Columbus, Indiana - 2025 ACF Winter

Question

J. Irwin Miller encouraged this city to adopt an international reputation for modernist architecture by financing buildings such as Robert Venturi’s Fire Station No. 4. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this city, nicknamed “Athens on the Prairie,” which is home to many public works including Henry Moore’s Large Arch and I. M. Pei’s Cleo Rogers Memorial Library.

ANSWER: Columbus, Indiana

[10m] An architect from this country designed Columbus’s Irwin Union Bank and Miller House as well as the TWA Flight Centre. Another architect from this country founded the furniture company Artek.

ANSWER: Finland [or Suomi]

[10e] Both Eero Saarinen and his father Eliel designed these buildings for Columbus, the latter of which features a 160-foot-tall tower. Antoni Gaudí died before completing one of these buildings, the Sagrada Família.

ANSWER: churches [or cathedrals; accept Transitional Cathedral or First Christian Church]

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Summary


California	Main	Y	5	22.00	100%	80%	40%
Canada	Main	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Florida	Main	Y	12	15.83	92%	67%	0%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	6	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	7	18.57	100%	86%	0%
Midwest	Main	Y	8	18.75	100%	75%	13%
North	Main	Y	11	20.00	100%	73%	27%
Northeast	Main	Y	5	22.00	100%	100%	20%
Overflow	Main	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
South Central	Main	Y	5	18.00	100%	60%	20%
Southeast	Main	Y	12	18.33	100%	75%	8%
UK	Main	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	8	16.25	100%	63%	0%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	8	17.50	100%	63%	13%
2025 ACF Nationals	2025-08-09	Y	13	18.46	100%	77%	8%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	04/19/2025	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%

Data


Berkeley C	Stanford C	0	10	10	20
Berkeley A	Berkeley E	10	10	10	30
Berkeley F	Berkeley D	0	10	10	20
Stanford B	Berkeley B	10	0	10	20
Stanford A	UCSC	0	10	10	20
UCSD Vices and Virtues	Claremont Scripps	0	10	10	20
Ottawa	Guelph B	0	10	10	20
McGill B	Queen's B	0	0	10	10
McGill C	McMaster C	0	10	10	20
Toronto B	McMaster A	0	10	10	20
Queen's A	Toronto K	0	10	10	20
Toronto A	Waterloo	0	10	10	20
Guelph A	Toronto F	0	10	10	20
Toronto D	Toronto G	0	0	10	10
Toronto H	Toronto E	0	0	10	10
Toronto I	McMaster B	0	10	10	20
Toronto J	McGill A	0	10	10	20
Toronto Metropolitan	Carleton	0	0	0	0
FSU	USF	0	0	10	10
Melbourne A	Melbourne B	0	10	10	20
FIU	UCF B	0	10	10	20
UF B	UF A	0	10	10	20
North Carolina A	Clemson B	0	0	10	10
Liberty A	North Carolina C	0	10	10	20
NC State	Liberty B	0	10	10	20
North Carolina B	Virginia B	0	10	10	20
Clemson A	Roanoke	0	10	10	20
Tennessee B	James Madison	0	0	10	10
Tennessee A	Tusculum	0	10	10	20
South Carolina B	Virginia A	10	10	10	30
George Mason A	George Washington A	0	10	10	20
George Washington B	Penn B	0	0	10	10
UMBC A	Georgetown B	0	0	10	10
Georgetown A	Johns Hopkins A	10	10	10	30
Johns Hopkins B	Johns Hopkins C	0	10	10	20
Maryland A	NYU A	10	10	10	30
George Mason C	Maryland B	0	0	10	10
George Mason B	Maryland C	0	10	10	20
NYU B	Catholic University	0	10	10	20
Notre Dame E	Maryland D	10	10	10	30
Penn A	VCU A	0	10	10	20
UF E	UCF A	0	0	10	10
CWRU A	Pitt B	0	10	10	20
CWRU B	Kenyon B	0	10	10	20
CWRU C	OSU C	0	10	10	20
Pitt C	MSU A	0	0	10	10
MSU B	Pitt A	0	10	10	20
OSU A	Kenyon A	0	10	10	20
OSU B	OSU D	0	10	10	20
Missouri A	WashU D	0	10	10	20
WashU A	Truman State	0	10	10	20
WashU B	Missouri B	0	0	10	10
WashU C	William Woods	0	10	10	20
Macalester B	Minnesota C	0	10	10	20
Iowa State	Minnesota A	10	0	10	20
Carleton	Minnesota B	0	10	10	20
Macalester A	Nebraska	0	10	10	20
Wisconsin	St. Thomas	0	0	10	10
Brandeis Orlando	Amherst B	0	0	10	10
Bowdoin B	BC A	0	10	10	20
Tufts B	BC B	0	0	10	10
BU	Yale A	0	10	10	20
Brandeis Clemenceau	Cornell-UG	0	10	10	20
Bowdoin A	Brandeis Wilson	0	0	10	10
Dartmouth	Brown C	0	10	10	20
Harvard	Amherst A	0	10	10	20
MIT A	Brown A	10	10	10	30
Brown B	Tufts A	0	10	10	20
Williams	MIT B	0	10	10	20
Yale B	Brandeis Lloyd George	0	10	10	20
Alberta	British Columbia A	0	10	10	20
British Columbia B	British Columbia C	0	0	10	10
British Columbia D	Washington B	0	10	10	20
Washington A	Simon Fraser	0	10	10	20
Alberta B	Northwestern C	0	10	10	20
Arizona State A	Tulsa	0	10	10	20
Iowa	Arizona State B	0	10	10	20
Northwestern B	Ohio	0	0	10	10
Northwestern A	Rose State	0	10	10	20
Texas A	UTD B	0	10	10	20
UTD A	Texas B	0	0	10	10
McGill D	UCO	0	0	10	10
Alabama B	Auburn A	0	0	10	10
Alabama A	Auburn B	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech C	Sewanee A	0	10	10	20
Bruin A	Georgia Tech D	10	10	10	30
Huntsville A	Mississippi State A	0	10	10	20
Huntsville B	Georgia Tech A	0	0	10	10
UAB A	Vanderbilt B	0	0	10	10
Vanderbilt A	Georgia Tech B	0	10	10	20
Columbia B	Vassar A	0	10	10	20
Rutgers B	Lehigh B	0	10	10	20
Rowan A	Columbia C	0	10	10	20
Lehigh A	Rutgers C	0	10	10	20
Swarthmore A	Princeton A	10	10	10	30
UF D	ERAU A	0	0	10	10
Cambridge A	Bristol A	0	10	10	20
Birmingham A	LSE A	0	0	10	10
Cambridge D	Bristol B	0	10	10	20
Durham B	LSE B	0	0	10	10
Edinburgh A	Southampton A	0	10	10	20
Sheffield A	Imperial A	0	10	10	20
City St George's A	Imperial C	0	10	10	20
Warwick A	Manchester A	10	10	10	30
Edinburgh B	Oxford B	0	10	10	20
Sheffield B	Durham A	0	10	10	20
Lancaster A	Southampton B	0	0	10	10
Cambridge B	Warwick B	0	10	10	20
Cornell-DII	Binghamton A	0	10	10	20
ESF	Binghamton B	0	0	10	10
RIT B	RIT A	0	10	10	20
Syracuse	Rochester	0	10	10	20
Oxford A	Cambridge C	0	10	10	20