End of Daze 2011

Round IIANSWERS

• 8 questions

• Theme connects are straight forward. Usually.

• Points on slides. 15 points in total.

1. Built by someone whom he famously protected ( 1 ).

Khufu was a Pharaoh of Ancient Egypt's Old

Kingdom. He is generally accepted as being the builder of the Great Pyramid of Giza. Khufu's full name was "Khnum-Khufu" which means "the god Khnum protects me.

Theme connect - Pyramid

2. The one on the left describes the one on the right

perfectly. (Larger images follow) ( 2 points)

• The title shot of the Batman adventure “Feat of Clay”, which perfectly describes Nadal’s record-equalling sixth Rolland Garros title.

• Theme connect: Feet of Clay

3. It’s most famous occupant. (1)

• The Rijksmuseum is a museum in the Netherlands whose most famous occupant is Rembrandt’s Night Watch.

• Theme connect: Night Watch

4. What stuff would you place there? (1)

• The area marked is the anatomical snuffbox, a

triangular deepening on the radial, dorsal aspect of the hand—at the level of the carpal bones, specifically, the scaphoid and trapezium bones forming the floor. The name originates from the use of this surface for placing and then sniffing powdered tobacco, or “snuff”.

• Theme connect: Snuff

5. If Y is what X is, then who would be the Z for X? (X is shown, Y and Z follow) (2 points)

Y

Z

• X is Mickey Mouse in Fantasia, Y is The Apprentice, Z is

Donald Trump.

• Mickey is an apprentice of Yen Sid, a Sorcerer. (Theme connect: A Sorcerer does Sorcery)

6. Note their most famous work. (1)

• Christopher Marlow and Goethe have a rather famous work based around the legend of Faust.

• (Theme connect: Not Faust, as I pointed out)

7. What he’s not very good with, apparently. (1)

• The Truth

8. Easy. Fill up. (1)

Come, and ___ it as ye go, On __ ____ ________toe. And in thy right hand lead with thee, The Mountain Nymph, sweet Liberty;

• Trip the light fantastic

• Origin is typically attributed to John Milton’s L’Allegro.

• Theme connect: Trip the Light Fantastic

9. Theme?( 5 points )

Theme