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MS Knowledge Bowl 2
Middle School level Knowledge Bowl
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is the smallest possible 4-digit multiple of 11. | 1001 |
| Lord Dunmore, Virginia's last colonial governor, outlawed this revolutionary, but was forced to flee in 1775. He was replaced by which rabble-rouser? | Patrick Henry |
| George Gershwin wrote which 1924 composition, featuring one of the best-known clarinet solos in concert music? | Rhapsody in Blue |
| While no one knows where horses originated, fossils show that during the Ice Age they lived on every continent except Antarctica and which other one? | Australia |
| What part of the United Kingdom is northeast of Northern Ireland? | Scotland |
| A person who is completely color-blind sees all colors as shades of what? | gray |
| In math, when two sets overlap so that they share common elements, what is the set of elements that are members of both sets called? | intersection |
| Consisting of 2 runs on one day, skiers must pass through 40-75 gates that are 3-4 meters apart in which discipline of Alpine Olympic skiing? | slalom |
| In what mountain range will you find Mount Shasta, Mount Hood, Mount Rainier, and Mount St. Helens? | Cascade Range |
| What word is this: transparent enclosure over a plane cockpit, fabric part of a parachute, uppermost layer of a forest, cloth over a bed | canopy |
| Identify the single key that can be used with the CONTROL key to give the copy command on a Windows platform machine. | C |
| The letter S indicates what kind of quantum angular momentum? | spin |
| Jesus was born in what "little town?" | Bethlehem |
| Raphael painted most of his works in the 16th century. What was his nationality? | Italian |
| What is the name for any shaft-like tool that has 2 or more cutting edges and is used for making holes in firm material? | drill |
| Finish this limerick: "An epicure dining at Crewe/Found quite a large mouse in his stew. Said the waiter, 'Don't shout/And wave it about,/Or the rest will be wanting one_" | too |
| The path of a projectile through the air is called what? | trajectory |
| Actor Tyler Perry recently gave $1 million to the NAACP, the largest gift ever donated by a single person to the organization. What does NAACP stand for? | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People |
| With what simple machine does the load go up when you pull down? | pulley |
| What force prevents Earth's atmosphere from being lost in space? | gravity |
| They are cauliflower-like overgrowths of epidermal cells caused by viruses, not by touching toads. What are they called? | warts |
| If 1/2 of a class is absent, and 1/4 of those present leave the room, what fraction of the original class remains in the room? | 3/8 |
| Along with the Tigris, what river was crucial to the birth of civilization? | Euphrates River |
| The inhabitants of which island are US citizens but do not pay federal taxes nor vote in national elections? | Puerto Rico |
| Which compound, CH4, is a major greenhouse gas that affects our ozone layer, and is also found on Mars? | methane |
| Formed to oppose Andrew Jackson, this political party's first program was Clay's American System, favoring high tariffs. Name this party. | Whig Party |
| This ocean is surrounded by the world's widest continental shelves, making it the shallowest of the 4 great oceans. It's also the smallest ocean. Name it. | Arctic |
| What three-letter extension is used for websites related to the Army or Navy? | .mil |
| To earn this title, a chess player must accumulate at least 2,500 rating points | Grandmaster |
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