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Middle School Tournament

2000

ROUND NINE

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

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

*1. In the division problem 91 divided by 7 equals 13, which number is the divisor?

7

2. What are violent sound waves produced by lightning?

Thunder

3. Identify the simple subject of the following sentence: In the past month, there have been three accidents on this road.

Accidents

4. If blue pigment and yellow pigment are mixed, what color is formed?

Green

5. What Portuguese navigator made the first sea voyage to India?

Vasco da Gama

6. Goulash is a beef soup associated with what nation?

Hungary

7. Who was Prime Minister of England during World War II?

Sir Winston Churchill

8. The chinook is the largest of what fish family?

Salmon

9. In what state park is the highest mountain peak in Alabama?

Cheaha

10. Who is the Connecticut schoolmaster who falls in love with a Dutch heiress in “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”?

Icabod Crane

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ROUND NINE

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

*1. An urn contains 3 blue, 4 green and 7 yellow marbles. What is the probability of drawing either a blue or a green marble?

½

Bonus: Completely factor each of the following:

Two X squared minus five X minus three

X squared plus six X minus ninety-one

A) the quantity 2 X plus 1 times the quantity X minus 3

B) the quantity X minus seven times the quantity X plus 13

2. Spell the plural possessive form of child.

C-H-I-L-D-R-E-N-apostrophe-S

Bonus: “Fish and visitors smell in three days” and “Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man health, wealthy, and wise” appear in Poor Richard’s Almanack.

Which American published this almanac?

A) Under what pen name were the almanacs published?

A) Benjamin Franklin B) Richard Saunders

3. The greatest single volcanic explosion in the last 3000 years was the 1883 eruption on what island?

Krakatoa

Bonus: I’ll give you the name of a desert. You tell me on which continent it is located.

A) Libyan Desert

B) Great Victoria Desert

A) Africa B) Australia

4. He introduced the mass-production of the automobile on an assembly line in 1909 and changed the automotive industry. Who was he?

Henry Ford

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Bonus: Do you know your military leaders?

A) This general defeated the British in the Battle of New Orleans and was elected President as a candidate for the common man.

B) This general was supreme commander in Europe of all Allied Forces in Europe during World War II. When he ran for President, both Democrats and Republicans wanted him as their candidate.

A) Andrew Jackson (not “Stonewall”) B) Dwight David Eisenhower

5. His popular literary works were published under the pen name Mark Twain. What was this American author’s real name?

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (no “t” on the end!)

Bonus: Who wrote each of these poems?

A) “If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking”

B) “Ode to the West Wind”

A) Emily Dickinson B) Percy Bysshe Shelly

6. Pointed arches, elaborate carvings, curved windows and doors, and flying buttresses are characteristic of which type architecture?

Gothic

Bonus: Identify these famous painters.

French impressionist painter known for his paintings of sunflowers

A) Norwegian painter best known for The Scream

A) Vincent Van Gogh B) Edvard Munch

7. Hot and cold, large and small, hatred and love are examples of words with opposite meanings. What are words such as these called?

Antonyms

Bonus: Consider the book Peter Pan.

Who wrote the story?

What was the name of the ship captained by Captain Hook?

A) J. M. Barrie B) Jolly Roger

8. Their logo was designed by rock poster artist “Mouse.” What rock band uses a skull and roses logo?

Grateful Dead

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Bonus: Answer these questions about the classic movie Easter Parade.

A) Who was Fred Astaire’s dancing and singing partner?

B) Who wrote the score for the movie?

A) Ginger Rogers B) Irving Berlin

9. Hanged September 22, 1776, this Colonial army captain’s last words were “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.” Who was he?

Nathan Hale

Bonus: From its definition, identify each word associated with the Reconstruction Period in the US.

A) The Southern term for Northerners who came South to help in Reconstruction

B) A derogatory term used to describe a Southerner who joined the Republican Party and the Reconstruction program

A) Carpetbaggers B) Scalawags

10. How many permanent teeth should an adult mouth contain?

32

Bonus: Use your head to answer these brain questions.

A) What is the largest part of the brain, the part consisting of the left and right hemispheres, called?

B) What part of the brain sends signals from the spinal cord to the rest of the body and controls the automatic nervous system?

A) Cerebrum B) Medulla oblongata

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Middle School Tournament

2000

ROUND NINE

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. Dover

2. Dangling

3. Diana

4. District Attorney

5. Dream

6. De Soto (Hernando)

7. Denouement

8. Decatur (Stephen)

9. Direct (Current)

10. Diesel

11. Diaphragm

12. Dialogue

13. David

14. Dew Point

15. Desert

16. Do do

17. Double Negative

18. Davis (Jefferson)

19. David (Jacques-Louis)

20. Dribble

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ROUND NINE

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

*1. What is the area of a rectangle that has a diagonal of 13 and one side of 12?

60

2. In which Dickens’ novel, considered by many to be his masterpiece, does the main character board with the Micawber family?

David Copperfield

3. Give the superlative form for the adjective ill.

Worst (Do not accept worse)

4. What term refers to the seven-branched candelabrum used in Jewish ceremonies?

Menorah

5. Born in 1841, this Alabama woman was an educator and author of many state prison reforms. Who is this woman who wrote the State song Alabama?

Julia Strudwick Tutwiler

6. What explorer searched for the Seven Cities of Cibola in the southwestern United States?

Francisco de Coronado

7. What 20th century US President, in emphasizing his policy towards foreign affairs, said “Speak softly and carry a big stick”?

Theodore Roosevelt

8. Name the body of water that touches the countries of Oman, Pakistan, Iran, and India.

Arabian Sea

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9. The fastest-growing segment of the US population is 85 years old and older. The problems of aging and the diagnosis and treatment of diseases affecting the elderly is a specialty all its own. What is this medical specialty called?

Geriatrics

10.This organ in the human body contains the vocal cords and is responsible for sound production. What is the biological name for the Adam’s apple?

Larynx

END OF ROUND NINE

Emergency toss-ups:

1. Which spiral galaxy, also known as M31, is closest to the Milky Way?

Andromeda

2. In 1499, he discovered the mouth of the Amazon. Later he sailed along the northern coast of South America. Who was this Italian navigator whose acceptance of South America as a separate continent altered European understanding of the world and in whose honor America is named?

Amerigo Vespucci

Emergency bonus:

Identify these scientific publications.

A) What Rachel Carson book exposed the dangers of pesticide pollution?

B) In what Charles Darwin book did he develop his theory of evolution?

A) Silent Spring B) Origin of Species

ROUND NINE WORKSHEET D

_______________________1. Capital of Delaware

_______________________2. A modifier that is related to the wrong word in a sentence

_______________________3. Roman goddess of the moon and of hunting

_______________________4. Prosecuting officer of a judicial district such as a city or state

_______________________5. Imagery during sleep

_______________________6. Explorer believed to be first white man to cross the Mississippi

_______________________7. The final outcome of the principal conflict in a literary work

_______________________8. War of 1812 naval officer noted for his toast "…our country, right or wrong"

_______________________9. Electric current flowing steadily in one direction

_______________________10. Man who developed the internal combustion engine in 1892

_______________________11. The muscular partition that divides the chest from the abdomen

_______________________12. A conversation between two or more people

_______________________13. Second King of Israel who fixed his capital at Jerusalem

_______________________14. The temperature at which water vapor condenses out of the air

_______________________15. A region where the annual rainfall is less than 6.5 centimeters

_______________________16. A large flightless bird extinct since the 17th century

_______________________17. Example: He didn't say nothing.

_______________________18. President of the Confederacy

_______________________19. French Revolution painter to Napoleon

_______________________20. Moving a ball by repeated light bounces or kicks

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