WorksheetsNebraska Practice 2024-25 JV 1000
Total questions: 100
Worksheet time: 50mins
Provinces - What is the largest river in the Canadian province bordered by Hudson Bay, Hudson Strait, Ungava Bay, John Strait, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, and the Gulf of St. Lawrence?
St. Lawrence River
Fraser River
Mackenzie River
Ottawa River
What is the reciprocal of 5x/4?
4/5x
5x/4
-4/5x
-5x/4
Who was the Greek goddess of the hunt?
Artemis
Aphrodite
Hera
Demeter
What did Elon Musk change the name of Twitter to in July of 2023?
X
TwitX
Bluebird
Twitster
What city has the greatest abundance of red double-decker buses?
London
New York
Paris
Tokyo
The first national wildlife refuge was started in 1903 at Pelican Island by what president?
Theodore Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
William Howard Taft
Calvin Coolidge
What will be the next leap year after 2020?
2024
2022
2023
2025
What proverb about packages seems to contradict this saying? The bigger, the better.
Good things come in small packages.
A stitch in time saves nine.
Actions speak louder than words.
The early bird catches the worm.
What national park, home of historic Fort Jefferson and famous for its sea turtle nesting, was threatened by the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico?
Dry Tortugas National Park
Everglades National Park
Yellowstone National Park
Grand Canyon National Park
What football violation is called when the quarterback or punter is hit after passing or kicking the ball?
Roughing
Offside
Holding
False Start
What synonym for "blithe," or "glad," completes this remarkable quote by Anne Frank? 'Think of all the beauty still left around you and be ...'
happy
silent
angry
tired
Pronouns - 'Who,' serves as the subject of a clause while what similar word is the object of a clause?
whom
whose
which
whoever
What animal raised the twins at a cave called Lupercal?
She-wolf (Accept wolf)
Bear
Eagle
Lion
When lakes freeze over, fish still swim under the ice. But if the dissolved oxygen is used up, ice prevents more oxygen from entering the lake from the air and the fish die. Name this condition common in shallow lakes.
Winterkill
Thermal stratification
Eutrophication
Turnover
Sculpture - Copper combines to make other metals such as brass and bronze used in sculpture. When it reacts with oxygen in the air, it usually tends to turn what color?
green
red
blue
yellow
Rectangles - The area of a rectangle is 224. Given that its length is 8, what is its width if 8 × ?
28
24
32
18
Discoveries - Don Hernando Lopez de Cardenas, who discovered the Grand Canyon, and Hernando de Alvarado, who discovered the Rio Grande near present-day Albuquerque, were both members of a larger expedition led by whom?
Francisco Coronado
Hernan Cortes
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
Juan Ponce de Leon
What moral precepts are contained in the 20th chapter of Exodus?
Ten Commandments
Beatitudes
Parables of Jesus
Psalms of David
The Solar System - What word can be spelled with the first letters of the names for the fourth, third, eighth, and seventh planets from the sun in our solar system?
menu
neum
mune
nume
Looking at the map - Just south of the Fertile Crescent is what largest peninsula?
Arabian Peninsula
Iberian Peninsula
Balkan Peninsula
Scandinavian Peninsula
What is 16 to the zero power?
1
0
16
-1
Habits - Where did Beatrix sleep in the tale by Beatrix Stokoe?
In a coffin
In a treehouse
Under a bridge
On a boat
Transportation - During the 1830s, a locomotive was also known as what kind of engine?
Iron horse
Steam mule
Coal dragon
Rail beast
The Atom - What is the charge on the nucleus of an atom?
Positive
Negative
Neutral
Zero
To whom does the first pronoun refer in this excerpt from Tom Sawyer? Yes, she's very particular about this fence. If you get it, do it the way it's got to be done, and a boy in a thousand, maybe two thousand, may do it this way. Very careful. I reckon there.
Aunt Polly
Becky Thatcher
Mary
Sid
Name the Kings - There was the son of Eleanor of Aquitaine, one was the son of the Black Prince, and one died at the Battle of the Hand of the Earl of Richmond. What name did they share?
Richard
Henry
Edward
John
The climate of Southern California is called what, comparing it to the climate around a European sea?
Mediterranean
Arctic
Tropical
Desert
Density may be determined by dividing m by V where m is mass and V is what?
Volume
Velocity
Viscosity
Voltage
In what U.S. State have the greatest number of nuclear weapons been deactivated?
Nevada
New Mexico
Texas
California
The Crusades - What name has been given to the crusade in 1212 composed of thousands of French and Germans, mostly in their early teens or younger?
Children's Crusade
Peasants' Crusade
Noble's Crusade
Merchant's Crusade
Animals - Dung beetles, starfish, and crayfish are members of a group of animals referred to as nature's clean-up brigade because they consume refuse and dead animals and plants. Collectively, such creatures are called what?
Scavengers
Predators
Herbivores
Parasites
Officers - What is the title of the presiding member of the Supreme Court?
Chief Justice
President
Speaker
Chancellor
Sculptures - One of Michelangelo's sculptures depicts young David about to engage what Philistine giant?
Goliath
Hercules
Achilles
Samson
Art Forms - Since the Middle Ages, the world's oldest cartographic depiction of the Holy Land, originally consisted of more than two million tesserae, is an example of what art form?
Mosaic
Fresco
Sculpture
Tapestry
What figure of speech is poorly used in these examples? 'Bring just a bar of tea.' 'That is a sure a straying duck.' 'He's been a sore thumb in my side.'
Metaphors
Similes
Alliterations
Personifications
Rodents - Which teeth in rodents are adapted to gnawing?
Incisors
Canines
Molars
Premolars
Order Classification - 'Today,' in addition to lizards, which are three main orders of reptiles. One order includes lizards and snakes. Another includes alligators and crocodiles. Name either group of creatures in the third order.
Turtles
Frogs
Salamanders
Newts
Moose - These are lines from what kind of reports about the play, 'Moose Murders'?
Reviews
Scripts
Advertisements
Interviews
The Roman Colosseum is an example of what kind of oval structure with tiers of seats rising outward from the central arena?
Amphitheater
Aqueduct
Pantheon
Forum
Sterling - Who starred in Cruel Intentions, Election, and Legally Blonde?
Reese Witherspoon
Sarah Michelle Gellar
Jennifer Love Hewitt
Selma Blair
Injuries - An injury to the rotator cuff involves what part of the body?
Shoulder
Knee
Ankle
Elbow
Professions - Ambrose Bierce defined what professional as, 'a presdigitiator who, putting metal in your mouth, pulls coins out of your pocket'?
Dentist
Magician
Banker
Chef
Land controlled by the Bureau of Land Management or the National Park Service is in the public what?
domain
sector
trust
reserve
Why Remembered - This general had a distinguishing career that was chosen down in the face in front of his ears now named after him in a reversed way?
(Ambrose) Burnside
(Ulysses) Grant
(William) Sherman
(Robert) Lee
After World War II, Europe needed to recover. The Americans ordered this plan to help rebuild the war-torn countries and bring prosperity back to the region, which plan was named after the Secretary of State at the time of offers.
Marshall (Plan)
Truman (Plan)
Molotov (Plan)
Dawes (Plan)
Name any one of the four National Parks through which the Continental Divide passes.
Rocky Mountain
Everglades
Acadia
Shenandoah
What kind of marine algae may exceed 30 meters in length?
kelp
sea lettuce
diatoms
red algae
What are the embankments that surround polders called?
dikes
canals
levees
terraces
What phrase from the Eighth Amendment concerns torture, deliberately degrading punishment, or punishment that is overly severe for the crime committed?
cruel and unusual punishment
right to bear arms
double jeopardy
due process of law
Youthful Offenders - The violation of laws or ordinances by someone legally classified as a youth rather than an adult is known as juvenile what?
delinquency
probation
rehabilitation
incarceration
In what sport do you commit a foot fault?
tennis
basketball
soccer
baseball
What was the purpose of the organization established in 1785 known as the New York Society for Promoting Manumission?
freeing slaves
promoting industrialization
supporting British rule
establishing new colonies
Warriors - The medieval British knights were similar to what professional warriors of the Japanese feudal military aristocracy?
samurai
ronin
shogun
ninja
Lots of Water - Which state has the longest freshwater shoreline, going right around one of its peninsulas?
Michigan
Florida
California
New York
About 60% of the Nordic land area is accounted for by what enormous island?
Greenland
Iceland
Svalbard
Gotland
From a physical science perspective, what kind of changes are illustrated by the crumpling of a piece of paper, breaking glass, inhaling a basketball, clouds forming in the sky, and cutting a board?
physical changes
chemical changes
nuclear changes
biological changes
Popular Songs - These lines are in what song? 'The will will cheat, the boys will shout, the ladies, they will all turn out when Johnny comes marching home.'
When Johnny Comes Marching Home
Yankee Doodle
Battle Hymn of the Republic
Dixie
Classic Houses - What mansion designed by Thomas Jefferson stands to this day?
Monticello
Mount Vernon
The Breakers
Biltmore Estate
Territories - This territory of Oregon was divided in the mid-19th century into parts of Wyoming and Montana and all or what three future U.S. states?
Oregon, Idaho, Washington
California, Nevada, Utah
Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico
North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska
European Flags - A tricolor flag striped vertically blue, white, and red, belongs to what European nation?
France
Italy
Netherlands
Russia
Mediterranean Islands - The name of this place is a homophone for a tall evergreen with woody cones and a strong cedarlike odor. What Mediterranean island am I talking about?
Cyprus
Sicily
Crete
Sardinia
This indigenous nation was not originally indigenous to Oklahoma, but with a population of over 300,000 in the state today, what is the largest indigenous nation in the United States?
Cherokee
Navajo
Sioux
Apache
In 2007, in protests against the ruling junta, several thousand Buddhist monks marched through the streets of Rangoon and Mandalay in what country?
Myanmar (Burma)
Thailand
Cambodia
Laos
Poem Parts - These phrases are from what American poem by Edgar Allan Poe? 'midnight dreary, gently rapping, chamber door, Lenore'
The Raven
Annabel Lee
The Bells
Eldorado
What grammatical voice is used in this line? The active voice possibly passed the passer.
active
passive
interrogative
imperative
Find the area of a rectangle 21 yards long and 12 yards wide.
252 square yards
144 square yards
33 square yards
132 square yards
Governments - In nations such as Algeria, Russia, Portugal, Lebanon, and Ireland, the head of state is the president but the head of government has what other title?
prime minister
chancellor
governor
mayor
Less opaque than fog, what is the name for a mass of microscopic water droplets suspended in the atmosphere?
mist
dew
rain
hail
Fuels - An ion of what element is usually the fuel of nuclear power plants?
uranium
carbon
hydrogen
helium
Name the biome which may occur in the treeless plains of Arctic regions or above timberline in the Rocky Mountains.
tundra
savanna
rainforest
desert
What is the antonym of descent?
ascent
decline
drop
fall
Modern composer - Aaron Copland was a composer from which nation?
U.S.
France
Germany
Russia
In 1898, a force of 647 U.S. Marines landed at Guantanamo Bay on what island?
Cuba
Puerto Rico
Jamaica
Hispaniola
It's freezing - What's the freezing point of water in Fahrenheit?
32°
0°
100°
212°
In the following sentence, determine the verb's grammatical voice: The teacher began her new lecture.
Active voice
Passive voice
Interrogative voice
Imperative voice
What do J.K. Rowling's magic characters call a letter that makes a terrible racket when opened?
Howler
Screamer
Yeller
Shouter
Was he accomplished? - This man made the purchase and use of fortune cookies illegal, previously not allowed in his communist country. What man ruled Cuba from 2011-2021?
Raul Castro
Fidel Castro
Miguel Díaz-Canel
Che Guevara
This Civil Rights activist became U.S. Representative from Georgia from 1987 until his death in 2020.
John Lewis
Jesse Jackson
Medgar Evers
Bayard Rustin
What hand-held weapon is a simple machine called a two-armed spring?
Bow (as in bow and arrow)
Sword
Sling
Dagger
What villain, played by Sergei Prokofiev, is named for a Shakespearean play featuring two star-crossed lovers?
Romeo and Juliet
Macbeth
Othello
Hamlet
In what 36 inches is diameter that completes one relation every minute?
113
90
72
150
The central song for the musical, 'Show Boat,' is what ballad about the father of waters?
Ol' Man River
Blue Moon
Summertime
My Funny Valentine
7.11 Literary Terms - These are all forms of what kind of literature? Epistles, eclogues, epics, elegies, odes
Poetry (Poems)
Prose (Stories)
Drama (Plays)
Non-fiction (Essays)
What civilization built the Zaghousan Aqueduct in Carthage, the Aqueduct of Segovia in Spain, and the Valens Aqueduct in Constantinople?
Rome
Greece
Persia
Egypt
Syria is adjacent to what body of water?
Mediterranean Sea
Red Sea
Caspian Sea
Black Sea
7.14 Scantling - Carl Sandburg adapted several chapters from his 'Abraham Lincoln - the Prairie Years,' into a book for children. Complete this title of that work. Abe Lincoln Grows ...
Up
Tall
Old
Wise
If you open a bottle of root beer and just let it stand, it will soon go flat because of what process?
diffusion
evaporation
condensation
precipitation
716. Idioms - Correct the idiom used in this line. It was a decision.
spur-of-the-moment
by the book
under the weather
hit the sack
717. The Sun - Name the part of the Sun where fusion occurs.
core
photosphere
corona
chromosphere
718. Speeches - Nikita Khrushchev's 1956 speech revealing Stalin's crimes had the effect in the United States of severely weakening what third party?
Communist
Libertarian
Green
Progressive
719. Marsupials - When threatened, what American marsupial often mimics the appearance of a dead animal?
opossum
kangaroo
koala
bandicoot
What word that rhymes with two other words in this line by Muhammad Ali is missing in this sentence? Believe if I can, I can --- it!
achieve
receive
relieve
deceive
If electricity costs 12 cents per kilowatt hour, what is the cost of running a 1.5 kilowatt heater for 8 hours?
$1.44
$0.96
$2.40
$0.72
What name at the close of the eighteenth century ended the thousand-year run of kings in France and established the nation as a republic?
Revolution
Renaissance
Reformation
Restoration
What Indian group of Mexico and Central America used hieroglyphs as a means of communicating?
Maya
Aztec
Inca
Olmec
Human Anatomy - These are classifications of what? Coaxial, cervical, thoracic, lumbar, sacral, vertebrae.
Vertebrae
Ligaments
Muscles
Nerves
Scandinavian Adventure - Land of fjords and fields and Viking lore, which Scandinavian country attracts adventurers and nature lovers?
Norway
Sweden
Denmark
Finland
Four of the moons of what planet were discovered by Galileo?
Jupiter
Mars
Saturn
Venus
About 70 to 80 percent of the chemical energy in gasoline leaves automobile engines as what kind of energy?
Heat
Light
Sound
Electrical
Legal term - Rhyming with 'decease,' this word is defined as a written document by which some claim, right, or interest is given up. What's the word?
Release
Lease
Increase
Peace
