Practice
Everything beyond the current homework. Questions are grouped by subject and include explanations and learning links.
Harder science terms now include a simple “say:” guide too, especially biology, chemistry, and earth-science vocabulary.
04 Permanent Practice
197 questions beyond this week's assignments, with difficulty labels, feedback, missed-question tracking, and learning links.
Science
Permanent Academic Bowl practice beyond this week's homework.
Biology
BiologyBasicTOSS-UP • 10 PTS This process occurs in chloroplasts, uses light energy, carbon dioxide, and water, and produces glucose and oxygen. For 10 points, name this process.
Think inputs → light + CO₂ + H₂O; outputs → glucose + O₂.
BiologyBasicTOSS-UP • 10 PTS This green pigment absorbs light energy for photosynthesis and is found in chloroplasts. For 10 points, name this pigment.
Chlorophyll is especially good at absorbing red and blue wavelengths.
BiologyBasicTOSS-UP • 10 PTS These tiny cell structures are the site of protein synthesis and may float freely in cytoplasm or attach to rough ER. For 10 points, name this cell structure.
Ribosomes assemble amino acids into proteins.
TOSS-UP • 10 PTS This selectively permeable phospholipid bilayer with embedded proteins controls the movement of many substances into and out of a living unit. For 10 points, name this boundary.
It controls movement of many substances into and out of the cell.
TOSS-UP • 10 PTS This ecological model shows many overlapping feeding relationships among producers and consumers rather than a single linear chain. For 10 points, name this network.
A food chain is one path; a food web links many paths.
Chemistry
TOSS-UP • 10 PTS This positively charged subatomic particle is found in the nucleus. The number of these particles defines an element's atomic number and therefore its identity. For 10 points, name this particle.
Change the number of protons and you change the element.
TOSS-UP • 10 PTS This negatively charged subatomic particle occupies orbitals outside the nucleus. Its outermost members, called valence particles, are especially important in chemical bonding. For 10 points, name this particle.
Valence electrons are especially important in bonding.
ChemistryBasicTOSS-UP • 10 PTS I have atomic number 13, symbol Al, and I am a lightweight metal widely used in cans and aircraft. For 10 points, name this element.
Al = aluminum; atomic number 13.
ChemistryBasicTOSS-UP • 10 PTS I have symbol F, atomic number 9, belong to the halogens, and am the most electronegative element. For 10 points, name this element.
Fluorine sits near the upper-right of the periodic table.
ChemistryBasicTOSS-UP • 10 PTS Atoms of the same element that have the same number of protons but different numbers of neutrons. For 10 points, name this term.
Same element = same protons; different neutrons = different isotope.
Physics
PhysicsBasicTOSS-UP • 10 PTS This force opposes relative motion between surfaces in contact and may be static or kinetic. For 10 points, name this force.
Friction acts opposite the attempted or actual sliding motion.
PhysicsBasicTOSS-UP • 10 PTS This attractive force acts between masses and gives objects weight near Earth's surface. For 10 points, name this force.
Mass is amount of matter; weight depends on gravitational field strength.
PhysicsBasicTOSS-UP • 10 PTS This property measures the amount of matter in an object and does not change just because the object moves to the Moon. For 10 points, name this property.
Weight changes with gravity; mass does not.
PhysicsBasicTOSS-UP • 10 PTS This state of matter is an ionized gas containing free charged particles and is common in stars and lightning. For 10 points, name this state of matter.
Solid, liquid, gas, plasma is a common introductory sequence.
TOSS-UP • 10 PTS The name of this device is an acronym for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation. It produces a highly directional beam of coherent light. For 10 points, name this device.
LASER originally comes from 'light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation.'
Earth Science
TOSS-UP • 10 PTS Seismic rupture begins at this point within Earth, directly below the epicenter. This location is also known as the focus. For 10 points, give the alternate term for this underground point.
The epicenter is directly above it at Earth's surface.
TOSS-UP • 10 PTS This location lies on Earth's surface directly above an earthquake's focus, or hypocenter. For 10 points, name this surface point.
Focus/hypocenter = inside Earth; epicenter = surface.
Earth ScienceBasicTOSS-UP • 10 PTS These seismic waves are usually the fastest and can travel through both solids and liquids. For 10 points, name this wave.
P waves arrive before S waves.
Earth ScienceBasicTOSS-UP • 10 PTS These seismic waves cannot travel through liquids, a fact that helped scientists infer that Earth's outer core is liquid. For 10 points, name this wave.
S waves travel through solids but not liquids.
Earth ScienceBasicTOSS-UP • 10 PTS This instrument records ground motion from earthquakes and produces a record called a seismogram. For 10 points, name this instrument.
Modern usage often favors seismometer for the instrument.
Physics — Electricity
TOSS-UP • 10 PTS Measured in amperes, this quantity gives the rate at which charge passes a point in a circuit. For 10 points, name it.
Current measures charge flow; its SI unit is the ampere (amp).
Physics — ElectricityMediumTOSS-UP • 10 PTS This property, measured in ohms, describes how strongly a material or component opposes electric current. For 10 points, name this term.
Ohm's law connects voltage, current, and resistance: V = IR.
Physics — Matter
Physics — MatterBasicTOSS-UP • 10 PTS This change of state turns a liquid into a gas at the liquid's surface, even below the boiling point. For 10 points, name this term.
Evaporation occurs at the surface; boiling occurs throughout a liquid at its boiling point.
Ecology
TOSS-UP • 10 PTS Plants, algae, and some bacteria occupy this ecological role because they make organic food from inorganic materials and often form the base of food webs. For 10 points, name these organisms by their trophic role.
Producers convert energy—often sunlight—into chemical energy available to consumers.
TOSS-UP • 10 PTS This term describes an organism's role, including how it uses resources and interacts with other organisms in its environment. For 10 points, name it.
A habitat is where an organism lives; a niche is its role and resource use.
Astronomy
AstronomyBasicTOSS-UP • 10 PTS Orbital motion combines forward motion with continuous gravitational acceleration toward the central body. This force keeps planets in orbit around the Sun and moons in orbit around planets. For 10 points, name this force.
Orbital motion combines forward motion with continuous gravitational acceleration toward the central body.
TOSS-UP • 10 PTS Our Solar System lies in one of the spiral arms of this barred spiral galaxy, which appears from Earth as a pale band across the night sky. For 10 points, name this galaxy.
The Solar System lies in the Milky Way's disk.
Weather
WeatherBasicTOSS-UP • 10 PTS Falling pressure often accompanies approaching low-pressure systems and unsettled weather. This instrument measures atmospheric pressure and is useful for tracking changes in weather systems. For 10 points, name this instrument.
Falling pressure often accompanies approaching low-pressure systems and unsettled weather.
TOSS-UP • 10 PTS Cold, warm, stationary, and occluded are four types of this weather feature. It forms at the boundary between air masses with different properties. For 10 points, name this boundary.
Cold, warm, stationary, and occluded fronts are common map features.
Earth Science — Rocks
Earth Science — RocksBasicTOSS-UP • 10 PTS Rock formed when molten material cools and solidifies belongs to which major rock type? For 10 points, name this rock type.
Magma cools below ground; lava cools at the surface.
Chemistry — Reactions
TOSS-UP • 10 PTS These substances appear on the left side of a typical chemical equation and are consumed or changed as a reaction proceeds. For 10 points, name these starting substances.
Reactants are transformed into products.
Math Computation
Permanent Academic Bowl practice beyond this week's homework.
15-second Math Drill
Use speed only after you understand the method.
Pre-Algebra
COMPUTATION • 15 SEC This is a math computation question. Find the slope of the line through (1, 4) and (5, 16).
Slope = (11−3)/(6−2) = 8/4 = 2.
COMPUTATION • 15 SEC This is a math computation question. For the equation y = 3x - 5, give the coefficient of x and the value where the line crosses the y-axis.
Slope-intercept form is y = mx + b.
COMPUTATION • 15 SEC This is a math computation question. For 10 points, Expand 4(x + 3).
Distribute 4 to both terms.
COMPUTATION • 15 SEC This is a math computation question. For 10 points, Simplify 2x + 7 + 3x − 4.
Combine like terms.
COMPUTATION • 15 SEC This is a math computation question. For 10 points, Solve 3x − 5 > 10.
Add 5, then divide by 3.
COMPUTATION • 15 SEC This is a math computation question. For 10 points, Simplify x³ · x⁴.
Same base when multiplying: add exponents.
COMPUTATION • 15 SEC This is a math computation question. For 10 points, Simplify (2³)².
Power of a power: multiply exponents → 2⁶ = 64.
Geometry
COMPUTATION • 15 SEC This is a math computation question. For 10 points, Find the area of a circle with radius 5. Leave the answer in terms of π.
A = πr².
COMPUTATION • 15 SEC This is a math computation question. For 10 points, Find the circumference of a circle with diameter 8. Leave the answer in terms of π.
C = πd.
COMPUTATION • 15 SEC This is a math computation question. For 10 points, Two angles are supplementary. One measures 117°. Find the measure of the other angle.
Supplementary angles sum to 180°.
COMPUTATION • 15 SEC This is a math computation question. Two vertical angles have measures 4x + 6 and 6x - 20 degrees. Solve for x.
Vertical angles are congruent.
COMPUTATION • 15 SEC This is a math computation question. For 10 points, Find the volume of a rectangular prism measuring 4 by 3 by 5.
V = lwh.
Number Sense & Percents
COMPUTATION • 15 SEC This is a math computation question. For 10 points, Convert 0.35 to a percent.
Multiply the decimal by 100.
COMPUTATION • 15 SEC This is a math computation question. For 10 points, 18 is 30% of what number?
18 ÷ 0.30 = 60.
COMPUTATION • 15 SEC This is a math computation question. For 10 points, Find the greatest common factor of 24 and 36.
12 is the largest factor shared by both.
COMPUTATION • 15 SEC This is a math computation question. For 10 points, Find the least common multiple of 6 and 8.
24 is the first positive multiple they share.
COMPUTATION • 15 SEC This is a math computation question. What integer greater than 50 and less than 55 has exactly two positive factors?
51 and 57 are divisible by 3; 55 by 5.
Money & Percent Word Problems
COMPUTATION • 15 SEC This is a math computation question. For 10 points, Eight identical items cost $12. What is the unit price?
12 ÷ 8 = 1.50.
COMPUTATION • 15 SEC This is a math computation question. For 10 points, An item costs $45 and is discounted 20%. What is the sale price?
20% of 45 is 9; 45 − 9 = 36.
COMPUTATION • 15 SEC This is a math computation question. For 10 points, A $50 meal gets an 18% tip. How much is the tip?
0.18 × 50 = 9.
Geography
Permanent Academic Bowl practice beyond this week's homework.
Country Riddles
TOSS-UP • 10 PTS The ancient region of Mesopotamia lay largely within this modern country, whose major rivers include the Tigris and Euphrates. Its capital is Baghdad. For 10 points, name this Middle Eastern country.
Baghdad + Tigris + Mesopotamia → Iraq.
TOSS-UP • 10 PTS This Scandinavian country occupies the western side of the Scandinavian Peninsula and is famous for its long, deeply indented fjord coastline. Its capital is Oslo. For 10 points, name this country.
Oslo + Scandinavia + fjords → Norway.
TOSS-UP • 10 PTS The Carpathian Mountains curve through this southeastern European country, and the Danube forms much of its southern border. Its capital is Bucharest. For 10 points, name this country.
Bucharest + Carpathians + Danube → Romania.
TOSS-UP • 10 PTS This Southeast Asian archipelago includes the large islands of Luzon and Mindanao and lies in the western Pacific Ocean. Its capital is Manila. For 10 points, name this country.
Manila + archipelago + Luzon → Philippines.
TOSS-UP • 10 PTS Mount Fuji rises on Honshu, the largest island of this East Asian archipelago. This country lies east of the Korean Peninsula, and its capital is Tokyo. For 10 points, name this country.
Tokyo + island nation + Mount Fuji → Japan.
TOSS-UP • 10 PTS The Nile flows north through this country before reaching the Mediterranean, and the pyramids of Giza stand near its largest city. Its capital is Cairo. For 10 points, name this country.
Cairo + Nile + Giza → Egypt.
TOSS-UP • 10 PTS The equator crosses this East African country, which contains part of the Great Rift Valley and has a coastline on the Indian Ocean. Its capital is Nairobi. For 10 points, name this country.
Nairobi + East Africa + Mount Kenya → Kenya.
Deserts & Lakes
Deserts & LakesBasicTOSS-UP • 10 PTS North Africa is the key location clue. This enormous hot desert stretches across much of North Africa and is the world's largest hot desert. For 10 points, name this desert.
North Africa is the key location clue.
Deserts & LakesBasicTOSS-UP • 10 PTS This desert spans parts of Mongolia and northern China and is known for cold winters as well as dry conditions. For 10 points, name this desert.
Gobi → Mongolia + northern China.
Deserts & LakesBasicTOSS-UP • 10 PTS This lake in Siberia, Russia, is the world's deepest freshwater lake and contains an enormous share of Earth's unfrozen fresh surface water. For 10 points, name this lake.
Baikal → Siberia → deepest freshwater lake.
TOSS-UP • 10 PTS Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario form the largest group of freshwater lakes on Earth by total area and lie along the U.S.-Canada border region. For 10 points, name this group of lakes.
Remember HOMES: Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior.
Oceans & Seas
TOSS-UP • 10 PTS This body of water covers more area than any other on Earth and contains the Mariana Trench. For 10 points, name it.
The Pacific covers more area than any other ocean.
TOSS-UP • 10 PTS This sea connects to the Atlantic through the Strait of Gibraltar and lies between southern Europe, northern Africa, and western Asia. Its name comes from Latin words meaning roughly 'in the middle of lands.' For 10 points, name this sea.
Mediterranean literally means 'in the middle of lands.'
U.S. Capitals
U.S. CapitalsBasicTOSS-UP • 10 PTS For 10 points, what is the capital of California?
Los Angeles is the largest city, but Sacramento is the state capital.
U.S. CapitalsBasicTOSS-UP • 10 PTS For 10 points, what is the capital of New York?
New York City is the largest city; Albany is the capital.
U.S. CapitalsBasicTOSS-UP • 10 PTS For 10 points, what is the capital of Texas?
Austin is the capital; Houston is the state's largest city by population.
Literature
Permanent Academic Bowl practice beyond this week's homework.
Books & Series
TOSS-UP • 10 PTS George Beard and Harold Hutchins create comic books about the title superhero, then hypnotize their principal, Mr. Krupp, into believing he is that character. Dav Pilkey wrote this series. For 10 points, name this children's book series.
Creator: Dav Pilkey.
TOSS-UP • 10 PTS The Ceremony of Twelve assigns Jonas the unusual role of Receiver of Memory. He gradually discovers what his community has sacrificed to achieve Sameness. For 10 points, name this novel.
Clues: Jonas, Receiver of Memory, Sameness.
TOSS-UP • 10 PTS In this Ray Bradbury novel, Clarisse McClellan helps prompt Guy Montag to question a society in which firemen burn books. Montag later turns against the system he once served. For 10 points, name this novel.
Clues: Montag, book burning, dystopian censorship.
TOSS-UP • 10 PTS Alex and Conner Bailey enter a realm populated by familiar fairy-tale characters after being transported through a magical book. Chris Colfer wrote this fantasy series. For 10 points, name this series.
Clues: Alex and Conner Bailey, Chris Colfer.
TOSS-UP • 10 PTS Sixteen heirs are paired off and given cryptic clues after the death of a millionaire. Turtle Wexler becomes a central solver of the mystery. For 10 points, name this Ellen Raskin novel.
Clues: Samuel W. Westing, heirs, puzzle/mystery.
TOSS-UP • 10 PTS Mac and his friends discover that passages in a classroom book have been deliberately covered, leading them to challenge adult censorship. For 10 points, name this A. S. King novel.
Clues: A. S. King, Mac, censorship.
TOSS-UP • 10 PTS A family curse and the history of Kissin' Kate Barlow connect to Stanley Yelnats's punishment at Camp Green Lake, where boys dig one hole every day. Louis Sachar wrote this novel. For 10 points, name this novel.
Clues: Stanley Yelnats, Camp Green Lake, digging holes.
TOSS-UP • 10 PTS Camp Half-Blood is the refuge for demigods in this Rick Riordan series, whose title hero learns that Poseidon is his father. The first book is The Lightning Thief. For 10 points, name this series.
Clues: Camp Half-Blood, Poseidon, Greek mythology.
TOSS-UP • 10 PTS Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who, and Mrs. Which help Meg Murry, Charles Wallace, and Calvin O'Keefe travel through a tesseract in this Madeleine L'Engle novel. For 10 points, name this novel.
Clues: Meg Murry, Charles Wallace, tesseract.
Literary Terms
Literary TermsBasicTOSS-UP • 10 PTS For 10 points, what term means a category of literature such as fantasy, mystery, biography, or science fiction?
Genre = type/category.
Literary TermsBasicTOSS-UP • 10 PTS For 10 points, what term means the character or force that opposes the protagonist?
The antagonist does not have to be a villain.
Literary TermsBasicTOSS-UP • 10 PTS For 10 points, what term describes the story of a person's life written by that same person?
Auto = self.
Literary TermsBasicTOSS-UP • 10 PTS For 10 points, what term is often a focused first-person account of selected experiences rather than a complete life history?
Memoir usually focuses on a theme or period.
TOSS-UP • 10 PTS This narrative poetic form often tells a dramatic story in simple stanzas and has roots in oral song traditions. For 10 points, name this type of poem.
Traditional ballads often tell dramatic stories.
Literary TermsBasicTOSS-UP • 10 PTS Example concept: an expression that feels worn out from overuse. For 10 points, what term means an overused expression or idea that has lost freshness through repetition?
Example concept: an expression that feels worn out from overuse.
TOSS-UP • 10 PTS This term refers to a fashionable word or phrase used heavily within a field or trend, often until it becomes vague through overuse. For 10 points, name this kind of term.
Buzzwords can become vague through overuse.
TOSS-UP • 10 PTS James Joyce helped popularize this literary term for a sudden moment of realization or insight experienced by a character. For 10 points, name this term.
Epiphany = sudden understanding.
Literary TermsBasicTOSS-UP • 10 PTS For 10 points, what Japanese poetic form is traditionally associated in English classrooms with three lines and a 5–7–5 syllable pattern?
Traditional Japanese haiku is more complex than English syllable counting, but 5–7–5 is the common school convention.
Literary TermsBasicTOSS-UP • 10 PTS A metaphor makes a comparison without using like or as. For 10 points, what literary term means a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?
A metaphor makes a comparison without using like or as.
Literary TermsBasicTOSS-UP • 10 PTS The sound of the word suggests the sound it names. For 10 points, what term means a word that imitates a sound, such as 'buzz,' 'hiss,' or 'clang'?
The sound of the word suggests the sound it names.
Fine Arts
Permanent Academic Bowl practice beyond this week's homework.
Identify the Artist
Identify the ArtistBasicTOSS-UP • 10 PTS The Scream is the giveaway clue. The Scream, Madonna, and Anxiety are associated with this Norwegian Expressionist artist. For 10 points, name this artist.
The Scream is the giveaway clue.
TOSS-UP • 10 PTS Apollo and Daphne, David, and The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa are sculptures by this Italian Baroque master, who also designed major architectural features in Rome. For 10 points, name this artist.
Bernini is a major sculptor/architect of the Baroque.
Identify the ArtistBasicTOSS-UP • 10 PTS The Persistence of Memory and its melting clocks point to this Spanish Surrealist. For 10 points, name this artist.
Dalí → Surrealism → melting clocks.
Identify the ArtistBasicTOSS-UP • 10 PTS Campbell's Soup Cans and Marilyn Diptych are iconic works by this Pop artist. For 10 points, name this artist.
Warhol → Pop Art + mass-produced imagery.
Identify the ArtistBasicTOSS-UP • 10 PTS This American folk musician wrote 'This Land Is Your Land' and created the album cycle Dust Bowl Ballads. For 10 points, name this artist.
Guthrie → folk music + Dust Bowl.
Identify the ArtistBasicTOSS-UP • 10 PTS The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., and the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery were designed by this artist and architect. For 10 points, name this artist.
Maya Lin won the Vietnam Veterans Memorial design competition as a college student.
Identify the ArtistBasicTOSS-UP • 10 PTS This American sculptor pioneered hanging kinetic sculptures called mobiles and also made stationary works called stabiles. For 10 points, name this artist.
Calder → mobiles.
Movement / Style Clues
Movement / Style CluesBasicTOSS-UP • 10 PTS Dream imagery, unexpected combinations, and exploration of the unconscious are central to the movement associated with Dalí. For 10 points, name this movement.
Surrealism grew out of early-20th-century avant-garde movements.
Movement / Style CluesBasicTOSS-UP • 10 PTS Bright commercial imagery, advertising, celebrities, and mass culture are clues to the movement associated with Warhol. For 10 points, name this movement.
Pop Art turned everyday commercial imagery into fine art.
Movement / Style CluesBasicTOSS-UP • 10 PTS Emotionally intense color and distortion rather than naturalistic appearance are clues to the movement associated with Munch. For 10 points, name this movement.
Munch is often treated as an important precursor to or figure associated with Expressionism.
Movement / Style CluesBasicTOSS-UP • 10 PTS Dramatic movement, theatrical emotion, and elaborate form are hallmarks of the style strongly associated with Bernini. For 10 points, name this movement.
Bernini is one of the central artists of Italian Baroque art.
TOSS-UP • 10 PTS Alexander Calder's suspended mobiles are classic examples of this art form, whose works incorporate actual physical movement powered by air currents, motors, or other forces. For 10 points, name this type of art.
Calder's mobiles are classic kinetic sculpture.
Music — Identify the Composer
Music — Identify the ComposerBasicTOSS-UP • 10 PTS The Four Seasons, a set of violin concertos depicting times of year, was composed by this Italian Baroque composer. For 10 points, name this composer.
Vivaldi → The Four Seasons.
Music — Identify the ComposerBasicTOSS-UP • 10 PTS Messiah, including the famous 'Hallelujah' chorus, was composed by this Baroque composer. For 10 points, name this composer.
Handel → Messiah.
TOSS-UP • 10 PTS Rigoletto, La Traviata, and Aida are three operas by this 19th-century Italian composer, whose works became closely associated with Italian national culture. For 10 points, name this composer.
Verdi is one of the central composers of 19th-century Italian opera.
Music — Identify the ComposerMediumTOSS-UP • 10 PTS The four-opera cycle The Ring of the Nibelung is associated with this German composer. For 10 points, name this composer.
Wagner → Ring cycle + leitmotif.
HFA Syllabus — Artists
HFA Syllabus — ArtistsMediumTOSS-UP • 10 PTS This artist was born in Vitebsk and became known for dreamlike floating figures, stained glass, and the painting I and the Village. For 10 points, name this artist.
Dreamlike floating figures; Vitebsk; stained glass; I and the Village.
HFA Syllabus — ArtistsMediumTOSS-UP • 10 PTS This French Impressionist repeatedly studied light and atmosphere in works such as Water Lilies, Haystacks, and Rouen Cathedral. For 10 points, name this artist.
French Impressionist; light and atmosphere; water lilies; haystacks; Rouen Cathedral.
HFA Syllabus — ArtistsMediumTOSS-UP • 10 PTS This Italian Baroque painter used dramatic chiaroscuro and tenebrism in intensely realistic religious scenes such as The Calling of Saint Matthew. For 10 points, name this artist.
Italian Baroque painter; dramatic chiaroscuro/tenebrism; intense realism and religious scenes.
HFA Syllabus — ArtistsMediumTOSS-UP • 10 PTS This Dutch Golden Age painter and printmaker is known for self-portraits, dramatic lighting, and works such as The Night Watch. For 10 points, name this artist.
Dutch Golden Age painter and printmaker; portraits, self-portraits, dramatic light.
HFA Syllabus — ArtistsMediumTOSS-UP • 10 PTS This Romanian-born modern sculptor reduced forms to polished, simplified shapes in works such as Bird in Space and Endless Column. For 10 points, name this artist.
Romanian-born modern sculptor; simplified abstract forms; birds, columns, polished surfaces.
HFA Syllabus — ArtistsMediumTOSS-UP • 10 PTS This German Romantic composer developed large-scale music dramas that use recurring leitmotifs; his works include the Ring cycle and Tristan und Isolde. For 10 points, name this composer.
German Romantic composer; opera/music drama; leitmotifs; Ring cycle; Tristan und Isolde.
HFA Syllabus — ArtistsMediumTOSS-UP • 10 PTS This Italian opera composer wrote Rigoletto, La Traviata, and Aida and became one of the central figures of nineteenth-century Italian opera. For 10 points, name this composer.
Italian opera composer; Rigoletto, La Traviata, Aida; powerful choruses and drama.
HFA Syllabus — ArtistsMediumTOSS-UP • 10 PTS This Italian Baroque composer and violinist wrote hundreds of concertos, including the four violin concertos known as The Four Seasons. For 10 points, name this composer.
Italian Baroque composer and violinist; The Four Seasons; many concertos.
HFA Syllabus — ArtistsMediumTOSS-UP • 10 PTS This German Romantic composer wrote four symphonies, the Hungarian Dances, and A German Requiem. For 10 points, name this composer.
German Romantic composer; symphonies, concertos, chamber music; German Requiem.
HFA Syllabus — ArtistsMediumTOSS-UP • 10 PTS This German-born Baroque composer worked mainly in Britain and wrote Messiah, Water Music, and many operas and oratorios. For 10 points, name this composer.
German-born British Baroque composer; Messiah; Water Music; operas and oratorios.
HFA Syllabus — Artworks
TOSS-UP • 10 PTS Diego Rivera created this Rockefeller Center mural, which became controversial because it included an image of Vladimir Lenin. The original was destroyed, and Rivera later reworked the composition as Man, Controller of the Universe. For 10 points, name this mural.
Large Rockefeller Center mural by Diego Rivera; controversy over image of Lenin; destroyed and later reworked as Man, Controller of the Universe.
TOSS-UP • 10 PTS In this painting traditionally attributed to Pieter Bruegel the Elder, a plowman continues working while a drowning mythic youth appears only as a pair of legs disappearing into the sea. For 10 points, name this painting.
Painting traditionally attributed to Pieter Bruegel the Elder; Icarus is a tiny detail while ordinary life continues.
TOSS-UP • 10 PTS Auguste Rodin originally conceived this seated bronze figure as part of The Gates of Hell. The figure leans forward with one hand supporting his chin. For 10 points, name this sculpture.
Bronze sculpture by Auguste Rodin; originally connected to The Gates of Hell.
HFA Syllabus — ArtworksMediumTOSS-UP • 10 PTS 1942 Edward Hopper painting of people in a brightly lit late-night diner. For 10 points, name this artwork.
1942 Edward Hopper painting of people in a brightly lit late-night diner.
TOSS-UP • 10 PTS Jean-Honoré Fragonard painted this Rococo scene in which a young woman in a pink dress is pushed through a lush garden while a hidden admirer watches from below. For 10 points, name this painting.
Rococo painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard featuring a woman on a swing in a lush garden.
HFA Syllabus — Movements
TOSS-UP • 10 PTS Beginning in the late 1950s, this film movement used location shooting, jump cuts, and formal experimentation; major directors include Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut. For 10 points, name it.
Late-1950s/1960s French film movement; location shooting, jump cuts, experimentation; Godard and Truffaut.
HFA Syllabus — MovementsMediumTOSS-UP • 10 PTS This World War I-era anti-art movement embraced absurdity, chance, and readymades; Marcel Duchamp became one of its best-known figures. For 10 points, name this movement.
World War I-era anti-art movement; absurdity, chance, readymades; Duchamp.
HFA Syllabus — MovementsMediumTOSS-UP • 10 PTS 19th-century movement emphasizing changing light, visible brushwork, modern life, outdoor painting. For 10 points, name this movement.
19th-century movement emphasizing changing light, visible brushwork, modern life, outdoor painting.
HFA Syllabus — MovementsMediumTOSS-UP • 10 PTS This post-High Renaissance style is associated with elongated figures, artificial poses, complex space, elegance. For 10 points, name this movement.
Post-High Renaissance style; elongated figures, artificial poses, complex space, elegance.
HFA Syllabus — MovementsMediumTOSS-UP • 10 PTS 18th/early-19th-century revival of greek and roman ideals, along with clarity, order, civic virtue. For 10 points, name this movement.
18th/early-19th-century revival of Greek and Roman ideals; clarity, order, civic virtue.
Humanities
Permanent Academic Bowl practice beyond this week's homework.
Myth & Religion
TOSS-UP • 10 PTS In Greek mythology, this son of Prometheus survives a great flood with his wife Pyrrha. The pair repopulate the world by throwing stones behind them. For 10 points, name this man.
Greek flood tradition: Deucalion and Pyrrha.
Myth & ReligionBasicTOSS-UP • 10 PTS In the Hebrew Bible's Genesis flood narrative, who builds an ark to survive the flood? For 10 points, name this mythological or religious figure.
Noah is the central survivor in the Genesis account.
TOSS-UP • 10 PTS In ancient Egyptian religion, this sacred animal associated especially with Ptah was worshiped at Memphis and selected by distinctive markings. For 10 points, name it.
Apis was a sacred bull cult in ancient Egypt.
Myth & ReligionBasicTOSS-UP • 10 PTS This modern religious movement was founded by science-fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard and developed from ideas associated with Dianetics. For 10 points, name this term.
Founder: L. Ron Hubbard; Dianetics preceded the Church of Scientology.
Myth & ReligionBasicTOSS-UP • 10 PTS Roman equivalent: Jupiter. In Greek mythology, this king of the gods rules from Mount Olympus and wields the thunderbolt. For 10 points, name this mythological or religious figure.
Roman equivalent: Jupiter.
Myth & ReligionBasicTOSS-UP • 10 PTS In Norse mythology, this thunder god wields the hammer Mjölnir. For 10 points, name this mythological or religious figure.
Thor is the son of Odin in many Norse traditions.
Myth & ReligionMediumTOSS-UP • 10 PTS This Hindu text presents a dialogue between Prince Arjuna and the god Krishna on duty, action, and spiritual knowledge. For 10 points, name this work.
The Bhagavad Gita is part of the Mahabharata.
Thinkers & Ideas
Thinkers & IdeasBasicTOSS-UP • 10 PTS This writer explored the philosophy of the absurd in works such as The Stranger and The Myth of Sisyphus, although he rejected the existentialist label. For 10 points, name him.
Camus is often discussed near existentialism, but 'absurdism' is the safer identifying term; he rejected the existentialist label.
Thinkers & IdeasBasicTOSS-UP • 10 PTS The Metamorphosis and The Trial are works by this Prague-born writer whose name became an adjective for nightmarish bureaucracy. For 10 points, name this thinker.
Kafka → Kafkaesque.
Thinkers & IdeasBasicTOSS-UP • 10 PTS This ancient Greek philosopher wrote The Republic and is associated with the Theory of Forms. For 10 points, name this thinker.
Plato's dialogues frequently feature Socrates.
Thinkers & IdeasBasicTOSS-UP • 10 PTS Phenomenology of Spirit and a dialectical approach to historical development are associated with this German idealist. For 10 points, name this thinker.
Hegel → German idealism + dialectical development.
Thinkers & IdeasBasicTOSS-UP • 10 PTS The Communist Manifesto, written with Friedrich Engels, and Das Kapital are associated with this thinker. For 10 points, name this thinker.
Marx → class struggle + historical materialism.
Thinkers & IdeasBasicTOSS-UP • 10 PTS Being and Nothingness and the play No Exit are associated with this French existentialist thinker. For 10 points, name this thinker.
Sartre → existentialism, freedom, responsibility.
TOSS-UP • 10 PTS Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill are major figures associated with this consequentialist ethical theory. It judges actions by their effects on overall happiness or well-being. For 10 points, name this theory.
Names often linked to it include Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill.
TOSS-UP • 10 PTS Immanuel Kant gave this name to an unconditional moral command that applies regardless of a person's particular desires. One formulation asks whether a maxim could be willed as universal law. For 10 points, name this Kantian principle.
Kant → duty ethics + categorical imperative.
HFA Syllabus — Thinkers
HFA Syllabus — ThinkersMediumTOSS-UP • 10 PTS This ancient Greek philosopher was a student of Socrates, taught Aristotle, and developed the Theory of Forms in works including The Republic. For 10 points, name this thinker.
Ancient Greek philosopher; student of Socrates; teacher of Aristotle; Theory of Forms; Republic.
HFA Syllabus — ThinkersMediumTOSS-UP • 10 PTS This German idealist philosopher wrote Phenomenology of Spirit and developed influential ideas about dialectical development, history, and freedom. For 10 points, name this thinker.
German idealist; Phenomenology of Spirit; dialectical development; history and freedom.
HFA Syllabus — ThinkersMediumTOSS-UP • 10 PTS This German thinker analyzed class struggle and historical materialism, co-wrote The Communist Manifesto with Friedrich Engels, and wrote Das Kapital. For 10 points, name him.
German thinker; class struggle; historical materialism; Communist Manifesto with Engels; Capital.
HFA Syllabus — ThinkersMediumTOSS-UP • 10 PTS This French existentialist wrote Being and Nothingness and the play No Exit and discussed freedom, responsibility, and bad faith. For 10 points, name this thinker.
French existentialist; freedom, responsibility, bad faith; Being and Nothingness; No Exit.
HFA Syllabus — ThinkersMediumTOSS-UP • 10 PTS This British film theorist wrote the essay Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema and helped popularize the concept of the male gaze in feminist film theory. For 10 points, name this thinker.
British film theorist; Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema; feminist film theory; male gaze.
HFA Syllabus — Ideas
TOSS-UP • 10 PTS Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill are major thinkers associated with this ethical theory. It evaluates actions chiefly by their consequences and seeks to maximize overall happiness or well-being. For 10 points, name this ethical theory.
Consequentialist ethics: actions judged by overall well-being/happiness; Bentham and J. S. Mill.
TOSS-UP • 10 PTS The Zohar is a central text in this Jewish mystical tradition. Its teachings include the sefirot and the concept of Ein Sof, or the infinite divine. For 10 points, name this tradition.
Jewish mystical tradition; esoteric interpretation; concepts include sefirot and Ein Sof.
TOSS-UP • 10 PTS This broad family of political, social, and philosophical movements examines gendered power and advocates greater equality between genders. It includes liberal, radical, socialist, and other traditions. For 10 points, name this movement and body of thought.
Broad family of movements and theories focused on gender equality and analysis of gendered power.
TOSS-UP • 10 PTS One formulation of this Kantian principle says to act only on maxims that could be willed as universal law. Another says to treat humanity always as an end and never merely as a means. For 10 points, name this moral principle.
Kantian moral principle: act only on maxims you could will as universal law; treat persons as ends.
TOSS-UP • 10 PTS Cosmological, ontological, and teleological arguments are three traditional approaches to this philosophical question. Philosophers also debate the problem of evil as an objection. For 10 points, name this question concerning whether a divine being is real.
Philosophical question explored through cosmological, ontological, teleological arguments and objections.
HFA Syllabus — Works
HFA Syllabus — WorksMediumTOSS-UP • 10 PTS This collection of sacred texts is central to Judaism and Christianity; Christian versions include an Old Testament and a New Testament. For 10 points, name this work.
Collection of sacred texts central to Judaism and Christianity; Hebrew Bible/Old Testament and Christian New Testament.
HFA Syllabus — WorksMediumTOSS-UP • 10 PTS This sacred scripture of Islam is understood by Muslims as revelation to Muhammad and is organized into chapters called surahs. For 10 points, name this work.
Sacred scripture of Islam, believed by Muslims to be revelations to Muhammad; organized into surahs.
HFA Syllabus — WorksMediumTOSS-UP • 10 PTS This ancient Indian epic, traditionally attributed to Valmiki, tells the story of Rama and Sita and features Hanuman and the demon king Ravana. For 10 points, name this work.
Ancient Indian epic traditionally attributed to Valmiki; Rama, Sita, Lakshmana, Hanuman, Ravana.
HFA Syllabus — WorksMediumTOSS-UP • 10 PTS This ancient Mesopotamian epic follows the king of Uruk and his companion Enkidu and includes a flood story and themes of mortality. For 10 points, name this work.
Ancient Mesopotamian epic; Gilgamesh of Uruk, Enkidu, flood story, mortality.
TOSS-UP • 10 PTS The Gathas, hymns traditionally associated with Zarathustra, form part of this sacred collection of Zoroastrian texts. For 10 points, name this work.
Sacred scripture of Zoroastrianism; Avestan language; includes Gathas associated with Zarathustra.
History
Permanent Academic Bowl practice beyond this week's homework.
Civil War & Reconstruction
TOSS-UP • 10 PTS Abraham Lincoln issued this document after the preliminary announcement that followed the Battle of Antietam. Taking effect on January 1, 1863, it declared enslaved people in areas still in rebellion to be free. For 10 points, name this proclamation.
Issued by Abraham Lincoln; it did not immediately abolish slavery everywhere in the United States.
Civil War & ReconstructionBasicTOSS-UP • 10 PTS The assassination occurred in April 1865. Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre by what actor and Confederate sympathizer? For 10 points, name this person.
The assassination occurred in April 1865.
Civil War & ReconstructionBasicTOSS-UP • 10 PTS This network of secret routes and helpers assisted enslaved people escaping bondage; Harriet Tubman became one of its most famous conductors. For 10 points, name this network.
It was not literally a railroad.
Civil War & ReconstructionBasicTOSS-UP • 10 PTS For 10 points, which constitutional amendment abolished slavery in the United States, except as punishment for a crime?
Ratified in 1865.
Civil War & ReconstructionBasicTOSS-UP • 10 PTS For 10 points, which Reconstruction amendment established birthright/national citizenship and equal protection under the law?
Ratified in 1868.
World War II
World War IIBasicTOSS-UP • 10 PTS It was part of Operation Overlord. For 10 points, what was the Allied invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944 commonly called?
It was part of Operation Overlord.
World War IIBasicTOSS-UP • 10 PTS This U.S. general served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force for the Normandy invasion and later became president of the United States. For 10 points, name him.
Eisenhower → Allied commander → 34th U.S. president.
TOSS-UP • 10 PTS D-Day was the opening day of the Normandy landings. For 10 points, give the code name for the larger Allied invasion plan that included those landings.
D-Day was the opening day of the Normandy landings.
TOSS-UP • 10 PTS Alan Turing was among the mathematicians who worked at Bletchley Park, where British teams attacked German cipher systems including Enigma during World War II. For 10 points, name this wartime activity.
It is especially associated with breaking German encrypted communications.
Rulers & Economic Turning Points
TOSS-UP • 10 PTS Pope Leo III crowned this Frankish ruler emperor on Christmas Day in the year 800. His conquests created a large realm in western and central Europe and gave his dynasty its Carolingian name. For 10 points, name this ruler.
Charlemagne = Charles the Great.
TOSS-UP • 10 PTS Scholars such as Alcuin of York worked at Charlemagne's court during this revival of education, manuscript copying, and classical learning in the Frankish realm. For 10 points, name this cultural revival.
It was a cultural and educational revival in the Frankish realm.
TOSS-UP • 10 PTS In 1971, this U.S. president suspended the dollar's convertibility into gold, a major break with the Bretton Woods monetary system. He had previously served as vice president under Dwight Eisenhower. For 10 points, name this president.
This is commonly associated with the 'Nixon Shock.'
Early United States
Early United StatesBasicTOSS-UP • 10 PTS It replaced the Articles of Confederation after ratification. This 1787 document begins with 'We the People' and established the framework of the U.S. federal government. For 10 points, name this document.
It replaced the Articles of Confederation after ratification.
Early United StatesMediumTOSS-UP • 10 PTS These first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution protect freedoms such as speech, religion, and due process. For 10 points, name this document.
The Bill of Rights was ratified in 1791.
Civil Rights
Civil RightsBasicTOSS-UP • 10 PTS The decision rejected 'separate but equal' schooling. This 1954 Supreme Court decision ruled that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. For 10 points, name this Supreme Court case.
The decision rejected 'separate but equal' schooling.
Civil RightsBasicTOSS-UP • 10 PTS The speech was delivered at the Lincoln Memorial. This civil rights leader delivered the 'I Have a Dream' speech during the 1963 March on Washington. For 10 points, name this person.
The speech was delivered at the Lincoln Memorial.
Ancient Civilizations
TOSS-UP • 10 PTS Ancient Egyptian agriculture depended on the regular flooding of this river, which flows north through northeastern Africa into the Mediterranean. For 10 points, name this river.
The Nile was central to ancient Egyptian agriculture, transport, and settlement.
TOSS-UP • 10 PTS A famous stele records a law code associated with this Babylonian king, whose collection includes the principle often summarized as 'an eye for an eye.' For 10 points, name this ruler.
The Code of Hammurabi is associated with Babylon.
World War I
TOSS-UP • 10 PTS The June 1914 assassination of this heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne in Sarajevo triggered the crisis that led to World War I. For 10 points, name him.
His assassination intensified an existing system of alliances and tensions.
World War IMediumTOSS-UP • 10 PTS This agreement imposed major obligations on Germany and reshaped postwar Europe. Signed in 1919, it was the principal peace treaty between Germany and the Allied Powers after World War I. For 10 points, name this treaty.
It imposed major obligations on Germany and reshaped postwar Europe.
Language Arts
Permanent Academic Bowl practice beyond this week's homework.
10-minute Grammar Warm-Up
Short mechanics and tricky-word practice.
Sentence Parts
TOSS-UP • 10 PTS In the sentence 'Maya kicked the ball,' what grammatical role is played by 'ball'? For 10 points, name the role.
It receives the action of the verb kicked.
TOSS-UP • 10 PTS In the sentence 'Dad gave Maya a book,' what grammatical role is played by 'Maya'? For 10 points, name the role.
Maya receives the direct object, a book.
TOSS-UP • 10 PTS In the sentence 'The keys are under the couch,' what grammatical role is played by 'couch'? For 10 points, name the role.
Under is the preposition; couch is its object.
TOSS-UP • 10 PTS In the sentence 'The coach sent the players an email,' what grammatical role is played by 'email'? For 10 points, name the role.
What did the coach send? An email.
Punctuation
TOSS-UP • 10 PTS A single dog owns one leash. For 10 points, give the possessive form of the noun 'dog' that should come before 'leash.'
Singular possessive usually takes apostrophe + s.
TOSS-UP • 10 PTS Several athletes share one locker room. For 10 points, where should the apostrophe be placed to make the plural possessive form?
Plural noun already ending in s: add the apostrophe after the s.
PunctuationBasicTOSS-UP • 10 PTS For 10 points, Which mark is usually best for a strong break, interruption, or inserted emphasis within a sentence?
A dash creates a stronger break than a comma.
PunctuationBasicTOSS-UP • 10 PTS For 10 points, Which mark is usually used to show omitted words or a trailing-off thought?
An ellipsis is three dots.
Tricky Words
Tricky WordsBasicTOSS-UP • 10 PTS For 10 points, Choose the correct word: “___ going to bring the notes to practice.”
They're = they are. The sentence means “They are going to bring the notes.”
Tricky WordsBasicTOSS-UP • 10 PTS For 10 points, Choose the correct word: “The team left ___ folders on the table.”
Their shows possession: the folders belong to the team.
Tricky WordsBasicTOSS-UP • 10 PTS For 10 points, Choose the correct word: “Put the extra chairs over ___.”
There refers to a place or location.
Tricky WordsBasicTOSS-UP • 10 PTS For 10 points, Choose the correct word: “The ___ explained the school's new rule.”
Principal can mean the head of a school. Principle means a rule, belief, or basic idea.
Tricky WordsBasicTOSS-UP • 10 PTS For 10 points, Choose the correct word: “The main ___ behind the rule is fairness.”
Principle means a rule, belief, or basic idea.
Tricky WordsBasicTOSS-UP • 10 PTS For 10 points, Choose the correct word: “The blue scarf will ___ your outfit.”
Complement means to complete or go well with something. Compliment means praise.
Tricky WordsBasicTOSS-UP • 10 PTS For 10 points, Choose the correct word: “She gave me a nice ___ about my presentation.”
A compliment is praise.
Tricky WordsBasicTOSS-UP • 10 PTS For 10 points, Choose the correct word: “The loud music may ___ your concentration.”
Affect is usually a verb meaning to influence.
Tricky WordsBasicTOSS-UP • 10 PTS For 10 points, Choose the correct word: “The new schedule had a big ___ on attendance.”
Effect is usually a noun meaning a result.
Tricky WordsBasicTOSS-UP • 10 PTS For 10 points, Choose the correct word: “___ notebooks are these?”.
Whose asks about possession. Who's is short for who is or who has.
Tricky WordsBasicTOSS-UP • 10 PTS For 10 points, Choose the correct word: “___ coming to the study session tonight?”.
Who's = who is.
Tricky WordsBasicTOSS-UP • 10 PTS For 10 points, Choose the correct word: “The dog wagged ___ tail.”
Its is possessive. It's means it is or it has.
Tricky WordsBasicTOSS-UP • 10 PTS For 10 points, Choose the correct word: “___ going to rain later.”
It's = it is.
Grammar Mechanics
TOSS-UP • 10 PTS In the sentence 'Maya studied, but she still felt nervous,' what grammatical role is played by the word 'but'? For 10 points, name the role.
'But' joins two clauses and shows contrast.
TOSS-UP • 10 PTS For 10 points, supply the missing verb: 'The list of names ___ long.'
The subject is 'list,' which is singular.
TOSS-UP • 10 PTS For 10 points, which punctuation mark correctly joins the two independent clauses in 'I studied ___ I felt prepared'?
A semicolon can join two closely related independent clauses.