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Now here's your host, Mike Royer.

Hello, everyone, and welcome to another edition about the Alabama Scholar's Bowl here on Alabama Public Television.

My name is Mike Royer.

It's my privilege to host this program each week, and it's a real joy to have in the studio students from all around the state who are so smart and do such a good job competing, answering some pretty tough questions here.

We'll welcome our students in just a moment.

First, let me tell you that our executive producer for our program is Mike Ousley.

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

We appreciate them and we appreciate the folks here at Alabama Public Television for all the work they do to make our program possible.

And we thank you for joining us.

Every week.

We welcome to the studio students from Advent Episcopal School down in Birmingham, Alabama.

Good to have you all with us this morning.

And then from Columbiana, beautiful, county seat of Shelby County in that right.

We welcome you as well into our studio as well.

And you're already you've got, buttons in hand, ready to answer.

You might want your pencil and paper for our first question.

We'll see.

Here we go.

If Fred reads five pages an hour, if he's feeling productive and one page an hour if he's feeling unproductive, and there is a 50% chance he feels productive and a 50% chance he feels unproductive.

What is the expected number of pages that he would read in six hours?

I want to wait you out on this and we should have an answer.

Anybody?

What do you have running?

No, no, that's not right.

And, Columbia, do you have an answer?

Anyone here?

Liam.

Sorry.

It's 18 pages.

You would be 18 pages.

One of our students said I had that, I had that.

Next question.

This poet described a blue, uncertain, stumbling buzz in one poem and told of a carriage that held but just ourselves and immortality.

And another cold and buzzing in is any.

It's okay.

Do you have an answer?

You've hold up real quick.

I have to go to the other team.

If you don't have it, I'll come over to you, Columbiana, and I'll finish reading it in another poem.

What poet wrote?

I heard a fly buzz when I died.

And because I could not stop for death.

You know who wrote that?

Liam Edgar Allan Poe?

No.

It was Emily Dickinson.

Annie, you knew that.

I know you knew it.

Moving on to the next question, this man stated, let us have faith that right makes might in his Cooper Union speech, and began another speech with fourscore and seven years ago and buzzing in his Ronan Abraham Lincoln.

Abraham Lincoln is correct.

The Gettysburg Address.

Bonus question for you.

Advent, a poem about this place which inspired the title of Lorraine Hansberry play A raisin in the sun, opens with what happens to a dream deferred.

What New York City neighborhood, the home of Langston Hughes, had a 1920s Renaissance.

Harlem.

That's correct.

Good job.

Now question for both teams again.

Empedocles developed a set of four of these things, to which Aristotle added a fifth item called ether.

Josh.

Ether.

Thank you.

Euclid's main work shares its name with what constructs whose classical forms consist of earth, water, air and fire.

What's that called?

Maggie.

Elements is correct.

Good job.

And you get a bonus question now.

Columbiana.

Specific heat is the energy required to change this quantity per unit mass.

What quantity can be measured in kelvins?

Temperatures.

Correct.

Well done on both questions.

Toss up for both teams now.

An empty safe belonging to this man was cut open by Geraldo Rivera.

And this man's only federal criminal conviction was on five counts of tax evasion.

What gangster ordered the Saint Valentine's Day massacre.

But it is Ronin.

Al Capone is right.

Bonus for you, advent.

After the independence of this country, Operation Charlotte Corday was launched as a failed assassination attempt by the OAS on Charles de Gaulle.

Passengers were people who fled what former French colony in North Africa.

Do you have an answer for me?

Tunisia?

Nope.

It's Algeria, but always take a shot.

Always take a guess.

That was.

Good job.

On the main question.

Now toss up for both teams.

Again, people using these objects use the word starboard to refer to the direction right of the bow.

The keel refers to the bottom of what objects directed at the helm.

And it's Liam.

No.

Do you say boat?

That's right.

Boat is the ship or boats?

Is the right answer.

A bonus question for Columbiana.

Three characters.

Notice this symbol in the sky while holding hands on top of a scaffold.

The mother of Pearl wears this symbol because she committed adultery.

Hester Prynne wears what title symbol in an Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

What is it?

A letter from prompt.

Need more?

What's it called?

The letter Ray.

Nope.

That's incorrect.

The Scarlet Letter is what the judges wanted on that one.

Toss up for everybody.

This hymn describes a concept which taught my heart to fear.

What hymn by John Newton describes a concept that saved a wretch like me.

What is that song, Maya?

Amazing grace.

Amazing grace.

How sweet the sound.

Bonus question for you advent.

Large scale outdoor sculptures using this material were created by Dale Kahului.

While molten, this material is shaped by blowing into a hollow rod.

Colorful stained types of what material are used in cathedral windows?

What is it?

Glass.

Glass is correct.

Well done.

Toss up everybody.

Assume that prices increase uniformly by 10% every ten years.

How many dollars would it take in 2024 to buy a sweater that cost $30 in 2004?

Yes, Ronan 600.

Oh, no.

Nope.

That's incorrect.

We'll give you a second.

Columbiana.

Anybody got an answer?

Maggie, 30 for 30.

What?

No, it's 36.

30 is the exact answer, but well done.

Nice try.

Next question for everybody.

This country's first colonial settlement, Fort Christina, was named after the queen of this nation.

What Scandinavian country and buzzing is Maggie?

Sweden is correct.

Good job.

Bonus for your team.

These structures slits are covered by the au pair.

Kill them in some animals while sharks swim with open mouths to force water into them in ram ventilation.

This is a bonus question here.

You want to finish reading it or you want to answer?

Go ahead.

Ulises, right.

You didn't need me to finish.

Well done.

Liam.

Tossup both teams.

This composer made fun of his own dependance on the title.

Drinking his coffee.

Cantata.

Name this German composer of the Goldberg and Maggie.

It's okay.

Do you have an answer, Beethoven?

No, that's not correct.

I'll finish it for you guys.

For your team.

This German composer of the Goldberg Variations and Brandenburg Concertos.

Who was that?

You guys have?

What do you got, Ronin?

Johann Sebastian Bach is right.

Bonus for advent, the beast is represented by the head of one of these animals on a stick in the Lord of the flies, which features a character nickname for them who is made fun of for having asthma.

What animal is Napoleon in animal Farm?

Yes, a pig.

A pig is right.

Good job.

Toss up for everybody.

These people sacked the Lindisfarne monastery and were led by legendary figures like Ragnar Lothbrok.

What seafaring warriors did not wear horned ronin.

Vikings.

Vikings is right.

Here's a bonus for you.

The goddess was known as Cora in the Lucina and Mysteries, where she was worshiped alongside her mother, Demeter.

This goddess spins half of the year in another realm because she's consumed it's pomegranate seeds.

What Greek goddess was abducted by Hades?

Persephone is correct.

Good job.

Question number 12 on the way to 20.

In this first part of the competition, a math question for you.

Grab your pencil and determine the size of an interior angle in a regular 30 gon three zero gon.

Yes, Maggie.

Well, no.

That's incorrect.

Edmund, do you have an answer?

If anything.

Yeah.

All right, let's give you the answer then.

168 is the correct answer.

168 degrees is the proper answer.

Next question.

This years before and after this year, title two Charles Seaman books and Alfred Crosby coined the name of an exchange that happened because of an event in this year.

In what year did Christopher Columbus sail the ocean blue running 1492 is right.

Your bonus.

A resident of this city hung a red cord outside her window, saving her life.

Rahab and her family survived after this city was circumnavigated seven times.

What city fell when Joshua ordered the Israelites to blow trumpets?

And this is their bonus question.

Over here I nominate Mark.

Jericho.

You said Jericho.

That's correct, that's right.

Jericho is right.

Next question.

This kind of reaction occurs at the anode in a galvanic cell, combined with reduction in a redox reaction.

Name that this kind of reaction in which electrons are lost, which can cause iron to rust.

What's that called?

Running chemical?

No, that's incorrect on the end.

Do you have an answer, Liam?

Oxidation is the right answer.

Good job.

Bonus for your team only this figure killed the Cintas, Helios and Reika after they attacked her.

Three golden apples distracted this woman, causing her to lose a race against hip Harmony's me.

Mila, our juror gave the Caledonian Boars hide to what Huntress, who first drew the board's blood.

Bail me out, team, you got to answer.

What?

You got anything?

Apollo.

It's, Atalanta.

Atalanta is the answer.

Next, everybody.

Frank Noonan starting over.

Fred Noonan, who had his profession, accompanied a woman with this profession who disappeared in 1937.

It's Ronan.

So again, a pilot.

That's right.

It was, Amelia Earhart we were referring to.

Bonus for you.

This God was the eldest son of Gab and Nut, and was commonly depicted holding a crook and flail after he was dismembered by his brother.

Said this God's wife, ISIS, gathered his body parts that were scattered by the Nile.

Name the Egyptian ruler of this of the underworld.

Oh wait wait wait wait, you have an answer.

Oh my RA.

Nope.

It's us, us us services.

The answer we wanted.

Moving on.

The Egyptian type of this mathematical object can be written as a finite sum of their unit types, their continued type.

It iterates them through additions and residues.

Maggie.

Fibonacci sequence.

No.

I'll finish it for you.

Advent.

Their continued type iterates them through additions and division.

What mathematical objects have a numerator and denominator?

What's it called?

A fraction?

Fractions is correct.

Now your bonus and it's a math question.

For a bonus, Ellis has a 30% chance of making a three point shot and a 60% chance of making a free throw as a percentage if they attempt both in a row.

What is the chance that they will make both shots in a percentage?

If I get an answer, need one pretty soon.

Take a shot at it.

The answer?

Any you got anything?

Anybody?

The answer is 18%.

We move on.

In one work, this man depicted politicians in a circle who are being asked who stole the people's money, the corruption of Tammany Hall, and caricatures of boss Tweed were illustrations by what?

Father of the American cartoon.

Maggie.

No.

Do you guys have, Do you all have an answer from advent?

Anything?

The answer is Thomas Nast, Thomas nest.

Three more questions.

This man led the victorious forces at the Battle of Carib Bobo, which led to the creation of Grand Columbia.

What man knows, known as the Liberator, led South American independence efforts and is the namesake of the count Rome, Bolivia.

That's correct.

Well done.

Bonus question for you.

The independence of this country was proclaimed in the Declaration of Arbroath by a leader who won the Battle of Bannockburn.

Robert the Bruce was the leader of what country which fought for its independence from England.

Take a shot at it before I move on the Falklands.

A Scotland is the answer we needed.

Question 19 two more.

What first name is shared by the native of Patmos who wrote the book of Revelation, the namesake of the fourth gospel, and Maggie James?

Nope.

That's incorrect.

The fourth gospel in the New Testament and decapitated Baptist.

John.

John is right.

Maya.

Your bonus.

John Oliver rhymed this man's name with the line, I do not like his far right views.

Which politician defeated colon?

I'll read to win his third term as a senator from Texas.

John.

Anything running?

You know.

That's right.

The buddy Ted Cruz is the senator we're looking for.

Last question before we take a little break.

This city to the northwest of the Betsy Ross Bridge is bordered to the east by Camden.

What most populous city in Pennsylvania is home running Philadelphia?

Philadelphia is the home of the Liberty Bell.

You get the last bonus.

One of these things doesn't fall far from a tree and is saying that.

Okay.

And that is the bonus.

One of these things, Apple Annie, we owe you lunch.

You just bailed us out of total confusion, and that's the right answer.

We're now to the lightning round.

We have the lightning round.

Makes up is made up of four categories that the students will choose, and they'll have one minute to answer ten questions.

And trailing here at the midpoint of our program is Columbiana.

You're trailing slightly here.

So you'll choose first advent.

You'll choose two categories.

And what's left.

We'll come back over here.

The categories for you at home and for our students.

Famous dresses.

Science fiction starts with the letter D, an eastern front of World War Two.

Think about that.

Decide which one you want to do.

And as you think about that, let's meet our students today in the studio from Advent Episcopal.

And would you begin, please?

Okay.

My name is Annie.

I'm from I've been in this school.

I'm in eighth grade, and I do theater.

Very good.

My name is Maya.

I'm in seventh grade, and I play basketball.

My name is R of.

I'm in eighth grade and I do fencing.

My name is Ronan.

I'm in the seventh grade at advent, and I play soccer and basketball.

My name is Maggie.

I'm in the seventh grade at Columbiana middle school and I play saxophone.

My name is Emily and I play soccer and March a clarinet.

And I'm Liam.

I am an eighth grader at Columbiana middle school, and I marched trombone and Columbiana middle school, and I play baseball.

Very good.

Good to have you all in the studio today.

I hope you're enjoying being here as much as we enjoy having you here.

You're doing a very good job.

So let's begin with our lightning round.

We'll come over to Columbiana.

Of the four categories I mentioned.

Liam, which one would you like to try?

Eastern front, World War two, eastern front, World War two.

When I start asking the questions, you'll have 60s to answer them all.

Feel free to skip one if you don't know the answer and move on.

Let's see how we do.

Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, when it was led by this man who succeeded Vladimir Lenin.

Stalin.

That's right.

Capital of the Soviet Union that came close to Nazi occupation.

Moscow.

That's right.

Nazi forces invaded this country on September 1st, 1939.

Poland?

That's right.

Modern day country.

Whose cities of Kiev and Odessa fell to the Nazis.

Ukraine?

That's right.

Major 1942 battle in southern Russia that changed the war's outcome.

Stalingrad city on a Baltic Sea that was under a Nazi siege for 900 days and is now called Saint Petersburg.

Leningrad, a Nazi allied country that fought the USSR in the Winter War.

Finland.

That's right.

German concept of territorial expansion, whose name means living space.

Blitzkrieg.

Nope.

I'll we'll skip that one and move on.

Largest tank battle in 1943.

Was that.

Time is up.

The answer to that one is Kursk and the other one, the German concept of territorial expansion was Lebensraum.

Lebensraum?

Have you heard of that before?

All right.

Good job on those ten questions.

Now we come over to you, Advent Episcopal.

You're going to choose two categories.

Ronan, are you the spokesperson and which two do you guys want?

Can you remind us the remaining category?

I can remind you of the remaining categories famous dresses, science fiction, and the letter D for science fiction and the letter D science fiction.

In the letter D, we'll do them in that order.

Is that okay?

Yeah.

60s to answer these questions and remember, you can skip if you don't know the answer.

Blue and white Astromech robot in Star Wars partnered with C-3po, R2-d2, I computer that says I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.

Say it if you know it.

Skip.

Skip.

No.

Author of The War of the Worlds and The Time Machine.

Skip, author of I, robot and the Foundation series.

Skip film in which Matt Damon attempts to survive on the Red planet after a freak accident on his mission.

The Martian that's right, film series about the starship Enterprise in Captain Kirk.

Star Trek film based on Michael Crichton novel about an amusement park full of dinosaurs.

Jurassic Park alien who needs to phone home, and a Steven Spielberg Orson Scott Card novel about a boy who is trained in battle school to fight the buggers.

Let's get some spin off of Star Wars series about a namesake bounty hunter and a child named Mandalorian.

That's correct.

Very good.

A few of them.

You need to see The Martian.

That's the movie where he's trapped on Mars.

He got left behind.

That's a really good movie.

All right, we move from that.

Letter D is the other one you chose, right, Ronin?

Yeah, the letter D, the letter D 60s to answer these questions, all of the answers start with the letter D. There we go.

Key on a keyboard that removes a character.

Delete allotropes of carbon that defines a ten on the hardness scale and often placed in big rings.

Son of Jesse, who becomes King of Israel after slaying Goliath with his slain Greek goddess of agriculture.

Who's grief?

That's right.

American singer songwriter of blowin in the wind and author of Do Not Go Gentle into the Good Night School computer program used to store information for easy retrieval and organization data.

Judges no.

Surname shared by James the Pineapple King and Bob, who ran for president against Bill Clinton in 1986.

Nancy in 1996, Dylan.

No dog like animals native to Australia, one of which caused.

That's right.

French painter who depicts the boy wielding two pelt pistols in Liberty, leads the people leading the people and the time is up.

Dylan road blowin in the wind.

The other one was Dole, Bob Dole and, Pineapple King.

Was Dole.

All right.

You guys did a good job with that.

We have one left over, which means you guys tend to get stuck with what's left over.

But you'll do well, I know, and we're going to do famous dresses.

Ready?

60s color of Marilyn Monroe's dress in Gentlemen Prefer Blonds, a mix of white and red.

Pink said out loud yes!

Movie where Judy Garland wore a gingham dress as Dorothy.

Yes.

Good woman who wore a revenge dress after her husband Charles admitted to cheating.

Smack.

Yep.

Oh!

TV reality show on TLC that features Kleinfeld Bridal in Manhattan.

No.

A woman who who damaged the dress worn by Marilyn Monroe when she used it for the 2022 Met Gala Gala.

Beyonce.

No, that's Kardashian.

Two colors of a dress many individuals argue were actually gold and white.

A black and blue.

That's right.

Substance that made up a dress worn by Lady Gaga to the 2010 NBA's meet is right woman who wore a kind of pink Chanel suit while her husband was assassinated.

No answer.

Okay.

Group, whose member, Geri Halliwell.

Time is up.

Jackie Kennedy wore a pink dress in Dallas that day.

And the other one, I want you to know, Judy Garland wore a gingham dress in.

What was it?

Wizard of Oz.

Wizard of Oz.

You knew that on TV.

And under pressure of time, these things, you know, sometimes escape us for a little while.

You're all doing a great job in this first round of our middle school competition.

Now in, we don't have much time left.

We're going to ask or ask a few, speedrun questions.

We only have a minute and a half.

Jerry West played in many finals games with Queens.

That's right.

Horses under this monarch gunned down protesters led by Father Japan on Bloody Sunday, the Treaty of Portsmouth.

And it's Maggie, the Queen Elizabeth.

No, I'll finish it for you.

What final Romanoff, czar of Russia, who the Bolsheviks executed in 2018.

Got an answer?

The answer is Nicholas.

The second Confederate soldiers failed to occupy Little Round Top at this battle, leading ronin.

Gettysburg.

That's right.

The the Alhambra Decree expelled the Sephardic community.

Of what?

Religion in Iberia, whose synagogues had been destroyed.

Jewish Judaism Judaism is right.

This is the most famous action performed by a group led by John Dillinger.

While a group of local townsmen killed most of James younger gang when they performed this action.

What type of activity at a financial institution do getaway cars?

Maggie?

Do getaway cars provide an escape?

Ronin.

Bank robbery.

Bank robbery is correct.

We're out of time.

We usually have more time for questions.

Maybe I took up too much time on the lightning round.

But anyway, that was a good round of competition.

Coming out on top today are the folks from Advent Episcopal.

Good job today in Columbia.

And you did well as well.

All of you did.

We're proud of you.

And I know your parents and teachers are as well.

That's going to do it for this edition of our middle school competition on the Alabama Scholars believe.

Mike Royer, thanks very much for watching.

We'll see you next time.