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Round 3

|1. Which of these mountains has the lowest total relief: K-2, Everest, McKinley, Mauna Kea, or Kilimanjaro? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Kilimanjaro | | |

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|2. After William the Conqueror's invasion of England in 1066, French became England's official court language. Little wonder, then, |___ |___ |

|that a French phrase appears on the Royal Coat of Arms. What 4 word French phrase on the coat of arms means "God and my right"? | | |

|Answer: Dieu et Mon Droit | | |

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|3. Is the Lincoln Memorial representative of the Doric, Ionic, or Corinthian style? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Doric | | |

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|4. Which synonym for "hatred" is drawn from the Latin word for "enemy"? |___ |___ |

|Answer: ENMITY | | |

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|5. Deported to Italy, Lucky Luciano slipped back to which Caribbean island to run his U.S. operations? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Cuba | | |

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|6. What is the difference between men's and women's golf? |___ |___ |

|Answer: The position of the tee (It's closer to the hole for women.) | | |

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|7. What's the national musical instrument of Spain? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Guitar | | |

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|8. The Triton is a celebrated: airplane, submarine, hydrogen bomb, or aircraft carrier? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Submarine | | |

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|9. What's the official language of Panama? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Spanish | | |

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|10. In The Federalist Number 51, who put forth a case for the separation of powers and a system of checks and balances? |___ |___ |

|Answer: James Madison | | |

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|11. Find the volume in cubic inches of a cube in which each face has an area of 4 square inches. |___ |___ |

|Answer: 8 | | |

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|12. Which President used the Antiquities Act of 1906 to declare the Grand Canyon a national monument to shield it from development? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Theodore Roosevelt | | |

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|13. Queen Victoria introduced the hemophilia gene into many royal families, but not into the current British royal family. That's |___ |___ |

|because they are all descended from what successor of Victoria who lacked the gene, who was the seventh of his name to reign? | | |

|Answer: King Edward | | |

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|14. In 1920, the 19th amendment gave women the right to vote. In 1971, what did the 26th amendment do? |___ |___ |

|Answer: It gave 18-year-olds the right to vote. | | |

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|15. An earthquake has many different intensities, because intensity is the measure of its destructiveness from area to area. What |___ |___ |

|three-syllable word names the single fundamental quality of an earthquake's strength? | | |

|Answer: Magnitude | | |

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|16. Match the requiem with the composer. TITLES: A German Requiem, War Requiem, Manzoni Requiem. COMPOSERS: Johannes Brahms, |___ |___ |

|Benjamin Britten, Giuseppe Verdi. | | |

|Answer: German Requiem by Brahms, War Requiem by Britten, Manzoni Requiem by Verdi (i.e. same order as given) | | |

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|17. Plants using anemophily are pollinated by: mammals, winds, birds, insects, or water? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Winds | | |

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|18. Brook Farm and New Harmony were ideal societies established in the United States in the 19th century. What is the word used to |___ |___ |

|describe such ideal communities? The term comes from the Latin word meaning "no place". | | |

|Answer: Utopias | | |

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|19. What federal agency can be described as collecting roughly "$150 billion a year less than the proper amount, and misspending |___ |___ |

|billions doing it"? | | |

|Answer: Internal Revenue Service | | |

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|20. Four single biographies and twenty-three pairs of biographies make up which work of classical literature? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Plutarch's LIVES | | |

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|21. Who observed that Cassius had "a lean and hungry look" -- Julius Caesar, Brutus, Marc Antony, or Calpurnia? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Julius Caesar | | |

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|22. The best-developed tropical low pressure areas are located over the land, and the best-developed tropical high pressure areas are |___ |___ |

|located over what? | | |

|Answer: Ocean | | |

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|23. Which of our presidents originated the saying, “The world must be made safe for democracy”? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Woodrow Wilson | | |

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|24. What can you make about a pound of from 200,000 stamens of crocus flowers? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Saffron | | |

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|25. Which term refers to a stage in embryonic development: bilk, bork, blastula, or boson? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Blastula | | |

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|26. Which country forms the northernmost part of the United Kingdom? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Scotland | | |

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|27. In Greek mythology, various beasts are part human and part animal. You tell me what makes up the animal part of these creatures: |___ |___ |

|satyr, Minotaur, harpy, centaur. | | |

|Answer: (In order) goat, bull, bird, horse | | |

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|28. Books by this author include NORTH WEST PASSAGE (1908) and THE SOUTH POLE (1912). Can you name him? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Roald Amundsen | | |

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|29. It doesn't really make sense but the Easternmost point and the Westernmost city of the United States both begin with the same |___ |___ |

|word. Give this four-letter word. | | |

|Answer: West (West Quoddy Head, ME and West Unalaska, AK.) | | |

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|30. Which two U.S. states form true rectangles? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Colorado and Wyoming | | |

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|31. Ralph Waldo Emerson called it "the surest poison," but others call it "of the essence." What is it? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Time | | |

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|32. What is the equation of the vertical asymptote of the radical function with equation y equals one divided by quantity x minus one.|___ |___ |

|Answer: X equals one | | |

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|33. Which province produces most of Canada's petroleum? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Alberta | | |

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|34. What's the southernmost state capital among the 48 contiguous states? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Austin, Texas | | |

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|35. Who were the only two members of the "James Boys" not killed or caught while robbing a Northfield, Minnesota bank in 1876? |___ |___ |

|Answer: Frank and Jesse James | | |

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|36. In a mosque, a "minbar" is the equivalent of this elevated speaking platform in a church. |___ |___ |

|Answer: Pulpit | | |

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|37. In 1989, Romanian was restored as its official language. In 1994, its citizens rejected unification with Romania in favor of |___ |___ |

|independence. Name this nation, formerly a republic in the Soviet Union. | | |

|Answer: Moldova | | |

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|38. Which of these important events took place in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848? (a) Goings-on at the Oneida community shocked the|___ |___ |

|nation, (b) Women met to call for their rights as citizens, (c) the Johnstown Flood killed over 2,000 people, (d) a revelation led | | |

|Joseph Smith to create the Book of Mormon, or (e) the Erie Canal was completed? | | |

|Answer: (b) | | |

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|39. The 1938 radio broadcast War of the Worlds triggered nationwide panic with its fictional account of a Martian landing. Who was |___ |___ |

|the narrator? | | |

|Answer: Orson Welles | | |

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|40. The expression "You can't fight _______" expresses the futility of struggling against bureaucracy. |___ |___ |

|Answer: City hall | | |

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|41. What did the Ark of the Covenant hold? |___ |___ |

|Answer: The Ten Commandments | | |

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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 |

|Grammar | | |

|42. A lexicographer uses what seven-letter adjective beginning with "a" to describe these words: methinks, albeit, prithee? |___ |___ |

|Ans: Archaic | | |

|43. What category of sentence might contain four main clauses and five subordinate clauses? |___ |___ |

|Ans: Compound-complex sentence | | |

|44. What is the eight-letter name for any word that limits, describes, or makes more precise the meaning of another word? |___ |___ |

|Ans: Modifier | | |

|45. These words fall into what category of adverbs: indeed, nonetheless, moreover, furthermore, otherwise, therefore? |___ |___ |

|Ans: Conjunctive adverbs | | |

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|Literature | | |

|46. Which fictional character could be called a professional exterminator of pests: Fagin, Walter Mitty, Puck, Simon Legree, or |___ |___ |

|the Pied Piper? | | |

|Ans: Pied Piper | | |

|47. Poet Thomas Gray's most famous elegy was written at what location? |___ |___ |

|Ans: At a country churchyard | | |

|48. Dr. Faustus sells his soul to the devil in exchange for: immortality, riches, love, youth, or knowledge and power? |___ |___ |

|Ans: Knowledge and power | | |

|49. Name any two of the three children of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra in Greek mythology. |___ |___ |

|Ans: Iphigenia, Electra, Orestes | | |

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|Attila the Hun | | |

|50. Attila negotiated an annual tribute of 730 pounds of what metal from the Byzantine emperor? |___ |___ |

|Ans: Gold | | |

|51. Attila the Hun was called "Flagellum Dei," usually translated from the Latin as what? |___ |___ |

|Ans: The Scourge of God | | |

|52. Attila lived during what century? |___ |___ |

|Ans: 5th A.D. | | |

|53. In 452, Attila invaded Italy and sacked the city of Mediolanum, now called what? |___ |___ |

|Ans: Milan | | |

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|June Words: I'm going to define some words and phrases that contain the letters J, U, N, and E, in that order but not | | |

|necessarily consecutively. | | |

|54. Star of The Sound of Music on the silver screen. |___ |___ |

|Ans: Julie Andrews | | |

|55. School offering a two-year program. |___ |___ |

|Ans: Junior College | | |

|56. Captain Nemo's creator. |___ |___ |

|Ans: Jules Verne | | |

|57. Villain thwarted by Tom Sawyer. |___ |___ |

|Ans: Injun Joe | | |

|58. Mexican seeds containing moth larvae. |___ |___ |

|Ans: Jumping beans | | |

|59. Captain of the Bonhomme Richard. |___ |___ |

|Ans: John Paul Jones | | |

|60. Called a recess. |___ |___ |

|Ans: Adjourned | | |

|61. Make young again. |___ |___ |

|Ans: Rejuvenate | | |

|62. Reform school candidate. |___ |___ |

|Ans: Juvenile delinquent | | |

|63. Cut into thin, matchlike strips, as carrots or potatoes. |___ |___ |

|Ans: Julienne | | |

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