Question
This region’s land birthed Henry Miller and Charles Lux’s ranching empire. Senator Sheridan Downey opted out of reelection after publishing a book about this region that alleged resident farmers were violating the National Reclamation Act. This region’s largest city created the first modern sanitary landfill in America. Jimmy Carter’s infamous “hit list” to reduce “pork barrel” spending targeted a massive infrastructure project in this region that benefited the DiGiorgio Corporation and Governor Pat (*) Brown. The United Farm Workers was formed amidst this region’s Delano grape strike. This region produces most of America’s pistachios and almonds around cities like Bakersfield and Fresno. For 10 points, name this fertile region in the middle of California. ■END■
Summary
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont | 2024-11-02 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 78.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois | 2024-11-09 | Y | 4 | 50% | 0% | 50% | 83.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo | 2024-11-09 | Y | 7 | 86% | 0% | 57% | 98.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at Penn State | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 94.50 |
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 50% | 0% | 75% | 102.50 |
2024 ARCADIA at BU | 2024-12-06 | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 98.38 |
2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 25% | 0% | 100% | 113.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 60% | 0% | 60% | 99.33 |
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 50% | 0% | 50% | 80.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at Duke | 2024-12-06 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 33% | 89.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 99.00 |
2024 ARCADIA Online | 2025-05-17 | Y | 5 | 60% | 0% | 80% | 102.67 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Andrew Zeng | Madmen and Specialists | Toyota Tundra Turbos — Twisting Truths - Tackling Trivia - Taming Titans | 56 | -5 |
Anuttam Ramji | Berkeley B | Stanford | 61 | -5 |
Pranav Srambikkal | Lambert | Milton | 64 | -5 |
Nitin Rao | Harvard | Bowdoin A | 66 | -5 |
Issac Meredith | Tufts A | Brandeis B | 73 | 10 |
James Mangraviti | Boston College B | MIT | 77 | 10 |
Anne Fjeld | Paddington in Peru (2024) | she limp on my waltz till i feel pathetique | 77 | -5 |
Benjamin Chapman | Toronto A | Toronto Disband the Club 2k24 | 77 | 10 |
Owyn Noble | Purdue B | Illinois Blue | 77 | -5 |
Aneesh Shotriya | Purdue A | Illinois Orange | 77 | -5 |
Gary Lin | U[C]SD | Anderson et al. | 77 | 10 |
Akshay Seetharam | Claremont | Jason et al. | 77 | 10 |
Zachary Adolph | North Carolina B | Virginia Tech A | 79 | -5 |
Jack Mangrum | Innovation Academy A | Georgia Tech A | 79 | -5 |
Shahar Schwartz | Berkeley Past | Berkeley A | 80 | 10 |
Josh Xu | ALCU | SGV Ventures | 80 | 10 |
William Houston | Chicago B | SIUE | 81 | 10 |
Vivian Malouf | In the Mood for Buzz | Social credit go vroom | 82 | 10 |
Aryan Desarapu | bingy academy | ASU->Stanford->ASU pipeline | 82 | -5 |
Leo Law | UF A | Valencia | 82 | -5 |
Joshua Li | Johns Creek | Mississippi State | 82 | -5 |
Jonathan Schnipper | Brandeis A | Amherst | 85 | -5 |
William Orr | Yale | Boston College A | 85 | -5 |
Dylan Tanouye | Tufts B | Bowdoin C | 85 | 10 |
Zachary Bornstein | Virginia Tech C | North Carolina A | 85 | 10 |
Mike Cheyne | Old and Young | The cult of SGA | 85 | -5 |
Parth Jagtap | Toronto B | McMaster ApocolocyntosisBidii | 85 | -5 |
Nick Edwards | McGill A | Waterloo Basic | 85 | -5 |
Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan A | Waterloo Cloze | 85 | -5 |
Sam McNamee | Notre Dame | Chicago A | 85 | 10 |
Andy Huff | LSE B | Bristol | 85 | 10 |
Lucas Johns | Warwick A | Warwick B | 85 | -5 |
Ted Gan | Penn State | RIT | 86 | 10 |
Stefan Vlad | Ottawa Absolomabsolomabsolom | Waterloo Aspidistra | 86 | 10 |
Stefan Vlad | Ottawa Absolomabsolomabsolom | Waterloo Aspidistra | 86 | 10 |
Brendan Baumer | UCF B | UF C | 87 | -5 |
Joey Sun | Toronto Chestnut Rice and Kamehameha | Carleton A | 92 | -5 |
Thomas Glotfelty | Virginia Tech B | South Carolina | 93 | 10 |
Luke Puttnam | Innovation Academy C | Georgia Tech B | 94 | -5 |
Andre Wong | LSE A | Cambridge A | 94 | -5 |
Shiv Seshan | Cambridge B | Warwick C | 96 | -5 |
John John Groger | WashU | Missouri | 98 | 10 |
Anthony Lovegren | UCF A | USF | 98 | 10 |
Ben Fleishman | BU | Clark House | 100 | 10 |
Kylan Powell | Squidward Community College | Truman | 100 | 10 |
Khanh Nguyen | UF B | Florida Tech | 100 | -5 |
Owen Iredale | Imperial A | Southampton | 100 | 10 |
Joseph Xu | Bowdoin B | Clark Wilson | 103 | -5 |
Patrick Torre | Maryland | Pitt | 103 | 10 |
Matthew Andersen | UF C | UCF B | 107 | 10 |
Michal Gerasimiuk | Stanford | Berkeley B | 112 | 0 |
Grace Bramer | Clark Wilson | Bowdoin B | 113 | 10 |
Dash Rumble | Bowdoin A | Harvard | 113 | 10 |
Aalok Bhattacharya | Boston College A | Yale | 113 | 10 |
Michael Zheng | Amherst | Brandeis A | 113 | 10 |
Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | North Carolina B | 113 | 0 |
Owen Riley | Toyota Tundra Turbos — Twisting Truths - Tackling Trivia - Taming Titans | Madmen and Specialists | 113 | 0 |
Brody Sadler | The cult of SGA | Old and Young | 113 | 10 |
Chris Yoo | she limp on my waltz till i feel pathetique | Paddington in Peru (2024) | 113 | 10 |
Clete Reinberger | Valencia | UF A | 113 | 0 |
Cranmer MGinn | McMaster ApocolocyntosisBidii | Toronto B | 113 | 10 |
Xavier Spano | Waterloo Cloze | Toronto Metropolitan A | 113 | 10 |
Micah Colman | Waterloo Basic | McGill A | 113 | 10 |
Michael Zhou | Georgia Tech B | Innovation Academy C | 113 | 10 |
Aaryan Tomar | Georgia Tech A | Innovation Academy A | 113 | 0 |
Yash Mandavia | Illinois Orange | Purdue A | 113 | 0 |
Arjun Kala | Illinois Blue | Purdue B | 113 | 0 |
Brendan Bethlehem | Cambridge A | LSE A | 113 | 10 |
Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick B | Warwick A | 113 | 0 |