Question
Peter Hessler’s book The Buried profiles this city’s informal zabaleen garbage collectors. In the 1920s, a houseboat in this city’s Kit Kat neighborhood owned by diva Mounira al-Mahdia hosted cabinet meetings. Overcrowding in this city has spurred one government to build the Iconic Tower in a new planned city called the New Administrative Capital. Many of this city’s embassies are located in an “old” section that emerged from the city of (*) Fustat. A series of 2011 protests occurred around this capital city’s Tahrir Square. A river divides this city from the four million residents of the city of Giza. For 10 points, name this city, the most populous on the Nile and capital of Egypt. ■END■
ANSWER: Cairo [accept Greater Cairo; prompt on Fustat until read]
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| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | TUH | Conv. % | Power % | Neg % | Average Buzz |
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| 2024 PACE NSC | 06/08/2024 | Y | 36 | 100% | 67% | 0% | 67.17 |