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PAGE Academic Bowl
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Regionals Questions
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2005 PAGE Academic Bowl for Middle Grades
Regionals – Pronunciation Guide
Game #
1
Ques.#
2-B
5-T
8-T
8-B
9-T
9-B
TB-1
2
3-T
3-B
7-T
7-B
8-T
8-B
10-B
TB-1
3
1-T
2-T
6-T
6-B
8-T
8-B
4
1-B
2-B
3-T
3-B
6-T
6-B
7-B
8-B
Pronunciation
permeable (PURR me uh bl)
Offenbach’s (AHF en BAHKS)
gaiety (GAY ih tee)
Patagonia (PAT uh GO nee uh)
Iberian (eye BEER ee un)
encephalitis (en SEFF uh LIGHT iss)
hydrophobia (HYDE ruh FO bee uh)
hemophilia (HE mo FEEL ee uh)
isthmus (ISSTH muss)
enclave (AHN klayv)
San Marino (SANN muh REEN oh)
Liechtenstein (LEEK ten shtine)
Luxembourg (LUCKS im burg)
estuary (EST yoo ware ee)
ophthalmologist (AHF thal MAHL uh jist)
glaucoma (glaw KO muh)
astigmatism (ass STIG muh tizz um)
monocotyledon (MAHN uh KAHT uh LEED un)
dicotyledon (DYE KAHT uh LEED un)
angiosperms (ANN jee oh SPERMZ)
Namibia (nam IBB ee uh)
Bangladesh (BANG luh DESH)
basalt (BAY salt)
commutative (KAHM you tay tiv)
Roald Dahl (RO uld DOLL)
emphysema (IMM fuh ZEEM uh)
diaphragm (DYE uh fram)
alveoli (al VEE oh lie)
Niger (NYE jur)
Limpopo (lim PO po)
Orinoco (ore ih NOCK oh)
Irrawaddy (EAR uh WAHD ee)
podiatrist (po DYE uh trisst)
bauxite (BAWK site)
Maghreb (MAH greb)
apartheid (uh PAR tide)
Saskatchewan (sass SKATCH ih wahn)
Khartoum (KAR TOOM)
Jacques (JAKES)
decrescendo (DEE kruh SHEN doe)
diminuendo (dih MEN you WIN doe)
pizzicato (PEET see KAH toe)
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Game #
4
Ques.#
9-B
TB-1
Pronunciation
ichthyologist (ICKTH ee AHL uh jist)
Mindanao (MEN duh NOW)
5
1-T
3-B
6-B
piccolo (PICK uh lo)
Bedouin (BED ooh win)
parathyroid (PAIR uh THIGH royd)
6
2-T
2-B
metamorphic (MET uh MORF ick)
pumice (PUMM iss)
obsidian (ubb SIDD ee un)
igneous (IGG nee us)
Cormier (KOR mee yay)
para-amino benzoic (PAIR uh uh MEEN oh ben ZO ick)
bronchi (BRAHN kye)
Pyongyang (PYAWNG yang)
Titicaca (TEE tee COCK uh)
vertices (VURR tih seez)
Tiber (TYE bur)
3-B
6-B
9-B
10-B
TB-1
TB-2
7
1-T
7-B
8-T
8-B
9-B
TB-1
8
2-B
5-T
5-B
6-T
6-B
8-T
8-B
9
10
4-T
precocious (pree KO shuss)
tuber (TUBE ur)
geotropism (JEE oh TROPE izzum)
Koran (CORE ann)
sura (SOOR uh)
Siddhartha Gautama (sidd AR thuh gaw TAHM uh)
Buddhism (BOO dizzum)
Hispaniola (HISS span YO luh)
crevasse (kruh VASS)
Odysseus (oh DISS us)
Odyssey (AHD ih see)
Ithaca (ITH uh kuh)
Janjaweed (JANN juh weed)
Darfur (DAHR fur)
Beringia (bear ENN jee uh)
Machu Picchu (MAH choo PEE choo)
Chichen Itza (CHEE chen EET suh)
Mayan (MY un)
4-B
8-B
zygote (ZYE goat)
diatom (DYE uh TAHM)
diploid (DIP loyd)
Sardinia (sahr DEEN ee uh)
8-T
TB-1
Kilimanjaro (KILL ih mun JAHR oh)
deoxyribonucleic (dee OX see RYE bo noo KLEE ick)
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Game #
11
Ques.#
2-T
4-B
9-B
10-B
12
1-T
3-B
7-T
TB-1
13
2-B
4-B
8-T
8-B
14
3-T
5-T
5-B
8-B
15
1-T
1-B
Pronunciation
Cartesian (car TEASE yun)
Aswan (AZZ wahn)
Auckland (AWK lund)
Gobi (GO bee)
Kalahari (KAHL uh HAHR ee)
Atacama (AT uh KAHM uh)
Carlo Collodi (KAHR loe kuh LOAD ee)
Yalta (YAWL tuh)
Pervez Musharraf (per VASE moo SHURR RUFF)
Vladimir Putin (VLAD uh meer POO teen)
Frankwieler (FRANK wile ur)
onomatopoeia (AHN uh MAHT uh PEE uh)
Tuskeegee (tuss KEEG ee)
Tchaikovsky (chy KAHF skee)
Stravinsky (struh VINN skee)
Prometheus (pro MEETH ee us)
Medusa (meh DOO suh)
Minotaur (MEN uh tahr)
Labyrinth (LAB ih rinth)
Narcissus (nahr SISS us)
Linnaeus (lin NAY us)
Baum (BAHM)
Spyri (SPEAR eye)
Wyss (VEESE)
Hamm (HAM)
8-B
10-T
Degas (DAY GAH)
Gauguin (GO GANN)
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
(AHN REE day too LOOSE-luh TRECK)
Tigris (TYE griss)
Danube (DAN YOOB)
Brahmaputra (BRAH muh POO truh)
symbiosis (simm by OH siss)
bon appetite (bone APP uh TEET)
TB-1
4-B
6-T
6-B
tineo pedis (tin EE uh PEDD iss)
Pedro Alvarez Cabral (PAID ro AL vuh rezz kah BRAHL)
Mahatam Gandhi (muh HAT muh GAHN dee)
TB-2
2-B
Antietam (ann TEET um)
Shiloh (SHY lo)
hegira (huh JYRE uh)
hyperbole (high PIRR buh lee)
oxymoron (OX see MORE ahn)
simile (SIMM ih lee)
7-B
6-B
10-B
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Game #
TB-3
Ques.#
2-B
4-B
6-T
6-B
7-T
7-B
9-T
9-B
Pronunciation
Boers (BORES)
Maori (rhymes with flowery)
Aborigine (ABB uh RIDGE ih nee)
Lemieux (lee MYOO)
Giambi (jee AHM bee)
Emeka Okafor (ih MEEK uh AHK uh for)
concertos (kun CHAIR toes)
Mozart (MOATS art)
Amadeus (AM uh DAY us)
Bathsheba (bath SHE buh)
Potiphar’s (POT ih furz)
yamacraw (YAM uh kraw)
Apalachee (APP uh latch ee)
Kolomoki (KO lo MO kee)
Etowah (ETT uh wah)
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Game 1
1.
Tossup (10)
PAGE – 2005
Regionals
Q. Bunker Hill was an important battle in the Revolutionary War. In which
state did this occur?
A. Massachusetts
Bonus (20)
Q. In which state did each of these Revolutionary War battles occur?
1. Cowpens
2. Valley Forge
3. Guilford Courthouse
4. Saratoga
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
2.
Tossup (10)
South Carolina
Pennsylvania
North Carolina
New York
Q. What is the usually colorless, transparent, crystalline mineral that is
used in pressure gauges, timing devices, and gemstones? Its name
begins with the letter Q and ends with a Z.
A. quartz
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What do we call dead trees and similar organic material that have
been turned into stone over many years when minerals from ground
water are allowed to replace organic materials?
2. What word do we use to describe rock or soil that has connecting
pores that allow water to pass through easily?
A. 1. petrified
2. permeable (PURR me uh bl)
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3.
Tossup (10)
Q. The TI-83 calculator and similar calculators can store and recall
numbers to and from memory. What will be the result following these
entries: 9 STO x ENTER, 8 STO y ENTER, 5 STO z ENTER, x + y —
z ENTER?
A. 12
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. Suppose a number like 9 is stored in the x location and then later it is
recalled by the RCL command and displayed by the calculator.
What is now in the x storage location?
2. Suppose 9 is stored in the x location, next 4 is stored in the x
location, then RCL x is entered. What will be displayed?
A. 1. 9 (it remains unchanged after a RCL)
2. 4 (the 4 overwrites the 9)
4.
Tossup (10)
Q. By what name is a whole number that has exactly two positive factors
known?
A. prime number
Bonus (20)
Q. All or nothing. Which two of the following numbers are prime: 57, 97,
117, 197?
A. 97 and 197
5.
Tossup (10)
Q. Spell the last word in the following sentence: Offenbach’s (AHF en
BAHKS) music is filled with the sounds of Parisian gaiety (GAY ih
tee).
A. g a i e t y
Bonus (20)
Q. Spell each of the following words:
1. azalea
2. porcelain
3. monastery
4. inaugurate
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
azalea
porcelain
monastery
inaugurate
CALL FOR SCORE AND SUBSTITUTIONS
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6.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the literary term for the development and presentation of the
personality of a character, usually through actions, speech, reputation,
appearance, and the author’s attitude toward this person?
A. characterization
Bonus (20)
Q. What C-words are the terms for the following:
1. writing that exaggerates certain individual qualities of a person and
produces a burlesque, ridiculous effect
2. a piece of literature that by common consent has achieved a
recognized superior status in literary history
3. a literary work, usually a play, which ends happily and which often
includes humor and laughter
4. a pair of consecutive rhymed lines in verse
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
7.
Tossup (10)
caricature
classic
comedy
couplet
Q. What integer is one-half divided by one-eighth?
A. 4
Bonus (20)
Q. Jim and Steve are brothers. Steve’s age is 35. The least common
multiple of Jim and Steve’s ages is 315 and the greatest common factor
of their ages is 5. How old is Jim?
A. 45
8.
Tossup (10)
Q. On which continent is Patagonia (PAT uh GO nee uh)?
A. South America
Bonus (20)
Q. Each of the following is associated with which continent?
1. Hudson Bay
2. Sierra Nevada
3. Great Barrier Reef
4. Iberian (eye BEER ee un) Peninsula
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
North America
North America
Australia
Europe
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9.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the common vector for yellow fever, malaria, and encephalitis?
A. mosquito
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the main vector for hydrophobia (HYDE ruh FO bee uh)?
2. Is hemophilia (HE mo FEEL ee uh) more likely contracted from
insects, polluted water, or inherited from one’s parents?
A. 1. the saliva of rabid animals (accept bites from rabid animals or the
like)
2. inherited from one’s parents
10. Tossup (10)
Q. What is the tough elastic tissue that is found in the nose, throat, and ear
as well as other parts of the body? This tissue forms most of the body
skeleton during infancy before changing to bone during growth.
A. cartilage
Bonus (20)
Q. What is the connecting tissue …
1. … holding bones in place?
2. … holding muscles together?
A. 1. ligaments
2. tendons
TIE-BREAKERS
1.
Q. What word beginning with the letter I is a narrow strip of land that
connects two larger land areas?
A. isthmus (ISSTH muss)
2.
Q. What is the square root of the square root of sixteen?
A. 2
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Game 2
1.
Tossup (10)
PAGE – 2005
Regionals
Q. What is the grammatical term for a word that tells for or to whom
something is done? “Stan,” in the sentence “I lent Stan my car,” is an
example.
A. indirect object
Bonus (20)
Q. Tell what kind of object the word “her” is in each of the following
sentences:
1. I gave her a new book.
2. Father offered to give her a trip to New York.
3. Mother went with her to a fancy dress shop.
4. The birthday party afforded her an opportunity to celebrate.
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
2.
Tossup (10)
indirect object
object of an infinitive
object of a preposition
indirect object
Q. The quotient of two numbers with opposite signs is always
what kind of number?
A. negative
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is least common multiple of 12 and 18?
2. What is the greatest common factor of 126 and 198?
A. 1. 36
2. 18
3.
Tossup (10)
Q. Which one of the following is an enclave (AHN klayv): San Marino
(SANN muh REEN oh), Andorra, Liechtenstein (LEEK ten shtine), or
Luxembourg (LUCKS im burg)?
A. San Marino
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. Would you more likely find an estuary (EST yoo ware ee) in Tibet,
Brazil, Bolivia, or Austria?
2. Would you more likely find an erg in France, Indonesia, Honduras,
or Egypt?
A. 1. Brazil
2. Egypt
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4.
Tossup (10)
Q. What do we call the rate of change of an object’s velocity with respect
to time? It is referred to by a word beginning with the letter A.
A. acceleration
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. In feet per second, what is the acceleration of an object on the
earth’s surface due to the gravitational force of the earth?
2. Is the acceleration due the moon’s gravitational force about 1/2, 1/4,
or 1/6 that of the earth’s?
A. 1. 32
2. 1/6
5. Tossup (10)
Q. In art, what is the term for a decorative border around a picture to serve
as a frame or to provide contrast between the picture and the frame?
A. mat
Bonus (20)
Q. Answer these questions about the Parthenon:
1. What is the name of the hill it stands on?
2. It was built for the worship of what deity?
3. It is a fine example of which one of the three orders of Greek
architecture?
4. Many of its original marble sculptures are now housed in what
museum in a distant city?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
the Acropolis
Athena
Doric
British Museum (London, England)
CALL FOR SCORE AND SUBSTITUTIONS
6.
Tossup (10)
Q. Between what two consecutive integers does the square root of four
hundred eleven lie?
A. 20 and 21
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is three raised to the fourth power plus four raised to the third
power?
2. What is the fourth root of sixteen times the seventh root of negative
one?
A. 1. 145
2. –2 (negative two)
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7.
Tossup (10)
Q. Which type of medical doctor is certified to diagnose and treat diseases
of the eye with drugs, surgery, and corrective measures?
A. ophthalmologist (AHF thal MAHL uh jist) (Not optometrist)
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the disease of the eye characterized by a buildup of fluid
inside the eye resulting in excessive pressure that can lead to
damage of the optic nerve, impaired vision, and possibly blindness?
2. What is the term for blurred vision caused when either the cornea or
the lens is curved unevenly? This can be adjusted with corrective
lenses.
A. 1. glaucoma (glaw KO muh)
2. astigmatism (ass STIG muh tizz um)
8.
Tossup (10)
Q. What do we call flowering plants with one seed leaf? Answer with a
term beginning with the letter M.
A. monocot (also accept monocotyledon) (MAHN uh KAHT uh LEED un)
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is a flowering plant with two seed leaves called?
2. What are flowering vascular plants that produce fruit containing one
or more seeds? More than half the known plant species belong to
this division.
A. 1. dicot (also accept dicotyledon) (DYE KAHT uh LEED un)
2. angiosperms (ANN jee oo SPERMZ)
9.
Tossup (10)
Q. Who wrote the classic novel entitled Kidnapped?
A. (Robert Louis) Stevenson
Bonus (20)
Q. Who wrote each of the following children’s classics:
1. Alice in Wonderland
2. The Wind in the Willows
3. A Child’s Garden of Verses
4. The Secret Garden
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
(Lewis) Carroll
(Kenneth) Grahame
(Robert Louis) Stevenson
(Frances Hodgson) Burnett
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10.
Tossup (10)
Q. The earth has how many oceans?
A. 4
Bonus (20)
Q. Which ocean does each of the following countries border?
1. Uruguay
2. Namibia (nam IBB ee uh)
3. Bangladesh (BANG luh DESH)
4. Ecuador
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
Atlantic
Atlantic
Indian
Pacific
TIE-BREAKERS
1.
Q. Stone Mountain in North Georgia is a large outcropping of which of the
following: basalt, sandstone, marble, or granite?
A. granite
2.
Q. What is the hundredths digit when one-seventh is expressed in decimal
form?
A. 4
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Game 3
1.
Tossup (10)
PAGE – 2005
Regionals
Q. Which property of the real numbers is illustrated by the following: five
times ten equals ten times five.
A. commutative (KAHM you tay tiv) property of multiplication
Bonus (20)
Q. Andy, Bill, Carl, and Dan participated in a bicycle race. Andy beat Bill
by 9.25 seconds. Carl beat Dan. Andy finished 6.38 seconds ahead of
Dan but 2.31 seconds behind Carl.
1. Which bicyclist won the race?
2. Which bicyclist came in last?
A. 1. Carl
2. Bill
2.
Tossup (10)
Q. Complete this title of a book by Roald Dahl (RO uod DOLL): James
and the . . .
A. . . . Giant Peach
Bonus (20)
Q. Complete each of these titles:
1. The Summer of My . . . (Greene)
2. Roll of Thunder, . . . (Taylor)
3. . . . to the Center of the Earth (Verne)
4. Where the Red . . . (Rawls)
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
3.
Tossup (10)
. . . German Soldier
. . . Hear My Cry
A Journey . . .
. . . Fern Grows
Q. What is a dark brown or black rock that is formed by the decomposition
of plant material?
A. coal
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. Coal is which basic type of rock?
2. What is the elemental pollutant found in coal deposits that can leach
into streams and lakes if proper care is not exercised?
A. 1. sedimentary
2. sulfur
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4.
Tossup (10)
Q. Which one of the following states does not lie west of Minnesota:
Wisconsin, Montana, or North Dakota?
A. Wisconsin
Bonus (20)
Q. Which one of the following states . . .
1. does not lie east of Colorado: Missouri, Kansas, or Utah?
2. does not lie west of Iowa: Nebraska, Illinois, or Wyoming?
A. 1. Utah
2. Illinois
5. Tossup (10)
Q. What do we call the main page of a Web site? Typically, it serves as an
index or table of contents to other documents stored at the site.
A. home page
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. For what do the computer-related initials HTML stand?
2. For what do the computer-related initials IP stand?
A. 1. Hypertext Markup Language
2. Internet Protocol
CALL FOR SCORE AND SUBSTITUTIONS
6.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the cause of most cases of emphysema (IMM fuh ZEEM uh) in
humans?
A. smoking (accept cigarettes)
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the muscle beneath your lungs that helps move air in and
out of your body?
2. What are the numerous, tiny thin-walled sacs within your lungs that
allow for the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide?
A. 1. diaphragm (DYE uh fram)
2. alveoli (al VEE oh lie) (accept the singular: alveolus)
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7.
Tossup (10)
Q. Which one of the following words is closest in meaning to the word
impudent:
1. imprudent
2. imperative
3. impure
4. impolite
A. 4. impolite
Bonus (20)
Q. What is the objective case form of each of the following pronouns:
1. I
2. she
3. they
4. it
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
8.
Tossup (10)
me
her
them
it
Q. The Niger (NYE jur) River is on which continent?
A. Africa
Bonus (20)
Q. On which continent is each of the following rivers?
1. Limpopo (lim PO po)
2. Volga
3. Orinoco (ore in NOCK oh)
4. Irawaddy (EAR uh WAHD ee)
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
9.
Tossup (10)
Africa
Europe
South America
Asia
Q. What is the sum of three-fourths of twenty-eight and three-fifths of
fifteen?
A. 30
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. 120 hours is the equivalent of how many days?
2. How many pints is three and one-half gallons?
A. 1. 5
2. 28
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10.
Tossup (10)
Q. This organization is the United Nations’ specialized agency for health.
Its objective, as set out in its Constitution, is the attainment by all
peoples of the highest possible level of health. What is this organization
that is commonly known as WHO?
A. World Health Organization
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What agency, known as the IRS, collects the nations taxes and
administers the Internal Revenue Code that has been enacted by
Congress?
2. What agency, known at the FAA, provides a safe, secure, and
efficient global aerospace system that contributes to national
security and the promotion of US aerospace safety?
A. 1. Internal Revenue Service
2. Federal Aviation Administration
TIE-BREAKERS
1.
Q. If f of x equals x divided by four, what is f of eight?
A. 2
2.
Q. On which continent is the Arabian Desert?
A. Asia
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Game 4
1.
Tossup (10)
PAGE – 2005
Regionals
Q. Which type of doctor treats problems of the skin?
A. dermatologist
Bonus (20)
Q. Which type of doctor treats …
1. … problems and diseases of the feet?
2. … diseases of children and cares for their general health?
A. 1. podiatrist (po DYE uh trisst)
2. pediatrician
2.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the most abundant metal in the earth’s crust?
A. aluminum
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the ore from which much of our aluminum comes?
2. Which statement about aluminum is false? “It is a good conductor
of electricity.” “It can be magnetized easily.” “It is a good
conductor of heat?”
A. 1. bauxite (BAWK site)
2. The second one is false: “It can be magnetized easily.”
3.
Tossup (10)
Q. On which continent is the Maghreb (MAH greb)?
A. Africa
Bonus (20)
Q. Each of the following is most closely associated with which country?
1. canton
2. Outback
3. caste system
4. apartheid (uh PAR tide)
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
Switzerland
Australia
India
South Africa
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4.
Tossup (10)
Q. Steve earned $23 picking up pecans. He earned $3 more than 4 times
what Latoya earned. How much money did Latoya earn?
A. $5
Bonus (20)
Q. What is the age of the younger of two children, the product of whose
ages is 48, and the sum of whose ages is 14?
A. 6
5.
Tossup (10)
Q. Spell the last word in the following sentence: The manager’s decision is
not likely to prove beneficial.
A. b e n e f i c i a l
Bonus (20)
Q. Spell each of the following words:
1. ecstasy
2. devise
3. weird
4. hideous
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
ecstasy
devise
weird
hideous
CALL FOR SCORE AND SUBSTITUTIONS
6.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the capital of the country of which Saskatchewan (sass
SKATCH ih wahn) is a province?
A. Ottawa
Bonus (20)
Q. What is the capital of each of the following countries?
1. Hungary
2. Syria
3. Sudan
4. Guatemala
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
Budapest
Damascus
Khartoum (KAR TOOM)
Guatemala City
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7.
Tossup (10)
Q. Name the author of the animal fantasy book entitled Babe: The Gallant
Pig.
A. (Dick) King-Smith
Bonus (20)
Q. Name the authors of these other animal fantasy books:
1. Stuart Little
2. A Bear Called Paddington
3. Watership Down
4. Redwall
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
8. Tossup (10)
(E. B.) White
(Michael) Bond
(Richard) Adams
(Brian) Jaques (JAKES)
Q. What is the name of the musical sign that looks like a tic-tac-toe-grid?
A. sharp
Bonus (20)
Q. What musical term is defined by each of the following:
1. in a slow, solemn manner
2. fast (or cheerful) tempo
3. a gradual decrease in volume
4. plucking the strings by using the fingers (rather than the bow)
A. 1. largo (also accept lento)
2. allegro
3. decrescendo (DEE kruh SHEN doe), or diminuendo (dih MEN you
WIN doe)
4. pizzicato (PEET see KAH toe)
9.
Tossup (10)
Q. What do we call a marked abrupt developmental change in the form or
structure of an animal following birth, such as the four stages which
most insects undergo during their life cycle?
A. metamorphosis (NOT metamorphism, which refers to rocks)
Bonus (20)
Q. What do we call a scientist who specifically studies …
1. … insects?
2. … fish?
A. 1. entomologist
2. ichthyologist (ICKTH ee AHL uh jist)
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10.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the numerator of a fraction equivalent to four-sevenths whose
denominator is twenty-eight?
A. 16
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the square root of six plus the square root of twenty- four in
simplified form?
2. What is the cube root of sixty-four quantity cubed?
A. 1. three square roots of six
2. sixty-four
TIE-BREAKERS
1.
Q. Which one of the following is not an Australian State: Mindanao,
Tasmania, Victoria, or Queensland?
A. Mindanao (MEN duh NOW)
2.
Q. Who founded the colony of Pennsylvania?
A. William Penn
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Game 5
1.
Tossup (10)
PAGE – 2005
Regionals
Q. The piccolo (PICK uh lo) is a member of what family of musical
instruments?
A. woodwind
Bonus (20)
Q. To which family of musical instruments does each of these belong:
1. lute?
2. English horn?
3. French horn?
4. recorder?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
2.
Tossup (10)
string
woodwind
brass
woodwind
Q. How many hours is it from 11:00 p.m. on March 3, 2004 until 2:00 a.m.
on March 5, 2004?
A. 27
Bonus (20)
Q. Round five, six, one, seven, point, three, eight, two to the nearest . . .
1. ten.
2. tenth.
3. thousand.
4. hundredth.
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
3.
Tossup (10)
5,620
5,617.4
6,000
5617.38
Q. Would you more likely experience a monsoon in Switzerland, Chad,
Paraguay, or India?
A. India
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. Would you more likely find a Bedouin (BED ooh win) in Italy,
India, Peru, or Saudi Arabia?
2. Would you more likely find an Inuit in Spain, Canada, Niger, or
New Zealand?
A. 1. Saudi Arabia
2. Canada
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4.
Tossup (10)
Q. What do we call the word to which a pronoun refers?
A. the antecedent of the pronoun
Bonus (20)
Q. What is the possessive case form of each of the following pronouns:
1. they
2. she
3. we
4. it
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Tossup (10)
their / theirs (accept either)
her / hers
(accept either)
our / ours
(accept either)
its
Q. What is the element that gives limestone its silver-white color?
A. calcium
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the compound containing calcium that is derived from
skeletons and shells or marine organisms?
2. What is the name for depressions or holes in the earth’s surface,
common in North Florida, that form when underground limestone
caverns collapse?
A. 1. calcium carbonate (CaCO-3)
2. lime sinks (for “sink holes” request more specific information)
CALL FOR SCORE AND SUBSTITUTIONS
6.
Tossup (10)
Q. Which one of your body’s systems comprises your ductless glands?
A. endocrine
Bonus (20)
Q. Which of your glands controls …
1. … the level of calcium in your blood and bones? You have four of
them.
2. … your blood sugar?
A. 1. parathyroid (PAIR uh THIGH royd) (Not thyroid)
2. pancreas
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7.
Tossup (10)
Q. Steve is n years old. Tory is five years younger than Steve and George
is six years older than Steve. What is the sum of their ages?
A. three n plus one (or one plus three n)
Bonus (20)
Q. Crawford Middle School scored 20 points in the first quarter of their last
basketball game. They scored half as many points in the second quarter,
three-fourths as many in the third quarter, and one-fourth as many
points in the fourth quarter as they did in the first quarter. How many
points did Crawford score in the game?
A. 50
8.
Tossup (10)
Q. On April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee surrendered to what Union General
officially ending the Civil War?
A. (Ulysses) Grant
Bonus (20)
Q. In which state did these Civil War battles occur?
1. Vicksburg
2. Chickamauga
3. Chancellorsville
4. Gettysburg
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
9.
Tossup (10)
Mississippi
Georgia
Virginia
Pennsylvania
Q. What is the two-word phrase that refers to a collection of picture files
that are stored on a disk or other storage medium that can be accessed
and moved into the current open document?
A. clip art
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What do we call the person who is responsible for managing a Web
site, creating and updating Web pages, replying to user feedback,
and monitoring traffic through the site?
2. What is a small Java program that is embedded in an HTML page?
It can be transferred over the Internet and executed by the recipient’s
computer.
A. 1. Webmaster
2. applet
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10.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the literary term for a character who sets off or intensifies the
qualities of another character through a marked contrast. (Dr. Watson
fills this function in his relation to Sherlock Holmes.)
A. foil (also accept dramatic foil)
Bonus (20)
Q. Identify these other literary terms, all of which begin with the letter F:
1. a brief tale, in either prose or verse, told to point a moral
2. a song of unknown authorship preserved and transmitted by oral
tradition
3. a break in the chronological presentation of a story to return to the
past or to an earlier episode
4. narration using I or we
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
fable
folk song
flashback
first person (point of view)
TIE-BREAKERS
1.
Q. Which musician is known as Satchmo?
A. Louis Armstrong
2.
Q. For what does the Roman Numeral LV stand?
A. 55
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Game 6
1.
Tossup (10)
PAGE – 2005
Regionals
Q. What is the capital of the Hoosier State?
A. Indianapolis
Bonus (20)
Q. What is the capital of each of the following states?
1. Wyoming
2. New Mexico
3. Missouri
4. New York
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
2.
Tossup (10)
Cheyenne
Santa Fe
Jefferson City
Albany
Q. Which basic type of rock is formed by heat and pressure?
A. metamorphic (MET uh MORF ick)
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. Pumice (PUMM iss) and obsidian (ubb SIDD ee un) are classified as
which type of rock?
2. Shale and sandstone are which type of rock?
A. 1. igneous (IGG nee us)
2. sedimentary
3.
Tossup (10)
Q. Many young people have enjoyed a novel entitled The Outsider. Who
wrote The Outsider?
A. (S. E.) Hinton
Bonus (20)
Q. Who wrote each of these other books that you may have read:
1. The People Could Fly
2. The Chocolate War
3. The Red Pony
4. Island of the Blue Dolphins
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
(Virginia) Hamilton
(Robert) Cormier (KOR mee yay)
(John) Steinbeck
(Scott) O’Dell
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4.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is quantity two-fifths plus three-sevenths all raised to the zero
power?
A. 1
Bonus (20)
Q. What is 4 raised to the x power when x is …
1. three?
2. negative one?
3. negative one-half?
4. three-halves?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Tossup (10)
sixty four
one-fourth
one-half
eight
Q. What is the nickname of the athletic teams of North Carolina State?
A. Wolfpack
Bonus (20)
Q 1. Shorter College is a member of the N.A.I.A. For what does
N.A.I.A. stand?
2. Georgia State is a member of the N.C.A.A. For what does N.C.A.A.
stand?
A. 1. National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics
2. National Collegiate Athletic Association
CALL FOR SCORE AND SUBSTITUTIONS
6.
Tossup (10)
Q. Which rays from the sun are harmful in that overexposure to them can
lead to skin cancer?
A. ultraviolet (accept UV)
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the form of amino benzoic acid that is used in sunscreen to
absorb UV rays? Its full-form name is para-amino benzoic (PAIR
uh-uh MEEN oh ben ZO ick). Give the 4-letter abbreviation that
will be printed on sunscreen containers.
2. To what does SPF refer?
1. PABA
2. sun protection factor
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7.
Tossup (10)
Q. Identify the part of speech of the word farm in the following sentence:
Behind the farm buildings is a large pond.
A. adjective
Bonus (20)
Q. Identify the part of speech of the indicated word in each of these
sentences:
1. (alumni) Each spring the college honors its alumni.
2. (velvet) The green velvet chair is handsome but impractical.
3. (Either) Either of those routes is recommended by AAA.
4. (camping) My son and grandson went on a camping trip.
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
8.
Tossup (10)
noun
adjective
pronoun
adjective
Q. What number added to negative twelve gives thirteen?
A. 25
Bonus (20)
Q. Solve for x in each of the following equations.
1. Three x minus five equals negative x plus seven.
2. Negative five x equals seven x.
3. Two times quantity three x minus four equals four.
4 x divided by two equals x divided by four plus one.
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
9.
Tossup (10)
3
0
2
4
Q. Which term beginning with the letter H refers to the iron-rich protein
found in red blood cells?
A. hemoglobin
Bonus (20)
Q. What is carried in the body by …
1. … bronchi (BRAHN kye)?
2. … neurons?
A. 1. air (into the lungs)
2. nerve impulses
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10.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the largest nation in the West Indies?
A. Cuba
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. On which peninsula are you if you are in the city of Pyongyang
(PYAWNG yang)?
2. Lake Titicaca (TEE tee COCK uh) is one of the largest lakes on
which continent?
A. 1. Korean
2. South America
TIE-BREAKERS
1.
Q. What is the name of the three points of intersection of the three sides of
a triangle?
A. vertices (VURR tih seez)
2.
Q. In which country is the Tiber (TYE bur) River?
A. Italy
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Game 7
1.
Tossup (10)
PAGE – 2005
Regionals
Q. Spell the second word in the following sentence: The precocious (pree
KO shuss) child could spell her name by her second birthday.
A. p r e c o c i o u s
Bonus (20)
Q. Spell the second word in each of the following sentences:
1. Your compliment is indeed most welcome praise.
2. The complement in this sentence is a predicate noun.
3. The heroin confiscated in the police raid had been smuggled into
town.
4. The heroine of this novel eventually marries the handsome rancher.
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
2.
Tossup (10)
compliment
complement
heroin
heroine
Q. What Georgia city was at one time named Marthasville?
A. Atlanta
Bonus (20)
Q. Near which neighboring state is each of the following Georgia towns?
1. Blairsville
2. Waynesboro
3. Cartersville
4. Folkston
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
3.
Tossup (10)
North Carolina
South Carolina
Alabama
Florida
Q. What is the result when 40 is multiplied by 10 cubed and the product is
divided by 100?
A. 400
Bonus (20)
Q. Steve is 4 years younger than Bill. Bill is 7 years older than Rick.
Steve will be 18 years old 3 years from now. How old is Rick?
A. 12
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4.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the file format developed by Adobe that displays documents
identically on any computer system? Its advantage over HTML is that it
allows publishers to design complicated layouts using any typefaces and
graphics, confident that the end user will view the same layout that the
publisher has created.
A. pdf (also accept portable document format)
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. Which company introduced the Pentium chip in 1993?
2. Which company makes and sells the Dimension XPS computer?
A. 1. Intel (Corporation)
2. Dell (Inc.)
5.
Tossup (10)
Q. Which chemical element has atomic number 18? It is considered inert.
It is a gas that is used in welding and for filling light bulbs. Its symbol
is Ar.
A. argon
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. How many electrons does each atom of argon have in its third, or
outer shell?
2. Which of these statements is false about the element argon? “It is a
pale pink in color.” “It is odorless.” “It is present in earth’s
atmosphere.”
A. 1. 8
2. The first statement is false. Actually argon is colorless.
CALL FOR SCORE AND SUBSTITUTIONS
6.
Tossup (10)
Q. If x is divisible by 5 and y is divisible by 7, the product of x and y must
be divisible by what composite number?
A. 35
Bonus (20)
Q. What is the sum of the prime factors of 231?
A. 21
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7.
Tossup (10)
Q. Some plants have fine threadlike roots called fibrous roots. Other
plants, like carrots, have one long, strong root for anchoring the plant
and for absorbing water deep within the soil. What do we call this
prominent, large plant root?
A. taproot (accept tap)
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What do we call a fleshy, swollen part of a root, like a potato, that
stores food over the winter and produces new growth in the spring?
2. What is the property of some roots to grow toward the gravitational
pull of the earth?
A. 1. tuber (TUBE ur)
2. geotropism (JEE oh TROPE izzum)
8.
Tossup (10)
Q. Islam is much in the news. What is the title of the book that Muslims
revere as their Scriptures?
A. The Koran (CORE ann)
Bonus (20)
Q. Answer these questions about the Koran:
1. It purports to be a revelation from what deity?
2. To what prophet was this revelation made?
3. The Koran is written in what language?
4. Rather than chapter or verse, the basic small unit of the Koran is
called what?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
9.
Tossup (10)
Allah
Mohammed
Arabic
sura (SOOR uh)
Q. What is the name of the seasonal winds that dominate the climate of
India?
A. monsoon
Bonus (20)
Q. Which world religion …
1. was founded by Siddhartha Gautama
(sidd AR thuh gaw TAHM uh)?
2. has “Four Noble Truths”?
A. 1. Hinduism
2. Buddhism (BOO dizzum)
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10. Tossup (10)
Q Pale colors or tints are sometimes known by what P-word?
A. pastels
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. By what name is the American primitive painter Anna Mary
Robertson universally known?
2. What is the term for a heavy, decorated, textile fabric used as a wall
hanging?
3. What is the term for the top part, or head, of a pillar or column?
4. Who painted the famous painting entitled American Gothic?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
Grandma Moses
tapestry
capital
(Grant) Wood
TIE-BREAKERS
1.
Q. How many countries lie on the island of Hispaniola (HISS span YO
luh)?
A. 2
2.
Q. From what country was Marco Polo?
A. Italy
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Game 8
1.
Tossup (10)
PAGE – 2005
Regionals
Q. You bought seven and one-half gallons of gasoline to fill your 24-gallon
tank. How many gallons did you have before you filled the tank?
A. sixteen and one-half
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the sum of two and five-ninths and three and seven-ninths
when written as a mixed fraction in lowest terms?
2. What is the product of one and one-half and two and one-third when
written as a mixed fraction in lowest terms?
A. 1. six and one-third
2. three and one-half
2.
Tossup (10)
Q. What word beginning with the letter E refers to the process by which
soil washes down the slopes of hills when it rains or blows away in the
wind?
A. erosion
Bonus (20)
Q. What geographical term beginning with the letter C refers to each of the
following?
1. a deep crack in a glacier
2. lines on a map that connect points that have the same elevation on a
land surface
3. a person who buys and uses many types of goods
4. the place where two or more rivers or streams meet
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
3.
Tossup (10)
crevasse (kruh VASS)
contour (lines)
consumer
confluence
Q. What is the process by which a cell divides into two daughter cells, each
with the same number of chromosomes as the original cell? Answer
with a term beginning with the letter M.
A. mitosis (meye TOH sihs)
Bonus (20)
Q. Name any 4 of the 5 phases of mitosis.
A. interphase, prophase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase
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4.
Tossup (10)
Q. Correct the error in the following sentence: Rebecca has often laid out
in the sun.
A. “laid” should be “lain”—the correct past participle form of “lie”
Bonus (20)
Q. Identify the function (such as subject of the verb, direct object, etc.) of
the indicated word in each of these sentences:
1. (pictures) This year’s class pictures are better than last year’s.
2. (pictures) I really like the pictures of my Spanish Club.
3. (teacher) They were taken by my favorite teacher.
4. (teacher) This teacher is in her first year at our school.
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Tossup (10)
subject of the sentence (or subject of the verb)
direct object (or object of the verb)
object of a preposition
subject of the sentence (or subject of the verb)
Q. The movie O Brother, Where Art Thou? is based loosely on the
adventures of what ancient Greek hero?
A. Odysseus (oh DISS us)
Bonus (20)
Q. Answer these questions about Odysseus:
1. What is the title of the Greek epic poem about him?
2. What is the name of the poet who is presumed to have written this
work?
3. Odysseus is the king of what city or land?
4. What is his wife’s name?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
The Odyssey (AHD ih see)
Homer
Ithaca (ITH uh kuh)
Penelope
CALL FOR SCORE AND SUBSTITUTIONS
6.
Tossup (10)
Q. In which African country did a government-backed militia known as
Janjaweed (JANN juh weed) engage in campaigns to displace and wipe
out communities of African tribal farmers?
A. Sudan
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. In which area of Sudan did this occur?
2. In which of the following countries did over 200,000 refuges go to
escape the violence: Chad, Egypt, Uganda, or Ethiopia?
A. 1. Darfur (DAHR fur)
2. Chad
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7.
Tossup (10)
Q. Which mineral is important for the proper functioning of your thyroid
gland? It is added to table salt and found in a variety of sea foods.
A. iodine
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. Which mineral is a major component of red blood cells? It is
obtainable from eating liver, lean meats, green leafy vegetables, or
molasses.
2. Which mineral helps keep fluids balanced within cells in the body?
It is obtainable through consumption of fruits, milk, meat, cereals,
vegetables, and sports drinks.
A. 1. iron
2. potassium
8.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the name of the land bridge that the ancestors of present-day
North America Indians crossed from Asia?
A. Beringia (bear ENN jee uh)
Bonus (20)
Q. Of what Indian civilization was each of the following cities?
1. Machu Picchu (MAH choo PEE choo)
2. Chichen Itza (CHEE chen EET suh)
A. 1. Incan
2. Mayan (MY un)
9.
Tossup (10)
Q. What subject involves the study of the earth, its matter, and the
processes that form and change the earth. Please answer with a term
that begins with the letter G.
A. geology
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the study of objects in space including stars, planets, and
comets?
2. What is the study of weather and the forces and processes that cause
it?
A. 1. astronomy
2. meteorology
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10.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the least common denominator of three fractions whose
denominators are 5, 10, and 15?
A. 30
Bonus (20)
Q. If thirty six million is expressed in scientific notational form a times 10
raised to the nth power, what is …
1. a?
2. n?
A. 1. 3.6 (three, point, six)
2. 7
TIE-BREAKERS
1.
Q. What is the sum of the solutions of the equation the absolute value of
quantity x minus one equals two?
A. 2
2.
Q. What country was formerly called Persia?
A. Iran
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Game 9
1.
Tossup (10)
PAGE – 2005
Regionals
Q. Who was the dictator who came to power in Germany in 1933?
A. (Adolph) Hitler
Bonus (20)
Q. Hitler created a powerful alliance called the Axis. It was made up of
Germany and which two countries?
A. Japan and Italy
2.
Tossup
Q. Most modern calculators use arithmetic (AR ith MET ik) logic to
complete arithmetic calculations in the absence of parentheses. What
would such a calculator return following key presses of 6 plus 4 times
13?
A. 58 (not 130)
Bonus (20)
Q. What would a calculator using arithmetic logic return following key
presses of …
1. … 8 minus 14 divided by 7?
2. … 8 minus 4 minus 2 minus 1?
3. … 8 divided by 4 divided by 2 plus 1?
4. … 8 plus 5 times 6 minus 9 divided by 3?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
3.
Tossup (10)
6
1
2
35
Q. What is 25% of sixteen twenty-fifths?
A. four-twenty-fifths (also accept 0.16)
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is x cubed divided by x squared?
2. What is the degree of three x squared plus two x minus five?
A. 1. x
2. second (two)
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4.
Tossup (10)
Q. In the sexual reproduction of plants, nuclei of two different cells join
together to form a new cell. This new cell is called which of the
following: sperm, egg, zygote, or diatom (DYE uh TAHM)?
A. zygote (ZYE goat)
Bonus (20)
Q. Your body has two types of cells with reference to the number of
chromosomes contained in each.
1. Which type has 46 chromosomes and are sometimes called body
cells?
2. Which type has 23 chromosomes and are sometimes called sex
cells?
A. 1. diploid (DIP loyd)
2. haploid
5.
Tossup (10)
Q. Who is the Greek mythological hero associated with the ship named the
Argo?
A. Jason
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. By what term are Jason and his sailors known?
2. What object did they search for?
3. What is the name of the woman whom Jason fell in love with on this
voyage?
4. What is the present-day name of the body of water that Jason sailed
across?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
Argonauts
the Golden Fleece
Medea (muh DEE uh)
the Black Sea
CALL FOR SCORE AND SUBSTITUTIONS
6.
Tossup (10)
Q. If n cubed times n squared is expressed in the form n raised to the x
power, what is x?
A. 5
Bonus (20)
Q. What is quantity two x plus four y divided by quantity x minus y, when x
is 3 and y is negative one, and the answer is expressed in lowest terms?
A. one-half
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7.
Tossup (10)
Q. What blockbuster Broadway musical of the latter half of the 20th century
is based on a series of poems by the British-American poet T. S. Eliot?
A. Cats
Bonus (20)
Q. During their “golden age” (1940s and 1950s), most Broadway musicals
had a “novelty,” or comic, song. Give the title of the shows which
included these songs:
1. “Brush Up Your Shakespeare”
2. “Honey Bun”
3. “Get Me to the Church on Time”
4. “(Everything’s Up-to-Date in) Kansas City”
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
8.
Tossup (10)
Kiss Me, Kate
South Pacific
My Fair Lady
Oklahoma!
Q. Greenland is a possession of what country?
A. Denmark
Bonus (20)
Q. The following islands are in the Mediterranean Sea. They are
possessions of what country?
1. Sardinia (sahr DEEN ee uh)
2. Crete
3. Corsica
4. Sicily
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
9.
Tossup (10)
Italy
Greece
France
Italy
Q. What is a very light metallic element? It is used in glass making and in
paper making, but it is better known for the compound it forms when it
chemically combines with chlorine to produce a condiment to add to
popcorn. Its atomic number is 11.
A. sodium
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the chemical symbol for sodium?
2. Is sodium an alkali, an alkaline earth, or a rare earth metal?
A. 1. Na
2. an alkali (metal)
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10.
Tossup (10)
Q. A comma that is used by itself to join two independent clauses creates a
sentence structure error called a what?
A. comma splice
Bonus (20)
Q. Spell the possessive form of each of these nouns:
1. wife
2. children
3. churches
4. book
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
wife’s
children’s
churches’
book’s
TIE-BREAKERS
1.
Q. What is the British crown colony at the southern tip of Spain?
A. Gibraltar
2.
Q. What is the capital of Arkansas?
A. Little Rock
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Game 10
1.
Tossup (10)
PAGE – 2005
Regionals
Q. Abi rode her bicycle 5 times in one week over the same route. She rode
42.5 miles altogether. How many miles long is her route?
A. 8.5
Bonus (20)
Q. The sum of three consecutive even integers is 48. What is three times
the smallest integer?
A. 42
2.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the imaginary line on the earth at zero degrees latitude?
A. equator
Bonus (20)
Q. Tell whether each of the following countries is above the equator, on the
equator, or below the equator.
1. Angola
2. Philippines
3. Algeria
4. Colombia
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
3.
Tossup (10)
below
above
above
on
Q. “AARP hits Perdue on care cuts” was a recent newspaper headline. For
what does AARP stand?
A. American Association of Retired Persons
Bonus (20)
Q. Answer the following questions about recent newspaper headlines.
1. “2 women dead, 3 hurt after SUV flips near Fort Pierce.” For what
does SUV stand?
2. “EPA: 10% of toxic sites not yet ‘clean.’ ” For what does EPA
stand?
A. 1. Sports Utility Vehicle
2. Environmental Protection Agency
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4.
Tossup (10)
Q. To help navigate their way around the earth, mariners and explorers
once relied upon a balanced needle inside a glass case that pointed in a
northerly direction. What is this device called?
A. compass
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. Today navigation is much easier with a GPS device. For what does
GPS stand?
2. If you were in Atlanta, Georgia would your location be 33 North, 84
West; 34 North, 118 West; or 42 North, 87 West?
A. 1. Global Positioning Satellite
2. 34N, 84W (34N, 118W is Los Angeles and 42N, 87W is Chicago)
5.
Tossup (10)
Q. Which one of the following words should not normally be capitalized:
Thursday I Allah Dakota democracy Mexican July
A. democracy
Bonus (20)
Q. Which four words in the following sentence should be capitalized,
according to common usage? On the Fourth of July we celebrate our
independence from Britain.
A. On
Fourth
July
Britain
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6.
Tossup (10)
Q. Jackson traveled 189 miles in three and one-half hours. How many
miles per hour did he average?
A. 54
Bonus (20)
Q. Use the clues that follow to find the cost of a dress.
1. The dress costs more than $80 but less than $100.
2. It can be bought with the same number of $1 bills, $5 bills, and $10
bills.
A. $96
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7.
Tossup (10)
Q. The Romans generally adopted the Greek religion but changed the
names of most of the deities. What was the Roman name of the deity
who corresponded to the Greek god named Hades?
A. Pluto
Bonus (20)
Q. Give the Roman names of these gods and goddesses:
1. the one associated with the sun and with medical healing
2. the one who corresponded to the Greek deity named Artemis
3. the one who was the wife of the chief god
4. the one who was the god of the sea
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
8.
Tossup (10)
Phoebus Apollo (also accept Apollo by itself) (Phoebus: FEE bus)
Diana
Juno
Neptune
Q. What is the highest mountain on the African Continent?
A. Mt. Kilimanjaro (KILL ih mun JAHR oh)
Bonus (20)
Q. On which continent is each of these mountain chains?
1. Alps
2. Himalayas
3. Rocky
4. Andes
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
9.
Tossup (10)
Europe
Asia
North America
South America
Q. Who is considered to be the father of genetics? He was an observant
gardener in an Austrian monastery.
A. (Gregor) Mendel
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. Which plant is he famous for studying?
2. He found that when tall plants were crossed with short plants the
resulting plants were all tall. What did he call traits or factors like
tallness that prevailed in the next generation?
A. 1. pea
2. dominant
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10.
Tossup (10)
Q. We hear a lot these days about the benefits of eating a “low-carb” diet. “Carb”
is a shortened form of a word for which class of foods?
A. carbohydrates
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. Carbohydrates can further be sub-classified with two terms
beginning with the letter S. What are these two sub classes?
2. Which two of the following are considered low-carb foods? Choose
from potatoes, peanuts, pancakes, poultry, pastry, or pasta.
A. 1. sugars and starches (5 pts. each)
2. peanuts and poultry (5 pts. each)
TIE-BREAKERS
1.
Q. To what am I referring? “It is a polymer with a uniform, repeating
backbone and side groups called ‘bases’ projecting at regular intervals.
There are four kinds of these bases and genetic information is conveyed
by their precise order. Incidentally, the total length of the message for
man is not short; it is probably more than a thousand million letters
long.”
A. DNA (deoxyribonucleic (dee OX see RYE bo noo KLEE ick) acid)
2.
Q. What is the numerical value of five factorial?
A. 120
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Game 11
1.
Tossup (10)
PAGE – 2005
Regionals
Q. Scientists are working on making hydrogen-powered cars and trucks
cost efficient. What is the environmentally friendly byproduct of the
combustion of hydrogen?
A. water
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the most dangerous poisonous gas emitted from incomplete
combustion? It has killed people who were heating their homes with
unvented gas and wood stoves.
2 Which gas will also kill people who are forced to breathe in a
confined space, like a plastic bag over their heads?
A. 1. carbon monoxide
2. carbon dioxide
2.
Tossup (10)
Q. What term is used to describe the lines that separate the quadrants of the
Cartesian (car TEASE yun) Coordinate Plane?
A. axes
Bonus (20)
Q. All or nothing. Through which quadrants of the Cartesian Coordinate
Plane does the graph of three y plus twelve x equals nine pass?
A. I, II, and IV (one, two, and four)
3.
Tossup (10)
Q. All prepositional phrases function as either one or the other of what two
parts of speech?
A. adjective and adverb
Bonus (20)
(Both answers required.)
Q. 1. You may be rather upset if you find yourself in a quandary. What is
a quandary?
2. The house you live in may be mortgaged. What is a mortgage?
A. 1. a state of uncertainty or perplexity
2. a temporary pledge of property as security for repayment of a debt
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4.
Tossup (10)
Q. Barcelona is a major city in which country?
A. Spain
Bonus (20)
Q. Each of the following is a major city of which country?
1. Aswan (AZZ wahn)
2. Auckland (AWK lund)
3. Bangkok
4. Antwerp
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
5. Tossup (10)
Egypt
New Zealand
Thailand
Belgium
Q. What 20th-century painter became famous for dripping his paint on his
canvas?
A. (Jackson) Pollock
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What 20th-century American artist became famous for his images of
Campbell Soup cans and of Marilyn Monroe?
2. What 20th-century American painter is famous for her paintings of
giant flower blooms and of cattle skulls and other images of the
desert Southwest?
A. 1. (Andy) Warhol
2. (Georgia) O’Keefe
CALL FOR SCORE AND SUBSTITUTIONS
6.
Tossup (10)
Q. The carat button on a calculator is used to raise numbers to certain
powers. For example, key presses of 5 carat 4 would yield 625 because
5 raised to the fourth power equals 625. What is the result of 6 carat 3?
A. 216
Bonus (20)
Q. What is the result following these key presses:
1. 12 carat 2?
2. 1 carat 400?
3. negative 1 carat 20?
4. 0.25 carat open parentheses, negative 3, close parentheses?
A. 1. 144
2. 1
3. -1 (some may insist that the answer is positive 1, but it is -1 because
exponentiation precedes negation in the absence of parentheses)
4. 64
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7.
Tossup (10)
Q. From 85 to 90% of the people in the US have positive blood with the
rest having negative blood. What do we call this factor of blood that
can be either positive or negative?
A. Rh (or rhesus) factor
Bonus (20)
Q. What are the four basic types of blood?
A. A, B, AB, and O (5 points apiece)
8.
Tossup (10)
Q. (Note to reader: Read slowly.) What is six plus four times two minus
three times two?
A. 8
Bonus (20)
Q. Which year has the following characteristics?
1. The year rounded to the nearest ten is 1930.
2. the sum of its digits is 20.
A. 1928
9.
Tossup (10)
Q. In which of the following countries would you more likely find an oasis:
Vietnam, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, or Indonesia?
A. Saudi Arabia
Bonus (20)
Q. On which continent is each of the following deserts?
1. Gobi (GO bee)
2. Great Sandy
3. Kalahari (KAHL uh HAHR ee)
4. Atacama (AT uh KAHM uh)
A. 1.
2.
3.
3.
Asia
Australia
Africa
South America
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10.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the title of the book that includes stories with such titles as
“How the Camel Got His Hump,” “How the Whale Got His Throat,”
“How the Leopard Got His Spots,” and “How the Rhinoceros Got His
Skin”?
A. Just So Stories
Bonus (20)
Q. Who wrote …
1. Just So Stories?
2. Little Women?
3. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer?
4. The Adventures of Pinocchio?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
(Rudyard) Kipling
(Louisa May) Alcott
(Mark) Twain (also accept Samuel L. Clemens)
(Carlo) Collodi (KAHR loe kuh LOAD ee)
TIE-BREAKERS
1.
Q. “Ride a cock horse” and “Little Nanny Etticoat” originally appeared in a
collection of verse attributed to whom?
A. Mother Goose
2.
Q. What is the capital of Montana?
A. Helena
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Game 12
1.
Tossup (10)
PAGE – 2005
Regionals
Q. Toward the end of World War II, where did the “Big Three” meet to
discuss how to end the war in Japan and Germany?
A. Yalta
Bonus (20)
Q. All or nothing. Name the “Big Three.”
A. F.D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin
2.
Tossup (10)
Q. What are the two, bean-shaped organs in your body which filter blood
and collect wastes from cells?
A. kidneys
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the muscular organ below your kidneys that holds liquid
wastes until they leave your body?
2. What is the exit tube carrying the liquid wastes from your body?
A. 1. bladder
2. urethra (not ureter)
3.
Tossup (10)
Q. Fidel Castro is the leader of which country?
A. Cuba
Bonus (20)
Q. From which country is each of the following world leaders?
1. Paul Martin
2. Pervez Musharraf (per VASE moo SHURR RUFF)
3. Vladimir Putin (VLAD uh meer POO teen)
4. Tony Blair
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
Canada
Pakistan
Russia
Great Britain
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4.
Tossup (10)
Q. What property of the real numbers is illustrated by the following:
twelve plus seven equals seven plus twelve?
A. commutative property of addition
Bonus (20)
Q. Tell whether each of the following is always true, never true, or
sometimes true, sometimes false, if x and y are integers and x is not
equal to y.
1. quantity x plus y is divisible by x.
2. x times y is divisible by x.
3. quantity x plus y is divisible by quantity negative x minus y.
4. quantity x minus y is divisible by y
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Tossup (10)
sometimes true, sometimes false
always true
always true
sometimes true, sometimes false
Q. How many officials are hired to referee a college basketball game?
A. 3
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. How many teams are invited to participate in the NCAA men’s
basketball National Championship Tournament?
2. How many minutes are played in a regulation college basketball
contest?
3. The home team should always wear what color jersey in college
basketball?
4. How many personal fouls must a player commit to foul out of a
college basketball game?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
65 (not 64)
40
white
5
CALL FOR SCORE AND SUBSTITUTIONS
6.
Tossup (10)
Q. Who gave his “I Have a Dream” speech on August 28, 1963?
A. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Bonus (20)
Q. Who became the first black (African American) …
1. player in a major professional sport when he was signed by the
Brooklyn Dodgers?
2. to sing at the Metropolitan Opera?
A. 1. Jackie Robinson
2. Marian Anderson
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7.
Tossup (10)
Q. In the novel entitled The Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
(FRANK wile ur) two children, a girl and her younger brother, run away
from home. To what famous art institution do the children escape?
A. The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the girl’s name?
2. What is her brother’s name?
3. Why does the girl decide to run away?
4. What is the name of the author of this book?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
8.
Tossup (10)
Claudia Kincaid
Jamie Kincaid
she finds herself bored with suburban life (or words to that effect)
(E. L.) Konigsburg
Q. What is the function (for example, subject of the sentence or direct
object) of the word “escalator” in the following sentence: My
grandmother and I went up the escalator.
A. object of a preposition
Bonus (20)
Q. Identify the four words in the following sentence that function as
adjectives: Traveling to my ancestral home, I drove along a farm road
with a dear friend in the car with me.
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
9.
Tossup (10)
Traveling
ancestral
farm
dear
Q. How many zeros are there in the product of 500 and 2,000?
A. 6
Bonus (20)
Q. A lemon and an orange cost 31 cents. An orange and a grapefruit cost
42 cents. A grapefruit and a lemon cost 35 cents. How much does a
lemon, an orange, and a grapefruit cost?
A. 54 cents
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10.
Tossup (10)
Q. The Grand Canyon in Arizona is a wondrous sight. Was it formed by
wind erosion, water erosion, or has it been there since the beginning of
time?
A. water erosion
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. Is the average depth of the Grand Canyon about 1000, 3000, 5000,
or 10,000 feet?
2. Is its average width about 1 mile, 3 miles, 5 miles, or 10 miles?
A. 1. 5000 ft
2. 10 mi
TIE-BREAKERS
1.
Q. Words like “splash,” “hiss,” and “buzz” are examples of what literary
device?
A. onomatopoeia (AHN uh MAHT uh PEE uh)
2.
Q. What is the largest two-digit prime number?
A. 97
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Game 13
1.
Tossup (10)
PAGE – 2005
Regionals
Q. Sherrie is five feet seven inches tall. How many inches tall is she?
A. 67
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. A cake recipe calls for one and three-fourths cups of sugar. How
much sugar would you use to make three cakes?
2. What number increased by one and three-fifths is four and twothirds?
A. 1. five and one-fourth cups
2. three and one-fifteenth
2.
Tossup (10)
Q. Henry Stanley was hired to find what man in Africa in the 1860’s?
A. (David) Livingstone
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. Who, in 1927, accomplished the first recorded nonstop transatlantic
flight when he flew from New York to Paris?
2. Who was instrumental in the founding of Tuskegee (tuss KEEG ee)
Institute?
A. 1. (Charles) Lindbergh
2. Booker T. Washington
3.
Tossup (10)
Q. Which type of chemical feels slippery and tastes bitter? Its pH would
measure in the upper half of the pH scale.
A. base
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the pH of pure water?
2. What is the pH range for acids?
A. 1. 7.0 (simply ‘seven’ is acceptable)
2. 0.0 to 7.0 (or from zero to seven, or less than 7)
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4.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the term for a piece of music written, originally, to accompany
an often spectacular, sometimes lengthy, dance performed by highly
skilled dancers? Excerpts from such works are frequently popular
concert pieces.
A. a ballet
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. Name the composer of three great and frequently performed ballets
entitled Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty, and The Nutcracker.
2. Name the composer of the famous ballet entitled The Rite of Spring.
Its dissonant music was so “modern” that it caused a near-riot in the
theater at its premier in 1913.
A. 1. (Peter I.) Tchaikovsky (chy KAHF skee)
2. (Igor) Stravinsky (struh VINN skee)
5.
Tossup (10)
Q. Modern calculators will convert decimals to fractions and fractions to
decimals. What will be the result if 0.42 is converted to a fraction on a
calculator like the TI-73?
A. 21/50 (twenty one-fiftieths)
Bonus (20)
Q. What will be the result if …
1. …2.55 is converted to fractional form?
2. … 0.16 is converted to fractional form?
A. 1. 2 -11/20 (two and eleven twentieths)
2. 4/25 (four twenty-fifths)
CALL FOR SCORE AND SUBSTITUTIONS
6.
Tossup (10)
Q. Identify the nature of the structural error in this sentence: No matter
how much time Carter spent on repairing his motorcycle and making
sure that all of his equipment was in perfect condition.
A. sentence fragment
Bonus (20)
Q. Identify the part of speech of the indicated word in each of these
sentences:
1. (meeting) Either the full committee or its chairman is sure to be at
the meeting of the district commission.
2. (Perched) Perched on the wall in front of the library, Olivia and her
brother greeted all passersby.
3. (last) At last, every piece of the jigsaw puzzle was in place.
4. (those) Jana is one of those women who feel confident in their skills.
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
noun
adjective
noun
adjective
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7.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the quotient when twenty-four x raised to the sixth power is
divided by twelve x raised to the third power?
A. two x raised to the third power (also accept two x cubed)
Bonus (20)
Q. What is x raised to the power of x, if x is …
1. three
2. four
3. negative two
4. one-half
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
8.
Tossup (10)
27
256
one-fourth
the square root of one-half (or one divided by the square root of two
or the square root of two divided by two)
Q. What is the name of the mythological Greek hero who stole fire from
the gods and gave it to human beings?
A. Prometheus (pro MEETH ee us)
Bonus (20)
Q. Identify these other Greek mythological figures:
1. the one who slew the Gorgon named Medusa (meh DOO suh) and
rescued the girl named Andromeda
2. the one who, as an infant, strangled two snakes who entered his crib
3. the one who slew the Minotaur (MEN uh tahr) in the Labyrinth
(LAB ih rinth)
4. the one who fell in love with his own reflection in a pool
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
9.
Tossup (10)
Perseus (PER see us)
Hercules
Theseus (either THE see us or THE soos)
Narcissus (nahr SISS us)
Q. What is the official state reptile of Georgia?
A. gopher tortoise
Bonus (20)
Q. What is Georgia’s official state . . .
1. insect?
2. fish?
3. bird?
4. game bird?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
honey bee
largemouth bass
brown thrasher
bobwhite quail (accept either bobwhite or quail)
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10.
Tossup (10)
Q. What do we call the working unit of the nervous system, the nerve cell?
A. neuron
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. Which part of the neuron receives messages and forwards them to
the cell body?
2. Which part of the neuron carries messages away from the cell body?
A. 1. dendrite
2. axon
TIE-BREAKERS
1.
Q. What is the name of the woman whose beauty is reputed to have been
the cause of the Trojan War?
A. Helen
2.
Q. Which Greek, who lived around 300 B.C., organized and recorded most
of the plane geometry that we study today?
A. Euclid
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Game 14
1.
Tossup (10)
PAGE – 2005
Regionals
Q. What punctuation mark normally follows a sentence like this one:
Don’t you have a beagle as I do?
A. question mark
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What punctuation mark can be used to separate (or join) two
independent clauses in a compound sentence?
2. What punctuation mark is used to separate the items in a series?
3. What punctuation mark is formed by a vertical line above a dot?
4. What punctuation mark normally follows a declarative sentence?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
2.
Tossup (10)
semicolon
comma
exclamation mark
period
Q. What is the capital of the country on the Iberian Peninsula that borders
only one country?
A. Lisbon (Portugal)
Bonus (20)
Q. Using east, west, north, and south, in which basic direction would you
go if you go the shortest route from
1. Poland to Chad?
2. Chile to Colombia
3. Angola to Brazil
4. Iraq to Afghanistan
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
3.
Tossup (10)
south
north
west
east
Q. Living things have been classified into seven categories from kingdom
to species. Who is credited with developing this classification system in
the late eighteenth century?
A. (Carolus) Linnaeus (lin NAY us)
Bonus (20)
Q. Linnaeus proposed a two-word naming scheme for naming all
organisms. Which 2 categories are used in this scheme to identify a
specific organism?
A. genus and species
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4.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the sum of the numerator and denominator when twenty-four
thirty-sixths is written as a fraction in lowest terms?
A. 5
Bonus (20)
Q. All or nothing. Arrange the following in increasing order if x equals
negative one-third: negative x, x, x squared, x cubed.
A. x, x cubed, x squared, negative x
5.
Tossup (10)
Q. Who wrote the famous children’s story entitled The Wonderful Wizard
of Oz?
A. (L. Frank) Baum (BAHM)
Bonus (20)
Q. Who wrote each of these classic children’s books:
1. Heidi
2. The Swiss Family Robinson
3. The Jungle Book
4. Peter Pan
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
(Johanna) Spyri (SPEAR eye)
(J. D.) Wyss (VEESE)
(Rudyard) Kipling
(J. M.) Barrie
CALL FOR SCORE AND SUBSTITUTIONS
6. Tossup (10)
Q. What is an infection caused by a type of bacterium called a spirochete
(pronounced spy-ro-keet) that is carried by deer ticks. An infected tick
can transmit the spirochete to the humans and animals it bites.
Untreated, the bacterium travels through the bloodstream, establishes
itself in various body tissues, and can cause a number of symptoms,
some of which are severe.
A. Lyme disease
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. Which type of drug will be effective in the treatment of Lyme
disease if used soon after its contraction?
2. Does the spot of the infected tick bite look more like a red bull’s
eye, a yellowish oval-shaped rash, or a purplish bruise?
A. 1. antibiotics
2. red bull’s eye
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7.
Tossup (10)
Q. What do we call one-celled protists that can be found in numbers of up
to 300,000 in one gram of soil? Their name means “first animals.”
A. protozoa
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What do we call a form of asexual reproduction in which an
outgrowth of the parent separates to form a new individual? This is
a method of reproduction of yeasts.
2. What is the gas emitted from yeast that causes bread to rise in the
baking process?
A. 1. budding
2. carbon dioxide
8.
Tossup (10)
Q. Which event of international importance began August 13, 2004, and
ended August 29, 2004?
A. Olympics (or Summer Olympic Games)
Bonus (20)
Q. Answer these questions about the 2004 summer Olympic games.
1. Who won the men’s all-around gymnastics gold medal because of a
judging error?
2. From what country was the competitor who won the bronze medal
because of the judging error?
A. 1. Paul Hamm (HAM)
2. South Korea
9.
Tossup (10)
Q. On July 22, 1587, the English established a colony in what is now North
Carolina. Where was this colony established?
A. Roanoke Island
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. By what name is this colony called today?
2. Who was Governor of the colony?
A. 1. Lost Colony
2. John White
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10.
Tossup (10)
Q. If you divide Ashley’s age by four and then add two, you get ten. What
is Ashley’s age?
A. 32
Bonus (20)
Q. All or nothing. Grapes cost $1.30 per pound. If you purchase 2.6
pounds of grapes, pay with a $5 bill and receive 1 bill and four coins in
change, what must the four coins be?
A. 1 half dollar
1 dime
2 pennies
TIE-BREAKERS
1.
Q. What biblical character struck his staff against a rock in order to obtain
water?
A. Moses
2.
Q. What governmental agency is in charge of space exploration?
A. NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration}
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Game 15
1.
Tossup (10)
PAGE – 2005
Regionals
Q. Identify the 19th-century French painter who is especially noted for his
paintings of ballet dancers and race horses?
A. (Edgar) Degas (DAY GAH)
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. Identify the artist who painted the work entitled “Starry Night.”
2. Identify the 20th-century Spanish-French artist who is famous for
having experienced a “Blue Period.”
3. Identify the 19th-century French painter who abandoned his family
and moved to the South Pacific island of Tahiti.
4. Identify the 19th-century French artist who is well known for his
pastel paintings on brown paper of dancers and other entertainers in
the cabarets of Paris.
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
2.
Tossup (10)
(Vincent) Van Gogh
(Pablo) Picasso
(Paul) Gauguin (GO GANN)
(Henri de) Toulouse-Lautrec
(AHN REE day too LOOSE-luh TRECK)
Q. What area of Georgia is known as the “land of the trembling earth?”
A. Okefenokee Swamp
Bonus (20)
Q. Each of the following lakes lies in Georgia and which other state?
1. Walter F. George
2. Seminole
3. West Point
4. Strom Thurmond
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
3.
Tossup (10)
Alabama
Florida
Alabama
South Carolina
Q. What is the sum of quantity negative x plus eleven and quantity three x
minus six?
A. two x plus five (or five plus two x)
Bonus (20)
Q. What is the larger of two numbers whose sum is negative eleven and
whose product is twenty-eight?
A. negative four
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4.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the measure of how hard it is to stop a moving object? It
involves both the object’s mass and its velocity?
A. momentum
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the momentum of a 15 kg bicycle traveling in a straight path
at 3 meters/second? Answer in kilograms meters per second.
2. Large, massive objects are difficult to move and once these objects
are set in motion it is hard to change their speed or direction. What
is this stubborn tendency of objects to resist changes in their motion
called?
A. 1. 45
2. inertia
5.
Tossup (10)
Q. Who is the reputed author of short moral tales with titles such as “The
Crow and the Pitcher,” “The Frog and the Ox,” and “The Town Mouse
and the Country Mouse”?
A. Aesop
Bonus (20)
Q. Identify the fairy tale indicated by each of these hypothetical
supermarket tabloid headlines:
1. “Kids Incinerate Eccentric Dame”
2. “Meddlesome Girl Invades Home of Parents and Child”
3. “Shoe Fits; Gorgeous Beauty Wears It”
4. “Nubile Girl Keeps House for Gang of Deformed Miners”
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
“Hansel and Gretel”
“Goldilocks and the Three Bears”
“Cinderella”
“Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”
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6.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the least common denominator of one-half, one-third, and onefourth?
A. 12
Bonus (20)
Q. Express each of the following as a fraction in lowest terms.
1. What is the product of twenty-one sixteenths and twentyfour fourteenths?
2. What is the quotient when four-fifths is divided by sixteen twentyfifths?
A. 1. nine-fourths (also accept two and one-fourth)
2. five-fourths
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7.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the salty sea between Jordan and Israel?
A. Dead Sea
Bonus (20)
Q. On which continent is each of the following rivers?
1. Tigris (TYE griss) River
2. Danube (DAN YOOB)River
3. Columbia River
4. Brahmaputra (BRAH muh POO truh) River
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
8.
Tossup (10)
Asia
Europe
North America
Asia
Q. What do we call an alga that lives together with a fungus as one plant?
A. lichen (LIE-kin)
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the term for the close association of two different species
living together for mutual benefit?
2. What is the term for two organisms living together and causing harm
to one?
A. 1. symbiosis (simm by OH siss) (accept mutualism)
2. parasitism (parasitic)
9.
Tossup (10)
Q. John Kerry served as a U.S. Senator from which state?
A. Massachusetts
Bonus (20)
Q. From which state is each of the following Senators?
1. Hillary Clinton
2. Saxby Chambliss
3. Elizabeth Dole
4. Edward Kennedy
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
New York
Georgia
North Carolina
Massachusetts
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10.
Tossup (10)
Q. We often hear the phrase bon appétit (bone APP uh TEET), meaning
“Eat well!” or “Enjoy your meal!” From what language does this
phrase come?
A. French
Bonus (20)
Q. Identify the four words in the following sentence that function as
adjectives: Emerging from the inferno with the child, the courageous
fireman brought the cheering onlookers to the very zenith of excitement.
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
Emerging
courageous
cheering
very
TIE-BREAKERS
1.
Q. Who wrote the famous novel about a horse named Black Beauty?
A. (Anna) Sewell
2.
Q. What is the reciprocal of the multiplicative inverse of 4?
A. 4
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Tie Breaker 1
1.
Tossup (10)
PAGE – 2005
Regionals
Q. Tariffs are taxes on what kind of goods?
A. imported items
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. A river or lake that is wide and deep enough to be traveled by boats
is said to be what word which begins with an N?
2. When land is not cultivated or planted for a season or more it is said
to be what word which begins with the letter F?
A. 1. navigable
2. fallow
2.
Tossup (10)
Q. When x is divided by 3, the quotient is 23 and the remainder is 2.
What is x?
A. 71
Bonus (20)
Q. Tell whether each of the following is always true, never true, or
sometimes true, sometimes false.
1. The sum of two prime numbers is a composite number.
2. The sum of a prime number and a composite number is a prime
number.
A. 1. sometimes true, sometimes false
2. sometimes true, sometimes false
3.
Tossup (10)
Q. As tectonic forces cause rock beneath the earth’s surface to move, it will
bend, compress, or stretch. If these forces are great enough the rocks
will break and pass vibrations through the earth’s crust. Some of these
vibrations are mild while others can cause catastrophic damage. What
are these vibrations called? Answer with a term beginning with the
letter E.
A. earthquakes
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What are the lines in the earth’s crust where rocks break and move
in different directions? Earthquakes are frequent along these lines.
2. What is the point on the earth’s surface directly above an
earthquake’s focus?
A. 1. faults
2. epicenter
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4.
Tossup (10)
Q. If someone tells you that you have halitosis, they are not paying you a
compliment. Perhaps you need to clean your mouth and teeth. What
are they saying?
A. that you have bad breath
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is common name for tinea pedis (tin EE uh PEDD iss)? It is a
contagious fungal infection experienced by many involved in sports.
2. What is a small, benign, rough lump that usually grows on the hands
or feet and is caused by a virus?
A. 1. athlete’s foot
2. wart
5.
Tossup (10)
Q. One of the truly classic novels for young people is Mary Poppins, which
was published in 1934. Who wrote Mary Poppins?
A. (P. L.) Travers
Bonus (20)
Q. 1.
2.
3.
4.
What is Mary Poppins’s profession?
What is the last name of the family for whom she works?
This family lives at Number 17 on what street?
Mary Poppins’s famous umbrella has what figure carved at the end
of its handle?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
nanny
Banks
Cherry Tree Lane
the head of a parrot
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6.
Tossup (10)
Q. Pedro Alvares Cabral (PAID ro AL vuh rezz kah BRAHL) claimed
what South American country for Portugal?
A. Brazil
Bonus (20)
Q. From what country was each of the following?
1. Mahatma Gandhi (muh HAT muh GAHN dee)
2. Confucius
A. 1. India
2. China
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7.
Tossup (10)
Q. After writing a check for $37, your bank balance was $285. What was
your balance before you wrote the check?
A. $322
Bonus (20)
Q. Round eight, three, seven, point, four, nine, two, six to the nearest …
1. hundredth.
2. ten.
3. hundred.
4. tenth.
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
8.
Tossup (10)
837.49
840
800
837.5
Q. Spell correctly the third and the next to last words in the following
sentence: From the plane we could see the great expanse of the plain
below.
A. p l a n e and p l a i n (Both answers are required in order.)
Bonus (20)
Q. Spell each of the following words:
1. the word that is pronounced the same as the word that is spelled
collar
2. the word that is pronounced the same as the word that is spelled
sealing
3. the word that is pronounced the same as the word that is spelled
tense
4. the word that is pronounced the same as the word that is spelled
crewel
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
choler
ceiling
tents
cruel
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9.
Tossup (10)
Q. Which university’s athletic teams are known as the Hoyas?
A. Georgetown
Bonus (20)
Q. What is the nickname of each of the following universities?
1. Florida State
2. Oklahoma
3. Arizona State
4. Penn State
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
10.
Tossup (10)
Seminoles
Sooners
Sun Devils
Nittany Lions
Q. What is a block of glass with a triangular cross-section that will separate
white light into a full spectrum of colors?
A. prism
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. Which color in the spectrum has the longest wavelength?
2. Which color is in the middle of the spectrum?
A. 1. red
2. green
TIE-BREAKERS
1.
Q. What is the term for a sentence that contains two or more independent
clauses?
A. compound sentence
2.
Q. Who was the second President of the United States?
A. (John) Adams
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Tie Breaker 2
1.
Tossup (10)
PAGE – 2005
Regionals
Q. What is the type of system that allows us to lift heavy objects using
Pascal’s principle? It is used in lifting a human in a dentist’s chair or an
automobile to have its oil changed. It involves two pistons and a
connecting tube.
A. hydraulic
Bonus (20)
Q. In a hydraulic system if the smaller piston has a one square foot area
and the larger piston has a 9 square foot area, how much force should be
applied to the smaller piston to lift …
1. … a 270 pound person?
2. … a 4500 pound automobile?
A. 1. 30 lbs
2. 500 lbs
2.
Tossup (10)
Q. How many states left the Union to form the Confederate States of
America?
A. 11
Bonus (20)
Q. In which state did these Civil War battles occur?
1. Bull Run
2. Antietam (ann TEET um)
3. Shiloh (SHY lo)
4. Pea Ridge
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
3.
Tossup (10)
Virginia
Maryland
Tennessee
Arkansas
Q. 5.7 kilometers is how many meters?
A. 5,700
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. 5,000 millimeters is how many meters?
2. 6.2 meters is how many centimeters?
A. 1. 5
2. 620
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4.
Tossup (10)
Q. Identify the error in the following sentence: Everyone in the room left
their belongings behind during the fire drill.
A. “their” should be “his or her”—to agree with the singular antecedent
“everyone”
Bonus (20)
Q. Identify the function (such as predicate noun, object of a verb, etc.) of
the word telescope in each of these sentences:
1. I could clearly see both Mars and Venus through my telescope.
2. In astronomy, which is my hobby, a telescope is essential.
A. 1. object of a preposition
2. subject of the sentence (or subject of the verb)
5.
Tossup (10)
Q. The TI-73 calculator will compute the reciprocal of a number if the “x
raised to the negative first power” button is used. What will be returned
by the calculator after entering 0.25 then “x raised to the negative first
power”?
A. 4
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What will be returned in decimal mode by the calculator after
entering 1.25 then “x raised to the negative first power”?
2. What will be returned in decimal mode by the calculator after
entering 3 then “x raised to the negative first power”?
A. 1. .8 (or 0.8)
2. .3333333333 (Accept “a decimal point followed by a string of
threes” they don’t need to say how many threes. Some calculators
show 8 threes, most show 10 threes; theoretically there are infinitely
many threes after the decimal point. )
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6.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the Arabic word for God?
A. Allah
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What religion did Muhammad found?
2. What is the Muhammad’s flight from Mecca to Medina called?
A. 1. Islam
2. Hegira (huh JYRE uh)
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7.
Tossup (10)
Q. From midnight Dec. 31, 2004 until midnight Dec. 31, 2005 is slightly
more than 365 days in duration. Is this extra amount of time closer to
1/2, 1/3, or 1/4 of a day?
A. 1/4 of a day (about 5 hrs and 49 min)
Bonus (20)
Q. So a year is really 365 days, 5 hours, 49 minutes and not exactly
365-1/4 days.
1. What frequent calendar adjustment corrects for the 5-hour, 49minute overage?
2. What less frequent calendar adjustment corrects for the slight error
created in the first adjustment?
A. 1. a day is added to most years which are divisible by 4 (we observe
leap years or Feb 29th is added every 4 years or words to this
effect)
2. only century years divisible by 400 are leap years (years like 1900,
2100, 2200, etc. are not leap years.
8.
Tossup (10)
Q. Name either of the two universities that became active members of the
Atlantic Coast Conference this year?
A. Virginia Tech and Miami (FL)
Bonus (20)
Q. In which athletic conference is each of the following universities?
1. Duke
2. Syracuse
3. Penn State
4. Kansas
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
9.
Tossup (10)
Atlantic Coast (ACC)
Big East
Big 10
Big 12
Q. If the sum of the two acute angles of a parallelogram is 50, what is the
degree measure of either of the obtuse angles?
A. 155
Bonus (20)
Q. Which polygon …
1. has four sides with exactly two sides parallel?
2. has four equal sides, 2 obtuse angles, and 2 acute angles?
A. 1. trapezoid
2. rhombus
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10.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the term for language containing images that are not to be
understood literally?
A. figurative language (accept figures of speech)
Bonus (20)
Q. Give the term for these kinds of figurative language:
1. figurative language that uses exaggeration for effect
2. figurative language that uses an implied comparison between two
distinctly different things; one term is defined in relationship to
another term
3. figurative language that joins two words with contradictory meaning
4. figurative language that compares two distinctly different things
using the words as or like
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
hyperbole (high PIRR buh lee)
metaphor
oxymoron (OX see MORE ahn)
simile (SIMM ih lee)
TIE-BREAKERS
1.
Q. Which is the largest of the Great Lakes?
A. Superior
2.
Q. In which city is the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library?
A. Atlanta (Georgia)
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Tie Breaker 3
1.
Tossup (10)
PAGE – 2005
Regionals
Q. What is three and three-fourths when expressed as an improper fraction?
A. fifteen-fourths
Bonus (20)
Q. Steve bought 5 lbs. of potatoes for $2.24 and a 12 lb. watermelon. He
spent a total of $5.60. How much per pound did the watermelon cost?
A. 28 cents
2.
Tossup (10)
Q. In which of the following would you more likely find a polder:
Netherlands, Nigeria, Chile, or Japan?
A. Netherlands
Bonus (20)
Q. Each of the following is most closely associated with which country?
1. Boers (BORES)
2. autobahn
3. Maori (rhymes with flowery)
4. aborigine (ABB uh RIDGE ih nee)
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
3.
Tossup (10)
South Africa
Germany
New Zealand
Australia
Q. Which was the first country to place an artificial satellite into orbit
about the earth?
A. the former Soviet Union (accept USSR or Russia)
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What was this satellite’s name?
2. What is the name of the mission that landed on the surface of the
moon and brought back to Earth over 2000 samples of moon rock
for study?
A. 1. Sputnik I (accept Sputnik)
2. Apollo 11 (accept Apollo)
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4.
Tossup (10)
Q. Dusty Baker is the manager of which professional baseball team?
A. Cubs (Chicago)
Bonus (20)
Q. With which sport is each of the following most closely associated?
1. Karen Stupples
2. Mario Lemieux (leh MYOO)
3. Jason Giambi (jee AHM bee)
4. Emeka Okafor (ih MEEK uh AHK uh for)
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Tossup (10)
golf
hockey
baseball
basketball
Q. What word beginning with the letter C refers to the association called up
by a word, beyond its dictionary definition?
A. connotation
Bonus (20)
Q. What words or phrases beginning with the letter D are indicated by the
following:
1. a modifier that does not sensibly modify anything in its sentence
2. the main or dictionary definition of a word
3. a variety of language used by a specific group or in a specific region
4. a nonstandard form consisting of two negative words used in the
same construction so that they effectively cancel each other
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
dangling modifier
denotation
dialect
double negative
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6. Tossup (10)
Q. I was born in Salzburg, Austria, the son of an esteemed composerviolinist. I began my career as the most extraordinarily gifted child in
the history of art. I began composing music when I was five, and I
performed at the Imperial court when I was six. By the time I was
thirteen I had composed sonatas, concertos (kun CHAIR toes),
symphonies, religious works, and an opera. Among my works are five
violin concertos, twenty-seven piano concertos, and the opera The
Magic Flute. Who am I?
A. (Wolfgang Amadeus) Mozart (MOATS art)
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. A stage play about Mozart’s life, later made into a critically
acclaimed film, dramatized an old rumor that Mozart had been
murdered by a jealous, rival composer. What is the title shared by
this play and film?
2. What is the name of the composer who, presumably, was so jealous
of Mozart’s genius that he poisoned him?
A. 1. Amadeus (AM uh DAY us)
2. (Antonio) Salieri (SAL ee AIR ee)
7.
Tossup (10)
Q. Name the woman in the Old Testament who became the mother of King
Solomon.
A. Bathsheba (bath SHE buh)
Bonus (20)
Q Identify these other biblical women:
1. the one in Genesis who accused Joseph of sexually assaulting her
2. the wife of King Ahab and an adversary of Elijah
3. the mother of John the Baptist
4. Abraham’s wife
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
Potiphar’s (POT ih furz) wife
Jezebel
Elizabeth
Sarah
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8.
Tossup (10)
Q. If x is divisible by two and y is divisible by six, the sum of x and y must
be divisible by what prime number?
A. 2
Bonus (20)
Q. How many distinct prime factors does each of the following have?
1. 225
2. 128
3. 147
4. 210
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
9.
Tossup (10)
2
1
2
4
Q. The Oconee, Ocmulgee, Yamacraw (YAM uh kraw), and Apalachee
(APP uh latch ee) were tribes that were part of what Indian confederacy
or nation?
A. Creek (or Muscogee)
Bonus (20)
Q. Kolomoki (KO lo MO kee), Etowah (ETT uh wah), Rock Eagle, and
Ocmulgee are important Indian sites in Georgia. Which one is located
close to …
1. Eatonton?
2. Blakely?
3. Macon?
4. Cartersville?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
Rock Eagle
Kolomoki
Ocmulgee
Etowah
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10.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the broad, somewhat flat valley floor carved by a stream or
river that is covered by water whenever the stream or river overflows?
A. floodplain
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is a curve in a stream or river that was formed over years of
friction from fast-moving currents?
2. What do we call a layer of permeable rock, sand, or gravel that
transmits water freely and stores enough water to supply wells and
springs?
A. 1. meander
2. aquifer
TIE-BREAKERS
1.
Q. What is the sum of five raised to the power of zero plus zero raised to
the power of five?
A. 1
2.
Q. What is the capital of South Korea?
A. Seoul
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PAGE Academic Bowl
for Middle Grades
Semi-finals Questions
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2005 PAGE Academic Bowl for Middle Grades
State Semi-finals – Pronunciation Guide
Game #
1
Ques.#
2-B
8-B
9-T
9-B
2
4-T
4-B
9-B
10-B
3
4-T
5-T
7-T
7-B
9-B
4
1-B
10-T
10-B
Pronunciation
Kobe (KO bee)
Vesuvius (vuh SOO vee us)
Kosciusko (KAHSS ee US ko)
Avi (AH vee)
NIMH (NIMM)
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(ANN twann day saw(n) teg zoo pay REE)
Ariel Sharon (are ee ELL shuh ROAN)
Gerhard Schroeder (GAIR hart SHRUR durr)
Saud al-Faisal (sah OOD al FYE sahl)
Hosni Mubarak (HAHZ nee moo BAHR ick)
tsetse (SEET see)
Belize (bay LEEZ)
cartographer (kar TAHG ruh fur)
atherosclerosis (ATH ur oh skluh RO siss)
Polynesia (PAHL ih NEEZ yuh)
Hokkaido (ho KYE doe)
Luzon (LOO ZAHN)
Belarus (BELL uh russ)
Serengeti (SAIR en GET ee)
Deccan (DECK un)
Adelaide (ADD uh laid)
Caracas (kuh ROCK us)
Amman (ah MAHN)
Kampala (kahm PAHL uh)
5
1-T
3-T
6-B
8-T
10-B
ribosome (RYE bo SOAM)
palindrome (PAL in DROHM)
staurolite (STAWR oh light)
myocardial infarction (MY oh KAHR dee ul in FARK shun)
Eeyore (EE YORE)
Tigger (TIGG ur)
Milne (MILN)
6
4-T
4-B
protium (PRO dee um)
deuterium (DYOO teer ee um)
tritium (TRIDD ee um)
Albus (AL buss)
Mesopotamia (MESS oh puh TAME ee uh)
mosques (MAHSKS)
5-B
6-T
6-B
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Game #
7
Ques.#
1-B
6-T
6-B
8-B
10-B
TB-2
Pronunciation
Pyrenees (PEER ih neez)
adrenal (ad DREEN ul)
anaerobic (ANN ur ROBE ick)
silhouette (SILL uh wet)
angina (ann JYNE uh)
phlebitis (fleh BITE iss)
Pythagorean (pih THAGG ur EE un)
8
2-T
3-B
7-T
7-B
Timbuktu (TIM buck TOO)
bauxite (BAWK site)
Pampas (PAHM puz)
Rio do la Plata (REE oh day lah PLAH tuh)
Malay (muh LAY [or MAY LAY])
Okeechobee (OH kee CHOBE ee)
9
3-B
5-T
isotonic (EYE so TAHN ick)
Jehan (JAY hahn)
Taj Mahal (TODGE muh HALL)
conquistador (kun KEESE tuh door)
Czars (ZARZ)
Al-Quaeda (AL KYE duh)
Barroso (bahr OH so)
sphagnum (SFAGG num)
LeGuin (luh GWINN)
5-B
8-B
9-B
10-B
10
1-T
2-B
6-T
7-B
9-T
TB-1
1-B
2-B
3-T
3-B
8-T
10-B
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
(mus STAHF uh kih MAHL AT uh turk)
caldera (kahl DARE uh)
viscous (VISS kuss)
opaque (oh PAYK)
Montpelier (mahnt PEEL ee ur)
non-collinear (NAHN ko LINN ee ur)
commutative (KAHM you tay tiv)
hajj (HAHDJ)
Muammar Qahdafi (MOO uh mahr kuh DAHF ee)
Barack Obama (buh ROCK oh BAHM uh)
Jacques Chirac (ZHOCK shee ROCK)
Hamid Karzai (hah MIDD KARZ EYE)
epistolary (ee PISS tuh LAIR ee)
hygienist (high JEEN ist)
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Game #
TB-2
Ques.#
3-T
4-T
5-T
7-B
9-T
9-B
TB-1
TB-3
2-T
10-T
TB-2
Pronunciation
centrifuge (SEN trih fyooge)
Brer (BRAIR)
parabola (pur RABB oh luh)
Asuncion (uh SOON see ohn [long o])
Kiev (KEY EVV)
Kuala Lumpur (koo AHL uh lum POOR)
inefficacy (in EFF ih kuh see)
malfeasance (mal FEEZ unts)
incredulity (IN cred YOO lih tee)
Sonoran (suh NOR un)
hydrochloric (HYDE ro KLOR ick)
Muriatic (myoor ee AT ick)
acronym (ACK ro nimm)
Polyphemus (polly FEE muss)
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Game 1
1.
Tossup (10)
PAGE – 2005
State Semi-Finals
Q. Jim’s average in geography is 90. If his scores on his first two tests are
80 and 90, what did he score on the third test?
A. 100
Bonus (20)
Q. Answer these questions about this data: 2, 2, 4, 6, 7, 15.
1. What is its mean?
2. What is its range?
3. What is its mode?
4. What is its median?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
2.
Tossup (10)
6
13
2
5
Q. Christchurch is a major city of which country?
A. New Zealand
Bonus (20)
Q. Each of the following is a major city in which country?
1. Johannesburg
2. Kobe (KO bee)
3. Hamburg
4. Jidda
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
3.
Tossup (10)
South Africa
Japan
Germany
Saudi Arabia
Q. There are 109 in all and 90 occur in nature. They are the building
blocks for all matter. Silicon, iron, and oxygen are examples. To what
am I referring?
A. elements
Bonus (20)
Q. What are the 4 states of matter?
A. solid, liquid, gas, plasma
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4.
Tossup (10)
Q. What part of speech is the word during in this sentence: I lost my
sweater during the trip to the natural history museum.
A. preposition
Bonus (20)
Q. Identify the parts of speech represented by the word “stop” in each of
the following sentences:
1. A period is sometimes called a full stop.
2. You simply must stop calling me “Bootsie.”
3. Stop! I have a stone in my shoe!
4. Go down to the stop sign at the end of this street.
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Tossup (10)
noun
verb
interjection
adjective
Q. What is missing or greatly lacking in your diet if you suffer from
scurvy?
A. vitamin C (foods containing vitamin C)
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is missing in your body if skin cuts fail to clot readily?
2. Which vitamin can be absorbed by exposing your skin to sunlight?
A. 1. vitamin K
2. vitamin D
CALL FOR SCORE AND SUBSTITUTIONS
6.
Tossup (10)
Q. What do computer people call the process of starting up a computer by
loading the operating system into memory? It makes one think of
kicking the computer.
A. booting (accept boot or bootstrapping)
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the name for information that a Web site sends to your
computer's hard drive so that it can remember something about you
at a later time? It sounds like a snack food.
2. What is a program that can be included with email or software that
can destroy valuable information on your computer and make it
malfunction? It sounds like a human illness.
A. 1. cookie
2. virus (NOT bug or worm)
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7.
Tossup (10)
Q. Let y equal five x. If x is divisible by three, y must be divisible by what
composite number?
A. 15
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. Ashley and Bernard spent a total of eight hours and 20 minutes
working on the project for their history class. If Ashley spent four
hours and 50 minutes working on the project, how long did Bernard
spend?
2. Stephanie scored 24 points in the first quarter of the first basketball
game this year. In the remaining quarters, she scored half as many
points as in the preceding quarter. How many points did she score
in the fourth quarter?
A. 1. 3 hours 30 minutes (three and one-half hours)
2. 3
8.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the highest mountain peak in the world?
A. Mount Everest
Bonus (20)
Q. In which country is each of these mountain peaks?
1. Mount Vesuvius (vuh SOO vee us)
2. Mount Kosciusko (KAHSS ee US ko)
3. Mount McKinley
4. Mount Fuji
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
9.
Tossup (10)
Italy
Australia
United States of America
Japan
Q. Who wrote books entitled Crispin and The True Confessions of
Charlotte Doyle?
A. Avi (AH vee) (the only name he goes by)
Bonus (20)
Q. Who wrote each of these books:
1. The Witch of Blackbird Pond
2. The Cricket in Times Square
3. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (NIMM)
4. The Little Prince
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
(Elizabeth George) Speare
(George) Selden
(Robert C.) O’Brien
(Antoine de) Saint-Exupéry
(ANN twann day saw(n) teg zoo pay REE)
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10.
Tossup (10)
Q. Which part of your eye is the tissue in the back that is sensitive to light
energy?
A. retina
Bonus (20)
Q. Which eye part …
1. … responds specifically to bright light and color?
2. … responds specifically to dim light?
3. … is the convex membrane at the front of the eye which is the first
to bend light rays?
4. … is the colored part surrounding the pupil that regulates light
entering the eye?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
cones
rods
cornea
iris
TIE-BREAKERS
1.
Q. Name the inventor of the telephone and the electrical expert who
assisted him with his invention?
A. (Alexander Graham) Bell (inventor) AND (Thomas A.) Watson
(assistant)
2.
Q. For what value of x does two x plus three equal negative x?
A. negative one
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Game 2
1.
Tossup (10)
PAGE – 2005
State Semi-Finals
Q. Who of national importance was assassinated November 22, 1963?
A. (John F.) Kennedy
Bonus (20)
Q. Answer these questions about the assassination.
1. In which city did it occur?
2. Who became President when Kennedy died?
A. 1. Dallas (Texas)
2. (Lyndon B.) Johnson
2.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the karat rating for pure gold?
A. 24
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the physical characteristic of pure gold that makes it
unacceptable for use in jewelry?
2. What is the chemical symbol for pure gold?
A. 1. it is too soft and malleable and thus easily dented and deformed
2. Au
3.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the numerical value of four factorial?
A. 24
Bonus (20)
Q. What is the remainder when …
1. 623 is divided by 114?
2. 341 is divided by 27?
3. 719 is divided by 245?
4. 828 is divided by 367?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
53
17
229
94
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4.
Tossup (10)
Q. Ariel Sharon (are ee ELL shuh ROAN) is Prime Minister of which
country?
A. Israel
Bonus (20)
Q. From which country is each of the following world leaders?
1. Gerhard Schroeder (GAIR hart SHRUR durr)
2. Saud al-Faisel (sah OOD al FYE sahl)
3. Hosni Mubarak (HAHZ nee moo BAHR ick)
4. Dianne Feinstein
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Tossup (10)
Germany
Saudi Arabia
Egypt
United States
Q. In musical notation, what is the name of the elaborate sign that vaguely
resembles the letter S and that indicates the relative pitch range of the
notes that are on its staff?
A. treble clef
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the name of a black note that has a straight stem?
2. What is the name of an open, or white, note that has no stem?
3. What is the name of the musical ornament consisting of the rapid
alternation of two tones that are a whole or half step apart?
4. What is the term for the band of gut or metal that is stretched across
the lower skin of some drums and that produces a rattling sound
when the drum is struck?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
quarter note
whole note
trill
snare
CALL FOR SCORE AND SUBSTITUTIONS
6.
Tossup (10)
Q. (Note to reader: Read slowly.) What is twelve plus fifteen divided by
three minus two times four?
A. 9
Bonus (20)
Q. The sum of two integers is negative six and their product is eight. What
is the smallest of the integers?
A. negative four
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7.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the literary term for a long, narrative poem written in a
dignified style on a majestic theme, relating the exploits of a national
hero?
A. epic
Bonus (20)
Q. What literary terms are defined by the following:
1. an object, person, or action which suggests something else, usually
a feeling or abstract quality
2. a fixed or traditional conception of a person, group, or idea held by a
number of people without allowing for individuality
3. an imaginative narrative such as a short story or novel
4. an expression, idea, or saying that loses its effectiveness through
overuse; a trite remark
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
8.
Tossup (10)
symbol
stereotype
fiction
cliché
Q. Spell correctly, in their proper sequence, the first and last words in the
following sentence: Except for the last item, your suggestions are ones
that I am willing to accept.
A. e x c e p t and a c c e p t (Both answers are required.)
Bonus (20)
Q. Spell each of the following words:
1. the word that is pronounced the same as the word that is spelled
straight
2. the word that is pronounced the same as the word that is spelled
waste
3. the word that is pronounced the same as the word that is spelled
false
4. the word that is pronounced the same as the word that is spelled
assent
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
strait
waist
faults
ascent
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9.
Tossup (10)
Q. Whose website can be found at www.cdc.gov? Be careful and include
the recently expanded 6-word name.
A. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (accept Center for Disease
Control and Prevention)
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the main vector for the spread of sleeping sickness?
2. What is the main vector for the spread of West Nile virus?
A. 1. tsetse (SEET see) fly
2. mosquito
10.
Tossup (10)
Q. Is the number of countries that make up Central America 5, 7, or 9?
A. 7
Bonus (20)
Q. Answer these questions about Central America.
1. Which country borders South America?
2. How many Central American countries border Mexico?
3. Which country borders both Honduras and Costa Rica?
4. Which country borders both Belize (bay LEEZ) and El Salvador?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
Panama
2
Nicaragua
Guatemala
TIE-BREAKERS
1.
Q. Which state has the largest area?
A. Alaska
2.
Q. If y equals three x minus seven, what is x when y is negative one?
A. two
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Game 3
1.
Tossup (10)
PAGE – 2005
State Semi-Finals
Q. What snowfall depth is the equivalent to a one-inch rainfall? Is it closer
to 5 inches, 10 inches, or 15 inches?
A. 10 inches
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. Is precipitation more likely to occur with barometric pressures closer
to 29 inches, 30 inches or 31 inches of mercury?
2. Is heavier snowfall more likely at negative 40 degrees, negative 20
degrees, or 0 degrees Celsius?
A. 1. 29 in
2. 0°C
2.
Tossup (10)
Q. What do we call a group of words in a parallel row—such as “stories,
poems, and plays” in the sentence “My class is studying stories, poems,
and plays”?
A. a series
Bonus (20)
Q. Identify the part of speech of the indicated word in each of the
following sentences:
1. (Last) Last July we toured the Black Hills region.
2. (along) Our daughter Victoria came along with us.
3. (Seeing) Seeing Mt. Rushmore was the highlight of our trip.
4. (ranch) South Dakota has vast expanses of ranch land.
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
3.
Tossup (10)
adjective
adverb
noun
adjective
Q. Oranges cost 85 cents per pound. How many pounds of oranges can
you buy for $10.20?
A. 12
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. If the sides of a rectangle are doubled, by what factor is the area
increased?
2. What is the radius of the base of a right circular cylinder if its height
is 10 and its volume is 160 pi cubic units?
A. 1. 4
2. 4
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4.
Tossup (10)
Q. What does a cartographer (kar TAHG ruh fur) make?
A. maps
Bonus (20)
Q. What geographical term beginning with the letter A is each of the
following?
1. a large snowslide that occurs when too much snow builds up in
steep mountain areas
2. a type of building material that is a sun-dried mixture of mud and
straw
3. a layer of gravel, rock, or sand that can absorb or collect water
4. a book of maps
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Tossup (10)
avalanche
adobe
aquifer
atlas
Q. What term, beginning with the letter A, refers to a condition in the body
commonly called hardening of the arteries?
A. atherosclerosis (ATH ur oh skluh RO siss)
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the substance in the body that is believed to contribute to
fatty deposits in the arteries? It is a steroid alcohol that is found in
animal tissue, eggs, and fats, and we refer to it with a term that
begins with the letter C?
2. What over-the-counter medicine is taken by mostly older adults to
help thin the blood and reduce the chance of a heart attack? Its
chemical formula is C-9 H-8 O-4.
A. 1. cholesterol
2. aspirin
CALL FOR SCORE AND SUBSTITUTIONS
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6.
Tossup (10)
Q. Many young people enjoy stories about dogs. Who wrote the book
entitled Old Yeller?
A. (Fred) Gipson
Bonus (20)
Q. Who wrote these other books about dogs:
1. The Call of the Wild
2. Sounder
3. The Incredible Journey
4. Where the Red Fern Grows
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
7.
Tossup (10)
(Jack) London
(William) Armstrong
(Sheila) Burnford
(Wilson) Rawls
Q. Polynesia (PAHL ih NEEZ yuh) is found in which ocean?
A. Pacific
Bonus (20)
Q. Each of the following islands is part of which country?
1. Sumatra
2. North
3. Hokkaido (ho KYE doe)
4. Luzon (LOO ZAHN)
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
8.
Tossup (10)
Indonesia
New Zealand
Japan
Philippines
Q. What is the addictive stimulant found in tobacco smoke?
A. nicotine
Bonus (20)
Q. There are several types of alcohol known to chemists. Which type is …
1. … found in beer, wine, and hard liquor? Its chemical symbol is C-2,
H-5, OH.
2. … used as a solvent and in antifreeze solutions? It is poisonous and
it is also called wood alcohol. Its chemical symbol is CH-5, OH.
A. 1. ethanol (or ethyl alcohol)
2. methanol (or methyl alcohol)
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9.
Tossup (10)
Q. What American tied a record by winning eight swimming medals in the
2004 Summer Olympics?
A. (Michael) Phelps
Bonus (20)
Q. Answer these questions concerning the 2004 Summer Olympics.
1. Yulia Nesterenko won the gold medal in the women’s 100 meters,
breaking a 20-year American lock on the event. Was she from
Germany, Belarus (BELL uh roos), Sweden, or Afghanistan?
2. Justin Gatlin won the gold medal in the men’s 100-meter. Was he
from Jamaica, Great Britain, United States, or Australia?
A. 1. Belarus (BELL uh roos)
2. United States
10.
Tossup (10)
Q. What does quantity two x plus six divided by two equal when expressed
in lowest terms?
A. x plus three (or three plus x)
Bonus (20)
Q. What is the sum of the two factors of x squared minus sixteen?
A. two x
TIE-BREAKERS
1.
Q. What is the sum of six and the absolute value of negative six?
A. 12
2.
Q. When Alice makes her transition to Wonderland, what specific animal is
she following?
A. a white rabbit
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Game 4
1.
Tossup (10)
PAGE – 2005
State Semi-Finals
Q. The Jutland Peninsula is on which continent?
A. Europe
Bonus (20)
Q. Each of the following is on which continent?
1. Serengeti (SAIR en GET ee) Plain
2. Balkan Peninsula
3. Deccan (DECK un) Plateau
4. Cape of Good Hope
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
2.
Tossup (10)
Africa
Europe
Asia
Africa
Q. What do we call the green, light-trapping pigment in plants that is
important in photosynthesis?
A. chlorophyll
Bonus (20)
Q. What are the 4 inputs required in the photosynthesis process in plants?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
3.
Tossup (10)
light energy (or sunlight)
chlorophyll
water (accept hydrogen)
carbon dioxide
Q. 25% of 444 is what number?
A. 111
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. 54 is what percent of 360?
2. 38% of what number is 171?
A. 1. 15
2. 450
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4.
Tossup (10)
Q. What do we call the force that eventually brings almost all moving
objects to a stop? It is the resistance created by two objects in contact
with each other.
A. friction
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. Even if there were no air friction, a baseball thrown vertically
upwards would still fall back to the earth. What force is at play
here?
2. Which mode of transportation overcomes friction better and is thus
the more economical method for moving heavy items? Is it railcars
on steel tracks, barges on bodies of water, or trucks with rubber tires
on interstate highways?
A. 1. gravity
2. railcars on steel tracks
5.
Tossup (10)
Q. In painting and sculpture, what is the term—an adjective—that is used
to describe representations of men and women on horseback?
A. equestrian
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the name of the American painter of the late 18th- and early
19th-centuries who is famous for his portraits and whose well-known
image of George Washington appears on the one-dollar bill?
2. What is the name of the American painter of the early 19th-century
whose famous paintings of native birds appeared in his book The
Birds of America?
A. 1. (Gilbert) Stuart
2. (John James) Audubon
CALL FOR SCORE AND SUBSTITUTIONS
6.
Tossup (10)
Q. Which type of computer printer produces very clear, sharp images in
much the same way that a photocopier does? It uses toner and can print
a page at once.
A. laser
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. Which type of printer shoots tiny pins against a ribbon to form
characters and images?
2. Which type of printer shoots tiny droplets of ink onto the paper from
a cartridge?
A. 1. dot matrix
2. inkjet (or deskjet)
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7.
Tossup (10)
Q. In what place is the last digit of point, one, two, three, four?
A. ten-thousandths
Bonus (20)
Q. All or nothing. Order these fractions from smallest to largest: foursevenths, seven-thirteenths, and six-elevenths.
A. seven-thirteenths, six-elevenths, four-sevenths
8.
Tossup (10)
Q. Who wrote Where the Wild Things Are?
A. (Maurice) Sendak
Bonus (20)
Q. 1.
2.
3.
4.
Who illustrated this book?
What is the name of the hero?
How does he find the land where the wild things live?
When he returns from his adventure, what is waiting for him at
home?
A. 1. the author, Maurice Sendak
2. Max
3. He wills his bedroom to change into a forest, where the wild things
live (or words to that effect).
4. his supper
9.
Tossup (10)
Q. A group of words that are grammatically related to each other but that
do not have a subject and verb is called a what?
A. phrase
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. A phrase containing a preposition and its object together with any
modifiers is called a what?
2. A phrase containing a verb form ending in –ing that functions as a
noun is called a what?
A. 1. prepositional phrase
2. gerund phrase
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10.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the capital of the country of which Adelaide (ADD uh laid) is a
major city?
A. Canberra
Bonus (20)
Q. What is the capital of each of the following countries?
1. Venezuela
2. Jordan
3. Uganda
4. Cuba
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
Caracas (kuh ROCK us)
Amman (ah MAHN)
Kampala (kahm PAHL uh)
Havana
TIE-BREAKERS
1.
Q. Which of the following integers is a multiple of three: 79, 111, 347?
A. 111
2.
Q. Name either of the states in which Lake Mead is located?
A. California or Nevada
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Game 5
1.
Tossup (10)
PAGE – 2005
State Semi-Finals
Q. What is the biological term that refers to a cell organelle on which
protein is made?
A. ribosome (RYE bo SOAM)
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the gel-like part of a cell that is a mixture of proteins, fats,
carbohydrates, salts, water, and other chemicals that contain
structures that carry out life processes?
2. Who is credited with the discovery of cells. He looked at thin slices
of cork under a microscope in 1665, and noticed a structure similar
to that of little empty boxes.
A. 1. cytoplasm
2. (Robert) Hooke
2.
Tossup (10)
Q. Who won the 2004 Tour de France?
A. (Lance) Armstrong
Bonus (20)
Q. Answer these questions about the 2004 Tour de France.
1. Through how many countries did it pass?
2. Is the number of stages of the tour 8, 12, 21, or 30
3. What color jersey does a stage winner wear during the next stage?
4. What disease almost killed Lance Armstrong?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
2
21
yellow
cancer (testicular)
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3.
Tossup (10)
Q. The sentence “Madam, I’m Adam” is an example of which one of these:
1. rebus
2. acrostic
3. anagram
4. palindrome (PAL in DROHM)
A. 4. palindrome (PAL in DROHM)
Bonus (20)
Q. Which one of these four words—rebus, acrostic, anagram,
palindrome—is defined by each of the following:
1. a word or phrase formed by reordering the letters of another word or
phrase, as in “Mary” and “army”
2. a puzzle composed of words or syllables that appear in the form of
pictures
3. a word, phrase, or sentence that reads the same backward or forward
4. a poem in which the first letters of each line form a name or
message when read in sequence
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
4.
Tossup (10)
anagram
rebus
palindrome
acrostic
Q. What is the slope of the line passing through the points two, three, and
four, eleven?
A. four
Bonus (20)
Q. Answer these questions about the line two y minus six x equals twelve.
1. What is its slope?
2. What is its x-intercept?
3. What is its y-intercept?
4. What is y when x equals two?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
three
negative two (or negative two, zero)
six (or zero, six)
twelve
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5.
Tossup (10)
Q. Which one of the following is not a polygon: pentagon, cube, trapezoid,
or rectangle?
A. cube
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the perimeter of a regular hexagon of side length 10?
2. What is the length of a side of a regular pentagon whose perimeter is
100?
A. 1. 60
2. 20
CALL FOR SCORE AND SUBSTITUTIONS
6.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the official state tree of Georgia?
A. live oak
Bonus (20)
Q. What is Georgia’s official state …
1. … flower?
2. … motto?
3. … mineral?
4. … gem?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
7.
Tossup (10)
Cherokee rose
Wisdom, Justice, and Moderation
staurolite (STAWR oh light) (or Fairy Crosses)
quartz
Q. When flying a commercial airline from Atlanta to Denver, would you
more likely travel at an altitude of 4000, 40,000, or 400,000 feet above
sea level?
A. 40,000 feet
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. Your return trip from Denver to Atlanta usually requires less flying
time. Is this due primarily because Denver is higher in altitude than
Atlanta, the earth’s rotation, or that the jet stream blows from west
to east?
2. During your flight the doors and windows are sealed. Is this to
protect passengers from the warmer temperatures, the richer oxygen
content of the air, or the lower atmospheric pressures?
A. 1. the jet stream
2. the lower atmospheric pressures
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8.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the more common term for the life-threatening condition known
as a myocardial infarction (MY oh KAHR dee ul in FARK shun)?
A. heart attack
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the common term for a sudden blockage of a blood vessel in
the brain?
2. What do we call a visual record of the heart’s electrical activity?
A. 1. stroke
2. electrocardiogram (accept EKG)
9.
Tossup (10)
Q. In which year was Abraham Lincoln assassinated?
A. 1865
Bonus (20)
Q. Answer these questions about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
1. In which theatre did it occur?
2. What play was he watching?
3. Who shot him?
4. Who succeeded him as President?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
10.
Tossup (10)
Ford’s
Our American Cousin
John Wilkes Booth
Andrew Johnson
Q. What is the name of the little boy whose bear is Winnie-the-Pooh?
A. Christopher Robin
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the name of the forest Christopher Robin and his friends
live in?
2. What is the name of the donkey?
3. What is the name of the tiger?
4. Who wrote the books about these characters?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
the Hundred Acre Wood
Eeyore (EE YORE)
Tigger (TIGG ur)
(A. A.) Milne (MILN)
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TIE-BREAKERS
1.
Q. If one-half of one-third of one-fourth of a number is 2, what is the
number?
A. 48
2.
Q. Who discovered Florida in 1513 while looking for the Fountain of
Youth?
A. (Juan) Ponce de Leon
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Game 6
1.
Tossup (10)
PAGE – 2005
State Semi-Finals
Q. In how many different ways can 4 people line up to buy tickets to a
concert?
A. 24
Bonus (20)
Q. The probability that any event occurs must be …
1. … greater than or equal to what number?
2. … less than or equal to what number?
A. 1. 0
2. 1
2.
Tossup (10)
Q. Which of the following is a bilingual country: Mexico, Brazil,
Argentina, or Canada?
A. Canada
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. In which country is Ayers Rock?
2. In which country would you find the Gulf of California?
A. 1. Australia
2. Mexico
3.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the act of connecting with a computer system or Web site by
entering your user number and password?
A. logging on (or logging in)
Bonus (20)
Q. For what does the computer acronym …
1. … W-O-R-M stand?
2. … A-S-C-I-I stand?
A. 1. Write Once Read Many
2. American Standard Code for Information Interchange
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4.
Tossup (10)
Q. The most abundant isotope of hydrogen is protium (PRO dee um). How
many neutrons are present in protium atoms? Is it zero, one, or two?
A. zero
Bonus (20)
Q. What are the other two known isotopes of hydrogen? One has one
neutron; the other has two.
A. 1. deuterium (DYOO teer ee um) (one neutron)
2. tritium (TRIDD ee um) (two neutrons)
5.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the full name of the school that Harry Potter attends?
A. The Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
Bonus (20)
Q. In the Harry Potter books, …
1. … who are Muggles?
2. … what game combines flying, goalkeeping, and broomsticks?
3. … what is the headmaster’s name?
4. … who are Hermione (her MINE ee) Granger and Ron Weasley?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
nonmagic people
quidditch
Albus (AL buss) Dumbledore
two of Harry’s friends
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6.
Tossup (10)
Q. The ancient civilization of Mesopotamia (MESS oh puh TAME ee uh)
was located in which of the following present-day countries: Egypt,
Jordan, Iraq, or Saudi Arabia?
A. Iraq
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What city was the birthplace of the prophet Muhammad?
2. Muslims worship in buildings called what?
A. 1. Mecca (Saudi Arabia)
2. mosques (MAHSKS)
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Tossup (10)
Q. What is the diameter of the largest circle that can be inscribed in a 10 by
20 rectangle?
A. 10 (units)
Bonus (20)
Q. What is the area inside a square of side length 4 that is outside the
largest circle that can be inscribed in the square?
A. sixteen minus four pi (square units)
8.
Tossup (10)
Q. There are nine organ systems in the human body. Which one is
composed of your heart and blood vessels?
A. cardiovascular system (accept circulatory system)
Bonus (20)
Q. Which organ system…
1. … provides for body movement?
2. … provides framework and support?
3. … breaks down food into a usable form?
4. … regulates and controls life processes?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
9.
Tossup (10)
muscular system
skeletal system
digestive system
endocrine system
Q. Our word verb comes from a Latin word meaning what?
A. word
Bonus (20)
Q. One way of classifying sentences is according to their structure. Name
the four basic sentence structures in English usage.
A. {in any order}
1. simple
2. compound
3. complex
4. compound-complex
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10.
Tossup (10)
Q. “Tyson Foods CFO retires” was a recent newspaper headline. For what
does CFO stand?
A. Chief Financial Officer
Bonus (20)
Q. Each of the following was a headline in the business section of a
newspaper last summer.
1. “CEO says ruling likely to go against Southern.” For what does
CEO stand?
2. “SEC eyes Interstate Bakeries.” For what does SEC stand?
A. 1. Chief Executive Officer
2. Securities and Exchange Commission
TIE-BREAKERS
1.
Q. What is the product of 12 and 21?
A. 252
2.
Q. Who was the first American woman in space?
A. (Sally) Ride
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Game 7
1.
Tossup (10)
PAGE – 2005
State Semi-Finals
Q. What is the narrow passageway that connects the Atlantic Ocean and the
Mediterranean Sea?
A. Strait of Gibraltar
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What mountains help to form the boundary between Europe and
Asia?
2. What mountains lie along the border of France and Spain?
A. 1. Ural Mountains
2. Pyrenees (PEER ih neez)
2.
Tossup (10)
Q. A whole number that is not divisible by 2 is called a what?
A. odd (number)
Bonus (20)
Q. How many different prime factors does each of the following have?
1. 130
2. 231
3. 303
4. 512
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
3.
Tossup (10)
3
3
2
1
Q. Three tissues usually make up the vascular system in a seed plant.
Which of these three transports dissolved sugar throughout the plant?
A. phloem (FLOH em)
Bonus (20)
Q. Which of the three tissues …
1. … transports water and dissolved substances other than sugar
throughout the plant?
2. … produces new cells of phloem and the answer to the first part of
this Bonus question?
A. 1. xylem (ZI lum)
2. cambium (KAM bee um)
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4.
Tossup (10)
Q. Spell the last word in the following sentence: One of America’s newest
social and medical problems is obesity.
A. o b e s i t y
Bonus (20)
Q. Spell the last word in each of the following sentences:
1. We all dressed up to attend the masquerade.
2. The solemn music lent the occasion a dignified grandeur.
3. The math teacher asked us to place a circle around the quotient.
4. The outfielder easily caught the ball since he had accurately
calculated its trajectory.
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Tossup (10)
masquerade
grandeur
quotient
trajectory
Q. Many young people enjoy stories about horses and other animals. Who
wrote the Black Stallion series of books?
A. (Walter) Farley
Bonus (20)
Q. Who wrote these books about horses and other animals:
1. Smoky, the Cowhorse
2. My Friend Flicka
3. Rascal
4. The Yearling
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
(Will) James
(Mary) O’Hara
(Sterling) North
(Marjorie Kinnan) Rawlings
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6.
Tossup (10)
Q. Which gland causes your liver to release sugar into your bloodstream
providing your body with quick energy to help in stressful situations?
Its name begins with the letter A.
A. adrenal (ad DREEN ul)
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. Which type of exercise occurs faster than the body can replenish the
oxygen consumed? It means ‘without air’.
2. Which type of exercise replenishes oxygen at the same rate as it is
being used?
A. 1. anaerobic (ANN ur ROBE ick)
2. aerobic
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7.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the degree measure of an angle which is complementary to an
angle which is supplementary to an angle whose degree measure is 110
degrees?
A. 20 degrees
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the degree measure of any angle of a triangle whose sides
are seven, seven, and seven?
2. What is the degree measure of the largest angle of a triangle whose
sides are four, five, and three?
A. 1. 60
2. 90
8.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the art term for the side view of an object?
A. profile
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. In pictures constructed according to the principles of linear
perspective, what is the term for the point or points of convergence
for all lines forming an angle with the picture plane?
2. What is the term for a two-dimensional representation of the outline
of an object, uniformly filled in with black?
3. What is the term for the likeness of a person, especially of the face?
4. What is the term for a three-dimensional work of art which is a
representation of a person or animal?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
vanishing point
silhouette (SILL uh wet)
portrait
statue (not sculpture – sculpture can be of anything not just people
or animals)
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9.
Tossup (10)
Q. Who was King of England when Georgia was chartered?
A. King George II
Bonus (20)
Q. Answer these questions about the establishment of the colony of
Georgia.
1. Who was the leader of the group of men who went to King George
II with plans that promised a fresh start in the New World to
“unfortunate but worthy individuals?”
2. How many trustees for the Georgia colony were there?
3. For how many years were the trustees responsible for managing the
colony?
4. What Indian tribe lived in the area where the new colony was
established?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
10.
Tossup (10)
(James Edward) Oglethorpe
21
21
Yamacraw
Q. What is the body’s disorder that is characterized by increased blood
pressure caused by a narrowing of the arteries. Answer with a term that
begins with the letter H.
A. hypertension
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the medical condition characterized by a reduced amount of
blood to the heart, resulting in severe chest pains?
2. What is the condition which means literally an inflammation of the
wall of a vein? Restricted blood flow and clotting accompany this
condition, which is common in the lower legs. Answer with a word
that begins with “ph”.
A. 1. angina (ann JYNE uh)
2. phlebitis (fleh BITE iss)
TIE-BREAKERS
1.
Q. Which continent is sometimes known as the Dark Continent?
A. Africa
2.
Q. The Pythagorean (pih THAGG ur EE un) Theorem deals with what type
of triangle?
A. right triangle
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Game 8
1.
Tossup (10)
PAGE – 2005
State Semi-Finals
Q. What is two-thirds divided by one-eighteenth?
A. 12
Bonus (20)
Q. Answer these mathematical questions.
1. Correct to two decimal places, what is pi?
2. What is the identity element of multiplication?
3. Two lines in a plane that do not intersect are said to be what?
4. What is the reciprocal of five-fourths?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
2.
Tossup (10)
3.14
1
parallel
four-fifths
Q. On which continent was the ancient city of Timbuktu (TIM buck TOO)?
A. Africa
Bonus (20)
Q. Answer these questions about Africa.
1. The broad, grassy plain that covers more than one-fourth of the
African continent is called what?
2. Are the Atlas mountains located in the northern, central, or southern
part of Africa?
A. 1. savannah
2. northern part
3.
Tossup (10)
Q. The highest point in Georgia is Brasstown Bald near Hiawassee. Is its
altitude nearer to 4800, 5800, or 6800 feet above sea level?
A. 4800 ft
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. Is Mammoth Cave located in Georgia, Florida, West Virginia, or
Kentucky?
2. What mineral is mined in central Georgia near Gordon, Macon, and
Andersonville, among other sites? Is it marble, granite, or bauxite
(BAWK site)?
A. 1. Kentucky
2. bauxite (BAWK site)
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4.
Tossup (10)
Q. Which major league baseball team played their “home” baseball games
in two different countries last year?
A. Montreal (Expos)
Bonus (20)
Q. Answer these questions about Major League baseball teams.
1. Which two teams play their home games in Chicago?
2. Which two teams play their home games in New York?
A. 1. Cubs and White Sox
2. Yankees and Mets
5.
Tossup (10)
Q. Google is best described as which of the following: an ISP, an Internet
search engine, a Web browser, or a Web directory?
A. Internet search engine
Bonus (20)
Q. Of ISP, Internet search engine, Web browser, or Web directory, which
best describes …
1. … Yahoo?
2. … Internet Explorer?
A. 1. Web directory
2. Web browser
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6.
Tossup (10)
Q. How many edges does a cube have?
A. 12
Bonus (20)
Q. Answer these questions about a cube of edge length 3.
1. What is its surface area?
2. What is its volume?
A. 1. 54 (square units)
2. 27 (cubic units)
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7.
Tossup (10)
Q. The Pampas (PAHM puz) is found on which continent?
A. South America
Bonus (20)
Q. With which continent is each of the following associated?
1. Rio de la Plata (REE oh day lah PLAH tuh)
2. Siberia
3. Malay (muh LAY [or MAY LAY]) Peninsula
4. Lake Okeechobee (OH kee CHOBE ee)
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
8.
Tossup (10)
South America
Asia
Asia
North America
Q. What is the grammatical term for a verb form that ends in –ing and that
functions as an adjective?
A. present participle (accept participle)
Bonus (20)
Q. Identify the four words in the following sentence that function as
adjectives: Mr. Jameson, bored by the tedious lecture, lifted his
corpulent frame from the auditorium seat and left the hall.
A. bored
tedious
corpulent
auditorium
9.
Tossup (10)
Q. Which word beginning with the letter M refers to a sudden random
change in genes that are passed to the next generation of an organism?
This phenomenon is a basis for evolution.
A. mutation
Bonus (20)
Q. Which two scientists were credited with making a model for DNA in
1953?
A. 1. (Francis) Crick
2. (James) Watson
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10.
Tossup (10)
Q. One of the most popular books of poems for children is entitled Where
the Sidewalk Ends. Identify the poet who wrote this book.
A. (Shel) Silverstein
Bonus (20)
Q. Who wrote each of these poems that frequently appear in anthologies of
poetry for children:
1. “Paul Revere’s Ride”
2. “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”
3. “The Swing”
4. “Growltiger’s Last Stand”
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
(Henry Wadsworth) Longfellow
(Robert) Frost
(Robert Louis) Stevenson
(T. S.) Eliot
TIE-BREAKERS
1.
Q. What is the degree of the polynomial: x cubed plus four x plus nine?
A. 3
2.
Q. Spell spaghetti.
A. s p a g h e t t i
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Game 9
1.
Tossup (10)
PAGE – 2005
State Semi-Finals
Q. What are atoms of the same element that have different numbers of
neutrons?
A. isotopes
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. Carbon-12 is the most abundant form of carbon. Which isotope of
carbon is used as a tracer element in the carbon-dating procedure?
2. What do we call the time it takes for a radioactive substance to lose
half of its radioactive atoms through decay into other elements?
A. 1. carbon-14
2. half-life
2.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is point eight when expressed as a fraction in lowest terms?
A. four-fifths
Bonus (20)
Q. What is the decimal form of five-sixteenths?
A. 0.3125 (or .3125)
3.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is bodily exertion for the sake of maintaining physical fitness? It
is a common term beginning with the letter E.
A. exercise
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. Which type of exercise tightens and flexes muscles without bodily
movement?
2. Which type of exercise contracts muscles with accompanying bodily
movement?
Both answers are words beginning with the letter I.
A. 1. isometric
2. isotonic (EYE so TAHN ick)
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4.
Tossup (10)
Q. Spell the last word in the following sentence: The risk James took put
him in jeopardy.
A. j e o p a r d y
Bonus (20)
Q. Spell the past tense form of each of the following verbs:
1. blow
2. burst
3. keep
4. steal
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Tossup (10)
blew
burst
kept
stole
Q. What is the name of the building that Shah Jehan (JAY hahn) built when
his wife died? It is called by many “the world’s most beautiful
building?”
A. Taj Mahal (TODGE muh HALL)
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. A conquistador (kun KEESE tuh door) was a 16th-century soldier in
the Americas from what country?
2. Czars (ZARZ) ruled which country?
A. 1. Spain
2. Russia
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6.
Tossup (10)
Q. D-Day occurred during which war?
A. World War II
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. The war called “Operation Desert Storm” was successful in freeing
what country?
2. Who was Prime Minister of Great Britain during World War II?
A. 1. Kuwait
2. (Winston) Churchill
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7.
Tossup (10)
Q. In a triangle, the side opposite a right angle is called what?
A. hypotenuse
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. If two-thirds of x is three-fifths, what is x?
2. What is x if quantity five minus x divided by three equals two?
A. 1. nine-tenths
2. negative one
8.
Tossup (10)
Q. “Asbestos deaths up sharply since the 1960s, CDC finds” was a recent
newspaper headline. For what does CDC stand?
A. Centers for Disease Control (and Prevention) (also accept Center for
Disease Control)
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. “CIA has spies among Al-Qaeda (AL KYE duh)” was a recent
newspaper headline. For what does CIA stand?
2. “Barroso (bahr OH so) seals top EU job, hints at closer U.S. ties”
was also a recent newspaper headline. For what does EU stand?
A. 1. Central Intelligence Agency
2. European Union
9.
Tossup (10)
Q. What do we call a large leaf divided into many thin sections that is
common on plants like ferns and palms?
A. frond
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What are the small reproductive structures produced by seedless
plants that are capable of developing into a new plant? They can be
found on the underside of fronds.
2. What do we call the decayed remains of sphagnum (SFAGG num)
moss? It is used as a low-cost fuel.
A. 1. spores
2. peat
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10.
Tossup (10)
Q. Many young people enjoy fantasy stories. Who is the author of the
popular novel entitled Tuck Everlasting?
A. (Natalie) Babbitt
Bonus (20)
Q. Who wrote each of these fantasy novels for young people:
1. Behind the Attic Wall
2. A Wizard of Earthsea
3. The Hobbit
4. Freaky Friday
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
(Sylvia) Cassedy
(Ursula K.) Le Guin (luh GWINN)
(J. R. R.) Tolkien
(Mary) Rodgers
TIE-BREAKERS
1.
Q. What is x raised to the third power times y raised to the fourth power
when x is negative three and y is negative one?
A. negative twenty-seven
2.
Q. Seville is a major city of which country?
A. Spain
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Game 10
1.
Tossup (10)
PAGE – 2005
State Semi-Finals
Q. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (mus STAHF uh kih MAHL AT uh turk) was
instrumental in the establishment of what republic?
A. Turkey
Bonus (20)
Q. With which country is each of the following most closely associated?
1. dynasties
2. caste system
A. 1. China (also accept Egypt)
2. India
2.
Tossup (10)
Q. What do we call a mountain that is formed by layers of lava and
volcanic ash?
A. volcano
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the large opening at the top of a volcano formed when the
crater collapses into the vent following an eruption?
2. What do we call the area around the Pacific tectonic plate where
earthquakes and volcanoes are common?
A. 1. caldera (kahl DARE uh)
2. (Pacific) Ring of Fire
3.
Tossup (10)
Q. How many meters of fence are required to enclose a rectangular yard
that is 22 meters by 16 meters?
A. 76
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is x if x squared plus twelve equals x times quantity x plus
four?
2. What is the sum of the solutions of x squared minus twenty-five
equals zero?
A. 1. 3
2. 0
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4.
Tossup (10)
Q. If an adult has a complete set of these, then he or she has a total of 32
teeth. What are the last 4 teeth added, usually during the late teenage
years?
A. wisdom
Bonus (20)
Q. A tooth has 8 basic parts. Which part is …
1. … the exposed part beyond the gum?
2. … the hidden part connecting to the jawbone?
3. … the very hard outer tissue?
4. … the center containing nerves and blood vessels?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Tossup (10)
crown
roots
enamel
pulp
Q. Which one of the following words or phrases is not a preposition:
beyond, unlike, aside from, concerning, resulting, instead of?
A. resulting
Bonus (20)
Q. Which four of the following words that appear in lists of prepositions
can also function as other parts of speech:
1. about
2. since
3. off
4. from
5. without
6. for
7. above
8. between
A. 2.
3.
6.
7.
since
off
for
above
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6.
Tossup (10)
Q. The chemical formula for water is well known as H-2-O. Add another
oxygen atom and you now have H-2-O-2. What do we call this
colorless, viscous (VISS kuss), unstable liquid that is used as a first aid
antiseptic and as a bleaching agent. It is stored in an opaque (oh PAYK)
container because in the presence of light it can readily decompose into
water and oxygen.
A. hydrogen peroxide
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the flammable, colorless, hydrocarbon gas that is used as a
fuel, propellant, and refrigerant? Its chemical formula is C-3-H-8.
2. What is the flammable, colorless, odorless gas that is the main
constituent of natural gas and is used as a fuel. Its chemical formula
is C-H-4.
A. 1. propane
2. methane
7.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the capital of the state that borders Oregon and Mexico?
A. Sacramento
Bonus (20)
Q. What is the capital of each of the following states?
1. Wyoming
2. Vermont
3. North Dakota
4. Nevada
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
8.
Tossup (10)
Cheyenne
Montpelier (mahnt PEEL ee ur)
Bismark
Carson City
Q. What is the term for a complete set of printing type or screen characters
of the same design and size?
A. font (accept typeface or type style)
Bonus (20)
Q. What do we call characters of the same font …
1. … that are formed with thicker, darker strokes?
2. … that slope or tilt to the right?
A. 1. bold (or boldface)
2. italic (or italics)
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9.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the least number of non-collinear (NAHN ko LINN ee ur)
points required to determine a unique circle?
A. 3
Bonus (20)
Q. Circle M has a radius of 2 and circle N has a radius of 4. What is the
ratio of the …
1. area of circle N to the area of circle M?
2. circumference of circle N to the circumference M?
A. 1. 4 (or 4 to 1)
2. 2 (or 2 to 1)
10.
Tossup (10)
Q. Who wrote the book entitled The Phantom Tollbooth?
A. (Norton) Juster
Bonus (20)
Q. 1.
2.
3.
4.
Who is the hero of this story?
To what land is he transported?
What is the name of the giant insect he travels with?
What is the name of the watchdog whose body contains a large
alarm clock?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
Milo
the Kingdom of Wisdom
Humbug
Tock
TIE-BREAKERS
1.
Q. What is the capital of Poland?
A. Warsaw
2.
Q. What is the numerical coefficient of three x raised to the fifth power?
A. 3
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Tie-Breaker 1
1.
Tossup (10)
PAGE – 2005
State Semi-Finals
Q. What is the sum of 12, 79, and 88?
A. 179
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What property of the real numbers says that changing the order of
the factors does not change the product?
2. What property of the real numbers says that changing the grouping
of factors does not change the product?
A. 1. commutative (KAHM you tay tive) property (of multiplication)
2. associative property (of multiplication)
2.
Tossup (10)
Q. How many times per day should Muslims pray?
A. 5
Bonus (20)
Q. Every Muslim must take a pilgrimage at least once in his or her life if
they can afford it.
1. What is this pilgrimage called?
2. To what city do these pilgrims travel?
A. 1. hajj (or haj or hadj) (HAHDJ)
2. Mecca
3.
Tossup (10)
Q. Muammar Qahdafi (MOO uh mahr kuh DAHF ee) is the leader of
which country?
A. Libya
Bonus (20)
Q. From which country is each of the following world leaders?
1. Vicente Fox
2. Barack Obama (buh ROCK oh BAHM uh)
3. Jacques Chirac (ZHOCK shee ROCK)
4. Hamid Karzai (hah MIDD KARZ EYE)
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
Mexico
United States
France
Afghanistan
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4.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the imaginary line around which a planet rotates?
A. axis
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What are the two sites where the earth’s surface intersects its axis?
2. What is the name of the latitudinal line at about 23.5 degrees north
of the equator?
A. 1. poles (north & south)
2. Tropic of Cancer
5.
Tossup (10)
Q. In the following sentence, what is the antecedent of the pronoun “they”:
While most Americans are peaceful, in time of crisis they can be
hawkish.
A. Americans
Bonus (20)
Q. Which four of the following pronouns are in the nominative case:
1. our
2. him
3. we
4. you
5. her
6. their
7. I
8. he
A. 3.
4.
7.
8.
we
you
I
he
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6.
Tossup (10)
Q. Columbus, Georgia, is the county seat of which county?
A. Muscogee
Bonus (20)
Q. What is the county seat of each of the following Georgia
counties?
1. Whitfield
2. Morgan
3. Douglas
4. Houston
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
Dalton
Madison
Douglasville
Perry
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7.
Tossup (10)
Q. If f of x equals three x plus four, what is f of negative one?
A. 1
Bonus (20)
Q. If f of x equals x squared minus seven, what is the product of the values
of x for which f of x equals two?
A. -9 (negative nine)
8.
Tossup (10)
Q. What characteristic distinguishes an epistolary (ee PISS tuh LAIR ee)
story?
A. It is told entirely through letters written by one or more of the characters
(or words to this effect).
Bonus (20)
Q. What literary terms are defined by the following:
1. a comparison of things otherwise thought to be dissimilar
2. hints or clues that help to predict a later event
3. a narrative in which a character undergoes some ordeal that leads to
maturity
4. the teller of a story or novel
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
9.
Tossup (10)
analogy
foreshadowing
initiation story
narrator
Q. What is the elementary particle with an electric charge equal to onethird or two-thirds that of an electron? There are six types of this
particle: up, down, strange, charmed, top, and bottom.
A. quark
Bonus (20)
Q. Atomic masses in the periodic table of elements were once relative to
oxygen-16, but more recently the table is based upon which other
common element? Give its name and weight number.
A. carbon-12 (based on the most common isotope of carbon)
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10.
Tossup (10)
Q. Your teeth contain the element calcium. Which chemical can be added
to your diet so that it can be absorbed by your teeth to harden tooth
enamel and to help prevent tooth decay?
A. fluoride (also accept fluorine)
Bonus (20)
Q. What is the professional title of the person who…
1. cleans teeth for people?
2. applies braces to peoples’ mouths to straighten and align teeth?
A. 1. dental hygienist (high JEEN ist)
2. orthodontist
TIE-BREAKERS
1.
Q. Would you more likely experience a monsoon in Chad, Tibet,
Bangladesh, or Switzerland?
A. Bangladesh
2.
Q. What is the absolute value of quantity negative three minus seven?
A. ten
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Tie-Breaker 2
1.
Tossup (10)
PAGE – 2005
State Semi-Finals
Q. What is the profession of a person who studies human beings and their
cultures?
A. anthropologist
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. In which country would you more likely find a dingo?
2. Would you more likely find a fjord (fyord) in Canada, Panama,
South Africa, or Pakistan?
A. 1. Australia
2. Canada
2.
Tossup (10)
Q. On the standard QWERTY keyboard how many vowels, not counting
the Y, are on the same horizontal row as the Q?
A. 4 (e, u, i, and o)
Bonus (20)
Q. According to standard typing instructions, on which letter does …
1. … the left-hand ring finger rest when not typing?
2. … the right-hand index finger rest when not typing?
A. 1. S
2. K
3.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the device found in a chemistry laboratory that rotates test tubes
rapidly using centrifugal force to separate substances of different
densities?
A. centrifuge (SEN trih fyooge)
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the two-part tool usually made of porcelain that is used to
grind and mix solids. It consists of a bowl-like container to hold the
mixture and a hand-held pounding, grinding device to crush the
substance against the bowl.
2. What does a chemist call the scale that consists of a pivoted
horizontal beam with a pan suspended from each end?
A. 1. mortar and pestle (10 points, all or nothing)
2. balance
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4.
Tossup (10)
Q. Identify the folk-tale hero who, in perhaps his most famous adventure,
has a close encounter with a human figure made of tar.
A. Brer (BRAIR) Rabbit (in the Uncle Remus stories)
Bonus (20)
Q. Identify these other American folk-tale heroes:
1. the one who had a horse named Widow-Maker
2. the one who had a blue ox
3. the one who challenged a machine to lay railroad tracks
4. the one who drove Engine No. 9
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Tossup (10)
Pecos Bill
Paul Bunyon
John Henry
Casey Jones
Q. What is the common name for the shape of the graph of y equals two x
squared plus one?
A. parabola (pur RABB oh luh)
Bonus (20)
Q. All or nothing. In which quadrants of the Cartesian Coordinate Plane is
the graph of y equals two x squared plus one?
A. Quadrants I and II
CALL FOR SCORE AND SUBSTITUTIONS
6.
Tossup (10)
Q. What do we call the range of radiation that ranges from gamma rays at
one end to radio waves at the other?
A. electromagnetic spectrum
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. Which part of this spectrum allows doctors to see through your skin
to the outline of your bones?
2. Which part of this spectrum is received and interpreted by the
human eye?
A. 1. X-rays
2. visible light
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7.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the capital of the country that is the largest country in Asia?
A. Moscow
Bonus (20)
8.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the capital of each of the following countries?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
Paraguay
Libya
Ukraine
Malaysia
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
Asuncion (uh SOON see ohn [long o])
Tripoli
Kiev (KEY EVV)
Kuala Lumpur (koo AHL uh lum POOR)
Q. The graph of y equals one is perpendicular to the graph of which one of
the following: y equals negative one, x equals negative one, y equals
three?
A. x equals negative one
Bonus (20)
Q. What is the distance between the two points in the plane: two, negative
six and two, three?
A. 9
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9.
Tossup (10)
Q. Which one of the following words does not mean failure:
inefficacy (in EFF ih kuh see), malfunction, miscarriage,
malfeasance (mal FEEZ unts)
A. malfeasance
Bonus (20)
Q. Which four of the following words are acceptable synonyms for the
word impurity:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
A. 1.
4.
5.
7.
10.
Tossup (10)
indecency
imprecation
impediment
indelicacy
immorality
incredulity (IN cred YOO lih tee)
immodesty
impudence
indecency
indelicacy
immorality
immodesty
Q. Who is Secretary of Defense for the United States?
A. (Donald) Rumsfeld
Bonus (20)
Q. Who heads or holds the following Cabinet positions?
1. Department of Homeland Security
2. Secretary of State
A. 1. (Tom) Ridge
2. (Colin) Powell
TIE-BREAKERS
1.
Q. The Sonoran (suh NOR un) Desert is on which continent?
A. North America
2.
Q. What is the oldest university in the United States?
A. Harvard
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Tie-Breaker 3
1.
Tossup (10)
PAGE – 2005
State Semi-Finals
Q. On which river is Washington, D.C.?
A. Potomac
Bonus (20)
Q. On which river is each of the following cities?
1. Baton Rouge, Louisiana
2. El Paso, Texas
3. Cincinnati, Ohio
4. Nashville, Tennessee
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
2.
Tossup (10)
Mississippi
Rio Grande
Ohio
Cumberland
Q. What is the primary acid found in the gastric juice in your stomach.
A. hydrochloric (HYDE ro KLOR ick) (or muriatic) (myoo ree AT ick)
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the chemical symbol for hydrochloric acid?
2. What is the acid in carbonated drinks and given by the formula H2C O-3?
A. 1. HCl (HCl, the last symbol is a lowercase ‘l ‘and not the numeral 1)
2. carbonic acid
3.
Tossup (10)
Q. The TI-73 calculator will compute an integer divide. It will return the
quotient and the remainder for a given divisor and dividend. What will
be returned after entering 50 INT-DIVIDE 15?
A. 3 r 5 (or 3 remainder 5)
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What will be returned after entering 91 INT-DIVIDE 7?
2. What will be returned after entering 2457 INT-DIVIDE 50?
A. 1. 13 r 0 (or 13 remainder 0, must give both 13 AND the 0)
2. 49 r 7 (or 49 remainder 7)
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4.
Tossup (10)
Q. What term is used to describe two triangles whose degree measures are
the same but whose sides are not the same?
A. similar
Bonus (20)
Q. A six-foot tall man casts an eight-foot shadow. How tall is a vertical
flag pole that casts a forty-foot shadow at the same time?
A. 30 feet
5.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the term for a narrative whose plot involves the solution of a
puzzle or crime and usually creates suspense?
A. mystery
Bonus (20)
Q. Identify the literary terms defined by each of these phrases:
1. a person in a work of fiction
2. a story in which the chief figures are animals who act, think, and
speak as human beings
3. conversation among two or more of the persons in a narrative
4. a discrepancy or contrast between what is implied and what is real
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
character
beast fable
dialogue
irony
CALL FOR SCORE AND SUBSTITUTIONS
6.
Tossup (10)
Q. In which state is Cape Hatteras?
A. North Carolina
Bonus (20)
Q. In which state is each of the following capes?
1. Cape Cod
2. Cape May
3. Cape Fear
4. Cape Canaveral
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
Massachusetts
New Jersey
North Carolina
Florida
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7.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the pollutant that, simply put, is low pH precipitation?
A. acid rain
Bonus (20)
Q. What are the two main detrimental components of acid rain?
A. sulfuric acid (from coal-burning power plants)
nitric acid (from vehicle exhausts)
8.
Tossup (10)
Q. Two times two times two times four is two raised to what power?
A. 5
Bonus (20)
Q. How many equally-likely outcomes can result from flipping a coin 3
times?
A. 8
9.
Tossup (10)
Q. In the following sentence, what kind of pronoun is the word herself:
Elizabeth herself investigated the cause of the fire.
A. intensive
Bonus (20)
Q. Identify each of the following sentences as simple, compound, complex,
or compound-complex:
1. Those who remained in Charlotte County after the hurricane were
able to begin again because the government came to their aid.
2. This morning Mother hurt herself while preparing breakfast.
3. I thought the Rocky Mountains were magnificent, but, although I
have traveled widely, I was unprepared for the beauty of
Yellowstone.
4. Elaine came across a car on the shoulder this morning, so she
stopped to render assistance.
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
complex
simple
compound-complex
compound
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10.
Tossup (10)
Q. For what does the acronym (ACK ro nimm) FBI stand?
A. Federal Bureau of Investigation
Bonus (20)
Q. For what do these acronyms stand?
1. FDA
2. FDIC
A. 1. Food and Drug Administration
2. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
TIE-BREAKERS
1.
Q. In which quadrant of the Cartesian Coordinate Plane do the solutions of
the inequalities y is greater than six and x is less than negative one lie?
A. Quadrant II
2.
Q. What is the name of the one-eyed giant who entraps Odysseus and his
men in a cave?
A. Polyphemus (polly FEE muss)
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2005
PAGE Academic Bowl
for Middle Grades
State Finals Questions
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2005 PAGE Academic Bowl for Middle Grades
State Finals – Pronunciation Guide
Game #
1
Ques.#
4-B
10-T
10-B
Pronunciation
Balearic (BAL ee AIR ick)
deciduous (dee SIDD you us)
conifers (KAHN ih furz)
2
2-B
5-B
ampere (AM PEER)
periodontal (PAIR ee oh DAHN tul)
gingivitis (JINN jih VYTE iss)
Guyana (guy AHN uh)
Leeuwenhoek (LAY ven hook)
mezzo-soprano (MET so suh PRAN oh)
cliché (klee SHAY)
6-B
7-T
9-B
10-T
3
1-B
4-B
6-T
7-B
9-B
TB-1
Mogadishu (MO guh DEE shoo)
Hispaniola (HISS span YO luh)
cello (CHELLO)
cache (CASH)
Laos (LAH ohss)
Io (EYE oh)
Europa (yoor OH puh)
Ganymede (GANN ih meed)
Callisto (kuh LIST oh)
4
1-B
4-B
cerebrum (sih REE brum)
Pallas Athena (PAL us uh THEEN uh)
Lenore (len ORE)
altruistic (AL true ISS tick)
antioxidant (aunti OX sih dent)
6-B
10-B
TB-1
1-T
5-T
5-B
7-B
10-B
TB-2
5-B
7-T
8-B
9-B
hematite (HE muh tight)
Haydn (HYE dn)
Beethoven (BAY toe vin)
Mendelssohn (MEN dul sahn)
Tchaikovsky (shy KAHF skee)
Dvorak (duh VORE zhock)
Oostanaula (OOH stuh NAW luh)
Altamaha (ALL tuh muh HAH)
Philistine (FILL ih STEEN)
Lusitania (LOOSE ih TANE ee uh)
entomology (EN tuh MAHL uh jee)
Artemus (AR tih muss)
Ares (AIR eez)
Poseidon (po SIDE un)
Aphrodite (afro DYTE ee)
oncology (ahn KAHL uh jee)
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Game #
TB-3
Ques.#
1-T
1-B
4-T
4-B
5-T
5-B
7-T
7-B
8-T
8-B
10-B
Championship 7-B
9-B
10-B
12-B
15-B
16-B
17-B
Pronunciation
homonyms (HAHm uh nimmz)
Homophones (HAHM uh phones)
kleptomania (KLEPP toe MANE ee uh)
Leonardo da Vinci (LAY uh NAHR doe duh VINN chee)
mobiles (MO bulls)
cubism (KYOO bizzum)
Precambrian (pre KAM bree un)
Paleozoic (PAY lee oh ZO ick)
Cenozoic (SINN oh ZO ick)
vena cava (VEEN uh CAVE uh)
vena cavae (VEEN uh CAVE ee)
leukocytes (LEWK oh sights)
Odin (OH DAN)
Tyr (TEER)
Khyber (KYE burr)
cytoplasm (SIGHT oh PLAZZ um)
Mitochondria (MIGHT oh KAHN dree uh)
Beijing (bay JING)
Brisbane (BRIZZ bain)
Raphael (RAFF ee el)
pituitary (pih TOO ih TAIR ee)
Leinart (LEEN art)
Guinevere (GWINN uh veer)
lactose (LACK tohss)
disaccharide (dye SACK ur ride)
fructose (FRUCK tohss)
saccharose (SACK uh rohss)
dextroglucose (DECKS troh GLUE kohss)
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Game 1
1.
Tossup (10)
PAGE – 2005
State Finals
Q. Which space figure am I describing? The collection of all points that
are equidistant from a given point.
A. sphere
Bonus (20)
Q. How many faces does each of these space figures have?
1. a square pyramid
2. a triangular prism
3. a triangular pyramid
4. a rectangular prism
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
2.
Tossup (10)
5
5
4
6
Q. What is the main brain of the computer? It is the chip that controls all
the information movement and numerical computations. It is briefly
referred to as the CPU.
A. central processing unit
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the computer device that allows computers to exchange
information over telephone lines by converting digital information
to analog and back again?
2. What is the storage unit that holds information sent to the printer
until the printer is ready to print it?
A. 1. modem
2. buffer
3.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the form of a solid in which the atoms are arranged in repeating
patterns? For example, grains of salt are cubic in shape. Other shapes
are tetragonal, hexagonal, and orthorhombic. It is a term beginning with
the letter C.
A. crystal
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the crystalline structure or shape of diamond?
2. What is the crystalline structure or shape of quartz?
A. 1. cubic
2. hexagonal (also accept hexagonal prism)
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4.
Tossup (10)
Q. Which body of water separates France and Great Britain?
A. English Channel
Bonus (20)
Q. In which ocean or sea is each of the following islands?
1. Fiji
2. Falklands
3. Madagascar
4. Balearic (BAL ee AIR ick)
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Tossup (10)
Pacific
Atlantic
Indian
Mediterranean
Q. What part of speech is the word themselves?
A. pronoun
Bonus (20)
Q. Tell whether the pronoun in each of these sentences is personal, relative,
intensive, or reflexive:
1. The woman who is wearing the green sweater is a singing teacher.
2. The coach hurt both himself and the team by becoming angry.
3. Mary invited me to a slumber party on Friday evening.
4. The park superintendent herself conducted the tour of the facilities.
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
relative
reflexive
personal
intensive
CALL FOR SCORE AND SUBSTITUTIONS
6.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the remainder when 11 is divided into 256?
A. 3
Bonus (20)
Q. All or nothing: Arrange the following fractions in increasing order:
one-third, four-ninths, two-sevenths, and three-eights.
A. two-sevenths, one-third, three-eights, four-ninths
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7.
Tossup (10)
Q. With respect to land area, which state is the largest east of the
Mississippi River?
A. Georgia
Bonus (20)
Q. Answer each of these questions about Georgia.
1. How many counties does Georgia have?
2. Where is Georgia’s highest point?
3. With respect to land area, which Georgia county is the smallest?
4. With respect to land area, which Georgia county is the largest?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
8.
Tossup (10)
159
Brasstown Bald (in Towns County)
Clarke
Ware
Q. What R-word names a close similarity or identity of terminal sound
occupying corresponding positions in two or more lines of verse?
A. rhyme
Bonus (20)
Q. Identify these other R-words found in the study of literature:
1. a rhetorical device reiterating a word or phrase, or rewording the
same idea, to secure emphasis
2. in poetry, the carrying over of sense and grammatical structure from
one line to a succeeding one for completion
3. This word, which means “rebirth,” is commonly applied to the
period marking the transition from the medieval to the modern
world in Western Europe.
4. a group of words forming a phrase or sentence and consisting of one
or more lines repeated at intervals in a poem, usually at the end of a
stanza
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
repetition
run-on lines
Renaissance
refrain
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9.
Tossup (10)
Q. “USOC releases Athens roster” was a newspaper headline last summer.
For what does USOC stand?
A. United States Olympic Committee
Bonus (20)
Q. With which sport is each of the following most closely associated?
1. Andy Roddick
2. Rasheed Wallace
3. Steve McNair
4. Greg Maddux
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
10.
Tossup (10)
tennis
basketball
football
baseball
Q. What is the botanical term for trees that shed their leaves in the fall and
replace them with a new set in the spring?
A. deciduous (dee SIDD you us)
Bonus (20)
Q. What is the botanical term for …
1. … trees with thin needle-like leaves and producing cones?
2. … plants that last for more than two growing seasons and do not
have to be reseeded?
A. 1. conifers (KAHN ih furz)
2. perennials
TIE-BREAKERS
1.
Q. What is x if negative two x is less than negative ten?
A. x is larger (bigger) than five (or five is less (smaller) than x)
2.
Q. On which continent is the Cape York Peninsula?
A. Australia
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Game 2
1.
Tossup (10)
PAGE – 2005
State Finals
Q. In which year did World War II begin?
A. 1939
Bonus (20)
2.
Tossup (10)
Q. 1.
2.
3.
4.
World War II began with the invasion of what country by Germany?
Who was President of the U.S. when World War II began?
In what year did the U.S. enter World War II?
The attack by what country led to the U.S. entering the war?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
Poland
(Franklin D.) Roosevelt (accept F.D.R.)
1941
Japan
Q. In science class we study the SI, or the International System of Units.
What is the basic SI unit of length?
A. meter
Bonus (20)
Q. What is the basic SI unit of …
1. … mass?
2. … time?
3. … electric current?
4. … weight?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
3.
Tossup (10)
kilogram (NOT gram)
second
ampere (AM PEER)
newton
Q. There were no three-point baskets scored in the Candler Middle School
versus Stanford Middle School basketball game. The total number of
points scored in the game was 99. If there were a total of 13 foul shots
hit in the game, how many two-point baskets were scored?
A. 43
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the sum of three and one-half and five and one-third when
written as a mixed fraction in lowest terms?
2. What is the product of one and three-fourths and one and one-half
when written as a mixed fraction in lowest terms?
A. 1. eight and five-sixths
2. two and five-eighths
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4.
Tossup (10)
Q. Who wrote the series of books that begins with Anne of Green Gables?
A. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the specific locale of these novels?
2. What phrase does Anne use to refer to her special friends?
3. What is the family name of the older brother and sister with whom
Anne comes to live?
4. What color is Anne’s hair?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Tossup (10)
Prince Edward Island, Canada
“kindred spirits”
Cuthbert
red
Q. We brush our teeth daily to remove a sticky substance containing
bacteria that can cause tooth decay. What is the term for this substance
that begins with the letter P?
A. plaque
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. If the plaque is not removed it becomes hard. What is the term for
this hardened form of plaque beginning with the letter C?
2. What is the form of periodontal (PAIR ee oh DAHN tul) disease in
which your gums are sore and bleed easily?
A. 1. calculus
2. gingivitis (JINN jih VYTE iss)
CALL FOR SCORE AND SUBSTITUTIONS
6.
Tossup (10)
Q. Is the number of countries on the South American continent 9, 13, or
18?
A. 13
Bonus (20)
Q. Which country borders …
1. Venezuela and Panama?
2. Uruguay and Chile
3. Guyana (guy AHN uh) and Argentina?
4. Ecuador and Bolivia?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
Colombia
Argentina
Brazil
Peru
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7.
Tossup (10)
Q. Which scientific instrument was used by Anton van Leeuwenhoek
(LAY ven hook) to observe a multitude of life in a drop of pond water?
A. microscope
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. Which type of microscope was used in the aforementioned process?
It lets light pass through an object and then through two or more
lenses.
2. Which type of microscope uses a magnetic field to bend beams of
very small atomic parts? It can magnify images more than 300,000
times.
A. 1. compound light
2. electron
8.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the sum of the distinct prime factors of 44?
A. 13
Bonus (20)
Q. Answer the following questions about these numbers: 605; 2,048;
2,401; and 9,825. Which one is divisible by …
1. 3?
2. 4?
3. 7?
4. 11?
A. 1. 9,825
2 2,048
3. 2,401
4. 605
9. Tossup (10)
Q. In vocal music, what is the term for a piece of music, as in an opera,
composed for a soprano, a mezzo-soprano, a tenor, and a bass?
A. a quartet
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the name of the female voice range that lies between a
soprano and a contralto?
2. What is the name of the male voice range that lies between a tenor
and a bass?
A. 1. mezzo-soprano (MET so suh PRAN oh)
2. baritone
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10.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the usual term for a phrase that is so stale or trite that it has lost
its freshness and vigor? The “ladder of success” is an example.
A. cliché (klee SHAY)
Bonus (20)
Q. Complete the following clichés with their usual wording:
1. looking for a needle . . .
2. face the . . .
3. beyond the shadow . . .
4. hit the nail . . .
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
. . . in a haystack
. . . music
. . . of a doubt
. . . on the head
TIE-BREAKERS
1.
Q. What punctuation mark normally appears after an expression of strong
emotion?
A. exclamation mark
2.
Q. What is the distance between negative five and negative seven on the
number line?
A. two
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Game 3
1.
Tossup (10)
PAGE – 2005
State Finals
Q. What is the capital of the long thin country on the west coast of South
America?
A. Santiago
Bonus (20)
Q. What is the capital of each of the following countries?
1. Dominican Republic
2. Thailand
3. Somalia
4. Finland
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
2.
Tossup (10)
Santo Domingo
Bangkok
Mogadishu (MO guh DEE shoo)
Helsinki
Q. Verbs are generally said to have three principal parts. Two of these are
the past tense form and the past participle. What is the third?
A. plain form (or present tense)
Bonus (20)
Q. Spell the past participle forms of these verbs:
1. find
2. shake
3. swim
4. become
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
found
shaken
swum
become
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3.
Tossup (10)
Q. What do we call an immature, developing organism, plant or animal,
which is still dependent on its parent for nutrition? It is usually
sheltered within its parent’s body. Answer with a term beginning with
the letter E.
A. embryo
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is a haploid sex cell that is formed in the female reproductive
organs?
2. How old, in months, must a human embryo be before it is called a
fetus?
A. 1. egg
2. 2 (months)
4.
Tossup (10)
Q. Who wrote Treasure Island?
A. (Robert Louis) Stevenson
Bonus (20)
Q. Answer these questions about Treasure Island:
1. What is the name of the narrator?
2. What is the name of the ship he and his two friends sail on?
3. What is the name of the crewman who attempts to lead others to
mutiny so that they can get the treasure?
4. What is name of the marooned sailor on the island who helps
recover the treasure?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Tossup (10)
Jim Hawkins (also accept Jim)
Hispaniola (HISS span YO luh)
Long John Silver
Ben Gunn
Q. What is the difference when quantity negative two x plus five is
subtracted from negative ten x plus six?
A. negative eight x plus one
Bonus (20)
Q. How many factors does each of the following polynomials have over the
integers?
1. x squared plus four
2. x squared plus four x
3. x squared plus four x plus three
4. x squared minus four
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
one
two
two
two
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6.
Tossup (10)
Q. How many strings does the usual orchestral string instrument (violin,
cello [CHELLO], etc.) have?
A. four
Bonus (20)
7.
Tossup (10)
Q. 1.
2.
3.
4.
How many reeds do the oboe and bassoon have?
How many reeds do the clarinet and bass clarinet have?
What is the term for the round, flared end of a brass instrument?
What popular instrument combines the qualities of both reed and
brass instruments?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
two
one
the bell
the saxophone
Q. What is the maximum amount of data that can travel a communications
path in a given time, usually measured in bits per second? If you think
of the communications path as a pipe, then this term refers to the size of
the pipe that determines how much data can flow through it all at once.
A. bandwidth
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What do we call an amount of quickly accessible memory for the
temporary storage of frequently used data to allow for faster access
by your computer?
2. What do we call a combination hardware and software buffer that
many companies or organizations have in place between their
internal networks and the Internet, which allows only specific kinds
of messages from the Internet to flow in and out of the internal
network, thus protecting the internal network from intruders or
hackers?
A. 1. cache (CASH)
2. firewall
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Tossup (10)
Q. What word beginning with the letter M refers to hot melted rock?
A. magma
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is molten rock that is flowing from a volcano?
2. What are areas in the earth’s mantle where magma rises toward the
crust? Are these fissures, crevasses, hot spots, or geysers?
A. 1. lava
2. hot spots
9.
Tossup (10)
Q. The earth has how many continents?
A. 7
Bonus (20)
Q. On which continent is each of the following countries?
1. Laos (LAH ohss)
2. Belize
3. Chad
4. Paraguay
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
10.
Tossup (10)
Asia
North America
Africa
South America
Q. What is the sum of one-eighth and one-fourth when expressed as a
fraction in lowest terms?
A. three-eighths
Bonus (20)
Q. The Braves were leading the Dodgers 7 to 2 after seven complete
innings. If the winning team won by 5 runs and only one team scored in
the last two innings, how many runs did the Dodgers score in the game?
A. 12
TIE-BREAKERS
1.
Q. Io (EYE oh), Europa (yoor OH puh), Ganymede (GANN ih meed), and
Callisto (kuh LIST oh) are moons of which planet?
A. Jupiter
2.
Q. What is the sum of 59 and 47?
A. 106
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1.
Tossup (10)
PAGE - 2005
Q. From what country did the U.S. acquire the Louisiana Purchase?
A. France
Bonus (20)
Q. Answer these questions about the Louisiana Purchase.
1. Who was President of the U.S. when this occurred?
2. Was the purchase price approximately 1 million, 15 million, or 150
million dollars?
3. Did Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, or Andrew Jackson sign the
treaty purchasing it?
4. Did the purchase double, triple, or quadruple the size of the U.S.?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
2.
Tossup (10)
(Thomas) Jefferson
15 million dollars
(Thomas) Jefferson
double
Q. Some people refer to Earth as the third rock from the sun. What would
they mean by the fifth rock from the sun?
A. Jupiter
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. Which planet has the highest average surface temperature?
2. Which is the second largest planet?
3. Titan has a larger radius than Pluto. Titan is a moon of which
planet?
4. Which planet, other than our Earth, has the best prospect for
containing living organisms?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
Venus (470°C) (note, Mercury reaches a maximum of 450°C.)
Saturn
Saturn
Mars
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3.
Tossup (10)
Q. Jim plays basketball for his middle school team. In his last game he
scored six two-point baskets, three three-point baskets, and five free
throws. How many points did he score?
A. 26
Bonus (20)
Q. Tim and Mike were the high scorers in Campbell Middle School’s last
basketball game. Tim scored 7 points more than Mike and together they
scored 45 points. How many points did Mike score?
A. 19
4.
Tossup (10)
Q. Spell the last word in the following sentence: At an early age the
promising baseball player contracted leukemia.
A. l e u k e m i a
Bonus (20)
Q. Spell the plural forms of these nouns:
1. analysis
2. zoo
3. carnival
4. criterion
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Tossup (10)
analyses
zoos
carnivals
criteria
Q. Identify the kind of figure of speech illustrated by this sentence: The
Central Committee of the college is an umbrella that shelters all other
committees.
A. metaphor
Bonus (20)
Q. Identify the kinds of figures of speech illustrated by the following:
1. My little beagle is quite a clown.
2. Mr. Simmons barked at his daughter.
3. The road to Atlanta is like an obstacle course.
4. My uncle raises rabbits; he has at least a billion of them.
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
personification
metaphor
simile
hyperbole (accept exaggeration)
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6.
Tossup (10)
Q. What do we call the highlighted or bright and sometimes blinking line
or other mark on a computer screen that shows where the next typed
character will appear?
A. cursor
Bonus (20)
Q. For what do these computer-related abbreviations stand?
1. URL
2. RAM
3. ROM
4. ISP
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
7.
Tossup (10)
Uniform Resource Locator
Random Access Memory
Read Only Memory
Internet Service Provider
Q. What is the smallest unit of an organism that carries on the function of
life? Answer with a term beginning with the letter “C”.
A. cell
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the gelatin-like material inside every cell?
2. What are the energy sources in cells? These are organelles from
which energy is released from breaking down food into carbon
dioxide and water.
A. 1. cytoplasm (SIGHT oh PLAZZ um)
2. mitochondria (MIGHT oh KAHN dree uh)
8.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the sum of six times the identity element of multiplication and
three times the identity element of addition?
A. 6
Bonus (20)
Q. Answer each of the following mathematical questions.
1. Is 5 divided by 0 undefined, 0, or 5?
2. What integer is one-fourth raised to the negative one power?
3. What is the cube root of 1,000?
4. Four cubed equals two raised to what power?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
undefined
4
10
sixth
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9.
Tossup (10)
Q. Bombay is a major city of what country?
A. India
Bonus (20)
Q. Each of the following is a major city in which country?
1. Bern
2. Calgary
3. Brisbane (BRIZZ bain)
4. Beijing (bay JING)
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
10. Tossup (10)
Switzerland
Canada
Australia
China
Q. What is the standard art term for a representation of the Virgin Mary
and the Infant Jesus?
A. Madonna and Child (also accept Virgin and Child)
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What Renaissance artist painted the interior of the Sistine Chapel in
the Vatican?
2. What Renaissance artist painted the famous painting usually known
as the Mona Lisa?
3. What Renaissance artist is best known for an allegorical painting of
Spring and of a painting entitled The Birth of Venus?
4. What Renaissance artist painted the work that includes the two
famous angels whose images appear on a U. S. postage stamp?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
Michelangelo
Leonardo (da Vinci)
Botticelli (bot ee CHELL ee)
Raphael (RAFF ee el)
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11.
Tossup (10)
Q. There are various types of energy in the world, like thermal, radiant,
chemical, electrical, and nuclear. Which one of these types comes from
the food you consume and keeps you moving?
A. chemical
Bonus (20)
Q. There are two more classifications of energy. Which one is the energy
an object has …
1. … due to its motion? For example, the faster an object moves, the
more of this type of energy it has.
2. … due to its position? For example, a book on the top shelf of a
bookcase has more of this type of energy than does the same book
on the bottom shelf.
A. 1. kinetic
2. potential
12.
Tossup (10)
Q. What do we call the period of a person’s life in which his or her body
changes from that of a child to that of an adult? It usually occurs during
the preteen and teenage years.
A. adolescence
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the gland that produces the growth hormone that triggers
growth during adolescence?
2. What is the gland that controls how fast a body grows and the rate at
which the body processes food?
A. 1. pituitary (pih TOO ih TAIR ee)
2. thyroid
13.
Tossup (10)
Q. 20% of 80 equals 10% of what number?
A. 160
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the greatest common factor of 126 and 216?
2. What is the least common multiple of 9 and 24?
A. 1. 18
2. 72
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Tossup (10)
Q. Who was elected President of the Confederate States of America?
A. Jefferson Davis
Bonus (20)
Q. Which Georgian was elected …
1. Secretary of State of the Confederate States of America?
2. Vice President of the Confederate States of America?
A. 1. Robert Toombs
2. Alexander Stephens
15.
Tossup (10)
Q. Which college football game is known each year as the World’s Largest
Outdoor Cocktail Party?
A. Georgia versus Florida
Bonus (20)
Q. With which college football team did each of the following play last
season?
1. Matt Leinart (LEEN art)
2. Thomas Davis
3. Jason White
4. Carnell Williams
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
16.
Tossup (10)
Southern California
Georgia
Oklahoma
Auburn
Q. Who is the legendary king whom the Britons elevated to the status of an
epic hero? He is the subject of innumerable narratives dating from the
Middle Ages, and he is still a popular subject for the movies.
A. King Arthur
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the name of King Arthur’s castle?
2. What is the name of the old magician who served as a tutor and
mentor to Arthur?
3. What is the name of the woman whom Arthur married?
4. With what article of furniture is he most closely associated?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
Camelot
Merlin
Guinevere (GWINN uh veer)
a round table
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17.
Tossup (10)
Q. Which type of carbohydrate can easily be identified by the suffix ‘ose’?
A. sugar(s)
Bonus (20)
Q. Identify these sugars:
1. milk sugar
2. fruit sugar
3. common sugar from cane and beets
4. a sugar produced during cellular metabolism in plant and animal
tissue and found in grapes, honey, and corn syrup
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
18.
Tossup (10)
lactose (LACT tohss) (also accept disaccharide [dye SACK ur ride])
fructose (FROOK tohss) (also accept levulose)
sucrose (also accept saccharose [SACK uh rohss])
dextrose (also accept dextroglucose [DECKS troh GLUE kohss])
Q. Italy does not border which one of the following: France, Austria, or
Germany?
A. Germany
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. Mexico does not border which one of the following: Costa Rica,
Guatemala, or Belize?
2. Egypt does not border which of the following: Sudan, Ethiopia, or
Libya?
3. China does not border which of the following: Vietnam, India, or
Cambodia?
4. Sweden does not border which of the following: Belgium, Finland,
or Norway?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
19.
Tossup (10)
Costa Rica
Ethiopia
Cambodia
Belgium
Q. If the area of a square is 36 square units, what is the measure of the
square’s perimeter?
A. 24 (units)
Bonus (20)
Q. What is the area of an isosceles right triangle whose hypotenuse is four
times the square root of two?
A. 8 (square units)
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20.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the grammatical term for a verb that does not require an object
to receive its action?
A. intransitive verb
Bonus (20)
Q. Identify the function (such as subject of a verb or predicate adjective) in
each of the following sentences:
1. (plans) All of us have plans for the spring break.
2. (One) One of my friends is flying to Denver.
3. (trip) My parents surprised me with a trip to New England.
4. (will) We will drive up there.
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
object of a verb, or direct object
subject of the sentence, or subject of the verb
object of a preposition
auxiliary (or helping) verb
TIE-BREAKERS
1.
Q. Of which element is the mineral graphite composed?
A. carbon
2.
Q. What is the sum of negative three w and w times quantity two w plus
three?
A. two w squared
3.
Q. What part of speech is the word “weekly” in this sentence: I subscribe
to a weekly magazine on architecture.
A. adjective
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1.
Tossup (10)
PAGE – 2005
State Finals
Q. What is the disease in humans that is essentially the failure of nerve
cells in the brain to communicate with each other? We now know that
many neurons in the brains of affected individuals have died. People
with the disease suffer from marked memory loss and behave quite
differently from when they were younger. Answer with a term
beginning with the letter A.
A. Alzheimer’s (AHLTS HI merz)
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the largest part of your brain? It is at the top and divided
into two hemispheres.
2. Which part of the nervous system connects the brain to the spinal
cord?
A. 1. cerebrum (sih REE brum)
2. brain stem
2
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the only county in Georgia named after a woman?
A. Hart (Nancy Hart)
Bonus (20)
Q. Which county in Georgia lies in the …
1. northwest corner?
2. southeast corner?
3. northeast corner?
4. southwest corner?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
3.
Tossup (10)
Dade
Camden
Rabun
Seminole
Q. How many inches are there in 3 yards?
A. 108
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. How many feet are there in three-fourths of a mile?
2. How many inches are there in three and three-fourths feet?
A. 1. 3,960
2. 45
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4.
Tossup (10)
Q. Edgar Allan Poe’s most famous poem concerns a large black bird.
What is the title of this poem?
A. “The Raven”
Bonus (20)
Q. Answer these questions about “The Raven”:
1. What is apparently the only word the raven can utter?
2. Through what point of access does the raven enter the narrator’s
room?
3. The raven perches on a bust of what Greek goddess?
4. What is the name of the woman whose loss the narrator laments?
A. 1. “Nevermore”
2. the window
3. Pallas Athena (PAL us uh THEEN uh) (accept either or both of
these names)
4. Lenore
5.
Tossup (10)
Q. What university is in College Station, TX?
A. Texas A&M
Q. Where is each of the following universities?
1. Michigan
2. Stanford
3. Rice
4. Kentucky
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
Ann Arbor (MI)
Palo Alto (CA)
Houston (TX)
Lexington (KY)
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6.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the meaning of the Latin root in the word fraternity?
A. brother
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. If people think of your father as an altruistic (AL true ISS tick)
person, what quality does he presumable possess?
2. If the place where your mother works is in proximity to the
courthouse, what do you know about it?
A. 1. He is concerned for the welfare of others.
2. Her place of employment is located near the courthouse.
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Tossup (10)
Q. What state capital is known as the Cradle of the Confederacy?
A. Montgomery (Alabama)
Bonus (20)
Q. What is the capital of the state for which each of the following is a
major city?
1. Great Falls
2. Huntington
3. Shreveport
4. Eugene
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
8.
Tossup (10)
Helena (Montana)
Charleston (West Virginia)
Baton Rouge (Louisiana)
Salem (Oregon)
Q. Two-fifths is equivalent to what fraction whose denominator is eighty?
A. 32
Bonus (20)
Q. A box contains 4 red balls, 7 black balls, 8 green balls, and 1 white ball.
What percent of the balls in the box are …
1. red?
2. either green or white?
3. not black?
4. neither red nor white?
A. 1
2.
3.
4.
9.
Tossup (10)
20
45
65
75
Q. What is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature?
A. mercury
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. Which of these statements about mercury is false? “Mercury is
poisonous.”; “Mercury will dissolve gold.”; or “Mercury is referred
to as ‘quick aluminum.”
2. When contrasting the weights of equal volumes of water and
mercury, is mercury about 7 times, 14 times, or 21 times heavier
than water?
A. 1. the last one is false: “Mercury is referred to as ‘quick aluminum.” It
is really called “quick silver”.
2. 14 (actually it is closer to 13.546)
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10.
Tossup (10)
Q. Which vitamin is required for the normal clotting of blood following an
injury like a cut or scrape?
A. K
Bonus (20)
Q. Which vitamin …
1. … is necessary for the formation of bones and teeth and is added to
milk? It can also be manufactured by the body following exposure
to sunlight.
2. … helps the blood carry oxygen and is a powerful antioxidant
(anti OX sih dent)? It is found in wheat germ, almonds, and
vegetable oils.
A. 1. D
2. E
TIE-BREAKERS
1.
Q. In which war did a blitzkrieg occur?
A. World War II
2.
Q. What is the tense of the verb in this sentence: I had seen Sandra many
times in the city park.
A. past perfect
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1.
Tossup (10)
PAGE – 2005
State Finals
Q. What is the mineral from which iron ore is obtained?
A. hematite (HE muh tight)
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the elemental composition of diamond?
2. What is common name for the reddish-brown mineral that is the
principal source of mercury and is found near areas of volcanic
activity? The compound is HgS, or mercury sulfide.
A. 1. carbon
2. cinnabar
2.
Tossup (10)
Q. Identify the nature of the error in this sentence: The class is writing
reports of the visit to the zoo.
A. subject-verb disagreement (“is” should be “are”; the members of the
class are acting as individuals)
Bonus (20)
Q. Identify the nature of the error in each of these sentences:
1. Neither of the traffic lights on Center Street are working.
2. James told his father that his money had been stolen.
3. Each of the mailboxes in the apartment complex must be labeled
with their owner’s name.
4. Some of the movies was suitable for children of any age.
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
3.
Tossup (10)
subject-verb disagreement
unclear pronoun reference
pronoun-antecedent disagreement
subject-verb disagreement
Q. If two numbers are reciprocals, what must their product be?
A. 1
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is quantity negative four plus negative two divided by quantity
negative four minus negative two?
2. What integer is the product of the square root of five and the square
root of one hundred twenty-five?
A. 1. three
2. 25
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4.
Tossup (10)
Q. What two principal languages are spoken in Canada?
A. English and French
Bonus (20)
Q. What principal language is spoken in each of the following countries?
1. Brazil
2. Turkey
3. Egypt
4. El Salvador
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
5. Tossup (10)
Portuguese
Turkish
Arabic
Spanish
Q. Many symphonies by classical composers have acquired nicknames.
Who is the composer of the work usually known as the “Surprise
Symphony”?
A. Haydn (HYE dn)
Bonus (20)
Q. Identify the composers of the following symphonies that have
nicknames:
1. “Pastoral”
2. “Scottish”
3. “Pathetique” (path uh TEEK)
4. “From the New World”
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
Beethoven (BAY toe vin)
Mendelssohn (MEN dul sohn)
Tchaikovsky (shy KAHF skee)
Dvorak (duh VORE zhock)
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6.
Tossup (10)
Q. What do we call highlighted words or phrases in a hypertext document
that allow you to "jump" to another section of the same document or to
another document on the World Wide Web.
A. hyperlink (accept link)
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. For what do the computer-related initials MSN stand?
2. For what do the computer-related initials AOL stand?
A. 1. Microsoft Network (sometimes with ‘The’)
2. America Online
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7.
Tossup (10)
Q. The St. Mary’s River forms part of the boundary between Georgia and
which state?
A. Florida
Bonus (20)
Q. Which Georgia rivers are formed by the conjoining of
1. the Etowah and Oostanaula (OOH stuh NAW luh) Rivers?
2. the Oconee and Ocmulgee Rivers?
A. 1. Coosa
2. Altamaha (ALL tuh muh HAH)
8.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is any substance which causes or produces cancer? Answer with a
term beginning with the letter C.
A. carcinogen
Bonus (20)
Q. What are the five senses of the human body? (All or nothing.)
A. hearing, seeing, smelling, tasting, feeling
9.
Tossup (10)
Q. How many one-sixths is one-half?
A. 3
Bonus (20)
Q. A shop for women purchased a dress for $26.00 wholesale. The shop
sold the dress at a regular price computed by adding the wholesale price
to 50% of the wholesale price. Since the dress did not sell in a
reasonable time, the shop put it on sale for 25% off of the regular price.
What was the sale price of the dress?
A. $29.25
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10.
Tossup (10)
Q. Identify the biblical character who is blinded by a great light as he
travels to the city of Damascus.
A. Paul (also accept Saul or St. Paul)
Bonus (20)
Q. Give the names of these other biblical characters:
1. the older sister of Moses and Aaron
2. the young man who was sold into slavery in Egypt by his brothers
3. the first murderer
4. the giant Philistine (FILL ih STEEN) whom David killed
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
Miriam
Joseph
Cain
Goliath
TIE-BREAKERS
1.
Q. What island is known as The Emerald Isle?
A. Ireland
2.
Q. What American was known as Old Blood and Guts?
A. (George) Patton
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Tie-Breaker 2
1.
Tossup (10)
PAGE – 2005
State Finals
Q. Cedric bought 16 equal-sized packages of baseball cards. How many
cards were in each package if he bought a total of 80 cards?
A. 5
Bonus (20)
Q. Answer each of the following questions about one, three, seven, six,
point, two, five, four.
1. What is the sum of its hundredths digit and its thousands digit?
2. What is the difference between its tens digit and its thousandths
digit?
3. What is the product of its hundreds digit and its tenths digit?
4. What is the quotient when its hundredths digit is divided into the
sum of its tens digit and its hundreds digit.
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
2.
Tossup (10)
6
3
6
2
Q. What is the term for a system of two pulley blocks, each with at least
one pulley with rope or cable threaded through them and used to hoist
heavy objects?
A. block and tackle
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the mechanical advantage if applying 250 newtons to a
pulley system will lift a 750-newton object?
2. How much weight at the north end of a lever 15 feet from the
fulcrum will be required to move a 500-pound object 6 feet from the
fulcrum at the south end?
A. 1. 3
2. 200 pounds
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3.
Tossup (10)
Q. In baseball or softball, with how many RBI’s is a batter credited if he or
she hits a grand slam?
A. 4
Bonus (20)
Q. In the baseball box score, for what does the abbreviation …
1. … SB stand?
2. … LOB stand?
3. … E stand?
4. … DP stand?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
4.
Tossup (10)
stolen base(s)
(number) left on base
error(s)
double play(s)
Q. What do we call someone who uses computer expertise to gain
unauthorized access to a computer system belonging to another? This
term can also have a positive connotation; that is, someone who is very
skilled in computer technology and programming.
A. hacker
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. For what do the computer-related initials LAN stand?
2. For what do the computer-related initials WAN stand?
A. 1. Local Area Network
2. Wide Area Network (two or more LAN’s)
5.
Tossup (10)
Q. Which war involving the U.S began while Woodrow Wilson was
President?
A. World War I
Bonus (20)
Q. Answer these questions about events that happened just before and
during World War I.
1. The Lusitania (LOOSE ih TANE ee uh) was sunk by a submarine of
what country?
2. Camp Benning was opened in 1917 to train infantry troops. It is
located near which large Georgia city?
A. 1. Germany
2. Columbus
CALL FOR SCORE AND SUBSTITUTIONS
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6.
Tossup (10)
Q. Georgia has 5 major geographic regions. Four of these are the Blue
Ridge, Appalachian Plateau, Ridge and Valley, and Coastal Plain. What
is the fifth?
A. Piedmont
Bonus (20)
Q. In which geographic region of Georgia is each of the following towns?
1. Blairsville
2. Dalton
3. Thomasville
4. Monroe
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
7.
Tossup (10)
Blue Ridge
Ridge and Valley
Coastal Plain
Piedmont
Q. If a course you are taking includes a unit on entomology (EN tuh MAHL
uh jee), what will you study?
A. insects
Bonus (20)
Q. Explain the meaning of each of these words: (Note to reader: Both
pronounce and spell each word.)
1. capital
2. capitol
3. lessen
4. lesson
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
the seat of government
the building where a legislature meets
to make less
something learned
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8.
Tossup (10)
Q. What O-word identifies the twelve most important gods and goddesses
in Greek mythology?
A. Olympians
Bonus (20)
Q. In Greek mythology, which Olympian god or goddess is associated
with
1. the moon?
2. war?
3. the sea?
4. love, beauty, and fertility?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
9.
Tossup (10)
Artemis (AR tih muss)
Ares (AIR eez)
Poseidon (po SIDE un)
Aphrodite (afro DYTE ee)
Q. An EMT is trained in the application of CPR. For what do the letters
CPR stand?
A. Cardio-pulmonary Resuscitation
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the study of the heart, its functions, and its diseases?
2. What is the branch of medicine that deals with the study and
treatment of malignant tumors?
A. 1. cardiology
2. oncology (ahn KAHL uh jee)
10.
Tossup (10)
Q. The temperature in Pulaski rose 43 degrees over a ten-hour period from
10:00 p.m. to 8:00 a.m. If the temperature in Pulaski at 8:00 a.m. was 35
degrees, what was it at 10:00 p.m.?
A. negative eight degrees
Bonus (20)
Q. What is …
1. negative nine plus negative three?
2. negative nine minus negative three?
3. negative nine times negative three?
4. negative nine divided by negative three?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
negative twelve
negative six
twenty-seven
three
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TIE-BREAKERS
1.
Q. Which continent is often called “the land down under?”
A. Australia
2.
Q. Two adjacent sides of a polygon intersect in what point?
A. vertex
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Tie-Breaker 3
1.
Tossup (10)
PAGE – 2005
State Finals
Q. Two words that have the same or nearly the same pronunciation, even
though their meanings differ, are called what?
A. homonyms (HAHM uh nimmz) or homophones (HAHM uh phones)
(accept either)
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. The Latin root in the words corpse and incorporate means what?
2. The Greek root in the words maniac and kleptomania (KLEPP toe
MANE ee uh) means what?
A. 1. body
2. madness
2.
Tossup (10)
Q. What state is known as the Lone Star State?
A. Texas
Bonus (20)
Q. Which state is known by each of the following?
1. Land of Lincoln
2. Show Me State
3. Volunteer State
4. Land of Opportunity
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
3.
Tossup (10)
Illinois
Missouri
Tennessee
Arkansas
Q. The product of two numbers with the same sign is always what kind of
number?
A. positive
Bonus (20)
Q. In the past year a share of a particular stock fell from $80 to $68. What
percent decrease was this?
A. 15
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4.
Tossup (10)
Q. A famous work by what famous artist figures prominently in the plot of
The Da Vinci Code, a sensationally popular mystery novel published in
2003?
A. Leonardo (Da Vinci) (LAY uh NAHR doe duh VINN chee)
Bonus (20)
Q. Answer each of these questions about art:
1. Alexander Calder is best known for what form of sculpture?
2. The High Museum of Art is located in what city?
3. Van Gogh mutilated which of his bodily organs?
4. Braque (BROCK) and Picasso developed which form of modern art?
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Tossup (10)
mobiles (MO bulls)
Atlanta, GA
ear
cubism (KYO bizzum)
Q. What is the oldest and longest era of geologic time?
A. Precambrian (pre KAM bree un)
Bonus (20)
Q. 1. What is the second oldest geologic era? It began when organisms
developed hard parts.
2. What is the most recent era in the earth’s geologic history?
A. 1. Paleozoic (PAY lee oh ZO ick)
2. Cenozoic (SINN oh ZO ick)
CALL FOR SCORE AND SUBSTITUTIONS
6.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the least common denominator of three fractions whose
denominators are six, four x, and three x squared?
A. twelve x squared
Bonus (20)
Q. What is x if x is to quantity x plus one as three is to two?
A. negative three
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7.
Tossup (10)
Q. Blood leaves your heart through a large artery called the aorta. After a
trip through your body it returns to the heart through a vein. What is
this important returning blood vessel?
A. vena cava (VEEN uh CAVE uh)
(More precisely it is the inferior vena cava and the superior vena cava.
So, also accept the vena cavae [VEEN uh CAVE ee] in the plural
form.)
Bonus (20)
Q. Which blood component …
1. … carries oxygen through your arteries?
2. … lacks pigmentation and helps protect against infection?
A. 1. red blood cells (also accept red cells, red corpuscles, or erythrocyte)
2. white blood cells (also accept white cells, white corpuscles, or
leukocytes [LEWK oh sights])
8.
Tossup (10)
Q. In Norse mythology, what is the name of the chief god, who, like Zeus
in Greek mythology, was a “sky-father”? Wednesday is named for him.
A. Odin
Bonus (20)
Q. In Norse mythology, …
1. what is the name of the maiden attendants who served Odin?
2. what is the name of the god of thunder? Thursday is named for him.
3. what is the name of the god of war? Tuesday is named for him.
4. what is the name of the goddess of love and beauty? Friday is
generally thought to have been named for her.
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
9.
Tossup (10)
Valkyries (VAL kuh reez)
Thor
Tyr (TEER)
Freya (FRY uh)
Q. Georgia Southern University is in which town?
A. Statesboro
Bonus (20)
Q. In which town is each of the following Georgia colleges or universities?
1. Spellman
2. Georgia Southwestern
3. Armstrong Atlantic
4. North Georgia
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
Atlanta
Americus
Savannah
Dahlonega
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10.
Tossup (10)
Q. In which country is the Deccan Plateau?
A. India
Bonus (20)
Q. The Khyber (KYE burr) Pass is on the border between which two
countries?
A. Pakistan and Afghanistan
TIE-BREAKERS
1.
Q. Who is noted for having said, “This administration, here and now,
declares unconditional war on poverty in America?”
A. (Lyndon B.) Johnson
2.
Q. How many members are there in the U.S. Senate?
A. 100
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PAGE Academic Bowl
for Middle Grades
Replacement Questions
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1.
Tossup (10)
Replacement Questions
Q. Georgia ratified the Constitution January 2, 1788. Was it the first,
fourth, or eighth state to ratify the Constitution?
A. fourth
Bonus (20)
Q. What were the last two states to join the union?
A. Hawaii and Alaska
2.
Tossup (10)
Q. How many faces does a cube have?
A. 6
Bonus (20)
Q. What is the area of an equilateral triangle with sides of length 2?
A. the square root of three (square units)
3.
Tossup (10)
Q. In which state is the Petrified Forest National Park?
A. Arizona
Bonus (20)
Q. In which state is each of the following national parks?
1. Yosemite
2. Biscayne
3. Mount Rainier
4. Zion
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
4.
Tossup (10)
California
Florida
Washington
Utah
Q. Who is noted for having said, “Give me liberty or give me death”?
A. Patrick Henry
Bonus (20)
Q. Who is noted for having said each of the following?
1. “I have not yet begun to fight”
2. “We must all hang together”
A. 1. John Paul Jones
2. Benjamin Franklin
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5.
Tossup (10)
Q. What is the county seat of Glynn County, Georgia?
A. Brunswick
Bonus (20)
Q. What is the county seat of each of the following Georgia counties?
1. Carroll
2. Dougherty
3. Clarke
4. Floyd
A. 1.
2.
3.
4.
Carrollton
Albany
Athens
Rome
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