This landmark appears on license plates with the phrase “Life Elevated.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this landmark made of Entrada sandstone, which the torch relay for the 2002 Winter Olympics passed through. It is the most famous attraction at a national park whose highest point is at Elephant Butte.
ANSWER: Delicate Arch [prompt on arch; prompt on Arches National Park]
[10h] Name this operatic genre pioneered by Jean-Baptiste Lully. This genre was invented with Lully’s opera Cadmus et Hermione, and became the foundation for later operas like Charpentier’s Médée and Rameau’s Castor et Pollux.
ANSWER: tragédie en musique (“tra-jay-DEE on myoo-ZEEK”) [or tragédie lyrique; or musical tragedy; or lyrical tragedy]
[10e] Arches National Park is located near the city of Moab in this state, which is also home to the Bonneville Salt Flats.
ANSWER: Utah [or UT]
[10e] Lully developed tragédie en musique as court composer for this ruler. This king’s role as Apollo in Ballet Royal de la Nuit (“nwee”) supported his presentation as the “Sun King.”
ANSWER: Louis XIV (“the fourteenth”) [or Louis the Great; or Louis le Grand; prompt on Louis]
[10m] Many sandstone buttes (“b’yoots”) are found in this region of the Colorado Plateau along the Utah–Arizona state line, which is sacred to the Navajo people. This region was prominently featured in films like 1946’s My Darling Clementine.
ANSWER: Monument Valley [accept Tsé Biiʼ Ndzisgaii]
[10m] As French opera developed, it diverged from this Italian operatic style due to French preference for recitatives and dislike of castrati singers. This style is contrasted with opera buffa.
ANSWER: opera seria
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