Topics/1998
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NOTABLES
Art and Music were separated this year. In Prior Years, Art and Music were called Fine Arts.
1998 has been by far the only year in which Super Quiz was the subject of Economics.
1998 Curriculum
Super Quiz (Economics)
The Super Quiz theme was Globalization: The New Economy, and included a special emphasis on Hong Kong.
Language and Literature
Novel: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Poetry constitutes 30% of the Literature Test
Music
The Music focused on the early 20th century. The breakdown was as follows:
30 percent Music Theory
70 percent Music History -- Composers, Backgrounds, and Selected Works.
- "Pierrot lunaire" by Arnold Schoenberg
- "Adagio for Strings" by Samuel Barber
- "Music for strings, celesta, and percussion" by Béla Bartók
- "Sinfonia India" by Carlos Chávez
- "Romanian Rhapsody #1 in A Major" by Georges Enesco
- "Concerto in F for piano and orchestra" by George Gershwin
- "Symphony no. 4 in G Major" by Gustav Mahler
- "Quartet for the End of Time" by Olivier Messiaen
- "Vision Fugitives for Piano" by Sergei Prokofiev
- "Che Gelida Manina" by Giacomo Puccini
- "Alborada Del Gracioso" by Maurice Ravel
- "Mazurka no.7, op.3" by Alexander Scriabin
- "The Rite of Spring" by Igor Stravinsky
- "Ionisation" by Edgard Varèse
- "Introduction to 'Tristan und Isolde'" by Richard Wagner
- "Ballad of Mack the Knife" by Kurt Weill
Art
Art dealt with works dating from the 13th to the 20th centuries; and the media ranged from sculpture to architecture to paintings. The breakdown was as follows:
30 percent Fundamentals of Art
70 percent Artists, Backgrounds, and Selected Works
Math
Algebra (40 percent)
Geometry (20 percent)
Trigonometry (20 percent)
Differential Calculus (20 percent)
Science
The Science Topic consisted of Physics and Chemistry, evenly divided between the Structure and Behavior of Matter.
Social Science
Social Science focused on the 20th century and included:
World Events (35 percent)
United States (25 percent)
Science and Technology (20 percent)
Arts and Leisure (20 percent).
