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A character who delivers butter to one of these locations chokes on a turkey heart intended to make him end an affair with Lulu. (0[1])Robert (20[1])Johnson’s magic guitar inspires three boys to create a band in a novel titled for one of these locations’ “Blues.” A comic (20[1])artist with (20[1])hydrocephalus who was born (20[1])at one of these locations (20[1])plays basketball for Reardan. (0[2])June (20[1])freezes to death while walking (20[2])towards one of these locations (20[1])in Louise Erdrich’s (0[1])Love Medicine. (0[1])An author who wrote an (*) Absolutely True Diary about (10[1])a boy in one of these locations (10[3])near (10[1])Spokane describes life (10[1])there in the collection The (10[1])Lone Ranger and (10[1])Tonto (10[2])Fistfight in (10[1])Heaven. Many stories by Sherman Alexie take place (10[1])at, for 10 points, (10[2])what locations where Ojibwe or Chippewa people (10[1])may (10[1])live? (10[3])■END■ (10[7])

ANSWER: Native American reservations [or Indian reservations; or the rez; or the Spokane Indian Reservation; or the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation; accept Reservation Blues]
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2023 PACE NSC06/10/2023Y35100%26%0%99.60

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Sam AsplundWinnebagoWalter Payton230
Tanay BodducherlaMira LomaRockford Auburn A2420
Charles YoungBarrington ACanyon Crest4620
Braden BoothDallas CountyThomas Jefferson A4820
Costas PavlouDetroit Country DayPlymouth5220
Sohum SukhatankarSt. Mark'sUniversity Lab5720
Charles HeydtMidtownChoate Rosemary Hall610
Kyunghwan LimChattahoochee AJohns Creek B610
Puna EkkaNew BrightonStevenson A6220
Kevin PengWinston Churchill AJohns Creek A6720
Cindy GaoBelmontTroy6720
Evan LinWoodlandRichard Montgomery7220
Omkar MaratheWilliam FremdKinkaid750
Stella BroomeMaggie Walker BElkhorn North770
Abigail LeeThomas Jefferson CLincoln-Way East8610
Abigail AuYeungHinsdale CentralChattahoochee B9310
Matthew KohnHunter AMaggie Walker A9310
Dillon RobertsonCarbondaleParkway West9310
Chris YooThomas Jefferson BDetroit Catholic Central A9410
Tyler SongWinston Churchill BIrvington A9710
Declan GleesonMexicoInnovation Academy A10210
Lindsay RhodeBelvidereHoover B10510
Moxie StromHunter BJohn Adams A10610
Kaushik GollamudiBarrington BThomas Jefferson D10610
Rohan NavaneethaSolonDunbar10810
Matt MokrzyckiCarl SandburgHeights11610
Pete WasserNorrisMoberly12010
Brodie HenryWest PointNorman12010
Chris GoolsbyDetroit Catholic Central CCincinnati Hills Christian12710
C. SchenkelWashingtonWaukee12810
Danny ShapiroJohns Creek BChattahoochee A12910
Genevieve LakeSaint JosephJohn Adams B12910
Joy AnChoate Rosemary HallMidtown12910
Cole HartungKinkaidWilliam Fremd13010
Riona DuncanWalter PaytonWinnebago13010
Aryan PathakLake HighlandDetroit Catholic Central B13010
Brielle RachRockford Auburn BStevenson B13010
Charlie BorkElkhorn NorthMaggie Walker B13010
Varun VenkatagiriInnovation Academy BNorthmont B13010
Ethan KralNorthmont AMaggie Walker C13010