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Middle School Tournament

2001

ROUND ONE

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

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

*1. What is the result when the number of events in a decathlon divides the sum of the number of squares on a checkerboard plus the number of letters of our alphabet?

9

2. What are large tropical storm systems with high-powered circular winds that originate in the Atlantic Ocean called?

Hurricanes

3. How many rings appear on the Olympic symbol?

Five

4. What does the abbreviation ATM stand for?

Automated Teller Machine

5. What is the product of the number of legs of an insect times the number of moons of Mars?

Twelve

6. The Colorado River empties into what body of water?

Gulf of California

7. What singer was Born to Run in 1975 and Born in the USA in 1984?

Bruce Springsteen

8. Consider the sentence: Shoving me before him, she forced us down the alley. What is the direct object of the independent clause?

Us

9. What is the minimum voting age in the United States?

18

10. Which flower has the same name as a diaphragm of the eye?

Iris

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

*1. As of December 31, 2000, what would have been the sum of all the telephone area codes in Alabama?

795

Bonus: Reduce each of the following to lowest terms.

A) Three hundred twenty-four over four hundred twenty-six

B) One hundred eight over one hundred forty-four

A) Fifty-four over seventy-one B) Three-fourths

2. This Italian mathematician, physicist, and astronomer died under house arrest. Name this man, a resident of Pisa, who discovered that freely falling bodies have an identical acceleration.

Galileo Galilei

Bonus: Answer these questions about colors in science.

A) What color is the longest wavelength of visible light?

B) What color is the planet Neptune when viewed from earth?

A) Red B) Blue

3. In what state would you be if you were at an Air Force Academy Falcons home game?

Colorado

Bonus: Name the city in which each of the following football games are played:

A) Sugar Bowl

B) Liberty Bowl

A) New Orleans, LA B) Memphis, TN

4. This series has young people and adults under the spell of its main character Henry Potter. Who is the author who created this series?

J. K. Rowling

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Bonus: According to legend, Odysseus, leaving his family behind, left Ithaca for a ten-year voyage. Name

A) His wife

B) His son

A) Penelope B) Telemachus

5. The original highway named Route 66 began in Chicago. If you had traveled the entire highway, in what state would you be at the end of the road?

California

Bonus: Identify these US Constitutional Amendments.

A) The Amendment that guarantees due process

B) The Amendment that initiated Prohibition

A) Fifth B) Eighteenth

6. This disease is the result of muscular constriction of the bronchi and swelling of the bronchial mucosa. Name this chronic disease characterized by sporadic attacks of shortness of breath, wheezing, and coughing.

Asthma

Bonus: How good are your senses?

A) How many basic tastes can the human tongue distinguish?

B) What phenomenon is characterized by constant sound in the ears?

A) Four B) Tinnitus

7. What is the Spanish word for “thank you”?

Gracias

Bonus: Answer the following questions about word forms:

A) What is the superlative form of the adjective beautiful?

B) What is the perfect participle of the verb walk?

A) Most beautiful B) Having walked

8. Name the inland sea that both Turkey and Russia border.

Black Sea

Bonus: Identify the body of water into which these rivers empty.

A) Columbia River

B) Tennessee River

A) Pacific Ocean B) Ohio River

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9. How many commas are needed to punctuate the following sentence correctly?

A tall, dark, distinguished gentleman handed me a book because I was being honored.

Two

Bonus: Spell the singular form of each of the following plural words.

A) Dice

B) Nuclei

A) D-I-E B) N-U-C-L-E-U-S

10. Which film, released by the Disney Studios in 1938, was the first feature-length-animated film?

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Bonus: I’ll give you a measurement, you tell me what would be measured with these units.

A) Bolt equal to 120 feet

B) Cord equal to 128 cubic feet

A) Cloth B) Wood

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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. Popeye

2. Pop art

3. Parasite

4. Password

5. Phylum

6. Pumice

7. Parliament

8. Phobia

9. Paine

10. Perot

11. Polaris

12. Poll tax

13. Pore

14. Panama

15. Pharaoh

16. Polytheism

17. Pupil

18. Plebian

19. Predicate

20. Pennsylvania

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

*1. In terms of pi, what is the area of a circle whose diameter is 8?

16 pi

2. What mineral is used as the so-called lead in pencils?

Graphite

3. Which American artist made his name with paintings of Coca-Cola bottles and soup cans?

Andy Warhol

4. What Southern poet wrote the poem “The Bells”?

Edgar Allen Poe

5. In 1880 this state became the first to declare itself a dry state. Name this state home of John Brown. Its capital is Topeka.

Kansas

6. What female scientist is noted for her studies and writings on chimpanzees in the wild?

Jane Goodall

7. Which type of radiation is screened out by the earth’s ozone layer?

Ultraviolet

8. What is the Italian word for “scratched drawings”? Today we apply it to unsolicited, public displays of art.

Graffiti

9. This Greek nymph of Diana was shunned by Narcissus and faded to nothing but a voice. Later she was condemned never to speak first and never to be silent when anyone else spoke. Who was she?

Echo

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10. Which country sold land to the US including the present day states of Oklahoma, Arkansas, North Dakota, Iowa and Louisiana in 1803?

France

END OF ROUND ONE

Emergency toss-ups:

1. What may be the first phonetic alphabet was found in 1999. In what ancient African country was it found?

Egypt

2. This is a clean-cut question. Spell hygiene.

H-Y-G-I-E-N-E

Emergency bonus:

Spell each of these commonly misspelled words.

A) Misspelled

B) Idiosyncrasy

A) M-I-S-S-P-E-L-L-E-D b) I-D-I-O-S-Y-N-C-R-A-S-Y

ROUND ONE WORKSHEET P

________________________1. Cartoon sailor noted for eating spinach

________________________2. The art movement associated with Warhol and Lichtenstein

________________________3. An organism that lives on or inside the body another species and does harm

to the host

________________________4. A secret character string required to log onto a computer system

________________________5. Any of the main divisions of the animal kingdom

________________________6. Spongy textured rock created when lava is blown out of a violent volcano

which contains much trapped gas

________________________7. The legislative assembly of Great Britain

________________________8. An anxiety disorder characterized by irrational and intense fear of an object

or activity or physical conditions

________________________9. Author of Common Sense

________________________10. Independent Presidential candidate (1992) from Texas

________________________11. The North Star

________________________12. An unconstitutional tax that must be paid before a person is allowed to vote

________________________13. Small opening, as the openings of the sweat glands in the skin

________________________14. Home country of Manuel Noriega who was overthrown in 1989

________________________15. Title of Egyptian kings and queens

________________________16. Belief in many gods

________________________17. The circular opening in the center of the eye’s iris

________________________18. In Roman history the general body of citizens

________________________19. The grammatical term for what is said about the subject of the sentence

________________________20. Erie, Allentown, Scranton, Reading

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