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Middle School Tournament

2001

ROUND FOURTEEN

Starred toss-ups require calculation and are allotted 10 seconds.

FIRST PERIOD: Ten Toss-ups worth FIVE POINTS each.

1. What geometric angle measures less than ninety degrees but more than zero degrees?

Acute

2. What name is given to the Earth’s single continent, which existed 250 million years ago?

Pangaea

3. In what country will you find guards known as “Beefeaters”?

England

4. In Greek legend, who turned everything he touched to gold?

Midas

5. If you are attending West Point Academy, what state are you in?

New York

6. We all know Neil Armstrong was the first to walk on the moon. Tell me who was the second.

Edwin Aldrin

7. A flood can be a disastrous event. Spell disastrous.

D-I-S-A-S-T-R-O-U-S

8. Who is Bullwinkle’s squirrelly cartoon friend?

Rocky

9. This natural feature once covered 14% of the Earth’s land area, but over half has been destroyed. Name this area that still harbors 40% of the Earth’s species.

Tropical rainforest

10. He coined his name after Fats Domino and started a dance craze called “The Twist.” Name this musician.

Chubby Checker

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SECOND PERIOD: Ten Toss-ups worth TEN POINTS each and Ten Two-Part Bonuses worth up to TWENTY POINTS each.

*1. Give the coordinates of the Y intercept of the graph of Y equals X squared plus 5 X minus 7.

0 negative 7

Bonus: Find the product of each of the following. Reduce any fractions to lowest terms.

A) Negative 4 times 5 times negative 25

B) Two-thirds times four-fifths times three-fourths

A) 500 B) Two-fifths

2. What is the name given to an astronomical explosive in which a star increases its energy output as much as a billion fold and then fades to less than its original brightness?

Supernova

Bonus: Answer these questions about comets.

A) Haley’s Comet passes through the earth’s atmosphere at regular intervals. How often does it appear?

B) The comets that pass the earth come from a tremendous agglomeration of comets. What is this comet-producing cloud called?

A) Every 76 years B) Oort’s Cloud

3. Meaning literally “Hall of Warriors,” this was the heavenly resting-place for Norse warriors who had died bravely in battle. What was it called?

Valhalla

Bonus: Identify the following mythological beings:

A) Greek goddess of wisdom, arts, and sciences

B) Egyptian sky god

A) Athena (Athene) B) Ra

4. What island country lies in the Atlantic Ocean off the western coast of Great Britain?

Ireland

Bonus: Answer these questions about bodies of water.

A) What is the world’s largest inland sea?

B) What is the world’s highest large lake?

A) Caspian Sea B) Lake Titicaca

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5. Consider the following sentence: After eating lunch, Jock was seen picking up trash on the playground. Identify the gerundive phrase.

Eating lunch

Bonus: Spell the following medical terms:

A) Diaphragm

B) Esophagus

A) D-I-A-P-H-R-A-G-M B) E-S-O-P-H-A-G-U-S

6. This pizza company, in the year 2000, the world’s largest, uses a cloth monkey named Andy in its advertisements and delivers in vehicles topped with a red and white game piece. What is this company?

Domino’s

Bonus: Identify the companies associated with the following advertising slogans.

A) “You’re in good hands”

B) “Where’s the beef?”

A) AllState B) Wendy’s

7. This scientific term refers to the process by which a collection of materials such decaying hay catches fire without the application of an open flame from outside. What is this process called?

Spontaneous combustion

Bonus: This is a real bang-up question. Identify the physicists associated with developing bombs.

A) Known as the “Father of the Atomic Bomb,” he directed the construction of the first atomic bomb as part of the Manhattan Project.

B) Though he worked on the Manhattan Project, he’s best known for developing the hydrogen bomb in 1952.

A) J. Robert Oppenheimer B) Edward Teller

8. If an Air Force Captain is promoted to the next highest rank, what will his new rank be?

Major

Bonus: Four bear are native to Alaska. Two are Grizzly and Black. Name the other two.

A) Kodiac B) Polar

9. This English author, who sometimes wrote under the name of “Boz,” portrayed the social and economic ills of Victorian England. Name this author of Bleak House, Nicholas Nickleby, and Oliver Twist.

Charles Dickens

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Bonus: Identify the novel that contains the following line:

A) “All for one and one for all”

B) “Tomorrow is another day.”

A) The Three Musketeers B) Gone with the Wind

10. What US President signed the Medicare Bill in 1965?

Lyndon B. Johnson

Bonus: Identify these Native American people who lived in Alabama.

A) This culture stretched from what is now Illinois to the Gulf of Mexico and lasted from about AD 800 to 1500. Unlike the Woodland Culture, they are best known for building flat-topped mounds.

B) Andrew Jackson defeated this tribe, the most powerful Native American nation in the Southeast in the late 18th century, in 1814 at Horseshoe Bend.

A) Mississippian B) Creeks

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THIRD PERIOD: One Twenty-Question Worksheet with each correct answer worth FIVE POINTS each.

Hand out two copies of the worksheet to each team. Remind each team that they may turn in only one copy of the worksheet and that each copy should have the school name printed neatly on the back of the sheet. Each team will have TWO MINUTES to complete their worksheet. The timer will warn each team when one minute remains and every fifteen seconds thereafter.

ANSWERS:

1. Kepler

2. Kerovac

3. Kabul

4. Koran

5. Knox

6. Kuwait

7. Kid

8. Knoxville

9. Kyoto

10. Kettledrum

11. Keats

12. Kaiser

13. Key

14. Koala

15. Kneecap

16. Kiev

17. Kidney

18. Kenya

19. Keller

20. KGB

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PERIOD FOUR: Ten Toss-Up Questions worth FIFTEEN POINTS each.

1. What branch of mathematics uses letters as symbols instead of numbers?

Algebra

2. This American artist became famous for placing a figure against a virtually empty and colorless background. His most famous work is Arrangement in Gray and Black. Who is he?

James Abbott McNeil Whistler

3. In which constellation can Betelgeuse be found?

Orion

4. This African-American leader was born a slave but became a leader in the search for civil rights. Name this author of Up from Slavery and founder of Tuskegee University.

Booker T. Washington

5. Consider the following sentence: The body builder ate three desserts before he left the table. Spell desserts.

D-E-S-S-E-R-T-S

6. This gas stops the hemoglobin in blood from working properly. Name this gas released by car exhausts.

Carbon monoxide

7. This Austrian composer wrote 27 piano concertos, 23 string quarts, 35 violin sonatas and more than 50 symphonies. Name this composer of Don Giovanni, The Marriage of Figaro, and The Magic Flute.

Wolfang Amadeus Mozart

8. What kind of grammatical error occurs in the following: Not that I know of.

Sentence fragment

9. The Mediterranean Sea borders Italy on the west. What sea borders Italy on the east?

Adriatic Sea

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10. Some of its provisions were that France received Senegal and Tobago, while Spain regained Florida. Give the name of this document that ended the American Revolution and include the year that it was signed.

Treaty of Paris 1783

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Emergency toss-ups:

1. From 1789 to 1790, this city was the US capital. Name this city, home of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, St. Patrick’s Cathedral, the World Trade Center, and the headquarters of the United Nations.

New York City

2. In the Bible, whose wife was turned to a pillar of salt when leaving her home?

Lot

Emergency bonus:

Answer these questions about the human body.

A) What sack-like structure stores bile?

B) What is the body’s largest organ?

A) Gall bladder B) Skin

ROUND FOURTEEN WORKSHEET K

________________________1. Astronomer who developed laws of planetary motion

________________________2. Leader of beat generation, author of On the Road

________________________3. Capital of Afghanistan

________________________4. Sacred book of Islam

________________________5. Founder of Scottish Presbyterianism

________________________6. Country bordered by Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Persian Gulf

________________________7. Young goat

________________________8. Home city for the main campus of the University of Tennessee

________________________9. Japan’s capital from 794 - 1868

________________________10. Drum consisting of copper bottom and parchment top

________________________11. Poet who wrote “Ode on a Grecian Urn”

________________________12. Title of German rulers before 1918

________________________13. Author of the words to “ The Star Spangled Banner”

________________________14. Gray furry animal of Australia that lives in trees

________________________15. Common name for the patella

________________________16. Capital of Ukraine

________________________17. Bean shaped organs of the urinary system

________________________18. Country whose capital in Nairobi

________________________19. Alabamian who was cared for by Anne Sullivan

________________________20. Abbreviation of the Soviet secret police from 1953 - 1991

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