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 another edition of the Alabama Scholar's Bowl.

My name is Mike Reuter, and it's my privilege, I believe, for the fifth season to host this program here on Alabama Public Television, where we bring the best and brightest students from all around Alabama into the studio to compete for scholarship money and a personal pride to on showing us how much they know we have to find teams in the studio to begin this season.

BALDWIN Magnet School is with us from Montgomery and Arab Junior High School from beautiful Arab Alabama.

It's good to have all of you with us.

At the midpoint of our program.

You'll meet all of the players today as they'll tell us a little bit about themselves.

If you've watched the program, you know how it works.

If you're joining us for the first time, we asked 20 questions to begin our program.

And the team that answers the question correctly gets a bonus question.

We have a lightning round in the middle of the program.

That's when we meet the players and then more questions at the end that are worth 20 points each.

And, you know, if you're a little bit behind, you can catch up quickly during that.

Everybody ready to go?

Let's get our buzzers in hand.

let me mention also our executive producer of our program is Mike Owsley, Sharon Dailey, Claudette Smith, our judges today and a variety of other folks, including the huge staff from Alabama Public Television, who support us so well in our effort here on the Alabama Scholars Bowl.

Now, let's get started.

Let me put my magic glasses on.

These reveal all of the correct answers.

So they're very important.

Let's get started.

Buzzers in hand.

Here we go.

Spartans celebrating the Kania Festival could not participate in, what, 490 B.C.

battle.

And buzzing in is Jonah's marathon.

Marathon is the right answer.

And I have a bonus question for you, Ira.

This is just for you, Marcel.

Do Shawn's painting LH OCU adds a mustache to what Da Vinci painting depicting a woman with an enigmatic smile.

The Mona Lisa.

The Mona Lisa is correct.

Well done.

Now both teams again for question number two in what African country does.

Nadine Gordimer was Novel July's people take place during apartheid and in is Eli South Africa.

That's correct.

And another bonus question for you around Maxwell's demon violates the second of what set of laws governing systems of heat thermodynamics.

Thermodynamic dynamics is the correct answer.

You said it perfectly.

Thank you.

Question three Both teams the battle of slow ese and crazy take place during what, lengthy war between England and France and in young hundred years?

100 Years War is correct.

Well done.

BALDWIN Here's your bonus question, and I know you'll be excited about this pencil and paper in hand for a fun math question.

What is the volume in cubic feet of Jed's room?

If it measures eight feet long, 6.5 feet wide and ten feet high, the volume need an answer pretty quickly here.

What do you have, sir?

Yes, sir.

five 2520 cubic feet is the right answer.

Well done.

Both teams, the lead soprano sings Liebestod or love death in Tristan and Isolde.

An opera by what German composer of the Ring Cycle.

And who knows the answer to that?

Josh Wagner is right.

Richard Wagner is correct.

Bonus question for you.

Passing the Khumbu Icefall is a challenge faced by people performing what task of ascending the tallest mountain in the world, climbing Mount Everest?

That's right.

Climbing Mount Everest or summiting them Everest?

Well done.

Cross up both teams.

The Pathfinder and the Prairie are works in what James Fenimore Cooper's collection, whose most famous work is The Last of the Mohicans, and Eli.

The leather stocking Tales.

The Leather stocking Tales.

The right answer your bonus question.

A parallel pipe.

It is a three dimensional shape whose faces are composed of what?

Four sided polygons, whose sides are parallel and equal in length.

What are those called square?

They're called parallelogram beams.

Parallelogram is what we want to toss up everyone.

The first American woman in space, Sally Ride, flew aboard watch shuttle, which later exploded in a disaster that killed schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe and Nehme.

Challenger.

Challenger is the right one.

Correct.

And bonus question for you.

BALDWIN The Lyons Mound March where William of Orange was killed, during what battle in which Arthur Wesley, the Duke of Wellington, finally defeated Napoleon.

Where was that?

What are the Battle of Waterloo?

That's right.

Toss up, everybody.

What country?

Whose longest river is The Murray Darling is home to the outback.

And that is just after Australia is correct.

Well done, Josh, here's your bonus.

The dog faced God show.

Little is the brother of what?

Feathered serpent, deity of the chief.

God of Aztec mythology.

Yeah, the over the judges.

That could very well you saved me from having to pronounce it.

So thank you so much, Ava.

I appreciate that Toss up everyone.

In what country was the Sagrada Familia designed?

And Jonas Spain.

Spain is right.

Bonus question for Europe.

The death of the horse frou frou symbolizes the downfall of Count Brodsky's affair.

With what?

Title woman of a Leo Tolstoy on Tolstoy novel and a carina and a carina is right.

Good job.

Question number nine for everyone.

The River seven is located in what country?

Which is also home to a river of disputed length.

The Timms.

And that is Josh, the UK.

The UK is right, Great Britain is right.

Bonus question for your crab.

Incompressible fluids have a constant value for what quantity equal to mass divided by volume density density is correct.

Good job.

Question number ten Adherence must follow the five ks and I'm looking.

Jonas Sikhism.

Sikhism is correct.

Bonus question In the Eastern Orthodox Church, the end of four is spoken before what?

Christian Sacrament in which participants consume bread and wine for communion.

Yes, judges will accept that Eucharist was the first answer, but communions acceptable as well.

Toss up everyone what halogen, which is a purple gas at room temperature, is added to table salt to stop the formation of and it is I can't find you serum chlorine.

You know that's incorrect.

I'm going to finish the question for you.

Red is added to table salt to stop the formation of goiter one is added.

You like potassium iodide charges?

Nope.

The right answer is iodine.

Iodine is the right answer.

We move on to both teams.

Now, here's your question.

What woman who is locked in a red room as a child is the title and it is Jonas.

Jane Eyre.

Jane Eyre is right.

Bonus for you.

Basal sliding is a cause of movement.

For what?

Large masses of ice, glaciers, glacier glaciers is correct.

Next question.

Both teams.

What Bolshevik leader who published the pamphlet, What is to be done?

And the April theses became the first leader of the Soviet Union.

And right here, John Lennon.

Vladimir Lenin is correct.

Your bonus.

The Henderson Hasselbeck equation is used to find what value for buffers that measure the acidity of a substance is correct.

Next question, everybody.

During what war?

They saw the US fight and Iberian nation did Theodore Roosevelt lead and neme Spanish-American?

Spanish-American is right.

Bonus question for you.

Baldwin know, and you really are less well known examples of what kind of creatures who turned people to stone, such as Medusa, Gorgon.

Gorgon is correct.

Very good.

Thank you.

Five more questions before we take a little break.

What large storms, which are measured on the Sapphire Simpson scale, Josh Hurricane.

Hurricanes is correct.

Bonus question for you.

The bulk of Lehigh was a lost part of what work, which was supposedly found on Golden Plates by Joseph Smith.

The book, The Book of Mormon.

The Book of Mormon is the right answer.

Next, what protagonist who works for the Ministry of Truth is tortured and buzzing in is Eli.

no answer.

All right, I'll repeat.

Finish the question for you.

Baldwin, who works for the Ministry of Truth, is Tortured with Rats by O'Brien in George Orwell's novel, 1984.

Do you have an answer?

We're looking for Winston Smith.

Winston Smith is what we wanted.

Couple more questions.

What jazz trumpeter has albums titled Jonas Louis Armstrong?

Nope.

I'll finish it for you.

Baldwin.

Albums titled Round About Midnight in a Silent Way, but is more famous for his album Kind of Blue.

Who is that jazz trumpeter?

The answer What do you have here?

George Gershwin.

No, it's Miles Davis.

Miles Davis is what we wanted there.

Everyone, what title Creature sits on a bust of powers and repeats Jonas the Raven.

The raven is right.

Bone is for you.

The scarab God.

Capri is a reborn version of what Chief Egyptian God who presides over the sun?

Ra ra ra is correct.

Next question.

We have two more.

Idi Amin once served as the ruler of what?

African country?

Near Uganda.

Uganda is right.

Bonus question for Baldwin Susteren.

I form the CIS base of what organelle and apparatus name for an Italian scientist Golgi.

That's right.

Golgi Apparatus.

That was good enough.

Judges.

You're happy with that?

Yes.

Good.

Last question.

These subclavian arteries lie under what bone structure?

Located in the front of the shoulder.

What is it?

Serra Cage.

Rib cage.

No, that's incorrect.

Do you have an answer for me?

Yes, Your Honor.

Collarbone.

Collarbone is correct.

Last bonus question for you.

Tesserae are pieces of what kind of art form.

This is a bonus for Arab art form that is composed of small colored pieces of materials such as glass.

Mosaic.

Mosaic is correct.

Everybody relax.

Lay your buttons down.

That's the end of our first round of questions.

We'll do our Lightning Round Coming up in just a moment.

I'm going to tell you the categories now for you and for our viewers at home.

And then we're going to meet our players today, The categories for our lightning round are trains, planes and automobiles.

Next in line, Disney movies.

And it's a small world.

Those are our four categories.

And when we begin playing those categories, the team that is trailing here at the midpoint will go first and choose that category.

Then we'll come to a red.

BALDWIN You'll go first.

Grab your pick two categories, play them both, and then you get to play whatever is left over at the end.

But you already know that.

Let's take a moment to meet our fine students from our teams participating in today's program.

And we'll begin with the folks from Baldwin.

How would you begin?

My name is Ashoka and I play the violin and piano.

My name is Isabella and I play the piano.

My name is Naeem Patel.

I'm on the Baldwin robotics team.

My name is Cheryl Madani, and I'm on the Baldwin speech and debate team.

Very good.

All right.

Let's meet the folks from Iran.

My name is Eli Moe, and I like to get a degree in software engineering.

My name is ever Case, and I play the electric guitar.

My name is Jonas Huckaby, and I'm on the wrestling team along with the club president.

My name is Joshua Umbrella Club vice president.

I'm on the track and cross-country doing good.

Even my wife collects guitars.

You have to get together sometime and jam, I suppose, or whatever you want to do.

It's good to have all of you with us.

You're all playing very well.

I know your coaches and your folks back at your school and your families are proud of all of you for being here and doing such a good job.

All right.

We're going to begin with the folks from Baldwin Of those four categories, which one would you like to play named?

Disney movies.

Disney movies.

All right.

Let's go to that category and then you'll have 60 seconds once I begin asking the questions And you're going I'm given a list of characters, You're going to identify the Disney movie.

Okay, Ready to go?

And just give me the answer.

We'll get through them in 60 seconds.

Here we go.

Jasmine, Jafar and Sultan Aladdin, Gaston, Maurice and Mrs. Potts, Beauty and the Beast, Gepetto, Jiminy Cricket and Figaro as Sebastian Flounder and Scuttle The Little Mermaid.

The Jungle Mole.

Glee.

Baloo and Kaa.

The Jungle Book.

Move, Move Fossa The Zoo and Kumbayah Lion King.

Quasimodo Emerald Isle and Claude Frollo.

Hunchback of Notre Dame.

Anna, Elsa and Olaf.

Frozen Thumper.

Flower and Falling and Bambi.

Bambi is correct.

You passed on Geppetto, Jiminy Cricket and Figaro.

We have 2 seconds left.

No time left.

And that one is Pinocchio.

Pinocchio is what we wanted there.

All right, let's come over to our folks for me.

Wrap junior high school.

You have two choices to make here.

Of the three left, what would you like to do, Jonas?

We'd like to do the trains and cars along with.

It's a small world, All right?

Trains, planes, automobiles.

We'll do that first and then.

It's a small world.

When we begin, you'll have 60 seconds to identify these famous trains, planes and automobiles of fact and fiction.

Ready to go?

Here we go.

Agatha Christie wrote about a murder on this train, Orient Express, supersonic passenger plane grounded because of its loud sonic boom Concorde.

That's right.

Henry Ford's automobile, known as the Tin Lizzie and the Flipper Model-T car driven by Batman Batmobile, playing the drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, May 29.

That's incorrect.

The Reading Pennsylvania, B.A.

in short line of railroads in this game Monopoly.

That's right.

Howard Hughes, huge wooden plane that is the largest to ever fly.

Spruce Goose discontinued car named after the son of Henry Ford, the founder of Ford Motor Company.

Lincoln.

Nope.

Plane and plane that Charles Lindbergh flew nonstop across the Atlantic.

The spirit of Saint Louis, that's right there.

Ford was the Edsel and the name of the plane that dropped the first bomb.

Enola Gay is the right answer.

That's correct.

All right.

You did a good job on that.

And your next choice was, it's a small world, Correct.

60 seconds for this.

You're going to identify each of the smaller following.

Small things.

Clever, Here we go.

60 seconds.

Smallest woodwind instrument, Piccolo.

That's right.

Country with the smallest area.

Vatican City.

That's right.

Short man who climbed a tree to see Jesus.

Zacchaeus That's right.

Smallest blood vessel in the body.

That's right.

Smallest bird.

FINCH That's incorrect.

Smaller bone in the lower leg.

Fibula.

That's right.

Elementary particles did come in.

Six flavors work.

That's right.

Smallest of eight planets.

Mercury.

That's correct.

Shortest verse in the Bible.

Jesus wept.

That's right.

And shortest month of the year.

February.

That's correct.

Which one did you miss?

the hummingbird was the smallest bird.

Yeah.

And Jesus wept as John.

1135.

If you're keeping score at home.

All right.

We'll come back to you.

BALDWIN And you get stuck with what we don't say stuck with.

You get to enjoy the last category that we have available today.

This one is next in line.

And once we begin asking the questions, you'll have 60 seconds to complete the following list by giving the next item in each series.

I know you understand the 60 seconds.

Here we go.

Presidents Thomas Jefferson, James Madison.

James Monroe.

That's right.

Months of the year.

June.

July.

August.

Letters of the Greek Alphabet.

Alpha, Beta, Gamma.

That's right.

Harry Potter books.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.

The Prisoner of Azkaban.

That's correct.

Geological eras.

Paleozoic Mesozoic Cenozoic.

That's correct.

12 days of Christmas gifts.

A partridge in a pear tree, two turtle doves, as I would have two prime numbers, 11, 13 and 17.

That's right.

Largest states, California, Texas, Alaska.

That's right.

Books of the Bible.

Leviticus.

Numbers us and Tallest mountains, King, Chad, Junior, K2 and Everest.

That's correct.

Didn't pass on any but the one you missed that you passed for two months.

No.

Number six, 12 days of Christmas.

A partridge in a pear tree, two turtle doves and three French hens.

If we'd.

We're times gone.

But thank you, Sharon.

If we'd sung the song, I bet you would have mailed that last one.

All right.

We've got about just under 8 minutes left in our program.

And as you know, we're going to do speed round questions 20 points each.

No bonus if you answer it.

Good for you.

But we just keep moving on.

All right, spin out.

Speed round.

Here we go.

What war saw Matthew Ridgway take control of the United Nations forces from Douglas MacArthur, as well as battles Jewish World War Two.

That's incorrect, as well as battles at Incheon and Seoul.

Korean War.

Korean War is right.

The Jesse Owens fan, Rudy befriends the protagonist, Liesl, in what?

Marcus Zizek, the Black.

The Book Thief is right called Call Me Asparagus and in Life there are roadblocks.

Are quotes by what?

Music producer budget.

Kelly Did you?

Kelly?

That's correct.

A possibly autobiographical story of a naked boy running from Jesus arrest is contained in what cannot.

Canticle.

Canonical and Synoptic Gospel that follows Matthew and comes before Luke and John Mark.

Mark is right.

Next question for everybody.

What President assisted Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin in signing the Camp David Accords years after his time as a peanut farmer and its era?

Carter.

Jimmy Carter is right.

The point at which a falling object can no longer gain speed is called the turn and Eli Velocity.

Velocity is correct.

A Phrygian cap is worn by white flag bearing woman who leads the people in the painting.

And it is Jonas Liberty.

Liberty is correct.

The Nobel Prize was not awarded in 1948 due to the assassination of what man who led the Salt March.

Mahatma Gandhi.

Gandhi is right.

The warning beware.

The green eyed monster of jealousy is given by ego.

To what title more of of a Shakespeare play.

Jonas Merchant.

No, that's incorrect.

You have an answer for that, Baldwin.

The right answer is Othello.

The country of Costa Aguada appears in Nostromo, a novel by white Polish British author better known for Heart of Darkness.

Jonas Conrad.

Joseph Conrad is right.

The tuba.

Miriam is a six year they Mozart composition of what kind often described as a mass for the dead.

What is that Jonas Requiem record?

Requiem is correct.

What book series turned Netflix original and written by Lemony Snicket follows the misadventure Serum, A series of unfortunate events.

That's correct.

Thank you.

The Kyoto Protocol aims to regulate carbon emissions to combat the phenomenon of the earth heating up.

And what does that mean?

Global warming.

Global warming is correct.

Chief Sells.

And parietal cells are found in what?

Organ of the digestive system that breaks down food?

Jonah's small intestine.

That's incorrect.

You have an answer, Baldwin.

Stomach.

Stomach is correct, Sarah.

Well done.

The methods of cracking and packing are often used During what Political practice of redrawing electoral districts.

Josh Gerrymandering.

That's right.

We have met the enemy and they are ours, said Oliver Hazard.

Perry During what war between the United States and Britain during its namesake year in the 19th century?

Ava War of 1812.

That's right.

The visceral mass and regular are features found in what phylum that includes snails and squids.

Cephalopods?

No, that is incorrect.

You have an answer from Mollusk.

Mollusk is the answer we wanted.

Mount Katahdin is located in what mountain range of the United States, the largest east of the Mississippi River.

Sierra Appalachian Appalachian Mountains.

Correct.

Kinsley Then a deer.

And similarly, you played versions of what character, the main version of which was played by Ryan Gosling in 2023.

Barbie.

And who was that?

Kid is correct.

That's right.

4 minutes left in our program.

What American author wrote the short story to build a fire and wrote about Buck Jordan.

Jack London.

Jack London is right.

The long count calendar was created.

Mayans Mayan is correct.

Well done, Jonas.

The Devereux staircase is part of what Parisian museum whose glass pyramids were designed?

Villeneuve The Louvre is correct.

Mourning becomes Electra is a play by white playwright, more well known for Long Day's Journey into the Night.

And what do you have?

Eva Whitman.

That's incorrect.

You have an answer.

BALDWIN We're looking for Eugene O'Neill, the Poor People's Campaign was led by white civil rights leader who stood Judas, MLK Jr. That's correct.

Next question for everyone.

A math question.

Grab your pencil.

If the speed of light in a vacuum is approximately 299,000,792 458 meters per second, how far does light travel in 2 seconds?

Anyone?

What you got?

Jones?

Two light years?

No, we need the actual meters number.

Anybody got it over at Baldwin?

No.

599, five, 84, nine, 16 meters is what we wanted.

We had to double it.

Right.

Next question.

A return to normalcy was promised in the election campaign of what man whose presidency was affected by the Josh Harding.

Warren G. Harding is right.

Abnormal folding of the amyloid beta cells is the most probable cause of what disease it causes.

Memory loss and leads to dementia.

What is that?

No answer.

Alzheimer's.

Alzheimer's is correct.

Ava.

What?

Three word nickname for William Shakespeare is a combination of his occupation and the place of his birth in 1564.

Them The Bard of Avon.

That is right.

Well done.

Next, the cop in the anthem is a short story by white man who wrote about Della and Jim's Christmas gifts.

And that is Eli O'Neill.

No, that's incorrect.

Zero.

Henry.

Henry is correct.

A few more questions.

What tissues?

Central to Ernst.

Most pressure flow hypothesis transports sugar through a plant and is contrasted with xylem.

And what do you have?

Jonah's stem.

No, that's incorrect.

Baldwin, Do you have an answer?

Flow on the flow.

M is the right answer.

phl0e next.

Henry Flagler co-founded What company?

Whose criticism by Ida Tarbell stung its founder, John Rockefeller, and Jonah's Standard Oil.

Standard Oil is right in what popular franchise are the title?

Creatures such as Bell Sprout, Retarder and Pikachu caught by young trainers Avon.

So again, Pokémon is correct.

We have a minute left.

The school Kill River runs through what city?

Where The Declaration of Independence was signed at Independence Hall.

Jonah's Philadelphia.

Philadelphia is correct.

One more question.

Three glass knobs are described in a Wallace Stevens poem titled The Emperor of What Frozen Dessert.

What do you have Josh onscreen?

Ice cream is correct.

All right, lay down your buttons.

Relax.

And we thank you all for playing so well.

A lot of hard questions.

And you all did a great job answering.

We congratulate Arab Junior High School for winning this particular round ball when you played well.

And we'll look forward to having you back on the program sometime.

Arab will see you again.

And so we thank you all for playing and we thank you for watching.

Our program is called the Alabama Scholars Bowl.

My name is Mike Royer.

On behalf of everyone here on the program in Alabama Public Television, we thank you for watching.

We hope you'll join us every week.

And thanks again.

Have a great day, everybody.