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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.

Hi, everybody.

Mike Royer here welcoming you in once again to the Alabama Scholar's Bowl.

We're here every week on Alabama Public Television.

And we're glad you're here today.

We appreciate you watching our program.

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

And Harris also helps out a great deal judging and doing other things.

Our executive producer is Mike Ousley.

In our studio today, we have the students back with us who have won earlier rounds.

The students from Houston Academy down in the Dothan area.

It's good to have all of them back in the studio.

And the, gentlemen, fine players as well from Baldwin Arts and Academic Magnet School.

Good to have you back as well.

Everybody ready to go?

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

Let's see how we do.

A district in this state that is represented by the only Ukrainian American in Congress, Victoria Sparks, includes the cities of Kokomo and Carmel.

What state?

Where Eric Holcomb succeeded former Vice President Mike Pence as governor is called the Hoosier State.

Yes.

Jackson, Indiana.

Thank you for getting that right.

That's my home state.

I'm always happy when you know that.

Here's your bonus.

Any polynomial has at least one root in these numbers.

By the fundamental theorem of algebra.

Multiplying one of these numbers with its conjugate will result in a real number.

What numbers are described as a plus by.

Whereby is the imaginary part and plus a plus.

By repeating the last sentence.

What numbers are described as a plus b where b is the imaginary part?

Did that help?

Do you have an answer?

What those are called?

No, they're called complex numbers.

Complex numbers.

Moving on.

Hundreds of species of flowers appear in a painting by this artist that depicts mythological Greek figures in an orange grove.

And who is it?

Aaron.

But it's is correct.

Bonus for you.

The generation of 98 wrote in this language a series of plays in this language.

The Rule trilogy begins with your mom.

Name this language used by the author of Blood Wedding.

Frederico Garcia Lorca.

Spanish.

Spanish is correct.

Next, the Marbury versus Madison case occurred after this president appointed midnight judges.

The Alien and Sedition Acts were passed by what?

Federalist president who came after George Washington?

Who is that?

Webb.

John Adams.

John Adams is correct.

Good job.

Bonus.

An inverted one of these devices can be stabilized by a cart moving back and forth.

The small angle approximation is used to model these devices as simple harmonic oscillators.

What devices consist of a weight swinging from a rope?

Pendulum.

Pendulum is correct.

Good job.

Moving on, this concept terms the yoga of action and controls the process of samsara.

Good and bad actions affect one's future according.

And it's Himesh.

Karma.

Karma is the right answer.

Do you have a math question for your bonus?

Grab a pencil.

James picks up 15 shells.

His sister gave him an additional number of shells.

If the ratio of James shells to Paul's shells is 4 to 1.

How many shells is his sister?

Give him?

If Paul has seven shells, 30.

13.

13.

That's right.

How you did that, I'll never figure out.

Moving on.

Ruminants who have this dietary habit have a four chambered stomach and chew cud to facilitate it.

Animals with this dietary habit can digest tough fibers like cellulose.

What term describes Erin?

Chicken.

Herbivore is correct.

Bonus question again for you, Baldwin.

These performers may cram themselves into a tiny car.

While one example of their evil variety is Pennywise.

Bozo and Ronald McDonald are what sort of characters who may wear oversize shoes, red noses, and white face makeup?

Clowns.

Clowns?

Yep.

Somebody had me tell you my Ronald McDonald story.

You'll love it.

Next, whoever kills this person will suffer a sevenfold vengeance.

This man offers God the fruits of the soil as opposed to the firstborn of his flock.

Jealousy over a sacrifice causes which biblical figure to kill his brother Abel.

And who was it?

Eric Cain is right.

You earned a bonus for your team.

One of these beings ordered Mohammed to read during the night of power.

Seraphim and cherubim are types of these beings.

What wing beings are contrasted with devils?

Angels.

Angels is right.

Moving on.

The organs.

Electrical activity.

This organ's electrical activity is measured by an EKG.

What organ?

Heart.

Heart is right.

Bonus for you.

One of these text phrases starting over one of these texts praises a merchant who sold all he had to buy a pearl of great price.

The Mustard Seed and the Prodigal Son are subjects of two of these texts.

Named this allegorical story in the Bible.

We named these allegorical stories.

Because you have an answer.

Fables.

Parables.

They're called the parables about.

You knew that.

Both teams toss up question.

This force names the maximum stress a stretch material can withstand without breaking.

This force is the opposite of compression.

What force does a taut rope exert?

It's never expansion.

No.

That's incorrect.

Houston, do you have an answer?

Take a shot at it.

Amelia.

It is tension.

Tension is the answer we need on that one.

But always take a crack at it.

You never know.

Moving on to everybody.

For everybody, a portcullis.

Portcullis was often used to block the entrance to these buildings.

The mud and motte and bailey type of which, and its Webb Castle is right.

Bonus for your team.

Houston, these phenomena occur in day, urinal or semi diurnal patterns and have neap and spring varieties.

What periodic phenomena caused by the gravitational pull of the moon on the oceans caused the sea to rise and fall?

What's it called?

Tide tides is right.

10th.

10th question on the way to 21 of the countries for one of this country's four official languages is romance, which is spoken in Greece.

One.

Greece on what European country that is divided into cantons contains the cities of Bern and Geneva and its.

Eric.

Switzerland is right.

Bonus for you.

A 1946 essay by this author complains about a lack of precision in the modern use of a language.

What author wrote politics in the English language, and an allegorical warning about communism that includes a pig named Napoleon and is entitled Animal Farm.

Orwell.

George Orwell is the right answer.

Next question.

This process has specular and diffuse types, and it obeys the law that are on opposite sides of a normal.

The incident angle is equal to the output angle.

Refraction and diffraction are contrasted with what process where light bounces off a surface.

Yamiche.

Reflection, reflect or reflection is right.

Your bonus holders of this office led the Landon fo Drang government, and the current holder of this office fled to Dharamsala from the Potala Palace.

What office is held by the leader of the Gulag school of Tibetan Buddhism?

Dalai Lama?

That's right.

Moving on.

This major city is the closest to the Cahokia mounds State Historic Site and is home to Forest Park, near a university known by the acronym W u STL.

Name this city and it is web.

Saint Louis.

Saint Louis is correct.

Bonus.

The National Day of Mourning is a demonstration held on the anniversary of this event, whose celebration was moved up a week by Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Name this event, held in 1621, in which Squanto may not have taught pilgrims to prepare Turkey.

What is that event?

Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving is correct.

Good job.

Math question.

Everybody grab a pencil.

This is the length of the shortest side of a right triangle.

If the lengths of the other sides are 35 and 37, it may be helpful to know that 37 squared -35 squared equals 144, which is what number squared.

You said 12 is right.

Bonus cells named for this color include granulocytes, whose subtypes include basophils and neutrophils, the latter of which is the main component of plus.

Immune lymphocytes are named for what color and contrasted with red blood cells.

White.

White is correct.

In what novel by Leo Tolstoy does Kitty find happiness by the title character, Erin?

Anna Karenina is correct.

Your bonus again.

This force is directly proportional to the applied load and independent of the contact area.

According to Amazon's first and second laws.

Name this force that opposes the motion of two objects sliding against each other.

What's that called?

Friction.

Yes.

Friction or frictional force is acceptable.

15.

Number 15.

For everybody.

These weapons are used to kill the healer.

A escape for us.

Asclepius and the sons of Helios.

Faith on the Cyclops.

Forged.

What signature weapon is the sky gods?

And I'm looking.

Hamish.

Thunderbolt!

Thunderbolt is right.

Lightning would be acceptable.

Well as well.

Your bonus question.

What novel by this man tells how Tom Canty and Edward the Sixth switched places?

What author of the Prince and the pauper also wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?

Mark Twain.

That's right.

Moving on.

The pathogen this pathogens GP 120 protein allows it to bind to CD4 receptors, helping it penetrate the membranes of T cells.

HIV.

HIV is the right answer.

Your bonus successive examples of these numbers have a ratio approaching one plus square root of five all over two.

A problem involving multiplying rabbits is the origin of what numbers, where every term is the sum of the previous two.

Name for an Italian mathematician.

Got an answer?

Fibonacci sequence.

That's good.

Fibonacci numbers.

Very good.

Moving on.

Few more questions.

And infinity.

One of these things extends to the rooftops edge in Singapore's Marina Bay Sands, a 164 by 82 by six foot.

One of these things is used at the Olympics.

Chlorine is used to clean and Himesh.

Pools.

Pools.

Swimming pools.

Bonus works by Flannery O'Connor exemplify the southern form of the style.

Dracula and Frankenstein are part of what spooky genre that shares this name with a style of architecture.

Gothic.

Gothic.

Gothic is right.

Three more questions now.

This continent is home to a nomadic ethnic group whose men wear a blue veil called the Tangle Must.

This continent contains the Targ people who inhabit the world's largest hot desert.

Name the second largest.

Samantha.

Africa.

Africa is right.

Bonus question for you.

Houston Academy people undergo this general action during suhoor.

And if char dates are often utilized in what?

General action that Muslims undergo when breaking their fast during Ramadan.

What do they do when they do that?

Feast except feast.

Judges feast or eat.

They just eat food.

Two more questions Edmund Spenser wrote a work named for the queen of these figures for Elizabeth the First.

Name.

These creatures, who are exemplified by Tatiana and Tinker Bell fairies, is correct.

Bonus for you in this presidential election year, Jared Engle, Saul, and DeWitt Clinton were defeated by Elbridge Gerry and James Madison.

The Treaty of General ended a war between the United States and Britain.

There was name for what year?

1812.

That's right.

Here's our last question.

Energy is extracted from these objects in the Penrose process, which makes use of their ergo spheres.

Hawking radiation is emitted by the black holes.

Black holes is correct.

Last bonus.

This state is home to four summits over 10,000ft, including Glacier Peak, Mount Baker, Mount Adams, Tahoma, and Mount Rainier is the tallest summit in which state located an hour from Seattle.

Answer.

Mount Saint Helens, it.

No, the state is.

We wanted Washington.

Washington is the state.

Lay your buttons down.

We're going to do our lightning round and I'll tell you the categories in just a moment.

Our lightning round on the program every week is brought to you by the Alabama Community College System.

We appreciate their support.

Four categories you have 60s to answer the questions.

Houston County, you're trailing a little bit here at midpoint.

So you'll select first from these four categories.

And they are photosynthesis numbers in book titles.

Whales and tenor roles in musical theater.

Before we play our lightning round, we'd like all of our students to introduce themselves to you and tell you a little bit about themselves.

Where would you begin for us from Houston County.

I love coal and I do band and you play saxophone.

Very good.

I'm Jackson, I play football, soccer, and I'm in the band at.

Hi.

My name is Samantha Polaski.

I'm in the eighth grade.

I play the piano and I'm on my school's robotics team.

I'm Emily McCray, I'm in eighth grade and I do competitive plastics.

Hi, I'm Hamish, I'm an eighth grader at Baldwin, and my favorite athlete is Cristiano Ronaldo.

My name is Nick and I'm an eighth grader at Baldwin.

And my favorite book is Percy Jackson.

My name's Aaron.

I'm an eighth grader at Baldwin.

I play the violin.

My name is Eric.

I'm a seventh grader at Baldwin, and my favorite book is Lord of the Rings Return of the King.

Very good.

Both teams playing well.

All of you are playing well on this team as well.

And we're proud of you.

I'm glad for how well you're doing, and we're just glad you're in the studio.

Houston Academy.

What category would you like to try?

Jackson, what do you want to do?

Numbers in books.

Numbers in books.

You'll have 60s giving an author and a partial title of one of their works.

Give the missing number.

Here we go.

Alexandra Dumas, the Blank Musketeers three.

Jules Verne Around the world in Blank Days, Haiti, nice and loud, Gabriel Garcia marquez.

Blank years of Solitude, seven.

In its 100.

Nathaniel Hawthorne.

The House of the Blank Gables.

Just passed.

Pablo Neruda.

Blank love poems and a Song of Despair.

Or one score.

Pass.

Yoshinori, Carl Kawabata, blank cranes.

Folding this many is supposed to give luck.

Seven.

Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of the blank Pass.

Solomon Northrup.

Blank.

Years of a slave seven.

That's 12 J.D.

Salinger.

Blank stories are the number of walls in any Bahai house of worship.

Time is up.

Answered.

That one is nine.

That was kind of tough, but you got a few of them, right?

Well done.

We'll come back over here to Baldwin and Baldwin.

You have three to choose from.

Which one would you like to do, folks?

Photosynthesis and whales.

Photosynthesis and whales.

We'll do photosynthesis first.

You're going to answer the following about plants and photosynthesis.

60s.

Here we go.

Star.

That is the source of light energy.

Sun gas that humans breathe in, that is made nice and loud.

Sugar created in photosynthesis.

Green pigment in the chloroplasts that absorbs light, pours on the surface of leaves that allow for gas exchange.

Stomata.

That's right.

Tube like tissues that transport water from roots to leaves in plants.

And pass molecule to stores and carries chemical energy during photosynthesis.

Vacuum ATP plants to keep their leaves all year.

Also known by this colorful name.

Evergreen heliotrope ism occurs when plants do this to facilitate photosynthesis.

Many plants don't use photosynthesis.

Instead, survive by this process of leaching food from a host.

Parasitism.

Parasitism is right.

You skipped, molecule.

Which one did you go?

Time was up.

Good.

Good job.

You got more than half of them, right?

And the next one you chose was Wales.

Is that right?

All right.

You're going to answer the following about Wales.

Here we go.

Type of whale that is the largest animal to live on Earth.

And his name for a color blue.

Well class of animals characterized by milk producing glands to which whales belong.

Mammals Herman Melville's novel about whalers narrated whale with a long tusks on its head that is the only member of the indigenous people of New Zealand who inspired the novel The Whale.

Writer Mary.

Tiny marine crustaceans.

Many whales feed on sea again, you see.

No krill method that two whales used to navigate and forage.

Echolocation?

That's correct.

Filter feeding system used by humpback and gray whales.

Gills.

Baleen.

Waxy substance made in the dead.

Just say again.

Blubber.

No.

And birds.

Gris.

I think frequency in hertz at which the world's loneliest whale calls.

Or the number of cards in a standard deck.

52.

That's right.

And time is up.

All right, we come back to you.

Houston Academy.

I think we have Tinder rolls in musical theater.

Can't believe no one chose that first.

Let's see how we do in 60s answer the following about Tinder roles in musical theater.

Musical name for a Founding Father, where King George is a tenor role.

Hamilton.

That's right.

Protagonist of The Lion King who avenges the death of his father.

Mufasa.

Simba for our fifth year later becomes a character that desires a brain in The Wizard of Oz.

Wicked The Tin Man It's the Scarecrow, the title character of this musical is summoned by Lydia after saying his name three times.

Beetlejuice group which opposes the Sharks in West Side Story.

Part musical based on Tina Fey film, which stars the tenor Damian who who Janis says is almost too gay to function.

Past.

Jean Valjean was formerly one of these people who was numbered 24601.

Prisoner A prisoner is right.

Raul, a tenor, tries to save opera singer Christine from a mysterious figure who lives below her workplace.

Time is up.

That's Phantom of the opera.

Mean girls is that movie that you may or may not have seen.

That's the Lightning round.

We'll move on now to the speed round.

And as our students know and you probably know at home, we now have questions that are all worth 20 points each.

So if you're a little behind, you can do some catching up.

And these do not have bonus questions.

So answer and move on.

The gauge of this material determines its thickness, which also determines what type of needles one can use with it.

What spun thread is used in traditional clothes like the Aaron jumper, or by hobbyists, crocheters and knitters?

What do they use?

Samantha Cotton nope.

That's incorrect.

You guys have an Amish wool?

Nope.

Your yarn is what we wanted a math question.

If a recipe calls for two cups of flour to make 12 cookies, how many cups of flour are needed to make 42 cookies using the same recipe?

Eight.

Your answer was eight.

That's incorrect.

You guys have an answer.

The answer is yes.

Seven seven is right.

Another math question.

Dave has two quarters, three dimes, five nickels and two pennies.

How much money does Dave have?

I'm going to wait this one out.

Okay, maybe not much longer.

Aaron.

Nope.

That's incorrect.

You guys have a shot at it.

Dollar seven.

You'd have a dollar seven.

This team's head coach, Vince Lombardi, came up with a name for the Super Bowl.

Jackson green Bay Packers, green Bay Packers is right.

These people use dots stacked on lines to represent numbers in their long count calendar.

My, it is Amish.

Mayans is correct.

Next question Mary Seacole established the British hotel.

During what war?

In which Florence Nightingale cared for the wounded.

Aaron Crimean War is right.

In this state, over 90,000 people attended a woman's college volleyball match.

The NCAA men's College World Series is held annually in this state, and if Jackson, Nebraska, is right, a ruler of this empire from the Assyrian dynasty began iconoclasm and other and its web Byzantine Empire.

That's exactly right.

Good job.

Two minutes left.

This novel was first published over the course of three years, and in it, Bill Sikes kills his girlfriend.

Name the story about an orphan who is punished for asking for more gruel.

And it's Eric.

Twist is right.

Isaac Lee Marie Lee Marie opposed a company based in this colonial city, which is often abbreviated the VOC.

What capital of the Dutch East Indies was formerly named Batavia and is the modern capital of Indonesia.

And what is it?

Web?

Jakarta is correct.

Maltese is derived from this language, Sicilian variety, and is the only official Semitic language in the European Union.

What languages?

Modern standard dialect is derived from the Koran.

What language?

Amish.

Arabic.

Arabic is correct.

This city's suburbs include Bondi beach and its settlement of Port Jackson was founded on botany Bay.

Name this capital of New South Wales and I don't see who buzzed in.

Hamish, Sydney Sydney is right.

The chipset is usually found on this object, which includes logic and connectors for common peripherals.

A CPU socket is found in what part of the computer it's main printed circuit board.

What's that called?

Motherboard.

Motherboard.

Motherboard is right.

People summiting the mount.

This mountain often passed through the deadly Khumbu Icefall.

Eric Everest is correct.

1 or 2 more questions this Oregon's A node contains pacemaker cells that control the rate of contraction.

The aorta carries blood and its, Erin heart is right.

Last question.

This ruler founded the Hermitage Museum and took power by deposing her husband, Peter the Third.

And it's Eric.

Catherine the Great is right.

Lay your buttons down.

That was a good match.

You all did well.

Baldwin Arts and academic Magnet School comes out on top this time.

And, congratulations to you.

Every time you guys have played, you played well.

Congratulations to you, Houston Academy.

We're so glad you were in our studio.

We're glad you watched our program today.

It's the Alabama Scholar's Bowl.

All these students are middle school students.

We're impressed by them.

And we know you are to be sure and support them back in their hometowns and and where you see them.

I'm Mike Royer.

Thanks a lot for watching.

And we'll see you again next time.