diff --git a/src/data/pastQuestions.txt b/src/data/pastQuestions.txt index 4d76110..9765b22 100644 --- a/src/data/pastQuestions.txt +++ b/src/data/pastQuestions.txt @@ -1535,4 +1535,132 @@ const questions: Question[] = [ answer: "cremation", url: "https://files.quizbowlpackets.com/2364/SCOP10%20MS%20Round3.pdf", category: RELIGION, + }, + { + question: `The efficiency of refrigerators was once rated in frigories, a unit equivalent to one of this unit per hour. It is not a unit of mass or temperature, but one of this unit defines the specific heat of water. There are 4.184 joules in the small version of this unit, and there are nine of their large kind in each gram of fat. For the point, name this non-SI unit that is listed on packages to show the energy content of food.`, + answer: "calorie", + url: "https://files.quizbowlpackets.com/2364/SCOP10%20MS%20Round4.pdf", + category: SCIENCE, + }, + { + question: `Despite the fact that this good is not edible, the British lamented a “famine” of it caused by a Union Navy blockade. Boll weevils ruin harvests of this good. Eli Whitney designed a “gin” to separate the seeds and fibers of, for the point, what textile cash crop that was overwhelmingly grown by slaves in the American South?`, + answer: "cotton", + url: "https://files.quizbowlpackets.com/2364/SCOP10%20MS%20Round4.pdf", + category: HISTORY, + }, + { + question: `An example of this system runs eight hundred miles from Prudhoe Bay to the port town of Valdez, and its revenue is used in a Permanent Fund that pays the residents of Alaska. President Trump put down the Standing Rock protest this kind of system, Dakota Access, that threatened sacred land and drinking water. Keystone XL is, for the point, one of what type of construction that transports crude oil over land?`, + answer: "oil pipeline", + url: "https://files.quizbowlpackets.com/2364/SCOP10%20MS%20Round4.pdf", + category: POP_CULTURE, + }, + { + question: `A test named for these objects will tell whether a relation is a function by checking if one of these objects intersects the graph more than once. These lines do not have slope and are parallel to the y-axis, which is itself one of these lines. For the point, name this type of line that creates a right angle when it meets a horizontal line`, + answer: "vertical lines", + url: "https://files.quizbowlpackets.com/2364/SCOP10%20MS%20Round3.pdf", + category: SCIENCE, + }, + { + question: `One of these objects in Norse myth is the home of Nidhogg, a dragon who gnaws on its base and exchanges ¨ insults with an eagle with the help of Ratatoskr, a squirrel. One of these objects connects the Nine Worlds in Norse myth. Odin learned knowledge of the runes by tying himself to Yggdrasil, one of, for the point, what kind of large, branching plant?`, + answer: "trees", + url: "https://files.quizbowlpackets.com/2364/SCOP10%20MS%20Round3.pdf", + category: RELIGION, + }, + { + question: `On a collaboration with Khalid, this artist sings “Oh, I hope some day I’ll make it out of here.” This artist uses a soundbite from The Office in a song on her 2019 album When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? This artist frequently wears baggy clothes to avoid criticism about her body. For the point, name this teenage singer of “Bury a Friend” and “Bad Guy.”`, + answer: "Billie Eilish", + url: "https://files.quizbowlpackets.com/2364/SCOP10%20MS%20Round3.pdf", + category: POP_CULTURE, + }, + { + question: `The smallest type of this value is represented by aleph null. In a thought experiment, David Hilbert’s “Grand Hotel” features this many rooms, all occupied, and is still able to accommodate more guests. The set of whole numbers has a “countable” type of this size. For the point, give this value, the number of digits in the decimal expansion of pi, that is represented by a sideways eight.`, + answer: "infinity", + url: "https://files.quizbowlpackets.com/2364/SCOP10%20MS%20Round3.pdf", + category: SCIENCE, + }, + { + question: `The coastal resort of Provincetown lies on the tip of this state’s eastern region, and cities like New Bedford lie on Buzzards Bay in this state’s south. Myles Standish State Forest is found in a coastal region of this state, which includes the islands of Chappaquiddick, Martha’s Vineyard, and Nantucket. Plymouth Colony was established in what is now, for the point, what New England state that borders both Connecticut and Rhode Island?`, + answer: "Massachusetts", + url: "https://files.quizbowlpackets.com/2364/SCOP10%20MS%20Round3.pdf", + category: GEOGRAPHY, + }, + { + question: `A deadly biochemical attack in this country occurred when Aum Shinrikyo, a doomsday cult, released sarin gas in this country’s capital’s subway system. This country, which committed war crimes during its control of Manchukuo, controversially issued textbooks ignoring those crimes and others in China and Korea during World War II. For the point, name this country currently led by Shinzo Abe.`, + answer: "Japan", + url: "https://files.quizbowlpackets.com/2364/SCOP10%20MS%20Round3.pdf", + category: HISTORY, + }, + { + question: `The attempted sale of this man’s vacated Senate seat led to the resignation of governor Rod Blagojevich. This president, who nominated Merrick Garland, Elena Kagan, and Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, ended Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan in 2014. For the point, name this U.S. President, the namesake of the Affordable Care Act`, + answer: "Obama", + fullAnswer: "Barack Obama", + url: "https://files.quizbowlpackets.com/2364/SCOP10%20MS%20Round4.pdf", + category: HISTORY, + }, + { + question: `Dorothy Hodgkin used this type of radiation, as diffracted by crystal lattices, to determine the structure of insulin. Wilhelm Rontgen discovered this radiation, whose energy is between that of ultraviolet and gamma rays. For the point, name this type of radiation, named for its originally “unknown” nature, that is used in imaging of teeth and bones.`, + answer: "xray", + url: "https://files.quizbowlpackets.com/2364/SCOP10%20MS%20Round3.pdf", + category: SCIENCE, + }, + { + question: `This character took the name Vers after having her memories hidden by Yon-Rogg. This character and her best friend, Maria Rambeau, worked with Dr Wendy Lawson on an experimental light-speed engine. This character was teased at the end of Avengers: Infinity War when Nick Fury pulled out a pager to contact her. Carol Danvers is the real name of, for the point, what heroine who was portrayed by Brie Larson in a 2018 film?`, + answer: "Captain Marvel", + url: "https://files.quizbowlpackets.com/2364/SCOP10%20MS%20Round4.pdf", + category: POP_CULTURE, + }, + { + question: `This poet wrote about a man who insists that “good fences make good neighbors.” This man ended a poem in which “two roads diverged in a yellow wood” by saying he would pretend that it has “made all the difference” that he “took the one less traveled by.” For the point, name this American poet of “Mending Wall” and “The Road Not Taken” with a chilly last name synonymous with a deposit of small white ice crystals formed on the ground or other surfaces below freezing.`, + answer: "Frost", + fullAnswer: "Robert Frost", + url: "https://files.quizbowlpackets.com/2364/SCOP10%20MS%20Round4.pdf", + category: ART_AND_LITERATURE, + }, + { + question: `This modern organization was preceded by a Coal and Steel Community. This organization’s Single Market allows the free movement of capital and persons, allowing citizens to work and live in any member country. The United Kingdom voted to leave this organization in 2016, a decision known as Brexit. For the point, name this organization of countries whose primary currency is the Euro.`, + answer: "European Union", + url: "https://files.quizbowlpackets.com/2364/SCOP10%20MS%20Round4.pdf", + category: HISTORY, + }, + { + question: `These organs secrete vasopressin and renin, and they includes capillary networks surrounded by a Bowman’s capsule in their nephrons. Ureters bring urine from this organ to the bladder. Renal replacement therapies like dialysis are used when these organs fail. Blood is filtered by, for the point, what pair of bean-shaped organs?`, + answer: "kidneys", + url: "https://files.quizbowlpackets.com/2364/SCOP10%20MS%20Round4.pdf", + category: SCIENCE, + }, + { + question: `In the fifth century, the Forty Days’ Fast of Saint Martin was established as the lead-up to this holiday. The Sun of Righteousness in Malachi helped establish this holiday on a Roman solstice day in Catholicism. This modern holiday often includes representations of shepherds and Magi visiting a stable in Bethlehem. For the point, name this Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Jesus.`, + answer: "Christmas", + url: "https://files.quizbowlpackets.com/2364/SCOP10%20MS%20Round4.pdf", + category: RELIGION, + }, + { + question: `A resident of this literary town vanishes after stopping near Wiley’s Swamp on his way home from a nearby farm. A man from this town claims he was chased by the Galloping Hessian. Brom Bones marries Katrina in this town shortly after the disappearance of the schoolteacher, Ichabod Crane. For the point, name this New England town that, in a short story by Washington Irving, is haunted by the Headless Horseman.`, + answer: "Sleepy Hollow", + url: "https://files.quizbowlpackets.com/2364/SCOP10%20MS%20Round4.pdf", + category: ART_AND_LITERATURE, + }, + { + question: `This plant is the habitat for cochineals, insects that are harvested to produce a deep red dye. This succulent plant has areoles, small, spiny bumps that defend the plant’s stem. The saguaro is a giant example of this plant found in Sonora and Arizona. For the point, name this plant that typically has excellent water storage abilities to survive in the desert.`, + answer: "Cactus", + url: "https://files.quizbowlpackets.com/2364/SCOP10%20MS%20Round4.pdf", + category: SCIENCE, + }, + { + question: `A group of these people defeated Gaius Claudius Glaber after rappelling down Mount Vesuvius on vines. The annual declaration of war on a group of these people allowed kryptes to freely kill them in order to complete the agoge. Helots were classified as these people in Sparta, and thousands of these people were crucified along the Appian Way after Spartacus’s revolt failed. The Roman libertini were formerly, for the point, what class of un-free people?`, + answer: "slaves", + url: "https://files.quizbowlpackets.com/2364/SCOP10%20MS%20Round4.pdf", + category: HISTORY, + }, + { + question: `On the right side of this painting, a woman holds out a pink cloak to cover this painting’s title figure. On the left side of this painting, Zephyrus, the god of wind, blows the title figure of this painting to shore. This painting’s central figure stands on a floating seashell after rising from the sea. For the point, name this painting depicting the origin of the Roman goddess of beauty, painted by Sandro Botticelli.`, + answer: "The Birth of Venus", + url: "https://files.quizbowlpackets.com/2364/SCOP10%20MS%20Round4.pdf", + category: ART_AND_LITERATURE, + }, + { + question: `Fluids for which this property remains constant are called incompressible. The specific gravity is the ratio of this property for a substance and for water. Water has a value of roughly one gram per cubic centimeter for this quantity. For the point, name this physical property, calculated by dividing an object’s mass by its volume.`, + answer: "density", + url: "https://files.quizbowlpackets.com/2364/SCOP10%20MS%20Round4.pdf", + category: SCIENCE, }, \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/src/data/questions.ts b/src/data/questions.ts index 7096d98..b3c52bd 100644 --- a/src/data/questions.ts +++ b/src/data/questions.ts @@ -59,58 +59,59 @@ export const mongoDBQuestions: MondoDBQuestion[] = [ const questions: Question[] = [ { - question: `The efficiency of refrigerators was once rated in frigories, a unit equivalent to one of this unit per hour. It is not a unit of mass or temperature, but one of this unit defines the specific heat of water. There are 4.184 joules in the small version of this unit, and there are nine of their large kind in each gram of fat. For the point, name this non-SI unit that is listed on packages to show the energy content of food.`, - answer: "calorie", - url: "https://files.quizbowlpackets.com/2364/SCOP10%20MS%20Round4.pdf", - category: SCIENCE, + question: `A figure on the left of this painting wears a cameo brooch that may depict Persephone over a polkadotted brown apron, and looks uneasily toward another figure. A strangely ornate window in the Dibble House in Iowa inspired the background of this painting, for which the artist’s dentist modeled as a man wearing denim overalls and holding a pitchfork. For the point, name this painting of a stern-looking couple, created by Grant Wood.`, + answer: "American Gothic", + url: "https://files.quizbowlpackets.com/2364/SCOP10%20MS%20Round5.pdf", + category: ART_AND_LITERATURE, }, { - question: `Despite the fact that this good is not edible, the British lamented a “famine” of it caused by a Union Navy blockade. Boll weevils ruin harvests of this good. Eli Whitney designed a “gin” to separate the seeds and fibers of, for the point, what textile cash crop that was overwhelmingly grown by slaves in the American South?`, - answer: "cotton", - url: "https://files.quizbowlpackets.com/2364/SCOP10%20MS%20Round4.pdf", + question: `Tennessee politician Harry Burn cast the deciding vote for this number amendment. The Silent Sentinels, including Lucy Burns and Alice Paul, protested in favor of this number amendment in front of the White House and were tortured by police in 1917. Carrie Chapman Catt led the National American Woman Suffrage Association, which advocated for, for the point, what number Constitutional amendment that guaranteed women the right to vote?`, + answer: "Nineteen", + fullAnswer: "Nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution", + url: "https://files.quizbowlpackets.com/2364/SCOP10%20MS%20Round5.pdf", category: HISTORY, }, { - question: `An example of this system runs eight hundred miles from Prudhoe Bay to the port town of Valdez, and its revenue is used in a Permanent Fund that pays the residents of Alaska. President Trump put down the Standing Rock protest this kind of system, Dakota Access, that threatened sacred land and drinking water. Keystone XL is, for the point, one of what type of construction that transports crude oil over land?`, - answer: "oil pipeline", - url: "https://files.quizbowlpackets.com/2364/SCOP10%20MS%20Round4.pdf", - category: POP_CULTURE, + question: `Elementary operations can be used to convert this mathematical object into reduced row echelon form, helpful in solving systems of equations. The commutative property does not necessarily apply to multiplication of an object of this type. The determinant can be found by calculations on the entries in, for the point, what mathematical object that is an array of numbers organized into rows and columns, and which has a movie sharing its name starring Keanu Reeves?`, + answer: "Matrix", + url: "https://files.quizbowlpackets.com/2364/SCOP10%20MS%20Round5.pdf", + category: SCIENCE, }, { - question: `A test named for these objects will tell whether a relation is a function by checking if one of these objects intersects the graph more than once. These lines do not have slope and are parallel to the y-axis, which is itself one of these lines. For the point, name this type of line that creates a right angle when it meets a horizontal line`, - answer: "vertical lines", - url: "https://files.quizbowlpackets.com/2364/SCOP10%20MS%20Round3.pdf", - category: SCIENCE, + question: `This is the largest of the countries that won the War of the Triple Alliance. This country was led by two emperors named Pedro, the second of whom abolished slavery with the Golden Law. The Cry of Ipiranga declared this country’s independence from Portugal, and in 1960 it moved its capital from Rio de Janeiro. For the point, name this country whose modern capital is Brasilia.`, + answer: "Brazil", + url: "https://files.quizbowlpackets.com/2364/SCOP10%20MS%20Round5.pdf", + category: HISTORY, }, { - question: `One of these objects in Norse myth is the home of Nidhogg, a dragon who gnaws on its base and exchanges ¨ insults with an eagle with the help of Ratatoskr, a squirrel. One of these objects connects the Nine Worlds in Norse myth. Odin learned knowledge of the runes by tying himself to Yggdrasil, one of, for the point, what kind of large, branching plant?`, - answer: "trees", - url: "https://files.quizbowlpackets.com/2364/SCOP10%20MS%20Round3.pdf", - category: RELIGION, + question: `When preceded by the German root “zwitter”, this term names molecules that are simultaneously dipolar. Bases are classified as strong or weak by their ability to completely dissociate into these things; for example, lye breaks apart into hydroxide molecules and sodium atoms. For the point, give this term for chemicals that have lost or gained electrons and thus have a positive or negative electric charge.`, + answer: "ions", + url: "https://files.quizbowlpackets.com/2364/SCOP10%20MS%20Round5.pdf", + category: SCIENCE, }, { - question: `On a collaboration with Khalid, this artist sings “Oh, I hope some day I’ll make it out of here.” This artist uses a soundbite from The Office in a song on her 2019 album When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? This artist frequently wears baggy clothes to avoid criticism about her body. For the point, name this teenage singer of “Bury a Friend” and “Bad Guy.”`, - answer: "Billie Eilish", - url: "https://files.quizbowlpackets.com/2364/SCOP10%20MS%20Round3.pdf", - category: POP_CULTURE, + question: `This character is told the story of “The Walrus and the Carpenter” and is asked “Why is a raven like a writing desk?” at a “mad” tea party she is sent to by a grinning cat that vanishes from her sight. Tweedle-Dee, Tweedle-Dum, and the Cheshire Cat are encountered by for the point, what Lewis Carroll character who travels through a looking glass to have adventures in Wonderland?`, + answer: "Alice", + url: "https://files.quizbowlpackets.com/2364/SCOP10%20MS%20Round5.pdf", + category: ART_AND_LITERATURE, }, { - question: `The smallest type of this value is represented by aleph null. In a thought experiment, David Hilbert’s “Grand Hotel” features this many rooms, all occupied, and is still able to accommodate more guests. The set of whole numbers has a “countable” type of this size. For the point, give this value, the number of digits in the decimal expansion of pi, that is represented by a sideways eight.`, - answer: "infinity", - url: "https://files.quizbowlpackets.com/2364/SCOP10%20MS%20Round3.pdf", + question: `Satellites in geostationary orbit are placed directly above this feature and, as a result, don’t appear to move in the sky when viewed from the ground. An African country with capital Malabo and a South American country with capital Quito are named for their location on or near this geographical feature. Zero degrees latitude is defined at, for the point, what imaginary line that separates the Earth into northern and southern hemispheres?`, + answer: "equator", + url: "https://files.quizbowlpackets.com/2364/SCOP10%20MS%20Round5.pdf", category: SCIENCE, }, { - question: `The coastal resort of Provincetown lies on the tip of this state’s eastern region, and cities like New Bedford lie on Buzzards Bay in this state’s south. Myles Standish State Forest is found in a coastal region of this state, which includes the islands of Chappaquiddick, Martha’s Vineyard, and Nantucket. Plymouth Colony was established in what is now, for the point, what New England state that borders both Connecticut and Rhode Island?`, - answer: "Massachusetts", - url: "https://files.quizbowlpackets.com/2364/SCOP10%20MS%20Round3.pdf", + question: `Tunnels under Yucca Mountain were to be built to store waste products from this type of energy, which usually includes concrete casks and large pools to store its spent fuel rods. Large cooling towers are a common feature of, for the point, what type of power plant, such as the one at Three Mile Island that suffered a 1979 meltdown?`, + answer: "nuclear", + url: "https://files.quizbowlpackets.com/2364/SCOP10%20MS%20Round5.pdf", category: GEOGRAPHY, }, { - question: `A deadly biochemical attack in this country occurred when Aum Shinrikyo, a doomsday cult, released sarin gas in this country’s capital’s subway system. This country, which committed war crimes during its control of Manchukuo, controversially issued textbooks ignoring those crimes and others in China and Korea during World War II. For the point, name this country currently led by Shinzo Abe.`, - answer: "Japan", - url: "https://files.quizbowlpackets.com/2364/SCOP10%20MS%20Round3.pdf", - category: HISTORY, + question: `King Laomedon tricked Apollo and this god into building the walls of Troy. This god cursed Pasiphae after her husband, Minos, failed to sacrifice the Cretan Bull to this god. Horses were sacred to this god, who lost a competition to Athena’s olive tree when he gave a salt spring to Athens. For the point, name this brother of Zeus and Hades, the Greek god of the sea.`, + answer: "Poseidon", + url: "https://files.quizbowlpackets.com/2364/SCOP10%20MS%20Round5.pdf", + category: RELIGION, }, { question: `The attempted sale of this man’s vacated Senate seat led to the resignation of governor Rod Blagojevich. This president, who nominated Merrick Garland, Elena Kagan, and Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, ended Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan in 2014. For the point, name this U.S. President, the namesake of the Affordable Care Act`, @@ -132,59 +133,71 @@ const questions: Question[] = [ category: POP_CULTURE, }, { - question: `This poet wrote about a man who insists that “good fences make good neighbors.” This man ended a poem in which “two roads diverged in a yellow wood” by saying he would pretend that it has “made all the difference” that he “took the one less traveled by.” For the point, name this American poet of “Mending Wall” and “The Road Not Taken” with a chilly last name synonymous with a deposit of small white ice crystals formed on the ground or other surfaces below freezing.`, - answer: "Frost", - fullAnswer: "Robert Frost", - url: "https://files.quizbowlpackets.com/2364/SCOP10%20MS%20Round4.pdf", - category: ART_AND_LITERATURE, - }, - { - question: `This modern organization was preceded by a Coal and Steel Community. This organization’s Single Market allows the free movement of capital and persons, allowing citizens to work and live in any member country. The United Kingdom voted to leave this organization in 2016, a decision known as Brexit. For the point, name this organization of countries whose primary currency is the Euro.`, - answer: "European Union", - url: "https://files.quizbowlpackets.com/2364/SCOP10%20MS%20Round4.pdf", - category: HISTORY, + question: `The United Kingdom uses the TORRO scale to measure the intensity of these events. In the US, the damage caused by these events is used to rank them on an “Enhanced” scale, named for Ted Fujita, that tops out at F5. A “freight train” noise commonly accompanies, for the point, what natural disasters that can include three hundred mile-per-hour winds and a rotating funnel cloud of debris?`, + answer: "tornadoes", + url: "https://files.quizbowlpackets.com/2364/SCOP10%20MS%20Round6.pdf", + category: SCIENCE, }, { - question: `These organs secrete vasopressin and renin, and they includes capillary networks surrounded by a Bowman’s capsule in their nephrons. Ureters bring urine from this organ to the bladder. Renal replacement therapies like dialysis are used when these organs fail. Blood is filtered by, for the point, what pair of bean-shaped organs?`, - answer: "kidneys", - url: "https://files.quizbowlpackets.com/2364/SCOP10%20MS%20Round4.pdf", - category: SCIENCE, + question: `This composer transcribed Allegri’s Miserere after listening to it just twice, thus ending a ban on that piece’s copying, during his tour of Europe as a teenager. This composer, who left his Requiem unfinished at his death, composed forty-one symphonies, ending with one named Jupiter. For the point, name this Austrian composer of operas like The Magic Flute and The Marriage of Figaro.`, + answer: "Mozart", + fullAnswer: "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart", + url: "https://files.quizbowlpackets.com/2364/SCOP10%20MS%20Round6.pdf", + category: ART_AND_LITERATURE, }, { - question: `In the fifth century, the Forty Days’ Fast of Saint Martin was established as the lead-up to this holiday. The Sun of Righteousness in Malachi helped establish this holiday on a Roman solstice day in Catholicism. This modern holiday often includes representations of shepherds and Magi visiting a stable in Bethlehem. For the point, name this Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Jesus.`, - answer: "Christmas", - url: "https://files.quizbowlpackets.com/2364/SCOP10%20MS%20Round4.pdf", - category: RELIGION, + question: `This country’s seventeenth century pirate colony of Libertatia used a language derived from Malagasy, a native language of this country. The French overseas region of Mayotte and the island country of Comoros are found in the Mozambique Channel, which separates this country from the mainland. Antananarivo is the capital of, for the point, what large island country off the southeast coast of Africa?`, + answer: "Madagascar", + fullAnswer: "Republic of Madagascar", + url: "https://files.quizbowlpackets.com/2364/SCOP10%20MS%20Round6.pdf", + category: GEOGRAPHY, }, { - question: `A resident of this literary town vanishes after stopping near Wiley’s Swamp on his way home from a nearby farm. A man from this town claims he was chased by the Galloping Hessian. Brom Bones marries Katrina in this town shortly after the disappearance of the schoolteacher, Ichabod Crane. For the point, name this New England town that, in a short story by Washington Irving, is haunted by the Headless Horseman.`, - answer: "Sleepy Hollow", - url: "https://files.quizbowlpackets.com/2364/SCOP10%20MS%20Round4.pdf", + question: `In a novel by this author, Arronax, Conseil, and Ned Land flee the Maelstrom, which threatens to sink a strange vessel. In another of this man’s novels, Passepartout and his employer use the international dateline to win a bet. Phileas Fogg and Captain Nemo’s submarine, the Nautilus, appear in, for the point, what French author’s novels Around the World in Eighty Days and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea?`, + answer: "Verne", + fullAnswer: "Jules Gabriel Verne", + url: "https://files.quizbowlpackets.com/2364/SCOP10%20MS%20Round6.pdf", category: ART_AND_LITERATURE, }, { - question: `This plant is the habitat for cochineals, insects that are harvested to produce a deep red dye. This succulent plant has areoles, small, spiny bumps that defend the plant’s stem. The saguaro is a giant example of this plant found in Sonora and Arizona. For the point, name this plant that typically has excellent water storage abilities to survive in the desert.`, - answer: "Cactus", - url: "https://files.quizbowlpackets.com/2364/SCOP10%20MS%20Round4.pdf", + question: `Only this type of number is of interest as the solution to a Diophantine equation. A boldface letter Z stands for the set of these numbers, which includes the natural numbers and zero. For the point, negative two is, but three-fourths is not, what type of number that has no fractional part?`, + answer: "Integer", + url: "https://files.quizbowlpackets.com/2364/SCOP10%20MS%20Round6.pdf", category: SCIENCE, }, { - question: `A group of these people defeated Gaius Claudius Glaber after rappelling down Mount Vesuvius on vines. The annual declaration of war on a group of these people allowed kryptes to freely kill them in order to complete the agoge. Helots were classified as these people in Sparta, and thousands of these people were crucified along the Appian Way after Spartacus’s revolt failed. The Roman libertini were formerly, for the point, what class of un-free people?`, - answer: "slaves", - url: "https://files.quizbowlpackets.com/2364/SCOP10%20MS%20Round4.pdf", - category: HISTORY, + question: `Like Anubis, this god was syncretized with the Foremost of the Westerners and the Opener of the Ways, who was usually described as the son of this god’s sister Nephthys. The djed column was the symbolic backbone of this god, who was cut into fourteen pieces by Set, this god’s brother. This god appears with green skin as a result of his death and resurrection. For the point, name this Egyptian god of the dead, the father of Horus and husband of Isis.`, + answer: "Osiris", + url: "https://files.quizbowlpackets.com/2364/SCOP10%20MS%20Round6.pdf", + category: RELIGION, }, { - question: `On the right side of this painting, a woman holds out a pink cloak to cover this painting’s title figure. On the left side of this painting, Zephyrus, the god of wind, blows the title figure of this painting to shore. This painting’s central figure stands on a floating seashell after rising from the sea. For the point, name this painting depicting the origin of the Roman goddess of beauty, painted by Sandro Botticelli.`, - answer: "The Birth of Venus", - url: "https://files.quizbowlpackets.com/2364/SCOP10%20MS%20Round4.pdf", + question: `A character with this first name gets engaged to Frank Churchill despite the worries of the meddling Miss Woodhouse. Another woman with this first name gets engaged to Mr Bingley while her younger sister Elizabeth marries Mr Darcy. For the point, what first name is shared by these characters and the woman who created them, the author of Emma, Sense and Sensibility, and Pride and Prejudice?`, + answer: "Jane", + url: "https://files.quizbowlpackets.com/2364/SCOP10%20MS%20Round6.pdf", category: ART_AND_LITERATURE, }, { - question: `Fluids for which this property remains constant are called incompressible. The specific gravity is the ratio of this property for a substance and for water. Water has a value of roughly one gram per cubic centimeter for this quantity. For the point, name this physical property, calculated by dividing an object’s mass by its volume.`, - answer: "density", - url: "https://files.quizbowlpackets.com/2364/SCOP10%20MS%20Round4.pdf", + question: `Joseph Priestly liberated this element by heating the compound red mercury. This element’s namesake reaction involves loss of electrons. The triatomic form of this element is called ozone, and its more common diatomic gas is needed to generate a candle flame. For the point, name this element, a vital gas that is inhaled during respiration.`, + answer: "Oxygen", + url: "https://files.quizbowlpackets.com/2364/SCOP10%20MS%20Round6.pdf", category: SCIENCE, }, + { + question: `After this disaster, Louis Sullivan designed the Auditorium Building in the affected city. The Palmer House was destroyed in this event, but the Water Tower was spared. This disaster, which was less deadly than a simultaneous event in Peshtigo, Wisconsin, began on De Koven Street after Catherine O’Leary’s cow supposedly kicked over a lantern. For the point, name this 1871 disaster that devastated a mostly-wooden Illinois city.`, + answer: "Chicago Fire", + fullAnswer: "Great Chicago Fire of 1871", + url: "https://files.quizbowlpackets.com/2364/SCOP10%20MS%20Round6.pdf", + category: HISTORY, + }, ]; + +// { +// question: `Thanks largely to this substance, World War II was the first conflict in which more American soldiers died in +// combat than from disease. Despite being Gram-positive, the Staphylococcus “superbug” MRSA has evolved to survive many derivates of this substance. For the point, name this early antibiotic that was discovered accidentally by Alexander Fleming in a Petri dish. This medicine is +// still used to treat syphilis, strep throat, and other infections.`, +// answer: "penicillin", +// url: "https://files.quizbowlpackets.com/2364/SCOP10%20MS%20Round5.pdf", +// category: SCIENCE, +// }, export default questions;