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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.

Welcome once again to the Alabama Scholars Bowl.

My name is Mike Royer.

I enjoy hosting this program.

We appreciate you watching here on statewide television, on Alabama public television.

And thanks to all the folks here at AAPT who welcome us into the studio when we welcome in students in this case, from middle schools all around the state of Alabama.

We have with us in the studio today students from Gadsden Middle School and also from Decatur Middle School.

Welcome students.

You'll meet them all individually a little bit later on in the program.

We want to also thank Sharon Dailey, Claudette Smith, Kate Wilson, Christopher Arthur and others who help us organize and do all the hard work that goes into doing the show.

Mike Ousley is the executive producer of our program.

And you are the most important part watching today.

So thanks for being here.

Students are already buttons in hand.

Let's get started.

20 questions.

If you answer correctly, your team gets a bonus question.

Here's how it goes.

A rocket falls from the sky in Nocturne in black and Gold, a painting by what artist who depicted his mother seated Lou Latika Whistler.

That's right.

James Whistler is the right answer.

Bonus question for you, Gaston.

The murder of Gonzaga is played in front of Claudius to prove his guilt in what Shakespeare play about a Danish prince.

Hamlet.

Hamlet is correct.

Well done.

Toss up for everyone.

What ruler who signed the eternal peace with Castro?

The first rebuild at the Aya Sophia and was a great Byzantine Emperor Latika standing.

That's incorrect.

Do you have an answer for me?

Dictator on that?

It is what?

Jackson?

Xerxes.

It's Justinian.

Justinian is the answer we wanted.

They're moving on to the next toss up for everyone.

What American author who use the pen names?

Geoffrey Crayon and Diedrich Knickerbocker.

Latika in Washington.

Irving is right.

Bonus for your team.

A mutation in the next gene causes what disease that affects the list.

So lysosomes causing red spots in the eyes.

I think I know it's called Tay-Sachs.

Tay-Sachs is what we're looking for next.

What?

Cabinet position is currently held by Merrick Garland and was held by Robert Kennedy during JFK's presidency.

One job is that Gray Attorney General.

That is right.

Bonus question for you.

The mean odds was were crazed female followers of what Greg counterpart of Bacchus, the god of wine damage this year denies That is correct.

Well done.

Next, everybody, Ambrose Bierce story is titled for an occurrence that takes place at what kind of structure over Latika.

That's right.

That's Al Creek, a bridge bonus.

And you're going to need your pencil and paper for this.

And this is just for gets in there.

Bonus question Will receives four superstar awards at various tournaments averaging 79, 85, 82 and 74 points per tournament.

What is Will's average for the four tournaments Need an answer?

80.

80 is correct.

Well done.

Next, both teams what president was investigated by Ken Starr for his involvement in the Whitewater scandal in Lawson Nixon.

No, that's incorrect.

I'm finished reading the question for you.

Gadsden in the Whitewater scandal and was later impeached for his affair with Monica Lewinsky and Gray Clinton, that is Bill Clinton.

You're right.

Bonus question for your team.

The start of the Disney Blu ray screens features what fairy?

Who accompanies Peter Pan?

Tinker Bell.

Tinker Bell.

You're right.

Now toss up everybody.

What philosopher wrote the Ecstasy Sensualist work been and nothingness before writing the play?

No, except yes.

Latika Sartre That's right.

Bonus for you.

The Liberty was a boat owned by white founding father, known for his large signature on the Declaration of Independence.

Hancock John Hancock is right, everybody.

What River, which is known as the lullaby upwards of the boy Armor Falls, is the namesake of two African countries whose capitals.

Andrew Congo is right.

You saved me there, too.

Thank you.

Simon Frazier was killed by a sniper.

During what battle?

This is your bonus.

During what battle?

In New York, often considered the turning point of the Revolutionary War.

Which battle cost us?

Saratoga.

Yes.

I heard it whispered and heard it out loud.

Saratoga.

You're right.

Next.

Everybody.

What?

Gas is used in the monde process.

Forms phosgene with chlorine and has formula C0.

What gas is that, Latka?

Carbon monoxide.

Did you say?

Say again?

Carbon monoxide is correct.

Bonus question for you.

What?

While traveling to the shrine of Thomas a Becket.

A story about our site and Parliament is spoken by the knight in.

Geoffrey Chaucer's collection, Canterbury Tales in Horbury.

That's right.

10th question of 20.

What?

Scottish poet of Thomas Chanter wrote the line.

Should old acquaintance be forgot in his poem Auld Lang Zone, which is often sung?

Latika.

Robert Burns is right.

Your bonus jerk is the time derivative of what quantity?

The rate of change, of velocity of acceleration.

Acceleration.

Acceleration is correct.

Continuing on.

Toss up.

The Golden Law outlawed slavery in what South American country?

Brazil.

Brazil is right.

Good job, Andrew.

Bonus question.

The duo Silk Sonic features Anderson pack and what musician behind the songs Grenade and Uptown Funk.

Bruno Mars is right.

Next question for both teams.

What empire who use knotted strings called Keep you?

Say again?

The ink is correct.

Bonus two Bulls regulate the release of what?

Compound an element with symbol C A that is found in milk.

Calcium.

Calcium is the right answer.

Continuing on I heart was the biographer of what Frankish King who was crowned Holy Roman Emperor on Christmas.

Andrew Charlemagne.

Charlemagne is right.

Your bonus.

What biblical prophet was the son of Ahmed I and spend three days inside a whale after it swallowed him.

Jonah.

Jonah.

Jonah is correct.

Next.

Toss up Question.

What?

Union general used a scorched earth tactic as he led.

Andrew Sherman.

William Tecumseh Sherman.

Bonus Question one half M.V.

squared calculates what energy of motion contrasted with potential energy.

Kinetic.

Kinetic energy is right.

In what country were the milkmaid and the girl with a Pearl earring painted by yon then Mir, a native of the city of Delft.

In what country?

Anyone?

Yes.

Latika.

Denmark?

No.

Decatur.

Do you have an answer?

Yes.

Jackson, Italy?

Nope.

Netherlands is the answer we wanted.

Or Holland?

Moving on.

What author published a translation of Beowulf in 1926, 11 years before he created Middle Earth in his novel The Hobbit.

Latika.

Tolkien is right.

Bonus.

A William Jennings Bryan speech criticized standards of what precious metal which caused a rush in California.

Gold.

Gold.

Gold is right.

Sagittarius A is a supermassive black hole in the center of what galaxy the Milky Way is, right?

Bonus A heifer appears on what title object of an 1819 John Keats poem whose speaker laments beauty is truth.

Truth, beauty.

I don't agree.

The Grecian Urn is correct for your answer and toss up both teams.

Whitehorse is the capital of Watt territory, whose namesake River, led to the Klondike Gold rush.

What river is that, Andrew?

Yukon is right.

Bonus.

An enzyme is a biological example of what kind of substance that lowers activation rate, thereby speeding up chemical reactions.

Catalyst.

Catalyst is correct.

Three.

Two more questions before we do our lightning round.

In what Myth system That includes Tales of Gigli.

A mesh is Ishtar, the goddess Gray.

Sumerian?

No, I'll finish it for you.

Dictator.

Ishtar.

The goddess of love and beauty.

What myths system?

You have an answer?

Yes.

Listen, Hinduism.

No, it's Mesopotamian.

Mesopotamian?

Last question before we take a small break.

What mythological figure Who gave golden apples to hip hop minis to help her win a race against?

Yes.

Great segue in Atlanta.

No, that's incorrect.

Do you guys have an answer for that?

I'm going to finish reading it to help her win a race against Atlanta.

Was the Greek goddess of love and beauty.

Yes.

Lawson Aphrodite.

Aphrodite is correct.

Here's your bonus question.

Decatur.

A sweat test is used to diagnose what disease denoted.

C, f that causes mucous buildup in the lungs.

Pneumonia?

Yes.

Cystic fibrosis is correct.

All right, lay your buzzers down.

We will tell our viewers at home and you what our Lightning Round subjects are and in a moment will meet the players from both teams, as we always do.

The team that is trailing Decatur, you're trailing slightly here at the midway point.

You'll choose first of the four categories.

The categories are numbers in film, crossword clues, art, artist and architecture.

Crime and Punishment is the fourth, so will choose those.

But first, let's meet the players from both of our schools, both from Gadsden, Middle and Decatur Middle School.

Gray, would you begin tell us a little bit about yourself.

I'm Gray.

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

Hey, I'm Andrew.

I'm in the eighth grade, and I have a very poor sleep schedule.

Join the club.

I'm Lydia.

I'm in eighth grade, and I play tennis.

I'm.

I'm in eighth grade, and I run cross country.

All right.

I'm Jack.

I'm in seventh grade, and I played three sports on Lost, and I'm also in the seventh grade.

And I play baseball.

I'm Jackson.

I'm in the seventh grade, and I run cross-country and track.

I'm Liam.

I'm in seventh grade and play football.

All right.

Thank you.

Jackson Lounge.

What distances you all running in junior high?

Cross country.

How long?

Five ks, 3.1.

All right, Very good.

Welcome, all of you.

You're all playing well.

We're proud of you.

And I know the folks back home are proud of you, too.

As they watch our program today, we're going to begin with the card or choosing one of our four categories.

Gentlemen, which one would you like to do?

I think it's.

Yeah, arts.

You wanted to do art?

Artist and architecture, Correct.

You'll have 60 seconds to identify each of the following from the description I give you.

Here we go.

A painting of inanimate objects.

past a painting made on plaster that is still moist.

yes.

Sculpture of the kiss and the thinker.

That's right.

Art movement that stresses absurdity.

Its name means hobbyhorse, Surrealism.

No, it's Dawod ism, the architect of St Paul's Cathedral in London.

Pass.

Hard baked clay used to make statues representing the army of the first Emperor of China.

Terracotta?

That's correct.

Color that dominates a famous painting by Thomas Gainsborough.

Blue.

Blue is correct.

Simplest and oldest of the three orders of Greek columns.

Muses and the muses.

We want to Doric, architect of the Guggenheim Museum in New York City.

Right.

That's right.

Type of bridge with the deck hung below cables on vertical columns and bridge.

Say it.

Bridge type of bridge suspension.

That's right.

Suspension Bridge is correct.

You skipped on a painting of inanimate objects.

So time up.

Time is up.

That's still life in a painting on plaster that's still kind of wet is a fresco of fresco.

All right.

We come over to you, Gadsden Middle, and you're going to choose two categories.

Latika We'll play them back to back.

What would you like to do?

Can we have numbers and film and crossword clues?

Yes, you can.

Numbers in film will play first.

We'll have 60 seconds when I begin asking the questions.

Fill in the number that is missing from each movie title.

Ready, Catch Blank 22 Blank Dalmatians Around the World and Blank Blank.

A Space Odyssey 2001 Alibaba and the Blank.

These Blank Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest One Blank Leagues Under the Sea 20,000 Miracle on Blank Street 21st.

Now It's 34th.

The Blank Since Passed And the Lord of the Rings, The Blank Towers Three, Three is two.

And did you skip the blank since?

Yes, we did.

So sixth, sixth is the right answer for that.

And that's it.

All right.

Well done on.

That was your next one, Crime and Punishment.

It was crossword.

Crossword puzzle, Crossword clues.

Very good.

Thank you.

Crossword clues.

You're going to be given a definition, the number of letters in the word and the last letter of the word determine the correct answer.

Join me.

Just say that again.

Or do you understand?

Could you could you repeat that?

Yeah, I'd love to repeat it for me.

Given a definition, the number of letters in the word and the last letter of the word determine the correct answer.

Here we go.

60 seconds.

A rite of fables.

Five letters.

Last letter P that's right.

Juice of a plant.

Three letters.

Last letter P SAP.

That's right.

King Arthur's kingdom.

Seven letters.

Last letter.

That's right.

A short race.

Four letters.

Last letter.

H passed a boyfriend.

Four letters.

Last letter.

You passed Hindu guitar.

Five letters.

Last letter R?

That's right.

Irish symbol of good luck.

Eight letters.

Last letter K, Shamrock.

That's right.

To walk.

Lamely.

Four letters.

Last letter P That's right.

Fertile spot in the desert.

Five letters.

That's right.

Person in his eighties.

12 letters.

Last letter in Hope.

No person in their eighties differ.

But when you know it's octogenarian you also skipped a short race four letters last letter H not a sport like I don't know Rush It's the 100 yard dash.

I tried, but your time was up.

Good job on that.

And we come back to Gadsden Middle.

You don't get to choose.

You just get stuck with this last one, right?

And it is called Crime and Punishment.

And Decatur, you're going to identify the mythological figures who were punished in the following ways.

Okay, here we go.

When she challenged Athena in a weaving competition, she was turned into a spider arachnid.

That's right.

The vain Greek hunter fell in love with his own image and gradually wasted away.

Narcissus.

That's right.

His punishment for looking back was to lose his love.

You really key part of his punishment for giving fire to mankind was to be chained to a rock and have his liver eaten by an eagle.

Prometheus.

That's right.

He had to hold the world on his shoulders because he fought with Titans.

That's right.

When this young man disobeyed his father and flew to near the sun.

Icarus?

That's right.

All this man's crew died when they killed and ate the cattle of the sun.

God perish.

He swallowed his own children and was eventually overthrown by them.

Kronos.

That's right.

Hara punished her by making her able only to repeat the words of others ago.

That's right.

Zeus hurled a thunderbolt at this young man, killing him instantly when he lost control of his father's Helios chariot.

Pass back and you passed on.

His punishment for looking back was to lose his love.

Time is up.

That's Orpheus.

And Zeus hurled a thunderbolt at Théatre Théatre.

But you did pretty well.

That was a hard category.

You guys did all right with that.

Well done.

Well done.

All right, we have a little under seven and a half minutes left in our program.

For the rest of the time, I'm going to ask you questions.

Each one worth 20 points, no bonuses.

Answer the question, we move on.

Ready?

Alexander Gould, Voices.

What type of fish in the titular role of Pixar's Finding Nemo?

Clownfish.

That's right.

What man lost to Morgan Lewis in a race for governor of New York the same year that he killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel?

Aaron Burr.

Aaron Burr is right.

Lawson The chorus mystic US sets the theme for the Eternal Feminine in Gustav Mahler's Symphony Number eight, which is more commonly referred to by what number?

Yes.

Latika That's right.

Symphony of a Thousand.

Next, what mystery writer wrote the longest running play of all time, The Mouse Trap, and created Latika Christie, Agatha Christie's right.

What items which are miniature works of art do famous villain sell list like Franklin Roosevelt shark tank's mark Cuban, actor James Earl Jones and Jacques Cousteau collect they all trophies.

What trophies?

No, that's incorrect.

You guys know.

What do they collect?

Lawson Antiques?

Nope, they collect stamps.

They're stamps.

What does an antipyretic drug such as aspirin or ibuprofen and do relieves pain?

Nope.

That's not what we're looking for.

What do you guys know?

Go Jackson Antibody?

Nope.

Reduces, right.

But it reduces fever.

Reduces fever.

In what parallel dimension does Eddie die while fighting that gets back?

And listen the upside down.

The upside down is right.

Paper and pencil for a quick math question.

If there are 30 children in Mrs. French's fifth grade class and 40% of them are, both are boys, how many girls are in the class?

And Latiker 18 is correct.

What contemporary author drew on his experience as a mississippi attorney to pen legal novels such as The Rainmaker, The Chamber and the Client?

Yes, John Grisham is correct.

Next protest DeRozan and run in 2022 after Masha Amini died in a hospital after being arrested by the morality police for allegedly not wearing, according to guidelines.

Latika Hijab.

Hijab is right.

In 1914, Mary Richardson slashed the painting Rockabye Venus Rock B Venus with a meat cleaver in support of what movement that sought to give women the right to vote in the United Kingdom.

Andrew Women's suffrage.

Women's suffrage is right.

Arrow Sarah.

Sarah Nin's rejection pile legendarily contained the design of an opera house designed by Yeung Hudson.

In what Australian city?

Latika.

Sydney is right.

Redshift and Blue shift are caused by what effect that describes the change in frequency of of an object and Doppler is correct.

Well done, Liam.

Mount Arabs and Mount Vinson are located on what?

Antarctica.

Antarctica is.

Right.

Good job.

The star Aldebaran and the Hades and Pleiades clusters are found in what constellation and resembles a bull.

Particular Taurus is right.

What?

North Norse myth?

The logical figure cries red tears in the absence of her husband order and serves as the goddess of love.

Listen, Freya.

Freya is right.

What Irish playwright who created a Don one inspired play titled Man and Superman, is more famous for creating Eliza Doolittle in the play Latika.

George Bernard Shaw.

The E.C.

Knight case weakened What Antitrust Act, which aimed to break down monopolies and was named for Senator Andrew Sherman.

Antitrust Act is correct.

Cygnus X-1 is an example of what kind of star system, which is also the name for two digit bass used in computers loans.

Binary is the right answer.

Moving on, a painting of a family at Thanksgiving is part of the Four Freedoms by what artist who created covers for the Saturday Evening Post.

Politico.

Rockwell.

Norman Rockwell.

Very famous.

What children's author collaborated with Bill Martin Jr on a children's book series that began with Brown Bear.

Brown Bear.

What do you see, Carl?

Jack?

Answer is Carle That's right.

Eric Carle.

What British singer, known for her powerful vocals, created the hits Rolling In the Deep and the Lola Teacup.

Adele is right.

Emmerson Mnangagwa took power from Robert Mugabe.

In which African country were power?

Libya.

Jackson.

No, that's incorrect.

Where power is held in the capital city of Harare, brah.

And you have an answer that's in Zimbabwe.

Zimbabwe is correct.

Paper and pencil ready.

What's the perimeter of a triangle with sides measuring 818 and 28 inches.

And Latika?

54 is correct.

Tycho Brahe, He mentored what?

German astronomer who developed three laws of planetary motion.

Andrew Sagan.

Kepler.

Kepler is correct.

The Fremont Street experience is located in Watt seat of Clark County, a Nevada city that is home to many casinos.

Las Vegas.

Yes.

The contest between harmony and invention contains what's said of violin concertos by Antonio Vivaldi.

What's it called?

Four Seasons.

The Four Seasons is right.

Good job.

Loans.

A mere uwb is used by Muslims to determine the direction they must face when performing.

One action allows.

Praying.

Praying is right.

Shirley Temple is the idol of Thekla Breedlove in The Bluest Eye, a novel The Teacup.

Toni Morrison is right.

A little under a minute and a half.

The alias Don Alonzo is used by Kant by Count Almaviva.

Almaviva Almaviva in what Rossini Opera about Figaro.

The.

That's right.

What Biblical prophet who gave a widow in zero five an unlimited supply of flour and oil, ascended to heaven in a chariot of fire.

Yes, Gray.

Jesus.

No, that's incorrect.

You guys have an answer.

Went to heaven.

A chariot of fire.

What a way to go, Elijah.

What?

American author spent time on a whaling ship and visited several Pacific islands before writing Amoo a narrative of adventures in the South Seas.

And Charles Darwin?

No, that's incorrect.

And Moby Dick.

The ticker.

Herman Melville is right.

Let's end with a paper and pencil math question.

If one mile is equal to 5280 feet, how many feet are in six miles?

Yes, Latika 31,680.

That's correct.

Well done.

Very quickly, done as well.

Lay your buttons down.

Our time is all gone.

You all played well.

A lot of good questions, a lot of great answers and gadgets in middle.

You come out on top on this one.

But you folks from Decatur played very well.

We're proud of you all for being here.

We'll look forward to seeing you back on the program again in the future.

We thank you for watching The Alabama Scholars Bowl statewide here on Alabama Public Television.

My name is Mike Royer.

Thanks very much for watching.

Have a great day and we'll see you next time.