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 through this region was scouted by Robert Burke and William Wills but was eventually built through Alice Springs. A part of this region called the Wheatbelt outside Perth 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■
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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= Average correct buzz position
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Alex Hestermann | UW Pride | UBC B | 19 | -5 |
Annabelle Koopmans | UW Greed | UW Lust | 32 | -5 |
Tai Belke | UBC A | UW Wrath | 40 | -5 |
Jacob Bieri | Boise State | UW Gluttony | 61 | 10 |
Anne Fjeld | Alberta | Arizona State B | 73 | 10 |
Luke Houtz | Arizona State A | UW Sloth | 78 | 10 |
Akshath Srinivasan | UW Lust | UW Greed | 80 | 10 |
Justin Qian | UBC B | UW Pride | 107 | 10 |
Darrien Liang | UW Wrath | UBC A | 107 | 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 | 7 | 100% | 0% | 29% | 80.14 |