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Round 3: Tossup 14

Description acceptable. Plans called “Shot B” followed one of these events near Desert Rock. One of these events that prompted Project 4.1 caused the Lucky Dragon No. 5 diplomatic incident. The effects of these events on “downwinders” were analyzed (10[1])in the Baby Tooth Survey. A hundred-foot “shot tower” was constructed to lift the “gadget” (10[1])at one of these (10[1])events. (10[2])Marshallese (10[1])residents were relocated in preparation (10[1])for events (10[3])of this type (10[2])at the Bikini Atoll like Castle Bravo. A witness of the first of these events supposedly recalled the quotation, “Now I am become death, destroyer of worlds.” For 10 points, what events at sites like Trinity were overseen by people like J. Robert Oppenheimer? ■END■

ANSWER: nuclear explosion [accept the explosion of a nuclear bomb or atomic bomb or atom bombs or A-bombs or hydrogen bomb or thermonuclear bomb or nuclear weapon or atomic weapon or thermonuclear weapon or nukes; accept a nuclear test or descriptions of testing an atomic weapon or nuclear bomb; prompt on explosions by asking “of what?”]
<Editors, American History> | Packet D
= Average correct buzz position

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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentPositionValue
Ben MoweryVermont ADartmouth C3810
Owen GibbsBoston College BWilliams B5310
Yvonne PanAmherst BBrandeis Mozart5710
Ayaan JajodiaDartmouth BBrown A5810
Eleanor ArronWilliams CTufts C5810
Christopher BradleySouthern Connecticut State University AHarvard5910
Anthony XuAmherst AMIT B6410
Jack FeinbergBrandeis BachBoston University A6610
Matthew KohnWilliams ATufts B6610
Sidarth EratMIT AUConn A6610
Kaitlyn FarrinBrandeis BeethovenTufts A6910
Julia AustinVermont BBrown B6910

Summary

TournamentEditionTUHConv. %Neg %Average Buzz
Northern CaliforniaUS4100%0%62.75
Southern CaliforniaUS7100%14%57.43
Eastern Canada (1)US5100%0%56.60
FloridaUS4100%0%53.50
Great LakesUS10100%0%41.70
Lower Mid-AtlanticUS9100%0%48.56
Upper Mid-AtlanticUS9100%0%55.22
NorthUS4100%0%47.00
NortheastUS12100%0%60.25
PacificUS8100%13%51.75
South CentralUS6100%0%45.00
SoutheastUS12100%0%54.33
Upstate NYUS5100%0%57.60