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

I'm Mike Royer.

It's my privilege to host this program brought to you by a variety of hardworking folks, including the president of Aska, Christopher Arthur's students studio with us today.

Our judge for today's competition is Kate Wilson.

We have valuable assistance from Sharon Daley and Claudette Smith.

Mike Ousley is our executive producer and all the folks here at Alabama Public Television in Montgomery who does such a fantastic job helping us do this program and, well, welcoming us into their facilities here in Montgomery, Alabama.

We're glad you're watching today.

We hope you've become a regular viewer to the Alabama Scholars Bowl.

And we welcome to the studio today.

The gentleman from West Point, they have competed before, done a great job on the program.

And we're glad you're back with us.

And from just south of Birmingham, a little town called Hoover, Alabama, and a great school and a lot of variety of ways that we're familiar with.

And it's good to have that team back with us as well.

Midway through the program, we'll ask each individual player from both West Point and Hoover to introduce themselves to you and tell you just a bit about them.

That will come at the midway point of our program.

The first thing we do is ask 20 questions.

And if a team answers the question correctly, then they get a bonus question.

And it's a good way to get started.

And we'll do this to about halfway into the program, all ready to go, buttons in hand.

Let's go.

And we're going to start off with pencil and paper in hand.

What is the volume of a right circular cone whose height and radius are both three?

Given the formula has a one third and it is Stephen Bazin in nine nine pi nine PI is correct.

Stephen, thank you for expanding on that.

Here's your bonus question.

Kenneth Apel and Wolfgang Hakken use a computer to help prove what theorem, which is often formulated in terms of coloring countries on a map.

A form for color that is right for color is the right answer.

Next, a toss up question.

What title Character kills Clock and escapes on a flying chariot in the Euripides play about the end of this woman's marriage to the Greek.

It's really Medea.

That's right.

Bonus question for you.

West Point.

What French oceanographer co-invented the Aqualung and popularized underwater exploration, a TV series about his undersea world.

Francois It is Jacques Cousteau.

Jacques Cousteau is the right answer.

Toss up, everyone.

What former colony, which experienced an exodus of Pierre Noirs after 1962 Evian Accords and its creation.

Algeria.

Algeria is right.

Bonus question for you What name was shared by the only two emperors of Brazil, the first of whom declared independence from Portugal in 1822?

Pedro Pedro is right.

Toss up everyone.

What theologian who heard children singing totally La Gaye prompted him to leave Manaaki a anarchism Manicheism was a bishop of hippo who wrote Confessions.

Brody Augustine Yes, Augustine is correct.

Bonus question for you West Point What Bengali author wrote the national anthems of India and Bangladesh, as well as the poetry collection Jitendra Julie Tagore.

Tagore is right.

Toss up everybody.

What tray?

Atomic linear tray.

Atomic molecule as a solid Keith on.

Nope, I'll finish it for you.

West Point molecule has a solid form known as dry ice is the primary contributor to the greenhouse effect and has a molecular formula of CO2 and its John Davis Carbon dioxide.

Carbon dioxide is right.

Your bonus What German Renaissance artist showed a contemplative angel in his engraving Melancholia one der der is right.

Albrecht D ürer Next question for everyone.

What King, who was imprisoned at the Durn Stone Castle by Leopold, the fifth Christian, Richard the Lionheart, Richard the Lionheart.

It is right bonus and you'll do some math for this one.

What is the volume of a pyramid whose height is six and whose square base has sides that each have a length of seven?

And it might need an answer.

A 9898 is right.

Toss up.

Question What book in which a human boy named Sam Beaver protects a nest full of eggs was written by E.B.

White about a bird who plays the title instrument, Brodie Trumpet of the Swan.

The Trumpet of the Swan is right.

Your bonus question What countries 2024 elections, which have been delayed for nine years, will include President Salva Kiir, who has led it since the 2011 independence.

What country is back to South Sudan?

South Sudan is right next for everyone.

What river, whose tributaries include the OU Bungee goes past Congo.

Congo River right.

Bonus What British Literary prize awarded in 2022 to the seven moons of Mel and Media expanded eligibility in 2014 to all English language novels.

What is that prize called?

Booker The Booker Prize is right next in July 2023.

What country led by Wolf Kristoffersen overcame objections from Turkey to its joining neato Chris Sweden Sweden is right bonus what class of fundamental particles includes electrons, muons and neutrons neutrinos and has a name starting with l leptons.

Leptons is right toss up everyone What country was forced into the normalization period by Warsaw Pact troops after Alexander Duke?

Chris Czechoslovakia, that's right, Czechoslovakia.

Bonus.

French painter Henri Matisse lived near what city on France's Cote d'Azur here, which is about ten miles west of Monaco.

Which one you want to go with?

Nice niece is right.

Next question.

What artists who organized Dismaland a parody of Disneyland.

And it is Isaac Banksy.

Banksy is right.

Bonus Tulip meets the robot one one on a cartoon name for an Infiniti type of what vehicle, another of which circles the globe on the show.

Snowpiercer Train.

Yeah, Train.

Train is right.

Trains.

Next question.

What product suddenly appears in six stone jars at the start of John Chapter two during the wedding at Canoe in the First Miracle.

And I'm looking for a light wine.

Wine is right that's what the was produced.

Here's your bonus question West Point what NASA's space probe carried an instrument named Ralph, which was used to produce images of Pluto during a 2015 flyby.

New Horizons.

New Horizons is correct.

Pencil and paper, everybody.

What is the product of 4000 times 3000 given that at that?

Krish One, 2000000.

That's correct.

But 12 million, that would be 12 million, I believe.

Thank you.

Here's your bonus question.

Suborning refers to the practice of persuading another person to commit what crime that includes lying while under oath.

Perjury in perjury.

Perjury.

Perjury is right.

Everybody.

What 2015 film, based on the Andy Weir novel, is titled for Botanist and Astronaut Mark Watney.

And it is Chris The Martian, The Martian movie.

That's right.

Bonus What term for a stylized symbol made of intertwined letters is often used for motifs and can be embroidered onto tailored clothing.

Monogram looks like indigo.

Everything in its Monogram monogram monogram is correct.

Next, what woman who was sold into marriage to to son Charbonneau was a Shoshone.

Christian Yeah.

Pagonis No, that's incorrect.

I'll finish it for you.

West Point was this just show name interpreter who assisted the Lewis and Clark expedition.

Who is that?

Sacajawea.

And Sacajawea is right.

John Davis Bonus for you.

West Point, the second and fourth quantum numbers for electrons is an atom correspond to the spin and orbital types of what classical quantity momentum judges.

I think.

Okay, the answer is angular momentum.

All right.

Next question.

What animal with extinct Caspian and barley species and an endangered Bengal species is the largest?

Chris Tiger tigers, Right.

Bonus question.

Ella Baker was the strategist for what civil rights organization established by young African-American activist in 1960s or want to see which makes the Black Panthers one That is my last, I guess the Black Panthers.

No, it's the SNCC or SNICK, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

Next question, everyone.

What last name is shared by the singer of I Got You, who is known as the Godfather of Soul and an abolitionist who led a raid on Harpers Ferry.

Brown Brown is correct.

Brody Bonus question What alcoholic beverage depicted in namesake paintings by Edward de Gaulle and Vincent Van Gogh was once known as the Green Berry Absinthe.

Absinthe is correct.

Toss up everyone What opera whose arias include Shay Goleta Manana is about an ill seamstress who falls in love with Rodolfo and was written.

And it's Brody M Lobo him is correct Bonus for you.

What group of shrubs or trees that grow in brackish water help protect parts of Asia's coastline from the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami?

Like mangrove, mangrove, mangrove is right.

Toss up both teams.

What phenomenon whose far field type can be explained Fusion.

So again that's right diffraction Bonus question for you Hoover What man dubbed the people's lawyer for his anti-corporate stances was the first Jewish member of the Supreme Court.

Brandy Brandeis.

Brandeis is the right answer.

Next, last question, in fact, of this first part of the round.

What novel in which the note goodbye.

Because I Love You is left by Robert Robert Lee Broun.

And it's Brodie The Awakening.

The Awakening is right.

You get the last bonus question What author wrote about dead people who all are sleeping on the Hill?

In the first poem of his free verse collection, Spoon River Anthology.

Masters.

Masters is right, Edgar Lee Masters Lay your buttons down, grab a breath, and I will, too.

And we're going to do two things.

I'm going to tell you what the categories are for our lightning Rounds, and those are needed.

They are needed.

The 1990s, Britain, foreign language names and tens and here at the midpoint West Point is trailing slightly here.

So a chance to catch up but you will choose a category first then Hoover you'll choose two categories will do them both and come back for the final one with West Point.

As you think about that, let's begin by meeting our students from our two fine schools.

Eli, would you start?

My name is Eli Taylor.

I'm a junior at West Point High School, and I'm a STEM representative at the school.

My name is John Urschel Veno.

I'm a junior at West Point High School, and my favorite class is Pre-calculus.

My name is Brody Henry.

I'm a junior at West Point High School, and I started playing quiz ball in fifth grade.

I am pretty lost in a sophomore at West Point High School, and I plan to study astrophysics in college.

Very good.

You all play well from West Point.

We enjoy having you on the program.

Let's meet the gentleman from Hoover.

My name's Steven.

I'm a senior, and my favorite poem is Homework by Allen Ginsberg.

Hi, my name is Chris Nathan.

I'm a freshman at Hoover High School, and my favorite artist is Gustav Klimt.

My name is Isaac.

I'm a senior at Hoover High School, and my favorite poem is then Autopsies by William Cullen Bryant.

My name is Keith Dela Rosa.

I am a senior at Hoover High School, and my favorite book is The Elegant Universe by Dr. Brian GREENE.

Very good.

We're glad you're all here.

You're all playing well.

We're proud of you.

As I know your supporters are back at your schools.

Brody What category have you all decided to play first?

Foreign language names.

Foreign language names.

You're going to have 60 seconds, as we always do, given a language name for itself, such as Le Francais, give the English name of that language, such as French.

Got it ready in 60 seconds.

Espanol, Spanish, Rusedski, Russian, Nader, Lance.

That I'll I'll be your Arabic.

Yeah that's right near Hong Go Japanese Malay ya mujer Boson.

I'm sorry, Persian.

No, that's Hungarian.

Norsk Like Norwegian.

That's right.

One wa get Elie Nikka Oui, that's right.

And I've read every Swedish.

That's Hebrew.

We skipped one wa it's gw h in dash h w h g g okay.

The pronunciation guide to Japanese.

Japanese.

Now is time up.

Yeah, it's man, that's Mandarin.

You did pretty well with that.

That was a tough category, but you did pretty well.

Let's come over to Hoover.

And Hoover.

You get to choose two categories.

We'll do them both.

Now, Chris, where do you want?

1990s Britain and you need 1990s Britain first you're going to answer the following about the United Kingdom in the 1990s.

Ten questions 60 seconds.

Here we go.

River that runs past Canary Wharf in London.

Thames Labor Prime Minister elected in 1997.

Get Iron Lady ousted as Prime minister in 1990.

Thatcher Princess who died in a pair of car crash.

Diana language given coequal status with the English in Cardiff.

Welsh Welsh That's right.

12 member entity created by Maastricht Treaty, EU House of Parliament from which most hereditary peers were removed in 1999.

Yes, Laurence, That's right.

Political unit with a developed parliament in Edinburgh, Scotland.

That's right.

Christian Holiday.

When the courts for Northern Ireland were signed up.

Easter.

Wait, answer Easter.

No, it's Good Friday.

English City devastated by the IRA bomb in 1990, Right?

Brighton No, it's Manchester.

And you skipped Labor.

Prime Minister election in 1997.

Say it again, Blair.

Yes, that's right.

Time is a good job.

let's see.

Did you want the needed?

Is that what you wanted next?

Yes.

Very good.

You're going to answer the following about the needed 60 seconds.

And here we go.

The language in which it was written, its author, its protagonist, and he is is in a prince of the city card.

I think he's the prince of Aeneas is a prince in this city.

Troy Yes.

It's the first line in commonly translated as of blank and the male arms in the man or arms.

That's right.

It begins in the city ruled by Queen Dido and Aeneas reaches the river on whose banks Rome now stands.

Aeneas journey is complicated by this goddess Jupiter's wife, Juno Aeneas is reminded of his duty to found a city by this Roman messenger.

God, here is two more.

You got plenty of time.

Aeneas is cursed by Salerno, one of these half human half bird creatures.

Harper Go, go, go.

HARVEY That's right.

And is told to flee his home by this goddess, his mother.

I think Venus.

Venus is right.

We skip any judges.

We're through with that one.

No one's happier than I am.

Let's see.

What do we have left?

We're coming back to you Tens.

I believe we have tens for you.

This You might like this.

Answer the following about the number ten.

You know the number ten.

You're ready.

60 seconds.

Here we go.

10th month of the Gregorian calendar.

October.

Founding father depicted on the $10 bill, the okra with the Adams, that is Hamilton.

A period of ten years is a decade.

Either Old Testament book that lists the Ten Commandments, say Exodus.

That's right.

And Deuteronomy type of number that includes ten, 15 and 21.

Is it a pass st who's number ten is home to the British Prime Minister, a Delta now Downton Abbey, and it's Downing Street 10th president whose name followed.

Tippecanoe Tyler That's right.

Decker Pods like shrimp belong to this phylum crustacean.

It's Arthur Potter country with a five dynasties in ten kingdoms, period.

China.

That's right.

Noble Gas, whose atomic number is ten Neon.

Neon is right.

You skip type of number that includes ten, 15 and 21 Time is up.

That's triangular.

Those numbers.

All right.

Okay, let's put that all in the rearview mirror and let's be positive as we go forward into the speed round.

In the remaining 7 minutes, we're going to do questions that are worth 20 points each.

No bonus questions You answer.

We move on.

Ready?

What?

Driver of the number 22 car co-sponsored by Pennzoil, is the youngest man to win the Sprint Cup race.

Chris, First up in NOLA, I'll finish it for you.

West Point and won the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series championship.

Anybody?

Earnhardt Good guess, but it's Joey Logano.

Logano In a common birth defect, the two halves of what structure located above the tongue fail to properly join together connecting and it's Isaac palette palette is the right answer What solid material forms when updrafts and downdrafts in clouds cause cycles of refreezing and can occur if Brady Hale is right, good job.

Next, what saxophonist who recorded or anthology with Minnie Harris Brodie Coltrane No.

With Benny Harris pioneered bebop and was nicknamed Bird was the gentleman Isaac Parker.

Charlie Parker's right.

What country where two pilots died when a fire extinguishing plane crashed in Evia was the site of the 2020 True wildfire fires in Cook and Chris Canada.

Nope.

I'll finish it for you in Corfu, Corinthia and Rhodes.

What country with Brady?

Greece is right.

What country?

Who is home to Israel?

Co Volcano is west of the Gulf of Fonseca and southwest of El Salvador.

El Salvador is right.

What author of the dystopian science fiction novels Klara and The Sun and never Brodie Ishiguro.

Ishiguro is correct.

Napoleon returned to power in the hundred days after escaping from Elba.

That's the island.

What creatures whose kings rule over four seas surrounding China are auspicious beings, honored in a boat festival and resemble serpents izing dragons.

Dragons is right.

The 2023 MLB home run Derby was won by white first baseman and designated hitter for the Toronto Blue Jays.

John Davis Guerrero That's right.

Vladimir Guerrero won that.

Well done.

What?

Battle, whose victors were commanded by Europe, by IDs of Sparta and the Mystic Cleaves was a major naval victory.

Chris Thomas Salomon's The Battle of Salomon's Pencil and Paper.

What is the speed in kilometers per hour of a jogger who can run 300 meters every minute?

And with the answer is Eli No, that's incorrect.

HOOVER You have an answer.

1818 is right.

What Novellas Protagonist Dreams of lions on an African beach.

BRODY Old man in the sea.

That's right.

Next question in what 20th century decade did the Johnson Reed Act severely restrict immigration to the United States by instituting a quota system?

Yes.

Brody 1890 No, that's incorrect.

HOOVER Do you have an answer?

Chris?

Eighties Nope.

The 1920s.

Next question.

What tiny objects which act as particles based on their vibration when their name key strings strings is right?

Why?

Jewish-American author of The Mysteries of Pittsburgh wrote about two cousins who write comic books.

Stephen Miller Nope, that's incorrect.

Finishing for you comic books in The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier Miller and Clay Chabon.

Chabon is right.

Brodie What project, led by General Leslie Groves, was based at the Oakridge Laboratory, and that's a manhattan Project.

That's right.

What term name for a mythical youth whose body was forcibly joined?

Brody there?

Mom.

All right, finish your reading that.

Whose body was forcibly joined with that of a nymph.

Sal Macias described a being with male and female organs.

And who was that?

Isaac Hermaphrodite.

That's right.

What?

1824 Musical works, sometimes nicknamed Corral, has a fourth movement celebrating universal brotherhood using Frederick Schiller's Beethoven's Ninth.

Beethoven's Ninth is correct.

In 2023, Hyeon Toque, Kim et al claimed to discover a material that has what property at room temperature, enabling it to expel Brody Liquid.

No, enabling it to expel external magnetic fields.

What's it called?

Key Superconductivity is right.

What state?

Which is nicknamed the last best place.

And it's Chris Wyoming.

That's incorrect.

Finishing for you.

West Point.

The last best place contains Glacier National Park and the Little Bighorn Battlefield site and is led from Helena, Montana.

Montana.

Montana is right.

What analytical technique is a qualitative form of emission spectroscopy that yields a carmine red output for lithium?

What is that?

Flame test is correct for hyperbola pergola.

What points have a tangent parallel to the conjugate axes are a semi-major axis away from center and are tips of branches and John Davis vertex vertex for Texas's correct tactic is wrote a history of what ethnic group that's subtribes such as the Mark Khamenei and the see who defeated Roman legions.

Brody Ruskin That's incorrect.

Who defeated Roman legions at Troy Torborg Forest in the answer and Christian gods?

Nope.

The answer there was Germans.

And we're out of time.

Well-played.

Both of you did very well in the speed round there.

We'll see how close it was.

But you all played a very competitive round that time.

Whoever you did come out on top in this particular competition.

So we'll see you again.

And West Point, as always, performed well.

We're proud of all four of you and your coaches and everyone that came to be with us on the Scholars Bowl.

Thanks for being here, both teams.

And thank you for watching our program.

It's the Alabama Scholars Bowl.

We're getting close to the championship game coming up soon right here on Alabama public TV.

I'm Mike Royer.

Thanks for watching.

So long.