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ESU Senior High Quiz Bowl -Round Number 1

BONUS1 Listless Latitudes

The doldrums oocur on either side of what line oflatitude?

1 Punishments

In what short story did the judge say this at thetrial of the fictional Philip Nolan?Prisoner, hear the sentence of the court.The court decides, subject to the approval ofthe president, that you never hear the nameof the United States again.

equator fO deoreest

2 Square RootWhat is the square root of the square root of (16times 16 times 16 times 16)?

16

3 Election Goals

in a U.S. national election, journalists sometimespeak of "the road to 270". That means 270 what?

The Man without a Country

2 State Nicknames

Tennessee's nickname "Volunteer State" was firstacquired during the War of 1812 in which itssoldiers played a prominent role at the Battle ofNew Orleans. This nickname was significantlyreinforced during what other war when thepresident requested 2800 Tennessee volunteersand got some 30,000 respondents?

Mexican War

3 Mineral DepositsHalite is especially abundant along the shores ofwhat Middle Eastern lake between Jordan andIsrael?

electoral votes

4 Skeletal SystemWhat is the term for the part of the bodyconsisting of both the cranium and mandible?

DsadSea

4 Root Words

What is the meaning of the root word in"domestication" and "domestic"?

skull

5 Sovereignty

The sovereignty of Gibraltar is a point ofcontention between the United Kingdom and whatother country?

house

5 Authors

What author t)egan one of his most famous storieswith this?

Squire Trelawney, Dr. LIvesey, and the restof these gentlemen hairing asked me to writedown the whole particulars about TreasureIsland, from the beginning to the end. keepingnothing back but the bearings of the island ...

Spain Robert Louis Stevenson

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BONUS6 Parapsychology

What ordinal number Indicates the sense that

extrasensory perception Is supposed to be?

6 Colonies

The Georgia colony was founded In 1733, abouthow many years after the founding of Jamestown?

sixth

7 Substances

What Is the term for an insoluble material that Is

formed from substances dissolved In a solution?

126

7 Galaxies

Name the closest large galaxy to the Milky Way.

precipitate

8 Explorers

What English captain discovered that New Zealandconsists of two major Islands?

Andromeda Galaxv

8 Food Chains

Grazing and browsing are the two feedingstrategies used by what category of consumers?

James Cook

9 Imports

What kind of economic restriction might limit theamount of sugar imported Into the United States tothree billion pounds annually?

primary consumers fherbivores^

9 Clock Problems

In a single day, how many times do the two hands ofa clock point In the same direction after 5 a.m. andbefore 5 p.m.?

1 0 Governors

Who was the only govemor of a Confederate state tobe removed from office for opposing secession andrefusing to take an oath of allegiance to theConfederacy?

11

1 0 Court Orders

What kind of court order might require a party tokeep a gate closed, tum the electricity on In anapartment, deposit disputed funds with an escrowagent, or remove junk cars from a neighborhoodback yard?

Sam Houston injunction

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BONUS1 1 Medieval HistoryWhat was the English equivalent for the Chineseyouxia, the German fitters, the French chevaliers,and the Japanese samurai?

1 1 AiioysAlloys are made by mixing two or more elements,at least one of which must be what kind of an

element?

knights

1 2 Allen Novels

In "Childhood's End," what does Arthur Clarke callthe self-appointed rulers of Earth who are large,tailed bipeds with cloven hooves, horns, andleathery wings?

metal

1 2 Streak Tests

Although hematite is black in appearance, what isthe color of its streak?

Overlords IM

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BONUS

1 Magnitude

A decrease of two orders of magnitude is equivalentto multiplying by what decimal number?

1 Trails

The Old Spanish Trail actually consisted of severaltrails that connected Santa Fe and Los Angelesthrough the region that became the l=bur Comersstates and what other landlocked state?

2 Modifiers

The adverbs that begin these phrases are what kindof modifiers?

somewhat hairyoften boringrarely intelligentprobably alienslightly greenmostly scaled

qtialifierg

3 Mideast Leaders

This is a chronological llst» starting in 1953, ofthe leaders of what Mideast country?Muhammad NaguibGamal Abdel Nasser

Anwar Sadat

Hosnl Mubarak

Mohammed Morsi

Abdel Fattah el-SisiEgypt

4 American Stories

Washington Irving said this in relation to which ofhis tales?

When I wrote the story, I hadnever visited the Catskills.

Nevada

2 Nationalities

What is the nationality of the citizens of Curacao,Sint Maarten, and Aruba?

Dutch fNetherlandsl

3 Disorders

These disorders are all associated with what bodysystem?

gall stones, hepatitis, celiac disease, cirrhosis,duodenal ulcer, gastroesophageal reflux

dlgastlvQ system

4 Presidents

Under the Antiquities Act, what U.S. presidentproclaimed Devils Tower to be a nationalmonument?

Rip van Winkle

5 Force

While a force is usually a push or pull in astraight line, what is the term for a push or pullin a circular direction?

Theodore Roosevelt

5 Air Masses

A mass of very cold, dry air originating over theocean north of Canada and Alaska is known as whatkind of air?

torque arctic air

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BONUS6 Foreign Policy

What "ism" Is a foreign policy based onnon-involvement in the affairs of other countries?

6 Archaeology

Name the valley on the west bank of the Nile wherethe British archaeologist Howard Carter made hismost astounding discovery.

(gglatipnlsm

7 Taxonomy

These classes of organisms belong to what phylum?Onychophora, Crustacea, Chiiopoda.Diplopoda, Arachnida, Insecta

Valley of the Kings

7 Mixture Problems

One solution is 10% vinegar and another Is 4%vinegar. How many cubic centimeters of the 4%solution must be added to the 10% solution toproduce 150 cubic centimeters of a solution that is6% vinegar?

Arthropoda farthropods^

8 Atso-Rans

This American statesman who lost three nationalelections said that he'd "rather be right than bepresident". Name this polittelan who championedthe Missouri Compromise.

100

8 Buttes

Name the mass of rock debris found at the base of abutte or cliff.

Henry Clav

9 HygroecopyHygroscopy Is the ability of a substance to attractand hold what?

water

1 0 Rejections

What book by William Goiding that eventually sold15 million copies was rejected by a publisher whosaid it was "an absurd and uninteresting fantasywhich was rutrbish and dull"?

scree ftalus)

9 Dance

Just by their names, you can surmise that theseare folk dances of what Asian country?Kolattam

GIddha

BhangraJhumar

Dhall

Kathakali

India

1 0 Archaic LanguageWhat is the first example of archaic language inthe lyrics of The Battle Hymn of the Republic"?

The Lord of the Flips mine

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BONUS1 1 Cell Structures

in a single-celled organism, what Is the function ofa clllum?

1 1 Soils

Which layer of soil Is the zone of leaching oforganic matter?

locomotion fmovementl

1 2 Afflictions

At some point In their lives, these people all hadwhat Infectious viral disease that Is now

preventable?Wllma Rudolph, Alan Atda, Jonl Mitchell,Itzhak Pertman, Donald Sutherland,Arthur Clarke, Franklin Roosevelt

A-horizon

1 2 EmpiresThese were dynasties of what empire?

Julio-Claudlan

Ravian

Severan

Valentlnian

Constantlnlan

polio Roman Empire

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BONUS1 Novels

These novels are about what secret organization?Donnle Brasco

Five Famflies

WiseguyThe Sicilian

The Godfather

1 State Rivers

The Chehalls, Snake, and Yakima are rivers Inwhat U.S. state?

Mafia

2 Crucial Battles

George Washington's surprise attack and victory atwhat New Jersey town In December, 1776Increased morale and provided enough of arecruiting boost to keep his army fromdisbanding?

Washington

2 Force

What force Is the opposite of compression?

Trenton

3 The Universe

Something like 98% of all the ordinary matter Inthe universe consists of what two elements?

tension

3 Ethnic GroupsTheir name literally means "desert dwellers."They live throughout the Middle Eastern and NorthAfrican deserts. Name these Arabian and Syriannomads.

hvdrogen. helium

4 Prison Literature

What Influential treatise was written In 1923 bya notorious inmate of Bavaria's Landsberg Prison?

Bedouins

4 Comets

In 2015, scientists reported detecting, for thefirst time, molecular oxygen in the cloud of gassurrounding the nucleus of a certain comet WhatIs the name for any such doud of gas surrounding acomet's nucleus?

Main Kampf

5 Tributaries

These are tributaries of what U.S. river?Dirty Devil RiverParia River

Escalante River

San Juan River

Roaring Fork RiverGunnlson River

Dolores River

Green River Colorado River

5 Historical Novels

The novel, "Santa Evita", Is based on the first ladyof v4wt South American country?

Argentina

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BONUS6 Poetry

These lines Illustrate what poetic meter?•If music be the food of love, play on.-But soft! what light through yonder windowbreaks?

-That thou her maid art far more fair than she.

6 Eccentricity

The eccentricity of a hyperbola Is greater thanwhat?

pentameter

7 Ecology

Ecologically speaking, what is the name for anyplant that is the first to colonize an ecosystem thathas been damaged?

7 Raids

in 1919 and 1920, the U.S. Department of Justiceconducted raids to capture, arrest, and deportradical leftists and anarchists. These raids were

named for the attorney general at the time,Alexander Mitchell who?

pioneer plant (species)

8 Tissue Damage

In contrast to poisons that must be absorbed,substances such as lye or strong acids destroytissue but are not absorbed. How are theyclassified?

Palmer

8 Earth Changes

Catastrophlsm, the theory that the Earth has beenchanged from time to time by short-lived, violentevents is In contrast to what other scientific

theory that holds that all the geological features ofour planet have occurred slowly andincrementally?

corrosives

9 British Parliament

Members of the British House of Lords are either

Lords Temporal or Lords what?

nniformitarlanlsm foradualisml

9 Military Operations

Operation Desert Storm was a response by acoalition of the U.S. and 34 nations to an invasion

of what country?

Lords Splrittial

1 0 Words

These nouns are examples of what category ofwords?

math, photo, bike, phone, gym, exam

Kuwait

1 0 Slavery Novels

At the end of "Unde Tom's Cabin," Gassy and herlong-lost daughter Eliza travel to what WestAfrican country founded by the AmericanColonization Society as a haven for freed slaves?

clippad words Liberia

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BONUS1 1 Islands

In what body of water are the Sporades, Cyclades,and Dodecanese Islands?

1 1 Wars

These were engagements of what war?Washington's defeat at Great MeadowsJohnson victory at Lake GeorgeMontcalm's victory at Fort OswegoBradstreefs occupation of Fort Duquesne

Aegean Sea

1 2 Music PhysicsThe first harmonic Is to the fundamental tone asthe fourth harmonic Is to what overtone?

French and Indian War

1 2 Bernoulli

According to Bernoulli's principle, what decreasesas the speed of a moving fluid Increases?

third pressurs

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BONUS1 Conflicts

The Caste War of 1847 was a rebellion against theMexican government by what native people of theYucatan region?

1 Solstices

During the December solstice, the Sun is directlyoverhead at what tropic in the SouthernHemisphere?

Maya

2 Nervous System

Name the tiny space between the terminalbranches of an axon and the dendrites of another

neuron.

Tropic of Caoricom

2 Literature

Also indicating the first stage of the Hegeliandialectic process, what is the literary term for astatement or proposition that the author intends tosupport and prove?

synapse

3 Latin

The Latin words "para beiium" means to preparefor what?

thesis

3 Combinations

You have six birds In your glided cage. Withrepetition, how many 4-bird combinations arepossible?

m£

4 Russian Revolution

A political group called the Cadets, which was anacronym for Constitutional Democrats, wantedRussia established as a democratic republicgovemed by a constitution and an electedparliament This put them at odds with what otherpowerful political faction that favored adictatorship of the proletariat?

BolshsvlKs

5 Legends

Dikteon Cave, the legendary birthplace of Zeus, Islocated In the high mountains of what major Greekisland in the eastern Mediterranean?

126

4 Geometric Transformations

What kind of geometric transformation occurswhen each point In a shape appears at an equaldistance and on the opposite side of a given line?

reflection

5 Plant Reproduction

If conifers reproduce by means of seeds, by whatmeans do fems reproduce?

Crete SQfilSS

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BONUS6 Literary TechniquesWhat literary technique is iiiustrated in this linefrom 'The Fellowship of the Ring"?Even the very wise cannot see ail ends.My heart tells me tfiat Golium has some partto play, for good or ill, before this is over.

6 The Medicis

What enterprise laid the foundation for the wealthof the Medici family?

foreshadowing

7 Appoeltlves

In what case Is the appositive in this example?They gave the "L^est Man in the Universe"trophy to my brother-in-law, Pete.

banking

7 Submerged Ridges

What ocean is divided into its eastern and westemsections by the 3000-miie, underwater NinetyEast Ridge?

8 Chiasmus

How does this example of chiasmus end?You can take the patriot out ofthe country but you cannot...

Pbiective Indian Ooean

8 Solutions

What kind of solution generally begins tocrystallize immediately when "seed" crystals areintroduced?

take the country ngf of the patriot

9 ScalingIf the actual side of a square microdiip Is 2mmv^lle an enlaced dravdng of It is 6 cm on eachside, what is the scale factor of the drawing?

supersaturated solution

9 Supreme Court Cases

In 1968, the Supreme Court overturned anArkansas law that prohibited the teaching ofevolution In public schools. This decision wasbased upon what constitutional amendment?

30 to 1

1 0 Patriotic PaintingsArchibald WHIard's painting, "The Spirit of 76,"depicts how many people playing musicalinstruments?

1st Amendment

1 0 LegislationCitizens may propose a law by petition and enact itby popular vote through what procedure?

initiative

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BONUS1 1 Walter Raleigh

Sir Walter Raleigh was referring to whatimplement when he said this shortly before hisdeath?

This is a sharp medicine, but It is aphysician for all diseases and miseries.

1 1 Vision Defects

A person with tunnel vision lacks what other kindof vision?

1 2 Body Regions

What region of a vertebrate lies between thethorax and the pelvic girdle?

an axe peripheral vision

1 2 Classes

What term may Indicate either the first of the fourHindu classes or a member of the social andcultural elite of New England?

abdomen Bfflhmin fBrahman^

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BONUS1 Elections

Who received the second-largest number ofelectoral votes when John Adams became the second

U.S. president?

1 Legendary CreaturesWhat kind of snake In American folklore is said to

grasp Its tall in its mouth and roll after Its prey?

Thomas Jefferson

2 Distance Problems

You leave home and drive at 60 miles per hour tosome destination and then return on the same roadon the retum trip at 50 miles per hour. If youdrove for a total of 5 hours, to the nearest mile,what is the distance between your home and yourdestination?

hoop snake

2 The Mideast

What Mideast country that borders theMediterranean is between Lebanon and Turkey?

136 miles

3 Chemical Reactions

in what kind of chemical reaction does one elementincrease its oxidation number while the otherdecreases its oxidation number?

Syria

3 Nicknames

The nickname "Iron Lady" was shared by MargaretThatcher and what Israeli prime minister?

oxidation-reduction fredoxl

4 Moons

in 2016, the New Horizons spacecraft discoveredthat what moon of the minor planet Ptuto has anappropriate name because it seems to be covered inneariy pure water ice?

Hydra

5 Copyright Law

Works for which the intellectual property rightshave expired are said to be in what domain?

Soitlfl Meir

4 Earth Science Measures

These values and descriptions relate to whatmeasurement scale?

2.5 to 3.5: felt by some people in high buildings3.5 to 4.5: felt by many people mostly Indoors4.5 to 6.0: heavy furniture moved, little tomoderate damage to buildings

6.0 to 7.0: considerable building damage andcommon partial collapses

RIchter Scale

5 Proverbs

How is this proverb from "Don Quixote" usuallytranslated?

El hombre pone y Dios dlspone.

public domain Man proposes. God disposes.

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BONUS6 Joint Variation

You are given that x varies directly as y andinversely as z, and that x = 10 when y = 5 and z =3, for what value of z will x = 3 and y = 4?

6 World War 11

The three-year Japanese occupation of thePhilippines began after U.S. forces surrendered onwhat peninsula of western Luzon?

a

7 Cytology

What is the collective name for structures such as

ribosomes, mitochondria, lysosomes, chloropiasts,vacuoles, and centrloles?

Bataan

7 Word Origins

On what Islands did these words originate?lanal, pahoehoe, wahini, poi, mahalo

orqanelles

8 Egypt

With military force, Israel and what two Europeancountries temporarily occupied the Suez Canalduring the Suez Canal Crisis in 1956?

Hawaiian Islands

8 Teachers

What term for a teacher or guide was derived fromthe Sanskrit syllables "ru" meaning "he whodispels" and "gu" meaning "darkness"?

Great Britain. France

9 Southeast Asian History

Before the north and south were reunited In 1976,

what were the capitals of the two Vietnams?

guru

9 Aerodynamics

What force Is illustrated by the resistance youencounter when walking into a strong wind?

Hanoi. Saigon

1 0 Settings

These books are set in the territory that becamewhat U.S. state?

Mendocino

The Luck of Roaring CampSweet Betsy from PikeThe Bear Rag

drag

1 0 American Decades

During which decade in American history did thesethings become popular?silent movies

radio

jazztfte Charleston dance

the flapper look

California 1920s

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BONUS1 1 ValleysWhat valley on Mars stretches for nearly aquarter of Its circumference?

1 1 Factorials

Divide 6 factorial by the product of 2 factorial and4 factorial.

Valles Marlneris

1 2 Biological Weapons

Weaponized by several countries, what often lethaldisease is caused by the bacterium Bacillusanthracis?

15

1 2 Dictator DynastiesWhat is the family name of the men who haveimposed a police state on the people of NorthKorea?

anthrax Kim

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BONUS1 Coffin Etymology

The term "sarcophagus" comes from the Greekwords "sarx" meaning "flesh" and "phagos"meaning what?

1 Blomes

In what biome are the trees so widely spaced thatthe canopy does not close, which means thatsufficient light reaches the ground to support agrassland?

eating (eater, or feeding on)

2 Votes

What office is held by the U.S. official who canexercise a casting vote?

savanna

2 Mythical ClerihewsWhat word completes this mythical clerihew?Prometheus

Burned Zeus.

His reward, that fire giver?Chopped...

vice president ̂ president of the Senate^

3 Wartime Raids

In a raid launched from the aircraft carrier U.S.S.

Hornet on January 2, 1942, who led the first airattack on the Japanese home islands?

liver

3 Consecutive Numbers

Determine the numbers if the difference between

the squares of two consecutive numbers is 37.

Jimmy Doolittle

4 Terrorism

By mid-2016, hundreds of thousands of Nigerianshad become refugees as the result of attacks bywhat Islamist terrorist organization in thatcountry?

16. 19

4 Element Names

The name for what corrosion-resistant metallicelement used in stainless steels was derived from a

Greek term for "color"?

Boko Haram

5 Provinces

Papua and West Papua are the Indonesianprovinces on the westem part of what island?

chromium

5 Canadian Cities

What Canadian city-that was founded by Samuel deChamplain is now a provincial capital?

New Guinea Quebec City

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bonus6 Pesticides

What category of pesticides is specificallyformulated to kill creatures such as mice, rats,muskrats, beaver, lemmings, gophers, andsquirrels?

6 Waves

What is the name for ocean waves that havetraveled into the area of observation after havingbeen generated by winds in areas far away?

rodenticldes

7 Sequels

Michael Ciichton's The Lost World" Is a sequel towhat other novel?

swell

7 Firestorms

The conflagration that caused the most deaths byfire in U.S. history occurred in 1871 In andaround what Wisconsin town?

i/urassiP ParK

8 Trapezoids

The iarger base of an isosceles trapezold equals adiagonal and the smaller base equals an altitude.What is the ratio of the smaller base to the largerone?

Peshtiao

8 New Words

These are examples of what kind of words?caijack, ginormous, workaholic, labradoodle,jazzerclse, brunch, motorcade, smog

9 Sieges

The German siege of what city resulted In morethan twice as many Russian deaths than the U.S.and Britain together sustained In alt of World WarII?

portmanteau words

9 Michelangelo

Above the altar in the Sistine Chapel is a massivefresco depleting Christ's damnation of sinners andblessing of the virtuous. Name this masterpieceby Michelangelo.

Stalingrad

1 0 Halogens

What was the first halogen to be discovered whenKarl Scheele reacted manganese dioxide withhydrochloric acid?

The Last Judgment

1 0 CrampsCramps may be caused by inadequate sodium,potassium, or magnesium ions in the cells. Whatis the collective name for these Ions?

chlorine electrolytes

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BONUS

1 1 Literary Forms

What kind of poem had been defined as the"narrative species of folk songs"?

1 1 Searches

What kind of warrant is required for customsofficers to examine people, baggage, vehicles, orcargo at the U.S. border?

ballad

1 2 Parallelograms

Consider the parallelogram A6CD. If the verticesof this figure for A are (8,1), B are (4. -2). and0 are 1 ,-6), what are the coordinates of vertex D?

1 2 Ships

Except for the Kearsage, all U.S. Navy iaattleshipswere named for what?

(5. -8)

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BONUS1 Moonbows

Because the light that creates a moonbow Is usuallyfaint, It does not excite what receptors In humaneyes?

1 Islands

The Jutlandic Islands belong to what Europeancountry?

2 Alternades

An attemade is the creation of two words from oneby assembling alternate letters. What two wordscan be made from 'Yleetness"?

Denmark

2 Cleopatra

Although she was bom In Alexandria, Cleopatrawas not Egyptian. Since she was part of a long lineoriginally descended from Ptolemy I, who servedIn Alexander the Great's army, she was actually ofwhat nationality named for an ancient kingdom ofnorthern Greece?

fetes, tens

3 Minerals

Stannlte Is a sulflde of copper. Iron, and whatother silvery metallic element?

tin

4 Fluid Dynamics

Sometimes when a dishwasher or toilet suddenlyshuts a valve, you will hear a loud bang resultingfrom a shock wave. This phenomenon Iscolloquially known as water what?

Macedonian

3 Grass SpoonsIn India alone, some 120 billions pieces of plasticcutlery go into that nation's landfills annually.But now, an entrepreneur has begun commerciallyproducing edible spoons that decompose In a matterof days when exposed to the elements. Theirprimary Ingredient Is what major grain that Isheat and drought resistant?

sorghum

4 Swift's Satire

In "Gulliver's Travels," the only differencebetween members of the two political parties ofLllllput is their preferred height of whatfashionable Item?

hammer

5 Free Radicals

A free radical Is a molecule with an odd number ofwhat?

heels fhootsi

5 Percentiles

The scores on a certain "History of the Great Auk"quiz were 11, 22, 33, 76, and 61. What Is thepercentile rank of the score of 33?

electrons 50th

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bonus6 Art Forms

The art of paper folding Is usually associated withthe culture of what country?

6 Conquests

The Spanish conquest of Mexico is generallyunderstood as the Spanish conquest of whatempire?

Japan

7 Medical Suffixes

What Is the meaning of the suffix In words such aslymphoma, sarcoma, osteoma, melanoma,retlnoblastoma, and carcinoma?

Aztec Empire

7 Checks and Balances

Congress cannot override what kind of presidentialveto?

8 Agricultural Economics

What Latin American country is the world'slargest producer of sugar cane?

tumor pocket veto

8 Animal Farm

In "Animal Farm," what creatures are theequivalent of the secret police?

Brazil

9 Applied Math

What word could be the fun mathematical

expression for the volume of pizza wHh an averageheight of "a" and a radius of "z"?

9 Founding FathersWhat former president of the Continental Congressended up being elected twnce as the governor of theCommonwealth of Massachusetts?

pizza fpi times z times z times a)

1 0 Subatomic Particles

Emitted during radioactive decay, a beta particlecan be an electron or what antlparticle?

John Hancock

1 0 Etymology

What Is the meaning of the root word In"melodrama," "melodlca," and "melody"?

positron fantlelectron^

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BONUS1 1 Taxonomy

Multicellular autotrophs belong to what taxonomickingdom?

1 1 Massacrea

These atrocttfes occurred during what war?

Plantae fplant^

1 2 Judicial HistoryAs a manner of settiing disputes betweenindividuals, a judicially sanctioned duel was calleda trial by what?

No Gun Ri Massacre

Sinchon Massacre

Ganghwa MassacreGeochang MassacreSeoul National University Hospital Massacre

Korean War

1 2 Water

What adjective Indicates undisturbed water thatremains in liquid form even after it has beencooled to a temperature below its normal freezingpoint?

supercooled

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BONUS1 Novel Characters

Gaston Leroux's fictional character, Erik, Isassociated with what kind of theatrical

presentation?

opera

2 DIaordera

These are all disorders of what body system?sciatica

Parkinson's disease

cerebral palsymultiple sclerosisepilepsy

1 Colonial Literature

These were points made In what American colonialpublication?

-It Is absurd for an Island to rule a continent.

-Being part of Britain would drag AmericaInto European wars.

-America Is not a British nation but consistsof peoples from throughout Europe.

-Britain rules the colonies for her own benefit.Common Sense

2 Coordinate Geometry

What Is the slope of the line through the points (3,24) and (20. 12)?

nervous system

3 Ways to Say No

Although there Is no evidence to suggest that heactually said this, the following expression wassupposed to have been uttered by whom?Not tonight, Josephine.

zlliAl

3 State Geography

These cities and rivers are in what U.S. state?

SpartanburgSantee River

Laurens

Pee Dee River

Myrtle Beach

Napoleon

4 Expletives

What Is the first expletive used In the poem,"Annabel Lee"?

gQirth Carolina

4 Vocal Performance

To beatbox Is to vocally Imitate what family ofmusical Instruments?

5 Quantum Mechanics Limericks

What word completes this limerick?"Electrons all jumbled like rice?"Quoth Einstein, "That's too high a price."In reply, answered God"Well, I don't find It odd.

So shut up and let me play..."

Lt percussion

5 Foils Again

In "A Tale of Two Cities," who is the foil to CharlesDarney?

Sydney Carton

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BONUS6 Hideouts

Robbers Roost in Utah was a hideout for an outlawgroup led by whom?

6 Tree Planting Problems

If 6 botanists plant 6 trees in 6 hours and 4hortlcuiturallsts plant 4 trees in 4 hours, howmany trees will a group of 12 botanists and 12hortlcuiturallsts plant In 12 hours?

Butch Cassldv fRobert Parker^

7 GymnospermsThe largest group of living gymnosperms Is whatcategory of trees that Includes cypresses andpines?

to.

7 Comets

What part of a comet Is surrounded by its coma?

conifers

8 Transportation

What kind of Japanese train that set a world speedrecord of 375 miles per hour in 2016 rides about10 centimeters above the tracks?

nuclfius

8 Civil Wars

The Republicans lost the Spanish Civil War to whatFalangist group led by Francisco Franco?

magley

9 The Senate

The U.S. Senate convenes In vt^ich vtnng of theCapitol In Washington D.C.?

Nationalists

9 Legal Malaproplsms

What word should have been used In this line?He received a decease and desist order.

north wing

10 Aphorisms

In what American novel does the lawyer father tellthis to his daughter?You never really understand a person untilyou consider things from his point of view -until you climb Into his skin and walk aroundIn It

1 0 Rebellions

In 1787, Daniel Shays' rebels unsuccessfullyattacked the federal arsenal In what Massachusettstown?

To Kill a Mockingbird Springfield

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BONUS1 1 Questions

What tag question could complete this example?The sun shines bright onmy old Kentucky home...

1 1 Perimeters

Consider a rectangle with a 22-foot perimeter.Using only whole numbers for the lengths of thesides, how many different areas could thatrectangle have?

doesnt It? fdoes It?)

1 2 Swamps

In what state Is the Big Cypress NationalPreserve?

1 2 Alliances

In 1956, the Hungarian leader Imre Nagyunsuccessfully attempted to withdraw Hungaryfrom what alllanoe with the Soviet Union?

Florida Warsaw Pact

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BONUS1 Skin injuriesTropical ulcer, Malabar ulcer, and tropicalphagedena are other names of a disease commonlyknown as what kind of rot?

1 OpticsWhat term describes any deviation from an idealpath of the image-forming rays passing through anoptical system that causes an Imperfect image toform?

jungle rot

2 Literary Elements

In literature, what is the term for anintensification and buildup of the central conflictin a story?

aberration

2 Oceanic Landforms

A guyot is a flat-topped variety of what kind ofoceanic mountain?

complication

3 Slaves

A slave of Southampton County, Virginia, said hewanted to spread terror and alarm among the whitepeople with the rebellion named after him. He wasNat who?

seamount

3 Statistics

What kind of statisticai study has shown that thisbit of weather folklore Is false?

If, on i=ebruary 2, the groundhog sees itsshadow, thirty days of winter remain, but,if not, spring will follow immediately.

4 Economic AcronymsFor what does the "P stand in "OPEC"?

luumi correlation

4 Theater Taik

When a theatrical performance has completed Itsrun, what is the command to remove all the propsand background from the stage?

exporting

5 Cliches

What cliche relating to the speed of a certaingastropod Indicates a very slow process?

strike the set

5 Unification

What country was reunified within a year ofPoland, Hungary, and Lithuania regainingindependence?

snail's pace Germany

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BONUS6 Seas

What sea forms part of the western border ofKazakhstan?

6 Poisonous Creatures

Venomous creatures dispense their poisons byspraying, stinging, or what else?

7 Massacres

Who led the guerrilla organization that massacredover 180 men and boys in Lawrence, Kansas in1863?

biting

7 Biographers

James Bosweil's greatest fame resulted from hisextended study of what British writer andlexicographer?

William Quantrlll

8 Liquids

What begins at the temperature at which the vaporpressure of a liquid equals the external pressureupon the liquid?

Samuel Johnson

8 Stars

What fundamental property of a star primarilydetermines its eventual fate?

boiling

9 North American History

Named for an English prince, what territory inBritish North America consisted of the entire

Hudson Bay drainage basin?

9 Biological Suffixes

In biology, what suffix indicates the material thatforms ceils or tissues?

Rupert's Land fPrlnce Rupert's Landl

1 0 Aircraft

In July of 2016, what solar-powered aircraftcompleted its journey around the world?

-Plasm

1 0 Political Slang

While red states tend to vote for Republicans andblue states tends to vote for Democrats, whatadjective is given to those states that could goeither way In an election?

Solar Impulse 2 swing (swing statesi

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BONUS1 1 Sentence TypesClassify this sentence by John Locke according toits structure.

Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexibleas straight, and men may be as positive inerror as in truth.

1 1 Poetic TropesWhat figure of speech is obvious in these lines?-How they tinkle, tinkle, tinklein the icy air of night.

-From the jingiing and the tinklingof the belis.

compound sentence

1 2 Life ShapesJames Watson and Francis Crick determined thatthe DNA molecule resembled a long tvtdsted ladder,a shape they called a double what?

onomatopoeia

1 2 National Elections

Legislation adopted in 1845 ensured that no U.S.presldentiai election could ever be held on AllSaints Day, which Is celebrated on what date inNovember?

heiix November 1st

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bonus1 Physiological Antonyms

What is the opposite of hypoxia?

1 Folklore

You would be in what Irish town if you kissed aparticular stone in a particular castle andsuddenly acquired the gift of gab?

hypgroxla

2 Elements

These are characteristics of what metaiilc

element?

It is highly ductile and malleabie.It has high thermal and electrical conductivity.It is corrosion resistant.

It is an essential nutrient in our diet

It has antimicrobial properties.It ranks third after iron and aiuminum in terms

of quantities consumed in the U.S. copper

3 Mt. Everest

The summit of Mt. Everest consists of what kind of

sedimentary rock composed mostly of calciumcarbonate?

Blarney

Africa

Name any African country with a name beginningwith the letter "B".

Benin. Botswana. Burkina Faso. Burundi

3 Tense

What tense Is used in these lines?

She is looking for her latest selfie.Ron and Billy are not fishing today.Is Count Viad wearing his new dentures?

limestone

4 Legal Tests

The dear and present danger test has been used bythe Supreme Court to draw the line betweenprotected and unprotected what?

present progressive tense

4 Rehearsals

Reminiscent of the people of a peninsular countryin the Mediterranean, the phrase for a rehearsalin which the actors run through their actions andlines at an accelerated pace is "to run" what?

speech

5 Medieval History

Many scholars mark the beginning of the MiddleAges from the time that Alaiic sacked whatEuropean city in 410?

Italians

5 Idioms

What word is missing in these idioms?as large as —a — of Its own

a shelf —

breathe — into

a fact of —

the — of the party

Jitfi

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BONUS6 ArthropodsDerived from the Latin word "spiraculum"meaning to breathe, what is the name for therespiratory pores on the body of an insect?

6 Seismic Events

What is the common name of a cryoseism?

7 Radical SimplificationSimplify the square root of 45.

ppfrapjgg ice ouake ffrost quaket7 international AgreementsIn 1941, the leaders of what two countries draftedthe Atlantic Charter that outlined their goals forthe world after the end of Wortd War II?

3 times the square root of 5

8 Wartime Literature

These books are about what conflict?The Marines of Autumn

The Coldest WinterThe Coldest War

This Kind of War

The Forgotten WarBreakout! The Chosin Reservoir Campaign

Korean War

9 Muscles

What two types of muscle tissue are involuntary?

U.S. and Great Britain

8 Sentence AnalysisClassify this Bnstein quote by its sentencestructure.

Every one who is seriously Involved in thepursuit of science becomes convinced that aspirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe,a spirit vastly superior to that of man, andone in the face of which we, with our modestpowers, must feel humble.

simole sentence

9 Grammar

What grammatical voice is used throughout TheBattle Hymn of the Republic"?

smooth, cardiac

1 0 Nicknames

Luis Angel Firpo was a boxer who once knockedJack Dempsey out of the rir^. Because Rrpo wasknown as The Wild Bui! of the Pampas," you cansurmise that he was from what country?

active voice

1 0 BotanyWhat is the collective name for these kinds ofplants?echeveria

ice plantsaguaro

prickly pear

Argentina succulents

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BONUS1 1 Peninsular Places

What peninsula touches upon the Ionian, Black,Adriatic, Aegean, and Mediterranean seas?

1 1 Infinitives

in the first verse of the U.S. Marines' Hymn, thereare three infinitives. One is "to fight". What arethe other two?

Balkan Peninsula

1 2 Shared Names

What name Is shared by towns in Idaho, Indiana,and Vermont, an assassinated heir to Austria'sthrone, a deposed Philippine president, a Frenchfield marshal, a king of Aragon, and a fictionalbovine that would rather smell flowers than fightin the bull ring?

to keep, to claim

1 2 Shameful History

California's Manzanar National Historic Site oncehoused over 11,000 people of what ethnicbackground thanks to Franklin Roosevelt'sExecutive Order 9066?

Ferdinand

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BONUS1 Land o' Lakes

The lakes beneath the clouds of Saturn's moon,Titan, are probably filled with what liquefiedflammable gas?

1 Modifiers

These are examples of what kind of modifiers?somewhat, frequently, possibly, rather,kind of, mostly, usually, probably, rarely

methane tor elhane^

2 PaleontologyThe bodies of what ancient extinct arthropods aredivided into sections called the cephalon, thorax,and pygidlum and into the right pleural lobe, theaxial lobe, and the left pleural lobe?

qualifiers

2 Coins

What coin invented by SatoshI Nakamoto Isalternately called digital cash, virtual currency,electronic currency, and cryptocurrency?

trilobltes

3 British Poems

These are lines from a poem by whom?•If you can force your heart and nerveand sinew to serve your turn long afterthey are gone

•If you can talk with crowds and keepyour virtue

-If you can wait and not be tired by waiting

Rudvard Kipling

4 Medieval HistoryIn medieval times, the Moors lived mainly in ttieMaghreb, Sicily, Malta, and on what majorEuropean peninsula?

bitcQln

3 Historical Parks

What American national park commemorates theearly French-Canadian fur traders who traveledthrough that region?

Vovaaeurs National Park

4 Sound Sources

A blindfolded person can determine the direction ofa sound In the air within about ten degrees, but,for a diver under water, this is impossible. Why?

Iberian Peninsula

5 Detective Work

In a series of related thefts, a detective notes thatthe perpetrator always wears a Lone Range maskand a Mickey Mouse hat, carries a Svriss Armyknife, exits the scene of the crime on a Vespa,targets high school students, and leaves a limerickwith his victims. What do law enforcment

personnel call such a set of behaviors?

MO fmodus operandn

Sound Is faster in water (no delay between ears)5 Communal Celebrations

These have been recent themes for what annual

late-summer celebration in Nevada's Black RockDesert?

Rites of PassageFertility

Cargo CultCaravanasaryCarnival of MirrorsDaVinci's Workshop Burning Man

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BONUS6 Failed Military StrategiesDuring Operation Desert Storm. Saddam Husseiniaunched SCUD missile attacks into what countryin hope of drawing it into the conflict and thusdissolving Arab support for the Coalition forces?

6 Museums

The George Washington Carver Museum is locatedat what educational institution in Alabama that was

first managed by Booker T. Washington?

7 Vitamins

Dermal synthesis of what vitamin requiresexposure to sunlight?

Israel Tuskeoee Institute

7 Hyphenated WordsWhat is the first hyphenated word in Longfellow'spoem, "Paul Revere's Ride"?

vitamin D

8 Propaganda

What propaganda technique is illustrated by acandidate who incorporates these kinds of photo opsin a campaign?•getting a burger at a fast food joint-bowling with some off-duty firemen-serving dinners to homeless people•driving a tractor in an alfalfa field-attending a pro basketball game

plain folks

9 Art Forms

What kind of post-modern, three-dimensional artmight consist of old shoes, bean cans, machineparts, garden tools, or other man-made objects?

sevenlv-five

8 Measurement Units

The SI unit of work or energy is named for the19th-century English physicist, James Prescottwho?

Joule

9 Orbits

The terms "aphermion" and "perihermion" referto the nearest and farthest orbital distances from

what planet?

assemblage

1 0 Southeast Asia

One-third of what Southeast Asian country'sperimeter forms an uninterrupted coastline alongthe Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea?

Mercury

1 0 Medievai Trials

in this judicial proceeding, guilt or innocence wasdetermined by the degree of injury suffered by theaccused after removing a stone from a pot ofboiling water, lead, or oil. This was one version oftrial by what?

Burma fMyanmar) ordeal (cr fire)

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BONUS1 1 Songs

These are examples of what category of songs?Toora Loora Loora

Momlngtown RideAll Through the NightAll the Pretty Little HorsesSleep My Baby

1 1 Westward ExpansionWhat real estate deal resulted in the region southof the Gila River and west of the Rio Grande beingincluded in the United States?

lullabies

1 2 Oceans

In addition to the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, andArctic oceans, the International HydrographicOrganization has also approved the acceptance of anadditional ocean, the fourth largest in the world,called what?

Gadsden Purehase

1 2 Mythical MetaphorsWhat metaphor for an extremely difficult problemis based on the name of a legendary king ofPhrygia?

Southern Ocean Gordtan knot

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BStiUS1 Etymology

Karel Capek originally wanted to call them"laborf but he ultimately gave hie automatonswhat name derived from a Czech word for "forced

labor"?

1 Ruminants

What chemical process associated with ruminantsrequires bacterial action in their specializedstomachs?

2 Luster

What luster characterizes obsidian?

robots fermentation

2 The Mideast

Name the only country with coastlines on both theCaspian Sea and the Indian Ocean?

vitreous luster

3 Nitrogen Fixation

DIazotrophs are bacteria that have the nitrogenaseenzyme that combines gaseous nitrogen withhydrogen to produce what pungent gas?

iran

3 Art Crimes

John Drewe sold a large number of forgedpaintings. He fooled the buyers by also forgingcorresponding documents used to verify theauthenticity of the paintings. What Is the term forany such documents that support the originality ofan art work?

ammonia

4 Legislation

What kind of clause In a piece of legislation issupposed to prevent the law from becomingpermanent?

provenance

4 Energy Transfer

Which kind of energy transfer can occur In solids,liquids, gases, and plasma?

sunset clause

5 Legislation

Chief Joseph Vann was among the Cherokees evictedfrom Georgia as a consequence of what legislativeact of 1830?

conduction

5 Rain Shadows

What mountain range Is responsible for the rainshadow In Death Valley?

Indian Removal Act Sierra Nevada

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BONUS6 Moften Rock

This describes the formation of what kind of lava?The lava gains a solid crust on contact withwater. This crust then cracks and oozesadditional large blobs as more lava emergesfrom the advancing underwater flow.

6 Astronomy HistoryWhile asteroids occupy position n = 5 of Bode'slaw, what heavenly body is in position 0 = 8?

7 Solar Wind

The solar wind is what state of matter?

pillow lava Uranus

7 Legislator PrerogativesName the constitutional privilege of members ofCongress to make statements on the floor and incommittee for which they cannot be arrested forslander or libel?

plasma8 Asteroids

PHAs or Potentially Hazardous Asteroids are alsoknown as what kind of objects?

immunity

8 Bursltis

Since the olecranon is the upper end of the ulna, inwhat part of the body would olecranon bursitisoccur?

NEOs fnear-Earth objects^

9 Wilderness

These are vrildemess areas in what state?Sandia Mountain

Capitan MountainsApache KidChama River CanyonBandelier

Cruces Basin

filbow

9 Medicine

in one case, a person with blood type O received anorgan transplant from a donor who was blood typeA. In another, a surgeon amputated the wrong legof a patient In anotfier, the incorrect diagnosis ofcancer led to unnecessary surgery. Legallyspeaking, these are examples of what?

New Mexico

1 0 Tragic Characters

What character created by Edwin ArlingtonRobinson was a gentleman from sole to crown.Imperially slim, always quietly arrayed, rich,admirably schooled, and the envy of the town?

medical malpractice

1 0 Grammatical Mood

What grammatical mood is Illustrated in this lineby Thoreau?

If you see a man approaching you withthe obvious intent of doing you good,you should run for your life.

Richard Corey aufejunotive

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BONUS1 1 Publishers

What newspaper publisher said this to hisarchitect in 1915?

I would like to build something upon the hillat San Simeon. I get tired of going up thereand camping in tents. I'm getting a littletoo old for that. I'd like to get somethingthat would be a little more comfortable.

William Randolph Hearst

1 2 Ancient Trees

What trees that were one of the more importantflora of the Mesozoic resemble small palms?

1 1 Epilogues

What character begins his epilogue of aShakespearean play with this?

If we shadows have offended,Think but this, and all is mended.That you have but slumbered hereWhile these visions did appear.And this weak and idle theme.No more yielding but a dream.

Puck

1 2 LightWhat kind of luminescence Is created by pressureupon substances such as sodium chloride,potassium chloride, and potassium bromide?

cycacte piezQiumlnesoence

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