Question

This country’s most-sampled musician founded a jazz-funk group that was sampled on MF DOOM’s “One Beer” and Lupe Fiasco’s “Mural.” Cortex is from this country, as was the band whose space disco album Magic Fly was the first CD heard in space when it was broadcast to Cosmonauts. An artist from this country reworked the German song “Popcorn” on an album which popularized synthesizer music. The use of filtered disco samples characterized this country’s “filter house” genre, also called its namesake (*) “touch,” which was popularized by Stardust’s only song, “Music Sounds Better With You.” The anime film Interstella 5555 was released (10[1])by a group from this country who used a pyramidal DJ booth for a 2007 (10[1])tour that kickstarted the US’ EDM craze. For 10 points, Discovery (-5[1])and Random Access Memories are albums from what country, (10[1])home to Daft Punk? ■END■

ANSWER: Republic of France [or French Republic; or République française]
<Emmett Laurie, Pop Culture>
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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Joy AnHarvardBrandeis10010
John ChaTuftsBrown11510
Rodrigo RoseMITBoston College126-5
Robin LeeBoston CollegeMIT13510

Summary

2023 Penn Bowl (Mainsite)10/21/2023Y6100%17%33%117.17
2023 Penn Bowl (Harvard)10/21/2023Y3100%0%33%116.67
2023 Penn Bowl @ UNC10/28/2023Y3100%0%0%131.67
2023 Penn Bowl @ Waterloo10/28/2023Y475%0%75%134.00
2023 Penn Bowl (South Central)10/28/2023Y3100%0%33%110.00
2023 Penn Bowl (UK)10/28/2023Y580%20%40%98.00
2023 Penn Bowl @ FSU10/28/2023Y2100%0%0%126.50