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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.

I'm Mike Royer.

Welcome in to the championship game for the middle school Alabama Scholars Bowl in the studio today are the fine students from Valley Leadership Academy up in the Huntsville area.

And from the Montgomery area is Baldwin Arts and Academic Magnet School.

Welcome back to all of you.

You've been in the studio many times and have played so well during the season.

We wish you both the best of luck.

Our thanks to our judges, Sharon Daly, Josh Rusk, Cade Wilson, and and Harris and Mike Owsley is our executive producer.

The folks here at Alabama Public Television, as always, have been so welcoming, kind and helpful.

And we appreciate them as well.

Well, nothing left to do but play this round or y'all ready?

20 questions answered correctly.

You get a bonus.

Let's see how we do.

Maneuvers used while doing this activity include a half treble and double treble.

Granny squares are often created by people doing this activity.

And what is the activity?

What is it?

It is crocheting.

Well done Spencer.

Bonus question.

Answer question for you.

In this novel, Jane Fairfax marries Frank Churchill.

The protagonist of this novel ends up marrying Mr.

Knightley.

Titled For the Daughter of Mr.

Woodhouse, what Jane Austen novel explores the title character's matchmaking schemes.

Emma is correct.

Next question for everyone.

They coins are gathered from an electrified carpet.

In this novel opening battle royale section, an unnamed black protagonist, Aaron the Invisible Man, is correct.

Bonus question for you, Baldwin.

In the song Bohemian Rhapsody, this word is said after stating easy come, easy go.

Will you let me go?

What Arabic word contrasted with Al Hamad?

Alhamdulillah.

When said before, eating means in the name of God.

Bismillah.

Bismillah is correct.

Thank you.

Next question for both teams.

This man who lost his right arm at the Battle of Seven Pines was the leader of the Reconstruction era agency called the Freedmen's Bureau.

Kamala Harris attended an HBCU in Washington, D.C.

named for white man.

Howard.

Howard is correct.

Bonus question.

A character in this novel that sarcastically calls himself herself an interplanetary voyager is named Mindy Park.

Potatoes are grown in the hab by Mark Watney.

In what novel by Andy Weir, Martian the Martian.

The Martian is the right answer.

Toss up everybody.

What electrical components are marked with color coded bands to denote their strength?

RF resistors SIM resistors is right.

Next question.

These astronomical objects emit a relativistic jet whose strength affects whether they are radio quiet or radio loud.

What highly luminous active galactic nuclei have a name that is short for quasi stellar radio quasars is correct.

Both teams members of this religion were targeted by Reginald Dyer's troops during the reserve massacre at their Golden Temple.

And it is Amish.

Sikhism Sikhism is right.

Bonus for your team.

An E-flat minor.

Pardon me.

Let me start that again.

An E-flat minor to B-flat minor seven chord progression in a piano vamp opens this song, which closes the first side of the album.

Time Out What song written in five four time, was the signature tune of Dave Brubeck.

And he answered all Moonlight Sonata.

It's a good guess.

It's a wrong guess, but it's a good guess.

Take five is the right answer.

Moving on a component of these devices can be tactile or linear, and can be distinguished by their activation force.

Enthusiasts that build these devices try to reduce Rattle Erich keyboards is correct.

In January of 2025, Joe Biden designated this state's Chuck Walla and set titular Highlands as National monuments.

What state's Joshua Tree National Park is partly located in the Mojave Desert state?

What you got Arizona?

No.

It's California.

Moving on for everybody.

Some members of this sect who were put to death, like Mary Dyer were known as Boston Martyrs.

Members of what sect founded by George Fox, first control, Pennsylvania.

Sam.

Quakers.

Quakers is right.

Bonus for you.

This quantity is conserved in ISO cork processes.

This quantity multiplied by density and the gravitational acceleration is equal to the buoyant force by Archimedes principle.

Name this quantity that measures the size of a container you.

Volume.

Volume is right, everybody.

A molecular theory described by this word states that gas particles exhibit constant random motion and perfect elastic collisions.

A type of energy described by what word equals one half m v squared and is displayed by a moving object.

What is it?

Kinetic.

Kinetic is right in your bonus question.

In the Mahayana tradition, this title is held by individuals not affected by the three poisons.

Holders of this title create pure lands.

What title is held by enlightened individuals such as said heart to Guatemala?

Buddha.

Buddha is the right answer.

Next.

In Edgar Allan Poe poem, the beauty of this woman is like those Nike and barks of your.

This woman has the face for sale again.

Lenore.

No.

That's incorrect.

I'll finish it for you.

Baldwin.

This woman has the face that launched a thousand ships.

Aaron.

Helen of Troy is right.

Bonus for you.

An alternative name for Yama calls him the king of this concept.

And Krishna tells Arjuna that he must fight the of due to the relation between his caste and this concept.

What word describes moral law and duties in Hinduism?

Dharma.

That's right.

Next.

Number ten.

On the way to 20, everybody.

What country?

Which was led by Regent Admiral Miklos Horthy.

Despite its last King Charles von Habsburg, being removed in 1918, Sam Austria, no finishing it here received Northern Transylvania from the Second Vienna Award and was overthrown by the Nazis in 1944.

Do you have an answer?

What?

You got him?

Germany.

No.

It's Hungary.

We'll move on to the next question.

The Emperor defeated Vitellius at the Second Battle of B. Come to end the year of the Four Emperors.

What?

Father of Nero?

No.

I'll finish it for you, Valli.

What?

Father of Titus ordered the beginning of work on the Colosseum.

As the founder of the Flavian dynasty.

Damn the station!

The spasm is correct.

Here's your bonus.

This composer used a trumpet fanfare to introduce a bog in a piece about a witches Sabbath titled Night on Bald Mountain.

A set of five promenades appear in what Russian composers composer's pictures at an exhibition.

Czajkowski.

No, it's Mussorgsky, Mr.

Gorsky.

Something like that.

I'll say it together while I move on.

This character marks Cherubino as military conscription in the aria non piu un dry and dry.

This character's name is repeatedly sung in Largo al factotum.

What title character of The Barber of Seville is this?

Sam.

Carmen.

No.

Erin.

Figaro is the character we wanted.

Your bonus.

A poem by this author is addressed to the ruler of the minds of all people.

Name this Bengali poet.

The author of Gitanjali and Jane Gana.

Mana Tagore is right.

Well done.

Toss up everybody.

Soil moves down a slope during solar fluctuation in regions rich in this material, which contributes to global warming by releasing methane as it melts.

The tundra is defined by what material that is composed of frost.

Permafrost is right.

Bonus for your team Valley.

A definition of this concept from the dialog.

The Tejas was repeatedly challenged in namesake problems by Edmond.

Get to air.

Justified.

True belief is a popular definition.

Definition of what concept which is studied in a piece to morphology.

In epistemology.

Thank you.

Base knowledge is what that talks about everybody.

The arctangent of the ratio of two of these quantities gives Brewster's angle.

This quantity is the ratio of the speed of light in a vacuum to the speed of light in a particular medium.

What quantity measures a material's ability to bend light?

Aaron.

Refraction.

Except that judges her answer was refraction.

Need more refract ability?

No.

That's incorrect.

You guys have an answer.

Light refraction.

No, that's incorrect as well.

Index of infraction is what our judges wanted that time.

Moving on.

Challenges in this sport, such as spots of time and burden of dreams, have been done by William Bossi.

People participating in the sport describe better using terms such as crimson jugs.

What sport involves ascending features such as El Capitan and Sam?

Climbing.

Climbing is good.

That's right.

We take that.

Your bonus question.

And agarose matrix.

Add a rosy matrix of.

This general substance is used in a technique in which the size of a molecule moving through this substance is inferred by distance traveled.

Electric fields are applied to what kind of substance in its electrophoresis.

Gel.

Gel is right for everybody.

As we move on, this president whose aide Orville Babcock was implicated, since you ask, is this grant is correct.

Your bonus, a horizontal bar is written through this constant to indicate dividing it by two pi.

Einstein solved the photoelectric effect by realizing that quantum energy equals frequency times what constant in quantum mechanics, which is symbolized by H. The speed of light.

It is Planck's constant.

Planck's constant.

For more questions.

This piece was inspired by its composer's train ride to Boston and premiered at An Experiment in Modern Music.

Aaron wrote Symphony.

Nope.

That's incorrect.

I'll finish it for you.

Valli.

An experiment in modern music.

What piece opens with a clarinet glissando and was composed by George Gershwin?

Rhapsody in blue is right.

Here's your bonus.

A law formulated by this man based on the conservation of angular momentum, states that a line between a planet and the sun sweeps out equal areas in equal time.

What scientists proposed elliptical orbits in his three laws of planetary motion Kepler, Kepler's corrects three more questions.

Sensors in these objects can be characterized by their ISO capabilities, which are small in the bridge type.

Crop factor can change the products of these devices, cheap examples of which are often the point and shoot type.

What devices are manufactured by Nikon buzzing in his Benz SIG in guns, not guns.

You guys have an answer?

Amish tractors?

No.

Nikon cameras.

Nikon cameras.

I know we all knew that next in this country, the black Hundreds committed program pogroms in the revolution of 1905.

Russia.

Russia is right.

Your bonus around in this country led to the creation of the World Trade Organization.

The first FIFA FIFA World Cup was won by what country?

That also hosted it in its capital of Montevideo.

Dito, Uruguay.

Uruguay is correct.

We have one more question.

This show tune is sung after al Danza inquires what a night means by following the quest.

Don Quixote sings that he will follow that star, no matter how hopeless, no matter how far in what song from man from la mancha.

Sam.

Sancho Panza.

No.

You might.

You guys know an answer?

We'll take a shot.

The winner.

Oh, good.

This saves me for having to sing it for you.

The Impossible Dream is the song from then, from lament.

You lay down your pins and relax a little bit.

We've got four good categories to go through for our lightning round.

I'll tell you at home, those categories are ecosystems and biomes.

Airlines.

The Punic Wars and ancient Near East.

Our lightning round is brought to you by the Alabama Community College System, and we have appreciated them throughout this season.

Here at the, midpoint of our program.

Baldwin you trail slightly here at the midpoint, so you will select first, today, and then we'll come over to Valley.

You'll choose two categories from ecosystems and biomes airlines, the Punic Wars and Ancient Near East.

Before we do it, let's meet our players.

I'll ask each of you to, tell the folks at home who you are and what your main interest is.

Ben, I'm Ben Nelson, and I play piano.

I'm Lorelai Jay, and my favorite subjects are biology, mythology.

I'm Sam Nelson, and I love Quiz Bowl.

I'm Spencer Batra, and I also play piano.

Hi, I'm Hamish, I'm an eighth grade at Baldwin, and my favorite book is Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

My name is Naveed.

I'm an eighth grader at Baldwin and my favorite book is Percy Jackson and the Titans Curse.

I'm and I'm an eighth grader at Baldwin.

My favorite book is The Handmaid's Tale.

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

You all are playing well.

This is a very competitive championship match.

We fully expected it would be.

We'll come to you, Baldwin.

And of the four categories I mentioned, Navid, which one would you like to do?

Punic Wars, Punic wars.

Let's go right over here and tell you that you'll have 60s to answer the following concerning the Punic Wars.

Here we go.

Republic led by two consuls which fought in the pro wars.

Rome.

Belligerent North African city.

Carthage.

General who decisively won the Battle of Cannae in 216.

Hannibal two Mediterranean islands transferred from one power to another form the conclusion of the First Punic War, which is.

Than past Sicilian city whose disputed status sparked the First Punic War.

It shares its name with the college in New York.

General who won the Battle of Zama, which ended the second being African.

That's right.

The Battle of Cape Economy in 256 was the largest of this type of battle during the Punic Wars and involved galleys, naval, the dried large animals used by Carthage.

Since this action was supposedly performed on land by the victors to ensure nothing would grow again like burning the earth.

No, they salted the Earth Center, who famously said, Carthage, Carthage, time is up.

Or the time is up.

Time is up.

Tough category.

But you did pretty well with it.

We'll come over to Valley now.

Valley Leadership Academy, you choose two.

Sam, what do you want to do?

Homes and airlines, biomes and airlines in seconds you're going to name the following regarding ecosystems and biomes.

And here we go.

Biome characterized by low rainfall and extreme temperatures.

Desert organisms that make up the base of a food chain, pass species with a disproportionately large impact on its environment.

Predators.

Keystone underwater volcanic features that spew hot, mineral rich water.

Hydrothermal vents.

Its right upper region of a rainforest where 50 to 90% of life resides.

That's right.

Ecosystem whose theory about biogeography predict species diversity?

Pass ecosystem whose permanent residents are called troglodytes.

Like tundra.

Cave ecosystem primarily composed of plant reserve for a past structures that attain their color by hosting the algae.

Zooxanthellae.

Pass biome, denoted by DFC in the Copan classification.

Pass okay back to ecosystem, whose theory about biogeography that's island and time is up.

Another tough category.

You didn't expect the questions in the championship round to be easy.

Digit airlines are next.

Is that right, Sam Airlines your next choice 60s on this as well.

Name the following concerning airlines.

Country whose airline travels to the largest number of countries and whose hub is based in Istanbul, Turkey.

Country whose national airline has a maple leaf as its logo.

The airline, which shares this name with a Greek letter using to denote a triangle.

Delta Delta airline with the yellow logo that brands itself as an ultra low cost carrier airline, which hubs in Dubai and sponsors the Ritz carrier, which has its hub at Heathrow Airport.

Like, airline, it announced it was ending its no assigned seating policy.

Early frontier that's southwest luxury airline known for its Q suites business class product and based in Doha.

Doha.

Is this not a best pass?

American airline with longtime slogan fly the friendly skies with major hubs in Chicago and Newark, pass airline named the world's best in 2024 by Travel and Leisure and home to the longest nonstop American, that Singapore Airlines and you passed on.

Our time is up.

Was that person you should have been.

Did they get Qatar in in time for you?

All right, let's see.

We come back for the ancient Near East.

Would you guys get to play?

Baldwin, are you ready for that?

60s ancient near East name the following concerning the ancient Near East region, where the Sumerians were centered from the Greek for between two rivers, much.

Tamia.

That's right.

River adjacent river.

Ancient Babylon was situated on, often paired with the Tigris in ancient races.

Let's say again.

Euphrates.

No, it's, k that was correct.

I don't know how I got that like that.

Does that was correct.

Adjust the time slightly.

Writing system.

The Sumerians developed using reeds and clay tablets for cuneiform.

That's right.

King of Babylon, to whom the construction of hanging gardens is attributed to wickedness.

That's right.

Empire ruled by Ashurbanipal during this new period.

Assyrian.

Yes.

Ancient enemy of the previous.

An empire which fought Egypt and Kadesh.

Hittites.

Yes.

City of whose great ziggurat was evacuated by excavator by Leonard Woolley.

Babylon?

No.

Or Iranian kingdom ruled from Susa, which perpetually invaded Babylon.

Oh, Persia.

Persia.

Elam.

First word world emperor who ruled from a card in time is up tough categories you all did pretty well with as hard as those were.

Well done.

We've got just under five minutes left.

We're going to use that time to do 20 point questions.

No bonus.

Here we go.

This man was shot by Carl Weis and ran with the slogan Every Man a King.

The book My First Days in the white House was written by, what, 1930s progressive governor of Louisiana, Sam Long.

Huey long is right.

Next question.

The artist ask, why do you have to hit and run me in her song gone, this artist is the third most followed K-pop idol behind her bandmates Lisa and Jennie.

Rosé.

Rosé is right.

The name of this element comes from its use in constructing pipes in ancient Rome, and led Lead is correct.

Cognitive and esthetic tears are sometimes added to this diagram.

A pyramid which places a scheme hierarchy of needs.

Yes, they'll accept that.

Maslow's hierarchy.

Next, this country's dominant liberal Democratic party performed poorly in its 2024 general election, losing an absolute majority due to its slush fund corruption scandal.

What country has its national diet located in Tokyo?

Sam.

That's right.

This character is asked about his proficiency at destroying chef robes during an event where he is represented by Atticus Finch.

What character?

Tom Robinson.

Tom Robinson is correct.

Cyclic examples of these types of compound include epoxide and their crown variety.

What compounds follow the chemical formula R, O, r prime and were famously used as early anesthetics?

Alcohols?

No.

That's incorrect.

You guys have an answer.

Looking for ether ethers?

A failure by the Purity Distilling Company led to a flood of this substance and its Amish molasses.

Molasses is right.

This ruler may have died of poisoned figs he received from his wife, Livia Drusilla.

The Battle of Actium was a victory over Marc Anthony, Hamish Blake, Octavian.

Yes, yes, you'll accept that, Augustus.

And your answer to Santa Anna resisted this non-U.S.

country's seizure of Veracruz.

Erik.

No finishing it for you.

Valley seizure a Vera Cruz during the Pastry War against Mexico.

Cinco de Mayo celebrates what country's defeat at the Battle of Puebla.

After attempting Sam.

No, it's France.

This cause was supported by the bland Allison act, which Rutherford B Hayes tried to veto but got overridden.

William Jennings Bryan gave the Cross of Gold speech in support of what cause Sam evolution?

No.

That advocated the use of both silver and gold currency.

Do you have an answer?

It's called never, making of currency.

It's called by mentalism.

This case.

Central subjects were accused of killing Frank Parmenter and Alessandro Barrett Deli at a shoe factory.

Decades later, Michael Dukakis pardoned the defendants of what case?

In which two Italian anarchists were killed.

Eddie, that is right.

This architect used stained glass and terracotta to evoke rural life in a series of Midwestern banks called jewel boxes.

Salem, see you again, right?

Nope.

I'll finish it for you.

Called Jewel boxes.

Dagmar Adler designed the Wainwright Building alongside what architect and mentor Frank Lloyd Wright?

Yes, Aaron Sullivan.

Sullivan is correct.

A couple more questions.

A novel by an author who grew up in this country tells the story of Haitian slave Ty Noel.

Poems like I Gotta Know, I'm a raw and I cultivate a White Rose.

From what country?

The home of Jose Marti and Cuba.

Cuba's right.

This monarch put down the revolt of the common arrows, and he imprisoned his mother, Joanna the Mad, in the palace.

Hamish Nero.

No.

That's incorrect.

Name this first Hapsburg monarch.

Name this Hapsburg monarch to rule over both the Holy Roman Empire and Spain.

You have anything?

Charles?

From Charles on third.

No, it's Charles the fifth.

That's all the questions we have time for.

That was a heck of a competition.

And, Baldwin Arts and Academy Magnet School came out on top.

That was a close, close round.

That was exciting.

That's the, Alabama Scholar's Bowl for another season.

Our middle school competition.

And the trophy will be presented to the folks from Baldwin Arts and Academic Magnet School Valley.

We'll see you again.

You guys played very well.

We're proud of you.

Thanks for watching our program.

I'm Mike Royer and we hope you'll join us next time.