Packet 6: Bonus 8
This “father of ekistics” outlined statistical laws of human settlement development, including the principle that all communities are hierarchically connected. For 10 points each:
[10h] What Greek architect designed Sadr City, Riyadh, and Islamabad and assisted Skopje’s rebuilding after a 1963 earthquake? His son wrote the math-themed books Logicomix and Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s Conjecture.
ANSWER: C. A. Doxiadis [or K. A. Doxiadis; or Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis; accept Apostolos Doxiadis]
[10e] Doxiadis’s settlement hierarchy incorporates Jean Gottmann’s concept of the megalopolis, as exemplified by European corridors named for golden, green, and blue varieties of this food.
ANSWER: bananas [accept plantains or Musa spp.; accept Blue Banana, Banane bleue, Blaue Banane, Blauwe banaan, or banana blu; accept Green Banana or Golden Banana]
[10m] For the urban stage below megalopolis, Doxiadis adopted this term coined by Patrick Geddes for metropolitan areas of 3 to 10 million people. This term describes Europe’s Randstad and polycentric Ruhrgebiet (“ROOR-guh-beet”).
ANSWER: conurbations
<Editors, Geography> | F. Prelims 6 - British Columbia + Texas + North Carolina
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 7.14 | 52% | 19% | 0% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brown | Northwestern B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Bruin | Illinois B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | M |
| Cambridge | UC Berkeley A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Chicago B | Northwestern A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Columbia A | Rutgers | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Columbia B | Waterloo | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Cornell | Indiana | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Georgia Tech B | Purdue | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Harvard | Georgia Tech A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Illinois A | Johns Hopkins | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Michigan | Toronto B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| NYU A | UC Berkeley B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| NYU B | MIT | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Penn State | Maryland B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Stanford A | Georgia Tech C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Stanford B | Vanderbilt | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Swarthmore | Chicago A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| UCLA | Minnesota | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Virginia | UCF | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Virginia Tech | Toronto A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| WashU | Georgetown | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main Site | 2026-04-17 | ✓ | 21 | 7.14 | 52% | 19% | 0% |