Davey & Goliath Throwdown III – December 13th, 2008 Round 6 1

2. Precaution was his first novel, but this author is better known for a work in which Uncas is the title character who plots with Natty Bumppo and that appears in the Leatherstocking series

3. He wrote a biography of Oliver Goldsmith but is remembered today for Rip van Winkle and a work about Ichabod Crane

4. This authored criticized Thomas Jefferson in “The Embargo”, wrote a meditation on death in “Thanatopsis”, and wrote a poem in which the titular character “Soon shalt thou find a summer home” in “To a Waterfowl”

2. James Fenimore Cooper

3. Washington Irving

4. William Cullen Bryant

2. Debates over this gave rise to the Republican Party and it repealed the Missouri Compromise that had be enacted 34 years earlier

3. Backed by advocates of slavery, this legislature was centered in its namesake town and tore apart the Democratic Party after President Buchanan approved it and Congress rejected it

4. Showing how far the South would go to add more slavery, this proposed document stated that if Spain refused to sell Cuba, the US would be justified by seizing it by force.

2. Kansas-Nebraska Act or Kansas-Nebraska Bill

3. Lecompton Constitution

4. Ostend Manifesto

2. It is involved in beta decay and associated with the W particle.

3. This force holds the nucleus together.

4. The most familiar of the four forces, it is also the weakest.

2. weak nuclear force

3. strong nuclear force

4. gravity

2. This Penn State alum also had his best season in 2006, when he broke from the shadow of Priest Holmes by rushing for over 1,700 yards for the Kansas City Chiefs.

3. Drafted by the Buffalo Bills out of Cal-Berkeley in 2007, this long-haired rusher showed great promise in his rookie campaign but has only run for 100 yards twice this year

4. This running back attended North Chicago High School and Northern Illinois before his NFL career, in which he backed up the player part one for 4 years and ran for 220 yards in his first game with the Atlanta Falcons this year

2. Larry Johnson

3. Marshawn Lynch

4. Michael Turner

2. This third wife of Henry VIII was the mother of the future Edward VI. Dying in childbirth, she was perhaps the only one of his wives that Henry truly loved.

3. This German princess, his fourth wife, did not please him and they were soon divorced.

4. This last of Henry VIII’s wives outlived him

2. Jane Seymour

3. Anne of Cleves

4. Catherine Parr

2. This poetry collection by Allen Ginsberg begins, “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness”.

3. Written in a hotel in Tangier, this work by William Burroughs takes place in Interzone and follows an exterminator named Bill Lee

4. This post-Beat work by Ken Kesey is narrated by Chief Bromden and follows Randle McMurphy in an Oregon psychiatric hospital run by Nurse Ratched.

2. Howl and Other Poems

3. Naked Lunch

4. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

2. Name this largest moon of Neptune which is named for one of Neptune’s sons who is known for blowing a seashell and being a merman.

3. This Galilean moon is billed as “the most heavily cratered world known” with its deepest crater being called Valhalla. Its surface consists mainly of low density water ice and is the third largest moon in the solar system.

4. Name the only moon of Uranus not named for a Shakespeare character but rather the heroine of Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock.

2. Triton

3. Callisto

4. Bellinda

2. The first Socialist President, this man opposed the man in part one and controversially ordered the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, a ship protesting French nuclear testing

3. The Mayor of Paris before President, he was nicknamed “the bulldozer” and survived a Bastille Day assignation attempt in 2002

4. The current President, this man is married to a hot model and has been criticized for trying to become the president of the European Union while being the President of France

2. François Mitterrand

3. Jacques Chirac

4. Nicolas Sarkozy

2. This god’s name is often preceded by “Phoebus”, has an oracle at Delphi, and is often depicted with a lyre, being the god of music.

3. The son of Zeus and Maia, he is the messenger god of Olympus, carries a caduceus, and fathered Pan

4. The goddess of the hearth, her symbol is the circle and she notably left Mt. Olympus

5. This hunter goddess stopped the winds at Aulis and is the twin of the god in part two
1. Hera

2. Apollo

3. Hermes

4. Hestia

5. Artemis

10. Identify the following genres of music.
1. This genre was initially created as an introduction to operas in order to get the audience to settle down.

2. This genre is similar to an opera. It is usually based on a Biblical text and might be performed in costume but is not staged. Handel’s Messiah is the best known example.

3. This name is given to music that is generally written for two trumpets, a French horn, a trombone, and a tuba.

4 This genre consists of several short pieces of music that have been extracted from a larger work.

2. Oratorio

3. Brass quintet

4. suite

2. In this 1915 poem, the titular character sees women speaking of Michelangelo, admits that he is not Prince Hamlet, and says that he has heard mermaids talking.

3. Beginning with an epigraph from Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, it ends with the line “This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but with a whimper.”

4. Consisting of Burnt Norton, East Coker, The Dry Salvages, and Little Gidding, Eliot considered it his best work.

2. The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock

3. The Hollow Men

4. The Four Quartets

2. Built by Shah Jahan, this mausoleum is located in Agra, not Atlantic City, and is one of the finest examples of Mughal architecture

3. Atop the Corcovado Mountain, this statue features Jesus holding a globe

4. This Jordanian ancient city is famous for its rock cut design and is one of the places where Moses struck water from a rock.

2. Taj Mahal

3. Christ the Redeemer (or O Cristo Redentor)

4. Petra

2. Almost all cephalopods have “chromataphores” used for camouflage and communication. Chromatophores give them the ability to do what?

4. The cephalopod species “Architeuthis” (Ark-o-tooth-iss), one of the largest cephalopods, is better known by what common name?

2. Change color (accept obvious equivalents)

3. Nautilus

4. Giant Squid

2. Before Charles Guiteau shot him in 1881, he was involved in the Crédit Mobilier Scandal and before that fought at Shiloh and Chickmauga in the Civil War

3. The vice president to the man in part two, this man notably passed the Pendleton Service Act and Chinese Exclusion Act

4. A former Governor of New York, this man passed the Interstate Commerce Act and the Dawes Act in addition to being the only president to serve inconsecutive terms.

2. James A. Garfield

3. Chester Arthur

4. Grover Cleveland

2. Most plants have this kind of tissue, which transports water and nutrients through tube shaped structures.

3. These plants are named for their one seed leaf in the embryo. Their other characteristics include parallel leaf veins and a root system with no main root.

4. This process uses the properties of water to ‘pull’ water up the plant from the roots to the leaves.

2. Vascular tissue

3. Monocots

4. Transpiration

2. A quintessential work of the Lost Generation, this Hemingway story contains a memorable dialogue between Jakes Barnes and Brett Ashley in a taxicab

3. Often banned because of the vivid descriptions of sex between Paul Morel and Clara Dawes, this novel was loosely based on events in the author’s life, those of D.H. Lawrence

4. Walter wants to open a liquor store, Lena wants to buy a house, and Beneatha wants to go to medical school in this Lorraine Hansberry in which the Younger family decide s to spend ten thousand dollars of insurance money

2. The Sun Also Rises

3. Sons and Lovers

4. A Raisin in the Sun

2. Melting clocks along the Catalonian coast

3. A French boat crashing off the coast of Senegal

4. Jonathan Buttal posing for a portrait

2. The Persistence of Memory

3. The Raft of the Medusa

4. The Blue Boy

2. Water Vapor to Water

3. Ice to Water Vapor

4. Water Vapor to Plasma

2. Condensation

3. Sublimation

4. Ionization

2. What is the name of the Tibetan spiritual leader?

3. What is the path to enlightenment symbolized by a wheel?

4. What is the peaceful, free state of mind that Buddhists try to achieve?

5. What is the sect of Buddhism that focusing on meditation above all else?
1. Siddhartha Gautama

2. Dalai Lama

3. Noble Eightfold Path

4. Nirvana

5. Zen
20. Given a description, name the giant of German literature
1. This author wrote about the pederastic relationship between Gustav von Aschenbach and Tadzio in Death in Venice and about Hans Castrop’s time in a Swiss sanatorium in The Magic Mountain

2. This father of Epic Theatre in Germany created the plays The Good Person of Setzuan, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, and Mother Courage and Her Children

3. This author won the Nobel prize in literature in 1999 for works like Dog Years, Cat and Mouse, and The Tin Drum, all of which are part of the Danzig trilogy, named for the Polish city where he was born.

4. Probably the most famous German writer, this man’s two part drama about the title character selling his soul to Mephistopheles is called Faust.

2. Bertolt Brecht