Robinson School - Lowell 8

Toss Up 1

100

Dystopias

This passage is from what dystopian novel?

Taking the kids from our districts, forcing them to kill one another while we watch - this is the Capitol's way of reminding us how totally we are at their mercy.  They tell us, "If you lift a finger, we will destroy every last one of you, just as we did in District Thirteen."

Hunger Games

200

Bonus - 

In Lois Lowry's novel, "The Giver", what are the people called who control everything

the Elders

300

Bonus - 

In what dystopian novel by Ray Bradbury are these acts regarded as crimes?

driving slowly

walking

having a front porch

having a garden

reading books

Fahrenheit 451

Toss Up 2

100

Aviation

What was the first country to u se jet aircraft in warfare?

Germany

200

Bonus

What structures on an airplane cause the plane to lose altitude when they are lowered or to gain altitude when they are raised?

elevators

300

Bonus

What device invented by the Greeks has been adapted to such purposes as aircraft launching, clay-pigeon throwing, and pumpkin chunking?

catapult

Toss Up 3

100

Australia

Inhabiting the island of Tasmania, name the world's largest carnivorous marsupial?

Tasmanian devil

200

Bonus - 

IF you were a marsupial living in South Australia and your diet was primarily eucalyptus leaves, what would you be?

koala

300

Bonus - 

First imported into Australia to control the native gray-backed cane beetles, these invasive amphibians are now believed to exceed 200 million in number.  What kind of toads are they?

cane toads

Toss Up 4

100

Geology - 

Ice rolling, scraping, freezing down on a rock

Ocean swirling hurling, will it ever stop

Nature breaking, basking, bumping on and on.

erosion

200

Bonus- 

A mnemonic device for remembering the names of cave formations is that stalactite has a "C" for ceiling and what similar term has a "G" for ground?

stalagmite

300

Bonus - 

The name for what common intrusive igneous rock comes from the Latin word "granum" meaning grain?

granite

Toss Up 5

100

Simple machines

What simple machine has a triangular shape?

wedge (inclined plane)

200

Bonus - 

A 140 pound lad sitting two feet from the fulcrum will balance someone else sitting four feet from the fulcrum who weighs how much?

70 pounds

300

Bonus - 

The screwdriver, when used for its primary purpose, is an example of what simple machine?

wheel and axle