Discobolus - 2025 ACF Regionals

Question

Adolf Hitler’s interest in this sculpture led him to purchase its “Palombara” version, while its “Townley” version incorrectly has a head facing down. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this lost sculpture by Myron that depicts its title athlete as he turns to hurl an oblate weight.

ANSWER: Discobolus [or The Discus Thrower]

[10h] Myron’s Discobolus has attributes of both the High Classical style and this earlier style. The Kritios Boy is in this transitional Early Classical style characterized by greater naturalism than the preceding Archaic period.

ANSWER: Severe style

[10m] Severe-style sculptures typically lacked a visual motif named for an “Archaic” form of this feature, which was common on kouroi. The nickname of the fat monk Budai reflects his typical depiction with this feature.

ANSWER: smile [or word forms like smiling; or laughing or laughter; accept Archaic smile; accept Laughing Buddha or Xiào fú]

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Summary


California	2025-02-01	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Great Lakes	2025-02-01	Y	5	16.00	80%	80%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	6	13.33	50%	67%	17%
Midwest	2025-02-01	Y	6	15.00	100%	50%	0%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Overflow	2025-02-01	Y	5	14.00	80%	60%	0%
Pacific Northwest	2025-02-01	Y	2	10.00	50%	50%	0%
South Central	2025-02-01	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Southeast	2025-02-01	Y	4	12.50	75%	50%	0%
UK	2025-02-01	Y	10	15.00	90%	50%	10%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	8	16.25	88%	75%	0%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	3	16.67	67%	100%	0%

Data


Claremont A	UCLA	10	0	10	20
Carnegie Mellon A	Ohio State A	10	0	10	20
Michigan D	Carnegie Mellon B	0	0	0	0
South Carolina	Virginia Tech A	0	0	10	10
UNC C	Liberty B	0	0	0	0
Chicago A	Chicago B	10	0	10	20
Missouri S&T	Chicago D	10	0	10	20
Carleton	Wisconsin A	10	0	0	10
Georgetown B	Northwestern A	10	0	10	20
Iowa	Notre Dame B	10	0	10	20
Alberta	UW A	0	0	0	0
UBC	UW B	10	0	10	20
Georgia Tech C	Alabama A	10	0	10	20
Oxford B	Cambridge A	10	0	0	10
Cambridge C	Cambridge E	10	0	10	20
Cornell B	Columbia C	10	0	0	10
NYU A	John Jay College	10	0	10	20
RIT B	Binghamton A	10	0	10	20
Ohio State B	Kenyon	10	0	10	20
Duke	William & Mary	10	0	10	20
UNC B	Liberty A	10	0	10	20
UNC D	Liberty C	0	0	0	0
Virginia A	Wake Forest	10	10	10	30
Texas A	TAMU	10	0	0	10
Texas B	ASU	10	0	10	20
Louisville A	Vanderbilt A	10	0	0	10
Georgia Tech D	Tennessee A	10	0	0	10
Bruin A	Georgia Tech B	0	0	10	10
Cornell D	ESF A	10	0	10	20
Cornell C	RIT A	0	0	10	10
UC Berkeley A	Claremont B	10	0	10	20
UC Berkeley B	UCSD	10	0	10	20
Case Western A	Case Western B	10	0	10	20
Michigan A	Michigan State	10	0	10	20
Illinois B	Indiana B	10	0	0	10
WashU A	Illinois C	10	0	10	20
Indiana A	Illinois A	10	0	0	10
Missouri	Chicago C	10	0	0	10
Winona State	Iowa State	10	0	0	10
Minnesota B	Wisconsin B	10	0	0	10
Georgetown A	Stanford B	10	0	0	10
Northwestern B	Purdue	10	0	10	20
Notre Dame C	Notre Dame A	0	0	0	0
Cambridge B	Cambridge D	10	10	0	20
Imperial A	Durham	10	0	10	20
Imperial B	LSE	10	0	0	10
Manchester	Warwick A	10	0	10	20
Oxford A	Warwick B	10	0	0	10
Oxford C	Southampton A	10	0	0	10
Bristol	Sheffield	10	0	10	20
Southampton B	NYU C	0	0	10	10
Columbia B	Haverford B	10	0	10	20
Johns Hopkins A	Rutgers A	10	0	10	20
Maryland B	Penn B	10	0	10	20
NYU B	George Washington A	10	0	10	20
George Washington B	Penn A	0	0	0	0
Yale A	Vassar A	10	0	10	20