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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.

Ella, once again.

And welcome to the Alabama Scholars Bowl, a program seen every week here on Alabama public television.

We're glad you've joined us for another exciting 30 minutes with some of the best and brightest students in the state of Alabama.

My name is Mike Royer.

Our judges and the folks who work behind the scenes, Sharon Daily and Claudette Smith.

Mike Ousley is the executive producer of our program.

And we could not do this program without the fantastic support from our friends here at Alabama Public Television.

And they do treat us great and we appreciate them.

We welcome to our studio today, the students from Evangel Christian, located here in Montgomery.

Good to have you with us today, Students And also Discovery Middle School from up in north Alabama in Madison, Alabama.

Welcome to the program today, students.

We're glad to have you with us as well.

We begin with 20 questions if your team answers the question correctly.

Your team only gets a bonus question, a lightning round in the middle of the program and then some rapid fire questions to wrap up the program where you can catch up if you're a little bit behind at the midpoint.

Everybody ready to go?

Buttons in hand.

Let's get started then.

And here's question number one.

What Midwest cities namesake River is dyed green for Saint Patrick's Day and is sourced from Lake Michigan.

And what is that, Mason, Colorado.

That is incorrect.

You have an answer for me.

Discovery.

What do you have, Cindy?

You know, it's Chicago.

Chicago turns its river green.

Here's the next question.

Cosecant is the reciprocal.

Of what?

Trigger No metric function calculated as opposite over hypotenuse.

What is it called?

A Sean slope.

No, that's incorrect.

You have an answer.

The angel that we were looking for, his sign.

Sign is what we wanted.

Next question for everyone.

What mythological figure?

Married Peony fathered Calypso and Pleiades and was cursed to eternally hold the world on his shoulders.

Who is that?

Cindy.

Atlas is right.

Bonus question for you.

Discovery.

Margaret Sanger founded what nonprofit organization that provides women's health care for reproductive related issues.

What is that organization called Red Cross?

The Sanger founded Planned Parenthood.

She founded that.

Next question.

Both teams in what country is the concept of Will way adhered to by followers of followers of Daoism after its founding and its China is the right answer.

Again, thank you.

Bonus question for your team.

A single lamp illuminates a diagonal painting by Tintoretto depicting what scene in which Jesus eats a meal with his disciples.

What is this?

The Last Supper is correct.

Good job.

Toss up, everybody.

What?

Scientist who died in 2018.

Names a form of radiation emitted from black holes.

Who is that scientist?

Who is it?

Cindy.

That's right.

Stephen Hawking is the right answer.

Bonus question for you, Discovery.

When his gun goes off during the week of peace, Okonkwo is exiled.

In what novel by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe.

What is the name of the novel A Doll's House?

It's called Things Fall Apart.

Next question What character buys the CD?

Little Shirley Beans for his sister Phoebe, while he explores Cindy?

No, that's incorrect.

I want to finish it for you, evangel.

Sister Phoebe, While he explores New York City in J.D.

Salinger's book, The Catcher in the Rye, what is that character's name?

Anybody?

Holden Caulfield is the character we were looking for.

We move on to the next question.

What British musician whose albums are named for Mathematical symbols, has released us hit Ed Sheeran.

Ed Sheeran is the right answer.

Well done.

Bone is for you.

Discovery, the first ever Nobel Prize winner.

Henry Dunant co-founded what Swiss organization that AIDS civilians in times of Trouble.

And so, of course, Red Cross.

That is the right answer.

Well done.

What kingdoms?

Organisms which have cell walls made of chitin.

Cindy Plants?

No, I'll finish it for you.

Evangel that was made of chitin include mold and mushrooms.

What organism is that?

What do you have?

MASON Fungus.

Judges Yes.

We'll accept that fungi or fungus is fine.

Bonus question for you.

Evangel.

The parallel postulate was created by what Greek mathematician in his book called Elements Like an answer to that.

There's.

We're looking for Euclid.

Euclid.

Next question.

Both teams.

Which of the original 13 colonies was founded in 1623 by Captain John Mason and today has its capital at Concord.

Cindy New Hampshire.

New Hampshire is right.

Your bonus question.

The flight of Ren saw what ruler disguised herself to try to flee France, where she would later die in the 1789 revolution.

Marie Antoinette.

Marie Antoinette.

Marie Antoinette is the right answer.

Well done.

Next question, everybody.

What poetry collection includes the poems Crossing Brooklyn Ferry and O Captain.

My captain and Cindy Leaves of grass.

Leaves of grass is right.

Bonus for you.

Kim Rich's boots are given to Paul Boy Muir In what World War One novel by Erich Marie Remarque, Catcher in the Rye.

It is all quiet on the Western Front is what we wanted.

Next question What's Shawnee chief, who is captured by Richard Mentor Johnson at the Battle of Tims during the War of 1812, led to a namesake Confederacy.

Cindy Tecumseh is the right answer bonus for you.

The Tagus River runs through what Capital city?

The site of a great earthquake which damaged much of Portugal in 1955.

Lisbon.

Lisbon.

Lisbon is the right answer.

Thank you.

Next question for everyone.

What French composer wrote Jimbo's Lullaby and Golliwogs Cakewalk, which are sections of Children's Corner as well as Prelude to the Afternoon of A Thorn.

And Clair de Lune.

Who did that?

Say it again to the boys.

He judges you good with that?

Yes.

Claude Debussy, WC.

Bonus question for your team.

The horse The Rock was ridden during the night journey undertaken by Whiteman man, the founder of the Prophet of Islam, Muhammad Sean That's correct.

Muhammad is right.

Question number 13 is we move on.

The eyelids of the Langerhans are part of what organ that secretes insulin.

What organ is that?

Mason Pancreas.

Pancreas is right.

Evangel Here's your bonus.

The Mandelbrot set, Coke, snowflake.

Sara PINSKY Triangle are all examples of white mathematical figures that resemble themselves at high magnification ones polygons.

No, that's incorrect, but we'll all learn it together.

Fractals.

Fractals is what we wanted next.

A ruby was used as the gain medium in the first of what devices that emitted colored beams of light.

What is that called?

A shine?

Lasers.

Lasers is right.

Bonus question.

Professor Challenger appears in the Lost World.

A work by what author Better known for creating Sherlock Holmes on Arthur CONAN Doyle.

That's correct.

Toss up, everybody.

What fictional villain has been portrayed by Jack Nicholson, Heath Ledger and yes, Joker.

The Joker is radiant.

Thank you.

Bonus for your team.

People fled the country in coffin ships.

During what event?

That saw a blight destroy a certain crop in Ireland, leading to mass starvation.

Irish potato famine.

That is the right answer next to everybody in which ballet by Tchaikovsky featured dances inspired by coffee and tea.

Dude, the title Christmas Figures Come to Life.

Cindy Nutcracker.

That's right.

Your bonus question and namesake Bible was produced by Johannes Gutenberg when he invented the movable type of what piece of technology that allowed for the mass production of books and papers, printing or.

Yeah, what do you have?

Printers?

Nope.

The right answer we wanted really was the printing press.

That was the invention, the printing press.

A few more questions before we take a small break.

What American foreign government agency, often known by a three letter acronym back many coups.

Cindy, CIA, CIA is the answer we wanted Central Intelligence Agency, the Dongting Lake.

This is your bonus.

The Dongting Lake in the Hunan Province is the flood basin in what?

Asian River, which is the longest in China.

The yellow?

No, it is the Yangtze.

See the Yangtze River next discolored patches on the eye known as brush field spots are a sign of what condition of having an extra copy of chromosome number 23.

What is that?

China down Down syndrome is right.

Bonus question for you.

Discovery the window of a house in the background inspired the name of what painting?

The best known work of Grant Wood that depicts a woman beside a man holding a pitchfork.

American Gothic.

That is the name of that work.

Toss up Two more questions.

The Ala Hornpipe appears in what composers piece water music, which was composed 24 years before his oratorio Messiah, who didn't handle Handel is right next your bonus.

The walls of Troy were constructed by Apollo.

What other God?

Who was the father of Polyphemus and God of the sea?

Poseidon.

Poseidon is right.

Last question in this part of our program in what 2023 sequel to Breath of the Wild is the title The Kingdom is Say It Again Tears of the Kingdom.

That's correct.

Your bonus question as we wrap up this round.

The House of Orange formerly ruled what European country where and Franks house is found in Amsterdam.

What country is that?

Germany.

Germany, Germany.

It is the Netherlands or Holland.

Everybody lay your buttons down.

Relax.

We're going to take a brief break.

And what we'll do here is tell our players today what the categories are for our lightning round.

And then we're going to meet all of our players individually before we move on our categories for the Lightning Round today.

If you want to play at home on the street where you live, my home's in Alabama, the place, the thing and colorful titles.

Those are our four categories today and the team that is trailing.

And in this case that would be evangel.

You'll select first one of those four categories.

You'll play that one.

Then we'll come to you, discover you'll choose and play two categories, and we'll come back to Evangel for the last one.

All right, Let's let's first meet our players.

Mason, would you begin and just all of you tell us just a little bit about yourself.

My name is Mason, and in the future, I look to go into paleontology.

My name is Skyler, and I'm on the volleyball, basketball and track and field team.

My name is Zachary, and I am on the basketball team.

My name is Riley.

I like to collect sonic merchandise.

All right.

Very good, Ishaan.

My name is a son, and I like to play chess and read.

my name is Cindy, and I like to read classic literature.

My name's Sarah, and I've been to 43 states.

My name is John, and I'm on the soccer team.

I assume your goal, then, is to see all 50 eventually.

Very good.

Very good.

It's nice to have you all with us.

Thanks for telling us a bit about yourselves and folks from Evangel.

Of the four categories I mentioned, which one would you like to play based on?

Do you have yourself at one on the street where you live?

On the street where you live?

You'll have 60 seconds once I begin asking the questions and you're going to be given a famous street or road.

You name the city.

It's found in 60 seconds.

Here we go.

Abbey Road, You want to pass?

Move on.

Right.

Bourbon Street, Beale Street.

Wall Street.

Moving on to the Chancellorsville, Pennsylvania Avenue, the Strip next is Michigan Avenue, Michigan.

I didn't think Peachtree Street time is up.

All right.

Tough category.

Tough category.

I won't.

We may go back over those a little bit later on.

We'll come over to Discovery Middle School.

Now you're going to choose two categories.

Cindy, which one would you like to do?

Colors in the place.

Colorful titles.

And what was the other one?

Plays the thing.

Very good.

Let's do titles first.

Colorful titles.

You'll have 60 seconds when I begin asking you And you'll name the color missing in the titles of these literary works.

Here we go.

Anne of Blank Gables and Lucy Green.

Green the Blank Stallion by Walter Black.

Island of the Blank.

Dolphins Blue A Clockwork Orange.

A Picture of Dorian Gray, Harold and the Blank Crayon Red.

That's incorrect.

It's purple.

Fried Blank.

Tomatoes.

Green The blank bug by Edgar Allan Poe.

Black Gold.

The Hunt for Blank.

October Red.

That's right.

The Blank Pimpernel by Baroness Emmy Gorski.

The Blank Pimpernel.

Pride.

Okay.

Did you passing the others?

They did not, did they?

Okay.

You still have a few seconds left.

You want to take a shot at the blank Pimpernel?

Pink.

You took a shot at Scarlet?

Is the right answer there for that would be well done.

You did a good job with that category.

Now we'll go back and do the play's the thing in the 60 seconds that will have given two or more main characters.

Name the play or the opera.

Here we go.

Aaron Burr and the Schuyler sisters Hamilton, Maria and Tony Pass, Cosette and Jean Valjean.

Les Miserables.

That's right.

Malcolm in Macduff Pass, Ophelia and Polonius Pass.

Danny and Sandy Pass to and to the end Yenta Pass.

Christine and Carlotta Carmen.

It's the Phantom of the Opera.

Rum Tum Tugger and old Deuteronomy.

Okay.

And Mimi and Rodolfo Pass.

Okay.

Where do you want to go?

Back to?

Malcolm in Macduff.

Macbeth.

That's right.

Ophelia in Polonius.

Hamlet.

That's right.

Danny and Sandy.

Death of a Salesman.

Yeah, that's Grease.

And did you get to Vaya and Yentl?

That's Fiddler on the Roof.

Okay, That was a little tougher category than some of us anticipated.

But you both did.

Well, let's go back to Evangel Christian, and you're going to have 60 seconds to identify the following about our home state of Alabama.

Okay.

My home's in Alabama.

Are you ready to go?

The junior senator of Alabama passed as the state capital of Alabama, Montgomery, one of our two land grant universities.

Eliminate issue.

Yes, that's correct.

State Bird.

Eagle, Eagle.

No, no, no.

What's your answer?

I know this one.

Pass, pass city that is home to the Marshall Space Flight Center.

Huntsville.

That's right.

You're.

It became a state eight way.

18, 1846, 18, 19 is the right answer.

What's our state motto?

Road side Alabama.

Yeah.

Territorial capital.

I pass Pass.

What's the oldest city in the state?

Time is mobile is the oldest city in the state.

we dare to find our rights is our motto.

And did you say our motto is Roll Tide.

That might be one of the best answers ever.

I wish I could give you ten points just for that.

I like that very, very much.

All right.

That's what we call our lightning round.

Sometimes we're thrilled to do it.

Sometimes we're thrilled just to get through it.

But you all did a good job on that.

You know what we do now, in the remaining 7 minutes we have, we ask you questions each worth 20 points.

So if you're trailing, you can do a little catching up here.

Is everybody ready to go for the final questions that we have time for today?

Just buzz in.

No bonus questions, answers for you.

Cyril Ramaphosa succeeds Jacob Zuma as the president of what country?

Whose capital cities include Blom Steyn and Cape Town, South Africa.

That's right.

What organelle is the site of oxidative force for lation and produces ATP, giving it the nickname Palmetto.

Okay Andrea mitochondria is right fish where traps were abolished by what 1215 document which King John was forced to sign at Runnymede as the Magna Carta.

That's right.

In what novel by John Steinbeck is Curley's wife Cindy Grapes of Wrath.

It's I'll finish it for you.

That was the wrong answer.

We're Curley's wife accidentally is killed by the giant Lennie Small.

Do you know the name of that book of Mice and Men is what we wanted A took over the role of Pharaoh.

A Y took over the role of Pharaoh after the death.

Of what?

Young Pharaoh whose tomb was discovered.

King Tut.

King Tut is right.

Math question.

Grab your pencil.

If Sean drinks a soda every 20 minutes while he's on a trip, how many sodas will he drink in?

72 hours.

He's got an answer.

216.

216 is correct.

And they have to stop.

22 times I've made that part out.

But just bonus writer James Baldwin was a member of what?

Literary movement named for a predominantly black neighborhood in New York City?

Zachary On New York City.

What do you have an answer?

Harlem Renaissance?

Yes, that's correct.

According to Bernoulli's principle, the fluid speed increase is due to the decrease of what quantity?

The force sending pressure.

Pressure is, right?

What Southern Gothic author wrote about the murder of the grandmother and her family in a Goodman Mason Allan Poe.

No, that's incorrect.

A good man is hard to find.

Who is the author of that?

Do you have an answer?

Discovery?

Yes.

A Sean Smith.

Flannery O'Connor is who we were looking for.

The Maid of the Mist Boat tour is located on what?

Waterfall in New York.

Niagara Falls.

Niagara Falls is right.

Well done, Sarah.

The ideology of Du Che was created by a member of what family, which has ruled North Korea since 1948.

What's the name of Sean?

Zachary.

You have an answer.

Kill John Kelly.

John Georges?

Yes.

Kim is correct.

That's the right answer.

Next question.

Comeback is the signature source of what?

Fast food chain?

Primarily located in Alabama, whose slogan is and buzzing in is Schuyler Popeyes.

No, it's not their slogan.

Discovery is all about the South.

What is it, John Jacks.

Jacks is correct.

Operation Sea Lion failed Due to what?

Battle in which the left wharf attacked a namesake country defended by the Royal Air Force.

Who was that sending in?

Great Britain is right.

The river van was created when the lake near was used to chain.

What creature In north mythology there is depicted as a giant wolf Fenrir?

That's correct.

Fenrir is right.

Next question.

What element is a yellow powder at room temperature and may form a gas with a rotten egg smell?

What is that?

Sulfur, Sarah That's right.

Next, the keys to heaven were said to be held by what man who served as the first Pope.

Riley, for instance.

That's incorrect.

I'll finish the question for you.

Discovery served as the first pope and denied Jesus three times.

Who was that?

Matthew.

Nope, it was Peter.

Peter.

Next question.

The Kingfish.

Huey Long served as governor.

Of what state?

Where he was supported in the city of New Orleans.

Sandy, Louisiana.

That's right.

Massacre in Korea is a parody of what cubist painting by Picasso that shows the bombing of a vast town of Sean.

Where?

Annika Yes, that's correct.

Next question.

The Biltmore Estate is located in what, Southern State?

North Carolina.

That's correct.

North Carolina.

Next, with a couple of minutes left, a failed expedition to the Dardanelles known as the Gallipoli campaign was planned by what British Prime Minister who led the UK during World War Two.

Who is it?

Mason?

That's not an answer coming your way.

Sean Churchill.

Churchill is right next Both Frederick Barbarossa and Erich Thorvaldsen, the North Norse explorer who founded the first European settlement in Greenland, are known by epithets that refer to what color of hair?

A red.

Red is right an equation for cooling gases below their inversion temperature is named for James Prescott Joule, and what other scientists applaud who created an absolute temperature scale that is contrasted with Fahrenheit and Celsius.

What's the word?

Say again, Kelvin.

Kelvin is right.

Time for a question or two more.

President Porfirio Diaz was overthrown by Francisco Madero in a revolution.

In what country?

The southern neighbor to the United States and Mexico.

Mexico is right.

What?

Title Hero of a work by Homer.

Returned to his wife, Penelope.

If the of course, is correct.

Next.

The drug AZT is often used to treat what virus that can lead to AIDS.

What is it, Mason?

HIV.

HIV is right.

Like a dog.

Or the last words of Josef K in the trial, a novel by white Czech author who wrote about Gregor Science's transformation.

Kafka.

Kafka is correct.

That's all the time we have.

Lay your buttons down.

That was pretty rapid fire and pretty fast.

Interesting lightning round and all of you played well.

It was interesting being with you for this half hour.

Discovery Middle School from Madison, Alabama, comes out on top in this particular round.

Evangel Christian, you played well.

It's good to have you in our studio.

We'll look forward to seeing you all again.

We'll look forward to seeing you all again when you join us next Time for the Alabama Scholars Bowl.

We are here every week on Alabama public television.

We appreciate your support by watching.

Appreciate the nice comments we receive from viewers as well.

I'm Mike Royer.

Thanks again for watching and have a great day, everybody.