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 |
Sam Asplund | Winnebago | Detroit Country Day | 44 | 20 |
Arjun Kala | University Lab | Thomas Jefferson D | 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 |
Braden Booth | Dallas County | Rockford Auburn B | 67 | 10 |
Rachel Ezrielev | Richard Montgomery | Hunter B | 67 | 10 |
Alvin Guo | Winston Churchill A | New Brighton | 67 | 10 |
Monit Karmaker | Stevenson A | Solon | 72 | 10 |
Aditya Shivaswamy | St. Mark's | Belvidere | 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 |
Alex Jiang | Hinsdale Central | Troy | 98 | 0 |
Abigail Lee | Thomas Jefferson C | Waukee | 98 | 0 |
Owen Arneson | Parkway West | Saint Joseph | 101 | 10 |
Cindy Gao | Belmont | Lake Highland | 116 | 10 |
Cole Hartung | Kinkaid | Maggie Walker B | 116 | 10 |
Evan Lin | Woodland | John Adams B | 118 | 10 |
Joy An | Choate Rosemary Hall | Moberly | 121 | 10 |
Clete Reinberger | Cincinnati Hills Christian | Dunbar | 121 | 10 |
Bryce Cruise | Heights | Stevenson B | 121 | 10 |
Michael Zheng | Irvington A | Norman | 121 | 10 |
Yashwanth Bajji | Troy | Hinsdale Central | 121 | 10 |
Yaj Jhajhria | Canyon Crest | Maggie Walker C | 122 | 10 |
Coby Thammavong | Rockford Auburn A | Carbondale | 122 | 10 |
Keefer Lin | Chattahoochee B | William Fremd | 122 | 10 |
Sam McNamee | Maggie Walker A | John Adams A | 122 | 10 |
Sam Konkel | Johns Creek A | Hoover B | 122 | 10 |
Safal Sapkota | Elkhorn North | Johns Creek B | 122 | 10 |
Luca Balescu | Mercer County | Mira Loma | 122 | 10 |
Charles Heydt | Midtown | Norris | 122 | 10 |
Chris Goolsby | Detroit Catholic Central C | Northmont A | 122 | 10 |
Krish Chinta | Innovation Academy A | Northmont B | 122 | 10 |
Miles Sierra | Waukee | Thomas Jefferson C | 122 | 10 |