Round # 1 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #377 HS 1 Land Features In general, what causes anthropogenic features on Earth's surface?

man (human activities, people) 2 Epitaphs What is the last word in Shakespeare's epitaph?

bones 3 Equations If x plus y equals z, and w times x times y equals 0, which number must equal 0?

y 4 American Outreach Under what U.S. president was the Peace Corps established?

John Kennedy 5 Panhandles What two U.S. states have adjacent panhandles?

Texas, Oklahoma Round # 1 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #377 HS 6 Gubernatorial Powers What power is held by most U.S. governors to eliminate one or more provisions in a legislative bill without rejecting the entire measure?

line-item veto (item veto) 7 Ordered Pairs Point (0, 2) is on which axis?

y axis 8 Mammals What is the term for a herd or school of marine mammals?

pod 9 Presidential Changes When he was on his deathbed, whose wife was sworn in as the Argentine president?

Juan Peron's 10 Musical Scales What kind of musical scale has half steps between the third and fourth, and the seventh and eighth intervals?

major scale Round # 1 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #377 HS 11 Allusions Thanks to Samuel Coleridge, someone carrying an exceptional burden is said to have what kind of bird around his neck?

albatross 12 Airships Named the enclosed compartment suspended below an airship in which the pilot and passengers ride.

gondola 13 In return for a pardon, the Jean Lafitte helped what American general defend New Orleans against the British in 1815?

Andrew Jackson 14 Radiation What adjective indicates the kind of ubiquitous ionizing radiation emitted from natural sources that everybody is regularly exposed to?

background 15 Pressure The bar, a unit of pressure, is equal to about many atmospheres?

one Round # 1 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #377 HS 16 Diseases Rabies only affects what taxonomic class of organisms?

Mammalia (mammals) 17 Cloning In 1996, Dolly became the first mammal to have been successfully cloned from an adult cell. Dolly was what kind of animal?

sheep 18 Egyptian Myth Cleopatra was proclaimed the daughter of Ra, the Egyptian god of what?

the Sun 19 Legal Charges The specific charges brought against a president or a federal judge by the House of Representatives are called articles of what?

impeachment 20 Serials Reminiscent of a steep and imposing rock face, what is the term for a movie or a television series in which each suspenseful episode might end with the words, "To be continued ..."?

cliffhanger Round # 1 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #377 HS 21 Square Root Division To the nearest whole number, what is the square root of 2100 divided by the square root of 7?

17 22 Memorials A national memorial in what U.S. city features a field of 168 empty chairs representing those who lost their lives in the terrorist bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in 1995?

Oklahoma City 23 Lighthouses These are lighthouses in what state? Point Reyes, Point Cabrillo, Yerba Buena, Piedras Blancas, Punta Gorda, Alcatraz Island

California 24 Captives In 2014, U.S. Marine Sergeant Andrew Tahmooressi was being held in a prison in what country?

Mexico 25 Off the List Generally speaking, what are the two most common ways that a name can be removed from the FBI's list of the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives?

capture, death Round # 1 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #377 HS 26 Physical Phenomena These are properties of what physical phenomena that can be demonstrated in a ripple tank? diffraction, interference, reflection, reflection

waves 27 Hawaiian History In the , the Kingdom of Hawaii was mostly ruled by two dynasties, the Kalakaua and what other?

Kamehameha 28 Fossils Name the kind of fossils that formed when water containing minerals leaked into a natural mold to form a copy of the original organism.

casts 29 Books What is the name for an annual publication that contains information about the previous year?

yearbook 30 Exponents What is 81 to the 0.75 power?

27 Round # 1 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #377 HS 31 Volunteer Forces What group of volunteer cavalrymen in the Spanish-American War was also known as Wood's Weary Walkers?

Rough Riders (1st U.S. Volunteer Cavalry) 32 Prefixes What is the meaning of the prefix in these words? archetypal, archangel, archfiend, archrival

chief (main, most important, highest) 33 Painting Use of the impasto technique modifies the appearance and feel of a surface. Name this characteristic of a painting.

texture 34 Marine Mammals The two species of living sirenians include dugongs and what other herbivorous aquatic mammals?

manatees 35 Islands While Russia claims Big Diomede Island, what country claims Little Diomede Island?

United States Round # 1 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #377 HS 36 Ancient Babies Romulus and Remus survived, but were supposed to have been intentionally drowned in what river?

Tiber 37 Pestilence About 40% of the European population died between 541 and 542 as a result of what was then called the Plague of Justinian. And, between 1346 and 1353, it is estimated that from 30% to 70% of Europeans died from what they called the Black Death. What is the modern name for this disease?

bubonic plague 38 Jules Verne This is about what character in "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea"? The Abraham Lincoln was equipped with every weapon of destruction. More importantly, a large and quiet Canadian was aboard, known as the king of the harpooners.

Ned Land 39 Statistics What is the mode of this set of scores? 4, 5, 2, 6, 5, 9, 5, 2, 7, 6

5 40 Colonial Communications American patriots of the 1770s did a great deal of writing on the subject of British policies, but had no convenient means of spreading it from colony to colony until they developed what committees?

committees of correspondence Round # 1 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #377 HS 41 Waves What is the term for the distance covered by one cycle of an electromagnetic wave?

wavelength 42 Figurative Language What figure of speech is used in these lines? By the sweat of the eyebrow thou shall eat thy bread. He is a man of the cloth. Live by the , die by the sword.

metonymy 43 Meteorology Meteorologically speaking, what material turns into firn?

snow 44 Political Speeches Name of the speech at a national nominating convention that outlines the major themes of the campaign.

keynote address 45 Alchemy Which of the four elements of medieval alchemy was said to be hot and dry?

fire Round # 1 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #377 HS *Alt Seas Name either of the two seas closest to Point Barrow, Alaska.

Chukchi, Beaufort *Alt Coordinate Geometry The point (-5, 3) falls in which quadrant?

II (second) *Alt Diacritical Marks What diacritical mark can be added to the word "expose" to indicate a revelation?

accent (acute accent) *Alt Legumes Legumes have bacteria within their root nodules that can fix atmospheric nitrogen into what chemical compound that also contains hydrogen?

ammonia (or ammonium) *Alt American Foundations George , Patrick Henry, and Samuel Adams were among the 56 delegates that met in Philadelphia in 1774 at what organizational meeting?

First Continental Congress Round # 1 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #377 HS *Alt Infinite Density Associated with black holes, name the point in space-time at which the density of matter and the gravitational field are infinite?

singularity *Alt Light What is the term for the separation of white light into colors?

dispersion Round # 2 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #377 HS 1 Paintings Anna McNeill Whistler posed for her son in his portrait entitled "Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1." What is the popular name of this work?

Whistler's Mother 2 Sacrifices Historical records indicate that what people who sacrificed a human every day to help the sun rise sacrificed thousands at the dedication of the great temple at Tenochtitlan?

Aztecs 3 Adjuncts What is the adjunct in this line? Since it is so cold, you had better wear your ski mask.

Since it is so cold 4 O. Henry What O. Henry short story begins with this? It looked like a good thing: but wait till I tell you. We were down South, in Alabama, Bill Driscoll and myself, when this kidnapping idea struck us. It was, as Bill afterward expressed it, "during a moment of temporary mental apparition," but we didn't find that out till later.

The Ransom of Red Chief 5 Probability In your closet, you have two pairs of black tennies and two pairs of white tennies in a pile. If you just grab two of them randomly, what are the odds that the footwear will match?

3 in 7 (or 43%) Round # 2 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #377 HS 6 Geographic Accounts In 1875, who published this account of expeditions he had led? Report on the Exploration of the Colorado River of the West and Its Tributaries

John Wesley Powell 7 Waves With a name suggesting tiny blood vessels, identify the very small waves with wavelengths less than 1.7 centimeters which are the first to form when wind blows over the surface of water.

capillary waves (or ripples) 8 DNA The DNA molecule is formed of two intertwined curves. Name these special three-dimensional curves.

helixes (helices) 9 Goddesses What term for the science of promoting and preserving health was derived from the name of the Greek goddess of health, cleanliness, and sanitation?

hygiene (hygienics) 10 Currency Conversion Name the rate according to which you trade dollars for euros or pesos for shekels.

exchange rate Round # 2 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #377 HS 11 Independence In 1941, Lebanon declared its independence from what European country?

France 12 Portugal Portugal includes an area on the Iberian Peninsula and two archipelagos in the North Atlantic. These are Madeira and what other group of volcanic islands?

Azores 13 Fantasy Name the fictional ability of an entity that is able to physically transform into another form.

shapeshifting (metamorphosis) 14 Reasoning What form of reasoning is illustrated in this? Everybody I've met from Tuzigoot, Arizona, has brown eyes. It looks like brown eyes is characteristic of all Tuzigooters.

induction 15 Secessions Name the only U.S. state to secede from a Confederate state during the Civil War.

West Virginia Round # 2 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #377 HS 16 Clauses How many clauses are in this line by Garrison Keillor? I think the most un-American thing you can say is, "You can't say that."

3 17 Pressure Equal to the force of one newton per square meter, what is the SI unit of pressure?

pascal 18 Minerals Water-soluble minerals such as calcite, gypsum, anhydrite, halite, sylvite, and carnallite that crystallize by evaporation from aqueous solutions are collectively known as what kind of sedimentary deposits?

evaporites 19 Federal Abbreviations For what does the second abbreviation stand in this excerpt? A CIA spokesman could not explain why the OIG never carried out an investigation.

Office of the Inspector General 20 Independence In 1830, Greece won its independence from what empire?

Ottoman Empire Round # 2 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #377 HS 21 The World Wide Web In relation to the Internet, for what does the H stand in the abbreviation, HTML?

hyper 22 Poe According to Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Gordon Pym's home was on what Massachusetts island and whaling center?

Nantucket 23 Quadratics What are the two solutions to this equation? p squared - p = 12

4 and -3 24 Demonstrations The "Bonus Expeditionary Force" that once converged on Washington D.C. consisted of veterans of what war?

World War I 25 Songs This is the chorus of what chantey? Wa-ay up she rises, Wa-ay up she rises, Wa-ay up she rises, Early in the morning.

Drunken Sailor (What Shall We Do with a Round # 2 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #377 HS 26 Disasters What is the nationality of the captain of the ferry, Sewol, that capsized and quickly sank in 2014 in the Yellow Sea?

South Korean 27 Gases What is the term for the mixing of two gases caused by random molecular motion?

diffusion 28 Grammar While the inflection of nouns and pronouns is called declension, what is the inflection of verbs called?

conjugation 29 War Tragedies In 1950, a squadron of the Royal Australian Air Force mistakenly strafed a train carrying thousands of American and South Korean soldiers, believing it was a North Korean convoy. Some 700 casualties resulted. This error is an example of what kind of fire?

friendly fire 30 Volcanoes In 1903, a volcanic spine called Pelee's Needle grew to a height of about 1000 feet from the crater floor on what island?

Martinique Round # 2 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #377 HS 31 Nonsense Poetry This is from an Edward Lear poem about what kind of beings? The water it soon came in, it did, The water it soon came in; So to keep them dry, they wrapped their feet In a pinky paper all folded neat, And they fastened it down with a pin. And they passed the night in a crockery jar, And each of them said, "How wise we are."

Jumblies 32 Mean Proportionals 10 is the geometric mean between 4 and what number?

25 33 Presidential Pardons These people were pardoned by President George H.W. Bush for their roles in what scandal? Elliot Abrams, Robert McFarlane, Caspar Weinberger

Iran-Contra Affair 34 Cryptogams The best-known groups of cryptogams are algae, lichens, mosses, and what flowerless, seedless, vascular plants with fronds?

ferns 35 Surgical Equipment What part of the eye can be reshaped using a laser?

cornea Round # 2 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #377 HS 36 Planetary Days What planet in our solar system takes the greatest number of Earth days to rotate on its axis?

Venus 37 Campaign Funding What is the name for the kind of limited federal funds offered to presidential candidates that equals private contributions raised during the campaign?

matching funds 38 Military Reserves In the U.S., there are a total of 54 separate National Guard units, with one for each state, and one each for the territories of Guam, Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, and what islands?

Virgin Islands 39 Modifiers What is the intensifier in this line by Anne Frank? In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.

really 40 Novels This is a haiku version of what British novel? Boys stranded without parental supervision vote each other off

The Lord of the Flies Round # 2 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #377 HS 41 Solids These are characteristics of what geometric solid? Number of concurrent edges at a vertex = 3 Number of edges = 30 Number of vertices = 20 Number of faces = 12

dodecahedron 42 Memorials Commemorating forty people who died for the cause between 1954 and 1968, the Civil Rights Memorial is located in what Alabama city?

Montgomery 43 Pacific Isles If you were to sail due west from the island of Hainan, you would make landfall in what Southeast Asian country?

Vietnam 44 Waves What does a substance lose when it reaches a temperature called its Curie point?

magnetism 45 Architecture Architecturally speaking, what kind of structure is the Colosseum Flavian in Rome?

amphitheater Round # 2 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #377 HS *Alt Significant Figures There are how many significant figures in this number? .009820100

7 *Alt Kennings These are kennings for what? sleep of the sword flame-farewelled

death *Alt Holidays In relation to finance and the export of gold, Franklin Roosevelt declared what kind of holiday in 1933?

bank holiday *Alt Reduplication Somewhat suggestive of what you do to prepare firewood, what reduplicated word of Chinese origin means hurry, urgent, right away, and quickly?

chop-chop *Alt Oceanography Tide pools are found in the zone where the land and sea meet. Name this zone.

intertidal (littoral) zone Round # 2 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #377 HS *Alt Symbiosis What type of symbiosis is illustrated by the relationships between clownfish and anemones, gobies and blind shrimp, and corals and plant cells?

mutualism *Alt Eskimo Attire Name the soft boots usually made of seal or reindeer skin used by native Arctic people.

mukluks Round # 3 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #377 HS 1 Compound Proportions The definite proportion of water is one gram of hydrogen for how many grams of oxygen?

8 2 Territorial Disputes Navigational rights and territorial claims in relation to the Shatt al Arab were partly responsible for a war between what two countries in the 1980s?

Iran, Iraq 3 Radiation What is the generic term for the amount of radiation received by an organism at a particular time?

dose 4 Eccentricity While an eccentricity between 0 and 1 indicates an orbit with an elliptical shape, what orbital shape is indicated by an eccentricity equal to 1?

parabolic (parabola) 5 Mideast Government Since all power rests in the hands of its hereditary sultan, Oman is an example of what kind of monarchy?

absolute monarchy Round # 3 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #377 HS 6 Poetry In end-stopped rhyme, what punctuation mark is usually found at the end of a line?

period (semicolon, question mark, 7 Political Views and generally opposed the economic views of what other Founding Father and founder of America's financial system?

Alexander 8 Linear Speed A windmill has blades that are 36 feet in length. If they are rotating 72 times per minute, in terms of pi, what is the total distance traveled by the tip of one of the blades in one minute?

2592 pi feet 9 Feathers What is the predominant type of feathers on the bodies, wings, and tails of birds?

vaned (contour) feathers 10 Lakes What is the largest lake in Central America?

Lake Nicaragua Round # 3 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #377 HS 11 Kansas History The southwestern part of Kansas remained part of Spain, Mexico, and the Republic of Texas until the conclusion of what war in 1848?

Mexican War 12 Phrases Name the kind of phrase that begins each of these sentences. The game nearly finished, Wilt scored three baskets and two assists. Their faces smudged with ash, the survivors crawled from the collapsed building. His hands jammed in his pockets, he trudged out of the building.

absolute phrases 13 Stars What star in the constellation Orion is about a thousand times bigger than our Sun?

Betelgeuse 14 Sound In the study of sound, what is another term for "fundamental tone" or "fundamental frequency"?

first harmonic 15 Scary Story Settings In what state are these stories set? It Cujo Carrie Salem's Lot Dreamcatcher Pet Semetary

Maine Round # 3 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #377 HS 16 Statehood In 1821, what became the first state located entirely west of the Mississippi River to be admitted to the Union?

Missouri 17 Tetrahedrons In cubic centimeters, the volume of a regular tetrahedron with an edge of twelve centimeters is how many times the square root of two?

144 18 Theater Usually located directly in front of the stage is what sunken area where the musicians play?

orchestra pit (or pit) 19 Congress What is the name for a period between two legislative sessions of Congress?

recess 20 Armies What color is in the name of the anti-Bolshevik army that occupied the Crimea during the Russian Civil War?

white Round # 3 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #377 HS 21 Medical Treatment Medically speaking, all of these substances are used as what? procaine, lidocaine, halothane, enflurane, Novocaine, benzocaine, methyl chloride, chloroform, nitrous oxide

anesthetics 22 Wildlife While most deer have dendritic antlers, what corresponding adjective describes moose antlers?

palmate 23 Palindromes What is the last word in this lengthy palindrome? "Deliver desserts," demanded Nemesis, emended, named, stressed, ...

reviled 24 College Basics After matriculation, what is the name for the process of actually enrolling in individual courses?

registration 25 Presidential Quotations These lines are associated with what U.S. president? -It's morning again in America. -In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problems; government is the problem. -Are you better off than you were four years ago? -There you go again!

Ronald Reagan Round # 3 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #377 HS 26 Operations with Radicals Express the answer of this problem as a radical. square root of 343 - square root of 28

5 times square root of 7 27 Bermuda The nearest landmass to Bermuda is what North Carolina cape?

Cape Hatteras 28 Chemical Procedures What chemical procedure involves the separation of components in a mixture by passing them across a semipermeable membrane?

dialysis 29 Wars The War was also known as the and as what other war?

Tripolitan War 30 People Sequences Who is next in this sequence? Yitzhak Rabin Shimon Peres Benjamin Netanyahu Ehud Barak Ariel Sharon Ehud Olmert

Benjamin Netanyahu Round # 3 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #377 HS 31 Glaciers What land masses underlie the world's two largest continental glaciers?

Antarctica, Greenland 32 Home Loans Name the process by which a homeowner might lose a property because of repeated failures to make mortgage payments.

foreclosure 33 Ancient Literature What ancient civilization produced these works? History of the Peloponnesian War Seven Against Thebes The Birds Trojan Women The Apology Oedipus the King

Greece 34 Naval Vessels These are classes of what kind of U.S. Navy vessels? , Ethan Allen, Narwhal, Los Angeles, Ohio, Seawolf

submarines 35 Pyramids What is the lateral area of a square pyramid with a base edge of 10 centimeters and a height of 12 centimeters?

260 square centimeters Round # 3 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #377 HS 36 Gerunds What is the function of the gerund phrase in this example? I hope you appreciate my letting you win our last 17 tennis matches.

direct object 37 Anatomical Synonyms What is a synonym for the term, esophagus?

gullet 38 Asian History What nation tried to establish the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere?

Japan 39 Music History What musical genre is generally associated with these performers? Benny Goodman, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Oscar Peterson, Dave Brubeck, Thelonious Monk, Count Basie, Duke Ellington

jazz 40 Electronics A diode has two electrodes arranged in such a way that electrons can flow in only one direction. Because of this ability, a diode is commonly used as what kind of device that converts alternating current to direct current?

rectifier Round # 3 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #377 HS 41 Functions If f(x) equals 3 times (9 to the x power), what is f(0)?

3 42 Historical Novels Name the massive slaughter that is central to all these works. The Book Thief Night The Boy in the Striped Pajamas The Hiding Place Schindler's List

Holocaust 43 The U.S. Capitol Honored Americans sometimes lie in state in what circular, dome-covered area of the U.S. Capitol?

Rotunda 44 Algebraic Fractions Given that x = 3, what does 2/(1/7 + 1/x) equal?

21/5 45 Mining The Cannington Mine in northwest Queensland is the largest mine in the world for what metal that made the Comstock Lode in Nevada famous?

silver Round # 3 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #377 HS *Alt Venomous Creatures The venom from the Australian sea wasp can kill an adult human in a matter of minutes. This creature is a variety of what kind of jellyfish?

box jellyfish *Alt Medieval Occupations In medieval Europe, what was the title of someone who performed procedures ranging from leeching and dentistry to surgical amputations, hernia repairs, and gallstone removals?

barber *Alt Foiled Monarchs What 16th-century Spanish king failed in both of his attempts to send his armada to conquer Britain?

Philip II *Alt Greek Using the names of the letters in the Greek alphabet, spell "auk".

alpha upsilon kappa *Alt Revolutions Prior to the October Revolution and immediately after what other revolution of 1917 named for a month did Nicholas II of Russia abdicate?

February Revolution Round # 3 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #377 HS *Alt Shakespeare What Shakespearean character says this? I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts. I am no orator, as Brutus is. But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man for I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech to stir men's blood.

Mark Antony *Alt British Parliament The Lords Spiritual, who sit in the House of Lords by virtue of their ecclesiastical role, are members of what church?

Church of England Round # 4 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #377 HS 1 Hummingbird Math At your backyard feeder, a hummingbird drinks .01 ounce in each meal and averages at least five meals per hour. In twelve hours of daylight, one hummingbird consumes a minimum of how much food?

.6 ounce 2 Relativity Einstein's theory of special relativity is based on the concept that what has an upper bound that cannot be exceeded?

speed of light 3 Law Abroad In 2014, although she was later freed, in what country was Meriam Ibrahim sentenced to be hanged after the birth of her child because she would not renounce her Christian faith?

Sudan 4 Consorts Empress Farah Pahlavi was the consort to the leader of what country?

Iran 5 New England Geography It is the eighth least populous but the second most densely populated of the U.S. states. Name this state bordered by Connecticut, Massachusetts, and the Atlantic.

Rhode Island Round # 4 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #377 HS 6 Islands During the last glacial period when the world sea level was low, New Guinea shared a shoreline with what larger landmass?

Australia 7 Invertebrate Phyla What phylum includes worms with bodies divided into many little segments that appear like a bunch of rings joined together?

annelid (Annelida) 8 Fictional War What kind of warfare is central to these stories? The Road On the Beach A Canticle for Leibowitz Alas, Babylon

nuclear (atomic) warfare 9 Political Slogans This was a slogan for candidates from what political party? Tippecanoe and Tyler too.

Whig 10 Loans You borrowed some cash and agreed to pay back 1.5 times the original amount plus $60. If you paid the lender $228, what was the original amount borrowed?

$112 Round # 4 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #377 HS 11 Sentence Types Classify this sentence according to its structure. If a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

complex 12 Art Forms Powder painting is usually done on surfaces made of what material?

glass 13 Queens Queen Jane, the third consort of Henry VIII, is also known as Jane who?

Seymour 14 Biochemistry What is the term for the ions that your body's nerve and muscle cells use to maintain voltages across their cell membranes and to carry electrical impulses across themselves to other cells?

electrolytes 15 Polymers In 1907, the world's first synthetic polymer was created and was initially used for electrical insulators. Name this compound produced by Leo Baekeland.

Bakelite Round # 4 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #377 HS 16 Juries What adjective derived from the French word for "small" applies to a jury of 12 that hears evidence in criminal or civil cases?

petit 17 Headlines What is illustrated by these newspaper headlines? -Leahy Wants FBI to Help Corrupt Iraqi Police -Union Demands Increased Unemployment

ambiguity 18 Washington Locations From what office did Kennedy present news of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Nixon announce his resignation, Reagan address the nation about the Challenger disaster, and George W. Bush speak to the nation on September 11, 2001?

Oval Office 19 Locus of Points How many points in a plane are two units from a line and three units from a point on that line?

4 20 Presidential Retreats Camp David is a presidential retreat located in what state?

Maryland Round # 4 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #377 HS 21 Unicellular Organism Anatomy These are anatomical features of what microscopic life form? contractile vacuole, nucleus, endoplasm, ectoplasm, food vacuole, pseudopod

amoeba 22 Hostility Cessation formally ended at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in what year?

1918 23 Literary Forms What term for a scholarly piece of writing was derived from the Greek words meaning "one, single, or alone" and "to write"?

monograph 24 Atmospheric Gases Because tremendous numbers of thunderstorms occur in the region where the Catatumbo River empties into Lake Maracaibo, the area is regarded as the world's largest single generator of what atmospheric allotropic gas?

ozone 25 Political Movements Named for a raid that occurred in 1773 at Griffin's Wharf in Massachusetts, what American political movement advocates adherence to the Constitution and reigning in excessive government spending?

Tea Party Round # 4 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #377 HS 26 Metapoetry This is the beginning of a verse is about what form of poetry? All we need is fourteen lines, well, thirteen now, And after this next just a dozen To launch a little ship on love's storm-tossed seas, Then only ten more like rows of beans.

sonnet 27 Headgear Name the traditional headgear based on cloth winding that is common among Muslims and Sikhs.

turban 28 Ellipses What is the name for the special ellipse with an eccentricity of zero?

circle 29 Physics Applications What effect relating to wave frequency and motion was used to locate the general region in which Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 probably went into the ocean?

Doppler effect 30 Operas Claudio Monteverdi's opera, "The Return of Ulysses to His Homeland," was based on what ancient Greek story?

The Odyssey Round # 4 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #377 HS 31 Ship Prefixes While the names for American naval ships are usually preceded with "USS," British naval ships are usually preceded by what prefix?

HMS 32 Phobias People who fear creatures such as tarantulas, brown recluses, and black widows have what phobia?

arachnophobia 33 Treaties In the , the president usually submits a treaty to the SFRC for review. For what does that abbreviation stand?

Senate Foreign Relations Committee 34 Canada What is the largest Canadian island?

Baffin Island 35 Poetic Analysis Scansion is an analysis to determine what characteristic of a line of verse?

meter (rhythm) Round # 4 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #377 HS 36 Historical Poetry This is from a poem about what Texan? When appointed justice of the peace, he served with zeal / His court rules were simple: No hung jury and no appeal, / Tapping his gun on the bar, "Court's in session," he exclaims! / He's the "Law West of the Pecos" just as the sign proclaims.

Roy Bean 37 Factoring These are the factors of what number? (2)(3 squared)(5 cubed)

2250 38 Mood These expressions indicate what grammatical mood? be that as it may come what may truth be told perish the thought far be it from me

subjunctive 39 Chemical Bonds What kind of covalent bond involves three bonding pairs of electrons?

triple bond 40 Movements These are important names in what movement of the 16th century? Johannes Hus, Thomas Cranmer, Jan Laski, John Knox, William Tyndale, Ulrich Zwingli, John Wycliffe

Reformation (Protestant Reformation) Round # 4 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #377 HS 41 Trees Pines are described as being monoecious, because they have what obvious male and female structures on the same tree?

cones 42 Lightning While inter-cloud lightning occurs between two separate clouds, what kind of lightning occurs within a single cloud?

intra-cloud lightning 43 Legal Defenses Sometimes in relation to charges of violence, assault, and even murder, the defendant admits responsibility for the crime but claims it was justified by the other person's threatening actions. Name this legal defense.

self-defense 44 Philosophical Allusions People who generally oppose war except as a last resort are sometimes referred to as "doves." This symbolic appellation is based on a biblical story about what main character?

Noah 45 Ports During the Civil War, what was the largest Confederate port?

New Orleans, Louisiana Round # 4 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #377 HS *Alt Broadway Musicals These are musical numbers from what enduring Broadway show? All That Jazz Cell Block Tango All I Care About Mr. Cellophane Razzle Dazzle Chicago After Midnight

Chicago *Alt Skin Problems What is the common name for papules, pustules, nodules, whiteheads, blackheads, and cysts?

pimples *Alt Surface Activity What is the term for the accumulation of a substance on the surface of a solid or liquid?

adsorption *Alt Borrowed Words These words came into English from what Scandinavian language? smorgasbord, tungsten, spry, wicker

Swedish *Alt Plateaus What plateau covers the southern half of Missouri and north central Arkansas?

Ozark Plateau Round # 4 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #377 HS *Alt Ancient Calamities These lines describe a series of calamities that struck what ancient land? -I will plague your whole country with frogs. -Stretch out thy rod, and smite the dust, that it may become lice throughout all the land. -I will send swarms of flies upon you. -I will bring locusts into your country.

Egypt *Alt Algebra If 5y-3 = -3y+5, what is the value of 2y+1/2?

2 1/2 Round # 5 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #377 HS 1 Character Classifications Who is the deuteragonist in the Sherlock Holmes stories?

John Watson 2 Harsh Old West Nicknames Because he was rumored to consume the liver of every Crow Indian he killed, one of the famous mountain men became known as Liver-Eating who?

Johnson 3 Sectors A circle's radius is 42 centimeters. An angle of 120 degrees separates two points on the circle's circumference. What is the area of the sector between the two points and the center?

1846 (or 1847 or 1848) square cm. 4 Evolution Name the earliest class of land vertebrates to evolve.

amphibians 5 Auroras Auroras are caused by the collision of charged particles in what layer of the Earth's upper atmosphere?

magnetosphere (or ionosphere) Round # 5 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #377 HS 6 Wars Named for a female monarch, what war of the early 18th century ended with the British taking Newfoundland, Acadia, and the Hudson Bay territory from the French?

Queen Anne's War 7 Geological Treasures Name the geological formation that has turned many sites in North Dakota into 21st-century boom towns.

Bakken formation 8 The Elastic Clause Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution gives Congress the power to make laws that are necessary and what?

proper 9 Employment Benefits If you suffer an on-the-job injury, you may be eligible to receive partial pay for your time out of work and compensation for medical bills. This benefit is called workers' what?

compensation 10 Nursery Rhymes What two fruits are named in the British nursery rhyme that includes these lines? Here comes a candle to light you to bed, Here comes a chopper to chop off your head.

oranges, lemons Round # 5 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #377 HS 11 Foreign Relations The Open Door Policy of the United States in the early 20th century particularly concerned economic relations with what Asian nation?

China 12 Age Problems Stan is 3 years older than Oliver. If Stan was twice as old as Oliver 2 years ago, how old is Stan now?

8 13 Rhetorical Devices What rhetorical device is used in this passage? My vegetable love should grow Vaster than empires, and more slow; A hundred years should go to praise Thine eyes and on thy forehead gaze; Two hundred more to adore each breast, But thirty thousand to the rest.

hyperbole (exaggeration) 14 Southeast Asia Bali is an island and province of what country?

Indonesia 15 Empires What modern country is located in the region that was once the Siamese Empire?

Thailand Round # 5 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #377 HS 16 Motion Reminiscent of a trigonometric term, what kind of motion is perpendicular to radial motion?

tangential motion 17 Skin Problems What skin disorder is also known as prickly heat?

heat rash (miliaria) 18 Deposition Alluvial deposits formed when a stream drops its debris load upon entering a body of water are often in the shape of what letter of the Greek alphabet?

delta 19 Island Poetry These works are primarily about the early settlers of what island that sits atop the Mid-Atlantic Ridge? Grettir's Saga Mjal's Saga Egil's Saga Saga of Eric the Red

Iceland 20 Espionage In 1948, Whittaker Chambers accused Alger Hiss of being a spy for what country?

Soviet Union Round # 5 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #377 HS 21 Mixture Problems You have a half liter of a 75% alcohol solution. To make this a 50% alcohol solution, how much water must be added?

one fourth (or .25) liter 22 Pillars An obelisk has how many sides?

four 23 Economic Vocabulary What is the economic term for anything of value owned by an individual or an organization?

asset 24 Assassinations What Israeli prime minister was assassinated in 1995?

Yitzhak Rabin 25 Electrical Ananyms What unit of electrical conductance, also known as a siemens, is an ananym for "ohm"?

mho Round # 5 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #377 HS 26 Ecology The total area occupied by a population is called its geographic what?

range 27 Mountains What mountain range crosses Bhutan, Nepal, China, India, and Pakistan?

Himalayas 28 Short Stories This excerpt is from what story? A stone hit her on the side of the head. Old Man Warner was saying, "Come on, come on, everyone". Steve Adams was in the front of the crowd of villagers, with Mrs. Graves beside him.

The Lottery 29 International Relations Prior to the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Charles Lindbergh worked to prevent America from participating in World War II. At that time, he was known as what kind of an "ist"?

isolationist 30 Chemical Radicals Methyl is an alkyl radical derived from what flammable gas?

methane Round # 5 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #377 HS 31 Continental Geology Name either of the two major protocontinents that were derived from Pangaea.

Laurasia, Gondwana 32 Zoology What kind of creatures have a metasoma or tail with six segments, the last of which is the telson and its venom-injecting barb?

scorpions 33 Brits What British politician, explorer, writer, soldier, seeker of El Dorado, and would-be colonizer of the Dominion of Virginia is also remembered for popularizing tobacco in England?

Walter Raleigh 34 Amendments In the 8th Amendment, what kind of bail cannot be required?

excessive 35 Financial Matters of Perspective In 2014, what former first lady with a net worth exceeding $50 million claimed in an interview to not be "truly well off" and to have been "dead broke" when she and her husband left the ?

Hillary Clinton Round # 5 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #377 HS 36 Prisons Chateau d'If is a setting for what novel by Alexander Dumas?

The Count of Monte Cristo 37 Tense What tense is illustrated in the last clause of the poem, "Casey at the Bat"?

present perfect 38 Congressional Action In what year did the U.S. Congress pass compromise legislation that admitted California as a free state and settled the Texas-New Mexico boundary dispute?

1850 39 Digestive System Anatomy What part of the lower gastrointestinal tract includes the cecum, vermiform appendix, ascending, transverse, and descending colon, and the rectum?

large intestine 40 Anesthetics The first effective local anesthetic was what crystalline alkaloid extracted from coca leaves?

cocaine Round # 5 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #377 HS 41 Sports Vocabulary These are terms specific to what sport? advance-lunge, riposte, counter perry, flick, hilt, thrust, point-in-line, en garde

fencing 42 Deserts What is the largest peninsula in the Sonoran Desert?

Baja California 43 Rotation The vector quantity that represents the product of a body's rotational inertia and rotational velocity about a particular axis is called angular what?

momentum 44 Stellar Evolution A protosun is the central material that eventually becomes a star when what kind of nuclear reaction begins?

fusion (nuclear fusion) 45 Idioms What are you said to be building in the air if you have dreams and plans that are very unlikely to come true?

castles Round # 5 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #377 HS *Alt Verbs What broad category of action verbs is illustrated in these lines? Charles chuckled. The team stood tall. Farnsworth flew through the forest. Alice will arrive at the arbor in August. Sarah sits on the soft sofa every Saturday.

intransitive verbs *Alt Rifts The Fundy Basin is a rift basin in what country?

Canada *Alt Songs The song, "And Your Little Dog Too," was inspired by a story by what American writer?

L. Frank Baum *Alt Presidential Positions Who was the only former U.S. president to openly support the South during the Civil War?

Franklin Pierce *Alt British History In 1707, by the Parliamentary Acts of Union, what was formed by England, Wales, and Scotland?

United Kingdom (of Great Britain) Round # 5 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #377 HS *Alt Mergers While a horizontal merger involves the joining of two businesses that produce similar products, what kind of merger involves combining two businesses, one of which supplies materials for the other's products?

vertical merger *Alt Parliamentary Legislation In 1766, the British Parliament passed what act that proclaimed its ability "to bind the colonies in all cases whatsoever," which essentially meant that under no circumstances would Parliament abandon its right to legislate for the 13 colonies?

Declaratory Act