Cole Porter - 2026 ACF Regionals

Question

This composer compared “the beat beat beat of the tom-tom” and “the tick tick tock of the stately clock” to a voice repeating “you, you, you” in the song “Night and Day.” For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this prolific composer of standards such as “All of You,” “Begin the Beguine (“beg-EEN”),” and “Love For Sale.”

ANSWER: Cole Porter [or Cole Albert Porter]

[10e] This musician recorded Cole Porter standards in the first album of her Song Book series, which inaugurated Norman Granz’s Verve Records. This “First Lady of Song” was known for her scat singing.

ANSWER: Ella Fitzgerald [or Ella Jane Fitzgerald; prompt on Ella]

[10h] This Cole Porter song is the first track on the 1972 album Ella Loves Cole. To comply with the Hays Code, Porter edited a lyric from this song about cocaine to “Some like the perfume from Spain.”

ANSWER: “I Get a Kick Out of You”

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Summary


California (South)	Main Site	Y	4	10.00	75%	0%	25%
Canada	Main Site	Y	10	10.00	90%	10%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	6	10.00	83%	0%	17%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	8	7.50	63%	13%	0%
Northeast	Main Site	Y	5	12.00	80%	40%	0%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
UK	Main Site	Y	12	13.33	75%	25%	33%

Data


UC Santa Barbara	Arizona State	0	10	10	20
UC Irvine	UCSD C	0	0	0	0
UCLA A	UCSD B	0	10	0	10
UCSD A	UCLA B	0	10	0	10
Carleton University	Toronto Metropolitan	0	10	0	10
Brock	Toronto D	10	10	0	20
Toronto E	Simon Fraser	0	10	0	10
Toronto F	Waterloo B	0	10	0	10
McGill B	UBC A	0	10	0	10
Ottawa	UBC B	0	10	0	10
Waterloo A	McGill A	0	10	0	10
Toronto G	Western B	0	0	0	0
Liberty B	NC State B	0	10	0	10
North Carolina A	Liberty C	0	10	0	10
Liberty A	North Carolina C	0	0	0	0
South Carolina A	VCU	0	10	0	10
South Carolina B	North Carolina B	0	10	10	20
Virginia Tech A	Virginia	0	10	0	10
William and Mary	Virginia Tech B	0	10	0	10
Chicago B	Chicago D	0	10	0	10
Chicago A	Chicago C	10	10	0	20
Chicago E	Indiana B	0	0	0	0
Illinois A	Illinois C	0	10	0	10
Northwestern B	Indiana A	0	10	0	10
Purdue B	Northwestern C	0	10	0	10
Northwestern D	Notre Dame B	0	0	0	0
Illinois B	Purdue A	0	0	0	0
McMaster A	Guelph	0	10	0	10
Toronto B	Queen's	0	10	0	10
Harvard A	Bowdoin A	10	10	0	20
Southern Connecticut State	Bowdoin B	10	10	0	20
Claremont	Washington A	0	10	0	10
LSE	Birmingham	0	10	0	10
Cambridge A	Imperial A	0	10	10	20
Manchester	Cambridge B	0	10	10	20
Cambridge C	Oxford C	10	0	0	10
Durham	Imperial B	0	0	0	0
Edinburgh A	Bristol	10	10	0	20
Southampton A	Edinburgh B	0	10	0	10
Imperial C	Cardiff	0	10	0	10
UCL	Montpellier	10	10	10	30
Oxford B	Southampton B	0	10	0	10
Oxford A	Warwick A	0	10	10	20
City St. George's	Warwick B	0	0	0	0
Brandeis B	MIT	0	10	0	10
Yale	Brown	0	10	0	10
Carleton College	Iowa State	0	10	0	10
Missouri A	Georgia Tech A	10	10	0	20
Harvard B	Brandeis A	0	0	0	0