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Round 13

|1. I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, / And what can be the use of him is more than I can see. Who penned these |___ |___ |

|familiar lines? | | |

|Answer: Robert Louis Stevenson | | |

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|2. The difference between one's assets and liabilities defines his ___ worth. |___ |___ |

|Answer: Net worth | | |

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|3. What are the capital cities of the two states on either side of the Savannah River? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Atlanta, Columbia | | |

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|4. These are all forms of praise except: paeons, accolades, plaudits, or anathemas? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Anathemas | | |

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|5. “Western” is an antonym of “Eastern.” What is the antonym of “Oriental”? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Occidental | | |

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|6. This archaic word for "uttered" is used in the poem "The Raven." |___ |___ |

|Answer: Quoth | | |

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|7. Name the Broadway composer whose website name is reallyuseful. |___ |___ |

|Answer: Andrew Lloyd Webber | | |

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|8. Name the unit of geological time longer than an epoch and shorter than an era. |___ |___ |

|Answer: Period | | |

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|9. An ellipsis is indicated by three dots and tells the reader that something is ... |___ |___ |

|Answer: Left out | | |

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|10. What adjective describes a corrective lens containing two segments with different powers? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Bifocal | | |

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|11. The covenant of circumcision is observed by Jews today because what patriarch was circumcised? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Abraham | | |

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|12. What integer gives the best approximation of 5 to the negative 20th power? |___ |___ |

|Answer: 0 (zero) | | |

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|13. List the following Treasury securities in their order of maturity from shortest to longest: bonds, bills, notes. |___ |___ |

|Answer: T-bills (less than 1 year), Treasury notes (1-10 years), Treasury bonds (over 10 years) | | |

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|14. It's not an easy last name to live up to, which may be why stuntman/comic Dave Osborne and actor/director Albert Brooks have |___ |___ |

|adopted other last names. What is this highly cerebral last name belonging to a Nobel Prize winning physicist? | | |

|Answer: Einstein | | |

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|15. The World Bank estimates that the average person's share of the world's income was $4,600 in 1994, ranging from $130 for |___ |___ |

|Ethiopians to $39,850 for the residents of which tiny country bordered by Belgium, France, and Germany where many companies have | | |

|registered to take advantage of liberal tax laws? | | |

|Answer: Luxembourg | | |

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|16. State all of the prime factors of 78. |___ |___ |

|Answer: 2,3 and 13 | | |

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|17. Which is considered a spice rather than an herb: parsley, sage, rosemary, thyme, or cinnamon? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Cinnamon | | |

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|18. What is the collective classification for these breeds of horses? Belgian, Percheron, Shire, Clydesdale? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Draft horses | | |

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|19. Pencil and paper ready. If "a" is the complex number 1 + 3i and "b" is the complex number 1 - 3i, what is the product of a and b,|___ |___ |

|in simplest form? | | |

|Answer: 10 | | |

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|20. The Apostles' Creed is the major doctrine of which of these denominations: Episcopalian, Lutheran, Baptist, Seventh-Day Adventist,|___ |___ |

|or Assembly of God? | | |

|Answer: Episcopalian | | |

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|21. George Bellows was an American artist. Identify Saul Bellow. |___ |___ |

|Answer: American author and teacher | | |

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|22. During World War II, George Balanchine commissioned Igor Stravinsky to compose a piece entitled "Circus Polka." What was unusual |___ |___ |

|about the dancers? | | |

|Answer: They were a troupe of 50 young Ringling Brothers elephants. | | |

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|23. Scrivener's Palsy is more commonly known as: goose bumps, eye tic, writer's cramp, the shakes, or heat stroke? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Writer's cramp | | |

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|24. What country was the setting for Rudyard Kipling's novel, "Kim?" |___ |___ |

|Answer: India | | |

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|25. In North Africa, Rommel was the Desert Fox, and the British troops were the Desert ... |___ |___ |

|Answer: Rats | | |

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|26. What tackling technique has resulted in numerous injuries and 18 substantial fines in the NFL already this season? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Spearing (helmet-to-helmet hits) | | |

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|27. What international city, one with the eighth largest trading economy, yet no natural resources, is served by Kowloon harbor? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Hong Kong | | |

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|28. It's only recently been classified as a neurotransmitter. It seems to be a natural regulator of breathing. This is ironic |___ |___ |

|because breathing it directly is a common cause of asphyxiation. Name this two-atom molecule that can be produced in faulty furnaces.| | |

|Answer: Carbon monoxide | | |

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|29. A truculent person is one who is: hostile, inquisitive, tired, or easygoing? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Hostile | | |

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|30. During its elliptical travel around the sun, the earth's speed is: (a) constant, (b) greatest when nearest the sun, (c) greatest |___ |___ |

|when most distant from the sun? | | |

|Answer: (b) greatest when nearest the sun | | |

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|31. This nation administers the Ross Dependency in Antarctica. It also administers the Polynesian Cook Islands, that are 2,000 miles |___ |___ |

|northeast of this island-nation. This nation lies about 700 miles southeast of Australia. Name it. | | |

|Answer: New Zealand | | |

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|32. In Western music, dynamics are noted by Italian abbreviations placed under the staff. Give the Italian word abbreviated by "dim."|___ |___ |

|Answer: Diminuendo | | |

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|33. What instrument would you associate with the virtuoso James Galway? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Flute | | |

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|34. Identify the German artist of the 15th and 16th centuries who became the first great engraver and was known for his woodcuts |___ |___ |

|dealing with religious subjects. | | |

|Answer: Albrecht Durer | | |

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|35. To describe this inner planet, you might say that, of the four, it has the greatest inclination of its axis of rotation. The same|___ |___ |

|planet also has the lowest average density. It has the most moons, but the lowest average temperature. Name this planet named after | | |

|the Roman god of war. | | |

|Answer: Mars | | |

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|36. According to the cliche, you cannot fight what body of local government? |___ |___ |

|Answer: City hall | | |

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|37. William Faulkner wrote As I Lay Dying about the disintegration of a southern family. What author influenced by Faulkner's Stream |___ |___ |

|of Consciousness, wrote Lie Down in Darkness, also about the disintegration of a southern family? | | |

|Answer: William Styron | | |

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|38. What was the name of Adolf Hitler's mistress? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Eva Braun | | |

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|39. In metric measurements, a liter of what substance weighs a kilogram? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Water | | |

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|40. Appearing in the news in 1963, his name was usually followed by "a Dallas nightclub owner." |___ |___ |

|Answer: Jack Ruby | | |

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|41. Its members are Hank Dutt, John Sherba, David Harrington, and Joan Jeanrenaud. Its repertoire ranges from works by Medieval |___ |___ |

|composer Thomas Tallis, to Ives and Shostakovich, premieres by Steve Reich and Philip Glass, and even Jimi Hendrix' "Purple Haze." | | |

|Name this ensemble. | | |

|Answer: The Kronos Quartet | | |

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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. For what values of x will the function equal 0? |___ |___ |

|Ans: Positive and negative square root of 2 | | |

|43. What is the minimum value of the function? |___ |___ |

|Ans: -2 | | |

|44. For what value of x will the slope of the tangent line to the curve equal 0? |___ |___ |

|Ans: 0 | | |

|45. What is the equation of the axis of symmetry? |___ |___ |

|Ans: x = 0 | | |

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|Word Derivations: All answers start with S. | | |

|46. The Italian word for "ladder" or "staircase" gives us which verb meaning "climb"? |___ |___ |

|Ans: SCALE | | |

|47. The Greek word meaning "dried up" is the derivation for what word meaning "supporting framework, especially of bones"? |___ |___ |

|Ans: SKELETON | | |

|48. Which bone's name came from the Latin for "sacred"? |___ |___ |

|Ans: SACRUM | | |

|49. The German word for "parasite" may be the source of which verb meaning "to evade work or duty"? |___ |___ |

|Ans: SHIRK | | |

|50. The Latin word for "nursery" gives us which name for a school for priests or ministers? |___ |___ |

|Ans: SEMINARY | | |

|51. Which kind of catch-phrase used in advertising comes from the Gaelic for "war-cry"? |___ |___ |

|Ans: SLOGAN | | |

|52. The Icelandic word for "story" is the source of which word meaning "heroic legend"? |___ |___ |

|Ans: SAGA | | |

|53. From the Greek for "tent" or "stage", English gets which name for a division of a play? |___ |___ |

|Ans: SCENE | | |

|54. Which word for a drinking place is a corruption of the French word for "drawing-room"? |___ |___ |

|Ans: SALOON | | |

|55. Which vegetable's name is a shortening of the Narragansett Indian word for "vegetable eaten green"? |___ |___ |

|Ans: SQUASH | | |

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|Grammar | | |

|56. What word needs to be changed in this excerpt from a CBS TV ad? "Leading the list of awards from fellow journalists is the |___ |___ |

|National Headliners Award for Outstanding Achievement in Journalism and two New York Associated Press Broadcasters Awards for | | |

|Exce | | |

|Ans: Is to are | | |

|57. Fill in the blank by supplying the missing reflexive pronoun. "Television _____ has done much to raise political |___ |___ |

|consciousness in America. " | | |

|Ans: Itself | | |

|58. These are examples of what category of nouns: band, couple, majority, team, group, audience, army? |___ |___ |

|Ans: Collective nouns | | |

|59. What are the two acceptable past participles of the verb "tread?" |___ |___ |

|Ans: Trodden, trod | | |

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|Solar System | | |

|60. Writers used to imagine lush forests, sparkling lagoons, and exotic people under those dense clouds. But in reality, the |___ |___ |

|surface of the planet is more a hell than a heaven." This passage is about what planet? | | |

|Ans: Venus | | |

|61. How many planets are less than one astronomical unit from the Sun? |___ |___ |

|Ans: 2 | | |

|62. Who defended Copernicus' heliocentric theory in a book entitled "Dialogue on the Great World Systems?" |___ |___ |

|Ans: Galileo | | |

|63. The Earth's magnetosphere extends much farther into space on the side of the Earth away from the Sun. What solar phenomenon|___ |___ |

|causes this? | | |

|Ans: Solar wind | | |

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