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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 junior high school students in Alabama.

Now here's your host, Mike Royer.

Hello everyone, and welcome to season number eight of the Alabama Scholar's Bowl here on Alabama Public Television.

My name is Mike Royer.

And this is a pleasure to host this program every year on statewide television.

And some of the best and brightest students from all around the state of Alabama come together to compete with some pretty tough questions and they do a great job.

Joining us in the studio today are the students from Lamp School.

That's the Loveless Academic magnet program.

We're glad to have those gentlemen with us and the fine students from North Alabama from Decatur High School joins us as well, Are you all ready to go?

Buzzers in hand.

Let's get started.

Question number one.

This element was the active ingredient in the most luminous watches of the 20th century.

And exposure to this element may have contributed to the anemia of one of its discoverers.

What radioactive alkaline metal did you bring in?

Didn't hear it.

I'm sorry.

Mallory, what's the answer?

Radium is the right answer.

Very good.

Thank you.

And your bonus question.

This just for you, Decatur.

What artistic style pioneered by Caravaggio features strong contrast between light and dark.

Do you have an answer?

I'm going to take a shot.

Cheering secure.

How's that pronunciation Josh close.

Close.

He nodded close.

Let's move on.

Next question.

This man declared he was being hanged on a comma after being executed for treason in support of the Easter Rising.

Name this British politician who investigated the crimes of Belgian Congo in his namesake report.

Buzzing in.

Is it deja, Stanley?

No.

That's incorrect.

Decatur.

Did anybody have an answer?

There?

Sir.

Roger Casement is what we wanted.

Next question number three.

The poem.

This poem describes a note of sadness heard by the playwright Sophocles, as well as a place where ignorant armies clashed by night.

Matthew Arnold wrote what poem?

And it is a serum.

Dover Beach Dover Beach is the right answer.

Well done.

Bonus question for lamp.

This artist controversially obtained exclusive rights to the color of Vantablack.

Name this artist who created Chicago's Cloud Gate, a stainless steel sculpture affectionately known as the Bean.

Kapoor.

Kapoor is right.

Well done.

Everybody, this question in a work by this artist, a goat headed man and a corpse holding an hourglass and buzzing in.

I'm looking and I don't.

Someone buzzed in.

Didn't they know?

An hourglass accompanying a knight on a horse?

Name this German engraver of master prints like Knight, death and the devil by Melancholia.

One lot of reading.

No answer.

Okay.

The answer is Dürer.

Dürer, Albrecht Dürer.

Do u r e r?

No bonus there.

So we'll move on to the next question for both teams, the winning candidate in this presidential election created a team of rivals, according to a book by Doris Kearns Goodwin.

Democrats such as Stephen Douglas and John Breckinridge were defeated in what election by Abraham Lincoln Pierson, 1860 1860 is correct.

Well done.

Here's your bonus question.

Lamp.

This plant hormone is concentrated on the dark side of a plant undergoing photo.

Photo tropism.

What plant hormone, which moves through polar transport, promotes cell growth and elongation.

If I got an answer.

Chlorophyl.

Nope.

It is auxin a u x I n is what we wanted next everybody.

These figures declare fair as foul and foul as fair and call a character.

Yes, Malory the Weird Sisters.

Weird sisters is right.

We'd also just accept witches.

Well done.

Bonus question Decatur Light in this artist paintings is often provided by a window in the top left, as seen in this depiction of the milkmaid, a blond girl wearing a blue headdress wears the title accessory in what Dutch artist painting called girl with a Pearl earring.

And Brandt?

Nope.

It's Vermeer.

Vermeer is what we wanted to toss up everybody.

The King exhorts one more unto the breach during a siege.

The proclamation that we happy few, we band of brothers will be remembered for fighting on Saint Crispin's Day in a Shakespeare play named for what victor of the Battle of Agon Court.

And it's Pearson.

Henry the Fifth.

Henry the Fifth is correct.

Bonus question for you.

What statements, which include one name for Gorski and Schwartz, and an am GM, one of one that relates arithmetic and geometric means, are usually expressed with less than or greater than signs.

What are those called inequalities?

Inequalities is correct.

Good job.

Next question everybody.

This phrase is contrasted with the Babylonian seers in a text that argues better far to bear the future.

What Latin phrase introduced in an ode by Horus translates as seize the day.

What is that called?

Mallory?

Carpe diem.

Carpe diem is right.

Bonus question for you what type of loudspeaker, which generally produces sounds up to 20kHz, comes in dome and ribbon varieties create sound at the highest limits of human hearing and is commonly paired with woofers.

What are those called?

God, you think of subwoofers?

They're called tweeters.

Tweeters is what those are called.

Both teams.

In a poem this author wrote.

Twas mercy brought me from my pagan land.

Pagan land.

The poem to His Excellency, Excellency, Excellency George Washington was written by Watt Black, author of On Being Brought from Africa to America.

Who was that serum?

Phillis Wheatley.

Phillis Wheatley is the right answer.

Well done.

Here's your bonus question.

This leader, known as the Xuan Tong Emperor, had to step down due to the JJ Revolution name.

This leader, who was imprisoned by the Soviets for his involvement with the Japanese in World War Two.

The final Emperor of China.

Who was that?

Ching I was Poovie.

Poovie is the answer we wanted.

Next, everybody in this game.

Caviar.

Caviar often squabbles with al-Haytham, the scribe of the Sumeru.

Academia.

In this game, in a, Zuma is isolated by Raiden, Shogun and Electro Archon.

What game features the travelers quest through Cave Out?

Anybody got an answer?

It's called the Genshin Impact.

Moving on.

Thankfully, this thinker criticized Clifford in his lecture the Will to believe name this American philosopher who advocated a new name for some old ways of thinking in his book pragmatism.

Who's the Author and it's serum?

James.

That's right.

William James is the answer.

Bonus question for you.

Lamp.

Write the following expression pencil and paper as a single base minus two logarithm three times log base two of five plus log base four of 36 minus log base two of three.

Five more seconds.

Anybody got it?

Oh, no answer, no answer.

Log.

Base two of 250 is what we wanted.

Next question for both teams.

This country's prime minister was nominated by a coalition including the NSC, B, B, B, Pvt and VD in this country.

Dick Ruth Schofield succeeded Mark Ruta as prime minister.

Gert Hurt Builders leads the largest party in what countries?

House, which meets in the Hague.

What country is that?

Nameless again that they're linked.

Netherlands is right.

Good job.

Your bonus question.

Lamp in a photo of this person's death, Jim Lovell looks on as Jack Ruby's pistol is fired.

The police officer, J.D.

Tippit, was killed.

By what person who assassinated JFK?

Lee Harvey Oswald?

That's right.

Oswald is correct.

Question for everyone.

Number 13, Langa Lieber Lay was banished for life to this island where eight men were sent following the Rivonia Trial.

Jacob Zuma and Nelson Mandela were prisoners.

On what, a Robin Island, Robben Island is.

Right?

Your bonus the musician's wife succeeded McCoy Tyner as his band's pianist.

What jazz artist, whose playing style was referred to as sheets of sound, was a saxophonist who recorded Giant Steps and a Love Supreme.

Coltrane, Coltrane, I trust him, if I Were You, Coltrane is right.

Next question.

What Irish playwright is known for works like Man and Superman, as well as one in which the phonetics professor Henry Higgins educated Eliza Doolittle called Pygmalion?

Shaw some murdering in a teacher.

Shaw Shaw is right.

George Bernard Shaw.

Another bonus for you, the first part of a poem by this man describes boys of light as curlers in their folly.

The imperative to rage, rage against the dying of light is repeated in what Welsh poets Villanelle do not go gentle into the good night.

Got an answer?

Lamp?

No answer.

Very good.

It's Dylan Thomas, Dylan Thomas five more questions here.

This denomination's founder wrote the key to the scriptures, which may be found within us.

It's reading rooms.

Mary Baker Eddy founded what denomination which publishes the monitor newspaper.

Scientology?

No.

That's incorrect.

Decatur, do you have an answer?

Yes.

Jack Mormon.

No, that's not correct.

Either Christian Science or Church of Christ scientist is their denomination.

Next question.

An aria by this composer was rehearsed under secrecy before its 1851 premiere and had a name meaning Woman is fickle.

LaDonna.

Mobile name.

This Italian opera composer who wrote about Gilda and the Duke of Manitou in Rigoletto.

And who is it?

A Puccini singing Puccini?

No.

That's incorrect.

Decatur, you want to take a shot at that?

It is.

Verdi is the answer.

We wanted.

The City of Lights bookstore in San Francisco highlighted works from this movement, like Kadish and Howell.

What 1950s counterculture movement of the beat is correct.

Bonus question for you.

This man whose aliases include Sinbad the Sinbad the Sailor and Count Wilmore, gives Caterer's a diamond while disguised as Abbe Busoni.

Name this man who escapes from the Chateau de if.

In an Alexander Dumas novel, he titles Monte Cristo.

Yes, Count of Monte Cristo is acceptable.

Write judges.

That's good.

Well done.

Two more questions in this collection.

Melissa Deck compares three rings representing the Abraham Abraham religions to their equal value to Saladin.

Name this collection set during a group's rule retreat to avoid the Plague by Giovanni Mustachio and its serum.

Decameron is correct.

Bonus.

The 13 factories were located in this city, whose common guild monopolized its country's trade with the west.

Name.

This capital of the Guangdong province, located on the Pearl River in southern China.

Hong Kong.

Nope.

That's incorrect.

Guang Zhou is the right answer.

Question 19 of 20.

This man successfully prosecuted Lucky Luciano and lost an election despite four states going to Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond.

Name this man who lost the election of 1948.

Despite the famous headline one Defeats Truman ADG Thomas Edmund Dewey is right.

Your bonus question in this country, the collapse of the Arbor Adam led to flooding in its Red sea state.

The warlord Hamid T leads the rapids support forces in this country's civil war.

In what African country are the Jonah weed active in Darfur, Sudan?

Sudan is right.

Last question.

If a two digit perfect square is multiplied by a prime number, what is the smallest possible result?

Can you one.

Answer from n 3232 is correct.

Good job.

Bonus for you.

Decatur English speaking rebels in this country caused the Anglophone crisis and the creation of the breakaway Republic of Amazonia.

French is the primary language of longtime dictator Paul Biya, the leader of what country?

With the capital of Yaoundé, Cameroon.

Cameroon is right.

Lay your buttons down.

Relax for a second.

We're going to do our lightning round.

I told the students before we began.

The categories to the lightning round are just answers that begin with letters C, m. In an age we'll, have Decatur select first.

In this, you'll choose two categories.

You'll do them both.

Then we'll come over to lab.

No, you'll do one.

Then we'll come to lab.

You'll choose two and play them.

And then with the remaining one come back to you.

Come in an H. You're thinking about that a lot on which one to go with.

Before we do that, we'd like to meet all of you.

So if you would, we'll start with Niamh.

And if you would just come around and tell us who you are.

But your favorite subject is just anything you'd like to say.

Go right ahead.

My name is Niamh Patel.

I'm a sophomore at limp, and I play tennis.

My name is Pearson Coley.

I'm a senior and my favorite subject is history.

Hello, my name is Elizabeth Paula.

I'm a junior at Lam High School, and I do robotics.

My name is.

You're on the study.

I'm a freshman at Lamp and I play the violin.

My name is Jack Youngblood.

I'm a freshman in Decatur, and I run track and cross country.

My name is Ian Newton.

I'm a junior at Decatur, and I play football and baseball.

My name's Mallory.

I'm a senior at Decatur High School, and my favorite subject is English.

My name is Jack Lampe.

I'm an 11th grader at Decatur High School, and I run cross country.

Very good.

We appreciate all of you being here.

I know your faculty and your parents are proud of you.

And so are we.

We're glad you're in the studio.

Our lightning round on all of our competitions brought to you by the Alabama Community College System.

And they sponsor our lightning round.

So we appreciate their sponsorship.

And we'll come to you, Decatur, to choose one of our categories.

After much contemplation, which one do you want to do?

Improve starts with C. Going to go with C. Here we go.

You have a minute to answer these questions.

Asian country where a great wall begins in its high by province.

An animal that represents the constellation cancer.

That's right.

First U.S.

president to serve two nonconsecutive terms Cleveland.

That's right.

CoStar of Girl Meets World who sings nonsense and espresso carver.

That's right.

Author of Gregor the Overlander and The Hunger Games.

Collins.

That's right.

Author of the nonsense poems The Hunting of the Snark and Jabberwocky.

You can pass if you want to go on Asian country, where the Khmer Rouge utilized killing fields.

That's right.

Voltaire novel in which Doctor Pangloss states, this is the best of all possible worlds, best composer of the experimental music, such as mostly silent for 33 substances banned in the Montreal Protocol since they destroy the ozone layer.

Chlorofluorocarbons judges, they get the last answer in time.

Not.

But you did.

Well, I think you got seven out of ten.

Good job.

We come over to you, lamp, and you're going to choose from in in an H, which, two would you like to do and then.

Very good.

You're doing them in the order.

They're in front of me.

So much appreciated.

All the answers.

Start with him.

Here we go.

This phase transition, the opposite of freezing, occurs when a solid turns into a liquid thing.

Melting.

That's right.

The state lead from Lansing has a lower peninsula.

That's right.

This prophet led the Israelites out of Egypt and parted the Red sea.

The unit of distance is equivalent to 63,360in miles.

Answer.

Miles.

That's right.

This poet who went blind wrote Paradise Lost, this eponymous communication system uses two dashes to.

That's right, Shakespeare's play, whose characters include Bank and millions.

This doubly eponymous test can classify people into 16 different personality types, including ENFP and TJ.

Pass.

The landlocked Asian country is led from Ulan Bator.

This psychologist studied obedience to authority in his namesake.

That's.

See you again.

That's right.

That's all of them you passed on.

This double eponymous test can classify people in 16 different categories.

Time is up.

Good job.

Now we move on to N. You know what this means, right?

All the answers start with then I know.

Here we go.

Television channel that airs SpongeBob SquarePants.

And I can't including Roman God of the season, namesake of a planet Neptune.

The Aswan Dam was built across the Amazon River.

That's right.

Subsidiary of Mondelez that makes Oreos and Ritz Crackers.

Nestle here again.

No, it's Nabisco, present day country where the author of Things Fall Apart.

Can you?

I guess that's right.

Software company valued at over $1 trillion.

That's right.

Roman emperor who executed Agrippa Nero.

Thank you, Pacific nation.

Who's Mary?

People sign the treatment.

That's right.

Organization whose article five was invoked for the first time.

Say again.

NATO.

That's right.

Elie Wiesel memoir about his experience during the Holocaust.

Nice.

That is correct.

Well done.

You flew through those.

We come back to you, dictator, and you're going to do the H. Everybody avoided H because everybody knows H is like really hard.

Here we go.

Organ responsible for pumping blood through the body property that refers to a great nation of tint of color hue.

That's right.

Greek goddess of marriage and wife of Zeus C unit for frequency, which is named for a German physicist.

Yes.

Composer of music for the Royal fireworks and oratorio Messiah handle.

That's right.

Egyptian god of the sky, who's depicted as a falcon.

Us?

That's right.

Group 17 elements that are known for their high reactivity.

That's right.

First president of the Republic of Texas.

Houston.

That's right.

Author who included the character major major in his novel catch 22.

Yeah.

Look, that's correct too.

You guys nailed that.

You had 23 seconds left to do.

We could have done 2 or 3 more questions.

Well done.

Now we have, just under six minutes left in our program.

We're going to ask questions.

No bonuses.

You answered the question, you get the points.

And it's a good way to catch up if you're trailing slightly at the midpoint.

Here we go.

The protagonist of this novel is unhappy, unable rather to enjoy Beethoven's Ninth Symphony after undergoing the Ludovico technique.

What dystopian novel about Alex and a group of droogs was written by Anthony Burgess.

Orange.

That's right.

In this city, a large mechanical clock called the Clock and Spiel is located in the Mayor and Plot square.

Nymph and Berg Palace is in what capital of Bavaria?

And it's, Munich.

That's right.

South Africa and Israel are alleged to have tested one of these things in the Villa incident.

And it's Jack.

Nuclear bombs.

Nuclear bomb is correct.

A poem by this man calls the title period a Seasons of Mist and Mellow Fruit.

Lessness the poem to Autumn and Endymion are by what Englishman who wrote, beauty is truth, and truth is beauty.

And it buzzing in is the ETF.

Keats.

Keats is right.

This city was home to 17 Duwamish villages around Elliott Bay, and its suburb of Everett contains Boeing's largest production plant.

Jack.

Seattle, Washington is right.

Robert Fitzroy captured this region's last young Hunter native aboard the HMS Beagle on the way to the Galapagos Island, where what archipelago with a Spanish name is separated from South Africa.

And it's, I'm looking near del Fuego.

Tierra del Fuego is right next.

Willy inhabits a liminal space between life and death, and a novel title, For This Man by George Saunders.

The poem When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard bloomed, collected in Leaves of Grass, was written by Walt Whitman.

CRM, Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln is the answer.

Next, a queen says sweets to the sweet to this character after she dies from falling off a willow tree into a river following the death of her father, Polonius.

What wound?

And it's Malory or Ophelia is correct.

Good job.

Next, the mythological figure is tripped by Athena during the foot race during Patroclus funeral games, allowing Odysseus to win.

After assaulting Cassandra in the Temple of Athena.

What Malory?

Poseidon?

Nope.

I'll finish it for you.

Lamp in the Temple of Athena.

What Locrian figure was drowned by Poseidon?

Do you have an answer?

Lamp, Hector?

No, Ajax the Lesser is what we wanted.

Question ten with about three minutes to go after graduating while Zelda, protagonist of one story, spent several years of his life translating codes used in this game, the Magister Ludi is the master of what game featuring the titles a Hermann Hesse work featuring Joseph Neck.

Steppenwolf.

That's incorrect.

That's incorrect.

You have an answer.

Decatur.

It's called the Glass Bead Game.

2.5 minutes left.

The leader.

This leader established the plural continental schism doctrine.

And a few years after his death, the Estado Novo was overthrown in the Carnation Revolution.

The 25 de Abril Bridge in Lisbon was originally named for what?

Dictator of Portugal.

It's Jack.

No answer.

That's all right, lamp.

You got an answer?

What do you want to say?

You.

Franco?

Nope.

Salazar is what we wanted.

This author depicted seven at the Golden Shovel in a poem whose characters jazz June and Die soon.

Name the Chicago author who depicted pool players in her short poem called We Real Cool.

Anyone?

Gwendolyn Brooks would be disappointed.

Next question.

Fighting at this battle began at the Matthews Hill, and it led to Erwin McDowell's replacement, with George McClellan fleeing civilians, clumsy retreat and a detour.

No.

That's incorrect.

I'll finish it for you.

Decatur clogged a union retreat.

In what?

Civil War battle that gave Stonewall Jackson his nickname.

God.

A civil war back in mind.

What you got, Jack?

Say again.

Bull run.

Bull run is right.

Good job.

A couple more questions.

In this painting, a girl who holds a drinking horn is illuminated as a chicken hangs from her belt and buzzing in his serum.

The night watch.

The night watch is correct.

This man sponsored the unfinished Cape to Cairo rail plan and founded the DeBeers Diamond Company.

Name this British businessman and it's him.

Rhodes.

Rhodes is right.

Let's do one more while trying to kill a swan in one place of this type, lemon Keenan is killed by a water snake in another place of this type seven McCall faces off against the hero twins.

Identify these locations, examples of which include two nella and the Bulba.

And yes, cerium, the underworld.

The underworld is correct.

Lay your pins down.

That's going to do it.

That was a pretty good round.

You all played well, both in all three categories of our competition lamp.

You came out on top in this particular round.

But Decatur, you played well and we're very pleased that you were here.

You did a good job.

And lamp.

We'll see you again for sure.

This is the Alabama Scholar's Bowl where every week here at Alabama Public Television.

We appreciate you watching supporting these students in your area and all across the state.

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

So long everybody.