SCHOLARS' BOWL 2002-2003
REGIONALS
Round: 01
Foreign Language
1.
FRENCH Tu manges trop.
GERMAN Du isst zu viel.
SPANISH Comes demasiado.
Translation: You eat (are eating/do eat) too much.
Language Arts
2.
What statesman wrote the 16th Century book entitled UTOPIA about an imaginary land with an
ideal government?
Answer: Sir Thomas MORE
3.
What is a poem which mourns the death of a person or laments something lost?
Answer: Elegy (not eulogy)
4.
What AGE OF REALISM author wrote bitterly of Midwestern farmers in his short story "The
Lion's Paw"?
Answer: Hamlin GARLAND
Science & Health
5.
Which type of gland is associated with the hair follicle?
Answer: Sebaceous gland
6.
How many electrons can be found in a full "d " sublevel?
Answer: 10
7.
What do physicists call a vector representing the sum of two or more vectors?
Answer: Resultant (vector)
Social Science
8.
Name the Native American who served as a U.S. Senator from Kansas and as U.S. Vice President
under President Hoover.
Answer: (Charles) Curtis
9.
Name the English author of "Utopia" who was beheaded because he refused to recognize Henry
VIII as head of the Church in England?
Answer: (Thomas) Moore
10.
What is the term given to the illegal buying and selling of goods above the price fixed by a
government?
Answer: black market
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Round: 01
Mathematics
Time: 45 seconds
11.
Solve the system of equations : 3a - 2b = 13 and 4b - 29 = -5a.
Answer: a = 5, b = 1 or (5,1)
Time: 30 seconds
12.
What is "i" to the 320th power?
Answer: one
Time: 30 seconds
13.
Solve the equation, "square root of 2x equals 3 times the square root of 2," for x.
Answer: x = 9
Fine Arts
14.
What is the term for a technique used by Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci where pigment is
mixed with water and applied to a freshly plastered area of the wall?
Answer: Fresco
15.
In what key would you play if a musical composition has 3 flats in the key signature?
Answer: E flat major OR C minor
Year In Review
16.
In January, 2002, who was named Time magazine's "Person of the Year" for 2001?
Answer: (Rudy) Giuliani
Source: Time, 7 January 2002: 34.
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Round: 02
Foreign Language
1.
FRENCH Mes parents travaillent beaucoup.
GERMAN Meine Eltern arbeiten viel.
SPANISH Mis padres trabajan mucho.
Translation: My parents work a lot.
Language Arts
2.
Name the Victorian poet laureate who wrote "Ulysses," "In Memoriam," and IDYLLS OF THE
KING?
Answer: Alfred, Lord TENNYSON (accept Tennyson)
3.
Give the term for an extended metaphor in which the characters and events represent truths about
human life, as in PILGRIM'S PROGRESS by John Bunyan.
Answer: Allegory
4.
Who wrote the essay entitled "The American Crisis," that George Washington ordered to be read
to the American troops before they crossed the Delaware to face the Hessians?
Answer: Thomas PAINE
Science & Health
5.
Name the taxonomic classification between phylum and order.
Answer: Class
6.
List the letters that designate the different energy sublevels of an atom.
Answer: s,p,d,f
7.
Name all the planets in the solar system currently surrounded by at least one ring.
Answer: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
Social Science
8.
Name the man who led a rebellion in Massachusettes in 1786 as a protest of the unfair treatment of
farmers.
Answer: (Daniel) Shays
9.
Name the 18th century English explorer who established the first European colony in Australia and
was the first European to travel to Hawaii.
Answer: (Captain James) Cook
10.
Name the river that was followed by Oregon Trail travelers from the Missouri River westward.
Answer: Platte
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Round: 02
Mathematics
Time: 30 seconds
11.
You travel 35 miles per hour for 2 hours. The rest of the trip, you travel 50 miles per hour. If the
entire trip takes 5 hours, what is your average rate for the entire trip?
Answer: 44 miles per hour
Time: 60 seconds
12.
Identify the conic section and give the center of the figure whith equation 6 x squared plus 2 y
squared minus 36 x plus 8 y + 50 equals zero.
Answer: Ellipse with center at (3, -2)
Time: 30 seconds
13.
Find the measure of an angle that is 8 degrees less than 3 times its supplement.
Answer: 133 degrees
Fine Arts
14.
Name the subject of two sculptures, one by Donatello and the other by Michaelangelo, that depict
a young Biblical warrior.
Answer: David
15.
Name the musical term which literally means "little book" and is the book of words for an oratorio
or opera.
Answer: Libretto
Year In Review
16.
What did Terry Barton tell authorities she had done to start Colorado's Hayman fire which burned
135,000 acres?
Answer: Burned a letter (from her estranged husband)
Source: Newsweek, 1 July 1 2002: 34.
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Round: 03
Foreign Language
1.
FRENCH La voiture est rouge et très rapide.
GERMAN Das Auto ist rot und sehr schnell.
SPANISH El coche es rojo y muy rápido.
Translation: The car is red and very fast (quick/swift).
Language Arts
2.
Considered one of the key figures in bringing modern Realism to the stage, what Norwegian
dramatist wrote HEDDA GABLER, AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE, and A DOLL'S HOUSE?
Answer: Henrik IBSEN
3.
What is the term for an agreeable word or expression that is substituted for another that is
potentially offensive, such as "the little ladies' room" for "the toilet."
Answer: Euphemism
4.
While still in his teenage years, what American poet wrote the impressive, free-flowing, unrhymed
poem about death, entitled "Thanatopsis"?
Answer: William Cullen BRYANT
Science & Health
5.
What is the name of the four small bones at the end of the human spinal column?
Answer: Coccyx
6.
(30 seconds)When hydrogen gas and chlorine gas combine to produce hydrochloric acid, what is
the correct mole ratio between the hydrogen gas and hydrochloric acid?
Answer: 1:2
7.
What quantity is produced when work in joules is divided by time in seconds?
Answer: Power
Social Science
8.
Name the broadcaster who caused panic across the United States when he read from the play,
adapted from the novel "War of the Worlds" over the radio in 1938.
Answer: (Orson) Welles
9.
What disease from the 14th century, carried by rats, was called "The Black Death"?
Answer: Bubonic plague
10.
Which policy did the U.S. Federal Government adopt that requires employers to take positive steps
to remedy the effects of past discrimination?
Answer: Affirmative Action
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Round: 03
Mathematics
Time: 30 seconds
11.
Give the slope of the line that is perpendicular to the line which contains the points (1, 2) and (5, 8).
Answer: -2/3 or negative 2 over 3 or 2 over negative 3
Time: 30 seconds
12.
If the odds of winning are 5:6, find the probability of winning.
Answer: 5/11 or
Time: 30 seconds
13.
Factor the expression: 2xy plus 3x plus 8y plus 12.
Answer: (x + 4)(2y + 3) read as quantity x plus 4 times the quantity 2y plus 3, or the quantity 2y plus 3 times
the quantity x plus 4.
Fine Arts
14.
Name the medium in which egg and oil or egg yolk and water emulsions serve as a binding medium
for pigments.
Answer: Tempera
15.
Name the British composer who collaborated with Tim Rice in creating the Broadway success
"Cats."
Answer: (Andrew Lloyd) WEBBER
Year In Review
16.
Name the former quarterback who died in September while still holding the NFL record for
touchdowns in 47 straight games.
Answer: Johhny U. or (Johnny) Unitas
Source: Newsweek, 23 September 2002: 8.
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Round: 04
Foreign Language
1.
FRENCH Ils ne parlent pas anglais chez eux.
GERMAN Sie sprechen kein Englisch zu Hause.
SPANISH Ellos no hablan inglés en casa.
Translation: They don't speak English at home.
Language Arts
2.
Give both the title and the author of the novel in which you would find the characters Mr.
Rochester, Mrs. Fairfax, and Jane?
Answer: JANE EYRE by CHARLOTTE BRONTE
(must give the first name of the author)
3.
What is the term for a metaphor made of compound nouns, commonly found in Anglo-Saxon
poetry?
Answer: Kenning (not "epithet")
4.
What American poet and novelist who strongly influenced American short story writing between
World Wars I and II wrote both WINDY MCPHERSON'S SON and WINESBURG'S OHIO?
Answer: Sherwood ANDERSON
Science & Health
5.
What is the clear, thick fluid resembling the white of an egg that is located between the adjacent
bones of a moveable joint?
Answer: Synovial fluid or synovia
6.
What is the name of the bond between two atoms if the electrons between them are not equally
shared?
Answer: Polar covalent
7.
Name the northern most biome found in the state of Alaska.
Answer: Tundra
Social Science
8.
Name the African American track athlete, who shattered Hitler's claim that white German athletes
were the best, by winning four gold medals in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, Germany.
Answer: (Jesse) Owens
9.
What term is used to describe a system of political organization where all land was held in fee, and
tenants, lords, and vassals paid homage to a king?
Answer: Feudalism
10.
What branch of psychology is concerned with clairvoyance and telepathy?
Answer: Parapsychology
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Round: 04
Mathematics
Time: 30 seconds
11.
Give the value of the base 4 logarithm of 64.
Answer: 3
Time: 45 seconds
12.
The denominator of a fraction is 7 more than the numerator. If 5 is added to the numerator and
denominator, the value of the resulting fraction is one-half. What was the original fraction?
Answer: 2/9 or 2 over 9
Time: 30 seconds
13.
Simplify the radical expression: negative 2 square root 7 minus 2 square root 49 plus 9 square root
63
Answer: 25 square root 7 minus 14, or negative 14 plus 25 times the square root of 7.
Fine Arts
14.
What Hays artist created the four statues of famous Kansans located in the state capitol?
Answer: Pete FELTEN
15.
When playing a snare drum, what do the initials R.S. stand for?
Answer: rim shot
Year In Review
16.
Give the title of the first single by "American Idol" winner Kelly Clarkson.
Answer: "A Moment Like This"
Source: Newsweek, 16 September 2002: 67.
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Round: 05
Foreign Language
1.
FRENCH La chaise est cassée.
GERMAN Der Stuhl ist kaputt.
SPANISH La silla está rota.
Translation: The chair is broken.
Language Arts
2.
In Greek mythology, which first rulers of the world were a race of giants?
Answer: The Titans
3.
What grammatical mood is used in this quotation by President Lincoln:
"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?"
Answer: Subjunctive
4.
Name both the author and title of the literary work in which Daisy Buchanan kills Mrytle Wilson in
a hit-and-run accident.
Answer: THE GREAT GATSBY; F. Scott FITZGERALD
Science & Health
5.
A triplet codon reads AAA. What will the anticodon read?
Answer: UUU
6.
Give the name of a solid solution of two or more metals.
Answer: Alloy
7.
What is the term for the pattern produced by two waves meeting in such a way that the crests
overlap resulting in an increase in the amplitude?
Answer: Constructive interference
Social Science
8.
What Vice President became President as a result of the assassination of William McKinley?
Answer: Theodore Roosevelt
9.
What was the name of the French fortifications which failed to halt Germany's advancement in
1940?
Answer: Maginot Line
10.
Which political maneuver has taken place when a Congressional district has been shaped like a
shoestring, dumbell, or the letter "Y" in order to favor the political party in power?
Answer: Gerrymandering
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Round: 05
Mathematics
Time: 30 seconds
11.
Find all points of intersection for the graphs having the equations: x squared minus y equals 3, and
x minus y equals 1
Answer: (2, 1) and (-1, -2)
Time: 30 seconds
12.
Answer to the nearest integral value. A certain dog needs an area of 314 square feet to run. If the
owner wants to put the dog on a chain to allow the dog room to run, how long must the chain be?
Answer: 10 feet {the answer must include correct units}
Time: 60 seconds
13.
In simplest form, what is the reciprocal of the quantity 3 plus the square root of two?
Answer: quantity 3 minus square root 2 over 7 or 3/7 minus square root 2 over 7
Fine Arts
14.
Name a type of scribbly line drawing that catches the movements of an active figure.
Answer: Gesture drawing
15.
Traveling speed is determined by miles per hour. How is pitch frequency determined?
Answer: Vibrations per second (also accept cycles per second)
Year In Review
16.
Repellents containing 30 to 35 percent of what chemical were recommended to combat the
mosquito-borne West Nile Virus.
Answer: DEET
Source: U.S. News & World Report, 19 August 2002: 17.
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Round: 06
Foreign Language
1.
FRENCH Elle veut dormir.
GERMAN Sie möchte schlafen.
SPANISH Ella quiere dormir.
Translation: She wants (would like) to sleep.
Language Arts
2.
In Shakespeare's tragedy MACBETH, what title does Macbeth receive from King Duncan as a
reward for his service in recent battles?
Answer: Thane of Cawdor
3.
Name the term for the cluster of personal or general implications that words or phrases may carry
with them due to individual experiences.
Answer: Connotation
4.
What American novelist and poet composed both the poem "Shiloh," a requiem of the Civil War,
and MOBY DICK, a story of the great white whale?
Answer: Herman MELVILLE
Science & Health
5.
In what organ of the body are food molecules absorbed?
Answer: Small intestines
6.
What isotope is the standard for computing relative atomic masses?
Answer: Carbon-12
7.
What name has been given to the theory that continents once formed a single mass and have
since moved relative to each other?
Answer: Continental drift (do not accept plate tectonics)
Social Science
8.
What country gained its independence with the help of the United States in the Spanish-American
War?
Answer: Cuba
9.
Name the political leader of Athens who died during the Pelopponesian War.
Answer: Pericles
10.
What is the term for illegal stock trading based on confidential information not available to the
public?
Answer: Insider trading
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Round: 06
Mathematics
Time: 45 seconds
11.
What is the sum of the edges of a cube having a surface area of 150 square centimeters?
Answer: 60 centimeters {proper units must be included}
Time: 45 seconds
12.
Find the sum of the values in the series from m = 0 to m = 5 for the equation 3 to the m power
Answer: 364
Time: 45 seconds
13.
A $100 dress is marked down twice. It is first reduced by 25%, then followed by a 40% reduction.
Give the final sale price of the dress.
Answer: $45
Fine Arts
14.
What is the architectural term for a courtyard with covered walk-ways in a religious institution?
Answer: Cloister
15.
Name the jazz alto saxophonist from Kansas City known for his innovative compositions and who,
with Dizzy Gillespie, developed the bop, or bebop, movement in jazz.
Answer: (Charlie or Charles) PARKER
(also accept "the Bird" OR Charlie Bird)
Year In Review
16.
Name the former 2000 presidential hopeful who won the Senate seat that was vacated when Jesse
Helms of North Carolina announced his retirement.
Answer: Elizabeth Dole
Source: Time, 21 October 2002: 50.
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Round: 07
Foreign Language
1.
FRENCH Les facteurs conduisent des voitures jaunes.
GERMAN Die Briefträger fahren gelbe Autos.
SPANISH Los carteros conducen unos coches amarillos.
Translation: The mailmen drive (are driving)(do drive) (some) yellow cars.
Language Arts
2.
From Shakespeare, name King Lear's youngest daughter who was disinherited by her father
because she "lacks the art of flattery."
Answer: Cordelia
3.
Identify the grammatical error in this sentence:
One of the girls lost their book in the parking lot.
Answer: Pronoun-antecedent agreement OR "their" should be "her"
4.
What Nobel Prize winning American author was inspired by his experience as an ambulance driver
in Italy to write A FAREWELL TO ARMS?
Answer: Ernest HEMINGWAY
Science & Health
5.
What type of tissue in plants is responsible for rapid cell divisions resulting in growth in length
and width?
Answer: Meristematic tissue or meristem
6.
What is the common name of the family on the periodic table that contains beryllium, strontium,
and radium?
Answer: Alkaline earth metals
7.
What is the science of using computer controlled machines to perform tasks formerly performed by
humans?
Answer: Robotics
Social Science
8.
What name was given to the third-party movement of the 1890s which drew support from
disgruntled farmers?
Answer: Populist Party (or Populism)
9.
What comprehensive record of English property was compiled in 1086 by order of William the
Conqueror?
Answer: Domesday Book (or Doomsday Book)
10.
What is the term for a voting district?
Answer: precincts
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Round: 07
Mathematics
Time: 30 seconds
11.
What is the remainder when x squared plus 4 x plus 1 is divided by the quantity x minus 1?
Answer: 6
Time: 30 seconds
12.
Write an equation in slope-intercept form of the line that passes through the points (-5, 9) and (-4,
7).
Answer: y = -2x - 1 { y equals negative 2 x minus 1}
Time: 45 seconds
13.
Completely factor the expression sixteen x cubed minus 54.
Answer: 2(2x - 3)(4x squared + 6x + 9) {2 times the quantity 2x minus 3 times the quantity 4 x squared plus 6
x plus 9}
Fine Arts
14.
What is a term which describes the three dimensional volume of an object which can be measured
in height, width and depth?
Answer: Form
15.
With what early twentieth century style of music is Scott Joplin's highly syncopated, "The
Entertainer" associated?
Answer: ragtime (or rag)
Year In Review
16.
What monarch, who died in April, outlived a century in which the British Empire faded from glory
along with the influence of the Church of England?
Answer: The Queen Mum or Queen Elizabeth (I)
Source: Newsweek, 8 April 2002: 52.
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Round: 08
Foreign Language
1.
FRENCH L'homme a ouvert la porte.
GERMAN Der Mann öffnete die Tür.
SPANISH El hombre abrió la puerta.
Translation: The man opened (has opened) the door.
Language Arts
2.
Name the British author and minister who wrote "Holy Sonnets," and meditations which include
such lines as "No man is an island," and "Ask not for whom the bell tolls. . .it tolls for thee."
Answer: John DONNE
3.
Identify the grammatical error in this sentence:
The lifeguard saved the drowning man on the seashore, waving for help.
Answer: Misplaced participle (modifier); OR waving needs to be closer to "man," not "seashore."
(Do not accept "dangling participle.")
4.
What American author did much to revolutionize poetry in the 20th Century in such works as "The
Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," and THE WASTELAND?
Answer: T.S.(Thomas Stearns) ELIOT (only Eliot is required)
Science & Health
5.
What term describes organisms that eat dead organic matter?
Answer: Saprophyte
6.
What law states that at a constant temperature the volume of a given mass of gas is inversely
proportional to its pressure?
Answer: Boyle's Law
7.
What are the four main eras of geologic time?
Answer: Precambrian, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, Cenozoic
Social Science
8.
Name the well-known newspaperman who wrote the editorial "What's the Matter With Kansas?"
Answer: (William Alllen) White
9.
Name the famous Black Sea resort, where Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin met in 1945.
Answer: Yalta
10.
What is the name of the strait joining the Aegean Sea with the Sea of Marmara and formerly called
the Hellespont by ancient Greeks?
Answer: Dardanelles
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Round: 08
Mathematics
Time: 30 seconds
11.
Find three consecutive integers whose sum is negative 144.
Answer: -49, -48, and -47
Time: 10 seconds
12.
What is the contrapositive of the conditional statement: If the sun is shining, then it is a beautiful
day.
Answer: If it is not a beautiful day, then the sun is not shining.
Time: 60 seconds
13.
The area of the base of a regular square pyramid is 36 square centimeters. The slant height is 5
centimeters. What is the lateral area of the pyramid?
Answer: 60 square centimeters {units must be included with their answer}
Fine Arts
14.
Name the artist, a farmer's wife who began painting in her 70's, whose primitive, colorful works
such as "Sugaring-off" achieved wide popularity.
Answer: Grandma Moses (Also accept: Anna Mary Robertson)
15.
Name the jazz family--Ellis, Branford, and Wynton--who came into prominence during the 1980's.
Answer: Marsalis
Year In Review
16.
What new television star gives advice that sounds like something one might hear from a "good 'ole
Texas boy," even though he has a Ph.D. in clinical psychology?
Answer: Dr. Phil (McGraw)
Source: Newsweek, 2 September 2002: 50.
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Round: 09
Foreign Language
1.
FRENCH Notre équipe a gagné le jeu.
GERMAN Unsere Mannschaft gewann das Spiel.
SPANISH Nuestro equipo ganó el juego.
Translation: Our team (has) won the game.
Language Arts
2.
In the Medieval English poem "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," what was the security gift that
the wife of the Green Knight gave to Sir Gawain?
Answer: Girdle, or green girdle, or belt
3.
What is the simple subject in the following sentence from Alfred Lord Tennyson's "Charge of the
Light Brigade"?
"Into the jaws of Death/ Into the mouth of Hell/ Rode the six hundred."
Answer: Six hundred (accept hundred)
4.
What African American author and leader of the Harlem Renaissance wondered, "What happens
to a dream deferred?/Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?"
Answer: Langston HUGHES
Science & Health
5.
What term refers to the study of the anatomy of disease?
Answer: Pathology
6.
How many hydrogen atoms does an ethyne ("eth-ine") molecule contain?
Answer: 2
7.
(30 seconds) Find the mass of a crate if a 500 newton force will accelerate it at a rate of 25 meters
per second squared.
Answer: 20 kilograms
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Round: 09
Social Science
8.
What private social club was formed in 1865 by veterans of the Confederate Army in Pulaski,
Tennessee?
Answer: Ku Klux Klan
9.
What empire grew out of the East Roman Empire of Constantine after he moved the capital to the
east in 330 AD?
Answer: Byzantine Empire
10.
Name the decisive battle in the Bible between the forces of good and evil, which will be fought
before Judgement Day.
Answer: Armageddon
Mathematics
Time: 10 seconds
11.
What is the conjugate of the quantity A plus square root B?
Answer: A minus square root B
Time: 60 seconds
12.
Solve the exponential equation 3 to the x minus 4 power equals 2187.
Answer: 11
Time: 30 seconds
13.
Angle A and angle B are a linear pair. The measure of angle A is 2y minus 5 and the measure of
angle B is 3y minus 40. Find the value for y.
Answer: y equals 45
Fine Arts
14.
Name the star of only three movies, "East of Eden," "Rebel Without a Cause," and "Giant," before
his death in an automobile accident?
Answer: James DEAN
15.
Considered one of the greatest figures in American Jazz, name the pianist best known for works
such as "Take the 'A' Train" and "Mood Indigo."
Answer: (Duke) ELLINGTON
Year In Review
16.
What school accessory did California lawmakers give their state Board of Education two years in
which to limit its weight?
Answer: Backpacks
Source: Newsweek, 4 October 2002: 10.
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Round: 10
Foreign Language
1.
FRENCH Le musée s'ouvre a neuf heures du matin.
GERMAN Das Museum öffnet um neun Uhr morgens.
SPANISH El museo abre a las nueve de la mañana.
Translation: The museum opens (does open) at 9 (o' clock) in the morning (a.m.).
Language Arts
2.
With what famous poet did William Wordsworth collaborate to write LYRICAL BALLADS?
Answer: Samuel Taylor COLERIDGE
3.
What writing structure is used in this example from the "Declaration of Independence":
We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.
Answer: Parallelism
4.
What American author who was a nurse during the American Civil War wrote an elegy to
President Lincoln entitled "When Lilacs Last In the Dooryard Bloomed"?
Answer: Walt WHITMAN
Science & Health
5.
What is the number of the chromosome responsible for Down's syndrome?
Answer: 21
6.
(30 seconds) What is the mass number of an isotope of copper that has 29 protons, 35 neutrons
and 29 electrons?
Answer: 64
7.
What type of energy is obtained by tapping underground reservoirs of heat?
Answer: Geothermal (energy)
Social Science
8.
Name the President of the United States when the government annexed Hawaii.
Answer: (William) McKinley
9.
The "West Bank" refers to an area on the west bank of which Middle Eastern river?
Answer: Jordan
10.
What US state borders only one other state?
Answer: New Hampshire
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Round: 10
Mathematics
Time: 10 seconds
11.
What is the assumption that would be used to start an indirect proof for, "If two lines intersect,
then they intersect in no more than one point."
Answer: Two lines intersect in more than one point.
Time: 60 seconds
12.
If cosine squared x equals one fourth, what is the value of tangent squared of the quantity x plus
2?
Answer: 5
Time: 60 seconds
13.
If five nickels weigh one ounce, what is the value of 50 pounds of nickels?
Answer: $200
Fine Arts
14.
Name the artist of "The Breaking Wave," an excellent example of this American painter's power to
interpret the moods of the sea.
Answer: Winslow HOMER
15.
Name the American composer who was the director of the New York Philharmonic from 1957-1969
and who composed the music to "West Side Story."
Answer: (Leonard) BERNSTEIN
Year In Review
16.
What Irish actor, who played the part of Professor Dumbledore in the Harry Potter movies, died in
October, 2002?
Answer: (Richard) Harris
Source: Newsweek, 11 November 2002: 8.
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Round: 11
Foreign Language
1.
FRENCH Tu aimes faire des achats?
GERMAN Gehst du gern einkaufen?
SPANISH
¿Te gusta ir de compras?
Translation: Do you like to go shopping?
Language Arts
2.
In what D. H. Laurence narrative does sensitive Paul try to resolve the voices' statement "There
must be more money"?
Answer: "The Rocking Horse Winner"
3.
Identify the narrative technique in which a writer directly presents the uninterrupted flow of a
character's thoughts, impressions, and feelings without use of dialogue or description.
Answer: Stream of consciousness or Stream of consciousness narration
4.
Identify the Independence, Kansas, playwright famous for works such as COME BACK, LITTLE
SHEBA, BUS STOP, and PICNIC.
Answer: William INGE
Science & Health
5.
What are non-mobile, solitary members of phylum porifera, which have no nervous system and a
body often supported by a skeleton of lime or silica?
Answer: Sponges
6.
What is the chemical formula for phosphoric acid?
Answer: H3PO4 (read H-three P O four)
7.
What is the name given to the product of angular velocity of a body and its moment of inertia
about an axis of rotation?
Answer: Angular momentum
Social Science
8.
What is the term commonly given to the round-up and deportation of hundreds of immigrants,
thought to be subversive radicals, in the U.S. in 1919 and 1920?
Answer: The Red Scare
9.
Name India's first prime minister, after gaining independence from Britain, who served from 1947
until his death in 1964.
Answer: (Jawaharlal) Nehru
10.
What was the name for the most famous crossing on the Berlin Wall between East and West
Berlin?
Answer: Checkpoint Charlie
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Round: 11
Mathematics
Time: 30 seconds
11.
If the ratio of A to B is 2:3 and the ratio of B to C is 4:5, find the ratio of A to C.
Answer: 8:15 or 8 to 15 or 8 over 15
Time: 30 seconds
12.
The first term of an arithmetic sequence is 3 and the second term is 10. What is the 12th term?
Answer: 80
Time: 30 seconds
13.
If a town of 100 people gained 20% in population and then lost 20%, what would b the town's final
population?
Answer: 96
Fine Arts
14.
For Halloween of 1938, Orson Welles wrote and narrated a famous radio dramatization of which
H.G. Wells' story of an invasion of the Earth by Mars?
Answer: The War of the Worlds
15.
Name both the jazz musician known as the "King of Swing" and the instrument he played?
Answer: (Benny) GOODMAN
clarinet
Year In Review
16.
Name the famous Muppet who learned in July, 2002, that he will have his own star on Hollywood's
Walk of Fame.
Answer: Kermit (the Frog)
Source: Newsweek, 8 July 2002: 63.
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Round: 12
Foreign Language
1.
FRENCH Quand vont-ils se marier?
GERMAN Wann werden sie heiraten?
SPANISH
¿Cuándo van a casarse?
Translation: When are they going to get (to be) married?
Language Arts
2.
What animal character in ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell symbolizes Joseph Stalin?
Answer: Napoleon
3.
What is the literary term for a recurring word, character, object, or idea in a piece of literature, such
as the color "green" in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"?
Answer: Motif
4.
In what novel by Edith Wharton does a New England farmer tire of his nagging wife and fall in love
with her cousin, with whom he makes a suicide pact that goes awry?
Answer: ETHAN FROME
Science & Health
5.
Which nucleotide base pairs with cytocine during RNA synthesis?
Answer: Guanine
6.
What shape are the "s" orbitals of an electron cloud?
Answer: Spherical or a sphere ( do not accept a circle)
7.
What name is given to the giant dark areas of hot gases created by very strong magnetic fields
that are a feature of the photosphere of the sun?
Answer: Sunspots
Social Science
8.
Name John F. Kennedy's "Marshall Plan" for Latin America.
Answer: Alliance for Progress
9.
In what war did Florence Nightingale serve as the first female nurse?
Answer: Crimean War
10.
Name the psychologist who used pigeons to develop the ideas of "operant conditioning" and
"shaping behavior".
Answer: (B.F.) Skinner
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Round: 12
Mathematics
Time: 10 seconds
11.
What is the converse of the following: If the sky is blue, then brown cows give chocolate milk.
Answer: If brown cows give chocolate milk, then the sky is blue.
Time: 30 seconds
12.
If the angles of a triangle are in the ratio 2:3:4, what is the measure of the largest angle?
Answer: 80
Time: 45 seconds
13.
If f of x equals 2x minus 1 and g of x equals x minus 2, what is f of g of zero?
Answer: - 5
Fine Arts
14.
Name the permanent waterproof spray used to protect artwork such as pencil drawing from
smearing.
Answer: Fixative
15.
In the early part of the 17th Century, which instrument replaced the viol to give a brighter, richer
sound to the music?
Answer: the violin
Year In Review
16.
For what specific condition would one wear a mask hooked to an air pressurizer to alleviate snoring
and the health risks associated with it?
Answer: (Sleep) Apnea
Source: Newsweek, 15 July 2002: 41.
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Round: 13
Foreign Language
1.
FRENCH La bibliothèque a le livre que vous voulez.
GERMAN Die Bibliothek hat das Buch, das Sie wünschen.
SPANISH La biblioteca tiene el libro que usted desea.
Translation: The library has the book (that) you want (desire).
Language Arts
2.
What Russian playwright wrote such notable works as UNCLE VANYA and THE CHERRY
ORCHARD?
Answer: Anton CHEKOV
3.
What American literary movement took place between 1830 and 1865, and focused on idealism,
attention to the past, a love of nature, and the gothic imagination, as exemplified by "The Legend
of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving?
Answer: Romanticism or Romantic
4.
Name the Twentieth Century American playwright whose works focus on the outcasts, the odd,
the lonely, and the vulnerable--as found in his plays THE ROSE TATTOO and THE GLASS
MENAGERIE.
Answer: Tennessee WILLIAMS
Science & Health
5.
Name the recipient of two Nobel Prizes who advocated the use of vitamin C in fighting several
diseases.
Answer: (Linus) Pauling
6.
Identify the technique which separates substances using their differences in adsorption rates.
Answer: Chromatography
7.
Name the electronic component whose basic function is the temporary storage of electric charge.
Answer: Capacitor
Social Science
8.
What political party, organized on September 1,1869, saw as its final triumph the passage of the
18th Amendment?
Answer: Prohibition (Party)
9.
What Native American language was used successfully as a code by the U.S. in World War II?
Answer: Navajo
10.
Name the weapon, first used by the English, during the Hundred Years War.
Answer: the Long bow
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Round: 13
Mathematics
Time: 30 seconds
11.
Give the equation, in standard form, of the circle with center at ( 5, -4) and radius of 6.
Answer: quantity x minus 5 squared plus the quantity y plus 4 squared equals 36.
Time: 30 seconds
12.
Find the coordinates of the point halfway between the points (-2, 6) and (4, 10).
Answer: (1, -2)
Time: 45 seconds
13.
Solve the equation for x: 32 to the 2x power equals 8 to the x plus 4 power.
Answer: 6
Fine Arts
14.
Which Latvia-born male ballet dancer defected to the United States in 1974 and eventually danced
and choreographed for the American Ballet Theatre?
Answer: Mikhail Baryshnikov
15.
What is the name of the orchestral suite by Gustav Holst which includes "Jupiter," "Mars," and
"Venus?"
Answer: "The Planets"
Year In Review
16.
Give the name of one of President Bush's closest advisers who resigned in the spring and moved
back to Texas.
Answer: (Karen) Hughes
Source: Newsweek, 6 May 2002: 21.
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Round: 14
Foreign Language
1.
FRENCH Le téléphone est au coin.
GERMAN Das Telefon ist an der Ecke.
SPANISH El teléfono está en la esquina.
Translation: The telephone is on (at) the corner.
Language Arts
2.
Give the pen name of British writer Hector Hugh Monroe, whose stories are well known for ironic
twists.
Answer: Saki
3.
Which of the Kansas Six Trait Writing Characteristics would be evaluated when the writer shows
personal attitude and emotions toward the topic?
Answer: Voice
4.
What wife of a governor of a Massachusetts colony was the first American woman to devote
herself to writing poetry?
Answer: Anne BRADSTREET
Science & Health
5.
What is the term given to a leaf's waterproof covering?
Answer: Cuticle
6.
What is the name for the change in state of a substance from a solid directly to a gas without
passing through the liquid state?
Answer: Sublimation
7.
What is the process by which water, running off or percolating through the soil, dissolves minerals
and removes them from the soil?
Answer: Leaching
Social Science
8.
Name the Confederate general who led a charge into the center of the Union line at Gettysburg on
day three of the battle.
Answer: (George E.) Pickett
9.
Name the high court of the Catholic Church that was established in the late 15th century in Spain.
Answer: (Spanish) Inquisition
10.
Name the month-long period of fasting from sunrise to sunset that Muslims observe.
Answer: Ramadan
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Round: 14
Mathematics
Time: 45 seconds
11.
Determine the equation of a line, in slope-intercept form, which passes through the point (2, 1) and
perpendicular to the line 2x - 3y = 5.
Answer: y = -3/2 x + 4
Time: 30 seconds
12.
Find the measure of each interior angle in a regular dodecagon.
Answer: 150
Time: 30 seconds
13.
If the circumference of a circle is 25 pi, what is the length of the circle's radius?
Answer: 12.5 or 12 and one-half
Fine Arts
14.
What is the term for two panels hinged together, forming a single work of art?
Answer: Diptych
15.
What is a solo passage in a concerto, written or improvised by a soloist to show off his or her
technique?
Answer: cadenza
Year In Review
16.
Give the name of the President who, with President Bush, signed a treaty in June committing both
his nation and the United States to slashing strategic nuclear aresenals from 6,000 warheads to a
maximum of 2,200.
Answer: (Vladimir) Putin
Source: Time, 27 May 2002: 42.
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Round: 15
Foreign Language
1.
FRENCH Nous n'avons pas eu l'école aujourd'hui.
GERMAN Wir hatten heute keine Schule.
SPANISH No hemos tenido la escuela hoy.
Translation: We did not have (haven't had) school today.
Language Arts
2.
In the Anglo-Saxon epic poem BEOWULF, Beowulf slew Grendel, but who or what killed Beowulf?
Answer: a dragon
3.
Identify by structure this type of sentence:
After John left, Mary waited to see if his fianceé would follow.
Answer: Complex
4.
What American author, whose first successful play was ALL MY SONS, won a Pulitzer Prize for
his play DEATH OF A SALESMAN?
Answer: Arthur MILLER
Science & Health
5.
Identify the muscle found at the bottom of the thoracic cavity which flattens and forces air to fill
the lungs.
Answer: Diaphragm
6.
How many protons are there in a molecule of heavy water?
Answer: 10
(heavy water has no additional protons!)
7.
What is the name given to the unit of measure to describe a wavelength of light that is one
hundred millionth of a centimeter?
Answer: Angstrom
Social Science
8.
Which U.S. President is known for urging legislation to create what he called "the Great Society"?
Answer: Lyndon Johnson (need both names)
or accept LBJ
9.
Name the Spanish-born princess who became the first wife of Henry VIII and was the mother of his
daughter Mary.
Answer: Catherine of Aragon
10.
Identify the U.S. state capital which has more than 30 Buddhist temples.
Answer: Honolulu
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Round: 15
Mathematics
Time: 30 seconds
11.
If the hypotenuse of a right triangle is 9 units and one of the sides is square root 17, how long is
the third side?
Answer: 8
Time: 60 seconds
12.
A person paid $10,269 for a new car, including a 5% sales tax. What was the original price of the
car?
Answer: $9780
Time: 10 seconds
13.
State the name given to a line which intersects a circle at two points?
Answer: secant
Fine Arts
14.
What term describes artists whose works are unconventional, experimental, or the farthest from the
traditional?
Answer: avant-garde
15.
Who wrote the lyrics for "West Side Story," and both words and music for "Sweeney Todd," and
"Into the Woods?"
Answer: (Stephen) SONDHEIM
Year In Review
16.
Give the name of the former President who at age 91, has lived longer than any other President.
Answer: (Ronald) Reagan
Source: Time, 4 February 2002: 4.
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Round: 16
Foreign Language
1.
FRENCH Le nouveau manteau est cher.
GERMAN Der neue Mantel ist teuer.
SPANISH El abrigo nuevo es caro.
Translation: The new (over) coat is expensive.
Language Arts
2.
What Romantic poet, a printer, and engraver, illustrated his own works such as "The Lamb," and
"The Tyger"?
Answer: William BLAKE
3.
Identify the error in the following sentence:
The teacher wanted the student to completely finish the assignment.
Answer: Split infinitive; OR "completely" should not be placed between "to" and "finish."
4.
What 19th Century American poet wrote the lines, "Listen my children and you shall hear / Of the
midnight ride of Paul Revere?"
Answer: Henry W. LONGFELLOW
Science & Health
5.
What is the common name for the disease caused by the rubeola virus?
Answer: Measles
6.
What term is given to the whole numbers used to balance chemical equations?
Answer: Coefficients
7.
Name the spiral galaxy that is nearest to the Milky Way.
Answer: Andromeda
Social Science
8.
Name the island that Japanese documents described as the "fork in the road which leads to victory
for them or for us."
Answer: Guadalcanal
9.
What war was fought between British and Dutch settlers from 1899-1902 in what is now South
Africa?
Answer: Boer War
10.
When the President of the United States is impeached, who presides at the trial?
Answer: Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
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Round: 16
Mathematics
Time: 30 seconds
11.
If f of x equals x squared plus five , find f of the quantity x minus three.
Answer: x squared minus 6 x plus 14.
Time: 30 seconds
12.
What is the tangent of 405 degrees?
Answer: one
Time: 30 seconds
13.
Find the volume of a sphere in terms of pi with a radius of 5 centimeters.
Answer: 500 pi over 3 centimeters cubed, or cubic centimeters {proper units must be included}
Fine Arts
14.
Identify the term that comes from the Greek, meaning "love of wisdom" and is a subject that
considers questions stemming from reflections on everyday events in life.
Answer: Philosophy
15.
Name the plastic or metal band the secures the reed to the mouthpiece of a clarinet or saxophone.
Answer: ligature
Year In Review
16.
What mode of transportation has become a popular form of recreation and travel for middle-aged
baby boomers?
Answer: Motorcycles
Source: Time, 21 October 2002: A1.
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Round: Semi-Final
Foreign Language
1.
FRENCH Que fais-tu en hiver quand il neige?
GERMAN Was machst du im Winter, wenn es schneit?
SPANISH
¿Qué haces en el invierno cuando nieva?
Translation: What do you do in winter when it snows (is snowing)?
Language Arts
2.
What satirical essay did Jonathan Swift write that suggested a solution for the plight of the
impoverished children of Ireland?
Answer: "A Modest Proposal"
3.
What is the complete name of the historical occurrence in 16th Century England that caused the
sound of spoken English to change in distinct ways?
Answer: Great Vowel Shift
4.
What American author, born to Russian-Jewish immigrants, created mainly Jewish characters and
is best known for two works, the novel THE NATURAL, and his short story, "The Magic Barrel"?
Answer: Bernard MALAMUD
Science & Health
5.
What is the term given to the length of time from conception to birth in mammals?
Answer: Gestation Period
6.
(30 sec) What is the mass in grams of 2.5 moles of water?
Answer: 45 (grams)
7.
A wave generator is producing a pulse every one tenth of a second. What is the frequency of the
wave produced?
Answer: 10 cycles per second or 10 Hertz
Social Science
8.
Which two amendments have the due process clause?
Answer: the 5th and 14th amendments
9.
Name the Cuban dictator overthrown by Castro in 1956.
Answer: (Fulgencia) Batista
10.
What is the term for the action taken by the U.S. Senate against Joseph McCarthy for his
unsubstantiated accusations of communism in the 1950s?
Answer: Censure
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Round: Semi-Final
Mathematics
Time: 60 seconds
11.
How many pupils are there in a class if two pupils remain after four rows of seats are filled, and
nine pupils remain after three rows of seats are filled?
Answer: 30
Time: 45 seconds
12.
If the measure of one of the exterior angles of a regular polygon is 72 degrees how many sides
does the polygon have?
Answer: 5
Time: 45 seconds
13.
Regular hexagon ABCDEF with center at O has side AB of 6 centimeters. What is the area of the
quadrilateral ABOF in simplest radical form?
Answer: 18 times the square root of 3 centimeters squared, or 18 times radical 3 centimeters squared
Fine Arts
14.
Name the painter of rural landscapes and portraits in a meticulous, naturalistic style, who
astonished the public in 1986 with the appearance of a previously secret series of nudes, the Helga
paintings.
Answer: Andrew WYETH
15.
In what language was the opera "Carmen" by George Bizet (bih ZAY) originally written?
Answer: French
Year In Review
16.
To which terrorist organization was CIA Director George Tenet referring when he spoke these
words: "It is serious--they have reconstituted, they are coming after us, they want to execute
attacks?"
Answer: Al-Qaeda
Source: Time, 22 October 2002: 34.
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Round: Semi-Final Replacement
Foreign Language
1.
FRENCH Les enfants sont-ils admis ici?
GERMAN Sind Kinder hier erlaubt?
SPANISH
¿Se permite la entrada a niños aquí?
Translation: Are children allowed (to enter) (in) here?
Language Arts
2.
What was the name of the mythical sculptor who carved a statue name "Galatea" (gal uh tay uh)
which was given life by Venus?
Answer: PYGMALION
3.
Identify the term synonymous to Realism which indicates the degree to which a writer faithfully
creates the semblance of truth.
Answer: Verisimilitude
4.
The first Black writer to win a Pulitzer Prize was born in Kansas; name this author of ANNIE
ALLEN, THE BEAN EATERS, and MAUD MARTHA.
Answer: Gwendolyn BROOKS
Science & Health
5.
Which science deals with the identification, naming, and classification of organisms?
Answer: Taxonomy
6.
Which force within the atom causes beta decay?
Answer: Weak force or weak nuclear force or weak electromagnetic force or electro weak force or weak
interaction
7.
What device is used to detect radiation?
Answer: Gieger counter
Social Science
8.
What two freedoms, guaranteed by the Bill of Rights, were diminished by the Sedition Act of
1798?
Answer: Freedom of Speech and
Freedom of the Press
9.
What great Macedonian ruler is said to have wept because there were no more worlds to conquer?
Answer: Alexander the Great
10.
Name the minstrel show character whose name was used to describe southern segregation laws of
the 1800s.
Answer: Jim Crow
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Round: Semi-Final Replacement
Mathematics
Time: 10 seconds
11.
What is the name of the following series of integers which can be correlated to plant growth: 1, 1,
2, 3, 5, 8?
Answer: Fibonacci series or Fibonacci numbers
Time: 30 seconds
12.
If two parallel lines are cut by a transversal and the measure of one of the interior angles is 70
degrees, what is the measure of the interior angle adjacent to the 70 degree angle?
Answer: 110
Time: 30 seconds
13.
Write the number 13 in binary form?
Answer: 1101
Fine Arts
14.
Which early 20th Century artist's group, led by French painter Marcel Duchamp, created artwork
intended to have no meaning at all?
Answer: Dadaism
15.
Name the musical instrument that is shaped like a half-sphere and in which the pitch can be
changed by turning a set of screws or pressing a pedal?
Answer: kettledrum OR tympani
Year In Review
16.
Name the two countries whose figure skaters were at the center of the Winter Olympic Pairs Figure
Skating scandal.
Answer: Canada and Russia
Source: Time, 25 February 2002: 25.
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Round: Consolation
Foreign Language
1.
FRENCH Le vendeur a porté un complet brun.
GERMAN Der Verkäufer trug einen braunen Anzug.
SPANISH El dependiente llevó un traje marrón.
Translation: The clerk (sales person) wore (has worn) (carried) (has carried) a brown suit.
Language Arts
2.
Name both: the Shakespearean play and the younger sister who must wait to marry until her older
sister Katharina is married.
Answer: TAMING OF THE SHREW; Bianca
3.
What word does Aristotle use to describe the emotional release which is produced by the
witnessing of tragic drama?
Answer: Catharsis
4.
What exuberant American poet captured a carefree spirit in the following lines: "My candle burns
at both ends, It will not last the night--But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends--It gives a lovely light"?
Answer: Edna St.Vincent MILLAY
Science & Health
5.
Name the molecular group consisting of a 5 carbon sugar, a phosphate group and an organic base.
Answer: Nucleotide
6.
What word describes the curved shape of a liquid at its surface?
Answer: Meniscus
7.
Whose principle states: "swiftly moving fluids exert less pressure than slowly moving fluids".
Answer: Bernoulli
Social Science
8.
Which 1857 Supreme Court case declared that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional
because it deprived a person of his property (a slave) without due process of law?
Answer: Dred Scott Case or Dred Scott v. Sanford
9.
What is the name of the "bloodless" overthrow of English King James II and his replacement by
William and Mary?
Answer: Glorious Revolution
10.
What photographer shocked the American public with his pictures of battlefield corpses from the
Battle of Antietam?
Answer: Matthew B. Brady
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Round: Consolation
Mathematics
Time: 45 seconds
11.
Give the area of a equilateral triangle with sides of 6.
Answer: 9 square root 3 or 9 times square root 3 or 9 radical 3
Time: 45 seconds
12.
Solve for x: x squared plus 12 equals 7x.
Answer: 3 and 4 {need both answers}
Time: 30 seconds
13.
If a teacher gives a 5 question multiple choice quiz with four choices available for each question,
how many combinations of answers will earn 0%?
Answer: 243
Fine Arts
14.
Name the American political cartoonist for Harper's Weekly, who also became famous for his Santa
Claus.
Answer: Thomas NAST
15.
State the term which means "a musical pattern or bass line that is repeated over and over."
Answer: ostinato
Year In Review
16.
The early onset of what illness is affecting 8 percent of adolescents and 2 percent of children, due
in part to the stress of high divorce rate, rising academic expectations, and social pressures.
Answer: Depression
Source: Newsweek, 7 October 2002: 54.
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Round: Consolation Replacement
Foreign Language
1.
FRENCH Voudriez-vous du café ou du thé?
GERMAN Möchtest du Kaffee oder Tee?
SPANISH
¿A Ud. le gustaría café o té?
Translation: Would you like (some) (any) coffee or (some) (any) tea?
Language Arts
2.
Name the Greek god who symbolized the death of nature each autumn and its rebirth in the spring.
His name has become synonymous with the man of perfect physical handsomeness.
Answer: Adonis
3.
What is the writing style that reflects the art and literature of ancient Greece and Rome, and
displays simple, harmonious purity of form?
Answer: Classicism or classical or classic
4.
Name the American author who enlisted in the Union Army at l8, fought in several major battles of
the Civil War, and fictionalized a real hanging that took place in 1862 during the battle of Shiloh in
his story, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"?
Answer: Ambrose BIERCE
Science & Health
5.
Name the carbohydrate which is converted to lactic acid when milk sours.
Answer: Lactose
6.
What is the name given to the insoluble substance formed when two solutions are mixed?
Answer: Precipitate
7.
What is a wide body of water, containing both fresh water and salt water, that forms where a large
river meets the sea.
Answer: Estuary
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Round: Consolation Replacement
Social Science
8.
What is the sum of the constitutional amendment numbers, which deal with the repeal of
prohibition and the abolition of slavery?
Answer: 34
(21st and 13th - information only)
9.
Who led Muslim forces in the Third Crusade to recapture Jerusalem in AD 1187?
Answer: Saladin
10.
Which Kentucky senator was the chief architect of both the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the
Great Compromise of 1850?
Answer: (Henry) Clay
Mathematics
Time: 30 seconds
11.
Give the two real number solutions to the equation: x squared plus 7x minus 18 equals 0.
Answer: 2 and -9 {need both answers}
Time: 30 seconds
12.
How many degrees are in a regular polygon with 30 sides?
Answer: 5040
Time: 30 seconds
13.
How many radians are in 45 degrees?
Answer: pi over 4
Fine Arts
14.
What ceramic technique involves rubbing a leather-hard ceramic projection with a spoon?
Answer: Burnishing
15.
Name the Classic Austrian composer who has been called the "father of the symphony."
Answer: (Franz Joseph) HAYDN
Year In Review
16.
To which planet was scientist Bill Boyntin (Boin-tin) referring when he was quoted as saying,
"We've found the equivalent of Lake Michigan twice over?"
Answer: Mars
Source: Newsweek, 10 June 2002: 41.
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Round: Championship
Foreign Language
1.
FRENCH Penses-tu que je resemble mon père ou ma mère?
GERMAN Denkst du, ich sehe mehr wie mein Vater oder wie meine Mutter aus?
SPANISH ¿Crees que me parezco a mi padre o a mi madre?
Translation: Do you think I look (more) like (resemble) my father or my mother?
Language Arts
2.
Who is the renowned South American author known for such short stories as "Of Clay Are We
Created" and such novels as HOUSE OF SPIRITS and DAUGHTER OF FORTUNE?
Answer: Isabel ALLENDE
3.
What form of understatement is denoted with two negatives as in this example: He is not unkind.
Answer: Litotes (li toe tees)
4.
Which American author and intellectual coined the phrase "The Lost Generation" to describe
Hemingway and other young writers of the 20th Century?
Answer: Gertrude STEIN
Science & Health
5.
What is the name of the nervous tissue linking the two halves of the brain?
Answer: Corpus Callosum
6.
What is the geometric shape of a molecule with sp orbital hybridization?
Answer: Linear
7.
What is the name given to the ratio of resistance force to the effort force that is applied in a
machine?
Answer: Mechanical advantage or MA
Social Science
8.
Name the Progressive Party Governor of Wisconsin, elected in 1900, who developed the
Wisconsin Idea for Reform.
Answer: (Robert) LaFollette
9.
At what conference in 1814 did European leaders meet to restore the political balance of power in
Europe after the defeat of Napoleon?
Answer: Congress of Vienna
10.
After what American Civil War battle did President Abraham Lincoln announce his preliminary
Emancipation Proclamation?
Answer: Antietam
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Mathematics
Time: 45 seconds
11.
Eight sophomores, 10 juniors, and 6 seniors are in a communications class. If the first student
chosen to give a report is picked at random, what is the probability, to the nearest hundredth, that
a junior will be chosen first?
Answer: 0.42 or 42 hundredths
Time: 45 seconds
12.
Solve the following inequality for x: The absolute value of the quantity 3 minus 2x is greater than
11.
Answer: x is less than negative 4 or x is greater than 7 {the answer must include both phrases}, or x is
greater than 7 or x is less than negative 4 {the answer must include both phrases}
Time: 60 seconds
13.
Two chords AB and CD intersect within a circle. Chord AB is divided into lengths of 5 and 6.
Chord CD is divided into lengths of x and x plus 13. Find the two lengths of chord CD.
Answer: 2 and 15 {need both answers}
Fine Arts
14.
Name the painter and lithographer who depicted music halls, cabarets, and brothels in an idealized,
vivid way, as in "In the Parlor at the Moulin de la Galette."
Answer: Henri de TOULOUSE-LAUTREC
15.
Name the oldest and most widespread of wind instruments that is a series of small tubes of
different lengths that are closed at one end and fastened together like the logs of a raft.
Answer: panpipes
Year In Review
16.
Give the name of the veteran actor and National Rifle Association president who in the summer of
2002 was confirmed to have symptoms consistent with Alzheimer's disease.
Answer: (Charlton) Heston
Source: U.S. News & World Report, 19 August 2002: 8.
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Foreign Language
1.
FRENCH Je lave des plats pour gagner l'argent.
GERMAN Ich spüle Geschirr, um Geld zu verdienen.
SPANISH Lavo platos para ganar dinero.
Translation: I wash (some) dishes (in order) to earn (the) money.
Language Arts
2.
In what play by William Shakespeare does "a pound of flesh" become the center of a legal battle?
Answer: THE MERCHANT OF VENICE
3.
What figure of speech is used in the following sentence?
It's kisstomary to cuss the bride.
Answer: Spoonerism
4.
Name both the American author and his story about a henpecked husband with extravagant
daydreams in which he imagines himself a pilot, a prisoner in front of a firing line, and a
world-famous surgeon.
Answer: James THURBER and "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"
Science & Health
5.
Dragonflies and damselflies belong to what order of insects?
Answer: Odonata
6.
Give the formula for Copper(II) phosphate. (Read as copper two phosphate)
Answer: Cu three (P O four) two or Cu3(PO4)2
7.
What is the formula used to find work?
Answer: Force times distance, F X d
Social Science
8.
What 1819 U.S. Supreme Court case established the principle of implied powers by validating the
creation of a national bank?
Answer: McCulloch v. Maryland
9.
The period of time, when Robespierre governed France, is known by what phrase?
Answer: Reign of Terror
10.
Who was the famed prosecutor in the Scopes "monkey" trial?
Answer: (William Jennings) Bryan
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Mathematics
Time: 45 seconds
11.
John has 2/3 as much money invested at 6% interest as he does at 5%. If his annual return from
both investments is $405, how much does he have invested at each rate?
Answer: $4500 at 5% and $3000 at 6%
Time: 30 seconds
12.
In a right triangle, if one side is 15 and the hypotenuse is 17, what is the measure of the other side?
Answer: 8
Time: 45 seconds
13.
Find the sum of the first 17 terms in the arithmetic series which begins 3, 8, 13, 18
Answer: 731
Fine Arts
14.
What is the name given to a 1700's style of architecture and decoration involving elaborate
ornamentation, combining shellwork, scrolls, and foliage?
Answer: Rococo
15.
What style of jazz singing, best demonstrated by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, replaces the
lyrics of a song with nonsense syllables?
Answer: scat
Year In Review
16.
Described as not one of our best presidents but tops among former presidents, name the man who
was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in October.
Answer: (James or Jimmy) Carter
Source: Time, 21 October 2002: 90.
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Round: Replacement 01
Foreign Language
1.
FRENCH Il cherche un stylo.
GERMAN Er sucht einen Kugelschreiber.
SPANISH Él busca un bolígrafo.
Translation: He is (He's) looking (looks) (does look) for a pen.
Language Arts
2.
Give both the title and the author of the following passage: "At the appointed time I returned to
Miss Havisham's, and my hesitating ring at the gate brought out Estella."
Answer: GREAT EXPECTATIONS; Charles DICKENS
3.
Identify the philosophical and literary movement which holds that individuals must struggle to
create their own meaning and morality in the absence of any absolute values, as shown in novels
by Faulkner, Kafka, and Camus.
Answer: Existentialism
4.
What is the name of the autobiography by Richard Wright which recounts his youth and his
struggles growing up in the Jim Crow South?
Answer: BLACK BOY
Science & Health
5.
Which system of the body uses pepsin?
Answer: digestive
6.
Give the emperical formula for the compound C six H twelve O six (C6H12O6)?
Answer: C H two O or CH2O
7.
What type fo mineral cyrstal is often used in electronic watches?
Answer: Quartz
Social Science
8.
Name the British naval hero who staved off Napoleon's forces in the Battle of Trafalgar.
Answer: (Lord Admiral Horatio) Nelson
9.
Name the American President who nicknamed reformers in journalism "muckrakers".
Answer: Theodore Roosevelt
10.
Name the state where Promontory Point, the site of the joining of the Union Pacific and Central
Pacific railroads to complete the first transcontinental railroad, is located.
Answer: Utah
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Mathematics
Time: 30 seconds
11.
What is the sum of all the angles of a convex nonagon?
Answer: 1260
Time: 45 seconds
12.
If x squared plus y squared equals 20, and xy equals negative 4, what is the value of the quantity x
plus y quantity squared?
Answer: 12
Time: 30 seconds
13.
The price of a stereo has been discounted by $150. If the sale price is $245, to the nearest whole
percent, what is the discount from the original list price?
Answer: 38
Fine Arts
14.
Name the Pennsylvania-born sculptor best known for his mobiles and playful wire constructions of
circuses.
Answer: Alexander CALDER
15.
Give the instrumentation used in a typical brass quintet.
Answer: 2 trumpets, French horn, trombone, tuba (all 5 are necessary)
Year In Review
16.
What well-known author, on the delay of the 5th book in her popular series, said, "I needed to step
off the one-book-a-year treadmill?"
Answer: (J.K.) Rowling
Source: Newsweek, 30 September 2002: 23.
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Round: Replacement 02
Foreign Language
1.
FRENCH Nous voulons gagner de l'argent.
GERMAN Wir wollen Geld verdienen.
SPANISH Nosotros queremos ganar dinero.
Translation: We want to earn (the) money.
Language Arts
2.
What is the name of the cyclops in the story of Odysseus?
Answer: Polyphemus
3.
Name writing that has the five senses as its focus.
Answer: Description (descriptive)
4.
What American poet, best known for short dramatic, lyric poems of tragic and desperate lives in
small towns, authored "Richard Cory" and "Miniver Cheevy?"
Answer: E.A.(Edwin Arlington) ROBINSON (last name is acceptable)
Science & Health
5.
How many ossicles does the normal human body have?
Answer: 6 (3 in each ear)
6.
What large molecules consist of small molecules joined together in long chains?
Answer: Polymers
7.
Name the constellation whose name means "water bearer".
Answer: Aquarius
Social Science
8.
Name the district in San Francisco, associated during the 1960s with "hippies" and other segments
of the counter-culture.
Answer: Haight-Ashbury
9.
What powerful family ruled Russia from 1613 until 1917 when the last Russian tsar was overthrown
by the Russian Revolution?
Answer: Romanov
10.
What is the phrase used to refer to the inherent power of a government to take private property for
public use?
Answer: Eminent Domain
or (right of Eminent Domain)
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Mathematics
Time: 45 seconds
11.
Bill can do a job in 5 hours while Tom takes twice as long to do the same job. How long would
they take together?
Answer: 3 and one-third hours or 3 hours and 20 minutes or 10/3 hours
Time: 30 seconds
12.
What is 25 to the 3 halves power?
Answer: 125
Time: 30 seconds
13.
What is the logarithm base 8 of 4?
Answer: 2/3 or 2 thirds
Fine Arts
14.
Name the painting technique that involves two materials which do not mix.
Answer: resist
15.
What musical term, which literally means "shake," refers to a rapid, slight wavering of pitch?
Answer: vibrato
Year In Review
16.
Give the name of the home-decorating show, launched years ago and currently hosted by Paige
Davis, that has now become a runaway cable hit.
Answer: “Trading Spaces”
Source: Newsweek, 5 July 2002: 63.
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Round: Replacement 03
Foreign Language
1.
FRENCH La maison a trois chambres à coucher.
GERMAN Das Haus hat drei Schlafzimmer.
SPANISH La casa tiene tres alcobas.
Translation: The house has three bedrooms.
Language Arts
2.
Which Hermann Hesse novel shares its name with the band known for their song "Born to be
Wild"?
Answer: STEPPENWOLF
3.
Name the noun which is the appositive in this sentence:
My mom gave Mr. Jones, the principal, a note for my absence.
Answer: (the) principal (do not accept Mr. Jones)
4.
In what classic story by Stephen Crane, set in the Civil War, was Henry Fleming the protagonist?
Answer: THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE
Science & Health
5.
What is the element found in all proteins, but not in carbohydrates?
Answer: Nitrogen
6.
What branch of science deals with the study of how objects behave at extremely low
temperatures?
Answer: Cryogenics
7.
What is the fundamental unit of luminous intensity?
Answer: Candela
Social Science
8.
What principal was being applied when the territories of Kansas and Nebraska were allowed to
decide whether they would enter the Union as a slave or free state?
Answer: Popular Sovereignty
9.
The War of the Roses was fought between members of which two English families?
Answer: The Yorks and Lancasters
10.
What term describes charges of misconduct brought against government officials?
Answer: impeachment
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Mathematics
Time: 30 seconds
11.
The base of an isosceles triangle is 10 and the altitude to the base is 12. Find the sine of the base
angle.
Answer: 12/13 or 12 over 13
Time: 30 seconds
12.
Two numbers are in the ratio of 5 to 2. One-half of their sum is 10 and 1/2. What are the two
numbers?
Answer: 15 and 6
Time: 30 seconds
13.
The measure of one angle is x. Its complement is 6 less than 3 times the angle. Find the measure of
each angle.
Answer: 24; 66
Fine Arts
14.
Identify the 1830's philosophical movement that condemned society's materialism and promoted
individual freedom, the worth and goodness of humanity, and the need to commune with nature.
Answer: Transcendentalism
15.
Name the Hungarian piano virtuoso who wrote "Liebestraum."
Answer: (Franz) LISZT
Year In Review
16.
What magazine editor, TV host, and "priestess of domesticity" is under investigation for insider
trading?
Answer: (Martha) Stewart or Martha
Source: Newsweek, 1 July 2002: 38.
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Round: Replacement 04
Foreign Language
1.
FRENCH Je ne bois pas jus de pommes.
GERMAN Ich trinke keinen Apfelsaft.
SPANISH No bebo jugo de manzana.
Translation: I do not drink (don't drink) (am not drinking) apple juice.
Language Arts
2.
Name the heroine of Greek mythology who remained faithful to her husband Ulysses despite his 20
year absence.
Answer: Penelope
3.
Name the writing error in the following sentence:
Both of the twins were born on the same day.
Answer: Redundancy (accept "redundant")
4.
What American writer of the Romantic period created the character of Natty Bumppo?
Answer: James Fenimore COOPER
Science & Health
5.
What does a dipterologist study?
Answer: Flies
6.
What is the name of the hydrocarbon that makes up natural gas?
Answer: Methane
7.
Which science deals with the study of a planets atmosphere?
Answer: Meteorology
Social Science
8.
Of what was John Scopes accused in his famous "monkey Trial"?
Answer: Teaching evolution
9.
Name the city where most Nazi war criminals were tried.
Answer: Nuremberg
10.
Give the term for the reform measure that allows a group of citizens to introduce legislation and
requires legislators to vote on it.
Answer: Initiative
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Mathematics
Time: 10 seconds
11.
What name is given to the set of all values of x for which a function is defined?
Answer: domain
Time: 30 seconds
12.
List the first 5 triangular numbers.
Answer: 1, 3, 6, 10, 15
Time: 30 seconds
13.
Stephanie works in a restaurant. A customer gave her $1.85 in quarters and nickels. If she was
given 13 coins in all, how many coins of each kind did she receive?
Answer: 6 quarters and 7 nickels
Fine Arts
14.
What American architect is known for his ability to connect the out-of-doors to the indoors
creating interiors where "form follows function," especially in his prairie-style residences?
Answer: Frank Lloyd WRIGHT
15.
What musical instrument, commonly used in polkas, features bellows and a keyboard?
Answer: accordion
Year In Review
16.
What words in the Pledge of Allegiance did the San Francisco U.S. Court of Appeals rule
unconstitutional when teachers leading school children utter them?
Answer: "under God"
Source: Newsweek, 8 July 2002: 23.
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Round: Replacement 05
Foreign Language
1.
FRENCH Le printemps est ma saison préferée de l'année.
GERMAN Der Frühling ist meine Lieblingsjahreszeit.
SPANISH La primavera es mi estación favorita del año.
Translation: Spring is my favorite (preferred) season of the year.
Language Arts
2.
In Shakespeare's JULIUS CAESAR, which character is described as having a "lean and hungry
look," in reference to his ambition to depose Caesar?
Answer: Cassius
3.
What is the term for a poetic foot in which a stressed syllable is followed by an unstressed
syllable, as in "Double, double, toil and trouble"?
Answer: Trochee or Trochaic
4.
Name the Edgar Allan Poe story that features the torture of a prisoner with heat and rats during the
Inquisition.
Answer: "The Pit and the Pendulum"
Science & Health
5.
What structure is studied in rhinology?
Answer: The nose
6.
What is the symbol for the element antimony?
Answer: Sb
7.
What is the SI unit of energy, work, or heat, that is equal to one newton-meter?
Answer: Joule
Social Science
8.
What is the name for the final assault on the Allied Forces by Nazi Germany, during World War II?
Answer: Battle of the Bulge
9.
The storming of which Paris landmark started the French Revolution?
Answer: The Bastille
10.
What is the name of the ancient land highway, used by Alexander the Great, that leads from the
Valley of Pakistan to the high plateau of Afghanistan?
Answer: Khyber Pass
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Mathematics
Time: 45 seconds
11.
Henry has three test scores of 82, 94, and 75. What must he score on the 4th test to attain an
average of 84?
Answer: 85
Time: 30 seconds
12.
Find the discriminant of the following quadratic equation: 6 x squared plus 4 x minus 5 equals zero.
Answer: 136
Time: 30 seconds
13.
The area of a square circumscribed about a circle is 900 square feet. What is the radius of the
circle?
Answer: 15 feet
{units must be included in the answer}
Fine Arts
14.
Although best known for his paintings such as "The Last Supper," what artist was quite
accomplished as an architect?
Answer: Leonardo da Vinci
15.
For what compositional technique is Johann Sebastian Bach best known?
Answer: counterpoint OR fugue
Year In Review
16.
What form of prayer did Pope John Paul II change for the first time in 500 years by adding a fourth
cycle when he issued an apostolic letter in October?
Answer: The Rosary
Source: Newsweek, 28 October 2002: 57.
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Round: Replacement 06
Foreign Language
1.
FRENCH Où se trouve la poste?
GERMAN Wo befindet sich das Postamt?
SPANISH ¿Dónde está el correo?
Translation: Where is the post office (found)?
Language Arts
2.
In Shakespeare's ROMEO AND JULIET, Mercutio is a friend of Romeo. To what family did he
belong?
Answer: Prince Escalus (or royal family)
3.
What name is given to a complex and often lengthy lyric poem, written in a dignified formal style
on some serious or lofty subject, as exemplified in the works of Keats and Shelley.
Answer: Ode
4.
What American author is best known for epic works based on extensive research such as
ALASKA, TEXAS, and CENTENNIAL?
Answer: James MICHENER
Science & Health
5.
What is the name of the air sacs located in the lungs that increase surface area for gas exchange?
Answer: Alveoli
6.
What scientific term describes any substance that absorbs water from the atmosphere?
Answer: Hygroscopic or deliquescent
7.
On the Moh’s hardness scale for minerals, what is the softest mineral?
Answer: Talc
Social Science
8.
What is the popular name for the famous speech that then-Vice President Richard Nixon gave in
1953 in which he defended the gift of a dog to his daughters?
Answer: "Checkers" speech
9.
What peacekeeping organization was created at the end of World War I?
Answer: League of Nations (NOT United Nations)
10.
What is the steppe area south of the Sahara Desert called?
Answer: Sahel
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Mathematics
Time: 30 seconds
11.
If the price of a big screen TV is $2400, and the sales tax is $177.60, what is the sales tax rate?
Answer: 7.4 %, or 7and 2/5 %
Time: 30 seconds
12.
Simplify the trigonometric expresstion: sin t cosine t over the quantity 1 minus cosine squared t.
Answer: cotangent t or 1 over tangent t or cosine t over sine t
Time: 60 seconds
13.
Find the value of x so that the distance between the points (x, 3) and (2, -1) is 5.
Answer: 5 and -1 {need both answers}
Fine Arts
14.
In "OP ART", what does the term "OP" refer to?
Answer: Optical
15.
What five-letter name is given to a sacred song or hymn?
Answer: psalm
Year In Review
16.
Name the explorers whose journey to the western United States began 200 years ago this past
summer.
Answer: (Merriweather) Lewis and (William) Clark
Source: Time, 8 July 2002: 39.
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Round: Replacement 07
Foreign Language
1.
FRENCH Ma soeur a les cheveux noirs.
GERMAN Meine Schwester hat schwarzes Haar.
SPANISH Mi hermana tiene el pelo negro.
Translation: My sister has black hair.
Language Arts
2.
What type of animals are the central characters in WATERSHIP DOWN by Richard Adams?
Answer: Rabbits
3.
Give the literary term for the device which allows a writer to describe to the reader events which
have happened earlier, through the use of recollections, dream sequences, or reveries.
Answer: Flashback
4.
Name the Pulitzer Prize winning author who wrote of struggles on the Nebraska prairie such as O
PIONEERS!
Answer: Willa CATHER
Science & Health
5.
Stinkhorn, Puffball, rust and ringworm belong to which kingdom?
Answer: Fungi
6.
The density of a pure diamond is 3.5 grams per cubic centimeter, while its mass is 17.5 grams. What
is the volume of the diamond?
Answer: 5 (cubic centimeters)
7.
What property of matter keeps a moving object in motion or a resting object at rest?
Answer: Inertia
Social Science
8.
Name the two Americans found guilty in federal court and then executed in the 1950s for giving
information on the atomic bomb to Soviet agents.
Answer: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg (accept the Rosenbergs)
9.
Who was elected president of post-apartheid South Africa, after 27 years of imprisonment for
offenses against the ruling South African regime?
Answer: (Nelson) Mandela
10.
Which body of water contains the Greater and Lesser Antilles?
Answer: Caribbean Sea
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Mathematics
Time: 45 seconds
11.
Find the center and radius of the circle having the equation x squared plus y squared minus six x
minus eight y equals zero.
Answer: center: (3, 4) radius: 5
Time: 45 seconds
12.
What is the length of the radius of a circle with equation x squared minus 8 x plus y squared plus 6
y + 24 = 0.
Answer: 1
Time: 30 seconds
13.
Factor completely: 24 x to the fourth power plus 3 x y cubed
Answer: 3x times the quantity (2x plus y) times the quantity (4x squared minus 2xy plus y squared)
Fine Arts
14.
Which American artist was a pioneer of Abstract Expressionism, and a leading proponent of action
painting, which includes dripping paint on canvases?
Answer: Jackson POLLOCK
15.
What composer wrote "Lazybones," "Georgia on my Mind," and "Stardust?"
Answer: (Hoagy) CARMICHAEL
Year In Review
16.
Give the name of the TV actor who was seriously injured in a crash while racing at Kentucky
Speedway in August.
Answer: (Jason) Priestley
Source: Newsweek, 26 August 2002: 8.
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Round: Replacement 08
Foreign Language
1.
FRENCH Où est l'aéroport?
GERMAN Wo ist der Flughafen?
SPANISH ¿Dónde está el aeropuerto?
Translation: Where is the airport?
Language Arts
2.
Name the 19th Century author, the first British writer to receive the Novel Prize for Literature,
known for writing THE JUNGLE BOOK and "Gunga-Din."
Answer: Rudyard KIPLING
3.
What two word term includes any situation in which some of the actors on stage or characters in a
story are blind to facts known to the spectator or reader, as used in "The Gift of the Magi" by O.
Henry.
Answer: DRAMATIC IRONY (both terms are needed)
4.
Name the Twentieth Century American poet known for his unusual sentence structure, odd
arrangement of words, and spare use of punctuation and capital letters.
Answer: (e.e.) CUMMINGS
Science & Health
5.
To what organ of the body does the adjective "renal" refer?
Answer: Kidney
6.
In which family or group do the elements have one valence electron?
Answer: Alkali metals
7.
What is the term for the apparent shift in position of an object as it is viewed from different angles?
Answer: Parallax
Social Science
8.
During what President's administration did the Iranian Hostage Crisis take place?
Answer: (Jimmy) Carter
9.
Identify the German general who led the "Afrika Korps" during World War II.
Answer: (Erwin) Rommel (the Desert Fox)
10.
What bay off the coasts of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick has the Earth's highest tides?
Answer: (Bay of) Fundy
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Mathematics
Time: 30 seconds
11.
Find the value of sine (-540 degrees)
Answer: zero
Time: 90 seconds
12.
Grace has 10 coins in her pocket - quarters, dimes, and nickels. She has 2 more dimes than nickels,
and the coins are worth $1.50 in all. How many of each of coin does she have?
Answer: 4 quarters, 4 dimes, 2 nickels
Time: 30 seconds
13.
Find the answer to the following: one-half times 2-thirds times 3-fourths times 4-fifths times
5-sixths times 6-sevenths.
Answer: one seventh
Fine Arts
14.
What is the principle of design that refers to arranging elements in a way that directs the viewer's
eye throughout a composition?
Answer: movement or eye movement
15.
What is the name given to a piece of instrumental music written for one or more soloists and an
orchestra?
Answer: Concerto
Year In Review
16.
Give the name of the mammal whose organs may help alleviate the problem of insufficient human
organ donors.
Answer: Pig
Source: Time, 14 January 2002: 65.
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Round: Replacement 09
Foreign Language
1.
FRENCH Quand je suis très malade, je vais à l'hôpital.
GERMAN Wenn ich sehr krank bin, gehe ich zum Hospital.
SPANISH Cuando estoy muy enfermo, voy al hóspital.
Translation: When I am very sick, I go to the hospital.
Language Arts
2.
Give the full name of the 18th Century writer who wrote a famous English dictionary that helped
stabilize the language and also revealed much of this author's personality?
Answer: SAMUEL JOHNSON (both names needed)
3.
Correct the subject shift in the following sentence:
All runners should be at the track by 7:00 so that you can pick up your registration forms.
Answer: All runners should be at the track by 7:00 so that they can pick up their registration forms. (Also
accept: You runners should be at the track by 7:00 so that you can pick up your registration forms.)
4.
Name both the poem and the American poet who wrote the lines, "Some say the world will end in
fire/Some say in ice."
Answer: "Fire and Ice" ; Robert FROST
Science & Health
5.
What term refers to the response of a plant to light?
Answer: Phototropism
6.
Name the following compound: P C l five (PC15)
Answer: Phosphorus pentachloride
7.
How does the kinetic energy of a car change when its speed is tripled?
Answer: Kinetic energy increases by nine times or is nine times as great
Social Science
8.
Granger laws, giving states the right to regulate what industry, were upheld in the 1877 case of
Munn v. Illinois
Answer: Railroads
9.
Name the event that began in 1900 when the nationalists of China expelled foreigners.
Answer: Boxer Rebellion
10.
Name the volcanic islands off western Alaska between the Bering Sea and the Pacific Ocean.
Answer: Aleutian Islands
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Mathematics
Time: 30 seconds
11.
Solve this system for x and for y: y equals x squared minus 2x minus 8 and y equals x squared
minus 3x minus 4.
Answer: x = 4 and y = 0 or (4, 0)
Time: 30 seconds
12.
What is the derivative of the function: f of x equals 3x cubed plus 2x squared minus x plus 5.
Answer: 9x squared plus 4x minus 1
Time: 30 seconds
13.
If the sine x equals 5/13 and cosine x equals 12/13, what does tangent x equal?
Answer: 5/12 or five over twelve
Fine Arts
14.
Name either of Aaron Copland's ballets set in the American West.
Answer: "Rodeo" or "Billy the Kid"
15.
What German composer suddenly became famous throughout Europe after the opening of his
opera "Hansel and Gretel" in 1893?
Answer: (Englebert) HUMPERDINCK
Year In Review
16.
Name Liverpool, England's most famous son for whom the city named their new airport terminal.
Answer: (John) Lennon
Source: Newsweek, 5 August 2002: 64.
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Round: Replacement 10
Foreign Language
1.
FRENCH Il est une heure moins le quart.
GERMAN Es ist Viertel vor eins.
SPANISH Es la una menos cuarto.
Translation: It is a quarter to one (twelve forty-five).
Language Arts
2.
What Early English novel was a work of fiction based on the real-life adventures of Alexander
Selkirk, while he was marooned on an island?
Answer: ROBINSON CRUSOE (accept The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of . . . Or combination of
these, like The Adventures of. . ..)
3.
Identify the error in this sentence:
The twelve girls opened their book when the teacher entered the classroom.
Answer: Books, not book; OR number consistency
4.
In which Steinbeck novel did Curly and Candy plan to retire with two other co-workers to a farm
with rabbits?
Answer: OF MICE AND MEN
Science & Health
5.
What large green moth takes its name from the moon?
Answer: Luna moth
6.
How many ions are produced by the dissociation of a formula unit of calcium hydroxide?
Answer: Three (ions)
7.
What name is given to the decayed remains of organisms in soil?
Answer: Humus
Social Science
8.
What treaty ended the Mexican War?
Answer: (Treaty of) Guadalupe Hidalgo
9.
In what city was Archduke Francis Ferdinand assassinated on June 28, 1914?
Answer: Sarajevo
10.
Name the condition in which a person suffers from excessive daytime sleepiness.
Answer: narcolepsy
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Mathematics
Time: 60 seconds
11.
In terms of pi, find the volume of a cone that has a diameter of 6 inches and a height of 12 inches.
Answer: 36 pi cubic inches
Time: 60 seconds
12.
The sum of three numbers is 24. The largest number is three times the smallest, and the middle
number is four less than the largest. What are the three numbers?
Answer: 4, 8, 12
Time: 30 seconds
13.
Find the derivative of 1/2x squared minus 4/5x to the 5/4 power.
Answer: x minus 4x to the one-fourth power, or x minus 4 times fourth root of x
Fine Arts
14.
Identify the term used to designate inexpensive mass-produced jewelry.
Answer: Costume jewelry
15.
Name the famous American composer who conducted the U.S. Marine Band and wrote marches for
both Kansas State University and University of Kansas.
Answer: (John Phillip) SOUSA
Year In Review
16.
Give the name of the character in a Disney movie who is a tiny Elvis impersonator.
Answer: Stitch
Source: Time, 25 February 2002: 20.
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Round: Replacement 11
Foreign Language
1.
FRENCH Quand fais-tu tes devoirs?
GERMAN Wann machst du deine Hausaufgaben?
SPANISH ¿Cuándo haces tus tareas?
Translation: When do you do (are you doing) your homework (assignments)?
Language Arts
2.
Who was the author of the children's stories, "The Ugly Duckling," and "The Emperor's New
Clothes"?
Answer: HANS ANDERSEN; accept HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN
3.
Give the French term for the final unravelling of the plot in drama or fiction, the ingenious "untying
of the knot."
Answer: Denouement (day-new-ma) (Do not accept " falling action," " resolution," or "catastrophe.")
4.
What contemporary science fiction and fantasy author wrote the series beginning with ENDER'S
GAME?
Answer: Orson Scott CARD
Science & Health
5.
How many types of cones are in the retina of the human eye?
Answer: Three
6.
(30 seconds) How many neutrons are in the nucleus of a silver atom, atomic number 47, and atomic
mass 108?
Answer: 61
7.
If an object is in free fall from rest for three seconds, using 10 meters per second squared for
gravitational acceleration, how far will it have fallen if air resistance is negligible?
Answer: 45 meters
Social Science
8.
Name the creek in South Dakota where United States 7th Cavalry soldiers massacred 300 unarmed
Sioux tribal members in 1890.`
Answer: Wounded Knee
9.
Name the Russian Tsar who founded the Russian Navy, reformed the Russian alphabet, built St.
Petersburg, and Europeanized Russia.
Answer: Peter the Great
10.
What is the period of sleep when dreams are most likely to occur?
Answer: REM (Rapid Eye Movement)
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Round: Replacement 11
Mathematics
Time: 60 seconds
11.
A truck driver went 350 miles in eight hours. Before noon he averaged 50 miles per hour, but after
noon he averaged only 40 miles per hour. At what specific time did he leave that day?
Answer: 9 a.m.
Time: 60 seconds
12.
What is the period of the following function: f of x equals 3 sine of the quantity 2x plus pi over
three end quantity minus one?
Answer: pi
Time: 45 seconds
13.
If two dice are rolled, what is the probability of rolling so that the sum is either a 4, 5, or 9?
Answer: 11/36, 11 over 36
Fine Arts
14.
Name the architect of the dome of Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome, who is better known as a painter
and sculptor.
Answer: Michelangelo
15.
Name the modern American folk singer and songwriter whose music has a strong note of social
protest, especially during the 1960's when he sang "Blowin' in the Wind," "The Times, They are
A-changing," and "Like a Rolling Stone."
Answer: (Bob) DYLAN
Year In Review
16.
What drug did the journal Science publish a research report indicating that one night's usage kills
brain cells?
Answer: Ecstasy
Source: Newsweek, 7 October 2002: 64.
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Round: Replacement 12
Foreign Language
1.
FRENCH Je n'ai jamais assez d'argent.
GERMAN Ich habe nie genug Geld.
SPANISH Nunca tengo bastante dinero.
Translation: I never have enough money.
Language Arts
2.
What Spanish literary character had a sidekick named Sancho Panza?
Answer: (Don) QUIXOTE
3.
In literature, what is the term for a character who, by contrast, enhances or underscores the
characteristics of another, such as Laertes to Hamlet?
Answer: Foil
4.
Which American novelist typically uses a Southern setting and is known for such stories as "A
Rose for Emily," and "Barn Burning," and the novel THE SOUND AND THE FURY?
Answer: William FAULKNER
Science & Health
5.
What is the term for the space or gap between two adjacent neurons?
Answer: Synapse
6.
What is the chemical formula for propane?
Answer: C3H8 ( C three H eight) or C3H8
7.
Name the brightest star, located in Canis Major, that is visible in the night sky.
Answer: Sirius or dog star
Social Science
8.
What term was applied to President Andrew Jackson's unofficial cabinet?
Answer: Kitchen Cabinet
9.
What two countries did Lord Nelson and the British face at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805?
Answer: France and Spain
10.
What psychologist developed the concept of the hierarchy of needs?
Answer: Maslow
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Mathematics
Time: 30 seconds
11.
Find the equation of the line, in standard form, that passes through the point (0,4) and is parallel to
y equals negative 3 x minus 5.
Answer: 3 x plus y equals 4; 3x + y= 4
Time: 60 seconds
12.
Find the distance between the following two points: (negative 6,3) and (9,negative 4).
Answer: radical 274; the square root of 274
Time: 30 seconds
13.
What is the domain of the function: y equals the square root of the quantity three x minus 1.
Answer: All real numbers greater than or equal to 1/3 or x is greater than or equal to one third.
Fine Arts
14.
Name the Italian Rennaissance artist who painted the goddess of love emerging from the sea on a
shell.
Answer: BOTTICELLI
15.
Which famous American composer wrote movie theme songs such as "Moon River," "Days of
Wine and Roses," and "The Pink Panther?"
Answer: (Henry) MANCINI
Year In Review
16.
What former afternoon talk show host pulled the plug on her magazine in the fall, complaining it no
longer represented her "vision and ideas?"
Answer: (Rosie) O'Donnell
Source: Newsweek, 3 September 2002: 71.
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