Question
After a car accident in a novel set in this city, a character “whom no man will ever possess” has her breast implants removed and settles down with Mary-Ann. A garage in this city is invaded by the cowboy Earle Shoop and used for cockfights. This setting of Gore Vidal’s Myra Breckinridge is also the setting of a novel in which the child Adore Loomis torments (*) Homer Simpson. In that novel, a stampeding crowd overwhelms the illustrator Tod Hackett, who seeks to paint a picture of this city burning. A detective from this city, Philip Marlowe, features in novels like The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler. For 10 points, Nathanael West’s novel The Day of the Locust criticizes which city’s Hollywood culture? ■END■
ANSWER: Los Angeles [or L.A.; prompt on Hollywood before read]
<Yingzhi Nyang, Literature - American - Long Fiction> ~25364~ <Editor: Chandler West>
= Average correct buzz position
Summary
2023 PACE NSC | 06/10/2023 | Y | 35 | 100% | 17% | 0% | 95.77 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
---|---|---|---|---|
Kyunghwan Lim | Chattahoochee A | Winston Churchill B | 44 | 20 |
Arjun Kala | University Lab | Thomas Jefferson D | 44 | 20 |
Sam Asplund | Winnebago | Detroit Country Day | 44 | 20 |
Elliott Lee | Thomas Jefferson A | Lincoln-Way East | 45 | 20 |
Dominic Apap | Detroit Catholic Central B | Mexico | 47 | 20 |
Nick Murray | Detroit Catholic Central A | Walter Payton | 58 | 20 |
Rohan Navaneetha | Solon | Stevenson A | 60 | 0 |
Alvin Guo | Winston Churchill A | New Brighton | 67 | 10 |
Rachel Ezrielev | Richard Montgomery | Hunter B | 67 | 10 |
Braden Booth | Dallas County | Rockford Auburn B | 67 | 10 |
Aditya Shivaswamy | St. Mark's | Belvidere | 72 | 10 |
Monit Karmaker | Stevenson A | Solon | 72 | 10 |
Nathan Wu | Plymouth | Innovation Academy B | 73 | 10 |
Ethan Kral | Northmont A | Detroit Catholic Central C | 76 | 0 |
Charles Young | Barrington A | West Point | 78 | 10 |
Chris Yoo | Thomas Jefferson B | Barrington B | 79 | 10 |
Dillon Robertson | Carbondale | Rockford Auburn A | 88 | 0 |
Tanay Bodducherla | Mira Loma | Mercer County | 93 | 0 |
Evan Schleck | Hunter A | Washington | 97 | 10 |
Omkar Marathe | William Fremd | Chattahoochee B | 98 | 0 |
Abigail Lee | Thomas Jefferson C | Waukee | 98 | 0 |
Alex Jiang | Hinsdale Central | Troy | 98 | 0 |
Owen Arneson | Parkway West | Saint Joseph | 101 | 10 |
Cole Hartung | Kinkaid | Maggie Walker B | 116 | 10 |
Cindy Gao | Belmont | Lake Highland | 116 | 10 |
Evan Lin | Woodland | John Adams B | 118 | 10 |
Joy An | Choate Rosemary Hall | Moberly | 121 | 10 |
Yashwanth Bajji | Troy | Hinsdale Central | 121 | 10 |
Bryce Cruise | Heights | Stevenson B | 121 | 10 |
Michael Zheng | Irvington A | Norman | 121 | 10 |
Clete Reinberger | Cincinnati Hills Christian | Dunbar | 121 | 10 |
Keefer Lin | Chattahoochee B | William Fremd | 122 | 10 |
Coby Thammavong | Rockford Auburn A | Carbondale | 122 | 10 |
Charles Heydt | Midtown | Norris | 122 | 10 |
Sam McNamee | Maggie Walker A | John Adams A | 122 | 10 |
Safal Sapkota | Elkhorn North | Johns Creek B | 122 | 10 |
Miles Sierra | Waukee | Thomas Jefferson C | 122 | 10 |
Sam Konkel | Johns Creek A | Hoover B | 122 | 10 |
Chris Goolsby | Detroit Catholic Central C | Northmont A | 122 | 10 |
Krish Chinta | Innovation Academy A | Northmont B | 122 | 10 |
Luca Balescu | Mercer County | Mira Loma | 122 | 10 |
Yaj Jhajhria | Canyon Crest | Maggie Walker C | 122 | 10 |