the Outback - 2024 ACF Fall at Cornell

Question

In this geographic region, a country’s first mosque at Marree was founded by Punjabi and Afghan cameleers in the 1860s. Alfred Traeger developed a pedal-powered radio to aid communication across this region’s pastoral lands called its namesake “stations.” This region’s modern-day cattle barons have adopted historical fire stick farming. An overland telegraph line (10[1])through this region was scouted by Robert (-5[1])Burke (10[1])and William Wills but was eventually built through Alice Springs. (10[2])A part of this region called (10[1])the Wheatbelt outside Perth was (10[1])the site (10[1])of the Emu War. (10[1])For 10 points, Henry Ayers once named the sandstone monument of Uluru in what remote inner region of (10[1])Australia? ■END■

ANSWER: the Outback [accept Outback stations; prompt on descriptive answers such as Australia or rural Australia or remote Australia or inner Australia; prompt on Western Australia or South Australia or Queensland or New South Wales or the Northern Territory; prompt on the desert or Australian desert; prompt on the bush with “what larger region is that sometimes included in?”] (Though the bush and Outback are largely defined by their vegetation, the cultural idea of the Outback often includes rural areas in the bush.)

= Average correct buzz position

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Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Buzz Position	Value
Gregory Stone	ESF	Cornell G	52	10
Alec West	Syracuse	U of Rochester A	59	-5
Greg Reiser	RIT B	U of Rochester B	60	10
Kritanu Saha	Cornell A	Cornell D	70	10
Owen Linder	Binghamton A	RIT C	70	10
Grace Griffiths	Penn State	Cornell F	76	10
Pranaav Senthilkumar	Cornell C	Binghamton C	81	10
Claire Chambers	Binghamton B	Cornell E	83	10
Brian Hoff	Cornell B	RIT A	87	10
Kieran Freed	U of Rochester A	Syracuse	105	10

Summary


2024 ACF Fall at Cornell	fall	Y	9	100%	0%	11%	76.00
2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State	fall	Y	8	100%	0%	13%	78.25
2024 ACF Fall at Washington	fall	Y	6	100%	0%	50%	84.33
2024 ACF Fall at Georgia	fall	Y	11	100%	0%	36%	77.91
2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina	fall	Y	9	100%	0%	11%	79.22
2024 ACF Fall at Claremont Colleges	fall	Y	5	100%	0%	0%	67.60
2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers	fall	Y	8	100%	0%	25%	82.50