Question

An artist based in this city poked fun at their style by painting a floor black and white in Painting Myself Into a Corner. In this city, an artist taped lamp posts with humorous headlines like “Pope killed for freed hostage.” Many works by an artist from this city feature subjects like pyramids and couples being zapped by UFOs. A “Shop” in (-5[1])this city sold art originally created as chalk drawings of blocky barking dogs and (*) faceless (10[1])humans. A group from this city that performed in multimedia shows called Exploding Plastic (10[1])Inevitable put out an album cover with a peelable banana. This (10[1])city is the home of the mural Crack is (10[1])Wack and the artist of vibrant portraits of (10[1])Mao and a large diptych of Marilyn Monroe. For 10 points, the Factory studio (10[1])was located in what city, the home of Keith Haring and Andy Warhol? ■END■

ANSWER: New York City [or NYC] (Keith Haring sold paraphernalia of his art at the Pop Shop.)
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Jake GrodnerPrincetonYale62-5
Jack RadoColumbia ALehigh A7710
Evan SchleckGathererNYU A9110
Andrea LadinoNYU BBard10210
Will HollisterLehigh BNYU C11110
Moses KitakuleColumbia BRutgers11910
William OrrYalePrinceton13310

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2024 Booster Shot (Columbia)02/23/2024Y6100%0%17%105.50
2024 Booster Shot (Waterloo)02/23/2024Y4100%0%25%99.25
2024 Booster Shot (Vanderbilt)03/02/2024Y4100%0%50%132.50
2024 Booster Shot (Great Lakes)03/09/2024Y6100%0%17%105.83
2024 Booster Shot (WUSTL)03/09/2024Y3100%0%0%103.33