Gioachino Rossini - 2025 ACF Fall

Question

An opera by this composer was drawn upon for a piece which consists of two sopranos repeatedly meowing at each other. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this composer, whose 1816 opera Otello was used as the inspiration for the “Humorous Duet for Two Cats.” This composer’s other operas include The Barber of Seville.

ANSWER: Gioachino Rossini

[10e] The overture section “March of the Swiss Soldiers” in this Rossini opera has often been associated with galloping horses. This opera’s title character sings “Sois immobile” while trying to shoot an apple off his son’s head.

ANSWER: William Tell [or Guillaume Tell; accept William Tell Overture]

[10h] This instrument is used to symbolize the titular bird in the overture to Rossini’s The Thieving Magpie. This instrument plays an ostinato throughout the “Invasion Theme” of Shostakovich’s “Leningrad” Symphony.

ANSWER: snare drum [prompt on drum]

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Northern California	Main	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
Eastern Canada (1)	Main	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
Eastern Canada (2)	Main	Y	9	14.44	100%	33%	11%
Florida	Main	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	10	17.00	100%	60%	10%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	9	22.22	100%	78%	44%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	9	16.67	89%	67%	11%
Midwest	Main	Y	9	15.56	100%	56%	0%
North	Main	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
Northeast	Main	Y	11	14.55	91%	55%	0%
South Central	Main	Y	6	10.00	83%	17%	0%
Southeast	Main	Y	12	15.83	92%	58%	8%
UK (North)	UK	Y	5	14.00	80%	60%	0%
UK (South)	UK	Y	8	13.75	75%	50%	13%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%

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Stanford B	Berkeley Mighty Miner	10	10	0	20
Berkeley Boss Bandit	UCSC	0	10	0	10
Berkeley Little Prince	Berkeley Archer Queen	10	10	0	20
McGill B	Carleton A	0	10	0	10
McGill A	McGill E	0	10	0	10
McGill C	Ottawa B	0	10	0	10
Carleton B	Ottawa A	10	10	0	20
Guelph A	Waterloo B	0	10	10	20
McMaster A	Waterloo C	10	10	0	20
Toronto D	McMaster C	0	10	0	10
Toronto E	Brock A	0	10	0	10
Toronto F	Toronto C	0	10	0	10
McMaster B	Toronto G	10	10	0	20
Toronto A	Toronto H	10	10	0	20
Toronto B	Toronto I	0	10	0	10
Waterloo A	Queen's A	0	10	0	10
Berkeley Skeleton King	Stanford A	10	10	0	20
Florida A	Florida State A	10	10	0	20
Florida B	ERAU Daytona A	0	10	0	10
UCF A	Florida Tech A	0	10	0	10
Florida Tech B	South Florida A	0	10	0	10
CWRU C	Louisville C	0	10	10	20
Louisville B	Kentucky	10	10	0	20
Ohio State C	Michigan B	0	10	0	10
Pittsburgh	Michigan State C	10	10	0	20
Louisville A	Michigan State D	10	10	0	20
Michigan State A	Ohio State D	10	10	0	20
Michigan State B	WVU A	10	10	0	20
WVU B	CWRU A	0	10	0	10
CWRU D	Louisville D	0	10	0	10
Michigan A	Ohio State B	10	10	0	20
Duke A	William & Mary A	10	10	10	30
UNC B	JMU B	10	10	10	30
Liberty A	Virginia Tech A	10	10	0	20
Virginia Tech C	Liberty B	10	10	10	30
Liberty C	Virginia A	0	10	0	10
Virginia Tech B	NCSU B	10	10	10	30
UNC A	Tusculum A	0	10	0	10
UNC C	JMU A	10	10	0	20
NCSU A	William & Mary B	10	10	0	20
George Mason A	Columbia A	10	10	0	20
Maryland A	George Mason C	10	10	10	30
Columbia B	Lehigh A	0	0	0	0
Maryland C	Rowan	0	10	0	10
George Mason B	NYU B	10	10	0	20
Penn	NYU C	10	10	0	20
Maryland B	Rutgers A	10	10	0	20
NYU A	Stony Brook	10	10	0	20
Vassar A	Rutgers B	0	10	0	10
Chicago B	Iowa A	0	10	0	10
Illinois Blue	Purdue D	10	10	0	20
WashU Grolars	Illinois Canada	10	10	0	20
Purdue B	Illinois Champaign	10	10	0	20
Illinois Orange	Chicago A	0	10	0	10
Illinois Urbana	Purdue A	10	10	0	20
Rose-Hulman A	Indiana A	10	10	0	20
Purdue C	WashU Grizzlers	0	10	0	10
William Woods University A	Iowa B	0	10	0	10
Wisconsin B	Minnesota	0	10	0	10
St. Thomas	Macalester	10	10	0	20
Wisconsin A	Michigan Tech	10	10	0	20
Iowa State	Wisconsin C	10	10	0	20
Dartmouth B	Brandeis Bach	0	10	0	10
Brandeis Mozart	Brown B	10	10	0	20
Brown A	Williams C	10	10	0	20
Amherst A	Dartmouth C	0	10	0	10
Williams A	Harvard	10	10	0	20
MIT B	Boston College B	0	10	0	10
MIT A	Tufts A	10	10	0	20
Boston University A	Tufts C	0	10	0	10
UConn A	Boston University B	10	10	0	20
Dartmouth A	Vermont B	10	10	0	20
Williams B	Vermont A	0	0	0	0
Central Oklahoma B	Murray State College B	0	10	0	10
Murray State College A	Nebraska C	10	10	0	20
Nebraska B	Kansas State B	0	0	0	0
Tulsa A	Oklahoma	0	10	0	10
Central Oklahoma A	Rose State	0	10	0	10
Kansas State A	Nebraska A	0	10	0	10
Auburn C	Clemson C	0	10	0	10
Clemson B	Vanderbilt A	0	10	0	10
Montevallo	Emory A	0	0	0	0
Georgia A	Vanderbilt C	0	10	0	10
Alabama A	Georgia Tech A	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech B	Georgia Tech D	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech C	Sewanne	10	10	10	30
Auburn A	Georgia Tech E	0	10	0	10
Auburn B	Georgia Tech F	10	10	0	20
Mississippi State A	Vanderbilt B	10	10	0	20
Clemson A	Tennessee B	10	10	0	20
Chipola College	Tennessee A	10	10	0	20
Durham C	Edinburgh D	10	10	0	20
Edinburgh A	Durham B	0	0	0	0
Durham D	Edinburgh C	10	10	0	20
Sheffield B	York	0	10	0	10
Durham A	Edinburgh B	10	10	0	20
Cambridge B	Bristol	10	10	0	20
Cambridge A	Birmingham	10	10	0	20
Cambridge C	Southampton	10	10	10	30
Warwick	Cambridge D	0	0	0	0
Cambridge E	Imperial B	0	0	0	0
Imperial A	LSE	0	10	0	10
Cardiff	Imperial C	10	10	0	20
Oxford	Imperial D	0	10	0	10
Cornell A	Binghamton B	10	10	0	20
Binghamton A	Cornell B	10	10	0	20
ESF	Cornell C	0	10	0	10
RIT B	Binghamton C	0	10	0	10
Cornell D	Rochester	10	10	0	20