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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.

I'm Mike Royer.

Welcome into the program.

We're very excited.

This is our championship round today.

We're glad you're tuned in and ready to go.

Our teams are ready to go as well.

from Arab Arab Junior High School is back with us along with Gadsden Middle School.

These, teams have played remarkably well throughout the competition.

We're proud of them and excited about today's match.

You want to see something cool?

Check this out.

This is the trophy that will be presenting later on today in the beautiful.

I have one trophy that I won once, and it's about the size of this thing on top of this trophy.

So we're excited to award this to one of the teams.

No losers in this competition.

All of the teams, the ones who were eliminated earlier, these teams, all of them have done so well.

And we're very excited to be around all of these young people.

So Arab Junior High School, Gadsden Middle competing.

Thanks finally to the folks here at the Alabama Public Television facility in Montgomery.

They've been so hospitable to us as they always are.

Thank you so much for all that you've done for us.

Thanks to Sharon Daily Quartet, Smith, Cade Wilson, Christopher Arthur, the current president of Asca, and our executive producer, Mike Owsley.

For everyone who's been involved, it's been a breeze and we've enjoyed it.

We hope you have too.

Enough talking from me.

You ready to compete in this final round?

Then let's get started.

Answer the question correctly.

You get a bonus.

And here we go.

Thomas Bruce in English.

Earl removed Elgin Marbles from what?

Temple dedicated to Athena and located on the Acropolis.

And it's Laquita Parthenon.

Parthenon is correct.

Here's your bonus question.

The Sea of Marmara is connected by the Bosphorus Strait to what colorfully named sea between Turkey and Ukraine.

Black sea.

The Black Sea is correct.

Next question.

What mythological beings produced when the cloud nymph Nephilim, coupled with ikey on half human, half horse?

What's the answer?

The teacher.

Centaurs.

Centaurs is right.

Your bonus.

The execution of Emperor Maximilian in the balcony.

Our works by what?

French artist most famous for luncheon on the grass.

Many, many is the right answer.

Toss up for everybody.

What kind of musical composition?

Often featuring a solo instrument accompanied by an orchestra, shares its name.

ABBA.

See you again.

Concerto.

Concerto is right.

Your bonus question.

Rap.

What word is the first in the title of a Rene Descartes work that aim to prove the existence of God, and also titles a Journal of Stoic Philosophy by Marcus Aurelius?

Yeah, I know, meditations.

Meditations is what we wanted there.

Everyone.

What nations?

One country, two systems policy was created.

Andrew.

China.

China is right.

Your bonus.

People recreate Hagar's search for water by running between two hills.

During what practice?

A pilgrimage to Mecca that involves circling the Kaaba.

The Hajj.

The Hajj is right.

Toss up everyone.

In which of Shakespeare's play does Shylock sue Antonio and take out?

Merchant of Venice.

Merchant of Venice is right.

Bonus spirit.

This was found to a was bound to a chair.

By what God who rules a namesake realm that serves as the Greek underworld.

Hades.

Hades is right, everyone.

What ancient mathematician from Syracuse is the namesake?

Jonas.

Archimedes.

Archimedes is right.

Here's your bonus.

The Conway Cabal unsuccessfully attempted to depose.

What general?

Whose success during the Revolutionary War led to his becoming the first president of the United States?

George Washington George Washington is right next.

What former steamboat pilot wrote about creatures named Andrew Jackson and Daniel Webster in the short story, and it's a snake.

Nope.

That's incorrect.

They also wrote the celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Ava.

Mark Twain Mark Twain is right.

Bonus.

Baron Haussmann renovated what European capital city under command of the ruler Napoleon the Third.

That's their bonus.

Paris.

Paris is right.

Pencil and paper.

For the next question, give the sum of the following set of numbers 34.126 squared and negative four.

The ticker 66.1 66.12 is correct.

Here's your bonus.

The process of cracking refines what material which is distilled to fuel car engines in the form of gasoline.

Crude oil.

Crude oil.

Good.

Judges, oil is all we needed.

Next question for everyone.

What island is depicted with a monkey on a leash in a George Sirup painting titled Lagrange?

That is correct.

Good job.

Bonus for you.

The Mercalli scale measures the intensity of what events that caused the ground to shake.

Earthquake!

Earthquakes is right.

Toss up everyone.

What?

Ruler reportedly declared that she had the heart and stomach of a king while facing the Spanish Armada during her time as England's.

And it is Latika.

Elizabeth the first.

Yes.

That's it.

Elizabeth first is what we needed.

Bonus question the Tale of Czar Sultan features what work by Niccolo Rimsky-Korsakov that depicts a flying insect.

Well, flight of the bumblebee.

That's right.

What actors broken leg was treated by Doctor Mudd shortly after he joined us both.

John Wilkes Booth is right.

Bonus for you.

Read the fictional Yoknow part of a county in Mississippi is a setting for many works.

By what?

Author of The Sound and the Fury?

Faulkner.

William Faulkner is right.

Next, everyone.

Tet is the Vietnamese name.

For what?

Holiday?

New year.

New year.

Eli.

New year's is correct.

Your bonus.

Bowman's capsules are located in.

What?

Pair of being shaped organs in the body.

Kidneys.

Kidneys is correct.

What French emperor and military commander during the French Revolution.

Andrew Napoleon.

Yes.

Napoleon Bonaparte is good.

Next, a Shinto goddess named Amara Terra Sue was born from her father's eye and represents what celestial object also represented by the Greek god Helios.

Sun.

Sun is right.

Question 14 of 20.

What name is given to the distance?

A number is from zero on a number line.

What is that, Josh?

Absolute value.

That's correct.

Your bonus.

Benita is told she is mutilating her hair for straightening it.

In what play about the younger family by Lorraine Hansberry.

the reason is referred to you like a raisin in the sun.

A raisin in the sun is the right answer.

Good job.

Next question for both teams.

What author wrote about Esther Greenwood in the Bell Jar?

Latika Plath is correct.

Next.

bonus for you.

Heinrich Schliemann excavated the ruins of what city in modern day Turkey, which was, according to legend, defended by Hector in Paris during a namesake war.

Troy.

Troy is right.

The constellation lupus resembles what animal?

A large Latika wolf is.

Right.

Bonus for you, Robert Livingston and James Madison helping negotiate.

What agreement?

Which led to the Lewis and Clark Expedition and saw France hand over most of the land in the Mississippi River's drainage basin west of the river, including the namesake state of Louisiana.

Short answer for the longest question we've had in any of our rounds.

Next.

What actor played Sherlock Holmes in a 2009 film, as well as and that's Ava Robert Downey Junior.

Robert Downey Jr is right.

Bonus for your Arab.

The Jacobites aim to restore the throne to descendants of the second English king of what name?

After he was overthrown in the Glorious Revolution.

William.

William.

No, James.

James is right.

Answer.

Next.

What woman who refused to pay a $100 fine for voting?

Susan b Anthony.

Susan B Anthony is correct.

Good job.

Eli.

Bonus for your team.

Members of the Baha'i Faith.

Baha'i Faith annually perform a 19 day example of what action of abstaining from consuming food.

Fasting.

Fasting is right next.

The constellation Taurus contains a nebula named for what?

And it.

crab.

Crab is correct.

Bonus for you, the friends of the ABC appear in what Victor Hugo novel centering on John Belson, which was later turned into a musical.

Miserables.

Les Miserables is right, and this is the last question in this part of the match today.

In what ancient city where citizens voted to be expelled in an act known as ostracism?

In what ancient city?

Attica.

Athens.

Athens is right.

Bonus for you.

John Napier invented.

What mathematical function?

Whose natural type uses base E logarithm.

Logarithm is correct.

Lay your buttons down and let's take a quick break to one.

Tell you what the lightning round categories are and also to, tell our viewers at home what they are two.

Arab Junior High you're trailing slightly, so you will select first from these four categories P science terms, fictional places, government terms, and birds is the last category we'll ask you to select after we meet all of our players.

Let's ask each one individually to, look at the camera and tell you a little bit about themselves.

Eli, would you begin?

Hello, my name is Elmo and I am Spiderman.

Hello, my name is Alex.

My favorite singer is James Hetfield and I am Iron Man.

Hello, my name is Jonas Huckaby, and my favorite teacher is, John William Clark.

Hello.

My name is Joshua Giddy.

And, I'm Batman.

Very good.

I'm very Stevens.

I'm in the eighth grade, and I love my mom.

I'm Andrew Lynn, I'm in the eighth grade, and I couldn't find anything to put here.

Okay, I'm let go for it.

I'm in the eighth grade, and I play tennis on the lounge.

Robinson I'm in the eighth grade, and my favorite subject is history.

All right.

Thank you all.

Just as a longtime TV person, I love how when we first start our round, the students are a little bit nervous and they don't say much except their names.

And as we get more comfortable and go along, you never know what they're going to say.

We've enjoyed having you all and your personalities on the program.

So a junior high school, you get to choose one.

What will it be?

Ava.

Fictional places.

Fictional places.

As with all of our lightning rounds, you're going to have 60s to identify these fictional places from literature.

Ready city that is the home to Superman and his allies.

Metro.

Metropolis.

That's right.

Kingdom ruled by King Arthur.

Camelot.

Camelot plantation that is home to Scarlett O'Hara.

His family.

Okay, he's Scarlett O'Hara, past capital of the Land of Oz.

Past fantasy land visited by the Pevensie children.

Narnia.

That's right.

Royal capital of Westeros and the Seven Kingdoms.

Alabama's town that is the fictional setting of To Kill a mockingbird.

Great.

skip.

skip.

Missouri town that is home to Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer.

What it's called, I don't know, just skip setting of Edgar Lee Masters anthology.

skip fabled City of Gold, located in South America, El Dorado.

That's correct.

You went back and skip plantation of Scarlett Harris family?

No, I guess time is up.

It's Tara.

Tara in in, gone with the wind.

All right.

That was kind of a tough category.

We'll come over to Gadsden Middle now.

And, Latika, you have three to choose from.

Have you discussed with your partners which ones you want to do?

can we have, p in science?

In birds?

Yes, you can P in science.

First you're going to have 60s to identify these science terms that can be found in the P section of a science textbook.

Glossary.

Ready.

Here we go.

An extinct flying reptile pterodactyl star, also known as the North Star Polaris bladed device for propelling a ship.

pesky fluid, part of blood.

fluid, part pass disease, sometimes called whooping cough.

past mammals with thick skin such as elephants and rhinos.

pass, outermost layer of the sun's atmosphere.

Photosphere.

That's correct.

Large white bears.

Polar bears, small pea sized gland at the base of the brain.

Pituitary measure equal to one half quart.

Pint.

Pint.

That's right.

Bladed device for propelling a ship.

propellers.

Propeller is right.

Fluid.

Part of blood pressure, part defer.

Preening.

Preening.

No, it's plasma disease.

Sometimes called whooping cough.

I think it's like pass.

And mammals with thick skin such as elephants and rhinos.

But time is up.

Pachyderm.

Is that one?

And you almost said pertussis, didn't you?

Great.

That's what it was.

Well, that one was kind of hard to.

I guess when we get to the championship round, they're not supposed to be real easy.

Next, you've selected birds.

Is that right?

With tiger?

Yes.

Birds identify the following, which are associated with birds.

60s.

Here we go.

Author and illustrator of Birds of America.

Audubon, Greek goddess to whom the owl was sacred.

Aviator nicknamed the Lone Eagle in the.

Lindbergh?

Lindbergh?

Is that your answer?

Yes, yes.

That's right.

Prey of cartoon character Wiley.

Coyote.

Roadrunner.

yes.

That's right.

Atlanta is home to this NBA team.

Hawks.

Director of the film The Birds.

The birds.

Okay.

Hitchcock.

Hitchcock is right.

Author who created Christopher Robin?

Christopher Robin is Winnie the Pooh.

Susan Milne.

That's right.

Shoshone Indian guide, nicknamed Bird Woman.

Sacajawea, a US state capital named after a mythological bird that rises from the ashes and the Air Force Academy's mascot.

Air Force Academy.

Why?

Eagle.

Eagle?

Eagle.

No, it's a falcon.

You skip any.

I don't believe so.

Well done.

Good job on that.

We're going to come back to you now, Arab, and you get to do government terms.

You're going to have 60 60s to identify each of the following terms used in government.

Here we go.

60s elected chief official of a state.

Governor?

Yes.

A person who is currently holding an office and running again as an unexpected winner in a race.

That branch of government whose function is to carry out laws passed by the legislative branch.

Democracy?

No.

It's executive elected chief executive officer of a US city.

Mayor.

Mayor?

Yes.

A vote to remove a public official from office.

Veto.

I mean, I'll veto, impeachment.

Impeach impeachment.

No, it's a recall.

The drawing of electoral electoral boundaries to favor one party.

Yes.

A person who comes into a new country for the purpose of settling their immigrant.

Agreed?

Yes.

Leader of the party in nominal control in either house of Congress.

Pass.

And a prolonged debate to delay a vote on proposed legislation.

Filibuster?

That's correct.

You skipped on a person who was currently holding office, but running again.

Time is up.

Incumbent is the answer for that unexpected winner in a race is a dark horse.

And that's right.

We have now put the lightning round in our rearview mirror, and we're going to spend our last eight minutes doing questions with 20 point value.

So if you're trailing at the midpoint, you can do some catching up pretty quick.

No bonus questions.

Just answer and we'll go till we say goodbye.

Here we go.

Dry ice exhibits what phase transition Athletica.

Sublimation.

That's right.

H.M.S.

Pinafore is an opera.

By what duo?

Who created the model Latika Sullivan?

Yes.

What leader of France's Fifth Republic wrote the work?

The army of Latika?

The.

Yes.

What author of hospital sketches told of her experiences as a nurse?

Latika Alcott?

Yes.

Bricks and fish are included in the disintegration.

Of what?

Surrealist painting by Salvador Dali.

The teacup into memory?

Yes.

What figure appears to the apostles as tongues of fire on Pentecost, and forms the Holy Trinity with the father and the son, Holy spirit?

Yes.

Holy Spirit or Holy Ghost.

The essay Self-Reliance was written by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Latika.

Transcendentalism.

That is right.

In what city?

The first capital of the Confederacy did Jefferson Davis.

Andrew.

Montgomery.

Montgomery.

The young guy Latvians formerly led.

What European country?

Whose modern day capital is Warsaw?

Andrew.

Poland.

Yes.

What poet of the George S wrote about igneous Tica?

Virgil?

That's right.

Wolfram is the Latin name.

For what element?

Andrew.

Tungsten.

Yes.

A reform act is named for Russ Feingold.

And what Republican senator from Arizona who passed away in August of 2018.

Joe Jonas.

Okay.

That's right.

John McCain, what title character in the Charles Dickens novel is sent to Salem House by Mr. Stone and David Copperfield?

David Copperfield is right, Eli.

What actor played Troy on the sitcom community before releasing the songs?

Donald.

Donald.

Glover Donald Glover is right.

What English composer created pieces for his daughter Imogen, and use titles like The Bringer of Jollity for The Planets and his Lounge.

Holst, Gustav Holst 14 electrons can be contained in the orbital name for what consonant that produces the same sounds.

Lounge.

No.

That's incorrect.

The same sounds as the letter p h. Do you have an answer, IRA?

Yes, Jonas, f f is right.

In 1881, the people's will movement assassinated Alexander the Second, a member of what?

Royal house and buzzing.

Andrew.

Romanoff.

Romanoff is the right answer, professor.

Challenger, your appears in Lost World, a novel by what?

British author who wrote the stories a Study in Scarlet and The of the teacup.

That's right.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

A key is featured on the flag.

Of what country?

The residency of the Pope and the smallest country in the world.

Josh.

Vatican city.

That's right.

What man who entered the presidency as a bachelor and married Frances Folsom?

Man.

It's Gray Buchanan.

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

Unless you.

Are you in now?

Did somebody buzz in from you?

She.

He married Frances Folsom in the Blue Room.

And the white House is still the only president to get married in the white House.

And the only one to serve two nonconsecutive terms.

Josh Cleveland.

That's right.

Grover Cleveland.

A job, cut a job.

Cho is the capital of what?

Mediterranean island owned by France, which was the birthplace.

Josh, Corsica.

Corsica is correct.

The frontman of the Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia, inspired the name of a cherry flavor of ice cream made by what brand from.

And it's Latika.

Ben and Jerry's is right in Ray Rooney Margaret's painting.

Son of Man.

A man in a bowler hat.

Latika.

Apple.

That good judge is Apple.

That's right.

The Little White Bird is a lesser known novel by what?

Scottish author who wrote about Wendy's visit with a forever young Latika.

Barry is right, JM Barry.

The fluid mosaic model describes what organelle cell membrane.

That's right.

Good job.

But for 3.5 minutes left the cry.

Give me back my legions was just declared at the battle of Toy two, a berg forest.

By what?

First Roman emperor, the adopted son of and great Octavian.

yes.

Octavian or Augustus Caesar.

Next.

What animals communicate via a waggle dance and produce lounge bees.

That's right.

What title character watches the women come and go?

Talking a Michelangelo.

Latika.

Love Story of J. Alfred Prufrock.

Yes.

That's correct.

Ammonia is produced from the fixation of what element?

With the symbol.

Latika.

Nitrogen.

Is it red hat and yellow hat?

Our sex of a version of what?

Religion?

Which is led by the Dalai Lama in Tibet.

And it's Latika.

Buddhism is correct.

In what, 1954 William Golding novel is a dead parachutist lounge.

Lord of the flies.

Lord of the flies.

The dream of onto is a piece.

By what?

Composer of Pomp and Circumstances, a march play Jonas Elgar Elgar is right.

Cement covers the bottom layer of what bones used to.

Latika.

Teeth is right.

Hexagonal sheets of carbon compose what material found in the lead of pencil.

And it is Andrew.

Graphite.

Graphite is correct.

Mafic and felsic are classes of what types of rocks formed from volcanic activity.

Jonas igneous.

Igneous is correct.

What man who signed the Fugitive Slave Act during his only term in office, Josh Lincoln?

Nope.

I'll finish it here.

Became the 13th U.S. president upon the death of Zachary Taylor.

Andrew Polk?

Nope.

Millard Fillmore was the one we were looking for.

What title woman dies of arsenic after having affairs with La Teacup?

Madame Bovary?

Yes.

That's right.

Next.

What condition affects the literary characters Richard the Third and quasi modo, and is defined as a severe Latika Hunchback?

Yes.

Being hunchback.

That is correct.

Have time for 2 or 3 more questions.

What outfielder?

The 2018 American League Most Valuable Player as a member of the Boston Red Sox was traded to the Dodgers Jonas Soto.

Nope, finishing it here.

He was traded to the Dodgers in 2020 and led the team to the World Series title that season.

Anybody?

the.

Pitcher?

Nope.

It's Mookie Betts.

Mookie betts.

What machine used by the Germans in World War two to send secret communications.

And its gray U-boat?

Nope.

Finishing it for you.

A red and yellow machine.

The Enigma machine is right.

What?

Statesman.

Born in Kinderhook, New York in 1782, became the eighth U.S. president and the first to be born after the American Revolution.

Andrew Van Buren Martin Van Buren is right.

Last question what model of the solar system did Galileo support which led to his house arrest?

Uranus geocentric model.

Heliocentric model is correct.

Lay your buttons down.

That was good.

Had to reach for some extra questions there because you answered them so quickly.

Congratulations to Gadsden Middle School for being the winner of our competition this season.

Congratulations to you.

Congratulations to you for every match you played.

You played you either one or played very closely and so very proud of you.

Thanks for being here and thanks for being on our program.

I'm going to hand this trophy right here to Lance.

Lance, will you take care of this for us?

And in a second you can pass it down so it ends up at the other end of the table.

That's going to do it for our program today.

It's the Alabama Scholars Bowl.

Thanks for supporting our program every year.

Thanks for watching.

On behalf of everyone here.

Thanks again.

I'm Mike Royer and have a great day.

Everybody.