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One of these objects title a novel in which Reno befriends a Moto Valera crew that she (15[1])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 through “audio-capsule” with (*) Faber to use one of these tools. This is the main tool of a profession whose old purpose (10[1])was made obsolete (-5[1])by better building materials and which travels around in vehicles called salamanders. A mechanical Hound acquires a scent (-5[1])from one of these (-5[1])tools (-5[1])after it is used to kill Captain Beatty. For 10 points, name this tool used by firemen like Guy Montag to destroy books in Fahrenheit 451. ■END■ (10[3]0[1])

ANSWER: flamethrowers [accept The Flamethrowers; prompt on fire or flames]
<GE, American Literature>
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Caleb OttWaterloo BasicToronto Disband the Club 2k241615
Gareth ThorlaksonToronto AOttawa Absolomabsolomabsolom8810
Nick EdwardsMcGill AToronto Metropolitan A91-5
Rayton LinWaterloo ClozeCarleton A109-5
Mattias EhatammWaterloo AspidistraToronto B113-5
Yusuf BaigMcMaster ApocolocyntosisBidiiToronto Chestnut Rice and Kamehameha114-5
Franklin WuToronto Chestnut Rice and KamehamehaMcMaster ApocolocyntosisBidii14110
Ben WismathToronto BWaterloo Aspidistra14110
Ishan JoshiToronto Metropolitan AMcGill A14110
Kevin LeCarleton AWaterloo Cloze1410

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