Packet 9: Bonus 17
In 2022, a self portrait of this artist was discovered by Lesley Stevenson while X-raying the previously known 1885 painting Head of a Peasant Woman. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this artist, some of whose self-portraits depict him with a bandaged ear that he had cut off.
ANSWER: Vincent van Gogh [or Vincent Willem van Gogh]
[10m] van Gogh painted the self portrait several years before moving to this city, where he painted himself “on his way to work.” Yellow furniture appears in a “Bedroom” scene in this city where van Gogh stayed with Paul Gauguin.
ANSWER: Arles (“arl”) [accept Bedroom in Arles]
[10h] van Gogh’s more unusual portraits include one in which goods for this activity sit on his chair. To mock academic lessons, van Gogh created a portrait of a skeleton performing this action.
ANSWER: smoking [or smoking tobacco; accept smoking a cigarette or smoking a cigar or smoking a pipe] (A pipe and tobacco sit on the chair.)
<Editors, Painting and Sculpture> | Packet I
| Editions | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 113 | 17.61 | 100% | 41% | 35% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| McMaster A | Toronto B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | EMH |
| Queen's A | Toronto F | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EH |
| Toronto A | Toronto C | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Toronto D | Waterloo A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Toronto E | McMaster B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Toronto G | Guelph A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EH |
| Toronto H | Brock A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Toronto I | McMaster C | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK (North) | UK | Y | 5 | 16.00 | 100% | 40% | 20% |
| UK (South) | UK | Y | 8 | 13.75 | 100% | 25% | 13% |
| Northern California | US | Y | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 50% | 25% |
| Southern California | US | Y | 7 | 14.29 | 100% | 29% | 14% |
| Eastern Canada (1) | US | Y | 5 | 24.00 | 100% | 80% | 60% |
| Eastern Canada (2) | US | Y | 8 | 17.50 | 100% | 38% | 38% |
| Florida | US | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 0% | 33% |
| Great Lakes | US | Y | 11 | 20.91 | 100% | 55% | 55% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | US | Y | 8 | 18.75 | 100% | 50% | 38% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | US | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| Midwest | US | Y | 9 | 20.00 | 100% | 56% | 44% |
| North | US | Y | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 0% | 25% |
| Northeast | US | Y | 9 | 21.11 | 100% | 44% | 67% |
| Pacific | US | Y | 7 | 17.14 | 100% | 43% | 29% |
| South Central | US | Y | 6 | 15.00 | 100% | 17% | 33% |
| Southeast | US | Y | 12 | 19.17 | 100% | 67% | 25% |
| Upstate NY | US | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 100% | 0% | 40% |