SCHUYLKILL ACADEMIC LEAGUE 2011-12
FEBRUARY 2012
MATCH 2
1.
In what country would you find the Dolomites?
Ans. Italy
2.
Who uttered the classic line, “I coulda been a contender” in the motion picture On the
Waterfront?
Ans. Marlon Brando
3.
The Manhattan Project not Manhattan was centered in the town of Oak Ridge near Knoxville. In
what state is Oak Ridge?
Ans. Tennessee
4.
What thick, sticky liquid distilled from coal is used on roofs and in paving?
Ans. Tar
5.
What do the opposite sides of a dice add up to?
Ans. 7
6.
Who was the first man in space?
Ans. Yuri Gagarin
7.
What verb can mean “to ponder” or “to chew the cud”?
Ans. Ruminate
8.
What are the basic units of electricity that are defined as volts times amps?
Ans. Watt
9.
Ultrasound waves can be bounced off of tissues using special devices. The echoes are then
converted into a picture called what?
Ans. Sonogram
10.
The pistols used in dueling were capable of firing how many shots before reloading?
Ans. One
SCHUYLKILL ACADEMIC LEAGUE 2011-12
FEBRUARY 2012
MATCH 2
FANFARE 1
1.
What U.S.-based social networking service will enable country-specific censorship of messages?
Ans. Twitter
2.
In 36 B.C., Mark Antony openly married which mistress despite his existing marriage to Octavia?
Ans. Cleopatra
3.
What word refers to funds that have been committed but not yet debited such as a check that has
been written but has not cleared or is something you do in a pool?
Ans. Float
4.
What is the popular, personal name for the 1919 act providing for the enforcement of the 18th
amendment that began prohibition?
Ans. Volstead Act
5.
What machine is used to filter blood when the kidneys fail?
Ans. Dialysis machine
6.
A ski lift with many completely closed cabs is called what?
Ans. Gondola
SCHUYLKILL ACADEMIC LEAGUE 2011-12
FEBRUARY 2012
MATCH 2
FANFARE 2
1.
Security officers recently escorted the prime minister from a restaurant where indigenous
protesters had surrounded the building. What was the country?
Ans. Australia
2.
Which country whose capital is Addis Ababa is bordered by the Red Sea, the Sudan, Kenya,
Somalia, and Djibouti?
Ans. Ethiopia
3.
What word means to move ahead, or to shape metal after heating?
Ans. Forge
4.
What is the popular, personal name for the Labor-Management Relations Act of 1947?
Ans. Taft-Hartley Act
5.
What device is used to deliver a therapeutic dose of electrical energy to a person whose heart has
stopped beating?
Ans. Defibrillator
6.
What type of number is a whole number that only has two factors which are itself and one?
Ans. Prime number
SCHUYLKILL ACADEMIC LEAGUE 2011-12
FEBRUARY 2012
MATCH 2
ROUND 2
1.
What Balkan country whose capital is Sofia lost its Aegean coastline in World War I?
Ans. Bulgaria
2.
One dictionary of music pedantically defines it as “a hollow metallic idiophone of open or closed
form producing a complex sound by vibration when struck by a hammer or clapper.” What is this
simple instrument?
Ans. Bell
3.
Massachusetts voters elected John Quincy Adams to the House of Representatives after his
Presidential term. What former U.S. President’s home state, Tennessee, sent him to the Senate in
1874?
Ans. Andrew Johnson
4.
Members of the owl family hunt by night. Their large, sensitive eyes are known to provide
excellent night vision. But scientific studies have shown that owls use a sense other than vision
when hunting at night. How do they find their prey?
Ans. Owls hunt by hearing.
5.
Euler coined this term to describe numbers that were not the roots of polynomial equations.
Equations described by this adjective include logarithms and exponentials. This word also
describes the works of Thoreau and Emerson. What is this word that the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
used to describe his meditation?
Ans. Transcendental
6.
What NATO country has a border farthest to the north?
Ans. United States
7.
What three-syllable word might be defined as a preconceived, emotionally colored opinion
favorable or unfavorable to some person, group, or idea?
Ans. Prejudice
8.
What language spoken by some Americans has only 12 letters and 20,000 words?
Ans. Hawaiian
9.
In the human circulatory system, blood leaving the right atrium then goes immediately where?
Ans. Right ventricle
10.
Burghul is another name for the bulghur type of which cereal grain?
Ans. Wheat
SCHUYLKILL ACADEMIC LEAGUE 2011-12
FEBRUARY 2012
MATCH 2
FANFARE 1
1.
Police were recently set to remove Occupy protesters from two national parks, where protesters
have had camps since October. What was the city?
Ans. Washington, D.C.
2.
When did the Americans leave Vietnam?
Ans. 1973
3.
Stringed instruments are tuned by turning what small devices around which the strings are
individually wrapped?
Ans. Pegs
4.
Of the two Presidents buried at Arlington National Cemetery, which one, the 27th, is without an
eternal flame?
Ans. William Taft
5.
What colors make purple?
Ans. red and blue
6.
Jujitsu is a form of martial arts of what nationality?
Ans. Japanese
SCHUYLKILL ACADEMIC LEAGUE 2011-12
FEBRUARY 2012
MATCH 2
FANFARE 2
1.
Which social network company recently announced it will start sharing its stocks publicly?
Ans. Facebook
2.
Where did the first atomic bomb explode for the first time in Japan?
Ans. Hiroshima
3.
What does the abbreviation N.B. mean in annotated texts?
Ans. “Note well” [Accept Nota bene]
4.
What is the name of the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that distinguished
between “free” and “slave” states before the Civil War?
Ans. Mason-Dixon Line
5.
What nine-letter adjective describes hydroelectric power, geothermal energy, solar energy and
wind power?
Ans. Renewable
6.
In baseball, what is a closer?
Ans. A relief pitcher who comes in to get the final few outs.
SCHUYLKILL ACADEMIC LEAGUE 2011-12
FEBRUARY 2012
MATCH 2
ROUND 3
1.
What if you really could dig a hole to China? If you wanted to end up in Beijing, near what
populous Argentinian capital would you have to start digging?
Ans. Buenos Aires
2.
During what century did Claude Monet paint?
Ans. 19th
3.
Who was the Presidential candidate whose supporters in 1936 called Franklin Roosevelt “that
mad man in the White House.”
Ans. Alf Landon
4.
Hummingbirds steal insects caught in spiders’ webs as part of their diet. What other use do
hummingbirds make of cobwebs?
Ans. They use them in building their nests.
5.
While a potter’s wheel is used to make pots, what is a potter’s field used for?
Ans. Cemetery
6.
The Thousand Islands are found near the western terminus of the St. Lawrence Seaway. Which
Canadian port near the confluence of the Ottawa and St. Lawrence Rivers marks the eastern
terminus of the Seaway Project?
Ans. Montreal
7.
What seven-letter word beginning with C means satirical, pessimistic, or sarcastic?
Ans. Cynical
8.
What is the name for funds that are provided by the government to qualifying poor people who
may use them for groceries?
Ans. Food stamps [Accept Access card]
9.
Which bones in the human hand are located between the carpals and phalanges?
Ans. Metacarpals
10.
Mangoes are a common ingredient in what pungent Indian relish?
Ans. Chutney
SCHUYLKILL ACADEMIC LEAGUE 2011-12
FEBRUARY 2012
MATCH 2
FANFARE 1
1.
What the most abundant of the sedimentary rocks? The use of the Marcellus type is a matter of
debate in Pennsylvania.
Ans. Shale
2.
At least once in their lives, Muslims are supposed to make a pilgrimage to what city?
Ans. Mecca.
3.
The Greeks blamed Hera and Athena for the Trojan War because Paris in selecting the fairest of
the goddesses did not find them as beautiful as whom?
Ans. Aphrodite
4.
“The lower the price, the more consumers will buy” is part of the law of what?
Ans. Demand (Do not accept supply and demand.)
5.
What is the chemical symbol for Einsteinium?
Ans. Es [E-S]
6.
What university of the 49th state stretches across four time zones?
Ans. University of Alaska
SCHUYLKILL ACADEMIC LEAGUE 2011-12
FEBRUARY 2012
MATCH 2
FANFARE 2
1.
What type of lawsuit such as the one recently settled with iTunes gift cards is brought by people
unknown to each other who have a common grievance?
Ans. Class action
2.
When he returned to Lisbon in September 1499, which explorer been away over two years and
sailed over 24,000 miles?
Ans. Vasco da Gama
3.
Kipling wrote a “Just So” story about how the elephant got what?
Ans. Its trunk
4.
Which amendment ended slavery?
Ans. 13th
5.
What is the chemical symbol for Dysprosium?
Ans. Dy [D-Y]
6.
Which textile process has three stages: opening the shed, passing the weft through, and beating
the weft?
Ans. Weaving