Scholastic Bowl Weekly Trivia Tossup

Scholastic Bowl Coaches Ethan Levine and Sean Miranda have created 125 general trivia questions rooted in the historical years of Parker’s existence for the community to test their knowledge as part of Parker’s 125th anniversary. 

Each week, questions will be shared on the form below which will open at 5 p.m. CST. on Fridays. The first person to answer all questions correctly will be recognized as the winner the following week.

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Let the questions commence. The first and most famous of these pieces of music was written in 1901. Its distinctive trio section, “Land of Hope and Glory”, was modified the next year for the coronation of English King Edward VII. Name this Edward Elgar march, better known now for its close association with graduation ceremonies.

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This character, who first appeared in color in 1902, helps his brother-in-law save seven children from Tommy Brock, and his blue jacket is laundered by Mrs. Tiggy-winkle. In one story, this character retrieves his jacket and shoes from Mr. McGregor's garden, where he had gone instead of picking blackberries with his sisters, Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cottontail. Name this mischievous bunny created by Beatrix Potter.

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The take-off and landing field for NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter was named in honor of these two individuals. Wind tunnel experiments conducted by these two people contributed to the development of the lift equation. Name this pair of sibling inventors from Dayton, Ohio, whose most famous achievement unfolded over 12 seconds above Kitty Hawk, North Carolina in 1903.

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1904 saw a Nobel Prize in Medicine for this scientist for his work regarding animal digestive systems. B.F. Skinner’s “operant conditioning” is often contrasted with this scientist’s namesake conditioning, also called “classical conditioning.” Name this Russian psychologist who examined dogs’ salivation in response to stimuli such as the ringing of a bell.

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Sixteen years before his visit to Parker, this individual’s 1905 Annus Mirabilis, or “Miracle Year”, saw the publication of four groundbreaking papers while he was working as a 26-year-old clerk in a Swiss patent office. Name this scientist, whose burst of influential work on the photoelectric effect, Brownian motion, special relativity, and mass-energy equivalence helped lay the foundation for much of modern physics.

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Question 5: The 3rd instance of this annual event took place over six days in 1906, and featured participants including Ed Walsh and Mordecai “Three Finger” Brown. That event’s location alternated between the now-defunct facilities West Side Grounds and South Side Park. Name this event, whose 1906 version featured two organizations from the same city, and included the trio of Joe Tinker, Johnny Evers, and Frank Chance.

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