Result: 1 | Prison Bowl | 2014 | Round: 2 | Question: 12 | Religion | NoneID: 49618

Question: The Persian version of this ritual involves an elaborate sofreh, or floor spread, and the
Shinto version involves three sips of sake. Seven steps are taken around a fire in the Hindu
version of this ritual. In China, its traditions include combing hair four times, eating tangyuan,
and being carried on a red sedan. Mitzvah tantz is performed during the Jewish celebration of
this event, which involves a ketubah. That event takes place under a chuppah symbolizing the
building of a hospitable home under God, and is concluded with the breaking of glass. For 10
points, name this ceremony during which a veil traditionally hides the face of the bride.

ANSWER: wedding [accept marrying, aghd, vivaah samskar, saptapadi, kekkon shiki, hunli, or
nissuin]

Result: 2 | ACF Fall | 2013 | Round: Yale A | Question: 19 | History | AmericanID: 36485

Question: This man led a group of people indigenous to the Wallowa valley, and won the battle
of White Bird Canyon to start his most famous campaign. His last engagement was at Bear Paw
Mountain, and this ally of Looking Glass said, "Hear me, my chiefs! My heart is sick and sad" in
a speech where he told General Oliver Howard that he knew his heart. This man surrendered to
Nelson Miles in the Montana Territory, less than 80 miles away from his goal of reaching the
Canadian border. He famously proclaimed, "From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more
forever." For 10 points, name this Nez Perce chief who retreated for over a thousand miles from
the US army.

ANSWER: Chief Joseph [or Young Joseph; or Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt]

Result: 3 | Arrabal | 2013 | Round: 4 | Question: 1 | Fine Arts | AudiovisualID: 70837

Question: In one opera in which this character appears, the first act begins and ends with
peasants calling for his death. Later in that work, Alladine surreptitiously kisses this man's
forehead, and the other title character borrows a knife to cut him free. Earlier, that character
hears "The Five Maids of Orlamonde" sung by such characters as Selysette and Melisande, and
tries to help them escape from this man. Another work about this character begins with a "Bard's
Prologue" in which the audience is asked "Where is the stage? Who is looking at you?"
Elsewhere in that work, this character asks another, "Are you afraid?" just before that work's
"blood motif" is heard. That opera also sees the brass play parallel major triads at the opening of
the fifth door. For 10 points, name this title character of a Bartok opera who takes Judith to his
castle.

ANSWER: Duke Bluebeard [I suppose one should also accept Barbe-bleue or Kekszakallu]
Result: 4 | NTSS | 2013 | Round: 4 | Question: 22 | Religion | NoneID: 42501

Question: Poor Hindus may request for a simplified version of this ritual called kanthi-badal, but
standard versions involve taking seven steps around a fire. In Shinto, this ceremony involves
taking three sips each from three cups of sake [sah-keh], while the walimah feast comes after
Muslim ones. A get reverses the Jewish version, which takes place under a chuppah [KOO-pah]
and ends with the crushing of a glass under one participant's foot. 1 Corinthians 13 ["first
Corinthians, chapter thirteen"] is often read at the Christian version of this ceremony. Name this
practice which traditionally involves the exchange of rings.

ANSWER: marriages or matrimony or weddings [or vivaah; or kekkonshiki; or nikah; or erusin

or nissuin]

Result: 5 | Prison Bowl | 2012 | Round: 15 | Question: 20 | History | AmericanID: 49270

Question: This man's name means "Thunder Rolling Down the Mountain." A major conflict
surrounding this man concerned the village of Lapwai and the Wallowa Valley. The deaths of
Toohoolhoolzote and Looking Glass disheartened this leader, whose last military action was at
the Battle of Bear Paw. That battle occurred after a long retreat across Montana in attempt to
reach Canada, in response to Oliver Howard's attempt to remove his tribe to Idaho. For 10 points,
name this Nez Perce leader who, upon surrendering, said "I will fight no more forever."

ANSWER: Chief Joseph [accept Young Joseph; or Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt]

Result: 6 | Chicago Open Arts | 2010 | Round: Lully 2.doc | Question: 4 | Fine Arts | ID:
8977

Question: This work's orchestral introduction can be preceded by the question "Where is the
stage," part of the text drawn from "The Prologue of the Bard." A 1963 film adaptation starred
Ana Satre and Norman Foster and was directed by Michael Powell. The libretto is primarily in
trochaic tetrameter, and one character in this work perceives "weeping walls." A minor second
motif marks visions of blood, while darkness accompanies the lake of (*) tears, in contrast to the
bluish-green and white streams of light that had accompanied the garden and the treasury. The
title character repeatedly implores that he be loved and no questions be asked, but he gives up
key after key, eventually showing his ex-wives to Judith. For 10 points, name this Hungarian
opera by Bela Bartok.

ANSWER: Duke Bluebeard's Castle or A kekszakallu herceg vara [accept any translations like
The Castle of the Blue-Bearded Prince so long as there's a castle and a potentate with a blue
beard involved] (Jha)
Result: 7 | Chicago Open Literature | 2008 | Round: Packet_11.doc | Question: 2 |
Literature | ID: 24529

Question: In Biographia Literaria, Samuel Coleridge compares the argument over sentimental
poetry to the dispute over this phrase. It clashes with "Ualu" and "Quaouauh" after the Fall in
Finnegans Wake, while in a Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale, it is uttered by the kidnapper of
Thumbelina as he escapes. In its original use, its final part is described as "the bass cadenza" and
it is said to be beloved by the Lyric Nine and Pan. Despite this, a character who is getting blisters
on his ass becomes irritated and sings it so quickly and insistently that the chorus shuts up and
lets him continue rowing. For 10 points, Xanthias, Dionysus, and Charon must endure what
onomatopoetic refrain of Aristophanes' frogs?

ANSWER: Brekekekex koax koax! [be generous on the number of syllables in the first word]
[DL]

2 bonuses Were Found

Result: 1 | ACF Regionals 2014 |2014 | Illinois A-Rutgers A-Alabama A | 12 | Fine Arts |
Auditory | CollegeID: 1553

Question:

[10] Name this opera in which Judith's title husband owns an estate with seven locked doors.

ANSWER: Duke Bluebeard's Castle [or A Kekszakallu Herceg Vara]

[10] Duke Bluebeard's Castle was written by this Hungarian composer who also wrote ballets
titled The Wooden Prince and The Miraculous Mandarin.

ANSWER: Bela Viktor Janos Bartok

[10] Another treatment of the Bluebeard legend was this French composer's Ariane et Barbe-
bleue. Iskender discovers the title Persian mythological creature in his ballet La Peri.

ANSWER: Paul Abraham Dukas

Result: 2 | Chicago Open |2013 | 14 | 8 | Literature | World | OpenID: 7801

Question: In this story, the aspiring monk Nobu heads for the seminary after leaving a paper
flower for his friend Midori, who is destined to become a prostitute in Tokyo's "floating world."
For 10 points each:

[10] Identify this Meiji-era Japanese story collected in In the Shade of Spring Leaves by Higuchi
Ichiyo.

ANSWER: "Child's Play" [or "Growing Up;" or "Takekurabe"]

[10] This more famous Meiji-era Japanese author wrote novels like Sanshiro , I Am a Cat, and
Kokoro.

ANSWER: Natsume Soseki

[10] In his studies, Sanshiro perplexedly pores over the abstruse prose of this Englishman's
flowery Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial, or a Discourse of the Sepulchral Urns lately found in Norfolk.

ANSWER: Sir Thomas Browne