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

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Andrew YangColumbia BRutgers B4310
Olin Bose (DII)Columbia A (UG)Bard A (UG)7010
Xavier Bomhorst (DII)Maryland A (DII)NYU B7410
Eric Hu (DII)Penn B (DII)Princeton A (UG)7710
Jack Stuhlman (DII)Lehigh B (DII)Columbia J (DII)8310
Ben Spirtas (DII)Maryland B (DII)Fordham A87-5
Steven McPhillimey (UG)Lehigh A (UG)Penn A (DII)87-5
Magnolia Schnirman Barria (UG)NYU A (UG)Rowan A (DII)9910
Saif Virani (UG)Fordham AMaryland B (DII)10710
Vedh Ramesh (DII)Penn A (DII)Lehigh A (UG)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 RutgersfallY7100%0%29%80.14