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.

Gulliver hurricane 8th Grade Orals Round 1 Second Half Page 3 21. Allusions 26. Mass Murders Lois Duncan alludes to what fairy tale when she About 13 million of what creatures had been killed by begins her story, "Written in the Stars," with this? 1883 because their hides brought up to three dollars Ever since I was very little, I knew some day per head? my prince would come.

Snow White buffalo (bison) 22. Symbiosis 27. Chemical Symbols What form of symbiosis is best illustrated by the What word is made by combining the chemical saying, "You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours"? symbols for nitrogen and calcium?

mutualism can 23. Architectural Structures 28. The Caribbean Name the wrought iron skeleton structure on the What lies east of Cuba, west of Puerto Rico, and is the Champs de Mars in Paris. second largest island in the West Indies?

Eiffel Tower Hispaniola 24. Triangles 29. Foot Disorders In the right triangle ABC, angle C equals 90 degrees Fallen arches is another name for what condition in and angle A equals 32 degrees. How many degrees humans? are in angle B?

58 flatfoot (flat feet) 25. Fossils 30. Forms of Literature Many fossils of saber-toothed cats have been found in What is the name for traditional stories originating in what tar pits of Los Angeles, California? preliterate societies that deal with supernatural beings or heroes?

La Brea Tar Pits myths 8th Grade Orals Round 1 Second Half Page 4 31. Landforms 36. Reproduction Mountains, plains, and hills are three of the four major Budding, fragmentation, fission, regeneration, and landforms. Name the fourth, described as flat areas parthenogenesis are all forms of what type of standing above the surroundings from 90 to more reproduction? than 900 meters high.

plateaus asexual reproduction 32. Inhalant Abuse 37. Percentage Problems Inhaling butane gas can not only cause drowsiness, If 108 out of the first 150 shoppers bought a new narcosis, asphyxia, and cardiac arrhythmia but also Gonzo Whizmaster at Ted's Thingamajig Emporium, what other condition that usually results from what percentage of the shoppers did not? prolonged exposure to subzero temperatures?

frostbite 28% 33. Matter 38. Insects Antimatter is composed of what kind of particles? What is another common name for a locust?

antiparticles grasshopper 34. Orbits 39. Longfellow The time required for an orbiting body to complete This is from what poem by Longfellow? one orbit is called its orbital what? A sudden rush from the stairway, A sudden raid from the hall! By three doors left unguarded They enter my castle wall. They climb up into my turret O'er the arms and back of my chair; If I try to escape they surround me; They seem to be everywhere. period The Children's Hour 35. Terrorism 40. Legends Virtually everyone on the FBI's list of most wanted These books concern what legendary character? terrorists is of what faith? The Once and Future King The Mists of Avalon Merlin's Godson Arthur Rex

Islam King Arthur 8th Grade Orals Round 1 Second Half Page 5 Alt. 1. The Brain Name the deeply folded gray matter that composes the surrounding layer of the cerebrum.

cerebral cortex Alt. 2. Discoveries In 1911, Hiram Bingham discovered the lost city of Machu Picchu in what mountain range?

Andes Alt. 3. Taxonomy Similar genera are grouped into what taxonomic category?

family Alt. 4. Earthly Spheres Name the zone of air, land, and water at Earth's surface that is occupied by living organisms.

biosphere Alt. 5. Turtle Ages In a pond containing 120 turtles, 90 are more than 30 years old and the rest are less than 20 years old. If one of them is unlucky enough to be selected for tonight's turtle soup, what is the probability that its age is less than 20 years?

1 in 4 (or .25) 8th Grade Orals Round 2 First Half Page 1 1. Glands 6. Storms Name the glands in the mouth which secrete a watery Likened to an enormous hurricane that has gone on liquid which moistens food and makes it easier to for at least the last 300 years, name the huge storm on swallow. Jupiter.

salivary glands Great Red Spot 2. Population Increases 7. Art Forms In 1850 there were about 1 billion people in the Holograms have what apparent dimensions? world. By 1997, the number had grown to 5.8 billion. This is an increase of what percent?

480% height, width, depth 3. U.S. History 8. Bearings What collective name was given to bills passed by the What kind of bearings are placed in a circular track 1850 Congress which admitted California as a free between an axle and a wheel? state and prohibited slave trade in the District of Columbia?

Compromise of 1850 ball bearings 4. Land Ownership 9. Musicals Land controlled by the Bureau of Land Management These are lyrics from a song in what musical? or the National Park Service is in the public what? Hakuna Matata! What a wonderful phrase Hakuna Matata! Ain't no passing craze It means no worries for the rest of your days It's our problem-free philosophy Hakuna Matata!

domain The Lion King 5. Constellations 10. Atoms Name the constellation also known as the Winged What is the central core of an atom called? Horse.

Pegasus nucleus 8th Grade Orals Round 2 First Half Page 2 11. Asian Change 16. Concentric Circles In 1997, Hong Kong reverted to Chinese rule after Concentric circles have different radii but a common 156 years as a colony of what country? ...

Great Britain (England) center 12. Volcanoes 17. Slavery There are about 1300 active volcanoes. Only about Name the geographically largest U.S. state in which 20 erupt in any one year. To the nearest half percent, slavery was permitted. what percentage of the active volcanoes erupt annually?

1.5% Texas 13. Tax Problems 18. Mechanics What is the sales tax on an item costing f dollars if the A 2000-pound object two feet from a fulcrum will be city in which the item was purchased has a sales tax of balanced by a 100-pound object how far from the 7%? fulcrum?

$.7f 40 feet 14. Poetry 19. Religious Communities What poem by J.R.R. Tolkien begins with these The name for what kind of monastery or convent was words? derived from the Latin word "abbatia"? Roads go ever ever on, Over rock and under tree, By caves where never sun has shone, By streams that never find the sea.

Roads Go Ever Ever On abbey 15. Chemical Reactions 20. Distance Problems When hydrogen burns in oxygen, two parts of If two airliners leave an airport at the same time, and hydrogen combine with one part of oxygen to one flies west at 300 mph while the other flies east at become what compound? 450 mph, in how many hours will there be 2,250 separating them?

water 3. 8th Grade Orals Round 2 First Half Page 3 21. Bays 26. Verbs It is a coastal bay that lacks a significant exchange of What are the principal parts of "lend"? water with the open ocean and does not receive much freshwater runoff from the land. Name this body of water formed by an elongated sand peninsula closing off the mouth of a bay.

lagoon lend, lent, has lent 22. Agriculture 27. Piping Problems Until the price of Cyrus McCormick's reaping One pipe can empty a pool in two hours while another machine dropped significantly, most farmers can fill it in eight hours. If the pool is full and both continued harvesting their crops with either scythes or pipes are wide open, how many hours will it take to what other implements with semicircular blades empty the pool? attached to short handles?

sickles 2.66 or 8/3 hours 23. Explorers 28. Sectionalism The first European venture into Alabama was In the 1820s, what did states like Indiana, New Jersey, conducted by what Spaniard who later discovered the Ohio, and Vermont prohibit that states like Georgia, Mississippi River? Mississippi, North Carolina, and Tennessee permit?

Hernando de Soto slavery 24. International Affairs 29. Solos A country that takes no side in a war between other Who sings these words in a musical? nations in hopes of avoiding attack from any of them Just thinkin' about is described as being what? Tomorrow Clears away the cobwebs, And the sorrow Till there's none!

neutral Annie 25. Clauses 30. Frameworks What is the dependent clause in this line by Marlon Dragonflies have what kind of skeletons? Brando? Once you are a star actor, people start asking you questions about politics, astronomy, archaeology, and birth control.

Once you are a star actor exoskeletons 8th Grade Orals Round 2 First Half Page 4 31. Zoology 36. Moons Retracting claws are characteristic of what family of Phoebe and Janus are moons of what planet? mammals?

cats (Felidae, felines) Saturn 32. Gadget Problems 37. Phrases If an electric canine nose-hair remover costs $3.00 What is the first prepositional phrase in the Preamble more than twice the price of an apricot pitter and they of the U.S. Constitution? both cost $27.00, what is the cost of the apricot pitter?

$8 of the United States 33. Island Histories 38. Legislatures This occurred on what islands? Queensland in Australia and the federal government A revolutionary "committee of safety," of New Zealand each have unicameral legislative organized by Sanford B. Dole called in U.S. bodies. This means their parliaments consist of what? Marines from a nearby cruiser, supposedly to protect American lives, and established a new government with Dole as president.

Hawaiian Islands (Hawaii) one house 34. Latin Roots 39. Tall Tales What is the meaning of the root word in What animal in the tales about Pecos Bill is the same denomination, nominative, nomenclature, and species as Walter Farley's Man O' War and Mary nominal? O'Hara's Flicka?

name Widowmaker 35. Literature 40. Old West Poetry What is the common name for the courageous, noble These lines are about what kind of town? protagonist of a story? Way out in the west, in an old run down town. Once it was thriving, now it's all turned brown. The people moved away to a newer fancy place. And everything that's left is now in deep disgrace.

hero ghost town 8th Grade Orals Round 2 First Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Grain Harvesting After cereals are harvested, the grain must be separated from the plant through what process?

threshing Alt. 2. The Atmosphere Oxygen is most abundant in which layer of the atmosphere?

troposphere Alt. 3. Precipitation Statistics For the first two thirds of a year, the average monthly rainfall was 4 inches per month. For the last 4 months, the average was 6 inches per month. What was the mean monthly rainfall for the entire year?

4.67 (or 4 2/3) inches Alt. 4. Space In space, clouds form where there is a large enough concentration of gas and dust. Usually, these clouds are so thin they are invisible. But sometimes they are dense enough to be seen, in which case they are given what name?

nebulae Alt. 5. Waste Orville bought 425 square feet of cloth and wasted 15% of it. How many square feet were wasted?

63.75 8th Grade Orals Round 2 Second Half Page 1 1. Chinese Inventions 6. Communications In the first century, the Chinese scientist Zhang Heng What are in the hands of someone communicating by created a device that dropped balls during an semaphore? earthquake. The more balls that fell, the stronger the earthquake. This was an early predecessor of what modern scientific instrument?

seismograph flags 2. Historic Ship Passages 7. Native American Housing In 1914, the SS Ancon made the first 40-mile trip on What kind of houses, often bark-covered structures what man-made waterway that cut the length of her providing shelter for several related families, were journey by some 7000 miles? characteristic of the Iroquois?

Panama Canal longhouses 3. Respiration 8. Hinky Pinkies Name the respiratory organs found in many aquatic What is a hink pink for a slightly wet hobo? organisms that extract dissolved oxygen from water and excrete carbon dioxide.

gills damp tramp 4. Park Parking 9. Rivers In 1998, a $17 million parking garage was opened at What Chinese river is almost as long as the Amazon? Mt. Rushmore. At $8 per vehicle for an annual parking pass, how many vehicles will have to use this facility to pay for it?

2,125,000 Yangtze (Chang Jiang) 5. Quotes 10. Sentence Analysis Who is responsible for these words? What two types of objects are in this line? We mutually pledge to each other our lives - My little brother, Igor, gives her grief. our fortunes - and our sacred honor.

Thomas Jefferson indirect object, direct object 8th Grade Orals Round 2 Second Half Page 2 11. Waste 16. Energy What category of waste may be corrosive, flammable, What type of energy is any energy that is not kinetic and/or toxic? energy?

hazardous waste potential energy 12. Stories 17. Freckles This is from what story by Norton Juster? The formation of freckles is usually triggered by Ordinance 175389-J: It shall be unlawful, exposure to what? illegal, and unethical to think, think of thinking, surmise, presume, reason, meditate, or speculate while in the Doldrums.

The Phantom Tollbooth sunlight (ultraviolet radiation) 13. Writing 18. Skeletal System What is the term for the kind of statement completing What is the common namefor articulations between this passage? bones? Leonardo had many talents other than painting. He was a mathematician, engineer, and inventor. He was interested in geology and botany. Great artists are very versatile.

generalization joints 14. American Perspectives 19. Teeth What word completes this thought about the U.S. by Name the part of a tooth that is not covered in enamel the novelist, James Farrell? and is embedded in the jaw. America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally ...

true root 15. Poems 20. Cities This is a verse from a work by what poet? These are cities of what U.S. state? Custard the dragon had big sharp teeth, Evansville, Fort Wayne, Muncie, And spikes on top of him and scales underneath, Bloomington, South Bend Mouth like a fireplace, chimney for a nose, And realio, trulio daggers on his toes.

Ogden Nash Indiana 8th Grade Orals Round 2 Second Half Page 3 21. African Geography 26. Devonian Creatures These African nations are contiguous to what body of Late in the Devonian period, what group of vertebrates water? appeared that breathed in water during their immature Angola stage and in air when they became adults? Liberia Cameroon Sierra Leone

Atlantic Ocean amphibians 22. Forms of Literature 27. Law Enforcement Officers What is the general classification for all literature In the U.S., a sheriff is most often elected by voters in which is not poetry? what administrative subdivision of a state?

prose county 23. Colonies 28. Gears The Plymouth Colony was established adjacent to If you have two equal-sized gears, A and B, being what bay? driven by a larger gear between them, what is the direction of rotation of gear B in comparison to that of gear A?

Cape Cod Bay It is the same. 24. Religious Traditions 29. Stained Glass Rosh Hashanah marks the beginning of the new year During the Middle Ages, the pieces of glass for those of what faith? comprising a stained glass window were held together by strips of what kind of metal?

Jewish lead 25. Stratigraphy 30. Points of View Rock strata were formed by what geologic process? Most of "The Call of the Wild" is from the point of view of what character?

sedimentation (deposition) Buck (the dog) 8th Grade Orals Round 2 Second Half Page 4 31. Futuristic Novels 36. Fraction Division These lines are from what Ray Bradbury novel? Divide p/q by r/s. -A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man? -The terrible tyranny of the majority. -Time was burning the years and the people anyway, without any help from him. So if he burnt things with the firemen and the sun burnt Time, that meant everything burnt! Fahrenheit 451 ps/qr 32. Separation of Powers 37. Health Conditions What branch of government should have been used in Name the condition when your nose gets stuffy and this gaffe? plugged with mucus and it becomes hard to breathe. The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret the law.

judicial congestion 33. Amendment Math 38. Correspondence Some 10,000 amendments to the U.S. Constitution These phrases are examples of what part of a letter? have been proposed since 1789 but only 27 have been To Whom It May Concern: added. To the nearest hundredth, what percentage of Dear Great Auk Industries: the proposed amendments were not enacted? Gentlewomen:

99.73% salutations 34. Mountains 39. Notable Texans These are fourteeners in what U.S. state? What Union loyalist was the first president of the Mt. Lincoln Republic of Texas? Longs Peak Mt. Harvard Castle Peak Mt. Elbert Maroon Peak Mt. Yale Windom Peak Colorado Sam Houston 35. Scientific Notation 40. Explorers 5043 equals 5.043 times ten to what power? He was born in Florence in 1452 and worked in the Seville business that fitted out Columbus' second expedition. He led four voyages to the New World and touched the mainland a few weeks before Cabot and fourteen months before Columbus. It was not without reason that Waldseemuller in 1507 proposed to call the new continent by his name. Who was he?

third Amerigo Vespucci 8th Grade Orals Round 2 Second Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Productive People With over one thousand to his name, what U.S. inventor holds the record for the largest number of U.S. patents held by an individual?

Thomas Edison Alt. 2. Polynesia Name the largest city on that island upon which Pearl Harbor is located.

Honolulu Alt. 3. Births The number of live births per 1000 in the population during a given year is called the birth what?

rate Alt. 4. Energy By the 1840s, what replaced wood as an industrial fuel, especially in smelting iron?

coal Alt. 5. Outlets Most outlets have three holes. The round hole on the bottom of each is for what?

the ground 8th Grade Orals Round 3 First Half Page 1 1. Clauses 6. Politics What kind of clause is at the end of this quote by Journalists and politicians often talk about photo ops. Irene Peter? The latter word in this phrase is an abbreviation for Always be sincere, even when you don't mean it. what word?

adverb clause opportunity 2. Jabberwocky 7. Vocabulary According to Lewis Carroll, what kind of "raths What is another name for a lexicon? outgrabe"?

mome raths dictionary 3. Light 8. Clock Reflections Light can be redirected by diffraction, refraction, or The reflection of a clock in a mirror seems to indicate what else? the time as 3:45, but what is the actual time that the clock shows?

reflection 8:15 4. Communications 9. Applied Chemistry Semaphore was important to what form of land This is a definition of what? transportation? A compound or mixture susceptible to a rapid chemical reaction, decomposition or combustion and the rapid generation of heat and gases with a combined volume much larger than the original substance.

railroads explosive 5. Herculean Feats 10. Revolutions Where did Hercules have to go to fetch Cerberus? This is about what revolution? In the early 1700s, the brothers Lombe erected in England a building 500 feet long and 6 stories high in which 26,586 wheels worked 73,726 yards of silk thread every time the water wheel went round.

Hades Industrial Revolution 8th Grade Orals Round 3 First Half Page 2 11. Political Parties 16. Trees What political party dominated the U.S. House of In boreal and temperate latitudes, hardwoods are Representatives for most of the latter half of the 20th mostly deciduous, but in the tropics, they are mostly century? what?

Democrat evergreen 12. Programming 17. Literary Forms An error in a computer program causing it to fail or at Verbal exchanges between characters are written in the least do something unexpected is called a what? form of what?

bug dialogue 13. Defensive Invitations 18. Laws of Physics In 1990, King Fahd invited U.S. troops into Saudi What is the ordinal number of Newton's law applicable Arabia to protect his kingdom from possible invasion to this example? by what other Mideast nation? A Sherman tank stuck in the mud tends to remain stuck in the mud.

Iraq first 14. Protozoans 19. Dutch Settlements This is about what one-celled life form? Located on Manhattan Island, what was the principal It is able to move by a flowing motion of its town in the colony of New Netherland? protoplasm. The cell bulges out on one side and then the rest of the protoplasm flows into the bulge. If it bumps into a piece of food, it simply flows around the food on all sides.

amoeba New Amsterdam 15. Antlers 20. Personnel Choices Instead of being covered by the structural protein Thomas Jefferson chose what fellow Virginian, army keratin as is the case with horns, deer antlers are made veteran, and his private secretary to head up an entirely of what substance? expedition into the West?

bone Meriwether Lewis 8th Grade Orals Round 3 First Half Page 3 21. Wind 26. Volcanoes What four-letter name do meteorologists give to a Most volcanoes on continental edges are associated winds speed of zero? with extremely deep, narrow depressions in the sea floor called what?

calm trenches 22. Plant Cells 27. Automobiles How many nuclei are in each cell of a plant? Name the solid shaft in an automobile that transfers engine power from the drive shaft to the drive wheels.

1. axle 23. Medieval Roofing 28. South American Sites What is the name for either the straw used for roofing The City of Quito and the Galapagos Islands are or the dead turf on a lawn? World Heritage Sites in what country?

thatch Ecuador 24. Literary Characters 29. Illegal Acts What is the literary term for the protagonist in a story Otto Vinci makes his living by painting exact who is courageous and admired for brave deeds and reproductions of famous art works and selling them as noble qualities? the works of the original artists. What is the term for such fraudulent works?

hero (heroine) forgeries 25. Grammar 30. Astronomical Observation What word needs to be changed in this excerpt from a What heavenly body that has an absolute magnitude newspaper ad for CBS TV about anchorman Jim of about +4.8 has an apparent magnitude of -26.8 Jensen? because of its proximity to Earth? Backing up Jensen is Stephen Bosh, Chris Borgen, Joe Witte, Pat Collins, Joel Siegel - plus the most dedicated staff of professionals in broadcast journalism.

is to are Sun 8th Grade Orals Round 3 First Half Page 4 31. Internet Poetry 36. Bermuda This illustrates what form of poetry? Coral in the Bermuda Islands can only grow that far Stay the patient course. north due to the warm water of what current? Of little worth is your ire. The network is down.

haiku Gulf Stream 32. Speed 37. Sentence Analysis A vehicle that travels 72 miles in 1.5 hours has How is "discouraging" used in this line? traveled at how many miles per hour? The reports were discouraging.

48 participle (or predicate adjective) 33. Seals 38. Hail What is the name for a baby seal? Hail is formed when what kind of air currents in a thunderstorm carries water droplets aloft?

pup updrafts 34. Earth Science 39. Steinbeck What is comprised of these components? What is the name of the pony in John Steinbeck's stratosphere novel, "The Red Pony"? mesosphere thermosphere troposphere exosphere

the atmosphere Galiban 35. Dikes 40. Grammar Dikes along rivers are called what? What type of article is used in this sentence? The frog croaked all night.

levees definite 8th Grade Orals Round 3 First Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Investments Irene invested $400 at 6% for 1 year. How much simple interest did she earn?

$24 Alt. 2. Crimes What crime defined in Article III of the Constitution would include revealing to an antagonistic country the design of a bomber being built by a private company for the Air Force?

treason Alt. 3. Water Loss Transpiration is water loss through the stomatal openings in what part of a plant?

leaf Alt. 4. Revolutions Father Hidalgo, Jose Morelos, Francisco Mina, and Agustin de Iturbide were key leaders in what country's war of independence against Spain?

Mexico Alt. 5. Pressure If the contact area for a big-footed man is 30 square inches per foot, in pounds per square inch, how much pressure does this 210-pound man exert on a gym floor when standing flat-footed?

3.5 8th Grade Orals Round 3 Second Half Page 1 1. Old West Legends 6. Court Members In 1879, Wyatt and his older brothers James and A judge who is a member of the Supreme Court has Virgil moved to what silver-mining boomtown in the what title? Arizona Territory?

Tombstone justice 2. The Brain 7. Syllabication The left half of the brain controls which side of the Divide "collegiate" into syllables. body?

right col-le-giate 3. Namesakes 8. Electricity What state adjacent to the Gulf of Mexico was named Which type of electrical current powers most after a French king? household appliances?

Louisiana alternating current (AC) 4. Medieval Castles 9. Tax What was kept in a medieval castle's armory? Igor bought some fish-eye soup for $8.60. He paid a 5% tax on it. How much was the tax?

weapons (arms, ammunition, etc.) $.43 5. Memorials 10. Integration In what U.S. state is the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial What was the name of the U.S. Army when it was first Arch, the first permanent memorial arch in America racially integrated? that honors the 4,000 Hartford citizens who served in the Civil War, and the 400 who died for the Union?

Connecticut Continental Army 8th Grade Orals Round 3 Second Half Page 2 11. Groundwater 16. Political Tactics Groundwater moves downward through permeable What propaganda technique is used when a rock until it reaches a rock layer that is what? spokesman claims that people of all races, income brackets, educational levels, and ages are clamoring to support a particular candidate?

impermeable bandwagon 12. Stories 17. Hobbits "It was not that Omri didn't appreciate Patrick's The hobbit Bilbo Baggins lives at Bag End in what birthday present to him" is the first line of a story by community? Lynne Reid Banks. Complete the title of that story. The Indian in the ...

Cupboard Hobbiton 13. Tsunami Math 18. Telescopes In 1946, an earthquake in Alaska generated a tsunami What kind of telescope is designed to detect radio that struck Oahu 4.5 hours later. It had traveled 3600 waves from space? miles at what velocity?

800 mph radio telescope 14. Symbols 19. Invasions The Grim Reaper is a figure commonly used to What country was invaded during the Norman represent what? Conquest of 1066?

death England 15. Oil Drilling 20. Heat Transfer What is the name for the tower used for hoisting drill Heat moves upward through fluids by convection, pipes above a well? through metals by conduction, and through empty space by what?

derrick radiation 8th Grade Orals Round 3 Second Half Page 3 21. Cabinet Officials 26. Classical Music Among the duties of what cabinet official is the In Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker," the Nutcracker administration of lands dedicated to public use? defeats what king?

secretary of the interior Mouse King 22. Lincoln 27. Body Statistics In one of his debates with Stephen Douglas, Abraham Every square inch of what organ contains 19 million Lincoln said it was possible to fool all of the people cells, sixty hairs, ninety oil glands, nineteen feet of how often? blood vessels, 625 sweat glands, and 19,000 sensory neurons?

some of the time skin 23. The Circulatory System 28. Syllabication What blood vessels are about six micrometers in Divide this word into syllables. diameter? microanalysis

capillaries mi-cro-a-nal-y-sis 24. Averages 29. Native Americans What is the average of these numbers? Samoset, Squanto, and Massasoit were important 2, 7, 9, 10, 5, 11, 4, 7, 11, 10 friends of what New World colony?

7.6 Plymouth 25. Sequences 30. Verbs What is the common ratio in this geometric sequence? What kind of verbs are most like equal signs? 2, -6, 18, -54

-3 linking verbs 8th Grade Orals Round 3 Second Half Page 4 31. Radiometric Dating 36. Minor Disorders If it takes 1.3 billion years for half of the Dr. Verbosity just informed you that, resulting from a potassium-40 atoms in a rock to change to argon-40 minor bacterial infection, you have a small, pustulant, atoms, what is the half-life of potassium-40? inflammation on your nose. What do you have?

1.3 billion years a pimple (abscess) 32. Longitudes 37. Transportation If it is 11 a.m. at the prime meridian, what time is it at Name the earliest type of horse carriage that consisted 30 degrees west longitude? of a two-wheeled cart with a waist-high semicircular guard in the front.

9 AM chariot 33. Not Good News 38. Scary Short Stories In 1949, President Truman announced that what This is from what short story? country had developed nuclear capability and had just His horror was still more increased on tested its first atomic device? observing that the head, which should have rested on his shoulders, was carried before him on the pommel of his saddle!

Soviet Union (U.S.S.R.) The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 34. Ranching 39. Lawyers Name the fodder prepared by storing and fermenting An official whose duty is to prosecute those accused green forage plants in a silo. of committing criminal offenses is called a D.A., which stands for what?

silage district attorney 35. Clever Epitaphs 40. Journalism What proper noun completes this epitaph about the What kind of newspapers sold at supermarkets are Englishman, John Penny? national weeklies that specialize in celebrity news, Reader, if cash thou art gossip, astrology, and bizarre stories? In want of any, Dig 6 feet deep, And thou wilt find a ...

Penny tabloids 8th Grade Orals Round 3 Second Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Habitats In what environment do these creatures live? cephalopods, gastropods, pelecypods

marine (ocean, salt water) Alt. 2. Last Branch Which is last on an alphabetical list of the branches of the U.S. armed forces?

Navy Alt. 3. Alaska When Alaska was purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, it was jokingly referred to as Seward's Folly or Seward's what?

Icebox Alt. 4. A Grave Question Covering an area of seven city blocks and rising about 40 stories, what structure in North Africa is the largest tomb on Earth?

Great Pyramid (Pyramid of Khufu) Alt. 5. Impeachment Richard Nixon resigned the presidency while impeachment proceedings were in progress but before what body had voted on the matter?

House of Representatives 8th Grade Orals Round 4 First Half Page 1 1. Motions 6. Battles Which of Newton's laws of motion essentially says that The last military campaign in which Napoleon objects keep on doing what they're doing? Bonaparte was a commander was what battle?

1st law Waterloo 2. Identification 7. Adventure Stories What field of science was initiated when the This is a synopsis of what tale by Gary Paulsen? Englishman Sir Francis Galton discovered that no two Haunted by his parents' divorce and the secret people have exactly the same pattern of ridges on that caused it, thirteen-year-old Brian Robeson their fingertips? is the sole survivor of a plane crash, with only the clothes he has on and a hatchet to help him shape a life for himself in the wilderness.

fingerprinting Hatchet 3. Oral Surgery 8. Clauses The removal of a tooth from the mouth is called a What is the adverb clause in this advice from Oscar dental what? Wilde? One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

extraction when one has the winning cards 4. Medical Procedures 9. Aerospace What is the medical term for sewing or stitching tissues The return of a spacecraft into the Earth's atmosphere together? is called what?

suturing reentry 5. Dice Probability 10. Bears What is the probability of rolling a 3 with a single die? In 2010, a Canadian hunter shot what some people call a "grolar," which is a hybrid of what two species of bears?

1/6 (or 1 in 6) grizzly, polar 8th Grade Orals Round 4 First Half Page 2 11. Bird Allusions 16. Mistaken Opinion What bird is associated with derision? In 1770, John Wesley wrote, "Death is never permitted to destroy even the most inconsiderable species." But the fossil record shows that myriads of life forms no longer exist. What is the word for such life forms that are gone forever?

mockingbird extinct 12. Anagrams 17. Mathematical Sets The phrase "silver and gold" is an anagram for "grand What kind of sets have just some elements in old" what? common?

evils overlapping (intersecting) sets 13. Symbolism 18. Novels In "Lord of the Flies," what is used to call meetings In Theodore Taylor's book, "The Cay," what causes and also functions as a symbol of authority? the ship carrying the protagonist to sink?

the conch torpedo (German torpedo) 14. Art Materials 19. Multiplying Variables What is the name for drawing sticks made by binding If y is doubled, it will change from 13 to 26 or from pigment with gum, oil, or wax? ---- to 90.

crayons 45 15. Distillates 20. Oceans A distillate is the condensed liquid obtained as a result Thanks to plate tectonics, which of the world's great of what process? oceans is slowly becoming smaller?

distillation Pacific Ocean 8th Grade Orals Round 4 First Half Page 3 21. Regulations 26. Homesteading A major new ship safety regulation was issued by When previously restricted lands owned by the U.S. federal inspectors following the sinking of the Titanic. government were opened to homesteading on a It required steamships to carry a sufficient number of first-come basis, the resulting events were called land what for all passengers? what?

lifeboats runs (rushes, grabs) 22. American Elections 27. Science Talk What kind of elections in America do not elect anyone What substance has velocity, flows down a gradient, to office but are just a means of selecting a candidate and is typically measured in terms of discharge? to stand in the actual election?

primaries (caucus, nominating convention) water (in a stream) 23. Marine Coelenterates 28. The Greek Alphabet Name the flowerlike creatures that live fixed to the sea What letter in the Greek alphabet is shaped like a floor and have waving tentacles equipped with triangle? stinging cells.

sea anemones delta 24. Cartoon Vocabulary 29. Colonists What term beginning with "a" and associated with a Who founded the first colonial settlement in Rhode type of cartoon means vigorous, lively, or spirited? Island?

animated Roger Williams 25. Power Plant Facilities 30. Card Tricks You will see massive structures at coal-fired and Mandrake randomly pulls 1 card from a standard nuclear power plants that rise high above the rest of deck. What is the probability that it is a jack? the facilities. Name these structures, the purpose of which is to expose hot water to the air.

cooling towers 1/13 (or 4/52) 8th Grade Orals Round 4 First Half Page 4 31. The Earth 36. Classifications of Sentences What part of the interior of the Earth has these What kind of sentence either makes a request or gives characteristics? a command? It has a radius of about 3400 km. It makes up 15% of the Earth's volume and about 33% of its mass. It is thought to be made of iron and nickel. It is partly solid and partly liquid.

core imperative 32. Scouting 37. Colors What are the last two words in the U.S. version of the What is the complementary color of red? Boy Scout Oath?

morally straight green 33. The Declaration 38. Tenors What phrase early in the first line of the Declaration of Enrico Caruso made his first American appearance in Independence means to "break away," "split off from," 1903 at the Metropolitan Opera House. What is such or "tear away from"? a first appearance called?

dissolve the political bands debut 34. Tissues 39. Work Which of the four principal types of body tissues Work is defined as force multiplied by distance. If derives from the mesoderm and contracts to produce you are given the work and the distance, how can you body movements? calculate the force?

muscle Divide the work by the distance. 35. Ecological Disasters 40. Sandburg In 2010, the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico became Carl Sandburg adapted several chapters from his the worst in U.S. history, far surpassing the worst "Abraham Lincoln - the Prairie Years" into a book for previous spill in 1989 from what damaged children. Complete this title of that work. Abe supertanker? Lincoln Grows ...

Exxon Valdez Up 8th Grade Orals Round 4 First Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Islands From this, you can surmise that Bogosloff is what kind of island? The island of Bogosloff in the Aleutians first appeared in 1826, and has been playing hide-and-seek with map makers ever since.

volcanic Alt. 2. U.K. People These people all came from what part of the United Kingdom? John McAdam, Alexander Mackenzie, Alistair Maclean, Charles Macintosh, Rob Roy MacGregor

Scotland Alt. 3. Nonfiction These nonfictional works belong to what genre? No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt The Wives of Henry VIII The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller Ronald Reagan: How an Ordinary Man Became an Extraordinary Leader Helen Keller: A Life

biography Alt. 4. Cattle Tough, rangy, with a horn spread up to eight feet, what type of cattle were particularly suited to survive in the open range of Texas in the 1870s?

longhorns Alt. 5. Noah's Ark How many cubic cubits were there in Noah's ark if it measured 50 x 30 x 300 cubits?

450,000 8th Grade Orals Round 4 Second Half Page 1 1. Diaphragms 6. Dance What structure in the body is essentially an acoustical In what form of dance are these directions heard? diaphragm? promenade make an arch circle right allemande left do-si-do

eardrum square dancing (or contra dancing) 2. Architecture 7. Forgers Name the curved structure built over a doorway. Name the one-eyed Titans who forged thunderbolts for Zeus.

arch Cyclopes 3. United Nations Agencies 8. Big Barriers What is defined by the W.H.O. as a state of complete Name the barrier built in the 1960s, supposedly to physical and social well being, and not merely the protect the East German population from fascist absence of disease or infirmity? elements who were working to prevent the development of their socialist state.

health Berlin Wall 4. Percent 9. Tense 94% of how many hours is 102 hours? This sentence is in what tense? As evidenced by the deep dents that archaeologists have found in prehistoric vending machines, we know that primitive man felt anger.

108.5 present 5. Woodcarving 10. Eye Parts Identify the chisel-like tool with a curved or v-shaped Name the pigmented ring of muscular tissue that lies blade used in woodcarving. between the cornea and the lens.

gouge iris 8th Grade Orals Round 4 Second Half Page 2 11. Legends 16. Sentence Transformation Since the Potomac River is about a mile wide, it is Restate this sentence using an indirect object. highly improbable that the story about what colonial He bought a tank for his son. American throwing a silver dollar across it is true?

George Washington He bought his son a tank. 12. Steep Roads 17. Scientific Homonyms The slope of a road that rises 40 feet in a run of 100 What term can mean either the time between being feet is what percent? exposed to a pathogen and the first appearance of symptoms or the period during which birds sit on their eggs before they hatch?

40% incubation 13. Erosion 18. Legends What is the general term for material produced by Legend has it that the history of Rome can be traced erosion? back to two boys and what carnivorous mammal?

sediment wolf 14. Art 19. Verb Choice A textbook with these words in its index is about what The verb "rise" means "to go up" or "to get up." What form of art? similar verb means "to lift up"? crackle earthenware enamel firing glazing throwing

ceramics (pottery) raise 15. Spoonerisms 20. Famous Crossings What was actually intended when the sergeant told his The village and state park of Washington Crossing, platoon that their assignment was to gap the bridge? Pennsylvania, is adjacent to what river?

bridge the gap Delaware River 8th Grade Orals Round 4 Second Half Page 3 21. Paintbrush Physics 26. A Pat Answer What property of water causes the bristles of a What annual parade in New York City, first held in paintbrush to cling together when you remove it from 1762, celebrates a man who historians agree was not water? Irish, was not born on March 17, and did not drive the snakes from or bring Christianity to Ireland?

surface tension St. Patrick's Day parade 22. Conquistadors 27. Invasions Pizarro captured the Inca, Atahualpa, ransomed him, What country invaded South Korea in 1950? and then killed him in the region occupied by what modern nation?

Peru North Korea 23. National Parks 28. Native Americans In what national park is there an abundance of Joshua One of the five founding nations of the Iroquois trees? Confederacy, what tribe of Native Americans inhabited the area that later became central New York around Oneida Lake and Oneida County?

Joshua Tree National Park Oneidas 24. Folksongs 29. Injuries What stringed musical instrument is specifically What is the name for an injury to the strong, flexible mentioned in the song, "I've Been Working on the bands of fibrous tissue that bind bones together and Railroad"? support the joints?

banjo sprain 25. Historical Paintings 30. National Elections William Henry Powell did a painting about a Spanish In 1845, election day for U.S. presidents and vice conquistador entitled "The Discovery of the presidents was established by Congress on what day Mississippi by" whom? following the first Monday in November?

de Soto Tuesday 8th Grade Orals Round 4 Second Half Page 4 31. Anatomy 36. U.S. Geography What cords are contained in the larynx? Key West lies between the tip of Florida and what island?

vocal cords Cuba 32. The Atom 37. Long Days "Atomic number" refers to the quantity of what type The day with the greatest number of hours of daylight of subatomic particle in an element? is called the summer what?

protons solstice 33. Constellations 38. Neutral Nations What small constellation near Cygnus and Draco was What landlocked, largely alpine European country, named for the lyre, a stringed instrument of the harp one of the world's richest, has a long history of family played in ancient Greece? neutrality and has not participated in an international war since 1815?

Lyra Switzerland 34. Theater Abbreviations 39. Special Lines In stage directions, if "dsr" means "downstage right," A line that passes through a figure such that the part what does "usl" mean? of the figure on one side of the line is a mirror reflection of the part on the other side is called the axis of what?

upstage left symmetry 35. Lenses 40. Literary Roles A concave lens makes light rays diverge while a Simon Legree is to villain as Pollyanna is to what kind convex lens brings light rays to a what? of stereotypical character?

focus heroine 8th Grade Orals Round 4 Second Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Terms of Office John Kennedy served three terms in the House of Representatives, was elected twice as a Massachusetts senator, and once as president. Had he finished the complete terms of office in all these positions, he would have had how many years in the legislative branch?

18 Alt. 2. Fictional Characters In the "Twilight" series, what kind of beings are these? Demetri, Alice Cullen, Felix, Bree Tanner, Alistair, Caius, Amun, Athendora, Bella Cullen

vampires Alt. 3. World Languages What is the official language in Kuwait and Oman?

Arabic Alt. 4. Fantasies Merlin serves the same function in the legend of King Arthur as what character in Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings"?

Gandalf Alt. 5. Wildlife What carnivorous African scavengers with especially powerful jaws and coarse, spotted woolly coats emit eerie "laughs" when excited?

hyena 8th Grade Orals Round 5 First Half Page 1 1. Thrust 6. Rivers In the 17th century, what English scientist explained What river has more than 1100 tributaries including the basic principle by which modern jet engines the Madeira, Rio Negro, Yapura, Morona, Tambo, and propel aircraft? Branco?

Isaac Newton Amazon 2. American Painters 7. Lakes of the World Anna Mary Robertson was 26 when she married Located in Africa, name the world's second-largest Thomas Moses, with whom she farmed until, in her lake. 70s, she took up painting and became widely known by what nickname?

Grandma Moses Victoria 3. Therapies 8. Linguistics Heliotherapy involves exposure to what? This is about what language? It was once one of the most important languages in the world. Today, few people read and write it, and even fewer speak it. And yet, almost everybody in Europe and America uses it in everyday speech.

sunlight (Sun) Latin 4. Colors 9. Propaganda What color lies between red and blue on the color What propaganda technique is used by a campaign wheel? advertisement showing a candidate mowing his lawn or having a burger at a fast-food joint or spending some time on an assembly line?

purple plain folks 5. Algebraic Word Problems 10. Estates Subtracting 3 from half of what number equals 67? A medieval landed estate and the name of the place in which the animals revolted against the humans in "Animal Farm" share what name?

140 manor 8th Grade Orals Round 5 First Half Page 2 11. Fictional Sleuths 16. Mystery Novels Edward Stratemeyer created two inquisitive young What story by Ellen Raskin concerns the activities of heroes named Frank and Joe. What is their last name? Sam Westing's sixteen potential heirs after they are challenged by him to determine who was responsible for taking his life?

Hardy (as in Hardy Boys) The Westing Game 12. Battle Math 17. Periodicals In the Gallipoli campaign of 1915 and 1916, Allied Name the magazine published monthly by the Boy casualties were 250,000 out of 480,000. What Scouts of America. percentage of Allied troops were not casualties?

48% Boy's Life 13. Motion in Space 18. Colors What is the term for a circular motion about an What kind of colors are midway between the primaries external point? that can be mixed to produce them?

orbit (revolution, orbital revolution) secondary colors 14. Fatigue 19. Branches of Government What is extreme fatigue called? Name the three branches into which the framers of the Constitution divided authority in the U.S.

exhaustion (prostration) executive, legislative, judicial 15. Angles 20. Art Materials What kind of angle is equal to two right angles? What is the name for the material that is used to create a work of art such as clay, metal, paint, chalk, or charcoal is called the what?

straight angle medium 8th Grade Orals Round 5 First Half Page 3 21. Harry Potter 26. Anatomical Subdivisions What character in the Harry Potter books says things The diaphragm separates the thorax from what other like these? region of the body? -To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure. -It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. -It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Albus Dumbledore abdomen 22. Government Agencies 27. Insects When used in foods, new products of unknown Mosquitoes, gnats, and midges belong to the order toxicity must be accepted as safe by what U.S. Diptera. Insects of this order have a single pair of government agency? wings and are commonly referred to collectively as what?

FDA (Food and Drug Administration) flies 23. Novel Settings 28. Broken Bones What war is the setting for Ann Rinaldi's novel, "In My Of the three main classifications of bone fractures, Father's House"? which carries with it the highest risk of infection?

American Civil War open (compound) fracture 24. Greenland 29. Oceania What is the meaning of the second word in these What country is about 1500 miles west by northwest names of sites in Greenland? of New Zealand? Steenstrup Gletscher Heilprin Gletscher Petermann Gletscher

glacier Australia 25. Art 30. Car Problems What is an illegal copy of an artwork intended to pass It is nine degrees outside and your engine won't turn as an original called? over. What hyphenated term describes what you need to get your engine running?

forgery (fake) jump-start 8th Grade Orals Round 5 First Half Page 4 31. Grammatical Voice 36. Algebraic Substitution What voice is used in this example? Since x = 8 and 4x + 3y = 47, what is y? The former tenant of our house, a priest, had died in the back room.

active 5. 32. Energy Transformations 37. Fields of Medicine An electric motor uses magnetic fields to turn electric Name the professional who examines people's eyes for energy into what other type of energy? visual defects and who routinely prescribes corrective lenses.

mechanical energy optometrist (ophthalmologist) 33. Probability 38. Numismatics The letters in "mutation" are placed in a box. What is Gold coins called florins were minted in the 13th the probability that the first letter randomly pulled century in what Italian town? from the box will be a consonant?

1 in 2 (or 1/2) Florence 34. Numbers 39. Space Programs What is the product of the composite numbers What American space program was named after a sign between 3 and 3 squared? of the zodiac also known as the Twins?

192 Gemini 35. Algebraic Simplification 40. Vision Correction Simplify the following. What kind of corrective lenses have two viewing zones, 13y -(5y - 2) one for seeing near objects and one for distance?

8y + 2 bifocals 8th Grade Orals Round 5 First Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Marine Resources As a defensive measure, an oyster covers a tiny, invading parasite with a layer of nacre. What results if many additional layers of nacre are added?

a pearl Alt. 2. Consecutive Integers What is the smaller of two consecutive integers if their sum is 137?

68 Alt. 3. Treaties Name either of the two largest territories ceded to the United States in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo than ended the Mexican War.

Texas, California Alt. 4. Mountain States Which is last on an alphabetical list of states through which the Appalachians pass?

West Virginia Alt. 5. U.N. Definitions What term is defined by the United Nations as "any act by which severe pain or suffering is intentionally inflicted on persons to obtain information or confessions"?

torture 8th Grade Orals Round 5 Second Half Page 1 1. Eponyms 6. Geometric Solids The largest city in Washington state was named after Name the solid whose base is a circular area and what Indian chief? whose curved lateral surface tapers uniformly to a point.

Seattle cone 2. Bygone Birds 7. Birds A New Englander wrote in 1624, "I have seen them fly The European house sparrow was brought to North over as if the whole sky were birds, seeing neither America in 1852. Descendants of these birds now beginning nor ending, length or breadth of these inhabit the entire continent but those in Canada are millions of millions." What now-extinct birds had he darkly pigmented, those in Mexico are yellow, and seen? those in California are very small. What is indicated by these changes?

passenger pigeons evolution (adaptation, mutation) 3. Checks and Balances 8. Biomes These are checks on which branch of government? What enormous biome is subdivided into the -presidential veto benthonic and pelagic zones? -Supreme Court ruling that laws are unconstitutional

legislative ocean 4. Surveys 9. The Universe Long before elections, various organizations attempt The universe is expanding as a consequence of what to make reasonably accurate estimates of public event some 10 to 20 billion years ago? opinion about any number of issues and candidates. What is the name for such surveys?

polls big bang 5. Space Talk 10. Taxonomy What is a two-word synonym used in space What taxonomic subdivision of a class or subclass exploration for the condition of weightlessness? contains a group of related families?

zero gravity (free fall) order 8th Grade Orals Round 5 Second Half Page 2 11. Nicknames 16. Population Explosions According to his nickname, Zachary Taylor was Mexico City had 5 million people in 1960 and 30 rough and what else? million at the beginning of the year 2000. This is an increase of what percent?

ready 500% 12. Magnets 17. Special Transportation If you cut a bar magnet in half crosswise, what poles Name the special vehicle used to convey a coffin to a will the two pieces have? cemetery.

north and south poles hearse 13. Literary Devices 18. Bird Books What literary device is used here? In a story of self-perfection, Fletcher Lynd Seagull is My love is like to ice and I to fire. the first student of what other seagull in a book by Richard Bach?

simile Jonathan Livingston Seagull 14. Historical Synonyms 19. Censuses What verb did Henry Stanley use in his famous What country is working on its 2011 census, the greeting to David Livingstone in 1871 that is a mind-boggling undertaking of counting the world's synonym for reckon, surmise, conjecture, infer, intuit, second-largest population, estimated to take 11 and presuppose? months, consume nearly 12 million metric tons of paper, and cost some 60 billion rupees?

presume India 15. Scientific Sequences 20. Officials You have hundreds of mousetraps set in a room, with What is the usual title for the head of state in a a Ping Pong ball balanced on each. You toss in a ball republic? that sets off a trap that flings off a ball that sets off another trap, and so on until most of the traps have been triggered. This illustrates what kind of reaction?

chain reaction president 8th Grade Orals Round 5 Second Half Page 3 21. Regions 26. Second-Century Sightings The Fertile Crescent runs northward from what gulf? What is suggested by Lucian of Samosata of Syria in this excerpt from his writings? I saw the likeness of Derketo in Phoenicia, a strange marvel. It is woman for half its length, but the other half, from thighs to feet, stretched out in a fish's tail.

Persian Gulf mermaid 22. Cubes 27. Islands What is the volume of a cube 9 inches on a side? Guam is in what ocean?

729 cubic inches Pacific 23. Ancient Empires 28. Ship Parts By 62 B.C., Macedonia, Asia Minor, Syria, Palestine, Identify the longitudinal structural member along the Egypt, and the North African coast were all part of center of a ship's bottom, running from stem to stern. what empire?

Roman Empire keel 24. Legal Documents 29. Literature What kind of document issued by a judge allows law This is from what trilogy? enforcement personnel to look inside private Three rings for the elven-kings under the sky property? Seven for the dwarf-lords in their halls of stone Nine for mortal men doomed to die One for the dark lord on his dark throne

search warrant Lord of the Rings 25. Sets 30. Wounds What kind of mathematical set is the set of multiples What kind of wound actually tends to seal bacteria of 31? within or beneath the skin?

infinite set puncture wound 8th Grade Orals Round 5 Second Half Page 4 31. Plant Life 36. Subsets What form of plant life is most typical of the South How many subsets of the set {V, W, X, Y, Z} contain American Pampas? exactly two elements?

grass 10 32. American Nonfiction 37. Star Gazing What piece of American literature is described as a Where are you if the stars rise and set perpendicular to seven-hankie book based on actual events about two the horizon? dogs and a cat who share a journey?

The Incredible Journey on the equator 33. Ancient Aviation Accidents 38. Satires One of the first aviation accidents occurred when what The name for what kind of harsh satire rhymes with a son of a mythical Greek inventor flew too close to the type of drinking establishment in the Old West? Sun, resulting in an equipment malfunction?

Icarus lampoon 34. Life Classifications 39. Mountains What is the taxonomic classification for cold-blooded Mount McKinley is to Alaska as ---- is to California. vertebrates that spend some time on land but breed and develop into adults in water?

amphibian (Amphibia) Mt. Whitney 35. Injuries 40. Fur and Feathers What state of altered awareness, disorientation, The fur of raccoons and the feathers of ducks are part confusion, or drowsiness may follow a blow to the of what body system? head?

concussion integumentary system 8th Grade Orals Round 5 Second Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Fine Arts Which of the fine arts is described by these imaginative definitions? -color acting -a poem without words -the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic -a beautifully colored surface, nothing more

painting Alt. 2. Light The filament in the light bulb developed by Thomas Edison was said to be incandescent because it emitted light as a result of what?

being heated (heat) Alt. 3. Waterway Dominion What country owns the Suez Canal?

Egypt Alt. 4. Lead Processing Molten lead is allowed to drip down from heights up to 125 ft. The drops become spherical and are solidified by the cooling action of the air before being collected in a tank filled with water or oil. What is being produced?

shot (pellets) Alt. 5. Archaeology Archaeologists speculate that people migrated from Asia to the Americas across a land bridge spanning what narrow body of water off the coast of Alaska?

Bering Strait 8th Grade Orals Round 6 First Half Page 1 1. Ocean Zones 6. Documents The aphotic zone is that part of oceans where light is It says that individual happiness is the goal of life and insufficient for plants to carry on what? that the state should promote this. It says that government is responsible to majority will. In what document did Thomas Jefferson present these ideas?

photosynthesis Declaration of Independence 2. Medical Businesses 7. Arthropods Name the kind of business in which drugs are These are varieties of what marine crustacean? prepared and retailed. blue, hermit, king, fiddler, Dungeness, horseshoe

pharmacy crab 3. Poetic Rhyming Patterns 8. Squaring Express the rhyme pattern in the lines below using the The square of 8 is 64. The square of what other letters "a" and "b." number is also 64? I hear a sudden cry of pain! There is a rabbit in a snare. Now I hear the cry again But I cannot tell from where.

abab -8 4. Cycles 9. Algebraic Division The carbon cycle involves the storage and cyclic Divide 3X(1+b) by X. movement of organic and inorganic forms of carbon between the biosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere, and what other sphere?

atmosphere 3 + 3b 5. Sediments 10. Weight Unconsolidated sediments which will not support Weight equals mass multiplied by the acceleration of weight because water keeps the grains comprising it gravity. If you are given the acceleration of gravity apart is called what kind of sand? and the weight, how can you determine mass?

quicksand Divide weight by acceleration of gravity. 8th Grade Orals Round 6 First Half Page 2 11. Explorers 16. Numbers What was the nationality of these explorers? What is the twenty-third ordinal number? Bartolomeu Dias Prince Henry the Navigator Vasco da Gama Ferdinand Magellan

Portuguese 23 12. Punctuation 17. Creepy Critters What punctuation mark should be used in these What arthropod has even more legs than a centipede? phrases? bluish green sea a know it all twenty eight geese chocolate covered peanuts

hyphen millipede 13. Phrases 18. Fields of Art What is the verb phrase in this line? What form of art involves objects such as tiles, figures, The wages of sin are unreported. and tableware made from clay?

are unreported ceramics 14. Voting 19. Legislation If Sandy was born in 1985, what was the first year that Many of the legislative powers that are supposed to she would have been eligible to vote in a U.S. federal belong entirely to what body in U.S. government have election? been delegated to federal regulatory agencies?

2003 Congress 15. Government 20. Elections What is the general term for a level of government The method stipulated in Article II of the Constitution smaller than a U.S. state? for electing the president and vice president involves what assembly of representatives?

local government Electoral College 8th Grade Orals Round 6 First Half Page 3 21. Legendary Americans 26. Solutions John Luther Jones held what job at the time of his When paint is dissolved in gasoline, what is the solute? death?

engineer (railroad engineer) paint 22. Big Art 27. Ecology While driving through Denver, you see an enormous Name the biome which may occur in the treeless painting of Jack Dempsey, the Manassa Mauler, on the plains of Arctic regions or above timberline in the wall of a building. What is the name for this kind of Rocky Mountains. painting?

mural tundra 23. Algebra Fundamentals 28. Organic Compounds A quantity that multiplies one side of an equation may What family of chemical compounds are stored in be eliminated by doing what to both sides? special cells that tend to form pads of tissue under the skin and around certain organs and joints?

dividing both sides by that quantity fats 24. The Revolution 29. Consumer Anatomy The American Revolution essentially ended in 1781 Creatures in which category of consumers have the with the capture of Cornwallis' English and German greatest number of grinding teeth? veterans on what peninsula?

Yorktown Peninsula herbivores (primary consumers) 25. Rights 30. State Populations What kind of exclusive right controls an individual's In 1787, the population of what state was more than ability to do these things? twice as large as New York, more than four times as -to create derivative works of an original work large as New Jersey, and more than ten times as large -to make reproductions of an original work as Delaware? -to export copies of an original work -to publicly perform a work -to sell these rights to others

copyright Virginia 8th Grade Orals Round 6 First Half Page 4 31. Botanical Silent Letters 36. Scandinavia The name of what garden plant with long, edible, Which is the only continental Scandinavian nation that celerylike leafstalks includes a silent "h"? borders on the Arctic Ocean?

rhubarb Norway 32. Space Anniversaries 37. Sensation In 2010, the ISS surpassed the record for the longest Many people who have taste disorders also notice continuously human inhabited space research facility. problems with what other sense? For what does that abbreviation stand?

International Space Station smell 33. Factions 38. Biology How ere the advocates and opponents of the proposed What noun describes a mammal with these U.S. Constitution respectively known? characteristics? -abnormally pale skin -very light hair -lacking normal eye coloration -lacking normal pigmentation

Federalists and Antifederalists albino 34. Diseases 39. National Treasures Sergeant Whipple has been suffering periodic attacks The state in which Jefferson Davis and Abraham of severe chills followed by a high fever. His head Lincoln were born is the home of what national park aches and his pulse is rapid. He is stationed at a base of special interest to speleologists? in Panama. He probably has what disease?

malaria Mammoth Cave 35. Allegories 40. Light This line is from what British novel? What property of matter prevents light from passing No one believes more firmly than Comrade through it? Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?

Animal Farm opacity 8th Grade Orals Round 6 First Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Wood What wood that is extremely resistant to weathering is used in boats and rhymes with "leak"?

teak Alt. 2. City Founders Explorers from what country founded La Paz?

Spain Alt. 3. African Nations The name of what African republic was inspired by its once thriving trade in elephant tusks?

Ivory Coast Alt. 4. Planets Jupiter consists mainly of what two elements?

hydrogen, helium Alt. 5. Catastrophic Events So there you are on the beach in front of the Honolulu Hilton when the water suddenly pulls away from the shore and disappears over the horizon. This is the first warning that what is on its way?

tsunami (seismic sea or tidal wave) 8th Grade Orals Round 6 Second Half Page 1 1. Gas Volume 6. Cubes A volume of gas can be expanded by decreasing the If the sum of all the edges of a cube is 72 inches, what pressure applied to it or by increasing what other is its volume? factor?

temperature 216 cubic inches 2. Dinosaurs 7. Weather What armored, three-horned dinosaur was equipped to Tropical disturbances form over water in the tropics or live through a fight with a tyrannosaurus? subtropics and endure for at least 24 hours. As these disturbances gain power, they may become tropical waves, tropical depressions, tropical storms, or what else?

triceratops hurricanes 3. Specious Assumptions 8. Birds The assumption was made at the Constitutional What ability do these birds lack? Convention that what group of people were only kiwi, ostrich, penguin, emu, cassowary three-fifths as productive as free workers, and thus contributed only three-fifths as much wealth to the states in which they lived?

slaves the ability to fly 4. Density 9. Classical Houses Density equals mass per unit what? What mansion designed by Thomas Jefferson stands to this day?

volume Monticello 5. Optical Instruments 10. Atmospheres Name the simple optical instrument consisting of a What two terrestrial planets have gravities strong long tube with mirrors at each end set at 45 degrees to enough to retain substantial amounts of heavier gases the direction viewed. in their atmospheres?

periscope Venus, Earth 8th Grade Orals Round 6 Second Half Page 2 11. Arthurian Characters 16. Calamities What character from Arthurian legends went on What was the first city to be devastated as a direct hunting expeditions mounted on a tiny mouse? result of the Manhattan Project?

Tom Thumb Hiroshima 12. Government Functions 17. Moving Liquids A core element of national interest for a government What device is a tube that enables a liquid to flow is providing for the physical safety of a nation's uphill without a pump, over an obstacle, and discharge citizens. This is called national what? at a level lower than the surface of the source?

defense (security) siphon 13. Invertebrates 18. Big Ferns What common creatures tell their co-workers about From a distance, tree ferns resemble what tropical the distance and direction to a food source by means evergreen trees with long, unbranched trunks? of a dance?

bees palms 14. Earth Science 19. Bad Things for Furry Critters Name the invisible mixture of gases, about 99% of The worst thing ever to happen to raccoons occurred which consists of nitrogen and oxygen. in 1955 when Walt Disney released what movie?

air Davy Crockett 15. Housing Vocabulary 20. Rice Farming What word that rhymes with "foray" indicates a small In Asia, name the flooded fields into which young wooded alpine cottage? shoots of rice are planted.

chalet paddies 8th Grade Orals Round 6 Second Half Page 3 21. Machines 26. Geometry What kind of machine is designed to increase the What is the term for any solid bounded by polygonal pressure of a gas? faces?

compressor polyhedron 22. Musical Geography 27. Hopeful Thinking The orchestral suite by Ferde Grofe depicting scenes Complete this quote. along a journey from a certain river's headwaters in Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that Minnesota down to New Orleans is known as what more than half of the people are right more suite? than half of the ...

Mississippi Suite time 23. Engines 28. Numbers Jet engines discharge fast moving jets of fluid to What two-digit number is the square of the sum of its generate thrust in accordance with one of whose laws digits? of motion?

Isaac Newton's 81 24. Colonial Enterprises 29. Music Notation Two years after Britain established the English East What Italian musical term means "tied together"? India Company, the Netherlands followed by establishing what similar company?

Dutch East India Company legato 25. Festivities 30. Mountain Men These are traditions in what country? When he was just 21 years old, Jim Bridger set out to Lantern Festival determine the course of the Bear River. He traveled Dragon Boat Festival downstream until he came to a large body of water Dual Yang Festival that tasted salty. Although he believed he had come to the Pacific Ocean, in fact he had discovered what lake?

China Great Salt Lake 8th Grade Orals Round 6 Second Half Page 4 31. U.S. Expansion 36. Clock Angles In the 1840s, the concept used to indicate that the U.S. During one-half hour, how many degrees does the had a natural right to acquire land in the west was minute hand rotate? called ---- destiny.

manifest 180 degrees 32. Volcanic Mountains 37. Boiling Water Glass Mountain in California was named for what kind When you boil water in a pot, why do the bubbles of of volcanic glass that is abundant there? steam increase in size as they rise through the water?

obsidian Water pressure decreases toward the top. 33. Map History 38. Chemistry The world's first Mercator projection map of the world Two or more substances unite to form a substance was published in 1569 by a Flemish instrument maker having properties different from those of the named Gerhardus who? component elements. What is the term for the resulting substance?

Mercator compound 34. Governmental Functions 39. Mechanics Which broad function of government includes making Which of the four simple machines is missing from laws and imposing taxes? this list? inclined plane lever wheel and axle

legislation pulley 35. Oceanographic Wonders 40. Weaponry What stretches 2000 kilometers in the Coral Sea along Everything within the fireball of a nuclear explosion is Australia's northeastern coast and supports some vaporized into an airborne material that absorbs 10,000 species including 1500 types of fishes? neutrons and becomes radioactive. When it condenses, it forms dust and a light sandy material resembling ground pumice that emits both beta particles and gamma rays. Name this material.

Great Barrier Reef fallout 8th Grade Orals Round 6 Second Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Dystopian Novels What kind of disaster occurs toward the conclusion of "Fahrenheit 451"?

nuclear war Alt. 2. Poetry The repetition of certain lines in throughout a poem is called a what?

refrain Alt. 3. The Solar System An estimated 30,000 pieces of rocky debris revolve about the Sun between the orbits of Mars and what other planet?

Jupiter Alt. 4. Computers Name the flashing symbol on a computer screen that indicates where one is working at any given moment.

cursor Alt. 5. Heroes What mythological Greek hero is immune to all forms of injury except at the back of his heel?

Achilles 8th Grade Orals Round 7 First Half Page 1 1. Cities 6. The Circulatory System Birmingham and Selma are in what state? What structures between the chambers of the heart keep blood moving in just one direction?

Alabama valves 2. Lows and Highs 7. Diseases Just five days before the failed invasion of Cuba at the What disease involves the unrestrained production of Bay of Pigs, what Soviet astronaut had become the white blood cells? first human in space?

Yuri Gagarin leukemia 3. Correspondence 8. Radio Transmission These are alternate forms of what part of a business In radio transmission, if GHz stands for gigahertz and letter? MHz stands for megahertz, for what does kHz stand? Many thanks Very truly Cordially yours Warmest regards

complimentary closings kilohertz 4. Forms of Government 9. Sales Growth What form of government is headed by an emperor, In January of 1996, Kermit's Plastics Company sold queen, or king? 200 warts. If sales tripled each month thereafter, in what month did sales reach 16,200 warts?

monarchy May 5. Suffix History 10. Large Numbers The suffix in words such as peacenik, beatnik, and The number, "one trillion," consists of 1 and how refusenik first became prominent in the West many zeroes? following the successful orbiting of what Soviet space satellite?

Sputnik 12 8th Grade Orals Round 7 First Half Page 2 11. Creatures Below 16. Medications This quote from "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" is A medicated candy that dissolves slowly in the mouth about what creature? to soothe irritated tissues of the throat is called a what? It swam crossways in the direction of the Nautilus with great speed, watching us with its enormous staring green eyes. The arms fixed to its head were twice as long as its body, and were twisted like the furies' hair.

giant squid lozenge 12. Pressure 17. Boiling Points A 1000 pound square steel box, each side of which is Water boils at the lowest temperature at the top of what 20 inches in length, is exerting how many pounds per mountain in the United States? square inch of pressure on the surface beneath it?

2.5 psi Mt. McKinley (Denali) 13. Ancient Cities 18. Government Responsibilities Alexander the Great founded what city in Egypt? Which branch of American government sees that federal laws, judgments of federal courts, and treaties are implemented and obeyed?

Alexandria executive branch 14. Minerals 19. Attucks Attacks What black form of the element carbon is used in In what city were Crispus Attucks and four other pencils? colonists killed by the redcoats?

graphite Boston 15. Exhortations 20. Machines In 1865, what Confederate leader said this at What simple machine is a slanted surface or ramp used Appomattox, Virginia? to facilitate moving a object to a higher location? Go to your homes and resume your occupations. Obey the laws and become as good citizens as you were soldiers.

Robert E. Lee a plane 8th Grade Orals Round 7 First Half Page 3 21. Roman Numerals 26. Literary Quotes What year is expressed by this Roman numeral? What Mark Twain character says this? MCMLXXIX But I reckon I got to light out for the territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and civilize me and I can't stand it.

1979 Huckleberry Finn 22. Distinctive Place Names 27. Avian Onomatopoeia These are names of towns in what country adjacent to What onomatopoeia is associated with a rooster? the North Sea? Zoetermeer, Vlaardingen, Leeuwarden, Alkmaar, Hoorn, Heerenveen

Netherlands cock-a-doodle-doo 23. Omissions 28. Long Subtitles What conjunction has been omitted in these sentences? This is part of the subtitle of what fictional work? -Pinocchio mentioned his nose was growing. Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David -I thought you were in Auckland. Balfour in the Year 1751: How he was -The coach suggested we should leave the field. Kidnapped and Cast away, his Sufferings in a -We're glad you're still in one piece. Desert Isle; his Journey in the Wild Highlands; his acquaintance with Alan Breck Stewart and other notorious Highland Jacobites; with all that he Suffered at the hands of his Uncle.

that Kidnapped 24. Laboratory Supplies 29. Geometric Verbs What is the name for a porous device through which a In geometry, what verb means to cut into two equal liquid mixture can be passed to trap the suspended parts? particulate matter?

filter bisect 25. Contact Area 30. Superstitions Consider two rectangular prisms, each with dimensions Spilling salt is supposed to bring bad luck. But they of two centimeters by two centimeters by twenty say you can keep the bad luck away if you do what centimeters. When laid one on top of the other, what with some of the spilled salt? is the greatest possible contact area between them?

40 square centimeters Throw some over your (left) shoulder. 8th Grade Orals Round 7 First Half Page 4 31. Square Roots 36. Elements If A equals B, then the square root of A equals what? What element in a crystalline form is used as the basis for computer chips?

the square root of B silicon 32. Tasty Bivalves 37. Early Writing Melanie went to a fine restaurant and requested a plate At first, ancient Egyptians carved hieroglyphics on of bivalves. What did she order? slate and ivory, but this was a long and difficult process. Eventually they learned to use what plant that grew in the marshes near the Nile as their equivalent to modern paper?

clams (oysters, mussels, mollusks) papyrus 33. Pirate Problems 38. Local Government Financing Pirates that are depicted with missing teeth suggest the Among sources of revenue for communities are effects of what deficiency disease related to vitamin C? property taxes, sales taxes, and monies collected for minor offenses like parking violations called what?

scurvy fines 34. Environmental Change 39. Inspirational Bombardments Anthropogenic environmental alterations result from These words were inspired by the 19th-century the presence and activities of what? bombardment of what fort? And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.

people (humans) Fort McHenry 35. The World's Population 40. Sentence Order Today, there is a net increase in the world population Express this sentence in inverted order. of about 170 people per minute. To the nearest The band marched down the street. thousand, how many is that per day?

245,000 Down the street marched the band. 8th Grade Orals Round 7 First Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Marine Life Aside from some bizarre life forms that live near volcanic vents in the deep ocean, ocean plants can live only as deep as what penetrates?

light (sunlight) Alt. 2. Floods What kind of dangerous, sudden flood may occur after an ice jam breaks up, when a dam collapses, or following exceptionally hard rains?

flash flood Alt. 3. Money Problems Millicent has $2.05 in dimes and quarters. She has ten coins including how many quarters?

7. Alt. 4. Military Apparel In 1902, the U.S. Army uniform color was changed to olive drab. What color was it in the years preceding?

blue Alt. 5. Legends According to legend, what two brothers were thrown into the Tiber River which carried them to Palatine where they founded a great city?

Romulus, Remus 8th Grade Orals Round 7 Second Half Page 1 1. Warships 6. Federal Agencies What Civil War-era ironclad gunship was the first to Which federal agency keeps track of how many feature a 360-degree rotating armored gun turret? people are living in the U.S.?

U.S.S. Monitor Census Bureau 2. Political Parties 7. Syllabication For what does the abbreviation stand in this? Divide "leisurely" into syllables. The only political party in this enormous Asian nation is the CPC.

Communist Party of China lei-sure-ly 3. Renaissance Men 8. Freedoms This is about Renaissance Italian? What type of freedom is based upon the political He often smoothed the paint in his paintings principle that forbids government constraint on with his fingers, leaving clearly visible people in their choice of beliefs? fingerprints. He wrote in a strange way, from right to left, with each letter reversed.

Leonardo da Vinci freedom of religion 4. Early Settlement in America 9. Crimes What two countries once controlled more real estate in Name the crime of illegally importing goods across an the New World than Great Britain? international border.

France, Spain smuggling 5. Mirrors 10. Revolutions The surface of what kind of mirror is flat? The Industrial Revolution began in the latter part of what century?

plane mirror 18th century 8th Grade Orals Round 7 Second Half Page 2 11. Spoonerisms 16. Algebraic Reasoning "Baptized cattleship" is a spoonerism for what? If A = B and C = D, then A/C equals what?

capsized battleship B/D 12. Ancient Metallurgy 17. Invasions Early metalworkers poured melted copper into molds In 1990, Iraqi forces invaded what neighboring to make swords and daggers. Later, they added tin to country? make what much harder alloy?

bronze Kuwait 13. Rural Justice 18. Legal Fundamentals Many rural areas employ a minor magistrate to handle Correctly restate this basic principle regarding anyone misdemeanors and marriage ceremonies, to certify accused of a crime? documents, and to settle modest suits. The title of Defendants are guilty until proven innocent. such an official is justice of the what?

peace ... innocent until proven guilty. 14. U.S. Laws 19. Algebraic Variables What is the term for any legislation that has passed Express this phrase as an algebraic statement using "x" both houses of Congress and has been approved by as the variable name. the president or passed over his veto? seven less than three times a number

act 3x-7 15. Business Problems 20. Cubes On every shovel selling for $40, a storekeeper lost $8. What two perfect cubes lie between 125 and 512? His rate of loss on the selling price for this merchandise was what percentage?

20% (20% loss) 216, 343 8th Grade Orals Round 7 Second Half Page 3 21. Skiing 26. Roman Myths Which joint is involved in about 45% of all skiing What Roman god is represented as an elderly man of injuries? stately bearing, riding a dolphin and carrying a trident?

knee Neptune 22. Theories 27. Codes Whose theory stated that matter and energy are How do you write "AUK" using a code that simply interchangeable? replaces each letter of the alphabet with a corresponding number from 1 to 26?

Albert Einstein 1 21 11 23. Asian Inventions 28. American Regions In the second century, the Chinese invented the first All of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and seismoscope, a device that indicated what? Wisconsin, as well as the northeastern portion of Minnesota were part of what territory in the late 18th century?

earthquakes (tremors, ground motion) Northwest Territory 24. Bursts 29. Sentence Analysis An outward burst is an explosion. What is the term What is the direct object in this line? for an inward burst? The sheriff appointed John Smith to serve as the town's delegate in the national convention.

implosion John Smith 25. Algebraic Products 30. Former Colonies What is the product of y(w+z)? Name the two geographically largest nations that are part of the Commonwealth of Nations.

wy + yz Canada, Australia 8th Grade Orals Round 7 Second Half Page 4 31. Disorders 36. Plate Tectonics Nellie got up quickly from the couch and now she has What major plate is between Vancouver Island and the feels unsteady, light-headed, weak, and faint, all of Philippines? which characterize what sensation?

dizziness Pacific plate 32. Marsupials 37. Angles Name the pocket-like abdominal receptacle in which Add the complement of a 3 degree angle to the young marsupials are carried. supplement of an angle that measures 89 degrees.

pouch 178 33. Novels 38. National Symbols Name the novel by Cynthia Voigt about the four The Official Seal of the president of what country Tillerman children who are abandoned by their includes the image of a harp and the word "Eire" mother in the parking lot of a mall in eastern written in Gaelic script? Connecticut and who eventually make their way to the home of their reclusive grandmother.

Homecoming Ireland 34. Colonial Founders 39. Seafarer's Signals Providence was to Roger Williams as New Amsterdam America's first lighthouses were fueled with the oil of was to what colonial leader? what mammals?

Peter Minuit whales 35. Solids 40. Health Vocabulary What is the phrase for a measure of how much area all Something that is virulent is capable of causing what? of the sides of a solid would have if they were placed on a single plane?

surface area disease (infection) 8th Grade Orals Round 7 Second Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Propulsion What kind of propulsion involves the pushing of an object in one direction by a stream of gas sent out in the opposite direction?

jet propulsion Alt. 2. Literature Collectively classify these forms of literature. careers autobiographies histories inventions

nonfiction Alt. 3. Archaeology There is some speculation that Cadbury Hill in England might have been the site of what castle that is central to the Arthurian legends?

Camelot Alt. 4. Discoveries According to local legends, the caverns near Carlsbad, New Mexico, were discovered when a cowboy thought he saw smoke rising from the ground one evening, but, when he rode closer, he found that the "smoke" actually consisted of what emerging from an underground chamber?

bats Alt. 5. Inventions What French invention is indicated in these quotations? -the one and only cure for gray hair -a cure for dandruff -a machine that makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good reason

guillotine 8th Grade Orals Round 8 First Half Page 1 1. Historical Architecture 6. Fictional Characters What kind of famous structures are at these sites? The first-person pronoun refers to whom in this Dover, England passage by L.M. Montgomery? Blarney, Ireland Mrs. Thomas said I was the homeliest baby she Windsor, England ever saw but that my mother thought I was Edinburgh, Scotland perfectly beautiful. I should think a mother San Simeon, California would be a better judge than a poor woman who came in to scrub.

castles Anne (of Green Gables) 2. Newspapers 7. Congress What adjective describes the inches by which The U.S. Congress has inherent, expressed, and advertising is typically sold in magazines and implied what? newspapers?

column powers 3. Physical Properties 8. Chords If the shape of a material can be changed permanently Name the chord that passes through the center of a by pressing or pulling, it has what physical property? circle.

plasticity diameter 4. The Big Squeeze 9. Design When a force, F, acts perpendicular to a surface with What principle of design is employed when two an area, A, what is the formula for pressure? objects of the same size and shape are placed an equal distance from the center of an artistic work?

P = F/A balance (symmetry, proportion) 5. Fortified Sanctuaries 10. Civil War Destruction One of the main strongholds of the Navajo was Name the largest city left aflame by the troops under Canyon de Chelly in the northeastern part of what the command of William Sherman. present-day state?

Arizona Atlanta 8th Grade Orals Round 8 First Half Page 2 11. Vocabulary 16. Writing Techniques What is the general classification for these pairs of What literary technique is illustrated by this line from words? a story? insufficiency - adequacy Sara wished she could rid herself of the sick inevitability - dubiousness feeling in her gut that told her something disinclination - willingness horrible was going to happen, and happen soon.

antonyms foreshadowing 12. Scientific Laws 17. Early U.S. History According to the law of conservation of mass, matter By what name were the thirteen colonies known upon can change form but it can neither be created nor adoption of the Articles of Confederation? what?

destroyed United States of America 13. Crime History 18. Verbs What crime was associated with a member of the Identify all words used as verbs in this example. Charles Lindbergh family? She and Mr. Wesson convinced the would-be burglar to leave and to do it immediately.

kidnapping convinced 14. African Crops 19. Algebraic Multiplication What is the chief agricultural crop in the oases of the Multiply 3y + 5 by 2y + 4. Sahara Desert?

dates 6(y squared) + 22y + 20 15. Lighting 20. Folklore The electric light bulbs in a home are usually either With what two rivers is the legendary keelboatman incandescent or what? Mike Fink associated?

fluorescent Ohio, Mississippi 8th Grade Orals Round 8 First Half Page 3 21. City Founders 26. Native American Leaders After murdering his brother, who named the new city Sitting Bull, part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, was of Rome after himself? one of the chiefs responsible for the slaughter of the 7th Cavalry at what battleground?

Romulus the Little Bighorn 22. Wartime Autobiographies 27. Money Anne Frank's "Diary of a Young Girl" describes In cents, what is the value of six bits? circumstances similar to those found in the autobiographical work by Johanna Reiss entitled "The ---- Room."

Upstairs $.75 23. The Olympics 28. U.S. Rivers The first Olympics were held in 776 B.C. In what These rivers are in what state? year were the 10th Olympics held? Kawiwi River Waiawa River Anahulu River Waikele River

740 B.C. Hawaii 24. Trails 29. Hydrology In 1775, the Transylvania Company sent Daniel Name the periodic jetlike emissions of hot water and Boone to blaze a trail to the Bluegrass Country of steam from vents at a geothermal locality. Kentucky through what gap?

Cumberland Gap geysers 25. Letters 30. Burns Who wrote this note in 1963? What kind of burns may be caused by bleach, Dear Mr. President: concrete mix, toilet bowl cleaner, battery fluid, and Thank you for walking yesterday behind Jack. rust remover? You did not have to take such a risk. Thank you for your letters to my children. And most of all, thank you for the way you have always treated me - you and Lady Bird - when Jack was alive.

Jacqueline Kennedy chemical burns 8th Grade Orals Round 8 First Half Page 4 31. Days of the Week 36. Energy What three days of the week are named for heavenly Objects possess energy either because of their position bodies in our solar system? or because of what other factor?

Saturday, Sunday, Monday their motion (movement) 32. Costly Aircraft 37. Mathematical Symbols Northrop Grumman announced it could build 20 What symbol represents a cardinal number indicating Stealth bombers for $11.4 billion. What is the cost per the absence of all units or an ordinal number plane? indicating a point of origin?

$570 million 0 (zero) 33. Numeration 38. Mountain Melodies What is the 23rd ordinal number? With what mountain range is yodeling particularly associated?

twenty third (23rd) Alps (Swiss Alps) 34. Verbs 39. The 16th Century What are the principal parts of "put"? French explorers established Fort Caroline in Florida in 1563. The Spanish objected and set out from Havana to engage the French. A storm forced them to build a shelter on the Florida coast which became the oldest surviving European city in America. Name it.

put, put, put St. Augustine 35. Court 40. Congress What is the correct way to address a judge in court? What is the title of the leader of the house of Congress which must originate all bills for raising revenue?

Your Honor speaker of the House 8th Grade Orals Round 8 First Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Homelands The homelands of the Vikings was in what region of northern Europe?

Scandinavia Alt. 2. Diet Descriptions What adjective indicates animals that feed mainly on insects?

insectivorous Alt. 3. Scientific Investigation In scientific terms, these testable explanations for observable phenomena are called what? -Bolts being sucked into nuts cause ratchets to turn. -Dinosaurs disappeared because they were eaten by primitive humans. -Airplanes fly because their wings push air downward.

hypotheses Alt. 4. Vision Name the type of vision in which the fields of vision from two eyes overlap to create three-dimensional vision.

binocular vision Alt. 5. Animal Onomatopoeia The ones in France say "whou whou" while the ones in Norway say "vov vov" and the ones in Spain say "guau guau." What do these creatures say in the United States?

bow wow (woof woof, arf arf) 8th Grade Orals Round 8 Second Half Page 1 1. States of Matter 6. Convulsions Few substances are ever naturally found in more than What contracts during convulsions? two states. What compound is regularly found in three?

water (dihydrogen oxide) muscles 2. Explorer Firsts 7. Chemistry This is about what canyon? Chemically speaking, these are all types of what? While Cardenas is credited with being the exothermic, synthesis, decomposition, first European to lay eyes on it, Hernando neutralization, corrosion, fermentation, de Alarcon had explored the Colorado River double displacement, combustion, endothermic several months beforehand.

Grand Canyon chemical reactions 3. Executive Appointments 8. Meteors What title, formerly used for Russian leaders, has been Name the celestial event in which a large number of informally given to some thirty officials appointed to meteors are visible in a short period. oversee President Obama's top initiatives?

czar meteor shower (storm) 4. Withdrawal 9. People of the Middle Ages What term refers to the official withdrawal of a state Roland, Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, Sir Gawain, and Sir from a union? Lancelot are examples of what kind of medieval soldiers?

secession knights 5. Fantasies 10. Cities Taran the Assistant Pig-Keeper is joined by Eilonwy In what state are these cities? the princess, Fflewddur Fflam the bard, and Gurgi the Everett curmudgeon in an epic struggle between good and Olympia evil in what land created by Lloyd Alexander? Tacoma Spokane

Prydain Washington 8th Grade Orals Round 8 Second Half Page 2 11. Phrases 16. Forms of Government What kind of phrase begins this sentence? What is the form of government in which the head of For entertainment, the Great Auk juggled state is elected either by direct popular vote or anchovies to the delight of his audience. indirectly through elected representatives?

prepositional phrase republic 12. Asian History 17. Science Abbreviations Who was the "architect of India's freedom through What is the meaning of the abbreviation in this nonviolence"? statement? The peat in the world's peatlands has been forming for 360 million years and contains some 550 Gt of carbon.

Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi gigatons 13. Jabberwocky 18. Deadwood What, according to Lewis Carroll in "Jabberwocky," What phrase could be eliminated from this sentence were "all mimsey"? without altering its meaning? My uncle could make a deer liver palatable to the taste by soaking it in brandy for a week.

borogroves to the taste 14. Missions 19. Sequences Around 1722, what Franciscan mission was Find the next term in this sequence. constructed that in 1836 would become famous as the 3 7 11 ... site of a great battle of the war for Texan independence?

Alamo 15 15. Amphibians 20. Seismology Name the developmental transition between larval and Name the record produced by the marking device on adult stages of amphibians that involves extreme a seismograph. morphological transformation.

metamorphosis seismogram 8th Grade Orals Round 8 Second Half Page 3 21. Musical Directions 26. Energy Pizzicato means that you should do what with the What type of energy is used by primary producers to strings of a stringed instrument? convert carbon dioxide and water into carbohydrates?

Pick (pluck) them. light (solar, electromagnetic) 22. Acquisitions 27. Volume Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines were acquired What is the height of a box with a volume of 4.08 in a treaty ratified in 1899. But in August of 1898, cubic feet, a length of 1.7 feet, and a width of 1.5 the United States acquired its first sizable piece of feet? overseas territory by annexation. What did it annex?

Hawaiian Islands 1.6 feet 23. Force 28. Syllabication What happens if the buoyant force on an immersed Divide "authenticate" into syllables. object is less than its weight?

The object sinks. au-then-ti-cate 24. Valleys 29. Etymology What kind of steep valley that extends into the sea What term for a total loss of consciousness from which may be characterized by truncated spurs, hanging a patient cannot be aroused comes from a Greek word valleys, and high waterfalls? meaning "deep sleep"?

fiord coma 25. Essential Elements 30. Patriotic Verse What element is essential for producing sulfuric acid These lines were inspired by events that led to what and carbon disulfide? war? By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world.

sulfur American Revolution 8th Grade Orals Round 8 Second Half Page 4 31. Military Specialists 36. Controlled Substances What is the role of military and police personnel Caffeine, nicotine, amphetamines, and cocaine especially trained to shoot over exceptionally long increase sympathetic nervous system activity to elevate ranges from concealed positions? mood, produce a sense of euphoria, and increase wakefulness. These are all examples of what class of drugs?

snipers stimulants 32. Alloys 37. Imperialism The alloy resulting from mixing copper and tin was This is about what continent? first discovered at the beginning of what prehistoric In the 1870s, it was still a dark and age? little-known continent. Rich in resources and with inhabitants who were no match for modern rifles and machine guns, it formed an attractive sphere for new colonial activity.

bronze age Africa 33. Bird Anatomy 38. Poetic Characters What hummingbird organ accounts for twenty percent Who is the central character in this poem? of its body volume, a higher proportion than that of And there sat Sam, looking cool and any other animal? calm, in the heart of the furnace roar, And he wore a smile you could see a mile, and he said, "Please close that door."

heart Sam McGee 34. Calamities 39. Psychology This is about an attack of what? In personality theory, what is the opposite of They migrate thousands of miles through the dominant? tropics in search of food. One swarm can be more than 50 kilometers long, 8 kilometers wide, contain a half billion individuals, and can each day consume the weight of food needed by eight million people.

locusts submissive (obedient, compliant) 35. Invertebrate Child Care 40. Bird Palindromes What arachnid gives birth to live young and carries The plural form of the name of what bird begins this them on her back until they are big enough to look palindrome? after themselves? ---- sail I assume.

scorpion emus 8th Grade Orals Round 8 Second Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Electrical Abbreviations "Amp" is short for what?

ampere (amplifier) Alt. 2. Eastern Europe In what country are these World Heritage Sites located? Auschwitz Birkenau Cracow's Historic Center Historic Center of Warsaw

Poland Alt. 3. Pressure What kind of pressure decreases as you gain elevation?

barometric (atmospheric, air) Alt. 4. Infinitives What infinitive is the object of "tried" in this example? Wilbur tried to climb the gently swaying tree.

to climb Alt. 5. Explorers In 1271, what European explorer began his 24-year journey to the Near East and the Orient?

Marco Polo 8th Grade Orals Round 9 First Half Page 1 1. Earthy Chemistry 6. Explorers What phases of matter are present in soil? This describes what Spanish explorer in 1513? Upon discovery of the new great body of water, he could not possibly know that this great moment of his life had suddenly added thousands of miles to the circumference of the globe.

solid, liquid, gas Vasco Balboa 2. Operas 7. Weight Richard Wagner's opera, "The Flying Dutchman," is A little green man who weighs 4 pounds on the Moon about a doomed what? would weigh how much on Earth?

ship (or crew) 24 pounds 3. Musical Pitch 8. Musical Mastery How many times higher is the frequency of the next C Complete this thought by Johann Sebastian Bach with note above middle C? a reflexive pronoun. There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays ...

two times itself 4. Sweet History 9. Aerodynamics In 1828, Conrad J. Van Houten patented an What on an arrow improves its stability? inexpensive method for pressing the fat from roasted cacao beans. This enabled him to pioneer production of what kind of candy?

chocolate fletching (feathers) 5. Anatomy 10. The British Government Name the smooth, slippery substance that prevents the The British houses of Parliament are on the banks of ends of two bones from rubbing together and grating. what river?

cartilage Thames 8th Grade Orals Round 9 First Half Page 2 11. Records 16. Atmospheric Changes Ancient manuscripts discovered between 1946 and About a billion years ago, only about one percent of 1956 in West Bank caves are called the Dead Sea the atmosphere was oxygen. What is that percentage what? today?

Scrolls 21% 12. Birds 17. Corrosion There are four types of flight of which different birds Corrosion involves what gas? are capable. Which one is missing? flapping soaring gliding

hovering oxygen 13. Lenses 18. Colonial Claims What kind of lens that causes light rays to diverge is Name the two largest land masses explored by James thinner in the middle than at its edges? Cook that later became part of the British Empire.

concave lens Australia, New Zealand 14. Electricity 19. Transitions What kind of charge builds up when there is an excess What is a two-letter transitional adverb suggesting of electrons? cause an effect that is synonymous with thus, hence, therefore, and consequently?

negative charge so 15. Architecture 20. Change of State What kind of entry door usually consists of three or While evaporation is vaporization that occurs only on four doors that hang on a central shaft and rotate the surface of a liquid, vaporization throughout a about that vertical axis with a circular enclosure? liquid results from what?

revolving door boiling 8th Grade Orals Round 9 First Half Page 3 21. Factoring 26. Greek Myths What is the greatest common factor of 150 and 2010? What would happen whenever someone cut off one of the heads of the Lernaean Hydra?

30 Two grew back. 22. Textiles 27. Energy Mohair, a long silky fleece, is taken from angoras. Heat energy flows from hot areas to cold areas, What are angoras? heating the cold areas until the temperatures in both areas are what?

goats equal 23. Mountains 28. Marine Invertebrates Because India is slamming into Asia at a speed of five You use what part of a previously-living sponge when centimeters per year, what mountain range is growing you wash your car? higher every day?

Himalayas skeleton 24. Too Highly Prized Substances 29. Endangered Species More fibrous than bone, it is actually modified dentin These endangered species live on what continent? built up of hair-thin layers. It has close, compact Yaqui catfish pores filled with a gelatinous substance that produces southern sea otter a glowing finish when polished. Name this substance Morro Bay kangaroo rat taken from walruses and elephants. masked bobwhite ivory-billed woodpecker

ivory North America 25. Card Probability 30. U.S. Constitution Wild Bill drew one card from a deck. What is the What term is missing in this list of paired words from probability that it was a jack? the preamble of the Constitution? domestic tranquility general welfare perfect union common ...

4 in 52 (or 1 in 13) defense 8th Grade Orals Round 9 First Half Page 4 31. Massive Structures 36. Atolls What human construction that is generally about eight Most atolls are in the Pacific and what other ocean? meters high and four meters wide stretches for 3460 kilometers?

Great Wall (of China) Indian Ocean 32. Happenings 37. Ice When a bell is struck, no delay seems to occur between The obstruction of stream flow caused by the the striking and the ringing. What term that rhymes accumulation of ice in a channel is called an ice what? with "extraneous" indicates the time between such a cause and effect?

instantaneous (simultaneous) jam (or dam) 33. Gases 38. Historical Figures This is about what gas? The history of what Asian country involves all these This inert gas emits a characteristic intense people? reddish-orange glow in a vacuum discharge tube Matthew Perry, Hirohito, Douglas MacArthur, and can be used effectively in display lighting. Tojo, Yamamoto

neon Japan 34. Historic Routes 39. Animal Protagonists What long-sought route through the Arctic Ocean Name the creature in this passage from a C.S. Lewis between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans was finally novel. navigated in the early 1900s by Roald Amundsen? One day you'll see him and another you won't. He doesn't like being tied down - and of course he has other countries to attend to. He'll often drop in. Only you musn't press him. He's wild, you know. Not like a tame lion.

Northwest Passage Aslan 35. Earth's Interior 40. Mideast Wars The center of the Earth is about 6000 kilometers from The 1973 Yom Kippur War was launched by a its surface. The deepest hole ever drilled was about 13 coalition of Arab states led by Syria and Egypt against ten-thousandths of that depth. To the nearest what country? kilometer, how deep was that hole?

8 kilometers Israel 8th Grade Orals Round 9 First Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Colonial Profits Two major sources of profit for the colony of New France in North America were fishing and what else?

fur trading Alt. 2. Revolutionaries What Venezuelan revolutionary liberated New Granada in 1819, Venezuela in 1821, Ecuador in 1822, Peru in 1824, and Upper Peru in 1825?

Simon Bolivar Alt. 3. Unusual Precipitation Occasionally, people have reported that fish are raining from the sky. A likely explanation is that the fish were picked up by a tornado over water, a phenomenon called a what?

waterspout Alt. 4. Hurricanes The path followed by a hurricane is called a storm what?

track Alt. 5. Sentence Changes Restate this sentence expressing a tendency in the form of an obligation. I would have said that.

I should have said that. 8th Grade Orals Round 9 Second Half Page 1 1. Energy 6. Poetry What term is short for synthetic fuels? In poetry, what is the vocal emphasis placed on a syllable or a word called?

synfuels accent 2. Petrology 7. Turncoats What sedimentary, cryptocrystalline form of the What American military leader betrayed the United mineral quartz was used to ignite the gunpowder in States, was commissioned as a brigadier general in the early muskets? British army, and led two expeditions against Richmond, Virginia and New London, Connecticut?

flint Benedict Arnold 3. Territorial Expansion 8. Sentence Transformation Name the land deal, consummated in 1853, through Use these same words in a different order to indicate which the U.S. acquired border territory from Mexico that someone else did the fixing. for $10 million. I had repaired the hose.

Gadsden Purchase I had the hose repaired. 4. Civic Geography 9. Air Masses What city is indicated in these lines? The leading edge of a moving cold air mass is a cold "Oranges and Lemons" what? Say the bells of St. Clements "I owe you five farthings" Say the bells of St. Martin's "When will you pay me?" Say the bells of Old Bailey

London front 5. Presidential Perspectives 10. Homophones What word is missing in this quote by George Spell the two homophones for the contraction of "they Washington? are." To be prepared for ---- is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

war their, there 8th Grade Orals Round 9 Second Half Page 2 11. Parks 16. Astounding Phenomena On an alphabetical list of U.S. national parks, which In its tenth-of-a-second lifetime, what generates one that happens to be in Utah is last? enough energy to light up all of New York City and it heats the surrounding air to a temperature four times hotter than the surface of the Sun?

Zion lightning 12. Colonial Real Estate 17. Mythical Monsters Roger Williams purchased land from the Narragansett She had hair comprised of snakes. Name this Gorgon Indians that became what state? whose head was removed by Perseus.

Rhode Island Medusa 13. Lunar Phases 18. Store Sign Puns What lunar phase is the opposite of a full moon? What is the first word in this sign on a music store window that incorporates punnery? ---- in an hour. Offenbach sooner.

new moon Bach 14. Health History 19. Horseshoeing In the 1717 work, "On the Noxious Effluvia of You must have 9 horses shod by 4 p.m. and it takes Marshes," Giovanni Lancisi established a link between on average, 20 minutes to do one shoe. What is the malaria and what insects? latest time you can start working?

mosquitoes 4 a.m. 15. Body Systems 20. Power What body system includes both the lymphatic system What kind of electric power is generated by that handles excess filtered blood plasma and the converting the energy of running water? cardiovascular system that handles blood?

circulatory system hydroelectric power 8th Grade Orals Round 9 Second Half Page 3 21. Whole Lotta Shaking 26. Inertia About ninety percent of the world's earthquakes occur According to the law of inertia, if an object is at rest, it in a zone surrounding the Pacific Ocean called what? tends to do what?

(Pacific) Ring of Fire (circum-Pacific belt) stay (remain) at rest 22. Arrow Velocity 27. Myths You shoot an arrow straight up into the air. It left In Greek mythology, what are these? your bow at 600 feet per second. Before it returns to Phlegethon the ground, what will be its lowest velocity? Cocytus Lethe Styx

zero rivers (of Hades) 23. Crises 28. Legends This is about what city? When the babies Romulus and Remus were left to die, In 1948, the Russians quarreled with the other legend has it that they were saved and cared for by allies and blockaded the city by cutting its road what creatures? and rail links with the outside. Britain and the U.S. responded by flying in enormous quantities of supplies to keep the city going.

Berlin wolves 24. Fantasies 29. Former Rulers Name the author of this quartet of fantasy novels. Several rulers of what country had the name, "Ivan"? The Dark is Rising Greenwitch The Grey King Silver on the Tree

Susan Cooper Russia 25. Reciprocals 30. Arts Forms Add the reciprocal of 1/125 to the reciprocal of 4. Since it consists of thousands of small stones, what art form is illustrated by the depiction of St. Demetrios at the Demetrios Basilica in Thessalonika?

125.25 mosaic 8th Grade Orals Round 9 Second Half Page 4 31. Ancient Cities 36. Poetic Vocabulary This is about what ancient city? What adjective for something inconvenient or The political power of this ancient city-state annoying completes this poem by Ogden Nash? was limited, especially after its defeat by A shrimp who sought his lady shrimp Sparta in the Peloponnesian War. Could catch no glimpse Not even a glimp. At times, translucence Is rather a ...

Athens nuisance 32. The Biosphere 37. Vessels The biosphere may be broken up into about a dozen What term that rhymes with "malice" indicates an broad groupings of plants and animals that spread ornate ceremonial cup or goblet? across the Earth at characteristic latitudes and altitudes. Name these groupings.

biomes chalice 33. Baby Algebra 38. Ecology Little Boris is 5 days old and little Natasha is 25 days Name the situation in which there are more organisms old. In how many days will Natasha be three times as in a given area than the area can support. old as Boris?

5 days overpopulation 34. Shapes 39. Literature What noun for the shape of the fertile region in which In what classic does this quote appear? Assyria, Babylonia, and Phoenicia developed is also Here the sentence ended as suddenly as it had used as an adjective describing the figure of the moon begun as the knight fell heavily on the top of as it appears in its first or last quarter? his head exactly in the path where Alice was walking.

crescent Through the Looking Glass 35. South American Latitudes 40. Forces Name the tropic which passes through Chile and What force holds screws in a deck and nails in a wall? Brazil.

tropic of Capricorn friction 8th Grade Orals Round 9 Second Half Page 5 Alt. 1. It's Only Natural This indicates what natural process? If a fluid is made warmer, it becomes lighter and starts to rise. If it gets cooler, it becomes heavier and sinks.

convection Alt. 2. American Leaders This is about whom? He did not invent the automobile or the assembly line, but his perfected versions made this son of an Irish immigrant farmer one of the richest and most powerful men in America.

Henry Ford Alt. 3. Invasions What country in the Himalayas lost its independence in 1951 following its invasion by China?

Tibet Alt. 4. The Hydrologic Cycle What is the only stage of the hydrologic cycle in which water is returned to the Earth's surface?

precipitation Alt. 5. Related Animals The Gila monster, Komodo dragon, and gecko are varieties of what kind of reptiles?

lizards 8th Grade Orals Round 10 First Half Page 1 1. Magicians 6. Novels What magician is associated with Camelot? This quote is from what story? Get up there, Buck! Get up there! Mush!

Merlin The Call of the Wild 2. Bee-havior 7. Novels What is the term for a large number of bees that are This is about what story by H.G. Wells? migrating to establish a new colony? Suddenly the Traveller understood why the Eloi feared darkness. They were like fatted calves, kept well and healthy, only to be seized and eaten when the Morlocks grew hungry.

swarm The Time Machine 3. Substances 8. Theoretical Glaciers This is about what readily available controlled Glacial deposits exist in areas near the equator where substance? glaciation is now impossible. Such discoveries It can cause physical and mental damage. It support the theory of continental what? impairs brain functions including coordination and judgment. Frequent abuse can cause damage to the liver.

alcohol drift 4. Participles 9. Piggyback Rides What is the past participle form of the verb "speak"? Sometimes a space shuttle had to land somewhere other than the Kennedy Space Center. For its trip back to Florida, it was bolted to the top of what model of aircraft?

spoken (Boeing) 747 5. Scientific Prefixes 10. Archipelagoes What is the meaning of these prefixes? What islands form a wide chain between the south tox- coast of Florida and Haiti? toxi- toxo- toxico-

poison Bahamas 8th Grade Orals Round 10 First Half Page 2 11. Metamorphic Rock 16. Presidents What two categories of rock can become metamorphic On March 4, 1861, Abraham Lincoln became the rock? sixteenth president of the United States. Two weeks earlier, who had been sworn in as the president of the newly formed Confederate States of America?

igneous, sedimentary Jefferson Davis 12. Movie Inspirations 17. Greek Myths These movies all depict aspects of what form of Hercules freed what Greek mythical hero from the entertainment? chains binding him to a rock? Freaks The Clowns Trapeze Dumbo Water for Elephants The Greatest Show on Earth

circus Prometheus 13. Figures of Speech 18. Colonial Novels Name either preposition used in similes. These passages are from what novel set in American colonial times? -Don't touch me with that dreadful hand! -Friends! Brethren! Countrymen! The worst of plagues, the detested tea shipped for the port by the East India Company, is now arrived.

like, as Johnny Tremain 14. Government History 19. Weaponry Like a U.S. president today, Roman tribunes could In ancient Rome, what entertainers routinely had items invalidate acts of the Roman Senate through what like a parma or round shield, an iaculum or net, a power? galea or visored helmet, a fascina or harpoon, an ocrea or leg armor, a manicae or wrist bands, and a gladius or sword?

veto gladiators 15. Traditions 20. Disease Vectors Hindu tradition prohibits the killing what kind of Bubonic plague is transmitted by the bite of what domesticated animal? insect?

cow flea 8th Grade Orals Round 10 First Half Page 3 21. Zoology 26. Vultures It is in the mountains of Alaska, Montana, and Idaho. This vulture reaches a length of more than four feet It is sure-footed and lives above timberline where it and has a wing expanse of ten feet. Name this bird of feeds on mosses and lichens. It stands about 3 feet the Peruvian and Chilean Andes. high at the shoulder. Name this mammal with short conical horns.

Rocky Mountain goat condor 22. Railway History 27. Governmental Arithmetic In 1910, the Hejaz Railway was completed. It ran Divide the number of Senators in the U.S. Congress between Damascus, Syria, and Mecca and Medina in by the length of one term for a U.S. president. what country?

Arabia (Saudi Arabia) 25 23. Proofreading 28. Caribbean Nations What component is missing in this sentence? The Dominican Republic is one of two countries Fossils brought in from as far away as Borneo. sharing Hispaniola. Name the other.

a predicate Haiti 24. Inventors 29. Travel Documents What was the nationality of the man who arranged Name the formal document issued by a national combinations of dots which permit blind people to government that identifies the holder as a citizen of read? that country and requests permission, in the name of the government of the issuing country, for the bearer to be permitted to enter other countries.

French passport 25. British Navigators 30. Zork Math Who was the first Englishman to sail through the Strait A Venusian Zork costs fifty cents more than a of Magellan? Venusian Zork holder. If a Zork and Zork holder cost two dollars, how much does the Zork cost?

Francis Drake $1.25 8th Grade Orals Round 10 First Half Page 4 31. Military Leaders 36. The Confederacy Along with Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Scipio, Name either of the two Confederate states that were and Pyrrhus of Epirus, what Carthaginian is landlocked. considered one of the greatest generals of antiquity?

Hannibal Arkansas, Tennessee 32. Math Fundamentals 37. Music Notation If a(b) = 0 and a does not equal 0, what is the value of How should the note, F sharp, be played if it is b? followed by a natural?

0. F. 33. Optics 38. Philanthropic Tycoons In ancient Greece, Aristophanes referred to a "burning Andrew Carnegie made his fortune in what industry? glass" as did the Roman scholar Pliny the Elder. What is the modern name for this optical device?

lens (biconvex lens, magnifying glass) steel 34. City Fathers 39. Mammals In what city did Benjamin Franklin found a What mammal uses its proboscis for drinking, bathing, circulating library, help establish a postal system, start and collecting food? a fire company, and improve street lighting?

Philadelphia elephant 35. Physical Properties 40. Defensive Structures What is the collective name for substances that can In ancient Nigeria, the walls of Benin included ditches carry an electric current or heat? filled with water as lines of defense. What is the name for such ditches?

conductors moats 8th Grade Orals Round 10 First Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Smart Science Fiction In what story do a white mouse and Charlie Gordon undergo experimental operations to vastly improve their intelligence?

Flowers for Algernon Alt. 2. Novels These are lines from what novel? -Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold. -Greasers will still be greasers and Socs will still be Socs.

The Outsiders Alt. 3. State Sites These sites are in what state? International Falls Mesabi Iron Range Lake of the Woods Voyageurs National Park Grand Portage National Monument

Minnesota Alt. 4. Marine Enemies Occasionally, a school of what kind of creatures will race through the water and smash their somewhat pointed snouts into a shark, killing it in a matter of minutes of battering-ram punishment?

dolphins (porpoises) Alt. 5. Spacecraft Made of materials such as carbon, tungsten, or ceramic tile, what is the covering on a spacecraft that protects it from high temperatures during reentry called?

heat shield 8th Grade Orals Round 10 Second Half Page 1 1. Sensation 6. City Nicknames Which general type of sensation is further subdivided In what state are there cities with these nicknames? into categories such as cold, pain, heat, and pressure? Barbecued Mutton Capital of the World Derby City The Gateway to the Bluegrass Gateway to Mammoth Cave

touch Kentucky 2. Clauses 7. Contour Lines What is the verb in the subordinate clause of this On topographic maps, what is indicated by contour sentence? lines that form Vs? After Nemo scuttled his submarine, he taught Tanya how to tango.

scuttled valleys (streams, canyons, etc.) 3. Great Lakes States 8. Greek Perspectives What state that borders one of the Great Lakes extends Plato described what basic form of government as farthest east? "rule by the governed"?

New York democracy 4. Alabama 9. Spheres Mobile, Alabama is on the shore of what bay? All cross sections of a sphere are what?

Mobile Bay circles 5. Commensalism 10. State Capitals The remora is a fish with a specialized suction cup on The capital of what state was originally at Portland but top of its head. It uses this structure to attach itself to later moved to Augusta? what other type of fish?

shark Maine 8th Grade Orals Round 10 Second Half Page 2 11. Minnesota 16. Heat The land comprising Minnesota was partly in the When heated, most substances occupy larger volumes. Northwest Territory and partly in what other parcel Name this phenomenon. ceded to the U.S. by France?

Louisiana Purchase expansion 12. Accents 17. Failed Invasions Which word in this example is accented on the fourth Rebel troops involved in the Bay of Pigs invasion were syllable? trying to depose to what leader? There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.

superiority Fidel Castro 13. Abductions 18. River Crossings What is the term for a person who is abducted in order In what year did George Washington and his troops to compel someone else to either meet certain terms or cross the Delaware River? risk serious harm or death to the person being held?

hostage (abductee) 1776 14. Rides 19. Petrochemicals Paul Revere made his historic ride on the night of Petrochemicals are derived either from petroleum or April 18 in what year? from what other resource?

1775 natural gas (methane) 15. Inflammations 20. Dismissals What is the name for an inflammation of a short During what war was Douglas MacArthur dismissed closed tube that projects from the junction of the by Harry Truman? small and large intestines?

appendicitis Korean War 8th Grade Orals Round 10 Second Half Page 3 21. Capital Captures 26. Buried Cities Only one time since the Revolutionary War did a What Italian city buried in ashes for nearly 1600 years foreign power capture and occupy the United States was named for the Greek hero associated with the capital. This occurred during what war? Lernean hydra, the hind of Ceryneia, the Erymanthean boar, and the Augean stables?

War of 1812 Herculaneum 22. State Government 27. Cubes Which state official takes care of all the money that There are nine square inches on each face of a cube. the state earns from taxes, licenses, and fees? What is the volume of this solid?

treasurer 27 cubic inches 23. Historical Occupations 28. Coastal Wildlife What occupation was shared by these people? What coastal mammals are usually seen in beds of Edvard Grieg giant kelp, often floating on their backs and breaking Jean Sibelius clams with stones? Maurice Ravel Claude Debussy

composers otters (sea otters) 24. Cessions 29. Salty Seafarers The "Convention for the Cession of the Russian A series of sea novels by C.S. Forester set during the Possessions in North America to the United States" in Napoleonic Wars involve a protagonist named Horatio 1867 concerned the region that became what U.S. who? state?

Alaska Hornblower 25. Number Relationships 30. Regional Landforms What three numbers should follow in this pattern? The countries and territories of Oceania mainly 1 2 2 4 3 6 4 8 ... consist of what landforms?

5 10 6 islands 8th Grade Orals Round 10 Second Half Page 4 31. Gems 36. Grammatical Agreement Diamonds formed underground millions of years ago The first person singular verb "am" must agree with from carbon that was subjected to high temperature what first person singular subject? and what else?

pressure I. 32. Mineral Color 37. Legal Abbreviations Pyrite and chalcopyrite usually are what color? What is the meaning of the abbreviation in these lines? Marbury v. Madison Plessy v. Ferguson NLRB v. Jones and Laughlin

yellow (gold) versus 33. Averages 38. Special Times What is the average of all the 3-digit numbers that can The term "equinox" comes from the Latin words be written using the numerals 1, 2, and 3 only once in "aequi" meaning equal and "nox" meaning what? each number?

222 night 34. Weapons 39. The Constitution What silo-launched guided missile designed to deliver The U.S. Constitution is divided into what major nuclear warheads was named after armed colonists sections? ready to fight on just a moment's notice during the American Revolutionary War?

Minuteman articles 35. Geologic Shorthand 40. The Solar System What is the meaning of the abbreviation in this The most volcanically active world in the solar system statement? is what moon of Jupiter? By 4 bya, the Earth had a crust of solid rock and surface water appeared on the planet about 3.9 bya.

billion years ago Io 8th Grade Orals Round 10 Second Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Bandages You can make what kind of bandage by diagonally cutting in half a piece of cloth 40 inches square?

triangular bandage Alt. 2. Active Symbols What symbol is used for a branch of the Red Cross movement operating in a Muslim country?

red crescent Alt. 3. Evolutionary Improvements Thanks to an insulating covering of fur or hair, what class of creatures does not become sluggish or overheated when external temperatures drop below or rise above their optimum internal temperatures?

mammals Alt. 4. Character Anagrams "Tom Marvolo Riddle" is an anagram for this sentence about what central character in the Harry Potter stories? I am ...

Lord Voldemort Alt. 5. Lawmen Who appoints law enforcement officers called deputies?

sheriffs 8th Grade Orals Round 11 First Half Page 1 1. Farming History 6. Unusual Animals In 1849, thousands of U.S. farmers bought $100 What structures cover most of a coelacanth's body? McCormick reapers after being deserted by workers who had abruptly left to seek their fortunes in what future state?

California scales 2. Number Sums 7. Marine Mammals What is the sum of the whole numbers from one to Like walruses, their front flippers are strong enough to ten? hold their bodies off the ground and their back flippers can turn forward to work like feet, enabling them to almost gallop. Name these mammals that look like seals, that may grow up to eight feet long, and live from the Galapagos Islands to California.

55 sea lions 3. Tolkien 8. Arthropods In Tolkien's books, what kind of creatures are These are differences between what two types of Ancalagon, Glaurung, Scantha, and Smaug? insects? One flies mostly during the day and the other at night. One rests with wings folded up over its body while the other with its wings flat at its sides. One has antennae ending in knobs while the other has featherlike antennae tapering to points.

dragons butterflies, moths 4. Ecological Relationships 9. Prism Volume What is the collective name for any organisms that eat What is the volume of a rectangular prism that is 12 other organisms? centimeters long with ends that are 25 square centimeters?

consumers 300 cubic centimeters 5. Syllabication 10. Entrepreneurs How many syllables are in this quip? Who, in the early 1850s, changed the way men dressed Television is democracy at its ugliest. when he patented the use of copper rivets to reinforce seams of canvas trousers he made for miners?

14 Levi Strauss 8th Grade Orals Round 11 First Half Page 2 11. New Jobs 16. Amendments In 1912, Harold Bride became the assistant wireless What phrase in the 8th Amendment describes operator aboard a new 882-foot-long passenger ship punishment that is unacceptable due to the suffering with 16 watertight compartments. The ship left or humiliation it inflicts on a condemned person? Southampton but never completed her voyage. Name her.

Titanic cruel and unusual 12. Regolith Relocation 17. Dunes What is the term for the removal, transport, and Extending over 1,500 feet from base to top, Africa's deposition of parts of the surface of the land, by highest sand dunes are in what desert? mechanical forces such as water and wind?

erosion Sahara 13. The Earth 18. Swamp Deposits Name the magnetic field that surrounds the Earth. Peat is a deposit in marshes consisting of water-soaked plant material containing more than fifty percent of what element?

magnetosphere carbon 14. Arthropods 19. Work Problems What is the only class of invertebrates capable of Bob worked twice as long as Jan. Jan worked one flight? hour more than Kim. Kim worked 2 hours less than Pedro. Pedro worked 3 hours. How many hours did Bob work?

insects (Insecta) 4 hours 15. Booms 20. French Cuisine A sonic boom results when an object exceeds what What is the French name for small cubes of toasted speed? bread served with soups or salads?

speed of sound (Mach 1) croutons 8th Grade Orals Round 11 First Half Page 3 21. Political Proportions 26. Biomes In a group of political pundits, 45 percent of the Which land biome characterizes nearly one-third of pundits predicted that Peter Petrovsky would become the world's land surface? premier. How many pundits predicted that Peter would not become premier if 540 of them predicted he would?

660 desert 22. Novels 27. Fats This is from what story? Saturated fats are usually solid at room temperature His mind was crowded with memories; memories and come mainly from animals. Unsaturated fats are of the knowledge that had come to them when usually liquid at room temperature and come from they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge what? that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink.

Lord of the Flies plants 23. Physical Science 28. Transportation Einstein said a body becomes more massive and that In the Old West, people traveled in what kind of time moves more slowly as that body approaches what carriage that had up to three bench seats such that speed? they rode three abreast, squeezed into a space of 15 inches apiece?

light speed stagecoach 24. Assassinations 29. Untimely Ends Martin Luther King and what U.S. senator were What form of combat took the lives of Stephen assassinated in 1968? Decatur and Alexander Hamilton?

Robert Kennedy duel 25. A Tense Physics Problem 30. Africa Mavis and Max hold opposite ends of a rope in their It is the shortest distance from Spain to what African hands. Mavis pulls on her end with a force of 90 country? pounds. Max pulls on his end with a force of 90 pounds. How much tension is on the rope?

90 pounds Morocco 8th Grade Orals Round 11 First Half Page 4 31. European Cities 36. Colonization Failures This describes what Italian city? In 1590, the first relief expedition reached Roanoke Although a causeway connects the mainland to Island but found no trace of the settlement. the historic city, road vehicles are garaged on Thereafter, what name was given to that colony? the westernmost island, and travel about the city is by motorboats, water-buses, curved-prow gondolas, or on foot.

Venice Lost Colony 32. Animal Anatomy 37. Colonial Name Changes What is the term for any limb or other organ such as Just before it was captured and renamed by the British, an antenna or leg that is attached to the body by a the colony of New York had what other name? joint?

appendage New Netherland 33. Saggy Balloons 38. Acronyms Every balloon eventually deflates because the air What form of literature is associated with the ancient inside gradually seeps out through the rubber through Greek whose name happens to be the same as the what process? acronym for research called the "Airborne Experiment to Study Ozone Photochemistry"?

diffusion fables 34. Papyrus 39. Icebergs What ancient civilization made the first use of papyrus Most icebergs in the North Atlantic have broken off as a writing material? from glaciers on what island?

Egyptian Greenland 35. Seafaring Sons 40. Asian Art History Name John Cabot's son. The invention of what material in China during the first century AD provided a cheap and widespread medium for painting, making that art form accessible to a broad range of the Chinese public?

Sebastian paper 8th Grade Orals Round 11 First Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Tragedies During what war were four students killed by National Guard troops on the campus of Kent State University?

Vietnam War Alt. 2. Malapropisms What word should have been used in this line? Mr. Carnegie was a wealthy typhoon.

tycoon Alt. 3. Rock Formation The two conditions for the formation of metamorphic rock are high pressure and high what?

temperature (or heat) Alt. 4. Living Quarters The word came from a Greek term that means "living alone." Name the building or group of buildings in which monks live.

monastery Alt. 5. Color What is the term for a series of colored bands arranged of decreasing wavelength from infrared to ultraviolet?

spectrum (rainbow) 8th Grade Orals Round 11 Second Half Page 1 1. Clauses 6. Tornadoes What kind of dependent clause is at the end in this What can be said about the air pressure in a tornado? example? I heard what you said.

noun clause It is low. 2. Malapropisms 7. Pirates What word should Mrs. Malaprop have used in this Name the Norse pirates who terrorized northern line? Europe between the eighth and tenth centuries. I do not have much affluence over my niece.

influence Vikings (Norsemen) 3. Salutations 8. Affixes Correct this salutation from a business letter. What is the meaning of the prefix in solitary, solitude, Dr. Marilynn Frazier, M.D. solo, and solitaire?

eliminate Dr. or M.D. alone 4. Gases 9. Light This statement is about what gas? Compared to regular light bulbs, a sun lamp produces Enormous quantities of this gas are added to more of what kind of light? the atmosphere daily, but because it is used by green plants, the air content is kept down to approximately 0.03%.

carbon dioxide ultraviolet (UV) 5. Game Namesakes 10. Superlative Seas In the 18th century, children played "schooning" by Name the world's lowest and saltiest sea. skipping pebbles across the water. What sailboat was named after this game?

schooner Dead Sea 8th Grade Orals Round 11 Second Half Page 2 11. Body Systems 16. Big and Bigger What system in higher animals has the functions of A photograph of a hurricane taken from the space detecting stimuli, transmitting messages, interpreting shuttle bears some similarity to what astronomical information, and responding? objects deep in space?

nervous system (spiral) galaxies 12. Exploration Claims 17. Lubricants There is no artifact belonging to either Robert Peary Carbon-based lubricants recovered from petroleum or Frederick Cook at what site to substantiate that distillation are called either oil or what else? either of their expeditions actually got there?

North Pole grease 13. Fainting 18. Disaster Dates Name the aromatic mixture including an ammonia On March 11, 2012, the first anniversary of what kind solution used to stimulate a person who has fainted. of disaster was recognized in cities such as Rikuzentakata, Onagawa, Ishinomaki, Kesennuma, and Fukushima?

smelling salts tsunami (or earthquake) 14. The Food Chain 19. Dissolving Autotrophs are consumed by herbivores. What When a substance dissolves in a liquid, what is the consumes herbivores? name for the resulting mixture?

carnivores (omnivores) solution 15. Planets 20. Pelts Name the two smallest gas giants in the solar system. The finest and most durable pelts are taken during which season?

Uranus, Neptune winter 8th Grade Orals Round 11 Second Half Page 3 21. Precipitation 26. Metric Exponents Very fine, fairly uniform, light precipitation that is While "kilo-" means 10 to the third power, "deca-" stronger than mist but less than a shower is called means 10 to the what power? what?

drizzle first power 22. Space Exploration 27. The President's Cabinet In a space spectacular in 2001, NASA accomplished DOE is to Department of Energy and DOJ is to the first-ever soft landing of a spacecraft on what Department of Justice as DOT is to Department of asteroid? what?

Eros Transportation 23. Literary Allusions 28. Unwelcome Company The title of the biography, "E.B. White: Some Writer!" A few days ago, Oda Mae ate inadequately cooked alludes to what line in the novel, "Charlotte's Web"? beef. Something in that food made it past her stomach and embedded its ugly head into her intestinal wall where it will absorb nutrients and grow to a length of perhaps 30 feet. What is it?

Some pig! tapeworm 24. Clauses 29. Vikings What kind of subordinate clause is illustrated in this Norsemen called Danes were from which example? Scandinavian country? Anyone who chortles should bring a silly hat.

adjective clause Denmark 25. Etymology 30. Light Speed These words were borrowed from what language? Light travels at about 300,000 kilometers in a second knapsack, snorkel, frankfurter while sound travels at about 330 meters in the same time. To the nearest hundred thousand, light is how many times faster than sound?

German 900,000 8th Grade Orals Round 11 Second Half Page 4 31. Counting the Days 36. Constellations What Asian calendar has been in continuous use for What is the popular name for the constellation, Crux? over 2000 years?

Chinese calendar Southern Cross 32. Diseases 37. Specialized Plant Parts What disease that used to be very common among Name the globular underground stems with fleshy children and young adults is characterized by painful leaves emerging from the top and roots emerging swelling of the salivary glands? from the bottom that are typical of such plants as the tulip, narcissus, and onion.

mumps bulb 33. Honest Numbers 38. Letter Writing Honest numbers are numbers that can be described These are what part of a business letter? using exactly the same number of letters in standard My Dear Mrs. Poindexter mathematical English. For example, 4 = "four," 8 = Dear Sir "two cubed," and 11 = "two plus nine." Show how 14 Dear Tammy Faye is an honest number. Dear Dr. Doolittle

"seven plus seven" salutation 34. Muscle 39. Colonial Settlers Skeletal muscle consists of myofibrils made up of During the early colonial period in the New World, thousands of protein filaments which form Spain and France restricted their settlers to members overlapping, parallel patterns of light and dark of what religion? markings. Because of these patterns, what other adjective indicates skeletal muscle?

striated Roman Catholicism 35. Palindromes 40. Newton What is the last word in this palindrome? According to Newton's explanation of gravity, Poor Dan is in a ... everything exerts a force on what?

droop everything 8th Grade Orals Round 11 Second Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Density If a solid body is placed in a liquid and the body's density is less than that of the fluid, the upthrust will cause the body to do what?

float Alt. 2. Atmospheric Phenomena The warming of the ground by the atmospheric trapping of infrared radiation is called what effect?

greenhouse effect Alt. 3. Longitude If the longitude of Tokyo, Japan, is 140 degrees east, this city is how many degrees west of the International Date Line?

40 Alt. 4. Dizziness A person will feel dizzy when the fluid inside what organ is disturbed?

ear (cochlea, semicircular canals) Alt. 5. Metallurgy A company receives 82% pure gold. By removing most of its impurities, 99.5% pure gold is produced. Identify this process.

refining (smelting) 8th Grade Orals Round 12 First Half Page 1 1. Marine Creatures 6. Canyons What marine creature has a whiplike tail armed with a Valles Marineris is a major geological feature on what venomous barb? planet?

stingray Mars 2. Subatomic Physics 7. State Names The name of what subatomic particle begins with "q"? What state bears the oldest surviving European place name in the United States?

quark Florida 3. Insect Magic 8. Rivers What is the name for an immature animal What major river lies between Zion National Park and morphologically different from the adult that must go the Petrified Forest? through radical transformations to attain an adult form?

larva Colorado River 4. Sharks 9. Exponents It may grow to 23 feet in length. Name this largest of Simplify the following. the hunting sharks. (y)(y)(y)(y to the 4th)

great white shark y to the 7th 5. Offenses 10. Ancient Governors What crime is a person committing by painting graffiti Name the best known of all the Roman governors of on public buildings, breaking windows, or Judea because of his role in the trial and execution of intentionally scratching the paint on someone's car? a certain man of Nazareth.

vandalism Pontius Pilate 8th Grade Orals Round 12 First Half Page 2 11. Verbs 16. Bibliographies What is the helping verb in this line? What words should be italicized or underlined in this Stottlemeyer has the ball and he's bibliographical entry? bludgeoning his way to the ten-yard line. Goldschneider, F. K., Waite, L., (1986). Nonfamily living and the erosion of traditional family orientations among young adults. American Sociological Review, 51, 541-554.

is American Sociological Review 12. Verb Properties 17. Communication Restate this sentence in the passive voice. In 1831, Joseph Henry found that an electromagnet The woodchuck chucked the wood. could be used to send messages over great distances by wiring the magnet to a switch to turn it on and off. This was a milestone in the development of what kind of communication?

The wood was chucked by the woodchuck. telegraphy (telegraph) 13. Weaponry 18. Grammatical Person Disarmament is what kind of control? Restate this sentence using the first person. It is definitely a green alien.

arms control I am definitely a green alien. 14. Person 19. Conciseness Restate this line in the first person plural. What three words could be eliminated from this I came, I saw, I conquered. sentence without a loss in meaning? He intended to do some serious soul-searching after the conclusion of the inquest.

We came, we saw, we conquered. the conclusion of 15. Warriors 20. Constellations The medieval British knights were similar to what What constellation was named for the Greek mythical professional warriors of the Japanese feudal military hero who killed the Medusa? aristocracy?

samurai Perseus 8th Grade Orals Round 12 First Half Page 3 21. Rock 26. Ancient Assyria Nearly all rocks are composed of what naturally The Assyrians excelled in warfare. Instead of chariots, occurring, inorganic, crystalline substances with they used military units of riders on horses. Name definite chemical compositions? these units.

minerals cavalries 22. Octagons 27. Slithery Statistics One side of an octagon is 4 feet. What is its Each of the 10 houses on the north side of Serpent perimeter? Street has 14 rattlers in its basement while 4 of the 10 houses on the south side have 8 each and the rest have 6 each. What is the average number of snakes in the basement for all the houses on this street?

32 feet 10.4 23. Energy 28. Geology A car battery produces electrical energy that passes Stalactites form in what type of sedimentary rock? through the wiring into the headlights where the energy is converted into light and what other form of energy?

heat limestone 24. Insects 29. Waterfalls Ants protect what tiny, somewhat pear-shaped insects Four of the fifteen highest waterfalls in the world are that feed on the sap of fruit trees to assure themselves in what U.S. national park? an ongoing supply of honeydew droplets?

aphids Yosemite 25. Speech Sounds 30. Atoms What is the term for the special speech sounds formed What electrical charge is carried by an electron? by the adjacent vowels in these words? boil, loud, point, foil, oink

diphthongs negative 8th Grade Orals Round 12 First Half Page 4 31. Federal Employees 36. Microorganisms These people have worked in what governmental What disease agents have only one cell and under a organization? microscope look like balls, rods or spirals? John Jay John Marshall Hugo Black Lewis Powell William Rehnquist Anthony Kennedy

Supreme Court bacteria 32. Legislation 37. Adventure Novels The Constitution requires that every bill which shall This is from what story? have passed the House of Representatives and the What was the sensible thing to do? There was Senate, shall, before it becomes a law, be presented to no Piggy to talk sense. There was no solemn whom? assembly for debate nor dignity of the conch.

the president The Lord of the Flies 33. Writing Techniques 38. College Vocabulary What literary technique is used in this passage? What is another name for the residence halls on He was a thin, wiry man in a tan-colored shirt. college campuses? He had a gray, untidy mustache, his skin was wrinkled and leathery, but his eyes were always friendly and amused.

characterization dormitories 34. Big Birds 39. Algebraic Multiplication Two enormous extinct birds include the moa of New What is the product of 3 times x times y times 8? Zealand and the elephant bird of what large island off the southeastern coast of Africa?

Madagascar 24xy 35. The Frontier 40. Story Settings What mammal was associated with the economic In E.L. Konigsburg's novel, "From the Mixed-Up Files well-being of people such as Jim Bridger and Jedediah of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler," two young people live Smith? for a week in what New York art museum?

beaver Metropolitan Museum of Art 8th Grade Orals Round 12 First Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Civilizations These books are about what ancient civilization? The Persian Expedition The Peloponnesian War The Campaigns of Alexander The Hellenistic World The Decipherment of Linear B The Bull of Minos

Greece Alt. 2. Satellites In 2012, in addition to Charon, Nix, Hydra, and P4, astronomers announced they had discovered a fifth moon orbiting what dwarf planet?

Pluto Alt. 3. Shootists Although Wyatt Earp said he had never met anyone that actually used it, western lore is full of stories of gunfighters holding back a revolver's trigger and repeatedly brushing the revolver's hammer with the left hand. Name this rapid-fire shooting technique.

fanning Alt. 4. Big Mammals When whales may become beached or stuck in shallow water, they are described as being what?

stranded (marooned) Alt. 5. Treaties These lines are from the treaty that ended what war? -Spain relinquishes all claim of sovereignty over Cuba. -Spain cedes to the United States the island of Puerto Rico. -Spain cedes to the United States the archipelago known as the Philippine Islands.

Spanish-American War 8th Grade Orals Round 12 Second Half Page 1 1. Orphans 6. Fault Movement She is a spirited, unconventional orphan girl who finds In how many years will a fault displacement of 2 home and happiness in a small town in Canada with an centimeters per year produce 2 meters of offset? elderly brother and sister. Name this character created in 1908 by Lucy Maud Montgomery.

Anne 100 2. Fruits 7. Atomic Weapons The names for what kind of fruits begin with stems In what U.S. state have the greatest number of nuclear such as bear, goose, lingon, bar, elder, and straw? weapons been detonated?

berries Nevada 3. Peoples 8. Archaeology Pygmies are a group of people generally shorter than The Rosetta Stone was the key to understanding what five feet in height. Name either of their two homeland ancient Egyptian writing system based on pictorial continents. symbols?

Africa, Asia hieroglyphics 4. Spoonerisms 9. Failed Plans Correct this spoonerism. Walter Raleigh's plan to establish a settlement in the herd in the band "Colony and Dominion of Virginia" ended in failure at what Island?

bird in the hand Roanoke 5. Historical Enemies 10. Compromises Soldiers from what two religions were enemies during What compromise adopted at the birth of the U.S. the Crusades? Constitution resolved the dispute between the South that wanted slaves counted in their populations and the northern states which argued that slaves could not be both property and people entitled to representation?

Islam, Christian Three-fifths Compromise 8th Grade Orals Round 12 Second Half Page 2 11. Art Works 16. Fractures The world's largest example of this kind of What is the most common facial fracture? ornamental art consists largely of crystal, hangs from the ceiling of a palace in Istanbul, incorporates 750 lamps, and weighs some 4.5 tons. What is it?

chandelier broken nose 12. Microbes 17. Italian Musical Terms What do you call the invasion and growth of "Fortissimo" means very what? microorganisms in a loving organism?

infection loud 13. International Relations 18. Shadows What "ism" indicates a policy of avoiding foreign What three astronomical bodies are able to produce entanglements, refusing entry into alliances, and visible shadows on Earth? rejecting foreign economic commitments?

isolationism Sun, Moon, Venus 14. Pianos 19. Optics What is the term for a small grand piano? Those components used in telescopes, lasers, or cameras that have highly reflective surfaces are called what?

baby grand mirrors 15. Mechanics 20. Mountains What kind of simple machine always consists of a Name the highest mountain in Africa. rigid bar pivoted at some point?

lever Kilimanjaro 8th Grade Orals Round 12 Second Half Page 3 21. Mass 26. Gradient What happens to the mass of an ice cube when it If a river starts at an elevation of 5900 feet and travels melts? 540 miles to a reservoir at an elevation of 500 feet, what is the river's average gradient?

remains same (unchanged) 10 feet per mile 22. Weight Comparisons 27. South America Ed weighs 220 pounds on Earth. His weight of 15.4 If you go directly from Ecuador to Venezuela, you pounds on Pluto is what percentage of his Earth must travel through what country? weight?

7% Colombia 23. Stringed Instruments 28. The Nervous System To make the strands of a cello or violin bow sticky, Where are photoreceptors found? what substance derived from pine tree gum is rubbed on them?

rosin eye (retina) 24. Colorful Characters 29. Astronomical Bodies This is a description of what character in "Treasure These bodies are collectively known as what? Island"? Io His left leg was cut off close by the hip, and Phobos under the left shoulder he carried a crutch, Callisto which he managed with wonderful dexterity, Europa hopping about upon it like a bird.

Long John Silver satellites (moons) 25. U.S. Traditions 30. Architecture On what U.S. holiday is the U.S. flag traditionally The top of what 630-foot steel arch in St. Louis, flown at half-staff until noon? Missouri, was placed in 1965?

Memorial Day Gateway Arch 8th Grade Orals Round 12 Second Half Page 4 31. Baking History 36. Chanteys In the 1860s, the stillmaster Charles Fleischmann The chantey, "Fifteen Men on a Dead Man's Chest" noted that the poor quality of U.S. bread was due to first appeared in what novel by Robert Louis the fact that American bakers lacked quality what? Stevenson?

yeast Treasure Island 32. Constellation Anatomy 37. Song History Name any constellation representing a creature with Katherine Lee Bates included these lines in what song? cloven hoofs. -amber waves of grain -purple mountain majesty above the fruited plain -from sea to shining sea

Taurus, Aries, Capricorn, Camelopardalis America the Beautiful 33. County Government 38. Revolutionary Alliances What is the most common title of the chief law George Washington and his army were in what valley enforcement officer of a U.S. county? when the Treaty of Alliance between France and the Americans was concluded at Paris in 1778?

sheriff Valley Forge 34. Legends 39. Filmmaking According to English legend, who did the sheriff hope What is the term for a nonfiction narrative film, would come to a great archery tournament to be held presented in a journalistic vein, about an actual event in Nottingham Town? or person?

Robin Hood documentary 35. Math 40. Homonyms What arithmetic property is illustrated by this Spell the word meaning "to survive" that is missing in equation? this poem? d(ef) = (de)f Whether the weather be fine, / Whether the weather be not, / Whether the weather be cold, Whether the weather be hot, / We'll ---- the weather, / Whatever the weather, / Whether we like it or not.

associative weather 8th Grade Orals Round 12 Second Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Cities Abroad What sea lies between Tunis and Rome?

Mediterranean Alt. 2. Native Americans During what century was Cochise active?

19th century Alt. 3. Sets What is the intersection of these sets? {squares of whole numbers from 2 to 9} and {all odd numbers}

{9, 25, 49, 81} Alt. 4. Organizations What was the purpose of the organization established in 1785 known as the New York Society for Promoting Manumission?

freeing slaves Alt. 5. Light Transmission What is the opposite of opaque?

transparent 8th Grade Orals Round 13 First Half Page 1 1. Consecutive Integers 6. Digs The sum of 7 consecutive integers is 112. What is the Excavations at Stanton Harcourt, a Paleolithic valley in smallest integer in this group? the United Kingdom, unearthed several tusks over five feet in length. These came from what extinct hairy elephants?

13 mammoths (woolly mammoths) 2. Citadels 7. Novel Settings What citadel in Moscow is the center of the Russian Name the town in the novel, "Little House on the government and was formerly the headquarters of the Prairie." Soviet government?

Kremlin Walnut Grove 3. Zoology 8. Glaciers The 25-gram pigmy shrew and the 100,000-kilogram Name the kinds of glaciers that cover Antarctica and blue whale both belong to what biological class? that once covered much of North America and Europe.

mammal continental glaciers 4. Myths 9. Colonial Plans The Pleiades consist of many daughters of Atlas? The Oglethorpe Plan was a strategy for the settlement of what American colony?

seven Georgia 5. Anthropology 10. Matter The Inuit and Yupik peoples are related to the Aleuts What term describes a fluid of low density that of what archipelago? expands to uniformly fill a container?

Aleutians gas 8th Grade Orals Round 13 First Half Page 2 11. Chemical Reactions 16. Divisors Name the chemical reaction in which oxygen is united What is the greatest common divisor of these three with some other material. numbers? 144 108 72

oxidation 36 12. Factoring 17. Folklore What is the largest prime factor of 99 billion? He is portrayed as deceiving and victimizing practically everybody. What kind of animal is called "Reynard" in many tales?

11 fox 13. Magic Squares 18. Plate Tectonics What happens to a magic square if every number in The landmass comprising India is moving in which the square is multiplied by a constant? cardinal direction?

It remains a magic square. north 14. Hot Competitions 19. Astronomical Events In the World Boonie Bocce Championship, Willa, An equinox occurs when the Sun crosses the plane of Erica, and Rowena won 105, 102, and 93 games what line of latitude on the Earth's surface? respectively. Rowena won what percentage of the total games?

31% equator (zero degrees) 15. Astronomy 20. National Economics This is about what kind of heavenly bodies? The prosperity of Kuwait, one of the richest nations in While their solid nuclei are generally less than the world, depends almost entirely on what one 50 kilometers across, their comas may be resource? larger than the Sun and their ion tails may extend more than one astronomical unit.

comets petroleum (oil) 8th Grade Orals Round 13 First Half Page 3 21. Preposition Use 26. European Wars Restate this sentence without using a double The Hundred Years' War was a series of short, costly preposition. engagements in which the English unsuccessfully tried The cat was inside of the hat. to dominate what country?

The cat was in (inside) the hat. France 22. Oil Spills 27. Official Procedures It is estimated that about 85% of the oil in a marine oil What is the bringing of charges against a public spill will have evaporated after three months. In a official by the House of Representatives called? 100,000 gallon spill, how much will remain after 3 months?

15,000 gallons impeachment 23. Scientific Laws 28. Clouds Conservation laws state that quantities such as mass What name applies to any cloud that produces remain what? precipitation?

constant nimbus 24. Personal Achievements 29. Opening Lines In 1932, she set the women's nonstop transcontinental What story by Pamela Travers begins with this? speed record. In 1935, she flew alone over the Gulf If you want to find Cherry Tree Lane, ask a of Mexico from Mexico City to New Jersey. Name policeman at the crossroads. her.

Amelia Earhart Mary Poppins 25. Geographic Puns 30. Eclipses Complete this pun with the name of a mountain. During what phase of the Moon can a lunar eclipse In winter, the weather in Washington State occur? goes from rainy to ...

Rainier full moon 8th Grade Orals Round 13 First Half Page 4 31. Poetry 36. Bays According to Edward Lear, what creature went to sea Located off the shores of southern Asia, what is the in a pea-green boat with an owl? largest bay in the world?

pussycat Bay of Bengal 32. Sculptures 37. Suffixes One of Michelangelo's sculptures depicts young David Spell a word meaning "in the order named" by about to engage what Philistine giant? replacing the suffix in "respectfully."

Goliath respectively 33. Colonial Publications 38. Electricity The first clear, published call for American What is the rate of flow of electrical charge called? independence was what pamphlet published in 1776?

Common Sense current 34. Science Fiction 39. Political Problems In Ray Bradbury's short story, "The Veldt," who are A military issue that developed into a major social the antagonists? debate by the late 1960s was the continued involvement of American troops in what country?

the children Vietnam (South Vietnam) 35. Spanish Colonization 40. Composers Name two of the three major pre-Columbian What is the nationality of these composers? civilizations of the Latin American mainland defeated Aleksandr Borodin by the early Spanish conquistadors. Modest Mussorgsky Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Inca, Maya, Aztec Russian 8th Grade Orals Round 13 First Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Citizenship All citizens of Guam are also citizens of what country?

United States Alt. 2. Vegetable History In 1539, conquistadors returning from Quito brought what tubers to Spain which they described as something similar in flavor to chestnuts?

potatoes Alt. 3. Zoological Plurals Geese is to goose as lice is to what?

louse Alt. 4. Aging Complete this quote by Cicero illustrating parallel structure. For as I like a young man in whom there is something of the old, so I like an old man in whom there is something of the ...

young Alt. 5. Gas Laws What happens to the temperature of a gas when the pressure is reduced?

lowered (cooler, drops) 8th Grade Orals Round 13 Second Half Page 1 1. Venn Diagrams 6. Transportation 320 guys are enrolled in gladiator school. Of those, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Harriet Tubman were 85 were in the lance class, 200 were in the scimitar directly involved in running what railroad? class, and 60 were in both. How many were in neither class?

95 Underground Railroad 2. Forest Fire Fighting 7. Taxonomy What is the name for a strip of land burned or plowed What taxonomic level is between family and species? to stop the spread of an oncoming fire?

firebreak (fireguard) genus 3. Shoes Galore 8. Elections If 0.4 of the 1400 shoes in Imelda's closet are from Elections for how many of the 100 U.S. senators are Italy and 0.02 are from Spain, what percent of the held in off-years? shoes in her closet are from some place other than Italy or Spain?

58% none 4. Trials 9. Scientific Notation Who was the central figure in an 1857 Supreme Court 0.000026 equals 2.6 times ten to what power? case about whether he was actually a citizen of Missouri and whether his temporary stay on free soil had given him freedom that was still valid upon his return to Missouri?

Dred Scott negative (minus) 5 5. Keeping the Peace 10. Fusion Peacekeepers of what international organization are What is the common name for the billions of atomic known as the Blue Berets because of the color of their fusion reactors throughout the universe? headgear?

United Nations stars (suns) 8th Grade Orals Round 13 Second Half Page 2 11. Cartography 16. Suntans Which of the kinds of imaginary crisscrossing lines Sun tanning depends on what kind of light rays? used in cartography are not parallel?

meridians (lines of longitude) ultraviolet 12. Changing Allegiances 17. Hemorrhage What is the term for a person who moves to another What is the generally preferred first aid treatment for country for permanent residence? hemorrhage?

immigrant (alien) direct pressure 13. Equations 18. Theater If three-fifths of q equals ten, what is q? What kind of classical Greek theater consists of a stage area surrounded by a semicircle of tiered seats?

50/3 (or 16.66 or 16 2/3) amphitheater 14. Award Recipients 19. Novels In 1907, what woman otherwise known as the Lady of What name is missing in this biblical verse from which the Lamp became the first woman ever to receive the Katherine Paterson entitled one of her novels? Order of Merit for reforming the British army's Jacob have I loved, but ---- have I hated. facilities for the wounded during the Crimean War and for her work in developing the nursing profession?

Florence Nightingale Esau 15. Clouds 20. Predicate Nominatives What kind of electrical charge is at the top of a What is the predicate nominative in this line? cumulonimbus cloud? Water skiers and surf boarders are delightful entrees for a white shark.

positive entrees 8th Grade Orals Round 13 Second Half Page 3 21. Simple Machines 26. Equestrian Trilogies What simple machine could be defined as a tilted What is the title of the first book in the trilogy by surface? Mary O'Hara that also includes these novels? Thunderhead Green Grass of Wyoming

inclined plane My Friend Flicka 22. Colonial Geography 27. Modifiers Which of the original thirteen colonies was directly What two degrees of comparison are illustrated in this north of Maryland? line? All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.

Pennsylvania positive, comparative 23. Music 28. Melodrama What is the name for sentimental compositions written What is the role of the character in a melodrama who as though intended to be sung out of doors at night speaks these lines? under a lady's window? Either you will pay the rent right now or your daughter will be sent to an orphanage and you will be sold to white slavers in Morocco.

serenades villain 24. Lines 29. Rub a Dub Dub Name the straight lines which join the two opposite Rubbing a plastic rod against fur gives the rod a vertices in any given quadrilateral. negative charge by causing it to gain what?

diagonal electrons 25. Myths 30. Australian History Which mythic tradition includes a goddess who The Australian gold rush of 1851 led to the chooses among the slain, a god who calms both fire Australians being given what nickname? and the sea, and a hammer-wielding god who protects mankind?

Scandinavian (Norse) myths diggers 8th Grade Orals Round 13 Second Half Page 4 31. Reform Poetry 36. Transportation Milestones This verse by Sarah Cleghorn, written in the early 20th What waterway built between 1817 and 1832 provided century, is about what practice since abolished by a navigable route from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great legislation? Lakes? The golf links lie so near the mill That almost every day The laboring children can look out And see the men at play.

child labor Erie Canal 32. Waste Products 37. American Government What kind of waste consists of blood-soaked Name the fundamental principle of American bandages, discarded surgical gloves, used syringes, government according to which each branch of and removed body tissue and organs? government has some measure of influence over the others.

medical waste checks and balances (separation of powers) 33. Climates 38. Diving Downers The three major biomes found in the tropical climate Bends, a painful condition sometimes experienced by zone include the tropical desert, the tropical savanna, deep sea divers, is caused by bubbles of what gas in and what other? the blood and tissues?

tropical rain forest nitrogen 34. Oceans 39. Electrical Service The maximum depth of which of the four great If a blackout is a total power failure, what is a oceans is the shallowest? temporary reduction in voltage?

Arctic Ocean brownout 35. Novels 40. Paleozoology "The House of Sixty Fathers" is about a little boy of These were predecessors of what modern mammal? what nationality separated from his parents during the Australopithecus Japanese occupation of his homeland during World Ramapithecus War II? Homo erectus

Chinese man (Homo sapiens) 8th Grade Orals Round 13 Second Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Cells In many animals, what kind of cells are supported and nourished by neuroglia?

neurons (nerves) Alt. 2. Senate Procedures If there were 44 nay votes in the U.S. Senate on some issue and the vice president had to cast a vote, how many yea votes were there?

44 Alt. 3. Architecture What architectural structure is hemispherical?

dome Alt. 4. Trees What tree commonly raised in the Mediterranean region is a major source of oil?

olive tree Alt. 5. Petrology What general classification of rock overlays metamorphic rock?

sedimentary rock 8th Grade Orals Round 14 First Half Page 1 1. Battle Cries 6. Deserts American colonists said "No taxation without The Arabian Desert is on what peninsula? representation," which meant that colonists had no representation in what legislative body?

Parliament Arabian Peninsula 2. Natural Phenomena 7. International Power Stratiform and cumuliform are two categories of what What is the term for the process of European natural phenomena? settlement and political control exercised from the 16th to the 20th centuries over regions in the Americas, Australia, Africa, and Asia?

clouds colonialism (imperialism) 3. Word Combos 8. Immigrants What compound word appears in the first line of What group of immigrants suffered extreme hardships Edgar Allan Poe's, "The Raven"? near Truckee Lake in the winter of 1846-47 on their way to California?

midnight Donner Party 4. Mathematical Abbreviations 9. Fiber Optics What is the abbreviation for the smallest positive An optical fiber is a flexible strand thinner than a integer into which two or more integers divide evenly? human hair. It is made from a type of what material?

LCM glass 5. Amendments 10. Mediterranean Islands What word should have been used in this statement of In what cardinal direction is Cyprus from Crete? the Eighth Amendment? Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cool and unusual punishments inflicted.

cruel east 8th Grade Orals Round 14 First Half Page 2 11. Allusions 16. Pirate Puns The name of what character said to have spent three What synonym for pirate completes this joke? days in a great fish is missing from this example of In between voyages, a pirate sold corn. literary allusion? When asked how much it cost, he said a ... As the cave's roof collapsed, he was swallowed up in the dust like ----, and only his frantic scrabbling behind a wall of rock indicated that there was anyone still alive.

Jonah buccaneer 12. Music 17. Angles With what type of music is John Philip Sousa mostly What is the supplement of an 88-degree angle? associated?

marches 92 degrees 13. Official Get-togethers 18. Matter Direct personal negotiations between the heads of A substance at a temperature below its melting point is governments are what kind of meetings? in what state?

summit meetings solid 14. Inverses 19. C.S. Lewis Express as a common fraction the multiplicative "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" is one of "The inverse of 4 2/3. Chronicles of Narnia". It concerns what prince who shares a name with a saline lake fed by the Volga River?

3/14 Prince Caspian 15. Fundamental Forces 20. Exponents Gravity always acts in attraction, drawing two masses What is the cube of the quantity 3 squared? together. On the other hand, an electric field can result in either attraction or what else?

repulsion 729 8th Grade Orals Round 14 First Half Page 3 21. Procedures for the Public Good 26. Property What is the purpose of these processes? What is the name for an individual's declaration of ultrafiltration, carbon treatment, reverse how he wants his property disposed of after his death? osmosis, UV radiation, filtration, deionization, disinfection, chlorination, distillation, and electro-dialysis

water purification will (or last will and testament) 22. The Snow Line 27. Minerals The snow line progressively becomes lower as what What is the color of anthracite? geographical lines become higher?

latitude black 23. Tidal Ranges 28. Phonics Low tide at Kotzebue one day was -0.9 feet. High tide What two adjectives are used by phoneticians to the same day was 14.2 feet. What was the tidal range? indicate the degree of duration of a vowel sound?

15.1 feet long, short 24. Food Processing 29. France What is the collective name for natural or synthetic Immediately west of France and north of Spain is what ingredients added to food products to retard spoilage? huge bay?

preservatives Bay of Biscay 25. Adverbs 30. Horses What are the two possible superlative forms of the The walk, trot, canter, and gallop are varieties of the adverb "safely"? rhythmic movement of a horse's feet and legs called its what?

most safely, least safely gait 8th Grade Orals Round 14 First Half Page 4 31. Telegraphy 36. The American Revolution The first successful telegraph in the U.S. was invented Matthew Johnson was an American colonist who by whom? supported British rule in America during the Revolution. His sentiments were with what political party?

Samuel Morse Tory (Loyalist) 32. Forest Ecology 37. Bad Situations Soon after a forest fire, fast-growing shade-intolerant Mel was hunting at timberline when he got caught in a pioneer species appear. These are eventually replaced downpour without his slicker. The temperature with shade-tolerant species that can grown beneath the dropped and the wind picked up. Now, two hours pioneers. Eventually a climax community will later, he is still trying to get back to camp, but he is develop. Name this process. drowsy, weak, dizzy, numb, and shivering. These are symptoms of what condition?

succession hypothermia 33. European Tourism 38. Poetic Geography You must cross what country to get from Poland to This is about a fort in what state? the Netherlands? As yet, behind their ramparts, stern and proud, Her bolted thunders sleep, Dark Sumter, like a battlemented cloud, Looms over the solemn deep.

Germany South Carolina 34. The Mideast 39. Elephants With what two letters do all the names of the The young of elephants are called what? easternmost countries in the Middle East end?

an calves 35. Algebraic Division 40. Medical Precautions Divide (y cubed + y squared) by y. Before giving a patient a shot, a physician will use alcohol to clean the patient's skin. Alcohol is used because it kills bacteria and is therefore classified as what?

y squared + y an antiseptic 8th Grade Orals Round 14 First Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Age Vocabulary What is the minimum total age of three octogenarians?

240 years Alt. 2. Simplifying Simplify 1 + (1 / 1+1).

3/2 Alt. 3. European Periods What phrase refers to the history of Europe between the fall of Rome and the Renaissance?

Middle Ages (Dark Ages, Medieval period) Alt. 4. Fungi What is a colloquial term for a poisonous mushroom?

toadstool Alt. 5. Inflammations Laryngitis is the inflammation of what organ?

larynx 8th Grade Orals Round 14 Second Half Page 1 1. Displacement 6. Weathering When you place a two-cubic-foot block of concrete in Repeated freezing and thawing is central to the a barrel full of water, what volume of water will spill mechanical weathering and breakup of rock known as out of the barrel? what kind of action?

two cubic feet frost action 2. Novels 7. Allegations This is about what American novel? During an indictment, what plea is usually given by A great coon dog and his master are wounded someone wrongfully accused? and doomed to a shared and terrible destiny. This is a classic tale about a young boy who must struggle with poverty and the trappings of sharecropper life.

Sounder not guilty 3. Journalism 8. Lenses A newspaper prints an article about why the staff is What lens shape is exactly the opposite of a supporting certain candidates in an upcoming double-concave lens? election. Name this kind of piece.

editorial double-convex lens 4. Musical Instruments 9. Legal Documents Musically speaking, what kind of "phones" are What is the name for a document with a form bullroarers, harmonicas, sirens, didgeridoos, trumpets, resembling this? French horns, oboes, and clarinets? This court orders the sheriff to locate the named person, wherever he may be found, and to deliver that said person to the custody of this court.

aerophones warrant (arrest warrant, delivery warrant) 5. Change of State 10. Discoveries When sufficient heat is removed from gases, a change In 1505, Portuguese explorers discovered what island of state occurs. Name this change. off the southeast coast of India?

condensation Ceylon (Sri Lanka) 8th Grade Orals Round 14 Second Half Page 2 11. Chinese Proverbs 16. Statues What word completes this ancient advice? Which of the wonders of the ancient world was Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. sculpted around 462 B.C. and depicts the king of the Teach him how to catch fish, and you feed him Greek gods sitting on a throne? for a ...

lifetime Statue of Zeus 12. Anatomy 17. Early Administrations Organs are composed of different types of tissues and Who was George Washington's secretary of the may be organized into larger groupings called what? treasury?

systems Alexander Hamilton 13. Colorful Careers 18. Meteorological Maps Before moving to Texas and ending up at the Alamo, An isotherm running through Boston, Massachusetts, Davy Crockett had been a member of Congress Schenectady, New York, and Battle Creek, Michigan, representing what state? indicates that what is the same in these cities?

Tennessee temperature (air temperature) 14. Stories 19. Deserts This is a curt summary of what story by Robert The Chihuahuan Desert is in what two countries? Cormier? When Archie Costello can't force Jerry Renault to sell chocolates for the school fundraiser, an intense psychological conflict begins.

The Chocolate War Mexico, USA 15. Architecture 20. Faults What are Chinese temple towers called? The San Andreas Fault marks the boundary between two huge, rigid slabs of rock called what?

pagodas plates 8th Grade Orals Round 14 Second Half Page 3 21. Government Agencies 26. Square Root Estimation Name the U.S. federal police force that is the principal The square root of 39 is between what two integers? investigative arm of the United States Department of Justice.

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) 6 and 7 22. Suffrage 27. Infections Universal suffrage does not actually apply to all What are the two major agents of infection? citizens of a region. For example, felons in prisons have no vote. What is the most common factor used to deny certain large categories of citizens the right to vote?

age bacteria, viruses 23. Roots 28. Scientific Fields If you examine the root of a young plant under a Astronomy and geology are two of the four fields that microscope, you would see that the root seems to be comprise the earth sciences. Name the others. fuzzy. This fuzziness is caused by fine threadlike growths called what?

root hairs oceanography, meteorology 24. History of Physics 29. Verb Forms Name either scientist who discovered radium. What is the present participle of "forget"?

Pierre, Marie Curie forgetting 25. European Sailing 30. Tiny Parts A ship sailing from Lisbon to any Mediterranean port What structures may be less than 1000th of an inch in would have to go through what strait? diameter and consist of cytoplasm surrounding a nucleus?

Strait of Gibraltar cells 8th Grade Orals Round 14 Second Half Page 4 31. Aircraft 36. Homophones Biplanes played their most significant role in which Spell the synonym for a bucket that is a homophone war? for a complexion otherwise described as pallid.

World War I pail 32. Mixtures 37. National Symbols What kind of mixture can be dilute, concentrated, or What European country is symbolized by a windmill? saturated?

a solution Netherlands (Holland) 33. Spanish Christmas Tunes 38. Soil What is the English title of the Spanish Christmas When plants die, their leaves, stems, and roots mix into carol, Noche de Paz? the soil and decay. Name this decaying plant material in soil.

Silent Night humus 34. Hydrology 39. Parapsychology As the amount of plant cover in a specific area What is the meaning of the abbreviation, ESP? increases, what happens to the amount of rainfall that seeps into the ground?

It increases. extra sensory perception 35. Cartography 40. The Senate What is the abbreviation for the primary civilian A U.S. senator who has just completed his fifth term mapping agency in the United States? in office has held that position for how many years?

USGS 30 years 8th Grade Orals Round 14 Second Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Population Explosions The population of what Pacific coast city soared from 1000 in 1848 to over 20,000 by 1850 thanks to a discovery by James Marshall?

San Francisco Alt. 2. Plurals What is the plural of "salmon"?

salmon Alt. 3. Special Rooms This is from what Ray Bradbury story? The nursery was silent. The walls were blank and two dimensional. Now, as George and Lydia Hadley stood in the center of the room, the walls began to purr and recede, and presently an African veldt appeared, in three dimensions, on all sides, in color reproduced to the final pebble and bit of straw.

The Veldt Alt. 4. Liquids Any liquid that dissolves another substance to form a solution is called a ...

solvent Alt. 5. Scientific Instruments A rotating triple objective may be on what scientific instrument?

microscope 8th Grade Orals Round 15 First Half Page 1 1. Historical Titles 6. Motion What title have these people held at one time or Speed means a rate of travel over distance and velocity another? is a measure of speed in a certain direction. What George Grenville term indicates a change in velocity? William Pitt David Lloyd George Neville Chamberlain Winston Churchill

prime minister acceleration 2. River History 7. Art Who took an irrevocable step when he led his army One form of the plastic arts is pottery. What is across the Rubicon River? another form associated with artists such as Auguste Rodin and Michelangelo?

Julius Caesar sculpture 3. Metals 8. Plant Organs If you bend a wire again and again at the same point, What is the name for a modified leaf or stem that is a eventually it breaks because of the repeated stress, a long, threadlike organ that reaches out from a plant phenomenon called metal what? and wraps around any solid object it touches?

fatigue tendril 4. Mammals 9. Beliefs Name the small, burrowing, herbivorous, very These are classified as what kind of beliefs? short-tailed rodents that live in tundra biomes. -An acorn at the window keeps lightning out. -Amber beads worn as a necklace keep you from getting colds.

lemmings superstitions 5. War Years 10. Horrified Quotes How many years elapsed between the beginning of the To whom does the pronoun in this quote refer? War of 1812 and the U.S. entry into World War II? Mrs. Lincoln, with ashy cheeks and lips, with involuntary cry, pointed to the retreating figure and said, "He has killed the president!"

129 (or 130) John Wilkes Booth 8th Grade Orals Round 15 First Half Page 2 11. Cells 16. Renaissance Scientists What blood cells are disc-shaped with a depression in Leonardo da Vinci's aerial screw was a predecessor of the center, nonnucleated, and manufactured in bone what modern vehicle? marrow?

erythrocytes (red blood cells) helicopter 12. Populations 17. Circles What two Asian countries have the highest If the radius of a circle is 12, how long is a chord with populations? endpoints that are the same as the endpoints of a 180-degree arc on that circle?

China, India 24 13. Revolutionary Leaders 18. Verbs Who was nineteen, French, and the youngest major What are the principal parts of "speak"? general in the American Revolution?

Lafayette speak, spoke, spoken 14. Ancient History 19. The Ear Severe military training is associated with what ancient What adjective describes the canals in the inner ear Greek city-state? associated with balance?

Sparta semicircular 15. Law 20. Insects In the U.S., a person's closest living blood relative is What name did the media give to Africanized honey called the next of what? bees?

kin killer bees 8th Grade Orals Round 15 First Half Page 3 21. State Founders 26. Venetians William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, was a What citizen of Venice, who obtained letters-patent member of the Society of what? from Henry VII of England for a voyage of discovery, crossed the Atlantic in 1497 and found the North American mainland?

Friends John Cabot 22. English Novels 27. Impeachment Anna Sewell's only published work tells the life story The impeachment process was undertaken against of what kind of quadruped? Andrew Johnson in 1868 and what other president 130 years later?

horse Bill Clinton 23. Plate Geography 28. Legal Documents What is the geographically largest country on the What document filed with the state or county health North American plate? department lists a mother and father and contains the place, date, and time of a child's entry into the world?

Canada birth certificate 24. Rental Property 29. The Four Cs of Diamonds In 2013, what federal agency posted a "For Lease" The value of a diamond is determined by the four C's, sign on one of its space shuttle launch pads? which include its cut, clarity, carats, and what else?

NASA color 25. Snake Ratios 30. Creative Writing A boa constrictor 28 feet long is divided into two parts What figure of speech did Sandburg use in these in the ratio of 3 to 1 by means of a sharp machete. lines? What is the length of the shorter segment? ... of a mountain railroad curve where the engineer in his cab can touch the caboose and spit in the conductor's eye

7 feet hyperbole 8th Grade Orals Round 15 First Half Page 4 31. Algebraic Multiplication 36. Dogs Multiply the quantity (z-7) by x. What dogs are named after a state in Mexico?

xz - 7x Chihuahuas 32. Federal Agencies 37. Stellar Brightness What U.S. agency developed its reputation by The three factors determine the apparent brightness of pursuing racketeers, kidnappers, and bank robbers? a star as seen from Earth include how big it is, how hot it is, and what else?

FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) how far away it is 33. Lincoln Logic 38. Adventure Novels What, according to Abraham Lincoln, can you do to Name the story by Armstrong Sperry about a boy all of the people some of the time and some of the from a Pacific Island who ventures out in a canoe with people all of the time, but not to all of the people all a dog and an albatross, gets caught in a storm, and of the time? lands on a desert island where he has to deal with a shark, a wild boar, and cannibals before returning home.

fool them Call It Courage 34. Rhyme 39. Ocean Currents Using letters of the alphabet, what is the rhyme What is the primary driving force of ocean surface scheme in this verse? currents? The king sits in Dumferling town, Drinking the blood-red wine. "Oh where will I get good sailors, To sail this ship of mine?"

abcb wind 35. Engines 40. Percentage Problems in History A heat engine converts thermal energy to what other In 1850, there were only about 1000 fugitives out of a kind of energy? total of 3 million slaves. About what percentage of slaves were fugitives?

mechanical .03% 8th Grade Orals Round 15 First Half Page 5 Alt. 1. Historical Figures Steve Biko, Paul Kruger, Pieter Botha, Andries Pretorius, and Nelson Mandela played significant roles in the history of what country?

South Africa Alt. 2. Conflict Concepts Troops defending a position in the face of overwhelming odds is called a last what?

stand Alt. 3. Sentences What is the simple predicate in this sentence? The primitive people in the island village affected by the radiation were listening to a report by the federal investigators.

were listening Alt. 4. Figurative Language in History What onomatopoeia is associated with the form of transportation celebrated at the Golden Spike Historical Site in Utah?

choo-choo Alt. 5. Glaciers Striations and scratches made in bedrock when a glacier passed over are made not by the ice itself but what that is embedded in the ice?

rocks (boulders, stones, etc.) 8th Grade Orals Round 15 Second Half Page 1 1. Cubes 6. Science Fiction Sequels What is the cube of .3? These are sequels to what science fiction story? Speaker for the Dead Xenocide Children of the Mind Ender in Exile

.027 Ender's Game 2. Converses 7. Clauses If a polygon is a triangle, then it has exactly three What is the adverbial clause in this line? vertices. If a polygon has exactly three vertices, then The young woman had no money because it is what? she had lost her inheritance.

a triangle because she had lost her inheritance 3. Sterilization 8. Coordinate Geometry What kind of light that has the ability to destroy If the area of a triangle is 6 units, and two of its certain types of bacteria is used for sterilizing coordinates are (1,1) and (5,1), what are the foodstuffs and medical equipment? coordinates for its apex?

ultraviolet light (1,4) 4. Geometric Formulas 9. Separation of Powers The formula, p = 8s, calculates the perimeter of what The U.S. vice president has official roles in which two equilateral polygon? branches of government?

octagon executive, legislative 5. Explorers 10. The Revolution He visited Venezuela in 1498 and Honduras in 1502. What Boston merchant and president of the Second Who landed on Dominica in 1493 and landed on San Continental Congress was the first to sign the Salvador in 1492? Declaration of Independence?

Christopher Columbus John Hancock 8th Grade Orals Round 15 Second Half Page 2 11. Relationships 16. Organ Transplants Levi is Sarah's brother. Naomi is Levi's sister. How is The recipient in an organ transplant gets the new Naomi related to Sarah? organ from another person. What is the term for the person providing the organ?

She is Sarah's sister. donor 12. Absolute Value Equations 17. Ancient Rome What are the two solutions if the absolute value of x+1 Who was the twin brother of Romulus? is 2?

1 or -3 Remus 13. Not So Creative Writing 18. Compasses One of the worst nightmares for an author is to be How many points are on a compass that breaks down accused of stealing ideas and language from someone directions to this level of specificity? else and passing them off as original. Name this north, north by northeast, northeast offensive practice.

plagiarism 16 14. Rotations 19. Timely Novels A circle rotated about its diameter produces what This is a line from what novel? solid? Speaking of ways, pet, there is such a thing as a tesseract.

sphere A Wrinkle in Time 15. Gulfs 20. The Geographic Grid What nation lies immediately north of the Gulf of What continent is at the intersection of 90 degrees east Panama? and 45 degrees north?

Panama Asia 8th Grade Orals Round 15 Second Half Page 3 21. Gear Trains 26. Constitutional Compromise In a three-gear system, where gear 1 drives gear 2 The Three-Fifths Compromise between the northern which drives gear 3, if gear 1 rotates in a clockwise and southern states stipulated that a slave would be direction, in what direction does gear 3 rotate? counted as three-fifths of a person for purposes of representation and what else?

clockwise taxation 22. Historical Homophones 27. Military Tactics Spell the name of the South American ruminant that What kind of German vessels adopted wolf pack sounds just like the title of a Buddhist monk. tactics in World War II?

llama submarines (U-boats) 23. Land Forms 28. Amendments What name derived from a French word meaning Ivan O'Toole is the defendant accused of arson in a "meadow" indicates a broad grassy plain in temperate trial. According to the Fifth Amendment, he could regions? not be compelled to be a witness against whom?

prairie Ivan O'Toole (himself) 24. Ancient Men for All Seasons 29. Boundaries What philosopher and prolific writer on subjects The northern border of Maine was established in 1842 including physics, metaphysics, poetry, drama, music, in a treaty between the U.S. and what country? logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology was a student of Plato and the teacher of Alexander the Great?

Aristotle Great Britain 25. Art Materials 30. Metals The name for what art material made from shreds of Around 2500 B.C., Middle East artisans produced paper mixed with glue is what French phrase that what new metal much harder than bronze used for the literally means "chewed-paper"? previous 900 years, but requiring much higher temperatures for smelting?

papier mache iron 8th Grade Orals Round 15 Second Half Page 4 31. Lighthouses 36. Monomial Addition These are lighthouses in what state? What is the sum of -2xt and -6xt? Buzzards Bay Marblehead Plymouth Cape Cod

Massachusetts -8xt 32. Homonyms 37. Astronomy What term can mean either a type of insect with long Extragalactic indicates a region outside what galaxy? antennae and legs suited for leaping or a game played with bats, balls, and wickets?

cricket Milky Way 33. Ambivalence 38. Theodore Roosevelt During the American Civil War, despite their strong What is the seventh word in Theodore Roosevelt's antislavery leanings, both Britain and France had need famous foreign policy? for what fibrous agricultural product of the South?

cotton stick 34. Wordplay 39. Parts of Speech What form of wordplay is illustrated in this? These words are what part of speech? Did you hear about the optometrist about, above, after, against, along, amidst who fell into a lens grinder and made a spectacle of himself?

pun preposition 35. Stories 40. Ancient History Sheila Burnford's story, "The Incredible Journey," What word completes this passage? describes the trek of an old bull terrier, a young Trade follows the highways, and a glance at the Labrador retriever, and what kind of cat? map will make it quite clear that the highway in Egypt lies along the narrow thread of the ...

Siamese cat Nile 8th Grade Orals Round 15 Second Half Page 5 Alt. 1. References This entry is from what kind of reference? -oat- tote, vote, denote, devote, sloat, scote, connote, denote, capote, bedote, bequote

rhyming (poet's) dictionary Alt. 2. Burning What kind of combustion may occur in hay stacks as a result of a self-generated reaction between the oxidant and the fuel?

spontaneous combustion Alt. 3. Typos What word was actually intended in this actual church bulletin? Hear an excellent speaker and heave a healthy lunch.

have Alt. 4. Treaties The Treaty of Paris that ended the Seven Years' War recognized what river as the boundary between the British colonies and the Louisiana Territory that France had ceded to Spain?

Mississippi River Alt. 5. Binary Time Express as a binary numeral the number of years in two decades.

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