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Alabama Scholars Bowl, where junior 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.

Welcome to the Alabama Scholars Bowl here on Alabama Public Television.

I'm Mike Royer, and I certainly enjoy hosting this program every week statewide on AP.

We want to thank Wayne Reid and his team at Alabama Public Television for their hospitality and hard work in helping us do our program.

Our judges for the program today, Sharon Dailey, Claudette Smith and others who are working here in the studio and in the building to make this program possible.

Mike Housley is our executive producer and we appreciate you joining us every week.

We're joined by five students from two fine schools, Mountain Brook Junior High School.

Their team joins us for the first time on this season and Monrovia Middle School.

It's good to have you all with us as well.

And so we'll get started about now.

Midway through the program, you'll meet our students individually.

We'll ask them to introduce themselves.

We're going to begin with 20 questions.

If your team answers the question correctly, you get a bonus question.

Everybody knows that buttons in hand.

Let's prepare ourselves so I can see well and let's get started.

The house of Tudor began its reign after what English war, during which and Bosnian is indicate the war.

The War of Roses.

That's exactly right.

Good job, m.k.

Here's your bonus question.

In many storylines, Miles Morales becomes what superhero from the Marvel Universe.

Spider-Man.

Spider-Man is right.

Question number two During what?

Jewish coming of age ceremony Typically.

And it's Wyatt Bar Mitzvah.

Bar Mitzvah is the right answer for Mt.

Brooke.

Your bonus question.

A bandage covers Van Gogh's right ear in a painting of what type in which the artist depicts his own image.

Self-portrait.

It's a self-portrait.

That's right.

Question three for everybody.

What language was used to write the story?

COG Wheels in a groove and Rashomon Road all by Akutagawa.

First name Ri in Osaka.

Akutagawa.

Why?

Japanese?

That's correct.

Well done.

I'm always impressed when you answer a question with a read like I just did.

Good job.

Bonus question.

A namesake blind species of dolphin resides.

Resides in what?

Indian River that is held sacred to Hindus.

What is that?

River Ganges.

Ganges River is right.

Both teams, the three ladies padlock to Minos mouth shut in.

What Mozart Opera about its titular enchanted instrument.

What is it?

Looking at the Magic flute.

The Magic Flute is right.

Bonus question for you.

Mountain Brook Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation was produced from what theoretical event in which the universe began in a mass explosion.

The Big Bang.

The Big Bang is right next.

What?

God, who performs the opening of the mouth ceremony for those entering the Egyptian underworld is the god of mummification and is often depicted wiht Anubis.

Anubis is right.

Your bonus trip live shoots the title Bird in The Seagull a work by what Russian playwright Better known for the Cherry Orchard, A refer to Alonzo.

Hans Christian Andersen.

That's incorrect.

Chekhov.

Anton Chekhov is the answer we wanted.

Next.

What group of often desert raiders who lived in Scandinavia established why Vikings Vikings is right Bonus tobacco is grown by John Rolfe In what colony in present day Virginia The first permanent English settlement in North America.

Jamestown.

Jamestown is right.

Here's a toss up for both teams.

One group of animals is characterized by having hair or fur on their bodies.

And female mammal.

Mammal is the right answer.

Bonus question.

Sulfur is added to strength.

In what material in the process of vulcanization where it is then used to make car tires.

A rubber rubber is the right answer.

Toss up, everybody.

What Former prime Minister of Canada, who enacted the war measures Act during the October crisis is the father, Wyatt Trudeau.

Yes.

Justin Trudeau.

That's incorrect.

Do you guys have an answer?

Minerva?

Preston.

Trudeau.

No, it's Pierre.

Pierre Trudeau is the answer we were looking for.

Next question, everybody.

What?

God.

Known as the Destroyer, forms the Hindu.

Shiva.

Shiva is correct.

Well done, Russell.

Your bonus.

A man holds three swords in the oath of the hora shui.

A painting by what?

French artist of the death of Mira.

Or to Alonzo Rembrandt.

It's David Jacques-Louis.

David.

Toss up both teams.

What titled Woman lived in a Kingdom by the Sea in an Edgar Allan Poe poem.

Alonzo Woman.

That's incorrect.

Do you guys have an answer?

Monrovia.

Anybody?

Annabel.

Annabel Lee is correct.

Good job, Jenna.

Bonus question for your team.

Gates, known as the Tory, are found at the entrances to shrines of what religion?

The indigenous religion of Japan.

Shintoism.

Shintoism, Shintoism.

That's right.

That's the right answer.

Good job.

Toss up.

What?

Boy, who tricks his friends into whitewashing and follies.

Tom Sawyer.

That is correct.

Alonzo.

Thank you.

Couldn't see your light for a second.

The hypocrite fountain was created by what?

Winged horse at the Bellerophon that Bellerophon tamed.

Pegasus.

Pegasus is correct.

Next question.

A car crash was the cause of death.

Of what?

World War Two general who infamously slapped two soldiers during the Sicily campaign onto Eisenhower.

That's incorrect.

Do you guys have an answer for that?

Monrovia?

Yes.

Oliver MacArthur?

No, It was George Patton.

George Patton.

He died in that car crash.

Next question.

Pencil and paper for a math question.

What is the perimeter of a triangle with sides measuring 76, 50 and 104 centimeters?

Yes, Ainslie.

230 centimeters.

That's exactly right.

Good job.

Bonus question for you.

The decent of the descent of man is by what scientists who then wrote on the origins of species after visiting the Galapagos Islands, Darwin.

Darwin is right.

Good job.

Next.

White nose syndrome affects what animals in order.

Kyra.

Petra.

The only mammals capable of flight handling bats is correct.

Bat or bats?

Bonus for you, Violeta.

Valerie is the protagonist of La Traviata, an opera by what Composer of Rigoletto?

And Aida.

What you got?

Verdi.

Verdi is correct.

Good.

Five more questions in this round.

What character who meet such people as JFK?

Richard Nixon and Elvis says.

My mom always said life.

Why Forrest Gump?

That's Forrest Gump.

Exactly.

Bonus.

A collection of stories by Sherwood Anderson.

Is titled for Winesburg, a fictional city in what state?

Whose cities include Cincinnati and Cleveland, Ohio.

Ohio is right next in what?

World War two Novel by Joseph Heller.

Does the Death of Snow Scar and its Gender?

Catch 22.

Catch 22 is correct.

Your bonus The mentally disabled old Theodore became the heir to the throne, after which Russian czar killed his son in a fit of rage.

Ivan the Terrible.

That's correct.

Next question for everyone.

Ricardo Drago revised the score for which Tchaikovsky's Ballet, in which Odette is turned into the title Bird.

What is that called?

M.K.

Lakshman.

No, that's not correct.

Do you have an answer for me?

Why?

Swan Lake?

Swan Lake.

You're on the right track.

Emma.

Kate.

Bonus question for Mountain Brook.

Yellowcake is produced from what?

Radioactive element with chemical symbol you, which is used in nuclear uranium.

Uranium is right next on what mountain in Tanzania, which is the tallest in Africa.

Why not Kilimanjaro?

Kilimanjaro is right.

Your bonus.

President Francisco Madero was assassinated during the ten tragic days in what North American country that was governed by President Benito Juarez in the 1800s.

Mexico.

Mexico is right.

Two more questions reduced and more are are forms of what quantity?

Which is measured in kilograms?

Yes.

Wait, that's incorrect.

Do you have an answer for me as Angelique?

Mass is the right answer.

Here's your bonus.

Menlo Park was owned by what scientist who is credited with having invented the light bulbs.

Edison.

Edison is right.

Last question.

Let's finish strong here.

In What Novel?

By Alexandra Duma is Edmond, and it's Alonzo Three Musketeers.

Nope.

I'm going to finish it for you.

Monrovia.

Is Edmond Dantes imprisoned in the shot to death?

What is that?

Novel And the Count of Monte Cristo?

That's correct.

You get the last bonus question.

Israel and Jordan form the border.

Of what body of water?

Which receives its grim name due to its high salinity content.

That's the Dead Sea.

Dead Sea is right.

Everybody lay your buttons down, relax, and we're going to move on to our lightning round.

Monrovia is trailing slightly here at the midpoint of the program, so you'll select first from the four categories that I'll share with our viewers and with our students here in the studio today.

The four categories are seconds blank of blank places with new names and historic dates you'll select in just a moment.

They'll play one category, Mountain Brook will play two, and then back for the last one with you all.

Before we play the Lightning Round, let's meet our players from both Mountain Brook and from Monrovia Middle School.

and would you begin?

My name is Owen Ward, and I was born in Boston.

Wow.

My name is Russell Chambliss, and I am both a white belt and black belt in karate.

My name is Wyatt Pierce.

I'm the vice store of the Mountain Brook Junior High Latin Club.

My name is Alonzo Daddy Hawkins, and I speak fluent Spanish.

My name is Gina Coats, and I make jewelry.

My name is Ainsley.

Sent Moore, and I play the tuba.

My name is Oliver Budget, and my favorite band is Weezer.

My name is Emmett Kane, and I'm playing volleyball.

What are the chances?

Oliver and I's favorite band is the same one.

Is that not a remarkable.

That is just remarkable.

All right.

You guys ready to play the Lightning Round?

Yes, sir.

All right, Monrovia, you go first and you have four to choose from.

Angel, you want to tell me which one you want to do?

Seconds You want to do seconds.

All right.

You'll have 60 of those seconds to answer these questions.

You're going to identify these things which are second.

Here we go.

Second largest state in the U.S.. Texas.

Texas.

You're shut out.

The answer?

That's right.

Second vice president of the United States.

Jefferson.

That's right.

Second element on the periodic table.

Helium.

Second longest river in the U.S.. Missouri.

That's incorrect.

It is the Mississippi medal awarded for second place in the Olympics.

Silver.

Henry, the eighth, second wife.

Just say it out loud.

Ambulance.

That's right.

Second most abundant element in the Earth's crust with symbol S.I.

Silica.

That's right.

Second largest bone in the human body.

Also called the shinbone to pass.

Second largest of the eight planets, Saturn.

That's right.

Second book of the Old Testament.

Exodus.

That's right.

Back to the second largest bone in the human body.

Also called the shinbone.

I think I heard it whispered, but you got same right out tibia.

Time was up, but tibia was the right answer there.

But you guys did a good job with that.

Well done, Mountain Brook.

You get to choose one of the two of the three remaining ones.

Why?

Which two would you like?

I'll take new names and blank of blank place.

New names and blank of blank.

Let's see here.

Let's do new names.

In 60 seconds, you're going to give the current name for each place.

Okay.

Here we go.

Constantinople.

Istanbul.

Persia.

Iraq.

No.

Iran?

That's correct.

Saigon.

Haji Minh City.

Tenochtitlan past Ceylon.

Sierra Leone.

North Sri Lanka.

Gaul.

France.

Leningrad.

Saint Petersburg.

That's right.

New Amsterdam.

New York.

That's right.

Belgium.

Congo.

Democratic Republic of the Congo.

No, it's Zaire.

Siam, Thailand.

Thailand is correct.

Did you pass on?

And how is my pronunciation?

Help me.

If I needed tae nuts to plan to get anything good.

12 seconds.

Defer to Alonzo, Turkmenistan.

Now, that's Mexico City is what I was called a long time.

Is that the only one gang that it did a good job with that.

And was your other one that you wanted to play?

Why a blank?

Blank, Yes.

All right.

All right.

In the 60 seconds we have for this category, so you're going to fill in the blanks to identify each of the following.

Here we go.

Painting by Sandro Botticelli.

The depicts the goddess of love and beauty, The Birth of Venus video game series published by Activision starting in 2003.

Call of Duty.

Nouns.

Verbs.

Adjectives.

Adverbs.

Parts of speech.

That's right.

Nickname for Los Angeles.

City of Angels.

That's right.

Patron saint of France, who was burned at the stake in 1431 for too long.

Joan of Arc.

Book of the Bible Following sounds the verb to know.

Just use the answer.

Go ahead.

Song of Solomon.

That's correct.

Painting by Michelangelo on the Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel Pass a narrow body of water that separates Africa from Europe, referred to by virtue along the Strait of Gibraltar.

That's correct.

Iridescent coating of oysters and other mollusk parts.

Similes, metaphors, hyperbole, figures of speech.

That's right.

You passed on near Uranus in coating of oysters and other mollusk.

Times of mother of pearl is one of them.

And to save yourself a little time, you don't have to call on anybody.

If you know the answer, shout it out.

All right.

We're going to come back to you, Monrovia.

I know you're excited to answer these questions about historic dates.

You're going to have 60 seconds.

I'm going to give you a date and a clue and then you're going to name the event that took place.

This is a piece of cake.

You're ready.

Here we go.

December 7th, 1942, Military attack Pearl Harbor.

First man on the moon, Neil Armstrong.

my goodness.

Let's move on.

I'll correct that.

July 4th, 1776, Political event.

Just say it.

Signing of the Declaration.

That's right.

November 22nd, 1963.

An assassination.

JFK Assassination of JFK.

That's right.

April 15th, 1912.

Marine disaster.

Titanic.

That's right.

May 20 and 21st, 1927.

A technological first pass.

Ides of March 44 B.C.

assassination.

Julius Caesar.

That's right.

January 28th, 1986.

Disaster.

St Helens.

No, it was the Challenger.

October 12, 1492.

Discovery.

1492.

Time is up.

I read an answer instead of reading the question early on in that.

That's my bad.

And the judges can give you credit for it or figure it out.

Okay.

I apologize for that.

I read you the answer.

I should have asked you to give me the date.

Maybe, but I don't think that fast.

You know what we do the rest of the time?

We have, right?

We have.

We have.

That's right.

We have toss ups.

These are 20 point questions, if you answered correctly.

We just keep going because there's no bonus involved.

All right, Here we go.

In 1665, Sir George, character ET and Lord John Berkeley founded what state whose capital is Trenton?

And it buzzing in I don't see a light anywhere.

There it is Jenna New Jersey.

That's right.

The great Kanto earthquake failed to destroy the Imperial hotel, which was built by what architect who is also commissioned by Edward Kaufman to design the house.

Right?

Right.

That's right.

Miriam and Aaron were siblings of what?

Biblical figure.

And it's in.

That's right.

Moses is right.

The county of Tillie was defeated at the Battle of Britain.

Failed during what war?

That began in 1618 and ended in 1648 over 30 years.

Or the math works out.

A war was sparked by a quest to receive a girdle belonging to Hippolyta.

And it is why it Amazonian war judges.

Yes, they'll accept that Amazon Amazons what poet described ebony hands on each ivory key and droning reciprocated to this poem.

Elijah.

Edgar Allan Poe.

No, that's incorrect.

I'll finish it for you Over here.

Monrovia.

In his poem The Weary Blues.

And it was a leading member, Jenna Hughes.

Langston Hughes is right.

In what city does the Lithuanian immigrant Your guess, Rude crews work in the meatpacking industry in Upton Sinclair Wyatt, Chicago.

That's right.

The horse view syphilis belonged to White Ruler.

Who was Alexander the Great?

That's right.

Aqua Regia dissolves platinum.

And one other element, a malleable Russell Gold.

Gold is right next.

Oak Ridge and Hanford were sites where J. Robert Oppenheimer.

Wyatt Plutonium.

Nope.

I'll finish it for you.

Monrovia.

Oppenheimer led what project to create an early Manhattan.

That's right.

What literary generation included William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, and the poet of Howl, Allen Ginsberg and Alonzo Renaissance?

Nope.

That's incorrect.

You guys have an answer.

You want to take a shot?

Yes.

The Lost Generation know lots of buzzing going on.

It's the Beat Generation.

Next question.

Pressing down on the D-Pad allows the player to thank the driver of what vehicle.

And Alonzo, the battle bus.

The battle bus is right.

What liberator of South America won the battles of Kara Bobo and Wyatt Simon Bolivia.

That's correct.

Nuclear reactors often use the heavy type of what water water is, right?

National Sorry Day commemorates members of what indigenous peoples of Australia who hold the rock White Aborigines.

That's right.

What Companion of Sailors criticized Peter for behaving like a Gentile and wrote about being blinded on the road to Damascus.

And it is so Saint Paul.

You're right.

Good job in great the hot five and the hot seven recorded Potato Head Blues under what jazz trumpeter nicknamed Satchmo Alonzo Louis Armstrong.

That's right.

Fisherman's Wharf and the Ashbury District Way at Seattle.

Nope.

I'll finish it for you.

Monrovia Haight-Ashbury district are located in, what, Northern California city, which is also home to the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.

That's exactly right.

In What Novel by Zora Neale Hurston does the protagonist looking into their eyes were watching God?

That's exactly right.

Well done.

Paper and pencil.

For a quick math question.

What is the fractional equivalent of five to the negative third power?

Yes.

Why?

One over 125?

That's exactly right.

The stone things are killed.

By what?

Hero who assisted by his companion in Key.

Do in a namesake Mesopotamian epic.

What is that, Jenna?

Gilgamesh is correct In a namesake pump, potassium ions are exchanged for ions of what element that is found with chlorine in table salt.

What is that wiht sodium?

That's right.

The half moon was captained by white explorer who is the namesake of a Canadian bay and a river in New York.

Why it Hudson?

That's right.

A convex mirror hangs in the background of what John then is painting and looking at the Arnolfini wedding.

That's right.

Frank's Chophouse is partly the setting of what Arthur Miller play about the Danforth downfall.

Why it doesn't sell.

That is the right answer.

We were looking for it.

Richard Lovelace wrote the poem to Althea.

From what kind of location in which criminals are held jail.

Prison?

Prison is the answer they wanted.

You're right.

The term New world was termed by white Italian explorer Christopher Columbus.

That's incorrect.

Finishing it here, who became the namesake for two continents in the area, What does that entail?

Amerigo Vespucci.

Vespucci He is correct.

The Who Steal C-list party was started by white countries former leader Juan Peron, while he lived in Buenos Aires.

And it is Genoa.

That's right.

What novel?

The most famous work of Alice Walker centers on the girl Jenna color.

That's right.

The nickname Moses was given to white woman during her time helping Oliver pass.

Looking towards did Wyatt.

Harriet Tubman.

Harriet Tubman is right.

Next question.

In 1985, the first permanent colony in Greenland was founded by Watt Wyatt.

Eric Need more?

Leif Ericson No, that's incorrect.

Jetta Eric The red.

Eric The red is the answer we wanted.

Thank you.

What puppeteer created the Muppet characters?

Wyatt.

Jim Henderson.

That's incorrect.

Do you guys have an answer?

Oliver Jim Henson.

Henson is right.

That's right.

All right.

Thomas Fairfax led the new model Army During what war?

In which Oliver Cromwell became Lord Protector after the death of Wyatt English Civil War.

That's right.

The nihilist buzzer of appears in the Yvonne Turgenev novel.

Novel titled For Fathers And What Male Offspring.

Yes, Jenna Sons is right.

The coldest possible temperature is named for Watt Wyatt.

Absolute zero.

Absolutely.

Zero is right.

The photo pillars of creation depicts the Eagle one type of what?

Interstellar clouds of gas and dust as nebula is right.

What pure breed of pony.

Less than 42 inches tall at the shoulder originated on the islands off the north coast of Scotland.

Yes, Shetland.

That's right.

Shetland pony is right.

Dr. Pangloss expresses the philosophy that the world as he knew it best is the best of all possible worlds.

In what novel?

By Voltaire.

And Wyatt Candide.

Candide is right.

One, maybe two more questions.

Which of the Hawaiian Islands is the third largest in the home and the capital city of Honolulu?

Yes.

Wahoo.

Oahu is right.

Let's get this one in the maid of Orleans.

And the robbers are works by what?

German poet, best known for inspiring Beethoven with the poem Ode to Joy.

Yes, that is Keats.

That's incorrect, man.

Brooklyn won't take a shot.

Yes.

What?

Handel.

Frederick Schiller.

Frederick Schiller.

Lay your buttons down.

We are out of time.

Almost out of questions.

You all played very well.

Mountain Brook, well done.

And Monrovia.

Good job by you as well.

Mountain Brook came on top out on top on this particular round.

But you guys did a very good job.

We're proud of all of you.

Glad you participated in our program.

We'll look forward to seeing you on a future Alabama scholar's bowl.

We hope to see you on a future program as well here on APT.

I'm Mike Royer.

Thanks for watching and have a great day, everybody.