Packet 2: Bonus 2
Due to poor preservation, an artwork that used this substance began to deteriorate, causing its creator to note how its subject “didn’t look frightening.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this substance that surrounds creatures like a golden calf and a tiger shark in artworks by Damien Hirst.
ANSWER: formaldehyde
[10e] Hirst belonged to a group of “Young” artists from this country. An annual visual arts award in this country is named after J.M.W Turner, a painter from this country.
ANSWER: United Kingdom [or Britain or UK or United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; accept England]
[10h] This British-Iraqi art collector commissioned Hirst’s The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living in 1991. This man, who also purchased Tracey Emin’s My Bed, aided the rise of the Young British Artists by exhibiting their work in his exhibition Sensation!
ANSWER: Charles Saatchi (“SAH-chee”)
<Fine Arts - Visual, Daniel Merida> | VAULT II Packet 02
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 43 | 15.81 | 91% | 63% | 5% |
Conversion
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VAULT II at Georgia Tech | 2026-01-24 | ✓ | 6 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| Triangle Cup | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 3 | 6.67 | 33% | 33% | 0% |
| VAULT II at Eden Prairie HS | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 3 | 16.67 | 67% | 100% | 0% |
| VAULT II at McGill | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 4 | 10.00 | 75% | 25% | 0% |
| VAULT II at UCSB | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| VAULT II Northern UK | 2026-04-24 | ✓ | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
| VAULT II Southern UK | 2026-04-24 | ✓ | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 75% | 25% |
| VAULT II at Harvard | 2026-04-30 | ✓ | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| VAULT II at MINT | 2026-06-19 | ✓ | 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 80% | 0% |
| VAULT II Stanford Online | 2026-07-17 | ✓ | 8 | 18.75 | 100% | 88% | 0% |