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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California2025-02-01Y320.00100%100%0%
Florida2025-02-01Y313.33100%33%0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic2025-02-01Y611.67100%17%0%
Midwest2025-02-01Y613.33100%33%0%
North2025-02-01Y313.33100%33%0%
Northeast2025-02-01Y512.00100%20%0%
Overflow2025-02-01Y514.00100%40%0%
South Central2025-02-01Y210.00100%0%0%
Southeast2025-02-01Y412.50100%25%0%
UK2025-02-01Y1019.00100%70%20%
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PurdueGeorgetown B100010
IowaGeorgetown A100010
Northwestern ANotre Dame C1010020
Northwestern BNotre Dame B1010020
Stanford BNotre Dame A100010