Pierrot - 2025 ACF Regionals

Question

A poetry collection titled for this character describes “the wine through our eyes we drink” and inspired a piece that pioneered the Sprechstimme (“SHPRECK-shtim-uh”) technique. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this “sad clown” character from the commedia dell’arte tradition. Arnold Schoenberg adapted an Albert Giraud (“zhee-ROH”) cycle titled for this character “moonstruck,” or “lunaire.”

ANSWER: Pierrot (“p’yeh-ROH”) [accept Pierrot lunaire]

[10h] This novel’s narrator quotes the line “the wine through our eyes we drink” and provides an image of the score from Pierrot Lunaire while describing Ungargassenland. The narrator of this novel by Ingeborg Bachmann disappears into a crack in the wall.

ANSWER: Malina

[10m] Theodor Adorno’s explanations of Schoenberg’s twelve-tone technique aided in the conception of this novel, which caused a feud between Schoenberg and its author. This novel follows the composer Adrian Leverkühn.

ANSWER: Doktor Faustus (by Thomas Mann)

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Florida	2025-02-01	Y	3	6.67	67%	0%	0%
Great Lakes	2025-02-01	Y	6	10.00	67%	17%	17%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	6	8.33	33%	50%	0%
Midwest	2025-02-01	Y	6	18.33	83%	67%	33%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
Northeast	2025-02-01	Y	5	14.00	80%	60%	0%
Overflow	2025-02-01	Y	4	15.00	50%	50%	50%
Pacific Northwest	2025-02-01	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
South Central	2025-02-01	Y	2	10.00	50%	50%	0%
Southeast	2025-02-01	Y	4	17.50	75%	75%	25%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	9	14.44	56%	56%	33%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	3	3.33	33%	0%	0%

Data


Ohio State B	Michigan D	10	0	0	10
Michigan State	Michigan B	10	0	0	10
Indiana A	WashU B	10	0	10	20
Iowa State	Carleton	10	10	10	30
Winona State	Minnesota B	10	0	10	20
Georgetown A	Northwestern B	10	10	10	30
Notre Dame B	Notre Dame C	0	0	0	0
Alberta	UW B	10	0	0	10
UW A	UBC	10	0	10	20
Georgia Tech C	Louisville A	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech B	Vanderbilt A	0	0	10	10
Cornell C	Binghamton A	0	0	0	0
Florida A	Valencia A	10	0	0	10
Carnegie Mellon B	Michigan C	0	0	0	0
Kenyon	Case Western B	0	0	0	0
UNC B	William & Mary	10	0	0	10
Virginia Tech A	UNC C	0	0	10	10
Chicago B	Illinois B	0	0	0	0
Illinois A	Chicago C	10	10	10	30
Illinois C	Missouri	10	0	0	10
WashU A	Indiana B	10	0	10	20
Wisconsin B	Wisconsin A	10	0	0	10
Brandeis A	BU	0	0	0	0
Brown A	Tufts A	10	0	0	10
MIT A	UMass Boston	10	0	10	20
Iowa	Purdue	0	0	0	0
Stanford B	Northwestern A	10	10	10	30
ASU	Texas B	10	0	10	20
Bruin A	Alabama A	10	0	10	20
NYU A	Cornell B	10	10	10	30
George Washington A	Haverford B	10	0	0	10
Rutgers A	Penn A	10	0	0	10
Maryland B	Vassar A	0	0	10	10
Yale A	Columbia B	0	10	10	20
UCF B	Florida State A	0	0	0	0
UCF C	Florida B	10	0	0	10
Michigan A	Carnegie Mellon A	10	10	10	30
Ohio State A	Case Western A	10	0	0	10
Liberty A	Duke	0	0	10	10
South Carolina	Liberty B	0	0	0	0
Virginia A	UNC D	10	0	10	20
Wake Forest	Liberty C	0	0	0	0
Chicago A	Chicago D	10	10	10	30
Harvard A	Brandeis B	10	0	10	20
Dartmouth A	Harvard B	10	0	10	20
TAMU	Texas A	0	0	0	0
Georgia Tech A	Tennessee A	10	0	0	10
John Jay College	Columbia C	10	0	10	20
Johns Hopkins A	Maryland A	10	10	10	30
NYU B	George Washington B	0	0	0	0
Penn B	Haverford A	0	0	0	0
RIT A	Cornell D	0	0	0	0
RIT B	ESF A	10	0	0	10