Middle School Scholar Bowl Practice Flashcards

Intermediate-to-advanced scholar bowl practice questions covering Geography, Arts, Sports, History, Science, ELA, and Mathematics.

What river forms most of Missouri's eastern border?

Mississippi River

What is the only U.S. state that borders both the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico?

Florida

What mountain range forms a natural boundary between France and Spain?

Pyrenees

What is the largest island in the world that is not considered a continent?

Greenland

What African country is completely surrounded by South Africa?

Lesotho

What river flows through the cities of Vienna, Budapest, and Belgrade?

Danube River

What is the capital of New Zealand?

Wellington

What strait separates Asia from North America?

Bering Strait

What is the largest country in South America by area?

Brazil

What mountain range contains Mount Everest?

Himalayas

What desert stretches across portions of Mongolia and China?

Gobi Desert

What is the longest river entirely within the United States?

Missouri River

What is the capital of Iceland?

Reykjavík

What canal connects the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea?

Suez Canal

What is the world's largest inland body of water by surface area?

Caspian Sea

What African lake is traditionally identified as a major source region of the White Nile?

Lake Victoria

What is the smallest independent country in the world?

Vaticat City

Who painted The Persistence of Memory?

Salvador Dalí

What art movement is Claude Monet most closely associated with?

Impressionism

What artist painted The Birth of Venus?

Sandro Botticelli

What Renaissance artist sculpted David and Pietà?

Michelangelo

What artistic technique uses strong contrasts between light and dark?

Chiaroscuro

What art movement is associated with Picasso and Georges Braque?

Cubism

What Missouri-born Regionalist painted murals inside the Missouri State Capitol?

Thomas Hart Benton

Who painted American Gothic?

Grant Wood

What composer wrote The Four Seasons?

Antonio Vivaldi

What musical term means to play softly?

Piano

What musical term means to play loudly?

Forte

What is the written text of a play called?

Script

What architect designed Fallingwater?

Frank Lloyd Wright

How many points is a safety worth in American football?

$$2$$

In baseball, what does ERA stand for?

Earned Run Average

What trophy is awarded to the NHL champion?

Stanley Cup

What trophy is awarded to the NFL champion?

Vince Lombardi Trophy

In basketball, how long is the shot clock in the NBA?

$$24\,\text{seconds}$$

What is the term for scoring three goals in one hockey game?

Hat trick

How far apart are the bases in Major League Baseball?

$$90\,\text{feet}$$

At what stadium do the Kansas City Chiefs play?

Arrowhead Stadium

How many points is a field goal worth in football?

$$3$$

What is the standard distance of a marathon?

$26.2\,\text{miles}$ or $42.195\,\text{kilometers}$

What sport uses the terms birdie, eagle, and bogey?

Golf

Which Grand Slam tennis tournament is played on clay courts?

French Open

What is the international governing body of soccer commonly called?

FIFA

What sport uses a shuttlecock?

Badminton

What agreement admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state?

Missouri Compromise

From what country did the United States purchase Louisiana in 1803?

France

What Supreme Court case originated with an enslaved man who sued for his freedom in Missouri?

Dred Scott v. Sandford

What Missouri-born president ordered the use of atomic bombs against Japan?

Harry S. Truman

What 1773 protest involved colonists dumping British tea into Boston Harbor?

Boston Tea Party

Which amendment protects freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition?

First Amendment

What Supreme Court case established judicial review?

Marbury v. Madison

What doctrine warned European nations against further colonization in the Americas?

Monroe Doctrine

What 1854 law allowed Kansas and Nebraska settlers to vote on slavery?

Kansas-Nebraska Act

What amendment abolished slavery?

13th Amendment

What treaty formally ended World War I between Germany and the Allied Powers?

Treaty of Versailles

What was the code name for the Allied invasion of Normandy?

Operation Overlord

Who delivered the "I Have a Dream" speech?

Martin Luther King Jr.

What organelle modifies, sorts, and packages proteins?

Golgi apparatus

What molecule carries genetic information?

DNA

What type of cell division produces gametes?

Meiosis

What molecule is often called the cell's immediate energy currency?

ATP

What pigment allows plants to absorb light for photosynthesis?

Chlorophyll

What atmospheric layer contains most weather?

Troposphere

What is the most abundant element in Earth's atmosphere by percentage of molecules?

Nitrogen

What is the chemical symbol for potassium?

$$K$$

What is the atomic number of carbon?

$$6$$

What subatomic particle has a negative charge?

Electron

What is the SI unit of force?

$$\text{Newton}$$

What is the formula relating force, mass, and acceleration?

$$F = ma$$

What literary device places two contrasting ideas or images near one another?

Juxtaposition

What literary device occurs when the audience knows something a character does not?

Dramatic irony

What is the highest point of tension in a plot called?

Climax

Who wrote The Outsiders?

S. E. Hinton

Who wrote "The Tell-Tale Heart"?

Edgar Allan Poe

Who wrote The Giver?

Lois Lowry

Who wrote The Diary of a Young Girl?

Anne Frank

What is the hero of The Odyssey?

Odysseus

What Greek root means "write" or "record"?

Graph

Evaluate 3 to the fourth power plus 2 squared.

$$3^4 + 2^2 = 85$$

What is the square root of 225?

$$\sqrt{225} = 15$$

Solve: 4x - 7 = 29.

$$x = 9$$

What is 35% of 240?

$$84$$

What is the greatest common factor of 48 and 72?

$$24$$

What is the sum of the interior angles of a quadrilateral?

$$360^{\circ}$$

What is the area of a circle with radius 6, in terms of pi?

$$36\pi\,\text{square units}$$

What is the volume of a cube with side length 5?

$$125\,\text{cubic units}$$

In y = mx + b, what does b represent?

Y-intercept

What is the scientific notation for 4,500,000?

$$4.5 \times 10^6$$