Packet 1: Bonus 17
As Louis XIV’s (“the fourteenth’s”) court painter, an artist with this surname led the decoration of the Palace of Versailles. For 10 points each:
[10h] Give this surname which Marie Antoinette’s favored portrait painter, Élisabeth Vigée (“vee-jay”), took as her married name.
ANSWER: Le Brun [accept Charles Le Brun or Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun]
[10m] Charles Le Brun personally painted the walls and ceiling of a now-demolished staircase at the Palace of Versailles named for this job. Two men with this job stand above a distorted skull in a German double portrait.
ANSWER: ambassador [accept Ambassadors’ Staircase or The Ambassadors]
[10e] Anecdotally, an architect added these decorations to the eastern wall of a hallway at the Palace of Versailles so that Le Brun couldn’t show off. Parmagianino used a “convex” one of these objects to paint a self-portrait.
ANSWER: mirrors [accept Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror; accept Hall of Mirrors]
<Visual Fine Arts — Sarah Benner> | SHOW-ME Four Packet 1
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 | 16.96 | 96% | 52% | 22% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coldwater | Hillsdale Academy D | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| DeWitt A | Williamston | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Detroit Catholic Central B | Detroit Country Day B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HME |
| Detroit Country Day A | White Cloud A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Hillsdale Academy A | DeWitt B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| New Boston Huron | Detroit Catholic Central A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Okemos A | Taylor | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Okemos B | Hillsdale Academy B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Rockford A | New Buffalo B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Rockford B | Traverse City Central B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Traverse City Central A | Holt | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Troy B | Grand Ledge | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Utica Academy | White Cloud B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rube Goldberg XIX | 11/20/2025 | ✓ | 13 | 13.85 | 92% | 39% | 8% |
| SHOW-ME Four Nationwide HS | 11/20/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 26.00 | 100% | 100% | 60% |
| SPOOKY IX | 11/20/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 16.00 | 100% | 40% | 20% |