Quiz Bowl Practice

Which continent exports the most natural diamonds?

Hackers recently hit what city's transport systems and have ransomed their data for $70,000?

Sodium bicarbonate is commonly used a s a raising agent and is known as?

What explorer, killed by Lapu-Lapu, circumnavigated the globe in 1522?

What populous city in the Middle East is the capital of Egypt?

What is the term for microscopic pores on a leaf's surface?

In photography, what is the term used for the variable opening used for light?

What is the term for someone who studies blood and its role in health and science?

What tv character makes the bomb used to kill Gus Fring, and cooks meth with Jesse Frinkman?

What term describes any unstable state in which it has an energy higher than that of the base

Two major cities and a river in Iowa are named for what tree?

What statue is described in the Emma Lazarus poem?

Katherine Bigalow directed what film, that has events leading to the death of Osama Bin Laden?

What war had the highest casualties of American soldiers?

The most common trumpet plays in what key?

Nagasaki is on what southernmost Japanese island?

What country was the intended recipient of the Zimmerman Note?

Clemens von Metternich was one of the leaders of the secret "Congress" that me in what city?

Which national park is home to a massive volcanic caldera in the northwest corner of Wyoming?

What surname was shared by Anne, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, and Emily, Wuthering Heights?

What city has Europe's largest port, is the second most populous in the Netherlands?

What workers' organization founded by Uriah Stephens gradually lost members to the AFL?

How many stars were on the U.S. flag in 1964?

What first name is shared by the eldest son of Queen Victoria and the "Black Prince"?

What character turns a cross into a calendar, befriends a cannibal, & is marooned for 28 years?

Three trigonometric identities are implied by what theorem about right triangles?

In what year did the Titanic sink?

Al-Shabaab is a terrorist group based in what African nation?

What hormone tends to increase blood glucose levels, opposing the effects of insulin?

Herman Wouk wrote a 1951 novel about what kind of disruptive event on the USS Caine?

What painter depicted his dying sister in The Sick Child and also created The Scream?

Express the number 5 in binary form.

President-elect took to Twitter to request an apology from the case of which Broadway show?

Membrane bound organelles are a trait of cells that store their genetic material in a nucleus.

What boy's work decorating cakes gives him an aptitude for camouflage in the 74th Hunger Games?

M: What are the dimensions of the matrix (5x6 matrix) X (6x3 matrix)?

In Feudal Japan, a samurai who was disgraced became what kind of masterless warrior?

In WWII, Nazi forces cut through the Ardennes Forest to make ineffective what French forces?

Heavy rain and winds recently triggered thousands of rye grass allergy asthma attacks where?

In Alice in Wonderland, what does the Queen of Hearts use as a croquet mallet?

What country's Supreme Court recently denied Edward Snowden's request to enter the country?

What man was the president of the Russian Federation and was known for his alcoholism?

Anne Hall marries the wealthy Captain Frederick Wentworth in this last novel by Jane Austen?

In the book Charolette's Web, what is the name of the rat?

Noted for their helicopter seeds, what type of tree is the national symbol of Canada?