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

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
Beckett PurseyPurdue BPurdue A14-5
Ethan SkolnickWashU GrolarsPurdue C2110
Tobias CortesIndiana AChicago A37-5
Sam AlahiIllinois OrangeRose-Hulman A41-5
Theodor MartinWashU GrizzlersIllinois Blue59-5
David BlackIllinois ChampaignIowa A6410
Alex DzurickWilliam Woods University AChicago B7610
Eric YangPurdue APurdue B8010
Mica OestreichIllinois CanadaIllinois Urbana82-5
Luke BromleyIndiana BIowa B10310
Ba Loc DinhIllinois UrbanaIllinois Canada11310
Sriram KoritalaIllinois BlueWashU Grizzlers11410
Austin TranRose-Hulman AIllinois Orange11410
Saswat Sasha TripathiChicago AIndiana A11410

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