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Davey & Goliath Throwdown III – December 13th, 2008
Round 5
1. Answer the following about a settlement
1. Sir Walter Raleigh led an expedition to this island, the an establishment that preceded
Jamestown
2. That island is in what present day state?
3. The daughter of Eleanor and Ananias, this woman was the first person born to English parents
in the US. First and last names required.
4. The colony was mysterious lost, but this word was left carved in wood. It is the name of a
nearby island and a local Indian tribe
1. Roanoke Island
2. North Carolina
3. Virginia Dare
4. Croatoan (do not accept “cro”)
2. Given a description, name the short story
1. This story by Bret Harte is about a prostitute in the mining camps of California who gives birth
to a baby who the gold rushers name Thomas.
2. This grisly tale by Richard Connell is about a literal man hunt, in which Sanger Rainsford
eludes the crazed General Zaroff on an obscure Caribbean island
3. Montressor tells the tale of how he sought revenge over a man by permanently sealing him into
some catacombs, leaving him to die, in this story by Edgar Allen Poe.
4. The husband sells his watch and buys a set of combs while the wife sells locks of her hair to
buy a watch fob. Name this story about an unfortunate Christmas exchange that appears in O.
Henry’s The Four Million.
1. The Luck of Roaring Camp
2. The Most Dangerous Game
3. The Cask of Amontillado
4. The Gift of the Magi
3. Answer the following about momentum
1. Momentum is the product of what two entities?
2. Associated with Newton’s second law, this is momentum change.
3. This kind of momentum is the cross product of the position vector in relation to the origin and
the linear momentum.
4. Rotation symmetry giving conservation of the answer to part two is an example of this
theorem.
1. Mass and Velocity or Mass and Speed or Force and Time
2. Impulse
3. Angular momentum
4. Noether's Theorem
4. Given a description, name the pre-Napoleon ruler of France
1. Known as The Sun King, this ruler resided in his Palace of Versailles and engaged in the War
of the Spanish Succession
2. Crowned king on Christmas day 800, this Carolingian king formed a Frankish Empire and
united much of Western Europe
3. A member of the Capetian dynasty, this man led the Seventh Crusade, which ended in disaster,
but was canonized in 1297
4. The grandfather of the man in part two, his was known as “the hammer”, turned back the
Muslims at the Battle of Tours, and was a strong proponent of feudalism
1. Louis XIV (the fourteenth)
2. Charlemagne or Charles the Great
3. Louis IX or Saint Louis
4. Charles Martel
5. James Joyce is considered by many to be the greatest modernist writer ever.
Given a
description, name his work.
1. This semi-autobiographical work concerns his literary alter-ego Stephen Dedalus
2. This novel follows Leopold and Molly Bloom on June 16, 1904 and is recognized as the
greatest book of the twentieth century
3. The Earwicker family is portrayed in this work that took seventeen years to write, and was thus
originally titled Work in Progress.
4. This collection of Irish short stories includes famous tales like “Araby”, “The Dead”, and “Ivy
Day in the Committee Room”
1. A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man
2. Ulysses
3. Finnegans Wake
4. Dubliners
6. Given a description, name the place that is one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
1. Irrigated by the Euphrates River, Herodotus described the massive size of this Nebuchadrezzar
II built palace
2. The Statue of Liberty was modeled after this huge statue of Helios that was built by Chares of
Lyndus
3. Sostrates of Knidos designed this structure on the island of Pharos that was surpassed in height
only by the pyramids of Giza
4. Memorializing the King of Caria, this monument was built by Pythius and was located in
modern day Turkey.
1. Hanging Gardens of Babylon
2. Colossus of Rhodes
3. Lighthouse of Alexandria
4. Mausoleum of Maussollos at Halicarnassus
7. Given a description, name these organ systems
1. This system is involved in the absorption of nutrients and excretion of waste
2. This system is involved in the movement of air into and out of the body
3. This system transports nutrients to and from the cell and stabilizes body temperature and pH to
maintain homeostasis
4. This system is involved in the production of immune cells
1. Digestive system
2. Respiratory system
3. Circulatory system
4. Lymphatic system
8. Answer the following about the epic poem Paradise Lost
1. Who wrote it?
2. What romantic writer famously illustrated an edition of it?
3. What fallen angel is the focus of the story?
4. What is the name of the capital city in Hell?
1. John Milton
2. William Blake
3. Satan or Lucifer
4. Pandemonium
9. Answer the following questions about the history of opera.
1. This work by Monterverdi is considered the first major opera. It is based on a legend from
Greek mythology.
2. The last major opera of this composer was The Magic Flute.
3. Fidelio was the only opera by this composer, better known for his piano music and his nine
symphonies.
4. The musical Rent was inspired by the opera La Boheme by this composer.
1. Orfeo or Orpheus
2. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
3. Ludwig van Beethoven
4. Giacomo Puccini
10. Given a description, name the Dutch painting
1. This Vermeer masterpiece is known as the “Mona Lisa of the North” and there is also a book
and subsequent movie named after it.
2. One of most recognizable triptychs in the world, this Bosch work features hellish things on the
right, Adam and Eve on the left, and frolicking naked people in the middle.
3. Known for its remarkable accuracy with regard to muscles, this Rembrandt work features eight
men looking at a corpse.
4. The clock at the top of this Van Gogh piece reads 12:15 and the radiating yellow lamps reflect
the floor which the center billiards table sits on.
1. Girl With the Pearl Earring
2. Garden of Earthly Delights
3. Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolas Tulp
4. The Night Café
11. Given a description, name the geographic feature
1. A body of land that is surrounded by water on three sides.
2. A low, watery land formed at the mouth of a river. They are often shaped like a triangle.
3. A non-artificial narrow body of water that connects two larger bodies of water.
4. A narrow strip of land connecting two larger landmasses. They have water on two sides.
5. The place where a river meets the sea or ocean.
1. Peninsula
2. Delta
3. Strait (grudgingly accept Channel, do not accept “Canal”)
4. Isthmus
5. Estuary
12. Given a description, name the Big Ten team.
1. This school “paints the town purple” for homecoming games and is playing Missouri in the
Alamo bowl
2. NFL players Dallas Clark and Chad Greenway attended this school that has an in-state rivalry
with the Cyclones
3. Bo Schembechler coached the football team from this school in the 1970s and 80s and Rich
Rodriguez recently took over the program
4. Located much farther east than the rest of the schools in the conference, this school is still
coached by Joe Paterno
1. Northwestern Wildcats
2. Iowa Hawkeyes
3. Michigan Wolverines
4. Penn State Nittany Lions
13. Given a description, name the short story
1. This story by Bret Harte is about a prostitute in the mining camps of California who gives birth
to a baby who the gold rushers name Thomas.
2. This grisly tale by Richard Connell is about a literal man hunt, in which Sanger Rainsford
eludes the crazed General Zaroff on an obscure Caribbean island
3. Montressor tells the tale of how he sought revenge over a man by permanently sealing him into
some catacombs, leaving him to die, in this story by Edgar Allen Poe.
4. The husband sells his watch and buys a set of combs while the wife sells locks of her hair to
buy a watch fob. Name this story about an unfortunate Christmas exchange that appears in O.
Henry’s The Four Million.
1. The Luck of Roaring Camp
2. The Most Dangerous Game
3. The Cask of Amontillado
4. The Gift of the Magi
14. Answer the following about a certain geologic era
1. Following the mass extinction of the Permian Period, mammals developed from reptiles and
dinosaurs first appeared in this period
2. Extending from 199.6 million to 145.5 million years ago, Pangea split apart in this period
named for a European mountain range
3. Spanning 80 million years, the earth was made of two continents when it began and dinosaurs
died out at the end of this period
4. All three of these period occur in what era after the Palezoic?
1. Triassic Period
2. Jurassic Period
3. Cretaceous Period
4. Mesozoic Era
15. Answer these questions related to Thermochemistry
1. Name this quantity, equal to the overall change in heat of a reaction, often symbolized by a
capital “H”
2. Name this scientific instrument which can measure the above quantity for an entire reaction
3. When “H” is positive for a reaction, the reaction is often considered this
4. Name the law, which allows you to find the “H” value of a certain equation by adding or
subtracting the “H” values of other related equations
1. Enthalpy
2. Calorimeter
3. Endothermic (Prompt on “cold” or similar adjective)
4. Hess's Law
16. Answer the following about events that characterized the 1968 Presidential Election
1. Sirhan Sirhan shot this New York Senator running for office in the kitchen of the Ambassador
Hotel
2. Standing on the second floor of Lorraine Motel in Memphis, this activist was shot by James
Earl Ray
3. This Alabama Governor and proponent of desegregation won thirteen and a half percent of the
popular vote, probably stealing the victory from Hubert Humphrey
4. The most violent Democratic National Convention in history, thousands anti-Vietnam War
protestors and Yippies descended on this city only to be met with brute force
1. Robert F. Kennedy (accept RFK or Bobby Kennedy)
2. Martin Luther King
3. George Wallace
4. Chicago
17. Given a description, name the Shakespeare Comedy
1. Helena harbors her love for Bertram who vows to be a faithful husband at the end of this play
2. Jacques famously states “All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players”
in this play that also features Orlando
3. Two twins named Antipholus and two slaves named Dromio are hilariously confused in this
play
4. Antonio is the title character that borrows money from Shylock in this play that also sees
Jessica leave with Lorenzo
1. All's Well That Ends Well
2. As You Like It
3. Comedy of Errors
4. Merchant of Venice
18. Name the following concerning colors.
1. Red, green, and blue light make up this group of colors
2. Name for two colors of light that mix to produce white
3. This group of magenta, yellow, and cyan is used in printing
4. This phenomenon makes the sky appear blue
1. additive primary colors
2. complementary colors
3. subtractive primary colors
4. scattering
19. Given a description, name the following person associated with the existentialist movement
1. This Danish philosopher incorporated Christianity into his version of existentialism and
explained his ideas in works like Either/Or and Fear and Trembling
2. This French-Algerian thinker is known for his theory of the absurd as seen in the character
Meursault and the essay The Myth of Sisyphus
3. This Frenchman won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1964 for works like Nausea and No Exit
that exhibit his rugged individualism
4. This German founder of phenomenology taught the man in part three and famously believed in
“bracketing existence”
1. Søren Kierkegaard
2. Albert Camus
3. Jean-Paul Sartre
4. Edmund Husserl
20. The genetic code of life is written in our DNA.
Answer the following about DNA
replication.
1. DNA replication follows this model, whereby the strands of DNA which have been copied
remain intact but do not re-associate with each other.
2. This protein adds bases to the growing strand of DNA.
3. These repetitive regions at the ends of eukaryotic DNA protect the coding sequences from
being lost during replication.
4. On this strand, Okazaki fragments are joined together by DNA ligase. Its replication is
delayed relative to the other strand.
1. semi conservative model
2. DNA polymerase III
3. Telomeres
4. Lagging strand