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Middle School Tournament

2000

ROUND THREE

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

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

*1. Jennifer selects china that costs $11.50 per plate. How much does a set of 12 plates cost?

$138.00

2. What Greek author is credited with writing The Iliad and The Odyssey?

Homer

3. One of the most popular means of transportation, SUV’s can be seen across the country. What do the initials SUV stand for?

Sport Utility Vehicle

4. Name the two belts of radiation outside the earth’s atmosphere, discovered by detectors aboard Explorer I.

Van Allen (Radiation Belts)

5. The Atacoma Desert is located on which continent?

South America

6. Into what classification do the following pronouns fall: each, all, either, whoever?

Indefinite

7. Noted for Water Music, Fireworks Music and Italian opera, this German composer did much of his work in England in the early 1700’s. Who is this composer best known for the oratorio Messiah?

George Frederic Handel

In what Bronte novel will you find the characters Catherine and Heathcliff?

Wuthering Heights

8. Which commander of British forces in the American Revolutionary War surrendered to George Washington at Yorktown, Virginia?

General Lord Cornwallis

10. What is the shape of a stop sign? Octagon

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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. There are only five possible regular polyhedrons. The tetrahedron, octahedron, dodecahedron, and icosahedron are four of the five. Give the mathematical term for the fifth, a shape formed by six squares as sides and often used in games of chance.

Cube

Bonus: This is a handyman math question. Assume that you have a 10-foot by 12-foot room to carpet.

A) If the carpet costs $9.00 per square yard, what is the cost of the carpet?

B) If you can lay 5 square feet of carpet in ½ hour, how long will it take you to finish the job?

A) $120.00 B) 12 hours

2. Who was the Polish astronomer who first described the then known universe as a system in which the sun is at the center with the planets revolving around the sun?

Nicholaus Copernicus

Bonus: Answer these questions related to physics.

A) What do physicists call the ability to do work?

B) What do physicists call the force that brings moving bodies to a halt?

A) Energy B) Friction

3. This author incorporated his satirical observations of culture into his popular children’s novels. Name this man who wrote Trumpet of the Swan, Stuart Little, and Charlotte’s Web.

E. B. White

Bonus: Consider The Jungle Book.

A) Who was the author?

B) What kind of animal was Mowgli’s surrogate mother?

A) Rudyard Kipling B) Wolf

3. The term alto refers usually to a voice tone associated with young boys. It is actually a shortened form of a term describing a female vocal range. What word is the basis for the term alto?

Contralto

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Bonus: Given the date of the movie and two songs from the score, name the musical.

A) 1964; A Spoonful of Sugar; Feed the Birds

B) 1955; Surrey With the Fringe on the Top; Kansas City

A) Mary Poppins B) Oklahoma

4. What 20th century author has written The Stand, The Tommyknockers, Misery, and Pet Sematary?

Stephen King

Bonus: I’ll give you a plural noun. You spell its singular form.

A) Criteria

B) Dice

A) C-R-I-T-E-R-I-O-N B) D-I-E

5. Fifteen hundred miles long and twenty-five feet high, this structure was built to stop invasions from the north, but failed. What is this man-made structure, visible from the moon, called?

Great Wall of China

Bonus: More Alabama history

A) Congress designated the first seat of government for the Alabama territory. Where was it located?

B) What Alabama town immediately preceded Montgomery as the State capital?

A) St. Stephens B) Tuscaloosa

6. What is the most essential spice in Hungarian cooking, the spice that adds both flavor and red color?

Paprika

Bonus: How well do you know your entertainment stars?

A) Which comedian starred in the film role of Fletch?

B) On what TV show did Barbara Stanwyck play the matriarch of the Barkley family?

A) Chevy Chase B) Big Valley

7. Built within a lagoon in an arm of the Adriatic Sea, this city lies on 118 islands. What is this northeastern Italian city?

Venice

Bonus: Three US states east of New York border Canada. Maine is one. What are the other two?

A) Vermont B) New Hampshire

8. Often triangular in shape, this sedimentary deposit forms at the mouth of a river where the river enters the sea. What is this land area called?

Delta

Bonus: The Dead Sea is known for its salty water. Answer these questions about salty water.

A) What is the chemical symbol for water?

B) What is the chemical symbol for salt?

A) H2O B) NaCl

9. According to Chinese legend, this animal was last seen at the birth of Confucius. According to Biblical legend, this same luckless animal was thrown off Noah’s ark and drowned. What is this one-horned, fanciful animal often seen in Medieval tapestries?

Unicorn

Bonus: Identify these American authors.

A) New England writer who wrote Eight Cousins, Little Men, and Little Women

B) Afro-American author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

A) Louisa Mae Alcott B) Maya Angelou

10. In the world of computer, what does RAM stand for?

Random Access Memory

Bonus: Answer these questions related to the US space program.

A) What American is known as the “Father of Modern Rocketry”?

B) Who was the first American woman in space?

A) Robert Goddard B) Sally Ride

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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:

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

*1. Given the line with the equation 7 X minus 12 Y equals 13. What is the slope of the line perpendicular to this line?

Twelve-sevenths

2. What Aldous Huxley novel takes its title from a line in Shakespeare’s The Tempest?

Brave New World

3. Which English landscape artist painted The Hay Wain?

John Constable

4. What famous French prison was stormed on July 14, 1789, by a Parisian mob, marking the outbreak of the French Revolution?

Bastille

5. Without adequate amounts of this mineral, the human body may develop rickets in children and osteoporosis in adults. Found in dairy products and green vegetables, which mineral is it?

Calcium

6. Considered one of the greatest American playwrights, he wrote Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Streetcar named Desire, and The Glass Menagerie. Who is this dramatist who took a Southern state’s name as his own?

Tennessee Williams

7. This American architect is known for a famous house built of decks hanging over a waterfall in Pennsylvania and for New York City’s Guggenheim Museum, a huge spiral of stone. Who is this architect who used stone materials in their natural state?

Frank Lloyd Wright

8. Two of the three countries that make up the Horn of Africa are Djibouti and Ethiopia. Name the third country, a county to which US troops were sent in 1992 to protect the delivery of food to its starving people.

Somalia

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10. Stored in the gallbladder, it breaks down fats, preparing them for digestion. Also known as gall, it is made by the liver. What is this thick, yellow-green-brown fluid called?

Bile

END OF ROUND THREE

Emergency toss-ups:

1. In what tense is the verb phrase have waited?

Present Perfect

2. In what 20th century decade did the following events occur: Lindbergh’s flight and the discovery of King Tut’s tomb?

20s

Emergency bonus:

Answer these questions about economics:

A) What is the largest labor union in the United States?

B) What is the oldest and largest US stock exchange?

A) AFL-CIO B) New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)

ROUND THREE WORKSHEET B

1. Author of Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience

2. Plant for which the life cycle is two years

3. A copy of computer data that can be referred to if the original is lost

4. The string of lights seen at the time of a total eclipse of the sun

5. Trading of goods or services directly without the use of money

6. Proposed law under consideration by a legislative body

7. Term for one of the unusually large number of persons born roughly between 1945-1965

8. Chuck, flank, round, rump, New York strip, T-bone

9. The condition of having both male and female characteristics

10. Manufacturing company that makes the wide bodied jumbo jet 747

11. Man who developed the process for making steel

12. Inventor of the telephone

13. A large African monkey with an elongated, doglike muzzle

14. The lowest note in a musical chord

15. Democratic President during the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858

16. The life of one person told by another

17. Act of breaking into a dwelling with intent to commit a felony

18. Pioneer, frontiersman, and legendary hero who established a fort named for him in Kentucky

19. Italian word for excellent or well done

20. Ancient Mesopotamian city of Hammurabi, Nebuchadnezzar, and the Hanging Gardens

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