Bonus
Answer the following about ballets titled for the color red, for 10 points each.
[10e] This politician and his wife watch the ballet The Red Detachment of Women in a John Adams opera that fictionalizes his 1972 visit to China.
ANSWER: Richard Nixon [or Richard Milhous Nixon; accept Nixon in China]
[10m] Reinhold Glière’s ballet The Red Poppy popularized the yablochko (“YA-blutch-kuh”), or “little apple,” a Russian folk dance associated with people of this profession. In the UK, people of this profession often performed the hornpipe dance.
ANSWER: sailors [accept Russian sailors’ dance or “Dance of the Sailors from the Soviet Ship”; accept Sailor’s Hornpipe; accept mariners]
[10h] This choreographer used Bernard Herrmann’s film scores for the music of a ballet adaptation of the Powell and Pressburger film The Red Shoes. Male dancers play the swans in this choreographer’s version of Swan Lake.
ANSWER: Matthew Bourne [or Matthew Christopher Bourne]
<AP, Other Fine Arts>
| Editions | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 58 | 14.31 | 98% | 41% | 3% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bristol | Cambridge D | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | EMH |
| Cambridge A | Cambridge E | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Imperial A | NYU C | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Manchester | Southampton B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Oxford A | Southampton A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Oxford B | Durham | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | EMH |
| Oxford C | LSE | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Sheffield | Imperial B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Warwick A | Cambridge C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Warwick B | Cambridge B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| California | 2025-02-01 | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| Florida | 2025-02-01 | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | 6 | 11.67 | 100% | 17% | 0% |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | 6 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| North | 2025-02-01 | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| Northeast | 2025-02-01 | 5 | 12.00 | 100% | 20% | 0% |
| Overflow | 2025-02-01 | 5 | 14.00 | 100% | 40% | 0% |
| South Central | 2025-02-01 | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| Southeast | 2025-02-01 | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
| UK | 2025-02-01 | 10 | 19.00 | 100% | 70% | 20% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | 8 | 16.25 | 100% | 63% | 0% |
| Upstate NY | 2025-02-01 | 3 | 6.67 | 67% | 0% | 0% |