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

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

PlayerTeamOpponentPositionValue
Deepanshi MataiToronto CMcMaster A45-5
Michael XuMcMaster BToronto G50-5
Zaire GibbonsToronto DToronto A6310
Tobias SmerdonToronto GMcMaster B6310
Dylan SteptoeGuelph AWaterloo B7010
Chris WangToronto BWaterloo A7510
Brendan BridleQueen's AToronto I7510
Sean GaoToronto EWaterloo C9010
Sicheng JiangToronto HMcMaster C98-5
Samuel ZhengToronto FBrock A10010
Christian HumeniukMcMaster AToronto C10610
Cranmer McGinnMcMaster CToronto H11310

Summary

TournamentEditionTUHConv. %Neg %Average Buzz
UK (North)UK5100%40%98.20
UK (South)UK8100%25%87.63
Southern CaliforniaUS7100%0%75.71
Eastern Canada (2)US9100%33%83.89
Great LakesUS1292%33%78.64
Lower Mid-AtlanticUS6100%17%83.17
Upper Mid-AtlanticUS12100%17%72.50
MidwestUS9100%56%88.78
NortheastUS12100%33%77.33
PacificUS9100%33%75.00
SoutheastUS12100%25%72.50
Upstate NYUS5100%40%84.80