WorksheetsKnowledge Bowl Practice 1 61-80 (First Link)
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Virgil and Wyatt rode off in opposite directions at speeds of 15 and 25 mph until they were 210 miles apart. How long did each brother ride?
(In decimal form and don't forget the unit of measure)
5.25 hours
5 hours
4.75 hours
5.5 hours
5.15 hours
Many somewhat different meanings in the following sentence can be achieved by simply moving which one word to different locations?
Only the boss told me to complete the job
before dark.
boss
me
only
complete
before
What characteristic of music can be measured by a metronome in beats per minute?
beat
measure
score
note
tempo
Much like grease is rendered from frying bacon, what did 18th and 19th century sailors put into their try pots to obtain oil - another name for the fat of the whale?
oil
scale
blubber
lard
blunt
These are newspapers in what state?
Okeechobee Times
Pompano Ledger
Boca Beacon
Venice Gondolier
Florida
Oklahoma
Colorado
Mississippi
New York
What writing error is illustrated by these phrases?
in actual fact
collaborate together
blend together
final result
hyperbole
run on
redundancy
spelling
bad grammar
An astronaut whose weight is 560 pounds at 4 Gs weighs how much when she steps out of the shower at home?
160 pounds
140 pounds
260 pounds
240 pounds
125 pounds
The context clues in this sentence provide some explanatory information regarding the meaning of what word?
Her second-grade classmates include several
precocious children including one who could
already play classical piano, another who could
already do solid geometry, and a third who was
reading at the 12th-grade level.
classical
solid geometry
precocious
level
children
During what part of a story do things like these happen?
-the long-lost treasure is finally found
-the hero saves the town
-the bad guy is vanquished
-the protagonists survive a horrific storm
-the survivor is rescued from an island
climax
plot
setting
resolution
introduction
These are nicknames of what?
Golden, Centennial, Gopher, Show-me,
Sagebrush, Empire, Lone Star, Hoosier
flowers
states
plants
breeds of dogs
birds
The Puritan Migration of the 1630s brought colonists to New England from what country?
Spain
France
England
Poland
Africa
Find x if x/4 = .28.
11.2
7
.07
.7
1.12
What North American sea contains the greatest number of coral reefs?
Atlantic
Pacific
Caribbean
Dead
Baltic
What river has more than 1100 tributaries including the Madeira, Rio Negro, Yapura, Morona, Tambo, and Branco?
Amazon
Mississippi
Rio Grande
Nile
Danube
Name the device that turns thread or yarn into cloth by weaving strands together at right angles.
weaver
spindle
thread
loom
sewing machine
Four times what number is six more than the number?
1
2
3
4
5
In "The Two Towers," what character with a split personality does Samwise Gamgee call either Slinker or Stinker?
Frodo
Gandalf
Aragorn
Gollum
Legolas
What figure of speech is used in all of these examples?
sink or swim
takes two to tango
boom or bust
do or die
the more the merrier
live the life
alliteration
hyperbole
personification
simile
paradox
Name the southernmost of Britain's North American colonies.
Georgia
Barbados
Virginia
New York
Maryland
What stage direction in a play manuscript indicates that a character should go onstage?
enter
stage
exit
front
center stage
