Bonus
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]
<TM, Painting and Sculpture>
| Editions | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 17 | 18.82 | 100% | 71% | 18% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cambridge A | LSE | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Cambridge C | Sheffield | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Columbia C | Rutgers A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Harvard A | MIT A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Haverford A | Johns Hopkins A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Illinois A | Illinois B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | MHE |
| Illinois C | Chicago D | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Imperial A | Oxford A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | MHE |
| Indiana A | Chicago A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Maryland A | Penn A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| NYU A | Penn B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Northwestern A | Iowa | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Stanford B | Purdue | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | MHE |
| UNC B | Virginia A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| UW B | UBC | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| WashU A | Missouri | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| WashU B | Chicago B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | ME |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | 5 | 20.00 | 100% | 80% | 20% |
| Northeast | 2025-02-01 | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| Overflow | 2025-02-01 | 2 | 25.00 | 100% | 100% | 50% |
| Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| UK | 2025-02-01 | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 75% | 0% |