Alabama Scholar's ball is made possible by the Alabama Community College System.

Here we go.

The Holley Family Foundation, established to honor the legacy of Brigadier General Everett Holley and his parents, Evelyn and Fred Holley.

Champions of servant leadership.

Syntax.

Investing in others.

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, and a very pleasant hello from all of us here at Alabama Public Television in the Alabama Scholar's Bowl.

My name is Mike Royer, and it's my privilege to host this program every week on statewide television.

We're so glad you've joined us again.

We have two great teams in our studio today from Gadsden Middle School.

They're back with us and Valley Leadership Academy from the Huntsville area.

Both of these teams have competed before.

They're all very good at this, as you will see shortly.

Our executive producer of our program is Mike Ousley.

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

They do so much behind the scenes.

This is the easy part, the TV part.

They do a lot of preparation for our program.

Well, students, are you ready to go?

You know, we all begin with 20 questions.

If you answer the question right, your team gets a bonus.

Let's get started.

Grab your pencil beside your buzzer.

Grab your pencil.

What is the smallest positive integer with exactly five factors, including itself and one?

Yes, ma'am.

It's incorrect.

You guys have an answer.

Gadsden.

What do you got, Jacob?

12.

Nope.

We needed 16.

16 is what we needed for that one.

Let's move away from math and go on to this.

The Fifth Republic movement was led by a president of this oil rich country.

And it is Bronner, France.

Nope.

Finishing it for you.

Valley and founding member of OPEC named this South American country, previously ruled by the socialist Hugo Chavez from Caracas, Venezuela.

Venezuela is right.

I guess you do need your pencil again.

If two sides of a triangle are three units each.

What is the length of the third side of the triangle?

Lorelei, what you got?

Three judges.

No.

Three root.

Two is what we need for that.

Next question for everyone.

This politician was jailed for his membership in the ANC, but was then released and allowed to run in his country's first Mandela.

Nelson Mandela is the right answer, Sam.

Bonus question for your team.

In a classic meme involving a dancing banana, this object is paired with peanut butter jelly.

And this object is used to attack a sandbag.

In a Super Smash Brothers mini game.

What object is commonly used in a home run contest?

Baseball bat.

That's the right answer.

Next for everyone.

This river is fed by the Yamuna, which flows through Delhi.

Occurring every 12 years.

Ganges.

The Ganges river is the right answer.

Bonus for you.

This author wrote about a mighty man who stands under a spreading chestnut tree in the village.

Blacksmith.

What poet wrote about a man who rode to the every Middlesex village and farm in Paul Revere's riding fellow?

That's right.

Henry Wadsworth, known to his friends.

Next.

What planet?

Which takes longer to rotate about its axis than to revolve around the sun.

Brunner.

Venus is correct.

Good job.

A bonus question for you, Gadsden.

The altered type of this instrument was played by jazz musician Charlie Parker.

What woodwind instrument is usually golden in color and is used in the opening to Careless Whisper.

Saxophone.

Saxophone is correct.

Well done.

Iris.

Toss up both teams at this battle.

The Sunken Road was home to a physician called Antietam.

Nope.

That's incorrect.

Finishing it for Gadsden to a position called the Hornet's Nest.

Nathan Bedford Forrest committed the Fort Pillow massacre.

After this battle, Albert Sidney Johnson died.

Of what?

Civil War battle won by Ulysses S Grant in Tennessee.

What battle was the runner?

No, it was Shiloh, the Battle of Shiloh.

Next for everyone, this non-Italian country's years of led was a period of repression during the Rule of Hassan the Second.

The Alawi dynasty rules what country?

Based in Rabat and Morocco is right.

Your bonus.

This man ordered the construction of Saint Basil's Cathedral in honor of conquering Kazan.

Using the sky.

What Czar of Russia was known for his paranoia and instability.

That's right everybody.

How many half steps are between each?

Perfect, perfect fifth interval?

Yes.

Jacob.

Six.

Nope.

You guys have an answer?

Seven is the right answer, but always take a shot.

Next question.

This word describes a predator that occupies the highest apex.

Apex is the right answer.

Sam.

Bonus.

Tobias is taught that the organs of this animal can chase away demons.

And Peter finds a coin in the mouth of one of these creatures.

What animal does Jesus multiply alongside bread and fish?

This is right.

Toss up everybody.

A character from this play has her dialog judged as new small talk before uttering the famous line not bloody likely.

The cockney flower girl Eliza.

Pygmalion is right.

Bonus.

What technology company developed the Gemini AI chat bot?

The go programing language, purchased the Android operating system in 2005, and maintains the most widely used search engine in the world.

Google is correct.

Question 11 on the way to 20, this story's protagonist dresses up as a wolf and is sent to bed without dinner.

Max abdicates, and Brunner, where the wild things are, is the answer.

We wanted.

Your bonus.

This disease is marked by neuro fiber, a Larry tangles of tau protein, and plaques of beta amyloid.

People younger than 65 can have the early onset form of what disease, which commonly causes memory loss in older people with dementia?

Nope, it is Alzheimer's.

Next question for both teams, this kingdom's largely gun free army defeated the British in one battle before losing.

Grunt nope.

We're going to finish it here before losing and being absorbed into Britain's South African colony.

What native of African kingdom reached its apex under Shaka Zulu is right.

Bonus for you.

The FAA granted approval to this company's New Glenn rocket to launch into orbit.

Competing with SpaceX's Falcon nine rockets.

What is this SpaceX company founded by Jeff Bezos?

Blue Origin blue origin is the right answer.

Toss up everybody.

What state's new flag adopted in 2024?

Bronner.

Nope.

Finishing in here depicts the North Star as well.

Minnesota is correct.

Here's your bonus.

This book begins with mole becoming frustrated with spring cleaning and features his friends Rat and Badger.

Mr.

toad repeatedly crashes motor vehicles in what Kenneth Graham children's book wind in the Willows.

Wind of the Willows is right.

Hey, everybody.

This man dissolved England's monasteries after declaring independence.

Henry the Eighth is right.

Bonus.

Many of the city's attractions lie along the famous street in the unincorporated area of Paradise.

What city?

Home to Bellagio and Caesar's Palace casinos, along with its namesake strip, is the biggest in Nevada.

That's right.

Next question.

In this play, suitors choose between caskets of gold, silver, and lead for Portia's hand.

Bassanio.

Debt is secured with Antonio's promise of a pound of flesh.

In ten points.

What Shakespeare play for ten points.

Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice.

Merchant of Venice is right, Iris.

Bonus for you, Gaston.

This country's emperor was a figurehead during the Edo period, where Tokugawa moved the capital of Kyoto.

What Asian nations Cinco cinco coup period saw shoguns vie for power by using samurai warriors.

Japan.

Japan is right.

Moving on.

These components use instruction sets like x86 and contain cores that allow them to execute multiple computations at once.

What calculator?

No, that is incorrect.

I'll finish it for you.

Vali.

What components are the brain of a computer and are manufactured by Intel and AMD.

What is it?

Bin.

Motherboard?

Nope.

That's not good either.

CPUs is what we needed.

Or processors would have worked.

Next question.

The novel's narrator learns the secret identity of a cook named barbecue while hiding in an apple barrel and hearing orders given to Israel hands by Long John and his island.

Treasure Island is correct, Lorelei.

A bonus question for your team.

A man with this last name wrote the Massachusetts Circular letter with James Otis to protest the Townsend Acts, and led the Sons of Liberty in Boston.

What last name was held by the second president of the United States?

Oh, Adams.

Adams is right.

Three more questions in this portion of the round.

Havens for these people were established at Port Royal by Henry Morgan.

Right here.

Same pirates.

Pirates is correct.

Or buccaneers?

Your bonus.

Robert Frost said the gift outright at the inauguration of this president, whose death was recorded on as a British film.

What president said ask not what you can do for your country at his 61 inauguration.

Kennedy is right.

Math question for everybody.

Grab a pencil.

If Cole exercises for 1.5 hours every day, three times a week.

How many minutes does he exercise in two weeks?

And it's Jacob 180.

No.

That's incorrect.

What do you got, Ben?

540 540 is correct.

Bonus question for you.

In 1871, the Peshtigo faced one of these disasters, one of which may not have begun after Kathryn O'Leary's cow knocked over a lantern.

Chicago faced a great one of what type of disaster that destroyed many buildings.

It was a fire.

Many fires.

Last question in this round, in a story titled for this object, a boy that is told seen, is believing.

But sometimes the most real things in the world are things we can't see.

Loses a bell after it falls out of his pocket.

Runner.

The Polar Express is correct.

You get the last bonus question.

Gadsden.

A member of this profession demonstrated its value through the use of polar area diagrams, also known as rose diagrams.

Name this profession of the lady with the lamp during the Crimean War.

Florence Nightingale.

Nurse.

Nurse.

She was a nurse.

That's right.

Lay your buzzers down.

I'm going to tell our viewers at home and, our players as well.

What?

Our four categories are for our lightning round.

This is where they answered ten questions in 60s.

The trailing team here at the midpoint is Gadsden.

So you will choose first.

We'll come over to You Valley and you'll choose two categories.

And when we go, the categories are the solar system, female poets, artist and London.

Those are our categories for the Lightning Round.

We'll ask you to choose in a second.

But before you do, we'd like our viewers at home to meet our individual students from each of our fine schools.

Jacob, would you begin just tell us a bit about yourself?

My name is Jacob Pugh.

I'm a seventh grader, Gadsden Middle, and I'm a bass singer.

My name is Iris McElhinney.

I'm an eighth grade at Gadsden Middle School and I was born in Washington, DC.

My name is Parker Ho and I enjoy playing chess.

I'm a Tiger ambassador.

My name is Brian Skaggs.

I'm an eighth grader, Gadsden Middle School, and I play trombone and my name is Ben Nelson, and I like math.

My name is Lorelei De, and I'm currently part of a cybersecurity program.

My name is Sam Nelson, and I like to run.

My name is Spencer Bhattarai, and I like to bake.

Very good.

You're all talented and very smart.

And we see that obviously in all of our competitions.

We're glad you're back in the studio with us.

So Gadsden, middle Iris, which of the four categories would you like to do?

Solar system, solar system.

You figured this out by now, you're going to have 60s to answer the following about our solar system.

60s.

Here we go.

Third planet from the sun.

It's inhabited by living organisms.

Former ninth planet that was reclassified as dwarf.

First planet to have its ring system discovered.

Saturn.

Moon of Jupiter that is the largest satellite in the Solar System.

Ganymede.

Yes.

Volcano on Mars.

It is the largest mountain in the solar system.

And yes.

Eponymous belt that is the source of short period comets.

Kuiper belt?

Yes.

Eponymous cloud that is the source of long period comets.

Yes.

Largest moon of Uranus.

It is slightly bigger than Oberon.

Titanium?

Yes.

Asteroid.

That is the only dwarf planet in the series.

Yes.

Ancient planet believed to have created the moon by colliding with Earth 4 billion years ago.

The Dia is correct.

You have 15 seconds left.

A high five each other.

Well done.

Good job.

Good.

We come back over to you, Valley Leadership Academy.

And Sam, you're going to choose two categories and play them both.

What would you like to do?

Male poets and London female poets.

And London.

You would do them in that order.

Female poets.

You're going to name these female poets?

60s.

Here we go.

Reclusive Bell of Amherst, who wrote Dickinson black author who wrote The Caged Bird Sings with the fearful wife of Robert, who wrote how do I?

Lovely, lovely Elizabeth.

That's right.

Confessional Poet of Daddy, which was Plath, was inspired by the Statue of Liberty to write The New Colossus.

Oh, what's your past?

Chicago resident who wrote we real cool.

We left school.

We lurk late.

Brooks.

That's right.

19th century author who wrote poetry but was more famous for Withering Heights.

Bronte, young poet who recited the hill We Climb at Biden's inauguration.

Colonial era poet of verses upon the burning of our house past.

Formerly enslaved woman who wrote to His Excellency George Washington.

Wheatley.

That's right.

You passed on.

Young poet who recited the hill we climb at Biden's inauguration.

You also passed it.

Colonial era poet Gorman is right.

Colonial era poet of versus upon the burning of our house.

No answer.

And time is up.

That was, Bradstreet and the other one you passed on Statue of Liberty.

New Colossus was Emily's did a good job.

The other category you chose was London.

Right.

You're going to answer the following questions about London in 60s.

London is the capital of this country, abbreviated UK, UK, United Kingdom.

River that flows through London.

That's right.

Alliterative.

Two word nickname for a large clock tower near the House of Parliament.

Color of London's busses and its central line read Stanstead, Gatwick and Heathrow are these types of places that serve London airports?

That's right.

Devastating conflagration that swept through London in September of 1666.

Fire.

That's right.

Theater district partly named for a cardinal direction that is London's version of Broadway North Street.

It's no, it's West End people who must memorize a map of London for a test called The Knowledge in order to get a license.

Taxi drivers.

That's right.

The London Eye is an example of one of these amusement rides.

And Smithfield, Billingsgate and Seven Dials are these types of places where goods are traditionally sold.

Markets.

Markets is right.

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

Good job.

And now we come to let's see what's left here.

Artist.

No.

Yes.

Artist.

That's right.

Are you excited about this guy?

Since you love artist, you got 60s to answer the following about artists and their works.

Here we go.

Andy Warhol made paintings of cans of food, including clam chowder and chicken noodle soup.

Dutch artists who created The Starry Night while in an asylum.

Van Gogh at Him art movement co-developed by Pablo Picasso and named for a certain 3D Cubism.

Spanish surrealist who painted The Persistence of Memory.

The founder of Impressionism, who often painted water lilies in his day.

That's right.

The Papal Palace contains this artist's 1510 fresco called The School of Athens.

Raphael.

That's right.

American Artist of arrangement in Gray and Black, number one, which depicts his mother.

Whistler.

Whistler, yes.

Japanese artist Hokusai created a print that depicts a great one of these.

That.

Yes, abstract expressionist.

Who?

Mary Lee Krasner and was nicknamed Jack the Ripper.

Would Pollock, Spanish artist who series Disaster of War includes the 3rd of May 1808.

River Rivera.

No, that was Goya.

Goya for that last.

Good job everybody.

Both teams did well on, four challenging categories.

We have, seven minutes left, which is plenty of time to catch up if you're trailing.

No bonus questions.

Each question is worth 20 points.

Here we go.

The three primary triggered trigonometric functions are sine, cosine, and what?

Third function?

Yes, the figure who Jesus calls the prince of this world is compared to a roaring lion in First Peter.

What father Bronner?

Lucifer?

Yes.

Lucifer or Satan?

One group of these people launched the Oka Crisis over a planned golf course.

The Ojibwe and Mohawk, among the first Native American Native Americans.

That's right.

One of the play's characters ask if human beings ever realized life while they live in our town.

The Palmer Raids targeted people who supported this belief, similar to a Red scare led by Joseph McCarthy.

Brunner goes.

Nope, I'll continue it on for you.

Communism.

Communism is right.

Peptide bonds formed between carbon and this element to link amino acids in a protein nitrogen.

Nitrogen is right.

This word names the battle in which the Count of Tillie died.

Well, Sam Mountain.

No finishing it for you.

Fighting against Gustavus Adolphus.

Shadows on the leeward sides of mountains are named for preventing liquid precipitation.

Described by what word running.

Now it's rain.

Rain is what we needed there.

Grab your pencil.

If Jack reads ten pages in an hour, how long in minutes will it take him to finish a 133 page book?

Yes.

Bronner, 780.

No.

That's incorrect.

Give you a second over here if you want to take a shot at it.

Lorelai, no, it's 798, 798.

Moving on.

This author described the seas freezing as a result of being exposed to ice nine in another novel, Vonnegut is right.

A song by this artist opens.

Yay!

I wonder if my name has ever crossed your mind.

What Canadian artist?

A dear best friend Lorelai.

I know, finishing it for you.

Gadsden.

What Canadian artist of dear ex-best friend sings I would want myself baby, please believe me in the song called greeting.

Yes.

Iris McCrae.

That's right.

Take McCrae next.

The nearest one of these objects to the earth is one called helix.

Other famous Bronner black hole.

No finishing it here.

Other famous examples of these objects include Orion crab and Horsehead.

What astronomical objects?

Yes, yes, nebulas is what we needed.

Louis Witt became known as the Umbrella Man after appearing in photos of this event, which was captured by the Zapruder film, the Warren Commission Sam Kennedy assassination.

That's right.

The White Terror led to martial law on this island.

After Chiang Kai shek fled to it.

Taiwan Taiwan is the right answer.

Ronald Reagan fired over 10,000 workers in this industry during the Bronner er.

And, yes, you'll we'll take that aviation airplane industry.

Yes.

Moving on.

This leader outlined what he called his third international theory and his political green book name this African dictator.

Bronner.

Say it again.

Yes, Muammar Gaddafi is right.

Moving on.

Following one of these events, Henry Clay Frick was nearly murdered in his office and strikes over a labor strike.

Buzzards Bay is a body of water to the south of this state, which contains a peninsula that contains the town.

Nope.

Going to finish it here.

That contains the town of Provincetown.

What state contains Martha's Vineyard and Cape Cod and has its capital in Boston, Massachusetts.

Massachusetts is right.

3.5 minutes to go.

What artist collaborated with Jay Cole on First Person Shooter, a single, Iris Drake is right a Game of These Things title is a Matsuo Basho book comparing haiku.

Ralph speaks into one of these objects together stranded boys in Lord of the flies.

What object?

Seashell is right.

This ritual sometimes begins with one party saying, bless me, father, in this ritual enactment.

No.

Finishing it for you, Gadsden.

In this ritual, an act of contrition must be said in order to receive absolution.

What ritual involves getting rid of sin by admitting them to a priest?

What's it called?

Brother?

Confession.

It is confession.

Next.

This city is home to the Crocker Museum and is home to the suburb of Coloma, where Sutter's Mill is located.

Name the San Francisco.

Nope.

Finishing here where Sutter's Mill is located.

Name the city that names California's longest river and is itself the state capital.

Sacramento is right.

Ho Chi Minh argued for Vietnamese independence during the drafting of this document, which created broader Viet Minh.

These declaration of Independence.

No finishing it for you guys over here, which created the League of Nations heavy reparations stipulated by this document bankrupted Germany.

What treaty ended World War one?

Marshall plan?

Nope.

The treaty was called the Treaty of Altogether.

Now Versailles.

That's right.

This emperor who defeated Sextus Pompeius later defeated Mark Antony at the Battle of Julius Caesar.

Judges know what Roman emperor was the adopted son of Julius Caesar.

And versus Augustus is correct.

Let's do a couple more questions.

This land based city state fought the Peloponnesian War against a rival city state that was the birthplace front.

No.

Finishing it.

Birthplace of democracy.

What?

Greek city state supported a powerful army that defeated Athens.

Now Lorelai Sparta.

Sparta is right.

This region's mythology describes ghost of ancient warriors called Night Marchers.

The goddess Pele is present in what archipelago's mythology, where she presides over Hawaii.

Hawaii is correct, Jacob.

Well done math question what is the sum of the squares of the first five prime numbers?

Need an answer?

Yes.

Brunner.

Repeat that for me.

150.

That's not right.

Do you guys have an answer?

We're going to move on quickly.

If you don't.

Yes, Sam is 87.

No, it's 208.

208.

We're out of time.

Lay your buttons down.

We took too long on that math question.

Did my.

I'm sorry.

All right.

Well done.

Gadson came out on top in this one.

Okay?

Okay.

Is that right?

I'm sorry.

Valley came out on top.

I know I did that just to get your attention.

This Valley Leadership Academy came out on top of my apologies.

You guys played well.

Every time you've been on.

You guys played well.

Join us again next week for the Alabama Scholar's Bowl.

Have a great day everyone.