Scholars' Bowl Varsity (Round 3)

S.S. Created by the Sumerians approximately 5,500 years ago, what type of writing uses symbols formed from wedge-shaped strokes to represent words?

• Aramaic

• Cuneiform

• Proto-Sinaitic

• Ugaritic

S.S. This Southeastern nation made up of more than one hundred ethnic groups was formerly known as Burma and has its modern capital at Naypyidaw. Name this country whose former capital was Yangon.

• Bhutan

• Bangladesh

• Myanmar

• Laos

S.S. Which former president of the American Railway Union ordered a strike against George Pullman's railroad company in 1894, and was the popular leader of the Socialist Party during 1920's America?

• James P. Cannon

• Walter Thomas Mills

• Fredric Jameson

• Eugene Debs

L.A. While exploring the theme of death, both intentional and accidental, this American author penned his works all over the world, including Paris, Cuba, and Key West, Florida. Identify this author whose short stories include "The Short and Happy Life of Francis Macomber" and "The Snows of Kilimanjaro."

• John Steinbeck

• Ernest Hemingway

• William Faulkner

• F. Scott Fitzgerald

L.A. Which two-word oxymoronic phrase describes a leisure trip accompanied by one's laptop and a list of employment-related tasks to be completed while on holiday?

• working vacation

• business leisure

• computer hiatus

• digital cruise

L.A. One of the greatest influences on his modernistic style, according to T.S. Eliot, was this friend, poet, and fellow modernist author of "The Cantos." Identify this author who also wrote Ripostes and Hugh Selwyn Mauberley.

• W. B. Yeats

• James Joyce

• Robert Frost

• Ezra Pound

Math: Find the limit as x approaches 2 of the rational function: f(x) = (x² + 5) / (2x – 1)

• 3

• 8

• 12

• 16

Math: Which conic section is recognized as the locus of points in a plane equidistant from a given line called the directrix and a given point called the focus?

• hyperbola

• parabola

• ellipse

• sphere

Math: Convert the binary number 10010 into a base 10 numeral.

• 18

• 36

• 64

• 128

Sci. In which part of the human body are the digastrics, mentalis, and masseter muscles located?

• stomach

• hips

• jaw

• brain