8Th Grade Orals Bluegrass Middle School Academic Conference 15 Rounds of 80 Questions Divided Into Halves, with Alternates
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8th Grade Orals Bluegrass Middle School Academic Conference 15 rounds of 80 questions divided into halves, with alternates Copyright © 2014 Academic Hallmarks 8th Grade Orals Round 1 First Half Page 1 1. Drawing 6. Creative Writing Two of the oldest drawing materials include charcoal What literary device is used in this phrase? and what soft variety of limestone? And the silken sad uncertain ... chalk alliteration 2. Disclosures 7. Medical Practitioners Reminiscent of plumbing problems, what are What is the term for a physician who limits his practice unauthorized releases of information to the press by to a particular branch of medicine after considerable government insiders called? postgraduate training in that area? leaks specialist 3. Compass Headings 8. First Aid Supplies A pilot who says has turned to 270 degrees is heading Name the bag of natural or synthetic ice that is in what direction? applied to an injury to reduce blood flow in the area. west cold pack 4. Communications 9. Gems Before they became major television networks, the Identify the only gemstone composed of just one National Broadcasting Company and the Columbia element. Broadcasting System were based on what kind of communications technology first developed by Lee De Forest? radio diamond 5. World Geography 10. Math History These are all names of what? In the 17th century, the German mathematician Volga, Brahmaputra, Parana, Amur, Lena Gottfried Leibniz invented what counting system essential to modern computers? rivers binary system (base 2) 8th Grade Orals Round 1 First Half Page 2 11. Old Blue Eyes 16. Word Transformation Research from Denmark indicates that until about What word that means a large drawing room used for 10,000 years ago, all human eyes were brown. entertaining guests can be changed into another word Sometime about then, something happened and blue that means a tavern of the Old West by adding a single eyes began appearing in humans. What is the general vowel? term for such a genetic change? mutation salon 12. American Poetry 17. Number Sequence What poem by Henry Longfellow is about the What is the next number in this sequence? impending British invasion? 15 24 35 48 63 ... Paul Revere's Ride 80 13. Sets 18. Significant Dates Set A contains 1 and 2 and 3. Set B contains 3 and 1 1066 is to the Norman conquest of England as 1939 and 2. What term describes these sets? to 1945 is to what? equal (identical) World War II 14. Military Vocabulary 19. Desert Resources What is the military term for a soldier who is wounded, This is about what tree? killed, captured, or missing during an engagement It not only provided a concentrated energy with the enemy? food, which could be easily stored and carried along on long journeys across the desert, but also created a more amenable habitat for the people by providing shade and protection from the desert winds. casualty palm (date palm) 15. European History 20. Paddle Wheelers In 1419, Prince Henry the Navigator sent ships on an What is the name for a paddle steamer with a single expedition to begin exploration of the coast of Africa. paddle wheel at its rear? These ships departed from what country? Portugal stern wheeler 8th Grade Orals Round 1 First Half Page 3 21. Tiny Life Forms 26. Paintings What is a two-syllable synonym for microorganism? These are titles of what kind of paintings? Table, Napkin, and Fruit The Vase with 12 Sunflowers Strawberries microbe still life 22. Revolutionaries 27. Explorers Banastre Tarleton, a Redcoat commandant, chased Name the best-known American explorer to begin a Lieutenant Colonel Francis Marion into swamp journey from the Ross Ice Shelf. country unfamiliar to the British. Because he could not capture him, he gave Marion what nickname? Swamp Fox Richard Byrd 23. Stimulants 28. Holidays What mild, odorless, alkaloid stimulant is present in These are public holidays in what country? kola nuts, tea leaves, and coffee beans? Pasqua Epifania Festa della Repubblica Tutti i Santi Natale Santo Stefano caffeine Italy 24. Time 29. Theater It is 4 P.M. where you are standing. What time is it six Broadway is the principal professional theater district time zones to the west? in what city? 10 A.M. New York City 25. Steamboats 30. Polygons There were two types of paddle wheelers. Those with A polygon in which all sides are congruent and all paddle wheels located on both sides of the vessel were angles are congruent is described by what adjective? called what? side-wheelers regular 8th Grade Orals Round 1 First Half Page 4 31. Geysers 36. Carnivals The world's premier geyser fields are in Iceland, New Name the carnival held in New Orleans each year Zealand, and what U.S. state? during the week before the beginning of Lent. Wyoming Mardi Gras 32. Coloring 37. Lizards Organic substances in plant and animal cells that The only poisonous lizards in the world live in the produce characteristic tissue colors are called what? American Southwest and in northern Mexico. Name them. pigments Gila monsters (beaded lizards) 33. Work Songs 38. Mythical Spinners These are lines from a song in a movie about people Clotho was one of the three Fates. She was in what line of work? responsible for spinning what thread? We pillage, we plunder, we rifle, and loot, We kidnap and ravage and don't give a hoot, We extort, we pilfer, we filch, and sack, Maraud and embezzle and even high-jack. piracy thread of life 34. Mountains 39. Disorders You are looking at a map. You put your finger on the Dementia involves reduced functioning of what Pamirs, and then move it westward around the Caspian organ? and Black Seas and end up pointing at some mountains north of Italy. Name them. Alps brain 35. Double Entendre 40. Government Departments What word has a double meaning in this line by What government department is housed in an George Bernard Shaw? enormous building shaped like a regular five-sided Anarchism is a game at which the police polygon? can beat you. beat Department of Defense 8th Grade Orals Round 1 First Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Literary Character Taxonomy What kind of creatures are Bilbo and Frodo Baggins? hobbits Alt. 2. European History What adjective describes the period in English history between 1837 and 1901 when Queen Victoria reigned? Victorian Alt. 3. Peaks A steep-sided pyramidal peak with three or more ridges radiating down from its summit is known by what name that rhymes with "corn"? horn Alt. 4. Homophone Spelling The burro is a mammalian quadruped. Spell the other two related homophones. borough, burrow Alt. 5. Adventure Novels What is the family name of the characters in the story from which this was taken? The storm had been going on for six days. No one on board knew where we were. My four sons, Fritz, Ernest, Jack, and young Francis clung to me in fright. My wife, Elizabeth, wiped the tears from her cheeks. Robinson 8th Grade Orals Round 1 Second Half Page 1 1. Colonial Cultivation 6. Computers Colonial cultivation of what crop on Caribbean islands What general kind of programming errors cause was largely responsible for the emergence of the slave computers to do unwanted things like freeze, crash, or trade? erase data? sugar (sugar cane) bugs 2. Vision Receptors 7. Colonial New York What specialized light-sensitive cells of the retina People of what nationality built the wall in lower receive color stimuli? Manhattan from which Wall Street takes its name? cones Dutch 3. Word Beginnings 8. Bodily Cells What word begins the terms with these definitions? What kind of cells are suspended in plasma? -a board game -a routine physical examination -a defeat in chess -a place where vehicles are stopped and inspected at a border check blood cells 4. Navies 9. Waves In 1588, 130 Spanish ships sailed for England. Only Seismic waves are produced by what? 76 of these vessels returned to Spain. Name this naval force that Philip II mistakenly believed invincible. Spanish Armada earthquakes (bombs, meteor impacts) 5. History of Astronomy 10. Oceanography Name the instrument which helped convince Galileo What is the term for any man-made object floating at that the Copernican theory was true. a specific location in a body of water and used by navigators to locate channels, rocks, shoals, or submerged wrecks? telescope buoy 8th Grade Orals Round 1 Second Half Page 2 11. Big Dams 16. Colonial Unrest What 21st-century dam spans the Yangtze River? The Sons of Liberty are best known for what protest in Boston in 1773? Three Gorges Dam Boston Tea Party 12. State Histories 17. Extinct Creatures What two U.S. states were admitted in 1912? Identify the two massive creatures of the Pleistocene epoch that resembled modern elephants. Arizona, New Mexico mammoth, mastodon 13. Reefs 18. Reefs What kind of coral reef forms around a volcanic What North American sea contains the greatest seamount? number of coral reefs? atoll Caribbean Sea 14. Hymns 19. Poetry The opening line of the "Marines' Hymn" refers to In what poem by Poe is this line? what historical region of North Africa? Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door Tripoli The Raven 15. Fantasies 20. Storms Who is the main character in the novel from which Wind speeds of at least 74 miles per hour must be these lines were taken? present in order a meteorological event to be classified In the last article for the recovery of my as what kind of storm? liberty, the Emperor stipulates to allow me a quantity of meat and drink sufficient for the support of 1728 Lilliputians.