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Middle School Tournament

2001

ROUND TWENTY

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

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

*1. Factor completely: x cubed minus 8.

The quantity X minus 2, times the quantity X squared plus 2 X plus 4

2. Chlorine, fluorine, and bromine belong to which family of elements?

Halogens

3. What cartoonist created the characters Lil’ Abner and Daisy Mae?

Al Capp

4. Consider the sentence: Throwing the bola is not easy. What sentence position does the word easy fill?

Predicate adjective

5. What Supreme Court decision established the foundation for “separate-but-equal” doctrine, upholding a Louisiana law requiring segregated railroad facilities?

Plessy v. Ferguson

6. Dog is often said to be man’s best friend. Spell the name of the smallest breed of dog.

C-H-I-H-U-A-H-U-A

7. What weather condition, characterized by a layer of warm air lying over a layer of cool air, when mixed with air pollution, creates smog?

Thermal inversion

8. What two-word name did the rock star Prince use for a time?

The Artist

9. Which Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem tells of a sailor cursed for shooting an albatross?

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

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10. Beginning in Canada, this river cuts the state of Alaska in two. What is this river, Alaska’s longest?

Yukon

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2001

ROUND TWENTY

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

*1. Let the measure of angle A equal 3 X plus 27 and the measure of angle B equal 13 X minus 3. If angle A and angle B are vertical angles, what is the measure of angle A?

36

Bonus: Point A has coordinates 4 comma 8. Point B has coordinates 2 comma 2.

A) Find the midpoint of segment AB

B) Give the slope intercept form of the line through A and B.

A) 3 comma 5 B) Y equals 3 X minus 4

2. Give the botany term for the part of a tree, just under the bark, where growth occurs.

Cambium

Bonus: Answer these questions about plants.

A) What flower structure bears pollen?

B) What is the science of cultivating garden plants?

A) Stamen B) Horticulture

3. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt look out from a mountain in South Dakota. Who designed and sculpted these faces on Mount Rushmore?

Gutzon Borglum

Bonus: Answer these Old Testament questions.

A) This first son of Adam and Eve murdered his brother. Who was he?

B) What was the tower Noah’s descendants tried to build in hopes of reaching heaven?

A) Cain B) Tower of Babel

4. Who was the leader of the mutiny against Captain William Bligh aboard HMS Bounty in 1789?

Fletcher Christian

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Bonus: Identify these literary terms from the definitions given.

A) In a drama or fiction, this is the collision between opposing forces, usually involving the protagonist against the antagonist.

B) This rhetorical device occurs when two seemingly contradictory words are used together for effect such as “small shrimp.”

A) Conflict B) Oxymoron

5. What is the large human tooth behind the bicuspids called?

Molar

Bonus: What do you know about the movement of heat?

A) When a spoon is placed in a cup of hot chocolate, heat moves up the spoon’s handle. What is this process called?

B) What would this process be called if the heat traveled upward because the hot chocolate itself moved up the spoon’s hollow handle?

A) Conduction B) Convection

6. Opening in 1998 in Malaysia, at 1,483 feet, these two towers, joined by a bridge at the forty-second floors, are now the tallest office buildings in the world. What are these towers called?

Petronas Towers

Bonus: Name the only two landlocked countries in South America.

A) Bolivia B) Paraguay

7. What term refers to any government controlled by members of the clergy and in which religious law is dominant over civil law?

Theocracy

Bonus: Let’s see what you know about US Presidents.

A) Which President preceded Ronald Reagan?

B) Which President introduced the New Deal?

A) Jimmy Carter B) Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR)

8. What popular physicist sold over 9,000,000 copies of his book A Brief History of Time?

Stephen Hawking

Bonus: Identify these “firsts” in their religion.

A) First leader of the Mormons

B) Founder of Scientology

A) Joseph Smith B) L. Ron Hubbard

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9. What name is given to the geological time period 363 to 290 million years ago during which coal was formed?

Carboniferous

Bonus: What do you know about major events in geologic time?

A) During what geologic era did the group of animals known as dinosaurs dominate the earth?

B) During what period did birds first appear?

A) Mesozoic B) Jurassic

10. What large bay separates Greenland from Canada?

Baffin Bay

Bonus: Identify the following sociological groups of people.

A) Natives of Louisiana believed to be descended from French exiles from Acadia in Nova Scotia

B) Nomadic hunting and gathering peoples from the Kalahari Desert of southern Africa in Botswana, Namibia, and Angola

A) Cajun B) Bushmen

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ROUND TWENTY

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. Freetown

2. Freud

3. Free fall

4. Freya

5. Fitzgerald

6. Federal

7. Fused

8. Flanders

9. Fleming

10.Frankfort

11.Ferdinand

12.Fetus

13.Fiscal year

14.Fault

15.Fair Deal

16.Font

17.Faraday

18.Fruit

19.Fresco

20.Foreshadow

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

*1. Find the least common multiple of 24 and 60.

120

2. This battle occurred in 1815 in Belgium with the British defeating the French under Napoleon Bonaparte. What is this decisive battle called?

Battle of Waterloo

3. It’s five lines long and rhymes A, A, B, B, A. What is this humorous verse form called?

Limerick

4. One of the greatest mathematicians of all time, this ancient Greek was a geometer, analyst, and physicist. Name this man who, referring to the principle of leverage, said “Give me the place to stand and I will move the earth.”

Archimedes

5. Carlo Collodi wrote a story about a wooden puppet that became human. What is this work’s complete title?

The Adventures of Pinocchio

6. What amendment to the US Constitution allowed women the right to vote?

Nineteen

7. What does the AM stand for in AM radio?

Amplitude Modulation

8. In what island group were the World War II battles Bataan and Corregidor fought?

Philippines

9. Which character in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland suffers from the mercury-poisoning characteristic of his trade?

Mad Hatter

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10. Which English Prime Minister has been called the “Iron Maiden”?

Margaret Thatcher

END OF ROUND TWENTY

Emergency toss-ups:

1. Congress provided for the forcible removal of all Native Americans from Kansas, Stonewall Jackson dies, Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation, and Manet is violently attacked for his exhibition which included Luncheon on the Grass, a painting depicting nudity. In what year did these events occur?

1863

*2. If F of X equals 13 X minus 17, find F of 3.

22

Emergency bonus:

Solve these mixed up math problems.

A) A trapezoid has bases of 3 and 10. If the altitude of the trapezoid is 8, what is the area?

B) A rectangular sheet of paper measures 8 ½ inches in width and 11 inches in length. What is its area?

A) 52 square units B) 93 ½ square inches

ROUND TWENTY WORKSHEET F

________________________1. Capitol of Sierra Leone

________________________2. Viennese neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis

________________________3. Condition in which an object is moving under no influence except gravity

________________________4. Warrior goddess and goddess of marriage, wife of Odin in Norse mythology

________________________5. “Jazz Age” author of The Great Gatsby and This Side of Paradise

________________________6. Category of courts made up of District, Supreme, and Courts of Appeals, ________________________7. Sentence error when two or more sentences run together with no punctuation

________________________8. Medieval country located along the North Sea coast; now Belgium and France

________________________9. Scottish bacteriologist who with Sir Howard Florey discovered penicillin

________________________10. Capitol of Kentucky

________________________11. Archduke whose assassination caused the outbreak of World War II in 1914

________________________12. Living offspring from the beginning of the 3rd month of pregnancy until birth

________________________13. Any continuous 12-month period used as an accounting period

________________________14. Weak lines or cracks in bedrock along which earthquakes occur

________________________15. Name given the social policies of Harry S. Truman’s administration

________________________16. Set of letters, numbers, and symbols in a particular typeface, style, and size

________________________17. Chemist who discovered that liquid substances can conduct an electric current

________________________18. Ripened or mature plant ovary bearing one or more seeds

________________________19. Wall painting, in a medium like watercolor, on damp plaster

________________________20. Literary plot device that prepares the reader for what will eventually happen

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