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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, and welcome to this edition of the Alabama Scholar's Bowl.

My name is Mike Royer.

We are in our seventh season here on Alabama Public Television.

We're glad you're joining us for today's program.

In the round you'll see in the coming weeks, we welcome students in our junior varsity competition from some of the best schools all around the state.

Some of the best students from all around the state are in the studio with us here today.

I would want you to know that the executive producer of our program is Mike Ousley.

Our judges and timekeepers and support staff are made up of Sharon Daily.

Josh, Ruski.

Ruski is back with us.

We're glad he is Rhonda Brewer and Sally Grimes and a lot of people behind the scenes.

The staff here at Alabama Public Television, we thank them for their hard work to make this program come into your homes.

We welcome you to the studio today.

The students from Shelby County High School on my immediate right, and the students from Hoover High School, a team that's been with us a few times before Shelby County with us before as well.

We welcome you all will meet all of them individually at the midpoint of our program.

Since it's the first round of first competition of junior varsity, I'll tell you that we begin with, 20 questions with a bonus question.

If you answer correctly, your team gets the bonus.

Then we have a lightning round that's always interesting and fun at the midpoint, and then a speed round where we answer as many questions as we can.

And those are worth 20 points.

So if you find yourself trailing a bit you can catch up a lot, then is everybody ready?

Buzzers in hand.

Then let's get started.

What politician who survived a motion to vacate from Marjorie Taylor Greene in 2024 succeeded Chris DeSantis.

No.

That's incorrect.

I'm going to finish it for you.

Shelby County in 2024 and succeeded Kevin McCarthy in 2023 as the speaker of the House.

Who was that?

Do you have an answer?

Shelby County.

Anyone?

All right.

The new speaker is Mike Johnson.

Mike Johnson is the current speaker of the House.

No bonus there.

We'll move on to the next question.

What empire that lost the battle of Tan DB, which ruled by Chris Shanghai.

That is correct.

Shanghai is the right answer.

Bonus question for Hoover.

The game Rock, paper, scissors lacks what?

Mathematical property?

Because paper beats rock and scissors beats paper.

But scissors does not beat rock.

What is that?

Transitive.

Transitivity or transitive property is correct.

Both teams.

Now what theologian claimed that reason links eternal law to natural law in his 13 century Treatise on Law, a portion of his summa theological Christian Aquinas, like Thomas Aquinas, is right.

Bonus for you what economic practice is defined as either intensive or extensive, based on the ratio of labor and material resources used to space occupied?

What's that?

What is that?

That's.

Capital?

Nope.

Agriculture or farming is what we wanted there.

Toss up for everybody now.

What country was the site of coordinate arson attacks on its train system in July of 2024, on the opening day of the opening ceremony at the center.

What does France's the right country bonus for you?

At the end of World War two, what peninsula was divided into roughly along the 38th parallel?

Korean.

That's right.

At the end of the Korean War.

Well done.

Toss up for both teams.

What task?

Whose difficulty makes RSA encryption hard to crack?

Can be done by sieve algorithms or trial division, and applies to composite numbers.

Kris factorization.

Yes, prime factorization is the right answer.

Bonus for you, baby love and stop in the Name of Love were hits for what?

Motown vocal group led throughou The Rolling Stones.

Your parents know the answer to this one.

That's the Supremes had those hits and many others.

Toss up both questions.

What man whose adopted son, John D Lee, carried out the Mountain Meadows massacre?

Christian Brigham Young, Brigham Young is right.

Bonus for you.

What 1961 children's novel by Wilson Rawls is set in the Ozarks, where Billy Coleman trains dogs named Ole Dan and Little, and to hunt raccoon, where the Red Fern grows.

That's the right answer.

Toss up number seven of 20.

What company, whose logo was painted on the Han Dynasty urns by AI Weiwei, secured Chris.

Oh, British East India Company.

That's incorrect.

I'm going to finish it for you.

Shelby County, earned by AI Weiwei, was featured in Andy Warhol works depicting its glass soda bottles.

What logo was it?

What do you say, Mark?

Coca-Cola is correct.

That's the right answer.

Now, bonus question for Shelby County.

What doctrine devised by John Quincy Adams when he was secretary of State, asserts that the United States will always oppose European colonialism in the Americas.

What was that doctrine called?

The Monroe Doctrine?

The Monroe Doctrine is right.

Well done.

Toss up for everyone.

What city, led by former teachers union leader Brandon Johnson, hosted the 2024 Democratic National Convention and is the most populous in Illinois.

Chris Chicago Chicago is right Bonus, a 1920 work by Ralph Vaughan Williams which opens with the long, fluttering violin cadenza lacking bar lines, depicts what title songbird, ascending lark, lark, lark is the right answer.

Toss up everybody.

What show in which a ship crosses the Sundering Seas to Val.

Valinor stars Morfydd Clark as the elf Galadriel and adapts writings by J.R. Tolkien.

And I'm Looking Mark, Lord of the Rings The Rings of Power rings of power is the right answer.

Well done.

Bonus question for Shelby County.

You'll need your handy pencil and paper for this.

What is the volume of a right circular cylinder whose height is four, and whose circular base has a diameter of six?

The width.

About five more seconds.

We'll need an answer.

Three.

Anything at all?

No answer.

36.

Pi is what we were looking for on that.

That's all right.

We'll move on.

What tire for era a knight whose body was placed on his horse.

Bobby Yakka at the Knight at the 1099 siege of Valencia, is the title he Christian?

Say again.

Yes.

That's correct.

Bonus for you.

What word can mean the wreath?

This is a bonus.

What word can mean the reimposition of foreign sanctions to penalize noncompliance, or an inexpensive style of cap that is not fitted to the head?

Oh, it's a it's a bit like oh, it's like this would hole need an answer for us.

No, it is snapback.

It's called a snapback.

Next question for everybody.

What country is the setting of Patrick White's boss Christian Australia is correct bonus for you.

What country where a ten year civil war known as low violence violencia was fought was home to the leftist guerrilla group fark.

FARC.

What country?

Colombia.

Colombia's correct.

Now to question number 12 for both teams.

What song whose lyrics promise to stand on guard for our home and native land is the national anthem of a country whose capital and I'm looking.

Mark.

Oh, Canada.

Oh, Canada is the right answer.

Good job.

Bonus for you, Shelby County.

Ethylene glycol is often used in what type of product intended to prevent a certain physical change from occurring.

Antifreeze.

That's the right answer.

Well done.

Toss up everybody.

What war during which the devastating sack of Magdeburg was orchestrated by Count Tilly, had a final crush.

30 years work.

30 years War, right?

Your bonus?

What singer played a mermaid in the 2023 movie Barbie, which included her song Dance the Night?

Lipa?

Yeah, Dua Lipa do Lipa is right.

Next, everyone.

What material often made by heating a limestone and clay mixture is a rotary kiln?

Is mixed with sand, gravel and crushed stone to make concrete.

What is that material?

What do you have, Chris?

Cement.

Cement is right in your bonus.

What author of the 1973 novel Gravity's Rainbow wrote about a mysterious inheritance in The Crying of Lot 49, I must mention In Tune is right, everybody what 1993 film set on the fictional SLA Nublar is about the industrialist Chris Jurassic Park Jurassic Park is right.

Your bonus in RNA splicing.

What non-coding regions between the exons of a gene are removed from newly formed RNA molecules called on stem, like a no.

What's your answer?

Codons?

Introns?

Introns is what we wanted next for everyone.

What large island is home to the states of Sabah and Sara?

Chris Borneo is right.

Bonus.

In what city in Germany did Neville Chamberlain sign an agreement to appease the Nazis, after which he declared that he had made peace for our time.

What city?

Munich.

Munich is the right answer.

A few more questions in this first part of our competition.

What particles whose absence is called a hole were discovered by J.J. Thomson?

Electron.

Electron is right.

Bonus.

What state is home to the fictional York?

No part.

Mississippi is right.

Next question.

What man whose namesake company made a product known as the Tin Lizzie built an assembly line in Detroit, Michigan.

Chris Ford.

Henry Ford is right.

Bonus for you.

Hoover aspirin is an example of what class of medication known by an acronym whose UN abbreviated form notes that it is not a steroid and an and an aside.

That's correct.

But judges liked your answer, and so do I.

Two more questions.

What composer whose trips to Naples and Rome inspired his Italian Symphony included a wedding march in incidental music to a midsummer Night's Dream.

And what do you have, Chris?

Tchaikovsky.

That's incorrect.

Derby County, Madeleine, you know, it's Mendelssohn.

Mendelssohn is what we wanted, but always take a shot at it.

All right, last question before we, have our lightning round.

What particles?

Which were called aces by George Zweig.

Are there usually three of the baryon and come in six flavors, including some Krish, quark.

Quark is right.

Bonus question for you, Hoover.

Before leaving the big 12, what university's women's softball team won its fourth consecutive Women's College World Series in 2024?

Texas.

The answer is Oklahoma.

Oklahoma won that.

Let your buzzers down.

Take a breath and relax.

We're going to meet our players in just a moment.

And then play our lightning round.

The team that is trailing at the midpoint of our program will go first.

Shelby County, you're trailing slightly here at the midpoint of the program, you'll choose first from these categories.

Hoover.

You'll choose two of the categories that are left.

And then we'll come back to Shelby County for the final one.

The categories for the lightning Round for you at home and for our players.

Not a metal, jazz instruments, Euro B and cities.

That's a B instead of a P. And also a baseball team.

So think about that players.

And at this point in the program let's meet each individual player.

We'll ask them to introduce themselves.

Tell us just a brief thing about them.

And we'll begin with Hoover.

Usher.

Hi.

My name is Usher Bird.

I am a freshman at Hoover High School, and I aspire to be a mechanical engineer at Caltech.

Hi, my name is on chaparral.

I'm a freshman at Hoover High School and I aspire to be a doctor at UAB.

Hi, my name is Chris Nathan.

I'm a sophomore at Hoover High School, and I aspire to be an orthopedic surgeon at Yale.

Hi.

My name is Jake Matson.

I'm a freshman from Hoover High School, and I aspire to be a lawyer from Yale.

I'm Mark Roman Wilkins, I'm a sophomore from Shelby County High School, and I've been playing Scholar's Bowl since I was in sixth grade.

I'm John Cortez, I'm from Shelby County High School.

I'm in I'm a freshman, and I aspire to be, quantum mechanics from MIT.

Hi.

My name's Madeline, and I'm a sophomore at Shelby County, and I'm in the marching band.

My name is Jonah Keeton.

I'm from Shelby County High School, and I aspire to be a political scientist from Michigan University.

Very good.

It's good to meet all of you.

I never heard back when I was your age, I never heard from Yale, Caltech, MIT, or the University of Michigan.

Never heard from them.

I probably got lost in the mail.

Don't you imagine?

That's why I didn't hear from.

All right, let's play the lightning round.

And as I said, Shelby County, you will go first.

Madeleine, why don't you tell me of the four I gave you, which one would you like to try with?

Which category did you guys do you want them to tell me?

Okay, John, you're a B in cities.

All right.

This might be interesting.

All of them usually are what you're going to do in 60s.

That time begins when I begin asking you the questions.

In what European country are these cities whose English names start with B?

All right.

I'm going to give you a city.

You tell me.

The country it's in.

Here we go.

European cities.

Birmingham, England or United Kingdom.

That's correct.

Bologna, Italy.

That's right.

Berlin, Germany.

Budapest, Hungary.

Bordeaux, France.

Bucharest, Romania.

Basel, Switzerland.

Brugge, Belgium.

Brought brought us lava, Slovakia and Brno.

You got plenty of time.

You have.

In fact, 30s left.

B it's spelled b r you know, it's pronounced now Czech in Czech Republic.

That's correct.

Look at you, Joanna.

I want you on my team whenever we're doing European, European cities.

Well done.

We'll come over to Hoover now.

And, Chris, which two would you guys like to do?

We'll do nonmetal and jazz instruments.

Non.

Not a metal and jazz instruments.

So do them in that order.

Yeah.

In the 60s you're going to have when I begin asking the questions, you're going to name these elements that are not classified as metals.

Here we go.

Most abundant element in the universe founded in odorless yellow solid.

Though many of it's say again the most electronegative element.

That's right.

An isotope 14 is used to date.

Its object is carbon element, used in safety matches and named after.

It's like giving phosphorus.

That's right.

Group 14 element the main component of integrated circuits.

Silicon.

So that's right.

Heaviest element found in the thyroid hormone iron.

That's right.

The lightest metalloids whose compounds are used in pesticides.

Boron.

Boron is right.

The most common noble gas in the Earth's atmosphere.

Argon.

That's right.

As of 2023, the heaviest element discovered.

Oh, tungsten.

No, that's a metal.

It's like organism.

Organism?

That's correct.

Well done.

Got them.

All right, we'll move right on to jazz instruments in 60s.

You're going to do this given the jazz performers name, their primary instrument.

Here we go.

Miles Davis and Louis Armstrong, trumpet.

Tommy Dorsey and Glenn Miller.

Skip Thelonious Monk and Duke Ellington, piano.

Charles Mingus and Ray Brown, jazz musicians played without a bow.

Violin?

No, it's a bass.

Max Roach and Buddy Rich, skip Coleman Hawkins and John Coltrane, clarinet.

No, no.

It's saxophone.

Yes, that's right, Wes Montgomery and Django Reinhardt.

Reinhardt.

Skip.

Artie Shaw and Benny Goodman.

Benny Goodman with saxophone.

Saxophone?

No, it's clarinet King Oliver.

And by Ter Beck.

It's name comes from the French for horn piccolo.

No, piccolo cornet is the answer.

Milt Jackson and Lionel Hampton.

It is a percussion instrument played with mallets.

Yes.

Xylophone.

No, we can't accept that.

A vibraphone.

You're on the right track.

And, Max Roach and Buddy Rich played the drums.

Now we're coming back to you.

Shelby County.

This is the one I would have chosen first, because I like sports, but you're stuck with me for lack of a better term.

Also, a baseball team.

What you're going to do is name these people, places or things that share their name with a major League Baseball team.

You're going to kill this.

Ready?

Northerners per a southern nickname.

Yankees.

That's right.

Biblical.

Seraphim and cherubim.

Angels.

That's right.

Violent profession of John Lafayette and Captain Kidd.

Skip family dog on the Jetsons.

Skip.

Catholic priest in Latin America.

Fryer.

No.

It's Padres, big cat with Bengal and Siberian varieties.

Tiger.

That's right.

People who make a beverage with malted barley and hops.

Skip half lines extending to infinity in a single direction.

Race.

That's right.

Identical siblings.

Twins.

That's right.

Geographic feature formed in the.

Laura made a progeny skip.

Okay, we're go back to violent profession of Jean Jean Lafitte and Captain Kidd.

They were pirates.

Yes.

You got that in in time.

Pirates is right.

And the family dog in The Jetsons was Astros.

Don't you ever forget that.

Because it's going to come up again sometime.

Well, both teams did a good job on our lightning round.

It's my favorite part of the program, actually.

I like the speed of it and the quick answers.

Are you ready to continue with our speed round questions?

These are with 20 points.

No bonus questions.

We just get as many as we can in in the time remaining.

About six minutes left.

All right, let's get started then.

Here we go.

On what island?

Where the U.S. claimed a right to intervene through the Platt Amendment in 1901.

Chris.

That's right.

What class in materials which have a large bandgap, possess high resistivity and include glass and rubber.

Is that inductor?

No.

That's incorrect.

You have an answer.

Shelby County on that.

I read it all.

Yes.

Insulators.

Right.

Well done.

Next.

What artist of the women of Algiers painted Marianne wearing a Phrygian cap and raising the French flag, 1830.

Delacorte.

Delacorte is right.

Next up, Nancy, a trickster god of the Asante Christ.

Spider.

Spider is right.

What branch of chemistry whose 12 principles include avoiding explosions and limiting waste, focus on sustainability and is named for a color.

What is it?

Mark?

Green.

Green is the right answer.

Good job.

For 20 points.

What Dutch artist painted Captain Frans van Coke.

Chris Rembrandt.

That is right.

What author of the play The Skin of Our Teeth?

Chris Wilder is right.

What sportswear and apparel company announced a net loss for 2023, its first in 30 years following its split from rapper yay!

And here and it is John Adidas is the right answer.

Good job.

Next, what country contains the eastern portion of Lake Kivu?

Is governance.

Christian Rwanda is the right answer.

What philosopher?

The mother of a 19th century novelist, Christian Johnson Grafton Wollstonecraft is right.

What vitamin whose deficiency causes increased bruising is needed for blood clotting in kidney obtained by eating collards or other leafy greens?

What Biden?

Chris okay is right.

Election as a stir free tour or console gave a man a lifetime seat in what deliberative body Senate say again Senate good enough judges yes, Roman Senate is right next.

What battle during which the victory of or death?

Chris.

Trafalgar?

Nope.

I'm going to finish it for you.

Shelby County victory or death letter was released by William Travis.

Ended in 1836 as Mexican forces overran mission.

And, No, that's incorrect.

A mission in Texas.

And what's the answer, Mark?

It's too late.

The Alamo is right.

Next question.

Most publicly listed U.S. companies are incorporated.

In what state?

Which has three counties, counties and is known as the blue hidden state.

Jonah, Delaware is right.

Well done.

What title character who is taught by Miss Temple at the Lowood School Kris Jenner Jane Eyre is right.

PA my Gia Nino was a hallmark painter of what 16th century artistic movement which employed elongated poses and unnatural proportions.

What is that called?

John.

Renaissance?

No.

That's incorrect.

Have we got an answer?

We were looking for mannerism.

Pencil and paper for this one.

What mixed number is equivalent to the improper fraction?

37 divided by eight.

Given that eight times.

Chris.

Four and three over eight, you said four, add three over eight.

That's incorrect.

I'm going to finish reading it for you.

The improper fraction 37 divided by eight.

Given that eight times four equals 32.

Now what's the answer?

Four and 5/8.

Four and 5/8 is the right answer.

Mark.

Good job.

What Portuguese speaking African country has recently seen an escalating insurgency challenge the national government in Cabo Delgado Province.

What country is that?

Portuguese speaking African country.

I see you again.

Angola.

That's incorrect.

Answer, Jonas.

Mozambique is the right answer.

Good job.

What city's NFL team, which was sold in 2023 for 6 million.

Chris Washington DC is right.

In the 1960s and 70s, a group called the Young Lords mostly worked to support immigrants from White Island who concentrated in New York and Chicago, was, say, Ellis.

No, that's incorrect.

I read it all, Hoover, Mike Ireland.

No, it's Puerto Rico.

Puerto Rico is the answer that we wanted it.

We got one minute left.

So let's do one more question.

What name is shared by the last Confederate ship to surrender?

A river that joins the Potomac near Harpers Ferry in Virginia.

Chris.

Shenandoah.

Shenandoah is the right one.

We're out of time.

That was a good round.

You all played well, and, Hoover came out on top in this particular round.

But Shelby County, you did a good job.

And, we're very happy to have you with us.

And I hope you'll keep coming back as you continue your education.

Hoover.

Congratulations.

We'll see you again.

And we hope we see you again on the next edition of the Alabama Scholar's Bowl.

My name is Mike Royer.

Thanks again for having us in your home.

And have a great day, everybody.