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Questions in science, technology, engineering, math, and history.

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Now here's your host, Mike Royer.

Hello, everyone.

Welcome once again to the Alabama Scholar's Bowl here on Alabama Public Television.

My name is Mike Royer.

And it's my privilege to host this program each week.

We hope you enjoy it and we hope you play along at home.

Many people tell us they do.

Joining us in the studio today are two fine teams from the Alabama School of Cyber Technology and Engineering.

Always good to have them in the studio.

And the team from Hoover back with us as well.

Gentlemen, it's good to see you.

Our executive producer for our program is Mike Lee.

Judges are Sharon Daley, Nick Frederick, Josh Ruski, and Rhonda Brewer assisting us in a valuable way as well.

We appreciate all the folks here at Alabama Public Television.

We've got a lot to do.

So let's get started.

Everybody knows I'm going to ask you 20 questions.

If you get it right, you get a bonus question.

Let's get started.

Colin Huang, co-founder of this company, which was investigated by the EU for selling illegal products.

Shop like a billionaire as the slogan of what e commerce and buzzing in his eye.

Don't seem to you are Hilton.

Teemu.

Teemu, thank you very much.

Your bonus question for you asked.

Shortly after Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Quirk Books published a Ben H. Winters novel that inserted sea monsters into what other Jane Austen novel about Elinor and Marianne Dashwood?

Yeah.

Sense and sensibility.

That's correct.

Next question.

Both teams.

The failure of John Bing by n g at a battle named for this island led to his court martial and execution, and it was ceded to Britain alongside Gibraltar and the treaty.

And it is, Hilton again.

Malta?

Nope.

That's incorrect.

Finishing it for you.

Hoover alongside Gibraltar and the Treaty of Utrecht.

What?

Bellerive Island is contrasted with Majorca for its smaller size.

What is that?

Minor.

Menorca is correct.

Your bonus.

Might want your pencil.

Determine the value of the cosine of 60 degrees or pi over three.

In its simplest radical form, one half is correct.

Both teams.

Siegfried learns to understand these animals after consuming the heart of Fournier.

And it's sunny Swans.

Yes, we can accept swans.

Birds was also the first to answer your bonus question.

Hoover.

In this country, the broody people bra.

Why people inhabit a province governed from Quetta, the easternmost province called Bella.

Just stand.

Peshawar is a city.

In what country?

Home to the Pashtuns, that is governed from Islamabad.

Very good.

Good job.

Next question for both teams is the only state without a seatbelt law and its license plates include the motto live free or die.

What New England state is known for its.

Chris.

New Hampshire.

New Hampshire is right.

Your bonus.

The Roommate Show is hosted by two players on this team, which was formerly coached by Tom Thibodeau.

Karl-Anthony towns was traded from the Timberwolves to what NBA team captained by Jalen Brunson, that plays at Madison Square Garden.

That's the New York Knicks.

Next question for everyone.

This author of the October manifesto was targeted by the revolution in 1905.

Chris.

Like Nicholas the second, Nicholas the second is correct.

Here's your bonus.

Subduction occurs because this solid layer is denser than the weak, more fluid layer under it.

The crust and top portion of the mantle make up what layer found above the atmosphere.

I meant to say asthenosphere.

If that's makes a difference.

Say it again.

That's correct.

Lithosphere is right.

Next question.

Description.

Acceptable claims that this action was staged led to calls for Joe Rosenthal's Pulitzer Prize to be revoked.

And Leo, the photo at Iwo Jima.

Yes.

The raising of the flag of Jima is correct.

Bonus question for you in January of 2025, this country's presidential palace was attacked by Boko Haram militants.

Mahamat Deby is the president of what central African country?

Whose capital is in Germania?

Yes, Chad.

Chad is right.

Both teams now.

This author wrote about an enormous nosed boy who obtained a telepathic power by being born Leo.

Salman Rushdie Salman Rushdie is correct.

Bonus a ruler of this region sponsored a quart of love in Poitiers and was the mother to Richard the Lionheart, and John Lackland named the southern French region once ruled by the Duchess.

Eleanor.

Aquitaine Aquitaine is the right answer.

Everybody might want to pencil and paper if Ken starts his homework at 5:20 p.m., and he has to do 40 minutes of science, 35 minutes of math, 17 minutes of history, and 54 minutes of English.

When does he finished his homework?

4746 is correct.

Bonus question for you.

Hoover Vang Powell was a leader of these people who fled after the epithet Lao targeted them during the secret war.

Merced and Minneapolis were destinations of what mountainous minority people of Laos and Vietnam also called me.

All Hmong for Hmong is correct.

Moving on to the next question for both teams, a composer named Leopold was this surname wrote about Leo.

Bach.

That's incorrect.

I'll finish you for Hoover wrote about his daughter's talent in a treatise and included a shotgun part in his hunting symphony.

What surname is shared by Narelle and her brother, who composed eine kleine nux?

Music.

Mozart.

What's hard is right.

Son of your bonus, Clara Schumann wrote a collection of this many romances for violin and piano.

Beethoven's symphony of this number was once dedicated to Napoleon, Napoleon, and is nicknamed Iraq Iraqi Eroica.

How many musicians make up this piano trio?

Three for three is correct.

Tossup.

Both teams.

Nathaniel Lyon died in this day during the Bull Run of the West.

And it's enders.

Missouri.

Missouri is right.

Bonus for you asked before the process, members of the BCL to read correctly.

Gene family trigger the release of cytochrome c from the mitochondria.

The activation of caspase.

This occurs in what?

Process of programed cell death.

Apoptosis.

Apoptosis is correct.

Toss up everybody.

This eight letter word can be confusingly, can confusingly mean both official approval and a penalty for disobeying a rule.

What word can refer to the financial restrictions applied by a country on an individual or company from another country?

What's that called?

A sanction.

A sanction is what it's called.

Your bonus?

33 of this author's 395 novels are part of a series whose main villain is the mastermind, Kyle Craig.

Genetically altered children with wings make up the flock in Maximum Ride, a series by what?

Author of the Alex Cross series?

Collins.

Patterson.

James Patterson.

If it comes up again sometime during this ceremony.

Jesus says my hour has not yet come until servants to fill six stone jars to the brim.

Leo, the last supper.

No, that's incorrect.

I'll finish for Hoover.

The first of Jesus's miracles in the Gospel of John happens during what ceremony in which Jesus turned water into wine.

What was it?

Hoover.

Yes, because it was the wedding at Cana.

The wedding at Cana.

First miracle he performed.

Bonus question will not use during the first stage of this process.

Cha Mata formed during Alan.

Meiosis is correct.

It's got a bonus question for you.

In this religion, your Zetas promote Ashura in opposition to his deceitful force called drools spread by Angra main.

You Ahura Mazda is the chief deity in what?

Dualistic Iranian religion?

Zoroastrianism.

That's correct everybody.

This quantity can be found by taking the time integral of jerk and Leo.

Acceleration.

Acceleration is right.

Your bonus.

Members of this ethnicity espouse the current name while leading the League of Prison.

Prison skank or Berg scan.

Der Berg was the king of what ethnic group who comprises the majority of Kosovo and names a country governed from Tirana.

Albanians.

Albanians.

You know you can jump in.

Keep me right.

Next question.

This pianist and singer rhymed Davy Crockett, Peter Pan with Elvis Presley.

Disneyland is a song that recalls major events of the 20th century.

And Jacob, Billy Joel Billy Joel is right.

Your bonus this modern day country was the site of the attack of the mas El Kebir, and was the largest one targeted by Operation Torch.

The OAS and FLN fought a bloody war for independence in what largest former French colony in North Africa, Algeria is correct.

We have four more questions.

A character in this movie is a nurse who believes she accidentally killed a patient by administering too much morphine.

Name this 2019 movie starring Ana de Armas and Daniel Craig.

What's the name of the movie, Alex.

Knives out.

Nice.

I see, I see a good movie.

Good music.

Here's a bonus for your team.

This poet inspired the title of Wilfred Owen's poem.

You'll say at first.

Thank you.

Horace.

You're right.

Thank you.

I said, thank you for first time.

No.

I'm fine.

Nothing wrong with me.

Moving on.

This author created the recurring character Nathan Zuckerman, who appears in novels.

Chris Roth is right.

Bonus.

Before this time period, a meal called sewer is eaten.

In this time period is known as the Fair in Arabic.

During Ramadan, Muslims fast until dusk.

From what time period?

Dusk to dawn.

Oh yeah.

Don't.

Dawn is right.

Question 18 the government forced Christians to step on Fumi.

Fumi?

After they led the shim, a bar rebellion against Christian Tokugawa shogunate.

To doorway is right your bonus Eula you EU earlier showed that the Riemann zeta function is equal to a product indexed by these numbers.

The sieve of error starts.

The NIS finds these numbers every integer greater than one can be factored into what number is divisible only by one and themselves.

Prime numbers.

Very good, both teams.

Anna Akhmatova described a prince of mockers in her poem without one of these people, Joseph Campbell just like a hero, hero is right.

Bonus.

However, these values are manipulated in data dredging, which is also called their namesake hacking.

Typically, these values must be below 0.05 to reject the null hypothesis.

What value denotes by a single letter denotes statistical significance p value p values.

Right?

Last question.

Everybody.

Let's nail this one.

An asymmetrical building at this site that contains a porch of the maidens is known as the Erechtheion.

The temple of Athena.

Allan.

Parthenon.

That's incorrect.

Finishing it for you.

The Temple of Athena Nike is located on what hill?

The Acropolis.

The acropolis.

The Acropolis is right.

You get the last bonus.

This poet wrote of a young bride in the river.

Merchant's wife named the poet from the Tang dynasty, who drowned after he drunkenly tried grasping the reflection of the moon.

Levi.

Levi's correct.

Well done.

Lay your buttons down and let's do a lightning round.

And let's meet our players.

I'm going to tell you now what our four categories are for the Lightning Round.

And AC TI is trailing slightly here at the midpoint.

You'll choose first the four categories.

If you're playing at home chemical elements, islands in mythology, literature on the American Civil War and architecture.

Prize winners.

Let's meet our players and then you guys can tell me which one of those you want to choose first.

Hilton, would you start?

Hey, guys.

My name is Hilton.

I am a sophomore at a CTE, and I just want to give a shout out to Mr.

Speak.

Our scholars both coach.

Hi, my name is Andrew Johnson.

I'm a junior at A.C.T.

and I'd like to thank, thank our history teacher, Mr.

Reese.

Hi.

My name is Leo, and I'm a junior at A.C.T., and I'd like to shout out our president.

I asked Mr.

Massey, my name is Jacob Wilkinson.

I'm a junior at asked, and I would like to shout out our AP calculus teacher, Mr.

Bohon.

Hi there.

My name is Sonny Brockman.

I'm a senior at Hoover High School, and my favorite artist is Winslow Homer.

Oh, hi.

My name is Chris Nathan.

I'm a junior at Hoover High School, and I don't like art.

So my favorite artist musically is Kendrick Lamar.

I'm, I'm a senior at Hoover High School.

My favorite music artist right now is Enrique Iglesias.

Hi, I'm Alex Hambly, I'm a senior at Hoover, and my favorite artist is Rene Mederos.

Very good.

It's a pleasure seeing you all, having you in the studio.

You already know this.

You'll be more convinced of it when you're my age.

I can start with Mrs.

King, my first grade teacher, and go all the way through talking about the significance of each one of my teachers and how valuable they were to me.

And I'm sure you're the same way.

All right, AICTE, you get to choose first of the four categories.

Leo, which one you want to do?

We'll take architects, architect, peace prize winners.

Right?

Yes, sir.

When we start asking the questions, you'll answer the following about winners of the Pritzker Architecture Prize.

Here we go.

Tito.

Ando's.

Church of light is in this East Asian country.

Osaka has REM Koolhaas designed the central library of this populous Washington city.

Seattle.

That's right.

This Italian designer of the shard shares his last name with an 88 key piano.

That's right.

Yorn Hudson designed this Australian city's opera house.

Sydney.

This Chinese American architect designed the Louvre pyramid.

I am back, Philip Johnson designed a house in Connecticut named for this translucent material.

Oscar Niemeyer designed dozens of buildings in the capital city of Brazil, Brasilia.

Norman Foster added a dome to his German parliament building.

Right?

That's right.

This Canadian designed the Walt Disney Concert Hall.

That's right.

This Iraq born queen of the curve.

That's it.

You got them all in about 45 seconds or 50s.

Well done.

We'll come back over to Hoover now.

And Trish, you guys have, Chris, you have three to choose from.

Which two would you like?

Okay.

First we'll start with the elements and I'll let you know of the second category.

After we finish first, I'll be anxiously awaiting which one first are chemical and chemical elements?

Very good chemical elements.

When we start, you'll have 60s give the atomic number.

And another fact, given the atomic number and another fact, name the element, the lightest element.

Hydrogen.

We, eight.

We breathe.

No, we breathe in order to get it.

Yeah.

It's nuclei.

Our alpha particles are here.

It causes the smell of rotten eggs or a halogen that's liquid at room temperature.

It's located above silver and gold, like propane.

It's get used in antidepressants and floats on water.

Oh, let's get a gas that can build up in homes and cause cancer.

Let's get let's get the heaviest stable element.

Your osmium.

Oh.

Shoot.

Uranium?

No.

If it's bismuth, the heaviest element yet discovered.

Oh.

Oh.

That's right.

You skip using anti-depressants and it floats on water, don't you?

You have 10s?

Yes.

Lithium.

I guess it can be build up in homes and cause cancer.

Oh, my gosh.

Oh, above the one above Golden silver is, platinum is what?

Platinum?

No.

It's copper.

Our time is up.

And the other one.

Some of you may even have a radon detector.

Oh, you're radon detector.

All right, we're on the edge of our seats.

Chris.

Which one do you want to do next?

We have islands of mythology and Civil War literature on the American Civil lit literature of the American Civil War.

In 60s.

You're going to answer the following about literature and the American Civil War.

Here we go.

Winning side of the war.

Whose dad or the subject?

Singing union unions, right.

Novel by Margaret Mitchell set during it.

Whose protagonist is Scarlett O'Hara?

Oh, gone with the wind, author of the Red Brads of Courage, which is said.

That's right.

Poet who wrote the collection Drum Taps during the war and is known for writing leaves of Grass.

Yeah, that's right, abolitionist novel written a few years before the war by Tom's Cabin.

That's right.

Author who wrote the poem Shiloh and is also known for his story of That'll Be the Oh milliner Melville Melville type of structure.

The titles, the Civil War.

That's right.

Poet who describes seeing graves row after row with strict impunity in an ode to the Confederate dead.

Skip, historical figure of the era who titles a poem by Virgil Lindsay.

Oh, it's right, author of the Civil War poem Barbara preachy.

Oh, Skip, poet who described seeing graves row after row with strict impunity in an ode to the Confederate poems.

No, that's Tate, and the other one was all through the civil Thurber.

No.

Whittier is the last one that was a little tougher than we maybe thought it was going to be.

Well done.

We come back to you asked Islands of mythology.

All right.

In 60s, you're going to name the following regarding islands that appear in various myths.

Here we go.

Namesake of Homeric epic who gets stranded in Ogre and Odysseus.

Thank you.

Fictional island from dialogs by Plato that sunk into the Atlantic Ocean.

Yes, that's right.

The legendary king of Britain who was taken to the island Avalon after dying to Mordred at the Kremlin.

That's right.

Country whose islands were made up of is Nami and Izanagi, and the parents of kami, Emerson.

Emerson pass out the Japan is right hero who led the Argonauts through the Jason.

That's right.

Avatar of Vishnu that journeys to Lanka to fight Ravana in the namesake Hindu epic.

Rama.

That's right.

Yes.

Beings who resided on end to Mosiah after being cursed by Demeter and who lured sailors with their sirens.

Island, whose mythology includes Morrigan, a goddess of war and death with the legendary Spear Gables.

Oh, Ireland.

That's right.

Phenomenon exemplified by gods Zephyrus.

Boreas.

Wind.

That's right.

Demagogue who once was able to create islands and slow the sun using his magic fishhook.

Maui ran out of time before we got to it.

Maui was the right answer.

So you had them all right.

Well played by both teams on all four categories.

We have six minutes left.

And in those six minutes, we're going to see how many questions we can get in each worth 20 points.

No bonus questions.

These people, these people met in an assembly organized by King Tell a person who called the Pan coup and later fought under moot what tally the second name.

These people who fought along the Oron Orontes at Kadesh and had their capital in Hittites.

Krish.

Hittites is right.

These safety devices usually use ducts that filter hazardous chemical vapors out of a room and cycle air back in.

In chemistry labs, hazardous chemicals.

Fume hood.

Fume hood is right next.

What trade contrasted with a plumber or pipe layer involves the design and industrial fabrication of high pressure piping systems, such as those in chemical plants.

Looking for the light.

I don't see a Jacob pipe layer.

No.

That's incorrect.

Do you have an answer?

I didn't quite, Such as those in chemical plants and Hvac systems.

Do you guys have an answer?

Yes.

Alan.

No, it's pipe fitter.

Pipe fitter?

You were close, Jacob.

Next question.

This city is home to a performing arts center called The Egg and sits across the river from Rensselaer.

What city on the Hudson River forms a metro area with Troy and Schenectady.

And is the new York's capital city.

And its Albany is right.

In Jesus's Sermon on the Mount, he says this substance, in addition to light, salt, salt is right.

Jacob.

Next, in one song, this artist claims that you're just trying to cash out while addressing the title.

People, while in another state said, it hurts for me to think about what life could possibly be like in the title situation.

What artists made the songs girls and Without You?

Yes.

Jacob.

Tate.

McGrath.

That's incorrect.

Alan.

No, it's the kid.

Leary is a huge star we now know about.

Next question.

This law is sometimes named for Doctor Harvard Wiley, who inspired it alongside the novel The Jungle.

What, 1906?

Chris, your food and drug.

And that's correct.

A character of this ethnicity who says her name means both wait and hope is named Esperanza and Alan.

Nope.

I'll finish it for you.

Asked.

Oh, that was acceptable.

Mexican is acceptable.

I saw just the first answer.

I apologize, Alan, you got it right.

The smallest type of this animal is the kitty's hog nosed one.

These animals include a vampire type that feeds on bat.

That is correct.

Hilton.

Good job.

Moving on.

The poet satirized heroic literature in a work that claimed dullness was the defining attribute of Thomas Shadwell.

England's first political poet laureate was what?

Chris Dryden.

Dryden is the right answer.

Three minutes left A series by this author begins with Kendra and Seth Sorenson moving to a secret magical preserve.

What author of the Candy Shop War wrote fable Heaven, Fable Haven and Chris Smith?

That's wrong.

Do you have an answer?

It is Brendan Mull.

Brendan Mull next in a painting from this movement, Elizabeth Sidle is depicted.

I don't see the light anywhere.

No one had a light on.

Oh, Sonny, your arms over it.

I'm sorry.

My bad.

PRB a Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.

Yep, yep, that's the right answer.

Good job the artist.

Neoplastic.

Some plaster ism is exemplified by a painting which used red, blue and yellow squares to depict and Leo.

Piet Mondrian.

Yes, that's right.

He had Mondrian is right.

Continuing in a novel by this author, a virus hidden in the Blitz plus pills disseminates mankind.

The author of Chris Saviano.

Sagan.

Saramago.

No.

That's incorrect.

Finishing it for you.

This author of Oryx and Crake also wrote The Testaments.

Leo, Margaret Atwood Margaret Atwood is right.

An instance of this effect is the purported existence of the 90s movie Shazam and Leo.

Mandela effect.

Mandela effect is right.

Jonathan Jacob Meyer sued this company for claiming he had 1000 kids.

Greg Peters and Ted Sarandos are the joint CEOs of this company, which is Jacob.

Ancestry.com?

Nope.

I'll finish it for you.

Hoover.

This CEOs of this company, which is the N in the acronym for a n G. Much of this blockbuster's business was taken over by what companies?

Uber, Netflix.

Netflix is right.

This word was used in Middle English as a second person plural pronoun.

Two respected people.

Conflation with the letter Thorne led to what old timey word replacing the word the and appearing before phrases yi yi is the right answer.

Anders.

Good job.

People in this story seek both seek books called vindication and a room called The Crimson Hexagon, a network of hexagonal rooms.

The Library of Bible.

The Library of Babel is correct.

Next, this religion is currently led by David Miscavige and holds that Lord who brought and killed Scientology.

Scientology is right.

This author used Kickstarter to fund four secret novels written during Covid, including The Sunlit Moon.

Leo Sanderson Sanderson is right, taking this operation of a matrix minus lambda times Leo Inverse.

No finishing it here.

Name this operation, which is equal to a D minus BC in A22 matrix.

Determinant is right out of time.

Young people, lay your buttons down, grab a big deep breath, and that is all the time we have on a very competitive good round.

And hoover you come out on top on this particular round but asked you're not far behind.

You played very well.

All of you did.

We're proud of you.

As I know your teachers and families are as well.

That's a good round here on the Alabama Scholar's Bowl.

We're glad you watch today and we hope you'll join us next time in this season eight of the Alabama Scholar's Bowl.

Have a great day everybody.