NAQT Practice Questions: Ultimate Study Pack for Quiz Bowl Success | 2025/26 UPDATES.
About This Practice Resource:
This NAQT Practice Guide is designed for students, teams, and individuals preparing for the National
Academic Quiz Tournament. It includes hundreds of carefully selected practice questions covering all
NAQT subject areas: Science, History, Literature, Art, Geography, and more. With timed quizzes,
detailed answers, and study strategies, this guide will help you enhance your speed, recall accuracy, and
performance in actual competitions.
10: The band was named by Who members Keith Moon and John Entwhistle, who wanted to join with
Stevie Winwood and this band's lead guitarist - but never did.
5: It was originally "The New Yardbirds" - ✔✔-Led Zeppelin
10: They first played together in "Feedback", and then "The Hype"
5: They took their name from a famous spy plane. - ✔✔-U2
10: They took their name from an alias Paul McCartney adopted in 1960's.
5: The members Jeffry Hyman, John Cummings, Douglas Colvin and Thomas Erelyi adopted the band's
name as surnames and pretended to be brothers. - ✔✔-Ramones
30-20-10 identify the philosopher and economist.
1. A cousin of Witgenstein, he made noted contributions to economics and psychology. From his perch at
the London School of Economics, he was a major opponent of John Maynard Keynes and Cambridge in
the postwar era.
2. He wrote "The Road to Serfdom" warning of communism and "The Fatal Conceit" on why large scale
planning is doomed to failure.
3. He won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1974 - ✔✔-Friedrich von Hayek
A characteristic of utilitarian theory, it states that what makes something valuable is happiness, pleasure,
or the satisfaction of preferences. This doctrine rejects ethical theories that accord value to things
irrespective of how people feel about those things. FTP, name this doctrine, whose name derives from the
Greek word for pleasure. - ✔✔-Hedonism
Armenia surrounds an area belonging to Azerbaijan. - ✔✔-Nakhichevan
, As a military commander following the assassination of the Grand Pensionary Jan De Witt, he negotiated
favorable peace terms for his country at Nijmegen. Following an invitation from the Immortal Seven, he
landed at Torbay on November 5, 1688. FTP identify this man, who with his wife Mary II, became king
during the Glorious Revolution. - ✔✔-William III or William of Orange
Azerbaijan contains an area controlled by Armenians - ✔✔-Nagorno-Karabakh
Born Abu Ja'far Muhammad Ibn Musa, he wrote De Numero Indorum, which introduced the Hindu
number system to Europe. Another chief work enlarged upon the work of Diopahntus and is largely
concerned with methods of solving computational problems. His discussion of algebra, the title of this
work, was confined mainly to first and second degree equations. FTP, name this Arab mathematician,
from whose name we derive the word algorithm. - ✔✔-Al-Khwarizmi
He found resentment to be the heart of Christianity and distinguished two elements of human nature,
which he called the Apollonian and the Dionysian. A one-time friend of Wagner his works include The
Case of Wagner, and The Gay Science. FTP name this author of The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of
Music, Beyond Good and Evil, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra. - ✔✔-Friedrich Nietzsche
He wrote On the Anatomy of the Veins and Arteries, On Medical Experience, and On the Use of the
Bodily Parts in the Human Body, which was actually based on dissections of monkeys. He believed that
blood originates in the liver and passes through pores from the right ventricle to the left, and showed by
experiment that arteries contain blood. He gave public lectures and dissections as court physician to
Marcus Aurelius and his influence dominated European medicine until the sixteenth century. FTP name
this second century Greek founder of experimental physiology. - ✔✔-Claudius Galen or Claudius
Galenus
He wrote the Circular Letter against the Townshend Acts and initiated the Committees of
Corresponcence. Before the Revolution he controlled both the Boston town meeting and the
Massachusetts legislature. In the 1790's he became governor of Massachusetts. - ✔✔-Samuel Adams
His notes on the Constitutional Convention are the only good record of its proceedings He debated
Patrick Henry at the Virginia ratifying convention, and wrote Washington's inaugural address. - ✔✔-
James Madison
Identified from its oxide in 1789 by Klaproth, its pure form was isolated in 1824 by Berzelius. It is
relatively abundant in the Earth's crust and is transparent to neutrons. What is this element used in nuclear
reactors for cladding feul irons, for alloying with Uranium, and for reactor-core structures because of its
unique combination of properties, FTP of atomic number 40? - ✔✔-Zirconium
About This Practice Resource:
This NAQT Practice Guide is designed for students, teams, and individuals preparing for the National
Academic Quiz Tournament. It includes hundreds of carefully selected practice questions covering all
NAQT subject areas: Science, History, Literature, Art, Geography, and more. With timed quizzes,
detailed answers, and study strategies, this guide will help you enhance your speed, recall accuracy, and
performance in actual competitions.
10: The band was named by Who members Keith Moon and John Entwhistle, who wanted to join with
Stevie Winwood and this band's lead guitarist - but never did.
5: It was originally "The New Yardbirds" - ✔✔-Led Zeppelin
10: They first played together in "Feedback", and then "The Hype"
5: They took their name from a famous spy plane. - ✔✔-U2
10: They took their name from an alias Paul McCartney adopted in 1960's.
5: The members Jeffry Hyman, John Cummings, Douglas Colvin and Thomas Erelyi adopted the band's
name as surnames and pretended to be brothers. - ✔✔-Ramones
30-20-10 identify the philosopher and economist.
1. A cousin of Witgenstein, he made noted contributions to economics and psychology. From his perch at
the London School of Economics, he was a major opponent of John Maynard Keynes and Cambridge in
the postwar era.
2. He wrote "The Road to Serfdom" warning of communism and "The Fatal Conceit" on why large scale
planning is doomed to failure.
3. He won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1974 - ✔✔-Friedrich von Hayek
A characteristic of utilitarian theory, it states that what makes something valuable is happiness, pleasure,
or the satisfaction of preferences. This doctrine rejects ethical theories that accord value to things
irrespective of how people feel about those things. FTP, name this doctrine, whose name derives from the
Greek word for pleasure. - ✔✔-Hedonism
Armenia surrounds an area belonging to Azerbaijan. - ✔✔-Nakhichevan
, As a military commander following the assassination of the Grand Pensionary Jan De Witt, he negotiated
favorable peace terms for his country at Nijmegen. Following an invitation from the Immortal Seven, he
landed at Torbay on November 5, 1688. FTP identify this man, who with his wife Mary II, became king
during the Glorious Revolution. - ✔✔-William III or William of Orange
Azerbaijan contains an area controlled by Armenians - ✔✔-Nagorno-Karabakh
Born Abu Ja'far Muhammad Ibn Musa, he wrote De Numero Indorum, which introduced the Hindu
number system to Europe. Another chief work enlarged upon the work of Diopahntus and is largely
concerned with methods of solving computational problems. His discussion of algebra, the title of this
work, was confined mainly to first and second degree equations. FTP, name this Arab mathematician,
from whose name we derive the word algorithm. - ✔✔-Al-Khwarizmi
He found resentment to be the heart of Christianity and distinguished two elements of human nature,
which he called the Apollonian and the Dionysian. A one-time friend of Wagner his works include The
Case of Wagner, and The Gay Science. FTP name this author of The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of
Music, Beyond Good and Evil, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra. - ✔✔-Friedrich Nietzsche
He wrote On the Anatomy of the Veins and Arteries, On Medical Experience, and On the Use of the
Bodily Parts in the Human Body, which was actually based on dissections of monkeys. He believed that
blood originates in the liver and passes through pores from the right ventricle to the left, and showed by
experiment that arteries contain blood. He gave public lectures and dissections as court physician to
Marcus Aurelius and his influence dominated European medicine until the sixteenth century. FTP name
this second century Greek founder of experimental physiology. - ✔✔-Claudius Galen or Claudius
Galenus
He wrote the Circular Letter against the Townshend Acts and initiated the Committees of
Corresponcence. Before the Revolution he controlled both the Boston town meeting and the
Massachusetts legislature. In the 1790's he became governor of Massachusetts. - ✔✔-Samuel Adams
His notes on the Constitutional Convention are the only good record of its proceedings He debated
Patrick Henry at the Virginia ratifying convention, and wrote Washington's inaugural address. - ✔✔-
James Madison
Identified from its oxide in 1789 by Klaproth, its pure form was isolated in 1824 by Berzelius. It is
relatively abundant in the Earth's crust and is transparent to neutrons. What is this element used in nuclear
reactors for cladding feul irons, for alloying with Uranium, and for reactor-core structures because of its
unique combination of properties, FTP of atomic number 40? - ✔✔-Zirconium
