Robinson School - Lowell 16

Toss Up 1

100

Sequences

What is the 9th term of the arithmetic sequence that begins with 1, 5, 9, 13, ...

33

200

Bonus - 

That is the ninth term of the arithmetic sequence that begins with this?

12, 9, 6, 3, ..

-12

300

Bonus - 

That is the 9th term of the sequence that begins with these numbers?

2, 3, 5, 8, 12, 17, 23, ...

38

Toss Up 2

100

Non-Fiction

From their titles, you can surmise that these nonfictional works are about what country?

Memories of Silk and Straw

Shinto - The Way Home

Hokkaido Highway Blues

Zen War Stories

Geisha -  A life

Daughters of the Samurai

Japan

200

Bonus - 

These books are examples of what genre of nonfiction?

"A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke" by Charlotte Charke

"Some Account of the Fore-Part of the Life of Elizabeth Ashbridge" by Elizabeth  Ashbridge

autobiography

300

Bonus - 

The historian Gordon Wood described what American literary work as "the most incendiary and popular pamphlet of the entire revolutionary era"?

Common Sense

Toss Up 3

100

Mechanics

A 400-pound sumo wrestler sitting five feet from the center of a longer teeter-totter would exactly balance a 50-pound Cub Scout sitting how many feet out on the other side of the fulcrum?

40

200

Bonus - 

If the mechanical advantage of a lever is 10 to 1, the applied-force end of the lever must move how many feet for every one foot the resistance-force end is raised?

10

300

Bonus - 

Consider a large gear with 30 teeth that mesh with the 15 teeth of a smaller gear.  What is the gear ratio?

1 to 2

Toss Up 4

100

Angles

In a circle, the measure of an inscribed angle is what fraction of the measure on the intercepted arc?

one half

200

Bonus - 

An angle of how many degrees is created by two perpendicular surfaces?

90 degrees

300

Angles

The angle measure of a minor arc is less than how many degrees?

180

Toss Up 5

100

Allusions

The idiom, "man Friday" indicates a faithful male assistant or employee and comes from a character in what novel by Daniel Defoe?

Robinson Crusoe

200

Bonus - 

This statement is an allusion to a statement by what U.S. President?

Maybe you can fool most of the people most of the time, but the hope for democracy is that you can't fool all of the people all of the time.

Abraham Lincoln

300

Bonus - 

These lyrics from a Jefferson Airplane song were inspired by what British Author?

And if you go chasing rabbits 

And you know you're going to fall

Tell'em a hookah-smoking caterpillar

Has given you the call.

Call Alice

When she was just small.

Lewis Carroll