Question

One of these objects title a novel in which Reno befriends a Moto Valera crew that she enlisted to help photograph motorcycle tracks in the Bonneville Salt Flats. One of these objects is compared to a “great python” spitting venom as a man holding it feels like “an amazing conductor playing all the symphonies.” A character orders “Your house, your clean-up” before forcing a man suspected of speaking (-5[1])through “audio-capsule” with (*) Faber to use one of these tools. (-5[1])This is the main tool of a profession whose old purpose was made obsolete by better building materials and which travels around in vehicles called salamanders. A mechanical Hound acquires a scent from one of these tools after it is used to kill Captain Beatty. For (10[1])10 points, name this tool used by firemen like Guy Montag (10[1]-5[1])to destroy books in Fahrenheit 451. ■END■ (10[4]0[1])

ANSWER: flamethrowers [accept The Flamethrowers; prompt on fire or flames]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Yrwin BatanMITAmherst67-5
William OrrYaleHarvard77-5
Christopher DechBrandeis ABrandeis B12310
Lance HulmeBowdoin BClark House13410
Madeline StrausTufts ABoston College A134-5
Michael ZhengAmherstMIT14110
Blake JohnsonBoston College ATufts A1410
Nate KodamaBowdoin CClark Wilson14110
Shining SunBoston College BTufts B14110
Michael KearneyHarvardYale14110

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