Round # 1 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - JH Pristine #375 JH 1 Atmospheres What is the most abundant gas in the Sun's atmosphere?
hydrogen 2 Mermaids What word completes this verse by Ogden Nash? Say not the mermaid is a myth, I knew one once named Mrs. Smith. She stood while playing cards or knitting; Mermaids are not equipped for ...
sitting 3 Reasoning You are running in a race and overtake the runner in second place. What position are you in now?
second 4 Settlements Located in Florida, name the oldest, continuously inhabited, European-established settlement in the continental United States.
St. Augustine 5 Urban Vistas What mountains are visible from all of these cities? Triento, Klagenfurt, Bolzano, Salzburg, Innsbruck, Grenoble, Bern, Geneva
Alps Round # 1 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - JH Pristine #375 JH 6 Crash Sites In 2014, after being downed by a missile, the remains of the MH17 and its passengers were strewn over an 8-mile stretch of what troubled country?
Ukraine 7 Wordplay What form of wordplay is illustrated in these examples? ELF FARM RAFFLE DIAPER SIN IS REPAID SAME NICE CINEMAS
palindrome 8 Muscles What is the opposing muscle to the biceps?
triceps 9 Soldiers Because of the color of their uniforms, from the 17th century to the early 19th century, soldiers of the British Army were called what?
redcoats 10 Musical Notes What is the third note of the diatonic sol-fa scale?
mi Round # 1 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - JH Pristine #375 JH 11 Legendary Ships Whose ship was so tall that its mast had to be hinged in the middle so it could be taken down whenever it passed beneath the Moon?
Stormalong's 12 Transportation Technology Name the devices used to raise and lower boats between the different water levels of a canal.
locks 13 State History What state, before it was admitted to the Union, was called the Orleans Territory?
Louisiana 14 Solutions You forget about one of your hummingbird feeders for a prolonged period. As the days progress, small particles of sugar begin to form at the bottom of the feeder through what process that is also the term for any form of water falling to the Earth's surface?
precipitation 15 Vikings Erik Thorvaldson later was given what other name due to the color of his hair?
Erik the Red Round # 1 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - JH Pristine #375 JH 16 Body Temperature While hypothermia is a condition that occurs when the body temperature drops below 95 degrees F, what condition occurs when the body temperature exceeds 99.5 degrees F?
hyperthermia (fever) 17 European Invaders In 1053, the Norman invader Robert Guiscard conquered Sicily and established a kingdom on the southern part of what peninsula to its north?
Italy (Italian Peninsula) 18 Settings The kingdoms of Florin and Guilder are settings for what work by William Goldman?
The Princess Bride 19 Economic Pricing Reminiscent of evacuating the air from a balloon, what economic term indicates a general decrease in the price of goods and services?
deflation 20 Science Fiction According to science fiction principles, what must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law?
robot Round # 1 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - JH Pristine #375 JH 21 Business Calculations Willamina makes wooden coasters for $1.80 each and sells them for $3.00. How many will she have to sell to earn a profit of $48.00?
40 22 State History This is one account about an incident in the history of what U.S. state? Having won a bloodless victory at Sonoma, Ide and Merritt then took a cotton sheet and with some red paint, constructed a makeshift flag with a crude drawing of a grizzly bear and a lone red star.
California 23 Watersheds Precipitation in Minnesota can drain into either the Mississippi River ending in the Gulf of Mexico, the St. Lawrence Seaway ending in the Atlantic Ocean, or it may end up in what enormous bay?
Hudson Bay 24 Epidemics In 2014, an epidemic of what horrific viral disease claimed the lives of hundreds of people in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone?
ebola 25 Legal Homonyms What homonym for someone who is under legal age sounds like the occupation of someone who works to extract ore from the earth?
minor Round # 1 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - JH Pristine #375 JH 26 Energy What kind of potential energy is illustrated by all the food on a Thanksgiving table just before everyone sits down to eat?
potential chemical energy 27 Ancient Wonders Name the statue of the Greek god Helios built around 280 B.C. on the island of Rhodes.
Colossus (of Rhodes) 28 Waves Reminiscent of what you do with an axe, what is the term for small waves that produce a rough ocean surface?
chop 29 Extended Spoonerisms This is from a spoonerized version of what fairy tale? The food gary said that on the paby brincesse's beventeeth sirthday, she would frick her pinger and fall into a sleep deep, only to be awakend by lue truve's kirst fiss.
Sleeping Beauty 30 Angles There are five angles around a point. What is the fifth angle if the others measure 63, 75, 50, and 110 degrees?
62 degrees Round # 1 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - JH Pristine #375 JH 31 Buildings The name of what building in Manhattan was derived from the nickname for the state?
Empire State Building 32 Added Morphemes What is the name for an affix added to the beginning of a stem?
prefix 33 Architects What is the highest political office to which the architect of Monticello was elected?
U.S. president 34 Snakes What venomous snakes have distinctive red, yellow or white, and black colored banding?
coral snakes 35 Borders The longest uninterrupted border in Europe is between what two Scandinavian countries?
Norway, Sweden Round # 1 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - JH Pristine #375 JH 36 Eruptions Along with Pompeii, Stabiae, and Oplontis, what other city named for a mythical Greek hero was destroyed and buried by pyroclastic flows from Mt. Vesuvius in 79 A.D.?
Herculaneum 37 Diseases These are diseases and disorders that primarily affect what body system? hypertension, arteriosclerosis, angina, aortic aneurysm, pulmonary valve stenosis, arrhythmia, ventricular tachycardia
circulatory system 38 Literature What classification applies to stories set in nonexistent worlds in which the characters are often something other than human or in which humans interact with creatures such as trolls, dragons, elves, or kelpies?
fantasy 39 Sums and Products What is the largest possible product for two odd integers whose sum is 36?
323 40 Colonial Chronology Georgia was founded in 1733. That was how many years after Jamestown?
126 Round # 1 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - JH Pristine #375 JH 41 Waves A wave that encounters a solid surface may be absorbed, reflected, or what?
refracted 42 Fraction Conversion Convert 9/75 to a percent.
12% 43 Petrology These sites were formed in what kind of sedimentary rock? Longhorn Caverns in Texas Cumberland Caverns in Tennessee Secret Caverns in New York Lewis and Clark Caverns in Montana Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico
limestone 44 Meetings In parliamentary procedure, the acceptance of the secretary's record of the previous meeting is called the approval of what?
minutes 45 Island Settlers What extensive string of North American islands was colonized by Russians?
Aleutians Round # 1 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - JH Pristine #375 JH *Alt Banners in Binary Express the number of states on the U.S. flag into a binary number.
110010 *Alt Sensational Chemicals What taste is imparted by compounds such as sucralose, cyclamate, aspartame, and saccharin?
sweet *Alt Myriapods The name for what invertebrate comes from a combination of the Latin words for "thousand" and "foot"?
millipede *Alt African Nationalities What is the nationality of most people living in Cape Town and Pretoria?
South African *Alt Fairy Tales What Hans Christian Andersen story is about an aquatic humanoid with the upper body of a female human and the tail of a fish?
The Little Mermaid Round # 1 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - JH Pristine #375 JH *Alt Treaties In the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Mexico surrendered its claim to Texas north of what river?
Rio Grande *Alt Disasters In 1960, 61 people were killed in Hilo, Hawaii, as the result of what phenomenon generated by an 8.5 earthquake in Chile the previous day?
tsunami Round # 2 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - JH Pristine #375 JH 1 Musicals Simba, Scar, Mufasa, Nala, and Rafiki are characters in what musical that features these songs? Circle of Life Grasslands Chant The Lioness Hunt I Just Can't Wait to Be King Hakuna Matata
The Lion King 2 Historical Homophones What name for the site of the first battle of the Spanish-American War is a homophone for a strong, yellow-brown paper?
Manila 3 Plurals Name any of the three words in the Preamble of the United States Constitution that have plurals formed with the letters "ies".
tranquility, liberty, posterity 4 American Short Stories When Rip van Winkle returns to town, he meets his own grown-up son with what name?
Rip van Winkle 5 Travel Time If an extraordinarily speedy sloth ambles along at six miles per hour, how long does it take it go twelve miles?
two hours Round # 2 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - JH Pristine #375 JH 6 Pilgrims Name the cooper aboard the Mayflower who married William Mullens' daughter.
John Alden 7 Weather What are the two fundamental characteristics of muggy weather?
high humidity, high temperature 8 Marine Life What pelagic marine mollusk has the same name as the world's first nuclear propulsion submarine, a vessel built by Robert Fulton, and a fictional vessel commanded by Captain Nemo?
nautilus 9 Parasites What tiny, common parasites that feed exclusively on blood and are especially attracted to sleeping areas may be brought into your house on visitors' clothing, on used furniture, or in your own luggage when you return from a trip?
bedbugs 10 Courtroom Procedure In a courtroom, in response to the formal charge of a crime, the accused person is given the choice of answering with "guilty" or "not guilty." What is this response called?
plea (pleading) Round # 2 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - JH Pristine #375 JH 11 Archaeological Ages During what broad prehistoric period was rock widely used to form implements with edges and points?
Stone Age 12 State Capitals What is the southernmost U.S. capital city?
Honolulu 13 Authors Hugh Lofting wrote twelve books about what remarkable doctor?
Doctor Dolittle 14 Fraction Addition Express as an improper fraction the sum of 5 1/4 and 1 1/6.
77/12 15 Statehood What state entered the Union on the same day as South Dakota?
North Dakota Round # 2 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - JH Pristine #375 JH 16 Business Letters What is the term for the heading at the top of a business letter that usually includes the name and address of the organization and perhaps a logo?
letterhead 17 Computers The primary components of computers called chips are made mostly from what semiconductive metalloid?
silicon 18 Disasters In addition to excessive plowing and the destruction of native grasslands, what meteorological condition led to creation of the American Dust Bowl in the 1930s?
drought 19 Penalties What can be granted by a head of state that forgives a crime and cancels the penalty?
pardon 20 Weaponry During what period in European history did warriors use weapons such as these? morningstar, war hammer, maul, longbow, crossbow, catapult, trebuchet, pike
Middle Ages (medieval) Round # 2 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - JH Pristine #375 JH 21 Cinematic Quotations What character in "Star Wars" says this? Grave danger you are in. Impatient you are.
Yoda 22 Poems What poem by Robert Browning is directly related to these legends? Hurdy-Gurdy Player Abducts Children The Dancing Children of Erfurt The Rats in Neustadt-Eberswalde The Ratcatcher of Korneuburg Avicenna and the Mouse Plague at Aleppo The Ratcatcher The Children of Hamlin
The Pied Piper of Hamlin 23 Business Math Auks-R-Us bought an original auk statuette for $16 and marked it up 25%. Then, when it didn't sell, the item was marked down 50%. What was its price then?
$10 24 Legends These lyrics are about what legendary American? Some say he's from Georgia, Some say he's from Alabam, But it's wrote on the rock at the Big Bend Tunnel That he's an East Virginia man, That he's an East Virginia man.
John Henry 25 Cinema A novel is often used as the basis for a film. What is the term for such recasting of original material into a new form?
adaptation Round # 2 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - JH Pristine #375 JH 26 Space Exploration Launched by the European Space Agency a decade earlier, in 2014, what became the world's first spacecraft to rendezvous with a comet?
Rosetta 27 Explosives Around the 9th century, the Chinese discovered how to make gunpowder from a mixture of saltpeter, charcoal, and what pale yellow nonmetallic element?
sulfur 28 Bad Grammar What part of speech is unnecessarily used in each of these examples? Where did you get this at? Take your shoes off of the bed. Where did she go to? They will go later on.
preposition 29 Artifacts While some of the Dead Sea Scrolls were written on papyrus and bronze, most were written on specially prepared goat or sheep skin called what?
parchment 30 Borders What river forms the northern border of Kentucky?
Ohio River Round # 2 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - JH Pristine #375 JH 31 Fictional Critters In various stories, these are the names of what kind of animals? Artax, Gabilan, Blackjack, Gunpowder, The Pie, Rocinante, Shadowfax, Boxer
horses 32 Mathematical Properties What mathematical property is illustrated by this pair of equations? (6 x 7) x 9 = 63 6 x (7 x 9) = 63
associative property (of multiplication) 33 Symbols These are examples of what kind of symbols used in the Old West? Flying H Diamond T Box L K Bar Running N Lazy A
brands (cattle brands) 34 Amphibians What kind of amphibians make up the order Anura, a name that literally means "without tail"?
frogs (and/or toads) 35 Worms This is about what kind of worm? It is like something out of a horror movie. It's a wiggly, creepy-looking, ribbon-shaped creature that lives inside you, absorbing your nutrients and laying millions of eggs. It can reach 20 feet in length and live for years.
tapeworm Round # 2 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - JH Pristine #375 JH 36 Geological Suffixes What does the suffix mean in these terms? seleniferous, quartziferous, nickeliferous, argentiferous, garnetiferous, fossiliferous
bearing (containing) 37 Elections What is the term for a candidate selected to represent a political party in an election?
nominee 38 Climber Nationalities The Sherpa, Tenzing Norgay, accompanied a mountaineer from what country in the first ascent of Mt. Everest?
New Zealand 39 Idioms What word is missing in these idioms? like nobody's ---- I mean ---- funny ---- monkey ---- mind you own ----
business 40 Accents How many stressed syllables are in this line from "The Raven"? And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain
8 Round # 2 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - JH Pristine #375 JH 41 Numbers What kind of decimals result from converting these fractions? 8/11 25/24 4/3
repeating decimals 42 Historical People These people are all directly associated with the history of what country? Pierre Trudeau Jacques Cartier John Macdonald Leif Ericson
Canada 43 U.S. Rivers The headwaters of these rivers are in what mountain system? Cumberland, Tennessee, James, Potomac, Susquehanna, Roanoke
Appalachians 44 Metals The noble metals are those that resist corrosion and oxidation. The most common examples of these include ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, silver, osmium, iridium, platinum, and what other?
gold 45 Art Forms What kind of engravings are found on Newspaper Rock in Utah, Inscription Rock in South Sinai, Graffiti Rocks near Riyadh, Dighton Rock in Massachusetts, and Dabous Rock in Niger?
petroglyphs Round # 2 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - JH Pristine #375 JH *Alt Wildlife Ellesmere Island, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, Siberia, northern Canada, and Alaska are natural habitats for what oxen?
musk oxen *Alt Pie Pieces Seven pie lovers meet at Bluto's Bakery, and each consumes at least 3/4 of a pie. What is the smallest number of whole pies needed for this feeding frenzy?
6 *Alt Adjectives Name either plural possessive adjective.
our, their *Alt Exoplanets Most known exoplanets are giant planets believed to resemble similar planets in our solar system. Name any two of those four.
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune *Alt Historical Messages "What hath God wrought" was the message that what American inventor sent from the U.S. Capitol to Baltimore, Maryland in 1844?
Samuel Morse Round # 2 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - JH Pristine #375 JH *Alt Inscriptions What kind of inscription is this? Reader, I am to let thee know, Donne's body only lies below; For could the grave his soul comprise, Earth would be richer than the skies.
epitaph *Alt Famous Coins Spanish dollars or "real de a ocho" were also known as a pieces of what?
eight Round # 3 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - JH Pristine #375 JH 1 Substances Boron carbide, corundum, and diamonds are examples very hard, brittle, heat-resistant substances that are used to grind the edges and faces of rough surfaces. Collectively, these are known as what kind of materials?
abrasives 2 Knighthood In the Middle Ages, what code of conduct was expected of the perfect, courtly, Christian warrior?
chivalry 3 Vitamin Supplements What is the term for a dietary supplement, usually in pill form, that may include various combinations of vitamins A, B, C, E, K, and folic acid?
multivitamin 4 Proportions What is the smallest number when 168 is divided into three parts in proportions of 7, 8, and 9?
49 5 The Senate The composition and powers of the U.S. Senate are established in which article of the U.S. Constitution?
Article One Round # 3 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - JH Pristine #375 JH 6 Literary Techniques What word completes this passage illustrating epistrophe? Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And if we could achieve it, enough would not be ...
enough 7 Olympiads The first modern Olympiad began in January of 1896 and ended on the last day of what year?
1899 8 Fraction Division Divide -1/10 by -1/7.
7/10 9 Birds This is about what extinct birds? It was probably the most numerous bird on the planet, making its home in the billion or so acres of primal forest that once covered North America east of the Rocky Mountains. Their flocks, a mile wide and up to 300 miles long, were so dense that they darkened the sky for hours and days as a flock passed overhead. passenger pigeons 10 The Caribbean The easternmost point of the island of Hispanola is in what country?
Dominican Republic Round # 3 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - JH Pristine #375 JH 11 World Chronology In the same year that Aaron Burr killed Alexander Hamilton, who was crowned as the Emperor of the French?
Napoleon Bonaparte 12 Legend Poems The name of what legendary character is missing in these lines from a poem? Here lies ----, King Arthur's knight, Who died by a spider's cruel bite. He was well known in Arthur's court, Where he afforded gallant sport. He rode at tilt and tournament And on a mouse a-hunting went.
Tom Thumb 13 Fossils The name of what common fossil comes from the Greek word, "trilobos," meaning "three-lobed"?
trilobite 14 Aviation Name the system used to guide aircraft without assistance from a pilot.
autopilot 15 Characters of Fantasy Originally known as Smeagol, a character in "The Hobbit," was given what other name because of his habit of making "a horrible swallowing noise in his throat"?
Gollum Round # 3 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - JH Pristine #375 JH 16 New Spain New Spain once included most of what is now the United States west of what river?
Mississippi River 17 Philately Math In Phil's stamp collection, he has 240 European stamps and 320 United States stamps. What is the ratio of European to American stamps?
3 to 4 18 Special Journeys What is the term for a journey to a shrine or site of particular importance to someone's religious beliefs?
pilgrimage 19 Political Colors What American political party is symbolized by the color red?
Republican 20 Nuclear Nations What Mideast country is widely assumed to actually have many deployable nuclear weapons at this time?
Israel Round # 3 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - JH Pristine #375 JH 21 Anatomy The phrase, "tingling and numbness in the extremities," indicates what parts of the body?
hands and feet 22 Scientific Specialities What is the name for scientists who study fish?
ichthyologists 23 Fictional Creatures These are characteristics of what creatures created by H.G. Wells? -descended from humans -suited to a subterranean habitat -ape-like with large eyes and grey fur -no melanin in their skin
Morlocks 24 Historic Voyages In 1807, she made her first voyage up the Hudson river, traveling upstream 150 miles on the Hudson River from New York to Albany in 32 hours and returning in about 8 hours. Name this early steamboat.
Clermont 25 Colonial Documents In a letter to the Boston Committee of Correspondence, Samuel Adams wrote these words which are similar to those found in what later document? Among the natural rights of Colonists are these: First, a right to life; Secondly, to liberty; Thirdly, to property; together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can.
Declaration of Independence Round # 3 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - JH Pristine #375 JH 26 Modular Arithmetic In mod 5, the decimal number 13 reduces to what?
3 27 Minnesota Geography The high point in Minnesota is the top of Eagle Mountain at 2301 feet. The lowest point in the state is just 15 miles away at the shore of what lake?
Lake Superior 28 Magnets What kind of magnets are used in loudspeakers, doorbells, and generators, and to lift massive metallic objects or levitate the cars of maglev trains?
electromagnets 29 Military Resources In the 18th century, what country hired Hessians to serve in its military?
England (Great Britain) 30 Celebrations In 2014, when the United States celebrated its birthday, how old was the country?
238 years Round # 3 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - JH Pristine #375 JH 31 Galaxies Name the southernmost continent on which you could be standing and see the Magellanic Clouds.
Antarctica 32 Stuff from Around the World What are all of the following? Afghan afghani Sri Lankan rupee Danish krone Venezuelan bolivar South African rand South Korean won Kuwaiti dinar
currencies (money) 33 Sagas In Helen Cresswell's "The Bagthorpe Saga," the Bagthorpes live in what house named for a mythical horse?
Unicorn House 34 Territories Named for an intercardinal point on a compass, what was the first U.S. territory that came into existence in 1787?
Northwest Territory 35 Time Measures How many decades are there in 4 1/2 centuries?
45 Round # 3 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - JH Pristine #375 JH 36 Argument "Pro" is to argue for as what term is to argue against?
con 37 Wildlife What is the breeding period of deer or elk called?
rut 38 The Inquisition In 1633, the Inquisition forced Galileo to recant his belief in what astronomical theory?
Copernican (heliocentric) 39 Special Schools At a school specializing in which of the performing arts would you routinely hear these terms? cabriole, arabesque, glissade, entrechat, en pointe, pirouette, pas de deux
ballet 40 Substances What adjective describes a substance that will not dissolve in a solvent?
insoluble Round # 3 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - JH Pristine #375 JH 41 Panhandles Which state of the lower 48 has the northernmost panhandle?
Idaho 42 Hymn Tropes What are the two metaphors in these lines from a hymn? A mighty fortress is our God, A bulwark never failing.
fortress, bulwark 43 Inventors What man, who in 1835 received a patent in Europe for his revolver, received a similar patent in the U.S. a year later?
Samuel Colt 44 Primes What is the sum of the prime numbers between 10 and 20?
60 45 Precipitation What kind of precipitation is characterized by elevated levels of hydrogen ions caused by emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide?
acid rain Round # 3 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - JH Pristine #375 JH *Alt Rivers What is the term for the joining of two tributaries?
confluence *Alt Unusual Disorders Space sickness is experienced by about half of the astronauts as they adapt to what condition?
weightlessness *Alt Lakes In a region first explored by the Franciscan friars Dominguez and Escalante, Jim Bridger later discovered what huge, shallow, saline lake?
Great Salt Lake *Alt Myths This passage is about what legendary king? When he got home, he ordered a feast set on the table. At first, he was thrilled with his new ability, but then, when he touched it, his food and drink solidified into gold.
Midas *Alt Wildlife What class of animals ranges in size from a tiny gecko only 0.7 of an inch long to the saltwater crocodile which can reach up to 20 feet in length?
reptiles Round # 3 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - JH Pristine #375 JH *Alt Borrowed Words What language was the source of these words? hibachi, miso, teriyaki, wasabi
Japanese *Alt Candidates What noun indicates those elected officials who seek an additional term in office?
incumbents Round # 4 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - JH Pristine #375 JH 1 Combining Terms Combine the like terms in this expression. 3x squared - 4y + 2(x squared)
5(x squared) - 4y 2 Equipment What kind of device that puts an object or substance in revolution around a fixed axis is used to separate components in blood, enrich uranium, enable pilots to experience the effects of high acceleration, and dry clothes?
centrifuge 3 Shared Names What name is shared by a legendary British king and a hurricane that made landfall in North Carolina on July 4, 2014?
Arthur 4 Dangerous Routes The need for vessels to round Cape Horn was significantly reduced in 1914 with the completion of what massive construction project?
Panama Canal 5 European Rivers The Tagus River pretty much bisects what country on the Iberian Peninsula?
Portugal Round # 4 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - JH Pristine #375 JH 6 The Ocean Floor These are beneath which ocean? Kuril Trench Bougainville Trench Kermadic Trench New Hebrides Trench Tonga Trench
Pacific Ocean 7 Biological Etymology The name for what category of organisms requiring hosts was derived from Greek words meaning "a person who eats at someone else's table"?
parasite 8 British Fantasies These lines are from what fantasy? -Whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you. -Lots of little Bigwigs, Hazel! Think of that, and tremble. -For that matter, Odysseus himself might have borrowed a trick or two from the rabbit hero, for he is very old and was never at a loss for a trick to deceive his enemies. Watership Down 9 Pennsylvania History In 1751, the Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly ordered the construction of a 2000-pound copper and tin bell to celebrate the 50-year anniversary of Pennsylvania's original constitution. It was not until 1835 that it was given what enduring name?
Liberty Bell 10 Squaring What is 202 to the 2nd power?
40,804 Round # 4 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - JH Pristine #375 JH 11 Adverbs What is the first adverb in the refrain of "Oh, My Darling Clementine"?
forever 12 Ceramics After applying glaze, through what process does the surface of pottery become permanently nonporous?
firing 13 Kingdoms What kingdom was established by the subjugation of the smaller independent chiefdoms of Maui, Molokai, Lanai, Kauai, and Oahu?
Hawaii 14 Blood The three principal gases in your blood are oxygen, carbon dioxide, and what other?
nitrogen 15 Work How many foot-pounds of work are required to lift a 14-pound bowling ball three feet off the floor?
42 Round # 4 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - JH Pristine #375 JH 16 Punishment What phrase from the Eighth Amendment describes punishments that are abusive, brutal, unconventional, and bizarre?
cruel and unusual 17 Poetry This is an example of what form of poetry? In the amber dusk Each island dreams its own night The sea swarms with gold.
haiku 18 Population Counting Prior to the Civil War, for census purposes, a slave was counted as what fraction of a free person?
3/5 19 Colonial Math After the first year, just 38 of the original 144 Jamestown colonists survived. To the nearest whole percent, how many of the original colonists died?
74 20 Island Claims The island of Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego is divided between two countries. Name either.
Chile, Argentina Round # 4 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - JH Pristine #375 JH 21 Water Birds What is the predominate color of coot plumage?
black 22 Milling What powered early European gristmills?
water 23 Idioms What idiom indicating an obvious topic, which everyone present is aware of, but which is not discussed because it makes everyone uncomfortable literally means "a certain kind of pachyderm in a subdivision of a dwelling"?
elephant in the room 24 Scientific Notation Express 530,000 in scientific notation.
5.3 x 10 to the 5th power 25 Terrorist Trials In 2014, Ahmed Abu Khatallah was captured and taken to the United States to face charges relating to his involvement in the 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in what Libyan city?
Benghazi Round # 4 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - JH Pristine #375 JH 26 The Odyssey In "The Odyssey," what monocular creature cries out, "Nobody has hurt me. Nobody is going to kill me."?
Cyclops 27 Boats What kind of powerful boat is entirely designed to push barges?
towboat (push boat, tugboat) 28 Square Root Subtract the square root of 900 from the square root of 2500.
20 29 Motion What two words complete this limerick about circular motion? Of my motion, I don't know the source, But my nature's to keep a straight course; Yet I'm hampered, I've found, And I keep turning round, Drawn back in by ....
centripetal force 30 Symphonies Since Schubert's "Symphony No. 8," Borodin's "Symphony No. 3," Bruckner's "Symphony No. 9," and Mahler's "Symphony No. 10" were never completed, they are all classified as what kind of symphonies?
unfinished symphonies Round # 4 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - JH Pristine #375 JH 31 Nomads What is the primary language of the Bedouin people?
Arabic 32 Analysis What kind of analysis was initially developed by Sigmund Freud?
psychoanalysis 33 Term Limits George Washington's informal precedent for a limit of two terms for the U.S. presidency held until whose presidency?
Franklin Roosevelt's 34 Sports Teams By their names, you know that these teams are from what state? Chattanooga Lookouts, Greeneville Astros, Jackson Generals, Knoxville Ice Bears, Memphis Redbirds
Tennessee 35 Charactonyms J.K. Rowling's character, Remus Lupin, is a double allusion to both the twin brother of Romulus in Roman mythology and to a Latin word for what animal?
wolf Round # 4 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - JH Pristine #375 JH 36 Monsters While Champ is supposedly a monster inhabiting Lake Champlain, what major Atlantic bay adjacent to the Delmarva Peninsula is supposed to be the habitat for a sea monster called Chessie?
Chesapeake Bay 37 Consumer Math If a sprinkler cost $12 after a 15% discount, what was its original cost?
$14.12 38 Intensifiers Intensifiers add force or meaning to adjectives, adverbs, and to what other part of speech?
verbs 39 Helicopters What is the term for the long airfoils on helicopters?
rotors 40 Tourist Sites Located in London, what is the nickname of the world's largest four-faced chiming clock?
Big Ben Round # 4 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - JH Pristine #375 JH 41 Plant Reproduction Animals that carry a fine powderlike material produced in the anthers of seed plants to the stigmas of others are called what?
pollinators 42 Solstices In the Southern Hemisphere, the summer solstice occurs between the 20th and 23rd of what month?
December 43 Economic Factors What economic term indicates the amount that must be paid and/or the effort that must be invested to obtain something?
cost 44 Canine Characters This is from what novel? He made me so mad at first that I wanted to kill him. Then, later, when I had to kill him, it was like having to shoot some of my own folks. That's how much I'd come to think of the big yeller dog.
Old Yeller 45 Pirates The privateer Jean Lafitte operated mainly in what body of water?
Gulf of Mexico Round # 4 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - JH Pristine #375 JH *Alt Compass Sequences What abbreviation is next in this series of compass directions? NNE, ENE, ESE, SSE, SSW, ...
WSW *Alt Waves What is the wavelength if the crests of the waves are 16 meters apart?
16 meters *Alt Literary Parts What part of an adventure novel is analogous to the punch line of a joke?
climax *Alt Food Chains Every food chain ends with an animal with few or no natural enemies. These are known as what kind of predators?
top predators *Alt Charcoal Physicians routinely use activated charcoal to prevent a patient's body from absorbing what kind of harmful substances?
poisons Round # 4 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - JH Pristine #375 JH *Alt Empires What empire, that began in 1603 and lasted until 1997 when Hong Kong reverted to China, was the largest in the history of the world?
British Empire *Alt Age Problems Mel is 10 years old and Mort is 5. In how many years will the total of their ages be 31?
8 Round # 5 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - JH Pristine #375 JH 1 Dendrology There are no annual rings on what tropical, unbranched, evergreen trees?
palms 2 American Colonies Name any one of the four future U.S. states that were once called the Breadbasket Colonies.
DE, NJ, NY, PA 3 Time Calculations How many days are equivalent to 4320 minutes?
3 4 Whales A whale's equivalent of a nose is called what kind of hole?
blowhole 5 Planets Name the outermost shell of a rocky planet that comprises its crust.
lithosphere Round # 5 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - JH Pristine #375 JH 6 Vegetables The potato was brought to Europe in the 16th century from where it was first domesticated in the region of what mountain range?
Andes 7 Legal Islands What U.S. state in which recreational marijuana is legal is surrounded by seven states in which it remains an illicit drug?
Colorado 8 Political Slang What term that is synonymous with a hugely popular team sport also indicates aggressive and ruthless competition in politics?
hardball 9 International Agreements The leaders of how many countries signed the NAFTA agreement in 1992?
3 10 Antarctic Stories "The Last Place on Earth" is about the historic race of two expedition leaders to the South Pole. Name either.
Amundsen, Scott Round # 5 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - JH Pristine #375 JH 11 Round Trips When the Lewis and Clark expedition began its return trip from the mouth of the Columbia River, their destination was what Midwest city that had been their point of departure?
St. Louis 12 Lap Calculations If there are 4800 meters in 10 2/3 laps, what is the length of one lap?
450 meters 13 Anagrams Complete this anagram for "television ads." enslave ...
idiots 14 Borders What Canadian province borders the state of Maine to its north and northeast?
New Brunswick 15 Mutinies Famous mutinies include the HMS Bounty captained by William Bligh in 1789 and, in 1611, the good ship Discovery captained by whom?
Henry Hudson Round # 5 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - JH Pristine #375 JH 16 Lubricants The main purpose of lubricants is to reduce what force between moving surfaces?
friction 17 Cramping A major cause of cramps in skeletal muscles can be low concentrations of sodium, potassium, or magnesium ions in the blood. In this context, what is the collective name for those elements?
electrolytes 18 Petrology What broad category of rock is most abundant in the Badlands of South Dakota, Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico, and Bryce Canyon in Utah?
sedimentary rock 19 Prose These prose works all fit into what literary genre? Economics in One Lesson The Frontier in American History The Autobiography of Mark Twain Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
nonfiction 20 Tributaries Reminiscent of a piece of tableware, when two tributaries have the same name as the river into which they feed, what are they called?
forks Round # 5 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - JH Pristine #375 JH 21 Percentage Problems At a concert, there were 60 women who comprised 40% of audience. How many men were there?
90 22 Folklore in Classical Music In relation to sugar plums, what kind of diminutive, imaginary being in human form is associated with a work by Tchaikovsky?
fairy 23 Executive Departments What executive department of the U.S. government raises money by collecting taxes and selling bonds?
Treasury Department 24 Independence What is the largest South American country that did not win its independence from Spain?
Brazil 25 Infinitives What infinitive phrase precedes these words in the Declaration of Independence? ... that all men are created equal
to be self-evident Round # 5 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - JH Pristine #375 JH 26 Wildlife What shaggy-maned, gregarious, North American mammal has a large head, short horns, and heavy forequarters surmounted by a prominent fleshy hump?
buffalo (bison) 27 River Mouths The mouth of Australia's Murray River is in what body of water?
Indian Ocean (Southern Ocean) 28 Fictional Characters Charles Dickens considered "Little Fred" and "Tiny Mick" as names for a character in "A Christmas Carol" before choosing what other name?
Tiny Tim 29 Visual Defects While the lens of the eye is normally transparent, glaucoma may ultimately cause it to become impenetrable by light, in which case the lens would be described as being what?
opaque 30 Physical Properties A gold doubloon sinks to the bottom of the sea because what property of gold exceeds that of saltwater?
density (specific gravity) Round # 5 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - JH Pristine #375 JH 31 Drowned Lands Land of what country is at the western edge of the submerged landmass called "Beringia"?
Russia 32 Zoology The bodies of arachnids include an abdomen, four pairs of legs, and what kind of thorax that is fused with the head?
cephalothorax 33 Naziless Nations What landlocked European country adjacent to Austria was never occupied by Nazi Germany?
Switzerland 34 Will Rogers What word is missing in this line by Will Rogers? The difference between death and ---- is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.
taxes 35 Negotiations In 2014, how many detainees from Guantanamo Bay were released in exchange for Bowe Bergdahl?
5 Round # 5 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - JH Pristine #375 JH 36 Ship Stories These novels are about what kind of vessels? Das Boot Voyage of the Devilfish Crush Depth Run Silent, Run Deep The Hunt for Red October
submarines 37 Participles What is the participle in this example? We pushed open the door to the back room and found five young children, about six years or younger, huddled in a corner.
huddled 38 Monuments What lofty monolithic igneous intrusion or volcanic neck in Wyoming was proclaimed as a national monument by Theodore Roosevelt?
Devils Tower 39 Marine Mistakes Why is the term "jellyfish" a misnomer?
Jellyfish are not fish (vertebrates). 40 Ancient Greeks Hippocrates is recognized as the father of what field?
medicine Round # 5 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - JH Pristine #375 JH 41 Caterpillars As caterpillars grow, their exoskeletons become tight on them, which they periodically shed through what process?
molting 42 Rivers What is the world's most extensive river basin?
Amazon 43 Boiling The boiling point of water is highest in what American national park?
Death Valley 44 The Ocean Floor Terminating at the continental slope, what part of the ocean floor consists of the underwater part of the continental crust?
continental shelf 45 Figurative Language What figure of speech appears at the end of this description? He had a way with women that was at first endearing, then gradually engendered caution, and finally outright rejection, like potato salad at a summer picnic.
simile Round # 5 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - JH Pristine #375 JH *Alt Musical Instruments The term, pizzicato, applies only to what category of musical instruments?
strings (stringed instruments) *Alt Critters in Literature What kind of animals are these? Despereaux Tilling in "The Tale of Despereaux" Algernon in "Flowers for Algernon" Bianca in "The Rescuers" Stuart Little in "Stuart Little"
mice *Alt Insects The name of what tiny flying insect has a silent "g" in its name?
gnat *Alt Caribbean History In 1804, Haiti declared independence from what country?
France *Alt Earth Science Scales With a name slightly reminiscent of the first planet from the Sun, what 12-point scale is used for measuring earthquake intensity?
Mercalli Scale Round # 5 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - JH Pristine #375 JH *Alt Rulers With what ancient civilization is King Tut associated?
Egyptian *Alt Commerce Prohibitions While embargoes and economic sanctions are legal barriers to trade, what similar measure that prevents a nation from international trade is considered an act of war?
blockade