Question
While visiting Arizona, you angered an unknown venomous arthropod, causing it to attack you. Answer some questions about how concerned you should be, for 10 points each.
[10e] As long as it is not a member of the family Buthidae, you are likely to survive the sting of one of these animals, whose curved stingers feature prominently at the ends of their tails.
ANSWER: scorpions [or scorpiones]
[10h] Hopefully it was not a Maricopa Harvester Ant, whose potent venom has high concentrations of phospholipase A2 and B that targets this molecule. This neurotransmitter is also targeted by nerve agents like sarin gas.
ANSWER: acetylcholine [or ACh]
[10m] Luckily, the arthropod was a member of this non-venomous arachnid order. A debunked myth states members of this arachnid order are the world’s most venomous animals, but their fangs are too small to penetrate human skin.
ANSWER: harvestmen [or daddy longlegs or granddaddy longlegs or Opiliones or harvesters or harvest spiders]
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Fall (Rutgers) | 10/14/2023 | Y | 7 | 15.71 | 100% | 43% | 14% |
Data
| Fordham | Delaware B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Penn | Maryland | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Columbia B | NYU C | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Princeton | NYU A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| NYU B | Rutgers | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Swarthmore A | Rowan | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Swarthmore B | Columbia A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |