cochineal dye - 2025 ACF Winter

Question

Folio 500 of the Codex Osuna depicts the production of this good, whose Nahuatl (“na-WA-tull”) name is nocheztli. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this good produced by grinding the bodies of a scale insect that lives on prickly pear cacti. This dye gave English army coats and Catholic cardinal robes their distinctive colorations.

ANSWER: cochineal dye [or carmine; or crimson lake; or carminic acid; prompt on red dye]

[10m] The red robes of this artist’s portrait of Agostino Pallavicini may have been created with cochineal. This artist painted a self-portrait of himself with a sunflower and a chain awarded to him by Charles I of England.

ANSWER: Anthony van Dyck [reject “van Eyck”]

[10e] Cochineal was used to render the fabric draped over the right shoulder of a lute-playing youth in The Musicians by this artist known for his use of tenebrism in paintings such as The Calling of St. Matthew.

ANSWER: Caravaggio [or Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio; reject “Michelangelo”]

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Summary


California	Main	Y	5	16.00	80%	60%	20%
Canada	Main	Y	6	13.33	100%	0%	33%
Florida	Main	Y	12	16.67	83%	25%	58%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	6	8.33	50%	0%	33%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	7	15.71	86%	29%	43%
Midwest	Main	Y	8	12.50	75%	13%	38%
North	Main	Y	11	15.45	73%	27%	55%
Northeast	Main	Y	5	16.00	80%	20%	60%
Overflow	Main	Y	4	17.50	75%	25%	75%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	8	22.50	88%	75%	63%
2025 ACF Nationals	2025-08-09	Y	14	21.43	86%	50%	79%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	04/19/2025	Y	4	15.00	75%	0%	75%

Data


Berkeley B	Berkeley A	0	10	10	20
Stanford B	Berkeley D	0	10	10	20
Berkeley E	Stanford A	0	0	10	10
Berkeley C	Stanford C	0	10	10	20
Berkeley F	UCSC	10	0	0	10
UCLA B	Claremont Pitzer	0	0	10	10
UCSD Vices and Virtues	UCI	0	0	10	10
UCLA A	Claremont Scripps	0	0	10	10
UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms	UCLA C	10	0	10	20
UCLA D	USC	0	0	10	10
UCSB	UCSD What Hath God Wrought	10	0	10	20
Western Ontario	Guelph A	10	0	0	10
Carleton	Guelph B	0	10	10	20
McGill B	Toronto A	0	0	10	10
McMaster C	Toronto E	0	10	10	20
Ottawa	McMaster A	10	10	10	30
Queen's B	McGill C	0	0	10	10
Toronto H	Toronto C	10	0	10	20
Toronto I	Queen's A	10	0	10	20
Toronto G	Toronto J	10	0	0	10
Toronto K	Toronto B	10	0	10	20
Toronto Metropolitan	Toronto F	0	0	10	10
Toronto D	Waterloo	10	0	10	20
UF D	Melbourne A	0	0	10	10
ERAU A	FSU	10	0	0	10
FIU	UF A	0	0	10	10
UCF B	UF E	0	0	0	0
ERAU B	USF	10	0	0	10
CWRU A	CWRU B	10	0	10	20
CWRU C	MSU B	0	10	10	20
Kenyon A	Kenyon B	0	0	0	0
Pitt A	MSU A	10	10	10	30
OSU B	OSU A	10	0	10	20
OSU D	OSU C	0	0	10	10
Pitt C	CWRU D	0	0	10	10
Clemson A	James Madison	0	0	10	10
Liberty A	Liberty C	0	10	10	20
Tusculum	South Carolina B	0	0	10	10
South Carolina A	Tennessee A	10	0	10	20
Tennessee B	Virginia B	10	0	0	10
Clemson B	Virginia A	0	0	10	10
Virginia Tech A	Roanoke	10	0	10	20
Virginia Tech B	NC State	0	0	0	0
UF B	UCF A	0	0	10	10
Catholic University	George Mason A	10	0	10	20
George Mason C	George Washington B	0	0	10	10
George Washington A	Georgetown B	0	0	0	0
VCU A	Johns Hopkins A	10	0	0	10
Maryland A	George Mason B	10	0	10	20
Maryland B	Johns Hopkins B	10	0	10	20
Georgetown A	Maryland C	0	10	10	20
NYU A	Penn A	10	10	10	30
NYU B	Maryland D	10	10	10	30
Johns Hopkins C	Penn B	0	0	10	10
UMBC A	Notre Dame E	0	0	0	0
Columbia A	Lehigh B	10	0	10	20
Swarthmore A	Columbia B	0	0	10	10
Princeton A	Columbia C	10	0	10	20
Rowan A	Lehigh A	0	0	0	0
Rutgers B	Rutgers C	10	10	10	30
Missouri A	WashU B	10	10	10	30
WashU A	Missouri B	10	0	10	20
WashU C	William Woods	10	0	10	20
WashU D	Truman State	0	0	0	0
Mississippi State A	Auburn A	0	0	0	0
Alabama A	UAB A	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech B	Alabama B	10	10	10	30
Vanderbilt A	Georgia Tech C	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech D	Huntsville B	0	10	10	20
Huntsville A	Sewanee A	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech A	Vanderbilt B	10	10	10	30
Imperial A	Birmingham A	10	10	10	30
Cambridge C	Bristol A	10	0	10	20
Imperial B	City St George's A	10	10	10	30
Durham A	Cambridge B	0	0	10	10
Southampton B	Durham B	10	0	10	20
Cambridge A	Edinburgh A	10	10	10	30
Imperial C	Cambridge D	10	0	0	10
Manchester A	LSE A	10	10	10	30
Manchester B	Bristol B	10	0	10	20
Oxford A	Southampton A	10	10	10	30
Sheffield B	Oxford B	10	0	10	20
Lancaster A	Sheffield C	0	10	10	20
Sheffield A	Warwick A	10	10	10	30
Warwick B	Edinburgh B	0	0	0	0
Binghamton A	RIT A	10	0	10	20
RIT B	Cornell-DII	10	0	10	20
ESF	Rochester	10	0	0	10
Binghamton B	Syracuse	0	0	10	10
Bruin A	Auburn B	10	10	10	30