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Study general quizbowl questions from previous practices

1
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53, heaviest of the stable halogens, purplish metal, aggressive gas

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Iodine

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2
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Musical term that means to pluck the strings

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Pizzacato

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3
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Novel by Hemingway, British and American families go watch the running of the bulls

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The Sun Also Rises

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4
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Novel by Tom Hardy, man loses everything, gets his family back, then loses everything again

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Mayor of Casterbridge

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5
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Poem named ___, authored by ____, uses personification to compare a plant to a woman

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Trees, Kilmore

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6
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14th US state to join

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Vermont

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7
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Darwin’s lesser known competitor

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Wallace

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8
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Conquered the Incans

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Pizzaro

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9
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Wrote “Oh Captain my Captain” and “Song of Myself” and “Children of Adam”

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Walt Whitman

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10
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Wrote Ode on a Grecian Urn

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Keats

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11
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Wrote Civil Disobedience

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Henry David Thoreau

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12
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Father of American rocketry

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Goddard

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13
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Wrote Paradise Lost

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Milton

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14
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Section at end of piece of music

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Cadenza

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15
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The first amateur detective story, written by Poe, the orangutan did it

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Murder in the Rue Morgue

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16
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Wrote Wealth of Nations

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Adam Smith

17
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Name of 3rd crusade

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King’s Crusade

18
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Authored by Huxley, boys are shown babies grown artificially, Class system used to separate intelligent from laborers

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Brave New World

19
Q

Has 20 faces

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Icosahedron

20
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Kind of volcano with gently sloping sides, hundreds of layers

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Shield volcano

21
Q

Meeting of altitudes

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Centroid

22
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Nymph who turned down Apollo, turned into a laurel tree

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Daphne

23
Q

Sum of terms and has whole number exponents

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Polynomial

24
Q

Statement vaguely warning Japan about atomic bomb

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Pottsdam Declaration

25
Q

Language used commonly between two countries for trade

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Lingua Franca

26
Q

Name for sex cell

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Gamete

27
Q

When plants grow to face or better reach light source

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Phototropism

28
Q

River that forms Grand Canyon

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Colorado River

29
Q

Liquid turning into a gel or solid

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Coogulation

30
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In this book a dude loves a rich girl but his poor girlfriend is pregnant

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An American Tragedy

31
Q

Lightest noble gas

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Helium

32
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Retold Arthurian legend in 4 parts: the ill maid knight, the sword and the stone, the queen of air and darkness, the candle in the wind

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The once and future king

33
Q

First female cabinet member

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Francis Perkins

34
Q

Discovered gaseous elements in air, won nobel peace prize

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Ramsey

35
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Sister of Moses, turned white

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Miriam

36
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Mixing of two alleles

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Partial dominance

37
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POW, spent 2 yrs in Russian prison, released in 1962, exchanged for Soviet spies

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Francis Gary Powers

38
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Said I think, therefore I am

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Descartes (pronounced DAY CART)

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