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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 (-5[1])across this region’s pastoral lands called its namesake (-5[1])“stations.” This region’s modern-day cattle (10[1])barons have adopted historical (10[1])fire stick farming. An overland telegraph line through this region was scouted (10[1])by Robert Burke and William Wills but was eventually built through Alice Springs. (10[2]-5[1])A part of this region (-5[1])called the Wheatbelt (10[1])outside Perth was the site (10[1])of the Emu War. For 10 points, Henry Ayers once (10[1])named the sandstone monument of Uluru in what remote inner region of Australia? (10[1])■END■ (10[2])

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.)
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Ayan GuhaGeorgia Tech DTennessee A28-5
Allen XuGeorgia Tech EMississippi State A36-5
Tarun KotiEmory AEmory Oxford4110
Robert FreemanSouth Carolina BSouthern4510
Anna HinkleGeorgia Tech BMissisippi State5710
Brady PinterBelmontGeorgia Tech C70-5
Aaron TaylorMississippi State AGeorgia Tech E7010
Jack OgletreeAuburn BVanderbilt B7010
Britton WebsterAlabama AVanderbilt A75-5
Brandon HuntAuburn CGeorgia Tech B7810
Tianyu XuGeorgia Tech AFurman8310
John ShieldsClemson BTennessee B9310
Aaryan TomarGeorgia Tech CBelmont10610
Blake EnwillerVanderbilt AAlabama A10710
Alex WyrickTennessee AGeorgia Tech D10710