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Middle School Tournament
2001
ROUND THIRTEEN
Starred toss-ups require calculation and are allotted 10 seconds.
FIRST PERIOD: Ten Toss-ups worth FIVE POINTS each.
*1. Two angles in a scalene triangle have measures of 47 degrees and 51 degrees. In degrees, what is the measure of the third angle?
82
2. Spell the collective name for rain, hail, sleet, and snow.
P-R-E-C-I-P-I-T-A-T-I-O-N
3. These post-Civil Was Northerners moved South to get involved in politics and businesses. What was the derogatory term for these people?
Carpetbaggers
4. What musical group recorded the 1990s hit “When I Come Around”?
Green Day
5. Who led the crew of the Argo in their search for the Golden Fleece?
Jason
6. What is the Latin word for “I will please,” a word used today to mean a sugar pill that has no active effect?
Placebo
7. What term refers to a bound collection of maps?
Atlas
8. What penname did the author William Sidney Porter use?
O. Henry
9. What US holiday always falls on a Thursday?
Thanksgiving
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10. The burning of these substances produces carbon dioxide. Give the collective name for substances such as coal, oil, and natural gas.
Fossil fuels
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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. (Note to the reader: Do not emphasize any number or pause unevenly when reading this math statement.)
Use algebraic order of operations to simplify 9 plus 6 divided by 3.
Eleven
Bonus: Find the missing side in each of the following triangles:
A) Right triangle whose legs are 30 and 40
B) Right triangle whose hypotenuse is 25 and one leg is 24
A) 50 B) 7
2. This document established a civil body politic for the new American colony. It set up just and equal laws based on church covenants. Name this document prepared in November 1620.
Mayflower Compact
Bonus: Think about your Alabama history.
A) From 1702 until 1722, the French government had the capital of the Louisiana Territory on the banks of what Alabama River?
B) In addition to France and Spain, what third overseas country claimed Alabama territory before it became a state?
A) Mobile B) England
3. Which sub-division of plants is named after their practice of forming “naked seeds”?
Gymnosperm
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Bonus: How well do you know your units?
A) Which scientific unit measures loudness?
B) What is the modern scientific unit of work and energy?
A) Decibel B) Joule
4. What sports star appears with Bugs Bunny and Tweety in MCI television commercials?
Michael Jordan
Bonus: How well do you know your musical instruments? Identify each of the following:
A) The name of the bass xylophone
B) The name of the bass tuba that wraps around the person playing it
A) Marimba B) Sousaphone
5. In Cervantes’ novel Don Quixote, who is Don Quixote’s sidekick and servant?
Sancho Panza
Bonus: Who wrote each of the following literary works?
A) Captains Courageous
B) Crime and Punishment
A) Rudyard Kipling B) Feodor Dostoyevsky
6. In what country will you find the two huge bodies of water known as Great Slave Lake and Great Bear Lake?
Canada
Bonus: Let’s check your knowledge of geography. Identify each state described.
A) The state directly east of Vermont
B) The state directly west of Colorado
A) New Hampshire B) Utah
7. Spell the comparative form of the adjective bad.
W-O-R-S-E
Bonus: I’ll identify a word within a sentence, and you spell that word.
A) Consider the sentence: We will be dyeing the cloth before we weave the shawl. Spell dyeing.
B) Consider the sentence: We hired two attorneys before the trial began. Spell attorneys.
A) D-Y-E-I-N-G B) A-T-T-O-R-N-E-Y-S
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8. A quartet is composed of four voices or instruments. What term refers to a group of fine voices or instruments?
Quintet
Bonus: Answer these questions about music.
A) How many movements does the typical orchestral symphony have?
B) How many keys appear on a standard piano keyboard?
A) 4 B) 88
9. Which animal has within its species nurse, basking, tiger, hammerhead, and great white?
Shark
Bonus: Identify these terms that relate to change in animal development.
A) This radical change occurs in an animal as it grows. An example might be the change a caterpillar undergoes in becoming a butterfly.
B) This change occurs in chromosomes or genes, causing offspring to have characteristics different from their parents’.
A) Metamorphosis B) Mutation
10. What term describes a pillar, primarily Egyptian, that tapers into the shape of a pyramid? One of the most famous is the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C.
Obelisk
Bonus: Answer these questions relating to architecture.
A) In which US city was the world’s first skyscraper built?
B) What name is given to the semi-detached curved arch that connects to a wall and extends to the ground or a pier some distance from the wall?
A) Chicago B) Flying buttress
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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. Mode
2. Mercury
3. Mormon
4. Mantel
5. Manhatten
6. Michener
7. Matisse
8. Midpoint
9. MT
10. Mean
11. Mont Blanc
12. McCullers
13. Menelaus
14. Mancini
15. Maryland
16. Mantis
17. Mount Vernon
18. Montpelier
19. Marconi
20. Myth
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PERIOD FOUR: Ten Toss-up Questions worth FIFTEEN POINTS each.
*1. Give your answer as a mixed number in lowest terms. Find the product of 5 ½, 7 and 1/3, and 1 ½.
60 ½
2. James Joyce died, Stalin signed a neutrality pact with Japan, the Bismark was sunk, and Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. In what year did all these events occur?
1941
3. This beautiful youth from mythology has a plant named for him. Perhaps we remember him better because he fell in love with his own reflection. Who is he?
Narcissus
4. What is the unit of measurement of the volume of sound?
Decibel
5. The most important and sacred of the Jewish holidays, it falls on the tenth day of the first month, Tishri. What is this Day of Atonement called?
Yom Kippur
6. Consider this sentence: He plans to walk to the store after school. Identify the infinitive.
To walk (Do not accept To walk to the store after school.)
7. What geographic term refers to a coral island that surrounds a lagoon?
Atoll
8. What actor wears a crumpled trench coat in his television detective role of Columbo?
Peter Falk
9. Who wrote the following poetic lines: “When I see birches bend to the left and right across the line of straighter darker trees / I like to think some boy’s been swinging on them.”
Robert Frost
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10. What 20th century American physicist launched the first liquid-fuel rocket in 1926?
Robert H. Goddard
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Emergency toss-ups:
1. This man advocates nonviolence and interracial reconciliation. In 1984, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Name this man, who in 1988, was the first black Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town.
Desmond Tutu
2. This early 20th century English author wrote numerous novels that depict social decadence, but his most famous novel is a work of science fiction describing a nightmarish 25th century Utopia. Name the author of Brave New World.
Aldous Huxley
Emergency bonus:
Identify the following sociology authors:
A) This anthropologist revolutionized the field of anthropology with publications of the book Coming of Age in Samoa in 1928.
B) An American scientist, the first scientific investigator of human sexual behavior to have a wide popular impact, published two Reports in 1947 and 1948, shattering existing conceptions of the nature and extent of American sexual practices.
A) Margaret Mead B) Alfred Kinsey
ROUND THIRTEEN WORKSHEET M
________________________1. A number in a set of data that occurs most often
________________________2. Metallic element used in thermometers and barometers
________________________3. Member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
________________________4. Decorative shelf above a fireplace
________________________5. Island borough of New York City
________________________6. Author of Hawaii, Texas, Alaska
________________________7. French painter of The Blue Nude and The Dinner Table
________________________8. A point that divides a segment into two congruent segments
________________________9. Postal abbreviation for Montana
________________________10. In a set of N numbers, the sum of numbers divided by N
________________________11. The highest peak in the Alps
________________________12. Georgia author of The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
________________________13. In Greek mythology, the King of Sparta and husband of Helen
________________________14. Composer of Moon River, Days of Wine and Roses, Pink Panther Theme
________________________15. US state nicknamed “Old Line State”
________________________16. Insect that holds its forelegs doubled up as if praying
________________________17. Plantation home of George Washington
________________________18. Capitol of Vermont
________________________19. Italian inventor who perfected the wireless telegraph
________________________20. Legend or story usually attempting to account for something in nature