Knowledge bowl #4.

Junior Scholastic

Playing the Knowledge Bowl game is a fun and easy way for students to review key facts and ideas from this year's issues of Junior Scholastic. This game covers the January 5, January 19, and February 9 issues of JS.

To play, you will need to assign students to the following roles:

* Quizmaster: Reads each question;

* Players: Two, three, or four teams of similar size;

* Scorekeeper.

PLAYING RULES

* Players select a category and question number. If they answer the question correctly, they earn points for their team (see chart at right.). If they answer incorrectly, the next team tries the same question (unless it has only two answers).

* Teams should take turns in order answering the questions. Players also take turns within their teams.

* The game lasts until all the questions have been answered.

HOW TO SCORE

In each category, award the following
points for each correct answer:

Question #1    5 Points

Question #2   10 Points

Question #3   15 Points

Question #4   20 Points

Question #5   25 Points

Question #6   35 Points

QUESTIONS

NEWS

1. True or False?NASA probe Spirit was the first U.S. spacecraft to land on Mars, (False)

2. What is the name of the political group that supported former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein? (the Baath Party)

3. What is the primary mission of NASA's Spirit rover?. (to study Mars's terrain for evidence that the planet once had water)

4. How many nations banned the import of American beef in response to the discovery of mad cow disease in the U.S.? (30 nations)

5. Where was mad cow disease first discovered? (in Great Britain)

6. The Kichwa indians are protesting against energy companies drilling on their native land. Where do the Kichwa live? (in the rain forest of northern Ecuador)

AMERICAN HISTORY

1. True or False?Congress declared the segregation of public facilities illegal in 1956. (False)

2. Confederate General Robert E. Lee invaded which Union state in September 1862? (Maryland)

3. What is "Bloody Lane"? (Bloody Lane is the name given to an area near Antietam Creek where Union and Confederate forces battled on September 17,1862.)

4. Martin Luther King Jr. led a boycott of which city's bus system in 1955-1956? (Montgomery, Alabama)

5. The first battle of the Civil War took place in which state? (South Carolina)

6. What did President Lincoln do following the battle of Antietam? (He issued a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation.)

WORLD

1. True or False?The Chinese language has no written alphabet. (True)

2. Who were the czars? (Czars were the emperors who ruled Russia until 1917)

3. China has threatened to go to war with which U.S. ally? (Taiwan)

4. Which Russian President oversaw the sale of government-owned businesses after 1991? (Boris Yeltsin)

5. Why did China's government initially suppress the news of the SARS epidemic? (it feared that revelations about the disease would cause a public panic and lead to an economic slowdown.)

6. What is the definition of "market economy"? (an economy that relies on market forces to distribute goods and resources and to determine prices)

USA

1. True or False?Most legal disputes reach the Supreme Court through a request for certiorari. (True)

2. How many Justices serve on the Supreme Court? (nine)

3. According to statistics, about how many students skip school each day because of bullying?. (160,000)

4. Which constitutional amendment is usually; cited in legal cases involving separation of church and state? (the First Amendment)

5. What is "cyberbullying"? (a form of harassment in which a bully uses e-mail or blog postings to torment a victim)

6. How many cases does the Supreme Court decide each year? (about 150)

PEOPLE

1. True or False?Al Sharpton was the first African-American to be elected to the U.S. Senate, (False)

2. Which Democratic presidential candidate is a medical doctor? (Howard Dean)

3. Which Civil War veteran went on to become a Supreme Court Justice? (Oliver Wendell Holmes)

4. Who is the youngest person to have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize? (Martin Luther King Jr.)

5. Who is Michael Newdow? (Newdow is a California parent who is seeking to have the Pledge of Allegiance declared unconstitutional.)

6. Who was the first leader of communist China? (Mao Zedong)

GRAB BAG

1. True or False? Vladimir Putin is the first President of Russia. (False)

2. What does the Fourteenth Amendment forbid? (it prevents states from denying any citizen his or her fundamental constitutional rights or equal protection under the law.)

3. In 2000, four of the top seven countries of origin for foreign-born Americans were on which continent? (Asia)

4. Which state is electing the most delegates in the 2004 Democratic primary elections? (California, with 440 delegates)

5. During the Civil War, the Confederacy had hoped to gain diplomatic recognition from which two nations? (France and Britain)

6. Who are the "oligarchs"? (a group of Russian businessmen who control much of the nation's private wealth)