Round # 1 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #381 HS 1 Precipitation Name the kind of precipitation that typically accompanies fog.

drizzle (mist) 2 Game Literature These novels are about what game? Deadman's Bluff The Big Blind Cashed In Read 'Em and Weep

poker 3 Number Roots What is the cube root of -64?

-4 4 Ships What U.S. ship commissioned in 1797 is still afloat in Boston Harbor?

U.S.S. Constitution (Old Ironsides) 5 Seas The Ionian and Balearic seas are arms of what larger sea?

Mediterranean Sea Round # 1 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #381 HS 6 Parliamentary Motions A motion that has been adopted or accepted is said to be what?

carried (passed, approved, enacted) 7 Clauses How is the noun clause used in this example? I see by your outfit that you are a cowboy.

direct object 8 Flies What biting, bloodsucking fly, with a name reminiscent of a large, muscular, hoofed mammal, is also regionally known as a gadfly, zimb, deer fly, and bull dog fly?

horsefly 9 Egypt In 1956, the last part of Egypt from which the United Kingdom withdrew its troops was the zone around what canal?

Suez Canal 10 Painting Name the small, air-operated painting tool that uses a venturi to spray nebulized or atomized paint.

airbrush Round # 1 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #381 HS 11 Linguistics This excerpt from "The Grapes of Wrath" describes what characteristic of spoken language? Everybody says words different. Arkansas folks says 'em different, and Oklahomy folks says 'em different. And we seen a lady from Massachusetts, an' she said 'em different of all. Couldn't hardly make out what she was sayin'.

dialect 12 School Records What is the term for the official record of a student's performance in college, showing all courses completed and the final grades for each?

transcript 13 Inventions of the 1830s What famous agricultural invention had these elements? -a main wheel frame -a cutter bar with a reciprocating knife -a reel to hold grain against the knife and throw it back onto the platform

mechanical reaper 14 Fields of Science What field of science and engineering could be defined as the liquid version of pneumatics?

hydraulics 15 Moons What small moon of Uranus was named for the sprite in Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream"?

Puck Round # 1 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #381 HS 16 Sunglasses For what do the letters stand in the abbreviation "UV400" often found on sunglasses?

ultraviolet 17 Taxonomy Members of what order of mammals are divided into the prosimians and simians, otherwise known as anthropoids?

primates 18 Folklore Loki, Freya, Odin, and Thor are mythical gods of what region?

Scandinavia 19 Agricultural Economics The U.S. government's price guarantees for certain farm products to stabilize their values are called price what?

price supports 20 Giants What kind of mythical giants and brothers of the Titans were Brontes, Steropes, and Arges?

Cyclopes Round # 1 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #381 HS 21 Solids What solid consists of a base that can be any polygon and whose lateral faces are triangles with a common vertex?

pyramid 22 Colonies What British joint stock company established the New World settlement at Jamestown in 1607?

London Company (Virginia Company of 23 Whaling Communities Once a major whaling port, Sag Harbor is in what state?

New York 24 Guantanamo Detainees Five Taliban leaders who had been held for years at the Guantanamo Bay detention center were released in 2014 to what oil-rich Mideast country?

Qatar 25 Crime Unlawfully entering a building with the intent to commit a felony constitutes what crime?

burglary Round # 1 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #381 HS 26 Physics What is defined as the amount of energy consumed per unit time?

power 27 Communism Those in the mid-20th century who sympathized with communism but never joined the party or declared themselves communists were called fellow what?

travelers 28 Solar System Discoveries What minor planet was initially detected when the orbits of Uranus and Neptune were observed to be perturbed by some unknown object?

Pluto 29 Allegories Orwell's "Animal Farm" is an allegory using creatures on a farm to represent the communist revolution in Russia after the overthrow of what czar?

Nicholas II 30 Algebraic Expressions If a truck rental agency charges $25 per day plus 60 cents per mile, what is the expression for the cost of renting a truck for two days and driving x miles?

50 + .6x Round # 1 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #381 HS 31 Aircraft In April, 1942, sixteen B-25 bombers led by Jimmy Doolittle were launched from the USS Hornet on a secret raid that bombed cities in what country?

Japan 32 The Unexpected What expression relating to lightning indicates something that is completely unexpected?

bolt from the blue 33 Musicals What Lerner and Loewe musical was named for a legendary castle?

Camelot 34 Evolution The evolutionary spread of different species from a single common ancestor into different habitats is known as what kind of radiation?

adaptive radiation 35 Europeans What is the nationality of most people living in the region of Normandy?

French Round # 1 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #381 HS 36 Scholarships Wealth resulting from the mining of what gem made Rhodes Scholarships possible?

diamonds 37 Disorders High blood concentrations of uric acid can lead to painful inflammation of the joints, especially of the feet and hands. Name this condition once called "the disease of kings" or "the rich man's disease."

gout 38 Short Stories At the end of "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment," after knocking the magical water to the floor, the guests all vow to travel to what state in order to obtain more of it?

Florida 39 Logic Using the letters S and P, state the particular negative proposition.

Some S are not P. 40 Colonial Governance George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Patrick Henry were among the representatives who were members of what colonial legislature in the Virginia Colony?

House of Burgesses Round # 1 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #381 HS 41 Ions In an ion, the total number of electrons does not equal the total number of what other subatomic particles?

protons 42 Wordplay What makes this example a univocalic lipogram? Profs from Oxford show frosh who do post-docs how to gloss works of Wordsworth.

It only uses the vowel "o". 43 Rock Diatomite is also known as kieselgur and as what kind of earth?

diatomaceous earth 44 Quotation Completion What adjective completes this quote by a 19th-century French economist? Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody ....

else 45 Wars The United States was involved in what two major shooting wars during the Cold War?

Korean and Vietnam wars Round # 1 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #381 HS *Alt Solid Geometry What is another name for a regular triangular pyramid?

tetrahedron *Alt Speeches While George Washington's farewell speech warned of the dangers of political parties, Eisenhower's farewell address warned of dangers from what other source?

military-industrial complex *Alt Aerodynamics The four forces acting on an aircraft in flight are weight, lift, drag, and what else?

thrust *Alt Insect Anatomy The tympanum is a taut membrane at the junction of the thorax and abdomen in some insects that is used for the perception of what?

sound *Alt Wordy Proverbs How is this proverb usually expressed? It is inadvisable to obtain direct visuals of the incisors, molars and premolars of an equine that was obtained via transfer of ownership unaccompanied by compensation.

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth. Round # 1 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #381 HS *Alt Archipelagoes What insular area of the United States is in the Leeward Islands?

Virgin Islands *Alt Glaciers While mountain glaciers are also called alpine glaciers, what kind of glaciers are also called ice sheets?

continental glaciers Round # 2 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #381 HS 1 Songs These Scott Joplin songs are usually performed on what musical instrument? The Entertainer Maple Leaf Rag

piano 2 Massacres In 1692, soldiers mainly from the Campbell Clan perpetrated the Massacre of Glencoe against members of what other Scottish clan?

MacDonald 3 Archaic Words These archaic words are what part of speech? eftsoons, anon, verily, nowise, peradventure

adverbs 4 Argument What is the Latin phrase for the logical fallacy that occurs when someone attacks the character of the individual who is advancing an argument instead of disproving the argument itself?

(argumentum) ad hominem 5 Binary Conversion Convert this binary number to its base 10 equivalent. 1010101

85 Round # 2 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #381 HS 6 Voting During the height of the American Civil Rights Movement, what U.S. president signed the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act?

Lyndon Johnson 7 Meteorites What type of meteorites are found in the greatest number?

stony meteorites (chondrites) 8 Cacti What grow from the areoles of cacti?

spines (and flowers) 9 Fitness Skinfold measurement is a method for measuring the amount of what in your body?

fat 10 Legal Cases What kind of successful lawsuit requires the following conditions to be met? A doctor-patient relationship existed. The doctor was negligent. The doctor's negligence caused the injury. The injury led to specific damages.

medical malpractice Round # 2 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #381 HS 11 The Colonial Period Name the extensive, westernmost Pacific archipelago that was once part of New Spain.

Philippines 12 Deserts In what country is the Indus Valley Desert situated?

Pakistan 13 Drama What kind of medieval plays were based on Biblical events?

mystery plays 14 Probability Today there is a 4/5 chance that Israel will accept a cease fire agreement and a 2/7 chance that Hamas will accept. What is the probability that both Israel and Hamas will accept it?

8/35 15 Assassinations In 1963, what South Vietnamese leader was assassinated with the complicity of the CIA and possibly President Kennedy?

Ngo Dinh Diem Round # 2 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #381 HS 16 Ambiguity What word is ambiguous in this excerpt from Keats' "Ode to a Grecian Urn"? Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness.

still 17 Molecules What is a term for any molecule that can be chemically bound as a unit of a polymer?

monomer 18 Planets One recent study estimated that within the Milky Way are at least 17 billion Earth-sized planets. What is the collective name for those and all the other planets outside our solar system?

exoplanets 19 Espionage In the U.S. intelligence community, someone who provides secret information is often referred to by what term indicating a valuable item that is owned?

asset 20 Medieval Practices During the Middle Ages, name the act by which a lord granted freedom to a serf.

manumission Round # 2 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #381 HS 21 Lofty Architecture The Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building, is located in what oil-rich sheikdom of the United Arab Emirates?

Dubai 22 Compositional Gaffes This refers to what writing error? In Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra," the Egyptian queen wants to play billiards, a game that was not invented until some 1500 years after the timeline of the play.

anachronism 23 Age Problems Tommy Smothers is two years older than his brother Dick. If Tommy was two times as old as Dick last year, how old is Tommy?

5 24 New England History To protect British interests against the French, Fort Dummer was built in 1724 on the future site of Brattleboro in the region that became what New England state?

Vermont 25 Classical Music To avoid Russian censorship, what symphonic poem by Jean Sibelius was performed under alternate names including these? -Happy Feelings at the Awakening of Finnish Spring -A Scandinavian Choral March

Finlandia Round # 2 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #381 HS 26 National Names As of 2014, 135 of the world's 206 sovereign states have what word indicating representative government as part of their official names?

republic 27 Orbits The orbit of an object about a planet with significant atmosphere will decay because of what retarding force?

drag 28 Gerunds What is the function of the gerund phrase in this example? She expressed interest in studying underwater basket weaving during her sophomore year.

object of a preposition 29 Battles These were battles of what war? Triangle Hill, Old Baldy, White Horse, Hill Eerie, Kumsong, the Punchbowl, Heartbreak Ridge

Korean War 30 Poppy Production The Golden Triangle of Southeast Asia includes the four countries of Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, and what other?

Thailand Round # 2 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #381 HS 31 Poets What 19th-century American poet wrote this verse? There was a little girl, Who she had a little curl Right in the middle of her forehead. When she was good She was very good indeed, But when she was bad she was horrid.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 32 Solids What regular polyhedron consists of twenty equilateral triangles?

icosahedron 33 International Visions Elihu Root, the secretary of state under Theodore Roosevelt and winner of the 1912 Nobel Peace Prize, was a leading supporter of what international organization envisioned by Woodrow Wilson?

League of Nations 34 Bones Name the weight-bearing bone within the heel and the largest bone of the foot.

calcaneus 35 Disease Discovery Brucellosis was named for David Bruce, rickettsiosis for Howard Ricketts, listeriosis for Joseph Lister, and babesiosis for Victor Babes. What kind of disease names are these?

eponyms Round # 2 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #381 HS 36 Sunlight Crepuscular rays are shafts of sunlight that typically emerge from gaps in what category of clouds?

(strato)cumulus 37 Parliamentary Procedure According to Robert's Rules of Order, the requirement for what is a "protection against totally unrepresentative action in the name of the body by an unduly small number of persons"?

quorum 38 Whistleblowers Documents leaked by a British civil servant named Clive Ponting revealed that the General Belgrano was sunk by the Royal Navy while outside the exclusion zone during what war?

Falklands War 39 Palindromes What word completes this palindrome? Not a banana ...

baton 40 Character's Aphorisms These sayings were uttered by what fictional detective created by Earl Derr Biggers? -Nut easy to crack often empty. -Bait only good if fish bite on same. -Cannot sell bearskin before shooting bear. -If befriend donkey, expect to be kicked. -Elaborate excuse seldom truth. -Guilty conscience always first to speak up.

Charlie Chan Round # 2 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #381 HS 41 Inequalities How many solutions are there to this inequality? y squared minus 2y plus 1 is less than or equal to 0.

one 42 Monuments The Tripoli Monument is the oldest military monument in the U.S. Now located at the Naval Academy in Maryland, it honors the heroes of what war?

(First) Barbary (Tripolitan) War 43 Gulfs The Gulf of Thailand was formerly known as the Gulf of what?

Siam 44 Acids What is another name for vinegar acid?

ethanoic (or acetic) acid 45 Art Styles What American abstract expressionist created many of his works with the canvas laid on the floor to prevent the paint from running and used unusual tools for paint application such as hardened brushes, sticks, and basting syringes?

Jackson Pollock Round # 2 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #381 HS *Alt Rifts The Reelfoot Rift is an ancient buried rift beneath what seismic zone in the central Mississippi Valley?

New Madrid seismic zone *Alt Fictional Wars In Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four," Eurasia, Oceania, and what other superstate are involved in perpetual war?

Eastasia *Alt Atrocities Kit Carson said this about a horrendous massacre in what future state? Just to think of that dog Chivington and his dirty hounds, up there at Sand Creek. His men shot down squaws and blew the brains out of little innocent children. You call such soldiers Christians, do you? And Indians savages?

Colorado *Alt Monarchs As examples of benevolent despots, historians frequently cite Charles III of Spain, Catherine II of Russia, Gustav III of Sweden, and Joseph I of what country on the Iberian Peninsula?

Portugal *Alt Arachnids Scorpions and spiders have respiratory structures known as what kind of lungs?

book lungs Round # 2 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #381 HS *Alt Exponents Divide the following by 21. 10 to the fourth power times the quantity 5 to the 4th power minus 2 to the 4th power.

290,000 *Alt Latin What is the English translation of the Latin phrase, "bellum civile"?

civil war Round # 3 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #381 HS 1 Landers Named for the god of dreams in Ovid's "Metamorphoses," NASA's Morpheus is based on a propulsion system that uses two liquefied gases including oxygen and what major constituent of natural gas?

methane 2 Military Transportation What did armies carry in caissons?

ammunition (artillery ammunition) 3 Antivenoms How are most antivenoms administered?

intravenously (in a vein, hypodermic 4 Averages The average length of the first ten barracuda that Rancid caught was 90 inches, but then, with his next two fish, the average fell to 80. What was the average length of those last two fish?

30 5 Candidates The presidential candidate who is supported by his home state at the party's nominating convention is called the favorite what?

son Round # 3 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #381 HS 6 Poetic Punishments In "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," the sailor is punished by having to wear what sea bird that he killed around his neck?

albatross 7 Presidential Quotes What U.S. president often used these catchphrases? -Let me say this about that. -Let me make one thing perfectly clear.

Richard Nixon 8 Divisibility Of the first 100 integers, how many can be divided evenly by 2 or 3?

67 9 Prickly Plant Parts While spines are modified leaves, thorns are modified what?

branches 10 High Places Zugspitze is the highest point in what European country?

Germany Round # 3 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #381 HS 11 Early Technology The animal skins were defleshed in a bath of lime, stretched on a frame, and scraped with a knife while damp. They were then treated with pumice, whitened with chalk, and cut to size. This process was used to make what writing material?

parchment 12 Homophones Spell the homophone indicating a type of corn that sounds the same as the noun meaning "an intricate network of connecting pathways."

maize 13 Moons What moon of Saturn has the same name as a large flightless bird of South America that resembles an ostrich?

Rhea 14 Radioactivity What is the term for the deposition of unwanted radioactive material on the surfaces of structures, areas, objects, or people?

contamination 15 Literary Anagrams Vivian Darkbloom is an anagram for what Russian-born American author of "Lolita" and "Pale Fire"?

Vladimir Nabokov Round # 3 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #381 HS 16 Old West Wars Cattle rustling was the initial offense that led to the Mason County War of the 1870s in what state?

Texas 17 Metric Measures Phobos orbits Mars at a mean distance of 5,600 miles. To the nearest thousand, convert that distance to kilometers.

9000 km 18 Art Forms What is a synonym for "hot wax painting"?

encaustic 19 Rules The rules that a corporation, union, or civic organization makes to regulate itself are called what kind of laws?

bylaws 20 Queens Queen Anne, the second consort of Henry VIII, is usually known as Anne who?

Boleyn Round # 3 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #381 HS 21 Pharmacology What group of psychoactive drugs is divided into these three categories? deliriants, dissociatives, psychedelics

hallucinogens (hallucinogenic drugs) 22 Tall Seed Plants What cone-bearing evergreens that have a superficial resemblance to palms and ferns have stout, woody stems and a crown of large, stiff, usually pinnate leaves?

cycads 23 Kansas History Just after the Civil War, many former slaves left the South and established black communities in Kansas. These immigrants became known as what "dusters"?

Exodusters 24 Commercial Fishing What is the term for animals caught unintentionally while fishing for other species?

bycatch 25 Spies Name the Confederate spy who, despite being arrested several times by the Union army, was always released thanks to her feminine charms.

Belle Boyd Round # 3 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #381 HS 26 Potential Energy While a heavy wrecking ball suspended aloft stores gravitational potential energy, what kind of potential energy is stored in a drawn bow?

elastic potential energy 27 Manchuria The region of Manchuria is bordered on its southeast by what river?

Yalu River 28 Metallic Compounds What adjective indicates a compound that contains copper in the +1 oxidation state?

cuprous 29 Mideast History In 1967, Israel gained control of what heights in the Levant?

Golan Heights 30 Disasters Some 160,000 people were killed by a massive earthquake in 2010 in what country of the West Indies?

Haiti Round # 3 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #381 HS 31 Sunspots Heinrich Schwabe was the amateur German astronomer who discovered that the maximum number of sunspots appear in a cycle of how many years?

11 years 32 Court Decisions In the case of Cruzan versus the Missouri Department of Health, the Supreme Court ruled that a certain kind of will is constitutional. Name this document that allows you to direct a medical facility not to use things like feeding tubes or respirators to keep you alive.

living will (or advanced directive) 33 Historical Novels Leopold Myers' trilogy, "The Root and the Flower," is set in the 16th-century empire of Akbar in what country?

India 34 Strange Bedfellows Because Alexander Hamilton believed Aaron Burr to be unprincipled, he supported what other presidential candidate whose views he largely rejected?

Thomas Jefferson 35 Radical Addition Express as a radical the sum of the following. the square root of 18 plus the square root of 32 plus 9 times the square root of 2

16 times the square root of 2 Round # 3 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #381 HS 36 Root Words What does the root mean in these words? carnival, reincarnate, carnivorous

flesh 37 Mollusks The shells of abalone are composed of nacre, more commonly known as what?

mother of pearl 38 Wars In 1095, Pope Urban II called for a holy war to wrench control of Jerusalem from the Muslims. This launched the first in a series of what wars?

Crusades 39 Book Decoration Appearing in many medieval manuscripts, what is another term for delicate, ornamental work called vinery?

filigree (tracery) 40 Waves What kind of very high-energy electromagnetic radiation emitted by radioactive decay is used to sterilize food?

gamma rays Round # 3 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #381 HS 41 Europe What European country that is only about 15 miles long when measured north to south is located in the upper Rhine Valley and bordered by both Switzerland and Austria?

Liechtenstein 42 Poetry In relation to speech sounds in poetry, these are all varieties of what? crossed, double, tail, interlaced, inexact, eye, perfect, slant, triple, imperfect, end, head, feminine, masculine

rhyme 43 Letter Combos What is the term for the sequences of consonants in these words? schedule, thriller, splotch, quench

trigraphs 44 IRS Work Problems Mrs. Lerner needed 7 computer nerds to erase 12 hard drives in 7 hours. How many computer nerds would she need to erase double that number of hard drives in half the time?

28 45 Astronomy How many planets in our solar system orbit at more than one astronomical unit from the Sun?

five (Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Round # 3 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #381 HS *Alt Sending Them Home What is the legal term for returning people to their country of origin, such as prisoner of wars or refugees?

repatriation *Alt Conclaves What chapel is used for papal conclaves?

Sistine Chapel *Alt Novels The characters in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" are mostly members of what group of English Protestants?

Puritans *Alt Botany What kind of plants have these characteristics? They are non-vascular plants usually just a few centimeters tall. They are herbaceous and absorb water mainly through their leaves. They grow in clumps or mats in damp and shady locations. They have no flowers or seeds and produce spore capsules. mosses *Alt Ethical Failures Beginning in 1932, the U.S. Public Health Service conducted tests on 600 African American men to study the progress of untreated syphilis, but none of the subjects were informed that they had the disease. What institute in Alabama was the site of this research?

Tuskegee Institute Round # 3 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #381 HS *Alt Tense What verb tense is found in this sentence? As of next Friday, I will have been eating nothing but coconut for exactly three weeks.

future perfect progressive *Alt Lincoln's Speeches What three words come next in this sentence from an Abraham Lincoln speech? With malice towards none, with ...

charity for all Round # 4 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #381 HS 1 Equations If 8x = 3y - 11, then y equals what?

(8x - 11)/3 2 Radiation Attenuation is the process by which radiation is reduced in intensity after passing through a material. It is reduced by a combination of scattering and what other process?

absorption 3 Capital Punishments In 2014, a judge in what Mideast country gave death sentences to 683 alleged supporters of that nation's ousted Islamist president?

Egypt 4 Drug Cartels What country was the home of both the Medellin and Cali cartels?

Colombia 5 Island Locations The isle of Rhodes is off the southwestern coast of what country?

Turkey Round # 4 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #381 HS 6 A Nose for Astronomy In what kind of an activity was Tycho Brahe involved at the time he lost his nose?

a duel 7 Lizards Many lizards can detach their tails in order to escape from predators. Name this ability.

autotomy 8 Novel Settings What ancient city is the main setting for these historical novels? Empress of the Seven Hills The Iron Hand of Mars A Murder on the Appian Way The Ides of March

Rome 9 Love and Espionage After the Battle of Saratoga, Benedict Arnold fell in love with the loyalist, Margaret Shippen, who introduced him to what British spy with whom he conspired to turn over the fortress at West Point to the British?

John Andre 10 Algebra If 3(2x-1) = 0, what does 4(3x-2) equal?

-2 Round # 4 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #381 HS 11 Root Words What is the meaning of the root word in "abbreviate and brevity"?

short 12 Operas An opera by Gioachino Rossini was inspired by what Shakespearean play about a brave Moorish soldier who elopes with Desdemona?

Othello 13 Ancient Inscriptions Name the alphabetic characters used by Vikings to inscribe thousands of stones in Scandinavia.

runes 14 Disorders The phrase, "acid reflux," is sometimes used interchangeably with what other word for a distressing sensation centered in the middle of the chest?

heartburn 15 Alkanes The third member of the alkane series is a colorless, odorless, flammable gas found in petroleum and natural gas. Name it.

propane Round # 4 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #381 HS 16 Law What is the collective name for prior judicial decisions that are used to determine current legal issues?

precedents 17 Writing What literary technique is evident in these lines? -It was a dark, wet, and gloomy forest. -Le Peu's fragrance reeked in the barn. -She ran her fingers over the silky fabric. -The juicy kiwis were sweet and sticky.

imagery 18 Failed Expeditions Members of the Texas Santa Fe Expedition were captured by the Mexican army and forced to march 2000 miles from Santa Fe to what city where they were held captive for a year?

Mexico City 19 Algebraic Factoring Factor pq - 3p.

p(q-3) 20 Latin America The easternmost town in Central America is in what country?

Panama Round # 4 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #381 HS 21 Lizards Name the large monitor lizards found throughout most of Australia.

goannas 22 Empires The Bruneian Empire was founded on what island of Southeast Asia?

Borneo 23 Sentence Types Classify this line by Will Rogers according to its structure. The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.

complex 24 Rock Calcareous rock contain a high proportion of what chemical compound?

calcium carbonate 25 Diplomatic Tactics What kind of diplomacy is illustrated in these examples? Venezuela Crisis of 1902 the Great White Fleet voyage in 1907 the occupation of Veracruz in 1914

gunboat diplomacy Round # 4 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #381 HS 26 Short Story Endings This is the end of what famous story by Edgar Allan Poe? The fiery walls rushed back! An outstretched arm caught my own as I fell, fainting, into the abyss. It was that of General Lasalle. The French army had entered Toledo. The Inquisition was in the hands of its enemies.

The Pit and the Pendulum 27 Highway Signs Highway warning signs for curves, slide areas, and school zones generally have black letters on what color of background?

yellow 28 Triangles What is the area of a triangle with sides measuring 10, 8, and 6 meters?

24 square meters 29 Organic Chemistry Amines are basic organic compounds that contain what gaseous element?

nitrogen 30 Musical Instruments What is the collective term for these stringed instruments with pear-shaped bodies and oval-shaped backs? cittern, oud, tamboura, sitar

lute Round # 4 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #381 HS 31 Massacres The Malmedy Massacre or World War II occurred in a municipality of what country?

Belgium 32 Phobias Entomophobia is the fear of what creatures?

insects 33 Slogans What word completes the slogan popularized by Karl Marx? From each according to his ability, to each according to his ...

needs 34 Mountain Ranges Name either of the countries in which the Zagros Mountains comprise the largest mountain range.

Iran, Iraq 35 American Short Stories In the tale of Rip van Winkle, the ninepin bowlers are the ghosts of the good ship Half Moon, which had been captained by whom?

Henry Hudson Round # 4 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #381 HS 36 Rebellions The Shaysites, early American rebels who opposed heavy taxation, consisted of people primarily from what state?

Massachusetts 37 Pyramids What adjective indicates a pyramid that does not have all isosceles triangles as its sides?

oblique 38 Nouns In the poem, "Casey at the Bat," what is the first adjective that functions as a noun?

nine 39 Atoms The ground state is the lowest energy state for an atom or molecule. Name the state for an atom or molecule that has absorbed energy?

excited state 40 Nazi Germany The remnants of Germany's democratic government were dismantled in 1934 almost immediately after what president died?

Paul von Hindenburg Round # 4 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #381 HS 41 Autotrophs Autotrophs can be either chemotrophs or what else?

phototrophs 42 Astronomical Adjectives While "cislunar" refers to the space between Earth and the Moon, what similar term indicates space beyond the orbit of the Moon?

translunar 43 Legal Bodies It is the duty of what kind of jury to determine whether or not sufficient probable cause exists to bring a person to trial?

grand jury 44 Heroes What kind of hero who has many admirable qualities is eventually undone by some mistake, misconception, or character flaw?

tragic hero 45 Speeches What 20th-century U.S. president said that these are the most terrifying nine words in the English language? I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

Ronald Reagan Round # 4 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #381 HS *Alt Propeller Proportions The ratio of the rotation of a propeller to the engine driving it is 3 to 4. If the engine is turning at 5600 rpm, what is the propeller rate?

4200 rpm *Alt White The ratio of the speed of light in a vacuum to the speed of light in any medium is called the index of what?

refraction *Alt Medical Procedures Hemodialysis is a common procedure used when what organ is not functioning properly?

kidney *Alt Art Movements Name any of the three best-known artists of the Mexican "muralist" art movement.

Diego Rivera, Jose Orozco, David *Alt African Countries The country of Eritrea is adjacent to what body of water?

Red Sea Round # 4 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #381 HS *Alt Bad Places What is the term for the kind of society that M.H. Abrams described as "a very unpleasant imaginary world in which ominous tendencies of our present social, political, and technological order are projected in some disastrous future culmination"?

dystopia *Alt Eponyms The ancient city of Troy was named for King Tros. That same city had what other name based on the name of Tros' son, Ilius?

Ilion Round # 5 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #381 HS 1 Novels In what Kurt Vonnegut story does a young writer set off to interview the children of the scientist who was mainly responsible for developing the atomic bomb?

Cat's Cradle 2 Lawmen Name either Kansas town in which James Butler Hickok served as marshal.

Abilene, Hays 3 Metric Prefixes What metric prefix means to multiply by 10 to the minus 15th power?

femto- 4 Autotrophs Autotrophs produce organic compounds from simple substances in their surroundings either using light energy, in which case it is called photosynthesis, or inorganic chemical reactions, in which case it is called what?

chemosynthesis 5 Albedo Which of the inner planets of our solar system has the highest albedo?

Venus Round # 5 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #381 HS 6 Island Inhabitants Who, in the early 19th century, was the most prominent inhabitant of the islands of Elba and Saint Helena?

Napoleon Bonaparte 7 Invasions In 2014, what international event had barely been completed when Vladimir Putin sent thousands of soldiers into the Crimea?

Winter Olympics 8 Judicial Decisions The "separate but equal" judicial precedent comes from the 1896 Supreme Court decision in the case of whom versus Ferguson?

Plessy 9 Insurance What kind of auto insurance covers an automobile that is stolen or the repairs if it is damaged by something other than a collision?

comprehensive 10 Metaphors This illustrates what kind of metaphor? Bobby Holloway says my imagination is a three-hundred-ring circus. Currently I was in ring two hundred and ninety-nine, with elephants dancing, clowns cart-wheeling, and tigers leaping through rings of fire. The time had come to step back, leave the main tent, go buy some popcorn, bliss out, cool down.

extended metaphor Round # 5 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #381 HS 11 Record Falls In 1945, elevator operator Betty Lou Oliver earned a Guinness World Record for the longest survived elevator fall. She fell 75 stories after what Manhattan building was hit by a B-25 bomber?

Empire State Building 12 Pyramids What is the surface area of a square pyramid with a base edge of 10 centimeters and a height of 12 centimeters?

360 square centimeters 13 Participles In English, participles end with "ing," "t," "ed," or what other pair of letters?

en 14 Monasteries Located high above the town of Locarno, the sanctuary of Madonna del Sasso is in what European country?

Switzerland 15 The Renaissance The Renaissance reached its peak in England with three authors: William Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, and Christopher who?

Marlowe Round # 5 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #381 HS 16 Waves Also called "shear waves," what kind of waves have oscillations that are at a right angle to the direction of energy transfer?

transverse waves 17 Inflammations What becomes inflamed in osteomyelitis?

bone (or bone marrow) 18 Spacecraft Propulsion What is the name for a huge, thin, reflective surface that could be used by a space vehicle to propel it around the solar system by harnessing the radiation pressure of photons from the Sun?

solar sail 19 Wartime Novels What war is the setting for these novels? The Forty Days of Musa Dagh Over There The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

World War I 20 Trails What trail described in a report by John C. Fremont provided a difficult but usable trade route between California and New Mexico?

Santa Fe Trail Round # 5 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #381 HS 21 Algebraic Factoring Factor the following expression. 121r squared - 9t squared

(11r + 3t)(11r - 3t) 22 The Arts A maquette in sculpture is the analogue of what preliminary work by a painter?

sketch (cartoon) 23 Crime What category of crimes involves misrepresentations used to deceive a victim?

fraud 24 Weapons What is the four-letter abbreviation for these kinds of weapons? Agni-V of India DF-41 of China Topol M of Russia Peacekeeper and Minuteman of the U.S.A.

ICBM 25 Phonetics Diphthongs are illustrated by such words as loin, boat, fierce, and cairn. What are illustrated by words such as loyal, beauty, and player?

triphthongs Round # 5 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #381 HS 26 Marine Life Name the protective outer tissue of mollusks that secretes the shell.

mantle 27 Europe What is the nationality of most people living in Cork, Limerick, and Galway?

Irish 28 Argumentation Consider this argument. If you support the Keystone Pipeline project, you must be an ignorant capitalist or some sort of right-wing Nazi. The fallacy in this example is called a false what?

dilemma (dichotomy) 29 Presidential Announcements What U.S. president used his 1848 State of the Union address to confirm the discovery of gold in California?

James Polk 30 Electricity What unit of electric current is equal to the flow of one coulomb of charge per second?

ampere Round # 5 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #381 HS 31 Hypothetical Disasters There is speculation that the melting of methane clathrates could trigger runaway global what?

warming 32 Skeletal System Since there are 52 bones in two human feet, this accounts for almost exactly what percentage of all the bones in an adult body?

25% 33 Weapons What term in World War II referred to antiaircraft artillery or the bursting shells from that artillery?

flak 34 Local Authority The authority and right of local cities and counties to govern themselves, in contrast to be governed directly by the state, is called what type of rule?

home rule 35 Monarchs In 2014, Prince Felipe ascended to the throne of what European nation?

Spain Round # 5 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #381 HS 36 Settings "The Luminist" and "Cinnamon Gardens" are novels set in Ceylon, which is now what island country?

Sri Lanka 37 Sentence Analysis Classify this quote attributed to Aesop according to its structure. We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

compound sentence 38 Historic Sites In what state is the Jimmy Carter National Historic Site located?

Georgia 39 Grafting In plant grafting, what is the term for the plant to be grafted onto a rootstock that is selected for its stems, leaves, flowers, or fruits ?

scion (cion) 40 Infections Boils are usually the result of an infection caused by what category of bacteria that are spherical in shape?

staphylococci Round # 5 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #381 HS 41 Feedback While quantitative feedback tells how many or how much, what kind of feedback tells how good or bad something is?

qualitative feedback 42 Mexican Geography In what Mexican state is Cabo San Lucas located?

Baja California Sur 43 Liquids If the mixing of equal volumes of two liquids results in a meniscus visible between them, the liquids are described as being what?

immiscible (unmixable) 44 Observatories The Keck Observatory is located atop what dormant volcano in Hawaii?

Mauna Kea 45 Conjunctions What kind of conjunctions are these? as soon as inasmuch provided that even though rather than provided that

subordinating conjunctions Round # 5 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #381 HS *Alt Disasters Deadly limnic eruptions occurred in Cameroon in 1984 and 1986. Like all limnic eruptions, these disasters that took nearly 2000 lives occurred above what topographic features?

lakes *Alt Naval Battles The HMS Indefatigable, the HMS Invincible, and the HMS Queen Mary were sunk in 1916 during what naval battle?

Battle of Jutland *Alt Forced Expulsions The Great Upheaval that occurred between 1755 and 1764 involved the expulsion of what people from the Canadian maritime provinces?

Acadians *Alt Income The income from annuities or bonds is described by what adjective indicating an amount that stays the same from month to month?

fixed *Alt Adverbs What is the comparative form of the first adverb in Joyce Kilmer's poem, "Trees"?

There is no comparative form of "never". Round # 5 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #381 HS *Alt Insect Parts Reminiscent of a medical instrument used by a surgeon for grasping, name the pincerlike movable appendage at the posterior end of the abdomen of insects such as earwigs.

forceps *Alt Metalwork What form of soldering uses hard solder alloys with high melting points to join high temperature metals?

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