Packet 4: Tossup 12

A building in this city, the Saint Joseph’s Oratory, breaks this city’s building code, which mandates (-5[1])that structures cannot be taller than a nearby (-5[1])“Mount.” (15[2]-5[8])Buckminster Fuller designed this city’s (-5[1])Biosphere (15[3])for an event that also (15[2])prompted Moshe Safdie (-5[1])to design (15[1])a (15[1])brutalist housing complex, (*) Expo 67. In this city, the world’s tallest inclined tower overlooks a “Biodome” constructed for the 1976 Summer Olympics. Of cities (-5[1])in the Western Hemisphere, this home of McGill University has the largest population (10[1])of Francophones. For 10 points, name this city on the St. Lawrence River, (10[1])the most populous (10[1])in (-5[1])Quebec. (10[1])■END■ (10[10]0[1])

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