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Alabama Scholars vault, 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 into another edition of the Alabama Scholar's Bowl on Alabama Public Television.

My name is Mike Royer, the host of the program.

This is our eighth season.

This is the middle school competition.

And this is a semifinal round.

That's a lot to do in one 30 minute program.

We're glad you're a part of it today.

Our executive producer is Mike Owsley.

Judges are Sharon Dailey, Josh Ruski, Kate Wilson, and Ed Harris.

And thanks to all the folks here at APT for doing such a great job in supporting us and helping us out.

I'm going to reach behind me here and show you this very cool trophy that will be won.

Not today, but in the next competition.

As we near the end of our eighth season, the beautiful trophy that goes to the winner of this year's competition.

So we'll look forward to presenting that.

Back into my shot now and let's get started with our competition.

The teams are ready to go.

You understand the first 20 questions involve a bonus question if you answer the question correctly.

Here we go.

The most powerful earthquake in American history hit this state on Good Friday in 1964.

Alaska?

Alaska is correct.

Well done.

Bonus question for your team.

This game was invented by Lizzie.

Maggie.

Maggie.

To support Georgia's tax policies.

And its mascot is rich uncle Penny bags.

Players collect $200 for passing.

Go in.

What?

Board game?

Monopoly.

Monopoly is right.

Toss up everybody.

This is the shape of a graph of position versus potential energy of a spring.

By Hooke's law of focus and a diet, Trix characterizes what path taken by a projectile under only gravity, which is graphed by a quadratic function.

What's that called?

Aaron.

Parabola is correct.

Bonus for your team.

A kicker with this surname won the 2011 Super Bowl with green Bay, where he played for 16 years, a hockey center with what surname has played the most games all time for the Pittsburgh Penguins and is nicknamed Sid the Kid.

No idea when to throw out a name.

Gretzky.

It's Crosby.

Mason Crosby is the name we were looking for.

Toss up everybody.

The thinker described one field as the first philosophy in a work in his collection or garden.

And what author of metaphysics was a student of Plato and the tutor of Alexander the Great.

Who was that?

Aristotle.

Aristotle is right.

Bonus question for your team.

A quadratic equation has this number of real solutions.

If its discriminant is negative, how many solutions are there to the equations?

Sine x equals two or x equals x plus one.

How many solutions is.

X plus I need an answer.

No solutions.

No solution.

Zeros.

Right.

Math question again for everybody this time if Sarah has spent 3420 minutes on her math homework, how many hours has she spent on it?

What's your answer, Aaron?

5757 is correct.

Let's just do this one bonus for you.

These structures are imaged by a karyotype.

These structures line up at the metaphase plate before splitting in mitosis.

Humans have 23 pairs of what DNA structures including X and Y chromosome.

That's correct.

Next question is for both teams.

The president advocated for dollar diplomacy after winning the election of 1908.

Name this Republican from Ohio, who according and is Carson.

William Howard Taft is right.

Here is your bonus question.

In this work, a talking fox tries to convince the title character to tame him.

The protagonist of this work lives on asteroid B 612 and crashes his plane in the Sahara.

Name this Antoine de Saint Expiratory, novel.

No answer.

No answer.

The answer is the little prince.

The little prince.

Next question for everyone.

This character was the heir to the Lion of King Abbasi, before forming a vengeful alliance with the outsiders, and later relinquished his name.

Taka.

What antagonist?

Eric.

Scar.

Scar is right.

Bonus question for you.

This poem mentions purple curtains and is set in bleak December as the weak and weary narrator is interrupted near midnight.

What Edgar Allan Poe poem is about a bird that squawks Nevermore.

The Raven, the raven is the name of the bird and the poem.

Next for everyone, this element partially names the class of forever chemicals, and it is the lightest non-carbon element in the ozone destroying CFCs, and buzzing in has been, you know, finishing it for you.

Baldwin.

Which element has the highest electronegativity?

Fluorine.

Fluorine is correct.

Bonus for you.

In this movie, the protagonist sneaks into Coach Robert's office and finds a note saying she is not ready to join the fire.

Hawks, which are led by Val Ortiz.

In you is a new character in what 2024 Pixar film about Riley and her new emotions, including anxiety.

Inside out too.

That's right everybody.

Question number eight.

After this country's establishment in 1948, David Ben-Gurion became its first prime minister.

And it's Israel.

Israel is right.

Bonus!

Again, a document by this man mentions decision, activity, secrecy and dispatch as reasons for a unitary government in a farmer refuted.

This man criticized the lawyers loyalist Samuel Seabury.

What Treasury Secretary was killed in a duel by Aaron Burr.

Hamilton.

That's right.

Next question for everyone.

What businessman who made a majority of his money through a namesake steel company in Pittsburgh, and buzzing in his image.

Carnegie.

Andrew Carnegie is right.

Bonus.

An artist from this country depicted 53 stations along a major road in it, part of this country's genre of pictures of the floating world.

An artist from what country depicted a great wave near Mount Fuji, Japan.

Japan is right.

Toss up everybody.

This river's source is Lake Itasca.

And over the Mississippi.

Mississippi River is correct.

Bonus for you.

Euler e u l e r modified a theorem named for this man that finds all even perfect numbers.

Greatest common divisor zero found by this man's namesake algorithm.

What ancient Greek mathematician published the elements, a key book on geometry.

I don't have an answer.

Archimedes.

It is Euclid.

Euclid is the answer.

Next.

Under coach Kenny Atkinson.

This team began the 20 2425 season with 15 straight wins.

What NBA team, whose players include Darius Garland and Donovan Mitchell.

Carson.

The Cleveland Cavaliers is correct.

Bonus for you, a member of this art movement developed the techniques of photography and grottos in paintings like two children are threatened by a nightingale.

Max Ernst was a member of what art movement.

That also includes Salvador Dali.

Surrealism.

Surrealism is the right answer.

Good job.

Toss up everybody.

Franz Schubert piano compositions for this type of dance music included one titled sentimental, Sentimental Tales and Nobles.

Aaron Waltz is correct.

Both.

Bonus question.

Bad news is, it's a math question.

Probably not for y'all.

Given the equation for five x minus seven plus four equals 18.

Four times the quantity five x plus seven plus four equals 18.

Solve for x. I needed to read it clearer the second time.

Plus.

Give you about five more.

I haven't got anything.

It's 21 over 10 or 2.1.

Next question.

Both teams in Chinese mythology.

Different parts of this place are ruled by four dragon kings.

The Greek god of this place is married to and for a treaty.

What place?

Aaron.

The sea or the ocean is right.

Your bonus.

The Haber process.

Haber process?

A GBR process requires massive energy to break the strong triple bond between atoms of this element in its diatomic gas.

What element with atomic number seven is the center of ammonia?

Nitrogen.

That's right.

Everybody.

The first woman to get a degree to practice this profession was Elizabeth Blackwell, who graduated from Geneva College.

The College of Philadelphia, which became U. Penn's Perelman School, was the first to train people.

In what profession whose graduates received MDS.

And it's either doctors is right.

Your bonus.

The Bank of Evil's refusal to fund the heist of this object causes a protagonist to freeze vector's head in anger, stealing what object am Gru's main goal in the first Despicable Me movie?

The Moon?

The moon is right, everybody.

To artist who worked in this medium collaborated under the name Same Old.

An artist that used a crown motif.

Jean Michel Basquiat worked in what?

Art museum?

Aaron.

Graffiti was his choice.

Bonus for you.

This artist painting radiator building at night deviates from themes she developed while working at Ghost Ranch in New Mexico.

What wife of Alfred Stieglitz often painted animal skulls and flowers.

O'Keeffe.

That's right.

Georgia O'Keeffe, everybody.

Museo Clemente wrote a concerto in C major for this instrument, as well as 110 sonatas for it.

What instrument is used to play pieces like Clair de Lune and Eric?

Piano is right.

Bonus for you.

One section of this work describes a war between black ants and red ants.

What Trends and Dench analyst worked?

Subtitled life in the woods, describes Henry David Thoreau, his experience of living at tip your pond.

Walden is right.

Next, in 2024, Diego Garcia was returned to this country along with the rest of the Chagos Islands, once home to the Dodo.

What?

Indian Ocean country off the coast.

Carson, Mauritius Mauritius is right.

Bonus for your team, Barton.

This quantity Shannon index accounts for both richness and evenness.

This quantity is greater in locations with higher primary productivity and in tropical regions.

What quantity measures the variability of species in a given area?

What's it called?

Biodiversity.

Biodiversity.

That's right.

We have three more questions in this first part of the round.

A person must cross this river to go from new Jersey to Pennsylvania.

What river?

Who's crossing by?

George Washington and looking at the Delaware River.

Your bonus.

This piece is first section used a viola to mimic the sound of a barking dog.

What composition by Antonio Vivaldi includes sections named spring, summer, Autumn and Winter.

The four Seasons.

The four seasons is right.

Both teams.

What kind of software uses conditional formatting functions like a array, a formula, or filter, and includes a Google Drive product with a green logo, as well as Microsoft and Erin Sheets.

Yes, sheets is acceptable.

Spreadsheets was the first answer.

Your bonus?

This religious group's leader coined the term city on a hill in the sermon, a model of Christian charity, and was named John Winthrop.

Name this group of fundamentalist Protestants who founded the Massachusetts Bay colony.

Give us an answer.

Puritan Puritans is the right answer.

Last question in a novel name.

For one of these things a character says for you, a thousand times over, to declare his friendship for a mere shoulder and try to cut the strings of what objects.

And that is Aaron again.

Kite is right from the Kite Runner.

Bonus math the cube root of 147 is between what?

Two integers?

What you got, Aaron?

Five and six.

Between 5 and 6 is correct.

All right, player buzzers down.

We're going to do our lightning round here in a second.

I'll tell you at home what the four categories are.

Barton Academy, you're trailing here at the midpoint.

So you'll choose first from one of these four categories.

Starts with the letter T. Zeus's romantic escapades.

International foods and starts with the letter H. Those are the four categories are lightning round, brought to you by the Alabama Community College System.

Let's get started with that.

And, Barton Academy, which one would you like to begin with?

It starts with the letter T. C again starts with the letter T starts with the letter letter T six.

I'm sorry.

Oh, I forgot that.

Yes.

No.

Thank you for reminding me.

We always have the students introduce themselves to you, but I've been around them so much.

I know them like the back of my.

And let's ask Carson to begin.

Come around and tell everybody a little bit about yourself.

Hello, I'm Carson Resch, I'm in the sixth grade, and, I'm a fan of Auburn football.

I'm a voice.

I'm an eighth grade, and my middle name is not danger.

I'm ever.

So I'm in eighth grade.

And my favorite subject at school is art.

Benjamin Bui, in seventh grade, I play three instruments.

Hamish in eighth grade at Baldwin.

And my favorite book is Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

Hi.

I'm Navid.

I'm an eighth grader at Baldwin, and my favorite book is Percy Jackson The Titans Curse.

Hi.

My name is Aaron.

I'm an eighth grader at Baldwin, and my favorite book is The Handmaid's Tale.

I'm a seventh.

I'm Erik and I'm a seventh grader at Baldwin.

And my favorite book is Lord of the Rings Return of the King.

Very good.

Hamish, when my younger son was your age, he drugged me to those midnight Harry Potter movies.

Did you do that?

Some, yes.

Yeah.

Well, anyway, let's move on.

We're going to do the first category that you guys chose starts with T. Given the clue, give the answer.

That starts with what t. Here we go.

A group of three creative works, such as novels or movies.

Trilogy.

Yes.

Instrument which Dizzy Gillespie played often with a bench worn decorative headpiece that, unlike a clown, is not a full circle but is associated with princesses.

Say it again.

Toupee.

No tiara.

Government department charged with overseeing federal finances and production of currency.

Treasury.

That's right.

The ability to move objects with one's mind alone to the telekinesis illness that was once called a wasting, sickness, or consumption.

No.

It's pass.

Okay.

Second most populated city in Arizona.

And home to the University of Arizona.

That's right.

Retailer whose mascot is Bull's Eye.

A miniature bull terrier.

Target.

The official name of this country is the Republic of China.

It is the major manufacturing center.

Taiwan.

Taiwan.

That's right.

Measure of the capacity of many hard drives with initials TB.

Terabyte.

That's right.

The one you skipped.

Illness.

That was once called a wasting sickness or consumption losses.

They got that in time.

Tuberculosis.

All right.

Very good.

We'll come back over to you now.

Baldwin.

You have three categories to choose from.

Which two would you all like to do?

Since romantic affairs and starts with H. All right.

Zeus's romantic escapades is the exact title.

I still want to do it.

Yeah.

All right, here we go.

Answer the following about Zeus's frequent romantic escapades.

Greek goddess of marriage and queen of the gods.

Two twin children of Zeus and Leto who are Greek gods.

Hero and son of Zeus, who completed 12 labors, including the Greek god born from Zeus thigh.

After his mother's diagnosis.

Nine offspring of Zeus and the goddess of memory, animal from, in which Zeus abducted the mortal Europa.

Hero and son of Zeus, born when he impregnated Dana.

Dana as a shower of golden rain.

Mortal lover of Zeus, whom he seduced in the form of a swan.

Later first wife of Zeus, whom he consumed in the form of fly.

Past mortal youth and most beautiful of mortals whom Zeus abducted to be his cup.

Yeah.

That's right.

When you get first wife of Zeus, whom he consumed in the form of a fly, got 10s io.

No, it's Metis in.

That is the answer to that one.

That Zeus was quite a rascal, wasn't he?

All right, let's go to the answers that start with H.

60s.

Here we go.

Most recent state to join the U.S., which is where Barack Obama was born.

Tara, did you answer to my territory that was leased to the UK for 99 years and contains Kowloon, Hong Kong?

Tribe holiday on October 31st.

That was inspired.

That's right.

A bond named for this element holds water together.

I did.

That's right.

American author who wrote The Sun Also Rises and the Almanac, a country that formerly held a dual monarchy with Austria.

Composer of the arts show.

Originally a Tory messiah.

That's right.

American executive department led by Kristi Noem that oversees border security, homeland defense and security.

Homeland security is right.

TV show titled for Vicodin.

Addicted doctor who needs a cane to walk.

House.

That's right.

The creator god bond.

He is revered in the voodoo religion in this country of Haiti.

Haiti is correct.

That's it.

Oh.

Did you skip?

Did you skip?

The sun also rises.

The old man.

So you got that?

You got that?

You got them all.

All right, well done.

We're coming back over to you.

Barton Academy.

And you get stuck with International Foods.

I believe.

Feel good about this.

Yeah.

Okay.

Let's see how you do.

I bet you do.

Great international foods.

Give the food.

Name the country it is associated with.

Ramen.

Japan.

Schnitzel.

Germany.

Croissants.

France.

Kimchi.

Korean fish and chips.

England.

Naan and pakora.

Pass.

India is right.

Gelato.

Italy.

Borsch.

Russia.

Russia.

Haggis.

Haggis.

Curry pass.

Mapo tofu.

China.

China.

That's right.

Yeah.

Haggis.

Haggis.

Scotland.

Is that one?

I've never heard of that one either.

You guys did well with it.

You never know.

I know my food.

You know your food.

That's nine.

You got nine out of ten, quick.

We've got five minutes left in our program.

Just a little under that.

In the speedrun, we're going to do questions that are worth 20 points.

No bonus.

We'll do as many as we can, and then we're out of here.

Let's go.

A character in this novel breaks a trophy over his head, while another character is discussing the book, An Imperial Affliction.

The cancer patients Augustus Waters and Hazel Grace feature in what John Green of A Fault in our stars.

The fault in our stars is correct, a type of these vehicles that use strategies known as wolfpack tactics during World War Two were named U-boats and other submarine submarines is right in this disease.

DNA polymerase may undergo replication slippage due to CAG repeats, resulting in uncontrollable jerking movements.

What and Parkinson's know what disease?

Who ran in over there?

Nobody.

Carson.

Did you, You want me to finish it for you?

Yeah.

The light's not on.

What?

Autosomal disease presents itself in involuntary movements called chorea.

Tics?

No, it's Huntington's disease.

Math question.

John makes a really bad financial decision, and his bank account starts losing half of its money every month.

If John starts with $10,000 in his account, how much money will he have left after four months?

Somebody.

What, you got $1,250?

Nope, that's not right.

You guys have a number.

I'm going to move on quickly to no.

125.

No, it's 625.

625 would be left.

This man jokingly proposed eating Irish children to combat a famine with Swift is right.

In a story by this author, a man talks to jig about getting an abortion.

Uncle George and a doctor perform a C-section in Indian Camp, a short story about Nick Adams and what American author of Hills Like White Elephants.

A hush falls over the crowd.

It's Hemingway.

This man claimed that injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

MLK MLK said that we have a couple of minutes left.

This ocean is home to the British overseas territories of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan and its Carson Atlantic.

Atlantic Ocean is right.

This term describes the symbol that indicates the pitch of written notes.

That symbol with this name typically appears at the beginning of a staff, namely symbol DBA clef.

Clef is right when made from a water buffalo milk.

This cheese is a protected good in southern Italy and used for dishes like a caprese salad.

What cheese can be breaded here?

Mozzarella is right and eventually gaudium.

This pope criticized income inequality, the Pope's exhortation to not raise walls.

But bridges was seen by some as a political message name this Argentinian pope and it is Amish Benedict.

Nope.

Carson.

Pope Francis Pope Francis is right.

This city, whose mayor is Rob Rue, was the target of dozens of bomb threats in 2024 due to a hoax.

Donald Trump claimed that Haitian immigrants were eating and its in the air.

No, we're eating pets belonging to residents of what Ohio City?

Throwing ring a bell with you?

This is George Martin.

If you know Ben Springfield is correct.

John Warnock and Charles Geschke founded this company, which offers the Creative Cloud subscription service.

Illustrator is a graphic design software over Adobe.

Adobe is right.

This country is divided from three countries to the north and by the Amu Darya river.

The walking quarter connects the country to China.

The Durand Line is the border between Pakistan and what country?

Which is.

And it's never Nevada.

You know, you guys have an answer.

I read it all.

Afghanistan.

Afghanistan is correct.

Last question in a story in this collection, a woman who pours boiling oil on thieves in jars is named Morgiana.

Morgiana, a magic lamp and a genie are characters in what?

Aaron 1001.

That's.

That's right, the Arabian Nights.

Lay your button down.

That was a good round.

You guys trailed halfway through, but you made a nice comeback.

But not quite enough as time ran out.

So congratulations to Baldwin Arts and Academic magnet School.

You got.

You all played very well.

Well done.

And so did you.

Barton Academy.

Every time you've been in the studio, you've done well.

We're proud of you.

As I know your teachers and supporters are we thank you for watching our program.

It's called the Alabama Scholars Bowl.

We're here every week on Alabama Public Television.

Our championship game is coming up next, and we'll look forward to you joining us then I'm Mike Royer.

Have a great day everyone.