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Davey & Goliath Throwdown III – December 13th, 2008
Round 1
1. Answer the following about Sinclair Lewis and his works
1. Will Kennicott takes his new wife Carol Milford to the cliquey town of Gopher Prarie,
Minnesota in this 1920 satire by Lewis.
2. This novel follows George, a real estate agent who is successful but unhappy and who goes
through a mid-life crisis in the end of the story.
3. This city in the fictional state of Winnemac is where Dodsworth and Elmer Gantry take place.
4. While he refused the Pulitzer Prize for Arrowsmith in 1926, he accepted the Nobel Prize for
Literature in what year, becoming the first American laureate?
1. Main Street
2. Babbitt
3. Zenith
4. 1930
2. Answer the following about the mountains of the “Seven Summits”
1. Located in the Ellsworth Mountains, this is the highest peak in Antarctica
2. In-between Nepal and China, its first successful ascent was completed by Edmund Hillary and
Tenzing Norgay in May of 1953
3. The tallest mountain in North America, it resides in Denali National Park in Alaska
4. At over 22,000 feet, this is the highest mountain outside of Asia
1. Vinson Massif
2. Mount Everest
3. Mount McKinley
4. Cerro Ancocagua
3. Name four of the five conditions necessary for Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium to exist:
1. Large population
2. No genetic drift (No migration)
3. No mutation
4. No natural selection
5. Random mating
4. Answer the following about the underworld
1. This is the river that forms the boundary between the underworld and earth
2. This is the old ferryman who takes the dead across the river in part one
3. This is the three headed dog that makes sure no one leaves
4. This is the lower level of the underworld, where Sisyphus rolls the boulder up the mountain
and where Tantalus tries to grab some water
5. If you didn’t go to the place described in part four, you might end in this place that both Homer
and Hesiod described; the residence of the blessed and virtuous.
1. Styx
2. Charon
3. Cerberus
4. Tartarus
5. Elysian Fields or Elysian Plains or Elysium
5. Given a brief description of the characters, name the Jane Austen novel
1. Jane and Elizabeth, two of the Bennet daughters, get married to Bingley and Darcy,
respectively, at the conclusion of this book
2. In this story, Sir Thomas Bertram, the owner of the titular estate, is the guardian of Fanny
Price, who loves Edmund Bertram but is proposed to by Henry Crawford
3. Harriet Smith is friends with and George Knightly is neighbors with the titular character, Ms.
Woodhouse.
4. Edward Ferrars has relationships with Lucy Steele and Elinor Dashwood at different points of
time in this novel
1. Pride and Prejudice
2. Mansfield Park
3. Emma
4. Sense and Sensibility
6. Answer the following about female English Royalty
1. The daughter of Henry VIII and granddaughter of King Ferdinand, she was known for burning
religious dissenters at the stake.
2. Overthrown by the woman in part one, this Protestant ruled for nine days, the shortest rule in
English history.
3. Known as the grandmother of Europe, her reign included the potato famine and the Industrial
Revolution.
4. This queen was notified that she was Queen while visiting Africa. She has four children and
has said she has no intention of abdicating.
1. Queen Mary I or Bloody Mary
2. Lady Jane Grey
3. Queen Victoria
4. Queen Elizabeth
7. Many chemicals come in the form of solutions.
Answer the following about solutions.
1. This is the substance which does the dissolving in a solution. Water is the universal one.
2. Water is this kind of molecule, which has partial charges due to differences in electro
negativity.
3. Sports drinks have a lot of these substances, which dissociates into ions in water.
4. When a solid results from the combination of two solutions, it is called this.
1. Solvent
2. Polar
3. Electrolytes
4. Precipitate
8. After the Chicago Fire, thousands of dollars were invested in rejuvenation projects, and young
architects came to the city to test new building techniques. Answer these questions about late 19th
century Chicago.
1. Which Chicago building was the first skyscraper ever?
2. What major event took place in Chicago in 1893?
3. Who was the principal Chicago architect of this period, who designed such buildings as the
Rookery, and played a large role in the planning of the 1893 World's Fair.
4. What historic downtown area of Chicago is the site of its oldest skyscrapers?
1. Home Insurance Building
2. Columbian Exposition or Chicago World's Fair
3. Daniel Burnham
4. The Loop
9. Answer the following about heat transfer
1. Materials that transfer heat through metals are known are these, of which silver is the best
2. Liquids and gases are usually not classified as the answer to part one; rather, they are one of
these
3. This is when heating occurs by currents in a fluid. You might see the oven type at your local
pizzeria.
4. Energy transmitted by electromagnetic waves, the sun emits it.
1. Conductors (accept conduction)
2. Insulators
3. Convection (accept convective)
4. Radiation (accept radiant)
10. Identify these Chemistry Laws
1. This law says that a single electron must occupy all of the orbitals of a sublevel before a second
electron may enter.
2. This law says that electrons must have opposite spins when they're in the same orbital
3. This law says that elements with similar structures and properties repeat after an interval of
seven elements.
4. This law says that if a stress is placed on a system on equilibrium, it will do its best to reverse
the stress.
1. Hund's Law
2. Pauli Exclusion Principle
3. Law of Octaves or Octave Law
4. LeChatelier's Principle
11. Given two facts, name the Chinese dynasty
1. founded by Kublai Khan, first paper money
2. Silk Road is created, first hot air balloon
3. Building of the Great Wall, first multiplication table
4. the An Shi Rebellion, first use of gunpowder
1. Yuan or Mongol
2. Han
3. Qin (pronounced “chin”)
4. Tang
12. Given a description, name the African American writer
1. Called the poet laureate of Harlem, this poet wrote “Montage of A Dream Deferred” and “The
Weary Blues”
2. In addition to Juneteenth, this author wrote Invisible Man, about a nameless black who ends up
telling the story from a sewer because he feels so secluded from society
3. This woman’s real name was Chloe Anthony Wofford and she wrote a Pulitzer Prize winning
novel about a runaway slave who kills her daughter, called Beloved.
4. This Harlem Renaissance author’s famous autobiography is titled Dust Tracks on a Road and
her most famous work, Their Eyes Were Watching God, follows Janie’s struggles with marriage
1. Langston Hughes
2. Ralph Ellison
3. Toni Morrison
4. Zora Neale Hurston
13. Answer the following about events in John Adams’s terms as President
1. In the election of 1796, this treaty that required that the British leave the Northwest trading and
military posts was an important issue
2. On October 18th, 1797, three French agents demanded that John Marshall pay $240,000 before
they could begin talks to avoid war with France in this controversial event that gave Adams a
brief period of popularity
3. Further contributing to the quasi-war with France, these two acts which gave the President the
power to deport potentially dangerous people and fined those who criticized the government in
publications was very unpopular
4. As a lame duck President, Adams passed the Judiciary Act of 1801 which allowed him appoint
judges nicknamed these, to make the judicial branch Federalist-controlled
1. Jay Treaty
2. XYZ Affair
3. Alien and Sedition Acts
4. “Midnight Judges”
14. Given a description, name the rock type
1. This form of igneous rock constains feldspar and quartz. Examples include granite and
rhyloite.
2. The clastic rocks of this type are formed from broken fragments of other rocks
3. Rocks of this type have been changed by high temperature or pressure
4. This form of sedimentary rock forms when minerals precipitate from a solution. This group
includes halite and gypsum
1. Falsic rocks
2. Sedimentary rocks
3. Metamorphic rocks
4. Chemical Sedimentary rocks
15. Answer the following about Hamlet
1. It primarily takes place in what country?
2. Arguably the most famous soliloquy ever, a contemplation of suicide begins with what six
words?
3. What daughter of Polonius falls off a tree and drowns?
4. What Prince from Norway takes over at the end of the play?
1. Denmark
2. “To be, or not to be”
3. Ophelia
4. Fortinbras
16. Given a definition, name the philosophical term
1. This branch of philosophy deals with the search for the ultimate reality
2. This branch of philosophy deals with being
3. This branch of philosophy asks, "how do we know what we know?"
4. This branch of philosophy deals with how we ought to live our lives
1. Metaphysics
2. Ontology
3. Epistemology
4. Ethics
17. Given a description, name the eastern religion.
1. Shrine, Sect, and Folk are the three major types of this Japanese religion that worships kami.
2. This religion whose sacred text is Adi-Granth takes it name from a Sanskrit word and was
founder by Guru Nanak in the 15th century
3. Adherents to this Indian religion practice nonviolence toward all living things and it was
founded by Mahavira
4. This religion centered in Taiwan is associated with “the three treasures”, is symbolized by an
octogram, and was founded by Lao-Tse
1. Shinto or Shintoism
2. Sikhism
3. Jainism
4. Taoism or Daoism
18. Given a description, name the film that Matt Damon acted in
1. Damon plays Linus Caldwell, one of the con artists that Danny Ocean and Rusty Ryan get
together to rob three Las Vegas casinos in this 2001 film, the first of a trilogy
2. Damon costars with Edward Norton is this film about two New Yorkers who play poker to get
themselves out of debt that they incurred by previous gambling
3. Tom Hanks plays John Miller, who rescues the title paratrooper, that Damon plays, in this
World War Two film that is considered one of the best of all time
4. Damon plays Donny, a musician who plays the song “Scotty Doesn’t Know” in this sexual
comedy about a group of people who travel to a bunch of different countries to find a pen pal
5. This movie is based on a Robert Ludlum novel of the same name and stars Damon as Jason, a
ex CIA agent who is targeted by assassins several times on the way towards finding his real
identity
1. Ocean’s Eleven
2. Rounders
3. Saving Private Ryan
4. EuroTrip
5. Bourne Identity
19. Given a description, name the Greek playwright from the Attic Period of Classical Literature
1. The founder of tragedy, this man added the second actor in works like The Persians, Seven
Against Thebes, and The Oresteia trilogy
2. This dramatist beat the man in part one in a competition, and wrote The Oedipus Cycle
3. The final of the “Big Three” of Greek tragedy, this man was the first to introduce slaves to the
stage and wrote the plays Alcestis, The Bacchae, and Medea.
4. This father of comedy made fun of the man in part three in The Frogs and he wrote about
women refusing to have sex in order to end the Peloponnesian War in Lysistrata.
1. Aeschylus
2. Sophocles
3. Euripides
4. Aristophanes
20. Given a description, name the architect that has done work in Chicago
1. Robie House, a prime example of his prairie style, is located next to the University of Chicago
2. Pritzker Pavilion down at Millenium Park is by this man, who is better known for his
Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, one of the foremost examples of Deconstructivism
3. Famous for the first skyscraper in St. Louis, he defined the Chicago School with the Carson
Pirie Scott Department Store
4. Known for his Lever House on Park Avenue in New York, he also co-founded the company
that built the Sears Tower.
1. Frank Lloyd Wright
2. Frank Gehry
3. Louis Sullivan
4. Louis Skidmore