Question

In this geographic region, a country’s first mosque at Marree was founded by Punjabi and Afghan cameleers in the 1860s. (-5[1])Alfred Traeger developed a pedal-powered radio to aid communication across this region’s pastoral (-5[1])lands called its namesake “stations.” This region’s modern-day (-5[1])cattle barons have adopted historical fire stick farming. An overland telegraph line through this region was scouted by Robert Burke and (10[1])William Wills but was eventually built through Alice Springs. A part of (10[1])this region called the Wheatbelt (10[1])outside Perth (10[1])was the site of the Emu War. For 10 points, Henry Ayers once named the sandstone monument of Uluru 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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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Alex HestermannUW PrideUBC B19-5
Annabelle KoopmansUW GreedUW Lust32-5
Tai BelkeUBC AUW Wrath40-5
Jacob BieriBoise StateUW Gluttony6110
Anne FjeldAlbertaArizona State B7310
Luke HoutzArizona State AUW Sloth7810
Akshath SrinivasanUW LustUW Greed8010
Justin QianUBC BUW Pride10710
Darrien LiangUW WrathUBC A10710

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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