Richard Nixon - 2025 ACF Regionals

Question

Answer the following about ballets titled for the color red, for 10 points each.

[10e] This politician and his wife watch the ballet The Red Detachment of Women in a John Adams opera that fictionalizes his 1972 visit to China.

ANSWER: Richard Nixon [or Richard Milhous Nixon; accept Nixon in China]

[10m] Reinhold Glière’s ballet The Red Poppy popularized the yablochko (“YA-blutch-kuh”), or “little apple,” a Russian folk dance associated with people of this profession. In the UK, people of this profession often performed the hornpipe dance.

ANSWER: sailors [accept Russian sailors’ dance or “Dance of the Sailors from the Soviet Ship”; accept Sailor’s Hornpipe; accept mariners]

[10h] This choreographer used Bernard Herrmann’s film scores for the music of a ballet adaptation of the Powell and Pressburger film The Red Shoes. Male dancers play the swans in this choreographer’s version of Swan Lake.

ANSWER: Matthew Bourne [or Matthew Christopher Bourne]

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Summary


California	2025-02-01	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Florida	2025-02-01	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	6	11.67	100%	17%	0%
Midwest	2025-02-01	Y	6	13.33	100%	33%	0%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Northeast	2025-02-01	Y	5	12.00	100%	20%	0%
Overflow	2025-02-01	Y	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
South Central	2025-02-01	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Southeast	2025-02-01	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
UK	2025-02-01	Y	10	19.00	100%	70%	20%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	8	16.25	100%	63%	0%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	3	6.67	67%	0%	0%

Data


Minnesota B	Carleton	10	0	0	10
Iowa State	Wisconsin A	10	10	0	20
Wisconsin B	Winona State	10	0	0	10
Cambridge A	Cambridge E	10	10	0	20
Warwick B	Cambridge B	10	10	0	20
Warwick A	Cambridge C	10	10	0	20
Bristol	Cambridge D	10	10	10	30
Oxford B	Durham	10	10	10	30
Imperial A	NYU C	10	0	0	10
Chicago A	Illinois A	10	10	0	20
Illinois B	Chicago D	10	0	0	10
Chicago C	Illinois C	10	0	0	10
Indiana A	Indiana B	10	0	0	10
Missouri	WashU B	10	0	0	10
WashU A	Missoui S&T	10	10	0	20
ASU	TAMU	10	0	0	10
Texas A	Texas B	10	0	0	10
Louisville A	Alabama A	10	0	0	10
Georgia Tech C	Georgia Tech A	10	10	0	20
Vanderbilt A	Tennessee A	10	0	0	10
Georgia Tech D	Bruin A	10	0	0	10
Columbia B	NYU A	10	10	0	20
Columbia C	Haverford A	10	0	0	10
John Jay College	Maryland A	10	0	0	10
Vassar A	Johns Hopkins A	10	10	0	20
Penn A	Maryland B	10	10	0	20
Yale A	NYU B	10	10	0	20
George Washington B	Penn B	10	0	0	10
Rutgers A	George Washington A	10	10	0	20
Binghamton A	Cornell D	10	0	0	10
ESF A	RIT A	0	0	0	0
RIT B	Cornell C	10	0	0	10
Claremont B	Claremont A	10	10	0	20
UC Berkeley A	UC Berkeley B	10	10	0	20
UCLA	UCSD	10	10	0	20
Florida B	Valencia A	10	10	0	20
Florida State A	Florida A	10	0	0	10
UCF C	UCF B	10	0	0	10
Virginia Tech A	Duke	10	0	0	10
Liberty A	Wake Forest	10	0	0	10
UNC B	Liberty B	10	0	0	10
Virginia A	South Carolina	10	0	0	10
UNC C	Liberty C	10	10	0	20
UNC D	William & Mary	10	0	0	10
BU	UMass Boston	10	0	0	10
Harvard A	Brandeis A	10	0	0	10
Harvard B	Brandeis B	10	0	0	10
Brown A	Dartmouth A	10	10	0	20
Tufts A	MIT A	10	0	0	10
Purdue	Georgetown B	10	0	0	10
Iowa	Georgetown A	10	0	0	10
Northwestern A	Notre Dame C	10	10	0	20
Northwestern B	Notre Dame B	10	10	0	20
Stanford B	Notre Dame A	10	0	0	10
Oxford C	LSE	10	0	0	10
Sheffield	Imperial B	10	10	0	20
Oxford A	Southampton A	10	10	0	20
Manchester	Southampton B	10	0	0	10