Round # 1 Meet #1 - Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #413 HSM 1 Phenomenal Synonyms In oceanography, a maelstrom is a very large and violent what?
whirlpool 2 Authors These authors share what first name? Henley, Styron, Buckley, Wordsworth, Saroyan, Golding, Blake, Faulkner
William 3 Square Root The square root of 4 times what number equals 200?
100 4 Civil War States The three U.S. states admitted to the Union during the Civil War were Kansas, West Virginia, and what landlocked western state?
Nevada 5 Song Geography These songs are about what Eastern European city? Rasputin Gorky Park Rockin' on Red Square
Moscow Round # 1 Meet #1 - Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #413 HSM 6 International Relations George Washington advocated non-involvement in European wars and politics. Woodrow Wilson promised to keep America out of World War I. The U.S. refused to join the League of Nations. Name the general political policy of keeping one's country out of alliances and commitments with other countries.
isolationism 7 Cliches In relation to cliches, something that is not a panacea is no silver what?
bullet 8 Anatomical Antonyms While "lateral" means "away from the midline," what term means "toward the midline"?
medial 9 Wars Called the Six-Two-Five in the south for the day it started and the Fatherland Liberation War in the north, what conflict is also sometimes called the Forgotten War in the U.S.?
Korean War 10 Paintings In one of his famous paintings, Peter Paul Rubens depicts what Greek Titan chained to a rock beneath a tree with a large eagle standing on him, pecking at an open wound?
Prometheus Round # 1 Meet #1 - Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #413 HSM 11 Special Days May 25th is Towel Day, a day of no panic celebrating the life and works of what British author of a "trilogy" of five books?
Douglas Adams 12 Mottos Meaning "stronger," what is the third word of the motto that begins with this? Citius, Altius, ...
Fortius 13 The Vietnam War To convince President Thieu of South Vietnam to sign the Paris Peace Accords, U.S. President Nixon promised to come to the aid of South Vietnam if the communists violated the terms of the treaty. But, several months later, no more U.S. aid came because Nixon had been forced from office by what scandal?
Watergate 14 Chemists and Colonies What symbol for an element named for the Russian chemist who devised the period table is also the abbreviation for a U.S. state that was originally founded as a refuge for English Roman Catholics?
Md 15 Barometers The name for what kind of barometer was derived from the Greek words that literally mean "no water"?
aneroid barometer Round # 1 Meet #1 - Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #413 HSM 16 Decision Making When making decisions, people are constantly influenced by those around them. Such influences are known as what kind of pressure?
peer pressure 17 Wildlife Vocabulary What term in wildlife management indicates the leaves, shoots, brushy plants, and young twigs consumed by deer and other ungulates?
browse 18 Awards Nobel prizes are awarded annually at ceremonies held in what Swedish city?
Stockholm 19 Criminal Law In a trial, the defendant is entitled to the presumption of innocence while it is incumbent on the prosecution to bear the burden of what?
proof 20 Diseases in Literature What disease appears in each of these works? "The Journey" by K.A. Applegate "When the Lion Feeds" by Wilbur Smith "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee "Cujo" by Stephen King "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson
rabies Round # 1 Meet #1 - Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #413 HSM 21 Graphing For the point (-4.5, 6.5), what is the abscissa?
-4.5 22 Maritime Firsts Name the first vessel to travel to a latitude of 90 degrees north.
USS Nautilus 23 Straddling Countries What island nation is on both the Eurasian and North American plates?
Iceland 24 People in the News In 2017, a "Wall Street Journal" article said this about whom? Antonin Scalia changed the way mainstream judges think about their role in representative democracy. On this investiture day, the Scalia tradition boasts a worthy inheritor.
Neil Gorsuch 25 Trials This is about whose trial in 1735? Twelve New York jurors, inspired by the eloquence of the lawyer, Andrew Hamilton, ignored the instructions of the governor's hand-picked judges and returned a verdict of "not guilty" on the charge of publishing seditious libels.
John Peter Zenger Round # 1 Meet #1 - Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #413 HSM 26 Elements What element was named for a mineral that was once transported by mule teams out of Death Valley, California?
boron 27 Soviet Leaders The body of what Soviet leader shared Lenin's tomb in Moscow's Red Square until Nikita Khrushchev denounced him?
Joseph Stalin 28 Constellations The name of what constellation means "harp" or "lyre"?
Lyra 29 Sports Headlines This headline announcing Caldonian Thistle's victory over Celtic in the Scottish Cup alludes to what character in a series of children's books? Super Calley Go Ballistic Celtic Are Atrocious
Mary Poppins 30 Magnitude An increase from 0.4 to 4.0 is a change of what order of magnitude?
one Round # 1 Meet #1 - Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #413 HSM 31 Patriots When the Redcoats marched on Lexington in 1775, they were specifically ordered to arrest only two Americans. Name either.
John Hancock, Sam Adams 32 Adjectives What degree of comparison is used in the Olympic motto?
comparative degree 33 Ancient Architecture Name the architectural form that is repeatedly incorporated in these structures. Caesarea Aqueduct Aqueduct of the Miracles Les Ferreres Aqueduct Valens Aqueduct
arch 34 Bears What Asian bear is almost exclusively herbivorous?
giant panda 35 American Newspapers These are newspapers of what state? The Elgin Review The Verdigre Eagle North Platte Telegraph Grand Island Independent McCook Daily Gazette Hastings Tribune Norfolk Daily News
Nebraska Round # 1 Meet #1 - Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #413 HSM 36 Anthropological Verse The name for what hominid fossil completes this clerihew? Louis B. Leakey Though old and though creaky, Made fundamentalists goosey By digging up ----
Lucy 37 Medical Tales Reminiscent of female spouses, these are examples of what kind of tales? Ice cream leads to nightmares. Swallowed gum stays in the stomach for years. Toes pointed up signify low blood sugar. Chocolate causes acne. Swimming on a full stomach causes cramps. Cracking knuckles causes arthritis.
old wives tales 38 Science Fiction What character in "2001 - A Space Odyssey" says this? I know that you and Frank were planning to disconnect me, and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen.
HAL (HAL 9000) 39 Cubes If you paint the outside of a 4 x 4 x 4 cube consisting of 1 x 1 x 1 blocks, how many blocks are painted on just one side?
24 40 Ships Name the last battleship commissioned by the U.S. Navy, remembered as the site of the Japanese surrender at the end of World War II.
USS Missouri Round # 1 Meet #1 - Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #413 HSM 41 Chemical Antonyms In relation to chemical processes, recombination is the opposite of what?
dissociation 42 Diphthongs What is the first word with a diphthong in the lyrics of "The Caissons Go Rolling Along"?
trail 43 Meteorological Instruments What device used to measure wind speed incorporates cups attached to a vertical shaft?
anemometer 44 International Relations The unilateral act by a nation's government to formally acknowledge the existence of another state as having a separate and independent government is called diplomatic what?
recognition 45 Languages Only what language is spoken by more people than English or Spanish?
Mandarin (Chinese) Round # 1 Meet #1 - Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #413 HSM *Alt Sports Literature These novels are about what sport? Bang the Drum Slowly If I Never Get Back Man on Spikes For the Love of the Game Shoeless Joe The Natural
baseball *Alt Number Patterns When you multiply 123456789 by 9, you get 1,111,111,101. When you multiply 123456789 by 18, you get 2,222,222,202. What do you get when you multiply 123456789 by 81?
9,999,999,909 *Alt Sugars The three dietary monosaccharides include galactose, glucose, and what fruit sugar?
fructose *Alt Work If you throw a rock with a force of six newtons and it travels twenty meters, what is the total work?
120 joules *Alt Texas History In 1836, what lieutenant colonel in command of the regular troops at San Antonio joined forces with Jim Bowie's volunteers to occupy an old Spanish mission?
William Travis Round # 1 Meet #1 - Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #413 HSM *Alt Lakes Most of the lake named for Gamal Abdel Nasser lies in what country?
Egypt *Alt New Mexico Geology The sands at White Sands National Monument in New Mexico consist of what mineral?
gypsum (senenite gypsum) Round # 2 Meet #1 - Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #413 HSM 1 Forms of Music What kind of short, loud musical composition is scored for brass instruments and trumpets especially?
fanfare 2 London Landmarks Traditional stories say that what major London landmark was named either for the famously long-winded commissioner Sir Benjamin Hall or for the popular heavyweight boxing champion Benjamin Caunt?
Big Ben 3 Secrets The Google search algorithm, the recipes for Kentucky Fried Chicken and McDonald's special sauce, and the formulas for WD-40 and Coca Cola are examples of what kind of well-kept secrets?
trade secrets 4 Poe What short story by Edgar Allan Poe takes place around the time of Tomas de Torquemada?
The Pit and the Pendulum 5 Numbers What kind of number is the square root of a prime number?
irrational number Round # 2 Meet #1 - Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #413 HSM 6 Friendships Mark Twain had an enduring friendship with what remarkable electrical engineer who developed the principles of alternating current?
Nikola Tesla 7 Lunar Observation In 2016, the Moon was closer to Earth than any time since 1948. Name that point in the Moon's orbit.
perigee 8 Ecology Gopher frogs live in gopher tortoise burrows but provide no benefit to the gopher tortoise. Name this symbiotic relationship.
commensalism 9 Injuries Name the kind of injury that involves an organ pushing through an opening in the muscle or tissue that holds it in place.
hernia (rupture) 10 Market Systems On what kind of exchange are these things traded? wheat, oil, coffee, cotton, copper
commodities exchange Round # 2 Meet #1 - Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #413 HSM 11 Olden Cities The history of what European city can be traced back to about 250 B.C. when a Gallic tribe called the Parisii settled on the island known today at the Ile de la Cite?
Paris 12 Demonyms These are demonyms for people living in the vicinity of what sea? Barbudans Guadalupians Dominicans Tabagonians Grenadians
Caribbean 13 Newspapers These actual lines came from what part of a newspaper? -He respectfully requests six Cleveland Browns pall bearers so the Browns can let him down one last time. -Ding dong the witch is dead, but the memory of our mother lives on.
obituaries 14 Travel Problems It usually takes George several hours to hike from Andrews Lake to Silverton. But if he picks up the pace to 20% faster than usual, he cuts the time for the walk by 1 hour. How many hours does it usually take him to complete the hike?
6 15 Awards President Lincoln signed a measure that created what military award originally intended for "such noncommissioned officers and privates who shall most distinguish themselves by their gallantry in action and other soldier-like qualities during the present insurrection"?
Medal of Honor Round # 2 Meet #1 - Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #413 HSM 16 Wordplay What form of wordplay is used in these actual titles of businesses? Edifice Wrecks (a demolition contractor) Fine Whines and Lickers (an animal shelter) Burgatory (a sandwich shop) Lox Stock & Bagel (a bagel bakery) Rimsky-Korsakoffee House (coffee house) Florist Gump (a flower shop) Planet of the Grapes (a wine shop)
pun 17 Compound Categories Since methane, naptha, butane, polyethylene, ethanol, acetone, epoxy resins, polycarbonates, and toluene are all derived from natural gas or petroleum, they are collectively known as what kind of chemicals?
petrochemicals 18 Earth's Spheres What one term encompasses Earth's lithosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere, and atmosphere?
geosphere 19 Evaluations Often used in both the public and private sectors, name the process of investigating or performing background checks on individuals before offering employment.
vetting 20 Officials A vizier was a high government official in what empire that endured from the 13th century until its dissolution shortly after World War I?
Ottoman Empire Round # 2 Meet #1 - Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #413 HSM 21 Fungi What kind of fungi are intentionally introduced to produce Roquefort, Stilton, Gorgonzola, and Maytag cheeses?
molds 22 1001 Nights Reminiscent of a high rock face, what plot device is used repeatedly by Scheherazade at the end of each night of storytelling?
cliffhanger 23 Factorials Divide 4 factorial by 0 factorial.
24 24 Election Upsets Unexpectedly and to the extraordinary chagrin of the Chicago Tribune, who beat Thomas Dewey in the Electoral College by 303 votes to 189?
Harry Truman 25 Artists What is the term for skilled craftsmen who create functional or decorative products such as jewelry, furniture, clothing, wood carvings, quilts, and baskets?
artisans Round # 2 Meet #1 - Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #413 HSM 26 Recent Paleontology A recent study shows that a rapid increase in frog species and the divergence of major frog families occurred right at the KT boundary soon after what creatures became extinct?
dinosaurs 27 The Wave What kind of mechanical wave is illustrated by people sequentially standing up and sitting down in a sports stadium?
transverse wave 28 Animal Idioms What animal is in idioms containing these words? sense, play, whisperer, around, gift, iron, Charley, backing the wrong
horse 29 20th-Century European Quotes Who said these things? -Fascism accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with the state's. -The Mediterranean will be turned into an Italian lake. -I've had my fill of Hitler.
Benito Mussolini 30 Time Zone Geography Eleven of the thirty largest cities in the Central time zone are in what state?
Texas Round # 2 Meet #1 - Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #413 HSM 31 Literary Forms The "Hunger Games" makes a statement about modern society. T.S. Eliot's "The Wasteland" makes a statement about war. "Animal Farm" makes a statement about political events. These are three examples of what literary form?
allegory 32 Midpoints What is the midpoint of a line segment with endpoints at (1,1) and (3,5)?
(2,3) 33 New Mexico History What New Mexico town was launched into the spotlight in 1947 when the rancher, W.W. Brazel, found strange, shiny material scattered over his land and Air Force officials initially announced they had recovered the wreckage of a "flying disk"?
Roswell 34 Fibers What protein-based, fine, lustrous fibrous material is a liquid when it is first squeezed out of a spinneret?
silk 35 Harmful Substances What is the shared name for these substances known to cause a certain kind of disease? benzene, vinyl chloride, formaldehyde, tobacco, plutonium, asbestos
carcinogens Round # 2 Meet #1 - Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #413 HSM 36 Mapping the Oceans Isohaline lines on oceanographic charts connect points of equal what?
salinity (saltiness) 37 Political Parties What is the collective term for these political parties? Alaskan Independence Party Constitution Party Unity Party of America Freedom Socialist Party Communist Party USA Vermont Progressive Party
third parties 38 Friendships In the early 1920s, Arthur Conan Doyle struck up a friendship with what American magician famed for his escapes?
Harry Houdini 39 Metaphors What kind of metaphors are these? -I smell a rat, but I will nip him in the bud. -So here is where the rubber meets the the road, and instead of biting the bullet, we are just going to punt.
mixed metaphors 40 Magical Poems In Goethe's poem, "The Sorcerer's Apprentice," what household tool does a young boy enchant to fetch water in a pail?
broom Round # 2 Meet #1 - Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #413 HSM 41 Binary Division Express as a decimal number the quotient of these binary numbers. 111111 divided by 111
9 42 Presidents What 19th-century U.S. president announced the doctrine that any further efforts by European countries to take control of any state in the Americas would be considered as "the manifestation of unfriendly disposition toward the United States"?
James Monroe 43 Geographic Phrases These phrases are associated with what country? She's as crook as Rookwood. He's as fit as a Mailee bull. Let's throw another shrimp on the barbie. A dingo ate my homework.
Australia 44 Motion Unbalanced forces cause a change of velocity over time. Name this phenomenon.
acceleration 45 Ballets In Act II of what ballet by Tchaikovsky does Siegfried arrive at a lakeside clearing, just as a flock of swans land nearby, one of which he is about to shoot with his crossbow when it turns into a beautiful maiden?
Swan Lake Round # 2 Meet #1 - Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #413 HSM *Alt Trees Sequoias are able to grow hundreds of feet tall because their cells contain what structural carbohydrate?
cellulose *Alt Children's Verse In the infamous jump-rope rhyme about an 1862 murder in Fall River, Massachusetts, what is the total number of whacks that Lizzie Borden was said to have administered to Andrew and Abby Borden?
81 *Alt Reasoning Express this alternation as a conjunctive statement. She'll disregard the law or lie.
She'll disregard the law and lie. *Alt Literature at Sea His Majesty's Ships Lydia, Nonsuch, Sutherland, Atropos, Clorinda, and Hotspur are among the vessels of what British naval officer who appears in a series of novels by C.S. Forester?
Horatio Hornblower *Alt Soviet History After the collapse of an attempted coup in August, 1991, what general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party resigned?
Mikhail Gorbachev Round # 2 Meet #1 - Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #413 HSM *Alt Earth's Magnetism Name the region in space affected by the Earth's magnetic field.
magnetosphere *Alt Clumsy Keyboarding While typing, you accidentally move both hands to the right by one key. You type "fppt," but you meant to type what noun?
door Round # 3 Meet #1 - Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #413 HSM 1 Light Phenomena What phenomenon relating to light is demonstrated by the apparent bending of waves around small obstacles and the spreading of waves past small openings?
diffraction 2 Asian Nations These are facts about what Asian country? -It is among the world's largest tea exporters. -It was the first country to elect a woman as head of state. -It has a 92% literacy rate. -It produces significant hydroelectric power. -It is an island in the Indian Ocean.
Sri Lanka 3 Body Systems What system that consists of special cells, proteins, tissues, and organs continuously defends the body against germs and microorganisms?
immune system 4 Coordinate Geometry Determine the y-intercept of this line. y squared = x+1
1 or -1 5 Legislative Idioms When lawmakers avoid making a tough decision by either delaying a vote or passing some temporary measure, the practice is called kicking what down the road?
the can Round # 3 Meet #1 - Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #413 HSM 6 Chronology In "Macbeth", we find the line, "ten thousand dollars to our general use". But, since the dollar was not a monetary unit during the time that is the setting of the play, this is an example of what chronological error?
anachronism 7 American Decades During what decade did these things occur? Alaska was purchased from Russia. The Henry repeating rifle went on sale. The Pony Express operated. Wyoming gave women the right to vote. South Carolina seceded from the Union.
1860s 8 Algebraic Rules PEMDAS is a mnemonic device for the order of operations in algebra. For what does the P stand?
parentheses 9 The Eyes Have It What taxonomic phylum includes the greatest number of creatures with compound eyes?
Arthropoda (arthropod) 10 Ports In what country would find a port city named for Admiral Sir Fairfax Moresby?
Papua New Guinea Round # 3 Meet #1 - Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #413 HSM 11 Ancient History What ancient civilization on the western coast of the Fertile Crescent included lands that are now in Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, and Syria, plus additional colonies along the southern Mediterranean extending to the Atlantic?
Phoenicia 12 Fallacies What fallacy is illustrated in this line? Paranormal activity is real because I have experienced what can only be described as paranormal activity.
begging the question (circular reasoning) 13 Landforms What kind of holes common in karst topography are produced either by dissolution of the subsurface bedrock or by collapse of underlying caves within bedrock?
sinkholes 14 Water What kind of water has a higher proportion of the hydrogen isotope, deuterium?
heavy water 15 Westerns Who is the central character in these novels? Wide Open Deadwood Aces and Eights
Bill Hickok Round # 3 Meet #1 - Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #413 HSM 16 Constitution Time At the time of the Constitutional Convention, what was the largest city in North America?
Philadelphia 17 Modular Arithmetic Any two odd numbers are congruent in what modulo?
modulo 2 18 Ornithological Art These are examples of what kind of stamps produced annually? Black Scoter by Joseph Hautman Hooded Merganser by Mark Anderson Ross' Goose by Sherrie Meline American Wigeon by Robert Bealle Common Goldeneye by Robert Steiner Canvasbacks by Adam Grimm
duck stamps 19 Public Relations The afternoon of what day of the week is the best time for a business or a government agency to release unpopular news since it will often be buried in a batch of unimportant stories?
Friday 20 Artifacts Preserved in the British Museum since the early 19th century, the Elgin Marbles originally decorated what ancient Athenian temple?
Parthenon Round # 3 Meet #1 - Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #413 HSM 21 Sociology These statements illustrate what kind of oversimplified ideas? The French are romantics. White men can't jump. Italians are great lovers. Politicians are philanderers. Red heads are hot tempered. Asians have high IQs.
stereotypes 22 Fruit These are varieties of what kind of fruit? Carolina reaper, jalapeno, serrano, habanero, Trinidad scorpion, Anaheim, Cayenne
chilies (chili peppers, peppers) 23 Expressions What kind of "tudes" are these? Time will tell. Live and let live. It could be worse. This too shall pass. Keep a stiff upper lip. Just follow your heart.
platitudes 24 Unabashed Trivia These weapons are available to government employees known as what kind of men? reverberating carbonizer cosmic integrator de-atomizer tri-barrel plasma gun void density core noisy cricket
Men in Black 25 Battles What battle involving Anthony Wayne was so-named because it occurred in an area where a recent storm had brought down many trees?
Battle of Fallen Timbers Round # 3 Meet #1 - Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #413 HSM 26 Significant Figures How many significant figures are in the following number? 0.100010
6 27 Deserts The Namib Desert is adjacent to what body of water?
Atlantic Ocean 28 Abrupt Changes What phrase from subatomic physics has come to indicate an abrupt, radical, qualitative change of any kind?
quantum leap 29 Coronation Chronology What British monarch was crowned a few days after Hillary and Tenzing reached the summit of Mount Everest?
Elizabeth II 30 Recent Elections In the 2017 snap election in the United Kingdom, Theresa May's Conservative Party lost 13 seats in Parliament while what other party gained 30 seats?
Labour Party Round # 3 Meet #1 - Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #413 HSM 31 Clouds While Venus has thick clouds of sulfur dioxide, Jupiter and Saturn have clouds of what colorless, pungent gas consisting of nitrogen and hydrogen?
ammonia 32 Legislation For three generations, the Goosely Family has maintained a chicken farm in their town. Last week, the town council prohibited chicken farms within the city limits. But, the Goosely's may continue their business there thanks to what kind of clause in the ordinance that exempts existing businesses from compliance?
grandfather clause 33 American Novels This passage is from what famous historical American novel set in the 1930s? And then the dispossessed were drawn west from Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico; from Nevada and Arkansas families, tribes, dusted out, tractored out. Carloads, caravans, homeless and hungry.
The Grapes of Wrath 34 Presidents Early in U.S. history, a war began when what U.S. president refused to pay tribute to the pasha of Tripoli?
Thomas Jefferson 35 Sexy Numbers If the first number in a sexy prime triplet is 7, what are the next two?
13, 19 Round # 3 Meet #1 - Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #413 HSM 36 Infinitives What is the infinitive phrase in the Second Amendment?
to keep (and bear arms) 37 Amphibians What does bright coloration on a salamander tell you?
It is poisonous (toxic). 38 Legends According to legend, which of the twin boys who were raised by a wolf and founded the city of Rome killed the other?
Romulus 39 Sculpture These famous sculptures were created from what kind of metamorphic rock? Discobolus Pieta Laocoon Aphrodite of Milos
marble 40 Ancient Alloys The earliest man-made alloys were either brass which consists of zinc and copper or what other alloy consisting of copper and tin?
bronze Round # 3 Meet #1 - Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #413 HSM 41 Australia If you were on dry land fifteen meters below sea level in Australia, you would be in or near what lake?
Lake Eyre 42 Adages Biblical adages include "Don't cast your pearls before swine", "It is more blessed to give than to receive", and "Pride goes before a fall." What word completes this one? To everything there is a ...
season 43 Interrupted Campaigns Teddy Roosevelt was shot by John Schrank while he was campaigning as the nominee of what political party?
Progressive (Bull Moose) Party 44 Geometric Tom Swifties What geometric adverb completes the third Tom Swifty? "One hundred degrees," said Tom obtusely. "Ninety degrees," said Tom rightly. "Eighty degrees and ten degrees," said Tom ...
complimentarily 45 Geology These are types of what? felsic mafic ultramafic carbonatite aa pahoehoe pillow
lava Round # 3 Meet #1 - Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #413 HSM *Alt Cemeteries In what American cemetery are these memorials located? USS Maine Memorial Pan Am Flight 103 Memorial 9/11 Pentagon Memorial Tomb of the Unknowns JFK Eternal Flame
Arlington National Cemetery *Alt Historical Epigrams Name the site of an unsuccessful Spartan stand against the Persians where this epitaph is engraved. Oh stranger, tell the Lacedaemonians that we lie here, obedient to their words.
Thermopylae *Alt Islam What is the term for a state ruled by an individual held to be the chief Islamic civil and religious leader and successor to Mohammed?
caliphate *Alt Virtues These lines are about what virtue? -Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. -Look a man in the eye and say what you really think. Don't just smile at him and say what you're supposed to think. -Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?
honesty *Alt Wildlife Suspensory behavior is exhibited by some apes, monkeys, lemurs, gibbons, and what edentate, slow-moving, arboreal herbivores of South and Central America?
sloths Round # 3 Meet #1 - Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #413 HSM *Alt Borrowed Words The words "moa" and "kiwi" came into English from what language of the indigenous people of New Zealand?
Maori *Alt Disorders These are disorders related to what body organ? biliary atresia Gilbert's syndrome toxic hepatitis cirrhosis
liver Round # 4 Meet #1 - Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #413 HSM 1 Tournaments If there are 64 teams in an NCAA tournament, how many games are played to determine the champion?
63 2 Work A 500-pound sumo wrestler carries a 300-pound calf up five 8-inch stairs and down again. In joules, how much work was done?
zero joules 3 Terrorism A horrific terrorist bombing occurred in 2017 during an Ariana Grande concert at an arena in what British city?
Manchester 4 Revolutions In 1517, Martin Luther nailed a piece of paper to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany containing 95 revolutionary opinions that began what reformation?
Protestant Reformation 5 Canadian Populations Which province is home to the greatest number of Canadians?
Ontario Round # 4 Meet #1 - Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #413 HSM 6 Meteorology What is the meteorological term for a line that separates air masses of different temperature or density or a boundary between two unlike air masses?
front 7 Zoology With some 29,000 existing species, it is the largest group of vertebrates. What kind of creatures are in the class Osteichthyes?
fish (bony fish) 8 Tough Songs What name completes this final verse of a song written by Shel Silverstein? I got all choked up and I threw down my gun, Called him my pa and he called me his son, And I came away with a different point of view. And, I think about him now and then, Every time I try and every time I win And if I ever have a son, I think I'm gonna name him Bill or George - anything but ...
Sue 9 Wars The U.S. entered what war in response to these situations? -the British economic blockade of France -the British support of hostile Indian tribes around the Great Lakes -the induction of American sailors into the British navy against their will
War of 1812 10 Algebraic Factoring Factor ax + by + ay + bx
(a+b)(x+y) Round # 4 Meet #1 - Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #413 HSM 11 Nouns What is the last abstract noun in the lyrics of "Climb Every Mountain"?
dream 12 Perspective Paradoxes In the lithograph, "Waterfall," what Dutch artist depicts the water of a waterfall seeming to run downhill before it reaches the top of the same waterfall?
M.C. Escher 13 Prisoners While serving a life sentence, he was confined to a small cell at Robben Island without a bed or plumbing and forced to do hard labor in a quarry. He could write and receive a letter once every six months and have a visitor for 30-minutes once a year. Name this future president of South Africa.
Nelson Mandela 14 Cold Injuries What foot injury results from prolonged exposure to dampness and cold between 5 and 8 degrees C?
immersion (trench) foot 15 Everyday Chemistry What is in your fingers when the following sequence occurs? Friction generates heat, converting a small amount of red phosphorus to white phosphorus vapor which spontaneously ignites, decomposing potassium chlorate and liberating oxygen. The sulfur starts to burn which ignites the small shaft of wood.
a match (safety match) Round # 4 Meet #1 - Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #413 HSM 16 Law History The 16th-century Star Chamber in London was much like what other type of pseudo court named for an herbivorous marsupial of Australia?
kangaroo court 17 Headlines These are headlines from what kind of newspaper? Titanic Survivors Found Onboard Chimp's Head Put on Human Body Abraham Lincoln Was a Woman Dolphin Grows Human Arms Severed Leg Hops to Hospital
tabloid 18 Entrepreneurs The immigrant from Waldorf, Germany who became the leading American fur merchant by the beginning of the 19th century was John who?
Astor 19 Diagonals A polygon with 27 diagonals has how many sides?
9 20 Volcanoes Since Shiveluch is a volcano on the Kamchatka Peninsula, it must be in what country?
Russia Round # 4 Meet #1 - Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #413 HSM 21 Organs What glandular organ that plays roles in the digestive and endocrine systems is located in the abdominal cavity behind the stomach?
pancreas 22 Archaeologists Hiram Bingham is especially noted for his explorations in what Latin American country?
Peru 23 Advertising When used in advertising, vague phrases such as "can be," "up to" and "as much as" are called what kind of words, reminiscent of a small, slender carnivore?
weasel words 24 Planets Sir William Herschel originally gave the name "Georgium Sidus", meaning "George's Star", to what planet he discovered in 1781?
Uranus 25 Captives Dr. Shakil Afridi, who was instrumental in helping the CIA confirm the location of Osama bin Laden in 2011, was imprisoned for years afterward in what Asian country?
Pakistan Round # 4 Meet #1 - Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #413 HSM 26 Epilogues This is from the epilogue of what novel? Years passed. The seasons came and went, the short animal lives fled by. A time came when there was no one who remembered the old days before the rebellion, except Clover, Benjamin, Moses the raven, and a number of the pigs.
Animal Farm 27 Hacking Name the type of malicious software that blocks access to your data until you pay money to unlock it.
ransomware 28 Sector Areas In terms of pi, what is the area of a sector of a circle with a central angle of 15 degrees if the length of the intercepted arc is pi/2?
3pi/2 29 Lenses What is the shape of a lens that converges a wavefront?
convex 30 Sculptures Rising some 825 feet from its base, name the quartz dome monadnock in Georgia with a bas-relief of Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee, and Jefferson Davis on horseback carved into its north face.
Stone Mountain Round # 4 Meet #1 - Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #413 HSM 31 Ancient Tales What ancient character traveled to the Land of the Lotus Eaters, battled with Polyphemus, had a love affair with Circe, was tempted by the Sirens, and fought the sea monster Scylla?
Odysseus 32 Hallucinations Olfactory hallucinations involve what sensation?
smell 33 The White House These people have held what White House title in recent years? Josh Earnest Jay Carney Robert Gibbs Dana Perino Sean Spicer
White House press secretary 34 Latitudes What is the name of the southernmost latitude where the Sun can be directly overhead?
Tropic of Capricorn 35 Dark Dickens In "Oliver Twist," what is the name of Bill Sykes's girlfriend whom he beats to death?
Nancy Round # 4 Meet #1 - Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #413 HSM 36 Legislation Supported by Republicans, but generally opposed by the Democrats, what law passed during the Civil War allowed adults to claim 160 acres of land from the public domain for their own after meeting a few minimal conditions?
Homestead Act 37 Measures In meters, how tall is a man who is 2000 million nanometers in height?
two meters 38 Propaganda What propaganda technique employs words such as these? lummox, reprobate, radical, namby-pamby, twit, Nazi, hypocrite, traitor, sensationalist, incompetent, liar
name calling 39 Motors What kind of motor derives its power from a pressurized fluid?
hydraulic motor 40 Old Castles Construction of the first structure at the site of Windsor Castle was ordered by what Norman king in 1066?
William the Conqueror (William I) Round # 4 Meet #1 - Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #413 HSM 41 Sea Resources The burned ash of kelp is a source of sodium carbonate, potash, and what halogen?
iodine 42 The Milky Way The very center of the Milky Way galaxy is an intense radio source called Sagittarius A, which is believed to be what kind of heavenly body?
(supermassive) black hole 43 Hinduism What Hindu concept holds that positive actions have beneficial effects and negative actions have negative effects in future incarnations?
karma 44 London What character says this in a mystery novel? It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.
Sherlock Holmes 45 Borders The British retained Vancouver Island and the U.S. gained formal control over the land that would become Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Montana when, in 1846, the border separating the U.S. and Canada was established at what parallel?
49th Round # 4 Meet #1 - Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #413 HSM *Alt Disease Vectors Many arthropods are disease vectors, and many of those creatures are hematophagous, which means that at some time in their lives, they feed on what?
blood *Alt Europe What country lies on the eastern shore of the Tyrrhenian Sea?
Italy *Alt Money Problems In your secret stash buried beneath the chicken coop, you have 130 bills with a total value of $890. If you have only $5 and $10 bills, how many $5 bills do you have?
82 *Alt Chemical Compounds What organic chemical compound is the explosive ingredient in both gelignite and dynamite?
nitroglycerine *Alt Disputed Legends The U.S. Coast Guard has emphatically asserted that there is no evidence for more disappearances of ships and planes in what legendary region of the Atlantic than anywhere else in that ocean?
Devil's (Bermuda) Triangle Round # 4 Meet #1 - Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #413 HSM *Alt Prefix Etymology These prefixes came from what language? matri, omni, peri, centri, amphi, somni, uni
Latin *Alt Musicals In what musical based on a novel by Alexandre Dumas is the song, "A Story Told," sung by the three characters Mondego, Danglars, and Villefort?
The Count of Monte Cristo Round # 5 Meet #1 - Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #413 HSM 1 American Novels These are among the chapters in what novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne? The Prison-Door The Market-Place Pearl Another View of Hester The Pastor and His Parishioner The Minister in a Maze
The Scarlet Letter 2 Senators What future U.S. senator from Arizona was shot down and imprisoned in North Vietnam where he spent the next five and a half years?
John McCain 3 Angles Angles A and B are supplementary and angle B is 15 degrees less than twice angle A. What is the measure of angle B?
115 degrees 4 Zoology These terms describe what structures that cover members of a class of vertebrates? vane, barb, rachis, barbule, calamus, barbicel, filoplume, remex, down
feathers 5 Meteor Showers The Orionid meteor shower actually consists of debris left behind by what comet that visited our neighborhood twice during the 20th century, in 1910 and again in 1986?
Halley's Comet Round # 5 Meet #1 - Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #413 HSM 6 Wagons Ho! Wagon trains were used not only in the American West but also by the 18th-century Trekboers in the region that became what modern country?
South Africa 7 Bigger Penalties Toyota's 2014 fine of $1.2 billion related to unintended acceleration was just a fraction of the $4.3 billion penalty levied in 2017 against what other car company for widespread use of a "defeat device" that disabled emissions controls except during emissions testing?
Volkswagen 8 European Governments Practically all major laws since the creation of its constitution in 1848 have been adopted through referendums. This system of legislation, seen in no other country, is used by what Alpine nation?
Switzerland 9 Foreign Policy Tools These are examples of what kind of economic penalties imposed by one government on another nation? -setting high tariffs on certain imported goods -freezing bank accounts and assets -revoking Most Favored Nation status -establishing import quotas -banning technology transfers
sanctions 10 Science Fiction This passage is from what H.G. Wells' story? Can an instantaneous cube exist? Can a cube that does not last for any time at all have a real existence?
The Time Machine Round # 5 Meet #1 - Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #413 HSM 11 Failed Invasions What U.S. federal agency trained the paramilitary force of Cuban refugees for their ill-fated assault at the Bay of Pigs in 1961?
CIA 12 Twin Primes What other set of twin primes are between 5, 7 and 17, 19?
11, 13 13 Reasoning Using "starfish" as your first term and "fish" as your second term, state a universal negative proposition.
No starfish are fish. 14 Bays Name the enormous bay that is adjacent to and north of the Iberian Peninsula.
Bay of Biscay 15 Heirs Who, in April of 2011, attained the dubious honor of becoming the longest-serving heir apparent to the British throne?
Prince Charles Round # 5 Meet #1 - Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #413 HSM 16 Wave Speed The velocity of a wave equals its frequency multiplied by its what?
wavelength 17 False Beliefs People who continually fear they are being stalked, spied upon, obstructed, conspired against, or harassed may have delusions of what?
persecution 18 Petrology Also known as desert varnish or weathering rind, what do geologists call the discolored film or thin outer layer produced on the surface of exposed rock?
patina 19 Anaphora Given that this passage from "Richard II" illustrates anaphora, what word is missing? This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England, this nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings, ---- land of such dear souls, this dear dear land.
this 20 Sports History In 1904, the Third Olympiad of the modern area and the first Olympic Games to be held in the United States were staged in what American city also known as the point of departure and return for the Corps of Discovery expedition?
St. Louis Round # 5 Meet #1 - Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #413 HSM 21 Family Math Anyone with two parents and four grandparents had how many ancestors six generations ago?
64 22 Roosevelt and Rockwell Based on Franklin Roosevelt's speech about the four freedoms, name the painting by Norman Rockwell that depicts three generations of a family around a Thanksgiving table, with the mother placing a large turkey before them.
Freedom from Want 23 Economic Theories Adam Smith maintained that even without a government, there will always be a supply to placate demand thanks to what he called the invisible what?
hand 24 Military Operations During what military operation did the Allies capture the city of Caen and the port at Cherbourg?
Operation Overlord 25 Verb Voice What category of verbs cannot be used in the passive voice and cannot be followed by objects?
intransitive verbs Round # 5 Meet #1 - Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #413 HSM 26 Physiology What kind of tissue has these functions? Acts as an insulating layer to reduce heat loss through the skin. Provides padding and support around some major organs like the kidneys. Provides a means of energy storage.
adipose tissue 27 Asian Countries What Asian country about the size of Delaware with 100 miles of coastllne on the South China Sea and a 237-mile border with Malaysia is located on the island of Borneo?
Brunei 28 Books on Broadway In what Broadway musical is the song, "Our Finest Dreams" sung by the characters Jo, Beth, Amy, and Meg, and the song, "Could You" sung by the characters Aunt March and Jo?
Little Women 29 Getting the Job Done In 1961, President Kennedy said that the United States should commit itself to achieving a particular goal before the decade was out. What project accomplished that mission?
Apollo Project 30 Chemical Reactions What kind of chemical reaction is illustrated by potassium and chlorine gas combining to form potassium chloride?
synthesis (direct combination) Round # 5 Meet #1 - Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #413 HSM 31 Erosion The mass movement process called creep is primarily driven by what force?
gravity 32 Sensation Photosensitive retinal ganglion cells are one of the three types of photoreceptor cells found in mammalian eyes. Name the other two.
rods, cones 33 Religious Numbers What integer in Christianity is the number of Beatitudes, in Islam is the number of gates of heaven, and in Judaism is the number of days Hanukkah is celebrated annually?
8 34 Senate Status Name the status accorded to members of the U.S. Senate based on their years of service.
seniority 35 American Authors What fellow American author did Mark Twain describe with these words? He was the bashfulest grown person I have ever met. But he was lovely, nevertheless, for the sweetness and benignity of the immortal Remus looked out from his eyes, and the graces and sincerities of his character shone in his face.
Joel Chandler Harris Round # 5 Meet #1 - Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #413 HSM 36 Westerns Larry McMurtry's novel, "The Last Kind Words Saloon," is about the friendship between Wyatt Earp and what dentist?
Doc Holliday 37 Participles Present and past participles act as what part of speech?
adjectives 38 Military Expeditions In 1916, General John Pershing's forces were in Mexico pursuing what revolutionary when they were attacked by Mexican government troops?
Pancho Villa 39 Marine Biology Some species of what kind of sea creatures produce a material called baleen?
whales 40 Diseases Dermatoses are diseases of what body system?
integumentary system (skin) Round # 5 Meet #1 - Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #413 HSM 41 Western Folksongs What two words complete this verse of a western folksong? See them tumbling down Pledging their love to the ground Lonely but free I'll be found Drifting along with the ...
tumbling tumbleweeds 42 Deserts Name either of the two southernmost African deserts.
Namib, Kalahari 43 Friction What kind of friction occurs when two surfaces in contact are in relative motion?
kinetic (sliding, dynamic) 44 Element Etymology What lustrous, malleable, metallic rare earth element was named for the only asteroid that is a dwarf planet?
cerium 45 Phonics What is the term for a pair of letters that spell one sound such as "ck", "ph", or "ng"?
digraph Round # 5 Meet #1 - Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #413 HSM *Alt Pseudonyms In the history of Israel, how is Golda Meyerson better known?
Golda Meir *Alt Periods of Time There are how many years in a bimillennium?
2000 *Alt Dance The title of what musical describes a large group of dancers who perform synchronized routines?
A Chorus Line *Alt Birds These are varieties of what kind of birds related to ducks and geese? black, mute, tundra, whooper, trumpeter
swans *Alt The Italian Campaign The conquest of Sicily in World War II was a joint effort of U.S. forces under George Patton and British forces under whom?
Bernard Montgomery Round # 5 Meet #1 - Minnesota Service Cooperatives Knowledge Bowl - HS Pristine #413 HSM *Alt Bad Business You prepaid a supplier to deliver some merchandise that turned out to be defective or you paid a contractor to fix your leaky roof but, after weeks, the job is still not done. In both cases, to get your money back, you can file a civil action claiming breach of what?
contract *Alt Air Temperature While wind chill relates to perceived low air temperatures, what index determines perceived air temperature based on a combination of temperature and relative humidity in shaded areas?
heat index