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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 in to another edition of the Alabama Scholar's Bowl here on Alabama Public Television.

My name is Mike Royer, and I'm so glad to host this program.

And so glad that you're joining us once again.

We're in the middle of our middle school competition on the Scholar's Bowl.

The brightest and best students from all around the state come into our studio.

And this week we have students from Arab Junior High who played so well in the past, as have the students from Advent Episcopal School in Birmingham.

Glad to have them all in the studio.

Mike Ousley is our executive producer.

He's right off to my left, constantly watching every move I make.

The judges are Sharon Daley, Josh Ruski, Kate Wilson and and Harris.

We appreciate them.

And thanks again to the folks at Alabama Public Television.

Everybody ready to try this 20 questions.

If you answer correctly, you get a bonus question.

You get your buzzer in hand.

And let's see how this goes.

What object which obscures a region of the sky called the Zone of avoidance has a black hole, Sagittarius, a star at its center and is orbited by the M8.

And I'm looking at the brighten the Milky Way galaxy, the Milky Way galaxy is correct.

Thank you.

Good bonus for you.

This property is typically measured in Jackson units, measuring how much the flame of a candle is obscured.

What is the measure of the murkiness of water?

What is that called?

Opacity.

No.

It's turbidity.

Turbidity.

Opacity, I think is glass, but we'll deal with that later.

Next question for everyone.

A regency in this state's capital was led by men like William Marcy and Martin Van Buren.

The Join or Die cartoon was created and it is Ronin.

Nope.

I'll finish it for you.

Grab.

You wanted.

I'm going to go now.

Was created.

The cartoon was created in 1754.

Congress.

In what?

Northeast states?

Capital of Albany.

Now Taylor, New York.

That's right.

Your bonus.

What?

Leader targeted several Jewish medical specialists in the doctor's plot and starved millions of people during their failed five year plans?

As the premier of the Soviet Union during World War two?

Stalin.

That's right.

Joseph Stalin is the right answer.

Toss up question, everybody.

One character in this novel is forced to read to Mrs.

DuBose after tearing up her flowers.

And it's Maggie and Anne.

Do you have an answer?

Of Mice and Men?

No.

I'll finish it for you.

Right here.

Annie.

I don't know anybody.

Okay.

It is, It is, No, no.

What is it called?

To kill a mockingbird?

That's right.

Exactly.

To kill a mockingbird.

Bonus question for you, Edvin.

This state is the northernmost split by the Central and Eastern time zones.

What state?

East of Wisconsin observes simply observes Central Time and its Upper Peninsula.

That's right.

That's right.

You can just shout it out when you know the answer.

Good job.

This is a toss up for everyone again.

A song by this artist took inspiration from a read Bradbury story, Ray Bradbury Story, and contains the lyric, she packed my bags last night.

Name this British singer, who is known for songs like candle in the Wind and Rocket Man, and it is running.

Elton John is correct.

Your bonus?

A device name for this person, unlike one name for auto, ignites fuel without a spark plug to run an engine.

What German names of fuel, also called heavy oil, which is more efficient and durable for use in cars than gasoline?

Ethanol.

It's diesel.

Diesel is the fuel.

No spark plugs in a diesel engine.

Toss up everybody.

I think that's right.

A class A, B and C were labels given to mandates established by this organization that primarily concerned former German and Ottoman holdings.

The goal of peace following World War One led to the formation of what ineffective predecessor of the UN, Maggie League of Nations, League of Nations.

Wilson's idea.

Good job.

Bonus for you.

The TCL Chinese Theater in this city is located on a boulevard that also includes the Walk of Fame.

Griffith Observatory is located in what California city near Hollywood Boulevard.

Los Angeles Los Angeles is correct.

Well done.

Both teams only.

These numbers are valid solutions to Diophantine equations.

Good enough.

Josh.

Rational numbers are defined as ratios of these numbers.

What set?

And I'm looking at Ronan.

Prime numbers.

No, I'll finish it for you, Ray.

Rab.

Rational numbers are defined as ratios of these numbers.

What set denied by a large Z includes the whole numbers and their negatives.

Do you have an answer?

Yes.

Taylor.

Integers.

Integers is correct.

It's bonus for you.

A university in this state contains the mural Word of Life, which is nicknamed Touchdown Jesus.

What state cities of West Lafayette and South Bend are home to Purdu Pennsylvania.

Oh, this hurts me.

My home state, Indiana, is the right answer.

All right, let's move on.

Next question for everyone.

Speech name for this city that states we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand is called its compromise and was given by Booker T Washington.

MLK was born.

In what city?

The capital of Georgia.

Taylor.

Atlanta.

Atlanta is correct.

Your bonus feedback named after the albedo.

And this substance contributes to climate change when breakdown of this substance reveals darker, more heat absorbing parts of the Earth.

Climate change is causing what substances polar caps to melt ice slash ice is also also present.

Ice.

I'd trust Brighton if I were you.

Ice is the correct answer.

Moving on.

Toss up for everyone.

This novel is followed in its trilogy by 20 years after the victim, Vicomte de Rasool on A pair of Queen ends, diamonds are stolen by milady de Winter in what Alexander Dumas.

Any but Sherlock Holmes?

No.

That's incorrect.

Alexander Dumas novel about Athos, Aramis and Porthos.

And who is that tailor?

The three musketeers.

Three Musketeers is right.

Bonus.

What language used by Evan use Vue framework as well as react and node is generally used alongside HTML and CSS to add interactivity to websites.

Like HTC.

It's a JavaScript.

Java script is what we wanted.

Next question everybody.

This river forms an arch shape at Horseshoe Bend, which is located a short distance from Glen Canyon Dam.

Canyon dam.

Lake Mead is formed by the Hoover Dam on what river which traverses Sofia.

The Colorado River is correct.

Sofia.

Well done.

Bonus!

An overture by this composer ends with the march of the Swiss Soldiers, and is featured in The Lone Ranger.

Name this Italian composer who wrote operas like The Barber of Seville and William Tell.

Do you know that composer?

Who?

Cheating.

It's Rossini.

Rossini is the answer we needed.

Number ten of 20 questions.

One of these locations in Beijing is known as the starfish.

Another contains the world's largest indoor waterfall.

And it's.

I don't see it.

Mole.

A mole and.

No.

That's incorrect.

Finishing it for you.

Advent indoor waterfall and its namesake jewel.

Three letter codes like ATL and LAX are used to denote what transportation airports is, right?

Bonus for you.

Advent.

Using the motion of one of these objects.

Leon for code.

Prove the rotation of the Earth.

Grandfather clocks rely on the consistent period in the motion of what?

Swinging objects consisting of a mass held by a string.

Pendulum.

Pendulum is the right answer.

Next, for both teams, which mountain in the peaks of Moshi was first summited by geographer Hans Meyer, who subsequently named it Kaiser Wilhelm Spitz and is the tallest volcano in Africa.

And what do you have running Kilimanjaro?

Kilimanjaro is right bonus for you.

The central figure of a girl with a pearl earring wears a headband of this color.

Who could use the Prussian shade of this color in the print?

Great wave of Kanagawa what primary color is often used to depict the skies and the seas?

Blue.

Blue is good.

A lot of reading for an easy answer.

Toss up everybody.

This NFL player surpassed Jerry rice in all time playoff receptions in 2020, for which tight end robber Rob Travis goes.

Travis Kelsey is right.

Got a sports question in there.

Here's your bonus.

This poet coined the term dark ages and wrote about reading Augustine's Confessions on top of mount then true Vento.

Name this Italian poet who wrote about a woman named Laura, and names a type of sonnet.

Shakespeare?

No, it's of Petrarch.

Petrarch is the right answer.

Moving on.

This empire was organized into districts called themes, the largest of which is Thessalonica.

This.

And I'm looking Ronin.

Roman.

Nope.

Finishing it for you.

Grab this Empire's defeat by the Seljuks at the Battle of Manzikert began its downfall.

Name this empire, which collapsed when the Ottomans conquered Constantinople.

What empire is that?

Taylor.

Molly?

Nope.

It's the Byzantine Byzantine Empire.

Next question for everybody.

The Merrimack River flows past the city of Manchester in this state.

This is located Ronan, England.

No.

That's incorrect.

Finishing.

If you Arab, which is located directly north of Nashua.

Name the state home to Mount Washington, which is governed from Concord.

Connecticut?

No, it's New Hampshire.

New Hampshire is the answer.

Next.

Accounts of these periods open the records of the Grand Historian by Sima Kuan.

The mandate of Heaven govern the cycles of what unified periods in China that included the Shang and Zi and its, running dynasties.

Yes, Chinese dynasties is what we needed.

Math question for your bonus pencil.

If today is Monday, what day of the week will be in 150 days?

Today is Monday and 150 days.

What day of the week will it be?

We need it pretty quickly.

1 in 7 chance running.

Thursday.

Thursday is right.

Well, next question.

In this novel, the nursery rhyme Oranges and Lemons is partially remembered and discussed by Julia and her lover Winston Smith.

Faint memories of the time before Sophia.

1984 is right.

Good job.

Bonus.

Cities in this country, such as the Bloemfontein, show the influence of Dutch settlement.

This country's city of Soweto was named during its apartheid era era.

What country's multiple capitals include Pretoria and Cape Town, South Africa.

South Africa is right.

A few more questions in this portion of our program.

Multiplying this quantity by the wavelength gives the speed of a wave.

The quantity the reciprocal of the period is measured in hertz.

What quantity is the number of oscillations in a second and is denoted f, small f and Ronan.

Frequency.

That's correct.

Bonus for you, of course.

Francis Scott Key wrote the Star Spangled Banner after a battle in this state which ceded land north of the Potomac River to create a new city.

What state is named after a bloody English queen and was a Catholic colony established by Lord Baltimore, Maryland.

Maryland is right next for everybody.

This artist claims wrote some songs about Ricky.

Now I listen to them laugh and it's Sophia.

Ariana Grande is right.

Bonus for your team, Reb.

This president appointed David Lilienthal to lead the Tennessee Valley Authority, which was part of a program that included the Works Progress Administration.

The New Deal was enacted by what president, who served from 1933 to 1945.

Franklin Roosevelt.

That's right.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Next.

Both teams, the holiest site of this religion is the Golden Temple at Armature and its Ronen Muslim.

No finishing for you Arab followers, followers of this religion observe the five k's, which include a dagger called the kirpan.

Word warriors are places of worship.

In what?

Indian religion whose followers might wear turban?

Yes.

Taylor.

Sophia.

Sikhism is correct.

Bonus!

Again for you.

What Long Island politician who falsely claimed that he was Jewish and that his mother was killed in 911, was the first person to be expelled from the house since 2002.

Remember that name a little over a year ago?

Smith.

It's always good to take a shot.

Santos Jorge Santos is what we wanted.

Last question of this part of the round.

This animal, which has a ruby throated species, rotates its wings in a figure eight pattern that allows it.

There you are, Maggie.

Hummingbird.

Hummingbird is correct.

Good job.

Bonus for you.

The last bonus in this country.

One Christmas tradition involves eating a whipped cream and strawberry covered cake.

In addition to KFC chicken buckets.

In what country do the famous Christmas light locations include Roppongi Hills and Tokyo, Japan.

Japan is correct.

Lay your buttons down.

We're going to do our lightning round.

In just a second.

There are four categories, as always.

And, in this particular round, adventure trailing slightly here at the midpoint.

So you'll select first from our four categories array.

You'll choose to do them both.

And we'll come back to advent for the last one.

The categories electromagnetism.

Short stories by American authors, villains and antagonist of Disney animated films and English monarchs.

As you think about those students, let's meet you all and ask you to tell our viewers at home your name and just a little bit about yourself, right?

And would you begin?

My name is Brian, and I like basketball.

My name is Maggie.

I'm in seventh grade and I play soccer.

My name is Taylor.

I'm an eighth grade and I do math in.

My name is Sophia.

I'm an eighth grade, and I love to read and write.

My name is Ronan.

I'm in the seventh grade at advent, and I play soccer and basketball.

My name is R.A.. I'm in eighth grade and I do fencing.

My name is Maya.

I'm in the seventh grade, and I play basketball and sing.

My name is Annie.

I'm in the eighth grade.

Evan and I do theater.

Very good.

You're all playing well.

I know your coaches.

Your teachers back at your schools are very proud of you.

And we're proud to have you in our studio and participating on our program today.

All right.

We'll come to you, Advent Road.

And if you guys decide which of the four categories you'd like to try.

Yep.

We are going to do villains and antagonist of animated Disney.

Very good, very good.

60s to answer ten questions if you want to skip, say so, but let's see how you do.

You'll start when I ask the first questions.

Villains and antagonists of Disney animated films.

Given the animated Disney animated Disney film name, its primary villain ready The Lion King, Mr.

Scar, The Little Mermaid, Ursula, Ursula, 101 Dalmatians, Cruella de Vil, Aladdin, Jafar, Peter Pan, Captain Hook, the Princess and the frog.

The Shadow Man.

Skip.

Doctor Facilier Facilier is the right answer.

Wreck-It Ralph.

Wreck-It Ralph, the villain used to be a popular racer in a video game.

Turbo.

The turbo guy?

Yes.

Turbo's good.

Zootopia.

The sheep, miss Miriam Belle or whatever.

That's incorrect.

The hunchback of Notre Dame this villain is a self-righteous justice minister.

Judge Frollo.

That's correct.

Mulan.

Skip.

Skip.

Hi.

I think you still.

Up until this the last question you got 10s.

Take your time.

There.

Gave an answer incorrectly for ten.

Very good.

The right answer for the last one is shown.

You shine.

You did.

You guys did well with that.

And you answered a bunch of those.

Good job, good job.

All right.

Let's go back over to Erhaab now.

And, Caleb will ask you to choose two categories, short stories by American authors and English monarchs.

Very good short stories.

First, you'll have 60s.

Given the short story name the American author.

Here we go.

The Tell-Tale heart.

Poe, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Urban Lottery, the lottery.

Okay, a perfect day for banana fish past a good man is hard to find.

Past the minister's black veil.

Hawthorne.

That's right.

The bride comes to yellow sky.

Set in the 19th century Texas.

And pass the story of an hour and a pair of silk stockings.

Past the ones who walk away from O'Malley's.

Buy the author of Earthsea.

Kids.

Nope.

It's the green, the body which would later be turned into the film Stand by Me.

Pass.

Okay, you pass it on.

The bride Comes to Yellow Skies, set in 19th century Texas.

The story of an hour a pair of silk stockings.

And you passed on, a perfect day for banana fishing.

The time is up.

We all thought, including me, that was going to be a pretty easy category.

But it was a pretty hard category, wasn't it?

Was the other ones.

English monarchs?

Was that the next one?

Very good in 60s, including the regnal number, if needed, identify these English monarchs.

60s.

Here we go.

Passed away in 2022 and was succeeded by Charles the Third.

Elizabeth the second had six wives.

Henry the eighth was married to Albert and proclaimed Empress of India in 1877.

Catherine the Great.

No, that's Victoria lost the American colonies and became mentally unfit to rule.

George third.

That's right, was the target of the Babington Plot and is often called the Virgin Queen Elizabeth the First.

That's right.

Signed the Magna Carta and lost Normandy to Philip the second of France.

Harold got John the first.

Yes, you'll accept that one.

The Battle of Hastings in 1066.

Harold Godwinson.

What's your answer?

Is it pass?

It's.

Edward became the first steward monarch in England.

The first one.

Charles the first.

James the first.

Lost the Battle of Bosworth Field.

Richard the third.

That's right side to truth.

With Saladin ending the Third Crusade.

George the second.

That's Richard the first.

Okay, good job with that.

That was a pretty tough category, but you did a good job.

And let's see here we have electromagnetism.

How excited are you guys about this?

Really excited.

Me too.

I can't wait to get into it.

Name the following regarding electromagnetism 60s quantity which is equal to current times resistance according to Ohm's law.

Passed materials that do not conduct electricity.

Well, it's, stagnant.

No.

What's your answer?

Stagnant?

No.

It's insulator.

Standard Si unit of electric charge.

Hertz, column constant symbolized H. That approximately equals 6.63 times ten to the -30 fourth hertz.

It's called Planck's constant scientist, whose namesake law predicts how a magnetic field will interact with an electric circuit.

Thomas Edison.

No.

Thomas Faraday law that states that the direction of the induced current will oppose the change in flux.

Pass materials that form a Josephson junction when a current flows through two of them.

Pass devices that four of which connected form A with Wheatstone bridge circuits.

It's a resistor device is known as chokes.

When used to block high frequency alternating current.

But time is up and aren't you glad it is?

I say, I say we put that category in the rearview mirror and never look at it again.

Everybody agree with that?

All right.

Good.

We have 3.5 minutes left.

And what we're going to do now is do some 20 point questions.

So if you're a little behind you can do some catching up.

No bonus.

Just a question.

Here we go.

The Japanese Imperial Regalia consist of a mirror, a gemstone, and one of these things symbolizing valor.

What object is used to inflict a fatal wound in of and includes its Arab katana?

No.

Katana is right.

That's the second answer.

Swords or katana?

Well done.

A national park named after these features, which contain the 50 mile going to the Sun Road, is located in Montana.

Cattle lakes are prominent in regions like Alaska.

Where and geyser?

Nope.

I'll finish it for you.

A wrap.

Prominent in regions like Alaska, where land is covered by white moving sheets of ice and Brighton glaciers, glaciers is right.

The families members include a pope during the 1527 Sack of Rome who commissioned paintings in the Sistine Chapel.

But is Taylor Medici?

Medici is the right answer.

The Faraday constant is expressed in units of columns.

Per this unit, 12g of carbon 12 were originally used to define what unit one of which contains EV or Garda are.

Avogadro's number of particles in one.

And what do you have, two ohms?

Nope.

Anybody else?

Wrote it?

No.

It's moles.

Moles.

In this play, a character is originally called the Flower Girl before Henry Higgins decides to take her on as a student.

Name this George Bernard Shaw play about Eliza Doolittle learning how to speak proper English.

Later adapted into the musical My Fair Lady.

Maya.

Let it go.

All right, you guys have an answer.

Pygmalion.

Pygmalion is the answer.

This company was ordered to pay over $2 billion after it was found that its herbicide, roundup, was carcinogenic.

What company?

Which code names the winning team of the 2024 German soccer championship also produces a popular Aspen brand, Ronan.

Byron.

Yes.

You'll take that.

Very good.

Bayer aspirin.

More commonly.

Called that.

Do you get the points human rights abuses in this non Uruguay country are chronicled in the Archives of Terror, which focus on a president from its Colorado Party for much of the 20th century, Alfredo Strozier ruled what country?

Whose capital is Ascension and the country is running Uruguay?

No.

You guys have an answer for Taylor.

Paraguay.

Paraguay is the right answer.

Next, a character in this novel who makes a joke about eating a cat gets into a fight after defending 115 star Carter becomes the figurehead of protest after Khalil is shot by a police officer.

In what novel by Angie Thomas invite her to that one.

The answer is the hate you give.

Last question.

This substance creeps by on little cat feet in a Carl Sandburg poem.

Sophia Fog is the right answer.

Well done.

That's all the time we have.

Lay your buttons down.

You all played well and Arab.

You come out on top of this particular round that been Episcopal from Birmingham.

You guys played well as well.

Good job today.

We appreciate y'all watching our program.

This is the middle school edition of the Alabama Scholar's Bowl.

We enjoy these students from middle schools all around the state of Alabama.

We're proud of them.

As I know you are at home, who are their teachers and sponsors?

Thank you very much for watching Scholar's Bowl.

I'm Mike Royer, inviting you to join us again next week.