1.
American Novels and Novelists
What novel begins with a bunch of people waiting in front of a prison door debating whether the prisoner should be put to death or branded with a hot iron, or whether the punishment referred to by the novel's title is appropriate? The prisoner goes to stand on a scaffold, a place returned to in the middle and at the end of the novel. Name this novel which ends with "On a field, sable, the letter A, gules."
ANSWER: (The) Scarlet Letter
2.
Chemistry
An
example of what type of substance is a solution that contains both acetic acid
and sodium acetate? These typically contain both acids and bases and are used to
maintain a constant hydrogen ion concentration.
ANSWER:
Buffer(s)
3.
Visual Arts/Man-Made Structures
What
famous artist likely would have become a porcelain designer if the company he
worked for had stayed in business? Some of his best known paintings include The
Umbrellas, The Theatre Box, and The Luncheon of the Boating Party.
ANSWER:
(Pierre-Auguste) Renoir
4.
Algebra/General Math (30 Seconds)
Find
all solutions to the equation x3-x=0
ANSWER:
-1,0,1 (all three in any order)
5.
Pop Culture
Some
of the characters on this show include Salt, Pepper, Paprika, Slippery, and
Mailbox. It always starts out with a question asked to a dog who then puts her
paw prints on three items so that the question can be answered. Name this show
on Nickelodeon and CBS.
ANSWER:
Blue's Clues (prompt on Blue)
6.
United States History
Which
founding father grew up on St. Croix? After serving in the Revolutionary War and
practicing law in New York, he helped draft the Continental Congress and played
a central role in it. Name this man who wrote most of the Federalist papers and
who became the first Secretary of the Treasury.
ANSWER:
(Alexander) Hamilton
7.
Religion/Mythology
Hebrew
spies in which city were protected by Rahab? The city was destroyed when the
Hebrews marched around it for seven days and then shouted as loud as they could.
This story appears near the beginning of the Book of Joshua.
ANSWER:
Jericho
8.
Physics (10 Seconds)
What
is the three-word phrase that describes what happens when light travelling from
a dense medium into a less dense medium hits the boundary at a wide angle? The
light is unable to enter the less dense medium when this occurs.
ANSWER:
Total Internal Reflection
9.
Current Events
On
October 4th, into what body of water did an airplane fall after exploding? The
plane was supposed to travel from Israel to Siberia but was hit by a Ukrainian
missile. This body of water separates Ukraine from Turkey.
ANSWER:
Black Sea
10.
World Literature
What
major novelist and short story writer, living recently in Spain and Mexico,
spent his early life in Colombia? His short story collections include Leaf Storm
and No One Writes to the Colonel. His most famous novel, which follows the
Buendia family, is One Hundred Years of Solitude.
ANSWER:
(Gabriel Garcia) Marquez
11.
Precalculus/Calculus (30 Seconds)
At
what rate is the volume of a cube increasing if each side of a cube is ten
inches and growing at a rate of four inches per second?
ANSWER:
1200 cubic inches per second
12.
Geography/Earth Science/Astronomy
What
occupies a large arc-shaped area approximately 1,000 miles long? It is
surrounded by the Altai, Hangayn, A-erh-chin, Pei, and Yin Mountains. Name this
desert located primarily in Mongolia.
ANSWER:
Gobi (Desert)
13.
Language Arts/Reference Sources
Give
the five-letter word taken from the Middle French word for 'kind' used to
describe a painting that depicts scenes or events from everyday life. A more
common definition for this word is a category of artistic, musical, or literary
composition characterized by a particular style, form, or content.
ANSWER:
Genre
14.
Technology
What
three-letter term refers to a type of computer network or to the set of lines
that carry signals between the CPU and computer peripherals?
ANSWER:
Bus
15.
Music
What
world-famous trumpet player sang several comedy vocals such as "You Rascal
You" in the 1930s, ballads such as "La Vie en Rose" in the 1950s,
and show tunes such as "Hello Dolly" in the 1960s? In the late 1960s,
he had a huge hit with "What A Wonderful World".
ANSWER:
(Louis) Armstrong
16.
Nonfiction
What
1934 graduate of the University of Chicago Law School became famous as an
interviewer? In addition to hosting a radio show, he has collected oral
histories such as The Good War, My American Century, and Working.
ANSWER:
(Studs) Terkel
17.
Geometry/Trigonometry (30 Seconds)
Make
sure your answer is fully simplified. What is the cosine of the quantity twenty
pi over three?
ANSWER:
-1/2 or -.5
18.
American Dramas, Poems, and Short Stories
What
writer spent the last fourteen years of her life on her mother's farm in Georgia
after being diagnosed with lupus? She won a National Book Award posthumously in
1972, and her collections were titled Everything That Rises Must Converge and A
Good Man Is Hard to Find.
ANSWER:
(Flannery) O'Connor
19.
Biology
What
objects, about one micrometer in diameter, derive their name from hydrogen
peroxide, which is a byproduct of their breakdowns? These are the most common
types of microbodies.
ANSWER:
Peroxisome(s)
20.
World History
What
name is given to a land ruled by the Germans and the Poles during the Middle
Ages, the kingdom ruled by the Hohenzollerns during the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries, and a German state between the two world wars? The land is
on the coast of the Baltic Sea.
ANSWER:
Prussia
TIEBREAKER
QUESTIONS
Ties
are sudden death--the first correct answer ends the match. If a question from
the match needs to be thrown out, it should be replaced by the corresponding
question from the replacement packet.
What
word, which when pluralized forms the name of an Old Testament book, is
synonymous with the word mourning spelled with a U? It is an expression of
regret but also an appeal. What is this word beginning with the letter L?
ANSWER:
Lamentation(s)
What
name is given to the sentence that begins, "We the people, in order to form
a more perfect union..." It comes before the First Article of the
Constitution.
ANSWER:
Preamble
Spell
the seven-letter word beginning with the letter T that means the infliction of
intense pain in order to punish or coerce. Spell the word TORTURE.