hearts - 2025 ACF Regionals

Question

Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes’s (“ree-buh-MON deh-SEN-yuh’s”) play Blow Your Noses was performed at a show titled for a “Bearded” one of these objects. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name these objects, one of which is the last word in the English-language title of a play whose characters are named for body parts like Mouth, Ear, and Eyebrow.

ANSWER: hearts [or cœur; accept The Gas Heart or The Gas-Operated Heart or Le Cœur à gaz; accept Bearded Heart or Le Cœur à barbe]

[10e] Tristan Tzara performed his play The Gas Heart at the Bearded Heart show, which aimed to highlight this avant-garde art movement whose name supposedly derives from the French word for “hobby horse.”

ANSWER: Dada [or word forms like Dadaism or Dadaist]

[10m] The role of Eyebrow in The Gas Heart was originated by Philippe Soupault (“soo-POH”), who wrote The Magnetic Fields with André Breton using this technique. Breton defined Surrealism as a “pure psychic” form of this technique.

ANSWER: automatic writing [or automatism; prompt on randomness or chance or improvisational writing; reject “exquisite corpse”]

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Summary


California	2025-02-01	Y	3	26.67	100%	100%	67%
Florida	2025-02-01	Y	1	30.00	100%	100%	100%
Great Lakes	2025-02-01	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
Midwest	2025-02-01	Y	5	20.00	100%	60%	40%
North	2025-02-01	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Northeast	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	67%	33%	0%
Overflow	2025-02-01	Y	4	10.00	75%	0%	25%
South Central	2025-02-01	Y	1	30.00	100%	100%	100%
Southeast	2025-02-01	Y	2	25.00	100%	50%	100%
UK	2025-02-01	Y	6	23.33	100%	100%	33%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	7	18.57	100%	57%	29%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Florida	2025-02-01	N	2	20.00	100%	50%	50%
Great Lakes	2025-02-01	N	6	18.33	100%	50%	33%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	N	6	23.33	100%	100%	33%
Midwest	2025-02-01	N	6	21.67	100%	83%	33%
North	2025-02-01	N	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
Northeast	2025-02-01	N	5	18.00	100%	20%	60%
Overflow	2025-02-01	N	5	20.00	100%	60%	40%
Pacific Northwest	2025-02-01	N	2	25.00	100%	100%	50%
South Central	2025-02-01	N	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Southeast	2025-02-01	N	4	10.00	75%	25%	0%
UK	2025-02-01	N	10	7.00	70%	0%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	N	8	13.75	88%	38%	13%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	N	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2025 Chicago Open	2025-08-09	N	10	11.00	70%	40%	0%

Data


UC Berkeley B	Claremont B	10	10	10	30
UC Berkeley A	UCLA	10	10	10	30
UCSD	Claremont A	0	10	10	20
Florida A	Florida State A	10	10	10	30
Michigan B	Kenyon	0	10	0	10
Carnegie Mellon A	Michigan State	0	10	10	20
Michigan C	Ohio State A	0	10	0	10
Ohio State B	Case Western A	0	10	0	10
Chicago C	Indiana A	0	10	0	10
Chicago B	Missoui S&T	0	10	0	10
Chicago A	Missouri	0	10	10	20
Illinois A	WashU A	10	10	10	30
WashU B	Illinois B	10	10	10	30
Iowa State	Winona State	0	10	10	20
BU	Harvard B	0	0	0	0
Tufts A	Harvard A	0	10	0	10
MIT A	Brown A	0	10	10	20
Georgetown A	Northwestern A	10	10	0	20
Notre Dame A	Iowa	0	10	0	10
Northwestern B	Stanford B	0	10	0	10
Notre Dame C	Purdue	0	0	0	0
Texas A	ASU	10	10	10	30
Bruin A	Georgia Tech A	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech C	Tennessee A	10	10	0	20
Cambridge A	Imperial A	0	10	10	20
Cambridge B	Oxford C	0	10	10	20
Oxford A	Cambridge D	10	10	10	30
Manchester	Durham	0	10	10	20
Cambridge C	Oxford B	0	10	10	20
LSE	Southampton A	10	10	10	30
Vassar A	Cornell B	0	10	10	20
Johns Hopkins A	Columbia C	10	10	10	30
Maryland A	Haverford B	0	10	0	10
NYU A	Maryland B	10	10	10	30
Penn A	John Jay College	0	10	0	10
Yale A	George Washington A	0	10	0	10
Columbia B	George Washington B	0	10	10	20
Cornell C	RIT A	0	10	0	10