S.S. Created by the Sumerians approximately 5,500 years ago, what type of writing uses symbols formed from wedge-shaped strokes to represent words?
Scholars' Bowl Varsity (Round 3)

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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
20 sec • 1 pt
Aramaic
Cuneiform
Proto-Sinaitic
Ugaritic
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
20 sec • 1 pt
S.S. This Southeastern nation made up of more than one hundred ethnic groups was formerly known as Burma and has its modern capital at Naypyidaw. Name this country whose former capital was Yangon.
Bhutan
Bangladesh
Myanmar
Laos
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
20 sec • 1 pt
S.S. Which former president of the American Railway Union ordered a strike against George Pullman's railroad company in 1894, and was the popular leader of the Socialist Party during 1920's America?
James P. Cannon
Walter Thomas Mills
Fredric Jameson
Eugene Debs
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
20 sec • 1 pt
L.A. While exploring the theme of death, both intentional and accidental, this American author penned his works all over the world, including Paris, Cuba, and Key West, Florida. Identify this author whose short stories include "The Short and Happy Life of Francis Macomber" and "The Snows of Kilimanjaro."
John Steinbeck
Ernest Hemingway
William Faulkner
F. Scott Fitzgerald
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
20 sec • 1 pt
L.A. Which two-word oxymoronic phrase describes a leisure trip accompanied by one's laptop and a list of employment-related tasks to be completed while on holiday?
working vacation
business leisure
computer hiatus
digital cruise
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
20 sec • 1 pt
L.A. One of the greatest influences on his modernistic style, according to T.S. Eliot, was this friend, poet, and fellow modernist author of "The Cantos." Identify this author who also wrote Ripostes and Hugh Selwyn Mauberley.
W. B. Yeats
James Joyce
Robert Frost
Ezra Pound
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
Math: Find the limit as x approaches 2 of the rational function: f(x) = (x2 + 5) / (2x – 1)
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