Question
A 2015 book titled for these creatures “in the Balance” was written by Craig Packer, who directs the University of Minnesota center dedicated to researching them. One of these creatures named Elsa was raised by the controversial Joy Adamson, as discussed in her book Born Free. These creatures are killed in ala-mayo rituals, which may be carried out by morani of the Maasai people. In 2015, Minnesotan dentist Walter Palmer killed one of these creatures named Cecil. These animals served as models for the body of a sculpture probably built for Khafre, which is located on the plateau of Giza. For 10 points, simba is the Swahili word for what large cats that might hunt in a pride? ■END■
ANSWER: lions [or lionesses or Panthera leo or Panthera leo leo or Panthera leo melanochaitai or African lions; accept Cecil the Lion; accept Elsa the Lioness; accept Lions in the Balance; prompt on cats or big cats; prompt on sphinxes or Egyptian sphinxes or Great Sphinx of Giza with “what creatures are the model for the Sphinx’s body?”]
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= Average correct buzz position
Summary
| 2024 ACF Fall at Cornell | fall | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 56% | 91.67 |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State | fall | Y | 8 | 88% | 0% | 25% | 88.57 |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Washington | fall | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 85.50 |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Georgia | fall | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 90.17 |
| 2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina | fall | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 11% | 83.11 |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Claremont Colleges | fall | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 95.00 |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers | fall | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 44% | 100.44 |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Illinois | fall | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 84.89 |
Buzzes
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Faith Magiera | Northwestern A | Illinois A | 12 | -5 |
| Annabelle Ford | Cornell A | ESF | 29 | -5 |
| Max Khurzman | UNC A | UNC C | 37 | 10 |
| Claire Wang | RIT C | Binghamton C | 38 | -5 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell C | RIT B | 38 | -5 |
| Nitin Murthy | Purdue A | Notre Dame B | 40 | 10 |
| Sarah Patel | Vanderbilt A | Emory Oxford | 45 | -5 |
| Rahul Jogadhenu (DII) | UCLA C | Claremont B | 45 | -5 |
| Owen McCoy | Illinois D | Illinois C | 47 | -5 |
| Vedh Ramesh (DII) | Penn A (DII) | Penn B (DII) | 49 | 10 |
| Jeffery Floyd (UG) | Southern | Belmont | 51 | -5 |
| Sophia Madrazo | Purdue B | Chicago B | 62 | -5 |
| Beckett Gilmore (DII) | Jefferson County Scholars (DII) | Michigan C | 63 | -5 |
| Rafeed Rahman Turjya | Georgia A | Clemson B | 63 | 10 |
| Ben Spirtas (DII) | Maryland B (DII) | Bard A (UG) | 63 | -5 |
| David Nickel | Purdue C | WashU A | 64 | 10 |
| Neilesh Shroti (UG) | Columbia B | NYU A (UG) | 65 | -5 |
| Jason Qin (DII) | Columbia J (DII) | Columbia A (UG) | 65 | -5 |
| Brian Hoff | Cornell B | U of Rochester A | 66 | -5 |
| Sam Millenbach (DII) | Rowan A (DII) | NYU B | 67 | -5 |
| Will Hughes | Auburn A | Tennessee A | 69 | 10 |
| Tarun Koti | Emory A | Georgia Tech B | 69 | 10 |
| Jerry Xu (DII) | Claremont A | UCSD | 69 | 10 |
| Dylan Spearman | Clemson A | Tennessee B | 70 | 10 |
| Britton Webster | Alabama A | Furman | 71 | -5 |
| Cade Smith (UG) | Michigan State A | Michigan State B | 73 | -5 |
| Connor Carlisle | James Madison A | Liberty B | 73 | 10 |
| Derek Aldridge | William & Mary | Liberty C | 73 | 10 |
| Evan Davies (UG) | Miami A (UG) | CWRU B (DII) | 74 | 10 |
| Ruchir Kodihalli (UG) | CWRU A (UG) | West Virginia A (UG) | 74 | 10 |
| Jacob Bieri | Boise State | UBC A | 74 | 10 |
| Andrea Yu | UW Chastity | UW Pride | 74 | 10 |
| Theodore Farrell (UG) | Fordham A | Maryland A (DII) | 74 | 10 |
| Stephen Heritage | Notre Dame A | Notre Dame C | 74 | 10 |
| Zach Miller | Auburn C | Vanderbilt B | 75 | -5 |
| Ivy Penree | ESF | Cornell A | 76 | 10 |
| Aidan Keenan | U of Rochester A | Cornell B | 76 | 10 |
| Grace Griffiths | Penn State | Cornell F | 76 | 10 |
| Danny Cutbill | RIT A | Binghamton B | 76 | -5 |
| Dennis Yang (DII) | Michigan A (UG) | Michigan B (UG) | 76 | 10 |
| Reed Sexton (UG) | Michigan D (UG) | West Virginia B (UG) | 76 | 10 |
| Jack Ogletree | Auburn B | Georgia Tech C | 76 | 10 |
| Sean Jackson | South Carolina A | Georgia Tech A | 76 | 10 |
| John Gamble | NC State | UNC D | 76 | 10 |
| Timothy Porter | VCU | UNC B | 76 | 10 |
| Alex Chen (DII) | Claremont C | UCLA D | 76 | 10 |
| William Foster | Chicago A | Iowa A | 76 | 10 |
| Carlos Gonzalez | Syracuse | Binghamton A | 77 | 10 |
| Beck Faletti | UW Gluttony | Alberta | 78 | 10 |
| Lydia-Ann Snyder | Arizona State B | UW Envy | 78 | 10 |
| Nathan Redford | Liberty A | Duke A | 78 | -5 |
| Sanika Iyer | Indiana | Illinois B | 78 | 10 |
| Abigail Zimmerman | Iowa B | WashU B | 78 | 10 |
| Jake Cobovic | Binghamton C | RIT C | 79 | 10 |
| Henry Kindler | Appalachian State A | James Madison B | 83 | 10 |
| Thomas Chen | Michigan C | Jefferson County Scholars (DII) | 84 | 0 |
| Jeffery Xu | Georgia Tech D | Georgia Tech E | 84 | 10 |
| Jaden Bandy (DII) | Rutgers B | Lehigh A (UG) | 84 | 10 |
| Matthew Wang | UBC B | UW Sloth | 102 | 10 |
| Anna Kuang | Cornell E | Cornell D | 103 | 10 |
| Jacob Goodson (DII) | Ohio State A (UG) | CWRU C (UG) | 103 | 10 |
| Towery McNeil | Mississippi State A | South Carolina B | 103 | 10 |
| Ivan Karp (UG) | UCLA B | UCLA E | 105 | 10 |
| Brian Chen | Cornell G | U of Rochester B | 106 | 10 |
| Ilyas Choukri | Virginia Tech A | Tusculum | 106 | 10 |
| Malcolm D'Souza (DII) | Ohio State B (DII) | Miami B (UG) | 107 | 10 |
| Stefan Stealey-Euchner | Arizona State A | UW Lust | 107 | 10 |
| Zachary Bornstein | Virginia Tech B | Duke B | 107 | 10 |
| Sidhant Chaliha (DII) | Princeton A (UG) | Lehigh B (DII) | 107 | 10 |
| Karthik Krishnamurthy (DII) | USC | UCLA A | 108 | 10 |
| Tobias Zajac (UG) | Michigan State B | Michigan State A | 110 | 10 |
| Deric Wagner | Binghamton B | RIT A | 114 | 10 |
| Ezra Greenhill (DII) | Bard A (UG) | Maryland B (DII) | 114 | 10 |
| Koji Bilbao | Duke A | Liberty A | 117 | 10 |
| Aidan Deshong (DII) | Claremont B | UCLA C | 117 | 10 |
| Chris Scheri | RIT B | Cornell C | 118 | 10 |
| Claire Leuthner-Barrineau | Furman | Alabama A | 118 | 10 |
| Paawan Patel | Emory Oxford | Vanderbilt A | 118 | 10 |
| Justin Hetrick | Belmont | Southern | 118 | 10 |
| Sambodh Sinha | Vanderbilt B | Auburn C | 118 | 10 |
| Elijah Scheinson (UG) | Columbia A (UG) | Columbia J (DII) | 118 | 10 |
| Zaid Asif (DII) | NYU A (UG) | Columbia B | 118 | 10 |
| Vinayak Singh Bhadoriya | NYU B | Rowan A (DII) | 118 | 10 |
| Sam Alahi | Illinois A | Northwestern A | 118 | 10 |
| Emmett Cho | Chicago B | Purdue B | 118 | 10 |
| Jack Piros | Illinois C | Illinois D | 118 | 10 |
| Chase Barrick (DII) | Lehigh A (UG) | Lehigh B (DII) | 122 | 0 |
| Jack Stuhlman (DII) | Lehigh B (DII) | Lehigh A (UG) | 122 | 10 |