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Middle School Tournament

2000

ROUND SEVENTEEN

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

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

*1. Buddy receives 3% commission. If he sells a house that costs $125,000, how much is his commission?

$3,750.00

2. What is the title of John Steinbeck’s novel about a young boy’s love for a horse?

The Red Pony

3. Who was the star of the early Disney movie short Steamboat Willie?

Mickey Mouse

4. What legendary British king ruled over the Round Table in Camelot?

Arthur

5. What author wrote the 1939 Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Yearling?

Marjorie K. Rawlings

6. In the human body, what are the two tubes of cartilage rings that extend from the trachea to the lungs?

Bronchi (bronchial tubes)

7. In what state will you find the cities of Fort Wayne, Gary, and Evansville?

Indiana

8. What is the name of the power held by the US chief executive that allows him to disallow laws passed by the legislature?

Veto

9. An isthmus (Is mus) is a narrow strip of land joining two larger masses of land. Spell isthmus.

I-S-T-H-M-U-S

10. Tarsus, metatarsus, and phalanges are all components of what human body part?

Foot

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2000

ROUND SEVENTEEN

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

*1. A regular heptagon has a perimeter of 147 centimeters. What is the length of one side?

21 centimeters

Bonus: Find the area. If necessary, give your answer in terms in pi.

A) A square whose diagonal is 16

B) A circle whose circumference is 34 pi

A) 128 B) 289 pi

2. Conjunctions join sentence parts. What are conjunctions that join equal sentence parts known as?

Coordinating

Bonus: Identify the authors of these literary works.

Innocents Abroad

Then Again, Maybe I Won’t

A) Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorn Clemens) B) Judy Blume

3. During the US Civil War, what future President was Commanding General of the Union Army?

Ulysses S. Grant

Bonus: Name the ruling house to which each of the following English monarchs belonged:

A) Henry VIII

B) George III

A) Tudor B) Hanover

4. Name the female recording artist, known as “Queen of Soul,” who recorded such hits as “Running Out of Fools,” “Chain of Fools,” and “Respect.”

Aretha Franklin

Bonus: Identify the artist who created each of the following works:

A) the 16th century painting The Garden of Earthly Delights

B) the 19th century painting Luncheon of the Boating Party

A) Hieronymus Bosch B) Auguste Renoir

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5. A poor speller writes that someone is buried in a graveyard. A good speller would use the word cemetery. Spell cemetery.

C-E-M-E-T-E-R-Y

Bonus: Identify these poets.

A) She wrote poetry without titles, so we identify “I’m Nobody. Who are You?” and “A Bird Came Down the Walk” and her other 2,000 or so poems by their first lines.

B) After becoming blind, he had his daughters write out his poetic masterpiece Paradise Lost.

A) Emily Dickinson B) John Milton

*6. Within one year, the number of student who signed up for German classes went from 50 to 40. What was the percent of decrease?

20%

Bonus: Answer these questions about a cube that has an edge 5 units long.

A) What is its surface area?

B) What is the length of its diagonal?

A) 150 square units B) five square root of three units

7. What is the name for a protein that controls the rate of chemical reactions that take place in cells, tissues, and organs?

Enzyme

Bonus: Think about human body needs and identify the following:

A) If you lack this vitamin, you may develop a deficiency disorder known as scurvy.

B) A banana is notable for its high content of this mineral.

A) Vitamin C B) Potassium

8. The US government frequently uses abbreviations to shorten the names of governmental agencies. What does the abbreviation FCC stand for?

Federal Communications Commission

Bonus: Answer these questions about World War II.

A) What was the name of the last-stand German onslaught in the Ardennes?

B) What was the code name for the 1941 attack on Russia?

A) Battle of the Bulge B) Operation Barbarossa

9. The largest fresh water lake in the world is also the largest fresh water lake in North America. What is this lake, one of the five Great Lakes?

Lake Superior

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Bonus: I’ll give you a capital city. You give me its country.

A) Damascus

B) Bangkok

A) Syria B) Thailand

10. This American inventor said, “Genius is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration.” Who was this man who invented the record player and the incandescent lamp?

Thomas Edison

Bonus: Identify these women noted for their political positions.

A) The first woman premier of Israel

B) The first woman Prime Minister of India

A) Golda Meir B) Indira Gandhi

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Middle School Tournament

2000

ROUND SEVENTEEN

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. Odin

2. Nephron

3. Object

4. Noon

5. Oval

6. New Orleans

7. Opera

8. Neanderthal

9. O' Keefe (Georgia)

10. New Guinea

11. Ovary

12. Nobel (Alfred)

13. Old Hickory

14. Nocturne

15. Outcrop

16. New Deal

17. Optic

18. Nanny

19. Olympics

20. Narcissus

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ROUND SEVENTEEN

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

1. In mathematics, this is the name of a law that governs the interaction of certain numbers with respect to addition. What is this law which states that the quantity of A plus B added to C is equal to A added to the quantity of B plus C?

Associative

2. It happened at Griffin’s Wharf on December 16, 1773. Arranged by Samuel Adams, this raid on England’s ships by Boston Whigs and Sons of Liberty disguised as Native Americans led to passage of the Intolerable Acts. What was this historic event known as?

Boston Tea Party

3. The foundations for what modern science were begun by work published in 1866 by the Austrian monk Gregor Mendel?

Genetics

4. He began his career as an artist in 1811, then later began to experiment with electricity as a means of sending signals using dots and dashes. Who is this inventor of the telegraph?

Samuel Finley Reese Morse

5. What Shakespearean character muses that “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet”?

Juliet

*6. Find the number such that 5 more than the number is equivalent to 7 less than 3 times the number.

Six

7. What is the region of the earth’s atmosphere that extends about 30 miles upward and is immediately above the troposphere?

Stratosphere

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8. What American poet, who spoke at John Kennedy’s inauguration, wrote “But I have promises to keep/ And miles to go before I sleep” in his poem “Stopping by Words on a Snowy Evening?”

Robert Frost

9. Which cranial nerve carries the sense of smell?

Olfactory

10. Made of oranges and coconut, this dish is typically served at Thanksgiving and Christmas. Also the celestial food used by mythical gods, what is this dish called?

Ambrosia

END OF ROUND SEVENTEEN

Emergency toss-ups:

1. This scientific instrument is named for the scientist who in 1924 identified galaxies recognized as such. What is the name of this high caliber space telescope?

Hubble

2. What is the name of the home of the Hobbits in Tolkien’s Middle Earth?

The Shire

Emergency bonus:

Answer these questions about the John F. Kennedy assassination.

A) Give the complete date on which the assassination occurred.

B) Identify the special commission charged with investigating the assassination.

A) November 12, 1963 B) The Warren Commission

ROUND SEVENTEEN WORKSHEET Oh No

_______________________1. In Norse mythology, the ruler of the god

_______________________2. The unit of structure and function of the kidney

_______________________3. A noun or pronoun that receives or is affected by the action of a verb or

preposition

_______________________4. The moment of the day at which the sun is directly over the meridian

_______________________5. Egg-shaped

_______________________6. Site of battle fought after the War of 1812 had been ended by the Treaty of Paris

_______________________7. A theatrical work consisting of drama set to music

_______________________8. Group of Old Stone Age people who lived from about 100,000-40,000 years

ago

_______________________9. American painter greatly influenced by New Mexico landscapes, light, bones,

and flowers

_______________________10. World's second largest island

_______________________11. The female gonad where egg cells are produced

_______________________12. Swedish inventor of dynamite

_______________________13. Andrew Jackson's nickname

_______________________14. A night piece, such as a landscape night scene

_______________________15. Bedrock penetrating to the surface through soil layers

_______________________16. FDR's policies aimed at combating economic miseries of the Great Depression

_______________________17. Nerve that runs from the retina to the visual cortex of the brain

_______________________18. A female goat

_______________________19. Athletic games begun in 776 B. C. and held every four years

_______________________20. Greek mythological youth who fell in love with his own image in a pool of

water

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