Scattergories 3 Questions by Will Nediger and Jaimie Carlson Round 9
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Scattergories 3 Questions by Will Nediger and Jaimie Carlson Round 9 1. The artist David Lovejoy created an installation with an icon of the Virgin Mary on the body of a mannequin wearing roller skates in one of these places, which contains old bank vaults and a floor tiled with pennies. One of these places in China is filled with short staircases and mirrored ceilings. Due to height limitations, one of these buildings features an elaborate glass spire topped with an electric globe; that Art Nouveau one of these places is in the Singer Building on Nevsky Prospect. An opera house was converted into the El Ateneo Grand Splendid, one of these places in Buenos Aires, which has (*) more of these places per capita than any other city. One of these places contains a precarious-looking freestanding quarter-cylindrical tunnel and a “Labyrinth.” That Los Angeles building is known as “The Last” one of these places. One of these places in New York has “18 miles” of its namesake wares shelved by color. For 10 points, name these places which include The Strand. ANSWER: bookstores [prompt on stores; anti-prompt on specific names of bookstores such as The Last Bookstore or Dom Knigi or House of Books or Chongqing Zhongshuge or El Ateneo Grand Splendid or The Strand] <JC> 2. This is the final indignity that the unnamed soldier inflicts upon Ian in Sarah Kane’s Blasted. A character rants about a “faithful and true … godslave” before performing this action and then collapsing to the ground and repeatedly yelling “Find me! KILL ME!” In the Euripides play, Hecuba kills Polymestor’s children and then punishes him in this manner. When asked why he performed this action, a character says that “it was Apollo” who “brought on these troubles, the awful things I suffer.” After being tied to a chair and having his beard (*) plucked, a man is interrogated about why he sent the title character to Dover, and is subjected to this indignity. Alan Strang performs this action on some horses near the end of Equus. In another play, the Second Messenger reports how the title character performed this action using a pair of gold pins used to hold this mother’s dress together. For 10 points, name this fate suffered by Gloucester [gloster] in King Lear and by Oedipus. ANSWER: being blinded [accept having their eyes sucked out of their sockets and eaten; accept stabbing their eyes with a spike; accept having their eyes gouged out; accept stabbing their own eyes with a pair of gold pins] <WN> 3. This city’s art museum contains a Mercedes Benz-shaped coffin by Kane Quaye as well as a metallic armor made out of dog tags, Do Ho Suh’s Some/One. This city is home to a garden of 12 steel towers which whistle in the wind known as A Sound Garden. A museum in this city features a large inverted cone sculpture made of guitars and is home to the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame. A installation in this city holds a yellow ball of tendrils next to a large greenhouse. A sculpture garden in this city is home to Louise Bourgeois’ aptly-named Eye Benches and Alexander Calder’s bright red (*) Eagle. This city is home to a Frank Gehry-designed museum consisting of various brightly colored amorphous shapes smashed together, the MO-Pop, which has this city’s monorail running through it. This city is home to the Chihuly Garden and Glass, and has an art museum commonly known as SAM. For 10 points, name this city home to the Olympic Sculpture Park. ANSWER: Seattle <JC> 4. Many recent portraits by Ewa Juszkiewicz, such as Untitled (After Joseph Wright), unusually depict their subjects in this manner. A nude Catherine Opie is depicted in this manner with a child’s drawing carved into her skin in the photograph Self-Portrait/Cutting. This is the most distinctive feature of the two people in the painting Stonehenge (With Two Persons). The only person depicted in this manner in Goya’s Charles IV of Spain and His Family is the future wife of Fernando VII. Many of John Baldessari’s works use (*) dots for this purpose. Supposedly, the discovery of an artist’s mother, who had drowned herself, inspired an artist to depict people in this manner in paintings like The Lovers in the late 1920s. Unusually, both a man and his reflection in a mirror are depicted in this manner in the painting Not to Be Reproduced. For 10 points, name this effect achieved by a green apple in Magritte’s The Son of Man. ANSWER: their face is not shown [or their face is obscured; accept clear equivalents; accept facing away from the viewer or clear equivalents; accept their face is covered by other objects or their face is replaced by other objects ] <WN> 5. This poet wrote a Greek verse calling William Marshall’s unflattering portrait of him “the wretched picture of a wretched artist”; Marshall engraved that poem underneath the portrait, unaware of its content since he didn’t speak Greek. This poet tutored a contemporary theologian in Hebrew in exchange for Dutch lessons. “On the Approach of Spring” and two poems addressed to his best friend Charles (*) Diodati are among a set of elegies this poet wrote in Latin. Ezra Pound criticized this poet for the non-English syntax of the line “Him who disobeys, me disobeys,” saying that this poet was “chock a block with Latin.” One of this author’s works takes its title from a Greek speech delivered by Isocrates named after a hill in Athens that was used as a law court. For 10 points, name this poet who coined the Greek-derived term “pandemonium” in his epic Paradise Lost. ANSWER: John Milton (The theologian he tutored was Roger Williams.) <WN> 6. This country’s indigenous music is the subject of the weekly radio show Reclaimed. Post-classical rearrangements of traditional songs from this country make up a 2018 album by Jeremy Dutcher. A Christmas carol originally written in a language from this country repeats the refrain “Jesus your king is born, Jesus is born, in excelsis gloria.” A singer from this country covered the first track from Come On Pilgrim by Pixies for the first track of her album (*) Animism. An indigenous singer from this country wrote the song “Universal Soldier,” which became a hit when it was covered by Donovan. Indigenous musicians from this country include Buffy Sainte-Marie and Tanya Tagaq, the latter of whom won the 2014 Polaris Prize and the 2015 Juno Award for Aboriginal Album of the Year. For 10 points, name this country whose indigenous people include the First Nations and the Inuit. ANSWER: Canada <WN> 7. After a woman wearing a dress of this color talks about running away together with her lover, we hear the sound of a train whose vibrations cause a glass to fall off a table, in an allusion to Stalker. Luo Hongwu searches for a woman who’s almost always seen wearing a dress of this color in the 2018 film Long Day’s Journey Into Night. Barbara’s dress of this color starkly contrasts with the outfits of the other patrons when she arrives at the Royal Garden restaurant in Jacques Tati’s Playtime. Bucking tradition, this is the color of the dress worn by (*) Kajol in the “Mehndi Laga Ke Rakhna” scene from the Bollywood romance DDLJ. While wearing a dress of this color, Cecilia has sex with Robbie against a bookshelf in the library before they are interrupted by Cecilia’s younger sister, Briony. That iconic dress of this color is worn by Keira Knightley in Atonement. For 10 points, name this color of the dress worn by Tinker Bell in Disney’s Peter Pan. ANSWER: green <WN> 8. A work of this type includes a passage which promises “extensions of one’s personality on several simultaneous planes” and which notes “almost anything Saint Theresa did, you can do better.” One of these works describes guests at a party putting on pajamas made of different materials and being sprayed with perfume by peoples who also dance to music made by turning a crank. An installation based on one of these works featured writing in pig’s blood on white gallery walls. That one of these works by Jacob Samuel and Marina Abramovic features phrases like “13,000 (*) grams of jealousy.” Another one of these works recommends “a battery of scientific instruments” such as ozonizers, ultra-violet ray lamps, and colloidal mills. Filippo Marinetti wrote a Futurist one of these things which claimed that a traditional element of Italian culture “makes people heavy, brutish… slow.” For 10 points, what type of work by Alice B. Toklas included a recipe for hashish fudge? ANSWER: artists’ cookbooks [or recipe books; anti-prompt on recipes] <JC> 9. Ludwig Fleck wrote an influential study of the “genesis and development” of one of these things. A book named after one of these things consists of an essay about suicide in Las Vegas entitled “What Happens There” with commentary by Jim Fingal in the left and right columns. The “microprocessing” of these things is discussed in a book that analyzes these things using the case of TRF(H). E. H. Carr’s What Is History? distinguishes between “historical” examples of these things and these things “of the past.” A 2012 John (*) D’Agata book is named for “the lifespan of” one of these things. Steve Woolgar and Bruno Latour’s Laboratory Life is about the construction of these things.