Question
This country inspired a dark piano work with an opening triplet motif of [read slowly] D, C-sharp, F-sharp, then long E-sharp. Paris’s Revue musicale popularized a composer from this country by publishing her salon piece “A Maiden’s Prayer.” A wind chorale consisting of three four-chord gestures opens the Piano Concerto No. 2 in E major by a composer born in this country who wrote the popular encore piece Étincelles (“ay-tan-SEL”). This country’s pianist Julian Fontana shared rooms with a composer who dedicated a piece to him written in one of this country’s five national dance forms. An F-sharp minor Opus 44 “Tragic” piece in that form by a composer from this country is often grouped with the “Military” and a piece nicknamed by George Sand, the “Heroic.” For 10 points, the mazurka is a dance from what home country of Frédéric Chopin? ■END■
Summary
California | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 121.67 |
Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 83% | 0% | 17% | 130.40 |
Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 121.50 |
Northeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 117.20 |
Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 100% | 137.00 |
South Central | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 82.50 |
Southeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 100% | 139.00 |
Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 98.38 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Richard Niu | Cornell B | George Washington A | 18 | 10 |
Andy Yu | Maryland A | Penn B | 41 | 10 |
Karan Gurazada | Texas A | TAMU | 42 | 10 |
Alan Fan | UW B | Alberta | 59 | -5 |
Wyatt Curry | Missouri | Indiana A | 92 | 10 |
Russell Nip | UBC | UW A | 92 | -5 |
Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Georgia Tech C | 92 | -5 |
Arjun Nageswaran | Harvard A | BU | 94 | 10 |
Nathan Redford | Liberty A | Liberty B | 108 | -5 |
Audrey Evans | Dartmouth A | Brandeis A | 108 | -5 |
Kevin Park | Claremont A | UCSD | 114 | 10 |
Luke Robitaille | MIT A | Brandeis B | 114 | 10 |
Chauncey Lo | Columbia C | Vassar A | 114 | 10 |
Aum Mundhe | Rutgers A | NYU B | 116 | 10 |
Will Zhang | Tufts A | UMass Boston | 117 | 10 |
Eve Fleisig | UC Berkeley A | UCLA | 118 | 10 |
Annabelle Yang | WashU A | Chicago C | 120 | 10 |
Nick Smemoe | UNC D | Duke | 123 | 10 |
Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | Virginia Tech A | 123 | 10 |
John John Groger | WashU B | Chicago D | 123 | 10 |
Philip Yao | Brown A | Harvard B | 123 | 10 |
Bryan Ugaz | ASU | Texas B | 123 | 10 |
Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay College | Maryland B | 123 | 10 |
Ivvone Zhou | Penn A | Haverford B | 123 | 10 |
Jacob Harl | Missoui S&T | Chicago A | 126 | 10 |
Frederick Rivas-Giorgi | Yale A | Haverford A | 126 | 10 |
Owen Mimno | NYU A | George Washington B | 126 | 10 |
Chris Yoo | William & Mary | Liberty C | 128 | 10 |
Nermeen Rahman | Indiana B | Chicago B | 131 | 10 |
Vinu Harihar | UC Berkeley B | Claremont B | 133 | 10 |
Catherine Welch | UW A | UBC | 135 | 10 |
Gabe Dubowski | Illinois B | Illinois C | 137 | 10 |
Kayla Drajpuch | Brandeis A | Dartmouth A | 138 | 10 |
Samuel Miller | Liberty B | Liberty A | 139 | 0 |
Diego Almaraz | UNC C | UNC B | 139 | 10 |
Robert Freeman | South Carolina | Wake Forest | 139 | 10 |
Anne Fjeld | Alberta | UW B | 139 | 10 |
Jeffrey Xu | Georgia Tech C | Bruin A | 139 | 10 |