NewTrier Varsity 2006 Round 4, Page 4 Bonus 6: Math (Geometry) Find the surface area of the folowing three-dimensional solids. A: A cube circumscribed about a sphere with a surface area of 16 pi square centimeters. B: A square pyramid with height of 4 centimeters and base side length of 6 centimeters. C: A tetrahedron with side length of 4 centimeters. D: A sphere whose great circle has an area of 173 square centimeters. Answers: (accept "centimeters squared" for "squarecentimeters", prompt for units) A: 96 square centimeters B: 96 square centimeters C:16 root3 square centimeters D: 692 square centimeters Tossup 7: Miscelaneous (Other) Name the product in question. Though originalyawarded 2.7 milion dolars in punitive damages and 200,000 in compensatorydamages,a judge reduced Stela Liebeck's winnings from her lawsuit to 640,000 in 1994. The case started after Liebeck needed eight days in a hospital and two years of subsequent treatment for third-degree burns to her skin underneath her coton sweatpants. Name the 190degree liquid that burned her, bought at a drive-thru at McDonald's. Answer: McDonald's cofee Bonus 7: Literature (Mythology) Identify the folowing women in mythology. A: This woman unleashed al the worlds evilswhen she opened a namesake box. B: This daughter of Oedipus buried herbrother in spite of her uncle's wishes. C: This queen of Carthage was quite smiten of Aeneas. D: This woman was the wife of Hector and mother ofAstyanax. Answers: A: Pandora B: Antigone C: DidoD: Andromache Tossup 8: Math (Other) It satisfies the Jacobi identity andis distributive over addition, but it is not associative. Unlike a related operation, it onlyexists in Euclideanthree-space, and its result is caled a pseudo-vector because it does not transform likeother vectors. It is anti-commutative, and its sign is popularly determined using the "right hand rule." Name this binary vector operation that finds a vector perpendicular to two other vectors. Answer: Cross product Bonus 8: Science (Biology) Name these parts of nerve cels. A: The cel body of a nerve cel, it is Greek for "body." B: Nerve cels transmitsignals awayfrom the cel body along these long finger-like projections. C: Around those projections is this sheath, providing electrical insulation and speedingup the nervous impulses. D: These glial (GLEE-uhl) support cels grow around the nerve cel projections, secreting the aforementioned insulating sheath that surounds them. Answers: A: Soma B: Axon (acceptnerve fibers, prompt on nerves) C: Myelin sheath D:Schwann cels Tossup 9: Literature (Literature) This expatriate poet influenced figures like T.S. Eliot and H.D.Though his short poems such as “In a Station of the Metro” are frequently reproduced, he is perhaps best known for a long,unfinished work with which he himself remained unsatisfied. As that work's title suggests, it is an atempt to unite melody and poetry. Identify this frontman for the Imagistmovementand author of The Cantos. Answer: EzraWeston Loomis Pound Aegis Questions © 2006 htp:/www.aegisquestions.com/