Packet C: Tossup 7

An artist on a beach used one of these objects while a plane flew above in the piece 747. (10[1])Xiao Lu used (-5[1])one of these objects at the premiere of her 1989 installation Dialogue. A fight broke out (10[1])over one of these objects (-5[2])during (10[2])Marina (10[1])Abramović’s (10[7])piece (10[2])Rhythm (10[2])0. (10[13]-5[1])The (10[3])Mozambican (10[3]-5[2])artist (10[2])Kester (10[2]-5[1])used (10[1])these objects (10[2])to make both the sculpture Tree of Life and (10[1])a throne. (10[2])Three years (10[1])before being crucified onto a Volkswagen (10[2]-5[1])Beetle in the piece (10[1]-5[1])Trans-Fixed, Chris Burden had a (10[1])friend use one of these objects on him (10[1])in his most (10[1])famous work (10[1]-5[1])of performance art. (10[1])In the most famous photograph by Eddie Adams, a man nonchalantly uses one of (10[1])these objects on another man in Saigon. (10[7])For 10 points, (10[2])in a 1968 (10[2])incident at The Factory, what sort of object did Valerie Solanas use on Andy Warhol? (10[1])■END■ (10[3]0[2])

ANSWER: guns [or firearms; accept specific types of guns such as rifles or pistols or machine guns or AK-47s; accept bullets; prompt on weapons] (747 is by Chris Burden, whose most famous work is titled Shoot.)
<UCSD A, Other Fine Arts> | Packet C - Virginia Tech A, Waterloo A, UCSD A, UBC A
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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzzpointValue
Daniel KimMaryland BJohn Jay1810
Ariel FaederPittsburghOhio State C21-5
Andrew WangIllinois AChicago D3710
Eve FleisigBerkeley AStanford B42-5
Eveline OngOxford ABristol42-5
Eva MandelbaumGuelphWestern A4310
Evan SchleckGeorgetownMaryland C4310
Ben WismathToronto BToronto E4410
Nolan JonesPurdue AChicago B4510
Justin HawkinsIndiana ANorthwestern C4510
Scarlet RutterClaremontGeorgia Tech A4510
Aisling SkeetDurhamImperial A4510
Antoni KluzowskiWarwick ABirmingham4510
Charles YoungColumbia AVassar4510
Kelvin NiNYU BCatholic4510
Patrick TorreMaryland AColumbia C4610
Teigue KellyPenn StateRochester4610
Anuttam RamjiBerkeley BBerkeley C4710
Sinecio MoralesJohns Hopkins AColumbia B4710
Milan FernandezBrockMcGill A4810
Jesse ChusingOttawaMcMaster B4810
Rachel FanousMichigan BOhio State B4810
Max NealHarvard BBrown4810
Jonathan HuangMITSouthern Connecticut State48-5
Rae PrinceMurray State ATexas A4810
Keerthana KrishnanTexas BTexas A&M A4810
Jack LewisBruinGeorgia Tech D4810
Beckett GillmoreLouisville BSewanee4810
Daniel HobbaCambridge CImperial C4810
Andrei HuiCambridge AWarwick B4810
Justin WytmarNYU AJohns Hopkins B4810
Ben HellmanSwarthmoreNYU C4810
Kevin PengCornell ABinghamton B4810
Rayton LinWaterloo BMcGill B4910
Ian TheysmeyerQueen'sToronto Metropolitan4910
Kevin YeSimon FraserWestern B4910
John MarvinChicago APurdue B5010
Coby TranChicago CNorthwestern B50-5
Sam KemenyBrandeis BBowdoin B50-5
William OrrYaleBrandeis A5010
Rayhana AmjadEdinburgh AOxford C5010
Thomas JenkinsMichigan CMichigan State5110
Joy AnHarvard ADartmouth B5110
Lucas BarnesMissouri BWashington A5210
Graham CopeGeorgia Tech CAlabama B5210
Michael WuSouthampton ACardiff52-5
Imran Abdul RahmanUCLCambridge B5310
Braden BoothMissouri ACarleton College5510
Zach FosterCity St. George'sOxford B5510
Roselyn DaffinSouthampton BImperial B6410
Logan MathisWashU ATennessee A6610
Olivia KiserKentuckyVanderbilt B6610
Nathaniel GodfreyToronto GCarleton University6810
Jacob ErguetaFlorida ACentral Florida C74-5
Tiffany ZhouOhio State ACWRU A7410
Kai MadgwickManchesterMontpellier7410
Andrew ZengStanford ABerkeley D7810
Britton WebsterAlabama AGeorgia Tech B78-5
Shiva TequilaCentral Florida ACentral Florida B8310
Freddie LancettCardiffSouthampton A9110
Drew WetterlindIowa StateWashington B9410
Todd MaslykMichigan ACWRU B96-5
Albert NyangLSEEdinburgh B9610
Matthew LamOhio State CPittsburgh9910
Alana DickeyIndiana BNotre Dame A11310
Franklin WuToronto CUBC B12010
Alex OlsonFlorida BFlorida C12010
Stephen WalshNorthwestern BChicago C12010
Raymond JiangIllinois CIllinois B12010
Adam HermannNotre Dame BIndiana C12010
Matthew ForsterDartmouth ABowdoin A12010
Tianyu XuGeorgia Tech BAlabama A12010
Danny TranTennessee BMississipi State12310
Derek LiCornell CBinghamton A12310
Jay MisukWestern CMcMaster A12610
Brian HoffCornell BRIT12610
Francesca O'ConnorBristolOxford A14110
Ryan FangStanford BBerkeley A14210
Thomas TibbettsCentral Florida CFlorida A14210
Anthony YinCWRU BMichigan A14210
Jeremy RyuBowdoin BBrandeis B1420
Christopher BradleySouthern Connecticut StateMIT1420

Summary

TournamentEditionMatchHeardConv. %Neg %Avg. Buzz
California (North)Main Site3100%33%89.00
CanadaMain Site10100%0%64.40
FloridaMain Site3100%33%115.00
Great LakesMain Site5100%40%82.80
MidwestMain Site8100%13%81.25
NortheastMain Site667%33%67.25
OverflowMain Site4100%0%61.50
South CentralMain Site2100%0%48.00
SoutheastMain Site7100%14%74.71
UKMain Site12100%17%67.50
Upper Mid-AtlanticMain Site8100%0%42.50
Upstate NYMain Site4100%0%85.75