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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.

My name is Mike Royer.

Welcome to our program.

We hope you've made our program a regular habit of watching for you and your family every week here on Alabama Public Television.

We have two great teams in our studio today from Arab High School and also Lampe High School is back with us as well.

It's good to see you, gentlemen, too.

We want to thank the folks who work behind the scenes and do all the really hard stuff to make this program possible.

Christopher Arthur is the president of ASCO.

He serves as our judge today and also assisting with scorekeeping and some judging, too, to Sharon Daily and Kate Wilson.

Claudette Smith is working very hard to help organize the program.

And our executive producer is Mike Ousley.

Again, thank you for joining us.

Are you all ready to play?

We have 20 questions for you to begin.

If you answer the question correctly, you'll get a bonus question for your team.

We've got a lightning round coming up and an exciting 26 minutes or so.

Everybody is ready.

Let's get started with question number one.

What country Whose border with Saudi Arabia was closed from 2017 to 2021 is home to Al Jazeera and hosted the 2022 and buzzing is Nakheel Qatar.

Qatar is the right answer.

Bonus question for you.

Lampe What president ran for reelection on the slogan he cup kept us out of war despite ordering U.S. occupations of Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

Who?

Wilson Wilson is right?

Toss up everybody.

What force, which is independent of contact area.

According to my tons, first law is reduced by lubricants and opposes relative motion a tender of friction friction judges frictional is the answer they wanted.

Here's your bonus.

What capital of China's Shan Shi Province and one of the country's four great ancient capitals is home to the Terracotta army.

Nanjing it is the Shinhan Han is the capital.

Next everyone what is the what play in which the practice of bund burying burying is explained and it's a tendra importance of being earnest.

That is the right answer.

No.

Another bonus for you.

What heat resistant synthetic fiber invented by DuPont chemist Steven Cadillac is used in bulletproof vests.

Kevlar.

Kevlar is right.

Toss up what member of the Kurash tribe received Revelations at Mount Hera and buzzing in is James B Muhammad.

Muhammad is the right answer.

A rabbi.

I've got a bonus question for you.

In November of 2022, what countries signed an agreement negotiated by the African Union to end a civil war against the Tigrayan People's Liberation Front?

Ethiopia?

Ethiopia is right.

Well, that ties up what food?

Whose white variety is the second James V rice?

Nope.

I'll finish it for you.

Lamp White variety is the second most common source of sugar is used in a soup known as Borsch that has a characteristic red color.

And what is it?

A tender beat.

Beets is right your bonus.

What?

2022 film starring Rooney Mara and Claire Foy depicts an extended debate between the female members of the Mennonite colony.

No answer.

All right.

It's women talking Is the answer next for everyone.

What university?

Whose literary group the Inklings included J.R.R.

Tolkien names an English dictionary called the OED, and buzzing in is NyQuil.

Oxford University of Oxford is right.

Well done.

Bonus for you.

Katrina is the sequel to What a Novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, in which teenager David Balfour reclaims his inheritance after being abducted.

Treasure Island.

That's your answer?

Yeah, it's kidnaped pretty into a ditch.

I had that.

And then.

Yeah, that's all right.

Next question.

What note names the dominant note in the key of C major.

Also names the major key with one sharp.

And is the note a whole tone below A what is that?

And I don't see the river basin New York boys are g judges, he said g is g neutral is the full answer.

But you are right.

Bonus question Read what phylum includes the regenerative hydrogen genus Hydra as well as sea anemones and jellyfish.

It okay, you say accidents?

No, it's Nigeria.

Nigeria is the answer.

We want it for that one.

Toss up everybody.

What team When the 2023 Presidents Trophy with a record NHL regular season before being upset in round one of the Stanley Cup at home in Boston and buzzing in as a tender up Bruins the Boston Bruins is right your bonus the missing flight 820 8828 reappears more than a half decade after a takeoff on what supernatural TV drama whose title can refer to a list of passengers manifest manifest is right everybody what country which is the homeland to marina people is governance from Anton Na Revo and is a large island off the southeast coast of Africa to Madagascar is right.

Well done.

Your bonus question.

The 1972 photo The terror of war shows a screaming girl burned by what incinerated chemical widely used by the United States in bombing of Vietnam's jungles.

Napalm.

Napalm is right.

Pencil and paper ready?

How fun is this?

How much simple interest will a $200 investment earn in three years if the interest rate is 6% per year?

Buzzing in is James D 36 $36 would be your profit.

Here's your bonus question.

The hippo Griff Buck Beak is sentenced to death for attacking what Hogwarts student whose father Lucius, is a powerful death eater.

Draco Malfoy That's right.

Did you watch them all?

Read them all twice.

Okay, next for every one.

In what country did disputes over migration policy in July 2023 caused the fall of Mark Root as government in the Tweed come comma Parliament in the Hague.

Netherlands.

Netherlands is right.

Well done.

Bonus what Mexican author who's 584 line poem Sunstone is based on Aztec on the Aztec calendar, wrote The Labyrinth of Solitude and has a surname meaning peace.

Anything No into Octavia.

Pause.

Z That's the author.

Next, what author of the 1952 play The Mousetrap wrote about a snowbound train aboard, which is Detective Hercule.

And it's a teen drama Christie gets a Christie is right bonus for you the this county and these forces both served as dukes of what city in Lombardy Lombardy once Florence we wanted Milan we wanted in Milan for that everybody toss up Question What quantity which equals moment of inertia times angular acceleration is defined as radius cross force and is the rotational analog of force.

What is that called?

Nicky Torque that is torque is right bonus.

What body of water partly fills a caldera that formed when Mt.

Mesmer collapsed about 8000 years ago in Oregon.

Crater Lake Crater Lake is right for your bonus, everybody.

Both teams watch city at the meeting of clang and Gum back Rivers is home to Astana Niagara Palace, where Abdullah of Pohang reigns as king of Malaysia and Busan in anti-drug Kuala Lumpur.

Kuala Lumpur is right.

Bonus for you, John Howard Dory's short story.

The vampire was inspired by what poet who died during the Greek War of Independence before finishing his epic Don.

Join Don One stun, one Lord Byron.

Yeah.

Thank you, Lord Byron.

The right answer for your bonus.

Now toss up, everyone.

What city?

Whose cathedral has a dome designed by Filippo Brunelleschi is home to the FT C Gallery as well as And it's a tender at a point.

Did you?

Florence's right.

Horses finally worked for you all.

Here's your bonus question.

What Middle Eastern nation was invited by Israel in 1982?

Did I say invaded by Israel in 1982, prompting a Syrian occupation that lasted until the 2005 assassination of Rafik Hariri.

Eight Hariri, Jordan?

Lebanon is the right answer.

Toss up, everybody.

Just a few more in this round.

What novel that depicts McGuire's suicide in a plane crash is set in P.A.

centers on Bombardier.

John your sorry and buzzing in James be catch 22.

Catch 22 is right a bonus for you What 15th century painter worked with his brother Hubert on a large polyp.

Dick called either the adoration of the mystic lamb or gentle altarpiece.

Michelangelo, It's John Van Eyck.

John Van Eyck.

What Radio waves.

Both teams found at the peak of a namesake background radiation field left over from its COI microwave.

Microwave is right.

Bonus What you digit number worn by Jackie Robinson is the answer to life, the universe and everything in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 4242 is right.

Three more questions.

What African Empire was established after the Battle of Carina by Sundiata Handling.

And it is a trip.

Molly.

Molly is right.

Bonus question for you Lamp.

The city across the border from El Paso is named after what first indigenous president of Mexico who regained power from Emperor Maximilian in seven 1867.

SUAREZ It is Juarez.

Juarez is the right answer.

Next for everyone.

What book?

Series which is planned to end with its seventh novel, A Dream of Spring, is largely set in Westeros and is by George R.R.

Martin and Coy.

Game of Thrones.

No, that's incorrect.

You have in it.

I'm sorry.

More information prompt a.

A song of ice and fire.

There you go.

That made the judge happier.

Thank you.

Bonus question for you.

Platinum can be used in what?

General class of medicine use to treat cancer, which can cause hair loss fatigue and other negative side effects.

Chemotherapy.

Chemotherapy is right.

Last question of this round What conic sections are used to approximate integrals in Simpson's rule?

Always have a eccentricity of one and are the graphs and James de circle?

No, that's incorrect.

Finishing it for you lamp.

And are the graphs of quadratic functions.

What do you have to kill?

Parabola.

That is right.

Your bonus question What year of the Chinese zodiac began in January 2023, succeeding the Year of the Tiger Pig?

No, it's the rabbit.

It's the rabbit.

But you took a shot.

That's good to lay your buttons down, relax.

To do a couple of things here.

We're going to play our lightning round.

I'm going to tell you and the folks at home what our categories are for the Lightning Round.

And also we'll ask you to all introduce yourself.

Tell us a little bit about yourself.

Our categories are person's person of the Year.

Sports teams starts with a r, t, and currencies of the world.

The trailing team arrive.

You're trailing slightly here at the midpoint of our program.

You will choose first from those categories.

LAMP.

You'll choose two categories.

We'll do them both and then go back and you guys will be stuck with the leftovers after we play three.

Okay, So at this point, let's meet our players.

We're proud of all of them and how they represent their schools and their families.

And let's meet James, Did you start for us?

I'm James Drake.

I'm a freshman in high school and I do chess club and JROTC.

My name is Chloe Meyer.

I'm a senior at Area High School, and I would like to get a degree in computer engineering.

I'm Stevie Clinton.

I'm a senior year of high school, and I plan on pursuing a career in education.

I'm James Beard.

I'm in ninth grade.

I'll play football, tennis and swim, and I'm a part of the Beta Club.

All right.

From Lampe, let's meet these gentlemen.

Hi, I'm Nicole Patina.

I am currently a senior at Lamp High School.

And when I'm interesting fact about me is that I like to sing.

My name is Attenborough.

I'm a senior at LAMP, and one of my favorite hobbies is to play chess.

Hello.

My name is A.P.

Paula, and one of my hobbies is to play tennis.

Hello.

I'm Isaac.

I'm a senior at LAMP, and I'm proud to say I'm a secretariat on the United Nations team.

Very good.

We're glad to have all of you with us.

Nicole, we have a little time left where you could do a number for us at the end of the show today.

Maybe another time.

All right, let's go over to Aravind.

Has your team selected one of these categories?

Yes.

We would like currency you again.

You want to do currencies of the world?

Sir.

What you said.

Very good.

Clock will start when I begin asking you.

But you'll have 60 seconds to give.

I'll give you a country.

You name.

It's basic unit of currency, obviously.

Here we go.

Canada.

Canadian dollar.

That's right.

United Kingdom.

Great British pound.

Japan yen, China passed.

Iraq.

Pass.

Austria, the euro.

Switzerland.

Swiss franc.

Yes.

Russia.

The ruble.

Albania.

It's the euro.

No, it's called the leak Electric key.

And Bangladesh is the last one.

Plenty of time.

Bangladesh rupee that is the Taka you passed on Iraq and they passed on one other one.

Didn't they?

Say again for number for China.

Well, and time is up.

China is the Y Onion is pronounced one.

Is that how you pronounce it?

All right.

Well done.

Did pretty good with us.

You guys have two to choose from.

Are going to do both of them back to back.

And Tiger, what do you guys want to do?

We like to do sports teams and begins with air.

All right.

Let's do sports teams first.

When the clock starts, you'll have 60 seconds given one or more teams, name the sport.

Here we go.

New York Yankees, baseball, Cleveland Browns, football, Seattle Sounders soccer.

That's right.

Carolina, Hurricanes, Hockey.

That's right.

Team Penske past the All Blacks team from New Zealand.

Rugby.

That's right.

Minnesota Lynx, WNBA.

That's right.

Samsung Con in South Korea.

Yeah.

Soccer.

Soccer.

That's video games.

Calgary Roughnecks in the Philadelphia Wings CFL that's lacrosse.

Springfield Lasers in Chicago Smash has already.

You still have that one on the board.

Did you pass anything else?

Five Is Team Penske take a shot Cricket.

That's auto racing and something Con Did they pass on that?

Yeah.

Yeah, they missed that one and time is up Springfield Asian Chicago smash to us does that all right And then was Art your other one?

Yes, sir.

Give the answers that begin with the consecutive letters.

Air T 60 seconds.

Here we go.

Green vegetable with an edible heart artichoke, green goddess of the hunt.

Artemus.

Phylum of invertebrates such as beetles.

Arthropod.

That's right.

New Yorker, who became president after James Garfield was assassinated.

Our.

That's right.

Type of blood vessel that carries blood away from the heart artery.

Team for an object unearthed by an archeologist.

Term of an object unearthed by an archeologist.

Artifact.

Nickname of a thief named Jack Dawkins, who mentors Oliver Twist.

Artful Dodger.

That's right.

Class of weapons.

It includes cannons and mortars, artillery.

Medical condition in which joints become stiff or swollen.

Arthritis.

Eight letter synonym for trick or deception pass.

And that's the only one you passed on.

I believe that.

Right, judges?

Yep.

You have 14 seconds.

Eight letter synonym for trick or deception.

Guarded artist.

What did you say?

Artist.

Okay.

Wow.

Answer is artifice.

Artifice or artifices?

That's a new word of the day.

We'll all learn together.

And now we come the sea.

Yes, we come back to you.

A crab.

And you're going to do I believe it's Person of the Year is what we have left over, given a year and a description.

Name the Person of the year as chosen by Time magazine.

Here we go.

In 1963, he gave the I Have a Dream speech, Martin Luther King Junior, 2019, Swedish environmentalist, environmental activist.

Thunberg.

That's right.

1927 made the first solo transatlantic flight.

Lindbergh Indian man who led the Salt March.

Gandhi, 21, mayor of New York City.

Bloomberg No, it's Giuliani, 1981 Polish man who founded the Union Solidarity Desk, 1998 independent counsel who investigated Bill Clinton s 1936 woman whose relationship with Edward the eighth caused a scandal.

That's 1995.

Speaker of the House, who co-wrote the Contract with America.

CLINTON That was Gingrich, 1962 Pope who convened the Second Vatican Council.

John Paul no, that's incorrect.

I right.

Let's started out really easy.

And it got hard right in the middle, didn't it?

Don't you hate it when that happens?

All right.

You all played well in all four categories.

We have 6 minutes left.

And as always, we'll be watching the time very closely as we go through the rest of our program today.

But in the speed round there are no bonus questions.

You all understand that?

I'll ask the question you answer.

If you answer correctly, you get 20 points, so do some catching up or build your lead.

Here we go.

Which battle thought shortly after the battle of Stamford Bridge was depicted and it is a seizure from.

But you're in your name Hastings.

Hastings is right.

Edmund Dawn task is imprisoned after agreeing to carry a letter from the exiled Napoleon.

In what novel?

By Alexander.

And again, no Monte Cristo kind of manner.

Christopher is right.

What English composer?

The dream of Gironde.

T.S.

included a Nimrod movement in his Enigma variations and wrote the Pomp and circumstance marches.

Who did that in Windsor?

No answer.

Do you have a rap?

Yes.

Yes, sir.

See again, Sousa?

No, it was Edward Elgar.

Edward Elgar in the War of the Pacific.

What country conquered mineral rich regions from Bolivia and James from Zimbabwe.

Now, I'll finish this for you.

Lamp.

What country conquered mineral rich regions from Bolivia and Peru in 1884?

Chile?

That's right.

Chile is right.

What region?

Which is home to the Banks Island and the city of Inuvik is where the Mackenzie River flows from the great slave lake.

And it's James Yukon.

No, that's incorrect.

I'll finish it is where the Mackenzie River flows from the great slave lake near Yellowknife.

What is the region called?

The answer Northwest Territories is what we wanted.

The MeToo movement was sparked by sexual assault allegations against what man who was found guilty of rape in California near a Tendra Nassar No, that's incorrect.

Arab I'll finish it.

Allegations against white men who was found guilty of rape in California in December of 2022.

Yes.

Are Kelly?

Nope.

It was Harvey Weinstein.

Harvey Weinstein What woman who wrote The President's Are Not Kings in a 2019 ruling involving Don McGahn, McGahn succeeded Stephen Breyer as justice on the Supreme Court.

Yes, Satyendra Jackson No, that's incorrect.

But swaps?

Yes, it's Carter, Angie, Brown.

Jackson.

That's right.

You got that answer right.

Well done.

From the original statement.

If P then Q What 14 letter name is given to the logically equivalent statement?

If not.

Q And it's at a ten year, a ten country positive contract.

Positive is right.

What man who renamed his vessel from the Pelican to the Golden Hind completed history second ever, James Drake Drake is right.

Sir Francis Jeffrey Skilling and Ken Lay served as CEOs of what Houston based energy company.

They committed massive accounting fraud.

A tendra ExxonMobil.

No, that's incorrect for a crab committed massive accounting fraud and went bankrupt in 2001.

You know that company?

No answer.

It is Enron.

Enron is what we wanted.

Pencil and paper Ready, please.

How many cents will be given in change if a $10 bill is used to buy three pies that each cost $3.10?

Yes, it's 70.

70 is the right answer.

What Lengthy novel by David Foster Wallace is partly set at the fictional Enfield, Tennessee Academy in Massachusetts.

Infinite Jest is the answer.

What body part is found inside a loaf of bread?

In a story by Nikolai Gogol and is very prominent on the face of swordsmen soprano Bear.

JINICH The answer is nose noses, right?

Well done.

Little extra beep there.

That's OC More pencil and paper, more math.

How good is it?

Get How many edges does the complete grafts K five contain, Given it can be drawn as a pentagram inside a pentagon, someone got an answer.

A tender does 25.

That's incorrect.

A review of an answer.

We'll take a shot clock coin.

What do you got?

15 now?

Ten is what they wanted.

Ten edges.

What?

President who won two terms by defeating Horatio Seymour and Horace Greeley succeeded Andrew Johnson in 1869.

And it's a Tendra Grant.

Ulysses S Grant.

What?

Senator who promised in 2016 not to seek a third term, narrowly defeated Mandela Barnes to win reelection was Wisconsin in 2022.

Wisconsin Senator Paul Nope, that's incorrect.

You guys have an answer.

Ron Johnson is the answer.

The air humans breed lies in what lowest layer of the atmosphere the region where most James with us fear.

No that's incorrect lamp it's where most weather occurs and the one beneath the stratosphere.

What's it called?

No answer.

No answer.

The trope, the troposphere is what that is.

The Three Tenors consisted of Lazaro Domingo, Jose Cabrera's, and what Italian singer who signature Pavarotti is right?

What two letters are shipped pref prefix for a merchant steamship denote the infielder between second and third base and a name of a Nazi parliamentary group.

Quoits SS is right out of time, out of questions, out of answers.

You all played well.

Lamp came out on top today.

In this round you played well, as you always do.

RB You played well.

Your second appearance on our program too.

So well done today and thank you for watching our program.

We call this program the Alabama Scholar's Bowl.

I'm Mike Royer.

Thank you for watching and inviting you to join us next time right here on Alabama Public Television.