2022-2023 Intermediate Pack #10

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Intermediate
Pack
#10
Executive Director: Daniel Hill

National Coordinator : Frank Russell
Senior Editor : Frank Russell
Teacher Advisors: Dr. Carole Palmer & David Rose
Contributing Writers:
Gerry Buccini, Ian Campbell, Bill Davis, Ivan Gombos, Tom Ingram,
Elizabeth Jewllal, Brandon Judd, Geoffrey Lyall, Brian McKenzie,
Matt Morrisette, Eric Poulin, Paulina Hernandez Sainz, Evan Sauve
Ben Smith, Tom St Amand, Allison Szenasi.
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TEAM # vs . TEAM #
TEAM NAME: TEAM NAME:
REACH FOR THE TOP– 2022-2023
INTERMEDIATE PACK #10
HOST: Welcome to REACH FOR THE TOP. I’m __________ your quiz master for this game between [school
#1]________ and [school #2]________. In this match, we have [player #1]________, [player #2]________,
[player #3]________, [player #4]________ of [school #1]________ pitted against [player #1]________, [player
#2]________, [player #3]________, [player #4]________ of [school #2]________.
We’ll play three rounds of questions, with a minute-break between each round. Now, if the scorekeeper is
ready, let’s begin… ROUND ONE OF REACH FOR THE TOP!
40 POINT SNAPSTART TO BEGIN ROUND ONE
1. What nickname refers to the officers of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police?
A. MOUNTIES
2. What is the unofficial capital of Hong Kong?
A. VICTORIA
3. What famous university is found in Kingston Ontario?
A. QUEENS
4. Fetlock, withers, dock, and forelock are all to be found on the body of what animal?
A. HORSE
30 POINT OPEN QUESTION– MEDICAL CONDITIONS
5. What kind of burn occurs when the skin reddens but does not blister?
A. FIRST DEGREE BURN
6. A disease transmitted from one person to another is what kind of disease?
A. COMMUNICABLE DISEASE
7. What term refers to a mass of tissue caused by an abnormal growth of cells?
A. TUMOUR
40 POINT OPEN QUESTION– CITIES
8. In what country would you find Helsinki?

A FINLAND
9. In what country would you find Hanoi?
A. VIETNAM
10. In what country would you find Salzburg?
A. AUSTRIA
11. In what country would you find Lisbon?
A. PORTUGAL
40 POINT TEAM QUESTION
In this two-part TEAM QUESTION, whichever team is first to answer correctly the ten-point SCRAMBLE
QUESTION in PART ONE, is then eligible for the remaining ten-point questions in PART TWO.
PART ONE:
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12. For ten points, what term or course of study deals with the classification, analysis, and interpretation of the
financial or bookkeeping records of an enterprise in order to evaluate the progress or failures of a business?
A. ACCOUNTING or FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
PART TWO: The remaining questions deal with accounting/financial management.

SCORE TEN POINTS FOR EACH CORRECT ANSWER
13. An account used to make small cash payments is called what?

A. PETTY CASH
14. Bringing a bank statement balance into agreement with a cheque book balance is a process called what?
A. BANK RECONCILIATION
15. Transferring journal entries to a ledger is called what?
A. POSTING
20-POINT SPECIAL
16. In what year did Apollo 11 land on the moon?

A. 1969
80-POINTS ASSIGNED QUESTION – SPELLING

Here is an ASSIGNED QUESTION on SPELLING in which each member of each team is assigned a ten-point
question. If you miss your question, then your counterpart on the opposing team will have a chance at it for ten
points.
Spell the following words correctly.
TEAM A:
17. Valuable
A. V A L U A B L E
18. Microfilm
A. M I C R O F I L M
19. Concept
A. C O N C E P T
20. Intuition
A. I N T U I T I O N
TEAM B:
21. Innovate
A. I N N O V A T E
22. Inspector
A. I N S P E C T O R
23. Compulsory
A. C O M P U L S O R Y
24. Municipal
A. M U N I C I P A L
30 POINTS OPEN QUESTION– ASTRONOMY

Give the English equivalent or common name for the following constellations.

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25. Ursa Major
A. THE GREAT BEAR or BIG DIPPER
26. Pisces
A. THE FISH
27. Cygnus
A. THE SWAN
40 POINT SNAPSTART TO END ROUND ONE
28. What is the term for a facility which cares for terminally ill patients?
A. HOSPICE
29. Name the world’s largest bay.
A. HUDSON BAY
30. What is hippophobia?
A. FEAR OF HORSES
31. In grammatical terms what part of speech is the PREDICATE likely to be?
A. VERB
ONE-MINUTE BREAK TO ROUND TWO
40 POINT SNAPSTART TO BEGIN ROUND TWO
32. Who was the first Canadian woman to go into space?

A. ROBERTA BONDAR
33. What type of creature is a chanticleer?
A. ROOSTER
34. Lake Baikal is in what country?
A. RUSSIA
35. In what country was the Dominion of Canada’s first prime minister born?
A. SCOTLAND (GREAT BRITAIN or UK)
40 POINT WHAT AM I? QUESTION
36. This question is worth 40 points if you guess the answer on the first clue and 10 points less with each
succeeding clue, until either team answers the question correctly.
CLUE A. I am a sport in which teams consist of two, four, or eight members.

WHAT AM I?
CLUE B. A coxswain may guide the team and steer.
WHAT AM I?
CLUE C. In my competitions, long, narrow vessels called shells are used.

WHAT AM I?
CLUE D. Racing meets in my sport are called regattas.
WHAT AM I?
A. I AM ROWING

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30 POINT OPEN QUESTION– MATH
37. What is 60% of the product of 10 and 16?
A. 96
38. Reduce the following fraction to its lowest form 7/28
A. 1/4
39. What is the next prime number after 11?
A. 13
40 POINT TEAM QUESTION

In this two-part TEAM QUESTION, whichever team is first to answer correctly the ten-point SCRAMBLE
QUESTION in PART ONE, is then eligible for the remaining ten-point questions in PART TWO.
PART ONE:
40. For ten points, what is the fourth largest continent?

A. SOUTH AMERICA
PART TWO: The remaining questions deal with SOUTH AMERICA.

SCORE TEN POINTS FOR EACH CORRECT ANSWER
41. Located along the Ornioco River, what is the name of a major lowlands area?
A. LLANOS
42. What specific geographical formation connects South America with North America?
A. ISTHMUS OF PANAMA
43. What South American country was made an overseas department of France in 1947?
A. FRENCH GUIANA
40 POINT OPEN QUESTION– CANADIAN BLUE THINGS
44. What sailing vessel is depicted on the Canadian dime?

A. THE BLUENOSE
45. Exhibition Stadium was the original home of what Major League Baseball Team?
A. TORONTO BLUE JAYS
46. Which football team won the 2021 Grey Cup?
A. WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS
47. Jim Cuddy, Greg Keelor, and James Grey are members of which musical group?
A. BLUE RODEO
40 POINT SNAPOUT TO END ROUND TWO
48. Which explorer founded the city of Quebec?

A. CHAMPLAIN
49. Uganda is on the north shore of what African lake?
A. LAKE VICTORIA
50. What type of vehicle is summoned to transport an ailing person to the hospital?
A. AMBULANCE
51. In the comics, who is Fred Flintstone’s boss?
A. MR. SLATE

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ONE-MINUTE BREAK TO ROUND THREE
40 POINT SNAPSTART TO BEGIN ROUND THREE
52. What is the second-highest part in four-part music?

A. ALTO
53. Which valley in British Columbia is a well-known fruit growing region
A. OKANAGAN
54. The Corinth Canal is in what country?
A. GREECE
55. Beginning with the letter “A”, what would I call a collection of written works or passages enclosed within a
single book?
A. ANTHOLOGY
20 POINT OPEN QUESTION– NAMES

I will give you the definition of a word that can also be a proper name. You provide that name.
56. Imperial measure of long distance.

A. MILES
57. The first appearance of daylight.
A. DAWN
20 POINT OPEN QUESTION– VOLCANOES

In what country is each of these volcanoes located?
58. Mauna Loa

A. UNITED STATES (HAWAII)
59. Cotopaxi
A. EQUADOR
40 POINT OPEN QUESTION– ANCIENT EGYPT
60. Built in the 26th century BC, what is the oldest pyramid.
A. THE GREAT PYRAMID OF GIZA
61. Although dedicated to the highest of the gods, the famous temple of Abu Simbel’s great exterior statues all
depict what great pharaoh?
A. RAMSES II
62. What stone case has a name from the Greek that literally means “flesh eater”?
A. SARCOPHAGUS
63. What city, sharing its name with a city in the American south, was the first capitol of a united Egypt?
A. MEMPHIS
40 POINT WHAT AM I? QUESTION
64. This question is worth 40 points if you guess the answer on the first clue and 10 points less with each
succeeding clue, until either team answers the question correctly.
CLUE A. I am a keyboard instrument consisting of two main parts, one of which is a series of buttons.

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WHAT AM I?
CLUE B. Tones are produced when air is forced through my insides.
WHAT AM I?
CLUE C. My owner must squeeze me, expand me and squeeze me some more while pressing piano-like keys.
WHAT AM I?
CLUE D. I am very popular with people who dance the polka.
WHAT AM I?
A. I AM AN ACCORDION
30 POINT OPEN QUESTION– ISLANDS
65. In area, what is the second-largest island in the world?

A. GREENLAND
66. What is the largest island of Japan?
A. HONSHU
67. What is the second-largest island of the Philippines?
A. MINDANAO
30 POINTS OPEN QUESTION – OFFICIAL LANGUAGES

What are the official languages of the following countries or states?
68. Liechtenstein
A. GERMAN
69. Canada
A. FRENCH AND ENGLISH
70. Macao
A. PORTUGUESE
100 POINT SNAPOUT TO END GAME
71. Who was the first golfer to win the Masters’ title?
A. ARNOLD PALMER
72. The Baja Peninsula is located in what country?
A. MEXICO
73. What would I call the science or art of flight?

A. AERONAUTICS
74. What do we call a wall or barrier built to break the force of waves?
A. BREAKWATER
75. In 1904, King Edward VII (the Seventh) granted the prefix “Royal” to which law enforcement
organization?
A. NORTH WEST MOUNTED POLICE
76. A container is poisonous if it has what symbol on it’s label?
A. SKULL AND CROSS BONES
77. A tooth is composed of roots set in a socket, a gum-covered neck, and a hard white enamel part called what?
A. CROWN
78. Which of the Great Lakes does not touch Canada?
A. MICHIGAN

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79. Which is the only sign of the Zodiac which doesn’t represent a living thing?
A. LIBRA (SCALES)
80. In what western Canadian city would I find Stanley Park?
A. VANCOUVER
END OF GAME
TIE-BREAKERS IF NECESSARY
1. What was Mussolini’s Italian title?

A. IL DUCE
2. What does ICBM stand for?
A. INTERCONTINENTAL BALLISTIC MISSILE
3. If you were having John Dory for lunch, what type of food would you be eating?
A. FISH
4. In the comics, who lives at 39 Stone Canyon Way?
A. THE FLINTSTONES

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Executive Director: Daniel Hill

40 POINT SNAPSTART TO BEGIN ROUND ONE

30 POINT OPEN QUESTION– MEDICAL CONDITIONS

40 POINT OPEN QUESTION– CITIES

8. In what country would you find Helsinki?

40 POINT TEAM QUESTION

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PART TWO: The remaining questions deal with accounting/financial management.

13. An account used to make small cash payments is called what?

16. In what year did Apollo 11 land on the moon?

80-POINTS ASSIGNED QUESTION – SPELLING

30 POINTS OPEN QUESTION– ASTRONOMY

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40 POINT SNAPSTART TO END ROUND ONE

ONE-MINUTE BREAK TO ROUND TWO

40 POINT SNAPSTART TO BEGIN ROUND TWO

32. Who was the first Canadian woman to go into space?

40 POINT WHAT AM I? QUESTION

CLUE A. I am a sport in which teams consist of two, four, or eight members.

CLUE C. In my competitions, long, narrow vessels called shells are used.

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40 POINT TEAM QUESTION

40. For ten points, what is the fourth largest continent?

PART TWO: The remaining questions deal with SOUTH AMERICA.

40 POINT OPEN QUESTION– CANADIAN BLUE THINGS

44. What sailing vessel is depicted on the Canadian dime?

40 POINT SNAPOUT TO END ROUND TWO

48. Which explorer founded the city of Quebec?

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40 POINT SNAPSTART TO BEGIN ROUND THREE

52. What is the second-highest part in four-part music?

20 POINT OPEN QUESTION– NAMES

56. Imperial measure of long distance.

20 POINT OPEN QUESTION– VOLCANOES

58. Mauna Loa

40 POINT OPEN QUESTION– ANCIENT EGYPT

40 POINT WHAT AM I? QUESTION

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30 POINT OPEN QUESTION– ISLANDS

65. In area, what is the second-largest island in the world?

30 POINTS OPEN QUESTION – OFFICIAL LANGUAGES

100 POINT SNAPOUT TO END GAME

73. What would I call the science or art of flight?

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1. What was Mussolini’s Italian title?

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