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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 into the Alabama Scholar's Bowl here on Alabama Public Television.

My name is Mike Royer, welcoming you into the program.

We appreciate you watching every week.

And we so enjoy bringing into our studio the best and brightest students from the best schools in the state of Alabama.

All of the students, whether they're first year players or seniors who have been here before, represent their school and themselves very well.

And we're proud of all of them.

We welcome back to the studio today, the team from Hoover High School in Hoover, Alabama, in the Birmingham area, and also from Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa Academy, a team we've seen before.

And it's good to have you back with us today.

Our judges for the program, they play a vital role in the operation here.

Sharon Dailey, Rhonda Brewer, Kate Wilson.

Claudette Smith is also on our team that helps coordinate many things.

Mike Housley is our executive producer.

We're glad you're with us.

Let's get started.

Our players know how to do this.

We're going to begin with 20 questions.

The team that answers the questions correctly, we'll get a bonus question.

Lightning round in the middle of the program and then 20 point questions to in the program.

So let's get started and see how well we can do today.

Already buttons in hand.

Let's get going.

Question number one what quantity, which equals charge divided by voltage measures, the ability crush resistance.

No, that's incorrect.

I'll finish it for you.

Tuscaloosa Academy measures the ability of its namesake circuit component to store charge and is given inference.

What is that?

What are we looking for?

Michael Capacitance.

That is correct.

Here's a bonus question for you.

What type of value is returned by a DOT product but not a cross product and has a magnitude but not a direction?

What's that called?

Scalar?

That's correct.

Toss up everybody.

What school of thought includes the idea of Sheol or feel a filial piety is expounded in such Isaac if that is the right answer.

Thank you.

Your bonus question.

What former governor of California led the commission that investigated the assassination of John F Kennedy?

Warren That's right.

Earl Warren is the answer.

Here's a toss up question.

What piano piece?

Subtitled Quasi un Fantasia opens with repeated Isaac Moonlight Sonata.

Moonlight Sonata or Sonata number 14 Bonus for you.

What island?

Whose city of Gander is the setting of the musical Come From Away contains the provincial capital St John's and is east of Labrador.

Newfoundland.

Newfoundland is right toss up both teams.

What Empire?

One of whose leaders promoted the syncretic religion didn't Disney like?

He built the Taj Mahal under shawl And Christian Mogull is right Bonus question Kathy Ames gives birth to twin boys named Karl and Aaron in what novel by John Steinbeck that is set in the Salinas Valley, east of Eden.

East of Eden.

That's right.

Well done, Steven.

Next for both teams, what Constellation contains the teapot Asterism, as well as the supermassive black hole at the center of the Michael Sagittarius.

Sagittarius is right.

Bonus question for you.

Tuscaloosa Academy.

You'll need your pencil and paper for this.

The expression to raise to the power of the quantity X plus three equals what constant times the quantity two to the x and Isaiah eight eight.

You could pretend to use your pencil just to make me feel nothing.

All right, well done.

That's right.

Toss up.

Both teams.

What artists who depicted marching flies in the house?

Antigenic torrid toreador depicted ants.

And it's Isaac Dilly daily is right Salvador Dali Bonus question What American figure skater whose parents are from China is nicknamed the quad king and won the men's single gold medal at the 2022 Winter Olympics.

It don't go li know if it's Nathan Chen.

Nathan Chen was the right answer.

Toss up everyone.

What novel which depicts Roland where his death from gangrene and it is Stephen Slaughterhouse-Five.

Slaughterhouse-Five is the right answer.

This is a bonus for your team.

What giant who was tasked by Hara with guarding a heifer that was actually IO, was slain by Hermes after Hermes put all 100 of his eyes to sleep.

Argus.

Argus is right.

Next question.

Both teams what former mayor of Braddock, who suffered a stroke in May of 2022, defeated Mehmet Oz and John Fetterman.

John Fetterman is right.

Well done.

Audrey, Bonus question for you.

What process occurs when silver is exposed to sulfur compound is resulting in a Blackish film forming on its surface?

What's that call tarnishing?

Tarnishing is right.

Toss up everyone.

What phenomenon is explained by the icing model is displayed below the curie.

Jakub Ferrum Magnetism.

That is correct.

I see your name, right?

Yeah.

Okay, good.

We're getting there three or four appearances on the show.

I'll have it nailed.

Bonus question for your team.

What Dutch artist from the Dust style movement painted Broadway boogie woogie and many works with black lines and primary color rectangles.

Okay.

Do you have an answer, Isaac?

Yes, that's right.

Toss up.

Which King, who was ex-communicated by Pope Paul the third and who dissolved England's monasteries.

Chris Henry V Henry the eighth is right.

Bonus for you.

What service, which has been used in Ukraine since Russia invaded, is a broadband internet service developed by Space X using satellites in lower orbit.

Isaiah StarLink is out.

Sorry.

Oh, I'm sorry.

No, I'm sorry I threw that out.

There is a toss up question.

That's Hoover's bonus right?

Do you have an answer?

I don't know.

What?

Broadband Internet?

No, that's incorrect.

But I swear you had the right answer is StarLink is right.

My apologies for confusing the question.

Here is number 11.

Toss up everyone.

What surname is shared by a woman whose 1971 album, Pearl includes me and Bobby McGee and the composer of the entertainer Isaac Joplin.

Joplin is right.

Bonus question for you What type of AI, which is common among anthropology is is composed of thousands of oh Matilda that have each have their own lens compound a compound eyes right toss up everyone what title Monarch is relieved to learn the death of Polybius in a play by Sophocles, but binds himself and Bazin in is Stephen Oedipus?

Oedipus is correct.

This is your bonus.

In 1793, Charlotte Corday, a00 London sympathizer, was guillotined for murdering.

What?

Zack A bang in his bathtub Mirror mirrored is correct pencil and paper for both teams.

What is the length of the longer leg of a right triangle with a hypotenuse of 17 whose shorter leg has a length of eight?

Isaiah 15 is correct.

Your bonus question for your team, Tuscaloosa Academy.

What city is the judicial capital of South Africa?

Making it one of the country's three capitals alongside Cape Town and Pretoria, Johannesburg?

No, that's incorrect.

Bloemfontein is the capital.

It's a new one on me next for everybody.

What human character title titles crossover series in which he fights a kingdom war with the Rabbids and takes part in the Olympics with Sonic.

Stephen Yo Mario is correct.

Your bonus.

What poet whose poem Old Ironsides helped encourage the preservation of the U.S. Constitution had a son who was a Supreme Court Justice who was there.

HOLMES Oliver Wendell Holmes is right.

Next question.

What creature who lived at the spring of a mem une was defeated at the IO, helping help during the second labor of her Achilles.

Who cut off its many hands?

Hydra.

Hydra is correct.

Next bonus question for you guys.

What strong men deposed Patrice Lumumba in 1960 at the beginning of the Congo crisis and became Zaire's dictator for 32 years.

Is this a cycle?

That is correct.

What man who surrendered his driver's license after a 2019 crash near Sandringham was ceremonially reinterred in 2022 next to his wife, Elizabeth.

Elizabeth the second.

What you got, Michael?

Philip?

That's correct.

Prince Philip Mountbatten.

Bonus question for your team.

What term?

From the Greek for study of houses refers to the study of how organisms interact with their environments?

What's that study called?

Ecology.

That's right, Isaiah.

Good job.

What?

Roman Emperor.

Toss up everyone.

What?

Roman Emperor convened the first council of Nicaea converted to Christianity.

Constantine, the great.

Yes.

Constantine, the first.

Bonus question over what photographers essay.

The assignment, I'll never forget describes how she made the 1936 portrait Migrant Mother.

Who is that?

Dorothea Lange.

That's correct.

Or Theo Lange is right.

Couple.

Three more questions in this portion of the round.

What island is home to the Space Forces tool?

The air base, which is Chris Greenland.

Greenland is right.

That's where it's located.

Bonus question for you.

New Year's Eve in New Orleans features the dropping of a six foot tall version of what symbol of French Kings also used in the logo for the NFL's Saints.

Oh, it's the fleur de lis.

Yeah, fleur de lis Fleur de lis is right.

Two more questions.

What taxonomic class whose name ends in s contains the slow loris and the lemur, as well as larger species, including chimpanzees and humans.

Chris Primates.

Primates is correct.

Your bonus question.

However, local theories cannot explain what contem what quantum phenomenon in which measuring the state of one particle affects the state of another particle quantum entanglement.

That's correct.

Quantum entanglement.

One more question, then we'll do the lightning round in 2022.

What celebrity agreed to pay the FCC $1.2 million over her promotion of Ethereum max tokens and also divorced her husband, Kanye West, and Christian production.

Kim Kardashian is right.

The bonus Nazi soldier.

Corporal Alan Keyes puts artistic decorations on concrete bunkers in what Gunter Grass novel, narrated by Danzig native Oscar, Oscar, Montserrat, The Tin Drum, the Tin Drum is right.

You know, you can jump in long before I have to read the whole thing.

Well done.

Lay your buttons down.

Everybody will do the lightning round.

Now I'm going to tell you what the categories are, The team that is trailing at this point, and Tuscaloosa Academy trailing slightly at the midpoint.

You'll choose first of the four categories.

They are French art terms, states, highest points, tigers and DG words.

You think about that in a moment.

I'll ask you to choose one.

And after you play that round, Hoover will pick two and play them both.

Then we'll come back to you for the final category.

At this point, we'd like to ask to begin with the Hoover players.

Let's meet each one of you individually.

So my name is Yakov.

I'm a senior at Hoover, and my favorite school subject is Chemistry.

I'm Isaac.

I'm a senior at Hoover as well.

My favorite subject is biology.

My name is Christian Nathan.

I'm a freshman at Hoover High School, and my favorite subject is history.

My name's Steven.

I'm a senior, and my favorite subject is algebra.

My name is Fair.

I'm a sophomore at Tuscaloosa Academy, and I am also a cheerleader.

I'm Audrey.

I'm a sophomore at Tuscaloosa Academy, and I lived in Australia.

I'm Michael.

I'm a junior at Tuscaloosa Academy, and I was born in New Jersey, I might say.

I'm a senior at Tuscaloosa Academy, and I plan to major in computer science.

Very good.

Good to meet you all.

Good to have you all with us.

You're all playing very well.

Tuscaloosa Academy of four categories I described.

Which one would you like to play the DG Words.

DG Words.

All right.

Once we start asking the questions, you'll have 60 seconds to give these words that contain the consecutive letters.

DG In that order, ready to evade an oncoming hazard.

This word often precedes a ball dodge.

That's right.

A thick, milky gruel porridge.

That's right.

A small useful device gadget That's right.

To shorten or abbreviate a text, a bridge.

That's right.

Fat especially on the belly pass a small club or blunt weapon bludger.

So again bludger.

No, it's cudgel or cudgels.

Boring, pedantic and old fashioned passe.

A type of long bladed rush like grass sedge.

That's right.

To make small movements impatiently fidget.

That's right.

Colorful Australian parakeet Budgerigars.

That is correct.

Boring, pedantic and old fashion time is up.

That's dodgy.

And did you get the one about that especial on the belly?

That's an old term.

Pudge is the word a soul folks are a little more familiar with.

Well done with that and we'll come over to Hoover.

Now you're going to choose two categories.

And which two would you like to play?

Gentlemen?

We'll take State's highest points.

And then French arts terms.

Very good in 60 seconds when we begin, you're going to given given the highest natural point in a US state.

Name the state.

Ready?

Denali, Alaska.

Mt.

Hood of Oregon.

Hawkeye Point, Iowa.

Mount Cuda in Maine.

Mount Rainier, Washington.

Britain Hill Road No Skip Clemons Dome in the Great Smoky Mountains, Tennessee.

Greymouth Hill.

Rhode Island.

That's right.

Mount Sunflower, Nebraska.

No, it's Kansas.

Wheeler Park near the town of Toss.

Taos, New Mexico.

That's right.

And you skipped on Britton Hill, just south of the Alabama border.

Florida.

Florida is right.

Think you got nine out of ten or better?

Is that everybody?

We did them all, didn't we, Judges?

All right.

Good job with those.

And in fairness to you all, I think on the the last one, I didn't say south of Alabama the first time I read it.

My apologies.

You still got it all ready.

And the next one was DG.

No French art, German short term French art.

That's right, French art.

Given a French term state, whether it primarily applies to ballet, visual art, music, clothing or none of the above, I'm going to read that again.

Whether primary applies to ballet, visual art, music, clothing or none of the above ready collage, visual art.

That's right.

De Newman Music.

No, it's none.

Relevé Ballet.

That's right.

Plié clothing.

No, that's ballet.

EN Plein air, visual art.

That's right.

A tude etude music.

Oh, Hoyt Kulture Couture.

Haute couture.

I butchered it for you.

None of the above.

That's clothing, fugue music, Purdue Blu-Ray clothing.

That's ballet and Trump Loy clothing.

That's visual arts.

We didn't skip any, did we?

Judges?

That's everything.

Aren't you glad they took that one?

I thought that was really hard.

You would have gotten those.

But you want to play that one.

I don't think we're allowed to do that.

You guys are going to stuck with tigers, is that right?

I believe tigers is left for you.

Tuscaloosa Academy.

You're going to answer the following about tigers.

Here we go.

Apple Computers, who always had a tiger edition Mac OS.

That's correct.

Culture.

Whose zodiac has the tiger as the third sign Chinese.

That's right.

11 time PGA Player of the year, Tiger Woods serial, Whose mascot is Tony the Tiger?

Frosted Flakes.

Yes, ma'am.

TV family from the 1970s that had a dog named Tiger Pass.

The title Alternative to the Tiger.

In a Frank Stockton story past a school whose teams are the Tigers.

Clemson.

That's right.

Country home to the Tamil Tigers.

India.

Judges.

No, that's incorrect.

Genus containing tigers and lions.

Pantera.

That's right.

2001 novel that features a tiger named Richard Parker.

Life of Pi was that one.

All right.

And the Brady Bunch, you're too young to be up on The Brady Bunch was that they had a dog named a tiger.

All right.

We have six and a half minutes left in our program.

And as you know, you have a chance to catch up or increase your lead because each one of these questions is worth 20 points.

No bonus, just answer and we move on.

What a vent.

Which led to Husband Kimmel being relieved.

Christopher Harbor.

That's right.

In 1973, Salvador Allende was killed in a coup led by white Kurdish.

Pinochet.

Pinochet is right.

What product often contains clay to increase its opacity is made from a suspension called pulp and consist of cellulose fibers in a flat sheet.

What is that, Michael?

No, that's incorrect.

Hoover paper.

Paper is correct, Isaac.

What intelligence Ants Alliance consist of the US and its major English speaking allies Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.

What is that alliance called?

Yes, Isaiah.

Nope.

Anyone else?

Five Eyes is the answer.

The Horror Writers Association presents awards named for.

What Irish author who described Jonathan Harker's trip to Transylvania in the novel Dracula.

And it's Chris Stoker.

Bram Stoker is right.

A group of football clubs called the Old Firm are based in what most popular city in Scotland.

Chris Glasgow.

That's right.

What type of monuments such as European Doleman tables and moai sculptures on Easter Island is named for being constructed from large stones and so called Isaiah.

Stonehenge.

No, that's incorrect.

Who bust in, Stephen?

No, it's Megaliths.

Megaliths.

You are on the right track.

Pencil and paper.

Now for a math question.

How many different combinations of two students can be chosen from a group of four?

If the order of selection does not matter.

But there you are.

12.

Jacob.

12.

I didn't hear you.

12?

No.

Yes.

Fair three.

No answer is six.

Six combinations.

What programing?

Language.

Whose Zen can be shown via the command.

Import this, Isaiah.

Python.

Python is correct.

What?

Female leader of the right wing national Rally Party lost the 2017 and 2022 French Christian Le Pen.

Le Pen is right.

What Prime Minister who was freed in the Grand Sasso raid crushed Benito Mussolini.

Mussolini is correct.

Moving on what English metaphysical poet reflected on illness and faith in his 1624 Stephen Dunn.

That's right.

John Donne.

What people in the Bible whose champion was the six cubit and a span Goliath were killed.

Philistines.

Philistines is right.

Isaac.

Good job.

Iraqi forces deliberately set over 600 oil wells on fire during Iraq's 1990 invasion.

Of what country?

Kuwait.

Kuwait is correct.

Next, What country Whose cities include?

New Nicaragua is east of Guyana and is a former Dutch colony.

Christian Suriname is right.

What principle?

Which explains the Venturi effect.

Venturi effect relates of fluids increase in speed to a decree base Coupe Bernoulli Principle Bernoulli principle is right What activists who in 1872 refused to pay a $100 Christiansen.

Anthony is right.

Susan Anthony what work with long runs of 16th Notes is part of an opera by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and depicts Isaac the Bumblebee Flight of the Bumblebee is right.

What author to whom poet John Berryman wrote a homage, wrote Stephen Bradstreet.

Bradstreet is right.

What character tells her adopted daughter Estella to break Pip's heart crush?

Miss Havisham?

Miss Havisham is right.

What unit originally defined as 1/10000000 of the distance from the North Pole to the equator.

Isaiah meter meter is right.

What term for a shallow body of water separated by a narrow landmass from a larger body of water comes from the name of one surrounding Venice.

What is that called?

An Irish canal.

That's incorrect.

Do you have an answer, Michael?

Reservoir?

Nope.

The answer they want is Lagoon.

Lagoon?

What character created by Derek Kolstad is declared ex-communicated from the Continental in a 2017 sequel.

And then an assassin played by Keanu Reeves.

And what do you have, Chris?

John Wick.

John Wick is right.

In 1967, astronauts Gus Grissom, Roger Chaffee and Ed White.

Apollo one.

It is Apollo one where they died.

What author wrote a series of children's books about the porcine Wonder Mercy Watson and depicted a swashbuckling mouse in The Tale of Desperado.

Chris Aberdeen.

Do you have an answer?

Tuscaloosa Academy.

The answer is Kate DiCamillo.

Next, what American author wrote a series of 25 novels featuring Detective Kinsey Malone that began with the 1980 Twos A is for Alibi.

Anybody know the author Craft and Sue Craft And is the author.

What instrument for which Louis Verne wrote his Caroline do.

Westminster can have hundreds of stops and can push air through 32 foot long pipes.

Isaac The pipe organ is right.

What?

Herb has a Thai variety as well as a sweet variety.

This is a major ingredient in traditional pesto sauce.

Stephen said to you, But that's wrong.

You're right.

That is wrong.

So you have an answer.

Basil.

Basil is the right answer.

And we're out of time.

You can lay your buttons down.

That was a fun round with, I think, some challenging questions, but you all did a good job.

Congratulations to Hoover coming out on top in this particular round.

Tuscaloosa Academy played well every time you've been on, and you did again today.

It's good to see you all.

Thanks for playing.

We thank you for watching our program.

It's called the Alabama Scholars Bowl.

We hope you'll join us every week here on Alabama public TV.

Until next time.

I'm Mike Royer.

Have a great day, everybody.