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Alabama Scholars 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 Scholars Bowl here on Alabama Public Television, a program that brings together some of the best students in the state of Alabama from almost every county, every region of the state.

We enjoy meeting them, having them in the studio and admiring their abilities and their hard work to answer the tough questions that we ask during this program.

Every week, we welcome back to the studio.

The students from the Alabama School of Cyber Technology and Engineering.

They play well every time they're here, and we're glad they're back.

And also the fine students from Lamp High School here in the Montgomery area.

Gentlemen, it's good to see you back in the studio as well.

Midway through the program, we'll ask them to introduce themselves so you can know a bit more about each one.

Kate Wilson is our judge today.

Christopher Arthur is the president of Esca.

He and Sharon Daley also keeping score and doing other things for us.

Claudette Smith, an important part of the team who, you know, she does she herds the students to where they're supposed to be, and that ain't easy.

And our executive producer is Mike Ousley.

We appreciate all the hard work, Marc, Mike does to make this program happen.

Well, let's not waste any more time.

Not that we have, but let's get started by asking questions.

20 of them, if you answer it correctly, we have a bonus question for your team.

Everybody ready?

Here we go.

What man Who was the first person ever to resign from the Soviet Politburo?

Defeated Nikolai Ryzhkov in 1991 in Russia's first presidential election.

Take Boris Yeltsin.

That's right, Boris Yeltsin.

And you get a bonus question.

What general that led the punitive expedition against Pancho Villa and the American Expeditionary Force in World War One, Pershing Pershing is right toss up.

Question, everybody.

What man stated that a certain line segment sweeps out equal areas in equal times and that orbits are elliptical.

Take Kepler.

Kepler.

Johann Kepler Bowness The Valle is a major tributary of what colorfully named river that forms part of the border between Nambia and South Africa.

Orange River.

Orange River is right.

Toss up, everybody.

What prehistoric period whose late portion names a civilization?

Tate Bronze Age.

Bronze Age is right.

Bonus question Ukraine has accused Russia of planning what a litter actively named attacks in which a country blames another nation for an act that they commit.

What's it called?

False flag, false flags.

Right.

Toss up.

What city which contains the Glassmaking Island of Murano is home to Venice.

Venice is right.

What American this is for you?

What American author published the 1856 collection, The Piazza Tales, which includes a novella about a slave revolt.

Benito SARON Serrano.

Herman Melville.

Herman Melville is correct.

There we go.

Now it's up again.

In what state was architect Rex Herman arrested in 2023 after being linked to the murder of four women, discovered Tate, Massachusetts.

Note That's incorrect.

I'll finish it for you.

Lam linked to the murder of four women discovered on Gielgud Beach in Long Island.

What state is that you kill?

New York is right.

Your bonus question lab.

What Chinese politician Whose three principles were nationalism, democracy and livelihood was the co-founder and first leader of the Wildman Tung.

Chiang Kai shek?

No, the answer is Sun, Sun yat sen pencil and paper, everybody.

What is the arithmetic mean of the four numbers?

13 negative three, six and eight given it is, there's Andrea and 610 ATTENBOROUGH There we go.

Six, six.

Forgive me, but I'm going to get your names right if it takes the rest of the day.

Bonus question for your team.

Don Henley is a founding member of what rock band behind such hits as Take It Easy, Desperado and Hotel California?

I don't know.

Beach Boys.

Beach Boys, The Eagles is the group we were looking for.

Their toss up question, everyone, what country?

Which was the location of prison?

S-21 was the site of the killing fields of Pol Pot, and it's a Tendra Cambodia.

Cambodia is the right answer.

And here's your bonus white scalar quantity, which equals the square root of the bulk modulus over density is found in the denominator of the formula for the mock number part.

Okay.

How long time is speed of sound?

Speed of sound is what we wanted there.

What philosophical concept of subject does subject of Plato's Thea teach us has been defined as justified.

True believe.

Take love saying in love No finishing it for you as justified true believe in is studied by the field of a peace epistemology, epistemological religion.

Knowledge is what we wanted for that one.

No bonus.

Next question.

What author of the play The Skin of Our Teeth depicted Small Town America.

Thornton Wilder.

Thornton Wilder's right Your bonus What cat What bounty Hunter Fights Mother Brain and the Space Pirate Ridley as the protagonist of the Meteoroid series.

Samus.

Samus Iran.

That's correct.

Pencil and paper.

Once again, the math questions just keep coming.

What is the combined weight in pounds of three identical bricks?

If five such bricks have a total weight of £20, take £12.

12 is right.

Bonus What property of a mineral refers to the way it tends to break cleanly along certain lines or planes of weakness in its structure.

Cleavage, cleavage is the right answer.

What state, which contains the eastern part of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and its and tundra?

North Carolina.

North Carolina is right bonus for you what English author described enchanted fruit sold by sinister beings in her 1862 poem Goblin Market and was the sister of Dante Gabriel deferred.

Austin, it's Rossetti.

Christina Rossetti.

Next question for both teams.

What case in which William Jennings Bryan was asked about the and Tendra Scopes Trial Scopes Monkey Trial in Dayton, Tennessee.

Bonus What former president who took office after Zachary Taylor died ran as a no nothing candidate in the election of 1856.

Fillmore Millard Fillmore is right.

Toss up everybody what particles which were discovered via deep in elastic scattering form baryon state neutrinos.

Nope.

I'm going to finish it for you.

Lamp form baryons and have flavors including charm.

Strange up and down.

What's it called?

Quarks is the right answer.

Well done.

Bonus question for lamp.

Alfalfa and apple and apples are examples of what type of plant defined as one that can live for three or more years.

Perennial that's trial new training triennial.

You know you're right.

The first time perennial was the answer we wanted.

Next question for everyone.

What island lies west of Sulawesi and north of Java Sea and is divided between the three countries of and it's in Tendra Borneo.

Borneo is correct.

Well done.

Bonus What English artist showed a recently married couple in Mr. and Mrs. Andrews and painted a child dressed in the title Color in the Blue Boy.

Who was that singer searching?

I don't know.

Watson Thomas Gainsborough.

Okay, next question.

What singer Who lost the 1993 Stanley Cup finals while leading the Los Angeles Kings is the NHL all time leader in both assists and Deidre Gretzky.

Wayne Gretzky Bonus question In 2015, the Department of Interior changed the name of Mt.

McKinley, giving it what name from an Athabaskan word, meaning the tall one.

Denali.

Denali is its new name.

That's right.

Few more questions in this portion of the round.

What state was governed by segregationist Orval Faubus when Arkansas State Arkansas was right?

Bonus What name was shared by two Roman senators, the elder of whom repeatedly said Carthage.

Go Delinda est before the third Punic War.

Cato Cato is right.

Toss up everybody.

What seven letter adjective denotes reproductive processes such as an tate asexual.

Asexual is right.

Well done.

Bonus What word can name any gemstone other than rubies that is made of course run them such as the birthstone for September.

The sapphire Sapphire is right.

Toss up.

Question three more What body chaired in August of 2023 by Linda Thomas-Greenfield, is tasked with preserving international peace in its five state.

Peace Corps.

No, it's incorrect.

Finishing it for you.

Lampe is tasked with preserving international peace and has five permanent members with vetoes.

What's that called to U.N. Security Council?

That's right.

That's right.

Here's your bonus.

What English poet wrote.

I hope to see my pilot face to face in crossing the bar, which he wanted to be the last piece in all collections of his poems.

Who is that?

Keats.

Alfred Lord Tennyson is who that was.

What novel in which the wealthy child Amir witnesses the assault of his servant son as they play with the title object.

And it's Take the Kite Runner.

The Kite Runner is right.

Bonus for you.

Aicte in what Midwestern city were anarchists like August spies arrested after their 1886 bombing during a labor protest in the Haymarket Square in its West Side.

Chicago.

Chicago, Illinois.

Last question What state?

Which is the setting of the movies?

51st Dates and The Descendants was a Kingdom until 1893.

And it's and Tendra Hawaii.

Hawaii is correct you get the last bonus question escalate is a rare or of what transition metal highly resistant to tarnishing whose name refers to its brightly colored compounds.

Glad you have an answer.

Iron chromium.

Chromium is the answer.

Lay your buttons down, relax a bit as I tell you what our four categories are for the Lightning Round on today's program.

And in a moment, we'll ask our players to introduce themselves to you at home.

Our subject for the Lightning Round or categories are Prime's The letter A in U.S. Geography best selling album since the year 2000 and vowels and trailing here at the midpoint is the lamp school and you will tell me what category you want.

After we introduce our players, you'll choose one play one, and then the folks from A.C.T.

will choose two categories.

All right.

We know how to do that right now.

Let's meet our players from both schools.

We'll ask Leo to begin.

My name is Leo.

I'm a freshman at A.C.T.

and I love drawing.

My name is Eugene and I'm a junior at A.C.T.

and I have a twin.

My name is Tate.

I'm a junior A.C.T.

and my favorite novel is 1984.

I'm Elizabeth.

I'm a senior at A.C.T., and I want to become a biomedical engineer.

And the players from LAMP.

Hello, my name is Nick Kilpatrick.

I'm a senior at LAMP and I can be in the speech and debate team at our school.

Hi, my name is Attenborough.

I'm a senior at Lamp, and my favorite subject I'm taking right now is AP Physics.

Hi, my name is Paula.

I'm a freshman and I play the viola.

Hi.

My name is sure you can do a I'm a freshman and I like basketball.

Very good.

It's good to have all of you with us.

You're all playing well.

We're proud of you.

As I know your families and your schools are proud of you as well.

Lamp of those four categories I listed, which one would you like to play and get the letter in U.S. Geography Letter A In U.S. geography, Obviously, what you're going to do in the clock starts is give these geographical answers that begin with the letter A Here we go, state known as the cotton state, Alabama.

That's right, Alaska's most populous city, Anchorage Mountain Range, whose sub ranges include the Blue Ridge Mountains, Appalachian.

That's right, Texas City that hosts the South by Southwest festival, Amarillo.

No, it's Austin, Utah National Park, whose delicate landform appears on our license plates.

That's right.

River that flows through Tulsa and Wichita Pass State with the public university campuses in Tucson and Tempe, Arizona.

That's right.

Most populous city in New Mexico.

Albuquerque.

That's right.

Island chain, who's a two and Kiska.

We're occupied by the Japanese in World War Two.

Aleutian.

That's right.

City home to the U.S.

Naval Academy.

Annapolis.

That's right.

And going back to river that flows through Tulsa and Wichita, Arkansas.

That's right.

That's the correct one.

So that's the only one.

They skipped judges, I believe it was.

All right, well done.

You did a good job with a in geography.

Now we'll come over to the students at A.C.T.. You're going to give me two categories.

Take.

What do you want to do?

I'll take primes and then vowels.

Primes and vowels in 60 seconds, when the clock begins, you will answer the following about prime numbers.

Here we go.

The only even prime two class of integers past one that are not prime are.

All right.

Now set your answer.

Yeah.

Composite is the right answer.

Greek mathematician whose theorem says there are infinitely many primes.

Euclid?

That's right.

Theorem.

That integers past one can be factored into primes called box conjecture.

No, there.

That's called fundamental smallest three digit prime 101.

That's right.

Unproven hypothesis about the distribution of primes.

A millennium Prize problem.

One twin prime problem.

That's Riemann.

Name four primes that differ by two twin primes.

That's right.

Type of primes.

That's one less than the power of two Mersenne primes.

That's right.

French mathematician whose little theorem concerning primes.

That's right.

Conjecture that even numbers larger than two or the box conjecture is called box conjecture.

That's right.

Well done.

Time ran out just as you answered.

Good job with that.

We'll move on to vowels When?

I guess what this is about In 60 seconds, you're going to give these vowels some answers will repeat.

All right, here we go.

Letter that begins Canada's national anthem o vowel that ends most Spanish feminine nouns, a transcendental number that is approximately 2.7183.

That's right.

Prefix meaning descendant found at the beginning of many Irish surnames.

that's right.

Largest vowel on Snelling charts used by doctors.

E That's right.

Universal donor blood type O major scale whose key signature has four sharps A It's E represents current in Ohm's Law.

A It's I Burmese honorific that precedes tense in the name of a UN Secretary general.

U That's right vowel in the Welsh words.

C w m or come and cruise that is a consonant in w w that's right.

Take care of that one, judges.

Good.

We'll move on from that.

And good job with both categories and I believe the gentleman from Lamp get best selling album since the year 2000.

Are you geared up and excited about this?

I can tell 60 seconds you're going to name the singer or band whose albums include Here We Go 21, which opens with Rolling in the Deep.

Adele.

That's right, The Marshall Mathers LP, which contains the real Slim Shady.

Eminem.

That's right.

American Idiot, which has songs by Billie Joe Armstrong Pass the Greatest Hits album, one which contains Hey Jude Pass.

Oops, I did it again.

The follow up to yours.

That's right.

A Rush of Blood to the Head by X and Y pass do wops and hooligans, which contains just the way you are.

Bruno Mars.

That's right.

Back to back which contains rehab.

Amy Winehouse That's right.

Let's go.

Which contains the pop punk song skater Boy pass and fallen, which contains Bring Me to Life Past.

All right, we'll go back to American Idiot, which has songs by Billie Joe Armstrong Pass Again, the greatest Hits album, one which contains Hey Jude, Beyonce.

It is The Beatles.

Time is up.

All right.

Do you know how it hurts my heart for an old guy like me that you don't know who did?

Hey, Jude.

But time goes on, doesn't it?

All right.

You all did well with all the categories.

I'm proud of you.

And you guys do a really good job under the pressure of the clock.

Now, in the time we have left, in the time we have left is about seven and a half minutes.

I'm going to ask you speed round questions.

No bonuses involved here.

You answer it and each one's worth 20 points.

So good luck to both teams as we wrap this show up.

Here we go.

What Senator, who left a woman to drown during the Chappaquiddick incident?

Take Ted Kennedy.

That's correct.

What article of the Constitution contains the full faith and credit clause and outlines relations between the federal government in the States?

Adri Ed Fourth.

The fourth is correct.

What photographer whose wartime assistant was named Alexander Gardner took over 10,000 photos capturing Leo Matthew Brady.

Matthew Brady is right in the Civil War.

Porto, a city along the Douro River known for its wine trade, is the second most populous city to Portugal.

Portugal is right.

What organelles, which contain membrane bound structures called thigh liquids where light take a chloroplast.

That's correct.

Chloroplasts.

In 1879, Britain fought the battle of is sandal one against the African Empire State Zulu Zulu empire.

What author was inert interrupted by a person from porlock or writing a poem?

Taylor Coleridge.

Coleridge is right.

What six letter word is the proper medical term for nearsightedness?

What is it, Elizabeth?

Myopia.

Myopia is correct.

What name is shared by a king known as Bluetooth, a Norse king and Leo Harald does correct a particular palace, which was formerly the.

Where are you?

I know that's incorrect.

The Potala Palace Palace, which was formerly the Winter Palace of the Dalai Lama, is found in what capital of Tibet?

Take a Lhasa.

Lhasa is right.

What sitcom in which Doctor Leo Spacemen gave dubious medical care to Tracy Jordan and NBC's sketch comedy writer Liz Lemon was created by Tina Fey.

What was that show?

What's it called?

Leo House.

Nope, that's incorrect.

Do you know the answer to that lamp?

It was 30 Rock.

30 Rock was the show.

The declaration that between faith, hope and love, the greatest of these is love comes from what Pauline Epistle addressed to a Greek church.

Nobody First Corinthians is the answer.

What painting?

Whose setting is a road in a burg depicts a tumultuous orange sky behind a agonized hate.

The scream.

The scream is right pencil and paper for a math question.

What is the discriminant of the quadratic polynomial?

Two x squared minus five x plus three found by evaluating B squared minus four AC.

The answer is one, Eugene.

One is right.

What process which heats, then rapidly cools the liquid to kill bacteria is named for taste.

I'm sorry, It's a tender pasteurization.

Pasteurization is right.

Well done.

What?

Whig politician who rose to power after the South Sea bubble burst is generally take Walpole.

Walpole.

Robert Walpole.

What military leader who had a scandalous affair with Lady Hamilton was commanding the HMS Victory in 1805.

Tay Nelson.

Horatio Nelson is right.

What for Farmers?

One of who names Giuseppe Verdi Opera were originally medieval composers and singers of lyric poetry especially.

Is it Leo Meister Singers Note that's incorrect.

Were originally medieval composers and singers of lyric poetry, especially of courtly love.

So an answer for that?

Or tender jesters?

Nope.

They were called troubadours.

Troubadours?

What character whose bounty is this?

Boundless is the sea is courted by Paris, has a cousin named Tybalt and then Dra Romeo.

Nope.

Is the star crossed lovers of Romeo and Juliet?

It is Juliet.

In July 2023, Michigan filed forgery charges against 16 people who falsely claim to have served in what role on December 14th, 2020.

And it's state kidnaping of Gretchen Whitmer.

No, that's incorrect.

Lampe You have an answer.

Presidential electors is what we're looking for.

And that's answer what beings described in the a gunny as divine craftsman who forged Zeus's thunderbolt included Paul And it's Tate Cyclops.

Cyclops is right in the Harry Potter series.

Hufflepuff Cup and Raven Claws.

Diadem were examples of what magical objects Deathly Hallows no examples of what magical objects are.

Tinder looks Horcruxes.

Horcruxes is right.

Good.

What?

German mathematician presented 23 unsolved problems for research in the 20th century and is the namesake of a paradox.

And it is a death.

Yet for me, no 20th century is the namesake of a paradox about an infinite hotel.

You guys have an answer?

Yes.

State.

Hilbert Hilbert is right.

David Hilbert What?

Oscar winning actress played Domestic worker Abilene Clark in The Help and portrayed General MINUSCA of Dahomey Kingdom in The Woman King.

Who is that actress, anyone?

Yes.

Thank you, Angela Bassett.

That's incorrect.

Anybody else?

Yes.

Viola Davis.

Viola Davis is right.

What?

Russian author used 14 line stanzas to describe a duel that kills young Vladimir Lynskey in his 1808 Pushkin.

Pushkin is correct.

Minute and a half left.

What novel in which so Dale Pulaski sings America the Beautiful at a gathering of 16 heirs was written by Ellen Raskin about a peculiar competition.

What is that in Kill the West in the Western game?

Exactly.

Sure.

And Bruin Palace is in what European City, which was the seat of the Hapsburg Empire from.

And it's déja vu.

Vienna.

Vienna is correct.

What man killed by a knob in Carthage, Illinois jail claimed to have seen the Angel Smith.

Joseph Smith is right.

What?

Conservative leader presided over mourning for Queen Elizabeth Second during her brief 50 day stint as prime minister of Britain in the fall.

Tate Liz Truss.

Liz Truss is right.

What strings, whose relative type starts from a working directory, uses slashes to separate the names of folders and specifies the location of a file.

What is that called?

Tate Path.

A path that's correct.

File paths.

What quantity is raised to the fourth power in the Stephan Boltzmann law for emitted power and can be measured Tate Temperature temperature is right.

One more question.

What composer of a mass in B minor and Leo Mozart.

If that's incorrect I'll finish it for you and the A ratio saying Matthew Passion showed his mastery of counterpoint in his sixth Brandenburg Concerto.

Answer Yes.

Nickeil Bach.

Bach is right.

Well done.

We have 15 seconds to thank you for playing well today.

Both teams are winning.

Team today are the students from Alabama School of Cyber Technology and Engineering LAMP.

You played very well as well.

You watched very well as well today to viewers.

We appreciate you joining us here in Alabama, Public TV.

I'm Mike Royer.

Thanks for watching.

Have a great day.