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Round: 01
Foreign Language
1.
FRENCH Elle a mal à la tête.
GERMAN Sie hat Kopfschmerzen.
SPANISH Ella tiene dolor de cabeza.
Translation: She has a headache. (Her head hurts (her).
Language Arts
2.
Identify both the food and drink of the gods, which are produced by the cornucopia.
Answer: ambrosia and nectar
3.
Name the guiding sentence that a writer uses in an expository essay to state the subject, an
opinion, and the scope of thoughts to follow.
Answer: Thesis statement -- not topic sentence
4.
Which American poet describes the fog as coming in on "little cat feet: and Chicago as the "city of
the big shoulders?"
Answer: Carl SANDBURG
Science & Health
5.
What term describes a small ring of DNA found in a bacterial cell?
Answer: Plasmid
6.
Alpha particles are the nuclei of which element?
Answer: Helium
7.
(30 seconds) An ice hockey goalie, who has a mass of 80kg, is standing at rest in front of his goal.
An opposing player, who has a mass of 90kg, collides with the goalie sliding together across the
ice at a speed of 9 meters per second. What was the initial speed of the opposing player? (30 sec)
Answer: 17 meters per second
Social Science
8.
Name the U.S. Cold War era policy implemented in the 1950s to prevent Soviet influence in the
Middle East.
Answer: Eisenhower Doctrine
9.
During the rule of which Roman Emperor did the Pax Romana begin?
Answer: Octavian (also accept Augustus Ceasar)
10.
What is the shared name of these rivers, one flows through Hanoi, Vietnam, one separates
Minnesota and North Dakota, and one is the boundary between Texas and Oklahoma?
Answer: The Red River
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Round: 01
Mathematics
Time: 30 seconds
11.
Give the image of the point (5, 3) after it is rotated 90 degrees counter-clockwise about the origin.
Answer: (-3, 5)
Time: 30 seconds
12.
The perimeter of a rectangle is 68 feet. Find the dimensions of the rectangle if the ratio of the
length to the width is 9 to 8.
Answer: 18 by 16 feet
Time: 60 seconds
13.
In terms of pi, find the volume of a cone with a base diameter of 12 meters and a height of 8 meters.
Answer: 96 pi meters cubed or cubic meters {units must be included}
Fine Arts
14.
Which Tchaikovsky ballet is based on a famous fairy tale, and features the characters Princess
Aurora and Prince Florimund?
Answer: "Sleeping Beauty"
15.
What Broadway musical was Rogers and Hammerstein's final collaboration?
Answer: "The Sound of Music"
Year In Review
16.
Name the top three national companies that support education by accepting proofs of purchase
from their products for school fund raisers.
Answer: Cambell's, Tyson Foods, and General Mills
Source: Newsweek, 7 October 2002: 73.
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Round: 02
Foreign Language
1.
FRENCH C'est l'anniversaire de ma soeur aujourd'hui.
GERMAN Heute ist der Geburtstag meiner Schwester.
SPANISH Hoy es el cumpleaños de mi hermana.
Translation: Today is my sister's birthday (the birthday of my sister). (It's my sister's birthday today).
Language Arts
2.
Name both the author and the title of the book in which Jean Valjean is sent to prison for stealing
food for his family.
Answer: Victor HUGO LES MISERABLES
3.
State the first prepositional phrase used in the American "Pledge of Allegieance."
Answer: to the flag (all words needed)
4.
What is the title of the contemporary novel by Amy Tan which explores Chinese heritage and
relationships of young American women?
Answer: THE JOY LUCK CLUB
Science & Health
5.
What is the common name of the sinoatrial node?
Answer: Pacemaker (do not accept SA node)
6.
Which element is the heaviest of the noble gases?
Answer: Radon
7.
The sizes of what objects are plotted on an H-R diagram?
Answer: Stars
Social Science
8.
What is the only world capital, other than Washington, D.C., that is named after a U.S. President?
Answer: Monrovia
9.
What declaration in 1917 stated British support for a national Jewish homeland in Palestine?
Answer: Balfour (Declaration)
10.
Name the polytheistic Japanese religion that developed around 700 BC and whose name means
"the way of the gods".
Answer: Shinto
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Round: 02
Mathematics
Time: 30 seconds
11.
In your English class you are given a list of 10 books. You are to select 4 to read during the
semester. How many different combinations of 4 books can you read?
Answer: 210
Time: 30 seconds
12.
If it is now 5:00 PM Monday, 251 hours from now, what time and day will it be?
Answer: 4:00 AM Friday
Time: 30 seconds
13.
How many times stronger is an earthquake with a Richter scale rating of 7 than an aftershock with a
rating of 4
Answer: 10 cubed or 1000
Fine Arts
14.
Name the photographer, who lived from 1904 to 1971, whose photos often served as the cover for
"Life" magazine.
Answer: Margaret BOURKE-WHITE
15.
Name the composer whose "Concerto in F" debuted at Carnegie Hall in 1925. Other compostions
include "An American in Paris" and "Porgy and Bess."
Answer: (George) GERSHWIN
Year In Review
16.
Dead at age 83 in April, who was the early television star rightfully known as Mr. Television and
Uncle Miltie?
Answer: (Milton) Berle
Source: Newsweek, 8 April 2002: 10.
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Round: 03
Foreign Language
1.
FRENCH La serveuse apporte le menu.
GERMAN Die Kellnerin bringt die Speisekarte.
SPANISH La camarera trae el menú.
Translation: The waitress brings ( is bringing) the menu.
Language Arts
2.
In Greek mythology, which Titan incurred a terrible punishment when he stole fire from the gods
and gave it to humans?
Answer: Prometheus
3.
Identify by structure this type of sentence:
I left the party; however, after I did, I had an accident.
Answer: Complex-compound or compound-complex
4.
What famous American novelist collaborated with Charles Dudley Warner on the satirical novel
THE GILDED AGE?
Answer: Mark TWAIN
also accept Samuel CLEMENS
Science & Health
5.
What do we call the leaf openings through which plants breathe?
Answer: Stomata or stomate or stoma
6.
What device is used in measuring energy changes?
Answer: Calorimeter
7.
(30 seconds) Find the voltage in a circuit if it has a current of 2 amps and a resistance of 8 ohms.
(30 sec)
Answer: 16 volts
Social Science
8.
Identify the map projection which shows either the whole northern or southern hemisphere in
proper proportion but distorts the shape of countries.
Answer: Azimuthal projection
9.
Which French philosopher helped develop the deductive method of reasoning and developed
analytical geometry?
Answer: Rene Descartes (needs both names)
10.
What is the name of the tax, which utility and cable companies in most cities are required to pay to
compensate the cities for their companies putting pipes or lines in the cities' right-of-way?
Answer: franchise tax
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Round: 03
Mathematics
Time: 60 seconds
11.
Factor: A squared minus B squared plus AC minus BC.
Answer: quantity A plus B plus C times the quantity A minus B
Time: 60 seconds
12.
A wheel roll along the ground at a speed of 350 revolutions per minute. If the diameter of the
wheel is 9 inches, in terms of pi, find the ground speed of the the wheel in feet per minute.
Answer: 262.5 pi or 262 and one-half pi feet per minute
Time: 30 seconds
13.
Find the derivative: f of x equals 12 minus 3 times x to the 4th plus 4 times x to the 6th.
Answer: negative 12x cubed plus 24 x to the 5th
Fine Arts
14.
Identify the style of painting which tries to convey objects so realistically that they are mistaken as
genuine.
Answer: trompe l'oeil (tronp loy)
15.
What are the names of the three pedals commonly found on most pianos?
Answer: 1-damper pedal (OR sustain, sustaining OR loud)
2-soft pedal (OR una corda)
3-sostenuto (sos te NOO toe) (OR solo sostenuto)
Year In Review
16.
What famous walkway landmark has been added to the "most endangered sites" due to both the
destructive forces of nature and heavy tourist traffic?
Answer: Great Wall (of China)
Source: Newsweek, 29 July 2002: 40.
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Round: 04
Foreign Language
1.
FRENCH Le musée est près d'ici.
GERMAN Das Museum ist in der Nähe.
SPANISH El museo está cerca de aquí.
Translation: The museum is near here.
Language Arts
2.
In Geoffrey Chaucer's famous CANTERBURY TALES, the pilgrims are traveling to Canterbury to
pay tribute to what saint?
Answer: Saint Thomas a BECKET (St. Thomas is NOT sufficient, must have BECKET)
3.
Identify the error in the following sentence:
Enjoying the vocals, me and Harold attended the concert.
Answer: Should be "I" not "me" , reading "Harold and I" not "I and Harold." OR Use of an objective
pronoun where a nominative one should be used.
4.
What science-fiction author wrote THE FOUNDATION series and used the pen name Paul
French?
Answer: Isaac ASIMOV
Science & Health
5.
Beginning on the outside name in order the 3 protective layers that surround and protect the brain
and spinal chord.
Answer: Dura mater, arachnoid, pia mater
6.
What type of reaction is aluminum phosphate plus potassium that yields potassium phospate plus
aluminum?
Answer: Single replacement
7.
Name the sponge-like rock formed as a crust on the top of lava when it cools.
Answer: Pumice
Social Science
8.
What Puritan woman was banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony for her belief in
Antinomianism?
Answer: (Anne) Hutchinson
9.
What was the name of Plato's school of philosophy?
Answer: the Academy
10.
Crater Lake, Oregon, is not really a crater. It is a bowl-shaped circular depression caused by the
destruction of the peak of a volcano. What is the geographic term for such a depression?
Answer: caldera
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Round: 04
Mathematics
Time: 30 seconds
11.
What is radical 5 times radical 125?
Answer: 25
Time: 30 seconds
12.
For what standard position angle in Quadrant III is contangent x equal to 1?
Answer: 225 or 225 degrees, or 5 pi over 4, or 5 pi over four radians, or 1.25 radians, or 1 and 1fourth pi
radians
Time: 30 seconds
13.
Find the number of permutations of the letters in the word LETTER.
Answer: 180
Fine Arts
14.
Which art movement was noted for its concentration on and study of the effect light has on color?
Answer: Impressionism
15.
Give the name of the movement or composition commonly written in fast, 3/4 tempo and that
incorporates elements of musical surprise. It means "joke" in Italian.
Answer: scherzo (SKER tso)
Year In Review
16.
Name both co-founders of the charity foundation that has given $24 million to help bridge the gap
in human health that seperates poor countries of the world from rich ones.
Answer: Bill and Melinda Gates (Mr. and Mrs. Gates)
Source: Newsweek, 4 February 2002: 46.
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Round: 05
Foreign Language
1.
FRENCH Mes chaussures son sous le lit.
GERMAN Meine Schuhe sind unter dem Bett.
SPANISH Mis zapatos están debajo de la cama.
Translation: My shoes are under (underneath) the bed.
Language Arts
2.
From which Shakespearean play does this come:"Out, out, brief candle!/ Life's but a walking
shadow; a poor player /That struts and frets his hour upon the stage"?
Answer: MACBETH
3.
In what figure of speech is a person, object, or an abstract quality addressed as though present
such as the lines: "O Westron Wind, when wilt thou blow?"
Answer: Apostrophe
4.
In what famous American drama can the following lines be found: "But listen, it's not finished:
The United States of America, Continent of North America, Western Hemisphere, The Earth, The
Solar System, the Universe, The Mind of God-- that's what it said on the envelope."?
Answer: OUR TOWN
Science & Health
5.
What is the number of net ATP molecules produced at the end of glycolysis?
Answer: Two
6.
What term describes a substance whose solution conducts an electric current?
Answer: Electrolyte
7.
If the distance between an observer and a light source is doubled, what happens to the perceived
intensity of the light?
Answer: It will be one-fourth as bright
Social Science
8.
Name both the woman who was America's only queen and the land she ruled.
Answer: Queen Liliuokalani and the Hawaiian Islands
9.
During World War II, what country had the most casualties?
Answer: Soviet Union or USSR (not Russia)
10.
Name the type of psychology that is based on the study of a subject's response to integrated
wholes rather than to separate experiences.
Answer: Gestalt
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Round: 05
Mathematics
Time: 60 seconds
11.
In triangle ABC, find the length of AC if BC = 3, AB = 8, and angle B = 60 degrees.
Answer: 7
Time: 60 seconds
12.
One bricklayer can build a wall in 5 days. Another bricklayer can do the same job in 4 days. If they
work together, how long will it take them to finish the wall?
Answer: 2 and 2/9
Time: 45 seconds
13.
What is the second derivative of 5 times x to the 4th plus 3 times x cubed minus 2 times x squared
minus 2?
Answer: 60 x squared plus 18 x minus 4
Fine Arts
14.
Name the Italian master of Florence who was a student of Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo,
and who was famous for his paintings of Madonnas and "The School of Athens".
Answer: Raphael
15.
What is the musical term for such things as grace notes, mordents, turns, and trills?
Answer: ornaments or embellishments
Year In Review
16.
Name the Kansas missionary to the Phillipines whose husband was killed in a June hostage rescue
attempt.
Answer: (Gracia) Burnham
Source: Time, 17 June 2002: 43.
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Round: 06
Foreign Language
1.
FRENCH Je doit nettoyer les fenêtres.
GERMAN Ich muss die Fenster putzen.
SPANISH Tengo que limpiar las ventanas.
Translation: I have to (must/should) clean the windows.
Language Arts
2.
What term in Greek or Shakespearean tragedy refers to the hero's frailty?
Answer: fatal flaw or tragic flaw Ask for more specific if only "flaw" is given.
3.
What is the term for the special language used by people in the same profession or with
specialized interests, such as medicine, technology, and education?
Answer: Jargon
4.
What American master of the surprise ending authored the short story collection CABBAGES
AND KINGS in 1906, which includes his story "The Gift of the Magi?"
Answer: O. HENRY (both needed) or William Sidney PORTER
Science & Health
5.
What is the phenotypic ratio in a dihybrid cross of two heterozygous individuals for both traits?
Answer: 9:3:3:1
6.
What is the oxidation state of nitrogen in lithium nitrate?
Answer: Positive 5 or five positive (+5 )
7.
Name the two natural satellites that orbit the fourth planet from the sun.
Answer: Deimos and Phobos
Social Science
8.
In 1865, what organization was created to provide assistance to freed slaves?
Answer: Freedman's Bureau
9.
Name the Danish explorer, employed by the Russians, who discovered Alaska.
Answer: (Captain Vitus) Bering
10.
Of which European country is Romansch the official language?
Answer: Switzerland
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Round: 06
Mathematics
Time: 30 seconds
11.
If y varies inversely as the cube of x and y equals 16 when x = 2, find y when x equals 4.
Answer: 2
Time: 30 seconds
12.
What is the geometric mean of 15 and 45?
Answer: 15 square root 3
Time: 45 seconds
13.
A geometric series has a first term of 40.5, a last term of 8, and a common ratio of negative 2/3, what
is its sum?
Answer: 27.5 or 27 and one-half
Fine Arts
14.
Name the art movement begun by German artists suffering over and depicting the deep anguish
they felt because of World War I, which communicates strong emotions.
Answer: Expressionism
15.
What are the flatted third, fifth and seventh degrees of the scale called when they occur in this
peculiarly American musical style?
Answer: blue notes (must have the complete answer)
Year In Review
16.
Give the name of the historian who was placed on indefinite leave from her contributor's post on
PBS's "News Hour with Jim Lehrer" for "unintentional use of other people's work."
Answer: (Doris Kearns) Goodwin
Source: Newsweek, 11 March, 2002: 71.
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Round: 07
Foreign Language
1.
FRENCH Ma chaîne stereo ne marche plus.
GERMAN Meine Stereoanlage funktioniert nicht mehr.
SPANISH Mi estéreo ya no sirve.
Translation: My stereo does not work anymore (no longer works).
Language Arts
2.
What Shakespearean character says to his wife Desdemona before his death, "I kissed thee ere I
killed thee, No way but this killing myself, to die upon a kiss"?
Answer: Othello
3.
What term refers to regional variations of pronunciation, vocabulary, or grammatical forms of the
same language?
Answer: Dialect
4.
Name the Massachusetts born poet, who during her college years worked as a guest editor at
MADEMOISELLE, and published an autobiographical novel, THE BELL JAR.
Answer: Sylvia PLATH
Science & Health
5.
Name the scientist who accidentally discovered penicillin in the late 1920's.
Answer: Alexander Fleming
6.
What is the term for the property that describes how much a liquid resists flow?
Answer: Viscosity
7.
What instrument is used to detect and measure the strength of weak electric currents?
Answer: Galvanometer
Social Science
8.
What was the code name for the invasion of France on D-Day, June 6, 1944?
Answer: Operation Overlord
9.
Name the ancient city in northern Africa that was established by traders from Phoenicia, and was
finally destroyed by the Romans, following the Third Punic War.
Answer: Carthage
10.
What is the term used to describe an outbreak of a disease that is worldwide?
Answer: pandemic
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Round: 07
Mathematics
Time: 30 seconds
11.
Give the probability that, after a single throw of a pair of dice, the sum of the top numbers on the
dice is not 7?
Answer: 5/6 or 5 over 6
Time: 45 seconds
12.
Find the exact area of a sector formed by a circle with diameter of 12 inches and a central angle of
225 degrees.
Answer: 22.5 pi square inches or 22 and one-half pi square inches or 45pi over 2 inches squared {proper
units must be included}
Time: 60 seconds
13.
Find the limit as x approaches negative 3 of the quantity x squared plus x minus 6 over the quantity
x plus 3.
Answer: negative 5 or minus 5
Fine Arts
14.
Name the 20th century Mexican painter, known for his murals, whose work glorifies farms,
peasants, and revolutionary fervor, and who was married to Frida Kahlo?
Answer: Diego RIVERA
15.
What is the term for the light instrumental composition that is performed between acts of a musical
or ballet?
Answer: Entr'acte
Year In Review
16.
Give the name of the Oklahoma-born country singer who penned the controversial song,
"Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue," to honor his deceased father.
Answer: (Toby) Keith
Source: Time, 24 June 2002: 77.
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Round: 08
Foreign Language
1.
FRENCH Notre équipe a gagné le tournoi.
GERMAN Unsere Mannschaft gewann das Turnier.
SPANISH Nuestro equipo ganó el torneo.
Translation: Our team won (has won) the tournament.
Language Arts
2.
Name both the author and his work that describes a society where humans are grouped into
classes such as the Alpha Puls Intellectuals and the Epsilon Minus Morons.
Answer: Aldous HUXLEY; BRAVE NEW WORLD
3.
What is the term for the writing convention which sets a story within a story such as
CANTERBURY TALES?
Answer: A frame story accept frame-work story
4.
Which American short story ends with the deuce of clubs pinned to the bark with a bowie knife
and the inscription "Beneath this tree lies the body of John Oakhurst…?"
Answer: "The Outcasts of Poker Flat"
Science & Health
5.
What is the term that is used to refer to the stiffness caused by the pressure of water in cells?
Answer: Turgidity or turgor or turgor pressure
6.
What term is used to describe sets of atoms which have the same number of protons but differ in
the number of neutrons?
Answer: Isotopes
7.
Name the four main types of clouds.
Answer: Stratus, cumulus, cirrus and nimbus
Social Science
8.
Which Southern city, captured by Ulysses S. Grant in July 1863, opened the Mississippi River to
Union troops?
Answer: Vicksburg
9.
Name the Austrian archduke who was persuaded by Napoleon III to become the puppet emperor
of Mexico.
Answer: Maximillian
10.
What is the capital of the republic in Southeast Asia that is an archipelago of over 13,000 islands?
Answer: Djakarta (Jakarta)
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Round: 08
Mathematics
Time: 30 seconds
11.
Solve the equation for x: cx minus bx equals a.
Answer: a over quantity c minus b or a divided by by the quantity c - b
Time: 60 seconds
12.
Four angles of a quadrilateral have the measures of 2x, x - 7, x + 5, and x - 53. Find the measure of
all four angles.
Answer: 166, 76, 88, 30 {answers can be given in any order}
Time: 90 seconds
13.
Identify the vertex and x-interepts of the parabola with equation y equals 5 times x squared minus
20 x.
Answer: vertex is (2, -20), x-intercepts are (0, 0), and (4, 0) or accept x =0 and x=4 or just 0 and 4
Fine Arts
14.
What is the term for a piece of art, often used as political satire that exaggerates and distorts
prominent physical features of an individual so as to make them appear ridiculous?
Answer: Caricature
15.
What musical is based on Cervantes' novel, Don Quixote?
Answer: "Man of La Mancha"
Year In Review
16.
What Kansas attraction, along with New Jersey's Amazing Pachyderm and Maine's Gargantuan
Tribesman, was featured in the August, 26, 2002, Newsweek article titled "Roadside Kitsch."
Answer: (Cawker City's) Ball of Twine
Source: Newsweek, 26 August 2002: 50.
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Round: 09
Foreign Language
1.
FRENCH Le roman était très ennuyeux.
GERMAN Der Roman war sehr langweilig.
SPANISH La novela era muy aburrida.
Translation: The novel was very boring.
Language Arts
2.
Who wrote the novel in which"The horror! The horror!" in HEART OF DARKNESS?
Answer: Joseph CONRAD
3.
What is the term for the derivation, history, and development of a word?
Answer: etymology
4.
Who is the Missouri-born Harlem Renaissance poet known for his incorporation of
African-American speech in poems such as "The Weary Blues" and "Harlem?"
Answer: Langston HUGHES
Science & Health
5.
Long chains of which compounds form proteins?
Answer: Amino acids
6.
Name the organic compound with the formula C2H5OH.
Answer: Ethanol or ethyl alcohol
7.
What physics concept is defined as the product of force and the time interval over which the force
acts?
Answer: Impulse
Social Science
8.
What term was applied to the inflammatory newspaper reporting of the 1890s - -especially that of
the Hearst chain- - which agitated for war with Spain?
Answer: yellow journalism (or yellow press)
9.
In what country did the first military action of the Spanish-American War take place?
Answer: The Philippines
10.
What two countries were created in 1993 after the "velvet divorce" in one landlocked Eastern
European country?
Answer: Czech Republic and Slovakia
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Round: 09
Mathematics
Time: 30 seconds
11.
How many integers will satisfy both of the following inequalities: 4n less than 5 and one-half n
minus 3 less than or equal to zero.
Answer: 5
Time: 30 seconds
12.
It takes Tom 2 hours to mow a lawn. Sally takes 3 hours to mow the same lawn. If they work
together, how many minutes will it take them?
Answer: 72 minutes
Time: 30 seconds
13.
In simplest form, what is the sum of 5 square root 500 and 4 square root 45?
Answer: 62 square root 5 or 62 radical 5
Fine Arts
14.
Name the Neolithic monumental stone structure built on the Salisbury Plain of England.
Answer: Stonehenge
15.
Name the jazz artist known as the "King of the vibraphone," who died recently at the age of 94?
He was the first Negro to play in Benny Goodman's band.
Answer: (Lionel) HAMPTON
Year In Review
16.
Name the Red Sox baseball great, nicknamed "The Kid," who died in the summer of 2002.
Answer: (Ted) Williams
Source: Newsweek, 15 July 2002: 20.
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Round: 10
Foreign Language
1.
FRENCH Vous avez bien dormi ce soir?
GERMAN Haben Sie letzte Nacht gut geschlafen?
SPANISH ¿Durmió Ud. bien anoche?
Translation: Did you sleep well last night?
Language Arts
2.
Name the English poet who wrote many works in Italian, such as "L'Allegro," and is also known for
his epic poem PARADISE LOST.
Answer: John Milton
3.
What is the French term for a sketch, brief narrative, or short scene in a play?
Answer: vignette
4.
What author of psychological novels is known for works such as NINE STORIES, FRANNY AND
ZOOEY, and CATCHER IN THE RYE?
Answer: J.D. SALINGER (Jerome David)
Science & Health
5.
What is the name for the fluid that surrounds the developing embryo in mammals, birds and
reptiles?
Answer: amniotic fluid
6.
Give the common names for all three isotopes of hydrogen.
Answer: protium, deuterium and tritium
7.
What phrase is used to designate the change in the frequency of an approaching police siren as it
passes?
Answer: Doppler effect or Doppler shift
Social Science
8.
Name the only U.S. Vice President to be tried for murder while in office and tried for treason after
leaving office.
Answer: (Aaron) Burr
9.
Which Chinese leader retreated to Formosa or Taiwan after the communist revolution of 1949?
Answer: Chiang Kai-shek (needs full name)
10.
Give the French phrase that describes the idea that an economic system operates best when the
government leaves it alone.
Answer: laissez-faire
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Round: 10
Mathematics
Time: 30 seconds
11.
What is the product of the complex number 5 minus 2i and its conjugate?
Answer: 29
Time: 60 seconds
12.
In terms of pi, what is the area of the conic section having the equation: x squared plus y squared
minus 6x plus 4y equals 12?
Answer: 25 pi square units or 25 pi units squared {proper units must be included}
Time: 60 seconds
13.
Segment ET is a median of triangle HEB. The length of segment HT is 2x minus 3 and the length of
segment BT is 5x minus 21. Find the value of x.
Answer: 6
Fine Arts
14.
Name the Renaissance painter who painted the "Virgins on the Rocks" and "The Lady with an
Ermine" and is also known for his scientific inventions.
Answer: Leonardo DA VINCI
15.
What is the term for a vocal work with instrumental accompaniment that consists of choruses,
solos, recitatives and ensembles, but is performed without any staging?
Answer: cantata OR oratorio
Year In Review
16.
For what purpose is the VeriChip implanted under the skin?
Answer: Medical identification (hold medical records)
Source: Time, 11 March 2002: 56.
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Round: 11
Foreign Language
1.
FRENCH Nous n'avons pas peur du chien.
GERMAN Wir fürchten uns nicht vor dem Hund.
SPANISH No tenemos miedo del perro.
Translation: We are not afraid (have no fear) of the dog.
Language Arts
2.
Name the scientist credited with initiating the method of inductive reasoning, who was also the
first English essayist, writing such works as "Of Studies," and "Of Marriage."
Answer: Sir Francis BACON
3.
(not Roger)
Identify the error in this sentence: Mary, as well as John and Abby, were to tell the man the
information.
Answer: should be "was" not " were;" also accept subject -verb agreement error
4.
Name the slave who, in 1773, authored POEMS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS, RELIGIOUS AND
MORAL, which was the first published work by a black American.
Answer: Phillis WHEATLEY
Science & Health
5.
What gel material is used as a base for bacterial culture media?
Answer: Agar
6.
What is the hydrogen ion concentration in moles per liter of a solution with a pOH of 3?
Answer: One times ten to the negative eleven power (1x10-11 M)
7.
(30 seconds) What is the coefficient of friction between a sliding object and the surface it is sliding
over when the force of friction is 10 lbs and the normal force is 20 lbs?
Answer: 0.5 (accept 1/2)
Social Science
8.
What term is given to the anti-immigrant ideology which occurred in the U.S. in the 1840s and also
the late 1800s?
Answer: nativism
9.
What is the name of the groups that regulated trade and manufacturing in Medieval towns?
Answer: Guilds
10.
Name the term that means the fear of foreigners and anything related to them.
Answer: Xenophobia
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Round: 11
Mathematics
Time: 30 seconds
11.
What is the prime factorization of 504 in exponential form?
Answer: 2 cubed times 3 squared times 7
Time: 30 seconds
12.
The sum of the measures of the interior angles in a decagon equals what?
Answer: 1440
Time: 60 seconds
13.
Solve for x: 9, to the power of 3x minus 1, equals 27, to the power of x plus 3.
Answer: 11/3, 11 over 3 or 3 and 2-thirds
Fine Arts
14.
What Italian term for "smoky atmosphere" was used in many Renaissance paintings?
Answer: sfumato
15.
Name the American composer who wrote a children's suite called, "The Red Pony," received a
Pulitzer Prize for "Appalachian Spring," and wrote the scores for Hollywood movies such as "Of
Mice and Men," and "Our Town."
Answer: (Aaron) COPLAND
Year In Review
16.
Give the name of the actress who said, "I dedicate this award to every nameless, faceless woman of
color that now has a chance because this door…has been opened," when she accepted her
Academy Award for best actress.
Answer: (Halle) Berry
Source: Newsweek, 8 April 2002: 53.
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Round: 12
Foreign Language
1.
FRENCH La plupart des enfants aiment aller à l'école.
GERMAN Die Mehrheit der Kinder geht gern zur Schule.
SPANISH A la mayoría de los niños, le encanta ir a la escuela.
Translation: Most (The majority of the) children like (love) to go to school.
Language Arts
2.
In what Shakespearean play does this line appear: "We are such stuff as dreams are made of"?
Answer: THE TEMPEST
3.
Correct the grammatical error in this sentence: He hardly won none of the prizes.
Answer: Should be: He hardly won any of the prizes OR He won none of the prizes. Cannot have both
"hardly" and "none" because they are both negatives.
4.
What American poet penned "Because I could not stop for Death," and was known as the "Belle
of Amherst?"
Answer: Emily DICKINSON
Science & Health
5.
Name the two divisions of Angiosperms.
Answer: Monocots and Dicots (monocotyledonae and dicotyledonae)
6.
What molecular structural shape is methane?
Answer: Tetrahedral
7.
In meteorology, what does the Beaufort scale measure?
Answer: Wind speed
Social Science
8.
Which group of politicians in the American Congress advocated war against the British prior to
the onset of the War of 1812, in hopes of expanding U.S. Territorial interests in Canada?
Answer: (War) Hawks
9.
In what Mongol leader's court did Marco Polo arrive in 1275?
Answer: Kublai Kahn (need both)
10.
In psychology, what is the word used to describe an experience of emotional release and
purification, often inspired through art?
Answer: catharsis
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Round: 12
Mathematics
Time: 60 seconds
11.
Given the sine of x is a negative 3/5, and the cosine of x is negative, what is the tangent of x?
Answer: 3/4 or 3 over 4 or 0.75
Time: 30 seconds
12.
Convert 165 degrees to radians. Give your answer in simplest form in terms of pi.
Answer: 11/12 pi or 11 pi over 12
Time: 60 seconds
13.
What is the longest tube that can fit in a 16 inch by 18 inch by 5 inch case?
Answer: Square root of 605
Fine Arts
14.
Name the English philosopher who held the belief that man's mind was a tabula rasa, a blank slate,
until experience begins to "write" on it.
Answer: John LOCKE
15.
Which brass instrument has soprano, alto, tenor, bass and contra-bass sizes?
Answer: trombone (do NOT accept saxophone)
Year In Review
16.
What troubling scandal referred to as "a crisis without precedent in our times" occupied news
stories during much of 2002?
Answer: Sexual abuse by clergy
Source: Newsweek, 24 June 2002: 80.
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Round: 13
Foreign Language
1.
FRENCH La musique est trop forte.
GERMAN Die Musik ist zu laut.
SPANISH La música es demásiado alta.
Translation: The music is too loud.
Language Arts
2.
Name the Irish dramatist, critic, and novelist best known for writing MAN AND SUPERMAN,
PYGMALION, and ST. JOAN.,
Answer: George Bernard SHAW
3.
In writing, what over-used, trite metaphor should be avoided such as "You can't teach an old dog
new tricks?"
Answer: Cliché
4.
What Americn poet penned the following lines: "... I know I stirred certain vibrations in Spoon
River which are my true epitaph more lasting than stone."?
Answer: Edgar Lee MASTERS
Science & Health
5.
Which cell structure acts as the digestive tract for the cell?
Answer: Lysosome
6.
What is the chemical formula for potassium permanganate?
Answer: KMnO4
7.
What symbol stands for the speed of light in a vacuum?
Answer: c (lower case c)
Social Science
8.
Who wrote the article in "Harper's" magazine, that exposed the corrupt practices of Rockefeller's
Standard Oil Company?
Answer: (Ida) Tarbell
9.
What alliance of the Eastern bloc nations was formed during the Cold War?
Answer: Warsaw Pact
10.
What is the name of the ethnic group that inhabits the foothills of the Pyrenees Mountains?
Answer: Basque(s)
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Round: 13
Mathematics
Time: 30 seconds
11.
What is the sum of the additive inverse of 4 and the multiplicative inverse of 4?
Answer: -3 and 3/4 or -15/4 or -3.75
Time: 30 seconds
12.
Points A, B, C and D are coplanar. A, B, and C are collinear but B, C, and D are not. How many
different lines are determined by points A, B, C, and D?
Answer: 4
Time: 45 seconds
13.
Solve 2 times sine x minus 1 equals 0, for x between 0 and 2 pi.
Answer: pi/6 or pi over 6 and 5/6 pi or 5 pi over 6 {need both answers}
Fine Arts
14.
Name the 15th Dutch artist who painted bizarre and colorful religious allegories, filled with
grotesque figures and animals and obscure symbolism in such works as "The Garden of Earthly
Delights".
Answer: Hieronymus BOSCH
15.
Name the French Impressionist composer known chiefly for program music and short pieces for the
piano whose works include "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun," and "La Mer."
Answer: (Claude) DEBUSSY (DE bussy)
Year In Review
16.
What disease, that scientists are now using imaging technology to diagnose in its earliest stages,
is projected to affect 14 million Americans by the year 2050?
Answer: Alzheimer's (disease)
Source: Newsweek, 24 June 2002: 42.
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Round: 14
Foreign Language
1.
FRENCH Il arrive presque toujours en retard.
GERMAN Er kommt fast immer zu spät.
SPANISH Él llega casi siempre tarde.
Translation: He (almost always) arrives almost always late.
Language Arts
2.
Name the highly quotable 18th Century English poet who gave us these lines, "A little learning is a
dangerous thing" and "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread."
Answer: Alexander POPE
3.
Identify the error in the following sentence: Reading the news, fourteen cats had been killed in the
flood.
Answer: Dangling participle (there is no person reading in the example-- so reading does not modify any
word in the sentence.) (Do not accept misplaced.)
4.
Who used, among others, the pseudonyms, Silence Dogood and Richard Saunders?
Answer: Benjamin FRANKLIN
Science & Health
5.
What is the small organ that stores bile before it passes into the duodenum of the small intestine?
Answer: Gall bladder
6.
What is the name of the substance that changes the rate of a chemical reaction but is not itself
altered in the process?
Answer: Catalyst
7.
What compound is responsible for the reddish color of the surface of Mars?
Answer: Iron oxide or rust
Social Science
8.
Which militant party founded in Oakland, California, in 1966 by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale,
espoused violent revolution as the only means of black liberation?
Answer: the Black Panthers
9.
Name the Byzantine emperor from 527 to 565 AD, who codified Roman law?
Answer: Justinian
10.
What is the diplomatic term that means the relaxation of tensions between countries?
Answer: détente
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Round: 14
Mathematics
Time: 60 seconds
11.
Give the exact area of an isosceles triangle whose vertex angle measures 120 degrees and each leg
measures 6 centimeters.
Answer: 9 square root 3 centimeters squared or square centimeters. {proper units must be included}
Time: 30 seconds
12.
Arrange the given fractions in ascending order: 2/3, 9/13, 5/7, 8/11.
Answer: 2/3, 9/13, 5/7, 8/11
Time: 90 seconds
13.
Solve the system of equations: x plus y equals 14 and x squared plus y squared equals 100.
Answer: (6, 8) and (8, 6) {must have both answers}
Fine Arts
14.
What Swedish filmmaker directed the films "Fanny and Alexander", "Wild Strawberries", and "The
Seventh Seal", and had a major influence on the career of Woody Allen?
Answer: Ingmar BERGMAN
15.
Name both the European composer and his symphony that was dedicated to Napoleon Bonaparte
and renamed when Bonoaparte declared himself Emperor of France?
Answer: Beethoven
The Eroica Symphony (also accept the Third Symphony)
Year In Review
16.
What "writer-producer-director-megamind" runs a film conglomerate that includes the ILM
visual-effects house and Skywalker Sound?
Answer: (George) Lucas
Source: Time, 29 April 2002: 59.
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Round: 15
Foreign Language
1.
FRENCH Qui est l'auteur de ton livre favori?
GERMAN Wer ist der Autor deines Lieblingsbuches?
SPANISH ¿Quién es el autor de tu libro favorito?
Translation: Who is the author of your favorite book?
Language Arts
2.
In Shakespeare's HAMLET, what two characters are mistakenly beheaded by the King of England?
Answer: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
3.
In a modified block letter, in what part of the page of paper would the closing appear?
Answer: bottom center or right (Do not accept left)
4.
What poet celebrated the idealized American life in poems such as "I Sing the Body Electric" and
"Crossing Brooklyn Ferry"?
Answer: Walt WHITMAN
Science & Health
5.
What polysaccharide makes up the cell wall of plant cells?
Answer: Cellulose
6.
Coal, graphite, diamonds, and fullerenes are different forms of carbon. What are such different
forms called?
Answer: Allotropes
7.
What is the product of force times lever arm?
Answer: Torque
Social Science
8.
What document remained the basis for government in Plymouth Colony until 1691, after being
used to establish the first government in New England based on the consent of the governed?
Answer: Mayflower Compact
9.
In which country was the Treaty of Ghent signed on December 24, 1814, ending the War of 1812?
Answer: Belgium
10.
What do you call the belief that one's own group, race, or nation is the best?
Answer: Ethnocentrism
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Round: 15
Mathematics
Time: 60 seconds
11.
Find the volume of a cube with a side length of 4.5 centimeters to the nearest tenth.
Answer: 91.1 centimeters cubed or cubic centimeters.
Time: 30 seconds
12.
Simplify: logarithm of 81 with base 3.
Answer: 4
Time: 60 seconds
13.
Give the one's digit of the number whose value is equal to 3 to the 18th power.
Answer: 9
Fine Arts
14.
Name the form of improvised, slapstick comedy popular in 16th to 18th Century Italy.
Answer: Commedia Dell-Arte
15.
Name the term which developed around 1930 for the technique of recording music on records,
tapes and film and playing it back in a way that sounds as much as possible like the original
performance.
Answer: high fidelity (also accept hi fi)
Year In Review
16.
What is the name given to the collective alternate universe consisting of all active,
easy-to-maintain, journal-like personal web sites called Weblogs?
Answer: Blog-osphere
Source: Newsweek, 26 August 2002: 42.
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Round: 16
Foreign Language
1.
FRENCH Si vous parlez lentement, je peux vous comprendre.
GERMAN Wenn Sie langsam sprechen, kann ich Sie verstehen.
SPANISH Si usted habla lentamente, yo puedo comprender a usted.
Translation: If (When)you speak slowly, I can (am able to) understand you.
Language Arts
2.
Name the English philologist, fantasy writer, and professor of Medieval literature at Oxford, who
created a language called "Elvish," which turned into a mythology and several fantasy novels.
Answer: (J.R.R.) TOLKIEN
3.
What is the name for any form of communication aimed at persuading an audience, sometimes
containing false or misleading information and often referring to manipulative political material?
Answer: Propaganda
4.
In what novel by H.G. Wells does Jack Griffin, a man described as almost an albino, discover that,
by changing his body chemistry so as not to reflect, refract, or absorb light, he can become
impossible to see?
Answer: THE INVISIBLE MAN
Science & Health
5.
What is the portion of the flower that connects the stigma with the ovary?
Answer: Style
6.
What is the electron configuration for neon?
Answer: 1s2 2s2 2p6
7.
What is the term for the earth's layer of porous rock that can be tapped to produce artesian wells
for supplying water, even in arid areas?
Answer: Aquifer
Social Science
8.
John O'Sullivan is credited with what phrase or idea which captured American expansionist ideas
in the 19th Century?
Answer: Manifest Destiny
9.
What is the name given to the French Protestants that Louis XIV drove out of France?
Answer: Huguenots
10.
What is the current name of Abyssinia?
Answer: Ethiopia
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Round: 16
Mathematics
Time: 30 seconds
11.
Find the inverse of the function y equals log base 6 of x.
Answer: 6 to the x power or 6 to the x
Time: 60 seconds
12.
In the x, y, z (3D) coordinate system, what is the distnace between points (-5, 2, 1) and (4, 0, -3)
Answer: Square root of 101, or radical 101
Time: 30 seconds
13.
Evaluate the function: f of x equals 2 x squared minus 9 x minus 12 for x equals negative 2.
Answer: 14
Fine Arts
14.
What architect designed the domes and spires that give London its characteristic look, including
Saint Paul's Cathedral?
Answer: Christopher WREN
15.
Name the American composer who was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for his
war-time song, "Over There."
Answer: (George M.) COHAN
Year In Review
16.
Name the home country of the 2002 Miss Universe who was "de-tiara'd" for breach of contract.
Answer: Russia
Source: Newsweek, 7 October 2002: 25.
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Round: Semi-Final
Foreign Language
1.
FRENCH Ma grand-mère a deux animaux domestiques, un chat et un parroquet.
GERMAN Meine Oma hat zwei Haustiere, eine Katze und einen Papagei.
SPANISH Mi abuela tiene dos animales domésticos, un gato y un papagayo.
Translation: My grandma (grandmother) has two pets (domestic animals), a cat and a parrot.
Language Arts
2.
Name the poem by Dylan Thomas that has the recurring line "Rage, rage against the dying of the
light."
Answer: "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night"
3.
Name the figure of speech that makes reference to a historic or literary figure or event which the
reader is expected to recognize.
Answer: allusion
4.
In what short story by Sarah Orne Jewett does a lonely little girl named Sylvy refuse to tell the
hunter the location of a bird's nesting place?
Answer: "A White Heron"
Science & Health
5.
List the four major types of tissues in the human body.
Answer: Epithelial, connective, muscle and nervous
6.
What term is given to the relative tendency of an atom to attract electrons to itself when bonded to
another atom?
Answer: Electronegativity
7.
What term is used to describe the bending of waves as they obliquely enter a new medium?
Answer: Refraction
Social Science
8.
Identify either of the two men who were nominated three times by major political parties but were
never elected to the Presidency.
Answer: (Henry) Clay or (William Jennings) Bryan
9.
What term was used to describe Herbert Spencer's idea that the principle of natural selection could
be applied to society?
Answer: Social Darwinism
10.
What two peoples were united by Alfred the Great, who defeated a Danish invasion of Britain in
886 AD?
Answer: Angles and Saxons
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Round: Semi-Final
Mathematics
Time: 30 seconds
11.
Find: i + i squared + i cubed + i to the fourth power + i to the fifth power.
Answer: i
Time: 60 seconds
12.
What is the horizontal asymptote of f of x equals x over the quantity x minus 2?
Answer: the line, y equals 1
Time: 45 seconds
13.
Solve: x cubed, equals negative 5x squared plus 50x.
Answer: x equals negative 10, x equals 0, and x equals 5 {all three answers are needed}
Fine Arts
14.
What was the name for the early photographic process named for its inventor in which pictures
were made on silver-plated copper exposed to light?
Answer: daguerreotype (do not accept tin type which is a different type)
15.
Name the instrument, invented in 1886 by Mustel (moo STEL) of Paris, first used by Tchaikovsky
in "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy."
Answer: celeste (se LEST)
Year In Review
16.
Name the platinum-selling soundtrack for which 75-year-old Ralph Stanley won a best country
vocal Grammy and a six-year, six-record deal with Columbia Records?
Answer: "O Brother, Where Art Thou?"
Source: Newsweek, 17 June 2002: 16.
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Round: Semi-Final Replacement
Foreign Language
1.
FRENCH Ce week-end mon ami et moi, nous allons faire des achats.
GERMAN Mein Freund und ich gehen dieses Wochenende einkaufen.
SPANISH Este fin de semana, mi amiga y yo vamos a ir de compras.
Translation: (On) This (That) weekend my friend and I will go (are going to go) shopping.
Language Arts
2.
What American woman received the Nobel Prize for Literature and wrote THE GOOD EARTH and
A HOUSE DIVIDED?
Answer: Pearl BUCK
3.
Identify the error in this sentence: I opened the door before I come into the room.
Answer: Should be "came" not "come," or there is a shift in verb tense
4.
Which Georgia-born author became famous for his Uncle Remus stories?
Answer: Joel Chandler HARRIS
Science & Health
5.
Which region of the brain controls such involuntary activities as breathing, coughing, swallowing,
and sneezing?
Answer: Medulla
6.
What is the coefficient of the hydrochloric acid in the balanced equation for the reaction between
zinc and hydrochloric acid to produce zinc chloride and hydrogen?
Answer: Two
7.
How many significant figures are in the number 327.30? (read as 327 point 30 or 327 decimal point
30)
Answer: Five
Social Science
8.
What term defines taxes placed on the removal of natural resources such as oil, gas, and timber?
Answer: severance (tax)
9.
What declining empire massacred 600,000 Armenians in retaliation for their support of Russia
during World War I?
Answer: Ottoman Empire
10.
What 1964 Act of Congress gave the President almost a blank check to commit troops in SE Asia
without Congressional approval?
Answer: Tonkin Gulf Resolution or Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
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Round: Semi-Final Replacement
Mathematics
Time: 60 seconds
11.
What are the next two numbers in this number pattern: 34, 36, 18, 20, 10, ...
Answer: 12 and 6
Time: 30 seconds
12.
If a triangle has angles measuring X, X plus 30, and X plus 30, what is the measure of the smallest
angle?
Answer: 40 degrees
Time: 30 seconds
13.
In which quadrant is the terminal side of an angle whose measure is 11/4 pi radians?
Answer: the second quadrant
Fine Arts
14.
Which Expressionist's exotic works include "The Sleeping Gypsy", "The Happy Quartet", and
"Jungle with a Lion?"
Answer: Henri ROUSSEAU
15.
Give the term that refers to either the large, stringed, percussion instrument that is played with the
fingers or the small instrument consisting of a metal box that is played by blowing over reeds.
Answer: harp
Year In Review
16.
Give the name of the book series for girld written by Mildred Benson, also known as Carolyn
Keene, who died in June at the age of 96, after a career as a writer of 130 books and columnist for
The Toledo Blade?
Answer: Nancy Drew (Mysteries)
Source: Newsweek, 10 June 2002: 12.
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Round: Consolation
Foreign Language
1.
FRENCH Le train est quarante minutes en retard.
GERMAN Der Zug hat vierzig Minuten Verspätung.
SPANISH El tren es cuarenta minutos tarde.
Translation: The train is forty minutes late.
Language Arts
2.
Give the title of the Richard Lovelace poem that includes the line, "Stone walls do not a prison
make,/nor iron bars a cage".
Answer: "To Althea, from Prison"
3.
What is the term for a concluding statement or section added to a work of literature such as Shaw
used in PYGMALION?
Answer: Epilogue
4.
By what collective name are the following poets known: Holmes, Longfellow, Lowell, and Whittier?
Answer: Fireside Poets
Science & Health
5.
What is the name of the enzyme produced by salivary glands in your mouth during the breakdown
of starches?
Answer: Amylase or ptyalin
6.
(30 seconds) How many grams of sodium hydroxide are in one liter of a one molar solution
of sodium hydroxide?
Answer: 40 (grams)
7.
(30 seconds) What is the wavelength of a radio wave having a frequency of 5 megahertz?
Answer: 60 meters
Social Science
8.
Which permanent committee of the House of Representatives makes recommendations on all bills
for raising revenue?
Answer: Ways and Means
9.
Which French noblewoman's marriage to Henry II gave Britain control over more land in France
than the French, helping to precipitate the Hundred Years War?
Answer: Eleanor of Aquitaine
10.
Name the philanthropist, known for writing the essay "The Gospel of Wealth," who made the
statement: "The man who dies rich, dies disgraced."
Answer: (Andrew) Carnegie
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Round: Consolation
Mathematics
Time: 60 seconds
11.
Find the 12th term of the geometric sequence if the common ratio is 2 and the 6th term is 3.
Answer: 192
Time: 60 seconds
12.
If f of x equals 3x squared minus 4, and g of x equals 7x plus 3, find f of g of 3.
Answer: 1724
Time: 45 seconds
13.
Evaluate: cosine of the quantity inverse sine of 3-fifths.
Answer: 4/5, four-fifths
Fine Arts
14.
What Dutch artist of the 1600's portrayed interior scenes "suffused with cool, silvery light" usually
from a window on the left edge of the painting?
Answer: Jan VERMEER
15.
Name the American singer and song writer whose folk songs celebrate the goodness of America as
well as make bitter comment on the 1930's and '40's. His well known songs include "So Long, It's
Been Good to Know Ya," and "Roll On, Columbia."
Answer: (Woody) Guthrie
Year In Review
16.
What milestone is Queen Elizabeth II only the fifth English monarch to reach?
Answer: Reign for 50 years or Golden Jubilee
Source: Newsweek, 10 June 2002: 44.
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Round: Consolation Replacement
Foreign Language
1.
FRENCH La cravate a des rayures bleues et vertes.
GERMAN Die Krawatte hat blaue und grüne Streifen.
SPANISH La corbata tiene unas rayas azules y verdes.
Translation: The tie has (some) blue and green stripes.
Language Arts
2.
In William Golding's LORD OF THE FLIES, what object symbolized communication and
democracy?
Answer: conch or "konk" or shell
3.
What punctuation is needed after the word "John" in this sentence: Before the game ended, John,
however, was injured.
Answer: comma
4.
Who wrote "Winter Dreams" in which the protagonist golfer settles for his second love over Judy.
Answer: F. Scott FITZGERALD
Science & Health
5.
What are the names of the four bases of RNA?
Answer: Adenine, guanine, cytosine, and uracil
6.
(30 seconds) Convert 18 degrees Celsius to Kelvin.
Answer: 291(K)
7.
Which planet in our solar system emits more energy than it receives?
Answer: Jupiter
Social Science
8.
What is the two-word phrase that exempts diplomats from taxation and ordinary processes of law
while they are stationed in a foreign country?
Answer: Diplomatic Immunity
9.
Name the hilly plateau, overlooking the Jordan River and the Sea of Galilea, over which Syria and
Israel fought in 1967.
Answer: Golan Heights
(also accept Al Jawlan)
10.
What is the term for the period of James Monroe's administration, during which there was a truce
between Republicans and Federalists?
Answer: Era of Good Feeling (needs all of phrase)
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Round: Consolation Replacement
Mathematics
Time: 45 seconds
11.
Factor completely: Sixty-four x to the sixth power minus y cubed.
Answer: The quantity 4x squared minus y, times the quantity 16x to the fourth power, plus 4x squared y,
plus y squared, {(4x squared - y)(16x to the fourth power + 4x squared y + y squared)}
Time: 30 seconds
12.
In radians, what is the period of the function Y equals 4 tangent x?
Answer: pi
Time: 45 seconds
13.
Solve: the square root of the quantity x minus 3, minus the square root of x equals negative one.
Answer: 4
Fine Arts
14.
Name the movement in American painting and sculpture originating in the early 1960's exemplified
by works of Joel Shapiro and Frank Stella that emphasized pure, reduced forms and colors.
Answer: Minimalism
15.
Give the term for the note that appears between two chords that is dissonant with both of them
and is one scale step removed from each.
Answer: PASSING tone OR passing note
Year In Review
16.
What virus are 119 million Americans as susceptible to as were the people who greeted Columbus
500 years ago?
Answer: Smallpox
Source: Newsweek, 14 October 2002: 45.
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Foreign Language
1.
FRENCH En hiver les jours deviennent plus courts.
GERMAN Im Winter werden die Tage kürzer.
SPANISH En el invierno los días se hacen más cortos.
Translation: In (The) winter the days become shorter.
Language Arts
2.
Who wrote the story of psychological terror in which a salesman named Gregor Samsa wakes up
one morning to find himself transformed into a giant insect?
Answer: Franz KAFKA
3.
What playwright, the only American to win four Pulitzer prizes for drama, wrote THE ICEMAN
COMETH, MOURNING BECOMES ELECTRA, and LONG DAYS JOURNEY INTO NIGHT?
Answer: Eugene O'NEILL
4.
Name the author, known as one of the Dark Romantics, who changed the spelling of his last name
because he was embarrassed by his ancestor's involvement in the Salem Witch Trials.
Answer: Nathaniel HAWTHORNE
Science & Health
5.
Give the scientific name for 2 of the three muscles of the hamstring group.
Answer: Biceps fermoris, semimembranosus, and semitendinosus
6.
What is the name given to the radiation belts that were discovered by Explorer I?
Answer: Van Allen(Radiation Belts) or Van Allen Belts
7.
Which physicist's law states that equal volumes of all gases, measured at the same temperature
and pressure, contain the same number of molecules?
Answer: (Amadeo) Avogadro
Social Science
8.
What name is given to a set of international rules that govern the treatment of prisoners, the sick
and wounded, and civilians during war?
Answer: Geneva Convention(s)
9.
What Chinese city was the site of an infamous slaughter and rape of civilians by Japanese
invaders in 1937?
Answer: Nanjing (or Nanking)
10.
What name was given to the incidents of racial violence against young Mexican-Americans in 1943
Los Angeles?
Answer: Zoot Suit Riots
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Mathematics
Time: 60 seconds
11.
If A and B are independent events and the probability of A is .7 (point 7) and the probability of B
is .3 (point 3), what is the probability of A or B?
Answer: .79 {point 79}
Time: 60 seconds
12.
Bradley averaged 60 miles per hour for the first 20 miles of his 60-mile trip, but only 50 miles per
hour for the next 40 miles. How many minutes did his trip take?
Answer: 68 minutes
Time: 60 seconds
13.
Find the definite integral from 1 to 5 of the quantity x squared minus one.
Answer: 37 and 1-third, or 112 over 3
Fine Arts
14.
Name the American painter known for his portraits of socially prominent people of the 19th
Century and whose most famous works include "Madame X" and "The Sydham Sisters."
Answer: John Singer SARGENT
15.
What opera was written to celebrate the opening of the Suez Canal and was awarded a Tony this
year for a contemporary adaptation?
Answer: "Aida" (eye EE da)
Year In Review
16.
Name the prolific historian/writer who died in October and who, in 1963, was asked by President
Eisenhower to write Eisenhower's biography.
Answer: (Stephen) Ambrose
Source: Time, 28 October 2002: 23.
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Round: Championship Replacement
Foreign Language
1.
FRENCH Mon anniversaire est d'ici deux jours.
GERMAN Mein Geburtstag ist heute in zwei Tagen.
SPANISH Mi cumpleaños será en dos días.
Translation: My birthday is two days from now (will be in two days).
Language Arts
2.
Which 18th Century British author is credited with writing the short satirical novel, MANSFIELD
PARK, as well as the novels NORTHHANGER ABBEY and EMMA?
Answer: Jane AUSTEN
3.
What American author examined the lives of five people who died in the collapse of a bridge in
Peru in the novel THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY?"
Answer: Thornton WILDER
4.
Name the first African American winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature who wrote the novels
SULA, THE BLUEST EYE, and BELOVED?
Answer: Toni MORRISON
Science & Health
5.
The deficiency of which element causes goiter?
Answer: Iodine
6.
How many electrons are in the "p" sublevel of the halogens?
Answer: Five
7.
(30 seconds) What is the final velocity of an object moving with an initial velocity of 25 meters per
second which is accelerated at the rate of negative 5 meters per second squared for 5 seconds?
Answer: Zero (meters per second)
Social Science
8.
What is the name of a court order, requiring a person to be brought before a court and charged
with a crime or be released within 48 hours of being arrested?
Answer: (Writ of) Habeas Corpus
9.
Name the Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain, in the early to mid-16th century, who controlled
more land than any ruler since Charlemagne.
Answer: Charles V (the fifth)
10.
Name the Massachusetts schoolteacher who, during the 1850's, became a champion for prison,
poorhouse, and mental hospital reform.
Answer: (Dorthea) Dix
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Mathematics
Time: 30 seconds
11.
Solve the limit as x approaches zero of the quantity, x plus 2 squared, over the quantity x minus 1
Answer: negative 4, -4
Time: 60 seconds
12.
A tiny pyramid, whose faces are triangles, is sliced off at each vertex of a large cube. How many
vertices does the resulting polyhedron have?
Answer: 24
Time: 30 seconds
13.
What is the probability of 3 dice rolled having a sum greater than 4?
Answer: 53/54, or 53 over 54
Fine Arts
14.
What tool is used to keep an artist's hand steady while painting on a large canvas in an area of wet
paint?
Answer: mahlstick or maulstick
15.
Give the term for a musical composition in which the melody line and harmony move along in the
same rhythm.
Answer: homophony
Year In Review
16.
Name the man who has been hired by Mexico City to help combat its alarming incidence of
murders, kidnappings, and drug trafficking because of his success in cleaning up similar problems
in New York City during his term as mayor.
Answer: (Rudy) Giuliani
Source: Time, 28 October 2002: 73.
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Round: Replacement 01
Foreign Language
1.
FRENCH Il se brosse les dents.
GERMAN Er putzt sich die Zähne.
SPANISH Él se cepilla los dientes
Translation: He is brushing (brushes) (does brush) his teeth.
Language Arts
2.
In the Greek play OEDIPUS REX, what does Oedipus do when he learns the truth about his family
history and after Jocasta has killed herself?
Answer: He blinds himself (puts out his eyes). Gouges them out.
3.
Correct the error in the following sentence: "If I was a wealthy person, I would fly around the
world."
Answer: "If I was" should be "If I were"
4.
What Tennessee Williams play includes the characters Blanche DuBois, Stella Kowalski, and
Stanley?
Answer: (A) STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
Science & Health
5.
Name the opening in the skull where the brain attaches to the spinal column.
Answer: Foramen magnum
6.
What name is given to a solution that resists change in pH when small amounts of acid or base are
added?
Answer: Buffer (solution)
7.
What is the point in a standing wave halfway between two nodes, at which maximum amplitude
occurs?
Answer: Antinode
Social Science
8.
What was the nickname of the African-Americans who migrated to Kansas after the Civil War?
Answer: Exodusters
9.
In 843 AD, whose empire was divided into three kingdoms by the Treaty of Verdun?
Answer: Charlemagne
10.
Name the mountain chain, extending from British Columbia, Canada, south through Washington
and Oregon to northern California.
Answer: Cascades
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Round: Replacement 01
Mathematics
Time: 30 seconds
11.
In a research experiment, a population of fruit flies is increasing according to the law of exponential
growth. After two days there are 100 flies, and after 4 days there are 300 flies. How many flies will
there be after 8 days?
Answer: 2700
Time: 30 seconds
12.
If a right triangle has one leg with a length of 6 centimeters and a hypotenuse of length square root
117 centimeters, what is the length of the other leg?
Answer: 9
Time: 30 seconds
13.
What is the greatest x-coordinate among all points on the circle x plus 4 quantity squared plus y
minus 6 quantity squared equals 9?
Answer: -1
Fine Arts
14.
What is the term for lines that surround and define the edges of a subject, giving it shape and
volume?
Answer: contour lines
15.
Name the American composer of musical comedies who wrote "Smoke Gets in you Eyes." His
musical "Showboat" includes "Ol' Man River."
Answer: (Jerome) KERN
Year In Review
16.
Described as "the kind of Governor even the unions can love," what Republican won a third term
as governor of New York?
Answer: (George) Pataki
Source: Time, 21 October 2002: 48.
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Round: Replacement 02
Foreign Language
1.
FRENCH Nous avons déjà mangé.
GERMAN Wir haben schon gegessen.
SPANISH Ya comimos.
Translation: We have (We've) already eaten. (We already ate).
Language Arts
2.
Identify Cervantes' crazed fictional character who rides a horse named Rocinante as he redresses
the wrongs of the world.
Answer: Don QUIXOTE (Key oh tee)
3.
What word refers to a statement that seems contradictory or absurd but is actually true, such as
"You've got to be cruel to be kind."
Answer: paradox
4.
What famous American novel's title is found in the second line of the "Battle Hymn of the
Republic"?
Answer: THE GRAPES OF WRATH
Science & Health
5.
Name the third part of the small intestine.
Answer: Ileum
6.
Which process involves the addition of a solution of known concentration to a solution of
unknown concentration in order to determine the concentration of the unknown solution?
Answer: Titration
7.
What planet in our solar system is rotating sideways in its plane of orbit?
Answer: Uranus
Social Science
8.
Who served with distinction in the Mexican War, was superintendent at West Point, and in 1859,
led the US Marines, who captured John Brown at Harper's Ferry?
Answer: (Robert E.) Lee
9.
At what site in France did Charles Martel defeat an invading Muslim army in 732 AD?
Answer: Tours
10.
The United States Secret Service is under the jurisdiction of which Cabinet Department?
Answer: Treasury (Department)
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Round: Replacement 02
Mathematics
Time: 30 seconds
11.
In how many ways can 4 persons be seated in 4 front row chairs?
Answer: 24
Time: 60 seconds
12.
Solve the quadratic equation: x squared minus 6x plus 10 equals 0.
Answer: 3 + i, and 3 - i (need both answers)
Time: 30 seconds
13.
Simplify the expression 27 to the 2/3 power.
Answer: 9
Fine Arts
14.
Name the 20th Century Dutch artist who created simple geometric paintings often consisting of
black lines and blocks of bright colors.
Answer: Piet MONDRIAN
15.
Name both the Lerner and Lowe musical and the play by George Bernard Shaw on which it is based
that includes the songs, "I Could Have Danced All Night," and "The Rain in Spain."
Answer: My Fair Lady
Pygmalion
Year In Review
16.
Name the so-called "community," reviled by some as con artists who prey on the elderly, that
embraced member Madelyne Toogood.
Answer: Irish Travelers
Source: Time, 7 October 2002: 10.
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Round: Replacement 03
Foreign Language
1.
FRENCH Mes grands-parents me donnent un cadeau d'anniversaire.
GERMAN Meine Großeltern geben mir ein Geburtstagsgeschenk.
SPANISH Mis abuelos me dan un regalo de cumpleaños.
Translation: My grandparents give (are giving) (do give) me a birthday present.
Language Arts
2.
What 20th Century Oxford don wrote such diverse works as THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS and
THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA?
Answer: C.S. LEWIS It is not Sinclair Lewis. Last name is acceptable. His name is CLIVE S.
3.
What is the French term used for categories of literary composition of a particular style such as
tragedy, comedy, novel, or short story?
Answer: genre
4.
What 18th Century preacher, who spoke with a "fiery rhetoric," delivered his sermon "Sinners In
the Hands of an Angry God," to Puritans in Northhampton?
Answer: Jonathan EDWARDS
Science & Health
5.
Name the steroid hormone produced by the ovaries.
Answer: Estrogen
6.
What type of compound is formed when a hydroxyl group attaches to a hydrocarbon?
Answer: (An) Alcohol
7.
Name the law of electricity which states that force is proportional to the product of the charges and
is inversely proportional to the square of the distances between the charges.
Answer: Coulomb's Law
Social Science
8.
Name the philosopher and educational reformer of the early Twentieth Century, whose approach
has been summarized as "learning by doing."
Answer: (John) Dewey
9.
Name the revolutionary leader who sought to drive foreign forces from Vietnam until his death in
1969.
Answer: Ho Chi Minh
10.
What is the term for granting political favors to relatives, often in the form of appointments to
office?
Answer: Nepotism
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Round: Replacement 03
Mathematics
Time: 45 seconds
11.
What is the length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle with a base of 6 meters and an area of 24
square meters?
Answer: 10
Time: 30 seconds
12.
Give both the maximum and minimum values of the function g of x equals 2 plus 4 times sine x.
Answer: max = 6, min = -2
Time: 45 seconds
13.
A box contains 7 blue chips and 9 green chips. If Sam takes a chip out of the box and then Alex
takes a chip, what is the probability in fractional form that both select blue chips?
Answer: 7/40 or 7 over 40
Fine Arts
14.
What early Twentieth Century art movement's name comes from the French for "Wild Beasts" and
includes the work "Green Stripe" by Henri Matisse?
Answer: Fauvism
15.
Name the two Englishmen who collaborated on several operettas in the late 19th Century and
whose works, which include "The Pirates of Penzance" and "H.M.S. Pinafore," can be considered
forerunners to musical theater.
Answer: Gilbert and Sullivan
Year In Review
16.
What basketball player on the Los Angeles Sparks team became the first to dunk in a women's
professional game?
Answer: (Lisa) Leslie
Source: U.S. News & World Report, 12 August 2002: 10.
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Round: Replacement 04
Foreign Language
1.
FRENCH J'ai mal à la gorge.
GERMAN Ich habe Halsschmerzen.
SPANISH Me duele la garganta.
Translation: I have a sore throat. (I have a thrat ache.) )(My throat hurts(me)).
Language Arts
2.
What Fench existentialist author wrote of a prisoner in THE STRANGER?
Answer: Albert CAMUS
3.
What is the term for things out of historical time such as clocks in the play JULIUS CAESAR?
Answer: anachronism
4.
Who is the American veteran who created the characters Harrison Bergeron and Billy Pilgrime?
Answer: Kurt VONNEGUT
Science & Health
5.
What is the state or condition in which cells fail to differentiate into specialized cell types?
Answer: Anaplasia
6.
What is the chemical formula for Iron (III) oxide?
Answer: Fe two O three (Fe2O3)
7.
What are the two primary elements found in stars?
Answer: Hydrogen and helium
Social Science
8.
Which state in the U.S. was the first to secede from the Union in 1860?
Answer: South Carolina
9.
In what nation during the 1900s did Emilio Aguinaldo rebel against the United States?
Answer: the Philippines
10.
If a ship is going north into the Suez Canal, for which body of water would it be heading?
Answer: Mediterranean( Sea)
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Mathematics
Time: 30 seconds
11.
What is the mean, median, and mode of the set, 2, 3, 5, 9, 11, 11, and 15, when 16 is added to every
number in the set.
Answer: mean: 24 median: 25 mode: 27
Time: 10 seconds
12.
Multiplying a 3 by 2 matrix and a 2 by 4 matrix will yield what size of matrix?
Answer: 3 by 4 {cannot accept 4 by 3}
Time: 30 seconds
13.
Find the y-intercept of the line connecting the points (-2, 7) and (5, 35).
Answer: 15
Fine Arts
14.
Name the 19th Century German philosopher who rejected Christian values and championed a
"Superman" who would create a new, life-affirming ethic by his "will to power".
Answer: Friedrich NIETZSCHE
15.
What black, American jazz singer of the Harlem Renaissance era caused great political controversy
for singing "Strange Fruit" while she was touring in the South?
Answer: (Billie) HOLIDAY
Year In Review
16.
Previously sold mostly to processors for making purple food dye, what berry is now in high
demand because a study showed it caused a 60 to 80 percent reduction in colon tumors in rats?
Answer: Black raspberry
Source: Newsweek, 17 June 2002: 71.
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Round: Replacement 05
Foreign Language
1.
FRENCH Ils jouent aux échecs pendant l'été.
GERMAN Sie spielen Schach während des Sommers.
SPANISH Ellos juegan al ajedrez durante el verano.
Translation: They play (are playing) (do play) basketball during the summer.
Language Arts
2.
What Irish playwright who made himself the spokesman for the "art for art's sake," movement
wrote THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY and THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST?
Answer: Oscar WILDE
3.
What is the literary term for a type of comedy in which ridiculous and often stereotyped characters
are involved in far-fetched, silly situations?
Answer: Farce
4.
Name the American poet who stated, "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."
Answer: Henry David THOREAU
Science & Health
5.
What is the name of the biochemical pathway in photosynthesis that converts carbon dioxide into
organic compounds?
Answer: Calvin Cycle
6.
What is the maximum number of electrons that can occupy the third main energy level of an atom?
Answer: Eighteen
7.
(45 sec.) Give the total resistance of an electrical circuit containing two ten ohm resistors in
parallel.
Answer: Five ohms
Social Science
8.
Which event occurred on April 17, 1961, when a group of Cuban exiles unsuccessfully attempted
to overthrow the regime of Fidel Castro?
Answer: Bay of Pigs (Invasion)
9.
Name the Russian Revolutionary, born Lev Bronstein, who helped organize the Bolshevik seizure
of power in 1917, and, after Lenin's death, became a chief rival to Stalin for succession.
Answer: (Leon) Trotsky
10.
Under the terms of the 22nd Amendment, what would be the maximum number of years that a
person could be President of the United States?
Answer: ten years
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Mathematics
Time: 30 seconds
11.
What is the number which, if divided by 4, is equal to 1/6 of 72?
Answer: 48
Time: 30 seconds
12.
The graph of y equals 1 over x is known by what name?
Answer: hyperbola
Time: 60 seconds
13.
If 9x minus 3y equals 12, and 5x minus y equals 6, then what does 6x minus 2y equal?
Answer: 8
Fine Arts
14.
What term designates the very heavy or thick paint on a surface?
Answer: impasto
15.
Which popular, American swing band leader disappeared on a flight from England to France in
1944?
Answer: (Glenn) MILLER
Year In Review
16.
According to Newsweek magazine, which specific nutrient should a person limit in his or her diet
to lose weight and help fight excess insulin?
Answer: Carbohydrates
Source: Newsweek, 12 August 2002: 63.
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Round: Replacement 06
Foreign Language
1.
FRENCH Qu'est-ce que tu as fait hier?
GERMAN Was hast du gestern gemacht?
SPANISH
¿Qué hiciste ayer?
Translation: What did you do yesterday?
Language Arts
2.
What Shakespearean tragedy has this line: "It's Greek to me"?
Answer: JULIUS CAESAR
3.
Name the figure of speech that combines side-by- side opposite or contradictory ideas, such as
"living death" or "sweet sorrow."
Answer: oxymoron
4.
In what poem would the reader hear these final lines: "And my soul from out that shadow that lies
floating on the floor/ Shall be lifted--Nevermore."
Answer: "The Raven"
Science & Health
5.
Which scientist first used the swan necked flask to disprove the theory of spontaneous
generation?
Answer: (Louis) Pasteur
6.
Give the oxidation number of nitrogen in the compound dinitrogen trioxide.
Answer: Positive three or plus three or three plus or three positive
7.
Whaat is the term used to describe a land form composed of soil and rocks which have been
deposited by a glacier?
Answer: Moraine
Social Science
8.
During what 1832 Indian Uprising, did Ambraham Lincoln's sole military service take place?
Answer: The Black Hawk War
9.
In what type of historic building would you find a barbican, a Bailey, and a dungeon?
Answer: castle (do not accept prison)
10.
What term refers to using landmarks or sights that are close to a specific location to identify
another location?
Answer: Relative Location
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Round: Replacement 06
Mathematics
Time: 30 seconds
11.
Completely factor the following polynomial: x cubed, minus 2 times x squared, minus x, plus 2.
Answer: ( x - 2)(x + 1)(x - 1) {in any order}
Time: 60 seconds
12.
Bob has a total of $4000 invested, part in a savings account and in a certificate of deposit (CD).
The savings account earns 6.5% interest annually and the CD pays 8%. How much is invested in
each account, if the interest earnings for the year will be $297.50?
Answer: savings: $1500, CD: $2500. Or $1500 at 6.5%, $ 2500 at 8%
Time: 45 seconds
13.
Expressed in terms of pi, what is the length of arc AB in a circle with a redius of 12, if arc AB forms
a 135 degree angle?
Answer: 9 pi
Fine Arts
14.
What artist was fascinated by indoor lighting, especially in theatres, and tried to capture people,
often dancers, and their natural movements?
Answer: Edgar DEGAS
15.
In electronic music, for what does MIDI stand?
Answer: Musical Instrument Digital Interface
Year In Review
16.
What U.S. airline created a controversial situation when it decided in June to make obese air
travelers buy two seats?
Answer: Southwest
Source: Newsweek, 1 July 2002: 6.
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Round: Replacement 07
Foreign Language
1.
FRENCH L'addition, s'il vous plaît.
GERMAN Zahlen, bitte!
SPANISH La cuenta, por favor.
Translation: (The) Check, please.
Language Arts
2.
Who is the father of the cyclops Polyphemus in the ODYSSEY?
Answer: Poseidon (Poh side on)
3.
What is the term for words that sound alike but have different meanings and spellings, such as the
word "kernel" meaning "grain of corn" and "colonel" meaning "a military rank?"
Answer: Homophone (do not accept homonyms or homographs)
4.
Who was known as the "Sage of Concord," America's first philosopher, who wrote the essay "Self
Reliance"?
Answer: Ralph Waldo EMERSON
Science & Health
5.
What phrase from zoology designates a social hierarchy and is derived from the status created
when more aggressive birds peck dominated birds?
Answer: Pecking order
6.
Whose principle states that the position and velocity of a subatomic particle can never be
accurately determined simultaneously?
Answer: (Werner) Heisenberg
7.
Name the term used to identify the time it takes a pendulum to swing back and forth through a
complete arc.
Answer: Period (of vibration)
Social Science
8.
Name the man who, during the abolitionist era, wrote a newpaper called "The Liberator," aimed at
ending slavery.
Answer: (William Lloyd) Garrison
9.
Who was the French historican whose nine-month visit to the United States in 1831-32 resulted in
his work "Democracy in America"?
Answer: (Alexis) de Tocqueville
10.
What term refers to a company that is under the majority control or ownership of a "parent"
company?
Answer: subsidiary
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Round: Replacement 07
Mathematics
Time: 30 seconds
11.
How many possible ways can you arrange five children in a row to have their pictures taken?
Answer: 120
Time: 30 seconds
12.
Solve the equation for all values of x: absolute value of the quantity x minus 2 equals 6.
Answer: -4, and 8 {need both answers}
Time: 60 seconds
13.
If the perimeter of a rectangle is 32 centimeters and the length is 6 centimeters more than the width,
what is the area of the rectangle?
Answer: 55 square centimeters, or 55 centimeters squared {proper units must be included}
Fine Arts
14.
What famous New York City landmark was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and was inspired by
the spiral of a snail's shell?
Answer: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum also accept the Guggenheim
15.
Name the type of popular song in 2/4 time with highly syncopated and repetitious rhythms with
texts that generally poke fun at its subject matter. These songs are indigenous throughout the
Caribbean Islands and made popular by singers like Harry Belafonte.
Answer: calypso (ka LIP soh)
Year In Review
16.
What is the pseudonym of Esther "Eppie" Lederer, who began a career with the Chicago
Sun-Times in 1955 and died this past summer?
Answer: (Ann) Landers
Source: Newsweek, 1 July 2002: 10.
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Round: Replacement 08
Foreign Language
1.
FRENCH Ma famille habite dans une petite ville.
GERMAN Meine Familie wohnt in einer Kleinstadt.
SPANISH Mi familia vive en una ciudad pequeña.
Translation: My family lives in a small (little) city (town).
Language Arts
2.
Identify the Shakespearean play from which the following lines come: "One fairer than my love?
The all-seeing sun/Ne'er saw her match since first the world begun."
Answer: ROMEO AND JULIET
3.
What is the figure of speech which uses intentional exaggeration for heightened effect or comic
effect?
Answer: hyperbole (high per boh lee); (not hyperbola)
4.
Give the first and last name of the narrator of the story of racial prejudice, TO KILL A
MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee.
Answer: (Jean Louise) Scout Finch
Science & Health
5.
Name the process in which a cell's cytoplasm divides following telophase in mitosis.
Answer: Cytokinesis
6.
What do chemists call a solution whose concentration is accurately known?
Answer: Standard (solution)
7.
What heavy igneous rock makes up most of the rock on the ocean floors?
Answer: Basalt
Social Science
8.
Name the U.S. President whose campaign slogan was "Return to Normalcy."
Answer: (Warren G.) Harding
9.
In the early 1000s AD, what Russian city was as wealthy as any western European capital?
Answer: Kiev
10.
Name the natural pass through the Appalachian Mountains through which Daniel Boone blazed
his Wilderness Road. It was considered to be the gateway to the West for the earliest of America's
pioneers.
Answer: Cumberland Gap
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Mathematics
Time: 30 seconds
11.
One twenty-fifth minus one twenty-sixth is equal to what?
Answer: 1/650 or one over six hundred fifty
Time: 30 seconds
12.
Solve: 8 to the x equals one fourth.
Answer: -2/3
Time: 30 seconds
13.
What real number is not in the range of y equals 4x over the quantity 2x minus 7?
Answer: 2
Fine Arts
14.
Which female dancer turned to ancient Greece for inspiration, rejected the rigid system of ballet
and created an expressive form of modern dance?
Answer: Isadora DUNCAN
15.
A brass player, without changing fingering, can play several different notes in the harmonic series,
by adjusting his or her lips. What are these notes called?
Answer: Partials
Year In Review
16.
Name the 85 year-old Los Angeles bandleader, trombonist, and composer of light music such as
S'Wonderful and Somewhere My Love, who died in October.
Answer: (Ray) Conniff
Source: Time, 22 October 2002: 23.
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1.
FRENCH Il va pleuvoir demain
GERMAN Morgen wird es regnen.
SPANISH Va a llover mañana.
Translation: It is going to (will) rain tomorrow.
Language Arts
2.
Who was considered the greatest warrior among the Greeks at Troy and the slayer of Hector?
Answer: Achilles
3.
What is the term used to refer to the close repetition of similar vowels in conjunction with
dissimilar consonant sounds?
Answer: Assonance
4.
Identify both the author and title of this novel from its first sentence: "Buck did not read the
newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every
tidewater dog strong of muscle and with the warm, long hair from Puget Sound to San Diego."
Answer: CALL OF THE WILD by Jack LONDON
Science & Health
5.
What does MRI stand for?
Answer: Magnetic Resonance Imaging
6.
What type of electromagnetic radiation has the highest energy?
Answer: Gamma rays
7.
What quantity is the derivative of the velocity function?
Answer: Acceleration
Social Science
8.
What term was applied to the perceived threat of Asian immigration to the United States during the
19th Century?
Answer: "yellow peril"
9.
What was the name of the German official who cabled the German ambassador to Mexico and
proposed that Mexico ally itself with Germany during World War I?
Answer: (Arthur) Zimmerman
10.
By what ordinal numbers is the Congress which convened in January 2003 known?
Answer: 108th
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Mathematics
Time: 45 seconds
11.
With only the cold water valve open, it takes 8 minutes to fill a tub. With both the hot and cold
water valves open, it takes only 5 minutes. How many minutes does it take for the tub to fill with
only the hot water valve open?
Answer: 13 and 1/3 minutes or 40/3 minutes
Time: 30 seconds
12.
Find the range of the following: x squared minus y squared equals 9.
Answer: all real numbers or all reals
Time: 30 seconds
13.
What is the value of log base 4 of one sixty-fourth?
Answer: -3
Fine Arts
14.
Which member of the Ashcan School of painting is noted for painting anonymous figures drinking
coffee in an all-night New York diner entitled "Night Hawks"?
Answer: Edward HOPPER
15.
On what band instrument is a paradiddle played?
Answer: SNARE drum
Year In Review
16.
What war is portrayed in the Mel Gibson movie We Were Soldiers?
Answer: Vietnam (War)
Source: Newsweek, 11 March 2002: 63.
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Round: Replacement 10
Foreign Language
1.
FRENCH Où est-ce que je peux acheter des timbres.
GERMAN Wo kann ich Briefmarken kaufen?
SPANISH ¿Dónde puedo comprar los sellos?
Translation: Where can (may) I buy (some) (the) stamps?
Language Arts
2.
From what H.G. Wells' novel is future humanity divided into two classes: the Eloi, who dwell on the
surface; and the Morlocks, who dwell underground?
Answer: THE TIME MACHINE
3.
What is the term used for clues in a literary work which prepare the reader for a future event?
Answer: foreshadowing
4.
Name the author of the often quoted lines, "good fences make good neighbors: and "…miles to go
before I sleep."
Answer: Robert FROST
Science & Health
5.
What is the total number of cervical vertebrae in humans?
Answer: Seven
6.
What gas is formed when dry ice sublimes?
Answer: Carbon dioxide
7.
CO2
What is the highest value on the Richter scale?
Answer: Ten
Social Science
8.
What insulting term was used by Northerners during the U.S. Civil War to refer to fellow
Northerners who sympathized with the Confederacy?
Answer: Copperheads
9.
What region of northern France and southern Belgium became a center of trade around 1200 AD?
Answer: Flanders
10.
What is the term used to describe repeated criminal behavior?
Answer: recidivism (recidivist behavior)
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Mathematics
Time: 45 seconds
11.
Solve the system of equations for x and y: 2x minus y equals 2, and 2x plus 3y equals 14.
Answer: x = 2.5 (or 2 and 1/2, or 5 over 2), y = 3
Time: 45 seconds
12.
How many small patio blocks of size 6 inches by 12 inches are needed for a 12 foot by 14 foot
patio?
Answer: 336
(each block is 1/2 square foot)
Time: 30 seconds
13.
Simplify the following: cosine x times sine x divided by tangent x.
Answer: cosine squared x
Fine Arts
14.
What is the name of the German art school, begun in 1918, which stressed science and technology
as major resources for art and architecture?
Answer: Bauhaus
15.
What is the enharmonic equivalent of F sharp?
Answer: G flat
Year In Review
16.
What influential TV producer and director, critically acclaimed for shows such as "The White
Shadow" and "St. Elsewhere," died in Rome in October?
Answer: Bruce Paltrow
Source: Time, 14 October 2002: 29.
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Round: Replacement 11
Foreign Language
1.
FRENCH J'aimerais aller au parc.
GERMAN Ich möchte zum Park gehen.
SPANISH Me gustaría ir al parque.
Translation: I would like to go to the park.
Language Arts
2.
Name the poem by John Keats which includes "Beauty is truth, truth beauty…."
Answer: "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
3.
What literary style blends a critical attitude with humor and wit to point out the flaws of people
and institutions?
Answer: Satire
4.
What novel by Lew Wallace tells the story of a Jewish youth wrongly accused by his former friend
of attempting to kill the Roman Governor of Judea?
Answer: BEN-HUR
Science & Health
5.
Which of the vessels in the cardiovascular system have semilunar valves?
Answer: Veins
6.
How many neutrons does the isotope helium-three have?
Answer: One
7.
What is the ratio of the force of friction to the normal force?
Answer: Coefficient of friction
Social Science
8.
For negotiating what treaty did Theodore Roosevelt win the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize?
Answer: (Treaty of) Portsmouth
9.
By what collective name were Lloyd, Orlando, Clemenceau, and Wilson refered to as?
Answer: The Big Four
10.
Name the process in which a legislative measure is referred to the State's voters for final approval
or rejection.
Answer: Referendum
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Mathematics
Time: 45 seconds
11.
If the measures of the angles of a triangle are 40 degrees, 50 degrees, and 90 degrees, what is the
measure of the largest exterior angle of the triangle?
Answer: 140
Time: 60 seconds
12.
Two octahedral, or eight-sided, dice are rolled. What is the probability that the sum of the
numbers on the dice equals 9?
Answer: 1/8 or 1 over 8
Time: 60 seconds
13.
Simplify the cube root of 162 minus the cube root of 72.
Answer: 3 times cube root 6 minus two times cube root 9
Fine Arts
14.
Name the sculptor, painter, and poet who expressed in a sonnet that in every block of marble was
an imprisoned figure awaiting the sculptor's art to be freed.
Answer: Michelangelo
15.
In a pipe organ, the pipe's shape affects tone quality. What is determined by the pipe's length?
Answer: pitch
Year In Review
16.
What operation, that is bringing hope for a more normal life to numerous Americans, is regulated
by the American Society for Bariatric Surgery?
Answer: Gastric bypass
Source: Newsweek, 10 June 2002: 46.
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Round: Replacement 12
Foreign Language
1.
FRENCH C'est aujourd'hui le premier jour de l'école.
GERMAN Heute ist der erste Schultag.
SPANISH Hoy es el primer día de escuela.
Translation: Today is the first day of school.
Language Arts
2.
What type of lyric poem is used by Robert Browning in "My Last Duchess?"
Answer: dramatic monologue
3.
Identify the error in this sentence: You are wrong like I said you were.
Answer: "Like" should be replaced with "as" ( a preposition "like" is being used where the conjuction "as"
should be used.)
4.
What American author stated "We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt" and became
well-known for the book THE COLOR PURPLE?
Answer: Alice WALKER
Science & Health
5.
What phylum includes sea stars, sand dollars, sea urchins, and sea cucumbers?
Answer: Echinodermata, Echinoderm
6.
Name the group of organic compounds that contain double bonds.
Answer: Alkenes
7.
By what other name are the minor planets known?
Answer: Asteroids
Social Science
8.
Which term means an aggressive, threatening patriotism, often creating a warlike mood within a
country that is often cited as an immediate cause of the Spanish American War?
Answer: Jingoism
9.
Name the ancient Greek philospher who is credited with the following quotation:"The penalty
good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
Answer: Plato
10.
In what body of water would you be if you were at 0 degrees latitude and 0 degrees longitute?
Answer: Gulf of Guinea
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Mathematics
Time: 10 seconds
11.
For what is Hero's (or Heron's) Formula used?
Answer: area of a triangle
Time: 30 seconds
12.
The altitude drawn from the right angle of a triangle cuts the hypotenuse into pieces measuring 3
units and 9 units. What is the length of the altitude?
Answer: 3 square root 3
Time: 30 seconds
13.
What is the inverse of f of x equals x cubed plus 2?
Answer: cubed root of the quantity x minus 2
Fine Arts
14.
Who was the French tragedienne of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries who, despite the loss of
a leg, continued to act, and was so worshiped that she was nicknamed, "The Divine"?
Answer: Sarah BERNHARDT
15.
Name the musical composer who, in addition to leaving us three sonatas for piano and 40
mazurkas, also gave us the famous "Minute Waltz."
Answer: (Frederic) CHOPIN (sho PAN)
Year In Review
16.
Name the flamboyant, charismatic Mafia boss, dubbed "Dapper Dan" and "Teflon Dan," who died
of cancer in a federal prison cell where he was serving a life sentence for murder and racketeering.
Answer: (John) Gotti
Source: Newsweek, 24 June 2002: 16.
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