QuizBowl/Academic Challenge/Scholastic Bowl

History/Geography

100

Name this European war occurred between 1914 and 1918

WWI (or World War 1, or the Great War)

200

Name this region in eastern Africa that contains Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Somalia

Horn of Africa

300

Name this 8th-9th century emperor who ruled the Carolingian dynasty

Charlemagne (or Carolus Magnus, or Charles the Great)

400

Give the specific name of China’s maritime claim to the South China Sea

Nine-Dash Line (Or Eleven-Dash Line)

500

Name this country whose first president was Sanford Dole and whose last queen was Liluokalani

Hawaii

Science

100

Name this process that is referred to in the equation 6CO2 + 6H2O + light -> C6H12O6 + 6O2

Photosynthesis

200

Name these substances with a pH higher than 7

Base

300

Name this phylum that includes crustaceans, arachnids, and insects

Arthropoda (or Arthropods)

400

Name this absolute temperature scale which has 0 at the lowest temperature physically possible

Kelvin

500

Name these very dense astronomical bodies whose only properties are mass, angular momentum, and electric charge

Black hole

Art/Music

100

Name this Vincent van Gogh painting that depicts a view of the skyline of Paris from an asylum window

The Starry Night

200

Name this sculptor of Pieta who also made a large sculpture of a Biblical figure holding a sling

Michelangelo

300

Name this deaf composer of “Für Elise” and “Moonlight Sonata”

Ludwig van Beethoven

400

Name this Cubist artist of “Guernica” who had Rose and Blue Periods

Pablo Picasso

500

Name this work by Gustave Holst including movements like “Mars, the Bringer of War"

The Planets

Math/Computer Science

100

Name this constant defined as circumference over diameter

Pi

200

Name this task that reduces the size of data and creates zip files

Compression

300

Name this array of rows and columns that stores numbers

Matrix

400

Name this resource with a “random access” type

Memory

500

Name this operation representing the area under a curve

Integral

Pop Culture/Sports

100

Name this movie about an amusement park with genetically-engineered dinosaurs

Jurassic Park

200

Name this NBA team that won 6 championships with Michael Jordan

Chicago Bulls

300

Name this man who sang “I’d catch a grenade for ya” in one of his songs

Bruno Mars

400

Name this city home to the Astros, who cheated at the 2017 World Series

Houston

500

Name this creature featured on the $1 coin of Niue which may be found in Viridian Forest

Pikachu