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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 everyone, and welcome once again to the Alabama Scholar's Bowl.

I have the privilege of hosting this program.

My name is Mike Royer, and we welcome you to another edition of our program, where we bring together the brightest and best high school students from all around the state to compete on some very hard questions, and you'll see just how smart they are as we go through the program today.

Our judges for today's program are Christopher Arthur and Kate Wilson, and we're glad to have them assisting us in making the final rulings if we need that done, and to the studio, we welcome the students from Grissom High School up in North Alabama, in the Huntsville area.

Welcome Grissom.

We're glad to have you here and just on the eastern side of Birmingham and Trussville, Hewitt-Trussville High School, ladies we welcome you to the program too.

We begin with 20 questions, each worth 10 points.

If your team answers it correctly, after you buzz in and answer correctly, you'll get a bonus question as well.

Ready to get started?

Let's go.

What animal names the main tributary of the Great Salt Lake, as well as the Great Lake in Canada and has a Kodiak population of its grisly species?

(buzzer buzzing) And what is your answer Hewitt?

- Bear.

- [Mike] Bear is the right answer and here is your bonus question.

A helium nucleus is produced by what lowest energy type of radioactive decay that reduces an atom's atomic number by two?

(girls chuckles) - Alpha.

(chuckles) - Alpha is the right answer for the bonus question.

What president who names a corollary to the Monroe Doctrine- (buzzer buzzing) And it is, Hewitt, I'm sorry.

It is, is Hewitt?

Did Hewitt buzz in?

Yes.

Go ahead Hewitt.

- Teddy Roosevelt.

- [Mike] Um.

(paper rustles) That is correct.

Theodore Roosevelt is the right answer.

Here's your bonus question.

In 1857, what Frenchman published an acclaimed translation of stories by Edgar Allan Poe, as well as a book of his own poetry entitled Les Fleurs du mal?

(indistinct talking) - Baudelaire?

- [Mike] That is correct.

That's the right answer.

Well done.

Question for both teams.

What state function whose change in a reversible process equals the heat flow, divided by temperature and is a measure of random, randomness.

(buzzer buzzing) And it is Grissom.

- Enthopy?

- [Mike] Entropy is it?

- No.

- I'm so sorry.

- [Mike] No, no.

That's incorrect.

Do you guys have an answer for that?

(buzzer buzzing) - [Girl Contestant] Entropy.

- [Mike] Entropy is, is correct.

That's the right answer.

You get another bonus question.

What term refers to features of a box plot.

as well as features of kittens enjoyed by the singer of My Favorite Things?

- Whiskers.

- Whiskers is the right answer.

Well done.

Question for everyone.

Tadej Pogacar's victory in a time trial in Change helped him to a 2021 repeat when, in what sporting event that ends on the Champs-Elysees in Paris?

(buzzer buzzing) And the correct answer comes from Grissom.

I keep thinking Grissom buzzed, then it's Laura.

- The Tour de France.

- [Mike] The tour de France is right, and here's your bonus question.

The second P in the drug treatment known as PrEP refers to what technique whose goal is to prevent disease in this case, HIV infection.

(indistinct talking) - Prevention.

(paper rustles) - [Mike] That is incorrect.

The right answer is prophylac... We don't.

That is correct, right?

We, we don't correct.

Their answer's not correct.

Question for everyone.

Back on track.

What novel in which Jorge of Burgos is confronted by William of bax, baker, Baskerville after murders occur in a medieval monastery, and it was written by Umberto Eco.

(buzzer buzzing) Now Grissom, - The names, The Name of the Rose.

- The The Name of the Rose is correct.

Grissom, here's your bonus question.

What ancient Greek historian wrote the history of Peloponnesian War?

(indistinct talking) Got an answer?

- Herodotus.

- [Mike] No, the right answer is Thucydides, Thucid didees.

One of those is right the way I said it the first time, I think.

What molecule, everybody, what molecule whose production is about 15 times greater in aerobic respiration than in anaerobic.

(buzzer buzzing) And it is Hewitt.

- ATP.

- [Mike] ATP is the right answer.

Your bonus question.

The Acadians resettled from Canada to what US state, where they lived in the wetlands of the Atchafalaya Basin?

(paper rustles) - Louisiana.

- That is right.

Louisiana's correct.

Question for both teams.

What battle whose objectives included Bloody Lane and the Dunker Church.

(buzzer buzzing) And it is a Grissom.

- Antietam.

- [Mike] Battle of Antietam, that's right.

Here's your bonus.

And you're gonna need pencil and paper for a math question.

What is the value of 10 factorial divided by seven factorial?

I need an answer.

(indistinct talking) Need an answer now.

- 720.

- [Mike] 720 is right.

Question for both teams.

What author of a novel about eit, ancient Carthage titled Salammbo- (buzzer buzzing) And it's Grissom again.

- Flaubert.

- [Mike] Gustave Flaubert is right.

Your bonus question.

The Mevlevi Order is a group that practices what mystical Islamic tradition, that includes whirling dervishes?

- Sufism.

- [Mike] Sufism is right.

Everybody, which British composer of Egdon Heath and the St. Paul's Suite included a movement subtitled The Bringer of War and it- (buzzer buzzing) And its Grissom.

- Holst.

- [Mike] Holst is right.

Gustave Holst.

Bonus question for you Grissom.

Which Greek hero rescued Andromeda, Andromeda, from a sea monster and killed the Gorgon Medusa?

(indistinct talking) Answer?

- Perseus.

- [Mike] That's right.

Question for both teams.

What band, which was led by oft-feuding brothers, Liam and Noel Gallagher saying maybe- (buzzer buzzing) It's a Grissom again.

You don't have an answer?

- The Strokes.

- [Mike] No, that's incorrect.

That sang, "Maybe you're gonna be one that saves me" on their song, Wonderwall?

Hewitt do you have an answer?

(buzzer buzzing) What do you have?

- Allman Brothers?

- [Mike] That's incorrect.

It's Oasis is the name of that group.

Oasis.

(paper rustling) We'll go on to our next question for both teams.

What amendment the subject of Katz versus the US applies where there is a reasonable expectation of privacy and prohibits- (buzzer buzzing) And your answer Grissom?

- The fifth.

- [Mike] That is incorrect.

I'm gonna finish it for you Hewitt.

And prohibits unreasonable search and seizure.

Do you have an answer?

(buzzer buzzing) And it is?

- Fourth.

- [Mike] Fourth Amendment is right.

Your bonus questions Hewitt-Trussville.

What works for chorus and orchestra, such as Johann Sebastian Bach's Wahet auf, take their name from the Italian for "to sing."

(indistinct talking) You have an answer?

- Cannons.

- [Mike] That's incorrect.

Cantata.

I learned something every day.

Next question, everybody.

What compound which can be formed by reacting methanol with carbon monoxide or by oxidative fermentation.

(buzzer buzzing) And it's Grissom.

- Benzene.

- [Mike] No, that's incorrect.

I'm gonna finish it for you Hewitt.

Oxidative fermentation of ethanol is found in vinegar.

(buzzer buzzing) And Hewitt.

- Acidic acid.

- [Mike] That's the right answer.

Here's a bonus for you Hewitt.

What actress who played Gwen, Stacy in Spider Man Three also played Claire Dearing, the director of the title park, in Jurassic World?

(indistinct talking) Anybody?

- Paltrow.

- [Mike] No, I didn't see it either.

Bryce Dallas Howard is the right answer there.

Here's our next question.

Number 13 of 20.

What literary form, which opened a renga traditionally has a kigo or season word was mastered by- (buzzer buzzing) And it is Grissom.

Say again?

- Haiku.

- [Mike] That's correct.

That's right answer.

Your bonus question.

Grissom, in 1838, what religion's members were targeted by an extermination order from Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs, telling them to leave the state or die?

(paper rustling) (indistinct talking) You have an answer?

- Amish.

- That's incorrect.

- It was the Mormon Church, the Mormons who were given that order.

Here's your question.

In what state, where activists registered voters during Freedom Summer in 1964 was Emmet Till killed- (buzzer buzzing) And it's Grissom.

- Mississippi.

- [Mike] Mississippi is the right answer.

And your bonus.

Military officers Stanley sings the patter song, "I Am The Very Model Of A Modern Major-General" in what Gilbert and Sullivan operetta?

(paper rustling) (indistinct talking) - Pirates of Penzance.

- [Mike] That's the right answer.

Next question.

What sea which borders Absheron Peninsula, receives the Ural and Volga rivers and is easy- (buzzer buzzing) And it's Hewitt.

What's your answer?

- Caspian.

- [Mike] Caspian sea is right.

Here's your bonus question.

A climax community, such as a forest.

is the last stage of what ecological process in which a community's distribution of species changes over time?

(indstinct talking) Do you have an answer?

- Epoch.

- [Mike] The right answer is ecological succession, ecological succession.

Four more questions.

What trigonometric function appears in a Pythagorean identity with secant, has an increasing graph except at asymptotes, equals sign over cosine?

(buzzer buzzing) And the answer from Hewitt.

- Tangent.

- [Mike] Tangent function is the right answer.

Well done.

Your bonus.

What Minnesota native served as vice president under Lyndon Johnson and lost the 1968 presidential election to Richard Nixon?

(indistinct talking) - Ford.

- [Mike] Nope.

The right answer is Hubert Humphrey, Hubert Humphrey.

Question for everyone.

What poet who depicted a conscientious objective or- (buzzer buzzing) And it is Hewitt, yes.

- Cummings.

- [Mike] E.E.

Cummings is right.

Well done.

Your bonus question Hewitt.

What Russian anti-corruption activists was detained by police upon his January 2021 return to Russia where he was poisoned in August of 2020?

(indistinct talking) - Can I def, can I defer?

- [Mike] Anyone can answer.

- Nokovich?

- [Mike] No, that is incorrect.

Alexei Navalny, Navalny.

Two more questions for you before we take a little break.

What given name of the Chicago Bears hall of fame running back Sayers and surname of Dorothy in The Wizard of- (buzzer buzzing) And it's a Grissom.

- Gail.

- [Mike] Gail is right.

Your bonus question Grissom.

What novel by Thomas Hardy, depicts the life of Michael Henchard, who sells his own wife and daughter to another man before attaining the title office?

(indistinct talking) - The Mayor of Baskerville.

- [Mike] Oh, that is incorrect.

But you're thinking, right?

The Mayor of Casterbridge is the right answer for that.

Pencil and paper for a math question.

I know you love these.

Rounded to the nearest cent, what is the price of a single piece of candy if a dozen pieces of candy costs 50 cents?

(paper rustles) (buzzer buzzing) And Grissom, what do you have?

- 4 cents.

- [Mike] 4 cents is correct.

Well done Param.

Your bonus question is this, what metallic element, which has a melting point of about 30 degrees Celsius combines with arsenic to form a semiconducting compound?

(indistinct talking) - Mercury.

- [Mike] That's incorrect, it's gallium.

Gallium is the right answer.

Last question.

What landmark created on a site known as Six Grandfathers to the Lakota was designed by- (buzzer buzzing) And it's Grissom.

- Mt.

Rushmore.

- [Mike] Mt.

Rushmore is right.

And the last bonus question.

Greydwarves are among the enemies in what 2021 survival game by Iron Gate Studio that is set in the Norse afterlife?

- Valhalla.

- [Mike] That's incorrect.

Valheim.

Your brain was on the right area.

Lay your, buzzers down and relax.

We're going to move on to our lightning round.

I'll, I'm going to tell you four categories, the team that is trailing, and right now, Grissom is slightly behind in this round.

You will go first and select one of these four categories.

Hewitt-Trussville, that you'll then select two, play them both.

And then Grissom you'll play the one that's left.

Is that clear to everybody?

Before we do that though, let's let our audience at home watching, meet all of our players today.

I'm gonna give you the four categories.

Then we'll start over there and go down the road.

The four categories are these, Information Technology acronyms, long serving senators, Super Bowl 55 and misleading names.

Those are the four.

Think about those.

And I'll ask you to choose in just a few moments, but first of all, Chris, would you begin tell us who you are, what year you are in school and maybe your main interest.

- Hi, my name is Chris Peterson.

I am a senior at Grissom High School.

I am in the Grissom band.

I play mellophone and French horn as well as bass.

My main interest is going into veterinary school.

- [Mike] All right go on, Ellie.

- My name is Ellie Crane.

I'm also a senior at Grissom.

I also play softball and Param and I are technically on the math team, but I'm more of a manager on the math team.

- [Mike] Mmm hmm.

- So yeah.

- [Mike] They wouldn't even let me be manager on the math team.

So that's fine, Erin.

- Hi.

My name is Erin.

I am a junior at Grissom High School.

I'm in the band with Chris.

I played trombone and I also play piano.

- [Mike] Very good, and Param.

- Hi, I'm Param Johann and I'm in the 12th grade at Grissom High School.

I love history, geography and academic team.

- [Mike] Very good.

Glad you're all here.

Welcome, your playing well.

Now, let's meet the players from Hewitt-Trussville.

Laura, would you begin?

- My name's Laura.

My favorite subject is history and I play the saxophone.

- Hi, my name is Juliana.

I am a senior and I play clarinet in the Hewitt marching band.

- My name's Sarah.

I'm a senior and I play the piano.

- My name is Wei-Wei.

I'm also senior and I like playing the flute.

- [Mike] Very good.

Welcome to all of you.

We're glad you're here.

Both teams playing very well.

At the midpoint, Grissom slightly behind you get to choose one of the four categories.

I'll list them again, unless you've already decided what you wanna play.

You know?

What are you gonna do?

- We're gonna go with Super Bowl.

- [Mike] Super Bowl.

That would be Super Bowl 55.

You're going to answer the following questions about Super Bowl 55.

It's a good thing.

That's what the questions are.

Here we go.

Are you ready?

You've got a minute to answer these.

It was played in Tampa in this state.

- Florida.

- [Mike] The Buccaneers quarterback was the game's MVP.

- Brady.

- [Mike] The 2018 MVP led the Chiefs in their loss.

- Mahomes.

- [Mike] The musician sang "Can't Feel My Face" at halftime.

- Weekend, The Weekend.

- [Mike] The Chiefs tight end had 10 catches.

- Kelsey.

- [Mike] This NFL commissioner was in attendance.

- Goodell.

- [Mike] This former Steeler caught a touchdown for Tampa Bay - Brown, Antonio Brown.

- [Mike] Tampa Bay reached the game by upsetting this team in the NFC Championship Game.

- Green Bay Packers.

- [Mike] This man became the oldest head coach to win a Super Bowl.

- Bruce Arians.

- [Mike] This kicker scored all of the Chiefs points.

- Sakap.

- [Mike] No, it was Harrison Butker.

Harrison Butker.

Got nine out of 10.

Football fan are you?

I can, I can tell.

Alright, now we come to Hewitt-Trussville.

You're going to choose two of our categories.

Play them both now, which two would you like to do?

- We will do misleading names and info tech acronyms.

- [Mike] Okay, Information Technology acronyms.

Let's do that one first.

Okay.

And here we go.

Give the word represented.

When the clock starts, you'll have a minute.

Give the word represented by the first initial in these IT acronyms and initialisms.

The L in LCD, a state of matter.

- Oh.

Light.

- [Mike] No it's liquid.

The R in RAM.

R A M. - Pass.

- [Mike] The L in LED?

- Light.

- [Mike] Correct.

The I in IP as an IP address.

- Internet.

- [Mike] The V in VPN.

- Virtual.

- [Mike] That's right.

The U in USB.

- Universal.

- [Mike] The P in PDF.

- Pass.

- [Mike] The H in HDMI.

- High.

- [Mike] That's right.

The L in LAN.

- Pass.

- [Mike] The S in S I M as in SIM card.

- Server.

- [Mike] That is correct.

That was incorrect, the last one was incorrect.

I'm sorry.

You have a little bit of time left.

Let's see you passed on number two, which was the R in Ram.

You wanna go back and try that one?

RAM.

- Recovery.

- [Mike] The right answer is random.

That stands for random.

So that was Information Technology acronyms.

And the other one you chose was, - [Hewitt Team] Misleading names.

- [Mike] Misleading names.

Well done, Hewitt-Trussville.

Let's go to your second category you selected, which is misleading names.

You're gonna answer the following about things with misleading names.

Here we go.

One minute.

A light-year is a unit not of time, but of this quantity.

- [Julliana] Distance.

- [Mike] That's right.

Koalas aren't bears.

They're part of this infraclass whose members have pouches.

- Marsupials.

- [Mike] That's right.

Peanuts aren't nuts.

They're this type of plant.

- Roots.

- [Mike] That's incorrect.

The Battle of Bunker Hill was mostly fought on this other hill.

- Senlac.

- [Mike] That's incorrect.

Most tinfoil is now made from this other element.

- Aluminum.

- [Mike] That's right.

Starfish aren't fish, they belong to this phylum.

- Echinodermata.

- [Mike] That's correct.

London's Isle of Dogs is really one of these features.

- Basin.

- [Mike] That's incorrect.

Chinese checkers originated in this European country.

- Pass.

- [Mike] This type of chord used in violin strings is usually made from sheep or goat.

- Horse.

- [Mike] That's incorrect.

Arabic numerals were devised in this non-Arab country.

- India.

India is right.

Did you answer Chinese checkers?

You still have - No.

- [Mike] We're out of time, anyway.

Chinese checkers started in Germany.

If that didn't makes sense to anyone, let me know after the program.

All right, we'll go back to Grissom.

You get to not choose, but play what's left and I'll bet I would do okay in this one, because I'm old, not like you.

These are long running senators.

Name the state represented by these senators who served for at least 25 years.

You're not naming the senator, I'll name the senator, you name the state, ready?

One minute.

Joe Biden.

- Delaware.

- Delaware.

- [Mike] Ted Kennedy, who held a seat once occupied by his brother, John.

- Massachusetts.

- [Mike] Daniel Inouye, a Japanese-American.

- California.

- [Mike] Incorrect.

Diane Feinstein.

- California.

- California.

- [Mike] Current Senate Minority Leader, Mitch McConnell.

- Kentucky.

- Kentucky.

- [Mike] John McCain.

- Arizona.

- Arizona.

- [Mike] Strom Thurmond, who ran for president as a Dixiecrat.

- South Carolina.

- South Carolina.

- [Mike] That's right.

Chuck Grassley.

- No idea.

- Pass.

- [Mike] Orrin Hatch.

- Pass.

- [Mike] Robert Byrd.

- Pass.

- [Mike] Okay.

Back to Orrin Hatch, who was succeeded by Mitt Romney.

- Utah.

- Utah.

- [Mike] And Chuck Grassley.

Time is up.

Okay.

Chuck Grassley was Iowa.

- Did we get Utah?

Yes.

When I went back to it, you said Utah, yes.

They said Utah and you, yes, you get credit for that.

All right.

Pretty challenging lightning round.

But the good news is it's over.

Now, we have 20, we have questions until the end of our program.

We have about three minutes left.

Answer these questions all worth 20 points.

Here we go.

No bonuses.

What rebellion which Empress Cixi supported starting in 1900 began as an effort by the society.

(buzzer buzzing) And its Grissom.

- Boxer.

- [Mike] Boxer rebellion is right.

Girolamo Savonarola led a bonfire of the vanities in what city, five years after the death of its former Loren, lord Lorenzo (buzzer buzzing) And it's Grissom.

- Milan.

- [Mike] That's incorrect.

Lord Lorenzo the Magnificent, was the finish to the question.

(buzzer buzzing) Your answer?

- Florence.

- [Mike] Florence is right.

That's correct.

What pale blue gas, which has a chloride like odor that can be smelled during lightning storms- (buzzer buzzing) And it's Grissom.

- Ammonia.

- [Mike] That's incorrect.

Has it, can be smelled during lightning storms is an allotrope of oxygen with three atoms.

(buzzer buzzing) Yes, Hewitt.

- Ozone.

- [Mike] Ozone is right.

Everyone, what German physicist, namesake constant the ratio- (buzzer buzzing) Grissom?

- Plunk.

- [Mike] Plunk is right.

What novel in which Boxer repeats the phrase- (buzzer buzzing) Grissom?

- Animal Farm.

- [Mike] That's right.

French Dahomey was the colonial name of what narrow country, east of Togo and west- (buzzer buzzing) Grissom?

- Benin - [Mike] That is correct.

Oland Island is off the coast of what country, whose city of Malmo is linked by the- (buzzer buzzing) Grissom?

- Sweden.

- Sweden is right.

Antioch and Lupo and Samarkand were key cities along what trade network that linked- (buzzer buzzing) - Silk Road.

- [Mike] Say again.

- Silk Road.

- [Mike] Silk Road is right.

In 597, a man named Augustine became the first person to hold what position, later- (buzzer buzzing) And its Grissom.

- Emperor of Rome.

- [Mike] Emp, that is incorrect.

I will finish it for you Hewitt.

Later held by Thomas Beckett, as leader of the Church of England?

(buzzer buzzing) Yes?

- Bishop of Canterbury.

- [Mike] That is right.

What measure of the spread of values in a dataset equals the square root of the variance?

(buzzer buzzing) And Hewitt.

- Range.

- [Mike] That's incorrect.

Do you have an answer Grissom?

(buzzer buzzing) Yes?

- Mean.

- [Mike] Nope.

The answer is standard deviation.

In what country have indigenous Mapuche people taking part in protest against the administration of Sebastian in the capital city of Santiago?

(buzzer buzzing) And the answer from Grissom.

- Chile.

- [Mike] Chile is right.

And that is all the time we have.

Lay your pens down.

Relax.

All of you played so well.

And I congratulate all of you.

And the winner on this round today is Grissom.

Congratulations.

We will see you on a future program.

Hewitt, you played very well and we're very proud of you, glad you were here, and we congratulate all of our students for doing so well.

It's called the Alabama Scholar's Bowl and we are pleased to be here on Alabama Public Television every week and we hope you'll join us again next time.

For everyone here, my name is Mike Royer.

Thank you for watching and we'll see you next week.