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Prep Bowl 10: Trivia Mania

Total questions: 50

Worksheet time: 25mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Kinematics is a branch of what field of science concerned with the properties of matter and energy?

(a)  

2.

In this novel, a ship loses its crew and its cargo transforms into Transylvanian dirt. When Lucy Westenra becomes sick due to blood loss, Abraham Van Helsing attempts to use garlic blossoms to protect ehr from the title character of this novel. Quincey Morris and Jonathan Harker kill the title count of this novel by stabbing him in the heart, which immediately turns him to dust. Identify this Bram Stroker novel about the title vampire.

(a)  

3.

In baseball, how many strikes does it take before the umpire calls out?

(a)  

4.

Which MLB player was better know as "The Bambino?"

(a)  

5.

Where did the first ancient Olympic games take place?

(a)  

6.

When an Olympic athlete wins first place, what color medal do they get?

(a)  

7.

What sport starts with a tip-off or jump ball?

(a)  

8.

Birmingham, Montgomery and Huntsville the the three largest cities in what state?

(a)  

9.

Fargo, Bismarck and Minot are the three largest cities in what state?

(a)  

10.

Milwaukee, Madison and Kenosha are the three largest cities in what state?

(a)  

11.

The Jordan River is located near this city, whose walls fell following Joshua's army's marching around this city blowing their trumpets.

(a)  

12.

Jesus was baptized in what river that shares its name with a modern Middle Eastern country. Name the river.

(a)  

13.

The girls of this novel are Meg, Beth, Amy and Jo. This novel follows the four March sisters from their teen years into adulthood. Name the novel.

(a)  

14.

These objects are know as tuyas when they form under a glacier, and calderas are formed from the collapse of these objects. These objects can emit a certain substance that comes in pahoehoe and ah-ah forms. Coming in shield and cinder cone varieties are what objects that form the Ring of Fire and emit lava?

(a)  

15.

Who wrote "Old Man and the Sea" and is considered one of the greatest writers of the 20th century?

(a)  

16.

Who is the writer of "Merchant of Venice?"

(a)  

17.

What is the name of the fourth book in the Harry Potter series?

(a)  

18.

The Hunger Games series was written by which author?

(a)  

19.

What Danish author is considered by many to be the most prolific fairy tale writer?

(a)  

20.

Which country is Aesop's Fables believed to originate in?

(a)  

21.

According to the commercial, "What is the fabric of our lives?"

(a)  

22.

What animal is on Levi's logo?

(a)  

23.

Parkers, trenches, bombers and peas are types of what winter outerwear?

(a)  

24.

Between 1933 to 1947, the Hoover Dam was called what?

(a)  

25.

Who has been the longest-serving monarch of the United Kingdom?

(a)  

26.

Leader and political icon Nelson Mandela was from which African country?

(a)  

27.

When the Lewis and Clark expedition embarked on Fort Mandan, it numbered thirty-one men, a mother and her infant son. Who was the mother?

(a)  

28.

What is a synonym for a snow-slide?

(a)  

29.

Kansas is almost a perfect rectangle, except in the northeast corner where the river forms its boundary?

(a)  

30.

What country is an island about the size of Kentucky in the North Atlantic east of Greenland just touching the Arctic Circle?

(a)  

31.

In 1773. Boston townspeople dumped 342 chests of into the harbor?

(a)  

32.

To what prophesy of doom does this observation refer?

Chicken Little only has to be right once.

(a)  

33.

The weight of a jar and the bolts in it is 50 ounces. If the number of bolts is doubled, the total weight of the jar and bolts is 92 ounces. What does the jar weigh?

(a)  

34.

What two punctuation marks may end an imperative sentence?

(a)  

35.

What desert spreads over an area including much of Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Chad, Sudan, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisla and Egypt.

(a)  

36.

You start out facing north. YOu turn left, then left again, the do an about-face. In what direction are you finally facing?

(a)  

37.

Complete this series.

1/3 1/7 1/15 1/31 ...

(a)  

38.

The clawed foot of a quadruped is called a (a)   ?

39.

The names of how many of the planets in oour solar system begin with a vowel?

(a)  

40.

Runoff from the southern slopes of the Alps flows into what body of water?

(a)  

41.

What document is the official record of the time, date and place you were born?

(a)  

42.

What word completes this ditty by Ogden Nash?

Some primal termite knocked on wood

And tasted it, and found it good,

And that is why your Cousin May

Fell through the parlor floor (a)   .

43.

The Egyptians developed a form of embalming called what?

(a)  

44.

If the first Monday of the month falls on the 4th, the fourth Wednesday of the month falls on what date?

(a)  

45.

What is the name for a curved, tranparent glass body that bend light rays?

(a)  

46.

What is the name for a tone in music represented by a symbol?

(a)  

47.

If you have 4 shirts and 4 jackets how many different combinations of shirts and jackets could you wear?

(a)  

48.

The point inside a circle that is the same distance from each point on the circle is the (a)   .

49.

This verse is about what American folk hero?

Old Stormy was a seaman bold,

A grand old man from the days of old.

For fifty years he sailed the seas,

Through winter storm and summer breeze.

Of all the old skippers he was the best,

But now he's died and gone to rest.

(a)  

50.

In naval parlance, what is a synonym for an armada?

(a)