art museums - 2025 ACF Fall

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Suspended black staircases feature in one of these buildings designed by Zaha Hadid (10[1]-5[2])which was (-5[1])built (10[1]-5[1])on the site of (10[1])a military (10[1])barracks. (10[1])The Quadracci Pavilion was designed by Santiago (10[1])Calatrava for one of these buildings in Milwaukee. (10[1]-5[1])A skylight (10[4])shaped (-5[2])like (-5[1])a metal (-5[1])flower (10[2]-5[1])tops (10[1]-5[1])one of these buildings (10[1])designed (-5[1])by Frank Gehry, (10[1]-5[5])which (-5[1])has (10[4])flowers (10[1]0[1])in (10[1])a 40-foot-tall (10[2]-5[1])puppy shape outside it. (10[5]-5[1])A (10[1])helical (10[1])ramp (-5[1])surrounds (10[1])an open (10[1])atrium (10[4])in (10[1])one of these (10[4])buildings (10[3]-5[4])that (10[1]-5[1])its (10[1])architect (10[2])called (10[1])an (10[1])“inverted (10[1]-5[1])ziggurat.” (10[4]-5[1])François (-5[1])Mitterand commissioned I. M. Pei (10[1])to (10[1])design (10[4])a (10[1])glass-and-metal (10[1])structure (10[3])for one of these (10[1])buildings (10[3]-5[1])in Paris. (10[9])For (10[1])10 points, (10[1]-5[1])what (10[1])kinds of (10[1])buildings (10[1])include the Guggenheim (10[2])and the Louvre? (10[2])■END■ (10[16])

ANSWER: art museums [or art galleries; prompt on Guggenheims before mentioned with “which is what sort of building?”] (The unnamed museums are the Maxxi, the Milwaukee Art Museum, and Guggenheim Bilbao.)

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Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Position	Value
Anthony Yin	CWRU A	Michigan B	12	-5
Nico Pascual	Michigan State B	CWRU D	12	-5
Asher Lyons	Maryland B	Maryland C	12	10
Beckett Pursey	Purdue B	Purdue A	14	-5
Joe Paterson	Michigan State A	CWRU B	15	10
Alan Fan	Washington Steelhead	Washington Chum	15	-5
Teshawn McDonald	Louisville A	Michigan A	19	10
Ethan Skolnick	WashU Grolars	Purdue C	21	10
Isabella DePrimo	Washington Chinook	Alberta B	22	10
Matthew Kohn	Williams A	Amherst A	29	10
Jaden Bandy	Rutgers B	Columbia A	37	10
Tobias Cortes	Indiana A	Chicago A	37	-5
Ezra Zareba	UNC B	Virginia Tech C	39	10
Rae Meyers	Arizona State A	Texas	39	10
Jeremy Scurlock	Chipola College	South Carolina A	39	10
Owen Linder	Binghamton A	RIT A	39	10
Sam Zavadil	Michigan State D	Ohio State D	40	-5
Jason Lee	Rutgers A	NYU A	40	-5
Sam Alahi	Illinois Orange	Rose-Hulman A	41	-5
James Haddix	Washington State	British Columbia B	43	-5
Aiden Hart	Kentucky	Michigan D	44	10
Lucas Guan	Brown A	Vermont B	44	10
Gabrielle Smith	Auburn A	Georgia Tech F	44	-5
Deepanshi Matai	Toronto C	McMaster A	45	-5
Anne Fjeld	Alberta A	Washington Pink	45	10
Christopher Bradley	Southern Connecticut State University A	Amherst B	49	10
Michael Xu	McMaster B	Toronto G	50	-5
Hudson Kee	William & Mary B	Liberty A	53	-5
Dylan Tanouye	Tufts B	Boston University A	53	-5
Ben Mowery	Vermont A	Brandeis Bach	53	-5
Kaitlyn Farrin	Brandeis Beethoven	Williams C	53	-5
Abby Tipton	Auburn C	Mississippi State A	53	-5
Siheon Lee	Imperial C	Imperial D	53	10
Thomas Popham	Edinburgh D	Edinburgh A	54	-5
Serena Salfiti	USC A	UC Irvine	55	10
Max Kurzman	UNC D	VCU A	55	10
Ben Schindelman	Vassar A	George Mason B	55	10
Sidarth Erat	MIT A	Dartmouth B	55	10
Ishan Chahande	Ohio State D	Michigan State D	56	0
Caleb Ellenberg	Brown B	Brandeis Mozart	56	10
Yiwei Jiang	NYU C	George Mason C	57	10
Theodor Martin	WashU Grizzlers	Illinois Blue	59	-5
Sam Chernoff	Emory A	Georgia Tech B	59	10
Sri Lnu	Clemson B	Sewanne	59	10
Zaire Gibbons	Toronto D	Toronto A	63	10
Tobias Smerdon	Toronto G	McMaster B	63	10
John Shelly	Rowan	Rutgers C	63	10
Emerson Patmore	Georgia Tech C	Alabama A	63	10
Fahim Afzal	Cambridge A	Cambridge B	63	-5
James Stadler	Imperial B	Imperial A	63	10
David Black	Illinois Champaign	Iowa A	64	10
Cliodora Selyuzhitsky	UCSD A	Claremont B	65	10
Penelope Graham	Williams B	Boston College A	66	-5
Scarlet Rutter	Claremont A	UC Santa Barbara	67	10
Towery McNeil	Mississippi State A	Auburn C	69	10
Dylan Steptoe	Guelph A	Waterloo B	70	10
Gannon Smith	Maryland A	George Mason A	70	10
Julian Moody	Tufts A	Dartmouth A	70	10
Yuxuan Lu	Vanderbilt A	Georgia Tech A	70	10
Daniel Slater	Tennessee Tech	Georgia Tech E	71	10
Andrew Nucci	UCLA B	UCSD B	74	10
Rishi Swaminathan	NYU B	Lehigh A	74	10
Alan Zhang	British Columbia C	Arizona State B	74	10
Derek Li	Cornell A	RIT B	74	10
Chris Wang	Toronto B	Waterloo A	75	10
Brendan Bridle	Queen's A	Toronto I	75	10
Joseph Strom	Louisville B	Ohio State B	75	-5
Evan Roberts	Vanderbilt C	Vanderbilt B	75	-5
Nicholas Hall	Cambridge E	LSE	75	-5
Oliver Morten	Cardiff	Southampton	75	10
Violet Page	Binghamton C	ESF	75	-5
Nicholas Ryan	Lehigh B	Princeton	76	-5
Alex Dzurick	William Woods University A	Chicago B	76	10
Elise Economou	Pittsburgh	Ohio State C	77	10
Ishan Pachauri	UCLA C	UCLA D	78	10
Ben Lanahan	Clemson A	Tennessee A	78	10
Madeline Painter	Georgia Tech D	Clemson C	79	10
Eric Yang	Purdue A	Purdue B	80	10
Charles Xin	British Columbia A	Washington Sockeye	81	10
Stephen Donoghue	Sheffield B	Sheffield A	81	-5
Matthew Lam	Ohio State A	Michigan C	82	10
Eric Morshed	Johns Hopkins	Penn	82	10
Alex Wong	Rutgers D	Stony Brook	82	10
Mica Oestreich	Illinois Canada	Illinois Urbana	82	-5
Stella Brown	Washington Masu	Washington Atlantic	82	10
Solomon Blecher	Cornell D	Binghamton B	83	-5
Rufus Gladwell	Durham A	Durham C	88	10
Harry Sexton	Edinburgh A	Edinburgh D	89	10
Sean Gao	Toronto E	Waterloo C	90	10
Gabriel Dodds	Liberty C	Liberty B	90	10
Taiki Takahashi	Dartmouth C	MIT B	90	10
Nayaaz Hashim	Oxford	Bristol	90	10
Shivam Saxena	Georgia Tech F	Auburn A	91	10
TJ Pickering	Auburn B	Georgia A	92	10
Diego Monge	Claremont C	UCLA E	93	10
Nate Brown	CWRU C	Louisville D	93	10
Eli Zimmerman	Tufts C	Boston College B	93	10
Vincent Misterkiewicz	Cornell C	Cornell B	97	10
Jas Wang	UCLA F	UCLA A	98	10
Sicheng Jiang	Toronto H	McMaster C	98	-5
Shlok Dev	LSE	Cambridge E	98	10
Honor Mountford	Cambridge C	Warwick	98	10
Samuel Zheng	Toronto F	Brock A	100	10
Thomas Jenkins	Michigan B	CWRU A	100	10
Agatha Dahle	WVU A	Louisville C	100	10
Jonah Chancio	JMU A	Duke A	100	10
Shining Sun	Boston College A	Williams B	100	10
Richy Sun	Vanderbilt B	Vanderbilt C	100	10
Pen Hughes	Edinburgh C	Edinburgh B	100	10
Harry Fines	York	Durham B	100	10
Megan Englehart	ESF	Binghamton C	100	10
Brendan Karg	JMU B	Tusculum A	101	10
Luke Bromley	Indiana B	Iowa B	103	10
Helen Neves	Boise State	Washington Coho	103	-5
Logan Van Pelt	Washington Coho	Boise State	104	10
Christian Humeniuk	McMaster A	Toronto C	106	10
Tobias Zajac	Michigan State C	WVU B	107	10
Ezra Siegartel	Vassar B	Columbia B	110	10
Michael Shipman	Cambridge D	Birmingham	110	10
Cranmer McGinn	McMaster C	Toronto H	113	10
Ba Loc Dinh	Illinois Urbana	Illinois Canada	113	10
Joshua Lam	Ohio State B	Louisville B	114	10
Mohit Nair	CWRU D	Michigan State B	114	10
Nathan Redford	Liberty A	William & Mary B	114	10
Vihaan Jim	Princeton	Lehigh B	114	10
Zaid Asif	NYU A	Rutgers A	114	10
Sriram Koritala	Illinois Blue	WashU Grizzlers	114	10
Austin Tran	Rose-Hulman A	Illinois Orange	114	10
Saswat Sasha Tripathi	Chicago A	Indiana A	114	10
Brady Bier	Boston University A	Tufts B	114	10
Jack Feinberg	Brandeis Bach	Vermont A	114	10
Eleanor Arron	Williams C	Brandeis Beethoven	114	10
Henry Rutherford-Braun	British Columbia B	Washington State	114	10
Tri Lam	Washington Chum	Washington Steelhead	114	10
Laura Bullock	Sheffield A	Sheffield B	114	10
Adil Soubki	Cambridge B	Cambridge A	114	10
Ariyan Miah	Binghamton B	Cornell D	114	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	TUH	Conv. %	Neg %	Average Buzz
UK (North)	UK	5	100%	40%	98.20
UK (South)	UK	8	100%	25%	87.63
Southern California	US	7	100%	0%	75.71
Eastern Canada (2)	US	9	100%	33%	83.89
Great Lakes	US	12	92%	33%	78.64
Lower Mid-Atlantic	US	6	100%	17%	83.17
Upper Mid-Atlantic	US	12	100%	17%	72.50
Midwest	US	9	100%	56%	88.78
Northeast	US	12	100%	33%	77.33
Pacific	US	9	100%	33%	75.00
Southeast	US	12	100%	25%	72.50
Upstate NY	US	5	100%	40%	84.80