Norris Middle School Quizbowl 6 Question Set 3
Round 3
1. Which of these mountains has the lowest total relief: K-2, Everest, McKinley, Mauna Kea, or Kilimanjaro?Answer: Kilimanjaro / ___ / ___
2. After William the Conqueror's invasion of England in 1066, French became England's official court language. Little wonder, then, that a French phrase appears on the Royal Coat of Arms. What 4 word French phrase on the coat of arms means "God and my right"?
Answer: Dieu et Mon Droit / ___ / ___
3. Is the Lincoln Memorial representative of the Doric, Ionic, or Corinthian style?
Answer: Doric / ___ / ___
4. Which synonym for "hatred" is drawn from the Latin word for "enemy"?
Answer: ENMITY / ___ / ___
5. Deported to Italy, Lucky Luciano slipped back to which Caribbean island to run his U.S. operations?
Answer: Cuba / ___ / ___
6. What is the difference between men's and women's golf?
Answer: The position of the tee (It's closer to the hole for women.) / ___ / ___
7. What's the national musical instrument of Spain?
Answer: Guitar / ___ / ___
8. The Triton is a celebrated: airplane, submarine, hydrogen bomb, or aircraft carrier?
Answer: Submarine / ___ / ___
9. What's the official language of Panama?
Answer: Spanish / ___ / ___
10. In The Federalist Number 51, who put forth a case for the separation of powers and a system of checks and balances?
Answer: James Madison / ___ / ___
11. Find the volume in cubic inches of a cube in which each face has an area of 4 square inches.
Answer: 8 / ___ / ___
12. Which President used the Antiquities Act of 1906 to declare the Grand Canyon a national monument to shield it from development?
Answer: Theodore Roosevelt / ___ / ___
13. Queen Victoria introduced the hemophilia gene into many royal families, but not into the current British royal family. That's because they are all descended from what successor of Victoria who lacked the gene, who was the seventh of his name to reign?
Answer: King Edward / ___ / ___
14. In 1920, the 19th amendment gave women the right to vote. In 1971, what did the 26th amendment do?
Answer: It gave 18-year-olds the right to vote. / ___ / ___
15. An earthquake has many different intensities, because intensity is the measure of its destructiveness from area to area. What three-syllable word names the single fundamental quality of an earthquake's strength?
Answer: Magnitude / ___ / ___
16. Match the requiem with the composer. TITLES: A German Requiem, War Requiem, Manzoni Requiem. COMPOSERS: Johannes Brahms, Benjamin Britten, Giuseppe Verdi.
Answer: German Requiem by Brahms, War Requiem by Britten, Manzoni Requiem by Verdi (i.e. same order as given) / ___ / ___
17. Plants using anemophily are pollinated by: mammals, winds, birds, insects, or water?
Answer: Winds / ___ / ___
18. Brook Farm and New Harmony were ideal societies established in the United States in the 19th century. What is the word used to describe such ideal communities? The term comes from the Latin word meaning "no place".
Answer: Utopias / ___ / ___
19. What federal agency can be described as collecting roughly "$150 billion a year less than the proper amount, and misspending billions doing it"?
Answer: Internal Revenue Service / ___ / ___
20. Four single biographies and twenty-three pairs of biographies make up which work of classical literature?
Answer: Plutarch's LIVES / ___ / ___
21. Who observed that Cassius had "a lean and hungry look" -- Julius Caesar, Brutus, Marc Antony, or Calpurnia?
Answer: Julius Caesar / ___ / ___
22. The best-developed tropical low pressure areas are located over the land, and the best-developed tropical high pressure areas are located over what?
Answer: Ocean / ___ / ___
23. Which of our presidents originated the saying, “The world must be made safe for democracy”?
Answer: Woodrow Wilson / ___ / ___
24. What can you make about a pound of from 200,000 stamens of crocus flowers?
Answer: Saffron / ___ / ___
25. Which term refers to a stage in embryonic development: bilk, bork, blastula, or boson?
Answer: Blastula / ___ / ___
26. Which country forms the northernmost part of the United Kingdom?
Answer: Scotland / ___ / ___
27. In Greek mythology, various beasts are part human and part animal. You tell me what makes up the animal part of these creatures: satyr, Minotaur, harpy, centaur.
Answer: (In order) goat, bull, bird, horse / ___ / ___
28. Books by this author include NORTH WEST PASSAGE (1908) and THE SOUTH POLE (1912). Can you name him?
Answer: Roald Amundsen / ___ / ___
29. It doesn't really make sense but the Easternmost point and the Westernmost city of the United States both begin with the same word. Give this four-letter word.
Answer: West (West Quoddy Head, ME and West Unalaska, AK.) / ___ / ___
30. Which two U.S. states form true rectangles?
Answer: Colorado and Wyoming / ___ / ___
31. Ralph Waldo Emerson called it "the surest poison," but others call it "of the essence." What is it?
Answer: Time / ___ / ___
32. What is the equation of the vertical asymptote of the radical function with equation y equals one divided by quantity x minus one.
Answer: X equals one / ___ / ___
33. Which province produces most of Canada's petroleum?
Answer: Alberta / ___ / ___
34. What's the southernmost state capital among the 48 contiguous states?
Answer: Austin, Texas / ___ / ___
35. Who were the only two members of the "James Boys" not killed or caught while robbing a Northfield, Minnesota bank in 1876?
Answer: Frank and Jesse James / ___ / ___
36. In a mosque, a "minbar" is the equivalent of this elevated speaking platform in a church.
Answer: Pulpit / ___ / ___
37. In 1989, Romanian was restored as its official language. In 1994, its citizens rejected unification with Romania in favor of independence. Name this nation, formerly a republic in the Soviet Union.
Answer: Moldova / ___ / ___
38. Which of these important events took place in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848? (a) Goings-on at the Oneida community shocked the nation, (b) Women met to call for their rights as citizens, (c) the Johnstown Flood killed over 2,000 people, (d) a revelation led Joseph Smith to create the Book of Mormon, or (e) the Erie Canal was completed?
Answer: (b) / ___ / ___
39. The 1938 radio broadcast War of the Worlds triggered nationwide panic with its fictional account of a Martian landing. Who was the narrator?
Answer: Orson Welles / ___ / ___
40. The expression "You can't fight ______" expresses the futility of struggling against bureaucracy.
Answer: City hall / ___ / ___
41. What did the Ark of the Covenant hold?
Answer: The Ten Commandments / ___ / ___
Instructions: During the last 5 minutes of each match, use the 'Blitz' format with 10 points for each tossup and no bonus. All answers must be answered without stalling.
Grammar
42. A lexicographer uses what seven-letter adjective beginning with "a" to describe these words: methinks, albeit, prithee?
Ans: Archaic / ___ / ___
43. What category of sentence might contain four main clauses and five subordinate clauses?
Ans: Compound-complex sentence / ___ / ___
44. What is the eight-letter name for any word that limits, describes, or makes more precise the meaning of another word?
Ans: Modifier / ___ / ___
45. These words fall into what category of adverbs: indeed, nonetheless, moreover, furthermore, otherwise, therefore?
Ans: Conjunctive adverbs / ___ / ___
Literature
46. Which fictional character could be called a professional exterminator of pests: Fagin, Walter Mitty, Puck, Simon Legree, or the Pied Piper?
Ans: Pied Piper / ___ / ___
47. Poet Thomas Gray's most famous elegy was written at what location?
Ans: At a country churchyard / ___ / ___
48. Dr. Faustus sells his soul to the devil in exchange for: immortality, riches, love, youth, or knowledge and power?
Ans: Knowledge and power / ___ / ___
49. Name any two of the three children of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra in Greek mythology.
Ans: Iphigenia, Electra, Orestes / ___ / ___
Attila the Hun
50. Attila negotiated an annual tribute of 730 pounds of what metal from the Byzantine emperor?
Ans: Gold / ___ / ___
51. Attila the Hun was called "Flagellum Dei," usually translated from the Latin as what?
Ans: The Scourge of God / ___ / ___
52. Attila lived during what century?
Ans: 5th A.D. / ___ / ___
53. In 452, Attila invaded Italy and sacked the city of Mediolanum, now called what?
Ans: Milan / ___ / ___
June Words: I'm going to define some words and phrases that contain the letters J, U, N, and E, in that order but not necessarily consecutively.
54. Star of The Sound of Music on the silver screen.
Ans: Julie Andrews / ___ / ___
55. School offering a two-year program.
Ans: Junior College / ___ / ___
56. Captain Nemo's creator.
Ans: Jules Verne / ___ / ___
57. Villain thwarted by Tom Sawyer.
Ans: Injun Joe / ___ / ___
58. Mexican seeds containing moth larvae.
Ans: Jumping beans / ___ / ___
59. Captain of the Bonhomme Richard.
Ans: John Paul Jones / ___ / ___
60. Called a recess.
Ans: Adjourned / ___ / ___
61. Make young again.
Ans: Rejuvenate / ___ / ___
62. Reform school candidate.
Ans: Juvenile delinquent / ___ / ___
63. Cut into thin, matchlike strips, as carrots or potatoes.
Ans: Julienne / ___ / ___