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A.S.C.A Middle School Tournament 2000 ROUND SEVEN Starred toss-ups require calculation and are allotted 10 seconds. FIRST PERIOD: Ten Toss-Ups worth FIVE POINTS each. *1. Mary had 7 yards of velvet. She used 4 and two-thirds yards for a dress. How many yards did she have left? Two and one-third What California author wrote such tales as The Sea Wolf, White Fang, and The Call of the Wild? Jack London What Renaissance sculptor created the sculpture Pieta in 1496? Michelangelo Buonarroti Who is credited with inventing the cotton gin? Eli Whitney Which poetic form consists of 14 lines of iambic pentameter with a rigidly prescribed rhyme scheme? Sonnet This southeastern Alabama town is known as the “Peanut Capital of the State.” What is the name of this Houston County town? Dothan Which US state has as its largest cities Fort Smith, Fayetteville, Hot Springs, and Little Rock? Arkansas Who was the teen-aged Dutch Jewish girl who hid from Nazis for two years during World War II and kept the story of her experiences in a diary? Anne Frank What specific part of the eye does a cataract cover? Lens A sculpture of three Confederate figures appears on the face of which Georgia mountain? Stone (Mountain) A.S.C.A Middle School Tournament 2000 ROUND SEVEN SECOND PERIOD: Ten Toss-ups worth TEN POINTS each and Ten Two-Part Bonuses worth up to TWENTY POINTS each. *1. The menu at a lunch counter has four kinds of salads, seven vegetables, and five meats. How many different orders consisting of one salad, one vegetable and one meat can be ordered? 140 Bonus: In a store where sales tax is 8% a $40.00 shirt is discounted 20%. What is the amount of the discount? Including sales tax, what is the final price? A) $8.00 B) $34.56 Which 20th Century American poet wrote such poems as “The Gift Outright,” “Birches,” and “The Road Not Taken”? Robert Frost Bonus: I’ll give you an example of a literary device that creates a rhyme. You name the device. How now brown cow O Mars, you are not