8Th Grade Quick Recall Blue Grass Academic Conference 2015
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8th Grade Quick Recall Blue Grass Academic Conference 2015 Copyright © 2015 Academic Hallmarks 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 1 First Half Page 1 1. Latitude 6. Moving Fluids What is another name for lines of latitude? What device uses atmospheric pressure to temporarily move liquid uphill from one reservoir before moving it to a lower one? parallels siphon 2. Energy 7. Birds Of all the forms of energy on this planet, only nuclear These are varieties of what kind of bird? and geothermal energy cannot be traced to what Jersey Giant, Minorca, Buckeye, source? Plymouth Rock, Rhode Island Red the Sun chickens 3. The Ocean Floor 8. The Old West Prairie These are beneath which ocean? Name the dried organic substance abundant on the Kuril Trench Great Plains in the 1860s that could be used as fuel. Bougainville Trench Kermadic Trench New Hebrides Trench Tonga Trench Pacific Ocean buffalo chips 4. Polygons 9. Rolling What adjective indicates a polygon with at least one of What causes a ball to roll down instead of simply its interior angles not equal to the others? sliding down an incline? irregular friction 5. Boycotts 10. Protests Since 1960, the U.S. has maintained a trade boycott In 1913, on the day before President Wilson's against what Caribbean country? inauguration, 5000 suffragettes marched down Pennsylvania Avenue, demanding the right to do what? Cuba vote 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 1 First Half Page 2 11. Paintings 16. Heavenly Bodies What painting genre is illustrated by these titles? Ison was a heavenly body that until recently orbited Branch of White Peonies and Pruning Shears the Sun about every 10,000 years. It passed close to Grapes, Peaches and Almonds the Sun in November of 2013. What kind of body Chrysanthemums was it? Table, Napkin, and Fruit The Vase with 12 Sunflowers still life comet 12. Fiction 17. A Different Point of View How many leagues are in the title of a story by Jules What vast Asian structure is sometimes called the Verne? longest graveyard in the world? 20,000 Great Wall of China 13. Telegraphy 18. Offenses The first successful telegraph in the U.S. was invented Some hoodlums went sneaking around town, slashing by whom? tires, scratching paint on cars, and defacing buildings. In doing such malicious damage, these guys have committed what offense? Samuel Morse vandalism 14. Force 19. Legislator Slang You tie a bolt to the end of a string and whirl it Congressmen who can attach funding for projects in around your head. What force prevents the bolt from their home districts to spending bills are said to be continuing in a straight line away from your head? "bringing home the" what? centripetal force bacon 15. Natural Phenomena 20. Figurative Language Anything that imparts a disturbance to the What figure of speech did Martin Luther use when he surrounding air is a source of what phenomenon as wrote these lines? perceived by people? A mighty fortress is our God, A bulwark never failing. sound metaphor 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 1 First Half Page 3 21. State Leaders 26. Electricity What is the title of the head of government in Israel, Substances with high resistance have low what? New Zealand, and Greece? prime minister conductivity 22. Pirate Talk 27. Conjunctions What is a pirate's term for someone who has spent little What is the conjunction in this line? or no time at sea? Although it was against the law, he continued his activities for many years. landlubber although 23. Potato Problems 28. Volcanoes Zeke had 297 potatoes after he increased his pile of Name the type of crater formed when a volcano erupts potatoes by 10%. How many potatoes did he have so much lava that it collapses on itself. before he increased his pile? 270 caldera 24. Architecture 29. Probability In what country is the Sydney Opera House? What is the probability that you and the next stranger you meet share the same birthday? Australia 1 in 365 25. Point Location 30. Novels To locate a specific point in a room, how many What kind of creatures are central to Michael coordinates are needed? Crichton's novel, "Jurassic Park"? 3. dinosaurs 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 1 First Half Page 4 31. Forts 36. Novel Characters Fort McHenry is best known for its role in what war? What is the last name of the character indicated in this passage? Poor Rip was at last reduced almost to despair, and his only alternative to escape from the labor of the farm and the clamor of his wife, was to take gun in hand and stroll away into the woods. War of 1812 van Winkle 32. Energy 37. Machines What modern devices for storing electrical energy What kind of machine is designed to increase the evolved from Alessandro Volta's voltaic pile? pressure of a gas? batteries compressor 33. Metrics 38. Transportation Metric prefixes never end in which two vowels? What shortcut between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans was opened in 1914? e, u Panama Canal 34. Crime 39. Latin American Empires Pierre LePeu was charged with what crime when it What empire in Peru was destroyed just 12 years after became public that he had given an envelope the Spaniards had conquered the Aztecs in Mexico? containing $5000 in cash to each of member of the city council to improve his chances of getting approval to build high-density housing in an area zoned for single-family dwellings? bribery Inca 35. Provinces 40. Plurals What is the largest river in the Canadian province Name any of the three words in the Preamble of the bordered by Hudson Bay, Hudson Strait, Labrador, St. United States Constitution that have plurals formed John Bay, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, with the letters "ies". Maine, and the Gulf of St. Lawrence? St. Lawrence River tranquility, liberty, posterity 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 1 Second Half Page 1 1. Machines 6. Writing Which simple machine is illustrated by knives, chisels, This illustrates what literary technique? axes, and planes? Suddenly after closing his twelfth stock sale of the day, Mr. Peters slipped back in time, to when he was fifteen on his father's farm, headed out to a pond with his cane pole. wedge flashback 2. Literary Parts 7. Salaries What part of an adventure novel is analogous to the If Jeannie works for $6 per hour, assuming she works punch line of a joke? every day except weekends and takes no time off, how much is her gross salary in four weeks? climax $960 3. Cacti 8. Kidnappings What process that takes place in the leaves of most What was the nationality of the three teenagers who plants occurs in the stems of cacti? were kidnapped and murdered in the West Bank in 2014? photosynthesis Israeli 4. Seashore Sites 9. Movie Careers In what state is the Canaveral National Seashore? What is the occupation called of those actors who are central to especially difficult, dangerous, and risky scenes such as car accidents or explosions? Florida stunt performers (stuntmen) 5. Consumer Anatomy 10. Mammals Creatures in which category of consumers have the What small, furry, insectivorous, somewhat cylindrical greatest number of grinding teeth? mammals have tiny ears and eyes, reduced hindlimbs, and powerful forelimbs with polydactyl paws adapted for digging? herbivores (primary consumers) moles 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 1 Second Half Page 2 11. Colonization 16. Devonian Creatures While the money to develop New World colonies came Late in the Devonian period, what group of vertebrates from the monarchs of France and Spain, England appeared that breathed in water during their immature relied on investors in what kind of companies? stage and in air when they became adults? joint stock companies amphibians 12. Monuments 17. Aviation History It is the world's tallest monument and is the "Gateway During what conflict was the term, ace, first used in to the West." This stainless-steel parabolic arch is in describing successful military aviators? what Missouri city? St. Louis World War I 13. Geographical Place Names 18. Brevity These are what kind of geographical features? What one word could substitute for the first two in this Niger line without a change of meaning? Mekong Inasmuch as his foot was nailed to the floor, Yangtze he kept on going in circles. Madeira rivers since (because, while, as) 14. Poisoning 19. Rights With a name reminiscent of a popular game fish that The part of the First Amendment that enables you to migrates from salt water to fresh water to spawn, what ask the government for fair treatment or to remedy a rod-shaped bacteria cause food poisoning? grievance is the right to what? salmonella petition 15. Uruguay 20. Earthquakes Uruguay is bordered by Argentina and what other In the Good Friday Alaskan earthquake of 1964, the country? main quake with a magnitude of about 8.3 was soon followed by another 28 tremors with Richter magnitudes up to 6.0 called what? Brazil aftershocks 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 1 Second Half Page 3 21. Coal 26. Reading All coal deposits originated with vast amounts of what To understand just what an author meant by a an partially carbonized vegetable matter found in bogs unfamiliar word, you can look at the sentences that and swamps? come before and after it. In this way you may be able to understand the word in what? peat context 22. Pronouns in Song 27. Eastern Europe Classify the pronouns in these lyrics. The countries of Slovakia and the Czech Republic Who put the bomp formerly comprised what single nation? In the bomp bah bomp bah bomp, Who put the ram In the rama lama ding dong, Who put the bop In the bop shoo bop shoo bop, Who put the dip In the dip da dip da dip? interrogative pronoun Czechoslovakia 23.