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Question

A massive Islamic metal griffin statue named for this city contained a bowl-like container in its back that may have allowed it to make growling noises. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this city where a replica of the griffin faces its Leaning Tower.

ANSWER: Pisa [accept the Leaning Tower of Pisa; accept the Pisa Griffin; reject “Peter Griffin”]

[10h] The Pisa Griffin’s chest is decorated with this oldest style of Arabic calligraphy, whose angular characters made it common in both abstract art and formal transliterations of the Qur’an.

ANSWER: Kufic [or Kufic script]

[10m] The Pisa Griffin has also been compared to animal-shaped fountainheads in the Islamic world, like those that make up this palace’s court of the lions. This palace exemplary of Moorish Nasrid architecture is in Granada.

ANSWER: Alhambra

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Summary


Northern California	Main	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
Southern California	Main	Y	7	21.43	100%	86%	29%
Eastern Canada (1)	Main	Y	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
Eastern Canada (2)	Main	Y	10	12.00	80%	40%	0%
Florida	Main	Y	4	22.50	100%	75%	50%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	12	17.50	100%	58%	17%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	9	16.67	100%	56%	11%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	10	16.00	90%	60%	10%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Midwest	Main	Y	9	17.78	100%	78%	0%
North	Main	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
Northeast	Main	Y	11	20.00	100%	73%	27%
Pacific	Main	Y	8	18.75	100%	88%	0%
South Central	Main	Y	7	12.86	100%	29%	0%
Southeast	Main	Y	13	16.15	100%	54%	8%
UK (North)	UK	Y	5	18.00	100%	80%	0%
UK (South)	UK	Y	7	15.71	100%	57%	0%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	5	14.00	80%	60%	0%

Data


Rochester	Binghamton C	10	10	20
Cornell A	Cornell D	10	10	20
Cornell C	Binghamton B	10	0	10
ESF	RIT A	10	10	20
RIT B	Binghamton A	0	0	0