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”]
<Fine Arts - Auditory Fine Arts>
Data
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Brunswick A | Downingtown STEM | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| East Brunswick B | Trinity B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Eastchester | Great Valley | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Hunter B | moving finger C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Mather A | Hunter A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Mather B | Mather C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| North Babylon A | Stuyvesant B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| North Babylon B | BASIS-Independent Brooklyn | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| moving finger A | Stuyvesant A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| moving finger B | Hastings B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 FARSI @ Columbia | 12/08/2024 | Y | 10 | 17.00 | 100% | 60% | 10% |