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

My name is Mike Royer.

We appreciate you joining us.

Every week as we gather in the studio and bring some of the best and brightest students in the state of Alabama together to compete with some pretty tough questions for scholarship money, the experience of being on the program.

And they represent their schools, their families and themselves proudly on the program.

And we're proud of all of them.

In the studio with us today, the team from Gadsden City High School.

It's good to have you folks with us.

And from Decatur, Alabama, Decatur High School, all the way from north Alabama.

Welcome to our studio as well.

Glad to have you with us.

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

Also, Claudette Smith is an important part of our program, getting the students moved around to where they need to be.

Mike Ousley is the executive producer of the Alabama Scholars Ball.

We hope you're watching every week.

We hope you're enjoying the program.

Y'all ready to play the game?

Here we go.

Question number one What word?

Which in most dialects is a homophone of a wood beam that connects two working oxen means in eggs, nutrient rich yellow, and it's chris yoke.

Yoke is right, while l k is the word we were looking for or y.

Okay.

Your bonus question gets in city What 19th century British poet wrote about an elderly Greek hero who vows to strive to seek to find and not to yield.

In the poem Ulysses its 10th Tennyson.

Tennyson is correct.

Well done.

Latika.

Next question.

Both teams.

What celestial body was discovered in 1846, based on calculations by Urbain Lu Verrier to explain anomalies in the orbit of its inner neighbor Uranus.

And the answer?

Chris.

Was it you, the Bastion?

I'm sorry.

It's Matthew right here.

Neptune is exactly right.

You're right.

Next.

I shouldn't miss you buzzing in right here.

Neptune is right.

This bonus questions just for your team.

George Gershwin wrote an overture named after what?

Western Hemisphere country, whose musical traditions include the rumba and salsa music.

What country?

Spain.

No, it is Cuba.

Cuba was the answer we were looking for.

Toss up question, everyone.

What?

19 century author portrayed a Spanish servant's love for a queen in ruined Los and described reform convict Jean Valjean.

And it is now the ticker.

Hugo.

Hugo is correct.

Bonus question for you, Gaston City.

What present day Country Home to the 18th century.

Durrani Empire was later contested in the Great Game and lay between Persia and British India against him.

Yeah, Afghanistan.

Afghanistan is correct.

Well done.

Toss up everyone.

What?

Recipient of the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize.

Known for her blue bordered and white sari, was an Albanian nun who founded the Missionaries of Charity and its Corbin.

Mother Teresa.

Mother Teresa is correct.

Bonus for you.

What adjective describe cells such as animal gametes that contain a single set of chromosomes?

Haploid.

Single cell.

Haploid.

Is that unanimous?

Haploid is correct.

Well done.

Toss up both teams.

What number of hydrogen atoms in ethylene is also the number of carbon atoms.

And Corbyn?

It is four.

Four is right.

Your bonus question.

The 2013 Newbery Medal was given to what Novel by Katherine Applegate, which is told from the perspective of a gorilla who lives in a cage at a mall.

What's the name of their one and only Ivan?

That's correct.

What economic concept?

Both teams.

One of the three classical factors of production with land and labor denotes the durable goods used in production.

What is that called?

Chris Materials.

No.

Dictator.

Do you have an answer for that?

Capital is the word we are looking for.

Next question.

What country underwent the national reorganization process or dirty war and lost the Falklands War?

Alvin.

Argentina.

Argentina is correct.

Your bonus in October of 2022.

An explosion partially destroyed a bridge crossing.

What strait to the east of the Crimean Peninsula.

As a as a as a as a no.

It is the Kerch.

The Kerch Strait was up for every one.

In what process?

Which can occur after breaking of the Coulomb barrier in a stellarator or Tom tokamak Are two atomic nuclei joined together?

What's that called?

What is it, Chris?

Fusion.

Fusion is right.

Your bonus members of what branch of the U.S. military supposedly earned the nickname Devil Dogs for their actions at the Battle of Belo Wood in World War One, The Devil Dog.

What branch was that one?

Oh, the American Expeditionary Force.

Sorry.

Target Marines.

Army.

Navy.

Air Force.

No one.

Okay.

I need an answer, gang.

Marines.

Marines.

Correct?

Yes.

Here is the toss up for everyone.

What artist who's lh o q cue Duchamp.

Chris Duchamp is correct.

Well done.

And good luck with this.

You have a pencil and paper for a math question for your bonus.

What is the average speed in miles per hour of a car that just traveled 80 miles in 75 minutes?

That's Palmer.

So 6464 is right.

Toss up both teams.

What ethnic groups?

Cuisine includes rice cakes called tuck, the chili paste called gochujang marinated meat.

And it's so Teeka Koreans Koreans that describes their cuisine.

Your bonus, The world's most populous francophone city is what capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Kinshasa.

Kinshasa.

That's correct.

Toss up, everybody.

What?

Statistical quantity represented by the line.

Inside the box.

In a box plot is found by putting a data set in order and finding Latika.

Median median is the right answer.

Your bonus.

DNA tests conducted in 1998 revealed that Thomas Jefferson likely had six children with white woman who he enslaved at Monticello.

How Hemings.

Sally Hemings is right.

Next question What vessel owned by Juan de la Rosa was the largest of the three ships in Christopher Columbus's first voyage.

Santa maria de Santa maria was the biggest of the three.

Your bonus Planck's constant divided by momentum gives the do broglie value of what quantity, which is about 400 to 700 nanometers for visible light wavelength wavelength is correct.

Toss up everyone.

What show featured Luke Kirby as controversial performer Lenny Bruce?

Streamed on Amazon Prime and starred Rachel Rachel Brosnahan as the title comic Ye Where I'm Looking.

Malory The Marvelous Mrs.. That's right.

Did you watch it?

I watched the whole thing.

It was great.

Well done.

You get a bonus question Now, what Major river of Eastern Europe flows through Kiev before emptying into the Black Sea?

What major river is that?

Got an answer, then?

You know, it's the Dnipro.

The Dnipro River.

Next question for both teams.

What current Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump's first ambassador to the United Nations, earlier spent six years as the governor of South Carolina.

Corbyn Haley Nikki Haley is right.

Bonus question i puma non dis came from what?

B ocean City state that became the dominant power in Greece after defeating Sparta at the Battle of Luke Tra in 371 B.C.

That's right.

City state, the most dominant Athens.

No, Thebes is the answer.

We want it toss up question.

We have five more.

What adjective can refer to major and minor keys with the same letter name?

And it is Chris relative?

No, I'll finish this for you.

Decatur Same letter.

Name two lines of longitude or two lines in the same plane that don't intersect.

Yes.

Somali parallel.

Parallel is the right answer.

Here's your bonus question.

Decatur Heated limestone is used to make clinker a key ingredient in white material that binds together gravel and sand in concrete.

What is that called?

Glue?

Note When you mix gravel and sand together, you get cement.

Cement is the right answer along with other things.

Next question for everyone.

What character mutters Puppy Biscuit to himself as he imagines himself as a lawyer and hydroplane pilot?

Mitty Chris Mitty.

Walter Mitty is right.

Bonus question What author who wrote about a man who writes letters to famous people in his novel called Herzog wrote the picaresque novel The Adventures of Augie March.

Bellow That's right.

Saul Bellow Toss up question, everyone.

What mammalian class that includes marmots and capybara is has members whose incisors never stop the ticker rodent.

Rodent is correct bonus for you what name was coined by Benjamin Russell in 1817 to refer to the apparent mood of national harmony during James Monroe's presidency?

What was that called?

Era of good Feeling Era of good feelings is right.

Few more questions.

What party?

Which supported the American system of high tariffs and a national bank was led by Henry Clay and opposed the Democrats in the 18 Corbin Whigs.

Whig Party is right your bonus the pr i and p a in and p r d parties oppose what populist President in Mexico who was elected to office in 2018.

Oh, I think it's both.

Yeah.

Both Yeah.

Lopez Obrador.

That's correct.

Next question.

What instrument played by both?

Alan the Zoot and Winston Marsalis is a CINDRIC all relative of the cornet.

It is a high pitched.

Chris Trumpet.

Trumpet is right.

Is your bonus the toughest known substance in an alloy containing what metal Whose isotope 60 is a beta emitter used to radiate foods to sterilize them.

It's a metal metal.

60 Sterilized, Sterilized.

Give me a metal silicon.

Now, we were looking for cobalt.

Cobalt.

Last question before we take a brief break.

What last name is shared by Diageo?

Diogenes Club co-founder Mycroft and his brother, who lives Latika Holmes, is right.

This last bonus question of the round is yours.

And it is this the same where every member held a lead bathroom veto was the legislature of a Commonwealth comprised of Lithuania.

And what other present day country?

Poland.

Poland.

Poland is right.

Lay your buttons down, relax, and we're going to do a couple of things.

First, I'm going to tell you the four categories that we have to play in the Lightning Round.

The team that is trailing at the midpoint of the program will go first.

You'll choose one category that is, you get Sin City.

So you get to choose first, then a dictator.

I'm sorry, then get Sin City.

You'll choose two categories and then you'll come back and play what's left.

The categories are sweetness.

American poets, indigenous American words and four letter acronyms and initial isms.

All right.

Those are the categories.

While you think about that, let's meet our players today.

I'll ask each of you just to tell us a little bit about yourself.

Favorite subject.

What you do at your school and other things.

Corbin, would you start?

My name is Corbin Ho.

My favorite subject is history.

And what I Want whenever I want to go to when I when I'm older, is Georgia Tech.

My name is the ticker beside I'm an eighth grader.

It gets to middle school.

My favorite object is literature, and I play tennis.

My name is Alvin Wynn.

I'm a sophomore at Gaston High, and my favorite subject would be a push.

And I want to go to UAB.

Good.

My name is Christopher Holder.

I'm a sophomore at Kansas High School.

My favorite subject is history, and I'm a president of the school chess club.

Very good.

My name's Mallory.

I'm a sophomore at Decatur High School.

My favorite favorite subject is English, and I hope to study criminology in the future.

My name is Claire Stewart.

I'm a junior to cater high school, and I hope to study biology in college.

My name is Molly Hillebrand.

I'm a junior at Decatur High School, and I play cross country in soccer and track.

So now I'm a junior at Gator High School and I'm a trainer for our football team.

Very good.

Which of the four categories are red do you guys want to do first?

Sweetness.

You want to do sweetness.

Good.

I've been anxious to see what this one's about.

When I begin, you'll have 60 seconds to answer these ten questions.

Disaccharides, known as Table Sugar, is what?

Skip, Get sweet liquids in flowers that hummingbirds drink their nectar.

Yeah, anyone can say it.

Simple sugar that is the brain's main fuel glucose.

That's right.

Bodily fluid that can be sweet in people with diabetes.

Sweat.

No.

Is actually urine food product made by boiling sap from a maple tree.

Sirup.

That's right.

Sweet secretion from aphids harvested by some ants skip zero calories.

Natural sweetener extracted from a namesake plant.

Genus Sucralose.

It's stevia sweet brown sauce created by a heat induced chemical reaction.

Caramel.

That's right.

An artificial sweetener name for an amino acid that people with PKU to avoid fructose.

It's aspartame and our time is up.

I think you skipped the sweet secretion harvested by some ants is honeydew.

I'd never heard of that before.

All right, we're coming over to you guys.

Sin City.

Tell me two categories of the remaining three and you'll do both of them back to back.

What do you want to do?

Or like we're going to get?

We want to going.

Okay, you've had 5 minutes to choose a or game.

Can we get poets and and the indigenous you can get whatever you want.

Let's do poets first.

These are American poets and you're going to name the authors of these lines of poetry.

Simple enough.

60 seconds.

Here we go.

Quoth the Raven.

Nevermore.

Poe on the deck.

My captain lies fallen cold and dead.

Whitman, Listen to my children and you shall hear of the midnight ride of Paul Revere.

Travel.

Longfellow.

Longfellow.

No, it's Wadsworth.

Because I could not stop for death.

That's right.

Anyone lived in a pretty how town?

E Cummings?

That's right.

Some say the whirlwind and fire.

Some say an ice frost.

That's right.

What happens to a dream deferred?

Hughes That's right.

I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox.

That's right.

Every woman adores a fascist.

Oh, that's right.

Richard Corey.

One calm summer.

That's right.

And that's all of them.

Well done.

You skipping now?

You just missed one.

You got nine out of ten.

All we got, they got them all.

Ten for ten.

Now you're just sure we missed four.

We said we sent fellow instead of Wadsworth.

Oh, okay.

That's right.

Okay.

Okay.

We can explain that to the host after the program.

What was the other category?

Indigenous words.

Indigenous words in 60 seconds.

Give these words that originated in the languages of natives, peoples of the world.

Ready 60 seconds soft shower slipper made of animal hide a moccasin dome shelter made of blocks of snow igloo thick roll of smoking tobacco Cigar?

Yes, North America's largest marsupial pass bed excrement prized as fertilizer up a one out of one.

That's right.

Sweet food made from cow taco.

Chocolate.

Chocolate.

That's right.

An edible gourd such as pumpkin or zucchini and gourd pass a loose blanket like Garmin, worn over the torso with a simple hole for the head loincloth.

No, that's a poncho.

A revered symbol found on a pole.

Symbols.

Totem Totem is right.

Primary ingredient in guacamole.

Avocado.

Avocado is right.

You skipped North America's largest marsupial.

Marsupial?

Capybara?

Nope.

It is a possum that it judges are they miss seven inedible gourds such as pumpkin or zucchini is squash times out, but it's squash you're already in.

So we're going to wrap up with four letter acronyms that you guys fortunately get to play on.

You're going to love this.

Give the usual four letter acronym for these organizations and businesses.

I think you'll do well.

Ready?

The main U.S. space agency.

That's right.

Federal agency that checks workplace safety, a skip.

Okay.

Military alliance joined by Finland in 2023.

That's right.

Federal or federal organization founded in 1979 that responds to natural disasters.

FEMA.

That's right.

Sports broadcaster based in Bristol, Connecticut, ESPN.

That's right.

13 member group of nations with major oil reserves.

That's right.

PAC 12 School, whose team name is the Bruins.

UCLA.

That's right.

Largest British bank which was founded in Hong Kong.

Get Protestant group founded by George Williams that operates sports programs.

Skip nonprofit that runs the Voting Rights Project.

Get back to federal agency that checks workplace safety.

OSHA.

That's right.

OSHA is right on that one.

And judges, help me eight times up.

Okay.

What was eight?

Largest British bank is HSBC.

That's the name of that bank.

All right.

Those are challenging categories, both teams did well with the ones they chose.

And now we move on to the speed round.

We'll use the last five and a half minutes.

We have to answer as many questions as we can.

These are worth 20 points each.

There is no bonus question with these.

Just answer and move on.

Ready?

What computer devices would send scan codes and have designs including Dvorak layout may have a home record.

Chris Keyboard.

Yes, that's correct.

What Mexican flowering plant with red and green foliage is named for a secretary of war when Kyoto Poinsettia is correct.

Claire.

Well done.

What amendment that provided the primary reasoning for the Brown v Board decision was the second Reconstruction.

14th 14th Amendment is right.

What peninsula, which is separated from Singapore by the Straits of Joo Hau, contain the southernmost portion of Thailand.

Malay is right, Alvin.

What Japanese artist who performed cut piece is shown in an Annie Leibovitz photo being embraced by her nude husband, John Lennon of the Beatles.

And who is that?

Chris Ono Ono is right.

Yoko Ono.

Next, William Shockley and Walter Schottky.

Confusingly, both name types of what circuit devices which ideally allow current to flow in one direction.

What's that called?

Chris Direct Current.

No, that's incorrect.

I got an answer from Decatur.

We're looking for diodes.

Diodes?

What holiday commemorated by a Walk for freedom led by its grandmother, Opal Lee became a federal holiday in 2021 and celebrates Juneteenth.

Juneteenth is right.

A mythical canine called the Shah represented what God who married NEF this and fought for power with his nephew.

Horace said Set is right.

What Greek God who fathered era thought the knees Earth, Aeneas or Gaia was thrown off of Mount Olympus by his mother hair.

Chris Kronos.

No, that's incorrect.

Was dropped by his mother here, but returned and became the God's blacksmith.

Anybody?

Yes.

MALORY Justice, Yes.

Judges You're good with that pronunciation, then?

I am too.

Next.

What man who overcame a severe stutter became king following the abdication of his brother Edward, the seventh Edward the eighth, rather, in 1936.

And was the father of Elizabeth the second.

Chris.

Philip.

No, that's incorrect.

Who was Elizabeth's father catering by?

Charles?

No, it's George the sixth.

George the sixth.

Next question.

With just under 3 minutes left, what author described Major Ozai using a stapler for torture in anthills of the Savannah and depicted Okonkwo hanging himself.

It's the teacher, Achebe.

Achebe is right in an anonymous medieval romance.

What Arthurian knight is given a year and a day to seek out the green chapel after he Corbin going Gawain is right.

What Fashion House, which is led by CEO Leena Nair, produces the 255 handbag and a number five fragrance.

And which one is it?

Corbyn Nope, it's white.

Molly Chanel Chanel is the right answer there.

Good job.

Pencil and paper, everybody.

A fun math question.

If a single card is randomly chosen from a standard 52 card deck, what is the probability that it displays an even number?

And Chris 16 No Harder.

Get an answer.

The chances are five in 13 513 what organelle releases cytochrome C to begin a popped Ptosis is the site of the electron transport chain and is called the powerhouse of the cell and it's hundreds say to get mitochondria.

Yes, that's good.

Judges.

Yes.

What French art is depicted mean signaling to a distant boat after surviving a shipwreck in the raft of the Medusa.

No one, Theodore.

Zarco Zarco.

If I'm pronouncing it enough to help you remember what event which caused the formation of the elephant's foot and turn prete pit.

And it's Corbyn.

Chernobyl is right.

What title character poisons herself with arsenic after unsatisfying affairs.

And it's a teacup.

Madame Bovary.

Yes.

Emma Bovary is correct.

What country, which is home to most speakers of the Walloon language, has a northern Dutch speaking region of Flanders that surrounds Brussels.

Chris Netherlands.

No.

Matthew, Belgium.

Belgium is correct.

Good job.

The world's smallest inhabited island is one of the thousand Islands, an archipelago located in what river on the U.S. Canadian border.

And Matthew St Lawrence is right and we are totally out of time.

Thanks for playing.

You all played well.

Gadsden City comes out on top in this particular round.

You all played well.

We just have enough time to say thanks for watching.

We'll see you next time on the Alabama Scholars Bowl.