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WorksheetsQuizBowl 9
Total questions: 65
Worksheet time: 33mins
A piece of cloth that absorbs all the light failing upon it appears what color
White
Black
54 is the sum of what 3 consecutive even integers.
16, 18, 20
13,15,16
Identify the enlarged anterior part of the vertebrate central nervous system encased within the cranium.
tail bone
brain
These are tracks in an album about what sizable animated fairy tale being?
Merry Men
Welcome to Duloc
Singing Princess
Ride the Dragon
Brave
Shrek
Complete their thought by Johann Sebastian Bach with a reflexive pronoun.
There's nothing remarkable about it.
All one has to do is hit the right keys
at the right time and the instrument plays ________
fast
itself
If a river deepens its channel by one tenth of a centimeter per year, about how many meters would it cut down in a thousand-year period?
1
100
The same 2 baseball teams are scheduled to plan an afternoon game and a night game on Saturday. Name this arrangement:
Triangular
Doubleheader
In the back of your pantry, you find a loaf of bread that has been sitting there for the last 30 days, covered with something fuzzy that is black and blue-green, What kind of fungus has mad e that bread its home?
mold
mushroom
What colony was the home of Martha Washington?
Maine
Virginia
The same letters found in the 3rd-person, singular, masculine pronoun are also used for the abbreviation of what gaseous chemical element?
Helium
Cooper
What is the simple subject and predicate in this sentence?
But, as other historians and novelists have made mush clearer, very little was truly romantic about the Civil War.
little was
historians, Civil
What animal completes these cliches?
like a ______ in a China Shop
Take the ______ by the horns
Billy goat
Bull
What is usually measured in terms of grams of salt per kilogram of water?
salinity
Chloride
Name the prince who wants to be king in the animated feature about a swamp-dwelling ogre?
Sherk
Farquaad
What question is answered by the adverbs in these examples?
The blaze started here.
His shop was built nearby.
How?
Where?
When?
What is r if 2 1/3r equals 70?
30
35
The Great Lakes are drained by what river?
Mississippi
St. Lawrence
What is the conjunction in this 2-sentence quip?
The doctor gave Tony six months to live. He couldn't pay his bill so the doctor gave him another six months.
gave
so
With populations in excess of 800 million, it has more people than any other nation except China. Name this country?
Russia
India
What is the last word in this ditty?
We'll begin with box, the plural is boxes
One fowl is a goose, 2 are called geese
Yet the plural of moose is never...
meese
mooses
What kind of business establishment is indicated by a vertical cylinder with red and white spirals?
Ice cream shop
Barbershop
A stray dog moves in with a family in Texas hill county in the 1860s in what novel by Fred Gipson?
Old Yeller
Where the Red Fern Grows
Express the proper noun "China" as a proper adjective?
China people
Chinese
Thyroiditis and laryngitis affect organs in what part of the body?
Neck, throat
foot
hand
What does the prefix mean in these words?
triennial
tricuspid
trilateral
trilogy
four
five
three
The polar region of the Northern Hemisphere is continuously dark during what season?
Spring
Fall
Summer
Winter
What is the last word in this cliche?
He took it hook, line, and _________
bait
sinker
Where on Earth are day and night of about equal length year around?
equator
prime meridian
In orthodox theology, the doctrine of original sin is the belief that all people are born with the taint of sin resulting from the primal disobedience of what couple?
Sarah and Abraham
Adam and Eve
This cartoon quote by Gary Larson is about what kind of animal?
I am Zornorph, the one who comes by night to the neighbor's yard, ..... stainer of Persian Rugs
Cat
Dog
Lizard
Retrieving the basketball after an unsuccessful shot at the basket is called what?
assist
rebounding
In light years, how long would it take a spacecraft putting along at Mach 5 to reach the Milky Way Galaxy?
100 light years
zero light years
Vesuvius National Park is in what country?
Spain
United States
Italy
Current conservative estimates suggest that 4000 species become extinct each year. To the nearest whole number, this translates into how many species per day?
100
10
What lake is close to these cities?
Ogden
Logan
Tooele
Brigham City
Lake Michigan
Great Salt Lake
What is the general term for performers who execute these kinds of moves?
cartwheel, dismount, front tucks
Circus people
gymnastics
What word completes these cliches?
That old ________
at the drop of a _______
eat my ______
hold onto your _________
coat
hat
The equator passes over what 3 oceans?
Arctic, Southern, Pacific
Pacific, Indian, Atlantic
What bipeds that swim at 25 mph under water are often seen tobogganing on ice?
Polar Bears
Penguins
What word is missing from these cliches?
Put a ____ in his ear
Snug as a _____ in a rug
bug
pug
Convert .2341 into a fraction
2341/1000
2341/100
Considering all the states east of New York which has the greatest geographic area?
New Jersey
Maine
Phil's batting average is .125. So how many hits should be get in 2000 times at bat?
250
125
Aside from special accounts like certificates of deposit .... what are the two main types of accounts that people regularly maintain in a bank?
mortgage and retirement
savings and checking accounts
Name the largest island through which the Arctic Circle passes.
Iceand
Greenland
What adjustable device is used in music training to mark time by regularly reoccurring clicks or flashing lights?
drum
metronome
Regarding the US states bordering the Gulf of Mexico, which has the greatest number of syllables in its name?
Texas
Florida
Louisiana
What is the actual cliche misstated here?
When it rains, it snows.
When it rains, it pours.
When it rains, it lightening
What are the auxiliARY verbs in this?
I've been working on the railroad all the live long day.
have, been
working
The average cost fro each of the 5000 parts in the Ford Model T was 15 cents in 1925. Since the vehicles retailed for $260, the parts were actually worth how much more than a completed car?
$500
$490
Today, billion of years after the big bang, the universe is still expanding, although there are localized areas in which objects are held together by what force?
motion
gravity
This line is from what story?
O, Peter, don't waste the fairy dust on me.
Peter Pan
Sherk
Mavis bought a new suit for 100. this skirt cost $2 more than the jacket. How much did the jacket cost?
$52
$49
The perimeter of a square is 108 feet. Each side of the square is how long?
24 feet
27 feet
What is the answer to this classic riddle?
What always runs but never walks, often murmurs, never talks, has a bed but never sleeps, has a mouth but never eats?
a river
a lake
Name the process of soaking meat in a flavored liquid prior to cooking.
soaking
marinating
What rectangular solid is bounded by six squars?
square
cube
Who is the central character in the cook from which this was taken?
Peter Pan
Pinocchio
Which was the southernmost of the first 13 American colonies?
New York
Georgia
What is the term for seal and walrus limbs adapted for swimming?
flins
Flippers
This is about what legendary character?
His strangest feature when he was a baby was his big, curly beard. It was so big and bushy that ...... to comb it with a pine tree.
Johnny Apple Seed
Paul Bunyan
Name the wooden spear hurled in Olympic competitions.
batons
javelin
What category of sentence always ends with a period?
inquiry
declarative
Name the 2nd smallest continent.
Africa
Asia
North America
Europe
To the nearest minute, how long does it take for light to cross the 150 million kilometers that separate the Earth from the Sun.
10
5
8
