Question

A xylophone plays eighth note F-sharps while dancers wield these weapons in a scene from the ballet Gayane. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these weapons which are used during that eponymous “dance” by Aram Khachaturian.
ANSWER: sabers [accept Saber Dance]
[10e] Though he was Armenian by ethnicity, Aram Khachaturian largely worked in this country, where he won a dictator’s eponymous Stalin Prize.
ANSWER: Soviet Union [or the USSR, or Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or the CCCP; accept Russia]
[10m] Khachathurian’s Masquerade Suite begins with a four-minute work of this type that is often played on its own. Tchaikovsky included one of these dances “of the Flowers” in The Nutcracker.
ANSWER: waltzes [accept “Waltz of the Flowers”]
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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3Total
East Brunswick ADowningtown STEM010010
East Brunswick BTrinity B010010
EastchesterGreat Valley10101030
Hunter Bmoving finger C0101020
Mather AHunter A0101020
Mather BMather C0101020
North Babylon AStuyvesant B0101020
North Babylon BBASIS-Independent Brooklyn010010
moving finger AStuyvesant A010010
moving finger BHastings B0101020

Summary

TournamentEditionExact Match?HeardPPBEasy %Medium %Hard %
2024 FARSI @ Columbia12/08/2024Y1017.00100%60%10%