Speed Round 1
Good vs. Bad
In what story is this line found?
Four legs good, two legs bad.
Animal Farm
Fish Tales
On a visit to Brazil, Theodore Roosevelt said he watched some local people push a cow into a river where it was quickly torn apart and consumed by a school of what kind of fish?
piranhas
Novels
Brian Robeson in "Hatchet" has challenges and experiences that are reminiscent of what famous character created by Daniel Defoe?
Robinson Crusoe
Figurative Language
What figure of speech is evident in this line?
And take my tears, which are love's wine.
metaphor
Natural Gas
The formation of thermogenic natural gas requires thousands of years of intense heat and what else?pressure
Figurative Language
What figure of speech is used I this line by Mark Twain?
Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?
Simile
Diet
A balanced diet includes appropriate amounts of carbohydrates, fasts, vitamins, minerals, fiber, water and what other nutrients?
proteins
Narrators
Who is the narrator in Mark Twain "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"?
Huckleberry Finn
Aviation
What structure on an aircraft allows it to change horizontal direction in midair?
rudder
Fractured Proverbs
How does this proverb usually end?See a pin and pick it up, and all day long you'll have a pin.
...have good luck
Art Forms
Earthenware, stoneware, and porcelain are the three basic categories of what art form?
*pottery (ceramics)
What crime is indicated in these news excerpts?
- Earlier this year, nine people were arrested for killing as many as 300 deer in Oregon.
- Kansas wildlife officials arrested two brothers who had taken part in illegally killing about 160 trophy bucks in a 4-year period.poaching
Inaugurations
In what city was George Washington first inaugurated as U.S. President?
New York City
Settings
What state is the setting for the novel, "A Day No Pigs Would Die"?
Vermont
Economics
Bananas grown in the Philippines are sold to Japan and watches made in Switzerland are sold to Saudi Arabia. Such products from one country that are sold abroad are collectively known as what?
exports
Idioms
What word is missing in these idioms?
pipe ---
--- on
the American ----
a --- come true
chase a ---
living in a --- world
dream
Dinosaurs
The name of what dinosaur literally means "three-horned face"?
triceratops
Medical Procedures
Often used with burn patients, what surgical procedure involves the transplantation of skin?
skin grafting
The U.S. Constitution
What powers are assigned to the federal government in the Preamble of the U.S. Constitution?
none
Settings
These historical novels are set in prehistoric times on what continent?
Suth's Story
Noli's Story
Po's Story
Mana's Story
Africa
Canines
Name the claws on the inside of the front legs of dogs that never make contact with the ground.
dewclaws
Water deliveries
What kind of heavenly bodies are believed to have brought large quantities of water to primordial earth?comets
Short Stories
The only things left were the schoolmaster's old hat, his wandering horse, his trampled saddle and a shattered pumpkin in what story by Washington Irving?
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Eels
Electrical eels are native only in rivers of what continent?
South America
Internet Proverbs
What word ends the original proverb that has been technologically updated as follows?
Too many clicks spoil the browse.
broth