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. Concepts 28. Invertebrates What is the term for a mental image or concept? If a creature has three pairs of legs on its thorax, it is a member of what class of arthropods?

idea (impression) Insecta (insect) 24. Botany 29. Arthropods Name the tough outer covering of the roots of trees. These are varieties of what marine crustacean? blue, hermit, king, fiddler, Dungeness, horseshoe

bark crab 25. Cuba 30. Mistress Legends In the 15th century, who discovered Cuba? King Arthur's wife became whose mistress?

Christopher Columbus Sir Lancelot 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 1 Second Half Page 4 31. Chemical Reactions 36. Storm Probability Chlorofluorocarbons adversely affect what gas in A 1 in 100 year storm has a what percent likelihood Earth's upper atmosphere? of occurring in any given year?

ozone 1% 32. Pronouns 37. Canada What two pronoun categories are in this line? If you drive from British Columbia to Alaska, you He made his bricks without straw. must pass through what territory of northwest Canada?

personal, possessive Yukon 33. Microscopes 38. Swimming Doggerel The ocular lens of a microscope is marked 30x. The What are the last four words in this poem? total magnifying power of the microscope is 600x. "Mother, may I go out to swim?" What is the power of the objective lens? "Yes, my darling daughter, but hang your clothes on a hickory limb, and don't ..."

20x go near the water 34. Presidential Elections 39. Space Explorations A certain state has eight electoral votes. In that state, What is the term for the joining together of two one presidential candidate received 900,000 votes spacecraft in orbit? while the other major candidate received 700,000 votes. How many electoral votes would the winning candidate get?

eight docking 35. Novel Settings 40. Fantasies Vera and Bill Cleaver's book, "Where the Lilies These tales by Dennis McKiernan comprise what Bloom" is set in what eastern American mountain trilogy? range? The Dark Tide Shadows of Doom The Darkest Day

Great Smoky Mountains (or Appalachians) The Iron Tower 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 2 First Half Page 1 1. Transportation 6. Physical Science These names are associated with what railroad? What kind of change is illustrated in all of these Levi Coffin, Frederick Douglass, Samuel Green, examples? Harriet Tubman, William Lloyd Garrison, corrosion of a ship's hull Isaac Hopper, Sojourner Truth explosion of nitroglycerine mixing baking soda and vinegar digesting a pork chop

Underground Railroad chemical change 2. Insect Flight 7. Parts of Speech When dragonflies remain in the same spot in the air, Find the last preposition in this statement by Albert what is this kind of flight called? Einstein. The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.

hovering after 3. Mark Twain 8. Taxonomy Who in "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" is described Multicellular, heterotrophic mobile organisms belong as "a lovely little blue-eyed creature with yellow hair to which taxonomic kingdom? plaited into two long tails, white summer frock and embroidered pantalettes"?

Becky Thatcher animal (Animalia) 4. Enduring Plaques 9. Federal Departments Name either American who set up the plaque with this What department in George Washington's first cabinet inscription. dealt with money matters? Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon July 1969 A.D. We came in peace for all mankind.

Buzz (Edwin) Aldrin, Neil Armstrong Treasury Department 5. Secretions 10. Personal Accounts What substance produced by glands of the Who wrote this in 1927? integumentary system plays a significant role in I'm crabbing 15 degrees to offset drift, on thermoregulation? course with plenty of fuel. I have a drink of water. In hanging up the canteen, I let my map slide toward the open window. I grab it with a start. If I lose this sheet of paper, this key to Paris, I'd have to turn back.

sweat (perspiration) Charles Lindbergh 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 2 First Half Page 2 11. Research 16. The Electoral College A person who has looked up these topics is What two quantities must be added together to get the researching what topic? number of electoral votes to which a state is entitled? John Brown Harriet Tubman Mason-Dixon Line Underground Railroad Emancipation Proclamation

slavery its members of the U.S. House and Senate 12. Galaxies 17. Change Name the southernmost continent on which you could In physics, what is the term for any influence that be standing and see the Magellanic Clouds. causes an object to change its speed, direction, or shape?

Antarctica force 13. Criminal Behavior 18. Deserts Miltie Freeman's hamburger shop was really doing Not all deserts are hot, but all deserts share one badly. Miltie torched the place and collect the particular characteristic. What four-letter adjective insurance. What crime did he commit? describes that characteristic?

arson (or fraud) arid 14. Population Counting 19. Scientific Homonyms Prior to the Civil War, for census purposes, a slave was What term may indicate either an ionized gas that is counted as what fraction of a free person? the fourth state of matter or the yellowish fluid in which blood cells are suspended?

3/5 plasma 15. Naval Confrontations 20. Technological Advances In 1786, Napoleon had gathered a fleet and was This is about whom? preparing to conquer Egypt. But Horatio Nelson He invented a stove which, unlike any then in thwarted this plan by confronting and nearly use, warmed the air instead of merely radiating destroying the French fleet in what battle named after heat a short distance around. It heated whole the longest river in the world? rooms instead of mere corners, and it used less wood in the bargain.

Battle of the Nile Benjamin Franklin 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 2 First Half Page 3 21. Teeth 26. Plate Tectonics What is the common name for the third molars that A person standing at a latitude of 88 degrees south is usually appear between the ages of 17 and 24? on which of the world's plates?

wisdom teeth Antarctic plate 22. Borrowed Words 27. Hand Tools English borrowed these words from what language? Name the edged tool for reaping or mowing bouillabaisse, cabernet, chaise lounge, consisting of a long curved blade mounted on a bent champagne, corsage, nom de plume, handle that is held with both hands and moved parallel faux pas, quiche, rouge, roulette to the ground?

French scythe 23. Partial People 28. Life Cycles According to the original U.S. Constitution, what The caterpillar represents which of the four stages in fraction of a slave did not count as a person? the development of a butterfly?

2/5 larva 24. Reunification 29. State Geography What European country was divided after World War How many states lie between the eastern border of II and reunited in 1990? Tennessee and the Atlantic Ocean?

Germany 1. 25. Mammals 30. Fundamental Geography Name the smallest North American mammal. In relation to elevation, what is the most commonly used datum plane?

shrew sea level 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 2 First Half Page 4 31. Muscle Problems 36. Journalism Talk What is the name for a sustained, spasmodic An editor talking about "hatches, matches, and contraction of a muscle, usually accompanied by dispatches" is talking about births, marriages, and what severe localized pain? else?

cramp deaths (obituaries) 32. Island Countries 37. The Earth Sciences What island nation in the Indian Ocean is off the The name for what branch of the earth sciences was southeast coast of Africa? derived from Greek words meaning "water" and "study"?

Madagascar hydrology 33. 11th-Century Crossings 38. Space Programs William the Conqueror led a major invasion across Astronauts launched in the space shuttle were what body of water? subjected to several Gs. For what does this abbreviation stand?

English Channel (force of) gravity 34. Ancient Equipment 39. Planets A person used fingers or a needle to lace the filling Since ancient times, Saturn was the farthest planet threads called the weft over and under alternate warps known to astronomers. That changed in 1781 when on what device? English astronomer William Herschel noticed a fuzzy, blue-green patch of light. This was what planet?

loom Uranus 35. Scientific Instruments 40. Taxonomy A rotating triple objective may be on what scientific What is the next major subdivision below phylum? instrument?

microscope class 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 2 Second Half Page 1 1. Plurals 6. Plant Anatomy Wives are to wife as data are to what? Usually located near ground level, the crown is the region where a shoot joins with what other part of the plant?

datum root 2. Currency Exchange 7. Art If 1 shekel equals .2 euros and 1 euro equals 130 yen, A textbook with these words in its index is about what then 10 shekels equals how many yen? form of art? crackle earthenware enamel firing glazing throwing

260 ceramics (pottery) 3. Military Verse 8. Paint This is about the military of what country? Opacity is equivalent to what percent transparency? The plains of Manassas and Shiloh shall prove How Southerners fighting for freedom can move, While Richmond and Charleston forever shall stand, To point the heroic defense of our land.

Confederacy (Confederate States of America) 0% 4. Harsh Winters 9. Ancient Highways Name the army that wintered in Valley Forge Some of the world's most noted historical roads beginning in 1777. include the Persian Royal Road from Turkey to Iran, the Via Augusta in Spain, the Nakasendo in Japan, and what famous "Way" in ancient Rome?

Continental Army Appian Way 5. 20th-Century Decades 10. Emissions During what decade were these battles fought? Two souped-up diesel trucks take off from the starting Chosin Reservoir, Heartbreak Ridge, Inchon, line in a drag race, each emitting thick clouds of black Pork Chop Hill, Pusan Perimeter, Seoul smoke that mainly contain what element?

1950s carbon 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 2 Second Half Page 2 11. Crimes 16. Peoples Name the crime in which a prize canine is snatched The Welsh are the Celtic people of what principality of and then offered back to the original owner for a the United Kingdom? substantial sum.

dognapping Wales 12. Science Applications 17. Geology The application of science for commercial, industrial, Name the major land forms that cover about 29% of or military purposes is called what? Earth's surface.

technology continents 13. Area 18. Numbers How many square feet are in eight square yards? What two numbers are the basis for modern digital devices?

72 0, 1 14. Canyons 19. Astronomical Blunders Valles Marineris is a major geological feature on what In the novel, "King Solomon's Mines," a lunar eclipse planet? occurs at a time other than what correct phase of the Moon?

Mars full moon 15. Cubes 20. Physics History What two perfect cubes lie between 125 and 512? James Chadwick discovered what particle in the nucleus of an atom that was given its name because it has no electric charge?

216, 343 neutron 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 2 Second Half Page 3 21. National Symbols 26. Communication History What country that ceased to exist in 1991 was What short-lived enterprise became the American represented by the hammer and sickle? 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?

Soviet Union Pony Express 22. Dinosaurs 27. Lakes What armored, three-horned dinosaur was equipped to In terms of surface area, while the first five largest live through a fight with a tyrannosaurus? lakes in the U.S. are the Great Lakes, what lake located in the American West is the sixth-largest?

triceratops Great Salt Lake 23. Crustaceans 28. Light Antonyms Name the marine crustaceans found attached to the What happens to light that is not reflected by a bottoms of ships and floating timbers. surface?

barnacles It is absorbed. 24. Colors 29. Inventive Poetry The three secondary colors on the color wheel include This is about whom? orange, green, and what other? Of all great things that men have done To bring us from the dark, The one that shines the brightest Came out of Menlo Park.

violet Thomas Edison 25. Journalism Rights 30. New States In America, periodicals and newspapers have the right When Virginia seceded from the Union, fifty Unionist to print virtually any news. This right, based on the counties in the western portion broke with the state First Amendment, is freedom of what? and in 1863 joined the Union under what geographic name?

the press West Virginia 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 2 Second Half Page 4 31. Geographical Quotes 36. Burns What was ahead of the voyagers in this quote? What is the classification for burns in which the We sailed between these Pillars, into the epidermis and dermis are destroyed with damage Straits. Europe is on our left hand, Africa extending to underlying tissues? on our right.

Mediterranean Sea third degree 32. Islands 37. Water Taiwan is the main island of what republic? How many atoms of hydrogen are in two molecules of water?

Republic of China 4. 33. Light 38. Amendments The scattering of a beam of light by reflection from a A clause in which constitutional amendment gives a rough surface is called what? citizen the right not to practice any religion at all?

diffusion 1st Amendment 34. Chemical Compounds 39. Writing What is the name for substances that undergo a rapid What word is missing in this line illustrating parallel chemical reaction producing heat and causing a structure? sudden, massive increase in pressure? Wounds inflicted by a sharp knife heal more quickly than ---- inflicted by a sharp tongue.

explosives wounds 35. Old West History 40. Revolutionary Alliances Self-appointed lawmen of the Old West who received George Washington and his army were in what valley money for chasing down fugitives wanted for a crime when the Treaty of Alliance between France and the were what kind of hunters? Americans was concluded at Paris in 1778?

bounty hunters Valley Forge 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 3 First Half Page 1 1. Native American Homelands 6. Borders The homelands of these Indian tribes were closest to What river forms the northern border of Kentucky? what body of water? Choctaw, Creek, Apalachee, Biloxi, Natchez

Gulf of Mexico Ohio River 2. Goofs in Literature 7. Folksong Allusions In Jules Verne's "The Mysterious Island," the Origins of well-known American folk songs are protagonist's dog is attacked by a dugong. This, of discussed in the book, "Hear the Wind Blow." This course, is highly improbable because instead of being title comes from the lyrics of what song? carnivorous, dugongs are what?

herbivorous Down in the Valley 3. Trains 8. Speeches Two trains are 800 miles apart. They start at 9 a.m. Abraham Lincoln delivered his "House Divided" traveling toward each other. One travels at an average speech on the occasion of his nomination as the speed of 45 mph. The other train travels at 55 mph. Republican candidate for senator from what state? At what time do they meet?

5 p.m. Illinois 4. World Regions 9. Early Government Name the general region in which these countries are The first meeting of the U.S. Congress was held in located. 1789 in what city? Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey, Syria, Israel, Jordan, Iraq

Middle East (Mideast) New York City 5. Crime 10. Eruptions Mugsy Skinch was the driver of the getaway car when Along with Pompeii, Stabiae, and Oplontis, what other Carmen Zeemay robbed a bank. He was also the city named for a mythical Greek hero was destroyed lookout when Babyface Moran stole a magnificent and buried by pyroclastic flows from Mt. Vesuvius in magenta Maseratti. What is the legal term for Mugsy's 79 A.D.? role in these crimes?

accomplice Herculaneum 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 3 First Half Page 2 11. Electricity 16. Diving Downers The phenomenon by which a material converts some Bends, a painful condition sometimes experienced by electrical energy passing through it to heat is called deep sea divers, is caused by bubbles of what gas in what? the blood and tissues?

resistance nitrogen 12. Evolution 17. Vanished Colonists The Age of Reptiles came next after the age of what The colony into which Virginia Dare was born in other kind of vertebrates? 1587 later became part of what U.S. state?

Age of Amphibians North Carolina 13. Disasters 18. Oceanography In 1946, people and houses in Hawaii were swept out When extensive exploration of sea bottoms began, to sea by what catastrophic phenomenon caused by an scientists were surprised to find a deep gash down the earthquake five hours earlier in the Aleutians, 2300 center of the Atlantic Ocean. Name this gash. miles away?

tsunami rift 14. South Africans 19. Algebra After arriving in South Africa at the age of 18, the 33 is added to seven times a number. The result is 68. British statesman and financier, Cecil Rhodes, made What is the number? his fortune in what?

diamonds 5. 15. Surgical Instruments 20. Proportions Obsidian flakes have been used as what thin, sharp, 11 is to 121 as 9 is to what number? surgical blades?

scalpels 81 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 3 First Half Page 3 21. Art History 26. Body Systems Influenced by the abstract work of Mondrian, Miro, What body system transports respiratory gases, and Arp, Alexander Calder invented what art form in nutrients, wastes, and hormones? which objects are connected by wires?

mobile circulatory system 22. The Oceans 27. Ratios The aphotic zone is that portion of the open-ocean The planes of Boonie Airlines do not shear off parts environment that does not receive enough of what to of their fuselages in 12 out of 20 flights. So what is permit photosynthesis to take place? the ratio of uneventful flights to eventful ones?

light (sunlight) 12 to 8 23. Protozoans 28. Mail What protozoan resembles a tiny bag of jelly that is The head of the national postal service in the United constantly changing its shape? States has what title?

amoeba postmaster general 24. Weather 29. Lows and Highs What are the two fundamental characteristics of Just five days before the failed invasion of Cuba at the muggy weather? Bay of Pigs, what Soviet astronaut had become the first human in space?

high humidity, high temperature Yuri Gagarin 25. Worms 30. Bouncing This is about what kind of worm? When a ball bounces upward, it does not reach the It is like something out of a horror movie. same height at which it started. Every time it hits a It's a wiggly, creepy-looking, ribbon-shaped surface, it loses some of its energy as what? creature that lives inside you, absorbing your nutrients and laying millions of eggs. It can reach 20 feet in length and live for years.

tapeworm heat 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 3 First Half Page 4 31. Award-Winning Authors 36. Colors Gail Carson won a Newbery Honor Award in 1998 for Purple is a binary color composed of what two hues? what book loosely based on the tale of Cinderella?

Ella Enchanted blue and red 32. Volcanoes 37. Disorders In what country are these volcanoes located? What medical term describes this condition? Vulcano, Lipari, Etna, Stromboli, Vesuvius For sixteen months, the accident victim remained in a state of unconsciousness from which he could not be aroused.

Italy coma 33. Navigation 38. Fossils In stellar navigation, the reference direction is in The name of what common fossil comes from the relation to what star? Greek word, "trilobos," meaning "three-lobed"?

Polaris trilobite 34. National Parks 39. Folklore in Classical Music Big Bend National Park is on the southern border of In relation to sugar plums, what kind of diminutive, what state? imaginary being in human form is associated with a work by Tchaikovsky?

Texas fairy 35. Operas 40. Adjectives Richard Wagner's opera, "The Flying Dutchman," is To make the superlative form of one-syllable regular about a doomed what? adjectives ending in the letter "e", you should add what?

ship (or crew) st 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 3 Second Half Page 1 1. Life 6. Imaging What adjective indicates all life from the lowest When Wilhelm Roentgen placed his wife's hand possible forms to that with superhuman intelligence between a cathode instrument and a photographic that may exist beyond Earth? plate, he produced an image of her hand's bones. What kind of imaging technique had he discovered?

extraterrestrial x-ray 2. Mammals 7. Endangered Cities Name the small, burrowing, herbivorous, very Rising sea levels pose the greatest danger to what short-tailed rodents that live in tundra biomes. major American city ravaged by Hurricane Katrina?

lemmings New Orleans 3. Folksongs 8. Deserts What two syllables follow this in a Stephen Foster Death Valley National Park spans the border between song? what two states? De Camptown ladies sing dis song ...

doo dah California, Nevada 4. References 9. Famines Name the reference book consisting of a collection of Famine swept Ireland several times in the 19th century maps bound into a single volume. when what crop repeatedly failed?

atlas potato 5. Modifiers 10. Poisons What word is modified by the infinitive in this What substance found in thermometers example? bioaccumulates to cause long term chronic poisoning? Filbert instantly realized he had selected the wrong cheek to kiss.

cheek mercury 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 3 Second Half Page 2 11. Matter 16. Music Styles What form of matter shares the fluid properties of These words indicate what American musical style liquids but in an attenuated form because of the characterized by secular lyrics, a slow tempo, and a difference in density? color? sorrowfulness, melancholy, gloominess, dejection, woefulness, sadness

gas (plasma) blues 12. Tense 17. Song Classifications Restate this line using the past perfect tense. What general classification applies to all these She left before my speech. religious folk songs? Down by the Riverside By and By Deep River All God's Children Got Wings Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen

She had left before my speech. spirituals (or hymns) 13. Gradients 18. Insects What is the average gradient of a stream that begins at Name the most heavily armored order of insects. 3300 meters and flows 250 kilometers until it joins another river at an elevation of 300 meters?

12 meters/kilometer beetles 14. Fractions of Fractions 19. Trees A leaky barrel of water loses half its contents every Some are about 5000 years old. These oldest trees on hour. If it is filled to capacity, what fraction of the Earth found in California and Nevada are what kind original amount of water has leaked out after 4 hours? of pines?

15/16 bristlecone pines 15. Set Summation 20. Stories What is the sum of the set of all positive multiples of 3 In Joel Chandler Harris' story, "The Wonderful Tar that are less than 20? Baby," what character catches the rabbit?

63 Br'er Fox 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 3 Second Half Page 3 21. Inverses 26. Sailing Ships What is the additive inverse of -19? Launched in 1797, the world's oldest floating commissioned naval vessel is what American ship, named by President George Washington for the law of the land?

19 U.S.S. Constitution (Old Ironsides) 22. Sales Algebra 27. Simplification Pink flamingoes that usually cost p dollars are on sale Simplify 7/15 + 1/15 + 2/15. for $10 off the regular price. How many dollars does it cost to buy four pink flamingoes on sale?

4(p-10) 2/3 23. Cooking Chemistry 28. Poetic Eyes What chemical process produces all these foods? In "Casey at the Bat," how many fans are present to see miso the great Casey strike out? pickles soy sauce bread sour cream cheese

fermentation 5000 24. Sound 29. Frontier Ranching In acoustics, what is the name for a reflection of Cattlemen of the Old West would sometimes drive the sound? herd into a gorge with only one opening. This is known as what kind of canyon?

echo box canyon 25. Science Fiction 30. Algebraic Factoring This is from a review of what book by Arthur Clarke? Factor pq - 3p. Then as the huge artificial object approaches the Sun, life emerges from the depth of the Cylindrical Sea, evolution takes place at an enormously accelerated pace, and species of aliens are constantly born and recycled by their environment.

Rendezvous with Rama p(q-3) 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 3 Second Half Page 4 31. Patriots 36. Mineral Weight He was born in Coventry, Connecticut, and graduated Since lead sulfide is 7.5 times heavier than water, what from Yale College. He taught school until he joined is its specific gravity? the Continental Army. He was sent into British territory disguised as a Dutch teacher, but was captured and hanged as a spy at age 21. Name him.

Nathan Hale 7.5 32. Treaties 37. Infinitives In 1901, the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty was signed, by What is the last infinitive in this two-sentence epigram? which the British consented to U.S. control of an It takes courage to push yourself to places isthmian canal linking what two oceans? that you have never been before, to test your limits, to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Atlantic, Pacific to blossom 33. Provinces 38. Ecology What Canadian province borders the Alaskan What ecological term indicates a major regional biotic Panhandle? community such as a grassland or desert, characterized mainly by dominant forms of plant life?

British Columbia biome 34. Oceanography 39. Shipwrecks What is the term for any man-made object floating at What is the compound word for someone who has a specific location in a body of water and used by survived a shipwrecked and left to fend for himself? navigators to locate channels, rocks, shoals, or submerged wrecks?

buoy castaway 35. Dimensions 40. State Statistics What is generally regarded as the third dimension? What U.S. state is ranked 48th in population density and 4th in size?

depth (thickness) Montana 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 4 First Half Page 1 1. Algebraic Expressions 6. Parks The sum of two numbers is 100. One is n. What is There are two U.S. national parks that include the the other? word "glacier" in their names. These parks are in what states?

100-n Montana, Alaska 2. Unhappy Colonists 7. The Cabinet What body of American delegates convened in 1774 Members of the cabinet are appointed by the in response to the "Intolerable Acts"? president with the advice and consent of what body?

(First) Continental Congress Senate 3. Mythical Mirrors 8. Nuclear Reactions Perseus used his shield as a mirror to slay what Name the nuclear process that powers stars. mythical being?

the Gorgon (or Medusa) fusion 4. Algebraic Subtraction 9. Songsters Subtract 5y + 2 from 2y + 5. According to one of Hans Christian Andersen's tales, the song of what bird that belonged to the Chinese emperor was so beautiful that no one who heard it could ever forget it?

-3y + 3 nightingale 5. Currents 10. Memorials The Labrador Current is between North America and Groundbreaking ceremonies were held in 2006 for a what enormous island? memorial to the 184 people killed in the 9/11 terrorist attack on what building that houses the U.S. military establishment?

Greenland Pentagon 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 4 First Half Page 2 11. Big Channels 16. Times of the Year What strait lies between Cape Dezhnev on the Chukchi The equinoxes occur midway between what two other Peninsula and Cape Prince of Wales on the North special times of the year? American continent?

Bering Strait solstices 12. Heat 17. Life Forms Incandescence is the emission of what by a substance People once thought these life forms were plants as a result of raising it to a high temperature? because they do not move. They remain permanently attached in one place, and often live in groups or colonies. Name these marine invertebrates.

light sponges 13. Symptoms 18. Greek Husbandry What bodily organ may palpitate? The principal domestic animals of the ancient Greeks were sheep and what else?

heart goats 14. Fantasies 19. Preamble Vocabulary Name the first work of the popular fantasy quintet by What term in the preamble of the U.S. Constitution Lloyd Alexander about the imaginary land of means "future generations"? Prydain.

The Black Cauldron posterity 15. Autoantonyms 20. Cabinet Officials What verb that means to hit also means, in baseball, to The duties of what cabinet official include extensive miss? foreign travel to build coalitions, promote human rights, and mediate conflicts?

strike Secretary of State 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 4 First Half Page 3 21. Anatomy 26. Integers Name the large mass of ganglia protected in What is the largest of 3 consecutive even integers the vertebrates by the bones of the skull. sum of which is 60?

brain 22 22. Roman Architecture 27. Wounds The ancient Roman aqueducts repeatedly What group of snakes generally produce a pair of incorporated what distinctive architectural structure? wounds on victims?

arch vipers 23. Chemical Compounds 28. Barriers What is the common name for an aqueous sodium What is the term for a defensive barrier consisting of chloride solution? upright posts or timbers driven side by side into the ground?

brine (saline, salt water) stockade 24. Eye Protection 29. Discoveries The Inuit people carved snow goggles from caribou In the 16th century, Juan de Bermudez discovered an antlers. They were curved to fit the face and had two archipelago, later to be named after him, in what long, narrow slits to admit a small amount of light to ocean? the eyes. These goggles prevented what category of sunlight rays from damaging the eyes?

ultraviolet rays Atlantic 25. Free Fall 30. Gamblers According to her bathroom scales, Melanie weighs What alcoholic gambler and former dentist took part 125 pounds. But if she is standing on her scales in the shootout at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone? during free fall, the scales say her weight is what?

zero Doc Holliday 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 4 First Half Page 4 31. Pilgrims 36. Government Levels Since the Pilgrims had no charter for the colony they Local governments are administrative offices of an were about to establish along Cape Cod, they created area smaller than what? what document based on majority rule of the townsmen?

Mayflower Compact a state 32. Redundancy 37. Orbits What word could be omitted from this example The time required for an orbiting body to complete without loss of meaning? one orbit is called its orbital what? Thanks to his advance planning, Meriwether had plenty of gunpowder for the entire trek.

advance period 33. Angles 38. Skeletal Problems What is the sum of the angles around a point? Name the condition characterized by an abnormal outcurving of the legs that creates a gap between the knees.

360 degrees bowlegs 34. Seas 39. Physical Science These seas are generally understood to be part of what Einstein said a body becomes more massive and that ocean? time moves more slowly as that body approaches what Barents Sea, Beaufort Sea, Chukchi Sea, speed? East Siberian Sea, Greenland Sea, Kara Sea, Laptev Sea, White Sea

Arctic Ocean light speed 35. Warfare 40. Quote Tense What kind of fighting was conducted from long, What tense is in this line by Winston Churchill? narrow ditches that sheltered troops from enemy fire? History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

trench warfare future tense 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 4 Second Half Page 1 1. Trees 6. Presidents These trees must be at least 175 years old to flower. What U.S. president was in Washington, D.C. just Then, they bear millions of seeds, but each is so small before the British invaded and burned the city? that it takes 3,000 of them to weigh an ounce. Name these exceptionally tall evergreens of California.

giant sequoias (redwoods) James Madison 2. Medical History 7. Geometry Vocabulary During the Renaissance, Andreas Vesalius discovered In any quadrilateral, what is the name for any two that a metal implement could be heated over a fire angles that are not consecutive? then held against a wound to stop bleeding. Name this procedure.

cauterization (cauterizing) opposite angles 3. Historical Documents 8. Jabberwocky The Mayflower Compact was signed in 1620 at what What, according to Lewis Carroll in "Jabberwocky," cape? were "all mimsey"?

Cape Cod borogroves 4. Elements 9. Geological Climatic Influences The symbol "P" stands for what element? What mountain range effectively cuts Spokane off from the moderating influence of the Pacific Ocean on its annual temperature?

phosphorus Cascades 5. Tasty Bivalves 10. Canadian Territories Melanie went to a fine restaurant and requested a plate The territory of Nunavut is adjacent to both the Arctic of bivalves. What did she order? Ocean and what enormous bay?

clams (oysters, mussels, mollusks) Hudson Bay 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 4 Second Half Page 2 11. Multi-Footed Taxonomy 16. German Quotes Add the number of feet on these organisms. What figure of speech was Otto von Bismarck using in 2 arachnids this passage? 5 adult amphibians Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see 2 monotremes them being made.

44 simile 12. Journalists 17. Plant Classification Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward became famous Any plant can be uniquely classified by using a when they covered what scandal? combination of its genus and what?

Watergate species 13. Natural Phenomena 18. Terrestrial Invertebrates This is about what common meteorological With respect to arthropods, long flat bodies are to phenomenon? centipedes as long rounded bodies are to what When the Sun warms one part of the Earth creatures? more than another, the warm air expands and rises. This warm rising air is replaced by cooler, denser air which moves in along the Earth's surface from other regions.

wind millipedes 14. Art Fundamentals 19. Refugees What is the general name for the material used to The flow of refugees to West Germany was largely create an artwork, such as oil, acrylic, ice, marble, or stopped in 1961 when East Germany built what? bronze?

medium Berlin Wall 15. Bird Doggerel 20. Immunity The name of what flightless bird completes this verse? Prior to the development of what, people only became We have for many years been bored immune to a disease by actually contracting and By that old saw about the sword surviving it? And pen, and now we all rejoice, To see how Nature made her choice: She made, regardless of offendin', The swordfish mightier than the ...

penguin vaccines (inoculation, vaccination) 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 4 Second Half Page 3 21. Patriotic Songs 26. Life What are the last four words in this chorus that also What are motile, multicellular heterotrophs that happen to be the title of the song? depend directly or indirectly on plants or algae as It's freedom forever, Hurrah boys, Hurrah! their source of food energy? Down with the shackle and up with the star! While we rally round the flag, boys, we'll rally once again, Shouting ....

the battle cry of freedom animals 22. The Earth 27. Things Unwanted on Your Leg What is the term for the rocky layer of the Earth that These are long, worm-like creatures. Their bodies comprises the continents and ocean basins? consist of many segments, often up to 100 or more. Each part has a pair of clawed legs. The head has long feelers, powerful jaws, and two stinging claws. Name these life forms.

crust centipedes 23. Indirect Quotes 28. Woeful Winds Change this indirect quote into a direct quote. Hundreds of thousands of people in what country Polly said that I am a creep. were killed by the 1874 Bengal cyclone, the 1882 Bombay cyclone, and the 1937 Calcutta cyclone?

Polly said, "You are a creep." India 24. Urban Regions 29. Lunar Vocabulary The Twin Cities is a metropolitan area in what state? From Earth's perspective, when the sunlit fraction of the Moon is getting larger, it is said to be doing what?

Minnesota waxing 25. Light 30. Getting the Pulse Light can be redirected by diffraction, refraction, or Places on the body where a pulse can be found are, in what else? relation to first aid, called what kind of points where bleeding can be reduced through constriction?

reflection pressure points 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 4 Second Half Page 4 31. Historic Routes 36. Folk Songs What long-sought route through the Arctic Ocean According to the song lyrics, in what state was the man between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans was finally whose darling Clementine was lost and gone forever? navigated in the early 1900s by Roald Amundsen?

Northwest Passage California 32. Sentence Interpretations 37. Latitudes What word in this sentence could be interpreted either The tropic of Capricorn passes through how many as a verb or a noun? oceans? Time flies like an arrow but fruit flies like a banana.

flies three 33. Rodents 38. Censuses Name the small, striped North American rodents with How many national censuses were taken in the U.S. in large cheek pouches enabling them to carry multiple the 19th century? food items in a single trip to their burrows or food stockpiles.

chipmunks 10 34. Dinosaurs 39. Physiological Conditions Paleontologists believe that many dinosaurs held their What is the term for any change in the body or its large tails straight out and off the ground to help them functions that indicates a particular disorder or maintain what? disease?

balance symptom 35. European Sites 40. Kipling In what European country are these historical sites In "The Jungle Book," the cowardly Tabaqui feasts on located? scraps left behind by Shere Khan and the Seeonee Kilmainham Gaol wolf tribe. Resembling a coyote, what kind of animal Blarney Castle is Tabaqui? Dublin Castle

Ireland jackal 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 5 First Half Page 1 1. Book Parts 6. Anthropology These are examples of what part of a book? The Inuit and Yupik peoples are related to the Aleuts -To the individuals and organizations who have of what archipelago? supported this book. -For Sean Harris, getaway driver and foul weather friend. -To the12 jurors who returned a verdict of "not guilty." -To all those who lead monotonous lives.

dedication Aleutians 2. Wounds 7. Money Ratios What kind of dense connective tissue forms over a Simplify this ratio. healing wound? $2.5 to $1.5

scar tissue 5 to 3 3. Sensation 8. Government Philosophy Airborne molecules are the stimuli for what sensation? Derived from the doctrine of natural rights, the philosophy adopted by Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence that puts the authority of the government in the people's hands is "consent of the" what?

smell governed 4. Archaeology 9. Sentence Analysis On an alphabetical list of the three-age system of Classify this quote attributed to Aesop according to its archaeology, which is first? structure. We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

Bronze Age compound sentence 5. Stagecraft 10. Sentence Parts In a play, what term applies to the visual environment What is the direct object in this example? created with a backdrop and props? The foreman of the project led the tour.

scenery (sets) tour 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 5 First Half Page 2 11. Boiling Water 16. Predicate Nominatives When you boil water in a pot, why do the bubbles of What is the predicate nominative in this line? steam increase in size as they rise through the water? Water skiers and surf boarders are delightful entrees for a white shark.

Water pressure decreases toward the top. entrees 12. American Colonies 17. Metal Mining What American colony was named for the wife of What is the phrase for a burst of enthusiasm for Charles I, Henrietta Maria? mining a metal whose chemical symbol is Au?

Maryland gold rush 13. Speleology 18. Probability Some soda straws forming from the roofs of caves A deep box contains five slugs and ten worms. You become plugged and continue growing to become reach in and pull out exactly one creature. What are what other kind of inverted cone-shaped formations? the chances that it will be a worm?

stalactites 2 in 3 14. Science Fiction 19. River Management This line is from what science fiction story? Name the long, continuous ridges constructed along Speaking of ways, pet, by the way, there is the banks of rivers to contain them during times of such a thing as a tesseract. high flow.

A Wrinkle in Time levees 15. Stars 20. Nuclear Warfare Albireo, regarded as the head of a swan, is a bright star Most of the immediate deaths from a nuclear in what avian constellation? explosion result from the blast, radiation, and what else?

Cygnus heat (burns) 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 5 First Half Page 3 21. Mesoamerica 26. Sentence Improvement This is about what Mesoamerican people? What word should have been used in this line? When their temple was enlarged in 1487, its Because Mr. Andretti has no respect for the re-dedication ceremony involved so much speed limit and always drives his car too rapid, bloodshed that the line of victims stretched he is a menace to all the mice and other living far out of the city and the slaughter lasted things in the neighborhood. four days.

Aztec rapidly 22. Warriors 27. Typos In what country did the samurai warrior class develop? What word was actually intended in this actual help-wanted ad? Wanted - cook to help prepare males for an elderly woman.

Japan meals 23. Playground Physics 28. Aquatic Valuables What playground equipment is essentially a lever with In some bivalves, a foreign object such as a grain of the fulcrum in the middle? sand becomes lodged between the mantle and the shell. To reduce the irritation, the mantle secretes calcium bicarbonate around it, forming what gem?

teeter-totter (seesaw) pearl 24. Book Titles 29. Forts What is the name for the second part in the titles of From the wreckage of the Santa Maria, Christopher these works? Columbus built a fort on what island? -Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster -Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl -Ulysses S. Grant: Memoirs and Selected Letters

subtitle Hispaniola 25. Frontier Foods 30. American Government What is the Spanish name for this food common in the What is the term for the major administrative units in Texas Territory? the federal government responsible for such broad When they have to pay for their meat in a functions as health, agriculture, and defense? market, a very little is made to suffice a family. It is cut into a kind of hash with as many peppers are there are pieces of meat, and all is stewed together.

chile con carne departments 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 5 First Half Page 4 31. Tearjerkers 36. California History "The Bridge to Terabithia" is a story about a In 1873, while Los Angeles remained a dusty town friendship between a poor local boy named Jess and with fewer than 10,000 people, what city to its north an imaginative girl named Leslie who is accidentally boasted a population of 188,000, cobblestone streets, killed. What is Terabithia? tall redwood houses, and a United States Mint?

secret hiding place San Francisco 32. Atoms 37. Historical Literature What subatomic particle contributes mass and a single These titles concern what period in European history? positive electrical charge to an atom? Daughters of the Grail The Mists of Avalon The Saxon Stories Ella Enchanted The Canterbury Tales Excalibur

proton medieval (Middle Ages) 33. Body Temperature 38. Colonies What four-syllable adjective indicates the condition of The Jamestown Colony was founded on an arm of a person whose inner core body temperature is 88.6 what major Atlantic bay? degrees Fahrenheit?

hypothermic Chesapeake Bay 34. Crafts 39. The Clergy What craft involves the stitching together of two or Members of the clergy of what religion may have more layers of material to make a thicker padded these titles? material? Grand Mufti Sheik Mullah Imam Ayatollah

quilting Islam 35. Verse and Song 40. Major Rivers This verse by Lewis Carroll is reminiscent of what The mouth of the Congo River in Africa is in what children's song typically sung as a round? body of water? Ever drifting down the stream-- Lingering in the golden gleam-- Life, what is it but a dream?

Row, Row, Row Your Boat Atlantic Ocean 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 5 Second Half Page 1 1. Legislatures 6. European History Queensland in Australia and the federal government What general historical period occurred in Europe just of New Zealand each have unicameral legislative after the Middle Ages? bodies. This means their parliaments consist of what?

one house Renaissance 2. Chapels 7. Triangles Name the chapel in the Vatican, part of which was A triangle has angles with measures of 36 degrees and painted by Michelangelo. 52 degrees. Find the measure of the remaining angle.

Sistine Chapel 92 degrees 3. Angles 8. Continents What is 3/5 of a right angle? Australia was once connected to what other continent by a land bridge?

54 degrees Asia 4. Periodic Motion 9. Animal Domestication The motion of the second hand on a clock face has a Llamas were first domesticated on what continent? period of how many seconds?

60 South America 5. Bodily Cells 10. Greek Myth What kind of cells are suspended in plasma? King Pelias sent Jason on a quest to acquire what yellow-colored woolen coat of a winged ram?

blood cells golden fleece 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 5 Second Half Page 2 11. Botany 16. Drainage What category of plants requires two years to What drainage basin is the largest watershed in the complete a biological life cycle? United States?

biennials Mississippi River basin (watershed) 12. Drama 17. Points of View What is the term for the text of the dialogue and stage Facts are objective while opinions are what? directions for a play?

script subjective 13. Seas 18. Parks What sea, a branch of the Mediterranean, is closest to What national park is between Lake Mead and Lake Mount Olympus? Powell?

Aegean Sea Grand Canyon 14. Expeditions 19. Root Words In 1804, the Lewis and Clark expedition camped for a What does the root mean in these words? while at the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri revive, convivial, vivacious rivers, the site of what modern city?

Kansas City live (life) 15. Prime Numbers 20. Flags What two primes come between 360 and 378? The Iraqi flag unveiled in 2004 has parallel blue-yellow-blue bands across the bottom third. The two blue bands stand for what rivers?

367, 373 Tigris, Euphrates 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 5 Second Half Page 3 21. American Eras 26. Habitats The manufacture, sale, and transportation of what was In what environment do these creatures live? illegal in the U.S. during the Prohibition era? cephalopods, gastropods, pelecypods

alcohol (alcoholic beverages) marine (ocean, salt water) 22. Drama 27. Multi-Purpose Abbreviations In what form of stage presentation could you see a tall The abbreviation "sc." stands for scale, science, man with black hair and a black handlebar mustache scruple, or what term in theater? tying a lovely young woman to railroad tracks while uttering something about paying the rent?

melodrama scene 23. Artistic Process 28. Mortality Rates Sculptures or other art objects that have been gilded In a country, the annual death rate is 26 per thousand. have been covered with a thin coating of what During the course of one year, how many people per material? million will not die?

gold 974,000 24. Music 29. References A dot above or below a note indicates the note is to be These topics would be found under what major topic separated slightly from the note that follows. Name in an encyclopedia? this symbol. Dunkirk D-day Battle of Midway Auschwitz Bernard Montgomery Blitzkrieg Pearl Harbor staccato World War II 25. Island Proximity 30. Judge Talk Malta is closest to what two continents? What word is used by a judge when refusing to honor an attorney's objection in court?

Europe, Africa overruled 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 5 Second Half Page 4 31. Wartime Allies 36. Gravity During the American Revolution, Native Americans If a man weighs 200 pounds, the Earth attracts him almost universally supported which faction? with a force of 200 pounds. With how much force does the man attract the Earth?

the British 200 pounds 32. Rivers 37. Fruits The headwaters of the Ganges River are in what What fruit has a high food value, being about 54 mountain range? percent sugar and 7 percent protein, and is of special importance to desert peoples of North Africa and the Middle East?

Himalayas dates 33. Marine Life 38. Creatures What country is the namesake for the man-of-war What kind of creature is a loon? jellyfish?

Portugal bird 34. Jamestown 39. Documents Although the Jamestown settlers experimented with These terms, listed in their order of presentation, are vineyard cultivation, glassblowing, and silkworm from what document in American history? farming, by the end of the 1620s, what was their only union - justice - tranquility - defense - welfare viable cash crop?

tobacco Constitution 35. Birds 40. Kings This is about what extinct birds? By what name do most people remember the king It was probably the most numerous bird on whose full name was this? the planet, making its home in the billion or Kalani Pai'ea Wohi o Kalelkini Keali'kui so acres of primal forest that once covered Kamehameha o 'lolani i Kaiwikapu kau'i Ka North America east of the Rocky Mountains. Liholiho Kunulakea Their flocks, a mile wide and up to 300 miles long, were so dense that they darkened the sky for hours and days as a flock passed overhead. passenger pigeons Kamehameha (or Kamehameha I) 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 6 First Half Page 1 1. Egg Physics 6. Legal Synonyms Why do eggs float in salt water but sink in fresh water? Another phrase for "youth crime" is juvenile what?

Salt water has higher density. juvenile delinquency 2. Law History 7. Multiples How many women have served as Chief Justice of the What is the least common multiple of 7, 11, and 13? United States?

none 1001 3. Technological Devices 8. Gunfights What device used in medieval times to hurl large In what state did the gunfight at the O.K. Corral take rocks, arrows, and lances is used today on aircraft place? carriers to launch planes?

catapult Arizona 4. The Skull 9. Fruits Name the skin covering of the skull. Clingstone peaches and plums have flesh that adheres strongly to the what?

scalp pit (stone) 5. Exponents 10. Kings What number is in the tens place when seven is raised These were ancient kings of a region that became what to the fourth power? modern country? Saul, David, Solomon, Rehoboam

0. Israel 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 6 First Half Page 2 11. Navigators 16. Caves What Italian navigator was first to identify the New The Mark Twain Cave in Missouri became famous World of North and South America as being distinct because of its description in what novel? from Asia?

Amerigo Vespucci Tom Sawyer 12. Ocean Currents 17. Insects What major ocean current that moves northeastward These belong to what category of insects? across the Atlantic splits on the European side with purple tiger one part moving south and the other continuing past weevil Great Britain and Norway into the Arctic Ocean? black whirligig firefly ladybug

Gulf Stream beetle 13. Earth's Spheres 18. Etymology Which sphere of our planet is divided into plates? The name for what field of study comes from a combination of the Greek words for "earth" and "write"?

lithosphere geography 14. Angles 19. Qualifications What is the sum of two right angles? What is the sum of the minimum age to become a U.S. senator and the minimum age to become a U.S. president?

180 degrees 65 15. Communications Science 20. Algebraic Expressions Two cans and a string can be used to communicate Express the following algebraically. over a distance so long as the string is tight. The four times x decreased by one-sixth of y energy of the person speaking is transmitted to the person listening by means of what?

waves 4x - y/6 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 6 First Half Page 3 21. Contradictory Proverbs 26. Islands What proverb about those who prepare meals has a The largest and second largest islands are at opposite meaning opposite this one? ends of the Earth. Greenland, the largest, is in the Many hands make light work. North Atlantic. Name the second-largest in the southwestern Pacific.

Too many cooks spoil the broth. New Guinea 22. Monumental Mugs 27. Anchovies Galore The Mount Rushmore monument is carved on a cliff The large numbers of anchovies caught off the coast in what hills? of Peru and Ecuador every year feed on creatures brought to the surface by cold water currents. Occasionally, the cold current is replaced by a warm current which reduces the region's marine life. Name this current.

the Black Hills El Nino 23. Visual Defects 28. Hurricanes Name the disability when someone can see objects in The path followed by a hurricane is called a storm the distance but has difficulty seeing things up close. what?

farsightedness (hyperopia) track 24. Agricultural Practices 29. Writing What is the term for the separation of chaff from grain What literary technique is illustrated in this passage by means of wind? from "Alice in Wonderland"? Why, if a fish came to me, and told me he was going on a journey, I would say, "With what porpoise"?

winnowing pun 25. Hospitals 30. Mountain Ranges In hospitals, what is the abbreviation for the health Name the largest mountain range on the continent in care unit that serves patients with severe injuries or which grasslands known as the llanos and Pampas are critical, life-threatening diseases? located.

ICU Andes 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 6 First Half Page 4 31. Poetic Pronouns 36. Storms What personal pronoun ends this clerihew? Neoguri hammered Okinawa and much of Japan in Lassie 2014. What is the Asian name for that kind of storm? Had a lovely doggy chassis. But under all that fur, She wasn't a ...

her typhoon (cyclone) 32. Military Actions 37. First Aid A cornerstone for nearly all military campaigns, what Before using tweezers to remove a splinter, why is the term for any effort to prevent troops, supplies, should you pass the tips through a flame? aid, or information from reaching the enemy?

blockade to sterilize them (infection prevention) 33. Antiparticles 38. Homonyms Positrons, which carry positive charges, are the Spell a word meaning "naked" that is a homonym for antiparticles of what other subatomic particles another word meaning "to carry." carrying negative charges?

electrons bare 34. Mystery Settings 39. Diphthongs What war provides the background for all these What common interjection that includes a diphthong mystery novels? is often uttered in response to a sudden pain? A Grave at Glorieta A Killing at Ball's Bluff Faded Coat of Blue The Shiloh Sisters Murder at Manassas Antietam Assassins

Civil War ouch (ow) 35. Forests 40. Archaeology What kind of tree comprises most of the forests of In what country are these archaeological sites? Australia? Uxmal, Tenochtitlan, Chichen Itza

eucalyptus Mexico 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 6 Second Half Page 1 1. Literary Series 6. State Borders What is the first book in the series of novels with these What U.S. state is bordered by Arkansas, Missouri, titles? Kansas, Colorado, Texas, and New Mexico? Anne of Avonlea Anne of the Island Anne of Windy Poplars Anne's House of Dreams Anne of Ingleside

Anne of Green Gables Oklahoma 2. Crimes 7. Canadian Celebrations Name the crime of hijacking an ocean vessel. The Festival Acadien de Clare is to Nova Scotia as the Calgary Stampede is to what other province?

piracy (seajacking) Alberta 3. Etymology 8. American Colonies The name for which classification of rock was derived Name any one of the four future U.S. states that were from a Latin word meaning "fire"? once called the Breadbasket Colonies.

igneous DE, NJ, NY, PA 4. Amphibians 9. Ancient History What creatures are tailless amphibians? What word completes this passage? Trade follows the highways, and a glance at the map will make it quite clear that the highway in Egypt lies along the narrow thread of the ...

frog (toad) Nile 5. Electricity 10. Humidity What is the abbreviation for the type of electrical What is the highest possible relative humidity in circuit that allows electrons to travel only in one saturated air? direction throughout a circuit?

DC 100% 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 6 Second Half Page 2 11. Uncertainty 16. Classification Sequences Name the kind of uncertainty illustrated in these lines. What is the last letter in the biological classification He saw that gas can explode. sequence that begins with these letters? She saw the man with her binoculars. K P C O F G ... Turn right here. Flying planes can be dangerous. Look at the cat with one eye. Free whales. I shot an elephant in my pajamas.

ambiguity S. 12. Rights 17. Guardians In the U.S., it was first limited to white males who Identify Tom Sawyer's guardian. could meet property qualifications. Then it was extended to most male white adult citizens. Women got it in 1920 and 18-year-olds in 1971. What is it?

right to vote Aunt Polly 13. Africa 18. Deadly Rain What African country has a shoreline on both the What keeps raindrops from attaining bulletlike speeds Indian and Atlantic Oceans? before they hit you?

South Africa air resistance 14. Vocabulary 19. Marine Landforms What is another name for a lexicon? Although they may be composed of soil, silt, gravel, and cobble, most shoals consist of what material?

dictionary sand 15. Legal Positions 20. Matter Complete this line by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. What physical characteristic is measured in terms of The right to swing my fist ends where the grams per cubic centimeter? other man's nose ...

begins density 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 6 Second Half Page 3 21. Composers 26. Household Equipment Of the composers known as "the Three Bs," which one What is the modern name for the "electric suction has a first name that does not begin with a "J"? sweeper" marketed by the Hoover company in the 1920s?

Beethoven (Ludwig van Beethoven) vacuum cleaner 22. History of Knowledge 27. Olympiads With what field were these people primarily involved? The first Olympiad lasted from the summer of 776 Norbert Wiener B.C. to what year? John Napier Anaximander Karl Gauss Leonhard Euler Euclid

mathematics 772 B.C. 23. First Lines 28. Relationships Who begins a story with these words? Who is "this man" in this couplet? Pet and Patty began to trot briskly, as if they Brothers and sisters have I none, were glad, too. Laura held tight to the wagon but this man's father's son is my son. bow and stood up in the jolting wagon. Beyond Pa's shoulder and far across the waves of green grass she could see the trees, and they were not like any trees she had seen before. They were no taller than bushes.

Laura Ingalls Wilder This man is my son. 24. Scientific Measurement 29. Wordiness The decibel is used to measure sound intensity and Reduce this phrase to a two-letter word. was named after what American inventor who first in the event that demonstrated the electrical transmission of speech?

Alexander Graham Bell if 25. Medical Tests 30. Chemical Formulas Arterial blood gas tests determine the levels of what Hydrochloric acid is represented as HCl. How many two gases in blood? hydrogen atoms would be in 30 molecules of hydrochloric acid?

oxygen, carbon-dioxide 30 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 6 Second Half Page 4 31. Europe 36. Grains The adjective "Nordic" refers to the cultures, people, What tough outer coating of cereal grains is separated and languages of what European region? out in refined products but allowed to remain in whole-grain products?

Scandinavia bran 32. Plurals 37. Sentence Analysis Spell the plural of "sheaf." What is the object of the second preposition in this quip? You have read about computer viruses which computers get when they're left uncovered in drafty rooms.

sheaves rooms 33. Precipitation Geography 38. Theatrical Venues The rainshadow from what mountain range reduces There have been more than 11,000 performances of annual precipitation on the Colorado Plateau? "The Phantom of the Opera," and over 7000 performances of both "Cats," and "The Lion King" in theaters located on what Manhattan street?

Sierra Nevada Broadway 34. Pressure 39. Ranching What kind of pressure decreases as you gain In the Old West, what was the phrase for the moving of elevation? a herd of cattle from ranches and grazing lands to the railroad lines for shipment to meat-packing plants in the East?

barometric (atmospheric, air) cattle drive 35. Military Forces 40. Wounds The peacekeeping forces of what organization are What kind of wound has a small entry hole and is known as the Blue Berets? accompanied by little or no bleeding?

United Nations puncture wound 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 7 First Half Page 1 1. Commanders 6. Figurative Advertising Of the five ships that began the expedition, only the What figure of speech is found in this advertisement? Victoria completed the trip. Although the Allied Irish Bank: Britain's best business bank. commander did not himself survive the voyage, he is nonetheless credited with the first circumnavigation of the globe. Name him.

Magellan alliteration 2. Mountains 7. Horrors of War Geologically related mountain ranges that are in close Name the teen-aged German girl who hid with her proximity make up what? family and several friends in a secret room in Amsterdam for two years during World War II.

mountain systems Anne Frank 3. Possessives 8. Populations What is the object of the possessive in this line? Which U.S. state has the smallest population? The hole was already bored deep into the dam's surface.

surface Alaska 4. Writing 9. Great Lakes States What error in composition is illustrated in this? What state that borders one of the Great Lakes extends They told me to connect together the ropes farthest east? and hoist up the sail.

redundancy New York 5. Warning Signs 10. Heteronyms These words are from a trail sign that is warning of Spell the heteronym which can refer either to a heavy what danger? metal or the principal character in a play. If a storm approaches, take shelter or crouch low with only your feet in contact with the ground. One of the safest places is inside a vehicle.

lightning lead 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 7 First Half Page 2 11. Proportions 16. Pleas An oligarchy of ayatollahs can make 30 bad decisions In 1930, Mohandas Gandhi wrote, "I want world in 3 hours. How many hours will it take this same sympathy in this battle of right against might." The group to make 450 bad decisions providing they can term "might" in this context refers to what country? keep up the pace?

45 Great Britain (England, United Kingdom) 12. Tree Etymology 17. Africa According to some accounts, what enormous trees of What is the northwesternmost African country? California were named for a Cherokee Indian chief?

sequoias Morocco 13. Angles 18. Walls Angle x equals 150 degrees. Angle y equals 30 There were medieval cities throughout Europe degrees. Together these are what type of angles? surrounded by walls to keep invaders from getting in. In what European city was there a wall built in the 20th century to keep the residents from getting out?

supplementary Berlin 14. Verb Tense 19. Decimals Which verb tense denotes action completed at some Express .05% as a decimal. definite time in the past?

past perfect .0005 15. Dice 20. Maps What is the sum of the dots on any two opposite sides What kind of lines on a topographic map never cross? of a single die?

seven contour lines 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 7 First Half Page 3 21. Expeditions 26. Biomes Alexander Mackenzie's journey across Canada in In what biome do plant species tend to be deciduous 1793 occurred ten years prior to what other famous and consist primarily of perennial forbs, dwarf expedition to reach the Pacific Ocean across land that shrubs, lichens, grasses, and mosses? would become the United States?

Lewis and Clark tundra 22. Boating Vocabulary 27. Herbivores What verb indicates what happens when an Name either of the two largest herbivores that inhabit accelerating boat rises partly out of the water at high the Arctic tundra. speeds?

planing caribou, musk ox 23. Astronomy 28. Wartime Settings While the zenith is an imaginary point directly above What war is the setting for these novels? an observer on Earth and the horizon is the line where April Morning the Earth and sky meet, the angle between the horizon An Enemy Among Them and an object in the sky is called what? My Brother Sam Is Dead John Treegate's Musket Johnny Tremain

the altitude American Revolution (Revolutionary War) 24. State Government Adjectives 29. Energy Transference What is the adjective form of the noun, governor? Heat energy may be transferred from one location to another within a medium in the form of photons or electromagnetic waves. Name this category of heat transfer.

gubernatorial radiation 25. Affective States 30. Landforms What is the psychological term for feelings such as Due to their triangular shape, depositional landforms joy, anger, or sorrow? at river mouths were named after what Greek letter?

emotions delta 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 7 First Half Page 4 31. Legends 36. Offenses According to legends, what patron saint banished all Last February, the game warden saw Red Bailey the snakes from Ireland? catching bass, crappie, and walleye from a lake in Arizona. Given that he had no fishing license and 140 fish in his cooler, Red had committed what crime?

St. Patrick poaching 32. Verbs 37. Special Cities These are examples of what type of verbs? The lowest city with a population of more than a should, might, must, will, does quarter of a million people is at 1.5 feet below sea level in what U.S. state?

helping (auxiliary) verbs Louisiana 33. Art Fundamentals 38. Figurative Language What compound word refers to a line describing the What two figures of speech are illustrated in this outer boundary of an object or figure? sentence? Suddenly she snorted "shush" at the sounds of a splatter, a swoosh, a splish, and a splosh.

outline alliteration, onomatopoeia 34. Hosts 39. Solution Sets A host is the animal or plant that provides shelter and What is the solution set for this sentence? food for what kind of organisms? -x = 4

parasites -4 35. Memorials 40. Ancient Racing In what U.S. state is the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Usually, horses pulled chariots in ancient Rome and Arch, the first permanent memorial arch in America Greece. But, sometimes, they substituted what kind of that honors the 4,000 Hartford citizens who served in birds for the horses? the Civil War, and the 400 who died for the Union?

Connecticut ostriches 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 7 Second Half Page 1 1. Territories 6. Totalitarian Literature What British overseas territory consists mainly of a According to George Orwell, who is Big Brother monolithic limestone promontory on the southwestern watching? tip of the Iberian Peninsula?

Gibraltar you 2. Science Fiction 7. Science Fiction This is from what British science fiction work? Complete this title of the novel by Pittacus Lore On Earth, man had always assumed that he was featuring John Smith, one of the nine Garde caste more intelligent than dolphins because he had children from the planet Lorien that the Mogadarians achieved so much - the wheel, New York, wars, are trying to kill. and so on - whilst all the dolphins had ever I Am Number ... done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man for the same reasons. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Four 3. Diving Physiology 8. Grammatical Voice What organ in a swimmer's body is most sensitive to Restate this sentence in the passive voice. the increased pressure during descent into deep water? The auks ate the anchovies.

eardrum The anchovies were eaten by the auks. 4. Journeys 9. Physiology In 1869, Major John Wesley Powell and nine Saliva, sweat, and tears are produced in what kind of associates completed their 900-mile trip down what organs? river?

Colorado River glands 5. Bygone Communities 10. Salary Problems What is the collective name for towns such as Bodie, Brunhilde makes $41,600 per year. What is her California, Oatman, Arizona, and Bannack, Montana, average weekly gross salary? that were abandoned because the economic activities that supported them failed?

ghost towns $800 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 7 Second Half Page 2 11. Verbs 16. Surgery What are the principal parts of "shake"? A craniotomy is a surgical incision into what body structure?

shake, shook, shaken skull 12. Steamboats 17. Down Under Although it is erroneously referred to at the Clermont, What beasts of burden first domesticated in Old World Robert Fulton's North River Steamboat operated on deserts were used by early Australian explorers? what river that flows north to south through eastern New York state?

Hudson River camels 13. Memorials 18. Training Programs In what state could you visit the Roger Williams In the Middle Ages, a boy had to first serve as a page National Memorial? and then as a squire before he could become what?

Rhode Island a knight 14. The Mideast 19. The Solar System The name of what Mideast country begins with the The Sun contains over 99.8 percent of the total mass letter "Q"? in our solar system. What one planet contains most of the rest?

Qatar Jupiter 15. Liquids 20. Law What property of a liquid makes it behave as though Seymour told the police that his neighbor was its surface were enclosed in an elastic skin? dumping toxic wastes into the ditch behind their lots. What is the term for such a charge of wrongdoing against a person?

surface tension accusation 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 7 Second Half Page 3 21. Mean Proportionals 26. Anthropology 10 is the geometric mean between 4 and what In Peru, they created a powerful empire of perhaps six number? million people, developed a complex political system, and built a vast network of paved roads. Name these pre-Columbians.

25 Incas 22. Representation 27. Physiology The number of representatives in Congress from each The action of what body system begins with ingestion state is determined by what? and mastication?

population digestive system 23. Conquistadors 28. Reproduction When Francisco Coronado marched into the region What is the term for any process that renders a person that became the state of Kansas, he was searching for incapable of producing offspring? the Seven Cities of what?

Gold (or Cibola) sterilizing 24. Tools of Officiating 29. African Nationalities Name the small ceremonial, hardwood mallet used by What is the nationality of most people living in Cape presiding officers such as auctioneers, judges, and Town and Pretoria? chairpersons to call for the conclusion of a transaction, to call for attention, or to punctuate rulings.

gavel South African 25. Charles Dickens 30. Reflection What is the last name of Tiny Tim in "A Christmas When you see yourself in a mirror, that light has been Carol"? reflected a minimum of how many times?

Cratchit twice 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 7 Second Half Page 4 31. Muscles 36. Pronouns What is the opposing muscle to the biceps? There are three pronouns in this sentence. All are what type of pronouns? You and I will see him shortly.

triceps personal 32. Age of Exploration 37. Numbers The first Europeans to land in Japan were of what What is the absolute value of -.066? nationality?

Portuguese .066 33. Syllabication 38. Weather Folklore In the Pledge of Allegiance, what is the first trisyllabic Complete this weather proverb. word that is accented on the first syllable? Rainbow in the morning gives you ...

liberty fair warning 34. Verbiage 39. Answers What words could be omitted from this example What question is associated with this answer? without changing its meaning? "I," said the fly. Legislators are already in the process of "With my little eye reviewing the statutes. I saw him die."

in the process of Who saw him die? 35. Mountain Systems 40. Massive Sculptures Name the principal mountain system of the Eastern Among the three images carved into Georgia's Stone states which includes the Great Smoky Mountains, and Mountain is that of what former Confederate the Catskills. president?

Appalachians Jefferson Davis 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 8 First Half Page 1 1. Wartime Nonfiction 6. Astronaut Employment Two nonfictional works that tell of state political Before he signed on to become NASA's oldest crimes during World War II through the eyes of astronaut, John Glenn had already indicated he was adolescent Jewish girls are Anne Frank's "The Diary of giving up what day job? a Young Girl" and what work about the Russians moving Esther Rudomin and her family to work camps in Siberia?

The Endless Steppe U.S. senator 2. Multiplication 7. Cubes What is the product of the following? What is the total surface area of a mysterious black 24(y/2 + y/3) cube with edges of 5 meters?

20y 150 square meters 3. Endangered Species 8. Literary Forms These endangered species are in what state? What is the term for these kinds of collections? Akiapolaau The Illustrated Man Kauai oo American Gothic Tales Akialoa Oxford Book of Modern Verses Nikukpuu Classics of Children's Literature Twenty-nine Original Tales of Horror The Best Science Fiction of the 20th Century

Hawaii anthology 4. The 16th Century 9. Rhyme French explorers established Fort Caroline in Florida What is the rhyme scheme in this verse? in 1563. The Spanish objected and set out from Bid me to weep, and I will weep, Havana to engage the French. A storm forced them to While I have eyes to see; build a shelter on the Florida coast which became the And having none, yet I will keep oldest surviving European city in America. Name it. A heart to weep for thee.

St. Augustine ABAB 5. Root Sums 10. Bygone Birds What is the sum of the square root of 49 and the Since there had not been a confirmed sighting of the square root of 81? Alaotra Grebe in 25 years, in 2010 it was declared what?

16 extinct 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 8 First Half Page 2 11. Rectangular Dimensions 16. Last Business The length of a rectangular plot is 2 meters longer The last business of Congress under the Articles of than 3 times its width. Given that the perimeter of the Confederation involved the cession by Maryland of plot is 100 meters, find its width and the length. ten square miles to become the future site for a federal town called what?

width = 12, length = 38 the District of Columbia 12. Presidents 17. Sensation Kansas was the home state of what U.S. president? A flavor is a combination of what two sensations?

Dwight Eisenhower smell, taste 13. Legends 18. Weathering This refrain from a sea song is about what kind of Even if a car were to be exposed only to dry air, it legendary being? would eventually rust due to what common form of 'Cause her hair was green as seaweed chemical weathering? Her skin was blue and pale I loved that girl with all my heart I only liked the upper part I did not like the tail.

mermaid oxidation 14. First Aid 19. Historic Voyages The following is part of a treatment for what condition Whose 50,220 mile voyage in the 16th century first accompanying an injury? proved the world is round? Maintain circulation by keeping the patient lying down with head lower than the body. Slightly elevate the lower extremities.

shock Ferdinand Magellan 15. Republics 20. Europe A republic is a form of government also known as a What country, once isolated from much of Europe by representative what? the Berlin Wall, no longer exists?

democracy East Germany 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 8 First Half Page 3 21. Ecology 26. Algebraic Evaluation What six-syllable adjective indicates substances that Given that x = 7 and y = 4, evaluate this expression. can be decomposed by microorganisms? 5 + 8x + 2y

biodegradable 69 22. Ballets 27. Special Days What ballet by Peter Tchaikovsky takes place on About how many hours of daylight are there on Christmas Eve and features a young girl, a prince, and September 23rd? battle between an army of gingerbread soldiers and mice?

The Nutcracker 12 23. Grammatical Person 28. International Relations Restate this line using the second person. In 2013, what U.S. attorney general told Russian This is my problem. authorities that the U.S. would not seek the death penalty against intelligence leaker Edward Snowden?

This is your problem. Eric Holder 24. Weather Prediction 29. Historical Structures Even though it is wrong about 70% of the time, what What term for an upright structure completes these enduring tradition of weather forecasting involving a historic place names? short-legged mammal did German immigrants Western ---- introduce in Pennsylvania? Berlin ---- Wailing ---- Hadrian's ----

Groundhog Day Wall 25. Georgia 30. Inventors The British government approved James Oglethorpe's Robert Watson-Watt, the man who gave practical plan to establish Georgia because it hoped the colony application to radar, was a descendant of what man would serve as a barrier to the northward expansion of credited with developing the steam engine? what other colonial power?

Spanish James Watt 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 8 First Half Page 4 31. Bones 36. Symbolic Math An adult has 206 bones, and nearly half of them are What is the total value of x dimes and 22 nickels? in what appendages?

hands and feet 10x + $1.10 32. Hemorrhoids 37. Grammatical Voice "Hemorrhoid" and "hemoglobin" contain a root which Restate this in the active voice. means what? Small animals are eaten by coyotes.

blood Coyotes eat small animals. 33. Polygons 38. Verbs What polyhedron has a polygon as one of its faces Spell the auxiliary verb that completes this epitaph. while its other lateral faces are triangles meeting at a Here lie the bones of John Bunn. vertex? He was killed by a gun. His name was not Bunn, but Wood But Wood would not rhyme with gun And Bunn ...

pyramid would 34. Communist Expansion 39. Elections During 1949, the U.S. policy of containing This is about what U.S. president? Communism received a serious setback when the On April 6th, the electoral ballots were counted government of Chiang Kai-shek was overthrown in and he became president with 69 votes. what country?

China George Washington 35. Fables 40. Eye Parts A few words of wisdom are at the end of each of Name the pigmented ring of muscular tissue that lies Aesop's fables. What is another name for such between the cornea and the lens. aphorisms?

morals iris 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 8 Second Half Page 1 1. Tributaries 6. Cities Most tributaries join larger streams at what kind of London is divided by what river? angle?

acute Thames 2. Paths 7. Mathematical Properties Name the elliptical or hyperbolic path traced by a What mathematical property is illustrated by this pair planet, comet, or satellite around a more massive of equations? body. (6 x 7) x 9 = 63 6 x (7 x 9) = 63

orbit associative property (of multiplication) 3. Number Transformations 8. Disclosures Transform the Roman numeral XVII into a binary Reminiscent of plumbing problems, what are numeral. unauthorized releases of information to the press by government insiders called?

10001 leaks 4. Air 9. Outdoor Perils What happens to liquid air when it is poured onto ice? Abnormally low body temperature due to prolonged exposure to cold is called what?

it boils (or evaporates, vaporizes, etc.) hypothermia 5. Biological Names 10. Elections Karl Linnaeus invented the system of binomial The framers of the Constitution were hesitant to allow nomenclature by which each organism could be the president to be elected directly by the people. named by combining its genus and species names. They devised what system by which Americans vote These names were given in what language? for a limited number of people who in turn cast their votes for president?

Latin Electoral College (electoral system) 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 8 Second Half Page 2 11. Islands 16. Botanical Slang What island is surrounded by the Indian and Pacific What slang term referring to an easy victim or dupe is oceans and is separated from mainland Australia by identical to a term used in botany referring to the the Bass Strait? watery fluid that circulates through a plant?

Tasmania sap 12. Illegal Archaeology 17. Bodies of Water What is the term for illegal digging at archaeological What gulf is bordered by Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, and Saudi sites to unearth artifacts for personal collections or Arabia? sale on the black market?

pothunting Persian Gulf 13. The Eye 18. Eruptions Name the slightly protruding clear outer cap over the Consisting of fine particulate matter, what kind of iris of the eye. cloud forms during volcanic eruptions?

cornea ash cloud (eruption cloud) 14. Antlers 19. Pronoun Use Unlike the horns of other animals, antlers consist what What indefinite pronoun should have been used in this solid material? line? He knows more about that product than anyone else in this room put together.

bone everyone 15. Continents 20. The Continents The continental slope is between an ocean basin and a A relatively shallow, submerged portion of a continental what? continent, extending to a point of steep descent to the ocean floor is called a continental what?

shelf continental shelf 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 8 Second Half Page 3 21. Erosion 26. Historical Adjectives Name the process by which sediments are laid down in What adjective is used by historians to indicate that an new locations. artifact belongs to a period prior to that of recorded history?

deposition prehistoric 22. The Atmosphere 27. Occupied Territory The troposphere is the atmospheric layer closest to the After the Axis defeat in 1945, the Soviets occupied Earth. Its upper limit is lower at the poles and higher what had previously been a Japanese colony north of near the ... the 38th parallel while the Americans occupied the region south of that line. Name the peninsula.

equator Korean Peninsula 23. Compass Reading 28. Architectural History On a compass, what direction is opposite of WSW? Name the most famous building designed by Thomas Jefferson.

ENE (east northeast) Monticello 24. Visual Defects 29. Linear Equations While the lens of the eye is normally transparent, Solve this equation for x, expressing the answer as an glaucoma may ultimately cause it to become improper fraction in lowest terms. impenetrable by light, in which case the lens would be 6x - 5 = 2x + 9 described as being what?

opaque 7/2 25. Accents 30. Court Which word below is accented on the third syllable? On the witness stand, the defendant said, "Yes! Yes! I There is no such test of a man's superiority of did it. I did it with my drill press and radial arm saw. character as in the well-conducting of an I'm glad I did it and I'd do it again, only I'd use my unavoidable quarrel. power mower next time!" What is such an admission of guilt called?

unavoidable confession 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 8 Second Half Page 4 31. Forms of Literature 36. Algebra You have just read a short article describing the If p = 2 and q = 1/2, then p(4-q) equals what? relative merits and weaknesses of a Broadway play. What is the name for such an article?

review 7. 32. Attorneys 37. Woods What is the opposite of a defense attorney? Hardwoods come from deciduous trees while softwoods come from what other kind of trees?

prosecuting attorney (prosecutor) coniferous (evergreen) 33. Those Who Roam 38. Anniversaries What is the collective name for communities of people The quadricentennial of what American town was who move from place to place instead of settling celebrated in 2007? permanently in one location?

nomads Jamestown 34. Landforms 39. Fish These are what kind of landforms? It attains lengths of 15 feet. Its head is oddly shaped Cordillera Occidental somewhat like a mallet with its eyes on the outer ends. Arctic Cordillera Name this shark. Pacific Cordillera Cordillera de los Andes

mountain ranges (mountain chains, systems) hammerhead 35. Distance Problems 40. Technology Analogies Something that travels at fifteen meters per minute The Internet is also known as the information what? travels how many meters in 20 minutes and 20 seconds?

305 superhighway 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 9 First Half Page 1 1. Republics 6. Phrases What event at the close of the eighteenth century What is the last prepositional phrase in this line by ended the thousand-year rule of kings in France and David Broder? established the nation as a republic? Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.

French Revolution with the office 2. Climber Nationalities 7. Reading Music The Sherpa, Tenzing Norgay, accompanied a The two vertical lines that show the end of a section or mountaineer from what country in the first ascent of piece of music is called a double what? Mt. Everest?

New Zealand bar 3. Circles 8. Architects What is the circumference of a circle with a radius of What is the highest political office to which the 500 feet? architect of Monticello was elected?

1000 pi (or 3141.6 feet) U.S. president 4. Who's In Charge 9. Astronomical Observation These were political leaders of what country? What heavenly body that has an absolute magnitude Neville Chamberlain of about +4.8 has an apparent magnitude of -26.8 Winston Churchill because of its proximity to Earth? Margaret Thatcher

United Kingdom (Great Britain) Sun 5. Memorial 10. Island History A memorial in Hawaii honors the 1,102 sailors killed During its first 200 years of British colonial rule, what on what ship in 1941? was Jamaica's primary export?

U.S.S. Arizona sugar 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 9 First Half Page 2 11. Savanna Wildlife 16. Adjectives Antelope, wildebeest, and gazelles are typical savanna What are the two superlative forms of the adjective fauna on what continent? "unusual"?

Africa most unusual, least unusual 12. Agricultural Practices 17. Plurals Because of steep terrain, many cultures such as the Spell the plural of "elf." Greeks and Chinese had to create small, flat plots of land by building low walls around hillsides and filling the space behind them with soil. Name this practice.

terracing elves 13. Grids 18. Whales What is the name for a quarter section of a Cartesian What is the term for that which a whale does when it is grid? diving downward?

quadrant sounding 14. Hinky Pinkies 19. Asian Deserts What is a hink pink for a slightly wet hobo? Name either of the two countries in which the Gobi Desert is located.

damp tramp China, Mongolia 15. Anagrams 20. Polyhedrons Complete this anagram that is also an antonym for What regular geometric solid consists of six equal "young lad" squares? an old ...

guy cube (or hexahedron) 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 9 First Half Page 3 21. Triangles 26. Insects What can be said of two right triangles if an acute What is the term for the transformation of an insect angle of one equals an acute angle of the other? from the larval stage to the adult stage of life?

They are similar. metamorphosis 22. Astronomical Bodies 27. Fantastic Diseases These bodies are collectively known as what? In the Harry Potter books, the only cure for what Io disease is to bind the liver of a toad around the Phobos victim's throat and stand nude in a barrel of eel's eyes Callisto under a full moon? Europa

satellites (moons) spattergroit 23. Poetic License 28. State Choices To what capacity was Oscar Wilde referring when he The provisions of what act allowed the issue of slavery spoke about "the diary we all carry about with us"? in Kansas to be determined by popular sovereignty?

memory Kansas-Nebraska Act 24. Art Forms 29. Folk Dancing What art form was Kurt Schwitters praising when he In what folk or ballroom dance do couples move in a said "the combination, for artistic purposes, of all circular motion around a room? conceivable materials" such as wood, plasterboard, wheels, and cotton, were equal in expression to paint itself?

collage round dance 25. First Ladies 30. Poison Name the wife of the U.S. president who was What term that means "malice" or "spite" also refers to murdered during a performance of "Our American the poisonous secretions of snakes, spiders, or Cousin." scorpions?

Mary (Todd) Lincoln venom 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 9 First Half Page 4 31. Telescopes 36. Wildlife Cuisine The HST, an extraordinarily powerful telescope In contrast to browsers, what is the name for orbiting Earth, was named for the astronomer, Edwin plant-eating animals that feed mainly on grass? who?

Hubble grazers 32. Explorers of the East 37. Gem Value What Portuguese explorer became viceroy of India as The value of a diamond is determined by the four C's, a reward for pioneering a sea route to there from including its carats, clarity, color, and what else? Europe?

Vasco da Gama cut (facets) 33. Compass Sequences 38. Circles What abbreviation is next in this series of compass If the radius of a circle is 12, how long is a chord with directions? endpoints that are the same as the endpoints of a NNE, ENE, ESE, SSE, SSW, ... 180-degree arc on that circle?

WSW 24 34. Angular Diameter 39. Faults The Sun is 390 times greater in diameter than the The San Andreas Fault marks the boundary between Moon. But from the Earth, the Moon and Sun appear two huge, rigid slabs of rock called what? to be about the same size. How many times farther away is the Sun than the Moon?

390 times plates 35. Root Words 40. Drugs The Latin root word "prim" as in "primary" and The use of any drug in an amount that precipitates a "primer" means what? crisis of adverse physical or mental effects is called what kind of dose?

first overdose 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 9 Second Half Page 1 1. Soldiers 6. Histories Because of the color of their uniforms, from the 17th The early chapters of these works are about what century to the early 19th century, soldiers of the explorer? British Army were called what? Conquistador History of the Conquest of Mexico

redcoats Hernando Cortes 2. Inquiries 7. Conundrums The following is what kind of question? What is illustrated by these questions and answers? What if there were no hypothetical questions? -Why did the projector blush? 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

rhetorical riddles 3. Governmental Powers 8. Defensive Structures The work of which branch of government is canceled In ancient Nigeria, the walls of Benin included ditches by a veto? filled with water as lines of defense. What is the name for such ditches?

legislative branch moats 4. Floating 9. Sales Solutions A log floats with 40% of its volume above the surface One specialty store sold twice as many gizmos in the of the water. Its density must be what percent of that afternoon as it did in the morning. If 360 kilograms of the water? of gizmos were sold during the entire day, how many kilograms were sold in the morning?

60% 120 5. Metals 10. Radicals Name either of the two most malleable metals. What is the cube root of -8?

gold, silver -2 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 9 Second Half Page 2 11. Great Lakes 16. Inaugural Inaugurals These border which Great Lake? Who was the first U.S. president to take the oath of Ontario office and make an inaugural address in Washington, Michigan D.C.? Wisconsin Minnesota

Lake Superior Thomas Jefferson 12. Sports Teams 17. Parts of Speech By their names, you know that these teams are from What type of conjunction is in this line? what state? The yaks are slow and the earth is patient. Chattanooga Lookouts, Greeneville Astros, Jackson Generals, Knoxville Ice Bears, Memphis Redbirds

Tennessee coordinate (coordinating) conjunction 13. Angles 18. Explorers How many degrees are in each corner of a square? Members of John Cabot's expedition were the first Europeans to set foot in North America since what other group of voyagers did so a half a millennium earlier?

90 Vikings (Norsemen) 14. Clouds 19. Matrimony If there is a cumulus cloud between you and the Sun, What are the first four words in the lyrics of it generally appears what color? Mendelssohn's "Wedding March"?

gray (black) Here comes the bride. 15. Medieval Occupations 20. Milling In medieval Europe, what was the job of someone who What powered early European gristmills? had helical red and white stripes on a pole in front of his shop?

barber water 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 9 Second Half Page 3 21. Inventions 26. Scouting What invention of 1834 by a Virginian replaced the What is the last word in the Scout Law of the Boy sickle for harvesting wheat? Scouts of America?

reaper reverent 22. Rescues 27. Pronouns She had her servants break the huge frame and roll up What reflexive pronoun corresponds with the plural the canvas which she carted away in the back of a personal pronoun, "they"? wagon. Who was this first lady who saved a portrait of George Washington in 1814?

Dolley Madison themselves 23. Exponent Division 28. Colonial Factions Divide x cubed by x cubed. Those American colonists who remained faithful to the British and supported their continued rule over the colonies were collectively known as what?

1 (or x to the 0 power) loyalists 24. Hemorrhage 29. Medical Exams What is the generally preferred first aid treatment for What is the doctor asking you to do when he says to hemorrhage? assume a recumbent position?

direct pressure lie down (recline) 25. Science Fiction 30. Liberties According to science fiction principles, what must One of Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points concerned protect its own existence as long as such protection the liberty to navigate the oceans otherwise known as does not conflict with the First or Second Law? freedom of what?

robot the seas 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 9 Second Half Page 4 31. Substances 36. Forces Boron carbide, corundum, and diamonds are While tension is a pulling force, compression is what examples very hard, brittle, heat-resistant substances kind of force? that are used to grind the edges and faces of rough surfaces. Collectively, these are known as what kind of materials?

abrasives pushing force 32. Biology 37. Literary Forms What noun describes a mammal with these What term for a scholarly piece of writing was derived characteristics? from the Greek words meaning "one, single, or alone" -abnormally pale skin and "to write"? -very light hair -lacking normal eye coloration -lacking normal pigmentation

albino monograph 33. Rectangles 38. Publication In a rectangle that contains 200 square meters, what is Little Harvey wishes to publish a newspaper for his the maximum number of 3 meter by 5 meter community. He receives a newsletter from a company rectangles that will fit inside? in Colorado and likes it so well he decides to publish it under his own name. What type of laws makes this a bad idea for Harvey?

13 copyright 34. Agriculture 39. Distillates Name the flooded fields in which rice is grown. A distillate is the condensed liquid obtained as a result of what process?

paddies distillation 35. Pronouns 40. Poetic Stress What is the third person, objective, plural pronoun? What is the third accented word in this line? I watched a nest from day to day, A green nest full of pleasant shade.

them day 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 10 First Half Page 1 1. Energy 6. Suffixes In the U.S., the greatest amount of electricity is Spell a word meaning "in the order named" by generated from what two fuels? replacing the suffix in "respectfully."

coal, natural gas respectively 2. Water Treatment 7. Circles There is practically no chance of an outbreak of What is the term for a sector that is one half of a cholera if water is treated with the proper amount of circle? what greenish, gaseous halogen?

chlorine semicircle 3. The Wages of Work 8. Dollars and Cents You make $9.00 per hour and time and a half for 3x half dollars equal how many cents? overtime. What are your gross wages if you work a 50-hour week?

$495 150x cents 4. Newspapers 9. Meteorology Name the latest moment when newspaper copy can be If a weather organization issues an ashfall advisory, submitted. you know that what kind of geological event has just taken or is taking place?

deadline volcanic eruption 5. Symbols 10. Explosives What star-like symbol is used to indicate a marginal Around the 9th century, the Chinese discovered how reference or footnote on the same page? to make gunpowder from a mixture of saltpeter, charcoal, and what pale yellow nonmetallic element?

asterisk sulfur 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 10 First Half Page 2 11. Science Fiction 16. Bad Things for Furry Critters This is from what story? The worst thing ever to happen to raccoons occurred Our progress was slower than I had anticipated, in 1955 when Walt Disney released what movie? and besides Weena was tired. I had been without sleep for a night and two days, and I was feverish and irritable. I felt sleep coming upon me, and the Morlocks with it.

The Time Machine Davy Crockett 12. Jellyfish 17. Glues Name the structures upon which we find the stinging What kind of glues harden relatively quickly after the cells used by jellyfish to capture prey. base and catalyst are mixed together?

tentacles epoxies 13. Afflictions 18. Ecology What is another term for pertussis, a kind of cough This is about what ecological concept? with a name reminiscent of an endangered, large, Ninety years ago, after a fire, it was bare dirt. long-legged bird? Eighty years ago, it was an open meadow filled with grasses. Sixty years ago, it became a scrubland with low trees and bushes. Thirty years ago, it was covered with pines. Now it is covered with oaks.

whooping cough succession 14. Fictional Families 19. Zoology What is the last name of the family that is central in It is related to the domestic hog but is smaller, has a this series of stories? more bristly coat, and has one less toe on each hind Sarah Plain and Tall foot. Its tusks are straight and point downward. Skylark Name this animal of the American Southwest. Caleb's Story More Perfect than the Moon Grandfather's Dance

Witting peccary 15. Fuels 20. Writing Rules What is the most abundant gaseous fossil fuel? What word should have been used to make this sentence illustrate what it preaches? Never use a big word when you can use a diminutive word.

natural gas (methane) small (little) 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 10 First Half Page 3 21. Government Bodies 26. Pronouns A cabinet is a body of high-ranking officials that What is the function of the nominative pronouns in typically represents which branch of government? this sentence? We will hum a lively chantey while they dance a traditional jig.

executive branch sentence subjects 22. Insomnia 27. Fundamental Phenomena Research indicates that most cases of insomnia can be What is the mutual attraction between any two masses? traced to what substance found in colas, teas, coffee, and cocoa?

caffeine gravity (gravitation) 23. Nutrition Oddities 28. Absolute Value The strength of what cartoon character was probably What is the absolute value of -435? based on a misplaced decimal point in a food table published in 1870 that made spinach appear to contain ten times more iron than any other vegetable?

Popeye 435 24. Deductive Logic 29. Babylon "All" and "no" are two of the three quantifiers used in For what purpose were talents, minas, and shekels used Venn diagrams. What is the other? in ancient Babylon?

some money (currency, coins) 25. Change of State 30. Antecedents What usually occurs when a gas is cooled below its What is the antecedent in this statement by Bertrand boiling point? Russell? The mind is a strange machine which can combine the materials offered to it in the most astonishing ways.

condensation mind 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 10 First Half Page 4 31. Muscles 36. Legends What is the name for muscles not under conscious Who was a sorcerer and counselor of Uther Pendragon control? and his son Arthur?

involuntary (unstriated, smooth) Merlin 32. Adages 37. Naziless Nations In what colonial, annual reference work did these What landlocked European country adjacent to adages first appear? Austria was never occupied by Nazi Germany? Make haste slowly. God helps them that help themselves. Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy - wealthy - and wise.

Poor Richard's Almanac Switzerland 33. Historical Periods 38. International Relationships The period in which a country changed over from What is the name for a formal agreement between two predominantly agricultural and commercial pursuits nations? to those of mechanized industry is called what kind of revolution?

industrial revolution treaty 34. Verbs 39. Radioactive Dating What is the helping verb in this line? It takes 4.5 billion years for half of the uranium 238 Stottlemeyer has the ball and he's atoms to turn to lead 206. If a rock contains 75% bludgeoning his way to the ten-yard line. uranium 238 and 25% lead 206, how old is it?

is 2.25 billion years 35. Ancient Literature 40. The Caribbean These were literary works from what ancient The easternmost point of the island of Hispaniola is in civilization? what country? Teaching for King Merykara The Contendings of Horus and Seth Isis, the Rich Woman's Son, and the Fisherman's Wife

Egypt Dominican Republic 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 10 Second Half Page 1 1. Amphibians 6. Explorers Of the approximately 7000 known species of In 1910, he wrote in his diary, "At last. The prize of amphibians, almost 90 percent of them are what kind three centuries. My dream and goal for twenty years." of creatures? Where was Admiral Peary when he wrote this?

frogs North Pole 2. Energy 7. U.S. State Capitals When a bomb is dropped from an airplane, as it Identify the only U.S. state capital city with a approaches the ground, it gains what kind of energy? three-word name.

kinetic energy Salt Lake City 3. National Parks 8. Terrorism Besides Joshua Tree National Park, what two other In 1979, what Mideast country offered to trade the 66 U.S. national parks are specifically named for living American hostages for the man who held the title of trees? shah at the time?

Redwood, Sequoia Iran 4. Energy 9. Literary Quotes Kinetic energy is energy in motion. What adjective What character in "Alice in Wonderland" says "The describes energy at rest? hurrier I go, the behinder I get"?

potential White Rabbit 5. Assassination Plots 10. Song Lyrics John Wilkes Booth directed George Atzerodt to kill In the "Do Re Mi" song from "The Sound of Music," what vice president? "do" is "a female deer." How is "re" defined?

Andrew Johnson a drop of golden sun 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 10 Second Half Page 2 11. Mideast Turmoil 16. Fish In 1990, what dictator annexed Kuwait as a province The winterkill of fresh water fish in mountain lakes of Iraq? results not directly from the low temperature but from a lack of what in the water?

Saddam Hussein oxygen 12. City Nicknames 17. The Middle Ages In what state are there cities with these nicknames? In the early Middle Ages, the Visigoths settled in Barbecued Mutton Capital of the World Spain, the Ostrogoths settled in Italy, and the Franks Derby City settled in the region that became what modern The Gateway to the Bluegrass country? Gateway to Mammoth Cave

Kentucky France 13. Quadrilaterals 18. Gerunds What quadrilateral has one pair of parallel sides? What is the function of the gerund in this line? In some nations and in Shrek's swamp, burping at the table is polite.

trapezoid subject of the sentence 14. Unusual Definitions 19. Mammal Habitats What did Ambrose Bierce define as "a singular Primary habitat for what palmated members of the instrument worn at the end of an arm and commonly deer family includes Russia, Scandinavia, Canada, thrust into somebody's pocket"? Alaska, the northern Rockies, Minnesota, and upper New England?

hand moose 15. Wartime Campaigns 20. Time Reckoning While the Continental Army lived under The date 200 B.C. is equivalent to what "Common extraordinarily harsh conditions in Valley Forge, the Era" date? British troops were enjoying themselves in what Pennsylvania city that had been the seat of the Second Continental Congress?

Philadelphia 200 B.C.E. 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 10 Second Half Page 3 21. Wartime Vessels 26. Art Forms What famous Civil War ironclad could be described as What term refers to the art of shaping and firing clay? an armored raft with a revolving turret amidships?

U.S.S. Monitor ceramics 22. Legal Documents 27. Colonial Legislation What kind of document issued by a judge allows law What parliamentary act of 1765 required civil enforcement personnel to look inside private authorities in the colonies to provide barracks and property? supplies for British troops?

search warrant Quartering Act 23. Sagas 28. The Executive Branch The "Groenlendinga Saga" which features, among The U.S. Army, Navy, and Air Force are the many others, an account of Eric the Red, translates as responsibility of which executive department? "The Saga of the" what?

Greenlanders Department of Defense 24. Anagrams 29. British Navigators "Rocket Boy" is an anagram for what biographical Who was the first Englishman to sail through the Strait film about a coal miner's son who eventually becomes of Magellan? a NASA engineer?

October Sky Francis Drake 25. South America 30. Monuments Rivers flowing generally east from Colombia and Peru Muir Woods National Monument in California are all tributaries of what river? features what kind of trees?

Amazon redwoods (or sequoias) 8th Grade Quick Recall Round 10 Second Half Page 4 31. Work Problems 36. Gulfs Digby can dig a ditch in 4 hours while Mr. Spade can All of the land around the Gulf of St. Lawrence do the same job in 3 hours. Express as a mixed belongs to what country? number the number of hours it would take for them to dig it together?

1 5/7 Canada 32. Names 37. Populations These names were first used in what ancient What is the overall name for changes in the genetic civilization? makeup of a population over many generations? Livia, Marcus, Antonia, Julius, Claudia

Rome evolution 33. Precipitation 38. Vision Receptors What process makes virga disappear before it reaches What specialized light-sensitive cells of the retina the ground? receive color stimuli?

evaporation cones 34. Totalitarianism 39. Fields of Science Examples of totalitarian governments include Cuba What form of energy is of primary interest in under Castro, the Soviet Union under Stalin, Germany thermodynamics? under Hitler, and what country under Hussein?

Iraq heat energy 35. Communication 40. Revolutionary Flags What is a collective term for newspapers, broadcasting, The Culpeper Minutemen of Virginia fought under a and other vehicles of mass communication? flag with the phrase, "Liberty or Death," an image of a coiled rattlesnake, and what statement that began with "Don't"?

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