Question

A 2009 book by Alain de Botton depicts his week spent as a “writer-in-residence” at one of these places in London. People wait at one of these places on the cover of a book that begins by considering Pierre Dupont driving to one to illustrate their “supermodernity”—that book is Marc Augé’s Non-Places. An irritating visit to one of these places in Cologne inspired an album titled for them, Brian Eno’s (15[1])first foray (15[1])into ambient music. (15[1])In “Disneyland with the Death Penalty,” (15[1])William Gibson notes the (*) immaculacy of one of these places in Changi whose “Jewel” (10[1])sports the world’s tallest indoor waterfall. Authors like Jeffrey Archer pump out long, fast-paced genre “novels” often bought in these places, (10[1])sometimes at duty-free stores. For 10 points, what places may be identified by three-letter codes like RDU and LAX? ■END■

ANSWER: airports [accept airport terminals; accept airport novels; accept A Week at the Airport or Music for Airports]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Gareth ThorlaksonToronto AToronto Disband the Club 2k246915
Maude-Sophie LockmanOttawa AbsolomabsolomabsolomWaterloo Aspidistra7115
Asha BasuMcGill AMcMaster ApocolocyntosisBidii7415
Ben WismathToronto BWaterloo Basic8015
Franklin WuToronto Chestnut Rice and KamehamehaCarleton A9410
Ishan JoshiToronto Metropolitan AWaterloo Cloze11510

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