Quiz Bowl packet 1 Flashcards
aA 2022 episode of this TV show adopted an anime style to parody the Japanese series Death Note. In 2020 Hank Azaria stopped voicing non-white characters on this show, such as Bumblebee Man and the Kwik-E-Mart owner Apu. Name this animated sitcom about the family of Marge and Homer.
The Simpsons
Name the mythical Greek who, after killing Hector drags Hector’s body behind a chariot.
Achilles
Achilles kills Hector during a war against this city, which was legendarily conquered by warriors hiding in a wooden horse.
Troy
This Greek hero, who was dubbed “the Greater” to distinguish him from another man, goes insane and kills him self after failing to win the dead Achilles’s armor.
Ajax
This man won a Pulitzer Prize for the biography collection Profiles in Courage, which he wrote as a Massachusetts senator. The first televised presidential debates helped this man defeat Richard Nixon in the 1960 election. What president was assassinated in Dallas?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Many ziggurats, a type of step pyramid, were built in the Elamite kingdom in this modern-day country. Xerxes I and Darius the Great were kings of an ancient empire entered in this country.
Iran
The Pyramids of Meroe were built in this country south of Egypt. This country’s capital is Khartoum.
Sudan
This Central American country contains many pyramid-like structures at its Mayan site of Tikal.
Guatemala
Beta-minus decay produces and election, an antineutrino , and one of these particles, which are made up of one down and two up quarks. The number of these particles in an atom is its atomic number. The nucleus includes neutrons and what positively charged particles?
Protons
Caesar was pursuing this general, who fled to Egypt after losing the Battle of Pharsalus. This man formed the first Triumvirate.
Pompey
Caesar first went to this Greco-Roman capital of Egypt and fought a battle near this city’s ancient lighthouse.
Alexandra
This Egyptian pharaoh has a child with Julius Caesar and later three more with Marc Antony.
Cleopatra
This activity was supposedly preformed by a machine known as the Mechanical Turk. Tweedledum and Tweedledee appear in a Lexis Carroll novel in which a countryside is laid out like this activity’s board. What game inspired such Through the Looking-Glass characters as the Red Queen?
Chess
Name this object. In a 1954 novel, the holder of this object is granted permission to speak at meetings.
The conch
The conch is used to try and establish order among a group of British schoolboys stranded on an island in this novel by William Golding.
Lord of the Flies
This protagonist of Lord of the Flies suggests using the conch to bring order to meetings. Jack rebels against and attempts to hunt down this character.
Ralph
This novel’s narrator dates a dishonest female golfer names Jordan Baker. In a location in this novel known as the “Valley of Ashes,” a car runs over the mistress of tom Buchanan. A mysterious millionaire is the title character of what novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald?
The Great Gatsby
A mixture of granular material saturated with water can suddenly lose strength, causing a person to sink in. However, it is impossible for a person to sink in completely.
Quicksand
These pits may form suddenly by the collapse of surface layers, usually due to groundwater dissolving bedrock.
Sinkholes
These volcanic vents can emit dangerously jot, poisonous gas. They do not emit lava or solid materials.
Fumaroles
While holding this office, Callixtus iii negotiated the Concordat of Worms to address the investiture controversy. At the council of Clermont, a holder of this position, Urban 11, launched the first Crusade. Holy Roman emperors were crowned by what head of the catholic church?
Pope
As of 2022, the District of Columbia and six states each cast this smallest possible number of electoral votes for a single state.
3
This state casts 40 electoral votes, which is the second most, behind California’s 54.
Texas
This is the smallest number of electoral votes needed to secure a majority and win a presidential election outright.
270
In 2017 spies from this country used a nerve agent to kill a member of this ruling family in Malaysia. This country’s leader, who was once threatened with “fire and fury” by Donald Trump, declared it a nuclear power in 2022. What Asian country is led by Supreme Leaser Kin Jong-un?
North Korea
In a 1900 novel by L. Frank Baum, Dorathy consults the “wonderful wizard” of this title place while trying to return home to Kansas.
Oz
This author described how her family illegally settled on an Indian reservation in Kansas in her book Little House on the Prairie.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Clara Vanderpool won a Newbery Medal for a 2010 novel titled “Mook over” this fictional Kansas town, whose history is investigated by Avilene Tucker.
Manifest
This series of books depicts Mark and Trina, who survive a tsunami caused by solar flares, in a prequel novel titled The Kill Order. Teenagers in this series such as Thomas are tested by a group called WICKED. James Dashner wrote what series in which Gladers escape a labyrinth?
The Maze Runner
