Charlotte knowledge bowl

2. Archaeopteryx is a fossil that links reptiles to what other class of vertebrates?
7. what organs cease to function in acute renal failure?
8. what sea is between Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan?
12. in an attempt to further weaken Russia in WW1 Germany allowed what influential revolutionary to return to Russia from his exile in Switzerland?
13. in what war that began in 1853 did Russia fight turkey and other nations including Britain and France?
15. nearly 90% of the cosmic rays entering Earth’s atmosphere consist of what subatomic particles?
16. what law of thermodynamics states is it impossible to cool a body to absolute zero because to do so would require the presence of a still Colder body?

1. a tehuantepecer is a violent wind from north in the gulf or Tehuantepec that originates in what adjacent larger gulf?
3. English borrowed these words from what language? Confetti fiasco reegatta
4. after Mary Tutor became queen she was known as Bloody Mary because of her relentless persecution of what group of Englishmen?
5. lapilli are walnut sized pyroclasts while pea sized pyroclasts are called…
6. in 1992 news of the acquittal of all four defendants in the Rodney King beating sparked riots that killed more than fifty people in what city?
9. what European river flows through Vienna,Austria?
10. an involuntary habitual repetitive nonrhythmic convulsive muscle tensing blinking or grimacing is called a…
11. what kind of junction that split Africa from South America is also splitting Africa from Arabia?
14. Thomas Hobbes wrote that without a central government that the lives of people in the natural state would be “solitary poor nasty brutish and …”