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Knowledge Bowl

Knowledge Bowl. 2009. Which American novel has a character who takes a raft ride down the Mississippi River with his friend?. A. Huckleberry Finn B. Tom Sawyer C. Life on the Mississippi D. Huck and Tom. Compared to the human pelvis, the chimpanzee pelvis is. A. narrower and longer

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Knowledge Bowl

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  1. Knowledge Bowl 2009

  2. Which American novel has a character who takes a raft ride down the Mississippi River with his friend? • A. Huckleberry Finn • B. Tom Sawyer • C. Life on the Mississippi • D. Huck and Tom

  3. Compared to the human pelvis, the chimpanzee pelvis is • A. narrower and longer • B. broader and shorter • C. composed of 4 bones, not 3 • D. more weight-bearing

  4. Status can be conveyed nonverbally through • A. chronemics • B. touch • C. posture • D. all of the above

  5. Which electromagnetic waves travel at the fastest speed? • A. Gamma • B. Radio • C. UV • D. They travel at the same speed.

  6. Which Harvard University professor developed the theory of multiple intelligences? • A. John Dewey • B. Benjamin Bloom • C. Howard Gardner • D. Abraham Maslov

  7. This famous composer was buried in an unmarked grave in 1791 in Vienna? • A. Strauss • B. Mozart • C. Chopin • D. Bach

  8. In which geologic epoch were there more monkey species than in any other? • A. Pliocene • B. Miocene • C. Oligocene • D. Eocene

  9. What are the units for a Newton? • A. kg m / s2 • B. kg / ms2 • C. kg m2 / s2 • D. kg m2 / s

  10. Paper was invented in this country: • A. Thailand • B. Japan • C. China • D. England

  11. (7 – 2i)2 equals • A. 49 – 4i2 • B. 45 – 28i • C. 49 + 4i2 • D. 49 – 14i +4i2

  12. This artist is renowned for painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel from 1508-1512. • A. Leonardo da Vinci • B. Michelangelo • C. Raphael • D. Donatello

  13. This engineering field deals with the planning, design, construction, maintenance, and management of physical infrastructure networks. • A. electrical • B. civil • C. mechanical • D. textile

  14. Which space shuttle was lost in 1986? • A. Columbia • B. Challenger • C. Discovery • D. Atlantis

  15. Name the American novel, which has a main character whom after a great struggle hauls in the remains of a large fish off the coast of Cuba? • A. Moby Dick • B. Ishmael • C. Rumble Fish • D. The Old Man and the Sea

  16. The “ownership” of a problem almost always belongs to • A. the person who brings it up • B. the person to whom the complaint is directed • C. the person with the lowest amount of self disclosure • D. the person with the greatest amount of passive-aggressive behavior

  17. Which is NOT one of Saturn’s moons? • A. Titan • B. Dione • C. Rhea • D. Charon

  18. Who was the captain of the USS Enterprise in the first pilot episode of Star Trek? • A. Kirk • B. Pike • C. Riker • D. Picard

  19. Which of the following artists is not considered an impressionist? • A. Monet • B. Renoir • C. Manet • D. Van Gogh

  20. This green carbonate mineral (copper(II)carbonate hydroxide) is often used in jewelry. • A. muscovite • B. malachite • C. chalcocite • D. galena

  21. The first human spaceflight was aboard this vessel in 1961: • A. Sputnik 1 • B. Vostok 1 • C. German V-2 • D. Apollo 1

  22. This organelle absorbs sunlight and conducts photosynthesis: • A. mitochondria • B. statoliths • C. centrioles • D. chloroplasts

  23. What landmark Supreme Court decision in 1954 ruled that state-sanctioned segregation in public schools violated the equal protection of the Fourteenth Amendment? • A. Brown v Board of Education • B. Plessy v Ferguson • C. Lemon v Kurtzman • D. Lau v Nichols

  24. What two radioactive elements were used in WWII to create the fission bombs dropped in Japan? • A. Uranium and Plutonium • B. Uranium and Radium • C. Uranium and Polonium • D. Uranium and Iridium

  25. What is the area of a circle? • A. πr2 • B. 4/3 πr3 • C. a.2/3 πr2 • D. d2 πr2h

  26. Which of the following countries was never part of Yugoslavia? • A. Sliovenia • B. Romania • C. Mascedonia • D. Croatia

  27. This beloved American female figure skater never won an Olympic gold metal. • A. Dorothy Hamill • B. Kristi Yamaguchi • C. Tara Lipinski • D. Michele Kwan

  28. If you see a rainbow near the time of sunset, toward which horizon will th rainbow be? • A. western • B. eastern • C. northern • D. southern

  29. This psychologist is famous for first describing the phenomenon now know as classical conditioning in his experiments with salivating dogs. • A. Ivan Pavlov • B. Jean Piaget • C. BF Skinner • D. Sigmund Freud

  30. Which South American country has the largest population? • A. Peru • B. Brazil • C. Argentina • D. Bolivia

  31. Which of the following is NOT correctly cited according to MLA documentation? • A. (Hampton and Johnson 356) • B. (Smith, Green, and Jones 458) • C. (“Problems with Children” B4) • D. (Williams et al. pp 456)

  32. Which of the following books does NOT appear on 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2000-2007 list? • A. Captain Underpants • B. Harry Potter • C. The Year I Didn’t Go to School • D. The Chocolate War

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