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These objects are created by brands like Gaynor Minden and Bloch, while LaDuca is a major brand for a different, versatile form of these objects called their “character” type. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name these objects, which Léonide Massine played a creator of in a 1948 movie. That 1948 movie by British filmmakers Powell and Pressburger was named after some of these objects.

ANSWER: shoes [accept dance shoes; accept character shoes; accept ballet shoes or pointe shoes; accept The Red Shoes]

[10m] Dancer Massine also appeared in Powell and Pressburger’s The Tales of Hoffman, an adaptation of an opera by this composer. Other operas by this composer include Orpheus in the Underworld.

ANSWER: Jacques Offenbach (Orpheus in the Underworld’s “Infernal Galop” is commonly used for the can-can.)

[10e] Powell and Pressburger’s musical films followed Black Narcissus, which focuses on women in this profession. Robert le diable features a “ballet” of these women who train Maria from The Sound of Music in their monastery.

ANSWER: nuns [accept “Ballet of the Nuns;” accept religious sisters]

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Northern California	Main	Y	4	12.50	100%	0%	25%
Southern California	Main	Y	8	15.00	88%	38%	25%
Eastern Canada (1)	Main	Y	5	16.00	100%	40%	20%
Eastern Canada (2)	Main	Y	9	13.33	100%	22%	11%
Florida	Main	Y	4	7.50	75%	0%	0%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	12	17.50	100%	50%	25%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	9	16.67	100%	44%	22%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Midwest	Main	Y	9	15.56	89%	56%	11%
North	Main	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
Northeast	Main	Y	10	13.00	100%	20%	10%
Pacific	Main	Y	8	18.75	88%	75%	25%
South Central	Main	Y	7	11.43	100%	14%	0%
Southeast	Main	Y	13	13.85	100%	23%	15%
UK (North)	UK	Y	5	16.00	100%	20%	40%
UK (South)	UK	Y	8	16.25	100%	13%	50%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	5	14.00	100%	20%	20%
Northern California	Main	N	5	22.00	100%	80%	40%
Southern California	Main	N	6	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Eastern Canada	Main	N	13	16.15	92%	62%	8%
Florida	Main	N	6	10.00	83%	0%	17%
Great Lakes	Main	N	7	17.14	100%	43%	29%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	N	10	16.00	100%	50%	10%
Upper Mid-Atlantic (1)	Main	N	11	13.64	100%	27%	9%
Upper Mid-Atlantic (2)	Main	N	5	22.00	100%	80%	40%
Lower Midwest	Main	N	4	15.00	100%	25%	25%
Upper Midwest	Main	N	12	14.17	92%	33%	17%
North	Main	N	5	14.00	80%	60%	0%
Northeast	Main	N	12	12.50	92%	25%	8%
South Central	Main	N	8	12.50	100%	25%	0%
UK	Main	N	14	12.86	93%	36%	0%
Upstate NY	Main	N	4	10.00	75%	25%	0%

Data


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