Question
Description acceptable. The wife of the poet Francisco González Bocanegra locked him in a bedroom and only released him when he wrote this song’s lyrics and slid them under the door. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this song whose performers often mispronounce its first verse using the nonexistent word “masiosare.” Giovanni Bottesini conducted this song’s first public performance on September 16, 1854.
ANSWER: Mexican National Anthem [or Himno Nacional Mexicano; or Mexihcaletepetlacuicalt; accept “Mexicans, at the cry of war” or “Mexicanos, al grito de guerra” or “Ihcuca yaotl tenochnotzas mexihca”; prompt on national anthem by asking “of which country?”]
[10m] On the annual eve of Independence Day, the President sings the national anthem after re-enacting Miguel Hidalgo’s bell-ringing in this city, an event known as this city’s namesake “cry.”
ANSWER: Dolores [or Dolores Hidalgo; or Cry of Dolores; or Grito de Dolores]
[10e] This Mexican president commissioned the lyrics contest. This wooden-legged general won at the Alamo, but lost at San Jacinto against Sam Houston’s Texas revolutionaries.
ANSWER: Antonio López de Santa Anna [or Antonio de Padua María Severino López de Santa Anna y Pérez de Lebrón]
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| Great Lakes | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 100% | 40% | 0% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
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| Overflow | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 100% | 40% | 0% |
| Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 0% | 50% |
| South Central | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| Southeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
| UK | 2025-02-01 | Y | 9 | 12.22 | 44% | 67% | 11% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 8 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| Upstate NY | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 5.00 | 50% | 0% | 0% |