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Davey & Goliath Throwdown III – December 13th, 2008
Round 2
1. Given a description, name the Romantic poet
1. Married to a famous novelist, two of this man’s poems are Ode To The West Wind and
Ozymandias
2. The man in part one addressed a poem to this man, the poet of Ode on a Grecian Urn
3. Before dying in the Greek War for Independence, this poet wrote love poems like She Walks In
Beauty and narrative poems like Don Juan (Jew-on)
4. The collection of poetry Lyrical Ballads kicked off the Romantic era when it was published in
1798. Name either of the two writers of Lyrical Ballads.
1. Percy Bysshe Shelley
2. John Keats
3. Lord George Gordon Byron
4. William Wordsworth OR Samuel Taylor Coleridge
2. Answer the following about Soviet Leaders
1. Born in Georgia, this leader took complete control in 1929 and lead the U.S.S.R throughout
the Second World War
2. After gaining power, this leader executed his former competitor Beria but is remembered for
the instigating the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962
3. This Bolshevik leader took power in October 1918 and made peace with Germany
4. This last Soviet Leader won a Nobel Prize in 1990 and resigned a year later
1. Josef Stalin
2. Nikita Khrushchev
3. Vladimir Lenin
4. Mikhail Gorbachev
3. Name these really bright stars
1. This ninth brightest star in the night sky is a red supergiant in the constellation Orion. It may
appear when you say its name three times.
2. The fifth brightest star in the night sky, it was the northern pole star around 12,000 BCE and
will serve this role again in approximately 14,000 CE. It is part of the summer triangle and
planets may have been observed by the James Clerk Maxwell telescope in 1997.
3. Besides the answer to part 2, there are two other stars which also comprise the summer
triangle. Name one of the two.
4. This brightest star in Ursa Minor is the currently considered the North Star.
1: Betelgeuse
2: Vega
3: Altair or Deneb
4: Polaris
4. Given a description, name the lobe of the brain.
1. You problem solve and distinguish the good from the bad in this lobe below the forehead
2. Associated with movement and orientation, damage to this lobe is called Gerstmann's
Syndrome
3. You process things visually in this lobe that is in the back of your head
4. Associated with auditory stimuli and memory, the Sylvian fissure separates it from the answer
to part one
1. Frontal
2. Parietal
3. Occipital
4. Temporal
5. Name these works where space aliens are prominent
1. This collection of stories by Ray Bradbury is about humans landing on Mars and contains the
famous Usher II story
2. Another book about the colonization of Mars, it is written by Robert Heinlein and features the
alien Valentine Smith and the human Jubal Harshaw
3. Billy Pilgrim is taken to Tralfamadore by two foot tall aliens in this Vonnegut work
4. Aliens invade earth on Tripods in this 1898 novel by H.G. Wells. It was adapted to the movie
screen in 2005 by Steven Spielberg.
1. The Martian Chronicles
2. Stranger in a Strange Land
3. Slaughterhouse-Five
4. The War of The Worlds
6. Answer the following about The First World War
1. Gavrilo Princip, a member of the Black Hand, assassinated this Austrian Archduke in Sarajevo,
which was one of the foremost causes of the conflict.
2. Name after a German strategist, this plan called for the Central Powers to sweep through
Belgium into France and embarrassed the Germans when it failed
3. These primitive submarines were utilized by the Germans to combat the British and one of
them sunk the Lusitania in 1915
4. Before the Ottoman Empire was dismantled, they massacred around a million people from this
country in one of the first and worst genocides in history
5. This peace treaty, signed five years to the day after the man in part one was killed, forced
Germany to disarm themselves, pay war reparations, and admit blame of the war.
1. Franz Ferdinand
2. Schlieffen Plan
3. U-Boats
4. Armenia
5. Treaty of Versailles
7. Given a description, name the Chicago rapper
1. Notorious for saying “George Bush doesn’t care about black people” in response to Hurricane
Katrina, this Oak Lawn-based rapper’s many hits include “Through the Wire”, “All Falls Down”,
“Flashing Lights”, “Homecoming”, and “Stronger”.
2. Known for his hits “Ignition”, “Trapped in the Closet”, and “I’m a Flirt”, this south side-raised
artist was acquitted for child pornography last June.
3. After attending Thornton High School, this relatively new rapper released the album Food &
Liquor in 2006 and more recent hits include “Superstar” and “Hip Hop Saved My Life”.
4. Raised in the Ashburn area of Chicago, this rapper who has released the albums Like Water for
Chocolate, Be, and Finding Forever, also played Sir Ivy in Smokin’ Aces and Turner Lucas in
American Gangster.
1. Kanye West
2. R. Kelly (Robert Kelly)
3. Lupe Fiasco (Wasalu Muhammad Jaco)
4. Common (Rashid Lynn Jr.)
8. Answer the following about Venice
1. The most iconic image of the “city on water”, these black, wooden row boats were first
proposed in 1094 but now are primarily used for romantic couples and tourists
2. Perhaps the most famous Venetian, he became friends with Kublai Khan and wrote about his
journey in The Million.
3. Elected leaders of Venice are known as these. Their palace is connected to St. Mark’s
Cathedral
4. In August of 1499, Venice fought this country at the Battle of Zonchio, which saw the first use
of cannons in a naval confrontation
1. Gondolas
2. Marco Polo
3. Doges
4. Ottoman Empire or Turkey
9. Given a description, name the style of art.
1. Founded in Zurich and viewed as anti-art, Duchamp’s upside down urinal called Fountain is a
seminal work of this style
2. Founded by Thomas Cole, the subject of this school’s work include landscapes of mountainous
New England
3. Coined by Robert Coates in 1946, it characterizes the color field of Mark Rothko and the
action painting of Jackson Pollock
4. Also a style of furniture, a quintessential work of this movement is Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s
The Swing
1. Dadaism
2. Hudson River School (grudgingly accept Hudson River Valley School)
3. Abstract Expressionism
4. Rococco
10. Given a description, name the figure from the Old Testament
1. Judaism, Islam, and Christianity all descended from this husband of Sarah and father of
Ishmael and Isaac
2. He descended from Adam and fathered a few importants sons but this figure is better known
for surviving the flood in his ark.
3. The second Israelite king, he known for his star and his slaying of Goliath
4. This figure has a book named after him in which his faith is tested by Satan and his friends
unsuccessfully try to convince him to denounce God
1. Abraham
2. Noah
3. David
4. Job
11. Given a description, name the work by Henrik Ibsen
1. Krogstad blackmails the protagonist in this play that begins on Christmas and ends with Nora
Helmer leaving her home and family behind
2. In this play, the title character plays the piano and shoots herself with Judge Brack’s pistols
after learning that Ejlert has himself committed suicide because she destroyed his prized
manuscript
3. Edvard Grieg famously wrote the incidental music for this play that opens with the telling of a
deer hunt and that features the title character who travels to Africa
4. The Ekdal family is the focus of this play by Ibsen in which Hakon and Hedvig shoot the title
animal at different times
1. A Doll’s House
2. Hedda Gabler
3. Peer Gynt
4. The Wild Duck
12. Answer the following about the Spanish-American War
1. It occurred under what President?
2. The first engagement was on May 1st, 1898 when this man lead four cruisers into Manila Bay
of the Philippines and opened fire on a squadron of ten Spanish ships
3. Theodore Roosevelt led this cavalry unit that played an important role at the Battle of San Juan
Hill
4. Epitomized by William Hearst’s New York Journal and Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World, this
type of journalism shaped perception of the war by creating sensationalized or false headlines to
sell more copies
1. William McKinley Jr.
2. Commodore George Dewey
3. the Rough Riders
4. yellow journalism or yellow press
13. Given a description, name these enzymes used in DNA replication
1. This enzyme connects nucleotides to the growing end of the new DNA strand and can only add
to the 3’ end of a growing strand
2. This enzyme unwinds the helix and separates the parent strand at the replication forks
3. This enzyme joins RNA nucleotides to form a primer necessary to start a chain on a lagging
strand
4. This enzyme joins the Okazaki fragments that form on the lagging strand during DNA
replication
1. DNA polymerase
2. Helicase
3. Primase
4. DNA ligase
14. Given a description, name the fictional detective
1. This American detective’s comrade is Miles Archer and is the protagonist of Dashiell
Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon
2. This cocaine-addicted detective resides at 221b Baker Street and has Watson as a friend and
sidekick
3. This Belgian detective appears in thirty-three novels by Agatha Christie including The
Mysterious Affair at Styles and Murder on The Orient Express
4. This is the detective in Wilkie Collins’ The Moonstone, of which T.S. Eliot called, “the first
and greatest of English detective novels”
1. Sam Spade
2. Sherlock Holmes
3. Hercule Poirot
4. Sergeant Cuff
15. Identify the following nicknamed compositions by their descriptions.
1. This symphony by Haydn is nicknamed because of the loud chord that appears in the middle of
a soft passage during the second movement.
2. Vivaldi wrote many nicknamed concertos, the most famous are these four concertos for violins
and orchestra.
3. Beethoven dedicated this, his fifth and final piano concerto, to Napoleon.
4. This eighth symphony by Gustav Mahler is so named because of the large orchestral and choral
forces that it employs.
1. Surprise (Symphony)
2. Four Seasons
3. Emperor (Concerto)
4. Symphony of a Thousand
16. Answer the following about thermochemisty.
1. This law states that the enthalpy of a reaction remains the same no matter what path the
reaction takes.
2. This quantity describes the ability of a substance to absorb heat. For water it is 4.18 Joules per
gram degree Celsius.
3. This quantity, represented by S, is always increasing.
4. This quantity measures the energy in a system that is available to do work.
1. Hess’s Law
2. Specific heat capacity
3. Entropy
4. Gibbs free energy
17. Answer the following about the Russo-Japanese War
1. Bordering Siberia, this region in northeast China was one of the regions fought over
2. In addition to the answer to part one, Japan fought the war so that they would not lose
influence over this peninsula
3. This Tsar was the leader in Russia during the war. Many thought he mishandled the situation
and he was later executed.
4. Russia admitted defeat in this treaty that officially ended the conflict
1. Manchuria
2. Korea
3. Nicholas II
4. Treaty of Portsmouth (pronounced like “Portsmith”)
18. Answer the following about the House of Atreus
1. This son of Atreus was the King of Mycenae who led the Greeks in the Trojan War
2. This wife of the man in part one killed him when he came back from the war
3. The husband and wife in parts one and two had three kids. Name one of them.
4. This son of Thyestes had an affair with the woman in part two while the man in part one was
away at war
1. Agamemnon
2. Clytemnestra
3. Iphigenia or Electra or Orestes
4. Aegisthus
19. Given a description, name the class of Arthropods
1. This largest class has segmented bodies and jointed legs and include butterflies and and bees
2. With no antennas or wings, member of this class include scorpions and spiders
3. This group with two pairs of appendages include lobsters and crabs
4. Centipedes are the most famous example of this class that is characterized by a chain of flat
segments with a head at the end
1. Insecta or Insects
2. Arachnida or Arachnids
3. Crustacea or Crustaceans
4. Chilopoda or Chilopods
20. Given a description, name the British poem
1. This poem by Alfred Tennyson begins “half a league, half a league” and tells the story of the
“noble six hundred” who went on a doomed attack at the Battle of Balaclava
2. Inspired by a drug induced dream, a man feds on honeydew and drinks “the milk of paradise”
in this famous poem by Samuel Coleridge that includes the river Alph and “a stately pleasure
dome decree”
3. Duke Ferrara narrates this dramatic monologue by Robert Browning that finishes with a
description of a statue of Neptune by Claus of Innsbruck
4. One of the best examples of a carpe diem poem, Andrew Marvell wrote this poem that states
“Had we but world enough and time... I would love you ten years before the flood”
1. The Charge of the Light Brigade
2. Kubla Khan
3. My Last Duchess
4. To His Coy Mistress