Question

Margaret and Michael Banks are roped into an illegal scheme involving these events in John Hawkes’s novel The Lime Twig. 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 Bassett. One work’s narrator expects the Black Panthers to attack while at one of these events with the (-5[1])illustrator Ralph Steadman. The boy Paul uses a toy (10[1])to predict the winners (10[1])of these events in a story by (10[1]-5[1])D. (10[1])H. (10[1])Lawrence. For 10 points, Hunter S. Thompson wrote about what kind of sporting event in the article “The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved”? (10[1])■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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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Aswath KaraiMichigan State AUW A95-5
Russell NipUBC AAppalachian State10410
Robbie HahnTexas A&M BIowa B10810
Kevin ParkClaremont ARice A11510
Cormac BeirneSorbonneIowa A115-5
Roan DowlingIowa ASorbonne11610
Deepak MuthyalaTexas A&M ATexas A11710
Isaac OlsonUW AMichigan State A14110

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2024 ACF Regionals @ Berkeley01/27/2024Y3100%0%67%119.00
2024 ACF Regionals @ Cornell01/27/2024Y3100%0%0%113.00
2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU01/27/2024Y9100%0%22%112.33
2024 ACF Regionals @ Minnesota01/27/2024Y2100%0%0%109.50
2024 ACF Regionals @ Nebraska01/27/2024Y6100%0%33%116.83
2024 ACF Regionals @ Rutgers01/27/2024Y5100%0%40%105.80
2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial01/27/2024Y4100%0%25%95.75