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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 once again, everyone.

My name is Mike Royer, and I'd like to welcome you to the Alabama Scholars Bowl program here on Alabama Public Television.

We hope you know by now that we're here every week and we bring together the best and brightest students from all around the state of Alabama to compete for scholarship money and great experience and to have a good time on our program.

We hope you enjoy watching every week.

They're really smart kids.

You know that from watching.

And we're proud to have them back in our studio.

The students are back with us from the Alabama School of Cyber Technology and Engineering.

Good to have you back with us.

And the school, Donahoe School students are back with us as well.

Welcome to your team, too.

Are you all ready to play?

We'll do that in a moment.

And so get your buzzers ready.

We would tell you that our judge for today's program is Kate Wilson.

Christopher Asher, the president of Esca, is in the studio assisting us as well, along with Sharon Daly and Claudette Smith is a valuable member of our team.

Our executive producer is Mike Ousley that introduces most of the folks and all of the folks here at Alabama Public Television who does such a fine job welcoming all of us into their building here in Montgomery, Alabama.

Let's get started.

Question number one.

If you answer correctly, you get a bonus question.

What particles are the heaviest outputs of beta minus decay consist of two up quarks and one down quark?

Leo Protons.

Protons is the right answer.

Bonus for your team A.C.T.

The Library of Ashurbanipal found that Nineveh was a collection of over 30,000 tablets acquired by what Middle Eastern Empire ruled by Sargon.

The second The Assyrian Empire.

Assyrian is the right answer.

Next question for everyone.

What Midwestern city whose police were accused by a 2023 DOJ report of bias against black and Native residents is where George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis.

Minneapolis, Minnesota is right.

Don't question what influential 18th century English publisher wrote the lengthy epic Stollery novels Pamela and Clarissa.

Samuel Richardson That's right.

What tossup up question What singer collaborated with Sean Paul John Paul on the song No Lie and released the 2020 album Future Nostalgia, which contains Yes, Elizabeth said of you, Thank you very much.

That's right.

And your bonus question, what loud and startling phenomenon that occurs when an object travels through air faster than the speed of sound, creating shockwaves.

Sonic boom.

It is a sonic boom.

Tossup question ever one what?

1999 coming of age novel in which the English teacher Bill introduces the teenager Charlie to the classic books Elizabeth The Perks of Being a Wallflower.

That's correct.

Bonus question Abkhazia is a largely unrecognized breakaway republic.

From what country on the black Sea, whose capital is Tbilisi, Georgia.

Georgia is right.

Toss up.

What type of animal is represented by the constellation that includes Polaris and by the constellation containing the Big Dipper?

Tate Bear Bear is right.

Bonus Question In August of 2023, Donald Trump was charged with violating what law originally passed in 1870 to protect the rights of African-Americans.

The 14th Amendment is called the Ku Klux Klan Act or Force Act is what we were looking for there.

What God, whose temples in Rome were closed in times of peace.

Tate Janis, Janis is right.

Bonus for you what Portuguese novelist imagined the Iberian Peninsula detaching from Europe in the stone raft and depicted a strange plague in his book Blindness.

Saramago That's correct.

Toss up.

Question number seven What Building?

Designed by Shreve, LAMB and Harmon features the spire designed for mooring airships and when built in 1931.

TATE Empire State Building.

Empire State Building.

Bonus Question What philosopher wrote Man is born free and everywhere he is in change in his work.

The social contract.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau That's right.

Toss up.

Question What quantity represented by a curve that slopes downwards in a price versus quantity graph is often plotted by economist alongside supply.

What is that demand?

Demand is right.

Bonus question Many proteins, including insulin, are held together by what amino acid that can form disulfide bridges.

but you got no answer.

Did someone say 16, 16 is the right answer?

Here's a toss up that everyone can answer.

What effect?

Which is used by weather radars and speed guns.

Zach The Doppler effect.

The Doppler effect is the right answer.

Well done.

Donohoe Here is your bonus question.

James Boswell wrote a biography of Watt, author of Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets who published a seven 1855 English dictionary.

Webster No, it was Samuel Johnson.

Samuel Johnson was the answer.

Toss up everyone.

What novel in which a proposal from farmer Robert Martin is unwisely rejected by Harriet Smith is name for a matchmaker Tea.

Emma.

Emma is right.

Bonus In 1915, what country signed the Treaty of London to join the Allied powers after nominally being allied with Germany at the start of World War One?

Netherlands.

What's a Netherlands?

It was Italy.

Italy switched sides right the last their toss up question What agreement?

Which drew a line across the Louisiana territory above which slavery was banned.

And that is Zach the Missouri the Missouri compromise is right bonus for you what piano ballad from the 2023 Super Mario Brothers movie is performed by Jack Black as Bauza, who sings about his true love.

Peaches.

Peaches is right.

Good job.

Toss up what state is represented by both the oldest person to become a freshman senator, Peter Welch, and the Democratic Socialist Bernie Sanders won State, State, Vermont.

Vermont is right.

Bonus Question.

The Salton Sea is a landlocked body of water that is near the Imperial Valley in this southern part of what state?

California.

California's right, everyone.

What?

Dutch artist painted the last judgment into his woman holding.

And it's Leo.

Michelangelo.

Nope.

I'll finish this for you.

Donohoe, a woman holding a balance and showed a woman in a turban.

In girl with a pearl Earring.

Do you know that artist?

What you got?

Act then I know it's John Vermeer.

John Vermeer was the artist.

Next question.

What layer below the Gutenberg discontinuity posted Dynamo Eugene The mantel?

No.

All of continue for you've got to host a dynamo powered by its convection that creates Earth's magnetic field and is made of liquid iron which which got David's outer outer core is the right answer.

Well done.

Your bonus question.

What unit of memory is equivalent to 1000 terabytes or 1 million gigabytes?

And about petabyte is correct.

Well done, Chris.

Toss up, everybody.

What event for which Hugh Montgomery was tried for manslaughter, but defended by John Adams saw Crispus Attucks shot looking for David Boston massacre is right.

Here's your bonus what season of the year is called a key in Japanese Herbst in German and Caetano in Spanish.

Autumn Autumn is correct.

Autumn or fall would be acceptable.

Toss up everyone which playwright who wrote about NEG and Nel living in an estate.

Samuel Beckett.

Samuel Beckett is right.

Bonus for you what 2014 Graphic novel by S.S. Bell is named for a superhero persona that boosts the confidence of a girl who uses a hearing aid at school.

No answer.

L defo l defo.

That's a new one.

Pencil and paper, everybody.

A fun math question.

If X is a positive number, what is the minimum value of X for which the sum of 18 plus x is a perfect square?

And Chris seven seven is the right answer.

X equals seven.

Your bonus question What German composer Tone poems include a hero's life and a work based on the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche.

Also Sprach Zarathustra, German composer is Strauss.

It is Strauss.

We wanted for the answer.

Toss up, everybody.

What film which opens is a woman gets attacked off the coast of Amity Island.

Jaws.

Jaws is right, Leo.

Good job.

Bonus for you.

What theory?

Often name for two scientists defines acids as proton donors and bases as proton acceptors.

Brian Stead Lowry.

That's correct.

Toss up.

We're about out of questions.

In what country will the iconic tower be part of an yet unnamed new administrative capital, Abdel Fattah, Take Egypt.

Egypt is right.

Bonus in what states 2020 to gubernatorial election.

The Democrat West More defeat Dan Cox to succeed term limited Republican Larry Hogan Maryland.

Maryland is right.

Last question of this part of our program today What poet beseeched a goddess to fight by my shoulder in the ode to Aphrodite, the only extant Tate.

Sappho.

Sappho is the right answer.

Lay your buttons down at this point.

I'm going to tell you what our.

you're going to bonus question.

Do you want a bonus question?

Sure.

Why not?

What 2023 reality show on Amazon three be featured.

Ronald Gladden is the only participant in the trial who is not secretly an improv actor.

Jury duty.

Jury duty.

Aren't you glad we included the bonus question?

You got that right.

Well done.

Now I'm going to tell you what the four categories are for our Lightning Round.

The teams will be answering questions in 60 seconds.

And the categories are stars, literary houses, Super Bowl 57 and Henrys stars, literary houses, Super Bowl 57 and Henry's are team from Donahoe School is trailing.

So you guys will choose first in a moment and I'll ask you to play that one category first and then we'll come over to A.C.T.. You'll choose two categories and we'll go from there.

Right now, let's have our players from our schools introduce themselves to you and tell us a bit about themselves.

Leo, would you start?

I'm Leo.

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

and I'm currently taking AP statistics.

I'm Eugene.

I am a junior at A.C.T.

and I am interested in computer science.

I'm Tate.

I'm a junior at A.C.T., and my favorite artist is Vincent Van Gogh.

My name is Elizabeth.

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

and I'm a Swifty.

My name's Abrar Babacar.

I'm a sophomore at Donohoe, and I like reading, my name is that Cator?

I'm a senior at the Donahoe School, and I play the tuba.

My name is David Robles.

I'm a sophomore at the high school, and I've visited 15 countries and hope to visit more.

I'm Chris Perkins.

I go to the Donahoe School and I'm interested in film.

Very good.

Thank you all for introducing yourself and thank you for participating in our program.

We love having you here in the studio.

Donohoe Have you all decided which category you'd like to begin with?

Super Bowl 57, Super Bowl 57 in the 60 seconds, you'll have when we begin.

You're going to answer the following about 2023 Super Bowl fresh in your memory, I hope.

Here we go.

The Kansas City quarterback who was the MVP, Patrick Mahomes, Team four points from Pennsylvania that lost the Eagles quarterback with three rushing touchdowns for the losing team.

Jalen hurts.

Pregnant singer who performed We Found Love at halftime Rihanna.

Chiefs tight end with six catches Travis Kelce state that hosted the game in Glendale, Arizona.

Chiefs head coach who won his second Super Bowl.

Network that aired a Gordon Ramsay show after the game CBS.

It was FOX.

Former Titans wide receiver who caught a touchdown for the losing team.

A.J.

Brown.

That's right.

And controversial free throw penalty called on James Bradberry late in the game.

Pass interference.

It was holding holding was called there.

Good job with that category, Zach.

Well done.

Now we'll come over to A.C.T.

and you're going to choose two categories.

Tate.

What will they be?

First of all, take literary houses, and then we'll take stars.

Alrighty.

We will start when the clock starts by asking you to name the authors of these literary works titled Four Houses Ready The Little House on the Prairie Series.

Laura Ingalls Wilder, The House of Seven Gables, Hawthorne, The play A Doll's House, a Norwegian and the Short Story The Fall of the House of Usher of the Light to the Lighthouse.

Virginia Woolf.

The House on Mango Street.

Cape Esperanza.

That's incorrect.

Bleak House.

Charles Dickens.

The House of Mirth.

Edith Wharton, 20th century Spanish author of The House of Bernarda Alba Lorca.

Lorca.

That's right.

Trinidadian British author of a house for Mr. Biswas.

Naipaul?

That's correct.

Did we pass on any judges?

All right.

Good job with those.

Well done.

And was your other choice people named Henry?

Is that the other one?

Stars.

You want to do stars?

Very good.

Thank you for reminding me.

In the 60 seconds you'll have on this category, you'll name these things about stars.

Here we go.

The lightest element which main sequence stars fuze into helium, hydrogen dense star type name for unchanged subatomic particles.

Neutron star.

Brightest star in the night sky.

Polaris.

It's serious.

Stellar explosion with a core collapse type supernova.

That's right.

Continuous stream of charged particles from the sun.

Solar flare Judges.

Solar flare.

One.

Another answer.

You want to move on?

Moving on, Star.

That in 12,000 years will become the new North Star Aquarius.

It's Vega.

Outermost layer of the sun that produces mass ejections.

Corona That's right.

Type of visible variable star for which Henrietta Swan Leavitt found a period Luminosity Pulsar.

No, that's Shepard's diagram that plots stars luminosity against their temperature diagram university where any jump can and developed a stellar classification system.

Stanford.

Harvard didn't get any Time's up anyway.

Good job.

That was a tougher category, but you did a good job with it.

Does this leave us with Henrys?

Yes, I believe so.

And not by choice, but by the way the cookie crumbles.

You guys get Henry's.

You're ready.

And in 60 seconds, when the clock starts, you're going to give the surnames of these people named Henry.

Here we go.

Automaker who made the Model T Ford great compromiser of the 19th Congress.

19th century Congress, great compromiser, Explorer, whose name is the river that separates New York and New Jersey.

That's right.

Poet of the song Hiawatha.

That's the author of The Turn of the Screw as first U.S. Secretary of War Past, author of Tropic of Cancer, past German-American, Secretary of State under Nixon and Ford.

Best Baroque English composer of opera Dido and Aeneas.

Best actor who played Superman.

The Man of Steel.

Carville.

Carville is right.

Going back to author of The Turn of the Screw First U.S. Secretary of War Johnson.

It was Knox, author of The Tropic of Cancer.

Okay, very good.

There's a reason the leftover category is the leftover category, isn't it?

All right.

You did pretty well with that.

That was hard.

We have about 8 minutes left.

And in those 8 minutes, I'm going to ask you questions that are worth 20 points each so you have a chance to catch up or build your lead and there are no bonus questions.

We just answer and move on.

Everybody ready?

Here we go.

What country Whose fleet lost the Battle of Tsushima?

See that half of the sucker lean?

And it's David Mongolia.

I know.

That's incorrect.

I'll finish it in 1905, after losing a war to Japan and take Russia.

Russia Empire is correct.

What quantity is equal to enthalpy minus temperature times entropy take dips for energy?

That's correct.

What chemical principle name for a French chemist determines how a system take Lavoisier's principal?

That's incorrect.

I'll finish it for you.

Determines how a system in equilibrium responds to changes in temperature or pressure.

It's solution to liaise principle.

Next question.

The Kalpa Sutra contains a biography of ma, ma, aria and tare tongue.

Kura very native.

By what?

Indian region?

Religion and region.

Religion.

Take Buddhism?

Nope.

You guys have an answer?

David Hinduism.

It's Jan ism.

Jan ism is what we're looking for.

What country?

Whose capital borders to other countries is governed from Bratislava and was once part of a union tape.

Slovakia.

Slovakia is right.

What poem set on the darkest evening of the year ends with its speaker declaring state, stopping by words on a Snowy evening by Robert Frost.

What term refers to a positive changes in organisms such as developing opposable thumbs in humans?

And it's Chris adaptations.

Adaptations is correct.

Well done.

What theologian commented on abortion and euthanasia in the in cyclical evangelism, the take and in 1978 became the first non-Italian pope.

John Paul You need a little more.

John Paul the second.

The second is right.

Well done.

Monsignor Darcy Mentors Princeton Student Armory.

Blaine in This Side of Paradise, a novel by what author?

Tate Scott Fitzgerald That's correct.

What city?

Who's a Vendee, a nine de Julio is the world's widest avenue.

Tate.

Buenos Aires.

Buenos Aires is correct, as Mera is the capital of what African country which gained independence from Ethiopia in the early 1900s.

And yes, Somalia.

No, You have an answer, Leo.

Eritrea.

Eritrea is the right answer.

Well done.

What event?

The first of which was won by Frank New Houser in 1925, had eight co-champions in 2019.

One of whom?

Elizabeth National Spelling Bee.

That's right.

National Spelling Bee.

The slogan Every Man A King was used by white populist Senator and Governor David Huey Long is right.

Good.

Pencil and paper ready.

What is the empirical formula of butane or C, four H ten Given that tc2h5?

That's correct.

That's the right answer.

Next, what Indian-American author who recently has started writing in Italian won a Pulitzer Prize for her story collection.

Take Jhumpa Lahiri.

That's right.

What author who wrote that?

A foolish Consistency is the home of Globe and Kate Emerson.

Emerson is right.

What African country is the birthplace of NBA player Pascal C come as well as 2023 MVP Joel Embiid L Embiid said for Cameroon.

That's right.

Pronounce his name from indeed.

Thank you.

Cameroon is right.

In what year did France's February revolution replace Louis Philippe with the Second Republic triggering a series of other European revolutions?

What year?

And David?

1848.

1848 is right.

Good job.

Pencil and paper again.

I know that excites you.

What based number ten?

What base ten number is equivalent to the binary number 1110.

Given the fourth digit from the right equals two cubed to eight 1414 is right.

What compound?

The starting point of reverse transcription has messenger reverse Sobel and tape RNA RNA is right what cave dwelling monster in Homer's odyssey fed on sailors who tried to avoid her counterpart the nearby coral pool Charybdis Elizabeth's siren it.

I don't think that that's not correct.

Anybody else got an answer?

Yes David skill up skill is right.

Well done.

We have about 3 minutes left.

What state which is home to the Teapot Dome oil field also contains Devil's Tower as well as such cities as Cody, Laramie and Cheyenne Tate, Wyoming.

Wyoming is right.

In March of 2023, UBS agreed to buy what Collapsing investment bank, which, as its name suggests, is headquartered in Zurich.

And is David World Bank?

Nope.

That's incorrect.

You guys have an answer?

Yes.

State Swiss Bank?

Nope.

It is called Credit Suisse.

Credit Suisse.

Next, what golfer who became the oldest ever major champion at the 2021 PGA Championship, joined the Flybe golf tour in 2022 and is nicknamed Lefty.

Yes.

Leo Woods.

Nope.

That's incorrect.

Anybody else?

Yes.

Zach Mickelson?

Yes.

Phil Mickelson.

Mickelson is the right answer.

What substances, such as a mixture of roughly 95% ethanol and 5% water, cannot be separated by simple distillation.

Anybody?

Yes.

Chris?

Nope.

Anybody else want a shot at it?

If I want to pass.

Yes.

Solutions?

Nope.

It's RZA Tropes.

RZA Tropes is the answer.

What Prime Minister who led Britain during the phony war pursued a policy today.

Neville Chamberlain.

Chamberlain is right.

Empress Wu Zu Tane interrupted the reign of one Chinese dynasty.

Tong Tang Dynasty is right.

What musician whose 1926 recording of CBGB's was his hot five band popularized Leo.

Louis Armstrong.

Louis Armstrong is right.

Couple more questions as time allows.

In an 1897 book, Emile Durkheim studied altruistic and gnomic and fatalistic forms of what phenomenon and it state suicide.

Suicide is right.

What writings which may end with the Latin abbreviation QED turn a conjecture error into a theorem take proof proves is correct.

What Gilbert and Sullivan operetta in which Captain Warren and Ralph Tate Parts of The Penzance Note.

I'll finish that for Donohoe.

Kokshoorn and Ralph were switched at birth, is named for a naval ship to celebrate.

It is called What?

David That is right.

Pinafore is right.

Probably our last question.

What President proposed global arms reduction and an international peacekeeping organization is 14 points pointed versity.

Wilson Woodrow Wilson is correct.

One more.

What type of wispy icy high altitude cloud has a uniqueness.

Take serious serious is right now let's quit.

That's enough for one day.

You all played well.

Lot of hard questions.

The lightning round was challenging today and I enjoyed the round.

I hope you enjoyed it at home.

Hope you play along at home.

But it's pretty tough.

We are proud of both of our teams today.

Congratulations to the Alabama School of Cyber Technology and Engineering winning this particular round.

Donahoe School.

You've always played well and you did today.

It's good to have you back with us, too.

We thank you for watching our program and see Alabama scholars Bowl statewide on Alabama public television every week.

We're so glad that you watch.

We appreciate you supporting these students in their own communities where you live.

Thanks again for watching.

I'm Mike Royer.

Have a great day, everybody.