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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 once again to the Alabama Scholar's Bowl here at Alabama Public Television.

I'm Mike Royer, and I get to host this program every week.

Statewide television Alabama public television.

And we're glad you've joined us.

Once again, we hear from a lot of you who play along with us on this competition.

We're in the middle of our middle school competition on the Scholar's Bowl.

We welcome to the studio today, the fine students from West Point Middle School up in Cullman County, and the Valley leadership Academy, which is in the Huntsville area.

Good to have the fine students with us from that school as well.

Mike Ousley is our executive producer.

Our judges are Sharon Dailey, Josh Ruski, Kate Wilson and Ed Harris assisting as well.

And we thank them all for the hard work they do in preparing us and getting our program on the air.

Y'all ready to go?

Buds in hand 20 questions.

If your team answers correctly, you get a bonus just for your team.

Let's get started.

One of these systems using Kaitlyn's or knowns, was reformed by Numa Pompilius to fill lapses in the date of Easter.

Named this calendars is correct.

Well done Sam.

This is a bonus question for you.

Valley are to miss unknown.

Artemisinin and quinine are used to treat one disease which is caused by Plasmodium and spread by the most common disease vector worldwide.

The mosquito malaria.

Malaria is correct.

Here's your toss up for both teams again.

In this musical, one character sings I'm not that girl.

After rescuing a lion cub with Figaro.

What musical?

And it's Spencer.

Wicked is correct.

Bonus for your team.

The Rough Rider presidents foreign policy was described by saying speak softly and carry a big stick.

What relative of FDR ran for a third term for president as a Bull Moose candidate, and is the namesake of the teddy bears?

Teddy Roosevelt is correct.

Moving on.

And E, the letter E is replaced by the number three in the title of this show's third season, which premiered in 2024.

Mikey Day is the host of what Netflix shows Sam is it is it cake?

Is the right answer your bonus question.

The Druze and Baha'i Faith, Baha'i Faith believe this man returned as John the Baptist, this man, when a contest against the followers of Baal by successfully praying for fire, named this prophet who went to heaven in a chariot of fire.

Elijah?

Elijah is correct.

Next question for both teams.

Porphyria may have caused the mental illness of a king with this name, who was devastated by the loss at the Battle of Yorktown.

What name belonged to the King?

George is the right answer.

George the third, to be specific.

Bonus a Walter Rollins and Steve Nelson song originated this character, whose first words are happy birthday.

What popular Christmas character says I'll be back again someday?

After going down to the village and coming to life from an old sylph.

That's right, one of my favorites.

Next question for everyone.

These structures are bound to spindle fibers by kinetochores in a region called the centromere.

What structures that move towards the poles of the cells during anaphase carry genetic information they have.

And its Mason chromosome chromosomes is right.

X and Y variables.

Bonus for you West point to grass.

Examples of these objects were given to Publius Decius must and were the highest military honor in Rome.

During the crucifixion, Jesus wore what type of object made from thorns to represent his rule over the Jews.

Crown.

The crown is correct.

Tossup, everyone.

This man said that all is burning during the fire sermon.

While meditating under a tree.

This man achieved enlightenment.

Buddha is correct.

Sam.

Bonus for you.

Valley.

This painting technique is achieved with colored pencils by overlapping layers between two or more colors in charcoal.

This painting technique is done by smudging the marks.

What technique mixes colors to transition seamlessly?

Blending is correct.

It's passing to note is successful for you.

In this case, this islands country sea is Wailuku, while its community of Lahaina was partly destroyed by ho.

No finishing this for you.

West point was partly destroyed by wildfires in 2023.

Name the second largest island of Hawaii.

Name for a culture hero.

Yes, RJ Oahu.

No.

It's Maui.

Maui is the right answer.

Next question.

In a 2024 sandbox shooter game, the player controls one of these animals with a gun.

Name it rat tusk, which rodents protect their food source from blue jays by burying acorns in the winter?

Squirrels is right.

Your bonus.

The Buddhist of Bamiyan, where sixth century statues of this material that were destroyed by the Taliban after the Kalinga war edicts were written by Ashoka on pillars of what material on which ancient human paintings in caves, rock or stone is correct?

Next, an ideal one of these machines is the Atwood Machine.

Pulleys is correct.

Bonus posters promoting the sale of war bonds read help this man stamp out the Kaiser.

What personification of America points at the viewer in posters reading I want you, uncle Sam is correct.

Toss up everybody.

This location was the site of the Battle of Bemis Heights and Freeman's Farm.

Horatio Gates defeated John Burgoyne at a 1777 battle.

In what location?

A town, Sam.

Plains of Abraham?

No.

Yes.

Who else did someone else buzz in?

In what location?

A town in upstate New York is the rest of the question.

Yes or no?

It's Saratoga.

Saratoga is what we needed.

Tossup.

What country?

Whose largest lake is Lake Ida?

E y r e Australia is correct.

Your bonus.

What is the angle measurement in degrees of an interior angle of a regular pentagon?

Oh.

Anybody?

121 08108 is what we need it.

Next question.

Both teams, a rebellion in this colony saw former indentured servants and freed blacks attacked Suzuka, Hancock and Pamunkey villages in defiance of William Berkeley.

What Tibet?

No finishing.

What tobacco growing colony saw Bacon's rebellion sack Jamestown.

Jamestown is in what state of Virginia was the answer?

Next question.

Vaccines against this disease were developed by Albert Sabin and Jonas Salk.

Franklin, polio is right.

Your bonus for Valley during this war, Deborah Samson disguised yourself as a man to participate in.

At one side of this war's been a winter training to Valley Forge.

This war ended after Charles Cornwallis surrendered his Yorktown name.

This war, in which the U.S.

gained independence.

Revolutionary Revolutionary War is correct.

This planet, like Venus, has a retrograde orbit after Saturn.

Uranus Uranus is correct.

Bonus a promoting fact.

Your name for this biological process is also known as cyclin B CDK one kinase complex.

The G2 phase of interphase precedes what process that consists of consist of prophase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase.

Oh, mitosis.

Mitosis is right.

15 of 20 questions.

What molecule exist in a compacted state in hetero chromatin contains the four basics a D9, cis, ci assigned Y9 and thymine DNA.

DNA is correct bonus in this character.

In Wacky Land, this character pretends to sell a newspaper claiming to have caught the last dodo bird.

What stuttering pig delivers the line that's all, folks.

At the end of Looney Tunes Carto what's your final answer?

Porky pig judges you good with that Porky Pig?

He's related to Corky Pig, but it's a different pig altogether.

Next question.

What city?

The home of Christopher Columbus and the namesake of a variety of salami, is a western Italian port city and former merchant republic, and it is Sam no, I will.

What did you say?

You know that's incorrect.

You guys have an answer?

Venice?

No.

It's Genoa.

Genoa is the answer.

We needed the spectacle type of this animal family lives in the Andes.

As the only member of neighbors singing bears is right.

Bonus question.

This country contains the western portion of the lithium triangle near its port of Antonio.

Vargas de Valparaiso is one of the largest ports of what South American country?

Chile is.

Right.

Good job.

Three more questions.

This man composed the piece most often used in the two step for an award ceremony held by the Washington Post.

Name the composer of the Stars and Stripes Forever, who is nicknamed the March King Sousa.

John Philip Sousa is right.

Bonus Laurie and Carl start at the same place and run in a straight line at 12 and six miles per hour, respectively, in miles after 100 minutes.

How far ahead of Carl is Laurie?

About five more seconds.

Need an answer of 20?

It is ten.

Ten miles.

Two more questions.

The structure spans.

This structure spans the Hudson River to connect Fort Lee, new Jersey, and the neighborhood of Washington Heights in Manhattan.

Those driving into New York City often cross what double decker bridge named after Lorelei Brooklyn Bridge no.

After the first president of the United States, Mason Tin Bridge, the GW George Washington Bridge.

Bonus question for you, West Point.

At the end of this novel, Ned Land and Pierre Aaron Aeronautics escaped the maelstrom on a skiff.

The submarine Nautilus is captained by Captain Nemo in what Jules Verne novel titled for a specific Distance 20 Leagues Under the Sea.

No.

That's incorrect.

It's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

Last question.

In this part of the round, this country's independence would come after the Treaty of Constantinople and the Battle of Navarre.

No.

Leading to a crushing defeat to the Ottoman Greece.

Greece is correct.

Bonus question for you, Valley.

This figure is the half brother of the progenitor of the Arabs and was nearly sacrificed on Mount Moriah.

What biblical patriarch is the father of Jacob and the son of Abraham?

Isaac.

Isaac is correct.

Lay your buttons down, grab a breath, and I will tell our viewers at home in our, players here in the studio what our four categories are for our lightning round.

West Point.

You're trailing slightly at this point in the round, and you will select first of the four categories.

You'll choose one, and we'll do that in just a moment.

The four categories are organelles John Steinbeck, World War two and cars.

Those are the four categories, as you all think about that and which ones you think you'd like to try.

Let's meet all of our students will begin with Lane.

Come around and ask all of you if you would just tell us your name and a little bit about yourself.

Name is Lane Fork and I like to play chess.

My name is Mason Gerrity and I also like to play chess.

My name is Cannon Thrower.

I play baseball at West Point Middle School.

My name is RJ Braswell, and I have a high interest in meteorology.

My name is Ben Nelson and I'm a black belt in taekwondo.

My name is World Day and I play softball for Mountain Gap.

My name is Sam Nelson and I play travel soccer.

My name is Spencer Batra and I like to play the viola.

Very good, very good.

Proud of all of you.

Mason and Lane, do you play each other in chess?

We haven't yet.

He will play me.

He won't play you.

Very subtle.

Very subtle.

We'll see.

I'll bet that'll change in time.

Let's do our lightning round.

And, gentleman from West Point.

Which one of the four categories would you like to track?

World War two, world War two.

You'll have 60s to answer these ten questions.

Feel free to pass if you don't know an answer.

And you'll begin when I begin.

And here we go.

Answer the following about World War Two.

The German dictator who led Germany through the war, Hitler country, which along with Italy and Germany was a major axis power.

Japan.

Prime Minister of Britain who gave the we shall fight in the beaches speech Churchill country, whose invasion in 1939 sparked the war.

Poland in 1942 to 1943.

The battle named for a Soviet city in which the German sixth Stalingrad is right.

Name of the German air force which bombed London during the Blitz.

Policy championed by Neville Chairman Chamberlain, which attempted to placate Germany to avoid the war.

German general nicknamed Desert Fox, who killed himself after his plot against Hitler was discovered Aaron Wold that's right, Rommel country led during World War Two by Miklos Horthy.

It was later ruled by the fascist Arrow Cross Party.

Skip.

The United States operation to bomb Romanian oil fields.

Named for a natural disaster, it was called Operation Skip.

All righty.

And you skipped country led during World War Two by Miklos Horthy, later ruled by fascist Arrow Cross Party.

We're out of time.

That's Hungary.

And that operation is called the tidal wave.

Operation tidal wave.

All right, we come back to you, Valley Leadership Academy, you're going to choose two categories and do them both sandwich ones.

Do you like organelles and cars?

Please.

Organelles in cars.

We'll do them in that order.

If that suits you in the 60s, it will begin when I start asking the questions.

Name the following regarding cellular organelles.

Organelle known as the powerhouse of the cell.

Produce mitochondria.

Rigid external layer that provides external support around the cell membrane in a plant cell.

Cell wall a gelatinous liquid fluid composed of organelles and cytosol.

Cytoplasm.

Organelle.

The digest nutrients and breaks down excess excess cell parts.

Lysosomes.

Energy driven process where membrane proteins transport molecules across cells.

Glucose is its active transport organelle that has cell sap filled membranes known as ton of plast pass sensory organelle that enables bacterial locomotion.

Ribosomes that's flagella, organelle that packages proteins and lipids for transport Golgi apparatus.

That's right.

Organelle found in plant cells that is responsible for photosynthesis.

Chloroplast organelle that stores genetic information.

Controls cell activity.

Nucleus.

Nucleus is right and out of time in the nick of time.

You only passed on one.

Well done.

So we're going to do organelles.

And, Lorelei.

I'll bet, Sam chose cars.

That was his choice.

That's what I was.

Just a wild guess on my part.

You're going to answer these questions about cars in 60s.

Here we go.

Michigan born car manufacturer.

That's right.

Safety features that inflates during the crash.

Airbags.

Electric vehicle company to make cybertruck's and his German engineer, who received a car patent in 1886.

And codenames a brand of Mercedes Benz Asian country where Kia and Hyundai are headquartered in South Korea.

That's right.

Exhaust system device that reduces engine noise.

Muffler?

That's right.

Company whose car was used as a time machine in the movie back to the future, a company that provides satellite radio service for most modern vehicles by subscription.

GM no, it's serious.

Also called gearbox.

It can be automatic or manual transmission.

That's right.

Transmission is right.

Part of a car called the boot in England.

Trunk.

Trunk is right.

Very good.

You only missed one of those ten.

Well done.

We will now come back to you.

West point I think we're going to do John Steinbeck.

You're going to answer the following about author John Steinbeck.

60s.

Here we go.

He was born in this West coast state city of Salinas.

California.

That's right.

His novels were often said during the 1929 to 1939 period of economic turndown.

Great Depression.

He traveled to Stockholm in 62 to receive this prestigious literature literary award.

Nobel.

That's right.

Steinbeck novel in which the Joad family leaves Oklahoma.

Skip Scottish poet who's to a mouse inspired the title Of Mice and Men.

Three Musketeers.

It's Robert Burns, mentally disabled best friend of George and Of Mice and Men.

Pass, novella, in which the diver Kino finds the title organic gemstone.

Emerald as the Pearl.

Steinbeck was influenced by this author of The Sound and the Fury and as I Lay Dying.

Faulkner Faulkner is Right, The Preacher and Jim Casey's Grapes of Wrath is representative.

What martyr who shares is out of time.

All right.

You did pretty well on those.

A little challenging category there, but we're done with the lightning round.

We'll put that in the rearview mirror.

And in the last 6.5 minutes we have left, we're going to do speedrun questions, each one worth 20 points.

You can do some catching up here.

No bonuses.

Just answer and move on.

Along with the gospel.

This book is addressed to Theophilus and his chronicle, The Stoning of Stephen the Martyr.

Saul changes his name to Paul and what Spenser?

Nope.

Do you guys have an answer?

I'll finish it for you.

In what biblical book name?

For the deeds of Jesus's disciples gaining axes, right?

This term describes products when the method of the beha is used and is contrasted with haram, which is forbidden.

What Arabic term is given to foods and other actions?

Kanan haram?

No.

That's incorrect.

You guys have an answer which are permissible under Islamic law.

Halal is the right answer.

This is composer setting of Psalm 110 titled Dixit Dominus has the catalog number of 232.

Prophecies by Isaiah are included in the text to this composer's 1742 oratorio name.

The composer, who included Handel is right in his Messiah, and Hallelujah next.

This food is the primary ingredient in mirin, which is more often used in cooking compared to Saki.

Another wine made from the spice rice is right.

This man who employed William Joseph Hammer opposed George Westinghouse in the War of the currents.

Name this man the Wizard of Menlo Park, who is credited with Edison is right math question.

Joey has 15g of apples.

Bill has 500g of apples, 1500 grams of apples, and Bill has 500g of apples.

How many kilograms of apples do they have combined?

Mason?

Who?

Two is right.

Next question.

One character with this stage name in Squid Game is killed by the crypto YouTuber Lima Energy.

See again, that nose is right.

One of these locations on the Capitol Hill was where both Vitellius and Sejanus died in is called Germany in a Spanish kind of structure is in Rome, featuring several platforms.

Colosseum.

No.

I'll finish this for you.

Valley platforms people walk on to reach higher and lower elevations.

Lorelai.

Stairs.

Stairs is right.

Jesus instructs his followers to do this ritual in memory of me.

The sacrament is the subject of yes.

Say again.

Communion.

Yes.

Judges Holy communion.

The Eucharist is another answer.

Next virtue wisdom.

In this practice are the three divisions of steps on the Eightfold Path.

Vipassana and Diana are forms of this activity which is helped by mindful breathing.

What contemplation.

Meditation is correct.

These waves are detected by the Very Large Array enemy no finish unit.

Marconi.

Create an antenna to transmit and receive these waves.

The longest wavelength in the electromagnetic spectrum is possessed by what waves used by broadcasting radio waves.

Radio waves is right.

Nova no Novgorod achieved a victory at a battle named for the substance under Alexander Nevsky that was fought on Lake Pappas.

Empress Anna of Russia had a palace of what substance built for her that was largely the Neva River's frozen water.

Ice.

Ice is correct.

About three minutes left or less.

This legislation was described as a fire bell in the night by Thomas Jefferson to express dangers about slavery.

Maine was admitted as a free state.

In what legislation?

Missouri Compromise.

The Missouri Compromise is correct.

Subtypes of this process include attrition, abrasion, and hydraulic action.

Erosion.

Erosion is correct.

Lorelei.

Next, the protagonist of this novella is given flowers by one character who dies in a fire and later shows the flowers to his guest name.

This science fiction novella by H.G.

Wells about a man, Sam O. War of the world, no, but a man who meets the Eli.

Eli using the title device.

What is it?

Time machine.

Time machine.

Mason.

That's correct.

Next, French sources are often mounted with this substance, a block of which is folded into dough.

In lamination and flowers, no herbs and spices are incorporated into compound versions of this substance.

Whiskey butter is the right answer.

Asa Candler created expanded Asa Candler greatly expanded this company that makes this product, and the launch of a new version of this product.

In 1985, Coke.

Coke or Coca Cola is right.

An artist from this city painted a dog at the feet of a nude goddess in the Venice of Urbino.

Titian was the was from what city whose other artists included Canaletto.

What city?

Rome.

That is incorrect.

You guys have an answer.

Take a shot, Troy.

Nope.

It's Venice.

Venice is the city.

We needed about a minute left when two of these phenomena overlap, an occluded one can form.

What weather phenomena?

Tornadoes.

Nope.

I'm going to finish it for Ben.

What weather phenomena?

The line between air of different moisture and temperatures can be cold or warm.

Front.

That's right.

France.

You knew that too, didn't you, Ben?

I knew you did.

Next question.

The battle of the Plains of Abraham took place in this country with.

That's right.

This compound is the most common solute that is transported through the flow.

What compound?

Water?

No.

What compound?

Also known as table sugar.

Well, who's in Mason?

Glucose?

No, it's sucrose is the answer we needed.

Last question.

Stanzas of this many lines make up the Rubaiyat and because I could not stop for death, the first three stanzas of Shakespearean sonnets have.

How many lines?

The amount of RJ 14.

No.

That's incorrect.

I was about done.

The amount of lines in a quatrain for four is right.

Lay down your buttons.

We're out of time.

Very good round.

Good job.

Bye, everybody.

West Point, you came out short on this particular round, but you played well.

We're proud of you, because I know all your folks are as well.

And, Valley Leadership Academy, congratulations.

You win this particular match.

All of our students are winners.

We know that going in.

And as we end our program as well, we thank you for watching the Alabama Scholar's Bowl.

We'll be back next week, and we hope you'll be back too.

I'm Mike Royer.

Have a great day everybody.