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Middle School Tournament

2000

ROUND TWO

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

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

*1. Forty-eight children are going on a field trip. How many cars will be needed if 5 children can ride in each car?

Ten

2. What animal did Mark Twain write about in his story of Calaveras County?

(jumping) Frog

3. Which artery carries blood from the heart to the lungs for oxygenation?

Pulmonary

4. What female is credited with sewing the first American flag?

Betsy Ross

5. What insect transmits Lyme’s Disease from animals to humans?

Ticks

6. Davy Crockett was a Tennessee pioneer. Where did he die?

Battle of the Alamo (Alamo)

7. The assassination of what country’s Archduke led to the start of World War I?

Austria

8. What is the molten rock under the earth’s crust called?

Magma

9. Which English landscape painter is best known for his life-sized portrait known as The Blue Boy?

Thomas Gainsborough

10. What literary term refers to poetry that tells a story?

Narrative poetry (narrative verse)

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Middle School Tournament

2000

ROUND TWO

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

*1. What is the length of the third side of a right triangle if one side is 5 units long and the hypotenuse is 13 units long?

12

Bonus: How well do you know Roman numerals? I’ll give you an Arabic number and you give me the number in Roman numerals.

A) 2000

B) 1978

A) MM B) MCMLXXVIII

2. What poet wrote the two poems “O Captain, My Captain” and When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d, both about Abraham Lincoln?

Walt Whitman

Bonus: I’ll give you a literary definition. You give me the term.

A) An interruption in the narrative sequence of a story or novel that relates an incident that happened at an earlier point in time

B) A stage direction indicating that two or more actors leave the stage

A) Flashback B) Exeunt

3. What legal term refers to a person who voluntarily joins another person in committing a crime?

Accomplice

Bonus: Identify these famous Alabamians.

A) A native of North Carolina, he came to Alabama in 1818 then moved to Havana, Cuba, where he took the oath of office for Vice President of the United States.

B) Knighted by King George V, he was surgeon-general of the US Army and a world authority on sanitary engineering.

A) William Rufus King B) William Crawford Gorgas

4. His position as official naturalist aboard the H. M. S. Beagle started him on a career of accumulating data that resulted in the formation of his concept of evolution. Who was this man, the author of Origin of Species?

Charles Darwin

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Bonus: I’ll give you a science definition. You give me the term.

A) Space without matter

B) Imaginary line that runs through the earth from pole to pole

A) Vacuum B) Axis

5. An excellent violinist, this German-born scientist was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921. Who was this man who developed the theory of relativity, which aided in creating the atomic bomb?

Albert Einstein

Bonus: Do you know these famous Native Americans associated with Alabama?

A) Born around 1770 in the Cherokee nation, he moved to what is now De Kalb County where he invented an alphabet representing the Cherokee language.

B) Born into the Creek nation, he moved to Florida and led the Seminoles in their fight against the U.S.

A) Sequoya B) Osceola

6. Vulcan is the Roman god of fire. What is the Norse god of fire?

Loki

Bonus: I’ll give you a foreign word. You tell me from what language it came.

A) Portfolio

B) Bonanza

A) Italian B) Spanish

7. Which computer company ships its products in white boxes with large black markings?

Gateway

Bonus: What do you know about cats?

A) What cat never catches Tweedy Bird?

B) What kind of cat is the world’s fastest?

A) Sylvester B) Cheetah

8. Cortez marched into Mexico in 1519 and conquered the Aztec Indians. Which Aztec king did Cortez destroy?

Montezuma

Bonus: I’ll give you a European country. You give me its capital.

A) Poland

B) Switzerland

A) Warsaw B) Bern

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9. This apparatus sounds an adjustable number of beats per minute and is often used in practicing music. What is it called?

Metronome

Bonus: Ready for some modern music?

A) Which highly popular performer wrote memorial music for Marilyn Monroe and Princess Diana?

B) Achieved in 1973, what was the title of this singer’s first gold single?

A) Elton John B) Crocodile Rock

10. At 35,800 feet, it lies in the Pacific near the Philippines. The deepest part of the ocean, what is it called?

Marianas Trench (Marianas Trough)

Bonus: What human body part is associated with each of the following ailments?

A) Encephalitis

B) Rhinitis

A) Brain B) Nose

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Middle School Tournament

2000

ROUND TWO

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. Odysseus

2. Ounce

3. Oklahoma

4. Ornithology

5. Octagon

6. Old Glory

7. Octave

8. Ocean

9. Orwell (George)

10. Orchid

11. Orion

12. Olympia

13. Oz

14. Obelisk

15. Octopus

16. Orbit

17. Origami

18. O’Hara (Mary)

19. Oboe

20. Oak Ridge

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ROUND TWO

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

*1. How many yards of lace are needed to trim a tablecloth that is 108 inches long and 45 inches wide?

8 ½

2. What veterinarian wrote All Creatures Great and Small?

James Herriott

3. What is another name for the country Kampuchea?

Cambodia

4. What law requires that a person be allowed to remain silent and to have an attorney present during questioning?

Miranda rule

5. This American novel may have been prompted by the passage of the fugitive Slave Act of 1850. What is this book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, a look at both good and evil sides of slavery?

Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Uncle Tom’s Cabin or Life Among the Lowly)

6. In the 1800’s a mass migration to America occurred because of potato blight. In what country did this potato famine occur?

Ireland

7. This term has come to mean an aura or appearance that grows with age. What is this term, which is used to describe the green film forming naturally over time on copper or bronze?

Patina

8. This town, the “Peach Capital of Alabama,” has a water tower shaped like a peach. What is this Chilton County town?

Clanton

9. Many people take large doses of this vitamin to avoid colds and flu, but it works best at holding body cells together and allowing the body to process vitamins A and E. Found in citrus fruits, which vitamin is this?

Vitamin C

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10. Name the Italian operatic composer whose works include Il Travatore, Rigoletto, and Aida.

Giuseppe Verdi

END OF ROUND TWO

Emergency toss-ups:

1. In an electrolytic cell, what is the name of the positive pole?

Anode

2. Who was the daughter of Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII, the woman who became Queen of England?

Elizabeth I

Emergency bonus:

I’ll give you a nickname. You identify these famous people.

A) “Scarface”

B) “Desert Fox”

A) Al Capone B) Erwin Rommel

ROUND TWO WORKSHEET O

________________________1. Greek mythical king and warrior whose adventures were recorded by Homer

________________________2. Sixteen grams

________________________3. Lawton, Norman, Enid, Oklahoma City

________________________4. Scientific study of birds as a branch of zoology

________________________5. A flat figure with eight sides and eight angles

________________________6. The colloquial term for the US flag

________________________7. A poetic stanza of eight lines

________________________8. Seventy-two percent of the earth’s surface

________________________9. Author of Animal Farm and 1984

________________________10. Exotic air plant that produces vanilla

________________________11. The hunter in Greek mythology

________________________12. Capital of Washington state

________________________13. Abbreviation for ounce or ounces

________________________14. Slender four-sided tapering monument, terminating in a pointed or pyramidal

top

________________________15. Soft-bodied mollusk with eight tentacles

________________________16. Path of one celestial or manmade body as it revolves around another

________________________17. Japanese art or process of folding paper

________________________18. Author of My Friend Flika and Thunderhead

________________________19. Smallest and highest-pitched of the double-reed woodwind instruments

________________________20. Tennessee city where the first atomic bombs were produced

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