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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.

We appreciate you watching our program every week.

And we really appreciate the support we get from the good folks here at Alabama Public Television.

We want to thank Wayne Reed and all of the staff here who work so hard to be hospitable to us and welcome us into their studios.

And we enjoy being being able to bring the program to you every week.

Sharon Dailey, Claudette Smith, a couple of the folks behind the scenes judges doing other things to, produce the program, make it happen.

Mike Isley is our executive producer, and we're so glad that you've joined us today.

We have a special program today, an all star round combining four teams, sort of a north south battle here in the studio today, we have two players from mountain Brook and two players from Evangel Christian, and they'll be competing against the players from Arab Junior High and Discovery Middle School teams that have played before.

But now they're playing together for the first time and against each other, and we're looking forward to how this round goes.

Everybody ready to go?

Same game we play every week 20 questions.

If you get the answer correct, we'll give you a bonus question a lightning round in the middle of the program and a bunch of 20 point questions as we get near the end.

If everyone is ready, buzzers in hand, let's get started.

During what battle was the USS Yorktown lost in a US victory?

And buzzing in is Josh midway.

That was the Battle of Midway.

Pretty good movie, if you get a chance.

Here's your bonus question.

TVs that often contained the liquid variety of what solids arranged in a highly colored lattice.

What is that?

No.

It's crystals.

Crystals is what we wanted there.

Let's jump right into a math problem.

Grab your pencil.

Find either solution for X in the equation two x squared minus five x plus three equals zero.

Anybody want to jump in with an answer here.

There we go Cindy four.

That's incorrect.

Mountain Brook Evangel.

Any of you have an answer?

We're going to give it seven more seconds.

Anybody got an answer?

Let me give it to you.

All right.

Wyatt 3.1415926.

No, it's x equals one or x equals 1.5.

Let's.

Hey, after the show today, let's all get together and we'll talk about that one and try to work it out together.

I'm so good at math.

Next question.

What colony was founded by James Oglethorpe and started as buzzing in is I don't see it on zone Jamestown.

No.

That's incorrect.

James Oglethorpe and started as a debtor colony before becoming the Georgia.

Georgia is right.

Bonus question for your team.

Go set a Watchman is a possum a sequel to what novel in which Tom Robinson is defended in court by Atticus Finch?

To kill a mockingbird.

That's correct.

Toss up everyone.

What 17ft tall marble statue.

The best known work by Michelangelo depicts a biblical judge, David.

David is right.

The bonus question for you.

The Baha'i Faith headquarters, the universal House of justice, is located in what country?

Which was the birthplace of Judaism.

And where is.

Whoa!

Lots of Jerusalem.

Oh, well, I think this is a bonus for here.

Oh, it's all right.

It's okay.

Israel.

Israel?

Yes.

All right.

And we settle down, everybody.

We're good.

Next question.

In what word does SR hazard tell the central stories?

That contains the tales of Sindbad the Sailor and Aladdin?

And what's the answer, Josh?

Arabian Nights or 1001 Arabian Nights?

That's the correct answer.

Well done.

Bonus question for your team.

The All-American Canal receives water from what river that flows through the Hoover Dam and carves out the Grand Canyon.

Colorado.

Colorado River is right.

Sorry.

Toss up everybody.

What compound produced by the Haber Bosch process has the formula NH three and its white, sodium.

Incorrect.

Do you guys have an answer?

Ammonia.

Ammonia is right.

Bonus question.

Just for this team, the collection of When We Were Young was written by what British author who created the 100 Acre Wood and Winnie the Pooh?

No, no, no.

That's right.

Do you had the initials?

Right.

Two when you were discussing it?

A.A. Milne.

Next question for everyone.

What country underwent the great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution?

China.

China is right.

Bonus for your team.

The Last Man is a lesser known work.

By what?

Author who created the monster Frankenstein, Mary Shelley.

That's correct.

Toss up everybody.

What religious group owned by the city of Nabu, Illinois and was founded by Josh Latter-Day Saints.

Church of Latter-Day Saints is one answer Mormon.

The other.

Bonus question for you.

What name is given to the reproductive female in an insect society of ants or termites?

Queen.

Yeah, Queen.

Queen is correct.

Everybody in what?

Symphony?

By Ludwig van Beethoven.

Fifth.

Fifth is correct.

Yeah.

Bonus question.

Semi perimeters are used in Heron's formula, which finds the volume of what?

Three sided shape?

Triangle.

That's right everybody.

Both teams.

The killing fields of what country were used to murder opponents and its name?

Cambodia.

Cambodia is right.

Here's your bonus question.

William Cullen Bryan's poem that end up in a top us is a view of what concept in which vital functions stop death.

That's correct.

Toss up.

Everybody brought nice swath.

Malinowski was a teacher of what country's first president?

A Kikuyu named Jomo Kenyatta.

What country and its.

Join us.

Kenya.

Kenya is right.

Bonus.

People often throw salmon at the Pike Place Market.

In what city?

In Washington, which is home to the Space Needle.

Seattle.

Seattle.

Washington is right, everybody.

What famous scientist and inventor used the nickname Poor Richard to publish his yearly almanac?

Alonzo Ben Franklin.

Ben Franklin is right.

Bonus question for you.

Fluorine has the highest value.

For what property?

The tendency of an atom to attract electrons.

Electronegativity.

That's correct.

Tossup.

What author wrote about the demons Wormwood and Screwtape in the Screwtape Letters?

And it is Jonas Lewis C.S.

Lewis.

Correct?

Bonus for you what fruit appears in front of the central lady of my monies bar at the Folly bears?

Yeah.

And shares his name with the color composed of red and yellow.

Orange.

Orange is right.

Toss up, everybody.

During what presidential election year did the butterfly ballots cause a recount in Florida?

And C al Gore Y of 2000.

And that was the year 2000 bonus for you.

A single cash register can be seen in the top left of what?

Painting of an urban diner by Edward Hopper.

Nighthawks.

That's called Nighthawks.

You're right.

Toss up everybody.

What?

Painting depicts a boat in the Le Havre harbor.

Impression.

Sunrise.

Impression.

Sunrise is correct.

Josh, here's your bonus.

During President Hoover's time in office.

Hawley and Smoot sponsored an example of what kind of act the taxes, imported goods.

Tariff.

Tariff is correct, everybody.

The Kimball Art Museum is located in Fort Worth, a city in what state?

Texas.

Texas is right, Alonzo.

Bonus question for you.

The treasure of kissing Kate Barlow is buried in Camp Green Lake in what was holes?

That's right.

Holes is correct.

Next question.

The Gothams are contained in the Avesta, the sacred text of what?

Iranian religion, which was founded and named and buzzing in is name.

Zoroastrianism.

That is correct.

Your bonus question.

The frog owner painting the swing shows what kind of religious being usually depicted as a young child with wings.

Angel.

Cherub.

Which answer do you want to go with?

You wanna go with cherub?

That's the right answer.

Toss up everybody in.

What?

Giacomo Puccini, the opera Madame butterfly.

Madame butterfly is correct.

Bonus question.

The so-called Sandwich Wars began after the chicken sandwich was introduced to the menu.

Of.

What?

Fast food?

Chicken restaurant.

that's a bonus question here.

Oh, where was I?

Chicken sandwich?

Yeah.

Chicken says chicken, right?

Yeah, I'm looking for it.

Chicken sandwich.

Introduced to the menu of what?

Fast food chicken restaurant focused on Cajun style food.

Papa's Popeyes is correct.

Well done.

Next.

What organelles that digest cellular waste are affected by graves disease and Tay-Sachs disease?

Yes.

Ribosomes?

No sending the chloroplasts.

No.

It's lysosomes.

Lysosomes is the answer we wanted.

Next and last question here.

What county in Virginia is home to the Pentagon and a namesake, Josh Fairfax?

No, I'll finish it for you.

The other team, it is known it contains a pentagon and a namesake cemetery where over 300,000 U.S. veterans are buried.

Why?

Arlington Arlington is the right answer.

Last bonus question for your team.

Henry James work paste is based on what g do more pass on story in which Matilda learns that a lost piece of jewelry is a fake.

The necklace.

The necklace is right.

What will we plowed into those 20 questions?

Let's take a break.

I'm going to tell you what the categories are for our lightning round.

Mountain, Brook and, Evangel Christian, you're trailing slightly first from these, choices that we have in those choices.

Our triple word score.

What are you afraid of?

Outstanding islands.

And can you measure up?

You'll choose in a second.

Why?

But first we're going to meet all of our players.

Let's go around, tell us which school you're from.

Since we're playing a mixed team, match here today.

And would you begin?

My name is Neil Patel.

I'm from Baldwin, and I play tennis.

My name is Mason and I, and I'm from Evangel Christian Academy.

And in the future, I look to go into paleontology.

My name is Wyatt Pierce, and I'm from number junior high, and I'm on the robotics team.

my name's Alonzo.

Daddy, orcas.

I'm from Mount Brook, and I would like to coach in the NBA.

I'm Gina Coates, I'm from Monrovia middle school, and I like to read.

I'm Cindy Halter and I'm from discovery.

And my favorite song is Everlong by the Foo Fighters.

My name is Kobe and I'm from junior high and I enjoy playing football.

My name is Joshua Giddey.

I'm from Arab Junior High, and in the future I'd like to be a naval aviator.

Very good.

Proud of all of you.

You're playing well.

We're glad to have you back in the studio today.

So mountain Brook and Evangel, of the four choices I gave you, Wyatt, what do you guys want to do?

We'll take a measure up, please.

Can you measure up in 60s?

You're going to answer questions.

What does each of the following measurement equal?

Okay.

60s.

Here we go.

2,000 pounds, one ton, three teaspoons, one tablespoon.

It's right.

12 dozen.

12 144 oh, wait a bushel.

A gross grosses.

Right answer 500 sheets of paper has four quarts.

One common.

What's the answer?

One gallon.

That's right.

20 years, two decades, a score.

And each a score is the correct six feet, two meters.

That's a fathom.

Next, eight fluid ounces a cup.

That's right.

14 days, 42 fluid cups a pint.

Pint is correct.

You passed on 12 dozen.

Did you or did you get that number for 500 sheets of paper?

Is a parcel.

No, it's a dream.

A dream of paper.

All right.

Interesting.

A little tougher than maybe we anticipated.

We have three left.

Cindy, your speak for your group, for you.

And tell us which two you want to do.

what are you afraid of in the islands?

All right.

Very good.

What are you afraid of in 60s?

When I begin asking the questions, you're going to tell what a person is afraid of.

If he suffers from each of these phobias.

All right, we'll do that.

And then we'll do outstanding eyelids.

Here we go.

Claustrophobia, closed spaces, acrophobia.

Fear of heights.

Your heights.

Yes.

Or in the phobia.

Fear of the dentist or in a phobia.

What are the.

Fear of your teeth going out, your teeth falling out.

That's not correct.

This is zoo phobias.

Next.

Fear.

Animals.

Animals.

Yes.

Hydrophobia.

Water.

Yes.

Xenophobia.

Other people.

Immigrants.

Any kind of strangers?

Hema.

Tove.

Hema to phobia.

Blood.

Blood is right.

Heal your phobia.

And steal from son is right.

Klepto phobia.

Fear of thieves.

Thieves.

no stealing is and taxi phobia.

Poison.

Poison.

Yeah.

They got that in under the wire.

I'll have to tell you after the show why I got giggly there for a second.

Forgive me.

All right.

Outstanding Islands is the next category you're going to play.

Identify these islands from the clues that I give you.

60s.

You ready?

The largest island in the world.

Greenland?

Yes.

Large island off the east coast of northern Africa, which is home to the ring tailed lemur.

Madagascar.

That's right.

Island is home to the boroughs of Queens and Brooklyn, Long Island.

That's right.

The mutinous crew of the bounty went to this island, Treasure Island.

That's incorrect.

It's Pitcairn, Pacific Island that is home to the monumental statues created by the Rapa Nui people.

That's right.

Canadian Island, which is the world's fifth largest.

Baffin Island.

That's right.

The Big Island, which is home to more allowing.

And Mauna Kea, Big Island, Hawaii.

That's right.

Mediterranean island that was home to the labyrinth that held the Minotaur.

Crete.

Great.

Great is right island group over which a brief, undeclared war between Great Britain and Argentina with Scotland.

That's right.

Largest and most populous island of the Philippines.

Luzon.

That's right.

You got it right.

Do you guys pass on any?

I think you got them all.

You missed Pitcairn Island.

I think that was it.

Did you do Canadian Island, which is the world's fifth largest bath, and did you already get that one.

All right.

Very good.

Good job on those.

Done.

All right.

We come back to mountain Brook and Evangel Christian and we're going to do the one that is left, which is triple word score.

And what you're going to do in 60s is give one word that fits all three meanings.

And all answers contain three letters.

You're good.

We'll find out.

Here we go.

A piece of baseball equipment, a nocturnal winged mat that.

Thank you.

A piano part, a door opener, a Florida key, a close fastener, a bowling target, a fallen wrestling pin, a gratuity, advanced information of an object, a place to sleep, a river bottom, a joke to choke to prevent speech past meat from a hog.

Noah's son, an excessively theatrical actor.

That's slang term for a jail.

An enclosure for an animal.

A pen for writing a metal dish.

Greek god of nature, a camera technique.

That's right.

Part of a bridle, a small part in a play.

A small amount of something in a bit is correct.

You passed on meat from a hog.

Noah's son, an excessively theatrical actor on.

What did you say?

Hog?

No.

That's incorrect.

Answers Ham.

And a joke to choke to prevent speech.

A joke to joke.

Time is up.

That's gag.

Three word gag where we're looking for there.

All right.

Interesting.

Lightning round a little bit harder than maybe we anticipated in the beginning, but so is life.

Let's move on now with 20 more questions.

No bonuses here.

If you get it right, we'll salute you and we'll move on to the next one.

Reading in what European country was the Phalange party created by Francisco Franco Wyatt?

Spain.

That's right.

What hero?

Who killed the bandits?

Procrustes and Siren was given a string and I'm looking.

Theseus.

That's correct.

What physicist is the namesake of a cage?

A law of induction.

And the C unit of capacitance.

The name of the physicist.

Anyone?

Yes.

Wyatt.

What?

No.

Anyone else?

Oh, sorry, I can't, but sorry.

No.

Faraday.

Michael Faraday is who we wanted.

What ship which is mistaken for a sea creature is accompanied by Ned Land and Captain Nemo in Jules Verne.

Cindy Abraham Lincoln.

Nope.

That's incorrect.

The Nautilus.

The Nautilus is the right answer.

Next question for everyone.

What substance produced by the part a parroted and sub man w l r glands in the mouth is used to help digest food.

Saliva.

Saliva?

Yes.

What leader of a secret six instigated the Pottawatomie massacre before being hanged for leading a raid on Harpers Ferry.

Who was that?

Jonas Brown around the Cayman Trough is the deepest point.

Of what body of water?

Which is home to Haiti, Cuba and Jamaica, the Caribbean Sea.

The Caribbean Sea is right.

Martha Graham choreographed many of what composer's works, such as rodeo and the Appalachian Spring.

Who is that?

Copeland.

Aaron Copeland is right.

Jonas.

What explorer?

The captain of the HMS endeavor mapped the areas of New Zealand and Australia and is Joshua James Cook.

What organisms that lose color due to bleaching for namesake reefs?

Coral.

Coral is right in a Boris Pasternak novel.

Yuri Zhivago holds what title?

Occupation.

Whose practitioners doctor he is a doctor, a dodecahedron has how many sides, and Jonas, 12 is right.

What bestselling young adult series in which the title character finds out that he is the son of Poseidon?

Percy Jackson Percy Jackson is correct.

What stainless steel catenary structure was designed by Eero Saarinen.

Gateway arch gateway arch is right in Saint Louis.

What European country is home to Mount Ararat and the cities of Ankara and Josh?

Turkey.

Turkey is right.

What planet was hit by shoemaker Levy?

Nine Jupiter is right what country's playwright Luigi Paradiso wrote about the Italy?

Say it again.

Italy.

Italy is right.

Peter van Pels shared a room with what girl who wrote in her diary think Gina and Frank.

And Frank is right.

What Asian capital city that is home to the Marco Polo Bridge hosted the 2022 Summer Olympics.

Beijing.

Beijing is correct.

A mountain's second law states that surface area is independent of what quantity?

That opposes motion.

What is that?

Jonas?

Friction.

Friction is right.

Enter us.

Was the brother of what?

Roman god who was struck by his own love arrows, causing him to fall in love?

Cupid's arrow.

Cupid is right.

Neverland was the name of the extravagant home Alonso, a Peter Pan.

Nope.

I'll finish it for you all.

The extravagant home owned by what?

King of pop.

Behind the hits.

Beat it, Billie Jane and Thriller and Gina, Gina, Michael Jackson.

Michael Jackson's right.

The Colin Harrison act weakened.

What policy?

Whose implementation by the Volstead Act led to the ban of alcohol in the United States.

That's right.

Approximately 3500 calories comprise a pound of what tissue?

Fat.

Fat is, right.

What man collaborated with William Wordsworth on the poetry?

Coleridge.

Coleridge is right.

The Act of Supremacy put what King in charge of the Church of England so he could have no answer.

Henry.

Henry the eighth.

Henry the eighth is right.

Current squared times.

The resistance gives what quantity which is measured in watts.

Jonah's power.

Nope.

You guys light?

No force is what we're looking for next.

What president of the United States, who was advised by the kitchen cabinet, will be replaced by Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill.

Jackson.

Andrew Jackson is right.

In what area in North Africa?

The largest hot desert in the world.

Ya Sahara is correct.

What philosopher is likened to a gadfly and was sentenced to die by drinking hemlock?

Socrates.

Socrates is correct.

Three minutes to go.

Get your pencil and paper ready.

What is the perimeter of a rectangle?

With a length of 14.6cm and a width of 7.6cm.

What is it, Alonzo?

21.6.

That's incorrect.

Do you guys have an answer?

Yes, 59.2.

No.

Let's go with 44.

44.4.

What type of triangle has all three sides of varying lengths?

Alonzo.

Scaling.

Scalene is right.

Loki seduced the equine bull deer farm to produce what?

Eight legged horse in Norse mythology?

Alonzo?

No answer.

Okay, how about you?

Fork.

Gina.

Slip.

Yeah.

That's right.

Slip near his right.

Colonial poet and Bradstreet was nicknamed the 10th of what?

Greek goddess of arts.

Wyatt.

Muses.

Muses is right.

For what food source did George Washington Carver produce?

Eight.

Peanuts.

Peanuts is correct.

Next.

What man became chief justice of the Supreme Court in 1953, and also headed up the commission alongside Marshall Thurgood.

No finishing it for you.

And also headed up the commission to investigate the Kennedy assassination.

Who was that?

Chief justice?

Yes.

Josh.

George?

Nope.

It was Earl Warren.

The Warren Commission, who was the New York reporter credited with the phrase Doctor Livingston, I presume, when he found the Scottish missionary after the world feared he was lost or dead.

Who was that?

This was Henry Clay?

Nope.

Henry.

Stanley.

Stanley.

The Narragansett tribe formally owned.

What colony founded by Roger Williams.

Yes.

George.

Rhode Island.

Rhode Island is right.

Time for a couple more.

What leader of the Cherokee Indian tribe devised a special 85 letter alphabet, which we call say again, Black Hawk.

No.

Which made it possible to write the Cherokee language.

What do you have to say?

No, it was Sequoia.

Sequoia.

Let's see one more.

Qatar.

Chittoor is a nearby and similar landform.

To what?

Rock that is sacred to the aborigines of Australia.

What's it called while Lulu or Ayers Rock?

Both of those are right.

Well done.

That's it.

Ran out of questions in the nick of time.

We just have time to congratulate the team from, Arab and Discovery Middle for winning this very competitive round.

You guys played great as well.

You all did.

We appreciate you being with us.

We appreciate you being with us today on the Alabama Scholars Bowl.

We hope you will join us every week here on Alabama Public TV.

I'm Mike Royer.

Thanks again for watching.

Have a great day.