Question

Note to players: description acceptable.During the construction of one of these areas, one train arrived every forty-five minutes under the control of the contractors Goss and Munson. A decades-long project to construct one of these areas, including a new airport was abandoned in 2003, with a nature reserve now being created in its place for breeding birds. Mahathir Mohamad has complained that one resource used in the construction of these areas has meant (15[1])“digging up Malaysia and (15[1])giving her to other people”. A district known as “Lebanon” was for many years the only inhabited part of one of these areas in (*) Dubai. (10[1])In Nigeria, the Great Wall of Lagos project has been part of the construction of one of these areas, Eko Atlantic. In the Netherlands, the largest area of this type is the Flevopolder. For 10 points, describe these areas of land, which have been created from bodies of water. ■END■

ANSWER: reclaimed ground (accept reclamation ground, land fill, artificial islands, polder until said) (First two areas - Back Bay in Boston, Markerwaard in the Netherlands)
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Ethan AshbrookJeff Weiner Fan ClubBHSU7215
Conor ThompsondoubleplusnegfiveWeird Klaus Barbie7615
Shardul RaoOur Job is BuzzPalestrina Sawayama10110

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2023 UMN COOT08/19/2023Y3100%67%0%83.00