Question
At a tavern suggested by his mentor Constantin Brâncuși (“brin-KOOSH”), this artist met his longtime friend Buckminster Fuller, of whom he sculpted a chrome-plated bust. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this set designer for Appalachian Spring. A museum in Queens honors this American artist of Japanese ancestry, who names a modernist glass-topped coffee table.
ANSWER: Isamu Noguchi
[10h] Noguchi co-designed Fuller’s Dymaxion car and drove it with Clare Boothe Luce and this actress. Noguchi removed the dedication from a painting that shows this socialite on a sidewalk and in the clouds in front of the Hampshire House.
ANSWER: Dorothy Hale [accept The Suicide of Dorothy Hale] (That painting is The Suicide of Dorothy Hale by Frida Kahlo.)
[10e] Noguchi’s frequent collaborator Shoji Sadao contributed to Fuller’s idea of a geodesic one of these structures. Inspired by Fuller’s designs, Epcot’s Spaceship Earth is made of two of these structures.
ANSWER: domes [prompt on hemispheres]
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Summary
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 20.00 | 100% | 80% | 20% |
| Northeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| Overflow | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 25.00 | 100% | 100% | 50% |
| Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| UK | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 75% | 0% |
Data
| UNC B | Virginia A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |