Arts and Humanities
Claude Monet used this artistic technique to indicate atmospheric conditions and time of day. This element includes tints and shades. Identify this artistic element which is the lightness or darkness of a color.
VALUE
Captain Vere exclaims this character's name just before dying. This character accidently kills the master-at-arms of the Bellipotent, John Claggart. Identify this "handsome sailor" from an unfinished novella by Herman Melville.
BILLY BUDD (ACCEPT: FIRST, LAST, OR BOTH)
The numbers 4 and 5 can be added in any modulus. If you add these numbers in modulus 7, an equivalent expression is 2 mod 7. What is an equivalent expression for 4 plus 5 in modulus 6?
3 (MOD 6)
These chemical substances are represented by formulas that have a ratio which is particular to that substance. The ratios of these substances can be explained by the Law of Multiple Proportions. What are these substances joined together chemically such as water or salt?
COMPOUND(S)
His memoir Hillbilly Elegy was published in 2016 and adapted into a movie directed by Ron Howard in 2020. After a career as a lawyer and venture capitalist, he won election to the United States Senate from Ohio in 2022. Identify the person elected the 50th Vice President of the United States in 2024
(J.D.) VANCE (ACCEPT: JAMES DAVID VANCE)
Directors use this practice to ensure that all actors are visible. Using this directorial technique allows audiences to follow all the action on the stage. What is the term given for the organization of performers’ positions and movements on stage?
BLOCKING
In this book, a character steals pumpkins and pecans from Old Man Nyquist and Mrs. Pensinger to make Halloween pies. The protagonist leaves her brother, Joey, in Chicago, before moving to Hickory, Illinois, where she falls in love with Royce McNabb. Mary Alice Dowdel is sent to live with her grandmother in what book by Richard Peck?
(A) YEAR DOWN YONDER
Raising numbers to any power will create a recognizable pattern in the ones digits. For example, you know if you multiply by 5, there is always a five in the ones digit, and if you multiply by 2, the ones digit will repeat the pattern 2, 4, 8, 6. With this in mind, what is the ones digit for 2 raised to the 52nd power?
6
This vector quantity does not factor in the path that a moving object takes. This quantity is calculated by using the route the moving object takes based off of the original starting position and it can be zero if the object returns to its starting position. It's not distance, but what do we call a change in position based on an object’s frame of reference?
DISPLACEMENT
This lake is named for a Native American tribe based in Quebec. The Straits of Mackinac (MA-kuh-naw) separate it from Lake Michigan. What is the second largest of the Great Lakes?
LAKE HURON
This missionary was abducted early in the 5th century from his home in Britain and enslaved in Ireland. Another legend says that he used the shamrock to teach and illustrate the concept of the Holy Trinity. Identify the Christian patron saint of Ireland, whose feast day is celebrated on March 17th.
(SAINT) PATRICK
What type of article is present in the following sentence? "War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy is a classic novel."
INDEFINITE (ARTICLE(S))
You are looking for the perimeter of a square, given its area. Its area, in square units, is represented by the equation X squared minus 4X plus 4. What is the perimeter, in units, for this square?
4X MINUS 8 (UNITS) (ACCEPT: 4 TIMES QUANTITY, X MINUS 2 (CLOSE QUANTITY) (UNITS))
This phylum of animals are soft-bodied and have a visceral mass that contains their vital organs. Their most distinguishing feature is a mantle covered by a hard, calcium shell and a large muscular foot. What is this phylum of animals that includes snails, clams, and squids?
MOLLUSK (ACCEPT MOLLUSCA)
Ten of these figures lived in the Potala Palace, with the last one vacating it in 1959. The current man with this title, Tenzin Gyatso, is the fourteenth. What is the title of the spiritual head of Tibetan Buddhism?
DALAI LAMA
This composer wrote a work about the Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep IV and his belief in monotheism. Akhnaten was the last part of this composer's Portrait Trilogy, which included a work about a scientist and his ideas. Who is this American composer who wrote Einstein on the Beach?
(PHILIP) GLASS
A speaker describes this character as "tall, but exceedingly lank," like a scarecrow who escaped the cornfield. This character competes with Brom Bones for the hand of Katrina van Tassel, before fleeing from the nightly pursuit of the Headless Horseman. Identify this schoolmaster in Washington Irving's story, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."
ICHABOD CRANE (ACCEPT: FIRST, LAST, OR BOTH)
A roll of wire is tightly wound around a cylinder of radius 10 centimeters and a height of 30 centimeters. The cylinder is then removed, and the wire maintains its cylindrical shape. In terms of pi, what volume in cubic centimeters of space does the wire occupy?
3000 PI (CUBIC CENTIMETERS)
This feature for an organism cannot overlap with that of another organism without creating competition. Some organisms can be specialists that occupy a very narrow role and can be vulnerable to population decrease or extinction. Name this term that describes the role of an organism in its environment.
NICHE
This event resulted in San Francisco’s population exploding from 1,000 to 25,000 in one year. The discovery of precious metal at John Sutter’s sawmill on the American River sparked this event. What event caused thousands of fortune seekers from around the globe to migrate to the West Coast of the United States?
(CALIFORNIA) GOLD RUSH (ACCEPT: 1849 GOLD RUSH)
The Celtic version of this instrument has a triangular frame and is often used in Irish folk music. In artistic works, angels are often portrayed while playing this instrument. Name these musical instruments, whose concert versions have 47 strings.
HARP(S)
In a fairy tale, one of these rulers commands an evil queen to dance in red-hot iron slippers. In another fairy tale, one of these characters asks a golden-haired maiden to "Let down your hair." Identify these fairy tale characters, who fall in love with Snow White and Rapunzel.
(A) PRINCE(S)
Teresa's rectangular garden is 9 meters wide and 12 meters long. She wants to create a diagonal walkway across the walkway. How long in meters will the walkway be?
15 (FEET)
This layer of Earth’s atmosphere will see some lightning, called blue jets, when they are powerful enough to punch up into this layer. This atmospheric layer increases in temperature with altitude and this layer contains the ozone layer. What is this second layer as you go up in Earth's atmosphere?
STRATOSPHERE
This Spanish explorer and his party were the first Europeans to see many physical landmarks, including Palo Duro Canyon, the Colorado River, and the Grand Canyon. His expedition consisted of 300 Spaniards, hundreds of Native Americans, herds of sheep, cattle, pigs, and horses. Identify the Spanish explorer whose 1540 to 1542 expedition traveled over 4,000 miles in search of the Seven Cities of Cibola.
(FRANCISCO VASQUEZ DE) CORONADO