Question
This composer dedicated his Septet to the collection of the Dumbarton Oaks estate, for which he also composed a chamber concerto. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this Russian-born modernist composer of The Firebird.
ANSWER: Igor Stravinsky
[10h] One critic praised this composer’s posthumous Septet for heralding the “crimson Angel of the Dawn.” The lesbian lover of this composer’s daughter reconstructed that piece from notes he left at his home, Montjouvain.
ANSWER: Monsieur Vinteuil (“VAN”-tay) (from In Search of Lost Time)
[10m] And now for something completely different. In organic chemistry, a “septet” is a splitting pattern that can appear in NMR spectroscopy. A peak with a septet splitting pattern is produced by a hydrogen atom adjacent to this many equivalent hydrogens.
ANSWER: 6 [or six]
Summary
| 2023 BHSU @ Berkeley | 03/18/2023 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 67% | 33% | 0% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Maryland | 03/11/2023 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2023 BHSU Online | 04/15/2023 | Y | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Sheffield | 04/15/2023 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
Data
| Rollin in from Sturgis, The Cheyne Gang | Cornell B- | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Dr. Christopher Manners, MD – Samarra, Iraq | What is BH! And you are asking me? BHSU | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Houston and friends | Hutto Hippos | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| The Enrique Trastamara Military Academy B | Cornell C++ | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |