mothers AND children - 2025 ACF Nationals

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Two answers required. A bronze sculpture of these two types of people shows them with sharp, jagged faces, while a marble sculpture of them by the same artist is at St. Paul’s Cathedral. A sculpture titled for these types of people in Berlin’s Neue Wache (“NOY-uh VAH-kuh”) is exposed to the elements by a circular skylight. The first print of a series depicts these two types of people in the nude, with one solemnly offering up the other to death. In a 1903 etching (-5[1])titled for these people, the elder of them appears to suck on the chest of the other, (10[1])whose model, named Peter, died in World War I. (10[1])The Sacrifice is one of many (-5[1])works by Käthe Kollwitz (10[1])depicting (10[1])these two (10[1])types (10[1])of people. (10[2])Henry Moore frequently depicted these types of people reclining (10[1]-5[1])or with one on the (10[1])other’s lap. (10[1]-5[3])For 10 points, (10[1]-5[1])people with what (10[2])relationship to each other (10[1])are depicted in pietà (10[1])sculptures? ■END■ (10[7]0[1])

ANSWER: mothers AND children [accept woman or women in place of “mothers”; accept sons in place of “children”; accept synonyms such as moms for “mothers”; accept synonyms such as babies or kids for “children”; accept Mother with Her Dead Son or Mutter mit totem Sohn; accept Woman with Dead Child or Frau mit totem Kind; prompt on parents or Madonna in place of “mothers”; prompt on partial answers]

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Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Position	Value
Joy An	Harvard	Minnesota	81	-5
Aiden Dartley	Rutgers	UC Berkeley A	98	10
Joseph Chambers	Virginia	Columbia B	107	10
Claire Jones	Chicago A	North Carolina A	113	-5
Sky Li	Toronto A	Indiana	117	10
Teigue Kelly	Penn State	Waterloo B	118	10
Charles Young	Columbia A	Stanford	120	10
Jem Burch	Yale	Ottawa	121	10
Karan Gurazada	Texas	Chicago B	123	10
Charles Hang	WUSTL A	Waterloo A	123	10
Ryan Rosenberg	NYU	Georgia State	132	10
Albert Yingzhi Nyang	LSE	WUSTL B	132	-5
Cade Reinberger	RIT	UCF	137	10
Brian Hoff	Cornell B	Maryland	139	-5
Rachel Fanous	Michigan	Vanderbilt	139	-5
Chris Sims	Northwestern	Illinois A	139	-5
Aditya Shivaswamy	Johns Hopkins	Toronto B	139	10
Eric Chang	Virginia Tech	Toronto C	142	10
Shourjo Ganguli	Ohio State	Winona State	142	-5
Bryan Ugaz	Arizona State	Florida	145	10
Kevin Wang	Georgia Tech	MIT	145	10
Nathan Zhang	Cornell A	Iowa State	149	10
Anuttam Ramji	UC Berkeley B	British Columbia	153	10
Isaac Mammel	Maryland	Cornell B	155	0
Shardul Parthasarathy	Illinois B	North Carolina B	155	10
Collin Nadarajah	WUSTL B	LSE	155	10
Gavin Markoff	Vanderbilt	Michigan	155	10
Joel Miles	Minnesota	Harvard	155	10
Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford	North Carolina A	Chicago A	155	10
Justin Wytmar	Illinois A	Northwestern	155	10
Henry Bon	Winona State	Ohio State	155	10

Summary

Tournament	Exact Match?	TUH	Conv. %	Power %	Neg %	Average Buzz
2025 ACF Nationals	Yes	24	96%	0%	29%	137.13