Question
Virginia Commonwealth University’s College Building is nicknamed for this civilization, whose Revival style is characterized by battered walls and palm frond column capitals. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this civilization whose architecture is mimicked by a non-Chinese Grauman’s Theater and Las Vegas’s Luxor casino.
ANSWER: Ancient Egypt [or Ancient Egyptians; accept Egyptian Building; accept Grauman's Egyptian Theater]
[10h] A hallmark of Egyptian architecture are the concave cavetto mouldings used as these architectural features, which function as decorative crownings, unlike eaves.
ANSWER: cornices [or cavetto cornice]
[10m] Thomas Walter’s additions to one of these places in Moyamensing and a John Haviland project nicknamed for its mastaba-like appearance exemplify an 1830s trend of using Egyptian Revival designs for these places. An Egyptophilic architect sketched a set of sixteen capricci depicting imaginary places of this type.
ANSWER: prisons [or jails; or penitentiaries; or detention centers; or Imaginary Prisons; or Carceri d'invenzione; or Moyamensing Prison; or New York Halls of Justice and House of Detention; prompt on the Tombs by asking “what purpose did that place serve?”; prompt on Halls of Justice or answers referring to police stations or courts by asking “What other function did that place primarily serve?”]
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Summary
| 2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 5 | 10.00 | 80% | 20% | 0% |
Data
| I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |