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Question

Folio 500 of the Codex Osuna depicts the production of this good, whose Nahuatl (“na-WA-tull”) name is nocheztli. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this good produced by grinding the bodies of a scale insect that lives on prickly pear cacti. This dye gave English army coats and Catholic cardinal robes their distinctive colorations.

ANSWER: cochineal dye [or carmine; or crimson lake; or carminic acid; prompt on red dye]

[10m] The red robes of this artist’s portrait of Agostino Pallavicini may have been created with cochineal. This artist painted a self-portrait of himself with a sunflower and a chain awarded to him by Charles I of England.

ANSWER: Anthony van Dyck [reject “van Eyck”]

[10e] Cochineal was used to render the fabric draped over the right shoulder of a lute-playing youth in The Musicians by this artist known for his use of tenebrism in paintings such as The Calling of St. Matthew.

ANSWER: Caravaggio [or Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio; reject “Michelangelo”]

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Summary


Northern California	Main	Y	5	16.00	80%	60%	20%
Southern California	Main	Y	6	13.33	100%	0%	33%
Eastern Canada	Main	Y	12	16.67	83%	25%	58%
Florida	Main	Y	6	8.33	50%	0%	33%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	7	15.71	86%	29%	43%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	8	12.50	75%	13%	38%
Upper Mid-Atlantic (1)	Main	Y	11	15.45	73%	27%	55%
Upper Mid-Atlantic (2)	Main	Y	5	16.00	80%	20%	60%
Lower Midwest	Main	Y	4	17.50	75%	25%	75%
Southeast	Main	Y	8	22.50	88%	75%	63%
UK	Main	Y	14	21.43	86%	50%	79%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	4	15.00	75%	0%	75%

Data


UF D	Melbourne A	0	10	10
UF B	UCF A	0	10	10
ERAU B	USF	10	0	10
ERAU A	FSU	10	0	10
FIU	UF A	0	10	10
UCF B	UF E	0	0	0