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 (10[1])Robert Burke and William Wills (-5[1])but was eventually built through Alice Springs. (10[1])A part of this region (10[1])called the Wheatbelt outside Perth was the site of the Emu War. (10[2])For 10 points, (10[1])Henry Ayers once named the sandstone monument of Uluru in what remote inner region of Australia? ■END■ (10[1])

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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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Andrew Harms (DII)Michigan State A Jefferson County Scholars (DII)5210
Reed Sexton (UG)Michigan D (UG)Michigan A (UG) 5810
Alan Lee (UG)CWRU A (UG) Michigan C 63-5
Matthew Stall (DII)CWRU B (DII) CWRU C (UG)7010
Sam Hicks-Jirkans (DII)Ohio State B (DII) Michigan State B 7510
Cole Polley (UG)Michigan B (UG)Ohio State C (DII) 8710
Jacob Moeller (DII)Miami A (UG) West Virginia B (UG) 8710
Peter Ballas (DII)Michigan C CWRU A (UG) 9010
Kate Merritt (UG)West Virginia A (UG) Miami C (DII) 10710

Summary

2024 ACF Fall at CornellfallY9100%0%11%76.00
2024 ACF Fall at Ohio StatefallY8100%0%13%78.25
2024 ACF Fall at WashingtonfallY6100%0%50%84.33
2024 ACF Fall at GeorgiafallY11100%0%36%77.91
2024 ACF Fall at North CarolinafallY9100%0%11%79.22
2024 ACF Fall at Claremont CollegesfallY5100%0%0%67.60
2024 ACF Fall at RutgersfallY8100%0%25%82.50