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Now here's your host, Mike Royer.

Hello, everyone, and welcome Once again to another season and another program of the Alabama Scholars Bowl.

I'm Mike Royer, and it's my privilege to host this program every week here on Alabama Public Television.

If you're a faithful viewer over the years, you know how our program works.

We bring together the best and brightest students from schools all around Alabama to compete for scholarship money and trophies, too.

And we welcome into our studio today students from two fine schools.

Lamp High School is on our first program today from right here in the Montgomery area.

And from Vestavia Hills, the best Ivy Hills High School team joins us, too.

It's good to have you all with us.

You know this, but I'll tell our viewers at home that we began with 20 questions.

The team that answers the question correctly gets a bonus question for their team only.

Midway through the program, we have a lightning round four categories.

They have 60 seconds to answer the questions in each of those categories.

Then we use the rest of our time in what's called the speed round questions that are very valuable point wise, 20 points each for those questions.

And if you're a little bit behind, you can do some fast catching up.

So we welcome you.

We welcome you.

And we're glad that you're with us for another program of the Alabama Scholars Bowl.

Everybody ready?

Buzzers in hand.

Then let's get started.

Question number one.

In October 2022, J. Alexander King pled guilty to charges in the death of what man murdered when Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck.

And it is ret George Floyd.

George Floyd is the right answer.

We have a bonus question for you, Vestavia.

The so-called is arch problem was discussed by what Scottish philosopher?

An empiricist who wrote an inquiry concerning human understanding.

Do you know who wrote that OBS?

Nope.

The answer is David HUME.

David HUME.

Toss up question for everyone.

What explorer who captained the HMS.

Resolution while trying to find the Northwest Passage was killed and it's anti-drug.

Hudson It is.

You said Hudson That is incorrect.

I'll read the finished part of the question for you.

Best debut, while trying to find the Northwest Passage, was killed in Hawaii on his third voyage to the Pacific.

Barker Cook.

James Cook is the right answer.

Another bonus question for you.

Battles like Poltava and Narva were fought in what, 18th century war, in which Peter the Great's Russian empire defeated Sweden.

What is that called?

The Great Northern War.

That is the Great Northern War.

Well done.

Toss up question.

And for the first time, grab your pencil and paper for a math question.

What is the sale price of a shirt?

If the shirt costs $30 before a 20% discount was applied.

And quick answer from anti-drone 24.

$24 is the right answer.

Here's your bonus question.

Lamp.

What term derived from the French describes the quality of a note that distinguishes different instruments such as a violin versus a flute?

What's that called?

Any musicians?

No answer.

All right.

Timber is the answer.

We were looking for timbre.

Here's the next question.

Both teams.

What day of the week called Aleph Nane in Arabic and Def Tara in Greek has names in romance languages like Lundy that refer to the moon and buzzing as Yash.

Um.

Thursday.

Nope, that's incorrect.

I read the entire question.

Do you have an answer over here?

The Q Monday is the right answer.

Lamp.

Here's your bonus question in anatomy, the adjective renal is used to describe things related to what organ, kidney, kidney is.

Right.

Well done.

Toss up everybody.

What general who declared that Savanna was his Christmas present for Abraham Parker?

Sherman That's right.

William Tecumseh Sherman Your bonus question.

Vestavia In which Olympic sport would you use an AP foil or a saber and things?

Fencing, Fencing.

Fencing is correct.

Toss up.

Question What region of the spectrum is detected by the James Webb Space Telescope and has wavelengths between those of radio waves and visible light?

And it's Daniel Infrared.

Infrared radiation is correct.

Your bonus question.

Vestavia What American author describe the title character's attempt to become a successful actress in his 1900 novel, Sister Carrie?

Any answer at all?

This debut?

All right, let's go with the right answer being Theodore Dreiser.

Theodore Dreiser.

Seventh question in this first part of our round, what artist of Madonna of the Magnificat painted by Laura.

And it is a try in Da Vinci.

No, that is incorrect.

And I'll finish it for you.

This debut painted the whole crew of spring throwing a cloak over a nude God is standing on a shell in the birth of Venus.

And who is that?

Botticelli.

Botticelli is right.

Here is your bonus question.

What surname is shared by the husband and wife?

Executed in 1953 by the US government two years after they were convicted of being Soviet spies?

Who was that at 40?

Rosenberg Is that your answer?

Yes.

ROSENBERG That is the right answer.

Toss up question for everyone.

Activist Angela Davis advocates for abolishing what institutions?

The site of the Attica uprising in 1971, which also include Sing Sing at Alcatraz and buzzing in is anti-drug prisons.

Prisons is right.

She wanted to do away with those.

This is a bonus question for you.

Lamp gluons mediate what fundamental force that holds the atomic nucleus together Can anything gravity know the right answer is strong nuclear force strong.

Next question.

What man made a covenant of the pieces?

Pled with God to save Sodom and sacrificed a ram caught in a thicket instead of his son Isaac in the Bible?

And is Parker Abraham?

Abraham is the right answer and bonus question.

Why do Englishmen describe the sky above the city of Chandrapur and the extraordinary Moranbah Caves?

At the start of his 1924 novel, a passage to India.

A Kipling?

Kipling.

Nope.

Is Forster.

Forster is the right answer question for both teams.

What gemstone is produced by the accumulation of the of mostly aragonite substance nacre at the site of an injury or infection inside an oyster.

And it is red pearl.

A pearl is correct.

Your bonus question best debut What Belgian artist painted the Treachery of images, which shows a picture of a pipe above the phrase This is not a pipe.

No answer.

The answer is Magritte.

René Magritte is the answer.

Toss up everyone.

What composer of a symphony described as Beethoven's 10th and the academic.

And it is a D.J.

Brahms.

Brahms is the right answer.

Well done.

Your bonus question.

Most of the world's uygurs live in what?

A autonomous region of China.

Whose capital is your omce?

No answer.

Manchuria.

The right answer is Xinjiang.

Xinjiang.

Next question.

In what novel are daily physical jerks compulsory for members of the outer party in Oceana, including.

And it's Deidre.

1984.

1984 is the book Your Right?

That's the right novel.

Here's your bonus lamp.

What bird?

Which has the longest wingspan of any extant bird, is shot by the narrator of the poem The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner.

Yeah.

Albatross.

Albatross is the correct bird.

Next.

What?

British Royal House, which the Jacobites sought to restore, included the king who lost power in the Glorious Revolution of 16.

And it is a deja, Stuart.

That's right.

The House of Stuart.

Stuart is the answer.

Bonus question for you.

What Greek king of Epirus defeated Roman forces at the 280 B.C.

Battle of Heraklion but retreated from Italy because he suffered heavy losses.

Who is that?

The workers.

I defer to audit Vertica.

No, it is Pyrrhus.

Pyrrhus is the answer we were looking for.

Next.

What?

Mathematician discovered the union bound in probability and is the namesake of an algebra system that only considers the values true and false.

And that is a different Boolean.

Judges are close enough.

Say it again.

Boolean Boolean operators.

Judges.

You take that for an answer.

George Boole rhymes with tool.

That's the exact pronunciation.

But you're good.

Your bonus question.

The Alvarez High pathos.

This explains the cause of what type of event which marks the end of the Cretaceous period of 66 million years ago.

Extinction.

Extinction is right.

Question number 15 of 20.

What country?

Whose capital is on the bank?

Mahi River has a non bilateral flag and is home to many Sherpas.

And it's a detour.

Nepal.

Nepal is the right answer.

Your bonus question Lamp.

What former army major played by Alan Rich and rich son on an Amazon show and Tom Cruise in two films narrates the crime thriller Killing floor by Lee Child.

The name of that former Army major.

No answer.

Jack Reacher is the answer we wanted.

Next question.

What Hero ransomed did I shared by the three Great sisters killed the sea Monster Cetus to rescue Andromeda and beheaded the Gorgon Medusa.

And it is Yash.

Perseus.

Perseus is the right answer.

Well done.

Your bonus question.

Best debut in 1971.

Children's book by Robert C O'Brien The Mouse.

Mrs. Frisbee meets rats who have been made hyper intelligent by what title government agency the CIA and hope it is in IMH or the National Institute of Mental Health.

Next question for everyone.

What taxonomic class, whose name comes from a Latin word for to cut into parts is the largest known class of animals that includes ants and wasps and parker insects.

Insects is right.

Bonus question Vestavia along with Santo Domingo.

What other national capital is on the Caribbean island of his panel?

Yola Port au Prince.

Port au Prince is right for your bonus question.

Couple more questions.

What group songs Don't shut me down from their comeback album, Voyage was co-written by Bjorn Ulvaeus, four decades after the song and its Nakheel.

Abba is right.

Your bonus question What Particle discovered by James Chat James Chadwick consist of one up quark and two down quarks.

Proton No, that's incorrect.

The answer is neutron neutrons.

Yes, We wanted what head this is for both teams.

What head of foreign volunteers in Uruguay's Civil War became the hero of two worlds after the Red Shirts expedition of the thousand helped unify Italy in its Attenborough Garibaldi.

Garibaldi is right.

Your bonus question What colonies fundamental orders adopted in 1639 were drafted by Roger Ludlow and became the first written constitution in the modern U.S..

Which colony?

Plymouth.

Nope.

It was the colony of Connecticut.

Later became a state.

Last question before we take a break.

What author of the story collection, The 4 Million, is known for stories with ironic endings like the ransom of Red Chief in the Gift and its Attenborough.

Oh, Henry.

Oh, Henry is right.

The last bonus question was around What company?

Which provides co-working spaces.

Had a failed IPO in 2019, after which its CEO, Adam Neumann, resigned.

That rang a bell with any of you.

Amazon didn't ring a bell with me either.

We work is the answer to that.

Lay your buttons down.

Relax for a second.

And in a moment, I'm going to tell you the four categories for our Lightning Round.

And after I do that, I'm going to ask all of you to introduce yourself.

Just tell us a little bit about yourself.

I will tell you also at this point that our judges for the program today are Sharon Daly, Rhonda Brewer and Kate Wilson.

We appreciate Claudette Smith, an integral part of our program organization as well.

Mike Housley is the executive producer of our program now.

Moving on to the Lightning Round, these are the four categories, the team that is trailing at this point, that is you, Vestavia Hills will choose first.

You'll play that category.

The other team then will choose two categories, play them both.

And then you guys, as we technically would like to say, get stuck with what's left over at the end.

Okay?

The categories are literary deaths, revolts in the British Empire, movie quotes and starts with Q.

Those are the four categories.

Think about what you want to begin with while you do that.

Let's meet our players.

Just each one of you.

Tell us a little bit about yourself.

Favorite subject and where you are in school.

Added you.

Hello, my name is Ed Paula.

I'm a freshman at LAN.

I like math and I want to pursue a career in STEM.

I'm Priti Patel.

I'm a senior at LAN.

I'm interested in pursuing health care and I plan to study biomedical sciences in college.

Hi, my name is Attenborough.

I'm a senior at LAMP, and I want to major in computational biology in the future.

Everyone.

My name's Nick Kilpatrick.

I'm a senior at LAMP, and I'm interested in studying law in the future.

Very good.

Good to have all of you with us from Lab.

Vestavia.

Hi.

My name is Red.

I'm a sophomore at MIT.

Save it.

And I would like to eventually work in aerospace and hopefully the new frontier of exploration.

My name is Parker.

I'm a junior at CB Hills High School.

I enjoy officiating lacrosse because I like to serve the community and I like to go into history when I go to college.

My name is Yosh.

I want to pursue medicine and help underserved communities.

Very good.

I am Daniel.

I play oboe and I went to study chemistry when I got into college.

Very good.

It's good to have you all with this festival.

If you decide which of our first four categories you'd like to try, we won't.

Revolts in the British Empire.

Revolts in the British Empire.

And here's what we're going to do.

The clock starts when I start asking you questions.

But you're going to name the modern day country where these anti-British wars and revolts primarily occurred.

Got that?

Here we go.

The Zulu war.

South Africa.

The land wars involving the mate.

May people.

New Zealand.

That's right.

King Philip's war, America.

That's right.

Red River Rebellion.

America.

No, it's Canada.

Mal mal Uprising.

Hong Kong.

Hong Kong.

No, that was Kenya.

Sepoy Mutiny.

India?

That's right.

The key lime was revolt in what was then called now.

Iceland.

And Iceland.

Uh, Zambia.

Zambia.

Malawi is the answer there.

Easter rising?

No, sir.

Okay.

The Rum Rebellion and the Eureka Rebellion.

America.

That was Australia and the modest war whose rebels were often called dervishes.

Time is up.

That was the Sudan was the answer for that.

That was a challenging category, for sure.

But you've got a few of them, right?

That's well done.

Now we're going to go over to Lamp, and you tell me two categories you want to play.

We'll play them both.

We like to do literary duds and starts with Q.

Very good.

Let's do literary deaths first in the 60 seconds, you'll have when I begin to ask the questions, you're going to name the literary work in which these characters die.

Got it.

Here we go.

Polonius.

And what?

That's right.

Captain Ahab.

Moby Dick.

Myrtle.

Myrtle Wilson.

Great Gatsby.

That's right.

Lennie Small of Mice and Men.

That's right.

The title, The Super Who is Killed by Macduff.

Macbeth.

That's right.

Sydney Carton, who is guillotined.

Tale of Two Cities.

That's right.

An unnamed Arab man who was shot by Marceau.

Pass the stranger.

Let's see.

Randall McMurphy, who is suffocated in a mental hospital.

Pass.

Mary Dalton, who is smothered by bigger Thomas cat on a hot tin roof.

No, that's native son Lily Bart, who overdoses.

Let's go back to a couple of you past an unnamed Arab man who was shot by Marceau.

And you may have.

Did you pass on Randall McMurphy, who suffocated in mental hospital?

Time's up.

That's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

And the air man is the stranger.

Okay.

And the other one you want to do is Q, Is that right?

Yes.

Give the answers that start with the letter Q.

60 seconds to do that.

Bell Ringer in The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

Quasi modo.

Canadian province.

It includes Montreal, Quebec mineral with a value of seven on the most hardness scale courts nickname for members of the Religious Society of Friends.

Term for an active galactic nucleus powered by supermassive black holes.

Quasar.

That's right.

Australian State, whose capital is Brisbane.

Medication used to treat malaria.

That's right.

Capital of Ecuador.

Quito.

A minimum number of group members required to conduct business and grain in Amaranth.

Family used as food.

Quinoa.

Quinoa is right.

All of them done with 20 some seconds left to go.

Well done.

All right.

You did well with all of those.

What are we left with your movies.

Is that right?

We have for you best debut.

Give a quote from the AFI's top 100 list.

Name the movie it appears in.

All right, here we go.

I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.

Scarface.

It's The Godfather.

Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.

Forrest Gump.

That's right.

Apollo.

Oh, shoot.

Houston, we have a problem.

Apollo, please tell me you knew that anyway.

Thank you.

You make me look.

We can't make me look bad.

Apollo 13.

Good phone home, E.T..

Yes.

Rosebud.

Uh, Citizen Kane.

That's right.

I love the smell of napalm in the morning.

Apocalypse Now.

You're going to need a bigger boat.

Joss, you talking to me?

No, sir.

All right, Mr.

G.M., I'm ready for my close up Casablanca at Sunset Boulevard.

Go ahead, Make my day.

Dirty Harry.

Sudden impact.

But that's what I would have answered, too.

You guys did well with those.

All both of you did well with the lightning Round.

And that's how we do that deal for the rest of the time we have remaining in our program.

We do the speed round each of these questions worth 20 points.

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

Nothing but questions and answers.

No bonuses.

Now you just answer and go, What is the most populous city that uses the orca card?

A transit card used by commuters from Tacoma and other cities along Puget Sound and kills Seattle?

Seattle is right.

What arm of the Mediterranean Sea lies between the Italian peninsula and the Balkans Peninsula?

Out to sea again.

Adriatic.

Adriatic is right.

Yes.

Well done.

What?

Southeast Asian country, which was ruled by Shukri Dynasty's King Rama the ninth.

And it is.

And Tendra Thailand.

Thailand is right.

What type of blizzard that gave Buffalo six feet of snow in 2022 occurs when a cold front travels over warm waters such as the body of water next to Buffalo.

What's that called?

No meteorologist in the room.

That's lake effect snow or lake effect blizzard.

Next, what group of elements that includes Francis them contains the elements that are most likely Daniel Kline Alkalis correct.

What pro-slavery politician starting again.

What pro-slavery politician was vice president during the nullification crisis encouraging his home state?

Calhoun Calhoun is the right answer.

John Calhoun.

What author who wrote about Texas Marshall Jack Potter in The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky, also wrote the Civil War novel The Red Badge of Courage.

And it is the teacher, Stephen Crane, is right.

Well done.

What 1962 film, which features a match cut from a blown out match to a desert.

Sunrise, stars Peter O'Toole as the title historical figure take a shot at it.

Gone with the Wind.

Nope, it is.

Lawrence of Arabia is the answer we wanted.

What politician who's six militia members plotted to kidnap in 2020 defeated Republican Tudor Dixon in 2022 to be reelected governor of Michigan.

And the answer from to kill Gretchen Whitmer.

Whitmer is the right answer.

We have about 3 minutes left in our program.

The Woodchuck serves as a model for studying what group of viral infections that causes liver inflammation and whose symptoms can include NyQuil.

Hepatitis.

Hepatitis is right.

What ancient civilization?

Whose city of Harar, Kannapolis, has the oldest known brewery and was the capital of its upper portion, developed in the Nile Delta and nature.

Egypt.

Egypt is right.

What South American country whose voters rejected a new progressive constitution in September of 2022, is led by and is Parker Maru?

Nope.

I'll finish it for you.

Lamp is led by Gabriel Boric.

Do you know what country that is?

And a Detroit, Columbia?

No, it is Chile.

Chile.

A pencil and paper.

A little math quiz.

What whole number of three inch long wooden blocks can be cut from a plank that is 40 inches long?

Answer, Daniel.

1313 is right.

Well done.

What play whose two parts are titled Millennium Approaches and Perestroika includes the death of lawyer Rock Roy Cohn from AIDS and is by Tony Kushner.

What plays that mean?

He won it is Angels in America.

Next, What city holds many sporting events at its Maracana Stadium is overlooked by Sugarloaf Mountain and hosted the 2016 I'm looking to kill Rio de Janeiro.

Rio is correct.

The most common scale of electronegativity was developed by what chemist who wrote the nature of the chemical bond and part war.

Say again?

Bore.

No, that's incorrect.

If I go to the answer.

John Walton No, it is Pauling.

Linus Pauling wrote that what play in which the dying Dr. Rank attends a costume ball on the night that Nora leaves her condescending.

And that is a detail.

Again, a Doll's House.

A Doll's House is right.

One of the grievances in the Declaration of Independence was what practice of forced recruitment.

What is that called a dent, a tender precedent that is called imprisonment in what European country did 2023 general strikes protest a plan to raise the retirement age from 62 Parker France that is France moving on with one or two more questions.

What literary character ultimately makes amends with his nephew Fred, and becomes a second father to a boy known as Tiny Tim, and that is RET.

Do you have an answer for Christmas?

Carol Nope.

Laughs Scrooge.

Scrooge is right.

Ebenezer Scrooge Acceptable.

Last question What three letter noun can refer to the total value of a company's stock?

A soccer players appearances in international matches, matches or a type of hat.

What's it called?

And it is a tendra cap.

Cap is right layer buttons.

Now we're out of time.

That was a good round.

Both teams played well.

Lampe High School from here in the Montgomery area came out on top.

And this particular one, best debut, you played very well.

Congratulations to you all.

We thank you for watching our program.

It's called The Alabama Scholars Bowl.

I'm Mike Rowe.

We're inviting you to join us every week here on Alabama public Television.

Have a great day, everybody.