In a dream, a character sees several of these objects after being saved by a figure with a deep cut in its hand while stuck in a snowstorm. These objects are produced by a half-blind shoe repairman named Saifo (“SIGH-foh”). A silent orphan appears to smile after watching a character perform a technique with one of these objects in Fremont, California. As he retrieves a blue one of these objects, a character who is sexually assaulted in an (*) alley by three boys shouts “For you, a thousand times over!” At the end of a 2003 novel titled for these objects, the protagonist rediscovers his love for “fighting” with these objects, which he once did with his childhood friend Hassan. For 10 points, a Khaled Hosseini novel is titled after a “runner” of what toys? ■END■
| 2023 PACE NSC | 06/10/2023 | Y | 35 | 100% | 11% | 0% | 96.06 | 
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joseph Chen | Richard Montgomery | Woodland | 44 | 20 | 
| Rohan Kher | Barrington A | Canyon Crest | 50 | 20 | 
| Kyan van Beek | Lake Highland | Detroit Catholic Central B | 57 | 20 | 
| Kaiwen Xiao | Irvington A | Winston Churchill B | 62 | 20 | 
| Aditya Shivaswamy | St. Mark's | University Lab | 79 | 10 | 
| Sarah Dong | Solon | Dunbar | 80 | 10 | 
| Mason Severson | Norris | Moberly | 80 | 10 | 
| Anila Moparthi | Lincoln-Way East | Thomas Jefferson C | 80 | 10 | 
| Alvin Guo | Winston Churchill A | Johns Creek A | 80 | 10 | 
| Joy An | Choate Rosemary Hall | Midtown | 81 | 10 | 
| Ren Giusti | Norman | West Point | 81 | 10 | 
| Arthur Gayden | Detroit Country Day | Plymouth | 81 | 10 | 
| Braden Booth | Dallas County | Thomas Jefferson A | 82 | 10 | 
| Cindy Gao | Belmont | Troy | 83 | 10 | 
| Tanay Bodducherla | Mira Loma | Rockford Auburn A | 85 | 10 | 
| Jack Mangrum | Innovation Academy A | Mexico | 86 | 10 | 
| Nathan Haley | Northmont B | Innovation Academy B | 86 | 10 | 
| Keefer Lin | Chattahoochee B | Hinsdale Central | 87 | 0 | 
| Ali Hamzeh | Kinkaid | William Fremd | 87 | 10 | 
| Matthew Kohn | Hunter A | Maggie Walker A | 87 | 10 | 
| Kaushik Gollamudi | Barrington B | Thomas Jefferson D | 87 | 10 | 
| Sam Asplund | Winnebago | Walter Payton | 87 | 10 | 
| Jingyi Wu | Stevenson A | New Brighton | 89 | 10 | 
| Owen Arneson | Parkway West | Carbondale | 117 | 10 | 
| Chris Yoo | Thomas Jefferson B | Detroit Catholic Central A | 117 | 10 | 
| Adam Williams | Northmont A | Maggie Walker C | 118 | 10 | 
| Kyunghwan Lim | Chattahoochee A | Johns Creek B | 119 | 10 | 
| Bharathi Kancharla | Maggie Walker B | Elkhorn North | 126 | 10 | 
| Owen Gibbs | Heights | Carl Sandburg | 129 | 10 | 
| Hetvi Patel | Saint Joseph | John Adams B | 129 | 10 | 
| Anwitha Vempati | Waukee | Washington | 130 | 10 | 
| Miley Henton | Hoover B | Belvidere | 132 | 10 | 
| David Bertolasi | Belvidere | Hoover B | 132 | 0 | 
| Luke Snyder | Rockford Auburn B | Stevenson B | 132 | 10 | 
| Jeffrey Liu | Hinsdale Central | Chattahoochee B | 133 | 10 | 
| Clete Reinberger | Cincinnati Hills Christian | Detroit Catholic Central C | 133 | 10 | 
| Fahian Joy | Hunter B | John Adams A | 133 | 10 |