Packet 9: Bonus 6
These objects are created by brands like Gaynor Minden and Bloch, while LaDuca is a major brand for a different, versatile form of these objects called their “character” type. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these objects, which Léonide Massine played a creator of in a 1948 movie. That 1948 movie by British filmmakers Powell and Pressburger was named after some of these objects.
ANSWER: shoes [accept dance shoes; accept character shoes; accept ballet shoes or pointe shoes; accept The Red Shoes]
[10m] Dancer Massine also appeared in Powell and Pressburger’s The Tales of Hoffman, an adaptation of an opera by this composer. Other operas by this composer include Orpheus in the Underworld.
ANSWER: Jacques Offenbach (Orpheus in the Underworld’s “Infernal Galop” is commonly used for the can-can.)
[10e] Powell and Pressburger’s musical films followed Black Narcissus, which focuses on women in this profession. Robert le diable features a “ballet” of these women who train Maria from The Sound of Music in their monastery.
ANSWER: nuns [accept “Ballet of the Nuns;” accept religious sisters]
<Editors, Other Fine Arts> | Packet I
| Editions | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 122 | 15.74 | 99% | 34% | 24% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Binghamton C | Cornell B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Cornell A | ESF | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Cornell D | RIT B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | HE |
| RIT A | Cornell C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Rochester | Binghamton B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK (North) | UK | Y | 5 | 16.00 | 100% | 20% | 40% |
| UK (South) | UK | Y | 8 | 16.25 | 100% | 13% | 50% |
| Northern California | US | Y | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 0% | 25% |
| Southern California | US | Y | 8 | 30.00 | 125% | 75% | 100% |
| Eastern Canada (1) | US | Y | 5 | 16.00 | 100% | 40% | 20% |
| Eastern Canada (2) | US | Y | 9 | 13.33 | 100% | 22% | 11% |
| Florida | US | Y | 4 | 7.50 | 75% | 0% | 0% |
| Great Lakes | US | Y | 12 | 17.50 | 100% | 50% | 25% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | US | Y | 9 | 16.67 | 100% | 44% | 22% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | US | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| Midwest | US | Y | 9 | 15.56 | 89% | 56% | 11% |
| North | US | Y | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
| Northeast | US | Y | 10 | 13.00 | 100% | 20% | 10% |
| Pacific | US | Y | 8 | 18.75 | 88% | 75% | 25% |
| South Central | US | Y | 7 | 11.43 | 100% | 14% | 0% |
| Southeast | US | Y | 13 | 13.85 | 100% | 23% | 15% |
| Upstate NY | US | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 100% | 20% | 20% |