Question
During a famine caused by one of these events, Yahya Khan notoriously told victims to “eat roti” rather than rice to recover. A casino called the Balinese Room opened after one of these events ended a Victorian “golden era” in the “Wall Street of the Southwest.” One of these events that coincided with a war prompted Ravi Shankar to hold a relief concert. The deadliest one of these events in history, called Bhola, contributed to (*) Bangladeshi independence. A large wall was built following one of these events in 1900 that killed over 6,000 people in Galveston. During one of these events in 2005, many people took shelter in the Superdome. For 10 points, New Orleans was devastated by what type of natural disaster named Katrina? ■END■
ANSWER: hurricane [or tropical cyclone; or typhoon; or tropical depression; or tropical storm; prompt on flooding or storm]
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= Average correct buzz position
Summary
2023 PACE NSC | 06/10/2023 | Y | 35 | 97% | 6% | 0% | 112.15 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
---|---|---|---|---|
Cole Hartung | Kinkaid | Solon | 16 | 0 |
Noah McRedmond | Cincinnati Hills Christian | Belvidere | 45 | 0 |
Carson Jacobson | Winnebago | Thomas Jefferson D | 45 | 0 |
Mason Severson | Norris | Waukee | 55 | 0 |
Aditya Shivaswamy | St. Mark's | Belmont | 57 | 0 |
Hari Veginati | Stevenson A | Hinsdale Central | 62 | 0 |
Bryce Cruise | Heights | Mexico | 62 | 0 |
Prahalad Rao | Solon | Kinkaid | 62 | 0 |
Alvin Guo | Winston Churchill A | Hunter A | 64 | 20 |
Yaj Jhajhria | Canyon Crest | Mira Loma | 64 | 0 |
Pranav Aiyar | William Fremd | Dunbar | 64 | 20 |
Johnathon Franke Gordon | Stevenson B | Elkhorn North | 66 | 0 |
Keefer Lin | Chattahoochee B | Carl Sandburg | 67 | 0 |
Costas Pavlou | Detroit Country Day | Barrington A | 68 | 0 |
Sinecio Morales | Rockford Auburn A | Thomas Jefferson A | 68 | 0 |
Dennis Yang | Troy | University Lab | 68 | 0 |
Anthony Zhao | Thomas Jefferson C | Choate Rosemary Hall | 70 | 0 |
Ayan Kohli | Hunter B | Saint Joseph | 70 | 0 |
Varun Venkatagiri | Innovation Academy B | Norman | 75 | 0 |
Aiden Dombrosky | Hoover B | Detroit Catholic Central C | 76 | 0 |
Addison Baker | Walter Payton | Johns Creek B | 79 | 0 |
Kaushik Gollamudi | Barrington B | Midtown | 79 | 0 |
Bharathi Kancharla | Maggie Walker B | West Point | 81 | 0 |
Sophie Higgs | Richard Montgomery | Dallas County | 82 | 0 |
Ryan Zhang | Thomas Jefferson B | Woodland | 88 | 0 |
Max Kolda | John Adams A | John Adams B | 90 | 0 |
Dillon Robertson | Carbondale | Innovation Academy A | 93 | 0 |
Ryan Fitzgerald | Northmont A | Chattahoochee A | 95 | 10 |
Puna Ekka | New Brighton | Winston Churchill B | 95 | 10 |
Vincent Wang | Irvington A | Parkway West | 95 | 10 |
Caleb Lee | Lincoln-Way East | Maggie Walker C | 95 | 10 |
C. Schenkel | Washington | Lake Highland | 96 | 10 |
Brielle Rach | Rockford Auburn B | Northmont B | 97 | 10 |
Sam Konkel | Johns Creek A | Maggie Walker A | 99 | 10 |
Colin Stewart | Barrington A | Detroit Country Day | 106 | 10 |
Adhav Ravikumar | Innovation Academy A | Carbondale | 109 | 10 |
William Thain | Saint Joseph | Hunter B | 110 | 10 |
Sky Hong | Choate Rosemary Hall | Thomas Jefferson C | 112 | 10 |
Christian Allen | Dallas County | Richard Montgomery | 112 | 10 |
Camden Williams | Mexico | Heights | 116 | 10 |
Ren Giusti | Norman | Innovation Academy B | 118 | 10 |
Jonathan Myszka | Belvidere | Cincinnati Hills Christian | 118 | 10 |
Nick Murray | Detroit Catholic Central A | Plymouth | 121 | 10 |
Anwitha Vempati | Waukee | Norris | 122 | 10 |
Jesse Rabbitt | John Adams B | John Adams A | 122 | 10 |
John Hines-Shah | Hinsdale Central | Stevenson A | 124 | 10 |
Chris Goolsby | Detroit Catholic Central C | Hoover B | 124 | 10 |
Rohan Dalal | Johns Creek B | Walter Payton | 124 | 10 |
Eleanor Heydt | Midtown | Barrington B | 125 | 10 |
Aatreyo Bhattacharyya | Mira Loma | Canyon Crest | 125 | 10 |
Joseph Geovanes | Carl Sandburg | Chattahoochee B | 125 | 10 |
Alan Fan | Thomas Jefferson D | Winnebago | 125 | 10 |
Sam Macchi | Belmont | St. Mark's | 125 | 10 |
Ben Cervania | Elkhorn North | Stevenson B | 125 | 10 |
Sean Harbison | West Point | Maggie Walker B | 125 | 10 |
Andrew Shi | Thomas Jefferson A | Rockford Auburn A | 125 | 10 |
Brian O'Connell | Woodland | Thomas Jefferson B | 125 | 10 |
Lucas Jraiche | Detroit Catholic Central B | Mercer County | 125 | 10 |
Shreyas Singh | University Lab | Troy | 125 | 10 |