Question

Chris Leslie trained this city’s “Camera Kids,” a group of orphans who took black and white photos of it after a conflict. 825 rows of empty red chairs were set up leading to this city’s Eternal Flame monument to commemorate a conflict. A cellist played Adagio in G Minor for twenty-two straight days to honor the victims of a bombing in this city. A performance of Waiting for Godot was directed in this city by Susan (*) Sontag during a conflict that left concrete scars from mortar explosions that were filled with red resin (10[1])to make its namesake (10[1])“roses.” Two massacres occurred at this city’s Markale marketplace. Signs reading “pazi,” or “watch out,” lined this city’s Sniper Alley during a conflict ended by the Dayton Accords. For 10 points, name this capital city besieged during the Bosnian War. ■END■

ANSWER: Sarajevo
<Emmett Laurie, European History>
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2023 Penn Bowl (Harvard)10/21/2023Y3100%33%67%111.67
2023 Penn Bowl (Mainsite)10/21/2023Y6100%50%33%85.83
2023 Penn Bowl (Norcal)10/28/2023Y2100%100%0%49.00
2023 Penn Bowl (South Central)10/28/2023Y3100%0%67%125.67
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