6th Grade Orals

Bluegrass Middle School Academic Conference 15 rounds of 80 questions divided into halves, with alternates

Copyright © 2014 Academic Hallmarks 6th Grade Orals Round 1 First Half Page 1 1. References 6. Deduction In what type of reference could this be found? What is the conclusion of this syllogism? silent - All students are bright people. All bright still, hushed, quiet, quiescent, faint, muted, people study logic. Therefore ... noiseless, soundless, inaudible, soundproof, speechless, unspoken, deathlike

thesaurus all students study logic 2. Fictional Thieves 7. Oceanography What young hero stole a harp with golden strings and What is the term for a periodic rise and fall of ocean a goose that lays golden eggs? levels resulting from the gravitational force exerted by the Sun and Moon?

Jack tide 3. Marine Life 8. Elections Name the echinoderm that lives along the margins of Name the written instruments by which people cast oceans that looks like a round ball covered with long votes for candidates in an election. sharp spines similar to those on porcupines.

sea urchin ballots 4. Meat Money 9. Fictional Homes A carnivore paid $1.75 for a 1 pound 12 ounce chunk What fictional character lived in a hole that was "not a of red meat. What was the cost of the meat per nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms pound? and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat"?

$1.00 hobbit (Bilbo Baggins) 5. Concerts 10. Suffixes A concert given by an individual performer or by a What does the suffix mean in these words? series of individuals is called a what? pesticide herbicide insecticide

recital killer (kill) 6th Grade Orals Round 1 First Half Page 2 11. British Legends 16. Trees What name completes this verse relating to the legend What tropical tree has a huge seed with a kind of milk of Robin Hood? inside? "This infant was called John Little," quoth he, 'Which name shall be changed anon, The words we'll transpose, So wherever he goes, His name shall be called ...

Little John coconut palm 12. Posy Poetry 17. Reptiles James Russell Lowell wrote this to what flower? What kind of snake is the sidewinder? Dear common flower, that grow'st by the way Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold! First pledge of blithesome May, Which children pluck and full of pride uphold - High-hearted buccaneers, o'erjoyed that they An Eldorado in the grass have found.

dandelion rattlesnake (pit viper) 13. Explorer-Soldiers 18. Word Use What is the collective name for Spanish soldiers who What word could be used to replace the blank in each captured land and people in the Americas? sentence? They had to ---- a hasty retreat. We ---- the woods for deer. The policeman walked his ----. The bird will ---- its wings. Why do you ---- around the bush.

conquistadors beat 14. Agricultural Verse 19. Poetry These lines are from a poem about what kind of What type of poem typically begins with this kind of machine? first line? Snub nose, the guts of twenty mules are There was an old man from Nairobi ... in your cylinders and transmission. The rear axles hold the kick of twenty Missouri jackasses.

tractor limerick 15. Sculpture 20. Regional Symbols What is the common name for an anthropomorphic Windmills are especially symbolic of what European sculpture made from accumulated hexagonal ice country? crystals?

snowman Holland (or Netherlands) 6th Grade Orals Round 1 First Half Page 3 21. Monumental Math 26. Poems The Great Pyramid at Giza is composed of 2.3 million What is the title of the poem by Rachel Field that blocks of limestone, each averaging 2.5 tons. In begins as follows? pounds, what is the weight of the entire pyramid? A road might lead to anywhere - To harbor towns and quays, Or to a witch's pointed house Hidden by bristly trees. It might lead past the tailor's door ...

11.5 billion Roads 22. Mountains 27. Dumb Rhymes Name the northernmost state in which part of the What three words come next in this chant? Rocky Mountains is located. One bright day in the middle of the night, Two dead boys got up to fight. Back to back they faced each other, Drew their swords and ...

Alaska shot each other 23. Big Waters 28. Numbers The Great Lakes, along with what river, are historically What cardinal number corresponds to the number of and economically Canada's most important inland upper and lower case letters in the alphabet? waters?

St. Lawrence River 52 24. Cellars 29. Phonemes The storm cellars of the American Midwest are a kind What is another word that consists of the same of underground bunker mainly used to protect people phonemes as "pat"? from what kind of storms?

tornadoes tap, apt 25. Poetry Structure 30. Inventors Name the divisions of a poem consisting of a series of Who invented the phonograph and incandescent light lines in a regularly recurring pattern. bulb?

stanzas Thomas Edison 6th Grade Orals Round 1 First Half Page 4 31. Ravages of the West 36. Algebraic Simplification In Laura Wilder's book, "On the Banks of Plum Simplify 1/2 (-18). Creek," she describes a glittering cloud of what kind of insects that obscured the Sun?

locusts (grasshoppers) -9 32. Precipitation 37. Books What form of precipitation consists of water droplets These are what kind of books? condensed from the air onto cool surfaces? -Who's Who in American Politics -Oxford Companion to the Theater -National Zip Code Directory -Chambers Biographical Dictionary

dew references 33. Time 38. Political Terms Big Diomede and Little Diomede Islands are only two Who serves a four year term concurrent with the miles apart. But if it is Tuesday on Little Diomede, it president of the United States? is Wednesday on Big Diomede. What line of longitude separates these islands?

International Date Line vice president 34. Stages and Organisms 39. Statistics The stages in the development of an organism Isaac's first 3 fish weighed 3 pounds apiece. His next comprise what cycle? three fish each weighed 5 pounds. He also caught one weighing 2 pounds and one weighing 6 pounds. What is the average weight of all his fish?

life 4 pounds 35. Faults 40. Native Americans The last catastrophic slip of the San Andreas Fault What dwellings are suggested in this excerpt? occurred in 1857, producing an earthquake estimated The Hopi, Zuni, and Anasazi Indians of the on the Richter scale at 8.3. Geologists have found that southwest lived in proto-condominiums made such enormous slippages occur, on average, every 140 of adobe and stone. years. Based on this, the next major slip should have occurred in what year?

1997 pueblos 6th Grade Orals Round 1 First Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Silly Rules What word is missing repeatedly in this rule from "Through the Looking Glass"? ---- to-morrow and ---- yesterday, but never ---- to-day

jam Alt. 2. The Netherlands People of the Netherlands have built miles of earthen walls along their coastline to keep the stormy North Sea from flooding their land. Name these walls.

dikes Alt. 3. Life What is this about? They can be almost as large as a baseball or smaller than the thickness of a hair. They can be shaped like balls, boxes, rods, spirals, tubes, snowflakes, or starfish. A single one may make up an entire organism or millions of them may form a tissue of a larger organism.

cells Alt. 4. Fictional Teachers Identify the teacher who takes her students on exciting trips in the series, "The Magic School Bus."

Ms. Frizzle Alt. 5. Old Age Problems The world's oldest woman, Jeanne Calment, died in 1997 at age 122. In what year was she born?

1875 6th Grade Orals Round 1 Second Half Page 1 1. Special Materials 6. Electricity What is the function of these materials? What is the general name for that with which you can -rubber around metal wires you surround an electric charge to prevent it from -spun fiberglass in walls escaping? -goose down in sleeping bags

insulation insulator (insulation) 2. Canyons 7. Long-Living Quotes A vertical canyon wall has an angle to the canyon The words, "Give me liberty or give me death," were floor of how many degrees? uttered just prior to what war?

90 American Revolution 3. Sentence Analysis 8. Storms What is the simple subject in this line? The centers of what kind of storms are called eyes? Through the valley and over the streams went the fourteen large-nosed gremlins.

gremlins hurricanes 4. Painting Problems 9. Tortoise Track Time Pete can paint a Porsche in 5 days. What part will Pete A circular racecourse is marked into sixths. If a paint in 3 days? determined tortoise took 4 minutes to get from the first mark to the third mark, how long would it need to get around the entire track?

3/5 (or .6) 12 minutes 5. Literature and Enemies 10. Vowels What kind of creature is the enemy in the story that What is the first noun in the Pledge of Allegiance that begins as follows? includes a long vowel sound? This is the story of the great war that Rikki-tikki-tavi fought single-handed, through the bathrooms of the bungalow in Segowlee cantonment.

cobra allegiance 6th Grade Orals Round 1 Second Half Page 2 11. Dragons 16. Shoreline Features Name the dragon in this ditty. What part of an ocean that extends into the land is Now the name of the little black kitten was Ink smaller than a gulf but larger than a cove? And the little gray mouse, she called her Blink And the little yellow dog was sharp as Mustard But the dragon was a coward and she called him ...

Custard bay (bight) 12. Food Preparation 17. Music Fundamentals What term means to mix salad ingredients lightly with What process is used to correct the pitch of a musical two forks? instrument?

toss tuning 13. Geographical Math 18. Chunky Creatures Around 200 B.C., Eratosthenes computed the Earth's What is the common name for the Proboscidea, the circumference at 24,900 miles. If his estimate was largest living land mammals? under by 4,800 miles, what is the actual circumference of our planet?

29,700 miles elephants 14. Zoology 19. Drills Name any creature that fits this description. In the event of what geological phenomenon are Although ancient people believed they were children in southern California schools drilled to take fish, cetaceans are aquatic mammals that these actions? bear live young, produce milk to feed their Hit the floor, make yourself small, and huddle offspring, and have a bit of hair. under your desk.

whales (dolphins, seals, walruses, porpoises) earthquake 15. Folktales 20. Big Numbers The central character in this poem is known by what What is the more efficient way of expressing "three other name? thousand thousand"? Of Jonathan Chapman Two things are known, That he loved apples, That he walked alone.

Johnny Appleseed 3 million 6th Grade Orals Round 1 Second Half Page 3 21. Art Subjects 26. South America What is the term for a person who poses for a drawing, What two South American countries begin with "P"? painting, or sculpture?

model Peru, Paraguay 22. Doggerel 27. Grasses What do the words "ruddig doud" mean in this bit of What strong grass is a structural element in many seasonal poetry? traditional Asian houses? Sprig is just aroud de corder- Which rebides be I bust order Xdra kleedex, cough drops, ad a big jar of vix. Cause whed I walk id de doud toud By dose will cub a ruddig doud.

running down bamboo 23. Royalty 28. Anagram Grammar King Ferdinand and what queen backed the first What sentence with a pronoun and a verb can be made voyage of Christopher Columbus? by rearranging the letters in "the eyes"?

Isabella They see. 24. Solar Elements 29. Symptom Malapropisms If 81.76% of the Sun consists of hydrogen and What word should the patient have used when he said, 18.17% of it is helium, to the nearest whole number, "I have slurred vision"? all of the other 64 known elements in the Sun comprise what percentage?

.07 blurred 25. Lunar Geology 30. High Points On the Moon, bright streaks called rays extend The climax of what story is the battle between Bigwig outward from what large landforms? and Woundwort?

craters Watership Down 6th Grade Orals Round 1 Second Half Page 4 31. Fantasies 36. Stories What fictional boy created by Norton Juster meets the In the story of the blind men and the elephant, the Lethargarians in the Doldrums? man said the elephant was like a spear was touching what part of the pachyderm?

Milo tusk 32. Fruits 37. Hemispheres Citrus fruits are a major source of what vitamin? Name the hemisphere which includes North and South America.

vitamin C Western Hemisphere 33. Patterns 38. Sets This is a description of what characteristic of Benin? Name the type of mathematical set comprised of all In the south, it is hot and humid throughout the years with fifteen months. year, with the average temperature around 80 degrees F. Rainfall totals 50 inches annually.

climate null (empty) set 34. Attacks 39. Fictional Characters Ships from what country's navy were attacking Fort In a work by Donald Sobol, Idaville's Chief of Police McHenry when Francis Scott Key wrote "The Brown gives what nickname to his son, Leroy, because Star-Spangled Banner"? of all the facts he knows and his methodical way of using his mind?

England Encyclopedia 35. Unusual Science 40. Anagrams What meteorological phenomenon did Ogden Nash What term for a special, large chair is an anagram of say is "caused by the trees waving their branches"? "hornet"?

wind throne 6th Grade Orals Round 1 Second Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Sports Prose This is about what sport? Cyclone has beaten Sun Raider to the first turn. They're both running under the whip. Each wants to set the pace! Cyclone's churning hind quarters are right in Sun Raider's nose.

horse racing Alt. 2. Versatile Vegetation What desert plant offers shade, a nutritious fruit, a juice that can be fermented, stones that can be made into charcoal, fibers from which to make rope, as well as wood?

date palm Alt. 3. Buds What is the name for the bud on a potato?

eye Alt. 4. Border States What contraction can be made from the first letters of the names of the U.S. states bordering Mexico?

can't Alt. 5. Money Problems Millicent spent $45 for a new spiked collar and $35 for a gorilla call. What percentage of her original $100 did she spend?

80% 6th Grade Orals Round 2 First Half Page 1 1. Game Birds 6. Oaths These birds, originally native to India and southern This is a misheard version of part of what solemn Asia, were successfully introduced in North America promise? where they have become a popular game bird, One naked individual, especially in the Midwest. Name them. With liver, tea, injustice for all.

pheasants Pledge of Allegiance 2. State Nicknames 7. Imaginary Adventures What is the Mount Rushmore state? In what book by Maurice Sendak is Max sent to bed where he imagines he is sent to the land of Wild Things where they make him king?

South Dakota Where the Wild Things Are 3. Midpoints 8. Badwater What number is exactly halfway between 1/3 and 4/5? At 282 feet below sea level, Badwater is the lowest point in the Western Hemisphere in what valley?

17/30 Death Valley 4. Sensation 9. Numerals While the organs of the other senses are located What is the Arabic equivalent for the sum of these primarily in a specific part of the body, which Roman numerals? sensation can be experienced anywhere from the top D + L + IX of the head to the tips of the toes?

touch 559 5. Green Plants 10. High Speed It is the function of what major part of a green plant Supersonic means faster than the speed of what? to conduct water upward from the roots to the leaves and conduct dissolved food materials downward from the leaves to the roots?

stem sound 6th Grade Orals Round 2 First Half Page 2 11. Matter 16. Festivals The amount of space occupied by an object is called What modern celebration began as a Pan-Hellenic its what? festival around 776 B.C. in ancient Greece?

volume Olympics 12. Projectiles 17. Numbers What is the name for any projectile that carries its own Name the number one with the decimal point moved propellants and is driven by jet propulsion? six places to the right of a one.

rocket 1 million 13. Poems 18. Upside Down Dates According to Edward Lear, what is the precise color of 1961 reads the same when it is upside down. The next the boat in which the owl and the pussycat went to date with this characteristic will not occur until the sea? 61st century. What is that year?

pea-green 6009 14. Ancient Farming 19. Fictional Characters Around 5500 B.C., farmers in Mesopotamia What literary character who spent some time in a cow's channeled water from streams onto their fields, and a wolf's stomach drove horses by standing in their allowing them to settle in areas once thought ears to give directions? unsuitable to agriculture. This diversion of water to dry land by means of ditches is called what?

irrigation Tom Thumb 15. Rhyming Opposites 20. Ads Complete this analogy with an appropriate rhyming What was being offered for sale in the 1784 word. advertisement? Sickness is to health as poverty is to ... A cargo of very fine stout men and women in good order and fit for immediate service, just imported from the Windward Coast of Africa in the Ship of Two brothers.

wealth slaves (blacks, Negroes, etc) 6th Grade Orals Round 2 First Half Page 3 21. Literature 26. Sensation What is the profession of a person who rewrites a What membrane in the ear vibrates in response to literary work in another language? sound waves and transmits these vibrations via the ossicles of the middle ear to the cochlea of the inner ear?

translator eardrum (tympanic membrane) 22. Suffixes 27. Botany What does the suffix "let" mean? Name the principal water-absorbing organs of plants.

little (small) roots 23. Ranching 28. Meteorology What invention made it possible for farmers and cattle A device consisting of material shaped into a cone and ranchers to fence lands economically? suspended on a pole is used mainly to indicate what characteristic of wind?

barbed wire wind direction 24. Sentences 29. Stories What type of sentence is this statement by Lord What story by Margery Sharp describes the worldwide Kelvin? organization run by mice, the Prisoners' Aid Society? Radio has no future.

declarative (simple) The Rescuers 25. Technology 30. Music Vocabulary These are types of what? What term has these meanings? laptops, desktops, towers, mainframes -unaccompanied -alone -arranged for a single voice -a performance by a single individual

computers solo 6th Grade Orals Round 2 First Half Page 4 31. Fish Preparation 36. Goofs What is the term for a flat piece of boneless fish? What error is in this line from a historical text? Buzz Aldrin, the second man to step on the Moon, fulfilled a centuries-old dream of mankind - to walk upon the surface of another planet.

fillet The Moon is not a planet. 32. Explorers 37. 20th-Century Monuments In 1542, Juan Cabrillo claimed the lower coast of what They multiplied the scale figures by twelve, measured modern U.S. state for Spain? down the rock face, wrote the measurements with chalk, and the drillers started gouging. After they had drilled and blasted for several months, the shapes began to look like faces. What monument was being built?

California Mount Rushmore 33. Symptoms 38. Colonial Period What medical term indicates an abnormal increase of This is about what New World colony? internal body temperature? While Jamestown was continuing its struggle for survival, another group of colonists, led by William Bradford, landed farther north.

fever (febrile response, hyperthermia) Plymouth 34. Instruments 39. Figurative Language This portable instrument of the reed organ family What figure of speech is in this tale? consists of large rectangular bellows that push air One year when Paul Bunyan was working on through two sets of reeds which sound on both Michigan's Upper Peninsula, it was so cold that inspiration and expiration. Name this instrument the flames in the lanterns froze solid and played with buttons and keys. nobody could blow them out.

accordion hyperbole 35. Unwelcome Surprises 40. U.S. States You wake up in the middle of the night and find your Name either of the two northernmost Rocky Mountain dad with his hand stuck in the disposal, your puppy states. stuck in a pipe, burning bread stuck in the toaster, and an oversized burglar stuck in a window. What number should you call?

911 Idaho, Montana 6th Grade Orals Round 2 First Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Representation Each state's representation in which house of Congress is proportional to its population?

House of Representatives Alt. 2. Floods What kind of flood may follow a dam failure or a period of intense rainfall?

flash flood Alt. 3. Energy Photovoltaic cells convert solar energy directly into what?

electricity Alt. 4. The Frontier Name the material consisting of grass-covered soil held together by roots and used as a building material in the Great Plains.

sod Alt. 5. Erroneous Songs What is wrong with these lyrics sung by English boys around 1830? To the west, to the west, to the land of the free Where the mighty Missouri rolls down to the sea

Missouri River doesn't go to sea. 6th Grade Orals Round 2 Second Half Page 1 1. Money Problems 6. Instruments Natasha has two U.S. coins in her hand that total thirty Name the instrument developed by the Chinese which cents. One is not a nickel. What are the two coins? consisted of a magnetized needle mounted on a card on which various directions were marked off about the rim of a circle.

quarter, nickel compass 2. Fantasies 7. Rivers What book is the prelude to the "Lord of the Rings" Name the opening where a river empties into a larger trilogy? body of water.

The Hobbit mouth 3. Mountainous Homelands 8. Numbers The Incas built elaborate cities high in what mountain Any number having no factors except itself and 1 is range? called a what?

Andes prime 4. Displays 9. Ancient Civilizations What displays that most frequently occur near the While the Sumerian civilization was nearing its height, Earth's magnetic poles appear as colored arcs, rays, a new civilization was emerging along what North bands, streamers, and curtains? African river?

auroras Nile 5. Vocabulary 10. Wartime Songs What verb that rhymes with "replete" means "to erase These were popular songs during what war? or wipe out"? Richmond is a Hard Road Marching through Georgia Marching Song of the First Arkansas The Flag of Secession

delete Civil War 6th Grade Orals Round 2 Second Half Page 2 11. Number Powers 16. Geometric Sequences Express this as an exponential number. What is the next number in this geometric sequence? 4 x 4 x 4 x 4 x 4 x 4 x 4 48, 24, 12, 6, ...

4 to the seventh power 3. 12. Middle Ages 17. Handling of the Dead What is the modern term for the periods of time The Egyptians developed a form of embalming called represented by such phrases as those below, prior to what? the widespread use of calendars? -when the woodcocks fly -at harvest time -after the big thaw

seasons mummification (mummifying) 13. Fractions 18. Words Simplify the fraction 240/400. What is the only English four letter word that ends with the letters "eny"?

3/5 deny 14. Day Length 19. Months In the Northern Hemisphere, the shortest day of the How many months of the year have 28 days? year occurs during what month?

December all of them (12) 15. Western Song Lyrics 20. Great Lakes States According to the lyrics of the song, "Home on the Which U.S. state has the longest coastline along any of Range," what two kinds of animals play in the same the Great Lakes? region where the buffalo roam?

deer, antelope Michigan 6th Grade Orals Round 2 Second Half Page 3 21. Literary Classifications 26. Explorers How are these titles collectively classified? What sea did Balboa cross after leaving Santo London Bridge Domingo on his way to the Isthmus of Panama? Humpty Dumpty Little Miss Muffet Little Jack Horner Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star

nursery rhymes Caribbean Sea 22. Fables 27. Oceanography What kind of animal is central to Aesop's fable about What might an oceanographer describe as a moving "sour grapes"? deposit of material between land and water?

fox beach 23. Injuries 28. Constellations What is the common name for the injury involving The Big Dipper is part of what larger constellation? bleeding beneath the skin around the eye?

black eye Ursa Major (Big Bear) 24. Metrics 29. Villains 1/1000 is indicated by what metric prefix? Who is the villain in "The Wizard of Oz"?

milli- The Wicked Witch of the West 25. Anatomy 30. Elections What organ is enclosed by eight cranial bones? What two offices of the U.S. government are elected by all people of the nation?

brain president, vice president 6th Grade Orals Round 2 Second Half Page 4 31. Heroes 36. Dynasties Kentuckians honor whom as their frontier hero? In the year 1260, Kublai Khan founded the Yuan Dynasty in what country?

Daniel Boone China 32. The Celestial Sphere 37. Tides Mel is standing at the North Pole. What star is at his Tides are caused principally by the gravitational zenith? attractions of what two heavenly bodies?

Polaris Moon, Sun 33. Mechanical Abbreviations 38. Explorers The abbreviation, rpm, stands for what? Who left Venice, Italy, in 1255 and crossed the Mediterranean en route to Peking?

revolutions per minute Marco Polo 34. Ancient Tales 39. American Traditions In what story from "The Arabian Nights," do 37 These are rules for what? brigands die when boiling oil is poured into the jars in It should never touch the ground. which they are hiding? It should normally be displayed from sunup to sunset. It should be lighted if displayed at night. It should be folded when stored. Old ones should be burned or buried but never thrown in the trash.

Ali Baba (and the Forty Thieves) U.S. flag 35. Prime Numbers 40. Verbs What is the next smaller prime number below 23? How many verbs are in this line? Skinning and wrapping a white whale not only takes a great deal of time, but also requires a substantial amount of endurance.

19 2. 6th Grade Orals Round 2 Second Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Historical Stories Doris Gates carefully chronicled the events leading to what war in her book, "A Fair Wind for Troy"?

Trojan War Alt. 2. Colonial Chores What process involves scraping the meat and fat from animal skins, stretching the skins on frames, and rubbing mashed animal brains into the leather to make it soft?

tanning Alt. 3. Skeletal Vocabulary The location at which two or more bones meet is called a what?

joint (articulation) Alt. 4. Semordnilap What word results when you spell "stressed" backwards?

desserts Alt. 5. Consecutive Integers The sum of what four consecutive integers is -30?

-6, -7, -8, -9 6th Grade Orals Round 3 First Half Page 1 1. English Children's Verse 6. Industrious Critters What words complete the poem ending with these What is the name for the homes that beavers construct lines? behind their dams? Here comes a candle to light you to bed, And here comes a chopper to ...

chop off your head lodges 2. Anthropology 7. Mountaineers Because "Homo habilis" made crude cutting tools by With what mountain are George Mallory, Tenzing using one rock to sharpen another, that earliest period Norgay, and Edmund Hillary associated? of human culture beginning around two million years ago has come to be known as what age?

Stone Age Mt. Everest 3. Stories 8. Predictions This dialogue is found in a tale by Carlo Collodi In 1904, residents of Dayton, Ohio, were referring to about what unusual character? whom when they were overheard saying this? "How do you know I am lying?" They're back in that bicycle shop again. I "Lies, my boy, are known in a moment. There don't know what they think they're going are two kinds of lies, lies with short legs and to do. They will never make a machine that lies with long noses. Yours happen to have can fly. long noses."

Pinocchio Wright Brothers 4. Word Squares 9. Tissues What is the third word in a word square if "oft" and When preparing a chicken, what are the small lumps "foe" are the first two words? of yellow tissue just below the skin?

ten (or tea or tee) fat 5. Quotes 10. River Geography Who wrote this? What is the term for the place where two rivers join And then, just to show them, I'll sail to Ka-Troo together? And Bring Back an It-Kutch a Preep and a Proo, A Nerkle a Nerd and a Seersucker, too!

Dr. Seuss confluence 6th Grade Orals Round 3 First Half Page 2 11. Physical Properties 16. Volcanoes Thermal conductivity is the ability of a material to A flood of moving lava is called a lava what? conduct what?

heat flow 12. Idioms 17. Minnesota History What personal pronoun is traditionally used when Enduring stories tell that the 10,000 Lakes of referring to oceangoing vessels? Minnesota were formed from the footprints of what legendary pair while they wandered about in a blizzard?

she Paul Bunyan and Babe 13. Painters 18. Tributes What great Italian painter was born in the small village This is part of an inscription at what site? of Vinci in Tuscany during the Renaissance? They chose never to surrender nor retreat. These brave hearts, with flag still proudly waving, perished in the flames of immortality that their high sacrifice might lead to the founding of this Texas.

Leonardo da Vinci the Alamo 14. Physical Science 19. State Songs What is this passage about? Sung to the tune of "You Are My Sunshine," this is a Most are metals. Others are nonmetals. verse of an official song of what state? Some are called semimetals or metalloids. Crawfish gumbo and jambalaya, Most are solids at room temperature but the biggest shrimp and sugar cane, a few are gases. the finest oysters and sweet strawberries from Toledo Bend to New Orleans.

elements Louisiana 15. Waterways 20. Mammals Name the deep part of a waterway. It barks. It lives in towns with hundreds of other families. It resembles a squirrel. Name this little burrowing mammal.

channel prairie dog 6th Grade Orals Round 3 First Half Page 3 21. Flies 26. Frontier Emigrants The four stages of the fly life cycle include the pupa, To what mountain range was James Bidwell referring adult, egg, and larva stage during which the organisms when he said this during a pioneering overland trip are called what? west of the Rockies in 1841? If California lies beyond these mountains, we shall never be able to reach it.

maggots Sierras (Sierra Nevada) 22. Snow 27. Creature Fatalities What is formed on a snowfield by the slight melting What kind of creature meets her end in the poem that and refreezing of the surface snow? includes these lines? At last, up jumped the cunning Spider, and fiercely held her fast. He dragged her up his winding stair, into his dismal den, Within his little parlor -- but she ne'er came out again!

crust fly 23. Trees 28. First Aid Instead of having flowers, spruces, junipers, and Identify the process of immobilizing a fracture. redwoods have what analogous structures?

cones splinting 24. Bodies 29. Boat Technology What is a self-luminous celestial body that generates What powered paddle wheelers? nuclear energy within its core?

star steam (steam engine, or coal, wood) 25. Legends 30. Primitive Weapons What is the last word in this line from a legendary What weapon still used by primitive peoples in Africa story? and South America consists of a bamboo or reed Hamelin, a little German town, was overrun barrel fitted with a mouthpiece? by ...

rats blowguns 6th Grade Orals Round 3 First Half Page 4 31. Division 36. Bowling Averages Divide 2 3/4 by 22. Meatless Garbanzo bowled scores of 146, 162, and 184. What was his average for the three games?

1/8 (or .125) 164 32. Scientific Shorthand 37. Big States How should the slash be read in this bit of notation After Alaska, Texas, and California, what is the next from the physical sciences? geographically largest state? 2 feet/second

per Montana 33. Homes on the Range 38. Bridges What is Spanish for ranch or plantation? Name the suspension bridge spanning the entrance to San Francisco Bay.

hacienda (rancho) Golden Gate Bridge 34. Factoring 39. Life Processes 2 and 2 and 3 and 37 are the prime factors of what The breakdown by a living organism of ingested number? material into chemically simpler forms that can be readily absorbed and assimilated by the body is what process?

444 digestion 35. Limerical Building Materials 40. Harry Truman What word is missing in this definition? In his inaugural address, Truman referred to what Sun-dried earth and some straw make ----. form of government as follows? You can use it to build in the Gobi It is based on the conviction that man has the Where it's hot and it's dry moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the But you ought not to try inalienable right, to govern himself with reason To apply it at Lake Okeechobee. and justice.

adobe democracy 6th Grade Orals Round 3 First Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Train Problems A train bound for Boston leaves Atlanta one hour before a train bound for Atlanta leaves Boston. Which train will be closer to Atlanta when the two trains pass each other?

neither (both at the same point) Alt. 2. Weapons Name the short sword attached to the end of a soldier's rifle.

bayonet Alt. 3. Stories From what story was this taken? "Let's sit quiet a bit, Toady!" said the Rat, throwing himself into an easy chair, while the Mole took another by the side of him.

The Wind in the Willows Alt. 4. Texas Geography Along what river did Brownsville, El Paso, Del Rio, and Laredo, Texas, develop?

Rio Grande Alt. 5. Architecture Each of the horizontal divisions or levels of a tall building is called a what?

story 6th Grade Orals Round 3 Second Half Page 1 1. Historical Fantasy 6. Patriotic People Name the mouse in Robert Lawson's book, "Ben and He was a leading advocate of resistance to British rule Me." before the American Revolution. He seconded the Declaration of Independence and was the American ambassador to Britain between 1785 and 1788. Name this second U.S. president.

Amos John Adams 2. The Earth's Axis 7. Savings Math The Earth's axis of rotation coincides with that You put 1/10th of your weekly earnings from a paper diameter terminating the Earth's geographical north route into the bank and spend the rest. If you have and south what? $25 in the bank, you have earned a total of how much?

poles $250 3. Peninsulas 8. Creatures Name the largest peninsula you fly over when What kind of creature is the black widow? traveling from the capital of Texas to the Bahamas.

Florida Peninsula spider 4. Number Lines 9. Nationalities What is the distance on a number line between these What was the nationality of the colonists who founded coordinates? New Amsterdam? 2 1/3 and -4 1/2

6 5/6 Dutch 5. Ice 10. Skeleton Percentages What is the name for an enormous accumulation of If a politician together with a 600-pound skeleton slowly-moving ice? from his closet weighs 750 pounds, what percentage of the total weight is attributable to the politician alone?

glacier (ice sheet) 20% 6th Grade Orals Round 3 Second Half Page 2 11. Theater 16. Insect Doggerel At approximately the middle of a play, there will be a What soft-bodied social insect is missing from this break during which the audience can get up for a verse by Ogden Nash? stretch. Name this interval. Some primal ---- knocked on wood And tasted it, and found it good, And that is why your Cousin May Fell through the parlor floor today.

intermission termite 12. Physical Changes 17. Mammals At what point does a liquid change into a gas? Name the tallest living mammal.

boiling point giraffe 13. Ambiguous Statements 18. Atmospheric Phenomena Make a three-word sentence that could mean either What atmospheric phenomenon causes a column of that "they are able to fish" or that "they put fish in air to become instantly superheated, violently expand, round metal containers." and produce an explosive sound?

They can fish. lightning 14. Planets 19. Beliefs This describes what planet? These are what kind of beliefs? Although it is our closest neighbor, thick Good things occur when you cross your fingers. clouds hide its surface from even the most Not walking under ladders prevents misfortune. powerful telescopes.

Venus superstitions 15. Vocabulary 20. Ornithology What is the antonym of "first"? This describes what birds? Most use their long, slender bills to take in more than one and a half times their body weight in nectar each day.

last hummingbirds 6th Grade Orals Round 3 Second Half Page 3 21. Crime 26. Fairy Tales Freddy LaBamba was probably guilty of what crime Name the story from which this line was taken. when he gave the governor of his state a 45-foot yacht It doesn't matter about being born in a to improve his chances of getting a gambling license duckyard as long as you are hatched from a for his proposed casino? swan's egg.

bribery The Ugly Duckling 22. Biographies 27. Coal Complete the title of this biography by Jean Fritz. Name the most abundant element in coal. Traitor: the Case of Benedict ...

Arnold carbon 23. Dictionaries 28. Decimals Dictionaries frequently lists words having almost the Multiply 6.34 times .005. same meaning as the word being defined. Such words with similar meanings are called what?

synonyms .0317 24. Fantasies 29. Topographical Maps In what story does an incompetent wizard named A point on a contour line of a topographical map has Schmendrick and a young woman named Molly Grue an elevation of 2900 feet. What is the elevation of join up with a unicorn on a quest to see if there are another point two miles to the south through which other unicorns in the world? that same line passes?

The Last Unicorn 2900 feet 25. Pet Pests 30. Uniform Colors What acrobatic, external parasites can leap from one Collectively, the troops from what army came to be dog to another? associated with an achromatic color between the extremes of black and white?

fleas Confederate Army (Confederacy) 6th Grade Orals Round 3 Second Half Page 4 31. Arrow Arithmetic 36. European Regions In one battle, King Henry VIII had 5000 archers and In what country could you see glaciers and alpenhorn a supply of 400,000 arrows. If each archer could blowers in the Heidi Area? shoot 10 arrows per minute, how many minutes of continuous firepower did Henry's army have?

8. Switzerland 32. Vapor 37. Statue Poetry What happens to the water vapor in your breath when What are the next words in the poem by Emma you exhale onto a cold mirror? Lazarus that begins with this? Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to ...

It condenses. breathe free 33. Sociology 38. Musical Symbols According to Robert Benchley, there are two classes of Name the symbol, somewhat resembling the letter "b," people in the world: those who constantly divide the that indicates that a pitch is to be lowered by one people of the world into two classes, and what other semitone. group?

those who do not (don't) flat 34. American Literature 39. Map Scales This is from what story? The scale of a map is 3/8 inches equals 100 miles. Almanzo Wilder stood in the line of young men How far apart are two cities 1 1/2 inches apart on the near the door, and Laura was embarrassed. map? She saw now that several young men were taking young ladies home. She felt her cheeks flushing and she did not know where to look.

Little House on the Prairie 400 miles 35. Warning Labels 40. Kitchen Utensils What can be said about a substance in a container that What hand utensil with a serrated surface processes bears the symbol of a skull and crossbones? foods into shreds or fine bits?

It is poisonous. grate 6th Grade Orals Round 3 Second Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Ecology Animals or plants threatened with extinction as a result of habit destruction or overhunting are what kind of species?

endangered species Alt. 2. Law What is the legal name of the order by a judge for punishment?

sentence Alt. 3. Weather Forecasts A weather forecast for a small area in your immediate region is indicated by what adjective?

local Alt. 4. Temperature Variations In one 24-hour period, the temperature in Browning, Montana, fell from 44 degrees F to -56 degrees F, a drop of how many degrees?

100 Alt. 5. Sentences This line illustrates which of the three types of sentences? Can vegetarians eat animal crackers?

interrogative 6th Grade Orals Round 4 First Half Page 1 1. Medieval Trades 6. Engines In the Middle Ages, what was the term for a What kind of heat engine is propelled in a forward shoemaker? direction as the result of the escape of hot gases from its rear?

cobbler jet (or rocket) 2. Light 7. Distance What happens to the green and yellow parts of a white How far does a vehicle go if it travels at 68 miles per light shining on a ripe strawberry? hour for .5 hour?

They are absorbed. 34 miles 3. Fantasies 8. Mowing Math Who, according to J.M. Barrie, said that "she thought It took Eddie Scissorhands 4 hours 15 minutes to she could get well again if children believed in mow one lawn, 2 hours 20 minutes to mow the second, fairies"? and 3 hours 25 minutes for the third. What was his total mowing time?

Tinker Bell 10 hours 4. Hemispheres 9. Bears From September to November, the Sun's altitude at There are no bears living on what two continents? noon decreases in which hemisphere?

northern Australia, Antarctica 5. Historic Journal Entries 10. Newspaper Blunders Where was Robert Peary when he wrote this in his What word is misspelled in this newspaper quote? journal in 1909? Mr. and Mrs. Wally Burman of Sioux Falls have The prize of three centuries. My dream just arrived at the Lindau home where they will and goal for 20 years! Mine at last. be housepests for several days. I cannot bring myself to realize it.

North Pole houseguests 6th Grade Orals Round 4 First Half Page 2 11. Cold Regions 16. Sequels Name the region surrounding the North Pole. "Zia" is the sequel to what book by Scott O'Dell about an Indian girl who spends eighteen years alone on a rocky island off California?

Arctic Island of the Blue Dolphins 12. Time 17. Quotes It is 9 a.m. in New York City. What time is it in The name of what heavenly body is missing from this Chicago? quote by Michelangelo? Like to the ---- am I, that cannot shine alone.

8 a.m. moon 13. Little Folks 18. Ornithology One is supposed to look like a little old man standing What birds that live almost exclusively in the Southern about two feet tall and wearing a tightly laced green Hemisphere feed on krill, squid, and shrimp? coat, knee breeches, and buckled shoes. Name this being of Irish folklore.

leprechaun penguins 14. Birds 19. Reflectivity What living bird, abundant in the Falkland Islands, has The reflective power of the Moon is .12. What wings modified into swimming paddles? percentage of the sunlight falling on the Moon is absorbed?

penguin 88% 15. Flags 20. Solid Geometry What flag with five interlocking rings flew over What solid has six equal square sides? Antwerp for the first time anywhere in 1920?

Olympic flag cube 6th Grade Orals Round 4 First Half Page 3 21. Consonants 26. Prefixes The two consonants that can have a hard or soft What do these prefixes mean? quality when pronounced are "g" and what other? hypo- sub-

c. under (beneath, below) 22. Banners 27. Crimes on the High Seas How many total red and white stripes were on the U.S. During the age of exploration, mutiny usually meant flag mandated by the Continental Congress in 1777? open rebellion against the person bearing what title?

13 captain 23. Treason 28. Literature What is the term for a person who commits treason? This is from what work? The phantom slowly, gravely, silently approached. When it came near him, Scrooge bent down upon his knee.

traitor A Christmas Carol 24. Atoms 29. Breezes What subatomic particles are constantly moving A sea breeze is caused by what difference between the outside the nucleus of an atom? surface of the land and the surface of an adjacent body of water?

electrons temperature 25. Award-Winning Books 30. Rains What story by Linda Sue Park tells of an orphan A torrential downpour of rain has what name Korean boy, Tree-ear, and his persistent interest in suggesting that all the water in a cloud was discharged making pottery? at once?

A Single Shard cloudburst 6th Grade Orals Round 4 First Half Page 4 31. Body Systems 36. Government The functions of what body system include protection Members of the U.S. House of Representatives and the of internal structures, prevention of entry of Senate comprise what body? disease-causing microorganisms, temperature regulation, excretion through perspiration, pigmentary protection against ultraviolet sunrays, and production of vitamin D?

integumentary system (skin) Congress 32. U.S. Government 37. Graphing Members of which of the three branches of U.S. What is another name for a circle graph? government are appointed rather than elected?

judicial branch pie graph (pie chart) 33. Planets 38. Geometric Prefixes Each planet turns on its axis. Each turn is called a What does the prefix mean in these words? what? pentagram, pentafoil, pentahedron

rotation 5. 34. Astronomical Phenomena 39. Representative Bodies What occurs when the Earth is directly between the Name the international organization housed in New Sun and the Moon? York City and founded in 1945 to promote peace, international security, and cooperation.

lunar eclipse United Nations 35. Geology 40. Patriotic Poetry You find an imprint of an ancient leaf, some petrified What woman's name is missing in these verses? wood, and a few petrified bones. What is the collective Let me tell you of the legend of ---- name for any such evidence of ancient life forms? We will all see the beautiful stars and bars For to miss this beauty would be an awful loss Was her destiny to be written by the stars?

Each star would represent a united state United we stand and divided we fall She would sew the symbols with a love so great fossils The beauty of unity is seen by all. Betsy Ross 6th Grade Orals Round 4 First Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Relationships What kind of chain is illustrated in this passage? Food that was first made by plants is eaten by plant eaters. Plant eaters are eaten by flesh eaters. Flesh eaters may be eaten by other flesh eaters, and these will die and be used for food by scavengers and parasites.

food chain (food web) Alt. 2. Fictional Characters He was stiff and rusted and required some squirts of oil to enable him to move. And he was hollow with no heart. Name this character.

Tin Man Alt. 3. Far Away Places Where would you end up if you went to the star "second to the right and then straight on till morning"?

Neverland Alt. 4. Literature Through what process can a literary work be rendered from one language to another?

translation Alt. 5. Alphabetizing When words in this sentence are alphabetized, which comes first? Twenty taxis traveled to Tokyo Tuesday toting toddlers to the tennis tournament.

taxis 6th Grade Orals Round 4 Second Half Page 1 1. Seasons 6. The Solar System In the first century B.C., what season was Horace What is the source of practically all heat on the surface alluding to in this line? of the planets in our solar system? A dread time, the harvest-season of the Goddess of Death

autumn Sun 2. Boat Vocabulary 7. Suffixes The name for what area of a boat rhymes with the What is the meaning of the suffix in words such as term for compulsory selection of people for military kitchenette, novelette, and statuette? duty?

aft small 3. Prefixes 8. British Ballads What does the prefix in "democratic" mean? What name completes this verse of a ballad? For Little John took his bow in his hand, And wand'ring in the wood, To kill the deer, and make good cheer, For Marian and ...

people Robin Hood 4. Wars 9. Oceanographic Abbreviations This is about what war? If AABW stands for Antarctic bottom water, for what The most horrible war in history ended in a does AASW stand? mushrooming atomic cloud.

World War II Antarctic surface water 5. Sons of Liberty 10. Collection Counts Notable members of the Sons of Liberty included the Beth, Meg, and Amy all collect auk statuettes. Beth physician Benjamin Rush, the lawyer Patrick Henry, has 220 of them and Meg has twice as many as Beth. the businessman Benedict Arnold, and what Since Amy has as many as Beth and Meg together, silversmith? how many auk statuettes does she have?

Paul Revere 660 6th Grade Orals Round 4 Second Half Page 2 11. Gravity 16. Newspapers Name the two bodies in the solar system that exert the In what part of a newspaper would these headings be most significant gravitational force on the Earth. found? Employment Merchandise for Sale Farmer's Market Livestock Automobiles Real Estate Sales

Sun, Moon classifieds 12. Plant Anatomy 17. Seas Name the outermost layers of stems and roots of vines, What sea is connected to the Atlantic Ocean by the shrubs, and trees. Strait of Gibraltar?

bark Mediterranean 13. Fictional Creatures 18. Storms What kind of animal is Dr. Dolittle's Too-Too? The name of what kind of storm rhymes with "spittoon" and "raccoon"?

owl typhoon 14. Words within Words 19. Fantasy Dances "Invent" includes what other word meaning an Name the dance in "Alice in Wonderland" in which opening? each dancer, with a lobster for a partner, goes through some steps and then heaves the lobsters far out to sea, swims after them, and returns to land with a new lobster.

vent Lobster Quadrille 15. Milk 20. European Countries Almost all of the milk you can buy has been fortified This is about what country? by the addition of what water-soluble organic It is the fourth largest nation in Europe. substances that are essential for growth and body Mountains cover most of the west and conifer maintenance? forests take up more than half of the land. It lies between Norway and the Baltic Sea.

vitamins Sweden 6th Grade Orals Round 4 Second Half Page 3 21. Heteronyms 26. Ecological Locales What adjective meaning "tiny" is a heteronym for a Name the driest terrestrial biomes. noun indicating 60 seconds?

minute deserts 22. Celebrations 27. Integuments In what year will the tricentennial of American Name the small plates that protect the skin of many independence be celebrated? fish and reptiles.

2076 scales 23. Wool 28. Marine Mammals The removal of wool from sheep is called what? It has clawed and webbed feet. It can swim under water for several minutes. It is seen along the Pacific coast floating on its back hammering sea shells against a rock held on its chest. Name this creature.

shearing otter 24. Literary Elements 29. Fantasies What is the term for any person portrayed in a novel, In a series of stories by Mary Norton, what does she play, or story? call Pod, Homily, and Arrietty, the family of little people who live under the kitchen floor in a quiet house?

character Borrowers 25. Sets 30. Paths All spotted zebras with antennae comprise what type What is the name for the path through space of one of set? celestial body about another?

empty (null) orbit 6th Grade Orals Round 4 Second Half Page 4 31. Paintings 36. Pollutants What is a large painting on a wall or ceiling called? It makes a city warmer at night and, by reflecting radiation during the day, makes the city's high temperatures cooler than they would be without it. Name this pollutant formed when fog combines with exhaust gases and smoke.

mural smog 32. Etymology 37. Frogs "Dinosaur" is a Greek term that means what? Name the stage which occurs between the egg and adult stage of a frog.

terrible lizard tadpole (polliwog) 33. Botany 38. Aviation Math The prickly pear is a variety of what kind of plant? A Beechcraft Bonanza is cruising at a speed of 260 knots. What will be the plane's cruising speed if its speed is increased by 10%?

cactus 286 knots 34. Planets 39. Nation Etymology What planet changed in a matter of 800 million years The name for what South American country is derived from a hot, totally inorganic planet to a cool, organic from the Latin word for silver, "argentum"? one?

Earth Argentina 35. Sentence Transformation 40. Plurals Transform this declarative sentence into an Spell the plural of "half." interrogative sentence. It was a six-eared alien.

Was it a six-eared alien? halves 6th Grade Orals Round 4 Second Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Planets The names of which two of the inner planets begin with the same letter?

Mars, Mercury Alt. 2. Narrators Who narrates the story from which this was taken? One day Br'er Fox went ter wuk en got 'im some tar, en mix it wid some turkentime, en fix up a contrapshun w'at he call a Tar-Baby, en he tuck dish yer Tar-Baby en he sot 'er in de big road.

Uncle Remus Alt. 3. Dirty Poems This is a verse from a Shel Silverstein poem about what character? The thought of a towel and some soap makes me howl, And when people have something to tell me They don't come and tell it - they just stand back and yell it. I think they're afraid they might smell me.

Dirty Dan Alt. 4. Fads In the late 1950s, the Hula-Hoop craze swept America. This toy was named after a traditional dance of what islands?

Hawaiian Islands Alt. 5. Emerson What is the last word in this poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson? Brave men who work while others sleep, Who dare while others fly - They build a nation's pillars deep And lift them to the ...

sky 6th Grade Orals Round 5 First Half Page 1 1. Contractions 6. The Solar System Spell the contraction that sounds like the possessive What body accounts for 99.86 percent of the mass of form of they. our solar system?

they're the Sun 2. Space Exploration 7. Monuments What heavenly body was the target of America's In what city is there a memorial with this inscription? Apollo missions? In this temple as in the hearts of the people for whom he saved the Union the memory of Abraham Lincoln is enshrined forever.

the Moon Washington D.C. 3. American Visionaries 8. U.S. Geography What statesman who exhorted people to set their What is the collective name for those states lying east clocks ahead 1 hour in spring and back 1 hour in fall of Washington, Oregon, and California, and west of is credited with these sayings? North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Time is money. Oklahoma, and Texas? Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

Benjamin Franklin Rocky Mountain States 4. Rivers 9. Ancient Vehicles All of the rivers that flow through Portugal empty into Name the two-wheeled, horse-drawn vehicles of what body of water? ancient Romans.

Atlantic Ocean chariots 5. Household Technology 10. Musicals What widely-used appliance kept food from spoiling These songs are from a musical about what central before the invention of the refrigerator? character created by J.M. Barrie? The Lost Boys Gang A Pirate with a Conscience Just Beyond the Stars Never Land Good Old Captain Hook

icebox Peter Pan 6th Grade Orals Round 5 First Half Page 2 11. New World Exploration 16. Plant Families What is the modern name of the Latin American Plants belonging to what family carry out country referred to by early Spanish explorers as "the photosynthesis with their water-storing stems instead rich coast"? of with leaves, are adapted to life in dry places, and are often protected by spines?

Costa Rica cactus family (Cactacae) 12. Groups of People 17. Professions in Music What is the term for a group that does not have the In the music industry, for what does the abbreviation, most votes in an election or a group that contains DJ, stand? fewer people than larger groups?

minority disk jockey 13. First Aid 18. Arabian Nights Usually the human body maintains a healthy Who is the central character in the "The Arabian temperature but when exposed to cold or a cool, damp Nights" story about a tailor's son who eventually environment for prolonged periods, it may lose more marries a princess and rules a kingdom after he comes heat than it can generate resulting in what condition? into possession of a magic ring and lamp?

hypothermia Aladdin 14. Infections 19. The Earth Sciences Appendicitis is an inflammation of what organ? What science investigates the history and structure of the Earth?

appendix geology 15. Drama 20. Tundra Name the practice sessions that take place before a What are the two main seasons in the tundra? play is presented to an audience.

rehearsals winter, summer 6th Grade Orals Round 5 First Half Page 3 21. Storms 26. Poems What storm combines high winds, subzero This is from a poem about what character? temperatures, and blowing powdery snow? You should have heard the Hamelin people Ringing the bells till they rocked the steeple.

blizzard Pied Piper 22. New York Literature 27. Wonderland This is from what story? What character in "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" And for a few minutes, while Chester Cricket's says this? song lasted, Times Square was as still as a A dog growls when it's angry, and wags its tail meadow at evening, with the sun streaming in when it's pleased. Now I growl when I'm pleased on the people there and the wind moving among and wag my tail when I'm angry. them as if they were only tall blades of grass.

The Cricket in Times Square Cheshire Cat 23. Craftsmen 28. Kipling's Stories What is the collective name for craftsmen who shape Name the book of children's stories by Rudyard metals by hammering? Kipling which includes these characters. Baloo the bear Shere Khan the tiger Akela the wolf pack leader Kaa the rock python Hathi the elephant

smiths (blacksmith, whitesmith, etc.) The Jungle Book 24. Force 29. Bays If you slide a book along a gym floor, it eventually Several hundred miles due north of Lake Superior is slows down and then stops, mainly due to what force? what enormous bay?

friction Hudson Bay 25. Injuries 30. Time Name the discoloration of the skin that appears What year immediately preceded 1 B.C.? shortly after an impact injury.

bruise 2 B.C. 6th Grade Orals Round 5 First Half Page 4 31. Animal Anatomy 36. Forms of Drama What structure on many bipeds can be described as a In what kind of play, performed behind a translucent pair of long jaws without teeth? curtain, do you see only the shapes of the opaque objects behind it?

beak shadow play 32. Lofty Extremes 37. Parallel Structure Outside of Asia, the highest mountain range is on what What word completes this saying? continent? Winners never quit and quitters never ...

South America win 33. Rodents 38. Vocabulary After capybaras and beavers, the third largest rodents What term can either indicate the lower leg of a are what animals with sharp, erectile quills? cooked chicken or a rod for beating a drum?

porcupines drumstick 34. Nutrients 39. Drama Carbohydrates, water, and fats are three of the six You are watching a melodrama when an actor appears groups of nutrients. What are the other three? on stage and the audience immediately starts hissing and booing. That actor is playing what role?

proteins, minerals, vitamins villain 35. Word Choice 40. Fictional Characters Which word is used ambiguously in this headline? Beatrix Potter created such characters as Jemima Milk Drinkers Are Turning to Powder Puddle-Duck, Mrs. Tiggy Winkle, Benjamin Bunny, and Peter who?

turning Rabbit 6th Grade Orals Round 5 First Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Family Logic Mary's father has five daughters. Nana, Nini, Nono, and Nunu are the first four. Name the fifth.

Mary Alt. 2. Dimensions Name the dimension in which events can be ordered from the past through the present to the future.

time Alt. 3. Orchestras What is a name for an orchestra without strings?

band Alt. 4. Zoology What is emitted by a bioluminescent organism?

light Alt. 5. Injuries What is the name for a deep, ragged cut through the skin?

gash (rent, tear) 6th Grade Orals Round 5 Second Half Page 1 1. Colonial Cuts 6. Anagram Apparel What practice by some Native Americans and settlers "Goat" is an anagram for what garment worn by in the New England colonies involved removing a citizens of ancient Rome? portion of skin and hair from a slain enemy?

scalping toga 2. Folk Tales 7. Light What American folk hero had a son named Jean, a What device produces a thin beam of light that travels daughter named Tennie, dogs named Elmer and Nero, long distances without spreading? and an ox named Babe?

Paul Bunyan laser 3. Purchase Computations 8. Sap Zeke is purchasing a tractor. He made a down The sap of what kind of tropical tree is extracted and payment of $4,000 and has so far made five monthly processed into such items as waterproof fabric and payments of $265. How much has he paid so far? shoe soles?

$5325 rubber tree 4. Commemorative Coins 9. Proverbs The 1892 commemorative half dollar was minted in With what word does this proverb usually end? honor of the 400th anniversary of a voyage by what You can lead a horse to water but you can't explorer? make him float.

Christopher Columbus drink 5. Anatomy 10. Fictional Pets This is an unusual description of what body system? The favorite pets of what fictional physician included It is what is left after the insides have been Dab-Dab the duck, Jip the dog, Gub-Gub the baby taken out and the outsides have been taken pig, Polynesia the parrot, and the owl Too-Too? off. Its purpose is something to hitch meat to.

skeletal Dr. Dolittle 6th Grade Orals Round 5 Second Half Page 2 11. Area 16. Furry Fiction A rustic cabin will have 900 square feet of living area. In Richard Adams' "Watership Down," the central The contractor has estimated a cost of $55.40 per characters are what kind of burrowing mammals? square foot as the cost of construction. How much will this building cost to build?

$49,860.00 rabbits 12. Prime Factorization 17. Children's Literature This is the prime factorization of what number? In a story by the same name, what did Mary Norton 3 x 3 x 3 x 3 x 2 call the tiny ingenious folk who live under the floor and borrow what they need from "human beans"?

162 The Borrowers 13. Poetry Parts 18. Frostbite In a poem, one or more lines that are repeated at the Frostbite is damage to tissue that results from end of each succeeding stanza make up what? prolonged exposure to temperatures below how many degrees Fahrenheit?

the refrain 32 (or 33) 14. Rodents 19. Traditional Frigid Hunting What is the common name for rodents that often With his harpoon poised, an Eskimo standing next to a collect various small, bright, shiny objects and bits of hole in the ice is probably hunting for what? material to deposit in their nests?

pack rats seals 15. Elections 20. Conquistadors What adjective indicates complete agreement and In 1513, who pushed his way across the Isthmus of assent among voters in an election? Panama and became the first European to gaze westward upon the great ocean separating the Americas from China and the Indies?

unanimous Balboa 6th Grade Orals Round 5 Second Half Page 3 21. Altered Words 26. Numbers A space inserted between what two letters in "nowhere" What is the additive inverse of 180? significantly changes its meaning?

w and h (i.e. now here) -180 22. Old West Transportation 27. Cowbell Problems They offered no heat on cold nights, no ventilation on You've got to purchase a cowbell for each of the 20 warm ones, and no privacy. But they were big enough cows in your herd. The bells cost $9 each. If you to hold the essential tools and household items to start work for $5 an hour, how long will it take you to put a life in the West. Name these four-wheeled, horse or together enough cash to buy the bells? oxen-drawn vehicles that crossed the Great Plains.

prairie schooners (covered or Conestoga wagons) 36 hours 23. U.S. Government 28. Moons Which branch of American government is bicameral? A crescent moon occurs between a half moon and a new moon or between what other two moon phases?

legislative branch new moon and half moon 24. Singing Voices 29. National Pride What is the highest natural adult male singing voice? What is the term for loyalty and devotion to one's own country?

tenor patriotism (allegiance) 25. Number Problems 30. Writing What are the two consecutive integers given that their What sentence essentially tells what the rest of the sum is 25? paragraph is all about?

12 and 13 topic sentence 6th Grade Orals Round 5 Second Half Page 4 31. No Confidence 36. Speed In 1903, Bishop Milton Wright said "It is only given to Bill drove 702 miles to go quail hunting. He drove God and angels to fly." Name his two children who for 13 1/2 hours. What was his average speed? just a few days later showed their father to be absolutely wrong.

Wilbur, Orville 52 mph 32. Fables 37. Architecture Aesop told about a fox that tried and tried to get some The pagoda originated on what continent? grapes dangling just beyond its reach. After failing to get even one, what did the fox say while walking away in disgust?

Those grapes are probably sour. Asia 33. Recorded Music 38. Family Verse Music that is recorded with at least two microphones What kind of special relationship is indicated in this and intended to be played back through at least two verse? separate channels is described as what? In form and feature, face and limb, I grew so like my brother, That folks kept taking me for him, And each for one another.

stereophonic twins (identical twins) 34. Ancient History 39. Heroines In Assyria, an emperor had a collection of 20,000 clay What is the missing first name in all of these titles by tablets inscribed in cuneiform. In ancient Alexandria, Marjorie Sharmat? a building housed tens of thousands of scrolls. ---- Marmelstein for President Today, such collections are housed in what kind of Sincerely Yours, ---- Marmelstein buildings? Mysteriously Yours, ---- Marmelstein Getting Something on ---- Marmelstein

libraries Maggie 35. States of Matter 40. Numbers Matter in which phase is most easily compressible? Name all the composite numbers less than 10.

gas 4, 6, 8, 9 6th Grade Orals Round 5 Second Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Decimal Numerals Express this as a decimal numeral. four hundred thirty-five millionths

.000435 Alt. 2. Percent Conversion Express 12 1/2% as a decimal number.

.125 Alt. 3. Fantasies In "The Phantom Tollbooth," where to the Lethargarians live?

in the Doldrums Alt. 4. Bad Habits This verse is from a poem about what dangerous habit? It's a year now, since that last drag since his mouth pulled on a lethal fag. What changed his mind? What was the force? Why, death... of course!

smoking Alt. 5. National Parks In what state is there a national park featuring a 217 mile-long gorge up to 18 miles wide and 5,200 feet deep?

Arizona 6th Grade Orals Round 6 First Half Page 1 1. Art Forms 6. Parts of Speech What ancient art form involves putting pigment in What part of speech is the first word in these holes pricked in the skin? examples? Each tourist had an umbrella. Some kinds of radiation are lethal.

tattooing adjective 2. Voyages of Discovery 7. Photo Outlays According to Norse sagas, the earliest Viking Igor wants to purchase three photos of Frau Blucher excursion to the New World was in 985, how many that cost 15 rubles, 9 rubles, and 12 rubles. If he only years before Columbus' first voyage there? has a fourth of the money needed, how much more does he need to earn to buy them all?

507 27 rubles 3. Meridians 8. Marine Life Name the meridian that is half a world away from the What is the primary food of newborn whales? prime meridian.

International Date Line (180 deg. longitude) milk 4. Life 9. Straits Some flies grow, develop, and die within fifteen days The Bering Strait connects the Chukchi Sea in the while elephants may take seventy years to go through north with what other sea? the same stages. This course of development from birth through death is called a life what?

cycle Bering Sea 5. Gas Factories 10. Creature Exploitation What gas is given off when this recipe is followed? This is about what animals of North America? Start with a plant containing chlorophyll. Add Bladders were used as storage pouches. Fat water and carbon dioxide and expose it to and marrow produced cosmetics and paint. sunlight. Hooves were used to make utensils and glue. Hides were used for clothing, tepees, and drums. Dung was used for fuel.

oxygen buffalo 6th Grade Orals Round 6 First Half Page 2 11. Blood Pressure 16. Birds Blood pressure is measured in what kind of blood Name the large, long-legged African wading birds that vessels? owe their distinctive pink coloring to their diet of microscopic plants and animals.

arteries flamingos 12. Villains 17. Big Circles What villainous character in "The Jungle Book" Name the geographic circle at 0 degrees latitude on relentlessly pursues his goal of consuming Mowgli? the Earth's surface.

Shere Khan equator 13. Rivers 18. Fables What river separates Baja California from the rest of Complete this moral from Aesop's story, "The Jay and Mexico? the Peacock." It is not only fine feathers that make fine ...

Colorado River birds 14. Characteristic Quotes 19. Consecutive Integers What character in "Alice and Wonderland" repetitively What two consecutive odd integers have a sum of -28? asked Alice this question? Who are you?

the Caterpillar -15, -13 15. Cells 20. Headings The largest living cells are the egg cells of what class In which direction is the ship heading in this line from of animals? "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner? The Sun now rose upon the right.

Aves (birds) north 6th Grade Orals Round 6 First Half Page 3 21. The Eye 26. Elk In bright sunlight, what part of the becomes smaller, What are male elk called? thus protecting the retina from damage by exposure to intense light?

pupil bulls (stags) 22. Book Series 27. Time Reckoning What school is central to the "Sideways" series by What civilization counted years by Olympiads? Louis Sachar that includes three novels and two math books?

Wayside School Greeks 23. Fictional Characters 28. U.S. States This is about what character from "The Legend of The borders of what two states form perfect Sleepy Hollow"? rectangles? He was broad-shouldered and double-jointed with a Herculean frame. He was famed for his skills in horsemanship and foremost in all races. He was always ready for a fight or a frolic.

Brom Bones Wyoming, Colorado 24. Fictional Missions 29. Sports Poetry In "The Lord of the Rings," who is entrusted to If there were ten thousand eyes on mighty Casey when destroy the One Ring? he rubbed his hands with dirt, how many tongues applauded when he rubbed them on his shirt?

Frodo five thousand 25. State Abbreviations 30. Poems MS is the postal abbreviation for Mississippi. For This is the beginning of a poem by William Cullen what state does ME stand? Bryant about what month? Ay, thou art welcome, heaven's delicious breath! When woods begin to wear the crimson leaf, And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief And the year smiles as it draws near its death.

Maine October 6th Grade Orals Round 6 First Half Page 4 31. Stories 36. Mountains In what story by Ian Fleming do the Potts own a What is the largest mountain range between the magic automobile, take a sea voyage in it, and stumble Cascades and the Great Plains? into a gangster's cave where they are saved by their vehicle?

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Rocky Mountains 32. History of Art 37. Islands People began making pictures and designs out of bits What island in the Caribbean was named after the of colored stone at least 2000 years ago. Name this Spanish words for "rich port"? art form.

mosaic Puerto Rico 33. Spoonerisms 38. Eccentric Families What words are spoonerized in this line? William's talents include drumming, math, and tennis. I hanged my bed. Tess is fluent in French, plays the oboe, and is a black belt in judo. Rosie's "strings" include mathematics, violin, painting, and photography. What is the last name of this remarkable fictional family that lives in Unicorn House in a rural part of the United Kingdom?

banged, head Bagthorpe 34. Time 39. Astronomy It is 5 p.m. at the prime meridian. What time is it at What is this passage about? the International Date Line? They are areas into which the sky has been divided for identifying and naming celestial objects. The first ones were simple, arbitrary patterns of stars in which early civilizations visualized gods, sacred beasts, and mythical heroes.

5 a.m. constellations 35. Theories 40. Sensation Scientists believe that a comet hit Earth 65 million What sense is subject to auditory hallucinations? years ago, throwing vast amounts of debris into the atmosphere where it remained for years. This blocked out the Sun and resulted in the extinction of what reptiles?

dinosaurs hearing 6th Grade Orals Round 6 First Half Page 5 Alt. 1. U.S. Cities What U.S. city now includes an island originally purchased from the Indians by Dutch settlers for about $24 worth of trinkets?

New York City Alt. 2. Kipling What work by Rudyard Kipling answers these questions? Why does an elephant have a trunk? How did the leopard get its spots?

Just So Stories Alt. 3. Parentheses What part of this expression must be in parentheses in order for the value of the expression to be 26? 6 times 4 minus 6 divided by 2 plus 5

6 divided by 2 Alt. 4. Animal Defenses What cousin of anteaters and sloths that lives in the Americas can curl up to use its armored plates for protection?

armadillo Alt. 5. Geology To your right are many dazzling helictites. Above you are long stalactites. Around you stand several wet stalagmites. Where are you?

in a cave (cavern) 6th Grade Orals Round 6 Second Half Page 1 1. Date Math 6. Letters What day of the week will it be in 312 hours if it is What is the last name of the man who wrote this in now noon on Tuesday? 1900? I am intending to go to North Carolina to experiment with a flying machine. I am taking up the investigation for pleasure rather than profit, yet I think these is a slight possibility of achieving fame and fortune from it.

Monday Wright 2. Coincidence 7. Reptiles In 1898, Morgan Robertson wrote a story in which an What is the collective name for limbless reptiles? 800-foot-long ocean liner named the Titan hits an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sinks. This story eerily preceded the actual sinking of what vessel fourteen years later?

Titanic snakes 3. Homographs 8. Meat Preparation What word can refer either to a liquid mixture used Name the process of soaking meat in a flavored liquid for cakes or a baseball player? prior to cooking.

batter marinating 4. Milk 9. Explorers What adjective describes processed cow's milk that Marco Polo made an incredible overland journey to contains only a trace of fat? China in the fourteenth century. His journey began in what modern country?

skim Italy 5. Legs 10. Vessels How many pairs of legs do exactly ten healthy This vessel left Plymouth, England in 1620. Two grasshoppers have? months and five days later it arrived in Massachusetts Bay. Name this ship.

30 Mayflower 6th Grade Orals Round 6 Second Half Page 2 11. Mammals 16. Body Parts These are varieties of what kind of animals? What are three parts of the body that have only three Himalayan, oriental longhair, Scottish fold, letters in their names? Siamese

cats arm, ear, eye, gum, jaw, leg, lip, rib, toe 12. Fuels 17. Independence What gas is the simplest and lightest fuel? Name the largest Latin American country that did not gain its independence from Spain.

hydrogen Brazil 13. Percentage Conversions 18. Gas Computation What is the fractional equivalent of 1/8%? Since Henrietta knows she can travel 300 miles on 13 gallons of gas, how many gallons will she need to go 450 miles?

1/800 19.5 14. Arthropods 19. South America What arthropod predator would be featured in a What South American country has the shortest name? publication entitled "The Red Hourglass"?

black widow spider Peru 15. Stories 20. Dents The old queen put something on the bedstead. Then It is three fourths of a mile in diameter, 575 feet deep, she took twenty mattresses and piled them on top, and and fifty thousand years old. What caused this then twenty feather beds were placed on top of the spectacular depression in Arizona? mattresses, atop which the princess was to sleep. What was put on the bedstead?

a pea a meteorite 6th Grade Orals Round 6 Second Half Page 3 21. Zoology 26. Expressive Language Many animals such as elephants, giraffes, and zebras What are the candles mentioned in this line? move regularly from one place to another during the Night's candles are burnt out. course of a year. Name these movements.

migrations stars 22. Legends 27. Preparedness Who was the most famous legendary American Before the creation of a regular continental army railroad engineer? under George Washington, there were militiamen, particularly in New England, who were prepared to take up arms at short notice. Name them.

Casey Jones Minutemen 23. Literary Rodents 28. Optics What mouse is the protagonist in a story by Kate What adjective describes a lens that produces an image DiCamillo that also features Princess Pea, Chiaroscuro, larger than the actual object? Gregory the Jailer, and Furlough Tilling?

Despereaux (Despereaux Tilling) magnifying 24. Songs 29. Unusual Creatures "Frere Jacques" is often sung such that different voices What creatures of the Amazon River can be eight feet sing the same words but start at different times. What long with tails packed with specialized cells that is the name for such a song? generate electricity that can be discharged to stun prey?

round (canon) electric eels 25. Ballerina Weight 30. Ordering Things A ballerina carrying a 40-pound chameleon weighed The term, "abecedarian" indicates what order for 160 pounds. What percent of the total weight was due arranging things? to the weight of the ballerina?

75% alphabetical order 6th Grade Orals Round 6 Second Half Page 4 31. Anatomy 36. Forces What is another name for the vertebral column? Any violent, outward expansion of forces is called an ...

spine (backbone, spinal column) explosion 32. Living Patterns 37. States Photoperiodism is an organism's pattern of response Which Four Corners state is missing? to periods of light and what? Colorado Arizona New Mexico

darkness Utah 33. Poems 38. Elections What two words complete this stanza? In what kind of proceeding are opposing candidates This is the maiden all forlorn, in an election given a few minutes each to respond to That milked the cow with the crumpled horn, various questions about their positions on issues? That tossed the dog, That worried the cat, That killed the rat, That ate the malt That lay in the house that ...

Jack built debates 34. Freedoms 39. Transportation Homonyms The right to communicate openly without fear of An enclosure suspended from a cable to convey skiers governmental restraint is called freedom of what? or a type of boat propelled with a single oar in Venice share what name?

speech (or expression) gondola 35. Refrains 40. Word Choice What is the refrain in the song, "Deck the Halls with What word should replace the improperly used word Boughs of Holly"? in this example? Her friends hoped that Zsa Zsa's experience had learned her a good and lasting lesson about how to deliver a solid punch.

Fa la la la la la la la la taught 6th Grade Orals Round 6 Second Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Pronoun Use Replace the first noun in this example with the appropriate third person pronoun. Stephanie visited the old tower.

She visited the old tower. Alt. 2. Famines Historically, what meteorological condition has been the most common cause of famine?

drought Alt. 3. Meat What is the name for the meat of deer?

venison Alt. 4. Weight Problems The weight of a jar and the bolts in it is 50 ounces. If the number of bolts is doubled, the total weight of the jar and bolts is 92 ounces. What does the jar weigh?

8 ounces Alt. 5. Audible Vibrations Sound is constantly reflected off objects. Usually the reflection is not noticed because two identical sounds that reach the ear less than 1/15 of a second apart cannot be distinguished. If the reflected sound is heard separately, what is it called?

an echo 6th Grade Orals Round 7 First Half Page 1 1. Crafts 6. Characters Name the bedcover consisting of two cloth layers Who is the central character in the story from which filled with an insulating material and stitched together this line was taken? in crisscrossed lines or patterns. All of the most wonderful smells in the world seemed mixed up in the air around them in the chocolate factory - the smell of roasting coffee and burnt sugar and melting chocolate and mint and violets and crushed hazelnuts and apple blossoms and caramel and lemon peel.

quilt Charlie 2. Remote Cities 7. Theatrical Presentations The city with a population greater than one million What is an afternoon performance of a play called? that is nearest to Auckland, New Zealand is on what continent?

Australia matinee 3. Constellations 8. Prefixes What is another name for the constellation, Ursa What does the prefix mean in these words? Minor? octane, octet, October, octad

Little Dipper (Little Bear) eight 4. Colonial Survivors 9. Working Conditions By 1610, only 150 of the 900 colonists who landed in In 1841, the Massachusetts legislature enacted a labor Virginia during the previous years survived. To the law limiting the working hours of children under nearest whole number, what percentage of the twelve to ten hours per day, and no work on Sundays. colonists had not? After this law passed, those children only had to work how many hours per week?

83% 60 5. Matter 10. Eyes in the Skies Which state of matter has no surface? What optical instrument 370 miles up in space can spot the glow of a firefly 10,000 miles away?

gas (plasma) Hubble Space Telescope 6th Grade Orals Round 7 First Half Page 2 11. Adverbs 16. Grammatical Rules What is the adverb form of "busy"? Correct this misbegotten rule. Never use no double negatives!

busily use any double (use no double, etc.) 12. Infractions 17. Science Projects What is the term for crossing a street illegally or in a You boil a little water in a one-gallon can. Then put a reckless manner? cap on the can and remove it from the heat. Within a few minutes, the can collapses. What caused this?

jaywalking atmospheric (air) pressure 13. Colonial Period 18. Something Fishy In 1681, he was made absolute proprietor of an area What fish, propelled by their tails, leap into the air at between 40 degrees north and 43 degrees north up to 20 mph, using their wide pectoral fins to glide running west from Delaware through five degrees of through the air? longitude. Today we know this region given to William Penn as what state?

Pennsylvania flying fish 14. Sculpture 19. Epidemics What object is the lady holding aloft on the Statue of In 1793, a yellow fever epidemic hit Philadelphia. Liberty? About 5000 people died, or 10 percent of the population. How many people lived in Philadelphia prior to the epidemic?

a torch 50,000 15. Percent 20. Literary Classifications If 25 percent of some number is 56, what is the These works about William Randolph Hearst are what number? type of literature? W.R. Hearst - A New Appraisal Hearst - Lord of San Simeon Hearst - An American Phenomenon

224 biographies 6th Grade Orals Round 7 First Half Page 3 21. Children's Verse 26. Water Temperature This is from what Robert Louis Stevenson poem? Its surface temperature can reach over 97 degrees The funniest thing about him is the way he Fahrenheit, making which ocean the warmest? likes to grow - Not at all like proper children, which is always very slow; For he sometimes shoots up taller, like an India-rubber ball, And he sometimes gets so little that there's none of him at all. My Shadow Indian Ocean 22. Bird Travel 27. Performing Arts An extraordinary hummingbird travels 550 miles in 1 Some circus acts may involve people who seem to be hour 50 minutes. If it maintained this speed, how far extraordinarily tall, when they are in fact would it travel in 2 hours 10 minutes? ordinary-sized people standing on special poles called what?

650 miles stilts 23. Geographic Area 28. State Histories Name the only two U.S. states geographically larger Originally inhabited by the Pueblo and Apache than France. Indians, the area was first explored by the Franciscan missionary Fray Marcos de Niza and then by Francisco Coronado. Occupying position number forty-seven, name this state of the American Southwest.

Alaska, Texas New Mexico 24. Goofy Grammar 29. Animal Symbols Complete this humorous line about parts of speech. What animal that appears on the coats of arms for If a pronoun is a word used in place of a noun, countries such as Kenya, India, and Burma is a proverb is a pronoun used in place of a ... associated with such regal qualities as courage, nobility, strength, and power?

verb lion 25. Documents 30. Ursidae What set of rules was replaced in 1789 by the What bear is easily distinguished by large, black Constitution of the United States? patches around its eyes, on its ears, and around its body?

Articles of Confederation panda (giant panda) 6th Grade Orals Round 7 First Half Page 4 31. Poetic Baseball 36. Fortune Telling What is the home town for Casey's team in the poem, Name the transparent orb used for divination. "Casey at the Bat"?

Mudville crystal ball 32. Clever Epitaphs 37. Frost What word completes this epitaph? What is the popular name for a heavy frost that ends a Stranger tread region's growing season? This ground with gravity. Dentist Brown Is filling his last ...

cavity killing frost 33. Governmental Antonyms 38. Color Cliches In government, what is the opposite of a minority? What color completes these cliches? talk till I'm ---- in the face once in a ---- moon

majority blue 34. Ranks 39. Oceanography These are rankings in what organization? The semi-daily rise and fall of oceanic waters caused Tenderfoot, Second Class, First Class, mainly by gravitational attraction of the Moon are Star, Life, Eagle called what?

Boy Scouts tides 35. Archaeology 40. Songs What is the name for the remnants of long This verse is from what song? uninhabited dwellings of Native Americans? This is the way we wash our hands, Wash our hands, wash our hands, This is the way we wash our hands, On a cold and frosty morning.

ruins Mulberry Bush 6th Grade Orals Round 7 First Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Railroads Name the enormous self-propelled vehicles used to pull or push railroad cars.

locomotives (engines) Alt. 2. Discoveries This is about what land? It was discovered accidentally in the 15th century by a great seaman looking for something else. When discovered, it was not wanted. Most of the exploration for the next fifty years was done in the hope of getting around it.

America (or North or South America) Alt. 3. Eye Physiology What happens to the pupils in your eyes when you go from bright sunlight to low light conditions?

They dilate. (expand, become larger) Alt. 4. Monuments What white marble tower 555 feet in height commemorating a U.S. president is in the District of Columbia?

Washington Monument Alt. 5. Tolkien's Fantasies Name the land where Hobbits live.

Shire 6th Grade Orals Round 7 Second Half Page 1 1. Animal Anatomy 6. Sound Speed In all vertebrate and most invertebrates, what is the In general, sound travels fastest through solids, slightly center of the nervous system? slower through liquids, and slower yet through what other phase of matter?

the brain gases 2. Geographical Food 7. Marine Landforms What is the primary food in Southeast Asia? The skeletons of what marine animals form much of the framework of warm-water reefs?

rice coral 3. Fish 8. The Constitution There are more than 500 species of fish with What part of the Constitution has a name synonymous specialized organs that produce electric discharges. with these words? These include certain rays, skates, catfish, and what preface, preliminaries, prelude, prologue snakelike, scaleless fish?

eels preamble 4. Art Materials 9. Historical Blunders What adjective describes the type of colored glass used Correct this sentence. in ornate church windows? Christopher Columbus' ships were the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Fe.

stained Santa Maria 5. Distances 10. Flags The distance east or west on the Earth's surface is The shield of Lord Baltimore was the inspiration for called what? the flag of what state?

longitude Maryland 6th Grade Orals Round 7 Second Half Page 2 11. Proverbs 16. Stories This is a spoof on a proverb about what kind of What adjective did Kenneth Grahame use to describe a animal? dragon in the title of a story? You can lead a car to a highway, but you can't make it think.

horse reluctant 12. Planets 17. Picture Descriptions Orbiting at an average distance of about 36 million In journalism, what is the term for the descriptive miles, what is the planet nearest the Sun? material immediately below or beside a picture?

Mercury caption 13. Stories 18. Animal Doggerel In what story does an old witch say this? The name of what animal is missing in this limerick? Nibble, nibble, like a mouse. Consider the poor ----: Who is nibbling on my house? His life is unduly monotonous. He lives half asleep At the edge of the deep, And his face is as big as his bottom is.

Hansel and Gretel hippopotamus 14. Sentences 19. Color A complete sentence must include a subject and what What color is an object that absorbs all other colors else? and reflects only red light?

a predicate red 15. Traditions 20. Weapons What is the more common name for All Hallow's Eve? What pole weapon consists of a shaft of wood with a pointed head?

Halloween spear 6th Grade Orals Round 7 Second Half Page 3 21. Oceans 26. The Deer Family Several hundred miles north of Denali, otherwise What bony structures grow each year on the skulls of known as Mt. McKinley, is what ocean? male animals such as the reindeer, elk, caribou, and deer?

Arctic Ocean antlers 22. Physiology 27. Story Lines The functioning of what paired organs depends on This is from what story? action of the diaphragm? They wanted to go up the hillside to make themselves fat, but to get there, they had to cross a bridge. Under the bridge lived a great ugly troll with eyes as big as saucers and a nose as long as a poker.

lungs The Three Billy Goats Gruff 23. Electronic Communications 28. Seed Germination The sounds may be crackling, popping, hissing, Three conditions must be present for seeds to rushing, and humming. What is the collective term for germinate including air, warmth, and what else? various forms of audible interference superimposed over the communications heard through telephone and radio receivers?

static (noise) moisture (water) 24. Calories 29. Time Problems Food energy comes from the three primary sources In lowest terms, all the Marches, Aprils, and Mays including fats, carbohydrates, and ... comprise what fraction of a decade?

proteins 1/4 25. Mountain Ranges 30. Tall Tales You would travel over what mountain range when This is about what legendary beast? flying from Nashville, Tennessee to Durham, North One day the big bovine knocked a bag of dried Carolina? peas off the countertop when he swished his tail. The peas flew so fast out of the kitchen that they knocked over a dozen loggers coming home for lunch, clipped the tops off of several pine trees, and landed in the hot spring. We had pea soup to eat for the rest of the season.

Appalachians Babe the Blue Ox 6th Grade Orals Round 7 Second Half Page 4 31. Birds 36. Geology To conserve energy, flocks of geese, cranes, and What is the general name for the process by which pelicans fly in what formation? water or wind wear away soil and rock?

V-formation erosion 32. Holidays 37. Native American Traditions What holiday originated in three days of prayer and Native Americans made wampum from what? feasting by the Plymouth colonists in 1621?

Thanksgiving sea shells (clamshells) 33. Machines 38. Politics An astoundingly useful simple machine consists of Members of what U.S. political party seemingly favor just a wheel and what else? business interests and oppose big government?

axle Republican 34. Messy Meteorological Stuff 39. The Changing Map Snow or ice on the ground that has been reduced to a Latvia, Belarus, the Ukraine, and Azerbaijan were soft and somewhat watery mixture by above-freezing formerly republics of what larger nation? temperatures is called what?

slush Soviet Union (U.S.S.R.) 35. Poems 40. Walking Problems What is the last word in this nonsense verse by Edward What is the name for an uneven walk, in which the Lear? weight is carried more on one leg than on the other? Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live. Their heads are green, and their hands are blue And they went to sea in a ...

sieve limp 6th Grade Orals Round 7 Second Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Missive Abbreviations At the end of a letter, you may find the abbreviation, P.S., followed by a message. For what do these letters stand?

post script Alt. 2. Interplanetary Chat You have just received a "hello" from a planet 220 light years away. How long will it be before your reply reaches the aliens who sent it?

220 years Alt. 3. African Animals They live in herds only in or near rivers and lakes of Africa, and may weigh up to five tons. Name these creatures with thick, tough skin.

hippopotamuses Alt. 4. Numbers What is the smallest number with five different digits?

10234 Alt. 5. Roman Numerals Express as a Roman numeral the number of legs on three grasshoppers.

XVIII 6th Grade Orals Round 8 First Half Page 1 1. Factoring 6. Location Location Location What are all the prime factors of 48? He said, "I chose the site because there are neither hills nor trees, so that it offers a safe place for practice. Also, the wind there is stronger than any place near home and is almost constant." To what site was Wilbur Wright referring?

2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 3 Kitty Hawk 2. History of Medicine 7. Fantasies Early in the first century A.D., the Roman Aulus Margery Sharp in "The Rescuers" created a white Celsus recommended treating fractures with bandages mouse of impeccable taste, indomitable courage, and stiffened with starch. Today, what are such bandages infinite resourcefulness. Name this extraordinary called? female rodent.

casts Miss Bianca 3. Mythical Loads 8. Invertebrates Name the mythical being condemned to eternally bear This is about what terrestrial mollusks? the celestial sphere on his shoulders. They eat plants. They often seal up their shells with slime which hardens into a parchment-like cap. They move slowly, leaving a glistening, slimy trail on land.

Atlas snails 4. Appeals 9. Sea Namesakes A party dissatisfied with a judgment of the Supreme What sea adjacent to Mexico was named for a Court can appeal the case to what other organization? conquistador?

none Sea of Cortes 5. Polynesian Traditions 10. Dwellings What is a Hawaiian feast called? What Native American dwellings had conical shapes?

luau tepees 6th Grade Orals Round 8 First Half Page 2 11. Africa 16. Vikings What is the northeasternmost African country? Name the area indicated in this quote. After many days, the men came upon the cold, rocky shore of a huge island. Eric sailed along the coast until he reached a harbor.

Egypt Greenland 12. Farms 17. Mixtures When you drive through farming areas, you will see What is the term for the large quantity of tiny bubbles tall, cylindrical structures in which fodder is stored formed when soap is mixed with water? called ...

silos lather 13. Venom 18. Heinlein Quotes Venomous animals dispense their poisons by Complete this remark by Robert Heinlein. squirting, stinging, or by what other means? Once the monkeys learn they can vote themselves bananas, they'll never climb another ...

biting tree 14. Island Comparisons 19. Professions Greenland includes about 840,000 square miles while What was the profession of these people? Iceland encompasses about 40,000 square miles. How Hector Berlioz many times larger is Greenland? Franz Liszt Irving Berlin Johann Strauss Johannes Brahms Felix Mendelssohn

21 composers 15. Fantasies 20. Ice In what story by Mary Rogers does Annabel Andrews Ice floats on water because what property of frozen wake up one Friday to find herself in her mother's water is less than that of liquid water? body?

Freaky Friday density 6th Grade Orals Round 8 First Half Page 3 21. Anatomy 26. Sentence Analysis What structures include such components as pulp, What is the last adjective in this statement? crowns, and roots? Coal-burning power plants expose the people living around them to more radioactivity, from traces of uranium, thorium, and radon in their smoke, than do normally operating nuclear plants.

teeth nuclear 22. Monaco 27. Flies Monaco, a tiny country on the French coast, is a Name the wormlike larval stage of a fly. principality because it is ruled by a hereditary leader with what title?

prince maggot 23. Celebrities 28. Beavers Virtually unknown when he left the U.S. on May 20, What is the home of a beaver called? 1927 aboard his plane, who was an international celebrity by the time he reached Paris some 33 1/2 hours later?

Charles Lindbergh lodge 24. Mammal Slang 29. Fairy Tales What word can mean either a sneaky person who In the fairy tale, name the girl with extraordinarily informs on his pals or a long-tailed rodent? long hair who is imprisoned in a tower.

rat Rapunzel 25. Pledges 30. Explorers The original Pledge of Allegiance included the line - Around 1000 A.D., they sailed from the British Isles "to my flag and to the republic for which it stands." to Greenland, and then on to Labrador, the Baffin What words replaced "my flag"? Islands, and Newfoundland. There they established a colony named Vineland and from that base sailed along the coast of North America. Who were these people?

the flag of the United States of America Vikings (Norsemen) 6th Grade Orals Round 8 First Half Page 4 31. A Goal of Happiness 36. Poetic Physics What L. Frank Baum character says this? This refers to what phenomenon of sound? I shall take the heart, for brains The shadow of a sound, a voice without a do not make one happy, and happiness mouth, and words without a tongue. is the best thing in the world.

Tin Woodman (Tin Man) echo 32. Creepy Invertebrates 37. Weapons This is a description of what arachnid? What kind of firearm invented by Samuel Colt has a It is tiny, about 1/8 inch in length. When biting rotating cylinder containing multiple chambers for a person, it attaches itself to the skin with its cartridges? mouth and, engorged with blood, expands up to seven times its original size.

tick revolver 33. Flamingo Word Problems 38. Crimes Find the cost of 26 1/2 dozen plastic pink flamingos Name the crime of betraying one's own country or of selling for $18.50 per dozen. actively assisting in its overthrow.

$490.25 treason 34. Precipitation 39. Violent Verse Averaging only nine inches of rain per year, what is The name of what people is missing in this verse? the driest state in the U.S.? It is greatly to my liking, To be a lusty ----; Yes, that's the only life for me. Not for me just peaceful trading, But pillaging and raiding And a life on the rolling sea.

Nevada Viking 35. Long Gone Animals 40. Factoring This is about what animals? What are the prime factors of 315? They looked like shaggy-haired elephants with long curling tusks. They roamed the plains of Europe and North America during the Ice Ages.

(woolly) mammoth 3, 3, 5, 7 6th Grade Orals Round 8 First Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Long Names What is the short name for the fictional character, Pippilotta Delicatessa Windowshade Mackrelmint Ephraimsdaughter Longstocking?

Pippi (Pippi Longstocking) Alt. 2. Looking Up This describes what heavenly bodies? As one approaches the Sun, solar radiation vaporizes the gases in its nucleus and increases the size of its coma, which may reach millions of miles across. Dust and gases leaving the coma stream away, forming a tail as much as a hundred million miles long.

comets Alt. 3. Mammals What large black and white Tibetan mammal whose favorite food is bamboo is mistakenly called a bear?

panda Alt. 4. Grimm Stories In the tale recounted by the Brothers Grimm, the tailor who embroidered "Seven at One Blow" on his belt had killed seven what?

flies Alt. 5. Government Name the two levels of government above the local level.

state, federal (national) 6th Grade Orals Round 8 Second Half Page 1 1. Colonial Soldiers 6. Mathematical Notation What name did the Minutemen use when referring to What is the meaning of "2.714e4"? British soldiers during the American Revolution?

redcoats 2.714 x 10 to the 4th power (27,140) 2. Australian Marsupials 7. Explorers Name both types of marsupials whose names begin Eric the Red was the father of what other Norse with the letter "K." explorer?

koala, kangaroo Leif Ericson 3. Plant Problems 8. Fine Arts What is the name for a plant's loss of shape caused by According to one critic, there are three forms of visual a water shortage? art. Painting is art to look at and sculpture is art you can walk around, What is the kind of art you can walk through?

wilting architecture 4. Change of State 9. Number Conversions What causes paint to dry or a puddle to disappear? Convert 27/7 to a mixed number.

evaporation 3 6/7 5. Fables 10. Nations and Languages This moral came from a fable by Aesop about what What are the two official languages of Canada? kind of bird? Much wants more and loses all.

goose English, French 6th Grade Orals Round 8 Second Half Page 2 11. Colonial Carbohydrates 16. Kenneth Grahame This is about what 18th-century agricultural product? In "The Wind in the Willows," which boastful character More than either tobacco or cotton, this staple has lots of money, a hall, and not much brain? crop was so seductive and so labor-intensive that it transformed Europe's taste and economy and enslaved the people of Africa.

sugar (sugar cane) Mr. Toad 12. Particle Physics 17. Ancient Authors What modern term is derived from a word coined by Who wrote the story about a boy who, without basis, Democritus around 450 B.C. which meant yelled this? "uncuttable" or "the smallest indivisible particle of Wolf! Wolf! The wolves are at my lambs! matter"?

atom Aesop 13. Anatomical Cliches 18. Misplaced Modifiers What word is missing from these cliches? Where do Mel and Sally live according to this give me a ---- statement? know like the back of your ---- Mel had driven over with his wife, Sally, from have the upper ---- their home in a truck for the football game. try your ---- at

hand in a truck 14. Sailing Vessels 19. Speedy Droplets The tall vertical spar rising from the keel of a sailing The air speed can reach 250 miles per hour and send vessel that supports the sails and running gear is the ... thousands of bacteria-filled droplets into the air. Name this convulsive expulsion of air from the nose and mouth.

mast sneeze 15. Kidnappings 20. Vapor In the event of a kidnapping, what is the money What is the common name for a huge amount of demanded for the release of the abducted person condensed water vapor floating in air? icalled?

ransom a cloud 6th Grade Orals Round 8 Second Half Page 3 21. The Constitution 26. Grasses The Bill of Rights is a list of changes to the What cereal grass is mentioned in the poem, "Sing a Constitution called what? Song of Sixpence"?

amendments rye 22. Natural Protection 27. Spiders Name the case made partly or entirely of silk that These are characteristics of what North American protects the pupa of a moth. spiders? -Only adult females are dangerous to humans. -The females sometimes eat the male after they mate. -The venom is many times more toxic than that of rattlesnakes. -Adults have shiny, black abdomens.

cocoon black widows 23. Folklore Dialogue 28. Fractions These are lines from a story about a scorpion and Completely reduce this fraction. what other creature? 60/105 -Will you carry me across the river? -You sting me while I'm swimming and I'l drown. -If I were to sting you, you would drown and I would go down with you. -Why did you sting me? -It has nothing to do with logic. It is just my character. turtle (or frog) 4/7 24. Short Stories 29. Naval Warfare Who wrote this? Name the tubular optical instrument that enables I have made many books about well-behaved submariners to look for ships while remaining people. Now, for a change, I am going to make submerged. a story about two disagreeable people, called Tommy Brock and Mr. Tod. Nobody could call Mr. Tod "nice." The rabbits could not bear him and could smell him half a mile off.

Beatrix Potter periscope 25. Fairy Tales 30. U.S. Bases In what James Thurber story must a prince find 1000 Name the major U.S. naval base in Hawaii. jewels and unfreeze thirteen clocks that the evil duke has stopped to free a princess?

The Thirteen Clocks Pearl Harbor 6th Grade Orals Round 8 Second Half Page 4 31. Liquids 36. Trails What liquid expands instead of contracts when frozen? What is another name for a contrail?

water vapor (exhaust) trail 32. Political Word Problems 37. Jars Math Find the cost of 1845 tons of unused political Every second, the amount of liquid draining into a jar promises selling for 3 1/3 cents per ton. doubles. When is the jar half full if the jar fills in 20 seconds?

$61.50 19 seconds 33. Symbols 38. Deficiencies What color is the flag of truce or surrender? What condition results when a person has insufficient food for a prolonged period?

white malnutrition 34. Cool Times 39. Integers and Syllables A time of widespread glaciation is known as what kind What is the product of the smallest positive integers of age? with single, double, and triple-syllable names?

ice age 77 35. Rules 40. Anthems These are versions of what rule? These lyrics are from the anthem of what failed -What you yourself hate, do to no man. Western Hemisphere country? -What you are unwilling to receive, be sure you God save the South, God save the South, never do. Her altars and firesides, God save the South! -Treat your inferiors as you would be treated Now that the war is nigh, now that we arm to by your betters. die, -Desire nothing for yourself which you do not Chanting our battle cry, "Freedom or death!" desire for others. Chanting our battle cry, "Freedom or death!"

Golden Rule Confederate States of America 6th Grade Orals Round 8 Second Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Personal Philosophy Complete this line by William Boetcker. That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is ...

wrong (not right, improper, unseemly, etc.) Alt. 2. Books What page at the front of a book gives the title of the book and its author?

title page Alt. 3. Science What are you doing when you carefully change one variable and directly observe its effect on another variable?

an experiment Alt. 4. Water Water Water Name the three largest bodies of water on Earth.

Pacific, Atlantic, Indian Oceans Alt. 5. Fruits What kind of fruit is commercially harvested from a palm tree that grows along tropical seacoasts?

coconut 6th Grade Orals Round 9 First Half Page 1 1. Everyday Phenomena 6. Dense Annuals These are types of what common phenomena? What is the common collective name for large, more nimbus, stratus, cumulus, cirrus or less spherical, multi-branched plants that break away from their roots in autumn and scatter their seeds as the wind causes them to roll about?

clouds tumbleweeds 2. Hinky Pinkys 7. Tall Tales If a used trumpet is a worn horn and an angry On her wedding day with Pecos Bill, who insisted on supervisor is a cross boss, then a slipshod reproduction riding Widowmaker and got thrown so high that when is a sloppy what? she came down, she bounced for three days?

copy Slue-foot Sue 3. Fantasy Facilities 8. Candidates In the Harry Potter stories, what kind of facilities are Wht is the political term for the naming of a candidate Beauxbatons and Durmstrang? for public office?

schools (magic schools) nomination 4. Painting 9. Archaeology Name the water-soluble, nontoxic, creamy paint Archaeologists are always on the lookout in their digs applied with the digits of the hands. for items such as pottery, implements, weapons, writing, and jewelry. What is the collective name for these objects made by ancient people?

finger paint artifacts 5. Figurative Animal Sounds 10. Day Length OK, now, with great feeling! What is the best example In the Northern Hemisphere, the longest day of the of onomatopoeia with regard to a rooster? year occurs during what month?

cockadoodledoo June 6th Grade Orals Round 9 First Half Page 2 11. Australia 16. Waves Australia has shores on what two oceans? What are reflected sound waves called?

Indian, Pacific echoes 12. Spectra 17. Energy Transformations Name the transparent body with triangular bases used In a coal-fired power plant, chemical energy in the for decomposing light into its spectrum. coal is converted into thermal energy, which is then converted to kinetic energy in steam, which is then converted to mechanical energy in a turbine, which is then converted into what other form of energy?

prism electrical energy 13. Tongue-Twister Limericks 18. Lows What are the last two words in this limerick? Since Badwater Basin is the lowest point in North A canner exceedingly canny America, it must be in what national park? One morning remarked to his granny, 'A canner can can Anything that he can, But a canner can't can a can, ...

can he? Death Valley National Park 14. Biological Homonyms 19. Natural Rights What fruit with sweet, green pulp has the same name as In the Declaration of Independence, what adjective a flightless bird of New Zealand? indicates those rights that are absolute, not awarded by human power, not transferable to another power, and incapable of repudiation?

kiwi inalienable 15. Silly Poems 20. Factors Who wrote this? The factors of 24 include 2 and 12, 3 and 8, and what One sister for sale! other pair of numbers? One sister for sale! One crying and spying young sister for sale! I'm really not kidding, So who'll start the bidding?

Shel Silverstein 4 and 6 6th Grade Orals Round 9 First Half Page 3 21. First Aid 26. Marine Mammals Name the tract in which air moves from the nose and Name the wide, flat limbs of many aquatic mammals mouth to the lungs. used for swimming.

airway (respiratory tract) flippers 22. Weapon Poems 27. The U.S. Senate This is about what aboriginal weapon? Since the 2012 U.S. Senate included 20 female Behold! wood into bird and bird to wood again. senators, how many male senators were there? A brown-winged bird from the hand of a brown man. Elbow of wood from flexed elbow of bone to a swift hawk has amazingly grown.

boomerang 80 23. Zoology 28. Magnetism According to the Latin derivation of the term, bipeds If the north pole of one bar magnet is brought near have two what? the south pole of another, the magnets attract each other. If the north poles of two bar magnets are brought near each other, what will they do?

feet repel 24. Lyrics 29. Clipped Words What four words complete this verse? "Limo" is a clipped word for what large passenger It was bought on the morn of the day vehicle? that he was born, It was always his treasure and pride. But it stopped short, Never to run again, When ...

the old man died limousine 25. The Globe 30. Ruling Successions What hemisphere lies between the equator and a Soldiers from what country ruled Tenochtitlan after latitude of 90 degrees south? the Aztec emperor was deposed?

Southern Hemisphere Spain 6th Grade Orals Round 9 First Half Page 4 31. Avalanches 36. Magnetism Snow under pressure turns into what? Complete this statement about magnetism. Like poles repel. Unlike poles ...

ice (firn) attract 32. Time Abbreviations 37. Elements The names for what three months are normally not What element is often found as yellow crystals at the abbreviated? mouths of volcanoes and hot springs?

May, June, July sulfur 33. Paper Folding 38. Energy If you fold a poster in half 4 times, you end up with What adjective indicates the type of energy that comes how many layers? from the Sun?

16 solar 34. Palindromes 39. Scientific Instruments Spell a palindrome for a word that may mean either An aircraft's altimeter measures the height of the plane "to look at" or "the sound of a chick." above what level?

peep sea level 35. Zeros 40. U.S. Regions How many zeros are in the number one billion one Covering about one-seventh of the U.S. land area, thousand one hundred and one? what general region consists of Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, and Arkansas?

6. the South 6th Grade Orals Round 9 First Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Force A force directed away from the source of the force is a push. What is the name for a force directed toward the source of the force?

pull Alt. 2. The Space Program What kind of objects are these? Transit 1B Vanguard Telstar 1 Sputnik Salyut 1 Explorer I

satellites Alt. 3. Butterflies What butterfly that summers all over the United States and Canada migrates to Mexico, Florida, and southern California for the winter?

monarch Alt. 4. Animals Analogies Four-legged animals are quadrupeds. What is the corresponding name for two-legged critters?

bipeds Alt. 5. Art George Washington had to sit still for several hours while an artist painted his picture. What is the name for such a painting?

portrait 6th Grade Orals Round 9 Second Half Page 1 1. Crazy Climbing 6. Musical Chases Milt the muddled mountain climber starts at sea level In "Pop Goes the Weasel," the monkey chases the to climb an 11,000 foot mountain. But each day, he weasel around what? climbs 3000 feet and then descends 2000 feet. On what day will he reach the top?

day 9 the cobbler's bench 2. Nutrition 7. Kitchen Appliances The body has many requirements for nutrients such as What kind of oven uses radiation in the short-wave proteins and carbohydrates. It also needs other region of the spectrum to cook food or gremlins? materials such as calcium, phosphorus, and iron. How are these materials classified?

minerals microwave 3. Cinder Cone Climbing 8. Orbits Long, tall Sarah starts at the base of a 100-foot-high Our Sun orbits the center of what galaxy? cinder cone. Each time she steps 3 feet upward she slips back 2 feet. How many steps will it take her to reach the top?

98 Milky Way 4. Money Problems 9. Coasts What is the cost of 276 yards of canvas priced at 16 What South American country has the longest 2/3 cents per yard? coastline along the Pacific?

$46 Chile 5. Energy 10. Bizarre Creatures You walk outside, turn on a garden hose, and the water What author created creatures like Sneetches, the Zax, comes out hot. What form of energy heated it? and the Lorax?

solar (radiant) Dr. Seuss (Theodore Geisel) 6th Grade Orals Round 9 Second Half Page 2 11. Peter Pan 16. Documents Name the three children Peter Pan took to Neverland. What document begins as follows? We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union ...

Wendy, John, Michael (Preamble to) U.S. Constitution 12. Centuries 17. First Footsteps During what century was the Declaration of The explorer Leif Ericson is believed to be the first Independence signed? European to set foot on what continent?

18th century (1700s) North America 13. Ancient Science 18. Beasts in Books The mathematicians of Babylon devised a system of In the Harry Potter stories, what kind of creature is counting based on the number 60, from which we get Crookshanks? the number of degrees in a circle and the number of minutes in what time interval?

hour cat 14. Villains 19. Residues Who, in the Harry Potter series, is described as the Name the residue after a substance has burned. "most powerful Dark wizard who ever lived"?

Voldemort ash 15. Enduring Stories 20. Money Problems This is from what book by Natalie Babbitt? How many gallons of reactor sludge costing 41 2/3 So the Tucks decided at last that the source cents per gallon can be purchased for $15? of their changelessness was the water from the spring.

Tuck Everlasting 36 gallons 6th Grade Orals Round 9 Second Half Page 3 21. Injuries 26. Explorers What kind of injuries can result from radiation, What Portuguese sailor in Spanish employ found the chemicals, electricity, moist heat, and dry heat? strait that now bears his name at the southern end of South America?

burns Magellan 22. Bad Trades 27. Language Gaffes How much money did the boy lose in Shel What word should have been omitted in this Silverstein's poem, "Smart," when he made these newspaper quote? trades? The accident occurred at Hillcrest Drive and 2 quarters for 1 dollar Santa Barbara Avenue as the dead man was 3 dimes for 2 quarters crossing the intersection. 4 nickels for 3 dimes 5 pennies for 4 nickels

95 cents dead 23. Moving Out 28. Sentence Repairs What is the name for a mass of bees with a queen bee Combine these three sentences into a single sentence migrating to establish a new colony? with a compound subject. Sigurd is lazy. Eric is lazy. Brunhilde is lazy.

swarm Sigurd, Eric, and Brunhilde are lazy. 24. Rebuses 29. Quiz Show Loot In a rebus, how much time can be represented as On the popular TV quiz show, "Are You Smarter than "MIN"? Your Senator," each question is worth four times as much as the previous question. If the fifth question is worth $6,400, how much is the first question worth?

30 seconds (half a minute) $25 25. Words 30. Feathers What classification is suitable for these pairs of words? In nestlings, they are the only feathers. In adult birds, vigor - feebleness they lie between and beneath the contour feathers. recency - antiquity Name these soft feathers that provide birds with conjunction - disjunction insulation.

antonyms down 6th Grade Orals Round 9 Second Half Page 4 31. Asia 36. Physiological Conditions Which Asian nation extends farthest east? Name the condition in which the body suffers from lack of water.

Russia dehydration (thirst) 32. Elections 37. Resolutions Miles Gloriosis won the election for county sheriff by What document was drafted shortly after this was a majority of just one vote. 12,223 votes were cast. written by Richard Henry Lee? How many votes did his opponent get? Resolved that the United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown.

6111 Declaration of Independence 33. Reptiles 38. Word Squares Its venom, made in glands in its lower jaw, enters a What is the third word in a word square if the first two victim as it chews. It has a short stumpy tail in which are "not" and "owe"? it can store fat. Its head, body, and tail are covered with bead-like scales of black and orange. Name this lizard of the American Southwest.

Gila monster ten 34. Mountains 39. Fables In what country in the Southern Hemisphere are the In the story of Chicken Little, who is the antagonist? Alps?

New Zealand Foxy Loxy (the fox) 35. Number Problems 40. Color What number greater than 31 and less than 41 is even What is the name for any substance used to impart and a multiple of 3? permanent color to other substances?

36 dye (pigment) 6th Grade Orals Round 9 Second Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Roald Dahl Roald Dahl's popular children's work, "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" was made into a film. Name the central character of that film.

Willy Wonka Alt. 2. The Pledge What term in "The Pledge of Allegiance" indicates America cannot be separated into parts or pieces?

indivisible Alt. 3. Minimums Each room in a school contains 8 to 13 benches and on each bench are 7 to 12 students. What is the minimum number of students in any room?

56 Alt. 4. Quadruped Quotations What character says these things in a series of books by A.A. Milne? -They're funny things, accidents. You never have them till you're having them. -After all, what are birthdays? Here today and gone tomorrow. -It just shows what can be done by taking a little trouble. Do you see, Pooh? Do you see, Piglet? Brains first and then hard work. Eeyore Alt. 5. Wind Talk What is the term for strong spurts of wind?

gusts 6th Grade Orals Round 10 First Half Page 1 1. Heartthrobs 6. Remedies At rest, a seven-year-old child's heart beats about 90 These are folk remedies for what common times per minute while an adult's heart rate is about 70 physiological reaction? beats per minute. As a decimal number to the nearest Look up with your eyes but not your head. tenth, express how much faster the child's heart beats. Squeeze the bridge of your nose. Gently bite your upper lip. Apply upward pressure to the bottom of your nose.

1.3 sneezing 2. Sunburn 7. Cast Votes UV exposure increases about 4% for every 1000 foot In a two-candidate race in which 31,269 votes were gain in elevation. So, in comparison to someone at cast, what is the least number of votes a candidate must Pismo Beach in California, someone at the top of the have to win by a majority? 14,494 foot peak of Mt. Whitney is exposed to what greater percentage of UV rays?

58 (accept 55-60) 15,635 3. Fruits 8. Mower Math Tangelos, shaddocks, lemons, grapefruit, limes and How many lengthwise round trips must you make with oranges are collectively known as what kind of fruits? a 24-inch mower to cut a lawn measuring 2880 by 9600 feet?

citrus fruits 720 4. State Names 9. Legends What is the only letter in the alphabet that does not What is the shape of the legendary piece of furniture appear in the name of any U.S. state? associated with the kingdom of Camelot?

Q. round 5. Animals 10. Animal Descriptions Makos and hammerheads are varieties of what kind of An animal described as "laterally compressed" has a fish? body that is relatively high but not very what?

sharks wide 6th Grade Orals Round 10 First Half Page 2 11. Statehood 16. Phrases Name the last three states to be admitted to the union. What is the last prepositional phrase in the first verse of Francis Scott Key's poem, "The Star-Spangled Banner"?

Hawaii, Alaska, Arizona of the brave 12. Endangered Cities 17. Decimals Rising sea levels pose the greatest danger to what 50 equals .125 of what number? major American city ravaged by Hurricane Katrina?

New Orleans 400 13. Geology 18. Foundations of Government What adjective indicates wood that has been fossilized Fifty-five men, representing all the states except and turned into stone? Rhode Island attended the Constitutional Convention at Philadelphia in 1787. These men came to be known as the Founding what?

petrified Fathers 14. Ponds 19. South Pacific History Pond water takes on a greenish hue during the What group of indigenous people were very badly summer months because of the growth of what treated when Europeans first came to Australia? eukaryotic, photosynthetic organisms?

algae Aborigines 15. Mixtures 20. Short Story Settings Gary the grocer mixes 12 pounds of coffee at $3.50 "Badger on the Barge and Other Stories" by Janni per pound with 8 pounds of $4 per pound coffee. Howker is a collection of tales involving lonely young What is the cost per pound of the mixture? people who come into contact with elderly strangers. What country is the setting for these tales?

$3.70 England (Britain) 6th Grade Orals Round 10 First Half Page 3 21. Orbits 26. Oceans How many times annually is the Earth's orbit at its Which ocean is missing from this list? mean distance from the Sun? Arctic Antarctic Pacific Atlantic

twice Indian 22. War 27. Lights The U.S. Congress declared war upon what country Name the rounded glass housing for the filament of the day after Pearl Harbor was bombed? an incandescent lamp.

Japan bulb 23. Fantasy Animals 28. Governmental Pronouns In the Harry Potter stories, what kind of creatures are To what office does the pronoun refer in this line Fang and Fluffy? from the United States Constitution? He shall have power, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to make treaties, provided two-thirds of the Senators present concur.

dogs president 24. Fields of Science 29. Drawing What scientists study the remaining artifacts of early What black drawing material is composed mainly of civilizations? porous carbon?

archaeologists charcoal 25. Deer 30. Interjections Three main species of deer inhabit western states. The What interjection can be made with the first letters of whitetail are the smallest. The blacktail are larger. the names of the last three states to be admitted to the Name the largest. Union?

mule deer aha 6th Grade Orals Round 10 First Half Page 4 31. State Histories 36. Map Reading What U.S. state was an independent country for about The scale of a map shows that 1 cm equals 15 km. ten years before joining the U.S. in 1845? How far apart are two cities if they are 8 cm apart on the map?

Texas 120 km 32. Syllables 37. Fractions Express as a Roman numeral the number of syllables Convert 27/2 into a fraction with a denominator of 6. in this line. Beethoven was so deaf he wrote very loud music.

XIII 81/6 33. Writers 38. Symbols The Austrian writer Felix Salten gave human emotions What quadruped is the symbol of the Democratic to wild animals in what book about an antlered Party? quadruped?

Bambi donkey 34. Accolades 39. Fairy Tales You just heard an outstanding tenor present an In what story by Hans Christian Andersen is there a incredible live performance. What is the appropriate foolish head of state who squanders all of the Italian word to yell out to express approval and kingdom's money to purchase elaborate garments? appreciation?

bravo The Emperor's New Clothes 35. Reefs 40. Biomes Identify the reef in the Coral Sea just off the What biome is characterized by high daytime Australian coast. temperatures, cold nighttime temperatures, sparse vegetation, little topsoil, and little rainfall?

Great Barrier Reef desert 6th Grade Orals Round 10 First Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Bird Habitats Penguins live in what region?

Antarctic Alt. 2. The University Name the void that exists beyond Earth's atmosphere.

space Alt. 3. The Rock Cycle What kind of rock forms when intense heat and pressure cook and squeeze sedimentary rock beneath the Earth's surface?

metamorphic rock Alt. 4. Writing What writing error is illustrated in this line? Help stamp out and eradicate superfluous redundancy.

redundancy Alt. 5. Sentence Parts What is the simple subject in this line? Here is her ticket to the inaugural ball.

ticket 6th Grade Orals Round 10 Second Half Page 1 1. Nations 6. Education Pays This is about what nation? In 2004, a young, vacationing British girl had studied It is our great Alma Mater, where individuals of what phenomenon in school so that when the ocean all nations are melted into a new one. suddenly receded on an Indonesian beach, she knew to warn her family to get to higher ground immediately?

USA tsunamis 2. Verbs 7. Marine Biology What is the last verb in this ditty? While fish move their tails left and right for Willie, with a thirst for gore, propulsion, what do whales move up and down? Nailed his sister to the door. Mother said, with humor quaint - "Now, Willie dear, don't scratch the paint.

scratch flukes 3. Sensations 8. Plant Growth What sensation other than taste allows people to A plant's dormant period usually occurs during what perceive food flavors? season?

smell winter 4. Coelacanth Weight 9. Sound The head of a coelacanth makes up one fourth of its The frequency of a train whistle seems to do what if weight. One-eighth of its weight is accounted for by the train is traveling away from a listener? the tail. The rest weighs forty pounds. What is the total weight of this fish?

64 pounds decrease 5. Contractions 10. Colonial Period What word in the last line of every stanza of "The What is the collective name or the church workers sent Star-Spangled Banner" is a contraction? from Europe to the American colonies to teach Christianity to Indians?

O'er missionaries 6th Grade Orals Round 10 Second Half Page 2 11. Plant Metaphors 16. Northern Europe What structures in plants could be regarded as the This describes what country? bridges between the food-manufacturing leaves and It is on the Scandinavian Peninsula in northern the raw-material-supplying roots? Europe. Its long, craggy coast forms the western margin of the peninsula and fronts the Atlantic Ocean for most of the nation's length.

stems Norway 12. Mammals 17. Quiet Revolutionaries Name the animal with these features. Mahatma Gandhi led the independence movement in pointed nose what country? ringed bushy tail black facial markings about the size of a cat holds food in its forepaws stout with a long grizzled coat

raccoon India 13. Time 18. Settings If it is 6 a.m., what time will it be in 49 hours? What country is the setting for Lucy Boston's "Green Knowe" stories?

7 a.m. England (Great Britain) 14. Sequels 19. Statistics These are sequels to what story? Five Vogons wrote bad poems containing 81, 63, 120, -The Return of the Indian 92, and 444 verses for an average of how many verses -The Secret of the Indian per work? -The Mystery of the Cupboard -The Key to the Indian

The Indian in the Cupboard 160 15. Ancient Technology 20. War What important invention consisted of a circular frame World War I ended when what nation surrendered? of wood, metal, or other hard substance, either in the form of a solid disk or a rim with spokes radiating from a central hub?

wheel Germany 6th Grade Orals Round 10 Second Half Page 3 21. Rivers 26. Pioneers What term that indicates a tributary of a river also What is another name for prairie schooners? means a secondary woody stem growing from the stem or another limb of a tree?

branch covered wagons (or Conestoga wagons) 22. American Poetry 27. Native Americans In what poem are these words found? What were those American Indians who built their And somewhere men are laughing and apartment-like houses high in the sides of canyon somewhere children shout ... walls called?

Casey at the Bat cliff dwellers 23. Veggie Plurals 28. State Altitudes Spell the plural of "tomato." Delaware, with an average altitude of 60 feet, is the lowest state. With an average altitude of 6,800 feet, which state is the highest?

tomatoes Colorado 24. Headwaters 29. Strings of Letters The headwaters of these rivers are in what mountain With what device are these letters associated? range? q-w-e-r-t-y Canadian, Pecos, Platte, Green, Snake, Rio Grande, Yellowstone

Rocky Mountains (Rockies) keyboard (typewriter) 25. Time 30. Quadruped Characters What time is it along the International Date Line if it is What character created by A.A. Milne falls over every noon along the prime meridian? time he puts one hoof up to his ear so he can hear better?

midnight Eyeore 6th Grade Orals Round 10 Second Half Page 4 31. Adages 36. Science Stories According to the adage, when is it always darkest? Who was sitting under a tree thinking about gravity when, as the story goes, an apple fell on his head?

before the dawn Isaac Newton 32. Fraction Reduction 37. Body Systems Reduce 56/64 to lowest terms. What is the more correct name for the blood system?

7/8 circulatory system 33. Punctuation 38. Space Travel What punctuation mark is used after inverted names in During a mission, what condition routinely causes lists such as these? astronauts to lose as much as four inches in girth and Golding William gain an inch or so in height? Poe Edgar Allan Reagan Ronald

comma weightlessness 34. Continental Shelves 39. Mountains Name the clay-silt-water mixture typical of continental Identify the greatest mountain range in Asia. shelves.

mud Himalayas 35. Faults 40. Lines Name the strike-slip fault that runs about 750 miles What is formed when two straight lines meet? from the Gulf of California to Cape Mendocino.

San Andreas Fault an angle (intersection) 6th Grade Orals Round 10 Second Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Other Bases Express as a binary numeral the number of innings in a baseball game.

1001 Alt. 2. Stories A New York City boy goes to the Catskills to live in the hollow trunk of a hemlock on the abandoned land of his great-grandfather in what story by Jean Craighead George?

My Side of the Mountain Alt. 3. Transportation What distinctive form of land transportation is used by people who travel by kayak, eat muktuk, and wear mukluks?

dogsled Alt. 4. Sentence Transformations Restate this line without an indirect object. Arnold gave me his accent.

Arnold gave his accent to me. Alt. 5. Bent Water After briskly rubbing a comb on a woolen cloth, you hold it next to a narrow stream of water coming from a faucet. What causes the stream to bend toward the comb?

static electricity (ionization) 6th Grade Orals Round 11 First Half Page 1 1. Antagonists 6. Optical Phenomena In "Tuck Everlasting," the antagonist is a man in a suit A lost and badly parched man looks out across the of what color? desert sand and staggers toward what he perceives to be a pool of water. But, as he nears, the pool disappears. What did he see?

yellow a mirage 2. Sculpture 7. Castles What tool used by sculptors consists of a steel cutting What does J.K. Rowling describe as a huge, rambling, edge and a wooden handle which cushions the quite scary-looking castle in a secluded place, with a hammer blow? jumble of towers and battlements?

chisel Hogwarts 3. Shelters 8. Short Stories These are all varieties of what? Name the short story by Frank Stockton which ended yurts, big tops, pavilions, tipis with the protagonist standing in an arena before two doors.

tents The Lady or the Tiger 4. Colonial Inventions 9. Adventure Stories Benjamin Franklin wrote to a friend that he had In "The Swiss Family Robinson," what creature kills become tired of carrying two pairs of spectacles, one the donkey? for reading and the other for distance. What did he invent to eliminate this nuisance?

bifocals boa constrictor (snake) 5. The Great Depression 10. Skin In 1933, a man slammed a fifty-cent piece on a table Name the tiny openings in the skin through which top and said, "You can't carry all the corn that perspiration is released. half-dollar will buy." Since there are 56 pounds in a bushel, and corn was selling at 10 cents a bushel, that coin would have purchased how many pounds of corn?

280 pores 6th Grade Orals Round 11 First Half Page 2 11. U.S. Holidays 16. Dwellings Name the holiday set aside in the U.S. to honor the What is an Eskimo's snow hut called? nation's workers.

Labor Day igloo 12. Trilogies 17. Territorial Acquisition These three works comprise what trilogy? What country ceded California and New Mexico to the The Amulet of Samarkand United States? The Golem's Eye Ptolemy's Gate

The Bartimaeus Trilogy Mexico 13. Strange Titles 18. River Explorers What is the whole title of this book from which all Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle led an punctuation and vowels have been stripped? exploration in the vicinity of what river? -l-c--nw-nd-rl-nd

Alice in Wonderland Mississippi 14. Book Math 19. Congress What pages in a book should you open to if you are New York has how many more senators in the U.S. told to find facing pages whose page number sum is Senate than Alaska? 83?

41 and 42 no more 15. Roman Numerals 20. The Flag While MC equals 1100, CM equals what? On the U.S. flag, there are seven red stripes and how many white stripes?

900 six 6th Grade Orals Round 11 First Half Page 3 21. Land Features 26. Percentage Conversion From an aerial photograph, it appears that there is a Convert 16% to a common fraction reduced to lowest jog in a fenceline, a jog in a streambed, and that about terms. half of an orchard does not line up with the other half. What underlies these areas?

a fault 4/25 22. Maps 27. Tornadoes What part of a map might tell you that a capital city is In Tornado Alley, cold dry air from Canada and the represented by a red square, a major city by a small Rockies meets warm moist air from what body of red circle, an especially high mountain by a black water to the south? triangle, and a national border by a narrow red line?

key (legend) Gulf of Mexico 23. Horsemanship 28. Military Groups Name the metal mouthpiece on a horse's bridle What is the name for a horseback-mounted military connected to the reins. unit used extensively after the Civil War against Indians?

bit cavalry 24. Waste 29. Symbols Each New Yorker averages 730 kilograms of solid What American national symbol was taken off the waste per year. To the nearest whole number, this endangered species list in 1999? amounts to how much per day?

2 kg bald eagle 25. Fractions 30. Early Farms Express the numbers 1/2 and 2/3 as fractions with a Most crops of the southern American colonies were common denominator of 18. grown on large private farms called what?

9/18, 12/18 plantations 6th Grade Orals Round 11 First Half Page 4 31. Conflicts 36. Mammals In 1806, Charles Dickinson and Andrew Jackson Identify the deer that inhabit the far northern regions stood back to back. Then each walked ten paces, of Europe and Asia. turned, and fired their pistols. Dickinson lay dead. Name this type of fight.

duel reindeer 32. Freestanding Art 37. Ships Name the sculpture which expresses the scope of What was the means of propulsion for the Cutty Sark, individual freedoms enjoyed by U.S. citizens. the Golden Hind, and the U.S.S. Constitution?

Statue of Liberty wind (sails) 33. Special Days 38. Body Tissues Celebration of Decoration Day began after the Civil Tendons connect what to bones? War. It was so named because families went to graveyards and placed flags, flowers, and wreaths on the graves of deceased soldiers. Today, this holiday is known as ..

Memorial Day muscles 34. Art 39. Longitudes These lines are about what art form? Through what continent do these lines of longitude -Significant details, illuminated in a flash, run? fixed forever 140 degrees west -An art which isolates single moments for all 90 degrees east time 20 degrees west -A way of drawing in one twenty-fifth of a 160 degrees east second when we press the button

photography Antarctica 35. Seas 40. Transportation What sea lies between the Greater Antilles, Central By 1860, more than 1000 big boats plied the America, and South America? Mississippi carrying freight and passengers. What kind of vessels were these?

Caribbean steamboats (paddle wheelers, stern wheelers) 6th Grade Orals Round 11 First Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Orchestras What is the title of the person in an orchestra who uses a baton?

conductor Alt. 2. Space Beyond our Milky Way are countless huge aggregations of stars known as what?

galaxies Alt. 3. Demonyms Memphians and Nashvillians live in what state?

Tennessee Alt. 4. Population Places The first U.S. census conducted in 1790 found the population to be about four million, but only three percent of those lived in the country's largest cities. How many lived outside those cities?

3,880,000 Alt. 5. Musicals These are lyrics from a song in what musical? I'm gonna be a mighty king So enemies beware! Well, I've never seen a king of beasts With quite so little hair I'm gonna be the mane event Like no king was before I'm brushing up on looking down I'm working on my ROAR. The Lion King 6th Grade Orals Round 11 Second Half Page 1 1. Anatomy 6. Multiple Meanings The soft parts of an animal's body are supported by What term can mean either a law passed by Congress what body system? or a subdivision of a play?

skeletal system act 2. Symbols 7. Pronouns What is the internationally recognized symbol for Although you can't tell it by the sentence, what is the medical installations or medical personnel? antecedent of the pronoun "it" in this actual announcement about an outfield play? Winfield goes back to the wall. He hits his head on the wall, and it bounces off. It's rolling all the way back toward second base!

red cross (red crescent) the baseball (the ball) 3. Revolutionary Thoughts 8. Relationships Thomas Paine was referring to what island at the end What is the relationship of the son to the speaker in of this passage? this couplet? Small islands not capable of protecting Brothers and sisters have I none, themselves, are the proper objects for but this man is my father's son. kingdoms to take under their care. But there is something very absurd in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island.

Great Britain (England) same person 4. Rosters 9. Military Songs What is the set of missing numbers in this set? This is a verse from what military song? {1, 3, 5, 7, ... 15, 17, 19} Day is done Gone the sun From the lakes From the hills From the skies. All is well Safely rest God is nigh. {9, 11, 13) Taps 5. Bats 10. Chez George What kind of bat feeds by making a shallow wound, George Washington spent his final days on what usually on horses or cows, and then licking the blood? estate?

vampire bat Mt. Vernon 6th Grade Orals Round 11 Second Half Page 2 11. Daily Cycles 16. National Symbols Between sunset and dusk is what period? What country is noted for windmills?

twilight Netherlands (Holland) 12. Descriptions 17. Matter Adjectives What did the person never do who Shakespeare What adjective describes a solid material full of small described with this line? holes through which fluids may pass? He hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book.

read porous (permeable) 13. Ranching 18. Reflexes With what tool do cowboys burn symbols such as "the Name the reflex involving deep inhalation and Lazy J" or "the Flying W" on cattle? exhalation associated with being tired or boredom.

branding iron yawning 14. Fraction Reduction 19. Remarks Reduce 315/390. This line by Frederick Douglass is about what practice? No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.

21/26 slavery 15. Exploration 20. Capitals What is the term for an exploration or journey What is the only U.S. state capital city whose name undertaken by an organized group of people having a consists of three words? definite objective?

expedition Salt Lake City 6th Grade Orals Round 11 Second Half Page 3 21. Planets 26. Forces The Great Red Spot is on which planet? What force on the Moon is only one-sixth as strong as that force on Earth?

Jupiter gravity 22. Astronomy History 27. Consecutive Numbers Aristarchus of Samos of the third century B.C. is The sum of what two consecutive integers is 123? believed to have been first to maintain that the Earth revolves around the Sun. He also is said to have deduced that night and day are caused by what?

Earth's rotation 61, 62 23. Resistance 28. Symphony Orchestras The Sons of Liberty are best known for what act of About two-thirds of the chairs in a symphony defiance in Massachusetts? orchestra belong to what family of instruments?

Boston Tea Party strings 24. Fairy Tales 29. National Parks She saved her father's life by putting herself in the Name the national park in Southwest Colorado that power of a frightful but kind-hearted beast. Despite highlights early cliff dwellers. his hideousness she consented to marry him which freed him from a spell. Name the young girl.

Beauty Mesa Verde 25. Music 30. Poles Leading a group of musical performers is called what? Name the decorated pole around which people dance to celebrate the fifth month.

conducting maypole 6th Grade Orals Round 11 Second Half Page 4 31. Silly Poems 36. References What form of wordplay is used in this verse? Name the words that appear at the top of each page in Runny had to take a bath a reference work to indicate the first or last entry on Before they'd sive him gupper. the page. He got so tungry in the hub, He ate the rat of mubber. He chewed his dubber rucky up, He gulped boap subbles, too. But what upset his mamma most Was shrinking the dampoo. spoonerism guidewords (headwords) 32. Oceans 37. Space Debris What ocean fills nearly a complete hemisphere of the What is the term for a chunk of space material that Earth's surface? collides with the Earth's surface?

Pacific meteorite 33. Happy Songs 38. Professions According to the lyrics of the song, what three things Professionally, these people were all what? should you do "if you're happy and you know it?" Kenneth Grahame Beatrix Potter L. Frank Baum Louisa May Alcott Washington Irving A.A. Milne

clap your hands, stomp your feet, shout hurray authors 34. Americans 39. Torture Noah Webster lived from 1758 to 1843, fought in the This is from what kind of reference? Revolutionary War, and is mostly remembered for torture - the infliction of pain on one held compiling what reference book? captive to obtain information. Something intensely annoying. To twist into an abnormal form.

dictionary dictionary (glossary) 35. Stimulants 40. Tall Tale Poetry What is the stimulating substance in tea, chocolate, and What proper noun completes this verse? coffee? He came, striding over the mountain, the moon slung on his back, like a pack, a great pine stuck on his shoulder swayed as he walked, as he talked, to his blue ox ...

caffeine Babe 6th Grade Orals Round 11 Second Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Big Bad Giants What word completes this line from a fairy tale? Fee-fi-fo-fum. I small the blood of an Englishman. Be he alive, or be he dead I'll grind his bones to make my ...

bread Alt. 2. Protagonists What kind of creature is the protagonist in the story, "Stuart Little"?

mouse Alt. 3. The Western Hemisphere Mexico, Central America, and South America are collectively referred to as Latin America because most of the region's people speak either of what two languages that developed from Latin?

Spanish, Portuguese Alt. 4. Technology History In 1926, it flew for just 2.5 seconds, went 184 feet, achieved a maximum speed of 60 miles per hour, and attained a maximum height of 41 feet. Robert Goddard described it as "almost magical as it rose." What kind of device was it?

rocket (liquid-fuel rocket) Alt. 5. Hearing Preservation To maintain your hearing, a good rule is to avoid noises that are too loud, too close, or that last how?

too long 6th Grade Orals Round 12 First Half Page 1 1. Music 6. Integer Addition How many notes are in three octaves? 128 is the sum of what two consecutive odd integers?

22 63, 65 2. Fraction Conversion 7. Regions in the U.S. Convert 1/6 to a percent. What marshland covers more than 5000 square miles and stretches from Lake Okeechobee to the tip of the Florida Peninsula?

16 2/3% Everglades 3. Astronomical Photographs 8. Word Discrimination This information accompanied a photo of what What is the last meaning of the word used four times heavenly body taken in 2005? in this sentence? Note the dark markings across the disk, the You can bank on his banking at the bank on tiny south polar cap at the bottom, and the the west bank of the river. bluish north polar hood of clouds at the top.

Mars shore (border, edge) 4. Animal Poetry 9. Thrust Technology What creature was Lewis Carroll writing about in this What type of fan used on watercraft and airplanes verse? transforms rotary motion into thrust? How cheerfully he seems to grin! How neatly spreads his claws, And welcomes little fishes in With gently smiling jaws!

crocodile propeller 5. The Earth's Interior 10. Massive Accumulations The Earth's inner core has the shape of what What massive bodies develop any place in the world three-dimensional geometric figure? where, over a period of years, more snow accumulates than melts away?

sphere glaciers 6th Grade Orals Round 12 First Half Page 2 11. Reflex Reactions 16. Agriculture Vocabulary If your body becomes cold, your muscles will begin A plot of land devoted to the growth of peaches is an to quickly contract and relax to help generate heat, a orchard. What plot of land is devoted to grape reaction called ... growing?

shivering vineyard 12. Respiration 17. Sets What is the primary respiratory organ of sharks? Identify the elements of the set of fractions with numerators of 1 and whose denominators are whole numbers between 1 and 5.

gill 1/2, 1/3, 1/4 13. Books 18. Poems These are titles of books about what form of What happened to Solomon Grundy on Sunday? entertainment? The Real Tom Thumb 50 Nifty Ways to Paint Your Face P.T. Barnum Under the Big Top

circus He was buried. 14. Waterfowl 19. Piggy Bank Problems What kind of male duck has a bright green head? You have $5 worth of nickels, dimes, and quarters. If you have 3 quarters and 11 nickels, how many dimes do you have?

mallard 37 15. Religion 20. Devices in Science People of what faith worship in synagogues? A coffee maker uses a special paper that allows water but not grounds to go through it. Some cameras have special lenses that only allow certain colors to pass through. In both cases, this device is called a what?

Jewish filter 6th Grade Orals Round 12 First Half Page 3 21. Wheels 26. Coined Words Name the rods that connect the rim and hub of a What words were combined to make the coined word wheel. "fantabulous"?

spokes fantastic, fabulous 22. Sequential Math 27. Historical Population Movements Multiply the sum of 1/4 and 1/2 by 100. Multiply that People who leave their homelands and come to a new product by 2, divide that product by 30, and multiply country to make a new home there are known as that quotient by 1/2. what?

2 1/2 (or 2.5 or 3/2) immigrants 23. Vocabulary 28. Swine Stories What is the term for words with the same or nearly the This is from what story? same meaning such as "sufficient" and "enough"? "Homer!" she cried. "Pig's out! Lurvy! Pig's out! Homer! Lurvy! Pig's out. He's down there under that apple tree." "Now the trouble starts," thought Wilber. "Now I'll catch it."

synonyms (synonymous) Charlotte's Web 24. Cartography 29. Ocean Waves On a U.S. map, for what does the common What is the term for a wave that suddenly collapses as abbreviation stand in relation to these sites? it approaches the shoreline? Wind Cave N.P. Mesa Verde N.P. Kings Canyon N.P. Everglades N.P.

National Park breaker 25. International Debuts 30. Engines This is about what country? What device produces an electrical arc in internal This newcomer to the society of nations made combustion engines? its debut on April 30, 1789.

United States spark plug 6th Grade Orals Round 12 First Half Page 4 31. Plant Poems 36. Insect Morals This is about what fruit? What two insects are associated with the fable of Aesop Green Buddhas which ends with this moral? On the fruit stand. It is best to prepare for the days of necessity. We eat the smile And spit out the teeth.

watermelons ant, grasshopper 32. Planets 37. Teeth What is the Earth's period of revolution? Name the broad, multicusped back teeth.

1 year (365 days) molars 33. Emissions 38. Plurals If burning one gallon of gas produces about 20 What is the last word in this ditty? pounds of carbon dioxide, how many pounds of We'll begin with box, the plural is boxes, carbon dioxide are produced by a vehicle getting 20 But the plural of ox is oxen, not oxes. miles per gallon on a 200-mile trip? One fowl is a goose, two are called geese, Yet the plural of moose is never ...

200 meese 34. U.S. Government 39. Precipitation Ultimate judicial power in the United States is held by What form of precipitation can be as large as what body? softballs?

Supreme Court hail 35. U.S. Energy 40. Maritime Vocabulary In the U.S., fossil fuels account for what percentage of In naval parlance, what is a synonym for an armada? energy use if 9.5% of the energy used is hydroelectric, 19% is nuclear, and 1% is from all other sources such as solar energy, wind power, and geothermal energy?

70.5% (or 71%) fleet 6th Grade Orals Round 12 First Half Page 5 Alt. 1. A.A. Milne The mother kangaroo in the Winnie-the-Pooh stories is Kanga. Name her baby.

Roo Alt. 2. Trials What is the collective term for any type of legal proof presented at trial through witnesses, records, and exhibits?

evidence Alt. 3. Regional Books These are titles of books about what state? Moke and Poki in the Rain Forest Call Him Lau-Wiliwili-Humuhumu-Nukunuku How Maui Slowed the Sun Honu

Hawaii Alt. 4. Circles What point is equidistant from every point on a circle?

center Alt. 5. Insects Many pupating insects protect themselves from danger by spinning what structures made of silk?

cocoons 6th Grade Orals Round 12 Second Half Page 1 1. Astronomical Objects 6. Uncle Remus The tail of what heavenly object can be up to 250 Stories by Joel Chandler Harris feature Br'er Rabbit. million kilometers long? "Br'er" is a short form of what word?

comet brother 2. Philately 7. Verbosity In 1902, the first U.S. stamp to commemorate a Department of Agriculture regulations on cabbage woman was released. It featured an image of sales consist of 27,000 words. How many times America's first First Lady. Name her. greater is this than the 180 words in the Ten Commandments?

Martha Washington 150 3. Mountain Life 8. Sidekicks The point where alpine shrubs, mosses, and bare rock Samwise Gamgee was whose sidekick? replace trees on a high mountain is called what line?

timberline Frodo's (Frodo Baggins') 4. Stories 9. Colonial America Who is the central character in the story from which Of the colonies that joined to form the United States this line was taken? in 1776, how many were British? The more he looked inside, the more Piglet wasn't there.

Winnie the Pooh 13 (All of them.) 5. Rain 10. Uniforms What is the meteorological term for frozen raindrops? What color is associated with the uniforms of the soldiers who sang the following song? I wish I was in the land of cotton Old times there are not forgotten ...

sleet gray 6th Grade Orals Round 12 Second Half Page 2 11. Big Meat Eaters 16. Cold Stuff Native to Arctic regions, name the largest land Because it looks like ice but does not turn into a liquid carnivore. when it melts, frozen carbon dioxide is called what?

polar bear dry ice 12. Stories 17. Animal Tales This is a summary of what part of a story? Name the creature that Rudyard Kipling described in Ishmael boards a whaling ship. It's neurotic these words. captain wants to find a white whale. The He was rather like a little cat in his fur and his whale sinks the ship and everyone dies except tail, but quite like a weasel in his head and his Ishmael. habits. His eyes and the end of his restless nose were pink. He could scratch himself anywhere he pleased, with any leg, front or back.

plot Rikki-tikki-tavi (mongoose) 13. Art Forms 18. The Moon Name the art of making pottery and other products At any given phase, what percentage of the Moon's from clay and hardening these objects with heat. surface is not in sunlight?

ceramics 50% 14. Wounds 19. Magnets Name the mark resulting from the biologic process of What term indicates either end of a magnet? wound repair in the skin.

scar pole 15. Temperature Variations 20. Prefixes In two hours in January of 1911, the temperature in What does the prefix mean in these words? Rapid City, South Dakota, dropped from 49 degrees F maladjustment to -13 degrees F, a drop of how many degrees? malapropism malfeasance malnourished malpractice malocclusion

62 bad (or wrong) 6th Grade Orals Round 12 Second Half Page 3 21. Ratios 26. Military Money Matters If the ratio of Venusians to Martians in a flying teapot An attack jet and a tank cost $40 million. If the jet is 2 to 3 and there are 36 Martians, how many costs $30 million more than the tank, what is the cost Venusians are there? of the tank?

24 $5 million 22. Moisture 27. Travel Problems What is the term for moisture that condenses on the How long would take you to travel 180 miles if you surfaces of objects left outside overnight? average 45 miles per hour?

dew (frost) 4 hours 23. Percent 28. Gems 1/5 percent of 40 equals what? The gemstone variety of emerald is what color?

.08 green 24. Hemispheres 29. Ceremonial Attire The U.S. is in which hemisphere? A ceremonial headdress used by some North American Plains Indians and consisting of a band and a trailing extension decorated with erect feathers is called a war what?

Western (Northern) bonnet 25. Averages 30. Poetry What is the average amount in the four teachers' This is about what animal? pockets? So he sits with his long, lean face to the sky Mr. Winklemeyer - $ 7.40 Watching the ragged clouds go by. Miss Naggy - $11.35 There in the night, alone, apart, Mr. Giardina - $ 3.25 Singing the song of his love, wild heart. Mrs. Kossoff - $18.00

$10 wolf 6th Grade Orals Round 12 Second Half Page 4 31. Fractions 36. Safety Measures Simplify 8/12. When flooding is expected, what kind of containers are filled with tiny rock particles and piled on river banks?

2/3 sandbags 32. Pie Portions 37. Health Practices Bo and Bubba had a pie divided into 48 pieces. Tipping the head back and holding a fluid such as Bubba ate 32 pieces while Bo downed 8 pieces. In saltwater at the back of the throat while agitating it by simplest terms, what fraction of the pie was uneaten? the expiration of air is called what?

1/6 gargling 33. Modifiers 38. Aviation Math What part of speech should you use if you want to In 1924, U.S. Army aviators completed their modify an adjective? 26,000-mile flight around the world. The trip took 175 days, with the actual flying time amounting to just over 350 hours. To the nearest mile per hour, what was their average flight speed?

adverb 74 mph 34. Namesakes 39. Adverbs Which day of the week was named after Tyr, a Norse What is the first adverb in "The Star Spangled god of war? Banner"?

Tuesday so 35. Pollution 40. Stories Approximately fifty percent of the toxic mercury in What kind of factory is in the title of a tale by Roald landfills comes from the two billion household Dahl that begins with this line? electrical storage devices thrown away annually. These two very old people are the father and Name those devices. mother of Mr. Bucket.

batteries chocolate factory 6th Grade Orals Round 12 Second Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Numbers What number is greater than 275, less than 325, a multiple of 5, and evenly divisible by both 3 and 9?

315 Alt. 2. Painting What term reminiscent of an article of clothing indicates a single application of paint on a surface?

coat Alt. 3. Unusual Poetry What is the only vowel not used in this stanza? Bold Nassan quits his caravan, A hazy mountain grot to scan; Climbs craggy rocks to spy his way, Doth tax his sight, but far doth stray.

e. Alt. 4. Insect Analogies Fly is to maggot as moth is to what?

caterpillar Alt. 5. Insects Insects' antennae are attached to which of the three main divisions of their bodies?

head 6th Grade Orals Round 13 First Half Page 1 1. Beasts of Burden 6. Lofty Monocots What creatures especially able to tolerate water loss What tropical and subtropical trees are distinguished carried Marco Polo's provisions through Armenia into by a large cluster of compound, evergreen leaves at Persia, through Afghanistan, the Gobi Desert, and the top of an unbranched stem? China?

camels palm 2. Vessels 7. Division of Fractions Name the large, square-ended, flat-bottomed Divide the sum of 3/4 and 1/2 by the product of 2 and watercraft of the 1800s used to float freight on the 1 1/4. Ohio and Mississippi Rivers and steered with long oars or sweeps.

flatboats 1/2 3. Provinces 8. Historical Typos Name the westernmost Canadian province. What name is misspelled in this statement pulled from an American history textbook? The Little Bighorn was the scene of General Ouster's last stand.

British Columbia Custer's 4. Speleology 9. Sets Which of the two primary formations in limestone What is the intersection of these sets of U.S. caves have rounded tops? presidents? {Harding, Polk, Reagan, Jefferson, Carter} and {Lincoln, Adams, Carter, Truman, Polk}

stalagmites {Carter, Polk} 5. American Tales 10. Articles This is from what American short story? The article "a" should be used before words beginning On mounting a rising ground, which brought the with a consonant sound. The article "an" should be figure of his fellow traveler in relief against used before words beginning with what sound? the sky, gigantic in height, and muffled in a cloak, Ichabod was horror-struck on perceiving that he was headless!

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow vowel sound 6th Grade Orals Round 13 First Half Page 2 11. Mountains 16. Vaporization What tall volcanic mountain in Oregon has a name What is the common term for the rapid vaporization reminiscent of a loose pliable covering for the head of a liquid resulting from the application of heat? and neck attached to a robe or jacket?

Mt. Hood boiling 12. Sports Math 17. Musical Instruments What is the cube of the players from one team on the In which of the two main categories of wind field at any given time during the Superbowl? instruments must the player's lips vibrate to cause the air within the instrument to vibrate?

1331 brass 13. Probability 18. Old West Practices What are the chances of drawing a jack from a What was the collective name for these symbols in the shuffled deck of cards? Old West? Bar J Circle T V Hanging S Reverse R Lazy W

1 in 13 (or 1/13) brands 14. Legends 19. Proportions What country was supposedly saved by a finger in a There are nine albatross eggs in two pounds. Three wall? dozen albatross eggs weigh how much?

Holland (Netherlands) 8 pounds 15. Ratios 20. Mathematical Synonyms Simplify the ratio, 3 to 24. What is the term for a member of a set?

1 to 8 element 6th Grade Orals Round 13 First Half Page 3 21. 17th-Century Navigators 26. Fantasies Who on his final voyage reached the great Canadian In what book by Robert Lawson does Amos, the oldest bay named for him? in a large family of poor church mice, venture out into the world and find a warm refuge in the lining of Ben Franklin's fur cap?

Henry Hudson Ben and Me 22. Slang 27. Percentage What slang expression used as an expression of What is the percentage of peanuts in a can containing delight also indicates a link of wienerwurst? these nuts? 40 peanuts 36 cashews 64 almonds 20 pecans

hot dog 25% 23. Animals 28. Poems These are varieties of what kind of animals? What word comes next in this verse? Tamworth It was six men of Indostan Hampshire To learning much inclined, Chester White Who went to see the Elephant Victoria Though all of them were ...

pigs (hogs) blind 24. Power Plants 29. Inventions Most power plants use heat from burning a fossil fuel What did Benjamin Franklin call his invention to produce what gaseous substance that turns the described as a protective device consisting of a turbines that generate electricity? seven-foot pole and a steel tip?

steam lightning rod 25. Wicked Women 30. Perimeters In the story by Dodie Smith, Cruella de Vil kidnaps What is the term for the perimeter of a lake? what kind of puppies for their fur?

dalmatians shoreline (shore) 6th Grade Orals Round 13 First Half Page 4 31. Art Forms 36. Special Facilities This is a quotation by Michelangelo about what kind What kind of facility has control towers, terminals, and of artist? hangars? The best artist has that thought alone which is contained within the marble shell. His hand can only break the spell to free the figures slumbering in the stone.

sculptor airport 32. Officials 37. Boats What is the title of the elected chief executive of a U.S. Name the long, thin flotation device positioned rigidly state? and parallel to the main hull of a boat that makes it less likely to capsize.

governor outrigger 33. Disasters 38. Adventure Stories What was the nationality of most of the victims of the What book written and illustrated by William Steig Vesuvius eruption in the year 79? recounts the harrowing adventures of a mouse named Abel who, in the midst of a picnic, is swept away from his beloved bride by a sudden storm to an uninhabited island?

Roman Abel's Island 34. American Leaders 39. Tales After his father's death in 1743, who lived at Mount Fairy tales begin with what four words? Vernon working as a surveyor?

George Washington once upon a time 35. Children's Literature 40. Emancipation What fictional character said this? Emancipation indicates the granting of what? I am a bear of very little brain, and long words bother me.

Winnie-the-Pooh freedom (liberty) 6th Grade Orals Round 13 First Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Art Forms What art form completes this quote by Thomas Stoppard? It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it, it's a ...

sculpture Alt. 2. Early Explorations The first Europeans to set foot in the Americas came ashore in what present-day country?

Canada Alt. 3. Military Jargon A violent, forceful, rushing attack by troops upon the enemy is called a what?

charge Alt. 4. Folksong Relationships According to the folksong, whose father was a "miner forty-niner"?

Clementine Alt. 5. Explorers Vasco Balboa was the first European to see what body of water?

Pacific Ocean 6th Grade Orals Round 13 Second Half Page 1 1. Creatures to Avoid 6. Records What kind of reptiles are the massasauga, copperhead, Name the written record of the proceedings of an cottonmouth, and sidewinder? official meeting.

snakes (vipers) minutes 2. Nonfiction 7. Quail Harold and Doris Faber's work, "We the People," is What is a group of quail called? about what historical document?

the Constitution covey 3. Suffixes 8. Exponents What is the common suffix which means "the science What is the square of 28? or study of"?

logy 784 4. Conquistadors 9. Syllabication The capture and execution of Atahualpa by what What is the last trisyllabic word in the Pledge of conquistador secured Incan lands for the Spanish Allegiance? monarchy?

Francisco Pizarro liberty 5. Respiration 10. Nautical Vocabulary Most of the air we breathe consists of what gas? Name the device suspended below the hull of a ship by which a vessel may be turned.

nitrogen rudder 6th Grade Orals Round 13 Second Half Page 2 11. Word Derivations 16. Musicals What common English word was derived from the These are songs from what musical? Latin phrase, "mille passum," which meant "one Let's Go Fly a Kite thousand paces"? Jolly Holiday

mile Mary Poppins 12. Seasonal Poetry 17. History of Science What season is described in these words by Emily In scientific legend, with what fruit is Isaac Newton Dickinson? associated? The morns are meeker than they were, The nuts are getting brown, The berry's cheek is plumper, The Rose is out of town.

fall (autumn) apple 13. Cost Problems 18. History of Math What is the cost of 5 kilograms of used banana skins This ancient device was a predecessor of the modern at $.02 per gram? calculating machine and is still widely used in Japan and China. Name this device consisting of a set of beads on rods in which the rods denotes place value.

$100 abacus (counting frame) 14. Sounds 19. Energy Some medical journals describe the sound of what What is the term for anything that can be burned to organ as "lubb-dupp"? produce energy?

heart fuel 15. Petrology 20. Arguments Igneous rocks have cooled from material in what The arguments for and against an issue are called the state? pros and what?

molten (melted, liquid, fluid) cons 6th Grade Orals Round 13 Second Half Page 3 21. State Names 26. Latitudes What U.S. state has a name that originally meant What is the latitude of the point at the antipode of the "Indian ground" or "land of the Indians"? North Pole?

Indiana 90 degrees south 22. Memorials 27. Offenses This verse is about what U.S. national memorial? What is robbery committed at sea called? High atop a mountain peak Among the Black Hills pine Four stone faces grace the sky A monumental shrine.

Mt. Rushmore piracy 23. Astronomical Age Problems 28. Weather If the Earth is 4.7 billion years old, and it came into What is the collective name for any form of violent, being 13.3 billion years after the birth of the universe, severe weather? how old is the universe?

18 billion years storm 24. Letter Sounds 29. 17th-Century Scientific Advances The short "y" has the same sound as the short sound This is about whom? of what other vowel? By modern standards, his instrument was only a small one, but it allowed him to see more of the heavens than anyone had ever seen including lunar mountains and rings around Saturn.

i. Galileo 25. Ancient Architecture 30. Respiration What city are you visiting if you can stand on your Crustaceans, mollusks, fish, and young amphibians hotel balcony and see the Erechtheum and the have what organs that obtain dissolved oxygen from Parthenon? water?

Athens gills 6th Grade Orals Round 13 Second Half Page 4 31. Stories 36. Drainage Basins This is from a version of what story? Water from about 47% of all land in the world drains If you should ever feel tempted to try a piece into what ocean? of magic on your own, remember that stopping a spell is just as important as starting one, and sometimes more important, as the unfortunate apprentice found out.

The Sorcerer's Apprentice Atlantic 32. Political Subdivisions 37. American Stories Major political subdivisions in the U.S. are states while The book, "Jump! The Adventures of Br'er Rabbit," is those of Canada are called what? a retelling of the stories of Uncle who?

provinces Remus 33. Nonfiction 38. Landforms From its title, you can surmise that the book, "Thar Italy, Denmark, Bataan, the Balkan, and the Yucatan She Blows," is about what former industry? are examples of what landform?

whaling peninsulas 34. The Constitution 39. Decapods What was added to the Constitution in 1791 after What ten-legged marine crustacean walks sideways? opponents of the Constitution convinced the nation that a strong, central government without safeguards for the people was a danger to liberty?

Bill of Rights (1st 10 amendments) crab 35. Multiples 40. Zoology If X is a multiple of 3, is even, and is greater than 40, The world's largest warm-blooded animal is the blue what is the smallest value it can have? what?

42 whale 6th Grade Orals Round 13 Second Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Change of State What is the opposite of evaporation?

condensation Alt. 2. Seeking Office Millicent Mobry and Stan Slaminski are running for county assessor. Any such people seeking public office are called what?

candidates Alt. 3. Joints Functioning simultaneously as a hinge, lever, and shock absorber, what joint is key to your ability to stand up, walk, climb, and kick?

knee Alt. 4. The Middle Ages The soldiers served by squires during the Middle Ages were known as what?

knights Alt. 5. Body Temperature What is the term for an abnormally high body temperature?

fever 6th Grade Orals Round 14 First Half Page 1 1. Industrial Facilities 6. First Aid What is the shared name for the facilities in which The victim's blood is bright red and gushing forth in these very different processes occur? spurts synchronized with his pulse. The victim is -crude oil is turned into fuel and lubricants bleeding from what kind of vessel? -sea water is removed from salt -sugar cane is converted to crystallized sugar

refineries artery 2. Business Schemes 7. Democratic Roots In Jack London's story, "The One Thousand Dozen," This is about what country? the central character plans to sell one thousand dozen The land where democracy was conceived in eggs in Dawson for five dollars per dozen and thereby the fifth century B.C. has periodically suffered gross how much money? the loss and welcomed the rebirth of freedom.

$5000 Greece 3. Ocean Math 8. Idioms What is the total area of the oceans if the Pacific is 64 Someone who begins very poor and becomes wealthy million square miles, the Atlantic is 31 million square goes from rags to what? miles, the Indian is 28 million square miles, and the Arctic is about 4.6 million square miles?

127.6 million square miles riches 4. Parallel Thinking 9. Songs Ben Franklin advised that every morning, one should What, according to the song, was too large for the ask oneself this question: "What good shall I do this shelf so it stood ninety years on the floor? day." He also advised that every evening, one should ask what other related question?

What good have I done today? my grandfather's clock 5. Stock Phrases 10. Careers in the Arts What word completes these phrases? What occupation in the arts is concisely described as bear in ... "pretending to be someone else"? bring to ... change your ... cross your ... go out of your ...

mind acting (actor) 6th Grade Orals Round 14 First Half Page 2 11. The Senate 16. Construction Before Hawaii and Alaska were admitted as states, how Name the flat metal disk placed beneath a bolt head or many members were there in the Senate? nut to help distribute the pressure and secure the fastener.

96 washer 12. Nationalities 17. Metals What was the nationality of the explorers who What light metal that does not rust is used in airplanes, conquered the Aztecs? foil, and drinking cans?

Spanish aluminum 13. Spoonerisms 18. Additive Words "Toast gown" is a spoonerism for what kind of These clues lead to what word? abandoned community? Add an evergreen tree to s. Often mine needs stiffening.

ghost town spine 14. Scientific Swingers 19. Vocabulary What is the term for a suspended weight that swings What term has these meanings? back and forth in a regular periodic motion? -to let out air or fumes -to drain or empty -to use up or expend -to wear out or tire completely

pendulum exhaust 15. Transportation 20. Agricultural Innovations What type of watercraft is associated with Eskimos? What device in use as early as the seventh century agitates milk cream until it becomes butter?

kayak (umiak) churn 6th Grade Orals Round 14 First Half Page 3 21. The Sun 26. Light During what relatively rare, periodic natural Name the phenomenon of light bouncing off a phenomenon is the Sun's corona most visible to the surface. naked eye?

total eclipse reflection 22. Tall Tales 27. Myths Paul Bunyan first saw him writing figures on a People of what ancient empire replaced the name Zeus limestone bluff with a pencil the size of a tree. Paul with Jupiter and that of Athena with Minerva? hired this giant to keep his accounts, and thus, he became the world's first bookkeeper. Name him.

Johnny Inkslinger Roman Empire 23. Zoology 28. Historical Incidents A muskellunge is what kind of creature? In 1773, Boston townspeople dumped 342 chests of what into the harbor?

fish (or pike) tea 24. Speed 29. Grimm's Stories The Concorde SST traveled about 1400 miles per This predicament occurs in what fairy tale? hour while the velocity needed to put a rocket into So the poor miller's daughter sat down, and orbit around Earth is 17,500 miles per hour. How didn't know what in the world she was to do. many times faster would the SST had to have traveled She hadn't the least idea of how to spin straw to go into orbit? into gold.

12.5 Rumpelstiltskin 25. Poetry 30. Flight Math This is from a Robert Louis Stevenson poem about When Amelia Earhart disappeared during her attempt what phenomenon? to fly around the world in 1937, she had completed The funniest thing about him is the way he 22,000 miles of her 27,000 mile journey. To the likes to grow / Not at all like proper children, nearest tenth, what part of her journey did she not which is always very slow / For he sometimes complete? shoots up taller like an India-rubber ball, / And he sometimes gets so little that there's none of him at all.

a shadow (his shadow) .2 (or 18.5%) 6th Grade Orals Round 14 First Half Page 4 31. Fairy Tales 36. Money Problems This is a line by the heroine of what fairy tale? If you and your little brother saved a total of $120, Let me see if it will not fit me. but your savings are four times that of his, how much did you save?

Cinderella $96 32. Other People's Words 37. Energy Measurement What verb means to repeat exactly the words of The energy value of a food is measured in what units? another and to give proper acknowledgment of the source?

quote calories 33. Weather Warnings 38. Voyages What kind of meteorological warning is usually issued At the same time that Christopher Columbus took when the surface temperature is expected to drop command of the Santa Maria, Martin Pinzon took below 32 degrees F during the growing season? command of the Pinta, and Vicente Pinzon took command of what other vessel?

freeze (frost) warning Nina 34. Border States 39. Law Of the U.S. states bordering Canada, which two have What is the term for the basic written system of laws five letters in their names? for an organization, a state, or a country?

Maine, Idaho constitution 35. Truths 40. Newbery Honor Books What is the first "self-evident truth" in the Declaration In a story by Eleanor Estes, Wanda Petronski is a little of Independence? Polish girl who claims she has one hundred articles of what kind of clothing?

that all men are created equal dresses 6th Grade Orals Round 14 First Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Story Starters What story by Beatrix Potter begins with this? Once upon a time, there were four little rabbits, and their names were Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.

The Tale of Peter Rabbit Alt. 2. Foot Vocabulary The hallux is the innermost of the five digits composing the hind foot of a vertebrate. In humans, what is the common name for this body part?

big toe Alt. 3. Singers What is the total number of vocalists in four trios, two quartets, and five soloists?

25 Alt. 4. Compasses Which is first on an alphabetical list of cardinal points on a compass?

east Alt. 5. Natural Substances What material derived from sheep fat was widely used in candles and soap?

tallow 6th Grade Orals Round 14 Second Half Page 1 1. Oil Offloading 6. Historical Poetry How many cubic meters of petroleum can be carried This verse is based on an event in what year? by 150 ships if each ship can carry 130,000 cubic Go to sleep, go to sleep, Paul Revere. meters of oil? Please don't make all that noise around here! How can we rest, when from down in the street Comes the clomping and the stomping Of your horse's big feet?

19,500,000 1775 2. Abbreviations 7. Crafts What does the abbreviation mean in this poster? A person who attaches stuffing, springs, cushions, and Nebraska vs. Colorado covering fabric to furniture is employed in what craft?

versus upholstery 3. Fractional Word Problems 8. Speeches A 15-foot pipe was sawed so that one part was 2/3 of President Lincoln made his historic Gettysburg the total length. What is the length of the shorter Address shortly after the end of what battle? piece?

5 feet Battle of Gettysburg 4. Thoreau 9. Coins What is another name for the creature mentioned in An image of what U.S. president is on the U.S. dime? this quote by Thoreau? I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but to brag as lustily as a chanticleer in the morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake my neighbors up.

rooster Franklin Roosevelt 5. Inventions 10. Caravans There really would have been little use for What is the phrase for the caravans of covered wagons Gutenberg's invention had the Chinese not invented in the Old West? what material?

paper wagon trains 6th Grade Orals Round 14 Second Half Page 2 11. Color 16. Forces Mixing what two primary colors produces green? What keeps the planets in their orbits around the Sun and keeps the Moon in orbit around the Earth?

blue, yellow gravitation (gravity) 12. Survival 17. Lowest Terms Sometimes a threatened animal will suddenly collapse Reduce 128/288 to lowest terms. and remain still even when poked or bitten, and only when the threat is gone will the creature flee to safety. This survival technique, named after a marsupial, is called playing what?

possum (or opossum) 4/9 13. Mollusks 18. Legendary Characters A grain of sand placed inside the shell of what marine What legendary American who made his name as a creature can become coated with a layer of frontiersman fighting the Creek Indians was elected to mother-of-pearl? Congress and died defending the Alamo?

oyster Davy Crockett 14. Songs 19. Hydrology These words are from what song in a Disney musical? What compound word describes the direction toward Now as the ladder of life 'as been strung which a river flows? You may think a sweep's on the bottommost rung Though I spends me time in ashes and smoke In this 'ole wide world there's no 'appier bloke

Chim Chim Cheree downstream 15. River Erosion 20. Homographs If a river deepens its channel by one tenth of a What homograph fits these examples? centimeter per year, about how many meters would it -To a jeweler, it is a round band. cut down in a thousand-year period? -To a boxer, it is an enclosure. -To a teenager, it is an audible signal from a telephone.

1. ring 6th Grade Orals Round 14 Second Half Page 3 21. Whales 26. Structures The blue whale can go up to a half year without What are all of the following? eating, sustained by what thick layer of fat between its Grand skin and muscles? Welland Ship Erie Suez

blubber canals 22. Songs 27. Tearjerkers These lyrics are from what song in "Mary Poppins"? Anna and Caleb's mother dies, and their father places Even though the sound of it an ad for a wife in an eastern newspaper. Sarah, a is something quite atrocious lady from Maine replies. Sarah is described as being If you say it loud enough plain and what? you'll always sound precocious

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious tall 23. Writing Techniques 28. Planetary Resources As illustrated below, polysyndeton, the opposite of In 2000, the Mars Global Surveyor sent back data asyndeton, is the repetitive use of what part of speech showing the planet may have considerable subsurface in a sentence? water. If so, it could be consumed by astronauts or We fished and swam and sang and napped. used to make rocket fuel by separating out what two elements from it?

conjunction oxygen, hydrogen 24. Geology 29. Anatomy After some number of years, what geological process These organs are part of what body system? causes a smooth slab of concrete to appear cracked, liver chipped, and rough, with exposed pebbles at the large intestine surface? esophagus

weathering (or erosion) digestive system 25. Sound 30. Geometric Solids How does the frequency of an ambulance siren seem Name the solid whose base is a polygon and whose to a listener if the ambulance is coming toward him faces are triangles meeting at a point. rather than going away?

higher pyramid 6th Grade Orals Round 14 Second Half Page 4 31. Things Worthwhile 36. Traditional Attire What word completes this line from "The Wind in the Name the hooded fur jackets of Eskimos. Willows"? Believe me, my young friend, there is NOTHING--absolute nothing--half so much worth doing as simply messing about in ...

boats parkas 32. Medical Poetry 37. Chemical Processes This is about a young person's visit to what kind of What noun beginning with a "c" indicates the union of medical practitioner? an inflammable substance with oxygen? He tilts me back, my head nearly touches the floor-- I hope those pliers are to fix the door. Do I smell gas? It'll dull my mind, Removing all evidence Of an unspeakable crime.

dentist combustion 33. Inventors 38. Planetary Revolutions What ride was first built for the 1893 Columbia In eight years, the Earth revolves how many degrees in Exposition by George W.G. Ferris? its orbit around the Sun?

Ferris wheel 2880 34. Watercraft 39. Traditional Songs Name the primitive boat used by some Native The word "one" in this verse refers to bags of what? Americans made by simply hollowing out a log. One for my master, One for my dame, And one for the little boy who lives by the lane.

dugout wool 35. Lyrical Descriptions 40. Historical Poetry What kind of reptile has been described poetically as a Who is the male monarch indicated in this poem? four-oared helmet? Illustrious monarch of Iberia's soil, Too long I wait permission to depart; Sick of delays, I beg thy listening ear- Shine forth the patron of the prince of art. While yet Columbus breathes the vital air, Grant his request to pass the western main.

turtle Ferdinand 6th Grade Orals Round 14 Second Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Folks in a Row There are 40 aliens standing against a wall. Every 4th alien has 4 eyes, every 3rd alien is hairy, and every 2nd alien is green. What can you say about the 12th and 24th aliens?

They are hairy, green, and have 4 eyes. Alt. 2. Explorer Nationalities What was the nationality of these explorers? Amerigo Vespucci Marco Polo Christopher Columbus

Italian Alt. 3. Waterfalls Niagara Falls are in what two countries?

USA, Canada Alt. 4. Gifts Pete gave Paul half of his peanuts. Paul gave Priscilla half of the peanuts she received from Pete. Priscilla kept 8 of those peanuts and gave the remaining 10 to her pop. How many peanuts did Pete have in the first place?

72 Alt. 5. Plant Anatomy What parts of plants usually have these functions? -exchange gases -intercept light -provide a site for photosynthesis

leaves 6th Grade Orals Round 15 First Half Page 1 1. National Parks 6. Lakes Which American national park occupies real estate in Bounded to the north and east by Ontario and on its the greatest number of states? south and west by Michigan, what is the second largest of the Great Lakes?

Yellowstone Lake Huron 2. Quantities 7. Alphabetizing If you drive twenty miles, what is the least distance, in What word comes first in a list of all words used in the miles, that you could end up from your starting point? Pledge of Allegiance?

0 miles all 3. Channels 8. Fables What is the name for an artificial channel dug for "It really does not pay to pretend to be what you are irrigation or transportation? not" is the moral in an Aesop fables about a wolf wearing what kind of clothing?

canal sheep's 4. Potential Perils 9. Aviation This is about what kind of winter and springtime Name the hinged surfaces on the trailing edges of the hazards? wings of a fixed-wing aircraft that reduce the speed at Moving at speeds approaching 200 miles per which an aircraft can be safely flown? hour, these monsters can scour 3000 feet of mountainside in 15 seconds with impact pressures of more than 20,000 pounds per square foot.

avalanches (snow slides) flaps 5. Spoonerisms 10. Factoring Correct this spoonerism. What is the prime factorization of 260? a scoop of Boy Trouts

a troop of Boy Scouts 2 x 2 x 5 x 13 6th Grade Orals Round 15 First Half Page 2 11. Voting 16. Harbor Maintenance An election in which a voter's selections are Name the process of scooping out of harbor bottoms confidential is known as what kind of ballot? to enable the passage of ships and barges.

secret ballot dredging 12. Animal Poetry 17. Speed This excerpt from a poem by Isaac Watts is about what At what rate does a motorcycle travel if it covers 450 insects? miles in 9 hours? How skillfully she builds her cell! How neat she spreads the wax! And labors hard to store it well With the sweet food she makes.

bees 50 mph 13. Bovine Folklore 18. Textiles The first pronoun in this line refers to what legendary For at least 2000 years, the secretions of these creature? caterpillars furnished a major impetus for trading He was so long in the body, Paul had to carry a between the Orient and Occident. Even today, pair of field-glasses around with him to see synthetic fabrics have not supplanted it for fine what he was doin' with his hind feet. textiles. Name this fiber.

Babe (the blue ox) silk 14. Secession 19. Folksong Lyrics What state that seceded from the Union during the What refrain follows this line? Civil War extends farthest south? A penny for a spool of thread, A penny for a needle, That's the way the money goes ...

Florida Pop! goes the weasel. 15. Nonsense 20. African Animals What word is missing in this ditty? Name the wolflike African animal with powerful jaws The king sent for his wise men all and a bristly mane. To find a rhyme for W. When they had thought a good long time, But could not think of a single rhyme, "I'm sorry," said he, " to ---- you."

trouble hyena 6th Grade Orals Round 15 First Half Page 3 21. High Seas History 26. Strange Fictional Wildlife The "unsinkable" Titanic sank on its maiden voyage The story involving Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane, and across the Atlantic Ocean. What was the immediate Hilary digging up a strange creature with eyes like a cause of this tragedy? snail's, ears like a bat's, whiskers like a rat's, a body shaped like a spider's, covered entirely with fur which can grant wishes. Complete the title of this story. Five Children and ...

an iceberg It 22. Appendages 27. Borrowed Words Name the paired, flexible, segmented sensory These words were borrowed from what language? appendages on the heads of insects. tsunami, tempura, sumo, bonsai, dojo

antennae Japanese 23. Doggerel 28. Division What amphibian is missing from this verse? What is the quotient when you divide 14 by -.2? What a wonderful bird the ---- are. When he stand he sit almost; When he hop, he fly almost. He ain't got no tail hardly either. When he sit, he sit on what he ain't got almost.

frog -70 24. Mental Capabilities 29. Poetic Creepy Creatures Name the capacity of the mind to generate images of This is about what kind of creature? objects, states, or actions that have not been actually A ---- was happy quite experienced. Until a frog in fun Said, "Pray, which leg comes after which"? She lay distracted in the ditch Considering how to run.

imagination centipede 25. Static Fluids 30. Climates Complete this line about water pressure. What adjective indicates a climate near the equator Water seeks its own ... with a warm average temperature?

level tropical 6th Grade Orals Round 15 First Half Page 4 31. Plurals 36. Horses What is the plural of "crisis"? What is the term for a cream or golden colored horse with an ivory mane?

crises palomino 32. Moods 37. Insects What adjective with the same root as "neuron" Ants use what structures to detect air currents, indicates someone who is anxious, apprehensive, chemicals, and vibrations? distressed, and agitated?

nervous (neurotic) antennae (feelers) 33. Stories 38. Recycling Energy Who is the heroine in a story by Johanna Spyri about Eleven kilojoules of electrical energy is needed to a Swiss girl and her grandfather? produce a gram of aluminum metal from its ore. Recycling aluminum cans, which involves melting them, takes one kilojoule per gram. So, recycling aluminum uses about what percent as much energy as refining it from ore?

Heidi 9. 34. Heroines 39. Scientific Devices What was the nationality of Joan of Arc? A reservoir of fluid and a narrow tube into which that fluid can expand are the basic components of what measuring device?

French thermometer (barometer) 35. Marine Life 40. Gratitude Identify this sea creature. What word should Yogi Berra have used to complete It lives deep in the sea by day but rises to feed this statement? at night. It uses its ten tentacles to catch I just want to thank everyone who made this fish and feed them into its beaklike mouth. day necessary. Some are no bigger than your thumb, but one variety can grow 40 feet long.

squid possible 6th Grade Orals Round 15 First Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Sensation What term ending in a silent "b" means insensible or lacking in feeling due to cold?

numb Alt. 2. Symbolic Sentences What letter completes this unusual statement? S+S+M+T+W+T+F = D of the ...

W. Alt. 3. Sentence Analysis How many words are in the complete predicate of this line by Ambrose Bierce? The covers of this book are too far apart.

4. Alt. 4. Agreements To what kind of agreement was Chief Ouray referring in these words? The agreement an Indian makes with the United States is like the agreement a buffalo makes with his hunters when pierced with arrows.

treaty Alt. 5. Heroes What is the first name of the hero celebrated in this 1927 poem? Lucky Lindy, up in the sky Fair or windy, he's flying high, Peerless, fearless, knows ev'ry cloud The kind of a son makes a mother feel proud.

Charles 6th Grade Orals Round 15 Second Half Page 1 1. Philadelphia 6. Mideast Cities The Articles of Confederation, the Declaration of The name of what holy city of Islam rhymes with Independence, and what other important document in "Rebecca"? American history were signed at Independence Hall?

U.S. Constitution Mecca 2. Reimbursement 7. Poetry Millie is a traveling anvil salesperson. She gets 21 What is the repetition of similar or identical sounds at cents per mile for travel expenses. On a 603 mile trip, the ends of lines of verse called? how much does she collect?

$126.63 rhyme 3. Transportation 8. Animal Tales What animal is associated with caravans? In Shelia Burnford's story, "The Incredible Journey" what kind of animals are Bodger and Luath?

camel dogs (bull terrier, Labrador retriever) 4. Age Problems 9. Prefixes How old will Josephine be in 8 years if she was 50 What does the Latin prefix mean in these words? years old 20 years ago? circumvent circumnavigate circumlocution

78 around 5. Rock 10. Literary Orphans What category of rock was formed from compressed Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny are orphans in what or cemented particles of sand, silt, mud, pebbles, and story by Gertrude Chandler Warner? the remains of shellfish, corals, and plants?

sedimentary The Boxcar Children 6th Grade Orals Round 15 Second Half Page 2 11. Botany and Bread 16. Stories What gas produced by the action of yeast in bread Identify the story in which Milo, a bored boy, dough causes the dough to rise? assembles a gift which proves to be a tollbooth through which he travels to an exceedingly strange land.

carbon dioxide The Phantom Tollbooth 12. Musical Instruments 17. Matter What common musical instrument of the percussion What is the changing of a liquid into a solid by family consists of concave metal plates struck removing the heat called? together?

cymbals freezing 13. Ditties 18. Symbols Complete this couplet by Ogden Nash. What mammal is the symbol for the Republican Party? Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, That's what parents were created ...

for elephant 14. Physiology 19. Numbers Name the liquid released by three pairs of glands in What natural number is halved when it is reduced by the mouth that begin the digestive process. thirteen?

saliva 26 15. Allusions 20. The Executive Branch Correctly restate this goofy attempted use of an When George Washington became president, he allusion. selected Thomas Jefferson, Henry Knox, Alexander Don't kill the golden goose that lays the eggs. Hamilton, and Edmund Randolph to be members of an advisory group called the what?

Don't kill the goose that lays the golden eggs. cabinet (presidential cabinet) 6th Grade Orals Round 15 Second Half Page 3 21. Children's Stories 26. Literary Forms Gretel and her brother, Hans, engage in a skating What type of literature is this work? contest which she wins. Their father, who was injured Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an in an accident, is ultimately cured by a famous American Slave, Written by Himself physician. Name this story.

Hans Brinker (or the Silver Skates) autobiography 22. Poems 27. Battles What is Robert Louis Stevenson writing about? The Battle of Yorktown was the last battle of what war? The funniest thing about him is the way he likes to grow / Not at all like proper children, which is always very slow; / For he sometimes shoots up taller like an India rubber ball / And he sometimes goes so little that there's none of him at all.

a shadow American Revolution (Revolutionary War) 23. Pests 28. The Law of the Land This describes what arachnids? Name those parts of the U.S. Constitution that deal These are tiny creatures living in thpe woods with topics such as quartering of troops, unreasonable and fields that attach to you as you brush past searches, and freedom of religion. bushes, plants, and grass. Once they are on you, they often move to a warm, moist location like the armpits, groin, and hair where they attach firmly to your skin and draw blood.

ticks amendments (Bill of Rights) 24. Dental Care 29. Animal Diets Name the special string used to clean between teeth. Frugivores are animals that eat fruit. What do nectarivores consume?

floss nectar 25. Forest Climates 30. Month Problems In what type of forest is it hot and humid all year How many months are in 5.25 years? around?

tropical rain forest 63 6th Grade Orals Round 15 Second Half Page 4 31. Earthly Envelopes 36. Discoveries Identify the envelope of gases surrounding the Earth In 1540, Garcia Lopez de Cardenas was dispatched by and held in place by gravity. Francisco Coronado to locate a large river. He did so, but found the river was lined with extraordinarily sheer cliffs making passage to and through it nearly impossible. What gorge had he found?

atmosphere Grand Canyon 32. Legends 37. Enduring Fame This indicates what legendary character? Who was first to design and patent a practical device Everybody knows he taught the bronco how to for transmitting the human voice by means of electric buck and it is a matter of record that he dug current? the Rio Grande one dry year when he grew tired of packin' water from the Gulf of Mexico.

Pecos Bill Alexander Graham Bell 33. Vehicle Markings 38. Word Games What kind of vehicle would have these letters What monosyllabic word can be added to the end of prominently displayed on its front? "whole" and to the beginning of "where" to form two ECNALUBMA different compound words?

ambulance some 34. Space Exploration 39. British Fantasies What is the term for the counting backward from ten In a story by C.S. Lewis, who rules Narnia and keeps it to one in the final moments before a rocket launch? in a perpetual state of winter?

countdown White Witch 35. Silly Poems 40. Mideast Stories According to Shel Silverstein, what creature crawled What character from "The Arabian Nights" overhears a out of the sea? band of forty thieves talking about a treasure they have hidden in a cave?

Slithergadee Ali Baba 6th Grade Orals Round 15 Second Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Seasons What season is it in the Northern Hemisphere when the North Pole is tilted toward the Sun?

summer Alt. 2. Abbreviations The abbreviation, U.S.A., stands for a country or what military body?

United States Army Alt. 3. Regal Residences During the Middle Ages, what was the name for the massive, fortified residences of European monarchs or nobles?

castles (manors) Alt. 4. Latin America If you alphabetically arrange the countries of South America, which is last?

Venezuela Alt. 5. State Sectors What subdivision of a state might include a number of cities, towns, and villages?

county (parish, borough)