Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl Round # 1 JH - Meet #6 1 Lunar Phases When we observe a new Moon from Earth, what fraction of the Moon's surface is illuminated by the Sun?
1/2 2 Propaganda What propaganda technique is used by a campaign advertisement showing a candidate mowing his lawn or having a burger at a fast-food joint or spending some time on an assembly line?
plain folks 3 Probability What is the probability of a sure event?
100% (or 1) 4 Journals This is from the journal of what captain? Friday, 3 August 1492. Set sail from the bar of Saltes at 8 o'clock, and proceeded with a strong breeze till sunset, sixty miles or fifteen leagues south, afterwards southwest and south by west, which is the direction of the Canaries.
Christopher Columbus 5 Maps On U.S.G.S. topographic maps, areas of vegetation are typically indicated by shades of what color?
green Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl Round # 1 JH - Meet #6 6 Rights The franchise is the constitutional right to do what?
vote 7 Verbosity What one conjunction could replace all the unnecessary words in this example? In the event that enough people protest, the proposed regulation will never be enacted.
if 8 Agricultural Nuisances What common burrowing rodents with distinctive pouches on both sides of their faces can devastate lawns with their tunnels and destroy gardens in short order?
gophers (ground squirrels) 9 Outlaw Legends Even though he was a cold-blooded killer and thief, who became so romanticized through legends and stories that even Theodore Roosevelt once described him as "America's Robin Hood"?
Jesse James 10 Theater Abbreviations In stage directions, if "dsr" means "downstage right," what does "usl" mean?
upstage left Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl Round # 1 JH - Meet #6 11 Competition Tales These lines are from what story? They told Mrs. Olinski that they were The Souls long before they were a team, but she told them that they were a team as soon as they became The Souls. Then, after a while, teacher and team agreed that they were arguing chicken-or-egg.
The View from Saturday 12 Mirages The main physical cause of a mirage is not reflection but a bending of light waves called ...
refraction 13 Timepieces Located at the Palace of Westminster in London, the world's largest four-faced chiming clock is called ...
Big Ben 14 Commemorative Coins What is commemorated on the 1987 U.S. coin that features a piece of parchment, a quill pen, and the words, "We the People"?
U.S. Constitution 15 Light Transmission The opposite of opaque is ...
transparent Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl Round # 1 JH - Meet #6 16 Clouds What kind of clouds are formed by moisture carried aloft by thermals?
cumulus (or cumulonimbus) 17 Mental States These are types of what mental states? rapture, mortification, astonishment, pride, exasperation, joviality, eagerness, enthusiasm
emotions 18 Art Synonyms Hue is another word for ...
color 19 Unusual Races In Africa, what kind of birds are saddled, bridled, and run in races?
ostriches 20 African Nations What country of western Africa was named after a commodity produced by elephants that once was abundantly traded in the region?
Ivory Coast Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl Round # 1 JH - Meet #6 21 Vandalism What is the collective name for images, symbols, or words scratched, painted, or marked onto walls of private property?
graffiti 22 Novels In what novel is this passage found? The rock struck Piggy a glancing blow from chin to knee; the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
Lord of the Flies 23 Absolute Value What are the two values of P if the absolute value of P divided by 5 = 3?
15, -15 24 Moon Missions Two major setbacks to the Apollo Project occurred with the tragic fire on Apollo 1 that killed three astronauts and with which other Apollo mission in which an oxygen tank ruptured?
Apollo 13 25 Watersheds The world's three largest watersheds by area are the Mississippi basin, the Congo basin, and the ...
Amazon basin Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl Round # 1 JH - Meet #6 26 Rich Deposits In Bolivia and Afghanistan, there are enormous deposits of what soft metal used in the rechargeable batteries that power cell phones and laptops?
lithium 27 Tools of the Trade Auctioneers usually use what special hammer?
gavel 28 Change of State The vaporization of a liquid below its boiling point is called ...
evaporation 29 Patron Saints Joan of Arc is a patron saint of what country?
France 30 Heavenly Leftovers Comets and what rocky bodies are generally believed to be material left over from the formation of the solar system?
asteroids (planetoids) Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl Round # 1 JH - Meet #6 31 Equestrian Stories In the novel, "National Velvet," how does Velvet acquire her first horse?
in a raffle 32 Bike Rally Math Although there are 804 motorcycles at a rally in Fergus Falls, just 201 of them have fancy license plate holders. What percentage of the bikes do not have fancy license plate holders?
75% 33 Historical Documents The Mayflower Compact was signed in 1620 at what cape?
Cape Cod 34 Conjunctions What coordinating conjunction means "because"?
for 35 Musicals These lines are from what musical? And oh, what happened then was rich. The house began to pitch. The kitchen took a slitch. It landed on the Wicked Witch in the middle of a ditch.
The Wizard of Oz Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl Round # 1 JH - Meet #6 36 Physiology What is the general physiological term for these conditions? sluggishness, weariness, exhaustion, languor, sleepiness, tiredness, debilitation
fatigue 37 Straits The Strait of Magellan is at the tip of what continent?
South America 38 Explorers Sent in 1603 by King Henry IV to explore the St. Lawrence River, what French navigator then learned of the Great Lakes and Niagara Falls and established an enduring alliance with the Algonquians?
Samuel Champlain 39 Allergies What is the common name for the allergy associated with grass pollens?
hay fever 40 Civil War Novels In what novel by Irene Hunt does the protagonist, Jethro Creighton, lose a sister in a wagon accident, his teacher to the Union war effort, his brother to the Southern war effort, another brother to a Confederate bullet, and his president to an assassin’s bullet?
Across Five Aprils Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl Round # 1 JH - Meet #6 41 Coin Combos If you have $4.05 in dimes and quarters consisting of five more quarters than dimes, how many quarters to you have?
13 42 The Virginia Colony In 1773, Dabney Carr formally proposed the formation of a committee of correspondence before an elected body called the Virginia House of ...
Burgesses 43 Forces What force is opposed by buoyant force?
gravitational force 44 Homographs What homograph can indicate either common tools of loggers or lines about which an object is symmetrical?
axes 45 Eclipses Because of effects of Earth's atmosphere, the Moon can have what apparent color during an eclipse?
red (reddish) Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl Round # 1 JH - Meet #6 *Alt Lapland The westernmost part of Lapland is in what country?
Norway *Alt Fictional Heroes Based on his homeland, Conan the Barbarian is also known as Conan the ...
Cimmerian *Alt Insects These are varieties of what insects? painted lady, speckled wood, mallow skipper, yellowtail, monarch
butterflies *Alt Systems of Government While in the presidential system of government, the chief executive cannot be a sitting member of Congress, in what system of government is the prime minister always a member of the legislature?
parliamentary system *Alt Population Problems Today, there are 4 people comprising the entire population of Podunk. But, if the population doubles every 10 years, in 60 years, how many people will comprise the populace then?
256 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl Round # 1 JH - Meet #6 *Alt Planets The names of how many of the planets in our solar system consist of three syllables?
3 *Alt Law Enforcement For much of the Texas's early history, what organization acted as the only legal law enforcement force?
Texas Rangers Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl Round # 2 JH - Meet #6 1 Acids All organic acids contain what element that inorganic acids lack?
carbon 2 Dance The art of creating dances is called ...
choreography 3 Native Americans The Kalinago people, otherwise known as the Caribs, originally lived in what archipelago?
West Indies (Lesser Antilles) 4 Pronouns What reflexive first-person pronoun is missing in this? As for ----, now that I've won the lottery, I think I'll just keep on farming until it's all gone.
myself 5 Fantasy Characters What Hobbit, originally known as Smeagol, was given another more enduring name based on his habit of making "a horrible swallowing noise in his throat"?
Gollum Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl Round # 2 JH - Meet #6 6 Diagonals How many diagonals can be drawn in the polygon whose shape is like that of the building housing the U.S. Department of Defense?
5 7 Boundaries What line marking the southern border of Pennsylvania and surveyed in the 1760s has, since the Missouri Compromise, come to symbolize a cultural boundary between the northern and southern United States?
Mason-Dixon Line 8 Plate Tectonics Which of the world's great plates is bordered by the Arabian, the Indo-Australian, the Eurasian, the Anatolian, and the Antarctic plates?
African plate 9 Arachnids Gossamer is another name for what substance produced by many arachnids?
silk 10 Burns What is the more common name for the injury called cold burn?
frostbite Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl Round # 2 JH - Meet #6 11 Offenses The commercial harvest of white sturgeon in California has been illegal for 100 years. So, when several men were caught selling illegally caught sturgeon to a local fishmonger, they were charged with what crime?
poaching 12 Slavery The first importation of African slaves to the New World occurred in 1501 when Spanish settlers brought them to Santo Domingo on what island?
Hispaniola 13 Mountain Ranges On an alphabetical list of the seven countries over which the Andes extend, which is last?
Venezuela 14 Scary Short Stories This is from what short story? His horror was still more increased on observing that the head, which should have rested on his shoulders, was carried before him on the pommel of his saddle!
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 15 Investment Calculation To the nearest whole dollar, how much must you invest at the beginning of the year, at 5% simple interest, to have a total of $5000 at the end of the year?
$4762 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl Round # 2 JH - Meet #6 16 Colonists What member of the Society of Friends founded an American colony in 1681?
William Penn 17 Sentence Order Express this sentence in inverted order. A little learning is a dangerous thing.
A dangerous thing is a little learning. 18 Mechanics A compound machine consists of what?
2 (or more) simple machines 19 Lunar Vocabulary From Earth's perspective, when the sunlit fraction of the Moon is getting larger, it is said to be ...
waxing 20 Government Which branch of government generally has the formal power to interpret statutes?
judicial branch Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl Round # 2 JH - Meet #6 21 Manning the Military What modern practice for building military forces was introduced during the French Revolution through an act passed in 1798 which stated that "Any Frenchman is a soldier and owes himself to the defense of the nation"?
conscription (the draft) 22 Wordplay These lines illustrate what form of wordplay? -sealing the hick -damp stealer -larking pot -trout scoop -ready as a stock -chipping the TV flannels
spoonerisms 23 Novels In what story by Will Hobbs does the New Mexico boy who finds a flute during a lunar eclipse become transformed into a pack rat every night?
Kokopelli's Flute 24 Angles What letter of the alphabet best illustrates the concept of vertical angles?
X 25 Military Forces The United States Army superceded what other army that was disbanded in 1784?
Continental Army Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl Round # 2 JH - Meet #6 26 Virtuosos These people were all virtuosos on what instrument? Sergei Rachmaninoff, Joseph Hoffman, Vladimir Horowitz, Franz Liszt, Frederic Chopin
piano 27 Endangered Parks What national park, home of historic Fort Jefferson and famed site of sea turtle nesting, was threatened by the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico?
Dry Tortugas National Park 28 Resistance The filaments in a light bulb have a high resistance, which causes the electrical energy passing through them to be converted to light and what kind of energy?
thermal (heat) 29 Reasoning This statement illustrates what fallacy? Paranormal phenomena exist because I have had experiences that can only be described as paranormal.
begging the question 30 Allusions This quotation alludes to a horrible event in what country? The unbroken sound of our footsteps was beginning to feel ominous like the Bataan Death March.
Philippines Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl Round # 2 JH - Meet #6 31 Directions What intercardinal point is between ESE and SSE?
SE (southeast) 32 Trilogies The three works in the Harper Hall Trilogy by Anne McCaffrey include "Dragonsong," "Dragonsinger," and ...
Dragondrums 33 Squaring Square the quantity (x-y).
x squared - 2xy + y squared 34 Landmarks The Sergeant Floyd Monument in Iowa memorializes the only member to die, in 1804, during what expedition from the Mississippi River to the mouth of the Columbia River?
Lewis and Clark 35 Insects Ants use what structures to detect air currents, chemicals, and vibrations?
antennae (feelers) Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl Round # 2 JH - Meet #6 36 Surgery To prevent pain during surgery, what kind of agent is administered to the patient?
anesthetic 37 Storms Likened to an enormous hurricane that has gone on for at least the last 300 years, name the huge storm on Jupiter.
Great Red Spot 38 Judicial Officials In Scotland, the Lord President of the Court of Session is equivalent to what position on the U.S. Supreme Court?
Chief Justice 39 Twain What story by Mark Twain begins in 16th-century England with the births of Edward Tudor and Tom Canty?
The Prince and the Pauper 40 Political Policies Beginning in the 1940s, the intent of the U.S. containment policy was to stall the spread of what system of government and economics?
communism Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl Round # 2 JH - Meet #6 41 Novels In the novel, "Holes," the mild-mannered school teacher named Miss Katherine becomes what notorious outlaw?
Kissin' Kate Barlow 42 Complex Fractions Simplify (1/4)/(3/8).
2/3 43 Dire Days In late 1864, what president had to admit that "two-thirds of our men are absent, and most of them are absent without leave"?
Jefferson Davis 44 Nation Etymology The name for what South American country is derived from the Latin word for silver, "argentum"?
Argentina 45 Mechanics These are four common uses for what mechanical devices? -to reverse the direction of rotation -to increase or decrease the speed of rotation -to move rotational motion to a different axis -to keep the rotation of two axes synchronized
gears Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl Round # 2 JH - Meet #6 *Alt Early Forts Name the fort financed by John Jacob Astor near the mouth of the Columbia River.
Fort Astoria *Alt Zoological Structures In reptiles, birds, insects, and fish, what is the usual name for the zygote that results from fertilization of an ovum?
egg *Alt Wartime Nonfiction Two nonfictional works that tell of state political crimes during World War II through the eyes of adolescent Jewish girls are Anne Frank's "The Diary of a Young Girl" and what work about the Russians moving Esther Rudomin and her family to work camps in Siberia?
The Endless Steppe *Alt Heavenly Objects What is the more proper name for a shooting star?
meteor *Alt Beastly Songs This is a verse from what song about a gathering of birds and beasts? Said a flea to a fly in a flue Said the flea "Oh, what shall we do?" Said the fly, "Let us flee!"; said the flea, "Let us fly!" So they flew through a flaw in the flue
Animal Fair Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl Round # 2 JH - Meet #6 *Alt Historical Time Periods What significant event spanned the years 1914 to 1918?
World War I *Alt Distance Problems Along a straight road from Mooselvania to Boristown you drive through Natashaville and Peabody. The distance from Mooselvania to Boristown is 85 miles. From Mooselvania to Peabody is 20 miles, and from Mooselvania to Natashaville is 48 miles. How far is it from Natashaville to Boristown?
37 miles Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl Round # 3 JH - Meet #6 1 Complements What is the subject complement in this? The relatively young volcano is not yet fully formed.
formed 2 Rubber What kind of rubber is made by trapping countless gas bubbles within it?
foam rubber 3 Propagandists While Hanoi Hannah, Axis Sally, and Tokyo Rose worked respectively in North Vietnam, Germany, and Japan, Pyongyang Sally worked in what country?
North Korea 4 Skeletons Armadillos have which of the two main kinds of skeletons?
endoskeletons 5 Decimals Express 1/2% as a decimal.
.005 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl Round # 3 JH - Meet #6 6 Military Command Unless a state's National Guard is federalized, what is the title of the official who serves as its commander-in-chief?
governor 7 Fantasies In Ursula Le Guin's "Earthsea" books, what kind of creatures are Orm, Orm Embar, Yevaud, and Orm Irian?
dragons 8 North American Mythology Dating back to the ancient pueblo people, name the Native American deity often depicted as a humpbacked flute player.
Kokopelli 9 Fraction Addition What is the sum of 3/a and 2/b?
(3a + 2b)/ab 10 Scientific Homonyms What term may indicate either an ionized gas that is the fourth state of matter or the yellowish fluid in which blood cells are suspended?
plasma Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl Round # 3 JH - Meet #6 11 Capitals What capital city is at the confluence of the Ottawa and St. Lawrence rivers in Quebec?
Montreal 12 Antarctica Name the largest military base in Antarctica.
There are none. 13 Looking Glass Grammar What part of speech are the words in this quote that are not nouns or conjunctions? Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday but never jam today.
adverbs 14 Magma How does the density of magma usually compare with that of the rock surrounding it?
It is less dense. 15 Arthurian Novels In what novel by Mary Stewart do a dove, a falcon, a wolf, and a red dragon sequentially tell of Merlin's life?
The Crystal Cave Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl Round # 3 JH - Meet #6 16 Alaska What conflict temporarily stalled negotiations between the U.S. and Russia for the purchase of Alaska?
Civil War 17 Cubes You have a 3x3x3 cube made from 27 smaller cubes. If you paint the outside of the big cube and then disassemble it, how many of the small cubes will have exactly two painted faces?
12 18 Japanese Entertainers What color of makeup covers most of a geisha's face?
white 19 Illegal Practices What illegal act is that of "obtaining, delivering, transmitting, communicating, or receiving information about the national defense with an intent that the information may be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of any foreign nation"?
espionage (spying) 20 Economic Conditions Name the legally declared inability of an individual, organization, or government to pay its creditors.
bankruptcy (insolvency) Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl Round # 3 JH - Meet #6 21 Skin Conditions Often associated with those having fair complexions, small clusters of concentrated melanin are called ...
freckles 22 Larvae What is the name for the larvae of mayflies, silverfish, and grasshoppers?
nymphs 23 Infinitives Identify the infinitive in this verse. It was the schooner Hesperus That sailed the wintry sea. And the skipper had taken his little daughter To bear him company.
to bear 24 Governance What is the governing body of the Olympics?
IOC (International Olympic Committee) 25 Confederate Captives In 1865, Union troops in Georgia captured what Confederate president?
Jefferson Davis Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl Round # 3 JH - Meet #6 26 Rectangles The length of a rectangular lot is 5 meters less than twice its width. If the lot's perimeter is 230 meters, determine its length and width.
75 long, 40 wide 27 Seaside Nations Name the largest country adjacent to the Coral Sea.
Australia 28 Metals Bimetallic strips will coil and uncoil based upon changes in what?
temperature 29 Binary History Express as a binary number the number of Wonders of the Ancient World.
111 30 Continents The only continents that are not home to at least one landlocked country are Antarctica and ...
North America Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl Round # 3 JH - Meet #6 31 Mercurian Time Since a single day on Mercury is equal to 59 Earth days and since it takes 88 Earth days for Mercury to revolve around the Sun, to the nearest tenth, how many Mercurian days are there in one Mercurian year?
1.5 32 Manufacturing This refers to what arrangement of workers? When the chassis is done, it is forwarded to the engine installation crew, and then on again and again to different stations for the installation of the transmission, instruments, fuel tank, lights, seats, brakes, windows, axles, and wheels.
assembly line 33 Novellas "The Little Prince" begins with a pilot working to repair his downed airplane in what desert?
Sahara Desert 34 19th-Century Songs The song, "Follow the Drinking Gourd" is associated with what railroad?
Underground Railroad 35 Probability In a standard deck, what is the probability of drawing a black diamond?
zero Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl Round # 3 JH - Meet #6 36 Verb Conjugation Express in the past perfect tense the second person plural form of the verb "achieve."
you had achieved 37 Cranial Nerves The oculomotor nerve controls most movements of what organ?
eye 38 A Tyrant's Demise In Swiss legend, what kind of projectile ended the life of Hermann Gessler?
arrow 39 Paintings Diego Rivera, David Siqueiros, and Jose Orozco created what kind of paintings on the walls of many great Mexican buildings?
murals 40 Batteries For how many hours will a 20 amp-hour battery provide one amp of current until it is fully discharged?
20 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl Round # 3 JH - Meet #6 41 Landmarks These are historic landmarks in what state? Old United States Mint, Pony Express Terminal, Hale Solar Observatory, San Simeon, Donner Camp
California 42 Harry Potter What character in the Harry Potter books says things like these? -To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure. -It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. -It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
Albus Dumbledore 43 Industrial Firsts In 1859, an enormous industry based on what natural resource began with the work of Edwin Drake in Titusville, Pennsylvania?
petroleum (oil) 44 Consecutive Integers What is the largest of three consecutive even integers if their sum is 102?
36 45 Galaxies What kind of galaxy extends its "arms" from a central region as it spins on its axis?
spiral galaxy Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl Round # 3 JH - Meet #6 *Alt Ecological Analogies The hunted is to prey as the hunter is to ...
predator *Alt Participles What are the present and past participles of the verb "swing"?
swinging, swung *Alt Book Titles What is the name for the second part of the titles in these works? -The Shadow University: The Betrayal of Liberty on America's Campuses -The Minuteman: Restoring an Army of the People -Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand
subtitles *Alt Elections In what kind of proceeding are opposing candidates in an election given a few minutes each to respond to various questions about their positions on issues?
debates *Alt Poetry from Afar This verse illustrates the poetry of what alien race? Oh freddled gruntbuggly/thy micturations are to me/As plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee. / Groop I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes. / And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles, / Or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon, see if I don't! Vogon Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl Round # 3 JH - Meet #6 *Alt Great Parks The three U.S. national parks that have the word "Great" in their names are Great Basin, Great Sand Dunes, and Great ...
Smoky Mountains *Alt Poisoning These are things you can do to avoid what kind of poisoning? -Never burn charcoal inside a home or tent. -Never leave a car running inside a garage. -Never run a generator in an enclosed space.
carbon monoxide poisoning Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl Round # 4 JH - Meet #6 1 Trapezoids What kind of trapezoid has base angles that are congruent?
isosceles trapezoid 2 Force What is a common example of a non-contact force that affects all materials?
gravity 3 Reptilian Invasions What kind of enormous snakes have invaded much of Florida and its Everglades National Park?
pythons 4 Mesoamerica What tall, annual cereal grass was the first food crop to be widely grown in Mesoamerica?
maize (corn) 5 Trails Through what two states would you pass if you hiked the entire Tahoe Rim Trail?
California, Nevada Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl Round # 4 JH - Meet #6 6 Astronomical Observation What heavenly body that has an absolute magnitude of about +4.8 has an apparent magnitude of -26.8 because of its proximity to Earth?
Sun 7 Algae Name the giant algae that grow in forests in shallow oceans.
kelp (seaweed) 8 Novels Name the novel by Gary Paulsen in which Brian Robeson survives a plane crash in the Canadian wilderness with just an old windbreaker and a hatchet.
Hatchet 9 Colonial Infants Virginia Dare was born in a New World colony founded by what English courtier and navigator?
Walter Raleigh 10 Primes What is the sum of the prime numbers greater than 10 and less than 20?
60 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl Round # 4 JH - Meet #6 11 The European Union The names of what two countries that adopted the euro as their sole legal tender begin with the letter "F"?
France, Finland 12 New World Equines What conquistador introduced horses to Peru?
Francisco Pizarro 13 Attitudinal Antonyms What is the opposite of pride?
humility (modesty, meekness) 14 Illusions In contrast to hallucinations, what kind of optical illusions produced by light refraction can be photographed?
mirages 15 Protest Tactics In 1830, the National Negro Convention urged the public to abstain from purchasing slave-produced goods. Mohandas Gandhi urged his fellow Indians to not purchase British goods. The Arab League encouraged its members to avoid trade with Israel. These are examples of what kind of economic coercion?
boycott Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl Round # 4 JH - Meet #6 16 Adage Origins What is the modern equivalent of this statement written by Geoffrey Chaucer? It is not good a sleeping hound to wake.
Let sleeping dogs lie. 17 Special Nicknames What sobriquet is used for Abraham Lincoln?
Honest Abe (or Great Emancipator, 18 Multiples What is the least common multiple of 12, 16, and 30?
240 19 Alluvial Deposits A space shuttle photo shows a vast, triangular-shaped region where the Nile River empties into the Mediterranean. This landform is called a ...
delta 20 Anatomical Passages These are parts of what canal in the body? mouth, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine
alimentary canal Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl Round # 4 JH - Meet #6 21 Empires At its height, what empire controlled about one-fourth of both the world's population and its land area?
British Empire 22 Adjectival Geography What is the adjectival form of the name of the country that lies farthest west on the Iberian Peninsula?
Portuguese 23 Atmospheric Temperature The three means by which Earth's atmosphere is heated are conduction, convection, and ...
radiation 24 Dinosaur Tracks A triceratops takes 3 steps to walk the same distance for which a velociraptor takes 4 steps. If 1 step of the triceratops covers 1 meter, how many meters would the velociraptor cover in 12 steps?
9 25 Novels Who is the central character in the American novel from which this passage was taken? The cars zoomed by, the brakes screeched all over the place, his parents paid no attention to him, and he kept on walking next to the kerb and singing "If a body catch a body coming through the rye." It made me feel better. It made me feel not so depressed anymore.
Holden Caulfield Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl Round # 4 JH - Meet #6 26 Expressions Someone who routinely stay up late into the night is referred to as what kind of bird?
night owl 27 Huge Denominations If it were ever produced, a one quadrillion dollar bill would have a "1" followed by how many zeroes?
15 28 Free Fall What is the name for that velocity at which the upward force of air resistance exactly balances the downward force of gravity?
terminal velocity 29 Broadway Shows The musical, "Once Upon a Mattress," is an adaptation of what fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen?
The Princess and the Pea 30 Ancient Teachers In 343 B.C., when Alexander was thirteen, Philip II of Macedonia invited what Greek to become the royal tutor?
Aristotle Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl Round # 4 JH - Meet #6 31 Medical History In his work on yellow fever, Walter Reed demonstrated that the disease is caused by what simple life form transported by mosquitoes?
virus 32 Democracy What kind of democracy is illustrated when the members of a club vote to choose a new club president?
direct democracy 33 Landmarks In what U.S. state are these historic landmarks? Amana Colonies, Herbert Hoover Birthplace, Julien Dubuque's Mines, Fort Des Moines Provisional Army Officer Training School
Iowa 34 Kinds of Characters What is the literary name for the role that these characters play? Cruella DeVil in "101 Dalmatians" Ms. Barry in "Anne of Green Gables" the childcatcher in "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" the witch in "Hansel and Gretel" the warden in "Holes"
antagonist (villain) 35 Discouraging Words In the 19th century, the vast plains region of North America, east of the Rockies, was known as the Great American ...
Desert Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl Round # 4 JH - Meet #6 36 Means The weights of fish on one stringer were 13, 15, and 65 pounds while those on another stringer were 17, 25, and 9 pounds. What is the difference between the means of the stringers?
14 37 Pledge Analysis What is the first determiner in the Pledge of Allegiance?
the 38 Measurement Technology A thermometer using a sealed liquid in a narrow glass tube depends mainly on what form of heat transfer?
conduction 39 Business What is the collective name for these kinds of products? -blood meal from slaughterhouses -feathers from poultry processing businesses -molasses from sugar refining -bark from sawmill operations -slag from ore refining -salt from desalination operations
byproducts 40 Bones The humerus joins with what bone at the shoulder joint?
scapula Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl Round # 4 JH - Meet #6 41 Coastal Landforms Areas of relatively flat, low land adjacent to a coast such as those found along the northern part of the Gulf of Mexico are called coastal ...
plains 42 Brine Resources Israel annually produces thousands of tons of potash, bromine, caustic soda, magnesium, and sodium chloride from the brine in what body of water?
Dead Sea 43 Settings What future state is the setting for Laura Ingalls Wilder's fifth "Little House" book entitled "By the Shores of Silver Lake"?
South Dakota 44 Grounds for Acquisition Much of the stock of financially troubled corporations such as General Motors, Citigroup, and AIG was purchased by the U.S. federal government because officials judged these organizations to be too big to ...
fail 45 RPM If an electric motor is running at 4,800 rpm, how many degrees does it rotate in one second?
28,800 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl Round # 4 JH - Meet #6 *Alt Mideast Geography Name the largest body of water adjacent to Israel.
Mediterranean Sea *Alt Stories Featuring a city named Vulgaria and characters that include Caractacus Potts, Truly Scrumptious, and Baron Bomburst, what story by Ian Fleming is about an extraordinary car?
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang *Alt Afflictions These are disorders of what body system? pharyngitis, pneumococcal pneumonia, laryngitis, bronchitis
respiratory system *Alt Technological Abbreviations What does the abbreviation mean in this line? A GPS receiver "knows" the location of the satellites, because that information is included in the satellite transmissions.
global positioning system *Alt Navigation What common navigational instrument can be used by itself to calculate heading, with a sextant to calculate latitude, and with a chronometer to calculate longitude?
compass Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl Round # 4 JH - Meet #6 *Alt Crafts What craft involves the attachment of large numbers of small, rounded pieces of glass or plastic to each other or to cloth or leather with thread or fine wire?
beading *Alt Grammatical Constructions Identify the appositive in this example. Last March, Ellen and I visited the home of Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl Round # 5 JH - Meet #6 1 Abbreviations In the military, for what does AWOL stand?
absent without leave 2 Dense Populations In Monaco, there are some 33,000 residents living on .75 square mile. To the nearest thousand, the population density there is how many people per square mile?
44,000 3 Body Systems Name the two main gases involved in the primary functions of the pulmonary system.
oxygen, carbon dioxide 4 Jovian Planets Name the two largest gas giants in the solar system.
Jupiter, Saturn 5 Hieroglyphics What Egyptian hieroglyphic that symbolized eternal life was a kind of cross with a loop on top?
ankh Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl Round # 5 JH - Meet #6 6 Word Combos What compound word appears in the first line of Edgar Allan Poe's, "The Raven"?
midnight 7 Monarchies In a monarchy, everyone other than the monarch is called a ...
subject 8 Currencies The currency used in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, the Philippines, and Uruguay is the ...
peso 9 Books The Signet Classics Bible is about 40 percent shorter than King James Bible. Such a condensed version is called an ...
abridgement (abridged version) 10 People Real and Imaginary What surname is shared by Alexander Graham Bell's assistant who received the first phone call and Sherlock Holmes' close associate?
Watson Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl Round # 5 JH - Meet #6 11 Inequalities What is the value of R if -2R is less than -8?
R is greater than 4 12 Blended Words The term "moped" is a blend of what two words?
motor, pedal 13 Island Vistas A volcanic cone, Diamond Head, can be seen from what Pacific capital city?
Honolulu 14 Vikings What Norseman gave the names Helluland, Markland, and Vinland to various regions on the North American coast?
Leif Ericson 15 Temperature Conversions A room temperature of 70 degrees Fahrenheit is equal to how many degrees Celsius?
21 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl Round # 5 JH - Meet #6 16 Injuries Reminiscent of a North American ringed-tailed mammal, the condition of having two black eyes is called ...
raccoon eyes 17 American Government History The Philadelphia Convention of 1787 was a direct result of what convention held in Maryland in 1786 whose name is related to the future site of the American Naval Academy?
Annapolis Convention 18 Settings In what country are these books set? -Homage to Catalonia -South from Granada -The Sun Also Rises -Tales of the Alhambra
Spain 19 Poems for Disney to Capitalize On Name the poem by Goethe about a young man who tires of fetching water by the pail and who, when his master is away, enchants a broom to do the task for him.
The Sorcerer's Apprentice 20 Cubes What is the difference between the cube of 9 and the cube of 8?
217 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl Round # 5 JH - Meet #6 21 Architecture Jeffersonian architecture was born in the region that became what state?
Virginia 22 Law Enforcement Slang While "Peelers" refers to law enforcement officers in Ireland, what is their collective name in England?
Bobbies 23 Governments Since 1792, the governments of what European country have been called the First, Second, Third, Fourth, and Fifth Republics?
France 24 Parts of Speech How many adjectives are in this line by Adolf Hitler? The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.
4 25 The Eye What pupillary response occurs when you go into a dark room after being outside on a bright day?
dilation Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl Round # 5 JH - Meet #6 26 Mideast Geography Name the largest inland body of water adjacent to Israel.
Dead Sea 27 Metals Lodestone largely consists of what metallic element?
iron 28 New World Explorers The Franciscan priest credited with first bringing news to Europe of Saint Anthony Falls on the Mississippi River and Niagara Falls on the Niagara River was Louis ...
Hennepin 29 Physical Properties You have an unknown glob of material and find that no matter how much you squeeze it or stretch it or compress it, it returns to its original shape. This illustrates what physical property?
elasticity 30 Rock The name for which of the three main categories of rock is derived from a Greek word meaning "transform" or "change"?
metamorphic Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl Round # 5 JH - Meet #6 31 The Skull The part of the skull without the mandible is called the ...
cranium (skull) 32 New Years The celebration of Chinese New Year can occur in what two months of the Gregorian calendar?
January, February 33 Amendments These words by James Madison are reminiscent of what constitutional amendment? The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
2nd Amendment 34 Wildlife There are no coyotes in which U.S. state?
Hawaii 35 Expressions Complete this expression that means taking positive action, no matter how small, can help to dispel some worldly injustice or evil. It is better to light one candle than to curse the ...
darkness (dark) Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl Round # 5 JH - Meet #6 36 Double Negatives The faulty sentence, "I couldn't never find her," can be corrected either by saying, "I couldn't ever find her" or by saying ...
I could never find her. 37 Colonial Organizations Many members of the secret Sons of Liberty organizations were also members of the colonial committees of ...
correspondence 38 Life Mildew are a variety of what life form?
fungus 39 Blisters Resulting from the crushing or pinching of skin, what kind of blister occurs when a blood vessel close to the skin's surface ruptures and blood leaks in between skin layers?
blood blister 40 Homonyms What word may refer to a North American bird with a spiky crest and crimson plumage or a high-ranking Roman Catholic church official?
cardinal Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl Round # 5 JH - Meet #6 41 Latin America The two South American countries that have no border with Brazil are Chile and ...
Ecuador 42 Bay States Name either state that is adjacent to Chesapeake Bay.
Virginia, Maryland 43 Weathering Even if a car were to be exposed only to dry air, it would eventually rust due to what common form of chemical weathering?
oxidation 44 Mood What grammatical mood is illustrated in this? Take me to your leader.
imperative 45 Artistic Antonyms In terms of color, what is the opposite of a tint?
a shade Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl Round # 5 JH - Meet #6 *Alt State Geography Name the southwesternmost landlocked U.S. state.
Arizona *Alt Clauses What is the relative clause in this? The times that tried men's souls are over.
that tried men's souls *Alt Big Channels What strait lies between Siberia's Cape Dezhnev and Alaska's Cape Prince of Wales?
Bering Strait *Alt Reptilian Names What term for certain reptiles is an anglicized version of the Spanish phrase, "el lagarto," which means "lizard"?
alligator *Alt Humidity Indicators Relative humidity is usually expressed as what kind of number?
percentage (percent) Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl Round # 5 JH - Meet #6 *Alt Storage Facilities Used by manufacturers, importers, exporters, distributors, and wholesalers, what is another name for a commercial storehouse for goods and merchandise?
warehouse *Alt North Atlantic Colonists In the year 981, 25 ships carrying 700 Icelanders sailed for Greenland to establish a colony. This group was led by what exiled murderer?
Eric the Red