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Middle School Tournament

2000

ROUND FIVE

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

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

*1. In terms of pi, what is the area of a circle with a diameter of 30?

225 pi

2. What branch of biology is the study of animals?

Zoology

3. What is the sequel to Alice in Wonderland?

Through the Looking Glass

4. In what US state was gold first discovered in 1848?

California

5. What 1960’s musical group was known as the “Fab Four”?

The Beatles

6. What are the minor divisions within the act of a play called?

Scenes

7. In computer land, what does WWW stand for?

World Wide Web

8. This German is generally regarded in the West as inventor of the method of printing with movable type. Who was he?

Johann Gutenberg

9. What organism lives off another or in another organism, obtaining nourishment and protection while offering no benefit in return?

Parasite

10. What automobile company manufactures the Avalon?

Toyota

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ROUND FIVE

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

*1. What is one-half of one-fourth of forty-eight?

Six

Bonus: Given Point A with coordinates 1 comma 4 and Point B with coordinates negative 1 comma negative two

A) What is the slope of the line passing through both points?

B) What are the coordinates of the Y intercept of this line?

A) 3 B) 0 comma 1

2. Who wrote such modern American classics as Our Town and Bridge over San Luis Rey?

Thornton Wilder

Bonus: Identify these imaginary places.

A) The utopian city supposedly located in Tibet in the novel Lost Horizon

B) The legendary city which was known as the “City of Gold,” a title which is also the name of a John Wayne movie

A) Shangri-La B) El Dorado

3. It disrupts the usual flow of the Humboldt Current and causes major climatic changes in many parts of the world. What is this warm ocean current which occurs every few years called?

El nino

Bonus: Answer these questions about space flights.

A) What was the name for America’s first earth orbiting space station?

B) What was the name of John Glenn’s spaceship in which he first encircled the earth?

A) Skylab B) Friendship 7

4. Who was the greatest of the Roman poets who wrote Aeneid?

Vergil

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Bonus: Answer these questions about ownership.

A) What was the name of King Arthur’s sword?

B) What was the name of Paul Bunyan’s ox?

A) Excalibur B) Babe

5. Which Norse explorer who, after being exiled from Iceland, explored Greenland and founded the first colony there in 986?

Eric the Red

Bonus: What would you be if

A) You were a peasant laborer bound to the land owned by a feudal lord?

B) You were under contract to another person without pay but in exchange for free passage to a new country?

A) Serf B) Indentured servant

6. Seldom raised to the level of art, this drawing is found on trains, cars, school desks, and bathroom walls. What is this sketching called?

Graffiti

Bonus: Identify the Greek prefix that is used for the given translation. Example: If I say one, you would say mono.

A) All

B) False

A) Omni B) Pseudo

7. What was the name of the ruling house of Russia which , until 1917, had ruled for over 300 years?

Romanov

Bonus: Identify these artists.

A) French artist, stunted by two broken legs, he is known for posters of the circus, dance-hall scenes and cafes, such as the Moulin Rouge

B) Iowa painter, a “regional painter,” recognized for American Gothic

A) Henri Toulouse-Lautrec B) Grant Wood

8. Thought to be responsible for dependence of smokers on tobacco, this poisonous alkaloid in small doses is a stimulant. What is it?

Nicotine

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Bonus: Assume you’re a doctor. I’ll tell you who or what you treat. You tell me your branch of medicine.

The development of children and their diseases or disorders

A) The study of tumors, both benign and malignant

A) Pediatrics B) Oncology

9. This organization is commonly known as VFW. What does VFW stand for?

Veterans of Foreign Wars

Bonus: There are many famous Sullivans in history. Give the first name of each of the following Sullivans.

A. A) Bare knuckles heavyweight boxing champion of 1882

B) Partially blind teacher of Helen Keller

A) John (L.) B) Anne

10. In what country are the cities of Leerdam, Haarlem, Rotterdam, and Amsterdam located?

Netherlands

Bonus: Answer these questions about the Great Lakes.

Which is the smallest lake?

A) What is the name of the famous water area between Lake Erie and Lake Ontario?

A) Ontario B) Niagara Falls

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Middle School Tournament

2000

ROUND ONE

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. Liberace

2. Lee (Robert E.)

3. Lennon (John)

4. Lewis (Jerry)

5. Louis XIV

6. Luther (Martin)

7. Lewis (C. S.)

8. Livingstone (David)

9. Lincoln (Abraham)

10. Lane

11. Louis (Joe)

12. Lear

13. Lebanon

14. Liverpool

15. Lei

16. Lusitania

17. Luftwaffe

18. Lava

19. Lilliput

20. Libya

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ROUND FIVE

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

*1. Find the product of the quantity six X plus one times the quantity two X minus seven.

Twelve X squared minus forty X minus seven

2. In 1979, the publication of Opus 200 marked his 200th book in print. Name this American science-fiction writer who began his career in 1950 with Pebble in the Sky.

Issac Asimov

3. This commonly seen and seasonally heard movement designed to help the poor and unfortunate was founded in 1878 by Reverend William Booth. Name this organization associated in December with bells and red kettles.

Salvation Army

4. Which French explorer founded New France after establishing a colony in Quebec?

Samuel de Champlain

5. Brass is an alloy made of two metals. Copper is one. What is the other?

Zinc

6. Complete the following expression that became popular during the hard times of the Great Depression. “Brother, can you spare a (blank)?”.

Dime

7. It is generally composed of separated units of material such as bricks or blocks, so shaped that when assembled, their weight can be concentrated on the proper supports. Common types are cross, barrel, or arched. Name this architectural term used to describe a curved ceiling.

Vault

8. Under what political party did George Wallace run for President?

Dixiecrats

9. To which of the five kingdoms of living things do mushrooms, molds, and yeast belong?

Fungi

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10. Name the author of the 1963 Pulitzer Prize winner The Revivers. This Southern author also wrote many other works including Absalom, Absalom!, As I Lay Dying, and The Sound and the Fury.

William Faulkner

END OF ROUND FIVE

Emergency toss-ups:

1. What do we call a person who has a disorder characterized by the inability to resist impulses to steal?

Kleptomaniac

2. You are traveling east across Africa. What is the first country you enter upon leaving Morocco?

Algeria

Emergency bonus:

Give the authors of these 20th century novels.

In Cold Blood

Kim

A) Truman Capote B) Rudyard Kipling

ROUND FIVE WORKSHEET L

________________________1. Pianist who was a flamboyant dresser and used a candelabra

________________________2. General who led the Confederate Army

________________________3. Oldest member of the Beatles

________________________4. Comic partner of Dean Martin

________________________5. The Sun King and his number

________________________6. German leader of the Protestant Reformation

________________________7. Author who created the fantasy world Narnia

________________________8. Henry Stanley's goal in Central Africa

________________________9. The president who delivered the Gettysburg Address

________________________10. Superman's girl friend's last name

________________________11. The longest reigning world heavyweight boxing champion

________________________12. Shakespearean character who plans to divide his kingdom among his three

daughters

________________________13. Country north of Israel

________________________14. English seaport on the Mersey River

________________________15. A Hawaiian floral garland

________________________16. British passenger liner sunk by Germany's submarine on May 1, 1915

________________________17. Name of the German Air force of World War II

________________________18. Molten material from a volcano

________________________19. Gulliver's land of the tiny people

________________________20. Country whose flag is solid green

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