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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.

My name is Mike Royer.

We're glad you're joining us here on Alabama Public Television.

We're here every week and been on the air five or six years now.

And we love the fact that you watch every week and we know that you do.

We welcome to our studio today, two teams from two fine schools.

Tuscaloosa Academy is in the studio with us today.

And the students from Dade Ville High School, you'll meet them all individually at about the midpoint of our program today.

But they are here to compete on the questions we have for them.

We'll have 20 questions to begin.

If you answer a question correctly, you get a bonus question.

We have a lightning round in the middle of our program and then pretty fast paced speed round at the end of the program where they answer as many questions as they can.

And even if you're trailing at that point, you can make up ground quickly because those questions are worth 20 points.

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

We thank Claudette Smith for being involved in herding all of the students around where they're supposed to be.

Mike Ousley is our executive producer.

Everybody ready?

Buttons in hand.

Let's get started.

Remember, if you answer correctly, you get a bonus.

Here's question number one What fictional group whose members include Baby John and Action sings Gee, Officer Krupke and are the white rivals of the Sharks and Never Say again the Newsies?

No, that is incorrect.

I'll finish the answer.

This is white.

Are the white rivals of the Sharks in the West Side Story?

David, do you have an answer for that?

That's yours, if you can have it.

You know it.

Now that I finished it.

Jets is the answer we were looking for.

Next question for everyone.

What part of the human upper extremity is known as the Pollocks has two phalanges and has a saddle shaped joint that allows it to be opposable.

What is that?

And Michael, it is the thumb.

Well done.

Your bonus question for you.

Tuscaloosa Academy, Aldous Huxley's dystopian novel, Brave New World.

What 20th Century industrialist is venerated for philosophical teaching such as history is bunk.

You know who that is?

You don't have to buzz in on your bonus.

What do you have?

Isaiah?

Henry Ford is correct.

Well done.

Toss up for both teams.

What playwright wrote about Septimus tutoring Thomas Sinha in Arcadia and about two characters from Hamlet in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead?

Is the playwright Dan looking Edison?

Oh, Shakespeare.

No, that's incorrect.

You have an answer.

Tesla's Academy.

That is Tom Stoppard or Thomas Stoppard is the right answer.

Next question, everyone.

What city is home to the Ah?

Rima Onsen Hot Springs was devastated by the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake and is the source of a prized Japanese beef.

What city is that?

Anyone?

I'll bet you've had Kobe beef.

So I jumped it.

Did you know that it's Kobe is the answer we wanted there, Everyone.

What?

Man fired CEO Parag a roar wall and shared a picture of himself carrying a sink.

In October 2022, after purchasing Audrey Elon Musk.

Elon Musk is the right answer.

Bonus question for your team.

What alliterative nickname arose for the 47 ton German M a m garet Howitzer artillery guns that were used at the Battle of Lyons and at Verdun.

What did they call that big gun?

Do you all know?

I think the allies called it Big Bertha.

That was such a big weapon.

Next question.

Both teams what show who season four soundtrack opens with separate ways and includes Kate Bush's running up that hill.

Stranger Things.

Stranger Things is right.

Here's your bonus question.

Tuscaloosa Academy.

What singer, whose solo albums include Doo Wops and Hooligans, joined rapper Anderson Pack to form the super duo Silk Sonic.

Who is that?

No answer.

Bruno Mars is the answer.

We wanted their toss up.

Both teams.

What region?

Which extends from Woods Hole in the Southwest to Provincetown, is to the north of Martha's Vineyard.

And there's a cape in Massachusetts.

What are looking for there, Michael?

Cape Cod.

Cape Cod is the right answer.

Your bonus.

The optimal reaction for fusion reactors requires what?

Unstoppable, unstable isotope of hydrogen and has two neutrons.

Deuterium.

Say again.

No, it is tritium.

Tritium is the answer we want.

Toss up everyone.

What?

President authorized Operation Ajax to overthrow Iran's prime minister created Nasser to kick off the space race in 1958, and his nickname was Ike and Edison.

Ronald Reagan.

No, that's incorrect.

You have an answer.

Tuscaloosa.

And it's Isaiah.

Eisenhower.

That's Dwight.

David Eisenhower.

Bonus question.

In the Black Hawk Down incident, 18 American soldiers died fighting in the 1993 against insurgents.

In what East African capital city?

That's your bonus question.

What city are we looking for?

Mogadishu is the answer.

Toss up What quantity?

Whose vapor type appears in raw ult.

Law is inversely proportional to a gases volume and can be measured in pascals or atmospheres and Michael.

Pressure.

Pressure is right.

Your tossed your bonus question.

What volcano which erupted in December of 2022 for the first time since 1984, makes up much of the big island of Hawaii.

Mauna Loa Kanaloa is the right answer.

Good 10th question.

Halfway through these questions in the opening part of our round in 2022, Dana Blue clarity became what South American countries first female president after Pedro Castillo was impeached and detained in the capital, Lima.

What country is that, Michael?

Peru is right.

Your bonus question AEST and RSA algorithms perform what task?

Which encodes a message so that only those with a certain key can read it.

Symmetric encryption judges.

He said.

Symmetric encryption or more specific look then no, that's incorrect.

The answer is encryption.

I'm not the judge.

I just read the questions.

Next question for everyone.

What Roman politician was the target of Cicero's Philip Philip IX and lost the battle of Actium to Octavian, after which he and Cleopatra committed suicide?

Answer from Edison.

Mark Antony.

Mark Antony is right.

Here is your bonus question.

De Ville What work by Art Spiegelman about the Holocaust was the first graphic novel to win a Pulitzer Prize.

You might know the name of that.

It's called Mouse.

Mouse.

Email us is the spelling if you care.

Next, what artist painted a crumbling pillar inside a torso in the broken column and included hummingbirds in a self-portrait inspired by her Mexican roots.

That is what Edison.

Frida Kahlo.

Frida Kahlo is right.

Well done.

Another bonus question for you.

What name is shared by an outdoor apparel company founded by Yvonne Shoe in there and a region and an arid region of southern Chile and Argentina.

What is the name of the company and color region?

So again, Colombia is Patagonia, but that was a good guess.

Next question for everyone.

What novel whose protagonist works at the Liberty Paint Factory and Lives in Harlem, features an unnamed black narrator and is by Ralph Ellison to obscure anyone.

The answer is the Invisible Man.

Invisible Man.

Next, What denomination?

The main target of the No Nothing movement had no adherents elected president until 1960, when John F Kennedy won the office.

And it is Isaiah Catholic.

That's Christ.

Catholic is the right answer.

Bonus question for you.

What three word term?

Whose first word begins with S denotes the splitting up of responsibilities within a government into branches.

But is separation of powers is right, Isaiah.

Good question for both teams.

What substances formed by homo hemolysis and C f CS contribute to the breakdown of atmospheric ozone and contain one or more unpaired electrons?

What are those called and buzzing in is michael ions.

No, that's incorrect.

David, you got an answer?

We're looking for the answer.

Radicals, radicals.

Next question.

What book, which contains a list of costs totaling over $28, is a chapter titled Economy depicts.

And it is.

I don't see a light who bust in.

There you are.

Isaiah Walden wrote that, correct.

Well done.

Your bonus question.

What author noted they also serve who only stand and wait in his sonnet.

When I consider how my light is spent about his blindness.

Shakespeare.

Nope.

Glad you took a shot with John Milton is the answer.

John Milton.

What country's politics were controlled from 1929 to 2000 by the PRI until the election of the Century Fox, with support from Alice Co and Bach, California.

What country is that, Michael?

Mexico.

That's right.

Your bonus.

What law which can be derived from Fermat's principle of least time, relates to the signs of the angles of incidence and refraction.

What law is that?

Snell's.

Snell's law is right.

Three more questions here.

What kind of celebrations include the Iranian no ruse, the Vietnamese Tet and a Chinese festival that takes place in January or February.

What is that called?

Edison New Year's.

New Year's is correct.

Well done.

Your bonus question now, De Ville in May of 2023, what Major League Baseball franchise announced a new stadium agreement that allows the team to move to Las Vegas by 2025.

What team is that?

The Cardinals?

Nope, that's incorrect.

It's the Oakland A's.

They're going to move to Las Vegas.

They lost 110 games this year.

They need to move somewhere.

Next question What six letter term describes saturated hydrocarbons that have the maximum possible number of attached hydrogen atoms, such as methane and propane.

Anyone?

Alkane is the answer we wanted.

Here's the last question of this portion of the program.

What title character thwarts the plans of his employer?

Count arm of the var in a Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart comic opera about his marriage to Susanna?

Which one of those are we looking for?

Michael Figaro.

Figaro is right.

Last bonus question for you.

Which grandson of Chandragupta and third ruler of the Marian Empire converted to Buddhism after winning the Kalinga War and wrote many rock edicts?

I can have a thousand guesses.

I would have gotten it either.

A shocker is what we wanted.

A shock.

Your buttons down.

Relax.

We're going to tell you what the four categories are for the Lightning Round.

Each team will play these four categories.

The team that is trailing at this point.

David, you're you're trailing slightly at this point.

You'll get to choose first from the four categories, then Tuscaloosa Academy, you'll choose two categories and play them both.

And then we'll come back to you for the last category.

Whatever's left over, is it fair enough?

And we're also going to meet our players, our students at this point in our program.

But let me tell you the categories so you can think about what you want to play first.

The categories are A in literature, Age of Discovery, judges on the Voice and M the letter M Think about that and let's meet our players.

We're proud of all of our students who come in and participate.

They're fine students and representatives of their school.

Isaiah, would you begin for us?

I might say I'm a senior at Tuscaloosa Academy, and in my free time I play the cello.

Very good.

I'm Michael.

I'm a junior at Tuscaloosa Academy, and my parents are from Romania.

I'm Audrey.

I'm a sophomore at Tuscaloosa Academy, and I like to bake and sell cakes, which is very good.

I'm fair.

I'm from I'm a sophomore at Tuscaloosa Academy, and I'm a single singer songwriter planning to go into commercial music.

Good for you.

Now let's meet the players from De Ville.

We're glad to have you with us as well.

Edison, would you start?

My name is Eddie.

I'm a sophomore at Davis High School, and I play for sports.

My name is Christopher.

I'm a freshman at Davis High School, and I want to go to ASU.

My name is Abigail, a freshman at Davis High School, and I play tuba in band.

My name is Susanna Wingert, and I'm a junior at Noble High School.

And after high school I plan to go to Auburn University for nursing.

Very good.

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

Edison.

Would you rather me call you Adi Zoabi?

Call you Adi.

May I?

Yes, I'll call you Addie, too.

All right.

Have you all decided which of those four categories I read that you'd like to try first?

Would you want to do the letter?

The letter M?

Okay.

The clock will start when I begin to ask you the questions.

But you're going to answer the following about the letter M You knew that, didn't you?

You're ready.

Decimal value of Roman numeral M You can pass or OC code in which M is represented by two dashes.

Oh, that's right.

Morse Code author who created James Bond and Bond's boss.

M Who is that author?

The quantity denoted M in equals M.C.

squared.

What is the M stand for?

That's right.

Next question.

French scientist who cataloged 110 astronomical objects with numbers beginning with M Purse American Department store, whose stock symbol is M That's right.

Amount of solute per liter of solution abbreviated M pass.

Avant garde composer of 433 who wrote a book titled M Time is Up.

All right.

That was kind of a tough category.

That first one decimal value of Roman numeral M is 1000.

You knew that.

You knew that.

Coming over to Tuscaloosa Academy.

Tell us two categories you want to play and we'll do them both.

Which one spoke on The Voice?

Okay.

And can you name the available categories?

The other categories, I sure can.

It is.

The other categories are A in literature and age of discovery.

Age of discovery.

All right.

So let's let's.

You said A in literature first.

No, no, no.

Judges.

Let's do judges first, and then we'll do the other.

Ready?

You're going have 60 seconds.

When I begin, you're going to name these current or former judges on the TV show The Voice.

Here we go.

Country music singer married Gwen Stefani.

Blake Shelton, singer of Seven Rings.

And thank you.

Next, Ariana Grande, lead vocalist of Maroon five, past Cuban born singer of Havana and Senor Rita.

Camila Cabello.

That's right.

Singer of all of me about his wife, Chrissy Teigen.

John Legend.

That's right.

R&B singer of Fallen and Girl on Fire, Alicia Keys.

That's right.

Third member of a band that includes his older brothers, Kevin and Joe.

Nick Jonas, Colombian singer.

Hips Don't Lie.

And whenever Wherever.

Shakira, producer of the musical A strange Lupe who achieved EGOT status in 2022 past and country pop singer of Miss Me More and Dibs, Kelsea Ballerini That is correct.

You passed on number three, which is lead vocalist of Maroon five and Time is Up.

That is Adam Levine.

Adam Levine.

Is that okay?

Those were judges on The Voice.

And now we're going to move to the Age of Discovery.

Is that the other category in the 60 seconds when we start?

You're going to answer the following about European naval exploration in the 15th, 16th and 17th century.

That's your favorite subject.

I know.

Ready?

Here we go.

Initial captain of the first voyage to circumnavigate the globe.

Ferdinand Magellan.

That's correct.

South African cape reached by Bartolomeu Dias.

Cape of Good Hope.

That's right.

Portuguese prince known as the Navigator.

Vasco da Gama.

It is Prince Henry Magnetic orienting device essential to ocean exploration.

That's right.

First European to reach India by sea.

Vasco da Gama.

That's right.

A main triangular sail hung at a 45 degree angle past modern day country explored by John Cabot, Canada.

That's right.

Mythical water feature that Ponce de Leon supposedly sought.

Fountain of Youth.

That's right.

Columbus.

Nina and Pinta were these type of speedy ships.

Fast Italian mapmaker and namesake of America.

America.

That's right.

And Nina Pinta, the kind of ship they were.

We're out of time.

Those are called caramels.

And the main triangular sail at a 45 degree angle is lutein.

Now we come back to you.

Dade Well, high school and a see a in literature, right?

And literature is left.

You mean like this you're going to in the time we have 60 seconds name the authors of these English language works whose tit looking for authors.

Here we go.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Lewis Carroll.

That's right.

Animal Farm.

George Orwell.

That's right.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

Well, when it come back to it.

Yes.

As I Lay Dying and Absalom Pass Anthem and Atlas Shrugged past the Age of Innocence, Pass the Awakening.

Anne of Green Gables, L.M.

montgomery.

That's right.

Angela's Ashes Pass the Ambassadors Pass.

I'll refresh your memory on some past adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

You know that.

Do you know what?

And you passed on as I lay dying in Absalom.

You passed on at Atlas Shrugged an anthem and the Age of Innocence.

And time is up.

Mark Twain wrote Huckleberry Finn.

You knew that all the way home.

You're going to go.

I knew that answer.

Okay.

That's how we play the Lightning Round.

Now, even if you're a little bit behind, you can catch up.

Now, in the 5 minutes we have left in the program.

We're going to do the speed round.

Every question is worth 20 points, so you can catch up pretty quickly here.

No bonus questions.

Just just the questions and answers.

What poet wrote about a man guttering, choking, drowning with froth corrupted lungs from a gas attack in his antiwar poem Duel, say ET decorum must poet.

Anyone own Wilfred Owen, the nickname Little Green Men?

One was given to the first known example of what radio sources which are rotating neutron stars.

What's that called?

Michael?

That's right.

What business in which the world's largest music publisher makes Bravia branded televisions, Xperia phones and PlayStation consoles.

And what company, Michael?

Sony.

That's right.

What weather phenomenon rubs its back up on the window panes in a love song by T.S.

Eliot.

Comes on little cat feet in a Carl Sandburg poem.

There are no no.

I'm sorry, Edie.

Nope.

That's incorrect.

Anybody rain?

Nope.

Carl Sandburg poem is Fog Cat's feet.

Pencil and paper.

Ready?

How excited are you for a math question?

What is the length of each long side of a rectangle?

Whose short sides each measure?

Ten.

And whose perimeter is 44 and its Isaiah 12 is the right answer.

But you do not use your pencil and paper, Isaiah.

Okay, Next question.

Calabria lies at the Eastern end of what strait that separates Sicily and its Michael the Strait of Sicily.

No, that's incorrect.

I'll finish the question for you.

Lies at the eastern end of what strait that separates Sicily from the Italian mainland.

Do you know what that strait is called?

It's called the Strait of Messina.

Next question.

What hero who was awarded the hide of Caledonian BAU of millet Agar.

And thank you so much.

Who buzzed in Fair.

Say again, Hercules?

Nope, That's incorrect.

Lost a race to hip hop.

And this after he distracted her by throwing golden apples.

Do you guys know the answer to that De Ville?

Atalanta is the answer.

We want it next.

As of 2022 women such as Wilma mankiller and Anna May Wong can be seen on what objects issued by the US government.

And what is the answer?

Adi Stamps.

No, that's incorrect.

Do you have an answer to.

Yes.

Michael.

Coins.

Judges and more specific quarters is the right answer.

During what war did a secret study leaked by Daniel Ellsberg, known as the Pentagon Papers, traced lies about U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia.

What war was that?

Isaiah Vietnam.

Vietnam is right.

We have a couple of minutes left.

What man became the youngest ever presidential nominee of a major party and anti JFK?

Nope.

He also, after giving his cross of gold speech in 1896.

What candidate was that?

Anybody?

William Jennings Bryan.

Poems In what form?

Many of which appear in Narrow Road to the Deep North have lines of five seven and five syllables.

And Michael.

Haiku.

Haiku is right.

What number is the smallest perfect number?

The only triangular number between three and ten and the product of the two smallest primes.

And Michael?

Six.

Six is correct.

In what film?

Whose protagonist runs a savings bank in Bedford Falls?

Does an angel show George Bailey how things would be if he had never been born?

What was that movie?

Okay, Michael.

Miracle on 34th Street?

Nope.

Anybody?

It's a Wonderful Life.

And you're all ordered to watch that movie.

Next.

What?

Physicists worked with Harvey Fletcher to first determine the charge of the electron by making oil drops hover in a capacitor.

Who was that?

The physicist is Robert Millikan.

What animal?

The largest reptile in North America is an apex predator native to.

And it is the Komodo dragon?

No.

Gulf Coast.

And shares an order with crocodiles.

Yes.

Alligator.

Alligator is the right answer.

Later, buttons down.

We have 20 seconds to thank you all for playing well today.

I know your coaches, your teachers, your family are proud of all of you.

It was a pleasure seeing you all today.

And congratulations to the folks from Tuscaloosa Academy that won this particular round.

But you all played well.

We're glad you were here and we're glad you were here today to watch our program.

We call it the Alabama Scholars Bowl.

My name is Mike Royer, inviting you to join us again next time right here on Alabama Public TV.

So long, everybody.