NAQT arts and humanities

A silhouetted man sails a boat on the cover of an album by this musician, who still performs publicly at age 86. This musician composed “Dolphin Dance” and “Maiden Voyage” while playing (*) piano in Miles Davis’ “Second Great Quintet.”. For 10 points, name this composer of “Chameleon” and “Watermelon Man.”

Herbie Hancock

This artist depicted twelve angels dancing in a circle in the air as three other angels sit in a thatched roof in his Mystic Nativity.

Bottecelli

A refrain in this play tells a character leaving her house to “go like a shooting star.” A character in this play exclaims “damn all the knives” after a character opts to eat grapes for lunch. A stage direction in this play instructs a character to appear in a black shawl and missing an orange blossom. At the climax of this play, violins play until two screams are heard, which are followed by the appearance of a blue light and a (*) beggar woman. In this play, the Moon appears as a character in the form of a pale woodcutter. Leonardo and the Groom kill each other in this play, the first in its author

Blood Wedding

Two figures in diving helmets embrace in a painting by this artist used as the cover for Blur’s album Think Tank. This artist obscured the face of a nude, pregnant Demi Moore from an Annie Leibowitz photograph in a poster for his Barely Legal exhibition. A painting by this artist features submerged (*) shopping carts in a pastiche of Claude Monet’s Water Lilies. A masked protester throws a bouquet of flowers in a work by this artist, who quipped “Going, going gone...” after his artwork Love is in the Bin was created at a 2018 auction by half-shredding a painting upon its sale. For 10 points, a girl holding a heart-shaped balloon appears in murals by what British graffiti artist?

Banksy

This artist worked with an amateur model called “Bibi” for a sculpture of a Man with the Broken Nose. Scenes like The Three Shades and Paolo [PAH-oh-loh] and Francesca [frahn-CHESS-kah] appear on a work by this artist inspired by scenes from (*) Dante’s [DAHN-tayz] Inferno. For 10 points—name this French artist who sculpted of The Gates of Hell.

Rodin

Name this American composer who hosted a series of televised Young People’s Concerts while music director of the New York Philharmonic.

Bernstein

Bernstein premiered Trouble in Tahiti in this state, where he conducted at Tanglewood with the Boston Symphony Orchestra

Massachusetts

Arias from this Bernstein operetta, inspired by a 1759 novella, include “Glitter and Be Gay” and “Make Our Garden Grow.”

Candide

A piano work by this composer opens with the right hand playing D, D sharp, and then jumping three times between E and the C above it. This man’s “The Easy Winners” bears the same strong syncopation

Scott Joplin

This word follows “spirit” in the common name for liquid theatrical makeup adhesive.

gum

This character cries “no way but this, killing myself, to die upon a kiss” as he commits suicide. Name this general who kills his wife under the mistaken belief that she is having an affair with his lieutenant Cassio.

Othello

While it opens in Venice, most of Othello is set on this Mediterranean island, which Othello defends from an invasion.

Cyprus

.After this politician called for competency tests for candidates over 75, Don Lemon said she “isn’t in her prime.” In a debate, this former governor called Vivek Ramaswamy “scum” for noting that her daughter uses TikTok. For 10 points—what candidate and former U.N. ambassador once led South Carolina?

Nikki Haley

This long-running sitcom about surgeons working during the Korean War starred Alan Alda as Hawkeye Pierce. It ended in 1983.

M*A*S*H

This mythological woman mothered a child with a man who was later killed using a lance tipped with stingray poison by that child. This person advised her lover to sail to the underworld to meet the ghost of the blind seer Tiresias. Telegonus was a son of this resident of the island (*) Aeaea whose magic was countered by the herb moly. The members of Odysseus’s crew were turned into swine by—for 10 points—what sorceress?

Circe