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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Summary


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


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