Question

Gordon Wasson’s disgust at his wife Valentina Pavlovna’s performance of this activity on their honeymoon is cited as an origin story for a subfield of anthropology. Each fall, the region of Dzūkija (ZOO-key-yah) becomes a hotspot for this activity in Lithuania, where the bolete is (15[1])favored. Practitioners of this (15[1])activity prize David Arora’s guide All That the Rain Promises, and (15[1])More… and disparage (15[1])uninteresting objects as (-5[1])LBMs. Ethnic Hmong performing this activity in “Open Ticket, (10[1])(*) Oregon” are followed in a multispecies ethnography about “the Possibility of Life in Capitalist (10[1])Ruins,” written by Anna (10[1])Tsing. (10[1])Inept performers of this field activity risk being poisoned (10[1])by (10[5]-5[1])Amanita. (-5[1])Matsutakes, morels, and truffles are sought (10[1])in, for 10 points, what mycological field (10[1])activity? (10[2])■END■

ANSWER: mushroom foraging [accept mushrooming; accept matsutake foraging or truffle foraging; accept equivalent terms such as hunting or picking in place of “foraging”] (The Wassons are the founders of ethnomycology. The Anna Tsing book is The Mushroom at the End of the World.)
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= Average correct buzz position

Summary

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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Ian ChowMilan et al.The Vulture's Guide to Buzz4415
Isaac Kirk-DavidoffOlmo (Bonus) Bagelrymeet the new weird, same as the old weird4815
Natan HoltzmanStanford A[Insert Lawyer Joke Here]5915
coby tranWhat is BH! And you are asking me? BHSUCornell C++6215
Caleb KendrickMaryland AThe Perfection of Wisdom in 8,000 Negs65-5
Caroline Maonats is supposed to mean you all have gone softColumbia B7410
Rahul KeyalWatching Arthur Delot-Vilain at Chicago Open Made Me Like French People AgainUG Championship Players (and Mazin)8810
Joel MilesThe Enrique Trastamara Military Academy BDr. Christopher Manners, MD – Samarra, Iraq9210
Geoffrey ChenHutto HipposRollin in from Sturgis, The Cheyne Gang9310
Swapnil GargBerkeley ABerkeley B10210
Naveed ChowdhuryIt's JoeverStanford B10310
Collin AceRutgers DiasporaFan-tastic Negs and Where to Find Them10310
Vittal BhatGlass Onyen: A Knives Out MysteryMaryland B+103-5
DaoudOxford HornetsBuzzers Karamazov10310
MarkBroken Imperial NomadsMagisters Ludi10310
Colin VeeversNeg 5! Playing Quizbowl, Liddy StyleCameron et al.10310
Maude-Sophie LockmanParth et al.The Passion According to C.H.104-5
Vincent DuThe Perfection of Wisdom in 8,000 NegsMaryland A11010
Ash SeetharamanHouston and FriendsCornell B-11710
Emily BussaMaryland B+Glass Onyen: A Knives Out Mystery11810
Sky LiThe Passion According to C.H.Parth et al.11810