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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 the Alabama Scholars Bowl here on Alabama Public Television.

My name is Mike Royer.

My pleasure to host this program here on Alabama Public Television.

And we are really enjoying working with and welcoming into the studio middle school junior high students from all around the state of Alabama.

Our students contestants today are from Gadsden Middle School and also from West Point Junior High or Middle School.

What do you call UGA middle middle school?

Good.

I'll remember that for both of you.

It's good to have you back in the studio.

We're familiar with these students and very happy to have them back with us.

Sharon Dailey, Claudette Smith, Kate Wilson, Christopher Arthur are some of the folks working very hard with SCA and with preparing questions and all that goes into this program.

We thank them.

Mike Ousley is our executive producer and just a blanket.

Thanks to all the folks from Alabama Public Television who take very good care of us and really make this a pleasurable experience as we visit their studios here in the capital city.

Let's get started.

We'll be doing 20 questions here.

If you answered correctly, you get a bonus question.

Then we'll work our way up to the lightning round midway through the program.

Question number one fingers on buttons.

What name is shared by the first U.S. Space Shuttle orbiter built to perform atmospheric test flights?

After being launched from a Boeing 747 and the fictional starship captained by James Kirk.

Yes.

Abraham Hubble?

Nope.

That's incorrect.

Latika.

Messenger.

No.

Do you know someone my age goes go!

Come on, you guys.

Enterprise.

Captain Kirk was on the enterprise.

People my age are all going.

I knew that one.

Next question for everybody.

In what musical are the wealthy Schuyler sisters?

Angelica and it's lounge.

Hamilton is right.

Bonus question for your team.

What woman?

A pioneer for promoting education for women in medicine, became the first female to obtain a medical degree in the United States in 1849.

Clara Barton.

No, it was Elizabeth Blackwell.

Elizabeth Blackwell.

That's a new one on me.

Next question.

What term was given to individuals such as Sir Francis Drake, who were given commissions by their governments?

Knight.

Cole.

Say again.

Knight.

no.

I'll finish reading this for you.

Gadsden by their governments to rob merchant ships and pillage settlements belonging to rival countries.

What were they called?

Yes.

Latika.

Mercenaries?

no.

They were called privateers or corsairs.

Was another term used next.

What painting by Johann Vermeer is called the Mona Lisa of the North, and features a young woman wearing a blue scarf.

Latika, girl with a Pearl earring.

That's right, that's correct.

Bonus question for your team, Gadsden.

What song first played in 1829 to honor Andrew Jackson's position as president of the United States, is played when the president goes to the podium and is the official presidential anthem.

What's that called?

He's the great, good old guy.

Grand old guy.

She made you say grand old guy, didn't she?

She put you up to that.

Hail to the chief.

They play hail to the chief when the president comes out.

Here we go.

What charitable organization?

Founded in 1865 by William Booth and bussing in is Abraham Red cross?

Nope.

I'll finish it for you.

Officers derived from the military ranks such as lieutenant and major.

Operates a chief, operates a network of thrift stores whose proceeds go to its emergency relief programs.

Gadson.

Do you know what that organization is called?

Gray Salvation Army.

That's correct.

Bonus question for Gadsden.

What name was given to the plan to encircle and defeat the rebel forces by imposing a blockage, blockage of the southern ports and squeezing and suffocating them like a snake.

What was that called?

Yeah.

Anaconda.

That's correct.

The anaconda plan.

Now toss up for everybody in.

What part of the body would you find?

The carpal bones.

The eight bones that connect the on the Latika arm?

No, I'm going to finish reading it for you.

West point, that connect the ulna and the radius to the metacarpal bones.

And provide flexibility and movement to the soft tissue of the hand.

What part of the body is that, Abraham?

Fingers.

Nope.

It's in the wrist.

That is the wrist.

Next, in 1906, what former president was the first American to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for brokering the Treaty of Portsmouth to win the Russia?

Japanese?

Andrew Roosevelt.

Teddy Roosevelt is the right answer.

Theodore Roosevelt, bonus question for you.

What is the term for the hardened outer protective layer of the pupa stage of a butterfly?

Don't have to buzz in.

That's okay.

You have an answer.

Chrysalis is correct.

Next question for everybody.

What state is the only state to feature a foreign country's national flag?

The Union Jack and why?

Hawaii is the right answer.

Good job.

And I have a bonus question for you.

West point.

Which island?

The location of Christopher Columbus's first sighting of the Americas on October 12th, 1492, was given a Spanish name by Columbus, which translates as Island of Holy Savior Christian as Mendiola.

Nope.

The right answer is San Salvador, San Salvador.

Toss up everybody what American statesman was appointed by the continental Congress as the first Postmaster General in 1775.

Latika Franklin Ben Franklin is right.

Bonus, who defeated Jimmy Connors at Wimbledon in 1975 to become the first African-American man to win the coveted singles title.

Ashe Arthur Ashe is right.

That's correct.

And now we move on to the next tossup question for everyone what flightless bird is a national symbol of Australia and ranks, and it's Abraham EMU.

EMU is correct.

Bonus question for you, West Point.

Two museums in Arizona showcase what female painters works.

Of course.

Skulls and large flowers.

O'Keeffe Georgia O'Keeffe is correct.

Good job.

Next.

What iconic landmark was built for the 1889 World Exposition in Paris?

With plans to tear it down?

Eiffel tower I will tower is correct.

They haven't torn it down yet.

Good job Abraham.

Bonus question for your team.

What mythical creature is usually depicted as a reptile causes death to those to look into its eyes, and is considered to be the king of the serpents.

That's someone.

Say it out loud.

Basilisk.

That's correct.

Well done.

Tossup, everybody.

What author wrote about Gregor Samsa who wakes up Latika Kafka.

Kafka's right.

Bonus question.

What telescope was replaced on December 25th, 2021 by the James Webb Space Telescope?

What is it?

Hubble?

Hubble is right.

Tossup.

What holiday is celebrated annually in France on July 14th to commemorate Latika Bastille day is right.

Bonus question for you.

What city, located in Alberta province, Canada, is famous for its stampede?

Winnipeg?

Nope, it is Calgary.

The Calgary Stampede, everybody.

What ocean?

The third largest in size and home to the island Indian Ocean.

Indian Ocean is right.

That's the third largest and the the bonus question is yours now.

Who was the king of Sparta who led his army at the Battle of Thermopylae?

Is one of the history's most famous.

Less stands less than.

Do you have an answer?

No answer.

It's okay.

Leonidas is the answer we wanted.

Next.

What artist painted the cotton exchange in New Orleans, but is more famous for his depiction of horses and ballet dancers and Latika Degas.

Correct.

Bonus question.

Pardon me.

What research laboratory has six bedrooms, two bathrooms and a 360 degree bay window and is operated by five space agencies in collaboration I.s.s.

good judges.

International Space Station is right next.

What musical instrument invented in 1709 by Bartolo No.

At Alamo, Cristofori has 88 keys originally made of ivory.

What is it?

Lounge.

The piano.

Bonus.

What battle was fought on the plains of Abraham during the French and Indian War, and was led by British Commander Wolffe and French Commander Montcalm, both of whom died.

What battle was that?

Agincourt.

It was the Battle of Quebec.

Battle of Quebec.

Few more questions here.

What is the nickname of Jack Dawkins?

The leader of a gang of children.

And gray, the Artful Dodger?

Artful Dodger is right.

Bonus.

What is the name for the female reproductive part of a flower?

Where pollination occurs over ovary?

No, it's called the pistol.

It's called the pistol.

Next, what term for three consecutive strikes in bowling also names the type of fowl that Benjamin Franklin.

Abraham Turkey.

That's called a turkey.

You're right.

Here's your bonus.

What organ of the human body did Doctor Christiaan Barnard first transplant in South Africa in 1967.

Heart.

Heart is right.

Two more questions here.

What federal organization created by Abraham Lincoln hours before his assassination?

FBI.

no.

I'll finish it for you.

Gadsden.

Hours before his assassination to stop rampant counterfeiting is mandated by Congress to protect U.S. political leaders and their families.

Who is that?

Andrew service.

No.

Secret service.

It's the secret service.

Next.

Last question before we take a little break.

What theater was built by Lord Chamberlain's Men in London and burned Abraham Globe Theater?

That's right.

The Globe Theater, built in 1613.

Bonus for you to wrap up this section.

What oath, in its original Greek form, required physicians to swear by a number of healing gods and to practice ethical medicine.

What's it called?

The Hippocratic.

Hippocratic oath?

That's correct.

That's the right answer.

Way to pull that off.

To wrap up that section of our round today, lay your buttons down.

I'm going to share with our viewers at home and with you the four categories for our Lightning round.

West Point.

You're trailing slightly here at the midpoint, so you will choose first of the four categories.

And those categories are grammar and language.

Who said it?

Literature and presidents literature.

You're going to you're going to select literature.

And you'll play that right after we meet everybody.

Okay.

Great.

Would you begin just tell us each one of you a little bit about yourself.

Go ahead.

My name is my name is Grace Stevens.

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

My name is Andrew.

When I'm in the eighth grade, and my last name is very hard to pronounce.

my name is Lydia.

I'm in eighth grade, and I want to go to Duke for college.

Very good.

My name is Lounds.

I'm in the eighth grade, and my favorite thing to do is fishing.

Very good.

My name is Cole.

I'm in seventh grade, West Point Middle School, and I'm in the West Point math team.

Abramov I'm in seventh grade at West Point Middle School, and I hope to attend the University of Alabama.

I'm calling it.

I'm in seventh grade at West Point Middle School, and I play tuba.

I'm Thatcher, I'm in seventh grade at West Point Middle School, and I'm in the marching band very good.

Andrew, you know, I have to ask, how do you pronounce your last name?

Do it.

Wind.

What's that wind?

That's it.

It's just spelled it's energy.

Okay, so the c hard to pronounce names don't concern me at all.

As you can tell, I just fly right through them with no problem.

All right.

Coming back over here to West Point.

Tell me again the category you want to do literature.

Literature.

And here's what you're going to do in 60s.

You're going to answer the following questions about famous literary works.

60s.

Here we go.

What happens to the winner of the Lottery and Shirley Jackson's short story?

That Guy broke?

no.

They're stoned to death.

What type of animal pursues Captain Hook in Peter Pan?

Oh, crocodile.

That's right.

What word meaning greetings was the first word Charlotte wrote in her web?

Two seasons?

Nope.

Salutations.

What book is remembered largely for its cruel overseer, Simon Legree?

Oh, Uncle Tom's cabin.

That's right.

What?

Two pigs vie for power in Animal Farm.

Napoleon.

Napoleon and snowball.

That's right.

What book by Machiavelli explains how to obtain and keep political power.

The Prince?

That's right.

What book by S.E.

Hinton tells of the conflict between two rival gangs and outsiders.

That's right.

Who published a book proposing the theory of evolution by means of natural selection in 1859.

Darwin.

In what country are Rudyard Kipling's novels?

Kim and The Jungle Book set.

Wait, no no no country.

Ethiopia.

Up in that last answer.

Ethiopia was incorrect.

It's India.

India is the last one.

Gadson will come over to you.

Gadsden Middle.

You're going to play two in a row.

Latika, what would you like to do?

Can we have grammar and presidents?

Language and presidents.

The language one.

In 60s you're going to identify the following about grammar and languages.

Ready?

First letter of the Greek alphabet for alpha.

Universal language of the Catholic Church.

Don't pass unauthorized writing on public walls.

Graffiti.

Term for study of language.

Linguistics.

Right.

Ancient Egyptian picture writing.

Hieroglyphics.

Any letter that isn't a vowel or semi vowel.

Consonant.

Term for a sentence that ask a question.

Interrogative.

Artificial language created by Ludvig Zamenhof.

Thanks for answer.

That's right.

Name given to a word made up of two other words, such as birthday or suitcase.

Compound word.

The five main country associated romance languages Spanish, French, Italian, Romanian, and Portuguese.

That's correct.

You skipped universal language of the Catholic Church.

You have plenty of time.

English wasn't confident at all.

It's Latin.

Latin is the official language of the Catholic Church.

The good job with that category, you got nine out of ten, and next you chose presidents.

Very good.

You're going to give the following information about, given the information about these presidents of the United States and their terms in office.

Tell me who the president was.

Ready?

The only president for whom a state is named?

Washington.

That's right.

Alaska and Hawaii became states under this president.

past scandal during Hardings administration involving naval oil reserves.

President Lincoln was killed in this building.

Ford's theater president won a Pulitzer prize for his book Profiles in Courage.

Truman.

It was Kennedy.

Minimum age of a U.S. president.

35.

That's right.

President responsible for the Louisiana Purchase.

Jefferson.

Jefferson.

That's right.

President who survived an assassination attempt in 1981.

Reagan.

Reagan is right.

Theodore Roosevelt led Roughriders up San Juan Hill in this country.

Only former president to serve on the Supreme Court.

Taft.

William Taft is right.

You skipped Alaska and Hawaii.

You became president.

Came states under this President Truman.

It was Eisenhower, Dwight Eisenhower in 1959.

But well done.

Nine out of ten on that and West Point.

How excited are you about getting the last category called?

Who said it in 60s you're going to give me the name of the person or character who said each of the following.

Ready, I shall return after leaving the Philippines in 1942.

MacArthur.

That's right.

I think that I shall never see a poem.

Lovely as a tree in his palm trees.

Pass.

Give me liberty or give me death.

In a speech to the Virginia Henry.

That's right.

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall in a speech delivered at the Berlin Wall.

Kennedy.

It was Reagan.

Mr. Watson, come here, I want you.

Well, that's right.

I just can't wait to be king, sings this young prince in a symbol that's right in the future, everybody will be world famous for 15 minutes is attributed to this artist.

Pass.

I think, therefore, I am is the first principle of this philosopher that apply to it's Descartes.

Won't You Be My Neighbor is the theme song to this long running PBS children's show.

Wait a minute.

What's his name?

Arthur.

Mister Rogers.

Damn the torpedoes!

Full speed ahead.

Ordered this admiral at the Battle of Mobile Bay.

Wait a minute.

What did you.

Time is up.

That was David Farragut.

And Kilmer said, I think I shall never see a poem as lovely as a tree.

There's a reason that category was saved to last.

No one chose it because it was kind of hard.

But you all did well in the lightning round.

We have about seven minutes left in our program, and as you players know, we will fill that time by asking you 20 point questions.

No bonuses.

You just answer the question and move on.

Ready?

What agency was established by an executive order signed by President Kennedy providing a means.

Abraham CIA.

Nope.

Finishing it for you.

Gadsden providing a means for young people to serve in developing countries.

What was that agency?

Is that agency called the Luna?

No, it's called the Peace Corps.

What type of animal was Dolly?

The first mammal to be cloned?

Sheep.

Sheep is right.

What first name is shared by the inventor of dynamite?

The director of movies such as Rear Window and Psycho.

And it's Latika.

Alfred.

Alfred is correct.

What public service organization received its first call at a police station in Haleyville, Alabama, in February of 1968, when U.S. representative Tom bevel answered a call from Alabama Speaker of the House rank and fight the first call of its kind in the country to know what it was called.

Not on one, what, 911 call?

That's right.

The first nine one called America was made here in Alabama.

Good job.

What material was developed by a DuPont chemist to make lightweight tires, but instead is used today in bulletproof vest.

Andrew.

Kevlar is correct.

What creature from Greek mythology representing barbarism and unbridled chaos was half human and half horse and teacup.

That's right.

What astronaut?

The second American in space perished in a fire.

Abraham Aldrin.

No, that's incorrect.

he perished in a fire with Ed White and Roger Chaffee during a pre-launch test for Apollo one.

And has a high school in Huntsville, Alabama, named for him.

Do you know who that is?

That's two.

Yes.

John Glenn.

No, it's Virgil Gus Grissom, Indiana native who was the first president to throw the first pitch at an All-Star game doing so.

And it's Abraham Busch.

no, it was no, that's not correct.

Do you have an answer?

Gadsden?

I'm sorry.

I'll finish the question.

Doing so on July 10th, 1962, a year before his assassination.

There you go.

Kennedy.

Kennedy is right.

What island?

Off the coast of Africa was the site of Napoleon's spinal exile and place of death.

Andrew, Saint Helena Saint Helena is correct.

What piano piece with a name that is French for the moon was composed by Debussy.

What was it?

Ithaca.

That's right.

What state leads the country in both corn and pork production and has its land grant?

Abraham, Nebraska.

No.

I'll finish it for you.

Has its land grant.

University in Ames.

What state is that?

Yes, Iowa.

Iowa is right.

What literary character considered an icon of teenage rebellion and angst, was the narrator and protagonist of a J.D.

Salinger 1951 work, Latika Caulfield?

Yes.

Holden Caulfield, The Catcher in the Rye.

Next, who is the English mathematician and daughter of Lord Byron, who wrote the first algorithm for a machine in 1880 and is considered to be the first computer programmer.

Yes.

Abraham Smith.

No.

That's incorrect.

Okay, Latika?

Nope.

It's one of our more obscure questions, but the answer is Ada Lovelace.

Ada Lovelace.

You'll know that next time.

Who painted the fresco in Pope Julius the Second's apartment in the Vatican called the School of Athens.

Who was that?

Latika.

Raphael.

Raphael is correct.

What close friend of C.S.

Lewis was on the English faculty at Oxford, was a member of the inklings literary group, and wrote the Latika.

That's right.

As of 2023, which professional basketball player who played for the Boston Celtics has won the most NBA championships?

Russell.

That's right.

Bill Russell.

Well done.

Abraham.

What?

NBA superstar league MVP in 2021 and 2022?

Nikola Jokic.

That's right.

Yo get is the right answer.

What 1954 battle expelled the French from Vietnam and led to the division of the country into North and south states?

Yes.

Ho Chi Minh?

No.

That's incorrect.

West point, do you have an answer?

Yes.

Saigon?

No.

It was the battle of the NBN.

Q what?

Scientists in the 1660s used a prism and Abraham Newton II, sir Isaac Newton is correct.

What female British researcher traveled to Gombe Bay Stream Reserve in current day Tanzania to study chimpanzees in the wild Lions.

Jane Goodall is right.

Couple of minutes left.

What lowercase letter is used in music to signify that a note is to be played one tone lower than usual?

Colin.

Say b b is correct.

That's right.

What author had a home in Ketchum, Idaho, where he died by suicide but is well known for his homes in Cuba and Key West, Florida, where approximately 60 descendants of his six toed cat, Snow White, still roam the ticket.

Hemingway.

Hemingway is right.

Next.

What Italian inventor?

Send a message via morse code to a location more than a kilometer away.

Thus being credited for the invention of the radio.

Yes.

Latika.

Tesla.

Nope.

That's incorrect.

West point, you have an answer.

We say Abraham Smith.

Nope.

Marconi.

Marconi.

What?

Hybrid cable stayed?

Suspension bridge was designed by John Augustus Roebling, opened in 1883 and crosses the East River into New York City.

What is it, Latika?

Brooklyn Bridge is right.

Last question.

What state shares borders with Maine, New York and New Hampshire and his home?

Vermont.

Vermont is correct.

Well done.

Lay your buttons down.

We will, call it a day on this particular program.

You all played well, Gadsden Middle once again coming out on top in this particular round.

West point.

You gentlemen played well.

We're proud of all of you for how well you played in the program today.

And we'll look forward to seeing many of you back on the program again.

Our program is called the Alabama Scholars Bowl.

We're here very regularly on Alabama public television, on statewide TV.

We're glad that you joined us for the program.

Appreciate the comments that we hear from you from time to time, and we hope you'll join us again next time.