Converts to this religion such as Anne Waldman founded the School of Disembodied Poetics. One poem states that a figure in this religion who represents the “Great Sun” will show up in America in his “true form of Smokey the Bear.” This religion inspired the title of a poem that opens, “I’m an old man now, and a lonesome man in Kansas.” This religion’s converts include the author of the collection Turtle Island, who was the basis for the character Japhy Ryder. A name for texts in this religion inspired the titles of poems about a “Wichita vortex” and a “sunflower” written by Allen Ginsberg. For 10 points, many Beat writers converted to what religion, which inspires the protagonists of Jack Kerouac’s The Dharma Bums to try to reach enlightenment? ■END■
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Berkeley | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 53.00 |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Cornell | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 100.33 |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial | 01/27/2024 | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 102.88 |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU | 01/27/2024 | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 110.40 |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Minnesota | 01/27/2024 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 112.50 |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ MIT | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 72.33 |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Ohio State | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 103.33 |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Rutgers | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 54.40 |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 90.00 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nathaniel Hull | Berkeley A | Berkeley C | 40 | 10 |
| Caleb Kendrick | Maryland A | Duke A | 40 | 10 |
| Forrest Weintraub | Columbia A | Vassar | 40 | 10 |
| Andrew Hanna | Penn | Rowan | 40 | 10 |
| Tim Morrison | Stanford A | Stanford B | 42 | 10 |
| Raymond Wang | Cornell A | Cornell B | 42 | 10 |
| Will Orr | Yale B | Harvard A | 42 | 10 |
| Jack Oberman | South Carolina | Alabama | 42 | 10 |
| Jason Hong | Brown A | Brandeis B | 45 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | MTSU | Georgia Tech B | 49 | 10 |
| Oliver Hargrave | Oxford A | Cambridge C | 54 | 10 |
| Ben Russell Jones | Edinburgh | Kiel | 61 | 10 |
| Sinecio Morales | Johns Hopkins | NYU A | 61 | 10 |
| Jim Fan | UNC A | JMU A | 63 | -5 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay | Haverford | 64 | 10 |
| Jason Qin | Columbia C | Columbia B | 67 | 10 |
| Andrew Ellis | Kentucky | Georgia Tech A | 72 | -5 |
| Roxanne Tang | Ohio State A | Kenyon | 76 | 10 |
| Anuttam Ramji | Berkeley B | Stanford C | 77 | 10 |
| Drew Wetterlind | Iowa State | Minnesota C | 91 | -5 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State | Minnesota B | 95 | 10 |
| Giovanni Mazzeo | Virginia A | William & Mary A | 100 | 10 |
| Bryanna Shao | Vanderbilt A | Vanderbilt B | 100 | 10 |
| Michael Kohn | Durham A | Bristol | 103 | 10 |
| Perry O'Connor | Liberty A | JMU B | 103 | 10 |
| Biyang Zhang | Michigan B | Cedarville | 104 | 10 |
| Harrison Whitaker | Cambridge A | Durham B | 107 | 10 |
| Emily Bussa | Maryland B | Liberty B | 110 | 10 |
| Jonathan Shauf | UNC B | Virginia B | 114 | -5 |
| Nicholas Lane | GWU A | Liberty C | 115 | 10 |
| Patrick Torre | Maryland C | UNC D | 116 | 10 |
| Elliot Cosnett | Oxford B | KCL | 123 | 10 |
| Enoch Yuen | Imperial A | Sheffield | 123 | 10 |
| Thomas Hart | Warwick | Oxford C | 124 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT B | Binghamton | 125 | -5 |
| Rahim Dina | Imperial B | Cambridge B | 128 | 10 |
| Aadarsh Balireddy | Cornell C | RIT A | 129 | 10 |
| Tegan Kapadia | Georgia Tech A | Kentucky | 129 | 10 |
| Matthew Christian | Binghamton | RIT B | 130 | 10 |
| Ian He | UNC C | GWU B | 130 | 10 |
| Carly Hemani | JMU A | UNC A | 130 | 10 |
| Luke Schaarschuch | Virginia C | Roanoke College A | 130 | 10 |
| Charlotte Goeb | Virginia B | UNC B | 130 | 10 |
| Keegan Wulf | Minnesota C | Iowa State | 130 | 10 |
| Jake Markus | Dartmouth B | Boston University | 130 | 10 |
| Towery McNeil | Boston University | Dartmouth B | 130 | 0 |
| Matthew Lam | Ohio State B | Michigan C | 130 | 10 |
| William Barnes | Tennessee | Harding | 130 | 10 |