The Four Seasons - 2025 ACF Regionals

Question

Théodore Géricault’s Man Clutching a Horse in Water was modeled on a painting in this series that depicts a deluge, which William Hazlitt hailed as “perhaps the finest historical landscape in the world.” For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this 17th-century series of paintings based on Old Testament stories. Two spies carry giant grapes in one painting in this series, while another shows Ruth kneeling before Boaz.

ANSWER: The Four Seasons [or Les Quatre Saisons]

[10m] The Four Seasons is a series by this Baroque artist. He may have allegorically depicted the seasons as four figures holding hands in a circle in a painting in which a winged old man on the right plays the lyre.

ANSWER: Nicolas Poussin (The painting is A Dance to the Music of Time.)

[10e] In another Poussin painting, the four seasons comprise this god’s retinue as he is beseeched by his son. The Colossus of Rhodes was a statue of this sun god who was often identified with Apollo.

ANSWER: Helios [or Helius]

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Summary


California	2025-02-01	Y	3	13.33	67%	67%	0%
Florida	2025-02-01	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Great Lakes	2025-02-01	Y	6	11.67	100%	17%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	6	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Midwest	2025-02-01	Y	6	20.00	100%	83%	17%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	67%	33%	0%
Northeast	2025-02-01	Y	5	14.00	80%	60%	0%
Pacific Northwest	2025-02-01	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
South Central	2025-02-01	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Southeast	2025-02-01	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	7	15.71	100%	43%	14%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%

Data


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