States Final

Question 1

Where was the 2019 National Tournament held?

Accepted Answer

Cornell University

Question 2

Dynamic Planet - What is the deepest point in the ocean?

Accepted Answer

Mariana Trench

Question 3

Ornithology - What is the scientific name of the bald eagle?

Accepted Answer

Haliaeetus leucocephalus

Question 4

Which of the following organisms have scientsits not found fossils of yet?

Accepted Answer

Bearasauras

Question 5

Circuit Lab - Which of the following is Ohm's Law?

Accepted Answer

V = IR

Question 6

Which of the following is not true of the Science Olympiad Founders' Scholarship?

Accepted Answer

10 students will be awarded the scholarship.

Question 7

Disease Detectives - Which illness is tied with storing foods with incorrect temperature?

Accepted Answer

Salmonella

Question 8

Astronomy & Reach for the Stars - How far away is the sun from earth?

Accepted Answer

90,000,000 miles

Question 9

Experiment and Data Analysis - How is a data point determined as an outlier?

Accepted Answer

A point that falls 1.5x the IQR from the 1st/3rd quartile.

Question 10

Which of these names was once the name for Road Scholar?

Accepted Answer

Road Rally

Question 11

Density Lab - Which law states "The volume of a gas is directly proportional the temperature"?

Accepted Answer

Charles' Law

Question 12

Machines - Which is not a simple machine?

Accepted Answer

Elevator

Question 13

Food Science - Which is not a type of fermentation?

Accepted Answer

Hydrochloric acid fermentation

Question 14

In which state was the first national tournament held?

Accepted Answer

Michigan

Question 15

Detector Building - Which of the following is NOT an Arduino model?

Accepted Answer

Qi

Question 16

Rocks & Minerals - Granite can be classified as what kind of rock?

Accepted Answer

igneous

Question 17

Which event is not run every year?

Accepted Answer

Write It CAD It

Question 18

Anatomy and Physiology - How many bones are in an adult human body?

Accepted Answer

206

Question 19

Crime Busters & Forensics - What color flame would you expect with Potassium

Accepted Answer

Purple

Question 20

Designer Genes & Heredity - Which of the following describes the purpose of a pedigree?

Accepted Answer

A family tree used to show the inheritance of a trait through generations.

Question 21

Water Quality - What characteristic of water does a Secchi disk measure?

Accepted Answer

turbidity

Question 22

Sounds of Music - Which of the following defines the threshold of hearing?

Accepted Answer

10^-12 W/m^2

Question 23

Chem Lab - An alkyl halide can react with an alcohol to form:

Accepted Answer

CH3-CH2-OH

Question 24

GeoLogic Mapping - What line connects all points on Earth with a magnetic declination of 0°?

Accepted Answer

Agonic line

Question 25

Meteorology - For a storm to be qualified as a blizzard, how fast must winds be?

Accepted Answer

35mph

Question 26

Road Scholar - In a topographic map, when do contour lines intersect?

Accepted Answer

never

Question 27

With over 300 teams in two divisions, this invitational was the largest competition ever held.

Accepted Answer

BEARSO Invitational

Question 28

Fermi Questions - In Fermi notation, what is the weight of the Earth in kilograms?

Accepted Answer

25

Question 29

Digital Structures - How is the Poisson's Ratio calculated for a material?

Accepted Answer

Stress/Strain

Question 30

Cybersecurity - Which of the following is best suited for representing weighted graphs?

Accepted Answer

Adjacency matrices

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