This city’s 60-hectare central business district houses the Mercury City Tower, which is considered the tallest copper-clad structure in the world. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this city whose ornate metro stations and “Seven Sisters” skyscrapers showcase the Socialist Realism style of a bygone era. St. Basil’s Cathedral stands in this city’s main square.
ANSWER: Moscow [or Moskva]
[10m] The main building of one of these places is the tallest of the Seven Sisters and is adorned with a 12-ton golden star. Another skyscraper serving as the main building of one of these places in Pittsburgh was built using late Gothic Revival style, leading “cathedral” to be included in the building's name.
ANSWER: universities [accept colleges; prompt on schools; prompt on libraries; prompt on campuses]
[10h] A series of four architectural competitions selected the design for this administrative center in Moscow, which was never finished due to Germany’s 1941 invasion. This building’s stack of neoclassical cylinders would have been topped with a statue of Lenin to become the tallest building in the world.
ANSWER: Palace of the Soviets [reject “House of Soviets”]
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