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Quiz Bowl Practice #5
Quiz Bowl Practice #5
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preparation for the Quiz Bowl
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1
Averaging only 9 inches of rain in a year, what is America's driest state?
Arizona
Nevada
New Mexico
Texas
2
What organ is described as a muscular bag, open at both ends, and shaped like a fat letter "J"?
liver
heart
stomach
lungs
3
When is the sun directly above the North Pole?
Never
Noon
Summer
Winter
4
Convert 4 3/5 into an improper fraction.
24/5
23/5
20/35
4/5
5
All children, but one, grow up...is the first line of what book?
To Kill A Mockingbird
Peter Pan
Lord of the Flies
Alice in Wonderland
6
What direction on a compass is exactly opposite of Northwest?
South
Northeast
Southwest
Southeast
7
What is a key?
A small island off the coast of Florida
Something that will open a lock
All of these
A part of a piano
8
Who hosts a tea party in a book by Lewis Carroll?
Peter Rabbit
The Mad Hatter
Chicken Little
The Easter Bunny
9
What does a cobbler make?
wooden furniture
omelets
shoes
baked goods
10
What is the first verb in the Pledge of Allegiance?
America
love
pledge
stand
11
What is the reciprocal of the fraction x/y?
x/x
x/y
y/x
y/y
12
How many points does a team score in football when a safety is called?
1
3
7
2
13
What African desert is almost as big as the United States?
The Gobi
Death Valley
Egypt
The Sahara
14
If you can fabricate six doohickeys in two days, how many can you make in 9 days?
18
30
27
9
15
Rivers of ice are called ...
icebergs
slushies
glaciers
ice floes
16
Which of these does not belong with the others?
Franz Liszt
Alexander Hamilton
Johann Sebastian Bach
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
17
The U.S. depended heavily on assistance from what nation to win the Revolutionary War?
Mexico
England
France
Montenegro
18
What skeletons make up warm-water reefs?
coral
manatee
dolphin
shark
19
What war occurred while Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon were president?
World War 2
World War 1
Korean War
Vietnam War
20
Saying the name of one letter of the alphabet requires 3 syllables. What letter?
h
z
s
w
21
How many inches in ten yards?
36
316
3600
360
22
When sunlight is refracted, reflected, and refracted again in droplets of water, it's a....
rainbow
tornado
Storm
Cloud
23
Niagara Falls are in which two countries?
U.S. and Mexico
U.S. and Canada
England and Ireland
Canada and Newfoundland
24
What was the 1830-mile mail route between Missouri and California?
The Gold Rush
The Pony Express
The Trail of Tears
The Oregon Trail
25
Which American river runs through the middle of the Grand Canyon?
The Arizona River
The Nile
The Colorado River
The Amazon
26
Which founding father was not a president?
Benjamin Franklin
George Washington
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
27
Name the divisions of the year based on climatic conditions
months
weather
seasons
weeks
28
Who was King Arthur's legendary wife?
Igraine
America
Morgan Le Fay
Guinevere