landscapes - 2024 PLAYTIME

Question

John Constable rejected his teacher Henry Fuseli’s contempt for the Dutch school of this genre, admiring and frequently copying its master Jacob van Ruisdael. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this genre of painting whose “Nordic” form tends to highlight serious aspects of the natural world, like storms and mountains, rather than the bright light and natural beauty of its “Italianate” form.

ANSWER: landscapes

[10h] This landscape by Ruisdael held in Detroit contrasts a tree fallen over a river in the foreground with a crumbling structure and a rainbow in the background. It depicts a scene from Ruisdael’s visit to Beth Haim.

ANSWER: The Jewish Cemetery [or Het Joodse kerkhof or De Joodse begraafplaats]

[10m] This contemporary of Ruisdael painted his hometown in The Little Street. This artist also painted a cityscape in which a church’s empty bell tower is visible on the opposite bank of a river.

ANSWER: Jan Vermeer [or Johannes Vermeer] (The cityscape is View of Delft.)

<JC, Painting/Sculpture/Photography>

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Summary


2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU	12/10/2024	Y	5	12.00	80%	20%	20%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont	12/10/2024	Y	5	20.00	80%	80%	40%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	2	20.00	100%	50%	50%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard	04/26/2025	Y	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%
2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU	10/26/2024	Y	8	10.00	75%	25%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest	12/10/2024	Y	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%
2025 PLAYTIME Online	04/26/2025	Y	9	17.78	100%	56%	22%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	6	10.00	83%	17%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	1	0.00	0%	0%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC	10/05/2024	Y	8	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech	07/11/2025	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU	10/12/2024	Y	6	11.67	100%	17%	0%

Data


Michigan A	Ohio State A	10	10	0	20
Oberlin	Michigan B	10	0	0	10
Ohio State B	Michigan D	10	0	10	20
Ohio State C	Pittsburgh	0	0	0	0
UCLA A	Art of Premature Signaling	10	0	10	20
girl 15 whale i mean they	Caltech	10	10	10	30
Claremont A	UCSB	10	0	10	20
UCLA B	Claremont B	0	0	0	0
P.C.‚ Daniel‚ Michel‚ and Jason B	UCSD	10	10	10	30
Billy's Bastion	Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses	10	10	10	30
Keeping Up With the Cardassians	Too much from you lately	10	0	0	10
Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison	Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again	10	0	10	20
Brandeis	Belmont	10	0	0	10
Brown	BU	10	10	10	30
Harvard	RIT	10	0	0	10
MIT	Lexington	10	0	10	20
Ohio State D	Michigan C	10	0	0	10
NYU B	Catholic University of America	10	0	0	10
Haverford B	George Mason B	0	0	0	0
Georgetown	George Washington	10	0	10	20
Alberta	Carleton	10	10	10	30
Arizona State University B	Arizona State University A	10	0	0	10
South Dakota School of Mines	UW A	10	0	0	10
UW B	Washington Connections	10	0	10	20
Quatumvirate	Egypt Airlines Haters	10	0	0	10
Four Generalists in Search of a Power	we need new names	10	0	10	20
Goober Gang	Mahjonng Masters	10	0	0	10
Notre Dame + Epic Games	Gruh	10	0	10	20
Monsieur Hulot's Academic Team	Illinois Orange	10	10	10	30
Free Agents 1	MSJ	10	0	10	20
Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion	Auburn 2026	10	10	10	30
2 Italians, 2 Poles, All Noles	Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky	10	0	0	10
mongeese	evil women enjoyers	10	0	0	10
Edinburgh	Cambridge	0	0	0	0
Imperial B	Manchester	0	0	0	0
Sheffield B	Lancaster	10	0	0	10
Sheffield A	Sheffield C	10	0	10	20
Imperial A	Warwick A	10	0	0	10
LSE	Warwick B	10	0	0	10
Warwick C	Birmingham	10	0	0	10
Simon Fraser	McGill A	10	0	0	10
Mac A	Ottawa A	10	0	0	10
Toronto A	Toronto Metropolitan	10	0	0	10
Waterloo B	Toronto B	10	0	10	20
Toronto C	Waterloo A	10	0	10	20
Toronto E	Guelph	10	0	0	10
McGill B	UBC	10	0	0	10
Toronto D	Waterloo C	10	0	0	10
Haverford A	George Mason A	0	0	0	0
Rutgers	Johns Hopkins A	10	0	0	10
Maryland A	Johns Hopkins B	10	0	0	10
George Mason C	NYU A	10	0	0	10
NYU C	CWRU	10	0	10	20
4 quizbowl pros go Virginia on North Carolina	Ashurbanipal’s Drag Race	10	0	10	20
Even in Blacksburg There I Am	Adrianne Lenker 4 Nobel Lit Prize 2K65	10	0	10	20
Somehow Paula Deen Returned	Master and Margaritaville	10	0	0	10
Illinois C	Chicago A	10	0	0	10
Illinois A	WashU Charmander	10	0	10	20
Chicago B	Illinois B	10	0	0	10
SIUE	Missouri	10	0	0	10
WashU Squirtle	Truman State	10	0	0	10
WashU Bulbasaur	Iowa State	10	0	0	10