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Question

Answer the following about ballets titled for the color red, for 10 points each.

[10e] This politician and his wife watch the ballet The Red Detachment of Women in a John Adams opera that fictionalizes his 1972 visit to China.

ANSWER: Richard Nixon [or Richard Milhous Nixon; accept Nixon in China]

[10m] Reinhold Glière’s ballet The Red Poppy popularized the yablochko (“YA-blutch-kuh”), or “little apple,” a Russian folk dance associated with people of this profession. In the UK, people of this profession often performed the hornpipe dance.

ANSWER: sailors [accept Russian sailors’ dance or “Dance of the Sailors from the Soviet Ship”; accept Sailor’s Hornpipe; accept mariners]

[10h] This choreographer used Bernard Herrmann’s film scores for the music of a ballet adaptation of the Powell and Pressburger film The Red Shoes. Male dancers play the swans in this choreographer’s version of Swan Lake.

ANSWER: Matthew Bourne [or Matthew Christopher Bourne]

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Summary


California	2025-02-01	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Florida	2025-02-01	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	6	11.67	100%	17%	0%
Midwest	2025-02-01	Y	6	13.33	100%	33%	0%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Northeast	2025-02-01	Y	5	12.00	100%	20%	0%
Overflow	2025-02-01	Y	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
South Central	2025-02-01	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Southeast	2025-02-01	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
UK	2025-02-01	Y	10	19.00	100%	70%	20%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	8	16.25	100%	63%	0%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	3	6.67	67%	0%	0%

Data


Chicago A	Illinois A	10	10	20
Illinois B	Chicago D	10	0	10
Chicago C	Illinois C	10	0	10
Indiana A	Indiana B	10	0	10
Missouri	WashU B	10	0	10
WashU A	Missoui S&T	10	10	20