Question

Angels and men beat each other with clubs atop this location in a scene from the Bedford Hours. A lightning flash illuminates this location in the background of a painting in which a crowd flees near a golden statue covered by a serpent. A “Little” painting of this location in Rotterdam shows more curved walls (10[1])than a “Great” version (10[1])in the (10[1])Kunsthistorisches (10[1])(“KOONST-hist-OR-ish-iss”) Museum. (10[1])Those (10[1])two paintings were preceded by a lost ivory miniature that may have provided the basis for a painting of this location by Lucas van Valckenborch. A man raises his arms in front of a depiction of this location (-5[1])based on the minaret of the Great Mosque of Samarra in (10[1])a Gustave (10[1])Doré engraving. (10[1])Hieronymous (-5[1])Cock’s prints of the Colosseum inspired a painting of this location (10[1])whose (10[1])foreground depicts (10[1])stonemasons (-5[1])bowing (10[1])to a king. For 10 points, Pieter Brueghel (10[1])the (10[1])Elder created two paintings of (10[1])what (10[1])unfinished (10[1])biblical (10[2])structure? ■END■ (10[4])

ANSWER: Tower of Babel [or Tower of Babylon; or Mīgdal Bāḇel; or Toren van Babel; prompt on tower or mīgdal] (The painting in the second sentence is Belshazzar’s Feast by John Martin.)
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Summary

2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y24100%0%13%119.00

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Halle FriedmanNYU AColumbia B5410
Cormac BeirneMcGill ARutgers A5810
Chris RayOhio State AWUSTL A6010
Max BrodskyIllinois AIowa State A6110
Tanis NielsenClaremont ASouth Carolina A6210
Henry CafaroChicago CMinnesota A6310
Sky LiToronto AColumbia A101-5
Matt BollingerGeorgia Tech ACornell A11210
Natan HoltzmanStanford AFlorida A11410
John MarvinChicago BBrown A11610
Matt JacksonChicago AYale A117-5
Carlos DoebeliImperial AMichigan A12810
Stevie MillerMaryland ADuke A12910
Christopher SimsNorthwestern AIndiana A13110
Joseph ChambersVirginia AGeorgia Tech B132-5
Qingyu ZhangFlorida BHouston A13310
Steven YuanUC Berkeley BPurdue A14110
Anirudh BharadwajPenn APenn State A14210
Morgan BozemanMinnesota BJohns Hopkins A14710
Matthew SiffYale BWUSTL B14810
Gavin MarkoffVanderbilt ARutgers B14910
Ryan SunUC Berkeley AMIT A15010
Cole TimmerwilkeHarvard ATexas A15010
Arthur Delot-VilainYale AChicago A15210
Tegan KapadiaGeorgia Tech BVirginia A15210
Jim FanNorth Carolina ACornell B15210
John John GrogerColumbia AToronto A15210