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Question

This substance is lit by dramatic evening light in an 1861 “great picture” by Frederic Edwin Church, which inspired the subsequent career of the traveling painter William Bradford. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this substance that an 1826 painting by Caspar David Friedrich depicts as a jagged, towering heap under a blue sky.

ANSWER: sea ice [accept The Icebergs, The Sea of Ice, or Das Eismeer; prompt on water]

[10e] Romantic painters used Arctic icescapes to express this great and terrifying quality of nature, which the aesthetic theory of Edmund Burke contrasts with “the beautiful.”

ANSWER: sublime

[10h] The University of London covers up this icescape during exams, as students consider it cursed. Two polar bears snack on human remains from a shipwreck in this piece by the Victorian dog painter Edwin Landseer.

ANSWER: Man Proposes, God Disposes

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Summary


2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh	2024-11-16	Y	7	11.43	71%	14%	29%
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern	2024-11-16	Y	9	13.33	67%	56%	11%
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State	2024-11-16	Y	9	7.78	56%	0%	22%
2024 ACF Winter at Online	2024-11-16	Y	7	10.00	57%	29%	14%
2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida	2024-11-16	Y	4	12.50	100%	0%	25%
2024 ACF Winter at Oxford	2024-11-16	Y	8	15.00	100%	38%	13%

Data


Pitt B (UG)	Michigan State B (UG)	0	0	0	0
Michigan A	Ohio State A (UG)	0	10	10	20
Mississippi State	Central Oklahoma	0	0	0	0
McGill E	Oregon State	10	10	0	20
Bard A	Rowan A	0	10	0	10
Rutgers A	Johns Hopkins B	10	0	0	10
Penn B	Penn A	0	10	0	10
Indiana A	Purdue A	10	10	0	20
UIUC D	Miami	0	0	0	0
WashU C	Purdue C	0	0	0	0
Indiana B	UChicago D	10	10	0	20
UIUC B	WashU B	10	10	0	20
UIUC C	UChicago B	10	10	10	30
Kenyon B (DII)	CWRU D (DII)	0	0	0	0
Michigan C (UG)	CWRU B (UG)	0	10	0	10
Michigan State C (UG)	Michigan D (DII)	0	0	0	0
Michigan State A	Pitt A	0	10	0	10
Michigan B	Ohio State B (DII)	0	10	10	20
Iowa	Missouri	0	0	0	0
Colorado College	Texas C	0	10	0	10
Vassar A	Texas A	0	10	10	20
Vassar B	Texas D	0	0	0	0
NYU B	WUSTL A	10	10	0	20
Columbia B	Johns Hopkins A	0	10	0	10
Princeton A	Haverford A	0	10	10	20
Penn State A	Columbia A	0	10	10	20
Penn State B	Rutgers C	0	0	0	0
Northwestern A	Notre Dame	0	10	0	10
Purdue B	SIUE A	0	10	0	10
UChicago C	UIUC A	10	0	0	10
CWRU A (UG)	Ohio State C (DII)	0	10	0	10
CWRU C (UG)	Kenyon A (UG)	0	0	0	0
UF D	Florida Tech A	0	10	0	10
UCF A	Florida State University A	0	10	0	10
UF B	UCF B	0	10	10	20
UF F	UF E	0	10	0	10
Cambridge A	Bristol A	0	10	0	10
Cambridge B	Imperial A	10	10	10	30
Cambridge C	Manchester	10	10	0	20
Southampton A	Cambridge D	0	10	0	10
Durham	Birmingham	10	10	0	20
Imperial B	Warwick A	0	10	0	10
Oxford A	LSE A	0	10	0	10
Southampton B	Oxford B	0	10	0	10