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Scholar's Bowl, where high school students from all over the state compete for scholarship money 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, everyone.

Welcome once again to the Alabama Scholar's Bowl here on Alabama Public Television.

My name is Mike Royer.

Thanks very much for watching our program.

Every week as we bring the best and brightest students from all around the state of Alabama to compete on the Alabama Scholar's Bowl.

We enjoy doing the program.

We appreciate you watching every week.

Thanks.

Goes out to Mike Housley, our executive producer, and to Kate Wilson, Nick Frederick and Harris and Sharon Dailey, who do the judging, the timing, correcting when that's rarely necessary.

But they all make the program possible and they do all the hard work.

It's my pleasure to host the program and my pleasure to welcome back into the studio the students from Alma Bryant High School down in mobile, and also Gadsden City High School back with us.

Both teams have been on with this before.

Both teams have played very well and we look forward to today's competition.

Everybody got their buzzers in hand.

Ready to go?

Well, let's see how we do on this.

First question.

What monarch who introduced a table of ranks to incentivize civil service by the boyars and Christopher.

Peter the Great.

Peter the Great is right.

Your bonus.

What sticky, black, viscous form of petroleum is used in surfacing roads and parking lots to make them waterproof?

Tar?

Yeah.

No.

That's incorrect.

We needed asphalt.

Asphalt, what they wanted.

Next question is for everyone.

What quantity?

One form of which is normality, is denoted by square brackets and is also Christopher concentration.

Concentration is the answer.

Bonus.

What story?

Whose narrator imagines a person crawling behind the title decoration before she goes insane, was written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

Robert the Yellow Wallpaper the Yellow Wallpaper is correct.

Well done.

Next question.

Both teams.

What author wrote about Septimus Smith's death and Latika Woolf?

Virginia Woolf is correct.

Here's your bonus.

Inari is an example of what spiritual beings or deities who are worshiped by ginger temples in the Shinto religion, honey kami.

Kami is correct.

Toss up everybody.

What agreement, which promises the creation of a civil body politic, was signed aboard a ship in 1620 by the founders of the seventh colony, Christopher.

The Plymouth Agreement.

No.

That's incorrect.

Alma Bryant, do you have an answer for that?

Yes, Stanley Mayflower compact.

That's the right answer.

And here's a bonus for you.

What politician who served as James Monroe's Secretary of War was the South Carolina senator who defended the principle of nullification?

Anybody understand?

Stanton.

John C Calhoun was the right answer.

Here's a toss up for you in January of 2024.

What team hired its former first round draft pick Gerard Mayo as head coach, replacing six time Super Bowl winner Bill Belichick?

What team will take up the New England Patriots is right.

Your bonus in art?

What term from the Italian for my lady signifies a depiction of the Virgin Mary holding the child Jesus?

Madonna Madonna is the right answer.

Moving on, what financial products were the subject of 2020 three's save plan are offered by Navient and Sallie Mae, and are debts taken out to pay for college?

And the answer I'm looking.

Stanley.

Student loans.

Student loans is the right answer.

You guys are going to need a pencil and paper for this.

Bonus question that's just for you.

Given 40 blue beads and ten red beads, how many complete bracelets can be made?

If each one needs nine blue beads and two red beads give you a because you're limited by blue four.

That was quick, Stanley.

Well done.

Right answer.

Toss up for everybody what substance which is secreted in part by the poor rotted gland, parotid gland and has alpha amylase to hydrolyze sugars is a watery secretion.

Latika.

No, I'll finish it for you to hydrolyzed sugars is a watery secretion found in the mouth.

What is that, Stanley?

Saliva.

Saliva is correct.

Your bonus.

What character whose parrot repeats the word pieces of eight leads a hunt for Captain Flint's plunder, and is a pirate in Treasure Island.

Who is that treasure Island?

Sure.

Blackbeard.

No, it's long John Silver is what we wanted for that one.

Next question.

What God who is trapped under a golden net while having an affair and Latika is, No, that's incorrect.

Having an affair with Aphrodite was the father of DeMoss and Phobos, and was the Greek god of war and drama.

Brian.

Aries.

Aries is the right answer.

And a bonus question again for you.

In what 1890 event did US soldiers trying to suppress the ghost Dance movement kill hundreds of coca Lakota civilians on the Pine Ridge Reservation?

Where was that?

Short trail of tears?

No, it's the Wounded Knee.

Wounded Knee Massacre is the right one.

Here we go.

What villain who competes with valor for Marion's hand after ingratiating himself to Orgon is the title charlatan?

Latika.

Tartuffe is correct.

Bonus for you, Gadsden City.

What class of organic compounds formed when a carboxylic acid reacts with an alcohol are known for their fruity aromas, such as the odor of bananas or many ethers?

What do you have?

Ethers?

No, it's esters est ers.

Next question.

Both teams.

What former country isolated by the house Stein doctrine operated the Stasi and was led by Eric and Alvin.

East Germany.

East Germany's correct bonus for you.

What 2023 movie in which Corey Holiness Snow mentors a tribute from district 12 named Lucy Gray Baird, is a prequel to The Hunger Games.

What is that?

Was The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.

That's right.

Next question.

Both teams what objects which include the Japanese Obi used in martial arts are clothing, accessories, often made of a strip of leather and worn at the waist.

What is that called?

The tika belt?

A belt is right.

Your bonus what medieval Norse warriors name for their tendency to wear bear skins into battle, fought in an intense, possibly drug induced rage.

I know, I know and heavy and you're yes, yes, I I'm here you are.

That's incorrect.

It's Berserkers.

I've never heard that before.

So we all learned something today.

What author depicted a trip to Malabar Cave, after which Latika Forster is right.

E.M. Forster bonus what author depicted young aspirant Esperanza Cordero in her semiarid autobiographical novel the House on Mango Street?

Cisneros.

Cisneros is correct, everybody.

What stars whose masses are constrained by the TV limit and its Christopher Neutron stars?

Neutron stars is right.

Bonus for you.

What is the Spanish derived name for a large, bowl shaped volcanic depression that forms by collapse after a magma chamber empties?

What are those called caldera or caldera?

Yes.

That's right.

Next question for both teams.

What war in which the U.S. supplied one side through Operation Nickel Grass, began when Egypt and Syria attacked Israel.

Alvin Six-Day War.

No, that's not right.

I'm going to finish it for you.

Alma Bryant, that began when Egypt and Syria attacked Israel on a Jewish holy day in 1973.

What do you have, William?

Yom Kippur.

Yom Kippur is correct.

Now, a bonus question for you.

In June of 2023, a dam over what river in Ukraine was damaged by likely Russian sabotage, reducing water supplies to Crimea.

Natural Volga.

It's the Dnipro Dnipro river, everybody.

What European country is called?

Serna Gora in its native language is governance.

From Gori to SA and has a name and Christopher Montenegro.

Montenegro is correct.

Bonus for you.

What country whose OSA Peninsula is home to Corcovado National Park includes such cities as Ala y la and is south of Nicaragua, southern Nevada.

It's Costa Rica has the Costa Rica.

Costa Rica is the right answer.

Next what physicists predicted length contraction and looking Stanley Einstein Einstein is right bonus for you.

What second largest branch of Islam holds that Muhammad selected his cousin Ali Shia?

That's their bonus question.

Sorry.

I appreciate your energy.

What is the second largest branch of Islam holds?

Muhammad selected his cousin Ali as the first caliph.

What is the answer to that?

It is Shia.

If you're good with that, judges.

Yes.

That's good.

Now just buzz in when everyone here.

What?

Commander was joined by the tribal volunteers prior to the Battle of Wheatland Street while leading in a revolt in Iceni against the Romans in Britain.

What is that, Alvin?

Modica is correct.

The letter Q for your bonus symbolizes what set of numbers that can be expressed as a fraction or quotient, or two integers.

Rational, rational.

Rational, rational was right.

Three more questions in this portion of our round.

What instrument was played by the jazz composer of Ain't Misbehavin, Fats Waller, who used the stride style of moving Christopher?

Piano.

Piano is correct.

Bonus.

A boy named Milo must swim in the cold sea of knowledge after jumping to the Island of Conclusions in what Norton Juster novel name for a magic gate, The Phantom Tollbooth.

That's right.

What spaces, the first of which lies between Oriental and Vermont Avenue, uses an orange deck of cards and Christopher chants that is the space called chance bonus for you.

Bernardo O'Higgins led the independence movement in what present day country, which later defeated Bolivia and Peru in the War of the Pacific.

Chili.

Chili is right.

Last question.

What country?

Whose Pico de arte is the tallest mountain in the Caribbean, covers the eastern part of his Canada and Alvin Republic.

Dominican Republic is right.

Last bonus sharks can be born through what form of reproduction that involves neither the mother mating nor having her eggs fertilized by sperm.

Sexual and asexual?

No.

That's incorrect.

It's Puerto parthenogenesis.

All right, lay your buttons down.

Relax.

I'm going to tell our viewers at home and our teams what our four categories are for our lightning round.

And, Alma Bryant, you're trailing slightly here at the midpoint.

It'll be up to you to choose first from these four categories sonnets, the 13 colonies, Hall of Famers and identical initials.

Those are the four we'll ask you to choose in just a moment.

And after they play one of those, you guys get Cincy.

We'll play two.

Correct.

So first of all though we'd like to meet all of our players.

I'll ask you all to tell us your name, some of your interest at your school.

And Stanley, would you start?

Hello, my name is Stanley Robertson.

I'm a senior and I'm a Bryant High School.

And my favorite subject is science.

My name is Gavin Wynne.

I'm a freshman at Alma Wright High School, and my favorite song is banana man.

But tell y'all, my name is William Johnson.

I'm a sophomore at Alma Bryant, and my favorite subject is geography.

My name is Michael Long.

I am a senior at Alma Bryant, and I am hoping to go to UAH for Aerospace Engineering.

Hi, my name is Christopher Holder.

I'm a junior at Gotham City School, and my favorite subject is anything but science and geography.

My name is Latika Prasad.

I'm in ninth grade at Carson City High School, and my favorite subject is world history or literature.

My name is Corbin Ho.

I am a senior at Gadsden City High School and I want to be an astronomer when I grow up.

My name is Alvin Winn.

I'm a junior against City High School and my favorite subject is chemistry.

Very good.

You're all playing well.

We're glad to have you on the program today.

And, Alma Bryant, have you decided what category you want to play?

Stanley, what do you want to do?

Identical initials.

Identical initials in 60s.

When we begin, you're going to identify these people known by names with the same first and last initial.

Only last names are required.

Here we go.

Spanish painter Guernica, but becomes Picasso.

A way to say again.

Picasso.

I just didn't hear you.

That's right.

U.S. president in World War One.

Wilson.

That's right.

Dictator of Spain after World War two.

Franco.

That's right.

Outlaw killed by Robert Ford.

Best protagonist of a tongue twister about pickled peppers.

Piper.

That's right.

Actress who starred in Some Like It Hot and The Seven Year Itch.

As photographer of monolith and other works about Yosemite National Park.

Past singer of What's Love Got to Do With It?

Yes.

Former Arizona representative married to Mark Kelly, past Italian director of La Dolce Vita, has already going back to pick up.

Did you get outlaw killed by Robert Ford?

All right.

Pass.

Right, right.

Okay.

Yeah, but they had passed on it.

All right.

Good job with that category.

Let's come back over to Gadsden City.

And which two would you like to play?

Latika, can we have sonnets in 13 colonies?

Yes, you can in sonnets, you're going to answer the following about sonnets.

That's right.

You guys catch on very quickly.

60s typical number of lines in a sonnet 14 language in which Giacomo da Latin.

He wrote the first sonnets.

Bard of Avon.

Whose son is Shakespeare?

That's right.

Name of Percy Shelley's sonnet about a statue of Rameses the second.

Asmodeus.

That's right.

American poet of sonnet to science.

And the bells.

The Pope.

That's right.

Holy sonnets.

Author who claimed no man is an island.

Author of wartime sonnet anthem for Doomed Youth.

Your own namesake of a sonnet form and author of The Fairy Queen.

Expensive German language author of Do We Know Alexander Roca?

That's right.

And Italian term for a poetic turn in a sonnet.

Ninth line Volta.

Volta is right.

Ten out of ten.

That's well done.

And you want to do 13 colonies as well.

You sure?

I'm kidding.

Here we go.

The 13 colonies in 62nd.

What present day state?

That was one of the 13 colonies.

But here we go.

60s is where the pilgrims landed near Plymouth, Massachusetts.

What was originally called New Amsterdam, New York, was founded by colonist John Smith of Jamestown, Virginia.

Virginia was named after an island in the English Channel.

Island, an English Channel, Rhode Island, Rhode Island?

Nope.

It's new Jersey had its character allegedly hidden in an oak tree.

A charter charter hidden.

Connecticut.

That's right.

Was where an Hutchison settle near Portsmouth, Ohio.

Okay.

Rhode Island.

Yes.

Was founded by George Calvert and named for a queen and queen.

By Calvert Parson.

It was named for its woods by a Quaker founder.

Ten.

That's right.

Was established as a debtor's colony.

Georgia Georgia is where the word crow Croatoan was found near.

That's right.

And you led.

Maryland is the one you passed on.

That's ten out of ten.

Good job guys.

It's Hall of Famers left.

You see, if I was on a team, this is the first one I would have chosen sports.

Given a Hall of Fame athlete.

You name their primary sport.

Ready?

60s Michael Jordan, basketball.

Lou Gehrig pass.

Oh like a baseball.

That's right.

Dale Earnhardt, senior NASCAR.

That's good.

Terry Bradshaw pass.

Secretariat pass.

Caught crossing.

Horse racing is right Arnold Palmer golf.

That's right Ric Flair passes Michael Michelle Kwan pass Patrick wah Patrick wah pass and Mia Hamm.

Just gets his tennis.

All right.

Hers is soccer.

Patrick Wall name a one on one tennis.

It's hockey.

Michelle Kwan, tennis.

Big figure skating.

Secretariat.

What?

We got the horse racing.

You did get that one, didn't you, Terry Bradshaw?

Football.

Football is right.

Okay.

Give him credit for the football.

All right?

Very good.

Those were all challenging.

You all did well.

And we have a little over seven minutes left in our program.

Now we're going to do the speed round where we ask you questions that are worth 20 points each.

So if you need to catch up a little bit, here's your chance.

No bonus.

Just answer the question and we move on.

What organs which are affected by a disease, abbreviated COPD, contain lungs.

Lungs affects the lungs.

That's right.

What Nigerian author whose Nobel Prize citation Achebe.

No.

I'll read it again for you.

Alma Bryant what Nigerian author whose Nobel Prize citation claimed he fashions the drama of existence, wrote the play death and the King's Horseman.

Who is that?

The name it is.

We'll show Yinka.

Show Yinka what Prime Minister's government, which introduced the Pharmacare Act in 2020 for with NDP support, governs with a minority in the Parliament of Canada.

And who is it?

Christopher Trudeau.

Trudeau is correct in June 2024, what tennis player who rallied from two sets down to win the 2024 Australian Open became the first?

Latika.

Sinner is right Jannik Sinner What state?

Which in 1992 was the site of the Ruby Ridge standoff, is nicknamed the Alvin Idaho.

Idaho is right.

What entropy order of animals includes the Juro species, which a 2024 study found has a freezing response that helps it manage life in urban areas.

Yes.

Micah.

Pigeons.

No one have an answer.

Christopher possum no spiders is the answer.

We wanted pencil and paper for this one gang.

How many tortilla chips are in a bag with seven servings?

Given that a single serving consist of 12 chips?

Crisp.

Latika 8484 is right next.

What spherical pointing device is often used in computer aided design as an alternative to a mouse due to its greater accuracy.

What is it called?

And Stanley Rollerball.

Nope.

That's incorrect.

Christopher stylus.

Nope.

Trackball.

Trackball is what we wanted.

What man who lived with the Cherokee after resigning as governor of Tennessee, won the Battle of San Jacinto?

Houston.

Sam Houston is correct.

That's right.

Next, the Great Fire of London, which was described by diarist Samuel Pepys, occurred, during which the Attica Queen Victoria.

No, I'll finish it for you.

Alma Bryant.

That occurred during which century?

The Great Fire of London.

Micah, 19th century.

No, it was the 17th century.

Moving on.

What structure?

With Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore could not leave in June 2024 due to problems with the Starliner and is es.

Es is correct.

What animals are called Fergal in German and was in French?

Yes.

Latika Wiesel's no.

Do you have an answer?

Alma Bryant bear no.

It's birds.

But thank you for the smile, I appreciate it.

Next, what quantity is measured by a whetstone bridge is one over conductance and it is Stanley resistance.

Resistance is right.

What 19th century author used the Franco-Prussian War as the setting for short stories such as Mademoiselle Fifi and War?

Yes, it is Christopher, while present, is correct.

Just under four minutes left.

What author invented the fictional Orange Catholic Bible and the Bene Gesserit sisterhood?

Yes.

Christopher Herbert.

That's right.

What kind of force that acts on an object moving in a circular path is directed towards the center, around which the object moves.

What's that called?

Centripetal.

Centripetal is correct.

Well done.

Stanley.

What city is the site of?

Nymph and Bird Palace is the capital of Bavaria.

Contain Alvin Munich.

Munich is right.

In what state was Democrat Lufthansa Butler appointed to a Senate seat in 2023?

Corbyn California is correct.

What artistic technique which Georges Seurat used?

Christopher.

Pointillism.

Pointillism is right.

The dart Vasa gas crater, which is also known as Gates of Hell, is in what Central Asian country is capital?

Alvin, Turkmenistan.

Turkmenistan is right.

Pencil and paper.

What is the measure in degrees of the smallest angle in a right triangle?

If one of its angles measures 70 degrees, what is it, Stanley?

2020 degrees is correct.

In Operation Urgent Fury, the US invaded what Caribbean island?

Grenada is right.

What quantity?

Which opens a law relates to unemployment has real and nominal wages.

Did you buzz in?

Okay.

Go ahead.

Wages?

No, I will finish it for you.

Nominal forms and measures the total value of a country's goods and services.

What's that?

Yes, William.

GDP.

GDP is right.

George Orwell's novel 1984 centers on what?

Man who falls in love.

Latika Winston.

Good enough.

Judges.

Winston Smith is the right answer.

What?

Giuseppe Verdi opera features the aria sempre libera, sung by the title Fallen Woman Christopher de la traviata.

That's correct.

What African country, whose northern coastline is often called the Skeleton Coast, is a former German colony.

Alvin, Namibia Namibia is right.

What English king?

The final ruler from the planned Taj Plantagenet dynasty, locked up the princes in the tower and died at the Battle of Bosworth Field.

What is that called?

Corbyn?

Richard the Third.

Richard the third is correct.

What two letters are used instead of X and Y for the sex chromosomes of birds and other organisms in which males have two of the same sex chromosomes?

And Christopher X and X?

No.

That's incorrect.

You guys have an answer?

Yes.

Micah is right.

What TV competition show whose 2023 winner Adrian Stalker is a dog trainer has golden buzzers pressed by judges such as and Stanley, America's Got Talent.

America's Got Talent is right.

Probably the last question in Catholicism.

What process of showing a lack of proper consent, intent or witness declares that a marriage was not religiously valid?

What's that called?

Christopher?

Annulment.

Annulment is right.

Oh, what the heck.

Let's do one more.

What author who depicted his days as a boat pilot in life on the Mississippi used that river?

Christopher Twain.

Mark Twain is correct.

That's going to do it for us.

That's all the time we have one more buzzer just for good measure.

Well done.

Both of you teams played very well today.

And, guts and City, you come out on top today.

Well played by all of you.

And, Alma Bryant.

Well played by you as well.

We enjoyed having you in the studio, both teams.

We enjoyed you joining us for our program today.

It's called the Alabama Scholar's Bowl.

We're here every week on Alabama Public Television.

We hope you'll be back again next time.

My name is Mike Royer.

Thanks very much again for watching and have a great day.