Knowledge Bowl Practice #7

In Penelope Fenster's new book, her heroine names her 4th car Joy 4.0. She discusses her latest case with Joy 4.0 on her way to get a chai latte. What is the literary device being used here?

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• allusion

• personification

The butterfly starts as an egg, then some stages including cocoon, before becoming an adult. What is the complete process called - also used to refer to a complete change in a person's life into someone different than they were?

• adulting

• metamorphosis

• genesis

• metabolism

15 million were killed as the Entente fought the Central Powers. It all started with the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, and it ended with the Treaty of Versailles in 1918. What was it?

• World War I

• World War II

• Korean War

• Vietnam War

We have past events and future events. But we also have what is happening in the world around us right now. What term refers to this that may be familiar to us because it is often used in connection with music and art?

• post-modern

• classical

• realistic

• contemporary

Shakespeare created many memorable characters who were well known for the tragedies they lived through. Queen Gertrude, King Claudius, Polonius, Ophelia, and Horatio are all known from which famous play about a Danish king and his family?

• Julius Caesar

• Richard III

• Hamlet

• MacBeth

• 0.142

• 0.143

• 0.154

• 0.155

Not everyone speaks with excitement; some are quite the opposite. Speaking with excitement requires a variation in tones between syllables and words, while the opposite speakers show no variation. What type of speaking is this "flat" type?

• monotone

• diatonic

• leveled

• elevated

In biology, what is the series of steps in which energy is consumed from plants to those who eat the plants and those who eat the plant-eaters and so on?

• food pyramid

• food succession

• food continuation

• food chain

In 2021, archaeologists announced the discovery that the Neanderthal made music when one of these instruments was found in a cave in Slovenia. It was made from the bone of a cave bear, and it could still be played. What type of simple reedless aerophone is this?

• clarinet

• oboe

• trumpet

• flute

This Titan killed his father Uranus, was the cruel husband of Rhea, devoured his own children, and was finally killed by his son Zeus. Who was this horrible mythological creature?

• Odysseus

• Kronos

• Oceanus

• Hyperion