Parthenon - 2026 ACF Regionals

Question

Answer the following about architectural refinements in Classical buildings meant to correct human visual distortions, for 10 points each.

[10e] In their design for this temple, Ictinus and Callicrates sloped the exterior columns inward and made the corner columns thicker to stabilize the building’s appearance. Phidias sculpted Athena for this temple on the Acropolis.

ANSWER: Parthenon

[10h] Because long horizontal lines appear to sag down from afar, the Greeks often made this uppermost step of a temple slightly convex, as in the Parthenon. This step sits atop the stereobate in the typically three-step crepidoma.

ANSWER: stylobate [or stylobates]

[10m] This architect gave the term “entasis” to the slight swelling of a column shaft to make it appear straight to the human eye. That definition appears in Book Three of this architect’s Ten Books on Architecture.

ANSWER: Vitruvius [or Marcus Vitruvius Pollio]

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Summary


Great Lakes	Main Site	Y	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	7	11.43	100%	14%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	9	12.22	100%	22%	0%
Northeast	Main Site	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
Southeast	Main Site	Y	6	11.67	100%	17%	0%
UK	Main Site	Y	12	11.67	92%	25%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	6	13.33	100%	33%	0%

Data


Michigan C	Ohio State B	10	10	20
CWRU B	Michigan State	10	0	10
Michigan A	Ohio State C	10	10	20
Ohio State A	Michigan B	10	0	10
James Madison B	Liberty C	10	0	10
Liberty A	VCU	10	0	10
Liberty B	James Madison A	10	0	10
North Carolina C	South Carolina A	10	0	10
South Carolina B	Wake Forest	10	0	10
Virginia Tech A	Virginia Tech B	10	10	20
William and Mary	Virginia	10	0	10
NC State A	North Carolina B	10	0	10
Pittsburgh	CWRU A	10	0	10
Chicago D	Northwestern B	10	0	10
Indiana C	Chicago E	10	0	10
Illinois B	Indiana A	10	0	10
Notre Dame A	Illinois C	10	10	20
Indiana B	Notre Dame B	10	0	10
Northwestern C	Northwestern D	10	10	20
Purdue A	Chicago C	10	0	10
Bowdoin A	Southern Connecticut State	10	0	10
Brown	Dartmouth A	10	10	20
Dartmouth B	Bowdoin B	10	0	10
MIT	Harvard B	10	10	20
Yale	Brandeis B	10	10	20
Chicago A	Illinois A	10	0	10
Chicago B	Purdue B	10	0	10
Kentucky	Sewanee	10	0	10
Alabama A	Louisville A	10	0	10
Bruin	Mississipi State	10	0	10
Louisville B	Tennessee A	10	0	10
WashU A	Alabama B	10	10	20
WashU B	Tennessee B	10	0	10
UCL	Birmingham	10	0	10
Bristol	Manchester	10	0	10
Cambridge A	Cambridge B	10	0	10
Cardiff	Cambridge C	0	0	0
City St. George's	Oxford C	10	10	20
Edinburgh A	Oxford A	10	10	20
Edinburgh B	Imperial B	10	0	10
LSE	Southampton A	10	0	10
Montpellier	Durham	10	10	20
Warwick B	Oxford B	10	0	10
Imperial C	Southampton B	10	0	10
Imperial A	Warwick A	10	0	10
NYU A	Johns Hopkins A	10	0	10
NYU C	Catholic	10	0	10
John Jay	Vassar	10	10	20
Johns Hopkins B	Maryland B	10	0	10
NYU B	Maryland A	10	10	20
Georgetown	Rutgers A	10	0	10