Question
Description acceptable. A character steals a statue from a museum of this activity in a Sarah Ruhl play about Becky Nurse. Five girls pretend to see a flying yellow bird in a play about this activity. A man forgets the sixth commandment, “thou shalt not commit adultery,” when asked to recite the Ten Commandments by Reverend Hale while on trial for this crime. Ezekiel Cheever accuses Elizabeth of this crime after seeing Mary Warren’s poppet with a needle in it. After being seen dancing in the woods, the Barbadian slave Tituba is accused of this crime. For 10 points, John Proctor is accused of what crime central to Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible? ■END■
ANSWER: witchcraft [or descriptions like being a witch or practicing witchcraft; accept witch hunting or Salem witch trials before “this crime” is read; prompt on sorcery or magic] (The first line refers to the play Becky Nurse of Salem.)
<American Literature>
= Average correct buzz position
Summary
| 2024 ACF Fall at Cornell | fall | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 67.38 |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State | fall | Y | 8 | 88% | 0% | 13% | 63.57 |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Washington | fall | Y | 6 | 83% | 0% | 17% | 58.20 |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Georgia | fall | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 58.10 |
| 2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina | fall | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 11% | 83.22 |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Claremont Colleges | fall | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 58.20 |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers | fall | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 58.50 |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Illinois | fall | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 74.33 |
Buzzes
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anna Kuang | Cornell E | Syracuse | 35 | 10 |
| Henry Bylinowski | Auburn A | Emory Oxford | 35 | 10 |
| Daniel Tritasavit (DII) | UCLA D | USC | 35 | 10 |
| Sam Millenbach (DII) | Rowan A (DII) | Columbia J (DII) | 35 | 10 |
| Alex Wong (DII) | Rutgers A (UG) | Lehigh B (DII) | 35 | 10 |
| Daniel K | Maryland B | Columbia A | 35 | 10 |
| Elizabeth Bowling | Indiana | Illinois A | 35 | 10 |
| Haylee Weisner | UW Lust | UBC B | 40 | 10 |
| Miller Doerr | Liberty B | Virginia Tech B | 40 | -5 |
| Kate Merritt (UG) | West Virginia A (UG) | Ohio State B (DII) | 41 | 10 |
| Nitin Murthy | Purdue A | WashU A | 41 | -5 |
| Steven Vicoria | Binghamton A | Cornell A | 43 | -5 |
| Davis Johnson | Purdue C | Iowa A | 43 | 10 |
| Anthony Yin (DII) | CWRU B (DII) | Michigan A (UG) | 46 | -5 |
| Griffin Elder | Tennessee A | Auburn B | 46 | 10 |
| Chase Barrick (DII) | Lehigh A (UG) | NYU B | 46 | 10 |
| Owen McCoy | Illinois D | SIUE | 46 | -5 |
| Euan McCubbin | UW Chastity | UW Greed | 47 | 10 |
| Cara Monroe (DII) | Miami B (UG) | Miami C (DII) | 50 | 10 |
| Ilyas Choukri | Virginia Tech A | Virginia | 53 | 10 |
| Ayush Patel (DII) | UCLA C | UCLA E | 56 | -5 |
| Vedh Ramesh (DII) | Penn A (DII) | Columbia B | 56 | 10 |
| Adam Hermann (DII) | Claremont B | UCLA B | 57 | 10 |
| Patrick Boyle | Notre Dame B | Illinois C | 59 | -5 |
| Vivian Fan (DII) | Claremont A | Claremont C | 61 | 10 |
| Will Hoover | RIT B | Cornell F | 62 | 10 |
| Brian Chen | Cornell G | RIT C | 62 | 10 |
| Grace Griffiths | Penn State | Binghamton C | 62 | 10 |
| Tom Scheri | RIT A | Binghamton B | 62 | 10 |
| William Romanyk (UG) | Michigan State B | CWRU A (UG) | 62 | 10 |
| Matthew Kelley (DII) | Michigan D (UG) | Miami A (UG) | 62 | 10 |
| Andrew Harms (DII) | Michigan State A | Michigan C | 62 | 10 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta | UBC A | 62 | 10 |
| Aaryan Tomar | Georgia Tech C | Clemson B | 62 | 10 |
| Gannon Rice | Clemson A | Georgia A | 62 | 10 |
| Peter Chen | Georgia Tech E | Georgia Tech A | 62 | 10 |
| Tarun Koti | Emory A | South Carolina A | 62 | 10 |
| Sarah Patel | Vanderbilt A | South Carolina B | 62 | 10 |
| Hayes Brown | Furman | Auburn C | 62 | 10 |
| Allison Fisher | Tennessee B | Belmont | 62 | 10 |
| Mary Wells | VCU | Duke A | 62 | 10 |
| Hannah Nieuwveld (DII) | Penn B (DII) | Fordham A | 62 | 10 |
| Ethan Ma | Illinois B | Northwestern A | 62 | 10 |
| Emmett Cho | Chicago B | WashU B | 62 | 10 |
| Owyn Noble | Purdue B | Notre Dame C | 63 | 10 |
| Jack Li | UW Wrath | UW Gluttony | 65 | -5 |
| Justin Han | UNC B | Appalachian State B | 65 | 10 |
| Jeffery Floyd | Southern | Alabama A | 66 | 10 |
| Bolun Thompson (DII) | UCLA E | UCLA C | 67 | 10 |
| Gianna Pettine | U of Rochester B | Cornell C | 69 | 10 |
| Madison Glaser | ESF | Cornell D | 69 | -5 |
| Luke Strole | UW Pride | UW Sloth | 69 | 10 |
| Fish Tsai (DII) | UCSD | UCLA A | 71 | 10 |
| Brady Hagan (DII) | Ohio State C (DII) | Ohio State A (UG) | 73 | 10 |
| Alan Fan | UW Envy | Boise State | 73 | 10 |
| Reese Powell | Cornell A | Binghamton A | 74 | 10 |
| Josh Schmidt | Liberty A | Liberty C | 74 | 10 |
| Landon Jett | SIUE | Illinois D | 83 | 10 |
| John Gamble | NC State | Duke B | 86 | 10 |
| Connor Carlisle | James Madison A | UNC C | 86 | 10 |
| Abby Hope (UG) | Bard A (UG) | Princeton A (UG) | 86 | 10 |
| Ishan Joshi (DII) | Rutgers B | Maryland A (DII) | 89 | -5 |
| Angelo Pan (UG) | CWRU C (UG) | Michigan B (UG) | 95 | 10 |
| William Foster | Chicago A | Northwestern B | 95 | 10 |
| Cameron Wiliams | Appalachian State A | UNC D | 100 | 10 |
| Max Khurzman | UNC A | James Madison B | 111 | 10 |
| Zachary Bornstein | Virginia Tech B | Liberty B | 112 | 10 |
| Alec Riso | Cornell D | ESF | 113 | 10 |
| Rachel Fanous (DII) | Michigan A (UG) | CWRU B (DII) | 113 | 0 |
| Nishna Makala (DII) | Maryland A (DII) | Rutgers B | 113 | 10 |
| Steven Song | Illinois C | Notre Dame B | 113 | 10 |
| Conner Yamnitz | WashU A | Purdue A | 113 | 10 |