2012-13 Quiz Bowl Practice Questions -Group 1 – Flashcards
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What river, which flows by Basel [BAH-zul], Koblenz, Strasbourg, and Bonn, forms the boarder between France and Germany before emptying into the North Sea?
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Rhine River (or Rhein or Rijn or Rhin)
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Jamie Ross, Claire Kincaid, Abbie Carmichael, and Connie Rubirosa were "assistant district attorneys" on what police-and-lawyer drama set in New York?
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Law & Order
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Thomas J. Walsh investigated what scandal involving the lease of U.S naval oil reserves by Albert Fall during the Harding Administration?
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Teapot Dome scandal
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What poem honoring a "noble six hundred" who rode "into the Valley of Death" during a failed Crimean War charge was written by Alfred, Lord Tennyson?
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The Charge of the Light Brigade.
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What lunar month, which saw the Battle of Badr [BAH-dur] and the Night of Power, is, according to the Pillar of Islam known as 'sawm', a month of daytime fasting?
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Ramadan
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Dan Akerson is CEO of what firm that raised $20 billion in a 2010 IPO following its 2009 bankruptcy, the world's second-largest automaker after Ford?
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GM or General Motors Company
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What virus, which needs the CCR5 protein expressed by CD4-positive T cells to enter those cells and reproduce, is the retrovirus that causes AIDS?
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HIV-1 or human immunodeficiency virus-1
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What are the two real roots of the equation x squared minus 11x plus 28 equals zero? (Two answers are required.)
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x = 4 x = 7 [x² - 11x + 28 = 0, so (x-4)(x-7) = 0, so x - 4 = 0 or x - 7 = 0, and x=4 or 7]
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In what state, where the Genesee [jeh-nuh-SEE] River flows through Rochester, would one also find the Catskills, Adirondacks, and the cities of Ithaca and Albany?
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New York
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The husband of Laban's sister Rebekah was what father of Esau and Jacob who barely escaped death on Mt. Moriah [muh-RYE-uh] as a sacrifice by his father, Abraham?
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Isaac (of Yitzhak)
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How many minutes elapse while a clock's "second" hand moves through an angle of 1,800 degrees?
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5 minutes [The second hand completes a circle of 360 degrees every minute, so 1800/360=5 minutes]
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Humberto Moreira [oom-BAIR-toh moh-RAY-rah] leads "PRI" Party in what nation where the National Action Party and Presidente Felipe Calderón [fay-LEE-pay kahl-day-ROHN] govern "south of the border"?
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Mexico (or United Mexican States)
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What author of the posthumously published "The Original of Laura" wrote "Pale Fire" and a novel featuring Clare Quily and Humbert Humbert, "Lolita"?
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Vladimir (Vladimirovich) Nabokov [nuh-BAH-kuff]
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What lawyer for the soldiers involved in the Boston Massare signed the Alien and Sedition Acts and was the first vice president and second president?
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John Adams [do NOT accept John Quincy Adams = 6th president]
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The Maunder minimum saw very few of what areas of magnetic activity and relative dimness that follow an 11-year cycle on the surface of the Sun?
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sunspots "The Maunder Minimum (also known as the prolonged sunspot minimum) is the name used for the period roughly spanning 1645 to 1715 when sunspots became exceedingly rare, as noted by solar observers of the time."
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Alfred Molina voices a seeker for the "Spirit of the West" -the armadillo Roadkill -in what 2011 film in which Johnny Depp voices a title chameleon?
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Rango
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What man, who presented the Melian dialogue and the funeral oration of Pericles [PAIR-ih-kleez], was the Greek author of the "History of the Peloponnesian War?"
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Thucydides [thoo-SIH-duh-deez]
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What traditional system -with four "varnas" including Shudras and Brahmins -does not include untouchables in the social strata of Hinduism?
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Hindu caste sysetm or Indian caste system
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What organelle, which maintains turgor [TUR-gur] pressure in plant cells, has a smaller "contractile" variety that helps animal cells store nutrients or waste?
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vacuoles [VAK-yoo-ohlz] [also 'central vacuoles' or 'contractile vacuoles' are acceptable]
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What state, which re-elected Governor Pat Quinn in 2010, was previously led by George Ryan and Rod Blagojevich [blah-GOY-uh-vich] from its capital, Springfield?
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Illinois
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What social class that participated in the Satsuma [saht-soo-mah] Rebellion and carried long swords called "katana" [kah-tah-nah] were the warrior nobles of medieval Japan?
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samurai (also accept samurais)
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What Greek letter used for symmetric difference and the Laplace operator can represent a finite change, looks like a triangle, and has the sound of D?
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(uppercase) delta (do not accept "lowercase delta")
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What American composer's works include a Piano Concerto in F: "Catfish Row"; a Cuban Overture: "I Got Rhythm"; An American in Paris, and Porgy and Bess?
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George Gershwin (or Jacob Gershvin or Jacob Gershovitz)
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Abacuk Pricket's diary tells of the mutiny against what captain of the "Discovery" who sought the Northwest Passage in a Canadian bay now named for him?
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Henry Hudson (also accept Hudson Bay)
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Who wrote "that is no country for old men" in his poem "Sailing to Byzantium" and described "mere anarchy loosed upon the world" in "The Second Coming"?
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William Butler Yates (also accept just Yates)
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What Florentine painter, who depicted Cosimo de Medici [MEH-deh-chee] in "Adoration of the Magi", showed a goddess coming ashore on a seashell in "The Birth of Venus"?
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Sandro Botticelli (or Alessandro (di Mariano di Vanni) Filipepi) (or just Botticelli or Filipepi)
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The lower stratosphere absorbs most of the Sun's 'ultraviolet light' due the presence of what "layer" with a high concentration of O3 ("oh three"0 molecules? (The letter "3" is a subscript that this program doesn't seem to allow me to insert)
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ozone layer
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What desert home to Mount Koussi [KOO-see], the Chech Erg, and teh Siwa [SEE-wuh] Oasis lies between the Sahel [suh-HIL] and teh Mediterranean Sea in northern Africa?
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Sahara Desert (or As-Sahra al-Kubra)
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What novel, whose preface is set in the Salem Custom House, features Roger Chillingworth and his wife Hester Prynne, and is by Nathaniel Hawthorne?
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The Scarlet Letter
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Momentum squared divided by twice the mass is what quantity conserved in elastic collisions that also equals one-half mass times velocity squared?
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kinetic energy
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What man convicted of bribing a juror in the Test Fleet case was a former leader of the International Brotherhood fo Teamsters who vanished in 1975?
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Jimmy Hoffa (also accept James Riddle)
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What novel that includes the death of Augustine St. Clare's daughter Eva and a cruel plantation owner named Simon Legree is by Harriet Beecher Stowe?
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Boltzmann's constant times the logarithm of the number of accessible microstates equals what quantity denoted "S" that measures a system's disorder?
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entropy [That formula, developed by Ludwig Boltzmann, is S = k 1n W]
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The steamship "Star of the West" tried to resupply what fort in Charleston Harbor, the site of an April 1861 bombardment that started the Civil War?
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Fort Sumter (Located in South Carolina)
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What poet of "I Sing the Body Electric" mourned the death of Abraham Lincoln in "O Captain! My Captain!", part of his collection "Leaves of Grass"?
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Walt Whitman or Walter Whitman
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What language has so-called "voseo" dialects that use "vos" instead of the usual informal second-person pronoun "tú", such as is spoken in Argentina?
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Spanish, (or also Spanish Language or Español)
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What kingdom formed by the union of the Heptarchy -including Wessex, Mercia, and Northumbria -was ruled by Edward the Confessor and Alfred the Great?
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(Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of) England --do not accept "Britain"
