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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.

My name is Mike Royer.

It's my privilege to host this program and we really appreciate you watching this every week on statewide television on Alabama public TV, we bring together the brightest students from around Alabama.

And as you know, from watching the program, they compete by answering some pretty tough questions and have exciting rounds.

The further we go into our season, the more competitive the rounds are, the more exciting it becomes.

And we're glad that you watch us every week.

We welcome to our studio today.

The students from Arab High School and also from Pelham High School.

Midway through the program, we'll ask them to introduce themselves and tell you a little bit about themselves.

But our game is pretty simple.

We asked 20 questions to begin, and if you answer the question correctly, you get a bonus question just for your team.

We have a lightning round in the middle, which is my favorite part of the program.

And then speed round where we ask questions that are worth 20 points each until we run out of time.

Everybody knows that already, but I'm making sure I share that with the folks at home.

Everybody ready?

Buttons in hand, then let's get started.

What author of the 1638 book Discourses on Two Sciences supposedly dropped two balls from the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

Conner.

That would be Galileo.

Galileo is correct.

Here's a bonus question for you.

Pelham, an English governess, believes that Mal, vile, violent ghosts are haunting children named Miles in Florida.

In what?

Flora In what 1898 novella by Henry James.

And he won When Take a shot at the Gift.

It's the turn of the screw.

Is that what we're looking for?

Question for everyone again, what Monarch put down the coast?

Sack rebellion led by your million.

Puga Fcev took the throne after Peter the third death, it was Conner, Catherine the Great.

Catherine the Great is correct again.

You're a bonus again.

Grab your pencil and paper for this.

What is the slope of a line?

Whose equation has the form x equals a constant three times p zero.

Stop zero.

No, no Judge it undefined is the answer the judges would like for that.

Toss up both teams.

What woman who founded the Roots and Shoots program conducted research in Green Bay Stream National Park where she observed and buzzing in is James de Jane.

Jane Goodall.

Jane Goodall is the right answer.

That's good.

And here's a bonus question for you, Abraham.

What member of the first triumphant lost the battle of FA sailors to Julius Caesar, after which he fled to Egypt where he was assassinated?

POMPEY That is correct.

That is the right answer.

Pompey Toss up, everybody.

What novel in which Venomous Yellow spotted lizards inhabit and it's James B holes.

Holes is the right answer there.

Bonus question again.

Arab Sydney is the capital of the most populous Australian state, which lies north of Victoria, New South Wales.

New South Wales is correct.

Toss up, pencil and paper everybody.

How many significant digits are there in the numbers?

0.00789.

Given that the leading zeros are not considered Koi three three is the right answer your bonus question.

What piece of laboratory glassware has a conical body that narrows to a cylindrical neck, making it ideal for swirling its contents during titration or lindmeier flask?

That is the right answer.

Well done.

Toss up everyone.

What state in which a monument known as its guide Stones was bombed in 2020 to Connor, Georgia.

Georgia is the right answer.

Well done.

Bonus for you in 1892, James B Weaver was the presidential candidate of what?

Agrarian third party that's supported by mentalism and the regulation of railroads.

What was that party?

The populist party?

That's right, he whispered it accurately.

Populist is right.

Toss up both teams.

What sculpture included Fugitive, Love and Piolo and Francesca are among the pieces inspired by Dante in the Gates of Hell, which also Coi, Rodin.

Rodin is right.

Our good friend Auguste Rodin.

Bonus question for you Ambrose Bierce defined love as a temporary insanity curable by marriage in what satirical work of lexicography?

A modest proposal.

It is called the Devil's Dictionary.

You'll know that next time.

Here's a toss up for both teams in humans.

What structures can have their function reduced by dosage?

Compensation can form bar bodies and cannot recombine with the smaller Y.

And yes, James did X chromosomes.

X chromosomes is the answer we want.

Here's your bonus what 2022 song added to the digital reissue of the album.

The lockdown sessions is an Elton John and Britney Spears remake of the song Tiny Dancer.

Now that's a small dancer.

Hold Me Closer is the name of the song we were looking for.

Toss up everybody.

What president, whose wife was nicknamed nicknamed Lemonade Lucy after he banned alcohol at the White House, won the disputed 1876 election over Samuel Tilden was president.

And Coy Hayes.

That's right.

Rutherford V Hayes.

Bonus question for you.

A reb.

What abolitionist and suffrage that use the tune of John Brown's body to write the Battle Hymn of the Republic.

SMITH Julia Ward, how is who did that?

Everybody.

What author wrote the Porteous riots in his novel The Heart of Midlothian, and described a Saxon knight who serves King Richard, the first in Ivanhoe, who's the author We're looking for an Connor Smith, and that's incorrect.

And I want to take a shot over there.

Yes.

Court Irving is Scott.

Sir Walter Scott wrote that.

Next question now for everyone.

What ballet, including the Arabian Dance and Waltz of the Flowers, has its dancers portray Clara DRESSEL Meyer, the Mouse King and the Sugar Plum.

And it is coy, The Nutcracker that is The Nutcracker.

Your bonus.

Over one week in August 1877, Asaph Hall discovered what two natural satellites of Mars, Phobos and Deimos is not one of them.

Do you listen to him?

Okay.

You say Phobos and Deimos.

That is accurate.

That is right.

Well done.

Next.

What operation in which regret In which brigade?

2506 was defeated after landing at the playa.

He Huron was a botched CIA backed attempt to topple Fidel Castro.

O'Connor The Bay of Pigs invasion.

The Bay of Pigs is right.

Pelham, you get a bonus question.

What former salesman is pelted with apples by his angry father after turning into a monstrous vermin in Franz Kafka's novella, The Metamorphosis.

Give me something there, Connor.

Ivan.

That's all right.

Gregor Samsa.

Gregor Samsa is the answer.

Toss up, everyone.

What organization?

Which briefly controlled Rostov on Don during a 2023 mutiny.

Connor The Wagner Group.

The Wagner group is right.

PMC Wagner or Bogner, I guess, is the right pronunciation.

Here's your bonus.

In November 2022, Anwar Ibrahim became Prime Minister of what Asian country whose monarchy rotates among the rulers of states like Pohang and Utah.

What country?

Malaysia.

Malaysia is right.

Well done.

Toss up everyone.

What nine letter word can mean a combination of functions like G, of F, of X and coy composite.

Composite is correct.

Bonus question for you What British industrialist who founded the Diamond company DeBeers led the Cape Colony in South Africa and funded a namesake scholarship in Oxford?

No, that I don't know.

Well, nope.

Some of you may someday be Rhodes Scholars.

Rhodes is what we wanted.

What country was the site of the Bataan Death March and the 1986 looking?

I don't see who James being the Philippines is.

Right.

Good job.

Your bonus question.

What Shakespeare comedy centers on and to enter and t Phyllis and Romeo who discover they both have long lost twins also named and T Phyllis and Romeo much ado about nothing that is the comedy of errors.

The Comedy of Errors is the answer we wanted.

What organization, which was founded by William de Boice and inspired by Robert Baden-Powell, uses the Merit Badge.

Connor The Boy Scouts of America.

Boy Scouts of America is right.

Your bonus.

What dramatic artist included an Adam morphic skull and a depiction of two visitors to the Court of Henry the eighth in his 1533 painting.

The Ambassadors need the name of the artist Hans.

The younger it is Holbein.

Holbein is the artist.

Pencil and paper.

A math question you're excited about How many values are in a data set?

If the arithmetic mean of the set is 12 and the values in the set have a sum of 48 and buzzing in is I don't see James V on the way.

I don't see your light.

It's right in front of me.

What do you have for four is the right answer.

Here's your bonus.

The word disaster comes from a Latin word for what objects which can be referred to with the adjective side dear Sidereal sidereal sidereal.

I'll keep saying it till I say it right.

And I think I said it right.

You have an answer.

Earthquake?

No.

Stars.

Stars is what we wanted.

A few more questions here.

What play in which a fountain pen is stolen by the protagonist.

Sun Biff tells the story of suicidal.

And it's James V, The Death of a Salesman.

Death of a Salesman.

His right.

Your bonus.

What British lt Sailed with Captain George Vancouver to map the Pacific Northwest and lent his name to a sound in Washington State.

Yeah, So you did?

That's right, Steve.

Well done.

Puget is the right answer.

What office in the Roman Catholic Church may be permanent or transitional.

Ranks below a priest and assist with mass and other services.

What is that?

Office and Coy Deacon.

Deacon is the right answer.

Bonus question for you.

You'll need pencil and paper.

What is the 10th triangular number given that given that it must be equal to the sum of the first ten positive integers?

I need an answer pretty soon.

What do you have?

55.

55 is right.

Well done.

Last question of this part of our program still pencil and paper for everybody.

For this, what value of X satisfies the equation?

Three raised to the X power equals nine raised to the third power given nine equals three squared.

And buzzing N is James d66 is the right answer your bonus question.

What 1959 jazz piece?

The best selling jazz single of all time was written by Paul Desmond and has a title reflecting its unusual times signature signature four over three it is five over four.

The answer is Take five.

The song is written in five over four time.

That's the end of the first round of questions.

You can lay your buttons down, relax.

We're going to do two things now.

I'm going to tell our players and you at home what our four categories are for the Lightning Round.

Then we're going to ask all of you to introduce yourself and tell the folks at home a little bit about yourselves.

The categories for our Lightning Round, the Atlantic Slave trade, the Arabian Sea agencies and departments and events.

By month, the trailing team in today's round will select first and judges the trailing team is over here, Pelham.

You're trailing slightly by that much before you tell us what you're going to choose and when we get started, James De would you start by telling us a little bit about yourself?

I'm James Drake.

I'm in ninth grade and I am in the chess club and JROTC.

My name is Corey Meyer.

I'm a senior at Arab High School and I would like to get a degree in computer engineering.

I'm Stevie Clinton.

I'm a senior Arab high school, and I'm going to pursue a career in education.

I'm James Beard.

I'm a freshman at Arab High school, and I play football, tennis and swim.

All right.

Let's meet the players from Pelham.

I'm Thomas Trager.

I'm a sophomore at Pelham High School, and I'm in the band.

My name is Cliff Windham.

I'm a junior at Palm High School, and I'm planning to go into psychotherapy.

Uh, my name is Owen Jarvis.

Um, I am a junior at Palma High School, and I am the captain of our schools chess team.

My name is John MacDonald.

I'm a senior at Pelham High School, and I'm an Eagle Scout.

Very good.

Congratulations on that.

And congratulations to all of you for how well you're playing and representing your school and yourself very well today.

Let's begin with Phelim telling us which of those four categories did you decide you want to try?

Agencies and departments, Agencies and departments.

And when the clock starts, when I begin asking you the questions, we're you're going to answer the questions.

What federal Cabinet level departments oversees these U.S. agencies and organizations understand, sir?

Here we go.

Number one, Internal Revenue Service.

Department of the Treasury.

That's right.

Federal Aviation Administration or Transportation?

That's right.

Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The Justice Department.

That's right.

Census Bureau.

The Department of Commerce.

That's right.

Secret Service.

The Department of the Treasury.

It's Homeland Security.

National Indian Game Commission.

Gaming Commission.

Oh, Skip K, Los Alamos National Laboratory, the Department of Energy.

That's right.

Food and Drug Administration.

The Commission, the Department of Agriculture.

That's Health and Human Services, the Fulbright Scholarship Program.

The Department of Education.

It's Department of State, Nation Health and Human Services, Veterans Affairs.

You skipped National Indian Gaming Commission.

Oh, and time is up.

That's Department of Interior, just for future reference.

All right, We'll come over to Arab and you guys are going to tell me two categories you want to try.

What would they be?

Coy?

We would like events by month and Atlantic slave trade.

Very good.

Let's do in the order you ask for them.

Give the month in which these events are scheduled to take place in 2024.

All right.

Here we go.

Memorial Day, September.

It's in May, the vernal equinox, the first day of spring in the Northern Hemisphere March.

That's right, Super Bowl 58 January, February, the US presidential election in November.

That's right.

The most recently established US federal holiday.

Did you, June?

That's right.

Juneteenth, Canadian Thanksgiving.

September.

October.

The end of the Tour de France and the start of the Paris Olympics.

July, July is right.

Patriots Day.

August is April.

Boxing Day.

December.

That's right.

And Eid ul Fitr, you're marking the end of Ramadan.

April, That is April.

That's right.

That's right.

I thought everybody knew Boxing Day.

No, no, not really.

I had no idea what Boxing Day was.

Was your other one.

Let's see.

Slave trade?

Yes, that was the other one.

All right, let's go.

You got to guide me through these things that happened 90 seconds ago.

All right?

So I appreciate it.

You're going to answer the following about the history of slavery in the New World.

Self-explanatory.

60 seconds, the main crop that fueled slave trade demand in the U.S.. Cotton.

That's right.

English name for large farming estates worked by slaves.

Plantation.

That's right.

Country whose slave trade William Wilberforce helped abolish England?

Yes.

South Carolina Port home to a major slave market.

Charleston.

That's right.

Author Who said slavery birthed capitalism in Das Kapital.

That's Marx.

Marxist.

That's right.

Triangular trade like that.

Since slaves to the Americas and then to Africa.

To America.

That was middle passage country founded by Toussaint Lure Ferry Tours, slave revolt Liberia.

It's Haiti snail shell currency often used to buy African slaves.

Cowrie is right underground railroad conductor named Moses Tubman.

Tubman is right West African country whose door very good got.

I think he had eight out of ten.

That's pretty good on that ground.

And so as you all know, Pelham, you get to play the one that nobody else wanted, and that would be the Arabian Sea.

One of your favorite topics, I'm guessing, named these places in the Arabian Sea or on its shores.

60 seconds, ten questions.

Here we go.

The ocean containing the Arabian Sea.

The Indian.

That's right.

Pakistan's most populous city, Karachi.

Yes.

Sultanate, whose capital is Muscat, Oman.

That's right.

Indian City, home to Bollywood.

Delhi.

No, it's a Bombay Island country in the sea southeast governed from Malay.

It's the Maldives.

That's correct.

River, whose valley contains most of Pakistan's people in the Indus.

That's right.

Strait Separating the Arabian Sea from the Persian Gulf should have Hormuz.

That's right.

Civil war torn country north of the Gulf of Aden, right.

Iraq.

It's Yemen.

Indian coastal state, a Portuguese colony until 1961.

Below Goa.

Yes.

Indian mountain range, parallel to the Arabian Sea.

The dickens Western gets the Western gets pretty well played there for one of the harder categories.

Well done, everyone.

And as we continue now, we'll have about 5 minutes left in our program and these questions are worth 20 points.

So if you're trailing a bit, you can catch up now and there's no bonus.

With these questions answering, We move on as many as we can get done.

What country is home to the Omdurman was Africa's largest area until 2011 and contains counter Sudan.

Sudan is right what all ulterior tively named Confederate general who lost it?

Chattanooga was formerly the namesake of Fort Liberty, a large Army base in North Carolina.

Konner Bragg That's right.

Braxton Bragg.

What 19th century poet wrote about huddled masses yearning to breathe free in a poem written for the Statue of Liberty titled The New Colossus, Anyone?

That was Emma Lazarus.

Next, a 2022 paper proposed that the fossil Tivoli tip Lois Wells I had a regular, a regular and thus belong to what largest Marine phylum, which also includes cephalopods.

Yes.

James B Mollusks Mollusk is right.

And with my reading of that question, I congratulate you on even knowing what I was all about.

What metal, Whose orders included Talca light forms, a greenish patina called Conner Copper.

Copper is right.

The Jacob's Ladder plant belongs to one large family of plants.

It includes vanilla and his name for a notoriously difficult to cultivate plant and steady being.

No, that's incorrect.

Do you have an answer for me?

Pelham will take a shot.

But you got Clifton.

Look, you know it's orchids.

Orchids are hard to raise.

What city were 21 people died when a flood of molasses swept.

It's north and it's James them.

Boston is right.

The De Vos family owns what Eastern Conference NBA team, which was the first professional team for which Shaquille O'Neal played Conner.

The Kings.

No, he first played for the Orlando Magic is the answer there.

Next, what composer is known for the viola Symphony Harold in Italy, as well as a five movement, five movement work depicting a witches Sabbath in his song Funny Fantastique.

I worked pretty hard on that.

There's no one having it, sir.

Yes.

What do you have, Coy Buck?

No.

Anyone else won't take a shot?

Yes.

Vivaldi.

Nope.

It is Hector Berlioz.

Next question.

The provisions of Oxford were signed by which English king, who fought Simon de Montfort in the Second Barons War and was the son of King John and Connor.

Henry Moore, famously the fourth.

Correct?

James A third Henry.

The third is right.

Kind of helped him out with that was that's all right.

What poet wrote Five years have passed in the Tintern Abbey and collaborate on lyrical ballads with the Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a fellow British romantic who is the poet we're looking for, and Stevie Byron.

Nope, that's incorrect.

You guys have an answer, but take a shot.

It is Wordsworth.

Wordsworth.

Next.

What island country is the headland in the Atlantic?

Forms the Lucayan Archipelago.

Peligro Peligro along with the Turks and Caicos Islands.

What island country and James Dean.

The Bahamas.

The Bahamas is right next White Island, which is home to Montauk Point State Park, the Hamptons and the borough of Brooklyn and is James Bay.

Long Island.

Long Island is right.

Well done.

What two word Latin phrase is used to indicate that an economic figure such as GDP and that is James.

Well, I'll say fair.

No, that's incorrect.

Finishing the last few words for you, such as GDP has been divided by population.

What is that two word Latin phrase?

Economy per capita.

Per capita is right next, like a smaller red animal.

What member of Family Earth today has a false thumb and can consume ten kilograms per day?

James Me Panda.

Panda.

You're right.

What physical quantity which has units of distance squared times mass, is the rotational analog of mass.

And it's called inertia.

Yes, Judges, you're good with that problem.

Rotational inertia.

Yes.

Yes.

You'll accept that moment of inertia was the perfect answer, but your answer was good.

Next, what governmental post, which was removed as a cabinet level role in 1971, was first held in 1775 by Benjamin Franklin and its corner Department of War No was first held in general.

Say again, Postmaster General.

That is the right answer.

Oh, my goodness.

Our time is gone.

I was having so much fun and we're out of time.

And who won this round over here?

Arab?

I was just going to lunchtime.

I was just having so much fun reading the questions.

We are out of time.

Congratulations to you.

You guys played great.

Well, hope to see you all again.

We hope to see you all again on the next program of the Alabama Scholar's Bowl.

I'm Mike Rowe.

You're have a great day.