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Ghislebertus (“zheel-BARE-tus”) sculpted The Last Judgement above one of these features, as was common in Romanesque (-5[1])architecture. (10[2])Old Testament kings (10[1])are sculpted into the Chartres (“SHAR-truh”) Cathedral’s “Royal” one (10[1])of these features, (-5[1])which are found (10[1])below (-5[1])tympanums. (10[2]-5[3])Many artists (10[1])sculpted (-5[1])the Binding of Isaac for a (10[1])1401 contest (10[2])to (-5[1])design (10[1])one of these (10[2])features (10[4]-5[4])at the Florence (10[3])Baptistery (10[3]-5[1])that Lorenzo (10[1])Ghiberti (10[5]-5[2])won (10[1])over (10[1]-5[1])Filippo (10[3]-5[3])Brunelleschi (10[2]-5[9])(“broo-nel-LESS-kee”). The (-5[2])Thinker (10[1]-5[4])is part (-5[2])of a sculptural group named (10[1])for these features. (10[7])So-called (10[1])“French” (10[2])examples (10[2])of these features (10[1])are (10[1])fully covered by windows. (10[2]-5[2])For 10 points, name these architectural (-5[1])features that regulate (-5[3])entry into rooms. (10[5])■END■ (10[50]0[5])

ANSWER: doors [or church portals; or doorways; or Gates; accept tympanums until read; accept Royal Portal or Portail Royal; accept French doors; accept Gates of Paradise; accept The Gates of Hell or La Porte d’Enfer]

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Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Position	Value
Mata Cooper	Southampton	Birmingham	14	-5
Connor King	St. Thomas	Wisconsin A	15	10
Anne Fjeld	Alberta A	Washington Steelhead	15	10
Kenner Bailey	Boston University A	Brandeis Bach	18	10
Emerson Patmore	Georgia Tech C	Clemson A	26	10
Jake Markus	Dartmouth B	Brown B	29	-5
Towery McNeil	Mississippi State A	Auburn C	32	10
Surya Donath	Stanford A	Berkeley Little Prince	33	-5
Dmitri Anh-Minh Tran	UC Santa Barbara	UCSD A	34	-5
Andrew McKenzie	Ohio State B	CWRU D	34	10
Parker Jones	NCSU B	Liberty C	34	-5
Meredie Cohen	William & Mary A	Virginia A	34	10
Richy Sun	Vanderbilt B	Vanderbilt C	34	-5
Brian Hobmann	UCLA F	UC Irvine	36	10
Eric Yang	Purdue A	Purdue C	37	-5
Ezra Zareba	UNC B	VCU A	43	10
Nico Pascual	Michigan State B	Ohio State A	45	10
David Ropp	Duke A	Liberty A	45	10
Bokei Thompson	Amherst B	Tufts C	46	-5
Darren Kellis	Vanderbilt A	South Carolina A	47	10
Coy Mier	Auburn B	Auburn A	50	10
Martin Brandenburg	Georgia A	Tennessee Tech	50	10
Malcolm Meyn	McGill C	Ottawa B	51	-5
Zaire Gibbons	Toronto D	Waterloo A	51	10
Anton Akroush	Michigan State A	Michigan B	51	10
Faraz Foroughi	NCSU A	UNC A	51	-5
Mohamed Algraiw	MIT A	Boston College A	51	-5
Jeremy Scurlock	Chipola College	Alabama A	51	10
Samarth Prajapati	Georgia Tech E	Emory A	51	10
Michael Shipman	Cambridge D	Bristol	51	-5
Scarlet Rutter	Claremont A	Claremont B	54	10
Jason Lee	Rutgers A	Maryland C	54	10
Abbie Isabel	Edinburgh A	Durham A	54	10
Devito Stevanus	McGill B	McGill A	55	10
Sarah Dong	Michigan A	CWRU A	55	10
Xavier Bornhorst	Maryland A	George Mason A	55	-5
Henry L'Heureux	Minnesota	Wisconsin C	55	10
Austin Tran	Rose-Hulman A	William Woods University A	57	10
Karthik Subramanian	Berkeley Boss Bandit	Berkeley Mighty Miner	58	10
Chris Wang	Toronto B	McMaster A	58	10
Sriram Koritala	Illinois Blue	Illinois Champaign	58	10
Lucy Izabella	Edinburgh D	York	58	-5
Adil Soubki	Cambridge B	Cardiff	58	10
Antara Bhattacharya	Cambridge A	Oxford	58	-5
Emilie Moore	RIT A	Cornell C	58	10
Elise Economou	Pittsburgh	Michigan D	59	10
Kyle Chua	CWRU B	Louisville A	60	10
Jack Disbury	Durham D	Edinburgh B	60	-5
Ishan Pachauri	UCLA C	UCSD B	61	10
Anna Bocook	Louisville D	Kentucky	61	10
Chase Moss	WVU A	Michigan State C	61	-5
Brian Qian	Illinois Canada	Indiana A	61	10
Merrick Hill	Iowa State	Macalester	61	-5
James Haddix	Washington State	Arizona State A	61	-5
Andrew Nucci	UCLA B	UCLA D	62	-5
John Rootham	Ottawa D	Ottawa A	62	-5
Michael Xu	McMaster B	Toronto E	62	-5
Jacob Ergueta	Florida A	Florida B	62	-5
Juan Landaeta	Florida State A	South Florida A	62	-5
Reed Sexton	Michigan C	Louisville B	62	-5
Ben Kantsiper	JMU B	Liberty B	62	-5
Saswat Sasha Tripathi	Chicago A	Iowa A	62	-5
Beckett Pursey	Purdue B	Iowa B	62	10
James Windle	Purdue D	WashU Grolars	62	-5
Alan Zhang	British Columbia C	Washington Chum	62	10
Luke Sauer	Michigan Tech	Wisconsin B	63	-5
Nitish Sudhakar	Georgia Tech A	Tennessee A	63	-5
Nick Machin	UCLA A	USC A	64	-5
Akhil Upadrasta	Ohio State D	Louisville C	64	-5
Abigail Lee	Virginia Tech C	UNC C	64	-5
Anthony Xu	Amherst A	Brown A	64	10
Jonathan Schnipper	Brandeis Mozart	Williams B	64	-5
Solomon Blecher	Cornell D	RIT B	66	-5
Jonah McGinley	Rochester	Binghamton B	66	-5
Jack Meyers	Brown B	Dartmouth B	71	10
Dylan Steptoe	Guelph A	Toronto G	74	10
Sewanth Paudel	Ohio State C	CWRU C	74	10
Nathan Sprouse	Virginia Tech B	Virginia Tech A	74	10
Charles Miller	William & Mary C	William & Mary B	74	10
Colette Giezentanner	WashU Grizzlers	Indiana B	74	10
Keerthana Krishnan	Texas	British Columbia A	74	10
Derek Li	Cornell A	ESF	74	10
Arhith Dharaendra	Georgia Tech B	Georgia Tech F	75	10
Elliott Gomes	Dartmouth A	Vermont B	76	10
Joyann Hua	British Columbia B	Washington Atlantic	76	10
Nicolaus Derikx	Carleton A	Carleton B	77	10
Joseph Strom	Louisville B	Michigan C	77	10
Will Jones	Michigan State D	WVU B	80	10
Rae Meyers	Arizona State A	Washington State	81	10
Avery Becker	Berkeley Archer Queen	Stanford B	85	10
Hansen Jin	Berkeley Skeleton King	UCSC	85	-5
Benjamin Turner	York	Edinburgh D	85	10
Shlok Dev	LSE	Imperial C	85	-5
Duncan Occhiogrosso	UConn A	Tufts B	91	-5
Joseph Wang	UCLA E	USC B	94	-5
Christina Popov	Queen's A	Toronto F	94	-5
Deepanshi Matai	Toronto C	Toronto A	94	-5
Gerrit Severeid	McGill E	Ottawa C	97	10
Thomas Brittain	McMaster C	Toronto I	97	10
Sicheng Jiang	Toronto H	Brock A	97	10
Andrew Park	Harvard	Williams C	97	10
Charlie Castleton	Sheffield A	Durham B	97	10
Janghyun Lee	Berkeley Little Prince	Stanford A	98	0
Huy Lai	UCSC	Berkeley Skeleton King	98	10
Cliodora Selyuzhitsky	UCSD A	UC Santa Barbara	98	10
Serena Salfiti	USC A	UCLA A	98	10
Nikola Wu	UCLA D	UCLA B	98	10
Taman Truong	USC B	UCLA E	98	10
Sai Yarlagadda	Ottawa B	McGill C	98	10
Aedan Cooper	Ottawa A	Ottawa D	98	10
Sean Gao	Toronto E	McMaster B	98	10
Samuel Zheng	Toronto F	Queen's A	98	10
Blake Kim-Wansbrough	Toronto A	Toronto C	98	0
Zack Wiffen	Waterloo B	Waterloo C	98	10
Nicholas Nguyen	Florida B	Florida A	98	10
Orin Overmiller	Florida Tech B	ERAU Daytona A	98	10
Pallas Allen	South Florida A	Florida State A	98	10
Leighton Karpinia	Florida Tech A	UCF A	98	10
Molly Krallman	Louisville C	Ohio State D	98	10
Tobias Zajac	Michigan State C	WVU A	98	10
Alexandra Knight	Liberty B	JMU B	98	10
Gabriel Dodds	Liberty C	NCSU B	98	10
Joseph Cole	UNC A	NCSU A	98	10
Halah Cates	UNC C	Virginia Tech C	98	10
James Meek	George Mason A	Maryland A	98	10
Waverly O'Malley	Iowa A	Chicago A	98	10
Ba Loc Dinh	Illinois Urbana	Chicago B	98	10
Arthur Zhang	Purdue C	Purdue A	98	10
Ethan Skolnick	WashU Grolars	Purdue D	98	10
Ben Simmons	Macalester	Iowa State	98	10
Will Demos	Wisconsin B	Michigan Tech	98	10
Thomas Newill	Tufts C	Amherst B	98	10
Shining Sun	Boston College A	MIT A	98	10
Kaitlyn Farrin	Brandeis Beethoven	MIT B	98	10
Reid Eichberg	Tufts B	UConn A	98	10
Penelope Graham	Williams B	Brandeis Mozart	98	10
Ruby Xia	Arizona State B	Washington Coho	98	10
Bryce Younger	Boise State	Washington Masu	98	0
Haylee Weisner	Washington Masu	Boise State	98	0
Aaron Bates	Washington Pink	Washington Sockeye	98	10
Asheton Wilbanks	Clemson B	Clemson C	98	10
Andrew Wilson	Montevallo	Georgia Tech D	98	10
Alina Moore	Tennessee A	Georgia Tech A	98	10
Nelson Adams-Riley	Sewanne	Tennessee B	98	10
Edward Zhang	Vanderbilt C	Vanderbilt B	98	10
Thaddeus Holmes	Durham C	Edinburgh C	98	10
Alex Miller	Edinburgh B	Durham D	98	10
Tom Morris-Jones	Birmingham	Southampton	98	10
Leo Godbee	Bristol	Cambridge D	98	10
Honor Mountford	Cambridge C	Imperial B	98	10
Juliette Flatau	Imperial A	Warwick	98	10
Will Barton	Imperial C	LSE	98	10
Ollie Glin-Conway	Imperial D	Cambridge E	98	10
Nayaaz Hashim	Oxford	Cambridge A	98	10
Eli O'Sick Johnson	Binghamton C	Cornell B	98	10
Hayley Morris	RIT B	Cornell D	98	0
Ariyan Miah	Binghamton B	Rochester	98	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	TUH	Conv. %	Neg %	Average Buzz
UK (North)	UK	5	100%	40%	86.40
UK (South)	UK	8	100%	50%	93.00
Northern California	US	4	75%	50%	80.33
Southern California	US	7	100%	57%	77.57
Eastern Canada (1)	US	5	100%	40%	85.00
Eastern Canada (2)	US	9	89%	33%	83.88
Florida	US	4	100%	50%	98.00
Great Lakes	US	12	100%	25%	66.00
Lower Mid-Atlantic	US	9	100%	44%	73.56
Upper Mid-Atlantic	US	2	100%	50%	76.00
Midwest	US	9	100%	33%	78.22
North	US	4	100%	50%	66.50
Northeast	US	10	100%	50%	81.60
Pacific	US	8	88%	13%	72.00
Southeast	US	13	100%	15%	67.08
Upstate NY	US	5	80%	40%	82.00