Scholar Bowl Practice Questions Answers 2023 with complete solution
Pencil and paper ready. Pete started with 120 cans, but drank 80 percent of them and wants to know the number that remain. To find the number of cans
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Scholar Bowl Practice Questions Answers 2023 with complete solution
Pencil and paper ready. Pete started with 120 cans, but drank 80 percent of them and wants to know the number that remain. To find the number of cans left, he first calculates how many cans he drank, or 80% of 120. (*) For 10 points-how many cans are left over? ✔Ans✔ 4 (cans) (120 x 0.8 = 96, so he has 120 - 96 = 24 cans left; alternatively, 1 - 0.8 = 0.2, and 120 x 0.2 -- 24.)
In one scene this character urges a horse to "gallop...towards Phoebus' lodging" where her nurse informs her of the death of her cousin Tybalt. She stabs herself upon seeing her dead (*) lover, a member of the House of Montague. For 10 points- name this Shakespearean lover of Romeo. ✔Ans✔ Juliet (Capulet)
Forty-seven of these people allegedly became ronin [ROH-nihn] after their master Naganori committed suicide. They owed allegiance to lords called daimyos ["DIME"-yohz], followed the bushido [boo'shee-doh] code of honor, and wielded katanas, a type of long (*) sword. For 10 points--name these warriors of feudal Japan. ✔Ans✔ samurai
A spirometer measures the capacity of these structures which are the most common site of tuberculosis infection. The pulmonary veins leave these organs and their alveoli exchange (*) oxygen and carbon dioxide. For 10 points-name these organs that hold inhaled air. ✔Ans✔ lungs
J.S. Bach wrote a Passacaglia [PAH-suh-KAHL-yuh] and Fugue for this instrument, as well as a Toccata and Fugue often played in horror films. The largest of these instruments may have hundreds of stops that control its flue and reed (*) pipes. For 10 points-name this instrument often found in churches. ✔Ans✔ (pipe) organ
During one of these in 1935, Huey Long read a fried oyster recipe and asked the press to suggest topics. Strom Thurmond conducted a 24-hour one, but failed to block a 1957 civil rights (*) bill. A Dutch term for hijacking is the origin of-for 10 points-what term for long Senate speeches? ✔Ans✔ filibuster (accept word forms, prompt on "speech")
One of this river's headstreams, the Jinsha River, flows through Tiger Leaping Gorge, while the Han River meets it at Wuhan. The Three Gorges Dam is on this river that flows into the East (*) China Sea at Shanghai. For 10 points--name this waterway some 600 miles longer than the Yellow River. ✔Ans✔ Yangtze (River) (or Chiang [Jiang])
This substance is dubbed "associated" if it is present in a cap above liquid petroleum. Butyl mercaptan is added to this odorless substance made up of methane, ethane, and other hydrocarbons. Besides (*) oil, "fracking" extracts-for 10 points--what third-most used fossil fuel behind coal? ✔Ans✔ natural gas
Ron Barber won this state's June 2012 special election for the House seat vacated by Gabrielle Giffords. The Supreme Court partially upheld its SB 1070 ["S-B ten seventy"] law allowing police officers to ask about (*) immigration status. Jan Brewer governs-for 10 points-what state with capital Phoenix? ✔Ans✔ Arizona
As part of this agreement, James Monroe and Robert Livingston negotiated a payment of 15 million dollars. The territory (*) acquired in this event was explored by Lewis and Clark. The Jefferson Administration made- for 10 points-what 1803 agreement that doubled the size of the United States? ✔Ans✔ Louisiana Purchase
A magic square with this many rows has columns which sum to 15. This is the minimum number of points which could be non-collinear. Powers of this number have a units digit of 1, 7, 9, or this (*) number itself. For 10 points-- give this number of right angles in 270 degrees. ✔Ans✔ 3
The Jura Mountains lie north of this mountain range and the Tyrol is a region in it. The microstate of Liechtenstein lies in this range, whose highest peaks include the Matterhorn and (*) Mont Blanc. For 10 points--name this mountain range that cuts through Switzerland and Austria. ✔Ans✔ Alps
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