Queen of Sheba - 2025 ACF Regionals

Question

The novel Wolf Hall fictionalizes the reception of a real-life miniature by Hans Holbein in which Anne Boleyn is allegorically depicted as this woman. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this Old Testament woman. J. M. W. Turner partly modeled his painting Dido Building Carthage on a 1648 seascape by Claude Lorrain titled for this woman’s “Embarkation.”

ANSWER: Queen of Sheba [accept Bilqis or Makeda] (Claude Lorrain’s painting is The Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba.)

[10h] This artist’s The Visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon allegorizes a trip by the Duchess and Duke of Mantua to her native Bologna. Hypertrichosis explains the hairy face in this artist’s painting of Antonietta Gonzales.

ANSWER: Lavinia Fontana

[10e] The Queen of Sheba’s visit to Solomon fittingly appears on the mantle of Caspar, one of these people, in Hieronymus Bosch’s depiction of the Adoration, in which these people visit the infant Jesus.

ANSWER: Three Magi [or Three Wise Men; or Three Kings]

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Summary


Florida	2025-02-01	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
Great Lakes	2025-02-01	Y	6	11.67	100%	17%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	5	12.00	100%	20%	0%
Midwest	2025-02-01	Y	6	16.67	100%	50%	17%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Northeast	2025-02-01	Y	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
Overflow	2025-02-01	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Pacific Northwest	2025-02-01	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
South Central	2025-02-01	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Southeast	2025-02-01	Y	4	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	9	12.22	100%	22%	0%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	3	6.67	67%	0%	0%

Data


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