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Now here's your host, Mike Royer.

Hello, everyone, and welcome once again to the Alabama Scholar's Bowl here on Alabama Public Television.

I'm Mike Royer.

We are in our eighth season now of this program on aptX.

And we enjoy bringing it to you every week.

We appreciate you watching and appreciate everyone who makes the show possible.

Mike, he's our executive producer.

The judges for the program today Sharon Daly, Josh Ruski, Cade Wilson and Harris.

And the folks here at APT.

Make us feel welcome to do a great job when we come into their studios.

We appreciate everyone here.

We have in the studio today the students from Houston Academy.

We welcome you there from down around the Dothan area and from Tuscaloosa County.

Brookwood Middle School.

Good to have you with us as well.

You know how this goes.

Everyone does.

I've got 20 questions for you.

Answer a question correctly and your team gets a bonus question for your team and your team only.

Let's get started.

In 2017, this company has shifted its headquarters from one infinite loop to a perfectly circular building designed by Norman Foster, the CEO of what corporate 13 oh based company Tim Cook replaced Steve Jobs and its Jackson Apple.

Apple is the company.

You're right.

Bonus question for you.

And we're going to start off with a math question.

Grab your pencil.

If Chuck wants to tip 15% on a restaurant bill that cost $18.20.

How much should he add?

As a tip?

Give you a little more time on math, but we'll need an answer as soon as you can.

Two more seconds, folks.

Give me something.

And we got to move on.

$2.73 would be the tip.

Moving on.

Toss-Up question for everybody.

In the Gospel of John, Jesus commands the destruction of one of these locations and states that he will raise it in three days after he makes a whip to cleanse it of merchants.

The Wailing Wall is the last remnant of one of these locations in Jerusalem.

What is it?

Anybody?

Yes.

Mallory temple.

Temple is the right answer.

Good job.

Bonus question for you, Brookwood.

This painting is currently held in the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

In the Post-Impressionist section, what is this famous painting by Vincent van Gogh that depicts the night sky?

What's it called?

Starry night is correct.

Good job everybody.

Both teams.

What word can be used to mean part of a game of bowling?

The outer narrative of a story or an object in which you might display a picture.

And what is that joke?

Joey Frame is right.

Bonus question for your team.

This man kills 30 Philistines and takes their clothes after his riddle about honey in a lion is answered.

The temple of Dragon is destroyed by this man named this lover of Delilah, who loses his strength when his hair is cut.

So you have an answer?

No answer.

Samson, Samson and Delilah.

Next question for everybody.

These sham shear is a type of these weapons with a curve belonging to the class of scimitars.

A cutlass is what kind of weapon?

With a blade used in its Samantha sword.

It is a sword.

Good job.

Bonus for you and your team.

Research subjects failed to notice a basketball player dressed like this animal in a pioneering study of attention.

One of these animals was shot dead at the Cincinnati Zoo after grabbing a boy.

Harami was.

What kind of an animal?

Gorilla.

Gorilla is correct.

Well done.

Jackson.

Both teams again.

The Bay of Pigs invasion targeted this country.

Where weapons.

And it's Jackson.

Cuba.

Cuba.

Right.

Your bonus.

It's a math question again.

You get all the good ones.

What is the determinant of a matrix whose rows both contain the numbers from left to right, two and three.

Give me an answer, please.

Anything for zero is the answer we needed.

But always give an answer.

You never, never know.

Arianism rejected this doctrine because it considered Jesus to be a creation of God, and therefore distinct monarchists reject what doctrine that states God is composed of the father, son, and Holy Ghost.

Anybody?

They reject the Holy Trinity.

The Holy Trinity.

Next question.

Solids are prevented from entering this organ system when the epiglottis is shut.

The bronchi and trachea are part of what system in which Samantha.

Lungs.

Nope.

I'll finish it for you.

Brookwood.

In which gas exchange with the cardiovascular system.

Mallory respiratory system was the right answer.

Here's your bonus.

The Dutch bats failed to prevent the secret Bentiu massacre in this country.

The Dayton Peace Accords ended a war in what country?

Home to the Republika Srpska, that is governed from Sarajevo.

You know the country.

This is a bonus here.

Do you have an answer?

It's.

Whose bonus is it?

It's yours.

And do you have an answer for us?

No.

It's Bosnia.

Bosnia was so focused on the question, I forgot who I was reading it to.

Now I'm reading to everybody.

Toss up for everyone.

Slide rules rely on properties of this function.

Like the fact that this function of the quantity a, b is equal to this function of A times this function of b. What function is the inverse of exponent tation?

Anybody?

It is a log or logarithm.

Moving on, this object would split into the god Gondwana and Laurentia was hypotheses prophesized by Alfred Wegener as part of his theory of continental drift in the Triassic, a vast majority of Earth's land was part of what supercontinent?

And looking at Mallory, Pangea.

Pangea is correct.

Bonus for you.

This Roman citizen converted to Christianity after hearing the cry, why do you persecute me?

Blinded on the road to Damascus.

What apostle wrote epistles to the Romans and the Corinthians.

Who was that?

You didn't answer.

Peter.

No.

It's Paul.

Anytime someone asked you what?

Who wrote this book in the Bible, go with Paul.

If you don't know, he wrote a lot of them.

Next in this state, Dawes Rebellion resulted in expanded suffrage, but still permitted members of this Narragansett tribe from voting.

What state witnessed heavy fighting in the city of Woonsocket and its capital city of Providence?

And it is Jackson, Rhode Island.

Rhode Island is right.

Math question again, I'm telling you, if Lance is saving up to buy a new bike that cost $120 and he makes $10 a week, but he spends $4 a week on bus tickets.

How many weeks will it take Lance to save up to buy a new bike?

2020 is the right answer.

He may need a second job as well.

Next question.

Books about chivalry owned by this character are set on fire by a priest and a barber.

Sancho Panza accompanies this character, who tilts at windmills.

Jolie Don Quixote is right.

Your bonus.

The events concluding this conflict are described in Quintus of Smyrna as post home America.

This conflict begins after Paris chooses Aphrodite as the fairest goddess, and it is.

I'm looking.

It's a bonus here.

There is a bonus here.

I'm going to finish reading.

It chooses Aphrodite as the fairest goddess, leading to the kidnaping of Helen.

Achilles dies during what conflict described in the Iliad.

What is the Jolie Trojan War?

It is the Trojan War.

Well done.

Moving on.

This city is located west of Chugach State Park and makes up a statistical area with a man to Sukha sistina burro.

Name this city on the terminus of the Cook Inlet, the most populous in Alaska.

What is the city?

Mallory.

Juneau?

Nope.

It is.

Do you guys have an answer?

Yes.

Jackson.

Anchorage Anchorage is right.

Bonus for you.

Robert P McCulloch had one of these structures moved from London to Arizona.

One of these structures in Brooklyn was designed by John Roebling.

The city of Venice contains more than 400 of what structures used to cross a body of water.

Bridge A bridge is right.

Moving on.

This character Caesar Grave with his name on the headstone after being introduced to Jackson Ebenezer Scrooge that's right.

Bonus for you.

This composer made use of C minus and F-sharp major triads in his Petrushka chord.

What Russian composed The Rite of Spring.

Tchaikovsky.

It's Stravinsky is the answer.

We need it for that one.

Moving on.

The figure.

This figure correctly responded with man to answer.

The Sphinx is riddle.

What character becomes king of Thebes after killing his father Laius and marrying his mother, Jocasta?

Anyone?

The answer is Oedipus.

Oedipus is the answer.

During this decade, the Battle of Columbus included a raid on Pancho Villa, who fought with Emiliano Zapata.

What decade was the Mexican Revolution?

Fought around the same time as World War One?

What decade was that?

19 1019 tens is right.

Well done, Bren.

Buzz right in.

When you know one.

You got a bonus question for your team though.

This religion is named for the pre coronation name of Holly Selassie the first.

What religion whose adherents often wear dreadlocks was founded in Jamaica.

Have an answer.

It's okay.

Rastafari ism.

Rasta.

All right, moving on.

One of these creatures who lives in Mount Pelion gave Peleus a spear during his wedding to Thetis, which was later used by Achilles during the Trojan War.

Shireen was a wise member of what mythical race of half human, half horses.

And what were they called?

Yoli?

That's right.

Here's a bonus for you.

This country's den gamble by is an open air museum in its city of Arras, located on the Jutland peninsula, what is home to Tivoli Gardens and Mali and Borg Palace in Copenhagen.

What country is that in?

Need a country?

Denmark.

It is Denmark.

Good job.

Next, everybody.

A girl in this fantasy novel travels through the cosmos to save her father from it.

It?

Meg Murry is the main protagonist.

And it is web.

A Wrinkle in Time A Wrinkle in Time is right.

Good job.

Math questions.

Can you believe this?

We're not doing this on purpose.

Another math question for bonus.

How many real solutions are there to the quadratic equation?

X squared plus four x plus seven?

Given that its discriminant is -12.

What do you have?

Anything 20 zero is the number.

There are zero real solutions.

Three more questions.

The language names a coast whose cities include Sofala, Kila, and Mombasa.

Name the Ben two language that is primarily spoken in Zanzibar and much of Tanzania.

What is the language there?

Yes.

Jackson.

Afrikaans.

That's incorrect.

You guys have an answer?

The answer is Swahili.

Swahili is what we were looking for.

Sorry.

Next question.

To oppose this organization, Eastern Bloc nations formed the Warsaw Pact name.

This organization formed a between the United States and Western Europe to oppose the Soviet Union.

What's it called?

What is it?

Web?

NATO?

NATO is right.

Good job.

Bonus for you.

An artist with this first name depicted her chanty on Lake George, as well as an abstract painting series simply titled blue.

Tbilisi is the capital of a country in the Caucasus, with what name shared by a U.S.

state which contains Atlanta, Georgia.

It took a while for me to get there, but you got the answer right.

Last question.

This explorer's command was taken up by one Sebastian Elcano after he was killed in a battle by troops led by Lapu-Lapu.

What explorer led the first expedition to circumnavigate the globe?

Who was it?

Mallory.

Christopher Columbus?

Nope.

That's incorrect.

Webb.

Magellan.

Ferdinand.

Magellan is right.

Your bonus again, the most famous story by this author depicts Greta feeding her brother after he transforms into vermin.

What author of the trial wrote about Gregor Samsa turning into a giant insect in The Metamorphosis?

Who was that author?

Got anything?

Kafka.

Franz Kafka is the answer.

Lay your buttons down.

We'll take a slight break here.

We're going to tell our folks about our lightning round, which is brought to you by the Alabama Community College System.

We have four categories to tell our students and the viewers at home about.

And I'll also point out that, Brookwood Middle, you're trailing slightly here at the midpoint.

So you'll choose first from our four categories.

Houston, you'll do two categories, then back for the last one to you on this team, the categories are the human digestive system, dinosaurs, mythological mothers, and dragons.

In literature, those are our categories for today's lightning round.

And before we play it, I'd like our folks at home to meet you all.

So we'll start with you, Webb.

And if all of you would just tell us your name, your main interest, a little bit about yourself, go ahead.

I'm loving, I do band good.

What instrument?

Webb.

Saxophone.

Good for you.

I'm Jackson, I'm in eighth grade, and I play football and soccer.

And I'm in the band at eight year.

My name is Samantha Pawlowski.

I play the piano and I'm on my school's robotics team.

I'm Elaine.

Okay?

I'm in eighth grade, and I'm a competitive gymnast.

I'm in eighth grade and I'm a wrestler.

My name is Joey and I am in eighth grade, and I like to read.

My name is Mallory.

I'm an eight credit Brookwood Middle School, and I play the flute.

My name is Ben.

I'm an eighth grade, and my favorite subject is math.

Very good, very good.

We we think you all are playing well.

We're glad to have you in our studio participating today.

So over here to Brookwood, have you all decided of the four categories I outlined for you, which one would you like to try?

Let's go ahead and choose one.

Mythological mothers.

Mythological mothers.

All right.

You'll have 60s.

When I begin asking the question, answer the following about mythological mothers.

Wife of Zeus and mother of Aries.

Animals.

Callisto.

Mothers orcas that became the constellation Ursa major.

Stars.

Son of Rhea Sylvia, who founded Rome after slaying his brother Remus.

Past hero whose mother Donnie DNA was impregnated by a golden shower.

This hero slayed Medusa.

Hercules.

It's Perseus, mother of for Stephanie.

Past.

All right.

Mother of.

To Marcus.

Wife of Odysseus.

Pass.

Okay.

Twin children of Leto who were attacked by Python before birth.

Path and form taken by Horus when he was speared by mother.

Ice.

We're out of time.

That was a hard category.

I say we, edit that out and choose a different.

What do you think?

We want to just trash that one.

I wish we could.

Let's come back over to you, Houston.

You have three to choose from now, and you're going to do two of them.

Samantha Jackson and anybody.

Which two would you like to do?

Dinosaurs.

Dinosaurs.

And which another one?

Twins and dragons.

Dinosaurs and dragons.

Back to back.

This could be good.

60s.

Answer these questions.

Name given to the preserve.

Bones and other remains of dinosaurs.

Fossils.

Stubby arm.

Two legged carnivore whose name includes the Latin for king.

That's right.

Purple dinosaur whose friend is Baby Bop and BGA on a kid's show.

Barney.

That's right.

Type of armored dinosaur with a large club on the end of its tail.

And click.

That's right.

Name of the subfield of biology that focuses on ancient life, including dinosaurs.

What's that study called?

Paleontology.

Period before the Jurassic, in which dinosaurs emerged.

The earliest of the Mesozoic era.

Triassic.

That's right.

Dinosaur whose name means ancient wing.

Long thought to be the earliest bird pterodactyl.

Nope, that's not correct.

Asian desert, where the first dinosaur egg were discovered home to an alleged death worm.

Gobi Gobi is right.

Did you pass on any you passed on?

Type of armored.

Oh, there's two more.

I'm sorry.

Give them the time back.

Because I messed up.

Author who wrote about the dinosaurs gaping in Jurassic Park.

That's right.

And largest land carnivore ever discovered, which has a distinctive sail.

Give you time to answer it.

Spinosaurus?

That's correct.

That's correct.

That was my bad for having to go back to that.

But you did well with that.

We'll move on to Dragons.

Dragons in literature.

Going to answer the following about dragons in literature in 60s you ready?

People in shining armor that often slay dragons.

Knights, literary genre that often includes dragons and other supernatural elements that has high and low subjects.

Generous fantasy fantasy series where a dragon that guards Gringotts escapes with the help of Harmony Granger.

Harry Potter Rick Reardon series, where Peleus guards with the Golden Fleece at Camp Half-Blood.

Percy Jackson That's right, book that was adapted into a movie that follows Hiccup and Toothless Train.

That's right, author of The Hobbit, which features the dragon Smaug.

J.R.R.

Tolkien that's right.

Old English epic in which the title hero slays Grendel and a dragon.

Beowulf, first book in the Inheritance Cycle that follows the title boy and his dragon Saphira.

Fast Mud Wing the protagonist of the first book in the Wings of Fire series, who learns he was able to touch peril Pass and author of Dragon Writer and the Ink Card series.

Time is up.

I won't go back and answer all those now.

We can go over them later in our review session right after the program today.

What do we have left here?

Somebody we saved the human digestive system for you.

How exciting is this?

You're going to identify the parts of the human digestive system.

Here we go.

Location where food is broken up by teeth, mouth fluid secreted orally and containing enzymes like amylase, saliva tube which connects the throat to the stomach.

Esophagus.

That's right.

Organ that produces bile.

Oh, stomach.

But your final answer liver is right.

Mastication is a more formal word for this process, often involving gum chewing.

That's right.

Organ that stores bile a stomach.

No, that's gallbladder type of protein found in many breads that triggers a response in celiac disease.

Makes gluten part of the digestive system that would extend to roughly 30ft of completely stretched out, small intestine.

Judges.

Yes.

Portion of the digestive system that shares its name with the punctuation mark made up of two dots on colon.

That's right.

And accessory organ, where enzymes like insulin are produced.

Pancreas.

That's right.

Well done.

Nobody wanted that category.

And you guys nailed it.

You got nine out of ten there.

Well done.

Good job.

We will move on now with about four minutes left.

A little less than that.

If you're a little behind this is a good place to catch up.

Let's go.

20 points a question.

The Pascal one of these objects is inscribed with an alpha and an omega and used during Easter.

The shamash is one of these objects used during Hanukkah.

A menorah holds.

What objects?

Mallory candle.

That's right.

This element and phosphorus can cause you trope the vacation.

What element?

Which is bonded to three hydrogen atoms.

Atoms in ammonia is replenished in an ecological cycle that includes its namesake process of fixation.

Nitrogen is the answer.

What religion?

Whose members may carry the five K's and operate communal kitchens called Langer's, originates from Punjab and was founded by Guru Nanak.

What?

What religion?

Your body?

Yes.

Web.

Hinduism?

No.

It's close.

I shouldn't say close to Sikhism is the right answer.

According to a fictional biography, this man spilled some acid and exclaim, Mr.

Watson, come here, I want you name the Scottish born inventor who beat his rival Elisha Gray, and becoming the first to be awarded a patent for the telephone.

Yes.

Mallory.

That's right.

Alexander Graham Bell Gallery galleries called for this group's great persecution.

There was an instituted by the Diocletian toleration and web Christians.

Christians is the right answer.

The Grand Renaissance Dam was planned by this country's president, Abiy Ahmed, who won the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize and fought unrest in Tigray.

What African country governed from Addis Ababa?

And it is Ethiopia.

Jackson Ethiopia is right.

The state's third most populous city is named for its location at the junction of the Red Lake River and the Red River of the North.

What state, whose capital is named for a German chancellor, contains the cities of Grand Forks, Fargo and Bismarck and its north Dakota.

North Dakota is right.

Jackson in and a pop in an apocryphal act, this apostle strikes down a flying Simon Magus.

In the Gospels, this apostle is given the keys of heaven, which Christian apostle cut off the ear of Malchus and is known as the first Bishop of Rome.

Yes.

Amelia, you know.

Do you guys have an answer?

James?

It is Peter.

Peter is what we wanted.

William Bradford's writings documented life aboard this vessel, which named a compact signed by Miles Standish, named this ship that failed to land in Virginia, instead arriving at Plymouth carrying the pilgrims and its Mallory.

The Mayflower is right.

Saint Thomas refused to believe that this event had occurred until he touched the wounds of the central figure.

What event occurred three days after the crucifixion and is celebrate Julie.

The resurrection is correct.

Wheeler Peak is the highest point of this state and is located near its town of Taos.

What state contains Carlsbad Caverns?

Amelia, New Mexico is correct.

One more question.

The Bragg and Brignac Bridge are sources of this river which flows through Linz and Bratislava.

Brest Slava named the second longest river in Europe, which traverses Budapest and Vienna.

Webb.

The Danube is right.

Well done.

Nice finish there and that'll do it.

Lay your buttons down.

That was a well played round and I think a pretty close round as well.

Houston Academy you came out on top this time.

But Brookwood you came back a good bit in that last part there.

Well done.

You played very well.

We're proud of all of you.

As I know, your teachers, parents and sponsors are as well.

And so congratulations will continue on.

It's the middle school portion of the Alabama Scholar's Bowl.

We hope you'll continue to watch our program and support these students back in their hometowns.

I'm Mike Royer.

Thanks again for watching today.

We'll see you next time.