Question
Answer the following about lost artworks that inspired essays in Judith Schalansky’s book An Inventory of Losses, for 10 points each.
[10m] Schalansky claims that “to understand [this place] means to understand oneself” in an essay on lost works by Gottfried Kinau. Samuel Beckett claimed that Waiting for Godot was inspired by a Caspar David Friedrich painting partly titled for this place.
ANSWER: the Moon [accept the Earth’s moon]
[10e] The book meditates on physicist Otto von Guericke’s (“GAIR-ih-kuh’s”) attempt to reconstruct the skeleton of one of these creatures. A set of tapestries at The Met Cloisters shows one of these creatures enclosed by a circular fence.
ANSWER: unicorns [or Hunt of the Unicorn]
[10h] Schalansky imagines looters at Von Behr Palace stealing a cigarette case with the family crest, which features a helmet topped by these animals. Dunstable Friary held a gold and enamel brooch (“broach”) depicting one of these animals.
ANSWER: swans [or Dunstable Swan Jewel]
<TH/JG, Painting and Sculpture>
Summary
| 2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 13 | 9.23 | 85% | 8% | 0% |
Data
| SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret | The Empire Bikes Back | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| LMM's LLM MLM | genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Les Missourables | Lisan al-Quib | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy | NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess) | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| The Jeam Team | Punished "Venom" BHSU | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| The Dyatlov Passement incident | First Cause, First Cause, make me young! | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| BHSU B | The Oldest Men in the World | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | We Need New Names | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| var merchants | Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |