Question

Bruce Jackson’s Wake Up Dead Man records a genre of song named for these places, which includes the American version of “Stewball” and “Ain’t No More Cane on the Brazos.” One song asks a train to “shine your ever-loving light” on the singer in one of these places. (15[1])The singer goes to one of these places in Thomasville after being asked if he is named Brown when standing on a street corner in (-5[1])“Little Sadie.” The song (*) “Midnight Special” (10[1])was performed (10[1]-5[1])by (10[1])Lead Belly for the (10[1])Lomaxes at one of (10[1])these (10[1])locations (10[2]-5[2])called (10[1])Angola. (10[5])The (10[2])“blues” (10[6])of (10[1])a specific (10[1])one of these places titles a song by Johnny Cash, (10[1])whose (10[1])lines (-5[1])include (10[1])“I shot (10[1])a man in Reno (10[1])just to watch him die” (10[1])and was often performed at examples of these places like San Quentin. (10[1])For 10 points, name this type of place where, in ballads, many murderers are housed before their hanging. (10[1])■END■

ANSWER: prison [or jail; accept prison farm or prison with a chain gang; prompt on chain gang with “in what place did people on a chain gang live?”, accept Folsom Prison Blues]
<Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford, Other Fine Arts>
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Summary

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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Trevor DarrDuke ARIT A4715
Cormac BeirneLSEThe Crying of Team 4972-5
Jon ParikhPittsburghOhio State C7810
Arnav SoodCarnegie MellonMichigan State8010
William GoldenHoustonTexas A80-5
Eve FleisigBerkeley AStanford8110
Yrwin BatanMITHarvard A8510
Justin HawkinsIndiana AIllinois B8910
Jake GrodnerPrincetonNYU B9010
Ryan SunBerkeley BBerkeley C9110
Stephen HeritageNotre Dame BIllinois C9110
Joel MilesMinnesotaSIUE91-5
Iyanu NafiuYale BBrandeis91-5
Brendan BaumerUCFUF A9210
Daniel LianMichigan BOhio State B9310
Nikhil ChellamNorthwestern AIllinois A9310
Zach JosephNotre Dame AChicago A9310
Ryan RosenbergNYU AColumbia9310
Ved MuthusamyOxford School for QuiznessGressenheller A9310
Owen GilroyTexas BTAMU9410
Graham TroyUNC BVirginia Tech A9410
Todd MaslykMichigan AOhio State A9510
Andrew VincentNorthwestern BNotre Dame C9510
Gangrade AdityaBUYale A9510
Gus VanskikeMarylandJHU B9510
Oliver HargraveSee itFour Times I Have Despised My Soul9510
Vincent DuUNC AUNC C9510
Charles HangWUSTLPurdue9610
Roman BassettUF BUF C9810
Richard PollardThe Crying of Team 49LSE10810
Oscar SiddleLimp Chriskit3HK1MM10910
Brendan BethlehemSortedSay it110-5
James McCurleyHarvard BTufts11110
William HoustonChicago BIndiana B11310
Ben LaFondSay itSorted11710
Bryce CruiseTexas AHouston12210
Logan MathisSIUEMinnesota13410
Christopher DechBrandeisYale B15310