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Middle School Tournament

2000

ROUND SIXTEEN

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

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

1. Arrange a set of numbers in order and find the middle number. What mathematical term identifies this middle number?

Median

2. Which New England poet wrote of the American Revolution in “Paul Revere’s Ride”?

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

3. In what part of the plant does photosynthesis occur?

Leaf

4. On a mountaintop near Charlottesville, Virginia, sits the home designed and built by Thomas Jefferson. What did he call this home?

Monticello

5. What female author created Jeremia Puddle-Duck and Peter Rabbit?

Beatrix Potter

6. Amphitheaters, aqueducts, and baths are associated with which ancient culture?

Roman

7. In what southern city was the government for the Confederate States of America organized on February 8, 1861?

Montgomery AL

8. This President visited communist China in 1972. Who was this man who became the first US President to resign?

Richard Nixon

9. What is the scientific term for trees and shrubs that lose their leaves and become dormant during the winter?

Deciduous

10. What is the name of the only novel written by the reclusive Monroeville, Alabama, writer Harper Lee?

To Kill a Mockingbird

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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. A certain recipe calls for 3 cups of nuts for 4 dozen cookies. How many cups of nuts are needed to make 10 dozen cookies?

7 ½ cups

Bonus: Change each of the following to base 2 numerals:

A) 45

B) 139

A) 101101 B) 10001011

2. Which author created the character Winnie-the –Pooh in 1926?

Alan Alexander (A. A.) Milne

Bonus: Let’s see what you know about numbers and literature.

A) How many syllables are in the Japanese poetic form known as haiku?

B) How many lines are in a Shakespearean sonnet?

A) 17 B) 14

3. The star Rigel occurs in what constellation?

Orion

Bonus: Identify these scientists from their descriptions.

A) Swedish scientist who developed the animal and plant classification system in 1735

B) English scientist who is credited with perfecting the small pox vaccine in 1796

A) Carolus Linnaeus B) Edward Jenner

4. What English science and science-fiction writer’s work was the basis for Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film

2001- A Space Odyssey?

Arthur C. Clarke

Bonus: Give the name of the artist who created each of the following works:

A) Bronze sculpture Coming Through the Rye

B) “Believe It or Not” cartoons

A) Frederic Remington B) Robert L. Ripley

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5. This very popular yet not terribly successful major league baseball team last won the World Series in1908. Name this team who plays its home games in Wrigley Field.

Chicago Cubs

Bonus: What do you know about Alabama geographic history?

A) What town grew out of the exiled Trench’s Vine and Olive Colony after the Napoleonic Wars?

B) What was the first major river DeSoto crossed when entering Alabama?

A) Demopolis B) Tennessee

6. After realizing that she could not influence Octavian, this Egyptian queen killed herself. Who was this queen, mistress of Julius Caesar and mother of two of Mark Anthony’s children?

Cleopatra

Bonus: Answer these totally unrelated questions.

A) What plant was once widely cultivated by ancient Egyptians for making writing paper?

B) What science term is defined as the internal friction of a fluid produced by the movement of its molecules against each other?

A) Papyrus B) Viscosity

7. A capable warrior Geronimo was among the last to lead Native Americans against white settlers. What great tribe did he lead?

Apache

Bonus: Identify these explorers.

A) The man credited reaching the North Pole first

B) The New Zealand explorer who climbed Mt. Everest in 1953

A) Robert Peary B) Edmund Hillary

8. This is the only US state that borders two oceans. Name this state, the home of the cities of Barrow, Nome, Fairbanks, and Anchorage.

Alaska

Bonus: Answer these questions about US land purchases.

A) Who was President when the Louisiana Purchase was made?

B) What Secretary of State negotiated the purchase of Alaska?

A) Thomas Jefferson B) William Seward

9. Adenoids, bronchus, alveoli, and diaphragm are parts of what human system?

Respiratory

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Bonus: Animals are classified in seven ranks, starting with kingdom.

A) What classification comes after kingdom?

B) What is the last rank?

A) Phylum B) Species

10. If it is 2 p.m. in Los Angeles, what time is it in Washington D. C.?

5 p.m.

Bonus: Find the area of each triangle.

A) A right triangle whose hypotenuse is 10 and one leg is 8.

B) An equilateral triangle with sides of length 4.

A) 24 (square units) B) four root three (square units)

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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. Haiti

2. Inflection

3. Huguenots

4. Isaac

5. Hibiscus

6. Iwo Jima

7. Hague

8. Indonesia

9. Hades

10. Insect

11. Hayes (Rutherford)

12. Ibsen (Henrik)

13. Homer (Winslow)

14. Iberia

15. Hopscotch

16. Indigo

17. Howe (Julia Ward)

18. Iberville (Pierre)

19. Habitat

20. Idaho

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

*1. What is the result when the quantity two X minus three is raised to the second power?

Four X squared minus 12 X plus 9

2. Name the Russian whose name is used to identify a crude type of hand-thrown bomb.

Vyacheslov Molotov

3. Cite of the cities of Rome, Athens, and Albany, what state is the largest US state east of the Mississippi River?

Georgia

4. In 1959 he was president of the Screen Actors Guild. Ten years later he was Governor of California. Who was this man, the 40th President of the United States?

Ronald Reagan

5. Within two million miles, approximately how far is earth from the sun?

Accept numbers within 91 to 95 million miles

6. Give an expression using the word red which is used to describe an excessive amount of procedures or paperwork.

Red tape

7. Wife of a recognized English Romantic poet, she created one of the most recognized monsters in literature. Who was this author, the creator of Dr. Frankenstein and his monster?

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

8. It is worn on the heads of artists, Frenchmen, or members of an elite group in the US Army. What is the name of this flat, round hat with a tight headband?

Beret

What is the hard white ceramic material invented in China, A.D. 800, and is considered to be the finest form of ceramic?

Porcelain

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9. These animals all have bilateral symmetry, chambered hearts, and a closed circulatory system. What is the name give to any animal that has a backbone or spinal column?

Vertebrates

END OF ROUND SIXTEEN

Emergency toss-ups:

1. Which Air Force rank is one promotion greater than Captain?

Major

2. This special computer device is connected to the terminal by a wire. The rolling ball on the bottom activates a pointer on the screen. What is this device, which moves the cursor quickly around the screen, called?

Mouse

Emergency bonus:

A rectangle has a perimeter of 104 meters. The length is 2 meters more than the width.

A) Find the length.

B) Find the area.

A) 27 B) 675

ROUND SIXTEEN WORKSHEET HI

____________________1. Country which occupies the western third of the island of Hipaniola

_______________________2. Change in the form of a word through declension, conjugation, or comparison

_______________________3. French Protestants, followers of John Calvin

_______________________4. Biblical son of Abraham and his wife Sarah

_______________________5. Groups of plants in the mallow family including the swamp rose, rose of

Sharon, and okra

_______________________6. Site of a WW II battle, a northwestern Pacific volcanic island, famous for a

Marine flag-raising photo

_______________________7. Official residence of the Queen of the Netherlands

_______________________8. Country consisting of many islands including Timor, Borneo, Java, Bali

_______________________9. Ruler of the dead in Greek mythology

_______________________10. Beetle, grasshopper, praying mantis, moth, fly, ant

_______________________11. U. S. President during the first great railroad strike in 1877

_______________________12. A Doll's House, Ghosts, The Wild Duck, Peer Gynt, Hedda Gabler

_______________________13. American artist famous for painting seascapes

_______________________14. Ancient name of the peninsula occupied today by Spain and Portugal

_______________________15. Children's jumping game played on a pattern of drawn squares

_______________________16. Deep blue dye which does not dissolve in water

_______________________17. Author of the poem "The Battle Hymn of the Republic"

_______________________18. French Canadian explorer who led the French settlement of the providence of

Louisiana and Mobile

_______________________19. Place in which a plant or animal lives in nature

_______________________20. Aberdeen, Kellogg, Twin Falls, Boise

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