7th Grade Orals

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

Copyright © 2014 Academic Hallmarks 7th Grade Orals Round 1 First Half Page 1 1. Mining 6. History Down Under What is the term for rocks containing economically Similar to the way the American government confined extractable metals such as silver, lead, tin, gold, copper, Indians to reservations, the Australian government or molybdenum? removed populations of what native people to government or missionary reserves?

ores Aborigines 2. Musical Instruments 7. Disorders Name the piece of cane or metal in the mouthpiece of What is the term for motion sickness aboard an a wind instrument. aircraft?

reed airsickness 3. Levers 8. Fictional Diseases What is the name for the pivot point of a lever? In the Harry Potter stories, what fictional disease covers the victim in purple blisters and renders them unable to speak?

fulcrum spattergroit 4. Auditoriums 9. Plurals and Singulars The raised seating platforms located toward the back What is the singular of the word "series"? of auditoriums are called galleries or what else?

balconies series 5. Novels 10. Lakes "Caddie Woodlawn" is a novel about pioneer life in the Some bottoms of the Great Lakes are below sea level. 1860s in what north-central U.S. state? What is the only means by which these basins could have been scoured to such depth?

Wisconsin glaciers 7th Grade Orals Round 1 First Half Page 2 11. Peaceful Promises 16. Imperialism What fictional ship captain says this in a novel? Victoria Falls in Rhodesia and Victoria Peak in Hong No one will ever use the Nautilus Kong were named after a monarch in what country? as an instrument of conquest.

Captain Nemo Great Britain 12. Stick Homonyms 17. Medicinal Discoveries What name is used both for a short club carried by Jacques Cartier found that a tea made from the leaves police officers and the stick used by orchestra of the eastern white cedar cured his men of scurvy. conductors? Those leaves are rich in what vitamin?

baton vitamin C 13. Athletics 18. Line Postulates Name the period preceding an athletic event during Two lines in the same plane must either run parallel to which you prepare by stretching and performing each other or they must do what? limited exercises.

warm up intersect (crisscross, meet, cross) 14. Mountains 19. Fraction Exponentiation If the only time that mountains could have been What is the square of 10/11? formed was when the Earth was formed, then there would be no mountains today because they would have been obliterated by what process?

erosion 100/121 15. Animal Anatomy 20. Earth's Interior What do ornithologists call long jaws without teeth? In terms of density, how do materials in Earth's mantle compare with those in the crust?

beaks They are denser. 7th Grade Orals Round 1 First Half Page 3 21. Life on Earth 26. Nutrition Today, about 1.5 million species are known, but The amount of energy that proteins, fats, and scientists estimate there may be as many as 30 million carbohydrates can supply to your body is measured in species on the planet. If this is so, what fraction of the what units? total species is known?

1/20 calories (or kilocalories or kcals) 22. Naval Ports 27. Anthem Analysis Name the location of the U.S. headquarters for the What is the first prepositional phrase in the U.S. Pacific fleet in Hawaii. national anthem?

Pearl Harbor by the dawn's early light 23. Mathematical Properties 28. Electricity AB = BA is the commutative property for Name the path that an electric current travels in a multiplication. What is the commutative property for building. addition?

A+B = B+A circuit 24. Rhyme 29. Transgressions Using letters, what is the rhyme scheme in this verse? These quotations are about what practice? Bid me to weep, and I will weep, -The universe would not be rich enough While I have eyes to see; to buy the vote of an honest man. And having none, yet I will keep -There is gold for you. Sell me your good A heart to weep for thee. report. -Judges and senates have been bought for gold; Esteem and love were never to be sold. -All men have their price.

abab bribery (taking a bribe) 25. Historical Fiction 30. Appointments In "Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes," Sadako's In the same year that Archibald Cox was appointed illness was caused by what? special prosecutor in the Watergate scandal, who was appointed U.S. vice president?

radiation (atomic bomb) Gerald Ford 7th Grade Orals Round 1 First Half Page 4 31. Eye Parts 36. The Solar System The cornea is the clear covering of the eye over the Our solar system consists of one star, planets and all pupil and what colored part? their moons, several thousand minor planets called asteroids, and an equally large number of what other kind of bodies?

iris comets 32. Documents 37. Landforms What document in each state establishes the What do Norwegians call the deep grooves cut in the organizational structure of government, defines the coastline by prehistoric glaciers that are now filled powers and functions of its departments, and provides with seawater? the foundations for local governments?

state constitution fiords 33. Crimes 38. Fields of Science In the U.S., how are lesser criminal acts including all Name the science of the study of animals. those which are not felonies classified?

misdemeanors zoology 34. Algebraic Representation 39. Superlatives Using x as a person's age now, represent that person's Longer adjectives form their superlative forms by age 40 years ago. adding either "most" or what other word?

x-40 least 35. Hiking Trails 40. Calamities Parts of the Pacific Crest Trail are in what three In contrast to man-made disasters, what is the contiguous states? collective name for those disasters caused by floods, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions?

California, Oregon, Washington natural disasters 7th Grade Orals Round 1 First Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Genetics What is the general term for an individual or organism that has a new genetic characteristic as a result of a mutation?

mutant Alt. 2. Probability 50% of the insects in your basement are cockroaches. 50% of those cockroaches are males. What is the probability that a randomly-selected insect in your basement is a female cockroach?

25% (1 in 4 or .25) Alt. 3. Time What time zone is between the Mountain Standard Time Zone and the Eastern Standard Time Zone?

Central Standard Time Zone Alt. 4. Ulcers Small ulcers called canker sores usually appear near what part of the body?

mouth Alt. 5. Reciprocals What is the difference between 8 and its reciprocal?

7.875 (or 7 7/8) 7th Grade Orals Round 1 Second Half Page 1 1. Growing Populations 6. Ballets Given that the human population is increasing about Sergei Prokofiev composed what ballet based on a 250,000 per day, to the nearest million, this planet fairy tale about a young oppressed woman who must support how many million more people each suddenly and unexpectedly achieves a full life as the year? wife of a prince?

91 Cinderella 2. Anniversaries 7. Mountain Ranges In 2012, the city of San Francisco celebrated the 75th Name the easternmost South American country that anniversary of what bridge? includes part of the Andes.

Golden Gate Bridge Argentina 3. Chemical Compounds 8. Hydrology What two elements are in a molecule of HI? Water occupying openings in soil and rock is subsurface water. What is the term for water in rivers and lakes?

hydrogen, iodine surface water 4. Science Fiction 9. Compass Bearings In what dystopian novel by M.T. Anderson are the Compass bearings are given as three digit numbers. If brains of American citizens all directly connected to north is 000 degrees, what is the compass bearing for some advanced form of the internet by means of an northeast? implanted device?

Feed 045 degrees 5. Stars 10. Cubes What yellow dwarf star is closest to the Earth? What is the length of one side of a cube that contains a volume of 125 cubic feet?

Sun 5 feet 7th Grade Orals Round 1 Second Half Page 2 11. Numbers 16. Consecutive Integers Transform the cardinal number 19 into an ordinal What is the largest of three consecutive odd integers if number. their sum is 51?

19th 19 12. Zoological Classification 17. Texts Prairie dogs are not canines. They actually belong to These are lines from what part of a biology textbook? what order of mammals? Tendon, 354 Territoriality, 339-340 Thalamus, 537 Thallophytes, 283

rodent (Rodentia) index 13. Fruits 18. Biomes What tropical fruit got its name from its resemblance What biome characterizes the Aleutian Islands? to the reproductive structures on conifers?

pineapple tundra 14. Machines 19. Volcanoes What kind of structure supports a rotating part of a In 2010, massive disruptions of commercial air traffic machine? resulted when a volcano in what country erupted?

bearing (bushing) Iceland 15. Shadows 20. Meteorology What happens to the size of the projected silhouette as On a weather map, what is the meaning of a circle the distance from the object blocking the light to the enclosing the letter "F"? surface of projection increases?

It becomes larger. fog 7th Grade Orals Round 1 Second Half Page 3 21. Electrical Charges 26. Influences from Abroad What is the charge on a rubber balloon after it has The languages, customs, and traditions of South been rubbed on fur? America were influenced centuries ago mainly by what two European countries?

negative Spain, Portugal 22. National Parks 27. Fabrics What U.S. national park boasts a grand canyon, Moleskin is generally used to treat or prevent what abundant bears, bison, and elk, and the planet's largest kind of injuries? concentration of geothermal features?

Yellowstone blisters 23. Petrology 28. Living Creatures What broad category of rock crystallizes from molten What tailless amphibians are members of the family material? Bufonidae and are similar in appearance to frogs but are generally more terrestrial?

igneous toads 24. Franklin's Proverbs 29. Missions What, according to Benjamin Franklin, makes a man Between 1840 and 1846, Pierre-Jean de Smet founded healthy, wealthy, and wise? Jesuit missions in the Oregon Country and the Great Plains. These missions were branches of what church?

Early to bed, early to rise Roman Catholic 25. Biological Discoveries 30. Colonial Legislation In 1831, British botanist Robert Brown studied plant Enacted under the leadership of William Penn, "The cells and noticed that each one contains a dark Great Law of Pennsylvania" extended male suffrage, spherical blob. What did he call that structure? eliminated imprisonment for debt, and specified that nobody could be deprived of life, liberty, or estate except by jury trial. In this context, what is another term for "estate"?

nucleus property (possessions, land) 7th Grade Orals Round 1 Second Half Page 4 31. Explorers 36. Silent Letters What is the present capital of the region that Pedro Name any word that includes a silent "b" preceding a Cabral is credited with discovering? "t."

Brasilia doubt, debt, doubtful, subtle, etc. 32. Square Measure 37. Bouncing What is the difference in square feet between a 12 foot When a ball bounces upward, it does not reach the square and 12 square feet? same height at which it started. Every time it hits a surface, it loses some of its energy as what?

132 square feet heat 33. Fictional Females 38. American Revolution What is the surname of the main character in these Massachusetts militiamen clashed with British troops books? in April of 1775 at Concord and what other town? Ramona the Pest Ramona and Her Father Ramona the Brave Ramona and Her Mother Ramona Forever

Quimby Lexington 34. Forms of Music 39. Nouns What is the name for a long work composed for an Which is not a collective noun in this sentence? orchestra and written in several parts or movements? The majority of the committee voted to remove the biology teacher from the faculty.

symphony teacher 35. Decimals 40. Space Exploration What type of decimal is represented by the fraction What word completes this line received by Mission 1/7? Control from Apollo 13 in 1970? Houston, we've got a ...

repeating decimal problem 7th Grade Orals Round 1 Second Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Special Seats What kind of seats are in fighter aircraft that throw a pilot clear of a damaged aircraft?

ejector (ejection) seats Alt. 2. Dramatic Definitions According to Robert Benchley, what type of theatrical presentation "is where a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of dying, he sings"?

opera Alt. 3. Fine Arts What is the collective name for these dramatic presentations? Annie Cats Carousel The Sound of Music Little Shop of Horrors

musicals Alt. 4. Painting Genres What kind of painting typically includes images of such things as trees, streams, crops, mountains, wildlife, rivers, lakes, forests, cliffs, canyons, and sunrises?

landscapes Alt. 5. Symbols What symbol of the American Revolution was first cast by the London firm of Lester and Pack and later recast twice by two Philadelphia workmen named John Pass and John Stow?

Liberty Bell 7th Grade Orals Round 2 First Half Page 1 1. Science Plurals 6. Bird Books Vertebrae is to vertebra as strata is to what? What kind of birds are featured in the story that begins with these words? It was an afternoon in late September. In the pleasant city of Stillwater, Mr. Popper, the house painter, was going home from work.

stratum penguins 2. Reptile Habitats 7. Snow The three U.S. states without indigenous poisonous On ski slopes, what is the name for snow cover snakes include Maine and what two others? consisting of powder snow that is still loose but has lain on the ground long enough to become somewhat compressed?

Hawaii, Alaska packed powder 3. Big Projects 8. Poems Clinton's Ditch connected Lake Erie to what river? In one of Lewis Carroll's poems, a whiting asks a snail to walk a little faster because what mammal was close behind treading on its tail?

Hudson River porpoise 4. Sea Water 9. Writing Ocean water in the Arctic or Antarctic may remain What word completes this line by Bernard Baruch that liquid down to -15 degrees C. It does not freeze illustrates parallel structure? because of its high what? Those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't ...

salinity (salt content) mind 5. Electricity 10. Percent What is the abbreviation for an electric current that 4 is what percent of 200? regularly reverses direction in a circuit?

AC 2% 7th Grade Orals Round 2 First Half Page 2 11. Self-Government 16. Statistics Signed in 1620, name the first agreement for Determine the range of these scores. self-government in America. 824, 489, 659, 767, 502, 812, 556

Mayflower Compact 335 12. Disjunctive Syllogisms 17. Industrial Substances Complete this syllogism. Common uses for what category of industrial Either I will go to the opera or go fishing. materials include grinding, polishing, buffing, honing, I will not go to the opera. cutting, drilling, sharpening, lapping, and sanding? Therefore ...

I will go fishing abrasives 13. Punctuation 18. Onomatopoeia A dash is appropriate between what words in this line? Name any onomatopoeic word that begins with the Absolutely bone tired that's how I felt after my letter "m". first shift in the coal mine.

tired - that's moo, meow, mumble, murmur (etc.) 14. The Solar System 19. Way Down Deep Which of the terrestrial planets could be called "the It is made mostly of iron and nickel and is divided veiled planet"? into a liquid outer part and a solid inner part. Name this division of the Earth's interior.

Venus core 15. English English 20. Atolls In England, what are subways called? Normally, the lower limit for coral growth is between 200 and 300 feet. But, on Eniwetok Atoll, drilling disclosed coral at least 5000 feet deep. This could have happened only if the sea level has slowly risen or if the land has slowly done what?

tubes subsided (sunk) 7th Grade Orals Round 2 First Half Page 3 21. Modifiers 26. Precipitation What part of speech is modified by the adverb in this One-third of the rainfall in an area either soaks into line? the ground or flows across the surface into streams. Kiwis are extremely rare except for the ones What happens to the rest? in supermarkets.

adjective It evaporates. 22. Clauses 27. North American Trade What is the independent clause in this example? Hudson's Bay Company was initially based upon what Before it engulfed the pizzeria but after it had one North American commodity? devoured the French bakery, the blob seemed to hiccup.

the blob seemed to hiccup beaver pelts 23. Anagrams 28. State Nicknames This line is an anagram for what British dramatist? What is the nickname of the state in which a legendary Ah speak, seer. character killed at the Alamo once served as a U.S. congressman?

Shakespeare Volunteer State 24. Paintings 29. Painting Diego Rivera, David Siqueiros, and Jose Orozco If one gallon of paint covers 400 square feet, how created what kind of paintings on the walls of many many gallons are needed to put two coats on a wall 7 great Mexican buildings? feet high and 300 feet long?

murals 10.5 25. Legislative Lingo 30. Elections A bill is proposed legislation, but what is the name for What is the term for an organized effort to elect a a bill that has passed Congress and become law? candidate that includes fundraising, public meetings, and lots of advertising?

act campaign 7th Grade Orals Round 2 First Half Page 4 31. Nicknames 36. Art History These are nicknames of what? What adjective indicates art made by the original, Golden, Centennial, Gopher, Show-me, indigenous people of Australia? Sagebrush, Empire, Lone Star, Hoosier

states Aboriginal 32. Literary Forms 37. Novels You might find ten short stories by the same author in In "Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes" Sadako what kind of book? Sasaki lives in what city?

anthology Hiroshima 33. Shared Names 38. Affixes What name is shared by a 13th-century Venetian What is the meaning of the prefix in the words explorer of Asia and a game played on horseback? audiophile, audiometer, and auditory?

Polo to hear 34. Cubes 39. Surgery What is the cube of 23? Name the operation where a surgeon has to cut off a body part because of a severe injury or infection.

12167 amputation 35. Space Architecture 40. Spoonerisms Name the chamber in a spacecraft from which all air What did the person mean to say who said this? can be removed and through which astronauts must I'll bring a rook to bead. pass to and from a space walk.

air lock I'll bring a book to read. 7th Grade Orals Round 2 First Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Mountains The Sierras are in what state?

California (or Nevada) Alt. 2. Population Growth Today, there is a net increase in the human population of about 245,000 every day. To the nearest ten million, by how many people does Earth's human population increase annually?

90 million Alt. 3. Algebraic Expressions Assume the number of hours that Bart worked is represented by y. If Sam worked 4 hours more than twice the number of hours that Bart worked, how long did he work?

4 + 2y Alt. 4. Soils In the Northern Hemisphere, slopes facing what cardinal direction are characterized by lower than normal soil temperatures?

north Alt. 5. Coral What coral got its name because it resembles a human cerebrum?

brain coral 7th Grade Orals Round 2 Second Half Page 1 1. Official Hammers 6. Folklore Name the wooden hammer used by judges to call their This poem is about what race of elves? courts to order. With luck of the shamrock, On mischief, they have a lock. Let not their size deceive. Discontent they can weave. Sporting a derby of green, Quick wits keep them keen. To hold them is for naught, But grant a wish if caught. gavel leprechauns 2. Criminal Slang 7. Exponents What slang term indicating a temperature extreme What two values of x satisfy this equation? means that an item has been recently stolen? x squared = 100

hot 10, -10 3. Fractured Quotations 8. Failed Plans What American as a young colonial student might During the latter part of Eisenhower's presidency, the have said this? CIA secretly trained a small army of anti-Communist I only regret that I have but one brain Cuban refugees for an invasion to overthrow the to give for my final. regime in Cuba headed by ...

Nathan Hale Fidel Castro 4. Inequalities 9. Rivers Solve this inequality for x. Name the largest river between the Brooks Range and x + 3 > 6 the Aleutian Islands.

x > 3 Yukon 5. Arrangements 10. Native American Homes What is another name for lexicographical order? While hogans are a traditional home for Navajos, the Sioux people lived in what portable dwellings?

alphabetical (or dictionary) order tepees 7th Grade Orals Round 2 Second Half Page 2 11. Country Names 16. Psychological Suffixes What nation was named for Muhammed bin Saud? What is the meaning of the suffix in arachnophobia, claustrophobia, and zoophobia?

Saudi Arabia fear 12. States 17. Seasons Which U.S. state has the easternmost geographic During what season of the year does the Sun approach center? the summer solstice?

Maine spring 13. Malapropisms 18. Government Correct the malapropism in this statement. Most governments include the judicial, legislative, and The entire conjugation was present at church ---- branches. last Sunday.

congregation executive 14. Library Science 19. Political Philosophy Fiction books in the library are arranged The doctrine that the institutions of government alphabetically according to what? should be kept apart from those of religious institutions is called the separation of what?

author's last name church and state 15. Elements 20. Camping Supplies In the periodic table, all elements are classified either When you are out in the boonies, you should carry a as nonmetals or what? substance that wards off small flying arthropods. What is the name for any such substance?

metals repellent 7th Grade Orals Round 2 Second Half Page 3 21. Sumeria 26. Goals Our system of time based on a sixty-minute hour was What international organization has goals of keeping derived from a Sumerian mathematical system, as is worldwide peace, developing friendly relations among our method of dividing a circle into how many countries, promoting respect for human rights, and degrees? helping countries cooperate in solving economic, social, and cultural problems?

360 United Nations 22. Musical Instruments 27. Biographies Because they lack resonance at the edges, they must This biography is about what 19th-century reformer? be struck in the center. Name these sizable, metallic, Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad in the Sky Asian percussion instruments usually suspended on cords from a frame.

gongs Harriet Tubman 23. Algebraic Sums 28. Fraction Division What is the sum of these expressions? Divide 3/10 by 4/7. 3y, -5y, y

-y 21/40 24. Nonfiction 29. Art History This describes the circumstances that led to what Most Paleolithic art is found on the walls of what? book? Elsa came into the lives of George and Joy Adamson in 1956 with her two sisters, Big One and Lustica, when George was forced to kill their mother during one of his game drives.

Born Free caves 25. Governmental Verbiage 30. Art Forms What verb means to withdraw from a nation, alliance, Since Henri Matisse's "Beasts of the Sea" consists of or association? paper cutouts glued to a canvas backing, this must be an example of what art form?

secede collage 7th Grade Orals Round 2 Second Half Page 4 31. Word Use 36. Clauses What word could be used to replace the blank in each What is the first word of the dependent clause in this sentence? example? -It was found on a sand ----. Arnie is so broke that he may have to resort -I'll play one ---- of the song. to getting a job. -Be sure to buy a ---- of soap. -The lawyer passed his ---- exam.

bar that 32. Nonfiction 37. Name Changes What conflict is central to these nonfictional works? In 1997, the name of Zaire was changed to the This Hallowed Ground Democratic Republic of the what? Battle Cry of Freedom A Stillness at Appomattox

the Civil War Congo 33. Alternative Medicine 38. Biological Talk What form of Chinese alternative medicine has been The verb "spawn" means to deposit what? humorously referred to as "a jab well done"?

acupuncture eggs 34. Short Stories 39. Equestrian Novels This is from what Jack London story? In a story by Mary O'Hara, what horse at the Goose High up in the tree one bough capsized its load Bar Ranch is given a Swedish name that means "little of snow. This fell on the boughs beneath, girl"? capsizing them. This process continued, spreading out and involving the whole tree. It grew like an avalanche, and it descended without warning upon the man and the fire, and the fire was blotted out!

To Build a Fire Flicka 35. Medications 40. Biological Taxonomy Lisinopril is a drug used to reduce high blood A genus is part of a family, a family is part of an pressure. But some people taking it also report order, and an order is part of what? diarrhea, dizziness, hives, headache, nausea, fever, and chills. What is the collective name for these undesirable consequences of taking this drug?

side effects a class 7th Grade Orals Round 2 Second Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Plants Name the protective structure in which an embryonic plant can be dispersed and lie dormant until conditions become favorable for its germination.

seed Alt. 2. Revolutionaries What form of capital punishment did Nathan Hale face?

hanging Alt. 3. The Courtroom In the courtroom, there are two sides in a criminal case. One is the defense. Name the other.

prosecution Alt. 4. U.S. Government Structure Which branch of U.S. government has the power to make decisions ranging from the guilt or innocence of a suspect to determining if a law is constitutional?

judicial branch Alt. 5. Card Probability From a regular deck of cards, what is the probability of randomly selecting either a jack of diamonds or a queen of spades?

1 in 26 or 2 in 52 7th Grade Orals Round 3 First Half Page 1 1. Political Positions 6. Geologic Time Moderatism is somewhere between liberalism and what If the Mesozoic era began 225 million years ago and other political philosophy? lasted 160 million years, when did the Cenozoic era begin?

conservatism 65 million years ago 2. Medical Equipment 7. Lofty Locations What equipment is absolutely necessary for a What mountain range stretches from Slovenia and physician who practices acupuncture? Austria in the east through Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Germany, and finally France in the west?

needles Alps 3. Seasons 8. Space Exploration In the Northern Hemisphere, what season occurs The Soviet spacecraft, Luna III, took the first between the summer solstice and the autumnal photographs of the far side of what heavenly object? equinox?

summer Moon 4. Transportation 9. Weaponry This passage from 1750 is about what form of Used extensively in both world wars, name the transportation? self-propelled explosive projectile that can be It is little better than a crooked ditch with launched from above or below the water surface and scarcely the appearance of a hauling path. detonates on contact with a target. The horses slide and stagger in the water with their lines often in a tangled mess.

canal torpedo 5. Geologic Time 10. Colonial Restrictions Unheeded If the entire history of the Earth were to be organized Originally, slavery was expressly forbidden in what on a 12-hour clock, one hour would be equivalent to colony established by James Oglethorpe? 383 million years, one minute would equal 6.4 million years, and one second would equal, to the nearest ten thousand, how many years?

111,000 Georgia 7th Grade Orals Round 3 First Half Page 2 11. Archipelago Etymology 16. Force The term, Polynesia, comes from the Greek words If you attach a rope to a tree and pull the loose end "nosos" meaning "island" and "poly" meaning what? with a force of 80 pounds, the tree pulls back with a force of how many pounds?

many 80 pounds 12. Square Roots 17. Novels 8 is one of the square roots of 64. What is the other? This is from what Jack London story? Men, groping in the Arctic darkness, had found a yellow metal, and because steamship and transportation companies were booming the find, thousands of men were rushing into the Northland. These men wanted dogs, and the dogs they wanted were heavy dogs, with strong muscles by which to toil, and furry coats to protect them from the frost. -8 The Call of the Wild 13. Newton's Laws 18. Toasty Tales According to Isaac Newton, for every action there is What character says this toward the end of a poem? an opposite and equal what? It's fine in here, but I greatly fear You'll let in the cold and storm -- Since I left Plumtree, down in Tennessee, It's the first time I've been warm.

reaction Sam McGee 14. Baseball Epitaphs 19. Soap What word completes this epitaph? Soap works by making water wetter. There is a kind Here lies the bones of Private Jones of skin on water, and if you can't break that skin, you For whom War held no terrors. can't get things wet. This "skin" that soap can break A private then, a private now up is called surface what? No runs, No hits, just ...

errors tension 15. Wet Stuff 20. Big Streams What that can be made from the reaction of an alkali What river drains most of Yellowstone National Park? with animal fat makes water wetter and mixes with oil at the same time?

soap Yellowstone River 7th Grade Orals Round 3 First Half Page 3 21. Significant Gifts 26. Mountains The French raised almost one-half million dollars to This is about mountains on what continent? pay for it. It arrived in New York in 1885 but its base The Pamirs form the nucleus of the mountain was not ready until 1886. What was this gift? system while the Karakorams form the link between the Pamirs and the Himalayas.

Statue of Liberty Asia 22. Cities 27. Paint What city is the eleventh-largest urban area in the What is the term for any substance that acts to dilute world, the largest metropolitan area in Africa, and the paint and thereby decrease its viscosity? largest city in Egypt?

Cairo thinner 23. Forces 28. Ecology Name the dominant force throughout the universe. The term "ecosystem" is a contraction of what two words?

gravity ecological system 24. Asian Quests 29. Legal Orders The Dalai Lama has spent much of his adult life What order issued by a judge permits a law campaigning for the independence of what country enforcement officer to make a thorough examination taken over by the Chinese in 1950? of a specific residence or business and look for specified items?

Tibet search warrant 25. Map Symbols 30. Explorers Maps often use standardized symbols such as a circle Who was the first navigator to return by ship to with a star for a capital city or a square with a cross for Portugal with a cargo of Indian spices? a church. What is the usual meaning of a square with a flag?

school Vasco da Gama 7th Grade Orals Round 3 First Half Page 4 31. Seas 36. Heroes Name the easternmost sea adjacent to Russia. Aeneas, Priam, Hector, Paris, Ajax, Patroclus, and Achilles were heroes of what war?

Bering Sea Trojan War 32. Symmetry 37. Euphemisms What is the first capital letter of the alphabet that is These are euphemisms for what? horizontally symmetrical? failed to thrive, got a one-way ticket, rode off into the sunset, sold the farm, transitioned, assumed room temperature, bit the biscuit, sprouted wings

B. death 33. Supervolcanoes 38. Fuels The volume of the Mt. St. Helens eruption in 1980 Gasohol is usually a blend of gasoline and what other was about 1.2 cubic kilometers. But the volume of compound? material ejected in the eruption of the La Garita supervolcano during the Oligocene Epoch was about 4170 times larger. To the nearest thousand, how many cubic kilometers of material were released by the La Garita event?

5000 alcohol (ethanol) 34. Height 39. Elections While "altitude" usually refers to height in the What two national offices are never filled during atmosphere, what term indicates height on the Earth's midterm elections? surface?

elevation president, vice president 35. Inventions 40. Inverses The credit for the world's first biplane goes to whom? Waht is the multiplicative inverse of 2/3?

Wright brothers 3/2 7th Grade Orals Round 3 First Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Caribbean Celebrations Discovery Day in Puerto Rico commemorates the discovery of the island by whom?

Christopher Columbus Alt. 2. Revolutions An object spinning at three revolutions per minute is spinning through how many degrees per minute?

1080 Alt. 3. Impacts The impact of a very fast, relatively small mass into a larger body such as a planet or moon produces a depression called a what?

crater Alt. 4. Streams Reminiscent of a piece of flatware, name the place where two streams of approximately equal volume come together.

fork Alt. 5. Customs By naval custom, the commander of any ship, whatever his or her rank, is called what?

captain 7th Grade Orals Round 3 Second Half Page 1 1. Ancient Trading 6. Fantasies The convoys of traders that used camels or mules as In what series of stories by Susan Cooper does Will beasts of burden to cross the Asian or African deserts Stanton join together the six signs of wood, bronze, were called what? iron, water, fire, and stone?

caravans The Dark Is Rising 2. Local Government 7. Traffic Lights Name a city government's annual financial plan based The city of Aukdale is laid out on a grid. There are on anticipated revenues and expenditures. 41 avenues that run from north to south and 27 streets that run from east to west. At each intersection, there is a traffic light. How many traffic lights are there?

budget 1107 3. Ancient Weapons 8. Combining Like Terms What weapon that dates back to the Stone Age consists Simplify the following. of a pouch secured between two lengths of cord that is 7/3x - 1/3x swung around to maximize the velocity of a projectile upon release?

sling 2x 4. Acids 9. Antonymic Figures of Speech Lemons and limes have particularly high What figure of speech is the opposite of hyperbole? concentrations of what acid?

citric understatement 5. Disasters 10. Bottled Water A similar kind of disaster at Three Mile Island in 1979 In just the United States, 29 billion bottles of water are also occurred at what site in the Ukraine in 1986? sold annually, requiring 17 million barrels of oil to make the plastic containers. To the nearest hundred, how many plastic water bottles can be made from one barrel of oil?

Chernobyl 1700 7th Grade Orals Round 3 Second Half Page 2 11. Waterway Technology 16. Wars What massive structures that were required by the The Second Seminole War ended with the removal of Panama Canal are entirely absent and unnecessary in the last resisting Seminole Indians to beyond the the Suez Canal? Mississippi from the region that later became what state?

locks Florida 12. Ships 17. Anatomy Sunk or damaged at Pearl Harbor were the Arizona, Name the large mass of ganglia protected in Oklahoma, West Virginia, California, Nevada, vertebrates by the bones of the skull. Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Tennessee. These were all what kind of ships?

battleships brain 13. Declaration Grammar 18. Body Defenses What verb in the second paragraph of the Declaration Most bacteria that enter the digestive tract are of Independence, in the line about "life, liberty, and destroyed by what acid in the stomach? the pursuit of happiness," means "assert" or "affirm"?

hold hydrochloric acid 14. Precipitation 19. Visual Acuity What type of precipitation is formed when sulfur A nearsighted person who can read at 20 feet what a dioxide from burned coal combines with water in the person with normal acuity can read at 30 yards has atmosphere? vision measured at what value?

acid rain 20/90 15. Orchestras 20. Moldy Walls Name either of the two most common unbowed The mold on a new wall in a Manassas home doubled stringed instruments in the symphony orchestra. every 24 hours and completely covered it in 15 days. On what day was one-sixteenth of it covered?

harp, piano 11 7th Grade Orals Round 3 Second Half Page 3 21. Atmospheric Phenomena 26. The Moon What is the collective name for the shimmering The Moon revolves around the Earth every 29.53 curtains of light visible in the night sky near Earth's days. What is its rotation rate? northern and southern magnetic poles?

auroras 29.53 days 22. Law 27. Clock Angles Complete this thought by Derek Bok. During a 45-minute period, the minute hand rotates There is far too much law for those who can how many degrees? afford it, and far too little for those who ...

cannot (can't) 270 degrees 23. Homophone 28. Longitude Spell the verb meaning "went by" or "moved ahead" From the International Date Line, if you travel west that is a homophone for a noun meaning "an earlier one-fourth of the way around the world, what would time." your longitude be?

passed 90 degrees (east) 24. Pi 29. Precipitation Each decimal place in the calculation of pi takes you Sleet is most similar to what other form of how many times closer to its ultimate value? precipitation common during the summer months?

10 hail 25. Western Poetry 30. Anthropology This is about whom? Tools made of what began to emerge in the Paleolithic He served the state in a career of legislating period? laws / Then went to Congress seven years, but fate devised a pause. He turned his back on politics and modified his aim. / The Texians were waging war - adventure called his name.

Davy Crockett stone 7th Grade Orals Round 3 Second Half Page 4 31. Blisters 36. Dinosaurs Blisters that have become infected are often filled with Dinosaurs that were capable of walking on two feet are what yellowish-white fluid? described as being bi-what?

pus bipedal 32. Sediments 37. Milk Organic sediment consists of the tissues of plants and What kind of milk remains when the cream has been animals that are accumulated and preserved. One separated away? example of these sediments is what partially carbonized vegetable matter found in bogs?

peat skim milk 33. Lyrical Imperatives 38. Buried Cities What words come next in these lyrics from an The city of Pompeii was buried beneath many feet of American folksong? volcanic ash during the height of what empire? I wish I was in de land ob cotton Old time dar am not forgotten ...

Look away! Roman Empire 34. Biological Adjectives 39. First Visits Considering its root word, something that is viable is Helluland, Markland, and Vinland were among the capable of what? places named by what 11th-century explorer who is credited as being the first European to set foot on the North American continent?

living (germinating, developing) Leif Ericson 35. Worm Sales 40. Clock Arithmetic Johnny gets a commission of 3% of his gross receipts In clock arithmetic, what is the sum when you add 8 when working for Worms Are Us. He earned $66 in hours to 7 o'clock? commissions in his first three months. How many dollars worth of worms did he sell?

$2200 3 (or 3 o'clock) 7th Grade Orals Round 3 Second Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Cliches What cliche refers to a state of visual impairment and a small flying mammal?

blind as a bat Alt. 2. Hydrogen The most common form of hydrogen consists of what two subatomic particles?

proton, electron Alt. 3. Metals What non-ferrous metal is widely used in aircraft fuselages, window frames, sliding doors, sailing ship masts, packaging, and equipment cases?

aluminum Alt. 4. Diversity The greatest diversity of plant and animal species is found in South America in what biome?

tropical rain forest Alt. 5. Astronomer Jargon What is the everyday term for the moment when the upper limb of the Sun disappears below the horizon as a result of the diurnal rotation of the Earth?

sunset 7th Grade Orals Round 4 First Half Page 1 1. Nations No More 6. Fantasies Mikhail Gorbachev resigned his presidency when what "The High King" is the last in what series of fantasies nation dissolved in 1991? by Lloyd Alexander?

Soviet Union Chronicles of Prydain 2. Burns 7. Ancient Fortifications Mild sunburn is classified as what degree of burn? The fortified height of a city in what ancient land was called an acropolis?

first-degree burn Greece 3. Marine Biology 8. Legends Since crayfish, crabs, lobsters, and shrimp are all Apparently Mason Locke Weems could tell a lie. It crustaceans of the order Decapoda, each must have was Weems who concocted the tale about George how many legs? Washington and what kind of tree?

ten cherry tree 4. Elements 9. Mexico What element was named after the seventh planet from What U.S. state was formerly part of the Mexican state the Sun? of Coahuila?

uranium Texas 5. Island Namesakes 10. Presidential Succession On Santa Catalina's Day in 1602, the Basque navigator No one other than what official has ever succeeded to Sebastian Viscaino landed on an island off the west the U.S. presidency? coast of North America and gave it what name?

Santa Catalina (Catalina) Island vice president 7th Grade Orals Round 4 First Half Page 2 11. Literary Limericks 16. Words to Think By This limerick is about a work by what British author? Complete this statement by Francis Bacon. Through a wardrobe, four children will go If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end To a land some may choose not to know. in doubts, but if he will be content to begin It's a magical tale with doubts, he shall end in ... Where the witch won't prevail, And the lion defeats every foe.

C.S. Lewis certainties 12. Point of View 17. Other Bases What point of view is illustrated in this line? Represent the number of U.S. senators from the Four You are not the kind of guy who would be at Corners states as a binary numeral. a place like this at this time of the morning.

second person 1000 13. Grass 18. Sensation What kind of grass is used in Asia as a food, as a This is about what sensation? medicine for respiratory diseases, as a fabric, as The vibrations are transferred to three small structural members of homes, bridges, and bones and then to the oval window. scaffolding, as wind or percussion musical instruments, and as pipes?

bamboo hearing 14. Algebraic Evaluation 19. RPM Evaluate q cubed + 9 when q equals 2. If an electric motor is running at 4,800 rpm, how many degrees does it rotate in one second?

17 28,800 15. Photography 20. Engines What kind of camera lens magnifies a distant object What kind of engines powered sternwheelers, and makes it appear closer? sidewheelers, and paddle wheelers?

telephoto steam engines 7th Grade Orals Round 4 First Half Page 3 21. The Constitution 26. Wars The preamble is the first part of the U.S. Constitution. What two countries were the belligerents in the War of The next part consists of seven what? 1812?

articles United States, United Kingdom (Britain) 22. Time Rules 27. Antecedents A simple rule for naming what time division is to add What word is the antecedent in this statement? one to the number of its hundred? Remember that pronouns agree with their antecedents in gender, number, and person.

century pronouns 23. Metamorphosis 28. Decimal Equations The metamorphosis of a maggot results in what adult Find x if x/4 = .28. creature?

a fly 1.12 24. Scientific Shapes 29. Sunburn What structure is an airfoil with a leading edge, a Because of its latitude, in which U.S. state are people trailing edge, and camber? exposed to the greatest percentage of sunlight during a year?

a wing Hawaii 25. Trials 30. Special Numbers In 1868, Chief Justice Salmon Chase presided over What is the largest numeric six-digit palindrome? whose impeachment trial?

Andrew Johnson's 999999 7th Grade Orals Round 4 First Half Page 4 31. Research 36. Quotes Name the list of books used as resources in the The words, "When in the course of human events" are preparation of a research paper. attributed to what a tall, red-haired Virginian?

bibliography Thomas Jefferson 32. Motion 37. Precipitation According to Newton, how long would a feather What process makes virga disappear before it reaches remain motionless on a box if it were not acted on by the ground? outside forces?

forever evaporation 33. A Carnivore's Diet 38. Nice Neighbors Carnivores eat omnivores, other carnivores, and what John Robie is a successful cat burglar. His neighbor, other category of creatures? Clem Clouseau finds out and tells John that he will give his evidence to the cops unless John forks over $50,000. Clem has committed what crime?

herbivores blackmail (extortion) 34. Colors 39. Apportionment What is the collective name for tints and shades In which body of the U.S. Congress does a resident of between white and black? a state whose population just barely qualifies for two national legislators have almost twice the relative influence as a resident of a state that does not quite qualify for two?

grays House of Representatives 35. Victories 40. Moby Marathons The imperial competition for eastern North America, Every year, a marathon reading of "Moby Dick" takes begun in the 16th century, ended in 1763 with a total place at the New Bedford Whaling Museum in which victory for what European country? each reader gets 10 minutes and the entire reading takes 25 hours. How many readers are there?

England (Great Britain) 150 7th Grade Orals Round 4 First Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Currency Applications The Delta Project, a protective barrier in what European country, cost more than 10 billion guilders?

Netherlands (Holland) Alt. 2. Repetitive Phenomena What is the term for a series of natural events that keeps happening over and over?

cycle Alt. 3. Organ Disorders Common disorders related to what organ include gastroparesis, gastritis, heartburn, and indigestion?

stomach Alt. 4. Orbits In a geosynchronous orbit, the period of the satellite equals the period of the rotation of what?

Earth Alt. 5. Story Motifs The theme of "the one forbidden thing" is found often in literature. With Adam and Eve, it is an apple. In the myth about Pandora, it is a box. What is it in the story of Bluebeard?

a room 7th Grade Orals Round 4 Second Half Page 1 1. Ovens 6. Cotton What kind of ovens scatter superhigh frequency waves A cotton plant produces rounded seedpods that burst throughout their interiors, causing water molecules to open when ripe to reveal fluffy white cotton fibers. collide with one another and change kinetic energy Name these seedpods. into heat?

microwave bolls 2. Off-Planet Presence 7. International Competition November 2, 2010 marked the first decade of The Olympic Games were held in London in 1948. continuous human presence in space on board what Why had they been cancelled in 1940 and 1944? platform?

International Space Station World War II 3. The Price of Freedom 8. Ecology In the 17th and 18th centuries, many people could not What term that rhymes with "lover" refers to afford the price of a boat ride to the New World, so vegetation, debris, and irregularities of the land that they would agree to work for an employer for several provide concealment for wildlife? years in return for their tickets. These people were called what kind of servants?

indentured servants cover 4. Phrases 9. Political Groups Phrases lack what two basic parts of a sentence? What term that rhymes with "fraction" indicates a group of people who share similar political views?

subject, verb (predicate) faction 5. Symmetry 10. Chronic Diseases What is the term for a straight line through the center Asthma is a chronic disease of what body system? of a solid figure around which the parts are symmetrically arranged?

axis respiratory system 7th Grade Orals Round 4 Second Half Page 2 11. Hurricanes 16. Gases Hurricanes can only sustain their energy as long as What happens to the temperature when a gas is they are over what? compressed?

water higher (warmer, raised) 12. Ecology 17. Mystery Novels This illustrates what ecological relationship? What national park is the setting for this work by Jean At a certain lake, osprey feed on pike that Craighead George? feed on perch that eat bleak that feed on The Missing "Gator of Gumbo Limbo: An freshwater shrimp that eat phytoplankton. Ecological Mystery

food chain (or predator-prey) Everglades 13. Revolutions 18. Figurative Language An motor that makes 2,400 revolutions per minute What figure of speech is used in these lines by Emily turns how many degrees in one second? Dickinson? There is no frigate like a book To take us lands away, Nor any coursers like a page Of prancing poetry.

14,400 simile 14. Wars 19. Historic Poems Harry Truman called it the dumbest war the U.S. ever This is about what historic American site? fought, a conflict joined mainly because the British Eight hundred and eighty were challenged did not like Americans trading with France. Name by Travis to die this 19th-century war in which the only major battle By a line that he drew with his sword when triumph occurred after the official peace treaty had the battle was nigh been signed some two weeks earlier. And him that would fight to the death cross over But him that would live better fly.

War of 1812 the Alamo 15. Novels 20. Anatomy In what story does a teenage girl win a piebald horse What bones encase the spinal cord? in a raffle and, despite her young age and gender, go on to win the Grand National steeplechase?

National Velvet vertebrae 7th Grade Orals Round 4 Second Half Page 3 21. Adventure Novels 26. Sets These are the opening lines of what story by Jonathan Bert has 77 baseball cards in his collection while Wyss? Bertie has 143 in hers. If 41 are duplicates, how many For many days they had been tempest-tossed. different cards are in both groups?

The Swiss Family Robinson 179 22. Foods 27. Travel Algebra What food produced by creatures of the order How long does it take a vehicle to cross X miles of Hymenoptera consists of almost 99% carbohydrates? Indiana at Y miles per hour?

honey X/Y hours 23. Political Factions 28. Heat To what political party did George Washington You are roasting a hot dog over an open campfire on belong? the end of a straightened steel coathanger. When the end of the coathanger in your hand becomes too hot to hold, this illustrates what form of heat transfer?

no party conduction 24. Malapropisms 29. Perimeters What word should have been used in this line? What is the width of a rectangle if its perimeter is 32 He's a wolf in cheap clothing. feet and its length is 10 feet?

sheep's 6 feet 25. Penalties 30. Syllogisms Name the penalty pronounced upon a person who has What is the conclusion of this disjunctive syllogism? been convicted by judicial proceedings. Either I think or I am not. I think. Therefore ...

sentence I am. 7th Grade Orals Round 4 Second Half Page 4 31. Sight 36. Malapropisms Actually, we never see objects themselves but only What word should Mrs. Malaprop have used in this what? line? Lead the way, and we'll precede.

light (visible light, reflections) proceed 32. Sedimentary Rocks 37. Pronouns Up to 90% of the grains of what common sedimentary Restate this sentence using a first-person pronoun. rock often found in sinkholes and caverns are skeletal They have no guts. fragments of organisms that lived in the ocean?

limestone I have no guts. 33. Compasses 38. Technological Advances The compass direction of 225 degrees is halfway In the same year that Fidel Castro launched a between what two cardinal directions? revolution in Cuba, what country launched the world's first artificial satellite?

south and west Russia (Soviet Union, U.S.S.R.) 34. Musicians 39. Fields of Science At least fifty members of this family were musicians in What in general is studied by petrologists? the 17th and 18th centuries. One of them, Johann Sebastian, was one of the greatest composers of all time. What was their last name?

Bach rocks 35. Percent 40. Frontier Farming What is 6 1/2 percent of 6 percent? What is the last word in this jingle? The bankers followed us out west And did in mortgages invest. They looked ahead and shrewdly planned, And soon they'll have our Kansas ...

.39% land 7th Grade Orals Round 4 Second Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Ghastly Deaths In what country was Joan of Arc burned at the stake?

France Alt. 2. Historical Malapropisms What word should the student have used when he quoted Abraham Lincoln as follows? A horse divided against itself cannot stand.

house Alt. 3. Presentations What adjective indicates materials that present information in a pictorial and audible form?

audiovisual Alt. 4. Rhyme What is the rhyme scheme of this quatrain? The mountain frames the sky As a shadow of an eagle flies by. With clouds hanging at its edge A climber proves his courage on its rocky ledge.

aabb Alt. 5. Beliefs What kind of "centrism" holds that humans are the most significant species on the planet?

anthropocentrism (humanocentrism) 7th Grade Orals Round 5 First Half Page 1 1. Logic 6. Bodily Tissues If the first premise is "All mammals are animals" and What kind of tissues in your body contain fibers that the conclusion is "All whales are animals," what is the are able to contract? second premise?

All whales are mammals. muscle tissue 2. Spanish Marriages 7. Outlaws In 1469, the queen of Castile married the monarch of Billy the Kid's life of crime began in the territory that what eastern Spanish kingdom? became what state?

Aragon New Mexico 3. USA States 8. Eclipses Name the only state with the letters "USA" in its name A solar eclipse is a shadow cast by what body on what in that order, although not adjacent to one another. body?

Louisiana by the Moon on the Earth 4. Animals 9. Runoff What animal with a name beginning with "W" has a Almost all of the runoff from the Louisiana Purchase pouch? region flows into what body of water?

wombat (wallaby) Gulf of Mexico 5. River Namesakes 10. Communications Science After what ship did Robert Gray name the largest river Two cans and a string can be used to communicate in the Pacific Northwest? over a distance so long as the string is tight. The energy of the person speaking is transmitted to the person listening by means of what?

Columbia waves 7th Grade Orals Round 5 First Half Page 2 11. Amphibians 16. Allusions Through what process does a tadpole grow long legs This sentence alludes to what kind of mammal? and webbed feet and lose its long tail? As the cave's roof collapsed, he was swallowed up in the dust like Jonah, and only his frantic scrabbling behind a wall of rock indicated that there was anyone still alive.

metamorphosis whale 12. Drama 17. Musical Instruments Melodramas generally include four stock characters To what family of instruments does the marimba including the hero, the heroine, a comic ally who belong? assists them, and what other kind of character?

villain percussion 13. Oxygen Consumption 18. Colonial Trades In a chemical reaction, the amount of oxygen In colonial America, what did tanners produce? consumed is eight times as great as the amount of hydrogen consumed. How much hydrogen is consumed when 32 grams of oxygen are consumed?

4 grams leather 14. Influential Novels 19. Algebraic Fractions The novel, "Uncle Tom's Cabin," is credited with A/B times C/D equals AC divided by what? helping to start what major conflict?

Civil War BD 15. Book Parts 20. Railroad Tales These lines were taken from what part of a book on These books are about what historic railroad? astronomy? -Freedom River 1.1 The Visible Sky, 3 -Dear Canada: A Desperate Road to Freedom 1.2 The Motions of the Sun, 7 -Freedom's a-Callin Me 1.3 The Motions of the Moon, 11 -Shadrach Minkins: From Fugitive Slave to Citizen 1.4 The Motions of the Planets, 13 -Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People 1.5 Eclipses of the Sun and Moon, 15 to Freedom 1.6 Prehistoric Astronomy, 17

table of contents Underground Railroad 7th Grade Orals Round 5 First Half Page 3 21. Wood Products 26. 18th-Century Guerrillas Plywood is made through what process involving the The guerrilla fighters led by Ethan Allen were named gluing together of several layers of thin wood? after what mountain chain in Vermont?

lamination Green Mountains 22. Book 'Em 27. U.S. Cities What slang police term that means "to arrest" also In what state are these cities? means a sculpted representation of someone's head Kalispell and shoulders? Havre Butte Miles City Anaconda Bozeman

bust Montana 23. Visionaries 28. Disorders One of the earliest sketches of a workable parachute A migraine is a severe type of what? was done around 1485 by what Italian Renaisssance painter, scientist, and engineer?

Leonardo da Vinci headache 24. Compound Machines 29. Painting Genres Scissors incorporate what two simple machines? What kind of painting will depict such subjects as breakers crashing on rocks, coastlines, windblown waves, beaches, distant islands, and sunsets on peaceful oceans?

lever, wedge seascapes 25. Government Groups 30. Science Fiction What is the U.S. equivalent of a council of ministers or This story by Madeleine L'Engle is about Meg, her executive council? little brother, her friend Calvin, and their quest to free Meg's father from his captivity in another world. It is entitled "A Wrinkle in" what?

cabinet Time 7th Grade Orals Round 5 First Half Page 4 31. Courts 36. Historical Malapropisms What institution in the United States is most similar to What word should have been used in this line? the High Court of Australia, the Constitutional Court Samuel Morse invented a code for telepathy. of Austria, the Supreme Federal Tribunal of Brazil, the Court of Final Appeal in Macau, and the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany?

Supreme Court telegraphy 32. Skin Problems 37. Hollywood Proportions Liver spots, otherwise known as age spots, actually If Zsa Zsa can slap four policemen in five days, then have nothing whatever to do with the liver. Instead, how many days will she need to slap 100 policemen if like freckles, they largely result from prolonged she maintains the pace? exposure to what?

the Sun (sunlight, UV rays) 125 33. Rectangles 38. Antipodes What is the length of a rectangle with a width of 3 feet What are the two most obvious antipodes on Earth? and a perimeter of 20 feet?

7 feet north and south poles 34. Olympic Games 39. Gold Fever If the first Olympiad began in 776 B.C., in what year A great number of the forty-niners on their way to the was the tenth Olympiad? goldfields went by way of what West Coast bay?

740 B.C. San Francisco Bay 35. Atmospheric Science 40. Algebraic Expressions In the 18th century, both Antoine Lavoisier and Karl Heathcliffe earns three dollars less than four times Scheele independently concluded that air consists what Gertrude earns. If Gertrude gets paid y dollars, primarily of what two gases? what does Heathcliffe make?

nitrogen, oxygen $4y - 3 7th Grade Orals Round 5 First Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Shipping Vocabulary What adjective indicates a river wide and deep enough to permit the passage of ships?

navigable Alt. 2. Streams Intermittent stream flow events are usually initiated by what meteorological phenomenon?

rain (precipitation) Alt. 3. Leaves Name the broad, flat part of a leaf.

blade (lamina) Alt. 4. Microscopes What is the most common example of a simple microscope, i.e. one with a single lens?

magnifying glass Alt. 5. Geometry Sectors, arcs, and radii are parts of what plane geometric figures?

circles 7th Grade Orals Round 5 Second Half Page 1 1. Historical Periods 6. Legislators The Confederate states returned to the Union during The number of members representing each state in the what period in American history? House of Representatives depends on what decennial enumeration?

Reconstruction (1860s) census 2. Expressions 7. Slowing Things Down To do the best one can and to play one's proper role is The friction that acts to slow down an object as it to pull one's what? moves through the air is called air what?

weight resistance 3. Historical Periods 8. The Atmosphere During what period in U.S. history were the What is the collective term for any atmospheric carpetbaggers most active? condition that produces adverse effects on humans, animals, vegetation, or materials?

Reconstruction (air) pollution 4. Sound 9. Anagrams Tuba, kettle drum, trumpet, and piccolo players are "Tubed" is an anagram for what term indicating a first standing side by side. If they play a note public appearance? simultaneously, which will you hear first at a distance of 100 meters?

The sounds are all heard at the same time. debut 5. Movie Inaccuracies 10. Planets You are watching a movie about a space war. One of What planet is colored by windblown, iron-rich dust? the battle cruisers blows up with an enormous explosion sound. From a scientific standpoint, what is wrong with this scene?

Sound does not travel in a vacuum. Mars 7th Grade Orals Round 5 Second Half Page 2 11. Scary Stories 16. Songs This is from what famous short story? This is the fourth line of what song? The vibration of the pendulum was at right For purple mountain majesties angles to my length. I saw that the crescent was designed to cross the region of the heart. It would fray the serge of my robe -- it would return and repeat its operations - again - and again.

The Pit and the Pendulum America the Beautiful 12. The Arts 17. European Neighbors Arts such as music, theater, and dance that are done What two European countries are adjacent to each before an audience are collectively known as what other, to the Bay of Biscay, and to the Mediterranean? kind of arts?

performing arts France, Spain 13. Consecutive Integers 18. Instruments Find four consecutive odd integers whose sum equals These are varieties of what kind of percussion 0. instruments? banana double steel snare kettle

-3 -1 1 3 drums 14. Squaring Numbers 19. Population Descriptions The square of 11 is 121. What other number can be The mortality rate tells what about a population? squared to get 121?

-11 how many people are dying (death rate) 15. Tunnels 20. Trigonometric Junctions One of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World, the What is always formed when the secant and a tangent longest undersea tunnel in the world is beneath what of a circle meet? European strait?

English Channel an angle 7th Grade Orals Round 5 Second Half Page 3 21. Weather 26. Authorization What is the common, more or less subjective What body of elected officials must consent to meteorological adjective for weather that is pleasant? appointments made to the major departments of U.S. federal government?

fair Senate 22. Life 27. Muscle Problems What is the basic unit of life? What is a painful spasm in a muscle called?

cell cramp 23. Force 28. Paper Tearing What force powers a siphon? You tear a sheet of paper in two, and then tear both halves in two again. After making a total of 6 tears, how many pieces of paper do you have?

gravity (gravitational force) 64 24. Musical Compositions 29. Boiling Tunes composed for and performed on musical What happens to the boiling point of a substance when instruments without a human voice are collectively the pressure is reduced? known as what?

instrumentals It is lowered. 25. Poisons 30. Fuels What is the term for poisons secreted by animals? What is the most abundant gaseous fossil fuel?

venoms natural gas (methane) 7th Grade Orals Round 5 Second Half Page 4 31. Hill Sites 36. Perspectives The U.S. Capitol is near what river? A painting of a scene as it might be viewed from overhead is from the perspective of what kind of vertebrate's eye?

Potomac bird's eye 32. British Legends 37. Algebraic Word Problems What shire is the setting for Howard Pyle's book, "The If the sum of twice a number plus 13 is 75, what is the Merry Adventures of Robin Hood"? number?

Nottinghamshire (or Nottingham) 31 33. The Judicial Branch 38. Polygon Perimeters In the United States, what is the court of last resort? What is the length of one side of a regular octagon with a perimeter of 160 inches?

Supreme Court (U.S. Supreme Court) 20 inches 34. Numeration 39. Root Words What binary numeral is missing in this quip? What is the meaning of the root in these words? There are -- types of people in the world. trident Those who understand binary numbers, indent and those who don't. dentifrice dentist

10 (or one zero) tooth 35. Seasonal Poetry 40. Legal Defenses These lines are from a poem by John Keats named for Rosanna Danna was accused of robbing a New York what season? City bank last Halloween. What legal defense did she Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, use when she claimed she had spent all of last fall in Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun: the Ukraine studying mutations caused by the Conspiring with him how to load and bless Chernobyl meltdown? With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run

autumn (fall) alibi 7th Grade Orals Round 5 Second Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Betting Odds If it is estimated that the probability of Old Stewball's winning a particular horse race is 1 in 20, what are his odds of losing that race?

19 in 20 Alt. 2. Relatives in Novels This is a line from what novel? It was all because of his no-good-dirty-rotten pig-stealing great-great-grandfather.

Holes Alt. 3. Parallel Structure What two words complete this line by Mark Twain illustrating parallel structure? It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to ...

deserve them Alt. 4. Ancient Kings Nebuchadnezzar built magnificent stepped gardens overlooking what city?

Babylon Alt. 5. Nations across the Seas A ship sailing due west from Angola will first come to what country?

Brazil 7th Grade Orals Round 6 First Half Page 1 1. Petroglyphs 6. Courtrooms From its root word, we know that petroglyphs are In the courtroom, the two sides in a criminal case are always executed on what material? called the prosecution and what other?

rock defense 2. Party Nicknames 7. Asian Sites What nickname was applied to the Progressive Party as The name of what country completes this line? a result of Theodore Roosevelt's remark, "I feel fit as a The Inland Sea, separating Honshu, Shikoku, and bull moose"? Kyushu, is the site of a national park and is one of the more scenic areas of ...

Bull Moose Party Japan 3. Conquerors 8. European Attractions At the time the conquistadors explored the Americas, Buckingham Palace is in what city? what native people ruled in the area that later became southern Mexico?

Aztecs London 4. Local Officials 9. Shapes What is the most common title of the municipal Any object that bends inward like the inner surface of officer with the highest rank? a hollow sphere has what shape?

mayor concave 5. Creature Combos 10. Fantasy Worlds British scientists were convinced it was a hoax when What world created by Ursula Le Guin is an the governor of New South Wales sent them a drawing archipelago in a vast and mostly uncharted ocean? of what animal with a beaver's tail and a duck's bill?

platypus (duck-billed platypus) Earthsea 7th Grade Orals Round 6 First Half Page 2 11. Land in the U.S. 16. Means Name the large parcels of land set aside by the U.S. What is the mean of these scores? government for exclusive use by Native Americans. 8 6 10 9 12

reservations 9. 12. Ornithology 17. Algebraic Expressions They have wings that are small and hidden by hairlike Using the letters B and H as variables, express this feathers that cover their bodies. About the size of a statement algebraically. large chicken, name these birds that run through the Bill is 3 years older than Hillary. New Zealand forests on powerful, stubby legs.

kiwis B = H+3 13. Shared Names 18. Political Leaders What first five letters of the name of a large, chiefly Adolf Hitler led what political party? aquatic, short-legged African herbivore are the same as the first letters in the name of the Greek remembered as "the Father of Medicine"?

hippo Nazi (National Socialist) 14. Literary Etymology 19. Fiber Optics What form of literature got its name from a Phone companies use fiber optics for long-distance combination of three Greek words meaning "self," communications because light moves through the "life," and "write"? fibers with little attenuation in comparison to copper wire. What is attenuation?

autobiography reduction (weakening, lessening, decrease) 15. Mixed Metaphors 20. Laws of the Land What two proverbs were combined in this bit of What first U.S. constitution created a weak and nonsense? unsatisfactory central government? The early bird gathers no moss.

... catches the worm, a rolling stone ... Articles of Confederation 7th Grade Orals Round 6 First Half Page 3 21. Simple Weapons 26. Volume The power of the sling is attested to in what biblical What is the volume of a cube if the area of each face story about a confrontation between two combatants? of the cube is 64 square inches?

David and Goliath 512 cubic inches 22. Universal Symptoms 27. Gruesome Poetry Anyone experiencing what medical emergency will What word is missing in this verse? involuntarily grasp his or her neck? Willie, in one of his nice new sashes, Fell in the fire and was burnt to ashes; Now, although the room grows ----, I haven't the heart to poke poor Willie.

choking chilly 23. Colonization 28. Big Critters In 1830, what country passed a law forbidding further What African mammal that can weigh more than three colonization of the Texas Territory by U.S. citizens tons is a vegetarian with webbed feet, large tusks in its and prohibiting further importation of slaves into the lower jaw, and nostrils that it can close, enabling it to region? remain underwater for 15 minutes or longer?

Mexico hippopotamus 24. Human Anatomy 29. Parliamentary Procedure What organ is associated with these structures? Spell the word used in parliamentary procedure which pulmonary artery is a homonym for the first person singular subjective aorta pronoun. left ventricle right atrium

heart aye 25. Deities 30. Europe These were deities of what ancient civilization? Italy is shaped like a boot kicking what island? Thoth, Ra, Ptah, Mut, Isis, Horus, Anubis

Egypt Sicily 7th Grade Orals Round 6 First Half Page 4 31. Geometric Vocabulary 36. Text Art What is the term for any closed figure formed by line Academic texts usually include drawings, segments in a plane? photographs, and images that provide examples or help clarify material being covered. What are these embedded visual supplements called?

polygon illustrations 32. Sunspots 37. Foreign Policy What can be said about a sunspot in comparison to its What is the general name for a national policy of not surrounding photosphere? favoring one side or the other in a war?

It is cooler (or darker). neutrality 33. Spoonerisms 38. Physiological Responses "Riddle of the mode" is a spoonerism for what What is the common reaction described as an political position? explosive charge of air at up to 60 mph triggered by a foreign object or accumulated mucus in the main airways to the lungs?

middle of the road coughing 34. Teddy Roosevelt 39. Psychology What adverb, according to Theodore Roosevelt, Jane is moody. Ebenezer is grumpy. Polly is describes how one is supposed to speak while carrying optimistic. Jerry is funny. Abe is forthright. These a big stick? statements describe what general psychological characteristic of these individuals?

softly personality 35. Music Fundamentals 40. Subject-Verb Agreement What is the name for an interval of five steps between Change one word in this sentence to make it read notes? correctly. The presence of many strangers were observed in the marketplace.

fifth were to was 7th Grade Orals Round 6 First Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Ancient Officials Tribunes, praetors, and consuls were officials in the government of what ancient republic?

Rome Alt. 2. Communications The first western telegraph station in the U.S. was on Telegraph Hill, not far from Nob Hill and Fisherman's Wharf, in what city?

San Francisco Alt. 3. Literary Landforms What landform is the setting for the novel, "Lord of the Flies"?

island Alt. 4. Architecture What architectural structure has a hemispherical shape as if someone had spun an arch 360 degrees around its center?

dome Alt. 5. Agreements What is a legal agreement creating and defining the obligations between two parties called?

contract 7th Grade Orals Round 6 Second Half Page 1 1. Textile Technology 6. Writing History Name the device that turns thread or yarn into cloth The scribes of ancient Egypt used what writing system by weaving strands together at right angles. involving pictorial symbols?

loom hieroglyphics 2. Contact Area 7. Words for Some to Live By Consider two rectangular prisms with dimensions of 3 In what novel are these principles found? centimeters by 3 centimeters by 30 centimeters. When Whatever goes upon four legs laid one on top of the other, what is the smallest or has wings is a friend. possible contact area between them? No animal shall wear clothes. No animal shall sleep in a bed.

9 square centimeters Animal Farm 3. Mammals 8. Early Federal Programs The name for the mammalian order, Chiroptera, In 1800, when the seat of U.S. government was being literally means "hand wing." Name the creatures in transferred to Washington D.C., legislation this order in which the structure of the open wing appropriated $5000 "for the purchase of such books resembles an outspread human hand with a membrane as may be necessary for the use" of the legislative between the fingers that also stretches to the body. branch. What institution was thus established?

bats Library of Congress 4. Political Slang 9. Vocabulary What slang term for information anonymously given Waht is the term for the body of rules or principles to the press may also refer to a tiny hole in a tire? prescribed by authority or established by custom that a community or state recognizes as binding on its members?

leak law 5. Numbers 10. Trilogies There are 15 zeros in a quadrillion and 18 zeros in a These are the parts of what trilogy by Louise Cooper quintillion. How many zeros are in a septillion? about the forces of Order against the forces of Chaos? The Initiate The Outcast The Master

24 Time Master 7th Grade Orals Round 6 Second Half Page 2 11. Novels 16. Painting In Lucy Montgomery's story set on Prince Edward In watercolors, what is the term for a thin translucent Island, what color are the gables of the house in which layer of diluted color? Anne lives?

green wash 12. Overloads 17. Oceanographic Haikus A truck is rated to carry 6,000 pounds. The driver This haiku is about what oceanic phenomenon? cheats and puts on a 20% overload. What is the True Seismologists weight of the entire load? Animals flee to safety Big wave on the way

7,200 pounds tsunami 13. Disorders 18. Devices What body system is directly affected by endocarditis, What optical device with perfect or approximate axial myocarditis, cardiomyopathy, aortic aneurysm, and symmetry transmits and refracts light while coronary atherosclerosis? converging or diverging a beam?

circulatory system lens 14. Government Agencies 19. Cheese Dishes What U.S. federal agency was formed in response to What dish consists of melted cheese into which chunks the successful launch of Sputnik by the Soviet Union? of bread are dipped?

NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Admin.) fondue 15. Force 20. Scientific Errata If there is a 7-newton force pulling an object west and In the 18th century, the great French chemist Antoine another 7-newton force pushing that object west, then Lavoisier was totally mistaken when he said that stones there is an unbalanced force of how many newtons could not fall to the earth because there are no stones causing the object to go west? in the sky. But today, what do astronomers call such stones?

14 meteors (meteorites) 7th Grade Orals Round 6 Second Half Page 3 21. Weaponry 26. Historical Warriors The invention of what weapons enabled armies to What is the name for the historical Scandinavian break down the walls of fortresses that had theretofore seagoing warriors? been impregnable, sometimes for centuries?

cannons Vikings (Norsemen) 22. Conquistadors 27. Vocabulary What Spaniard led the first expedition to A conflagration is a large and destructive what? systematically explore the American Southwest?

Francisco Coronado fire 23. Massive Air Pollution 28. Anniversaries In the 1930s, there were times that dirt fell from the In 2012, who celebrated her 60th anniversary as sky like snow in Chicago, Buffalo, and Boston, and England's monarch? red snow fell over New England. What name was given to the region in the south-central United States that was the source of this particulate matter in the atmosphere?

Dust Bowl Elizabeth II 24. Machines 29. Kipling's Characters What simple machine consists of a wheel, an axle, and In "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi," what kind of animals are Nag a rope or chain? and Nagaina?

pulley cobras 25. Novels 30. Historic Perambulations In the novel, "Holes," the mild-mannered school The first walk on Mare Tranquillitatis was a mission teacher named Miss Katherine becomes what goal of what NASA project? notorious outlaw?

Kissin' Kate Barlow Apollo Project 7th Grade Orals Round 6 Second Half Page 4 31. Political Questions 36. Bird Poems Name the only Caribbean commonwealth that has This verse is from a poem about a bird of what voted on the question of American statehood. country? Digging in the soil in search Of worms and grubs A tasty platter of pure delight For any little kiwi Beneath the southern skies.

Puerto Rico New Zealand 32. Latin American History 37. Voting What is the name for large Spanish landholdings in Someone with a winter chalet in Aspen, Colorado, a Latin America that were sometimes plantations, beach house in Honolulu, Hawaii, a primary residence ranches, or mining operations? in Phoenix, Arizona, and business addresses in both Elko, Nevada and Spokane, Washington could be registered to vote in a national election in how many precincts?

haciendas one 33. Invertebrate Malapropisms 38. Sets Correct the malapropisms in this line. Name the set containing all the different elements The three main segments of insects include from two sets, without repetition. the head, the abduction, and the borax.

abdomen, thorax union 34. Area 39. Figures of Speech What is the total surface area of a cube measuring six Restate this simile as a metaphor. centimeters on an edge? My brother is like a beast.

216 square centimeters My brother is a beast. 35. Capital Lands 40. Algebraic Multiplication In 1788, what state ceded ten square miles to Congress What is the product? for the future District of Columbia? P(1 + rn)

Maryland P + Prn 7th Grade Orals Round 6 Second Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Elements At room temperature, what phase of matter is illustrated by the majority of elements in the periodic table?

solid Alt. 2. Novels In what novel is this passage found? The rock struck Piggy a glancing blow from chin to knee. The conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.

Lord of the Flies Alt. 3. Deserts You are crawling along the desert sands in the Sahara when you look over the next dune and see a pool of water surrounded by palm trees. What is the name for such a place?

oasis Alt. 4. Fields of Science What do paleontologists collect?

fossils Alt. 5. Prefixes What is the meaning of the prefix in words such as foretell and forestall?

before (earlier, in front of) 7th Grade Orals Round 7 First Half Page 1 1. Celebrations 6. Fictional Immortality On the night of May 1, 2011, thousands of people What character in "Tuck Everlasting" ultimately gathered at the Ground Zero site of the 9/11 attacks in decides not to drink from a vial of water that would New York to celebrate the news that who had been make her immortal? killed?

Osama bin Laden Winnie 2. Literary Anecdotes 7. Algebraic Division Name the American literary character who cons Divide (-18xy) by 3x. friends into whitewashing a fence.

Tom Sawyer -6y 3. Vocabulary 8. Literary Forms Name the benches used by the congregation in a A literary form based on crimes and the apprehension church. of the criminals responsible is what kind of story?

pews detective story (mystery, whodunit) 4. Blockades 9. Epigram Analysis What major European city was blockaded by the What word is modified by "real or pretended" in this Soviet Union in 1948? epigram by James Madison? Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged against provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.

Berlin danger 5. Plane Geometric Doggerel 10. Historical Fiction What word completes this geometrical poem? "Not any one of us Ashmores - Eubie, Mother, or I, Points Fayette - will ever forget that summer we got mixed Have no parts or joints. up with all those mules, the wild mountain man, and How then can they combine the moonshiners who were shooting at us." So begins To form a ... the novel by Patricia Beatty entitled "Eight Mules from" what site in California known for its bay?

line Monterey 7th Grade Orals Round 7 First Half Page 2 11. Short Stories 16. Triangles There are two characters in Jack London's "To Build a What is the measure of the third angle of a triangle if Fire." One is a man. What is the other? two of the angles measure 55 and 100 degrees?

dog 25 degrees 12. New Laws 17. Silent Letters According to the Presentment Clause of the Name any word with a silent "gh" preceding a "t." Constitution, a bill must be presented to and acted upon by whom before it becomes law?

president night, ought, taught, etc. 13. Jurisdiction 18. Parodies In the U.S., the jurisdiction of a sheriff is generally These lyrics from a 1920s tune about gangland limited to what single geographic subdivision? Chicago parody what song? And the pistols' red glare, Bombs bursting in air Give proof through the night That Chicago's still there.

county The Star-Spangled Banner (national anthem) 14. Moving Air 19. Fish Adaptations What device used by blacksmiths consists of a flexible What word should complete this line? air chamber and nozzle designed so that when the In spring, the salmon swim upstream to spoon. chamber is compressed, a high-speed stream of air is forced out?

bellows spawn 15. Stories 20. Water In the novel, "Bunnicula - A Rabbit Tale of Mystery," The melting point of ice is zero degrees Celsius. This the central character is Nighty, who also appears in temperature is also what other point of water? sequels entitled "The Celery Stalks at Midnight" and "Nighty Nightmare." Nighty is what kind of creature?

cat freezing point 7th Grade Orals Round 7 First Half Page 3 21. The Wages of Work 26. Meteorology Vocabulary You make $9.00 per hour and time and a half for What is the general name for any liquid or solid overtime. What are your gross wages if you work a aqueous deposit that forms in a saturated atmosphere 50-hour week? and falls from clouds to the ground surface?

$495 precipitation 22. Disasters 27. Story Settings As a result of a tragic combination of geological What U.S. state is the setting for these stories? conditions, one of the most devastating landslides in Into the Wild history killed 17,000 and destroyed the town of Children of the Midnight Sun Yungay in Peru in 1970. Yungay is in what mountain Aleutian Sparrow range?

Andes Alaska 23. Sound 28. Rotation A musical tone that deviates somewhat from an If a Frisbee rotates 9 times in one second, how many expected frequency is said to be off what? degrees does it rotate in half a revolution.

key 180 degrees 24. Coasts 29. Mail Advances Of the U.S. states bordering the Gulf of Mexico, In 1732, who revolutionized the colonial postal service which two have the shortest coastlines? to improve circulation of his "Almanack" and "Pennsylvania Gazette"?

Mississippi, Alabama Benjamin Franklin 25. Archaeology 30. Verse These are archaeological sites in what country? What form of verse is used in this example from Turin, Herculaneum, Sardinia, Pompeii Ogden Nash? There was an old man from Calcutta Who coated his tonsils with butta Thus converting his snore From a thunderous roar To a soft oleagnious mutta.

Italy limerick 7th Grade Orals Round 7 First Half Page 4 31. Number Names 36. Protozoa What is the smallest whole number less than one times What protozoa move by changing shape? 10 to the 4th power that includes the letter A?

one thousand amoebas 32. Gutenberg 37. Inventive Entrepreneurs Johann Gutenberg invented movable what? He had only three months of formal schooling. His mother provided the rest of his education. Still he went on to patent over 1300 inventions including the microphone and the phonograph. Name him.

type Thomas Edison 33. Treasure Tales 38. Sensation Name the island where the treasure is supposed to be A flavor is a combination of what two sensations? hidden according to Billy Bones' map in "Treasure Island."

Skeleton Island smell, taste 34. Battles 39. Sentence Order The first Battles of the American Revolution were Express this sentence in inverted order. fought in 1775 in what colony? A little learning is a dangerous thing.

Massachusetts A dangerous thing is a little learning. 35. Medical Professions 40. Celebrations In a dental office, what is the title of the technician In 1936, residents of what state celebrated the 300th who scales and cleans teeth, applies sealants, and anniversary of the founding of Providence? instructs patients on proper dental care?

hygienist Rhode Island 7th Grade Orals Round 7 First Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Plant Reproduction What powder consists of grains with a hard coat to protect the sperm cells during their movement between the stamens and the pistil of flowering plants or from the male cone to the female cone of coniferous plants?

pollen Alt. 2. Islam What is the bible of Islam?

Koran Alt. 3. Novels This is from what science fiction tale? Hammond whined, "But what are you going to do to my animals?" "That's not really the question, Mr. Hammond," Muldoon said. "The question is, what are they going to do to us?"

Jurassic Park Alt. 4. Triangles Consider a triangle with sides of 4, 6, and 7. What is the longest side of a similar triangle that has a perimeter of 51?

21 Alt. 5. Signals What is the term for the kind of signaling device such as a lighthouse on a coast or a radio transmitter that emits a guidance signal for aircraft at an airport?

beacon 7th Grade Orals Round 7 Second Half Page 1 1. Sentence Construction 6. Camping What part of speech is overused in this? You are camping in an arroyo in the foothills of the I read an article last night, and it was about Superstition Mountains and notice enormous black meteorites striking the Earth, and I became clouds forming. You could be in danger from what terribly frightened but my dad told me there kind of flood? was little chance of it happening because usually meteors burn up in the atmosphere.

conjunctions flash flood 2. A Shocker! 7. The Media What class of electricity is illustrated by the person In relation to mass media, the common letters in these who gets a shock after walking across a wool rug and abbreviations stand for what? touching a doorknob? PRI, APR, NPR

static public radio 3. Pickles 8. Duels Dill pickles are slightly fermented in weak brine, Who fatally wounded Alexander Hamilton? without vinegar, and are flavored mainly with what herb of the parsley family?

dill Aaron Burr 4. Faulting 9. Guitars Thanks to movement along what fault, Los Angeles Name the part of the guitar that raises the base of the will reach San Francisco's latitude in about 10 million strings from the guitar body. years?

San Andreas fault bridge 5. Drawing 10. Compass Reading Among the oldest drawing materials are natural chalks On a compass, what direction is opposite of WSW? and what porous, carbonaceous material?

charcoal ENE (east northeast) 7th Grade Orals Round 7 Second Half Page 2 11. Presidents 16. Balance The Kennedy assassination put Lyndon Johnson into An object can only be balanced on a point if the point the presidency. What conflict eventually caused him is directly below the object's center of what? to not seek reelection in 1968?

Vietnam War gravity (mass) 12. Gadsden Purchase Math 17. Government James Gadsden and Mexican President Antonio Lopez Under the bicameral system, what branch of a de Santa Anna agreed on the price of $10 million for government is divided into two chambers? the land in the Gadsden Purchase, about $337.38 per square mile. To the nearest 10,000, how many square miles of territory did the U.S. acquire?

30,000 legislative branch 13. Balloons 18. Energy Hot-air balloons fly because what property of the air The name for what form of energy literally means inside the balloon is less than that of the air outside "earth heat"? the balloon?

density geothermal 14. Health Disorders 19. Plumb Tuckered Out A mild form of shock due to dehydration from Name the feeling of exhaustion or weariness resulting excessive sweating when exposed to prolonged from prolonged exertion. elevated heat and humidity is called heat what?

exhaustion fatigue 15. Star Patterns 20. Composition Which constellation got its name from the Latin word What error in composition is illustrated in this? for lion? The little piglet was extraordinarily hairless and bald too.

Leo redundancy 7th Grade Orals Round 7 Second Half Page 3 21. Migrations 26. Idioms During what age that gripped Earth during the What word is missing in these idioms? Pleistocene epoch were people and animals enabled to at every ---- cross the Bering Strait land bridge? do a good ---- take a ---- for the worse ---- over a new leaf

Ice Age turn 22. Rock Formation 27. Phoolish Phrases What rocks prized by collectors often develop as How many prepositional phrases are in this line from follows? a Woody Allen movie? 1. Marine sediments become limestone. I object, Your Honor. This trial is a travesty. 2. Spheroidal cavities form in the limestone. It's a travesty of a mockery of a sham of a 3. Mineral matter precipitates in the cavity mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of from subsurface solutions to form crystals a sham! projecting inward.

geodes 6. 23. Natural Selection 28. Scientific Devices Based on Darwin's theory of natural selection, the idea What device produces a strong, coherent beam of light that organisms tend to persist that are well-suited to having only a single wavelength? their environment is known as survival of the what?

fittest laser 24. Calamities 29. Algebraic Addition What natural phenomenon that caused the destruction What is the sum of x + x + x? of the Colossus of Rhodes also triggered the tsunami that destroyed much of Fukushima in 2011?

earthquake 3x 25. Asian Economics 30. Percussion Instruments In March of 2011, Japan's industrial output declined What brass or copper hemispherical drum can be by a record 15.3% following what two related disasters adjusted by handles which alter the tension of the that occurred that month? head?

earthquake, tsunami kettledrum 7th Grade Orals Round 7 Second Half Page 4 31. Poetry 36. Forms of Literature This is about what kind of fleshy fungi? What is the name for a daily record of personal events Overnight, very written for the satisfaction of the writer and usually Whitely, discreetly, not for publication? Very quietly Our toes, our noses Take hold on the loam, Acquire the air.

mushrooms diary (journal) 32. Asian Isles 37. Singing Voices This is about sites in what country? What male singing voice is between tenor and bass? Its most famous island is the exotic Bali, known for its captivating art and temples, but there are also untold natural and cultural wonders on the much larger islands of Java, Sumatra, Kalimantan, Sulawesi, and in Irian Jaya.

Indonesia baritone 33. Creative Writing 38. Low Points What figure of speech is used in this line? Sea level is the lowest point in what two states The wind with its sabre unsheathed led the beginning with the letter "A"? charge with the scream of a demon.

personification (or alliteration) Alabama, Alaska 34. Wings 39. Biological Classification What is the shape of a delta wing? Which level of classification in biology goes between phylum and order?

triangular class 35. Metals 40. Earth Science The basis for any modern, industrialized economy is How are these bodies collectively known? what metal found in the ore, hematite, used in making Vega, Procyon, Canopus, Altair a huge variety of products from skillets to locomotives?

iron stars 7th Grade Orals Round 7 Second Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Angles All of the angles in a rectangle are what kind of angles?

right angles Alt. 2. Bridges In what Judy Blume story about rivalry and adjustment does Peter Hatcher's family move to New Jersey and raise a new baby sister named Tootsie?

Superfudge Alt. 3. Ecological Concepts The biota of a region is comprised of its flora and what else?

fauna (animals) Alt. 4. Figures of Speech What is the most common example of onomatopoeia regarding a locomotive?

choo-choo Alt. 5. Anatomy What anatomical structures are mostly found in antagonistic pairs?

muscles 7th Grade Orals Round 8 First Half Page 1 1. Adventure Fantasies 6. State Histories In the fantasy by Suzanne Collins, Gregor the What two states were admitted to the Union in the Overlander and his sister fall into an underground same year that Fidel Castro took over the government world called what? of Cuba?

Underland Alaska, Hawaii 2. Chemistry 7. Ancient Dramatist Grammar A shorthand notation expressing how many atoms of What is the adverb in this line by Sophocles? various elements constitute a given chemical I would prefer even to fail with honor compound is called a chemical what? than to win by cheating.

formula (or molecular formula) even 3. Music Notation 8. Blisters What is another name for the G clef? You are generally advised not to break blisters because a broken or popped blister is more likely to become contaminated with pathogenic microorganisms. Name this condition.

treble clef infection 4. Silly 9. Port Closures What imaginative "guidebook" was created by Douglas In 1776, what legislative body declared American Adams? ports open to all traffic except for British ships?

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Continental Congress 5. Practical Inventions 10. Deadly Rain What product first marketed in 1874 soon put an end What keeps raindrops from attaining bulletlike speeds to cattle drives and indiscriminate land use in the before they hit you? American West?

barbed wire air resistance 7th Grade Orals Round 8 First Half Page 2 11. Woodwinds 16. Sports Biographies What woodwind has a shrill brilliance associated with "Venus and Serena" is a biography about two the highest pitch levels, and may depict the whistle of exceptional athletes in what sport? the wind, birds chirping, a flash of lightning, or piercing pain?

piccolo tennis 12. Sightings 17. Communication History Sightings of the Loch Ness monster have occurred in What short-lived enterprise became the American what constituent part of the United Kingdom? West's most direct means of east-west communication before the telegraph and was vital for tying California to the Union just before the Civil War?

Scotland Pony Express 13. Capital Punishment 18. The American Military The guillotine is especially associated with what In 1784, the Congress of the Confederation 18th-century revolution? authorized a small military force but it was not until 1789 that congressional power to "raise and support armies" was established by what document?

French Revolution U.S. Constitution 14. Speed Measurement 19. Allusions To the nearest second, how long does it take a soap This line relates to what story? box car to travel 650 feet at 18.5 feet per second? Although I can accept talking scarecrows, lions and great wizards of emerald cities, I find it hard to believe there is no paperwork involved when your house lands on a witch.

35 seconds The (Wonderful) Wizard of Oz 15. Solids 20. Low Clouds What solid has one circular face and one vertex? Often seen from a distance at sea, a dense and well-defined mass of fog moving along the surface is called a fog what?

cone bank 7th Grade Orals Round 8 First Half Page 3 21. Anvil Sales 26. Decorative Carving An anvil salesman had 20 anvils. After one week he Name one of the oldest and most durable materials for had 17 anvils left. After two weeks he had 16 anvils carving that comes from the tusks and teeth of left, after three weeks he had 13 anvils left, and at the walruses, sperm whales, narwhals, hippopotamuses, and end of four weeks he had 12 anvils remaining. At this wild boars. rate, he will have only 1 anvil left at the end of how many weeks?

9. ivory 22. Colonial Births 27. Where Are We The first English child born in America had the same What place completes this line by Dorothy in "The first name as which colony? Wizard of Oz"? This doesn't look like ...

Virginia Kansas 23. Drama 28. Meteorology During a play, the end of what is generally indicated These adjectives indicate what meteorological by lowering the curtain or turning up the houselights? phenomenon? nor'easter, nor'wester, offshore, westerly

an act (or scene) wind 24. Tornadoes 29. Architecture Although a precise location cannot be defined, the What is the name for an open space between a roof region of the U.S. called Tornado Alley is definitely and a ceiling? between what two American mountain ranges?

Rockies, Appalachians loft (attic, garret) 25. Body Systems 30. Word Squares If you alphabetize the major body systems, which is What is the second word of a word square if the first is first? "eve" and the third is "eel"?

circulatory vie 7th Grade Orals Round 8 First Half Page 4 31. Possessions 36. Astronomical Observation The country that possessed that part of North America From the Northern Hemisphere, the celestial sphere immediately north of the U.S. at the end of the 19th appears to rotate around what star? century also possessed what entire continent at the time?

Australia Polaris 32. Historic Voyages 37. Amphibians Whose 50,220 mile voyage in the 16th century first As tadpoles mature, their tails disappear, hind and proved the world is round? forelegs appear, and their gills turn into what?

Ferdinand Magellan lungs 33. Flowering Plants 38. Percentage Problems Some varieties grow to heights of 15 feet. Name these Four neighbors share in the costs of paving a road to plants of the daisy family cultivated for their edible their homes. Three paid $3200 each, while Arnold seeds used for bird and poultry feed and as a source contributed $2400. What percentage of the total cost of vegetable oil. did Arnie assume?

sunflowers 20 34. Faulty Sentences 39. Rent You can eliminate what one word to turn this sentence If the annual rent of an apartment is D dollars, what is fragment into a complete sentence? the monthly rent? When it often rains during a summer picnic

when D/12 35. Heat 40. Where Are We? The basic premise behind what kind of heat transfer is Name the crew member responsible for determining that heated matter becomes more buoyant and rises the position of an airplane or ship. while cooler matter sinks?

convection navigator 7th Grade Orals Round 8 First Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Reciprocals 1/(a-b) times what number equals 1?

a-b Alt. 2. Minerals Like obsidian, what mineral can be chipped into sharp flakes for blades and arrowheads, but can also be struck against steel to produce sparks?

flint Alt. 3. Algebraic Representation What is the simplified expression for the value in cents of x nickels and (x-3) half-dollars?

55x - 150 Alt. 4. Stock Characters These stock characters are usually found in what kind of fiction? clone, android, cyborg, mutant

science fiction Alt. 5. First Aid What verb means to resuscitate or bring back to life?

revive 7th Grade Orals Round 8 Second Half Page 1 1. National Namesakes 6. Partial People What country of the West Indies was named after St. According to the original U.S. Constitution, what Dominic? fraction of a slave did not count as a person?

Dominican Republic 2/5 2. Government 7. Ho Hum On an alphabetical list of the three basic branches of What word completes this palindrome? government, which is first? Yawn a more Roman ...

executive branch way 3. Native Currency 8. Dog Tales Strings or belts of beads fashioned from whelk shells One of the two coonhounds in "Where the Red Fern that were once used by many Native Americans as Grows" is Little Ann. Name the other. currency are called what?

wampum Old Dan 4. Spanish Inquisition Statistics 9. Pickle Math If 2000 heretics were burned at the stake in Spain Three pounds of pickles make up 12 jars of pickle between 1480 and 1530, that amounted to an average relish. How many pounds of pickles are needed to of how many heretics per year? make up 8 jars of relish?

40 2. 5. Microscopes 10. Clock Angles If the objective lens of your microscope magnifies an What angle is between the hour and minute hand when object forty times and the eyepiece lens magnifies the it is exactly 9 p.m.? objective image five times, then the image that you see through the microscope is how many times larger than the object appears to the naked eye?

200 90 (or 270) 7th Grade Orals Round 8 Second Half Page 2 11. Islands 16. Sculptures What enormous island mostly north of the Arctic What material was used in these sculptures? Circle is a self-governing part of Denmark? Agesander's "Laocoon and His Sons" Michelangelo's "David" Rodin's "The Kiss" the Hellenistic "Winged Victory of Samothrace"

Greenland marble 12. Reflexive Pronouns 17. Inequalities What reflexive pronoun completes this example? Solve this inequality for x. Old Man Reynolds is once again talking to ... 3x > 2x + 12

himself x > 12 13. American Government 18. Climates Which branch of U.S. government has authority to The two dry climate types are semiarid and what amend the Constitution? other?

legislative arid 14. Journeys 19. Colonial Period Whose legendary journey in 1775 was initiated by a During which century were 11 of the original 13 signal from the Old North Church in Boston? English New World colonies founded?

Paul Revere's 17th 15. Marine Zoology 20. Borrowed Words The bodies of what marine invertebrates are riddled From what language do we get the words chow, tea, with pores that filter out food particles from the water wok, and won ton? passing through?

sponges Chinese 7th Grade Orals Round 8 Second Half Page 3 21. Boiling 26. Songs What atmospheric condition accounts for water Every verse of what song about a lad named William boiling in Denver, Colorado, at about 95 degrees ends with this? Celsius? She's a young thing And cannot leave her mother.

lower atmospheric pressure Billy Boy 22. Cooking Vocabulary 27. Medieval Accommodations What verb means to soak food in some kind of liquid While medieval nuns lived in nunneries, monks lived mixture before cooking to impart flavor, preserve, in what facilities? and/or tenderize?

marinate (marinade) monasteries 23. Bread 28. Light Bread is one of the world's oldest foods. Originally, All colors of light are most readily absorbed by a bread was flat, but the Egyptians were able to make surface of what color? the dough rise by adding what kind of unicellular fungus?

yeast black 24. Lines 29. Pledges What is the term for exactly half a line that bisects a Members of what organization pledge to develop their circle? head, heart, hands, and health?

radius 4-H 25. Novels 30. Operations with Fractions At the end of "My Side of the Mountain," Sam Express in lowest terms the quotient of (1 1/7 Gribley and his parents move into what part of the multiplied by 2 11/12) divided by 8/9. Appalachians?

Catskills 3 3/4 7th Grade Orals Round 8 Second Half Page 4 31. Equations 36. Biomes Any term on one side of an equation may be shifted What is the largest of the Earth's biomes? to the other side by changing its what?

sign the ocean biome 32. Phrases 37. Upbeat Characters Identify the noun clause that is the subject of this This is about what fictional female? sentence. The orphaned girl arrives in Beldingsville to live Who I am keeps surprising me. with her harsh maiden aunt. All soon feel her effect as she enlivens everyone with her cheerful and infectious optimism. The sad, the lonely, the sick, and the obnoxious all become enamoured of this girl's enthusiasm and zeal.

Who I am Pollyanna 33. Primitive Practices 38. Local Government Headhunting was practiced in parts of Nigeria, the What is the general name for the primary Balkan Peninsula, Myanmar, Borneo, Indonesia, the administrative building in a city? Philippines, Taiwan, Micronesia, Melanesia, New Zealand, and in what great South American river basin?

Amazon city hall 34. Explorers 39. Word Stems In 1510, Santa Maria la Antigua del Darien was What word that means "side" may be preceded by founded in the region that became Panama by what prefixes such as "multi," "uni," "bi," and "equi"? Spanish explorer credited with discovering the Pacific Ocean?

Balboa lateral 35. Prefixes 40. Wonders What is the meaning of the prefixes in these words? In a 2007 poll of some 100 million voters, what sestet, sextuplets, hexameter structure in China made the new seven wonders of the world list?

six Great Wall 7th Grade Orals Round 8 Second Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Homonyms What term that in geometry indicates a type of angle in medicine indicates a rapid onset?

acute Alt. 2. Explorations In the early 19th century, geologist Henry Schoolcraft located the source of the Mississippi River in the region that became what state?

Minnesota Alt. 3. Water Topography What term, reminiscent of a part of the body, is also used for a relatively narrow extension of a sea, ocean, or lake?

arm Alt. 4. The Ocean Floor What is the name for a deep trough in an abyssal plain?

trench Alt. 5. Graphing Name the intersections of vertical and horizontal values plotted on a graph.

coordinates (ordered pairs) 7th Grade Orals Round 9 First Half Page 1 1. Booms 6. Anatomy A sonic boom is a shock wave ahead of an airplane Through which artery does the greatest volume of resulting from compressed what? blood flow?

air aorta 2. Trunk Anatomy 7. Consecutive Integers Name the area between the bottom of the ribs and the What are the three consecutive numbers if their sum is top of the thighs. 276?

abdomen 91, 92, 93 3. Plurals 8. Award Winners Spell the plural of "sheaf." During his career, he won 20 Oscars, more than anyone else. Name this visionary animator.

sheaves Walt Disney 4. Library Science 9. Sensation Books from what section of most libraries cannot be Most animals have photoreceptors that are sensitive to taken from the library? what?

reference light 5. Newspapers 10. Boiling In a newspaper article, what does a byline tell you? What effect does a pressure cooker have on the boiling point of water?

the author (who wrote the article) raises it 7th Grade Orals Round 9 First Half Page 2 11. Folksongs 16. Reciprocals According to the lyrics of an American folksong, in What is the reciprocal of 3/4? what land are old times there not forgotten?

Dixieland (or the land of cotton) 1 1/3 (or 4/3) 12. Complementary Angles 17. Historical Poetry Two angles, A and B, are complementary. Angle A This verse is about what northern European people of equals what? the 10th century? Spear and arrowhead tattered flesh in the rush Odin! The cry filled lungs and we fought to fill Valhalla. Chosen to be with Odin, fighting with him at Ragnarok, Heroes to the end of time.

90 - angle b Norsemen (Vikings) 13. Railroad Spikes 18. Prepositions Why was the golden spike, the last spike driven to What are the objects of the preposition in this? complete the transcontinental railroad, actually an The new subdivision is located near hills and alloy and not pure gold? arroyos.

Pure gold is too soft. hills, arroyos 14. Special Times 19. U.S. Government History There are about the same number of hours of night While the founders were people instrumental in on March 21st as there are on the 23rd of what other establishing the United States, what is the month? corresponding term for those who met in Philadelphia in 1787 to write the Constitution?

September framers 15. Fields of Science 20. Tragic Diseases What area of the earth sciences is concerned with What 20th century president developed Alzheimer's topics such as these? disease? -benthic zones -echo sounding -seamounts -trenches -currents -waves

oceanography Ronald Reagan 7th Grade Orals Round 9 First Half Page 3 21. Colonial Crops 26. Rulers This is from a brief report about what early American These people ruled what country? agricultural product? Peter the Great There is an herb called uppowoc. Its leaves Catherine the Great are dried, made into powder, and then smoked Alexander I into the stomach and head. The fumes purge Michael Romanov superfluous phlegm and gross humors from Ivan the Terrible the body by opening all the pores and passages. It preserves the body and keeps the natives in excellent health. tobacco Russia 22. Government Employees 27. Parts of Speech What is the title of the highest-ranking American How many adjectives are in this line? government employee who may be appointed to that All things excellent are as difficult as they position for life? are rare.

Supreme Court justice (chief justice) 4. 23. Animal Farm 28. Strange Tales In Orwell's "Animal Farm," four of what are good In a story by Stephanie Meyer, young Bella Swan while two of the same are bad? moves to Forks, Washington where she falls in loved with Edward Cullen who turns out to be what kind of legendary being?

legs vampire 24. Roman Numerals 29. Novels Express the number 587 as a Roman numeral. Name the novel by Carl Hiaasen in which young Roy Eberhardt moves into Coconut Grove, Florida and joins with others to block construction of a restaurant that would destroy a colony of burrowing owls.

DLXXXVII Hoot 25. Animal Tales 30. Big Teeth This is from what story by Marjorie Kinnan? Name the elongated, continuously growing front teeth Somewhere beyond the sink-hole, past the that protrude well beyond the mouths of certain magnolia, under the live oaks, a boy and mammals. a yearling ran side by side, and were gone forever.

The Yearling tusks 7th Grade Orals Round 9 First Half Page 4 31. Forgery 36. Infinitives The forgery of money or currency is what crime? What is the infinitive form of the verb whose past participle is "stolen"?

counterfeiting to steal 32. Similar-Sounding Names 37. Zoological Anatomy Many of the names for what extinct animals end in the What is possessed by all vertebrates? same letters as those ending the name for a reference work containing synonyms?

dinosaurs backbone (spine) 33. Alchemy 38. Islands One goal of the medieval alchemists was transforming Cyprus is in the eastern part of what sea? base metals such as lead into what prized element?

gold Mediterranean 34. Patriotic Songs 39. Sensation This is an excerpt from what song? What sense enables you to maintain your body You're the emblem of the land I love, position above your center of gravity? The home of the free and the brave. Ev'ry heart beats true under Red, White and Blue, Where there's never a boast or a brag

You're a Grand Old Flag balance 35. Ships 40. The Eye Name the small round windows on the hulls of ships. What pupillary response occurs when you go into a dark room after being outside on a bright day?

portholes dilation 7th Grade Orals Round 9 First Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Gold! In "Treasure Island," gold coins are called pieces of what?

eight Alt. 2. Ant Anatomy The mandibles are on which of the three main parts of an ant's body?

head Alt. 3. Body Parts This is about what part of the body? This weatherproof, self-repairing covering provides form, temperature regulation, and protection from desiccation, trauma, bacterial invasion, and ultraviolet light.

skin (integument) Alt. 4. Novels In what story are Alec Ramsey and a horse temporarily stranded on a desert island after a shipwreck?

The Black Stallion Alt. 5. Conjunctions What kind of phrase immediately follows the coordinating conjunction in the Pledge of Allegiance?

prepositional phrase 7th Grade Orals Round 9 Second Half Page 1 1. Insects 6. Alien Averages What pale-colored social insects of the order Isoptera The average height of two Kelpians is 16.5 meters. known for their destructiveness to wood? When a third Kelpian joins them, their average height becomes 16 meters. What is the height of the third Kelpian?

termites 15 meters 2. Wildlife 7. Depressions What do male elk, moose, caribou, and reindeer have What two natural geological phenomena form craters? that male pronghorns and bison lack?

antlers volcanoes, meteorite impacts 3. Liquids 8. Carbon Sinks What is the term for a very small volume of liquid What natural process in plants removes enormous bounded completely by free surfaces? quantities of carbon from the atmosphere?

drop photosynthesis 4. Fairy Tales 9. Verbs In what story by Hans Christian Andersen does a What is the collective name for the first verbs in these wicked hobgoblin invent a mirror that reflects sentences? everything good as trivial and everything bad as -Mel will explode in ten minutes. monstrous? -Vlad should bite your neck. -The marquis can inflict discomfort.

The Snow Queen auxiliary (helping) verbs 5. Conquests 10. Loans In 1576, the Mughal emperor Akbar conquered Luigi loaned Ms. Loren x lira at 9.5% interest for 1 Bengal, then the richest province in what country? year. What is an algebraic expression for the amount of interest charged?

India .095x 7th Grade Orals Round 9 Second Half Page 2 11. Perimeter Problems 16. Wyoming Indians Gail's garage is 30' by 40' while Gwendolyn's garage is What animal was the most important source of food 40' by 40'. The perimeter of Gwen's garage is how and clothing for Wyoming Indians from around 500 many feet longer than Gail's? A.D. to the 1800s?

20' buffalo (bison) 12. Astoundingly Big Trees 17. Archaeology They may have trunks more than 10 meters in Buildings, furniture, clothing, tools, weapons, works of circumference and may reach heights in excess of 75 art, coins, and toys are among the objects studied by meters. Found in California, name the world's most archaeologists. They regard all such objects shaped massive trees. by human hands as what?

sequoias artifacts 13. Neutral Neighbors 18. Plant Reproduction In World War I, what neutral country was adjacent to What is the term for the initial stage in the growth of a Italy, France, Germany, and Austria-Hungary? seed to form a seedling?

Switzerland germination 14. Gears 19. Revolutions If you have two equal-sized gears, A and B, being With what revolution are these associated? driven by two meshed gears between them, what is the spinning jenny direction of rotation of gear B in comparison to that steam engine of gear A? flying shuttle mechanical loom cotton gin

It is opposite. Industrial Revolution 15. Acrostics 20. Legal Codes This acrostic is about whom? The Code of Hammurabi was written during the 18th He hated the Jews century B.C. Under this system, punishments should Is known as a devil fit the crime and penalties were based on the doctrine Tortured anyone in his way of "an eye for" what? Led the way of the Nazis Endured everyone's hatred Ruled most parts of Europe

Hitler an eye 7th Grade Orals Round 9 Second Half Page 3 21. Palindromes 26. Pottery What word completes this three-word palindrome? What substance affixed to pottery in a kiln renders the Too far ... surface impervious to water?

afoot glaze 22. The Brain 27. Birds The brain consists of white and what other matter? A recorded diving speed of 200 miles per hour make what falcon the fastest-moving creatures on our planet?

gray matter peregrine falcon 23. Novels 28. Medical Procedures In a novel, the two components of the setting include What treatment is directed toward a patient who has the time and what else? become dehydrated?

the place rehydration (or hydration) 24. Honduras 29. The High Seas Until it became independent in 1821, Honduras was What is the most common synonym for "buccaneer"? under the control of what European country?

Spain pirate 25. Rhyme 30. Ice Ages Given that the third line of the poem is "The big What effect, if any, did glacial periods have on sea baboon by the light of the moon," what is the rhyme level? scheme of the first verse of "The Animal Fair"?

AABA Sea level dropped (lowered, etc.) 7th Grade Orals Round 9 Second Half Page 4 31. European Geography 36. Atoms Today, about 27% of what northern European If an atom is normally electrically neutral, what can be country is actually below sea level? said about the number of electrons and protons in that atom?

Netherlands There are the same number of each. 32. Forts 37. Art Materials At the outset of the Civil War, the Confederacy knew it Colored, mechanical, drafting, pastel, graphite, had to take what fort that guarded Charleston harbor? charcoal, and number 2 are types of what?

Fort Sumter pencils 33. The U.S. Military 38. Shakespearean Drama What is first on an alphabetical list of the U.S. armed Whose name completes this line from a Shakespearean forces? play? For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her ...

Air Force Romeo 34. The Sun 39. Injuries What is a comparatively dark, shallow depression in What is the common name for bleeding beneath the the Sun's photosphere called? skin around an eye?

sunspot black eye 35. Construction Projects 40. Plate Tectonics In 1914, the completion of what project shortened the Parts of what ocean are above and adjacent to the sea route from San Francisco to New York by over Nazca and Juan de Fuca plates? 5000 miles?

Panama Canal Pacific 7th Grade Orals Round 9 Second Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Squaring a Negative What is the square of -.4?

.16 Alt. 2. Fields of Study Name the study of government, politics, and the rights and duties of citizenship.

civics Alt. 3. Novels In the novel, "My Brother Sam is Dead," Sam is executed after being framed for what offense?

stealing cattle Alt. 4. Naval Victories A series of U.S. naval victories in the War of 1812 caused great rejoicing in America and corresponding dejection in what other country?

Great Britain (England) Alt. 5. Chemistry Mixtures may be composed of elements mixed with elements, compounds mixed with compounds, and elements mixed with what?

compounds 7th Grade Orals Round 10 First Half Page 1 1. Widespread Destruction 6. Hybrids When regions are heavily damaged by hurricanes, Name the hybrid resulting from crossing an apricot tsunamis, floods, earthquakes, or nuclear accidents, the with a plum. government may declare them what kind of areas?

disaster areas plumcot (pluot) 2. Phrases 7. Bodily Processes What is the adjective phrase in this line? These substances function in what fundamental bodily The auk with the golden beak is my patron. process? pancreatic juice intestinal juice gastric juice saliva

with the golden beak digestion 3. Pet Purchasing Problems 8. Wartime Novels At Andy's Alien Pet Emporium, there are 80 creatures In Harry Mazer's novel, "The Last Mission," for sale. Every third one has orange hair. Every fifteen-year-old Jack Raab joins what branch of the fourth one has a toothy grin, and every eighth one has military? a spiral horn. How many of Andy's creatures have all of these highly desirable characteristics?

3. Air Corps 4. Legendary Literature 9. The Old West Who is the central character in Robin McKinley's What term that in the Old West referred to a greenhorn book, "Outlaws of Sherwood"? not yet hardened to outdoor life also refers to a Boy Scout of the lowest rank?

Robin Hood tenderfoot 5. Glands 10. Slavery Thermoregulation is a primary function of what kind Between 1861 and 1865, many slaves escaping from of glands in the skin of mammals? the South made their way to the north through the Underground what?

sweat (perspiration) glands Railroad 7th Grade Orals Round 10 First Half Page 2 11. Farming Practices 16. Speeches Some farmers will plant corn one year and soybeans What 266-word speech adds a note of biblical the next in the same plot. Others may plant solemnity to the number 87 when it opens with the sunflowers one year and potatoes the next. Name this words, "Four score and seven"? kind of agricultural practice which helps to maintain nutrient-rich soil.

crop rotation Gettysburg Address 12. Polygons 17. Matter What polygon consists of three noncollinear points What form of matter has no surface and will spread and the connecting line segments? out indefinitely?

triangle gas 13. LCM's 18. Percentage Increases What is the least common multiple of 9 and 15? A number that quadruples goes up what percent?

45 300% 14. Animal Tales 19. Latin American Civilizations In Clare Bell's novel, "Ratha's Creature," Ratha is what Between the 5th and 10th centuries, what was the kind of creature? predominant culture encompassing southern Mexico, the Yucatan, Guatemala, Belize, and parts of El Salvador and Honduras?

cat (feline) Mayan 15. Plant Physiology 20. River Gradients What structures on a plant are used to procure How many times greater is the slope of a mountain inorganic nutrients such as minerals and water? stream with a gradient of 40 meters per kilometer than the lower portion of the Mississippi with a gradient of 10 centimeters per kilometer?

roots 400 7th Grade Orals Round 10 First Half Page 3 21. Factories 26. Speeches This is about an industrial plant set up by whom in What word completes this line from the Emancipation 1910? Proclamation? A huge conveyor moved thousands of parts. All persons held as slaves within any state or Axles were assembled along the lines that met any part of any state the people whereof shall the lines on which the car frames were then be in rebellion against the United States assembled. Assembled wheels joined the line shall be forever ... to be fastened to the ends of axles.

Henry Ford free 22. Triangles 27. Electrical Circuits Name the longest side of a right triangle. None of the connected devices will work if there is a break anywhere in what kind of electrical circuit?

hypotenuse series circuit 23. Word Problems 28. Averages The difference is 5 when 20 is subtracted from the Farmer Al planted 200 acres on Monday, 140 acres opposite of what number? on Tuesday, 240 acres on Wednesday, and a total of 480 acres on Thursday and Friday. How many acres did he plant on average each day?

-25 212 24. Historical Descriptions 29. Mining What were the workers building who are described in What element composes the most valuable gemstone this passage? mined in South Africa? By the sheer manpower of thousands of men, they hauled great blocks of stone up sloping ramps of mud-brick, wetting the surface to make it slippery.

pyramids carbon 25. Tremors 30. Light Ground tremors after a major earthquake that are What adjective describes the light transmitting ability caused by the repositioning of rock beneath the of materials such as waxed paper, frosted glass, gauze, surface are called what? and mica?

aftershocks translucent 7th Grade Orals Round 10 First Half Page 4 31. Poisons 36. Legal Synonyms What is another name for a toxin delivered by a sting What is a synonym for incarceration? or a bite?

venom imprisonment (confinement) 32. Linear Equations 37. Feathered Foods What is x if four times x exceeds 15 by x? This is about what birds? At one time, in the early 1800s, billions of them flocked over eastern North America. They had pinkish bodies and blue-gray heads, and long, pointed tails. But from about 1870, with the westward migration of settlers, millions of them were slaughtered for food to the point of their extinction.

5. passenger pigeons 33. Numbers 38. Word Categories What two numbers are the basis for modern digital What kind of words are the following? devices? stovepipe, homesick, catfish, applesauce, butterfly, grapevine, driveway, fireworks

0, 1 compound words 34. Number Statements 39. Repeating Decimals Number statements that use the equal sign are The repeating decimal 0.142857... is equivalent to equations. Number statements that use either the what fraction? "greater than" or "less than" signs are called what?

inequalities 1/7 35. Milk 40. Prominent Leaders Name the butterfat portion of whole milk. In 1940, with Britain standing virtually alone against Nazi Germany, who became prime minister?

cream Winston Churchill 7th Grade Orals Round 10 First Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Atmospheric Elements What is the most common element in the Earth's atmosphere?

nitrogen Alt. 2. Art History Influenced by the abstract work of Mondrian, Miro, and Arp, Alexander Calder invented what art form in which objects are connected by wires?

mobile Alt. 3. Pollinators Aside from bees, name another kind of nectar-consuming pollinator.

butterflies (moths, hummingbirds, bats) Alt. 4. Explorations What function was performed by Sacajawea in the Lewis and Clark expedition?

guide (interpreter) Alt. 5. The Medieval Military What soldiers of the Middle Ages were supposed to act with military courtesy, protect the weak and defenseless, and fight for the general welfare of all?

knights 7th Grade Orals Round 10 Second Half Page 1 1. Ways of Looking at Things 6. Hydrology What, that poets describe as the window of the soul, What is the term for water beneath the earth's surface has been referred to by anatomists as a bulge in the in the spaces between soil particles and between rock brain protruding out of the skull? surfaces?

eye groundwater 2. Old West Professions 7. Paths Cowboys skilled in taming wild horses were known as Name the elliptical or hyperbolic path traced by a bronco what? planet, comet, or satellite around a more massive body.

busters orbit 3. Historical Polytheism 8. Stories These are gods and goddesses of what people? Warned by a farsighted rabbit that their warren is to be Tyr, Freya, Odin, Freyr, Thor destroyed by a housing development, a group of rabbits flees into the unknown in what book by Richard Adams?

Norse (Scandinavian) Watership Down 4. Borrowed Words 9. Quadrilaterals These words came into English from what language? Consecutive sides in a quadrilateral are adjacent to entrepreneur, envoy, espionage, etiquette each other. What adjective indicates sides of a quadrilateral that are across from each other?

French opposite 5. Linguistics 10. Stuff What is the official language of the Roman Catholic Matter is anything that has mass and occupies what? Church?

Latin space 7th Grade Orals Round 10 Second Half Page 2 11. Speed Problems 16. Congressional Constituency It takes you 45 seconds to run 340 feet. To the The constituency of what official elected to Congress nearest tenth, what is your average speed in feet per consists of all the citizens who reside within his or her second? state?

7.6 senator 12. Statehood 17. Static Electricity New Mexico and what other state were admitted You rub two inflated balloons on some wool, and then during the presidency of William Howard Taft? suspend the balloons from two strings attached to a single point. The two balloons push each other away because they both were given what charge?

Arizona negative charge 13. Mud Flats 18. Industrial Revolution Usually, a mud flat is exposed and submerged how Of all the British inventions during the early part of many times daily? the Industrial Revolution, probably the most important was what kind of engine?

twice steam engine 14. Tense 19. Pains What tense is illustrated in this sentence? A crick is a painful cramp or muscle spasm in what The best-laid plans of mice and men often part of the body? go astray.

present tense neck (back) 15. Triangles 20. Bees What kind of triangle has exactly two congruent sides What is a male bee called? and two congruent angles?

isosceles triangle drone 7th Grade Orals Round 10 Second Half Page 3 21. Tracts 26. Great Lakes What tract in the body includes the nose, throat, Which of the Great Lakes receives water from both larynx, trachea, bronchial tubes, and lungs? Lake Superior and Lake Michigan?

respiratory tract Lake Huron 22. Trees 27. Wordplay Evergreen is one of the two broad categories of trees What form of wordplay is used in these lines? that make up forests in a temperate climate. What is -this is a tellular cellophone. the other? -I have to nose my blows.

deciduous spoonerism 23. Body Systems 28. Algebraic Expressions What muscle at the base of the thorax drives the What is the simplified expression for the value in cents pulmonary system in mammals? of x nickels and (x+4) quarters?

diaphragm 30x + 100 24. Monarchs 29. Powers of Ten What was the title of the absolute monarchs who 70 equals 7 times ten to what power? governed Russia until 1917?

czar (or czarina) first 25. Subordinate Clauses 30. The Circulatory System What word is modified by the subordinate clause in What blood vessels connect arteries with veins? this line? The egg that Rheava Ostricha laid was larger than a Yuma cantaloupe.

egg capillaries 7th Grade Orals Round 10 Second Half Page 4 31. Musicians 36. Mixtures What musical instrument is played by a flautist? If the correct mix for powdered lemonade is 1/4 cup for 2 quarts of water, how much mix should be used with 1 1/2 gallons of water?

flute 3/4 cup 32. Poor Richard 37. Singing Homonyms According to Franklin, three people may keep what if Which of the types of male singing voices is spelled two of them are no longer living? the same as the group of game fish including stripers, smallmouths, groupers, and largemouths?

a secret bass 33. Mirrors 38. Blood Circulation A plane mirror has a flat surface. What kind of mirror When blood returns to the heart's right ventricle, it is curves outward like the back of a spoon? blue because it lacks what?

convex mirror oxygen 34. Epitaphs 39. Bacterial Growth The king mentioned in this epitaph was fond of the If a strain of bacteria can reproduce twice per hour, meat of what kind of animal? how many generations are possible in four days? Here lies our mutton-eating king, Whose word no man relies on. He never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one.

sheep 192 35. Islands 40. Fictional Characters What major island is just north of the Java Trench? What central character in a novel had a "no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing great-great-grandfather"?

Java Stanley Yelnats 7th Grade Orals Round 10 Second Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Revolutions How many degrees does a Frisbee rotate in ten revolutions?

3,600 Alt. 2. Law In court, what is the term for something that provides or helps to provide proof?

evidence Alt. 3. Pennsylvania History What did Drake's Folly produce?

oil (petroleum) Alt. 4. Law Enforcement In many rural areas of the U.S., the principal law enforcement officers are sheriffs and their assistants. What is the title of the assistants?

deputies Alt. 5. Angles How many degrees are in one sixth of a right angle?

15 7th Grade Orals Round 11 First Half Page 1 1. Art Excellence 6. Historic Speeches Pablo Picasso's "Guernica," Richard Wagner's "Ring of In a famous speech given by Martin Luther King in the Nibelungen," Mozart's "Don Giovanni," and 1963, he repeatedly said that he had what? Milton's "Paradise Lost" are regarded as those artists' greatest creations. What is the term for such greatest works?

masterpieces (masterworks) a dream 2. River Controls 7. Triangles Name the earthen mounds built on the banks of a The what is the side of an isosceles triangle called that river to increase the volume of water the channel can is not a leg? hold.

levees base 3. Canada 8. Evolution What Canadian province is traditionally regarded as Fish were once the dominant creatures on Earth. part of the Pacific Northwest? Some developed fins capable of supporting their weight and the capability to breathe air. These moved onto the land and became the earliest ancestors of what class of vertebrates that includes salamanders and frogs?

British Columbia amphibians 4. Coasts 9. Military Volunteers Which U.S. coast is the leading edge of the North Members of the U.S. armed forces called "green card American plate? soldiers" are not citizens of what country?

west coast United States 5. Triangle Angles 10. Writing If the angles in a triangle are in the ratio of 5 to 7 to 6, Around 3400 B.C., people in what civilization began what is the product of the largest and smallest angles? to use primitive hieroglyphic writing?

3500 Egyptian 7th Grade Orals Round 11 First Half Page 2 11. Marine Biology 16. Types of Numbers What structures do most aquatic animals possess for Express the number 700 as an ordinal number. gas exchange?

gills 700th 12. Biological Homographs 17. Epigrams What term can indicate the layer on a forest floor Complete this epigram by the 16th century writer, consisting of fallen leaves and decaying matter, a John Heywood. stretcher for carrying an injured person, absorbent Haste maketh ... material in an animal cage, or multiple offspring produced at one birth?

litter waste 13. 19th Century Walks of Life 18. Native Homes What is a synonym for people of the Old West known Name the earth-covered dwellings of Navajo Indians. as road agents?

robbers (bandits, highwaymen, brigands) hogans 14. Equatorial Countries 19. Perimeters Identify the westernmost South American country What is the perimeter of a nonagon if each side is through which the equator passes. seven centimeters?

Ecuador 63 centimeters 15. Museums 20. Fictional Wounds In what Wyoming town that he helped found would In "The Lord of the Rings," Frodo is wounded in the you find the Buffalo Bill Historical Center? shoulder by what weapon?

Cody knife (dagger) 7th Grade Orals Round 11 First Half Page 3 21. Behavior 26. Law Enforcement Slang What is the name for unlearned behaviors such as nest What slang term indicating the arrest of a criminal building by birds or swimming by newborn whales? suspect may also indicate a part of a garment that encircles the neck?

instincts collar 22. Wonders of the World 27. Sentence Parts The area it covers could accommodate St. Peter's in What is the indirect object in this example? Rome, the cathedrals of Florence and Milan, and The master chef taught our class the art Westminster and St Paul's in London combined. From of ivory-billed woodpecker roasting. when it was built in about 2560 B.C., it ranked as the world's tallest structure for more than 43 centuries. Name this Egyptian structure.

Great Pyramid (of Khufu or Cheops) class (our class) 23. Native American Paintings 28. Matter In a painting by an Indian who fought at the Little Matter is anything that occupies space and has what? Bighorn, the artist shows Kicking Bear, Rain-in-the-Face, Crazy Horse, and Sitting Bull standing over what dead cavalry commander?

George Custer mass 24. Boat Building 29. Massive Constructions Long sheets of bark from what kind of tree were used Located along the northeast coast of Australia, name by American Indians to cover canoes? the largest structure ever made by any living creatures.

birch Great Barrier Reef 25. Metamorphic Rock 30. Feeding Analogies In addition to heat, what is the other most important While panthers and hyenas are carnivorous, wildebeest factor in the transformation of sedimentary rock into and oryx are what? metamorphic rock?

pressure herbivorous 7th Grade Orals Round 11 First Half Page 4 31. Novels 36. History of Space In the novel, "Holes," Stanley Yetnats is given the What was the destination of the Apollo 11 space choice of going to jail or to what camp? flight?

Camp Green Lake the Moon 32. Ocean Currents 37. Wildlife These are important currents in what ocean? The red, eastern timber, Great Plains, Texas gray, Antilles Current Mexican gray, Arctic, and maned are varieties of what Canary Current carnivorous canines? Falkland Current Guinea Current

Atlantic Ocean wolves 33. 20th-Century Africa 38. Predictions This is about what country? What solo aviator first showed this prediction by Africa's richest country became a republic in Orville Wright to be folly? 1961, but its policy of racial separation called No flying machine will ever fly from New York apartheid made it an outcast among nations. to Paris because no known motor can run at the requisite speed for days without stopping.

South Africa Charles Lindbergh 34. Clock Angles 39. Figurative Language During three hours, a rotation of how many degrees is What figure of speech is used repeatedly in this poem? made by the minute hand? I am a streak of metallic blue mixed in with shiny silver. / I am a brave dog helping others and scavenging for food. / I am a diminutive rain shower brewing up a great storm. / I am a blue leather arm chair comforting all who take a seat.

1080 degrees metaphor 35. Fictional Heroes 40. Tissues Based on his homeland, Conan the Barbarian is also What is the everyday name for the fibrous tissue that known as Conan the what? replaces normal skin after an injury?

Cimmerian scar tissue 7th Grade Orals Round 11 First Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Angles What unit of measure is used for small angles equal to 1/60th of a degree?

minute Alt. 2. Arctic Areas Name the westernmost country on the European mainland through which the Arctic Circle runs.

Norway Alt. 3. Book Series This series of books by Ally Carter is about what girls? -I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You -Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy -Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover -Only the Good Spy Young -Out of Sight, Out of Time

Gallagher Girls Alt. 4. Armies What American army participated in these battles? Battle of Brandywine Battle of Monmouth Siege of Charleston Battle of Cowpens Battle of Princeton Siege of Yorktown

Continental Army Alt. 5. Agricultural Meteorology The growing season in a region is the period of time between the last killing frost of spring and the first what?

killing frost (of autumn) 7th Grade Orals Round 11 Second Half Page 1 1. Square Root 6. Colonial Agriculture The square root of what number equals the number of In colonial South Carolina, the next most important faces on a cube? crop after rice was what plant from which a blue dye can be obtained?

36 indigo 2. Long Wagon Trains 7. Pilgrims 28% of the people in a large wagon train were women. Because of their desire to separate themselves from the There were 432 men on the trip. What was the total Anglican Church, the Pilgrims were called what in number of people in the train? England?

600 Separatists 3. Number Sentences 8. Verbose Sayings One half of what number added to seven is eleven? How is this saying usually expressed? Rectitude is not composed of dual offenses.

8. Two wrongs do not make a right. 4. Dystopian Novels 9. Bombing Statistics What story by Suzanne Collins is about the In just the year 1965, the U.S. Air Force dropped post-apocalyptic world of Panem in which, during an more bombs on what country than were dropped on annual competition, a boy and a girl from each of Japan during all of World War II? twelve districts fight to the death until only a single individual remains?

The Hunger Games Vietnam 5. Political Ratios 10. Presidential Statements A politician must divide 120 campaign promises Who said this? between the tree huggers and the loggers. How many My political nominations must be exceedingly promises should the huggers get if they are to have circumspect. No slip into partiality will pass twice the promises the loggers get? unnoticed. By having Mr. Jefferson as the head of the Department of State, Mr. Jay of the Judiciary, Hamilton of the Treasury, and Knox of that of War, I feel myself supported extremely well.

80 George Washington 7th Grade Orals Round 11 Second Half Page 2 11. Creative Enterprises 16. Circles Collectively, painting, sculpture, music, dance, theatre, What kind of circles are coplanar and have a common architecture, and photography are known as what kind center? of arts?

fine arts concentric circles 12. Medieval Architecture 17. Frontiersmen In medieval times, what kind of building complexes Buffalo Bill called what people "the former foe, were most commonly surrounded by moats? present friend, the American"?

castles Indians (Native Americans) 13. Assassination Plots 18. Circumnavigation John Wilkes Booth directed George Atzerodt to kill The first English circumnavigation of the world was what vice president? led by whom?

Andrew Johnson Francis Drake 14. Old West Folksongs 19. Angles What is the surname of the dead man in this verse? What is one-fourth of one-half of a right angle? It was Robert Ford, that dirty little coward, I wonder how he does feel For he ate of Jesse's bread and he slept in Jesse's bed And laid poor Jesse in his grave.

James 11 1/4 degrees (or 11.25) 15. Legendary Fruits 20. Columbus What fruit is part of the stories about William Tell, Christopher Columbus built a fort on the island of Isaac Newton, and Eve? Hispaniola from the wreckage of which of his ships?

apple Santa Maria 7th Grade Orals Round 11 Second Half Page 3 21. Angular Diameter 26. Native Americans The Sun is 390 times greater in diameter than the With what indigenous tribe of the northeastern New Moon. But from the Earth, the Moon and Sun appear York region is a hair style associated in which all hair to be about the same size. How many times farther is cut off except for a narrow strip down the middle of away is the Sun than the Moon? the scalp?

390 times Mohawk 22. Atmospheric Phenomena 27. Mirages Lightning may move from a cloud to the ground, While a mirage is said to be inferior when the image is from the ground to a cloud, or from one cloud to seen beneath the real object, what kind of mirage is another. It is what kind of electricity? seen above a real object?

static (electrostatic) superior mirage 23. Mathematical Palindromes 28. Time Reckoning What is the last word in this palindrome? While solar time is based on the motion of the Sun, I prefer ... what kind of time would be based on the motion of the Moon?

pi lunar time 24. Thick Byproducts 29. Symbols Name the dark liquid byproduct of refining sugar Name the six-pointed star symbolic of Judaism. cane or sugar beets into table sugar.

molasses Star of David 25. Planets 30. Sentence Correction Which planet has these characteristics? What word should replace the one wrong word in this -It completes a circuit around the Sun sentence? in about 30 Earth years. Hundreds who attended the Star Wars -It has more than 60 moons. Convention drove their own vehicle. -It is the second-largest and the least dense planet in our solar system.

Saturn vehicles 7th Grade Orals Round 11 Second Half Page 4 31. Squares 36. Sampling What is the sum of the squares of the odd numbers What is the term for a sampling of public opinions between 2 and 10? about legislative proposals or candidates running for office?

164 polls (surveys) 32. Literary Canines 37. Fields of Medicine Name the fictional dog made famous by L. Frank A toxicologist studies the effects of what substances Baum. on the body?

Toto poisons (toxins) 33. Town Names 38. New Mexico In what state are there cities named after such people The U.S. acquired most of Arizona in 1848 as a result as General Richard Clinton, Sir Walter Raleigh, and of the Mexican War, and the remainder in 1853 Dr. Bartlett Durham? through what purchase?

North Carolina Gadsden Purchase 34. Shores 39. Forests A cove may be a small arm of an ocean extending There are two major types of rain forests, temperate into land. A bay is a larger arm. What is the term for and what other? a very large arm of an ocean or sea extending into the land?

gulf tropical 35. Emotion 40. Cartoon Character Namesakes What emotion is most obviously common among What broad-billed, web-footed Disney character was photophobics, hydrophobics, claustrophobics, named after a Charles Dickens character in "A demophobics, and Russophobics? Christmas Carol"?

fear (anxiety, apprehension) Scrooge McDuck 7th Grade Orals Round 11 Second Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Safety Devices What metal rod is placed at the apex of a structure and is grounded by a cable?

lightning rod Alt. 2. Ichthyology They can release a discharge of more than 500 volts at 2 amps in a fraction of a second, but it takes them almost an hour to recharge their "batteries." Name these fish of the Amazon.

electric eels Alt. 3. Roman Architecture The ancient Roman aqueducts repeatedly incorporated what distinctive architectural structure?

arch Alt. 4. Machines What simple machine that incorporates the principle of the inclined plane is used in shims and splitting mauls?

wedges Alt. 5. Fields Electric fields may be attractive or repulsive, while gravitational fields are always what?

attractive 7th Grade Orals Round 12 First Half Page 1 1. The Age of Exploration 6. Chemical History The Portuguese maritime preeminence in the fifteenth The chemical symbol Fe is associated with what age in century was in large part due to the work of a single the development of civilization? man known as Prince who?

Henry Iron Age 2. Forms of Art 7. Proverbs The great heads on Easter Island, the Sphinx in Egypt, According to the proverb, a fool and what are soon and Michelangelo's "David" illustrate what art form? parted?

sculpture his money 3. Who's In Charge 8. Curves These were political leaders of what country? What adjective describes any curve with an ending Neville Chamberlain point that is the same as its starting point? Winston Churchill Margaret Thatcher

United Kingdom (Great Britain) closed 4. Mathematical Reasoning 9. Insurrections If A = B and C = D, then A + C equals what? The Warsaw uprising of 1944 occurred in what country?

B + D Poland 5. Numbers 10. Forts If Puerto Rico became a state, what ordinal numbers Fort Laramie was the first permanent trading post in would correspond to its U.S. senators? what future state?

101st, 102nd Wyoming 7th Grade Orals Round 12 First Half Page 2 11. Magical Stories 16. Tribble Reproduction In what book by Ursula Le Guin does Ged, a poor If you happened to have six tribbles in your room, boy talented in magic, go to the island of Roke to be each of which splits into two organisms every fifteen trained as a wizard? minutes, how many tribbles will you have in two hours?

Wizard of Earthsea 1536 12. Volume 17. Arabian Nights What is the volume of a box with dimensions of 4, 6, Cassim, Ali Baba's greedy brother, went to the cave of and 10 centimeters? the robbers but was so excited by all the gold there that he forgot the password and the robbers murdered him. What words did he forget?

240 cubic centimeters Open, Sesame. 13. Firsts 18. Tax Problems What is the term for the first performance of a play or What is the sales tax on an item which costs $x if the the first day of an art exhibition? town has a 5% sales tax?

opening $.05x 14. Grains 19. Mammalian Characteristics What cereal grass is the staple food for about half the What is the common name for protein filaments that people on Earth? grow through the epidermis from follicles in the dermis?

rice hair 15. Atmospheric Stuff 20. Farewells What airborne carbonaceous matter resulting from What creatures in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the burning organic material is found in both smog and Galaxy" leave the message, "So long, and thanks for smaze? all the fish"?

smoke dolphins 7th Grade Orals Round 12 First Half Page 3 21. Italian Sights 26. Explorers After the cathedral and baptistry, what is the In 1534, the French king, Francis I, sent whom with third-oldest structure in Pisa's Cathedral Square? two ships and sixty-one men to look for a northwest passage linking the Atlantic with the Pacific.

the Leaning Tower (campanile) Jacques Cartier 22. Worry 27. Chemical Reactions What adverb completes this thought? Chlorofluorocarbons adversely affect what gas in Today is the tomorrow you worried about ... Earth's upper atmosphere?

yesterday ozone 23. Anatomy 28. Census Computation Ligaments do not connect muscles to bones. That is At the time of the first U.S. census, there were about 4 the job of what other bands of fibrous tissue? million people living in the country and its territories, 19 percent of whom were black. To the nearest 10,000, how many Americans were not black?

tendons 3,240,000 24. Cacti 29. Crime Most cacti are native species on what two continents? What crime is most frequently associated with ransom?

North and South America kidnapping 25. Fictional Time Travel 30. River Volume In Madeleine L'Engle's "A Wrinkle in Time," name the A river at the level where it overflows its banks is creature resembling a disembodied brain that offers known as what stage? people complete security in return for giving up their individuality and freedom.

IT flood stage 7th Grade Orals Round 12 First Half Page 4 31. Number Problems 36. Magic Squares If the sum of two numbers is 72 and one of them is What is the fourth row of a magic square if these are twice the other, what is the larger number? the first three rows? 16, 5, 9, 4 2, 11, 7, 14 3, 10, 6, 15

48 13, 8, 12, 1 32. Marine Life 37. Energy These fish are related to sharks and their appearance Solar energy comes from the conversion of what gas resembles flattened sharks. Name these marine to what other gas? carnivores whose pectoral fins are especially large and shaped like wings.

rays hydrogen to helium 33. Constitutional Mandates 38. Eye Problems The Constitution requires that what kind of A condition known as dry eye may result if your governmental enumeration occurs decennially in the lachrymal glands produce inadequate amounts of United States? what clear salty liquid?

census (taking a census) tears 34. Light 39. Enduring Plaques What type of light lies just beyond the violet end of Name either American who set up the plaque with this the spectrum? inscription. Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon July 1969 A.D. We came in peace for all mankind.

ultraviolet light Buzz (Edwin) Aldrin, Neil Armstrong 35. Ecology 40. Liquids The interconnected food chains in an ecosystem make Because of its high cohesion and low adhesion, a drop up a food what? of what liquid in a beaker will not wet the glass, and when the beaker is tipped, the drop will only roll around without spreading out?

web mercury 7th Grade Orals Round 12 First Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Corporations In the 1890s, these were names of what kind of companies? Kansas Pacific Southern Pacific Denver and Rio Grande

railroads Alt. 2. Inventions What single invention vastly expanded the need for slave labor in the American South?

cotton gin Alt. 3. Comets What part of a comet is made up of gases and dust that spread out from the nucleus and coma?

tail (dust tail) Alt. 4. Jefferson What word is missing in this quote by Thomas Jefferson? Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the ---- mental attitude.

wrong Alt. 5. Rectangle Problems The perimeter of a rectangle is 28 meters. Since the length of the rectangle is 7 meters, what is its width?

7 meters 7th Grade Orals Round 12 Second Half Page 1 1. Microbiology 6. Compromises What process that slows microbial growth in foods was The Missouri Compromise was negotiated in 1820 by invented by a French chemist? Henry Clay to forestall a clash over what issue?

pasteurization slavery 2. Astronomy 7. Art Vocabulary While the zenith is an imaginary point directly above What art term means that a work is one of a kind, an observer on Earth and the horizon is the line where authentic, made by the artist, and not a copy? the Earth and sky meet, the angle between the horizon and an object in the sky is called what?

the altitude original 3. Organs 8. Wit What organ consists mostly of cardiac muscle? What form of wordplay is used in this quip? My dog wrote a novel, but it was terrible. The plot was too arf-fetched.

the heart pun 4. Ancient History 9. Nonstandard English Around 1027 B.C., the Chou people overthrew the What two words should be eliminated from this Shang in what country? sentence? Take and put these groceries into the refrigerator before you slop the hogs.

China take and 5. Western Poems 10. Constitutional Changes What Kentucky folk hero is associated with "elbow The 13th and 14th amendments nullified the room"? "three-fifths of all other persons" phrase in the Constitution. That phrase referred primarily to what people?

Daniel Boone slaves 7th Grade Orals Round 12 Second Half Page 2 11. Dance 16. Congressional Requirements In ballet, a "pas de deux" is a dance for how many The Constitution requires Congress to assemble at performers? least how many times annually?

two once 12. Point of View 17. Cooking Physics What point of view is used in this line? What kitchen device boosts the temperature at which I woke up early that morning, already filled water boils so that foods cook faster? with excitement about the camping trip.

first person pressure cooker 13. Animal Classifications 18. Deposition What is the broad classification for any animal without In what household appliance can water vapor be a spinal column? transformed directly into a solid?

invertebrate freezer (refrigerator freezer) 14. Physical Properties 19. Rudyard Kipling When an object is stretched, it may break, remain Name the child who talks to the animals in Kipling's stretched, or return to its original shape. If it returns "The Jungle Book." to its original shape, it has what property?

elasticity Mowgli 15. Treaties 20. Vision By the Treaty of Paris signed in 1763, the Seven What part of the eye is packed with millions of Years' War ended and France ceded Canada and all its light-sensitive cones and rods that send electrical territory east of the Mississippi River to what country? impulses to the optic nerve?

England retina 7th Grade Orals Round 12 Second Half Page 3 21. Pressure 26. Landforms What adjective indicates the type of pressure exerted Where the Nile River empties into the Mediterranean, by the weight of the air above a point on the Earth's it fans out into several branches to create what surface? landform?

atmospheric delta 22. The Biosphere 27. A Good Year for Discoveries Terrestrial ecosystems include all land environments. The explorer Louis Hennepin discovered the source What kind of ecosystems include all marine and of the Mississippi River and was the first European to freshwater environments? see what major waterfalls on the St. Lawrence River in 1678?

aquatic Niagara Falls 23. Scientific Notation 28. Sentence Parts 5.15 times 10 to the third power equals what number? What is the subject of this line by Robert Heinlein? When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.

5150 you 24. Projects Completed 29. The U.S. Legislature What is the popular name for the last spike driven to What adjective describes the political party in the mark completion of the first transcontinental railroad House or Senate that holds more than half of the across the U.S.? seats?

Golden Spike majority party 25. Reaching for the Skies 30. Archaeology What age began on October 4, 1957, with the launch These sites are nearest to what river? of Sputnik 1 by the Soviet Union? Temple of Luxor Valley of the Kings Temple of Karnak

Space Age Nile 7th Grade Orals Round 12 Second Half Page 4 31. Astronomy 36. Authors If "interplanetary" means "between the planets," what It took Noah Webster some twenty years to write what term means "between the stars"? kind of book?

interstellar dictionary 32. Discoveries 37. Aviation History In 1820, Hans Christian Oersted connected a wire to a The need for aircraft in what war prompted rapid battery and noticed that the needle on a nearby advances in the original flying machines built by the compass moved. He thus discovered that there is a Wright brothers? relationship between electricity and what?

magnetism World War I 33. The Senate 38. Medical Procedures What fraction of the U.S. Senate will be up for What kind of evaluation is a physician performing reelection in the 2016 elections? when she asks you questions and orders X-rays or different kinds of medical tests before determining a treatment?

1/3 diagnosis 34. Context Clues 39. Powerful Opinions What is a context clue for the word "dermatologist" in The purpose of a notable series of essays written by this sentence? Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison After enduring discomfort for weeks, Barney was to encourage support for what? found a dermatologist who was able to cure his rash in just a matter of days.

rash (or cure) the Constitution 35. Birthdays 40. Heroes In July of 2013, what birthday of the U.S. was This is about whom? celebrated? Like so many war heroes, the former Swamp Fox faded into civilian life, protesting the continued persecution of Tories after the war and urging education as an antidote for tyranny.

237 Francis Marion 7th Grade Orals Round 12 Second Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Technological Devices What device used in medieval times to hurl large rocks, arrows, and lances is used today on aircraft carriers to launch planes?

catapult Alt. 2. Shopping Math If a coat and a hat cost $100 and the coat is $90 more than the hat, what does the hat cost?

$5 Alt. 3. Trees The seeds of conifers are protected inside what structures which actually consist of specialized leaves?

cones Alt. 4. Trails The Overland Trail passed over what extensive ridge, on either side of which streams flow in essentially opposite directions?

Continental Divide Alt. 5. Adventure Novels These excerpts are from what novel? -Hey you guys, how 'bout some algae soup? -You know, you've done some amazing things here, Sam. Hollowed out a whole little world for yourself. -Well, I came because I though the only way to know nature was to live with it. Like Thoreau.

My Side of the Mountain 7th Grade Orals Round 13 First Half Page 1 1. Star Brightness 6. Sweet Stuff The apparent brightness of a star depends on the total What substance produced by many plants is the sugar amount of light it radiates into space and what other source for honey? factor?

its distance nectar 2. Explosives 7. Redundancy What device used to fire an explosive charge is What two words could be omitted from this example essentially a long cord of waterproofed fabric with a without changing its meaning? core of gunpowder? I was told that it is absolutely essential to offer advance warning of any bugs approaching the computers.

fuse absolutely, advance 3. Revolutions 8. Life Predictions What major revolution began in Eastern Europe about The number of years that an average newborn in a the same time that the U.S. entered the First World particular society will live is called its life what? War?

Russian Revolution expectancy 4. Countries 9. Sets Of all the countries that begin with "A," name either of If two sets depicted in a Venn diagram do not overlap, the two in which "n" is the last letter. what kind of sets are they?

Azerbaijan, Afghanistan disjoint sets 5. Blacksmithing 10. Wordplay A blacksmith uses what tool consisting of two arms This example of punning is about what animal? joined at a fulcrum to hold hot metal? Valorous - a big animal vit tusks vot lives in vater.

tongs walrus 7th Grade Orals Round 13 First Half Page 2 11. Fur Trading 16. Fishing Hazards For what does the abbreviation stand in this? What part of a fishhook caught in the skin makes its Two fur trading companies, the HBC and removal most difficult? the North West Company merged in 1821.

Hudson's Bay Company barb 12. Light 17. Rock What is the name for a group of light rays moving Physical characteristics of which of the three major together in an organized manner? categories of rock vary, depending on such factors as the rate of deposition and the parent material?

beam sedimentary rock 13. Memorial Stones 18. Similes In what Washington, D.C. memorial do the columns What simile did the speaker mess up when he said consist of Indiana limestone, the rock comprising the this? exterior of Colorado marble, and the statue itself of I know your game like the back of a book. Georgia marble?

Lincoln Memorial like the back of my hand 14. Novels 19. Terms of Office In this novel, Claudia Kincaid decides to run away, The terms of what U.S. officials are staggered so that wants to run to somewhere comfortable, beautiful, and approximately one-third of them are elected every elegant, and ends up at the New York Metropolitan other year? Museum of Art. There she finds an angel statue that had been sold to the museum by whom?

Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler senators 15. Latin Phrases 20. Homonyms When would a "post mortem" examination be Spell the word meaning "having a fixed, unmoving conducted on Phileas Vanderslumgullion? position" that is a homonym for another word meaning "paper for writing letters."

after his death stationary 7th Grade Orals Round 13 First Half Page 3 21. Special Years 26. Fruits In what year was the first centennial celebration of the Native to the Philippines and other Pacific islands, United States? name the round tropical fruit with a broad green, mottled skin that grows up to 6 pounds in weight with an off-white flesh that is similar in taste and consistency to a staple food that comes in loaves.

1876 breadfruit 22. Presidential Statements 27. China Harry Truman made this statement in 1948 regarding In which cardinal direction would you travel when what new nation? going from Beijing to Hong Kong? This government has been informed that a Jewish state has been proclaimed in Palestine, and recognition has been requested by the provisional government thereof.

Israel south 23. Inventions 28. Violations It was devised so a horse was hitched alongside rather What is the collective name for these offenses? than ahead. Its knife vibrated in a line at right angles -hunting outside of legal hours to the direction in which the machine was moving. A -hunting without an appropriate license row of mechanical fingers ahead of the blade held the -hunting an animal out of season straw straight to be cut. Name this invention by Cyrus McCormick.

reaper poaching 24. Earth's Interior 29. Gold The inner core of the Earth is solid while its outer core What is the term for lump of native gold? is what?

liquid (fluid) nugget 25. Dog Tales 30. Ship Physics Old Dan and Little Ann are two coonhounds in what What happens to a ship if its weight plus the weight of novel? its contents exceeds the weight of the water it displaces?

Where the Red Fern Grows It sinks. 7th Grade Orals Round 13 First Half Page 4 31. Wartime Novels 36. Algebraic Simplification Complete this title of the Civil War novel in which Simplify the following. young Jefferson Davis Bussey fights for the North and -7ap + 8ap the South at different times. Rifles for ...

Watie ap 32. Watersheds 37. Verse and Song Name the largest watershed in the U.S. This verse by Lewis Carroll is reminiscent of what children's song typically sung as a round? Ever drifting down the stream-- Lingering in the golden gleam-- Life, what is it but a dream?

Mississippi Row, Row, Row Your Boat 33. Percents 38. Verb Use Convert 12 1/2% into a fraction. What verb phrase completes this thought by Marcel Pagnol? The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it ...

1/8 will be 34. Art Form Etymology 39. Grammar The name for what art form was derived from the Which word is a predicate nominative in this line? Latin word "murus" meaning "wall"? Porpoises are members of the whale family.

mural members 35. Poisons 40. Weather Many young children have become very ill and have For any given region, the pattern of weather it has even died after chewing on painted objects. What over a long period of time, including such factors as substance in old paint is to blame? temperature, humidity, and wind, is called its what?

lead climate 7th Grade Orals Round 13 First Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Animal Plights Because right whales, with an estimated population of less than 250 mature adults, continue to vanish at the rate of 20% within two generations, they are classified as what kind of species?

endangered Alt. 2. Disorders What visual disorder is indicated when someone cannot distinguish between a red delicious and a Granny Smith apple or a red versus green traffic light?

color blindness Alt. 3. Competition Tales These lines are from what story? They told Mrs. Olinski that they were The Souls long before they were a team, but she told them that they were a team as soon as they became The Souls. Then, after a while, teacher and team agreed that they were arguing chicken-or-egg.

The View from Saturday Alt. 4. Emigrants What modern-day state was the destination of the Donner Party?

California Alt. 5. Gravity What is the gravitational attraction on a 140-pound girl on the beach of an atoll in the South Pacific?

140 pounds 7th Grade Orals Round 13 Second Half Page 1 1. Substances 6. Latitude What is the name for a blend of two or more dissimilar Name the line of latitude that lies 66 1/2 degrees south substances in which the materials do not chemically of the equator. combine?

mixture Antarctic Circle 2. Poe 7. Stuff You Can't Digest What term indicating both the color black and a The parts of plant foods that your body can't digest or tropical tree is used in "The Raven"? absorb are called roughage, bulk, or dietary what?

ebony fiber 3. Number Problems 8. U.S. Rivers What is the largest value that XY/(X-Y) can have if the Which is last on an alphabetical list of states through unknowns are integers with values of 1 to 30 or along which the Colorado River runs? inclusive?

870 Utah 4. Geological Etymology 9. An Imperialist Scorecard The name for which category of rock comes from the In the Battle of Omdurman in 1898, the British had Latin word "sedimentum"? about 50 deaths in comparison to the Sudanese loss of some 10,000. How many times greater were the Sudanese losses?

sedimentary 200 times 5. Colonial Inquiries 10. Inverses Powhatan addressed these words to whom in 1607? What is the sum of any number and its additive Why will you take by force what you may have inverse? quietly by love? Why will you destroy us who supply you with food? What can you get by war? My men must now sit up watching, and if a twig breaks, they cry out, "Here comes Captain Smith!"

John Smith 0. 7th Grade Orals Round 13 Second Half Page 2 11. Tropes 16. Gases What figure of speech is used in this line? Present in all plant and animal tissues is what element Summer embraced the earth with her warm that is the lightest substance in the periodic table? arms.

personification hydrogen 12. Canyon Analogies 17. Forest Management Waimea Canyon is to Hawaii as ---- is to Arizona. Where small trees are growing too close together, none can grow well. Name the management practice by which some of these are removed to give the rest a better chance to mature.

the Grand Canyon thinning 13. Reefs 18. Immigrants At Eniwetok in the Pacific Ocean, over millions of In the 17th century, most of the immigrants to the years, coral has grown up more than 4,600 feet from a New World were of what nationality? receding volcanic base, to maintain a circular reef. Name that kind of reef.

atoll English 14. Atomic Physics 19. Fictional Captains What kind of charge is carried by a neutron? Nemo was the captain of what vessel?

none (neutral) Nautilus 15. Officials 20. Ancient History What state official has these powers? In ancient Egypt, what term that originally meant -call special legislative sessions "great house" in reference to the king's palace became -veto legislation the title for rulers beginning with the New Kingdom? -issue pardons and commutations

governor pharaoh 7th Grade Orals Round 13 Second Half Page 3 21. Towering Diets 26. Earth's Spheres According to the punster, a low-calorie and The hydrosphere includes all of Earth's liquid water, low-cholesterol diet makes the Tower of Pisa do what? frozen water, floating ice, and the water vapor in which of the planet's spheres?

lean atmosphere 22. Kayaking Calculations 27. Fraction Addition A kayaker completed 3/5 of her trip up the Amazon What is the sum of x/y plus z/y? after paddling 174 kilometers. How far does she have left to go?

116 km (x+z)/y 23. Science Fiction 28. Months Eoin Colfer wrote a series of science fiction fantasy The names of what months were derived from the novels featuring a teenage criminal mastermind whose Latin words for ninth and tenth? name is reminiscent of a term applied to chickens, turkeys, geese, and ducks. His name is Artemis who?

Artemis Fowl November, December 24. Discount 29. Algebraic Representation Boris bought a silver spike on sale at a discount of The product of two consecutive integers is 142. If n 20%. Its list price was $45. How much did old Boris represents the smaller integer, how should the larger pay? integer be represented?

$36.00 n+1 25. Experiments 30. Electrical Circuitry Pasteur used two groups of sheep in his experiments. What is said to occur when an electrical current The two groups were exactly alike, except that one bypasses the load in a circuit? group, the experimental group, was vaccinated. Name the other group that did not receive the treatment.

control group a short (short circuit) 7th Grade Orals Round 13 Second Half Page 4 31. Signers 36. Planets The first governor of the state of Massachusetts Name the planet which in volume is over 1300 times elected in 1880 is also remembered as the first person the size of the Earth. to sign what document in 1776?

Declaration of Independence Jupiter 32. Editing 37. The Oceans An editor has been described as one who makes a The aphotic zone is that portion of the open-ocean long story what? environment that does not receive enough of what to permit photosynthesis to take place?

short light (sunlight) 33. 20th-Century Wars 38. Law Enforcement America was involved in what war between World War Vigilantes are bands of people who take the law into II and the Vietnam War? their own what?

Korean War hands 34. American Law 39. Explorers The adversarial structure under which American What was the nationality of the first explorer to reach criminal courts operate, pits the defense against what? the South Pole?

the prosecution Norwegian 35. The Senate 40. Alloy Math If all of the U.S. senators are abroad on fact-finding An alloy is 68% magnesium. To the nearest full missions except those from states adjacent to the Great pound, how many pounds of magnesium are required Lakes, how many senators are stateside? to make 54 pounds of the alloy?

16 37 7th Grade Orals Round 13 Second Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Senate Votes When the U.S. Senate voted on a particular bill, 6 were absent and 4 abstained. Of the rest, 80% voted yea and 20% voted nay. How many voted nay?

18 Alt. 2. Linguistics These are words from what language? lei Lapakahi Kaluakaua

Hawaiian Alt. 3. Baseball Statistics If Screwball Slaminsky got 48 hits in 192 times at bat, what was his batting average?

.250 Alt. 4. Triangles Based on their sides, there are three categories of triangles. When arranged alphabetically, which of these categories is last?

scalene Alt. 5. Deadly Dramas "Our American Cousin" was the last play ever seen by what U.S. president?

Abraham Lincoln 7th Grade Orals Round 14 First Half Page 1 1. Nuclear Warfare 6. Nuclear Authority Nuclear explosions kill in three ways. The first is by Who in the U.S. can order use of nuclear weapons? extreme heat. The second is the blast of the explosion. What is the third?

radiation the president 2. Ceramics 7. Taxonomy What is the term for a piece of clay rolled like a rope What is the genus of an animal with the scientific that is used in pottery? name of Alopex lagopus?

coil Alopex 3. Greek Myths 8. Seasonal Tales Achilles, the slayer of Hector, was himself slain by This is from what story? Paris whose arrow mortally wounded him when it Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it. struck what part of his body?

heel A Christmas Carol 4. Skin Disorders 9. Speed Problems Often caused by anxiety, fungal infections, reactions If a motorcycle goes 40 miles in 35 minutes, to the to vaccinations, allergies, contact with irritants, or nearest tenth, what is its speed in miles per hour? overexposure to sunlight, what is the general name for the symptom in which skin reddens while becoming warm, bumpy, and itchy?

rash 68.6 5. Athlete Woes 10. Zoology Gene played seven games of racquetball one More than 97 percent of all animal species do not afternoon. That evening, after climbing into bed, he have backbones. How are they therefore collectively pointed his toes during a big stretch and got an classified? incredible pain in both calves. Name these pains.

cramps (spasms) invertebrates 7th Grade Orals Round 14 First Half Page 2 11. Winds 16. Creative Writing A major current of fast-moving air at high altitudes What figure of speech is illustrated here? generally flowing from west to east over the Now begins the cry of the guitar. mid-latitudes is called what stream?

jet stream personification (or inversion) 12. Sinkings 17. Insulation The U.S.S. Maine was sunk near what major island? A good insulator is obviously a poor what?

Cuba conductor 13. Peoples of the World 18. Holidays They live in Greenland, Canada, and Alaska. They What is another name for the federal holiday known have a unique language and culture. They belong to officially as Washington's Birthday? the Mongoloid racial group and have a reputation as a hardy and hospitable people. Name them.

Eskimos Presidents' Day 14. Fishing Statistics 19. Algebraic Expressions Bernice boated some barracuda with lengths of 61, 63, As an algebraic expression, express the number of 67, 71, and 73 inches. What was their average length? cents in Q dimes.

67 inches 10Q 15. Empires 20. Republics After the fall of Rome, there was no empire that Name the independent republic formed under the extended beyond the European continent until the presidency of Jefferson Davis in 1861. 16th century when Spain and what other Iberian country began colonizing regions abroad?

Portugal Confederacy (Confederate States of America) 7th Grade Orals Round 14 First Half Page 3 21. Trades 26. Monomials Name the trade of attaching stuffing, springs, What is the product of 6 and 8 and x? cushions, and covering fabric to furniture.

upholstery 48x 22. Wildlife 27. Archaeology Deer lose their antlers every spring after the mating Cuneiform and hieroglyphics are ancient forms of season. New antlers immediately begin to grow which what? are initially covered with a soft skin called what?

velvet writing (communication) 23. New Moons 28. Sad Dog Tales What kind of eclipse occurs during a new moon? An encounter with what creature leads to the deaths of both Old Dan and Little Ann in "Where the Red Fern Grows"?

solar eclipse mountain lion (cougar) 24. Absence of Motion 29. Multi-Use Words What in the solar system is actually standing still? What word fits these sentences? The ---- are a case of the blahs. Musicians say the ---- are a kind of music with a slow tempo. Civil War buffs say the ---- were Union soldiers.

nothing blues 25. Italian Archaeology 30. Percent What famous city near Naples, Italy, lay buried What percent of 600 is 200? beneath volcanic ash for some 1500 years before being discovered?

Pompeii (or Herculaneum) 33 1/3% 7th Grade Orals Round 14 First Half Page 4 31. Prepositions 36. Bike Rally Math What is the object of the preposition in this line? Although there are 804 motorcycles at a rally in Good advice is one of those insults that ought Fergus Falls, just 201 of them have fancy license plate to be forgiven. holders. What percentage of the bikes do not have fancy license plate holders?

insults 75% 32. Revolutionary Offenses 37. Stories In 1775, General Richard Montgomery and Colonel This is from what story? Benedict Arnold combined forces to attack what How bad could a worm taste? Billy had eaten walled city in Canada? fried liver, salmon loaf, mushrooms, tongue, and pig's feet. Heck, he could gag anything down for fifty dollars, couldn't he?

Quebec How to Eat Fried Worms 33. Airplane Components 38. Direct Variation What is the name for the type of fan that converts The equation y/x = 8 essentially means that y varies rotational motion into thrust? directly as x since the ratio of y to x never changes. Therefore, y is how many times larger than x?

propeller (airscrew) 8 times 34. Circles 39. Manifest Destiny In a circle with a radius of nine centimeters, what is the In the 1840s, what two European countries stood in longest possible chord? the way of America's "manifest destiny" to extend the United States to the Pacific Ocean?

18 cm Spain, Great Britain 35. Criminal Law 40. Inventors Grandma Kate awakened to find an armed burglar In 1844, a band of 15 Texas Rangers attacked a party stuffing valuables into his bag. She grabbed her .44 of 300 Comanches, killing half of them and magnum and yelled "Freeze!" When he lunged at her, intimidating the rest with new revolvers that could fire she shot him. This is known as what kind of defense? six shots without reloading. Who invented and manufactured these weapons?

self-defense Samuel Colt 7th Grade Orals Round 14 First Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Devastating Diseases What insect-borne disease ravaged the settlers of Jamestown?

malaria Alt. 2. Syllabication How many syllables are in this remark? His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.

13 Alt. 3. Mathematical Sets The set of elements that are members of both sets a and b is the ---- of the two sets.

intersection Alt. 4. Government Principles An underlying principle of American government is the separation of church and what?

state Alt. 5. Curves Any surface that curves or bulges outward is described as having what shape?

convex 7th Grade Orals Round 14 Second Half Page 1 1. Deserts 6. Protons Most of Mauritania lies within what desert? What electrical charge is carried by a proton?

Sahara positive 2. Conspiracies 7. Performing Arts Name the fort indicated in the following. During what part of the day are matinees usually Andre was provided common clothes and a offered? passport by Benedict Arnold. Arnold also gave him six papers showing the British how the fort could be taken.

West Point afternoon (daytime) 3. Book Series 8. Trilogies What word completes the titles of these books? In the "Inkheart" trilogy, what is Inkheart? An Enemy at Green ... The River at Green ... The Stones of Green ... A Stranger at Green ... The Children of Green ... The Chimneys of Green ...

Knowe a book 4. Marine Life 9. Fictional Towns These are varieties of what kind of marine mammals? In the Harry Potter series, what is the only settlement gray, crabeater, ringed, elephant, leopard, fur in Britain inhabited solely by magical beings?

seals Hogsmeade 5. Astronomical Anagrams 10. Medical Tests "Dinar" and "drain" are anagrams for what term What is a nurse checking when he puts a band around indicating a point on the celestial sphere directly your upper arm and inflates it like a balloon? below the observer?

nadir blood pressure 7th Grade Orals Round 14 Second Half Page 2 11. Fantasies 16. Ladders In Rick Riordan's novel, "The Lightning Thief," Percy You start on the middle rung of a ladder. Then you Jackson discovers he is the son of a human mom and go up 6 rungs, then down 9, then up 5, and finally up what Greek god? 8 to the top rung. How many rungs are on this ladder?

Poseidon 23 12. Scotland 17. The Industrial Revolution Scotland lies between the Atlantic Ocean and what What adjective describes the components indicated in sea? this passage? And what was more remarkable, the parts for one Whitney musket would fit any other Whitney musket.

North Sea interchangeable 13. City Legends 18. Sonar According to legend, the Italian city of Rome can be Sonar works like radar, except that instead of radio traced back to two orphans and what kind of signals, sonar uses what kind of waves? carnivorous quadruped?

wolf sound 14. Cylinders 19. Several Seas You revolve a 2.5 inch by 9 inch rectangle about its These are arms or parts of what body of water? smaller side to form a cylinder with a diameter of how Tyrrhenian Sea, Ligurian Sea, Ionian Sea, many inches? Adriatic Sea

5 inches Mediterranean Sea 15. Instrument Namesakes 20. Allusions What Hawaiian instrument, the name of which literally People who follow a group or leader without thinking means "jumping flea," has four strings? may be referred to by the name of what small Scandinavian rodents said to march in long lines into the sea when they overpopulate a region?

ukulele lemmings 7th Grade Orals Round 14 Second Half Page 3 21. Evolution 26. Pirate Talk Late in the Carboniferous period, the first members of Pirates said that what kind of men tell no tales? what new class of vertebrates had evolved from closely similar amphibian ancestors?

reptiles dead men 22. New York 27. Retreats In 1524, the Italian navigator Giovanni Verrazano In 1775, colonial minutemen killed some 273 British sailed into New York Bay where he saw a large, troops as they were retreating to what city from rugged, forested island that, under what name, later Lexington and Concord? became the financial center of the United States?

Manhattan Boston 23. Laws of Motion 28. Offenses Unless acted upon by some force, if an object is Name the act in which a person takes his own life. motionless, what will happen to it?

It will remain motionless. suicide 24. Theaters 29. Weight An outdoor theatrical setting, usually with a large Weight is not a fixed property of an object. A person semi-circular seating area sloping down to the stage, is who weighs 159.2 pounds at the equator will weigh called what kind of theater? 160 pounds at the North Pole, or, to the nearest pound, how much on the Moon?

amphitheater 27 (or 26) pounds 25. Volcanic Events 30. Novels In 1980, the largest volcanic eruption to occur in In what story does a maid named Martha tell Mary North America in historic times transformed what Lennox about a garden at her Uncle Archibald's picturesque volcano into a decapitated remnant? house that has been locked up for ten years?

Mt. St. Helens The Secret Garden 7th Grade Orals Round 14 Second Half Page 4 31. Microscopes 36. Find the Number The best light microscope can enlarge the image of a What number when increased by 25% of itself equals cell only 2000 times, while a scanning electron 120? microscope can enlarge it 200,000 times. The resolving power of the electron microscope is how many times greater than that of the light microscope?

100 96 32. Polygons 37. Pig Production What is the length of one side of a regular pentagon This year, Pete's Pig Palace increased its pig with a perimeter of 45 inches? production by 25%. How many pigs did Pete raise last year if this year's production was 30,000?

9 inches 24,000 33. Arrow Flight 38. Gears What two forces cause an arrow to eventually fall to If the driver gear in a gear train is rotating in a the ground? clockwise direction, in what direction does the gear adjacent to it called the follower rotate?

gravity, air resistance (friction) counterclockwise 34. Survival of the Fittest 39. Energy What term applies to varieties of organisms that are no What everyday, common devices convert chemical longer living? energy to electrical energy?

extinct batteries 35. Participles 40. Native Americans What is the past participle of "steal"? What U.S. region was home to these tribes? Arapaho, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Comanche, Crow, Sioux, Kiowa, Osage, Pawnee

stolen (Great) Plains 7th Grade Orals Round 14 Second Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Psychological Anagrams What anagram for "rugged" indicates a feeling of resentment?

grudge Alt. 2. Anagrams "Little urchin readers" is an anagram for what kind of literature?

children's literature Alt. 3. Finance Problems A shed costing $3000 was sold at a loss of 5%. What was the selling price?

$2850 Alt. 4. Algebraic Expressions Algebraically express the number of pounds in X tons.

2000x Alt. 5. Time How many time zones are in the Western Hemisphere?

12 7th Grade Orals Round 15 First Half Page 1 1. Divisibility 6. Story States What is the smallest number that is evenly divisible by What state is the setting for "A Day No Pigs Would every number from one to six? Die"?

60 Vermont 2. Short Names 7. Injuries Identify any two of the world's countries with What kind of bleeding occurs when damage to one-syllable names. an artery or vein allows blood to escape the circulatory system and collect inside the body?

Chad, Spain, Greece, France internal bleeding 3. Birds 8. Shadows What bird looks much like a crow except that is During what two daily events are shadows usually the generally bigger, has a larger wingspan, has a larger longest? bill, has a tuft of hair atop the bill, and has a lower pitched and hoarse call?

raven sunrise, sunset 4. Machines 9. Triangle Angles What kind of simple machine is illustrated by the If one angle of a triangle is twice as large as another human arm, tongs, a broom, or a shovel? and three times as large as the third, how many degrees are in the largest angle?

lever 90 5. Period Songs 10. Clauses These were lyrics of a popular song during what What is the last word of the independent clause in this period in American history? example? There was an old lady lived over the sea, and Buford lost the sumo match even though she was an Island Queen. Her daughter lived he had put on a great deal of weight and off in a new country, with an ocean of water shaved his eyebrows. between. The old lady's pockets were full of gold, but never contented was she, so she called on her daughter to pay her a tax, of three pence a pound on her tea. American Revolution match 7th Grade Orals Round 15 First Half Page 2 11. Antarctica 16. Legislative Leaders Name the largest military base in Antarctica. What is another title for the president of the U.S. Senate?

There are none. vice president (of the United States) 12. Crystals 17. Maritime Disaster Poetry What is the name for any flat, exterior surface of a These verses are about what ship? crystal? The sea made over fifteen hundred graves On that so sad and fateful April night As that sharp iceberg the ship's side did graze.

The crew and captain tried with all their might To save as many people as they could. In only twenty lifeboats for their plight.

facet (face) Titanic 13. Animals 18. Speed Problems What kind of creature is a chameleon? You begin a trip at 3:15 p.m. and your odometer reads 62,558. You arrive at your destination at 4:45 p.m. and the odometer reads 62,654. What was your average speed?

lizard 64 mph 14. City Economics 19. Crime What is the best-known manufactured product A customer who steals merchandise from a retail associated with Detroit? establishment that is open for business has committed what crime?

automobiles (cars) shoplifting 15. Aviation 20. Blacksmithing The first jet aircraft to be used in combat were Blacksmiths always have handy what tool consisting of developed in what country? a heavy iron block with a smooth surface upon which metal is shaped by hammering?

Germany anvil 7th Grade Orals Round 15 First Half Page 3 21. Rowing 26. Novels When you row a boat, the oars exert a force against Complete this title of a story by S.E. Hinton. the water and the water exerts an opposite force That Was Then, This ... against the oars. Who formulated a law of physics that applies to this phenomenon?

Isaac Newton Is Now 22. Motion 27. Beliefs Mr. Knievel just jumped thirteen school buses but Name the belief that when one dies, the soul returns to parted ways with his motorcycle immediately upon exist again in another body. landing. Even without the motorcycle, he continued to slide, bounce, and roll for another 84 feet. What caused him to continue moving forward?

inertia (momentum) reincarnation 23. Liquefaction 28. Fractions Liquefaction may involve a change from a solid to a If the values of p and r in the fraction, (pq)/r, are both liquid through what process? quadrupled, what happens to the value of the fraction?

melting (heating) Value remains the same. 24. Expression Evaluation 29. Numbers If A = -1 and b = -3, evaluate -2a + b. 9 is the absolute value of what two numbers?

-1 -9, +9 25. Painting 30. Ursines In what form of artistic painting are pigments What kind of bears live in the Antarctic? suspended in a water-soluble vehicle?

watercolor none 7th Grade Orals Round 15 First Half Page 4 31. Elevations 36. Discoveries In an area of crustal activity, the rate of uplift is 1.2 At whose mill was gold discovered in California, mm. per 100 years. The erosion rate is 5 cm. per 100 setting off the gold rush of 1849? years. The elevation of this area is gradually increasing by how many centimeters per century?

7. Sutter's 32. Novels 37. Silly Poetry This is from what story? This is from what poem by Edward Lear? There are plenty of people in Avonlea and out They sailed away in a sieve, they did, of it who can attend closely to their neighbor's In a sieve they sailed so fast, business by dint of neglecting their own, but With only a beautiful pea-green veil Mrs. Rachel Lynde was one of those capable Tied with a ribbon, by way of a sail, creatures who can manage their own concerns To a small tobacco-pipe mast. and those of other folks into the bargain.

Anne of Green Gables The Jumblies 33. Siberian Paleontology 38. Housing Inflation In 1799, a Siberian fisherman discovered a monster in The Bardi family bought a house in 1987 for a frozen bed of gravel that resembled an elephant with $80,000. In 2007, the tax assessor gave it a value of a furry coat. What had he found? $480,000. On average, the value of their house increased by how many dollars annually?

mammoth (woolly mammoth) $20,000 34. Mammal Stories 39. Sculptures Name the snake-killing mammal in a story by In New York City's Rockefeller Center, there is a Rudyard Kipling. sculpture of what Greek mythical character holding the world on his shoulders?

Rikki-tikki-tavi Atlas 35. Final Flags 40. Polar Motion On the last day of December in 1999, U.S. troops When the Sun is visible from the North Pole, it appears lowered the American flag for the last time over a to move in what clock direction? region which, from that point forward, would be administered by what Latin American country?

Panama clockwise 7th Grade Orals Round 15 First Half Page 5 Alt. 1. European Travels In what cardinal direction do you travel when flying from the Pillars of Hercules to Crete?

east Alt. 2. China What is the capital of mainland China?

Beijing (Peking) Alt. 3. Nuclear Math In 1958, there were 10,710 nuclear weapons worldwide. When the Limited Test Ban Treaty was signed in 1963, that number had increased by 220 percent to what?

23,562 Alt. 4. Atoms What is the charge on an atom that has an equal number of protons and electrons?

none (uncharged, neutral) Alt. 5. Big Critters After elephants, what are the next-largest land animals?

rhinoceroses (white rhinoceroses) 7th Grade Orals Round 15 Second Half Page 1 1. Legal Protections 6. Lipograms In the U.S., you cannot be tried again for a crime for Lipograms are pieces of writing that avoid using a which you have already been found not guilty in an particular letter. George Perec wrote "La Disparition." earlier trial. What phrase does the Constitution use for Since his lipogram omits a vowel, from the title we can a situation in which a person previously judged surmise the omitted vowel is one of what two letters? innocent is tried a second time for the same offense?

double jeopardy e, u 2. Tense 7. Storms What tense is used in this line? Measured in terms of their wind velocity, what Will you love me tomorrow? category of storms is next in the list after tropical depressions and tropical storms?

future hurricanes (cyclones) 3. Cryptozoology 8. Pathology What mountain range is said to be the home of the Antoncity indicates a lack of normal what? abominable snowmen?

Himalayas muscle tone 4. European History 9. Sentence Analysis What period of European history occurred after the What is the simple predicate in this line? fall of the Roman Empire and before the dawn of the For moderately large values of two, Renaissance? two plus two equals five.

Middle Ages (medieval, Dark Ages) equals 5. Tropics 10. Agriculture Which two U.S. states are closest to the tropic of Combinations of contour plowing, strip planting, and Cancer? terracing are used to reduce erosion of the upper part of the soil called the what?

Hawaii, Florida topsoil 7th Grade Orals Round 15 Second Half Page 2 11. Plant Pathology 16. Currency Exchange An albino plant lacks what pigment, making it unable If 1 shekel equals .2 euros and 1 euro equals 130 yen, to photosynthesize? then 10 shekels equals how many yen?

chlorophyll 260 12. Archaeology 17. Island History Ancient megaliths are structures or monuments built These names are associated with what North Atlantic of what? island? O'Brien, O'Connor, O'Neill, O'Reilly

stones (large stones, large rocks) Ireland 13. Conundrums 18. Clauses What is illustrated by these questions and answers? A simple sentence contains a maximum of how many -Why did the projector blush? independent clauses? Because he saw the filmstrip. -What animal is it that in the morning goes on four feet, at noon on two, and in the evening upon three? -- Man

riddles 1. 14. Vocabulary 19. Aviation Physics What verb meaning "to cover" or "to wrap" is This is about what kind of aircraft? practically identical in spelling to a noun indicating a The pilot increases its buoyancy by adding gas flat, folded container for a letter? from pressurized tanks to expand the flotation bladders, displacing the heavier air.

envelop dirigible (blimp, airship) 15. Slang 20. Independence While those who break wild horses to the saddle are The Ukraine became an independent nation in 1991 called broncobusters and those who seek to dissolved after the dissolution of what country? business trusts are called trustbusters, what similar name is given to farmers?

sodbusters Soviet Union (U.S.S.R.) 7th Grade Orals Round 15 Second Half Page 3 21. Antagonists 26. Beverage Chemistry What is the antagonist in the biblical tale of Adam and Carbonated beverages are charged with what gas? Eve?

serpent (snake) carbon dioxide 22. Rockets 27. Identities Name the propulsive force of a rocket engine. What is Samuel Clemens' nom de plume?

thrust Mark Twain 23. Jewelry Techniques 28. Wars Name the general technique by which an object is What is the more common name for the produced by pouring molten metal into a mold. Spanish-Filipino-Cuban-Puerto Rican-American War of 1898?

casting Spanish-American War 24. Technology 29. Spaniards In 1876, a Cleveland industrialist developed a machine Name the first conquistador to subjugate Mexico for that ground pigments so finely and evenly that they Spain. could be suspended in linseed oil, creating a now-common substance known as what?

paint Hernando Cortes 25. Archaeology 30. Algebra Vocabulary The Bronze Age is the second age of the three-age Polynomials consist of a series of what kind of archaeological system. What is the first? expressions?

Stone Age monomials 7th Grade Orals Round 15 Second Half Page 4 31. Monomial Addition 36. Air Travel What is the sum of the following? What is the largest river you fly over between +8ab Tampico, Mexico and San Antonio, Texas? -6ab +3ab

5ab Rio Grande 32. Weapons 37. Ratio Simplification What kind of hand-thrown weapon is described as a Simplify the ratio of 250 centimeters to 6 meters. rotating wing?

boomerang 5 to 12 33. Stores Vocabulary 38. Transportation Physics You are walking down the street and see a sign on a When roads are icy, highway departments spread store window that says "World Philately." What does cinders or sand on roadways and drivers equip their this store sell? cars with chains to increase what force?

stamps friction 34. Number Squaring 39. Protists What is 4.5 squared? You are examining a slide of pond water under a microscope and count 41 protists. How many cells are visible?

20.25 41 35. Hippo Physics 40. Body Systems What must a hippopotamus do to increase its density Hair, oil glands, and nails in addition to what major and sink to a river bottom to feed? organ comprise the integumentary system?

exhale skin 7th Grade Orals Round 15 Second Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Anatomy These are the categories of what in the body? A, AB, B, O

blood (types) Alt. 2. Factors Which of the factors of 60 are prime numbers?

2, 3, 5 Alt. 3. The Antilles While the Greater Antilles consist mostly of continental rock, the Lesser Antilles are primarily volcanic or consist of what rocklike, calcareous material that was secreted by certain marine organisms?

coral Alt. 4. Musical Jargon What term for a preserve made from whole fruit boiled to a pulp also indicates an informal musical performance?

jam Alt. 5. Lincoln According to Abraham Lincoln, what is it that a house divided against itself cannot do?

stand