Quiz Bowl Preliminary Test

Question 1

Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

Accepted Answer

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Question 2

What is the first element in the periodic table?

Accepted Answer

Hydrogen

Question 3

What was Blackbeard’s real name?

Accepted Answer

Edward Teach

Question 4

What is the name of Detroit’s major league baseball team?

Accepted Answer

Tigers

Question 5

Who wrote the American National Anthem?

Accepted Answer

Francis Scott Key

Question 6

Which term describes a “delicate situation”?

Accepted Answer

Touch-and-go

Question 7

What type of oven operates on short electromagnetic waves?

Accepted Answer

microwave oven

Question 8

What is a pirate’s flag often nicknamed?

Accepted Answer

Jolly Roger

Question 9

Which is the loudest sound that can be made by an animal on Earth?

Accepted Answer

The blue whale’s whistle

Question 10

What do you call a scientist that studies the stars?

Accepted Answer

Astronomer

Question 11

What car holds the record as the best-selling car?

Accepted Answer

Volkswagen Beetle

Question 12

What board game has 121 holes in it?

Accepted Answer

Chinese Checkers

Question 13

What is the largest continent accounting for about 29.5% of all of the land on Earth?

Accepted Answer

Asia

Question 14

Who invented the telephone?

Accepted Answer

Alexander Graham Bell

Question 15

What mineral is found in the human body more than any other?

Accepted Answer

Calcium

Question 16

Which animal is the largest carnivore on land?

Accepted Answer

Polar Bear

Question 17

What is the capital of California?

Accepted Answer

Sacramento

Question 18

How many tablespoons are in a cup?

Accepted Answer

16

Question 19

Which European country does not use the Euro as their standard form of currency?

Accepted Answer

United Kingdom

Question 20

What was the first wrapped penny candy in America?

Accepted Answer

Tootsie Rolls

Question 21

What is the shortest month of the year?

Accepted Answer

February

Question 22

In the song, “My Favorite Things”, what color are the dresses worn by the little girls?

Accepted Answer

white

Question 23

How many teaspoons are in a tablespoon?

Accepted Answer

3

Question 24

Which Muppet was originally made from a coat that belonged to Jim Henson’s mother?

Accepted Answer

Kermit the Frog

Question 25

How many weeks are in a year?

Accepted Answer

52

Question 26

In which city can you ride in a long narrow boat called a gondola?

Accepted Answer

Venice

Question 27

What is the tallest building in North America?

Accepted Answer

One World Trade Center

Question 28

What vitamin is produced in the body when you are exposed to sunlight?

Accepted Answer

D

Question 29

Which planet in our solar system rotates a different direction than the other planets?

Accepted Answer

Venus

Question 30

If you take a lump of coal and squeeze it for a long time under a great amount of pressure, what would you end up with?

Accepted Answer

A Diamond

Question 31

Who wrote Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban?

Accepted Answer

J.K. Rowling

Question 32

Which musical instrument is not a woodwind?

Accepted Answer

Xylophone

Question 33

What percent of the human brain is water?

Accepted Answer

85%

Question 34

Sam I Am is a character in which Dr. Seuss book?

Accepted Answer

Green Eggs and Ham

Question 35

Which president was a member of the “Rough Riders”?

Accepted Answer

Theodore Roosevelt

Question 36

Which famous scientist discovered “The Theory of Relativity?”

Accepted Answer

Albert Einstein

Question 37

How many equinoxes are there in a year?

Accepted Answer

Two

Question 38

Which US state is nicknamed “Cornhusker State”?

Accepted Answer

Nebraska

Question 39

What scale is used to measure the strength of earthquakes?

Accepted Answer

Richter

Question 40

Who wrote Oliver Twist?

Accepted Answer

Charles Dickens

Question 41

Who engineered the first gas driven automobile?

Accepted Answer

Karl Benz

Question 42

Which river, with a total length of 4,132 miles, is the World’s longest?

Accepted Answer

Nile

Question 43

Water is made up of which two elements?

Accepted Answer

Hydrogen and Oxygen

Question 44

Which country’s flag is adorned by a red maple leaf?

Accepted Answer

Canada

Question 45

Where would you find the Acropolis?

Accepted Answer

Athens

Question 46

What is the capital of Brazil?

Accepted Answer

Brasilia

Question 47

Which bird has the largest wingspan?

Accepted Answer

Albatross

Question 48

Which US President was known as “Old Hickory”?

Accepted Answer

Jackson

Question 49

Which is the only food that will never get rotten?

Accepted Answer

Honey

Question 50

Where would you find the Kremlin?

Accepted Answer

Moscow

Quiz Bowl Preliminary Test

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Quiz Bowl Preliminary Test

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