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HS Written Round #5

Total questions: 60

Worksheet time: 31mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Sediment progressively loses its original water content due to the effects of ...?

a)

inflections

b)

projections

c)

retractions

d)

subductions

e)

compactions

2.

"Metonymy" is illustrated in which line?

a)

A storm of no small force ...

b)

A pen is mightier than a sword

c)

I see before me the gladiator lie

d)

The more haste - the less speed

e)

Starlight starbright - the first star I see tonight

3.

Bo is 2500 feet and Ed is 4000 feet down a path from its start. If Bo walks 10 feet per second and Ed walks 5 feet per second, how many minutes will it take Bo to catch Ed?

a)

2

b)

3

c)

4

d)

5

e)

6

4.

In 1886, Geronimo surrendered to General Nelson Miles at what fort in Arizona?

a)

Fort Bent

b)

Fort Bliss

c)

Fort Bowie

d)

Fort Bragg

e)

Fort Benning

5.

The timberline is at the lowest elevation in what country?

a)

Spain

b)

Japan

c)

Norway

d)

Tanzania

e)

Australia

6.

Which process initiated by a petition and signed by a percentage of the electorate provides for the removal of an elected official from office?

a)

recall

b)

suspension

c)

referendum

d)

arraignment

e)

impeachment

7.

Which words were not derived from the language with which they are paired?

a)

cigar, rodeo - Spanish

b)

campus, picture - Latin

c)

cosmos, diagram - Greek

d)

bureau, matinee - French

e)

bambino, cantata - Dutch

8.

Which is not part of a mammal's hind limb?

a)

femur

b)

fibula

c)

radius

d)

patella

e)

metatarsal

9.

Which city-states participated in Panhellenic Games?

a)

Uruk and Ur

b)

Tyre and Sidon

c)

Sparta and Athens

d)

Thebes and Memphis

e)

Cichen Itza and Tikal

10.

What words come next in this excerpt from George M. Cohan's "You're a Grand Old Flag"?


Every heart beats true ...

a)

in our land born anew

b)

yes, this land is for you

c)

in the morning's light dew

d)

'cause the banner's in view

e)

'neath the red, white, and blue

11.

Who began a narrative with this line?


How do people get to this clandestine archipelago?

a)

Leo Tolstoy

b)

Anton Chekhov

c)

Boris Pasternak

d)

Feodor Dostoyevsky

e)

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

12.

Whenever deadlocks developed during national political conventions in the 1800s and early 1900s, they were broken by selecting a ...?

a)

cold fish

b)

lone wolf

c)

salty dog

d)

dirty bird

e)

dark horse

13.

William Lloyd Garrison was a ...?

a)

mining engineer

b)

plantation owner

c)

newspaper editor

d)

poet and novelist

e)

naval commander

14.

You would expect to find hydrophilic substances in ...?

a)

lubricants

b)

desiccants

c)

illuminants

d)

humectants

e)

antioxidants

15.

An example of a clast is an individual ...?

a)

ray of light

b)

grain of sand

c)

cell of an organism

d)

particle of an atom

e)

monopole of a magnet

16.

Adult athletes such as Lionel Messi, LeBron James, Von Miller, and Roger Federer will, for themselves, absolutely never personally require the services of what kind of surgeon?

a)

plastic

b)

obstetric

c)

pediatric

d)

orthopedic

e)

dermatologic

17.

A treelike diagram in which the endpoints represent particular species of organisms is called a ...?

a)

barogram

b)

histogram

c)

pictogram

d)

cladogram

e)

mammogram

18.

In the Soviet Union, what was the TASS?

a)

a news agency

b)

an economic program

c)

a military police unit

d)

a nuclear weapons facility

e)

a network of intelligence officers

19.

Possible legal consequences for U.S citizens convicted of felonies do not include ...?

a)

deportation

b)

disenfranchisement

c)

loss of a professional license

d)

ineligibility to serve on juries

e)

exclusion from possessing firearms

20.

What are the first three words of Max Ehrmann's poem, "Desiderata"?

a)

Life is love

b)

I accept myself

c)

You have wings

d)

Go placidly amid

e)

Yesterday a butterfly

21.

On the coordinate plane, where do these lines intersect?


x + y = 5

y = 7

a)

0,7

b)

5,7

c)

-2,1

d)

-2,7

e)

2,-5

22.

Setting off a major diplomatic crisis between Britain and the U.S., the American Navy boarded what British mail steamer and arrested two Confederate envoys in 1861?

a)

Kent

b)

Trent

c)

Ghent

d)

Brent

e)

Advent

23.

The main source of the fresh water entering the Chesapeake Bay Estuary is the ---- River?

a)

Kennebec

b)

Suwannee

c)

Tennessee

d)

Rio Grande

e)

Susquehanna

24.

Spelt is a species of ...?

a)

rye

b)

rice

c)

oats

d)

corn

e)

wheat

25.

Among dozens of other women, Gwyneth Paltrow has alleged a sexual harassment experience at the hands of ...?

a)

Roy Lichtenstein

b)

Harvey Weinstein

c)

Arthur Rubinstein

d)

Oscar Hammerstein

e)

Ludwig Wittgenstein

26.

When light passes through a transparent substance such as air, water or glass, its speed is reduced and it is ...?

a)

reflected

b)

refracted

c)

polarized

d)

projected

e)

compacted

27.

Which spy once worked for M.I.6.?

a)

Kim Philby

b)

Felix Bloch

c)

John Walker

d)

Aldrich Ames

e)

Julius Rosenburg

28.

An enormous earthquake in 1812 created ...?

a)

Rainy Lake in Minnesota

b)

Reelfoot Lake in Tennessee

c)

Okeechobee Lake in Florida

d)

Chautauqua Lake in New York

e)

Pontchartrain Lake in Louisiana

29.

Two characters in a tale by Victor Hugo are ...?

a)

Lucie and Charles

b)

Mercedes and Edmond

c)

Buttercup and Westley

d)

Catherine and Heathcliff

e)

Esmeralda and Quasimodo

30.

Max ate three-fourths as many eggs as Luke. Luke ate twice as many eggs as Igor. All together, they consumed 36 eggs. How many eggs did Luke eat?

a)

12

b)

14

c)

16

d)

18

e)

20

31.

Who was a major general in the Continental Army?

a)

Israel Putnam

b)

Cotton Mather

c)

Caesar Rodney

d)

Daniel Webster

e)

William Bradford

32.

Which archaic word means "tinged with blood or with a passion for bloodshed?"

a)

puissant

b)

equipollent

c)

sanguinolent

d)

contumelious

e)

septentrional

33.

Chiaroscuro is based on ...?

a)

contrast

b)

symmetry

c)

perspective

d)

superposition

e)

texture gradations

34.

Variant forms of genes become obvious as different ...?

a)

ecotypes

b)

phenotypes

c)

prototypes

d)

stenotypes

e)

stereotypes

35.

The same plane would require the longest runway when taking off from ...?

a)

Canberra Airport, Australia

b)

Lhasa Gonggar Airport, China

c)

Khartoum International Airport

d)

Stockholm-Bromma Airport, Sweden

e)

Odessa International Airport, Ukraine

36.

A type of what is associated with Pyrrhus of Epirus?

a)

victory

b)

treasure

c)

love affair

d)

philanthropy

e)

architecture

37.

Which term is most often associated with aneurysms?

a)

burl

b)

burn

c)

bash

d)

bulge

e)

bruise

38.

Which character is not paired with his role?

a)

Tom Canty - pauper

b)

Nero Wolfe - detective

c)

John Watson - physician

d)

Gunga Din - water carrier

e)

Arthur Dimmesdale - merchant

39.

The side of the largest possible square cut from a circular piece of wood with a diameter of 10 inches is closest to ---- inches?

a)

4

b)

5

c)

6

d)

7

e)

8

40.

What American tycoon was highly involved in creating the Southern Pacific's "Sunset Route" from New Orleans to California?

a)

Jay Gould

b)

Howard Hughes

c)

Phillip Armour

d)

Collis Huntington

e)

John D. Rockefeller

41.

In chemistry, the separation of electric charges in a molecule is called ...?

a)

parity

b)

polarity

c)

celerity

d)

molarity

e)

viviparity

42.

After South Carolina Congressmen Preston Brooks attacked Senator Charles Sumner with a cane in the U.S. Senate in 1856, throughout the South Mr. Brooks was ...?

a)

lionized

b)

itemized

c)

amortized

d)

cauterized

e)

euthanized

43.

What is the term for a worldwide change in sea level?

a)

eustasy

b)

ecstasy

c)

isostasy

d)

apostasy

e)

homoplasy

44.

A U.S. government-sponsored abduction and extrajudicial transfer of a person from one country to another is called extraordinary ...?

a)

rendition

b)

perdition

c)

coalition

d)

attrition

e)

partition

45.

Which was an Italian abbey destroyed in World War 2?

a)

Monte Rosa

b)

Monte Carlo

c)

Monte Leone

d)

Monte Cassino

e)

Monte Albergian

46.

Natural killer cells that recognize and kill virus-infected cells are ...?

a)

adiopocytes

b)

sporocytes

c)

lymphocyytes

d)

melanocytes

e)

gametocytes

47.

Complete this verse by Poe.


"Over the Mountains of the Moon, /Down the Valley of the Shadow,/ "Ride, boldl ride," the shade replied,/ "If you seek for ...?"

a)

Eldorado

b)

Avocado

c)

Colorado

d)

Coronado

e)

Amontillado

48.

The altitude of an equilateral triangle whose side is 6 equals 3 times the square root of ...?

a)

1

b)

2

c)

3

d)

5

e)

6

49.

In 1998, the man known as the Unabomber pled guilty to charges relating to 17 years of sending package bombs that killed 3 people and injured at least 20 others. His name was Ted ...?

a)

Pulaski

b)

Kaczynski

c)

Stokowski

d)

Lobachevski

e)

Yastrezemski

50.

Which is not an African landlocked country?

a)

Chad

b)

Benin

c)

Rwanda

d)

Zimbabwe

e)

Burkina Faso

51.

As illustrated by the huge storm that hit the northern east U.S. coast in early 2018, what is the term for when an area of low pressure drops at least 24 millibars in 24 hours?

a)

zygogenesis

b)

abiogenesis

c)

sporogenesis

d)

bombogenesis

e)

parthenogenesis

52.

Which sublimes at -78 degrees C?

a)

dry ice

b)

silicon

c)

mercury

d)

gasoline

e)

seawater

53.

Which illustrates Gothic architecture?

a)

Stonehenge

b)

Hagia Sophia

c)

the Parthenon

d)

Notre Dame Cathedral

e)

the mosque at Cordoba

54.

Which is not a commonly recongized pair?

a)

Marx and Engels

b)

Watson and Crick

c)

Leaky and Hawking

d)

Gilbert and Sullivan

e)

Michelson and Morley

55.

A pilot reports that his radio receptions are loud and clear by saying ...?

a)

two by two

b)

three by three

c)

four by four

d)

five by five

e)

six by six

56.

Which characters are not in the same general line of work as Mike Hammer and Ellery Queen?

a)

Simon Templar, Nero Wolfe

b)

Miss Marple, Hercule Poirot

c)

Philip Marlowe, Charlie Chan

d)

Nick Adams, Allan Quatermain

e)

C. Auguste Dupin, Sam Spade

57.

Which has exactly two real number solutions?

a)

x + y = 6

b)

8 - 3x = 2

c)

2x + 3 = 11

d)

x squared = 4x

e)

x squared + 1 = 0

58.

Who was a 19th century fur trader?

a)

William Travis

b)

William Hearst

c)

William Sherman

d)

William Sublette

e)

William Rehnquist

59.

Harmonic tremors often precede ...?

a)

eclipses

b)

tornadoes

c)

hailstorms

d)

meteorite strikes

e)

volcanic eruptions

60.

What visible part of the ear acts as a funnel that directs sound into the ear canal?

a)

pinna

b)

manna

c)

hosanna

d)

savanna

e)

bandanna