MULTIWIZARD TOURNAMENT

MULTIWIZARD RULES

Each and every student is allowed to

participate
The Multiwizard Tournament consists of
tasks which will measure a students skills
and abilities
A student has only one chance to do a certain
task
Every successful task will garner 1 point
while every unsuccessful task will garner 0
points
The maximum point a student can have is 2
points
Any calculator, quill, or parchment are
TASK #1: ANSWER THE RIDDLE

I am pronounced as one
letter and written with
three;
Two letters there are and
two only in me;
Im double, Im single, Im
black, blue, or gray
ANS.

EYE
TASK #2: FIND THE LIMIT

What is the limit of

1 x
the expression (1 + )
x
as x approaches +?
ANS.

e
TASK # 3: SOLVE THE RIDDLE

This thing all things devours:

Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;
Gnaws iron, bites steel;
Grinds hard stones to meal;
Slays king, ruins town,
And beats high mountain down.

From movie, The Hobbit

ANS.

TIME
TASK # 4: SOLVE GOLLUMS RIDDLE

It cannot be seen, cannot

be felt,
Cannot be heard, cannot be
smelt,
It lies behind stars and
under hills;
And empty holes it fills,
From The Hobbit, Chapter 5:
It comes first and follows
Riddles in the Dark
ANS.

DARKNESS
TASK #5: BE AN ACCOUNTANT

What is the worth

of an invested
P1234.00 with
12.34% interest
rate using exact
ANS.

P1749
TASK # 6: ANSWER THE RIDDLE

What starts with

"e," ends with
"e," and contains
one letter?
ANS.

ENVELOPE
TASK # 7: MATHEMATICAL RIDDLE

In the castle of Thebes,

three cats can catch three
mice in three minutes.
How many cats are needed to
catch one hundred mice in
one hundred minutes?
ANS.

Three cats
TASK #8: IDENTIFY WHAT IS DESCRIBED

What do you call to a

quadric surface with
the general equation:
2 2
2 4 = 4
ANS.

Hyperbolic
Paraboloid
TASK # 9: ANSWER THE RIDDLE

Paul's height is six

feet, he's an assistant
at a butcher's shop,
and wears size 9 shoes.
What does he weigh?
ANS.

MEAT
TASK # 10: DO SOME PHYSICS

The velocity v is a function of

time t as:

= 3
Where is in seconds, and is
in meters/second
What is the total displacement
ANS.

150 meters
TASK #11: SOLVE THE MAZES SPHINXS
RIDDLE
First think of the person who lives in
disguise,
Who deals in secrets and tells naught
but lies.
Next, tell me what's always the last
thing to mend,
The middle of middle and end of the
end?
And finally give me the sound often
From Harry Potter and the Goblet
heard, of Fire, Chapter 31: The Third Task
ANS.

SPIDER
TASK # 12: ANSWER THE RIDDLE

I'm the part of the

bird that's not in
the sky. I can swim
in the ocean and yet
remain dry. What am
I?
ANS.

SHADOW