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TOSS-UP QUESTIONS
1. SOCIAL STUDIES (Government)
What word refers to a minor crime, less severe than a felony, that is punishable by less than
one year in prison?
ANSWER: misdemeanor
2. SCIENCE (General Science)
This man is best known for his theories of the unconscious mind and the defense
mechanism of repression. Who is this Austrian psychiatrist who founded the psychoanalytic
school of psychology?
ANSWER: Sigmund Freud
3. MATHEMATICS (Algebra) COMPUTATION
Find the discriminant of the following expression. 5x2 – 3x + 13.
ANSWER: -251
4. MISCELLANEOUS (Movies)
What American actress won Academy Awards for best actress in Morning Glory in 1933,
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner in 1967, and The Lion in Winter in 1968?
ANSWER: Katharine Hepburn (require first name)
5. LANGUAGE ARTS (Spelling)
My little brother had difficulties maneuvering the lawn mower around Mom’s flowers.
Spell maneuvering.
ANSWER: m-a-n-e-u-v-e-r-i-n-g
6. SOCIAL STUDIES (World History)
In the Old Testament, Daniel is said to have interpreted a dream for this Babylonian king,
who conquered Jerusalem between 606 and 586 B.C.E. Who is this king remembered for creating
one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?
ANSWER: Nebuchadnezzar (or Nebuchadrezzar)
7. SCIENCE (Chemistry)
What colorless, poisonous gas is made from calcium carbide and water and has the chemical
formula C2H2?
ANSWER: acetylene
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8. MATHEMATICS (Geometry) COMPUTATION
Degrees are divided into minutes and minutes are subdivided into seconds. How many
seconds are there in an angle measuring 30 degrees?
ANSWER: 108,000
9. FINE ARTS (Art)
What word rhymes with curry, and is the name given to the creamy clay that is used to join
moist clay bodies?
ANSWER: slurry
10. LANGUAGE ARTS (Vocabulary)
What Biblical unit of measurement was based on the distance from the elbow to the tip of
the middle finger, and was used by Noah when building his ark?
ANSWER: cubit
11. SOCIAL STUDIES (U.S. History)
What U.S. president started the Head Start Educational Program as part of his Great
Society program?
ANSWER: Lyndon Johnson (require first name)
12. SCIENCE (Physics)
What British physicist proposed a new theory of atomic structure where the nucleus had a
positive electric charge?
ANSWER: Ernest Rutherford
13. MATHEMATICS (General Mathematics)
What famous mathematician and physicist is the author of the classic text entitled
Principia Mathematica?
ANSWER: Isaac Newton
14. FINE ARTS (Art)
Due to the success of artists such as Jan van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden, what
region located in the northern part of Belgium became the center of art in Northern Europe in
the 15th century?
ANSWER: Flanders
15. LANGUAGE ARTS (World Literature)
Most of this Austrian author’s work was incomplete during his lifetime and was finished and
published after his death, including his novels, Amerika, The Trial, and The Castle. Who created
the character named Gregor Samsa who woke up one morning not feeling quite himself?
ANSWER: Franz Kafka
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16. SOCIAL STUDIES (Geography)
What is the only country in Central America that does not border the Caribbean Sea?
ANSWER: El Salvador
17. SCIENCE (Biology)
What process that occurs within cells can be represented by the equation glucose + oxygen
yields carbon dioxide + water + energy?
ANSWER: respiration
18. MATHEMATICS (Trigonometry) COMPUTATION
Give the radian measure of an angle that measures 125 degrees.
ANSWER: 25/36 π radians
19. FINE ARTS (Theater)
This was the last musical written by Rodgers and Hammerstein. It opened on Broadway on
November 16, 1959, and was also made into an Academy Award-winning film in 1965. What is
this musical famous for the songs “Edelweiss” and “My Favorite Things”?
ANSWER: The Sound of Music
20. LANGUAGE ARTS (Grammar)
What is the only relative pronoun that does not begin with the letter “w”?
ANSWER: that
21. SOCIAL STUDIES (Government)
Before being nominated for the Supreme Court by Lyndon Johnson in 1967, this man was
the lawyer who successfully argued the case in Brown v. Board of Education. Who was this first
African-American member of the U.S. Supreme Court?
ANSWER: Thurgood Marshall
22. SCIENCE (Biology)
What is the common abbreviated name of the nucleic acid molecule that takes the form of a
double helix?
ANSWER: DNA
23. MATHEMATICS (Algebra) COMPUTATION
What is the fourth value in the sixth row of Pascal’s triangle?
ANSWER: 10
24. MISCELLANEOUS (Home Economics)
What is typically the main vegetable in the Middle Eastern dish Baba ghanoush?
ANSWER: eggplant
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25. LANGUAGE ARTS (Vocabulary)
What is the name for the Spanish diacritic mark that is used over an “n” to show that it has
the “n-y” sound, as in señor?
ANSWER: tilde
26. SOCIAL STUDIES (U.S. History)
Who am I? I was the first president born west of the Mississippi River, and the only
president from Iowa. I defeated Al Smith in the 1928 presidential election, but the Great
Depression prevented me from winning another election.
ANSWER: Herbert Hoover
27. SCIENCE (General Science)
Horsepower is a unit for measuring power in the United States. What is the equivalent unit
in the metric system?
ANSWER: watt
28. MATHEMATICS (General Mathematics)
Used in the Chi-Square Statistic, what is the term for the number of events minus one?
ANSWER: degrees of freedom
29. FINE ARTS (Music)
What popular jazz musician, bandleader, and composer recorded Head Hunters in 1973,
which became one of the best-selling albums in jazz history?
ANSWER: Herbie Hancock
30. LANGUAGE ARTS (Mythology)
Who was the Titan that stole fire from Zeus and gave it to the humans?
ANSWER: Prometheus
31. SOCIAL STUDIES (Geography)
This archipelago is located in the South Atlantic Ocean about 300 miles from the coast of
Argentina. What are these islands that were the sight of a short-lived war between Great Britain
and Argentina in 1982?
ANSWER: Falkland Islands
32. SCIENCE (Biology)
What extinct dinosaur’s Latin name can be translated as “king of the tyrant lizards”?
ANSWER: Tyrannosaurus rex
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33. MATHEMATICS (Geometry) COMPUTATION
Two angles are supplementary. The larger angle is 84 degrees larger than its supplement.
What is the measure of the smaller angle in this supplementary pair?
ANSWER: 48 degrees
34. MISCELLANEOUS (Industrial Arts)
What am I? I am the name given to the board that’s nailed across the rafter ends outside a
building which can be used to support the gutters, not to be confused with a soffit or eave.
ANSWER: fascia
35. LANGUAGE ARTS (Spelling)
Saliva contains a chemical substance that breaks down starches in your food and converts
them into sugars. This chemical substance is called ptyalin (tigh-ah-lin). Spell ptyalin.
ANSWER: p-t-y-a-l-i-n
36. SOCIAL STUDIES (Geography)
What large river that feeds into Chesapeake Bay allows Baltimore to be one of the principal
port cities in the United States?
ANSWER: Patapsco
37. SCIENCE (Physics)
What term refers to artificial substances whose physical properties derive from their
structure, rather than from the properties of the materials they are made of, and thus exhibit
properties not found in nature?
ANSWER: metamaterials
38. MATHEMATICS (Geometry) COMPUTATION
What is the hypotenuse of a triangle with legs measuring 35 and 84?
ANSWER: 91
39. FINE ARTS (Art Theory)
What color is created when two secondary colors are mixed?
ANSWER: grey or brown (accept either answer)
40. LANGUAGE ARTS (Vocabulary)
What ten-letter word meaning disclosure or revelation is another name for the New
Testament book of Revelation?
ANSWER: apocalypse
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41. SOCIAL STUDIES (U.S. History)
What famous, female ex-slave once gave a well-known speech called “Ain’t I a Woman?”
ANSWER: Sojourner Truth
42. SCIENCE (Chemistry)
What is the term for an alloy of mercury with another metal or alloy, and has been typically
used in dental fillings?
ANSWER: amalgam
43. MATHEMATICS (Calculus) COMPUTATION
Take the derivative of the following. x2ex + cos(x2) (READ AS: x squared times e to the x
power, plus the cosine of x squared.)
ANSWER: 2xex + x2ex – 2xsin(x2)
(READ AS: 2 x e to the x power, plus x-squared times e to the x, minus 2x sine of x-squared)
44. MISCELLANEOUS (Sports)
What woman tennis player achieved the “Golden Slam” of tennis in 1988 by winning the
Australian Open, French Open, U.S. Open, Wimbledon, and an Olympic gold medal?
ANSWER: Steffi Graf
45. LANGUAGE ARTS (Grammar)
What sentence part is defined as “a group of words that has both a subject and a predicate”?
ANSWER: clause
46. SOCIAL STUDIES (Geography)
In the United States, which state besides Kentucky touches exactly seven other states?
ANSWER: Colorado
47. SCIENCE (General Science)
In June of 2002, the United States Congress passed Resolution 269 that recognized
somebody other than Alexander Graham Bell as the true inventor of the telephone. Name
this person.
ANSWER: Antonio Meucci
48. MATHEMATICS (Algebra) COMPUTATION
Simplify the following logarithmic expression:
log base 5 of x + log base 5 of 14 – log base 5 of z
ANSWER: log 5 (14x/z) (READ AS: log base 5 of 14x over z)
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49. FINE ARTS (Dance)
What Polish-born, Russian dancer and choreographer of the early 1900s was famous for his
ability to perform “en pointe,” and for his role in Igor Stravinsky’s Petrouchka?
ANSWER: Vaslav Nijinsky
50. LANGUAGE ARTS (World Literature)
What was the name of the summer palace where Kubla Khan lived, as is written in
Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s famous poem "Kubla Khan, or a Vision in a Dream. A Fragment”?
ANSWER: Xanadu
51. SOCIAL STUDIES (World History)
With which form of Islam is Islamic organization Al Qaeda most closely identified?
ANSWER: Sunni
52. SCIENCE (Chemistry)
What type of atom determines whether a fat is saturated or unsaturated?
ANSWER: hydrogen
53. LANGUAGE ARTS (Vocabulary)
What is the name of the dialect that was developed by Acadians who fled to the French
colony of Louisiana in the 1750s?
ANSWER: Cajun
54. SCIENCE (Physics)
What semi-conducting device, invented in the 1950s, replaced the vacuum tube in
appliances containing electronic circuits?
ANSWER: transistor
55. LANGUAGE ARTS (U.S. Literature)
Which poet wrote these famous words: “Under the spreading chestnut tree / The village
smithy stands”?
ANSWER: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
56. SOCIAL STUDIES (Geography)
What nation, within its confines, contains the Banda Sea, the Flores Sea, and the
Sea of Molucca?
ANSWER: Indonesia
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57. SCIENCE (Biology)
What division of the Plant Kingdom contains three classes: the Hepaticae, the Musci, and
the Anthocerotae?
ANSWER: Bryophyta
58. LANGUAGE ARTS (Grammar)
What verb tense is illustrated in the following sentence? By noon tomorrow, she will have
arrived there.
ANSWER: future perfect
59. SOCIAL STUDIES (World History)
Who am I? I commanded the USS Chesapeake during the War of 1812. I may be best
remembered for my dying command, “Don’t give up the ship,” which became the Navy’s slogan.
ANSWER: James Lawrence
60. LANGUAGE ARTS (British Literature)
What character in Shakespeare’s Hamlet is the brother of King Hamlet and marries Hamlet’s
mother Queen Gertrude after the death of the king?
ANSWER: Claudius
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BONUS QUESTIONS
1. LANGUAGE ARTS (5 Parts in Vocabulary)
Tell how you would say these counting numbers in the French language.
1. eight
2. twelve
3. four
4. ten
5. twenty
ANSWERS: 1. huit (WEET)
2. douze (DOOZ)
4. quatre (KAHTR)
4. dix (DEES)
5. vingt (VAHN)
2. MATHEMATICS (4 Parts in Algebra) COMPUTATION
Find the positive value of x given the following systems of equations.
1. 6x + 12y = 5 and y = 2 – 10x
2. y = 3x and xy = 48
3. x + y = 9 and 2x – y = 2
4. 5y + 2x = 6 and y – 7x = -2
ANSWERS: 1. 1/6
2. 4
3. 32/3
4. 16/37
3. MISCELLANEOUS (5 Parts in Sports)
You will be given the first part of a NHL hockey team name. Complete each team name.
For example, if you were given Chicago, you would answer Blackhawks.
1. St. Louis
2. Vancouver
3. Buffalo
4. Atlanta
5. Carolina
ANSWERS: 1. Blues
2. Canucks
3. Sabres
4. Thrashers
5. Hurricanes
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4. SOCIAL STUDIES (5 Parts in Geography)
You will be given the names of the five deserts that are located in the American Southwest.
Tell the state in which the majority of each desert is located.
1. Mojave Desert
2. Painted Desert
3. Great Basin
4. Sonoran Desert
5. Chihuahuan Desert
ANSWERS: 1. California
2. Arizona
3. Nevada
4. Arizona
5. New Mexico (or Texas)
5. SCIENCE (5 Parts in Biology)
Tell the phylum into which each of these organisms would be classified.
1. human
2. housefly
3. herring gull
4. moss
5. red oak
ANSWERS: 1. Chordata (chordate)
2. Arthropoda (arthropod)
3. Chordata (chordate)
4. Bryophyta (bryophyte)
5. Tracheophyta (tracheophyte)
6. LANGUAGE ARTS (5 Parts in U.S. Literature)
Many 19th-century, American poets signed their work with their first, middle, and last name.
Give the complete three-name names of the poets described below.
1. He wrote his best poems, “To A Waterfowl” and “Thanatopsis,” while young.
2. Also a writer of stories, his poems include “Annabelle Lee” and “The Raven.”
3. His narrative poems include “Evangeline” and “The Song of Hiawatha.”
4. This abolitionist poet wrote “Snowbound” and “Telling the Bees.”
5. A Harvard graduate and later a Harvard professor, he wrote essays, speeches, and poems,
including a well-known elegy called “The First Snowfall.”
ANSWERS: 1. William Cullen Bryant
2. Edgar Allan Poe
3. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
4. John Greenleaf Whittier
5. James Russell Lowell
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7. MATHEMATICS (4 Parts in Algebra) COMPUTATION
Convert the following logarithmic equations to exponential equations.
1. 16 = 2x
2. 10-3 = 0.001
3. a8 = Q
4. tx = M
ANSWERS: 1. log2 16 = x (logarithm, base 2, of 16 equals x)
2. log10 0.001 = -3 (logarithm, base 10, of 0.001 equals -3)
3. loga Q = 8 (logarithm, base a, of Q equals 8)
4. logt M = x (logarithm, base t, of M equals x)
8. FINE ARTS (5 Parts in Drama)
Give the names of any five of the six tradesmen, or Mechanicals, in Shakespeare’s play
A Midsummer Night’s Dream. They include a carpenter, a weaver, a bellows mender, a tailor, a
tinker, and a joiner.
ANSWERS: (any order and need only five)
Peter Quince
Nick Bottom
Francis Flute
Tom Snout
Robin Starveling
Snug
9. SOCIAL STUDIES (5 Parts in World History)
You will be given a short clue and the first letter of each answer, which will proceed in
alphabetical order. Identify the last names of the historical people being described.
1. T; A French historian of the 19th century who wrote Democracy in America.
2. M; An educational reformer and the founder of the American public school system.
3. N; India’s first prime minister in 1947.
4. W; A Puritan religious leader and first governor of Massachusetts who referred to the
colony as a “city upon a hill.”
5. P; A World War II General nicknamed “Old Blood and Guts.”
ANSWERS: 1. Tocqueville
2. Mann
3. Nehru
4. Winthrop
5. Patton
10. SCIENCE (4 Parts in Chemistry)
Chemists have identified four different types of chemical reactions. Classify these chemical
reactions according their type. **Read the → as “yields.”
1. A + B → C
2. AX + BY → AY + BX
3. A + BX → AX + B
4. C → A + B
ANSWERS: 1. synthesis
2. double-replacement
3. single-replacement
4. decomposition
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11. LANGUAGE ARTS (5 Parts in Spelling)
Spell these delightful “d’ words.
1. dilemma
2. dilettante
3. dichotomy
4. diabolical
5. disenfranchise
ANSWERS: 1. d-i-l-e-m-m-a
2. d-i-l-e-t-t-a-n-t-e
3. d-i-c-h-o-t-o-m-y
4. d-i-a-b-o-l-i-c-a-l
5. d-i-s-e-n-f-r-a-n-c-h-i-s-e
12. MATHEMATICS (4 Parts in Geometry) COMPUTATION
You will be given equations for circles. Find the radius of each circle.
1. x2 + (y – 1)2 = 4
2. (x + 1)2 + (y + 2)2 = 3
3. x2 + y2 – 4y = 0
4. x2 + y2 + 2x – 2y = -1
ANSWERS: 1. 2
2. √3
3. 2
4. 1
13. FINE ARTS (5 Parts in Art History)
In what European city would you find the following famous art museums?
1. Museo del Prado
2. Musee d’Orsay
3. National Gallery
4. Van Gogh Museum
5. Uffizi Museum
ANSWERS: 1. Madrid
2. Paris
3. London
4. Amsterdam
5. Florence
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14. SOCIAL STUDIES (5 Parts in Government)
Identify these government words that begin with a vowel.
1. The return of a criminal to officers of the state in which the crime was committed.
2. An ambassador’s mission, entourage, and official residence in a foreign nation.
3. A pardon granted to an individual or group by the government.
4. Governmental prohibition on the export of goods to specific foreign states.
5. Protection given to political refugees by a state or agency with diplomatic immunity.
ANSWERS: 1. extradition
2. embassy
3. amnesty
4. embargo
5. asylum
15. SCIENCE (5 Parts in General Science)
What’s your favorite “-ology?” Supply the word that fits each of the following
scientific pursuits.
1. The study of animals.
2. The study of the physical function of living things.
3. The study of the origin and development of the universe.
4. The study of earthquakes and related phenomena.
5. The study of form and structure of organisms without regard to function.
ANSWERS: 1. zoology
2. physiology
3. cosmology
4. seismology
5. morphology
16. LANGUAGE ARTS (4 Parts in Grammar)
A determiner is a class of words that determines the reference of a noun phrase. You will be
given a group of words that are determiners. Tell the specific category or type of determiners that
would be assigned to each of these groups of words.
1. a, an, and
2. this, that, these, those
3. my, her, his, their
4. who, which, what
ANSWERS: 1. articles
2. demonstrative pronouns
3. possessive pronouns
4. interrogative pronouns
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17. MATHEMATICS (5 Parts in Trigonometry) COMPUTATION
What is the period of each of the following functions?
1. f(x) = - tan x
2. f(x) = 3 sin 1/2x
3. f(x) = cos 3x
4. f(x) = sin (x – π/6)
5. f(x) = sec 2x
ANSWERS: 1. π (pi)
2. 4π
3. 2π/3
4. 2π
5. π
18. FINE ARTS (5 Parts in Architecture)
Answer these questions about famous structures and their architects.
1. What building, designed by Shreve, Lamb, and Harmon, was the tallest building in the
world for more than 40 years?
2. What 57-story building, designed by Cass Gilbert, was built to house the corporate
headquarters of one of the leading retailers of the early 20th century?
3. What 175,000-acre private estate in Asheville, North Carolina, belonging to the
Vanderbilt family, still stands as one of the most prominent examples of the Gilded Age?
4. What architect designed the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City?
5. What architect designed the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain?
ANSWERS: 1. Empire State Building
2. Woolworth Building
3. Biltmore Estate
4. Frank Lloyd Wright
5. Frank Gehry
19. SOCIAL STUDIES (4 Parts in Economics)
Answer these questions about investing.
1. In 1896, Charles Dow used 11 stocks that he used to compute his industrial average.
From what industry were nine of these companies’ stocks?
2. How many stocks are currently included in the Dow Jones Industrial Average?
3. Which company is the only one of the original 11still included on the average?
4. What is the complete meaning of the acronym NASDAQ?
ANSWERS: 1. railroad
2. 30
3. General Electric
4. National Association of Securities Dealers Automatic Quotation System
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20. SCIENCE (5 Parts in Chemistry)
Identify these rare earth elements from their Periodic Table abbreviations.
1. Md
2. No
3. Eu
4. Pu
5. Pm
ANSWERS: 1. Mendelevium
2. Nobelium
3. Europium
4. Plutonium
5. Promethium
21. LANGUAGE ARTS (5 Parts in World Literature)
You will be given the name of an author and the first line or phrase from a book by that
author. Give the title of author’s book in which these first lines appeared.
1. Nathaniel Hawthorne; “Halfway down a bystreet of one of our New England towns
stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, facing towards various points of the
compass, and a huge, clustered chimney in the midst.”
2. Leo Tolstoy; “Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the
Buonapartes.”
3. Alexandre Dumas; “On the first Monday of the month of April, 1625, the town of
Meung, in which the author of The Romance of the Rose was born, appeared to be in a perfect state
of revolution as if the Hugenots had just made a second Rochelle of it.
4. John le Carre; “The American handed Leamas another cup of coffee and said, ‘Why
don’t you go back and sleep?’ We can ring you if he shows up.”
5. Thomas Wolfe; “It was the hour of twilight on a soft spring day toward the end of April
in the year of Our Lord 1929, and George Webber leaned his elbows on the sill of his back window
and looked out at what he could see of New York.”
ANSWERS: 1. The House of the Seven Gables
2. War and Peace
3. The Three Musketeers
4. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
5. You Can’t Go Home Again
22. MATHEMATICS (5 Parts in Trigonometry) COMPUTATION
Give the sine for each of the following angles.
1. 180 degrees
2. 270 degrees
3. 135 degrees
4. 240 degrees
5. 330 degrees
ANSWERS: 1. 0
2. -1
3. √2/2
4. -√3/2
5. -1/2
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23. MISCELLANEOUS (5 Parts in Popular Music)
Name the recording artist or group that performed the following hit songs of the past decade.
1. “Since U Been Gone”
2. “Breathe”
3. “Rehab”
4. “How You Remind Me”
5. “Boulevard of Broken Dreams”
ANSWERS: 1. Kelly Clarkson
2. Faith Hill
3. Amy Winehouse
4. Nickelback
5. Green Day
24. SOCIAL STUDIES (5 Parts in U.S. History)
Hillary Clinton was a very visible First Lady during her husband’s presidency and later went
on to win a Senate seat, thus becoming the first First Lady to be elected to Congress. Answer these
questions about this notable First Lady.
1. What position did she accept in the new Obama cabinet?
2. Who was the senior senator from New York while she served as the junior senator from
that state?
3. From what law school did she graduate?
4. At what Little Rock Arkansas law firm did she work from 1977 to 1992?
5. What is the name of her book that won a Grammy in 1997?
ANSWERS: 1. Secretary of State
2. Chuck Schumer
3. Yale University
4. Rose Law Firm
5. It Takes a Village: And Other Lessons Children Teach Us
25. SCIENCE (5 Parts in Biology)
Answer these questions about the largest creatures of their kind.
1. What is the longest insect in the world, found in the rainforests of Borneo?
2. What is the world’s largest moth, in terms of overall size, native to southeast Asia, and
often mistaken for a bird?
3. What is the heaviest insect, named for a giant, and found in Africa?
4. What is the largest known land gastropod?
5. What is the world’s largest known spider, found mostly in the coastal rainforests of
Suriname, Guyana, and French Guiana?
ANSWERS: 1. stick insect (walking stick)
2. atlas moth (Saturniidae)
3. goliath beetle
4. African giant snail
5. goliath bird-eating spider (goliath birdeater)
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26. LANGUAGE ARTS (5 Parts in Vocabulary)
The Greek alphabet is said to be the mother of all European alphabets. Name the first five
letters of the Greek alphabet in the order in which they appear.
ANSWERS: 1. alpha
2. beta
3. gamma
4. delta
5. epsilon
27. SOCIAL STUDIES (5 Parts in Geography)
The hills are alive! Name the highest mountain in each of these countries.
1. United States
2. Canada
3. Mexico
4. Australia
5. Antarctica
ANSWERS: 1. Mount McKinley
2. Mount Logan
3. Citlaltépetl
4. Mount Kosciusko
5. Vinson Massif
28. SCIENCE (5 Parts in Chemistry)
Give the common name for each of these chemical compounds.
1. H2O2
2. Fe2O3
3. C3H8
4. NaHCO3
5. C6H12O6
ANSWERS: 1. hydrogen peroxide (peroxide)
2. rust
3. propane (propane gas)
4. baking soda
5. glucose
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29. LANGUAGE ARTS (5 Parts in Spelling)
Spell these military terms.
1. battalion
2. neutrality
3. commodore
4. kamikaze
5. lieutenant
ANSWERS: 1. b-a-t-t-a-l-i-o-n
2. n-e-u-t-r-a-l-i-t-y
3. c-o-m-m-o-d-o-r-e
4. k-a-m-i-k-a-z-e
5. l-i-e-u-t-e-n-a-n-t
30. SOCIAL STUDIES (5 Parts in Government)
Answer these questions about powers granted and reserved in the U.S. Constitution.
1. What are powers that are specifically granted to the federal government called?
2. What are powers that the federal government has that are not specifically granted in the
Constitution called?
3. What are powers that are held by the states called?
4. What are powers that are held by both the states and the federal government called?
5. What are powers that are denied to the states, the federal government, or both called?
ANSWERS: 1. delegated powers
2. implied powers
3. reserved powers
4. concurrent powers
5. prohibited powers
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LIGHTNING ROUND DIRECTIONS:
COACH: Start the timer when you begin reading the clues. Participants have 60 SECONDS to
see who can answer as many parts of the question as possible within that time limit. Or, divide
participants into teams, with each team choosing a captain. Team members may consult on the
answer, but only the captain can answer. The first answer from a participant or team is the only
answer that counts toward a score.
LIGHTNING ROUND: Geography
Campus Locations: Tell the state in which the main campus of each of these colleges or
universities is located.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
Dartmouth
DePaul
Brigham Young
Duke
Kent State University
John Hopkins
Gonzaga
William and Mary
Brown
Rice
EXTRA:
11. Purdue
12. Cornell
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Illinois
Utah
North Carolina
Ohio
Maryland
Washington
Virginia
Rhode Island
Texas
Indiana
New York
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WORKSHEET DIRECTIONS
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out two copies of the worksheet to each team, but remind each team that they may turn in only one
copy of the worksheet. Allow TWO MINUTES to complete the worksheet. Give a one-minute
warning, followed by a warning every fifteen seconds thereafter.
WORKSHEET ANSWERS: Grammar Terms
1.
appositive
11.
keyword
2.
brackets
12.
linking
3.
cliché
13.
mnemonic
4.
diacritic
14.
nonrestrictive
5.
eponym
15.
orthograhpy
6.
first person
16.
portmanteau
7.
gender
17.
quantifier
8.
homonyms (homophones)
18.
Reed-Kellogg
9.
indicative
19.
spoonerism
10.
jargon
20.
tilde
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VARSITY PRACTICE SET 1
WORKSHEET
GRAMMAR TERMS
Identify these grammatical terms. If your answers are correct, they will proceed in alphabetical order.
_____________________1. A group of words, set off by commas, that gives further
information about a noun or pronoun.
_____________________2. The punctuation mark used to enclose information within a quotation
when the information is not part of the original quotation.
_____________________3. A word or phrase that is overused and trite.
_____________________4. A mark added to above or below a letter to change its pronunciation,
such as an accent.
_____________________5. A word derived from a person’s proper name, such as “maverick.”
_____________________6. The writing perspective in which the speaker performs the action.
_____________________7. The classification of nouns according to sex.
_____________________8. Words that have the same sound and spelling but different meanings.
_____________________9. The mood employed to state a fact or ask a question.
_____________________10. Language, phrases, or abbreviations used by people who share a
common profession or area of interest.
_____________________11. The main word used to search for information within documents.
_____________________12. A verb that requires a subject complement to complete the sentence.
_____________________13. A memory aid, such as a rhyme.
_____________________14. Descriptive information that can be omitted without changing the
meaning of the sentence.
_____________________15. The academic term for spelling.
_____________________16. A word made from the combination of two words, such as brunch.
_____________________17. Adjective or noun that expresses amount, such as some, half, etc.
_____________________18. The most common method of diagramming sentences.
_____________________19. A word or phrase in which syllables have been transposed.
_____________________20. A mark placed over a letter to indicate nasal pronunciation.
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