Faust - 2025 ACF Winter - Buzzpoints App

Question

David McVicar’s production of this opera for Covent (“CUV-int”) Garden includes a set of a cabaret modelled on a run-down tenement block. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this opera whose title character describes his coveting of youth in an Act I aria. This Charles Gounod opera also includes the “Golden Calf” song and the “Jewel Song.”

ANSWER: Faust

[10e] Faust is an opera in this language, which is also the language used in Carmen.

ANSWER: French [or Français]

[10h] Following the “Golden Calf” song in Faust, a group of soldiers cross their pommels, influenced by the “Benediction of the Swords” in this grand opera by Meyerbeer. This opera’s prelude quotes the hymn “Ein feste burg.”

ANSWER: Les Huguenots (“lay yoog-NO”) [or The Huguenots]

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Summary


California	Main	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
Canada	Main	Y	6	13.33	83%	33%	17%
Florida	Main	Y	12	15.00	92%	42%	17%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	3	0.00	0%	0%	0%
Overflow	Main	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Pacific Northwest	Main	Y	10	13.00	80%	30%	20%
South Central	Main	Y	5	6.00	40%	0%	20%
UK	Main	Y	4	20.00	100%	50%	50%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	8	13.75	75%	38%	25%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	8	13.75	63%	38%	38%
2025 ACF Nationals	2025-08-09	Y	9	11.11	89%	22%	0%

Data


Berkeley B	Stanford A	0	10	0	10
Berkeley C	Stanford B	10	10	0	20
Berkeley D	Stanford C	10	10	0	20
Claremont Scripps	UCI	10	10	10	30
Berkeley A	Berkeley E	10	10	0	20
Toronto D	McGill B	0	0	0	0
Waterloo	Toronto J	0	10	0	10
Ottawa	Toronto K	10	10	0	20
Toronto Metropolitan	Western Ontario	0	10	0	10
UCLA B	USC	0	10	0	10
UCSB	UCLA C	0	10	0	10
UCLA A	UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms	10	0	0	10
UCLA D	UCSD Vices and Virtues	0	10	0	10
UCSD What Hath God Wrought	Claremont Pitzer	0	10	0	10
Toronto F	Guelph B	0	10	0	10
Toronto H	McGill A	10	10	0	20
Carleton	McMaster A	0	10	10	20
Guelph A	McMaster B	10	10	0	20
McMaster C	Toronto C	0	10	0	10
Queen's B	Toronto E	0	10	0	10
Toronto A	McGill C	10	10	10	30
Toronto I	Toronto B	10	10	0	20
FIU	UF B	0	0	0	0
UCF A	UCF B	0	0	0	0
UF E	UF A	0	0	0	0
WashU A	Missouri A	10	10	0	20
Michigan B	Chicago C	0	10	0	10
Illinois B	Notre Dame D	0	0	0	0
Notre Dame B	Indiana A	0	10	0	10
Kentucky	Purdue A	0	10	0	10
Macalester A	St. Thomas	0	10	10	20
Macalester B	Carleton	0	10	0	10
Minnesota B	Minnesota A	0	0	0	0
Nebraska	Minnesota C	0	0	0	0
Wisconsin	Iowa State	0	0	0	0
Alberta	British Columbia B	0	10	0	10
British Columbia A	British Columbia C	10	10	10	30
Washington A	British Columbia D	10	10	10	30
Simon Fraser	Washington B	0	10	0	10
Chicago B	Purdue C	10	10	0	20
Louisville A	Chicago D	10	10	0	20
Louisville B	Notre Dame C	10	10	10	30
Michigan A	Notre Dame A	0	10	10	20
UIC	Michigan C	0	10	0	10
Illinois C	Purdue B	0	0	0	0
Arizona State A	McGill D	0	10	0	10
Arizona State B	Northwestern C	0	10	0	10
Northwestern A	Northwestern B	10	10	10	30
Rose State	Ohio	0	0	0	0
Texas A	Texas B	10	10	10	30
Tulsa	Iowa	0	0	0	0
Alberta B	UCO	0	10	0	10
UTD A	UTD B	10	10	0	20
UAB A	Alabama B	0	0	0	0
Auburn B	Sewanee A	0	0	0	0
Vanderbilt A	Bruin A	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech A	Georgia Tech B	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech C	Vanderbilt B	10	10	10	30
Huntsville B	Huntsville A	0	0	0	0
Alabama A	Mississippi State A	0	10	0	10
LSE A	Imperial B	0	10	0	10
Oxford A	Southampton A	10	10	0	20
Bristol B	Cambridge C	0	10	0	10
Cambridge B	City St George's A	0	10	0	10
Imperial A	Sheffield B	0	10	0	10
Durham B	Manchester A	0	0	0	0
Sheffield A	Durham A	10	10	0	20
Imperial C	Sheffield C	0	10	0	10
Oxford B	Southampton B	0	10	0	10
Auburn A	Georgia Tech D	10	10	10	30