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Quiz Bowl National
Convention Delta
Tau Alpha Honor Society |
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The Quiz Bowl is exciting and lots of fun! Each chapter is eligible to enter a team of
three members. Similar to Jeopardy, teams are asked questions by
a moderator and the first team to ring in with the correct answer gets the
points. There is no penalty for
incorrect answers in the Quiz Bowl. Questions are selected from the following fields of agriculture:
1) Agricultural Business, 2) Agricultural Mechanics, 3) Animal Science, 4)
Horticulture, 5) Plant Science, and 6) Soil Science. The material covered in the questions is
representative of the knowledge that you are likely to learn in college as
you are earning a degree in one of our majors. Depending on the number of teams
participating, a team may have to advance through four or five rounds before
the big championship match. Spectators
often get as excited about the Quiz Bowl as the team members themselves. |
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Sample questions from the six fields covered in the Quiz
Bowl are as follows: |
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Agricultural
Business |
Agricultural
Mechanics |
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1. What is the
name of the economic system that is characterized by private ownership and
control of the factors of production? |
1.
What is the difference between drawbar and shaft horsepower? |
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2.
What is the term used in economics to refer to the cost of producing one
additional unit of output? |
2. What is
the difference between a short ton and a metric ton? |
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3. What type of marketing instrument is being used when the
purchaser buys the right, but not the obligation, to buy or sell the
commodity at a predetermined price, during a specific time period? |
3. What type of
small engine is lubricated by mixing the oil with the fuel? |
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Animal
Science |
Horticulture |
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1. What period of the estrous cycle is
the corpeus luteum fully functional? |
1. What is the name of the piped water
system in greenhouses that uses nozzles to spray fine droplets on plants? |
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2.
What term refers to the part of the leg of a horse containing the metacarpus
or the metatarsus? |
2. What is the lower portion of a graft
called, which becomes the stem and roots of a new plant? |
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3. What is the name of the protein digesting enzyme found
in the stomach of hogs? |
3. What is the
name of the vegetative structure that consists of layers of fleshy scales
overlapping each other, such as an onion? |
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Plant
Science |
Soil
Science |
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1. What is the number of carbon dioxide molecules that is required to
produce 1 molecule of glucose? |
1. What
fertilizer element is most often applied in a band to maximize plant
availability? |
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2. What gaseous plant hormone stimulates
fruit ripening? |
2. What is another name for a black
alkali soil? |
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3. What is the name of the process in
which sugar is changed anaerobically to pyruvic acid with the liberation of a
small amount of useful energy? |
3. What is the
term that describes the density of a volume of soil particles and existing
pores? |
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