Literature
The ghost who scares Clara and her family in the novel where she appears is actually this title character, who sleepwalks when she begins to miss her grandfather and her friend Peter back home in the Swiss Alps. Name this orphan girl, created by Johanna Spyri.
answer: Heidi
Pencils and paper ready! Convert the fraction 29/250 to a decimal.
answer: 0.116
Name the explorer most famous for his climb with Tenzing Norgay, when he became the first white man to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
answer: Sir Edmund Hillary
This artist based his sculpture Profile of Time on his most famous work and painted a Disintegration of that work. He depicted three swans whose reflections are elephants in one painting. Name this Spanish Surrealist who painted a group of ants walking over a melting clock in his work The Persistence of Memory.
answer: Salvador Dalí
Used to fill airships until the Hindenberg caught fire, its combination with carbon monoxide is called "syngas." Identify this element, found in methane, ammonia and water, whose atomic number is 1.
answer: hydrogen (or H)
In both German and Latin, the "dative" case is used for nouns performing this grammatical function. Give the 2-word term for this function that is performed by the word "Steve" in the sentence, "We gave Steve the hamburger buns."
answer: indirect object
Pencils and paper ready! Order room service at a major hotel and you'll be charged 10% sales tax and a 22% tip on your order, plus a $4 service charge added in last after everything else. How much in total would you pay for $30 worth of food ordered from room service ?
answer: $43.60 [(30 x 1.32) + 4]
The Bass Strait separates one of this nation’s provinces from its mainland. Name this country whose Ayers Rock (or Uluru) is held sacred by its "aborigines" [ab-a-RIDGE-a-neez] and whose "outback" area is a long way from its capital of Canberra.
answer: Australia
Its two national championships in men's basketball were coached by Billy Donovan. Two of its three national championships in football featured quarterback Tim Tebow. Name this SEC college, located in Gainesville, that plays its home football games in "The Swamp."
answer: University of Florida (or Gators)
Answer these about medical tests: This test that looks at your heartbeat can detect whether you've had a heart attack.
answer: electrocardiogram (or EKG)
His daughter Judith has to confirm his identity after he spends a night
in the mountains and finds upon returning home that his gun has rusted and he has gotten much older. Name this title character of a Washington Irving short story who falls asleep in the Catskill Mountains for 20 years.
answer: Rip van Winkle
Each of these answers has 3 digits. The second-largest prime number with 3 digits
answer: 991
This subset of the Appalachian Mountains includes both Springer Mountain in Georgia and Bull Run Mountain in Virginia. The parkway that shares its name connects the Great Smoky Mountains with Shenandoah National Park. Identify this mountain range whose namesake color comes from seeing it at a distance.
answer: Blue Ridge Mountains
Name the men who won these gold medals at the 2016 Rio Olympics:This American swimmer won the 200-meter butterfly, one of his more than 20 gold medals.
answer: Michael Phelps
Its tip can reach a temperature of several hundred degrees when in use, but that's the only way to turn metal into liquid. Name this tool that, when very hot, melts one piece of metal in a way that allows two other pieces of metal to be joined together.
answer: soldering iron [SOD-a-ring] (or soldering gun)
The novels where she appears cover her life from age 4 to age 10, beginning with her appearance in the first story of Henry Huggins. Give the first name of this Beverly Cleary character who has an older sister named Beezus Quimby.
answer: Ramona
Pencils and paper ready! Give the perimeter of this combined figure: An equilateral triangle with a perimeter of 30 inches, sitting on top of a rectangle with a length of 10 inches and a height of 7 inches.
answer: 44 inches (10 + 10 + 7 + 10 + 7)
His headstone says, "If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea." Name this first man to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
answer: Charles Lindbergh, Jr.
It's easy to make one of these art projects from recycled materials because pieces of almost anything commonly recycled are easy to stick onto cardboard. What art form from the French for "to glue" is created by gluing together pieces of other materials like newspapers or magazines?
answer: collage [co-LAAZH]
Its types include "spring", "torsion" and "top-loading", as well as the "equal arm" variety developed in ancient Egypt. Name this laboratory tool, similar to a scale, that measures the mass of an object, often by comparing it with known masses.
answer: balance (prompt on "scale" before it is read)
Her first story The One in the Middle is the Green Kangaroo was
written before the books including her small boy character Farley Hatcher, nicknamed "Fudge", who appears in her novel Tales of a Fourth-Grade Nothing. Name this author whose other books include Are You There, God ? It's Me, Margaret.
answer: Judy Blume
Give this geometry terms: The equation y = x 2 creates this shape when graphed.
answer: parabola
Its northern border is shared by Vermont and New Hampshire. Name this state, bordered by New York on its west and Connecticut and Rhode Island on its south, whose town of Cape Cod on its southeastern "tail" is only 70 miles from its capital city of Boston.
answer: Massachusetts
Answer these about playing a D-major scale on a piano, beginning at the D above middle C: The scale uses this number of black keys.
answer: two
Its common "soda-lime" type does not do well in high temperatures that make it melt or in sudden changes of temperature that may cause it to shatter. Name this clear breakable substance, usually made of quartz.
answer: glass