2002 NORRIS MIDDLE SCHOOL QUIZBOWL
Round 8
1. Whose castle at EuroDisneyland is called "Le Chateau de la Belle au Bois Dormant"?
Answer: Sleeping Beauty
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2. TWO ANSWERS REQUIRED. US Patent #174,465, granted in 1876, has been called
the most valuable ever issued in the U.S. Western Union turned down its inventor when
he tried to sell them, for $100,000, the patent for his device, invented in a Boston
University laboratory. Name both invention and inventor.
Answer: Telephone, Alexander Graham Bell
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3. Its oxide is the key ingredient added to glass to make crystal of it, but the metal itself is
used to fit together the pieces of stained-glass windows. Name this metal, once
commonly added to gasoline.
Answer: Lead
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4. Sturnutative, Mousy, Cranky, Foolish, Glad, Drowsy, and the M. D., if only there had
been a Roget's handy. Give the collective name of this group of characters, after whom
part of a special Oscar was designed for Disney.
Answer: The Seven Dwarfs
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5. His advice to people in a 1966 lecture was "Turn on, tune in, drop out." Name this
professor, who died in 1996.
Answer: Timothy Leary
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6. Ft. Necessity, Ft. Duquesne, and Ft. Ticonderoga, were the sites of battles during which
war?
Answer: French and Indian War
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7. How many moles of mercurous oxide would have to be decomposed in order to
produce 6 moles of mercury?
Answer: Three moles
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8. Composers use certain Italian terms to express the tempo at which the music should be
played. Arrange the following terms in order, with the fastest one first: adagio, allegro,
andante, largo.
Answer: Allegro, andante, adagio, largo
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9. Before their election, some of our Presidents held high public office. Which Presidents
held the following four positions: (a) Governor of Massachusetts; (b) Governor-General of
the Philippines, 1901-1903; (c) Assistant Secretary of the Navy, 1913-1920; (d) Chairman
of the Relief Commission in Belgium, 1915-1918.
Answer: (a) Coolidge, (b) Taft, (c) Franklin Roosevelt, (d) Hoover
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10. In Hinduism, what is the general shape of the mystical symbol called a mandela?
Answer: Circle
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11. What is the name for the little "sideways happy faces" that people use when in email
or chat groups?
Answer: emoticons
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12. What do we call the winds that meet at the equator in a region called the doldrums?
Answer: Trade winds
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13. The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service is an independent agency that handles
disputes between labor and ...
Answer: Management
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14. The Latin word for "cross" is exactly the same as which word meaning "vital or
decisive point"?
Answer: CRUX
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15. A green film forming naturally on copper or bronze by long exposure is called a:
panacea, patina, panache, pier, or panegyric?
Answer: Patina
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16. This nut, a common snack food, must come from cultivated trees, because the wild
nuts contain enough cyanide to kill anyone not put off by their bitter taste. Name this nut.
Answer: Almond
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17. The airspace over what war-ravaged nation is beginning to reopen, which is good
news since it offers a precious shortcut between Europe and Asia that could save airlines
$130 million in annual fuel and shave 30 minutes off a flight?
Answer: Afghanistan
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18. The distance between the optical center of a lens and its principal focus is called the
what?
Answer: Focal length
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19. The animal order coelenterata, meaning "hollow gut," features which creature: sponge,
jellyfish, crab, starfish, or worm?
Answer: Jellyfish
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20. Titanium dioxide is a major ingredient in the making of which substance: plywood,
asphalt, talcum powder, steel, or white paint?
Answer: White paint
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21. Multiply the length of a U.S. senator's term by the number of stars on the American
flag, and then add the number of permanent members on the U.N. Security Council.
What's the answer?
Answer: 305
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22. Middle Eastern languages are typically written in which direction?
Answer: Right to left
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23. The Greek goddess of dawn was Eos. Name her Roman counterpart.
Answer: Aurora
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24. In which ocean will you find Ellesmere Island?
Answer: Arctic
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25. How do you spell HYDROLOGICALLY?
Answer:
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26. What was the official five-word name of the Soviet Union, of which Russia was one
of fifteen republics?
Answer: Nicholas II
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27. Which noun means an unselfish concern for others: platonism, altruism,
ethnocentrism, or tropism?
Answer: Altruism
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28. Canada became an independent nation when the 19th century British North American
Act united four British colonies, including what was then called Lower and Upper
Canada. Respectively, what are the two current names for Lower and Upper Canada?
Answer: (in order) Ontario and Quebec
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29. What river runs from the Carpathian Mountains to its delta near Gdansk?
Answer: Vistula
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30. After her death, Andromeda was made a constellation by Athena, but she isn't lonely
up there in the Northern Skies -- she's accompanied by constellations named for her Greek
husband and for each of her Ethiopian parents. Name any two of those three
constellations.
Answer: Perseus, Cepheus, Cassiopoeia
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31. Which American poet penned the following lines? "Shake and shake / The catsup
bottle. / None will come, / And then a lot'll."
Answer: Ogden Nash
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32. Penicillin is classified as a bacterium, a virus, an amoeba, or a mold?
Answer: Mold
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33. In a list of the nine planets ranked by mass, Earth is in the middle. Name the three
lightest planets.
Answer: Mercury, Pluto, Mars
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34. Was Miltiades a famous Greek athlete, scholar, general, astronomer, or playwright?
Answer: General
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35. In the song of the musical scale made popular by the Sound of Music, seven notes are
named with two letter words. Three of these are also symbols for chemical elements.
Name any two of these three elements.
Answer: Titanium (Ti), Rhenium (Re), Lanthanum (La)
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36. Who besides Jesus walked on water?
Answer: Peter
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37. This word for any of the ten Arabic number symbols, comes from the Latin word for
finger.
Answer: Digit
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38. What is the least common multiple of 12, 20 and 24?
Answer: 120
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39. Who was the youngest American president ever to win reelection?
Answer: Bill Clinton
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40. What eight-letter word describes an illness so severe that, despite the best in medical
treatment, will cause the death of a person who contracts it?
Answer: Terminal
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41. Drafted by Jefferson and Madison, Calhoun later used them as the basis for his
doctrines of nullification and secession. By what name do we call these State-sponsored
responses to the Alien and Sedition Acts?
Answer: Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
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Instructions: During the last 5 minutes of each match, use the 'Blitz' format with 10 points for each tossup and no bonus.
All answers must be answered without stalling.
Blitz Round - All 10 Point Tossups
U.S. Cities: I'll name three cities. Tell me the state you can find all of them.
42. Port Neches, Port Lavaca, Port Arthur.
Ans: Texas
43. Roseville, Royal Oak, Saginaw.
Ans: Michigan
44. Lafayette, Morgan City, Metairie.
Ans: Louisiana
45. Brunswick, Marietta, Valdosta.
Ans: Georgia
46. Cambridge, Circleville, Chillicothe.
Ans: Ohio
47. Danville, Chesapeake, Manassas.
Ans: Virginia
48. Longmont, Lakewood, Fort Collins.
Ans: Colorado
49. Batavia, Carbondale, Evanston.
Ans: Illinois
50. Angola, Bloomington, West Lafayette.
Ans: Indiana
51. Morris, Rochester, Bloomington.
Ans: Minnesota
Grammar
52. The substantive to which a pronoun refers is called its ...
Ans: Antecedent
53. What is the third person, singular, masculine, reflexive pronoun?
Ans: Himself
54. What kind of clause makes a complete grammatical statement that can stand
alone?
Ans: Independent clause
55. Name both of the pronouns that can be used in either the nominative or the
objective case.
Ans: You, it
Theatre
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56. While the main character was delivering her soliloquy, another actor toward the
rear of the stage was reacting to the speech by making faces and emitting strange
noises, drawing the audience's attention to himself. This is called what?
Ans: Upstaging
57. What two-word phrase describes theater companies that produce a repertoire of
plays during June, July, and August?
Ans: Summer stock
58. To cast an actor in a role based on appearance or previous experience with similar
parts is called what?
Ans: Typecasting
59. Off-Broadway productions are low-budget works performed in modest venues.
What phrase describes highly experimental and sometimes nonprofessional theatrical
productions performed far outside the realms of legitimate theater?
Ans: Off-off-Broadway
Astronomy
60. The symbol for which sign of the Zodiac is similar to the symbol for justice?
Ans: Libra
61. To the nearest year, how long would it take you, traveling at the speed of light, to
reach Proxima Centauri?
Ans: 4 years
62. Although their temperatures are over 4000 degrees C, sunspots appear dark. But
they appear dark only by comparison with the rest of what layer of the Sun's
atmosphere?
Ans: Photosphere
63. What term is used by astronomers for a point of infinite density and no volume?
Ans: Singularity
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