Alabama Scholars Bowl is made possible by the Holley Family Foundation, established to honor the legacy of Brigadier General Everett Holley and his parents, Evelyn and Fred Holley.

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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 to the Alabama Scholars Bowl.

We hope by now you've made it a habit of watching this program here on Alabama Public Television.

My name is Mike Royer, and it's my pleasure to host this program.

And during this season, we are really enjoying working with students from junior highs and middle schools all around the state of Alabama.

And we really enjoy being around these young people and we mean that sincerely today in the studio, our students from Columbiana Middle School and Rainbow City Middle School about midway through the program.

You'll meet them all individually and we're glad that you are here.

Thanks for coming, students, and we appreciate you taking part in the program.

We also want to thank our judges and people who work with ASCO who make this program possible.

Sharon Dailey, Claudette Smith, Kate Wilson, and Christopher Arthur, the current president of ASKA.

We also want to thank Mike Ousley, our executive producer, and we do not want to forget to say thanks to the folks here at Alabama Public Television for making our visit so much fun and such a pleasure to be here in the capital city.

So with that, we all ready to go but in hand.

Let's get started then.

Remember, if you answer the questions initially correctly, your team will get a bonus question.

Off we go.

In what Shakespeare play, where a British king meets three witches is a prophecy fulfilled when Birnam Wood comes to and buzzing in his will.

Macbeth.

Macbeth is right.

Good start for you.

The Lorelei.

This is your bonus question.

The Lorelei Rock lies on the gorge of what river which flows through Germany, where emptying into the North Sea.

What river?

Rhine.

The Rhine.

The Rhine is the right answer.

Good job.

Toss up, everybody.

What Swiss mathematician whose namesake number is equal to 2.718 solved your lesson in is Daniel.

You live with that.

You live?

Yes, sir, that's correct.

It's spelled EU R, but you've got it right.

Bonus question for your team men.

See US was a student of what ancient Chinese philosopher who wrote the Analects?

Confucius.

Confucius is the right answer.

Next for everyone.

In what opera does the evil governor Gessler force the title Archer to shoot an apple off of his son's head?

Who is that?

William.

William, tell William.

Tell is right.

Bonus again for you.

The painting Autumn Rhythm exemplifies the splatter style of what American painter nicknamed the Dripper.

Pollock.

Jackson Pollock.

You're right.

Everybody.

Both teams.

What mythological figure Who gave King Midas the ears of a donkey?

After losing the contest to Pan, serves as the Greek god of music and light Rus.

Athena.

No, that's incorrect.

And Columbiana, Do you have an answer?

Graham Apollo is the right answer.

Good job.

Bonus question for your team Columbiana At Stone Mountain, William Simmons created a so-called new version of what white supremacy organization that typically wears white hoods.

What's it called?

The Ku Klux Klan.

That is exactly right.

Good job answering that.

Next question for both teams.

During the Islamic holy month of prayer, reflection and fasting is the night of power celebrated and Russ Ramadan.

Ramadan is right.

Bonus for you.

The Queen of Pop was the title given to what, 1980 singer behind the track Material Girl Madonna.

Madonna is right.

Toss up for everyone.

What Italian city is the namesake of Thomas Moen novel about Gustav von Eschenbach and is home to many canals and Rus Venice.

Is it what planet?

Your bonus.

What planet?

Which has moons named for Shakespeare character and his found between Saturn and Neptune and was discovered by William Herschel?

Uranus.

That is right.

Toss up, everybody.

What man who's most likely who most likely ordered the St Valentine's Day massacre on Bug Moran.

Russ.

Al Capone.

Al Capone is correct.

Again, a bonus for you.

A crux tube was used by Vilhelm Regin in his experiment that discovered what form of radiation used to take medical pictures of bones.

X-ray.

X-ray is the right answer.

Question number eight of 21 American poet who wrote about the forest primeval in the opening lines of Evangeline, also wrote the song Russ Longfellow.

Longfellow also wrote the Song of Hiawatha.

Your bonus.

The Checkers speech was given by white president who resigned from office when his involvement in the Watergate scandal came to light.

Nixon.

Nixon is right.

good.

Pencil and paper for a math question.

If you buy a smart phone for $760 and the sales tax rate is 8%, how much will you pay in sales tax for the smart phone?

Yes.

Buzzing in.

I can't find you.

Buzz did get my attention.

Who was dead?

Nobody wants to claim the buzz if I know the answer.

I didn't buzz in.

I know that.

Does anybody know?

The answer is $60.80.

$60.80.

But what city is the setting of Richard Wright's play Native son?

It is called the Hog Butcher for the World in a Carl Sandburg poem.

What's it called?

Chicago.

Chicago is right.

Most weather systems are contained within what layer of the Earth's atmosphere?

The lowest on earth.

Troposphere.

Troposphere is right.

Next question for everyone.

What actor played Jordan Belfort in the film The Wolf of Wall Street and Jack in Titanic?

Yes, nearly.

Leonardo DiCaprio.

DiCaprio is correct.

Good job.

Bonus question for you, Columbiana.

The Mendoza Codex recorded the history of what empire in modern day Mexico.

That was invaded by Aaron Cortez.

What empire?

Aztecs as tech is correct.

Good job.

Toss up, everybody.

What composers?

Brother Ira assisted him in creating Porgy and Bess.

11 years.

Russ.

George Gershwin.

That's right.

Your bonus question.

Holy Thursday commemorates what biblical event?

A feast during which Jesus predicts his betrayal at last.

The Last Supper?

That's correct.

The Last Supper.

What British Prime Minister was given the nicknames.

Milk Snatcher and the Iron Lady.

Will.

Thatcher.

Margaret Thatcher is right.

Another bonus for you.

Alonzo Hickman raises the atom, son.

Raider in June teased the novel by one author better known for Invisible Man.

Ellison.

Ellison.

Ellison is correct.

Toss up, everybody.

What city?

Which was the capital of Abbasid Caliphate today serves as the capital of Iraq.

What is it?

Joy.

That Baghdad is right.

Bonus question for your team.

Hugin and Moonen are a set of Ravens owned by Watt, husband of Frigg and chief God of Norse mythology, Odin.

Odin is right.

Good job.

Toss up, everybody.

Eric Adams is currently the mayor of what city?

Where Rudy Giuliani served as mayor during the 911 attacks.

New York City, New York City is correct.

And here's your bonus.

Ancient mathematician Hippasus was killed for proving the existence of what numbers that cannot be written as a ratio of two integers, such as the square root of two and pi.

Irrational, irrational numbers is correct.

What General who won the battle of Copenhagen declared England expects every man.

Russ Napoleon.

Nope.

I'm going to finish it for you, Columbiana.

Battle of Copenhagen declared.

England expects every man will do his duty during the Battle of Trafalgar.

Who said that?

No answer.

Horatio Nelson is what we wanted.

Did you know that, Russ?

Next question.

What alternate name for Mount Godwin?

Austin refers to its location in Capricorn Range and its rank as the second tallest mountain in the world.

What's it called?

Yes.

K2.

K2 is correct.

Bonus Here in the crawl process, pure titanium is formed by reacting with one element whose sulfate is known as Epsom salt and which has atomic symbol of IMG.

Magnesium.

Magnesium, magnesium.

That's correct.

A few more questions here.

What man edited the EMS dispatch and stated that great questions of the day would be solved in blood and iron while serving as the Iron Chancellor of Prussia.

Who was that?

Otto von Bismarck.

That's correct.

Bonus The dancer Ida Rubinstein commissioned.

What piece?

That opens with a flute melody over a snare drum.

Ostinato in his best known work by Maurice Ravel.

Bolero.

Bolero is correct.

Next for everyone.

What phenomenon is exhibited by materials that may expel a magnetic field in the Meissner effect and have zero electrical resistance?

What is a superconductors?

Yes, that's superconductivity.

Your bonus question.

The question who is the potter and who the pot appears in what?

Persian Poetry Collection by Omar Khayyam.

Aesop's Fables.

Its Rubaiyat Rubaiyat.

Last question before we take a little break.

What Dodgers Baseball player whose number 42 was retired and Will Robinson.

Jackie Robinson.

Last bonus question.

Step growth and chain growth.

Our methods of forming what molecules composed of repeating monomers.

Polymers.

Polymers.

Polymers is correct.

Everybody layer buttons down.

Relax a little bit.

I'm going to tell you what the lightning round choices are.

I'll tell our viewers at home as well.

Right now, Columbiana middle, your trailing here at the midday point.

So you'll choose first of the four categories, then Rainbow City, you'll play two in a row and whatever the last one is, you guys will get to wrap up our categories for our Lightning Round.

Presidential Nicknames.

Founding Fathers, Birds of a Feather and Red, White and Blue.

We'll play those right after we meet our players.

We're going to begin with Neely and ask all of you to tell our viewers at home a little bit about yourself.

Daly.

My name's Dylan Smith.

I'm an eighth grade.

I play basketball and I'm on high school color guard.

My name is Jonah Keaton, and I'm in eighth grade.

I want to be a political scientist when I grow up.

My name is John Cortez.

I'm in the eighth grade, and I want to be a physicist.

My name is Graham Arnold.

I'm in the eighth grade at Columbia in the middle school, and I'm going to be marching in the St Patrick's Day parade in Chicago.

fun.

My name is Will McGowan.

I'm a student at Rainbow Middle School and I play trumpet in the band.

My name is Linden Girard.

I'm a student Rainbow Middle School, and I'm in the computer science.

My name is Daniel Sims and from Rainbow City.

And, yeah, I'm.

Yeah, I've won the school spelling bee in sixth and seventh grades.

Good for you, Angel.

And I'm Megan.

I'm at Richmond Middle School, and I have been here for seven years.

Wow.

Mean, I wish we had won.

We'd ask you to play a ditty for us.

This is all people used to say.

Let's do the Lightning Round.

We're going to begin with you, Columbiana.

Which of the four categories I mentioned would you like to play?

John Graham What do you want to do?

founding fathers.

Founding fathers.

All right, here's what we're going to do.

Once I start asking you questions, we'll have 60 seconds.

If you don't know an answer, you can say Skip and we'll move on.

But you're going to identify the person who founded each of the following.

Here we go.

Sweet.

Who invented dynamite and founded prizes which bear his name?

Albert Nobel.

That's right.

Arab prophet and founder of Islam Mohammed.

That's right.

Founder of the University of Virginia.

And our third president, Thomas Jefferson, founder of Walmart, Inc..

Skip, founder of Texans for whom the state capital is named Austin.

That's right.

Founder of Cubism.

Who painted the three musicians?

Picasso.

That's right.

German born leader of the Reformation and founder of the of Protestantism.

Skip, founder of the Methodist Church and Skip English Quaker who founded Pennsylvania.

Skip either of the co-founders of Apple Inc.. Steve Jobs.

That's right.

And you skipped on the founder of Wal-Mart?

No.

Time is up.

Sam Walton founded Wal-Mart, and Martin Luther was the Reformation, founder of Protestantism.

William Penn River comes up again, English Quaker who founded Pennsylvania.

All right, let's come over to you, Rainbow City.

You have three to choose from now.

What will you do?

Well, have you decided?

Yeah.

We're going to take presidential nicknames and red, white and blue.

All right, let's do presidential nicknames first.

As with all lightning rounds, you'll have 60 seconds to give the US president, who is known by these nicknames.

Here we go.

The real splitter.

Pass, Old Hickory.

Grant Jackson.

Father of the Constitution.

Washington.

Madison.

Silent Cal Pass.

The Sage of Monticello.

Jefferson.

Jefferson.

That's right.

Dutch Van Buren.

Ronald Reagan.

Unconditional surrender, Grant.

That's right.

Teddy Roosevelt.

The father of his country.

George Washington.

The Red Fox of Kinderhook.

William Henry Harrison.

Yeah, It was Martin Van Buren.

Who was the real splitter?

Plenty of time, like.

Or Silent Cal and the C?

I think those.

Did you skip the red fox of Kinderhook?

No.

You missed that one.

That times about to go Either one of those.

You're never going to miss it again.

The rail splitter was Lincoln.

Abraham Lincoln.

And silent Karl.

Calvin Coolidge.

Okay, next, you're going to do Red, white and blue.

Is that right?

Yeah.

In 60 seconds, you're going to answer.

Each answer contains a word or phrase containing the word red, white or blue.

The answer contains that.

Here we go.

Organization founded by Clara Barton.

The American Red Cross structure founded 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

White House nickname of Manfred von Richthofen, Past U.S. Army Missile Command near Huntsville, Alabama.

Pass reproduction of an architectural plan.

Blueprints.

That's right.

Laws that regulate Sunday sales.

White laws.

There are blue laws.

Largest mammal ever.

Great white shark?

No.

The blue whale.

The Viking who colonized Greenland.

Leif Ericson.

Do you have an answer, Erik?

The red?

That's correct.

A memorial, memorable day or event?

Pass State Flower of Texas.

Blue flower.

No, it's blue bonnet and a memorable day.

A memorable day or events?

Time is up.

That's a red letter day.

Then Rick Dauphin is the Red Baron.

And in Huntsville, Redstone.

Arsenal.

Good.

Still an arsenal.

All right, we come back to you.

Columbia.

Birds of a Feather is the category.

Very.

You.

You really juiced up about this one.

Each of the following answers contains the name of a bird.

Okay.

60 seconds.

Here we go.

A box on a ship's mast where the lookout stands.

Skip.

Two birds given on the second day of Christmas.

Doves, judges need more turtles.

Turtle doves is right.

One stroke under par for a hole in golf.

Birdie.

Eagle.

What's your answer?

E Eagle.

Wrinkles extending from the outer corner of the eye.

Yep.

Architect of 52 London churches.

After the great Fire escape bird that returned to Noah's Ark with an olive branch.

A dove?

That's right.

Edgar Allan Poe's bird.

Who says Nevermore.

Raven, four and 20 of these birds were baked in a pie in a nursery rhyme.

Skip Spanish islands off the coast of Africa.

Time is up.

Canary Islands blackbirds, Wren in one stroke under par is a birdie, isn't it?

Okay, very good.

That's the lightning round.

And you know, the good news is we don't have to do it again during this program today.

What we do have to do in the remaining 7 minutes is answer questions that are worth 20 points each.

So if you're trailing, you can catch up pretty quickly here.

No bonus questions if you answer it correctly.

We just go on to the next one.

Here we go.

After forging her father's signature, Krog said blackmails Nora Helmer in what?

Play by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen.

A Doll's House.

A Doll's House is Right.

And what country did Bong Joon Ho direct?

The 2019 Best picture Parasite.

In what country?

Yes, Korea.

More on South.

Except that judges say it again on South Korea.

South Korea's right.

Maxwell Montez and its charter are features on what planet?

The second closest to the sun were us, Venus.

Right.

And what book of the Bible does Kane murder his brother, Abel?

Genesis.

Right.

The battle of our suf occurred during what war between the forces of Saladin and Richard the Lionheart.

Rus Third Crusade.

That's correct.

Moving on.

In Hindu mythology, the Halla Halla poison was created by the turning of what kind of body of water, such as the Indian and Pacific and Ocean.

That's right.

Brega is defeated in a swimming contest by one title.

Rus Beowulf.

That's right.

A girl holds a chicken in the background of what?

Painting?

Of the shooting company of friends burning coke.

The Nightwatch?

Yes.

Leo Szilard.

Enrico Fermi and J. Robert Aiman Oppenheimer, who worked on the Manhattan Project.

That's correct.

Pencil and paper, Matt.

Math fun here.

If a pizza is divided into eight equal slices and you eat three slices, what percent of the pizza to the nearest 10th remains uneaten?

Yes, Daniel.

62.5%.

Exactly right.

Well done.

2015 saw attacks in Paris.

By what terrorist group?

ISIS.

ISIS's correct.

Well done.

The collection songs of Experience by William Blake.

Contains what poem about a feline who burns bright in the forest of the night.

Rus The tiger.

That's right.

Koechner is a variety of what type of sedimentary rock that is composed primarily of calcium carbonate, rust, limestone.

Yes.

The Kowloon Peninsula is part of what?

Special administrative region that Britain returned to China.

Will.

Hong Kong.

Hong Kong is right.

What?

What?

Vitamin A deficiency of which can cause rickets in children is produced by exposure to the sun.

Yes.

Vitamin D, Vitamin D is the right vitamin.

Alexander Stevens served as vice president under man, the only president of the Confederate States of America.

Jefferson Davis.

Yes, that's right.

Oedipus answered the riddle of what mythological creature that inspired a great monument in Giza.

What is it?

Graham Sphinx is right.

Good job.

What Dragon from the Lord of the Rings series has a name similar to a word.

Landon Smog.

Smog is right.

Fearless was the debut album of what singer songwriter released.

Say it again.

Taylor Swift.

That's correct.

The parables of the Good Samaritan and the Prodigal Son are depicted in the Gospel.

Named for what?

Author of the Acts of the Apostle Russ.

Luke.

Luke is right.

What man who served as minister to Spain during the Revolutionary War was the first chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

John Marshall.

That's incorrect.

Do you have an answer, Columbiana?

No, The John was right.

John Jay was the first what Mexican artist known for her distinctive Unibrow Russe, Frida Kahlo.

That's right.

Prisoners of War, Quill, Stone are freed by a character resembling Robin Hood in, what, 1819 Sir Walter Scott novel about a Saxon knight.

Ivanhoe.

Yes.

The streets of Tehran are found in what colorfully named sea in the Middle East that Moses parted and will the Red Sea.

The Red Sea is right.

The drug riff.

A riff pen.

Rifampin is used to treat white lung condition, which was formerly known as consumption and is abbreviated TB Rus tuberculosis.

Yes.

In Norse mythology, Odin drinks made name for what literary art form types of which include haiku and sounds.

Poem poems write poetry.

A photo of Mary and Vecchio was taken during the aftermath of what event in which the National Guard killed war protesters at an Ohio university.

Yes.

Will Kent State massacre?

That's correct.

An island that is described as being full of noises, sounds and sweet airs is the setting for what Shakespearean play in which Prospero conjures up the title Storm.

Take a shot.

Well, the Tempest.

The Tempest was a good shot.

That's right.

The Dead Sea has an extremely high value.

For what quantity?

That measures the amount of dissolved salt.

Judges from a water.

It measures the quantity.

Do you guys have an answer?

Salinity.

Salinity is what the judges needed.

And a couple more questions.

What country entered World War One under Kaiser Wilhelm?

The second Rus.

The German empire.

That's good enough, isn't it?

Judges?

Germany?

Yes, very good.

Next.

What author who read her poem on the pulse of morning at Bill Clinton's russe?

Maya Angelou.

That's right.

Ride your belly tricks.

And Beetlejuice are stars found in what constellation, Russ?

Orion.

Orion is correct.

Many slaves were crucified on the Appian Way.

In what?

Ancient city?

Rome.

Rome is right.

The battle of Cao Pins takes place in what novella?

Which parallels the Russian Revolution.

A work by George Orwell.

What is it, Russ?

Animal Farm.

Yes.

What Spy was executed in New York by the British, where he declared Russ Nathan Hale.

Nathan Hale is right.

The narrator gives narrator gives two white flowers to his lover.

Wiener In what?

Science fiction novel by H.G.

Wells.

Russ The time Machine.

Time Machine is right.

What surname is shared by Lyndon Johnson's opponent, Eugene, as well as a senator named Joseph Joseph Debs?

Nope.

That's incorrect.

Named Joseph, who claimed to have a list of Communist in the US government.

Russ McCarthy.

That's right.

And last question.

What number?

Which alpha decay lowers by two is equal to the number of protons in the nucleus of an atom.

And it's John Atomic number.

Atomic number is right.

That's all the time we have.

Well, you guys played well the last.

We only had a few questions left in our program there.

So great job by all of you.

Winning today is the team from Columbia at a middle.

But Rainbow City I'm sorry, Rainbow City here is came out on top today.

Columbia had a you played very well as well.

Proud of all of you.

As I know your teachers, sponsors and families are back home.

We thank you very much for participating.

We thank you for watching the program.

We're here every week on Alabama public television.

My name is Mike Royer.

Thank you for joining us and inviting you to join us next time.

So long, everybody