minarets - 2024 Chicago Open

Question

The lawns around one of these structures contain a former part of it whose failed renovation earned it the nickname “Smith’s Folly.” Michel Pinseau included a laser in his design for one of these structures adorned with seafoam-colored (-5[1])tiles. According to legend, a monarch covered up his laziness by claiming his tinkering with paper was a design for one of these structures. One of these structures (-5[1])inspired Philip Johnson’s 1976 design for an all-white (-5[1])building in Dallas’s Thanks-Giving (-5[1])Square. One of these structures in (*) Seville was converted into the Giralda (“hee-RALL-dah”). Indian instances (10[1])of these structures (10[2]-5[1])include four that (10[1]-5[1])comprise an iconic (-5[1])monument of Hyderabad and a brick one in Delhi’s (-5[1])Qutb (10[1]-5[1])complex. (10[1])Ziggurats may have inspired the Malwiya, a spiral-shaped sort of this structure in Samarra. For 10 points, name these towers from which muezzins call for prayer. ■END■ (10[9])

ANSWER: minarets [or minars; accept Charminar, Qutb Minar, or Qutub Minar; accept Malwiya or Al-Minārat al-Malwiyyah until “Malwiya” is read; prompt on mosques; prompt on towers, pillars, or bell towers] (Pinseau designed the Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca. The ruler is Ibn Tulun, the namesake of the Mosque of Ibn Tulun in Cairo. The Great Mosque of Samarra contains a spiral-shaped minaret.)

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2024 Chicago Open	07/28/2024	Y	15	100%	0%	60%	122.60

Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Buzz Position	Value
Eric Chen	Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy	SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE	37	-5
Kenji Shimizu	I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open)	The Empire Bikes Back	65	-5
Iain Carpenter	Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret	Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A	73	-5
Jonathan Shauf	Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes	when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything	77	-5
Tracy Mirkin	sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone	We Need New Names	91	10
Matt Bollinger	BHSU B	A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence	94	10
Victor Pavao	Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago	The Oldest Men in the World	94	-5
Donal Ryan	Les Missourables	var merchants	94	10
Nick Jensen	LMM's LLM MLM	The Dyatlov Passement incident	97	10
John Marvin	There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see	Lisan al-Quib	97	-5
Andrew Wang	Punished "Venom" BHSU	it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown	100	-5
Anwen Kelleher	NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess)	The Jeam Team	109	-5
Conor Thompson	Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer	AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH	110	10
Ved Muthusamy	First Cause, First Cause, make me young!	genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet	110	-5
Arya Karthik	Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team	NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess)	111	10
Matt Weiner	SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE	Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy	138	10
Henry Atkins	The Empire Bikes Back	I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open)	138	10
Mike Cheyne	The Oldest Men in the World	Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago	138	10
Gautam Kandlikar	when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything	Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes	138	10
Alexander Nero	Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A	Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret	138	10
Jason Hong	The Jeam Team	NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess)	138	10
Stephen Liu	Lisan al-Quib	There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see	138	10
Kevin Wang	genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet	First Cause, First Cause, make me young!	138	10
Swapnil Garg	it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown	Punished "Venom" BHSU	138	10