Round 6

Middle Grades – 2016-17 Governor’s Cup Practice Questions

  1. After tracing outlines and using stamps for his first series, this artist turned to screen printing to achieve uniformity. He turned from commercial objects to reproductions of newspaper pages in his Death and Disaster series. Identify the creator of Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster), as well as celebrity portraits.


(ANDY) WARHOL

  1. At this two-word boundary, escape velocity equals the speed of light. Nothing inside it can escape beyond it. What do we call the boundary that marks the limits of a black hole?


EVENT HORIZON

  1. An English explorer, soldier, and writer, this nobleman became a favorite of Queen Elizabeth after he served in her army in Ireland. Queen Elizabeth knighted him in 1585, after which he led three expeditions to America, exploring from North Carolina to Florida and naming the region Virginia in honor of the queen. Who founded the first English settlement in the New World near Roanoke Island?


(SIR WALTER) RALEIGH

  1. After this novel was published, the author wrote two more works about its protagonist's early years in New York. Set in 1805 on the Great Plains, it sees an elderly Natty Bumppo work as a scout for a party of squatters. Name this Leatherstocking Tale by James Fenimore Cooper.


(THE) PRAIRIE

  1. 54 is 30 percent of what number?


180

  1. Almost one-third of this poet's works were elegies to influential political, spiritual, and economic leaders. "To the University of Cambridge in New England" was probably her first poem, but her elegy for Reverend George Whitefield gained her international fame. Name this colonial woman, who collected her verse in Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral.


(PHILLIS) WHEATLEY

  1. A bag contains four green marbles, three red marbles, two blue marbles, and one yellow marble. A marble is drawn at random. What is the probability that the marble is blue?


ONE-FIFTH [Accept: ONE OVER FIVE, 0.2, TWENTY PERCENT]

  1. Biologically, this is another term for equilibrium. American physiologist Walter Cannon coined this term which is related to what he called "fight or flight" responses. Give the eleven-letter term that is defined as an organism's ability to maintain internal stability, such as glucose levels and body temperature.


HOMEOSTASIS

  1. Before taking up his most famous position, this statesman served as the 23rd U.S. Secretary of War. Members of his cabinet included Stephen Mallory, Robert Toombs, and Alexander Stephens. Name this first and only president of the Confederate States of America.


(JEFFERSON) DAVIS

  1. Following the Trojan War, Agamemnon took possession of this princess, who was murdered alongside him. The daughter of Priam and Hecuba, she received a gift that became a curse when she wouldn't grant Apollo the favors he sought. Name this mythological clairvoyant whose prophecies no one believed.


CASSANDRA

  1. Hiawatha allegedly founded this confederacy, which was managed by a council of sachems [SEY-chumz], peace chiefs appointed for life. Five nations established this 16th century league to defend themselves against the Hurons. Identify this New York State confederacy, which consisted of the Seneca, Cayuga [KAY-YOO-guh], Onondaga [on-un-DOG-guh], Oneida [oh-NIGH-duh], and Mohawk.


IROQUOIS (LEAGUE)

  1. Fungi of the order Ustilaginales [US-till-AH-jin-AH-leez] cause this botanical disease. It commonly affects cereal grasses, such as corn and wheat, causing enormous damage. Marked by black, powdery masses of spores, give the common name of this fungal disease.


SMUT

  1. A cross-section of this type of geometric solid, taken parallel to its polygonal base, will always be similar to the base, but not congruent. Its faces are polygons, and its volume is one-third of the prism in which it is contained. What geometric solid is also the shape of the only extant Wonder of the Ancient World?


PYRAMID

  1. French title, please. This 1905 orchestral work is subtitled Three Symphonic Sketches. Its Impressionistic tendencies illustrate the play of morning light and the effect of wind on crashing waves. What is this Claude Debussy [deb-yoo-SEE] work, whose English title is "The Sea"?


LA MER

  1. In this comedy, two young bachelors fabricate friends as an excuse to visit the city or the country whenever they like. Jack Worthing becomes engaged to Gwendolyn Fairfax, while Jack's ward, Cecily, accepts Algernon Moncrieffe's marriage proposal. Identify this comedy of manners by Oscar Wilde.


(THE) IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST

  1. In crime detection, the chemical Luminol is used to detect blood, because it reacts to this protein found in it. It binds to oxygen in the lungs, releasing it in the tissues, then binds to carbon dioxide to release in the lungs. What is this protein found in red blood cells that contains iron?


HEMOGLOBIN

  1. In this story, inn owner Nicholaus Vedder indicates his opinions by the way he smokes his pipe, and town elder Peter Vanderdonk dispenses wisdom. The title character learns of his wife's death and his country's independence after waking from a nap in the Catskill Mountains. What story about a man who sleeps for two decades was written by Washington Irving?


RIP VAN WINKLE

  1. Important locations in these battles included Buckman Tavern and the Battle Green. These engagements featured the men of John Parker and John Pitcairn. Identify these first battles of the American Revolution, separated by mere hours.


(BATTLES OF) LEXINGTON (AND) CONCORD (either order)

  1. Members of this religious sect believe that leadership correctly passed down to caliphs [KEY-lifs] upon its founder's death. They constitute about ten percent of Iran's, but eighty-five percent of the world's, Muslim population. Identify this counterpart of Shi'a Islam.


SUNNI(S)

  1. As a fraction in simplest form, what fraction of a week is forty-two hours?


1/4

  1. This man included 48 lieder [LEED-er] in his Songs Without Words, and depicted an Old Testament prophet's life in the oratorio Elijah. He wrote incidental music for the same comedy whose overture he composed at age 17: A Midsummer Night's Dream. Name this composer, whose "Wedding March" is the classic piece heard as the bride and groom leave the ceremony together.


(FELIX) MENDELSSOHN

  1. In this work, which insists that the end justifies the means, a young pupil learns how to balance fortune and virtue in order to gain and maintain political power. Hoping to improve the conditions of Northern Italian regions, the author dedicated it to the Medici family. Give the title of this masterpiece, a political treatise by Machiavelli [mah-kyah-VEL-lee].


(THE) PRINCE

  1. Mature sea turtles are dietetically categorized as these, resulting in their green body fat. Other animals of this type include the horse, hippo, and hare. From the Latin for "grass-eaters," what are plant-eating animals called?


HERBIVORE(S)

  1. One work that earned this author the Margaret A. Edwards Award explores teenage Perry's life as a soldier in Vietnam. Other novels portray basketball star Lonnie Jackson's and gang member Jamal's respective moral crises. Give the author of Fallen Angels, Hoops, and Scorpions.


(WALTER DEAN) MYERS

  1. Consider the following set of data: 2, 7, 15, 19, 21. What is the interquartile range of the data?


12

  1. This man portrayed Petrushka for the American Ballet Theatre before choreographing Leonard Bernstein's ballet Fancy Free. An associate artistic director of the New York City Ballet, he choreographed Call Me Madam and The Pajama Game for Broadway. Identify this man, who also created the dances for Fiddler on the Roof, The King and I, and West Side Story.


(JEROME) ROBBINS

  1. It was known as Fort Carillon [KAR-uh-lon] when the French built it in 1755. It sat on the main route between the upper Hudson River Valley and Canada, commanding the route to Lake George and Lake Champlain. What did the British rename this fort when they captured if from the French in 1759?


(FORT) TICONDEROGA [tie-kon-duh-ROH-guh]

  1. Sandra received the Miss Congeniality title in the statewide pageant. Spell the word from the previous sentence that means "beauty contest."


P-A-G-E-A-N-T

  1. On the moon, this force results from the force of Earth's gravity. The friction of a car's tires making a turn provides this kind of force on the car. Name the force that acts on a body moving along a curved path to draw it toward the axis of rotation.


CENTRIPETAL [sen-TRIP-i-tl] (FORCE) (Do Not Accept: CENTRIFUGAL (FORCE))

  1. Consider the graph of the quadratic equation y equals the quantity x minus three, close quantity, squared, plus five. What is the y-intercept of this graph?


(Y EQUALS) 14 (Accept: (0, 14))

  1. Taiga [TIE-guh] forests generally comprise this type of tree, whose name begins with the letter "C". Cedars, spruces, firs, and pines all fall into this category. Name the chiefly evergreen trees or shrubs that produce naked seeds in cones.


CONIFER(S)

  1. This musical element changes when a composer includes accelerando [aht-che-le-RAHN-daw] or ritardando [ree-tahr-DAHN-daw] in a score. Extreme examples include prestissimo [pre-STEES-see-maw] and grave [GRAH-vey], but more commonly a musician encounters allegro or adagio [ah-DAH-jaw]. Identify the element that determines a piece of music's speed.


TEMPO

  1. This book covers ten days in the life of fourteen conservation workers who feed, hatch, track, and monitor the ninety-one members of the title species. Its authors traveled to Codfish Island, off New Zealand's southern coast, to visit the refuge for the "world's strangest parrot." Give the name of this Sibert Medal winner by Sy Montgomery and Nic Bishop.


KAKAPO [kah-kuh-POH] RESCUE

  1. Meaning "between two rivers," this ancient region corresponds with today’s Iraq and parts of Iran, Syria and Turkey. The concept of the city and the inventions of writing and the wheel began in this region of the Fertile Crescent. Identify this so-called cradle of civilization.


MESOPOTAMIA

  1. Find the area in square units of a semicircle that has a radius 20 units long.


200 PI (SQUARE UNITS)

  1. This historical figure became a tall-tale hero when his friend Wallace Saunders released a song about him. His Kentucky childhood earned him his nickname, while his "whippoorwill whistle" made him popular with residents of the towns he passed. Name this man, who died near Vaughan, Mississippi, when his train collided with another one.


(CASEY) JONES

  1. Most of the region surrounding this national monument belongs to the Navajo, Hopi [HOH-pee], Ute [yoot] and Zuni [ZOO-nee] Native American nations. It is located at 36-point-9-9-9 degrees north and 109-point-zero-4-5 degrees west in the Southwestern United States. Give the name of the only monument where you can stand in Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico at the same time.


FOUR CORNERS

  1. This musical's characters include William, who hopes his "magic foot" will carry him to victory; Marcy, whose constant success disappoints her; and politically aware Schwartzy. Olive finds comfort in her dictionary, Chip deals with puberty, and Leaf believes he isn't smart enough to win the title competition. Identify this one-act musical, whose adult characters sing of "My Favorite Moment of the Bee."


(THE) 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE

  1. These components of an electrical circuit step up or lower voltage at different points. They are coded with colored stripes, which let electricians know their value in ohms. Identify these devices that generally oppose the flow of current in electrical circuits.


RESISTOR

  1. In cubic centimeters, what is the volume of a right circular cylinder with a radius of 3 centimeters and a height of 7 centimeters?


63 PI (CUBIC CENTIMETERS)

End of First Half – Begin Three-Minute Inquiry Period

Round 6 - Second Half

Middle Grades – 2016-17 Governor’s Cup Practice Questions

  1. This musician's signature style consisted of playing a chord's higher intervals in place of a song's melody. His namesake quintet performed his original compositions, including "Cool Blues" and "Ornithology." Name this "Yardbird" saxophonist who, with Dizzy Gillespie, invented bebop.


(CHARLIE) PARKER

  1. This Latin phrase describes anything, especially a child's mind, that is in a pure, original state. Literally, it means "scraped tablet" in English. Give this phrase that loosely translates as "blank slate."


TABULA RASA [TAB-yuh-luh RAH-suh]

  1. This chemical element appears in nature only in combined forms. One isotope, with a half-life of eight days, is used as a contrast medium in diagnostic radiology. Name this element, with chemical symbol I, that is widely used as an antiseptic.


IODINE

  1. Let R be the relation three, comma five, seven, comma negative two, and nine, comma zero. What is the domain of R?


THREE, SEVEN, NINE [any order]

  1. Once under the rule of the Mali Empire, this West African empire located south of the Sahara Desert and along the Niger [NYE-jer] River, first came into power under the leadership of Sunni Ali [SOON-nee ah-LEE]. With its capital at Gao [GOW], it became the largest of the former empires of the western Sudan, growing rich by controlling trade routes across the Sahara. Name this empire.


SONGHAI

  1. This 20th century president was born in Texas, but grew up in Kansas, where his ancestors had settled in a Mennonite colony. A graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, he became supreme commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force during World War II. Name this Republican president, who ran under the campaign slogan, "I Like Ike!"


(DWIGHT DAVID) EISENHOWER

  1. This painter completed Apollo in the Forge of Vulcan shortly after returning from his first trip to Italy. He gained international acclaim for his portrait of his slave-turned-assistant-turned-artist, Juan de Pareja [pa-RAY-ha]. Name this artist, who employed shocking reds in his portrait of Pope Innocent the Tenth.


(DIEGO) VELÁZQUEZ

  1. This literary sound device is present in the sentence, "Esther was restless and depressed." In what kind of near rhyme do stressed syllables use different consonants, but the same vowel sounds?


ASSONANCE

  1. This cluster of young stars in the constellation Taurus lies about 430 light-years from Earth. It contains more than one thousand stars, six or seven of which can be see from Earth with the naked eye. Name this cluster, whose springtime appearance in the Northern Hemisphere opens the seafaring and farming seasons.


PLEIADES [PLEE-uh-deez]

  1. Point A lies at eight, comma seven. Point B lies at negative four, comma one. What is the slope of the line A-B?


ONE-HALF [Accept: ONE OVER TWO, 0.5]

  1. This app became number one in the App Store within 24 hours of its launch in October 2010. Co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger [KREE-gur] devised it as a way to connect the world through photographs. Identify this photo-sharing app.


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