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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 here on Alabama Public Television.

My name is Mike Royer.

Our executive producer for our program is Mike Ousley.

Our judges are Sharon Dailey, Josh Trotsky, Kate Wilson and Harris.

We appreciate their support and the support of the folks here at Alabama Public Television.

We have two fine teams in our studio today.

Barden Academy from mobile in South Alabama and up north near the Huntsville area is the Randolph School.

Good to have students here from both of those schools.

We wish you both luck as we go through our program today.

20 questions, if you answer correctly, you get a bonus question.

So let's get started.

This man was convinced by Major John Andre to betray his side in one war by surrendering West Point.

Name this general.

Yes.

Brennan.

Benedict.

Arnold.

Benedict Arnold is correct.

Now, let's read the bonus question for your team.

Nico Harrison believed this player had many conditioning issues, which led his organization to make a shocking trade.

What NBA point guard was traded for Anthony Davis to the LA Lakers?

Kobe Bryant.

That's incorrect.

The answer is.

Luka Doncic, Luka Doncic it's a great big point guard.

Moving on for the next question for both teams.

People doing what hobby might use a mortise and tenon joint?

Practice the motto measure twice and cut once, or create furniture out of materials like Iver Arbor.

Second, carpentry.

Carpentry is acceptable.

Woodworking is also one.

Bonus question for your team, Barton.

And it's a math question.

Please give your answer in a percent.

If there is a 5% chance that Damian's invention explodes, then what is the probability that two inventions explode in a row?

Come up with something up.

You want to take a shot?

25%.

It's 0.25%.

.25 percent is the right answer.

Thank you.

The city streets, everybody.

This city's streets were used to name the properties in the popular board game monopoly.

What Jersey shore destination, known for its casinos, is home to the world's longest.

Been Vegas.

No, that's not it.

Carson.

Jersey city?

Nope.

It's Atlantic city.

Atlantic City is what we were looking for there.

Everybody in this book series, Morgan le Fay and Merlin the Magician, send the protagonist on quest.

And it's Brennan, the magic trick.

Magic Treehouse is the right answer.

Here's your bonus.

The technology one.

Emmanuel, Sharpay, Tay, and Jennifer Doudna.

The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, a viral defense mechanism in bacteria, provides the Cas9 nucleus used in what gene editing technology named for palindromic repeats.

Everything.

The acronym is Crispr.

Crispr.

The Crispr clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats.

Next question.

And it's a math question for everybody.

Grab your I know I don't like me either.

If Roy takes 20 63. shots and misses 50% of them and takes 12 one point shots and misses 25% of them, how many points did he score?

Whoa, that was quick.

4848 is exactly right.

Quick and correct.

Bonus question for you.

A type of this foodstuff called the up cumin is hidden during Passover.

Challah and matzo are types of what food that is important to the Jewish religious practice and its bread.

It's a bonus question.

Do you have an answer?

Yes.

Bread is the right answer.

Moving on.

In this biblical book, Joshua and Caleb are the only two spies to report that Canaan is overflowing with milk and honey.

God asks Moses to take a census of the Israelites.

In what?

Fourth book?

All of us?

Oh, no.

No!

Do you guys have an answer?

Yes.

Carson.

Deuteronomy.

No.

It's.

What is it?

Numbers is the right answer.

Moving on to the next question for both teams.

This vector quantity is the slope on a position time graph.

Acceleration is the rate at which this vector quantity changes.

Name this quantity whose scalar version could it be?

Or would I have to say like you have to get the right answer.

What's your answer?

No.

That's incorrect.

Do you guys have an answer?

Did I finish?

Name the quantity on this scalar version.

Name this quantity whose scalar version is speed.

Do you have an answer?

Yes.

Karsen, the velocity is right.

Here's your bonus.

The city's harbor contained an artificial island called Dojima, where Dutch learning was imported during the Edo period.

Name this Japanese city that, along with her shima, was attacked with atomic bombs during World War Two.

Nagasaki Nagasaki is correct.

Moving on for everybody.

An author of this this ethnicity included stories about a no name woman in her novel The Woman Rural Warrior.

June and Waverly are rivals in a novel by an author of what ethnicity?

Who wrote about mothers in the Joy Luck Club, who play mahjong and looking.

It's either Ava.

Chinese.

Chinese is right.

Bonus question for your team description acceptable.

This fate occurred to the dwarf Albus after he was questioned by Thor.

Until the sun rose.

Perseus used the reflection of his shield to avoid what fate of people who looked at Medusa turning to stone.

That's exactly right.

Moving on, both teams, the first novel in this book series follows a tag like game where people touch the title object.

They are social outcast, the cheese touch, and it is been that of a wimpy kid.

That is right.

Bonus for your team.

A composer from this country wrote an opus one Pascal Galea for orchestra in memory of his mother.

Named this home country of Anton Weber's, who with Arnold Schoenberg was part of the Second Viennese School.

Many towns, like a Russian.

Need an answer?

Russia.

Austria is the answer we needed for that.

Moving on.

This amendment was the subject of the case.

Texas.

The Johnson, which involved the burning of the American flag.

The case concerned whether shouting fire in a crowded theater applied.

To what amendment?

Protecting freedom of speech and first First Amendment is correct.

Bonus question for your team.

The 1811 New Madrid, one of these disasters took place in Missouri.

Mayor Eugene Schmitz responded to damage in Chinatown in 1906.

After what type of event?

The ravaged San Francisco caused by the shaking of the Earth's surface.

Earthquake.

Earthquake is correct.

Next question for everybody.

The quantum operator corresponding to this quantity equals negative I h bar times the gradient, while the time derivative of this quantity equals the force.

By Newton's second law, name bin.

No.

No answer.

Finishing it for your team.

Barton.

Name this product of mass and velocity.

What is it?

Either gravity.

No.

It's momentum.

Momentum is the answer we need.

Next question for everybody.

The structure counteracts churchgoer pressure to organ pressure.

A different structure shrinks away from this structure when plasma lysed.

A gram stain can detect peptide illogically.

In what structure?

Say it again.

Pepto.

Thank you.

In what structure that surrounds the cell membrane and planets.

What's it called?

Oliver.

Cell wall is right.

Bonus for you.

This moon orbits closer to its planet than any other moon in the solar system.

What moon?

Named for the Greek god of fear, is one of two moons of Mars.

Along with Phobos is correct.

Good job, everybody in a battle off the coast of this modern day country.

The Musashi was sunk at at the little.

At the little Gulf.

Douglas MacArthur said I shall return.

Carson Philippines is right.

Bonus for you.

What city?

Home to climate pledge arena.

The museum of Pop culture.

Gum wall.

Pike place market and the Space Needle is the largest in the state of Washington.

Seattle is correct.

Next, the Ascii type of these devices has negative resistance, while the Zenner type functions pass the break down voltage.

These devices only allow current to flow in one direction.

The light emitting and I don't see who ring in.

I still don't see their Brennan resistors.

No.

That's incorrect.

The light emitting type of what devices are used in TV screens.

You guys have an answer, Carson.

No.

No answer.

The answer we want is diodes.

Diodes is what we were looking for in one novel.

In this series, Lucy Gray Baird writes a song titled The Hanging to Oliver.

The Hunger Games The Hunger Games is right.

Bonus for you.

In order to prevent this process from occurring.

Trees and other plants may be used to stabilize soil.

The Grand Canyon was formed by what process in which water the.

Erosion.

Erosion?

Yeah.

It's a bonus.

Next.

This general use Numidian calvary to pull off a double in Belmont during his victory at the Battle of Cana.

Name this general who famously crossed the Alps during the Second Punic War and its castle.

Hannibal?

That's right.

This is a bonus question for your team bonus.

The Kilgore Mattis report claimed followers of a movement in this country had their organs harvested by the government.

Falun Gong was founded.

In what country?

By Lee hung Z, where it faces persecution from the CCP.

In China, China's right.

Next question.

The tan function has a period of this many degrees, which is equivalent to pi radians.

A straight line is formed from an angle of how many degrees?

Half 81.

80.

That's right.

You're getting a bonus question when you turn your nameplate back to me where I can see it.

Thank you.

Charlotte, I can't remember everybody perfectly.

Here's your bonus.

This tissue is strengthened in signification and uses capillary action for its primary role.

What?

Vascular tissue transports water up to stern for photosynthesis in plants.

Xylem.

Xylem is right.

Three more questions in the movie Green Book.

Doctor Shirley performs an abridged version of this composer composer's winter wind etude.

Pieces such as the Revolutionary Etude and The Minute Waltz are written by what Polish composer.

Jochen.

Chop chop, chop and bend.

Anywhere you pronounce it is right.

Well done.

Moving on.

The state's governor, who defeated Chris Jones in 2022, served in between Sean Spicer and Stephanie Grisham as Donald Trump's White House press secretary.

What state is led by Sarah Huckabee Sanders?

From little Rock hearkens.

Arkansas.

Arkansas.

Yup.

Next, everybody.

On this day, worshipers are told to remember you are dust and to dust.

You will return.

On this first day of lent, Christians have their foreheads marked Carson Ash Wednesday.

Ash Wednesday is right.

Bonus for your team.

The first landing on this object South Pole a Ken Aitken basin, was made in 2024 by China's Chang'e six.

And did you mean to buzz in?

That's a. Okay.

The Sea of Tranquility is found on this object whose dark side faces away from Earth.

Name this object that orbits Earth.

The moon is right.

Last question.

Thankfully, this man became the first person to be executed for treason in the United States after Robert E Lee helped capture him.

Weapons in West Virginia were captured.

By which?

Abolitionist who led a raid on Harpers Ferry.

Anyone?

Bueller?

No one.

John.

Brown, John.

Brown, lay your buttons down.

Let's regroup.

Here.

Take a breath.

And I'm going to tell our viewers at home what our categories are for our always exciting lightning round, which is brought to you by the Alabama Community College System.

The categories are starts with W Bible verses, ancient civilizations and functions, and at the midpoint of our program.

Barton Academy, you're trailing slightly.

So you'll select first of those four categories.

And then we'll come over to Randolph.

You'll play two.

And what's left you'll do after that.

Before we play the lightning round, I'd like for you all to introduce yourself and tell our viewers a little bit about yourself.

Carson, would you begin?

Yes, sir.

I'm Carson Rice.

I'm in the sixth grade, and, I root for the Auburn Tigers.

Yeah, I'm Seth Lovelace.

I'm an eighth grade, and I for the Mississippi State Bulldogs.

I'm.

I've got to.

I'm in eighth grade, and my favorite colors, red.

I'm Benjamin boogie, I'm in seventh grade, and my middle name is danger.

Go ahead.

Charlotte.

I'm Charlotte, I'm 14, and I play softball.

Okay.

Brennan Lockwood, in eighth grade, and I wrote competitively.

I'm all over Walker.

I'm 12 years old, and I swim competitively, and then I'm in seventh grade, and I play soccer.

Very good.

But I want a new nametag for you.

We're going to get a new nametag made for you.

All right.

Have you guys decided of the four categories I named?

Which one you'd like to do first?

Ancient civilizations, ancient civilizations.

As always, you'll have 60s.

You're going to answer the following about ancient civilizations.

The Peloponnesian War pitted Sparta against the other Greek city state and present day capital, Athens.

Athens.

Ancient Egypt developed along this river, which has blue and white tributaries.

Kylan is often credited with inventing paper during the Han dynasty.

In this country.

China.

Great son of Philip the Second, who was tutored by Aristotle and became King of Macedonia in 336 B.C.. Alexander the Great, Babylonian king who names a code of laws that was issued around 1750 BC.

Greek island, whose city of Knossos you know.

Essos contains the remnants of the palace minus Sumerian form of writing, whose name means wedge shaped to form a Syrian capital city where a biblical figure, Jonah, was sent to preach.

Past South Asian civilization, whose cities included Harappa and Mohenjo daro.

India.

Indus River Valley Indus Valley is correct.

Ancient civilization home to the city of Chichen Itza.

The next time is up.

That one was Maya.

The one you passed on to Jonah was sent to preach in Nineveh in case it comes up again.

Let's come over here to Randolph School.

You've had time to think about it.

Which two would you like to do?

Brennan functions and w functions in algebra and W correct?

Correct.

60s.

Name the following concerning functions in algebra.

Value of measures that rate the change of a linear function, which can be calculated by rise over run slope.

Polynomial functions of order two, which are Grafton's parabolas and pass solutions to an equation also known as zeros of the equation.

This set of inputs, accepted by a function pass functions which undo the operation of another function.

Pass test, which a graph must satisfy to be considered a function.

Pass type of function where every unique input mapped to a unique output.

Operation in which one function is applied to the results of a separate function, represented by notation g f x. We sin doesn't do anything right or whatever.

It ends with g in parentheses, f x in parentheses.

Functions which repeated regular intervals, examples of which include the sign in cost.

We're out of time.

Let's put that one well into our rearview mirror and now worry about it.

What was the other one W?

Oh, the ones w did you do?

There it is.

Start with the letter, the given, the clue.

The answer starts with the letter W. You knew that.

Here we go.

The Allies and Access Powers participate in this deadliest conflict in history.

To say again, World War two.

Okay, compound symbolized H2O.

This is water.

RJ Palacio book that tells the story of Auggie, who has a facial deformity.

Most popular desktop operating service, which online free encyclopedia whose logo is a globe.

The next edition of this event will be held in Milan in 2026, two years from the Summer Olympics.

Stade led from Charleston that separated from another state during the Civil War.

What's your answer?

It's pass.

What type of government support that is used to ensure people can meet basic needs?

What pass this type of star that does not undergo nuclear fusion and is named for its color.

White dwarf name given to several English kings, including the conqueror who reigned from 1066.

William.

That's right.

You passed on state led from Charleston, West Virginia.

West Virginia is correct, and I think that's it.

Type of government support that is used to ensure people can meet basic needs.

It doesn't matter now.

The clock is run out.

Okay, so we have left, let's see, 5 or 6 Bible verses.

Bible verses.

I don't go to test your knowledge on given the clue.

Give name the book of the King James Bible, given a verse from it.

Ready?

60s in the beginning God created the heaven in the earth.

Moses and Aaron went in and told Pharaoh, let my people go.

It's Exodus.

Yes, the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, along with many other wise sayings.

Proverbs.

Yes, the Lord is my shepherd.

I shall not want.

And excellent Deuteronomy.

What's your answer?

Psalms?

Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.

Luke.

Matthew.

For God so loved the world, he gave his only begotten son.

Matthew, that's John 316.

To everything there is a season pass.

Oh yea, dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.

Bold.

Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they will soar on the wings like eagles.

Matthew, it's Isaiah.

Where was thou when I laid the foundations of the earth?

Shall we accept good from God and not trouble?

Genesis.

That's job accepting trouble.

They pass on any gang in times out.

Anyway.

Okay.

Let's vote.

Hands up if you want to, never think about the lightning round again.

Everybody good?

All right, we're all on the same page.

Now.

Let's move on.

Speed round.

These are 20 point questions.

No bonus.

We don't have to bother with being reminded of bonus questions.

Answer the question.

We move on.

Here we go.

The columnist Hugh Hewitt quit his newspaper shortly before the 2024 presidential election.

This newspaper, the third most subscribed to in the United States, is owned by the founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos Washington Post.

It is the Washington Post.

The Portuguese attempted to monopolize this body of water through gunboats, under people like Alfonso de Albuquerque, who conquered Goa.

This Swahili coast was involved in trade.

In what ocean?

Carson, Indian Ocean?

That's right.

This artist depicted two barely separated fingers in a ceiling painting of God and Adam.

The creation of Adam is painted in.

Michelangelo is correct.

This era of Western music saw the replacement of the harpsichord and the rise of the Turkish music style, which is seen in Mozart's Rondo alla Terca.

What musical era Boston.

No.

I'm going to finish it for you.

What musical era occurred from 1750 to 1820, in between the Baroque and Romantic period?

What was it, Charlotte?

Classical is correct math question for everybody.

If a right triangles hypotenuse is 25 units and one of its legs is 24 units, what is the length of the other leg?

Somebody give me an answer.

We're moving over.

Square root of one.

Nope.

You guys got think the answer is seven.

Moving on.

In a work by this, playwright, Steve Deaver is in prison for a crime which his partner is not charged for.

While in another Gale's quarry, they finally asked for more.

Wait, what?

American playwright wrote either Arthur Miller, Arthur Miller's right people in this ethnicity protested in New York during the Orange riots and formed the Molly Maguires name.

These people, who immigrated on coffin ships to the US, other Irish, Irish Americans is right and we have a couple of minutes left.

Myths from this country describe how a God used a jeweled spear to drag islands out of the sea, their creator God.

And it's over again.

Japan is right.

An empire from this modern day country that was ruled by Osei Tutu and Queen.

Yeah, a son to wah had a throne known as the Golden Stool.

What country in Hawaii know what country of the Ashanti people has its capital in Accra?

Accra country?

Yep.

Bill.

No.

Would you say it's Ghana next?

Yellow fever slowed the construction of an infrastructure project in this country which was newly.

Carson, Panama, Panama's right.

Another math question.

Grab your pencil.

If there is a one seventh chance of a pink flower being produced from red and white flowers, how many pink flowers you would you expect to get from 301 seeds?

Yes.

Charlotte.

Would that be 43?

43 would be the right answer.

Next, this leader lost the Battle of Norfolk in a war where forces led by Norman Schwarzkopf prevented his invasion of Kuwait.

The Gulf War was lost by what dictator of Iraq, Carson Saddam Hussein?

That's right.

This man quoted the bug, Bud Guida, by saying, now I am become death the destroyer of worlds.

While watching this successful Ben Oppenheimer is the right answer.

Let's get another question or two.

In the second of three symphonic sketches by this composer is entitled Play of the waves, and forms part of his piece lemur.

What French composer?

Sweet bird.

Vermont.

Vermont said for me, bergamot contains the Clair de lune by other Debussy is right.

These structures are formed via a vestigial reflex contraction of the erector pili muscles called pillow erection.

Hair is pulled upright upon strong emotions or cold weather to form what bumpy structures on the skin of goosebumps is correct.

And lay down your this.

Well, that was fun.

Is everybody having fun?

It's supposed to be fun.

You all played well and it was very close.

But, Barton Academy comes out on top.

You were trailing at midpoint.

I think the score is you'll find out shortly.

It's very close.

So you did a very good job today on that.

And Randolph you played well as well.

You know that you did a good job.

That's going to do it for our program today.

It's the Alabama Scholar's Bowl.

We hope you'll join us again next time I'm Mike Royer.

Have a great day.