Packet 1: Bonus 10
The City of Arts and Sciences this architect designed in his home city of Valencia was used to represent the Galactic Senate in Season 2 of Andor. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this Spanish architect, who drew from living organisms to design buildings like the Milwaukee Art Museum and Malmö’s Turning Torso skyscraper.
ANSWER: Santiago Calatrava
[10m] Many of Calatrava’s works are these kinds of buildings, such as the Stadelhofen in Zurich. Before it displayed art, the Musée d’Orsay (“moo-ZAY dor-SAY”) was one of these buildings.
ANSWER: train station [or railway station; or railroad station; or railway depot; or train depot; or railroad depot]
[10e] Calatrava used cantilevers to make his Museum of Tomorrow appear like it was floating in this second largest city in Brazil, which is towered over by Paul Landowski’s Christ the Redeemer statue.
ANSWER: Rio de Janeiro [prompt on Rio]
<Fine Arts - Other, Vikram Narasimhan> | VAULT II Packet 01
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 42 | 20.00 | 95% | 62% | 43% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chimera | Sheffield A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Edinburgh | Manchester A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Sheffield B | Manchester B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HME |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VAULT II at Georgia Tech | 2026-01-24 | ✓ | 6 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| Triangle Cup | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| VAULT II at Eden Prairie HS | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 2 | 15.00 | 50% | 50% | 50% |
| VAULT II at McGill | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 4 | 22.50 | 100% | 100% | 25% |
| VAULT II at UCSB | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 4 | 17.50 | 75% | 50% | 50% |
| VAULT II Northern UK | 2026-04-24 | ✓ | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
| VAULT II Southern UK | 2026-04-24 | ✓ | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 75% | 0% |
| VAULT II at Harvard | 2026-04-30 | ✓ | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| VAULT II at MINT | 2026-06-19 | ✓ | 5 | 20.00 | 100% | 60% | 40% |
| VAULT II Stanford Online | 2026-07-17 | ✓ | 8 | 23.75 | 100% | 75% | 63% |