Quiz Bowl packet 1

Question 1

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.

Answer 1

The Simpsons

Question 2

Name the mythical Greek who, after killing Hector drags Hector’s body behind a chariot.

Answer 2

Achilles

Question 3

Achilles kills Hector during a war against this city, which was legendarily conquered by warriors hiding in a wooden horse.

Answer 3

Troy

Question 4

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.

Answer 4

Ajax

Question 5

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?

Answer 5

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Question 6

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.

Answer 6

Iran

Question 7

The Pyramids of Meroe were built in this country south of Egypt. This country’s capital is Khartoum.

Answer 7

Sudan

Question 8

This Central American country contains many pyramid-like structures at its Mayan site of Tikal.

Answer 8

Guatemala

Question 9

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?

Answer 9

Protons

Question 10

Caesar was pursuing this general, who fled to Egypt after losing the Battle of Pharsalus. This man formed the first Triumvirate.

Answer 10

Pompey

Question 11

Caesar first went to this Greco-Roman capital of Egypt and fought a battle near this city’s ancient lighthouse.

Answer 11

Alexandra

Question 12

This Egyptian pharaoh has a child with Julius Caesar and later three more with Marc Antony.

Answer 12

Cleopatra

Question 13

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?

Answer 13

Chess

Question 14

Name this object. In a 1954 novel, the holder of this object is granted permission to speak at meetings.

Answer 14

The conch

Question 15

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.

Answer 15

Lord of the Flies

Question 16

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.

Answer 16

Ralph

Question 17

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?

Answer 17

The Great Gatsby

Question 18

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.

Answer 18

Quicksand

Question 19

These pits may form suddenly by the collapse of surface layers, usually due to groundwater dissolving bedrock.

Answer 19

Sinkholes

Question 20

These volcanic vents can emit dangerously jot, poisonous gas. They do not emit lava or solid materials.

Answer 20

Fumaroles

Question 21

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?

Answer 21

Pope

Question 22

As of 2022, the District of Columbia and six states each cast this smallest possible number of electoral votes for a single state.

Answer 22

3

Question 23

This state casts 40 electoral votes, which is the second most, behind California’s 54.

Answer 23

Texas

Question 24

This is the smallest number of electoral votes needed to secure a majority and win a presidential election outright.

Answer 24

270

Question 25

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?

Answer 25

North Korea

Question 26

In a 1900 novel by L. Frank Baum, Dorathy consults the “wonderful wizard” of this title place while trying to return home to Kansas.

Answer 26

Oz

Question 27

This author described how her family illegally settled on an Indian reservation in Kansas in her book Little House on the Prairie.

Answer 27

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Question 28

Clara Vanderpool won a Newbery Medal for a 2010 novel titled “Mook over” this fictional Kansas town, whose history is investigated by Avilene Tucker.

Answer 28

Manifest

Question 29

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?

Answer 29

The Maze Runner