Bonus
A massive Islamic metal griffin statue named for this city contained a bowl-like container in its back that may have allowed it to make growling noises. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this city where a replica of the griffin faces its Leaning Tower.
ANSWER: Pisa [accept the Leaning Tower of Pisa; accept the Pisa Griffin; reject “Peter Griffin”]
[10h] The Pisa Griffin’s chest is decorated with this oldest style of Arabic calligraphy, whose angular characters made it common in both abstract art and formal transliterations of the Qur’an.
ANSWER: Kufic [or Kufic script]
[10m] The Pisa Griffin has also been compared to animal-shaped fountainheads in the Islamic world, like those that make up this palace’s court of the lions. This palace exemplary of Moorish Nasrid architecture is in Granada.
ANSWER: Alhambra
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| Editions | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 126 | 17.14 | 99% | 63% | 10% |
Conversion
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK (North) | UK | Y | 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 80% | 0% |
| UK (South) | UK | Y | 7 | 15.71 | 100% | 57% | 0% |
| Northern California | US | Y | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
| Southern California | US | Y | 7 | 21.43 | 100% | 86% | 29% |
| Eastern Canada (1) | US | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 100% | 40% | 0% |
| Eastern Canada (2) | US | Y | 10 | 15.00 | 110% | 40% | 0% |
| Florida | US | Y | 4 | 22.50 | 100% | 75% | 50% |
| Great Lakes | US | Y | 12 | 17.50 | 100% | 58% | 17% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | US | Y | 9 | 16.67 | 100% | 56% | 11% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | US | Y | 10 | 16.00 | 90% | 60% | 10% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | US | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| Midwest | US | Y | 9 | 17.78 | 100% | 78% | 0% |
| North | US | Y | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 75% | 0% |
| Northeast | US | Y | 11 | 20.00 | 100% | 73% | 27% |
| Pacific | US | Y | 8 | 18.75 | 100% | 88% | 0% |
| Southeast | US | Y | 13 | 16.15 | 100% | 54% | 8% |
| Upstate NY | US | Y | 6 | 15.00 | 83% | 67% | 0% |