Obscure Knowledge
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Sound Round
2026 Stimulus Packet
Trivia
EOC
Chupa Chups
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Music
100
In typography, what is the name for the small decorative stroke added to the ends of letters in many fonts?
Serif
100
Name her:
Jennifer Ferreira
100
What language is being spoken?
Vietnamese
100
According to the US Surgeon General, lacking social connection is as dangerous as smoking how many cigarettes per day?
15
100
Which river flows through the city of Paris?
The Seine
100
How many questions are there in EOCA?
3
100
Which country is the homeland of Chupa Chups?
Spain
100
Brazil
100
Name the song
Sweet Child o Mine: Guns and Roses
200
What is the collective noun for a group of flamingos?
A Flamboyance
200
Name her:
Ann Killion
200
Which animal makes this sound?
Camel
200
Who first developed the concept of 'third spaces' in the late 20th century?
Ray Oldenburg
200
What is the largest desert in the world?
Antartica
200
In which assessment are you scored for grammar and syntax?
EOCB
200
True or False: Chupa Chups was the first candy in space?
True (1995, Mir Space Station)
200
Tunisia
200
Name the Composer
Bach
300
What animal’s fingerprints are so similar to humans that they can confuse forensic investigators?
Koalas
300
Which City:
Berlin
300
What language is being spoken?
Romanian
300
According to Ben Goldfarb, which Roman Road permanently distorted the ecosystem of the Lago di Monterosi after 100 BCE?
Via Cassia
300
What is the longest river in Asia?
Yangtze
300
For EOCA, how many ideas should form the answer to question 1 regarding the author's main argument?
3
300
In how many countries around the world are Chupa Chups sold? (nearest 10)
150
300
Niger
300
Name the song and instrument (not the intro)
As it Was: Clarinet
400
What is a pangram? (English)
A sentence that uses every letter of the alphabet at least once
400
What term did this Harvard professor coin?
'Road Ecology' (Richard Forman, quoted in Goldfarb)
400
Which animal makes this sound?
Blue Whale
400
Put these satellite companies in order of size according to how many satellite launches they have registered with the US FCC (largest to smallest):
Arabsat, Avanti, Eutelsat, SpaceX.
SpaceX, Eutelsat, Arabsat, Avanti
400
Which Mughal emperor is known for building the Taj Mahal?
Shah Jahan
400
On which rubric row in EOCB should you aim to: 'fully integrate the source materials into the argument and put the sources in conversation with one another'?
Row 3
400
What type of marine animal is: Stylocordyla chupachups?
A Sponge
400
Kiribati
400
Name the song
Young Folks
500
What is the dot above a lowercase “i” or “j” called?
a tittle
500
Whose satellite's are being launched?
Starlink
500
What language is being spoken?
Xhosa
500
Murakami stops off to see a baseball game between two teams named for animals in 'A Walk to Kobe'. Complete the names of the Hanshin _______ and the Yakult ________
Tigers and Swallows
500
Who was the first person to reach the South Pole?
Roald Amundsen
500
What the College Board term for: 'an arrangement of claims and evidence that leads to a conclusion'?
A Line of Reasoning
500
Which famous Spanish artist designed the Chupa Chups logo in 1969?
Salvador Dali
500
Be Precise!
East Germany (DDR)
500
Name the song and instrument
Wake Me Up - Cellos