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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 on Alabama Public Television.

It is my privilege to host the program every week here.

My name is Mike Royer.

So glad you've joined us.

We have two fine teams in our studio today from Decatur Middle School in the red to the left side and in their black shirts.

All of our folks are dressed alike today.

I like their team jerseys.

These folks are from Gadsden Middle School.

Good to have you with us as well.

Mike Ousley is our executive producer of the Scholars Bowl.

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

Thanks to everybody here at AP TV for supporting us and doing such a good job helping us get the program on the air every week.

We already got buttons in hand.

We're going to do 20 questions.

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

That's just for your team.

Let's get going.

When these features are formed out of loose material called scoria, they are called cinder cones.

In what feature?

Yes.

Volcano is the right answer.

Jacob.

Well done.

Let's go to your bonus question and grab your pencil here.

Jamie wakes up at a 7:15 and leaves the house 47 minutes later.

What time does he leave the house?

Got an answer?

Eight.

It's 802802 would be the right answer.

Next question.

Both teams cells named for resembling this organ along with vessel elements, comprise the xylem.

In plants, anaphylactic shock is most often deadly.

Grant.

Nope.

I'll finish it for you.

Gadsden is most often deadly due to the constriction of what?

Human organ that connects the lungs to the mouth.

Esophagus?

Nope.

We have to have trachea or windpipe would be acceptable too.

Next question.

Still, both.

Both teams staple meals in this country include a savory sandwich called Bon Me, and its national dish is a kind of noodle soup called pho.

Name this country where pho can be cooked in styles name for Saigon, and it is broader.

So Vietnam Vietnam is the right answer bonus for your team.

This animated character learns that he is the adopted son of Mr.

Ping in the second movie of a franchise, this character was granted one position after falling from the sky and landing in front of Master Oogway.

What character retires as the Dragon Warrior in Kung Fu Panda four?

Oh, Po po is the right answer.

Good job everybody.

Both teams.

An ad campaign claimed this product won a taste test over its main competitor, while later ads claimed it was the choice of a new generation.

What's soda, infamous for an ad with Kendall Jenner, competes Grant Coke.

That's incorrect.

Competes primarily with Coca Cola, Iris or Brunner Pepsi.

Pepsi is the right answer bonus for you all.

The sun, moon and stars bowed to this man in a dream.

In the Bible, this man plants his silver cup in the bag of his brother Benjamin, who uses divination to help the Pharaoh and owns a coat of many colors.

Joseph Joseph is the right answer.

Well done.

Next, what US state is organized into boroughs instead of counties contains Katmai National Park and Preserve has its highest point at Denali and is the northernmost grant.

Alaska Alaska is correct.

Bonus for your team.

Decatur.

This city is the location of the foundation stone around which the dome of Rock was built.

What holy city contains the Temple Mount, a site of worship for many Abrahamic religions.

Rome?

Nope.

It's Jerusalem.

Jerusalem is the answer.

Toss up everybody.

For patients with end stage disease to this organ, a nephrologist may order the use of dialysis.

What's being shaped and its broader kidney is right.

Your bonus a politician from this state was assassinated by Carl Weiss and advocated for populist reform as part of his Share Our Wealth initiative.

Huey long was from what state?

Where intense flooding led Michael Brown to resign as FEMA director amid Hurricane Katrina.

Louisiana.

That's right.

Next question for everybody.

The three domains of life are bacteria, archaea and these organisms, which are classified based on the presence of membrane bound nucleus, Bronner.

Eukaryotes is correct.

Your bonus a one direction song titled for this trait.

Ask if you like causing trouble up in hotel rooms and Ed Sheeran song titled for this trade claims I found a girl.

Beautiful and sweet.

What trade titles in Ed Sheeran song that claims darling, you look blank tonight.

Perfect.

Perfect is right.

Well done.

Next.

This novels namesake is killed by George Wilson after loaning his car to a woman who runs over Wilson's wife.

The title Grant Great Gatsby.

That is The Great Gatsby.

Your bonus?

Rocky Balboa claims it ain't about how hard you can perform this action.

When songs reach the top 40 in the Billboard Hot 100, they're generally generally regarded with this word to perform what action on someone is to flirt with them.

A hit hit is correct.

Next.

Yes, that was your bonus.

Next question for everyone.

This city, which was created by its founder by drawing the boundary with a plow, lost the Battle of Cana to Carthage and won the Punic Wars.

Grant.

Rome.

You said Rome.

Rome is correct.

Thank you.

Bonus for your team.

This is the most widely spoken language that uses inverted punctuation.

At the beginning of interrogative and exclamatory sentences.

What romance language word vosotros is typically not used in Latin American countries.

Spanish Spanish is right.

Toss up everyone.

This is the 10th of 20 questions.

Residents of this state were offered $100 each to sign a petition against activist judges by Elon Musk in 2025.

Judicial election Brad Schimmel lost the most expensive judicial election in history to Susan Crawford.

In what state govern from Milwaukee and its Brunner, Wisconsin is right.

Your bonus during this month, dates are consumed as part of the if tar meal.

This holy month begins with a crescent moon is cited and commemorates Muhammad's first revelation.

During which month do Muslims fast?

Ramadan?

Ramadan is correct.

Next question for both teams.

The sword crier saw appeared at the death of this figure, who was defeated using a Polish shield.

This woman's sisters are names.

Medusa reduces correct bonus for you.

Shoppers in the city might visit flagship stores along its famous Fifth Avenue name.

This large city where the original Saks Fifth Avenue store can be found alongside other designer stores in New York City.

New York City is correct, everybody.

This quantity for a population is symbolized mu wild.

For a sample it is denoted by.

An X is Jacob.

No.

I'll finish it for you.

Decatur.

What quantity can be calculated by dividing the sum of a set of values by the number of values to calculate an average.

What does that mean is correct?

Bonus question for your team in this country.

The Stiffs Garden Palace is located in its western city of Trondheim.

Christina was the old name of what country's capital?

Oslo.

Norway.

Norway?

Norway is right.

Moving on.

Suburbs of this city include The woodlands, Katy and Sugar Land.

Rice University is in this city.

We chose the Rothko Chapel name.

This city home to the Johnson Space Center, the most populous Brawner Huntsville.

No.

That's incorrect.

Most populous in Texas.

Graham Houston is the right answer.

Bonus for you.

Deep fried types of these include one of an individual photoshopped overlord Farquaad with the letter E, a Jerry media card game asks what do you blank what works include distracted boyfriend and surprise Pikachu.

Meme meme is correct.

Toss up everybody.

This man's wife, Virginia, came under fire for text where she called the 2020 election a heist.

What African American conservative Supreme Court justice was appointed.

And I'm looking Brunner.

Marshall.

Nope.

That's incorrect.

Finishing it for you.

Decatur.

What African American conservative Supreme Court justice was appointed in 1992.

And he answered all Clarence Thomas is the answer.

Moving on.

A moon of this planet is the most volcanically active body in the solar system.

And see again, Jupiter.

Jupiter is right.

Bonus for you.

Forces under Friedrich Paulus were encircled during the battle.

Operation Uranus fleeing soldiers jumped into the Volga River in what?

World War Two?

Battle in a city named for a Soviet dictator.

Stalingrad.

Stalingrad is right.

Good everyone.

The case DC b Heller clarified a provision of this amendment to apply in federal enclaves.

The necessity of a well-regulated militia was stressed.

By what amendment?

From the Bill of rights that protects people's.

I don't see a light.

Who is it?

Z, you brought it?

No.

That's incorrect.

That protects people's right to bear arms.

Declared.

You have an answer, grant.

Second amendment.

Does that get you your bonus?

Water percolating through these sites is the most common cause of leachate.

These sites are sometimes covered with soil daily.

Aerobic decomposition happens in what plots of land where waste is permanently disposed of.

You what called landfill?

Landfill is correct.

Next, manmade causes of these events include wastewater disposal wells and fracking.

A logarithmic scale measuring moment magnitude has displaced the Richter Grand earthquake.

Earthquake is correct bonus for you.

This astronomical formation was called M31 in the Messier Catalog.

Shape lies in Curtis's great debate.

Argued over observations of this galaxy, the largest in the local group.

What is the closest major galaxy to the Milky Way?

Andromeda.

Andromeda is correct.

We have three more questions.

The reign of this emperor was called the Showa era, and he surrendered in the jewel voice broadcast after his country.

Parker.

Hirohito.

Here he is right in Japan.

Your bonus question.

While snare drums may use a one line type of this musical notation, the piano instead uses a grand type of this form of notation.

What musical notation has five horizontal lines, four spaces that represent different musical notes A staff a staff is correct.

Iris.

Well done everybody.

In this biblical book, one character is said to have sinned, according to Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zohar, after which God brought him.

See you again, Daniel.

No.

That's incorrect.

Finishing it for you, Decatur.

After which God speaks to him from a whirlwind.

What book details the account of a faithful man who endures suffering from Satan?

David.

Nope, it's Joe.

Job is the answer we wanted there last question of this part of the round in this national park, the damming of the Tulu River flooded the Heck Hetchy Valley.

Visitors to what park's tunnel view couldn't look out at its namesake valley.

And it is broader.

Yes, Yosemite is right.

Last bonus question.

In this court case, Kenneth and Mamie Clark's doll experiments were used by then NAACP attorney Thurgood Marshall.

Name this 1954 court case that overturned Plessy v Ferguson and led to the desegregation of schools.

Brown v Board of Education, that is correct.

Well done.

Lay your buttons down.

It's time for our lightning round.

I will give our viewers at home all four categories and our players as well.

The team that's trailing slightly here at the midpoint.

And Decatur, you're slightly behind right now.

You will choose first of the four categories.

Then we'll come over to Gadsden where you'll receive well, you'll choose two categories and play those.

The categories are Spain, Shakespeare Plays, music of the 2020s and economics.

So as you think about that and which one you want to play first, we'd like to meet all of our students.

So we'll begin with Madeline.

And if you would just tell us your name, tell us a little bit about yourself.

Go ahead.

My name is Madeleine and I play on the Decatur softball team.

My name is Griffin, and I play in the percussion section of the band in Decatur Middle School.

My name is Grant, and I run cross country.

My name is Andrew.

I played baseball and basketball.

Decatur Middle School, my name is Brawner.

I'm an eighth grader at Gadsden Middle School, and I play trombone in the band.

My name is Parker Bailey, who I enjoy playing chess.

I'm.

And telling our ambassador my name is Iris McElhinney.

I'm an eighth grade I Gadsden Middle School, and I play trumpet and French horn in the band.

My name is Jacob Pugh and I'm a seventh grader at some middle school and I'm on the drum line.

Very good.

We like having you all in the studio, all playing well, and we'll see how we do with the lightning Round.

This is usually a fun part of our program.

Decatur trailing slightly here at the midpoint.

What category would you like?

Shakespeare plays.

Shakespeare plays.

Let's do that.

When I start asking the questions, you'll have seconds.

Given characters name these plays by William Shakespeare.

The title pair of star crossed lovers, Lady Capulet and Lady Montague.

Romeo and Juliet, the title Scottish King Bank and the Three witches.

Macbeth, the title Prince of Denmark, Claudius and Ophelia.

Hamlet.

The title more of Venice, Iago and Desdemona.

Othello, the title Roman statesman Cassius and Brutus Julius Julius Caesar, the title British monarch and his daughters Cordelia, Goneril and Regan.

King Lear, the fairies Tatiana, Oberon and Puck, sitting.

Midsummer Night's Dream a midsummer Night's Dream.

Prospero and Ariel, who conjure up the title storm.

The Tempest, the title Italian Trader Portia and the moneylender Shylock, merchant of Venice Beatrice Benedick, Claudio and hero.

You have plenty of time.

Pass you.

That's the only one you passed on.

You got nine seconds.

Beatrice, Benedick, Claudio and hero.

Taming of the shrew.

No.

It's much ado about nothing.

Very good.

You got nine out of ten and did it pretty quickly.

Good job on that.

On Shakespeare.

We come over to you now, Gadsden Middle.

What two categories would you like to do?

Iris music of the 2020s in Spain?

I want to do him in that order.

Yes.

Music of the 2020s.

Given two tracks from the 2020s, may name the main artists that did them ready 60s Driver's License and vampire Olivia Rodrigo happier than ever and Birds of a feather, levitating and Dance the Night, Montero, Call Me by Your Name and Industry Baby, kill Bill and Persuasive.

After Hours and in Your Eyes, Swift.

The weekend glimpse of us in daylight.

Joji you broke me first.

And exes Kate McCrae rushed in one of your girls choice alone, selfish and make you mine.

Madison beer.

Well done.

Nine out of ten quickly.

Only missed one.

Good job.

And you want to do?

Spain is your second category right now you're going to answer the following about Spain.

60s.

Here we go.

It's capital city Madrid explorer, sponsored by Spain, who made landfall in the Americas in 14 animals that matadors wave a red claw that while fighting Cubist painter at Guernica, a traditional afternoon nap.

Fiesta, Fiesta.

No, it's Costa, Queen of Castile and wife of Ferdinand the Second.

Isabel.

Elizabeth.

That's right.

American author who set the novel for whom the bells toll.

A Spanish cocktail consisting of red wine and various fruits.

Past unfinished church, designed by Antoni Gaudi, which began construction in 1882.

Path Aston Martin driver who has won 32 Grand Fernando Alonso.

That's right, you passed on Spanish cocktail consisting of red wine and various fruits and you pastor and finish church designed by Antonio Gaudi, which begins construction in 1882.

You got an answer?

Cathedral of Barcelona.

That is the songwriter familia.

And your parents and adults around.

You're thrilled that you don't know what they call red wine and various fruits.

But our executive producer, Mike back here knows it's called sangria.

That's what that is called is economics.

The one we have left, is that right?

We come back to you, dictator, and you get stuck with what we don't like to say.

Stuck with you get to do economics.

Going to answer the following about economics in 60s.

Here we go.

This term, which refers to how much consumers are willing and able to buy, is the opposite of supply demand rate, representing the extra money a bank gives you for your savings.

Interest market structure, in which there is one firm dominating a market monopoly.

What the G stands for in GDP growth activity that name a theory describing the prisoner's dilemma.

Also, the term for a sporting event.

This past subfield of economics that deals with the psychology of economic decisions.

Past Chicago school economist who wrote Capitalism and Freedom.

Karl Marx as Friedman statistic defined as the general increase in prices of goods and services across an economy.

Inflation.

That's right.

Namesake industrial average that is, an index of 30 prominent U.S.

companies.

Past animal used to describe a market that is aggressive and positive.

Time is up.

The index is the Dow Jones subfield of economics is behavioral economics.

You all did well with the lightning rounds.

We got that out of the way.

We have a good bit of time left.

More than 5.5 minutes to do the speed round.

As you all know, questions only know bonus each question worth 20 points.

Here we go.

The Kirkwood gaps in this region are explained by orbital resonances with Jupiter.

The dwarf planet series is found grant asteroid belt.

Asteroid belt is right.

One kind of spider wasp called the hawk of these animals, Caroline or Angela Griffin.

Tarantula.

Tarantula.

Thank you.

This element is produced when helium and oxygen fuze with helium.

This element was used in the first gas laser alongside argon.

What noble gases come?

Neon is right after warning of political parties in his farewell address.

This president Washington.

Washington is right.

Jimmy Hoffa was the leader of one of these organizations called the IBP, or Teamsters United Farm Workers, was one of the largest of what organization yes.

Union met question solve for x if four x plus 135 equals 19.

Yes, bro.

-60.

That's incorrect.

You guys have an answer before I move on.

Anyone?

Bueller?

-29 is the right answer.

Berbers drove gold and salt caravans using camels across this desert to ports on the Mediterranean.

Sahara is right.

Governor Westmore called the collapse of this structure a global crisis.

What made your structure broader?

Berlin Wall?

Nope.

Finishing it for you.

Decatur.

What major structure in Baltimore, named for the author of the Star-Spangled banner, collapsed after a ship collided with it.

Key from.

A little more key.

Tower.

Key bridge.

Francis Scott key bridge.

Next question.

When these organisms sexually reproduce, fruiting bodies can form after two haploid hyphae.

Meat.

Lichens are formed from the symbiosis of algae and the members of what kingdom that includes yeast and mushrooms.

Grant fungi.

Fungi is right.

This object is in orbit around the sun, Earth, L2, Lagrange point and was launched to detect infrared signals from the oldest stars.

A NASA administrator names what telescope launched chronic Hubble?

Nope.

Finishing it for you.

Decatur a NASA administrator named what telescope launched in 2021 the successor to Hubble, Webb Griffin Webb Webb is correct.

This author said that in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.

This author lived with Albert Ezell and her sister Margo in the Secret Annex, named this girl who wrote the diary, Andrew and Frank.

And Frank is right.

The speaker of this poem asks, is there balm in Gilead?

And mentions the night's Plutonian shore.

The speaker yearns for Lenore, Andrew and Eboli.

No.

Yearns for Lenore.

And what Edgar Allan poem in which Nevermore is repeated by the title bird.

What is it?

The Raven is right.

This player supposedly called his shot before hitting a home run in the 1932 World Series.

What baseball player Greg Ruth Babe Ruth is the right answer.

The protagonist of this story is influenced by Lord Watt and his friends with Basil, the title object grows increasingly grotesque to match the central characters in morality.

Rob, I Don't See Your Light Brunner as Paul no, to match the central characters in morality.

In what novel by Oscar Wilde.

You guys have an answer.

It's the picture of Dorian Gray math question again, using the shoelace method or otherwise.

What is the area of a triangle with coordinates?

One for two, two and three seven?

A little more time since it's math, but need an answer soon.

And what do you have running?

Nope.

Do you have an answer?

Decatur.

Anything?

Yes, eight.

It's 3.5 is what we needed.

This word was the pseudonym for an unidentified serial killer who left two still unsolved.

Zodiac is correct.

A leader of this institution named Paul Vogler instituted his namesake shock, while another leader of this institution named Ben Bernanke, set an interest rate to 0% in 2008.

What is the central Bank of the United States, which you call Brunner?

No.

That's incorrect.

You guys know Griffin Redstone?

Nope.

It's the fed.

The Federal Reserve is the National Bank.

The artist painted a girl running up to a blue dress.

Woman holding a bowl in the soup.

African art inspired this artist painting in Costa.

Grown up.

Picasso is right.

You saved me for a tough pronunciation.

Thank you.

This national park is located just 85 miles away from Mount Whitney, on the southwestern edge of the Great Basin, home to Badwater Basin, and it's runner again.

Death Valley is right in this novel, the title character meets Mozart at the Magic Theater before stabbing mean Name this novel about Harry Haller, written by Hermann Hesse.

Anyone?

Let's get it right.

Brought it?

Nope.

Do you guys have an answer?

Last question.

It is.

Steppenwolf is the answer.

Later.

Buttons down.

That was a good round.

You all played well.

It was close throughout.

This time.

Decatur, you come out?

Nope.

Gadsden comes out on top.

Yes.

Gadsden comes down to, Decatur was back in my memory.

You guys played well today.

You guys played well, too.

I think, as we'll find when we hear the score, it was a very close round.

We thank you for watching the middle school portion of the Alabama Scholar's Bowl.

I hope you'll join us every week.

I'm Mike Frazier, and we do hope you'll see us again here on Alabama Public Television.

So long everybody.