Question

A flint stone may have inspired a sculpture named for this action in a reflecting pool at Lincoln Center. One of the “talking statues” of Rome that depicts a river god doing this action is nicknamed Marforio. The collapse of a chamber’s roof at Bhamala damaged a sculpture of the Buddha performing this physical action (-5[1])that commonly represents parinirvāṇa. (-5[1])A sculpture (15[1]-5[1])in the Galleria Borghese performing this action (-5[1])could be rotated by crank and holds an (*) apple. Mesoamerican chacmool statues performing (10[1]-5[1])this action (10[2])inspired (10[1])over (10[1])20 abstract statues (10[1])by Henry Moore. (10[4])In an (10[1])Antonio Canova sculpture, (-5[1])Pauline Bonaparte performs this action as Venus Victrix. (10[2])A Black servant holds a flower bouquet in a painting of Victorine (10[1])Meurent (10[1])doing this action. For 10 points, Edouard Manet’s Olympia (10[1]-5[1])is part of a genre of nudes doing what recumbent (10[1]-5[1])pose? ■END■ (10[5]0[1])

ANSWER: reclining [accept equivalents such as laying down; accept Reclining Figure; accept recumbent until read; prompt on resting; prompt on sleeping or dying by asking “what physical action is the figure doing?”]
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Sinecio MoralesJohns HopkinsGeorge Washington A8010
Ryan HumphreyTexas ATexas B80-5
Luke ZhangEmory AGeorgia B8210
Dennis YangMichigan B Ohio State B8210
Aditya SharmaDukeJames Madison B8310
Jaime Salamanca CamachoImperial BOxford8410
Kevin FlanaganBristolEdinburgh8710
Bob FreedmanGeorgia ATennessee A9010
Enoch YuenImperial ABirmingham9010
Michael KohnDurhamCambridge A9010
Kion YouTexas CTAG Magnet: Taylor's Version9010
Jack ObermanSouth Carolina ANorth Carolina A9210
Connor MayersMaryland AMaryland B95-5
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Noah DeanKenyon A Michigan A 10310
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Pablo LloydHCCTAMU125-5
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Benjamin McAvoy-BickfordNorth Carolina BSouth Carolina B13710
Sanjay SrihariGeorgia Tech BGeorgia Tech C13710
Sinan YucelGeorgetownGeorge Washington B13710
Emily BussaMaryland BMaryland A1370
Dimitris KalafatisTAMUHCC13710
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