piano concertos - 2025 VAULT II

Packet 7: Bonus 13

Answer the following about Joseph Stalin’s taste in music, for 10 points each:

[10e] Stalin died of a hemorrhage while listening to Maria Yudina’s recording of a piece in this genre. Sergei Prokofiev wrote five of these pieces for a solo keyboard instrument and orchestra.

ANSWER: piano concertos [or piano concerti; prompt on concertos or concerti by asking “for what instrument?”]

[10h] Stalin opposed this opera, which was dubbed “coarse, primitive, and vulgar” in the Pravda article “Muddle Instead of Music.” In this opera, Katerina is sent to Siberia when it is discovered she fed her husband Zinoviy poisoned mushrooms.

ANSWER: Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District [or Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk or Ledi Makbet Mtsenskovo uyezda]

[10m] The initially Stalinist Russian Association of Proletarian Musicians included this composer of the ballet Spartacus. Repeated F-sharp eighth notes on the xylophone represent clashing swords in a section of this composer’s ballet Gayane (“guy-uh-NEH”).

ANSWER: Aram Khachaturian [or Aram Ilyich Khachaturian]

<Fine Arts - Auditory, Spencer Manning> | VAULT II Packet 07

Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
44	15.91	80%	36%	43%

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Conversion

Team	Opponent	Part 1	Part 2	Part 3	Total	Parts
Abbey Park	Burlington Trojans	0	10	0	10	H
Albanian Rift in the Sky	Big Brown Ballers	0	0	0	0
An even worse idea	Booz Allen Interns	10	10	10	30	EHM
Armand duplantis fan club	Ted Offensive	10	10	10	30	EHM
Basileus II: Electric Boogaloo	Always Set the Kurve	10	10	0	20	EH
Bella Vista	Renert	10	10	0	20	EH
Belmont A	Waltham A	10	10	0	20	EH
Belmont B	Mansfield B	10	0	0	10	E
California	Georgia C	10	10	0	20	EH
Cambridge	Southperial	10	0	10	20	EM
Cary Academy	Grimsley	10	0	0	10	E
Chapel Hill B	Tantaene Animis Caelestibus Irae	10	0	0	10	E
Chattahoochee A	Northview B	10	0	0	10	E
Don't Ever Take Sides Against the Family	Midnight Bus to Vista	10	10	0	20	EH
East Chapel Hill	Chapel Hill A	10	0	10	20	EM
Edinburgh	Manchester B	10	0	0	10	E
Exhibition	Midtown	10	10	10	30	EHM
Georgia A	New York	10	10	0	20	EH
Glebe	Cheese Sandwich	0	10	0	10	H
Hoya gonna stop the Fighting Irish?	I have no buzzer and I must neg	0	0	0	0
Innovation B	Chattahoochee B	10	10	10	30	EHM
Jeopardy Rejected Ibean Batutu	Ostia Orcas	10	0	0	10	E
Johns Creek	Hoover	10	10	10	30	EHM
Kentucky	North Carolina	10	0	0	10	E
Lambert A	Innovation A	10	0	0	10	E
Leif Eriksen's Striking Appearance	whatever	0	0	0	0
Lexington B	Mansfield A	10	0	0	10	E
Manchester A	Sheffield A	0	0	0	0
Martingrove	Northern	10	0	0	10	E
Minnetonka B	Burnsville	0	0	10	10	M
Minnetonka C	Minnetonka A	10	0	0	10	E
Mountain Dew is Better	Not Just Biking	10	0	10	20	EM
Northview A	Lambert B	10	10	10	30	EHM
Oxford	Birmingham A	10	10	0	20	EH
PC Chris Master Race	They'll Just Let Anyone Edit Chicago Open These Days	10	10	10	30	EHM
Prat Pack	With Less Than 2 Years of Combined Quizbowl Experience	10	0	0	10	E
Providence	Eden Prairie	10	10	10	30	EHM
Sheffield B	Chimera	10	0	10	20	EM
Southampton	Birmingham B	0	0	0	0
Texas B	Georgia B	10	10	10	30	EHM
The Young Jits	Michael Touse-Squid	10	10	10	30	EHM
Virginia Tech	They fuck you up your buzz and neg	10	0	0	10	E
Warperial	Bath	10	0	0	10	E
Washington	Texas A	0	0	10	10	M

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Match	Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
VAULT II at Georgia Tech	2026-01-24	✓	6	23.33	100%	67%	67%
Triangle Cup	2026-03-13	✓	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
VAULT II at Eden Prairie HS	2026-03-13	✓	3	16.67	67%	67%	33%
VAULT II at McGill	2026-03-13	✓	4	12.50	50%	0%	75%
VAULT II at UCSB	2026-03-13	✓	5	10.00	60%	0%	40%
VAULT II Northern UK	2026-04-24	✓	3	10.00	67%	33%	0%
VAULT II Southern UK	2026-04-24	✓	4	12.50	75%	25%	25%
VAULT II at Harvard	2026-04-30	✓	3	13.33	100%	0%	33%
VAULT II at MINT	2026-06-19	✓	5	18.00	80%	40%	60%
VAULT II Stanford Online	2026-07-17	✓	8	20.00	88%	63%	50%