Jr. Finals Game 2
First Quarter (Twenty Toss-Up Questions)
1. Oil from this state's Prudhoe Bay is carried in a pipeline to a terminal at Valdez. This state's longest river, the Yukon, flows west into the Bering Sea. Name this state.
ANSWER: Alaska
2. Math Computation Solve for x in the following equation: 1 – 5x = 11?
ANSWER: negative two
3. This site has a lot of history. It is the site of a Revolutionary War skirmish, a Civil War battle, the first territorial capital, and the first permanent European settlement in Arkansas. Name it.
ANSWER: Arkansas Post
4. Identify the six-letter word derived from Latin word which means, against. It is often used to describe two competitors in a sporting match or opposing sides in a legal case.
ANSWER: versus
5. What is a two word term for the larger asteroids in the solar system?
ANSWER: minor planet(s) or dwarf planet(s)
6. From statistics, what is the name for a small amount of something selected at random from the whole that shows what the whole looks like?
ANSWER: sample
7. What word is formed when you use the symbols for the elements tungsten, silver, oxygen, and nitrogen in that order?
ANSWER: wagon
8. Spell the complete word that has been shortened to “fax” when applied to electronically transmitted documents.
ANSWER: f-a-c-s-i-m-i-l-e
9. The Angkor Wat is an ancient temple and palace built by the Khmers in the early 12th century located in what modern day country?
ANSWER: Cambodia
10. What U.S. federal benefit program provides money to senior citizens, retired individuals, and disabled persons to help them avoid poverty?
ANSWER: Social Security
11. What is the last word written in the New Testament of the Christian Bible?
ANSWER: Amen
12. What integer represents the square root of 289?
ANSWER: seventeen
13. One of the top five highest mountain peaks is on a mountain sometimes called Mount Godwin Austen or Ketu-Kechu. Name this mountain more commonly called by its alpha-numeric name.
ANSWER: K2
14. What is an anagram for the word vector that is a synonym for secretive?
ANSWER: covert
15. Stomata are tiny pores in leaves that allow the flow of air into and out of plants. What tissue in lungs performs a similar function in mammals?
ANSWER: alveoli in the lungs
16. Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo are two of the three Great Masters of the High Renaissance period of the 16th century. Name the third Great Master.
ANSWER: Raphael
17. Most of the water that enters the digestive system is absorbed in the large intestine. If dehydration is occurring some water will also be absorbed in what other digestive organ?
ANSWER: stomach
18. If you are applying for a job and need to send a resume you also need to send a letter explaining your intentions. What is this letter called?
ANSWER: cover letter
19. Math Computation Supposedly, a normal sized foot is 15% of the height of a human body. How tall is Morris if he has a normal-sized foot that measures 10.8 inches in length?
ANSWER: 6 feet (or 72 inches)
20. What is the verb form of this sentence: You will have been running three miles.
ANSWER: future perfect progressive
Second Quarter (Ten Toss-Up Questions)
21. What is the name for the cyclical cooling of the waters of the Pacific Ocean off the west coast of South America that can result in changes in the weather patterns in America?
ANSWER: La niña (El niño is a warming pattern)
22. Spell an anagram for timer that is a type of saw used to cut angles in wood.
ANSWER: m-i-t-e-r or m-i-t-r-e
23. What is the name of the space on a Monopoly board diagonally across from the “Go” space?
ANSWER: Free Parking
24. What is the mathematical name for any one of the ten Arabic number symbols, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9?
ANSWER: digit
25. In 800 A.D., this king of the Franks was crowned by Pope Leo III as the first Holy Roman Emperor in Rome on December 25th. What name was he known by?
ANSWER: Charlemagne or Charles the Great or Charles I or Carolus Magnus
26. Uncle Ben and Aunt May are two characters from what 2012 movie?
ANSWER: The Amazing Spiderman
27. How would a Spanish speaking girl say the word mine as it relates to being hers?
ANSWER: mía (MEE-ah)
28. Which head of the Soviet Union said at a meeting of Western ambassadors in 1956: “Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you”? He was head of the Communist Party until 1964, known for his Cold War stance, and during his reign the Cuban Missile Crisis occurred.
ANSWER: Nikita Khrushchev
29. Math Computation If 5 times 5 is 25 and 5 times 5 times 5 is 125, what is 5 times 5 times 5 times 5 times 5?
ANSWER: 3125
30. What type of lens is thinner, or indented, in the center, and has thicker outer edges?
ANSWER: concave lens
Second Quarter (Four Bonus Questions)
1. Black History Firsts
Identify these facts from America’s black history.
1. First black man to die in support of the American Revolution. 1. Crispus Attucks
2. First black Secretary of State. 2. Colin Powell
3. First black man to run for vice-president 3. Frederick Douglass
4. First black man to earn a PH.D. from Harvard 4. W. E. B. DuBois
2. The Number Four (Math Computation)
Complete these calculations using the number four.
1. Four factorial 1. 24
2. Four to the fourth power 2. 256
3. Four to the negative fourth power 3. 1/256
4. One over four to the negative fourth power 4. 256
3. Harry Potter-Odd Man Out
Which of the four listed items does not belong with the others?
1. Which dragon was not part of the tri-wizard tournament: Common Welsh Green, Chinese fireball, Swedish Short-Snout, or Hebridean Black?
2. Which of these is not an O.W. L grade: poor, acceptable, outstanding or good?
3. Which is not a magic shop: Gambol and Japes, Zonko’s, Twilfitt and Tattings’s, or Weasley’s Wizard Wheezes?
4. Which is not an Unforgiveable Curse: imperius curse, killing curse, curcuatus curse or flagrente curse?
1. Hebridean Black 2. Good 3. Gambol and Japes 4. Flagrante Curse
4. Dances
Identify these various styles of dance, which all have two-word names.
1. Name of the social dance of American pioneers? 1. Square Dance
2. Children’s party dance where you put their left hand in, and then take it out again? 2. Hokey Pokey
3. Electric Slide and the Macarena are what type group dance? 3. Line Dance
4. High-kicking dance performed by women in France? 4. Can-Can
Third Quarter (Sixty Second Questions)
1. Distinctive adjective
Given an adjective-noun pair that describes a medical condition or body part, state where in the body it takes place or is located. The adjective should be the source of your answer.
1. Pulmonary embolism 1. Lungs
2. Cerebral edema 2. Brain
3. Glossal swelling 3. Tongue
4. Cystic fibrosis 4. Lungs
5. Gingival bleeding 5. Gums
6. Cardiac disease 6. Heart
7. Hepatic cancer 7. Liver
8. Renal failure 8. Kidney
9. Ileocecal valve 9. Small intestine
10. Pneumonic plague 10. Lungs
Extra;
11. Cystitis 11. Bladder
12. Labial swelling 12. Lips or Genitals
2. Countries from Around the World
Identify the correct country from a short clue.
1. located between Russia and Turkey and shares name
with a U.S. state. 1. Georgia
2. largest country in Western Europe in area. 2. France
3. vast area located between Poland and Russia. 3. Ukraine
4. third-smallest country in Europe and surrounded
entirely by Italy. 4. San Marino
5. smallest Scandinavian nation. It borders on Germany. 5. Denmark
6. divided into Flanders and Wallonia. 6. Belgium
7. Dublin is my capital city. 7. Ireland
8. Kiev is my capital. 8. Ukraine
9. The islands of Sicily and Sardinia belong this country 9. Italy
10. Belgrade is capital city. 10. Serbia
Extra:
11. Located far away from its Spanish-speaking counterparts, and
almost completely bounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the east. 11. Spain
3. Sports and Games
Identify the correct sport or game most associated with the three clues given. None are video games.
1. Singles, doubles, shuttlecock 1. Badminton
2. Inning, hitter, pitching mound 2. Baseball
3. Deeds, dice, dollars 3. Monopoly
4. Pitch, tackle, corner kick 4. Soccer
5. Suspects, weapons, secret passages 5. Clue
6. Ringer, leaner, stakes 6. Horseshoes
7. Tackle, center, secondary 7. Football
8. Triangles, running game, holding game 8. Backgammon
9. Captures, crowns, and light on the right 9. Checkers or Draughts
10. Pin, reversal, takedown 10. Wrestling
Extra:
11. Poles, tuck, slalom 11. Downhill skiing or alpine skiing
Fourth Quarter (Twenty Toss-Up Questions)
31. Math Computation How much larger is the supplement of a 4 degree angle than the compliment of a 19 degree angle?
ANSWER: 105 degrees
32. The Pacific Ring of Fire includes over 160 volcanoes. One, located in the Cascade Range, had a catastrophic eruption in 1980. Name this volcano that killed 57 Washington residents?
ANSWER: Mount St. Helens
33. What's the mood of the verb in this sentence: “If you could pay me now, I would be grateful”.
ANSWER: Subjunctive
34. What song, based upon a Robert Burns poem, is sung by many people as they say good-by to the old year and welcome in the New Year?
ANSWER: Auld Lang Syne
35. The first successfully launched liquid fueled powered rocket in 1926 was done by whom? He was also the first scientist to propose that rockets could work in the vacuum of space?
ANSWER: Robert Goddard
36. Name either the male or female American athlete who won Gold at the Winter Olympics in Sochi in the new event introduced into the Olympics this year, Slopestyle Snowboarding.
ANSWER: Jamie Anderson or Sage Kotsenburg
37. He was the first president to be sworn in by a woman; the only president sworn in on an airplane; and the first to appoint an African-American to the Supreme Court. Name him.
ANSWER: Lyndon Johnson
38. Math Computation What is the measure, in degrees, of a single interior angle of a regular polygon with 12 sides?
ANSWER: 150 degrees
39. What is the name for the specific study of coordinate geometry from an algebraic perspective
ANSWER: analytic geometry
40. In the book Full-Ride, by Margaret Peterson Haddix, why is Becca’s father sent to prison?
ANSWER: Embezzlement (or alternatives meaning same)
41. What is the name of the closest state that is northeast of Arkansas whose capital city begins with the same letter as its state?
ANSWER: Indiana
42. With what type of triangle can the Pythagorean Theorem be used?
ANSWER: right triangle
43. Name the phylum of animals that have the following characteristics: endothermic vertebrates, four chambered hearts, most born by live birth, and every new born is fed with milk from the mother.
ANSWER: mammals or mammalia
44. In Ernest Hemingway’s book, The old Man and the Sea, what is the name of the fisherman?
ANSWER: Santiago
45. Mario recorded the song Let Me Love You in 2004. It was written by Shaffer Smith whose most recent album is R.E.D. By what nickname is Shaffer Smith better known?
ANSWER: Ne-Yo
46. What 9-letter adjective describes the genre of fiction to which books such as Hunger Games, Divergent, and Legend belong. This word describes the way that society has become rearranged after a fall of the old order.
ANSWER: Dystopian Fiction
47. According to ancient Egyptian belief, who was the god of the underworld?
ANSWER: Osiris
48. What effect does adding more solute do to the boiling point of the solution?
ANSWER: Raises boiling point
49. When General Robert E. Lee lamented at the loss of a general: “He has lost his left arm, but I have lost my right arm.” He was referring to which general?
ANSWER: General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson
50. What word describes a set of points that are in a straight line?
ANSWER: collinear
Extra Toss-Up Questions
1. In September 2013 another mass shooting occurred at a navy installation that resulted in the deaths of 13 people and injured several others. In what town did this shooting occur?
ANSWER: Washington, D.C.
2. What is the name for an event whose outcome has nothing to do with the outcome of other event(s)?
ANSWER: independent event
3. What large astronomical grouping includes solar systems, stars, nebulae, and interstellar space?
ANSWER: galaxy
4. “When in the course of human events…”‖ are the beginning words of what famous American document?
ANSWER: Declaration of Independence
5. What Greek god is known as the major god of the Sea?
ANSWER: Poseidon
6. Math Computation Change 94% to a fraction in simplest terms.
ANSWER: 47/50
7. What English poet wrote the famous poem Ode on A Grecian Urn?
ANSWER: John Keats
Extra Sixty Second and Bonus Questions
4. Chemical Formulas
Give the chemical formula for these commonly named compounds.
1. Ammonia 1. NH3
2. Butane 2. C4H10