Alphabet Round (K)
A system of Japanese writing using Chinese characters. It is one of the three Japanese writing systems along with hiragana and katakana.
Kanji
Fast-growing city that is the capital of Uganda.
Kampala
What Stephen Sondheim musical contains the songs “A Very Nice Prince” and “No One Is Alone” and intertwines several fairy tales by Charles Perrault and the Brothers Grimm?
Into the Woods
What female temperance advocate famously smashed alcohol caches in many Kansas saloons using her trusty hatchet?
Carrie Nation
Small, shrimp-like marine crustaceans of the order Euphausiacea that travel in large swarms and which are the primary food source for hundreds of animal species including baleen whales and Manta rays.
Krill
Yiddish term for a clumsy, awkward or foolish person. It literally means “wooden block”.
Klutz
Lisa Murkowski is the senior U.S. Senator from what state where Sarah Palin was governor from 2006-09?
Alaska
According to VSEPR theory, what are the bond angles in an octahedral molecule?
Ninety degrees
German term for the November 1938 “Night of the Broken Glass” in which the SA targeted Jewish homes, businesses and places of worship and which resulted in over 30,000 Jews being sent to concentration camps.
Kristallnacht
Recurring urge to steal, usually without any reason for need or profit.
Kleptomania(c)
What series of riots at a namesake Greenwich Village inn spearheaded the American gay rights movement?
Stonewall Riots
Which video game company created Sonic the Hedgehog?
Sega
TWO-WORD ANSWER – Small North Carolina town just south of which the Wright Brothers made their famous flight at Kill Devil Hills in 1903.
Kitty Hawk
Classical drama including singing, dancing and extravagant makeup is recognized along with Noh and Bunraku as one of Japan’s three major classical theaters.
Kabuki
What man from Vallejo, California has won twelve of the last thirteen July 4th Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contests?
Joey Chestnut
Two-part answer required: What letter in what case is typically used to represent the speed of light in physics and chemistry?
Lowercase c
Terrestrial kingfisher of the genus Dacelo native to Australia whose types include the spangled, rufous-bellied, blue-winged and laughing. The laughing type has a “laugh” that is often used as a stock sound for movies set in the Australian bush or jungle.
. Kookaburra
Several colored varieties of Amur carp which people often keep outside their homes in namesake “ponds”.
Koi
What law of statistics states that the sum of any number of random variables will assume a normal distribution as the number of variables grows large?
Central Limit Theorem
The Cambrian period is named for the Cambrian Mountains which can be found in what part of the UK whose flag consists of a white stripe over a green stripe, both covered by a red dragon?
Wales