China - 2026 ACF Regionals

Packet F: Tossup 18

A disaster memorial in this country contains a pink bedroom visible through a peephole in memory of a teenage victim. Intersecting ramps and a large central courtyard appear in an urban complex in this country called the West Village, (10[1])which was designed by a native of this country who won the 2025 Pritzker Prize. In (10[1])response (-5[1])to the prismatic (10[1]-5[1])shape of a building in this country, (10[1])a nearby building had cannon-shaped (10[1])cranes (10[2]-5[2])added (10[1]-5[1])to counterbalance. (10[4]-5[3])Two (10[2])conjoined towers form a loop in a broadcasting company (10[2]-5[2])headquarters (10[2]-5[1])in this country (10[5]-5[2])that is (10[1])often (10[1])called (10[1])“big pants” (10[5])and was designed (10[1]-5[1])by (10[1])Rem Koolhaas. (10[4])At (10[1])age 91, (10[1])an architect from this country designed the Museum of Islamic (10[1])Art (10[1])in Doha. (10[7]-5[4])For (-5[1])10 points, (0[2]-5[4])name this (-5[1])home country (-5[1])of the architect of the Rock and Roll (10[1])Hall of Fame (10[1])and the Louvre Pyramid. (10[3])■END■ (10[21]0[11])

ANSWER: China [or People’s Republic of China; or PRC; or Zhōngguó; or Zhōnghuá Rénmín Gònghéguó] (The Pritzker Prize-winning architect is Liu Jiakun. The third sentence refers to the Bank of China Tower and the HSBC Building.)

<Chicago C, Other Fine Arts> | Packet F - Chicago C, McGill C, WashU A, Chicago B

= Average correct buzzpoint

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Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Buzzpoint	Value
Ryan Rosenberg	NYU A	Rutgers B	38	10
Oscar O'Flanagan	Imperial A	Bristol	54	10
Zach Tseng	Georgia Tech C	Kentucky	55	-5
John Marvin	Chicago A	Indiana B	58	-5
Scarlet Rutter	Claremont	Washington A	58	10
Raymond Jiang	Illinois C	Northwestern D	65	10
Joy An	Harvard A	Brandeis B	70	10
Swapnil Garg	Berkeley A	Stanford A	71	-5
Franklin Wu	Toronto C	Toronto D	71	10
Nicholas Kwan	Western A	UBC A	71	-5
Joseph Chambers	Virginia	NC State B	71	10
Danny Han	Stanford B	Berkeley C	72	10
Stefan Vlad	Ottawa	Waterloo A	72	-5
Ben Wismath	Toronto B	Carleton University	74	10
Alex Jiang	Brown	MIT	74	10
Joel Miles	Minnesota A	Missouri A	74	10
Andrei Hui	Cambridge A	Edinburgh A	74	-5
Tok Shing Henry Wong	Cambridge C	Oxford B	74	10
Ian Parsons	Maryland C	NYU B	74	-5
Ben Hellman	Swarthmore	Rutgers A	74	-5
Vinu Harihar	Berkeley B	Berkeley D	75	10
Moses Kitakule	Columbia A	Georgetown	75	10
Tianyu Xu	Georgia Tech B	WashU B	84	10
Imran Abdul Rahman	UCL	Edinburgh B	84	10
Joel Dicker	Southampton B	Oxford C	84	-5
Kieran Freed	Rochester	Cornell B	84	-5
Kerry Xu	UCSD B	UCSD C	85	10
Owen Gilroy	Texas B	Texas A&M A	85	-5
Freddie Lancett	Cardiff	Warwick B	85	10
Nicholas Cuevas	Florida B	Central Florida A	88	-5
Andrew Wang	Illinois A	Illinois B	88	10
Jackson Price	Dartmouth B	Brandeis A	88	-5
Jeffrey Xu	Georgia Tech A	Washington B	88	10
Kai Madgwick	Manchester	Warwick A	88	10
Eveline Ong	Oxford A	Cambridge B	88	10
Jackie Xu	Cornell A	Cornell C	88	10
Samuel Li	William and Mary	North Carolina A	90	10
David Ropp	Duke	NC State A	91	10
Dennis Yang	Michigan B	Michigan A	92	10
Tiffany Zhou	Ohio State A	Michigan C	94	10
Kanyon Beck	Murray State A	Texas A	94	10
Jack Lewis	Bruin	Alabama A	94	10
Hamish Campbell	Durham	LSE	94	10
Chauncey Lo	Columbia C	John Jay	94	10
Dmitri Anh-Minh Tran	UC Santa Barbara	UC Irvine	97	10
Eric Yang	Purdue A	Indiana C	97	-5
Luke Houtz	Arizona State	UCLA A	98	10
Shiva Tegulla	Central Florida A	Florida B	100	10
Prahalad Rao	Ohio State B	CWRU A	100	10
Andrew Harms	Michigan State	Pittsburgh	100	10
Max Neal	Harvard B	Bowdoin A	100	10
Jakob Meyers	Indiana A	Purdue B	101	10
Andrew McCowan	Queen's	Simon Fraser	103	10
Aditya Shivaswamy	Johns Hopkins A	Maryland B	113	10
Krishna Girish	Montpellier	Southampton A	114	10
Jay Misuk	Western C	McGill B	116	-5
Yusuf Baig	McMaster B	Brock	116	-5
Anthony Yin	CWRU B	Ohio State C	116	10
Eric Chang	Virginia Tech B	James Madison A	116	-5
Ved Muthusamy	Northwestern B	Notre Dame A	116	-5
Christopher Bradley	Southern Connecticut State	Dartmouth A	116	10
Lucas Barnes	Missouri B	Iowa State	116	10
Joseph Strom	Louisville B	Alabama B	116	10
S. A. Shenoy	Georgia Tech D	Tennessee B	116	10
Olin Bose	Columbia B	NYU C	116	10
Ani Perumalla	Penn State	RIT	116	10
Bailey Lacefield	Toronto F	McMaster A	117	-5
Khanh Nguyen	Florida C	Central Florida C	119	-5
Anna Barker	Central Florida C	Florida C	119	0
Adam Pascoe	Wake Forest	South Carolina A	119	-5
Samanyu Dixit	North Carolina C	South Carolina B	119	-5
Snehan Saroch	Louisville A	Mississipi State	119	-5
Kritanu Saha	Cornell B	Rochester	119	0
Rayton Lin	Waterloo B	Guelph	121	-5
Caleb Hines	Liberty A	Liberty C	123	-5
John Augustyn	Notre Dame B	Chicago D	131	10
Max Averbach	Northwestern C	Chicago E	134	10
Thomas Glotfelty	Virginia Tech A	Liberty B	138	10
Frances Hadley	Edinburgh A	Cambridge A	138	10
Zach Foster	City St. George's	Imperial C	138	10
Rahul Jogadhenu	UCLA B	UCSD A	139	10
Gabriel McMurren	Guelph	Waterloo B	139	10
Luke Sloan	McGill B	Western C	139	0
Milan Fernandez	Brock	McMaster B	139	10
Michael Du	Waterloo A	Ottawa	139	10
Carter Yott	McMaster A	Toronto F	139	10
Alan Zhang	UBC A	Western A	139	0
Ishan Joshi	Toronto Metropolitan	Western B	139	10
Jacob Ergueta	Florida A	Central Florida B	139	0
Brendan Baumer	Central Florida B	Florida A	139	10
Erin Williams	James Madison A	Virginia Tech B	139	10
Max Bendsen	VCU	James Madison B	139	10
Gabriel Dodds	Liberty C	Liberty A	139	0
Trey Lewis	South Carolina A	Wake Forest	139	10
Gavin Rittgers	South Carolina B	North Carolina C	139	10
Nermeen Rahman	Indiana B	Chicago A	139	0
Jonah Hubert	Notre Dame A	Northwestern B	139	0
Tobias Cortes	Indiana C	Purdue A	139	10
Alexander Clarke	Yale	Bowdoin B	139	0
Nate Kodama	Bowdoin B	Yale	139	0
Chris Dech	Brandeis A	Dartmouth B	139	10
Dwight Solano	Texas A&M A	Texas B	139	10
Caleb West	Kentucky	Georgia Tech C	139	10
Sawyer Smith	Mississipi State	Louisville A	139	10
Katie Farthing	Vanderbilt B	Sewanee	139	0
Ben Tibbles	Sewanee	Vanderbilt B	139	0
Teddy Fogel	Birmingham	Imperial B	139	10
Julian Sung	Oxford C	Southampton B	139	0
Eli Young	Vassar	Johns Hopkins B	139	10
Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt	NYU B	Maryland C	139	10
Aiden Dartley	Rutgers A	Swarthmore	139	10
Andrew Miller	Binghamton A	Binghamton B	139	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Match	Heard	Conv. %	Neg %	Avg. Buzz
California (North)	Main Site	✓	3	67%	33%	73.50
California (South)	Main Site	✓	4	100%	0%	104.75
Canada	Main Site	✓	10	80%	60%	117.88
Florida	Main Site	✓	3	67%	67%	119.50
Great Lakes	Main Site	✓	5	100%	0%	100.40
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	✓	9	89%	44%	118.25
Midwest	Main Site	✓	8	75%	38%	109.67
Northeast	Main Site	✓	6	83%	17%	99.80
Overflow	Main Site	✓	4	100%	0%	84.00
South Central	Main Site	✓	2	100%	50%	116.50
Southeast	Main Site	✓	7	86%	29%	114.67
UK	Main Site	✓	12	92%	17%	99.64
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	✓	8	100%	25%	106.63
Upstate NY	Main Site	✓	4	75%	25%	114.33