Norris Middle School Quizbowl 6 Question Set 6
Round 6
1. This state ranks 31st in area and 21st in population. Its chief crops are soybean and sugarcane. It is the only state besides California with land below sea level. Name it.Answer: "Louisiana" / ___ / ___
2. Which novelist espoused a Christian pacifism that influenced Gandhi and Martin Luther King: H.G. Wells, Leo Tolstoy, Honore de Balzac, Pearl Buck, or John Steinbeck?
Answer: Tolsoy / ___ / ___
3. In what novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne do we meet Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmsdale?
Answer: The Scarlet Letter / ___ / ___
4. This neoclassicist scene served as a public memorial to a martyred hero of the French revolution. It depicts a man with a painful skin disease, who writes on a wooden board in his bathtub. Name this 1792 work by Jacques-Louis David.
Answer: The Death of Marat / ___ / ___
5. When first heard of in the tenth century, they were obscure counts ruling a castle and a tiny territory just north of the Swiss border. In the eleventh century they became burgraves of Nuremberg, which prospered under their rule. They were chosen by the Holy Roman Emperor in 1415 to become margraves of Brandenburg, and built that sparsely populated province into an important European power. From their capital at Berlin, they ruled the region known as Prussia from the fifteenth century to the twentieth. Name them.
Answer: The Hohenzollerns / ___ / ___
6. I'll give you the end of a play. Name the play and its author. "Well? Shall we go?" "Yes, let's go." They do not move. Curtain.
Answer: Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett / ___ / ___
7. In area, what's the largest country in South America that's entirely north of the equator?
Answer: Venezuela / ___ / ___
8. Which of these substances has the highest boiling point: mercury, water, oxygen, hydrogen, or carbon?
Answer: Carbon / ___ / ___
9. State the integer equal to 4 to the fourth power.
Answer: 256 / ___ / ___
10. What's another name for a movie's director of photography?
Answer: Cinematographer / ___ / ___
11. Name any four of the seven territorial capitals of Australia.
Answer: Darwin, Perth, Adelaide, Hobart, Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne / ___ / ___
12. The oxides of most metals are in what phase of matter?
Answer: Solids / ___ / ___
13. What island in the western hemisphere is touched by an ocean and a gulf and a sea?
Answer: Cuba / ___ / ___
14. The Crimean War started because of Russia's expansion into: Turkish, Finnish, Polish, Greek, or Danish territory?
Answer: Turkish / ___ / ___
15. Who was Lot's uncle?
Answer: Abraham (Abram) / ___ / ___
16. Whose explanation for his actions in 1963 was "I did it for Jackie Kennedy"?
Answer: Jack Ruby's / ___ / ___
17. Gods chase/Round vase./What say?/What play?/Don't know./Nice, though." Desmond Skirrow wrote the previous poem in response to what piece of pottery poetry by John Keats?
Answer: "Ode on a Grecian Urn" / ___ / ___
18. His appointment as a justice of the peace for the District of Columbia resulted in the first case in which the Supreme Court declared a law of Congress unconstitutional. Name this Federalist politician.
Answer: William Marbury / ___ / ___
19. The subject of Virgil Thompson's opera THE MOTHER OF US ALL was what leader of the National Women's Suffrage Association?
Answer: Susan B. Anthony / ___ / ___
20. The mother of what pop singer went on a three-week hunger strike to protest plans to build industrial plants in a pristine wilderness area in Iceland?
Answer: Bjork / ___ / ___
21. Identify the first disease to be totally eradicated by medical intervention.
Answer: Smallpox / ___ / ___
22. In ancient Greece, what was a bireme?
Answer: (War)ship / ___ / ___
23. In Japan, the art of Ikebana is very popular. What doe this art involve: ancient fighting methods, arranging flowers, folding paper, pouring tea, or climbing Fuji?
Answer: Arrangng flowers / ___ / ___
24. During a severe fuel shortage, who has the basic power to initiate gasoline rationing: the President, Congress, or the Secretary of Energy?
Answer: President / ___ / ___
25. Arguments at the bar of the Supreme Court are not very exciting, and seldom are the justices moved to tears. But orator Daniel Webster did just that to Chief Justice Marshall in 1819, when Webster defended a college that was taken over by the state and made into a public institution. Thanks to Webster, the Court ruled that the college was to remain private. Name the school from which Webster graduated, located in Hanover, New Hampshire.
Answer: Dartmouth College / ___ / ___
26. Name the man with whom Cleopatra had the most children.
Answer: Marc Antony / ___ / ___
27. The Greek word for "making numb" gives us which name for a general class of drug?
Answer: NARCOTIC / ___ / ___
28. A car accelerates from rest to a speed of 10 meters per second in a time of 8 seconds. What is the acceleration of the car in meters per second squared?
Answer: 1.25 meters per second squared / ___ / ___
29. This San Antonio fort, named for a leader in the Texas Revolution, supplied Teddy Roosevelt with his Rough Riders. Name it.
Answer: Fort Sam Houston / ___ / ___
30. What word was intended by the student who wrote this line? "During the Vietnam War, hundreds of draftees were abducted into the U.S. Army every day."
Answer: Inducted / ___ / ___
31. The Brooklyn Dodgers faced the New York Yankees seven times in World Series play. Only one player, a Dodger, appeared in all 44 games from 1941 to 1956. Name this Hall of Fame shortstop.
Answer: Pee Wee Reese / ___ / ___
32. What religion would you associate with St. Basil's Cathedral?
Answer: Russian Orthodox (Accept Eastern Orthodox.) / ___ / ___
33. Tofino, in this Canadian province, celebrates the migration of whales during its Pacific Rim Whales Festival.
Answer: British Columbia / ___ / ___
34. On Jan. 16, 1855, the first territorial legislature of Nebraska met at which city on the Missouri River?
Answer: Omaha / ___ / ___
35. While this professional makes and fits eyeglasses, he can neither prescribe them nor give exams. Name the occupation.
Answer: Optician / ___ / ___
36. Charles Willson Peale was the progenitor of a family famous in what field?
Answer: Painting / ___ / ___
37. The Sauk chief Keokuk is buried in the city of Keokuk in what state?
Answer: Iowa / ___ / ___
38. What is the equation of a parabola with its axis along the x-axis, vertex at the origin, and the coordinates of (18,12)?
Answer: y squared = (4)(2)x or y squared = 8x / ___ / ___
39. Henry Cavendish was an English: chemist, mayor, sea captain, or prime minister?
Answer: Chemist / ___ / ___
40. Poe's short story "The Tell-Tale Heart" is told completely in _____ person.
Answer: First / ___ / ___
41. If the coordinates of the endpoints of a diameter of a circle are (-1,3) and (5,5), what are the coordinates of the center of the circle?
Answer: (2,4) / ___ / ___
Instructions: During the last 5 minutes of each match, use the 'Blitz' format with 10 points for each tossup and no bonus. All answers must be answered without stalling.
Medicine
42. What medical term for an area of healthy cells surrounded by diseased tissue is also used to describe a fertile area in an arid region?
Ans: Oasis / ___ / ___
43. Some contain living, attenuated, infectious organisms. Others contain dead infectious agents. Still others contain soluble toxins of microorganisms. Collectively, these substances that establish resistance to infectious disease are called what?
Ans: Vaccines / ___ / ___
44. A patient making hoarse or high-pitched, labored breathing sounds is said to be doing what?
Ans: Wheezing / ___ / ___
45. Medical procedures that do not require entering the body or puncturing the skin are described by what eleven-letter adjective?
Ans: Noninvasive / ___ / ___
History
46. From 1939 to 1975, a fascist government ruled which of the following: Italy, Germany, Argentina, Nicaragua, or Spain?
Ans: Spain / ___ / ___
47. In 1821, this future President became governor of the newly-acquired Florida territory. Can you name him?
Ans: Andrew Jackson / ___ / ___
48. It could be called a sort of early multinational corporation, or even a precursor to the European Community. Name this mercantile association of medieval North German towns.
Ans: Hanseatic League / ___ / ___
49. In 1843, Daniel Webster resigned as which President's Secretary of State?
Ans: John Tyler / ___ / ___
"Ghostly" items: Each answer contains the word "ghost" or the word "witch."
50. Deserted village
Ans: Ghost town / ___ / ___
51. Expression meaning hopeless
Ans: Don't stand a ghost of a chance. / ___ / ___
52. Who attempts to rid a place of ghosts?
Ans: A ghostbuster / ___ / ___
53. A tribal worker of magic.
Ans: Witch doctor / ___ / ___
54. Harassment of those with unpopular views
Ans: Witch hunt / ___ / ___
55. One who writes for and in another's name.
Ans: Ghost writer / ___ / ___
56. Margaret Hamilton in The Wizard of Oz.
Ans: The Wicked Witch of the West / ___ / ___
57. Elizabeth Montgomery played Samantha in what TV series?
Ans: Bewitched / ___ / ___
58. Wovoka's Native American religious movement.
Ans: Ghost Dance / ___ / ___
59. It arises from a typographical error.
Ans: Ghost word / ___ / ___
Bodies of Water: Identify the body of water which borders the following cities:
60. Madras, India
Ans: Bay of Bengal / ___ / ___
61. Odessa, Ukraine
Ans: Black Sea / ___ / ___
62. Haiphong, Viet Nam
Ans: Gulf of Tonkin / ___ / ___
63. Vladivostok, Russia
Ans: Sea of Japan / ___ / ___