Academic Bowl: Practice Quiz

A mentally deficient character named Lennie Small is shot by his companion George Milton at the end of what John Steinbeck novel?

• The Grapes of Wrath

• Of Mice and Men

• Animal Farm

• The Pearl

John Tenniel illustrated what Lewis Carroll novel, whose characters included the Red Queen and Tweedledum?

• Peter Pan

• Cinderella

• Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There

• The Snow Queen

What measure of central tendency, which is synonymous with expected value, is the first moment of a distribution?

• Median

• Range

• Mode

• Mean

What is the limit of f(x) while approaching 1 from the left?

• 1

• 2

• 5

• 10

This other strong acid, which is formed from the Ostwald process, can come in red and white fuming varieties.

• Acetic Acid

• Hydrochloric Acid

• Sulfuric Acid

• Nitric Acid

What quantity, which is given as the time integral of force, is defined as the vector change in an object’s linear momentum?

• Accelerator

• Impulse

• Magnitude

• Velocity

What other electromagnetic constant was first measured by Robert Millikan’s oil drop experiment?

• Ferromagnetic

• Iodestone

• Charge of the Electron

• Annealed Iron

These mollusks are a significant problem in the eastern United States, including in the Great Lakes. They are especially problematic due to their ability to attach to man-made objects and clog pipes.

• Gastropod

• Rostroconchia

• Zebra Mussels

• Charru Mussel

This organelle is responsible for conducting photosynthesis in plants.

• Smooth ER

• Nucleolus

• Vacuole

• Chloroplasts

Michael Collins and “Buzz” Aldrin were two of the three members of this NASA space mission that fulfilled the “Space Race” goal of being the first to land a man on the moon.

• Apollo 11

• Apollo 12

• Apollo 13

• Apollo 17