Crimean Peninsula - 2025 PACE NSC

Question

The Ai-Petri mountains border this region's Grand Canyon as well as a resort city home to the Massandra Palace. A port on the southwestern Heracles Peninsula in this region contains a monument to the storming of its Mount Sapun. This land region is separated from the mainland to its north by the hypersaline Syvash Sea. This region's town of Livadiya has a "Great Three" monument depicting FDR. (20[1])Greeks established the colony of (20[1])(*) Chersonesos (10[3])Taurica in this (10[2])region. (10[1])Since 2022, a new bridge to this region (10[1])spanning (0[1])the Kerch Strait (10[2])has been repeatedly attacked. (10[1])This region is home to the resort city of Yalta and the Black Sea port of Sevastopol. For 10 points, name this Ukrainian peninsula now controlled by Russia. ■END■

ANSWER: Crimean Peninsula [or Crimea; or Autonomous Republic of Crimea; accept Crimean Mountains or Yayla Mountains; accept Tauric Peninsula or Tauris before "Taurica" is read; prompt on Southern Ukraine or Russia; anti-prompt on Kerch Peninsula by asking "can you be less specific?"]

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Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Buzz Position	Value
Andrew Peuster	Audrain County AT	Northview	66	20
Tate Osborne	Alabama Cyber Tech	Fremd	71	20
Alvan Hossain	Lexington	Detroit Catholic Central A	72	10
Charlie Doehring	Hinsdale Central A	Westwood	72	10
Nam Dang	Richard Montgomery	Johns Creek	72	10
Andrew Gao	Belmont	Innovation Academy A	75	10
Matthew Ryan	Thomas Jefferson A	Strake Jesuit B	75	10
Grant Liu	Walter Payton A	Lindbergh	76	10
Khang Le	Strake Jesuit A	Hunter A	84	10
Ben Newman	Uni of Illinois Laboratory	Adlai E. Stevenson A	85	0
Shreecharan "Charan" Shreekumar	Adlai E. Stevenson A	Uni of Illinois Laboratory	88	10
Ethan Kral	Northmont	Eastchester	88	10
Gugan Thuduppathy	Montgomery Blair A	Lambert A	92	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Exact Match?	TUH	Conv. %	Power %	Neg %	Average Buzz
2025 PACE NSC	06/07/2025	Y	12	100%	17%	0%	77.58