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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, and welcome once again to the Alabama Scholars Bowl here on Alabama Public Television.

My name is Mike Royer.

We welcome you in as we welcome into the studio some of the best and brightest students from all around Alabama.

Our teams today include the folks from the Alabama School of Cyber Technology and Engineering.

Going forward will be referred to as A.C.T..

They have played with us before on this program and we're glad to have them back.

And also the young ladies from Hewitt Trussville High School.

It's good to have you with us as well.

At the midpoint of our program today, we'll ask them to introduce themselves to you and tell you a little bit about themselves.

We have a staff of thousands making this program possible.

Our judge today is Kate Wilson.

Also in the studio assisting is Christopher Arthur, the president of Aska.

Sharon Daley is also here.

Claudette Smith, an integral part of our team and our executive producer is Mike Ousley, who oversees the entire operation.

We're glad you've joined us and we hope you enjoy our program every week here on Alabama Public Television Teams.

Are you ready?

Buttons in hand.

We're going to ask you 20 questions if your team answers the question correctly.

Your team only will get a bonus question.

Here we go.

What realm of Norse mythology created using the eyebrows of Joe ten Emir is connected to Asgard by the Bifrost Bridge and is the home of humans and buzzing in estate.

Midcard Mid-Card is the right answer.

And here is your bonus.

Laurie Strode has a final showdown with supernatural killer Michael Myers in a 2022 entry.

In what horror film series?

Halloween.

That's right.

Leo had the right answer.

Halloween toss up question for both teams.

What author depicted a Babylonian thinker in his book?

Zadig and satirized Tate Voltaire?

Voltaire is right.

Your bonus question.

Members of the Moravian Church are modern day followers of what Czech religious reformer who was burned at the stake in 1415 Have an answer?

No answer.

That's okay.

It is.

John Hus h u s is the spelling of his last name.

Everybody.

We provided you a pencil and paper for this question.

It's a math question.

What is the quotient of nine factorial divided by seven factorial given?

And it is.

Eugene 7272 is the right answer your bonus question.

The world's lowest freshwater body of water is what Israelis see where Jesus is said to have walked on the water.

Sea of Galilee.

Sea of Galilee is correct.

Next question.

What theorist whose ideas were a major basis of Jock Lacan's writings analyzed Irma in the Interpretation of Dreams tape.

Sigmund Freud.

Sigmund Freud is the right answer.

Here is your bonus question.

Pardon me.

What Italian author wrote about novice monk ad So of milk.

Who helps William of Baskerville find a murderer in the 1980 novel The Name of the Rose?

Umberto Eco.

That is right.

Umberto Eco.

Toss up both teams.

What?

Man?

Whose colitis forced him to resign his head.

And in his state, Shinzo Abe.

Shinzo Abe is right.

Bonus question In 1959, African-American pinch hitter pump C Green debuted against the White Sox making white team the last Major League team to integrate the last team in the bigs to integrate their team to the Cubs.

It was the Boston Red Sox, the last team to do it.

Here's the toss up question for everyone.

What European president who twice vetoed the UK's entry into the EEC, established the Fifth Republic and commanded Free France.

Charles de Gaulle.

Charles de Gaulle is right.

Bonus What plain states was represen it in the Senate by Tom Dashiell and by the 1972 Democratic nominee for President, George McGovern.

Need an answer?

Missouri.

It was South Dakota.

That's where McGovern was from.

Next tossup question what bone which has a to veracity to which the patellar ligament attaches forms A hinge tape.

Femur.

No, that's incorrect.

I'll finish it for you here, Trussville.

A ligament attaches forms, a hinge joint with the femur, and is commonly called the shin bone.

What does that bone really hold?

And Elisa, tibia.

Tibia is the right answer.

Well done.

Your trussville gets a bonus question.

What?

English thinker who proposed the Panopticon prison, whose inmates are always in view of guards and is considered the founder of Utilitarianism?

Thank you so much.

You have an answer for that?

Look, it is Jeremy Bentham.

Jeremy Bentham Toss up everyone.

What country, which contains the largest portion of both the Carpathian Mountains and the delta of the Danube River, is also home to Tate, Poland.

Nope, it's also home to Transylvania Hewitt.

Do you know what country that is?

As you say, Romania.

Romania is the right answer.

Here's a bonus question for you.

What 1877 Novel.

Novel by Anna Sewell is narrated by the title horse, whose many owners include Farmer, Gray, Squire Gordon and London cab driver Jerry Black.

Black Beauty is the right answer.

Well done.

Toss up Question Members of what profession?

Such as Mare and Allsopp.

Carlo, Maria, Joao Lini and Leopold Stokowski often use a thin baton as they lead an orchestra.

What are they called?

Date conductors.

Took a while to get there.

But dancers, conductors.

Bonus Rustiness.

What type of process?

Prevented by galvanization in which a refined metal is degraded to a more stable oxide.

What's that called?

Oxidation.

It's called corrosion.

It's called corrosion.

What agencies who co Intel Pro initiative targeted civil rights groups under Director J. Edgar Hoover.

And is the main the FBI.

FBI is correct.

That's right.

Here's your bonus question.

The bringer of war and the mystic are subtitles of movements in What's Sweet by Gustav Holst, The Planet The Planets is right.

Good Toss up.

The brightest events in the universe are burst name for what form of radiation?

State gamma rays.

Gamma rays is right.

Your bonus What?

17th century Poem by Andrew Marvell urges the title woman to accept a lover's embrace because Time's winged chariot is hurrying near to his coy mistress, to his coy mistresses.

Right.

Next, what 1937 novel, whose characters include a man known as Teacake and a resident of an estate.

Their eyes were watching God.

Their eyes were watching.

God is the right answer.

Bonus question What president who signed the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 was named silent for his pronounced terminus.

Calvin Coolidge.

Calvin Coolidge.

That's right.

Toss up question.

What conflict described as a splendid little war by John Hay Tate Spanish-American War.

Spanish American.

They call this splendid little war bonus.

What Italian word often used to mean a climax is used in music to mean a gradual increase in loudness.

Crescendo.

Crescendo is right.

Very good.

Toss up both teams.

What quantity?

Which is as low as possible at a mixtures you technique point is depressed take melting point note that's incorrect.

I'll wait Judge Yes, that's acceptable.

Freezing point or melting point that is correct.

Here's your bonus.

What 19th century author wrote about a woman who implores Confederate troops to spare your country's flag.

In her poem, Barbara Fritchey, Whittier.

Whittier is right.

Next, What river, whose upper section is called The Ginger or Gold Sand's River flows past Wuhan and is the longest river in China and all of Asia.

Tait Yangzi Yang Sea is correct.

Another bonus for you the conservation of what quantity often denoted by capital.

L can be illustrated using the example of a spinning skater angular momentum.

That's correct.

Toss both teams What singer whose name follows big t shirt in the lyrics of a namesake Our money and I'm looking at.

Say it again.

Billie Eilish.

That's right.

Billie Eilish is right.

Here's your bonus question.

Hewitt Before a 2018 correction, the name of what New York City bridge was spelled with one Z, fewer than that of its historic namesake, the name of a bridge.

It misspelled it for a long time.

Do you know the name of it?

Brooklyn Bridge.

It's the Verrazano Narrows Bridge, the Verrazano with the Zs in it.

Here's a toss up question for everyone What state is home to have offered?

College was represented in Congress during the Civil War by Thaddeus Stevens and is governed from Harrisburg.

And the state is what, Abigail?

Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania is right.

Good.

Bonus question for you.

Hewitt Trussville What no longer extant.

Grand Republic was established under the 1820 Constitution of Cucuta and contained modern Panama, Ecuador and Venezuela.

Colombia.

You're good with that, judges?

Very good.

Well done.

Three more questions.

What country's long time dictator who wrote the Green Book and overthrew King and Tate?

Libya?

Libya is right.

Bonus watch show that streams on the Amazon prime video is set in cousins beach stars Lola Tung as belly and is named after a young adult novel by Jenny Hahn.

This summer I turn pretty.

That's right.

Very good.

Two more questions.

What English scientists names the total charge on a mole of electrons.

The law of electromagnetic induction.

Take Faraday.

Faraday is right.

Bonus What work in which Leonore disguises herself to save her husband, Flora Sten from prison is the only opera by Ludwig van Beethoven Fidelio.

Fidelio is right.

Last question before we take a slight break.

What company?

Whose CEO Chao Zi Chu testified in Congress in March.

Elizabeth.

Tick tock.

Tick tock is the right answer.

Bonus.

What epic poem Whose title character is exiled on the request of key features.

The seventh Avatar of Vishnu defeating Robin New and rescuing Sita the Ramayana.

Did you know that?

As soon as I started reading it, you can bail me out, you know, And that breathing thing.

Okay, everybody lay your buttons down.

Relax.

Go do a couple of things here.

We're going to, in a moment, ask you to introduce yourselves individually.

Tell our viewers at home a little bit about yourself and what's your favorite subject or interest are.

And also, I'm going to tell you, at home and our teams, we have four categories for our lightning round as we always do.

Today's categories, artist tools, former country names, also in a deck of cards, an F in initials, Hewitt, Trussville is trailing here at the midpoint of our program.

So as you think about that, you'll choose first, you'll play that category, then A.C.T.

will play to back to back and come back for the last one to you all.

I know you all know that, but makes me sound like I know what we're doing when I explain it.

Let's meet our players.

Leo, would you begin for us?

My name is Leo Osborne.

I'm a freshman at A.C.T., and my favorite musician is Ludwig van Beethoven.

My name is Eugene Park and I'm a junior at Aicte and I'm a swimmer.

My name is Tae Osborne.

I'm a junior Aicte and my favorite class that I'm taking is APC history.

My name is Elizabeth Orton.

I'm a senior at A.C.T.

and I play volleyball.

My name is Abigail Spinster.

I'm software here at Transfer High School and other than school as well, I enjoy doing choir.

My name is Katie Smith.

I'm a senior at Hewitt Trussville High School and I want to be a doctor.

My name is Addison Olive.

I'm also a senior here at Trussville High School, and my favorite book is Frankenstein.

My name is Eliza Nunn.

I'm a senior here at Tulsa High School, and I hope to one day practice anesthesiology.

Very good.

Proud of all of you, the good job you're doing on this and that your schools I know your school leaders are proud of you and your families as well.

Good to have you all with us today.

So let's come over to you at Trussville.

Have you from the four categories selected, one.

Yes.

What would you like to do?

Artists tools, Artist tools.

Very good.

The clock won't start until I start asking the questions, but what you're going to do is name these things used by visual artists.

All right.

60 seconds flat board for mixing pigments palette.

That's right.

You can just shut out the answer.

Spinning device said pottery can be thrown on the skip as a sculptural copy made using a mold, skip cloth, put on the studio floor to catch splatter or debris.

TARP?

No, it's a drop cloth oven in firing schematics, ceramics, kiln.

That's kiln, plain fabric that most oil paintings are made on canvas.

That's right.

Flat metal tool that is hammered to chip away at a sculpture Chisel.

That's right.

Fast drying paint, partly made of egg yolk, acrylic paint.

It's tempera, impermeable gloss, daubed on to finish ceramics.

Oh, Skip.

Okay.

Dim workspace for developing photographs is called a darkened darkroom is right impermeable gloss daubed onto finish ceramics a cool yeah you almost glaze is what we're looking for on that.

It's easy if you have a moment to think about it, but with 60 seconds you don't have a lot of time to think.

All right, we're going to come over to A.C.T.

and you will choose two categories.

Take what do you like today?

Former country names and F initials.

Very good former country names.

When the clock starts, you'll have 60 seconds to what modern day country was formerly known as the answer.

All right, here we go.

Persia, Iran, Salon, Sri Sri Lanka, Rhodesia, Zimbabwe.

Abyssinia, Georgia.

It's Ethiopia, Formosa, Taiwan.

British, Honduras.

Costa Rica.

It's Belize.

Gold Coast in Western Africa.

Ghana, That's right.

East Pakistan.

Bangladesh is right.

Upper Volta, Senegal.

It's Burkina Faso and Cappadocia.

Cambodia.

Cambodia.

That's right.

These skipping did the judges very good.

Did a pretty good job there.

Getting most of those.

Correct.

And next, you want to do F in initials, right.

And when the clock starts four, what word does the F stand for in these abbreviations?

What does the F stand for?

Ready?

NFL Football, UFO Flying, FCC Fighting.

Fighting.

I'm sorry, fighting.

No, that's federal.

JFK, the 35th President Fitzgerald, SPF, a classification of sunscreen factor.

That's right.

FDA, a government agency, food, AFV, a class of military equipment, a skip f a Q a list of questions Frequently BFG, a character created by friend Roald Dahl.

That's right.

RAAF A British military branch horse.

That's right.

And you skipped a f v a class of military equipment.

Did they skip any others?

Judges?

Would you say fighting?

Fighting is right?

Well done.

Never hurts to take a guess.

And well done.

All right, so that completes those categories.

What do we have left for our friends from Hugh Had trussville also in a deck of cards.

There's probably a reason no one chose that it sounds hard, but we'll find out.

You never know.

You'll have 60 seconds to name these things that share their name with playing cards.

Here we go.

Bill and played in movies by Jared Leto.

That's right.

Nice and loud for me.

2020 Song title used separately by Sam Smith and Megan Thee Stallion Pass.

Okay, literary character who says off with their heads, Queen of Heart.

That's right.

Surname of man named Rodney, who was beaten by LAPD in 1991.

That's right.

Number of Russian composers in the mighty handful.

Five.

That's right.

Tennis serve not touched by the opponent Ace.

That's right.

Outlet for plugging in a phone line pass number of samurai in a Kyrie that's right and nursery rhyme character who stole the cards and took them clean away Jack pie torch top Tchaikovsky's Opera based on a work by Alexander Pushkin pass K you passed on nursery rhyme character who stole the tarts and took them.

We got that one wrong or you got that wrong.

What else do they skip outlet for plugging in a phone line?

Time's up.

You plug your phone line into a jack.

Jack, That's helpful When someone says it out, play.

All right.

The good news is we're done with the lightning round.

We don't have to do any more of that.

And we have about 7 minutes left to do the speed round.

These questions are worth 20 points each, so you can do some catching up or build your lead with these.

And there's no bonus question on these.

You just answer it and we move on.

Ready?

What?

First female member of the Royal Statistical Society rose to prominence during the Crimean War, during which she served as a nurse.

Take Florence Nightingale.

Florence Nightingale is right.

British politician Kwasi Kwarteng was the first black person to hold the position which is responsible for the UK's fiscal and monetary policy.

And is Tate Chancellor Chancellor's right.

What actor who won an Oscar for King Richard was something Will Smith and Eugene Will Smith.

Will Smith is right.

What French-American mathematician is the namesake of a self similar set and is Tate Mandelbrot.

Mandelbrot is right.

What country produced a novel about an outlaw in 108 spirits titled Water Tate China.

China is right.

In what year?

On November 11th, at 11:00, the armistice that ended the fighting in World War One take up take place where you take 1917.

That's incorrect.

Anybody else?

Yes.

18, 18, 19, 18 is the right answer.

What country breached the mannerheim line in the Winter War state?

Russia?

Yes, that's right.

Next, what island was the birthplace of author Seamus Heaney, whose poem Digging Ireland?

Ireland is right.

Alex English spent a decade with what NBA team who drafted a Serbian center who won back to back MVP's and NBA Finals MVP Alyssa Mavericks.

That's incorrect.

I'll finish it.

Won back to back MVP's and NBA Finals MVP in 2023.

Nikola Jokic.

What team is that in the NBA?

You might know Houston worth a shot but it's the Denver Nuggets is the right answer for that.

What term describes pairs of substances such as oil and water that do not mix to form a homogeneous solution State admissible admissible is right Hello.

What animal sometimes called chell in neons have a shell made of bone or cartilage.

It includes species such as a leatherback and terrapins Turtle.

Turtle is right, Addison.

Well done.

In 1843, Daniel Moon Norton tried to assassinate what British Prime Minister whose first name inspired a nickname for British police officers.

Bobbies Who did that to Robert Peel?

Robert Peel is right.

What man who lost the rights to his book If I did it to the Goldman family.

And again, take O.J.

Simpson.

O.J.

Simpson is right.

Talk pissing is one of the over 800 languages spoken.

In what country?

Whose capital is Port Moresby?

Yes, State.

Papua New Guinea.

That's right.

What Shakespearean comedy depicts Sir John Falstaff, Inept attempts to seduce mistresses.

Ford and Page the comedy's title, Happily Married Woman.

What is it?

The Merry Wives of Windsor.

The Merry Wives of Windsor is right.

Had a run to the Don to t found a feature found mostly in mammals occurs when an organism has multiple types of what anatomical structures?

What's it called?

Legs.

Leo, You said legs.

Now that's incorrect.

You guys have an answer.

Take a shot.

What do you got?

Edison?

Heads?

Yeah, it's teeth.

Teeth?

What?

Man who appointed Alex Padilla to the Senate survived Larry Elder's attempt in 2021.

Recall Gavin Newsom?

That's right.

What?

Greek God was having an affair with Aphrodite when they were caught.

Aries.

Aries is right.

Moving on.

What material follows Lost in the name of a technique for casting bronze statues and is tape wax.

Wax is right in 2023 case Allen versus Milligan, the Supreme Court upheld Section two of what 1965 law requiring Alabama to redraw its congressional district map.

Elizabeth Voting Rights Act.

Voting Rights Act is the exact answer.

How about some pencil and paper for a quick math question?

If the logarithm of x equals two, what is the value of the logarithm of the cube x?

Given that x equals 100, they've already solved it at home?

Do you all have an answer?

Anyone ask 1000.

It's all right.

It's good to take a chance.

You guys got an answer?

I'll take ten answers.

Six?

We're looking for six.

Keep your pencil and paper.

If 20% of police for a gene are recessive, what percentage of the population should be homozygous recessive?

Yes.

State 4%.

4% is correct.

Next what?

Four letter name of a protagonist of the call of the Wild is also a word.

Tate.

Buck.

Buck is right.

What?

South American country lost almost 70% of its population.

State Paraguay.

Paraguay is correct.

What Chinese dynasty sponsored the voyage of Zen of Jiang, huh?

Go ahead, tell Ming Dynasty.

Ming Dynasty is right.

Thanks a lot.

On November 15th, 2022, the United Nations estimated that the global population had reached, what, eight 8 billion?

8 billion is right.

What structures such as the Midwest o Gullah Law are typically found above?

Tate Uh, Aquifer.

Aquifer is correct.

We have about a minute and a half to go watch.

Semiconductor devices which have bipolar junction and field effect types can be found in the billion state transistors.

That's right.

What fictional town whose residents include its mayor, Walter Vinci and doctor terror artist Lydgate is the title setting of a novel by George Eliot.

Middlemarch.

Middlemarch is right.

Arthur Evans discovered the writing system Linear A On what island State?

Crete.

Crete is correct for that answer.

Moving on, what country contains Africa's largest church presently?

Tate?

Ethiopia.

Nothing there.

Correct?

Right.

That's incorrect.

I'll finish it for you.

Hewitt has its economic center at Abidjan and is named after a material found in Elephant Tusk.

What do you got, Elisa?

Ivory Coast.

Except that judges.

Yes, we do.

Well done.

What painter?

Which painter of the potato eaters painted?

Tate.

Vincent Van Gogh.

Van Gogh is right.

What sequence introduced in the book?

Liber Abassi starts one, one, two, three.

Tate, the Fibonacci sequence.

That's correct.

Layer buttons down because we are flat out of time.

You all played well.

Both teams did.

Could you have fun?

Be honest with me.

We had fun.

I'd good.

Our winning team in this particular round is the Alabama School of Cyber Technology and Engineering.

Well played.

Well done.

And who at Trussville.

Always good to have you back with us.

And you did a good job playing today.

Congratulations.

We thank you for watching our program.

It's the Alabama Scholars Bowl.

We hope you'll join us every week here on statewide television, on Alabama public television.

I'm Mike Royer.

Thanks again for watching.

Have a great day.