Question
This country’s military was the dedicatee of a piece that opens with a pentatonic fanfare played by the timpani and two tubas. A composer from this country adapted the song “La Mantovana” into a flowing E minor melody in a tone poem depicting a river. Another composer from this country wrote a symphony whose Largo theme was later adapted into the spiritual-like song “Goin’ Home”. The piece Má vlast depicts this country, which was home to a composer whose ninth symphony includes motifs drawn from birdsong in America. For 10 points, name this home country of Bedřich Smetana (“BED-rikh SMEH-tah-nah”) and the composer of the New World Symphony, Antonín Dvořák ■END■
ANSWER: Czechia [or Czech Republic; accept Czechoslovakia] (The first line refers to Leoš Janáček’s Sinfonietta.)
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= Average correct buzz position
Summary
2024 ACF Fall at Cornell | fall | Y | 9 | 89% | 0% | 22% | 89.25 |
2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State | fall | Y | 9 | 67% | 0% | 44% | 63.17 |
2024 ACF Fall at Washington | fall | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 14% | 63.86 |
2024 ACF Fall at Georgia | fall | Y | 14 | 71% | 0% | 36% | 72.50 |
2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina | fall | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 86.22 |
2024 ACF Fall at Claremont Colleges | fall | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 44.00 |
2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers | fall | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 14% | 70.00 |
2024 ACF Fall at Illinois | fall | Y | 9 | 89% | 0% | 44% | 83.75 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
---|---|---|---|---|
Andrea Yu | UW Chastity | Arizona State B | 18 | 10 |
Jason Qin (DII) | Columbia J (DII) | Penn A (DII) | 20 | 10 |
Jeffery Xu | Georgia Tech D | Auburn A | 34 | 10 |
Owen Linder | Binghamton A | Cornell D | 38 | 10 |
Eric Yang | Purdue A | Chicago A | 42 | 10 |
Dennis Yang (DII) | Michigan A (UG) | Ohio State B (DII) | 44 | -5 |
Beckett Gilmore (DII) | Jefferson County Scholars (DII) | Michigan B (UG) | 44 | 10 |
Alan Fan | UW Envy | UW Sloth | 44 | 10 |
Scarlet Rutter (DII) | Claremont A | UCLA C | 44 | 10 |
Andy Yu (DII) | Maryland A (DII) | Rutgers A (UG) | 44 | 10 |
Maya Kvaratskhelia | Notre Dame A | Chicago B | 44 | 10 |
Anton Akroush (DII) | Michigan State A | Michigan D (UG) | 49 | 10 |
Allen Xu | Georgia Tech E | South Carolina A | 49 | 10 |
Jacob Puthipiroj | Northwestern A | Indiana | 49 | -5 |
Joshua Garner (DII) | Ohio State A (UG) | Miami B (UG) | 52 | 10 |
Ishaan Kashyap | Georgia Tech C | Alabama A | 52 | 10 |
Ishaan Kashyap | Georgia Tech C | Alabama A | 52 | 10 |
Ishaan Kashyap | Georgia Tech C | Alabama A | 52 | 10 |
Aaron Taylor | Mississippi State A | Emory A | 54 | 10 |
Joyann Hua | UBC A | UW Greed | 55 | 10 |
Brian Zhang | UNC C | Virginia Tech B | 55 | 10 |
Josh Schmidt | Liberty A | UNC B | 56 | 10 |
Jacob Moeller (DII) | Miami A (UG) | Michigan C | 58 | 10 |
Zaid Asif (DII) | NYU A (UG) | Columbia A (UG) | 58 | 10 |
Rosie Zhang | UW Wrath | UBC B | 64 | 10 |
Hayes Brown | Furman | Clemson B | 64 | -5 |
Rico-Ian Banting (UG) | NYU B | Rutgers B | 66 | -5 |
Sophie Lyman | WashU A | Illinois D | 67 | -5 |
Ruchir Kodihalli (UG) | CWRU A (UG) | CWRU B (DII) | 68 | 10 |
Alexandra Duan (DII) | Columbia B | Fordham A | 68 | 10 |
Christopher Joseph | Notre Dame C | Illinois A | 68 | -5 |
Anila Moparthi | Illinois B | Iowa B | 68 | 10 |
Chris Scheri | RIT B | Cornell E | 69 | 10 |
Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell C | Syracuse | 71 | 10 |
Jacob Bieri | Boise State | UW Lust | 71 | 10 |
Malachi Ledford | Tusculum | William & Mary | 77 | 10 |
Jesse Mindle | NC State | UNC A | 79 | 10 |
Kamil Swiatek | Alberta | Arizona State A | 84 | -5 |
Alex Hestermann | UW Pride | UW Gluttony | 87 | 10 |
Yuxuan Lu | Vanderbilt A | Georgia Tech B | 87 | -5 |
Rohit Chintala (DII) | Maryland B (DII) | Rowan A (DII) | 87 | 10 |
Brielle Rach | Iowa A | Illinois C | 87 | 10 |
Nathan Sprouse | Virginia Tech A | Duke A | 90 | 10 |
Asheton Wilbanks | Clemson A | Southern | 97 | -5 |
Timothy Porter | VCU | Liberty C | 97 | 10 |
Iris Liang | Cornell G | RIT C | 105 | -5 |
Tom Scheri | RIT A | Binghamton C | 105 | 10 |
Caleb Thomas (DII) | Miami C (DII) | CWRU C (UG) | 105 | -5 |
Nidhi Kundargi (DII) | Michigan State B | Ohio State C (DII) | 105 | -5 |
Parker McCoig | Tennessee A | Georgia Tech A | 105 | -5 |
Greta Hong (DII) | Bard A (UG) | Princeton A (UG) | 105 | 10 |
Timothy Chiu | Northwestern B | SIUE | 105 | 10 |
Davis Johnson | Purdue C | Notre Dame B | 105 | -5 |
Gregory Stone | ESF | Penn State | 106 | -5 |
Izaak Whetsell (UG) | West Virginia A (UG) | West Virginia B (UG) | 106 | -5 |
Nathan Whittington | Tennessee B | Auburn C | 106 | -5 |
Grace Griffiths | Penn State | ESF | 107 | 10 |
Nicholas Fowler | Virginia | Appalachian State B | 107 | 10 |
Carly Hemani | James Madison A | UNC D | 107 | 10 |
Kritanu Saha | Cornell A | U of Rochester A | 108 | 10 |
Pierce DeCain | Cornell F | Cornell B | 108 | 10 |
Madelyn Stochaj | RIT C | Cornell G | 108 | 0 |
Gianna Pettine | U of Rochester B | Binghamton B | 108 | 10 |
Oliver Thompson (DII) | CWRU C (UG) | Miami C (DII) | 108 | 0 |
Peter Zeng (DII) | Ohio State B (DII) | Michigan A (UG) | 108 | 10 |
Brady Hagan (DII) | Ohio State C (DII) | Michigan State B | 108 | 0 |
Connor Channels (UG) | West Virginia B (UG) | West Virginia A (UG) | 108 | 0 |
Stefan Stealey-Euchner | Arizona State A | Alberta | 108 | 10 |
TJ Pickering | Auburn B | Georgia A | 108 | 0 |
Varun Venkatagiri | Georgia A | Auburn B | 108 | 0 |
Pranav Johti | Georgia Tech A | Tennessee A | 108 | 10 |
Monish Jampala | Georgia Tech B | Vanderbilt A | 108 | 10 |
Paawan Patel | Emory Oxford | South Carolina B | 108 | 10 |
Akajiugo Amucheazi | Southern | Clemson A | 108 | 10 |
Coy Mier | Auburn C | Tennessee B | 108 | 0 |
Brady Pinter | Belmont | Vanderbilt B | 108 | 0 |
James Zhao | Vanderbilt B | Belmont | 108 | 0 |
Samuel Miller | Liberty B | Duke B | 108 | 10 |
Jaden Bandy (DII) | Rutgers B | NYU B | 108 | 10 |
Trenton Burgess | Indiana | Northwestern A | 108 | 0 |
Sam Alahi | Illinois A | Notre Dame C | 108 | 10 |
Noah McRedmond | Notre Dame B | Purdue C | 108 | 10 |
Owen McCoy | Illinois D | WashU A | 108 | 10 |