Helsinki - 2023 ACF Winter

Question

Lars Sonck included a massive granite tower on an Art Nouveau church that he designed in this city’s Kallio district. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this city whose neoclassical cathedral is located at the center of its Senate Square. An event venue made entirely of Carrara marble was designed in this city by Alvar Aalto, an architect from this city.

ANSWER: Helsinki [or Helsingfors] (The Aalto building is Finlandia Hall.)

[10e] Helsinki Central Station and the National Museum of Finland were both designed by an architect with this surname. That architect’s son with this surname designed the Gateway Arch in St. Louis.

ANSWER: Saarinen [accept Eliel Saarinen; accept Eero Saarinen]

[10h] Buildings designed by the Saarinens in this US city include Eliel’s First Christian Church and Eero’s Miller House, which has one of the first conversation pits. A 2017 film by Kogonada set in this city traces Jin and Casey’s brief friendship among this city’s renowned architecture.

ANSWER: Columbus, Indiana [reject “Columbus, Ohio”]

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Summary


2023 ACF Winter @ Columbia	11/11/2023	Y	9	14.44	78%	33%	33%
2023 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	Premiere	N	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Carleton University	Premiere	N	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Claremont Colleges	Premiere	N	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Duke	Emory, Duke, Yale	N	4	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Emory	Emory, Duke, Yale	N	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Imperial	Imperial	N	5	14.00	100%	0%	40%
2023 ARCADIA at Indiana	Premiere	N	5	16.00	100%	40%	20%
2023 ARCADIA at Maryland	Maryland, Online	N	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
2023 ARCADIA at Ohio State	Ohio State, Texas	N	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
2023 ARCADIA Online	Maryland, Online	N	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at RIT	Premiere	N	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Texas	Ohio State, Texas	N	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
2023 ARCADIA at WUSTL	Premiere	N	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%

Data


Cornell C	Princeton B	0	10	0	10
Bard A	Princeton A	0	0	0	0
Columbia A	Rutgers B	10	10	10	30
Yale A	Penn B	0	10	10	20
Yale B	Rowan A	10	10	0	20
Vassar	Yale C	0	10	0	10
NYU A	Columbia C	10	10	10	30
Penn A	Haverford	0	10	0	10
NYU B	Rutgers A	0	0	0	0