2013-2014 Intermediate Pack #25

ExecutiveDirector:Paul G. Russell

Editors: Stephen Finlay , IanGreig&Jeremy Willard NationalDirector:DanielHill

NationalCo-ordinators : EricNovakovics&Frank Russell Teacher Advisors: Patricia Beecham-Cooper&Chris Zarski

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RyanAnning: ClintonKam:

Len Bonifacio: Solomon Klein: Toronto

Gerry Buccini:St. Albert MichaelLyons : Toronto

Ian Campbell: BrianMckenzie : Pinawa

BillDavis : UpperCloverdale MattMorrissefte: Brandon

Jonathan Fuller: Toronto DavidPenco : Toronto

IvanGombos ; Gary Serviss: Petawawa

Tom Ingram : Winnipeg Tom St. Amand : Sarnia

ElizabethJewlal : London OliviaVipond: Toronto

Brandon Judd: London HarryWang : Toronto

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In QUESTION PART 40-POINT 12. Whose first #1 hit in North America was “1Wanna Hold Your Hand”? A. THE BEATLES

PART TWO: The remaining questions deal with THE BEATLES. SCORE TEN POINTS FOR EACH CORRECT ANSWER

13. Name the two Beatles who agreed as kids that all songs should be credited to both of them, no matter who wrote what? A. PAUL MCCARTNEY and JOHN LENNON 14. What is the better-known name of the album officially titled “The Beatles”? A. THE WHITE ALBUM 15. What was the title of the Beatles’ first movie? A. HARD DAY’S NIGHT

20-POINT SPECIAL 16. List the three prairie provinces in order from highest population to lowest? A. , MANiTOBA, SASKATCHEWAN

80-POINT ASSIGNED QUESTION - SPELLING Here is an ASSIGNED QUESTION on SPELLING in which each member of each team is assigned a ten-point question. if you miss your question, then your counterpart on the opposing team will have a chance at it for ten points. Spell these frequently misspelled words.

TEAM A: 17. Accommodate. A. ACCOMMODATE 18. Conscientious A. CONSCIENTIOUS 19. Embarrass A. EMBARRASS 20. Harass A. HARASS TEAM B 21. Misspelled A. MISSPELLED 22. Rhythm A. RHYTHM 23. Transferred A. TRANSFERRED 24. Conscious A. CONSCIOUS

30-POINT OPEN QUESTION -- ARTISTS

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INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLREACH PACK #25 Page 2 of 7 25. Which painter’s most famous work is the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican? A. MICHELANGELO 26. Which Cretan-born artist painted the famous “View of Toledo” in his final years? A. EL GRECO 27. Which Flemish painter returned from Italy to Antwerp in 1608 to become court painter to the Spanish governors of the Netherlands? A. SW PETER PAUL RUBENS

40-POINT SNAPPERS TO END THE ROUND 28. Which of Shakespeare’s title characters is also the name of a popular game? A. OTHELLO 29. What is the capital city of Australia? A. CANBERRA 30. What is the second most abundant element in the observable universe? A. HELIUM 31. Who stars in the 2011 comedy film “Bridesmaids”? A. KRISTEN WIIG

ONE-MINUTE BREAK TO ROUND TWO

40-POINT SNAPPERS TO START ROUND TWO 32. Which American city is home to the amusement park Universal Studios Florida? A. ORLANDO 33. Name the first man to run the mile in less than four minutes. A. ROGER BANNISTER 34. Who was Prime Minister of Britain during the Falklands War? A. MARGARET THATCHER 35. What is the lightest and most abundant element in the universe? A. HYDROGEN

40-POINT WHO AM I QUESTION 36. This question is worth 40 points if you guess the answer on the first clue and 10 points less with each succeeding clue, until either team answers the question correctly.

CLUE A: I was born June 5, 1939 in High River, Alberta, the son of a newspaper editor. WHO AM I? CLUE B: I earned my Master’s degree in political science; and was the Progressive Conservative youth president. I was later elected as P.C. party leader in Feb. 1976. WHO AM I? CLUE C: I became Canada’s prime minister on June 4. 1979, becoming the youngest and first native westerner to do so. WHO AM I? CLUE D: My minority government was dissolved because of a non-confidence vote in December 1979. WHO AM I? A. lAlvi JOE CLARK

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INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLREACH PACK #25 Page 3of7 30-POINT OPEN QUESTION - VEHICLES 37. What kind of drive mechanism is associated with ajeep? A. FOUR-WHEEL DRIVE 38. Which automobile company uses as its symbol a three-pointed star in a circle? A. MERCEDES BENZ 39. What is the name of a motorized bicycle that is started by peddling? A. MOPED

40-POINT TEAM QUESTION In this two-part TEAM QUESTION, whichever team is first to answer correctly the ten-point SCRAMBLE QUESTION in PART ONE, is then eligible for the remaining ten-point questions in PART TWO.

PART ONE: Scramble for ten points. 40. In an internet address, what does the abbreviation WWW stand for? A. WORLD WIDE WEB

PART TWO: The remaining questions deal with INTERNET ABBREVIATIONS. SCORE TEN POINTS FOR EACH CORRECT ANSWER

41. What does HTML stand for? A. HYPERTEXT MARKUP LANGUAGE 42. What does URL stand for? A. UNIVERSAL RESOURCE LOCATOR 43. What does ISP stand for? A. INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER

40-POINT OPEN QUESTION - CANADIAN PROVINCIAL CRESTS 44. Which province features a buffalo on its crest? A. MANITOBA 45. Ontario has three leaves on its provincial crest. What other province also has three maple leaves on its provincial crest? A. 46. Which province features a tree on its crest? A. P.E.I. 47. Which province features a setting sun on its crest? A.

40-POINT SNAPOUT TO END ROUND TWO 48. Which American city is home to the amusement park known as Disney’s Animal Kingdom? A. ORLANDO 49. Which actor appears as the aggressive, distant father in the 2011 drama film “The Tree of Life”? A. BRAD PITT 50. What is the name of the strait between Greenland and Baffin Island? A. DAVIS STRAIT

51. What event first successfully occurred on Dec. 3, 1967 at the Groote Shure Hospital in Cape Town, South

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40-POINT SNAPSTART TO ROUND THREE 17h 52. In the early century, which explorer of Canada was cast adrift by a mutinous crew? A. HENRY HUDSON 53. The Borden and Hall peninsulas form part of which Canadian island? A. BAFFP 54. What Sir Arthur Conan Doyle series of novels has recently been made into a television show set in modern day London, England? A. SHERLOCK (Accept THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES) 55. Which American state is home to the amusement park “Six Flags America”? A. MARYLAND

40-POINT TEAM QUESTION In this two-pan TEAM QUESTION, whichever team is first to answer correctly the ten-point SCRAMBLE QUESTION in PART ONE, is then eligible for the remaining ten-point questions in PART TWO.

PART ONE: Scramble for ten points. 56. What is the name of San Francisco’s famous suspension bridge? A. THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE

PART TWO: The remaining questions deal with THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE. SCORE TEN POINTS FOR EACH CORRECT ANSWER.

57. In which twentieth-century decade was the bridge built? A. THE THIRTIES 58. What is the colour of the Golden Gate Bridge? A. ORANGE 59. From anywhere on the bridge, visitors can see what notorious island in San Francisco Bay? A. ALCATRAZ

40-POINT OPEN QUESTION - GEOGRAPHY 60. Manitoujin Island is located within which of the 5 Great Lakes? A. LAKE HURON 61. Cape Agulhas, southeast of the Cape of Good Hope, is at the southern tip of which continent? A. AFRICA 62. Of Sicily. Cyprus, or Sardinia, which is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea? A. SICilY 63. The Volga River empties into what so-calied “sea”? A. CASPIAN SEA (This is an island body of water, not connected to any ocean)

40 POINT WHAT AM I QUESTION 64. This question is worth 40 points if you guess the answer on the first clue and 10 points less with each

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CLUE A: I am a form of staged entertainment. WHAT AM I? CLUE B: I involve music and story-telling. WHAT AM 1? CLUE C: Names such as Fonteyn and Nureyev are among my finest interpreters. WHAT AM I? CLUE D: I am a form of dance that combines specific steps and positions. WHAT AM I? A. JAM BALLET

20-POINT OPEN QUESTION - ORIGINS OF PLANTS Name the continent where each of these important plants originated.

65. Tea A. ASIA 66. Tomato A. SOUTH AMERICA

ONE-MINUTE BREAK TO ROUND FOUR

40-POINT OPEN QUESTION - MOVIE STARS OF 2012 67. Which actor stars in the title role in the 2012 superhero film reboot “The Amazing Spider-Man”? A. ANDREW GARFIELD 68. Which actor appears as the villain Bane in the 2012 superhero film “The Dark Knight Rises”? A. TOM HARDY 69. Which actor stars as the main character in the 2012 film adaption of “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”? A. LOGAN LERMAN 70. Which actor appears as Jean Vaijean in the 2012 film adaptation of “Les Miserables”? A. HUGH JACKMAN

100-POINT SNAPOUT TO FINISH THE GAME 71. Which actor appears in the title role in the 2011 superhero film “Captain America: The First Avenger”? A. CHRIS EVANS 72. What famous Canadians were named Cecile, Annette, Emily, Maria and Yvonne? A. THE DIONNE QUThJTOPLETS 73. Which musical artist produced the 2012 billboard hit “Part of Me”? A. KATY PARRY 74. In Norse mythology, what character relentlessly pursues his enemies with his powerful war-hammer in his hand? A. THOR

75. In astronomy, what is the name of [he phenomenon comprised of the Sun, it’s planetary system, their moons and non-stellar objects?

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II1TERMEDJATE SCHOOLREACH PACK #25 Page 6 of 7 A. SOLAR SYSTEM 76. Which actor stars opposite Jonah Hill in the 2012 comedy film “21 Jump Street”? A. CHANNING TATUM 77. In golf what is the term for “a hole made in one stroke under par”? A. BIRDIE 78. What type of pronoun are the words “this, that, these and those”? A. DEMONSTRATIVE 79. Who was the first person to sign the U.S. Declaration of Independence? His name has since become a slang synonym for a person’s signature. A. JOHN HANCOCK 80. Which actor stars as Katniss Everdeen in the 2012 film adaptation of “The Hunger Games”? A. JENNIFER LAWRENCE

END OF GAME TIE-BREAKERS IF NEEDED

I. Which musical artists produced the 2012 billboard hit “We Are Young”? A. FUN 2. What country has the Apennine Mountains running the length of its peninsula? A. ITALY 3. What American inventor patented the phonograph in 1877? A. THOMAS EDISON 4. Which actor stars in the crime drama “Drive”? A. RYAN GOSLING

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