unicorns - 2024 ARCADIA - Buzzpoints App

Question

A mysterious sixth entry in a series named for a lady and one of these animals has the words “À mon seul désir” across a blue tent against a rich red background. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name these animals, which appear in another series marked with an “AE” monogram. In that series, this animal surrenders in an enclosed garden exemplifying the hortus conclusus motif.

ANSWER: unicorns (The unicorn surrenders to a virgin in the hortus conclusus, which is used as a metaphor for purity.)

[10e] The Hunt of the Unicorn and Lady and the Unicorn are artworks of this type. A work popularly referred to as this type of artwork features Halley’s Comet and is named for Bayeux.

ANSWER: tapestry [prompt on weaving]

[10h] The unicorn tapestries have this densely-populated type of background covered in namesake objects. This background type with a French name was revived in the wallpapers of the Arts and Crafts movement.

ANSWER: millefleurs

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Summary


2024 ARCADIA at BU	2024-12-06	Y	5	12.00	80%	40%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Duke	2024-12-06	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T	2024-12-06	Y	2	20.00	100%	50%	50%
2024 ARCADIA Online	2025-05-17	Y	5	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Penn State	2024-12-06	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech	2024-12-06	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	2024-12-06	Y	2	20.00	100%	50%	50%
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo	2024-11-09	Y	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at GT	2024-12-06	Y	4	15.00	100%	25%	25%
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois	2024-11-09	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick	2024-12-06	Y	4	12.50	100%	0%	25%
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont	2024-11-02	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%

Data


UF A	UCF A	10	10	0	20
Berkeley A	Berkeley B	10	10	10	30
Berkeley Past	Stanford	0	10	0	10
Imperial B	Cambridge B	0	10	0	10
Cambridge A	Southampton	0	10	0	10
Warwick A	Imperial A	0	10	0	10
LSE B	Warwick B	0	10	10	20
BU	Brandeis A	0	0	0	0
Amherst	Clark House	0	10	0	10
Harvard	Tufts A	10	10	0	20
MIT	Clark Wilson	10	10	0	20
Yale	Bowdoin C	0	10	0	10
Virginia Tech B	North Carolina A	0	10	0	10
North Carolina B	Virginia Tech C	0	10	0	10
Virginia Tech A	South Carolina	0	10	0	10
McGill A	Carleton A	0	10	0	10
McMaster ApocolocyntosisBidii	Toronto Metropolitan A	0	10	0	10
Toronto A	Toronto B	10	10	0	20
Waterloo Cloze	Toronto Chestnut Rice and Kamehameha	0	10	0	10
Waterloo Aspidistra	Waterloo Basic	10	10	0	20
Anderson et al.	Claremont	10	10	0	20
SGV Ventures	Jason et al.	10	10	0	20
U[C]SD	ALCU	10	10	0	20
Squidward Community College	Missouri	10	10	10	30
WashU	Truman	0	10	0	10
Social credit go vroom	ASU->Stanford->ASU pipeline	10	10	0	20
In the Mood for Buzz	bingy academy	10	10	0	20
she limp on my waltz till i feel pathetique	Madmen and Specialists	10	10	0	20
Paddington in Peru (2024)	The cult of SGA	10	10	0	20
Toyota Tundra Turbos — Twisting Truths - Tackling Trivia - Taming Titans	Old and Young	10	10	0	20
Maryland	Penn State	0	10	0	10
Pitt	RIT	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech A	Mississippi State	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech D	Johns Creek	10	10	10	30
Innovation Academy A	Georgia Tech C	0	10	0	10
Lambert	Innovation Academy C	0	10	0	10
Chicago A	Purdue B	10	10	0	20
Illinois Blue	Notre Dame	10	10	0	20
Chicago B	Purdue A	10	10	0	20
Illinois Orange	SIUE	0	10	0	10