Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl Meet #1 - HS Written Round 1 Planets 6 American Government Aeolian features are obvious on which planet? What U.S. government official might issue a A. Mars dissenting opinion? B. Venus A. the FBI director C. Saturn B. a cabinet member D. Jupiter C. Senate minority leader E. Neptune D. a Supreme Court justice E. the White House chief of staff

2 Literary Parts 7 Headlines At the end of some plays and novels you will find a Which newspaper headline contains no typographical finishing touch called an ... error? A. epithet A. Husband Sues Bride of Four Mouths B. epigram B. Study Shows Bias in Mainstream Media C. epigraph C. Women Under Treat of Domestic Violence D. epilogue D. Hotel Burns - 200 Guests Escape Half Glad E. epiphany E. New Pubic Relations Officer Appointed at DU

3 Orders of Magnitude 8 Reproduction The length in meters of a football field is closest to 10 Two creatures can produce fertile offspring only if to the ---- power. they are of the same taxonomic ... A. zero A. class B. 2nd B. order C. 4th C. genus D. 8th D. phylum E. 10th E. species

4 Big Stick Politics 9 Playwrights President Theodore Roosevelt supported a revolution Who was not an ancient Greek playwright? in Panama after the senate of what country rejected a A. Pericles treaty to permit the U.S. to build the canal? B. Euripides A. Colombia C. Aeschylus B. Nicaragua D. Sophocles C. Venezuela E. Aristophanes D. Costa Rica E. British Honduras

5 River Islands 10 Latin Art Phrases Which city sits upon a river island? Many critics regard the "Mona Lisa" as Leonardo da A. Cairo, Egypt Vinci's ... B. Paris, France A. tabula rasa C. Lisbon, Portugal B. amicus curiae D. Damascus, Syria C. magnum opus E. Montreal, Canada D. memento mori E. habeas corpus Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl Meet #1 - HS Written Round 11 U.S. Writers 16 Medical Jargon Eugene Field is famous for his ... A patient who is able to walk is ... A. humorous poems A. amatory B. yarns of mining camps B. aleatory C. tales of Salem witchcraft C. adulatory D. stories of cowboy hardships D. aspiratory E. accounts of the Revolution in America E. ambulatory

12 Supreme Court 17 Ecological Adjectives Cases that are to be heard by the Supreme Court are A life form that is native to a specific geographic area said to be ... is ... A. in the pocket A. anemic B. on the docket B. endemic C. in the socket C. genomic D. on the rocket D. miasmic E. in the sprocket E. pandemic

13 Treatises 18 Temples Which was written in the 1770s? The great temple of Angkor Wat is in ... A. The Republic A. Japan B. Common Sense B. Hawaii C. A Nation at Risk C. Cambodia D. Civil Disobedience D. Bangladesh E. Ninety-Five Theses E. Papua New Guinea

14 Sound 19 International Relations Sound intensity levels are typically measured in ... Extradition treaties usually relate to ... A. hertz A. fugitives B. farads B. artifacts C. parsecs C. businesses D. amperes D. reparations E. decibels E. ambassadors

15 Seawater 20 Walt Whitman In seawater, an excess of hydroxyl ions over What line follows? hydrogen ions results in ... O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, A. acidity The ship has weathered every rock ... B. fissility A. our nation now is one C. alkalinity B. now opposing us are none D. aquilinity C. so let's go have some fun E. vitreosity D. the prize we sought is won E. the dastardly deed is done Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl Meet #1 - HS Written Round 21 Inverse Functions 26 Scientific Vocabulary If it takes 22 days for 4 painters to paint a A phenomenon that deviates from the normal is ... condominium complex, how many painters would be A. fabulous needed to complete the project in 8 days? B. nebulous A. 10 C. cumulous B. 11 D. anomalous C. 12 E. incredulous D. 13 E. 14

22 Fallen Chiefs 27 Escapes The Native American leader Tecumseh was killed in Who escaped from the island of Elba in 1815? the Battle of the ... A. Papillon A. Bulge B. Napoleon B. Marne C. Al Capone C. Thames D. Sidney Carton D. Little Bighorn E. Edmond Dantes E. Aleutian Islands

23 Academy Geography 28 Stream Channels What city is closest to the U.S. Air Force Academy? A new channel formed when a stream excavates A. Dayton, Ohio through a strip of land and shortens the length of its B. Tucson, Arizona channel is called a ... C. Las Vegas, Nevada A. teeoff D. Annapolis, Maryland B. layoff E. Colorado Springs, Colorado C. setoff D. runoff E. cutoff

24 Cyber Attacks 29 Little House Towns In 2017, there was a large scale cyber attack involving The town in "Little House on the Prairie" is called ---- ... Grove. A. flatware A. Peanut B. holloware B. Walnut C. vaporware C. Coconut D. ransomware D. Hazelnut E. crackleware E. Chestnut

25 Investing 30 Consecutive Integers In relation to investors, what is the opposite of a bear? The smallest of three consecutive integers is added to A. boa twice the largest, producing a result 20 less than four B. bull times the middle integer. The largest integer is ... C. bison A. 16 D. badger B. 18 E. buzzard C. 20 D. 22 E. 24 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl Meet #1 - HS Written Round 31 Journalists 36 Treaties Who was not a war correspondent? Which treaty called for the reduction of nuclear A. Ernie Pyle weapons? B. Dan Rather A. SALT II C. Andy Rooney B. Kellogg-Briand Pact D. John Peter Zenger C. North Atlantic Treaty E. Edward R. Murrow D. Rush-Bagot Agreement E. Webster-Ashburton Treaty

32 Headlines 37 Hospital Safety Which headline is not ambiguous? Hospitals would not permit which object to be near an A. Man Minus Ear Waives Hearing MRI scanner? B. Woman Missing Since She Got Lost A. cotton robe C. Ban on Soliciting Dead in Trotwood B. ceramic cup D. Lansing Residents Can Drop Off Trees C. paperback book E. Prosecutor Releases Probes into Sheriff D. metal oxygen tank E. wooden tongue depressor

33 Walls 38 Literary Forms The "fourth wall" separates ... A speech or a writing which praises a deceased A. actors from audiences person is a(n) ... B. athletes from spectators A. lament C. politicians from constituencies B. eulogy D. enlisted personnel from officers C. anagram E. board members from stockholders D. melodrama E. palindrome

34 Zoology 39 Statistics The feet of primates, the tails of lizards, the tongues What is the meaning of a capital sigma in statistics? of giraffes, the noses of elephants, and the lips of A. sum rhinoceroses can be ... B. skew A. fusile C. score B. fissile D. standard error C. ductile E. standard deviation D. scissile E. prehensile

35 Antipodes 40 Enduring Words The antipode of Christchurch, New Zealand, is in The line, "I have not yet begun to fight" was what country? originally uttered by the commander of which ship? A. China A. Cutty Sark B. Spain B. Golden Hind C. Brazil C. Old Ironsides D. Russia D. Edmund Fitzgerald E. Canada E. Bonhomme Richard Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl Meet #1 - HS Written Round 41 Chemicals 46 Animal Behavior Common organic chemicals do not include ... Animals active at twilight are ... A. fuels A. clavicular B. lotions B. corpuscular C. plastics C. carbuncular D. semiconductors D. crepuscular E. synthetic fabrics E. cerebrovascular

42 Modifiers 47 Poems Which are not absolute modifiers? Which is not a famous ode? A. final, finite A. Ode Lang Syne B. entirely, eternal B. Ode on Solitude C. handsome, homely C. Ode to a Nightingale D. identical, irrevocable D. Ode on a Grecian Urn E. overwhelmed, opposite E. Ode to the West Wind

43 Oceanographic Concepts 48 Aviation Feats In oceanography, fetch is most directly related to ... In 1924, it took two U.S. Army planes six months to A. wind make the first round-the-world flight of 26,345 miles B. depth or ---- kilometers. C. salinity A. 29,517 D. latitude B. 32,896 E. temperature C. 36,141 D. 42,398 E. 48,262

44 Powers 49 Historical Expletives Eminent domain is the government's right to ... Which is a famous quotation from the Battle of A. enforce laws Bastogne? B. extradite criminals A. Sick! C. require military service B. Rats! D. control offshore territory C. Nuts! E. appropriate private property D. Dude! E. Whoa!

45 Explorer Nationalities 50 Israeli Cities Who is not paired with his nationality? Which is not in Israel? A. John Cabot - France A. Gaza B. Roald Amundsen - Norway B. Haifa C. Abel Tasman - Netherlands C. Istanbul D. David Livingstone - Scotland D. Tel Aviv E. Edmund Hillary - New Zealand E. Jerusalem Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl Meet #1 - HS Written Round 51 Astronauts 56 Hawthorne's Characters In 2017, the president called the International Space In "The Scarlet Letter," Dimmesdale is a ... Station to congratulate which astronaut for setting the A. judge record for spending the most time in space by an B. cleric American? C. banker A. Sally Ride D. farmer B. Eileen Collins E. carpenter C. Judith Resnik D. Shannon Lucid E. Peggy Whitson

52 Waves 57 Functions A wave whose front has been changed in direction by The set of x values in a function is the ---- of a an obstacle has been ... function. A. redacted A. set B. extracted B. order C. diffracted C. range D. protracted D. domain E. transacted E. magnitude

53 Early Scientific Theories 58 Gangsters Which is a discredited astronomical theory? Al Capone was sent to prison for ... A. epicycles A. murder B. epicenters B. running brothels C. epicureans C. income tax evasion D. epicycloids D. organized gambling E. epicondyles E. the illegal sale of alcohol

54 Conferences 59 Volcanoes The Yalta Conference in the Crimea in 1945 included Cinder cones are formed by the accumulation of ... Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and ... A. pyroclastics A. Adolf Hitler B. iconoclastics B. Joseph Stalin C. orthoclastics C. Averill Harriman D. osteoclastics D. John J. Pershing E. cryptoclastics E. David Lloyd George

55 Thought Exchange 60 Fish Which is not a form of written communication? Which fish are anadromous? A. runes A. salmon and shad B. cuneiform B. carp and catfish C. ideographs C. marlin and mackerel D. nanograms D. sharks and stingrays E. hieroglyphics E. barracuda and bonefish