Quiz Bowl #1

The fallout from a nuclear weapon detonated anywhere in the lower 48 states would tend to drift in what direction?

Name the procedure by which blood or blood components are introduced into a patient's circulatory system intravenously.

Sound typically travels slowest through what state of matter?

What is the product of the next two prime numbers after 41?

According to the Code of Hammurabi, one basis of punishment was "an eye for" what?

What massive bodies develop any place in the world where, over a period of years, more snow accumulates than melts away?

The large ceremonial feathered headdresses of Plains Indians are know as what?

What flavor is imparted to foods with these additives? aspartame, sorbitol, maltitol, glycerol, saccharine

How is the reflexive pronoun used in this line? "She made herself an anchovy sandwich."

Upon Alexander Hamilton's death in 1804, what former vice president fled to Virginia and went into hiding?

On the American Plains, settlers routinely cut what material into rectangles and piled them to form walls of a cabin?

What kind of injury occurs when muscle fibers tear as a result of overstretching?

What kind of weapons were made by bowyers and fletchers?

As a result of prolonged brain activity, the condition in which the brain cells become exhausted is know as:

In the 90's. the name Zaire was changed to the Democratic Republic of the what?

The documents granting authority to the original colonies by the British were called what?

Cattlemen would sometimes drive the herd into a gorge with only one opening. This is known as what kind of canyon?

In a 1962 Supreme Court case school prayers were found to violate the constitutional prohibition separating church & ?

What color is produced when table salt is placed in a flame?

How many yards are in one-half-mile?

What simple machine is incorporated in shovels, tongs, fishing rods, staplers and bottle openers?

Directly north of Mongolia is what vast, sparsely population region of Russia?

What is the meaning of the suffix in these words?

John Chapman, a legendary figure in American history, spent the last 40 years of his life in the region of what valley?

On the night of May 1, 2011, people gathered at ground zero to celebrate the news that who had been killed?