries, ate pomegranate seeds- (buzzer goes off) And holy spirit.

- Persephone.

- That's correct, what prize that was shared in 2019 by the books Girl, Woman, Other, and The Testaments is awarded to the English language novels published in the UK?

(buzzer goes off) And I'm looking here.

- Pulitzer.

- That's incorrect.

Do you have an answer, Holy spirit?

It is the Booker prize.

Next.

What layer of the atmosphere from which Joseph Kittinger made a 20 mile high sky dive in 1960 lies above the troposphere and contains the ozone layer?

(buzzer goes off) And it is Brew Tech - Stratosphere.

- Stratosphere's right.

Hong Xiuquan, who claimed to be the brother of Jesus, led which rebellion- (buzzer goes off) - And holy spirit.

- Taiping.

- Taiping is right.

The line "We are such stuff / As dreams are made on" is from what play in which the spirit Ariel is ordered by- (buzzer goes off) - The Tempest.

- The tempest is right.

(buzzer goes off) And a nice test of that buzzer, here we go.

What 11 letter adjective described a kinship system in which descent is traced through a line of female ancestors?

(buzzer goes off) - It's Brew Tech.

- Matrilineal.

- That's correct.

What newspaper named Sally Buzby as its executive editor in 2021.

And has the slogan Democracy Dies in the Darkness- (buzzer goes off) - Washington Post.

- That is correct.

What radio active element, which has been used as a poison, was named by Mme.

Marie Curry after her Homeland?

(buzzer goes off) And holy spirit.

- Francium.

That's incorrect, Brew Tech, you wanna to take a shot?

Polonium.

Next question.

What man who skipped the constitutional convention because he quote "smelled a rat", gave a 1775 speech in Virginia, stating- (buzzer goes off) And Holy Spirit.

- Henry.

- Patrick Henry is right.

What noun that refers to a section of a long poem comes from the Italian word for song and was- (buzzer goes off) Holy Spirit.

- Canty - Judges, that good?

Yes, we'll accept that answer.

Actin and myosin are found in what structures with cardiac and smooth plus- (buzzer goes off) Brew Tech.

- Microfilaments - That's incorrect.

I'll finish it for you if you'd like.

Forms plus those connected to bones by tendons that contract to cause movement (buzzer goes off) And Holy Spirit.

- Muscle.

- Muscle is right.

What Norse God, who sacrificed a hand- (buzzer goes off) And it is holy spirit.

- Tyr.

- Tyr is right.

What politician who displayed a poster depicting 111 days of hell and a mountain during the COVID crisis resigned as the governor of New York?

(buzzer goes off) And it's Holy Spirit - Cuomo.

- That's correct, Andrew Cuomo.

Electrical stimulation of the tongue may help alleviate what common condition in which a person hears ringing in the ears?

(buzzer goes off) - Tinnitus.

- Tinnitus is correct, Holy Spirit, thank you.

What river, whose headwaters originate in lake Itasca, flows through such cities as Memphis and St. Louis before emptying into the Gulf of Mexico?

(buzzer goes off) And it's Brew Tech - The Missouri - That's incorrect.

(buzzer goes off) And holy spirit.

- Mississippi.

- Mississippi is the right river.

In 2020, the national science foundation announced the decommissioning of the Arecibo observatory radio telescope in which us territory?

(buzzer goes off) Holy Spirit.

- Guam.

- That is incorrect Brew Tech, you want to shout at it?

- Puerto Rico.

- Puerto Rico is right, well done.

That's all the time we have, lay down your pins and relax.

Take a break.

You all played well.

It's fast.

Sometimes not always well pronounced.

And so you all did a good job.

Congratulations to Holy Spirit, you came out on top in this particular round.

So we'll see you again.

And Brew Tech, you played well and you're very smart, young people, we're glad you were here today.

We appreciate all of you being here.

Our program is called the Alabama Scholars Bowl.

We're on Alabama public television at this time every week.

We're hope you'll watch our program each week as we really celebrate the brightest young people in the state of Alabama.

My name's Mike Royer.

thanks for watching, have a great day.