Rome - 2025 ACF Fall - Buzzpoints App

Question

A piece titled for this city features a phonograph recording of a nightingale in its third movement. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this city which titles three different tone poems by Ottorino Respighi (“ress-PEE-ghee”). This city is the setting of a ballet by Aram Khachaturian which features a notable “Adagio.”

ANSWER: Rome [or Roma; accept Pines of Rome; accept Fountains of Rome; accept Roman Festivals; accept Pini di Roma; accept Fontane di Roma; accept Feste Romane] (The Khachaturian ballet is Spartacus.)

[10e] In Pines of Rome, Respighi instructed this instrument to play several B flat pedals to depict the subterranean nature of the catacombs. This instrument’s “pipe” variety can often be found in churches.

ANSWER: organ [accept pipe organ; accept church organ]

[10h] The city of Rome also titles this Australian composer’s 1943 piece The Power of Rome and the Christian Heart, scored for military band and electric organ. This composer of Molly on the Shore and Lincolnshire Posy also popularized the old English folk tune “Country Gardens.”

ANSWER: Percy Grainger [or Percy Aldridge Grainger; or George Percy Grainger]

<Editors, Classical Music>

Back to bonuses

Summary


Northern California	Main	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
Southern California	Main	Y	7	15.71	100%	29%	29%
Eastern Canada (1)	Main	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
Eastern Canada (2)	Main	Y	9	14.44	100%	22%	22%
Florida	Main	Y	4	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	10	17.00	100%	50%	20%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	9	16.67	100%	33%	33%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	9	16.67	100%	33%	33%
Midwest	Main	Y	9	13.33	100%	11%	22%
North	Main	Y	4	22.50	100%	100%	25%
Northeast	Main	Y	12	12.50	100%	17%	8%
Pacific	Main	Y	8	17.50	100%	50%	25%
South Central	Main	Y	6	11.67	100%	17%	0%
Southeast	Main	Y	12	13.33	100%	17%	17%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	5	14.00	100%	20%	20%

Data


Berkeley Skeleton King	Berkeley Boss Bandit	10	10	0	20
Berkeley Mighty Miner	Berkeley Little Prince	0	10	0	10
UCSC	Stanford A	0	10	0	10
Berkeley Archer Queen	Stanford B	0	10	0	10
UCLA C	Claremont A	0	10	10	20
UC Irvine	UCLA A	0	10	10	20
UCSD A	UCLA B	10	10	0	20
UCLA D	Claremont C	0	10	0	10
Claremont B	UCLA F	10	10	0	20
UCSD B	USC B	0	10	0	10
UC Santa Barbara	USC A	0	10	0	10
Ottawa A	McGill A	0	10	0	10
Ottawa B	McGill B	10	10	0	20
Carleton B	Ottawa D	0	10	0	10
McGill C	Ottawa C	0	10	0	10
McMaster A	Toronto E	10	10	0	20
McMaster C	Toronto A	0	10	0	10
Guelph A	Toronto H	10	10	10	30
McMaster B	Toronto I	0	10	10	20
Toronto C	Brock A	0	10	0	10
Toronto G	Queen's A	0	10	0	10
Waterloo A	Toronto B	0	10	0	10
Toronto D	Waterloo B	0	10	0	10
Toronto F	Waterloo C	0	10	0	10
Florida A	ERAU Daytona A	0	10	0	10
Florida B	Florida State A	0	10	0	10
South Florida A	Florida Tech A	0	10	0	10
UCF A	Florida Tech B	0	10	0	10
Louisville B	Ohio State C	10	10	10	30
Louisville D	WVU B	0	10	0	10
CWRU B	Michigan A	10	10	0	20
Michigan B	Louisville A	10	10	0	20
Ohio State B	Michigan C	0	10	0	10
Michigan State C	Louisville C	0	10	0	10
Michigan State A	Ohio State A	10	10	10	30
Michigan D	Ohio State D	0	10	0	10
Pittsburgh	CWRU C	10	10	0	20
Michigan State D	WVU A	0	10	0	10
William & Mary A	JMU B	0	10	10	20
Liberty A	Duke A	0	10	10	20
Liberty B	Virginia A	0	10	0	10
William & Mary B	Liberty C	10	10	0	20
UNC D	NCSU A	0	10	0	10
NCSU B	Tusculum A	10	10	10	30
UNC A	UNC C	10	10	0	20
UNC B	William & Mary C	0	10	0	10
VCU A	JMU A	0	10	0	10
George Mason A	Johns Hopkins	10	10	10	30
Lehigh B	Rutgers B	0	10	0	10
Maryland C	Columbia B	0	10	0	10
Maryland A	NYU A	10	10	10	30
Rutgers A	Penn	0	10	0	10
George Mason B	Princeton	10	10	0	20
Rutgers C	George Mason C	0	10	0	10
Rutgers D	Columbia A	0	10	10	20
Vassar B	Vassar A	0	10	0	10
Chicago A	Chicago B	0	10	10	20
Illinois Blue	Iowa B	0	10	0	10
Rose-Hulman A	Illinois Canada	0	10	0	10
Indiana A	Illinois Champaign	10	10	10	30
Illinois Orange	Purdue A	0	10	0	10
Illinois Urbana	Indiana B	0	10	0	10
Iowa A	WashU Grizzlers	0	10	0	10
Purdue B	Purdue D	0	10	0	10
William Woods University A	WashU Grolars	0	10	0	10
Iowa State	Macalester	10	10	0	20
Michigan Tech	St. Thomas	10	10	10	30
Wisconsin A	Minnesota	10	10	0	20
Wisconsin C	Wisconsin B	10	10	0	20
Amherst A	Boston College B	0	10	0	10
Boston College A	Harvard	0	10	0	10
Boston University A	Brown A	0	10	0	10
Brown B	Dartmouth A	10	10	10	30
Alberta A	Arizona State B	10	10	10	30
Arizona State A	Washington Pink	10	10	0	20
Boise State	British Columbia C	0	10	0	10
British Columbia B	British Columbia A	10	10	0	20
Washington Atlantic	Washington Chinook	0	10	0	10
Washington Coho	Washington Steelhead	0	10	0	10
Washington Masu	Washington Chum	0	10	0	10
Washington State	Alberta B	10	10	10	30
Kansas State A	Nebraska C	0	10	0	10
Central Oklahoma A	Nebraska A	0	10	0	10
Nebraska B	Central Oklahoma B	10	10	0	20
Harding	Oklahoma	0	10	0	10
Tulsa A	Kansas State B	0	10	0	10
Rose State	Tulsa B	0	10	0	10
Alabama A	Tennessee B	10	10	10	30
Auburn B	Vanderbilt B	0	10	0	10
Auburn C	Georgia Tech B	0	10	0	10
Clemson B	Chipola College	0	10	0	10
Clemson C	Georgia A	0	10	0	10
Mississippi State A	Emory A	0	10	0	10
Vanderbilt A	Georgia Tech C	10	10	10	30
Auburn A	Georgia Tech D	0	10	0	10
Montevallo	Sewanne	0	10	0	10
South Carolina A	Georgia Tech E	0	10	0	10
Tennessee Tech	Georgia Tech F	0	10	0	10
Clemson A	Vanderbilt C	0	10	0	10
Williams B	Dartmouth C	0	10	0	10
MIT A	Boston University B	0	10	0	10
Tufts B	Southern Connecticut State University A	0	10	0	10
Brandeis Bach	Tufts C	0	10	0	10
UConn A	Brandeis Beethoven	0	10	0	10
MIT B	Vermont A	10	10	0	20
Vermont B	Amherst B	0	10	0	10
Williams C	Dartmouth B	0	10	0	10
Binghamton B	Binghamton C	0	10	0	10
Rochester	Cornell A	0	10	0	10
RIT A	Cornell B	0	10	10	20
Binghamton A	ESF	10	10	0	20
RIT B	Cornell C	0	10	0	10