Alabama Scholars Bowl
Arab Junior High School vs Hewitt-Trussville Middle School
Season 8 Episode 17 | 26m 39sVideo has Closed Captions
School teams answer questions on science, technology, engineering, math and history.
Middle school teams from across the state compete for scholarship money in the Alabama Scholars Bowl by answering questions in science, technology, engineering, math and history. The competition is certified and operated by the Alabama Scholastic Competition Association (ASCA). Recorded at APT’s Montgomery studio.
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Alabama Scholars Bowl is a local public television program presented by APT
Alabama Scholars Bowl
Arab Junior High School vs Hewitt-Trussville Middle School
Season 8 Episode 17 | 26m 39sVideo has Closed Captions
Middle school teams from across the state compete for scholarship money in the Alabama Scholars Bowl by answering questions in science, technology, engineering, math and history. The competition is certified and operated by the Alabama Scholastic Competition Association (ASCA). Recorded at APT’s Montgomery studio.
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Alabama Scholars vault, where junior high school student 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 A Now here's your host, Mike Royer Hello, everyone, and welcome onc to the Alabama Scholars Bowl sta on Alabama Public Television.
It's our privilege to bring the program to you ever My name is Mike Royer.
Our executive producer is Mike O Our valuable judges are Sharon D Josh Ruski, Kate Wilson, and N H And everyone here at Alabama Public Television who to help us get this program on t And we're glad that you're watch We welcome to our studio today, the students from Arab Junior Hi a beautiful part of Alabama, and we're glad to have you with And from the Birmingham area here, Trussville Middle School.
Welcome to you as well.
You all know how the game works, so I won't explain it to you.
We have 20 questions to begin wi If your team answers correctly, you get a bonus question.
Let's see how we do.
Question nu This actor starred as the fashio CEO Jules Austin on The Intern alongside Robert De Niro.
What actress played Mia Thermopolis in The Princess Who is that?
Anne Marie.
Anne Hathaway and Hathaway is co Here's a bonus question for Hewitt Trussville.
This politician who called any potential charges against him entirely false and b lies, was indicted for accepting from Turkish officials.
What former Brooklyn borough pre is the current mayor of New York Anybody else?
Anybody got an answer on the mon I don't get it.
There's one man.
No.
He's the new mayor.
But the one that's leaving offic soon is Eric Adams.
Eric Adams.
But always take a shot with an a Next question.
The Thornton affair occurred during an American war with this after which the Wilmot Proviso w James K Polk was in power during With what country?
And it is I'm looking.
I don't see the light.
There it Brighten Mexico is the right ans Well done.
Bonus question for yo Ray read.
Hello, Genet.
Genetic variants of these cells are often sourced from fetal umbilical cords or bone marrow donations.
All types of white blood cells a from what undifferentiated cells.
Red blood cells.
Not, the stem cells is the answe the judges wanted on that one.
Next question for everyone.
Homologous recombination occurs in the first step of this proces This process produces four genet diverse haploid tailor mitosis.
No, no that's incorrect.
And Bentley meiosis.
Meiosis is the right answer.
Well done.
Very close.
Here's a bonus for y This feature bisects the Kaibab and is the site of a skywalk run by the WAP loopy WAP loopy tribe.
John Wesley Powell mapped what feature carved by the Colorado River found in a national park in Arizona.
What did I just describe the Gra The Grand Canyon is correct.
Question number four it's the Sunnah, or suna, for Muslims to drink water in this many sips And Al Imraan is the surah of th This fard Maghrib prayer last.
How many roccat or racket?
Which is also the number of part of the Trinity and Bentley?
Three three is right.
Took me a minute to get there, but you got it right.
Bonus question for your team.
Novels in this genre include.
Last of the Breed by Louis L'Amo and the revisionist novel True G Oh, and whiskers.
The Virginian is an example of what genre set on the frontie and often included outlaws in the namesake Western.
Western is right.
Good job every Two beaches in this country are the Copacabana and the Ipane This country contains a statute with outstretched arms called the Christ Redeemer and Anna Marie.
Brazil.
Brazil is correct.
Bonus question for you and your team in Shrek two, a gi one of these objects named Mongo from being doused in milk.
One of these objects is tortured by Lord Farquaad before giving up the location of the Mu Name these objects, one of which to give up his gumdrop buttons.
Gingerbread man.
Gingerbread is You don't have to wait on me to read the whole question.
If you know the answer, you just jump in there.
Feel free.
Next question.
This country's NKVD secret polic by Lavrentiy Beria before it became the KGB.
What?
Communist Maggie.
The Soviet Union.
Soviet Union, Well done.
Maggie.
Bonus for you and your team.
A g a g g Perez.
Jai.
Jai Perez.
Song title for one of these peop I saw her in the rightist way looking like Anne Hathaway.
A character with this profession has a pipe and often eats spinac Name this profession associated with the sea.
Sailor.
Sailor is right.
Good job everybody.
In a soliloquy, this character bemoans how tomor and tomorrow and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace from day to d Name this Shakespearean characte pushed by his wife to kill Duncan and become Macbet Macbeth is the right answer.
Bon for you, Sophia.
Good job.
And it's a math question.
Grab your pencil.
Jamie has a magic coin that has every time it lands ahead.
If the coin began at 1000g and is now 62.5g, how many heads has Jamie landed?
If you're a little longer in a m But we need an answer pretty qui We want to take a shot for forest.
Correct?
Well done.
Taylor.
Next question.
Toss up both teams in January 20 This TV show and It's Always Sun Philadelphia had a crossover epi Sheryl Lee Ralph and Quinta Brun have won Emmys for what?
ABC mockumentary, which is set in Brighton Element Abbott Elementary is right.
Your bonus.
This city fell after cannons designed by the Hungarian engine Orban destroyed its Theodosius w Sultans in this city lived in.
It's to copy palace.
The Strait of Bosphorus divides Turkish city?
Istanbul.
Near Istanbul.
Istanbul or Constantinople would be acceptable as well.
Good job.
Toss up both teams.
Because this man got tricked by and into marrying Leila.
The groom lifts up the veil of t during Jewish weddings.
Rebecca married what person who had a vision of his latter.
And it's Maggie.
Jacob.
Jacob is correct.
Your bonus, a substance used in this practice is consecrated in the Chrism Mass.
This practice may be done to a s by applying a liquid to their eyes, ears, and hands and feet.
What practice involves blessing someone with holy oil.
What's that called?
Embalming.
No.
This is anointing.
You anoint someone with oil.
Toss up everybody.
This painter included elephants with spindly legs and is and is.
Taylor.
Dolly.
Dolly is right, S Dali.
Your bonus.
Again.
Three cases of this line segment intersect at a point denoted H, the ortho center, dropping a perpendicular from a vertex to the opposite base of a triangle gives what li whose length is multiplied by th the base to find the triangle's What is that called?
Hypotenuse.
It is called the altitude.
I would have made the same face you all made if I was asked that Toss up for everybody.
This home country of the Paracas culture was where the kumu preceded the Moch The hummingbird and condor are part of a set of ancient geoglyphs by the Nazca Nasca in this count Qubit, Chile.
No.
Not Chile.
What country has its capital in and its Brighton?
Peru.
Peru is right.
Your bonus.
This noun and the adjective brown lend the to failed stars that lack the matter to undergo After its red giant stage, the sun will become a white obje known by what noun denoting its light and small size.
Dwarf.
Dwarf is correct.
Moving on, the molecules world hypothesis states that it was the earliest genetic Uracil is a base in.
Single stranded polymers that may be transcribed from DNA What is that called?
Bentley RNA RNA is right.
Your bonus math qu If one monkey can eat two bananas in th how many bananas can five monkeys eat in six hours?
Need an answer?
What's got 2020 is the right ans Good job.
Number 13, on the way to 20 ques Eliza escapes to Canada in the beginning of this work, whose title character is beaten under the order of Simon Legree.
What anti-slavery.
And it's Magg Uncle Tom's cabin.
Uncle Tom's cabin is right.
Bonus for you to read.
Students from this country took at an American embassy in 1979, the same year that a revolution brought Ayatollah Khomeini to po The Shah fled from what country?
After protests which established the Islamic Republic rule from T What country is that?
Iran?
That is correct.
Iran is right.
Next question for both teams.
The Bibliotheque Nationale store this science scientist's notebooks in lead li The scientist Taylor, Marie Curi That's correct.
Marie Curie is right.
Bonus for This poem's narrator talks with Peter after leaving the sphere o The poem's narrator is guided to the Imperi by Beatrice in Through Nine Circ by Virgil.
A journey through Heaven in Para is chronicled in what poem by Da The Divine Comedy.
That's correct.
Question 15.
The city of Sylhet was historica for this good, whose Camellia sinensis variety is also produced in Assa C-H I Chai is a variety of what that is often served.
Tea is right, Maggie.
Bonus for The hunting of perpetrators of t was discussed in Eric Bogosian book about Operation Nemesis.
The Ottoman Empire perpetrated w Against a Christian minority in eastern Anatolia.
Do you know what that was called The Crusades.
It was the Armenian Genocide.
This is what it was called.
Next question.
Both teams.
This poverty wage ritual flour war is against its rivals to obtain captives that might have been sacrificed at the Templo Mayor.
Mug two.
Zuma.
Mug two.
Zuma.
The second was the last ruler of what polity centered around Tenochtitlan that was conquered in its Aztecs Aztec empire.
Right.
Bonus for you, the 98th.
The 98th element is named after this state, which also has an element named after its city of Berkeley What West Coast state is home to Silicon Valley?
California.
California is right.
Everybody.
Both teams.
The names of people allowed entr this location are found in the L Book of Life.
And this location is described as the new Sophia.
Heaven is.
That's the right answ Bonus for you.
What number of degrees is equal to pi radians?
The sum of internal angle measures of every triangle and half of a circle 180.
That's right.
Toss up both teams When studying history, researche often rely on books and articles written by ex who analyze and interpret past r which are referred to as what type of sources which Jack.
Historians?
No.
I'll finish it for you at la Few words which differ from primary source Taylor.
Secondary sources.
Secondary sources is right.
Bonus question.
A little more ma What is the perimeter of a right with legs of length seven units and 24 units.
66?
No, it's 56.
56 is what we wanted.
Two more questions here.
Children were left alone with one of these foods for 15 minutes in a Walter Mitchell experiment.
Taylor.
Marshmallow.
Marshmallow Your bonus.
The River Rouge plant in Dearbor manufactured these products, whose workers were protected by Assembly lines were used to make T a type of what?
Vehicle made by Ford cars.
Cars is correct.
Last question.
This man who was wounded at the Battle of Brandywine, was by Thomas Jefferson in writing an initial draft of the Declaration of Rights, and it's brightened.
Ben Franklin.
Nope.
That's incorrect.
I'll finish it for you.
Hubert.
Declaration of Rights of Name this French hero of two wor who aided the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Answer.
Yes, Anna Marie Thayer.
That's right.
Marquis de Lafayette.
Bonus question for you.
This Pokemon was often referred blue before its release in HeartGold and SoulSilver.
This Pokemon is Lyra's companion What Pokemon?
A blue mouse with a tail for a f Evolves from Ezreal.
Latios.
No.
It's Maril.
Maril.
Lay down your buttons.
Relax a second.
We're going to do our lightning round coming up shortly.
You had Trussville.
You're trailing slightly here at the midpoint, so you'll choose first from four categories.
You'll play that round and then You'll choose to play them both and then back to you for the las The categories for those of you playing at home and I know you a are starts with the letter A mythological archery, Romeo and Juliet and Earth scien Those are the four categories as about which ones you want to pla We'd like our viewers at home to meet all of our students.
We'll begin with you, Brian.
If all of you would just tell us a bit about y and just come right on around.
B You start.
My name is Brian and I like to play Madden.
My name is Maggie.
I'm in seventh grade and I play My name is Taylor.
I'm an eighth grade, and, I do m My name is Sophia.
I'm an eighth grade, and I love Hi.
I'm in a room with homes, and I'm in eighth grade, and I hope to be an author somed My name is Jack and I play socce and I'm an eighth grade.
My name is Bentley.
I'm an eighth grade, and I have produced a song on Sp My name is gave it.
I'm in seventh grade now to play You're on statewide television.
We might as well promote what your song is.
It's called unction function.
Unction function.
And how do I find it on Spotify?
Just that.
Put that in there.
Very good.
You're getting some hits on it.
listening to it.
I hope so now.
Well I'm going to check it out during our next commercial break Thanks very much.
Congratulation And have your team decide which of the four categories you want We'll take Earth science.
Earth You will have 60s to answer these questio The time starts when I start asking the question It's all right to skip and move If you don't know one of the ans Here we go.
Solid outer layer of the Earth.
Molten rock beneath the Earth's Mantle.
Type of.
What's your answer?
What do you think?
Magma.
Magma is correct.
Type of rock formed by cooling l Obsidian.
That's wrong.
Layer of hot semi liquid rock beneath the crust.
Lithosphere.
That's mantle term for the point on the Earth's sur Directly over the focus of an ea Let's get scale.
Used to measure earthquake stren We know a skip process that breaks down rocks into smaller pieces arisin It's called weathering.
Movement of continents over millions of years.
Tectonic drift.
No.
It's continental drift.
Large.
Massive moving ice.
Glaci That's right.
Besides iron, the element is the most abundant in Earth's Nicole.
Nicole is correct.
You skipped term for the point of the Earth's sur directly above the focus of an e Time is up.
That's an epicenter.
And the measure of an earthquake is the Richter Richter scale.
Okay.
Good job.
For the most part, on those that were kind of tough.
Let's come over to Arab and Tayl You guys have three left to choo Which two would you like to do?
We want the letter A and Romeo a Very good.
Can we do them in that order?
Is that all right?
The letter A, all the answers begin with a Here we go.
E-commerce company named after a American river and founded by Je Amazon.
Ancient Greek city.
Home to the philosopher Socrates and where the term democracy ori Athens.
Future first lady who urged her to remember the ladies in the 17 Abigail Adams.
Particles first proposed by Demo that consists of a nucleus surrounded by electrons.
Atoms.
U.S.
Senate that contains US state that contains the Ozark and Chita mountains and is fed from little Rock, Ark Type of painting that is contras with realism and was practiced by Pollock and Kandinsky.
Pass.
Amphibians that maintain their external gills into adulth Unlike most salamanders, axolotl who wounded the Caledonian boar and was beaten by hip bone hip on amies in a foot race.
No Canadian author of The Testam and The Handmaid's Tale.
Atwood.
That's right.
A yellowish fossilized tree resi And the time is up.
The one you skipped, type of pai is called an abstract painting.
And was the other one.
Romeo and Yes, sir.
I know a lot about this when I saw the movie.
All right, you ready?
Ready.
60s answer these question Playwright of Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare.
Type of substance consumed by Ro after thinking Juliet was dead.
Poisoned.
Kinsman of Prince Aeschylus.
Killed by Romeo to whom Juliet is originally wed Who is name for a prince of Troy It's Paris family that Romeo bel Monty Montague.
That's right.
Short tempered cousin of Juliet.
Who Romeo is exiled for killing That's right.
Friend of Romeo who delivers the Mab speech and declares a plague on both your houses.
Upon dying, just pass fair city where Romeo and Juliet are from.
Pass Romeo's first love before meeting Juliet, who chooses to remain chaste.
Rosaline.
That's right.
Character who tells Romeo he saw laid low in her kindred's vault.
Past city into which Romeo flees after being exiled.
Time is up.
Mantua is that one, city where Romeo and Juliet are Is Verona.
All right, so who would trust yo Here's the good and bad news.
We only have one category left, and you get stuck with earth sci All right, so we did our science here.
We d Or said I was.
I said that to see if you were paying attention.
What do we have.
Oh myth.
Mythological archery.
Right.
That's what we have left.
This could be good.
Ready?
60s to answer these quest Country with capital Tehran, whose border was supposedly set by an arrow launched by Aras That's right.
Iran.
Greek goddess of the hunt and ar Artemis, Norse trickster god.
The remains bound under a venomo placed the archer.
Scotty.
Loki.
That's right.
Greek warrior women known for their archery and comb whose members include Hippolyta.
Amazon.
That's right Eric Hindu poem about an archer Ravana during the exile from Ayo Let's get Greek god of love, known for his signa bow and arrows, who fell in love with psyche.
Say it again.
No, it's Eros.
Hunter turned into a constellati being killed by Scorpius, who wa Orion is right.
Diva and son of Assyria, who due Arjuna and is shot after moving to fix his chariot.
Helios Karna archer who shot down nine of ten and was married to Shunzhi.
Skip Archer, who received time i Pretty well done on a pretty tough category.
Good job by both teams on the lightning round.
That leaves us 3.5 minutes to just do speed round questions No bonuses here.
20 point questions though.
You'r Math question to begin, grab you If a rectangle has a perimeter o and one side is 12 units long, what is the length of the other Yes.
Taylor eight units.
That's correct.
A form of this exercise that wor the hamstrings by lowering a bar while hinging about the hips, is named as its, Bentley deadlif Deadlift is right.
A word meaning joy from others.
Suffering comes from this langua to do words like kindergarten an What language?
Sophia.
Say it again.
German.
Maggie.
You're right.
This artist claims you made me hate this city.
In happier Than Ever.
Billie Eilish Billie Eilish is c This world leader tried to liber his country with the programs of and perestroika.
Russia declared independence hou after the resignation of what Soviet Premier Bentley.
Sorry.
Do you guys have an answer?
Mikhail Gorbachev is the answer These structures are acted upon using depth first and bread first searches in their red blac and binary search types.
Name.
These data structures, which con both and Bentley tree trees, is in this country.
People often visit Dunn's Dunn R while their cruise ship is docke Rios.
What Caribbean countries?
Other tourist attractions include a rest of Fari indigenou in Montego Bay and I'm looking Brighton, Jamaic Jamaica is correct.
Another math question.
Oh fun!
What is the hypotenuse of a righ whose legs are ten and 24 units respectively?
Five, four, three, two and Taylor 2626, is right Simon Boulevard.
Buckner surrendered to this man at Fort earning him the nickname Unconditional Surre What Union general later served as president of the Unite Taylor Grant, Ulysses S Grant is A minute and a half left.
This company was profiled in Hen Lloyd's book Wealth Against Comm and a muckraking history founded to violate the Sherman Anti-Trus I did, Tarbell published and it' Standard Oil.
Standard oil is correct in monetary polic These animals are used as a meta for those who prioritize unemplo over inflation, and in foreign p they denote conflict averse peop What bird holds an olive branch in a common peace symbol?
Bentley dove.
Dove is right after spurning thi the Prince of Thieves pantheist was eaten alive by his followers who are called mean ads.
Similarly died after giving birth to white Gree That's correct.
This civilization was ruled by p known as the Hicks.
US during the Second Intermediat which preceded the New Kingdom.
The tomb of Khufu at Giza.
Bentley, Egypt Egypt is right.
We don't have time for another q Gets under 30s.
We don't have time for it.
So lay your buttons down.
That's going to do it.
That was a very good round.
Both teams played well.
Arab, you came out on top in this particular round.
Well done but well done.
Good.
Trussville your team played very well as well so we're glad you're all in the We're always glad that you're wa at home here on Alabama Public T It's the middle school competition of the Alabama Schol and we hope you'll join us again next time.
I'm Mike Royer.
Have a great day

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