Question
This substance is lit by dramatic evening light in an 1861 “great picture” by Frederic Edwin Church, which inspired the subsequent career of the traveling painter William Bradford. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this substance that an 1826 painting by Caspar David Friedrich depicts as a jagged, towering heap under a blue sky.
ANSWER: sea ice [accept The Icebergs, The Sea of Ice, or Das Eismeer; prompt on water]
[10e] Romantic painters used Arctic icescapes to express this great and terrifying quality of nature, which the aesthetic theory of Edmund Burke contrasts with “the beautiful.”
ANSWER: sublime
[10h] The University of London covers up this icescape during exams, as students consider it cursed. Two polar bears snack on human remains from a shipwreck in this piece by the Victorian dog painter Edwin Landseer.
ANSWER: Man Proposes, God Disposes
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh | 2024-11-16 | Y | 7 | 11.43 | 71% | 14% | 29% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern | 2024-11-16 | Y | 9 | 13.33 | 67% | 56% | 11% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State | 2024-11-16 | Y | 9 | 7.78 | 56% | 0% | 22% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Online | 2024-11-16 | Y | 7 | 10.00 | 57% | 29% | 14% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida | 2024-11-16 | Y | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 0% | 25% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Oxford | 2024-11-16 | Y | 8 | 15.00 | 100% | 38% | 13% |
Data
| Cambridge A | Bristol A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Cambridge B | Imperial A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Cambridge C | Manchester | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Southampton A | Cambridge D | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Durham | Birmingham | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Imperial B | Warwick A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Oxford A | LSE A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Southampton B | Oxford B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |