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.