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(no audio) (upbeat music) "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 once again to another edition of the "Alabama Scholars Bowl."

I'm Mike Royer, I enjoy doing the hosting part of this job every week here on Alabama Public Television.

We hear from many people who watch every week.

We appreciate that.

If you're watching for the first time, we welcome you as well.

Our executive producer for our program is Mike Ousley, our support staff is large and wonderful and they do a great job judging, scoring and just supporting the program, they include Sharon Daily, Josh Rutsky, Rhonda Brewer and Sally Grimes, and a host of other folks who help us here at Alabama Public Television.

We welcome into the studio today a first time team as we continue our junior varsity rounds here in the Scholars Bowl.

From Florence Middle School, good to have you with us students And from Southside High School just on the south side of Gadsden, Alabama good to have you gentlemen with us as well.

We'll meet them individually at the midpoint of our program, but right now we'll just get started with questions.

Buzzers in hand and these first questions, if you answer them correctly, you get a bonus question for your team and your team only.

Do you know why you have a pencil and paper in front of you?

It's to answer this first question.

Let's get started.

How many distinct outfits can be made from six shirts, four pants and seven pairs of shoes if each outfit has exactly one each?

(dramatic music) (electronic beeping) And buzzing in right here is Daniel.

-168.

-168 is exactly right.

Well done, Daniel, bonus for you, Southside.

In 2024 Florida banned what goods cultured form after state laws restricted substitutes for this type of food made by firms like Impossible Foods?

-Oh it's like meat.

-Yeah, meat.

[Mike] Answer is meat and the answer is meat, well done.

Toss up, both teams.

What mountain produced The loudest known sound in Earth's history and I'm looking it's Russ.

-The Krakatoa.

-Krakatoa, when it exploded, good answer.

And here's your bonus, Southside.

In 1962, Pope John XXIII convened the second ecumenical council named for what place whose reforms included promoting vernacular mass?

-The Vatican.

-Vatican is right.

Vatican City.

Toss up everyone.

What tsar, during whose reign protestors were massacred on Bloody Sunday was influenced by the mystic Rasputin, Russ?

-Nicholas II.

-Nicholas II of Russia is right, here's your bonus.

What American mathematician names an equilibrium from game theory in which no player can improve their outcome by changing their strategy?

-What's that called?

-Refer to Russ.

-Nash.

-Nash is right.

John Forbes Nash.

Toss up everyone.

What country contains the ruins of Chimu city of Chan Chan giant desert geoglyphs called the Nazca lines and Machu Picchu and other Inca cities?

And the answer is?

-Peru.

-Peru is right.

Bonus for you.

What common name is given to A titanum a plant native to Sumatra that produces a foul smelling flower that is the world's largest, what's it called?

(gentle music) (contestants chatting indistinctly) -The Venus Fly trap.

-It's called the corpse flower, doesn't that sound compelling?

Next question for everyone.

What country which banned exports of rare earth elements in September of 2023, is home to the oil firm Petronsd, which names two towers in Kuala Lumpur.

What country is that, Russ?

-Malaysia.

-Malaysia is right bonus for you.

What leader founded the Viet Minh independence movement and served as the first president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam?

-Oh, is it Ho Chi Minh?

-Ho Chi Minh.

[Mike] Ho Chi Min is correct.

Toss up everyone.

What Chinese dynasty whose final years included the Battle of Red Cliffs, dissolved into the Three Kingdoms Period, Russ?

-Han.

-Han is right, bonus.

Sylacauga and Carrara are varieties of what natural material that was used to sculpt the Venus de Milo?

-Oh, is it marble or bronze?

-Yeah, marble.

-Marble.

-Marble is right.

Next question for both teams.

What author of "In the Shadow of Men," started a namesake institute to advocate protection of primates and discover tools use in chimpanzees, Russ?

-Goodall.

-Jane Goodall is right, bonus, wWhat diagrams, which are named for two scientists classify stars according to their luminosity and effective temperature?

-Refer to Russ, -Hertzsprung-Russell diagram.

[Mike] That is correct.

The HR diagrams.

Here's your tossup everyone.

What story, whose narrator suffers from over acuteness of the senses depicts the body of a man with a pale blue eye that is hidden under the floor, what is that?

-"The Tell-Tale Heart."

-"Tell-Tale Heart" is right, Harrison, bonus question for your team.

What English king who faced a long revolt by Welshman Owen Glendower was the first king from the House of Lancaster?

-Oh, seventh -Henry VII.

[Mike] It is actually Henry IV had the right name, wrong number, toss up everybody.

What composer of "Missa Solemnis," whose Piano Concerto No.

5 is nicknamed "Emperor," wrote a Ninth, Russ?

-Beethoven.

-Beethoven is correct, bonus.

In 2008, Blizzard Entertainment completed a merger with what massive video game company that publishes the Call of Duty franchise, what company is that?

-Say Activision.

-It's Activision.

-Activision.

-I would say Activision if I were you, that's correct.

Next question, what mythical woman, who was turned into a lion with her husband, Hippomenes was the first to wound the Calydonian and it's, Russ?

-Atalanta.

-Atalanta is right.

Your bonus, in 2024, Muhammad Yunus a Nobel laureate and promoter of microloans, was named interim leader of what country after its prime minister resigned?

Need a country.

(gentle music) -The UK.

-No, the answer is Bangladesh.

Next question.

What planet, whose metallic core takes up 85% of its radius and has the most extreme changes in surface temperature and is, Mary Elizabeth?

-Mercury.

-Mercury is the right answer.

Well done.

What anion, usually written as H minus is found in many rechargeable nickel metal batteries.

That's your bonus question, what anion?

Pardon me.

-No answer.

-Hydride is what we wanted for that one, toss up everybody.

What river is crossed by the Tappan Zee Bridge and the Holland Tunnel, empties into the Atlantic in New York Harbor and is named and- -Hudson River.

-Who buzzed in?

Russ, I couldn't see your light.

-Hudson River.

-Hudson River is right.

Bonus, in the first line of his poem, "Howl," Allen Ginsberg claims, "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by" what phenomenon?

-Darkness.

-Nope, madness.

Madness is what we wanted.

Toss up everybody.

Frederick the Great led what kingdom whose forces later, Russ?

-Prussia.

-Prussia is right.

Your bonus, the biennial film festival known as FESPACO is held in what African country, whose capital is Ouagadougou?

-Oh, Burkina Faso.

-Burkina Faso.

[Mike] That's correct.

Next question for everyone.

What "Beetlejuice" actor who played Donald Trump on "Saturday Night Live," and it's Harrison.

-Smith.

-That's incorrect.

I'll finish it for you, "Saturday Night Live" had a 2024 involuntary manslaughter charge dismissed for prosecutor misconduct, who is that actor?

(electronic buzzing) Yes, Lynlee?

Andy.

(dramatic music) [Mike] The answer we wanted is Alec Baldwin.

Alec Baldwin was the actor.

Next question everyone, in what country's 2023 election did Christopher Luxon's National Party defeat Labor Prime Minister Chris Hipkins, who had replaced Jacinda Ardern, what country?

-India.

-No, that's incorrect.

Do you guys have an answer?

(dramatic music continues) The one we wanted is New Zealand.

Moving on, what German scientists, whose law of magnetism implies the non-existence of monopolies names two of Maxwell's equations and the normal distribution, and Russ?

-Gauss.

-Gauss is correct.

Carl Friedrich Gauss, your bonus, grab your pencil.

How many calories are in one third of a pie if one seventh of the pie contains 150 calories?

(dramatic music) Give you about five more seconds.

See if you can come up with it.

What you got Daniel?

-Oh, 35.

-That's incorrect.

The right answer is, what is it now, Daniel?

-350.

-Yeah, it's 350.

A little late on that you just, it's okay, let's move on.

What amendment, which includes the phrase, "Except as a punishment for crime," was circumvented by Black Codes and ratified in 18, Russ?

-The 13th amendment.

-13th amendment abolished slavery, your bonus, Lily Bloom marries, but eventually leaves abusive neurosurgeon Ryle Kincaid in what 2016 Novel by Colleen Hoover?

(contestants speaking indistinctly) No, the name of it is, "It Ends with Us."

-"It Ends with Us."

-"It Ends with Us."

Few more questions here.

What country controls the Svalbard Archipelago, and it's Russ.

-Norway.

-Norway is right, your bonus, The film "Birth of a Nation," inspired the 1915 revival of what organization at Stone Mountain, Georgia?

-The KKK.

-That is correct, the Klan.

Two more questions.

What university's basketball team is coached by Dan Hurley, won the NCAA Division I championship in '23 and 2024 and is nicknamed the Huskies, Harrison?

-Uconn -Yes, Uconn the University of Connecticut, your bonus, for a set of N numbers, what kind of mean is formed by taking the Nth root of the product of the numbers?

Just say arithmetic need.

I don't know.

-Arithmetic mean -Geometric mean is what we wanted there.

Pencil and paper for question 20 for both teams.

What is the least common multiple of nine and 15 given it is equal, Lucy?

-Three.

-That's incorrect.

Finishing it for you, gentlemen, given it is equal to their product, divided by their greatest common factor.

(gentle music) You got your answer, Daniel?

-45.

-45 is correct.

Here's a bonus for you, the last one.

What two-word Latin phrase, which means always faithful is the motto of the United States Marine Corps?

-Semper fidelis.

-Semper fidelis.

(contestants chatting indistinctly) -Deferred to Daniel.

-Yeah, that's right.

We're good.

We're good.

All right, lay your buttons down, relax.

I'm gonna tell you what the lightning round subjects are.

There are four categories and Florence, you're trailing slightly here at the midpoint.

You will choose first.

Then we'll come to you Southside and you will choose two categories to play.

Whatever's left you guys kind of get stuck with, but that's the way the game goes.

But here are the categories.

Black holes, Philip II of Spain, words starting with SW and ice cream, all right?

A variety and a diverse selection of categories there.

We'll find out from you which one you want to play after we meet our players.

We'll ask each of you to tell us your name, a little bit about yourself and, Lynlee, would you begin please.

Hi, I'm Lynlee Burton, I'm an eighth grader at Florence Middle School -and I'm in advanced guitar.

-Ooh.

I'm Mary Elizabeth Thigpen.

I'm an eighth grader at Florence Middle School and I run cross country and play the flute.

My name is Lucy Craig, I attend Florence Middle School and I play junior varsity soccer at Florence High School.

My name is Jarrett Ray, I'm an eighth grader at Florence Middle School and I play the trumpet.

[Mike] Very good.

Lynlee, you play electric guitar mostly?

-Both.

-Both?

Very good.

All right, let's meet the players from Southside.

Hi, I'm Russ McGaugh, I'm a student at Southside High School and I wanna give a shout out to my brother he's the greatest study buddy and occasional opponent and occasional teammate and he's just amazing and I wanted him to know that I said hi.

-And what's his name?

-Will.

[Mike] Will, and he's older or younger?

Younger by just a little bit.

[Mike] Just a little bit, very good, Russ.

My name is Harrison Lockmiller, I'm a 10th grader at Southside High School and I play the tuba.

My name's Landon Gerard, I'm a ninth grader, Southside High School and I play football.

My name's Daniel Sims, I'm a ninth grader at Southside High School and I'm, actually, I won the math bee for the county three times in a row, so in middle school.

-So- -Good for you, congratulations.

And for those of us that do not excel or hardly attempt math, we admire your efforts in that.

So well done.

So let's get started with our lightning round and team from Florence.

Which of the four would you like to try?

Can we get words that begin with SW?

[Mike] Words that begin with SW, yes, you may.

And you're going to give these words that begin with the consecutive letters, SW you've got 60 seconds, here we go.

To propel oneself through water using body movements, -Swim.

-Swim.

[Mike] Wetland, often partially or intermittently covered with water.

-Swamp.

-Swamp.

[Mike] To wrap a baby tightly and close.

Swaddle.

[Mike] Weapon with a long blade for cutting- -Sword.

-Or thrusting.

Moving or capable of moving with great speed.

-Swift.

-Swift.

[Mike] That's right.

To swing slowly and rythmatically back and forth.

-Swing.

-No, sway is what we wanted.

Characterized by showy display or fashionably elegant.

-Pass -To faint or become enraptured.

Pass.

[Mike] Sample piece of fabric.

-Swatch.

-That's right.

Row of cut grain or grass left by a scythe or mowing machine.

-Pass.

-Okay, you passed on characterized by showy display or fashionably elegant.

And to faint or become enraptured.

All right, our time is up.

Showy display is swanky and to become enraptured is to swoon.

It's kind of an old word you don't hear very much and a swath is what leaves behind a mowing machine.

All right, you did a pretty good job on those.

Let's come over to the gentleman from Southside and of those three that remain, Harrison, which two would you like to do?

Black holes and Philip II, Black holes and Philip II.

We'll do 'em in that order if that's okay.

-Yes, sir.

-In 60 seconds, answer the following about black holes.

Particles of light that can't escape a black hole.

-Photons.

-Black hole boundary inside which light can't escape?

-Event horizon.

-Zodiac constellation that contains the Milky Way's central black hole?

-Pass.

-Iran.

[Mike] It's Sagittarius.

Spacetime waves from colliding black holes detected by LIGO.

(dramatic music) -Pass.

-Hawking.

[Mike] Did you gimme an answer?

-Pass.

-All right.

Wheelchair using physicist whose namesake- -Stephen Hawking.

-That's right.

Albert Einstein's theory that describes how black holes curve spacetime.

-Special relativity.

-No, it's general relativity.

Infinitely dense point at a black hole center.

(dramatic music) Say if that's horizon, I don't know.

The nucleus.

That is singularity.

Stellar explosion that can form a black hole.

-Supernova.

-Supernova.

[Mike] That's right, food name phenomenon that stretches out objects -falling into black hole.

-Spaghettification.

[Mike] That's right.

Theorem that a black hole's only properties are mass, spin and charge.

(dramatic music) Time is up, no-hair theorem is the right answer to that one.

All right, I admire you selecting Philip II of Spain.

Let's see how we do on this.

You're gonna name these people, places and things from the reign of Philip II of Spain.

60 seconds.

Here we go.

Dutch-speaking country that revolted in 1568.

-Netherlands.

-That's right.

Bloody queen of England he married.

-Queen Mary.

-Queen Mary.

-Yes, Turkish -The first.

That's right.

Turkish rule empire Philips navy fought at Lepanto.

-Ottoman.

-That's right.

Precious metal that Spain mined at Potosi.

-Silver.

-Silver.

[Mike] Strait near Cape Horn that he ordered blockaded.

(dramatic music) Pass.

[Mike] Fleet he sent to conquer England in 1588.

-Spanish Armada.

-That's right.

His royal house based in Austria.

-Habsburg.

-That's right.

Strait near Cape.

Oh wait, there's more.

There's more.

Sorry, sorry, sorry.

Painter of "Venus of Urbino," who made two royal portraits of Philip.

-Titian.

-That's right.

His father, who was both king of Spain and Royal Roman Emperor.

-Charles V. -That's right.

New palace he commissioned on a gridiron plan.

-We passed.

-And you passed on.

Strait your Cape Horn that he ordered blockaded.

-Strait of Magellan.

-Strait of Magellan.

[Mike] Judges give it to him in time.

After the clock it was Strait of Magellan.

-Dang.

-That was pretty good.

That was a tough one.

And we now come back to you Florence and you get the one I would've chosen first, ice cream.

Let's see how you do with this in 60 seconds when we begin, you're going to answer the following related to ice cream.

Here we go, topped ice cream dish that is a homophone for a day of the week.

-Sundae.

-Retailer of the ice-cream based Blizzard.

-Dairy queen.

-Dairy queen.

That's right.

Per most polls the most popular ice cream flavor in the United States.

-Vanilla.

-That's right.

Italian word for ice cream.

-Gelato.

-Gelato.

[Mike] That's right, Vermont based maker of Cherry Garcia ice cream -Pass.

-Ben and Jerry's.

[Mike] Variety of ice cream containing three separate flavors.

-Neapolitan.

-Neapolitan.

[Mike] That's right, author of the poem, "The Emperor of Ice Cream."

-Pass -Pass.

[Mike] Japanese rice cake often filled with ice cream.

-Pass -Dessert made with ice cream cake and meringue.

Pass.

[Mike] Artist of the songs "Ice cream" and "I Will Remember You."

Pass.

[Mike] All righty, go back to Vermont based maker of Cherry Garcia ice cream.

-Ben and Jerry's.

-That's right.

Author of the poem, "The Emperor of Ice Cream."

Pass.

[Mike] Dessert made with ice cream cake and meringue.

Mochi.

[Mike] Mochi Was your answer to Japanese?

-Yes, sir.

-All right, time is up.

That is right.

And if you ever care, ice cream cake and meringue is baked Alaska.

Very good.

Well those were interesting lightning rounds.

You all did well, we have about five and a half minutes left in our program.

20 point questions now.

No bonuses.

You just answer it and we keep going.

Ready?

What battle ended with Irvin McDowell's retreat to Washington, earned Stonewall Jackson his nickname and it's Russ?

-Bull Run -Bull Run The first, oh, I'm sorry.

-First Battle of Bull Run.

-Yes, that's correct.

In the gospel of Luke, Jesus ascends to heaven from what mount named after a food, Harrison?

-Olive.

-Olive is correct.

What group, whose upbeat song, "Wouldn't it Be Nice," opens their album Pet Sounds, yes, it is Lynlee.

-Beach Boys.

-Beach Boys are right.

Well done, what director of "Inception" and "The Dark Knight" trilogy won a best director Oscar- -Christopher Nolan.

-Say it again.

-Christopher Nolan.

-That's right, well done.

Next, what events described by the coefficient E are called elastic if they can conserve momentum, Russ?

-Collisions.

-Collisions correct.

The term milonga refers to both dance events and a music genre in what style of ballroom dancing, Landon?

(Landon speaking indistinctly) No, that's incorrect.

Finishing it for you.

A style of ballroom dancing that originated in Argentina and Uruguay around 1900.

Do you know what dance that is?

Yes, Lynlee?

-Tango.

-Tango is right.

What book inspired by its author's bet with editor Bennett Cerg has just 50 unique words and features an unusual plate, Daniel?

-"Green Eggs and ham."

-"Green eggs and ham" is right, the epitaphs of such fictional people as Fiddler Jones appear in what collection of poems in free verse by Edgar Lee Masters?

-Anyone?

Yes, Harrison.

-(electronic buzzing) -Charlotte Doyle.

-Incorrect.

You guys want a shot?

The answer we were looking for was "Spoon River Anthology."

Next, what man, who in 1888 sent the "Dear Boss" and "From Hell" letters, was never identified serial killer who murdered five women, Russ?

-Jack the Ripper.

-Jack The ripper is right.

Moving on, what law states that a chemical reaction's total change in enthalpy delta H equals the sum of the delta H values for each step?

What law is that?

Yes, Daniel?

-Conservation of energy.

-No, that's incorrect.

-Yes, Lynlee -Ohm's Law.

[Mike] No, it is Hess's Law.

What city, whose sites include the old town of Gamla Stan and Vasa Museum is home to the Nobel Prize Museum and is the capital of Sweden, Russ?

-Stockholm.

-That's right.

The border between Iowa and Nebraska is formed by what river, which flows through, Russ?

-Missouri River.

-Missouri is right.

What author claimed, "The best laid schemes gang aft agley," in his 1785 poem, "To a Mouse," and set down the Scots lyrics, Russ?

-Robert Burns.

-That's right.

What experimental novel published in 1939 by James Joyce, which notoriously, Russ?

-Finnegans Wake.

-That's right.

What Monarch whose reign was recorded in the Amarna letters promoted exclusive worship of the sun god Aten and was the husband, Russ?

-Akhenaten -Akhenaten is correct.

Next question, with a couple minutes left.

What Massachusetts Senator proclaimed, "Liberty and Union now and forever one and inseparable," during his 1830 debate with Robert Hayne?

Who was that?

(dramatic music) Yes, Harrison?

-Trump.

-That's incorrect.

Do you guys have an answer?

I bet you've got his dictionary Daniel Webster is what we wanted.

What artist depicted a man speaking at a town hall in Freedom of Speech part of his Four Freedom series, Russ?

-Norman Rockwell.

-That's right.

The term impressionism was coined based on the title of what French artist's painting, "Impression," Russ?

-Claude Monet.

-Monet is correct.

What type of angle has a cosine of zero and a sign of one and is the largest angle in a triangle to which we call, and Russ?

-The right angle?

-Right angle is right.

What philosopher from Sinope supposedly became the follower, Russ?

-Diogenes.

-Diogenes is right.

What book which ends with a card game symbolizing the Tehran Conference depicts the betrayal of Boxer by the pig Napoleon and it's Russ?

-"Animal Farm."

-"Animal Farm" is correct too.

Tamerlane's tomb in Samarkand can be found in what former Soviet Republic whose capital is Tashkent?

What you got, Russ?

-Uzbekistan.

-Uzbekistan is right.

What two men wrote, "All the President's Men" and spoke with the informant Deep Throat while reporting for the Washington Post and the Watergate scandal?

-(dramatic music) -(electronic beeping) Yes Harrison?

-Warren.

-Nope.

The answer are two authors Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, Bernstein, I think is his pronunciation.

I think we're out of time.

Are you glad?

This is happy we're outta time.

That was a good round.

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

But Florence, you played very well.

We're proud of all of you, proud of all of you, and glad that you participated in our program today.

We're glad you watched our program today.

We're here every week on Alabama Public Television it's the "Alabama Scholars Bowl."

My name is Mike Royer.

Thanks again for watching and we'll see you again next time.

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