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BASIC SET 1

TOSSUPS/BONUSES

TOSSUP 1. After this Pennsylvania native won the U.S. Open and the first of his four Masters, he won consecutive British Open titles in 1961 and 1962. He once called the "golden bear" icon used by his rival Jack Nicklaus a "golden pig." Name this legendary golfer who designed more than 300 golf courses before his death in 2016.

answer: Arnold Palmer

BONUS 1. Answer these about the great Arnold Palmer:

A. Of the four Grand Slam golf tournaments every year, this is the only one he never won.

answer: the PGA Championship

B. He won his four Masters in this U.S. state where the Masters is held each spring.

answer: Georgia

C. In the 1960's, he was considered one of golf 's "Big Three" along with Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player, who was born in this country with three capital cities.

answer: South Africa

D. A drink named for Palmer combines lemonade and this non-alcoholic drink.

answer: sweet iced tea

TOSSUP 2. The King James Bible gives part of it as, "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil. " Identify this specific Old Testament reference whose hymns based on it include "The King of Love My Shepherd Is" and "The Lord is My Shepherd."

answer: Psalm 23

BONUS 2. Name the British authors of these 20th-century novels:

A. James and the Giant Peach

answer: Roald Dahl

B. The Wind in the Willows

answer: Kenneth Grahame

C. The Voyages of Doctor Doolittle

answer: Hugh Lofting

D. The Great Redwall Feast

answer: Brian Jacques

TOSSUP 3. Because Russians once called Ukraine "Little Russia", and perhaps because he was part-Ukrainian himself, his Second Symphony that includes Ukrainian folk songs is nicknamed "Little Russian." Name this 19th-century composer of the classic ballets Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake and The Nutcracker.

answer: P. I. Tchaikovsky QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

BONUS 3. Answer these about Ukraine:

A. This capital of Ukraine is considered a "hero city" for its gallant fight during World War II before it fell to the Germans.

answer: Kyiv [kee-YEV]

B. This area of Ukraine, transferred from Russia to Ukraine in 1954, was forcibly reclaimed by Russia in 2014.

answer: the Crimea [cry-MEE-a]

C. Millions of Ukrainians were starved to death by this Russian dictator in the 1930's.

answer: Josef Stalin

D. The top half of the flag of Ukraine is blue; the bottom half is this color.

answer: yellow

TOSSUP 4. The index of refraction for cinnabar is 3, which means that—what parameter travels only ⅓ as fast through cinnabar as it does through a vacuum ?

answer: light

BONUS 4. Pencils and paper ready! The world’s population recently reached 7 billion people.

A. Give this number in scientific notation.

answer: 7 x 109

B. The Earth has a land surface of about 1.4 x 108 square kilometers. Give this number as an integer.

answer: 140 million square kilometers

C. If all of the Earth’s land surface were evenly divided among the world’s population, how many square kilometers would each person get?

answer: 50 (7 x 109 / 1.4 x 108)

D. If a kilometer is 0.6 miles, how many square miles would each person get?

answer: 18 (50 x 0.6 x 0.6)

TOSSUP 5. Nine days after weathermen noticed it as a tropical wave and called it Invest 97L, it hit Haiti and Cuba as a Category 4 storm. Identify this hurricane that hit the southeast coast of the U.S. in October 2016 and caused widespread flooding.

answer: Hurricane Matthew

BONUS 5. Answer these about hurricanes:

A. This minimum wind speed in miles per hour must be reached before the word "hurricane" is used.

answer: 74 mph

B. This word describes the height to which ocean water rises when it hits shore during a hurricane and is measured in feet and in addition to any high tides during the storm.

answer: storm surge

C. What is called a "hurricane" in the eastern U.S. is called by this term if it hits the northwest Pacific Ocean west of the International Date Line.

answer: typhoon

D. That same storm is called by this term if it hits the southwest Pacific or southwest Indian Oceans.

answer: tropical cyclone

TOSSUP 6. Pencils and paper ready! Give the values of x and y that solve the equations 6x – 8y = -10 and 12x + 4y = 20.

answer: x = 1 , y = 2 (multiply 2nd eq’n by 2 and add to get 30x = 30) QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

BONUS 6. In myth, this king of Iolcus [ee-OAL-cuss] was told to beware a man wearing only one sandal.

A. Name this king who thus freaked out when Jason showed up, having lost a sandal.

answer: Pelias [PELL-ee-us]

B. The king sent Jason to get this object, assuming he would die in the attempt.

answer: the Golden Fleece

C. This daughter of the king fell in love with Jason—until Jason cheated on her.

answer: Medea [ma-DEE-a]

D. The king was the son of this Greek god of the sea.

answer: Poseidon [pa-SYE-dun]

TOSSUP 7. The Peace of Augsburg that was agreed in 1555 within the Holy Roman Empire ended a long period of religious strife between Catholics and—what specific denomination of Protestantism that is named for the man who is said to have nailed his 95 Theses to a church door in Wittenberg in 1517 ?

answer: Lutheranism (prompt on "Protestant" before it is read)

BONUS 7. It agreed to pay fines of $185 million in 2016 to settle charges that it created millions of new accounts for customers that the customers didn't approve.

A. Name this bank whose symbols include a stagecoach reflecting its 19th-century beginnings.

answer: Wells Fargo Bank

B. Its corporate offices are in this California coastal city.

answer: San Francisco, CA

C. This Broadway musical has a song about that company's wagon coming to River City.

answer: The Music Man

D. The wagon delivers band instruments ordered by this "Professor" who pretends to be a music teacher.

answer: Prof. Harold Hill

TOSSUP 8. Its current representation in Congress includes Bob Goodlatte, Don Beyer and Dave Brat, as well as its current Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine. Name this U.S. state whose governors who have become Presidents include John Tyler, James Monroe and Thomas Jefferson.

answer: Virginia

BONUS 8. Name the home states of these U.S. Senators who were all re-elected in 2016:

A. Republican Chuck Grassley

answer: Iowa

B. Republican Rob Portman

answer: Ohio

C. Democrat Richard Blumenthal

answer: Connecticut

D. Democrat Michael Bennet

answer: Colorado

TOSSUP 9. Based on a true story, it features actor David Oyelowo [o-YELL-a-wo] as a Christian missionary in Uganda who teaches chess in his spare time to a young girl named Phiona. Name this 2016 Disney movie that shows how Phiona becomes a Woman Candidate Master and even plays on the Ugandan women's team at the Chess Olympiad.

answer: Queen of Katwe QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

BONUS 9. Answer these about 2016 movies:

A. The Lovers and the Despot tells how this country's dictator had a filmmaker and an actress kidnapped to force them to make movies for him.

answer: North Korea

B. In the movie Harry and Snowman, Harry is a man and Snowman is an old broken-down specimen of this animal who learns how to be an excellent show jumper.

answer: horse

C. In the movie Milton's Secret, 11-year-old Milton has this serious problem at school.

answer: he's being bullied

D. This movie shows how a British Petroleum oil rig blew up in the Gulf of Mexico.

answer: Deepwater Horizon

TOSSUP 10. In German, it would be translated as "Ich habe einen Fehler gemacht." [ik hob ein-un FAY-lur ge-MOCKT]. In Spanish, it can be said, "se me equivocó" [say may ay-kee-vo-CO]. Name this concept, equivalent to a "gaffe" or "faux pas" [fo-PAW] in French.

answer: to make a mistake (accept clear equivalents like "to mess up", etc.)

BONUS 10. Pencils and paper ready! Triangle GHJ has a perimeter of 105. Its longest side is 10 units longer than its second-longest side and 11 longer than its shortest side.

A. How long is the longest side?

answer: 42 [x + x – 11 + (x - 10) = 105, so 3x = 126]

B. How long is the second-longest side?

answer: 32 (42 – 10)

C. How long is the shortest side ?

answer: 31 (42 – 11)

D. Triangle DEF is similar to GHJ, but each side of DEF is exactly ⅓ as long as the same side of GHJ. What is the perimeter of DEF?

answer: 35 (14 + 10⅓ + 10⅔, or ⅓ of 105)

TOSSUP 11. Its second version held a dog named Laika. Identify this series of spacecraft that changed names from time to time in the old Soviet Union but was always called by its original name in America that came from the Russian for "satellite."

answer: Sputnik

BONUS 11. Name these organelles within a cell:

A. It creates proteins from RNA molecules.

answer: ribosome

B. This one stores the cell’s DNA blueprint.

answer: nucleus

C. This one has its own independent genome.

answer: mitochondria

D. It contains stacks of cisternae [sis-TUR-nay].

answer: Golgi apparatus (or body)

TOSSUP 12. His widow came to a bar in Key West, Florida after he died in Idaho in 1961 and retrieved belongings he'd left during his years of living there. Name this American author of The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms and The Old Man and the Sea.

answer: Ernest Hemingway QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

BONUS 12. It received heavy criticism in 2016 after it raised prices dramatically on its EpiPens, affecting thousands of people who use EpiPens in emergency situations.

A. Name this drug company.

answer: Mylan

B. What specific medical emergency is an EpiPen designed for ?

answer: an allergy (or allergic reaction or anaphylaxis or anaphylactic shock)

C. The letters "E-P-I" in "EpiPen" stand for this drug found in an EpiPen that is also called "adrenaline" [a-DREN-a-lun].

answer: epinephrine [ep-a-NEFF-run]

D. The company's CEO Heather Bresch is the daughter of Joe Manchin, a current U.S. Senator from this state who was previously that state's governor.

answer: West Virginia

TOSSUP 13. Pencils and paper ready! The circumference of a circle is divided into two sections. The section AB is 8π inches long, while the rest of the circle is 10π inches long. Give the radius of the circle.

answer: 9 inches [2πr = 18π]

BONUS 13. What notes do you play when closing these holes on the musical instrument called a "recorder" ?

A. Every hole with the left hand except the pinky

answer: G natural

B. The left thumb hole and left middle finger hole only

answer: C natural

C. Every hole with the left hand except the pinky, plus index finger hole of the right hand

answer: F natural (note: this is a simplified fingering)

D. Left thumb, index finger and ring finger holes, plus index finger hole of the right hand

answer: B flat

TOSSUP 14. They include the flexors in your hands and your feet and are made mostly of collagen [CALL-a-jun]. Identify these parts of your body that connect muscle to bone, often become inflamed from injury or overuse, and include the patellar and the Achilles [a-KILL-eez].

answer: tendons

BONUS 14. Spell these words on the official 8th-grade school study list for the 2017 National Spelling Bee:

A. "nuisance" [NOO-sunce], a really annoying thing

answer: N-U-I-S-A-N-C-E

B. "toccata" [toe-KOT-a], a musical piece

answer: T-O-C-C-A-T-A

C. "exquisite" [ex-KWIZ-ut], an adjective meaning "amazingly beautiful"

answer: E-X-Q-U-I-S-I-T-E

D. "machete" [ma-SHET-ee], a sharp tool similar to an axe

answer: M-A-C-H-E-T-E

TOSSUP 15. Built by Energy Transfer Partners, it is nearly complete except for the short distance being protested vehemently by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe because it may affect their water supply. Give the 2-word name for this proposed oil pipeline between the Bakken oil fields and a refinery in Illinois.

answer: Dakota Access QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

BONUS 15. Pencils and paper ready! Zirconium has atomic number 40 and weighs 91 grams per mole.

A. How many protons are in an atom of zirconium?

answer: 40

B. How many neutrons are in an atom of zirconium?

answer: 51 (91 – 40)

C. If a zirconium atom has a charge of +4, how many electrons are in that atom?

answer: 36 (40 – 4)

D. How many neutrons are in an atom of zirconium’s 94 isotope?

answer: 54 (94 – 40)

TOSSUP 16. Pencils and paper ready! A factory makes 300 widgets an hour. If the factory is open 12 hours a day, 5 days a week, how many widgets can the factory produce in a single week?

answer: 18,000 widgets (300 x 12 x 5)

BONUS 16. Name these U.S. Presidents who had serious health problems during their time in office:

A. His wife Edith is said to have been the "acting President" for the last 19 months of his term after he suffered a stroke in the fall of 1919.

answer: Woodrow Wilson

B. His heart attack in 1955 occurred just before he began campaigning for re-election.

answer: Dwight D. Eisenhower

C. He had Addison's disease when he was inaugurated in 1961.

answer: John F. Kennedy

D. Less than six years after he left office in 1989, he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, the beginnings of which he may have had during his second term.

answer: Ronald Reagan

TOSSUP 17. What specific artistic medium includes Ammannati’s [om-a-NOT-eez] The Fountain of Neptune, Heinrich Strack's Victory Column, Bernini's The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa, Rodin's The Thinker and Michelangelo's David ?

answer: they’re all sculptures

BONUS 17. Give these terms from Asian art:

A. A tall and thin Japanese or Chinese temple

answer: pagoda

B. The Chinese term for "wind and water" that must be accounted for in building design

answer: feng shui [fung shway]

C. In a "triad" of statues, this religious figure was usually the one in the middle.

answer: Buddha

D. This white ceramic material, made of kaolin clay, is more frequent in the West as a material for bathroom fixtures.

answer: porcelain

TOSSUP 18. The cities of Tokyo, Japan; Brisbane, Australia; Auckland, New Zealand; Santiago, Chile and Lima, Peru are all located on—what major ocean that also touches Russia and the western United States?

answer: Atlantic Ocean QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

BONUS 18. Pencils and paper ready! Point J has coordinates (3, 6), while point K has coordinates

(-3, 6).

A. What line would J have to be reflected across to be the same as K?

answer: the y-axis

B. If point L with coordinates (-4, -5) is reflected across that same line, what will its new coordinates be?

answer: (4, -5)

C. If J is a vertex of a right triangle whose base is the x-axis, how long is the triangle’s hypotenuse in square-root form?

answer: √𝟒𝟓or 3√𝟓(by Pythagoras)

D. Find the distance between the points J and L in square-root form.

answer: √𝟏𝟕𝟎(by distance formula, √(49+121)_ )

TOSSUP 19. In geology, it is a horizontal line that marks the intersection between the inclined plane of a solid structure and the surface of Earth. Its other scientific definitions include "to become ignited", "to cause an electrical arc to form", and "to take root." Give this 6-letter word that can also mean "the discovery of a gold or silver deposit."

answer: strike

BONUS 19. Fill in these 3-word phrases from the Boy Scout Oath:

A. "On my honor, I will [blank blank blank]…

answer: do my best

B. ‘’to do my duty to God [blank blank blank]…

answer: and my country

C. "and to obey the Scout Law; to [blank blank blank]…at all times…

answer: help other people

D. "to keep myself physically strong, mentally awake [blank blank blank]."

answer: and morally straight

TOSSUP 20. Its annual revenue that makes up about 1/6 of South Korea's gross domestic product took a big hit in 2016 after safety issues were reported with its new phone. Name this company who finally stopped production of its Galaxy Note 7 phones after multiple reports that its battery causes it to catch fire.

answer: Samsung

BONUS 20. Answer these about places Christopher Columbus visited on his 1492 excursion to the New World:

A. The island he saw on October 12, 1492, and called "San Salvador" is now part of this nation whose capital is Nassau.

answer: the Bahamas

B. After seeing 5 islands in the Bahamas, he visited this island nation, thinking it was China.

answer: Cuba

C. Finally, he made it to the island of Hispaniola, where his ship Santa Maria ran aground. Hispaniola is now shared by this French-speaking country…

answer: Haiti

D. …nd this Spanish-speaking country.

answer: the Dominican Republic QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

LIGHTNING ROUNDS

(Areas that do not use these 60-second rounds in their local format can either use them as extra bonuses or as warm-up "speed check" questions to improve buzzer speed.)

1. 19th-CENTURY AMERICAN AUTHORS

Name the authors of these works.

1) Moby-Dick Herman Melville

2) The Last of the Mohicans James Fenimore Cooper

3) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Mark Twain (or Samuel Clemens)

4) Little Women Louisa May Alcott

5) The Courtship of Miles Standish Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

6) The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne

7) Rip van Winkle Washington Irving

8) The Call of the Wild Jack London

9) The Fall of the House of Usher Edgar Allan Poe

10) The Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane

LIGHTNING ROUND 2. FCS SCHOOLS

Name the home states of these colleges whose football teams play in the

NCAA's Football Championship Subdivision.

1) Columbia University New York

2) University of San Diego California

3) Murray State Kentucky

4) William and Mary Virginia

5) Lehigh Pennsylvania

6) Grambling Louisiana

7) Davidson North Carolina

8) University of the Incarnate Word Texas

9) Alcorn State Mississippi

10) Drake Iowa QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

LIGHTNING ROUND 3 –STARTS WITH A

1) A substance like Lysol that kills bacteria or germs antiseptic 2) Small yellow fruit with a pit inside apricot 3) A knitted or crocheted blanket, or someone born in Kabul afghan

4) Squeezable musical instrument with a piano keyboard and chord buttons accordion

5) Software company, famed for Photoshop and Acrobat Reader Adobe 6) African insectivore, bigger than an anteater aardvark

7) Blood disorder, caused by a lack of red blood cells anemia 8) A fruit dessert topped with shredded coconut, or the food of the gods ambrosia

9) Its major cities include Brisbane, Perth and Melbourne. Australia

10) State whose lakes include Ouachita [WAH-cha-taw], Pine Bluff and Ozark Arkansas

END OF BASIC SET 1 QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

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BASIC SET 2

TOSSUPS/BONUSES

TOSSUP 1. 432 years after his death, this leader has a statue honoring him in the Russian city of Oryol, a statue erected amid protests of his tyranny that was made worse by his "oprichniki" [a-PRITCH-na-kee] group of secret police. Name this first "Czar of all the Russias" who, in the late 16th century, built St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow but also murdered his own son.

answer: Ivan IV Vasilyevich (or Ivan the Terrible)

BONUS 1. Answer these about Ivan the Terrible:

A. He is credited with bringing this Johannes Gutenberg invention to Russia.

answer: the printing press

B. A British newspaper claims that Ivan proposed marriage to this British queen.

answer: Queen Elizabeth I

C. After Ivan killed his son, a less competent son Fyodor took the throne upon Ivan's death. Fyodor's death ushered in the Time of Troubles that ended with this dynasty on the Russian throne.

answer: Romanov dynasty

D. That dynasty ended in 1917 when this czar was executed by the Communists.

answer: Czar Nicholas II

TOSSUP 2. You can do this if you are taking medication but must wait a year to do it after getting a tattoo—and can never do it at all if you have sickle cell anemia or leukemia. Identify this public service activity, often supervised by the American Red Cross.

answer: giving (or donating) blood

BONUS 2. The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields is a British classical music group begun by the late Sir Neville Marriner.

A. Its current Music Director is this American violinist whose playing is heard in the movie The Red Violin.

answer: Joshua Bell

B. The Academy's first gold record was their recording of this composer's The Four Seasons.

answer: Antonio Vivaldi

C. The Academy's most recent CD features this late 19th-century German composer's final work, a Double Concerto for violin and cello.

answer: Johannes Brahms

D. The Academy also made one recording of this composer's oratorio Messiah.

answer: G. F. Handel QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

TOSSUP 3. Pencils and paper ready! Jim can do a job in 3 hours. Susan can do the job in N hours. If Jim and Susan, working together, can do the job in 1 hour, how long would it take Susan to do the job by herself?

answer: 1½ hours or 90 minutes or 1 hour, 30 minutes (⅓+ 1/N = 1, so 1/N = ⅔)

BONUS 3. Pencils and paper ready! Give the integers equal to these exponential expressions:

A. Four to the fifth power

answer: 1,024 (4 x 4 x 4 x 4 x 4)

B. Negative two to the seventh power

answer: -128 (ensure negative sign is included)

C. Eight to the two-thirds power

answer: 4 (cube root of 82 = 64)

D. One-third to the negative second power

answer: 9 (reciprocal of 1/9)

TOSSUP 4. He died on the same day as both C.S. Lewis and John Kennedy, but not from the drugs like LSD that he tried several times. Name this British author of the novels Point Counter Point, Crome Yellow and Brave New World.

answer: Aldous Huxley

BONUS 4. Answer these about Andrew Jackson:

A. He was an original investor in this Tennessee city.

answer: Memphis

B. Jackson accused John Quincy Adams of procuring a woman for Czar Alexander I while Adams served as Minister to this country.

answer: Russia

C. During Jackson's time as President, this famed orator said, "Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable!"

answer: Daniel Webster

D. When Jackson lost the presidential election in this year, he claimed a "corrupt bargain" had been agreed between other candidates.

answer: 1824

TOSSUP 5. Its pure version was once more valuable than gold because there was no easy way to extract it from its ores like bauxite [BOX-ite]. Name this element, the most prevalent metal in Earth’s crust and just to the left of silicon in the periodic table, that is often recycled because of its presence in soda cans.

answer: aluminum or Al

BONUS 5. Name the insects whose species include:

A. Ground, jumping and funnelweb

answer: spider

B. Pharaoh, black and fire

answer: ant

C. Tiger and Japanese

answer: beetle

D. Paper, mud and pollen

answer: wasp QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

TOSSUP 6. Its Sanganeb Marine National Park, added to the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites in 2016, is a coral reef in the middle of the Red Sea. Name this African nation whose southern area recently became independent and where the White Nile and Blue Nile rivers join together in its capital city of Khartoum [car-TOOM].

answer: Sudan

BONUS 6. Give these terms to do with volcanoes:

A. The hole at the top through which lava comes out

answer: vent

B. The combination of water and volcanic debris that falls down the slope of a volcano because of gravity.

answer: lahar [la-HAR]

C. The generic 6-letter word for anything of any type that erupts into the air from a volcano

answer: tephra

D. This type of volcano is created from alternating layers of tephra and hardened lava.

answer: composite volcano (or stratovolcano)

TOSSUP 7. In his postseason career, he has often been almost unhittable for 6 innings and then fallen apart in the seventh. But in 2016, he won several postseason games and even earned a save in his team's final game against the Washington Nationals. Name this star pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers.

answer: Clayton Kershaw

BONUS 7. Give these words from their multiple meanings:

A. To hit something, to refuse to work, or a good pitch in baseball

answer: strike

B. A unit to measure horse height, a set of cards in a poker game, or a part of your body

answer: hand

C. To refuse to eat, or an adjective meaning "rapid"

answer: fast

D. To watch over (as children), or to be inclined to

answer: tend

TOSSUP 8. The yellow road signs that indicate "curve ahead", "crossroad ahead", "slippery when wet", "stop sign ahead", "traffic light ahead", "reduction in number of lanes", "crosswalk ahead", and "big downhill ahead" all typically have—what shape?

answer: diamond

BONUS 8. Name these types of dogs from their major breeds:

A. German, Irish Water, English springer

answer: spaniel

B. English, Irish

answer: setter

C. Scottish, bull, Jack Russell

answer: terrier

D. Afghan, basset, blood

answer: hound QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

TOSSUP 9. Sculptor Edward Pierce, potter Josiah Wedgwood, painters William Hogarth, J.M.W. Turner and Thomas Gainsborough, and architect Sir Christopher Wren were all born in—what European country that was also home to painter Sir Joshua Reynolds and contains a set of Tate Museums?

answer: England or Great Britain or United Kingdom

BONUS 9. Identify these Old Testament prophets from miracles they were involved in:

A. He sealed the heavens and prevented rain for 3 ½ years.

answer: Elijah

B. He was saved from a den of lions.

answer: Daniel

C. He was swallowed by a giant fish and stayed alive there for three days.

answer: Jonah

D. He commanded the sun to stand still while Israel fought the Amorites.

answer: Joshua

TOSSUP 10. Dorothy Parker's is, "Excuse my dust", while Frank Sinatra's is "The best is yet to come" and Robert Louis Stevenson's ends, "Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill." Give this general term for an inscription on a tombstone.

answer: epitaph [EP-a-taff] (prompt on "gravestone" or "tombstone" before it is read)

BONUS 10. Answer these about the Mekong River:

A. Two Friendship Bridges that cross the Mekong connect Thailand with this country.

answer: Laos

B. The part of the Mekong between Laos and Vietnam goes through this country.

answer: Cambodia

C. The Mekong flows into this sea.

answer: South China Sea

D. The Mekong is part of the border between Laos and this country, once called Burma.

answer: Myanmar [mee-on-MAR]

TOSSUP 11. A Singapore company called BandLab bought 49% of it in 2016 from its founder Jann Wenner. Name this entertainment magazine, now being sued over a false story it published about the University of Virginia, that shares its name with a member of Mick Jagger's rock band.

answer: Rolling Stone

BONUS 11. Answer these about the Statue of Liberty, which celebrates its 130th anniversary in 2016:

A. It was a gift from the French, who agreed to provide the Statue if America would provide this part of the whole thing.

answer: the pedestal the Statue stands on

B. This Frenchman designed the Statue.

answer: Frederic Bartholdi

C. The outside of the Statue is made of this metal.

answer: copper

D. The Statue has an official 4-word title, of which "Liberty" is the first word. Give the rest of the title.

answer: Liberty Enlightening the World

TOSSUP 12. In geology, it is a crack in a rock or mineral, especially when the rock doesn’t cleave properly and ends up in ugly pieces. Give this term that, in medicine, describes a crack in a bone that is not as bad as a "break" but still requires a cast and hurts a lot.

answer: fracture QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

BONUS 12. It is now observing a year-long period of mourning for its late King, Bhumibol Adulyadej [POOM-a-paul a-DOON-ya-DAY].

A. Name this Asian nation where the King had reigned for 70 years.

answer: Thailand

B. The King was the ninth ruler in the Chakri dynasty and thus had the royal name "[blank] the Ninth"…

answer: Rama IX

C. …here Rama is the name of a god in this religion.

answer: Hinduism

D. The King owned the Golden Jubilee, the world's largest cut and faceted example of this object.

answer: diamond

TOSSUP 13. Between 1919 and 1933, the Volstead Act passed by Congress banned alcohol manufacture, transport, export, sale or possession. Give the popular term for this period of time during which the 18th Amendment was enforced, a time period that saw bootlegging and speakeasies throughout America.

answer: Prohibition

BONUS 13. Pencils and paper ready! A circle with diameter of 10 feet is painted onto a wall. The circle entirely contains a right triangle with legs 3 feet and 4 feet, as well as a square with sides 2 feet that doesn’t touch the triangle at all.

A. Give the circumference of the circle in terms of π

answer: 10πft. (2πx 5)

B. Give the area of the circle in terms of π.

answer: 25πsq. ft. (πx 5 x 5)

C. If a ball randomly hits inside the circle, give the probability that the ball will hit the triangle.

answer: 𝟔𝟐𝟓𝝅[triangle area is ½ x 3 x 4 = 6]

D. If a ball randomly hits inside the circle, give the probability that the ball will hit the square.

answer: 𝟒𝟐𝟓𝝅[square area is 2 x 2 = 4]

TOSSUP 14. When she was abducted, her kidnapper could have been either Meleagant [ma-LAY-a-gunt] or Mordred--and her rescuer could have been either her husband or Sir Lancelot. Name this queen of myth who brought the Round Table and 100 knights as her dowry when she married King Arthur.

answer: Queen Guenevere [GWEN-a-veer]

BONUS 14. Answer these about 2016 college football polls:

A. This was the #1 team in both the AP and coaches polls for most of the year.

answer: Univ. of Alabama (or Crimson Tide)

B. This Big 10 team was #2 in the polls for a while but lost its first playoff game.

answer: The Ohio State Univ. (or Buckeyes)

C. This other Big 10 team was #3 for much of the year but eventually fell out of playoff position.

answer: Univ. of Michigan (or Wolverines) and Clemson Univ. (or Tigers)

D. This conference's top team was #5 Washington.

answer: Pacific-12 Conference

TOSSUP 15. This adjective can describe "coordinates in a plane whose axes are not perpendicular to each other", as well as "any solid figure whose bases look misaligned." Give this 7-letter word also describing "any angle that is not 90° or a multiple of 90°" and "any non-right triangle."

answer: oblique [o-BLEEK] QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

BONUS 15. Name the capital cities of these countries that now have a Roman Catholic Cardinal for the first time, courtesy of Pope Francis:

A. Bangladesh

answer: Dhaka [da-CAW]

B. Malaysia

answer: Kuala Lumpur [coo-aw-la lum-POOR]

C. Central African Republic

answer: Bangui [BON-ghee]

D. Papua New Guinea

answer: Port Moresby

TOSSUP 16. Pencils and paper ready! In the Java computer language, the "percent sign" command gives the remainder of a division problem. Give the value of the expression "179 % [percent sign] 5."

answer: 4 (remainder of 179 ÷ 5, which is 4)

BONUS 16. Answer these about Patrick Henry:

A. He spent 5 terms as governor of this U.S. state.

answer: Virginia

B. Give the 7 words that finish his famous speech: "I know not what course others may take; but as for me..."

answer: give me liberty or give me death!"

C. He was said to belong to this religious group—but acted like "the very devil in politics."

answer: Quaker

D. Henry was offered this Cabinet post by George Washington--but turned it down.

answer: Secretary of State

TOSSUP 17. The world’s first fire ever set to manage the ecology was set there in 1958, near its Marjory Stoneman Douglas Wilderness. Its website calls it a "Wetland of International Importance" and "the largest subtropical wilderness in the United States." Name this National Park with a mailing address in Homestead, Florida that is famed for its "dense mangroves, towering palms, and alligator holes."

answer: the Everglades

BONUS 17. The novel Wide Sargasso Sea is a sort of prequel to a classic novel that contains a madwoman locked in an attic who eventually kills herself.

A. Name the female author of Wide Sargasso Sea.

answer: Jean Rhys

B. Name the classic British novel for which it is a prequel because it tells how the title character's eventual husband's first wife went crazy.

answer: Jane Eyre

C. Name the man Jane Eyre eventually marries.

answer: Edward Rochester

D. Give the first name of the character in Wide Sargasso Sea who burns down Rochester’s mansion in Jane Eyre.

answer: Antoinette (Cosway)

TOSSUP 18. Beginning in the last years of ancient Rome, bodies of religious martyrs were often buried under the churches nearest to where they died, effectively creating a lower church in the original church’s basement. Give the 5-letter word for this lower church, a word that describes a chamber in a mausoleum and is often used at Halloween for a place where a ghost’s dead body might be buried. QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

answer: crypt

BONUS 18. Give these terms from algebra:

A. This type of notation expresses numbers as B times 10 to the nth power, where B is a number between 1 and 10 and n is an integer.

answer: scientific notation

B. If a set of ordered pairs don’t meet the definition of a function, it’s just called by this term.

answer: a relation

C. This is the quadrant of an x-y plane where both x and y are always less than zero.

answer: third

D. Examples might be the terms 5xyz, -3abc, or 17def.

answer: monomials

TOSSUP 19. The shore of this country's Lake Natron , near its volcano Ol Doinyo Lengai, is the site of a recently discovered large set of human footprints that are at least 5,000 years old. Name this African country that is also home to Mount Kilimanjaro.

answer: Tanzania

BONUS 19. Answer these about the history of Tanzania:

A. In 1885, Karl Peters helped get what is now Tanzania within this imperialist power's sphere of influence.

answer: Germany

B. After World War I , England took over the area and gave it this name.

answer: Tanganyika [tan-gun-YEEK-a]

C. Tanganyika combined with this offshore island in 1964 to create modern-day Tanzania.

answer: Zanzibar

TOSSUP 20. When he came to England in 1964, a reporter said he had "hair that would set the teeth of a comb on edge, a loud shirt that would dim the neon lights of Leicester Square [and] looks like an undernourished cockatoo"—and that was without mentioning his voice that sounded as if "sandpaper could sing." Name this American folk singer and surprise winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature.

answer: Bob Dylan (or Robert Zimmerman)

BONUS 20. Answer these about Bob Dylan:

A. He was born in this Midwestern state.

answer: Minnesota

B. Many have thought that he took the stage name Dylan because it is the first name of this Welsh poet who wrote Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night.

answer: Dylan Thomas

C. His song "Oxford Town" told how James Meredith became the first black student at this Southern college.

answer: Univ. of Mississippi

D. In May 2016, Dylan celebrated this milestone birthday.

answer: 75th QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

LIGHTNING ROUNDS

1. BIOLOGY

1) The oxygen-carbon dioxide exchange between humans and plants respiration

2) The suffix C-I-D-E (spell out) means this. kill or death

3) Kingdom that contains amoeba and algae protists or Protista

4) Branch of biology that studies organisms and their environments ecology

5) This tissue in a plant's dermal system shares its name with the outer layer of human skin. epidermis

6) Most carbon stored above ground , on land, is in this biome with lots of trees. (rain) forest

7) This cell organelle is abbreviated ER. endoplasmic reticulum

8) The medical term for a heart attack is MI, which stands for this. myocardial infarction

9) The rough wood around a tree trunk, made of dead phloem [FLO-um] cells bark

10) State animal of Florida, or genus of large cats including lions, leopards and tigers panther

2. 2016 MOVIES

1) It's the third film in the Divergent series. Allegiant

2) Albert Brooks returns as the voice of Nemo's father. Finding Dory

3) Chris Pine is Captain Kirk in this Star Trek flick. Star Trek Beyond

4) This Western has Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke and 5 others. The Magnificent Seven

5) These two guys need wedding dates. Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates

6) Meryl Streep plays a singer who can't sing. Florence Foster Jenkins

7) She runs a home for peculiar children. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

8) A baby delivery place is replaced by a postal service. Storks

9) College students are back in the woods again in this sequel. Blair Witch

10) This time period is "the worst years of my life." Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

3. STARTS WITH C

1) Capital of Venezuela Caracas [ca-ROCK-us]

2) Tools whose types include "bevel" and "paring" chisel

3) In 1778, this British explorer became the first European to visit Hawaii. Capt. James Cook

4) Ancient writing system that used wedges for individual signs cuneiform 5) Adjective for 2 jail sentences running at the same time concurrent

6) Section at the end of a concerto, improvised by the soloist cadenza

7) This part of a wheat plant is blown out of harvested wheat with a fan chaff

8) In The Grapes of Wrath, Rose of Sharon’s no-account husband Connie

9) French city across the English Channel from Dover Calais [ca-LAY]

10) Asian eating utensils, used in pairs chopsticks

END OF BASIC SET 2 QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

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BASIC SET 3

TOSSUPS/BONUSES

TOSSUP 1. Three years after graduating from Dartmouth, his 2016 performance doubled his career win total and helped lift his team to heights it hasn't reached in decades. Name this pitcher who had baseball's lowest earned run average in 2016 and whose Game 6 win over Clayton Kershaw's Dodgers put the Chicago Cubs into the World Series.

answer: Kyle Hendricks

BONUS 1. Name these top players you saw in this year's World Series:

A. This left-handed Cubs closer often throws faster than 100 miles per hour but didn't get into Game 1.

answer: Aroldis Chapman

B. This former teammate of Chapman's with the New York Yankees is now the top reliever for the Cleveland Indians and showed it again in Game 1.

answer: Andrew Miller

C. This Cubs infielder was co-MVP of the series against the Dodgers, along with teammate John Lester.

answer: Javier Baez [BYE-ez]

D. This Indians ace shut the Cubs down in Game 1.

answer: Corey Kluber

TOSSUP 2. Norton’s collections of writings from this century in American literature include writings by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Identify this century in which the most famous writings of Edgar Allan Poe, Washington Irving and Nathaniel Hawthorne were also created.

answer: the 1800’s or 19th century

BONUS 2. Name the countries featuring these buildings with Romanesque architecture:

A. Cathedrals in Zamora and Santiago de Compostela [sonn-tee-AW-go day coam-po-STAY-la]

answer: Spain

B. Baptistries in Parma and Florence

answer: Italy

C. Cathedrals in Mainz [MEINTZ and Cologne [ca-LOAN]

answer: Germany

D. Cathedrals in Bristol and Portsmouth

answer: England (or Great Britain or United Kingdom)

TOSSUP 3. Pencils and paper ready! John is 20 years older than his daughter Melissa. Five years ago, he was exactly twice as old as Melissa. How old is Melissa now?

answer: 25 [x + 20 – 5 = 2 (x – 5), so x + 15 = 2x – 10 and x = 25] QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

BONUS 3. In myth, Niobe [nye-O-bee] had seven daughters and seven sons and foolishly mocked Leto, who only had two children.

A. What happened to Niobe's 14 children?

answer: they were all killed (accept equivalents)

B. After that, Niobe was turned into this inanimate object.

answer: a rock or stone

C. Niobe was the daughter of this king who could reach neither food nor drink, no matter how hard he tried.

answer: Tantalus [TAN-ta-luss]

D. Leto's two children were this god and this goddess.

answer: Apollo and Artemis

TOSSUP 4. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo [gwa-da-LOO-pay ee-DOLL-go], negotiated for the U.S. in 1848 by Nicholas Trist against the wishes of President Polk (who accepted it afterward), gave the U.S. much of the southwestern territory it has today and ended—what war ?

answer: Mexican-American War

BONUS 4. Name these works by Louisa May Alcott:

A. Its subtitle is Life at Plumfield with Jo’s Boys.

answer: Little Men

B. Rose Campbell is a girl living with seven boy relatives in Boston.

answer: Eight Cousins

C. Based on a nursery rhyme, its two title characters get seriously hurt in a sledding accident.

answer: Jack and Jill: A Village Story

D. Good Wives has been published as a separate book that contains the final 24 chapters of this best-known Alcott novel.

answer: Little Women

TOSSUP 5. Arrrrgh! Three years after this country's "Pirate" political party first got enough votes to win seats in its Parliament called the "Althing", the party is now on the verge of winning this country's October 2016 national election. Identify this European island nation, west of the rest of the continent, whose capital is Reykjavik [RIKE-ya-vick].

answer: Iceland

BONUS 5. Answer these about countries that changed leaders in 1945:

A. Kantaro Suzuki succeeded Kuniaki [coo-nee-OCK-ee] Koiso as this country’s Prime Minister, thus becoming the second Prime Minister after Hideki Tojo.

answer: Japan

B. Adolf Hitler’s last will specified this Propaganda Minister to succeed him as Chancellor of Germany—but when he heard Hitler had killed himself, he killed himself too.

answer: Joseph Goebbels [GUR-bulz]

C. Isaías Medina Angarita was succeeded by Romulo Betancourt in this South American country.

answer: Venezuela

D. John Curtin died as Prime Minister of this land "down under."

answer: Australia QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

TOSSUP 6. Objects are distinguishable from each other and many outdoor activities can begin for the day at—what time, always several minutes before sunrise, that is defined by the National Weather Service as "the time of morning at which the sun is 6° below the horizon" ?

answer: dawn

BONUS 6. Give these physical science terms:

A. A substance (like hydrogen) that can’t be broken down into any simpler substances

answer: element

B. A combination of two things that you can un-combine again if you really want to

answer: mixture

C. A combination of two things that you can’t un-combine again, once they’ve been combined

answer: compound

D. A homogeneous mixture of water and a solid substance

answer: solution

TOSSUP 7. This Baron of Gilwell used Gilwell Park as a place for advanced Scout training, which is still honored by adults who take Scouting's Wood Badge course. Though a commander of troops during the Second Boer War, what British Lord is most famous today for founding the Boy Scouts ?

answer: Robert (Lord) Baden-Powell

BONUS 7. Answer these about criminals serving their sentences at the Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado:

A. It's his fault we have to take our shoes off at the airport, as he tried to blow up an airplane in 2001 with explosives in his shoes.

answer: Richard Reid

B. Terry Nichols is serving 161 consecutive life sentences for his role in this 1995 attack.

answer: the Oklahoma City bombing

C. Eric Rudolph was the Centennial Olympic Park bomber who struck during the 1996 Summer Olympics in this city.

answer: Atlanta, GA

D. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev [tsar-NAY-yev] set off bombs at this annual 26-mile race.

answer: the Boston Marathon

TOSSUP 8. The worldwide radio industry honored his death on July 20, 1937 with two minutes of complete silence. Name this Italian inventor, credited with saving all survivors of the Titanic because the Titanic included his "wireless."

answer: Guglielmo Marconi

BONUS 8. Pencils and paper ready! Draw the line y = 2x + 6 on an x-y plane.

A. What are the coordinates of the line’s y-intercept point?

answer: (0, 6)

B. What is y when x is 10 ?

answer: 26 [(2 x 10) + 6]

C. What would you do to your line to create the graph of the inequality y is less than (2x + 6) ?

answer: change the line from solid to dotted (or dashed)

D. Which part of the x-y plane expresses the inequality y is greater than (2x minus 5) ?

answer: the part above the line QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

TOSSUP 9. Its Chapter 16 mentions the ship Rangoon on which its main character is sailing around Asia and is called, "In Which Fix Does Not Seem to Understand in the Least What is Said to Him." Name this Jules Verne novel that features Passepartout [poss-par-TOO], a valet for an Englishman named Phileas Fogg.

answer: Around the World in 80 Days

BONUS 9. Give these terms as defined by the Glossary of Coastal Terminology created by the Washington State Department of Ecology:

A. This 4-letter word is "a relatively extensive land area jutting seaward from a continent or large island which prominently marks a change in, or interrupts notably, the coastal trend."

answer: cape

B. "A geologic formation that is water-bearing, and which transmits water from one point to another"

answer: aquifer

C. This 5-letter word is a "soft, wet area periodically or continuously flooded to a shallow depth, usually characterized by a particular subclass of grasses, cattails and other low plants."

answer: marsh

D. These small rocks are "beach material, usually well-rounded and between about 4 millimeters and 64 millimeters in diameter."

answer: pebbles

TOSSUP 10. On his deathbed 190 years ago, his doctor cut off a lock of his hair. Now that set of 14 strands has been sold for almost $7,000. Name this U.S. President whose death on July 4, 1826, came just hours before the death of his predecessor, John Adams.

answer: Thomas Jefferson

BONUS 10. Their comic operettas took the world by storm in the late 1800's and are still performed worldwide.

A. Name this pair of British musicians.

answer: W.S. Gilbert & Arthur Sullivan

B. This show about a boy named Frederic includes the songs "Poor Wand'ring One" and "When Fred'ric was a Little Lad."

answer: The Pirates of Penzance

C. Set in Japan, this show features the songs "Three Little Maids From School Are We" and "Behold the Lord High Executioner."

answer: The Mikado

D. This show, named for a British ship, includes the songs "We Sail the Ocean Blue" and "Kind Captain, I've Important Information."

answer: H.M.S. Pinafore

TOSSUP 11. The online WebMuseum divides his artistic career into sections like "Haystacks", "Rouen [roo-ON] Cathedral" and "Waterlilies." Name this French Impressionist whose paintings include The Japanese Bridge, Morning on the Seine, Argenteuil [ar-zhun-TOYL] and Impression: Sunrise.

answer: Claude Monet QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

BONUS 11. Identify these popular tourist attractions in London, England:

A. If the Royal Flag is flying over this large building, Queen Elizabeth II is staying there today.

answer: Buckingham Palace

B. This large ferris wheel near the Thames River is modeled on the Prater ferris wheel in Vienna.

answer: the London Eye

C. This home of Nelson’s Column is a large plaza that contains the National Gallery.

answer: Trafalgar Square

D. This Gothic church is where Queen Elizabeth II was crowned Queen.

answer: Westminster Abbey

TOSSUP 12. It is thought to be 10 times as massive as Earth, but no one has actually seen it yet. Instead, scientists postulate its existence based on the effect it seems to have on other nearby objects. Give the two-word term for this yet-undiscovered astronomical body that may have even affected the orbits of the 8 planets in our solar system.

answer: Planet Nine

BONUS 12. Name these tools your landscape guy might use:

A. Its "garden" variety has a metal blade that is commonly used to dig up weeds and create furrows.

answer: hoe

B. Common types of this tool dragged over your lawn include "dethatching", "leaf" and "garden."

answer: rake

C. These scissors for your yard come in "lawn" and "pruning" varieties.

answer: shears

D. Use a shovel to move dirt from one place to another and this shovel-like device to keep the dirt it breaks up in the same place.

answer: spade

TOSSUP 13. Like England, its citizens surprised its government with its vote in October 2016, a vote against a peace deal worked out with its longtime terrorist group FARC. Name this South American country where FARC has made people's lives miserable for more than 50 years, a country whose capital is Bogotá [bo-go-TAW].

answer: Colombia

BONUS 13. The rejection of the government deal with FARC was quite a surprise…

A. …specially to this President of Colombia, who won the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize for getting the original agreement together.

answer: Juan Manuel Santos

B. The agreement was negotiated in this capital city of Cuba, where participants were hosted by Raúl Castro.

answer: Havana, Cuba

C. The agreement was signed while this U.S. Secretary of State was there to see it.

answer: John Kerry

D. Colombia is #1 in world production of this illegal drug, partly because the government stopped aerial spraying to kill the plant from which it is made.

answer: cocaine

TOSSUP 14. Pencils and paper ready! The radius of Uranus at its equator is about 25,600 kilometers, while the radius of Earth at its equator is about 6,400 kilometers. Find the ratio of the surface area of Uranus to the surface area of Earth.

answer: 16 or 16 to 1 (A = 4πr2, so the 4πcancels and leaves [25,600]2/[6,400] 2) QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

BONUS 14. Pencils and paper ready! Draw two short columns with a vertical line between them. Down the left-hand column, write the numbers 4, 5, 6 and 9. In the other column, write a 3 across from the 4, a 0 and a 1 across from the 5, a 9 across from the 6, and a 7 across from the 9.

A. This is a very small version of—what type of statistical plot?

answer: stem-and-leaf plot

B. If this plot lists student test scores, how many total students took the test?

answer: 5

C. What was the highest score on the test?

answer: 97 (the row with 8, then 7)

D. What was the average score on the test?

answer: 62 [(43 + 50 + 51 + 69 + 97)/5]

TOSSUP 15. Its characters include Emma (who can make a fire with her bare hands), Hugh (who can store bees in his stomach) and Claire (who has an extra mouth in the back of her head). Give the 6-word title of this novel by Ransom Riggs, set in an abandoned orphanage on an Welsh island, that was made into a 2016 movie.

answer: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

BONUS 15. Answer these about the movie Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children:

A. It was directed by this man famed for other creepy movies like Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands.

answer: Tim Burton

B. Miss Peregrine gets her name because she can transform herself into this type of bird.

answer: a peregrine falcon

C. This black actor plays Mr. Barron, the major villain in the film.

answer: Samuel L. Jackson

D. In the movie, the twins Joseph and Thomas are both examples of this creature of myth that would turn you to stone if you looked at it.

answer: Gorgons

TOSSUP 16. Like blood, it is typically more than 95% water. By analyzing this sterile substance, a doctor can estimate your blood pressure, recent diet, general health and what medication you’ve been taking. Name this substance, formed in the kidneys and often yellow in color, that is collected in your bladder and smells like ammonia if not properly disposed of.

answer: urine (accept clearly equivalent answers)

BONUS 16. Answer these about things that can be learned from a urine sample:

A. Protein in a sample may mean that this major organ of your body is failing and can't process waste efficiently any more.

answer: kidney

B. Nitrite in a sample may indicate that you have a UTI, or one of these.

answer: urinary tract infection

C. Bilirubin [BILL-ee-roo-bun], or broken-down red blood cells, in a sample indicates that this major organ of your body is failing.

answer: liver

D. If your sample is red, it may include this substance that's not supposed to be there.

answer: blood QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

TOSSUP 17. Its residents voted in October 2016 to change its name from something pronounceable to the local Inuit name "Utqiagvik" [oot-GAR-vik]. Identify this Alaska town, named for the second Secretary of the British Admiralty who was plotting the area at the time, that is considered the northernmost town in the U.S.

answer: Barrow, Alaska

BONUS 17. Give these words from some of their multiple meanings:

A. "To split apart a rack of billiard balls", "a short rest period from a tough job", or "to shatter something into pieces"

answer: break

B. "To put silverware on a dinner table", "what Jell-O does in turning from liquid to solid", or "a group of 6 games won in a tennis match"

answer: set

C. "A percentage of a large amount of money", "to divide a deck of playing cards into two piles", or "to slice your skin open and start bleeding"

answer: cut

D. "The place a golf ball comes to rest", "to rest on a table", and "to not tell the truth."

answer: lie

TOSSUP 18. Pencils and paper ready! A "mole" of table salt contains 6 x 1023 atoms. How many samples of table salt that each contain 4 x 1022 atoms are contained in a single mole?

answer: 15 (6 x 1023 / 4 x 1022)

BONUS 18. Pencils and paper ready! Give each of these values relating to volume:

A. The side of a cube whose volume is equal to 343 cubic inches

answer: 7 inches (cube root of 343)

B. The height of a right circular cone with volume 48 cubic inches and a base area of 6 square inches

answer: 24 inches (48 = ⅓bh, so h = 48/2)

C. The radius of a right circular cylinder with volume 45πcubic inches and height 5 inches

answer: 𝟑inches (45π= πx 5 x r x r, so r2 = 9)

D. Using π the volume of a sphere with radius 6 inches

answer: 288πin3 ( 4 3 πx 63)

TOSSUP 19. It is flat in a D-flat and an E-flat scale and natural in an F, a C and a G scale. Its namesake scale has three sharps: C, F and G. Identify this musical note, located between G and B on a piano, that, at 440 Hertz, is used to tune most orchestras.

answer: A-natural

BONUS 19. Name these car parts you can probably replace yourself:

A. If this goes dead and you can’t jump it, buy a new one that has several hundred cold-cranking amps for those tough winter mornings.

answer: battery

B. If changing your own oil, be sure to change this device that keeps gunk out of your oil.

answer: oil filter

C. If you lose or break this, it will be hard to change a flat tire because you won’t be able to lift your car off the ground.

answer: jack

D. Pour this, along with water, into your radiator to keep your car’s engine from getting too hot or too cold.

answer: antifreeze (or coolant) QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

TOSSUP 20. Spelled one way, it is "a relatively thin, rigid, and flat curved surface mounted along an axis." Spelled another way, it means "useless" or "proud and haughty." Give this 4-letter word that, spelled a third way, can mean "an area of high gold content within a mine" or "a tube that carries blood to the human heart."

answer: vain or vane or vein

BONUS 20. Name these foreign currencies:

A. It’s used in Fiji, Hong Kong and Canada.

answer: dollar

B. Kenya and Uganda use this currency that was once part of a British pound.

answer: shilling

C. It’s used in Rwanda and Switzerland.

answer: franc

D. It’s used in Nepal, Sri Lanka, India and Pakistan.

answer: rupee

LIGHTNING ROUND 1. NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC EXPEDITIONS

Name these countries you can visit on a land trip with National Geographic magazine.

1) You can see the great apes of Rwanda and this neighboring African country…Uganda

2) …r the Tiger's Nest Temple in this tiny Asian country. Bhutan

3) "Discover [this north African nation's] enchanting cities of Marrakech and Fez… Morocco

4) This country's "nomadic culture…re-dates the age of Genghis Khan." Mongolia

5) "Journey…to the North Face Base Camp of Mount Everest and into [this country]." Nepal

6) Explore this country "from Tasmania to the Great Barrier Reef." Australia

7) Visit this Pacific nation's South Island and explore its Southern Alps. New Zealand

8) Begin a Central American trip in this country whose capital is San José. Costa Rica

9) Visit this country's Machu Picchu [mot-choo PEECH-oo] and Lake Titicaca. Peru

10) The Holy Land trip is centered on this Middle Eastern country. Israel QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

LIGHTNING ROUND 2. NON-METALS

Name these non-metallic elements in the Periodic Table.

1) It’s the only non-metal on the left side of the Periodic Table. hydrogen or H

2) This element is the base of organic chemistry. carbon or C

3) This element's chemical symbol is a capital F. fluorine or F

4) It is the lightest inert gas. helium or He

5) It's found in Selsun Blue dandruff shampoo. selenium or Se

6) A combustion reaction adds this element as a reactant. oxygen or O

7) This one is added to table salt to improve thyroid function. iodine or I

8) This 3rd-most-abundant gas in the atmosphere was the first inert gas discovered. argon or Ar

9) Its name comes from the Greek for "bad smell." bromine or Br

10) This element with symbol P glows in the dark. phosphorus or P

LIGHTNING ROUND 3 –STARTS WITH F

1) When one team shows up for a game and the other doesn’t, the other is said to lose by this. forfeit 2) Month when Presidents’ Day is celebrated February 3) Grade schoolers might take one to a zoo or fire station (2 words) field trip 4) Italian noodles whose name means "little ribbons", often covered with alfredo sauce fettucine 5) Square root of 2,500 fifty 6) It begins a hockey game (hyphenated) . face-off 7) Fried chicken, hamburgers and other things eaten without fork or spoon (2 words) finger food 8) Adjective for an apartment that comes with a couch and chairs furnished 9) Word abbreviated by "fax" facsimile 10) Fabric made of pressed wool fibers, often used on stuffed animals felt

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BASIC SET 4

TOSSUPS/BONUSES

TOSSUP 1. It now contains the ancient city of Nineveh preached to by the prophet Jonah. The Tigris River goes through this city that was given after World War I to what is now Iraq. Name this second-largest city in Iraq that, until recently, had been controlled by ISIS and is now the subject of a fierce fight because Iraq wants it back.

answer: Mosul

BONUS 1. It took 45 votes over a period of 2½ years, but this country finally has a new President as of October 2016: Michel Aoun [ah-OON].

A. Name this Middle Eastern nation trying to deal with nearly a million refugees from the war in neighboring Syria.

answer: Lebanon

B. This city is the capital of that country.

answer: Beirut [bay-ROOT]

C. By the law of that country, the country's President must be a Maronite member of this major religion.

answer: Christianity

D. Also by law, both the Speaker of Parliament and the Prime Minister must be members of this major religious denomination.

answer: Islam or Muslim

TOSSUP 2. Led by Colonel Leonard Wood, it took both Kettle Hill and San Juan Hill. Give the 2-word nickname for this First United States Volunteer Cavalry Regiment, a ragtag group of soldiers who fought in Cuba during the Spanish-American War and included Teddy Roosevelt.

answer: Rough Riders

BONUS 2. Pencils and paper ready! New smartphones X and Y have different calling plans available. Phone X costs $700 to buy, plus $40 per month. Phone Y costs $400 to buy, + $55 per month.

A. If both phones are purchased on the same day, how many months will it be before the total cost for each phone becomes the same?

answer: 20 months (700 + 40x = 400 + 55x, so 300 = 15x)

B. At that point, how much will you have spent on either phone?

answer: $1,500

C. Suppose that Phone X had a $150 rebate on the day you bought it. Now how many months would it be before the total cost for each phone became the same?

answer: 10 months (550 + 40x = 400 + 55x, so 150 = 15x)

D. Over a 40-month period, Phone X will cost this much less to own than Phone Y will.

answer: $300 (2600 – 2300) QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

TOSSUP 3. Five of its major museums are on a Museum Island that includes the Pergamon Museum that is actually three collections in one. Name this European capital city that is also home to the Checkpoint Charlie Museum and the Topography of Terror exhibition of Nazi headquarters.

answer: all are in Berlin, Germany (prompt on "Germany" before "city" is read)

BONUS 3. In the 1960's, actor Marlon Brando bought a small atoll in the Pacific Ocean and turned it into his own private island.

A. One of Brando's most famous roles was as Don Corleone in this classic gangster movie.

answer: The Godfather

B. His atoll was off the coast of this island nation whose capital is Pape'ete [paw-paw-AY-tay].

answer: Tahiti

C. Brando's atoll is the site of an effort to eradicate this annoying disease-carrying insect by giving the males a bacteria that sterilizes females.

answer: mosquito

D. That technique may be usable on this species of the Aedes mosquito that transmits yellow fever, dengue and Zika and is named for the African desert country where it was first found.

answer: Aedes aegypti (found in Egypt)

TOSSUP 4. Light that is visible to humans has waves whose length is within the range of 400 to 700 of—what unit that is equal to 10 angstroms, 1,000 picometers or 10-9 meters ?

answer: nanometer

BONUS 4. Answer these about the Ballon d'Or Award, given annually to the world's best soccer player:

A. "Ballon d'Or" means a golden type of this object.

answer: a soccer ball

B. The shortlist of possible winners this year includes Toni Kroos, Gareth Bale and Christiano Ronaldo, who all play for this Spanish team.

answer: Real Madrid

C. The list also includes Zlatan Ibrahimovic [ZLA-tawn ib-ra-HEEM-a-vitch] and Paul Pogba both play for this British club.

answer: Manchester United

D. The list even includes Gianluigi Buffon [boo-FAWN], Paulo Dybala, and Gonzalo Higuain [ee-GAIN], who play for the team Juventus in this country.

answer: Italy

TOSSUP 5. Its chapter titles include "Coronation Day", "Hendon Hall" and "Tom as King." Identify this Mark Twain novel about two boys who switch places in life for a short time that ends with the poor boy, Tom Canty, as the official Ward to England’s King Edward VI.

answer: The Prince and the Pauper

BONUS 5. Give these words on a commonly-used college-level vocabulary list:

A. This term means "native people of Australia."

answer: aborigines

B. Term for fancy decorative handwriting, as on a certificate

answer: calligraphy

C. Biology adjective for a tree that loses its leaves every year

answer: deciduous [da-SID-yoo-uss]

D. The set of nice things you say about someone at their funeral

answer: eulogy [YOO-la-jee] QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

TOSSUP 6. His story begins when he returns to England from the Revolutionary War and finds his fiancée Elizabeth engaged to his cousin Francis. Name this title character of a current PBS TV series that includes Eleanor Tomlinson as this character's wife Demelza [da-MEL-za].

answer: Ross Poldark

BONUS 6. Answer these about minor characters that pop up in the original Sherlock Holmes stories:

A. He lives with Holmes before he gets married and writes down most of Holmes’s cases.

answer: Dr. Watson

B. She is the landlady at 221B Baker Street.

answer: Mrs. Hudson

C. He is Sherlock’s brilliant and secretive older brother.

answer: Mycroft Holmes

D. The characters Lestrade, Gregson, and Hopkins all have this official job title.

answer: Scotland Yard Inspector (prompt on "detective")

TOSSUP 7. This type of star is old enough to have cooled off because the nuclear fuel within its cores is exhausted-- a fate expected to befall our Sun in about 5 billion years. Give the "colorful" 2-word term for this type of large star whose examples include Betelgeuse [bee-tull-juice].

answer: red giants

BONUS 7. In October 2016, the Ross Sea became a worldwide "no-take" zone when major countries agreed to keep it pristine and free from commercial use.

A. The Ross Sea borders this continent and is nearly bisected by the International Date Line.

answer: Antarctica

B. Not surprisingly, the last holdout in the agreement was this European country whose explorers discovered Antarctica in 1820.

answer: Russia

C. The Antarctic toothfish that live in the Ross Sea have been caught in the past and sold as "sea bass" from this South American country.

answer: Chile

D. This bird's species in the Ross Sea include the Emperor and the Adelie.

answer: penguin

TOSSUP 8. It owns 15% of the car company Renault [ra-NOE] , and Renault owns more than 40% of it. Name this Japanese automaker whose brands include Datsun and Infiniti and whose U.S. models include the Leaf, the Altima, the Pathfinder, the Sentra and the Maxima.

answer: Nissan

BONUS 8. In October 2016, Nissan-Renault paid about 2 billion British pounds to buy one-third of this other automaker.

A. Name this Japanese maker of the Lancer, Mirage and Outlander that has its own troubles.

answer: Mitsubishi

B. That carmaker's latest troubles began after it confessed to lying about this feature of its Kei model sold in Japan.

answer: it exaggerated the gas mileage of Kei cars

C. The company's name in Japanese means "this number of diamonds", which can be seen in its logo.

answer: three diamonds

D. The company's I-MIEV model is different from its other models in this way.

answer: it's an electric car (accept clear equivalents) QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

TOSSUP 9. When he couldn’t get a job at age 22 after earning his college degree, he took a job as a technical assistant in the Swiss Patent Office. Name this German scientist whose Nobel Prize for the photoelectric effect is less well-known today than his equation E = mc2 or his wild hairstyle.

answer: Albert Einstein

BONUS 9. Pencils and paper ready! For the straight line 7x - 21y = -3, calculate, in lowest terms, the:

A. Slope.

answer: ⅓[21y = 7x + 3, so y = ⅓x + 1/7]

B. Coordinates of the Y-intercept.

answer: (0, 1/7)

C. Coordinates of the X-intercept.

answer: (-3/7, 0)

D. Value of y when x = 6

answer: 2 1/7 or 15/7

TOSSUP 10. It was carrying Bellerophon [ba-LAIR-a-fon] toward Mount Olympus until Bellerophon fell off. Name this creature of myth, said to have been put into the sky as a constellation in his shape as a winged horse.

answer: Pegasus

BONUS 10. Answer these about American artist James Whistler:

A. He actually lived the majority of his life in this European country.

answer: England (or Great Britain or United Kingdom)

B. While in that country, he made several paintings of this river that runs through London.

answer: Thames [temz] River

C. His painting Arrangement in Gray and Black #1 shows this relative of Whistler.

answer: Whistler’s Mother

D. Whistler signed many of his paintings with a picture of this noiseless insect—to which he added a stinger.

answer: butterfly

TOSSUP 11. Pencils and paper ready! Give the product of the binomials (5w - 4x) and (2y + 6z) .

answer: 10wy - 8xy + 30wz - 24xz (terms OK in any order, if all four numbers and signs are correct)

BONUS 11. Under U.S. law, a company must certify whether they purchase "conflict minerals" from the African nation of Congo. Name these chemical elements considered "conflict minerals":

A. Wolframite contains this metal whose symbol is a capital W.

answer: tungsten

B. This metal with chemical symbol Ta is used to make small capacitors.

answer: tantalum

C. This metal, found in stannous fluoride, is found in an ore called "cassiterite" [CASS-a-ta-rite].

answer: tin or Sn

D. This precious metal is now worth about $1,300 an ounce.

answer: gold

TOSSUP 12. The San Juan Skyway in the southwestern part of this state is a loop of highways connecting the town of Durango, the Million Dollar Highway between Silverton and Ouray [oo-ray], and Mesa Verde National Park. Name this state where Durango is not far from the Four Corners point that includes Arizona, New Mexico and Utah.

answer: Colorado QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

BONUS 12. Name the capital cities of these Central Asian countries that were once part of the former Soviet Union:

A. Azerbaijan [oz-er-buy-ZHONN]

answer: Baku [ba-COO]

B. Moldova [mull-DOE-va]

answer: Chisinâu [kish-now]

C. Tajikistan [ta-JEEK-a-stan]

answer: Dushanbe [doo-shawn-BAY]

D. Latvia

answer: Riga [REE-ga]

TOSSUP 13. The 1866 war between Prussia and Austria that ended with Prussia taking over all of Austria's possessions in what is now Germany and with Austria giving the city of Venice to Italy is also known by—what other name that reflects the war's total length of about 49 days ?

answer: Seven Weeks' War

BONUS 13. Name the authors of these works on the International Baccalaureate list of

"Prescribed Literature in Translation":

A. Mansfield Park

answer: Jane Austen

B. Don Quixote

answer: Miguel de Cervantes

C. The Prince

answer: Niccolo Machiavelli

D. Great Expectations

answer: Charles Dickens

TOSSUP 14. In the fall of 2016, this country's ruler Prince Albert II bought the Philadelphia house where his mother was raised before she became an actress and then a princess. Name this small country that borders France and the Mediterranean Sea where Albert's mother, the former Grace Kelly, lived during her marriage to Prince Rainier III of the Grimaldi family.

answer: Monaco [MON-a-ko]

BONUS 14. Answer these about Thomas Jefferson's time as President:

A. This man who tied with him in the 1800 election served as his first Vice-President.

answer: Aaron Burr

B. This Midwest state joined the Union in 1803.

answer: Ohio

C. In 1802, the U.S. Military Academy was established at West Point in this state.

answer: New York

D. Jefferson sent these two men to lead an expedition to the West.

answer: Meriwether Lewis and William Clark

TOSSUP 15. This substance that helps form your skin and your cartilage can be used externally to cover wounds or injected to smooth out wrinkles or puff up lips. Identify this most abundant protein in your body whose Greek name comes from how this substance, when taken from horses, can be boiled to make glue.

answer: collagen [CALL-a-jun] QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

BONUS 15. You can make a simple psychrometer [sy-CROM-a-tur] using 2 thermometers; just tie a wet shoelace tightly around the bulb of one thermometer and whirl them both in the air for about 15 seconds.

A. What parameter that measures the amount of water in the air is measured with a psychrometer?

answer: humidity

B. When the air is holding as much water as it can, what is the value of that parameter ?

answer: 100%

C. What will the wet-bulb temperature generally be with respect to the dry-bulb temperature?

answer: wet-bulb temperature is lower

D. Some humidity-measuring devices use this temperature at which water begins to condense from the air as an important value.

answer: dew point

TOSSUP 16. In French, it is "soixante-dix" [swa-SONN deece], while in German, it’s "siebzehn" [ZEEB-tsain]. Give this 2-digit number that, in Spanish, is "setenta" and, in old American English, would be "threescore and ten."

answer: 70

BONUS 16. Answer these about the 2016 Primetime Emmy Awards:

A. This HBO series won Best Drama Series.

answer: Game of Thrones

B. This Best Supporting Actress played the Dowager on Downton Abbey.

answer: Maggie Smith

C. This series with up-and-coming singers won Best Reality Competition.

answer: The Voice

D. Best Variety Talk Series is this John Oliver show on HBO.

answer: Last Week Tonight

TOSSUP 17. Some 60 years after this type of cookie was first offered for sale, General Mills has announced a partnership with the Girl Scouts to begin making a breakfast cereal based on—which most popular of all Girl Scout cookies, a round and slender chocolate one with an extra flavor inside ?

answer: Thin Mints

BONUS 17. Answer these about some of historyplace.com's"Top Ten Battles of All Time":

A. This Virginia battle is considered the end of the American Revolution.

answer: Battle of Yorktown

B. This 1862 Civil War battle is called "Sharpsburg" in the South.

answer: Battle of Antietam [an-TEET-um]

C. These two Japanese cities had atomic bombs dropped on them in 1945.

answer: Hiroshima and Nagasaki

D. The Ottoman Empire laid siege to this Austrian capital in 1529 but couldn't capture it.

answer: Vienna

TOSSUP 18. Pencils and paper ready! A line segment with a slope of 2 connects the points (x, 8) and (3x, 28). What is the midpoint of the line segment?

answer: (10, 18) [slope = 2 = 20/2x, so 4x = 20 and x = 5, so points are (5, 8) and (15, 28). Then just average both coordinates] QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

BONUS 18. Answer these about fungal infections:

A. Fungi don't reproduce with seeds, but with these tiny objects instead.

answer: spores

B. A baby may get this fungal infection that causes white patches in his mouth.

answer: thrush

C. Athlete's foot is a form of this fungal infection that causes a circular red rash.

answer: ringworm

D. PCP is a fungal form of this lung disease that is common in people with AIDS.

answer: pneumonia

TOSSUP 19. Serious talk has begun how about he may be his league's Most Valuable Player this year even though he will only play in a maximum of 12 of his team's 16 possible regular-season games. Name this top quarterback who has returned from his 4-game "Deflategate" suspension to lead the New England Patriots back to the top of the NFL.

answer: Tom Brady

BONUS 19. Pencils and paper ready! A presidential poll in October 2016 said that 54% approved of President Obama and 44% disapproved.

A. If 500 people took part in the poll, how many approved of Obama?

answer: 270 (500 x 0.54)

B. How many people disapproved of Obama?

answer: 220 (500 x 0.44)

C. Give the percentage difference between those who approved and those who disapproved as a fraction in lowest terms.

answer: 1/10

D. Give the decimal for the percentage of people who neither approved nor disapproved.

answer: 0.02 (100 – 54 – 44 = 2%)

TOSSUP 20. He appeared on David Letterman's first and last TV shows ever; in between, he played Phil in Groundhog Day and Dr. Venkman in the original Ghostbusters. Name this comedian who voiced Baloo in the 2016 movie The Jungle Book and who won the 2016 Mark Twain Prize partly for the movies he made during his days on Saturday Night Live.

answer: Bill Murray

BONUS 20. Tell which general group each of these musical instruments fits into: A. English horn

answer: woodwind instrument

B. flugelhorn

answer: brass instrument

C. tambourine

answer: percussion instrument

D. harp

answer: string instrument QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

LIGHTNING ROUND 1 –NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGES

Name the U.S. states where you'd find these National Wildlife Refuges.

1) Kodiak Alaska

2) Great Dismal Swamp Virginia or North Carolina

3) Desert Nevada

4) Lower Rio Grande Valley Texas

5) Oyster Bay New York

6) Rocky Mountain Arsenal Colorado

7) Lower Suwannee [SWAN-ee] Florida

8) Lower Klamath [CLAM-uth] California or Oregon

9) Bosque [BOSE-kay] del Apache New Mexico

10) Sabine Louisiana

LIGHTNING ROUND 2 –NBA STARS

Name the new NBA teams where these basketball stars moved for the 2016-17 season.

1) Kevin Durant Golden State or Warriors

2) Dwyane Wade Chicago or Bulls

3) Pau Gasol San Antonio or Spurs

4) Joakim Noah New York or Knicks

5) Dwight Howard Atlanta or Hawks

6) Harrison Barnes Dallas or Mavericks

7) Al Horford Boston or Celtics

8) Jeremy Lin Brooklyn or Nets

9) Timofey Mozgov Los Angeles or Lakers

10) Leandro Barbosa Phoenix or Suns QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

LIGHTNING ROUND 3 –STARTS WITH L

1) Jesus raised him from the dead. Lazarus

2) The candelabra in Disney's Beauty and the Beast Lumière

3) Household disinfectant brand that kills mold and mildew Lysol

4) Material used to make kitchen tile linoleum

5) "Almuerzo" [alm-WAIR-so] in Spanish, or "Mittagessen" [mit-tog-ESS-un] in German lunch

6) Brand of round hard candy that comes in fruit or mint flavors (2 words) Life Savers

7) The glass or plastic part of your glasses that you look through lens

8) Gary Johnson ran for President in 2016 from this party. Libertarian

9) A person who throws trash on the ground, not in a trash can litterbug

10) A tablet you suck on if your throat is sore lozenge

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BASIC SET 5

TOSSUPS/BONUSES

TOSSUP 1. This country's city of Mariana is dealing with 50 million tons of toxic waste that was dumped into the Rio Doce after its major mining company Samarco had one of its dams break. Name this South American country where Mariana is in the state of Minas Gerais [mee-nas ja-RYE-us], about 400 miles from São Paulo.

answer: Brazil

BONUS 1. Answer these about the Doce River disaster:

A. The dam that failed was a "tailings dam" containing this metallic element in the water, an element that is good for human blood in small doses but not in large quantities.

answer: iron or Fe

B. Soon after the dam broke, a newspaper called the disaster "Brazil's Fukushima", a reference to this country's 2011 nuclear disaster caused by an earthquake and a tsunami.

answer: Japan

C. Two weeks after the dam broke, this rock band and its lead singer Eddie Vedder gave proceeds from their concert there to victims of the disaster.

answer: Pearl Jam

D. In Portuguese, "Doce" can mean this substance traded in large quantities on Halloween.

answer: candy

TOSSUP 2. It can support a tremendous amount of weight, partly because of its eminences or protuberances that include the condyles, epicondyles, the greater trochanter and the lesser trochanter. Identify this largest bone in the human body that connects your knee with your hip.

answer: femur [FEE-mur]

BONUS 2. Give these terms relating to rivers:

A. These are the sides of a river that the river usually stays between; in a flood, the river overflows them.

answer: banks

B. This adjective describes river water (or any water) that has more salt than a river but less salt than the ocean.

answer: brackish

C. This is the general soil or rock moved along by a river.

answer: sediment

D. The ground along the bottom of a river

answer: riverbed QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

TOSSUP 3. Pencils and paper ready! Give the monomial that can be factored out of the expression 15r4s4t2 – 10r3s3t + 20r2s6t2.

answer: 5r2s3t

BONUS 3. Name these birds from clues unrelated to ornithology:

A. Wallace Stevens wrote a poem about 13 Ways of Looking at this bird that had 24 of its species baked into a nursery rhyme pie.

answer: blackbird

B. This subject of a poem by Edgar Allan Poe is also a member of Baltimore's NFL team.

answer: raven

C. In the Parker Brothers card game with this title, the card with this bird counts 20 (the highest); in chess, it's a piece sometimes called a "castle."

answer: rook

D. What you do to move food from your mouth into your esophagus

answer: swallow

TOSSUP 4. During the 2015-16 season, they won only 17 games, their worst showing since moving from Minneapolis more than 50 years ago. Name this team whose new coach, their former player Luke Walton, hopes to re-establish the form that has earned them 16 NBA championships with new stars like forward Julius Randle and guard D'Angelo Russell.

answer: Los Angeles Lakers (prompt on "Los Angeles")

BONUS 4. Give these terms from physical science:

A. This unit is equal to 1 cycle per second.

answer: Hertz

B. Term for a change in velocity over time

answer: acceleration (accept forms of the word)

C. If no distance is moved as a result of a force, then this is the amount of work performed by the force.

answer: zero

D. Adjective for a wave that must travel through a medium like air or water

answer: mechanical wave

TOSSUP 5. Its five manuscript copies include the one made for Colonel Alexander Bliss that is now in the White House. Another copy is the one made for Edward Everett, who spoke for 2 hours just before this speech was given. What 2-word term describes this short Abraham Lincoln speech, given on November 19, 1863 at a Pennsylvania Civil War cemetery ?

answer: Gettysburg Address

BONUS 5. Finish these phrases from the Gettysburg Address:

A. "Four score and [3 words]"

answer: seven years ago

B. "that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of [1 word]"

answer: freedom

C. "that government of the people, by the people, for the people, [6 words]"

answer: shall not perish from the earth

D. "The world will little note, nor long remember, [4 words]"

answer: what we say here QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

TOSSUP 6. It can be "the department that a Cabinet member or minister of state is responsible for", as well as "a carrying case that can hold drawings or photographs." Give this 9-letter word that can also refer to your personal group of individual stock or bond investments.

answer: portfolio

BONUS 6. After Rush Limbaugh saw it, he said it would win the Oscar for Best Picture if anyone else besides its director had made it.

A. Name this 2016 movie about a World War II conscientious objector who received the Congressional Medal of Honor.

answer: Hacksaw Ridge

B. Name that conscientious objector who died in 2006.

answer: Desmond Doss

C. Name the movie's Australian director, disliked by many in Hollywood for his controversial religious views and personal life.

answer: Mel Gibson

D. He won an Oscar for Best Director for this movie about the medieval Scotsman William Wallace.

answer: Braveheart

TOSSUP 7. His opera Edgar was so badly received that he tried to write the libretto for his next opera, Manon Lescaut [ma-NOAN les-KO], by himself. Name this Italian composer, nearly killed in a 1903 car crash after he finished his operas Tosca and La Bohème [bo-EM] but before he finished Madame Butterfly.

answer: Giacomo Puccini [poo-CHEE-nee]

BONUS 7. Name the NBA teams that drafted these college stars to play in the current season:

A. Its top pick was former LSU star Ben Simmons.

answer: Philadelphia or 76ers

B. They drafted former Oklahoma star Buddy Hield to play alongside Anthony Davis.

answer: New Orleans or Pelicans

C. This team drafted former Utah star Jakob Pöltl [PERLT-el] to play center.

answer: Toronto or Raptors

D. This team drafted Cal-Berkeley star Jaylen Brown.

answer: Boston or Celtics

TOSSUP 8. Put a straw partly into a glass of water and watch how the straw appears to bend where the straw enters the water. This is an example of—what scientific term for the change in direction that a light wave takes when its speed abruptly changes ?

answer: refraction

BONUS 8. According to the Fox TV affiliate in Chicago, the city's celebration after the Cubs won the 2016 World Series was one of the largest gatherings in human history. Answer these about other large gatherings:

A. 6 million in the Philippines saw this Pontiff in 2015.

answer: Pope Francis

B. An anti-war march in this Italian capital attracted 3 million in 2003.

answer: Rome

C. At a Kumbh Mela in India, millions may bathe in this sacred river.

answer: Ganges [GAN-jeez] River

D. This Iranian ayatollah's funeral in 1989 had 10 million attendees.

answer: Ayatollah R. Khomeini QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

TOSSUP 9. He said in 2016 that he will retire from the movie business after 2 more movies, one of which may be a "Bonnie and Clyde-esque tale set in 1930's Australia." Name this American director of violent movies like Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction and, most recently, The Hateful Eight.

answer: Quentin Tarantino

BONUS 9. Answer these about plate tectonics:

A. This outer shell of Earth, made of the crust and part of the mantle, is broken up into tectonic plates.

answer: lithosphere

B. Just below that shell is this part of the upper mantle allowing that shell to move back and forth.

answer: asthenosphere [us-THEE-nus-feer]

C. This is a place where two tectonic plates touch each other and may bang together to create a volcano or a mountain; its types include "transform" and "divergent."

answer: plate boundary

D. This supercontinent is thought to have existed as one land mass before breaking apart.

answer: Pangaea [pan-JAY-a]

TOSSUP 10. It is less than thrilled with its new $6 billion contract to build 57 more of its F-35 fighter planes, as it had hoped the U.S. military would pay more for them. Name this defense contractor that, in 1995, bought its competitor Martin Marietta and thus added the word "Martin" to its official name.

answer: Lockheed Martin

BONUS 10. Name these people honored by banyan trees planted along Banyan Drive in Hilo, Hawaii:

A. She planted her own banyan tree in 1935, just 5 days before she left Honolulu to become the first woman to fly solo across the Pacific Ocean.

answer: Amelia Earhart

B. This grandfather of England's Queen Elizabeth II also planted a tree there in 1935.

answer: King George V

C. A local Girl Scout troop planted a tree there in honor of this Girl Scouts founder.

answer: Juliette Gordon Low

D. A tree was even planted in honor of this jazz great, nicknamed "Satchmo."

answer: Louis Armstrong

TOSSUP 11. As Deputy Attorney General under George W. Bush, he got Martha Stewart convicted for insider trading. Shortly after Barack Obama's re-election, this man was confirmed by the Senate for a 10-year term in his current job. Name this man who made headlines several times in 2016 for his decisions regarding Hillary Clinton in his role as head of the FBI.

answer: James Comey

BONUS 11. Pencils and paper ready! You go to a warehouse store and see a 5-gallon water jug for $5.60 and a 20-gallon water tank for $19.20.

A. How much per gallon of water does the 5-gallon jug cost?

answer: $1.12 (5.60/5)

B. How much per cup of water does the 5-gallon jug cost?

answer: 7 cents (1 gal = 16 cups, so 5.60/80)

C. How much cheaper per gallon is the 20-gallon tank than the 5-gallon jug?

answer: 16 cents ($1.12 – 0.96)

D. How much per quart of water does the 20-gallon tank cost?

answer: 24 cents ($0.96/gal, 4 qt/gal) QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

TOSSUP 12. Its four volcanic zones are usually labeled "Northern", "Central", "Southern" and "Austral." Its northern area is usually rainy, while the west side of its central area contains the Atacama [OTT-a-kaw-ma] Desert. Identify this mountain range whose highest peak is Mount Aconcagua [aw-kun-COG-wa] and that stretches along the western coast of South America.

answer: Andes Mountains

BONUS 12. The Smithsonian is now trying to raise $300,000 from the public to keep the ruby slippers from this classic movie in decent shape.

A. Name this movie about a girl named Dorothy.

answer: The Wizard of Oz

B. Name the actress who wore them in the 1939 movie.

answer: Judy Garland

C. What color are the ruby slippers ?

answer: red

D. He wrote the novel on which the movie is based.

answer: L. Frank Baum

TOSSUP 13. After nearly 25 years in Parliament, actress Glenda Jackson returned to the London stage in 2016 to play this male title character who lets a lack of flattery anger him enough to disinherit his youngest daughter. Name this Shakespeare monarch who moans about his "thankless child" Cordelia.

answer: King Lear

BONUS 13. His short story 2005 AD: Usher II tells of a house built on another planet to look exactly like the literary House of Usher.

A. Name this American science-fiction writer whose novels include Something Wicked This Way Comes.

answer: Ray Bradbury

B. In the short story, the new House of Usher is built on this planet.

answer: Mars (the story is in Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles)

C. The original House of Usher was an Edgar Allan Poe creation where this member of the Usher family buries his sister alive.

answer: Roderick Usher

D. This is the first name of that sister.

answer: Madeline

TOSSUP 14. Pencils and paper ready! Two answers needed! The point (X, 5) is √45 units away from the point (10, 8). Give both possible values of X.

answer: 4 and 16 (by distance formula, X must be 6 away from 10, so 10 + 4 or 10 - 4)

BONUS 14. Name these parts of your spine:

A. These are the bones in your spine.

answer: vertebrae [VURT-a-bray]

B. Those bones are separated from each other by these "shock absorbers" made of cartilage.

answer: discs

C. Your top 7 of those bones are called C1 through C7, where C stands for this.

answer: cervical vertebrae

D. Six of a lower set of those bones are called L1 through L6, where L stands for this.

answer: lumbar vertebrae QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

TOSSUP 15. Its new Five-Hundred-Meter Aperture Spherical Telescope is more than ¼ mile wide and, once it works right, may be useful in finding evidence of alien life. Name this country where the telescope is installed in the province of Guizhou [ghee-zho], southwest of Beijing.

answer: China

BONUS 15. Name the animals or plants that each of these people in myth were changed into:

A. Arachne [a-RACK-nee]

answer: spider

B. Daphne

answer: a laurel

C. Hyacinthus

answer: a flower

D. Cygnus

answer: a swan

TOSSUP 16. In the 1920’s, he and Picasso were subsidized by the Cone Sisters from America, who bought many of their works. Name this French artist, criticized in 1905 because his work and that of his friends looked like "wild beasts", who became a leading proponent of Fauvism [FO-vizz-um].

answer: Henri Matisse [ma-TEESE]

BONUS 16. I will name two 3-note chords; you tell the musical note that appears in them both:

A. C-major and E-flat major

answer: G (C, E, G; E-flat, G, B-flat)

B. F-major and A-flat major

answer: C (F, A, C; A-flat, C, E-flat)

C. D-major and F-major

answer: A (D, F-sharp, A; F, A, C)

D. G-major and B-flat major

answer: D (G, B, D; B-flat, D, F)

TOSSUP 17. While she was in power, the Crimean War ended, the Boer War began, Ireland had a potato famine, and Disraeli and Gladstone both served as Prime Minister. Name this British monarch who outlived her consort Prince Albert by 40 years and served as Queen for more than 63 years before her death in 1901.

answer: Queen Victoria

BONUS 17. Pencils and paper ready! Point Q with original coordinates (6, -4) is dilated to new coordinates (18, -12).

A. In lowest terms, give the original coordinates of point R if R underwent the same dilation and is now at (-3, 1).

answer: (-1, ⅓) (divide each by 3)

B. After the dilation, point Q is translated 8 units to the right and 12 units up. What are Q’s translated coordinates?

answer: (26, 0) [add (8, 12)]

C. After the dilation, point R is reflected across the x-axis. What are R’s reflected coordinates?

answer: (-3, -1)

D. From (-3, -1), point R is reflected across the y-axis to these coordinates.

answer: (3, -1) QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

TOSSUP 18. The most common members of this group that makes up the majority of Earth’s crust all contain aluminum silicate, including albite, anorthite, and orthoclase. Name this group of minerals with a hardness of 6 on the Mohs scale that crystallizes from the magma in igneous rocks.

answer: feldspars

BONUS 18. Like a present participle, it always ends in I-N-G. Unlike a present participle, it functions as a noun.

A. Name this grammatical concept, shown by the word "swimming" in the sentence, "Missy has always loved swimming."

answer: gerund [JAIR-und]

B. In the sentence "Missy has always loved swimming.", the word "swimming" has this grammatical role.

answer: direct object

C. In the sentence "Frank is devoted to swimming", the word "swimming" has this grammatical role.

answer: object of the preposition

D. In Latin, that grammatical concept often ended in these two letters, found at the very end of the names of many chemical elements.

answer: U-M

TOSSUP 19. Pencils and paper ready! Your drawer has three blue socks and four black socks in it. In lowest terms, what is the probability that the first three socks you pull out in the dark are the three blue ones?

answer: 𝟏𝟑𝟓( 37 x 26 x 15 )

BONUS 19. Pencils and paper ready! Give the four consecutive multiples of 13 that add up to 390.

answer: 78, 91, 104, 117 [x + (x + 13) + (x + 26) + (x + 39) = 390]

TOSSUP 20. Its chapters named for its characters include "Pierre Gringoire", "Monsieur the Cardinal", "Claude Frollo" and "Esmeralda." Name this classic novel by Victor Hugo whose final two chapters are "The Marriage of Phoebus" and "The Marriage of Quasimodo."

answer: The Hunchback of Notre Dame

BONUS 20. She passed away in November 2016 after a struggle with Parkinson's disease.

A. Name this first female U.S. Attorney General, appointed by Bill Clinton.

answer: Janet Reno

B. After her controversial tenure as State Attorney for this state's Dade County, she lost her bid to become Governor of that state.

answer: Florida

C. Her anti-trust case against this software giant was finally settled during George W. Bush's term.

answer: Microsoft

D. She frequently said "The buck stops with me", a reference to this President who kept a sign on his desk saying, "The buck stops here."

answer: Harry S Truman QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

LIGHTNING ROUND 1. PRESIDENTIAL PREDECESSORS

Name the U.S. President who served just before each of these Presidents;

if I said, "Donald Trump", you would say "Barack Obama."

1) Gerald Ford Richard Nixon

2) Martin van Buren Andrew Jackson

3) Ronald Reagan Jimmy Carter

4) James Madison Thomas Jefferson

5) Calvin Coolidge Warren G. Harding

6) John Kennedy Dwight D. Eisenhower

7) Chester Arthur James Garfield

8) Zachary Taylor James K. Polk

9) John Adams George Washington

10) Abraham Lincoln James Buchanan

LIGHTNING ROUND 2. TWO-DIGIT MATH

Pencils and paper ready! Answers to each of these have 2 digits.

1) Solve for x if 4x + 26 = 358 83

2) Third angle of a triangle with other angles 57º and 93º 30º

3) Number of diagonals in a nonagon 27 (9 × 62 )

4) Sixteen to the three-halves power 64 (square root of 4,096)

5) Length of a 50-foot-wide rectangle with perimeter 126 feet 13 feet

6) Number of degrees in each half of a bisected right angle 45º

7) Number of ways to choose 2 from a set of 5 20 (5 x 4)

8) The integer closest to 30π94

9) Hypotenuse of a right triangle with sides 30 ft and 40 ft 50 ft

10) Number of zeroes in a trillion 12 QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

LIGHTNING ROUND 3 –STARTS WITH D

1) Past participle of "do" done 2) In Tolkien works, Bombur, Kili, Dori or Ori dwarf (or dwarves) 3) Itchy skin condition, solvable by Head & Shoulders dandruff

4) Someone who does menial work, or Matt on a popular Internet site Drudge 5) Term for an illegal alien’s being sent back to his home country deportation 6) Solid carbon dioxide (2 words) dry ice

7) In 1587, she was the first female baby born to English parents in America. Virginia Dare

8) To give something out to each person in a large group distribute

9) Ivy League college in Hanover, New Hampshire Dartmouth

10) Presidents from this party include John Kennedy—but not Hillary Clinton. Democratic Party

END OF BASIC SET 5 QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

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BASIC SET 6

TOSSUPS/BONUSES

TOSSUP 1. Two years after this country eliminated term limits for its President, its current President has been elected for a third consecutive term, this time with his wife Rosario Murillo as Vice-President. Name this Central American country whose previous dictator Anastasio Somoza was overthrown in 1979 with the help of its current President, Daniel Ortega, a country whose capital is Managua.

answer: Nicaragua

BONUS 1. Answer these about Nicaraguan history:

A. Nicaragua became independent from this country in 1821.

answer: Spain

B. In 1860, this European country who had controlled Nicaragua's Caribbean coast gave up that coast to the Nicaraguan government.

answer: England (or Great Britain or United Kingdom)

C. The Nicaraguan rebels fighting against Daniel Ortega's government in the 1980's, supported by the U.S., were called by this term.

answer: Contras (contra = Spanish for "against")

D. People in this U.S. President's administration gave money to those rebels without telling that President.

answer: Ronald Reagan

TOSSUP 2. Her youngest daughter Isabella was a founder of the National Women's Suffrage Association. Her most famous novel was serialized in The National Era, an 1850’s anti-slavery newspaper. Name this American abolitionist whose follow-on to her most famous novel was called Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

answer: Harriet Beecher Stowe

BONUS 2. Pencils and paper ready! In a grocery store, you buy $100 worth of stuff. $70 is food and has no sales tax. Two-thirds of the rest has a 4.5% sales tax, and the remainder has a 6.5% sales tax.

A. How much do you pay the 4.5% sales tax on?

answer: $20 (⅔of [$100 - $70])

B. How much is that sales tax?

answer: 90 cents (20 x 0.045)

C. What is the total amount of sales tax you pay?

answer: $1.55 [$0.90 + (10 x 0.065)]

D. If you give the cashier $110, how much change will you get back?

answer: $8.45 ($110 - $101.55) QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

TOSSUP 3. Pencils and paper ready! A rectangle RSTV has a horizontal side RS 9 inches long and a vertical side RT that is 40 inches long. If the center of the rectangle is the point X, give the length of the line segment XV.

answer: 20.5 or 20½ inches (by Pythagoras, RV is 41 inches, so XV is half of 41)

BONUS 3. Name the states where you’d find these National Historic Landmarks that received that designation in November 2016:

A. This state's Capitol Building in Jackson

answer: Mississippi

B. The James Merrill House in the town of Stonington, along the coast east of New London

answer: Connecticut

C. The Norman Film Manufacturing County building, in the city of Jacksonville

answer: Florida

D. St. Bartholomew's Church at 325 Park Avenue in this state's largest city

answer: New York

TOSSUP 4. To write his novel about this man, author Irving Stone had nearly 500 of this artist's letters translated into English from Italian. Name this Renaissance artist who is the subject of Stone's novel The Agony and the Ecstasy and, in the film of the novel, is unwilling at first to paint the Sistine Chapel.

answer: Michelangelo Buonarroti

BONUS 4. Answer these about George Orwell’s novel 1984:

A. He is the main character.

answer: Winston Smith (accept either)

B. She is the girlfriend of that main character.

answer: Julia

C. That main character works in this government ministry, where he ironically doctors historical records.

answer: Ministry of Truth

D. This Party spy tortures that main character until the main character informs on his girlfriend.

answer: O’Brien

TOSSUP 5. In plants, it keeps water from being lost. In humans, its multiple layers that include "cornified" and "granular" contain the body’s supply of melanin [MEL-a-nun]. Give this term for the outer cell layer of a plant or the outer skin layer of an animal or human.

answer: epidermis (prompt on "skin" before it is read)

BONUS 5. Answer these from earth science:

A. This adjective describes igneous rocks that cool after they reach Earth’s surface.

answer: extrusive

B. This adjective describes rocks formed by compressing fragments of other rocks together.

answer: clastic

C. More than 75% of a "felsic" rock is made of this substance whose chemical formula is SiO2.

answer: quartz (prompt on "silicon dioxide")

D. The magnitude of an earthquake doesn’t change depending on where you are, but this measure of the shaking caused by a quake does change based on how close you are to it.

answer: intensity QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

TOSSUP 6. As of November 1, 2016, it boasts 9 of the 10 tallest buildings in the world, including Burj Khalifa, Petronas Towers and CTF Finance Center. Name this continent where you would also find the Taipei [tie-pay] 101 tower and the Shanghai World Financial Center.

answer: Asia

BONUS 6. Answer these about books that were best-sellers during 2016:

A. The 11th installment of this Jeff Kinney series is called Double Down.

answer: Diary of a Wimpy Kid

B. His latest legal novel, set in Florida this time, is called The Whistler.

answer: John Grisham

C. This Elie Wiesel work about his time in Nazi concentration camps is popular again since his death in 2016.

answer: Night

D. This Fox News journalist's new book is called Settle For More.

answer: Megyn Kelly

TOSSUP 7. A version of it that uses gasoline was used by the Wright Brothers to power their airplane. Give the 2-word term for this engine type that uses a piston in a cylinder and an intake-compression-explosion-exhaust cycle to create the power needed to move an automobile.

answer: internal combustion engine (prompt on "engine" before it is read)

BONUS 7. Pencils and paper ready! Melissa has a collection of nickels and dimes on her dresser that is worth 85 cents. If she had double the number of nickels and triple the number of dimes, she would have $2.20.

A. To set up the problem with 2 variables and 2 unknowns, you might set up the first equation as

5x + 10y = 0.85. This is wrong because to use 5x + 10y, the right side of the equation must be—what?

answer: 85 (coins set up as 5 and 10 will yield cents, not dollars, so right side must be 85, not 0.85)

B. Give the second equation, in the form (integer)x + (integer)y = integer.

answer: 10x + 30y = 220 (doubling # of nickels and tripling # of dimes)

C. Give the number of dimes on Melissa’s dresser.

answer: 5 (multiply 1st eq’n by 2 and subtract from second to get 10y = 50)

D. Give the number of nickels.

answer: 7

TOSSUP 8. Al Davis was once the owner of this team that played in Super Bowl II as the champion of the old American Football League. Name this NFL team that owns 3 Super Bowl titles and now shares first place in the AFC West after a renaissance under its current coach Jack Del Rio.

answer: Oakland or Raiders

BONUS 8. Its foundation calls it "an informal way of referring to joint pain or joint disease."

A. Name this disease, common among old people.

answer: arthritis

B. This drug, sold as Advil, causes high blood pressure if taken over a long period for that disease.

answer: ibuprofen

C. This drug, sold as Aleve, can cause gastric bleeding if taken over a long period for that disease.

answer: naproxen

D. Celecoxib, sold under this brand name, can cause heart attack or stroke if taken over a long period for that disease.

answer: Celebrex QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

TOSSUP 9. The long-grain rice called "basmati" [boss-MAW-tee] is popular in India and areas of the Middle East. Spell the word "basmati."

answer: B-A-S-M-A-T-I

BONUS 9. Answer these from Norse mythology:

A. This cataclysmic event is the end of the world in Norse myth, when all gods and goddesses will come to a large plain and fight each other.

answer: Ragnarok

B. This chief Norse god will be swallowed during Ragnarok.

answer: Odin or Woden or Wotan

C. He will be swallowed by Fenrir, who is this type of carnivore.

answer: wolf

D. This guardian of the rainbow bridge Bifrost who can hear grass grow will blow his Gjallarhorn [GYAL-er-horn] and summon the other deities to the great battlefield.

answer: Heimdall

TOSSUP 10. For an accused criminal, it typically includes a jury trial, a conviction, and a sentence by a judge—but doesn’t always include the appeal afterward. Give this 2-word term, used in both the 5th and 14th Amendments to encompass everything that must happen before a person can be deprived of life, liberty or property.

answer: due process

BONUS 10. Answer these about George Washington's Second Inaugural Address, still the shortest such speech in U.S. history:

A. It was given in this city, not in Washington, D.C.

answer: Philadelphia

B. It was given in this year, less than 6 years after the U.S. Constitution was signed into force.

answer: 1793

C. It was given on this month and day that used to be the first day of a presidential term before the first day was moved to January 20th.

answer: March 4th

D. This Constitutional Amendment moved the first day to January 20th.

answer: 20th Amendment

TOSSUP 11. Pencils and paper ready! Two answers needed! Give the two consecutive positive integers whose product is 16 greater than the smaller of the two integers.

answer: 4 and 5 [(x)(x + 1) = x + 16, so x2 = 16 and x = 4 and –4. Since answer must be positive, it must be 4 and 5] QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

BONUS 11. He spent his formative years as a composer at the Paris Conservatory, where he wrote his Pavane for a Dead Princess.

A. Name this French composer of the early 20th century.

answer: Maurice Ravel [ra-VELL]

B. This best-known work of his features the same two melodies over and over throughout the orchestra, along with a snare drum that never stops.

answer: Bolero

C. He created a piano version of this Russian composer's Pictures at an Exhibition.

answer: Modest Mussorgsky [ma-ZORG-skee]

D. This is the English title of his children's nursery rhyme work Ma mère l'Oye [ma mair LOY].

answer: Mother Goose

TOSSUP 12. Its characters include the Chinese General Shang and the astrophysicist Ian Donnelly, played by Jeremy Renner. Name this 2016 movie featuring Amy Adams as a linguist who can communicate with aliens who have brought their spaceships to Earth.

answer: Arrival

BONUS 12. Answer these about using a Bunsen burner:

A. Turn this on until you can hear it going through the hose before trying to light the Bunsen burner.

answer: gas

B. The holes in a Bunsen burner can be opened or closed to adjust airflow with this device that has the same name as the top part of a dress shirt.

answer: collar

C. When a Bunsen burner first turns on, it gives a "safety flame" that is this color.

answer: yellow (or orange)

D. When the burner is ready to go, its flame is this color.

answer: blue

TOSSUP 13. Its province of Cabinda is separated from the rest of its country by the Democratic Republic of Congo. It took the Portuguese nearly 500 years to form an official overseas colony there—but only 10 years after that for a Colonial War to begin that ended in its independence. Name this southwest African nation whose provinces include Luanda [loo-ON-da], which contains its capital city.

answer: Angola

BONUS 13. Name these popular magazines in the U.S.:

A. The two most popular, by far, are magazines of this group for people aged 50 and over.

answer: AARP or American Association of Retired Persons

B. Number three in circulation is the Connection magazine published by this chain of membership stores.

answer: Costco

C. This one, available at grocery store checkout lines, had November 2016 cover stories about Jon Bon Jovi and about the hunt for the Long Island serial killer.

answer: People

D. This glossy magazine emphasizes interior design and exterior beauty.

answer: Better Homes and Gardens

TOSSUP 14. Most people really only need 400 International Units of this substance per day, less than its Recommended Daily Allowance. Thus, most people don't need pills containing this vitamin or blood tests to see if they have enough of it. Name this vitamin whose deficiency creates the condition called "rickets", a vitamin added to milk these days that can also be obtained from sunlight.

answer: Vitamin D QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

BONUS 14. Give these words from their multiple meanings:

A. An increase in pay at a job, to get money for a school club by selling something, or to make your voice much louder.

answer: raise

B. To study something carefully, an organ for human vision, or the place through which you thread a needle.

answer: eye

C. Adjective for a product that’s had its impurities removed, or for a wealthy family with good manners.

answer: refined

D. The mark at the end of a sentence, or a unit of time spent in a school class.

answer: period

TOSSUP 15. This title character of a Rossini opera refuses to join the rebellion against the Hapsburg Empire but jumps in to shoot the wicked Governor Gessler with his trusty bow and arrow. Name this medieval Swiss character who shot an apple off his son’s head and whose opera's overture became the TV theme for The Lone Ranger.

answer: William (or Wilhelm) Tell

BONUS 15. Give the general term for a triangle with each of these sets of angles:

A. 34°, 72°, 74°

answer: acute (or scalene) triangle (angles unequal, all < 90°)

B. 60°, 60°, 60°

answer: equilateral (or equiangular) triangle

C. 49°, 82°, 49°

answer: isosceles [eye-SOSS-a-leez] triangle

D. 27°, 41°, 112°

answer: obtuse triangle (one angle > 90°)

TOSSUP 16. Its "aircraft" variety is formed for high strength, while its "marine" variety is treated to keep it from rotting in water. Name this common substance, available at any Home Depot or Lowe’s, that is made by gluing together several layers from a tree to make one thick piece.

answer: plywood (prompt on "wood")

BONUS 16. Give these basic words in German:

A. It means "please" and "you’re welcome."

answer: bitte [BIT-a]

B. It means "thank you."

answer: danke [DON-ka]

C. This 3-letter word means "I."

answer: ich [ick]

D. This 3-letter word means "we."

answer: wir [veer]

TOSSUP 17. He received a prophecy that Odysseus [o-DISS-ee-us] would blind him but expected Odysseus to be a giant. He eats men who get trapped in his cave, but Odysseus escaped from the cave, blinded him, and then told him that "Noman" did it. Identify this physically strong creature, named Polyphemus [paul-ee-FEE-muss] in Homer’s Odyssey, who has only one eye.

answer: cyclops (accept Polyphemus before it is read) QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

BONUS 17. November 2016 marked the 125th birthday of this scientist who shared the 1923 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his discovery of a compound important to diabetics.

A. Name this Canadian doctor who worked on the problem with Charles Best.

answer: Sir Frederick Banting

B. Name that compound.

answer: insulin

C. They verified that compound is created by this organ in your body.

answer: pancreas

D. If you have this type of diabetes, your body can't produce that compound at all.

answer: Type 1 diabetes

TOSSUP 18. Woodrow Wilson said of it in 1919, "To us in America, the reflections of [what is now this holiday] will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country’s service and with gratitude for the victory… Identify this holiday, called Armistice Day until 1954, that now honors all those who have served in the American military every November 11th.

answer: Veterans Day

BONUS 18. Its main character George Bailey, tempted to take his own life, is allowed to see what his town would have been like if he'd never been born.

A. Name this classic film, directed by Frank Capra, whose final scene is set on Christmas Eve.

answer: It's a Wonderful Life

B. Name the actor who plays George.

answer: Jimmy Stewart

C. Name the town where the movie is set that would have been a lot different if George had never lived.

answer: Bedford Falls

D. Name the bad guy in the story, George's business rival.

answer: Mr. Potter

TOSSUP 19. Pencils and paper ready! A company manages its short-term cash by investing it at an annual rate of 1.40%. How much annual interest did the company earn last year on its average short-term cash balance of $180,000 ?

answer: $2,520 (180,000 x 0.014)

BONUS 19. Answer these about Tennessee: A. Which state forms most of Tennessee's northern border?

answer: Kentucky

B. Which state forms most of Tennessee's eastern border?

answer: North Carolina

C. Name any one of the three states that form Tennessee's southern border.

answer: Mississippi, Alabama or Georgia

D. Name any one of the other two.

answer: Mississippi, Alabama or Georgia

TOSSUP 20. Its town of Kaikoura, known for its whale-watching industry, is now being evacuated because of extensive damage following the large earthquake that hit the area in November 2016. Name this Pacific island nation where Kaikoura is on the South Island, between Christchurch and its capital city of Wellington.

answer: New Zealand QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

BONUS 20. Two different directors are planning movies about its "Car Wash" scandal that includes criminal charges against its former President nicknamed "Lula."

A. Name this large South American country that unexpectedly got a new President in 2016.

answer: Brazil

B. This President of that country was impeached for manipulating the federal budget to hide how bad the country's economy has become.

answer: Dilma Rousseff (accept either)

C. The "Car Wash" scandal includes embezzlement from Petrobras, a company owned by that country's government that produces this substance.

answer: crude oil or petroleum (the Petro in "Petrobras")

D. One of those movies will be shown by this company whose original TV series include Bloodline and Master of None.

answer: Netflix

LIGHTNING ROUND 1. SLING TV

Name these channels you can get on Sling TV from pairs of their popular shows.

1) Into the Badlands and Fear the Walking Dead AMC

2) Project Runway and Army Wives Lifetime

3) Fixer Upper and Love It or List It HGTV

4) The Pioneer Woman and Trisha's Southern Kitchen Food Network

5) Hunting Hitler and American Pickers the History Channel

6) The Last Ship and the recently-concluded Rizzoli and Isles TNT

7) The Lead with Jake Tapper and Anderson Cooper 360 CNN

8) Wahlburgers and Duck Dynasty A&E

9) Steven Universe and We Bare Bears Cartoon Network

10) Drunk History and Nathan For You Comedy Central QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

LIGHTNING ROUND 2. AMERICAN LITERATURE

Name the authors of these works.

1) The play Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller

2) The novel My Antonia Willa Cather

3) The short novel The Call of the Wild Jack London

4) The short novel The Turn of the Screw Henry James

5) The short story The Tell-tale Heart Edgar Allan Poe

6) The novel Ender's Game Orson Scott Card

7) The novel Kira-Kira Cynthia Kadohata

8) The novel A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith

9) The poem Casey at the Bat Ernest Lawrence Thayer

10) The poem Mending Wall Robert Frost

LIGHTNING ROUND 3. STARTS WITH M

1) Fidelity sells these investment vehicles that buy stock in many companies (2 words). mutual funds 2) Examples include shoplifting, trespassing and disorderly conduct. misdemeanor 3) A Mexican street band with a trumpet, a guitar, a singer and an accordion mariachi 4) To put a child with special needs into a "normal" school class mainstream 5) American naturalist and founder of the Sierra Club John Muir 6) Capital city of Belarus Minsk 7) A student at the U.S. Naval Academy midshipman (or middie) 8) A question reader for a quizbowl game, or the leader/controller of a debate moderator 9) What animals do when they move to a new location for survival migrate

10) To combine two songs or websites into one new thing mashup

END OF BASIC SET 6 QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

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BASIC SET 7

TOSSUPS/BONUSES

TOSSUP 1. A "Lost Arles Sketchbook" of his previously unknown drawings was published in November 2016-- despite the statement of his namesake museum in Amsterdam that the sketches are not his. Name this Dutch painter who shot himself in 1890, just 2 months after he left the mental hospital where he'd spent the previous year.

answer: Vincent van Gogh

BONUS 1. Answer these about Vincent Van Gogh:

A. This title of his best-known painting is used in the title of another painting that shows a similar scene but includes the Rhone River.

answer: Starry Night (over the Rhone)

B. He lived in the town of Arles in this country while creating the book of sketches said to be his.

answer: France

C. During his time in that country, he lived in a house that was this color; he created several of his better-known works there to decorate the interior walls.

answer: the Yellow House

D. Van Gogh's Amsterdam museum holds this first major Van Gogh painting that features several peasants sitting around a scanty meal.

answer: The Potato Eaters

TOSSUP 2. Through the 1930’s, he worked at The New Yorker. Later, he moved to Maine, where he wrote his most popular stories—each about a different animal. Name this co-author of the book A Manual of Style and sole author of the novels The Trumpet of the Swan, Stuart Little and Charlotte’s Web.

answer: E. B. White

BONUS 2. Pencils and paper ready! Calculate these problems using roots:

A. The square root of 49, times the fourth root of 625

answer: 35 (7 x 5)

B. The cube root of 64, plus the fifth root of 32

answer: 6 (4 + 2)

C. The cube root of -216, minus the square root of 100

answer: -16 (-6 – 10)

D. The tenth root of 1,024, divided by the square root of 1/144.

answer: 24 (2 ÷ 1/12) QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

TOSSUP 3. It marked English history’s first use of the crossbow and resulted in Harold Godwinson’s losing the British throne. Name this battle, pictured on the Bayeux [BUY-oo] Tapestry, that took place between the British and the Normans on October 14, 1066 and ended with William the Conqueror as the ruler of England.

answer: Battle of Hastings

BONUS 3. Answer these about toys recently inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame:

A. Many kids jump off this playground toy while they're several feet off the ground and moving forward.

answer: swing

B. Insurance salesman Gary Gygax became famous for developing this fantasy game that uses 20-sided dice.

answer: Dungeons and Dragons

C. This company, now owned by Mattel, created Little People to interact with its garage, school, farm and other play scenarios.

answer: Fisher-Price

D. This is the generic term for any character you put on your hand and pretend is a live thing that can talk.

answer: puppet

TOSSUP 4. Pencils and paper ready! A cone has the same radius and height as a right circular cylinder. If the cone can hold 300 cubic centimeters of water, how many cubic centimeters of water can the cylinder hold ?

answer: 900 cm3 (volume of cone has a ⅓factor that cylinder’s formula doesn’t, so cylinder holds 3 times as much)

BONUS 4. Answer these about official state amphibians:

A. The Illinois state amphibian is the Eastern Tiger variety of this creature that looks like a small lizard and can regenerate any body part that gets lost or pulled off.

answer: salamander

B. The New Hampshire state amphibian is the Eastern variety of this creature that has a life cycle stage called "eft" between larva and adult.

answer: newt

C. The Texas variety of this creature has a dry and bumpy skin; it’s just an old wives’ tale that you can get warts by touching one.

answer: toad

D. Oklahoma and Missouri use the American variety of this creature.

answer: American bullfrog

TOSSUP 5. As a noun, it can be "a durable cotton fabric, "a species of African baboon", or "a machine for sowing seeds in a small furrow." Give this 5-letter word that, as a verb, means "to train in military routines", " to practice something until you’re really good at it", or "to bore a hole in something."

answer: drill QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

BONUS 5. Name the American authors of these novels that have been banned from schools at least once:

A. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

answer: Maya Angelou

B. Fahrenheit 451

answer: Ray Bradbury

C. Bridge to Terabithia

answer: Katherine Paterson

D. The Chocolate War

answer: Robert Cormier

TOSSUP 6. All six of its six known structures contain four nitrogen atoms and a magnesium atom –differing only in their amounts of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. Name this chemical, used in photosynthesis to obtain energy from light, that makes a plant green.

answer: chlorophyll

BONUS 6. Many sources of water contain large amounts of calcium.

A. Thus, the water can leave brown stains in toilets and is commonly known by this adjective.

answer: hard water

B. To remove the calcium, use this device that takes the calcium out and replaces it with sodium.

answer: water softener

C. In some cases, the calcium is replaced by this alkali metal with atomic number 19.

answer: potassium or K

D. You could also remove the calcium by this process that involves boiling the water and condensing the steam—but this would be a big hassle.

answer: distillation (accept forms of the word)

TOSSUP 7. Pencils and paper ready! A thief steals your credit-card number but doesn’t actually have the card itself. When he tries to buy something online with it, he is asked for the 5-digit zip code associated with the card. If any digit can repeat at any time, what is the probability that the thief correctly guesses the 5-digit code on the first try?

answer: 1/100,000 or 0.00001 (10 x 10 x 10 x 10 x 10 possibilities; only 1 is correct)

BONUS 7. Name the 20th-century composers of these works:

A. the ballet The Rite of Spring

answer: Igor Stravinsky

B. Finlandia

answer: Jean Sibelius [sa-BAY-lee-us]

C. Rhapsody in Blue

answer: George Gershwin

D. the music for West Side Story

answer: Leonard Bernstein

TOSSUP 8. Allowed by the Supreme Court in 1937, it was disallowed by the Court in 1966 because it was clearly an economic way for Southern Democrats to keep many blacks from voting. Give the common two-word term for this fee, now prohibited by the 24th Amendment, that had to be paid by blacks in order to vote—but not by whites who benefited from a "grandfather clause."

answer: poll tax QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

BONUS 8. Give the correct plurals for each of these nouns:

A. curriculum

answer: curricula

B. neurosis

answer: neuroses

C. half

answer: halves

D. moose

answer: moose

TOSSUP 9. This state's Delaware Basin and Midland Basin are the two main zones of its Permian Basin that now appears to contain much more crude oil than previously estimated. Name this state, long a producer of crude oil, where the Permian Basin stretches partly into neighboring New Mexico.

answer: Texas

BONUS 9. Name the countries where you'd find these other massive oil fields:

A. The largest one currently known is this Middle Eastern country's Ghawar Field.

answer: Saudi Arabia

B. The Burgan Field is in this small Arab country invaded by Iraq in 1990.

answer: Kuwait

C. This Scandinavian country's Statfjord and Oseberg fields each hold more than 2 billion barrels of oil.

answer: Norway

D. This country's Daqing [da-CHING] field holds more than 16 billion barrels.

answer: China

TOSSUP 10. Pencils and paper ready! Give the coordinates of the point where the two lines y = 7x + 14 and y = 10x - 4 intersect when graphed.

answer: (6, 56) (7x + 14 = 10x – 4, so 18 = 3x)

BONUS 10. Name these sports featured at the 2016 Rio Olympics from their symbols on the official website:

A. A figure lunging while holding a sword

answer: fencing

B. A player about to execute a free kick

answer: football (or soccer)

C. A figure doing a handstand, with legs spread apart

answer: artistic gymnastics

D. A player swinging a club

answer: golf

TOSSUP 11. 26 years after he became the world's youngest grandmaster ever, and 8 months after he defeated Fabiano Caruana to win the most recent Candidates Tournament, he is now just a few games away from becoming the World Champion of chess. Name this Russian chess star who is currently leading the championship match over the current champion Magnus Carlsen.

answer: Sergey Karjakin QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

BONUS 11. 2016 Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson has announced his next big project: riding the entire length of the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route along the Continental Divide.

A. West of the Continental Divide, rivers flow toward the Pacific Ocean; east of the Divide, they flow toward this.

answer: Atlantic Ocean

B. The northern end of the trail is Banff, a town in this Canadian province.

answer: Alberta

C. When you get to the Wyoming border with this state, you're about halfway done.

answer: Colorado

D. The trail goes through this state's towns of Pie Town and Silver City before ending at Antelope Wells on the Mexican border.

answer: New Mexico

TOSSUP 12. He murdered his nephew Perdix for fear Perdix might surpass him as an architect and craftsman. Name this Greek of myth, the builder of the Labyrinth, who got shut into the Labyrinth but escaped from the island of Crete by making wings to fly away for both himself and his son Icarus [ICK-a-russ].

answer: Daedalus [DAY-da-luss]

BONUS 12. Answer these about events that happened in 1961:

A. This U.S. President gave his final address to Congress, warning of the "military-industrial complex."

answer: Dwight D. Eisenhower

B. He was replaced by this President.

answer: John F. Kennedy

C. This civil rights group left on a trip from Washington, D.C. to New Orleans.

answer: the Freedom Riders

D. The U.S. tried to overthrow Fidel Castro with this unsuccessful invasion.

answer: Bay of Pigs

TOSSUP 13. Many states restrict driver’s licenses for people under 18 by imposing, and then slowly removing, restrictions on what a driver may do, such as the number of passengers he can carry. Give the term for this type of license that shares its name with what a student has done by receiving his high school diploma.

answer: graduated driver’s license

BONUS 13. Name the U.S. states where you’d find these Indian reservations:

A. Omaha

answer: Nebraska

B. Coeur d'Alene [cur da lain]

answer: Idaho

C. Yankton

answer: South Dakota

D. Hopi

answer: Arizona QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

TOSSUP 14. His huge painting Untitled XXV, created during this artist's years on Long Island, was sold in November 2016 for more than $66 million. Name this Abstract Expressionist, born in Holland, whose adult life in New York resulted in paintings like Interchange and Police Gazette.

answer: Willem de Kooning

BONUS 14. Give these geometric terms:

A. In geometry, you often have to prove these statements true.

answer: theorems

B. Two lines that cross each other form two pairs of these congruent angles.

answer: vertical angles

C. Either word for "a statement accepted as true without proof"

answer: axiom or postulate

D. The point where two rays or line segments meet, or any corner of a square, rectangle or triangle

answer: vertex

TOSSUP 15. The Mapocho [ma-PO-cho] River runs through this city, while its O’Higgins Park honors the man who brought independence to his nation. Though the capital of its nation, the National Congress actually meets in the city of Valparaiso [voll-par-a-EE-so] one hour to its north. Identify this South American capital city that is currently home to President Michelle Bachelet [BOTCH-a-lay].

answer: Santiago, Chile

BONUS 15. Pencils and paper ready! Take the expression (x – 4), divided by (x + 3).

A. Give the value of x for which the expression is zero.

answer: 4 (x – 4 = 0)

B. Give the value of x for which the expression is undefined.

answer: -3 (where the denominator = 0)

C. Give the value of the expression when x = 2.

answer: -2 (-2/1)

D. Give the value of x for which the expression in lowest terms equals 29 .

answer: x = 6 [(x - 4) / (x + 3) = 2/9, so 9x – 36 = 2x + 6 and 7x = 42]

TOSSUP 16. In 2011, it finally completed its first full revolution around the Sun since it was discovered in 1846 by Galle and Le Verrier [vair-ree-AIR]. Identify this planet with a heavy methane concentration that makes it look blue on Earth and that was confirmed to have 13 moons and 6 rings by Voyager 2.

answer: Neptune (not Saturn)

BONUS 16. In November 2016, the U.S. launched a new GOES weather satellite into orbit.

A. The G stands for this term that means "moving in a geosynchronous orbit in the plane of the equator so that it remains above a fixed point on the surface."

answer: geostationary

B. The satellite was developed partly by NASA and partly by this agency abbreviated NOAA.

answer: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

C. The NASA office for the satellite is at Goddard Space Flight Center in this Eastern state.

answer: Maryland

D. The satellite was carried into space by an Atlas V, which is one of these.

answer: rocket QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

TOSSUP 17. In college, this player whose first name is Rayne led his Mississippi State team to its first-ever number one ranking. Since joining the pros, he has set a record for most pass attempts without an interception to start a career. Identify this quarterback whose nickname comes from his middle name and who has led his Dallas Cowboys to the NFL's best record.

answer: Rayne Dak(ota) "Dak" Prescott

BONUS 17. Identify both the conference and the division of these NFL teams; for example, if I said "St. Louis Rams", you would say "NFC West."

A. Houston Texans

answer: AFC South

B. Green Bay Packers

answer: NFC North

C. Oakland Raiders

answer: AFC West

D. Dallas Cowboys

answer: NFC East

TOSSUP 18. Actor Brandon Victor Dixon plays Aaron Burr in this show, who killed this show's title character in an 1804 duel. Name this Tony Award-winning show about America's first Treasury Secretary that attracted attention when Vice-President Elect Mike Pence was booed by the crowd at a November 2016 performance.

answer: Hamilton

BONUS 18. Answer these about the show Hamilton:

A. Act I contains a song about this final Revolutionary War battle that "turned the world upside down" when the Americans won.

answer: Battle of Yorktown

B. The show has one actor who plays both Thomas Jefferson and this French nobleman sympathetic to the American cause.

answer: Marquis de Lafayette

C. This is the first name of Hamilton's wife.

answer: Eliza

D. This song in the show discusses the Compromise of 1790, in which the federal government agreed to pay individual state debts and the nation's capital was moved to Washington, D.C.

answer: The Room Where It Happens

TOSSUP 19. Each of their outermost "s" shells contains only one electron. Give the 2-word term for this set of chemical elements that includes rubidium [roo-BID-ee-um], potassium, lithium and sodium, which are all in the far left column of the periodic table.

answer: alkali metals QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

BONUS 19. Name these bad things you hope never to find on your computer:

A. Unsolicited e-mail, usually selling Viagra or trying to steal your money

answer: spam

B. This biology term describes nasty software that attaches itself to an existing program, copies itself, and spread from one computer to another.

answer: virus

C. This biology term describes nasty software that doesn’t have to attach itself to an existing program—and can damage your network as well as damaging individual computers.

answer: worm

D. This 2-word term from myth describes a software program that looks OK but then damages your computer.

answer: Trojan horse

TOSSUP 20. Pencils and paper may be useful for this musical question! If writing a piece of music in two-two time, how many sixteenth notes would fill up a measure?

answer: 16 (a half-note is one count in 2/2 time, so 2 quarters per count, 4 eighths per count and 8 sixteenths per count. Two counts per measure, so 16 sixteenth notes per measure.)

BONUS 20. Answer these about the novel Don Quixote:

A. It was written by this Spanish author.

answer: Miguel de Cervantes [sair-VON-tase]

B. This squire of Don Quixote rides a donkey named Rucio [ROO-see-o].

answer: Sancho Panza

C. Don Quixote calls the girl named Aldonza by this name.

answer: Dulcinea [dull-sa-NAY-a]

D. This was Don Quixote’s horse.

answer: Rocinante [ro-sa-NON-tay] QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

LIGHTNING ROUND 1. 2016 AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS

1) This former star of the TV series Victorious won Artist of the Year. Ariana Grande

2) This Favorite Pop/Rock Music Artist also won for his video "Sorry." Justin Bieber

3) This ex-husband of Miranda Lambert won Favorite Male Country Artist. Blake Shelton

4) This past American Idol winner won Favorite Female Country Artist. Carrie Underwood

5) This Favorite Rap/Hip Hop Artist also won for his song "Hotline Bling." Drake

6) Her Formation World Tour won for Tour of the Year. Beyoncé

7) His song "Humble and Kind" won Favorite Country Song. Tim McGraw

8) This son of singer Julio won Favorite Latin Artist. Enrique Iglesias

9) This British singer from the band One Direction won New Artist of the Year. Zayn Malik

10) This Favorite Soul /R&B Female Artist also won for her album "Anti." Rihanna

LIGHTNING ROUND 2. SHORT STORIES

Name the authors of these short stories.

1) The Cask of Amontillado Edgar Allan Poe

2) The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Washington Irving

3) Hills Like White Elephants Ernest Hemingway

4) The Most Dangerous Game Richard Connell

5) The Ransom of Red Chief O. Henry (or W.S. Porter)

6) The Open Boat Stephen Crane

7) Rikki Tikki Tavi Rudyard Kipling

8) Young Goodman Brown Nathaniel Hawthorne

9) An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Ambrose Bierce

10) The Monkey's Paw W.W. Jacobs QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

LIGHTNING ROUND 3 –STARTS WITH N

1) 5 in the fraction 5/11 numerator

2) Looks like a peach but isn’t fuzzy nectarine

3) What you feel just before you throw up nausea

4) Wall Street Journal and USA Today, for example newspapers

5) Fourth root of 6,561 nine

6) To explain something briefly: "in a [blank]" nutshell

7) The study of what food is healthy for you nutrition

8) Inventor of basketball Dr. James Naismith 9) Asian nation between India and Tibet Nepal

10) To put someone else’s name forward for a political office nominate

END OF BASIC SET 7 QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

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BASIC SET 8

TOSSUPS/BONUSES

TOSSUP 1. Its posters feature actress Felicity Jones, who plays Jyn Erso in this film. Its plot description online includes the sentence, "In a time of conflict, a group of unlikely heroes band together on a mission to steal the plans to the Death Star." Name this movie, released in December 2016 and subtitled "A Star Wars Story."

answer: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

BONUS 1. Give these Italian words for tempo that often appear in written music and all begin with A:

A. a walking tempo

answer: andante [on-DON-tay]

B. speeding up as you go along

answer: accelerando [uck-cel-a-RON-doe]

C. a tiny bit faster than "lento" or "largo"

answer: adagio [a-DODGE-ee-o]

D. a quick tempo, perhaps as fast as a march

answer: allegro [a-LAY-gro]

TOSSUP 2. In his thirties, he flew around the world in less than 4 days. Since his death in 1976, he has been played on screen by Leonardo DiCaprio and now by Warren Beatty in the movie Rules Don't Apply. Identify this eccentric American billionaire whose namesake aircraft company is now owned by Raytheon.

answer: Howard Hughes

BONUS 2. Give these terms from oil painting:

A. After you’re done with an oil painting, cover it with this clear glossy substance to prevent damage to your artwork.

answer: varnish

B. This Italian word describes the technique of contrasting lights and darks on the same canvas.

answer: chiaroscuro [kee-ar-oss-KUR-ro]

C. With this technique, also an Italian term, paint is laid on a canvas very thickly so you can still see the brushstrokes.

answer: impasto

D. Put a painting on this triangular object to make the canvas easier to reach.

answer: easel QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

TOSSUP 3. Variations of this sandwich usually keep the rye bread and Swiss cheese but substitute one of its main ingredients, such as cole slaw instead of sauerkraut or Dijon mustard instead of Russian dressing. Name this hot sandwich, often sold at a delicatessen, whose "Rachel" version uses pastrami instead of corned beef.

answer: the Reuben

BONUS 3. Tell what condition you’re most in need of first aid for if the first person to find you sees that you have:

A. sunken eyes, a dry mouth, and you’re not sweating on a humid 100° day.

answer: dehydration

B. a hand that is numb and grayish-white on a day when it’s 10 below zero.

answer: frostbite

C. a lack of coordination, you seem really sleepy, and you’re trying to take your coat off outside even though it’s only 20°.

answer: hypothermia

D. red and blistered skin that needs to have cold water run over it.

answer: second-degree burn

TOSSUP 4. The 90,000 ballots added into this state's Durham County voting at the last minute on Election Night 2016 has sparked a request for recount and charges of both sore losing and vote fraud. Name this Southern state where Democrat challenger Roy Cooper unseated Republican Pat McCrory as Governor.

answer: North Carolina

BONUS 4. I will name two teams; you tell which college football conference's championship game they played in 2016:

A. Colorado and Washington

answer: Pacific-12 Conference

B. Alabama and Florida

answer: Southeastern Conference (or SEC)

C. Clemson and Virginia Tech

answer: Atlantic Coast Conference (or ACC)

D. San Diego State and Wyoming

answer: Mountain West Conference (or MWC)

TOSSUP 5. Pencils and paper ready! The moment of inertia for a rectangular object is bh3/12, where b is the base of the rectangle and h is the height. Calculate the moment of inertia for a rectangular piece of plywood 3 feet long and 6 feet high.

answer: 54 ft4 [3 x 6 x 6 x 6 /12]

BONUS 5. Name these famous ships:

A. Largest of the 3 British ships that came to Jamestown in 1607. (2 words)

answer: Susan Constant

B. Sir Francis Drake's ship that circumnavigated the world (2 words)

answer: Golden Hind

C. Ship that carried Charles Darwin to South America in 1831

answer: H.M.S. Beagle

D. Japan surrendered on this U.S. ship to end World War II.

answer: U.S.S. Missouri QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

TOSSUP 6. The Swan-Ganz variety of this device is inserted into the human heart. Give the medical term for a thin tube, inserted into your body to remove fluids, whose Foley variety is inserted into the bladders of hospital patients to remove urine.

answer: catheter [KATH-a-tur]

BONUS 6. Though actress Florence Henderson hosted a cooking show for many years, she was always best known for her TV role as a mother to a blended family with her own three daughters and her second husband's three sons.

A. Name the classic TV series where Florence played the mother.

answer: The Brady Bunch

B. What was her mother character's first name ?

answer: Carol

C. Later on, she appeared in a reality series with actor Christopher Knight, who played this second of the three boys in the family.

answer: Peter Brady

D. This character was the oldest daughter, older than Jan or Cindy.

answer: Marcia Brady

TOSSUP 7. Its beginning is credited to the Abbey Church of Saint-Denis built in 1130. Name this medieval and "barbaric" school of architecture, recognizable by its pointed arches and ribbed vaults that are different from the semicircular arches and barrel vaults used in its predecessor, the Romanesque style.

answer: Gothic architecture

BONUS 7. Name the western U.S. states where you’d go to climb these mountains:

A. Mount Timpanogos [timp-a-NO-gus]

answer: Utah

B. Sandia [SAN-dee-a] Crest

answer: New Mexico

C. Kootenai Peak, within Glacier National Park

answer: Montana

D. Mount Whitney

answer: California

TOSSUP 8. Its Classic Period included its city of Copán [co-PAWN]. It was the only group in the New World to develop a complete writing system, recorded today in its creation myth, the Popol Vuh [po-POAL view]. Identify this civilization that flourished on the Yucatán Peninsula and in Guatemala before it was finally conquered by the Spanish in 1697.

answer: Mayas (or Mayan)

BONUS 8. Pencils and paper ready! Write down the following expression: 8 x 4 + 6 – 12 ÷ 3. Using order of operations, what is the value of the expression if parentheses are put around:

A. the 4 and 6 ?

answer: 76 (80 – 4)

B. the 12 and 3 ?

answer: 34 (32 + 6 – 4)

C. the 4 and 12 ?

answer: -16/3 or – 5 1/3 (8 x -2, then divided by 3)

D. the 4 and 3?

answer: 48 (8 x 6) QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

TOSSUP 9. You can’t play a C-natural or F-natural on it, and you have to get used to your second-to-highest note on its scale always being a half-step flat. But if you can handle all that, as well as the three drones and a chanter that must all be maneuvered correctly to sound good, you too can learn to play—what very loud wind instrument that is still popular in Scotland ?

answer: bagpipes

BONUS 9. Answer these about people featured in a new book about famous people who grew up in central Pennsylvania:

A. This director of the first two Harry Potter films owns a company called 1492 Productions.

answer: Chris Columbus

B. This military man was promoted to Admiral after his 1909 expedition to the North Pole, though the trip may have ended 60 miles short.

answer: Admiral Robert Peary (Adm. Byrd flew over the Pole much later)

C. He was a disc jockey in Cleveland in the 1950's when he coined the phrase "rock and roll" for the hot musical genre of the time.

answer: Albert "Alan" Freed

D. Steve Ditko helped Stan Lee create this webby comic-book hero.

answer: Spider-Man

TOSSUP 10. The European Space Agency's Schiaparelli [skyop-a-REL-lee] craft designed to land on its surface in October 2016 crashed from a great height after its software miscalculated its altitude. Identify this planet whose surface, according to Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli, contains "channels" that have been proven by further research not to exist.

answer: Mars

BONUS 10. Complete these sentences from NASA's webpage on Mars:

A. "Like Earth, Mars experiences [blank] due to the tilt of its rotational axis."

answer: seasons

B. "The cold temperatures and thin atmosphere on Mars do not allow liquid [blank] to exist at the surface for long."

answer: water

C. "Mars has two small moons, [blank] and [blank], that may be captured asteroids."

answer: Phobos and Deimos

D. "Mars was named by the Romans for their god of war because of its [blank]…color."

answer: red

TOSSUP 11. Pencils and paper ready! A circle with radius 8 has a square inscribed in it. What is the area of that square?

answer: 128 (r = 8, so d = 16. Thus, the square’s diagonal has length 16 and is the hypotenuse of a right triangle whose other 2 sides are equal to a length S. By Pythagoras, S2 + S2 = 256, so S2 = 128—but S times S is the area of the square, so the area = 128) QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

BONUS 11. A drawing from his comic book Explorers on the Moon was sold in November 2016 for almost $2 million.

A. Name this European character with a dog named Snowy.

answer: Tintin

B. Give the pen name of the Belgian man who created that character.

answer: Hergé

C. Besides that character, the drawing from Explorers on the Moon shows this "fishy" sea captain who is that character's best friend (besides Snowy).

answer: Captain Haddock

D. This American director directed a movie starring that character.

answer: Steven Spielberg

TOSSUP 12. Until recently, the "good" side of this city was north of the Han River. But in recent years, the south side of the Han has become fashionable, with its Tehran Boulevard marking its "Gangnam" area that's been called "a combination of Silicon Valley and Beverly Hills." Name this Asian capital city whose area north of the Han contains the Blue House occupied by the President of South Korea.

answer: Seoul [sole]

BONUS 12. Name the group of chemical elements that contains each of these pairs:

A. magnesium and strontium

answer: alkali earth metals

B. iodine and chlorine

answer: halogens

C. silicon and germanium

answer: metalloids (or semi-metals)

D. chromium and zinc

answer: transition metals (or transition elements)

TOSSUP 13. You can find this type of rock on Mars (where it makes up much of the giant Olympus Mons) and on the moon (where it makes up much of the moon’s "seas"). Most of it on Earth is produced at divergent plate boundaries underwater; thus, it forms most of the ocean floor. Name this igneous rock.

answer: basalt

BONUS 13. Name the Jane Austen novels whose female characters include:

A. Marianne Dashwood

answer: Sense and Sensibility

B. Lady Russell

answer: Persuasion

C. Lydia Bennet

answer: Pride and Prejudice

D. Fanny Price

answer: Mansfield Park

TOSSUP 14. Written for The New Yorker, its six people include the secretary Miss Sasaki and Mrs. Nakamura, a mother of three. Identify this documentary by John Hersey whose sections include "A Noiseless Flash" and "The Fire" and that begins on August 6, 1945, after the first atomic bomb was dropped.

answer: Hiroshima QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

BONUS 14. Answer these about Theseus in myth:

A. One villain Theseus met was this one whose bed always fit the length of a man—because the man was lengthened or shortened to fit the bed.

answer: Procrustes [pro-CRUSS-teez]

B. This father of Theseus kept Theseus from drinking poisoned wine; later, a sea off the coast of Greece was named for him.

answer: Aegeus [a-GEE-us] (prompt on "Aegean Sea")

C. Theseus is most famous for entering this maze with a ball of thread he got from Ariadne [air-ee-AD-nee].

answer: the labyrinth

D. This creature lived in that maze.

answer: the minotaur

TOSSUP 15. From the Latin for "something entangling the feet", it can refer to anything that gets in your way or causes a problem. Give this 10-letter word, often used with the word "speech" when describing what someone has who stammers, lisps or stutters a lot.

answer: speech impediment

BONUS 15. Pencils and paper ready! A right triangle with area 150 has a height 5 longer than the base.

A. Give the length of the base.

answer: 15 [½(b)(b + 5) = 150, so ½ b2 + 2 ½ b – 150 = 0 and b2 + 5b – 300 = 0. Thus, b = 15 or -20.]

B. Give the height.

answer: 20

C. Give the length of the hypotenuse.

answer: 25

D. The right triangle is half of a rectangle that would have this total area.

answer: 300

TOSSUP 16. Begun under Lyndon Johnson’s "Great Society", it now supervises Ginnie Mae, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Name this Cabinet department, now run by Secretary Julián Castro, whose homepage shows you how to find rental assistance and how to avoid foreclosure.

answer: Dept. of Housing and Urban Development (or HUD)

BONUS 16. 350 members of its Self-Defense Force were sent to Africa in November 2016, with directions to use force when needed to protect U.N. staff.

A. Name this Asian country whose forces may now see their first combat overseas since World War II.

answer: Japan

B. This current Prime Minister of that country authorized the change.

answer: Shinzo Abe [aw-bay]

C. The Force is in this African country, 5 years after that country broke off from the nation whose capital is at Khartoum [car-TOOM].

answer: South Sudan

D. This city is the capital of that country.

answer: Juba

TOSSUP 17. Though recently removed from most dishwasher detergent, it is still found in many common fertilizers—but only with oxygen atoms. Identify this chemical element whose types include "red", "white" and "black" and whose symbol is a capital P.

answer: phosphorus QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

BONUS 17. In South Africa, it's expressed by the 3-word phrase "Rook is Verbode."

A. Give the 2-word English meaning of this phrase, often posted in tobacco-free areas.

answer: No Smoking

B. This infinitive appears on such signs in Spanish.

answer: fumar [foo-MAR]

C. This infinitive appears on such signs in German.

answer: rauchen [RAU-kun, where "rau" rhymes with "cow"]

D. The German word "verboten" [fair-BOAT-un] on such signs is almost a cognate to this English word that means "not allowed."

answer: forbidden

TOSSUP 18. Since it joined the Big 10, it has had 3 head coaches: Bill O'Brien (who left to coach the NFL's Houston Texans), James Franklin (who led its 2016 team to the Big 10 East title), and the legendary Joe Paterno. Identify this Big 10 college that plays its home games at Beaver Stadium in "Happy Valley" and whose team name is the Nittany Lions.

answer: Penn State University

BONUS 18. Answer these about U.S. President Franklin Pierce:

A. His father Benjamin was Governor of this northeastern state where he was born.

answer: New Hampshire

B. This American female author called him "the archtraitor" for not supporting the Civil War.

answer: Harriet Beecher Stowe

C. Pierce was succeeded as President by this man he appointed as U.S. ambassador to England.

answer: James Buchanan

D. This central state's battles over slavery caused it to be termed "Bleeding [blank]" during Pierce's term.

answer: Kansas

TOSSUP 19. This is not a calculation question! If a child has 6 shirts, 7 pairs of pants and 4 pairs of socks to wear to school, and you were told to list every possible combination on a piece of paper, you would probably draw--what kind of "branching" diagram to make sure every possible combination is accounted for?

answer: tree diagram

BONUS 19. Give these terms from algebra:

A. A set of two equations in two unknowns is described by this adjective if there’s no x-y pair that solves both equations.

answer: inconsistent

B. You do this to the expression x2 + 8 if you put in a value for x and find the answer.

answer: evaluate the expression

C. A fraction is described by this adjective if both the numerator and the denominator have a fraction in them.

answer: complex fraction

D. The number 7 in the term 7xyz

answer: coefficient

TOSSUP 20. Poor people in his country may appreciate his free education and health care, but most of those who came to Miami from his country celebrated his death in November 2016. Name this dictator who, at age 21, tried to help overthrow the government of the Dominican Republic, learning lessons he would later use when he overthrew the Cuban government in 1959 in a Communist revolution.

answer: Fidel Castro QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

BONUS 20. Cuba is considered one of the last five Communist countries in the world.

A. Another is this nation led by the nutball Kim Jong-Un.

answer: North Korea (or Democratic People's Republic of Korea)

B. A third is this country whose capital is Beijing.

answer: People's Republic of China

C. The northern part of this country was already Communist before the end of its namesake war allowed it to take over the free southern part of the country in 1975.

answer: Vietnam

D. This country's Communist government is the reason so many of its citizens head west to neighboring Thailand.

answer: Laos

LIGHTNING ROUND 1. CUBA

Answer these about our neighbor to the southeast.

1) This is the country's capital. Havana

2) This is Cuba's official language. Spanish

3) This 1898 treaty made Cuba independent of Spain. Treaty of Paris

4) Fidel Castro overthrew this 1950's Cuban leader. Fulgencio Bautista

5) This younger brother of Fidel Castro now runs the country. (give 1st name) Raúl Castro

6) Castro's revolutionary movement was named for this summer month and day. 26th of July Movement

7) Cuba's "Liberation Day" is the same day as this holiday in the U.S. New Year's Day

8) The Atlantic Ocean borders north and east; this body of water borders west. Gulf of Mexico

9) This body of water borders Cuba on the south. Caribbean Sea

10) In the 1700's and 1800's, this was Cuba's main crop. sugar cane QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

LIGHTNING ROUND 2. PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL OF FREEDOM

Identify these 2016 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

1) He married his wife Melinda after he started Microsoft. Bill Gates

2) He led the Chicago Bulls to 6 NBA titles. Michael Jordan

3) She designed the Vietnam Veterans' Memorial in Washington, D.C. Maya Lin

4) He played the pilot nicknamed "Sully" in a 2016 movie. Tom Hanks

5) This NBA great was famed for his "sky hook" shot. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

6) Born in Canada, this architect designed the Walt Disney Concert Hall. Frank Gehry

7) This rock star is lead singer for the E Street Band. Bruce Springsteen

8) He announced Dodgers baseball games for more than 60 years until 2016. Vin Scully

9) He created the NBC series Saturday Night Live. Lorne Michaels

10) She was the lead singer of the Motown group The Supremes. Diana Ross

LIGHTNING ROUND 3 –STARTS WITH S

1) Something illogical you do that has no real effect, such as avoiding the number 13 superstition

2) Part bird and part woman, it is known from Homer’s Odyssey for its beautiful singing. siren

3) City in New York whose college sports teams are named the Orange Syracuse

4) Ancient empire governed by Sargon the Great Sumerian Empire 5) Five-letter suffix for an instrument used in any scientific study, not just biology S-C-O-P-E

6) A news story you find out about before anyone else does scoop

7) Italian island south of Corsica Sardinia

8) Magicians who worked in Las Vegas until a tiger nearly killed one of them Siegfried and Roy

9) Its chemical symbol is S. sulfur

10) Christmas song: "City sidewalks, busy sidewalks, Dressed in holiday style… (2 words) Silver Bells

END OF BASIC SET 8 QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

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BASIC SET 9

TOSSUPS/BONUSES

TOSSUP 1. He told the troops that he commanded in Iraq, "Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet." Though not retired from the military long enough yet to run the American military, Donald Trump still wants him to be his Secretary of Defense. Name this former Marine Corps General, nicknamed "Mad Dog."

answer: James Mattis

BONUS 1. Give these terms from criminal law:

A. The police need this from a judge before they can search your house.

answer: warrant

B. Evidence that is illegally obtained has this happen to it so the jury never hears about it.

answer: suppression

C. Adjective for 2 jail sentences that run one after the other so you serve both of them before you get out.

answer: consecutive sentences

D. Small crimes, not as bad as felonies, are called by this term.

answer: misdemeanors

TOSSUP 2. It can be used either with or without a comma as the first word of a dependent clause in a sentence. Give the term for this type of pronoun whose most common examples include "who", "whose", "that" and "which."

answer: relative pronoun (prompt on "pronoun" before it is read)

BONUS 2. Name these artists who were members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; note they’re not all American.

A. He is most famous today for his detailed drawings of Birds of America.

answer: John James Audubon

B. This Finnish architect designed Dulles Airport in northern Virginia and the Gateway Arch in St. Louis.

answer: Eero Saarinen [SAR-a-nun]

C. Before this American invented the telegraph, he was an accomplished portrait painter.

answer: Samuel F. B. Morse

D. His paintings included a set of Helga works and Christina's World.

answer: Andrew Wyeth

TOSSUP 3. Said to move through earth as humans move through air, they are slaves to the Green Lady in Narnia. In Harry Potter novels, they live in the gardens of witches and wizards. Name these mischievous spirits that look like one of Snow White's dwarves when used as garden or lawn decorations.

answer: gnomes QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

BONUS 3. Answer these from the new book How to Speak Midwestern:

A. People from this state are often called Cheeseheads.

answer: Wisconsin

B. People from Minnesota often call this state "Baja Minnesota."

answer: Iowa

C. This state's nearby towns of Champaign and Urbana are often pronounced "shampoo banana."

answer: Illinois

D. Many people from this city at the eastern end of the Midwest refer to a group of other people not as "all of you" or "y'all", but by the term "yinz."

answer: Pittsburgh, PA

TOSSUP 4. The career leader in this category is still Buffalo Bills defensive end Bruce Smith, while the single-season record holder is New York Giants defensive lineman Michael Strahan [STRAY-hann]. Give this football term, first coined by Hall of Famer Deacon Jones, for when a quarterback is tackled by the defense behind the line of scrimmage.

answer: sack

BONUS 4. Pencils and paper ready! Give the results of these polynomial expressions in lowest terms:

A. 5x2z + 8xz2 + 7xz2 + 14x2z

answer: 19x2z + 15xz2

B. -3xyz – 2xz – 4xz – -7xyz

answer: 4xyz - 6xz

C. 4x2yz times 5xy3z3

answer: 20x3y4z4

D. 9abc divided by 3bc2

answer: 𝟑𝒂𝒄

TOSSUP 5. After one of its title characters professes his love for the other title character, they sail away to the land where the Bong-tree grows, buy a ring from a Piggy-wig, and are married the next day by a turkey. Name this poem by Edward Lear that ends with the happy couple dancing by the light of the moon.

answer: The Owl and the Pussycat

BONUS 5. It can be defined as the product of voltage and current.

A. Name this quantity defined as "energy per unit time."

answer: power

B. That quantity is typically measured in this unit.

answer: Watt (any metric prefix is OK as long as "watt" is also said)

C. That quantity can also be calculated by squaring the voltage and dividing by this parameter.

answer: resistance (P = V2/R)

D. Occasionally, that quantity is confused with this quantity, first defined as "weight lifted through a height."

answer: work

TOSSUP 6. Pencils and paper ready! The equation x2 + 4x + 4 = 0 has a multiple root at x equals –what value?

answer: -2 [(x + 2) (x + 2) = 0] QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

BONUS 6. Name these mammals of North America from three of their endangered species:

A. Banana, Mexican Long-nosed, Red Fruit

answer: bat

B. Banner-Tailed Kangaroo, Diminutive Wood, Tumbala Climbing:

answer: rat

C. Island, Northern Swift, San Joaquin [wah-KEEN] Kit

answer: fox

D. Pygmy, Volcano, White-sided Jack

answer: rabbit

TOSSUP 7. It often played the melody in a brass band until it was overshadowed by the clarinet. Name this double-reed woodwind instrument, often used to make the A note for tuning an orchestra because its somewhat whiny sound can easily be heard over other instruments.

answer: oboe

BONUS 7. Name the 2016 college football bowl games that featured these pairings:

A. Alabama vs. Washington

answer: Peach Bowl

B. Southern Cal vs. Penn State

answer: Rose Bowl

C. Oklahoma vs. Auburn

answer: Sugar Bowl

D. Ohio State vs. Clemson

answer: Fiesta Bowl

TOSSUP 8. They are often turned on after a car accident, if a car can’t move, or if a car or truck is going very slowly up a hill. Identify this type of illumination that turns on multiple lights at the same time to let other cars know you have a problem so they can go around you.

answer: hazard (or emergency) lights (or flashers) (accept clear equivalents)

BONUS 8. Pencils and paper ready to find these geometric ratios in lowest terms!

A. The volume of a cube with sides x inches to the area of a square with sides x inches.

answer: x or x to 1 (x3/x2)

B. The area of a 12-by-9 rectangle to the perimeter of a 10-by-8 rectangle

answer: 3 or 3 to 1 (108/36)

C. The circumference of a circle with radius 7 to the radius of a circle with area 49π

answer: 2πor 2πto 1 (14π/7)

D. The area of a triangle with base B and height H to the area of a rectangle with base B and height H

answer: ½ or 1 to 2 (½ BH/BH)

TOSSUP 9. Since 1600, the International Union for Conservation of Nature estimates that nearly 900 species have undergone this event. Through advances in cloning technology, this once-permanent situation may now actually be reversible. Name this event, suffered by both the passenger pigeon and the dodo, that marks the ending of a species' earthly existence.

answer: extinction QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

BONUS 9. Its title object is a Connecticut farm that is only open for entertainment on days like Thanksgiving and the Fourth of July.

A. Name this 1942 movie that is now a Broadway musical and was the inspiration for the name of a popular hotel chain.

answer: Holiday Inn

B. The songs in the movie were written by this composer of the song "God Bless America."

answer: Irving Berlin

C. That composer also wrote this famous song that says, "May your days be merry and bright."

answer: White Christmas

D. In the 1942 movie, Bing Crosby was one of the male leads; the other was this legendary dancer who often partnered with Ginger Rogers.

answer: Fred Astaire

TOSSUP 10. Pencils and paper ready! Simplify the square root of 162 to a number X times the square root of a smaller number Y.

answer: 9 √2 (162 = 81 x 2) (do not accept equivalent forms, as X must be larger than Y and this is the only form that fits)

BONUS 10. Give these terms learned in studying the city-state governments of ancient Greece:

A. In Athens, one of these men could serve on juries or serve on the ruling council—much like one of these today in the U.S. who is allowed to vote.

answer: citizen

B. A slave in Sparta who worked for a master

answer: helot

C. A fighting formation containing ranks of soldiers

answer: phalanx [FAY-lanks]

D. This large hill in the center of Athens contained the Parthenon and many other temples.

answer: Acropolis [a-CRAW-pa-luss]

TOSSUP 11. It costs $50 or less to obtain one from the Library of Congress, far less than a patent or trademark. Many people don’t even bother to get one officially—which is OK, except that if it’s unregistered, you can’t sue for people infringing your work. Identify this legal concept, used to protect written work from being stolen or copied, that is indicated by a C with a circle around it.

answer: copyright

BONUS 11. I’ll name a major world river; you tell what larger body of water it empties into.

A. Danube [dan-yoob]

answer: Black Sea

B. Ganges [gan-jeez]

answer: Bay of Bengal

C. Amazon

answer: Atlantic Ocean

D. Mississippi

answer: Gulf of Mexico QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

TOSSUP 12. He spent 10 years in politics in the Florence area, including 5 as the city's mayor. Since taking power, he has improved his country's economy and sold many of its government's luxury cars. Name this youngest Prime Minister in the history of Italy who has announced his resignation after voters shot down his plan to modify the Italian Constitution.

answer: Matteo Renzi

BONUS 12. Answer these about the 2017 Breakthrough Prizes, termed the "Oscars of Science":

A. Harry Noller won a Prize for his work with this cell organelle whose mass is more RNA than anything else.

answer: ribosome

B. Joseph Polchinski shared a Prize for his idea that "firewall" groups of high-energy particles may exist around these objects.

answer: black holes

C. Three men shared a Prize for confirming the existence of these "ripples in spacetime", predicted by Einstein in his general theory of relativity.

answer: gravitational waves

D. The Prize winner in math teaches at this Ivy League college's Institute for Advanced Study.

answer: Princeton Univ.

TOSSUP 13. In the late 1960's, a lab mishap caused several gibbon apes to develop a variation of this disease whose types are divided into "acute" and "chronic" as well as "lymphocytic" and "myeloid." Identify this disease, often lumped together with lymphoma, that develops in your bone marrow and creates a large number of abnormal white blood cells.

answer: leukemia

BONUS 13. Name these foods on Girl Meets Food's list of "Chinese dishes that real Chinese people don't eat":

A. "[These] don't even tell you good news anymore, only your closely guarded shortcomings. Chinese people eat oranges for dessert. They're good luck."

answer: fortune cookies

B. "[This 2-word dish] is the garbage disposal of the omelet world: refrigerator scraps, stir-fried and topped with an egg."

answer: chop suey

C. Named for a Ching Dynasty military leader who never heard of it, the developer of this recipe of "chunks of chicken battered, fried and sweetened for Western tastes" died in 2016.

answer: General Tso's Chicken

D. "These thick-skinned, blistered [objects] are nothing like the real Chinese [ones], which are smaller, thin and crispy—and edible."

answer: egg rolls

TOSSUP 14. Pencils and paper ready! A metallic object that weighs 700 grams in air weighs only 620 grams in olive oil, which has a density of 0.8 grams per cubic centimeter. Find the density of the metallic object in grams per cubic centimeter.

answer: 7 g/cm3 (the object displaces 700 – 620 = 80 g of olive oil, so volume of fluid displaced

= 80/0.8 = 100 cm3 . So object’s density is 700 g/100 cm3 = 7 g/cm3 . The object is zinc.) QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

BONUS 14. Positive charges at the earth's surface, including those on the human body, can attract a negative charge at the bottom of a cloud.

A. Name the weather phenomenon that results from this attraction.

answer: lightning

B. That phenomenon can occur during eruptions of these large objects.

answer: volcanoes

C. One type of that phenomenon in the upper atmosphere is named for these creatures of myth.

answer: elves

D. This type of that phenomenon between clouds causes no thunder.

answer: heat lightning

TOSSUP 15. As a result of his crime, he was forced to wander the earth and had a mark put upon him to keep others from killing him. Name this character in the book of Genesis, thought to have been cursed with black skin, whose rage at God's refusal to honor his sacrifice resulted in his killing his brother Abel.

answer: Cain

BONUS 15. First performed in late 1734 and early 1735, it is a series of six cantatas to be played between December 25th and January 6th.

A. Name this oratorio.

answer: Christmas Oratorio

B. Name its German Baroque composer.

answer: Johann Sebastian Bach

C. The fourth of the six, played on this day, celebrates the Feast of the Circumcision.

answer: New Year's Day or January 1st

D. The last of the six tells of these people who visited Jesus.

answer: the Magi or Three Wise Men

TOSSUP 16. Pencils and paper ready! One line segment of an angle is between the points (2, 3) and

(6, 9). The other line segment is between the points (2, 3) and (X, 4). Give the value of X that will make the two line segments perpendicular to each other.

answer: ½ or 0.5 [slope of 1st line is 6/4, so slope of 2nd line must be -4/6. Thus, (4 – 3) / (X – 2) = -4/6, so -4X + 8 = 6, -4X = -2 and X = ½)

BONUS 16. Rocks like pumice and chalk can be described by it.

A. Give this adjective for materials whose grains have openings between them.

answer: porous [PORE-us]

B. This other adjective that starts with P describes a material through which liquid can flow quickly and freely.

answer: permeable [PUR-me-a-bull]

C. This type of rock found in the White House can be described by both of these adjectives.

answer: sandstone

D. That rock fits into this main category of rock, neither igneous nor metamorphic.

answer: sedimentary

TOSSUP 17. Once thought to be the "missing planet" between Mars and Jupiter, it was discovered by Giuseppe Piazzi [ja-SEP-ee pee-OT-see] in 1801 but is too small to be a planet. Identify this largest object in the main asteroid belt, now considered a "dwarf planet" and named for the Roman goddess of agriculture.

answer: Ceres [SEAR-eez] QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

BONUS 17. Pencils and paper ready! A utility company charges 9.8 cents per kilowatt hour used for the first 500 kilowatt hours in a month, and then 14 cents for each kilowatt hour after that.

A. What’s the bill for 400 kilowatt hours?

answer: $39.20 (400 x 0.098)

B. What’s the bill for 600 kilowatt hours?

answer: $63.00 (500 x 0.098, + 100 x 0.14)

C. If the charge for the first 500 kilowatt hours is exactly half the total bill, how much is the total bill?

answer: $98.00 (twice $49)

D. How many kilowatt hours beyond the first 500 were used on that total bill?

answer: 350 (49/0.14)

TOSSUP 18. He owned the Milwaukee Brewers for more than 20 years before moving up in baseball's hierarchy. He was voted into the Hall of Fame in 2016 for his expansion of the playoffs and for adding interleague play—but probably not for his leadership during the Steroid Era. Name this most recent past Commissioner of Major League Baseball.

answer: Bud Selig [SEE-lig]

BONUS 18. Name these Greek gods:

A. This archer was the god of music and the sun god.

answer: Apollo

B. He was the god of the sea.

answer: Poseidon [pa-SIDE-un]

C. This god of commerce also delivered messages from other gods.

answer: Hermes [HUR-meez]

D. He was the god of wine and of merriment.

answer: Dionysus [dye-a-NYE-suss]

TOSSUP 19. Shaped a lot like Kentucky, it is surrounded by the Czech Republic on its north, Hungary on its east, Slovenia on its south, and Italy on its southwest. Name this European country whose Swiss border on its far west and German border on its northwest are quite far from its cities of Linz [lints], Graz [grots] and Vienna.

answer: Austria

BONUS 19. Answer these about the novel Across Five Aprils:

A. It covers the five months of April from 1861 to 1865, when this conflict was going on.

answer: the U.S. Civil War

B. This woman wrote it from stories of her grandfather Jethro.

answer: Irene Hunt

C. Jethro lives on a farm in this Midwestern state.

answer: Illinois

D. Jethro writes a letter to this important historical figure—who actually writes back.

answer: Abraham Lincoln

TOSSUP 20. Before it was attacked, it had been a U.S. military base for more than 40 years and thought unlikely ever to be attacked because of its shallow entrance that kept out large ships. Name this Hawaiian location that was thus attacked by Japanese planes on the morning of December 7th, 1941.

answer: Pearl Harbor QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

BONUS 20. Answer these about Pearl Harbor:

A. The attack was considered a war crime by the War Crimes Tribunal situated in this city that prosecuted Japanese leaders just as the Nuremberg Tribunal prosecuted German leaders.

answer: Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal

B. This Japanese General and Prime Minister was hanged for his World War II crimes.

answer: Hideki Tojo

C. and D. Name the two U.S. battleships that were attacked and could not be saved.

answer: U.S.S. Arizona and U.S.S. Oklahoma

LIGHTNING ROUND 1. ARCHITECTURE TERMS

Give these terms as defined by architecturaltrust.org.

1) "A slender, pointed construction atop a building, often a church" spire

2) "A curved or pointed structural element that is supported at its sides" arch

3) "A decorative strip of wood" molding

4) "A platform that projects from the wall of a building…enclosed on its outer three sides" balcony

5) "Bricks formed out of mud or clay, and baked in a kiln or under the sun" adobe bricks

6) "The metal fittings of a building, such as locks, latches, hinges, handles, and knobs" hardware

7) "The projecting edge of a roof that overhangs an exterior wall to protect it from the rain" eaves

8) "A small tower that pierces a roofline...usually cylindrical…topped by a conical roof" turret

9) "A structural support, similar to a column, but larger…often without ornamentation" pillar

10) "A window frame...hinged on one vertical side…that] swings open either...inside or…utside"

casement window QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

LIGHTNING ROUND 2. CONSTELLATIONS

Name the constellations containing these stars officially named by the International Astronomical Union as of November 2016. Half of the constellations are Zodiac signs; half are not.

1) Castor and Pollux Gemini

2) Regulus and Zosma Leo

3) Rigel and Bellatrix Orion

4) Grumium and Fafnir Draco

5) Antares [an-TAIR-eez] Scorpio

6) Deneb and Albireo Cygnus

7) Arcturus and Merga Boötes

8) Megrez and Alioth Ursa Major

9) Aldebaran and Atlas Taurus

10) Spica Virgo

LIGHTNING ROUND 3 –STARTS WITH T

1) First name of Jefferson, Edison and Paine Thomas

2) Capital of Taiwan Taipei

3) Large kettle drums, tuned by moving their pedals up and down timpani

4) It's equal to 1,024 gigabytes. terabyte

5) Type of tissue that connects muscles to bones tendon

6) A set of rows and columns, used in math for listing points on a graph table

7) A person who posts inflammatory comments online to bait others into responding troll

8) An unneeded growth removed from the body that may be cancerous tumor

9) Adjective describing something you can touch tangible

10) The fourth dimension of space, after length, width and depth time

END OF BASIC SET 9 QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

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BASIC SET 10

TOSSUPS/BONUSES

TOSSUP 1. He earned his Eagle Scout award at age 13 and later spent 2 years as President of the Boy Scouts of America. But even that might not save him from a tough confirmation hearing in the U.S. Senate over his receipt of Russia's Order of Friendship medal. Name this CEO of ExxonMobil who has been nominated to serve as Donald Trump's Secretary of State.

answer: Rex Tillerson

BONUS 1. ExxonMobil is the world's largest private oil company by revenue, with only four government-owned oil companies ahead of them.

A. The world's largest oil company is in this Middle Eastern nation.

answer: Saudi Arabia

B. The next 3 are all in this country.

answer: China

C. #9 in revenue is Total, once owned by this European country but now a private firm.

answer: France

D. #11 in revenue is Eni, based in this European country.

answer: Italy

TOSSUP 2. Its 2016 revival on Netflix is subtitled A Year in the Life and contains 4 episodes that continue its unofficial motto "Life's short. Talk fast." Name this TV series, set in Stars Hollow, Connecticut, that stars Alexis Bledel as Rory, the daughter of Lauren Graham's character Lorelai.

answer: Gilmore Girls

BONUS 2. Name the American authors of these works considered at a 9th-grade level by ChristianBook.com:

A. The Turn of the Screw

answer: Henry James

B. The Giver

answer: Lois Lowry

C. The Telltale Heart

answer: Edgar Allan Poe

D. The Gilded Age

answer: Mark Twain (or Samuel Clemens) QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

TOSSUP 3. Though it rotates to avoid obstacles and enemies, that is not always enough to avoid its main predator, the much smaller organism Didinium [dye-DIN-ee-um]. Identify this single-celled organism, usually distinguished from amoeba [a-MEE-ba] by its cilia [SILL-ee-a], or the fine hairs around its outside.

answer: Paramecium

BONUS 3. Pencils and paper ready! Simplify these square-root expressions as much as possible:

A. 3 √5 + 2 √45

answer: 9√𝟓(√45 = 3√5)

B. 8 √5 - 2 √45

answer: 2√𝟓

C. 5√3 × 6√13

answer: 30√𝟑𝟗

D. 8√63 ÷ 4√7

answer: 6 (2 x 3)

TOSSUP 4. His 7 films with Burt Lancaster are just some of the many movies he made after growing up as the son of a ragman in New York City. Name this esteemed actor and star of Spartacus who turned 100 in December 2016 and whose son Michael is an esteemed actor in his own right.

answer: Kirk Douglas

BONUS 4. Name these U.S. rivers that are each more than 500 miles long:

A. It’s the longest river in Iowa and is named for that state’s capital.

answer: Des Moines River

B. Much of it flows through Canada, but it forms part of the border between New York and Ontario.

answer: St. Lawrence River

C. It flows through New Mexico and Texas before emptying into the Rio Grande; in the 1800’s, Judge Roy Bean claimed he was the only law west of it.

answer: Pecos River

D. It begins in its namesake state and ends at the Gulf of California.

answer: Colorado River

TOSSUP 5. Generally formed in the molten rock within Earth’s mantle, the poorer-quality black ones are typically used for industrial purposes because they don’t sparkle like the white, blue, pink or champagne types that are sold commercially for very high prices. Name this crystalline form of carbon, a highly precious gem and the hardest mineral known to man.

answer: diamonds

BONUS 5. Name these Heisman Trophy finalists for 2016:

A. This Louisville quarterback won the Heisman.

answer: Lamar Jackson

B. This Oklahoma quarterback has announced he will stay in college next year.

answer: Baker Mayfield

C. This Clemson quarterback was second this year after finishing third last year.

answer: DeShaun Watson

D. This Michigan defensive star finished fifth.

answer: Jabrill Peppers QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

TOSSUP 6. Its Chairman Edward Johnson III, the son of its founder, has announced his coming retirement after building this business up so it now manages more than $5 trillion in assets. Name this mutual fund company, based in Boston, that is now run by Edward's daughter Abigail and uses a logo of a pyramid in front of the sun.

answer: Fidelity Investments

BONUS 6. Give these literary terms:

A. A story that teaches morality by having objects in the story take on larger symbolic meanings.

answer: allegory

B. Hinting in the beginning of a story what will happen in the end.

answer: foreshadowing

C. A solo part for an actor, talking to himself on the stage

answer: soliloquy [sa-LILL-a-kwee]

D. This 4-letter word describing the atmosphere of a story can also describe the feelings you have while you read it.

answer: mood

TOSSUP 7. It can describe any operation like addition or subtraction that takes two numbers and creates a third number from it. Give this adjective that also describes the base-two number system that uses only zeroes and ones.

answer: binary

BONUS 7. Answer these about national governments on Transparency International's most recent "Corruption Perceptions Index":

A. Four of the six least corrupt-looking governments are in the northern area of this continent.

answer: Europe (the 4 Scandinavian countries)

B. The eight most corrupt-looking governments are on these two continents.

answer: Africa and Asia

C. Ninth from the bottom is this South American country.

answer: Venezuela

D. The U.S. is tied for 16th least corrupt-looking with this neighbor of Germany.

answer: Austria

TOSSUP 8. Like the U.S., this country will soon put a woman on its currency for the first time: Viola Desmond, a black woman convicted of tax evasion in 1946 for trying to sit in the whites-only area of a movie theatre. Name this country where Desmond was pardoned after her death by the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia.

answer: Canada QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

BONUS 8. Pencils and paper ready! A local newspaper sponsors a photo contest to find the cutest pet. 35% of the submitted photos were cats, 42% were dogs, 14% were birds and the other 18 photos were of "everything else."

A. How many total photos were submitted?

answer: 200 (0.09x = 18)

B. How many were of cats?

answer: 70

C. How many were of dogs?

answer: 84

D. How many were of birds?

answer: 28

TOSSUP 9. He was the first incumbent President to visit California and to regularly use the telephone. Name this Chief Executive and former Ohio Governor who won both of his terms by defeating William Jennings Bryan but lost his life in 1901 at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York after anarchist Leon Czolgosz [CHAWL-gosh] shot him.

answer: William McKinley

BONUS 9. Answer these about ancient Greek art:

A. In Greek theater, this was the area where the dancing went on, not a place where the instrumentalists gathered.

answer: orchestra

B. Greeks applied this generic coating to seal the outside of their pottery creations.

answer: glaze

C. The Greek sculpture material "chryselephantine" [criss-EL-a-fun-tine] was part gold and part this hard substance.

answer: ivory

D. Besides white, these were the two colors of figures most often painted on ancient Greek pottery.

answer: black and red

TOSSUP 10. When put over a rest, it acts as a grand pause for the whole orchestra. It is written over the fourth note in Beethoven’s 5th Symphony to indicate that the E-flat should be held longer than two counts. Give the Italian term for this musical symbol, sometimes called the "hold" or the "bird’s eye" because of how it looks when written.

answer: fermata [fur-MOT-a] (prompt on "hold" or "bird’s eye" before they are read)

BONUS 10. Pencils and paper ready! Give the surface area in square units of each of these objects, using πas needed:

A. A rectangular box 4 by 5 by 6

answer: 148 [(2 x 20) + (2 x 24) + (2 x 30)]

B. A right circular cylinder with radius 2 and height 3

answer: 20π[(2πx 2 x 2) + (2πx 2 x 3)]

C. A square-base pyramid with base 5 by 5 and slant height 4

answer: 65 [(2 x 5 x 4) + (5 x 5)]

D. A cube with sides 4 long

answer: 96 [6 x 4 x 4] QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

TOSSUP 11. Mia hopes to be an actress, while Sebastian wants to own a bar that features jazz music. These are the main characters in –what 2016 movie musical, set in Los Angeles, that features Ryan Gosling as Sebastian and Emma Stone as Mia ?

answer: La La Land

BONUS 11. Answer these about safety in a chemistry lab:

A. You should always wear these over your eyes.

answer: safety goggles

B. You can wear glasses in the lab if you need them to see but should never wear these because if something gets under them and into your eyes, cleaning your eyes out will be much harder.

answer: contact lenses

C. Mix dangerous chemicals together inside this apparatus so the resulting vapors will be vented outside the lab.

answer: fume hood

D. You should be familiar with the MSDS for each chemical you use, where MSDS stands for this.

answer: Material Safety Data Sheet

TOSSUP 12. Formed in the Montmartre [mohnt-MAR-tra] area of Paris in the early 1900’s, it went through both Analytical and Synthetic phases. Identify this artistic style, created by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso, that featured flat paintings with signature three-dimensional shapes.

answer: cubism or Cubist

BONUS 12. Answer these about blood clots:

A. These cells within your blood are the first to arrive to plug any hole in a blood vessel.

answer: platelets

B. This common headache medication reduces your blood’s ability to clot-- one more reason to take Tylenol.

answer: aspirin

C. This drug, sold under the brand name Coumadin [COO-ma-dun], prevents your blood from coagulating properly—so that even small cuts become big problems.

answer: warfarin [WARF-rin]

D. A blood clot in your leg can cause the condition DVT, which stands for this.

answer: deep vein thrombosis

TOSSUP 13. Unlike the contrapositive, it is not always true. Give the term for a logical proposition that is created by switching around the two parts of another logical proposition, such as changing, "If the sun is out, then it is hot" to "If it is hot, then the sun is out." answer: converse

BONUS 13. Name these companies criticized by Donald Trump since the November election:

A. He called this airplane maker out for charging $4 billion to upgrade Air Force One.

answer: Boeing

B. He helped work with this air conditioner maker to keep in Indiana about ⅓of its Indiana jobs that were moving to Mexico.

answer: Carrier

C. He criticized this defense contractor for the cost of its F-35 airplanes.

answer: Lockheed Martin

D. He has said he would prevent AT&T from merging with this large media company.

answer: TimeWarner QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

TOSSUP 14. Its northern end, the Gulf of Bothnia [BOTH-nee-a], borders Sweden and Finland, while its eastern offshoot reaches St. Petersburg, Russia. Identify this sea, connected by canals to both the White Sea and the North Sea, whose southern coast borders northern Poland and northern Germany-- as well as the former Soviet republics Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia that collectively share its name in English.

answer: Baltic Sea

BONUS 14. Answer these about nominations for the upcoming Golden Globe Awards:

A. This actress was nominated for her portrayal of Jackie Kennedy.

answer: Natalie Portman

B. This actress was nominated for her portrayal of Florence Foster Jenkins.

answer: Meryl Streep

C. This actor was nominated for playing Desmond Doss in Hacksaw Ridge.

answer: Andrew Garfield

D. The song "How Far I'll Go" is from this animated movie.

answer: Moana

TOSSUP 15. Pencils and paper ready! The simple interest I for a sum of P dollars invested at r percent for t years is found by the formula I = Prt, where r percent is converted to its decimal equivalent. What is the simple interest if $9,000 is invested at 4% for 5 years?

answer: $1,800 (9,000 x 4 x 0.05)

BONUS 15. Identify these popular Christian hymns or spirituals from their lyrics:

A. "Let the water and the blood, from thy wounded side which flowed, be of sin the double cure; save from wrath and make me pure."

answer: Rock of Ages

B. "Marching as to war, With the cross of Jesus going on before."

answer: Onward Christian Soldiers

C. "Then sings my soul, my Savior God, to Thee"

answer: How Great Thou Art!

D. "Tell old Pharaoh to let My people go!"

answer: Go Down, Moses

TOSSUP 16. Quizbowl players soon learn that being lackadaisical [lack-a-DAY-za-kull] when pressing the buzzer can cause you to lose games. Spell the word "lackadaisical."

answer: L-A-C-K-A-D-A-I-S-I-C-A-L

BONUS 16. Only 6 states have 20 or more votes in the Electoral College, including California and Texas. Name the other four. answer: Florida, Illinois, New York, Pennsylvania

TOSSUP 17. Top players in its history have included Grant Hill, Christian Laettner, Elton Brand, Bobby Hurley, Carlos Boozer, and Jabari Parker. Name this college basketball powerhouse, currently led by guard Grayson Allen.

answer: Duke University QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

BONUS 17. He was nicknamed "Old Rough and Ready" and was elected President in 1848.

A. Name this 19th-century Chief Executive.

answer: Zachary Taylor

B. His victory over Mexico’s Antonio de Santa Anna at this battle of the Mexican War made him a national hero.

answer: Battle of Buena Vista

C. He was the first person to call a President’s wife "First Lady", applying the title to this woman who lived in the White House during the War of 1812..

answer: Dolley Madison

D. When he died in 1850, he was replaced by this Chief Executive.

answer: Millard Fillmore

TOSSUP 18. Its "volumetric" variety is designed to hold a specific amount of liquid. Its "boiling" or "Florence" variety is perfectly round. Name this type of glass container, often used in a chemistry lab, whose "Erlenmeyer" variety is shaped like a cone and has a long neck that you hold onto to pour liquid out of it.

answer: flask

BONUS 18. Name these apostles of Jesus from stories about them in the Book of Acts:

A. He was struck blind for 3 days until healed by Ananias [ann-a-NYE-us].

answer: Saul (accept Paul)

B. He preached to and baptized an Ethiopian eunuch [YOO-nuck].

answer: Philip

C. He received a vision that told him to take the gospel to the Gentiles.

answer: Simon Peter

D. Matthias was called to be an apostle to replace this man who killed himself.

answer: Judas Iscariot (both names needed; prompt on "Judas")

TOSSUP 19. Its first edition created so many howls of protest from the residents of Salem, Massachusetts that its second edition in 1850 contained a note by its author denying any desire to offend. Name this classic novel whose minor characters include Governor Bellingham and whose major characters include Roger Chillingworth, Arthur Dimmesdale and Hester Prynne.

answer: The Scarlet Letter

BONUS 19. Give these astronomical terms as defined by the International Meteor Organization:

A. "A natural object of extraterrestrial origin that survives passage through [Earth’s] atmosphere and hits the ground."

answer: meteorite

B. "[An] object [with] size [less than] 1,000 kilometers, most of which lie between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter."

answer: asteroid

C. "A diffuse body of solid particles and gas which orbits the Sun"

answer: comet

D. This adjective from Greek means "Sun-centered."

answer: heliocentric

TOSSUP 20. After his first career, he became a business executive and then a U.S. Senator from his home state, serving for 4 terms before retiring in 1998. Name this Ohio native and former astronaut who was 95 when he died in December 2016.

answer: John Glenn QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

BONUS 20. Answer these about John Glenn's career in the air:

A. He was on this spacecraft when he became the first American to orbit the earth.

answer: Friendship 7

B. At age 77, Glenn flew on this space shuttle so differences of the effects of space flight on a younger man and on an older man could be measured and analyzed.

answer: Discovery

C. Glenn shot down several Russian planes as a fighter pilot during this war.

answer: Korean War

D. He once flew from Los Angeles to New York in less than 3½ hours, making the average speed of the flight faster than this physical parameter.

answer: speed of sound

LIGHTNING ROUND 1 – GODS AND GODDESSES

1) This Greek Titan carried the world on his shoulders. Atlas

2) King of all Roman gods Jupiter

3) Roman god of war Mars

4) In Norse myth, the wife of the god Odin Frigg (not Freya)

5) Greek goddess of victory Nike

6) The Roman god of the sea Neptune

7) The jackal-headed Egyptian god of the afterlife Anubis

8) Greek goddess of the moon Artemis

9) Greek god of the heavens who fathered the Titans Uranus

10) The feathered serpent of Aztec myth Quetzalcoatl [ket-zul-KWAT-ull] QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

LIGHTNING ROUND 2 – ALGEBRA

Pencils and paper may be helpful !

1) Number of variables in the expression 3xy + 5yz – 4wx four

2) The set of all x coordinates in a table domain

3) The square root of x2 – 10x + 25 x - 5

4) Total number of solutions of any type for x6 = 1 six

5) Value of z if 20𝑧= 57 28

6) The product of 7 and (y – 6) 7y - 42

7) A set of at least 2 equations that use the same variables system

8) The negative value of x satisfying "the absolute value of x is 3" -3

9) Next number in a sequence increasing by 9 if current number is (x – 3) x + 6

10) A polynomial with only one term monomial

LIGHTNING ROUND 3 –STARTS WITH B

1) In a comic strip, the shape that contains a speaker’s words balloon

2) American who led a 1676 Virginia rebellion against the British Nathaniel Bacon

3) To chemically remove the color from something bleach

4) Winter Olympics sport whose contestants shoot guns after each skiing lap biathlon

5) Whales without teeth have this substance instead. baleen

6) Something an employee gets besides wages, such as holidays off or health insurance benefit

7) Not sharp (as a knife edge), or disturbingly candid (as a politician) blunt 8) Adjective for a swelled-up farm animal, or a swelled-up government payroll bloated

9) Mutiny on the Bounty tells how this ship’s captain was relieved of duty. Capt. William Bligh

10) Japanese word meaning, "May you live 10,000 years!" banzai

END OF BASIC SET 10 QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

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BASIC SET 11

TOSSUPS/BONUSES

TOSSUP 1. When he called Donald Trump's election "illegitimate" and vowed to boycott Trump's inauguration, Trump said this Georgia Congressman's district "is in horrible shape and falling apart." Name this black Congressman who spoke at the 1963 March on Washington and later led a group of protesters across Selma, Alabama's Pettus Bridge.

answer: Rep. John Lewis

BONUS 1. Answer these about John Lewis and the civil rights era:

A. The group Lewis led across the Pettus Bridge was headed for this capital city of Alabama.

answer: Montgomery

B. Lewis was once Chairman of this group abbreviated SNCC.

answer: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

C. Lewis knew Martin Luther King personally, whose grandfather spent 17 years as pastor of this city's Ebenezer Baptist Church.

answer: Atlanta, GA

D. When King won the Nobel Peace Prize, he gave his acceptance speech in this Scandinavian city in 1964.

answer: Oslo, Norway

TOSSUP 2. Pencils and paper ready! Find the measure of an angle whose complement is 13 degrees less than half its supplement.

answer: 26° [(90 – x) = ½ (180 – x) – 13, so 90 – x = 77 – ½ x and 13 = ½ x]

BONUS 2. Name these woodwind instruments from people famous for playing them:

A. Big-band leaders Woody Herman, Artie Shaw and Benny Goodman

answer: clarinet

B. Hubert Laws, Jean-Pierre Rampal and James Galway

answer: flute

C. Jazz greats Paul Desmond and Charlie Parker—plus former President Bill Clinton

answer: saxophone

D. Antonio Pasculli was considered the "Paganini" of this whiny double-reeded instrument.

answer: oboe QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

TOSSUP 3. Many of his works were written while he was a San Francisco journalist working for William Randolph Hearst. His exact date of death is still unknown but came after he was last seen in Mexico in 1913. Name this 19th-century author, famed for his Devil’s Dictionary and his short stories about the Civil War like An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.

answer: Ambrose Bierce

BONUS 3. Answer these about earth science:

A. This ocean's basin is generally the deepest of all ocean basins.

answer: Pacific Ocean

B. A map line between two areas of equal atmospheric pressure

answer: isobar

C. A valley formed by glacial erosion

answer: cirque

D. The thin layer of ice caused when air temperature goes below 32º

answer: frost

TOSSUP 4. They haven’t made it back to an AFC championship game since they won the Super Bowl in 1969. Since then, their top players have included tight end Tony Gonzalez and linebacker Derrick Thomas. Name this team that, in spite of running back Spencer Ware, receiver Travis Kelce [KEL-see] and coach Andy Reid, lost to the Pittsburgh Steelers in the 2017 NFL playoffs.

answer: Kansas City or Chiefs

BONUS 4. Give these terms from painting:

A. This 2-word term describes things like flowers or books that can be subjects of paintings but can’t move on their own.

answer: still life

B. This 2-word French term describes paintings done outside instead of in a building.

answer: plein air

C. This is the term for powdered color before paint is created from it.

answer: pigment

D. This 2-word term describes the empty area of a painting that surrounds the painting's main scene or object.

answer: negative space

TOSSUP 5. This nation's Albanian minority wants Albanian to be declared an "official language" there. This country also has an ongoing dispute with Greece as to who can use this country's name, as Greece also has an area by this name that includes the area where Alexander the Great was born. Name this country, once part of Yugoslavia, whose capital is Skopje [SKOP-ee-ay].

answer: Macedonia

BONUS 5. Pencils and paper ready! The sum of two numbers is 13, and the sum of their squares is 97.

A. If the two numbers are x and y, express y in terms of x.

answer: y = 13 - x

B. Plug the answer to part A into the equation x2 + y2 = 97 to obtain this equation in the form

ax2 + bx + c = 0.

answer: x2 – 13x + 36 = 0

C. and D. Use that equation to find the two numbers.

answer: 4 and 9 (factor the quadratic) QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

TOSSUP 6. In recent years, he created an album called Symphonica. He was the most popular singer on British radio for most of the 1980's and 1990's. Name this singer, formerly in the rock group Wham!, who died suddenly on Christmas Day 2016.

answer: George Michael

BONUS 6. Identify these George Michael hits from their lyrics: A. "I gave you my heart, But the very next day, you gave it away."

answer: Last Christmas

B. "I'm never gonna dance again, Guilty feet have got no rhythm, Though it's easy to pretend, I know you're not a fool."

answer: Careless Whisper

C. "Before this river, Becomes an ocean, Before you throw my heart back on the floor"

answer: Faith

D. As part of Wham!, he sang this song that says, "Don't leave me hangin' on like a yo-yo."

answer: Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go

TOSSUP 7. After the New York Tribune announced its premiere in 1924, its composer used the sound of the Boston subway cars and the painting of Whistler’s Mother as inspiration to actually put it together. Identify this classical jazz piece, originally suggested by bandleader Paul Whiteman, whose piano solo was first played by George Gershwin himself.

answer: Rhapsody in Blue

BONUS 7. In 2017, its tour will mark the 30th anniversary of one of its most successful albums by playing the entire album as part of each show.

A. Name this rock group whose members include Adam Clayton and The Edge.

answer: U2

B. Give the lead singer's nickname; his real name is Paul Hewson.

answer: Bono [BAW-no]

C. Name their album whose hit songs include "With Or Without You" and "I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For."

answer: The Joshua Tree

D. The plant featured in the album's artwork is in this state's Mojave [mo-HAW-vee] Desert, several hours' drive from the National Monument named for that plant.

answer: California

TOSSUP 8. The necktie he left behind has traces of rare-earth elements on it, leading some to believe that he may have worked for Boeing at the time he committed his crime. Give the alias of this man who parachuted out of the airplane he hijacked in November 1971 with $200,000 in cash and whose case is now the only unsolved air piracy in the history of aviation.

answer: D.B. Cooper QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

BONUS 8. Name these chemical elements recently detected on the tie Cooper left behind:

A. The dioxide form of this lightweight transition metal is used to make many common items white.

answer: titanium or Ti

B. This first of the rare-earth metals to be isolated is next to lanthanum in the Periodic Table.

answer: cerium [SEER-ee-um] or Ce

C. The radioactive 90 isotope of this alkali earth metal is found in nuclear fallout and thus very dangerous to humans.

answer: strontium or Sr

D. The sulfide ion contains this element.

answer: sulfur or S

TOSSUP 9. He figured out how to create a perfect 17-sided figure with only a ruler and a compass. Before that, he found that the sum of all numbers from 1 to 100 is "50 times 101" by adding 1 + 100,

2 + 99, and so on. Identify this German mathematician who lent his name to the so-called "normal" distribution or "bell-shaped curve" used by some teachers to assign students their class grades.

answer: Karl Friedrich Gauss (rhymes with "house")

BONUS 9. Name these ships:

A. Captain Ahab's fictional ship

answer: Pequod

B. In myth, Jason used this ship to find the Golden Fleece.

answer: Argo

C. Raft used by Thor Heyerdahl to cross the Pacific from Peru to Polynesia

answer: Kon-Tiki

D. Named for a general, this paddle boat went from St. Louis to New Orleans in 3 days.

answer: Robert E. Lee

TOSSUP 10. Spelled as two words, it's an annual workers’ holiday marked by Communists, socialists and anarchists. Give this 6-letter term that, as one word, comes from the French for "come help me" and is the international voice radio distress call.

answer: May Day

BONUS 10. Answer these about the Incas:

A. In 1911, American professor Hiram Bingham told scholars about this "Lost City of the Incas" he had found.

answer: Machu Picchu

B. After Francisco Pizarro met the Incas, he captured this Incan leader, held him to be ransomed with a room full of gold, and then killed him anyway.

answer: Atahualpa [ott-a-WALL-pa]

C. The Incas used this system of knotted strings or cords as a numeric system and memory aid.

answer: quipu [KEE-poo]

D. The Incan Empire was based in this Peruvian city, not its current capital Lima.

answer: Cusco [COO-sko]

TOSSUP 11. Pencils and paper ready! What is the quantity (9x2 – 36), divided by the quantity (6 – 3x) ?

answer: -3x – 6 or negative the quantity (3x + 6) (factor numerator, cancel denominator)

BONUS 11. What living things do these groups of scientists specialize in studying?

A. Entomological [en-ta-ma-LODGE-a-kul] Society of America QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

answer: insects

B. Mycological [my-ca-LODGE-a-kul] Society of America

answer: fungus or fungi

C. Phycological [fye-ca-LODGE-a-kul] Society of America

answer: algae

D. Botanical [ba-TAN-a-kull] Society of America

answer: plants

TOSSUP 12. After he died, his advisers told his son Rehoboam [REE-a-bo-um] to ease the burdens on the people; Rehoboam's refusal to do so split up the 12 tribes of Israel. Name this Old Testament ruler who built a temple in ancient Jerusalem, using materials gathered by his father David.

answer: Solomon

BONUS 12. Answer these Bible questions:

A. In Acts chapter 10, this "centurion of the Italian band" receives a vision from God telling him to send for Simon Peter and to do whatever Simon Peter says.

answer: Cornelius

B. Give the most common one-word term for the statement made by Mary in Luke chapter 1 when she visits her cousin Elisabeth.

answer: the Magnificat

C. This book, written by the prophet Jeremiah to describe the desolation of Jerusalem, follows Jeremiah in the Old Testament.

answer: Lamentations

D. Name the food given to Esau when he was hungry by his brother Jacob at the cost of Esau's birthright.

answer: pottage

TOSSUP 13. In the 1980's, it was found to be a barred spiral instead of just a regular spiral. Parts of it include the Carina-Sagittarius Arm and the Orion Arm that contains Earth. The Via Lactea [lak-TAY-a] was the Roman name for--what astronomical object where our Sun is one of at least 100 billion stars ?

answer: Milky Way

BONUS 13. Give these French phrases common in English:

A. This is the holiday celebrated in New Orleans just before Lent.

answer: Mardi Gras [MAR-dee graw]

B. Tell the waitress you want your pie this way—with ice cream on top.

answer: à la mode

C. The waitress may use this 2-word phrase to say, "Enjoy your food!"

answer: Bon appétit ! [bone ap-a-TEE]

D. This phrase means "see you again."

answer: Au revoir [o rev-WAH] (not "bon voyage")

TOSSUP 14. In 2017, it will become the first country to totally get rid of its FM radio channels and use only digital radio, even though most cars there don't have a digital receiver. Name this Scandinavian country where digital radio may create clearer sounds for those who live in or near mountains or fjords.

answer: Norway QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

BONUS 14. Give these geometry terms:

A. A circle is this if it is as large as possible but is totally drawn inside another figure.

answer: inscribed

B. A circle is this if it is as small as possible but still touches all the vertices of a regular polygon and surrounds the entire polygon.

answer: circumscribed

C. The point where the three medians of a triangle intersect

answer: centroid

D. A set of points forming a two-dimensional surface

answer: plane

TOSSUP 15. The vesicles it contains are created from the Golgi apparatus. Enzymes necessary for digestion, such as lipase [LIE-pace] and amylase [AM-a-lace], are kept here until needed. Name this cell organelle whose vesicles release the enzymes used to digest a cell’s food and dispose of waste products.

answer: lysosomes

BONUS 15. About 90% of money now paid by the U.S. government to farmers in annual agricultural subsidies is paid to subsidize one of five crops. Name any four of those five crops.

answer: corn, cotton, rice, soybeans, wheat

TOSSUP 16. Though both an illustrator and an author in the late 1800’s, his fame today rests on his 22 bronze sculptures that depict, among other subjects, The Rattlesnake, The Savage, The Cheyenne and The Outlaw. Identify this American artist whose most famous sculpture depicting the Old West is The Broncho Buster.

answer: Frederic Remington (note: for this work, "Broncho" is the correct spelling)

BONUS 16. Name these states of Australia:

A. This eastern state with a 3-word name contains the city of Sydney.

answer: New South Wales

B. This central state has its capital at Adelaide.

answer: South Australia

C. The capital of this northeastern province is Brisbane.

answer: Queensland

D. This one named for a queen contains the city of Melbourne.

answer: Victoria

TOSSUP 17. As of January 2017, only two members of this religious group that honors Mother Ann Lee as its founder are still alive, both in its village in Maine. Give the common nickname of this group, once known for its dancing, whose official name is United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing.

answer: Shakers QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

BONUS 17. Answer these about inventions credited to the Shakers:

A. Their one-piece wooden version of this object allowed coats to be hung off the ground.

answer: clothespin

B. The "tilting" type of this object allows people to lean back in it without scraping a wooden floor.

answer: chair

C. This object 's "flat" version was made by taking a typical "round" one and putting it in a vise to press round bristles flat.

answer: broom

D. The Shakers even developed a small tool to pare and core this common fruit.

answer: apples

TOSSUP 18. Part of British East Africa in the early 1900’s, it became independent by 1960 along with its eastern neighbor Ethiopia, its western neighbor Chad, and its northern neighbor Egypt. Name this African nation, now divided into a "north" and "south", whose capital is Khartoum [car-TOOM].

answer: (North or South) Sudan [soo-DAN]

BONUS 18. Answer these about the 2017 World Baseball Classic:

A. This island nation is the defending champion from its victory in 2013.

answer: Dominican Republic

B. Marlins Park in this U.S. city will host some of the preliminary games.

answer: Miami

C. This Middle Eastern country qualified for the tournament for the first time.

answer: Israel

D. This island that's a U.S. commonwealth has enough players to have its own team.

answer: Puerto Rico

TOSSUP 19. Pencils and paper ready! Find the power in watts through a 100,000-ohm resistor with 20 milliamps of current if power equals "resistance, times the square of the current."

answer: 40 W [400 x 10-6 x 105]

BONUS 19. The ancient Mayans used a "vigesimal" [vy-JESS-a-mul] system for calculations.

A. This means that their "base" was not 10 as in our number system, but this 2-digit number instead.

answer: 20

B. Thus, the third digit from the right in their place system would not have been 100, but this exact number of hundreds instead.

answer: 4 (20 x 20 = 400. They actually used 18 x 20 as their 3rd digit because 360 is almost the number of days in a year)

C. Numbers less than their base were represented by bars for 5 and dots for 1, so two bars and four dots represented this number.

answer: 14

D. The Mayans created a special symbol for this number, long before the Arabs came up with a similar concept.

answer: zero

TOSSUP 20. His startup company Blue Origin hopes to make space flights cheaper, and he has invested in both Twitter and Uber. Name this entrepreneur who now owns the Washington Post newspaper but who still has the bulk of his wealth wrapped up in his shares of Amazon, another company he started.

answer: Jeff Bezos QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

BONUS 20. Name these rich people among a group of 8 who are said to own half the world's wealth between them:

A. He began the investment firm Berkshire Hathaway.

answer: Warren Buffett

B. He began the software company Oracle.

answer: Larry Ellison

C. This former mayor of New York City owns his own financial services company.

answer: Michael Bloomberg

D. He still owns between 3% and 4% of the Microsoft company he started.

answer: Bill Gates QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

LIGHTNING ROUND 1. FINLAND

Answer these in celebration of the country's 100 years of independence.

1) It became independent from this neighbor in 1917. Russia

2) An expedition to this continent named Mount Suomi in Finland's honor. Antarctica

3) Finland's flag has this color of cross on a white background. blue

4) The country's official Independence Day is in this month. December

5) November 6th is a day honoring Finns with this ethnic heritage. Swedish

6) Finland's national symbol is this animal, found more in Africa than Finland. lion

7) This type of Finnish bath will travel the U.S. on tour. sauna

8) Finland will host the 2017 World Championships of this winter Olympic sport. figure skating

9) February 28th is named for the Kalevala [call-a-VAW-la], the Finnish national this. epic poem

10) An academy named for this Finnish composer will combine with Julliard to create a 100th anniversary

orchestra. Jean Sibelius

LIGHTNING ROUND 2. WORD WARRIORS

Answer these about words on Wayne State University's list of words that deserve wider use.

1) Adjective meaning "really bad", as in a snowman abominable

2) A period of 2 weeks fortnight

3) Adjective meaning "dumb", or an angle greater than 90º obtuse

4) A section of cow stomach made into soup, or a bunch of baloney tripe

5) Ebenezer Scrooge's original description of Christmas humbug

6) The word "skedaddle" [ska-DAD-ul] means to do this. go away

7) To deliberately put a hole in a boat so it sinks scuttle

8) This Norwegian politician collaborated with the Nazis. V. Quisling

9) "Cerulean" [sa-ROO-lee-un] is a shade of this color. blue

10) "Bumbershoot" is a synonym for this rainy-day tool. umbrella QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

LIGHTNING ROUND 3 –STARTS WITH H

1) Genetic disease that prevents blood from clotting properly hemophilia

2) Chinese dynasty in power at the time of Christ Han Dynasty

3) As a verb, "to swing a baseball bat hard"; as a noun, "an incompetent writer" hack

4) Huge print on a newspaper front page, telling what the main story is about headline

5) In a nursery rhyme, they’re "one ha’penny, two ha’penny" (3 words). hot cross buns

6) "Rock of Ages" and "What a Friend We Have in Jesus", for example hymns

7) America’s southernmost major city Honolulu, HI 8) Character of myth, killed by the poisoned cloak he got from his wife Hercules

9) Flowering plant, long used to dye women’s hair red henna

10) Joan of Arc and William Tyndale were burned at the stake for this religious crime.

heresy (or being a heretic)

END OF BASIC SET 11 QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

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BASIC SET 12

TOSSUPS/BONUSES

TOSSUP 1. This state's native artist George Caleb Bingham had his painting displayed at Donald Trump's inaugural lunch in the Capitol building, while its U.S. Senator Roy Blunt served as the inaugural's master of ceremonies. Name this Midwest state that also got a new Governor in 2017, former Navy SEAL Eric Greitens.

answer: Missouri

BONUS 1. Name these people or groups who took part in Trump's inaugural ceremony:

A. This new Senate Minority Leader gave a short speech; his second cousin once removed, Amy, did not..

answer: Charles Schumer

B. This Supreme Court Justice administered the oath of office to Mike Pence.

answer: Clarence Thomas

C. This Chief Justice administered the oath of office to President Trump.

answer: John Roberts

D. One member of this musical group resigned rather than come 2,000 miles to Washington and sing "America the Beautiful."

answer: Mormon Tabernacle Choir

TOSSUP 2. It contains the gene that forms the reproductive system in males. Identify this sex chromosome that literally makes a man a man, as females don’t have it because they have two X chromosomes instead.

answer: Y chromosome

BONUS 2. Answer these from the Bible:

A. This gospel gave us Jesus's parables of the rich fool and the prodigal son.

answer: Luke

B. Old Testament prophet whose book is just before Jeremiah

answer: Isaiah

C. "Ye shall find the babe wrapped in [2 words], lying in a manger"

answer: swaddling clothes

D. Old Testament book that says, "For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he"

answer: Proverbs

TOSSUP 3. Sometimes addressed as "Master Kong", he is said to have died at age 72, some 500 years before Jesus. His sayings, which include a version of the Golden Rule, are contained in a book called the Analects. Give the most common English name for this ancient Chinese philosopher.

answer: Confucius

BONUS 3. Answer these about the novel Robinson Crusoe: QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

A. Name its author.

answer: Daniel DeFoe (or Foe)

B. Robinson Crusoe was born inn this century.

answer: 1600’s or 17th century

C. In the first chapter, Robinson tells his father he wants to do this instead of going to college or work, and his father pleads with him not to do it.

answer: go to sea (accept clearly equivalent answers)

D. The final chapter of Robinson Crusoe is titled, "Fight Between Friday and [this animal]."

answer: Fight Between Friday and a Bear

TOSSUP 4. His inaugural address was the first sent by railroad, allowing many parts of the country to read it the same day he gave it. His father Benjamin signed the Declaration of Independence and was later governor of Virginia. Name this President whose victory at the Battle of Tippecanoe led to his winning campaign slogan "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too."

answer: William Henry Harrison (prompt for first name/initial)

BONUS 4. When he left the White House in 1889, his wife Frances told a servant, "We’ll be back 4 years from now."

A. Name this President who kept that promise by returning to office 4 years later.

answer: Grover Cleveland

B. After his second term as President, he became a trustee of this Ivy League college, where he disagreed with Woodrow Wilson on where a new graduate school should be located.

answer: Princeton University

C. His oldest daughter had this first name; she died of diphtheria but became the nickname of a still-popular candy bar.

answer: Baby Ruth

D. His 8 vetoes during his first 2 months as Governor of this state gave him the nickname "the Veto Governor."

answer: New York

TOSSUP 5. The recently-named NASA mission that will explore the Trojan asteroids near Jupiter shares –what female first name with a set of female fossils found in Ethiopia, a cartoon character Miss Van Pelt, the Canadian author Montgomery who created Anne of Green Gables, and the actress Ms. Liu ?

answer: Lucy

BONUS 5. Answer these about the planet Jupiter:

A. It has a huge magnetic field around it, called by this general term.

answer: magnetosphere

B. This "colorful" giant high-pressure storm rotates counterclockwise around Jupiter once every 6 days.

answer: Great Red Spot

C. Most visible clouds are made of ammonia, which has this chemical formula.

answer: NH3

D. Jupiter has at least three of these around it, just as Saturn does.

answer: rings

TOSSUP 6. In myth, this object was said to surround any deity that visited Earth. The luminous disk around the head of a sacred person in a work of art is called by this 6-letter word. Give this term that can also mean "halo" but, to a weather reporter, means "a rain-producing cloud."

answer: nimbus QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

BONUS 6. Name these tools used to maintain a swimming pool:

A. This recirculates the pool water.

answer: water pump

B. Recirculated water is forced through this device to remove small solid gunk.

answer: water filter

C. You can use one of these to get dirt out of the pool, just as you use one to get dirt out of a carpet.

answer: vacuum cleaner

D. Move this tool across the top of the water to remove leaves from the water's surface.

answer: pool skimmer

TOSSUP 7. Pencils and paper ready! Solution A is 40 gallons of a 12% acid solution, while Solution B is 32 gallons of a 30% acid solution. If both solutions are combined into a larger container, what percentage of the resulting solution is acid ?

answer: 20% [40 (0.12) + 32 (.3) = 14.4 gallons, which is 1/5 of (32 + 40)]

BONUS 7. New studies indicate that cancer of this part of the female body is much more common than previously thought.

A. Name this organ that must be dilated [DYE-lay-tud] to 10 centimeters before a baby can be born.

answer: cervix [SUR-vix]

B. One way to help prevent cancer of that organ is to avoid this addictive substance that can also cause lung cancer.

answer: tobacco

C. If a woman undergoes this operation that removes her reproductive organs, that organ is removed too.

answer: hysterectomy [hiss-ta-RECK-ta-mee]

D. This type of doctor specializes in women's reproductive organs.

answer: gynecologist [guy-na-CAW-la-just]

TOSSUP 8. This actress became a star by playing Kathy Selden in the movie version of Singin' in the Rain. Name this late mother of actress Carrie Fisher whose passing in December 2016 came just days after Carrie's.

answer: Debbie Reynolds

BONUS 8. Name these countries from their architectural wonders:

A. The world's largest Buddhist temple, Borobodur, is on this country's island of Java.

answer: Indonesia

B. The settlement at Monte Albán was built by this country's Zapotec [sa-PO-teck] Indians.

answer: Mexico

C. Its National Stadium, used in a past Summer Olympics, is nicknamed "The Bird's Nest."

answer: China

D. The ancient city of Petra is in this Middle Eastern country that borders Israel.

answer: Jordan

TOSSUP 9. Its scoring no longer includes "koka", but its object is still the same: to score an "ippon" [EE-pawn] by throwing or pinning the opponent or by causing him to otherwise submit. Name this Japanese martial art.

answer: judo

BONUS 9. Identify these parts of speech:

A. A word like "beautiful" that describes a noun

answer: adjective QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

B. Its coordinating examples include "and", "but" and "or."

answer: conjunction

C. A word like "hilariously" that describes a verb

answer: adverb

D. Its examples include "between", "under" and "above."

answer: preposition

TOSSUP 10. Science-fiction writer Ben Bova is most famous for his "Grand Tour" series of novels that feature people from Earth colonizing the other bodies in our solar system. Which Bova novel discusses Earthlings who try to live on the largest moon of Saturn ?

answer: Titan (the largest moon of Saturn)

BONUS 10. Give the number of faces on each of these "platonic solids":

A. tetrahedron [HEE-drun]

answer: 4

B. octahedron

answer: 8

C. dodecahedron [doe-DECK-a]

answer: 12

D. icosahedron [eye-CO-sa]

answer: 20

TOSSUP 11. It requires a payment for any private land taken by a public entity. Identify this Constitutional Amendment that also prevents double jeopardy and allows witnesses in a criminal trial to say, "I refuse to answer on the grounds that it may incriminate me."

answer: Fifth Amendment

BONUS 11. Pencils and paper ready! I will give you a list of 8 materials. You pick the four that conduct heat the best. The eight are: wood, aluminum, plastic, steel, limestone, copper, gold and brick.

answer: aluminum, steel, copper, gold

TOSSUP 12. By appointment of England’s King George III, he became a member of Britain’s Royal Academy and later its President, as well as the King’s official historical painter. Identify this American artist who created William Penn’s Treaty With the Indians and The Death of General Wolfe.

answer: Benjamin West QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

BONUS 12. Spell these words on this year's "classroom" study list for the National Spelling Bee: A. "pterodactyl" [tair-a-DACK-tull], a flying dinosaur

answer P-T-E-R-O-D-A-C-T-Y-L

B. "affectionately", showing love

answer: A-F-F-E-C-T-I-O-N-A-T-E-L-Y

C. "Patagonia", an area shared by Argentina and Chile

answer: P-A-T-A-G-O-N-I-A

D. "herring", a kind of fish

answer: H-E-R-R-I-N-G

TOSSUP 13. Its "London" type is more rounded at the base and is used with bricks, while its "Philadelphia" type is used for laying block because it allows more mortar to be used at a time. Name this basic tool, used to spread mortar around when building either a block or a brick wall.

answer: trowel

BONUS 13. Pencils and paper ready! Give the two binomial factors with integer coefficients of each of these polynomials:

A. x2 - 49

answer: (x + 7) (x – 7)

B. x2 + 8x + 16

answer: (x + 4) (x + 4)

C. 6x2 + 4x - 10

answer: (3x + 5) (2x – 2) or (6x + 10)(x – 1)

D. 2x2 – 13x - 24

answer: (2x + 3)(x – 8)

TOSSUP 14. His 1965 funeral that silenced Big Ben was the world's biggest state funeral at the time. Name this Englishman whose bust that spent the last 8 years in President Obama's private office is now back on display in the Oval Office and whose service as Prime Minister led England to win World War II.

answer: Sir Winston Churchill

BONUS 14. It can be easily extracted from an underground brine by bringing it to the surface and letting the brine evaporate.

A. Name this lightest of all solid metals, used in many electronic devices.

answer: lithium

B. Give the single-digit atomic number of that element.

answer: 3

C. The brine is available in vast quantities in this desert in western South America.

answer: Atacama [ot-a-KOM-a] Desert

D. This country produces more than 40% of the world's supply of that metal from that desert.

answer: Chile

TOSSUP 15. This country's Parliament will soon debate a bill to let its government audit foreign non-government organizations that operate there, a move widely interpreted as a slap against activist financier George Soros, who was born there. Name this Central European country whose capital is Budapest. answer: Hungary QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

BONUS 15. Name the coaches of these teams that made the final 4 of the current NFL season:

A. Green Bay Packers

answer: Mike McCarthy

B. Pittsburgh Steelers

answer: Mike Tomlin

C. Atlanta Falcons

answer: Dan Quinn

D. New England Patriots.

answer: Bill Belichick

TOSSUP 16. Its new Chairman, Ajit Pai, hopes to take a "weed whacker" to the idea of "net neutrality" and many other nationwide government regulations. Name this government agency, charged with "regulating radio, television, wire, satellite and cable in all 50 states."

answer: Federal Communications Commission (or FCC)

BONUS 16. Answer these from ballet:

A .It contains a Spanish dance and a Chinese dance.

answer: The Nutcracker

B. In a Tchaikovsky ballet, Odette is under a spell where she is one of these birds.

answer: Swan Lake

C. This term denotes a complete turn of the body performed on one leg.

answer: pirouette

D. This American wrote music for a ballet about Billy the Kid.

answer: Aaron Copland

TOSSUP 17. Pencils and paper ready! In terms of π, give the difference between the volume (in cubic inches) of a sphere with radius 3 inches and the surface area (in square inches) of the same sphere.

answer: zero [(4/3 x πx 27) – (4 x πx 9) = 36π- 36π]

BONUS 17. Answer these from historyplace.com's "Top Ten Battles of All Time":

A. William the Conqueror won this 1066 battle to take over England.

answer: Battle of Hastings

B. The 1813 Battle of Leipzig saw the defeat of this world leader.

answer: Napoleon Bonaparte (accept either)

C. This country's civil war included the 1948 Battle of Huai-Hai [why-high].

answer: China

D. This Spanish conquistador defeated the Incas at Cajamarca in 1532.

answer: Francisco Pizarro

TOSSUP 18. This type of rock can be formed by two main methods: "regional" (formed by heat from colliding tectonic plates) and "contact" or "thermal" (caused by the baking of rocks that touch hot magma.) Name this type of rock, also divided into "foliated" and "non-foliated", whose examples include slate and marble.

answer: metamorphic rock QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

BONUS 18. You are in the city of Sofia [SOAF-ya].

A. What Central European country's capital city is Sofia ?

answer: Bulgaria

B. What former Iron Curtain country is directly north of that country?

answer: Romania

C. What "cradle of Western civilization" is directly south of that country ?

answer: Greece

D. Which former province of Yugoslavia is directly west of that country?

answer: Serbia

TOSSUP 19. 20th-century composer Ottorino Respighi [ra-SPEE-gee, with hard "g"] wrote sets of symphonic poems describing the festivals, the pines and the mountains of—which European capital city?

answer: Rome, Italy (Respighi was Italian) (prompt on "Italy" before "capital" is read)

BONUS 19. Pencils and paper ready! A boy goes trick-or-treating on Halloween and gets 4 pieces of candy with peanuts for every 8 pieces he gets without peanuts.

A. If he reaches in the bag without looking and randomly grabs a piece of candy, what is the probability in lowest terms that he gets a piece without peanuts?

answer: ⅔(8/12)

B. If the bag has 168 pieces of candy total, how many have peanuts?

answer: 56 (1/3 of 168)

C. The boy is allergic to peanuts and gives all of his peanut candy to his sister, who only had 28 pieces of candy total. By what factor does his sister’s candy pile increase?

answer: a factor of 3 (from 28 to 84)

D. In lowest terms, give the ratio of the boy’s total candy without peanuts to his sister’s total candy with all the peanuts.

answer: 4 to 3 (boy has 112, girl has 84)

TOSSUP 20. Pencils and paper ready! Over a period of 5 seconds, a car steadily decelerates from 20 meters per second to a dead stop. What is the car's acceleration during that 5-second period?

answer: 4 (or -4) meters per second squared (20/5)

BONUS 20. Name the U.S. states where you’d go to climb these mountains:

A. Denali

answer: Alaska

B. Laramie Peak

answer: Wyoming

C. Mount Sunflower

answer: Kansas

D. Nittany Mountain

answer: Pennsylvania QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

LIGHTNING ROUND 1 – 20TH-CENTURY U.S. HISTORY

1) Year when World War I's armistice was agreed 1918

2) This state's Little Rock Nine desegregated Central High School in 1957. Arkansas

3) First President to be assassinated in the 20th century William McKinley

4) Decade that saw the Scopes "monkey trial" 1920's

5) Jimmy Carter's Vice-President who ran for President in 1984 Walter Mondale

6) This J.D. Salinger novel was published in 1951. The Catcher in the Rye

7) Steamboat Willie was the first animated cartoon with this character (2 words). Mickey Mouse 8) Decade that saw "counterculture" and protests against the Vietnam War 1960's

9) Country where Americans were trapped in the U.S. Embassy for all of 1980 Iran

10) City where Russian-boycotted Summer Olympics were held in 1984 Los Angeles

LIGHTNING ROUND 2 – GOLD GLOVES

Name the Major League Baseball teams that featured these 2016 Gold Glove winners.

1) Third baseman Adrian Beltre [BELL-tray] Texas or Rangers

2) Catcher Buster Posey San Francisco or Giants

3) Right fielder Mookie Betts Boston or Red Sox

4) Shortstop Francisco Lindor Cleveland or Indians

5) Third baseman Nolan Arenado [air-a-NAW-doe] Colorado or Rockies

6) Pitcher Zack Greinke [GRINE-kee] Arizona or Diamondbacks

7) Second baseman Ian Kinsler Detroit or Tigers

8) Pitcher Dallas Keuchel [KY-kul] Houston or Astros

9) Left fielder Starling Marte [mar-tay] Pittsburgh or Pirates

10) First baseman Anthony Rizzo Chicago Cubs QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

LIGHTNING ROUND 3 –STARTS WITH G

1) Green creature, featured in many car insurance commercials gecko

2) Union Civil War General who later served 2 terms as President Ulysses S. Grant 3) "What so proudly we hailed, At the twilight’s last [blank]" gleaming

4) Avocado dip, often eaten with chips guacamole

5) The Republican nickname "GOP" stands for this phrase (3 words). Grand Old Party 6) A medieval group of skilled artisans, similar to a labor union today guild

7) "What’s good for the [blank] is good for the gander." goose

8) The rate at which a road slopes upward or downward gradient or grade

9) A judge’s ruling preventing any comments to media about a court case gag order 10) 19th-century patriot who helped unify Italy Giuseppe Garibaldi

END OF BASIC SET 12 QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

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BASIC SET 13

TOSSUPS/BONUSES

TOSSUP 1. This movie features Taraji P. Henson as its main character Katherine, who in real life worked as a human "computer" in pre-computer days to calculate the path of objects launched into space. Name this recent movie about three black women who broke the color barrier at NASA in the 1960's.

answer: Hidden Figures

BONUS 1. Answer these about the movie Hidden Figures:

A. Katherine was asked for specifically by this first American to orbit Earth, who required her to check the numbers before he would fly.

answer: John Glenn

B. Dorothy Vaughan taught herself this now-obsolete computer language so she could teach it to others; she later supervised a group of NASA computer programmers.

answer: FORTRAN

C. Mary Jackson petitioned this state's city of Hampton to let her attend all-white classes and eventually became NASA's first black female engineer.

answer: Virginia

D. This white actor who starred in Dances With Wolves played Katherine's boss Al, who desegregated NASA's restrooms by himself in one scene in the movie.

answer: Kevin Costner

TOSSUP 2. His recently discovered story The Purloining of Prince Oleomargarine will be published in 2017 to mark 150 years since his first book of stories was published. Name this American author whose travel books like The Innocents Abroad are less famous than his stories of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn.

answer: Mark Twain (or Samuel Clemens)

BONUS 2. Answer these about other long-lost literature:

A. In 2016, this author's story The Tale of Kitty-in-Boots was published to mark her 150th birthday, a story with an "older, slower and portlier version of Peter Rabbit."

answer: Beatrix Potter

B. This American author's recently discovered What Pet Should I Get ? sparked a book review in rhyme from the New York Times.

answer: Dr. Seuss (or Theodore Geisel)

C. This author's son finished his The Best Lowly Worm Book Ever, about a worm living in Busytown.

answer: Richard Scarry

D. Other authors have tried to finish the unfinished novel Sanditon by this author of Pride and Prejudice.

answer: Jane Austen QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

TOSSUP 3. You feel the sun’s rays warming you even though you can’t reach 93 million miles to touch the sun yourself. The warmth is delivered by—which of the three main methods of heat transfer ?

answer: radiation

BONUS 3. In 2016, Oak Ridge National Laboratory discovered a process that uses nanocatalysts to turn carbon dioxide into a usable fuel.

A. Name this fuel, also found in alcoholic drinks.

answer: ethanol or ethyl alcohol

B. In the U.S., most ethanol for fuel is made from this food source.

answer: corn

C. In the U.S., this fuel available at many gas stations contains a large quantity of this fuel.

answer: E-85

D. Many cars that can use that fuel have a gas cap or ring around the gas cap that is this color.

answer: yellow

TOSSUP 4. He followed his brother David's path to the NFL through college at Fresno State. After one bad season and one mediocre season, he was headed for the 2016 playoffs until he broke his leg against Indianapolis. Name this top quarterback who has spent his entire pro career so far with the Oakland Raiders.

answer: Derek Carr

BONUS 4. Answer these about this season's NFL Pro Bowl:

A. After many years in Hawaii, the Pro Bowl will be in this Florida city for a while, allowing fans to visit the Disney complex there on the same trip.

answer: Orlando

B. Tom Brady would have played for the AFC, but since he's in the Super Bowl, this Cincinnati Bengals quarterback took his place.

answer: Andy Dalton

C. Matt Ryan would have played for the NFC, but since he's in the Super Bowl, this New Orleans quarterback took his place.

answer: Drew Brees

D. This Dallas Cowboys coach was in charge of the NFC team.

answer: Jason Garrett

TOSSUP 5. If The Onion had written the late Masaya Nakamura's obituary, they might have joked that he was eaten by Clyde. This is because Nakamura is considered the "father" of—what classic video game whose yellow title character tries to change monsters like Clyde into ghosts by eating pellets ?

answer: Pac-Man QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

BONUS 5. Answer these from the U.S. Geological Survey’s "Earthquake Facts":

A. The largest earthquake ever measured was the 9.5 quake that hit this South American country in 1960.

answer: Chile

B. The largest earthquake ever measured in the U.S. was the 9.2 quake that hit this state in 1964.

answer: Alaska

C. The world’s deadliest earthquake ever is thought to have been in this Asian country in 1556 and killed more than 800,000 people.

answer: China

D. This Southern state was the only one in the area to have no earthquakes at all between 1975 and 1995.

answer: Florida

TOSSUP 6. Pencils and paper ready! Give the smallest angle of a triangle whose angles are (7x – 19)°,

(2x + 19)° and x°.

answer: 18° [10x = 180, so angles are 107°, 55° and 18°]

BONUS 6. Pencils and paper ready! Draw a rectangle longer than it is tall. Draw one horizontal line starting from the middle of the left side of the rectangle and another horizontal line starting from the middle of the right side of the rectangle. Then draw a vertical line dividing the rectangle in half

A. What kind of statistical plot is this?

answer: box-and-whisker plot

B. What value is the vertical line dividing the rectangle in half?

answer: the median

C. What value is the left side of the rectangle?

answer: the lower quartile value

D. What value is the end of the horizontal line that began at the right side of the rectangle?

answer: the highest (or maximum) value

TOSSUP 7. Raised Jewish, he converted to Catholicism so he could work as a musician in Vienna. In 2016, a handwritten copy of his Symphony #2 (Resurrection) was sold for more than $5 million. Name this Austrian composer of the early 1900's who, as described by Tom Lehrer, "wrote Das Lied von Der Erde and other light classics."

answer: Gustav Mahler

BONUS 7. Identify these cantons in Switzerland named for their largest cities:

A. This German-speaking city has Switzerland’s largest population.

answer: Zurich

B. This French-speaking city is home to the International Committee of the Red Cross.

answer: Geneva

C. This is the capital of Switzerland.

answer: Bern

D. This canton's largest city is on its namesake lake.

answer: Lucerne

TOSSUP 8. Ernst Chain and Howard Florey shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Medicine for purifying and experimenting with this substance that, even when originally diluted 500 times, still killed staph bacteria. Name this antibiotic, still used to kill strep infections, whose discovery is credited to Sir Alexander Fleming.

answer: penicillin

BONUS 8. Developed in Spain, this dance in three-eight time may begin with a contest between two men to see who is the better dancer. QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

A. Identify this folk dance that includes foot stomping to the rhythm of castanets and a guitar.

answer: fandango

B. That dance is very popular in this country that borders Spain.

answer: Portugal

C. This composer included that dance in the third-act finale of his opera The Marriage of Figaro.

answer: W. A. Mozart

D. This rock group's classic song "Bohemian Rhapsody" asks Scaramouche if he will do that dance.

answer: Queen

TOSSUP 9. Hokey and Ding-a-Ling in old Hanna-Barbera cartoons, Maugrim in Narnia, the cartoon mascot Zabivaka for the next World Cup soccer tournament, Akela in The Jungle Book and the villain in the story of the Three Little Pigs are all—what kind of ferocious animal ?

answer: wolf

BONUS 9. Name these characters from the comic strip Beetle Bailey:

A. Beetle is a private in the Army; this character is Beetle's commanding officer.

answer: Sgt. Snorkel (or Sarge)

B. This is that officer's bulldog.

answer: Otto

C. This general who runs the Army base is more concerned with his golf game and with alcohol than with the military.

answer: Brig. Gen. Amos Halftrack

D. This blonde secretary to the general is Beetle's girlfriend—sometimes.

answer: Miss Buxley

TOSSUP 10. The first one got Union General Irvin McDowell fired and Confederate General Thomas Jackson nicknamed "Stonewall", while the second one got Union General John Pope reassigned. Identify this pair of Civil War battles, fought in 1861 and 1862, whose name in the North comes from a nearby creek and whose name in the South comes from the Virginia town nearest to the fighting.

answer: Battles of Bull Run (or Manassas)

BONUS 10. Scientists have recently found a fossil more than 500 million years old.

A. The fossil dates from the Cambrian period of this geologic era.

answer: Paleozoic [pay-lee-a-ZO-ick] Era

B. It was found in the central part of this country's Shaanxi [shon-SHEE] region.

answer: China

C. The fossil is an early deuterostome [DOO-ta-ro-stome] that may be a forerunner of both humans and of this phylum that includes starfish and sea urchins.

answer: Echinodermata or echinoderms [ee-KY-no-durmz]

D. The fossil has cone-shaped structures that may have allowed water to escape and thus been a forerunner of these structures used by fish to breathe underwater.

answer: gills QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

TOSSUP 11. In myth, this daughter of Jupiter refused the advances of the Roman war god Ares [AIR-eez]. When Arachne [a-RACK-nee] claimed to weave better than this goddess, she won a contest with Arachne and then turned her into a spider. Name this Roman goddess of wisdom, similar to the Greek goddess Athena.

answer: Minerva

BONUS 11. Pencils and paper ready! Give the 4 integers that satisfy both of the inequalities 6x + 14 is greater than equal to 68 and 3x – 7 is less than or equal to 29.

answer: 9, 10, 11, 12

TOSSUP 12. A baseball game or picnic might be postponed due to inclement [in-CLEM-unt] or bad weather. Spell the word "inclement."

answer: I-N-C-L-E-M-E-N-T

BONUS 12. Answer these about Petri dishes:

A. They’re named for Julius Petri, who invented them while assisting this German bacteriologist.

answer: Robert Koch

B. A Petri dish typically has this shape.

answer: circular

C. Buy a bunch of them made from this material, and you can just throw them away when you’re done.

answer: plastic

D. This growth medium, usually put into a Petri dish, is made of algae.

answer: agar [ay-gar]

TOSSUP 13. Pencils and paper ready! David is a waiter at a restaurant who receives both tips from customers and a hourly wage from the restaurant. What is David’s hourly wage if he works for 6 hours and receives a total of $75.00, with $50.40 of that in tips?

answer: $4.10 ($24.60/6)

(note: this is much less than minimum wage, but this is allowed for waiters and others who receive tips)

BONUS 13. Answer these about the U.S. in 1947:

A. This U.S. President's doctrine gave foreign aid to Greece and Turkey to stop them from going Communist.

answer: Harry S Truman

B. That President signed the Presidential Succession Act, whereby the person in this post becomes President if the President and Vice-President both die at the same time.

answer: Speaker of the House of Representatives

C. That President also signed a National Security Act creating this group of spies.

answer: Central Intelligence Agency (or CIA)

D. A film version of this Charles Dickens novel about Pip was very popular in 1947.

answer: Great Expectations

TOSSUP 14. Originally apprenticed to a goldsmith, he soon came under the influence of Fra Filippo Lippi and eventually painted his two best-known works for Lorenzo de Medici. Name this Italian Renaissance painter who is best known today for his large-scale works Primavera and Birth of Venus.

answer: Sandro Botticelli QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

BONUS 14. Give the correct forms of the verb "lie" or "lay" to complete these sentences:

A. She [blank] down and took a 2-hour nap.

answer: lay

B. Steve [blank] his book on his desk.

answer: laid

C. My book has [blank] on the table for so long that it's all dusty.

answer: lain

D. [Blank] in the sun like that without sunscreen will give you a terrible sunburn.

answer: Lying

TOSSUP 15. It has replaced Toyota as the world's best-selling automobile brand because of strong sales of its non-diesel cars in China. Name this German firm whose admissions that it cheated on smog tests hasn't prevented record sales of its models like the Golf, the Passat [pa-SOT] and the Beetle.

answer: Volkswagen or VW

BONUS 15. Answer these about animals in novels by the late British author Richard Adams: A. Watership Down features a warren of these creatures.

answer: rabbits

B. Shardik is this kind of creature.

answer: bear

C. The title character of his novel Traveller was the horse of this U.S. Civil War general.

answer: Robert E. Lee

D. His novel The Plague [blank] is about two of these animals who escape from a building where they're the subject of cruel experiments.

answer: Dogs

TOSSUP 16. Its Blue Mountain Peak lets you see from one end to the other of this island nation surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and even lets you see Cuba on a clear day. Name this island nation, part of the Greater Antilles [an-TILL-eez], whose resort areas include Ocho Rios [o-cho REE-ose] and Montego [mon-TEE-go] Bay and whose capital is Kingston.

answer: Jamaica

BONUS 16. Pencils and paper ready! Answer these about number theory:

A. A "composite" number is an integer greater than 1 that is not prime. What is the smallest composite number?

answer: 4 (because 2 and 3 are prime)

B. The smallest "Carmichael number" is 561, which is divisible by this prime number because the sum of its digits is 12.

answer: 3 (because 12 is divisible by 3)

C. Give the other two factors of 561.

answer: 11 and 17

D. The smallest "Poulet number" is 341, which has these two prime factors.

answer: 11 and 31

TOSSUP 17. In 2016, this country's National Museum bought its Czartoryski art and music collection from the family that owned it for only about 5% of its estimated value. Name this European country where the National Museum is in the city of Krakow, about 4 hours south of Warsaw.

answer: Poland

BONUS 17. Answer these about the Czartoryski collection: QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

A. It includes this Renaissance artist's Lady With an Ermine, painted while he worked for the Duke of Milan.

answer: Leonardo da Vinci (accept either)

B. This Late Renaissance artist's Portrait of a Young Man was looted by the Nazis and has never been recovered; the Polish government gets it if it's ever found.

answer: Raphael Sanzio

C. This Dutchman's Landscape with the Good Samaritan was painted in 1638, a couple of years before his more famous The Night Watch.

answer: Rembrandt van Rijn

D. The collection even includes manuscripts by this Polish composer of the Minute Waltz.

answer: Frederic Chopin

TOSSUP 18. Name the process that, when using it to solve two equations in two unknowns, involves adding or subtracting the two equations and their multiples until either the X or the Y disappears.

answer: elimination (accept all forms of the word)

BONUS 18. Name these countries in the news:

A. Its Supreme Court announced that from now on, all moviegoers there must stand while the national anthem is played before the movie starts.

answer: India

B. U.N. Resolution 2334 condemns this country for building settlements on Palestinian territories occupied since 1967.

answer: Israel

C. This Asian country's female President Park Geun-Hye was impeached for corruption.

answer: South Korea

D. Pope Francis canonized a priest from this country where Pope Francis was born.

answer: Argentina

TOSSUP 19. Pictured in the medieval Bayeux Tapestry, it was studied when it came near Earth in 1986 and found to be basically "a dirty snowball." Name this astronomical body, the first to have its return date predicted in advance, that should again come within view of Earth in 2060 or 2061.

answer: Halley's Comet

BONUS 19. The HI-SEAS habitat built in this state is some 8,000 feet above sea level and located in an isolated area where its "crew" can practice space life before actually trying it out.

A. Name the state where the HI-SEAS habitat is located.

answer: HI is the postal abbreviation for Hawaii

B. The area around the habitat was chosen to look as much like this planet as possible.

answer: Mars

C. The habitat is located on one side of this volcano.

answer: Mauna Kea

D. The habitat is located on this island, often called the Big Island.

answer: the Big Island is also called Hawaii QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

TOSSUP 20. It got itself readmitted into the African Union in 2017, even though its neighbor Algeria voted against it and the status of its control over Western Sahara that caused it to leave the Union in the first place has not yet been agreed on. Name this country that borders both the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea and whose capital is Rabat [ra-BOT].

answer: Morocco

BONUS 20. Name these people who died in 2016: A. He played Snape in the Harry Potter movies.

answer: Alan Rickman

B. He played Chekov in the new Star Trek films.

answer: Anton Yelchin

C. She wrote To Kill a Mockingbird.

answer: Harper Lee

D. This TV reporter roamed NBA sidelines in his flashy sportcoats.

answer: Craig Sager

LIGHTNING ROUND 1. CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS

Name these Amendments from phrases they contain.

1) "No Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause" 4th

2) "The 18th…mendment to the Constitution is hereby repealed." 21st

3) "right of the people to keep and bear Arms" Second

4) The right of citizens…who are 18 years of age…o vote, shall not be denied or abridged" 26th

5) "the right of trial by jury shall be preserved" 7th

6) "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied…n account of sex." 19th

7) "Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes" 16th

8) "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion" First

9) "The term of the President…hall end at noon on the 20th day of January" 20th

10) "In case of the removal of the President from office…he Vice President shall become President."

25th QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

LIGHTNING ROUND 2. GEOMETRY

Pencils and paper will be helpful!

1) One-fourth of 180º 45º

2) Perimeter of a square with sides 15 inches 60 inches

3) The coordinates of (4, 1) after it is translated 6 units to the right (10, 1)

4) The coordinates of (4, 1) after it is reflected across the x-axis (4, -1)

5) The third angle of a triangle whose other two angles are 59º and 86º 35º

6) A "musical" line connecting any two points on a circle chord

7) Area of a triangle with base 16 and height 32 256 sq. units

8) Surface area of a cube with sides 10 inches 600 in2

9) Circumference of a semicircle with radius 12 12πunits

10) Shortest distance between the points (6, 10) and (9, 14) 5 units

LIGHTNING ROUND 3 –STARTS WITH E

1) Third number in a baseball line score, after runs and hits errors

2) What a couple does who runs away to get married quietly elope

3) What you hear when your yell bounces off the walls of a canyon echo

4) A single show within an entire season of a TV series episode

5) Completes the phrase "to [blank] his own" each

6) Adjective for a person somewhere between "unusual" and "crazy" eccentric 7) A musical piece performed after the official end of the concert encore

8) Abraham Lincoln statement that freed the slaves (2 words) Emancipation Proclamation 9) Only Baltic republic that fits the category Estonia

10) French term for German perfume made with alcohol (3 words) eau de cologne

END OF BASIC SET 13 QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

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BASIC SET 14

TOSSUPS/BONUSES

TOSSUP 1. Though confirmed to his current judgeship by a voice vote in the U.S. Senate, no one expects that to happen again when his name comes up before the Senate in the next few weeks. Name this Colorado judge, nominated by President Trump to fill the vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court.

answer: Neil Gorsuch

BONUS 1. One thing some people have against Neil Gorsuch is that his mother was a federal government official during the Reagan administration.

A. Give the first name of Neil's mother, who served for 4 years in the Colorado legislature.

answer: Anne Gorsuch

B. She was the first woman ever to run this agency.

answer: Environmental Protection Agency (or EPA)

C. This Oklahoma Attorney General is slated to become the new head of that agency.

answer: Scott Pruitt

D. Mrs. Gorsuch was cited for contempt of Congress for not turning over documents related to this federal program that helps clean up hazardous waste sites.

answer: Superfund

TOSSUP 2. Its characters include a police chief searching for a missing boy, as well as a young girl named Eleven who can move things with her mind. Name this Netflix series, set in Hawkins, Indiana, that tells of the search for 12-year-old Will Byers.

answer: Stranger Things

BONUS 2. Answer these about the Old Testament:

A. Joshua fought the battle of this city, and the walls came a-tumbling down.

answer: Jericho

B. Third book of the Torah

answer: Leviticus

C. This book follows Second Samuel.

answer: First Kings

D. This book tells the story of Haman and Mordecai.

answer: Esther

TOSSUP 3. Spell the word for a rock formation that hangs down from the ceiling of a cave.

answer: S-T-A-L-A-C-T-I-T-E (not stalagmite) QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

BONUS 3. Name the authors of these Pulitzer Prize-winning novels:

A. The Good Earth

answer: Pearl Buck

B. Gone With the Wind

answer: Margaret Mitchell

C. The Old Man and the Sea

answer: Ernest Hemingway

D. The Grapes of Wrath

answer: John Steinbeck

TOSSUP 4. Pencils and paper ready! A new elevator can travel 120 floors in one minute. If each floor is 10 feet tall, calculate the elevator's average speed in feet per second.

answer: 20 ft/sec (120 x 10/60)

BONUS 4. Pencils and paper ready! You have a quarter, a dime, a nickel and a penny in your pocket. What is the probability:

A. That the first coin you randomly pull from your pocket will be the penny?

answer: ¼ or 25% (1 of 4 coins)

B. In lowest fractional terms, that the first 2 coins you pull out will add up to exactly 15 cents?

answer: 1/6 [2 x (¼ x ⅓) = 2/12]

C. That the first 3 coins you pull out will total at least 25 cents?

answer: ¾ or 75% [24 possibilities; 6 do not have the quarter, so ¼ chance of less than 25 cents]

D. That pulling out all the coins will give you exactly 50 cents?

answer: zero (because the total is only 41 cents)

TOSSUP 5. In the Islamic world, he is known as "the Lawgiver" because of his legal reforms. He ordered the Dome of the Rock restored and the walls of Jerusalem rebuilt. Name this 16th-century Sultan of the Ottoman Empire who, today, is termed "the Magnificent."

answer: Suleiman [soo-LAY-mun] the Magnificent

BONUS 5. Answer these about Suleiman:

A. He went to school in this largest city of present-day Turkey.

answer: Istanbul

B. In his late twenties, after succeeding his father, he conquered this present-day capital of Serbia.

answer: Belgrade

C. In the last decades of his life, he also held this title as the head of the entire community of Islam.

answer: caliph

D. In 1529, he almost conquered this capital of Austria.

answer: Vienna

TOSSUP 6. The last two of its three movements are faster but less known than its first movement that uses slow sets of triplets. Give the common nickname of this 14th piano sonata by Beethoven whose music was compared by one critic to nighttime on Lake Lucerne.

answer: "Moonlight" Sonata (or Sonata #14 before it is read) QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

BONUS 6. Answer these about other works by Beethoven:

A. He put together a set of 25 folk songs from this country, including lyrics from Sir Walter Scott and Robert Burns.

answer: Scotland (25 Scottish Songs)

B. He wrote 9 of these long pieces with multiple movements.

answer: symphonies

C. He wrote 16 of these pieces for groups of 4 stringed instruments.

answer: string quartets

D. He wrote an oratorio about this religious figure on the Mount of Olives.

answer: Jesus Christ (accept either)

TOSSUP 7. Its name means "spewing" in Hawaiian because of its frequent eruptions. Name this volcano whose top contains the Hawaiian Volcanoes Observatory and where a large lava shelf recently fell away into the Pacific Ocean..

answer: Kilauea [kill-a-WAY-a]

BONUS 7. Answer these about businesses recently buying other businesses:

A. The online stock trading company Scottrade will be bought by this larger competitor.

answer: TD Ameritrade

B. This major company hopes to buy Time Warner.

answer: American Telephone & Telegraph (or AT&T)

C. Bass Pro Shops bought this rival in the outdoor retail world.

answer: Cabela's

D. This online maker of inexpensive razors was bought by Unilever.

answer: Dollar Shave Club

TOSSUP 8. Russian physicist Yuri Oganessian recently joined American scientist Glenn Seaborg as only the second man to get a chemical element named after him while he's still alive. Give the atomic number of the newly-named element "oganesson", currently the heaviest element in the Periodic Table.

answer: 118

BONUS 8. Answer these about other recent namesakes of chemical elements:

A. The element named for Seaborg has this 3-digit atomic number.

answer: 106

B. Element 111 is named for this German discoverer of X-rays.

answer: roentgenium

C. Element 113, nihonium, was discovered in this country whose name in its language can be pronounced "Nihon."

answer: Japan

D. Element 117 is named for this southeastern U.S. state.

answer: Tennessee

TOSSUP 9. Still the only former Speaker of the House ever to become President, he was a "dark horse" candidate for President after Democrats failed to get the ⅔vote needed to nominate Martin Van Buren. Name this Chief Executive who added New Mexico and California to the U.S. after the Mexican War.

answer: James K. Polk QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

BONUS 9. Answer these about the U.S. during Polk's years as President:

A. 26 years before Chicago's Great Fire, a Great Fire destroyed one-third of this Pennsylvania city in 1845.

answer: Pittsburgh, PA

B. The Treaty named for this U.S. state established the 49th Parallel as the boundary between the U.S. and Canada.

answer: Oregon

C. This former military hero won the 1848 presidential election to take Polk's place.

answer: Zachary Taylor

D. This largest city by population in Wisconsin was begun in 1845.

answer: Milwaukee

TOSSUP 10. He discovered that the freezing point of water stays the same regardless of latitude and the boiling point depends on local atmospheric pressure. What scientist's namesake temperature scale has been reversed from his original idea that zero should be the boiling point of water and 100 should be the freezing point ?

answer: Anders Celsius

BONUS 10. Answer these about the planet Venus:

A. In 1610, this Italian scientist documented the phases of Venus in the same year that he saw four moons of Jupiter.

answer: Galileo Galilei

B. The atmosphere of Venus is mostly carbon dioxide, with clouds of this strong acid mixed in for good measure.

answer: sulfuric acid or H2SO4

C. In 1970, this country's Venera 7 spacecraft was the first to land on Venus.

answer: Russia or Soviet Union or U.S.S.R. (accept equivalents)

D. The most recent U.S. spacecraft to fly by Venus was actually on its way to this planet.

answer: Mercury

TOSSUP 11. What blue precious gem's name describes the Jubilee associated with the 2017 celebration of Queen Elizabeth II's 65th anniversary on the British throne ?

answer: sapphire

BONUS 11. Spell these words listed as "commonly misspelled" in Strunk's original book The Elements of Style:

A. deceive [dee-SEEV], meaning "to lie"

answer: D-E-C-E-I-V-E

B. parallel [PAIR-a-lell], an adjective for 2 lines with the same slope

answer: P-A-R-A-L-L-E-L

C. shepherd [SHEP-urd], a person who tends sheep

answer: S-H-E-P-H-E-R-D

D. necessary [NESS-a-sair-ee], or needed

answer: N-E-C-E-S-S-A-R-Y QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

TOSSUP 12. One of its professional teams plays its home games in a baseball stadium named for former major leaguer Luis Aparicio [app-a-REE-see-o]. Name this South American country whose current Major League Baseball players include Detroit Tigers star Miguel Cabrera and Boston Red Sox third baseman Pablo Sandoval.

answer: Venezuela

BONUS 12. Pencils and paper ready! When the polynomial 5x2 + 8x + 2 is multiplied by the quantity

(2x – 3), the result is Ax3 + Bx2 + Cx + D. Give the values of:

A. A

answer: 10

B. B

answer: 1

C. C

answer: -20

D. D

answer: -6

TOSSUP 13. Its architects William Thornton and Benjamin Latrobe worked on this building in phases before it was nearly burned down during the War of 1812. Architects Charles Bulfinch, Thomas Walter and Frederic Law Olmsted later completed the inside and outside of—what building that now houses the Washington, D.C. chambers of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives ?

answer: the U.S. Capitol building (the White House was also burned but didn’t use those architects)

BONUS 13. The LDS Church has announced 4 more of its temples will be completed in 2017.

A. One is in this state's city of Tucson [TOO-sawn].

answer: Arizona

B. Another is in this Western state's city of Meridian.

answer: Idaho

C. The third is in this town that is home to Southern Utah University.

answer: Cedar City

D. The fourth is in this largest city in France.

answer: Paris

TOSSUP 14. When parents do it to their children, the parents hope not to see the children until tomorrow because they will be sleeping all night. Give this 3-word phrase that, in journalism, is what a newspaper or magazine editor does to an issue that is finally completed and ready to be printed and published for the masses.

answer: put to bed

BONUS 14. Answer these about American artist Grant Wood:

A. He is most famous today for this painting showing his sister and a local dentist.

answer: American Gothic

B. In the painting, the dentist is holding one of these.

answer: a pitchfork

C. Wood is considered part of this 1930’s American art movement that emphasized rural life.

answer: regionalism

D. Grant Wood’s name appears on the quarter coin of this Midwest state where he was born.

answer: Iowa QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

TOSSUP 15. The more than 60 plants that contain this chemical include the Yaupon holly, guaraná [gwa-ra-NA], yerba maté [ma-TAY] , the cacao bean and the kola nut. Name this stimulant, also found in coffee and many types of tea.

answer: caffeine [kaf-EEN]

BONUS 15. Identify these vitamins from the foods you should eat in order to get it:

A. kiwi fruit, oranges, strawberries

answer: Vitamin C

B. fish, milk, eggs

answer: Vitamin D

C. liver, sweet potatoes, apricots

answer: Vitamin A

D. sunflower seeds, almonds, peanuts

answer: Vitamin E

TOSSUP 16. In Chapter 35 of the novel about him, his best friend tells him, "You can get up the infant-schooliest ways of going at a thing. Why, hain't you ever read any books at all?" But of course, he hasn’t read many-- because his father’s a drunk and the Widow Douglas hasn’t succeeded in "civilizing" him yet. Name this title character of a Mark Twain novel who runs away with a slave named Jim.

answer: Huckleberry Finn

BONUS 16. Pencils and paper ready! Calculate the areas of these figures in square units, using πas needed:

A. A rectangle with base 13 and height 12

answer: 156 sq. units (13 x 12)

B. A triangle with base 6 and height 32

answer: 96 sq. units (½ x 6 x 32)

C. A circle with diameter 10

answer: 25πsq. units (πx 5 x 5)

D. A trapezoid with bases 10 and 8 and a height of 7

answer: 63 sq. units [7 x (10 + 8)/2]

TOSSUP 17. Less than 3 years after this company was purchased by Facebook, its CEO Palmer Luckey is on the hook for part of the $500 million owed in damages to ZeniMax, who has won a court case that Luckey used ZeniMax copyrights and trademarks without permission. Name this company whose most popular product is a virtual reality headset called the "Rift."

answer: Oculus [OCK-ya-luss]

BONUS 17. Name the common color of hair you’re hoping to get by using these Clairol hair colors:

A. Auburn or Dark Auburn

answer: red

B. Midnight or Ebony

answer: black

C. Ash, Champagne or Golden

answer: blonde (or yellow)

D. Light Caramel or Dark Caramel

answer: brown

TOSSUP 18. Pencils and paper ready! Give the result if x cubed, quantity, to the fifth power, is divided by x squared, quantity, to the fourth power. QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

answer: x to the seventh (x7) [(𝑥3)5(𝑥2)4= 𝑥15𝑥8 ]

BONUS 18. When he was running for President, he wanted to eliminate the federal Department he is now slated to head.

A. Name this former Governor of Texas.

answer: Rick Perry

B. Name the Department he is slated to run.

answer: Dept. of Energy

C. That Department runs this event popular with some quiz players.

answer: National Science Bowl

D. This scientist was President Obama's second-term Secretary of that Department.

answer: Ernest Moniz

TOSSUP 19. Two answers needed! As the patron saints of sailors, they are said to appear on the ocean as "St. Elmo’s fire." They rescued their sister Helen of Troy after Theseus [THEE-see-uss] took her. Identify these twin figures of myth whose names are used today for the brightest stars in the constellation Gemini.

answer: Castor and Pollux

BONUS 19. Pencils and paper ready! Tell how many liquid:

A. quarts are in a gallon

answer: 4

B. cups are in a pint

answer: 2

C. pints in a gallon

answer: 8

D. ounces are in a pint

answer: 16

TOSSUP 20. Pencils and paper ready! Given that the geometric mean of a pair of numbers is the square root of their product, what is the geometric mean of the numbers 4 and 25 ?

answer: 10 (square root of 100)

BONUS 20. Name these New England Patriots who helped them come back from a 28-3 deficit to win Super Bowl 51:

A. This receiver caught a pass just off the ground between three Falcons defenders.

answer: Julian Edelman

B. He threw the 2-point conversion that sent the game to overtime.

answer: Tom Brady

C. He caught the 2-point conversion that sent the game to overtime.

answer: Danny Amendola

D. He scored the winning touchdown in overtime.

answer: James White

LIGHTNING ROUNDS QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

1. BILLBOARD HOT 100 THIS WEEK

Name the singers of these hits on the Billboard charts.

1) "Shape of You" Ed Sheeran

2) "Fake Love" Drake

3) "Heathens" twenty one pilots

4) "Blue Ain't Your Color" Keith Urban

5) "Love on the Brain" Rihanna

6) "24K Magic" Bruno Mars

7) "Water Under the Bridge" Adele

8) "Can't Stop the Feeling!" Justin Timberlake

9) "Scars to Your Beautiful" Alessia Cara

10) "This Town" Niall Horan

2. WORLD CAPITALS

Name the capitals of these independent countries.

1) the Philippines Manila [ma-NILL-a]

2) Australia Canberra

3) Lebanon Beirut [bay-ROOT]

4) Romania Bucharest [BOO-ka-rest]

5) Denmark Copenhagen

6) Guyana Georgetown

7) Somalia Mogadishu [mo-ga-DEE-shoo]

8) Liberia Monrovia

9) Pakistan Islamabad [iz-LOM-a-bod]

10) Estonia Tallinn QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

3. STARTS WITH P

1) A piece of cloth to cover a hole in your jeans patch

2) Shoot this into the net to score a goal in hockey. puck

3) Set one of these in basketball by standing in front of an opponent. pick

4) Mr. Darcy’s estate in Pride and Prejudice Pemberley

5) Virginia Indian princess who became Mrs. John Rolfe Pocahontas

6) Adjective for a number equal to the sum of its factors perfect

7) Housekeeper and second mother to Dickens’ David Copperfield Clara Peggotty

8) Science branch that studies mechanics, electricity and quarks physics

9) The result of a multiplication problem product

10) To authors, a storyline; to math teachers, a graph; to undertakers, a burial place plot

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BASIC SET 15

TOSSUPS/BONUSES

TOSSUP 1. In 2004, he told the U.S. Senate during hearings for his current job that he would try to treat everyone with dignity and respect if confirmed as a federal judge. Name this Seattle district court judge who made headlines in February 2017 when he blocked President Trump's temporary ban on immigration from 7 Muslim countries.

answer: James Robart

BONUS 1. Name these Roman goddesses:

A. She was the Queen of the Gods.

answer: Juno

B. This equivalent of the Greek god Artemis was goddess of the moon and the hunt.

answer: Diana

C. This daughter of Jupiter was the goddess of wisdom.

answer: Minerva

D. She was the goddess of love and beauty.

answer: Venus

TOSSUP 2. It is often used to describe Jewish men who dress in black, wear a skullcap, grow a beard and study the Torah in depth. Give this adjective that, in religion, also describes the branch of the Catholic Church that broke off from the Roman Catholic Church and is most prevalent in Greece, Russia and most of the area in between.

answer: Orthodox (accept "Eastern Orthodox", but not "Eastern" by itself)

BONUS 2. Pencils and paper ready! A circle has a circumference of 72. In terms of π, what is the:

A. Circle’s diameter?

answer: 72/π(C = πd)

B. Circle’s radius?

answer: 36/π(half of radius)

C. Circle’s area?

answer: 1,296/π(A = πr2)

D. Area of each quadrant of the circle ?

answer: 324/π(¼ of the circle’s area)

TOSSUP 3. 2017 marks the 100th anniversary of this artist's death, an artist whose Philadelphia museum dedicated to his work calls itself "Paris on the Parkway." Name this French sculptor of The Gates of Hell and The Thinker.

answer: Auguste Rodin [ro-DAN] QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

BONUS 3. It ends with the death of the boy named Miles, who has been seeing ghosts along with his sister.

A. Name this classic ghost story, written in 1898.

answer: The Turn of the Screw

B. Name its American-born author who lived much of his life in England.

answer: Henry James

C. Give the name of Miles's sister.

answer: Flora

D. The ghosts are the late housekeeper Miss Jessel and this scary man who ran the house when he was alive.

answer: Peter Quint

TOSSUP 4. Made mostly of silicates and magnesium oxide, it is thought to have become solid after an "outgassing" process by which water left its interior along with lava. Identify this part of Earth that makes up more than 80% of its volume and separates the core from the crust.

answer: mantle

BONUS 4. Answer these questions from the naturalization self-test provided online by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services:

A. The person in this office serves as Commander in Chief of the U.S. military.

answer: the President of the U.S.

B. The House of Representatives has this number of voting members.

answer: 435

C. The Civil War was fought in this century.

answer: 1800’s or 19th century

D. This is the total number of Amendments to the Constitution.

answer: 27

TOSSUP 5. This branch of government includes all commissions whose leaders are appointed by the U.S. President. It also includes the White House Press Secretary's Office and the members of the President's Cabinet. Name this branch of the federal government that is currently supervised by Donald Trump.

answer: executive branch

BONUS 5. Answer these about the Dalai Lama: A. The person in that office is high-ranking in this religion.

answer: Buddhism

B. At one point before 1959, the Dalai Lama was an official in this small Asian country’s government.

answer: Tibet

C. After the Chinese took over that country in 1959, that country’s government went into exile in this large Asian country.

answer: India

D. The Dalai Lama won the Nobel Peace Prize in this year when the Berlin Wall fell down.

answer: 1989 QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

TOSSUP 6. After rushing for more than 5,000 yards at TCU, he spent 11 years in the pros. His NFL records include being the fastest ever to reach the 15,000-yard mark and the most touchdowns in a single season during his heyday with the San Diego Chargers. Identify this star running back, elected in 2017 to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, whose nickname is his initials L.T.

answer: LaDainian Tomlinson

BONUS 6. Name these others elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2017:

A. He owns the Dallas Cowboys.

answer: Jerry Jones

B. He won a Super Bowl quarterbacking the St. Louis Rams and was the first man to throw for 300 yards in each of three Super Bowls.

answer: Kurt Warner

C. This native of Denmark holds NFL records for most career points and most career field goals.

answer: Morten Andersen

D. This Denver Broncos running back retired early because of knee issues that are probably fixable today.

answer: Terrell Davis

TOSSUP 7. Pencils and paper ready! Give the measure of each interior angle of a hexagon.

answer: 120º [180 x 4/6]

BONUS 7. Spell these words that have won past National Spelling Bees:

A. fracas [FRAY-kuss, or fra-CAW], a loud argument

answer: F-R-A-C-A-S

B. catamaran [CAT-a-ma-ran], a boat with two hulls

answer: C-A-T-A-M-A-R-A-N

C. staphylococci [staff-a-la-KOCK-eye], the plural form of a type of dangerous bacteria

answer: S-T-A-P-H-Y-L-O-C-O-C-C-I

D. luge [LOOZH], a Winter Olympic event where you ride a sled downhill on your back.

answer: L-U-G-E

TOSSUP 8. The African variety of this bird sounds like a donkey, has black feet, and lives off the coast of South Africa and Namibia, where water temperatures are far warmer than what many of this bird's other species are used to. Name this flightless bird whose other species include the Humboldt and the Emperor and are generally only black and white.

answer: penguin

BONUS 8. Give these astronomical terms:

A. A point in a planet’s orbit where day and night are exactly the same length.

answer: equinox

B. The light that results from entry into Earth's atmosphere of a solid mass from space

answer: meteor (or shooting star)

C. The ratio of the light reflected from a planet to the light actually shining on that planet

answer: albedo [al-BEE-doe]

D. This 2-word term is the brightness of an object as it appears from a fixed distance.

answer: absolute magnitude QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

TOSSUP 9. This city will open a mosque in 2017 for the first time since it drove out the Ottoman Empire in 1833. Name this European capital where the mosque, once planned to open in time for the 2004 Summer Olympics, has drawn criticism for its cost in a time of ongoing economic crisis and for perhaps encouraging Muslims to emigrate there from neighboring Turkey.

answer: Athens, Greece

BONUS 9. Social Democrat politician Frank-Walter Sternmeier is its new President-elect as of February 2017.

A. Name this European country.

answer: Germany

B. Sternmeier's job is similar to that of this U.S. Cabinet post, as he "concludes treaties with foreign states on its behalf and accredits diplomats."

answer: Secretary of State

C. This is the minimum age for German Presidents, 5 years older than the minimum for U.S. Presidents.

answer: 40

D. This woman is the current Chancellor of Germany.

answer: Angela Merkel

TOSSUP 10. Yale University will soon drop the name of this 19th-century legislator from one of its residential colleges because of "his legacy as an ardent supporter of slavery as a positive good." Name this U.S. Senator from South Carolina, famous for his defense of states' rights, who served as Vice-President under both John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson.

answer: John C. Calhoun

BONUS 10. Name these actors who have come on Saturday Night Live to make fun of Donald Trump and his staff:

A. He says he'll stop playing Trump if Trump releases his tax returns.

answer: Alec Baldwin

B. This actress plays both Hillary Clinton and Trump's advisor Kellyanne Conway.

answer: Kate McKinnon

C. This actress plays Trump's press secretary Sean Spicer.

answer: Melissa McCarthy

D. This TV talk show host has volunteered to come on and play Trump's adviser Steve Bannon.

answer: Rosie O'Donnell

TOSSUP 11. This country's female presidential candidate Marine Le Pen [pan] has a 144-point plan to make her country great again, includes leaving both NATO and the European Union and banning signs of religious belief in all public places to help combat radical Islam. Name this country, currently in its Fifth Republic.

answer: France QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

BONUS 11. Name the component software package within Microsoft Office that’s designed to let you:

A. Make slides for a business presentation.

answer: PowerPoint

B. Read your e-mail and keep your calendar straight.

answer: Outlook

C. Create a database.

answer: Access

D. (if you buy the Professional Edition) be part of a group, share your words and pictures with others, and save them to the Internet.

answer: OneNote

TOSSUP 12. Pencils and paper ready! Solve for T in the equation 𝑻𝟕𝟏𝟐= 𝟑𝑻−𝟓𝟏𝟎.

answer: T = 5 (cross-multiply to get 10T + 70 = 36T – 60)

BONUS 12. Four of the main animal habitats in Georgia are the mountains, the coast, the swamp and the Piedmont. Tell in which habitat you’d be most likely to see:

A. a duck

answer: Piedmont

B. an alligator

answer: swamp

C. a seagull

answer: coast

D. a black bear

answer: mountains

TOSSUP 13. This singer's album I Make the Static wasn't doing much on the charts until she ditched the see-through dresses she'd worn for past Grammy Award ceremonies and made a more political statement with her dress for the 2017 Grammys. Name this singer whose dress that said "Make America Great Again" and "Trump" helped move her album to #1 in Amazon downloads.

answer: Joy Villa

BONUS 13. Name these 2017 Grammy Award winners:

A. She won Best Urban Contemporary Album for "Lemonade."

answer: Beyoncé

B. This rapper won for Best New Artist and for Best Rap Performance.

answer: Chance the Rapper

C. This group won Best Rock Album for Tell Me I'm Pretty.

answer: Cage the Elephant

D. This country star wrote the winning "American Roots" song "Kid Sister."

answer: Vince Gill

TOSSUP 14. Trumpet great Dizzy Gillespie, known for his bell that pointed up at a 45° angle, teamed with Charlie Parker to create the style of music known as "bebop" that is a form of—what other musical genre that became popular in America in the early 1900's ?

answer: jazz QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

BONUS 14. Name these Meso-American civilizations:

A. This group in what is now Mexico spoke the Nahuatl [na-WOT-ul] language.

answer: Aztecs

B. They created the only known fully developed written language in Mesoamerica.

answer: Mayans [MY-a]

C. They are famed for their creation of huge stone heads similar to those on Easter Island.

answer: Olmecs

D. Its capital city was Tula, part of present-day Mexico.

answer: Toltecs

TOSSUP 15. The cavesqueaker species of this animal was found again in Zimbabwe in 2017 after, presumably, hiding in mountain caves and not squeaking near humans for more than 50 years. Name this common amphibian whose other species include African bull, green poison and warty tree.

answer: frog

BONUS 15. Answer these about recent events in science:

A. This country's Shenzhou 11 space mission sent two taikonauts to its Tiangong-2 space station.

answer: China

B. The experimental rVSV-ZEBOV vaccine gives hope that this deadly Africa virus may be preventable .

answer: Ebola virus

C. How much time was added onto the end of December 31, 2016 to compensate for a slowdown in Earth's rotation ?

answer: a leap second was added

D. Japanese scientists have developed a drone form of this insect that can pollinate flowers.

answer: bee

TOSSUP 16. Pencils and paper ready! The energy of a photon in electron-volts is approximately equal to 1.24, divided by the wavelength of the photon in micrometers. In micrometers, what is the approximate wavelength of a photon with an energy of 6.20 electron-volts?

answer: 0.2 (or 1/5) micrometer (E = 1.24 / λ so 6.20 = 1.24/ λand λ= 1.24/6.20 = 0.2)

BONUS 16. February 2017 saw three astronomical events on the same weekend, including a full moon.

A. The full moon in February has this nickname from the precipitation that often falls then.

answer: snow moon

B. The second event was this type of lunar eclipse in which the moon only moves through the outer part of Earth's shadow.

answer: penumbral [pa-NUM-brull] lunar eclipse

C. This comet came within 7 million miles of Earth; if you missed it, it will be back in 5 years.

answer: Comet 45P

D. The letter in the name of that comet is the first letter of this word that means the comet comes back one a regular schedule.

answer: periodic

TOSSUP 17. This second of two books written to Theophilus [thee-AW-fa-luss] tells of the gift of tongues given on the day of Pentecost, as well as the apostle Paul's three missionary journeys and his preaching in Rome. Name this first New Testament book after the four gospels.

answer: The Acts of the Apostles

BONUS 17. Identify these popular Christmas songs from their lyrics: QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

A. "Sleigh bells ring, are you listening…

answer: Winter Wonderland

B. "Oh, the weather outside is frightful…

answer: Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow!

C. "Come they told me, pa rum pum pum pum"

answer: The Little Drummer Boy

D. "Peace on earth and mercy mild, God and sinners reconciled"

answer: Hark, the Herald Angels Sing!

TOSSUP 18. Pencils and paper ready! Two pork roasts in the same crock pot weigh 2 pounds, 7 ounces and 3 pounds, 11 ounces. How much meat is in the crock pot ?

answer: 6 pounds, 2 ounces [one pound = 16 ounces]

BONUS 18. Pencils and paper ready! To the nearest integer, give the number of:

A. miles in 13 kilometers

answer: 8 (1 mile = 1.6 kilometers)

B. liters in 5 gallons

answer: 19 (1 gal = 3.8 liters)

C. pounds in 20 kilograms

answer: 9 (1 kg = 2.2 lbs.)

D. yards in 100 meters

answer: 110 (1 m = 0.91 yds)

TOSSUP 19. His biography on the Nobel Prize website tells of his stay in Paris during the 1920’s and his reporting on the Spanish Civil War in the 1930’s. Name this American author of The Sun Also Rises and the novella The Old Man and the Sea.

answer: Ernest Hemingway

BONUS 19. Answer these about the Pergamon Museum in Berlin, Germany:

A. One of its smaller museums is dedicated to art of this religion.

answer: Museum of Islamic Art

B. Its Middle East Museum contains this ancient civilization’s Ishtar Gate and the throne room facade of its King Nebuchadnezzar [neb-a-ca-NEZ-zur].

answer: Babylonia

C. Some objects originally in the Pergamon are now in the Pushkin Museum in this European capital.

answer: Moscow, Russia

D. Some of the Tell Halaf statues destroyed during World War II are now restored and on display in the Pergamon; the rest are in this Middle Eastern nation’s museum in the city of Aleppo.

answer: Syria

TOSSUP 20. This state's new Bears Ears National Monument was welcomed by a coalition of local Indian tribes that include Navajo, Hopi and Pueblo. Name this state whose other National Monuments include Pipe Springs, on its border with Arizona, and Dinosaur, on its border with Colorado.

answer: Utah QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

BONUS 20. It tells of a koala bear named Buster who holds a contest to try to save his theater from closing.

A. Name this 2016 computer-animated movie featuring dozens of songs by famous recording artists.

answer: Sing

B. This actor is the voice of Buster.

answer: Matthew McConaughey [ma-KON-a-hay]

C. This pig in the movie who has 25 piglets sings the song "Shake It Off."

answer: Rosita

D. In the end, the character Meena sings this blind singer's hit "Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing."

answer: Stevie Wonder

LIGHTNING ROUND 1. AFRICAN MAMMALS

Name these mammals from descriptions by South Africa's Kruger National Park.

1) "Easily recognized by…he horns on their forehead" rhinoceros

2) "The largest land mammal; males can grow up to 4 meters tall." elephant

3) This striped animal has a Plains species and a Mountain species. zebra

4) This "ultimate predator plays a big role in the decline in cheetah population." lion

5) It is "often seen nipping in to steal a morsel from lions on a kill." jackal

6) "Its…ngainly walk [and] eerie call have earned the spotted [blank] a bad reputation." hyena

7) "The handsome Sable [blank] is the national animal of Zimbabwe." antelope

8) "Often confused with the cheetah, it is easily recognized by its panther-like features." leopard

9) "The smaller primates of Africa include baboons and [these]." monkeys

10) "The honey [blank] has been known to attack lions and buffalo when threatened." badger QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

LIGHTNING ROUND 2. THE NBA

Name these National Basketball Association teams from their head coaches as of February 15, 2017.

1) Greg Popovich [POP-a-vitch] San Antonio or Spurs

2) Steve Kerr Golden State or Warriors

3) Billy Donovan Oklahoma City or Thunder

4) Brad Stevens Boston or Celtics

5) Erik Spoelstra [SPOLE-stra] Miami or Heat

6) Fred Hoiberg Chicago or Bulls

7) Jason Kidd Milwaukee or Bucks

8) Mike D'Antoni Houston or Rockets

9) Quin Snyder Utah or Jazz

10) Jeff Hornacek New York or Knicks or Knickerbockers

LIGHTNING ROUND 3 –STARTS WITH R

1) Actors Pattinson, De Niro or Redford, for example Roberts

2) A parent, child or uncle, for example relative

3) The difference between smallest and largest in a data set range

4) Old sitcom: Everybody Loves [blank] Raymond

5) Month-long period when Muslims fast during the day Ramadan

6) Alex Haley book about Kunta Kinte [KOON-ta kin-TAY] Roots

7) An angle between 180 and 360 degrees reflex angle

8) Taking something back after the buyer doesn’t make payments repossession

9) Something that's very popular, or a sudden huge fit of anger rage

10) Object rolled out for guests, or for Oscar hopefuls to walk on (2 words) red carpet

END OF BASIC SET 15 QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

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BASIC SET 16

TOSSUPS/BONUSES

TOSSUP 1. Located on the Feather River, this tallest dam in the U.S. was designed to withstand the largest possible earthquake. But its recent issues have been caused by heavy rains that damaged its spillway, causing the evacuation of thousands in case this dam totally fails. Identify this dam, named for the California town to its west.

answer: Oroville Dam

BONUS 1. Answer these about other dams that have failed:

A. Several dams in this country were destroyed by the Allies in 1943 as part of Operation Chastise.

answer: Germany

B. The largest human casualties from a dam failure came in 1975 when Typhoon Nina's rains destroyed this country's Banqiao [bonk-yow] Reservoir Dam.

answer: China

C. When the Teton [TEE-tawn] Dam broke in this U.S. state in 1976, very few people died—but thousands of cattle did.

answer: Idaho

D. The Doñana [doe-NON-ya] dam in this country failed in 1988, spilling mine dirt into the Agrio [OG-ree-o] River.

answer: Spain

TOSSUP 2. After 14 years in the British Navy, he was given his own ship in 1769 to sail into the Southern Hemisphere and watch the transit of Venus across the Sun from what is now Tahiti. Name this explorer who became the first Westerner to see the east coast of what is now Australia in his ship HMS Endeavour.

answer: Captain James Cook

BONUS 2. Answer these about the voyages of Captain Cook:

A. His first voyage in 1768 was commissioned by this British king.

answer: King George III

B. His name for the east coast of what is now Australia was this 3-word term, now the Australian state whose capital is Sydney.

answer: New South Wales

C. He visited what is now this country twice; the strait named for him there separates its North Island and South Island.

answer: New Zealand

D. His final voyage included exploration of what is now this U.S. state, where he was killed in 1779.

answer: Hawaii QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

TOSSUP 3. The French mathematician Pascal created the formula to find all of this theorem's coefficients and put them in the shape of a triangle. Identify this theorem whose name can also be used to describe the expressions "6x + 5" or "8x – 27."

answer: binomial theorem

BONUS 3. Pencils and paper ready! Each answer has 3 digits.

A. Six factorial

answer: 720

B. Third angle of an isosceles triangle with two angles that are 34º

answer: 112º

C. One-fifth of 2,630

answer: 526

D. Least common multiple of 13 and 17

answer: 221

TOSSUP 4. It begins a year after the series to which it is a sequel and shows Donald Trump's inauguration so bothering its main character that she would leave the U.S. if she hadn't just lost all her savings. Name this sequel to the TV series The Good Wife, now only available on the CBS All Access channel, that features Christine Baranski's character Diane Lockhart.

answer: The Good Fight

BONUS 4. Answer these about galaxies:

A. This type that includes the Milky Way shares its name with what a perfectly-thrown football looks like.

answer: spiral galaxy

B. This type of galaxy looks like an oval.

answer: elliptical galaxy

C. This adjective describes galaxies that don’t fit any real type and may have a funny shape.

answer: irregular galaxies

D. Galaxies are mostly made of this material we can’t really see from Earth—hence its name.

answer: dark matter

TOSSUP 5. His home town of Aberdeen, Washington has the title of his song "Come As You Are" on the signs entering town. He would have celebrated his 50th birthday in February 2017 had he not become a drug addict and then died in 1994. Name this rock musician who was the lead singer of the "grunge" band Nirvana.

answer: Kurt Cobain QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

BONUS 5. Give these terms from their definitions by architecturaltrust.org:

A. "A slender, pointed construction atop a building, often a church"

answer: spire

B. "The inclined, sloping framing members of a roof, and to which the roof covering is affixed"

answer: rafters

C. "A garden structure built up over a path or narrow terrace, lined with evenly spaced columns or posts that support a wooden-framed roof without sheathing"

answer: pergola [PUR-ga-la]

D. "A platform that projects from the wall of a building, and which is enclosed on its outer three sides by a …ailing"

answer: balcony

TOSSUP 6. Types of this health issue include "subcapsular", "nuclear" and "cortical", all of which involve problems with the lens of the eye. Give the term for this eye condition, often treated today with a brief surgery that replaces your cloudy lens with an artificial lens.

answer: cataracts

BONUS 6. A project to teach cataract surgery and laser surgery to doctors in Africa is one of the last 8 projects that may receive a $100 million grant from the MacArthur Foundation.

A. The Sesame Workshop wants to use these well-known characters to help teach refugee children.

answer: the Muppets

B. This small private Texas college wants to improve newborn survival in Africa.

answer: Rice Univ.

C. The Carter Center's project is trying to eradicate river blindness in this populous West African country where river blindness is a huge problem.

answer: Nigeria

D. The Internet Archive would like to digitize 4 million of these objects to improve education.

answer: books

TOSSUP 7. Pencils and paper ready! Two answers needed! Draw two horizontal parallel lines, with line AB above line CD. Add a transversal line that crosses AB at point F and CD at point G. Now give the two pairs of alternate interior angles in the picture you drew.

answer: AFG and FGD and BFG and FGC (accept clear equivalents)

BONUS 7. Barack Obama ranked 12th in a recent C-SPAN poll about U.S. Presidents.

A. The bottom of the list is still this predecessor of Abraham Lincoln who didn't prevent the Civil War.

answer: James Buchanan

B. The second-to-bottom is this successor of Lincoln, who was impeached and almost removed from office.

answer: Andrew Johnson (first name/initial needed)

C. After Lincoln, George Washington and the two Roosevelts, this 20th-century President is fifth.

answer: Dwight D. Eisenhower

D. This President that preceded Eisenhower was sixth.

answer: Harry S Truman QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

TOSSUP 8. The Philippines are on its eastern side, while Malaysia forms much of its southern border and Vietnam borders this body of water on the west. Identify this arm of the Pacific Ocean that includes the Spratly Islands and is named for the largest country to border it.

answer: South China Sea

BONUS 8. Answer these from earth science:

A. The dirt and rocks left behind by a moving glacier

answer: moraine

B. A mound rising off the floor of a cave

answer: stalagmite

C. The large area of land drained by a river

answer: watershed

D. Six-letter word for how brilliant or dull a mineral looks

answer: luster

TOSSUP 9. In the early 1700's, before he made it big as an author of adventure novels, he wrote political pamphlets. In the years after those novels, he wrote the non-fiction work The Complete English Tradesman. Name this creator of the fictional characters Colonel Jack, Roxana and Robinson Crusoe.

answer: Daniel DeFoe

BONUS 9. Answer these about works by Daniel DeFoe: A. This friend of Robinson Crusoe is named for a day of the week.

answer: Friday

B. DeFoe's novel detailing the year 1665 tells of an epidemic of this disease.

answer: bubonic plague (or Black Death)

C. This title character accidentally marries her own brother.

answer: Moll Flanders

D. DeFoe's character Captain Singleton had this nefarious profession.

answer: pirate

TOSSUP 10. Name the 17th-century Dutchman who spent his whole life in the city of Delft and is famed for his paintings of middle-class life that include The Procuress, Officer With a Laughing Girl, and Girl With a Pearl Earring.

answer: Johannes (or Jan) Vermeer

BONUS 10. Give these words with multiple meanings:

A. Very lean and thin, or an extra tire under your car

answer: spare

B. A very specific object within a group, or the state of being totally sure you're right

answer: certain

C. A small group of people, or a group of people you invite to your house for dinner, or a group of people who start a business together

answer: company

D. A shoemaker, or a dessert made of fruit covered with biscuit pieces

answer: cobbler QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

TOSSUP 11. Pencils and paper ready! Give the equation of the line, in slope-intercept form, that is parallel to the line y – 4x + 5 = 0 and contains the point (⅔, 3).

answer: y = 4x + ⅓(y = 4x – 5, so slope must be 4. Thus, y = 4x + b)

BONUS 11. A province in the Republic of Vanuatu [von-oo-AW-too] has announced plans to ban all imported food in hopes of reducing the costs of obesity and diabetes.

A. This city is Vanuatu's capital.

answer: Port-Vila

B. This largest island in the country is named for the Spanish phrase "Holy Spirit."

answer: Espiritu Santo

C. Another island in the country shares its name with this Christian term for the 7th Sunday after Easter.

answer: Pentecost

D. When Vanuatu was ruled jointly by these two countries, it was called the New Hebrides [HEB-ra-deez].

answer: England and France

TOSSUP 12. The late Norma McCorvey was pregnant with her third child, whom she gave up for adoption, when she agreed to use an assumed name and be the plaintiff in a lawsuit against the Dallas County District Attorney that became—what 1973 case that ended with the Supreme Court supporting the right to abortion ?

answer: Roe v. Wade

BONUS 12. Pencils and paper ready! The state of Colorado has a budget that includes three-twentieths for pensions, 24% for health care, one-fourth for education, and $7.2 billion for everything else.

A. What is Colorado’s total budget for the year?

answer: $20 billion (0.36x = 7.2 billion)

B. How much will be spent on pensions?

answer: $3 billion

C. How much will be spent on health care?

answer: $4.8 billion

D. How much will be spent on education?

answer: $5 billion

TOSSUP 13. In the Old Testament, it is the number of elders Moses was told to gather in front of the congregation. In the New Testament, it was the number of men Jesus ordained to go out in pairs and help the twelve apostles preach the gospel. Give this two-digit number that Jesus also used when the apostles asked him how often they had to forgive people.

answer: 70 (70 times 7)

BONUS 13. Name these Broadway musicals from their songs:

A. "Doin’ What Comes Naturally" and "I Got the Sun in the Morning"

answer: Annie Get Your Gun

B. "Defying Gravity" and "The Wizard and I"

answer: Wicked

C. "Goodnight My Someone" and "76 Trombones"

answer: The Music Man

D. "Chim Chim Cheree" and "A Spoonful of Sugar"

answer: Mary Poppins QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

TOSSUP 14. Until 2017, he held the record for points scored in an NBA All-Star Game with 42. Name this former Philadelphia 76er and Los Angeles Laker who still holds the single-game NBA scoring record of 100 points.

answer: Wilt Chamberlain

BONUS 14. At the 2017 NBA All-Star Game, Wilt's record was broken when one player for the West scored 52 points.

A. Name this New Orleans Pelicans star.

answer: Anthony Davis

B. The West averaged 48 points per quarter, scoring this total number of points.

answer: 192

C. This player for the West actually laid down on the floor during one fast break and watched his opponent dunk the ball.

answer: Stephen Curry

D. The losing East team got 30 points from Giannis Antetokounmpo [YAH-nuss aw-da-toe-KOON-boe], who plays for this team.

answer: Milwaukee or Bucks

TOSSUP 15. This property of a verb refers to whether the subject of a sentence is acting on or being acted on by the verb. Give this grammatical property whose types are "active" and "passive."

answer: voice

BONUS 15. Answer these about Thomas Jefferson: A. His gravestone calls him, "Author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the statute of Virginia for religious freedom, and Father of " this.

answer: the University of Virginia

B. He bought this from France for $15 million.

answer: the Louisiana Purchase

C. In 1962, this President told a group of Nobel Prize winners, "I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."

answer: John Kennedy

D. The Jefferson Memorial says, "I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of [this] over the mind of man."

answer: tyranny

TOSSUP 16. He heard his 4th and final Symphony played by the Vienna Philharmonic just weeks before he died. Name this German Romantic composer of the Academic Festival Overture, famed for his relationship with Robert Schumann’s wife Clara and for his famous lullaby.

answer: Johannes Brahms QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

BONUS 16. I'll name a function; you name the organelle within an individual cell that generally performs that function:

A. They contain the enzymes necessary for digestion.

answer: lysosome

B. They create the ATP needed to power the cell.

answer: mitochondria

C. This one makes proteins.

answer: ribosomes

D. This organelle within the nucleus stores RNA.

answer: nucleolus [noo-klee-O-luss]

TOSSUP 17. What term that can describe "any space with absolutely no matter in it" also describes a machine that can suck the dirt out of your carpet ?

answer: vacuum

BONUS 17. Pencils and paper ready! One base of a trapezoid is 6 inches longer than the other base. Each non-parallel side is 10 inches long.

A. How long is the short base if the perimeter is 42 inches ?

answer: 8 inches (2x + 6 + 20 = 42)

B. How long is the longer base ?

answer: 14 inches (8 + 6)

C. Give the area of the trapezoid if the altitude is 9 inches.

answer: 99 in2 [9 x (8 + 14)/2]

D. That area is the same as a rectangle with altitude 9 inches and base this length.

answer: 11 inches

TOSSUP 18. As President, he ordered the Justice Department and IRS to go after Al Capone for tax evasion. Name this former Chief Executive whose term in office saw both the stock market crash of 1929 and the beginning of the Great Depression.

answer: Herbert Hoover

BONUS 18. Answer these about Jewish holidays that involve the Old Testament:

A. Passover celebrates the Israelites leaving Egypt under direction of this prophet.

answer: Moses

B. Sukkot [SOO-coat] celebrates this amount of time that the Israelites wandered in the desert after leaving Egypt.

answer: 40 years

C. Purim celebrates this queen’s successful campaign to save the Jews from extermination at the hands of Haman.

answer: Esther

D. The day of Tisha B’Av often includes the reading of the book of Lamentations, written by this prophet.

answer: Jeremiah

TOSSUP 19. The dissolving of rock in this type of landscape may create sinkholes, sinking streams and caves. Give this 5-letter geology term that comes from a Slavic word for "barren ground" and is often seen in limestone that has been eroded by water over time.

answer: karst

BONUS 19. Name the cities where you’d find these National Hockey League teams:

A. the Rangers QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

answer: New York City

B. the Predators

answer: Nashville, TN

C. the Canucks [ca-NUX]

answer: Vancouver, BC, Canada

D. the Senators

answer: Ottawa, ONT, Canada

TOSSUP 20. After World War II, its tokens included a hat, a dog, a cannon, a wheelbarrow, a car and an iron. Name this classic game that, as of 2017, will take voters' advice and remove the "thimble" token so it can no longer pass GO! and collect $200.

answer: Monopoly

BONUS 20. Answer these about photographs in the 2017 World Press Photos of the Year contest:

A. One winner was a picture of the policeman from this country who shot the Russian ambassador to that country in the back in 2016 to protest Russian involvement in Syria's civil war.

answer: Turkey

B. Third prize was a picture of 2 Nigerian women in a refugee camp in this north African country, hoping to cross the Mediterranean Sea into Europe.

answer: Libya

C. Another winner showed 2 children outside a house in this city, searched by Iraqi Special Forces who were looking for ISIS members there as part of an effort to retake the city.

answer: Mosul

D. One photo showed an overcrowded jail in Quezon City in this Asian island nation.

answer: the Philippines QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

LIGHTNING ROUND 1 – EUROPEAN HISTORY

1) The middle of the 1400's saw this Gutenberg invention. printing press

2) This Italian wrote The Prince. Niccolo Machiavelli

3) This long conflict ended in 1648. Thirty Years' War

4) That conflict ended with this peace agreement. Peace of Westphalia

5) This country's revolution executed King Louis XVI in 1793. France

6) In 1815, he met his Waterloo. Napoleon Bonaparte

7) She took the British throne in 1837. Queen Victoria

8) The Dutch and British both had major trading companies in this country. India

9) 1914 saw this armed conflict. World War I

10) His World War I novel is called All Quiet on the Western Front. Erich Maria Remarque

LIGHTNING ROUND 2. NEW WORDS IN MERRIAM-WEBSTER

Answer these about words or phrases added to Merriam Webster's online dictionary as of February 2017.

1) The front passenger in a car rides in this position. ride shotgun

2) To throw this at someone, you insult them indirectly. throw shade

3) The area in the rear of a van or SUV wayback

4) The acronym EVOO describes this type of olive oil. extra-virgin olive oil

5) Arancini [air-un-CHEE-nee] are edible balls made of this grain. rice

6) The area between a goalie's legs where a hockey goal may be scored five-hole

7) A shot at the basket that misses the basket and backboard entirely airball

8) Term for software no longer made or supported by its original maker abandonware

9) The acronym NSFW means that something online is not suitable to be seen in this location.

not suitable for work

10) Elvish and Klingon are both "conlangs", a word made from these 2 longer words.

constructed languages QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

LIGHTNING ROUND 3 –STARTS WITH R

1) Type of bread that often includes caraway seeds rye

2) Emerson, Fiennes and Lauren, for example Ralphs

3) Area around the outside of a glass or basketball hoop rim

4) Greek island, home to the ancient Colossus statue Rhodes

5) Type of potato, brown in color Russet

6) Three in the division problem "35 divided by 8" remainder

7) Letter of the Greek alphabet usually written as R rho

8) Rob and Bobby are nicknames for this first name. Robert

9) Unit of Brazilian currency real [ray-AWL]

10) Squirrel of Norse mythology Ratatosk

END OF BASIC SET 16 QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

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BASIC SET 17

TOSSUPS/BONUSES

TOSSUP 1. This former Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights served as Labor Secretary during President Obama's second term. Name this man who defeated Keith Ellison in February 2017 to become the first Hispanic leader of the Democrat National Committee.

answer: Thomas Perez

BONUS 1. The 2017 Academy Awards had a fiasco when it came to announcing Best Picture.

A. This actor was given the wrong envelope, and thus the wrong film was first read as the winner.

answer: Warren Beatty

B. That film was read out loud by this actress who was on the stage with him.

answer: Faye Dunaway

C. The makers of this film thought they won…

answer: La La Land

D. …nly to be told this film was actually voted Best Picture.

answer: Moonlight

TOSSUP 2. Scientists studying this body of water have found the vestiges of a continent they call "Mauritia" [ma-RISH-a] because it was found under the island nation of Mauritius. Name this body of water that stretches between South Africa and Australia.

answer: Indian Ocean

BONUS 2. Pencils and paper ready! Each of these answers has 3 digits:

A. 17/18 of a circle, in degrees

answer: 340

B. Two to the ninth power

answer: 512

C. Number of minutes in 13 ½ hours

answer: 810

D. 200π to the nearest integer

answer: 628

TOSSUP 3. Since graduating with an economics degree in 1981, he has spent nearly his entire career in the office of the National Football League, including the last 11 years in his current job that included shutting down the NFL's European league and adding a personal conduct policy for players. Name this current Commissioner of the NFL.

answer: Roger Goodell QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

BONUS 3. Name these Secretaries of State who later became U.S. President:

A. He supervised the Louisiana Purchase under Thomas Jefferson's direction.

answer: James Madison

B. He was Secretary of State after serving as Minister to Russia but before serving as President and as a Massachusetts Congressman.

answer: John Quincy Adams (ensure John Adams is not meant)

C. He was Andrew Jackson's Secretary of State before becoming his Vice-President.

answer: Martin Van Buren

D. His namesake Doctrine, created while he was President, was later modified by Teddy Roosevelt.

answer: James Madison

TOSSUP 4. A football defender who yanks on his opponent’s face mask right in front of the referee commits an egregious [egg-GREE-juss], or obvious, penalty. Spell the word "egregious."

answer: E-G-R-E-G-I-O-U-S

BONUS 4. Give the correct spellings of these words on a list of the most important to know for the SAT:

A. uncouth [un-COOTH], meaning "crude" or "unmannerly"

answer: U-N-C-O-U-T-H

B. clandestine [clan-DES-tun], meaning "secret"

answer: C-L-A-N-D-E-S-T-I-N-E

C. hackneyed [HACK-need], meaning "common and boring"

answer: H-A-C-K-N-E-Y-E-D

D. deterrent [da-TURR-unt], meaning "a possible penalty that keeps you from doing something"

answer: D-E-T-E-R-R-E-N-T

TOSSUP 5. Just as its narrator is about to be killed by either a long fall or a pair of red-hot walls pushing in on him, he realizes that "the French army [has] entered Toledo" and "the Inquisition [is] in the hands of its enemies." Name this short story by Edgar Allen Poe about a man who receives a death sentence from a set of black-robed judges and barely manages to escape both of the deadly title objects.

answer: The Pit and the Pendulum

BONUS 5. Former Olympic gymnast Olga Korbut sold her medals and other sports memorabilia in 2017 for nearly $200,000.

A. She represented this country in the Olympics, giving Communism a happy face to millions of Westerners.

answer: Soviet Union or U.S.S.R.

B. Her skill of doing a somersault from the top of this apparatus is now banned in the Olympics as too dangerous.

answer: the uneven parallel bars

C. Her best year was in 1972, when the Summer Olympics were held in this European city.

answer: Munich, Germany

D. She also won gold in 1976, when the Summer Olympics were held in this Canadian city.

answer: Montreal QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

TOSSUP 6. You can get this local government job in more than half the states in the U.S. without being a doctor or having any medical training of any kind, which can make finding the cause of a person's death more difficult. Name this city or county job that may hold an inquest to determine cause of death.

answer: coroner [CORE-a-nur]

BONUS 6. Answer these about U.S. history from the 1820's:

A. This man-made water transportation route was completed in New York in 1825.

answer: Erie Canal

B. Its namesake Compromise allowed it to join the Union as a slave state in 1821.

answer: Missouri

C. This future Southeastern state had its East and West provinces combined into a territory in 1822.

answer: Florida

D. Joseph Smith received the gold plates with this religious work written on them in 1827.

answer: Book of Mormon

TOSSUP 7. This adjective is used with the word "inversely" to describe two quantities, one of which gets larger as the other gets smaller. Give this adjective that, with its last two letters removed, becomes a noun defined as "an equation showing that two ratios are equal to each other."

answer: proportional (not "proportion")

BONUS 7. Name these leaders of Big Band orchestras:

A. This clarinet player was nicknamed the "King of Swing" by drummer Gene Krupa [CROO-pa].

answer: Benny Goodman

B. This pianist with real first name Bill played in Kansas City before making it big in New York.

answer: Bill "Count" Basie [bay-see]

C. This composer of Mood Indigo has a performing arts school named for him in his hometown of Washington, D.C.

answer: Edward "Duke" Ellington

D. This raspy-voiced New Orleans native led bands called the "Hot Five" and the "Hot Seven."

answer: Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong

TOSSUP 8. Several hedge funds have stockpiled this chemical element in hopes its price will go up because of its usefulness in extending the life of electric car batteries. Name this metal between iron and nickel in the Periodic Table that adds a blue color to its compounds.

answer: cobalt or Co QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

BONUS 8. Answer these about drug-resistant bacterial ailments that the World Health Organization would like to develop new antibiotics for:

A. You can get one strain of this disease with symptoms like food poisoning by eating undercooked eggs.

answer: salmonella

B. One strep version of this lung disease can't be killed by penicillin anymore.

answer: pneumonia

C. The most critical priority includes bacteria that can't be killed , even with multiple drugs, that patients get while using this breathing-aid device…

answer: ventilator

D. as well as bacteria that can't be killed , even with multiple drugs, that patients get from having this type of tube placed in a blood vessel.

answer: catheter [CATH-a-tur]

TOSSUP 9. Its namesake is the Frenchman who flew the first solo flight across the Mediterranean Sea and was the first pilot to be called an "ace" for shooting down 5 enemy aircraft in World War I. Name this clay-court tennis stadium, built to host France’s first defense of the Davis Cup, that is now the home of the annual French Open.

answer: Roland Garros Stadium

BONUS 9. Name the NFL teams that featured these star players before those players filed for free agency in March 2017:

A. Running back Adrian Peterson

answer: Minnesota or Vikings

B. Wide receiver Alshon Jeffery

answer: Chicago or Bears

C. Linebacker Dont'a Hightower

answer: New England or Patriots

D. Offensive lineman Russell Okung

answer: Denver or Broncos

TOSSUP 10. This city's Ringstrasse [RING-shtraw-sa] now takes the place of its original city walls that were torn down by Emperor Franz Joseph I and includes a section named for native composer Franz Schubert. Name this former capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire that is now the largest city in Austria.

answer: Vienna

BONUS 10. South America’s Aymara [eye-MAR-a] people were independent through the Middle Ages until conquered by a rival civilization.

A. Name that civilization whose capital city was at Cusco [KOO-sko].

answer: the Incas

B. Later, the Aymara were conquered by this European power.

answer: Spain

C. Today, almost half of all Aymara live in this country’s city of El Alto.

answer: Bolivia

D. Name either of the other two countries that contain sizable Aymara populations.

answer: Chile or Peru QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

TOSSUP 11. In 1947, the young white Englishwoman Ruth Williams fell in love with the black Prince Seretse Khama who became, for a time, the King of what is now Botswana. Their real-life romance that angered the South African government is depicted in—what recent movie ?

answer: A United Kingdom

BONUS 11. Answer these about Botswana:

A. This is its capital city.

answer: Gaborone

B. The majority of Botswana's territory is this African desert.

answer: Kalahari Desert

C. and D. Besides South Africa, name any two of the three countries Botswana borders.

answer: Namibia, Zimbabwe, Zambia

TOSSUP 12. He was the first world leader to recognize an independent Israel and the first U.S. President to recommend statehood for Alaska and Hawaii. His Executive Order 9981 desegregated America’s military. Name this President who, at the beginning of the 1948 presidential campaign, told his running mate Alben Barkley, "I’m going to give ‘em hell."

answer: Harry S Truman

BONUS 12. Pencils and paper ready! The points (5, 1) and (-10, 7) are on the same line.

A. Give the slope of that line in lowest terms.

answer: -2/5 or -0.4 (6/-15)

B. Give the equation of that line.

answer: y = -2/5 x + 3

C. Give the equation of a line parallel to that line that includes the point (25, -16).

answer: y = -2/5 x - 6

D. Give the equation of a line perpendicular to that line that includes the point (4, 11).

answer: y = 5/2 x + 1 (slope of perp. line is negative reciprocal)

TOSSUP 13. Founded in Geneva in 1968, its original audience was the children of diplomats and traveling executives. Since then, its Diploma program has expanded into Middle Years and Primary Years programs that let children start its curriculum at age 3. Identify this educational organization, commonly abbreviated IB. answer: International Baccalaureate (accept IB before it is read)

BONUS 13. Answer these about the IB program:

A. This 2-word term describes any educational institution using the IB curriculum.

answer: World School

B. The main IB office in the U.S. is in this Maryland suburb of Washington, D.C. that is also home to the National Institutes of Health.

answer: Bethesda [ba-THEZ-da], MD

C. and D. The Diploma program is available in English and these two other languages.

answer: French and Spanish QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

TOSSUP 14. This province's tourist bureau calls it "home to the oldest settlement and the oldest city in North America", L'Anse aux Meadows. Name this province of eastern Canada that now includes Labrador and whose capital is St. John's.

answer: Newfoundland and Labrador

BONUS 14. February 2017 marks 100 years since the British ship SS Mendi was hit by a cargo steamship in the fog while taking troops to France to fight in World War I.

A. The ship had more than 600 black troops from this faraway country within the British Empire, most of whom couldn't swim and thus quickly drowned.

answer: South Africa

B. The collision took place off the coast of England in this body of water that includes the Isle of Wight.

answer: English Channel

C. A memorial to the Mendi disaster stands in a graveyard in this British town where the Titanic left on its ill-fated voyage.

answer: Southampton

D. Queen Elizabeth II dedicated a Mendi memorial in this city's Soweto neighborhood where many of the troops came from.

answer: Johannesburg

TOSSUP 15. A landslide is one example of this 2-word term, defined by the U.S. Geologic Survey as "a continuous chain of processes that move Earth materials from the tops of the highest mountains down to the deep ocean floor." Give this term for "the downslope movement of Earth materials under the influence of gravity."

answer: mass wasting

BONUS 15. Name the states east of the Mississippi that got these new Governors in 2017:

A. Jim Justice

answer: West Virginia

B. John Carney

answer: Delaware

C. Chris Sununu [soo-NOO-noo]

answer: New Hampshire

D. Henry McMaster

answer: South Carolina

TOSSUP 16. Now that it's been more than 20 years and 20 Grammy Awards since his first album Reasonable Doubt, he will be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2017. Name this first rapper in that Hall of Fame whose real name is Shawn Carter and whose wife is Beyoncé.

answer: Jay Z QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

BONUS 16. It is defined as "the set of all points satisfying a condition, usually forming a curve or surface."

A. Give this 5-letter math term.

answer: locus [LO-cus]

B. You tie your dog to a pole in the middle of an open field with a leash. What shape is the set of points the dog can explore ?

answer: circle

C. Give the term for the set of points in 3 dimensions that are all the same distance from a center point.

answer: sphere

D. The set of points where a soccer ball could be during a game typically has this shape.

answer: rectangle

TOSSUP 17. Identified anciently by Ptolemy along with the other Zodiac constellations, this constellation's two bright yellow supergiant stars are named Alpha and Beta. Name this constellation, located near Cetus the whale and Pisces the fish, that is said to pour water from its jar in a stream formed by nearly 20 stars.

answer: Aquarius

BONUS 17. In February 2017, astronomers found a set of stars orbiting the Trappist-1 star within Aquarius, some of which might support human life.

A. How many total stars are in the set ?

answer: seven

B. How many of the seven are thought to be in a "habitable zone" for humans ?

answer: three

C. A habitable zone is defined as a place where the liquid phase of this substance could exist.

answer: water

D. The seven stars are also called by this term because they orbit something other than our Sun.

answer: exoplanets

TOSSUP 18. Before trying to raise one, you should decide whether you want a Hampshire, a Poland China, a Chester White, a Berkshire or a Yorkshire (among other species). Identify this farm animal, often raised by 4-H students, that is probably healthy if its tail is tightly curled.

answer: pigs

BONUS 18. Name the painters of these works:

A. Guernica

answer: Pablo Picasso

B. The Scream

answer: Edvard Munch

C. Nighthawks

answer: Edward Hopper

D. Impression: Sunrise

answer: Claude Monet [mo-NAY] QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

TOSSUP 19. Before being conquered by the Arabs in the 7th century AD (after which it became a center of scientific activity), it practiced Zoroastrianism and was ruled by Alexander the Great, Darius and Cyrus the Great. Give the ancient name of this empire that is now commonly known as the country of Iran.

answer: Persia

BONUS 19. Give these terms from journalism:

A. The place where the reporter’s name appears on a story

answer: byline

B. A place for dead bodies, or where the newspaper keeps its historical material

answer: morgue

C. The person in charge of reporters who assigns them stories and supervises their work

answer: editor

D. To get all the facts needed from an event so you can write a story about it

answer: cover

TOSSUP 20. When it is used on a campout, it is called "roasting" because it uses dry heat to cook food. Name this cooking technique, used to make cookies and cakes, that uses the dry heat of an oven to cook the food.

answer: baking (accept forms of the word)

BONUS 20. Pencils and paper ready! You have to add two fractions together, one with a denominator of 16 and the other with a denominator of 28.

A. What denominator would you use if you just multiplied 16 and 28 together?

answer: 448

B. What least common denominator should you use instead?

answer: 112 (16 x 7)

C. Add together 5/16 and 11/28, giving your answer in lowest terms.

answer: 79/112

D. Multiply together 7/16 and 3/28, giving your answer in lowest terms.

answer: 3/64 QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

LIGHTNING ROUND 1. WORLD'S BEST BEACHES

Name the locations of these beaches on Trip Advisor's 2017 list of the world's best.

1) Playa Norte is in this country that borders the U.S. Mexico

2) La Concha Beach is in this European country. Spain

3) Baio do Sancho is in this South American country. Brazil

4) Siesta Beach is on this U.S. state's Siesta Key. Florida

5) Playa Paraiso [par-a-EE-so] is in this country not far from Florida. Cuba

6) The Galápagos Beach is in this country's Galápagos Islands. Ecuador

7) Eagle Beach is on this Caribbean island still owned by the Dutch. Aruba

8) Radhanagar Beach is in this English-speaking Asian country. India

9) Elafonnisi Beach is in this European country with lots of islands. Greece

10) Grace Bay is in this British Caribbean island group. Turks and Caicos

LIGHTNING ROUND 2. THE 2017 OSCARS

1) She won Best Actress for La La Land. Emma Stone

2) Casey Affleck won Best Actor for this film. Manchester by the Sea

3) Viola Davis won Best Supporting Actress for this movie. Fences

4) It won Best Animated Feature Film. Zootopia

5) Best Feature Documentary told of this athlete's murder trial. O.J. (Simpson): Made in America

6) This country's The Salesman won Best Foreign Film. Iran

7) This piece from La La Land won Best Original Song. City of Stars

8) Best Makeup and Hairstyling went to this superhero movie. Suicide Squad

9) This Best Live Action Short Film tells of a Hungarian school choir. Sing

10) Best Short Subject Documentary went to The White Helmets, about rescue workers in this country's

civil war. Syria QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

LIGHTNING ROUND 3 –STARTS WITH V

1) Word posted outside a motel with empty rooms vacancy (or vacant)

2) A person who suffers from a criminal’s crime victim

3) A person who does something charitable without pay volunteer

4) He parks your car for you at fancy restaurants. valet

5) French King Louis XIV’s opulent palace Versailles

6) Product of current and resistance voltage

7) Ugly collective term for pests like rats, cockroaches or mice vermin

8) They carry blood to your heart. veins

9) Service group abbreviated VFW (4 words) Veterans of Foreign Wars

10) Children’s story about a toy who wishes to be real (2 words) The Velveteen Rabbit

END OF BASIC SET 17 QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

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BASIC SET 18

TOSSUPS/BONUSES

TOSSUP 1. Those who have tried this new system have discovered that if their console malfunctions, their points, tokens and other game data are lost forever. Name this new video game system by Nintendo whose players also love it beyond all reason for its new game The Legend of Zelda: The Breath of the Wild.

answer: Nintendo Switch

BONUS 1. June 2017 will see the expansion draft for the National Hockey League's newest team.

A. Name the city where that team will play its home games.

answer: Las Vegas, NV

B. Give the 2-word name of that team.

answer: Vegas Golden Knights

C. The team's home arena is currently named for this cell-phone company.

answer: T-Mobile Arena

D. The team has signed its first player, a junior from this country.

answer: Canada

TOSSUP 2. A fossil of this official dinosaur of Wyoming is the state fossil of South Dakota. Living just before the K/T extinction, it often had to protect itself from Tyrannosaurus Rex. Identify this prehistoric creature, famed for the plate or frill on its neck, whose name comes from the Greek for "three-horned face."

answer: Triceratops

BONUS 2. Answer these about the planet Mars:

A. Its surface looks red because its surface has minerals rich in this metal.

answer: iron

B. The two moons of Mars were discovered in 1877 by this American scientist.

answer: Asaph Hall

C. Mars has about twice as much gravity as the moon, which means the gravity of Mars is about this fraction of gravity on Earth.

answer: ⅓(moon’s gravity is 1/6 of Earth’s)

D. The atmosphere of Mars includes this first noble gas to be discovered.

answer: argon or Ar QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

TOSSUP 3. Its central island with 5 provinces named "Kalimantan" is west of its island with 4 provinces named "Sulawesi" and east of its island that includes the province Aceh and 3 provinces named "Sumatra." Name this Asian island nation whose 3 provinces named "Java" are on the same island with its capital Jakarta.

answer: Indonesia

BONUS 3. Name these 4-sided figures from their definitions:

A. All four sides of equal length, plus 4 right angles

answer: square

B. All four sides of equal length, with no right angles

answer: rhombus

C. Two pairs of parallel sides, with no right angles

answer: parallelogram

D. Any figure with 4 sides, regardless of side length or angle measurements

answer: quadrilateral

TOSSUP 4. Pencils and paper ready! Give, as a monomial, the product of "8 times the square root of 32x" and "3 times the square root of 2x."

answer: 48x (24 times 2x)

BONUS 4. Within days after its Initial Public Offering on March 1, 2017, it had dropped to less than its IPO price.

A. Name this tech company whose homepage offers GeoFilters that they call "Dynamic art for different places."

answer: SnapChat

B. The company was started by students at this California university whose students also started up Yahoo!

answer: Stanford Univ.

C. Reed Hastings, a co-founder of this company, went to that college.

answer: Netflix

D. The co-founders of this photo-sharing app company, now owned by Facebook, are also alumni from that college.

answer: Instagram

TOSSUP 5. Caused by low humidity that causes your outer layer of skin to flake off, they can be dealt with by putting a petroleum or glycerin-based product on your hands. Give the common 2-word term for this painful wintertime skin condition that seemingly causes the skin on your hands to open up and start bleeding for no reason.

answer: weather cracks QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

BONUS 5. Answer these about the partitioning of Poland:

A. Poland was partitioned this total number of times between 1772 and 1795.

answer: three

B. Austria took part of Poland, but this country took the majority of it…

answer: Russia

C. .. and this country that joined the German Empire in 1871 took the rest of it.

answer: Prussia

D. After the partitions, Poland disappeared from maps until after this armed conflict ended.

answer: World War I

TOSSUP 6. Pencils and paper ready! What is the final price of a pair of shoes that was originally sold for $100, was marked down 30% on sale, was marked down 20% more from there on clearance, and finally sold for 25% less than that ?

answer: $42 (100, then 70, then 56, then 42)

BONUS 6. Name these countries that contain part of the Zambezi [zam-BEE-zee] River:

A. Victoria Falls is at the border between Zambia and this country.

answer: Zimbabwe

B. The upper part of the Zambezi flows through the eastern edge of this country formerly owned by Portugal.

answer: Angola

C. The Zambezi forms a delta with the Indian Ocean in this other country formerly owned by Portugal.

answer: Mozambique

D. The Zambezi forms the border between Zambia and this country's Caprivi Strip.

answer: Namibia

TOSSUP 7. Women who like to go hunting but who don't like the orange worn by men during hunting season are now allowed in several states to wear clothing in the "blaze" shade of –what color that is usually considered more feminine and can be created by mixing red and white ?

answer: pink

BONUS 7. Pencils and paper ready! At the end of the game show called Divided, a 3-person team has earned an average of $8,000 each.

A. How much have they earned all together ?

answer: $24,000

B. John ends up with $7,200 more than Kate, and Kate ends up with $4,800 more than David. How much money does John get ?

answer: $14,400

C. How much does Kate get ?

answer: $7,200

D. How much does David get ?

answer: $2,400

[x + (x – 7,200) + (x – 12,000) = 24,000, so 3x = 43,200] QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

TOSSUP 8. The British captured this city in 1841, and Japan occupied it during World War II. When the Portuguese were kicked out of this city, they took over the island of Macau instead. Name this city on the Pearl River in southern China that, from about 1760 to 1840, was the only Chinese port open to foreign trade

answer: Canton or Guangzhou [gwong-ZHO]

BONUS 8. Give these computer terms as defined by Labautopedia.org:

A. "A tree data structure in which each node has at most two children"

answer: binary tree

B. "A process often required in a computer system to reorganize the disk by putting files into contiguous order"

answer: defragmentation

C. "Software or hardware which is announced by a developer well in advance of its release, but which then fails to emerge"

answer: vaporware

D. "A fix to a computer bug"

answer: patch

TOSSUP 9. The South branch of this tributary of the Missouri River flows through Denver, Colorado. Its North branch flows from Wyoming into Nebraska, where it joins the South branch near the town named for it. Identify this river that meets the Missouri River just north of Omaha, Nebraska.

answer: Platte River

BONUS 9. Name these plants from which milk is made for people who can't drink cow's milk: A. This nut contains lots of Vitamin E and is sold in small cans often flavored "smokehouse" or "honey mustard" by Blue Diamond.

answer: almond

B. This crop's milk often has a chalky and "beany" taste that turns people off.

answer: soybeans

C. The milk from this tropical fruit has the "mouth feel" of milk but contains no protein.

answer: coconut milk

D. You can make milk from the seeds of this plant that can grow up into marijuana.

answer: hemp milk

TOSSUP 10. In March 2017, General Motors sold two of its European car divisions to the PSA Group, which sells the car brands DS, Citröen [si-TROAN] and Peugeot [poo-ZHO] and is headquartered in—what country ?

answer: France QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

BONUS 10. Name these works by composer George Gershwin:

A. His piece Catfish Row is a suite based on the music of this opera he co-wrote.

answer: Porgy and Bess

B. As a teenager, he wrote this piece that shares its name with a popular Argentine dance style.

answer: Tango

C. This musical that won a Pulitzer Prize shares its title from a phrase in the song "My Country, ‘tis of Thee."

answer: Of Thee I Sing

D. This Broadway musical that starred Fred Astaire was remade into a movie that added Audrey Hepburn.

answer: Funny Face

TOSSUP 11. In March 2017, two years after this character's creator said he's not really male or female because he's an animal, the creator backtracked and said he really is male and has a girlfriend. Name this comic strip cat, created by Jim Davis, who loves lasagna.

answer: Garfield

BONUS 11. Name these recurring characters in the Garfield comic strip:

A. Garfield's girlfriend

answer: Arlene

B. The veterinarian girlfriend of Garfield's owner Jon

answer: Liz

C. Garfield's teddy bear

answer: Pooky

D. The dog at Garfield's house

answer: Odie

TOSSUP 12. He has announced that he will not run for the presidency of his native South Korea so soon after leaving the international job that he held for two 5-year terms. Name this diplomat who has now been succeeded by Portugal's Antonio Guterres [goo-TAIR-ez] as United Nations Secretary-General.

answer: Ban-Ki Moon

BONUS 12. In 2016, the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso opened a sanctuary for this animal.

A. Name this animal whose sanctuary residents are currently either refugees from zoos that have closed or from circuses that stopped using them .

answer: elephants

B. and C. The main species of elephants are named for these two continents.

answer: African and Asian

D. A male elephant periodically develops a condition called "musth" from a temporary surge in this hormone that men typically have more of than women.

answer: testosterone [tes-TOSS-ta-roan]

TOSSUP 13. It begins in the year 2029 and ends with its title character dead at the hands of his clone named X-24 after learning that a young girl named Laura has some of his DNA. Name this 2017 action movie, scheduled to be Hugh Jackman's final appearance as Wolverine.

answer: Logan

BONUS 13. He told the people working for him that he is the first Secretary of his Cabinet Department ever to have worked as an "enumerator" for the Census Bureau, a group he now supervises. QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

A. Name this new Secretary, a former banker, whose Undersecretaries include one for International Trade and one for Economic Affairs.

answer: Wilbur Ross

B. Name the Cabinet Department he supervises.

answer: Department of Commerce

C. Soon after being sworn in, this country's tech firm ZTE agreed to a fine of more than a billion dollars for sending high-tech equipment to Iran.

answer: China

D. This U.S. President is the only President to have also served as Secretary of that Department.

answer: Herbert Hoover

TOSSUP 14. It can be defined as "a simultaneous release of an aircraft’s entire rack of bombs" or "a forceful oral or written assault." Give this 5-letter noun beginning with S that can also mean "a simultaneous discharge of firearms." answer: salvo

BONUS 14. Answer these about famous similes [SIM-a-leez]:

A. Gloria Steinem said, "A woman needs a man like a fish needs" this object.

answer: a bicycle

B. This Scottish poet said, "O my love's like a red, red rose / That's newly sprung in June"

answer: Robert Burns

C. Langston Hughes said, "What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a [blank] in the sun?"

answer: raisin

D. This British author said, "Old Marley was dead as a doornail."

answer: Charles Dickens

TOSSUP 15. If you sign one for an apartment, you agree to pay the rent for a period of time whether you actually live there or not. Name this type of business contract that allows you to use something like an apartment, a house, a boat or a car for a period of time but requires you to give the thing back in good condition when time is up.

answer: lease

BONUS 15. Microfossils recently found in Canada may be the oldest fossils ever found on Earth.

A. They contain filaments made of hematite [HEE-ma-tight], an oxide form of this metal.

answer: iron oxide

B. They may be older than the fossils found in rocks on this land mass in 2016 that had been considered the oldest fossils ever.

answer: Greenland

C. They were found on the eastern shore of Hudson Bay in this province in eastern Canada.

answer: Quebec

D. Name either of the other two Canadian provinces that Hudson Bay borders.

answer: Manitoba or Ontario

TOSSUP 16. Pencils and paper ready! Give the larger of two complementary angles if the larger angle measures 2 degrees less than 3 times the smaller angle.

answer: 67º [x + (3x - 2) = 90, so x = 23º]

BONUS 16. Answer these about U.S. history from 1917:

A. This Montana Congresswoman became the first female in the U.S. House.

answer: Jeannette Rankin QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

B. The U.S. Senate adopted this rule to put a limit on filibusters.

answer: cloture [CLO-chur]

C. Love Field opened in this major city, the only airport there for nearly 60 years.

answer: Dallas, TX

D. He was U.S. President in 1917.

answer: Woodrow Wilson

TOSSUP 17. His Music for the Royal Fireworks was commissioned by England's King George II to celebrate the end of the War of Austrian Succession. Name this composer, more famous today for his oratorios like Messiah.

answer: G.F. Handel

BONUS 17. Answer these about the artistic movement known as Dada:

A. It began in this Swiss city.

answer: Zurich

B. Dada artist Marcel Duchamp added a mustache to this well-known painting—but not on its original copy.

answer: Mona Lisa

C. Within a few years, most serious Dada artists had moved on to this newer art movement.

answer: Surrealism

D. After World War I, what was left of Dada moved to this European capital.

answer: Paris, France

TOSSUP 18. During a March 2017 lunar occultation, the moon passed in front of this star defined by Webster's as "a red star of the first magnitude that is…he brightest star in the Hyades" [HIGH-a-deez]. Name this star, up and to the right from the belt of Orion [o-RYE-un], that is the eye of the bull in the constellation Taurus.

answer: Aldebaran [all-DEB-a-run]

BONUS 18. Pencils and paper ready! Draw a parallelogram WXYZ, with W in the top left corner and labeling the other points clockwise. Add a center point P. The line WP is (3d + 8) units long, while the line PY is (7d – 12) units long.

A. Find the value of d.

answer: 5 [3d + 8 = 7d - 12, so -4d = -20]

B. Find the length of the diagonal WY.

answer: 46 [each half of the diagonal is 17]

C. Angle WZY is 60°. Give the measure of the angle ZWX.

answer: 120° (supplementary to WZY)

D. Give the measure of the angle ZYX.

answer: 60º QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

TOSSUP 19. Fire and Ice, New Hampshire and North of Boston are all poetry collections by—what American poet who, at John Kennedy’s inauguration, recited his poem The Gift Outright and also wrote the poems Mending Wall and The Road Not Taken?

answer: Robert Frost

BONUS 19. Give the Constitutional Amendment that discusses each of the following:

A. Limiting the federal government’s powers to those given to it by the Constitution.

answer: 10th

B. A federal income tax

answer: 16th

C. Citizens don’t have to house and feed soldiers.

answer: 3rd

D. Slavery is abolished.

answer: 13th

TOSSUP 20. By the time rheumatism began keeping him in a wheelchair while he painted, he had long been friends with Monet and worked with him side by side. Name this Impressionist artist and father of film director Jean whose other paintings include Luncheon of the Boating Party.

answer: Pierre-Auguste Renoir

BONUS 20. Name the British creators of these literary villains:

A. Professor Moriarty

answer: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

B. Sauron

answer: J.R.R. Tolkien

C. Count Dracula

answer: Bram Stoker

D. Shere Khan

answer: Rudyard Kipling QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

LIGHTNING ROUND 1. MYTHOLOGY

1) Greek city that was home to a famous Oracle Delphi

2) Oedipus was king of this Greek city. Thebes

3) The twins who founded the city of Rome Romulus and Remus

4) The giant sea monster of Norse myth the Kraken

5) She kidnapped Odysseus and held him for years. Calypso

6) This serpent represented time in Greek myth and had 3 heads. Chronos

7) His book Metamorphoses contains a lot of Roman myth. Publius Ovidius Naso

8) The river between Earth and the Underworld in Greek myth Styx

9) He was the father of Zeus. Cronos

10) This giant king of Thrace had 4 mares that ate people. Diomedes [die-OM-a-deez]

LIGHTNING ROUND 2. GRAB BAG

Questions could be about anything.

1) A somnambulist is involved in this night-time activity. sleepwalking

2) Football term for a pass at or behind the line of scrimmage lateral

3) Bordeaux is the capital of this area of France, once ruled by Eleanor. Aquitaine

4) Language that gave us the word "ramen" Japanese

5) Number of minutes in an hour 1,440

6) Capital of the Australian state of Tasmania Hobart

7) To the nearest integer, the number of light-years in a parsec 3.26

8) Term for a material that prevents the flow of electrical current insulator

9) Any phrase that reads the same forward and backward palindrome

10) William Shatner and Henry Winkler traveled across Asia in this recent NBC series.

Better Late Than Never QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

LIGHTNING ROUND 3 –STARTS WITH W

1) A movement of air, or "to tighten the spring of a watch" wind

2) A tornado that travels over an ocean waterspout

3) Hairpiece worn by some women to hide a bald spot wig

4) Australian marsupial whose pouch for babies is in the back wombat

5) Biblical word for anger wrath

6) A lycanthrope may turn into this creature when seeing a full moon, werewolf

7) The part of your body with lunate and scaphoid bones wrist

8) Beads made by Native Americans, once used as money wampum

9) Make one of these before blowing out your birthday candles. wish

10) Plural past tense of "to be" were

END OF BASIC SET 18 QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

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BASIC SET 19

TOSSUPS/BONUSES

TOSSUP 1. Used in parts of Canada before World War I, it was instituted in Germany and then by other countries during World War I to reduce the need for artificial lighting. Identify this concept that, since 2005, has been used in the U.S. between the second Sunday in March and the first Sunday in November.

answer: Daylight Savings Time

BONUS 1. Spell the plurals of these singular nouns:

A. canopy

answer: C-A-N-O-P-I-E-S

B. trout

answer: T-R-O-U-T or T-R-O-U-T-S

C. raviolo

answer: R-A-V-I-O-L-I

D. corps, as in Marine Corps

answer: C-O-R-P-S

TOSSUP 2. This country's team at the 2017 World Baseball Classic that includes outfielder Zach Borenstein has a large stuffed mascot they call "Mensch on the Bench." Name this Middle Eastern nation whose qualification for the next round of the tournament generated a tweet from the country's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu [net-un-YAW-hoo].

answer: Israel

BONUS 2. The U.S. has qualified for the second round of the 2017 World Baseball Classic and is playing three Spanish-speaking countries or territories.

A. This South American team includes first baseman Miguel Cabrera and outfielder Carlos González.

answer: Venezuela

B. This island nation's team includes infielders Adrián Beltré [bell-TRAY] and Robinson Canó [ca-NO].

answer: the Dominican Republic

C. This territory's team includes catcher Yadier Molina [yaw-dee-air mo-LEE-na] and shortstop Francisco Lindor.

answer: Puerto Rico

D. This Spanish-speaking country also made the second round but was in the other group from the U.S. and lost all of their second-round games.

answer: Cuba QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

TOSSUP 3. The three novels in J.G. Farrell's "Empire Trilogy" all discuss instances when a part of this country's empire was in peril: one in Singapore, one in India, and one in Ireland. Name this country whose Commonwealth of Nations now includes more than 30 areas that it once governed and nearly 20 areas that its Queen still governs.

answer: England or United Kingdom or Great Britain (or British Empire)

BONUS 3. Pencils and paper ready! An employee at a clothing store gets a 25% discount on everything he buys there.

A. What was the original price of his purchase if his discounted total is $45?

answer: $60 (0.75x = 45)

B. At the last minute, he adds a shirt to his purchases that is $24 undiscounted. What is the total of his purchases now after the discount?

answer: $63 (45 + 18, or 84 x 0.75)

C. To his discounted total, he must add 8% sales tax, bringing his total to this amount.

answer: $68.04 (63 x 1.08)

D. He puts that total on a credit card with an annual rate of 10% and forgets about it for a year. After the year, how much will he have to pay on his credit card for that purchase to the nearest penny?

answer: $74.84 (68.04 x 1.1)

TOSSUP 4. Fertility rates are one component studied to see whether a particular country or region is moving toward this optimum principle that occurs when the birth and immigration rates are the same as the death and emigration rates in the area studied. Give this 3-word term, often abbreviated ZPG.

answer: zero population growth

BONUS 4. Its Constitution was officially adopted in Montgomery, Alabama on March 12, 1861.

A. Name this short-lived political organization.

answer: Confederate States of America (or CSA or the Confederacy)

B. The clause in its Section 9 that says, "A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. " looks like this Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

answer: 2nd Amendment

C. This total number of states signed the Confederate Constitution.

answer: 7

D. Name any three of those states.

answer: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas

TOSSUP 5. In a criminal case, it may result in a plea bargain or an outright dismissal of the charges. Name this legal situation that may result from either a hung jury or from a legal mistake so severe that the fairness of a defendant’s day in court is affected.

answer: mistrial QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

BONUS 5. Answer these about the Eiffel Tower:

A. It was put together not with screws or bolts, but with these metal objects that required 4 men to install each one, including one man to heat them up before installation.

answer: rivets

B. After the Tower was done, it was the tallest building in the world until this U.S. building eclipsed it in 1930.

answer: Chrysler Building

C. This American inventor visited the tower and gave Eiffel one of his phonographs in congratulations.

answer: Thomas Edison

D. The Tower opened in this year, 100 years after the Bastille was stormed during the French Revolution.

answer: 1889

TOSSUP 6. Like other Central American countries, it borders both the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. Unlike these countries, it has no official standing army. Identify this country that connects Nicaragua and Panama and whose capital is San José.

answer: Costa Rica

BONUS 6. Name the capitals of these countries whose people are in danger of starvation in 2017, according to the United Nations:

A. Yemen

answer: Sana'a

B. South Sudan

answer: Juba

C. Nigeria

answer: Abuja

D. Somalia

answer: Mogadishu

TOSSUP 7. The one in 1972 in Iran killed some 4,000 people, while the series of them in late 1880 and early 1881 is detailed in Laura Ingalls Wilder's novel The Long Winter. Name this event, defined by the National Weather Service "as a storm which contains large amounts of snow or blowing snow, with winds in excess of 35 miles per hour and visibilities of less than ¼ mile for at least 3 hours."

answer: blizzard

BONUS 7. Give these snow terms as defined by the National Snow and Ice Data Center:

A. "Dry new snow, which is composed of loose, fresh ice crystals"—and good for skiing

answer: powder snow

B. "A hard snow surface lying upon a softer layer, formed by sun, rain, or wind"

answer: crust

C. "Rounded, well-bonded snow that is older than one year and has a density greater than 55%"

answer: firn

D. "A layer of soil or rock, at some depth beneath the surface, in which the temperature has been continuously below 0°C for at least several years"

answer: permafrost QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

TOSSUP 8. When he survived the first round of England's TV series The X Factor, he was placed into a musical group with four other young men. After leaving that group to go solo, he won the American Music Award for New Artist of the Year in 2016 on the strength of his solo album Mind of Mine. Name this young British singer and former member of One Direction.

answer: Zain "Zayn" Malik (accept either)

BONUS 8. Name these other members of One Direction:

A. His first single as a solo act is called "This Town."

answer: Niall Horan

B. This former boyfriend of Taylor Swift will appear in the film Dunkirk in 2017.

answer: Harry Styles

C. He combined with Steve Aoki on the 2016 single "Just Hold On."

answer: Louis Tomlinson

D. He is the only one unmentioned to this point.

answer: Liam Payne

TOSSUP 9. Pencils and paper ready! Find "f of 3" if "f of x" is 2x3 – 5x2 + 6x – 4.

answer: 23 [54 – 45 + 18 – 4]

BONUS 9. Name these scientific units as defined in terms of other units:

A. 1 kilogram meter per second squared

answer: Newton

B. 1 volt per ampere

answer: ohm

C. 1 kilogram meter squared per second squared

answer: Joule

D. 1 kilogram meter squared per second cubed

answer: Watt

TOSSUP 10. What type of energy is stored in a set of coiled springs within a mattress after the springs compress to help support a person's weight ?

answer: mechanical energy

BONUS 10. These days, it gets a mass bleaching once every several years from warmer water, but in 2017, it was bleached for the second year in a row, worrying scientists about its long-term health.

A. Name this biological structure off the coast of Australia.

answer: Great Barrier Reef

B. Name the state of northeast Australia where that structure has been studied.

answer: Queensland

C. The structure is made of these invertebrates that create it by secreting calcium carbonate.

answer: coral

D. The pretty colors in the structure when it hasn’t been bleached are the result of these organisms that include seaweed and may be green or red.

answer: algae QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

TOSSUP 11. One illustration of it could answer the question, "How do you move 7 boxes?" Answer: move one box, remember how you did it, and then answer the question, "How do you move 6 boxes?" Give this mathematical term for any kind of relation where future terms are created the same way as previous terms were, as in Fibonacci’s [fee-ba-NOTCH-eez] famous sequence.

answer: recursion (relation)

BONUS 11. Give the next numbers in these sequences:

A. 8, 17, 35, 71…

answer: 143 (2x + 1)

B. 12, 15, 19, 24, 30, …

answer: 37 (+ 3, + 4, + 5, + 6, etc.)

C. 3, 7, 19, 55, …

answer: 163 (3x – 2)

D. 96, 48, 24, 12…

answer: 6 (½ x)

TOSSUP 12. Playing the black keys in order on a piano creates up to 5 of this type of scale used in popular music worldwide. Give the term for this type of scale that, unlike the "heptatonic" scales with 7 notes in them, contain only 5 notes.

answer: pentatonic

BONUS 12. Name these people who played a part in Jesus's crucifixion:

A. This Jewish high priest was the son-in-law of Annas.

answer: Caiaphas [KYE-a-fuss]

B. He released Jesus instead of Barabbas.

answer: Pontius Pilate

C. This Cyrenian man was made to carry Jesus' cross to Golgotha.

answer: Simon

D. Jesus was sent to this Roman leader who wanted to see Jesus perform a miracle, but Jesus wouldn't do it.

answer: Herod

TOSSUP 13. Two answers needed! These two countries are using hostility against each other to help get out the vote in their upcoming elections. Identify these two nations: one on the border of Europe and Asia whose President wants to change their constitution, and the other whose Prime Minister Mark Rutte is keeping ministers from that country off its soil.

answer: Turkey and Holland (or the Netherlands)

BONUS 13. The first of three wishes granted by this title object to its owner Mr. White is 200 pounds in cash, which turns out to be compensation for the death of his son in a factory accident.

A. Name this title object of a short horror story.

answer: The Monkey's Paw

B. Name the story's British author.

answer: W. W. Jacobs

C. Give the first name of the son who was killed and is the object of the other 2 wishes.

answer: Herbert

D. One of the other 2 wishes is that the son come back to life; the other is this.

answer: that he remain dead QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

TOSSUP 14. When driving, the distance your car should stay behind the car in front of it is measured not in feet, but in time. What is the minimum amount of time after the car in front of you passes a landmark before you should pass it?

answer: three seconds (rule)

BONUS 14. Name the largest cities by population in each of these U.S. states:

A. Iowa

answer: Des Moines

B. Idaho

answer: Boise

C. Kentucky

answer: Louisville

D. Florida

answer: Jacksonville

TOSSUP 15. Doctors now recommend this substance be given to babies as young as 6 months old, in hopes they will not become the 1 of every 50 kids who are now allergic to it. Name this legume, both a popular snack and a source of protein, that causes massive allergic reactions in some kids.

answer: peanuts

BONUS 15. Answer these about peanut allergies:

A. If you have a severe life-threatening reaction, the only thing to do is get an injection of this steroid as quickly as possible.

answer: epinephrine [ep-a-NEFF-run] (or adrenaline [a-DREN-a-lin])

B. A milder reaction to peanuts may include a case of "urticaria" [urt-a-KAIR-ee-a], a skin condition better known by this nickname.

answer: hives

C. The allergens in peanuts are all this type of substance, made of chains of amino acids linked together by peptide bonds.

answer: proteins

D. One allergic reaction is this general term for a skin infection.

answer: dermatitis [dur-ma-TIE-tuss]

TOSSUP 16. The Arabic prefix "ibn," the Aramaic prefix "bar", the Scottish prefix "Mc" and the Hebrew prefix "Ben" all mean—what, in English ?

answer: son of

BONUS 16. Pencils and paper ready! A circle with center at (2, 5) has a radius of 7. Give the coordinates of the:

A. top of the circle

answer: (2, 12)

B. far left point of the circle

answer: (-5, 5)

C. far left point of the circle

answer: (9, 5)

D. bottom of the circle

answer: (2, -2)

TOSSUP 17. He spent nearly 8 years prosecuting corruption wherever he found it, from hedge funds to the New York state legislature. Thus, he was happy to stay in that job at President Trump's request—and QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

surprised when he was fired less than 4 months later, in March 2017, after refusing to resign. Name this most recent U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York.

answer: Preetinder "Preet" Bharara

BONUS 17. Name these musical instruments from the jazz greats that played them:

A. Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespie

answer: trumpet

B. John Coltrane, Stan Getz and Paul Desmond

answer: saxophone

C. Buddy Rich and Max Roach

answer: drums or percussion

D. Artie Shaw and Woody Herman

answer: clarinet

TOSSUP 18. Pencils and paper ready! Give the largest angle of a triangle if that largest angle is 46 degrees larger than its next-largest angle and 28 degrees larger than twice its smallest angle.

answer: 96º, 50º, 34º [x + (x – 46) + ½ (x – 28) = 180, so 2.5x = 240]

BONUS 18. Answer these about world events in the 1800’s:

A. 1820’s—this king established Africa’s Zulu Kingdom.

answer: Shaka Zulu

B. 1840’s—people left this European country following a great potato famine.

answer: Ireland

C. 1869—the Suez Canal opened between this sea and the Mediterranean.

answer: Red Sea

D. 1870’s—Japan abolished this class of warriors and created an army instead.

answer: samurai

TOSSUP 19. After heading up the Free French, he was asked to come out of retirement and become Prime Minister in 1958, during which time he wrote the constitution establishing France’s current Fifth Republic. Name this statesman for whom a Paris airport is now named.

answer: Charles de Gaulle

BONUS 19. Name these characters or things from Homer’s Odyssey:

A. The son of Odysseus who searches for him

answer: Telemachus [tel-a-MACK-us]

B. The wife of Odysseus who remains faithful during his long absence

answer: Penelope [pa-NELL-a-pee]

C. Odysseus tells how he avoided this whirlpool that would have swallowed his ship.

answer: Charybdis [ca-RIB-duss]

D. This dog of Odysseus recognizes him when he returns home—but dies soon after.

answer: Argos QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

TOSSUP 20. This African city's major "Koshe" landfill has had hundreds of people living in makeshift houses on top of it for years, trying to make a living as trash-pickers and making the deadly landslide of garbage there in March 2017 that killed more than 80 people inevitable. Name this capital city of Ethiopia.

answer: Addis Ababa [add-us AB-a-ba]

BONUS 20. Answer these about Ethiopia's geography:

A. This country is directly south of Ethiopia.

answer: Kenya

B. This country on the Horn of Africa is directly east of Ethiopia.

answer: Somalia

C. This small country to Ethiopia's northeast has a capital city by the same name.

answer: Djibouti [ja-BOOT-ee]

D. This country to Ethiopia's north was once part of Ethiopia.

answer: Eritrea [air-a-TRAY-a]

LIGHTNING ROUND 1 – GRAB BAG

Questions can be about anything.

1) This German composer's 9th symphony is nicknamed Choral. Ludwig van Beethoven

2) Term for any of the 4 sections of a set of data that's divided into fourths quartile

3) He wrote the poem The Bells. Edgar Allan Poe

4) In math, the set of things that two other sets have in common intersection

5) Capital of Haiti Port-au-Prince

6) U.S. state with an Upper and Lower Peninsula Michigan

7) Say the number for the year 2017 in Spanish. dos mil diecisiete [dose meel dee-see-see-ET-tay]

8) This Dutchman running for office has made hostility to Islam a campaign point. Geert Wilders

9) In statistics, the third value in a 5-number summary is always this value. the median

10) An experiment where neither scientists nor subjects know which treatment is given double-blind QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

LIGHTNING ROUND 2 – MARCH MADNESS

Name the home states of these colleges in the 2017 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament.

1) Marquette Wisconsin

2) Creighton Nebraska

3) Butler Indiana

4) Winthrop South Carolina

5) Vanderbilt Tennessee

6) Bucknell Pennsylvania

7) Jacksonville State Alabama

8) Kent State Ohio

9) Seton Hall New Jersey

10) Mount St. Mary's Maryland

LIGHTNING ROUND 3 – STARTS WITH J

1) Person who cleans a building late at night janitor

2) Pale green gemstone, popular in Asia jade

3) The emotion you feel when your girlfriend dates someone else jealousy

4) First name of composers Bach and Strauss Johann

5) He succeeded Moses as leader of the Israelites. Joshua

6) In a nursery rhyme, she came tumbling after Jack. Jill

7) A glass container of jelly or peanut butter jar

8) To illegally cross in the middle of a street jaywalk

9) Police term for a suspect less than 18 years old juvenile

10) To start a car’s dead battery from another car’s battery jump start

END OF BASIC SET 19 QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

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BASIC SET 20

TOSSUPS/BONUSES

TOSSUP 1. The forest fires that damaged areas of this state in late 2016 were started by teenage boys dropping lit matches along the Chimney Tops Trail in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Name this state where the damage was concentrated in and near the towns of Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg.

answer: Tennessee

BONUS 1. With Britain having voted to leave the European Union:

A. This Article within a European Union treaty will soon be triggered, which says, "Any Member State may decide to withdraw from the Union in accordance with its own constitutional requirements."

answer: Article 50

B. That treaty is named for this capital of Portugal.

answer: Treaty of Lisbon

C. This First Minister for Scotland is hoping to break Scotland free of British rule so that Scotland can stay in the European Union.

answer: Nicola Sturgeon

D. Once Article 50 has been triggered, this amount of time is allowed to finish all breakup negotiations.

answer: 2 years or 24 months

TOSSUP 2. One meaning of this 4-letter word is "to eat very little of a plate of food", while another is "to kiss someone lightly and quickly." Give this word that also means "one-quarter of a bushel" and "what a bird does when he bangs on something or picks something up with his beak."

answer: peck

BONUS 2. Pencils and paper ready! Simplify these expressions:

A. x to the three-fourths power, to the four-fifths

answer: x to the three-fifths or (x to the 0.6) power

B. the cube root of "y to the sixth, z to the twelfth"

answer: y squared (or y to the second), z to the fourth

C. the square root of z to the eighth, divided by the cube root of z to the ninth

answer: z or (z to the first)

D. The quantity "y squared, z cubed", to the fifth power

answer: y to the tenth, z to the fifteenth

TOSSUP 3. His 1785 painting of Mr. and Mrs. William Hallett, sometimes called the "Morning Walk", was damaged in England's National Gallery in March 2017. Name this British painter, best-known during his life for his portraits and whose most famous work today is called The Blue Boy.

answer: Thomas Gainsborough

BONUS 3. Name the geographic strait that connects each of these pairs of bodies of water:

A. the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean

answer: Strait of Gibraltar QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

B. the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman

answer: Strait of Hormuz [hor-MOOZ]

C. the Tyrrhenian [tie-REE-nee-un] Sea and the Ionian [eye-O-nee-un] Sea

answer: Strait of Messina

D. the English Channel and the North Sea

answer: Strait of Dover

TOSSUP 4. Though the long-promised son of his father, who was 100 years old when he was born, this Biblical man was still nearly sacrificed by his father before an angel stopped him. Name this son of the prophet Abraham who married Rebekah, had a red-haired son named Esau, and whose other son Jacob had 12 sons whose descendants became the 12 Tribes of Israel.

answer: Isaac

BONUS 4. Vasari writes that Cimabue [chim-a-BOO-ay] discovered this artist by watching him draw a sheep on a rock.

A. Name this Italian artist, now generally considered the first Renaissance painter.

answer: Giotto [JOE-toe] di Bondone

B. He painted his most famous works in this century.

answer: 1300's or 14th century

C. He painted the interior of the Arena Chapel in this Italian city.

answer: Padua [PAD-joo-a]

D. He is said to have been buried in Santa Maria del Fiore, the cathedral in this Italian city.

answer: Florence

TOSSUP 5. In an attempt to reduce poaching of this animal, South Africa may legalize the purchase of its horns and allow foreign tourists to take up to 2 of its horns home for "personal purposes." Name this large mammal whose horn is very much in demand in Asia as a medicine.

answer: rhinoceros

BONUS 5. Answer these about the rhinoceros:

A. The rhino has this number of neck vertebrae, the same as other mammals—including humans.

answer: seven

B. This species found in Indonesia has more body hair than other rhino species.

answer: Sumatran rhinoceros

C. Both the black rhino and the white rhino are generally this color.

answer: gray

D. Some rhino species use this part of their bodies for attack, not their horns.

answer: teeth

TOSSUP 6. It's not surprising that her parents are both former ski racers, though it is a surprise that at age 22, she has already won more than 30 World Cup slalom races and four overall World Cup slalom championships. Name this American ski racer who may eventually catch up with Lindsey Vonn's all-time records.

answer: Mikayla Shiffrin

BONUS 6. Name the European home countries of these women behind Shiffrin in the 2017 World Cup Alpine Skiing points standings:

A. Ilka Stuhec [ILL-ka STOO-hitz]

answer: Slovenia

B. Sofia Goggia [GO-ja]

answer: Italy QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

C. Lara Gut [goot]

answer: Switzerland

D. Victoria Rebensburg

answer: Germany

TOSSUP 7. Pencils and paper ready! Give the two solutions of the quadratic equation x2 + 4x – 45 = 0.

answer: x = 5 and -9

BONUS 7. Pencils and paper ready! The 13 boys on a basketball team have the following heights in inches: 63, 68, 69, 69, 70, 71, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79 and 80.

A. Give the mean height of the team.

answer: 73 inches (949/13)

B. What is the mode of the heights?

answer: 69 inches (only one to appear twice)

C. What is the range of the heights?

answer: 17 inches (80 – 63)

D. What is the median height?

answer: 74 inches (7th highest)

TOSSUP 8. He established the White House library while also serving as the first Chancellor of what is now the State University of New York at Buffalo. Noted orator Daniel Webster was his first Secretary of State. Name this 19th-century President, the last Whig to hold that office, who sent Commodore Matthew Perry to Japan and was succeeded in office by Franklin Pierce.

answer: Millard Fillmore

BONUS 8. Complete these sentences from the Wikibooks entry "Earth Science/Ocean Life" :

A. "The most abundant life forms in the ocean are [these]; most are so small that you can't even see them."

answer: plankton

B. "There are only a few true [blanks] in the oceans; these include salt marsh grasses and mangrove trees."

answer: plants

C. "One major group of animals is [this group], animals with no spinal column" answer: invertebrates

D. "Some bacteria deep in the ocean can use inorganic compounds as energy sources instead of relying on [this heavenly body] as a source of energy."

answer: the Sun QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

TOSSUP 9. Its title character is played by Terry Notary, who tried to portray a "14-year-old trapped in the life of an adult" and allowed motion capture equipment to make him look 100 feet tall. Give the 3-word title of this March 2017 movie, set in the South Pacific, where the Alpha Skullcrawler is finally killed by the title gorilla.

answer: Kong: Skull Island

BONUS 9. Name these actors in the movie Kong: Skull Island:

A. In the movie, he plays Preston Packard; in a TV commercial during March Madness, Charles Barkley makes a joke about his past movie Snakes on a Plane.

answer: Samuel L. Jackson

B. In the movie, he plays Bill Randa; in the past, he was much heavier and played Rosanne Barr's sitcom husband Dan.

answer: John Goodman

C. In the movie, he plays James Conrad; in the Thor movies, he plays Loki.

answer: Tom Hiddleston

D. In the movie, he plays Hank Marlow; he is also the voice of Wreck-It Ralph.

answer: John C. Reilly

TOSSUP 10. Pencils and paper ready! Calculate the average speed of a particle spinning in a circle if the circle has diameter 8 feet and the particle goes around the circle once every πseconds.

answer: 8 feet per second [speed = 2π/t, so (2πx 4)/π

BONUS 10. Standard Oil co-founder John D. Rockefeller had one son John, Jr. who had five sons, the longest-living of which, David, died in March 2017 at age 101.

A. David was a longtime executive with Chase Manhattan Bank, which is now owned by this major bank.

answer: JP Morgan Chase

B. In 1979, David helped persuade Jimmy Carter to let this country's Shah into the U.S. for medical treatment, which was a factor in allowing the Ayatollah Khomeini to come to power there.

answer: Iran

C. Nelson, a brother of David ,served as Governor of this Eastern state.

answer: New York

D. Nelson was also Vice-President under this successor to Richard Nixon.

answer: Gerald Ford

TOSSUP 11. Give the 2-word name for the rectangular area along the Mediterranean Sea that was taken over by Israel following the Six-Day War, borders Israel on the east and north, and is home to more than a million Palestinians.

answer: Gaza Strip QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

BONUS 11. The U.S. ranks 14th in the most recent World Happiness Report behind the four Scandinavian countries, among others.

A. This Central American country is the only one whose people are happier than Americans.

answer: Costa Rica

B. This Pacific nation is 8th, just ahead of Australia.

answer: New Zealand

C. This German-speaking country is 13th, just ahead of the U.S. and 3 spots ahead of Germany.

answer: Austria

D. This island to the northwest of England is happier than America.

answer: Iceland

TOSSUP 12. The person in its name wrote a History of the Railroads and Canals of the United States. His name later became second in this company’s name after a merger with a statistics bureau. Identify this business giant whose namesake index of 500 stocks is now a leading economic indicator.

answer: S&P or Standard and Poor

BONUS 12. Answer these about the country of Andorra:

A. and B. It is in the Pyrenees [PEER-a-neez] Mountains between these two countries.

answer: France and Spain

C. This is the country's official language, not Spanish or French.

answer: Catalan

D. Andorra dates its beginnings from 803 AD, when this ruler took the land back from the Moors and granted a charter to the land's residents.

answer: Charlemagne

TOSSUP 13. Pencils and paper ready! A quizbowl writer must write 1,920 questions over an 8-month period. If a month is 4 weeks, how many questions, on average, must he write each week ?

answer: 60 [1920/32]

BONUS 13. Finish these idioms:

A. "To steal someone's [blank]", meaning "to announce big news before another person can do it"

answer: thunder

B. "Preaching to the [blank]", meaning "to explain your point of view to someone who already agrees"

answer: choir

C. "To beat a dead [blank]", meaning "to explain something way more than you need to"

answer: horse

D. "To beat around the [blank]", meaning "to put off discussing an important topic"

answer: bush

TOSSUP 14. It comes from the Italian meaning "to shade" or "to evaporate" and was used by da Vinci in his Mona Lisa to change color and tone slowly from lighter to darker without the viewer noticing the change with an outline or a border. Give the 7-letter word for this painting technique.

answer: sfumato [sfoo-MOT-o] QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

BONUS 14. Answer these about composer Franz Liszt:

A. He was the first to create these now-common performance opportunities for his music students.

answer: recitals

B. At one point in his life, Liszt joined a Franciscan order of these.

answer: monks

C. Liszt's daughter Cosima married this German composer of the Ring cycle of operas.

answer: Richard Wagner [ree-card VOG-ner]

D. Liszt was born in this central European country while it was part of the Austrian Empire.

answer: Hungary

TOSSUP 15. Caused by defects in the genes that make photopigments within the cones of the eyes, this problem was studied by British scientist John Dalton after he discovered that he confused scarlet with green and pink with blue. Name this eye deficiency whose two main types are "blue-yellow" and "red-green."

answer: colorblindness

BONUS 15. Answer these about Tiresias [tye-REE-see-us] in mythology:

A. When he separated two snakes that were wrapped around each other, he was turned into this creature.

answer: a woman

B. After 7 years in that state, he became a man again and was asked to settle an argument between Juno and this husband of hers.

answer: Jupiter

C. As punishment for agreeing with her husband, Juno took this sense away from Tiresias.

answer: his sight (accept blind)

D. As compensation for losing his sight, Tiresias received this gift.

answer: the gift of prophecy (accept forms of the word)

TOSSUP 16. In Japan, this flower is called the "Sakura" and is less popular for the fruit it might produce than for its beauty in early spring that encourages picnics under trees that produce it. Give the 2-word English name for this flower whose trees were given by the mayor of Tokyo to the city of Washington, D.C. in 1912, an occasion now marked annually by a D.C. festival.

answer: cherry blossom

BONUS 16. Answer these about the Dutch painter Rembrandt:

A. He lived his entire life in this century.

answer: 1600’s or 17th century

B. This is the well-known nickname of his painting The Militia Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq.

answer: The Night Watch

C. One large collection of his works is at the Rijksmuseum [rykes] in this city…

answer: Amsterdam

D. …hile another is at the Gemäldegalerie [ga-MEL-da-gal-a-ree] in this European capital.

answer: Berlin, Germany

TOSSUP 17. Considered one of the great electric guitarists of all time, his 2017 album, dedicated to his wife Themetta, will still be released—posthumously. Name this late rock-and-roll legend who gave us the hit song "Johnny B. Goode."

answer: Chuck Berry

BONUS 17. Give these geometric terms: QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

A. A 3-dimensional circle

answer: sphere

B. A line that extends from one endpoint

answer: ray

C. An angle formed by two planes that intersect each other

answer: dihedral [dye-hee-drul] (or torsion) angle

D. To draw something with only a compass and a straightedge

answer: construct

TOSSUP 18. It was once part of Sardinia and once had an observatory that fell apart after a crevasse [kra-VASS] opened underneath it. Considered the birthplace of modern mountaineering, its most popular climbing route includes a ride on its namesake tramway that allows you to begin on its French side. Name this highest peak in western Europe, located on the French-Italian border.

answer: Mont Blanc [moan BLONK]

BONUS 18. Name the largest cities by population in each of these U.S. states:

A. New Jersey

answer: Newark

B. Tennessee

answer: Memphis

C. Ohio

answer: Columbus

D. Missouri

answer: Kansas City

TOSSUP 19. New Orleans, Providence and Boston are examples of—what 2-word phrase that describes a metropolitan area that has decided to limit the amount of help it will give U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in holding illegal immigrants for deportation ? answer: sanctuary city

BONUS 19. Name the states with these counties that don't always detain illegal aliens:

A. Hennepin County

answer: Minnesota

B. Travis County

answer: Texas

C. Multnomah County

answer: Oregon

D. Clark County

answer: Nevada

TOSSUP 20. Sesame Street's newest Muppet is named Julia and suffers from this condition that gives her an excellent memory but makes it hard for her to sustain eye contact and deal with loud noises. Name this mental condition that causes Julia to flap her hands when she gets excited and whose spectrum of related conditions includes Asperger's syndrome.

answer: autism (accept forms of the word)

BONUS 20. As Vice-President under William Henry Harrison, his name was mentioned in Harrison’s campaign slogan.

A. Name this man who took over as President when Harrison died.

answer: John Tyler QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

B. On his last day in office, this state joined the Union.

answer: Florida

C. The Webster-Ashburton Treaty with this country, which set the border between Maine and Canada, was signed during his term.

answer: England (or equivalent)

D. He signed the act adding this state to the U.S. three days before leaving office.

answer: Texas

LIGHTNING ROUND 1 . 19TH-CENTURY HISTORY

1) 1802—this Haitian independence leader is captured by the French. Toussaint L'Ouverture

2) 1815—Mount Tambora in this island nation erupts, creating a "year with no summer." Indonesia

3) 1829—the Treaty of Adrianople ends a war between Russia and this empire. Ottoman Empire

4) 1831—this American begins his anti-slavery newspaper The Liberator. William Lloyd Garrison

5) 1846 – Adolphe Sax developed the saxophone in this European country. Belgium

6) 1854—Pope Pius IX proclaimed this doctrine that Jesus had no original sin. Immaculate Conception

7) 1862—this author published his novel Les Misérables. Victor Hugo

8) 1872—this founder of Jehovah's Witnesses organized his first Bible classes. Charles Taze Russell

9) 1889—these two U.S. states joined the Union on the same day. North Dakota & South Dakota

10) 1894- this country's military officer Alfred Dreyfus is unjustly convicted of treason. France QUESTIONS MAY NOT BE USED IN LEAGUES/TOURNAMENTS WITHOUT PERMISSION !

LIGHTNING ROUND 2. TRAMPOLINES

Answer these about Olympic-level trampoline competitions.

1) A "double back" is one of these tricks, done twice backwards. somersault

2) The surface you land on and bounce off of is called by this 3-letter term. bed

3) Number of tricks in a standard Olympic trampoline routine 10

4) 3-word term for how hard a trick is, also used in diving degree of difficulty

5) A spin around your body's head-to-toe line twist

6) Position where your body folds at the waist, and knees are near the chest tuck

7) The target position to land after each trick is marked by this alphabet letter. X

8) Four-letter word for the distance traveled side-to-side during a trick cast

9) Position, also used in diving, with legs straight but upper body bent pike

10) The forward somersault with 3½ twists shares this name (but not spelling) with German dictator

Hitler. Adolph

LIGHTNING ROUND 3 –STARTS WITH K

1) The first meeting for a big project, or the first play in a football game kickoff

2) Author credited with the original Nancy Drew mysteries Carolyn Keene 3) Canadian area that saw a gold rush in the late 1800’s Klondike 4) Loose robe worn by Japanese women kimono 5) What a soldier is doing by peeling potatoes or boiling water (2 words) kitchen patrol (or KP) 6) A journalist does this to a story if it's not published after it's written. kill

7) Small citrus fruit, about the size of an olive kumquat

8) Quizbowl is intended as a test to see which team has more of this abstract concept. knowledge

9) Peninsula in far northeast Russia Kamchatka

10) Last name of politically conservative brothers Charles and David Koch

END OF BASIC SET 20

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