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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 once again to the Alabama Scholars Bowl.

My name is Mike Royer.

So glad you joined us today as we bring two great teams into our studio to compete again.

And as you know by now, during this season of the Alabama Scholars Bowl, we're having junior high and middle school students today from Barton Academy in lovely mobile, Alabama, and Gadsden Middle School from obviously the Gadsden area.

It's good to have you all back with us.

Good teams, good players, and we're excited about them being back with us on our program today.

We're supported by a lot of people from Asca who holds competitions throughout the year at different schools in different places, and then these that are televised thanks to Sharon Daly, Gordon Smith, Cade Wilson and the current president of Asca, Christopher Arthur.

Mike Ousley is our executive producer of our program.

But the most important part of the program is you watching at home, and we're glad that you're there.

Y'all ready to play?

All right.

Magical glasses are in place and we will get started with question number one.

If you answer it correctly, you get a bonus in what Shakespeare play featuring the fairies Puck and Oberon and buzzing in is Latika a midsummer Night's Dream?

Midsummer Night's Dream is correct.

Your bonus.

The Kogarah River is the farthest tributary of what river?

Which has blue and white tributaries and is the longest in Africa.

Nile.

It is the Nile.

Next emperors are the measure of what quantity?

The flow of electric charge.

Latika.

Current is right.

Another bonus for you.

Imaginary landscapes is a piece by white composer who sat in silence for the title duration of his piece.

Is that written for 33 four foot 33in cage.

Cage is right.

John Cage is correct.

Thank you.

And that was your bonus question, correct?

Yep.

Next to question number three of 20.

The creator God in Aboriginal mythology is a serpent name for what?

Weather phenomena which also forms the bridge by frost in North myth.

Latika rainbow rainbow is right your bonus.

After defeating Otto the Great at the Battle of Lek Veld and our pod Dynasty member Stephen established what kingdom?

A country whose modern capital is Budapest, Hungary.

you say.

You say Hungarian and Bach.

Hungarian Empire.

Okay.

Judges the Kingdom of Hungary.

Good answer.

And moving on to the next one for everyone to city.

DS wrote a history of what?

Ancient war between Athens and Sparta and Latika.

Peloponnesian War is correct.

Bonus Rosalind Franklin's Photo 51 helped discover that DNA has what shape you double helix.

That's correct.

Toss-Up for both teams.

Commander John Reynolds died during what Civil War battle in Pennsylvania.

Which was the subject of an address.

Andrew Gettysburg.

Gettysburg is correct.

Your bonus.

The recently deceased thief heiress Clint is depicted being operated on.

In what?

Painting by Rembrandt.

the anatomy lesson, doctor.

Okay, the anatomy lesson of Doctor Nicholas.

That's correct.

The anatomy lesson is all we needed.

Well done.

Toss up everybody.

What poem in which the speaker passes the setting sun states that the title being kindly stopped for me and Latika death.

Nope.

I'll finish it for you.

Barton kindly stopped for me and was written by Emily Dickinson.

What is the poem?

Yes.

Sara time.

Nope.

The answer was because I could not stop for death.

All right, moving on.

Grab your pencil and paper.

Eli travels in his Camry at a constant speed of 70mph.

How long will it take for the car to travel a distance of 245 miles?

Yes.

cash.

Three hours.

That's incorrect.

You have an answer?

Guest in three hours and 35 minutes, the right answer is 3.5 hours or 210 minutes.

Moving on.

What boy travels down the Mississippi River to help the slave lounge?

Tom Sawyer?

No, I'll.

I'll finish it for you.

Barton.

to help the slave Jim and his best friends with Tom Sawyer.

Who is it?

Yes, Sarah.

Huckleberry Finn.

That's correct.

Bonus for you.

During the condominium from 1645 to 1715.

What cool, dark areas on the sun were rarely seen.

Sunspots.

That's right.

Toss up everybody.

Jews were targeted in the doctor's plot, which was created by what?

Soviet leader who led Stalin.

See again.

Stalin.

That's right.

And your bonus, the Nazca Plate caused the formation of what?

Argentinean mountain?

The tallest in South America.

You're right.

That's correct.

Everybody in what?

Shirley Jackson Jackson short story did, Tessie.

And it's cash.

The lottery.

The lottery is right.

Here's your bonus.

A hexagon pattern is found in the north pole of, what, six planet from the sun, known for its rings.

Saturn.

Saturn is correct, everybody.

In what sitcom series is the coffee shop?

Central perk?

Cash.

Friends.

Friends is correct.

Your bonus Italo Calvino novel.

If on a winter's night, a traveler is told from what point of view, using the pronouns yourself and you second person, second person is right.

Calpurnia was the final wife of what?

Roman dictator who crossed the Rubicon to fight Pompeii.

Another member of the First Triumvirate, Andrew Caesar.

Caesar is correct.

Your bonus.

The portal vein brings the oxygen.

The oxygen needed blood to what organ, infections of which are generally called hepatitis.

Your bonus heart.

It's the liver.

It's the liver.

Next toss up pot offers wife Zuleika attempted to seduce.

What biblical character?

A son of Rachel and Jacob.

And it is gray Samson.

Nope.

I'll finish it for you.

Barden.

To seduce a biblical character, a son of Rachel and Jacob, who, like Dolly Parton, wore a coat of many colors.

Now cash.

Joseph.

Joseph is right.

You're a bonus.

A xylophone represents bones clattering in the fossils.

Movement of what?

Zoological suite by Camille Sons, sons, sons.

An answer.

Carnival of the animals.

That's correct.

Well done.

So glad you got that right.

What color dominates the painting?

The old guitarist, which Picasso painted in his period.

Sarah Blue is right in Shinto myth, Kusanagi is a grass cutting example of what bladed weapon that King Arthur supposedly pulled from a stone sword.

Sword is right.

What author described an invisible hand and a pin factory?

Latika that's right, Adam Smith.

Your bonus Pearl books trilogy, the Good Earth is based on her time living in what Asian countries?

City of Nanjing, China.

China is right.

Number 16 of 20 questions.

What astronomer dropped two balls of gold?

Andrew.

Galileo.

Galileo is right.

Bonus question.

The future of sculpture.

Unique forms of continuity in space is created.

From what material?

That is an alloy of copper and zinc.

What's bronze?

Bronze is right next.

Grover Cleveland was the only former president to later serve in what position?

Which is today held.

And it's Sydney Justice.

Little more head justice, she said.

Head justice.

No, that's not correct.

Do you guys have an answer?

Lounge chief Justice Chee, chief justice is correct.

Here's the here's the bonus question for you.

President Abraham Lincoln was born in Kentucky, lived in Indiana.

But in what?

Illinois city is his final resting place?

I think Springfield Springfield is correct.

The state capitol.

Next question for everyone.

The Zung Aaron Zung, Aryan and new basins are found in what desert, which is shared by parts of China and Mongolia.

Sarah Gobi Gobi is right.

Your bonus Dorothy Hodgkin used X-ray crystallography to discover the beta beta lactam ring of what mold derived antibiotic discovered by Alexander Fleming.

Penicillin.

Penicillin is correct.

Two more questions Albert Camus.

Camus novel The Plague and The Stranger take place in what?

Former French colony in Africa with a capital.

Latika.

Algeria is right.

Your bonus, an E-meter is used to perform auditing by members of what religion?

Founded by L Ron Hubbard and practice by Tom cruise.

Scientology.

Scientology is right.

Here's this question number 20.

What girl volunteers as tribute to Suzanne Collins and Cash Katniss Everdeen?

That is correct.

Here's your bonus.

A Japanese style bridge is often depicted above what aquatic plants that Claude Monet often depicted in his pond.

Water lilies.

Water lilies is right.

Lay your pins down.

Relax a little bit.

I'm going to tell our viewers at home what our four categories are for the Lightning Round.

I'll share them with you as well, of course.

And, Barton Academy, you're trailing slightly here at the midpoint.

So you'll choose first from the four categories.

And then we'll come over to Gadson who will choose two, the subject for the Lightning round for this program today.

University mascots p math terms, the four seasons and animal idioms.

Those are the four categories.

We get one right.

You get to choose one.

Yes.

Four seasons, four seasons.

All right.

Before we play that, why don't we meet the players?

We'll start with Sydney and we'll go around and just ask everyone to tell our viewers at home a little bit about yourself.

My name is Sydney.

I'm in the seventh grade and I play the French horn.

I'm getting ready.

I'm in the eighth grade and I play the cello.

I'm Sarah Lovelace in the eighth grade, and I play piano for ten years.

I'm Cash Tolman, I'm an eighth grade, and I am Regina George.

I'm Grace Stevens, I'm an eighth grade, and I play electric guitar.

I'm Andrew Lynn, I'm in the eighth grade, and I like looking at maps.

I'm Motueka Prasad, I'm in eighth grade, and I like music.

I'm Oils Robinson, I'm an eighth grade and I play acoustic guitar.

Very good.

Good to meet you all.

Good to have you all here.

And you're all playing very well.

And, remind me, Sarah, it's the four Seasons you chose first, is that correct?

Very good.

The four seasons, you'll have 60s like we always do.

You'll complete these literary titles with a season of the year.

Here we go.

The blank of our discontent asks drums of blank, a novel by Diana Gabaldon.

Sums up summer.

It's autumn.

The blank of the House of usher, a short story by Edgar Allan the Fourth.

That's right.

Silent, blank, an environmental book by Rachel Carson.

Silent Winter.

What's your answer?

Winter.

It is spring.

The Boys of Blank, nonfiction book by Roger Kahn.

Summer.

That's right.

Things.

Blank apart, a novel by Chinua Achebe.

Fall Things Fall Apart, that's right.

The Lion in Blank, a play by James Goldman.

The Lion in Spring, it's Winter.

The cradle Will blank, a novel by Mary Higgins Clark.

Fall, Fall is Right A Blank Place, a romance novel written by Sloan Wilson.

Skip.

Okay.

The Blank Tale, a play by William Shakespeare.

Winter.

Winter is.

Did you say winter?

Is that your answer?

Yes.

It's right you skipped.

Time is up.

The Winter of Our Discontent was the sign book back when we started with there.

All right.

You did a good job with those.

We'll come over to Gadsden Middle now and, Latika, you have three to choose from.

Which two would you like to do?

Can we have math and animal idioms?

Yes, you can, and you may as well p math terms identify these math terms that could be found in the p section of a math textbook.

Glossary.

Make sense?

Here we go.

The answer to a multiplication problem.

An algebraic expression having two or more terms.

Two lines that intersect and form right angled perpendicular.

The ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter.

A location on a line or plane.

Point, a device that measures the number of degrees in an angle.

Protractor, any number to the right of zero and a number.

Line a fraction with a numerator that is smaller than its denominator.

Proper.

Proper.

That's right.

The chance of an event occurring.

Probability.

That's right.

And the number that has only two factors one and itself.

Prime.

That's good.

And you did it in 27 seconds.

I don't know if you get extra points for that, but that's pretty darn good animal animals in idioms is your next choice correct?

Yes.

In 60s when we begin, you're going to use the name of an animal to complete each of these idioms.

Here we go.

You can lead a blank to water, but you can't make him drink.

Make a mountain out of a blank to go straight as the blank flies.

Crow.

That's right.

To be out of one's element like a blank out of water.

To do something until the blanks come home.

but bears, it's cows to be clumsy.

Like a blank in a China shop bowl.

That's right.

Raining blank and blank.

Meaning the real deal on.

That's right.

Take the blank by the horns.

Meaning to tackle a difficult task.

Hold your blank.

Meaning be patient.

Get your blank in a row.

Meaning to get things in order.

Get your, pass.

Okay.

Go back to your.

Take the blank by the horns, meaning to tackle a difficult task.

what do I say, goat?

he said it right, but goats wrong.

Bull is right.

Get your blank in a row.

Meaning to get things in.

No.

It's ducks.

Get your ducks in a row.

Those are only funny because it's old.

People know those old sayings, and we just go, wow, everybody knows that.

Well done.

Well done on both of your categories.

And we're going back to Barton Academy now for university mascots.

I thought this one might be like first chosen, but it's the one that's left over.

But I'll bet you'll do well.

You're ready.

I'm going to give you the mascot of each of the following universities.

I'm going to give you the university.

You tell me the mascot.

Okay.

Michigan Wolverines.

That's right.

Texas Rangers, Longhorns, Florida State gators, Seminoles, UCLA, skip Penn State Cougars, Nittany Lions, Nebraska skip Georgia Bulldogs.

That's right.

Oklahoma skip.

Duke.

Skip.

Skip.

Arkansas.

Skip.

Okay, we'll go back to UCLA.

Lions.

They're the Bruins Nebraska.

Bears.

Cornhuskers Oklahoma.

Goats.

You got plenty of Sooners and Duke Dolphins I like your guesses.

Blue Devils and Arkansas.

Tornadoes.

They're the Razorbacks.

But you do well by guessing because you never know you might just hit one lucky but good job for that as well.

Those that concludes our lightning round.

And now we're going to finish our program just under eight minutes.

We're going to do 20 point questions.

As you all know there are no bonus questions involved here.

Answer the question.

If you answered correctly.

We move on to the next one and each one is worth 20 points and off we go.

The Gordon Riots occurred during the reign of what King, who suffered from porphyria while leading the United Kingdom, and Latika the third.

George the third is correct.

The absurdist playwright Eugene Invesco wrote a play in which people turn into what title?

Animals.

Rhinoceroses.

Correct.

What title woman works in a cigaret factory and sings the Habanera in an opera by George Basie, and it's Sarah Carmen.

Carmen is right.

The final male Stuart monarch was the second king.

With what?

Regnal name?

And it's actually in the second.

no, I'll finish reading this for, Gadsden.

Second King with what?

Regnal name?

Which also was shared by the American presidents Madison and Monroe.

And it is great.

James.

James is right.

What inertial force causes storms to rotate differently in the northern and hemisphere?

What's it called?

Lounge.

The Coriolis effect is right in what Jonathan Swift novel in which the title doctor visits fantastical Attica.

That's right, the I Am prepared to Die speech during the revolt Nia trial.

Q Mandela, Nelson Mandela that's right.

what scientist who died in 2018 from ALS has a form of radiation emitted.

Latika Hawking is right.

Stephen Hawking.

What?

Which text, which comes in Babylonian and Jerusalem coins, is the foundation of the rabbinic Jewish law.

Gray.

The Talmud.

The Talmud is right.

Novels, poetry and music are some of the categories of what?

Annual prize awarded by Columbia University.

Latika.

Pulitzer, Pulitzers.

Right.

The tallest tower in the world is the sky tree.

In what Asian city which serves Andrew.

Tokyo.

Tokyo is right after watching this goddess bathe, Teresa was blinded.

Latika.

No.

I'll finish it was blinded by what?

Greek goddess who was the wife of Zeus.

And it's Sarah Hara.

Hara is right.

According to Boyle's law, pressure increases inversely to what value?

Measured in liters.

Yes, Sarah.

Volume is right.

A police strike in Boston was put down by what man who later became the 13th president and had the nickname Silent and Latika.

Calvin Coolidge is correct.

What gel like material is found between the cell membrane and the nucleus in cells?

Cache cell wall.

No.

That's incorrect.

I've completed reading it.

Do you all have an answer?

Cytoplasm.

Cytoplasm is correct.

Gray.

What?

Series of paintings by Andy Warhol first shown in a one man exhibition?

Cash.

Campbell's soup cans.

Yes, Campbell soup cans is correct.

What language was used to write the short story collection portrait of the artist as a Young Dog?

Latika.

Portuguese.

No.

That's incorrect.

I'll finish it for you.

And the poem.

Do not go gentle into that good night.

Works by the Welsh author Dylan Thomas.

What language was used?

Do you guys have an answer, Sarah?

English.

English is correct.

The Red Turban Rebellion led to the formation of what?

Second to last Chinese dynasty.

Andrew Ming Ming dynasty is right.

What substance released through the cystic duct is a fluid produced by the liver and stored in the gallbladder.

Latika, bile is the right answer.

What poem that depicts a drowning Phoenician named Phoebus opens with the line April is the cruelest month, Latika.

The wasteland.

What bands?

Songs.

Radio Gaga, we will rock you and Bohemian Rhapsody.

Great.

Queen.

Queen is correct.

The ancient Galen held.

What occupation?

Whose practitioners treat patients in clinics and hospitals.

What was it?

Lounge doctors.

Correct.

The social experiment in the coal mining community of Arthur Dale in West Virginia was supported by what?

Woman who served as a UN delegate and assisted her husband, Andrew.

Eleanor Roosevelt.

Eleanor Roosevelt is correct.

About 3.5 minutes left, what boy is given money by the convict Abel, which in Charles Dickens Latika.

Pip.

Pip is right.

The Committee of 300 called what structure?

A gigantic black smokestack.

After it became the tallest structure in Paris.

Latika tower, Eiffel Tower is right.

In what country was Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini composed by Sergei Rachmaninoff.

And it is Sarah.

Russia.

Russia is correct.

The novel lair of the White Worm is a lesser known work by what British author who wrote about Van Helsing hunt for Latika.

Bram Stoker is right.

Brunhilde was an example of what?

Norse woman.

Latika.

Valkyrie is right.

What animal?

Whose blood was used to treat diphtheria before vaccines were invented.

Is related to the camel.

Lives in the Andes and is bred for its fiber and its cash.

Llama.

That's incorrect.

Do you guys have an answer?

I finished reading it all.

Gray alpaca.

Alpaca.

The kind of llama.

Next, the animus and Anima were concepts developed by what Swiss psychologist Gretta Carl Jung.

Carl Jung is correct.

What?

Bone has the scientific name patella and protects buzzin in his gray knee.

Judges from knee cap.

Knee cap is the right answer.

Next, a polygon appears in the slew of Despond in What Allegory by John Bunyan, in which Christian travels to the Latika.

That's right.

According to Greek myth, during their childhood palace, daughter of Triton was accidentally killed by what Greek goddess of wisdom, Sarah Athena.

The documentary The Hate That Hate Produces featured an interview with what?

Activist who changed his surname from Little to a single letter.

And that is Greta.

Malcolm X Malcolm X.

You're right.

What type of poem?

Such as the one written by Thomas Gray in a Country Churchyard.

Latika.

It is called an elegy.

That's right.

Just a few more questions.

What bay?

With 50ft tides, the highest tidal range in the world is found in Nova Scotia.

What is it?

Hudson Bay?

Nope.

That's incorrect.

Guess.

And do you have an answer?

What's it called?

Ithaca.

It's called the Bay of Fundy.

The Bay of Fundy?

What?

Cubist artist painting Sarah Picasso?

Nope.

I've.

What?

Cubist artist?

Painting nude Descending a Staircase was criticized as looking like an explosion in the shingle factory.

And Latika Duchamp is correct.

What woman whose name is synonymous with treachery seduce Samson, discovered the secret two.

And it is gray.

Delilah.

Delilah is the right answer.

Next.

What is the range of the following set of numbers?

23, 14, 1985 and four?

And buzzing in is Latika 8181 is the right answer.

What Australian mammal commonly called a bear is actually a marsupial koala.

Koala is the right answer.

Great and last question what biblical book tells of the sufferings of a righteous man and his friends?

Jobe.

And it is Jobe.

And that's the name of that game.

Well done boy.

Both teams played very, very well.

Congratulations to you.

I am out of questions.

Whether you're out of time or not.

When you're out of questions, you have to stop.

So we'll stop and, congratulate, Gadsden Middle for finishing on top in this particular round today.

Well done.

Barton Academy for mobile.

Every time you play, you play well and you played well in this game as well.

We're proud of all of you.

As I know, those of you in their hometowns are proud of them as well.

The show is called the Alabama Scholar's Bowl.

My name is Mike Royer.

Thank you so much for watching.

We hope you'll join us again next time.