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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.

Welcome once again to the Alabama Scholars Bowl here on statewide television, on Alabama public television.

My name is Mike Royer.

Welcome to our program once again.

We're glad you watch every week.

And we enjoy every week bringing some of the best and brightest students from all over the state of Alabama to the studio to compete for scholarship money and just to show off how smart they are to be very frank about it.

And we enjoy meeting all of the students in the studio today.

We have back with us the students from West Point High School up in Cullman County.

It's good to have you back with us.

And also Gadsden City has been with us before and they're back with us as well.

You'll meet all of them individually at the midpoint of our program.

But we're glad you're back and I hope you're ready to play our game today.

Our judges for the program are Sharon Dailey, Rhonda Brewer and Kate Wilson.

Claudette Smith, who helped coordinate much of our program.

Mike Ousley is the executive producer of the Alabama Scholars Bowl.

Got your buttons in and ready to go.

Let's see how well we do Question number one, what American Kim is defined to acids and Brody Lewis.

That's right.

Gilbert Lewis is the answer your bonus the outdoor sculptures enlist column and the table of silence are by white Romanian sculptor of a series Bird in space, white number and Couche.

The other one like Brant Frankish that yes brand Kirsty is right.

Next question Both teams white Egyptian god who replaced Montoya as the patron dead of Thebes, was identified with Jupiter in zoos and was famously fuzed with the sun.

God ra the ended.

The question is famously fuzed with the sun God.

RA Do you have an answer?

Martin No, it's I'm in.

Am you in?

I'm in.

Next question.

What Emperor ruled as his country conquered Burma and the Philippines.

Establish Manchukuo and lost to the allies.

And it's Alvin Hito.

Hirohito is the correct answer.

Bonus question for you What state has a uniquely pinot shaped flag featuring five red and white stripes and 17 stars?

I'll Ohio.

That's correct.

Ohio's right toss up question why the English poet included a poison tree in his collection.

And it's Brody Lake, William Blake is right.

Going to need pencil and paper for your bonus question.

Just for you, West Point.

What is the smallest positive even number that is divisible by both three and 742?

Probably?

I think so, yeah.

Yeah.

40 to 42 is correct.

Toss up what country which contains most of the upper nine mountains is home to an active volcano on Brady Italy.

Italy is correct.

Good job, Brody.

Bonus question for your team.

What 1947 book by Margaret Wise Brown describes an old lady whispering hush to a great green room.

It is a classic bedtime story.

Goodnight, Moon.

That's right.

I bet I read that a thousand times.

Good job.

Toss up.

Question A letter to Lorenzo de Medici opens.

What book that compares Rulers Brody The Prince.

The Prince is right.

Your bonus in 2020 Mark Meadows held what position later held by Ron Clain, which is often described as the gatekeeper for the president.

National Security Adviser.

National security adviser.

Naturally, one was the chief of staff, Chief of staff to the president.

What conspiracy, which is commemorated by Bonfire Night every November 5th.

Brody Gunpowder Plot.

Gunpowder plot is right.

Your bonus again pencil and paper.

If P is a point on the circumference of a circle, then what is the angle between the tangent at P and the radius in the net?

P 90, 90 degrees or a right angle?

That's right.

Next question, everyone.

What organ expresses large amounts of cytochrome P450 enzymes to metabolize drugs makes fat emulsifying bile and lies beneath.

In its ticker the liver is the right one.

Your bonus question now.

Guests in city a woman of the far future named Wiener belongs to what group of small beings who are preyed upon by Morlocks in H.G.

Wells novel The Time Machine, The evil.

Yeah.

Illinois Eloy Eloy is correct.

Toss up everyone in what African country Did.

All Progressives Congress candidate Bola Tinubu to succeed Mo MOHAMMADU Buhari as President at the 2023 inauguration of Buju.

African countries wide Brody, Nigeria Nigeria's Write Your Bonus.

The earliest opera still regularly performed is Claudio Monteverdi.

Tis 1609 The Vola in Musica or fable in music about what mythical musician Orpheus.

Orpheus is right toss up what NFL team, which was led by quarterback Bart Starr and coach Vince Lombardi.

Eli Packers.

The Green Bay Packers is the right answer.

Your bonus.

What Revolutionary War officers use of guerrilla tactics against the British led him to be named the swamp Fox of Marion.

Maybe Marion.

Frances Marion is right.

Toss up question.

Big Cypress National Preserve is part of what wetlands region extending southward from Lake Okeechobee.

Brody Everglades Everglades is right.

Bonus Kasey pretends to be a ghost to escape the plantation of what villainous character who orders Uncle Tom's death in a Harriet Beecher Stowe novel.

Simon Legree.

Simon Legree is correct.

Toss up, everybody grab your pencils and paper.

What is the slope of the line defined by the equation?

Two X plus Y equals seven.

And the answer from LATKA negative to negative two minus two is right.

Bonus question for you What analytical technique typically uses a magnet field to separate molecules based on their M to Z ratio techniques with only two things.

It was a technique that's like something with magnets titration you defer to Chris Titration No, the answer is mass spectrometry sort.

Okay.

Question for everyone.

What Empire?

Who's Jaguar and Eagle Warriors?

Fort Brody.

Aztec.

Aztec is right.

The Aztec Empire.

Your bonus question now, what Spanish word names the centuries long conflict that ended in 1492 with Ferdinand and Isabella capturing the Moorish city of Granada Reconquista.

That's correct.

Toss up both teams.

What playwright depicted Harry Hope Saloon?

Brody O'Neill.

O'Neill is correct.

Bonus What author wrote about two deaf mute friends named Sparrows.

And to note the loss and John Singer in her novel The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.

Oh crap, I remember this.

Smith Carson McCullers is the one we wanted.

Next question for everyone.

What word that harms Monty Python's Knights Say NI also names a two part film set in Maine that features Bill Skarsgard as Pennywise.

It Corp It is correct.

Corbin Good job.

Bonus pencil and paper.

It's a math question.

What is the fifth term of a geometric sequence whose first term is two and whose third term is ten?

I We multiply by what needs an answer.

2550 is what we were looking for.

Next question Which country that declared independence in the cry of Ipiranga was ruled by Emperor Pedro, the first after gaining independence.

Brodie Brazil.

Brazil is right.

Bonus In 2023, what country led Joko Widodo worked with Space X on the SAT TRIA one satellite which will boost Internet access for its 280 million residents.

What country did?

Indonesia.

Indonesia's right, everybody.

What constellation which contains the M 87 black hole and the star Spiker lies between Leo and Libra in the Zodiac Brodie Sagittarius No in the Zodiac and depicts a maiden and yes.

Chris Virgo.

Virgo is the right answer.

Your bonus.

In Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels, the tiny resident of what country argue over how to crack eggs and go to war with nearby Blair Fusco Little bit.

A little bit is right next everybody what novel whose protagonist marries order after winning a bet at the Reform club and it's Latika around the world in 80 days.

That's right.

Here's your bonus.

For years, Mary Mallon was quarantined on New York's North Brother Island to prevent her from spreading what infectious disease described as a fever.

The fever of fever.

Scarlet, scarlet fever, nose, typhoid, Typhoid was the answer.

Two more questions before we pause.

What leader who co-wrote the 2023 children's book Climate Change Latika?

Clinton No, that's not right.

Let me finish it for you.

Is climate change is married to Camilla Parker Bowles and is the ruling king of England.

BRODY Charles the third.

That's right.

Charles The third is the right answer.

Last bonus question here next to the last what African country where the 7 million year old saw hell and drop US fossil was found lies south of Libya and is governed from Asia.

Minor Chad Brady's right.

Chad is the right answer.

Now we go to our last question of this round.

What war in which a UN landing at Incheon was led by Brody and you said Korean Korean War is correct.

Bonus What Castilian saint establish the order of preachers also known as the Black Friars in 1216.

Your bonus question, Francis?

No, it's Saint Dominic.

Saint Dominic.

Lay your buttons down, take a breath, relax a bit, and we're going to do two things.

First, I'm going to tell our viewers at home and our teams what our four lightning round subjects are.

The team that is trailing at the midpoint of our program will choose first.

The other team will choose two and play them both, and then the other team will play what is left over at the end.

Our trailing team here at the midpoint, Sharon is West Point.

No Get Sin City very trailing by a bit, but you're going to have a great chance to catch up shortly as we go to the last round.

And here as well, our categories are world literature, characters, Pacific islands, mascots and ends in the letter.

You think about that.

And in a moment I'll ask you to choose one of those categories as they think about that and as your team thinks about it, we'd like to meet each of our individual players.

Eli, would you begin for us?

My name's Eli Taylor.

I'm a junior at West Point High School, and I participate in the math team.

My name is John Davis.

You may know I'm a junior at West Point High School, and I hope to attend Auburn University when I'm is Brody Henry.

I'm a junior at West Point High School, and I'm also on the math team.

My name is Brady Dorfman.

I am a sophomore at West Point High School, and I go second in our county Map Now Team tournament.

Very good.

Your team all plays very well.

We're glad to have you in the studio now, the players from Gadsden City.

Hi, I'm Christopher Holder.

I'm the sophomore at SNC High School.

Favorite subject is history.

And I sing bass in the choir.

My name is Elvin.

When I'm a sophomore, I get to see high school and I play in the orchestra.

My name is Leticia Brassard.

I'm an eighth grader at Gets the Middle School.

I want to go to Duke for college.

Very good.

My name is Corbin.

How I go to get Sun City High School.

And for tomorrow morning we will be heading to the Junior ROTC academic competition to compete.

Cool.

Where's that going to be?

If I'm in Berkeley, it's somewhere near Millbrook.

Oh, good.

Good for you.

What a great experience that will be.

All right.

You got to choose a category.

Which one will it be?

Can we have real world literary characters?

World literary characters?

Yes, you can.

The clock won't start till I begin asking the questions, which you're simply going to name.

I say simply like it.

Simple Name the non-American author who created these literary characters.

Ready?

Here we go.

The Unfaithful.

Anna Karenina.

Tolstoy.

Tolstoy is right.

The hunchback Class of modern Hugo.

That's right.

Hedda GABLER.

The title figure.

That's right.

The Handmaid.

Offred Atwood.

That's right.

Raskolnikov.

Dostoevsky.

That's right.

The Shining Prince.

Shining Path.

Hello?

Genji Murasaki.

Yes, my bad.

Sorry, Colonel.

A really Yano.

That's right.

Dr. Yuri Zhivago.

Pasternak.

That's right.

Hacker.

Elisabeth Sen Salander.

Oh, Larsson.

That's right.

And Mr. Biswas, who builds a house, has a house for Mr. Biswas.

Yeah, plenty of time.

15 seconds.

Mr. B's was Who built a house in Nepal?

That's right.

That's right.

Well done.

You got all of them right.

With time to spare.

You had time to go out for a soft drink during that one.

All right.

We're going to come over to you now.

West Point.

Please tell me two categories you like and we'll play them back to back.

What do you want to do, Brody?

Mascots.

And in the new mascots and ends in you.

We're going to give you a college sports mascot.

You were hoping that's what it was, right?

And you're going to name the school that it represents.

60 seconds.

Here we go.

An Irish leprechaun.

Notre Dame.

Albert and Alberta.

Who are alligators?

Florida Bevo, which is a longhorn.

Texas.

Brutus.

Buckeye.

Ohio State.

Big Al.

Who's an elephant?

Yeah, Alabama.

You better get that.

A dancing tree.

Syracuse?

No, it's Stanford.

Ralphie.

Who's a bison?

Colorado.

That's right.

Ramblin Wreck, which is the 1930 car.

Michigan.

That's Georgia Tech Sparky, which is a maroon and gold devil.

Go to Harvard.

That's Arizona State.

Handsome Dan, who's a bulldog.

Is that Georgia?

Now that's Yale.

That's Yale.

Georgia's has got a bulldog, too.

Well done.

You did a good job with those.

And you're also going to do Indian.

You.

Is that right?

Brodie and John Davis.

Okay.

Ends in you name these words that end with the letter U boy.

List of dishes available in a restaurant.

Menu.

Five letter French word for goodbye.

Do I do?

That's right.

Large Australian, flightless bird, emu, flat region within a mountainous area.

But a Greek letter before Z U.

It is new.

Swampy creek in the southern U.S. Bayou.

That's right.

Coffee flavored Italian dessert, whose name means pick me up.

Tiramisu.

Right.

Adjective meaning unplanned.

Impromptu.

That's right.

Popular Linux distribution developed by conical.

Ubuntu.

Ubuntu.

That's right.

Word formed by merging the start and end of two other words.

You have 10 seconds as.

Okay.

And did you pass on the others?

Judges?

Okay.

The last one is word four.

By merging the start and end of two other words come plu.

It's called a portmanteau.

Portmanteau.

All right.

Well done.

Now, as you know, get Sin City, you get stuck with what's left, right, And what's left is.

Let's see here.

Pacific Islands.

You're going to love this.

You ready?

Name the islands in the Pacific.

Here we go.

Islands with a pop.

You were province, Papua.

Say it again.

Indonesia?

No, New Guinea was right.

Island country, home to Taipei, Taiwan.

That's right.

Largest island of Japan.

Honshu.

That's right.

Largest island in British Columbia, Canada, which shares its name with the province's capital.

Oh, Brother Island Pass.

All right.

South southern, most Australian state, home to a name.

So many devil.

That's right.

New Zealand Island.

Home to Wellington.

Auckland North.

Yes.

North Island.

Island Home to the capital of French Polynesia.

To Tahiti.

Tahiti.

That's right.

Most populous island in Hawaii.

Oahu.

Oh, that's right.

Largest and most populous island in the Philippines.

That's right.

American Island.

That is the largest and southern most of the Mariana Islands and it past Pacific.

All right.

We go back to four largest island in British Columbia, Canada, which shares its name with the province's capital city, Vancouver.

Right.

Time is up and you got nine out of ten.

I believe the last one was Guam.

The American island was Guam.

Well done.

We have just under 7 minutes left in our program.

As you all know from playing before, if you're behind at this point, you can catch up.

These are 20 point questions.

Answer a few of these correctly and you'll make a difference.

And no bonus questions.

Just answer the question.

We move on.

Here we go.

What term is translated as Ruka in German and Pawn in French denotes a structure such as the Sydney Harbor and the Golden Gate once and it.

Wow, everybody tried to ring in, but Chris, you were first bridge.

Bridge is right at the 2021 U.S. Open Russian Daniil Medvedev was booed during his championship point, which denied what other tennis player a calendar grand Latika Djokovic Djokovic is right what author who wrote about a man who dies of hypothermia in his story.

Latika London.

London is right.

What Greek hero used the help of media to retrieve the girl.

Latika.

Jason is right.

What else?

I derived unit is equal to one volt ampere or one joule per second measures power and is named for an inventor.

Corbin Watt.

What is right?

Hittite King Mukhtar Tali the second and Ramses the Great signed the Eternal treaty after what, 1274 Brody Kadesh Kadesh is right what rapper says he knows his whole backs to these ropes and describes vomit on his sweater already in a song Eminem That is correct.

Sounds like a charming song.

What seven letter term can refer to the total weight or total dry weight of all living matter in a given area.

And Brady biomass is right.

What president who was accused of cruelty in the coffin handbills unseated John Quincy Adams in 1828.

JACKSON Andrew Jackson is right.

William Shatner became the oldest person in space after a trip in the New Shepard rocket, which is operated by John Davis.

Livraison No, that's not correct.

I'll finish the question, which is operated by the company owned by Jeff B Bezos.

What's the name of his company?

Yes, Amazon.

No, it is Blue Origin is his missile program.

What quantity?

Whose change is known as impulse is conserved in all collisions?

Brody Momentum.

Momentum is right.

Which 13th century Mongol ruler founded the Yuan dynasty?

BRODY Going is gone.

No, that's not right.

Dynasty launched two invasions of Japan and was visited by Marco Polo and Corbin.

Kublai Khan.

Kublai Khan is right.

What power granted in the Constitution's Article two, Section two, clause one is invoked when the president grants clemency or criminal John Davis.

Pardon?

A pardon is the right answer.

4 minutes to go, white man who had an open relationship with fellow existentialism and Sartre start is correct.

What industry, which in 1820 was shaken by the ethics disaster, involved the use of the trie work to render oil from the sea creatures that were harpooned.

What was it?

Jordan Whaling is right.

Sky and Iona are islands In what archipelago?

Off the western coast of Scotland.

What are those islands called?

Yes, Hebrides is correct.

Brady.

Good job.

Pencil and paper.

Quick math problem.

What is the sum of all the internal angles of a convex Pentagon, given that it could be partitioned into three triangles?

And the answer from Latika five 4540 is ripe.

Thank you.

Next question What cells which have regulatory and helper forms and brutal T cells?

That's right.

T cells.

What author claimed the greatest skill was to subdue the enemy without fighting in attacks.

Noting all war fans, the Sun Zoo is right.

What Soviet leader made agricultural reforms in the Virgin Lands campaign and pursued de-Stalinization during his namesake, Chris Khrushchev.

Nikita Khrushchev is right.

Next events in what city are shown in the 1935 Leni Riefenstahl film Triumph of the Nuremberg.

Nuremberg is right.

What Argentina author included the short story?

BRODY Yes, that's correct.

What Structural?

Structural protein.

Whose disulfide bonds are broken during a perm makes up the dead outer layer of skin and comprises hair and fingernails.

What's it called?

John Davis.

Keratin is right.

Just 2 minutes left.

Robert Innis discovered what Red Dwarf.

That is about 1.3 parsecs from Earth.

Making it, Grady.

That's right.

Proxima Centauri is correct.

In, what, 2022 Supreme Court decision by Samuel Alito, partly named after a mississippi state health officer.

Did the court overrule Roe v Wade?

Does view Jackson.

Dobbs v Jackson is right.

Corbin What chair of the student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and Future congressman was nearly killed during the Selma to Montgomery march in 1965.

Curtis Lewis is right.

What he wrote received the sword.

Her writing from Attica.

That's right.

What type of orange choose varieties include two Rocko and Moro have orange colored peel, but deeper red flesh.

What's that called?

La chicken Blood.

Orange, blood.

Orange is right.

What city?

Whose outskirts are home to?

The Hera cave contains the black stone at the Kaaba Brody Mecca.

Mecca is right.

What theological concept refers to the belief that during the Eucharist, the bread in the weiner transformed into Jesus's actual body and blood.

I'm sorry, Communion?

No.

Anybody know what it's called, Brody?

Holy Communion?

No.

It's called transubstantiation.

The character Willie Gillis was created by white painter whose works, including the Four Freedom Series, often appeared in the Saturday Evening Post.

Rockwell.

Rockwell is right.

Last question.

What?

Work in nine eight time.

By Claude Debussy.

The third movement of his sweet bear Boo mask.

And it is Chris Clair de Lune.

Clair de Lune is right layer buttons down.

That was a heck of a round you all played most of the time.

When we do this at the end, I kind of think I know who won.

I have no idea who won that round.

But West Point did.

Apparently by a small, small margin.

You all played great.

All of you did.

I know if you didn't win your pride, you're disappointed, but you don't be disappointed in how you played today.

It's fun watching these bright students compete every week on this program.

It's the Alabama Scholar's Bowl.

I'm Mike Rowe here.

We thank you for watching and hope you'll join us again next time.

So long.