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Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #377 HS 1 Land Features in General, What Causes Anthropogenic Features on Earth's Surface? 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 Privateers In return for a pardon, the privateer 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 19th century, 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 sword, 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 Washington, 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.
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