Round 9



Round 9

|1. Which statement about the Netherlands is false: densely populated, official language Dutch, Europe's poorest nation, constitutional|___ |___ |

|monarchy, site of the Rhine River mouth? | | |

|Answer: Europe's poorest nation | | |

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|2. Leonardo da Vinci is well known for his scientific pursuits as well as his artistic ones, but he was not the only Renaissance |___ |___ |

|painter who could be considered a Renaissance man. In 1522 this artist designed a flying machine for use in war and two years later | | |

|designed the first German manual on geometry. Identify this engraver who created The Four Apostles, and Knight, Death, and the Devil.| | |

|Answer: Albrecht Durer | | |

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|3. In 1990, who became the first Soviet leader to win the Nobel Peace Prize? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Mikhail Gorbachev | | |

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|4. The Hornets of the NBA have abandoned Charlotte this season in favor of what southern city that was the original home of the Utah |___ |___ |

|Jazz? | | |

|Answer: New Orleans | | |

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|5. Manchu is the name of China's largest province, last imperial dynasty, official language, most populous city, or main governing |___ |___ |

|body? | | |

|Answer: Last imperial dynasty | | |

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|6. With what field of endeavor do you associate the names Anton Bruckner and Arnold Schonberg? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Musical composition | | |

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|7. Alaska is our largest state. What is the largest state east of the Mississippi River? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Georgia | | |

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|8. They painted New York City from 1897 to 1917, and included George Bellows, William Glackens, Robert Henri, George Luks, and John |___ |___ |

|Sloan. What was their collective name? | | |

|Answer: The Ashcan School | | |

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|9. All of the following are functions of the spines on a cactus except: defense, sunscreen, reproduction, collect dew, or keep cactus |___ |___ |

|cool? | | |

|Answer: Reproduction | | |

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|10. Name this gland. It is not found in invertebrates and its functions include the storage of vitamins, the cleansing of blood, and |___ |___ |

|the deactivation of hormones. By the way, it tastes really great with onions. NOT! | | |

|Answer: Liver | | |

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|11. It is a widely accepted fact that Lake Superior is the world's largest freshwater lake. However this fact is based on an |___ |___ |

|historical inaccuracy in the naming of Lakes Huron and Michigan which, hydrologically, should be considered as one body of water with | | |

|two lobes. These lobes are connected by what 120-foot deep strait? | | |

|Answer: Strait of Mackinac | | |

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|12. Where can you read about Gog, the king of Magog? |___ |___ |

|Answer: The Bible(Book of Revelation) | | |

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|13. What integer is the sum of 0 factorial and 3 factorial? |___ |___ |

|Answer: 7 | | |

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|14. What body of water represents the closest distance that Russian soil is to U.S. soil? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Bering Strait | | |

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|15. Six tractors can plow a field in 8 hours if they all work together. How many hours will it take 4 tractors to do the job? |___ |___ |

|Answer: 12 hours | | |

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|16. Does remiss mean a divorced woman, to adopt, careless, or forlorn? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Careless | | |

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|17. "Gustatory organ" is another name for these taste receptors, found mostly on the tongue. |___ |___ |

|Answer: Taste buds | | |

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|18. The distance from Germany to which country is farthest: Poland, Austria, Romania, Denmark, or Luxembourg? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Romania | | |

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|19. What name is given to the earth's layer of porous rock that can be tapped to produce artesian wells for supplying water even in |___ |___ |

|arid areas? | | |

|Answer: Aquifer | | |

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|20. On March 25, 1997, what former President jumped from a plane under a rainbow-colored parachute to repeat a life-saving jump he |___ |___ |

|made during World War II? | | |

|Answer: George Bush | | |

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|21. She married Frank Butler, a vaudeville actor, and appeared in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Shows until 1902. Name this famous |___ |___ |

|markswoman. | | |

|Answer: Annie Oakley | | |

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|22. A powerful leader of a criminal organization is often referred to by what term that originally indicated a man who sponsors a |___ |___ |

|person at a baptism? | | |

|Answer: Godfather | | |

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|23. What letter do you add to the French word for Christmas to make another word meaning the genre of literature represented by A |___ |___ |

|CHRISTMAS CAROL by Dickens? | | |

|Answer: V (Noel, novel) | | |

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|24. What is the third most abundant element in the Earth's atmosphere? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Argon | | |

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|25. He ruled Egypt from 1375 to 1358 B.C. His life was the subject of a Philip Glass opera. Name this boy-king who was married to |___ |___ |

|Nefertiti. | | |

|Answer: Akhnaten or Akhenaten or Amenhotep | | |

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|26. What category of light falls between the near-ultraviolet range and the near-infrared range on the electromagnetic spectrum? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Visible light | | |

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|27. India's Gir National Forest is home to the few hundred remaining: monitor lizards, black rhinos, Asiatic lions, king cobras, or |___ |___ |

|wild asses? | | |

|Answer: Asiatic lions | | |

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|28. Whose name was on the weed-overgrown tombstone in the desolate churchyard where the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come led Scrooge? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Scrooge's | | |

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|29. Identify the competitive, acrobatic dance in which a dancer bends backward from the knees and moves under a horizontal pole at |___ |___ |

|progressively lower heights. | | |

|Answer: Limbo | | |

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|30. What organization was founded in 1916 to ease torments of women mired in poverty by constant bearing of children? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Planned Parenthood | | |

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|31. The mating of individuals that are closely related is called what? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Inbreeding | | |

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|32. From the Latin for "that nourishes", we get which word for a health-care professional? |___ |___ |

|Answer: NURSE | | |

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|33. Slain by Bellerophon, it was a fire-breathing monster, part-lion, part-serpent. What was it called? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Chimera | | |

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|34. Which word from the Sanskrit for "thinker" identifies a hymn or passage of a text from the Veda that is chanted or intoned as a |___ |___ |

|prayer? | | |

|Answer: Mantra | | |

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|35. In which "dead language" were Elvis Presley's hits recorded on a CD by a Finnish choir to mark his 60th birthday in 1995? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Latin | | |

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|36. Add one letter to funeral, and you get which adjective, that refers to funerals? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Funereal | | |

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|37. Consider your average 1997-model automobile, the average gas-powered lawn mower, a chainsaw, and a leaf-blower. Which one of |___ |___ |

|those emits, by far, the most smog-forming pollution on an hourly basis? | | |

|Answer: Chainsaw | | |

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|38. Born in 1182, this son of a rich Italian merchant spent his life serving the poor. Can you name him? |___ |___ |

|Answer: St. Francis of Assisi | | |

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|39. The Sopwith F-1 was nicknamed what, from the hump-shaped cover over the breeches of its twin machine guns? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Camel | | |

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|40. Which philosopher was not French: Descartes, St. Augustine, Voltaire, or Sartre? |___ |___ |

|Answer: St. Augustine | | |

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|41. These battles were part of what war: the Battle of the Thames, the Battle of Chippewa, the Battle of Lundy's Lane, the Battle of |___ |___ |

|Plattsburg Bay, the Battle of Lake Erie. | | |

|Answer: War of 1812 | | |

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Instructions: During the last 5 minutes of each match, use the 'Blitz' format with 10 points for each tossup and no bonus. All answers must be answered without stalling.

|Blitz Round - All 10 Point Tossups |1 |1 |

|Math | | |

|42. The area of a certain rectangle is 18 square feet. If one of the short sides of the rectangle is 3 feet, what is the |___ |___ |

|perimeter of the figure? | | |

|Ans: 18 feet | | |

|43. On a remarkably good fishing expedition, the average weight of 6 fish was 50 pounds. Then another fish was caught |___ |___ |

|bringing the average weight of all 7 fish to 52 pounds. How much did the last fish weigh? | | |

|Ans: 64 pounds | | |

|44. Find the volume of a pyramid having a 7 foot by 4 foot rectangular base and a 9-foot height. |___ |___ |

|Ans: 84 cubic feet | | |

|45. Which of the Platonic solids has the appearance of two square pyramids joined at their bases? |___ |___ |

|Ans: Octahedron | | |

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|Math | | |

|46. Which of the following polygons has the most sides: decagon, dodecagon, nonagon, octagon, or heptagon? |___ |___ |

|Ans: Dodecagon | | |

|47. How many integer solutions does the following equation have: 2x + 7 = 5x - 3? |___ |___ |

|Ans: 0 | | |

|48. In a circle whose radius is 8, the length of an arc if the circle is 2pi. What is the number of radians in the central |___ |___ |

|angle subtended by the arc? | | |

|Ans: Pi/4 | | |

|49. Give in radians the inverse tangent of negative square root of three. |___ |___ |

|Ans: Negative pi over 3 | | |

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|Words: Identify these words beginning and ending with the letter R. | | |

|50. Any bird of prey. |___ |___ |

|Ans: Raptor | | |

|51. A light, sharp-pointed sword used for thrusting. |___ |___ |

|Ans: Rapier | | |

|52. Hyphenated word expressed in French as pret-a`-porter. |___ |___ |

|Ans: Ready-to-wear | | |

|53. To think over again. |___ |___ |

|Ans: Reconsider | | |

|54. To get back something lost or stolen. |___ |___ |

|Ans: Recover | | |

|55. To happen again after a period of time. |___ |___ |

|Ans: Recur | | |

|56. College official in charge of enrolling students. |___ |___ |

|Ans: Registrar | | |

|57. Artificial lake in which water is collected. |___ |___ |

|Ans: Reservoir | | |

|58. Any muscle that turns a part of the body. |___ |___ |

|Ans: Rotator | | |

|59. What is left when a smaller number is subtracted from another. |___ |___ |

|Ans: Remainder | | |

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|Poetry | | |

|60. What American poet immortalized both a village blacksmith and a Boston silversmith? |___ |___ |

|Ans: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | | |

|61. I'm thinking of a Latin poem in 15 books telling of the transformations of humans into animal, mineral, or vegetable. |___ |___ |

|Identify this masterpiece by Ovid. | | |

|Ans: THE METAMORPHOSES | | |

|62. Canadian John Macrae wrote a poem about this American cemetery in Belgium. Can you name it? |___ |___ |

|Ans: Flanders Field (The poem is "In Flanders Field.") | | |

|63. Who, according to Longfellow, had a wigwam by the shores of Gitchee Gumee, by the shining Sea Water? |___ |___ |

|Ans: Nokomis | | |

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|Geography: Now identify these four geographical superlatives | | |

|64. Which is the largest desert in the world? |___ |___ |

|Ans: Sahara | | |

|65. What is the lowest place on earth? |___ |___ |

|Ans: Dead Sea | | |

|66. To the nearest thousand feet, how high is the tallest mountain in the world? |___ |___ |

|Ans: 29,000 | | |

|67. What island (not including Australia) is the world's largest? |___ |___ |

|Ans: Greenland | | |

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