Question

Former child model Luz Dunn squats in this U.S. state in a dystopian 2015 novel by Claire Vaye Watkins. While searching for a missing boy named Christopher Robin, the narrator of a work set in this state encounters and hooks up with a drug dealer nicknamed “Deadeye.” The community of Acorn is founded in this state at the end of Octavia Butler’s novel Parable of the Sower. A book’s section of (*) “Life Styles” in this state includes an essay that opens, “The center was not holding.” The narrator remembers how a preschool-aged (10[1])child in this state was given LSD in her essay about her experiences in a city in this state’s Haight-Ashbury (10[1])district. For 10 points, name this state chronicled in The White Album and other essays by Joan Didion. ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: California [prompt on Golden State or Golden Land] (Claire Vaye Watkins' novel is Gold Fame Citrus.)
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Katherine LeiMITBrandeis9110
Jeffrey FungHarvardTufts11110
Jason HongBrownBoston College13010

Summary

2023 Penn Bowl (Harvard)10/21/2023Y3100%0%0%110.67
2023 Penn Bowl (Mainsite)10/21/2023Y6100%17%0%86.50
2023 Penn Bowl (Norcal)10/28/2023Y2100%0%0%80.50
2023 Penn Bowl (South Central)10/28/2023Y3100%67%0%78.33
2023 Penn Bowl (UK)10/28/2023Y5100%20%0%94.40
2023 Penn Bowl @ Waterloo10/28/2023Y4100%25%0%92.00
2023 Penn Bowl @ UNC10/28/2023Y4100%50%0%83.00
2023 Penn Bowl @ FSU10/28/2023Y2100%0%0%105.00