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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.

All across the state of Alabama.

Welcome in to the Alabama Scholars Bowl here on Alabama public Television.

My name is Mike Royer.

It's my privilege to host the program.

You see me and you see the students from high schools from all around the state.

You don't see the people behind the scenes who do really all the hard work to make these programs work.

In the studio with us today is the president of Alaska, Christopher Arthur, serving as our judge today, also helping out scorekeeping in a variety of jobs, Sharon Daily and Kate Wilson, Claudette Smith, and an integral part of our program as well.

And Mike Ousley is our executive producer.

We've got 20 questions to ask you all.

You know that.

And if you answer it correctly, you get a bonus question.

Have a lightning round in the middle of the program, a speed round at the end.

It's a pretty quick 26 and a half minutes.

And we're glad that you've joined us today.

You already got your buttons in hand.

Here we go.

What?

President was in office during the X, y, Z affair signed the Alien and Sedition Act.

Zach.

John Adams.

John Adams is right.

Well done.

Donohoe And by the way, we have Donohoe School and Alma Bryan from Mobile.

I did not mention the schools you were from.

So now.

Donohoe You get a bonus question.

What river which receives the tunnel sap in num pin, empties into the South China Sea in southern Vietnam.

What river is that?

The Mekong.

The Mekong River in the Mekong Delta.

Next question for everyone.

What way Property.

Whose square is proportional to its intensity is a wave's maximum displacement or equivalently the height of its peaks.

What is that called?

Stanley dude.

So again, amplitude.

Amplitude is exactly right.

Bonus question for question for you all my Brian What biblical patriarchs sons were Shem Ham and Joff Japheth who was their father?

Sons of Abraham.

Nope.

Those guys got to go in the ark with Noah.

All right, next question for everyone.

What woman whose husband wrote The Elegy at Annapolis and whose mother authored a vindication of the Rights of Woman, wrote the horror novel Frankenstein?

Buzzing in is Micah Shelley.

That's right.

Mary Shelley is the right answer.

Well done.

Your bonus question.

What Italian American physicist lent his name to a particles and half integer spins.

And created the first manmade nuclear chain reaction.

Who was that scientist?

Bernoulli.

No, it was Enrico Fermi.

Fermi is the answer we wanted there.

Toss up, everybody.

What item was the subject of a 1964 Great debate that rejected the Pearson pennant as the Red Ensigns replacement in favor of a maple leaf design?

What item was that, Chris?

Canada.

The flag of Canada is the right answer.

Your bonus.

Gerald Ford became vice president.

After what man?

A former governor of Maryland pleaded guilty to tax evasion.

He resigned the vice presidency in 1973.

Spiro Agnew.

Spiro Agnew is right, David.

Well done.

And here is the toss up question again.

Both teams, what material forms due to compression of peat has subtypes like anthracite and bituminous and is a black colored rock burn is fossil?

David Coal is right.

Your bonus what five letter term for a covered porch becomes with the addition of Oak Kena, the name of the sixth largest Hawaiian island patio.

No, it is Lanai.

Lanai is the answer we wanted.

Next everyone what author faithfully presented a pure woman in an 1891 novel about an English dairy maid who marries Angel Clare, titled Test of d'Urbervilles.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles.

Who is that?

If I know that author Thomas Hardy is who we wanted.

Next question.

What book set at the House of Syphilis tells the story of the Ring of Guy describes the allegory of the cave and was written by Plato.

What book is that?

And Micah?

The Republic.

The Republic is correct.

Well done.

Your bonus question.

I'm a Brian.

What?

Austrian composer headed the second Viennese school and developed a 12 tone method of musical composition.

Like Mozart?

Nope, it is Arnold Schoenberg.

Next question, everyone.

What country?

Where the Partizans fought Nazi occupiers under and I'm looking David Yugoslavia.

Yugoslavia is right.

Got in quick on that Well done bonus question which Frances Burton Starting over Richard Francis Burton disguised himself as a muslim to enter what city where he performed the two wolf ritual of walking around the Kaaba and Chris Mecca.

Yes, that's right.

That's Mecca.

York Judge Yeah, that was a bonus you didn't have to bring in, but it was fine.

Oh, next question.

Pencil and paper for everybody.

How many inches are equivalent to ten yards given that a yard equals three feet and a foot equals 12 inches?

And the answer comes from Micah 360.

360 inches is right.

Well done.

Bonus question What elements cation is bonded to hco3 and by carbonate anyone in baking soda?

What elements sodium sodium is right?

Well done.

Toss up everyone.

What alliterative term for a paint made from lime or chalk can refer to a punishment given to Tom Sawyer or an attempt to cover up one's misdeeds in one put you got mica painting in the ballpark.

But the answer we're looking for is whitewashing.

You whitewash a fence.

Cheap, thin paint.

That's what that is.

Moving on to the next question.

What author wrote about the death of a Native American named Ken Gottschalk in his book The Pioneers, which is in his series The Leather Stocking Tales, is an author's name and take a shot at Zach Thoreau.

No, that's not correct.

Anybody else?

James Fenimore Cooper is the author.

Next Britannia.

I'm sorry.

Going moving on.

What type of tissue go into question 12 judges, What type of tissue that is rich in mitochondria contains proteins, actin and myosin and is classified as smooth cardiac or skeletal.

And Zach muscle is the right answer.

You get a bonus question which British scientist in 1801 double slit experiment showed that light could display characteristics of both a wave and a particle?

Who is that?

A Rutherford?

It was young.

Thomas Young was the British scientist moving on?

What Maritime province in Canada includes?

Cape Breton Island is to the southeast of New Brunswick and has a Latin name.

David Nova Scotia.

Nova Scotia is right.

You get a bonus question.

What word for a kind of psychological manipulation taken from the title of a 1944 film was chosen as Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year for 2022.

Relatively new word gaslighting.

Gaslighting is correct.

Next, toss up everyone.

What state whose power grid is largely disconnected from the rest of the continental United States and buzzing in is David Texas is right Bonus what man who helped lead a strike against grape growers in de Llano, California, worked with Dolores Water to found the United Farm Workers.

Who was that of Cesar Chavez is correct.

Toss up what team won the 1997 and 2003 World Series currently stars Cy Young winner Sandy Alcorn, Tara and plays at Lone Park in South Florida.

What baseball team is that make up?

Miami judges?

Yes, Miami Marlins full answer.

Well done.

Bonus question.

Lake Nasser formed in the 1960s as the result of the construction of what dam along the Nile River.

Name of the dam?

No answer.

Anybody?

That's right.

Aswan.

Aswan.

You'll know next time the holder of what position outranks the president pro tempore in the United States Senate and is the first in line to assume the presidency if the presidency dies.

And who is it?

William vice president of the united States is right.

Your bonus.

What 1944 law provides benefits including college tuition and subsidized loans to returning World War two veterans.

What's that called?

Bonus Act?

No, it's called the GI Bill.

The GI Bill is what provided that.

We're running out of questions.

We're moving on.

What author who wrote about the Senate centenarian in Violetta and use magical realism in the House of the Spirits is the niece of a former leader of Chile.

Yes.

Zach Pinochet?

Nope.

Anybody else got an answer for that?

The answer is Isabel Allende.

Her father was Salvador Allende.

Next question.

What 2023 film, which ends with the title Pre-teen Girl, played by Abby Ryder.

Faustin Getting her period is an adaptation of a Judy Blume novel.

Yes.

David?

God, are you there?

It's me, Margaret.

That's Judges of Okay.

Anyone else got an answer?

Yes.

Margaret know the answer specifically the judges.

One is, Are you there?

God, it's me, Margaret.

You're in the ballpark and pretty close.

Let's move on to question 19 of 21 English King During whose reign?

The transatlantic slave trade was banned in the British Empire rule during the American War of Independence.

Who was that?

And it's Zach George.

The third is right.

Bonus question What painting?

In which a garment shaped like a brain sits behind God.

And the first human is at the center of the Sistine Chapel ceiling.

What painting is that?

Yeah, creation of Adam.

The creation of Adam is correct.

Last question In this part of the program, what European country whose green line buffer zone separates its Turkish and Greek regions is covered from Nicosia and is a mediterranean island.

What's it called?

William Say Cyprus is right.

Well done, William.

Bonus for you, Alma.

Brian Since the death of Elizabeth, the second the only reigning queen in Europe is Marguerite Margherita.

The second who has ruled what nation since 1972.

Scotland.

It's Denmark.

Denmark is the answer.

We want to lay your pins down, Take a breath, relax.

We're going to ask our players to introduce themselves to you and also to consider the four categories for our lightning round here at the midpoint.

Alma Brian, you are trailing slightly, so you'll choose first of the four categories.

You'll choose one category, play one, then we'll come over to you.

Donohoe And you will choose to play two and we'll go back and you guys will play whatever is left over.

The categories are chemical elements, railways, NFL duos and Chicago.

Be thinking about that.

But as you think about that and Donohoe as you think about that, Michael, would you begin by just introducing yourself to the folks at home?

My name is Michael Long.

I'm a junior at Alma Bryant High School, and I'm heavily interested in aerospace.

Very good.

My name is William Johnson.

I'm a freshman at Alma Bryant, and my favorite subject is geography.

My name is Morgan Parker.

I'm a junior at Alma.

We're at high school and I love the show Supernatural.

My name is Stanley Robertson.

I'm also a junior at Alma Bryant, and I shoot for our nationally recognized archery team.

Very good.

And the gentleman from Donahoe School.

My name is Walker Botsford.

I'm a senior at the Donahoe School and I love the Beach Fish.

My name is Kidder.

I'm a senior at the Donahoe School, and I play football, tennis and soccer.

My name is David Robles.

I'm in 10th grade at the Donahue School and I enjoy taking long walks.

I'm Chris Perkins.

I'm a sophomore at the Donahoe School, and I do the editing for our school broadcast.

Very good.

Sounds like you're all busy.

What's the long walk, David?

How long is a long walk?

40 minutes, usually.

Okay, that's a good walk.

Let's go over to the folks at Alma Bryant.

Of the four categories I described, have you selected one you'd like to try?

Yes, sir.

What would you like to do?

Chemical elements.

Chemical elements.

When the clock starts, you'll have 60 seconds to name these elements.

Every answer has an atomic symbol that starts with a vowel.

Okay.

Pardon me.

Let's get started.

By Mars.

The primary component of water.

Oxygen.

That's right.

Element with atomic number 13.

Used to make soda cans.

Aluminum halogen added to salt that the thyroid needs pass.

Metal whose sterling alloy is used to make utensils.

Silver.

The most malleable metal.

Gold.

That's right.

Radioactive element obtained from yellowcake.

Uranium.

That's right.

The third most abundant element in the Earth's atmosphere.

Argon.

That's right.

Toxic element found below.

Phosphorus on the periodic table.

Transition metal named after the Greek goddess of the rainbow Iris.

No, that's incorrect.

Nope.

Noble Gas named in the 2016.

In 2016.

For a Russian physicist.

Mendelevium.

No, that is incorrect.

We go back to when you skip toxic element found below.

Phosphorus on the periodic table.

Time is up.

That answer is arsenic and the halogen added to salt that the thyroid needs is iodine.

All right, well, come over to your Donahoe School and you're going to give me two choices.

What are they?

NFL duos and Chicago.

NFL duos and Chicago.

Let's do the NFL duos first.

All right.

Let's see how you guys do it this year.

Football players, you should know this 60 seconds when the clock starts, you're going to name the NFL team that featured these wide receiver quarterback duos.

You knew that sort of was going to be ready.

A.J.

Brown and Jalen Hurts the Eagles, Cooper Kupp and Matthew Stafford, the Rams, Ja'marr Chase and Joe Burrow, the Bengals, Stefon Diggs and Josh Allen.

Oh, the Bills, Jaylen Waddle and Tua Tagovailoa, the Dolphins, D.K.

Metcalf and Geno Smith.

Seahawks.

That's right.

Courtland Sutton and Russell Wilson, the Broncos, Trey Lindberg's and Ryan Tannehill, the Titans, Amon-Ra St Brown and Jared Goff, the Lions and C.C.

Lam and Dak Prescott, the Cowboys.

Very good.

You guys killed that.

I know you and you got 26 seconds.

You want to chat for a minute now?

Let's just move on.

We'll go on to Chicago and 60 seconds on this as well.

You're going to answer the following about guess what?

Chicago, ready?

It's the most populous city in this state, Illinois, the great Lake on which it lies.

That's University of Chicago Law School professor elected president in 2008.

Obama NFL Team Plays at Soldier Field, the Bears skyscraper that once was the world's tallest building or tower.

We accept that.

It's now called Willis in 1871.

Disaster.

Sometimes blamed on Mrs. O'Leary's cow Chicago Fire, A Democrat elected the city's mayor in 2023.

Lori Lightfoot No, it's Brandon Johnson now Chicago Airport, named for a 1942 battle pass particle accelerator in Chicago suburbs and Whole House co-founder and the first U.S. woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize pass.

We will go back to Chicago Airport, named for a 1942 battle, the Battle of Midway.

That's right, The Great and the Great Lake.

Time is up.

Great Lake there on Lake Michigan, right at the bottom of Lake Michigan.

All right.

Well done.

You played both of your categories well, and Alma Bright, we're going to come back to you and your category that you're stuck with or is like we like to say, we'll have the pleasure of playing is railways.

You're going to name the country that contains these railways or railway lines.

All right, 60 seconds.

Here we go.

The Trans-Siberian Railway, Russia.

That's right.

The Shinkansen or bullet train Japan?

That's right.

The Indian Ocean, which crosses the outback Australia, TGV, high speed rail serving Lyon and Marseilles and France.

Just say it.

Yes.

The young, fragile railway which ascends the Alps pass the the Haram main railway connecting Islam's two holiest cities, Israel.

Saudi Arabia.

What did you say?

Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Arabia is right.

The Empire Building, which uses the Cascade Tunnel under Stevens Pass Pass the Afro C of a high speed train between Samarkand, Samarkand and Tashkent.

Pass the trains to the clouds ascending the Andes and Salt.

A province.

Pass the highest passenger train in the world over the tangle loop.

Pass time is up.

That was a hard category.

That's why it was last.

That's why no one chose you.

You just had to play it.

But all of you, both teams played well in that category.

In the 7 minutes we have left, we're going to do our speed round, as you know, just questions, no bonus, 20 points each so you can make a difference here.

Good luck as we'll use up the rest of our time like this.

What countries current insurgencies include the southern neck Naxalite conflict, as well as fighting in the Aruna Chul, Pradesh and Assam, far east of Delhi.

Zack Yes.

Feel free to buzz in early on in those difficult reads.

Please.

Volpone creature declares that unreachable fruit must be sour.

In what fable attributed to Aesop?

Chris Say again?

Grapes.

Judges.

Little more.

Uh, the fox and the fox in the grapes is right next.

What animals?

Some of which engage in lunge feeding in which they catch prey with hair like baleen are cetaceans and have blue and sperm species.

What are they called?

Matt.

Mike, agree?

No, that's incorrect.

You have an answer, Chris Wales is right.

What a alliterative term denotes a quantity abbreviated K that gives the maximum possible stable population of a species in Stanley capacity.

Target carrying capacity carrying capacity is right.

What military installation was surrendered by Major Robert Anderson after a bombardment in South Carolina in 1861 and Zach Fort Sumter is correct in October 2020 to what right wing populist leader succeeded Mario Draghi in becoming the first female prime minister of Italy.

Yes.

Mica Mussolini.

Nope, it is Giorgio Meloni.

What country?

Whose island certainly emerged from the ocean in 1963 primarily uses geothermal energy and has its capital of Reykjavik in is David.

Iceland is right what French dramatist wrote about the wealthy Oregon, whose wife Ellesmere, fends off the advances of the title con artist in the 1664 play Tar Tooth Zach Dumont.

No, that's incorrect.

Oh, Brian, you got an answer?

Morgan Voltaire.

You know, you guys were in the ballpark.

I think Moliere is the answer.

We wanted.

What?

Acid secreted by parietal cells was once known as erratic acid and is the main component of stomach acid and has the molecular.

Stanley Hydrochloric acid.

Hydrochloric is right Correct.

And M4 terror compound such as water is one capable of accepting or donating.

What species?

Yes, I proton.

It's you, Stanley.

Proton is right.

Well done.

Next question.

Members of what art movement included Englishman Alfred Sisley and American Mary Cassatt, as well as Frenchman Pierre Auguste Renoir.

And buzzing is Impressionism.

Impressionism is right.

Tire and Sidon were leading cities in what ancient civilization of the Eastern Mediterranean that created the first known alphabet.

And David for nations is right.

What poem which includes the line I will show you fear and a handful of dust is a section titled The Burial of the Dead by T.S.

Eliot and Basin is Morgan Wasteland.

Wasteland is right.

What Englishmen claimed that the Laurel Withers quicker than the rose in to an athlete dying young.

A poem from his 1896 collection collection called Shropshire Lad and Take a Shot at Zach Wordsworth.

Nope, that's incorrect.

You deserve an answer.

What?

It's Joyce.

Nope.

It's A.E.

Housman, 1880 Housman In 2022, what singer became the first to simultaneously hold every slot in the Billboard Top ten, including And it's Stanley Taylor Swift.

Taylor Swift.

I've heard of her pencil and paper ready for this next question.

What is the volume of a right circular cylinder whose height is five and whose base has a radius of four?

Stanley 70 pi.

No, that's incorrect.

Do you guys have an answer?

Donahoe Zack 105 No, it is 80.

80 PI is what we wanted there.

Two and a half minutes to go.

What public space north of era op Agus Hill was a market and political gathering place in ancient Athens and now names a fear of open space.

And it's Micah Cluster.

No, that's incorrect.

Donahoe Do you have an answer?

And yes, the Acropolis.

No, it's a gora.

A gora.

By capturing Vicksburg and Port Hudson in 1863, union forces gained control of what waterway that divided the Confederacy.

Isaac The Mississippi River.

The Mississippi is right.

What Polygons have shapes that depend only on side length, not angles can be categorized as lean and have angles.

Chris Triangles and triangles is right.

Well done.

Moving on.

What country to the southwest of Honduras is the only Central American country with no coastline on the Caribbean Sea.

Countries that David.

El Salvador.

El Salvador is right.

What novel in which Justin scares the bullied.

Julian was written by R.J. Palacio and centers on Auggie Pullman, a boy and it's Zach Wonder is right.

What poetic structure is called heroic if it uses iambic pentameter in generally crisp poem?

Nope.

I'll finish it for you.

I'm a Bryant and generally consists of a pair of rhyming lines.

What's it called?

Called?

Yes, Stanley phrase.

It's called couplets.

Couplets is what we wanted.

What?

Jazz musician composed the songs?

A Night in Tunisia and Salt Peanuts played a trumpet with an upward bent bell and was nicknamed Dizzy Zach, Louis Armstrong, Nobis, Dizzy Gillespie.

Dizzy Gillespie.

The 1989 Tiananmen Square protests occurred during the reign of what paramount leader who led China, William Mao Zedong.

No, that's incorrect.

Do you guys have an answer, David?

Ding, ding is right D and G. Let's make this our last question.

What state whose Parental Rights and Education Act is known to critics as the don't say gay law and is led MICA, Florida.

Florida is correct.

Lay your buzzers down.

Well, that was a fun round, except for some of those really hard lightning round questions.

You all did a great job throughout the whole thing.

So congratulations to both of you.

Donahoe School.

You come out on top in this particular round today.

Congratulations, Alma Bryant.

You played well, represented yourselves well.

We're proud of you all for being here today and playing the Alabama Scholars Bowl.

We sure hope you enjoy our program.

We're here every week on Alabama public television.

My name is Mike Royer.

Thank you for joining us for the program.

And we'll see you again next time.