2011
PAGE Academic Bowl
for Middle Grades
Complete Questions
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2011
PAGE Academic Bowl
for Middle Grades
Regional Questions
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2011 PAGE Academic Bowl for Middle Grades
Regionals Pronunciation Guide
Game #
1
Ques.#
3-T
4-B
7-B
8-B
9-B
2
4-T
4-B
5-T
5-B
7-T
9-B
10-T
10-B
3
1-B
2-T
2-B
5-B
6-T
6-B
8-B
9-B
Pronunciation
patella (puh TELL uh)
Des Moines (dih MOYN)
Helena (HELL en uh)
simile (SIMM ih lee)
personification (purr SAHN ih fuh KAY shun)
hyperbole (high PURR buh lee)
metaphor (MET uh for)
Jessye (JESS ee)
gadolinium (GAD uh LINN ee um)
planar (PLANE ur)
Mercator (mur KAY tur)
topographic (TOP uh GRAFF ick)
Sarkozy (sahr KO zee)
Vladimir Putin (VLAD ih meer POOTn)
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (mah MOOD AH ma din ee ZHAHD)
Nouri al-Maliki (NOOR ee al MAL ick ee)
pseudonym (SOOD uh nem)
phishing (FISH ing)
hypothalamus (high po THALL uh muss)
pituitary (pih TOO ih tair ee)
duodenum (DOO uh DEE num)
glucagon (GLOO kuh gahn)
tornadic (tor NAY dick)
atoll (AT tall)
Bedouin (BED uh win)
Kasbah (KAZZ bah)
ensemble (ahn SAHM bl)
viola (vee OH luh)
cello (CHELL oh)
concerto (kun CHAIR toe)
permeable (PURR me uh bl)
osmosis (ahz MO siss)
stomata (sto MAH tuh)
chromosome (KRO muh soam)
Mali (MAH lee)
Atticus (ATTIC us)
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Game #
4
Ques.#
2-B
5-B
6-T
8-B
10-T
10-B
5
2-T
2-B
3-B
4-B
6-T
6-B
9-T
9-B
10-B
6
1-B
3-T
4-B
5-T
5-B
6-T
7-T
9-B
Pronunciation
geologic (jee oh LODGE ick)
epochs (EE pocks)
Eritrea (air ih TREE uh)
Luath (LOO uth)
Bodger (rhymes with lodger)
Tao (rhymes with now)
Mesa (MAY suh)
geneticists (jih NET uh sists)
genotype (JEEN uh type)
phenotype (FEEN uh type)
alleles (uh LEELZ)
homozygous (home oh ZY gus)
heterozygous (HET ur oh ZY gus)
malleability (MAL ee uh BILL ih tee)
ductility (duck TILL ih tee)
ductile (DUCK tul)
viral (rhymes with spiral)
encephalitis (en SEFF uh LIGHT iss)
trypanosomiasis (trih PAN oh so MY uh siss)
tsetse (SEET see)
Hiawassee (high uh WAH see)
bronchi (BRAHNG kee)
pharynx (FAIR inks)
alveoli (al VEE oh lye)
trachea (TRAY kee uh)
tsunami (soo NAHM ee)
polder (POLE dur)
euphemism (YOU fuh mizz um)
personification (purr SAHN ih fuh KAY shun)
alliteration (uh LITT ur RAY shun)
metaphor (MET uh for)
hyperbole (high PURR buh lee)
simile (SIMM uh lee)
oxymoron (AHK see MORE ahn)
commutative (kuh MYOO tuh tiv, or KAHM yoo TAY tiv)
Crimean (cry MEE un)
Mali (MAH lee)
Niger (NYE jr)
geyser (GUY zur)
calcite (CAL sight)
stalactite (stuh LACK tight)
stalagmite (stuh LAG might)
palette (PAL it)
Spinelli (spih NELL ee)
boron (BORE ahn)
yttrium (IT tree um)
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Game #
7
Ques.#
1-T
1-B
2-B
10-T
10-B
TB-1
TB-2
8
1-B
3-T
3-B
6-T
6-B
7-T
9-B
9
2-B
Pronunciation
hieroglyphs (HIGH ro gliffs)
erg (urg)
fjord (FYORD, or fee YORD)
autotrophs (AW toe trohfs)
heterotrophs (HETT ur oh trohfs)
selenium (seh LEEN ee um)
phosphorus (FAHSS fur us)
alkaline (AL kuh linn)
bromine (BROH meen)
apogee (APP uh jee)
perigee (PAIR ih jee)
filigree (FILL uh gree)
cacao (kuh COW)
Danali (dih NAHL ee)
artesian (ar TEASE yun)
impermeable (em PURR me uh bul)
peripheral (pur RIFF ur ul)
Ethernet (EE thur net)
modem (MO dem)
Cartesian (car TEASE yun)
biome (rhymes with my home)
8-B
ectothermic (ECK toe THERM ick)
amniotic (am nee AHT ick)
Reptilia (rep TILL ee uh)
Sri Lanka (sree LANK uh)
TB-1
3-T
4-T
7-T
9-B
rhododendron (ro doe DEN drun)
meningitis (men in JYTE iss)
Richter (RICK tur)
Madeleine L-Engle (MADD uh lin LING ul)
TB-2
2-B
6-T
6-B
Ceres (SERIES)
crystalline (KRISS tuh linn)
amorphous (A MORF us)
plasma (PLAZZ muh)
Kuala Lumpur (koo AHL uh lum POOR)
Accra (ACK ruh)
onomatopoeia (AHN uh MAHT uh PEE uh)
8-B
TB-2
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Game 1
1.
Tossup (10)
PAGE – 2011
Regionals
Q. Spell the second word in the following sentence: The panorama spread out
below him resembled a giant checker board.
A. p a n o r a m a
Bonus (20)
Q. Spell the second word in each of the following sentences:
1. The gadget I bought at Dollar Tree is defective.
2. The penguin in that exhibit seems lonely.
3. The simultaneous outbreaks of fever alarmed the health department.
4. My financial affairs are in good order.
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
2.
Tossup (10)
gadget
penguin
simultaneous
financial
Q. Between which two consecutive integers is the square root of 53?
A. 7 and 8
Bonus (20)
Q. Between which two consecutive integers is each of the following?
1. the square root of 88
2. the square root of 130
3. the square root of 220
4. the square root of 410
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
3.
Tossup (10)
9 and 10
11 and 12
14 and 15
20 and 21
Q. What is the more common name for your patella (puh TELL uh)?
A. kneecap
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the strong connective tissue that holds bones together in moveable
joints?
2. What is the strong connective tissue that holds muscle to bone?
A. 1. ligament
2. tendon
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4.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the capital of New Hampshire?
A. Concord
Bonus (20)
Q. What is the capital of each of the following states?
1. Iowa
2. Montana
3. West Virginia
4. Alabama
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Tossup (10)
Des Moines (dih MOYN)
Helena (HELL en uh)
Charleston
Montgomery
Q. Which of the following is a primary color of pigment: green, red, orange,
purple?
A. red
Bonus (20)
Q. 1.
2.
3.
4.
Colors that are produced by a mixture of pigments are called what?
Colors that cannot be produced by a mixture of pigments are called what?
What is the result when yellow is mixed with red?
Two colors that are directly opposite each other on the color wheel are called
what?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
secondary colors
primary colors
orange
complementary colors
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6.
Tossup (10)
Q. If the area of a square is one-fourth square units, what is the length of a side of
the square?
A. ½ (one-half units)
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. How much larger in area is a square whose side has length 10 than a square
whose side has length 8?
2. How many times larger in area is a square whose side has length 10 than a
square whose side has length 2?
A. 1. 36 (square units)
2. 25
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7.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the name of the figure of speech that is illustrated by the following:
Her teeth are pearls?
A. metaphor
Bonus (20)
Q. Identify the kinds of figures of speech in each of these sentences:
1. Louise and her brother Tony fight like a pair of alley cats.
2. The twisted oak tree frowned at me in a sinister fashion as I was
walking home from the party.
3. I helped my teacher move chairs in our classroom; there must have
been a thousand of them.
4. Lester came out from the barn and looked across an ocean of
grassy meadow.
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
8.
Tossup (10)
simile (SIMM ih lee)
personification (purr SAHN ih fuh KAY shun)
hyperbole (high PURR buh lee) (or exaggeration)
metaphor (MET uh for)
Q. Which Georgian was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964?
A. (Dr.) Martin Luther King (Jr.)
Bonus (20)
Q. Using author, singer, basketball player, and actress, for what is each of the
following Georgia women most famous?
1. Flannery O’Conner
2. Kim Basinger
3. Teresa Edwards
4. Jessye (JESS ee) Norman
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
9.
Tossup (10)
author
actress
basketball player
singer
Q. What element is the most easily magnetized?
A. iron
Bonus (20)
Q. Name two other magnetic elements.
A. nickel (Ni), cobalt (Co) (also accept gadolinium [GAD uh LINN ee um], Gd)
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10.
Tossup (10)
Q. How many personal fouls are needed for a college basketball player to be
ejected from a game?
A. 5
Bonus (20)
Q. How many seconds are placed on the shot clock in …
1. … women’s college basketball at the beginning of each new possession?
2. … professional men’s basketball at the beginning of each new possession?
A. 1. 30
2. 24
TIE-BREAKERS
1.
Q. If f of x equals three x minus four, what is f of two?
A. 2
2.
Q. Identify the verb tense in this sentence: In the future, everyone will be famous
for fifteen minutes.
A. future tense
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Game 2
1.
Tossup (10)
PAGE – 2011
Regionals
Q. What is the largest river in the world by volume?
A. Amazon
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the longest river in the world?
2. What is the sea between Asia and Europe that is the world’s largest inland
body of water?
A. 1. Nile
2. Caspian Sea
2.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the simplified form of the square root of 2 times the square root of 8?
A. 4
Bonus (20)
Q. What is the square root of quantity x raised to the twelfth power times y raised to
the sixteenth power?
A. x raised to the sixth power times y raised to the eighth power
3.
Tossup (10)
Q. Identify the object of the verb in the following sentence: The senior class
unanimously asked Dr. Money to give the commencement address.
A. Dr. Money
Bonus (20)
Q. Identify the object of the verb in each of the following sentences:
1. Load your original, print side down, on the scanner’s glass surface.
2. Yesterday, for the first time ever, I scanned a photograph into my computer.
3. The complexities of my computer always make me feel a bit nervous.
4. The city council unhesitatingly offered the museum $10,000.
A. 1. original
2. photograph
3. me
4. $10,000
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4.
Tossup (10)
Q. To show a map of the nearly spherical earth on a flat, planar (PLANE ur) sheet
of paper requires a projection. Which popular projection was developed in 1569
to allow navigators to follow lines of constant course as straight segments? The
term has initial letter M.
A. Mercator (mur KAY tur) (projection)
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. Which lines on a topographic (TOP uh GRAFF ick) map connect lines of
equal elevation?
2. What feature of a map allows the reader to convert distances on the map to
real distances on the land that the map represents?
A. 1. contour
2. scale
5.
Tossup (10)
Q. Nicolas Sarkozy (sahr KO zee) is President of which country?
A. France
Bonus (20)
Q. From which country is each of the following world leaders?
1. Hugo Chavez
2. Vladimir Putin (VLAD ih meer POOTn)
3. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (mah MOOD AH ma din ee ZHAHD)
4. Nouri al-Maliki (NOOR ee al MAL ick ee)
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
Venezuela
Russia
Iran
Iraq
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6.
Tossup (10)
Q. What term is used for a government without a monarch in which people elect
important officials?
A. republic
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the authoritarian political system in which the central government
controls the economy and society?
2. What is the economic system in which government sets economic goals and
may own some businesses?
A. 1. communism
2. socialism
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7.
Tossup (10)
Q. What name appears on the title pages as the author of all of the Nancy Drew
mystery novels for young readers?
A. Carolyn Keene (a pseudonym [SOOD uh nem]; the novels were written by a
syndicate of many different writers)
Bonus (20)
8.
Tossup (10)
Q. 1.
2.
3.
4.
What is the name of Nancy Drew’s father?
What is his profession?
What is the name of the town they live in?
What is the title of the very first (1930) Nancy Drew mystery?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
Carson Drew
attorney (or lawyer)
River Heights
The Secret of the Old Clock
Q. What is the collective name for all rational and irrational numbers?
A. real (numbers)
Bonus (20)
Q. All or nothing. Tell whether each of the following is true or false.
1. An irrational number squared can be a rational number.
2. The sum of two irrational numbers can be a rational number.
3. A rational number divided by an irrational number can be a rational number.
4. The sum of a rational number and an irrational number can be a rational
number.
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
9.
Tossup (10)
true
true
true
false
Q. What is the clickable text that will take a user to a different website?
A. hyperlink (accept link)
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is unsolicited, unwanted email?
2. What is the process of some shady websites fraudulently trying to acquire
sensitive, personal information by masquerading as legitimate websites?
A. 1. spam
2. phishing (FISH ing)
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10.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the pea-sized gland located just below the hypothalamus (high po
THALL uh muss) that controls growth and development in humans?
A. pituitary (pih TOO ih tair ee)
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the large gland located behind the stomach that releases digestive
enzymes into the duodenum (DOO uh DEE num) and secretes insulin and
glucagon (GLOO kuh gahn)?
2. What is the substance produced by the liver and stored in the gall bladder that
breaks up fat particles?
A. 1. pancreas
2. bile
TIE-BREAKERS
1.
Q. Soil is primarily derived from the breakdown of minerals in rock due to which
of these processes: decaying, weathering, or erosion?
A. weathering
2.
Q. What is the Australian term for a sheep or cattle ranch?
A. station
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Game 3
1.
Tossup (10)
tornado
Q. 1. What is the term for the temperature at which air becomes saturated with
water and condensation begins to form?
2. What is the boundary between two colliding air masses called?
3. If tornadic (tor NAY dick) conditions occur over the ocean, what do we call
the resulting water-filled funnel?
4. What is the minimum wind speed in miles per hour for a tropical storm to be
classified as a hurricane?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
2.
Tossup (10)
Regionals
Q. In the U. S. what do we call a small, violent, whirling, potentially destructive,
low-pressure wind storm that moves in a relatively narrow path over land for a
relatively short time?
A.
Bonus (20)
PAGE – 2011
dew point
front
water spout (not hurricane)
75 mph (also accept 74 mph)
Q. Would you more likely find an atoll (AT tall) in the Andes Mountains, the
Pacific Ocean, or the Great Plains?
A. Pacific Ocean
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. Would you more likely find a Bedouin (BED uh win) in Egypt, Peru, or
Indonesia?
2. Would you more likely find a Kasbah (KAZZ bah) in France, Brazil, or
Algeria?
A. 1. Egypt
2. Algeria
3.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is seventeen-twentieths when expressed as a percent?
A. 85(%)
Bonus (20)
Q. What is each of the following fractions when expressed as a percent?
1. 7/25
2. 11/10
3. 3/50
4. 26/25
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
28(%)
110(%)
6(%)
104(%)
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4.
Tossup (10)
Q. Identify the subject of the following sentence: At eye level in Aisle 5 at Home
Depot there are several styles of kitchen faucets.
A. styles
Bonus (20)
Q. Identify the subject of each of the following sentences:
1. Where do they keep the single-lever faucets?
2. Try to find a faucet that has a spray attachment.
3. Among all of the faucets there, the ones by Delta seem sturdiest.
4. After a while, trying to select the best one made me weary.
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Tossup (10)
they
you
ones
trying
Q. What is the most universally popular musical instrument ever invented?
A. piano
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the term for a large-scale composition for solo piano and orchestra?
2. What is the term for a composition written for a chamber ensemble
(ahn SAHM bl) consisting of a violin, a viola (vee OH luh), and a cello
(CHELL oh)?
3. What is the term for a composition written for a piano, a violin, and a cello
(CHELL oh)?
4. What is the term for a composition written for two violins, a viola
(vee OH luh), and a cello (CHELL oh)?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
piano concerto (kun CHAIR toe)
string trio
piano trio
string quartet
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6.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the term which refers to the diffusion of water molecules through a
selectively permeable (PURR me uh bl) membrane?
A. osmosis (ahz MO siss)
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the double-rod structure in the nucleus of cells that carries the
genetic material?
2. What are the small openings on the undersides of leaves through which
carbon dioxide enters the plant?
A. 1. chromosome (KRO muh soam)
2. stomata (sto MAH tuh)
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7.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the name of Microsoft’s very popular computer spreadsheet application?
A. Excel
Bonus (20)
Q. In Excel …
1. … what is the first math symbol used to create a formula for a particular
cell?
2. … what symbols distinguish one column from another?
A. 1. equals sign (=)
2. alphabetic letters
8.
Tossup (10)
Q. Using north, south, east, and west, in which direction would you go if you go the
shortest distance from Costa Rica to Venezuela?
A. east
Bonus (20)
Q. Using north, south, east, and west, in which direction would you go if you go the
shortest distance from . . .
1. . . . India to Saudi Arabia?
2. . . . Greece to Poland?
3. . . . South Korea to Philippines?
4. . . . Mali (MAH lee) to Sudan?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
9.
Tossup (10)
west
north
south
east
Q. The character named Boo Radley appears in a novel entitled what?
A. To Kill a Mockingbird
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. Who wrote To Kill a Mockingbird?
2. What is the name of the narrator?
3. What is the name of the character who defends Tom Robinson in a courtroom
trial?
4. What is the name of the town drunk who attacks the narrator and her brother
as they walk home from a school Halloween pageant?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
Harper Lee
“Scout” Finch (Jean Louise Finch)
Atticus (ATTIC us) Finch
Bob Ewell
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10.
Tossup (10)
Q. How many angles does a quadrilateral have?
A. 4
Bonus (20)
Q. The angles of a quadrilateral in degrees are x minus ten, x plus five, x plus ten,
and two x minus fifteen. What is the degree measure of the largest angle of the
quadrilateral?
A. 133
TIE-BREAKERS
1.
Q. What do we call masses of frozen gases and rock particles that orbit the Sun?
These cosmic oddities often develop bright tails when they pass near the Sun.
A. comets
2.
Q. With which continent is the Persian Gulf associated?
A. Asia
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Game 4
1.
Tossup (10)
PAGE – 2011
Regionals
Q. Spell the past tense form of the verb hit.
A. h i t
Bonus (20)
Q. Spell the past tense form of each of the following verbs:
1. settle
2. drive
3. seek
4. teach
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
2.
Tossup (10)
settled
drove
sought
taught
Q. What is the most general division of geologic (jee oh LODGE ick) time? These
divisions are then broken down into smaller subdivisions.
A. eras
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. How are eras subdivided?
2. What is the most specific division of geologic (jee oh LODGE ick) time?
A. 1. (into) epochs (EE pocks)
2. periods
3.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the term for the distance around a circle?
A. circumference
Bonus (20)
Q. If the radius of a circle is 4, what is its . . .
1. . . . circumference?
2. . . . area?
A. 1. 8 pi
2. 16 pi (square units)
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4.
Tossup (10)
Q. In Major League Baseball, is the pitchers mound (specifically the pitching
rubber) closer to first base, second base, or home plate?
A. home plate (60.5 ft)
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. Are the bases at first and third in fair territory, foul territory or half in and
half out?
2. Are the foul poles at the ends of the right and left field foul lines in fair
territory, foul territory or half in and half out?
A. 1. fair territory
2. fair territory
5.
Tossup (10)
Q. Which island, whose name begins with an E, is a possession of Chile, lies in the
Pacific Ocean, and is famous for its 887 monumental statues?
A. Easter
Bonus (20)
Q. There are seven countries in the world whose names begin with the letter E.
Name any four of them.
A. Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea (air ih TREE uh)
Estonia
Ethiopia
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6.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the title of the novel in which the central characters are animals named
Luath (LOO uth), Bodger (rhymes with lodger), and Tao (rhymes with now)?
A. The Incredible Journey
Bonus (20)
Q. 1.
2.
3.
4.
Who wrote The Incredible Journey?
Of the three animals, which one is feline?
In what country is the story set?
What is the last name of the family to whom the animals belong and in search
of whom the animals set out on an arduous journey?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
(Sheila) Burnford
Tao (rhymes with now)
Canada
Hunter
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7.
Tossup (10)
Q. Which one of the following is a rational number: the square root of eight, the
square root of nine, or the square root of ten?
A. square root of nine (or 3)
Bonus (20)
Q. All or nothing. Tell whether each of the following is true or false.
1. Negative six divided by three is equivalent to six divided by negative three.
2. Point one bar is a rational number.
3. Four and one-half is an improper fraction.
4. Negative one divided by negative two equals negative one-half.
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
8.
Tossup (10)
true
true
false
false
Q. Lubbock and Amarillo are important cities in which state?
A. Texas
Bonus (20)
Q. Of which state are each of the following pairs important cities?
1. Hattiesburg and Meridian
2. Muncie and Gary
3. Mesa (MAY suh) and Tucson
4. Durham and Winston-Salem
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
9.
Tossup (10)
Mississippi
Indiana
Arizona
North Carolina
Q. For what does U.N. stand in this newspaper headline: Iran bans two U.N.
nuclear inspectors?
A. United Nations
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. For what does SCLC stand in this newspaper headline: Witness: SCLC
board was manipulated?
2. For what does FAA stand in this newspaper headline: FAA proposed fining
regional carriers $2.5M?
A. 1. Southern Christian Leadership Conference
2. Federal Aviation Administration
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10.
Tossup (10)
Q. Geneticists (jih NET uh sists) use the term genotype (JEEN uh type) to refer to
an organism’s genetic makeup. What term do they use to refer to an organism’s
physical makeup?
A. phenotype (FEEN uh type)
Bonus (20)
Q. Which term is used to refer to an organism’s genotype (JEEN uh type) when …
1. … the organism has two identical alleles (uh LEELZ) for a certain trait?
2. … the organism has two different alleles (uh LEELZ) for a certain trait?
A. 1. homozygous (home oh ZY gus)
2. heterozygous (HET ur oh ZY gus)
TIE-BREAKERS
1.
Q. On which continent are the Alps Mountains located?
A. Europe
2.
Q. How many positive factors does 6 have?
A. 4
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Game 5
1.
Tossup (10)
PAGE – 2011
Regionals
Q. Is the point - negative one, negative two - above, on, or below the graph of y
equals negative four x minus six?
A. on
Bonus (20)
Q. Is each of the following points above, on, or below the graph of y equals
negative four x minus six?
1. two, negative fifteen
2. negative one-half, negative four
3. negative one, negative one
4. one-fourth, negative five
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
2.
Tossup (10)
below
on
above
above
Q. What is the property of some metals that allow the metal to be hammered into
various shapes?
A. malleability (MAL ee uh BILL ih tee)
Bonus (20)
Q. What is the property of some metals that allow the metal …
1. …. to be pulled or drawn into a long wire?
2. … to easily transmit heat or electricity through it?
A. 1. ductility (dick TILL ih tee) (accept ductile [DUCK tul])
2. conductivity (accept conduction)
3.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the rare but dangerous disease that is contracted when the associated
bacteria are introduced into the body through a deep cut that has been exposed
to contaminated soil? One common symptom is a stiff, difficult-to-open jaw.
A. Tetanus (also accept lockjaw)
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the disease in warm-blooded animals that is transmitted by animal
bites? It is a viral (rhymes with spiral) disease that causes acute encephalitis
(en SEFF uh LIGHT iss) and is usually fatal if not treated early.
2. What is the sole vector of African sleeping sickness or trypanosomiasis (trih
PAN oh so MY uh siss)?
A. 1. rabies
2. tsetse fly
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4.
Tossup (10)
Q. How many states does Georgia border?
A. 5
Bonus (20)
Q. Each of these Georgia cities lies closest to which state?
1. Sylvania
2. Bainbridge
3. LaGrange
4. Hiawassee (high uh WAH see)
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Tossup (10)
South Carolina
Florida
Alabama
North Carolina
Q. In the sentence The students all bought copies of the new dictionary, the verb
bought passes its action on to a receiver of the action. What is the grammatical
term for this sort of verb?
A. transitive verb
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the term for a verb that does not pass its action on to a receiver of the
action?
2. What is the term for the receiver of the action of a transitive verb?
3. In the phrase had driven, what is the grammatical term for the word had?
4. What is the name of the tense illustrated by the verb phrase had driven?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
intransitive verb
object of the verb (also accept “direct object”)
helping verb or auxiliary verb (accept either)
past perfect
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6.
Tossup (10)
Q. What are the passages that direct air immediately into our lungs?
A. bronchi (BRAHNG kee) (also accept bronchial tubes)
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What are the structures that resemble grapes that are actually tiny sacs of
lung tissue with the purpose of moving gases between air and blood?
2. Which part of the respiratory system lies between the pharynx (FAIR inks)
and the bronchi (BRAHNG kee)?
A. 1. alveoli (al VEE oh lye)
2. trachea (TRAY kee uh) (also accept windpipe)
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7.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is a website, usually maintained by an individual, that contains, among
other things, commentary on a particular subject? The term is derived from the
two-word phrase “web log.”
A. blog
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the most popular social networking site?
2. What is the second most popular such site?
A. 1. Facebook
2. MySpace
8.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the square root of quantity one plus the square root of nine?
A. 2
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the product of two times the square root of three and five times the
square root of three?
2. What is the quotient when the square root of one-ninth is divided by the
square root of one eighty-first?
A. 1. 30
2. 3
9.
Tossup (10)
Q. Would you more likely experience a tsunami (soo NAHM ee) in Iraq, Bolivia,
or Indonesia?
A. Indonesia
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What term is used for a place with water and green plants that is surrounded
by desert?
2. What term is used for an area of land reclaimed from the sea in the
Netherlands?
A. 1. oasis
2. polder (POLE dur)
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10.
Tossup (10)
Q. The sentence, “In a circle of silver something shimmered,” contains an example
of what literary device?
A. alliteration
Bonus (20)
Q. Which four of the following are not considered figures of speech:
1. euphemism (YOU fih mizz um)
2. personification (purr SAHN if fuh KAY shun)
3. alliteration (uh LITT ur RAY shun)
4. metaphor (MET uh for)
5. dialect
6. hyperbole (high PURR buh lee)
7. simile (SIMM uh lee)
8. oxymoron (AHK see MORE ahn)
A. 1.
3.
5.
8.
euphemism
alliteration
dialect
oxymoron
TIE-BREAKERS
1.
Q. What is the part of speech of the word kindly in this sentence: I was helped
across the street by a kindly gentleman.
A. adjective
2.
Q. The Indus River lies on which continent?
A. Asia
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Game 6
1.
Tossup (10)
PAGE – 2011
Regionals
Q. What is negative two times quantity negative four minus negative six?
A. negative four
Bonus (20)
Q. What property of the real numbers is illustrated by each of the following?
1. Three times quantity five plus four equals three times five plus three times
four.
2. Six plus seven equals seven plus six.
3. Ten times quantity three times two equals quantity ten times three all times
two.
4. Eight times five equals five times eight.
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
2.
Tossup (10)
distributive (property)
commutative (kuh MYOO tuh tive) property of addition
associative property of multiplication
commutative (kuh MYOO tuh tive) property of multiplication
Q. Spell the past participle of the verb spring.
A. s p r u n g
Bonus (20)
Q. Spell the past participle of each of the following verbs:
1. lay
2. lie (meaning to recline)
3. burst
4. fly
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
3.
Tossup (10)
laid
lain
burst
f l ow n
Q. Who is considered to be the founder of the modern nursing profession? She
cared for injured British soldiers during the Crimean (cry MEE un) War and she
saved many lives by insisting that army hospitals be kept clean.
A. (Florence) Nightingale
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. Who is credited with the discovery of the first antibiotic, penicillin?
2. Who is credited with the development of a vaccine for the dreaded polio?
A. 1. (Alexander) Fleming
2. (Jonas) Salk
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4.
Tossup (10)
Q. Which continent borders the Mediterranean Sea, the Red Sea, and the Atlantic
Ocean?
A. Africa
Bonus (20)
Q. Which four of the following African countries border the Mediterranean Sea:
Libya, Morocco, Chad, Niger (NYE jr), Mali (MAH lee), Tunisia, Algeria, and
Zambia?
A. Libya
Morocco
Tunisia
Algeria
5.
Tossup (10)
Q. What do we call a hot spring that erupts periodically by sending hot water and
steam into the air?
A. geyser (GUY zur)
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the depression left in the ground when an underground limestone
cave collapses?
2. What is an icicle-like deposit of calcite (CAL sight) hanging from the ceiling
of a cave or the same structure rising from the floor of the cave?
A. 1. sinkhole
2. stalactite (stuh LACK tight) (also accept stalagmite [stuh LAG might], which
rises from the floor of a cave)
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6.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the term for the thin tablet, with a hole for the thumb, upon which
painters place and mix their colors?
A. palette (PAL it)
Bonus (20)
Q. Identify these terms from the field of art:
1. a painting on a wall
2. an artist who produces three-dimensional works
3. the person or object which serves as the subject for an artist
4. a word that literally means “writing with light”
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
mural
sculptor
model
photography
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7.
Tossup (10)
Q. Give the title of the novel in which a boy named Jeffrey Lionel Magee is the
central character?
A. Maniac Magee (by Jerry Spinelli [spih NELL ee])
Bonus (20)
Q. Give the title of the novel in which each of the following is the central character:
1. Katherine (“Kit”) Tyler
2. Janie Johnson
3. Jody Tiflin
4. Cassie Logan
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
8.
Tossup (10)
The Witch of Blackbird Pond (by Elizabeth George Speare)
The Face on the Milk Carton (by Caroline B. Cooney)
The Red Pony (by John Steinbeck)
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (by Mildred D. Taylor)
Q. What is the name of the arm of the Mediterranean Sea between Italy and the
Balkan Peninsula?
A. Adriatic Sea
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the large peninsula in southwest Asia, extending north to south into
the Arabian Sea?
2. What peninsula in southeastern Europe is mostly occupied by the country of
Greece?
A. 1. Arabian Peninsula
2. Balkan Peninsula
9.
Tossup (10)
Q. What do physical scientists call an atom with the same number of protons and a
different number of neutrons from other atoms of the same element?
A. isotope
Bonus (20)
Q. There are 14 elements with a one-letter symbol; identify the ones designated by:
1. H
2. B
3. I
4. Y
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
hydrogen
boron (BORE ahn)
iodine
yttrium (IT tree um)
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10.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is negative seven minus negative ten?
A. 3
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. The high temperature for the year in Thomasville was 97 and the low
temperature for the year was negative 14. How many degrees higher was
the high temperature than the low temperature?
2. The high temperatures in Jacksonville over a 5-day period were the
following: 92, 87, 96, 89, and 91. What was the average high
temperature in Jacksonville over that 5-day period?
A. 1. 111
2. 91
TIE-BREAKERS
1.
Q. On which continent are the Great Plains?
A. North America
2.
Q. If x divided by two equals one-third, what is x?
A. two-thirds
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Game 7
1.
Tossup (10)
PAGE – 2011
Regionals
Q. Would you more likely find hieroglyphs (HIGH ro gliffs) in Australia, Peru, or
Egypt?
A. Egypt
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. Would you more likely find an erg (urg) in the Sahara Desert, in the Amazon
basin, or in the Alps Mountains?
2. Would you more likely find a fjord (fee YORD) in Nigeria, Norway, or
Switzerland?
A. 1. Sahara Desert
2. Norway
2.
Tossup (10)
Q. What simple, common compound is necessary for the continued survival of all
living things? In fact, experts recommend that adult humans drink 8 glasses of
it every day.
A. water
Bonus (20)
Q. What do life scientists call organisms that …
1. … make their own food to survive? Literally, the term means self feeder.
2. … cannot make their own food? Literally, the term means other feeder since
they feed on other organisms.
A. 1. autotrophs (AW toe trohfs)
2. heterotrophs (HETT ur oh trohfs)
3.
Tossup (10)
Q. The sides of a rectangle are two x plus one and x plus ten. What is its perimeter?
A. six x plus twenty two (or twenty two plus six x)
Bonus (20)
Q. If the perimeter of the rectangle is 34, what is the rectangle’s . . .
1. . . . longer dimension?
2. . . . area?
A. 1. 12
2. 60 (square units)
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4.
Tossup (10)
Q. When an Internet browser is first opened it displays a certain page that is usually
set differently on different computers. What is the general name of this page
that automatically loads when a web browser starts up?
A. Home (or homepage or main page)
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the most popular search engine in use today at around 49% usage?
2. What is the leading email service in use at around 31% usage?
A. 1. Google
2. Yahoo
5.
Tossup (10)
Q. Identify the object of a preposition in the following sentence: The oil in the Gulf
of Mexico has caused an ecological disaster.
A. Gulf of Mexico
Bonus (20)
Q. Identify the object of a preposition in each of the following sentences:
1. The huge airliner turned toward the sun as it took off.
2. My three daughters live in Chattanooga.
3. The meanings and uses of English prepositions can be difficult to master.
4. Prepositions normally come before their objects.
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
sun
Chattanooga
prepositions
objects
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6.
Tossup (10)
Q. Complete this literary title: Summer of My . . . (Greene)
A. German Soldier
Bonus (20)
Q. Complete the following literary titles:
1. I Heard the Owl . . . (Craven)
2. Where the . . . Grows (Rawls)
3. The Cat Ate My . . . (Danziger)
4. Island of the Blue . . . (O’Dell)
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
Call My Name
Red Fern
Gymsuit
Dolphins
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7.
Tossup (10)
Q. With which sport is the Old Oaken Bucket associated?
A. football
Bonus (20)
Q. With which sport is each of the following cups associated?
1. Ryder Cup
2. Stanley Cup
3. Davis Cup
4. America’s Cup
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
8.
Tossup (10)
golf
hockey (ice hockey)
tennis
yachting
Q. What term, which begins with the letter R, is used for a person who has had to
flee to another country for safety from disaster or danger?
A. refugee
Bonus (20)
Q. The cold war was an era from the late 1940s to the early 1990s in which two
countries competed for world influence. Name the two countries.
A. United States
Soviet Union
9.
Tossup (10)
Q. If x minus three is less than seven, then x is what?
A. less than 10
Bonus (20)
Q. All or nothing. Tell whether each of the following is true or false if a is less
than b and c is less than zero . . .
1. . . . a plus c is greater than b plus c.
2. . . . a minus c is greater than b minus c.
3. . . . a times c is greater than b times c.
4. . . . a divided by c is greater than b divided by c.
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
false
false
true
true
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10.
Tossup (10)
Q. Identify the element in the following list that is classified as a metal:
phosphorous (FAHSS fur us), selenium (seh LEEN ee um), calcium or arsenic?
A. calcium (soft grey alkaline [AL kuh linn] earth metal)
Bonus (20)
Q. What are the two elements that occur as liquids at the room temperature of 72
degrees Fahrenheit?
A. 1. bromine (BROH meen)
2. mercury
TIE-BREAKERS
1.
Q. What is the maximum height of an orbiting satellite above the earth? Is it
apogee (APP uh jee), perigee (PAIR ih jee), or filigree (FILL uh gree)?
A. apogee
2.
Q. What tropical tree is used to make cocoa and chocolate?
A. cacao (kuh COW)
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Game 8
1.
Tossup (10)
PAGE – 2011
Regionals
Q. Which continent has the third-largest area?
A. North America
Bonus (20)
Q. Answer each of the following questions about North America.
1. Which country has the largest area?
2. Which country has the largest population?
3. What is the highest mountain on the continent?
4. What city has the largest population?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
2.
Tossup (10)
Canada
United States
Mount McKinley (also accept Denali [dih NAHL ee])
Mexico City, Mexico
Q. What is 10% of 20% of 200?
A. 4
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is 60% of one-fourth of 120?
2. 84% of what number is 189?
A. 1. 18
2. 225
3.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is a well that forces fresh water to the surface due to the pressures created
in moving groundwater?
A. artesian (ar TEASE yun) (well)
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What do we call an underground layer of rock or clay through which
groundwater cannot pass?
2. What do we call the upper surface of the zone of saturation of groundwater?
A. 1. impermeable (em PURR me uh bul) (layer)
2. water table
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4.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the term for the result when an artist paints what she sees when she
looks in a mirror?
A. self-portrait
Bonus (20)
Q. Identify the art term for each of the following:
1. a decorative border around a picture to serve as a frame or to provide contrast
between the picture and the frame
2. an art structure consisting of moving parts
3. a heavy, decorated textile fabric used as a wall hanging
4. the style of art that depicts commonplace subjects without sentimentality or
romanticism
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Tossup (10)
mat
mobile
tapestry
realism
Q. What word, beginning with the letter C, refers to a group of words containing a
subject and a verb?
A. clause
Bonus (20)
Q. What words, beginning with the letter C, are indicated by each of the following:
1. The form of a noun or pronoun that indicates its function in the sentence
(Most pronouns have three of these: subjective, objective, and possessive.)
2. The most frequently used punctuation mark in English
3. “Mary and I” in the sentence “Mary and I went to Disney World.”
4. The words “and,” “but,” and “yet”
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
case
comma
compound subject (both words required)
conjunctions (also accept “coordinating conjunctions”)
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6.
Tossup (10)
Q. Which computer peripheral (pur RIFF ur ul) in the home or school allows
nearby computers to access the Internet without a wired connection?
A. (wireless) router
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. Which type of cable must be used for a wired Internet connection?
2. Which peripheral (pur RIFF ur ul) device must first receive the Internet
information before it is passed on to the router?
A. 1. Ethernet (EE thur net)
2. modem (MO dem)
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7.
Tossup (10)
Q. In the Cartesian (car TEASE yun) Coordinate Plane, what is the name of the
point of intersection of the x-axis and the y-axis?
A. origin
Bonus (20)
Q. If x is negative two and y is negative three in which quadrant of the Cartesian
Coordinate Plane is each of the following points. The point whose first
coordinate is . . .
1. . . . x squared and whose second coordinate is y cubed?
2. . . . negative one minus x and whose second coordinate is the absolute value
of y?
3. . . . x plus one and whose second coordinate is y divided by negative three?
4. . . . negative x divided by y and whose second coordinate is y minus x?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
8.
Tossup (10)
Quadrant IV
Quadrant I
Quadrant II
Quadrant III
Q. What is Georgia’s state song?
A. Georgia on My Mind
Bonus (20)
Q. What is Georgia’s state . . .
1. . . . flower?
2. . . . crop?
3. . . . fish?
4. . . . wildflower?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
9.
Tossup (10)
Cherokee Rose
peanut
largemouth bass
azalea
Q. What is the term used by life scientists to refer to an animal’s specific
environment or living space? It has initial letter H.
A. habitat
Bonus (20)
Q. What is the term for …
1. … a group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms?
2. … a leafy roof caused by tall trees?
A. 1. biome (BYE ohm, rhymes with my home)
2. canopy
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10.
Tossup (10)
Q. What did the ancient Romans call their deity who presided over the sea?
A. Neptune
Bonus (20)
Q. Give the names of the Roman deities associated with
1. fire
2. wisdom
3. the underworld
4. the moon and the hunt
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
Vulcan
Minerva
Pluto
Diana
TIE-BREAKERS
1.
Q. With which continent is Hudson Bay associated?
A. North America
2.
Q. How many meters is 1,000 centimeters?
A. 10
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Game 9
1.
Tossup (10)
PAGE – 2011
Regionals
Q. Which one of the following is a linear equation: x times y equals one, y equals
the square root of x, or y equals two x.
A. y equals two x
Bonus (20)
Q. If f is a linear function, f of one equals negative three and f of two equals seven,
what is f of negative one-half?
A. negative eighteen
2.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the aquatic larval stage of an amphibian such as a toad or frog?
A. tadpole (also accept polliwog or pollywiggle)
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the class of ectothermic (ECK toe THEM ick) vertebrates with lungs
and scaly skin? Most lay tough-shelled amniotic (am nee AHT ick) eggs.
These animals can live entirely on land.
2. What influence on alligator eggs determines their sex or gender?
A. 1. reptiles (Reptilia [rep TILL ee uh])
2. (incubation) temperature
3.
Tossup (10)
Q. Spell the word that is pronounced the same as the words that are spelled
s e n s e and s i n c e.
A. c e n t s
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. Spell the word that is pronounced the same as the word that is spelled
s e e n.
2. Spell the word that is pronounced the same as the word that is spelled
p a c e d.
3. Spell the word that is pronounced the same as the word that is spelled
c o r e.
4. Spell the word that is pronounced the same as the word that is spelled
s e l l e r.
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
scene
paste
corps
cellar
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4.
Tossup (10)
Q. Which disease of the body is characterized by the uncontrollable division of body
cells?
A. cancer
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. Which form of cancer is attributed to excessive exposure to ultraviolet light
such as that from the sun or a sunlamp?
2. What is the primary cause of oral or mouth cancer?
A. 1. skin (melanoma)
2. tobacco (cigarettes, cigars, pipes, chewing tobacco, & snuff)
5.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the county seat of the Georgia county of Floyd?
A. Rome
Bonus (20)
Q. What is the county seat of each of the following Georgia counties?
1. Gwinnett
2. Chatham
3. Emanuel
4. Cherokee
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
Lawrenceville
Savannah
Swainsboro
Canton
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6.
Tossup (10)
Q. You may have read a famous coming-of-age novel entitled The Outsiders.
Name the author of this novel.
A. S. E. Hinton
Bonus (20)
Q. Answer these questions about The Outsiders:
1. In what city and state is the novel set?
2. What is the name of the central character?
3. What is the name of the urban gang this character belongs to?
4. What famous American novel does this character read in the course of the
story?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Ponyboy Curtis
Greasers
Gone With the Wind
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7.
Tossup (10)
Q. In music, the key of C major makes use of neither what nor what?
A. sharps (nor) flats
Bonus (20)
8.
Tossup (10)
(both terms required)
Q. 1.
2.
3.
4.
How many flats does the key of B-flat major have?
What major key has one sharp?
How many sharps does the key of D major have?
What major key has three flats?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
two
G major
two
E-flat major
Q. In which body of water is the island of Cyprus?
A. Mediterranean Sea
Bonus (20)
Q. In which body of water is each of the following islands?
1. Fiji
2. Greenland
3. Madagascar
4. Sri Lanka (sree LANK uh)
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
9.
Tossup (10)
Pacific Ocean
Atlantic Ocean
Indian Ocean
Indian Ocean
Q. What do we call any number in a mathematical sequence?
A. term
Bonus (20)
Q. What is the next term in each of the following sequences?
1. 2, 5, 8, 11, ___
2. 8, 4, 0, -4, ___
3. 1, 3, 9, 27, ___
4. 8, 4, 2, 1, ___
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
14
negative eight
81
1/2
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10.
Tossup (10)
Q. Which form of technology allows us to map the ocean floor without ever leaving
the ship?
A. sonar
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. Why can sonar not be used to measure the distance to the moon?
2. Which earlier form of technology allowed us to measure the distance to the
moon before the time when Apollo astronauts left mirrors there to be used
with laser beams from earth?
A. 1. sound waves are not transmitted in space
2. radar
TIE-BREAKERS
1.
Q. What is the grammatical term for a sentence that consists of two independent
clauses that are joined by a comma and a coordinating conjunction?
A. compound sentence
2.
Q. When a writer has two or more characters in a literary work engage in
talk or conversation, the writer is creating what?
A. dialogue
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Tie-Breaker Game 1 PAGE – 2011
1.
Tossup (10)
Regionals
Q. The faces of a prism or pyramid meet in segments called what?
A. edges
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. How many faces does a triangular pyramid have?
2. How many edges does a triangular pyramid have?
A. 1. 4
2. 6
2.
Tossup (10)
Q. Someone leaves an electric ceiling fan running in a closed, unoccupied room.
Does leaving the fan on tend to cool the room, heat the room, or leave the
temperature of the room unaffected?
A. heats the room (lost heat from the fan motor)
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. A carpenter is helping to construct a new home. The temperature of his
surroundings is 95 degrees. An electric fan is blowing the hot air onto him
and he feels the cooling effect. What causes this phenomenon?
2. What thermal effect does leaving the refrigerator door open have to the
kitchen?
A. 1. The evaporation of the sweat (on his skin causes a heat loss.)
2. It heats the room. (Faster than if the door were closed.)
3.
Tossup (10)
Q. Spell the last word in the following sentence: Near the rhododendron (ro doe
DEN drun) bush I planted an azalea.
A. a z a l e a
Bonus (20)
Q. Spell the last word in each of the following sentences:
1. By the time I returned home, I had a guilty conscience.
2. A good proofreader masters the art of punctuation.
3. We all are now aware of the dangers of taking in too much caffeine.
4. I found his manner to be repugnant.
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
conscience
punctuation
caffeine
repugnant
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4.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the class of drugs used to treat strep throat, bacterial meningitis (men in
JYTE iss), and bacterial pneumonia?
A. antibiotics
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. For which type of infection are antibiotics frequently prescribed and are
totally ineffective? The common cold is one example.
2. What is the main problem in the health world caused when people being
prescribed a 10-day course of antibiotics for a bacterial infection take the
medicine for fewer than 10 days?
A. 1. viral
2. Some resistant bacteria will survive and reproduce, thus leading to a resistant
strain of the bacteria (or words to this effect)
5.
Tossup (10)
Q. Which one of the following Georgia towns is below the Fall Line: Blairsville,
Tifton, or Cedartown?
A. Tifton
Bonus (20)
Q. Does each of the following Georgia towns lie on, below, or above the Fall Line?
1. Columbus
2. Waycross
3. Covington
4. Statesboro
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
on
below
above
below
At this point, ask that the score be given and give coaches the opportunity to make substitutions.
6.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is x if x divided by one-half equals four x minus ten?
A. 5
Bonus (20)
Q. What is x in each of the following equations?
1. Five x plus six equals negative x plus twenty-four.
2. Quantity x plus one divided by quantity x minus one equals three.
A. 1. 3
2. 2
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7.
Tossup (10)
Q. The year 2010 seems to have been an unusually bad year for large earthquakes
centered near densely populated areas. Which earthquake intensity scale is most
commonly used?
A. Richter (RICK tur) (scale) (also known as the local magnitude scale)
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. If a second earthquake has a magnitude of two greater than another
earthquake, is the energy released in the second earthquake 10 times, 100
times, or 1000 times greater?
2. What is the term for a large fracture in rocks where rock structures are
broken and the different rock sections usually move very slowly along either
side of the break?
A. 1. 1000 (times greater)
2. fault (NOT fault line, that is the surface trace of a fault)
8.
Tossup (10)
Q. Who was the sculptor who created the famous larger-than-life size statue of
David as a shepherd?
A. Michelangelo
Bonus (20)
Q. Identify the artists who created each of the following:
1. the statue entitled “The Thinker”
2. the painting known as the Mona Lisa
3. the image of George Washington that appears on our one-dollar bills
4. the pop art image of multiple Campbell Soup cans
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
9.
Tossup (10)
(Auguste) Rodin (roe DAN)
Leonardo (da Vinci)
(Gilbert) Stuart
(Andy) Warhol
Q. As a child, you may have read a well-known book entitled Where the
Wild Things Are. Who wrote this book?
A. (Maurice) Sendak
Bonus (20)
Q. Identify the author of each of the following books:
1. Stuart Little
2. A Wrinkle in Time
3. James and the Giant Peach
4. Little House in the Big Woods
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
(E. B.) White
(Madeleine) L’Engle ([MADD uh lin] LING ul)
(Roald) Dahl
(Laura Ingalls) Wilder
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10.
Tossup (10)
Q. Which South American country borders Central America?
A. Colombia
Bonus (20)
Q. What are the four South American countries that border Colombia?
A. Brazil
Ecuador
Peru
Venezuela
TIE-BREAKERS
1.
Q. What term is used for the mass imprisonment and slaughter of European Jews
and others by German Nazis during World War II?
A. Holocaust
2.
Q. How many cups is 24 fluid ounces?
A. 3
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Tie-Breaker Game 2 PAGE – 2011
1.
Tossup (10)
Regionals
Q. Identify the subject of the following sentence: Owing to budgetary restrictions,
the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off.
A. light
Bonus (20)
Q. Identify the subject of each of the following sentences:
1. Throughout the course of American history, there has been prejudice against
the Indians.
2. The Badlands National Park, located in southwestern South Dakota, is near
the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
3. Not far away one can visit the Mount Rushmore National Memorial.
4. This granite mountain features huge sculptures of four presidents.
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
2.
Tossup (10)
prejudice
The Badlands National Park
one
mountain
Q. What is the term for a piece of rock, smaller than a planet, but larger than a
meteoroid, that orbits the sun?
A. asteroid
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the largest asteroid, at about 600 miles across?
2. If Pluto is not a planet, and not an asteroid, then how is it now classified?
A. 1. Ceres (SERIES)
2. a dwarf planet
3.
Tossup (10)
Q. “U.S., England tie 1-1” was a newspaper headline last summer. With what sport
did this tie occur?
A. soccer
Bonus (20)
Q. 1.
2.
3.
4.
In which tournament did this occur?
In what country did it take place?
How many countries made it to this tournament?
Which country won the tournament?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
World Cup
South Africa
32
Spain
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4.
Tossup (10)
Q. Which of these terms apply to the number 2/5 (two-fifths): irrational, rational,
integer, real?
A. rational, real (both answers are required)
Bonus (20)
Q. All or nothing. Order these numbers from smallest to largest: 4/9 (four-ninths),
3/7 (three-sevenths), 5/11 (five-elevenths), and 3/8 (three-eighths).
A. 3/8, 3/7, 4/9, 5/11
5.
Tossup (10)
Q. Which state borders Tennessee and Ohio?
A. Kentucky
Bonus (20)
Q. Which state borders each of the following?
1. Arkansas and Illinois
2. Wyoming and Minnesota
3. Nebraska and New Mexico
4. Maryland and North Carolina
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
Missouri
South Dakota
Colorado
Virginia
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6.
Tossup (10)
Q. What do we call solids that form geometric shapes in regular patterns? Salt,
sugar, snow, and quartz are just a few examples.
A. crystals or crystalline (KRISS tuh linn) (solids)
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the term for solids that do not form regular patterns such as plastic,
rubber, and glass?
2. What is a gas-like state of matter consisting of a mixture of free electrons and
atoms that are stripped of their electrons?
A. 1. amorphous (A MORF us) (solids)
2. plasma (PLAZZ muh)
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7.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the purpose of the “Back” button or the left arrow icon shown by your
Internet browser?
A. return to the previous page or website
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the purpose of the “Reload” button shown by your Internet browser?
2. For what does “com” stand in a URL?
A. 1. To look at the current page again in case new information has been posted.
2. commercial
8.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the capital of Russia?
A. Moscow
Bonus (20)
Q. What is the capital of each of the following countries?
1. Jamaica
2. Malaysia
3. Ghana
4. Netherlands
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
9.
Tossup (10)
Kingston
Kuala Lumpur (koo AHL uh lum POOR)
Accra (ACK ruh)
Amsterdam
Q. Name the Danish storyteller who is famous for having written “The Emperor’s
New Clothes,” “The Red Shoes,” and “The Steadfast Tin Soldier.”
A. (Hans Christian) Andersen
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. In “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” what character has both the perception and
the courage to cry out that the emperor is wearing nothing at all?
2. In “The Little Mermaid,” for what is the mermaid willing to give up her
life in the sea and her identity as a mermaid?
3. What is the title of the Andersen tale in which a young woman’s royal
identity is established by a test of her physical sensitivity?
4. What is the title of the Andersen tale about a transformation into a lovely
swan?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
a child
a human soul and the love of a human prince (or words to this effect)
“The Princess and the Pea”
“The Ugly Duckling”
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10.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the sum of 28 and 37?
A. 65
Bonus (20)
Q. 1.
2.
3.
4.
What is the sum of 129 and 387?
What is the difference of 186 and 128?
What is the product of 28 and 37?
What is the quotient of 703 and 37?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
516
58
1,036
19
TIE-BREAKERS
1.
Q. On which continent is the Great Dividing Range?
A. Australia
2.
Q. Words like “hiss” and “sizzle” are examples of what literary device?
A. onomatopoeia (AHN uh MAHT uh PEE uh)
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2011
PAGE Academic Bowl
for Middle Grades
Semi-finals Questions
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2011 PAGE Academic Bowl for Middle Grades
Semi-finals Pronunciation Guide
Game #
1
Ques.#
1-B
7-T
7-B
8-T
8-B
9-T
9-B
TB-1
2
2-T
2-B
3-B
7-T
7-B
8-B
10-B
3
1-T
5-B
6-T
6-B
7-B
9-T
10-B
4
1-B
4-T
5-B
6-B
7-B
9-T
10-B
Pronunciation
ornithologist (or nih THAHL uh jist)
metaphor (MET uh for)
simile (SIMM ih lee)
hyperbole (high PURR buh lee)
personification (purr SAHN ih fuh KAY shun)
czars (ZAHRZ)
Myanmar (mee YAHN mahr)
Rossini (raw SEEN ee)
Seville (suh VILL)
Danube (DAN yoob)
oratorio (or uh TOR ee oh)
contiguous (kun TIGG you us)
glaciers (GLAY shurz)
Barringer (BAIR in jur)
caldera (call DARE uh)
Mazama (muh ZAHM uh)
radicand (radd ih CAND)
Alpheus (AL fee us)
macabre (muh KAHB)
Netanyahu (NET n YAH hoo)
Hamid Karzai (HAH mid KARZ eye)
Juneau (JUNE oh)
hydrosphere (HIGH droh sfeer)
mosque (MAHSK)
Aphrodite (AFF ro DYTE ee)
Ares (AIR eez)
Hephaestus (huh FESS tus)
Wikipedia (wick ih PEED ee uh)
Galapagos (guh LAHP uh gohss)
electrolysis (ee leck TRAHL uh siss)
Tanzania (tan zuh NEE yuh)
equiangular (ee kwih ANG you lur)
viscosity (viss KAHSS ih tee)
isthmus (ISS muss)
peninsula (puh NINN shuh luh)
Louvre (LOOV)
endothermic (ENN doe THERM ick)
vertebrate (VURR tuh brayt)
Bremen (BRIM in)
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Game #
5
Ques.#
1-T
2-T
3-T
3-B
4-T
5-B
6-B
7-B
8-B
10-B
6
2-B
4-T
4-B
6-B
7-B
8-B
9-B
TB-1
7
2-T
2-B
4-B
5-B
8-T
9-B
TB-2
8
3-B
6-B
7-T
7-B
Pronunciation
congruent (kun GREW ent)
meiosis (my OH siss)
mitosis (my TOE siss)
Tybee (TYE bee)
Sapelo (SAPP uh lo)
lymphocytes (LIMM fo sights)
azure (AZH er)
decrescendo (dee kruh SHINN doe)
diminuendo (dih MINN you ENN doe)
staccato (stuh KAH toe)
metronome (MET ruh nome)
NIMH (NIMM)
Mekong (MEE kawng)
meander (mee ANN dur)
anomaly (uh NAHM uh lee)
enclave (AHN klayv)
Laos (LAH ohs)
Latvia (LATT vee uh)
Lesotho (luh SO toe)
Malay (muh LAY)
apartheid (uh PAR tide)
soluble (SAHL you bul)
retinol (RETTON ahl)
plagiarism (PLAY jur izz um)
tundra (TUNN druh)
mesa (MAY suh)
parabolic (pair uh BAHL ick)
elliptical (uh LIP tih kul)
Coriolis (kor ee OH liss)
troposphere (TROPE oh sfeer)
pica (PYKE uh)
font (FAHNT)
Greenwich (GRIN itch)
Georges Braque (ZHORZH BRACK)
Caracas (kuh ROCK us)
Monrovia (mun RO vee uh)
metamorphism (met uh MORF izz um)
vulcanization (VUL kuh nih ZAY shun)
Mogadishu (mo guh DEE shoo)
Seine (SAYN)
Tiber (TYE bur)
hexadecimal (HEX uh DESS ih mul)
Cisneros (siss NAIR ohss)
Esperanza Cordera (ess spur AHN zuh kor DARE uh)
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Game #
9
Ques.#
2-B
3-T
3-B
4-B
9-T
9-B
10-T
10-B
10
1-T
5-B
7-T
7-B
8-T
TB-1
TB-1
1-T
2-T
4-T
4-B
6-T
6-B
9-T
9-B
10-T
TB-2
Pronunciation
exothermic (EX oh THERM ick)
endothermic (ENN doe THERM ick)
isothermal (EYE so THERM ul)
dermatology (durr muh TAHL uh jee)
dermatitis (durr muh TIGHT iss)
hygiene (HIGH jeen)
hygienic (high JENN ick)
rhinoplasty (RYE no PLASS tee)
Hokkaido (hah KYE doe)
Archaea (ar KEY uh)
Eukarya (yoo KAHR ee uh)
prokaryotes (pro CARRY oats)
Shimon Peres (she MOAN PAIR ezz)
Dmitri Medvedev (duh MEE tree MEDD vuh dev)
Muammar al-Ghaddafi (MOO uh mahr al guh DAHF ee)
taiga (TYE guh)
fermata (fur MAHT uh)
fetus (FEET us)
placenta (pluh SENT uh)
umbilical (un BILL ick ul)
uterus (YOO tur us)
amniotic (am nee AHT ick)
planar (PLANE ur)
Nautilus Pompilius (NAW till us pahm PILL ee us)
Cartesian (car TEASE yun)
massacre (MASS uh kur)
lithium (LITH ee um)
francium (FRANN see um)
alkali (AL kuh lye)
(Dimitri) Mendeleev ([dih MEET tree] men duh LAY uf)
sphygmomanometer (sfig moh muh NAHM uh tur)
diastolic (dye uh STAHL ick)
metamorphose (met uh MORF ohss)
deciphered (dih SYFE urd)
Hispaniola (hiss span YO luh)
Caribbean (kuh RIB ee un, or KAIR ih BEE un)
shogun (SHOW gun)
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Game #
TB-2
Ques.#
1-B
4-B
6-B
7-B
9-T
9-B
Pronunciation
Belize (beh LEEZ)
Washaun Ealey (WAH shawn EEL ee)
Rafael Nadal (RAH fay el nuh DAHL)
Hyderabad (HIDE ur uh bad)
Mumbai (MUMM bye)
Guadalajara (gwah duh luh HAR uh)
Bordeaux (bor DOUGH)
Nantes (NAHNTZ)
Parthenon (PARTH ih nahn)
Doric (DOR ick)
Ionic (eye AHN ick)
Corinthian (kuh RINTH ee un)
florine (FLOOR een)
Technetium (tech NEE shee um)
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Game 1
1.
Tossup (10)
PAGE – 2011
State Semi-Finals
Q. Biology is the study of living things. What is the more modern two-word term
for biology. Its initials are LS.
A. Life Science
Bonus (20)
Q. What do we call a scientist who studies exclusively …
1. … plants?
2. … birds?
A. 1. botanist
2. ornithologist (or nih THAHL uh jist)
2.
Tossup (10)
Q. Spell the plural form of the noun piano.
A. p i a n o s
Bonus (20)
Q. Spell the plural form of each of the following nouns:
1. knife
2. maid-of-honor
3. moose
4. tomato
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
3.
Tossup (10)
knives
m a i d s - o f - h o n o r (hyphens must be a part of the spelling)
moose
tomatoes
Q. What is the product of two raised to the fifth power and two raised to the
negative fourth power?
A. 2
Bonus (20)
Q. What is the quotient when quantity three raised to the negative first power plus
two raised to the negative second power is divided by four raised to the negative
second power and the result is expressed as a fraction in lowest terms?
A. 28/3 (twenty-eight thirds)
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4.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the fairly common disease characterized by abnormally high levels of
glucose in the blood?
A. diabetes
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the main organ involved with diabetes?
2. Which body chemical enables body cells to use glucose for energy?
A. 1. pancreas
2. insulin
5.
Tossup (10)
Q. Which state borders Mississippi and Florida?
A. Alabama
Bonus (20)
Q. Which state borders each of the following?
1. Louisiana and New Mexico
2. Michigan and Iowa
3. Idaho and Nebraska
4. Delaware and Ohio
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
Texas
Wisconsin
Wyoming
Pennsylvania
At this point, ask that the score be given and give coaches the opportunity to make substitutions.
6.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the area of seabed around a large landmass where the sea is relatively
shallow when compared to the open ocean? This area is geologically part of the
crust of the landmass.
A. continental shelf
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the warm ocean current that flows parallel to the eastern U. S.
coastline toward Newfoundland, Canada?
2. Which direction does the Western U. S. offshore current flow?
A. 1. Gulf Stream
2. south (or, from north to south)
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7.
Tossup (10)
Q. Identify the kind of figure of speech illustrated by this sentence: The cell phone
is an evil plague visited upon mankind.
A. metaphor (MET uh for)
Bonus (20)
Q. Identify the kinds of figures of speech illustrated by each of the
following sentences:
1. My grandmother’s house is like a dark cave.
2. I had to drive forever to get to my brother’s mountain cabin.
3. When I came inside, my friend’s dog winked at me delightedly.
4. My life is a melodramatic soap opera.
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
8.
Tossup (10)
simile (SIMM ih lee)
hyperbole (high PURR buh lee) (also accept exaggeration)
personification (purr SAHN ih fuh KAY shun)
metaphor (MET uh for)
Q. In which country were the former emperors called czars (ZAHRZ)?
A. Russia
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What country was formerly named Persia?
2. What country was formerly named Burma?
A. 1. Iran
2. Myanmar (mee YAHN mahr)
9.
Tossup (10)
Q. Rossini’s (raw SEEN ees) The Barber of Seville (suh VILL) is an example of
what form of musical composition?
A. opera
Bonus (20)
Q. Identify the form of musical composition represented by each of the
following:
1. “The Stars and Stripes Forever”
2. “On the Beautiful Blue Danube” (DAN yoob)
3. Messiah
4. The Nutcracker
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
march
waltz
oratorio (or uh TOR ee oh)
ballet
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10.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the sum of the absolute value of negative six and the absolute value of
negative four?
A. 10
Bonus (20)
Q. All or nothing. Tell whether each of the following is true or false.
1. The square root of quantity a squared plus b squared equals a plus b.
2. The square root of quantity a squared equals the absolute value of a.
3. If the absolute value of a equals the absolute value of b, then a equals b.
4. If the absolute value of a is less than the absolute value of b, then a is less
than b.
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
false
true
false
false
Reader – the team must get all of
these answers correct. Do not
reveal the answers if the first team
misses any – the other team has an
opportunity to answer the entire
question.
TIE-BREAKERS
1.
Q. How many contiguous (kun TIGG you us) states does the United States have?
A. 48
2.
Q. Which of the following is the better approximation of pi: 3.14, 3.24, or 3.34?
A. 3.14
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Game 2
1.
Tossup (10)
PAGE – 2011
State Semi-Finals
Q. What is Georgia’s state bird?
A. brown thrasher
Bonus (20)
Q. What is Georgia’s state . . .
1. . . . vegetable?
2. . . . reptile?
3. . . . tree?
4. . . . fruit?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
2.
Tossup (10)
Vidalia sweet onion
gopher tortoise
live oak
peach
Q. What do geologists say caused the depressions in the earth where the modern
day Great Lakes exist?
A. glaciers (GLAY shurz) (and their enormous weight)
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What caused the depression that formed Crater Lake in south-central
Oregon?
2. What caused the large depression in the earth near Flagstaff, Arizona, that
has been privately owned by the Barringer (BAIR in jur) family since 1903?
A. 1. a (collapsed) volcano (or the caldera [call DARE uh] of Mt. Mazama [muh
ZAHM uh])
2. a meteor impact
3.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the cube root of 125?
A. 5
Bonus (20)
Q. Answer these questions about the fourth root of 17.
1. What is its radicand (radd ih CAND)?
2. What is its index?
3. Is it closer to 2, 3, or 4?
4. Is it rational, irrational, or imaginary?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
17
4
2
irrational
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4.
Tossup (10)
Q. What result will a common calculator like a TI-73 give following these key
presses: 23 – 2 x 10 enter? (Read: “twenty-three, minus, two times ten,
enter.”)
A. 3
Bonus (20)
Q. What result will be obtained from these key presses?
1. open parentheses, five plus seven, close parentheses, squared, enter
2. five, exclamation point, enter
A. 1. 144
2. 120
5.
Tossup (10)
Q. Identify the subject of the following sentence: Men and women are different.
A. men, women (both words required)
Bonus (20)
Q. Identify the subject of each of the following sentences:
1. There are more women enrolled in colleges at the present.
2. This situation will most likely have important consequences for our
workforce.
3. Are colleges able to offer the academic programs that women desire?
4. Please write a paper about your findings on college populations.
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
women
situation
colleges
you
At this point, ask that the score be given and give coaches the opportunity to make substitutions.
6.
Tossup (10)
Q. Mary is x years old. Sally is three years older than twice Mary’s age. How old
is Sally?
A. two x plus three (or three plus two x)
Bonus (20)
Q. If Joe is two years older than Mary, . . .
1. . . . what is the sum of the age of the three?
2. . . . how much older is Sally than Joe?
A. 1. four x plus five (or five plus four x)
2. x plus one (or one plus x)
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7.
Tossup (10)
Q. Who wrote the mystery novels entitled The House with a Clock in Its Walls and
The Treasure of Alpheus (AL fee us) Winterborn? This writer is best known for
his gothic mystery novels for young adult readers.
A. (John) Bellairs
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the name of the boy who is the central character in The House with a
Clock in Its Walls and several other novels by Bellairs?
2. What is the name of the boy who is the central character in The Treasure of
Alpheus (AL fee us) Winterborn and three other novels by Bellairs?
3. What is the name of the boy who is the central character in The Mummy, the
Will, and the Crypt and seven other novels by Bellairs?
4. What famous American illustrator provided covers and frontispieces for all
but three of Bellairs’ 15 young-adult novels? This artist is well known for his
sense of the macabre (muh KAHB) in his black-and-white drawings.
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
8.
Tossup (10)
Lewis Barnavelt
Anthony Monday
Johnny Dixon
(Edward) Gorey
Q. From which country is Fidel Castro?
A. Cuba
Bonus (20)
Q. From which country is each of the following leaders?
1. Saxby Chambliss
2. Benjamin Netanyahu (NET n YAH hoo)
3. Hamid Karzai (HAH mid KARZ eye)
4. Gordon Brown
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
9.
Tossup (10)
United States
Israel
Afghanistan
United Kingdom
Q. What is the term for the sprouting of the embryo from a seed?
A. germination
Bonus (20)
Q. What is the general class of chemicals applied to farmland to kill or control …
1. … unwanted plants or weeds?
2. … unwanted bugs or parasites?
A. 1. herbicides
2. pesticides
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10.
Tossup (10)
Q. Pierre is the capital of which state?
A. South Dakota
Bonus (20)
Q. Of which state is each of the following the capital?
1. Little Rock
2. Salem
3. Juneau (JUNE oh)
4. Jackson
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
Arkansas
Oregon
Alaska
Mississippi
TIE-BREAKERS
1.
Q. How many lines does a sonnet contain?
A. fourteen
2.
Q. If angles M and N are complementary and angle M has degree measure 44, what
is the degree measure of angle N?
A. 46
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Game 3
1.
Tossup (10)
PAGE – 2011
State Semi-Finals
Q. What is the geological term for all of the water on the earth’s surface?
A. hydrosphere (HIGH droh sfeer)
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the percentage of the earth’s surface covered by water? Is it about
60% , 70%, or 80%?
2. What percentage of the earth’s water is salt water? Is it about 82%, 88%, or
97%?
A. 1. 70%
2. 97%
2.
Tossup (10)
Q. If the difference of nine and T is negative twenty, what is T?
A. 29
Bonus (20)
Q. The sum of two numbers is 35 and the difference of the two numbers is 5. What
is the smaller of the two numbers?
A. 15
3.
Tossup (10)
Q. Identify the object of the verb in the following sentence: Ice skaters have always
welcomed freezing weather.
A. weather
Bonus (20)
Q. Identify the object of the verb in each of the following sentences:
1. I brought Mother the cookbook she asked for.
2. In any confrontation, one party will usually belittle the other.
3. Instead of getting our news from the radio, today we often get our
information from the Internet.
4. Eventually in our job search, Jody and I stopped sharing leads.
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
cookbook
other
information
sharing
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4.
Tossup (10)
Q. In 1979 the World Health Organization declared that a dreaded disease had been
eradicated from the earth. What was this highly contagious viral disease
characterized by fever, weakness, and skin eruptions that form scabs and leave
disfiguring scars?
A. smallpox
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What was the mild, but similar disease that provided an immunity to
smallpox?
2. Who was the English country doctor, who in 1796, used material from sores
caused by the milder disease to immunize against smallpox?
A. 1. cowpox
2. (Edward) Jenner
5.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the title of the head of the Roman Catholic Church?
A. Pope
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What capital city is a holy city for Christians, Jews, and Muslims?
2. What is the term for a place of worship for followers of Islam?
A. 1. Jerusalem
2. mosque (MAHSK)
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6.
Tossup (10)
Q. The religion of the ancient Romans was more or less adopted from the religion
of the Greeks, but the Romans generally changed the names of the gods and
goddesses. Name the Roman deity who corresponded to the Greek goddess
Aphrodite (AFF ro DYTE ee).
A. Venus
Bonus (20)
Q. Give the Roman equivalents of these Greek deities:
1. Ares (AIR eez)
2. Hades (HAY deez)
3. Zeus
4. Hephaestus (huh FESS tus)
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
Mars
Pluto
Jupiter (also accept Jove)
Vulcan
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7.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the most comprehensive online encyclopedia?
A. Wikipedia
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. Who are the editors of Wikipedia (wick ih PEED ee uh)?
2. What does wiki-wiki mean in Hawaiian?
A. 1. the users
2. quick-quick
8.
Tossup (10)
Q. The absolute value of seven equals the absolute value of what other integer?
A. negative seven
Bonus (20)
Q. What is the sum of the solutions of the equation the absolute value of quantity
two x minus two equals five?
A. 2
9.
Tossup (10)
Q. The Galapagos (guh LAHP uh gohss) Islands lie off of the coast of which
continent?
A. South America
Bonus (20)
Q. Which four of the following South American countries border the Pacific
Ocean: Peru, Bolivia, Uruguay, Paraguay, Chile, Ecuador, Colombia, and
Venezuela?
A. Peru
Chile
Ecuador
Colombia
10.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is defined as the rapid combination of a fuel with oxygen to produce heat,
light, and new chemical substances? The requested term has initial letter C.
A. combustion
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the use of electricity to break a compound into elements or simpler
compounds?
2. What is iron oxide commonly known as?
A. 1. electrolysis (ee leck TRAHL uh siss)
2. rust
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TIE-BREAKERS
1.
Q. What type of star is our Sun?
A. white dwarf
2.
Q. Which Central American country borders South America?
A. Panama
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Game 4 PAGE – 2011
1.
Tossup (10)
State Semi-Finals
Q. Which country borders Uruguay and Chile?
A. Argentina
Bonus (20)
Q. Which country borders each of the following?
1. Iraq and Afghanistan
2. Switzerland and Hungary
3. Tanzania (tan zuh NEE yuh) and Somalia
4. Venezuela and Uruguay
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
2.
Tossup (10)
Iran
Austria
Kenya
Brazil
Q. Identify the preposition in the following sentence: During the intermission, I and
my friend compared impressions.
A. During
Bonus (20)
Q. Often what we consider to be common prepositions function as other parts of
speech, usually as adverbs. Of the eight prepositions in the following list, which
four can never function as anything other than prepositions:
1. above
5. near
2. off
6. from
3. between
7. throughout
4. during
8. among
A. 3.
4.
6.
8.
3.
Tossup (10)
between
during
from
among
Q. For what does BP stand in this newspaper headline: Station owners want
assistance from BP?
A. British Petroleum
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. For what does HUD stand in this newspaper headline: HUD gives housing
funds for HIV patients?
2. For what does LPGA stand in this newspaper headline: Kerr romps to LPGA
title win?
A. 1. Housing and Urban Development
2. Ladies Professional Golf Association
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4.
Tossup (10)
Q. What kind of triangle has angles of degree measures 60 and 60?
A. equilateral (also accept isosceles, acute, or equiangular [ee kwih ANG you lur])
Bonus (20)
Q. An equilateral triangle has sides of length 2. What is the . . .
1. . . . height of the triangle?
2. . . . area of the triangle?
A. 1. square root of 3 (units)
2. square root of 3 (square units)
5.
Tossup (10)
Q. Which state of matter has no definite shape; however, it does have a definite
volume?
A.
Bonus (20)
liquid
Q. 1. What is the property of liquids characterized by an inward pull among its
outside molecules? The formation of water beads on a leaf can be explained
this way.
2. What is the term that refers to a liquid’s resistance to flow?
A. 1. surface tension
2. viscosity (viss KAHSS ih tee)
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6.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is a body of land smaller than a continent that is surrounded by water
called?
A. island
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is a narrow piece of land that connects two larger pieces of land called?
2. What is a piece of land that is surrounded by water on three sides called?
A. 1. isthmus (ISS muss)
2. peninsula (puh NINN shuh luh)
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7.
Tossup (10)
Q. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is located in what city?
A. New York City
Bonus (20)
Q. In what city is each of these art museums located:
1. The High Museum of Art
2. The Tate Gallery
3. The Louvre (LOOV)
4. The Museum of Modern Art
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
8.
Tossup (10)
Atlanta, Georgia
London, England
Paris, France
New York City
Q. If negative two x is less than negative ten, x must be what?
A. greater (bigger or larger) than five
Bonus (20)
Q. All or nothing. Tell whether each of the following is true or false if a is less
than b.
1. a squared is less than b squared.
2. a divided by b is always less than one.
3. a minus b is negative.
4. b2 – a2 is always positive.
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
9.
Tossup (10)
false
false
true
false
Reader – the team must get all of these
answers correct. Do not reveal the
answers if the first team misses any –
the other team has an opportunity to
answer the entire question.
Q. To what am I referring? They are endothermic (ENN doe THERM ick),
vertebrate (VURR tuh brayt), egg-laying animals with feathers. Most of them
can fly.
A. birds
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What do we call the thick-walled part of a bird’s stomach that squeezes and
grinds partially digested food?
2. What is the organ between a bird’s mouth and stomach used for storing food
after swallowing?
A. 1. gizzard
2. crop (or craw)
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10.
Tossup (10)
Q. Stories such as “The Twelve Dancing Princesses,” “Rumpelstiltskin,”
and “Red Riding Hood” were collected from rural folk and popularized by two
German brothers whose last name was what?
A. Grimm (Jacob and Wilhelm)
Bonus (20)
Q. Complete the titles of these other stories collected in Grimms’ Fairy Tales:
1. “The Bremen (BRIM in) Town . . .”
2. “The Elves and the . . .”
3. “. . . and Gretel”
4. “. . . and the Seven Dwarfs”
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
Musicians
Shoemaker
Hansel
Snow White
TIE-BREAKERS
1.
Q. What mark of punctuation appears at the end of a declarative sentence?
A. period
2.
Q. What is the title held by kings of Iran?
A. shah
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Game 5
1.
Tossup (10)
PAGE – 2011
State Semi-Finals
Q. What kind of quadrilateral has four congruent (kun GREW ent) sides and four
right angles?
A. square
Bonus (20)
Q. What kind of quadrilateral is each of the following?
1. has exactly one pair of parallel sides
2. has two pairs of parallel sides
3. has 4 congruent sides and two pairs of parallel sides
4. has 2 pairs of parallel sides and 4 right angles
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
2.
Tossup (10)
trapezoid
parallelogram
rhombus
rectangle (also accept square)
Q. What is the process of cells whereby chromosome cells separate and are
distributed to two different cells? The number of chromosomes is reduced in
half to form sex cells–sperm and egg.
A. meiosis (my OH siss) (NOT mitosis [my TOE siss])
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the process by which a cell nucleus grows, prepares to divide, and
then divides into two identical cells?
2. What is the segment of DNA on a chromosome that codes for a specific trait?
A. 1. mitosis (my TOE siss)
2. gene
3.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the northernmost of Georgia’s barrier islands?
A. Tybee (TYE bee)
Bonus (20)
Q. Which four of the following are Georgia barrier islands: St. Mary’s, Darien,
Blackbeard, Skidaway, Fox, Sapelo (SAPP uh lo), Sea, McIntosh?
A. Blackbeard
Skidaway
Sapelo
Sea
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4.
Tossup (10)
Q. What are white blood cells that distinguish between different kinds of pathogens?
The requested term has initial letter L.
A. lymphocytes (LIMM fo sights)
Bonus (20)
Q. Lymphocytes come in two major types referred to by letters of the alphabet.
1. Which type identifies and distinguishes one type of pathogen from another?
2. Which type actually produces proteins that help destroy pathogens?
A. 1. T cells (accept just T)
2. B cells (accept just B)
5.
Tossup (10)
Q. Give the term for the part of speech that describes or modifies a noun or
pronoun.
A. adjective
Bonus (20)
Q. Identify the four words in the following sentence that function as adjectives:
Sailing over the azure (AZH er) waves, Sarah experienced the wild joy that
seems to follow the fulfillment of a long-held dream.
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
Sailing
azure
wild
long-held
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6.
Tossup (10)
Q. In music, what is the term for the distance from one tone to the next tone of the
same letter name?
A. octave
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. Give either of the terms that mean gradually getting softer.
2. Give the term that means “separated” or “detached”—indicating a slight
pause between the melodic tones.
3. What is the term for an open note with a stem?
4. What is the term for the kind of musical clock used to set the rate of speed of
a musical composition?
A. 1. decrescendo (dee kruh SHINN doe) or
diminuendo (dih MINN you ENN doe) (accept either)
2. staccato (stuh KAH toe)
3. half note
4. metronome (MET ruh nome)
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7.
Tossup (10)
Q. Who wrote the famous short story entitled “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and
Mr. Hyde”?
A. (Robert Louis) Stevenson
Bonus (20)
Q. Identify the author of each of the following literary works:
1. The Red Pony
2. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
3. Bridge to Terabithia
4. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (NIMM)
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
8.
Tossup (10)
(John) Steinbeck
(Mildred D.) Taylor
(Katherine) Paterson
(Robert C.) O’Brien
Q. On which continent is Mount Everest located?
A. Asia
Bonus (20)
Q. On which continent is each of the following located?
1. Saint Lawrence River
2. Sahara Desert
3. Rhine River
4. Mekong (MEE kawng) River
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
9.
Tossup (10)
North America
Africa
Europe
Asia
Q. What is the quotient of ten x cubed and five x?
A. two x squared
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the sum of two x squared minus six x plus ten and three x squared
plus seven x minus eight?
2. What is two x minus three quantity squared?
A. 1. five x squared plus x plus two
2. four x squared minus twelve x plus nine
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10.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the large drainage basin in the central U. S.? It is essentially bordered
by Canada to the north, the Gulf of Mexico to the south, the Rocky Mountains
to the west, and the Appalachian Mountains to the east?
A. Mississippi River (drainage basin)
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the term for a curve in a mature stream?
2. What is the broad, flat valley floor caused by a curved, mature stream?
During rainy periods this area may become covered with water.
A. 1. meander (mee ANN dur)
2. floodplain
TIE-BREAKERS
1.
Q. What is the gas that is most responsible for the greenhouse effect on Earth?
A. carbon dioxide (or CO2)
2.
Q. What mark of punctuation is normally used to separate an introductory
dependent clause from the independent clause?
A. comma
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Game 6
1.
Tossup (10)
PAGE – 2011
State Semi-Finals
Q. Identify the pronoun in the following sentence: Has anyone seen Harold lately?
A. anyone
Bonus (20)
Q. Identify the pronoun in each of the following sentences:
1. Some of the pie is missing.
2. The students picked up their bookbags and left the room.
3. The dean herself delivered the commencement address.
4. Please come to our house after the program.
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
2.
Tossup (10)
Some
their
herself
our
Q. What is an organ of aquatic animals that is used for removing oxygen from the
water?
A. gill
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the internal organ of a fish that allows it to remain at a certain depth
without exerting much energy?
2. What is the unusual structural anomaly (uh NAHM uh lee) of the heads of
flatfishes, like flounder, halibut, and sole?
A. 1. swim bladder (fish maw, air bladder, gas bladder)
2. eyes on the same side of their heads (adults)
3.
Tossup (10)
Q. Which one of the following is a linear equation: y times x equals one, y equals x
squared, or y equals x?
A. y equals x
Bonus (20)
Q. Answer these questions about the linear equation two y plus three x equals six.
1. What is y when x is negative two?
2. What is x when y is three?
3. What is y when x is four-thirds?
4. What is x when y is three-halves?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
6
0
1
1
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4.
Tossup (10)
Q. Which one of the following countries is an enclave (AHN klayv):
Laos (LAH ohs), Latvia (LATT vee uh), or Lesotho (luh SO toe)?
A. Lesotho (luh SO toe)
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the name of the federation of states in Southeast Asia on the Malay
(muh LAY) Peninsula and the island of Borneo?
2. In which country was apartheid (uh PAR tide) once practiced?
A. 1. Malaysia
2. South Africa
5.
Tossup (10)
Q. In which city does the professional football team known as the Steelers play its
home games?
A. Pittsburgh
Bonus (20)
Q. I will give you a professional team’s sport and nickname. You tell me in which
city they play their home games.
1. ice hockey - Blues
2. baseball - Indians
3. men’s basketball - Rockets
4. women’s basketball - Dream
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
St. Louis
Cleveland
Houston
Atlanta
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6.
Tossup (10)
Q. Which disease, common in early sailors, was caused by a lack of Vitamin C in
their diets?
A. scurvy
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What class of vitamins is common in modern energy drinks? They are water
soluble (SAHL you bull).
2. Which vitamin is fat-soluble and, among other things, helps your eyes adjust
to light when you come inside from the bright outdoors? It is also known as
retinol (RETTON ahl).
A. 1. B (B6, B12, B3, B9)
2. A
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7.
Tossup (10)
Q. If the narrator of the novel you are reading refers to himself or herself as “I,” the
novel is said to be narrated from what point of view?
A. first person
Bonus (20)
Q. Give the literary term for each of the following:
1. a poem that tells a story
2. a work in which the story is presented by actors who impersonate the
characters in the story
3. a humorous five-line poem of the sort that begins, “There was an old man
from Nantucket”
4. literary theft, or passing off the work of someone else as one’s own work
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
8.
Tossup (10)
narrative poem
drama (also accept a play)
limerick
plagiarism (PLAY jur izz um)
Q. What term is used for partly decayed plant matter, found in bogs, that is used for
fuel and fertilizer?
A. peat
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the substance from tree bark that is used in turning hides into
leather?
2. What word, beginning with the letter T, is a broad, dry, treeless plain in the
high latitudes?
A. 1. tannin
2. tundra (TUNN druh)
9. Tossup (10)
Q. What are the large sections of land that are relatively flat and have been uplifted
by the forces beneath in the earth? The term has initial letter P.
A. plateau
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is an isolated flat-topped hill with steep sides and usually found in
landscapes with horizontal strata? They are common in the southwestern US.
2. Which type of mountain chain is formed when rock layers are squeezed from
opposite sides? The rock layers buckle and overlap as they are pushed
upwards.
A. 1. mesa (MAY suh)
2. folded (mountains)
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10.
Tossup (10)
Q. What are polygons that form the sides of a solid called?
A. faces
Bonus (20)
Q. What is each of the following solids?
1. a solid with one circular base
2. a solid with 2 congruent circular bases
3. a solid with a base that is a polygon and the other faces are triangles
4. a solid with two congruent bases that lie in parallel planes and the other faces
are rectangles
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
cone
cylinder
pyramid
prism
TIE-BREAKERS
1.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the shape of the orbits of the eight planets about the sun? Is it parabolic
(pair uh BAHL ick), circular, or elliptical (uh LIP tih kul)?
A. elliptical
2.
Q. What state is known as the Keystone State?
A. Pennsylvania
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Game 7
1.
Tossup (10)
PAGE – 2011
State Semi-Finals
Q. What is the term for all points in the plane that are the same distance from a
given point?
A. circle
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the name of the given point referred to in the tossup?
2. What term is given to the distance across a circle that passes through the
given point?
A. 1. center (of the circle)
2. diameter
2.
Tossup (10)
Q. As air masses move south in the Northern Hemisphere, the rotation of the earth
causes them to be turned westward. By what name is this effect known? The
term has initial letter C.
A. Coriolis (kor ee OH liss) (Effect)
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What do we call the narrow wind belts occurring near the top of the
troposphere (TROPE oh sfeer) where trade winds and prevailing easterlies
meet prevailing westerlies?
2. What are the convection currents occurring during the daytime caused by the
land being warmed more than the adjacent sea?
A. 1. jet streams
2. sea breezes (NOT land breezes)
3.
Tossup (10)
Q. Which one of the following words should not normally be capitalized?
Germans, Idaho, Wednesday, parsonage, Valentine’s, Havana, Kodak, Jupiter
A. parsonage
Bonus (20)
Q. According to standard usage, which four words in the following sentence should
be capitalized: Last summer my family traveled out West, where we saw the
Rocky Mountains.
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
Last
West
Rocky
Mountains
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4.
Tossup (10)
Q. What do we call the sliding icon to the side of a word processing document that
allows the writer to move quickly from page to page?
A. scroll bar
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What do we call a complete set of characters represented by one type set or
type face? Examples are pica (PYKE uh) and elite.
2. What is a style of printing type having letters that slant to the right?
A. 1. font (FAHNT)
2. italic
5.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the line of 0° longitude from which east and west locations are
measured?
A. Prime Meridian
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. Through which city does the Prime Meridian pass?
2. What is the common name for 0° latitude?
A. 1. Greenwich (GRIN itch) (United Kingdom)
2. equator
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6.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the mathematical relationship between the pressure applied to a fixed
amount of a gaseous substance and its volume? Is it a direct proportion, an
inverse proportion, or a joint proportion?
A. inverse (proportion)
Bonus (20)
Q. What is the type of relationship that exists between the variables …
1. … temperature and pressure in a fixed amount of gas?
2. … depth and pressure for a deep-sea diver?
A. 1. direct (proportion)
2. direct (proportion)
7.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the square root of 13, squared?
A. 13
Bonus (20)
Q. What is the square root of 192 divided by the square root of 48?
A. 2
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8.
Tossup (10)
Q. Georges Braque (ZHORZH BRACK) and Pablo Picasso were the founders of
the modern art movement known as what?
A. Cubism
Bonus (20)
Q. With what art style or movement is each of the following associated:
1. (Claude) Monet (moe NAY)
2. (Gustave) Courbet (koor BAY)
3. (Salvadore) Dali (DAH ly)
4. (Eugene) Delacroix (duh lah KWAH)
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
9.
Tossup (10)
Impressionism
Realism
Surrealism
Romanticism
Q. Berlin is the capital of which country?
A. Germany
Bonus (20)
Q. Of which country is each of the following the capital?
1. Bern
2. Canberra
3. Caracas (kuh ROCK us)
4. Monrovia (mun RO vee uh)
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
10.
Tossup (10)
Switzerland
Australia
Venezuela
Liberia
Q. Many children have delighted in a series of stories collected under the title “Just
So Stories.” These include the stories entitled “The Elephant’s Child” and “The
Cat that Walked by Himself.” Who wrote the “Just So Stories”?
A. (Rudyard) Kipling
Bonus (20)
Q. Complete these titles from the “Just So Stories”:
1. “How the Rhinoceros . . .”
2. “How the Camel . . .”
3. “How the Whale . . .”
4. “How the Leopard . . .”
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
Got His Skin
Got His Hump
Got His Throat
Got His Spots
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TIE-BREAKERS
1.
Q. In what city did Anne Frank write her famous diary?
A. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (Holland)
2.
Q. The process of altering rock by heat and pressure is which of the following:
erosion, metamorphism (met uh MORF izz um), or vulcanization (VUL kuh nih
ZAY shun)?
A. metamorphism
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Game 8
1.
Tossup (10)
PAGE – 2011
State Semi-Finals
Q. Spell the plural possessive form of the noun wife.
A. w i v e s ’
Bonus (20)
Q. Spell the plural possessive form of each of these nouns:
1. child
2. medium
3. sheep
4. brother-in-law
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
2.
Tossup (10)
Q.
children’s
media’s
sheep’s
b r o t h e r s - i n - l a w ’ s (must contain the hyphens)
When water molecules in an open container escape into the air unnoticeably, we
call that process evaporation. What is the term for a more rapid escape of water
molecules from the surface of the water as well as from bubbling within the
container?
A. boiling
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. Does water in an open container on the stove in Denver, Colorado, boil at
100 degrees, 105 degrees or 95 degrees Celsius?
2. Which layer of a container of water placed in a freezer will freeze first—the
top, middle, or the bottom?
A. 1. 95° C
2. top (denser, slightly warmer water will sink to the bottom)
3.
Tossup (10)
Q. On what body of water is Cairo, Egypt?
A. Nile River
Bonus (20)
Q. On what body of water is each of the following cities?
1. Mogadishu (mo guh DEE shoo), Somalia
2. Paris, France
3. Rome, Italy
4. Memphis, Tennessee
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
Indian Ocean
Seine (SAYN) River
Tiber (TYE bur) River
Mississippi River
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4.
Tossup (10)
Q. In which city is the College World Series of baseball held each year?
A. Omaha (Nebraska)
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. Which university won the NCAA baseball championship last year?
2. Which university did they beat in the championship series?
A. 1. South Carolina
2. UCLA
5.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the denominator of the fraction when 80% is written as a fraction in
lowest terms?
A. 5
Bonus (20)
Q. What is the denominator when each of the following percents is written as a
fraction in lowest terms?
1. 55%
2. 96%
3. 22%
4. 90%
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
20
25
50
10
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6.
Tossup (10)
Q. What are the only digits in the binary number system?
A. zero and one
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. How many “digit” symbols are necessary for the hexadecimal (HEX uh
DESS ih mul) number system?
2. Approximately how many bytes compose a megabyte?
A. 1. 16 (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D, E)
2. one million (actually 2 raised to the 20th power)
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7.
Tossup (10)
Q. You may have read a short coming-of-age novel entitled The House on Mango
Street, by a Mexican-American writer. What is this writer’s name?
A. (Sandra) Cisneros (siss NAIR ohss)
Bonus (20)
Q. Answer these questions about The House on Mango Street:
1. What is the name of the narrator?
2. In what city is the story set?
3. What is the name of the narrator’s friend of her own age who uses boys as a
means of escaping from her abusive father?
4. The narrator determines to escape from her dangerous neighborhood. What
does she promise herself that she will do once she leaves?
A. 1. Esperanza Cordero (ess spur AHN zuh kor DARE uh)
(accept Esperanza only, if necessary)
2. Chicago, Ill.
3. Sally
4. She will come back to try to rescue those she has left behind (or words to this
effect)
8.
Tossup (10)
Q. What are the components in our blood that are essentially cell fragments and
that aid in the forming of blood clots after a skin cut?
A. platelets
Bonus (20)
Q. Platelets and red blood cells are two components of blood. What are the other
two?
A. 1. white blood cells
2. plasma
9.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the sum of one-fourth and five-sixths when expressed as a fraction in
lowest terms?
A. 13/12
Bonus (20)
Q. In answering each of the following questions, express your answer as a fraction
in lowest terms?
1. What is the sum of one-sixth and one-eighth?
2. What is the difference of three-fourths and one-tenth?
3. What is the product of twelve twenty-fifths and fifteen-fourths?
4. What is the quotient of four-thirds and two-ninths?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
seven twenty-fourths
thirteen-twentieths
nine-fifths
6
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10.
Tossup (10)
Q. What term is used for a local form of a language?
A. dialect
Bonus (20)
Q. What is the official language of each of the following countries?
1. Brazil
2. Colombia
3. Greece
4. Egypt
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
Portuguese
Spanish
Greek
Arabic
TIE-BREAKERS
1.
Q. The words quickly, where, and somewhat are examples of what part of speech?
A. adverb
2.
Q. Literary characters known as the White Rabbit and the Mad Hatter appear in a
book with what title?
A. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (or, simply, Alice in Wonderland)
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Game 9
1.
Tossup (10)
PAGE – 2011
State Semi-finals
Q. If one angle of a triangle has degree measure 93, how many acute angles does it
have?
A. 2
Bonus (20)
Q. I will give you the degree measures of 2 angles of a triangle. Is the third angle
acute, right, or obtuse?
1. 23 and 66
2. 35 and 55
3. 47 and 44
4. 52 and 41
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
2.
Tossup (10)
obtuse
right
acute
acute
Q. What is the measure of the average energy of random motion of particles of
matter? The requested term has initial letter T.
A. temperature
Bonus (20)
Q. Indicate whether the following change of matter is exothermic (EX oh THERM
ick), endothermic (ENN doe THERM ick), or isothermal (EYE so THERM ul).
1. melting of an iceberg
2. the burning of trees in a forest fire
A. 1. endothermic
2. exothermic
3.
Tossup (10)
Q. The words dermatology (durr muh TAHL uh jee) and dermatitis (durr muh
TIGHT iss) derive from a Greek word meaning what?
A. skin
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. The words neural and neurology derive from a Greek word meaning what?
2. The words biology and biography derive from a Greek word meaning what?
3. The words hygiene (HIGH jeen) and hygienic (high JENN ick) derive from a
Greek word meaning what?
4. The words rhinoplasty (RYE no PLASS tee) and rhinoceros derive from a
Greek word meaning what?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
nerve
life
health
nose
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4.
Tossup (10)
Q. Vancouver Island is a part of which country?
A. Canada
Bonus (20)
Q. Each of the following islands is part of which country?
1. Kodiak
2. Sardinia
3. Hokkaido (hah KYE doe)
4. Corsica
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Tossup (10)
United States
Italy
Japan
France
Q. Under which drop-down menu would you find commands to allow you to save a
computer document? Choose from Edit, File, Format, or Tools.
A. File
Bonus (20)
Q. What is the command for …
1. … saving a website address for future reference?
2. … saving an amended document under another name?
A. 1. Bookmark (or, add to favorites)
2. Save As (if Save is the answer ask for more specific information)
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6.
Tossup (10)
Q. The well-known novel Charlotte’s Web was written by whom?
A. (E. B.) White
Bonus (20)
Q. Answer these questions about Charlotte’s Web:
1. What is the name of the pig who is a central character?
2. What is the name of the little girl who saves the pig?
3. What is the name of the rat?
4. In whose barn do Charlotte and the other animals live?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
Wilbur
Fern (Arable)
Templeton
Zuckerman’s (Homer Zuckerman is Fern’s uncle.)
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7.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the predominante language of the county of Guatemala?
A. Spanish
Bonus (20)
Q. Which four of the following are Romance languages: English, Japanese, Italian,
Portuguese, Chinese, French, Spanish, or Arabic?
A. Italian
Portuguese
French
Spanish
8.
Tossup (10)
Q. What statistical term refers to the difference of the greatest value and the least
value in a data set?
A. range
Bonus (20)
Q. Answer these questions about this data set: 1, 1, 1, 2, 3, 4.
What is its . . .
1. . . . mean?
2. . . . median?
3. . . . mode?
4. . . . range?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
9.
Tossup (10)
2
1.5
1
3
Q. In recent years a more general classification of living things has been added to
the taxonomy. It is more general than Kingdom and includes Bacteria, Archaea
(ar KEY uh), and Eukarya (yoo KAHR ee uh). What is it?
A. Domain
Bonus (20)
Q. In which domain would you find …
1. … cats, birds, and fish?
2. … single-celled organisms that lack a nucleus like prokaryotes (pro CARRY
oats)?
A. 1. Eukarya (yoo KAHR ee uh)
2. Bacteria
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10.
Tossup (10)
Q. From which country is Shimon Perez (she MOAN PAIR ezz)?
A. Israel
Bonus (20)
Q. From which country is each of the following world leaders?
1. Dmitry Medvedev (duh MEE tree MEDD vuh dev)
2. Juan Carlos
3. Mummar al-Ghaddafi (MOO uh mahr al guh DAHF ee)
4. Johnny Isakson
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
Russia
Spain
Libya
United States
TIE-BREAKERS
1.
Q. Of which element is the mineral graphite composed?
A. carbon
2.
Q. In which country would you find an autobahn?
A. Germany
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Game 10
1.
Tossup (10)
PAGE – 2011
State Semi-finals
Q. Would you more likely find a taiga (TYE guh) (spell t a i g a) in Russia,
Venezuela, or India?
A. Russia
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What term is used for a narrow ridge of coral, rock, or sand near the surface
of water?
2. What is the name of the arm of the Arabian Sea between Saudi Arabia and
Iran?
A. 1. reef
2. Persian Gulf
2.
Tossup (10)
Q. Many words can be used as more than one part of speech. What determines the
part of speech of a word?
A. the way in which it is used in a given sentence (or words to this effect)
Bonus (20)
Q. Identify the part of speech of the word ranch in each of these sentences:
1. My aunt and uncle ranch a large spread in Wyoming.
2. I’d like to live and work on a ranch someday.
3. Perhaps I’ll be able to construct a ranch house.
4. I’d really like to own a ranch in Texas.
.
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
3.
Tossup (10)
verb
noun
adjective
noun
Q. What is the common name for the solid form of carbon dioxide?
A. dry ice
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the process whereby dry ice changes directly into its gaseous form?
2. What is the process whereby water droplets collect on the outside of a glass
of iced tea?
A. 1. sublimation
2. condensation
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4.
Tossup (10)
Q. If you roll a die, what is the probability that you get a prime number?
A. 1/2
Bonus (20)
Q. A box contains five red balls, seven orange balls, and three green balls. If one
ball is randomly removed what is the probability that it is . . .
1. . . . an orange ball?
2. . . . is not green?
3. . . . is red?
4. . . . is either red or green?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Tossup (10)
7/15
12/15 or 4/5
5/15 or 1/3
8/15
Q. If one begins at middle C on the piano and moves up six keys, counting both
black and white keys, what is the designation of the key one lands on?
A. F-sharp or G-flat (accept either)
Bonus (20)
Q. 1.
2.
3.
4.
What effect does the sharp sign have upon a note?
What effect does the musical sign called a fermata (fur MAHT uh) have?
What is the name of the basic five-line grid on which the notes are written?
What is the name of the symbol which, placed at the beginning of a line of
music, fixes the pitches of the lines of the grid on which it appears?
A. 1. It raises the pitch of that note by a semitone (or half-step or half-tone)
(or words to that effect).
2. It indicates that the note over which it appears is to be held, or prolonged,
longer than its normal value (or words to that effect).
3. staff
4. clef
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6.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the largest state, by area, that borders the Gulf of Mexico?
A. Texas
Bonus (20)
Q. Which four states border, but are not surrounded by, the Pacific Ocean?
A. Alaska
California
Oregon
Washington
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7.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the ropelike structure that connects the fetus (FEET us) to the placenta
(pluh SEN Tuh) and supplies oxygen and nutrients to the fetus (FEET us)?
A. umbilical (um BILL ick ul) cord
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. At what stage of development does a human embryo get classified as a fetus?
2. What is the fluid-filled enclosure that surrounds and protects the embryo and
fetus while in the uterus (YOO tur us)?
A. 1. after eight weeks of development (or at the ninth week)
2. amniotic (am nee AHT ick) sac
8.
Tossup (10)
Q. What term is a closed planar (PLANE ur) figure whose sides are segments that
intersect only at their endpoints?
A. polygon
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. In which type of polygon do all of the sides have the same length and all of
the angles have the same degree measure?
2. What is a polygon called that is not convex?
A. 1. regular (also accept equilateral)
2. concave
9.
Tossup (10)
Q. In the sport of boxing for what does TKO stand?
A. Technical Knockout (when the referee or other judges determine that one fighter
cannot continue the match)
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. How long must a fighter remain on the canvas and unable to stand before the
referee declares a knockout?
2. What is the length of a round of professional boxing?
1. 10 seconds (10 count)
2. 3 minutes
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10.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the term for a person, place, or thing in a narrative that suggests
meanings beyond its literal sense?
A. symbol
Bonus (20)
Q. Give the literary term for each of the following:
1. a narrative that depicts events, characters, or places that could not exist in the
real world
2. a scene relived in a character’s memory
3. an indication of events to come in a narrative
4. the time and place of a story
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
fantasy
flashback
foreshadowing
setting
TIE-BREAKERS
1.
Q. A mollusk found in the Pacific and Indian Oceans has a distinctive outside shell
that grows in the form of an exponential spiral. Its scientific name is Nautilus
Pompilius (NAW till us pahm PILL ee us); what is its common name?
A. chambered nautilus
2.
Q. What is the largest country in the world?
A. Russia
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Tie-Breaker 1
1.
Tossup (10)
PAGE – 2011
State Semi-Finals
Q. Through which quadrants of the Cartesian (car TEASE yun) Coordinate Plane
does the line whose equation is x equals ten pass?
A. Quadrants I and IV (both answers are necessary)
Bonus (20)
Q. From each of the following characteristics of lines tell whether the slope of the
line is zero, positive, negative, or undefined.
1. The line is vertical.
2. The line is rising from left to right.
3. The line is horizontal.
4. The line is falling from left to right.
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
2.
Tossup (10)
undefined
positive
zero
negative
Q. Spell the second word in the following sentence: The massacre (MASS uh
kur) at the Battle of Little Bighorn is notorious in the history of the American
West.
A. m a s s a c r e
Bonus (20)
Q. Spell the second word in each of the following sentences:
1. My patience is about to wear thin.
2. The patients on the fourth floor are all in critical condition.
3. The rein I always use with this saddle needs repair.
4. The reign of Queen Victoria extended from 1837 until 1901.
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
3.
Tossup (10)
patience
patients
rein
reign
Q. How many separate pieces of leather are sewn together to make a baseball
cover?
A. 2
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. How many separate pieces of leather are sewn together to make a football?
2. How high off the ground is the crossbar on the football goal posts?
A. 1. 4
2. 10 ft
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4.
Tossup (10)
Q. What do we call the metals in the periodic table classified in Group 1 from
lithium (LITH ee um) to francium (FRANN see um)?
A. alkali (AL kuh lye) (metals)
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. Who is credited with the development of the periodic table?
2. There are 18 groups in the periodic table. What 2-word term do we use to
refer to the elements in Group 18, which have a very low chemical activity.
A. 1. (Dmitri) Mendeleev ([dih MEET tree] men duh LAY uf)
2. noble gases
5.
Tossup (10)
Q. Which country borders Portugal and France?
A. Spain
Bonus (20)
Q. Which country borders each of the following?
1. Honduras and Costa Rica
2. Denmark and Austria
3. Egypt and Ethiopia
4. Ecuador and Chile
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
Nicaragua
Germany
Sudan
Peru
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6.
Tossup (10)
Q. What does the instrument called a sphygmomanometer (sfig moh muh NAHM
uh tur) measure? A nurse wraps a cuff around the upper arm and pumps air into
the cuff until the blood flow through the artery is stopped. As the pressure is
released, pulse and other measures are taken.
A. blood pressure
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the common name for high blood pressure?
2. What is the type of pressure which is the lowest occurring during each heart
beat cycle?
A. 1. hypertension
2. diastolic (dye uh STAHL ick)
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7.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the slope of the line two y minus eight x equals thirteen?
A. 4
Bonus (20)
Q. Answer these questions about the line y plus x equals ten.
1. What is the slope of any line parallel to it?
2. What is the slope of any line perpendicular to it?
A. 1. negative one
2. one
8.
Tossup (10)
Q. “AP Analysis: Economic stress is easing more slowly” was a recent newspaper
headline. For what does AP stand?
A. Associated Press
Bonus (20)
Q. “GBI probe sought in DUI arrest of Gwinnett County Commission chairman”
was a recent newspaper headline.
1. For what does GBI stand?
2. For what does DUI stand?
A. 1. Georgia Bureau of Investigation
2. Driving Under the Influence
9.
Tossup (10)
Q. One of the benefits of reading is the expansion of one’s vocabulary. What is the
meaning of the word metamorphose (met uh MORF ohss) in this sentence
from A Wrinkle in Time: “You can’t go on changing my name each time I
metamorphose (met uh MORF ohss)”?
A. metamorphose: to change (as if by magic) in appearance (or words to this
effect)
Bonus (20)
Q. What is the meaning of each of the indicated words in these sentences from A
Wrinkle in Time:
1. somber: “Calvin looked somber; then his enormous smile lit up his face
again.”
2. legible: “‘It might also help if Meg’s handwriting were legible,’ Mrs. Murry
said.”
3. gnarled: “He reached up, pulled an apple off a gnarled limb, and handed it to
Meg.”
4. tangible: “Silence fell between them, as tangible as the dark tree shadows
that fell across their laps . . .”
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
melancholy or dismal (or words to this effect)
capable or being read or deciphered (dih SYFE urd)
knotty or misshapen (or words to this effect)
capable of being touched or seen
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10.
Tossup (10)
Q. Does the island of Hispaniola (hiss span YO luh) lie in the Indian Ocean, the
Pacific Ocean, or the Caribbean (kuh RIB ee un, or KAIR ih BEE un) Sea?
A. Caribbean Sea
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. Which country lies on the eastern part of Hispaniola?
2. Which country lies on the western part of Hispaniola?
A. 1. Dominican Republic
2. Haiti
TIE-BREAKERS
1.
Q. What is the numerical value of three factorial?
A. 6
2.
Q. What was a military ruler or dictator of feudal Japan called?
A. shogun (SHOW gun)
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Tie-Breaker 2
1.
Tossup (10)
PAGE – 2011
State Semi-Finals
Q. On which continent is Cameroon?
A. Africa
Bonus (20)
Q. On which continent is each of the following countries?
1. Belize (beh LEEZ)
2. Nigeria
3. Latvia
4. Laos
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
2.
Tossup (10)
South America
Africa
Europe
Asia
Q. Water erosion is commonly produced by rivers, streams, and rainfall runoff.
Which type of erosion occurs when grains of sand are carried through the air at
sufficient speeds to wear down portions of the landscape?
A. wind (erosion) (not weathering)
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. Which type of wind erosion is evidenced by moving grains of sand that are
forced against portions of the landscape?
2. Which type of wind erosion occurs when the wind actually removes sand and
soil and blows it somewhere else?
3. What do we call the thick deposits of very fine wind-blown sediments?
4. What do we call the large deposits of sand in the desert or on the beaches?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
3.
Tossup (10)
abrasion
deflation
loess (LOH es)
dunes
Q. What is the name of the graph of x squared plus y squared equals zero?
A. origin (accept point, accept a circle centered at the origin whose radius is zero.)
Bonus (20)
Q. What is the area enclosed by the equations y equals negative x plus four, x
equals zero, and y equals zero?
A. 8 (square units)
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4.
Tossup (10)
Q. With which sport is Landon Donovan most closely associated?
A. soccer
Bonus (20)
Q. With which sport is each of the following most closely associated?
1. Washaun Ealey (WAH shawn EEL ee)
2. LeBron James
3. Jason Heyward
4. Rafael Nadal (RAH fay el nuh DAHL)
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Tossup (10)
football
basketball
baseball
football
Q. The words annual and anniversary derive from a Latin word meaning what?
A. year
Bonus (20)
Q. 1.
2.
3.
4.
The words temporary and temporal derive from a Latin word meaning what?
The words population and popular derive from a Latin word meaning what?
The words corpse and corporation derive from a Latin word meaning what?
The words lunar and lunatic derive from a Latin word meaning what?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
time
people
body
moon
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6.
Tossup (10)
Q. Christchurch and Auckland are important cities of which country?
A. New Zealand
Bonus (20)
Q. Of which country are each of the following important cities?
1. Hyderabad (HIDE ur uh bad) and Mumbai (MUMM bye)
2. Guadalajara (gwah duh luh HAR uh) and Monterrey
3. Bordeaux (bor DOUGH) and Nantes (NAHNTZ)
4. Durban and Cape Town
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
India
Mexico
France
South Africa
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7.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is presently the tallest building in New York City?
A. Empire State Building
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. The famous classical structure called the Parthenon (PARTH ih nahn) is
located in what city?
2., 3., and 4. Name the three orders of classical architecture.
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
8.
Tossup (10)
Athens, Greece
Doric (DOR ick)
(Note: Accept answers to 2, 3, and 4 in any order.)
Ionic (eye AHN ick)
Corinthian (kuh RINTH ee un)
Q. What American poem is famous for the repeated use of the word “Nevermore”?
A. “The Raven”
Bonus (20)
9.
Tossup (10)
Q. 1.
2.
3.
4.
Who wrote “The Raven”?
Who wrote the poem entitled “Paul Revere’s Ride”?
Who wrote the poem entitled “Nothing Gold Can Stay”?
Who wrote the poem entitled “Growltiger’s Last Stand”?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
(Edgar Allan) Poe
(Henry Wadsworth) Longfellow
(Robert) Frost
(T. S.) Eliot
Q. Beside the weakly-reactive gases in Group 18 in the periodic table, what are four
of the other five naturally occurring gases listed in the table?
A. hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, fluorine (FLOOR een), and chlorine (any four)
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. Of the first 92 elements listed by atomic number, two do not occur in nature.
One has atomic number 43 and its symbol is Tc; what is it?
2. What is element number 92? It has a one-letter symbol.
A. 1. Technetium (tech NEE shee um)
2. Uranium
10.
Tossup (10)
Q. Which one of the following lines has a positive slope: y equals five, y plus x
equals two, or y minus x equals two?
A. y minus x equals two
Bonus (20)
Q. A line passing through the point negative two, negative seven has a slope of
four. What is the y-coordinate of the point on the line whose x-coordinate is
ten?
A. 41
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TIE-BREAKERS
1.
Q. What term is used for tropical grassland with scattered trees usually with wet and
dry seasons?
A. savannah
2.
Q. What is the least common multiple of 6 and 10?
A. 30
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2011
PAGE Academic Bowl
for Middle Grades
Finals Questions
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2011 PAGE Academic Bowl for Middle Grades
Finals Pronunciation Guide
Game #
1
Ques.#
2-T
5-B
6-B
7-B
8-T
8-B
9-T
10-T
TB-2
2
1-T
1-B
3-B
6-B
8-T
8-B
9-T
3
1-B
4-B
10-B
Champ.
1-B
2-B
7-B
10-B
11-T
11-B
14-B
19-B
20-B
TB-2
Pronunciation
alleles (uh LEELZ)
Punnett (PUN it)
Yemen (YIMM en)
antigens (ANN tih jenz)
tearing (TEER ing)
allergens (AL er jenz)
vaccination (vack sih NAY shun)
nuclei (NEW klee eye)
algebraic monomial (al juh BRAY ick mah NOME ee ul)
polynomial (pahl ih NOME ee ul)
Iberian (eye BEER ee un)
Poseidon (po SIGH dun)
Narnia (NAHRN ee yuh)
Taiwan (tye WAHN)
Shikoku (shih KO koo)
Luzon (LOO zahn)
cumulonimbus (KYOO myoo lo NIMM bus)
nimbostratus (NIMM bo STRAT us)
Bangladesh (BANG luh DESH)
allegorical (al luh GAHR ick ul)
parable (PAIR uh bul)
protagonist (pro TAG uh nist)
homeostasis (HOME ee oh STAY siss)
Carolus Linnaeus (KAHR uh luss lih NEE us)
Felis domesticus (FEE liss doe MESS tick us)
Musca domesticus (MUSS kuh doe MESS tick us)
binomial nomenclature (bye NOME ee ul no men KLAY chur)
homo sapiens (HOME oh SAY pee enz)
Geithner (GYTHE nur)
Sesame (SESS uh me)
impertinent (em PURT en unt)
imperceptible (em pur SEPP tih bul)
calving (rhymes with having)
Bosh (rhymes with gosh)
Isner (IHZ nur)
bicycling (BYE sih kling)
Kazakhstan (ka zack STANN)
dulcimer (DULL sih mur)
tympani (TIMM puh nee)
escarpment (ess SKARP mint)
Czech (CHECK)
Mali (MAH lee)
lipids (LIP idz)
basalt (buh SALT)
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Game #
4
Ques.#
4-T
4-B
7-B
10-T
Pronunciation
Dvorak (duh VORE zhock)
Eroica (air ROY kuh)
Mendelssohn (MEN dul sahn)
Beethoven (BAY toe vin)
Schubert (SHOO bert)
Haydn (HIDE en)
Moabitess (MO abb ITE iss)
Delhi (DELL ee)
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Game 1
1.
Tossup (10)
PAGE – 2011
State Finals
Q. How many sides does a quadrilateral have?
A. 4
Bonus (20)
Q. How many sides does each of the following have?
1. heptagon
2. hexagon
3. octagon
4. pentagon
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
2.
Tossup (10)
7
6
8
5
Q. What do we call the chart that shows all possible combinations of alleles (uh
LEELZ) that can result from a genetic cross? It was named for its creator, an
English geneticist, in the early 1900’s.
A. Punnett (PUN it) Square
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. How many alleles does an offspring receive from each parent for each trait?
2. To receive a recessive trait, exactly how many recessive alleles must the
offspring receive?
A. 1. one
2. two
3.
Tossup (10)
Q. “Local leaders to hammer out SPLOST projects” was a recent newspaper
headline. For what does SPLOST stand?
A. Special-Purpose Local-Option Sales Tax
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. For what does GM stand in the following newspaper headline: GM execs:
Foreign markets key to growth?
2. For what does GDOT stand in this newspaper headline: GDOT to begin road
repairs?
A. 1. General Motors
2. Georgia Department of Transportation
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4.
Tossup (10)
Q. Spell the word that is pronounced the same as the word that is spelled
c h a n c e.
A. c h a n t s
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. Spell the word that is pronounced the same as the word that is spelled
t i m e.
2. Spell the word that is pronounced the same as the word that is spelled
s h o o t.
3. Spell the word that is pronounced the same as the word that is spelled
k e r n e l.
4. Spell the word that is pronounced the same as the word that is spelled
p r e s e n c e.
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Tossup (10)
thyme
chute
colonel
presents
Q. Which country borders Vietnam and Russia?
A. China
Bonus (20)
Q. Which country borders each of the following?
1. Morocco and Libya
2. Mexico and El Salvador
3. Belgium and Italy
4. Yemen (YIMM en) and Jordan
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
Algeria
Guatemala
France
Saudi Arabia
At this point, ask that the score be given and give coaches the opportunity to make substitutions.
6.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the general term for an organism that causes a disease?
Its initial letter is P.
A. pathogen
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the process by which harmless antigens (ANN tih jenz) are
introduced into the body to cause the body to produce an active immunity?
2. What are foreign substances that, when introduced into the body, produce
reactions like headaches, sneezing, tearing (TEER ing), and digestive
discomfort? They may affect one person and not another.
A. 1. vaccination (vack sih NAY shun)
2. allergens (AL er jenz)
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7.
Tossup (10)
Q. Which branch of science is involved specifically in the study of matter and
energy and how they interact? The requested term is a 7-letter word with initial
letter P.
A. physics
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the study of matter and how matter interacts with other matter and
how matter changes?
2. Which branch of physics studies specifically the forces, reactions, and
internal structures of atomic nuclei (NEW klee eye)?
A. 1. chemistry
2. nuclear physics
8.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the degree of the algebraic (al juh BRAY ick) monomial (mah NOME
ee ul) six x squared y cubed?
A. 5 (or 5th)
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the degree of a polynomial (pahl ih NOME ee ul)which is the sum of
a third-degree polynomial and a fourth-degree polynomial?
2. What is the degree of a polynomial which is the product of a third-degree
polynomial and a fourth-degree polynomial?
A. 1. fourth-degree
2. seventh-degree
9.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the name of the peninsula in Europe that is occupied by Portugal and
Spain?
A. Iberian (eye BEER ee un)
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the name of the part of the Atlantic Ocean that is bordered by South
America, Central America, and the West Indies?
2. What is the name of the large sea surrounded by Asia, Africa, and Europe?
A. 1. Caribbean Sea
2. Mediterranean Sea
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10.
Tossup (10)
Q. By what name did the ancient Greeks call their deity who presided over the sea?
A. Poseidon (po SIGH dun)
Bonus (20)
Q. Give the name of the Greek deity of each of the following:
1. the underworld
2. the sun and medical arts
3. the moon and the hunt
4. love, beauty, and fertility
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
Hades
Apollo
Artemis
Aphrodite
TIE-BREAKERS
1.
Q. Identify the nonstandard grammatical form illustrated by the following sentence:
Marie did not hardly suffer any injuries from the accident.
A. double negative
2.
Q. What is the name of the imaginary land created by C. S. Lewis in a series of
seven novels?
A. Narnia (NAHRN ee yuh)
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Game 2
1.
Tossup (10)
PAGE – 2011
State Finals
Q. Taiwan (tye WAHN) lies off of the coast of which continent?
A. Asia
Bonus (20)
Q. Each of the following islands is part of which country?
1. Shikoku (shih KO koo)
2. North
3. Tasmania
4. Luzon (LOO zahn)
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
2.
Tossup (10)
Japan
New Zealand
Australia
Philippines
Q. What do we call the system of computers that are now linked all over the world?
The term has initial letter I.
A. (The) Internet
Bonus (20)
Q. For what does …
1. … WAN stand?
2. … LAN stand?
A. 1. wide area network
2. local area network
3.
Tossup (10)
Q. What do meteorologists study?
A. the weather (weather conditions, weather map construction, weather forecasting)
Bonus (20)
Q. Which basic type of clouds …
1. … are huge and are associated with severe thunderstorms?
2. … are a thick layer of black clouds that block out the sun and are associated
with steady, long precipitation?
A. 1. cumulonimbus (KYOO myoo lo NIMM bus) (If part of the word is given,
ask for more specific information.)
2. nimbostratus (NIMM bo STRAT us) (If part of the word is given, ask for
more specific information.)
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4.
Tossup (10)
Q. Identify the object of the verb in the following sentence: The tornado which
occurred last year destroyed almost all of the town of Hillville.
A. all
Bonus (20)
Q. Identify the object of the verb in each of the following sentences:
1. The government sent the town aid.
2. Because of the damage, people volunteered their assistance to each other.
3. Many of the townspeople lost nearly everything they owned.
4. Have you ever seen such damage?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Tossup (10)
aid
assistance
everything
damage
Q. The dimensions of a triangle are x, x plus one, and x plus two. What is the
perimeter of the triangle in simplified form?
A. three x plus three
Bonus (20)
Q. If the perimeter of the triangle in the tossup is 12, what is the . . .
1. . . . measure of the hypotenuse of the triangle?
2. . . . area of the triangle?
A. 1. 5
2. 6 (square units)
At this point, ask that the score be given and give coaches the opportunity to make substitutions.
6.
Tossup (10)
Q. On which continent is Afghanistan?
A. Asia
Bonus (20)
Q. On which continent is each of the following countries?
1. Angola
2. Nicaragua
3. Bangladesh
4. Austria
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
Africa
North America
Asia
Europe
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7.
Tossup (10)
Q. What famous 19th-century Dutch artist is well-known for his paintings of
sunflowers and irises, and for a work called “The Starry Night”?
A. (Vincent) Van Gogh
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What 20th-century artist is famous for his paintings of melting watches?
2. What 20th-century American artist is famous for her giant paintings of
colorful flowers?
3. What 20th-century photographer is famous for his artistic black-and-white
photographs of American western landscapes?
4. What 20th-century American artist is famous for dripping paint over his
canvases?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
8.
Tossup (10)
(Salvadore) Dali (DAH ly)
(Georgia) O’Keefe
(Ansel) Adams
(Jackson) Pollock
Q. What is the literary term for a brief, usually allegorical (al luh GAHR ick ul)
narrative that teaches a moral. The one usually entitled “The Good Samaritan”
is a fine example.
A. parable (PAIR uh bul)
Bonus (20)
Q. Identify these other literary terms; each begins with the letter P:
1. the particular arrangement of actions, events, and situations that unfold in a
narrative
2. the perspective from which a story is told
3. the main or central character in a narrative
4. a narrative written in humorous imitation of the style of an author or
literary work
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
9.
Tossup (10)
plot
point of view
protagonist (pro TAG uh nist)
parody
Q. What is the term for the maintenance of internal conditions within an organism?
Its initial letter is H.
A. homeostasis (HOME ee oh STAY siss)
Bonus (20)
Q. What do we call a …
1. … change in an organism’s surroundings that causes the organism to react in
some way?
2. … the resulting action or change in behavior by an organism due to such a
change in its surroundings?
A. 1. stimulus
2. response
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10.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the sum of five more than the identity element of addition and three
times the identity element of multiplication?
A. 8
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. How many minutes is seven and three-fourths hours?
2. How many hours is 15 days?
A. 1. 465
2. 360
TIE-BREAKERS
1.
Q. If the square root of x equals one-third, what is x?
A. one-ninth
2.
Q. Name the African-American writer who is famous for having written a novel
entitled The Color Purple.
A. (Alice) Walker
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Game 3
1.
Tossup (10)
PAGE – 2011
State Finals
Q. What do we call the scientific classification of living things? The term has
initial letter T.
A. taxonomy
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the two-part scientific naming scheme devised by Carolus Linnaeus
(KAHR uh luss lih NEE us) called? Its initials are B.N.
2. According to this naming scheme, what term identifies human beings?
3. What is Felis domesticus (FEE liss doe MESS tick us)?
4. What is Musca domesticus (MUSS kuh doe MESS tick us)?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
2.
Tossup (10)
binomial nomenclature (bye NOME ee ul no men KLAY chur)
homo sapiens (HOME oh SAY pee enz)
house cat
house fly
Q. What is x if three x plus four equals x plus six?
A. 1
Bonus (20)
Q. What is x in each of the following equations?
1. Quantity two x plus one all divided by three equals x divided by two.
2. Two times quantity three x minus four equals three times quantity four x plus
one-third.
A. 1. negative two ( accept negative 1.5)
2. negative three-halves (accept negative nine-sixths)
3.
Tossup (10)
Q. Green Bay and Milwaukee are important cities in which state?
A. Wisconsin
Bonus (20)
Q. Of which state are the following pairs important cities?
1. Newark and Camden
2. Norman and Tulsa
3. Fresno and Oakland
4. Spartanburg and Greenville
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
New Jersey
Oklahoma
California
South Carolina
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4.
Tossup (10)
Q. Who is Vice President of the United States?
A. (Joe) Biden
Bonus (20)
Q. Of Eric H. Holder, Jr., Robert M. Gates, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Timothy
Geithner (GYTHE nur) which one is U.S. . . .
1. . . . Attorney General?
2. . . . Secretary of State?
3. . . . Secretary of the Treasury?
4. . . . Secretary of Defense?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Tossup (10)
Eric H. Holder, Jr.
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Timothy Geithner
Robert M. Gates
Q. What is the grammatical term for a word that tells to whom or for whom
something is done or given?
A. indirect object
Bonus (20)
Q. Identify the indirect object in each of the following sentences:
1. My uncle gave me a subscription to Smithsonian.
2. I sent Habitat for Humanity a check for $100.00.
3. Rover brought Dad the newspaper.
4. The college mailed her an acceptance letter.
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
me
Habitat for Humanity
Dad
her
At this point, ask that the score be given and give coaches the opportunity to make substitutions.
6.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is x raised to the fifth power times y raised to the fourth power when x is
negative one and y is negative two?
A. negative sixteen
Bonus (20)
Q. What is quantity x cubed minus y squared divided by quantity two x plus three y
when x is negative two and y is negative three?
A. seventeen-thirteenths
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7.
Tossup (10)
Q. Which command in a word processing document will retrieve an unfinished
document which is stored on the computer’s hard drive? The term has initial
letter O.
A. open
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the arrow on the computer screen which is controlled by the mouse,
and which allows the user to select items without accessing the keyboard?
2. What are the small clickable pictures on the computer screen called?
A. 1. pointer
2. icons
8.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the county seat of the Georgia county of Richmond?
A. Augusta
Bonus (20)
Q. What is the county seat of each of the following Georgia counties?
1. Laurens
2. Spalding
3. Jackson
4. Bartow
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
9.
Tossup (10)
Dublin
Griffin
Jefferson
Cartersville
Q. What is studied by physicists that comes in these forms: potential, kinetic,
chemical, electromagnetic, thermal, and electrical?
A. energy
Bonus (20)
Q. Which form of energy is present in …
1. … a rolling bowling ball?
2. … visible light?
3. … an axe raised over a lumberjack’s head?
4. … a burning eye on a natural gas stove?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
kinetic
electromagnetic
potential
chemical
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10.
Tossup (10)
Q. Stories about characters named Sindbad, Aladdin, and Ali Baba are
found in a famous collection of tales with what title?
A. The Arabian Nights (or The Thousand and One Nights)
Bonus (20)
Q. 1.
2.
3.
4.
What is the name of the narrator of these tales?
How many sea voyages did Sindbad undertake?
With what useful object is Aladdin associated?
What magical phrase allowed Ali Baba access to a particular cave?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
Scheherazade (shuh hair uh ZAHD)
seven
an oil lamp (also accept a lamp)
“Open Sesame” (SESS uh mee)
TIE-BREAKERS
1.
Q. Sicily is a part of which country?
A. Italy
2.
Q. What type of mathematical sequence is a sequence in which the difference
between consecutive terms is constant?
A. arithmetic
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Championship
1.
Tossup (10)
PAGE - 2011
Q. Spell the last word in the following sentence: My father owns books on every
topic imaginable.
A. i m a g i n a b l e
Bonus (20)
Q. Spell the last word in each of the following sentences:
1. The epidemic underscored the need for widespread immunization.
2. Don’t ever say that again; I consider your remark impertinent
(em PURT en unt).
3. The differences between the two textbooks are almost imperceptible
(em pur SEPP tih bul).
4. Leon was passed over for a promotion because of his immaturity.
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
2.
Tossup (10)
immunization
impertinent
imperceptible
immaturity
Q. What do we call large, slowly moving masses of ice and snow? These masses
are pulled downhill by the force of gravity.
A. glaciers
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What do we call a piece of glacier that breaks off and falls into the sea?
2. What do we call the process of pieces of glacier breaking off and falling into
the sea?
3. What is the process by which glaciers pick up rock fragments as they move
downhill?
4. Today’s glaciers contain about 35%, 50% or 85% of the earth’s fresh
water.
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
3.
Tossup (10)
iceberg
calving (rhymes with having)
plucking
85%
Q. M squared times m raised to the sixth power equals m raised to what power?
A. 8 (also accept 8th)
Bonus (20)
Q. What is the product of four x cubed times two x raised to the negative six power
all divided by eight x raised to the negative four power?
A. x (also accept x raised to the first power)
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4.
Tossup (10)
Q. The Harry Potter series of novels comprises how many books?
A. seven
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the original British title of the first novel in the series?
2. What is the term for a person who lacks any magical ability and who was not
born into the magical world?
3. As of July 2010, how many of these novels have been released as motion
pictures?
4. What is the title of the fourth novel in the series?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Tossup (10)
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
muggle
six
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Q. What is the capital of the state of New Jersey?
A. Trenton
Bonus (20)
Q. What is the capital of each of the following states?
1. New Mexico
2. Kentucky
3. Wisconsin
4. Missouri
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
6.
Tossup (10)
Santa Fe
Frankfort
Madison
Jefferson City
Q. Which type of software helps a computer artist to create a design? The term has
initial letter G.
A. graphics
Bonus (20)
Q. Which type of software helps someone wanting to …
1. … illustrate data in tables and graphs?
2. … keep track of an address file and print mailing labels?
A. 1. spreadsheet
2. database
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7.
Tossup (10)
Q. With which sport is Tim Hudson most closely associated?
A. baseball
Bonus (20)
Q. With which sport is each of the following most closely associated?
1. Chris Bosh (rhymes with gosh)
2. Lance Armstrong
3. A.J. Green
4. John Isner (IHZ nur)
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
8.
Tossup (10)
basketball
cycling (bicycling)
football
tennis
Q. What is the cube root of 64 divided by the square root of 4?
A. 2
Bonus (20)
Q. If the square root of 175 is expressed in simplified form a times the square root
of b, what is . . .
1. . . . a?
2. . . . b?
A. 1. 5
2. 7
9.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the simplest form of matter? These substances cannot be broken down
any further by chemical or physical means. There are over 100 such substances.
A. elements
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the next simplest form of matter? Two atoms of the element oxygen
will bond to form one of these.
2. Two atoms of oxygen and one atom of carbon will bond to form what wellknown chemical substance?
A. 1. compound
2. carbon dioxide
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10.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the largest country by area in Asia?
A. Russia
Bonus (20)
Q. Which four of the following border Russia: Greece, Latvia, Switzerland, Italy,
Finland, China, India, and Kazakhstan (ka zack STANN)?
A. Latvia
Finland
China
Kazakhstan
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11.
Tossup (10)
Q. The instrument usually referred to as a mountain dulcimer (DULL sih mur) is a
member of what family of musical instruments?
A. string
Bonus (20)
Q. Identify each of the following instruments as string, brass, woodwind, or
percussion:
1. bassoon
2. cornet
3. tympani (TIMM puh nee)
4. cello
A. 1. woodwind
2. brass
3. percussion
4. string
12.
Tossup (10)
Q. Identify the subject of the following sentence: Shopping malls sometimes
frustrate shoppers.
A. malls
Bonus (20)
Q. Identify the subject of each of the following sentences:
1. Shoppers may feel trapped.
2. Strolling through stores can exhaust the hardiest shopper.
3. Sometimes there are benches for shoppers to rest on.
4. Isn’t the solution for mall fatigue simply to leave?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
Shoppers
Strolling
benches
solution
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13.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the slope of the line passing through the point negative one, three and
the point one, seven?
A. 2
Bonus (20)
Q. Answer these questions about the line described in the tossup question.
1. What is its x-intercept?
2. What is its y-intercept?
A. 1. negative five-halves (or negative 2.5)
2. 5
14.
Tossup (10)
Q. What term is used for a narrow body of water lying between two pieces of land?
A. strait
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the term used for a steep cliff separating two fairly flat land surfaces,
one higher than the other?
2. What is the name for a crack in the rocks of the earth’s crust along which
movement occurs?
A. 1. escarpment (ess SKARP mint)
2. fault
15.
Tossup (10)
Q. A moon rock is brought to earth. Which of the following physical
characteristics has changed: its weight, its density, or its mass?
A. weight
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. Is dissolving salt in a glass of water an example of chemical, physical, or
nuclear change?
2. Is rusting of iron an example of chemical, physical, or nuclear change?
A. 1. physical
2. chemical
16.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the most common tick-borne disease in the Northern Hemisphere? It
was identified in 1975 and it was named for a city in Connecticut.
A. Lyme (disease)
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the vector (carrier) of Lyme disease?
2. Which tick-borne disease is carried by the wood tick and is named for a
region in the western US?
A. 1. deer tick
2. Rocky Mountain spotted fever
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17.
Tossup (10)
Q. What statistical term is defined to be the value in a data set that occurs most
frequently?
A. mode
Bonus (20)
Q. Answer these questions about x in the following data set of positive integers: 1,
3, 5, 7, x.
1. What must x be if the range of the data is 11?
2. What must x be if the mode of the data is 3?
3. What must x be if the mean of the data is 8?
4. What must x be if the median of the data is 3?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
18.
Tossup (10)
12
3
24
Either 1, 2, or 3
Q. What literary term refers to the central struggle between two or more
forces in a story?
A. conflict
Bonus (20)
Q. Identify the literary terms for each of the following:
1. an unsatisfying and trivial turn of events in a narrative that occurs in place of
a genuine climax
2. an incident in a large narrative that has unity in itself
3. the point in a narrative when the crucial action, decision, or realization must
be made
4. a narrative in which the main character, usually a child or adolescent,
undergoes an important experience (or “rite of passage”) that prepares him
or her for some aspect of adulthood
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
19.
Tossup (10)
anticlimax
episode
crisis
initiation story (also accept coming-of-age story)
Q. In which ocean is New Zealand?
A. Pacific
Bonus (20)
Q. Which four of the following countries are landlocked: Vietnam, Chad, Bolivia,
Uruguay, Guatemala, Czech (CHECK) Republic, Pakistan, and Mali (MAH lee)?
A. Chad
Bolivia
Czech Republic
Mali
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20.
Tossup (10)
Q. The are several types of organic compounds present in living things. Which
organic compound is energy-rich and consists of sugars and starches?
A.
Bonus (20)
carbohydrates
Q. 1. Which type of organic compound is even more energy-rich than
carbohydrates and consists of fats, oils, and waxes?
2. Which type of organic compound is composed of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen,
and nitrogen and consists of fish, eggs, nuts, and beans?
A. 1. lipids (LIP idz)
2. proteins
TIE-BREAKERS
1.
Q. Spell the word inquisitive.
A. i n q u i s i t i v e
2.
Q. Stone Mountain in North Georgia is a large outcropping of which of the
following: basalt (buh SALT), sandstone, marble, or granite?
A. granite
3.
Q. What term is used for a polynomial with one term?
A. monomial
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Game 4
1.
Tossup (10)
PAGE – 2011
State Finals
Q. What is quantity one-half plus one-third all raised to the power of zero?
A. 1
Bonus (20)
Q. What is x if four raised to the power of x equals eight raised to the power of x
minus one?
A. 3
2.
Tossup (10)
Q. Spell the word neighborhood.
A. n e i g h b o r h o o d
Bonus (20)
Q. Spell each of the following words:
1. hazardous
2. quarantine
3. endurance
4. shepherd
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
3.
Tossup (10)
hazardous
quarantine
endurance
shepherd
Q. In the field of scientific inquiry, what do we call a possible answer to a scientific
question or explanation for a set of observations? The term has initial letter H.
A. hypothesis
Bonus (20)
Q.
In scientific inquiry, how does a scientist go about testing a hypothesis? There
are 4 basic steps.
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
design an experiment
collect data (and interpret data)
draw conclusions
communicate results
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4.
Tossup (10)
Q. Many musical works have descriptive names. Identify the composer
of the symphony known as the “New World Symphony.”
A. (Anton) Dvorak (duh VORE zhock)
Bonus (20)
Q. Identify the composer of each of these pairs of “named” symphonies:
1. “Italian” and “Scotch”
2. “Eroica” (air ROY kuh) and “Choral”
3. “Great” and “Unfinished”
4. “Surprise” and “Miracle”
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Tossup (10)
(Felix) Mendelssohn (MEN dul sun)
(Ludwig van) Beethoven (BAY toe vin)
(Franz) Schubert (SHOO bert)
(Joseph) Haydn (HIDE en)
Q. Using north, south, east, and west, in which direction would you go if you go the
shortest distance from New Hampshire to Connecticut?
A. south
Bonus (20)
Q. Using north, south, east, and west, in which direction would you go if you go the
shortest distance from . . .
1. . . . Utah to Kansas?
2. . . . South Dakota to Kansas?
3. . . . Rhode Island to Maine?
4. . . . Ohio to Illinois?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
east
south
north
west
At this point, ask that the score be given and give coaches the opportunity to make substitutions.
6.
Tossup (10)
Q. How many outs must be recorded in a normal inning of baseball?
A. 6 (3 per half inning)
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. How many batters does a pitcher face in a nine-inning game if he or she
records a perfect game?
2. What is the consequence of a runner going from first base to second base
allowing the batted ball to hit him or her before it is touched by a fielder?
A. 1. 27
2. the runner is (called) out
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7.
Tossup (10)
Q. Who is the first woman mentioned in the Bible?
A. Eve
Bonus (20)
Q. Identify each of these biblical female characters:
1. She was the wife of King Ahab; her name has come to be synonymous with
evil and manipulative women.
2. She was faithful to her mother-in-law, the Moabitess (MO abb ITE iss)
Naomi.
3. She was the older sister who preserved Moses from death by the Egyptians.
4. She was the mother of Jacob and Esau.
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
8. Tossup (10)
Jezebel
Ruth
Miriam
Rebekah
Q. What invention around 1590 allowed life scientists to view very small objects
and eventually individual cells?
A. microscope (accept compound microscope, but not simple microscope)
Bonus (20)
Q. Which microscope was developed in …
1. … 1965 and could magnify specimens up to 150,000 times? Its initials are
SEM.
2. … 1981 and could magnify specimens up to one million times? Its initials
are STM.
A. 1. scanning electron microscope
2. scanning tunneling microscope
9.
Tossup (10)
Q. A rectangle has sides of lengths 2 and 5. What is its perimeter?
A. 14 (units)
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. How many square units is its area?
2. What is the length of its diagonal?
A. 1. 10
2. square root of twenty-nine
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10.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the capital of India?
A. New Delhi (DELL ee)
Bonus (20)
Q. What is the capital of each of the following countries?
1. Norway
2. Thailand
3. Belgium
4. Iraq
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
Oslo
Bangkok
Brussels
Baghdad
TIE-BREAKERS
1.
Q. In the study of poetry, what do we call the pattern of stressed and unstressed
sounds?
A. rhythm (or meter)
2.
Q. How many gallons is 12 quarts?
A. 3
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