Question
After asking whether her love interest has ever heard an orchestra perform, a woman in a film demonstrates by playing a piece by this composer against the backdrop of a burning fireplace. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this composer. At the end of Portrait of a Lady on Fire, the camera cuts from Marianne and zooms-in on a teary-eyed Héloïse sitting in a theater box while this composer’s music plays in the background.
ANSWER: Antonio Vivaldi (The music played is “Summer” from The Four Seasons.)
[10e] A Vivaldi violin concerto accompanies music by Handel and Purcell in the Baroque soundtrack to the period drama The Favourite, which was directed by a filmmaker from this country. A composer from this country, Vangelis, created the soundtrack to the film Chariots of Fire.
ANSWER: Greece [or the Hellenic Republic; or Ellinikí Dimokratía] (The unnamed filmmaker is Yorgos Lanthimos.)
[10h] Vivaldi’s Concerto for Two Horns accompanies a shot of a distant funeral in a film by this director, in which a filmmaker and his son drive around the countryside while searching for two actors in the aftermath of an earthquake.
ANSWER: Abbas Kiarostami (The film is Life, and Nothing More…)
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Summary
| 2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 11.67 | 83% | 0% | 33% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 33% | 67% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 23.33 | 100% | 100% | 33% |
Data
| Limp Franceskit | Cien Años de Quizboledad | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Cambridge | Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Defying Suavity | Simple Vibes | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |