Knowledge Bowl Practice Questions

The Apache wars of 1871 to 1886 took place in what two states?

Arizona, New Mexico

The highest sand dunes in South America are in what desert in Chile?

Atacama

The largest island between Sumatra and Mindanao is what?

Borneo

Who says this in "The Red-Headed League"? Upon first meeting with Mr. Jabez Wilson, I noticed beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labor, that he is a Freemason, that he takes snuff, that he has been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of writing latelyconsiderable amount of writing lately. I could deduce nothing else

Sherlock Holmes

Girdling involves cutting through the bark and what other layer of cells in a tree trunk?

cambium

Electroplating involves the deposition of a metal onto a metallic surface through what chemical decomposition process?

electrolysis

The bacterium causing leprosy directly damages what protective sheathing around nerve cells?

myelin

What mammalian insectivore will perish of hypothermia if unable to devour some 75 percent of its body weight daily?

shrew

While a tornado is a rapidly rotating column of air between a cloud and the ground, what similar phenomenon is a rapidly rotating column of air between a cloud and a body of water?

waterspout

What two great rivers of Montana flow in a northeasterly direction?

Missouri, Yellowstone

Almost overnight, "expletive deleted" became a catch phrase when transcripts of whose conversations were released in 1974?

Richard Nixon