1. technology and computing
2. programming languages
3. java

SCHUYLKILL ACADEMIC LEAGUE 2011-12
JANUARY 2012
MATCH 1
1.
What is the westernmost country of continental Europe?
Ans. Portugal
2.
The Margaret Clapp Library at Wellesley College has all the love letters sent by which
pair of poets?
Ans. Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning
3.
You walked into this U.S. building and found 530 miles of bookshelves. Where are you?
Ans. Library of Congress
4.
The principles of dominance, segregation, and independent assortment resulted from
studies by Mendel of the inheritance of traits in what kind of plants?
Ans. Pea plants
5.
A government whose actions are dictated by another state is described by a term which is
another word for a marionette. What is it?
Ans. Puppet
6.
Cork and Limerick were founded by which 9th century invaders?
Ans. Vikings
7.
What is a ten-letter word starting with i that means spotless.
Ans. Immaculate (Accept impeccable.)
8.
Which Republican was the first Vice President to succeed to the Presidency and then win
the office by election?
Ans. Theodore Roosevelt
9.
Ethan Allen died of apoplexy. What six-letter word is a modern synonym for this
condition?
Ans. Stroke
10.
There are three basic types of Chinese cooking in oil: shallow frying, deep frying, and
what else?
Ans. Stir frying
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SCHUYLKILL ACADEMIC LEAGUE 2011-12
JANUARY 2012
MATCH 1
FANFARE 1
1.
Which political party is represented by an elephant?
Ans. Republican
2.
What was Europe’s first transcontinental train that went into service in 1883?
Ans. Orient Express
3.
Who suggested that “every idiot who goes about with a ‘Merry Christmas’ on his lips
should be boiled with his own pudding and buried with a stake of holly through his
heart”?
Ans. Ebenezer Scrooge
4.
If all the oceans evaporated, in what state would you find the world’s tallest mountain,
Mauna Kea?
Ans. Hawaii
5.
Most of which cabinet department’s offices are located in the Frances Perkins Building?
Ans. Labor Department
6.
What widely used device on the Internet originated at the University of Minnesota and is
named after the school mascot?
Ans. GOPHER
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SCHUYLKILL ACADEMIC LEAGUE 2011-12
JANUARY 2012
MATCH 1
FANFARE 2
1.
How much did billionaire Warren Buffet invest into Bank of America?
Ans. $5 billion
2.
What country did Kuwait lend $15 billion to in the Iran-Iraq War?
Ans. Iraq
3.
In A Christmas Carol, what relation stopped by Ebenezer Scrooge’s house on Christmas
Eve to invite him to Christmas dinner?
Ans. His nephew
4.
Which political philosophy is defined as “supporting the rights and power of the people
in their struggle against the privileged elite”?
Ans. Populism
5.
A person with what eye disorder sees his environs as if he were looking through a
waterfall?
Ans. Cataract
6.
What device allows a moving object to be seen in a series of short glimpses?
Ans. Stroboscope [Accept strobe or strobe light.]
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SCHUYLKILL ACADEMIC LEAGUE 2011-12
JANUARY 2012
MATCH 1
ROUND 2
1.
In which year did Germany invade Norway during World War II?
Ans. 1940
2.
In French, you’d lament, Je suis perdu [zhe(r) swee per-dew]; in Spanish, Estoy
perdido[ehs-TOY pehr-DEE-doh]. What are you saying?
Ans. I am lost.
3.
In 1978, Congress passed the Humphrey-Hawkins Act, which charged what federal
agency now led by Ben Bernanke with keeping both the inflation rate and the adult
jobless rate at 3%?
Ans. Federal Reserve
4.
Which nuclear scientist went to Sweden in 1938 to pick up his Nobel Prize in Physics,
and then used his prize money to flee Fascist Italy and move to America?
Ans. Enrico Fermi
5.
Unscramble MONDAY to end up with another word beginning with D and ending with
O.
Ans. DYNAMO
6.
Aukland is the most populous city and former capital of which island country in the
south-western Pacific Ocean?
Ans. New Zealand
7.
Which Greek goddess who sprang fully grown from Zeus’ head turned Arachne into a
spider?
Ans. Athena
8.
During which war did the U.S. government create greenbacks?
Ans. Civil War
9.
Neuroscientists have investigated phantom-limb pain, a condition which often strikes
amputees, in order to better understand the relationship between pain and what organ?
Ans. The brain
10.
It’s believed Sir Thomas More and Marie Antoinette developed alopecia ariata [ælə-peesha ar-ee-ey-tuh] when told of their impending executions. In this odd autoimmune
disease, what falls out or seems to turn grey?
Ans. Hair
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SCHUYLKILL ACADEMIC LEAGUE 2011-12
JANUARY 2012
MATCH 1
FANFARE 1
1.
What rock legend just saw his memoirs go platinum?
Ans. Keith Richards
2.
Which war, that lasted from 1756 to 1763, was ended with the Treaty of Paris?
Ans. Seven Years War
3.
How do you spell ARCHITECTURE?
4.
Which Harlem theater did not allow African-Americans into its audience until 1934, even
though it had made the careers of such performers as Count Basie, Duke Ellington, and
Bessie Smith?
Ans. Apollo Theater
5.
What is the anatomical name for the muscles forming that part of the body also known as
the derriere, the backside, and the bum?
Ans. Gluteus maximus
6.
Which term for a dog’s snout is also the word for a device that fits over it to prevent
biting?
Ans. Muzzle
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JANUARY 2012
MATCH 1
FANFARE 2
1.
Which NFL team pulled off a stunning 19-14 victory in December that ended the Green
Bay Packers’ 19-game winning streak?
Ans. Kansas City Chiefs
2.
In what year did the Nuremberg War Trials begin?
Ans. 1945
3.
Spell AMBIDEXTROUS.
4.
What political party nominated John Adams in 1796?
Ans. Federalist
5.
Molarity is a widely used measurement of what?
Ans. Concentration [Accept is the number of moles of solute dissolved in one liter of
solution.]
6.
In which film, named for the financial district of New York City, did Charlie Sheen play
a yuppie seduced into breaking the law?
Ans. Wall Street
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SCHUYLKILL ACADEMIC LEAGUE 2011-12
JANUARY 2012
MATCH 1
ROUND 3
1.
Which Spanish explorer conquered the Incan Empire?
Ans. Pizarro
2.
Which Pittsburgh museum is named for the famed creator of the Campbell’s Soup
painting in 1968?
Ans. Andy Warhol
3.
When Castro seized U.S. oil refineries in 1960, the U.S. stopped buying sugar from what
nation?
Ans. Cuba
4.
Convergent plates exist where two plates are pushing against each other. What type of
plates are pulling apart?
Ans. Divergent
5.
Which condiment, which is a favorite on hotdogs and pretzels, was first sold in paste
form rather than as seeds in 1720?
Ans. Mustard
6.
Which queen, daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, was crowned at age 15 in 1533
and gave her name to an age?
Ans. Elizabeth
7.
Which two words, which differ by one letter, refer to places where birds and bees are
kept?
Ans. Aviary, apiary
8.
What city, located 15 miles from Phoenix and founded by Mormons, shares its name with
a small flat-topped hill with two or more steep, usually perpendicular sides?
Ans. Mesa
9.
Which Polish astronomer first published the idea that the earth revolved around the sun in
1543?
Ans. Nicolaus Copernicus
10.
What is the name for the extra money you get when your employment is terminated?
Ans. Severance pay
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SCHUYLKILL ACADEMIC LEAGUE 2011-12
JANUARY 2012
MATCH 1
FANFARE 1
1.
Just ahead of its holiday recess, Congress found itself at a stalemate after the House
refused to pass a bipartisan deal that would extend what tax cuts?
Ans. Payroll
2.
Who invented the printing press in the 1400s?
Ans. Johannes Gutenberg
3.
Which novel, published in 1851, tells the adventures of wandering sailor Ishmael, and his
voyage on the whaleship Pequod, that was commanded by Captain Ahab?
Ans. Moby Dick
4.
Did Christopher Columbus bring turkeys to the New World or from the New World?
Ans. From the New World
5.
Which branch of medicine deals with ailments of the ankle, lower leg, and foot?
Ans. Podiatry
6.
New England Clam Chowder does not contain tomatoes. Which classic clam chowder
does?
Ans. Manhattan
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SCHUYLKILL ACADEMIC LEAGUE 2011-12
JANUARY 2012
MATCH 1
FANFARE 2
1.
Vaclav Havel was a former dissident who became president of what country in the wake
of a freedom movement known as the “Velvet Revolution”?
Ans. the Czech Republic
2.
Who drew a picture of a flying machine in 1492?
Ans. Da Vinci
3.
What is the name given to the Spanish singers Plácido Domingo and José Carreras and
the Italian singer Luciano Pavarotti who sang in concert?
Ans. The Three Tenors
4.
Did Christopher Columbus bring vanilla to the New World or from the New World?
Ans. From the New World
5.
What branch of biology typically studied in high school is the study of the physical
structure of organisms?
Ans. Anatomy
6.
What is the only major grain, usually cultivated underwater, that is used almost
exclusively as food for humans?
Ans. Rice
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