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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 everyone, and welcome once again to the Alabama Scholars Bowl.

My name is Mike Royer.

It's my privilege to host this program every week here on Alabama Public TV.

We bring together the brightest and best high school students from all around the state to compete in our scholars bowl.

The questions are hard, but they're very good at answering them and you'll meet our teams individually in just a little while.

Our judges for the program today are Christopher Arthur and Kate Wilson.

We appreciate their good work as they support this cause.

And let's meet our teams from West Point High School and Good Hope High School, both from Cullman County.

One of my favorite parts of our state, I spent a little time up in Cullman on good things and also tragic things during tornadoes that affected your area.

So we're glad you all are here.

We wish you the best.

In a little while, just before the lightning round, you will meet all of them individually.

But, players, if you're ready, have your buzzers in hand.

Our first questions are worth 10 points.

If you answer it correctly, your team gets a bonus.

Are you ready?

Here we go then.

What author author created a talking wolf named Maugrim who helps the white witch to fight against the God-like lion Aslan.

(buzzer) And the answer comes from Brodie.

- [Brodie] Lewis That's right.

C.S.

Lewis is the right answer.

And this is your bonus question.

Contestants, try to identify songs in the "Bid-A-Note", and "Golden Medley" rounds of what game show, which Fox revived in 2021 with Jane Krakowski as the host?

(inaudible discussion) - The Singing Bee.

- No, it was called Name That Tune.

A popular show back in the day, and then they brought it back.

Next question for everyone, What quantity, whose rst time derivative is the jerk, equals force over mass by Newton's second law and is the rate (buzzer) and it is over here for Good Hope - Acceleration.

- Acceleration is the right answer.

Well done, Eli.

Your bonus question for your team.

What long time leader of the Teamsters Union who may have been killed by the Mafia disappeared in Detroit in 1975?

- (Inaudible discussion) - Can you come up with an answer Eli?

- No - That's all right.

Jimmy Hoffa, you knew that you knew that.

Here's a question for everyone.

after the Gallipoli Campaign, succeeded Neville Chamberlain in 1940 as the prime minister of the U.K.?

(buzzer) And buzzing in is Brodie.

- Churchill.

- Winston Churchill is right.

Your bonus question, West Point.

A young mother named Nora Helmer realizes that she has duties to herself and decides to leave her husband Torvald in what 1879 play by Henrik Ibsen?

- A Doll's House.

- A Doll's House is the right answer.

Question for both teams, What artist, who showed a beam of light illuminating a tax collector's face in The Calling of Saint Matthew, was an Italian master of chiaroscuro?

(buzzer) And do you have an answer?

- Michelangelo.

- We do accept Michelangelo?

No, eh no the answer is Caravaggio.

Caravaggio is the right answer.

We'll move on to the next question for everyone.

What, what poet, who described a "sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie" in the opening line of "To a Mouse," (buzzer) Brodie - Burns - Robert Burns is right.

Your bonus question, What first name is shared by the nun who becomes a governess in The Sound of Music and the Puerto Rican girl loved by Tony in West Side Story?

- Maria.

- Maria.

- Maria is right.

The I read, eh, I read a bonus that was a bonus question And you got that correct?

Moving on now, both teams.

What planet had its orbit predicted by John Couch Adams and Urbain Le Verrier, in or, is orbited by the moon Triton (buzzer) and is the farthest planet.

And it's Carter - Neptune - Neptune is right.

Your bonus question, The CIA-backed Operation PBS success aided Carlos Castillo in overthrowing what Central American country's president Jacobo Abeh Árbenz?

(inaudible discussion) - Panama.

- No, the right answer is Guatemala, Guatemala.

Both teams.

What treaty, which was replaced by the USMCA, may have led to growth in maquiladora factories and lowered trade barriers with Canada and Mexico?

(buzzer) And it's Carter.

- NAFTA - NAFTA is the right answer.

Your bonus, What Argentine mountain, which lies near the country's border with Chile is the tallest mountain in south America?

- Aconcagua.

- That's right.

That's the right answer well done.

Both teams, your question, what American author who wrote about Lily Bart's death in The House of Mirth wrote about a sledding accident (Buzzer) And it's Carter.

- Wharton.

- Wharton is the right answer.

Edith Wharton.

Bonus question, What composer wrote a symphony in which players blow out candles and leave the stage in turn, The Farewell Symphony (inaudible discussion) - Mahler.

- The right answer is Franz Haydn.

Haydn is the right answer.

Nine of our twenty questions.

Here we go.

What man who told stories while in Genoese prison that resulted in a book called Il Milione was a Venetian Explorer who visited Asia (buzzer) And Brodie, you have an answer?

- Marco Polo.

- Marco Polo is right.

Your bonus, the territory of what modern country was united for the first time in 1802 under Emperor Gia Long of the Nguyen Dynasty?

(inaudible discussion) - Hong Kong.

- No, the answer is Vietnam.

Vietnam was the answer.

Question 10, what musical, in which the butcher Lazar Wolf unsuccessfully tries to marry Tzeitel, centers on milkman Tevye's life in a Russian Jewish town?

Anyone (buzzer) team?

Yes.

- St. Petersburg.

- Nope, and eh Good Hope, Do you have an answer?

It's Fiddler on the roof, Fiddler on the roof is the answer.

Which Greek mathematician, the first to accurately calculate the circumference of the Earth, (buzzer) and that is Eli - Archimedes - That, say it again - Archimedes - That is incorrect.

And I'll finish the question for you, West Point.

Calculate the circumference of the earth devised a sieve used to find prime numbers?

(buzzer) And do you know the answer Brodie?

- Eratosthenes - That is correct.

That's the right answer.

And here's the bonus for that for your team, The playwright of Death and the King's Horseman and The Lion and the Jewel, Wole Soyinka, was born in the Ogun region of what African country?

- Nigeria.

- Nigeria is right.

Next question, everybody, What state, whose House of Representatives expelled Mike Nearman in 2021 is governed by Kate brown and includes the liberal city of Portland?

(buzzer) And it is Carter.

- Oregon.

- Oregon is right.

Your bonus, painted with "awe," to describe their strategy of using overwhelming force to demoralize the enemy?

(inaudible discussion) - Steadfast.

- No, it was shock, shock and awe Next question, both teams, Bishop Pierre Cauchon condemned what French commander who broke the siege of Orléans, (buzzer) And your answer, Brodie.

- Joan of Arc - Again.

- Joan of Arc - Joan of arc is right.

Your bonus, The precision, the precession of gyroscopes is explained by the conservation of what quantity equal to the cross product of position and linear momentum?

- Torque.

- No, the right answer is angular momentum.

Next question, Foliated rocks such as gneiss, schist, and slate are layered examples of what class of rock created by exposure to heat (buzzer) and it is Eli - Metamorphosis.

- We do not accept that.

Do you have an answer for that (buzzer) West Point?

- Metamorphic - Metamorphic is the right answer the judges would accept.

The bonus question, the rain" in what novel about the decline of the Compson family written by William Faulkner?

- The Sound of Fury, - The Sound of Fury is right.

Everybody, this question, What country, whose city of Arusha lies near the Olduvai Gorge, controls the island of Zanzibar, which lies (buzzer) near its and it's Carter again - Tanzania - That's correct.

That's the right answer.

Your bonus question, What African country's Tigray Region is the site of a war which has spilled over into its Amhara Region?

(inaudible discussion) - Sudan - No, we were looking for Ethiopia for the answer there.

We have four more questions in this round.

What SEC school became the first for which a female football player scored (buzzer) a point and it's West Point your answer.

- Vanderbilt - Vanderbilt is right.

A successful field goal.

Here's your bonus, At what naval battle in 31 BC did the forces of Octavian defeat Antony and Cleopatra?

(inaudible discussion) - Actium - Actium is the right answer.

Next question, What man, the only person to be governor of two different U.S. states, won the Battle of San Jacinto while leading the Republic of Texas?

(buzzer) And Brodie?

- Houston.

- Sam Houston is right.

Your bonus, in 1912 Harriet Quimby became the first woman to y across what body of water, which Gertrude Ederle was the first woman to swim across?

- English Channel - English Channel is right.

Two more questions.

What river, which flows southeast from the confluence of the Gallatin, Madison, and Jefferson Rivers in Montana, joins the Mississippi near St. Louis?

(buzzer) Brodie?

- Missouri.

- The Missouri river is correct.

In 1995, your bonus, the FDA approved a vaccine against what childhood disease, which in adults can reactivate as shingles?

- Chickenpox.

- Chickenpox is right.

What SI unit is used to measure luminosity, equals one joule (buzzer) per second, Carter?

- Lumens.

- That is incorrect.

I'll finish this for you, Good Hope.

Measured one joule per second is the SI unit of power, and is commonly used to rate light bulbs?

(buzzer) - Watts - Watts is right?

That's the right answer, well done.

Your bonus question during the Holocaust, Viktor Frankl and Elie Wiesel survived being held at what largest Nazi concentration camp?

- Auschwitz - Auschwitz is the right answer.

Well done.

For your bonus answer.

And here's the final question of this round, What device, which was invented by Percy Spencer, uses a cavity magnetron to excite water molecules, generating radiation used to heat food?

(buzzer) and it's Brodie - Microwave - Microwave, microwave oven is right.

Your bonus, a book about the conversion process titled religious affections was written by what preacher who gave the sermon Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.

- Jonathan Edwards.

- Jonathan Edwards is right.

Lay your buzzers down.

Take a break.

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

The team that is trailing at this point, will select first.

Good Hope you will select first today of the four categories and after you introduce yourselves, you'll play that that round.

Then West Point you'll choose two categories in the lightning round, play them both.

And then whatever's left, you're lucky enough to get as the final category.

The categories are holy books, colorful history, three consecutive vowels and wizards.

After we meet the players, Good Hope you will select first Abigail, if you would, let's begin with you.

Tell us your name and a little bit about yourself.

- I'm Abigail Roy and I'm in 11th grade at West Point High School.

And my favorite subject is history.

- Okay, Carter.

- Well, Mike, my name is Carter Duke and I am a senior at West Point High school.

And my favorite subject is A.P.

biology.

- Very good Carter.

Thank you.

- Well, Mike, my name is Brodie Henry.

I'm a freshmen and my favorite subject is math.

- Well, Mike, my name is John Davis Trevino and my favorite subject is biology.

- As you people at home can tell John Davis, Brodie, and Carter and I were pretty tight.

So we're first name basis.

Let's come over here to Good Hope High School.

You're doing a good job.

We're glad to have you with us.

Mary, you begin, tell us a little bit about yourself.

- My name is Mary.

I'm a freshman at Good Hope High School.

I have five siblings and I run cross country and track.

- My name is Eli Kicker and my mind just - That's all right.

What's your favorite subject, Eli?

- Math.

- Math.

Usually people who like math, aren't crazy about history.

I love history and I'm not good at math.

Is that kinda how you are?

- I like history, yeah.

- You like them all, good, you're a good student.

Kinsley, tell us about yourself.

- My name's Kinsley.

I'm a freshman at Good Hope and my favorite subjects English.

- Very good.

We're glad to have you all here.

You're all playing well.

And we're proud of all of you in your efforts.

So, Good Hope, which of those four categories I read would you like to begin with?

- Holy books.

- [Mike Royer] Holy books.

Let's go to that category.

Holy books.

What religion venerates these scriptures?

Give the broad name of the religion.

Not a specific denomination.

For example, Christianity, not Methodism or Baptist.

Okay.

Are you ready?

You have a minute to answer these questions.

Qur'an?

(inaudible discussion) - Islam - [Mike Royer] Yes.

And anyone can answer the question.

That was correct.

Torah?

- Judaism - [Mike Royer] That's correct.

Avesta?

- Pass - [unidentified woman off screen] Granth Sahib - [Mike Royer] I'm sorry.

- [unidentified woman off screen] Granth Sahib - [Mike Royer] Granth Sahib is the next one.

- Pass - [Mike Royer] Diamond and Lotus Sutras?

- Pass.

- [Mike Royer] It's all right.

Rig Veda?

- Pass.

- [Mike Royer] Kojiki?

- Pass - [Mike Royer] Shintoism is that one.

Kebra Negast?

- Pass - [Mike Royer] The Book of the Way and its Power.

- Buddhism.

- No, that's Taoism - [unidentified woman off screen] Time.

- [Mike Royer] Time is up.

Aren't you glad you chose that category?

Will you ever choose it again?

- No - [Mike Royer] No, I wouldn't either.

That was a hard one.

- I'm an idiot - Well, that was a hard one.

That's good.

We'll come back to you.

The good news is you get the very last category that's left over.

Let's come over to West Point of the categories left, which would you like to play?

- Three vowels.

- [Mike Royer] That is three consecutive vowels.

Give these words that contain three consecutive vowels, Rezi?

ready?

The opposite of loud?

- Quiet.

- [Mike Royer] Gorgeous, like the "Blue Danube"?

- Pass - [Mike Royer] "Goodbye," in French - Au revoir - [Mike Royer] That's incorrect.

- Archeology.

- Archeology.

- [Mike Royer] An adjective for an object that emits dangerous, energetic particles - Radioactive - [Mike Royer] That's correct.

A word whose sound imitates the action it defines - Onomatopoeia.

- [Mike Royer] That's correct.

A blue-green mineral or its color.

- Turquoise.

- [Mike Royer] That's correct.

A dark outline against a lighter background.

- Pass - [Mike Royer] The collective works of an artist.

- Discography.

- [Mike Royer] No, that's incorrect.

A joyous song of tribute.

- Pass - [Mike Royer] A Paean is that.

The other one I know you knew, we'll talk about to afterwards which you did a good job with those.

We have category left, right?

And is it wizards?

Is that what you have?

Oh, you have one more.

What is your other one?

- Wizards.

Wizards is yours.

Okay.

That means when we come back to you guys you'll have color, colorful history.

All right.

Wizards for you.

Are you ready, West Point?

Answer the following about wizards.

One minute.

Wizard known as the gray and the Lord of the rings series?

- Gandalf - [Mike Royer] Author of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz - Baum.

- [Mike Royer] Half giant character who says you're a wizard Harry?

- Hagrid - Hagrid - [Mike Royer] City that is home to the NBA's Wizards?

- Washington.

- [Mike Royer] That's correct.

Town where Thomas Edison was known as a wizard - Pass - [Mike Royer] Organization whose grand wizards have included - KKK - [Mike Royer] An actress who played Alex Russo on the wizards of Waverly place.

- Selena Gomez - [Mike Royer] That's correct.

Early computer engineer known as the "Wizard of Woz" - Turing - [Mike Royer] No, that is incorrect.

Rock band that sang Pinball Wizard.

- Elton John.

- [Mike Royer] No, that's not correct.

The Who did that.

Author of the fantasy novel, A Wizard of Earthsea.

- Pass.

- [Mike Royer] I would to.

Do you want to go back?

You have three eh We don't have time to go back to any of those.

Okay.

We have one category left and that is colorful, colorful history, correct?

This is your wheelhouse here, Eli.

We're expecting big things.

You're going to answer the following about people, places, things known by colorful names.

All right?

Here we go.

Pandemic that may have killed half of Europe?

- Black - Black Plague - [Mike Royer] Black, we except that judges?

Yes, we do.

Holy Roman empire with a nickname meaning red beard?

- Pass - [Mike Royer] Sensationalist press exemplified by the New York world.

- Red.

- [Mike Royer] Floral emblem of the House of York - Blue.

- [Mike Royer] The military of communist Russia.

- Red - Yeah, red - [Mike Royer] That's right.

The Dutch Royal House that included England's William III - Blue - [Mike Royer] That is incorrect.

Island given an appealing name by Erik the Red.

- Red.

- [Mike Royer] That's Greenland.

Ship used for Francis Drake circumnavigation.

The name of his ship.

- Pass - [Mike Royer] Serbian nationalist group whose ranks included Ga Gavri Gavrilo Princip.

- Green.

- [Mike Royer] That's the black hand.

and J.U.S.

third party that advocated paper currency - Green - [Mike Royer] That's right.

The green or Greenback is, you didn't say back, just green is not enough.

They need a Greenback for that.

Those were hard categories for both of you.

And so I think you all did well.

As you know, in the time we have left, which is just a smidgen over four minutes, we will go through the final questions that we have time for each of these are worth 20 points.

And remember there's no bonus question here.

Just buzz in, answer.

Anyone can answer, just go as quick as we can.

What country under Francisco Solano Lopez lost much of its population in the War of the Triple Alliance.

(buzzer) And it's a Brodie.

- Uruguay.

- [Mike Royer] You said?

- Uruguay - [Mike Royer] That's incorrect.

I'll finish it for you, Triple Alliance against Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay.

- Mexico.

- [Mike Royer] No, the right answer there is Paraguay.

Here we go.

Martha, George, Nick and Honey are the four main characters in what play by Edward Albee (buzzer) And Brodie - Virginia Wolf.

- [Mike Royer] That's right.

What actors sings being alive in a restaurant as theater director, Charlie Barber in Marriage Story and plays Kylo Ren.

(buzzer) And it's (inaudible answer) - [Mike Royer] Say again?

- Driver - [Mike Royer] That's right, Adam Driver.

Coffee cups are commonly used as a simple version of what laboratory device that measures the heat released by process.

(buzzer) - Thermometer.

- [Mike Royer] No, that's incorrect.

Do you guys have an answer?

- No - [Mike Royer] Calorimeter, calorimeter.

Next question, What musician whose namesake orchestra performed a landmark 1938 jazz concert at Carnegie Hall was a clarinetist known as The King of Swing.

(buzzer) And it's Carter - Davis.

- [Mike Royer] That's incorrect.

Do you have a answer for us Good Hope?

- No - [Mike Royer] Benny Goodman is the right answer.

What Titan, the father of the Pleiades, was punished by being forced (buzzer) and it's Brodie.

- Prometheus - [Mike Royer] That's incorrect.

punished by being forced to hold the sky above the earth.

(buzzer) - Atlas - [Mike Royer] Atlas is right.

What author wrote of a man who starves himself to entertain others in the story, A Hunger Artist (buzzer) and it's Brodie - Kafka.

- [Mike Royer] That's right.

What branch of the Mediterranean sea lies north of the Strait of Otranto west of Croatia and east of Italy, anyone?

The Adriatic sea.

Pencil and paper for a math question.

What is the least common multiple of the two numbers, six and fifteen, given that they have a common factor of three (buzzer) and the answer Carter?

- 30.

- [Mike Royer] That is right.

Ahmad Baba was a scholar in what African city, where the university of Sankore was established in the 14th century under Mansa Musa?

(buzzer) - Oh, crap.

- [Mike Royer] Do you have it Eli?

- No - [Mike Royer] And how about you West Point anyone?

(buzzer) Yes?

- Timbuktu.

- [Mike Royer] Timbuktu is correct.

What writing system whose use of cartouches led to its decipherment by Jean Champollion was like demotic used to write ancient Egyptian?

(buzzer) - Hieroglyphics.

- [Mike Royer] Hieroglyphics is the right answer.

In September of 2020 a newspaper in what city put out an editorial apologizing for its history of racism, including coverage of the Rodney king riots?

(buzzer) - Los Angeles - [Mike Royer] The Los Angeles Times.

That's right.

Last question, What thinker who was declared an outlaw by Charles V following the diet of worms?

(buzzer) Yes?

- Martin Luther.

- [Mike Royer] That's correct.

Put your pins score buttons down.

That's it.

We're out of time.

Thirty minutes goes pretty fast.

You both played very well.

We're proud of all of you.

West Point comes out on top in this particular round, but Good Hope, good job.

We're glad you were here.

You played well.

And a lot of hard questions.

The lightning round was especially tough today.

Maybe we should give them out ahead of time and let you prepare for those.

Like you would homework.

We thank you very much for being here, both teams.

We thank you very much for watching statewide on Alabama Public Television.

We think it's important to salute and honor the brightest and best students in the state of Alabama in our high schools.

My name is Mike Royer.

Thanks for watching.

And we'll see you again next time on the Alabama Scholars Bowl.