Tossup
This artist depicted two prisoners watching behind bars while a silver platter is lowered onto the ground for a decapitated head. A tondo by this artist depicting blood spraying out of a different decapitated head has an unusually green background. This artist’s relationship with Mario Minniti inspired homoerotic interpretations of his paintings like Bacchus and Boy with a Basket of Fruit. This artist, who may have died from an infected sword wound in a bar fight, depicted a tax collector in a beam of light pointing at himself in a 1600 painting that exemplifies his tenebrism. For 10 points, name this Italian Baroque master of light who painted The Calling of St. Matthew. ■END■
ANSWER: Caravaggio [or Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio] (The first line refers to The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist. The second line refers to Medusa.)
<Chicago A, Painting and Sculpture>
= Average correct buzz position
Buzzes
| Player | Team | Opponent | Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Honor Mountford | Cambridge C | Oxford | 58 | 10 |
| Oliver Morten | Cardiff | Warwick | 92 | 10 |
| Fahim Afzal | Cambridge A | Imperial B | 95 | 10 |
| Siheon Lee | Imperial C | Cambridge D | 99 | 10 |
| Tom Morris-Jones | Birmingham | Cambridge E | 113 | 0 |
| Rory Moloney | Cambridge E | Birmingham | 113 | 0 |
| Josh Morris | Bristol | LSE | 113 | 10 |
| Atom Lucenet | Imperial D | Southampton | 113 | 10 |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | TUH | Conv. % | Neg % | Average Buzz |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK (North) | UK | 5 | 80% | 0% | 92.00 |
| UK (South) | UK | 7 | 86% | 0% | 95.00 |
| Northern California | US | 3 | 67% | 67% | 86.00 |
| Southern California | US | 7 | 86% | 14% | 95.50 |
| Eastern Canada (1) | US | 4 | 100% | 0% | 52.00 |
| Eastern Canada (2) | US | 9 | 89% | 0% | 83.25 |
| Florida | US | 4 | 75% | 0% | 98.00 |
| Great Lakes | US | 11 | 100% | 18% | 73.18 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | US | 9 | 89% | 11% | 83.25 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | US | 12 | 83% | 25% | 87.60 |
| Midwest | US | 9 | 89% | 22% | 87.75 |
| North | US | 3 | 100% | 0% | 78.00 |
| Northeast | US | 12 | 92% | 8% | 82.09 |
| Pacific | US | 8 | 75% | 13% | 81.50 |
| Southeast | US | 12 | 83% | 8% | 74.90 |
| Upstate NY | US | 5 | 100% | 0% | 84.00 |