Guam High School Tournament March 7 Tournament Matches 1 & 2 Round 1

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Guam High School Tournament March 7 Tournament Matches 1 & 2 Round 1
Match 1
Questions
1 Q: Proven Not True - “Be it known unto all men, June 17, 1579, in the name of her
majesty Queen Elizabeth, forever I take possession of this kingdom now named by
me and to be known unto all men as Nova Albion.” In this 1970's, advanced
chemical analysis at MIT proved this plaque a fake, but what explorer is said to
have left this inscription on it?
A: (Sir Frances) Drake

2 Q: Guidance - What is the name given to any entity that guides newly deceased
souls to the afterlife?
A: psychpomp
3 Q: Shakespeare - A weaver, and the leader of the blundering tradesmen players
who performed the tragedy of Pyramis and Thisbe for Duke Theseus, gives us a
blustering, pompous, but lovable character in Shakespeare's MIDSUMMER
NIGHT'S DREAM. Who is he?
A: Nick Bottom
4 Q: Combining Math and Creative Writing - Michael Keith’s book, Not A Wake, uses
this concept as a literary constraint. Each word has a specific number of letters,
which in sequence approximate a specific number. What is this transcendental
number, associated with circles?
A: pi
5 Q: Universal Theory - Georges-Henri Lemaitre is called the father of what theory of
the origin of the universe?
A: Big Bang (Theory)

6 Q: Working Towards Green Energy - Wanting to switch to Green energies and
worried about safety, this European nation pledged in 2011 to shut down all
nuclear power plants by the end of 2021. Then it was 2022. The war in Ukraine,
however, has caused another delay according to Chancellor Olaf Scholz of which
nation?
A: Germany
7 Q: Forgiveness - What word means a pardon or forgiveness granted by a
government?
A: Amnesty
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8 Q: Ubiquitous Tech - Both LEDs and LCDs are used in displaying numerals and
letters, but they differ in their internal workings. The first has a tiny chip of
semiconductor material that gives off a single color of light using electricity, and
the second has a pixel controlled by a transistor. Give what either LED or LCD
stand for.
A: Light-emitting diode or liquid crystal display

9 Q: $$$ - Who was the ninth ruler of the Mali Empire and has sometimes been
called the wealthiest person in history?
A: Mansa Musa
10 Q: Translation, Please - Translate into English Vincenzo Bellini's opera title La
Sonnambula.
A: The Sleepwalker
11 Q: Important Venetian - Name the Venetian painter of Bacchus and Ariadne, the
Pieta, and Venus of Urbino.
A: Titian
12 Q: Early SciFi - In the beginning of which ground-breaking Sci Fi film do peaceful
apes confront a black monolith, then turn deadly and carnivorous before evolving
into violent humans?
A: 2001: A Space Odyssey

13 Q: Canada - At 200 square miles, the Columbia Icefield is the largest ice cap in the
Rocky Mountains and is one of the most accessible expanses of glacial ice in
North America. Located largely within Jasper National Park, it straddles the border
between what two western Canadian provinces?
A: Alberta, British Columbia

14 Q: Successful, but Forced Out - This World War II general was so significant in
his role in defeating Nazi Germany, he was selected to represent the Soviet Army
at the signing of the surrender in Berlin. Who was the second Minister of Defence
for the Soviet Union that supported, but was forced to retire by Nikita Khrushchev
A: (Georgy) Zhukov
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15 Q: Elaborate Word - It’s a really big deal. What do we call an elaborate,
spectacular production, a 12-letter word starting with E?
A: Extravaganza
16 Q: Bright Star - The brightest star in the night sky is the Dog Star. What is the
actual name of that star?
A: Sirius
17 Q: Editing Tool - This tool finds the code, cuts it, then inserts the new
programming. Using this tool, you can manipulate DNA to edit genes. What gene
editing tool sounds like it could be found in a refrigerator?
A: CRISPR
18 Q: Vocabulary - “Brutal, unjust, or cruel exercise of authority or power, such as the
tyrannical actions taken by a government to control its populace.” I have just
defined what ten-letter word starting with o?
A: Oppression
19 Q: Plot Twist - A basilisk was sometimes known as a cockatrice because it would
cry if it heard a cock crow. Harry Potter didn't know that, and didn't take along a
rooster into the Chamber of Secrets. Harry was saved from the gaze of the
basilisk, not by a rooster, but by what mythological bird?
A: Phoenix
20 Q: Beta Testing - In 2022, Facebook is in a trial period of adding this type of
feature where users will be able to help moderate content that does not fit with the
spirit of the service. If you are not part of the trial, just head to Reddit, where you
can do this to show displeasure with a post.
A: Downvote (Not dislike)

21 Q: Achilles - To avenge the slaying of Patroclus, Achilles killed what Trojan rival?
A: Hector
22 Q: Trig Functions - What single trig function of theta is equal to plus-or-minus one
over the square root of quantity secant squared theta minus one, close quantity?
A: Cotangent Theta
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23 Q: Close Titles - H.G. Wells wrote of a mad scientist who was physically this - his
title uses "The" in front of the two descriptive words. Ralph Ellison wrote of a Black
man in Harlem who was this socially. What 2 word title is on his book that
describes both men?
A: Invisible Man
24 Q: October Madness - What major historical event occurred on October 28, 1929?
A: Wall Street OR U.S. OR Great (Stock Market) Crash

25 Q: Six Lost at Sea - This boat set out from Gloucester, Massachusetts in
September of 1991, but sank in the Perfect Storm never to be seen again. What
was the name of the boat whose story was told in both a book and movie?
A: The Andrea Gail

26 Q: A Career Choice - These professionals work to improve the conditions of those
in need. Some specialize in working with children in need, while others work in
nursing homes or hospice houses. Wherever they are, these workers look to the
overall welfare of people.
A: Social Workers
27 Q: Famous Writ - Article I, Section 9, of the U.S. Constitution, guarantees that it
“shall not be suspended unless, when in cases of rebellion or invasion, public
safety may require it.” Name this writ, designed to prevent unlawful imprisonment
that is a two-word Latin phrase.
A: Habeas corpus
28 Q: Europe - What Mediterranean nation is nine miles east of Nice, France?
A: Monaco
29 Q: Acquiring Minds Want to Know - Let’s do math. Nellie has 3 oranges on
Monday and 24 oranges on Thursday. What is the percentage rate of change if
Nellie’s orange acquisition is exponential?
A: 200%
30 Q: Very Useful - Give me the one-word palindrome for the technology that helps
track planes and boats lost in storms, locates lost vessels, tracks weather fronts,
and other uses including measuring the surface of the earth from space.
A: Radar
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31 Q: Travelling - Name the first nation you'd enter if you drove due south from
Vienna, Austria.
A: Hungary
32 Q: Applied Tech - These machines require filament in order to function. Material
used, resolution, and wireless capabilities all must be considered when selecting
one to use. The DaVinci Mini and FlashForge are which type of machine can
produce plastic figurines from a file?
A: 3D Printers
33 Q: What's Your Number - How many vertebral bones are there in the human
spine?
A: 24
34 Q: Multi-language Country - In Afrikaans, "goodbye" is tosien, and in Xhosa (the x
is a clicking sound) it's Sala kakuhle. In which country could you use either way?
A: South Africa
35 Q: Insurance - What kind of insurance do physicians carry in case they are sued
for negligent treatment of a patient?
A: Malpractice insurance
36 Q: Learned From Her Father - His first name was Bronson, and he was an
abolitionist and women's rights advocate - and the father of which author of "Little
Men" and "Jo's Boys" who learned from him that women could choose their lives?
A: (Louisa May) Alcott

37 Q: Real Place for This Name - In the 1950s, locales in the city of New York were
popular as names for automobiles, but there is no more Kaiser Manhattan, nor is
there Chrysler Fifth Avenue. Western names are now in for today's SUV's and
minivans. For example, Chevrolet has an SUV named for what lake shared by two
states?
A: Tahoe
38 Q: Full Speed Ahead - Displacement, Pressure, and Acceleration all have
magnitude and direction, so they fall into which two-word category?
A: Vector Quantities
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39 Q: Silver! - Ten years after the discovery of gold in California, the world's largest
silver deposit was found in the state of Nevada. Name it.
A: Comstock Lode
40 Q: Sad Accident - Pan American and KLM Boeing 747's collided on the runway in
1977 on what island group whose largest island is Tenerife?
A: Canary Islands
Match 2
Questions
1 Q: Activitist Life - This Black author and activist, who wrote Go Tell It On the
Mountain in 1953,had an FBI file containig 1,884 documents collected from 1960
to the early 1970's when he moved to Paris. Name him.
A: (James) Baldwin
2 Q: No Shame Here - What singer/rapper/flutist, born Melissa Viviane Jefferson,
uses her hip hop platform to combat body shaming?
A: Lizzo
3 Q: Poetry - “She's one of the two best states in the Union,” wrote Robert Frost.
“Vermont's the other.” Name the state and you've named the poem.
A: New Hampshire
4 Q: Acid Rain - What element, an impurity found in coal, directly contributes to acid
rain when the coal is burned?
A: Sulfur
5 Q: Author's Other Occupations - Mark Twain was once the pilot of what sort of
vessel?
A: Steamboat
6 Q: On the Tip of My Tongue - Once thought to be only four of these, the list has
grown to include Umami, Cold, and Hot - with neither of the latter two referring to
temperature. Some scientists believe that there may be dozens more. This is a list
of what?
A: Tastes
7 Q: Taking Sides in the Fight - In 2022, for the first time, Switzerland chose a side
in an outside conflict. Which nation did they choose to support?
A: Ukraine
8 Q: From Fort to City - What city grew from its early prominence as a fort and the
major stopover along the Chisholm Trail for cattle drives headed for Abilene,
Kansas, from south Texas?
A: Fort Worth
Match 2
Questions
9 Q: Understanding Abbreviations - Among those in tech, what is the meaning of the
letters Http?
A: Hyper Text Transfer Protocal

10 Q: State Holiday - President Bush declared September 11th Patriot Day. Which
state celebrates “Patriot’s Day,” marking the start of the American Revolution on
April 19,1775?
A: Massachusetts
11 Q: War Novels - The protagonist of what 1992 novel and 1996 film set in Italy at
the end of World War II is Hana, a Canadian nurse, who remains to take care of
an unknown soldier dying from horrible burns?
A: The English Patient

12 Q: On the Same Wavelength - This places radios next to microwaves. Green may
be in the center, but if so, that may be human bias. Name this chart that displays
not just the colors we can see, but also wave frequencies and wavelengths we
cannot. (2 words)
A: Electromagnetic Spectrum
13 Q: Area - Math: Calculate the area enclosed by the graphs of these four linear
equations: x =3 … x = 7 … y = 3x + 5 … y = – x + 2.
A: 92
14 Q: Organized to Save People - It was the only Nazi-occupied nation in World War
II that passed no anti-Jewish laws, and expropriated no Jewish property. Name
this monarchy, whose people ferried virtually their entire Jewish population to
safety in Sweden?
A: Denmark
15 Q: Unwanted Illness - In December of 2022, The World Health Organization
officially renamed the virus formerly known as monkeypox. What is it now called?
A: Mpox
16 Q: Seized Land - Secretary of State Blaine advised President Benjamin Harrison
that only three lands, all islands, were so valuable to the U.S. that they warranted
annexation. Of the three, Cuba escaped annexation. What other two islands, now
one a state and one a commonwealth, did Blaine recommend we annex?
A: Hawaii and Puerto Rico

Match 2
Questions
17 Q: Great Scot - Who is the author of An Inquiry Into the Nature and Courses of the
Wealth of Nations? He is known as the Father of Economics.
A: Adam Smith
18 Q: Close to the Neighbors - Like Australia and the U.S., Germany has most of its
major cities around the edges rather than in the center of the country. Munich is
closest to which neighboring country?
A: Austria
19 Q: Major European City - This city hosts the Riksdag, and the Prime Minister lives
in the Sager House, while the government seat is in the Rosenbad building. What
is this city, located on fourteen islands at the mouth of Lake Mälaren, the most
populous Nordic city?
A: Stockholm (Sweden)
20 Q: Name Change - His last name is usually a first name, and when he fled to
Virginia in 1773, he added a common last name so that he had three names. Who
was this famous captain of the Bonne Homme Richard?
A: John Paul Jones

21 Q: Connections - Just as in the real item of this type, when you break a linked
biological food one of these, the whole set falls apart. An example would be
spraying for mosquitos so that there are not enough left in an area so that the
purple martins die out without food, killing the owls that would eat them. What is
this simplified set of predator-pray relationships called?
A: (Food) Chain
22 Q: 1 of 6 - Consider the “Six Flags Over Texas.” Name the country whose flag
flew over Texas in 1810.
A: Spain
23 Q: It Stands for Something - In the equation, E=hf, the h stands for which
mathematical constant?
A: Planck's (Constant)
Match 2
Questions
24 Q: Now an Expression - “He has gotten into his car and driven away. Please take
your seats.” That was the second thing spoken by radio producer Horace Lee
Logan, after he became the first person to utter what famous catchphrase about
someone leaving on Dec. 15, 1956?
A: "Elvis has left the building."

25 Q: Harmony - Which early American polymath created the harmonium, a musical
instrument that uses a series of glass bowls, graduated in size, to produce musical
tones by means of friction?
A: (Benjamin) Franklin
26 Q: Arizona in Hawaii - According to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, what date, "....will
live in infamy."?
A: Dec. 7, 1941
27 Q: Named for a Scientist - A society named for an 18th century Swedish botanist
and zoologist gives out an annual award for scientists in evolutionary biology. It is
named for which scientist who pioneered the field of taxonomy?
A: (Carl) Linnaeus
28 Q: Numbers in Titles - John Ruskin wrote about a number of Lamps of
Architecture, Aeschylus about some men against Thebes, T. E. Lawrence about
Pillars of Wisdom. What number opens each of these titles?
A: Seven
29 Q: Right Behavior - What six-letter word starting with e means “Standards or
principles that guide people to do the moral or right thing”?
A: Ethics
30 Q: Nationality - Cleopatra was not Egyptian by birth, but what nationality?
A: Greek
31 Q: Waterlogged - If your tissues are swollen by water retention, what medical term
would a doctor use to describe it?
A: edema
Match 2
Questions
32 Q: A Different Comparison - An economic index uses this one odd product to
measure a country's dollar to the U.S. dollar. The Economist created this as a
parody to make fun of such comparisons, and used what McDonald's menu
signature item?
A: Big Mac
33 Q: Chemistry in Action - Which acid is the one most widely used in industrial
processes? It's the one with the formula of H2SO4.
A: Sulfuric Acid
34 Q: New Fuel Ideas - In 2022, Rolls Royce started testing engines that could run on
what environmentally-friendly gas?
A: Hydrogen
35 Q: Serious Conditions - The death or decay of body tissue due to injury or failure
of the blood supply is called what condition? It is not uncommon after severe
frostbite.
A: Gangrene
36 Q: Good Pets - Contrary to learned fears, arachnids are generally not aggressive,
including the tarantula who generally bites only food not people. As a matter of
fact, they can be held quite easily. What opposite word from aggressive is used for
animals that are calm in the presence of people.
A: Docile
37 Q: That's Deep - Mt. Everest could entirely fit inside which ocean trench?
A: The Marianas Trench

38 Q: Using Chemistry for Purpose - If you take coal, put it in an oven and heat it, but
don't burn it, you can drive out everything but the carbon, which is the main
component of coal. What product, very useful in the manufacture of steel, is left?
A: Coke
39 Q: Sensational! - What term is used in art to describe the way a surface looks or
feels, and can be used in cooking for how rough or smooth the food feels while
eating?
A: Texture
Match 2
Questions
40 Q: The Supremes - What is the name of the latest justice to be seated on the U.S.
Supreme Court? She is the first African-American to attain the honor.
A: (Ketanji) Brown-Jackson

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