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A member of this family is the subject of “screeds” by the artist Sharon Hayes and a 1992 Anthony Davis opera. The Cinderella, Bear, and Fairy Houses make up a complex commissioned by this family along the McCloud River. This family’s ornate Doge’s Suite inspired a fictional building with a “collection of everything so big it can never be cataloged or appraised.” A presidential campaign by a member of this family was supported by the characters Foxy Grandpa, Buster Brown, and the Katzenjammer Kids. The Roman-inspired Neptune Pool (10[3])was designed (10[1])for (10[1])this family (10[3])by the first woman (10[1])to be admitted (10[2])into the architecture program at l’Ecole (10[1])de Beaux-Arts (10[1])(“lay-KOLE day boh-ZARR”), Julia Morgan. This family’s patriarch threatened RKO Pictures for depicting a character (10[2])who whispers the name (10[2])of his childhood (10[1])sled before dying. (10[1])For 10 (10[1])points, Xanadu (10[1])in Citizen Kane was inspired (10[1])by what family’s San Simeon “castle”? ■END■

ANSWER: Hearst family [accept William Randolph Hearst Sr.; accept Patty Hearst or Patricia Campbell Hearst] (The Anthony Davis opera is Tania, which is about Patty Hearst’s kidnapping by the Symbionese Liberation Army. The estate in the second sentence is Wyntoon.)
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2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y22100%0%0%107.41

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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Tim MorrisonStanford ABrown A8710
Rohan ShelkeUC Berkeley BRutgers B8710
Matthew LehmannWUSTL AToronto A8710
Chris RayOhio State AMcGill A8910
Anirudh BharadwajPenn AVanderbilt A9010
Joel MilesMinnesota AMaryland A9210
Arthur Delot-VilainYale ATexas A9210
Swapnil GargUC Berkeley AChicago B9210
Halle FriedmanNYU AClaremont A9610
Jonathan LauJohns Hopkins ACornell A9910
JD KrothIowa State AVirginia A9910
Christopher SimsNorthwestern AMinnesota B10510
Tracy MirkinFlorida AColumbia B10710
Michael MaysImperial ANorth Carolina A11910
Alex SchmidtPenn State AMichigan A11910
Henry CafaroChicago CFlorida B12310
Ned TagtmeierChicago AHarvard A12310
Matthew SiffYale BSouth Carolina A12610
Grace LiuMIT ADuke A12910
John BroussardHouston ARutgers A13110
Justin HawkinsIndiana APurdue A13310
John John GrogerColumbia AWUSTL B13810