Question

Margaret and Michael Banks are roped into an illegal scheme involving these events in John Hawkes’s novel The Lime Twig. (10[1])In a work centering on one of these events, the narrator injures everyone at his restaurant table when he tries to mace the head waiter. That work centering on one of these events begins with the narrator meeting Jimbo at an airport bar. In one story, the protagonist gets into a partnership involving these events with the gardener (-5[1])Bassett. One work’s narrator expects the Black Panthers to attack while at one of these events with the illustrator Ralph Steadman. The boy Paul (10[1])uses a toy to predict the winners of these events in a story by D. (10[1])H. Lawrence. (10[2]-5[1])For 10 points, Hunter S. Thompson wrote about what kind of sporting (10[1])event (10[1])in the article “The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent (10[2])and Depraved”? ■END■

ANSWER: horse race [prompt on race; prompt on Kentucky Derby until read by asking “what kind of event is it?”] (The Lawrence story is “The Rocking-Horse Winner.”)
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Caleb Kendrick (Grad)Maryland A (Grad)Liberty A (Grad)1910
Jim Fan (Grad)UNC A (Grad)William & Mary A (UG)77-5
Joseph Chambers (DII)Virginia A (UG)JMU A (UG)10110
Ivan Stanisavljevic (DII)Duke A (UG)UNC D (DII)11610
Graham Troy (DII)UNC B (UG)GWU A (UG)11810
Nathan Redford (DII)Liberty C (DII)Virginia B (UG)118-5
Joshua Schmidt (DII)Liberty B (DII)Roanoke College A (DII)11810
Patrick Torre (DII)Maryland C (DII)JMU B (UG)13010
Luke Schaarschuch (UG)Virginia C (UG)GWU B (Grad)13110
Charlotte Goeb (UG)Virginia B (UG)Liberty C (DII)13910
Derek Aldridge (DII)William & Mary A (UG)UNC A (Grad)13910