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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 Scholar's Bowl, seen weekly here on Alabama Public Television.

We enjoy doing the program, and we appreciate you watching every week as we bring into the studio some of the best and brightest students this season.

Middle school junior high students from all around the state of Alabama.

And I mean this we really enjoy being around them.

They're well mannered, well behaved.

Now, today's teams could be an exception, I don't know, but we do enjoy being around all of our students and the ones with us today are from mountain Brook Junior High School and Arab, middle school or high junior high.

It's junior high, Arab junior high school.

Both have played before.

Both have played well.

And we're glad you're back in the studio today.

We're going to begin in a moment with 20 questions.

If you answer a question correctly, you get a bonus question.

We want to thank the folks from Alabama Public Television who support us in so many good ways.

We appreciate them very much.

And the leadership they provide.

Our judges, Sharon Daley, Claudette Smith and others who work behind the scenes, and Mike Ousley is our executive producer.

Let's go.

If you play at home, good luck and let's see how many you can get right as you play along with our students today.

Here we go, gang.

What figure tricked Zeus into picking ox bones wrapped in the fat and buzzing in his Wyatt Prometheus.

Prometheus is right.

Bonus question for mountain Brook.

The patina verde degree forms an oxidized copper, making the metal appear.

What color?

Green.

Green is right, everybody?

The Sea of Tranquility is located on.

What astronomical buzzing in is Jonas the moon?

The moon is right.

Here's your bonus question, Rob.

What novel in which the pawnbroker Alyosha, is murdered by the student Raskolnikov.

It is one of the most famous works by Theodore Dostoyevsky.

The answer is crime and punishment.

Crime and punishment is correct, Jonas.

Well done.

Toss up everyone.

What river begins in lake?

If esca is the origin of Josh, the Mississippi Mississippi River is correct.

Bonus question for you.

President Roosevelt's Day of Infamy speech was given in response to what 1941 attack on the Hawaiian naval base, the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

Pearl Harbor is the answer we wanted.

Well done.

Katie Britt is currently a senator from and Alabama.

Alabama is correct.

Bonus question A statue drags the title character to hell in the opera Don Giovanni.

By what Austrian child prodigy who composed 41 Symphony.

Mozart.

Amadeus.

Mozart.

Next, everybody.

What group of compounds are reacted with carboxylic acid in Fisher Astaire ification?

Come in, come in a rubbing type and are found in beverages like Wyatt alcohol.

Alcohol is right beverages like beer.

Bonus.

The four sites were witnessed on a meditative journey by white men who achieved enlightenment and founded a namesake Indian religion, the Buddha or Siddartha Goodman.

All of that is correct.

Well done.

Toss up everybody.

What California rock band has seen a recent resurgence on TikTok with songs like Be Quiet and Drive Alonzo Beach Boys?

No, that's incorrect finishing to hear Deftones.

Deftones is the right answer.

Here's a bonus question for Abraham what deity who was punished by having to roll a boulder up a hill eternally?

Whoa, whoa, no Bubsy needed.

Let me finish reading it.

Uphill.

Eternally founded the city of Corinth.

Do you all have an answer?

Sisyphus.

The part of you guys is.

That is correct.

Yes.

Next question for everyone.

Now buzz in if you know in what dystopian novel by Margaret Atwood is off.

Read.

Still, The Handmaid's Tale is right.

Bonus for Arab the mohair robe the church discontinued this continuity lies beneath what layer of the earth between the core and the crust.

What's it called?

Mantle.

Mantle is right.

Thank you.

Next, what Asian island nation plans on moving its capital to the island of Borneo?

Josh?

Jakarta.

No.

The island of Borneo from its current capital of Jakarta.

Do you guys have an answer?

Mountain bro.

What is it?

Indonesia.

Indonesia is right.

Your bonus.

In a Van Gogh painting, a poor family eats what title?

Vegetable that is also known as a spud.

Potato.

Potato is right.

Toss up everybody.

What state was home to the great compromiser, Henry Clay?

And is also the state where Abraham Lincoln was born.

Alonzo, Nebraska?

No.

Where Abraham Lincoln was born in a log cabin.

Do you have an answer?

Yes, John.

Kentucky.

Kentucky is right.

Your bonus.

The Phenix in the turtle is an example of what kind of 14 line poem by Shakespeare.

Who wrote 154 of them.

What's it called?

Sonnet.

Sonnet is right next.

What author wrote about Cage's death in Pet Cemetery and Georgie's death.

And Alonzo.

Stephen King Stephen King is the author.

We're looking for your bonus.

Mountain Brook.

A mutation in the FMR one gene can cause a disease affecting what chromosomes of which females have 2XX is right.

10th question of 20.

That was ten.

Here's 11.

What British territory in Spain is inhabited by primates?

Wyatt Gilbert, our say again.

Gilbert our.

It's your honor.

Gibraltar.

That's incorrect.

I'm going to finish reading it for you.

Arab.

Known as Barbary macaques and is home to a giant namesake rock.

Gibraltar.

Yeah, that makes us happy.

Yes, that's the correct answer.

Your bonus.

Adlai Stevenson is running, mate.

Estes Kefauver was from what?

Volunteer state?

Where Nathan Bedford Forrest died in Memphis, Tennessee.

Tennessee is right next.

What explorer who was the first Republican nominee for president was nicknamed the Pathfinder.

Alonzo Teddy Roosevelt.

That's incorrect.

I read it all a do you have an answer?

Nicknamed the Pathfinder?

Yes.

Josh Polk nope.

John C Fremont John C Fremont was the answer.

Next question.

What American author wrote the Piazza Tales and chronicled Ahab's hunt for the title whale?

Wyatt.

Herman Melville.

That's right.

Your bonus.

The land of OU was the setting for what Cartoon Network show about thin the Human Adventure time.

Adventure time?

That's that's the right answer.

Next, at the Marburg Colloquy, Erlich Zwingli debated what monk who authored the 95 theses and began wiht Martin Luther.

That's right.

Bonus question the photographer for Alfred Stieglitz was married to what woman who depicted cow skulls in many of her pain?

Georgia O'Keeffe.

Georgia O'Keeffe is right.

Toss up everybody and what now defunct country was Mihajlovic put on trial?

Why USSR?

That's incorrect.

Put on trial a Rab by Joseph Tito before it was split into modern day Serbia and Montenegro.

And what do you have?

Job.

Yugoslavia.

Yugoslavia is right.

Your bonus question.

Chi is carried away by the snow Queen in a story by what Danish author best known for creating a witch who takes away the little Mermaid's voice?

Anderson.

Anderson is right, Hans.

Christian.

Next, everybody.

What Mexican muralist who was married to Frida Kahlo and Bosnian is Eli Velasquez?

no, that's not correct.

I'll finish it for you.

Mountain Brook created works such as Detroit Industry and Man at the crossroad.

Have an answer?

Why Salvador Dali?

No, it was Diego Rivera.

Diego Rivera is what we were looking for.

Next question.

What word derived from the Greek for sailor of the universe and was used to quiet astronaut?

No, I'll finish it for you.

A rad and was used to designate Soviet spacemen, not American astronauts.

Josh.

Cosmonaut.

Cosmonaut is right.

Next bonus question for you to grab a beat.

A abelian groups hold what property that is exemplified a times b equals b times a. Commutative.

That's the right answer.

Commutative.

Few more questions.

What?

Men refused to attend the Constitutional convention because he smelt a rat and famously declared, give me liberty or give me George Henry.

Patrick Henry is right.

Your bonus?

The equestrian work got a malathaat by what?

Renaissance artist who created the bronze David Irving?

Rodin?

No, it was Donatello.

Donatello is the answer we wanted.

We have two more questions.

What festival celebrated during the month of Kartik celebrates the death of Naka Serra and his Hindus.

Festival of lights.

What's they call white Holi?

No, that's not right.

Do you have an answer?

ERA Diwali is what we wanted.

Last question before I pause here.

What quantum physicist is the nickname of a thought experiment in which Wyatt.

Schrodinger.

That is the right answer.

You get the last bonus question.

The emperor.

Coogler.

Coogler.

Cuckoo league you love.

Thank you.

Tried to make what kind of animal a member of the console was riding in a travels.

Horses.

Correct.

Lay down your buttocks and we're going to pause for a moment.

We're going to prepare to play the lightning round.

I'm going to tell our students and you at home what our categories are.

mountain Brook is trailing slightly here at the midpoint of our program.

You'll have an opportunity to catch up in the lightning round.

And in the last part of our program, our categories for our Lightning round today are the missing third good things, also known as and heavenly Bodies.

So mountain Brook you'll select first and then you from Arapahoe choose two categories.

And the last one, we'll come back to mountain Brook.

Before we do that, let's meet our players.

We'll ask each of you to tell us a little bit about yourself.

Vincent, would you begin?

I play soccer, and I was on the mountain Brook cross country team.

Very good.

I'm Russell, and I have, published code online.

Hi.

My name's Wyatt, and I do the junior United Nations of Alabama for my school.

Hi.

I'm Alonzo, the Yorkists, and my father is from Peru.

Hi.

My name is hi.

My name is Eli, and I code drones for our drone team.

My name is Ava, and I like to draw and play my electric guitar.

My name is Jonas and I'm part of the robotics team and wrestling team.

My name is Josh and I'm part of the track and cross country team.

Very good.

I know all of your sponsors, your coaches and your families back home are very proud of you and you're all doing very well on today's program.

So mountain Brook, of the categories that I listed earlier, which one would you like to try?

Wyatt.

we'd like to try also known as please, also known as.

When I begin asking the questions, you'll have 60s.

You're going to identify the cities which are known by these nicknames.

Are you ready?

Here we go.

La la land, Los Angeles.

That's right.

City of brotherly love.

Philadelphia, Motown or Motor City?

Detroit.

Big Apple, New York, music city, USA Nashville.

Chocolate capital of the world.

Hershey, Pennsylvania.

That's right.

Beantown.

Past the Big Easy.

Past.

Gateway to the West, Saint Louis.

That's right.

The Rocket City.

Huntsville.

That's right.

Beantown.

You passed on, Boston.

That's right.

Yeah.

The Big Easy.

New York, Philadelphia.

Let me guess is you one that's it.

the Big easy is New Orleans.

Oh, the Big Easy.

Yeah, but you did a good job on that.

I think you got nine out of the ten.

Well done.

We'll come over to Arab now.

And, Eva, if you want to speak for you all, you can tell me which ones you'd like to try.

We would like good things and the good things and the missing third.

Let's start with good things.

You're going to give the answer for each of these with names or phrases containing the word good.

I know, we'll see.

Ready?

Nickname for the Bible, the good book.

That's right.

Women's magazine started in 1885.

Passed.

Robert Frost says these make good neighbors.

That's right.

Phrase describing KFC finger lickin good.

That's right.

TV series starring Freddie Highmore as a young autistic surgical student.

The good doctor.

That's right.

Tire manufacturing company.

Good year.

Year anniversary of Jesus's death on the cross in front of one's jail time may be shortened because of this good behavior.

A person who helps another without regard for himself may be called this Good Samaritan.

That's right, Bartolomeo Diaz routed the Cape in 1488 and called it the Cape of Storms.

Good hope.

Cape of good Hope is right.

You passed on women's magazine started in 1885.

Good.

Good living, good housekeeping.

This is what we wanted over there.

But you did a good job with that.

And was the other one you wanted to do the missing third?

Is that what you chose?

Eva.

All right.

On the missing third, when I begin asking you questions, you'll have 60s to give the word that completes each of these groups of three related things.

Here we go.

Types of rock a rigid igneous.

Sedimentary.

Metamorphic.

That's right.

Decision making game.

Paper.

Rock.

Scissors.

Long bones of the leg.

Femur.

Tibia.

No less.

Parts of the insect's body.

Head.

Thorax.

Abdomen.

That's right.

Types of Shakespeare's plays.

Comedies.

Tragedies.

Past layers of a tooth.

Enamel, dentin and past three primary colors.

Red.

Blue.

Yellow.

Types of flowering plants.

Annual, biennial, perennial and perennial.

Branches of the U.S. government.

Legislative.

Judicial.

Executive.

Love triangle Cleopatra.

Mark Antony.

Julius Caesar.

That's right.

You passed on layers of the tooth enamel, dentin in gum, gums.

pulp is what we want.

Two types of Shakespeare plays comedies, tragedies and romance histories.

Histories was what we were in there.

Did you get Time's Up?

Did you get femur, tibia and fibula?

Fibula was the answer.

We weren't there.

Good job, good job.

That was kind of a more challenging one.

But you did a very good job with that mountain brook, you lucky rascals.

You get what we're left with.

And that is heavenly Bodies.

In 60s, you're going to identify each of the following heavenly bodies from the descriptions given.

Ready to go?

Yep.

Brightest star in the night sky.

Also known as the Dog Star, the North Star.

No, it's Serious Planet, whose natural satellites are Phobos and Deimos.

That's right.

Planet closest to the Earth and distance.

Venus?

That's right.

Pluto's largest moon.

Named after the mythological boatman of the River Styx.

Sharon.

That's right.

Comet that passes by Earth roughly every 76 years.

Hey, what's your answer?

Haley's.

That's right.

Constellation with the bright stars.

Better you, Beetlejuice and Regal.

Constellation named after the mythological hero who slew Medusa and rescued under a meta person.

That's right.

Two planets with the greatest number of moons.

Jupiter and Saturn.

That's right.

Galaxy in which our planet lies.

Loki with the brightest star in the constellation Lyra.

Serious?

It's a big thing as well.

We weren't there.

Did you pass on any?

Yes.

Constellation with the brightest stars, Beetlejuice and Regal.

Orion.

Orion is right.

Take a shot.

Good job.

You all did a good job with that.

And, we'll continue on now with the rest of our questions.

As our players know, these are all worth 20 points.

And so not break your mind by a little bit here at the midpoint so you can catch up pretty quickly, quickly, and you could build up your lead.

So let's see how it goes.

Everybody ready?

What mineral found at the bottom of bones a reaction series has a most hardness and buzzing in this Jonas calcium.

That's incorrect.

I'll finish it for mountain.

Brook has a moz hardness rating of seven and is commonly found in sand.

What do you got?

Why?

It's silicone.

No, it's quartz.

We're looking for quartz for that.

It's the piece.

Adagio for strings was composed by Samuel Barber, a composer.

From what country?

Home to the New York and Eli.

America.

Yes.

United States of America is right.

Next.

What element?

Which is used to synthesize alkenes in the Wittig reaction has a red allotropes used in matches and symbol P. What is that?

Phosphorus.

Phosphorus is right on what peninsula could you run with the bulls in the city of Pamplona.

And it's George's Iberian Peninsula is correct.

What Irish author depicted Lord Darlington in his play Lady Windermere's Fan, and wrote about a painting that ages instead of the title character.

It's Eli Wilde.

Oscar Wilde, correct?

In what National Park, which is located primarily in Wyoming.

Josh.

Yellowstone.

Yellowstone National Park is correct.

What European country once led by the lion of the North.

Gustavus Adolphus has its capital in Stockholm.

And Josh Sladen.

Sweden is right.

The preacher Jim Casey is killed.

In what new novel about the Joad, Trip to California, a work by Jonas Grapes of Wrath.

Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck.

Richard Maurice Hunt designed the pedestal for which Frederick Bartle.

Statue of Liberty.

Statue of Liberty is the right answer there as well.

Next, the events of Cape Kate Chopin's novel The Awakening take place in what southern city, which is home to Creole culture, George's New Orleans is right.

James Chadwick discovered what elementary particle when Jonas answer.

Chill.

Do you guys, elementary particle with no charge driven answer.

Wyatt.

Neutron.

Neutron is correct.

Next, in the Roald Dahl novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

What spoiled, selfish little girl and Veronica.

No.

That's incorrect.

I want to finish it for you, Ahram.

Spoiler.

Little girl turns out to be a bad nut and gets thrown down the garbage chute.

What is her name?

And yes, a lot of salt.

Veruca salt is the right answer.

Sounds like Veronica got right answer.

And here we go.

What girl who grasped the meaning of sign language after her hands were put under a running water pump?

Josh, Helen Keller, Helen Keller is right next.

Jelly filled donuts and potato cakes are foods often eaten during, what, eight day Jewish holiday?

And it is Alonzo Hanukkah.

Hanukkah is the answer we wanted.

Next.

What group of elements contains potassium, lithium, and alkali metals?

That's correct.

Next.

What?

Queen who completed the Reconquista and began the Inquisition, ruled over a united Spain.

Josh Isabella.

Yes.

That's correct.

Isabella the first.

Next.

What?

Long running animated TV series known for predicting the future with its Simpsons.

The Simpsons is right next.

By what name is Isabella Bohm free, a black abolitionist and preacher of the 19th century, more widely known Josh Harriet Tubman.

That's incorrect, but working on the answer.

Wyatt.

Jane Addams.

No, it's the journey.

Truth.

Sojourner truth is the answer.

What negatively charged particles were discovered?

Electrons?

That's correct.

By J.J. Thompson.

Good job.

Next.

The widest waterfall in the world.

Wyatt.

Venezuela.

I'll finish the question for you.

Iran, known as the Pony Falls, lies on what longest river of Southeast Asia, which passes through Cambodia and Vietnam.

Yep.

I got an answer, Josh.

Mekong River is right next.

Russian composers Sergei.

Probe, probe.

Kiev probe.

Kevin Love and Peter Tchaikovsky created pieces named for what Shakespeare play about two star crossed lovers from Verona.

What's the end?

Romeo and Juliet.

Okay, thank you very much.

That was the right answer.

What transportation project was built by workers at the Central Pacific Railroad Company and Virginia and John Transcontinental Railroad?

That's correct.

Meyer Wolf chime fixes the World Series in what?

Jazz Age novel narrated by Nick Carraway and written by Wyatt, the Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby is right next.

Elastic and inelastic collisions conserve what quantity equal to mass via kinetic energy.

no.

I'll finish it for you.

A red equal to mass times Veloce ity, which is Jonah's momentum.

Momentum is right.

Linear momentum.

Next.

Joab commanded the army of what man who had an affair with best sheba and used a slingshot to slay the giant.

Josh.

David.

David is right.

Haven't grabbed our pencils late lately.

Let's do so now.

If a triangle has angles, angles equal to 35 degrees and 15 degrees, what is the degree measure of the third angle?

And yes, why at 103 degrees 130 is correct.

Next, Henry the Lion was the cousin of what ruler who drowned during the Third Crusade?

Wyatt.

Barbarossa.

Babur.

Yes.

That's correct.

Next, a double headed ax may have inspired the name.

Of what structure?

Which was built by Wyatt.

Fascism.

No.

I'll finish it for you.

A rap built by data less and contain the Minotaur.

What is that called?

The labyrinth.

Labyrinth?

Correct.

Next, Salvador Dali painting The Who hallucinogenic Toreador depicts various copies.

Of what?

Statue of a love goddess missing her arms.

Alonzo.

Venus de Milo.

That's right.

Next.

The Holy Roman Empire ended.

After what battle?

Nicknamed the battle of the Three Emperors in which German, Russian and Austrian forces Joshua battle Austerlitz?

That's correct.

What British band fronted by Chris Martin is known for hits like clocks, Viva la Vida and It's Jonas.

Coldplay.

Coldplay is correct.

Two minutes left.

The words civic and refer are examples of what kind of words that are spelled the same forwards and backwards.

They're called what Alonzo?

No answer.

Arab.

Do you have an answer, Eli?

Palindromes is correct.

What country's poet Octavio Paz wrote the poem?

Mexico.

Mexico is right.

The donkey dapple belongs.

To what character?

Who assessed his masters in the Miguel de Cervantes novel Don Quixote, Jonas.

Sancho Panza.

That's right.

Bootie and KD were consorts of what?

Hindu deity who was decapitated by his father's Shiba Lin, leading him to you.

See you again.

New?

No, that is not correct.

Shiva leading him to obtain an elephant head.

You have an answer, Jonas.

Ganesh.

Ganesh is right.

The elbow principle gives the order in which.

What regions?

Around the nucleus.

Whose names are SPDR nf Wyatt.

Orbitals.

Orbitals is right.

In the novel, the Master of Margarita, vermouth is a giant example of what creature that is often kept as a pet y dog.

That is incorrect.

Arriba!

You got an answer?

Arbor Cat is right.

What explorer called the Admiral of the ends of the Earth was the first man to fly over both the North and South.

Charles Lindbergh, that's incorrect.

North and South poles and made aerial maps of Antarctica.

Do you guys know who that was?

And Josh Yeager, it was Richard Byrd, Richard Burr.

Lay your fins down.

We are flat out of time.

That was a good read.

Usually I have a pretty good feel for who won.

I have no idea who won.

Arab.

You came out on top in a very close match.

Mountain Brook.

You answered a lot of questions in that last round and did a good job of catching up.

But we're proud of all of you for how well you played today.

We appreciate you watching our program.

It's the Alabama Scholar's Bowl seen weekly statewide here on Alabama Public Television.

Thanks to everyone who makes the show possible.

Thank you again for watching and have a great day.

Everyone.