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SENIOR SCHOOLREACH 2012 -2013
PACK#2
quizmaster for this game between [school #1]
HOST: Welcome to SCHOOLREACH. I’m
[player #21
In this match, we have [player #11
and [school #2)
pined
against [player
[school
of
#4]
[player
#11
[player #3]
[school
of
#4)
#3]
#2)
#1]
#2]
We’ll play three rounds of questions, with a minute break between each round. Now, if the scorekeeper is ready,
let’s begin ROUND ONE OF SCHOOLREACH!
40-POINT SNAPSTART TO ROUND ONE
1. In American. the Blue Ridge Mountains are part of which larger mountain range?
APPALACHIANS
A.
2. The Ohio River flows into what body of water?
THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER
A.
3. In 1980, Southern Rhodesia was renamed the Republic of what?
ZIMBABWE
A.
4. Which colonial war included the Battle at Rorke’s Drift and the Battle of Ulundi?
THE ANGLO-ZULU WAR ( accept: ZULU WAR)
A.
.
30-POINT OPEN QUESTION
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KINGS
5. Which king of France ascended the throne after the defeat of Napoleon?
LOUIS XVIII
A.
6. Always prepared for expansion in the Balkans, who was king of Hungary from 1867 as well as emperor of
Austria?
FRANZ JOSEPH (I)
A.
of Great Britain adopted the family name of Windsor in 191 7?
king
Which
7.
GEORGE V
A.
40-POINT TEAM QUESTION
In this two-pan TEAJvI QUESTION, whichever team is first to answer correctly the ten-point SCRAMBLE
QUESTION in PART ONE, is then eligible for the remaining ten-point questions in PART TWO.
PART ONE: Scramble for ten points.
8. Examples of these drugs range from acetaminophen to opioids. What is the term for these drugs that relieve
pain?
ANALGESIC
A.
PART TWO: The remaining questions deal with pain relieving drugs.
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SCORE TEN POINTS FOR EACH CORRECT ANSWER
9. What is the term for the group of drugs that eliminate sensation?
ANESTHETICS
A.
10. One group of analgesics is classed as NSAIDs. What do the letters NSAID represent?
NON-STEROIDAL ANTI-INFLAMMATORY DRUGS
A.
11. The drug THC has analgesic properties, but its use is currently restricted or prohibited in many countries as
it is derived from what illegal substance?
CANNABIS (accept: MARiJUANA)
A.
20-POINT SPECIAL
12. Name two of the four houses at ‘Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry’.
GRYFFINDOR, SLYTHER1N, HUFFLEPUFF, RAVENCLAW (any two)
A.
40-POINT OPEN QUESTION CANADIAN ATHLETES
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13. Which former Canadian hockey great is now the general manager of the Tampa Bay ‘Lightning’.
STEVE YZERMAN
A.
14. Which Canadian kayaker was 2004’s Olympic gold medalist in the 1,500 meter kayak sprint?
ADAM VAN KOEVERDEN
A.
15. What Canadian of British descent won the ‘England Player of the World Cup’ award for 2006’s World Cup?
OWEN HARGREAVES
A.
16. Who was the first Canadian woman to win an Olympic gold medal on home soil?
MALLE RICKER
A.
80-POINT ASSIGNED QUESTION
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POPULAR FICTION
Here is an ASSIGNED QUESTION in which each member of each team is assigned a ten-point question. If you
miss your question, then your counterpart on the opposing team will have a chance at it for ten points.
ThAMA:
17. Which author is most famous for his ‘Redwall’ series featuring Martin the Warrior?
BRIAN JAQUES
A.
18. Which author is well known for his ‘Percy Jackson’ series dealing with ancient mythology?
RICK RIORDAN
A.
19. Which horror author is well known for his ‘Dark Tower’ series and notable lengthy novels such as “It”?
STEVEN KING
A.
20. Which Irish author has written several books in the same series about leprechauns and a juvenile criminal
mastermind?
A.
EON COLFER
TEAM B:
21. Which author is well known for her popular ‘Hunger Games’ series?
A.
SUZANNE COLLINS
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22. Which author is famous for his ‘Alvin Maker’ and ‘Ender’s Game’ series?
ORSON SCOTT CARD
A.
23. Which author is known for her Newbeny award winning ‘The Dark is Rising’ series?
SUSAN COOPER
A.
24. Which author is known for his agnostic views and for writing the ‘His Dark Materials’ trilogy?
PHILLIP PULLMAN
A.
40-POINT SNAPOUT TO END THE ROUND
25. A river that does not flow into the sea, but rather into the main stem of another river, is known as a what?
TRiBUTARY
A.
26. The Progressive Conservatives merged with what political party to create the Conservative Party of
Canada?
THE CANADIAN ALLIANCE
A.
27. What political system is characterized by leaders who embezzle state resources to increase their personal
fortunes?
KLEPTOCRACY
A.
28. Who famously called the Soviet Union an “evil empire”?
A.
RONALD REAGAN
ONE-MINUTE BREAK TO ROUND TWO
40-POINT SNAPSTART TO ROUND TWO
29. A medicine made by dissolving a medical substance in alcohol is called what?
TINCTURE
A.
30. Roger Bannister is famous for what running feat?
THE FOUR MINUTE MILE (to run a mile in less than four minutes)
A.
31. Who wrote the novels “Leaven of Malice” and “What’s Bred In The Bone”?
ROBERTSON DAVIES
A.
32. The long-faced Hartebeest is native to what continent?
AFRICA
A.
40-POINT OPEN QUESTION
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ARCHAEOLOGY
33. What ancient ruin was discovered by Hiram Bingham in 1911?
MACHU PICCHU
A.
34. What prehistoric ruin is found on the Salisbury Plain of England?
STONEHENGE
A.
35. What is the name of the largest Khmer temple complex in Cambodia?
ANGKOR WAT
A.
36. What stone enabled Egyptian hieroglyphics to be deciphered?
ROSEflA STONE
A.
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40-POINT WHAT AM I? QUESTION
37. This question is worth 40 points if you guess the answer on the first clue and 10 points less with each
succeeding clue, until either team answers the question correctly.
CLUE A: I was a very famous mathematician who lived over two thousand years ago.
WHO AM I?
CLUE B: I was active as a teacher in Alexandria at about 300 B.C., writing many books about my studies.
WHO AM I?
CLUE C: The most famous book I wrote is the great textbook of geometry called “The Elements”.
WHO AM I?
CLUE D: With the publication of this book, all prior texts on geometry were forgotten. My influence is best
noted in the implied tribute from Isaac Newton who wrote his book “Principia” in a similar style to my book.
WHO AM I?
A.
EUCLID
30-POINT OPEN QUESTION
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BRIDGES
38. Completed in 1977 in West Virginia, what is the longest steel arch bridge in the western hemisphere?
NEW RIVER GORGE BRIDGE
A.
39. Completed in 1937, what major steel suspension bridge crosses the narrows between San Francisco Bay
from the Pacific?
A.
GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE
40. Completed in 1973, what major steel suspension bridge crosses the Golden Horn at Istanbul, Turkey?
BOSPORUS BRIDGE
A.
30-POINT OPEN QUESTION
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ORIGINS OF PLACE NAMES
41. Which prairie city is named after the Cree word for a type of berry?
A.
SASKATOON
42. Which Saskatchewan city was named after Queen Victoria’s husband?
PRINCE ALBERT
A.
43. Which province’s name may come from a Huron word for “beautiful lake”?
A.
ONTARIO
40-POINT OPEN
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DIFFERENTIAL CALCULUS
44. What is the slope of the function at y equals x squared plus three at x equals 0?
A.
0
45. What is the derivative of y equals 2 x cubed?
A.
y = 6x”2 (The exponent is lowered by 1)
46. What is the derivative of y = ln(x) (y equals “lawn” x)
I/x(1 overx)
A.
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47. What is the only function that’s derivative is equal to the ffinction itself?
ye”x (y equals e to the x)
A.
20-POINT OPEN QUESTION
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NORTH AMERICAN HISTORY
48. What major American land purchase was derisively referred to as “Seward’s Folly”?
PURCHASE OF ALASKA FROM RUSSIA (accept: ALASKA)
A.
49. To the nearest million, how much did the U.S. pay the Russians for this so-called “folly”?
A.
$7 MILLION ($7.2 million, to be precise)
40-POINT TEAM QUESTION
In this two-pan TEAM QUESTION, whichever team is first to answer correctly the ten-point SCRAMBLE
QUESTION in PART ONE, is then eligible for the remaining ten-point questions in PART TWO.
PART ONE: Scramble for ten points.
50. In what story does a little girl fall down a well into a strange land, and find that she can grow or shrink by
eating alternate sides of a magic mushroom?
ALICE’S ADVENTURES N WONDERLAND (by Lewis Carroll)
A.
PART TWO: The remaining questions are all about the characters in “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.”
SCORE TEN POINTS FOR EACH CORRECT ANSWER
51. Whose favourite command is “off with his head!”?
THE QUEEN OF HEARTS’
A.
52. The poor Knave of Hearts is accused of having stolen what?
TARTS
A.
53. Which loony character at the tea party asks the riddle “Why is a raven like a writing desk”?
THE MAD HATTER
A.
60-POINT CHAIN SNAPPERS
54. Which English composer is known for his “First and Second Suites for Military Band”, as well as his suite
“The Planets?”
GUSTAV HOLST
A.
55. Which movement of Holst’s “The Planets” uses 5/4 time to create a militaristic mood? It is named after the
Roman God of war.
MARS
A.
highest mountain on the planet Mars?
the
What
is
56.
OLYMPUS MONS
A.
Olympian was only allowed to visit Olympus during the Winter Solstice?
Which
Greek
57.
NADES
A.
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58. Hades was given a ‘Helm of Darkness’ by the Cyclopes when the gods fought the titans. What power did
this helm give Hades?
INVISIBILITY
A.
59. In the Harry Potter stories; the ‘Elder Wand’, the ‘Invisibility Cloak’, and the ‘Resurrection Stone’ are
jointly known by what collective name?
THE DEATHLY HALLOWS
A.
ONE-MINUTE BREAK TO ROUND THREE
40-POINT SNAPSTART TO ROUND THREE
60. Which architect designed Manhattan’s Guggenheim Museum?
A.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
61. What Greek letter represents the Schrodinger wave equation?
A.
Psi
62. Who composed a cantata in 1937 using a set of 24 medieval poems? These include the well-known “0
Fortuna!”
A.
CARL ORFF
63. What is the limit as x approaches infinity of three x squared minus seven x + forty-two all divided by nine x
cubed?
A.
ZERO (0)
30-POINT OPEN QUESTION WAR
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64. Name Canada’s Prime Minister during the Boer War.
WILFRID LAURIER
A.
65. In 1942, what term referred to a series of restrictions placed on Canadians in order to control shortages of
food and other commodities?
A.
RATIONING
66. After 1945, serious tensions between the West and the Soviet Union resulted in what kind of war?
A.
COLD (WAR)
40-POINT TEAM QUESTION
In this two-pan TEAM QUESTION, whichever team is first to answer correctly the ten-point SCRAMBLE
QUESTION in PART ONE, is then eligible for the remaining ten-point questions in PART TWO.
PART ONE: Scramble for ten points.
67. Name the social philosopher and political economist born in Scotland in 1723 whose writings are still
influential, especially in economic policy.
A.
ADAM SMITH
PART TWO: The remaining questions deal with Adam Smith.
SCORE TEN POINTS FOR EACH CORRECT ANSWER.
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68. What is the title of Smiths most influential book in economics?
ON THE WEALTH OF NATIONS (AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF
A.
THE WEALTH OF NATIONS)
69. What name did Smith give to the force that guides the market to produce the right amount and variety of
goods?
THE “IIIV1SifiILE HAND”
A.
70. Later in life, Smith was hired by Charles Townshend for which position, which included travel and earned
him enough money afiera few years to retire and write “The Wealth of Nations”?
TUTOR or TEACHER (To instruct Townshend’s stepson, Henry Scott, the Duke of Buccleuch)
A.
30-POINTOPEN QUESTION
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ASTRONOMY
71. The terms “perigee1’ and “apogee” primarily refer to lunar orbits around what kind of celestial body?
PLANET
A.
72. What is the term that describes an extremely compact object, collapsed by gravity that has overcome
electric and nuclear forces?
A BLACK HOLE
A
73. What is the term for the region around a planet where the planet’s magnetic field dominates?
THE MAGNETOSPHERE
A.
40-POINT WHO AM 1? QUESTION
74. This question is worth 40 points if you guess the answer on the first clue and 10 points less with each
succeeding clue, until either team answers the question correctly.
CLUE A: Born in Lewiston, Maine, in 1927, I grew up to become a television entertainer who died on September
18,2001.
WHO AM I?
CLUE B: I began my career as a puppeteer on “Mr. Rogers’ Neighbourhood” in the early 1960s.
WHO AM I?
CLUE C: I was awarded the Order of Canada in 1996 in honour of my distinguished television career.
WHO AM I?
CLUE D: My own television show, called “Mr Dressup,” began in 1967 on CBC television and my two puppet
friends were Casey and Finnigan. WHO AM 1?
ERNIE COOMBS
A.
120-POINT SNAPOUT TO FINISH THE GAME
75. What Hawaiian variety of the Canada Goose was almost extinct when it became the state bird in 1957?
NENE (NAY-nay)
A.
76. In what Verdi opera does the burning of a witch lead to the death of a brother a generation later?
IL TROVATORE (accept The Troubador)
A.
77. What number did baseball great Babe Ruth wear on his jersey?
3
A.
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78. The novel “Bringing Down the House,” by Ben Mezrich, tells the story of 6 MIT students who took home
millions of dollars from Las Vegas. This inspired the story line for which 2008 Hollywood movie?
21
A.
79. The Main (MINE), Rhine, and Danube Rivers, all flow through which country?
A.
GERMANY
80. What term is used to describe the idea that greater-than-human intelligence could emerge through
technological means?
A.
TECHNOLOGICAL SINGULARITY
81. Who invented the Glass Armonica?
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
A.
82. Who is generally considered to be the author of “The Iliad”?
A.
HOMER
83. For what experiment did the University of Iowa apologize in 2001, since it left many children with worse
conditions of stuttering than they had had originally, because of negative reinforcement?
MONSTER STUDY
A.
84. What artist turned a urinal upside-down and called it “Fountain”?
A.
MARCEL DUCHAMP
85. Which Canadian rock band consists of members Ryan Peake, Daniel Adair, Mike Kroeger and Chad
Kroeger.
NICKELBACK
A.
86. Which cranial nerve is responsible for delivering the sense of smell to the brain?
OLFACTORY
A.
END OF GAME
TIE-BREAKERS IF NECESSARY
1. What island country’s flag has one star, a red triangle and blue and white stripes?
CUBA
A.
2. Which retired Canadian athlete, born in British Columbia, still holds several records for the Major League
Baseball team, ‘The Colorado Rockies’?
LARRY WALKER
A.
3. What famous inventor lived at Baddeck, Nova Scotia?
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL
A.
4. On what Hawaiian Island are Pearl Harbor and Honolulu located?
OAHU
A.
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