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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 in to another edition of the Alabama Scholar's Bowl on Alabama Public Television.

We enjoy doing the program.

We hope you enjoy watching.

And we're glad you're watching today.

Mike Lee is our executive producer.

Our judges are Sharon Dailey, Josh Ruski, Kate Wilson, and Harris, all of them working hard to make the program as good as it is.

And we appreciate all the people at Alabama Public Television for their support, too.

We welcome to the studio from the northern part of our state, two fine schools from two middle schools.

Florence Middle is with us and is, along with Randolph School.

And we appreciate all of you being here, traveling to be in our studio.

And we look forward to our competition today.

I think that's all the background work we need to do.

Let's get started.

20 questions.

If you answered correctly, you get a bonus, you know that.

Let's go.

This saves Manuel in the form of a fish called Messiah.

This deity, whose mount is Garuda, is often depicted holding a conch.

What Hindu preserver deity incarnates as avatars like Rama and Krishna and bin Vishnu is correct.

Good start.

And this is a bonus for your team.

In some traditions, this figure is accompanied by a half goat demon that punishes children with a birch rod named Krampus.

What jolly figure brings presents to children on Christmas?

You need a little time.

Santa is right, Santa Claus.

If anybody ever misses the Santa Claus, I'm out of here.

That's.

It's that simple.

Next question.

One player for this NBA team emulated Kevin Garnett by repeating, we did it after winning the 2024 championship.

What NBA team whose players include Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum, played their home games in Massachusetts?

What team is it, Luc?

Boston Bruins Boston Celtics is the basketball team.

The Bruins are the hockey team.

But you were close.

Good try.

Moving on.

Gabriel Prosser led one of these events in Richmond, while Denmark Vesey led a failed one in the early 1800s, Nat Turner led one of what often violent events in which plantation's men revolt.

Judges a little more prompt, a little more information.

Guy, anything?

It's okay.

Do you guys have an answer?

Finish the question.

Nat Turner led one.

What?

Often violent events in which plantation owners were targeted by African American laborers.

What do you have, Henry?

Slave revolt.

A slave revolt is the full answer we needed.

Bonus question for your team.

What novel in which your character becomes convinced Napoleon is the Antichrist was partially adapted into the musical Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 and was written by Leo Tolstoy.

War and peace.

War and peace is correct.

Moving on everybody.

This city lends its name to a type of blinds that use horizontal slats, a series of islands in Biscayne Bay that lie between Miami and South Beach, and glassware that is produced on the island of Murano.

What Adriatic city is located on a lagoon?

Anybody?

What do you have there, Marcello?

Orlando?

Nope.

You guys have an answer?

Venice is the city we were looking for.

Next question.

This substance can be classified by the presence of rhesus factor as either RH positive or RH negative.

The substances grouped into A, B, O, and AB types.

Henry.

Blood.

Blood is correct.

Bonus for you in French.

The historical presence of this letter in words is often often signified by the circumflex diacritic.

What letter comes in between t and h to make the sound of C-H in French, and is used to pluralize nouns in English.

S s is right.

Good job.

Next question.

This element is often added to salt to boost thyroid health.

What element has the symbol and looking for Brennan?

Iodine.

Iodine is the right answer.

The symbol is I. Next question or the bonus question for you?

First, this figure grinds an object into water and makes his followers drink it.

After coming down from a mountain and breaking tablets in rage, what profit?

Moses is correct.

You can answer anytime you want.

Good job.

Next question.

In this novel, the protagonist fends off a Yi hat attack in revenge for killing John Thorton, but becomes a ghost dog.

And what novel set during the Klondike Gold Rush, written by Jack London.

What's the name of that Brennan they call the Wall?

The call of the wild is correct.

Here's your bonus.

Russia symbolically sued this company for ¥2 undecillion rubles for blocking content creators from posting on YouTube.

Name.

This company, led by Sundar Shea, whose parent company is alphabet.

What's the company?

That do you think?

TikTok.

Google is what we need it.

Moving on.

This quantity can be calculated for a cyclic quadrilateral using Brahma Gupta's formula, and for a triangle using Heron's formula.

What quantity equals pi times the radius squared for a circle?

And Marcello circumference?

No.

That's incorrect.

It's area.

It is area.

Well done.

Bonus here.

After this figure rejects Stan UBS advances.

He is given a quest by King Proteus.

This figure from Greek mythology was gifted a golden bridle by Athena.

What figure tamed Pegasus and killed the Chimera?

Yes, sir.

Perseus.

No.

The answer is Bellerophon.

Bellerophon is what we wanted, Nick.

Next question.

What Greek god was known as Zagreus in the Orphic traditions was worshiped by the mean ads.

And accompanied by this satyrs and Oliver Dionysus is right.

Bonus for you.

This artist depicted his sister Sophie in The Sick Child.

The explosion of Krakatoa is thought to have inspired the blood red sky in a painting that formed part of the artist Frieze of Life.

Name this Norwegian painter of the scream.

Got an answer?

Well, take a shot.

First name Edvard Munch.

Munch, Munch.

Next question.

Math question.

Grab a pencil.

What is the difference between the mean and the mode of the following sequence of numbers one, one, two, two, two, two, three, three.

And need an answer.

Anybody got something?

What do you have for us?

Zero is correct.

Well done.

Bonus for your team.

A leader of this country received backlash for his treatment of the Rohingya group in the rocking province, causing many to seek refuge in Bangladesh.

What East Asian country was formerly led by on Sang Suu Kyi and, from Naypyidaw?

What would it be?

India?

No, it's, Myanmar or Burma is the answer.

This is a question for both teams.

This author's first success came in her hospital sketches, which she wrote while working as a Civil War nurse.

The March sisters, Amy, Beth, Meg and Joe are the titular characters in what author Little Women and who is that?

Henry Jane Austen?

No.

Do you guys have an answer?

No.

Louisa may Alcott.

Louisa may Alcott.

Next question.

Math question again, what is the volume of a cylinder with a base radius of seven units and a height of ten units?

That you've got, Henry, 490 pi squared.

Judges.

Yes.

Time.

No.

Okay.

Charlotte, 49 pi over three.

No.

The answer is 490.

In cubic units or 490 times pi.

Yes.

You're leaving out pi.

Let's move away from that one.

Gladly.

A character from a novel from this country jumps out of a building to escape a house fire, after which the Milky Way appears to Shimomura.

Name this country home to Yoshinori, Kawabata and Yukio Mishima.

What country yes been?

Japan.

Japan's right bonus workers in this industry, led by the Industrial Workers of the world, launched the Bread and Roses strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts.

Waltham and Lowell were also major hubs for what industry advanced by the spinning Jenny and power loom.

What industry?

The fabrics industry.

What is it?

Fabrics.

Judges?

Fabric?

Yes, textile was the first answer we were looking for, but that worked.

Next question a leader of this country who utilized militias known as dignity.

But Italians was deposed by Operation Just Cause.

That leader was Manuel Noriega.

What country is home to a canal that links the Atlantic and Pacific Bend?

Panama Panama is the country where the Panama Canal is.

Bonus for your team.

What character becomes a surgeon, an assassin, a fighter pilot, and faces a firing squad, all while daydreaming in a James Thurber short story about his secret life.

No answer.

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is the answer next for every body, this vocal type that ranges from E2 to an E4 also lies below the baritone range.

What is the lowest voice?

And I'm looking into grace.

Bass is the lowest voice.

You're right.

Bonus for your team.

An IBM machine is in this novel mistakenly promotes major.

Major Colonel Catford keeps raising the number of required flight missions.

In what novel about John Yossarian, written by Joseph Heller.

In its pilot, catch 22 is what that's called.

Moving on the location.

This location was entered by Muhammad during the Mirage, where he was guided by Jibril.

Righteous followers of Islam will ascend to what location after death.

Bram.

What did you say?

Brian?

No, the answer is.

You guys.

You guys have an answer?

Spin.

No.

They go to heaven.

Spain would might be a second choice.

Next question.

Moslems may initiate this process by saying talaq three times.

Talaq three times.

In Judaism, this process is started when a woman is given a get which tells her she is permitted to all men.

What process terminates a marriage?

None.

No.

That's incorrect.

Charlotte.

Divorce is what ends a marriage.

Next question and it is a math bonus question for you.

Bonus question here.

A prime minister of this country named Harold Holt disappeared on the beach.

James Cook visited botany Bay.

In what country?

Where a penal colony was established in Sydney, Australia.

Australia is right now.

Moving on.

Another fun math question.

There are 21 snugs for every group.

If a room contains 82 grooves, how many snugs are in the room?

Yes, Charlotte 2460.

No.

That's incorrect.

You guys have a number 282.

No, it's 1722 1722.

Moving on.

Just two more questions.

In 2024, the crew of this company's Polaris Dawn conducted the first commercial spacewalk.

And they say space.

Space is right.

Bonus for you.

Saladin, leader of the IU bid dynasty, was a member of this ethnic group.

What ethnic group is found in eastern Turkey, northern Iraq, eastern Syria and western Iran and continues to seek its own independent nation?

What is that Arabian?

It's called the Kurds.

That's the Kurds.

Last question.

This man was converted to Christianity by Olaf Trevor Trigg Vossen.

What man was the son of Erik the Red and founder of the first European settlement, Henry Eriksson?

Leif Erikson is correct.

You get the last bonus.

This company was the subject of the Dieselgate scandal, and this company's type two was stereotypically driven by hippies.

What German car manufacturer created a car nicknamed the people's car, the beetle.

Volkswagen.

Volkswagen is correct.

Layer buttons down.

Lay your pencils down.

We'll take a little break here and move on to our lightning round, which is brought to you by the Alabama Community College System.

Florence, you are trailing slightly here at the midpoint.

Got plenty of time to catch up.

And so you'll be choosing first in the lightning round.

We'll come to you where you'll choose Randolph School.

We'll choose two categories.

The categories are I'll tell you at home and in remind our players acronyms and initial isms.

Classic video games, European capitals and starts with the letter C. Before we play the lightning round, we'd like for all of you to introduce yourself to our viewers at home.

We'll begin with Luke.

Tell us your name and just a little bit about yourself.

Luke.

Go ahead.

My name is Luke and I love football.

Very good.

My name is Marcello and I play soccer for Florence Middle School.

My name is Henry.

I play soccer for Florence Schmoodle and I play the piano.

My name is Anna Grace and I'm in the band and chorus.

My name is Brennan and I row competitively.

My name is Charlotte and I play softball and it is all over.

I swim competitively, my name is Bennett and I play soccer.

Very good, very good.

Good to have all of you here.

You're all playing well and we're proud of you.

We're coming over to you, Florence.

Middle of the four categories I mentioned.

Henry, which one would you like to try?

Classic video games.

Classic video games.

That's the good news about traveling, right?

You get to choose classic video games.

Let's go.

60s to answer these, brother of Luigi and star of Nintendo's arcade hit Mario character created by Sega, who collects songs on it.

The arcade game where the player character eats power pellets.

Marilyn Speechless hero who defeats Ganon and rescues this sport that was simulated in early games like Tecmo Bowl and one name for John Madden Football.

That's right, Atari made arcade game where two vertical lines.

Nintendo's first handheld system in home game Kirby's Dreamland puzzle game from the USSR, or players arranged lines of falling for unit blocks.

This is the first video game console made by Sony in the original home of Spyro the Dragon and Crash Bandicoot.

Yes genre of action game popularized by 90s titles like Wolf Stein, Wolfenstein 3D, and doom.

Pardon me Past.

That's the only one you passed on.

So you've got three seconds.

Activision it's first person shooter.

They always throw one in.

That's nobody would likely know.

But you did well with that nine out of ten and pretty quickly as well.

We come back over to you Randolph school.

Of the three remaining categories Charlotte which two would you like?

What were the two men who once again.

Well, we have left acronyms and initialism classic.

No.

European capitals and starts with C, capitals.

Now comes against capitals and acronyms.

You want to do them in that order.

All right.

You're in European capitals.

Given a European capital city name.

The country that is the capital of 60s.

Paris, France, Madrid Square, Kiev.

Ukraine.

Ukraine.

That is Ukraine.

Oslo, Norway.

Helsinki, Finland.

Zagreb Pass US Minsk, Belarus.

Yes.

Brought to Slava, Slovenia.

It's Slovakia.

Ljubljana.

And Lisbon, Portugal.

You got, plenty of time left.

Let's go back to Ljubljana.

Ljubljana?

It's Slovenia.

I thought you might go back to that.

And, Zagreb.

Plenty of time.

Thank you.

John Zagreb.

Good.

You think?

Okay.

The answer is Croatia.

And the other one you wanted to do was acronyms and initialism.

So you're going to give the last word in these acronyms and initialism 60s.

I'm CEO, chief executive blank officer, mama mad, Mothers Against Drunk Drivers, R.E.M., rapid Eye Blank Movement, OPEC, Organization of Petroleum Exporting.

First ICBM intercontinental ballistic missile IMF international monetary Pass UAW.

United Auto Workers Koa campgrounds of blank.

Dar.

Daughters of the American Revolution.

Core.

Congress of Racial Theory.

Equity.

No.

It's equality.

Koa.

Campgrounds of.

And did you answer international monetary blank I think that's all the funds fund is right.

That's you get credit for fund.

And the other campgrounds of America was the other one.

We were looking for.

Yeah.

So what do we have left here?

The mystery category answers all begin with C. All right.

You never know about these.

They can be real easy or real hard.

Let's find out the letter C. Given the clue, give the answer.

All answers begin with the letter C, gas that is taken in by plants during photosynthesis.

Carbon dioxide.

That's right.

Italian explorer who reached the Americas in the late 15 Columbus Columbus chemical compound with the symbol C u. Carbon.

It's copper fairy tale character who is identified by the glass slipper she leaves.

Cinderella all American frontiersman, known for wearing a coonskin skin cap.

Clark.

What's your answer?

Clark no, it's Davy Crockett, geometric figure composed of all points equidistant from a single central point circle.

That's right.

C, located between North and South America, known for its tropical islands.

Caribbean?

That's right.

Light source that is traditionally made by chandeliers past chandlers that help you.

The most common state bird in the United States, with seven states claiming it.

Cardinal.

That's right.

And famous movie in which Humphrey Bogart tells Ingrid Bergman s character.

Here's looking at you, kid.

Cop time is up.

Casablanca.

Your homework assignment.

Watch Casablanca.

All right, all right.

Good job.

We've got four minutes left, and what we're going to do here is answer questions that are worth 20 points each.

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

Here we go.

This God owns a self duplicating ring called Drop near who.

Gin and moonshine are the two ravens Oliver.

So again no finishing it for you who hung himself from the world tree.

Henry Odin is right.

A thinker from this present day country posited five cardinal relationships, including father and son, between whom been.

No.

I'm finishing it for you, India.

No.

China is the answer.

This seven letter word precedes punishment when describing the death penalty.

What word can also refer to wealth available for investment?

What is it?

Capital.

You said capital?

Yes.

That's correct.

Math question.

What is the area of a circle with a diameter of 30 units?

What do you have?

Charlotte?

Pi to 25?

Yes, to 25 times pi is correct.

Next question.

Because the end of feels genus of this animal spreads Plasmodium bacteria.

It is the deadliest animal to humans.

What blood of mosquitoes is correct.

The only protein of genic amino acid with this element are methi, methionine and cysteine.

This element and hydrogen comprise the Thiele group and its Henry oxygen.

Nope.

The seal group, which causes the smell of rotten eggs.

What element?

Sulfur.

What's your answer?

Sulfur.

Sulfur is correct.

The perpetrator of this event worked at a book depository and was later murdered by a nightclub owner, Jack Ruby.

What event?

Which was captured on the Zapruder film?

The murder of JFK.

That's right.

Assassination of JFK.

A character claims that life's more painless for people who lack this thing.

In the song Dancing Through Life, the character the hero is often described as lacking this thing.

A brain is correct.

Two minutes left the president, who built a little white house in Georgia but signed the Social Security Act and created the Works Progress Administration.

Name this president and Brennan Franklin D Roosevelt.

That's correct.

Moving on.

In a 2022 movie titled for one of these vehicles, the White Death's operatives search for a briefcase also sought by Brad Pitt's character ladybug.

In Japan, Henry Ryan.

Bullet train.

Bullet Train is right.

This country's third largest city, Ibadan, is the capital of its Oyo State, while its city of Kano is the largest in its Muslim majority north.

Name.

This African country, whose city of Lagos is Ben Morocco no.

Lagos is much larger than its capital of Abuja.

What's the country?

Ghana?

No, it is Nigeria.

Maybe the last question.

One character in this story is seen by Enfield stomping on a young girl.

That event is later told to Utterson, who finds a corpse in someone else's clothes, in which novella by Robert Henry Stein Nope in novella by Robert Louis Stevenson are the two title characters actually the same man and Mr.

Hyde?

Doctor Jekyll and Mr.

Hyde is correct.

Let's squeeze in one more.

A checkpoint for cotton smuggling was established in Brownsville, in this state, where the freeing of slaves is commemorated on Juneteenth.

Galveston, Texas.

The answer is Texas.

Lay down your pins.

We're out of time.

That was a good round.

You both played well, and coming out on top this time is the Randolph school.

Well done.

I don't think you guys are too far behind.

You played very well.

Proud of all of you for your participation today.

Randolph will see you again and we hope to see you again.

Two from Florence Middle.

You guys did a great job.

We thank you so much for watching the Alabama Scholar's Bowl.

We're here every week on Alabama Public Television.

I'm Mike Royer inviting you to join us again next time.

And have a great day.