Question

One section of a book titled for this place describes the impact of “King Sugar and Other Agricultural Monarchs.” A book by Antonio Pigafetta exemplifies the “outsize reality” of this place per the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature lecture, which describes its (20[1])isolation. (20[3]0[1])Eduardo Galeano (0[1])(“gah-lay-AH-no”) wrote a book (0[1])about this (20[1])place’s “Open Veins.” (20[3])The start of a movement (0[1])named for this place has been dated both to the publication of a novel with a “Table of Instructions” (20[1])titled (0[1])(*) Hopscotch (10[1])and to the (0[1])publication of The Time of the Hero. The name of that movement referenced an “explosion” in the reputation of authors from (0[1])this transnational (10[1]0[1])region (10[1]0[1])like (10[2])Julio (10[1]0[1])Cortázar. (10[1])For 10 points, (0[1])a 1960s literary “Boom” is named after (10[1])what large (10[1])region (0[1])home to many Spanish-speaking authors? (10[5])■END■ (10[9]0[2])

ANSWER: Latin America [or América Latina; accept Latin American Boom or Boom latinoamericano; accept Open Veins of Latin America or Las venas abiertas de América Latina; accept The Solitude of Latin America; prompt on the Americas]
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Summary

2023 PACE NSC06/10/2023Y3494%26%0%99.16

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Evan LinWoodlandLincoln-Way East4220
Clete ReinbergerCincinnati Hills ChristianChattahoochee A440
Tanay BodducherlaMira LomaStevenson B470
Ali HamzehKinkaidStevenson A4920
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Vincent WangIrvington AWashington5220
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Jacob Hardin-BernhardtHunter ABarrington B7620
Arthur GaydenDetroit Country DayHoover B770
Nathan WuPlymouthHinsdale Central7810
Rohan NavaneethaSolonMoberly810
Brodie HenryWest PointDunbar1020
Chris YooThomas Jefferson BNorman10410
Aditya ShivaswamySt. Mark'sWalter Payton1040
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Bryce CruiseHeightsThomas Jefferson D10810
Charles HeydtMidtownJohn Adams A1110
Ethan KralNorthmont AHunter B11810
Abigail LeeThomas Jefferson CInnovation Academy B12010
Will CarstensDetroit Catholic Central ANorthmont B1210
David BertolasiBelvidereInnovation Academy A12610
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Charlie BorkElkhorn NorthWinston Churchill A12610
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Russell DillakNorthmont BDetroit Catholic Central A12710
Timothy PorterMaggie Walker ACarbondale12710
Riona DuncanWalter PaytonSt. Mark's12710
Jonah HubertDunbarWest Point12710
Camden WilliamsMexicoJohn Adams B1270
Yaj JhajhriaCanyon CrestLake Highland12710
JT BaysingerMoberlySolon12710
Michael CamilleriJohn Adams AMidtown12710
Johnathon Franke GordonStevenson BMira Loma12710
Kyunghwan LimChattahoochee ACincinnati Hills Christian12710
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