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English
1. Easy Round
a. The secretary studied interesting literature about different vegetables in the evening.
How many syllables are there in the sentence?
b. The wind blew down the trees. Convert the sentence into passive voice. The trees
were blown down by the wind.
2. Medium Round
a. A teacher tells a lazy student, “Your performance in midterm is not bad at all, but a
little more attention to your studies won’t hurt you.” What figure of speech was used
in the given statement? Litotes
b. Suki, ikaw bili tinda, mural lang. Anong barayti ng wika ang nagamit rito? Pidgin
3. Difficult Round
a. Pinadalhan niya ng mga bulaklak ang kasintahan. Anong pokus ng pandiwa ang
nagamit? Pokus sa direksyon
b. Give the proper order of adjectives: polka-dotted, three, new, Mary’s, nice, bowties,
squirting, big. Mary’s three nice big new pola-dotted squiriting bowties
4. Jeopardy Round
a. I’m positive that my work will meet your requirements. I really need the job since my
grandmother is sick. What fallacy is present in the given argument? Appeal to Pity
b.
B. Mathematics
1. Easy Round
a. How many three-digit odd numbers can be formed using the digits 1, 2, 4, and 6 if
repetition of digits is not allowed?
b. The age of an ancient artifact can be determined by the amount of radioactive
carbon-14 remaining in it. If D0 is the original amount of carbon-14 and D is the
amount remaining, then the artifact’s age A (in years) is given by

Find the age of an object if the amount D of carbon-14 that remains in the object is
73% of the original amount D0.
2. Medium Round
a. At a certain vineyard it is found that each grape vine produces about 10 pounds of
grapes in a season when about 700 vines are planted per acre. For each additional
vine that is planted, the production of each vine decreases by about 1 percent. So the
number of pounds of grapes produced per acre is
modeled by where n is the number of additional vines planted. Find the number of
vines that should be planted to maximize grape production.
b. How many revolutions will a car wheel of diameter 30 in. make as the car travels a
distance of one mile?
3. Difficult Round
a. The bell tower of the cathedral in Pisa, Italy, leans 5.60 from the vertical. A tourist
stands 105 m from its base, with the tower leaning directly toward her. She measures
the angle of elevation to the top of the tower to be 29.20. Find the length of the tower
to the nearest meter.
b. A five-person committee consisting of students and teachers is being formed to study
the issue of student parking privileges. Of those who have expressed an interest in
serving on the committee, 12 are teachers and 14 are students. In how many ways
 can the committee be formed if at least one student and one teacher must be
included?
4. Jeopardy Round
a. A gas station sells three types of gas: Regular for $3.00 a gallon, Performance Plus for
$3.20 a gallon, and Premium for $3.30 a gallon. On a particular day, 6500 gallons of
gas were sold for a total of $20,050. Three times as many gallons of Regular as
Premium gas were sold. How many gallons of each type of gas were sold that day?
b. An architect designs a theater with 15 seats in the first row, 18 in the second, 21 in
the third, and so on. If the theater is to have a seating capacity of 870, how many
rows must the architect use in his design?
c. A grain silo consists of a cylindrical main section and a hemispherical
roof. If the total volume of the silo (including the part inside the roof
section) is 15,000 ft3 and the cylindrical part is 30 ft tall, what is the
radius of the silo, rounded to the nearest tenth of a foot?
d. Mike buys a ring for his fiancee by paying $30 a month for one year. If the interest
rate is 10% per year, compounded monthly, what is the price of the ring?
e. To estimate the height of a mountain above a level plain, the angle of elevation to
the top of the mountain is measured to be 320. One thousand feet closer to the
mountain along the plain, it is found that the angle of elevation is 350. Estimate the
height of the mountain.
f. A student has locked her locker with a combination lock, showing numbers from 1 to
40, but she has forgotten the three-number combination that opens the lock. To open
the lock, she decides to try all possible combinations. If she can try ten different
combinations every minute, what is the probability that she will open the lock within
one hour?
C. Science
1. Easy Round
a. In flower anatomy, the stamen consists of a supporting filament and what structure
that produces pollen? Anther
b. When a star runs out of fuel in its core and fusion ends, it collapses into what color
dwarf star? White
2. Average Round
a. When a police siren moves toward you, the pitch is higher than it is when the siren is
moving away. This is described by what effect named for an Austrian physicist? The
Doppler Effect
b. The most accurate atomic clocks available today use atoms of what chemical element
found in 1A? Cesium
3. Difficult Round
a. You throw a small rock straight up from the edge of a highway bridge that crosses a
river. The rock passes you on its way down, 6.00 s after it was thrown. What is the
speed of the rock just before it reaches the water 28.0 m below the point where the
rock left your hand? Ignore air resistance.
b. Two experiments were performed in which sulfur was burned completely in pure
oxygen gas, producing sulfur dioxide and leaving some unreacted oxygen. In the first
experiment, burning 0.312 g of sulfur produced 0.623 g of sulfur dioxide. In the second
experiment, 1.505 g of sulfur was burned. What mass of sulfur dioxide was produced?
4. Jeopardy Round
 a. An irregularly shaped cornea can result in what common eye disorder that begins
with the letter A? astigmatism
b. Because its crystals maintain a precise frequency standard, what mineral is commonly
used in watches and clocks to keep accurate time? Quartz
c. Atoms of two elements, one above the other in the same group, are in the ground
state. An atom of element Q has two s electrons in its outer shell and no d electrons.
An atom of element R has d electrons in its configuration. Identify elements Q and R.
d. In the fall of 2002, scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory determined that the
critical mass of neptunium-237 is about 60 kg. The critical mass of a fissionable
material is the minimum amount that must be brought together to start a nuclear
chain reaction. Neptunium-237 has a density of 19.5 g/cm3. What would be the radius
of a sphere of this material that has a critical mass?
e. Show the proper hierarchy of biological classification’s 8 taxonomic ranks
f.
D. History
1. Easy Round
a. This war X is known as the “great patriotic war” in Russia and several other soviet
republics as this war was fought on home turf and was primarily in defence of one’s
own country. What war? World War 2
b.
2. Average Round
3. Difficult Round
4. Jeopardy Round
a. This revolution began in Great Britain, and spread to Western Europe and North
America within a few decades. Economic historians are in agreement that the onset
of the this revolution is the most important event in the history of humanity since the
domestication of animals, plants and fire. The earliest recorded use of this term seems
to have been in a letter of 6 July 1799 written by French envoy Louis-Guillaume Otto,
announcing that France had entered the race to Xise. What revolution is this?
Industrial Revolution
b. From which port of England, Titanic started its journey? Southampton
E. General Information
1. Easy Round
a. When he couldn’t get his comic strip series syndicated in a newspaper, who came up
with the idea for Diary of a Wimpy Kid? Jeff Kinney
b. In February 2013, who shocked the world by becoming the first pope since 1415 to
resign from office? Pope Benedict
2. Average Round
a. In Greek mythology, what Titan gives human the gift of fire? Prometheus
b. Released by Apple in the early 1980s and named after a daughter of Steve Jobs, what
was the first affordable personal computer to offer a graphical user interface? The
Lisa
3. Difficult Round
a.
4. Jeopardy Round
a. In Jonathan Swift’s satire Gulliver’s Travels, Gulliver travels to what land where all the
residents are under six inches tall? Liliput
b. Few of us know that anyone can use the this. Every year, Johns Hopkins University’s
Space Telescope Science Institute issues an open call for proposals to conduct
observations using this. While there are no restrictions on who can apply, the
competition is extremely tough. Hundreds of eager applicants come forward each
year, and following a review by a panel of experts, only around one-fifth of them
actually receive time with this. What is being referred here? Hubble Telescope