Packet 6: Bonus 9
The nest of the hornero bird inspired a sprawling whitewashed “habitable sculpture” on the coast of this country. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this country where Carlos Páez Vilaró built the Casapueblo. A New York-based architect from this country who died in 2023 specialized in “unglamourous” institutional buildings like the Tokyo International Forum.
ANSWER: Uruguay [or Oriental Republic of Uruguay or República Oriental del Uruguay]
[10e] Rafael Viñoly’s firm designed an unusual circular one of these structures for the Laguna Garzón near Uruguay’s coast. Irving Morrow designed one of these structures in California that is painted International Orange.
ANSWER: bridges [accept pedestrian bridges or road bridges; accept suspension bridges; accept Golden Gate Bridge; accept Laguna Garzón Bridge]
[10m] A skyscraper in Montevideo is named for the Salvo family and for this type of building. This noun describes the world’s heaviest building, housing the parliament of Romania, and an unrealized Stalinist megastructure by Boris Iofan.
ANSWER: palace [or palacio or dvorets or palatul; accept Palacio Salvo or Palace of the Parliament or Palace of the Soviets; accept Palatul Parlamentului; accept Dvorets Sovetov; prompt on castle]
<Editors, Other Fine Arts> | O. Playoffs 6 (Editors 6)
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 12.50 | 83% | 38% | 4% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| British Columbia | Minnesota | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Cambridge | Vanderbilt | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | M |
| Chicago A | NYU A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Chicago B | Waterloo | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Columbia A | Toronto A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Columbia B | Bruin | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Cornell | Swarthmore | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Georgetown | Brown | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Georgia Tech A | Johns Hopkins | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Georgia Tech B | Rutgers | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Georgia Tech C | UCLA | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Harvard | Maryland A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Maryland B | UCF | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Northwestern B | North Carolina | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Ohio State | NYU B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Penn State | Michigan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Pittsburgh | Texas | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Purdue | Illinois B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Stanford A | Indiana | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Toronto B | MIT | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| UC Berkeley A | UC Berkeley B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Virginia | Stanford B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Virginia Tech | Northwestern A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| WashU | Illinois A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HEM |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main Site | 2026-04-17 | ✓ | 24 | 12.50 | 83% | 38% | 4% |