Packet 20: Bonus 9
A woman in a white headscarf sews in the doorway of a red brick building in this city in the 1658 painting The Little Street. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this city where people gather on the banks of the River Schie (“skee”) across from a canal in a “View” of it by a Dutch Golden Age artist.
ANSWER: Delft [accept View of Delft]
[10e] Name this author of the short story collection Nine Stories and the novel The Catcher in the Rye.
ANSWER: J. D. Salinger [or Jerome David Salinger]
[10e] Delft was the hometown of this artist whose 34 attributed paintings include The Little Street, The Milkmaid, and Girl with a Pearl Earring.
ANSWER: Jan Vermeer [or Johannes Vermeer]
[10m] In this story by Salinger, Seymour Glass commits suicide after having a conversation with Sybil Carpenter about the title animals.
ANSWER: “A Perfect Day for Bananafish”
[10h] This artist made a panoramic-like scene of Delft that includes a lute seller. Before dying in a gunpowder explosion, this artist painted a bird chained to its feeder against a white wall in The Goldfinch.
ANSWER: Carel Fabritius [or Carel Pietersz. Fabritius]
[10h] During their conversation, Sybil explains she lives in this state’s town of Whirly Wood. Another work titled “Uncle Wiggily in [this state]” also appears in Salinger’s Nine Stories.
ANSWER: Connecticut [or CT; accept “Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut”]
<Georgia Tech A, Painting and Sculpture> | Packet F
| Editions | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 112 | 13.48 | 88% | 41% | 6% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| George Mason A | Johns Hopkins | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| George Mason B | Princeton | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| Lehigh B | Rutgers B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Maryland C | Columbia B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| NYU A | Maryland A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| Penn | Rutgers A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| Rutgers C | George Mason C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| Rutgers D | Columbia A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Vassar A | Vassar B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern California | US | Y | 4 | 10.00 | 75% | 25% | 0% |
| Southern California | US | Y | 7 | 8.57 | 86% | 0% | 0% |
| Eastern Canada (1) | US | Y | 4 | 7.50 | 50% | 25% | 0% |
| Eastern Canada (2) | US | Y | 9 | 15.56 | 89% | 67% | 0% |
| Florida | US | Y | 4 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| Great Lakes | US | Y | 10 | 15.00 | 80% | 60% | 10% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | US | Y | 9 | 11.11 | 100% | 11% | 0% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | US | Y | 9 | 15.56 | 100% | 56% | 0% |
| Midwest | US | Y | 9 | 17.78 | 100% | 67% | 11% |
| North | US | Y | 4 | 15.00 | 75% | 75% | 0% |
| Northeast | US | Y | 12 | 12.50 | 83% | 33% | 8% |
| Pacific | US | Y | 8 | 17.50 | 88% | 50% | 38% |
| South Central | US | Y | 6 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| Southeast | US | Y | 12 | 15.00 | 92% | 50% | 8% |
| Upstate NY | US | Y | 5 | 6.00 | 60% | 0% | 0% |