A virtuosic A minor sonata for this group of instruments was written for Queen Elisabeth of Belgium. Students often perform from a set of 44 works for this group of instruments by Bartók. A concerto opens with this group of instruments in fugue playing a theme beginning with [read slowly] the sixteenth-note run “D E F G A, up to eighth-note D.” Piano accompanies this group of instruments in a Sarasate (“sa-ra-SAH-tay”) piece inspired by his birthplace of Navarre. Six B2TSM music videos were released in 2024 as a send-off for an Australian YouTube channel whose name references this group of instruments. Bach’s D minor concerto for this pair of instruments was performed in 1905 by Fritz Kreisler and Eugène Ysaÿe (“oo-ZHEN ee-ZYE”). For 10 points, what pair of instruments are joined by viola and cello in a string quartet? ■END■
| California | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 67% | 132.50 |
| Florida | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 90.33 |
| Great Lakes | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 83% | 0% | 50% | 105.60 |
| North | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 81.67 |
| Overflow | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 40% | 85.00 |
| Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 83.00 |
| South Central | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 56.00 |
| Southeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 93.75 |
| UK | 2025-02-01 | Y | 10 | 90% | 0% | 70% | 110.22 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 103.38 |
| Upstate NY | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 33% | 81.50 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Karan Gurazada | Texas A | TAMU | 16 | 10 |
| Arya Karthik | Oxford A | Oxford C | 28 | 10 |
| Sinecio Morales | Johns Hopkins A | Cornell B | 32 | 10 |
| Henry Keating | UCF C | Florida State A | 38 | 10 |
| Eric Yang | Purdue | Georgetown A | 42 | -5 |
| Guy Indorante | Iowa State | Wisconsin A | 49 | 10 |
| Christopher Sims | Northwestern A | Stanford B | 58 | 10 |
| Maya Kvaratskhelia | Notre Dame A | Notre Dame B | 59 | 10 |
| Jeffrey Xu | Georgia Tech C | Bruin A | 61 | 10 |
| Justin Keung | Imperial A | Cambridge C | 65 | -5 |
| Kevin Peng | Cornell C | RIT B | 65 | 10 |
| Rishi Swaminathan | NYU B | Columbia C | 68 | -5 |
| William Broker | Haverford B | Maryland B | 69 | -5 |
| Ruchir Kodihalli | Case Western B | Michigan State | 75 | 10 |
| Hamish Campbell | Durham | Southampton B | 75 | -5 |
| Vedh Ramesh | Penn B | John Jay College | 75 | -5 |
| Jason Qin | Columbia B | Penn A | 75 | 10 |
| Vinu Harihar | UC Berkeley B | UCLA | 76 | -5 |
| Alan Fan | UW B | Alberta | 76 | 10 |
| Louis Harney | Georgia Tech B | Georgia Tech A | 78 | -5 |
| Jacob Puthipiroj | Northwestern B | Georgetown B | 81 | -5 |
| Audrey Cho | Haverford A | George Washington A | 83 | -5 |
| Dennis Yang | Michigan C | Kenyon | 86 | 10 |
| Seraphina Charlotte Foo | Cambridge A | Warwick A | 86 | 10 |
| Brielle Rach | Iowa | Notre Dame C | 88 | 10 |
| Samir Sarma | Georgia Tech D | Alabama A | 89 | 10 |
| Percy Yuen | Cambridge D | Sheffield | 89 | 10 |
| Andy Yu | Maryland A | NYU A | 89 | 10 |
| John Chen | UBC | UW A | 90 | 10 |
| Kevin Park | Claremont A | UC Berkeley A | 91 | -5 |
| Kevin Zheng | Michigan B | Michigan A | 91 | -5 |
| Jayden Ku | Carnegie Mellon B | Ohio State A | 91 | -5 |
| Parker McCoig | Tennessee A | Louisville A | 91 | 10 |
| Aum Mundhe | Rutgers A | Vassar A | 91 | 10 |
| Cormac Beirne | LSE | Cambridge B | 93 | -5 |
| Leo Law | Florida A | Florida B | 96 | -5 |
| Stefan Stealey-Euchner | ASU | Texas B | 96 | 10 |
| Anna Barker | UCF B | Valencia A | 98 | 10 |
| Daniel Huang | Michigan D | Case Western A | 98 | -5 |
| Tony Boyle | Carnegie Mellon A | Ohio State B | 98 | 10 |
| Puna Ekka | Minnesota B | Carleton | 98 | 10 |
| Alex Smits | Wisconsin B | Winona State | 98 | 10 |
| Roselyn Daffin | Southampton A | Imperial B | 98 | -5 |
| Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt | NYU C | Manchester | 98 | -5 |
| Owen Linder | Binghamton A | Cornell D | 98 | 10 |
| Tobin Payne | Warwick B | Bristol | 100 | -5 |
| Sarah Henderson | Cambridge C | Imperial A | 117 | 10 |
| Paige Crawley | Oxford B | Cambridge E | 128 | -5 |
| Scarlet Rutter | Claremont B | UCSD | 130 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT A | ESF A | 131 | -5 |
| Kaiser Xiao | UCLA | UC Berkeley B | 134 | 0 |
| Roxanne Tang | Ohio State A | Carnegie Mellon B | 134 | 10 |
| Michael Zhou | Georgia Tech A | Georgia Tech B | 134 | 10 |
| Joshua Bobin | Imperial B | Southampton A | 134 | 10 |
| Kevin Flanagan | Bristol | Warwick B | 134 | 10 |
| Zosia Mikolajczuk | Southampton B | Durham | 134 | 10 |
| Eve Fleisig | UC Berkeley A | Claremont A | 135 | 10 |
| Bill Zhao | Florida B | Florida A | 135 | 10 |
| Todd Maslyk | Michigan A | Michigan B | 135 | 10 |
| Meggy Mani | Georgetown B | Northwestern B | 135 | 10 |
| Cole Hartung | Georgetown A | Purdue | 135 | 0 |
| Shiv Seshan | Cambridge B | LSE | 135 | 10 |
| Joel Crossley | Manchester | NYU C | 135 | 10 |
| Jon White | Cambridge E | Oxford B | 135 | 0 |
| Lowrie Woodside | George Washington A | Haverford A | 135 | 10 |
| Chauncey Lo | Columbia C | NYU B | 135 | 10 |
| Kevin Liu | Maryland B | Haverford B | 135 | 10 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay College | Penn B | 135 | 10 |