ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, HS

14 rounds of 45 questions

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ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, HS Round 1 Page 11 .Chesapeake Bay was formed when a river mouth was drowned by ocean water. This bay can also be described as an ...

estuary 2 .Norbert Wiener developed the concept of homeostasis, a process by which systems maintain their level of organization against the seemingly inevitable increase in disorder throughout the universe called ...

entropy 3 .Which African nation has the longest border contiguous with the Mediterranean?

Libya 4 .What country is bordered by the Baltic Sea, the Gulf of Bothnia, Norway, and Finland?

Sweden 5 .Name the tornado-like winds that occur during major forest fires.

fire whirls

6 .Either of the two halves of the vertebrate cerebrum is a cerebral ...

hemisphere 7 .The food-storing structure present in monocots and dicots is the ...

cotyledon 8 .What English poet laureate wrote this? In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.

Alfred Tennyson 9 .What word comes next in this line from William Yeats' poem, "The Second Coming"? Things fall apart; the center cannot ...

hold 1 0 .What is the last word in this line from the Second Amendment? The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be ...

infringed

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, HS Round 1 Page 21 1 .A girl lies desperately ill of pneumonia. She decides to die as soon as the last leaf of five drops off the vine outside her window. But one leaf hangs on and she recovers. Name this short story by O. Henry.

The Last Leaf 1 2 .What federal organization was created by the National Labor Relations Act in 1935?

National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) 1 3 .What desert stretches from southern California to western Arizona and down into Mexico?

Sonoran Desert 1 4 .Ollie's Mercenary Services will depreciate their new DC-3 20% on their tax return this year. If the plane cost $250,000, how much depreciation will be claimed?

$50,000 1 5 .Restate this sentence by Cary Grant using the third person singular. I improve on misquotation.

He (she, it) improves on misquotation.

1 6 .The diaphragm of a camera changes the effective diameter of the lens, also known as the ...

aperture 1 7 .What kind of oil is produced in abundance in Greece?

olive oil 1 8 .The seventh planet from the Sun is ...

Uranus 1 9 .Name the story by Stephen Vincent Benet which includes a Massachusetts senator who said, "Liberty and union - now and forever - one and inseparable."

Devil and Daniel Webster 2 0 .What literary genre reminiscent of a style of architecture is illustrated by these works? Bram Stoker's "Dracula" Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" Edgar Allan Poe's "Fall of the House of Usher" Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The House of the Seven Gables"

gothic

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, HS Round 1 Page 32 1 .These cities are located along what river? Karlsruhe, Mannheim, Wiesbaden, Cologne, Mainz, Koblenz, Bonn, Arnhem, Rotterdam

Rhine 2 2 .Somerset Maugham begins what story with this? I have never begun a novel with more misgiving. If I call it a novel it is only because I don't know what else to call it. I have little story to tell and I end neither with a death nor a marriage.

The Razor's Edge 2 3 .This was said by a man in what kind of facility? First some hot air was pumped in from the ceiling. Then the pretty pale-blue crystals of Zyklon were showered down on the people.

concentration (death) camps 2 4 .What is the sum of these quantities? 10y + 3z 7y - 6z + 1

17y - 3z + 1 2 5 .What is the most abundant carbonate sedimentary rock?

limestone

2 6 .What word is missing from this excerpt from the Monroe Doctrine? The American continents are henceforth not to be considered the subjects for future colonization by any ---- powers.

European 2 7 .In oceans, lithogenous debris consists of mineral grains brought by rivers, wind, glaciers, eruptions, and erosion. Biogenous debris consists of the remains of marine animals and plants. What kind of debris consists of minerals that crystallize from seawater?

hydrogenous 2 8 .What is the object complement in this line? Upon returning to their cabin, they named their new dog Ruger.

Ruger 2 9 .In 1975, what African country was renamed the People's Republic of Benin?

Dahomey 3 0 .A mineral filling a fracture or fault in a host rock forms what kind of deposit?

vein (vein deposit)

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, HS Round 1 Page 43 1 .What two other agents besides gravity are mainly responsible for carving the amazing rock formations in areas like Arches and Canyonlands National Parks?

water, wind 3 2 .Which Martian moon is larger?

Phobos 3 3 .In 1981 Israel annexed the Golan Heights, claiming legal and political authority in the area. What neighboring country that lost the region in the Six Day War of 1967 rejects this claim?

Syria 3 4 .What British author wrote these words? Then I saw in my dream that when they were gone out of the wilderness they presently saw a town before them, and the name of that town is Vanity. And at the town there is a fair kept, called Vanity Fair.

John Bunyan 3 5 .Populations may lose numbers either through mortality or ...

emigration

3 6 .The statutory members of the National Security Council include the president, vice president, and the heads of what two cabinet departments?

state, defense 3 7 .What character does Herman Melville describe as a foretopman?

Billy Budd 3 8 .Identify the Germanic tribe which invaded the Roman province of Britannia in the fifth century and eventually gave its name to the language used throughout the island.

Angles 3 9 .In 1803, what foreign leader began his war with England?

Napoleon Bonaparte 4 0 .Mr. Perot had 1000 more than 3 times the number of marbles possessed by Mr. Quayle. Together they had exactly 29,000 marbles. How many marbles did Mr. Perot have?

22,000

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, HS Round 1 Page 54 1 .What character says this in a British mystery? Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill.

Sherlock Holmes 4 2 .What presidential library is in Independence, Missouri?

Truman Library 4 3 .One of the most influential American jazz pianists was Thelonious ...

Monk 4 4 .In what tale by Edgar Allan Poe is Toby Dammit particularly fond of this expression? I'll bet the devil my head.

Never Bet the Devil Your Head 4 5 .What term for something assumed without proof completes this stanza? Beware the Wentworth-Smith, my son, And the Loci that vacillate; Beware the Axiom, and shun The faithless ...

postulate

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, HS Round 2 Page 11 .This stanza is about a city in what country? Across the plain, beneath the wind, Black my pony, red the moon, Death stands and watches as I come, Watches from the towers of Cordoba.

Spain 2 .What kind of shoreline results from a rise in land surface elevation relative to sea level?

emerging coastline 3 .Just over a half-century ago, an Asian broadleaf plant with a thick stem was planted in the South. Today, that vine lies across some seven million acres in twelve states blanketing trees, utility poles, buildings, and old cars. Name this vine.

kudzu 4 .What natural black glass was used by prehistoric peoples to fashion arrowheads?

obsidian 5 .If you travel to the western end of the border between Missouri and Arkansas and then take one more giant step to the west, you would be in what state?

Oklahoma

6 .Most state funding goes to assistance for the needy, public health, and ...

education 7 .These are sayings of what Chinese philosopher of the 5th century B.C.? Do not do to others what you would not like yourself. Do unto others what you wish to do unto yourself.

Confucius 8 .Who was chancellor of England from 1155 to 1162 and Archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 to 1170 during the reign of King Henry II?

Thomas Becket 9 .Each appears as an opaque curtain. Name these clouds of interstellar dust that obscure the light of distant stars.

dark nebulae 1 0 .Merchandise advertised and sold at a loss to attract customers to a store is called a loss ...

leader

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, HS Round 2 Page 21 1 .In dioecious plants such as the kiwi, male and female flowers grow on separate plants. What category of plants have male and female organs in different flowers on the same plant?

monoecious plants 1 2 .Drugs that interfere with neural transmission, such as curare, cause a loss of muscle function called ...

paralysis 1 3 .Name the special wheeled beds or stretchers used in hospitals for transporting patients.

gurneys 1 4 .What American colonial printer said this? The liberty of the press is a subject of the greatest importance and which every individual is as much concerned as he is in any other part of liberty.

John Peter Zenger 1 5 .Geneticists studying the DNA in mitochondria claim to have traced the entire human family tree back to a single woman whom they named ...

Eve

1 6 .As a result of regularly seeing what map projection of the world do many people have little idea of the sizes of the continents in relation to one another?

Mercator projection 1 7 .While conglomerate is composed of rounded particles larger than 2 millimeters in diameter, breccias are composed of particles similar in size but the fragments are ...

angular (sharp) 1 8 .What is the net change in a population density given this data? immigration = 30 mortality = 200 emigration = 100 natality = 100

-170 1 9 .In 1979, the geologist Walter Alvarez found a reddish-gray layer of clay less than an inch thick in the Apennines. His father, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Luis Alvarez, showed that the layer contained what heavy metal usually found in high concentrations in meteorites?

iridium 2 0 .You walk into the Notre Dame Cathedral for the first time in your life but you have the extraordinary feeling that you've been there before. This feeling is indicated by what French phrase?

deja vu

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, HS Round 2 Page 32 1 .These lines are from what Sinclair Lewis novel? -Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue. -It was not known whether he enjoyed his sleeping-porch because of the fresh air or because it was the standard thing to have a sleeping-porch.

Babbitt 2 2 .Practically any consumer items such as trading cards, stamps, books, antique furniture, muscle cars, old bottles, kitchen utensils, figurines, phonograph records, baseball jerseys, and vintage tools that are accumulated in groups as hobbies or investments are called ...

collectibles 2 3 .What fills the central cavities of long bones?

marrow 2 4 .What adjective indicates a base that only partially dissociates in an aqueous solution?

weak 2 5 .Which passageway in the throat is posterior?

esophagus

2 6 .What is the maximum number of terms that a member of the U.S. Senate may serve?

not specified (indefinite) 2 7 .The 16th-century Scottish parliament formally adopted what form of Protestantism?

Calvinism 2 8 .In contrast to the smallest capillaries which are only about 5 micrometers in diameter, the largest artery, with an opening of about 2.5 centimeters, is the ...

aorta 2 9 .While there are many minerals classified as carbonates and sulfates, most of them belong to what general class?

silicates (silicate class) 3 0 .Some 2000 different minerals have been identified, but only about 12 of these are common everywhere in the earth's crust. What is the hyphenated name for these minerals?

rock-formers

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, HS Round 2 Page 43 1 .What is the popular four-word simile relating to a nervous disease that afflicted haberdashers resulting from prolonged exposure to mercury?

mad as a hatter 3 2 .To whom did Eleanor Roosevelt make this reply in April of 1945 when someone asked her what he could do for her ? You're the one who needs help now. What can we do for you?

Harry Truman 3 3 .This is from what story by George Eliot? Formerly, his heart had been as a locked casket with its treasure inside; but now the casket was empty, and the lock was broken. Left groping in darkness, with his prop utterly gone, Silas had inevitably a sense, though a dull and half-despairing one, that if any help came to him it must come from without.

Silas Marner 3 4 .What fictional Belgian detective made his first appearance in "The Mysterious Affair at Styles"?

Hercule Poirot 3 5 .What is the hyphenated name for an immature reaction in which aggressiveness is expressed by such passive measures as pouting, stubbornness, procrastination, and inefficiency?

passive-aggressive

3 6 .These are lakes in what country? Lake Disappointment Lake Torrens Lake Eyre

Australia 3 7 .One police record was about William Schmidt, a.k.a. Willie the Club, a.k.a. Bill Sebastian, a.k.a. Lucky Willie. The abbreviation means ...

also known as 3 8 .It was along what river that this line was uttered? Dr. Livingstone, I presume?

Congo River 3 9 .From a group of 7 girls and 8 boys, how many committees consisting of 3 boys and 3 girls can be formed?

1960 4 0 .Which amendment permits Sally Oglethorpe to own a Colt Python, a Remington Wingmaster, and a Winchester Model 94?

2nd amendment

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, HS Round 2 Page 54 1 .This is from what poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes? Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl; Wrecked is the ship of pearl! And every chambered cell, Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell, As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell, Before thee lies revealed,-- Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed!

The Chambered Nautilus 4 2 .What symptom, common to a number of diseases, is characterized by yellowness of the skin or eyes due to an excess of bilirubin in the blood?

jaundice 4 3 .John Jacob Astor financed the establishment of what fort near the mouth of the Columbia River?

Fort Astoria 4 4 .The Maori wars were a succession of conflicts in which indigenous people unsuccessfully attempted to resist the occupation of their land by British settlers. The area is now known as what country?

New Zealand 4 5 .What California stagecoach robber wrote this in 1878? Here I lay me down to sleep to wait the coming morrow / Perhaps success perhaps defeat and everlasting Sorrow. / Let come what will I'll try it on / My condition can't be worse and if there's money in that box / tis munny in my purse.

Black Bart (Charles Bolles)

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, HS Round 3 Page 11 .Find the coordinates of the fourth corner of a rectangle given these coordinates for the other corners. (3,4), (-5,4), (3,-1)

(-5,-1) 2 .The Battle of Manila Bay was the first engagement in what war?

Spanish-American War 3 .Crickets chirp 4 times per minute at 41 degrees, 8 times at 42 degrees and 12 times at 43 degrees. How many times per minute does a cricket chirp when it is 81 degrees?

164 4 .A massive dark cloud from which rain is falling is what kind of cloud?

nimbus 5 .This line of Lamaist priests began in the 14th century and each one is regarded as the reincarnation of his predecessor. What is the title of any of these Tibetan spiritual leaders?

Dalai Lama

6 .Complete this thought by Thoreau. Beware of all enterprises that require new ...

clothes 7 .A brick that weighs one pound at the Earth's surface is transported to the exact center of the Earth. What is its weight at that location?

0 .8 .What kind of phrase is used as a nominative absolute in this example? The night being cold we decided to remain in the cave.

participial (participle) 9 .For what does the abbreviation stand in this explanation? The ER is a complicated network of folded membranes in the cytoplasm of a cell that functions to synthesize, modify, and transport cellular materials.

endoplasmic reticulum 1 0 .The judge suspended Mavis Macklerooney's sentence before she was imprisoned on condition of good behavior. This illustrates what form of punishment?

probation

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, HS Round 3 Page 21 1 .What is the driving force behind mass wasting?

gravity 1 2 .What, according to Edwin Arlington Robinson, did Richard Corey do one calm summer night when he went home?

committed suicide 1 3 .As what part of speech are participial phrases used?

adjectives (or adverbs) 1 4 .On a balance scale, to measure anything up to 50 pounds, you need a maximum of six different weights. Four of these have weights of 1, 2, 4, and 8 pounds. What are the weights of the other two?

16, 32 1 5 .Who was Chief Uncas according to James Fenimore Cooper?

The Last of the Mohicans

1 6 .The highest point of a plane figure or solid with respect to a line or a plane chosen as the base is the ...

apex 1 7 .The protective grid on the door of a microwave oven keeps microwaves from escaping because the holes in the grid are smaller than the ---- of the microwaves.

wavelength 1 8 .Two lines are perpendicular if the slope of the first multiplied by the slope of the second equals what number?

-1 1 9 .Name the founder of the existentialist movement and author of the plays, "Nausea" and "No Exit."

Jean Paul Sartre 2 0 .Proof is the measure of the strength of a liquor. What is the proof of pure ethanol?

200 proof

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, HS Round 3 Page 32 1 .In 1973 and 1974, Congressional hearings featuring Barbara Jordan, Howard Baker, Sam Ervin, and Peter Rodino were focused on what topic?

Watergate 2 2 .In 1846, Congress founded what enormous museum complex at the bequest of the British scholar, James Smithson?

Smithsonian Institution 2 3 .Different generators are designed to produce one of two different types of currents. Name both.

alternating, direct (ac, dc) 2 4 .Facial paralysis always involves damage to which cranial nerve?

7th 2 5 .Name the fluid that provides lubrication between joints.

synovial fluid

2 6 .Name the two-time female prime minister whose father was the first prime minister of India.

Indira Gandhi 2 7 .A person jumps from a boat to the dock. The boat moves away from the dock. This illustrates which of Newton's Laws?

3rd law 2 8 .They had settled in New Zealand in AD 1100, and by the 18th century had established a settled society. They were discovered by Captain Cook. Name these people.

Maoris 2 9 .What general type of telescope uses a combination of lenses and mirrors?

reflecting telescope 3 0 .This is from a proclamation issued in what year? The Provisional Government has been deposed. State power has passed into the hands of the Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies, and to the Revolutionary Committee which heads the Petrograd proletariat.

1917

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, HS Round 3 Page 43 1 .What is the minimum number of plants that must be involved in cross-pollination?

2 .3 2 .What is the Navy's equivalent of the U.S. Army's military police?

Shore Patrol 3 3 .What musical tells the story of a traveling con-artist and a piano-teaching librarian?

The Music Man 3 4 .What Italian painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, and scientist was the archetypal Renaissance man?

Leonardo da Vinci 3 5 .Anthropologists have found earthwork in the general shape of animals such as snakes and birds. These are known as what kind of mounds?

effigy mounds

3 6 .In the five-kingdom classification system, which kingdom includes the only organisms that have prokaryotic cells, i.e. cells with no organized nuclei in a nuclear membrane?

Monera 3 7 .Classify this line by Abraham Lincoln according to its structure. Whenever Americans shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember it or overthrow it.

compound-complex 3 8 .A person is on trial for kidnapping little Annie Jones. What amendment would prohibit the jury deciding this case from being all members of Annie's family?

seventh amendment 3 9 .Serums used to neutralize poisons from venomous snakes are called ...

antivenins 4 0 .What part of a picture appears in front of the middle ground?

foreground

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, HS Round 3 Page 54 1 .If your stolons were spreading out across a food supply to which your rhizoids were anchoring you while your sporangia were waving in the breeze, what would you be?

fungus (mold) 4 2 .What period in Western history was ushered in by the spinning jenny of Hargreaves in 1764, the improved spining machines of Arkwright in 1779, and the power loom of Cartwright in 1784?

Industrial Revolution 4 3 .The Pyrenees, Alps, Caucasus, Atlas, and Himalayan mountains consist of sediments that were once at the bottom of what sea that separated Laurasia and Gondwana?

Tethys Sea 4 4 .What overture by Tchaikovsky opens with Friar Laurence meditating on the plight of two lovers and then goes into the struggle for power between the Capulet and Montague families?

Romeo and Juliet 4 5 .Who wrote a short story beginning with this? That very singular man, old Dr. Heidegger, once invited four venerable friends to meet him in his study. There were three white-bearded gentlemen, Mr. Medbourne, Colonel Killigrew, and Mr. Gascoigne, and a gentlewoman, whose name was the Widow Wycherly.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, HS Round 4 Page 11 .Rich Little tells 27 jokes per hour while Howie Mandel tells 33 per hour. How many hours will it take both to tell 420 jokes?

7 hours 2 .What light, often ludicrous comedy replete with exaggerated characters and slapstick humor was named after the French term for turkey stuffing?

farce 3 .In the 1980s, the warplane that attacked the U.S.S. Stark and the commercial airliner shot down by U.S. naval cruiser Vincennes both belonged to what country?

Iran 4 .What city-state lost its empire as a result of the Peloponnesian War?

Athens 5 .What instruction tells the lighting tech to immediately and totally darken the entire stage at the end of a scene?

blackout

6 .Passage of the Intolerable Acts followed what revolutionary get-together in Massachusetts?

Boston Tea Party 7 .Name this mathematical law. In any triangle, the lengths of the sides are proportional to the sines of the opposite angles.

law of sines 8 .You are viewing a cross section of what part of a vertebrate when these parts are depicted? germinative layer erector muscle sensory corpuscle papilla cornified layers sebaceous gland

skin 9 .Name the only Shakespearean comedy specifically set in England.

Merry Wives of Windsor 1 0 .A 36 tooth gear drives another gear with 48 teeth. How many revolutions does the second gear make if the first gear makes 100 revolutions?

75

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, HS Round 4 Page 21 1 ."Asteroid" literally means ...

starlike 1 2 .In what shape is the floor plan of most of the world's great cathedrals?

a cross 1 3 .In Indonesia, Borobudur is an enormous stupa first built in the 8th century containing relics from what religion?

Buddhism 1 4 .What is the amplitude of the function described below? y = -7 cos 2x

7 .1 5 .Whose deterministic, pessimistic, and anti-Christian views were published in his work, "Letters from the Earth"?

Mark Twain

1 6 .How many diagonals are in a hexagon?

9 .1 7 .Which ossicle is the smallest bone in the human body?

stirrup (stapes) 1 8 .Oysters and clams are bivalves while conches and snails are ...

univalves 1 9 .Who wrote these stories? What Do You Mean It Was Brillig? The Unicorn in the Garden The Catbird Seat The Shrike and the Chipmunks The Bear Who Let It Alone

James Thurber 2 0 .The region of Anatolia is also known as ...

Asia Minor

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, HS Round 4 Page 32 1 .The cosine of an angle equals the adjacent side divided by the ...

hypotenuse 2 2 .What dentist was deputized by Virgil Earp in Tombstone, Arizona?

Doc Holliday 2 3 .An electronic circuit operates once in 10 nanoseconds. How many operations does it perform in one second?

100 million 2 4 .Soldiers lost, including those missing in action, wounded, taken prisoner, or killed, are collectively counted as ...

casualties 2 5 .Complete this maxim taught by Hoppie Groenewald to Peekay in "The Power of One." First with the head, then with the ...

heart

2 6 .Complete this stanza from a George M. Cohan song. I'm a Yankee-Doodle Dandy, Yankee-Doodle do or die, A real live nephew of my Uncle Sam, Born on the ...

Fourth of July 2 7 .The equatorial countercurrent brings warm surface water along the coast of Peru. This kills fish and the sea becomes littered with their dead bodies. Their decomposition produces what poisonous gas that smells like rotten eggs?

hydrogen sulfide 2 8 .The two major air pollutants resulting from burning coal are fly ash and what gas that combines with water to form sulfuric acid?

sulfur dioxide 2 9 .If the graph of y = 3 cos 2x reaches a minimum, what is the value of the y-coordinate?

-3 3 0 .These songs are from a musical based on a character created by what author? Food, Glorious Food Boy for Sale Consider Yourself You've Got to Pick-a-Pocket or Two I'll Do Anything

Charles Dickens

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, HS Round 4 Page 43 1 .After two hours, 1/16 of the original radioactive substance remains undecayed. What is the half-life of this substance?

30 minutes (1/2 hour) 3 2 .What president said this? With a profound sense of the solemn step I am taking, I advise that the Congress declare the recent course of the Imperial German Government to be in fact nothing less than war against the government and people of the United States.

Woodrow Wilson 3 3 .The American government established under what document lasted from 1781 to 1789?

Articles of Confederation 3 4 .Name this mythological god. He was the Roman god of agriculture. His name was used by alchemists for lead. His name is used by astronomers for the second-largest planet in the solar system.

Saturn 3 5 .Accelerants are typically associated with what crime?

arson

3 6 .The fluid material discharged from a sewage treatment or industrial plant is called the ...

effluent 3 7 .What conjunction could be added to this line without changing its meaning? I think Dr. Jekyll was simply misunderstood.

that 3 8 .In some divorce settlements, the court will only grant a parent the right to visit a child on specified occasions. This is what kind of right?

visitation right 3 9 .The Taliban destroyed ancient Buddhist statues in Afghanistan because they were considered offensive to people of what other religion?

Muslim (Islam) 4 0 .The Federal Art Project of what New Deal agency commissioned a series of public murals?

Works Progress (Projects) Administration

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, HS Round 4 Page 54 1 .To the nearest whole number, determine the theoretically highest efficiency of a steam engine which has a steam input temperature of 473 degrees K and a steam exhaust temperature of 373 degrees K.

21% 4 2 .Brandon is intensely afraid of standing near a cliff. Sally absolutely hates to fly. Ricky dreads elevators. Jan can't stand open bodies of water. These aversions are examples of what type of neurosis?

phobia 4 3 .What musical tells of Tevye and his five daughters dealing with religious traditions and a czar's edict to remove them from their village?

Fiddler on the Roof 4 4 .They live at depths of 500 to 2000 meters. The tiny male fish attaches itself to the much larger female of the species, and the bodies of the two fish fuse, with the male living as a parasite on the female. Name these fish with a built-in lure.

anglerfish 4 5 .Treasury bills have a maximum maturity period of how many months?

12

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, HS Round 5 Page 11 .What is the negative of a vector of 5 kilometers north?

5 kilometers south 2 .Name the geologic era intermediate between the Paleozoic and Cenozoic.

Mesozoic Era 3 .In plane geometry, any straight line that crosses at least two other straight lines is called a ...

transversal 4 .What reflex involving a contraction of the back of the throat prevents objects from entering the throat except as part of normal swallowing?

gag reflex 5 .It takes a ship traveling at how many knots to cover 80 nautical miles in 4 hours?

20

6 .What right of people is authorized by an amendment because a well-regulated militia is necessary to the security of a free state?

to (keep and) bear arms 7 .What is smallest of four consecutive integers whose sum is 38?

8 .8 .This explanation by Oliver Wendell Holmes concerns what freedom? The question is whether the words used are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger and will bring about substantive evils.

freedom of speech 9 .This is from what poem by Robert Browning? That's my last duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive. I call That piece a wonder, now: Fra Pandolf's hands Worked busily a day, and there she stands.

My Last Duchess 1 0 .The Erechtheum was completed on the Acropolis in 405 B.C. The female figures that support its roof are modeled after maidens from the town of Caryae and are known as ...

caryatids

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, HS Round 5 Page 21 1 .Which lobe of the brain is the area of the cortex from the front of the central fissure to the front of the lateral fissure?

frontal 1 2 .In what story does Rainsford conclude that "he had never slept in a better bed"?

The Most Dangerous Game 1 3 .The long strips of fabric sewn along the perimeter of a quilt are called the ...

binding 1 4 .What conic section is made by a plane intersecting both nappes of the cone?

hyperbola 1 5 .Which of the two main classes of adjectives is used in this sentence? She gladly gave me three puppies.

limiting

1 6 .On an given day, so many drachmas equal so many dollars and so many yen equal so many euros. The value of two currencies relative to one another is known as what rate?

exchange rate 1 7 .The layer of material on a tectonic plate that is scraped from the top of a downgoing oceanic plate and appended to the edge of a continental plate is called an accretionary ...

wedge 1 8 .While flowering plants have seeds, non-flowering plants produce what other reproductive bodies?

spores 1 9 ."Old Sparky" is the nickname for what device used in executions for capital crimes?

electric chair 2 0 .During World War II, the code for the German Enigma machine was broken by the British intelligence service at what park?

Bletchley Park

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, HS Round 5 Page 32 1 .What country of the Indian Ocean, southwest of Sri Lanka, consists of some 2000 coral islands?

Maldives 2 2 .Complete this quote inscribed on a rock in Lexington, Massachusetts. Stand your ground. Don't fire unless fired upon. But if they mean to have a war ...

let it begin here 2 3 .On what island in the West Indies did this event take place in 1902? A virtually solid plug of lava was pushed up out of the crater 20 meters per day. As the rock mass rose, chunks of hot rock broke off, carving the plug into a spine that attained a height of 300 meters.

Martinique 2 4 .Pusan is the largest port city in what country?

South Korea 2 5 .What word completes this palindrome? No lemon DNA and no ...

melon

2 6 .These are in what country? Pindos National Park Parnassos National Park Samaria National Park Olympus National Park

Greece 2 7 .The process by which a court arrives at a decision in a case or the procedure by which a case is heard and settled is called ...

adjudication 2 8 .This is from the ending of what novel? Marlow ceased, and sat apart, indistinct and silent, in the pose of a meditating Buddha. The tranquil waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed somber under an overcast sky and seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness.

Heart of Darkness 2 9 .What was the original Roman name of London when it was founded in the first century?

Londinium 3 0 .These lines are from Jack London's account of a disaster in what city? The old Mark Hopkins residence was just catching fire. On Mission street, a dozen steers lay dead across the street. Telegraph Hill was swept Friday night.

San Francisco

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, HS Round 5 Page 43 1 .In 1958, a giant wave surged 1740 feet up the spur of a mountain in Lituya Bay in Alaska completely denuding the promontory of trees. This wave induced by an earthquake is a ...

tsunami 3 2 .Although it never came up for a vote by the American Congress where pundits say its chances of passing were slim at best, President Bush withdrew the U.S. from what proposed agreement relating to climate change in 2001?

Kyoto Protocol 3 3 .Grand larceny is the theft of money or another person's property with a high value. What type of larceny is involved when the value of the stolen property is small?

petty larceny 3 4 .According to U.S. Census Bureau statistics, what small country of the Pyrenees has the world's longest life expectancy?

Andorra 3 5 .In aviation, yaw is about what axis?

vertical axis

3 6 .You suspend a small boulder from a spring scale to determine its mass. Then you submerge the rock in water and read the scale again. The difference between the two readings give you the mass of what?

mass of the water displaced 3 7 .What is another name for a conservator charged with the duty of caring for the personal needs and property of another person called the ward?

guardian (custodian, trustee) 3 8 .If you were to choose 1 beetle, 1 centipede, and 1 cockroach from a box with 9 beetles, 1 centipede, and 10 cockroaches, how many different groups of three could you select?

90 3 9 .What period of the Mesozoic Era occurred between the Triassic and Cretaceous periods?

Jurassic Period 4 0 .The half-life of a radioactive substance is 200 years. What fraction of the substance will remain after 800 years?

1/16

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, HS Round 5 Page 54 1 .For what does the abbreviation stand below? Meteorologists report as "BLSN" snow that is raised by the wind to heights of six feet or more.

blowing snow 4 2 .This is from what novel? And scattered about it, some in their overturned war-machines, some in the now rigid handling-machines, and a dozen of them stark and silent and laid in a row, were the Martians-dead!-slain by the putrefactive and disease bacteria against which their systems were unprepared.

The War of the Worlds 4 3 .What metal is common to all these alloys? Muntz metal, cupronickel, gunmetal, pinchbeck, manganese bronze, naval brass, duralumin

copper 4 4 .A script for a play adapted for television is called a ...

teleplay 4 5 .While mitochondrial DNA is inherited from only the mother, nuclear DNA is inherited from ...

both parents (the mother and father)

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, HS Round 6 Page 11 .Joe found out that Fritz Erl, president of Haryox College, was formerly a Nazi in charge of a concentration camp. Joe promised to keep quiet if Fritz would give him a tidy annual stipend. What crime has Joe committed?

extortion (bribery) 2 .Add a displacement of 4 inches west and a displacement of 9 inches west.

13 inches west 3 .In 1857, a Mormon militia group, partly dressed as Indians, and Paiute tribesmen killed around 120 unarmed members of the Fancher-Baker wagon train in a tragic event known as the ...

Mountain Meadows Massacre 4 .Name the suite by Edvard Grieg consisting of these movements. Morning Ase's Death Anitra's Dance In the Hall of the Mountain King

Peer Gynt 5 .When infinitives are followed by pronouns, the pronouns must be in what case?

objective case

6 .Anticosti Island is near the mouth of what major North American river?

St. Lawrence River 7 .This quotation by Thomas Paine relates to what amendment? Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants.

Second Amendment 8 .The name "euglena" comes from Latin words meaning "eyeball" in reference to its light-sensitive patch of pigment called an ...

eyespot 9 .An asthma attack can be triggered by the minuscule droppings of tiny members of the spider family that live in carpeting, mattresses, pillows, clothing, and upholstered furniture. Name these minute arachnids.

dust mites (or mites) 1 0 .The masks representing comedy and tragedy represent the two Greek Muses, Thalia and ...

Melpomene

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, HS Round 6 Page 21 1 .Name the fifth Abbasid caliph and most famous of the dynasty whose exploits are celebrated in "The Thousand and One Nights."

Haroun al Rashid 1 2 .When a group of bankers put up a substantial reward for Jesse James, which one of his own gang members killed him?

Robert Ford 1 3 .The number of degrees within which a trigonometric function completes one cycle defines a ...

period 1 4 .When a copyright expires, the copyrighted work enters what domain?

public domain 1 5 .Determine the reference angle for an angle of 120 degrees.

60 degrees

1 6 .A person fully prepared to do something like sign a contract is "ready, willing, and ..."

able 1 7 .During the Korean War, the Chinese warned the United States not to approach the Chinese-North Korean border at what river?

Yalu 1 8 .This testimony is about what killer? I looked up and saw the defendant raise a pistol and fire at Wild Bill's head. It kind of knocked Bill's head forward and then he fell gradually back.

Jack McCall 1 9 .Measuring some 20 kilometers across, what formed Tanzania's Ngorongoro Crater?

volcano 2 0 .What 18th-century British inventor developed a machine to speed up the work of hand-loom weaving?

John Kay

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, HS Round 6 Page 32 1 .What tropic runs through Taiwan?

Tropic of Cancer 2 2 .An insect was sitting on a plant a yard above the water when it was suddenly bombarded with fine droplets that brought it down. Name the fish that squirted the water jet.

archerfish 2 3 .Complete this cry of the French Revolution. Liberty - Equality -

Fraternity 2 4 .Identify the two types of abundant charged particles that comprise the Van Allen radiation belts.

protons, electrons 2 5 .Who wrote this? Long years ago The Dong was happy and gay, Till he fell in love with a Jumbly Girl Who came to those shores one day. For the Jumblies came in a sieve, they did, Landing at eve near the Zemmery Fidd Where the Oblong Oysters grow.

Edward Lear

2 6 .Factor qr + zr + qx + zx.

(q+z)(r+x) 2 7 .What is the most populous of all American Indian tribes?

Cherokee 2 8 .What god of the woods and fields was part goat, played the pipes, and was the son of Hermes?

Pan 2 9 .What novel ends with these words? Tomorrow I'll think of some way to get him back. After all - tomorrow is another day.

Gone With the Wind 3 0 .The main part of kelp that connects the holdfast to the blade is called the ...

stipe

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, HS Round 6 Page 43 1 .Guided missiles are designed so their courses can be corrected at any time during their flight. What type of missile must be aimed during the first few minutes of flight before its fuel is exhausted?

ballistic 3 2 .The displacement of an object as a whole through space with all the different parts of the object maintaining their mutual relation unchanged is what kind of motion?

translational 3 3 .Who attained perfect knowledge while meditating in India beneath a bo tree?

Gautama (Siddhartha) Buddha 3 4 .The three main effects of nuclear explosions include the thermal effect, the radiation effect, and the ...

blast effect 3 5 .The first large wagon train to enter the Oregon Country was led by a physician and missionary who had previously established a mission in the Walla Walla Valley. His name was Marcus ...

Whitman

3 6 .The fourth wife of Henry VIII was Anne of ...

Cleves 3 7 .The most important naturally occurring compound of hydrogen is ...

water 3 8 .The Temple of the Sun at Teotihuacan is in what present-day country?

Mexico 3 9 .If it is 3 a.m. in Greenwich, England, and 6 a.m. where you are, your longitude must be at least how many degrees east?

45 4 0 .The molecules of water in the crystal lattice vibrate faster and faster as heat from the outside air moves in. Eventually they vibrate so fast that they tear loose and move around freely. This phenomenon is commonly called ...

melting

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, HS Round 6 Page 54 1 .What kind of nuclear emission is likely to produce harmful effects on personnel in a block house ten miles from a nuclear explosion?

gamma rays 4 2 .This passage is about what Peruvian plain? While from the ground the site seems to be a maze of lines, from the air, figures - among them a hummingbird, a monkey, a whale, and a spider - can be seen, some spanning to 900 feet long.

Nazca 4 3 .Law enforcement personnel who carry out normal patrolling and police work but wear ordinary clothes to better blend in with a population are known as what kind of officers?

plainclothes officers 4 4 .The higher air temperatures in urban areas compared to those of cooler surrounding rural areas is called an urban heat ...

island 4 5 .The USGS is an agency within what federal department?

Department of the Interior

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, HS Round 7 Page 11 .Swarms of what kind of insects are described in both "Lonesome Dove" and "On the Banks of Plum Creek"?

locusts 2 .Most cross-country passenger trains in the U.S. are operated by what semipublic corporation?

Amtrak 3 .Seismograms record two types of vibrations, P and S waves. What do these letters stand for?

primary, secondary 4 .What major ocean current that heads northwest along the U.S. Atlantic coast is a continuation of the North Equatorial Current?

Gulf Stream 5 .Cephalopods are to head-footed as gastropods are to ...

stomach-footed

6 .This is about a 1999 disaster in what nation between the Black and Mediterranean Seas? By week's end, reported fatalities had soared past 10,000. But another 35,000 were believed entombed in rubble here following one of the most powerful earthquakes ever recorded in the 20th century.

Turkey 7 .The comma fault or comma splice is the erroneous use of a comma as the sole connection between two independent ...

clauses 8 .This excerpt is about what zoologist? Her ongoing struggles to save her gorillas may have killed her. In 1985, her lifeless body was found in her Rwandan cabin. While authorities suspected poachers, they could never prove their allegations.

Dian Fossey 9 .What award, originally established by George Washington and still granted to this day, acknowledges those who have been wounded or killed while fighting in the U.S. Armed Forces?

Purple Heart 1 0 .For what does the abbreviation "RN" stand in the medical profession?

registered nurse

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, HS Round 7 Page 21 1 .What is the largest of four consecutive odd integers if the sum of the first three exceeds the fourth by 26?

19 1 2 .According to William Blake, you can hold infinity in the palm of your hand, see heaven in a wild flower, and see a world in a ...

grain of sand 1 3 .A pyramid is 8 feet tall with a square base, each side of which is 4.5 feet. What is its volume?

54 cubic feet 1 4 .What nation forms the eastern boundary of El Salvador?

Honduras 1 5 .Laws prohibiting many deceptive or manipulative stock sales practices and the U.S. federal agency responsible for overseeing American stock exchanges were established by what act of 1934?

Securities Exchange Act (34 Act)

1 6 .Ablation involves a solid becoming a gas without becoming a liquid, a process called ...

sublimation 1 7 .Name the 20th-century art movement that produced paintings based on small and interlocking facets or large planes.

cubism 1 8 .In May of 2006, some 6,200 people were killed by a massive earthquake in what country that also suffered the greatest number of victims in the huge tsunami of 2004?

Indonesia 1 9 .Although the conventions have changed with history, what term by the thirteenth century had come to signify a poem of fourteen lines following a strict rhyme structure?

sonnet 2 0 .Over 2.7 billion years ago, blue-green algae began forming intertidal pedestals called ...

stromatolites

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, HS Round 7 Page 32 1 .In terms of radians, one degree equals pi divided by what?

180 2 2 .What kind of lightning occurs when small sections of a lightning channel remain bright longer than others?

bead lightning 2 3 .Norman Rockwell painted hundreds of covers for the Saturday Evening Post and hundreds more for what other magazine?

Boy's Life 2 4 .This is about whom? She was prime minister from 1969 to 1974, leading her country to victory in the fourth Arab-Israeli War in 1973.

Golda Meir 2 5 .This verse is from what longer work by John Greenleaf Whittier? As night drew on, and, from the crest Of wooded knolls that ridged the west, The Sun, a snow-blown traveler, sank From sight beneath the smothering bank.

Snow-Bound

2 6 .What general, called Gentleman Johnny, lost the crucial Battle of Saratoga in 1777?

John Burgoyne 2 7 .Which was the primary state in which Johnny Appleseed distributed his apple seeds?

Ohio 2 8 .Most of the population in Siberia lives near the route of what railroad?

Trans-Siberian Railroad 2 9 .What mountain pass between Dyea, Alaska and Bennett Lake, British Columbia gave prospectors access to the Klondike during the gold rush in the late 19th century?

Chilkoot Pass 3 0 .This is from what amendment? ... nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.

14th amendment

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, HS Round 7 Page 43 1 .These are what category of verbs? do, does, did, have, has, had, am, is, was, were, been, shall, will, can, could, should, would, may

helping (linking) 3 2 .Marine limestone was formed in a sea. Fluvial limestones were formed in deposits laid down by a river. Lacustrine sedimentary deposits were laid down in ...

lakes 3 3 .Since P and S waves both move all the way through the Earth's mantle, we know that the mantle is not composed of matter in what state?

liquid 3 4 .A Tehuantepecer is a violent wind from north in the Gulf of Tehuantepec that originates in what adjacent larger gulf?

Gulf of Mexico 3 5 .Complete this Irish bull by to W.C. Fields. The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of ...

sleep

3 6 .For what does the P stand in the abbreviations in this passage? The Achille Lauro was hijacked by the PLF which was a faction of the PLO.

Palestine 3 7 .How many different tetromino patterns are there?

5 (or 7) 3 8 ."Symphony No. 41 in C Major" by Wolfgang Mozart has what nickname reminiscent of the fifth planet from the Sun?

Jupiter 3 9 .An agreement involving what two nations is considered Jimmy Carter's greatest achievement as president?

Egypt, Israel 4 0 .What form of energy is transmitted by electromagnetic waves?

radiant energy

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, HS Round 7 Page 54 1 .What gas was of greatest interest to the Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin?

hydrogen 4 2 .The Crimean War was essentially a war between the Ottoman Empire, Great Britain, France, and Sardinia on one side and what empire on the other?

Russian 4 3 .You can create the impression of objectivity or detachment by using what voice?

passive voice 4 4 .When a star dies, if its mass is less than 1.4 times that of our Sun, what kind of dense star is formed before it becomes a black dwarf?

white dwarf 4 5 .Radiological dispersal devises that combine radioactive material with conventional explosives are informally known as what kind of bombs?

dirty bomb

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, HS Round 8 Page 11 .Abraham Lincoln's signing of what document prompted Ralph Waldo Emerson to recite this verse? I break your bonds and masterships, And I unchain the slave: Free be his heart and hand henceforth As wind and wandering wave.

Emancipation Proclamation 2 .What is the meaning of the root word in clause, claustrophobia, reclusive, and conclude?

close (shut) 3 .These safety precautions are advised with what predator in mind? Keep your back to something. Carry a pole to fend off an attack. Get out of the water if bleeding. Don't splash the water's surface.

shark 4 .A camel train that leaves Qatar and travels on a compass heading of 180 degrees will travel into what country?

Saudi Arabia 5 .In "Brave New World," human embryos range from Alpha Plus Intellectuals to Epsilon Minus ...

Morons

6 .What organ is injured in a pulmonary contusion?

lung 7 .With respect to fish, amphibians, and bivalve mollusks, "spawn" means ...

eggs (or newly hatched young) 8 .What nation, along with Japan, signed a treaty in 1971 returning Okinawa to Japanese governance?

United States 9 .Over 2000 heretics were burned at the stake in Spain during the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Catholic Church. This prosecution of heretics was called the ...

Inquisition 1 0 .The length of a rectangle is 8 yards more than 6 times the width. Find the width if the perimeter is 156 yards.

10

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, HS Round 8 Page 21 1 .Despite its name, what kind of creature is the Mormon cricket?

grasshopper (locust) 1 2 .For many years, what federal agency was involved in activities against civil rights organizations, extensive illegal wiretapping, the use of agency files for political purposes by U.S. presidents, and the keeping of extensive secret dossiers on politicians?

FBI 1 3 .What South American country is the world's geographically largest Spanish-speaking nation?

Argentina 1 4 .Name the policy of Theodore Roosevelt based on massive military and naval power as an instrument of foreign diplomacy.

Big Stick policy 1 5 .Radio waves with short wavelengths used for radar and heating are called ...

microwaves

1 6 .The strait separating North Island from South Island in New Zealand was named for what 18th-century British navigator and explorer?

James Cook 1 7 .While Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides are known for their tragedies, who is the greatest Greek playwright known for his comedies?

Aristophanes 1 8 .What single discount is equivalent to a discount series of 25%, 15%, and 5%?

39.44% 1 9 .The honeyguide, a small African bird, gives a characteristic call when it locates a beehive, thus guiding the honey-badger to the site. The badger rips apart the hive, getting the honey it wants and the bird picks through the debris for bee larvae. This illustrates what kind of symbiotic relationship?

mutualism 2 0 .A 6-pound rife and a 10-pound rifle fire identical bullets with identical muzzle velocities. Compare their recoil momenta.

They are the same.

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, HS Round 8 Page 32 1 .What method of protest used by members of the civil rights movement in the 1960s encouraged blacks not to fight back even when taunted or beaten?

nonviolence 2 2 .What legislator and educational reformer of the 19th century came to be known as the father of the American public school?

Horace Mann 2 3 .If a painting of a natural vista is a landscape and a picture of the sea is a seascape, what is a picture of a metropolitan area?

cityscape 2 4 .What 17th-century calamity in London led to this description by Daniel Defoe? Whole streets seemed to be desolated, and not to be shut up only, but to be emptied of their inhabitants. Doors were left open, and windows stood shattering with the wind in empty houses for want of people to shut them.

plague (black death) 2 5 .Eggs are produced in what organs of a female grasshopper?

ovaries

2 6 .The most abundant ones are minute particles of mineral dust, sulfuric acid, ammonium sulfate, pollens, carbon and soot. These non-gaseous microscopic particles floating in the atmosphere are called ...

aerosols 2 7 .Today, most of the Zulu people live in what country?

South Africa 2 8 .What prolific American science fiction author also wrote stories under the pseudonym, Paul French?

Isaac Asimov 2 9 .What meteor shower seems to radiate from the region of the constellation named for the husband of Andromeda who killed the Gorgon Medusa?

Perseids 3 0 .Name the two houses which make up the British Parliament.

House of Lords, House of Commons

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, HS Round 8 Page 43 1 .Solve this equation for y. cy - 3a = 2h

(2h + 3a)/c 3 2 .In 2008, Sudan cut diplomatic relations with what neighboring country to its west, blaming it for helping rebels from Darfur launch an attack on Khartoum?

Chad 3 3 .What famous American writer was born during the appearance of Halley's comet in 1835 and died while it was in the sky in 1910?

Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 3 4 .The original Chinese term "hsi nao" is literally translated as "thought reform." What is this compound word referring to the radical intent to clear someone's mind of one set of ideas and replace them by another?

brainwashing 3 5 .What conflict is the backdrop for Boris Pasternak's novel, "Doctor Zhivago"?

Russian Revolution (Russian Civil War, WW I)

3 6 .What British ship that sailed to Tahiti ended up sunk in waters just off Pitcairn Island?

HMS Bounty 3 7 .Most plants grow from the tip, but herbivores like bison and wildebeests are assured of a continued food supply because what category of plants grows from the base of the stems?

grasses 3 8 .In 1989, the Supreme Court ruled that desecrating the American flag was not prohibited by the U.S. Constitution. The court's decision was largely based on an interpretation of what amendment to the U.S. Constitution?

1st amendment 3 9 .In the Third Servile War of 71 B.C., name the Roman slave who led the uprising of escaped slaves and gladiators.

Spartacus 4 0 .What phrase indicates the conditions under which copyrighted material may be used by others?

fair use

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, HS Round 8 Page 54 1 .There are 80 bones in the axial skeleton and 126 bones in what other skeletal division?

appendicular skeleton 4 2 .Find both numbers given these conditions. 3 times the larger number is 7 more than 4 times the smaller number. The larger number is 6 less than 3 times the smaller number.

5, 9 4 3 .What kind of body would have a reflectivity of zero and an absorptivity of 100%?

blackbody 4 4 .The presiding juror in a trial jury has what title?

foreman 4 5 .The Paleozoic Era began 570 million years ago and lasted 345 million years. The Cenozoic Era began 65 million years ago. How long did the Mesozoic Era last?

160 million years

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, HS Round 9 Page 11 .What American national park is adjacent to Waterton Lakes National Park in Alberta?

Glacier National Park 2 .By the end of the 19th century, what major American city had half as many Italians as lived in Naples and 2.5 times as many Irish as lived in Dublin?

New York City 3 .These a pieces from what opera? Aragonaise March of the Smugglers Children's Chorus Bohemian Dance

Carmen 4 .What biological phenomenon is mainly driven by both genetic drift and natural selection?

evolution 5 .Italians struggling for independence from Austria and unification under King Emanuel sang the melodies of what composer whose name was made into this acrostic? Vittorio Emanuele Re D' Italia

Verdi

6 .When a radius of a circle is perpendicular to a chord, then the radius does what to the chord?

It bisects the chord. 7 .The American frigate Philadelphia was scuttled by U.S. troops while moored in what North African harbor?

Tripoli 8 .In what woodcut did Albrecht Durer depict his vision of these concepts? pestilence death war destruction

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse 9 .As what part of speech does the participle function in this sentence? Dr. Frankenstein's mother is a charming lady.

adjective 1 0 .Tony Blair become the prime minister of what country in 1997?

Great Britain (United Kingdom)

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, HS Round 9 Page 21 1 .Stetson University in Florida was named for its benefactor, John B. Stetson, who was famous for making what?

hats 1 2 .To survive the annual dry seasons, people of the ancient Mideast built reservoirs supplied with water from runoff. These were sometimes hewn from limestone and plastered on the inside to prevent leakage. Such receptacles are called ...

cisterns 1 3 .This line by Mary Shelley is in what book? I beheld the wretch - the miserable monster whom I had created.

Frankenstein 1 4 .What state was the residence of the miner referred to in these lyrics? Dwelt a miner, forty-niner

California 1 5 .According to the lyrics of what folksong was a true lover lost for courting too slow?

On Top of Old Smokey

1 6 .Collectively, substances that tend to increase the discharge of urine in the body are called ...

diuretics 1 7 .Major international airports and shipping ports have zones where goods may be landed, processed, and then reshipped without payment of customs duties. Such areas are called ...

free ports (free zones) 1 8 .What was the pseudonym of Gertrude Margarette Zelle who was executed by the French as a spy?

Mata Hari 1 9 .What is the complete participial phrase below? Having run the last half-mile, we were barely able to catch the last shuttle to Venus.

Having run the last half-mile 2 0 .With respect to waste processing, what is the collective name for materials that were recently living such as leaves, grass, agricultural crop residues, and food scraps?

organics

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, HS Round 9 Page 32 1 .What on the ocean floor may be either pelagic or terrigenous?

sediments (oozes) 2 2 .In what kind of court could these kinds of disputes be resolved? -a landlord who will not return your security deposit -a contractor who did a shoddy job replacing your roof -a person who will not repay money that you loaned him

small claims court 2 3 .Name the process by which a magnetized or electrically charged object produces magnetism, an electric charge, or an electric voltage in another object without being in contact with it.

induction 2 4 .Practically all troops evacuated from Dunkirk in 1940 were either British or ...

French 2 5 .The Roman censor Appius Claudius Caecus began construction of what major roadway?

Appian Way

2 6 .Thor Heyerdahl visited what Pacific island in 1955 where he saw an abundance of monolithic statues?

Easter Island 2 7 .In Tennyson's poem, the Light Brigade rode into what valley?

Valley of Death 2 8 .From what character in literature is the adjective "quixotic" derived?

Don Quixote 2 9 .If you are on top of a high building, the angle between the horizontal and your line of sight to an airplane is called the angle of ...

elevation 3 0 .What U.S. national park is located in the Guadalupe Mountains of New Mexico?

Carlsbad Caverns

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, HS Round 9 Page 43 1 .A thick dust storm or sandstorm in the deserts of North Africa and Arabia is called a ...

haboob 3 2 .What gulf lies between the Arabian and Red seas?

Gulf of Aden 3 3 .A mutated organism carrying a mutated gene is a ...

mutant 3 4 .What is the narrowest African country that borders the Mediterranean?

Tunisia 3 5 .They are made from epidermal cells and can be removed without pain. They form as a result of constant pressure or friction such as occurs with prolonged handling of tools. One of these thickened areas of skin is called a ...

callus

3 6 .The lifeless lakes in America's Northeast and acres of dead trees in Germany's Black Forest can be attributed to what kind of precipitation?

acid rain 3 7 .The new, thin, transparent, and extremely hazardous ice through which you can see the road surface is called ...

black ice (glaze) 3 8 .The expression, "Caesar's wife must be above suspicion," originally referred to whom?

Pompeia 3 9 .The Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation provides funding for research relating primarily to injuries involving what part of the body?

spinal cord (spinal column, spine) 4 0 .A scam, such as the one engineered by Bernie Madoff, in which early investors are paid off by later ones is named after the famous swindler of the 1920s, Charles ...

Ponzi

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, HS Round 9 Page 54 1 .What legislation passed in 1935 was "an act to provide for the general welfare by establishing a system of federal old-age benefits"?

Social Security Act 4 2 .The Peace of Vereeniging in 1902 established the Orange Free State and what other region of South Africa as British crown colonies?

Transvaal 4 3 .Geologist David Johnston's last words were "Vancouver! Vancouver! This is it." It was 8:32 A.M. on May 18, 1980. He was standing six miles from what mountain?

Mt. St. Helens 4 4 .Benares is considered in the Hindu tradition as a most auspicious place in which to die, be cremated, and have one's ashes dispersed into the sacred waters of what river?

Ganges 4 5 .Who wrote these lines in a poem? Of every hue and caste am I, of every rank and religion. I am the poet of the Body and of the Soul, not the poet of goodness only, of wickedness also. I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journeywork of the stars.

Walt Whitman

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, HS Round 10 Page 11 .These are what kind of beliefs shared by many involved in dramatic performances? -Never whistle in a theater. -Never say the last line of a play during dress rehearsal. -Never wish an actor good luck before a performance.

superstitions 2 .Add the number of degrees in one quadrant of a circle to number of degrees in each angle of an equilateral triangle.

150 degrees 3 .What adjective describes a baby or child whose body provides evidence of physical abuse such as bruises, cuts, scars, or fractures?

battered 4 .What phrase describes the electoral support of Democratic candidates in the southern United States for nearly a century after the Reconstruction era?

solid south 5 .The theory of panspermia suggests that what came to Earth from elsewhere?

life

6 .What was the full name of the ship indicated in these lyrics from a ballad? It's an American frigate, the "Richard" by name / Mounted forty-four guns, and from New York she came. / A-cruising down the channel of Old England's fame / With a noble commander, Paul Jones was his name.

Bonhomme Richard 7 .What American author wrote these words? I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play, And wild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth, good will to men.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 8 .Classify the first word in this sentence. It was a dark and stormy night.

expletive (expletive pronoun) 9 .What two words complete this thought by legendary basketball coach, John Wooden? Things turn out the best for people who make the best of the way things ...

turn out 1 0 .On a seismograph, an earthquake of magnitude 2 makes a deflection how many times as great as an earthquake of magnitude 1?

10 times

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, HS Round 10 Page 21 1 .Two waves in which the peaks and troughs coincide are in ...

phase 1 2 .A hand carved on the doorway of the Alhambra is a perennial symbol of the five precepts of Islam including the profession of faith, prayer, pilgrimage, fasting, and ...

charity 1 3 .Name the cyanophytes with these features. They are prokaryotic unicellular or filamentous organisms. Cell walls contain cellulose. They have photosynthetic pigments.

blue-green algae 1 4 .What was the ancient Greek name for the peninsula of southwestern Europe now occupied by Portugal and Spain?

Iberia 1 5 .Finely bedded, highly fissile sedimentary rock that originally consisted of clays or muds is called ...

shale

1 6 .With what city was King Nebuchadnezzar most closely associated?

Babylon 1 7 .In the late 1990s, its real estate values declined by as much as 80 percent and its equities plummeted by 60 percent. This loss of over $8 trillion in value is the largest collapse of wealth in the history of the world. Name the country.

Japan 1 8 .This is about what? Characteristic of most specimens is the thin, glassy, and dark crust formed from the fused material which was not swept away and which hardened quickly near the end of the flight through air.

meteorites 1 9 .Scientists who study evolution may divide time into two major time periods. What period followed the anaerobic period?

aerobic period 2 0 .What is the greatest common factor of 4(p squared) - 8p + 4?

4 .

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, HS Round 10 Page 32 1 .The sum of two numbers is 231, and the larger is twice the smaller. What is the larger number?

154 2 2 .What Swiss Protestant theologian said this in the 16th century? We declare that God has decreed in His eternal wisdom those whom He would save and those whom He would send to perdition. We say this decision as to the chosen is based on His mercy.

John Calvin 2 3 .This is from a story of a mining town by whom? It needed but a glance to show them Kentuck lying there, cruelly crushed and bruised, but still holding the Luck of Roaring Camp in his arms. As they bent over the strangely assorted pair, they saw that the child was cold and pulseless.

Bret Harte 2 4 .A species of animal that is not endangered but may become so in the near future is described as being ...

threatened 2 5 .The angle of repose for unconsolidated materials is approximately how many degrees?

30 (accept 28-32)

2 6 .Spreading ridges are almost all under ocean water, except on what island of the North Atlantic where magma is coming to the surface so fast that the ridge has built up a huge land mass made of oceanic crust?

Iceland 2 7 .The Malay Peninsula lies in what sea?

South China Sea 2 8 .What is the intensifier in this line? After days of reviewing the alternatives, Wilma suddenly had what we all regarded as an insanely good idea.

insanely 2 9 .X is the midpoint of line YZ. What are the coordinates of X given these coordinates for Y and Z? Y(5, 6), Z(7, 10)

(6, 8) 3 0 .Just by virtue of their location on the bench during sessions of the Supreme Court, what can you say about the two justices sitting at the far left and far right?

They have the least seniority.

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, HS Round 10 Page 43 1 .What part of the body consists of the membranous labyrinth, the endolymph, the perilymph, the bony labyrinth, the sacculus with the cochlea and the utriculus with the semicircular canals?

ear (inner ear) 3 2 .To what work by Ernest Hemingway was Patrick McManus alluding when he wrote this story? The Short Happy Life of Francis Cucumber

The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber 3 3 .Most fine ceramics in colonial America were imported. For the most part, early colonial potters confined their trade to what type of ceramics fired in simple kilns at low temperatures?

earthenware 3 4 .The term, bacteriophage, literally means "bacteria ..."

eater (consumer) 3 5 .In what nation was the Ariane rocket developed?

France

3 6 .Every year, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service hosts a competition attracting hundreds of painters vying to have their work displayed on what special stamp?

(federal) duck stamp 3 7 .Two people who figure prominently in legends of alien abductions are Barney and Betty ...

Hill 3 8 .Theoretical or ideal mechanical advantage describes the change in force that would occur if there were no ...

friction 3 9 .A tumor is an abnormal growth of tissue that can be either malignant or ...

benign 4 0 .There are three broad classifications of plants based on their need for water. Plants which thrive in deserts or other arid climates are classified as ...

xerophytes

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, HS Round 10 Page 54 1 .Metallic oxides when combined with water produce ...

hydroxides 4 2 .About whom was Alexander Hamilton speaking when he said this? No other man can sufficiently unite the public opinion or give the requisite weight to the office in the commencement of government.

George Washington 4 3 .Who was the sovereign while these people were prime ministers of Great Britain? Harold Macmillan Harold Wilson Edward Heath James Callaghan Margaret Thatcher

Elizabeth II 4 4 .Alice drove 124 miles at 40 mph. In the same time, how far would she have driven at 50 mph?

155 miles 4 5 .What branch of science is concerned with the physics of the Earth?

geophysics

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, HS Round 11 Page 11 .Seeds will lie in the soil, perhaps for years, until the ground temperature or the moisture content of the soil is high enough to trigger germination. This resting or quiet period of a seed is called ...

dormancy 2 .Cabo San Lucas is at the southern tip of what peninsula?

Baja (Lower) California 3 .Who wrote this in 1854? I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Henry Thoreau 4 .Name the three oceans into which the Antarctic Circumpolar Current feeds cold water.

Indian, Pacific, Atlantic 5 .The ability of some animals to replace lost parts is called ...

regeneration

6 .The screwdriver, when used for its primary purpose, is an example of what simple machine?

wheel and axle 7 .Above the troposphere and extending to altitudes of about 25 miles is a region of clear calm air and unlimited visibility. Name this atmospheric layer.

stratosphere 8 .Earth-orbiting satellites have detected two doughnut-shaped belts of protons and electrons trapped by the terrestrial magnetic field. Name them.

Van Allen belts 9 .Triangle ABC is defined by these points. A(1,2), B(7,10), C(-1,6)What kind of triangle is it?

right triangle 1 0 .Complete this law of surds. The square root of A times the square root of B equals the square root of ...

A times B

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, HS Round 11 Page 21 1 .The vegetarians met in the year 802,701 by the Time Traveler are called the ...

Eloi 1 2 .This speech by Patrice Lumumba is about a region that became what nation? The dawn is here, my brother! Dawn! A new morning breaks in our old Africa. The evil, cruel times will go never to come again. A free and gallant Congo will arise from black soil.

Zaire 1 3 .Identify the speaker in this farewell. But it is now time to depart - for me to die and for you to live. But which of us is going to a better state is unknown for all but God.

Socrates 1 4 .A reducing atmosphere is one in which what gas is absent?

oxygen 1 5 .Name the work by Charles Darwin on mutability which influenced these fields. biology sociology theology psychology law philosophy

On the Origin of Species

1 6 .The confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers is in what country?

Iraq 1 7 .A nonmetal oxide that reacts with water to form an acid is an acidic ...

anhydride 1 8 .These words are from what song in a musical? Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens, Brown paper packages tied up with strings

My Favorite Things 1 9 .The luxurious country homes of ancient Romans are called ...

villas 2 0 .What story set in South Africa concerns a boy repeatedly victimized in a boarding school who later meets Hoppie Groenewald who instills in him a love of boxing?

The Power of One

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, HS Round 11 Page 32 1 .What are the three major structural divisions of the ear?

outer, middle, inner 2 2 .Factor 3c + 3d.

3(c+d) 2 3 .How does the volume of a sphere change if its radius is halved?

It is 1/8th as great. 2 4 .Bronchitis is a respiratory disease characterized by the inflammation of the main breathing tubules called ...

bronchi 2 5 .The headquarters of NATO are in what country?

Belgium

2 6 .Name either of the two seas that the Hittite Empire bordered to its west.

Mediterranean, Aegean 2 7 .What republic consists of a main island and more than 50 nearby islands just off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula between the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean?

Singapore 2 8 .Maps mistakenly showed islands stretching across the Atlantic, but sailors could not find them when beset by storms or when immobile in the deadly equatorial zone called the ...

doldrums 2 9 .What philosophical doctrine developed by William James and Charles Peirce indicates that the only test of the truth of cognitions or philosophical principles is their practical results or workableness?

pragmatism 3 0 .These parks are in what country? The Burren National Park Glenveagh National Park Ballycroy National Park Connemara National Park Killarney National Park

Ireland

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, HS Round 11 Page 43 1 .Stephen Vincent Benet's story, "The Devil and Daniel Webster," is reminiscent of what German legend?

Faust 3 2 .The name of the ruling party in El Salvador in the 1980s had a name that sounds much like a kind of sports stadium. Name that party.

Arena 3 3 .What city described by Lincoln Steffens as "first in violence, deepest in dirt, lawless, unlovely, ill-smelling, irreverent, and an overgrown gawk of a village" was described by Carl Sandburg as a "city of big shoulders"?

Chicago 3 4 .A vote taken to again pass a bill that has been vetoed by a president is called an ...

override 3 5 .These are central characters in what novel? Jake Spoon Clara Allen Newt Dobbs Josh Deets July Johnson

Lonesome Dove

3 6 .What square was the site of the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, and forty years later, the scene of the most powerful student demonstrations in Chinese history?

Tiananmen Square 3 7 .Which of the two classes of visual receptors in the retina are mainly functioning for a person watching an afternoon bullfight in Guadalajara?

cones 3 8 .What amendment passed in 1920 was the greatest triumph of the Anti-Saloon League?

18th Amendment (Prohibition) 3 9 .Between 1933 and 1942, whose forces conquered a region extending from the English Channel to the outskirts of Moscow and from North Africa to Norway?

Adolf Hitler 4 0 .Name the territory or region adjacent to the Louisiana Purchase and the Mexican Cession acquired by treaty with Great Britain in 1846.

Oregon Country

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, HS Round 11 Page 54 1 .The superstitious hysteria and panic that grew in Massachusetts in the spring of 1692 is called the ...

Salem witch-hunt 4 2 .4.9(t squared) = 39.2. To the nearest tenth, what is t?

2.8 (or -2.8) 4 3 .From what Esther Forbes story was this taken? "Oh, God help them," thought Johnny. "They haven't seen those British troops in Boston. They haven't seen the gold lace on the generals, those muskets - all so alike, and everyone has a bayonet."

Johnny Tremain 4 4 .What is the main religion of the nation east of the Red Sea?

Islam 4 5 .Minoan art developed around what sea?

Aegean (or Mediterranean)

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, HS Round 12 Page 11 .They are ionically bonded compounds that dissociate into charged particles in water and conduct an electric current. Sodium chloride is one example. These compounds are known as ...

electrolytes 2 .Name the first living creature to orbit the Earth on a one-way flight aboard Sputnik 2.

Laika 3 .What are the prime factors of this expression? x squared - y squared - 2y -1

(x-y-1)(x+y+1) 4 .Every navel orange comes from a single tree. This mutant orange tree on a Brazilian plantation produced oranges without seeds. It was reproduced by splicing buds from that mutant to other trees through a process called ...

grafting 5 .Bronze statues are protected from further corrosion by what thin, natural coating of oxides or carbonates produced on their surfaces through weathering?

patina

6 .It eats almost anything used by man as food. Its head is almost concealed by the broad margins of the thorax. It is a pest in homes and a genuine problem in some restaurants. Name this insect.

cockroach 7 .What is the slope of the line produced by the equation, C = (5/9)F + 160/9?

5/9 8 .The belief in the United States that perseverance and hard work will lead to material well-being is the American ...

dream 9 .A pickle jar contains twice as many quarters as nickels for a total value of $4.40. How many quarters are in the jar?

16 1 0 .Gallstones can lead to severe pain when they become lodged in what duct?

bile (common) duct

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, HS Round 12 Page 21 1 .Ben Jonson became famous for writing what comedy based on the medieval idea that four bodily fluids determine a person's health and disposition?

Every Man in His Humour 1 2 .What is modified by the participle in this line? Stretching across the chasm, I saw the rope.

nothing 1 3 .How many atoms of oxygen are in one molecule of glucose?

6 .1 4 .What treaty signed in 1923 had this subtitle? A treaty between the United States, the British Empire, France and Japan relating to their Insular Possessions and Insular Dominions in the Region of the Pacific Ocean

Four-Power Treaty 1 5 .While the length of the scale on a sextant is 60 degrees and the length of the scale on an octant is 45 degrees, what is the length of the scale on a quintant?

72 degrees

1 6 .What personality disorder is characterized by a pervasive disregard for the rights of others and the law?

antisocial (sociopathic, psychopathic, dissocial) 1 7 .A state where thinking differently is rewarded with torture, where people are continuously monitored, and where state propaganda tells people exactly what to think was created by George Orwell in what story?

Nineteen Eighty-Four 1 8 .In the study of light, what is the abbreviation in the SI system for the unit of luminous intensity?

cd (for candela) 1 9 .What former Catholic priest who denied the authority of the pope made this statement? It is neither safe nor prudent to do anything against conscience. Here I stand. I can do no other.

Martin Luther 2 0 .What word completes this fundamental concept first enunciated by Theodor Schwann? All organisms are composed of essentially like parts, namely ...

cells

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, HS Round 12 Page 32 1 .A dramatic reading by a group in which multiple members speak similar parts at the same time is known as what kind of speaking?

choral speaking 2 2 .The largest delta in the world is at the confluence of what two Asian rivers?

Ganges, Brahmaputra 2 3 .To what snake does this jingle apply? Red on yellow - kill a fellow

coral snake 2 4 .Who wrote this? Variations within a species are indistinguishable at first, but may develop into differences that can restrict one group's range or its ability to obtain food. These varieties tend to become converted into new and distinct species.

Charles Darwin 2 5 .What was the title of the novel dealing with the struggles involved around 1948 in the establishment of Israel written by Leon Uris?

Exodus

2 6 .What British author created Miss Jane Marple and Hercule Poirot?

Agatha Christie 2 7 .During the first decade of the 20th century, about 100 immigrants per hour were processed on what island southwest of Manhattan?

Ellis Island 2 8 .If you cut a carrot in half, you will see a darker center and lighter tissue on the outside. The inner dark circle contains xylem tubes. The lighter portion consists of what kind of tubes?

phloem tubes 2 9 .What is the equation for a line that passes through point (3, 1) with a slope of 2/5?

y = 2/5x - 1/5 3 0 .What novel by Tom Clancy is about a covert war supported by the U.S. president and orchestrated by CIA officials against a drug cartel in Colombia, without the knowledge of the CIA's acting deputy director?

Clear and Present Danger

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, HS Round 12 Page 43 1 .Name the system under which time is advanced by one hour with respect to the time of the prevailing standard meridian.

daylight savings time 3 2 .What large, craterlike depression can be formed either by a violent volcanic explosion that ejects a vast quantity of material or by the collapse of a volcanic cone into an underground cavity left by the loss of magma?

caldera 3 3 .The abscissa is positive in which quadrants?

I, IV 3 4 .This line is from what play? I'm looking for my sister, Stella DuBois, I mean Mrs. Stanley Kowalski.

A Streetcar Named Desire 3 5 .The acronym, AIM, as used in relation to Native Americans, stands for ...

American Indian Movement

3 6 .About how many board feet of lumber are in 3 ten-foot 2 x 8s?

40 board feet 3 7 .You go on a 10,000 mile car trip with 5 new tires. You rotate your tires regularly so that each tire ends up with the same number of miles as the others. For how many miles will each tire be used?

8,000 3 8 .What act passed over President Truman's veto in 1947 restricted organized labor's power to strike, outlawed the closed shop, and prohibited the use of union funds for political purposes?

Taft-Hartley Act 3 9 .What, according to the Second Amendment, is necessary to the security of a free state?

a militia 4 0 .What is the amplitude of a pendulum that swings a distance of 15 centimeters to either side of its equilibrium point?

15 centimeters

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, HS Round 12 Page 54 1 .Which of Aesop's fables could have had this title? The Bushy-Tailed Carnivorous Mammal of the Genus Vulpes and the Clustered Edible Berries of the Woody Vine

The Fox and the Grapes 4 2 .The openings between ice floes are called ...

leads 4 3 .What kind of dome is formed when thick beds of evaporites, usually halite, intrude vertically through surrounding rocks?

salt dome 4 4 .What kind of mammal is indicated below? In ancient Egypt, to kill one brought immediate death. They were sacred to Bast, the goddess of pleasure, and funerals for them were so numerous that their cemeteries were used until recent times as sources of rich fertilizer.

cats 4 5 .The alien mother ship has three times as many Zetas as Reticulans. One week, the Zetas averaged 18 abductions each, and the average number of abductions for the Zetas and Reticulans together was 17 per alien. How many abductions did each Reticulan average that week?

14

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, HS Round 13 Page 11 .What word completes this statement by Somerset Maugham? There is only one thing about which I am certain, and that is that there is very little about which one can be ...

certain 2 .Another name for the law of definite composition is the law of definite ...

proportions 3 .What literary technique was used in this critical remark about the Italian actor, "Guido Nadzo"? Guido Nadzo is nadzo guido.

pun 4 .This is from what James Michener novel? Therefore, men of Polynesia and Boston and China and Mount Fuji do not come to these islands empty-handed. In these islands there is no certainty. Bring your own food, your own gods, your own flowers and fruits and concepts. For if you come without resources to these islands you will perish. On these harsh terms the islands waited.

Hawaii 5 .Carrying information from one cell generation to another, manufacturing proteins, and controlling cells are functions of what kind of acids?

nucleic acids

6 .Sharia is a code of laws based on what literary work?

Koran 7 .Subconjunctival hemorrhage occurs in what organ?

eye 8 .What "ism," named after an order of priests in ancient Gaul, was the religion of the Celtic peoples in the pre-Christian British Isles?

druidism 9 .The Hertzsprung-Russell diagram classifies stars based on absolute magnitude and ...

temperature 1 0 .Cape Henry, Virginia, was the site of the first landfall of the settlers who established what colony in 1607?

Jamestown

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, HS Round 13 Page 21 1 .What Tibetan animal furnishes milk, butter, meat, hides, wool, and dung for fuel?

yak 1 2 .This is from the official state poem of what state? What Love and Pride I Feel for Thee. You Proud Ole State, the Volunteer, Your Proud Traditions I Hold Dear.

Tennessee 1 3 .With respect to political flexibility, Otto von Bismarck said that one must always have two of what in the fire?

irons 1 4 .Who composed these works? Flight of the Bumblebee Hymn to the Sun

Rimsky-Korsakov 1 5 .What glands are severely irritated by tear gas?

lachrymal

1 6 .If the line of centers of two circles is 18 and their radii are 4 and 9 centimeters respectively, then the circles are separated by how many centimeters?

5 .1 7 .What was Tom Sawyer's answer to the question posed by his Sunday school teacher in which he was to name the first two apostles?

David and Goliath 1 8 .Since he recognized the shape of the Earth as spherical, what early Greek mathematician was able to calculate its circumference?

Eratosthenes 1 9 .Name the Mexican muralist who created murals for public buildings under the Fine Arts Section of the Works Progress Administration.

Diego Rivera 2 0 .John Colter was an American fur trader and guide who traveled through an unexplored area that eventually became what U.S. national park?

Yellowstone (or Grand Teton)

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, HS Round 13 Page 32 1 .What is the sum of the interior angles in an irregular nonagon?

1260 2 2 .What is the title of the highest-ranking persons sent to reside in foreign nations as representatives of their home government?

ambassador 2 3 .The distance between the continental shelves of western Norway and eastern Greenland is about 1300 km. If these land masses separated 65 million years ago, what is the average velocity of either plate in centimeters per year?

1 cm/year 2 4 .This is from what work by Rachel Carson? Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song.

Silent Spring 2 5 .The ancient Sumerians created the world's first library which contained more than twenty-two thousand clay tablets inscribed in what language?

cuneiform

2 6 .What is m if m/8 - m/10 = 3?

120 2 7 .What is the last word in this advice by Alexander Pope? In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold, Alike fantastic if too new or old. Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old ...

aside 2 8 .New Hampshire is bordered by how many states?

3 .2 9 .What word completes this verse by Edgar Allan Poe? The curtain, a funeral pall, Comes down with the rush of a storm, While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, "Man," And the hero, the Conqueror ...

Worm 3 0 .The heat of vaporization for one gram of water is 540 calories. Knowing this, how many calories are required to bring one gram of water at 25 degrees C to steam?

615

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, HS Round 13 Page 43 1 .William Cullen Bryant celebrates the Revolutionary War exploits of South Carolina guerrillas in his work entitled "Song of ..."

Marion's Men 3 2 .Known for their psychotropic or medicinal attributes, nitrogenous organic substances such as cocaine, quinine, nicotine, and morphine are collectively classified as ...

alkaloids 3 3 .What national park is closest to Biscayne National Park?

Everglades National Park 3 4 .Translate this line. Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum.

If you want peace, prepare for war. 3 5 .In 1720, who conceived the idea of using quicksilver instead of alcohol in thermometers and subsequently invented a new scale to measure heat?

Gabriel Fahrenheit

3 6 .In 2009, Argentine courts upheld the decision to charge several former military officers with war crimes in a war that was concluded 27 years earlier with what country?

Great Britain 3 7 .What city is the main port and commercial center of India?

Mumbai (Bombay) 3 8 .In the Russian civil war beginning in 1918, the two major forces included the White Army and the ...

Red Army (Bolshevists) 3 9 .Identify the adjective clause in this line. Mr. Crabtree was desperately trying to sell his vintage 1949 army jeep that had antlers in its radiator.

that had antlers in its radiator 4 0 .What tale by James Thurber includes a wizard, a prince disguised as a minstrel, a princess trapped in a castle by an evil duke, and a hazardous task that must be completed in an impossible time frame?

The 13 Clocks

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, HS Round 13 Page 54 1 .Although it has no force of law, a statement passed by one or both houses of Congress that generally approves or disapproves of some course of action or project is known as what kind of resolution?

non-binding resolution 4 2 .Solve this equation for x. (square root of (x + 6)) + 1 = 3

-2 4 3 .This is a parody of what poem? He killed the noble Mudjokivis. Of the skin he made him mittens, Made them with the fur side inside, Made them with the skin side outside. He, to get the warm side inside, Put the inside skin side outside.

Hiawatha 4 4 .In "Moby Dick," who passes up an opportunity to kill Ahab?

Starbuck 4 5 .The fall of Chiang Kai-shek's capital in 1937 was followed by the massacre of some 100,000 people by Japanese troops. This horror was the Rape of ...

Nanking

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, HS Round 14 Page 11 .Which region of the hindbrain that contains nearly half of the brain's neurons is involved in muscle coordination, balance, and equilibrium?

cerebellum 2 .A cell such as an erythrocyte or leukocyte capable of free movement in a fluid as distinguished from a fixed cell in a tissue is called a ...

corpuscle 3 .What Roman poet popularized the legend of Pygmalion?

Ovid 4 .What is the noun that means the vocal or instrumental part that supports a solo part?

accompaniment 5 .The document given to an immigrant who has just become a new U.S. citizen is called a certificate of ...

naturalization

6 .What was Mr. Armstrong describing when he said this? Since the sky is black, the impression is of being on a sandy athletic field at night where it is well-illuminated by floodlights.

the Moon 7 .It is not the shoreline but the outer edge of what part of the ocean floor that forms the boundary of a continent?

continental slope 8 .It costs $4.17 per cubic yard to excavate a plot of ground. What would the total cost be to excavate a hole 4 x 6 x 10 yards?

$1000.80 9 .The man who negotiated the Louisiana Purchase while serving as Thomas Jefferson's minister to France and later helped Robert Fulton develop his steamboat was Robert ...

Livingston 1 0 .What fatty acids consist of chains of carbon atoms containing at least one double chemical bond that links to two neighboring carbon atoms?

unsaturated

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, HS Round 14 Page 21 1 .In 2009, NASA launched a telescope designed to probe for planets in our part of the galaxy. This instrument was named for what 16th-century German astronomer?

Johannes Kepler 1 2 .These are principal characters in what saga? Kriemhild Gunther Brunhilde Siegfried

The Nibelungenlied 1 3 .These are parts of what larger body of water? Tyrrhenian Sea, Ligurian Sea, Ionian Sea

Mediterranean Sea 1 4 .An airplane flying directly from Lisbon, Portugal to Bordeaux, France would overfly what enormous bay?

Bay of Biscay 1 5 .Tropical climates are found between 23 1/2 degrees north latitude and 23 1/2 degrees south latitude. What category of climate is found between 23 1/2 degrees to 66 1/2 degrees?

temperate

1 6 .This is about what particular vehicle? The explosion turned out to be not only predictable, but predicted. Some of the engineers who built the faulty rocket boosters had warned against launching the shuttle in cold weather, but they were ignored.

Challenger 1 7 .Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is referring to what in these words? It is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images or shadows cast by outward things on stone or canvas, having in themselves no separate existence. But this art form, existing in itself, and not in seeming a something it is not, surpasses them as substance shadow.

architecture 1 8 .These characters appear in what novel? Two-Bit Matthews, Cherry Valance, Dallas Winston, Ponyboy Curtis

The Outsiders 1 9 .T.S. Eliot described what month as "breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, and stirring dull roots with spring rain"?

April 2 0 .Ancient Egyptians building pyramids knew it was easier to push a heavy object up a slope than to lift it directly, and constructed long ramps for this purpose. Name this simple machine.

inclined plane

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, HS Round 14 Page 32 1 .He said, "You can't keep a man in the ditch unless you are willing to stay in with him." Name this founder of the Tuskegee Institute.

Booker T. Washington 2 2 .Austria, Russia, and Prussia were three of the four nations which comprised the Quadruple Alliance of 1814. Name the fourth.

Britain 2 3 .Falsifying research or journalistic findings is what type of crime?

fraud 2 4 .What book by Daniel Defoe did Rousseau call "the aptest treatise on natural education"?

Robinson Crusoe 2 5 .In what work are these words found? Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communist revolution. Proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.

The Communist Manifesto

2 6 .The orientation or directed movement of plants in response to a nonuniform or directional external stimulus is a ...

tropism 2 7 .What republic is bordered Germany, Poland, Austria, and Slovakia?

Czech Republic 2 8 .In 1979, Maurice Bishop of the New Jewel Movement staged a bloodless coup d'etat on what Caribbean island?

Grenada 2 9 .What figure of speech is illustrated when Miss America is said to be "not unattractive"?

litotes 3 0 .In 1756, Nawab of Bengal attacked the British East India Company and threw 146 British prisoners into a room less than 20 feet square. Only 23 survived overnight. This room became known as the ...

Black Hole of Calcutta

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, HS Round 14 Page 43 1 .What kind of clouds are typically found in the stratosphere?

none 3 2 .If you alphabetize the six official working languages recognized by the U.N., which is last?

Spanish 3 3 .A diver's risk of the bends, also known as decompression sickness, can be reduced by pre-breathing pure oxygen before a deep dive, which tends to remove what other gas from the body?

nitrogen 3 4 .This is from what story set in the early eighteenth century? My little Friend Grildrig. I cannot but conclude the Bulk of your Natives to be the most pernicious Race of little odious Vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the Surface of the Earth.

Gulliver's Travels 3 5 .Stomach acids do not affect stomach walls because of a thick, viscous lining called ...

mucus

3 6 .Those who carried out the kidnapping and murder of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics were members of what organization?

Black September (or PLO) 3 7 .What is the ordinate for the point (12, -6)?

-6 3 8 .Who wrote these words? Trust thyself. Every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 3 9 .Who is the beloved of Portia in "The Merchant of Venice"?

Bassanio 4 0 .The larvae of what small, grayish moth is particularly destructive to apple, walnut, and pear trees?

codling moth

ESU #3 Regional Quiz Bowl, HS Round 14 Page 54 1 .Ottoman Turks practiced what religion?

Islam (Mohammedanism) 4 2 .For a truck traveling at 60 mph, to the nearest 10 inches per second, what is the angular speed of one of its wheels if the tire diameter is 30 inches?

1060 4 3 .This data is about what country? -more than 830 people per square km -three rice harvests per year -frequently devastated by floods -frequently devastated by typhoons -formerly called East Pakistan

Bangladesh 4 4 .In the fifteenth century, Nicholas of Cusa discovered how lenses of what shape could be used in the treatment of myopia?

concave 4 5 .A workplace where all employees are required to be members of an organized labor organization is called a union or ---- shop.

closed