Question

A species of seal indigenous to this body of water migrates every winter to its frozen north or to its largest island of (-5[1])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 (-5[1])names a 1971 treaty on wetland conservation. Expanding tea plantations on this body of water’s southern coast have threatened the protected Hyrcanian rainforest, where the Jungle Movement briefly established a socialist state centered on the city of Rasht. The first offshore (*) oil well was built near this body of water’s Absheron Peninsula. (10[1])Astrakhan is the largest city in the Volga Delta that drains into this (10[1])brackish endorheic [en-doh-REE-ik] basin, whose large oil reserves are exported west by pipeline from Baku. For 10 points, what largest lake in the world 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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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Micah ColmanWaterloo BustToronto Tony Jingyu Chen eats quizbowl23-5
Michael DuWaterloo CaliToronto Penguin World War47-5
Gareth ThorlaksonToronto SproutToronto Pilk9910
Marcus Forbes-GreenToronto cDNAOttawa11210
Joey SunToronto Tony Jingyu Chen eats quizbowlWaterloo Bust14110
Sky LiToronto Penguin World WarWaterloo Cali14110

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