Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl Meet #7 - HS Written Round 1 Planets 6 The Constitution Because the orbits of Mercury and Venus are closer Which word does not appear even once in the U.S. to the Sun that that of the Earth, these planets are Constitution? described as ... A. revenue A. inferior B. elections B. interior C. democracy C. superior D. impeachment D. anterior E. counterfeiting E. posterior

2 Literary Forms 7 Plurals Which line is a malediction? Which word does not have an uninflected plural? A. In Xanadu did Kubla Khan ... A. dog B. Ye flowery banks o'bonnie Doon ... B. folk C. Y'all come back real soon, ya heah! C. deer D. Cursed be he that moves my bones. D. swine E. Illiterate him quite from your memory. E. sheep

3 Coin Tossing 8 Zoology When you toss four coins, what is the probability that On what part of an animal would you find a dewlap? they all will come up tails? A. on the tail A. 1/2 B. above the ears B. 1/4 C. behind the hips C. 1/16 D. beneath the neck D. 1/32 E. adjacent to the hoof E. 1/64

4 Native Americans 9 Archaeological Geography Which tribe routinely used totem poles to represent The reservoir created by the Aswan High Dam family history? permanently flooded important archaeological sites in A. Hopi ... B. Apache A. Nubia C. Mohawk B. Nippon D. Chinook C. Assyria E. Seminole D. Vineland E. Northumbria

5 European Borders 10 Art Associations What sea is east of Bulgaria? Who is not paired with a type of art for which he was A. Red famed? B. Black A. Diego Rivera - mural C. Yellow B. Pierre Renoir - painting D. Caspian C. Alexander Calder - mobile E. Mediterranean D. Auguste Rodin - sculpture E. Frederic Remington - fresco Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl Meet #7 - HS Written Round 11 Dads in Literature 16 Household Chemistry Which father is an antithesis of Atticus Finch? Which is a key ingredient of Alka Seltzer? A. Pap Finn A. ascorbic acid B. Bob Cratchit B. ethylene glycol C. Daniel Peggoty C. silicon dioxide D. Arthur Weasley D. sodium bicarbonate E. Caractacus Pott E. tetrafluoroethylene

12 A Salem Legacy 17 Zoology One historian wrote that "the Salem witchcraft was Shells, exoskeletons, and bones are ... the rock on which the ---- shattered." A. igneous A. theocracy B. foliaceous B. plutocracy C. calcareous C. aristocracy D. sanguineous D. technocracy E. diatomaceous E. gynecocracy

13 Jefferson 18 Rebels Thomas Jefferson believed that the small ---- was the The leader of the 19th century Filipino revolution was backbone of American democracy. Emilio ... A. banker A. Rivera B. farmer B. Delgado C. community C. Estevez D. manufacturer D. Martinez E. white-collar worker E. Aguinaldo

14 Duality 19 Taxation Which exhibit wave-particle duality? Sales taxes, value added taxes, and excise taxes are A. plutons types of ---- taxes. B. protons A. income C. phytons B. estate D. photons C. property E. pompons D. progressive E. consumption

15 Islands 20 Fictional Figures A tied island is connected to a mainland by a ... Historical research indicates that Nicolas Chauvin A. ria was probably a wholly fictional figure, much like B. spit which legendary Greek? C. polder A. Phidias D. tombolo B. Miles Gloriosis E. drumlin C. Pliny the Elder D. Thales of Miletus E. Archimedes of Syracuse Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl Meet #7 - HS Written Round 21 Angles 26 Metallurgy Which is an example of a reflex angle? A process that prevents metals from rusting was A. 15 degrees named for what Italian? B. 33 degrees A. Luigi Galvani C. 96 degrees B. Sacco Vanzetti D. 171 degrees C. Arturo Toscanini E. 212 degrees D. Cosimo de' Medici E. Guglielmo Marconi

22 People 27 Ancient Geography Hiram Bingham was an American ... Which ancient city was built upon a delta? A. gangster A. Thebes B. engineer B. Nineveh C. architect C. Londinium D. newscaster D. Alexandria E. archaeologist E. Tenochtitlan

23 Oceania 28 Rock Boundaries Which is located farthest west in the Pacific? A boundary between two different rock types is called A. Fiji a ... B. Palau A. hem C. Easter Island B. butt D. Western Samoa C. touch E. Marshall Islands D. stripe E. contact

24 Things in the News 29 Religious Writings Much in the news in early 2017 was Trappist-1, Significant Hindu literature does not include the ... which is a(n) ... A. Ramayana A. star B. Upanishads B. monk C. Mahabharata C. comet D. Tao te Ching D. asteroid E. Bhagavad Gita E. meteoroid

25 American Law 30 Trigonometry In American law, the exclusionary rule pertains to ... Sin (a + b) = ... A. segregation A. sin (a + b) + sin (a - b) B. classified information B. cos a cos b - sin a sin b C. United States territories C. cos (a + b) + cos (a - b) D. evidence obtained improperly D. sin a cos b + cos a sin b E. access to military facilities E. cos a cos b + sin a sin b Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl Meet #7 - HS Written Round 31 Treatises 36 Bad Moves for Czars Concepts underlying the English revolution of 1688 Czar Nicholas II repeatedly dissolved the ... and American revolution were suggested in the A. Diet "Treatises on Civil Government," by ... B. Duma A. John Locke C. Althing B. John Milton D. Knesset C. David Hume E. Bundestag D. Adam Smith E. Thomas Hobbes

32 Nyms 37 Injuries What kind of phrases are "toe the line", "foot the A boxer who is punch drunk may have dementia ... bill," and "face the music"? A. erotica A. eponyms B. exotica B. synonyms C. sciatica C. toponyms D. hepatica D. anatonyms E. pugilistica E. pseudonyms

33 Religious Orders 38 Kipling Sufi dervishes and Buddhist monks are examples of What name is missing in this verse by Kipling? ---- orders. They've taken his buttons off and' cut his A. vesicant stripes away, / An' they're hangin' ---- in the B. applicant mornin'. C. desiccant A. Fuzzy Wuzzy D. mendicant B. Bastian Bux E. coruscant C. Danny Deever D. Bilbo Baggins E. Captain Carrot

34 Adaptations 39 Photographic Word Problems Mass extinctions often create a number of vacant A rectangular photograph 11 by 14 inches is ecological ... surrounded by a 3 inch-wide mat. The area of the A. niches mat is ---- square inches. B. biomes A. 100 C. plumes B. 142 D. influents C. 186 E. xerophytes D. 198 E. 212

35 The Mideast 40 Historical Documents Which does not border the Persian Gulf? Which document was a foundation of the women's A. Iran rights movement? B. Qatar A. Wilmot Proviso C. Yemen B. Atlantic Charter D. Kuwait C. Ostend Manifesto E. United Arab Emirates D. Declaration of Rights E. Seneca Falls Declaration Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl Meet #7 - HS Written Round 41 Household Chemistry 46 Animal Categories Easy-off largely consists of ... Piscivores are all ... A. titanium dioxide A. omnivores B. sodium hydroxide B. carnivores C. magnesium sulfate C. frugivores D. acetylsalicylic acid D. herbivores E. potassium carbonate E. insectivores

42 Greek Etymology 47 Authors What adjective derived from Greek mythology Which author spent three years in prison after being indicates something that is excellent or extremely convicted of embezzlement? delicious? A. Lew Wallace A. vestal B. Horatio Alger B. auroral C. Henry Thoreau C. martial D. Ambrose Bierce D. mercurial E. William Sydney Porter E. ambrosial

43 Heavenly Bodies 48 Surveying A main difference between asteroids and comets is How many townships are in 36 square miles? that the latter obviously ... A. 1 A. pulsate B. 2 B. oscillate C. 4 C. defoliate D. 6 D. sporulate E. 8 E. sublimate

44 Political Dominance 49 Generals The dominance or leadership of one country over Which general had command of the U.S. soldiers another is called ... who massacred at least 200 Indians at Wounded A. acrimony Knee? B. hegemony A. Nelson Miles C. parsimony B. Omar Bradley D. matrimony C. George Custer E. sanctimony D. Zachary Taylor E. William Harrison

45 Explorers 50 Oceania Sir ---- was not a British explorer. Which island is farthest north? A. Henry Stanley A. Wake B. Richard Burton B. Tahiti C. James Chadwick C. Tarawa D. James Clark Ross D. Guadalcanal E. Ernest Shackleton E. New Caledonia Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl Meet #7 - HS Written Round 51 People in the News 56 Fictional Females In 2015, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was a self-proclaimed Who are not fictional characters? ... A. Edna Ferber and Willa Cather A. czar B. Jane Marple and Eliza Dolittle B. caliph C. Moll Flanders and Becky Sharp C. emperor D. Daisy Miller and Madeline Usher D. muezzin E. Scarlett O'Hara and Hester Prynne E. constitutional monarch

52 Bioluminescence 57 Symbol Geometry Luciferase catalyzes the oxidation of luciferin in How many degrees are in each interior angle of the bioluminescence. It is a(n) ... figure formed within a Star of David? A. gel A. 60 B. flux B. 90 C. enzyme C. 108 D. desiccator D. 120 E. electrolyte E. 135

53 Artists 58 Espionage The painting, "The Charge of the Rough Riders at Who was a double agent? San Juan Hill," was created by ... A. Kim Philby A. Grant Wood B. Gerry Adams B. James Whistler C. Edward Heath C. Norman Rockwell D. Clement Attlee D. Frederic Remington E. William Gladstone E. Thomas Gainsborough

54 Alliances 59 Loess Which was a Cold War alliance? Expansive deposits of loess are found in ... A. Holy League A. Kansas and Nebraska B. Warsaw Pact B. Tennessee and Georgia C. Little Entente C. the New England states D. Central Powers D. the Rocky Mountain states E. Quadruple Alliance E. Arizona and Southern California

55 Pushy People 60 Shedding Which Yiddish word indicates arrogance, The natural shedding of skin to allow for growth is presumption, effrontery, and gall? called ... A. klutz A. lysis B. glitch B. ecdysis C. shtick C. pyrolysis D. chutzpah D. catalysis E. schlemiel E. glycolysis