Descending oboe half-notes open a Franz Xaver Süssmayr (“ZUSS-mayer”) symphony titled for this country. After a key change to the parallel A minor, the soloist in the third movement of a violin concerto nicknamed for this country plays fast sixteenth-note melodies punctuated by basses playing col legno (“len-yo”). A movement titled for this country opens with the pickup sixteenth notes [read slowly] B A G-sharp A, then long C. Pedals that imitate drums and bells were added to some late 18th-century pianos to emulate this country’s music. A criticism mistranslated as “too many notes” was given to a Singspiel (“ZING-shpeel”) set in this country, The Abduction from the Seraglio. Mozart’s Eleventh Piano Sonata ends with a third movement rondo evoking the music of this country. For 10 points, name this country that Classical-era composers evoked by imitating its Janissary bands. ■END■
| 2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley | 2024-11-16 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 84.33 |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Clemson | 2024-11-16 | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 95.50 |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State | 2024-11-16 | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 14% | 103.86 |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Online | 2024-11-16 | Y | 8 | 88% | 0% | 13% | 107.57 |
| 2024 ACF Winter at UBC | 2024-11-16 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 106.67 |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida | 2024-11-16 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 95.00 |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Oxford | 2024-11-16 | Y | 11 | 100% | 0% | 9% | 86.27 |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Brandeis | 2024-11-16 | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 103.80 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Justin Keung | Imperial A | Manchester | 31 | 10 |
| Ruchir | CWRU B | Ohio State A | 35 | 10 |
| Eveline Ong | Oxford A | Cambridge B | 35 | 10 |
| Arthur Zhang (D2) | NYU B | Arkansas | 43 | 10 |
| Russell Nip (UG) | UBC A | SFU | 46 | -5 |
| Euan Ham | Georgia Tech A | Clemson A | 57 | -5 |
| Rohan Ganeshan | Harvard A | Brown A | 60 | 10 |
| Luke Zhang | Emory A | Alabama A | 64 | 10 |
| Zach Tseng | Georgia Tech E | Auburn C | 64 | 10 |
| Jeffry Xu | Georgia Tech B | Auburn B | 64 | 10 |
| Benedykt Chodzko-Zajko | Southampton | Cambridge D | 64 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT A | Yale A | 64 | 10 |
| Lukas Koutsoukos | Yale B | Clark A | 65 | 10 |
| Swapnil Garg | Berkeley A | Stanford L | 69 | 10 |
| Matthew Lam (DII) | Ohio State C (DII) | Michigan State B (UG) | 72 | 10 |
| Edward Fogel | Birmingham | Imperial B | 72 | 10 |
| Seraphina Charlotte | Cambridge A | Cambridge C | 75 | 10 |
| Kyle Groner | Florida Tech B | UF F | 77 | 10 |
| Nathan Ouyang (DII) | Michigan D (DII) | Michigan B | 82 | -5 |
| Joyann Hua (DII) | UBC B | UW B | 82 | 10 |
| Anthony Lovegren | UCF A | UF E | 82 | 10 |
| Cormac Beirne | LSE A | Bristol A | 82 | 10 |
| Eve Fleisig | Berkeley C | Berkeley B | 84 | 10 |
| Alexander Nichols | UCF B | UF D | 93 | 10 |
| Will McCurley | Auburn A | Georgia Tech C | 94 | 10 |
| Braden Booth (D2) | Missouri | Colorado College | 98 | 10 |
| Michal Gerasimiuk | Stanford M | Stanford A | 100 | 10 |
| Dylan Tanouye | Tufts B | Brandeises Brew | 102 | 10 |
| Tegan Kapadia | Georgia Tech D | Emory B | 103 | 10 |
| Truman Fillbrandt (UG) | UW A | Alberta | 103 | 10 |
| Ian Lu | Georgia Tech F | Tennesse A | 105 | 10 |
| Lovel Hearn | Edinburgh | Durham B | 105 | 10 |
| Gavin Markoff | Vanderbilt | Warwick B | 106 | -5 |
| Qingyu Zhang | UF A | UF C | 107 | 10 |
| Brynn Jones | Oregon State | Iowa | 111 | 10 |
| Bryce Cruise (D2) | Texas A | Vassar B | 113 | 10 |
| Tom Haines | Durham A | Oxford B | 113 | 10 |
| Ciaran Strimaitis (DII) | Kenyon A (UG) | CWRU D (DII) | 115 | 10 |
| Tiffany Zhou | UF B | Florida State University A | 116 | 10 |
| Joshua Garner (DII) | Ohio State B (DII) | Kenyon B (DII) | 117 | 10 |
| Marc Greco | Williams A | Boston University B | 118 | 10 |
| Rajat Sethi | Northeastern A | Yale C | 118 | 10 |
| Zhiheng Liu (DII) | Michigan C (UG) | CWRU C (UG) | 119 | 10 |
| Jackson Hopper (UG) | Mississippi State | McGill E | 119 | -5 |
| Collin Leck (D2) | Central Oklahoma | Texas C | 119 | 10 |
| Odysseas Gabrielatos | Warwick A | Southampton A | 119 | 10 |
| David Worley | LSE B | Bristol B | 119 | 10 |
| Jack Yesner | Carabrandeis | Tufts A | 119 | 10 |
| Christopher Dech | Diamond Brandeis | A Brandeis Supreme | 123 | 10 |
| David Shepherd (DII) | Pitt B (UG) | Michigan State C (UG) | 134 | 10 |
| Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt (D2) | NYU A | Ole Miss | 134 | 10 |
| Lucy Dennet | Warwick B | Vanderbilt | 134 | 10 |
| Jaehyun | BU A | Bowdoin A | 134 | 10 |
| Charlie Weaver | Clemson A | Georgia Tech A | 135 | 10 |
| Danny Tran | Tennesse B | South Carolina A | 135 | 10 |
| Mitchell Indek | Michigan B | Michigan D (DII) | 135 | 10 |
| Cyrus Zhou | WUSTL A | Texas D | 135 | 10 |
| Dexter Hine (UG) | SFU | UBC A | 135 | 10 |
| Michael Zheng | Amherst A | Bowdoin B | 135 | 10 |