ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, MS #1

14 rounds of 45 questions

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ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, MS #1 Round 1 Page 11 .What words complete this Civil War poem by Francis Miles Finch? Under the sod and the dew Waiting the judgment-day. Under the laurel the Blue Under the willow ...

the Gray 2 .The earthquake in what city in 1906 stimulated more research into the causes of earthquakes than any previous event?

San Francisco 3 .The vast deposits of tar sands in Canada are a potential source for what fossil fuel?

oil (petroleum) 4 .A wooden version of the Equus caballus played a key role in what mythical ten-year war waged by ancient Greeks?

Trojan War 5 .Spell the word referring to a Scottish lake that is a homophone for another word that means "a device used to prevent unauthorized entry."

loch

6 .The area of the bottom of a topless cubical box is 81 square centimeters. You cut the box edges and flatten it out. What is the perimeter of the resulting shape?

108 centimeters 7 .Snakes' tongues detect what sensation?

smell 8 .What is the conclusion of this syllogism? All badgers are mammals. All mammals are warm-blooded.

All badgers are warm-blooded. 9 ."The Bagthorpe Saga," including such titles as "Ordinary Jack," "Absolute Zero," "Bagthorpes Unlimited", and Bagthorpes Haunted," are about an eccentric family from what country?

Great Britain (UK, England) 1 0 .In an 8-pound bowl of chocolate chip cookie mix there are 3 pounds of chocolate chips. To the nearest whole number, how many pounds of chips would there be in 134 pounds of the mix?

50

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, MS #1 Round 1 Page 21 1 .The first steam-powered ironclads were used during what war?

Civil War 1 2 .A pan of pure water over a Coleman stove on top of Mount St. Helens would reach its boiling point at a much lower temperature than an identical pan over the same heat in Death Valley. What accounts for this?

atmospheric (air) pressure 1 3 .The shadow of a man 6 feet tall cast by a street lamp 10 feet behind him is 12 feet in length. How far above the ground is the lamp?

11 feet 1 4 .What time zones are between the Eastern and the Pacific time zones?

Central, Mountain 1 5 .The people who crossed into North America over the Bering land bridge came from a region in Russia now known as ...

Siberia

1 6 .A rock is put into a full bucket of water and some of the water spills over the side. The volume of spilled water equals the volume of the rock. This volume of liquid pushed aside is called the ...

displacement 1 7 .In what annual speech does the U.S. president recap the preceding year and outline plans for the future?

state of the union address 1 8 .What planet may be so bright as to cast shadows on the Earth?

Venus 1 9 .In "Through the Looking Glass," what two characters recite to Alice "The Walrus and the Carpenter"?

Tweedledum and Tweedledee 2 0 .At least fifty members of this family were musicians in the 17th and 18th centuries. One of them, Johann Sebastian, was one of the greatest composers of all time. What was their last name?

Bach

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, MS #1 Round 1 Page 32 1 .The upper layers of bodies of fresh or salt water are home to enormous numbers of tiny organisms consisting of microscopic protists, algae, plants, and animals that are collectively known as ...

plankton 2 2 .What state is the setting for Richard Peck's novel, "A Year Down Yonder"?

Illinois 2 3 .What is the adverb used in this quip by H.L. Mencken? A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

quite 2 4 .This is from what story by O. Henry? "Dell," said he, "let's put our Christmas presents away and keep 'em a while. They're too nice to use just at present. I sold the watch to get the money to buy your combs. And now suppose you put the chops on.

The Gift of the Magi 2 5 .The woolly mammoth that roamed Asia thousands of years ago is most similar to what modern quadruped?

elephant

2 6 .The seaward pull of receding waves after they break on a shore is called ...

undertow (rip tide, rip current) 2 7 .These are characteristics of what place in Asia? It was ceded to Britain in 1842. It was occupied by the Japanese in World War II. In 1997, it was restored to China.

Hong Kong 2 8 .Zeke had 297 potatoes after he increased his pile of potatoes by 10%. How many potatoes did he have before he increased his pile?

270 2 9 .Sound waves travel through what phases of matter?

solid, liquid, gas 3 0 .Two kinds of equipment are needed for radio communication including a receiver and a ...

transmitter

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, MS #1 Round 1 Page 43 1 .Anyone not a citizen of the country in which he or she lives is an ...

alien 3 2 .Name the antecedent of the pronouns in this line. Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached, but great men often resemble them not in this particular.

mountains 3 3 .To what is John Dryden referring in this quote? The gems of heaven, that gild the night's sable throne.

stars 3 4 .What compound word refers to a line describing the outer boundary of an object or figure?

outline 3 5 .The name of what Greek mythical ferryman is an anagram of "anchor"?

Charon

3 6 .What ocean is at the intersection of a latitude of 20 degrees south and a longitude of 20 degrees west?

Atlantic 3 7 .Who is this about? Having occupied the presidency into an unprecedented fourth term, from the Great Depression through the darkest days of the Second World War to the Yalta Conference and plans for a postwar world, he had begun to show the toll.

Franklin Roosevelt 3 8 .At the start of the American Revolution, Paul Revere had arranged a special signal to warn of the arrival of British troops in Boston. One lantern meant the troops were arriving by ...

land 3 9 .Mexico City had 5 million people in 1960 and 30 million at the beginning of the year 2000. This is an increase of what percent?

500% 4 0 .What tough outer coating of cereal grains is separated out in refined products but allowed to remain in whole-grain products?

bran

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, MS #1 Round 1 Page 54 1 .What general part of the human body begins at the bottom of the chest and ends at the hips?

abdomen 4 2 .Weapons that fire projectiles larger than one-half inch in diameter are collectively known as ...

artillery 4 3 .If two parallel lines are cut by a transversal, then any pair of angles is either supplementary or ...

congruent 4 4 .Convergence from both sides of what major American peninsula results in that area experiencing the greatest frequency of midafternoon thunderstorms in the U.S.?

Florida Peninsula 4 5 .What adjective indicates glass that is colored by fusing metal oxides to its surface during the manufacturing process?

stained

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, MS #1 Round 2 Page 11 .At 4 miles per hour, it takes exactly one hour for Abe to walk to school in a blinding blizzard. How many minutes would it take for him if he were to walk at 5 miles per hour?

48 minutes 2 .Name either country adjacent to the Arabian Sea that definitely has atomic weapons.

Pakistan, India 3 .E.B. White wrote three books for young people including "Charlotte's Web," "Stuart Little," and "The Trumpet of the ..."

Swan 4 .In "Born Free," what kind of animal is Elsa?

lion (lioness) 5 .What major part of a plant has these features? terminal bud, lateral bud, leaf scar, lenticel, node, bud-scale scar

stem

6 .Cuba is just south of what tropic?

tropic of Cancer 7 .In the first powered descent onto the Martian surface in thirty years, what NASA spacecraft landed there in 2008?

Phoenix 8 .If the ice covering it could be made to disappear, what huge island would have the appearance of a shallow bowl filled with seawater?

Greenland 9 .A wave that suddenly collapses as it approaches the shoreline is called a ...

breaker 1 0 .There are 1960 bedbugs in Mr. Crabtree's square hunting cabin. Their density is 40 per square foot. What are the dimensions of the cabin?

7' x 7'

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, MS #1 Round 2 Page 21 1 .What occur twice every 24 hours and 52 minutes and are caused by the differential attractions of the Sun and Moon?

tides 1 2 .The two chief agents of metamorphism are ...

pressure, heat 1 3 .At the surface of a liquid, some vibrating molecules escape through a process called ...

evaporation 1 4 .Spell the heteronym which can refer either to a heavy metal or the principal character in a play.

lead 1 5 .What shape on flags of many Muslim countries also indicates the profile of the Moon when less than half-illuminated?

crescent

1 6 .These are the opening lines of what story by Jonathan Wyss? For many days they had been tempest-tossed.

The Swiss Family Robinson 1 7 .What number increased by 1/8th of itself is 54?

48 1 8 .These are what form of classical music? The Eroica The Pastoral From the New World The Kettledrum The Unfinished

symphonies 1 9 .What body of elected officials must consent to appointments made to the major departments of U.S. federal government?

Senate 2 0 .In what state are these cities located? Pierre Sioux Falls Brookings

South Dakota

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, MS #1 Round 2 Page 32 1 .Transform this declarative sentence into an interrogative sentence. I was born.

Was I born? 2 2 .These are components of what body system? gallbladder spleen small intestine

digestive system 2 3 .What kind of convention would be organized to rewrite a nation's fundamental laws?

constitutional convention 2 4 .The Treaties of Payne's Landing and Fort Gibson authorized removal of what tribe from Florida to beyond the Mississippi?

Seminole 2 5 .This is about what character created by Donald Sobol? He read more books than anyone in Idaville, and he never forgot a fact. His pals said he was like a library and a computer rolled into one, and more user-friendly.

Encyclopedia Brown

2 6 .Joseph Addison said that what art form is to a block of marble as education is to the human soul?

sculpture 2 7 .Express as a binary numeral the number of president's heads on Mt. Rushmore.

100 2 8 .What is the meaning of the abbreviation "c/o"?

in care of 2 9 .In Asia, young shoots of rice are planted in flooded fields called ...

paddies 3 0 .This is about what capital of a European country in the 18th century? Executions rose from 13 per month in 1793 to 65 per month in January and February of 1794 and then to 135 a month in March and April. In the next eleven months, 10,636 were guillotined.

Paris

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, MS #1 Round 2 Page 43 1 .Typhoons are hurricanes that occur in either the western Pacific or what other ocean?

Indian Ocean 3 2 .Robin Hood of the shire of Nottingham led a band of outlaws who defied what prince?

Prince John 3 3 .This is from what book by Scott O'Dell? Dolphins are animals of good omen. I was very lonely before they appeared, but now I felt that I had friends with me.

Island of the Blue Dolphins 3 4 .What is the second stressed word in this line? But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?

light 3 5 .The Gulf Stream originates in what body of water?

Gulf of Mexico

3 6 .This is about whom? This frail-looking Hindu lawyer helped free India from British rule by peacefully disobeying British laws.

Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi 3 7 .Pocahontas' marriage to John Rolfe helped keep the peace between the Indians and the settlers in what colony?

Virginia Colony (or Jamestown) 3 8 .Some paintings are executed on a rolled paper or parchment with rigid bars at either end. Such a roll is called a ...

scroll 3 9 .Galileo's telescope was a refractor while Newton's was a ...

reflector 4 0 .The central character in this poem is known by what other name? Of Jonathan Chapman Two things are known, That he loved apples, That he walked alone.

Johnny Appleseed

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, MS #1 Round 2 Page 54 1 .The traditional beliefs, practices, legends, or tales transmitted orally from generation to generation comprises ...

folklore 4 2 .Most metals are not used in their pure state. Often, their usefulness can be much improved by combining them. Such combinations of metals are called ...

alloys 4 3 .In the respiratory process, what is the opposite of inspiration?

expiration (exhaling) 4 4 .The violation of laws or ordinances by someone legally classified as a youth rather than an adult is known as juvenile ...

delinquency 4 5 .Sometimes when a rock is cracked open, you will see a fossil appearing as a thin black film. This film consists of what element?

carbon

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, MS #1 Round 3 Page 11 .What idiom combining a color and an appendage means that someone has been undeniably caught in the act of disobeying the law?

red-handed 2 .What carnivorous African scavengers with especially powerful jaws and coarse, spotted woolly coats emit eerie "laughs" when excited?

hyena 3 .Name the adverb in this sentence. This book is not the one I ordered.

not 4 .In a termite nest, the only female that lays eggs is the ...

queen 5 .These are the categories of what in the body? A, AB, B, O

blood (types)

6 .A word in a dictionary is followed by the "v.i." This abbreviation means ...

intransitive verb 7 .What character in a work by L. Frank Baum says this? I have no heart, you know, so I am careful to help all those who may need a friend, even if it happens to be only a mouse.

The Tin Man (Woodsman) 8 .What novel by William Golding is about a group of boys stranded on a tropical island?

Lord of the Flies 9 .What is indicated on a weather map by the letter "T" enclosed in a circle?

thunderstorms 1 0 .Windward is opposite of ...

leeward (lee side)

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, MS #1 Round 3 Page 21 1 .In what city can you visit the Betsy Ross House, the Liberty Bell Pavilion, Franklin Square, and Independence Hall?

Philadelphia 1 2 .What pronoun should have been used in this line? Unfortunately, the thing with Charlie and I became public.

me 1 3 .What former Southeast Asian country surrendered to Communist forces in 1975?

South Vietnam 1 4 .What is the simple predicate in this line? For moderately large values of two, two plus two equals five.

equals 1 5 .The Battle of Trenton in the American Revolution occurred in what state?

New Jersey

1 6 .What branch of physics deals with reflection, refraction, and the formation of images by optical instruments?

optics 1 7 .What word completes this couplet about contentedness? Throw no gift at the giver's head. Better is half a loaf than no ...

bread 1 8 .Virtually unknown when he left the U.S. on May 20, 1927 aboard his plane, who was an international celebrity by the time he reached Paris some 33 1/2 hours later?

Charles Lindbergh 1 9 .Music can be divided into two major categories. One is vocal. The other is ...

instrumental 2 0 .This is about what African feline? Sprawled alone along a branch, the ---- lurks, awaiting lunch. Her spots and claws, they have their uses (and so do all her gastric juices).

leopard

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, MS #1 Round 3 Page 32 1 .Old Dan and Little Ann are two coonhounds in what novel?

Where the Red Fern Grows 2 2 .This is from the epilogue of what H.G. Wells story? Will he ever return? It may be that he swept back into the past and fell among the blood-drinking, hairy savages of the Age of Unpolished Stone. Or did he go forward, into one of the nearer ages?

The Time Machine 2 3 .In 1916, Frank Lloyd Wright's son, John, invented what building toy named after a 19th-century president known as "the Rail-splitter"?

Lincoln Logs 2 4 .June 6, 2009 marked the 65th anniversary of the Allied landing at what historical region of France?

Normandy 2 5 .Subtracting 3 from half of what number equals 67?

140

2 6 .Located on the West Side of midtown Manhattan, name the main professional theater district of New York City.

Broadway 2 7 .What other abbreviation was used for a country whose name was also abbreviated as C.C.C.P.?

U.S.S.R. 2 8 ."The High King" is the last in what series of fantasies by Lloyd Alexander?

Chronicles of Prydain 2 9 .Cloud-to-ground, intracloud, intercloud, heat, sheet, and ball are all types of what?

lightning 3 0 .This is from what trilogy? Three rings for the elven-kings under the sky Seven for the dwarf-lords in their halls of stone Nine for mortal men doomed to die One for the dark lord on his dark throne

Lord of the Rings

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, MS #1 Round 3 Page 43 1 .Soon after the end of World War II, what nation initiated an intense, decades-long struggle with its former Western allies?

Soviet Union 3 2 .According to the proverb, the world is ruled by the hand that rocks the ...

cradle 3 3 .What kind of milk remains when the cream has been separated away?

skim milk 3 4 .What adjective that indicates a relative size is applied to amateur, neighborhood, or community theater?

little 3 5 .What state is nicknamed "The Equality State" because it was first to grant women the right to vote?

Wyoming

3 6 .What is always formed when the secant and a tangent of a circle meet?

an angle 3 7 .The name, Mesopotamia, literally indicates a land between two ...

rivers 3 8 .Vigilantes are bands of people who take the law into their own ...

hands 3 9 .The blame for the following works of nonfiction lies with what political party? Smoke and Ashes: the Story of the Holocaust A Nightmare in History: The Holocaust We Remember the Holocaust

Nazi (National Socialist German Workers' Party) 4 0 .As soon as an egg and sperm nucleus unite, the egg begins to divide, grow, and divide again many times, thus forming a very small plant called an ...

embryo

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, MS #1 Round 3 Page 54 1 .It is Monday when a ship arrives at the International Date Line from the east. After crossing the line, what day is it?

Tuesday 4 2 .What is the subject of the poem which begins with these words? Listen my children and you shall hear ...

Paul Revere's Ride 4 3 .The last catastrophic slip of the San Andreas Fault occurred in 1857, producing an earthquake estimated on the Richter scale at 8.3. Geologists have found that such enormous slippages occur, on average, every 140 years. Based on this, the next major slip should have occurred in what year?

1997 4 4 .What is the literal meaning of the name megalosaurus?

big (large, giant) lizard 4 5 .A craftsman who creates objects from iron or steel by heating it and then using tools to hammer, bend, cut, and otherwise shape it is called a ...

blacksmith

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, MS #1 Round 4 Page 11 .What English writer and illustrator created characters including Jemima Puddle-Duck, Mrs. Tiggy Winkle, Benjamin Bunny, and Peter Rabbit?

Beatrix Potter 2 .In a county commissioner election, Fran got 120 votes, Leslie got 22 votes, and Julie got 131. Julie won by a plurality of how many votes?

11 3 .What triangles have three unequal sides?

scalene 4 .Restate this sentence illustrating simile to a corresponding sentence illustrating metaphor. He acted like a monster when he got home.

He was a monster when he got home. 5 .An albino plant lacks what pigment, making it unable to photosynthesize?

chlorophyll

6 .Averaging only nine inches of rain per year, the driest state in the U.S. is ...

Nevada 7 .Prolonged exposure to what type of radiation from the Sun will cause sunburn?

ultraviolet radiation 8 .In an isosceles triangle, two sides have equal lengths. What can be said of the angles opposite the two equal sides?

They are equal. 9 .What type of literature are you writing when your English teacher directs you to prepare a short composition that expresses your own views on capital punishment?

essay 1 0 .Stems have three main functions including conduction, production of new tissue, and ...

support

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, MS #1 Round 4 Page 21 1 .Every square inch of what organ contains 19 million cells, sixty hairs, ninety oil glands, nineteen feet of blood vessels, 625 sweat glands, and 19,000 sensory neurons?

skin 1 2 .This line comes from what story by William Wyman Jacobs? "The monkey's paw!" she cried, wildly. "The monkey's paw!"

The Monkey's Paw 1 3 .Name Alaska's southeasternmost national park.

Glacier Bay 1 4 .The principal liturgical ceremony of the Roman Catholic Church is the ...

Mass 1 5 .Malta is closest to what two continents?

Europe, Africa

1 6 .Substances full of minute orifices or tiny surface openings are described by what term that rhymes with "chorus"?

porous 1 7 .Reminiscent of bird reproduction, money you have saved up for some purpose is your ...

nest egg 1 8 .From whom did Bilbo Baggins acquire the ring?

Gollum 1 9 .Hail usually forms in what type of cloud?

cumuliform (cumulus, thunderhead) 2 0 .What kind of organisms are rod-shaped, spiral-shaped, or round?

bacteria (Monerans)

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, MS #1 Round 4 Page 32 1 .Identify the two massive creatures of the Pleistocene Epoch that resembled modern elephants.

mammoth, mastodon 2 2 .Each cocoon of a silkworm may contain up to 900 meters of silk thread. Rounded to the nearest thousand, this is how many feet?

3000 2 3 .A conspicuous characteristic of what whale is its single, long, prominent tusk?

narwhal 2 4 .What are three consecutive integers whose sum is 303?

100, 101, 102 2 5 .What river flows out of Colorado and down the length of New Mexico from north to south?

Rio Grande

2 6 .What kind of creature is "My Friend Flicka"?

horse 2 7 .Joseph Priestley heated mercuric oxide and found it gave off a colorless gas that made a candle burn dazzlingly bright. He wrote that "two mice and myself have had the privilege of breathing it." Priestley had discovered what?

oxygen 2 8 .The main artery which carries blood to all parts of the body except the lungs is the ...

aorta 2 9 .A person will feel dizzy when the fluid inside what organ is disturbed?

ear (cochlea, semicircular canals) 3 0 .From the International Date Line, if you travel west one-fourth of the way around the world, what would your longitude be?

90 degrees (east)

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, MS #1 Round 4 Page 43 1 .Name the mountain range extending from Quebec to the northern part of Alabama.

Appalachians 3 2 .Where was Robert Peary when he wrote this in his journal in 1909? The prize of three centuries. My dream and goal for 20 years! Mine at last. I cannot bring myself to realize it.

North Pole 3 3 .The preserved impressions of prehistoric organisms are called ...

casts (molds) 3 4 .What figure of speech does Francis Bacon use in this passage? Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

metaphor 3 5 .If you bent a 12-inch piece of wire into the form of an equilateral octagon, each side would be how long?

1 1/2 inches

3 6 .In what ocean are Melanesia and Micronesia?

Pacific 3 7 .What maritime offense is associated with the crews of Philip Queeg, William Bligh, and Henry Hudson?

mutiny 3 8 .What letter completes this unusual statement of a familiar proverb? 1 B in the H = 2 in the ...

B .3 9 .What is the primary respiratory organ of sharks?

gill 4 0 .The General Electric Company traces its origins to what 19th-century inventor and entrepreneur?

Thomas Edison

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, MS #1 Round 4 Page 54 1 .Swimmers have been electrocuted by both electric rays in warm seas and by what creatures in South American fresh waters?

electric eels 4 2 .During what season of the year does the Sun approach the summer solstice?

spring 4 3 .This is from a story set on what mountain? The gales of the preceding days which had so ravaged Camp VII had died down. Hillary and Tensing were known to be two of the most powerful climbers in the world.

Mt. Everest 4 4 .Classify the final pronoun in this statement by H.L. Mencken. Every man sees in his relatives a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

reflexive 4 5 .In what state is there a national park around a deep-blue lake in the heart of an inactive volcano?

Oregon

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, MS #1 Round 5 Page 11 .Early attempts to make a calendar involved using the time from one new moon to the next. But the time it takes for the Moon to revolve once completely around Earth is 29 1/2 days. This period would make a 12-month year equal how many days?

354 2 .A type of ragtime played on a tinny-sounding piano is called honky- ...

tonk 3 .What thinly populated Scandinavian country that is mostly partitioned by mountains has a fiord-gashed shoreline of more than 21,000 kilometers?

Norway 4 .In "Pop Goes the Weasel," the monkey chases the weasel around the ...

cobbler's bench 5 .Resembling a fast-moving, meandering river, the major wind currents flowing west to east that form where warm tropical air meets cold air from the poles are called ...

jet streams

6 .The Moon revolves around the Earth every 29.53 days. What is its rotation rate?

29.53 days 7 .What stage direction in a play manuscript indicates that a character should go onstage?

enter 8 .What capital city is closest to where John Sutter built a mill?

Sacramento 9 .Carol's cornstalks had heights of 81, 84, 85, 88, 90, 93, 97, and 98 inches. What is their mean height?

89.5 inches 1 0 .Throughout his career as a fireman in "Fahrenheit 451," Montag stole twenty of what kind of items?

books

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, MS #1 Round 5 Page 21 1 ."Atomic number" refers to the quantity of what type of subatomic particle in an element?

protons 1 2 .In 1848, John Marshall said he had discovered a chispa, a Spanish word for "bright speck" or "spangle." What had he discovered near the future site of Sacramento, California?

gold 1 3 .What is the ultimate source of the energy in the following? falling water natural gas coal and oil food

the sun (sunlight) 1 4 .Any place can be a land of the midnight Sun if the Sun does not sink below what for a 24-hour period for at least one day in the year?

horizon 1 5 .Italy is on a long peninsula resembling a boot with its toe jutting into the Mediterranean and its top nestled in what mountain range?

Alps

1 6 .The successive growing of a series of dissimilar crops in the same fields to improve soil fertility and avoid depletion of nutrients is called ...

crop rotation 1 7 .Which general type of sensation is further subdivided into categories such as cold, pain, heat, and pressure?

touch 1 8 .The soaking of water into a sponge or a gas into water is called ...

absorption 1 9 .What U.S. national park boasts a grand canyon, abundant bears, bison, and elk, and the planet's largest concentration of geothermal features?

Yellowstone 2 0 .The naturalist William Beebe once followed a sloth through the forest for a week and discovered it spent 11 hours feeding, 18 hours moving slowly about, 10 hours resting, and how many hours sleeping?

129

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, MS #1 Round 5 Page 32 1 .Ocean water is in constant motion due mainly to tides, winds, and ...

currents 2 2 .If you see a drooling skunk at midday that seems to have no fear of humans, that animal probably has what disease?

rabies 2 3 .What part of the body is injured in a concussion?

brain (head) 2 4 .What is the third-person future plural form of "to be"?

they will be 2 5 .Thanks to Verrazano and later colonists, Rhode Island was named after what Greek island of the Aegean off southwest Turkey?

Rhodes

2 6 .What agency of the U.S. government investigates violations of federal law including espionage, narcotics smuggling, and kidnapping?

FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) 2 7 .Glaze is fixed onto pottery by means of what piece of equipment?

kiln 2 8 .News of the Treaty of Ghent was especially slow in reaching what American general fighting in the vicinity of New Orleans?

Andrew Jackson 2 9 .What Arctic bird is the world's undisputed migration champion?

(Arctic) tern 3 0 .Who is the central character in American tales that span the time between the winter of the blue snow through the spring in which the rain came up from China?

Paul Bunyan

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, MS #1 Round 5 Page 43 1 .Spell a word referring to a part of a sentence that is a homonym for another word meaning the sharp nails on animal toes.

clause 3 2 .The Middle Ages ended as what period of cultural rebirth began in Europe?

Renaissance 3 3 .Ore from Morey's Mine contains 11 pounds of silver and 16 pounds of lead per ton. How many pounds of waste material are in each ton?

1973 3 4 .Cyprus is in the eastern part of what sea?

Mediterranean 3 5 .What form of humor is illustrated in these one liners? -I used to be a ballet dancer, but found it too-too difficult. -Marathon runners with bad footwear suffer the agony of defeat. -When you've seen one shopping center, you've seen a mall.

puns

3 6 .The rigid application of regulations resulting in delays in getting business done is known as what kind of tape?

red tape 3 7 .What adjective for something inconvenient or annoying completes this poem by Ogden Nash? A shrimp who sought his lady shrimp Could catch no glimpse Not even a glimp. At times, translucence Is rather a ...

nuisance 3 8 .In what story does a maid named Martha tell Mary Lennox about a garden at her Uncle Archibald's house that has been locked up for ten years?

The Secret Garden 3 9 .During what phase of the Moon can a lunar eclipse occur?

full moon 4 0 .The Persian Gulf is an arm of what sea?

Arabian Sea

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, MS #1 Round 5 Page 54 1 .What words should be italicized or underlined in this bibliographical entry? Goldschneider, F. K., Waite, L., (1986). Nonfamily living and the erosion of traditional family orientations among young adults. American Sociological Review, 51, 541-554.

American Sociological Review 4 2 .A person running for what public office in the U.S. must be at least thirty years old, a U.S. citizen for nine years, and a citizen of the state to be represented?

senator 4 3 .What is the product of 4 and 3x and 20y?

240 xy 4 4 .What phrase indicates the daily period of peak television viewing?

prime time 4 5 .What kind of special relationship is indicated in this verse? In form and feature, face and limb, I grew so like my brother, That folks kept taking me for him, And each for one another.

twins (identical twins)

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, MS #1 Round 6 Page 11 .In H.G. Wells' "The War of the Worlds," the aliens are from what planet?

Mars 2 .If the radius of a regular hexagon is 6, what is its perimeter?

36 3 .What figure of speech did Mark Twain use in this passage? Laws are sand, customs are rock.

metaphor (analogy) 4 .The distance between lines of what is greatest at the equator and progressively smaller as you approach the poles?

longitude 5 .Supreme political power is in the hands of how many people in an autocracy?

one

6 .What North American rodent, usually about eight inches long exclusive of its hairy tail, often decorates its large nest with shiny materials and objects from human habitations?

pack rat (trade rat, wood rat) 7 .What number follows in this sequence? 144, 121, 100, 81, 64, ...

49 8 .What is the lightest nonflammable gas?

helium 9 .In the 1820s, what did states like Indiana, New Jersey, Ohio, and Vermont prohibit that states like Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, and Tennessee permit?

slavery 1 0 .The sound may be almost as loud as that of a pneumatic drill and is caused by the vibration of the soft, mobile back part of the roof of the mouth. Production of such nocturnal noise is called ...

snoring

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, MS #1 Round 6 Page 21 1 .Name the southernmost Latin American country whose capital is in the Andes.

Chile 1 2 .The Moon is about 384,000 kilometers from Earth. A distance of 150 million kilometers separates the Earth to the Sun. It took the Apollo 11 spacecraft 3 days to reach the Moon. At the same speed, it would have taken about how many years to reach the Sun?

3 .1 3 .After some number of years, what geological process causes a smooth slab of concrete to appear cracked, chipped, and rough, with exposed pebbles at the surface?

weathering (or erosion) 1 4 .In what city is the Texas Book Depository and the John F. Kennedy Memorial?

Dallas 1 5 .This is about what structure? Built around 1370 as part of the defenses of Paris, it was converted into a prison in the 17th century and housed mainly political prisoners. Its storming and demolition in 1789 by a large crowd is the symbol for the beginning of the French Revolution.

Bastille (Bastille Saint-Antoine)

1 6 .If the half-life of an isotope is 100 years, what fraction of a sample will be left after four centuries?

1/16 1 7 .This is about what ship? Just 48 hours into its first voyage as the most publicized ship of its day, the ship was finished within the ten seconds it took for the iceberg to slash the ship's underside.

Titanic 1 8 .According to Lewis Carroll, what kind of "raths outgrabe"?

mome raths 1 9 .Spell the homograph that can either mean "a cudgel" or "a flying mammal."

bat 2 0 .What error in composition is illustrated below? The little piglet was extraordinarily hairless and bald too.

redundancy

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, MS #1 Round 6 Page 32 1 .The high pile of pyroclastics around a volcanic vent is called the ...

cone 2 2 .If A = -1 and b = -3, evaluate -2a + b.

-1 2 3 .Salinization occurs when a great deal of what kind of substances accumulate in soil?

salts 2 4 .Name the ship after which Robert Gray named the largest river in the Pacific Northwest.

Columbia 2 5 .Name the simplest device used by scientists to break white light into its components.

prism

2 6 .A network of Sicilian criminal organizations active abroad and in the U.S. was called the ...

Mafia 2 7 .The sequence of organisms, including producers, consumers, and decomposers, through which energy and materials move within an ecosystem makes up a ...

food chain 2 8 .Name either of the two fossil fuels that replaced coal for most home heating in America during the second half of the twentieth century.

natural gas (methane), oil 2 9 .What interrogative pronoun consists of only three letters?

who 3 0 .What tropic passes through Paraguay and Brazil?

tropic of Capricorn

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, MS #1 Round 6 Page 43 1 .What word should the student have used when he quoted Abraham Lincoln as below? A horse divided against itself cannot stand.

house 3 2 .What is the only U.S. state bordering the St. Lawrence River after it passes Lake Ontario?

New York 3 3 .How many cubic inches are in five cubic feet?

8640 3 4 .Name the 19th-century revolutionary leader who fought the Spanish for the independence of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia.

Simon Bolivar 3 5 .A group of social insects that cooperates in the construction of a nest, collection of food, and rearing of the young is called a ...

colony (hive)

3 6 .What simple machine is a "wound-up wedge"?

screw 3 7 .What adjective may describe either a type of deep cough or an endangered, long-legged bird?

whooping 3 8 .This quote comes from what Jack London story? He was not shivering, and it even seemed that a warm glow had come to his chest and trunk. And yet, when he touched his nose or cheeks, there was no sensation.

To Build a Fire 3 9 .Frostbite is most likely to affect body parts farthest from what organ?

heart 4 0 .What memorial in Washington, D.C., features a pool, eagles, two flagpoles, a freedom wall with thousands of gold stars, two huge arches, and pillars for each of the states and territories?

World War II Memorial

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, MS #1 Round 6 Page 54 1 .A feature that can be passed on from one generation to the next is what kind of characteristic?

inherited (genetic, congenital) 4 2 .What is the conclusion in this syllogism? p or q. Not p. Therefore ...

q .4 3 .In "The Wind in the Willows," which boastful character has lots of money, a hall, and not much brain?

Mr. Toad 4 4 .By their names, you can surmise that these were emperors of what ancient empire? Didius Julianus Septimus Severus Maximinus Daia Theodosius the Great

Rome 4 5 .The initial stage in the growth of a seed to form a seedling is called ...

germination

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, MS #1 Round 7 Page 11 .Some one-celled creatures have characteristics of both plants and animals. Which of these contains chlorophyll and propels itself through water by means of its flagellum?

euglena 2 .A core element of national interest for a government is providing for the physical safety of a nation's citizens. This is called national ...

defense (security) 3 .Polar continental air masses enter the United States through what country?

Canada 4 .What two indefinite articles may be used before nouns that begin with a, e, i, o, or u?

an, the 5 .A rectangle is 3 times as long as it is wide. If it were 3 feet shorter and 3 feet wider, it would be square. What are the rectangle's dimensions?

3' x 9'

6 .The symbol for what element comes from the Latin word "ferrum"?

iron 7 .Camp Green Lake in Texas, where there is no lake and hardly anything green, is the setting for what novel by Louis Sachar?

Holes 8 .What word completes this line from "Anne of Green Gables"? Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and ...

failing (or any synonym like losing, flopping) 9 .In Jean Craighead George's story, "My Side of the Mountain," young Sam Gribley decides to spend a year alone in what mountains associated with Rip van Winkle?

Catskills 1 0 ."A cent and a half a mile - a mile and a half an hour" summed up the cost and speed of a ride on what canal completed in 1825?

Erie Canal

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, MS #1 Round 7 Page 21 1 .What organs are about the size of a person's fist and lie on each side of the backbone, just about waist level?

kidneys 1 2 .The Confederate states returned to the Union during what period in American history?

Reconstruction (1860s) 1 3 .What alloy composed of tin and copper is used in metal sculpture?

bronze 1 4 .Striations and scratches made in bedrock when a glacier passed over are made not by the ice itself but what that is embedded in the ice?

rocks (boulders, stones, etc.) 1 5 .A specially prepared surface that prevents a spacecraft or capsule from overheating as it reenters the Earth's atmosphere is a heat ...

shield

1 6 .What is the last name of the girl in this passage? On her thirteenth birthday, Anne had received a diary as a gift. When her family went into hiding, she began to write regularly and often in it.

Frank 1 7 .An officer who crossed the Isthmus of Panama with Balboa in 1513 told Panama's governor about a land to the south where people drink from golden vessels and have animals that are half sheep and half camel. What kind of animals was he talking about?

llamas 1 8 .A large painting on a wall or ceiling is a ...

mural 1 9 .You might find ten short stories by the same author in what kind of book?

anthology 2 0 .The German word for "fresh" or "lively" is ...

frisch

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, MS #1 Round 7 Page 32 1 .These were important cities on what peninsula? Florence, Milan, Genoa, Venice

Italy 2 2 .Multiply (x + 8) by (x - 2).

x squared + 6x - 16 2 3 .All rodents have exactly four of what kind of teeth?

incisors 2 4 .These are the two divisions of what group of marine animals? toothed baleen

whales 2 5 .Name either of the two largest countries that supported North Korea during the Korean War.

Soviet Union, China

2 6 .A comparatively dark, shallow depression in the Sun's photosphere is a ...

sunspot 2 7 .A man who announces that he will be a candidate for political office is throwing his hat into what?

the ring 2 8 .The Greenland Current flows into the North Atlantic and what other ocean?

Arctic Ocean 2 9 .What word can either refer in biology to a heterotrophic organism that ingests other organisms, or, in economics, to one who acquires goods for personal ownership or use?

consumer 3 0 .What desert plant offers shade, a nutritious fruit, a juice that can be fermented, stones that can be made into charcoal, fibers from which to make rope, as well as wood?

date palm

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, MS #1 Round 7 Page 43 1 .More than three millennia ago, the fertile floodplains of what two rivers nurtured the civilizations of Assyria and Babylonia?

Tigris, Euphrates 3 2 .In experiments, scientists choose the values of the independent variables and then measure the values of what other variables?

dependent variables 3 3 .What ancient civilization produced the Obelisk of Thutmose I at Karnak?

Egyptian 3 4 .What legendary medieval Englishman who fought against tyranny and injustice is remembered for stealing from the rich and giving to the poor?

Robin Hood 3 5 .By using new equipment, a business that can make a comparable product with fewer employees or with reduced raw materials is generally better off. Simply stated, what economic term means making the most of the limited resources available?

efficiency

3 6 .What crime is committed in O. Henry's "The Ransom of Red Chief"?

kidnapping 3 7 .This line written in 1856 is reminiscent of what modern saying? No matter how strong the components of a group or system, the weakest part is as strong as the whole thing can be.

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. 3 8 .In 1997, in an unprecedented case, the U.S. Supreme Court supported Paula Jones' right to go ahead with a sexual harassment suit against whom?

Bill Clinton 3 9 .What title did these women hold? Eleanor Roosevelt Abigail Adams Martha Washington Patricia Nixon

first lady 4 0 .The army of what Mesoamerican civilization captured as many prisoners as possible for sacrifice at Tenochtitlan?

Aztec

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, MS #1 Round 7 Page 54 1 .What is the grammatical subject of this quote by Hemingway? Never mistake motion for action.

you (understood) 4 2 .In fiction, dialogue is typically enclosed within quotation marks. In a play, each character's lines are preceded by what?

the character's name 4 3 .Typical life forms of which biome include mosses, lichens, musk-oxen, and arctic foxes?

tundra 4 4 .Each employee took an oath swearing to remain sober and not use profanity, gamble, treat horses cruelly, or interfere with the rights of Indians. Each received a Bible, a pair of Colt revolvers, and $125 per month. These mailmen worked for what company?

pony express 4 5 .The Sun consumes about 700 million tons of what element per second?

hydrogen

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, MS #1 Round 8 Page 11 .Baking ceramic objects in a hot kiln defines what process?

firing 2 .Five liters of auk oil sells for $100. What is the cost of 7 liters of auk oil?

$140 3 .This is from a Robert Louis Stevenson poem about what phenomenon? The funniest thing about him is the way he likes to grow / Not at all like proper children, which is always very slow / For he sometimes shoots up taller like an India-rubber ball, / And he sometimes gets so little that there's none of him at all.

a shadow (his shadow) 4 .How many syllables are in the last line of the rhyme that begins with these lines? I eat my peas with honey. I've done it all my life. They do taste kind of funny ...

7 .5 .In both low relief and high relief sculpture, the figures stand out from the ...

background

6 .Wafers of what common nonmetallic element are fundamental to integrated circuits in computers?

silicon 7 .What kind of machine is illustrated by a doorknob, handlebars on a bicycle, gears, or airplane propellers?

wheel and axle 8 .What Caribbean country was the first independent black republic and the only nation ever to emerge from a successful slave rebellion?

Haiti 9 .The first three trisyllabic words in the Pledge of Allegiance are accented on what syllable?

second 1 0 .These are among the names of the 41 men who signed what document? William Mullins, John Tilley, John Alden, Moses Fletcher, William Bradford

Mayflower Compact

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, MS #1 Round 8 Page 21 1 .Name the imaginary vertical line through the center of the Sun about which the Sun rotates.

axis 1 2 .Once a practice in Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Africa, and South America, the making of trophies from the craniums of slain enemies is called ...

head-hunting 1 3 .If you examine the root of a young plant under a microscope, you would see that the root seems to be fuzzy. This fuzziness is caused by fine threadlike growths called ...

root hairs 1 4 .This is about what country? In 1789, the National Assembly abolished feudalism and drew up a "Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen," proclaiming that "Men are born and remain free, equal in rights."

France 1 5 .What compound word refers to the wings, dressing rooms, and other parts of a theater behind the proscenium and beyond the view of the audience?

backstage

1 6 .As used in computing, a bit can have how many different values?

2 .1 7 .How many square feet of ground are in a plot which measures 60 feet by 95 feet?

5,700 1 8 .At sea level, what weighs 14.7 pounds per square inch?

the atmosphere 1 9 .Functioning simultaneously as a hinge, lever, and shock absorber, what joint is key to your ability to stand up, walk, climb, and kick?

knee 2 0 .Tradition has it that the walls of Jericho were brought down by the sound of what musical instruments?

trumpets (shofars)

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, MS #1 Round 8 Page 32 1 .This is a formula for the perimeter of what geometric figure? P = a + b + c

triangle 2 2 .The chains and sprockets used by the Wright brothers in their first airplane were actually designed to be used in what other form of transportation?

bicycles 2 3 .The terms of what fraction of U.S. senators expire every two years?

1/3 2 4 .If you knock on your friend's door and someone inside asks "Who's there," you might respond with "It's me." But to be grammatically correct, how should you respond?

It is I. (It's I) 2 5 .What is the last name of these people who have held the position of prime minister of India? Indira, Rajiv

Gandhi

2 6 .The brain consists of white matter and ...

gray matter 2 7 .Okefenokee Swamp is in northeastern Florida and southeastern ...

Georgia 2 8 .What country was run for a time by Georgi Malenkov, Vyacheslav Molotov, Nikolai Bulganin, Laurenti Beria, Lazar Kaganovich, and Nikita Khrushchev?

Soviet Union (U.S.S.R.) 2 9 .In what sea are these islands? Barbados Tobago Andros Trinidad Barbuda

Caribbean Sea 3 0 .A tax imposed on imported goods with the intent of discouraging importation and promoting the sale of domestic products is called a protective ...

tariff

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, MS #1 Round 8 Page 43 1 .What ecological concept is illustrated below? A human must eat 10 pounds of fish to gain 1 pound. The fish must eat 100 pounds of smaller animals which must eat 1000 pounds of plankton.

food pyramid 3 2 .How much horsepower is a 180-hp engine using at 45% efficiency?

81 3 3 .The carat used for measuring the weight of gemstones equals one fifth of a gram or how many milligrams?

200 3 4 .This is about what country? Africa's richest country became a republic in 1961, but its policy of racial separation called apartheid made it an outcast among nations.

South Africa 3 5 .What is the next word in this line from the Declaration of Independence? That to secure these rights governments are instituted among men - deriving their just powers from the consent of the ...

governed

3 6 .Ryan is serious when he studies, shy at social events, industrious, ethical, conscientious, hard to rattle, and generally even-tempered. All of these qualities and traits make up his ...

personality (character) 3 7 .By adding a suffix to "statue," you form what term indicating a small statue?

statuette 3 8 .Any device that focuses beams of radiation is called a ...

lens 3 9 .Virtually all of the significant rivers in Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma flow in which cardinal direction?

east 4 0 .What river is the setting for Huckleberry Finn's adventures?

Mississippi

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, MS #1 Round 8 Page 54 1 .What chain of tropical islands extends from Cuba to Aruba off the coast of Venezuela?

West Indies 4 2 .What three words complete this statement about energy? Energy may be changed from one form to another, but it can never be either ...

created or destroyed 4 3 .The body of what animal was sculpted with the head of a human on ancient Egyptian sphinxes?

lion 4 4 .These words were borrowed from what language? giraffe, caravan, minaret, sultan

Arabic 4 5 .What is the collective, common name for those ants with a stinger on their abdomens that injects a toxic alkaloid venom causing a pain that feels much like a burn?

fire ants

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, MS #1 Round 9 Page 11 .Theodore Roosevelt's uncle originally transcribed some of the stories about what long-eared, short-tailed burrowing mammal that were later made famous by Joel Chandler Harris?

Br'er Rabbit 2 .Phosphorus and what other element are essential for building bones and teeth?

calcium 3 .What kind of forest in northern Eurasia and North America consists of evergreen cone-bearing trees?

coniferous forest 4 .Name any place where the spacing of the meridians of longitude equals zero miles.

North (or South) Pole 5 .What blood vessels have an average diameter of about four millionths of an inch?

capillaries

6 .What implement was used in the Alexandrian solution to the Gordian knot?

sword 7 .Many of the legislative powers that are supposed to belong entirely to what body in U.S. government have been delegated to federal regulatory agencies?

Congress 8 .How many stitches are saved by a stitch in time?

9 .9 .What adjective describes the inches by which advertising is typically sold in magazines and newspapers?

column 1 0 .What is the name for a region in a country which regularly produces an agricultural surplus vital to the country as a whole?

breadbasket

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, MS #1 Round 9 Page 21 1 .This passage from the Book of Matthew is reminiscent of what slogan of the American Revolution? Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand.

United we stand, divided we fall. 1 2 .In which cardinal direction would you travel to get to Israel from Lebanon?

south 1 3 .The U.S. federal government could not intervene when Massachusetts faced Shays' Rebellion or prohibit Rhode Island from issuing mountains of worthless paper money due to the inherent weakness in what document?

Articles of Confederation 1 4 .What alloy of copper and zinc is used in valves, gears, locks, ammunition, doorknobs, and musical instruments?

brass 1 5 .Sebaceous glands are associated with which body system?

integumentary

1 6 .This is from what Hans Christian Andersen tale? One day, two rogues came who gave themselves out as weavers, and declared they could weave the finest stuff any one could imagine. They said the clothes they made became invisible to any one who was unfit for the office he held, or was incorrigibly stupid.

The Emperor's New Clothes 1 7 .El Salvador is adjacent to what body of water?

Pacific Ocean 1 8 .What ancient Greek writer completed each of his tales with a teaching such as "Don't trust flatterers" or "Appearances may deceive"?

Aesop 1 9 .In Tolkien's "The Hobbit," what kind of creature is Smaug?

dragon 2 0 .What word completes this quote by Abraham Lincoln? And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in ...

your years

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, MS #1 Round 9 Page 32 1 .A plainsman of the Old West noted that "God made some men large and some small, but Colonel Colt made them all ..."

equal 2 2 .This is from what story? It is the intention of the government that he shall never again see the country which he has disowned. Before the end of your cruise, you will receive orders which will give effect to this intention.

The Man Without a Country 2 3 .Using the letters "a" and "b," express the rhyme scheme of this poem. There was a young lady of Wilts, Who walked up to Scotland on stilts. When they said it was shocking To show so much stocking, She replied, "Then what about kilts?"

aabba 2 4 .What happens to the speed of a liquid in a pipe when the diameter of the pipe becomes smaller?

It increases (speeds up, accelerates) 2 5 .In what type of reference could this be found? silent - still, hushed, quiet, quiescent, faint, muted, noiseless, soundless, inaudible, soundproof, speechless, unspoken, deathlike

thesaurus

2 6 .An antidote counteracts the effects of a ...

poison (toxin, venom) 2 7 .In Longfellow's poem, what "fell to earth I knew not where"?

an arrow 2 8 .The flowers of heliotropic plants follow the direction of what?

the Sun 2 9 .You are washing your hands and find that instead of suds you are only producing a kind of soapy scum. This water would be described as being ...

hard 3 0 .What can be said about two triangles if their sides are respectively perpendicular to each other?

They are similar.

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, MS #1 Round 9 Page 43 1 .During a mission, what condition routinely causes astronauts to lose as much as four inches in girth and gain an inch or so in height?

weightlessness 3 2 .What is the general term for any kind of compulsive need to do things like gamble, play video games, exercise, imbibe alcohol, or take habit-forming substances?

addiction 3 3 .Animals such as camels, llamas, and dogs that have been tamed have been ...

domesticated 3 4 .While particles greater than ten micrometers in diameter tend to settle to the ground in a matter of hours, particles less than 1 micrometer can stay in the atmosphere for weeks and are mostly removed by ...

precipitation (rain, snow) 3 5 .What is the object of the second preposition in this quip? You have read about computer viruses which computers get when they're left uncovered in drafty rooms.

rooms

3 6 .Complete this proverb. All is fair in love and ...

war 3 7 .Dislocations are common among football, boxing, and hockey players. These competitive activities illustrate what category of sports involving physical contact between players as a normal part of the game?

contact sports 3 8 .What term could indicate a two-page summary of "War and Peace"?

synopsis (abstract, condensation) 3 9 .What type of musical instrument uses a roll of paper with holes in it that correspond to different notes?

pianola (player piano) 4 0 .The right ray of an angle is called "k" and the left ray is called "a." The vertex is named "u." Reading from left to right, give the name of this angle.

angle "auk"

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, MS #1 Round 9 Page 54 1 .What adjective indicates the type of pressure exerted by the weight of the air above a point on the Earth's surface?

atmospheric 4 2 .The brain is composed of how many hemispheres?

two 4 3 .In watercolors, a thin translucent layer of diluted color is called a ...

wash 4 4 .The treaty ending the American Revolution included a somewhat ambiguous cession of territory from the southern boundary of Canada to the northern boundary of Florida and from the Atlantic to the ...

Mississippi River 4 5 .Fix this sentence. I feel badly when I ski bad.

I feel bad when I ski badly.

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, MS #1 Round 10 Page 11 .What kind of phrase follows the word "based" in this line by Miguel Cervantes? A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

prepositional phrase 2 .How many times higher is the frequency of the next C note above middle C?

two times 3 .Origins of well-known American folk songs are discussed in the book, "Hear the Wind Blow." This title comes from the lyrics of what song?

Down in the Valley 4 .In what story do Meg, Charles, and Calvin learn from a mysterious stranger about a tesseract which he describes as a wrinkle in time?

A Wrinkle in Time 5 .What structure in the ear may be ruptured or torn by loud noise, decreased air pressure, or severe sneezing?

eardrum (tympanic membrane)

6 .Positrons, antineutrons, and antiprotons comprise what kind of matter?

antimatter 7 .Who, in 1494, discovered Jamaica?

Christopher Columbus 8 .What is the title of the head of the judicial branch of government in the U.S.?

chief justice 9 .Fortunately, Fred Gipson did not give this title to which of his novels? Antiquated Canine whose Name Means a Portion of the Visible Spectrum between Orange and Green and Is Pronounced with a Southern Accent

Old Yeller 1 0 .What hard, brittle mineral found in nodules in limestone or shale deposits was used to create a spark and discharge early firearms?

flint

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, MS #1 Round 10 Page 21 1 .You put a load of Earth's garbage into a rocket and send it to the Sun 150 million kilometers away. The rocket travels at an average speed of 40 thousand kilometers per hour. To the nearest whole number, how many days does it take the rocket to reach the Sun?

156 1 2 .Which branch of U.S. government has authority to amend the Constitution?

legislative 1 3 .The oceans cover about 71 percent of the Earth's surface and contain about 97% of the water in what sphere of the planet?

hydrosphere 1 4 .What is the simple predicate in this sentence? In this neck of the woods, the word for sushi is bait.

is 1 5 .In the courtroom, the two sides in a criminal case are called the prosecution and the ...

defense

1 6 .A bedcover consisting of two cloth layers filled with an insulating material and stitched together in crisscrossed lines or patterns is a ...

quilt 1 7 .What 15th-century Spanish queen signed the Treaty of Tordesillas that divided the New World between Spain and Portugal?

Isabella 1 8 .A joey is a baby of what animal?

kangaroo 1 9 .Various plastics, fertilizers, explosives, herbicides, varnish, antiseptics, and synthetic rubber are made commercially from what substance that originally consisted of plant material that collected in prehistoric swamps?

coal 2 0 .What figure of speech is in this tale? One year when Paul Bunyan was working on Michigan's Upper Peninsula, it was so cold that the flames in the lanterns froze solid and nobody could blow them out.

hyperbole

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, MS #1 Round 10 Page 32 1 .From what country did the U.S. purchase Kodiak Island as part of a larger real estate deal?

Russia 2 2 .What gaseous element is most abundant in nitrates?

nitrogen 2 3 .A person who writes for and gives credit to another person is what kind of writer?

ghostwriter 2 4 .What is the gerund phrase in this line? When I returned to my dorm room, I heard my pet goldfish singing in the shower.

singing in the shower 2 5 .The length of time during which you can focus or concentrate on an activity or object is known as what span?

attention span

2 6 .Although characterized as a wimp by his political opponents, he organized an international coalition and sent 540,000 American troops to liberate Kuwait after an Iraqi invasion. Name this president.

George Bush 2 7 .Name the three sections into which a beetle's body is divided.

head, thorax, abdomen 2 8 .Which simple machine is applied in escalators and loading ramps?

inclined planes 2 9 .A snake periodically sheds its outer skin through what process?

molting 3 0 .What is the French name for small cubes of toasted bread served with soups or salads?

croutons

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, MS #1 Round 10 Page 43 1 .In what type of climate are mean temperatures during the warmest month below ten degrees C?

polar climate 3 2 .President Lincoln made his historic Gettysburg Address shortly after the end of what battle?

Battle of Gettysburg 3 3 .What is the English equivalent of the Greek word "meter," the French word "mere," and the German word "mutter"?

mother 3 4 .These statements refer to what document? -unquestionably the wisest plan ever yet presented to man -covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times, and under all circumstances -the envy of the world, for it is the grand design of the finest nation on earth

U.S. Constitution 3 5 .Tributaries of what river are found in Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil?

Amazon

3 6 .In what country did yoga originate?

India 3 7 .Audiograms measure a person's ability to ...

hear (perceive sound) 3 8 .The cities of Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Doha are adjacent to what body of water?

Persian Gulf 3 9 .What bright star corresponds to the southern celestial pole in the same way that Polaris corresponds to the northern celestial pole?

none 4 0 .The Rosetta Stone was the key to understanding what ancient Egyptian writing system based on pictorial symbols?

hieroglyphics

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, MS #1 Round 10 Page 54 1 .This is from a story by what British author? The Rhinoceros took off is skin and carried it over his shoulder as he came down to the beach to bathe. In those days it buttoned underneath with three buttons.

Rudyard Kipling 4 2 .An object's weight decreases proportionately to its distance from the center of the Earth. If a guy weighs 144 pounds in Miami, which is 4000 miles from Earth's center, and 36 pounds 8000 miles from Earth's center, how much does he weigh if he is 16,000 miles from Earth's center?

9 pounds 4 3 .These are varieties of what kind of plant? cherry bell big Jem pimento jalapeno

peppers 4 4 .In 1839, a new weapon appeared in Texas. It was a pistol capable of firing six shots in rapid succession from the chambers of a revolving cylinder. This remarkable pistol had been manufactured in Paterson, New Jersey, in accordance with a patent held by whom?

Samuel Colt 4 5 .In "The Phantom Tollbooth," identify the ruler of the realm of words.

King Dictionopolis

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, MS #1 Round 11 Page 11 .The names of what cities complete these lyrics? I've got a mule, her name is Sal, Fifteen years on the Erie Canal. She's a good old worker and a good old pal, Fifteen years on the Erie Canal. We've hauled some barges in our day Filled with lumber, coal and hay And ev'ry inch of the way I know From ...

Albany to Buffalo 2 .A fundamental principle in what political theory is that people should work according to their capacity and receive according to their needs?

Communism 3 .Throughout the ages, intricate carving has been done on elephant and walrus tusks, a material known as ...

ivory 4 .What form of environmental pollution can cause inscriptions on old marble gravestones to become complete illegible?

acid rain 5 .In the 17th century, Lope de Rueda of Seville restored the theater to prominence, Miguel Cervantes created Don Quixote, Lope de Vega wrote dramatic works, and Juan de Herrera established a school of architecture. What was the nationality of all these figures?

Spanish

6 .Who is the most prominent of the Eloi in "The Time Machine"?

Weena 7 .When he first became president, he said that he would hang Jeff Davis and all the diabolical crew at Richmond. But actually, he hanged almost nobody and proclaimed a general pardon for the Confederate rank and file. Name him.

Andrew Johnson 8 .Name the two axes of the coordinate plane.

x-axis, y-axis 9 .In business and government, what is the meaning of the abbreviation, PR?

public relations 1 0 .The numerous kettle lakes dotting the landscape in sections of Wisconsin and Minnesota indicate these regions were once covered by ...

glaciers (ice sheets)

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, MS #1 Round 11 Page 21 1 .In what story by Ray Bradbury does Mr. Dark have a tattoo for each person now bound to serve him in his traveling carnival?

Something Wicked This Way Comes 1 2 .Ferdinand de Lesseps successfully designed and built the Suez Canal. But his plan for what other canal in the Western Hemisphere proved too difficult, and led to his imprisonment?

Panama Canal 1 3 .It consisted of a series of five terraces of glazed brick, each 50 feet above the next. Name this structure erected by King Nebuchadnezzar for his wife in 562 B.C.

Hanging Gardens of Babylon 1 4 .What Portuguese explorer, employed by the king of Spain, embarked in 1519 from Seville, sailed through the strait that now bears his name, and was killed in the Philippines in 1521?

Magellan 1 5 .The money paid per unit of time for the temporary use of a piece of equipment or a building that the user does not own is called ...

rent

1 6 .What phrase from the Eighth Amendment concerns torture, deliberately degrading punishment, or punishment that is overly severe for the crime committed?

cruel and unusual punishment 1 7 .When the first session of the Supreme Court convened, Justice William Cushing arrived wearing something. Thomas Jefferson told him, "Discard that monstrous thing which makes judges look like rats peeping through bunches of oakum." What was Cushing wearing that had been customary in British courts?

a wig 1 8 .What nation is described below? It is our great Alma Mater, where individuals of all nations are melted into a new one.

USA 1 9 .These are words from what language? lei Lapakahi Kaluakaua

Hawaiian 2 0 .Name either American who set up the plaque with this inscription. Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon July 1969 A.D. We came in peace for all mankind.

Buzz (Edwin) Aldrin, Neil Armstrong

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, MS #1 Round 11 Page 32 1 .This is about what revolution? In the early 1700s, the brothers Lombe erected in England a building 500 feet long and 6 stories high in which 26,586 wheels worked 73,726 yards of silk thread every time the water wheel went round.

Industrial Revolution 2 2 .Needlework ornamentation on fabric is called ...

embroidery 2 3 .Complete this quote by Earl Warren. The police must obey the law while enforcing the ...

law 2 4 .Since the Castillo de San Marcos is located in the longest continually occupied European settlement in the continental United States, it must be in what city?

St. Augustine 2 5 .The Big Room, King's Palace, Queen's Chamber, Papoose Room, and Green Lake Room are parts of what national park in New Mexico?

Carlsbad Caverns

2 6 .Prairie dogs are not canines. They actually belong to what order of mammals?

rodent (Rodentia) 2 7 .What mission is the cradle of Texas liberty?

Alamo 2 8 .What are the two comparative forms of the adjective, "attainable"?

less (more) attainable 2 9 .What word should have been used in this sentence about football? The referee penalized the team for unnecessary roughage.

roughness 3 0 .A heat engine converts thermal energy to what other kind of energy?

mechanical

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, MS #1 Round 11 Page 43 1 .What is the complete subject of this sentence? Ignorance of the law excuses no man.

Ignorance of the law 3 2 .In Jack London's story, "The One Thousand Dozen," the central character plans to sell one thousand dozen eggs in Dawson for five dollars per dozen and thereby gross how much money?

$5000 3 3 .In the 19th century, railroad companies hired riflemen and arranged large shooting expeditions to kill vast numbers of what animals that were somewhat of an obstruction to railway traffic?

buffalo (bison) 3 4 .The coniferous evergreen forests of subarctic lands covering vast areas of northern North America make up which biome?

taiga 3 5 .You support a ruler at both ends and press down on its center, deforming it downward. As soon as you quit pressing, it returns to its original shape. What property of solids is responsible for this?

elasticity

3 6 .One form of voting is expressed by buying or not buying certain products. This is called voting with your ...

purse (pocketbook, wallet) 3 7 .Anacondas are native to which continent?

South America 3 8 .Upon accepting the Republican presidential nomination in 1869, who summed up his point of view with the words, "Let us have peace"?

Ulysses Grant 3 9 .Pocatello, Coeur d'Alene, Moscow, and Lewiston are cities of what state?

Idaho 4 0 .Add these three expressions. 3a + 2b + c -4a -3b + 5c 5a - b + 6c

4a - 2b + 12c

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, MS #1 Round 11 Page 54 1 .Articles in a newspaper stating opinions and attitudes of the editor or publisher usually appear on what page?

editorial page 4 2 .If the area of a triangle is 6 units, and two of its coordinates are (1,1) and (5,1), what are the coordinates for its apex?

(1,4) 4 3 .Johann Gutenberg invented movable ...

type 4 4 .Diurnal animals are active during the daytime, in contrast to those active at night which are ...

nocturnal 4 5 .Before giving a patient a shot, a physician will use alcohol to clean the patient's skin. Alcohol is used because it kills bacteria and is therefore classified as an ...

antiseptic

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, MS #1 Round 12 Page 11 .Washington Irving's "Rip van Winkle" opens during what century?

18th century 2 .In what story by Kate Douglas Wiggin does Rebecca Rowena Randall leave her impoverished and widowed mother and go to live with two maiden aunts in Riverboro?

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm 3 .Common table salt is a reliable source of what two minerals needed by your body?

sodium, chlorine 4 .These are among the last words of what legendary character? Take thou Excalibur, my good sword, and go with it to yonder water side, and when thou comest there I charge thee throw my sword in that water.

Arthur 5 .What is the other word in the palindrome that begins with "bird"?

rib

6 .As a result of habitat loss, disease, overkill, or natural events like floods or droughts, the chances for the survival of an animal species may be drastically reduced. When this happens, the species is said to be ...

endangered 7 .They start as small, free-swimming creatures with one eye. In the second stage, they have six pairs of legs, two eyes, and two feelers. In the third stage, they still have twelve legs, but lose their eyes, grow a hard covering, and attach themselves to underwater objects. Name these crustaceans.

barnacles 8 .First-aiders may use boards, straight sticks, broom handles, pieces of cardboard, rolled newspapers, oars, or rolled blankets to immobilize fractured bones. Any such device to immobilize an injured body part is a ...

splint 9 .A ship leaves Brownsville, Texas on a northeasterly course. It does not make land in either Texas or Florida so we know it will do so in one of which three states?

Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana 1 0 .In the event of what geological phenomenon are children in southern California schools drilled to take these actions? Hit the floor, make yourself small, and huddle under your desk.

earthquake

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, MS #1 Round 12 Page 21 1 .What point is equidistant from every point on a circle?

center 1 2 .In the periodic table, all elements are classified either as metals or as ...

nonmetals 1 3 .From a medical standpoint, all of these are examples of what? nagging hoarseness, fainting spells, yellowing of the whites of the eyes, excessive thirst, sudden weight loss, a change in the size of a mole

symptoms 1 4 .During which decade did Anne Frank write her diary?

1940s 1 5 .To the nearest thousand, what is the height in feet of the world's highest peak?

29,000

1 6 .What gas is released in abundance during the rapid oxidation of wood?

carbon dioxide 1 7 .In the 2000 presidential elections, there were 538 electors. Three of those were from the District of Columbia. Of the rest, how many were based on the number of U.S. representatives?

435 1 8 .President Chester Arthur played what fretted stringed instrument with a long narrow neck and hollow circular body covered with a stretched diaphragm?

banjo 1 9 .Climbers who fell into a crevasse on the Bosons Glacier high on Mount Blanc were lost in 1861. Their bodies appeared at the foot of the glacier 41 years later, 9,250 feet below the point where they disappeared. Therefore, scientists learned that the ice in that glacier moved about how many feet per year?

226 (or 225) 2 0 .In the Old West, moving a herd of cattle from ranches and grazing lands to the railroad lines for shipment to meat-packing plants in the East was called a ...

cattle drive

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, MS #1 Round 12 Page 32 1 .In 1912, the British built a city six miles from Delhi. Name this city that has since been the capital of India.

New Delhi 2 2 ."Not every thirteen-year-old girl is accused of murder, brought to trial, and found guilty" is the opening line to a novel entitled, "The True Confessions of Charlotte ..."

Doyle 2 3 .The phrase meaning that settlers of territories had the right to decide whether they would enter the Union as free or slave states was popular ...

sovereignty 2 4 .Who is the "she" in this dialogue? She said to Samson, "Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee."

Delilah 2 5 .In the novel, "Out of the Dust," an accident involving what fuel causes the death of the protagonist's mother?

kerosene

2 6 .Who is the central character in the poem from which this was taken? "Who caught his blood?" "I," said the Fish, "With my little dish, I caught his blood." "Who'll be the parson?" "I," said the Rook, "With my little book, I'll be the parson." "Who'll dig his grave?" "I," said the Owl, "With my pick and shovel, I'll dig his grave."

Cock Robin 2 7 .What word completes this quatrain? He that fights and runs away May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain Will never rise to fight ...

again 2 8 .Nicholas II, Grigori Rasputin, and Alexander Kerensky were figures in what revolution?

Russian Revolution 2 9 .What Frenchman, blind since he was five, devised a raised-point printing system read by touch?

Louis Braille 3 0 .What term rhyming with "hag" refers to a standing dead tree from which the leaves and many branches have fallen?

snag

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, MS #1 Round 12 Page 43 1 .Who wrote this? Frodo was now safe in the Last Homely House east of the Sea. That house was, as Bilbo had long ago reported, "a perfect house, whether you like food or sleep, or story-telling or singing, or just sitting and thinking best, or a pleasant mixture of them all."

J.R.R. Tolkien 3 2 .They have not significantly changed in 140 million years. They lack swim bladders and must continually swim. They are carnivores. Their skeleton is made of cartilage instead of bone. Name these fish.

sharks 3 3 .What American folksong begins with this? Come all you rounders, for I want you to hear the story of a brave engineer.

Casey Jones 3 4 .What term means replanting of trees on land formerly covered by a forest?

reforestation 3 5 .Name the westernmost state which includes land annexed from Mexico.

California

3 6 .What country borders Guatemala to the east and Nicaragua to the north?

Honduras 3 7 .What story by Bill Naughton begins with this? Spit Nolan was a pal of mine.

Spit Nolan 3 8 .What word for "purpose" completes this ditty? Young Frankenstein's robot invention Caused trouble too awful to mention. Its actions were ghoulish, Which proves it is foolish To monkey with Nature's ...

intention 3 9 .Identify the unique boats common on the canals of Venice.

gondolas 4 0 .An iron core placed inside a coil that carries an electric current becomes an ...

electromagnet

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, MS #1 Round 12 Page 54 1 .Food regurgitated from the first stomach to the mouth of a ruminant such as a giraffe, cow, or goat is the ...

cud 4 2 .Name the greatest dam in the region once ruled by people including Hatshepsut, Thutmose, and Tutankhamen.

Aswan (Aswan High Dam) 4 3 .In the late 1800s, Japan was especially interested in acquiring what enormous peninsula adjacent to China between the Yellow Sea and the Sea of Japan?

Korean Peninsula (Korea) 4 4 .These are what part of a business letter? My Dear Mrs. Poindexter Dear Sir Dear Tammy Faye Dear Dr. Doolittle

salutation 4 5 .Which abundant fossil fuel burns most cleanly?

natural gas (methane)

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, MS #1 Round 13 Page 11 .Name the technique of making an area of a drawing appear to be in shadow.

shading 2 .How many cubic inches are in one-fourth of a cubic foot?

432 3 .A male bee is called a ...

drone 4 .Identify the hollow form used for casting created by coating a rigid form with a fluid material which hardens and sets.

mold 5 .The British constitution is unwritten, consisting of common law, political customs and traditions, and acts passed by what body?

Parliament

6 .Mass production has been made even more efficient by the incorporation of automatons. What is a synonym for such devices?

robots 7 .Any object moving through the air experiences some form of slowing down owing to air friction, a phenomenon called ...

drag 8 .What is the product? 9(6-xy)

54 - 9xy 9 .One may be 5 inches long and weigh over a pound, a full 20% of its mother's weight, making this egg proportionately the largest of all bird eggs. What flightless New Zealand bird lays it?

kiwi 1 0 .The clarinet is a member of which family of musical instruments?

woodwinds

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, MS #1 Round 13 Page 21 1 .What kind of injury occurs when the ball of a joint loses proper contact with its socket?

dislocation 1 2 .What is the volume of a cube 9 inches on a side?

729 cubic inches 1 3 .This is about what kind of weapon? Scatterguns were occasionally produced by tenderfoots but they mainly served in the Old West only as objects of derision.

shotguns 1 4 .Name the cells most abundant in blood.

erythrocytes (red blood cells) 1 5 .Complete these operations. Add 3 2/5 plus 2 7/10 plus 1 1/5. Express that sum as a decimal. Subtract .3 from that decimal. Multiply the remainder by 4.

28

1 6 .The heavy drapery that hangs across the proscenium opening and separates the stage from the auditorium is called the ...

curtain 1 7 .Name the fort indicated in the following. Andre was provided common clothes and a passport by Benedict Arnold. Arnold also gave him six papers showing the British how the fort could be taken.

West Point 1 8 .The abbreviation in 365 A.D stands for the Latin phrase, "anno Domini," which literally means "in the year of our ..."

Lord 1 9 .Garlic consists of a cluster of bulblets called ...

cloves 2 0 .Which element of a short story is based on some kind of struggle?

conflict

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, MS #1 Round 13 Page 32 1 .Which category of reasoning is illustrated below? In a sample of 62 puffins collected from western Alaskan islands, all had mites in their plumage. Based on this data, probably all puffins have mites.

induction 2 2 .A rectangle is 5 feet longer than it is wide. What is its width if its perimeter is 38 feet?

7 feet 2 3 .What noun beginning with "f" indicates the mass of leaves on a plant?

foliage 2 4 .The Articles of Confederation established a confederation of how many states?

13 2 5 .What is the name for a series of statements like this? All dogs have incisors. Chihuahuas are dogs. Therefore, Chihuahuas have incisors.

syllogism

2 6 .Protectionism is the opposite of what kind of trade?

free trade 2 7 .These were cities of what former Latin American civilization? Uxmal Mayapan Chichen Itza

Maya 2 8 .An intravenous injection of whole blood, blood plasma, or blood serum is called a ...

transfusion 2 9 .The flow of refugees to West Germany was largely stopped in 1961 when East Germany built what?

Berlin Wall 3 0 .What term can be used in reference to either the number of shares of a corporation or to a merchant's inventory?

stock

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, MS #1 Round 13 Page 43 1 .A ship sailing due east from Cape Town, South Africa would first make landfall in what country?

Australia 3 2 .What verb reminiscent of the name for a chisel with a rounded, trough-like blade, means to grossly overcharge?

gouge 3 3 .Annually, the greatest gathering of a single mammal species takes place on the Pribilof Islands. Numbering about 1.5 million, name these creatures that produce about one-half million pups each year.

(fur) seals 3 4 .Freddie stepped on a nail. When he got back, he told his buddies he had to get a technical shot. What kind of shot did he actually get?

tetanus shot 3 5 .The Yellowstone River is a tributary of what larger river?

Missouri River

3 6 .In 1970, President Nixon issued an executive order establishing the EPA to administer most environmental laws. For what does this abbreviation stand?

Environmental Protection Agency 3 7 .In relation to birds, these are types of what? cup, dome, dome and tube, plate, bed, scrape, mound, burrow

nests 3 8 .This is about whom? When he parted from the Executive Mansion, he said to President Lincoln, "If you are as happy, my dear sir, on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home, you are the happiest man in this country!"

James Buchanan 3 9 .What is possessed by all vertebrates?

backbone (spine) 4 0 .What is the present participle of "forget"?

forgetting

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, MS #1 Round 13 Page 54 1 .The folksong, "Follow the Drinking Gourd," brings what constellation to mind?

Big Dipper (Ursa Major) 4 2 .A large and multiplying mass of bacteria is called a ...

colony (culture) 4 3 .Name the best-known French oceanographic research vessel.

Calypso 4 4 .Bilateralism involves actions undertaken by two nations and multilateralism involves actions by three or more nations. What "ism" involves actions undertaken by a single nation?

unilateralism 4 5 .In "Jurassic Park," John Hammond's staff has found a way to produce dinosaurs by extracting what genetic substance from mosquitoes that had fed on dinosaur blood and had been trapped in amber?

DNA

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, MS #1 Round 14 Page 11 .What is the color of the sand resulting from wave action pulverizing basalt?

black 2 .Name any constellation representing a creature with cloven hoofs.

Taurus, Aries, Capricorn, Camelopardalis 3 .What word is modified by the infinitive below? Filbert instantly realized he had selected the wrong cheek to kiss.

cheek 4 .Golda Meir was the first female prime minister of what country?

Israel 5 .Rhyming with "hole," what is another name for a sandbank or sandbar?

shoal

6 .What is the density of matter at the center of a black hole?

infinite 7 .Daniel Defoe wrote this about what kind of trade in the 18th century? Others seek out to Afric's torrid zone, And search the burning shores of Sierra Leone There in insufferable heats they fry, And run vast risks to see the gold and die. The harmless natives basely they trepan, And barter baubles for the souls of men.

slave trade 8 .A cross section of a tree shows many concentric circles in the trunk. These are annual ...

rings 9 .What body of water is immediately west of the country in which these cities are located? Tripoli, Tyre, Sidon, Beirut

Mediterranean Sea 1 0 .Land degradation in arid and semi-arid areas resulting from climate variations and human activities is called ...

desertification

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, MS #1 Round 14 Page 21 1 .At age twenty-three, four French bullets harmlessly pierced the coat of what future American leader as he fought under General Braddock at the Battle of the Monongahela?

George Washington 1 2 .What office in the U.S. evolved from the post held in pre-Revolutionary times by an official appointed by the British crown to administer a colony?

governor 1 3 .What is the American equivalent of the Italian carabinieri, the French gendarmes, and the British bobbies?

policemen 1 4 .Almost no site in Mesoamerica is without what natural black material used in knives, spear heads, dart points, and woodworking tools?

obsidian 1 5 .Richard Nixon resigned the presidency while impeachment proceedings were in progress but before what body had voted on the matter?

House of Representatives

1 6 .What word is missing in this line uttered by the Queen of Hearts. Sentence first, ---- afterward.

verdict 1 7 .This verse by William Blake is about what city? I wander thro' each dirty street, Near where the dirty Thames does flow, And mark in every face I meet Marks of weakness, marks of woe.

London 1 8 .This occurred on what islands? A revolutionary "committee of safety," organized by Sanford B. Dole called in U.S. Marines from a nearby cruiser, supposedly to protect American lives, and established a new government with Dole as president.

Hawaiian Islands (Hawaii) 1 9 .What measurement unit consists of 1760 yards?

mile 2 0 .This is from what poem? So, Willy, let me and you be wipers Of scores out with all men - especially pipers! And whether they pipe us free from rats or from mice, If we've promised them aught, let us keep our promise

The Pied Piper of Hamelin

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, MS #1 Round 14 Page 32 1 .If you push down on a log, the log pushes up against your hand. The pushing down is called the action and the pushing up is called the ...

reaction 2 2 .The coyote that shot himself out of an ACME cannon to an altitude of 53,600 feet went over ten miles high by how many feet?

800 2 3 .Most plants store their food in the form of starch. What tall, tropical grass with thick, solid, tough stems store food in the form of sugar?

sugar cane 2 4 .Who wrote "Little House in the Big Woods"?

Laura Ingalls Wilder 2 5 .Jauk was hired at a salary of $225 per week plus a commission of $10 for each bust of large extinct birds he sold. In the first month, he sold 26 such busts. His pay for that month was ...

$1160

2 6 .What is the last word in this ditty relating to body positions? In muggings, muggers must attack the victim's proper zone; The belly if he's supine And the spine if he is ...

prone 2 7 .Jets and rockets are two of the means of providing forward thrust to an aircraft. Name the third means associated with practically all successful aircraft prior to the 1940s.

propeller 2 8 .In a melodrama, what does the audience traditionally do when the villain appears on stage?

It boos (hisses). 2 9 .What is provided to dirigibles by helium or hydrogen?

lift 3 0 .Nonconductors are more commonly known as ...

insulators

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, MS #1 Round 14 Page 43 1 .Which broad function of government includes making laws and imposing taxes?

legislation 3 2 .The lungs themselves cannot pump air into or out of the body. Aside from the intercostal muscles of the ribs, what muscular membrane performs this function?

diaphragm 3 3 .The Arctic Circle is approximately 10,000 miles long. What is the approximate length of the Antarctic Circle?

10,000 miles 3 4 .On Mars, what kind of a physical feature is Valles Marineris?

valley 3 5 .Scientists use the abbreviation, s.t.p., to mean standard temperature and ...

pressure

3 6 .How many pronouns are in this line? It might be just as offensive to be around a man who never changed his mind as one who never changed his clothes.

6 .3 7 .During what decade was the document containing these words ratified? We the people of the Confederate States, each state acting in its sovereign and independent character, in order to form a permanent federal government, do ordain and establish this Constitution.

1860s 3 8 .What kind of newspapers sold at supermarkets are national weeklies that specialize in celebrity news, gossip, astrology, and bizarre stories?

tabloids 3 9 .What kind of word is seldom heard according to the song, "Home on the Range"?

a discouraging word 4 0 .What joint is located where the upper end of the thighbone and the pelvic bones meet?

hip joint

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, MS #1 Round 14 Page 54 1 .Any system of pipes, canals, ditches, and/or tunnels designed to transport water is called an ...

aqueduct 4 2 .Both Anne Rutledge and Mary Todd were especially important in whose life?

Abraham Lincoln's 4 3 .In the metric system, one thousandth is to milli as one hundredth is to ...

centi 4 4 .In the Black Hole of Calcutta, 246 British prisoners were crammed into a room of 20 feet square. To the nearest tenth, how many square feet did each prisoner have to himself?

1.6 4 5 .What occupation completes this verse? Daisy, daisy, who shall it be? Who shall it be who will marry me? Rich man, poor man, beggerman, thief, Doctor, lawyer, merchant, chief, Tinker, tailor, soldier, ...

sailor