Question

A species of seal indigenous to this body of water migrates every (-5[1])winter to its frozen north or to its largest island of Ogurja Ada [oh-GUR-juh AY-duh] to give birth. A city on this body of water has the world’s highest levels of natural background radiation and names a 1971 treaty on wetland conservation. Expanding tea plantations on this body of water’s southern coast (-5[1])have threatened the (-5[1])protected Hyrcanian rainforest, where the Jungle Movement briefly established a socialist state centered on the city of (15[1])Rasht. The first offshore (10[1])(*) oil well was built near this body of water’s Absheron Peninsula. (10[1])Astrakhan is the largest city in the Volga (-5[1])Delta that drains into this brackish endorheic [en-doh-REE-ik] basin, whose large oil reserves are exported (10[1])west by pipeline from Baku. For 10 points, (10[1])what largest lake in the world (10[1])borders Russia, Iran, and Azerbaijan? (10[2])■END■

ANSWER: Caspian Sea [or Kaspiskoye More; or Daryāye Khezer; or Xəzər dənizi; or Kaspiy teñizi; or Hazar deňizi; accept Caspian seal; accept Caspian Hyrcanian forest] (The city in the second sentence is Ramsar.)
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Summary

2024 Booster Shot (Columbia)02/23/2024Y683%17%33%100.40
2024 Booster Shot (Waterloo)02/23/2024Y4100%0%50%123.25
2024 Booster Shot (Vanderbilt)03/02/2024Y3100%0%33%115.67
2024 Booster Shot (Great Lakes)03/09/2024Y7100%14%43%115.00
2024 Booster Shot (Great Lakes)03/09/2024Y1100%0%100%136.00
2024 Booster Shot (WUSTL)03/09/2024Y367%33%67%82.50

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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Sam MacchiVassarCase Western12-5
Sam MacchiVassarMichigan C64-5
Andrew ZengStanfordIowa State67-5
Pranav SivaramOhioPenn State A8415
Subhamitra Banerjee RoychoudhuryMichigan AIowa8810
Conor ThompsonIowa StateStanford9910
Charles HangWUSTLNorth Carolina107-5
Leo TaoMichigan CPenn State B12210
Arthur StadlinOhio StateMichigan B13010
Elijah QuanMichigan CVassar13610
Jonathan ShaufNorth CarolinaWUSTL14110
Alan LeeCase WesternVassar14110