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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 once again to the Alabama Scholars Bowl here on Alabama Public Television.

My name is Mike Royer.

Thanks for joining us.

We appreciate you supporting our program.

You do that best by watching every weekday as we are statewide on Alabama public television.

We're enjoying this season of our broadcast as we bring middle school students from all around the state of Alabama into the studio to compete in the Alabama Scholars Bowl.

We welcome back to our program, the fine students from Arab Junior High School and Arab Alabama, a beautiful part of our state and equally beautiful Madison, Alabama.

That is where Discovery Middle School is located.

Good to have you back with us as well.

Everyone here knows how the game goes.

You probably do, too, at home.

We're going to begin with 20 questions.

If you answer the question correctly, you get a bonus question for your team only.

We want to thank Sharon Daly, Claudette Smith and many others who work to make our program possible in a variety of ways.

Mike Ousley is our executive producer.

And as always, we want to be sure and mention how valuable the support is from all of the good people at the Alabama Public Television here in Montgomery, in Birmingham, and all around the state.

Thank you all for supporting our program.

Everybody ready to go?

Buttons in hand.

Let's see how well we can do.

All right, let's get started.

What?

Scientists?

Annus mirabilis papers contain his explanation of the photo electric effect and his theory of special relativity.

Josh Albert Einstein.

That is the right answer.

Here's your bonus question.

Arab Colin Campbell defended the thin red line During what war?

During which Florence Nightingale helped wounded soldiers on the namesake Russian Peninsula from in the Crimean War is the right answer.

Toss up, everyone.

What author is assisted by Garrison while being led through the circles of hell by Virgil in the Divine and buzzing in is Jonas.

Dante.

Dante.

That is correct.

As I read your bonus question, just move your name about that way a little bit so I can see your light.

Thank you so much.

Here's your bonus.

The bay in Ha Mountains marked the beginning of what colorfully named River, which is nicknamed China's sorrow.

Yellow.

Yellow River is the right answer.

Everybody, What?

Astronomical objects come in short period and long period types.

And include one name for Edmund Haley.

Comet.

Jonas Comet is right.

Bonus for you.

A view from an asylum in San Remy inspired What painting of a swirling sky?

The best known work by Vincent Van Gogh.

Starry Night.

Starry night is correct.

Toss up, everybody grab a pencil, will you, for a math question?

If Teddy invest $1,000 in a savings account that earns 6% annual interest, how much money will he have after two years, assuming the interest is compounded annually, how much money will he have sending and 120?

Close, but not exactly right.

Do you have an answer, Rob?

What do you have?

Eli?

2120.

No, it's 1123 and $0.60.

We have to be exact on our math questions.

Let's move on during what conflict did the My Lai massacre occur and General Ho Chi Minh take control of Saigon in the Vietnam War?

Vietnam War is right.

Josh, your bonus.

The Tet this sea formed after the breakup of Pangea.

During what?

Geological period between the Triassic and Cretaceous periods?

Jurassic.

Jurassic is the correct answer.

Here's a toss up for both teams.

What set of German brothers wrote Rumplestiltskin and it Cindy The Brothers Grimm.

The Brothers Grimm is correct.

Bonus question for you.

Discovery.

All the rumor.

Rumor first calculated what quantity?

Equal to about 300 million meters per second.

Speed of light.

Speed of light.

Speed of light is the right answer.

Next.

Both teams.

One Egyptian God was dismembered by his brother.

Set Osiris.

Osiris is right.

Well done Cindy.

Your bonus again.

In November of 2021, ten people died at a concert held by what rapper whose album called Astro World features his song Sicko Mode.

Travis Scott Travis Scott is correct.

Ian And here's a toss up for everyone again.

What man created the Flamingo statue in Chicago as well as many stables and mobiles?

And who is that?

Brancusi.

That's incorrect.

You have an answer for me.

Discovery?

Yes.

Scott Smith.

It's Alexander Calder.

Alexander Calder.

Never can go wrong with a guess, though.

Next question Over which Japanese city did Paul Tibbets fly?

The Enola Gay dropped the atomic bomb.

Josh Hiroshima.

Hiroshima is the right answer.

Bonus question for you.

The Kepler conjecture defines the densest possible packing of what 3D circular shape sphere Sphere is, right?

Toss up everybody.

What man ran as vice president on a ticket with Virginia Woodhull and published many abolitionist works such as the newspaper The North Star.

You have an answer for me?

Josh Douglass That's right.

Frederick Douglass is the right answer.

Your bonus.

Joseph Black first discovered what gas with the formula.

CO2, Carbon.

Carbon dioxide.

Carbon dioxide is correct.

Toss up everybody in what?

Play by thought.

And Wilder does.

Emily and Eli, our town.

Our town is right.

Bonus question.

The goat Jolly is owned by the Gypsy as a moral to in what Victor Hugo novel centering on the bell ringer Kwasi Modo Hunchback of Notre Dame.

That's correct.

Next question.

What Monk is known as the father of genetics for his experience.

Jonas Mendel Mendel is right.

Gregor Mendel.

Bonus for you.

Challenger Deep is found at the bottom of what body of water in the Pacific.

The deepest trench in the world.

Mariana Trench that is right.

Toss up for both teams.

What Christian Religion was founded by Charles Taze Russell and is known for preaching door to door.

Who is that?

Andy?

Don't say Protestant.

No, that is incorrect.

You have an answer for me.

Like Jehovah's Witness.

Jehovah's Witnesses.

Write your bonus.

People with sickle cell anemia are immune to what disease carried by and anopheles mosquito, malaria.

Malaria is right.

Toss up, everybody.

The bedchamber crisis occurred during the reign of Witch Queen of England, who ruled during most of the 19th century and looking.

Josh Victoria.

Victoria is right.

Your bonus.

Mary Dyer was part of the Boston Martyrs hanged for being a member of what religion known as the Society of Friends, whose members have included George Fox and William Penn.

Quaker.

Quaker is correct.

Next, the Story of Araby appears in what Irish author's collection?

Dubliners.

July.

That's right.

James Joyce.

Bonus The Athenian orator, The moth.

The the Lees talk with rocks in his mouth to cure what kind of disorder?

Types of which include a proxy, a tongue tie and stuttering speech impediment.

Yeah, speech impediment.

That's what they're called.

Toss up both teams.

What title Colorful structure is glazed with rainwater beside the white chickens in a William Carlos Williams poem.

What is it called?

Eli the Red Wheelbarrow.

That's right.

Bonus for you.

Henry Ford was the only American mentioned by name.

In what work?

An autobiography.

Piece of Adolf Hitler.

Uncle Michael Main comp is correct.

Tossup.

What?

U-shaped conic section has an eccentricity of one.

What is it?

Jonah's Scrabble parabola is right.

Bonus.

American scientist John Berryman won the Nobel Prize twice.

In what field?

Which studies the interactions and movements of matter?

Physics.

Physics is right next.

The political system of guided democracy was started by Sukarno, the first president of what Asian country?

Whose capital is Jakarta?

And it's just Indonesia.

Indonesia is right.

Otis And the Philippines accidentally killed one another after trying to attack which Greek goddess who turned herself into a deer symbolizing her role as the goddess of the hunt.

Artemus Artemus is correct.

Two more questions.

A flute evokes sunrise in morning mood.

A piece by what?

Norwegian composer of pure Jens and Milius.

No, that's incorrect.

You have an answer for me, Discovery.

What do you have shown, Eric?

It is Edvard Grieg.

Krieg is the answer we wanted.

Last question before we take a break.

Christoph Gluck wrote an opera titled For What?

Mythological Musician who traveled to the underworld to visit his wife.

And it is Eli Orpheus.

Orpheus is right.

Last bonus question Candles are blown out in the farewell symphony.

A work by what composer?

More famous for his surprise symphony.

Who is that item?

Joseph Haydn is correct.

All right, lay your buttons down, grab a breath and I will tell our viewers at home and I will tell you what our four categories are for our Lightning Round today.

Discovery Middle, your trailing slightly, so you'll be selecting from the four categories first, then eight.

Reb, you will select two and play two and you'll get the leftovers, as we call them here on the program.

Whatever is left in the lightning round.

Our lightning round categories are famous Alabamians.

Third time's a charm.

Who said it?

And where's my boat?

Looking forward to hearing what that one is all about before we choose and before we play our lightning round, let's meet our players.

I'll ask Eli to begin.

Would all of you please introduce yourself and tell us a bit about yourself?

Hello.

My name is Eli Moe and I'm an eighth grade and I run track and I'm also the secretary in Beta Club.

My name is Ava Case.

I'm the reporter at Arab Junior High School's Beta Club, and I like Metallica.

my name is Jonas Huckaby, and I am part of the football wrestling, and I'm the president of their club.

My name is Joshua Giddy.

I'm an eighth grade.

I'm part of, track and field cross country and on the vice president of club.

All right, you shot my name to song.

So, Hill and I like to read classics.

My name is Cindy, and I like Hall and Oates.

My name's Sarah, and I'm the vice president of our National Junior Honor Society.

My name is Grant, and I'm an eighth grade, and I play piano.

One of my favorite songs is Stuck on Stuck on You by Hall Oates.

You know that song you do?

Yeah.

Good.

It's a great song.

You don't act like you know it.

Really?

Are you playing along or do you know?

I don't know.

You don't know, But you're playing along, which is a nice thing to do.

You make the host look good if you just smile and nod and play along.

All right.

Let's come over to you.

Discovery of the four categories I gave you.

Which one do you want to play?

Cindy?

Who said who said it?

Who said it?

All right, let's go to that.

You'll have 60 seconds once I begin asking you these questions.

Given a quote, name the speaker, either real or fictional.

Ready to go.

60 seconds to brutal.

Julius Caesar.

That's right.

Give me liberty or give me death.

Benjamin Franklin.

No, it's Patrick.

Henry Franklin, my dear.

I don't give a damn pass.

Okay, Next question.

There's no place like home.

Dorothy?

That's right.

Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.

Jackie Robinson.

What's your answer?

Pass.

Pass.

Ask not what your country can do for you.

Pass.

Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans.

Pardon me.

Pass.

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.

Ronald Reagan.

That's correct.

We have nothing to fear but fear itself.

Albus Dumbledore.

No, that was Franklin Roosevelt.

It is better to keep your mouth shut and let people think you're a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Pass.

All righty.

We'll go back to.

Give me liberty or give me death.

You power of your time is up.

Patrick Henry said that Rhett Butler said, frankly, my dear, in Gone with the Wind that movie.

Okay, we're going to come over to a RAB now.

You're going to play two different categories.

Jonas, You won't tell me which one First will the famous Alabamians And where's my boat?

Famous Alabamians And where's my boat for famous Alabamians?

You're going to identify these people associated with Alabama.

60 seconds.

Here we go.

She refused to give up her seat on a montgomery bus.

Rosa Parks, American educator, who was the first leader of the Tuskegee Institute.

Washington.

That's right.

13th vice president of the United States.

The only one from Alabama.

Past American Idol judge who was the lead singer of the Commodores.

Lionel Richie.

That's right.

Deaf and blind girl who taught Annie Sullivan.

Helen Keller.

That's right.

Coleman native, known for his magic Mike Roll Pass.

Track and field athlete who won four gold medals in the 1936 Olympics.

Jesse Owens.

That's right.

Monroeville native who wrote To Kill a mockingbird.

Baseball player nicknamed Hammerin Hank as governor of Alabama for four terms who opposed desegregation.

Wallace.

That's right.

You passed on 13th vice president of the United States, the only one from Alabama.

Got a name?

Polk.

No, it's Rufus King.

You passed on a baseball player named Hammerin Hank.

Nine times up.

Hank Aaron.

Hammerin Hank Aaron.

All right.

Pretty good job on that.

Next, we're going to go to.

Where's my boat?

Given a city name, the major waterway flowing through it, which tells us where a boat is ready to go.

60 seconds.

Rome, Italy.

Tiber.

So tight.

Yes.

New Orleans, Louisiana.

The Mississippi River.

Cairo, Egypt.

Now London, UK.

Tim's Albany, New York.

That's an.

That's right.

Montgomery, Alabama.

The Alabama River.

Denton.

Laos.

The Red River?

Nope.

It's Mekong.

Lisbon, Portugal.

The Tagus?

That's right.

Paris.

France.

Quebec City.

Canada.

Mackenzie?

Nope.

It's St Lawrence.

Do they pass on any?

I think you just got most of them.

Right.

Well done.

Good job with that.

That answers the question of Where's my boat?

Now, Discovery, I know you're excited to play the last one that you have no choice on.

You just could get to play it.

This is called third.

Third time's a charm.

We're going to ask you to complete these trios.

Ready?

Larry, Curly and pass.

Huey, Dewey and Louie.

That's right.

Peter, Paul and Mary.

Gold, Frankincense.

Silver.

Alvin.

Simon.

And Pass Athos.

Aramis and Porthos.

That's right.

Proton electron and Neutron.

That's right.

Harry, Ron and Hermione.

Hammer, Anvil and Pass.

Clouseau.

Lucky sis.

And pass.

Okay.

You also passed on Alvin, Simon and Theodore.

That's right.

Theodore is correct.

Hammer.

Anvil and nail.

No, it's strip.

And you passed on Clouseau and Lucky Sis.

Knife and trapeze.

Did I say that correctly?

Shared a trapeze?

I think so.

Well, we're going to pretend, right?

What's that one?

Larry, Curly and Wavy.

That's a good guess.

Time is up.

Larry, Curly and Moe, The Three Stooges.

The Three Stooges.

All right.

Those were interesting.

Lightning Round questions we have about just under 8 minutes.

Under 9 minutes left in our program.

We're going to do our speed round now.

And as you all know and as you may know at home, we will ask these remaining questions in the time we have remaining.

Each one worth 20 points.

So if you're trailing a little bit, you can do some catching up.

You're ready to do some catching up.

Ready to build your lead.

Let's see what happens.

a74 finale, followed by a solo bassoon Bear Zeus is part of The Firebird, a piece by white Russian composer Jonas Stravinsky.

Stravinsky is right.

The strongest form of radiation is named for what?

Third letter of the Greek alphabet.

Alpha.

Gamma.

Gamma is correct, Ava.

What?

Western state is home to Bryce Canyon?

Zion National.

Josh Utah.

That's right.

What now defunct country faced a period of liberalization in its capital known as the Prague Spring before being split.

And I don't see a light right here by me.

Jim Czechoslovakia is correct.

Ian Characters watch a fairly titled three weeks in a helicopter.

In what dystopian novel about Bernard Marx and John the Savage, best known as John?

a brave new World.

Brave New World is the right answer.

Superfluids have a value of zero for what quantity?

The measure of a Liquid's resistance to flow velocity.

Viscosity is right in what 2023 film did Jack Black play the villain?

Balthazar?

Cindy Super Mario That's right.

The pedigree.

Hannah involves stepping around a fire during the Hindu example of what?

Wedding.

Wedding, Yes.

Wedding or marriage is the answer I have, but you're good.

Willa Cater.

Willa Carter's novel, Death Comes for the Archbishop.

Takes place.

In what state?

Whose largest city is Albuquerque.

And it's just New Mexico.

That's right.

Math question.

Grab your pencil.

A right triangle has a leg measuring nine feet and a hypotenuse measuring 15 feet.

Find the length of its third leg.

And it's Cindy.

1212 is the right answer.

Good job.

A man wearing the cross of Saint James is depicted in what painting of the Infanta margarita by Diego Velazquez.

And an answer from you that is the right answer.

Last minute us next Miller cells are found in what part of the eye that is sensitive to light by Sean Iris.

That's incorrect.

You have an answer for me?

Hey, Rab, What you got?

Jonas Pupil?

Nope.

The answer is retina.

Retina Operation Little Vittles delivered candy to children.

In what city?

Separated into East Berlin.

Berlin is the right answer.

6 minutes left.

The construction of the S1 High Dam led to a crisis.

Name for what?

Canal?

That the Gamal Abdel Nasser and Suez Canal is the right answer.

Josh Lord Halifax replaced Anthony Eden as foreign Secretary under what British Prime minister, the predecessor of Churchill, who described it as Thatcher.

Say again?

No, that's incorrect.

I'll finish the question for you, Arab.

The predecessor of Churchill, who declared peace for our time, he was the Neville Chamberlain is the right answer.

The valleys, Mara near us Canyon and the Sarsens bulge are nearby features on what Red planet which was visited just Mars is right.

Joe is a member of what central family of Louisa may Alcott's Little Women.

Jonas No answer.

Do you have an answer?

Discovery Louisa may Alcott's Little Women.

The Marches.

That's right.

Marches.

The right.

Family Name.

The report on public Credit was written by what?

First Secretary of the Treasury.

Treasury of the United States.

Cindy Hamilton.

That's right.

Alexander Hamilton.

John caught poison in a bowl to save her husband.

Who was what?

Tricksters God Lucky Loki is right.

Sarah Jane Moore and Squeaky Fromme tried to assassinate what president who succeeded Richard Nixon, sending Eisenhower.

That's incorrect.

You have an answer, Aaron?

I read it all.

Josh Carter?

No, Gerald Ford is the answer we wanted there.

The Hetch Hetchy Valley is located in what, National Park located in the Sierra Nevadas of California.

Yosemite.

Yosemite is correct.

Josh, a hook, echo or radar tornado?

Tornado is correct.

Josh What American author featured the recurring character Nick Adams in two dozen short stories and also wrote the novels for Whom the Bell Tolls.

Hemingway Hemingway is right, The Zoot Suit and Rodney King.

Riots occurred in what city?

In California?

That's right.

What author created the characters?

Edward Cullen and Bella Swan in her vampire Cindy, Stephanie Meyer Judges.

Yes, it's Maya is what we had to have on that next question.

Snell's Law governs the index governs the index of what phenomenon in which light bends when passing through two mediums.

Refraction.

Refraction is correct.

What?

Venetian Explorer sailed on the Matthew with letters of patent from King Henry the seventh when he discovered Newfoundland and laid claim Jonah's Columbus.

That's incorrect.

I'll finish it for you.

Discovery laid claim to that land for England.

Do you know that guy Francis Drake?

Nope.

It was John Cabot.

John Cabot.

It's what we wanted.

The story of being called Queen Mab is told in a speech by Mercutio in one Shakespeare play.

Jonah's Macbeth.

No Romeo and Juliet.

Romeo and Juliet is right, Cindy.

A hood invades Moab.

In what book of the Bible name for the title Leaders such as Gideon, Josh Kings.

No discovery such as Gideon, Deborah and Samson.

What book of the Bible is this?

Samuel?

It is Judges.

Judges.

August Spies was hung for his involvement in one event in Chicago.

The Haymarket Square Riot.

Haymarket Square riot is correct.

What man gave the secret speech about his predecessor as the head of USSR's Communist Party, Josef Stalin, Who gave that speech?

Cindy Gorbachev.

That's incorrect.

You have an answer.

You read Khrushchev.

Khrushchev is the right answer.

Nikita Khrushchev What museum in Bilbao.

Bilbao was designed by the Guggenheim.

Guggenheim is right.

A pulsar occurs when What kind of star named for its composition of neutral particles rapidly spins ever say again?

Neutron is right.

What Greek God, The son of Zeus and Hara made the armor and weapons for the gods helped us have this is correct.

Well done.

Rama is assisted in saving Sita by Hanuman, a Hindu god who takes the form of what primates Monkey.

Monkey is correct.

The Platonic Academy was founded by Cosimo, a member of what?

Banking family that ruled Florence in the 1400s.

And Shawn Johnson.

That's incorrect.

You guys have a very rich Medici.

Many choose the right answer.

Josh Well done.

Then he falls and breaks his leg at the Devon Prep School.

In what novel?

By John Knowles.

John Catcher in the Rye.

Nope, A separate piece.

What slave road stories centering on morals, often by personifying talking animals in his namesake fables.

Cindy That's right.

What Tennessee Williams play features a cripple girl whose world centers across a menagerie.

That's correct.

The title character is exiled to Soma in what novel by Lady Murasaki often considered the first novel.

What is it?

The tale of Genji.

That's the right answer.

I've got good news for you.

We're out of questions.

But the good news is we're also out of time.

So that means you guys answered the questions very rapidly.

The super job, both good job by both teams and coming out on top of this one, Sharon Oribe came out on top in this particular one, but it was pretty close.

You guys did a good job.

All eight of you played well.

We're proud of you, as I know all of your sponsors and coaches are as well.

We thank you so much for watching our program.

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My name is Mike Royer.

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Thanks for watching.

Thanks for coming on the program.

We appreciate hearing from our viewers.

Thanks again for watching and have a great day.