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Prep Bowl 9: Trivia Expert

Total questions: 50

Worksheet time: 26mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Words that end with these suffixes are usually what part of speech?

-cy, -or, -tion, -ism

(a)  

2.

Name the emotional reaction characterized by unpleasant, often intense feeling and a desire to flee or hide.

(a)  

3.

What is the collective name for the fruit of such grasses as sorghum, millet, rye, barley, oats, wheat and rice?

(a)  

4.

Some books have so many pages that they are divided into two or more what?

(a)  

5.

What team won 3 Super Bowls in the 1990s?

(a)  

6.

Aunt Bee has a house cat. Whenever her friend Gomer visits, he sneezes and his eyes water. What is the name for such a reaction?

(a)  

7.

What is 4% of .63?

(a)  

8.

In a poem, one or more lines that are repeated at the end of each succeeding stanza make up what?

(a)  

9.

What work by Rudyard Kipling answer these questions?

Why does and elephant have a trunk?

How did the leopard get its spots?

(a)  

10.

What is the perimeter of an irregular plane figure with these sides?

8 feet

2 feet

5 feet

3 feet

4 feet

(a)  

11.

How many minutes are in 6 hours and 9 minutes?

(a)  

12.

Name the sensation of coldness and shivering experienced by someone with a fever.

(a)  

13.

What blended word indicates an early lunch or a late breakfast?

(a)  

14.

What two methods of propulsion were used in Viing longships?

(a)  

15.

Miles Standish was the military leader of what colonial group in early fights with Indians in the region?

(a)  

16.

The Potomac, Hudson and Delaware are among these features that allowed colonists to establish settlements inland from the coast. These features provide food and fresh water and allowed colonists to bring in supplies and export natural resources like furs or timer.

(a)  

17.

This river is the "Gateway to the West" and opened up settlement of its namesake territory across the Allegheny mountains. Cincinnati was founded on this river, which separates its namesake state from Kentucky to its south.

(a)  

18.

Thomas Jefferson commissioned these two people to explore the new Louisiana Territory and to find a route to the Pacific Ocean. Starting from what is now St. Louis, they traveled up the Missouri River and then later traveled dows the Columbia River to the Pacific. Name both men.

(a)  

19.

What is evidence in court, where a person tells everything they saw or know?

(a)  

20.

Who is the group of people sworn to make a decision/deliver a verdict in court?

(a)  

21.

What is a female donkey called?

(a)  

22.

How many eyes does a bee have?

(a)  

23.

Which insect symbolizes good luck in Europe?

(a)  

24.

What is name is used to refer to a group of frogs?

(a)  

25.

How many hearts does an octopus have?

(a)  

26.

Bill Gates is the founder of which company?

(a)  

27.

Whos is the riches person in the world as of 2021?

(a)  

28.

What is the slogan of Apple Inc?

(a)  

29.

How many cards are there in a deck of Uno?

(a)  

30.

Which game include the phrase, "Do not pass go, do not collect $200?"

(a)  

31.

In chess, the queen has the combined movement of which two pieces?

(a)  

32.

What classic video game requires you to eat all the dots throughut the maze?

(a)  

33.

In the nursery rhyme "The Farmer in the Dell," what did the cate take?

(a)  

34.

What did the "Itsy Bitsy Spider" climb up?

(a)  

35.

What is a soccer field called?

(a)  

36.

Who was the first British player to win league titles in four countries?

(a)  

37.

Which country won the first women's World Cup?

(a)  

38.

Who won the first two FIFA Women's World Player of the Year Awards?

(a)  

39.

During which inning is "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" traditionally sung?

(a)  

40.

Who was the first baseball player to appear on a Wheaties box?

(a)  

41.

Who was the first Major League player to pitch a ball over 100 mph?

(a)  

42.

During what stage of sleep do dreaming and nightmares often occur?

(a)  

43.

This was the first country to allow women in vote in 1893, and the Musket Wars occurred in this country. Hone Heke and Captain William Hobson signed the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi in country, and its natives are known as the Maori. Many sheep live in this country. Name the country that is native to the kiwi bird and has its capital at Wellington?

(a)  

44.

Papagena and Tamino use bells and the title object to defeat the Queen of the Night in an opera named for what "Magical" reedless, woodwind instrument?

(a)  

45.

Peter Mark Roget created one of these in 1805. What reference book provides synonyms and sometimes antonyms?

(a)  

46.

People were encouraged to travel along this route in the song, "Follow the Drinking Gourd," and people on this route stopped by "stationmaster homes along the way. "Conductors" on this route helped guide travelers across the Ohio River in hope of reaching Canada. Harriet Tubman helped slave travel along what secret passage?

(a)  

47.

Merriam-Webster publishes a popular one of these. What reference book is a collection of words and their definitions arranged alphabetically?

(a)  

48.

Britannica one of these reference books is the oldest English language one still in production. What are these reference books that provide summaries of information on multiple topics in a given field?

(a)  

49.

The Battle of Pork Chop HIll was fought during this war. Douglas MacArthur ordered a landing at Inchon during what was that was fought on an Asian peninsula from 1950 to 1953.

(a)  

50.

According to this country's myth system, a giant who emerged from an egg separated the sky from the Earth. Another story in this country's myth system describes an archer who had to shoot down nine suns. The Eight Immortals belong to this country's myth system, which is also the basis of the twelve-animal zodiac. The Jade emperor and dragons appeared in the myth system of what Asian country?

(a)