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Quiz Bowl Notes 1
Assortment of Quiz Bowl notes Volume 1
Question | Answer |
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What state is Bill Clinton from? | Arkansas |
Which National Park is the smallest? | Dry Tortuga National Park |
Which type of fundamental particle has flavors? | Quarks |
What figure’s first wife was Lilith? | Adam |
What fundamental particles mediate the strong nuclear force? | gluons |
What character described “Queen Mab” in a famous speech? | Mercutio |
What is the deepest lake in the world? | Lake Baikal |
What writer wrote The Queen of Spades and the Bronze Horseman? | Pushkin |
What character encounters Cindy Loo? | The Grinch |
What is an asymptote? | a curve that gets closer and closer to a value, but never touches |
What are the flavors of quarks? | Top, Bottom, Up, Down, Charm, and Strange |
o wrote the Good Earth? | Pearl S. Buck |
What country is the richest in the Caribbean? | The Bahamas |
What fictional landscape is home to the Telemarines? | Narnia |
What city is known for Arch Street? | Philadelphia |
What river is the 2nd longest in Africa? | Congo |
Who wrote the Rabbit Novels, such as Rabbit is Rich and Rabbit Remembered? | Updike |
What was featured in the My Lai massacre and the Tet Offensive? | Vietnam War |
Who signed legislation funding the construction of the U.S. Interstate Highway System? | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
James Chadwick discovered this subatomic particle | neutrons. |
Who’s nickname is scarface? | Al Capone |
What city is called the smelly onion place? | Chicago |
Who wrote the Leather-stocking tales? | James Fenimore Cooper |
Who was the supreme court justice for the XYZ affair? | John Marshall |
Whose grandfather was Jonathan Edwards? | Aaron Burr |
What location on the West Coast was famous for accepting immigrants? | Angel Island |
What is the largest city on Lake Michigan? | Chicago |
What country features the Dnipro River? | Ukraine |
Who composed the symphony of a thousand? | Mahler |