COLLEGE ETYMOLOGY
This word for a type of degree originally referred to a young knight of low rank
What is a bachelor?
This term for a long-handled gardening tool can also mean an immoral pleasure seeker
What is a rake?
He was 26 in 1905, his "miracle year" in which he published 4 papers altering the course of modern physics
Who is Einstein?
Achilles' one weakness was here, left dry when his mother dipped him in the River Styx
What is his heel?
At the Burning Bush, God told him to take off his shoes, "for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground"
Who is Moses?
This oral lesson is from the Latin for "to read"
What is a lecture?
This portable motor-driven tool used to cut wood was employed in a Texas massacre (on film)
What is a chainsaw?
This Italian who gave us the law of falling bodies was put on trial in 1633 for supporting the heliocentric model of the universe
Who is Galileo?
Aeschylus called this Greek's bearing of the heaven & earth "a burden not easy for his arms to grasp"
Who is Atlas?
This big guy told Saul's army, "Give me a man, that we may fight together"
Who is Goliath?
Sooner or later you'll have to declare one of these, from a Latin word meaning "greater"
What is a major?
The working tools of a blacksmith include a bellows, a hammer & one of these sturdy, iron hammering blocks
What is an anvil?
Curse you, Gottfried Leibniz, for co-inventing this branch of math, both integral & differential
What is Calculus?
In Shakespeare's play about him & Cressida, he says, "I am weaker than a woman's tear"
Who is Troilus?
A 1640 painting is entitled "The Repentant" this once-bad woman who became devoted to Christ
Who is Mary Magdalene?
Often applied to courses, it's from the Latin for "before" & "need"
What is a prerequisite?
From old French for "maul", it's a large wooden hammer with 2 flat faces
What is a mallet?
Pew Pew Pew! Daily Double!
She is still the only woman to win Nobel prizes in two different fields, which she did back in 1903 & 1911
Who is Marie Curie?
Phaethon tries to ride this god's chariot through the skies but isn't strong enough to control the horses
Who is Helios?
For committing murder, he was exiled to "the Land of Nod, on the east of Eden"
Who is Cain?
This word for a class of student derives from a word for a fallacious argument
What is a sophmore?
This term for forceps or pliers also refers to little kids
What are nippers?
This 16th century Dane located the accurate positions of 777 fixed stars, & the telescope hadn't been invented yet
Who is Tycho Brahe?
Suitors to Penelope struggle to string this man's bow, & it gets worse for them after that
Who is Odysseus?
His jealous rivals should have seen the handwriting on the wall when the lions failed to eat him
Who is Daniel?