Matt Arthur ES wins Elementary Academic Bowl

Matt Arthur Elementary won the Elementary School Academic Bowl held March 22. About 100 children on 14 teams from Houston’s elementary schools competed throughout the day, culminating in a single elimination competition.

The Elementary School Academic Bowl is held only at the local level. This Bowl helps prepare the young students for the Middle School Academic Bowl competition. Earlier this year the Middle School Academic Bowl competitions took place at three levels: local, regional and state.

Questions:

1. (fine arts) “He designed the dome of St. Peter’s Basilica and painted a fresco of The Last Judgment. Name this Italian Renaissance maker of the famous sculpture David and painter of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.”

2. (math) “It is true for addition and multiplication — but not for division or subtraction. Identify this property that says, when you add or multiply quantities together, the order in which you do it doesn’t matter.”

3. (science) “It is the heaviest part of an atom because it contains protons and neutrons. What term is also used to describe the part of a plant or animal cell where all of the cell’s important functions take place?”

(Answers are at the end.)

Teams that answer the first question correctly have the opportunity to answer bonus questions such as:

Bonus language arts – Answer these about historical settings of various stories:

A. The Hiding Place is set during this major 20th-century conflict.

B. The Call of the Wild is mostly set in this U.S. state – before it became a state.

C. Otto of the Silver Hand is set in this European country during the Dark Ages, where Otto lives in Castle Drachenhausen.

D. The Black Arrow is set during this European country’s medieval Wars of the Roses.

Bonus – social studies – Name the U.S. President during each of these wars:

A. the War of 1812

B. the Civil War

C. World War I

D. World War II

Answers:

1. Michelangelo Buonarroti; 2. commutative property; 3. Nucleus;

Bonus – language arts – A. World War II; B. Alaska; C. Germany; D. England/Great Britain/United Kingdom

Bonus – social studies – A. James Madison; B. Abraham Lincoln; C. Woodrow Wilson; D. Franklin Roosevelt

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