Round # 1 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #375 HS 1 Mining Money Mineral-rich sand and gravel that can be profitably exploited is known to miners as what kind of dirt?
pay dirt 2 Figurative Language What figure of speech is used repeatedly in this song lyric? It went zip when it moved and bop when it stopped and whir when it stood still.
onomatopoeia 3 Circles If two chords of a circle are equal in length, what can be said about the lengths of the corresponding minor arcs?
They are equal (in length) 4 Aviation Milestones Who was the U.S. president when the Wright brothers made their historic flight at Kitty Hawk?
Theodore Roosevelt 5 Artificial Lakes Thanks to a dam completed in 1970, what African lake named for an Egyptian president is about 550 miles long when full?
Lake Nasser Round # 1 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #375 HS 6 Elections The popular election of what U.S. officials was established in 1913 by the ratification of the 17th Amendment?
senators 7 Autoantonyms What verb can mean either "cut off" as with fingernails or "add to" as with Christmas trees?
trim 8 Anatomy Name the major cavity in the body containing the stomach, small intestine, colon, liver, gallbladder, pancreas, spleen, and kidneys.
abdominal cavity 9 Color Symbology What color has come to be associated with agrarianism and environmentalism?
green 10 Operas In what opera by Englebert Humperdinck does a witch lure children into her dwelling with cakes and sweets and then shove them into her oven where they turn into gingerbread?
Hansel and Gretel Round # 1 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #375 HS 11 Action Characters What character created by Clive Cussler was instrumental in raising the Titanic, finding a Confederate ironclad in Africa, locating treasures from the Library of Alexandria in Texas, and discovering a third nuclear bomb that never made it to Japan in 1945?
Dirk Pitt 12 Aviation Feats Name the aviation practice of flying an aircraft in complex maneuvers for recreation and the entertainment of an audience.
aerobatics 13 Love at First Sight This passage by Anne Morrow is about whom? He is taller than anyone else - you see his head in a moving crowd, and you notice his glance as though it were keener, clearer, and brighter than anyone else's, lit with a more intense fire. What could I say to this boy? I felt the whole world before this to be frivolous, superficial, and ephemeral.
Charles Lindbergh 14 Heat Transfer What heat transfer process involves transporting energy from a lower, hotter region to a higher, cooler region?
convection 15 Plate Tectonics These are hotspots on what tectonic plate? Raton hotspot Anahim hotspot Yellowstone hotspot
North American plate Round # 1 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #375 HS 16 Illnesses While diabetes and cancer are chronic illnesses, what corresponding adjective applies to disorders such as the common cold or hay fever?
acute 17 Fish What group of mostly predatory, mostly saltwater fish have cartilaginous skeletons, five to seven gill slits, a covering of dermal denticles, and several sets of replaceable teeth?
sharks 18 Explorers What Italian explorer and navigator is credited with first demonstrating that, contrary to conjectures from Columbus' voyages, the West Indies and Brazil were not the eastern outskirts of Asia but parts of an entirely new landmass?
Amerigo Vespucci 19 Spying Spying on corporations is known as what kind of espionage?
industrial (corporate, economic) espionage 20 Author's Inspiration His father was thrown into debtors' prison in 1824 and he was sent to work in a factory under miserable conditions. These circumstances led what famous British author to write several novels about these topics?
Charles Dickens Round # 1 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #375 HS 21 Arcs An arc minute equals what fraction of a degree?
1/60th 22 Memorials What is the flight number on the national memorial in Pennsylvania honoring the crew and passengers of a United Airlines jet who heroically stopped terrorists from reaching their intended target?
93 23 U.S. Rivers Located near the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, the Hanford Reach is the last free-flowing section of the Columbia River in what state?
Washington 24 Presidential Problems Some pundits referred to the 2014 immigration crisis as Obama's Katrina moment. This alluded to the federal response to a natural disaster that severely eroded public confidence in what former U.S. president?
George W. Bush 25 Taxation Name the alternative to the progressive income tax under which individuals would pay the same percentage regardless of their earnings.
flat tax Round # 1 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #375 HS 26 Liquids Alfred Nobel's fortune rested on his invention that involved the absorption of what explosive liquid into diatomaceous earth?
nitroglycerin 27 Invasions In 1990, Iraqi forces invaded and temporarily annexed what country at the head of the Persian Gulf?
Kuwait 28 Planetary Days A day on which planet lasts just a little bit longer than a day on Earth?
Mars 29 Literary Forms Just from their titles, you can surmise that these works are what form of literature? Fifty Shames of Earl Grey New Moan: The Twishite Saga Jane Slayre Night of the Living Trekkies The Wind Done Gone The Meowmorphosis
parodies 30 Solids These are characteristics of what geometric solid? Number of concurrent edges at a vertex = 3 Number of edges = 6 Number of vertices = 4 Number of faces = 4
tetrahedron ( triangular pyramid) Round # 1 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #375 HS 31 Kansas Cabins What famous abolitionist's cabin can be seen in Osawatomie, Kansas?
John Brown's 32 Propaganda What propaganda technique involves an appeal to be part of a group?
bandwagon 33 Musical Instruments While bassoons are baritone instruments and tubas are bass instruments, what category of instruments usually includes clarinets, flutes, and violins?
soprano instruments 34 Heredity What molecular units of living organisms contain the information to pass hereditary traits to offspring?
genes 35 U.S. Rivers What mountain range is the source of these rivers? American, Feather, Tuolumne, Stanislaus, Mokelumne, Kings, Kern, Merced, Truckee
Sierra Nevada Round # 1 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #375 HS 36 Slavery Solutions In 1820, the American Colonization Society attempted to deal with slavery by returning volunteer African Americans to the African Pepper Coast. Those people formed the nucleus of what new country that still exists?
Liberia 37 Bites Arachnidism is an injury resulting from the bite of what kind of creature?
spider 38 Literary Techniques What technique is used when an author, for comic effect, exaggerates or distorts a character's physical features or other characteristics?
caricature 39 Probability A bag contains 15 marbles, 8 of which are green, 4 blue, and 3 white. You remove 1 green and 1 blue ball. What is the probability that the next randomly selected ball from the bag will be blue?
3 in 13 40 Space Exploration Yuri Gagarin was to the Soviet Union as what astronaut was to the United States?
Alan Shepard (or John Glenn) Round # 1 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #375 HS 41 Work If a force of 20 newtons acts along a point that travels 2 meters, how many joules of work are done?
40 joules 42 Homophones Spell the homophone for a street market lined with shops and stalls that sounds the same as the adjective indicating something strange or fantastic.
bazaar 43 Unnatural Natural Explosions The Tunguska event occurred in 1908 in what country?
Russia 44 Parliamentary Government In a parliamentary system, the death knell for the current government is a vote of no what?
confidence 45 Memorable Massacres The late 17th-century Massacre of Glencoe, in which Campbell Clan soldiers slaughtered many members of the MacDonald Clan, occurred in what part of Great Britain?
Scotland Round # 1 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #375 HS *Alt Colonial Economic Failures James Oglethorpe tried to establish a silk industry in Georgia, but the plan was doomed from the outset because the right species of what kind of tree did not grow there?
mulberry *Alt Angles Name the kind of angle formed by any angle and its supplement.
straight angle *Alt Memorials What memorial in Washington D.C. honors U.S. armed forces personnel who fought in such battles as Chonan, Suwon Airfield, Taegu, Chosin Reservoir, and Pork Chop Hill?
Korean War Veterans Memorial *Alt Asian Republics What island republic is due north of the island of Luzon and east of the people's Republic of China?
Taiwan (Republic of China) *Alt Subatomic Particles What is the antimatter counterpart of the electron?
positron Round # 1 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #375 HS *Alt Wartime Novels What war is the setting for these novels? From Here to Eternity The Eagle Has Landed The English Patient Catch-22
World War II *Alt Earth's Interior The asthenosphere is part of what layer of the Earth's interior between the crust and core?
mantle Round # 2 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #375 HS 1 National Anthems The national anthem of the Principality of Andorra is entitled "El Gran Carlemany," named for what king of the Franks?
Charlemagne 2 Archaeology What Latin American civilization constructed cities at sites such as Caracol, Rio Azul, Coba, Sayil, and Tikal?
Maya 3 Predicates Consider the sentence, "She is a starlet and quite content." While "starlet" functions as a predicate nominative, what is the function of "content"?
predicate adjective 4 Rhyme What is the rhyme scheme in this verse? The fire seven times tried this; Seven times tried that judgment is, That did never choose amiss. Some there be that shadows kiss Such have but a shadow's bliss. There be fools alive, iwis, Silvered o'er - and so was this.
AAAAAAA 5 Numbers Express the first cardinal number in the poem, "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere, as an ordinal number.
75th Round # 2 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #375 HS 6 Colonial Name Changes In 1665, what colonial settlement was renamed in honor of the Duke of York?
New Amsterdam 7 Gold Extraction Gold readily forms an amalgam with mercury. Then, what basic process is used to separate the gold from the mercury?
distillation 8 Anatomical Adjectives The adjective, buccal, relates to what bodily cavity?
mouth 9 Shock What kind of shock is caused by a severe reaction to an antigen, allergen, or drug?
anaphylactic shock 10 Law What is the phrase for the set of facts and circumstances that would lead a law enforcement officer to believe that a certain person had committed a specific crime?
probable cause Round # 2 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #375 HS 11 Partitioning Vietnam was partitioned into two countries shortly after what fierce battle between the Viet Minh and the French?
Dien Bien Phu 12 Europe What country is due east of the Shetland Islands?
Norway 13 Story Reviews This is from a review of what story by Kurt Vonnegut? The first thing you think of is a graceful ballet. Maybe a lot of ivory satin, feathers, and tulle. It's not until a few lines later that you realize the ballerinas are also handicapped with masks, weights, and ear radios.
Harrison Bergeron 14 Transversals A line is cut by a transversal. If one of the four angles formed is 40 degrees, what are the measures of each of the alternate exterior angles?
140 degrees 15 Jamestown Governance In the Virginia Colony, what were the titles of representatives of plantations who met in 1619 in the first elected legislative assembly in the New World?
burgesses Round # 2 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #375 HS 16 Verbs What verb form is illustrated by the words ending in "ing" in these sentences? Put on your thinking cap. Sleeping pills did her no good. Mr. Gonzales bought running shoes today.
participle 17 Oxidation What is the collective name for molecules that inhibit oxidation of other molecules?
antioxidants 18 Astronomical Phenomena What do the Delta Aquarids consist of?
meteoroids (meteors) 19 Legislative Records What publication of the U.S. Congress is a version of the Hansard, the official transcript of the proceedings of the British Parliament?
Congressional Record 20 Epithets What epithet is associated with these famous historical people? Catherine, Akbar, Frederick, Cyrus, Ivan III, Alfred, Charlemagne, Peter
the Great Round # 2 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #375 HS 21 Initiations As part of an initiation, some organizations incorporate abuse, harassment, and humiliation in the ritual. Name this practice.
hazing 22 Crime Stories What is the slang term for a mystery story that includes both a murder and the clues required to identify the killer?
whodunit 23 Triangles The measures of the angles in a triangle are in the ratio of 3 to 4 to 5. What is the measure of the largest angle?
75 degrees 24 Historical Sites Although its original name was the Pennsylvania State House, what is this building called today?
Independence Hall 25 Wonders Which of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World was created by the sculptor, Phidias?
Statue of Zeus Round # 2 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #375 HS 26 Replacements In 2014, Josh Earnest replaced Jay Carney in what White House role?
press secretary 27 Liquids If the mixing of two liquids results in a single liquid phase with no meniscus, the liquids are described as being what?
miscible 28 Wordplay What form of wordplay is used in these actual business names? a stationery shop named Avant-Card a plumbing service named All Cisterns Go a dog day care botique named Indiana Bones Temple of Groom a bar named Tequila Mockingbird an ice cream shop named Custard's Last Stand
pun 29 Archaeology A raised mass of earth or debris within or below which the dead are interred is simply called a burial what?
burial mound 30 Southeast Asia Islands belonging to what country surround the Java Sea?
Indonesia Round # 2 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #375 HS 31 Novelists What American author began three of his novels with these lines? -Ryan was nearly killed twice in a half an hour. -"When do you start, Jack?" Cathy asked in the quiet of their bed. -Captain First Rank Marko Ramius of the Soviet Navy was dressed for the Arctic conditions normal to the Northern Fleet submarine base at Polyarnyy.
Tom Clancy 32 Inverse Variation Given that y varies inversely with x and that y = 3 when x = 4, what is y when x = 1?
12 33 Naval Firsts In 1958, what U.S. vessel dived near Point Barrow, Alaska, traveled some 1000 miles under the Arctic ice cap to reach the top of the world, and then proceeded toward Iceland?
Nautilus 34 Bodily Fluids The color of what important bodily fluid is often compared to that of freshly cut grass?
bile 35 Hazardous Substances Some 4.3 million workers were employed in American shipyards during World War II, and for every thousand workers about 14 died of mesothelioma, resulting from their exposure to what fibrous mineral used for insulation?
asbestos Round # 2 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #375 HS 36 Fog A relative humidity of about what percentage usually accompanies the formation of fog?
100% 37 Senate Representation Which U.S. state, on a per-capita basis, has the greatest influence in the U.S. Senate?
Wyoming 38 European History During what period in European history were these works first published? Dante's "Divine Comedy" Cervantes' "Don Quixote" More's "Utopia" Machiavelli's "The Prince"
Renaissance 39 Blend Words What blend word is a noun combination of a term for someone who directs physical or mental effort toward accomplishing something and someone who habitually and excessively consumes beverages containing ethanol?
workaholic 40 Stephen King In what Stephen King novel does John Smith clairvoyantly see a future U.S. president causing a worldwide nuclear war?
The Dead Zone Round # 2 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #375 HS 41 Equations What is the product of the two solutions of this equation? 2y = 3 - y squared
-3 42 The Marshall Plan Part of the purpose of the Marshall Plan was to prevent the spread of what ideology?
communism 43 Peninsulas What body of water borders Anatolia to its south?
Mediterranean Sea 44 Energy Measurement Equal to one joule per second, what is the SI unit of power?
watt 45 Paintings What famous painting by Winslow Homer shares its title with a major, warm ocean current of the North Atlantic?
The Gulf Stream Round # 2 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #375 HS *Alt Neurons What substance that forms an insulating sheath around many nerve fibers distinguishes white matter from gray matter in the nervous system?
myelin *Alt Natural Monuments What 560-acre national monument featuring old growth redwoods and named for an American naturalist is a major tourist attraction in the San Francisco Bay area?
Muir Woods *Alt Patriotic Poetry What is the last word in these verses? I thought of all the children, Of the mothers and the wives, Of fathers, sons and husbands With interrupted lives. I thought about a graveyard At the bottom of the sea, Of unmarked graves in Arlington, No, Freedom isn't ... free *Alt Tom Swifties What adverb reminiscent of a Roman senator completes this Tom Swifty? "Et tu?" Tom asked ...
brutally *Alt Piracy Piracy flourished in the Caribbean largely thanks to pirate bases at Port Royal in Jamaica, Tortuga off Haiti, and Nassau in what island group?
Bahamas Round # 2 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #375 HS *Alt Minerals While galena is a sulfide and hematite is an oxide, what kind of minerals are quartz and feldspar, given that they contain abundant oxygen and silicon?
silicates *Alt Hexadecimal Numbers Express the hexadecimal number 79 as a decimal number.
121 Round # 3 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #375 HS 1 Harmonics What is the fundamental frequency if the harmonics have frequencies of 2f, 3f, and 4f?
f 2 European Attractions These are sites in what country? In Flanders Field Museum Ploegsteert Memorial The Trench of Death Waterloo Battlefield
Belgium 3 Just Pooped These are generally symptoms of what physiological condition? lack of energy, exhaustion, lethargy, weariness, drowsiness, aching muscles, mental exhaustion, dizziness
fatigue 4 Mathematical Properties What mathematical property is illustrated in this? 11 x 1/11 = 1
(multiplicative) inverse property 5 The Constitution The historian, Mercy Otis Warren, was deploring the absence what kind of limits when she said this about the U.S. Constitution? There is no provision for a rotation, nor anything to prevent the perpetuity of office in the same hands for life, which by a little well-timed bribery, will probably be done.
term limits Round # 3 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #375 HS 6 Legendary Analogues The character of Utnapishtim in the Babylonian flood legend is analogous to what character in the Old Testament?
Noah 7 Raids Shortly after the 1916 Battle of Columbus in New Mexico, President Wilson ordered the U.S. Army to invade Mexico and capture what general who led the raid?
Pancho Villa 8 Cones In a truncated cone, name the shortest possible distance between the edges of the two bases.
slant height 9 Glands While the outer layer of the glands located at the top of the kidneys produces corticosteroid hormones, name a hormone produced by the inner portion of these glands.
epinephrine (norepinephrine, adrenaline) 10 Glaciers Mendenhall Glacier is just outside what Alaskan city?
Juneau Round # 3 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #375 HS 11 Wives Juan Peron of Argentina married Eva Duarte, who later became affectionately known by what name?
Evita 12 Anagrams Complete this anagram for "school student". tends to ...
slouch 13 Astronomical Objects QSO is the abbreviation for what broader name for quasars?
quasi-stellar objects 14 Chemical Analysis A quantitative analysis determines the concentration of a substance in a sample. What kind of chemical analysis simply detects the presence of a substance in a sample?
qualitative analysis 15 Drama Who utters this in a Shakespearean play? And fire-eyed fury be my conduct now! Now, Tybalt, take the villain back again That late thou gavest me; for Mercutio's soul Is but a little way above our heads.
Romeo Round # 3 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #375 HS 16 Civil Disorder The assassination of Martin Luther King and the verdict in the Rodney King trial triggered what kind of violent disturbances by crowds in many cities?
riots (race riots) 17 Metric Measures The Golden Gate Bridge is 8980 feet long. To the nearest whole number, convert that length to meters.
2737 18 Dance The Moulin Rouge in Paris is regarded as the birthplace of what kind of music hall dance that features high kicking?
can-can 19 German History What title did these Germans hold? Konrad Adenauer Willy Brandt Helmut Kohl Gerhard Schroeder
chancellor 20 Ships In the 18th century, what ship famously failed in its mission to acquire breadfruit plants in Tahiti and transport them to the West Indies?
HMS Bounty Round # 3 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #375 HS 21 Disease Prevention Name the modern disease-prevention practice that Voltaire described in these words in 1742. The Circassian women have, from time immemorial, communicated the smallpox to their children when not above six months old by making an incision in the arm, and by putting into this incision a pustule from the body of another child.
inoculation (vaccination, immunization) 22 Ligaments The medial collateral ligament helps give stability to what joint?
knee 23 Homographs What is the name for a homograph that is pronounced differently?
heteronym 24 Epicurean Delights What do epicures call the roe of sturgeon?
caviar 25 Pearl Harbor What battleship currently moored a few hundred yards from the resting place of the U.S.S. Arizona was the vessel upon which the documents ending World War II were signed?
U.S.S. Missouri Round # 3 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #375 HS 26 Numbers If n = 3, then what is the name for the nth root of a number?
cube root 27 Sobriquets Because of their approximate location on the globe in relation to Great Britain, what two neighboring South Pacific countries are sometimes called the Antipodes?
Australia, New Zealand 28 Light What happens to light that is neither reflected or absorbed while passing through a medium?
It is transmitted. 29 Archipelagoes What archipelago at the southern tip of South America was first discovered by the expedition led by Ferdinand Magellan?
Tierra del Fuego 30 Diplomatic Blunders In 2014, in relation to a surprise visit by President Obama, the White House accidentally leaked the name of the CIA's chief of station in what country?
Afghanistan Round # 3 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #375 HS 31 Hydrology Regarding watersheds, what is a synonym for an affluent?
tributary 32 Smuggling While rum-running most often indicates smuggling over water, what corresponding term indicates smuggling over land?
bootlegging 33 Forms of Poetry This is the beginning of an example of what kind of poem? Artichokes, Bubbly, Caviar, Dishes Epicures Favor, Gourmets Hail Ices, Juicy Kickshaws, Luxurious Mousses, Nibblesome
alphabet poem 34 American Paintings Two monumental paintings by Albert Bierstadt hang in the U.S. Capitol. One is "Entrance into Monterey" while the other is of the discovery of what river depicting Henry Hudson sailing just above West Point, New York?
Hudson River 35 Algebraic Evaluation Given that p = 3 and q = 5, evaluate pi(pq) + pi(p squared).
24 pi Round # 3 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #375 HS 36 Intensifiers What intensifier is used in the line preceding this one taken from Longfellow's poem, "There Was a Little Girl"? And when she was bad she was horrid.
very 37 Botany What is the common collective name for graminoids, which are monocotyledonous, often herbaceous plants with narrow leaves growing from the base?
grass 38 Weapons Testing Between 1946 and 1958, well many nuclear weapons were detonated on each of two atolls in the Marshall Islands. Name either.
Bikini, Eniwetok 39 Painters The region associated with Flemish painters includes western Belgium, the southwestern Netherlands, and the northern part of what other country?
France 40 Isotopes In 1931, Harold Urey discovered heavy water that contains a larger than normal amount of what hydrogen isotope?
deuterium Round # 3 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #375 HS 41 Latin American Rivers The mouth of what river separates Uruguay from Argentina?
Rio de la Plata 42 Science Fiction This is a haiku version of what British dystopian novel? Doubleplusungood Big Brother crimestop oldspeak dystopic old think.
Nineteen Eighty-Four 43 Revolutionary Assaults In 1775, combined forces under Benedict Arnold and Ethan Allen captured what fort in New York?
Fort Ticonderoga 44 Distance Problems If something travels 1 x 10 to the 6th power meters per second for 5 x 10 to the -6th power seconds, it travels a total of how many meters?
5 45 Rock Diatomite is also known as what kind of earth?
diatomaceous earth Round # 3 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #375 HS *Alt Rhyme Named for the number of parts, what kind of rhyme is illustrated in these examples? winding stairs - grinding cares fearfully - tearfully beautiful - dutiful generate - venerate
triple rhyme *Alt Adjuncts Which clause is the adjunct in this example? He buried his treasure wherever Blackbeard buried his.
wherever Blackbeard buries his *Alt Promotions This 1907 description was about what particular product? The $850.50 flivver has a wooden body on a steel frame that makes it stronger than a horse and easier to maintain.
Model T *Alt Mollusks Name the class of the phylum Mollusca that includes clams, mussels, oysters, scallops, and others with two hinged shells.
bivalvia (bivalves) *Alt Political Vocabulary Reminiscent of a traffic jam, what is a synonym for deadlock, a situation involving opposing parties in which no progress can be made?
gridlock Round # 3 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #375 HS *Alt International Relations The treaty known as START was signed in 1991 by what two countries?
United States and the Soviet Union *Alt Drugs Laudanum, codeine, and morphine are derivatives of what drug?
opium Round # 4 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #375 HS 1 Mixture Problems If you have 20 ounces of a 20% salt solution, express as an improper fraction the ounces of salt that must be added to make it a 25% solution.
4/3 ounces 2 Radiation What is the term for the change in direction of radiation that encounters a surface without a change in wavelength?
reflection (or refraction) 3 International Relations The 6th BRICS summit convened in 2014. This s a group of emerging nations that include Russia, India, China, South Africa, and what country of the Americas?
Brazil 4 Hindu Traditions In Hinduism, what is the term for the incarnation, appearance, or manifestation of a deity on Earth?
avatar 5 Border History In 1846, the Oregon Treaty fixed the U.S.-Canadian border at what parallel of latitude?
49th Round # 4 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #375 HS 6 Constellations The tail of the constellation Draco is between what two well-known constellations?
Big Dipper, Little Dipper (Ursa Major, Ursa 7 Primates After the bonobo and common chimpanzee, what large African apes are the closest living relatives to humans?
gorillas 8 Short Stories This passage is from what well-known short story? "I wanted an ideal animal to hunt," explained the general. "So I said, 'What are the attributes of an ideal quarry?' And the answer was, of course: 'It must have courage, cunning, and, above all, it must be able to reason.'"
The Most Dangerous Game 9 Colonial Land Grants In 1632, all the land between the Potomac River and Chesapeake Bay was granted to what English politician known as the First Baron Baltimore?
George Calvert 10 Radical Multiplication Multiply the quantity (a - square root of b) by the quantity (a + square root of b).
a squared minus b Round # 4 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #375 HS 11 Emphatic Verbs Restate this sentence using the emphatic form of the verb. Mr. Carney tells the truth occasionally.
Mr. Carney does tell the truth occasionally. 12 Color What color that is relatively cool from the perspective of an astronomer classifying stars is very warm from the perspective of an artist?
red 13 Wonders of the World Which Wonder of the Ancient World was erected on the coast of North Africa?
Lighthouse of Alexandria 14 Injuries What is the common name for the condition in which the outer, fibrous ring of an intervertebral disc is damaged and the softer, central portion bulges out beyond the damaged outer part?
slipped disc (herniated disc) 15 Matter What phase of matter is the major component of the Sun?
plasma Round # 4 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #375 HS 16 Criminal Conduct What legal defense may be used if the government has induced the defendant to commit a crime?
entrapment 17 Settings What U.S. state is the setting for the story, "A River Runs Through It"?
Montana 18 Ships This is about what ship? In 1804, a volunteer party of officers and men commanded by Lieutenant Stephen Decatur boarded her, and after determining she was not seaworthy, burned her where she lay in Tripoli Harbor.
USS Philadelphia 19 Quadratics Solve this equation. 2p - 3 = 1 - 2p + p squared
p = 2 20 Islands Two main islands and some 776 smaller ones comprise what archipelago that is 300 miles east of Argentina?
Falkland Islands Round # 4 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #375 HS 21 Biological Antonyms What is the antonym of diurnal?
nocturnal 22 Disasters The only major volcanic disaster in the history of France and its overseas territories occurred in 1902 when what volcano erupted on an island in the Lesser Antilles, killing about 30,000 people?
Mt. Pelee 23 Borrowed These words came into English from what European language? krill, dollop, lemming, quisling, slalom
Norwegian 24 The Sun The chromosphere is hotter than the photosphere but not as hot as what atmospheric layer just above it?
corona 25 Criminal Releases In 2013, some 36,000 convicted criminals who were also illegal immigrants were released by the U.S. government at the behest of what federal department?
Department of Homeland Security Round # 4 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #375 HS 26 Bradbury Books In Ray Bradbury's "Something Wicked This Way Comes," what does the sinister Mr. Dark have all over his body?
tattoos 27 Home Economics Substances such as horseradish, mayonnaise, curry powder, salsa, Worchestershire sauce, and wasabi that add flavor to food are collectively known as what?
condiments 28 Coffee Computations At a coffee shop, the number of Turkish coffees sold was one more than three times the number of Vienna coffees sold that day. If 601 of these coffees were sold, how many were Vienna coffees?
150 29 Glucose There are twelve atoms of hydrogen, six atoms of oxygen, and how many atoms of carbon in one molecule of glucose?
six 30 Musicals Name the musical about a famous doomed British vessel that includes these songs. There She Is The Largest Floating Object in the World The First Class Roster Wake Up, Wake Up! Dressed in Your Pajamas in the Grand Salon To the Lifeboats The Foundering Titanic Round # 4 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #375 HS 31 Medieval Literature In Malory's "Le Morte d'Arthur," what is the title of those elite warriors sworn to uphold the values of courage, loyalty, honor, and faith?
knight 32 Steroids Though they are not pain relievers, corticosteroids do reduce pain by reducing what other protective reaction characterized by redness and swelling?
inflammation 33 Election Scrutiny Someone who closely observes voting in a precinct and exercises oversight to prevent election corruption or mistakes is called a poll what?
poll watcher 34 North American Lows The lowest land in North America is 1503 feet below sea level at the bottom of what enormous Canadian lake in the Northwest Territories?
Great Slave Lake 35 Title Inspirations The title of Robert Penn Warren's novel, "All the King's Men," came from what nursery rhyme?
Humpty Dumpty Round # 4 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #375 HS 36 The Korean Conflict In 1950, the day after the United Nations Security Council recommended that U.N. forces in Korea be placed under U.S. military command, whom did Harry Truman appoint as head of that command?
Douglas MacArthur 37 Military Time What time is it if your drill instructor says it's 2330 hours?
11:30 p.m. 38 Movie Quotations This excerpt is from what American movie? You know how much I love watching you work, but I've got my country's 500th anniversary to plan, my wedding to arrange, my wife to murder, and Guilder to frame for it; I'm swamped.
The Princess Bride 39 Chemical Compounds What is the collective name for binary compounds or ions that contain fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine, or astatine ?
halides 40 Weapons During the Persian Gulf War, Iraq fired a total of 88 tactical ballistic missiles. Name these missiles that had been developed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
Scud Round # 4 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #375 HS 41 Plankton What category of plankton comprise the autotrophic components of a plankton community?
phytoplankton 42 Intrusions What kind of igneous intrusion is described as a relatively narrow, often nearly vertical, tabular, discordant body?
dike 43 Taxation The U.S. individual income tax is largely based on the principle of ability to do what?
pay 44 Chiasmus Complete this passage that illustrates chiasmus. When religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine. Now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake ...
medicine for magic 45 Frontier Justice The Vendetta Ride of 1882 was largely a response to shootings that had occurred in what Arizona town?
Tombstone Round # 4 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #375 HS *Alt Optics What is a term for the degree to which an optical instrument can distinguish the details of an object?
resolution *Alt Generational Math Considering your parents as the first generation, how many generations would you have to go back to have at least 1000 total ancestors?
9 *Alt Mideast Cities The major industry in the city of Abadan involves what commodity?
oil (petroleum) *Alt Traditions Trafalgar Day is celebrated annually by people of the United Kingdom to honor the British victory in a naval battle that occurred in 1805. In that battle, the British fleet was commanded by whom?
Horatio Nelson *Alt Anesthetics Humphry Davy experimented with nitrous oxide on himself and found that it not only eliminated pain, but also made him chuckle and giggle. Consequently, he called it what kind of gas?
laughing gas Round # 4 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #375 HS *Alt Clauses What category of clauses begin with conjunctions like these? whenever, while, whether, whereas, whenever, when, why
subordinate clauses *Alt Art Theft In 1911, Vincenzo Peruggia stole the "Mona Lisa" from what European museum?
the Louvre Round # 5 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #375 HS 1 Literature These are examples of what category of nonfiction? -Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption -The King's Speech: How One Man Saved the British Monarchy -Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West
biography 2 Naval Abbreviations In the U.S. Navy, if BB indicates a battleship, what kind of vessel is indicated by DD?
destroyer 3 Multiples What is the least common multiple of 60, 72, and 108?
1080 4 Algae What is another name for brown algae that may reach 50 meters in length?
kelp 5 Avalanches Name the central, channel-like trough down which an avalanche moves.
chute (avalanche chute) Round # 5 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #375 HS 6 Legends This is about what legendary ship? It is a common superstition of mariners in the southern latitudes off the coast of Africa to see a specter-ship, the crew of which was guilty of some dreadful crime and ordained to traverse the ocean on which they perished till the period of their penance expires.
Flying Dutchman 7 Kidnappings In 2014, some 300 schoolgirls were abducted in a single incident in what country?
Nigeria 8 Mediterranean Isles After the islands of Sicily and Sardinia, what is the third largest Mediterranean island?
Cyprus 9 Trials A second trial for a crime for which the accused was already acquitted is called double what?
jeopardy 10 Literary Elements While mood is the general atmosphere of a narrative, what is the term for the central idea or concept of a story?
theme Round # 5 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #375 HS 11 The 1980s In the same year that the Iran-Contra scandal became public and the U.S. bombed Libyan military bases to deter terrorism, what vehicle exploded 73 seconds after liftoff and killed all seven of its crew members?
Challenger 12 Coin Problems In your old sock, you have nickels, dimes, and quarters with a value of $2.10. If there are two times as many dimes as quarters and there are two less nickels than dimes, how many nickels are there?
6 13 American Writers When Samuel Clemens accepted a job as a reporter for the Virginia City Enterprise, he began using what pseudonym?
Mark Twain 14 Geographic Regions Name either of the two Middle East countries that extend farthest west.
Egypt, Turkey 15 French History In 1661, Louis XIV began his rule as an absolute monarch and soon initiated construction of what fabulous royal chateau outside of Paris?
(Palace of) Versailles Round # 5 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #375 HS 16 Levers What is the term for the beam or bar of a lever?
arm 17 Temporary Paralysis What was once called scrivener's palsy is known today as what kind of cramp?
writer's cramp 18 Symbols The symbol for which planet looks like a plus sign within a circle?
Earth 19 American Novels This line is from what Steinbeck novel? Lennie raised up on his elbow. His face contorted with thought. Then his eyes moved sadly to George's face. "If I get in any trouble, you ain't gonna let me tend the rabbits."
Of Mice and Men 20 The 1950s In the same year that the U.S. detonated its first hydrogen bomb on Eniwetok, what Caribbean isle became a U.S. commonwealth?
Puerto Rico Round # 5 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #375 HS 21 Polygons In how many different ways can a regular decagon be divided by a straight line into congruent pentagons?
infinite 22 Operas Based on a legend and a play by Friedrich Schiller, what opera by Rossini is usually remembered for its rousing finale entitled "March of the Swiss Soldiers"?
William Tell 23 Business Arrangements In terms of business, someone who makes a living as a writer, plumber, freelance photographer, antique appraiser, gardener, or consultant and is not on an employer's payroll is classified as a sole what?
proprietor 24 Embargoes The European Union and the United States imposed an arms embargo on China as a result of the 1989 protests in what square in Beijing?
Tiananmen Square 25 Root Words What is the meaning of the root word in thermodynamics, dynamite, and dynasty?
power Round # 5 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #375 HS 26 Worm Digestion Name the muscular contractions in earthworms that move digesting food through their intestines.
peristalsis 27 Capitals Grozny is the capital of what Russian republic?
Chechnya 28 Island Settings These literary works are entirely or partially set on what European island? A Bell for Adano Much Ado About Nothing The Godfather
Sicily 29 Facilities What kind of special facilities are found in these cities? Folsom, California Marion, Illinois Attica, New York Florence, Colorado Leavenworth, Kansas
prisons 30 Waves These are all examples of what kind of waves? gamma rays, x-rays, ultraviolet light, visible light, infrared radiation, radio waves
electromagnetic waves Round # 5 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #375 HS 31 Petrology Fissility distinguishes shale from what similar fine-grained sedimentary rock formed from clays or muds?
mudstone (mudrock) 32 Symmetry Any cut that runs through the center of an organism with what kind of symmetry yields two identical halves?
spherical symmetry 33 Arab Lands What modern Arab country formerly consisted of the four regions of Hejaz, Najd, Al-Hasa, and Asir?
Saudi Arabia 34 International Organizations On an alphabetical list of members of the OAS, which is last?
Venezuela 35 Evacuations In 2014, the Ukraine government evacuated its remaining military personnel from what peninsula?
Crimean Peninsula Round # 5 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #375 HS 36 First Lines Name the author who began various books with these lines. -The house stood on a slight rise just on the edge of the village. -The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created. -The regular early morning yell of horror was the sound of Arthur Dent waking up and suddenly remembering where he was.
Douglas Adams 37 Diacritical Marks In French words in which there is a cedilla beneath the letter "c", that letter should be pronounced as what other letter?
s 38 Holidays What U.S. national holiday corresponds to Remembrance Day in the United Kingdom and Armistice Day in other parts of the world?
Veterans Day 39 Marine Mammals The two species of living sirenians include manatees and what other herbivorous marine mammals of the Indian Ocean and southwest Pacific?
dugongs 40 Heat Exhaustion The loss of what substance in the body sets the stage for heat exhaustion?
water (or electrolytes or salt) Round # 5 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #375 HS 41 Computer Circuitry An IC is a tiny electrical circuit built onto a microchip. The "I" in "IC" stands for what?
integrated 42 Legendary Mountains The "Mountains of the Moon" are on which continent?
Africa 43 Elements With a name that begins with the third to the last letter in the alphabet, identify element number 54 which is a colorless, inert gas used in expensive headlights, flashlights, and digital projection lamps.
xenon 44 Geology What kind of wasting includes creep, landslides, earthflows, slumps, topples, and mudslides?
mass wasting 45 Meteorological Idioms What meteorological term is missing in this idiom meaning to take attention away from someone else's achievement? steal his ----
thunder Round # 5 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #375 HS *Alt Musicals What country is the setting for the musical, "The King and I"?
Thailand (Siam) *Alt Shared Names What name for a tribe of Native Americans is also used for a kind of salmon, a Montana town, a Boeing helicopter, and an inland wind of the Pacific Northwest?
Chinook *Alt Medieval Armor A medieval knight wore a mail coif to cover what part of his body?
head *Alt Geologic Time What unit of geologic time is next in magnitude below an eon and consists of at least two periods?
era *Alt Ships The sinking of what battleship propelled the United States into a short and spectacularly successful war against Spain?
U.S.S. Maine Round # 5 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #375 HS *Alt Crimes What crime might involve any of these circumstances? -causing one animal to fight with another -torturing an animal -abandoning an animal -overworking an animal
animal cruelty (animal abuse) *Alt Cycads While cycads that can survive in harsh semidesert climates are xerophytes, what classification pertains to those that are especially salt tolerant?
halophytes