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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 another edition of the Alabama Scholars Bowl.

My name is Mike Royer.

It's my privilege to invite you to join us every week here on Alabama public television as we invite the best and brightest students from all around the state to come in and compete for scholarship money and the prestige that goes along with winning one of the rounds here in our on our program.

We enjoy meeting these young people.

They really are a pleasure to be around.

We welcome to the studio today from West Point up in Cullman County, a beautiful part of our area students.

We're glad to have you with us.

And from Gadsden and East Alabama, South Side High School.

Gentlemen, it's good to see you as well.

You'll meet them individually in just a little while about at the midpoint of our program.

Our judges serving today are Sharon Dailey, Rhonda Brewer and Kate Wilson.

Our executive producer is Mike Ousley.

And a lot of people behind the scenes work to make this program happen every week.

And we're glad that you join us here on Alabama Public Television.

You already get your buzzers in hand.

Let's get started.

20 questions.

If you answer correctly, you'll be given a bonus question just for your team.

Number one, a Final Round is an example of what optical device, a triangular one of which Isaac Newton used to split.

And it's Ross PRISM.

PRISM is the right answer.

Bonus question for you South Side.

What city?

Whose Museum of Fine Arts holds dozens of John Singleton Copley works and was the site of a 1990 theft at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.

What city?

Chicago.

New York City.

Go with.

Chicago.

It's Boston, actually.

Let's move on to the next question.

What 2021 film in which characters?

Well, where still suits to reclaim water was directed by Dennis and Brady Dune.

Dune is correct.

Well done.

Your bonus question for your team, West Point in 2023, Joe Biden nominated California attorney Julie Sue to what Cabinet position in which she would replace Marty Walsh.

What position was that?

Secretary of Education.

Secretary of labor was the one we were looking for.

That's all right.

Moving on to question number three for both teams.

What politician nicknamed the Milk Snatcher led?

It's Brody Thatcher.

Margaret Thatcher is correct.

Another bonus question for you.

What Pacific Island nation was occupied by the Spanish, starting with a 1565 landing at Cebu.

Years after it was named after a Spanish king.

Philippines.

Philippines is right.

Toss up, everybody.

Connecting the centers of the faces of a cube forms What plutonic solid triangular faces which look like two pyramids joined at the base.

What is that called?

Rus icosahedron.

Judges that good enough pronunciation better than mine.

Well done.

No.

Okay, then.

Do you guys have an answer?

Icosahedron.

That is incorrect too.

It's octahedron.

Correct.

All right.

Moving on to the next question.

What city?

Whose concert K Bar was built in the 1800s is home to the Rights Museum and the N Frank Brody.

Amsterdam.

Amsterdam is right.

Bonus.

What song?

Whose title Fact is revealed to be?

She was made up by a dude is a 2022 hit criticizing beauty standards by this singer Jax model.

It's Victoria.

Victoria.

Next question.

What author who included the essay My Dungeon shook in the book The Fire Next Time depicted Brody.

Baldwin.

Yes.

James Baldwin.

Your bonus.

What?

Southern Peruvian city, which is still one of Peru's ten most populous, was the imperial capital of the Incas before the Spanish conquest.

What city was Cusco?

Cusco is correct.

Next tossup question, everyone.

What kingdoms parasites cause a circular rash in ringworm, itching and flaking between the toes.

And I'm looking for who bustin is you, Russ There you go.

What is it?

Fungi.

Fungi is correct.

Well done.

Bonus for you.

What materials?

Whose classes include Thermo Tropic and Liar.

Tropic have distinct phases, often used in television displays.

What is that material?

Um.

Pixels.

No, it is Liquid crystals is the answer we wanted.

Tossup question What head of a 1728 exhibition expedition to the Kamchatka was a Danish explorer whose great northern expedition for Russia found his namesake straight off Alaska.

Brody Bering Bering Strait is what its name for your bonus.

What musician who directed the 2021 documentary Summer of Soul, is the drummer for The Roots.

Something Love You Say Love.

Questlove.

Questlove is what we wanted next.

What company Which conspiracy theorist claim was owned by Smartmatic settled a 2021 lawsuit with Fox News and makes voting machines.

What's the company, anyone?

And what do you have?

Well, the voting company No, it's called Dominion.

Dominion settled their lawsuit with Fox.

Next.

What River, whose largest tributary is the Tennessee River, is formed by the confluence of the Allegheny.

And it is Grant the Ohio River.

The Ohio River is right.

Bonus pencil and paper.

For a fun math question.

What is the base ten or decimal equivalent of base to or binary number 11111 given that is five ones in all?

I have an answer or more seconds rest the go ahead.

3131 is correct.

Just remember I was very generous with time with you on that one.

Next question.

What type of image which is produced by a plain mirror, forms in a location where rays cannot be projected onto a screen as opposed to real images, so called imaginary images?

No, that's incorrect.

You guys have an answer for that.

What would it be called?

Grant?

A mirage.

Virtual.

A virtual image.

All right.

Next question.

What your manic people who found in an African kingdom undergo Saric vandals vandals is correct Brady good job bonus question for your team.

A vacuum cleaner salesman is recruited to be a spy in a Graham GREENE novel titled Our Man in What World Capital?

The birthplace of poet Jose Marti Havana.

Havana is right.

Next question for you all.

What team starred Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling when it won?

And will the Diamondbacks?

Yes, the Arizona Diamondbacks.

Right.

Here's a bonus question for you.

What quantity, which tends to increase with nuclear charge is 13.6 EV for hydrogen and is the amount of energy required to remove an electron?

No.

Are binding energy Binding energy notes ionization.

Ionization energy is the answer.

Next.

What come compounds which can be reduced by Lin large catalyst include acetylene or c two, h two and are hydrocarbons containing a carbon carbon triple bond?

What's that called?

Brody Alkene.

Alkene is correct.

Your bonus.

The European Space Agency has its main spaceport at Kourou, a town in what overseas region, whose most populous city is Cayenne.

French Guiana.

French Guiana is right.

Where to go?

Well done.

Next question for both teams in what board game do players try to form bingo's which grant a 50 point bonus?

Russ Scrabble.

Scrabble is right.

Your bonus what character from To Kill a mockingbird who spent summers in Macomb with his and is fascinated by Boo Radley and was based on Truman Capote because no Atticus Finch No, we were looking for Dill, Harris Dill Harris, both teams.

What composer of a Scottish sympathy Symphony was inspired to write Dingle's Cave by his trips to Scotland and wrote an overture to a midsummer Night's Dream.

Brody Mendelsohn Mendelssohn is right.

Bonus question What Hindu God is often depicted wearing the serpent vest cookie around his neck with the gang G's river flowing from his hair with a third eye.

Who is up?

That's a bonus question over here.

I'm sorry, Shiva.

You're all right.

Shiva is the right answer.

Next question now for both teams.

What author who story big to hearted River Verde.

Hemingway.

Hemingway is right.

Your bonus Now Death Valley is an example of what effect in which an area on the leeward side of a mountain experiences very little precipitation.

What's that call?

Rain shadowing?

That's correct.

Rain shadow is what it's called both teams.

What city?

Whose Nazi occupiers governed from the hotel Majestic celebrated its August 1944 hand over to the Allies by ringing bells at Notre Dame.

Paris, Paris, Paris is correct.

Russ Bonus question for you.

South Side.

From 1975 to 2017, the largest class of U.S. aircraft carriers was named after what admiral who led the U.S. Pacific Fleet in World War Two.

MACARTHUR No, he was Army.

This was Chester Nimitz.

Admiral Chester Nimitz, a couple more questions here.

What 11 letter term can refer to Arabic or an Arabic process is respiration.

Respiration is correct.

Well done, Principal.

And your bonus, an American starting over.

American minimalist composer John Adams worked with director Peter Sellers on an opera about what U.S. presidents trip to China.

Nixon It is.

Nixon Well done.

Last question of this portion of the program.

What Apostle was martyred in Ethiopia, hosted a dinner for Jesus at his house, was once at Ross John the Baptist.

No, I'll finish this for you.

West Point and once was a tax collector and is the namesake of the first Gospel.

And John MATTHEWS.

Matthew is the right answer.

Last bonus question is around what lake, which intermittently received the waters of Lake Managua, is the largest lake in Central America of Lake Nicaragua.

Lake Nicaragua is correct.

Well done.

Layer button's down.

Relax.

We're going to do a couple of things.

We're going to tell our viewers at home what our categories are and you for our Lightning Round.

Coming up, The team that is trailing at this point and that is West Point.

You're a little bit behind now.

It's south Side.

I'm sorry, you guys are slightly behind here at the midpoint.

So you'll choose first from our four categories scientific equations, American painters, animal adjectives, and Sweden.

And while you think about that, let's meet our players.

I'll ask Eli to begin.

Just tell us a little bit about yourselves.

My name is Earl.

I'm a junior at West Point High School, and after I graduate, I plan to study in the aerospace industry.

Very good.

My name's John Davis Covino.

I'm a junior at West Point High School, and I'm a member of the West Wing.

My team.

My name is Brody.

Henry.

I'm a junior at West Point High School, and I write questions for middle school teams.

My name is Brady Lofton.

I'm a sophomore, and I am also part of the robotics team.

Very good.

Glad to have you guys with us.

Some familiar faces from previous years of taping this program.

We're glad to have you back in the studio.

Now we come over to South Side.

Let's meet these players.

I'm on McGloin, I'm in the seventh grade.

I played trumpet and I want to go to an Ivy League school.

I'm Project Sharma.

I play for the Southside High School varsity soccer team and after I graduate and are going to UAH for engineering.

Very good.

My name is Grant Bice.

I play for the Southside High School Soccer team, and when I graduate I want to go to UCLA and I want to become a radio host.

Very good.

And I'm Rose McGowan, and when I graduated, I want to be in an Ivy League school.

Very good.

It's good to have all of you with us.

You're all playing well.

We're proud of you.

And let's see how we all do with these lightning round categories.

South Side Grant.

If you all decide what you want to do, we want to.

We want Sweden.

Sweden.

All righty.

The clock will start when I begin to ask you the questions.

You're just going to answer the following about Sweden and Swedes.

Here we go.

Sweden's capital, Stockholm.

Its flag is a yellow cross on a field of this primary color blue.

Swedish furniture company founded by If born Here.

That's right.

Country connected by the Awesome or Sun Bridge to Malmo, Finland.

No, it is Denmark.

Swedish father of modern taxonomy text taxonomy said.

I love cats.

Thank you.

Uh, Giorgos Aeneas.

No, that is incorrect.

Namesake of a unit equal to ten to the negative ten meters.

Yes, I know.

Pass.

Pass.

Swedish king, who died in 1632 at the Battle of Luzon.

King Christian.

The Knights.

No, it was.

That's not correct.

Director of the Seventh SEAL and Wild Strawberries.

I pass the currency there.

A euro.

That's the krona.

All right.

Little harder than we anticipated.

I didn't help you much with one pronunciation of mine.

I'm sorry.

No, the time is up, but thank you.

Let's go over now to West Point, where we have we'll ask you to choose two categories, Brody.

What would they be?

American painters and more adjectives.

Very good American painters.

You'll have 60 seconds to name the American painters of these paintings.

Not complicated, but let's see.

American Gothic wood, Nighthawks, copper arrangement and gray and black timber.

One Campbell's Soup Cans.

Warhol.

Christina's World.

Wyeth.

The GROSS Clinic and the Agnew Clinic.

Pass the and then name a portrait.

An unfinished work featuring George Washington, Louisa Stuart Black, Iris and cows Skull.

That's right.

November 11th, 1952.

Also known as Blue Poles Pass.

I saw figure five in gold Klimt.

That's the smooth Eakins.

The GROSS Clinic in Agnew Clinic.

Eakins.

That's correct.

No.

Number November Number 11, 1952.

Would you say Smith?

That's Pollock.

Said all of them.

Let's say goodbye to that category once and for all.

What do you say?

And the other category was animal adjectives.

Is that right?

Is that what you chose?

60 seconds.

You're going to name the animal referenced by these adjectives.

For example, for canine, we're looking for dog.

Ready?

Bovine cow.

Avian bird or earth Sign for bear.

Equine.

Equine Porcine Pig.

Pig.

The Alpine Fox.

Aquiline.

Fish.

No, it's Eagles survived.

So snake eyes.

Georgia Deer and Sig nine six swine.

That's right.

And Cor Vine is the last one.

Caw Vine, crow.

That's right.

Very well done.

Did we skip on any.

Did they get seven Aquiline.

Did you do that.

Okay, so we're done.

All right.

Good job with those.

You guys get stuck with what's left.

You know that, right?

And the one that is left is scientific equations.

Is that right?

Ready for this?

You're going to answer the following about scientific equations.

60 seconds starts about now.

Scientist who proposed equal in C squared Einstein objects, for which Johann Kepler found three laws in motion Planet.

That's right.

Namesake of a law about and a unit of resisting its.

Oh, that's right.

Law governing restoring forces on springs resistance.

No Maxwell Hooke's Law.

Chemistry law written PV equals in r t ideal gas law.

That's right.

Solutions measured by Henderson Hassel Bank Equation that resist page changes and betas.

No, those are called buffers.

Principle guarantee non-zero values for uncertainty.

Uncertainty.

Law of probability.

It's Heisenberg Resistance to fluid deformation denoted Iter.

Governed by Stokes Law.

Viscosity that is viscosity.

Two more equations name for two scientists governing generic equilibrium and pass.

Okay.

Very good.

Well, you did pretty well with those.

I think you all did better answering them than I did reading them, to be honest with you.

But I don't get a trophy at the end and there were time.

We have remaining in the time we have remaining is just over 6 minutes.

We're going to do a speed round.

No bonus questions.

If you answer the question, great.

We'll move on.

Ready?

What?

Seven letter adjective describes an organism's level in a food chain, and it's fragile.

Anybody else got an answer?

Brady 12.

That's correct.

Trophic is right.

BRADY Next, what painting?

Technique used to paint a Sunday afternoon on the island of Le Grand Brutalism.

That's right.

In what, European city in 1497 did, Dominican monk Girolamo, Severino Le and his followers burn art and books in a Bonfire of the Vanities.

And is Brody Florence.

Florence is right.

What novel?

Whose protagonist works for the merchant comma Swami before becoming Brody's author?

That's right.

What six letter verb can mean either to read carefully or to look over casually.

Yes.

Russ Skim.

No.

Brody Glance.

No peruse is the answer.

What?

God, who was tricked into swallowing the armful as Stone and Brody Kronos?

Kronos is right.

The 2023 failure of Silicon Valley Bank followed.

What type of event in which many depositors seek to withdraw?

Russ Recession?

No.

Seek to withdraw their money simultaneously.

What is that called?

Market crash?

No, it's called a bank run.

They run on the banks.

What logger?

Logarithmic scale was devised by a professor at Caltech in 1935 for use in California and assigns magnitudes up to 9.5.

Russ Richter Scale.

Richter is right.

What playwright who depicted Regina withholding her husband's medication and watching him die in the Little Foxes, also wrote The Children's Hour.

Hellman Hellman is right.

Brody What country's government killed the Mirabal sisters and carried out the Parsley Massacre under Rafael Trujillo, who derided his neighbor Haiti.

What country?

Russ Dominican Republic.

That's right.

In which modern US state was the short lived Republic of Fredonia created in 1826 by settlers rebelling against Mexican rule.

And Brody, Texas is right.

What object?

The unintended destination of an ocean gate submersible that was destroyed, Titanic type arms, Titanic pencil and paper for some math.

What is the sum of the sign of 60 degrees plus the cosine of 30 degrees, both of which had the same value?

And John Davis, one plus root three over two.

No, that's not right.

You guys have an answer for Joel.

You know, the answer is the square root of three, root three.

Next, what objects can be square rigged?

Have types such as spinnaker and jibs and are typically attached to the mast of boats to propel them using the wind.

Brody Sail.

Yes.

Sonder Mary's 1942 novel Embers was written by in what Eastern European language, which was also used by the Nobel Prize winner Emir Kertesz.

Yes.

Rus Polish?

No.

Anyone else shot Brody French?

No, it's Hungarian.

Just under 3 minutes left in 1957.

What state's National Guard was federalized by President Eisenhower to help nine black students integrate Arkansas.

Arkansas is right.

John Davis.

What term refers to conditions often triggered by damage to Broca's area or Wernicke's area that result in an inability to understand or produce speech?

What is that called?

Mutism.

No, that's not right, Brody Anyone else?

Yes.

Well, speech impediment?

No, it's called aphasia.

Aphasia?

What character has had five marriages describes a night's discovery that women desire sovereignty in one of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.

Brody Miller?

No, it's outside garnishment.

Yes.

The wife of Beth.

The wife of Beth is exactly right.

Don't look too surprised.

You nailed it.

In 1861, Czar Alexander the second issued an impassioned suppression manifesto.

Brody Serfs serves is right.

What city contains the Kidal Opera House in Northeast Giza is the most populous city in the Arab world.

Rus, Cairo.

Cairo is right.

In 2022, what school in the nation's capital, a member of the Atlantic ten Conference announced that it would retire its colonels, colonials, name their name colonials.

And Will Dartmouth?

No.

William and Mary?

Nope.

George Washington University dropped G.W.

Fincher in pencil and paper.

We have time for a math problem.

What is the greatest common factor of 48 and 60 given it can be found by computing and Brody 1212 is right.

Last question.

The integer 12 is the smallest example of what type of number whose proper positive divisors.

Brady No, that's not right.

Positive divisors add up to more than the number itself.

What does that call to have an answer?

It is what US perfect number.

No, it's called abundant numbers.

Abundant numbers.

Lay your buzzers down.

That was fun.

You guys did a good job.

Some pretty hard questions.

They're coming out on top in today's competition is West Point.

You played very well today, but South Side, so did you.

You always do in past shows and on this one as well.

Congratulations to all.

We're proud of you and how you represent your school and your selves here on the program.

We hope you enjoy the Alabama Scholars Bowl.

We're here every week on Alabama Public television.

I'm Mike Rowe Year.

Thanks again for watching.

We'll see you next time.