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Quiz Bowl Pracice 1
Random Quizbowl Trivia
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Sport in which the players hit shuttlecocks | Badminton |
| Continent that's home to Amazon River | South America |
| Roman numeral for 115 | CXV |
| Author of the book, Charlotte's Web | E.B. White |
| The support on which a lever rests in a simple machine | Fulcrum |
| Names of the two brother inventors that invented the airplane in the early 1900s | The Wright Brothers |
| When the moon casts its shadow on earth, it is refered to as a _________. | Solar Eclipse |
| Term in chess refered to as a lower player that on normal circumstance can only move one square at a time | Pawn |
| Recent 2012 presidential election, Green Party candidate | Jill Stein |
| Type of shark that can survive in fresh bodies of water | Bull Shark |
| Number of pins used in a standard round of bowling | 10 Pins |
| The capital of Maine | Augusta |
| Thought to be the largest volano in the world | Muana Loa |
| Large city in the United States was almost completely consumed by fire in the year of 1871 | Chicago |
| Second book from the last in the KJV Bible | Jude |
| Oldest person in the Bible, living to be 969 years old | Methusela |
| Commenly used nickname for a comet | Dirty Snowball |
| Book series written by Margaret Peterson Haddix that features a science fiction mix of time travel and teenagers | The Missing |
| Only president to serve more than two terms | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Captain of the Titanic | Edward John Smith |
| President responsible for freeing the slaves | Abraham Lincoln |
| Scientist who`s most famous equation is E=mc2 | Albert Einstein |
| Type of atom split to create nuclear power in power plants | Uranium |
| Town where Jesus Christ was born | Bethlehem |
| Inventor of the polygraph machine [lie detector] | John Larson |
| Spelling of the word that means the property that an object has telling it whether it will float or sink | D-E-N-S-I-T-Y |
| Building in San Antonio, Texas where Davy Crockett was killed | Alamo |
| 3^2 times -4 | -36 |
| Bridge builders have considered building a bridge across the Bering Strait from Alaska to this country | Russia |
| Mozart's opera, "The Magic_____" | Flute |
| Gas produced and released as waste when a plant performs the process of photosynthesis | Oxygen |
| Florida site of the John F. Kennedy Space Center | Cape Canaveral |
| Planet with the longest period of revolution around the sun | Pluto |
| Hans Christian Anderson's fairy tale, "The Princess and the_____" | Pea |
| German scientist that sent President Roosevelt a letter about the developement of the atomic bomb | Albert Einstein |
| In biological classifications, the largest divisions of all living things | Kingdom |
| River discovered by Hernando de Sots and a group of Spanish explorers on May 8, 1841 | Mississippi River |
| 2 to the 5th power | 32 |