The Swedish village of Jukkasjärvi (“YOO-kuss-YAIR-vee”) hosts a hotel made completely from this material. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this material used by the Inuit to create homes consisting of circularly upward spiraling patterns of bricks.
ANSWER: ice [or snow; accept ICEHOTEL; prompt on water or H2O] (The Inuit homes are igluit, or igloos.)
[10m] In 2018, the Eindhoven Institute created a 31-foot-tall sculpture at this Chinese city’s annual ice festival. This capital of Hēilóngjiāng (“hay-lung-j’yahng”) in Northeast China had a large Russian population due to the Chinese Eastern Railway.
ANSWER: Harbin (“har-BEAN”) [or Hā’ěrbīn; or Halbin; accept Harbin Ice and Snow Festival or Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival or Hā’ěrbīn Guójì Bīngxuě Jié]
[10h] At the 2019 Harbin festival, Eindhoven made a 40-foot tower based on this architect’s designs. This architect, who imagined specially connected canals in an “ideal city,” may have designed a double helix staircase at the Château de Chambord.
ANSWER: Leonardo da Vinci [or Leonardo da Vinci]
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