SCHOLASTIC BOWL
SAMPLE QUESTIONS
Aledo 2004 Recap
1. What is the--was it Sioux???--Indian name for "the great
spirit"?--Wokanda
2. What is the fluid that fills the cell?--cytoplasm
3. Factor 9x squared minus 36--9(x-2)(x + 2)
4. What term describes the study of cancer?--oncology
5. Convert 270 degrees into radians--270(pi over 180) = 3pi over 2
6. Identify both the shortest and longest Shakespeare plays.--Macbeth &
Hamlet
7. What is the sec of x if the csc is 3/4?--4/3
8. Given the equation 3 + 4sin(x-pi) what is the amplitude?--4
9. Find the area of an isosceles triangle with base 6 inches and sides 5
inches--12 in
10. What term beginning with an "a" refers to a mixture of metals?--alloy
11. Who is the Illinois Poet Laureat "for life"? She was
the first
African-American female to win a Pulitzer.--Gwendolyn Brooks
12. Who wrote Summa Theologica in which he says logic can be used
to deduce most truths? --St. Thomas Aquinas
13. What is the name of
the covering of the brain? --meninges
(meningitis is inflammation thereof)--made of
dura, arachnoid,pia mater--the brain itself has parts called
cerebrum
(frontal, temporal, parietal, occipital lobes one each
for
the bones of the cranium), cerebellum, medula oblongata
plus the
master gland the pituitary with the corpus callosum
the bundle
of connective fibers between the left and right
hemispheres of the cerebrum (left = logic, right = arts)
Bonus Questions
1. Given the name of the legislative bodies identity the countries, e.g.
Congress is
a. Diet
b. Knesset
c. Duma
d. Parliament
e. Althang(Althingi)
f. Bundestag
g. Seim
2. Identify the types of rocks
a. Slate
b. Shale
c. Granite
d. Pumice
e. Gneiss
M, S, I, I, M
3. Identify the types of rocks
a. Obsidian
b. Conglomerate
c. Chalk
d. Marble
e. Basalt
I, S, S, M, I
4. Identify the terrorist or terrorist group
a. executed for bombing the
b. killed Israeli athletes and
coaches in Munich Olympics
c. blamed for bombing marine
barracks in
d. opposes continued
e. bombed US embassies in
Africa, the USS Cole, and World Trade Center
Timothy McVey, Black
September, Hezballah, IRA, Al Quida
5. Identify the female Americans
a. First woman in US
House of Representatives and only vote against WWII
b. First African-American
woman in US Senate
c. First to hold cabinet
position (in FDR administration)
d. First to win Nobel Peace
Prize
e. First to use term
"birth control", believed in eugenics a la Hitler
Rankin,
Mosely-Braun, Francis Perkins, Jane Adams—
Margaret Sanger
6. Identify the female Americans
a. First to win Pulitzer
awarded for Coming of Age in
b. Composed
c. First Supreme Court Justice
d. Accompanied Lewis and Clark
expedition and on $1 coin
e. First to be a major party
VP nominee
Margaret
Meade, Katherine Lee Bates, Sandra Day O'Connor,
Sacogewea,
Geraldine Ferraro
7. List five observations that identify a chemical change--color
change, T change,
ppt, gas
bubbles, fire, odor (though this is really gas)
8. Identify the road signs by color
a. No Passing Zone
b. Park or recreation area
c. Services
d. Construction
e. Railroad Crossing Warning
yellow,
brown, blue, orange, yellow
9. Identify the road signs by shape
a. No passing zone
b. Railroad warning
c. Do not enter
d. Yield
e. Regulatory
f. School or pedestrian crossing
pennant,
round, rectangular?, triangle, rectangular, pentagon
10. General Mathematics
a. What is 5/9 or 7/8?
b. If the perimeter of a
rectangle is 360 m and the sides
are in a 4 to 6 ratio what are the lengths of the sides?
c. Convert 270 degrees into
radians
d. Give the equation of a line
perpendicular to y = 2x + 6 thru (0,-3)
e. Three consecutive numbers
add to 66. What are the three numbers?
35/72,
2(4x) +2(6x)=360 so x=18 then times 4 and 6 so 72 and 108,
3pi/2,
perpendicular slope is -1/2 and use slope point form to get
y=-1/2x -
3, solve with x + (x+1) + (x + 2) =66 so 21,22,23
11. Identify the construction terms
a. the parallel boards which
roofing is nailed to
b. the parallel board from
which ceilings are hung
c. the angled supporting
structures for roofs and bridges
d. the in ground perimeter
concrete upon which the outer walls are built
e. the parallel boards that
support the floor
rafters, joists,
trusses, footings, joists
12. Identify the construction terms
a. the parallel verticle
boards in walls
b. the four letter word for
the board at the bottom of windows
c. the finish wood work around
windows
d. the five letter word for
the metal or wood structure that anchors the door
e. the parallel supports for a
stairway
studs,
sill, casing, casing, frame, runners
13. Write down the following list of numbers: 13,8,10, 6, 10, 2,
11, 4,3, 5
Identify the following:
a. mean
b. mode
c. median
d. range
e. standard deviation
72/10=7.2,
10 is the most repeated=mode, 8 & 6 so you
average
them to get 7 for the median, 13-2=11,the
standard
deviation is called sigma and is 3.5
14. Concerning the "Riddle of the Sphinx"
a. Who solved the riddle of
the Sphinx?
b. What is the answer to the
riddle of the Sphinx
c. Who posed the riddle
d. State the riddle
Oedipus,
man, the sphinx, What has 4 legs in morning,
2 at noon,
and 3 in the evening
15. Identify the plays based upon the Bible
a. The Stephen Schwartz play
based upon the book of Matthew
b. One concerning Jacob and his
12 sons, particulary the youngest
c. Oscar Wilde's only drama
about John the Baptist and named for
the dancing daughter of Herod who asked for his head on a platter
d. Concerning the three wise
men
Godspell,
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,
Salome,
Amahl and the Night Visitors
16. Identify the colors
ancients obtained from crushing the following minerals
and mixing them with animal fats to
make pigments
a. Azurite
b. Cinnabar
c. Lapis Lazilli
d. Malachite
e. Orpament (sp)
blue, red,
blue, green, gold
17. Identify the geological terms associated with lakes or bodies of
water
a. land feature often filled
in with water like the Dead Sea formed
when continental masses diverge leaving a depression
b. type of lake formed
in a caldera of a volcano
c. type of lake shaped like a
horseshoe formed from a bend in a river
d. type of lake found in
alpine areas where cirques have filled with water
e. type of lake found in
glaciated flatlands
rift
valley, crater, oxbow, tarn, kettle
18. Solve the following
a. 32x + 245 = 3829
b. 18 = -6(x + 5)
c. 5/8 of 7/9
d. sine of pi over 3
e. sine of 240 degrees
112, -8,
35/72, is same as sin60 = root 3 over 2 (first quadrant is +)
same as
sin60 but in third quadrant so - root 3 over 2
19. The is the most used word in written English. Name four more of
the top 7.
the, a,
and, of, to, in, that
20. Identify the Chemical "Laws"
a. Equal volumes at equal T
and P have equal numbers of particles
b. The ratio of the rates of
diffusion are inversely related to the square root
of the molecular masses of the gasses
c. At equal P the T and V are
directly related
d. At equal T the P and V are
directly related
e. At equal V the P and T are
directly related
Avogadro's,
Graham's, Charle's, Boyle's, Gay-Lussac's
21. In the Bible identify the animals or insects mentioned
a. the animals run off by the
enemies of Job
b. the animal Jesus said would
not sound off until Peter would
deny knowing him three times
c. the pretty birds mentioned
as being brought to King Solomon
d. the insects making up the
second plague
e. the insects eaten by the
people in the wilderness wanderings
camels,
cock, peacock, frog, quail
22. Concerning the residence of the President of the USA
a. the numerical and street
address
b. the number of rooms not
counting the 31 bathrooms
c. the architect
d. the presidential
"ghost" some have been said to have seen
e. the name of the office of
the president
1600
Pennsylvania Ave, 132,James Hoban, Lincoln, Oval Office
23. Identify the American authors
a. The Iceman Cometh
b. O Captain, My Captain
c. The Matchmaker
d. Evangeline
e. The Call of the Canyon
and other westerns like Riders of the
Purple Sage
Eugene
O’Neill, Whitman about death of
Lincoln, ???, Whitman, Zane Grey
24. Identify the non-American authors
a. Ode on a Nightengale
b. Daffodils
c.
d.
Frankenstein
e. Ivanhoe
Keats—My heart aches….., Wordsworth-I wonder’d
lonely as a cloud….., Robert Louis Stevenson,
Mary Shelly,
Sir Walter Scott
25. Identify these questions about alloys
a. Zn and Cu
b. Sn and Cu
c. Sn, Cu, Bi, Sb
d. Cr, Ni, Fe
e. Ni and Cu
Brass,
Bronze, Pewter, Stainless Steel, ________
26. Solve these derivatives
a. What is the derivative of
f(x) = x cubed - 4x + 4?
b. What is the derivative of
f(x) = -4x to the fifth + 7x cubed + x?
c. What is the derivative of
f(x) = 4x to the -second +2x to the -3 plus 4?
d. What is the second
derivative of part a?
3 x
squared - 4, -20 x to the fourth + 21 x squared + 1,
-8 x to
the - third - 6 x to the - fourth, 6x
27. Identify the three types of neurons—motor, sensory,
interneurons