AP Calculus Grudgeball Tournament #3

Spinning Objects

1

What classic toY, invented in ancient Greece but popularized in America during the 1920s, can "sleep" and "walk the dog"?

Yo-yo

2

What type of Highly magnetized, rapidly rotating neutron star emits beams of electromagnetic radiation out of its magnetic poles like a cosmic lighthouse?

Pulsar

3

What traditional four-sided spinning top often Made of clay is played with during the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah?

Dreidel

4

Invented in 1851, what heavy weight suspended from a long wire swings in a constant plane, providing direct visual evidence of the EArth's rotation?

Foucault pendulum

5

What triangular, three-pronged pocket toy became a massive global vIral sensation and classroom distraction in 2017?

Fidget spinner

Linguistics

1

What term refers to a word, phrasE, or sequence that reads the same backward as forward, such as "racecar" or "kayak"?

Palindrome

2

What do you call a word that phonetically imitates, resembles, Or suggests the sound that it describes, such as "buzz" or "hiss"?

Onomatopoeia

3

Which punctuation mark's nAme comes from a Greek word meaning "cutting off" or "omission"?

Apostrophe

4

What is the linguistic teRm for the study of speech sounds, their physical production, and acoustic properties?

Phonetics

5

What is the term for a word adopted from one laNguage into another without being translated, such as "déjà vu" or "kindergarten"?

Loanword

Grudges

1

In Greek mythoLogy, which goddess held a massive grudge against the city of Troy because the Trojan prince Paris did not choose her as the "most beautiful"?

Hera or Athena

2

Which tWo hip-hop icons were the central figures in the deadly East Coast–West Coast rap rivalry of the mid-1990s?

Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G. (Biggie Smalls)

3

Fueled by a bitter political and personal grudge, which sitting U.S. Vice President killed Alexander HamiltoN in an 1804 duel?

Aaron Burr

4

Which fictional literary captain held a deadly, obsessive grudge against a giant white spErm whale?

Captain Ahab

5

In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, what are the family names of the two feuding households?

Capulet and Montague

Unusual Ingredients

1

Ambergris, a rare and valuable substance traditionally used in high-end perfumes to fix scents, is produced in the digestive system of what specific marine animaL?

Sperm whale

2

Casu marzu, a traditional Sardinian sheep's milk cheese, is famous—and highly regulated—for containing thousands of live what?

Maggots

3

What dark, salty Australian food spread is famously manufactured from leftover brewers' Yeast extract?

Vegemite

4

Carmine, a vibrant red dye used in candies, juices, and lipsticks, is extracted from what unusual crushed source?

Cochineal insects (bugs/beetles)

5

What classic Scottish dish is traditionally prepared by a mixture of 4 parts of a sheep, its heart, liver, lungs, and stomach, combined with oatmeal and spices, inside the sheep's stomach?

Haggis

4

1

Named after Renaissance artists, who are the four main characters that make up the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?

Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello, and Michelangelo

2

Who was the 4th President of the United States, serving from 1809 to 1817?

James Madison

3

Which element on the periodic table has an atomic number of FOUR?

Beryllium

4

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4 4 4 4 4 4 4

5

What are the four suits found in a standard deck of playing cards?

Hearts, Diamonds, Clubs, Spades