Question
In this city, the largest puppet collection in the world includes human-sized marionettes for the fairy tales of Italo Calvino. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this city enclosed by the Golden Shell and Mount Pellegrino. The 1950s “Sack” of this city involved rampant, cheap urban development by Mafia contractors that threatened Arab-Norman buildings.
ANSWER: Palermo [or Palermu; accept Sack of Palermo or Sacco di Palermo]
[10h] Guy de Maupassant called this Palermo church “the most beautiful religious jewel dreamt of by human thought.” Roger II appears carved in wood muqarnas amidst Islamic calligraphy and Byzantine mosaics in this church.
ANSWER: Palatine Chapel [or Cappella Palatina; prompt on Palazzo dei Normanni or Norman Palace or Royal Palace of Palermo; prompt on Palace Church or Palace Chapel]
[10e] These objects were sprayed with vinegar before being hung on pipes in Palermo’s Capuchin Monastery. Depleted limestone mines store these objects in Paris’s Catacombs.
ANSWER: corpses [or carcasses or dead bodies or a dead body; or equivalents such as dead people; accept mummies; accept skeletons; accept bones or skulls]
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Nationals | 04/22/2023 | Y | 12 | 20.00 | 100% | 92% | 8% |
Data
| Chicago A | Florida A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Chicago B | Georgia Tech A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Maryland A | Stanford A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Yale B | Penn State A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| WUSTL B | Georgia Tech B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| MIT A | North Carolina A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Northwestern A | Minnesota A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Brown A | Ohio State A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Purdue A | Florida B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| WUSTL A | Duke A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Yale A | Cornell A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Rutgers A | South Carolina A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |