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Quiz Bowl Notes 1
Assortment of Quiz Bowl notes Volume 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |