WSC - Junior Scholars Bowl QUIZ

Question 1

What color are zebras?

Accepted Answer

Black with white stripes.

Question 2

Who is the prime minister of the United Kingdom?

Accepted Answer

THERESA MAY

Question 3

What are female elephants called?

Accepted Answer

Cows

Question 4

What type of animal is a seahorse?

Accepted Answer

Fish

Question 5

Google is the world's largest search engine. What is a Googleganger?

Accepted Answer

Person who shares your name, found through an online search

Question 6

What is the name of this clothes washing symbol?

Accepted Answer

Tumble dry (low heat setting)

Question 7

When was Barrack Obama first elected into office as the US president?

Accepted Answer

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

Question 8

What began in the Philippines in 2000 with the words "I love you"?

Accepted Answer

The "lovebug" computer worm

Question 9

What are nuclear families?

Accepted Answer

family group that consists only parents and their children

Question 10

Vietnam banned the keeping of which animals as pets in 2008?

Accepted Answer

Hamster

Question 11

In 2007, the term "wiki" was accepted by the Oxford English Dictionary. Where is it from?

Accepted Answer

It's the Hawaiian for "fast"

Question 12

What was the title of 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows', when translated into Hindi?

Accepted Answer

Harry Potter and the Gifts of Death

Question 13

For 200 points, who played Harry Potter?

Accepted Answer

Daniel Radcliffe

Question 14

For 100 points, what is the name of this character, from Harry Potter?

Accepted Answer

Severus Snape

Question 15

In 2007, Italian became the official language of which country?

Accepted Answer

Italy

Question 16

Who was the first person to circumnavigate the globe?

Accepted Answer

Ferdinand Magellan

Question 17

'brainwashing, brain sweeping, coercive persuasion and thought control' is also known as...

Accepted Answer

Mind Control

Question 18

What was the aim for the establishment of the Treaty of Versailles?

Accepted Answer

to end the WW1

Question 19

When was the first manned mission to the moon?

Accepted Answer

July 20, 1969

Question 20

Who is the founder of the World Scholars Cup?

Accepted Answer

DANIEL BERDICHEVSKY

Question 21

What is the name of this First Lady of the United States?

Accepted Answer

Eleanor Roosevelt

Question 22

The IgNobel prize is for improbable research. Australian John Keogh got one in 2001 for...

Accepted Answer

...patenting the wheel

Question 23

What is the name of this UNESCO World Heritage Site?

Accepted Answer

Giant’s Causeway

Question 24

What helps a layer of dust on a footprint to lay undisturbed on the moon for centuries?

Accepted Answer

The moon's thin atmosphere

Question 25

Who is the artist behind the popular pop song "What do you mean?"

Accepted Answer

JUSTIN BIEBER

Question 26

Which European country is this?

Accepted Answer

Turkey

Question 27

Something happened at Christmas 2008 which hadn't happened since 1957?

Accepted Answer

The Christmas No 1 & 2 songs were versions of the same song.

Question 28

What is the total if you add up all the letters in the name of the President of France

Accepted Answer

14

Question 29

What does the dark net, Silk Road 3.1, usually sell?

Accepted Answer

illegal drugs

Question 30

2005: Brad Pitt & Angelina Jolie's relationship spawned "Brangelina". Which was not yet used?

Accepted Answer

The Mandelbrown Set (senior post-Blair Labour ministers)

Question 31

Who is the playwright of Romeo and Juliette?

Accepted Answer

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Question 32

Which among the following activities is not part of the World Scholars' Cup?

Accepted Answer

BOOK SAMPLING

Question 33

Which of the following animals sleep standing up?

Accepted Answer

Flamingos

Question 34

Which actor plays Ironman?

Accepted Answer

ROBERT DOWNEY JR.

Question 35

What is NATO?

Accepted Answer

an intergovernmental organisation

Question 36

Identify the painter of this painting:

Accepted Answer

Vincent van Gogh

Question 37

Which country voted to quit the EU in 2017?

Accepted Answer

BRITAIN

Question 38

What is a Bitcoin?

Accepted Answer

a cryptocurrency

Question 39

For 300 points, what is the name of this character, who played Severus Snape?

Accepted Answer

Alan Rickman

Question 40

What is the name of these sweets?

Accepted Answer

Dolly Mixture

Question 41

The major space race of the 20th century was between US and....

Accepted Answer

Soviet Union

Question 42

Who was the first man in space?

Accepted Answer

Yuri Gagarim

WSC - Junior Scholars Bowl QUIZ

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