Bonus
15th-century artist Bernt Notke depicted this scene at least twice, once in Lübeck and once in what’s now Tallinn. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this scene common in medieval European art, which titles a book of woodcuts by Hans Holbein the Younger. Skeletons link arms with each other, and sometimes with living humans, in this motif.
ANSWER: Dance of Death [or Danse macabre; or Totentanz; prompt on memento mori by asking “what motif illustrating that basic idea?”]
[10m] Notke’s Lübeck Totentanz cannot be viewed today because of this thing that happened to it. This is the same overarching reason why the Paris Salon version of Gustave Courbet’s The Stone Breakers is not in any museum.
ANSWER: it was destroyed in an air raid during World War II [or firebombed by the Allies during World War II; accept firebombing of Dresden; prompt on answers indicating that they were destroyed, lost, bombed, or burned by asking “during what event?”; prompt on war]
[10h] Michael Wohlgemut (“VOL-guh-moot”) contributed an all-skeleton Dance of Death woodcut to an incunabulum named for this city in which illustrations surround text by Hartmann Schedel. Veit Stoss spent much of his career based in this German city.
ANSWER: Nuremberg [or Nürnberg]
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Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona State | North Carolina B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Columbia A | Winona State | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Cornell A | Maryland | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Florida | Yale | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Georgia State | Stanford | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Georgia Tech | Waterloo B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Harvard | Vanderbilt | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | EMH |
| Illinois A | Chicago B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EH |
| Illinois B | WUSTL A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Johns Hopkins | Virginia Tech | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| MIT | Cornell B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Michigan | British Columbia | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | EMH |
| NYU | Toronto C | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| North Carolina A | LSE | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | H |
| Northwestern | UCF | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Ohio State | UC Berkeley B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Ottawa | Waterloo A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | EMH |
| Toronto A | Texas | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| UC Berkeley A | Columbia B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | EMH |
| Virginia | Rutgers | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EH |
Summary
| Tournament | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 ACF Nationals | Yes | 20 | 15.50 | 80% | 40% | 35% |