Quiz Bowl Trivia

Mr. Comm – GOAL

With Eggspert TM

The Rules

1. Questions relate to either trivia, reading, science, or history

2. Gain one token (craft stick) for each correct response in the set amount of time, or lose one for an incorrect response.

3. Player(s) must buzz in before the 20 second bell.4. Players will have 10 seconds to answer.5. The winner is the player(s) with the most tokens

at the end of the game.

Trivia

• Answer: Boston Massachusetts. In October 1903, the American League’s Boston Pilgrims defeated the National League’s Pittsburgh Pirates. 2 01 91 81 71 61 51 41 31 21 10 91 00 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0

Where was the first World Series Played?

Reading

• Answer: Peter Rabbit

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What famous rabbit did Beatrix Potter Create?

History

• Answer: the chariot

2 01 91 81 71 61 51 41 31 21 10 91 00 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0

What vehicle did the Romans race more than 2000 years ago?

Science

• Answer: c. 65 million years ago. (d. 225 million years ago is when they appeared) 2 01 91 81 71 61 51 41 31 21 10 91 00 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0

How long ago did the Dinosaurs die out?a. 1 million years agob. 15 million years agoc. 65 million years agod. 225 million years ago

Trivia

• Answer: Ice cream. For the first time, vendors sold ice cream rolled in a waffle.

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What new dessert treat was served at the St. Louis World’s Fair in 1904?

Reading

• Answer: Winnie-the-Pooh

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What character did writer A.A. Milne introduce to readers in 1926?

History

• Answer: Stephenson. He showed that a mechanical vehicle could travel more quickly than a horse-drawn carriage.

2 01 91 81 71 61 51 41 31 21 10 91 00 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0

In 1825, George Stephenson raced his engine Locomotion against a team of horses. Who won?

Science

• Answer: Stegosaurus

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Which type of dinosaur is well known for having spikes at the end of its tail?

Trivia

• Answer: Henry Ford in the production of automobiles.

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Who made assembly-line manufacturing a success?

Reading

2 01 91 81 71 61 51 41 31 21 10 91 00 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0

What fictional monster did Mary Shelly introduce in her now-famous novel in 1818?

Answer: Frankenstein

History

• Answer: France in 1894. The Count de Dion won in a steam-powered car, which could only manage 11 mph.

2 01 91 81 71 61 51 41 31 21 10 91 00 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0

What country had the first car race?

Science

• Answer: True. All dinosaurs lived on land, but there was a variety of strange reptiles that swam in the seas in dinosaur times.

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True or False. There were no dinosaurs that lived in the sea?

          

         

Trivia

• Answer: World War I

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Which World War was set off by the assassinations of the Austrian Archduke Ferdinand, and his wife, Sophie, in 1914?

Reading

2 01 91 81 71 61 51 41 31 21 10 91 00 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0

• In How to Eat Fried Worms, who actually eats the worms?

Answer: Billy

History

• Answer: Formula One Cars are built according to a strict “formula” or set of rules. Each cars’ size, shape and gas tank are all governed by rules, so that every race is fair.2 01 91 81 71 61 51 41 31 21 10 91 00 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0

Why is this car called a “formula” car?

Science

• Answer: No. Spiders belong to a group called arachnids. (8 legs not 6)

2 01 91 81 71 61 51 41 31 21 10 91 00 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0

Are spiders insects?

          

         

                                     

                          

           

Trivia

• Answer: In Egypt’s Valley of the Kings.

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Where was King Tut’s tomb found?

Reading

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• What is the funny name of Willy Wonka’s group of helpers in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?

Answer: the Oompa-Loompas

History

• Answer: b. 1776. It looked like a wooden barrel. The operator sat inside and pedaled to make its propellers turn. 2 01 91 81 71 61 51 41 31 21 10 91 00 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0

When was the first working submarine built?a. 1676b. 1776c. 1876d. 1926

Science

• Answer: Monarch Butterflies. When autumn approaches they travel from the US and Canada to Mexico.

2 01 91 81 71 61 51 41 31 21 10 91 00 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0

Which type of Butterfly can fly thousands of miles?

          

         

                                     

                          

           

Trivia

• Answer: Boston.

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Where did Babe Ruth play before joining the New York Yankees?

                                                      

   

                                                            

       

                                     

                                                      

Reading

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• Name the four children in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.

Answer: Susan, Lucy, Edmund, and Peter

History

• Answer: d. The Model-T Ford was nicknamed “Tin Lizzie.”2 01 91 81 71 61 51 41 31 21 10 91 00 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0

What was a “Tin Lizzie?”a. a boatb. a planec. a locomotived. a car

Science

• Answer: reptiles

2 01 91 81 71 61 51 41 31 21 10 91 00 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0

Into which categories of animals are snakes, lizards, and turtles classified?

          

         

                                     

                          

           

Trivia

• Answer: Mickey Mouse

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Which fictional character made his debut in a 1928 cartoon entitled, “Steamboat Willie?”

Reading

2 01 91 81 71 61 51 41 31 21 10 91 00 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0

• When a person writes an autobiography, whom is he or she writing about?

Answer: himself or herself

History

• Answer: b. 1930s. It was designed by Doctor Ferdinand Porsche to be a small family car which was cheap to run.2 01 91 81 71 61 51 41 31 21 10 91 00 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0

In what decade was the first Volkswagen Beetle or Bug produced?

a. 1920sb. 1930sc. 1960sd. 1990s

Science

• Answer: Australia. A drop of Fierce Snake or Inland Taipan’s poison could kill 250,000 mice.

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Which continent is home to the world’s deadliest snake?

          

         

                                     

                          

           

   

                                                                                                     

 

Trivia

• Answer: Popular dances of the 1920s.

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What were the “Lindy Hop” and the “Charleston?”

Reading

2 01 91 81 71 61 51 41 31 21 10 91 00 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0

• Where does Peter Pan live?

Answer: Never-Never Land

History

• Answer: a hot-air balloon. 2 01 91 81 71 61 51 41 31 21 10 91 00 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0

The first people to make a proper flight were two Frenchmen in 1783. What vehicle did they use to make their 25 minute flight over Paris?

Science

• Answer: the coral snake

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Two snakes from Central America look almost identical, but one of them is poisonous while the other is not. Which one is poisonous – the milk snake or the coral snake?

          

         

                                     

                          

           

Trivia

• Answer: The start of the stock-market crash which led to the Great Depression of the 1930s. 2 01 91 81 71 61 51 41 31 21 10 91 00 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0

Why is October 24, 1929, called “Black Thursday?” .

Reading

2 01 91 81 71 61 51 41 31 21 10 91 00 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0

• What is the name of the carpenter who makes Pinocchio?

Answer: Geppetto

History

• Answer: North Carolina (Kitty Hawk)2 01 91 81 71 61 51 41 31 21 10 91 00 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0

In which US State did Orville Wright make the first airplane flight in 1903?

Science

• Answer: The giant reticulated python can measure up to 33 feet long.

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What is the longest snake in the world?

          

         

                                     

                          

           

Trivia

• Answer: Jazz

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What kind of music did people “swing” to during the thirties?

Reading

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• What great feat does Arthur perform that makes him King of England?

Answer: He pulls the sword from the stone.

History

• Answer: The hydrogen-filled airship Hindenburg2 01 91 81 71 61 51 41 31 21 10 91 00 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0

Which airship burst into flames over New Jersey in 1937, killing 35 of the 97 people on board?

Science

• Answer: True. Sharks appeared more than 350 million years ago.

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True or False? Sharks lived long before the dinosaurs.

          

         

                                     

                          

           

Trivia

• Answer: King Kong

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What famous movie monster was captured on Skull Island?

Reading

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• Name the lion who saves Narnia.

Answer: Aslan

History

• Answer: Charles Lindbergh2 01 91 81 71 61 51 41 31 21 10 91 00 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0

Who made the first solo flight across the Atlantic in 1927?

Science

• Answer: The African ostrich can grow to over 8 feet tall.

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What is the largest bird?

          

         

                                     

                          

           

   

                                                                                               

       

Trivia

• Answer: Batman

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What comic book character was created by 18-year-old artist Bob Kane?

Reading

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• How many stepsisters does Cinderella have?

Answer: two

History

• Answer: The first liquid fueled rocket.2 01 91 81 71 61 51 41 31 21 10 91 00 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0

What is American engineer, Robert Goddard, most famous for inventing?

Science

• Answer: Birds of prey catch and eat other animals.

2 01 91 81 71 61 51 41 31 21 10 91 00 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0

What is a bird of prey?

          

         

                                     

                          

           

Trivia

• Answer: The attack on Pearl Harbor.

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Which pivotal event caused the U.S. to enter the Second World War?

   

              

    

   

                                    

   

               

   

                               

Reading

2 01 91 81 71 61 51 41 31 21 10 91 00 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0

• In Give a Mouse a Cookie, what does a mouse want after he gets a cookie?

Answer: A glass of milk.

History

• Answer: Soviet Russia launched Sputnik 1 on October 4, 1957.2 01 91 81 71 61 51 41 31 21 10 91 00 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0

Which nation launched the first satellite into orbit?

Science

• Answer: a pelican

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Which type of bird has a beak that can hold more than its stomach?

          

         

                                     

                          

           

Trivia

• Answer: Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Which U.S. President was elected to office four times?

Reading

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• Who is the author of The Hobbit?

Answer: J.R.R. Tolkien

History

• Answer: Johnny Appleseed

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Who was John Chapman (1774 – 1845) better known as?

Science

• Answer: the polar bear weighs in at 1,320 pounds.

2 01 91 81 71 61 51 41 31 21 10 91 00 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0

Which is the biggest bear in the world?

          

         

                                     

                          

           

Trivia

• Answer: Anne Frank

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Who was the now-famous German Jewish girl who kept a diary while hiding from the Nazis with her family during WWII?

Reading

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• In Hansel and Gretel, what does Hansel leave on the forest path so that he can find his way back?

Answer: bread crumbs

History

• Answer: He had been vice president for only six months when President McKinley was shot and killed. 2 01 91 81 71 61 51 41 31 21 10 91 00 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0

How did Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt become the 26th President?

Science

• Answer: The huge blue whale can grow more than 100 feet long and weigh as much as 130 tons.

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Which is the biggest sea mammal?

          

         

                                     

                          

           

Trivia

• Answer: Rock and Roll

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What new kind of popular music emerged in the mid-1950s?

Reading

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• In what city does Stuart Little live?

Answer: New York City

History

• Answer: A severe earthquake2 01 91 81 71 61 51 41 31 21 10 91 00 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0

What started a 3-day fire that devastated San Francisco in 1906?

Science

• Answer: A walrus’s tusks are actually its two upper teeth. They grow up to three feet long. The walrus uses its tusks to pull itself out of the sea and drag itself across the land. 2 01 91 81 71 61 51 41 31 21 10 91 00 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0

Which sea mammals walk with their teeth?

          

         

                                     

                          

           

Trivia

• Answer: McDonald’s franchise restaurants.

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What was Ray Kroc responsible for starting?

Reading

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• What is the name of Dr. Jekyll’s other self?

Answer: Mr. Hyde

History

• Answer: B. 16832 01 91 81 71 61 51 41 31 21 10 91 00 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0

In which year did William Penn sign a treaty with Delaware Indians and make payment for Pennsylvania lands?

A. 1583

B. 1683

C. 1783

D. 1883

Science

• Answer: Venus. Mercury is the planet closest to the Sun, but Venus is hotter, because it has clouds to keep in the heat.2 01 91 81 71 61 51 41 31 21 10 91 00 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0

Which planet in our solar system is the hottest?

          

         

                                     

                          

           

Trivia

• Answer: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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What famous African-American leader told the world, “I have a dream”?

Reading

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• Who is Curious George’s owner?

Answer: the man with the yellow hat

History

• Answer: Big Bird2 01 91 81 71 61 51 41 31 21 10 91 00 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0

Which “bird” became a popular TV character in 1969?

Science

• Answer: Pluto

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Which planet was named after the Roman god of the Underworld?

          

         

                                     

                          

           

Trivia

• Answer: Mary Poppins (1964)

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In what movie was the expression, “supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” sung?

Reading

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• What Dr. Seuss character loves to serve Green Eggs and Ham?

Answer: Sam I Am

History

• Answer: World War I. The nickname may have referred to the round brass buttons on their uniforms, which looked like pastry. Or perhaps by all the doughnuts, supplied by the Salvation Army.2 01 91 81 71 61 51 41 31 21 10 91 00 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0

During which World War were the soldiers referred to as “doughboys?”

Science

• Answer: the Chinese (The ‘rockets’ were more like fireworks than today’s space rockets.)

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Which people were the first to make ‘rockets’ about 1000 years ago?

          

         

                                     

                          

           

Trivia

• Answer: The first people to set foot on the moon. 2 01 91 81 71 61 51 41 31 21 10 91 00 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0

What event are Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin most famous for?

Reading

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• What do Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles love to eat?

Answer: pizza

Science

• Answer: The Food Chain or Food Web2 01 91 81 71 61 51 41 31 21 10 91 00 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0

What does this picture illustrate?

          

         

                                     

                          

           

Trivia

• Answer: Andy Warhol

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Whose artworks were called “pop art”?

Reading

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Who is the author/illustrator of The Polar Express?

Answer: Chris van Allsburg

History

• Answer: The 18th Amendment – known as Prohibition – made making, selling, or transporting liquor illegal.2 01 91 81 71 61 51 41 31 21 10 91 00 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0

What was “Prohibition?”