Question

This museum displayed 74 Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings from private German collections in the 1995 exhibition “Hidden Treasures Revealed.” In a sequence set in this museum, a blind woman explains the symbolism of Van Dyck’s Virgin with Partridges before she is turned around by a Catholic Marquis. (10[2])British Museum director (10[1])Neil Macgregor justified his 2014 decision to loan an Elgin Marble to this museum instead of Greece by calling it the other “first great museum of the Enlightenment.” (-5[1])This museum, which houses James Cox’s Peacock Clock, was founded for a (10[1])collection that Johann Gotzkowsky assembled for Frederick the Great. Rembrandt’s Return of the Prodigal Son and the Jordan Staircase are in this (-5[1])museum, which is the setting of a single-shot film (10[1]-5[1])by Alexander (10[1])Sokurov. (10[6])For 10 points, (10[2])what museum (10[1])complex occupies the Winter Palace (10[5])in (10[1])St. Petersburg? ■END■ (10[3])

ANSWER: Hermitage Museum [or State Hermitage Museum; or Gosudarstvennyj Ermitazh; prompt on Winter Palace or Zimnij dvorets until “Winter Palace” is read] (Sokurov’s film is Russian Ark.)
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2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y24100%0%13%116.67

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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Albert ZhangColumbia BRutgers B4610
Matt BollingerGeorgia Tech AMaryland A4610
Tim MorrisonStanford ACornell A4910
Nikhil ChellamNorthwestern AUC Berkeley A77-5
Matt JacksonChicago AOhio State A8910
John MarvinChicago BDuke A111-5
Conor ThompsonIowa State AClaremont A12010
Isak JatoiSouth Carolina AMcGill A120-5
Michał GerasimiukYale AFlorida A12210
Cyrus ZhouWUSTL ABrown A12310
Dennis ReppenChicago CNorth Carolina A12310
Karan GurazadaTexas AIndiana A12310
Alex SchmidtPenn State AVirginia A12310
Matthew SiffYale BGeorgia Tech B12310
Mazin OmerHarvard AColumbia A12310
Seth EbnerJohns Hopkins AFlorida B12610
Halle FriedmanNYU AImperial A12610
Todd MaslykMichigan AHouston A12810
Gareth ThorlaksonToronto ACornell B13310
Shardul RaoMinnesota AMIT A13310
Alex PijanowskiPurdue AMinnesota B13310
Aum MundheRutgers AWUSTL B13310
Justin WytmarIllinois APenn A13310
Gavin MarkoffVanderbilt AUC Berkeley B13410
Jacob EgolDuke AChicago B13710
Ryan SunUC Berkeley ANorthwestern A13710
Cormac BeirneMcGill ASouth Carolina A13710