quiz bowl questions for middle schoolers

Question 1

What two NFL teams played in the first Super Bowl in January 1967

Accepted Answer

Green Bay Packers and Kansas City Chiefs

Question 2

Hebrew word that means Peace, and is also used for hello and goodbye

Accepted Answer

Shalom

Question 3

In which US state will you find Stone Mountain, with its carvings of leaders of the Confederacy

Accepted Answer

Georgia

Question 4

What was the Roman name for Cupid, the god of love

Accepted Answer

Eros

Question 5

At what temperature does water boil on the Farenheit Scale

Accepted Answer

212 degrees

Question 6

x=5, y=2x+2. How much is x times y

Accepted Answer

60

Question 7

"Y" words: City where the Allied leaders of WWII met to discuss control of Europe after the war

Accepted Answer

Yalta in the Baltic mountains

Question 8

What basketball team has toured the world for 90 years playing only exhibition matches?

Accepted Answer

The Harlem Globetrotters

Question 9

What branch of medicine deals with the treatment and care of infants and children

Accepted Answer

Pediatrics

Question 10

If x= -5 and y= -3 then solve this: 2x + 2y= ??

Accepted Answer

-16

Question 11

What is the last name of the Hungarian inventor of a multicolored, rotatable cube "puzzle"

Accepted Answer

Rubik

Question 12

What is the capital of the Empire State

Accepted Answer

Albany

Question 13

What website released thousands of stolen emails belonging to Hillary Clinton and her campaign

Accepted Answer

Wikileaks

Question 14

This year Super Bowl was Super Bowl LIV. What number Super Bowl was this

Accepted Answer

54

Question 15

according to legend, Where did Robin Hood live

Accepted Answer

In Sherwood Forest

Question 16

The top selling music album of all time is___?

Accepted Answer

Thriller by Michael Jackson

Question 17

Who invented the Steamboat

Accepted Answer

Robert Fulton

Question 18

What is the minimum number of pitches, a pitcher can throw to complete a game. (never happened)

Accepted Answer

27

Question 19

The "rules of the game" and first futbol or soccer game were established and played when?

Accepted Answer

1863

Question 20

Which athletic event, commemorates a 26 mile run to Athens to tell of a great military victory.

Accepted Answer

Marathon race

Question 21

The longest river in the world is in South America and travels through Brazil and others

Accepted Answer

Amazon

Question 22

What is the measure of the angles in an Equilateral triangle?

Accepted Answer

60 degrees

Question 23

The Longest Golf shot was struck by what American?

Accepted Answer

Astronaut Allen Shepard

Question 24

In an isosceles triangle, if one of the base angles is 40 degrees, how much is the vertex angle

Accepted Answer

100 degrees

Question 25

What crippling childhood disease was virtually wiped out by a vaccine invented by Jonas Salk?

Accepted Answer

Polio

Question 26

What is the fifth planet from the sun in our solar system

Accepted Answer

Jupiter

Question 27

Which future Governor of California was a body builder and actor before being elected?

Accepted Answer

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Question 28

At what temperature does water freeze on the Celsius scale

Accepted Answer

0 degrees

Question 29

A stop sign is what shape?

Accepted Answer

Hexagon

Question 30

Name the escaped slave who led other slaves North to freedom

Accepted Answer

Harriet Tubman

Question 31

A basketball player hits 60% of his free throws. How many shots must he take to hit 100 total.

Accepted Answer

166

Question 32

"w" words: A type of freshwater fish, whose eyes stare toward its side and back

Accepted Answer

Walleye

Question 33

Name the next number in the sequence: 1, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, 1/32.....

Accepted Answer

1/64

Question 34

If all the primary colors are equally combined, what color will you have

Accepted Answer

Black

Question 35

In Mythology, what were the half human half horse creatures called

Accepted Answer

Centaurs

Question 36

Name the country music star who played two famous concerts at Folsom and San Quentin prisons

Accepted Answer

Johnny Cash

Question 37

Tiny blood vessels connect arteries and veins in the human body. What are they called?

Accepted Answer

Capillaries

Question 38

with six sided dice, what is the probability of both coming up with a one at the same time.

Accepted Answer

1/36

Question 39

Name the Artist who painted "The Last Supper" and the "Mona Lisa"

Accepted Answer

Leonardo Da Vinci

Question 40

Worldwide, what series of video games have the highest sales. (include all with similar content

Accepted Answer

Pokemon

Question 41

What French Explorer founded Detroit Michigan and his name is the same as a popular car

Accepted Answer

Cadillac

Question 42

In bowling, What is a perfect score and how many strikes must you get to accomplish this feat.

Accepted Answer

300 and 12 strikes

Question 43

Name the mountain range that lies along the west coast of South America

Accepted Answer

Andes Mountains

Question 44

The Lyrics to the Star Spangled Banner were written after a battle during what war

Accepted Answer

War of 1812

Question 45

The name of the entry port for immigrants into New York for 100 years. Statue of Liberty locale

Accepted Answer

Ellis Island

Question 46

Physicist Alfred Nobel, whom the Nobel Peace Prize is named for, invented what?

Accepted Answer

Dynamite or TNT

Question 47

The first american football game, (under more soccer rules than anything) was played when?

Accepted Answer

1869

Question 48

This cloth was created in Nimes France and was made popular by Levi Strauss

Accepted Answer

Denim

Question 49

Jupiter has at least 11 moons, what is the largest called? It is as big as Earth

Accepted Answer

Titan

quiz bowl questions for middle schoolers

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quiz bowl questions for middle schoolers

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