Question
An artwork depicting this action was wrapped by a mile of string in an artistic intervention by Cornelia Parker. A “Gate of [this action”] is included with The Table of Silence and the Infinity Column at Târgu Jiu (“TER-gu zhoo”). Those works’ artist, Constantin Brâncuși (“bran-KOOSH”), created another Proto-Cubist sculpture titled for this action that depicts rectangular figures made of limestone. A sculpture originally part of The Gates of Hell titled for this action depicts the nude couple Francesca and Paolo. For 10 points, two embracing lovers in an Auguste Rodin (“oh-GOOST roh-DAN”) sculpture perform what title intimate action? ■END■
ANSWER: kissing [accept obvious equivalents; accept The Kiss or Le Baiser; accept The Gate of the Kiss or Poarta sărutului] (The Parker sculpture is The Distance (A Kiss With String Attached) which wrapped Rodin’s The Kiss.)
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= Average correct buzz position
Summary
2024 ACF Fall at Cornell | fall | Y | 8 | 88% | 0% | 38% | 74.29 |
2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State | fall | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 71.25 |
2024 ACF Fall at Washington | fall | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 69.50 |
2024 ACF Fall at Georgia | fall | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 84.80 |
2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina | fall | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 75.56 |
2024 ACF Fall at Claremont Colleges | fall | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 20% | 57.00 |
2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers | fall | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 72.75 |
2024 ACF Fall at Illinois | fall | Y | 9 | 78% | 0% | 44% | 64.71 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Ishaan Singh | Purdue B | Notre Dame C | 34 | 10 |
Ezra Santos | Chicago A | Northwestern B | 38 | 10 |
Emmett Cho | Chicago B | WashU B | 50 | -5 |
Eric Yang | Purdue A | WashU A | 52 | 10 |
Sam Alahi | Illinois A | Indiana | 57 | 10 |
Brielle Rach | Iowa A | Purdue C | 70 | -5 |
Ethan Ma | Illinois B | Northwestern A | 70 | -5 |
Owen McCoy | Illinois D | SIUE | 70 | -5 |
Noah McRedmond | Notre Dame B | Illinois C | 84 | 10 |
Samay Math | WashU B | Chicago B | 94 | 10 |
David Nickel | Purdue C | Iowa A | 94 | 10 |
Jacob Puthipiroj | Northwestern A | Illinois B | 94 | 0 |
Sophia Arnold | SIUE | Illinois D | 94 | 0 |