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Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #380 HS 1 Planets Exoplanets Are Those Located Outside What Region of Space? Round # 1 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #380 HS 1 Planets Exoplanets are those located outside what region of space? the solar system 2 Literary Forms What is the term for these kinds of collections? The Illustrated Man American Gothic Tales Oxford Book of Modern Verses Classics of Children's Literature Twenty-nine Original Tales of Horror The Best Science Fiction of the 20th Century anthology 3 Circles There are two basic ways of cutting a circle. While a slice made by a chord is called a segment, what is the term for a "pizza-shaped" slice? sector 4 Range Wars The Pleasant Valley War in Arizona was fought between the Grahams who herded cattle and the Tewksburys who herded what other animals? sheep 5 Southeast Asia What is the largest country that borders Laos? China Round # 1 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #380 HS 6 Bureaucratic Idioms Excessive adherence to bureaucratic rules is known as what kind of tape? red tape 7 Greek Etymology What is the meaning of the suffix in these words? technocracy, aristocracy, gerontocracy power 8 Organs What organ that protects the trachea against food aspiration is also involved in phonation? larynx 9 Eskimo Lore What is an Eskimo umiak? boat 10 Composers Claude Debussy referred to what classical composer as "the old deaf one"? Ludwig van Beethoven Round # 1 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #380 HS 11 Short Stories In Ray Bradbury's story, "A Sound of Thunder," the present is significantly modified when a hunter goes back in time to kill a Tyrannosaurus Rex but accidentally kills what other organism? a butterfly 12 Stadiums Located in California, what is the only stadium in the world to host the World Series, the Super Bowl, and the Summer Olympics twice? Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum 13 African Conflicts Since 1975, the Polisario Front has fought for the independence of Western Sahara from what country? Morocco 14 Matter What phase of matter can be produced by applying an electric field to a gas or by strongly heating a gas to ionize its molecules? plasma 15 Minerals Mafic minerals are ferromagnesian, meaning that they contain what two elements? iron, magnesium Round # 1 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #380 HS 16 Injuries First-degree abrasion involves superficial damage to what layer of the skin? epidermis 17 Biological Regions The biota of a region consists of what two components? flora and fauna (plants and animals) 18 Political Puppets These were puppet states of what country for much of the 20th century? Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia Soviet Union 19 Ongoing Expenses Some financial organizations charge their customers once a year for the convenience of using a debit or credit card. Name this charge. annual fee 20 Sea Stories In Herman Melville's story, "Billy Budd," who was captain of the HMS Bellipotent? Captain Vere Round # 1 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #380 HS 21 Exponents What is the last digit when the number 4 is raised to the 44th power? 6 22 Aviation History In what U.S. state could you visit a replica of the world's first airplane hangar? North Carolina 23 Mountain Vistas An ancient Greek standing atop Mount Olympus could look east and see what body of water? Aegean Sea 24 States Under Scrutiny In 2014, the mayor of Hoboken charged that the New Jersey state government had threatened to withhold millions of dollars in aid for local victims of what superstorm unless she approved a certain commercial development? Sandy 25 Arson In most states, an arsonist who starts a fire that causes another person's death, even if the death was unintended, can be charged not only with arson but with what other felony? murder Round # 1 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #380 HS 26 Gases Name the underground mixture of methane and other gases trapped above petroleum deposits. natural gas 27 Paramilitary Groups These are examples of what kind of irregular indigenous military units? Popular Revolutionary Army Sandinista National Liberation Front Zapatista Army of National Liberation Contras Bolivarian Forces of Liberation guerrillas 28 Stars Proxima Centauri is an example of the most common type of star in the galaxy. Such stars are known as what kind of dwarfs? red dwarfs 29 Horrific Stories This is from what Edgar Allan Poe tale? First of all, I dismembered the corpse. I cut off the head and the arms and the legs. I then took up three planks from the flooring of the chamber, and deposited all between the scantlings. The Tell-Tale Heart 30 Parallelograms If one of the interior angles of a parallelogram is 83 degrees, what is the measure of either of the two larger interior angles? 97 degrees Round # 1 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #380 HS 31 Colonial Cultivation This 17th-century passage is about what agricultural product of the Jamestown Colony? The fumes purge superfluous phlegm and gross humors from the body by opening all the pores and passages. Its use preserves the body, and if there are any obstructions, it breaks them up. So the natives keep in excellent health without many of the grievous diseases which afflict us in England. tobacco 32 Phonetics Consider the letters "ph" in phonograph and the letters "mb" in dumb. What is the term for any two such letters that indicate a single sound? digraph 33 Ancient Architecture Geometrically speaking, what is the shape of the ancient Colosseum, the largest amphitheater ever built in Rome? elliptical (or ovoid) 34 Wildlife Death What is the collective term for the dead, decaying bodies of animals found in nature? carrion 35 Archipelagoes What archipelago that straddles the Mid-Atlantic Ridge belongs to Portugal? Azores Round # 1 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #380 HS 36 Aviation What kind of rigid airship was first demonstrated by a German count in 1900? zeppelin 37 Elizabethan Diet In 1597, a German diplomat noted the blackness of Queen Elizabeth's teeth and determined it was caused by her excessive consumption of what? sugar 38 Opening Lines What American author begins three novels with these lines? -One minute it was Ohio winter, with doors closed, windows locked, the panes blind with frost, icicles fringing every roof. -First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys. -It was a pleasure to burn. Ray Bradbury 39 Invasive Species What prolific amphibians with pronounced poison glands on their skin, that were originally introduced to eradicate pests from sugar cane farms in the Caribbean and Australia, is now regarded in those locations as an invasive species? cane toads 40 Industrial Processes The process used by Charles Goodyear for making rubber was named after what Roman god? Vulcan Round # 1 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #380 HS 41 Acids What organic acid forms ions and salts known as urates and acid urates? uric acid 42 Song Grammar What are the first two concrete nouns in the lyrics of "Camptown Races"? ladies, song 43 Orbits The eccentricity of a hyperbolic orbit is greater than what value? one 44 International Relations Often associated with Neville Chamberlain, name the act of trying to placate a political or military rival by making concessions. appeasement 45 National Leaders Benazir Bhutto was to Pakistan as Corazon Aquino was to what country? Philippines Round # 1 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #380 HS *Alt Haiku Poetry Here are the complete works of what American poet condensed into a single haiku? I am everything Everything is in me, too -just one blade of grass Walt Whitman *Alt An Exchange of Fish Rodney said to Roberta, "If you give me one fish from your creel, we will have an equal number of fish." Roberta responds, "If you give me one fish from your creel, I will have double your number of fish." How many fish does Roberta have? 7 *Alt American Neighborhoods What is the term for neighborhoods in the United States that are heavily populated by Hispanics? barrios *Alt Star Measures On a scale of absolute star magnitudes, what symbol adjacent to the magnitudes of stars such as Vega and Betelgeuse indicates extreme brightness? negative sign *Alt Glassmaking What process used in glassmaking causes glass, when broken, to crumble into small chunks instead of splintering into jagged shards? tempering Round # 1 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #380 HS *Alt Algae Green algae have what structures that contain chlorophyll? chloroplasts *Alt Jefferson What former secretary of the treasury under George Washington was fatally wounded at Weehawken, New Jersey in a duel? Alexander Hamilton Round # 2 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #380 HS 1 Sculpture Name the process of carving the basic shape of a sculpture before proceeding to any details. roughing out 2 Wartime Poetry This verse is from a poem about what war? Gas! Gas! Quick boys - An ecstasy of fumbling Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time; But someone still was yelling out and stumbling And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime. World War I 3 Celebrations Translate into English this name for a day of celebration in France. Le quatorze julliet 14th of July (Bastille Day) 4 Muses Name either of the Greek Muses whose names begin with the letter "C." Calliope, Clio 5 Reciprocals What is the value of X if the sum of integer X and its reciprocal equals 78/15? 5 Round # 2 Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #380 HS 6 Journalism
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