2002 NORRIS MIDDLE SCHOOL QUIZBOWL
Round 12
1. If a tourniquet is not loosened at least every 15 minutes, the prolonged pressure may
lead to what grave condition in which tissues die and decay?
Answer: Gangrene
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2. Although Ernest Hemingway is very much an American original, it was not until his
tenth book that he wrote a novel set in the Americas. The story of Harry Morgan has as
its title what five-word infinitive verb phrase?
Answer: TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT
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3. Uremia is the result of biochemical disorders due to failure in the lungs, digestive tract,
liver, kidney, or thyroid glands?
Answer: Kidney
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4. With what country did Russia go to war in 1904?
Answer: Japan
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5. Nobel Prizes are given in all but which one of these categories: Physics, Economics,
Music, or Chemistry?
Answer: Music
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6. Woody Allen plays the role of Alvy Singer in which of his films?
Answer: ANNIE HALL
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7. Which one or one-and-one-half storey type of house takes its name from a region and
bay east of India?
Answer: Bungalow (from Bengal)
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8. Urdu, this country's official language, is also spoken in Northern India. Can you name
it?
Answer: Pakistan
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9. Age cannot wither her, not custom stale her infinite variety. This quotation is from
Shakespeare. About which of his characters is it uttered?
Answer: Cleopatra
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10. A symbol which denotes safety certification of electrical products is often
counterfeited by companies seeking to legitimize products which are potentially very
dangerous. What two letters are found on this registered symbol?
Answer: UL
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11. Place these four figures from French history in correct chronological order: Saint
Louis, Richelieu, Clovis, Louis Napoleon.
Answer: Clovis, St. Louis, Richelieu, Louis Napoleon
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12. Which of these is the opposite of being absolved of a crime: exonerated, acquitted,
arraigned, or vindicated?
Answer: Arraigned
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13. Both Miriam and Naaman had what disease?
Answer: Leprosy
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14. What two-word term used in astronomy designates the gas and dust in the space
between the stars?
Answer: Interstellar matter
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15. If the hypotenuse and a leg of one right triangle are respectively proportional to the
hypotenuse and a leg of another, then the triangles are ...
Answer: Similar
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16. Florida's Pelican Island became the first one in 1903, and West Virginia's Canaan
Valley became the 500th one in 1994. The first and 500th National Wildlife what?
Answer: Refuge
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17. Which of the following men is out of place with respect to occupation: John Dewey,
John Knox, John Calvin, John Wesley?
Answer: Dewey was a philosopher; the others were religious leaders.
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18. Also called the duramen, it's the innermost part of a tree trunk. What's it called?
Answer: Heartwood
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19. After his abdication, King Edward VIII became the Duke of Windsor and governor of:
India, Bermuda, Australia, Gibraltar, or the Bahamas?
Answer: The Bahamas
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20. Richard Nixon made the most historic telephone call ever dialed, to which place July
20, 1969?
Answer: The moon
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21. This ditty was written in reference to what president's policies? "My Tuesdays are
meatless, My Wednesdays are wheatless, I'm getting more eatless each day. My coffee is
sweetless, My bed it is sheetless, All sent to the Y.M.C.A."
Answer: Herbert Hoover
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22. Another "Hot Shot Debut" at No. 1 on the Billboard charts found what legendary
guitarist shooting to the top with his new release Shaman?
Answer: Carlos Santana
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23. Zinc reacts with hydrochloric acid to form zinc chloride and what gas?
Answer: Hydrogen
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24. Alexander Pushkin, Stephen Decatur, and Button Gwinnett all died from wounds
received in a ...
Answer: Duel
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25. What New World colony was sending England valuable exports of tobacco by 1612?
Answer: Virginia
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26. Which ancient civilization had a jackal-headed god called Anubis?
Answer: Egyptian
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27. The name of what 20th-century dictator forms this anagram? Hated for ill.
Answer: Adolf Hitler
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28. Only seven of Sophocles' tragedies are extant. Of these Oedipus Rex is probably the
best known. Name any two of the other six.
Answer: Ajax, Antigone, Electra, Oedipus at Colonnus, Philoctetes,
Trachinian Women (or The Women of Trachis)
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29. There are how many sixteenth rests in three beats of 4/4 time?
Answer: 12
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30. Which malady does streptomycin treat: tuberculosis, epilepsy, diabetes, arthritis, or
heart murmurs?
Answer: Tuberculosis
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31. The Gregorian and the Cassagrainian types are reflecting, while the Galilean and
Keplerian types are refracting. What are we talking about?
Answer: Telescopes
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32. The study of the origin of the universe is cosmogony. What do we call the study of
the origin and development of man?
Answer: Anthropology
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33. The snowy type of this member of the heron family is known for its beautiful white
plumes.
Answer: Egret
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34. What was the profession of Georgia O'Keefe?
Answer: Painter
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35. I beheld the wretch, the miserable being whom I had created," is from what novel?
Answer: Frankenstein
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36. What is the square root of 529?
Answer: 23
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37. In zoology, what term corresponds to pregnancy in humans?
Answer: Gestation
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38. What two-word phrase is applicable when federal expenditures equal federal
revenues?
Answer: Balanced budget
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39. The highest price paid for any Chinese ceramic work of art was for a 15th century
vase from which dynasty?
Answer: Ming
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40. A person sailing directly from Sardinia to Tunisia would sail in which of the cardinal
directions?
Answer: South
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41. What country is due west of Wales?
Answer: Ireland
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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.
Blitz Round - All 10 Point Tossups
Chemistry
42. When a solid cannot absorb any more liquid, it is said to be what?
Ans: Saturated
43. Heat decomposes chalk into lime and what gas?
Ans: Carbon dioxide
44. Biogas is produced by bacterial degradation of organic matter. It is a mixture of
carbon dioxide and what other gas?
Ans: Methane
45. Mist and smoke represent which category of colloids?
Ans: Aerosol
Grammar
46. What part of speech is the word "adverbial?"
Ans: Adjective
47. The pronoun "whomever" is in what case?
Ans: Objective
48. What helping verb is most often used to express habitual action in the past?
Ans: Would
49. Infinitives can function as what three parts of speech?
Ans: Nouns, adjectives, adverbs
Amerigo Vespucci
50. Vespucci died from this insect-borne disease, caught on one of his voyages.
Ans: Malaria
51. Earlier in his life, Vespucci worked for this renowned Italian banking family.
Ans: Medicis
52. As pilot-major of Spain, Vespucci trained pilots and kept these up to date.
Ans: Maps
53. A German geographer and cartographer translated Vespucci's narrative in 1507,
and suggested that it might be proper to name the new continent America. Who was
he?
Ans: Martin Waldseemüller
Translations: I'll give you the word in Russian, French, and Spanish, and you
translate it.
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54. Russian pomagitye, French aidez-moi, Spanish ayudarme.
Ans: Help me
55. Russian morye, French mer, Spanish mar.
Ans: Sea
56. Russian sadityes, French asseyez-vous, Spanish sientense.
Ans: Have a seat (sit down).
57. Russian skolko, French combien, Spanish cuanto.
Ans: How many
58. Russian syechas, French maintenant, Spanish ahora.
Ans: Now
59. Russian vyek, French siecle, Spanish siglo.
Ans: Century
60. Russian utro, French matin, Spanish manana.
Ans: Morning
61. Russian polnoch, French minuit, Spanish medianoche.
Ans: Midnight
62. Russian Kak dyela?, French Comment ca va?, Spanish Que tal? .
Ans: How are things?
63. Russian Ya nye mago, French Je ne peux pas, Spanish No puedo.
Ans: I can't.
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