Florence Nightingale - 2025 ACF Fall

Question

Lytton Strachey argued that “A Demon possessed” this person in the second section of Eminent Victorians. This person used the term “coxcomb” to refer to the polar area diagrams (10[3])which (10[2])represented (10[2])this person’s data analysis. (10[9])This person led (10[1])a team of volunteers, (10[3])including (-5[1])Eliza Roberts, to Selimiye (10[1])(“say-lee-mee-yeh”) Barracks in Scutari. (10[4])In 1912, (10[1])the (-5[1])Red Cross established (10[2])an award (10[2])named after (10[1])this person, (10[5])who (10[1])set up (10[1])a school (10[3]-5[1])based (10[3])at (10[1])St (-5[1])Thomas’ (10[3]-5[1])Hospital (10[4])in London. (10[10]-5[1])This person refused to work with Mary Seacole (10[6])while (10[3])ministering (10[7])to (10[1])soldiers (10[3])in the Crimean (10[13])War. (10[17]-5[1])For (10[1])10 (10[1])points, (10[1])which so-called (10[2])“lady (10[1])with the (10[1])lamp” (10[1])was a pioneering (10[3])figure in modern nursing? (10[1])■END■ (10[5]0[1])

ANSWER: Florence Nightingale

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Summary


Upstate NY	Main	Y	5	80%	0%	20%	83.25
Southern California	Main	Y	7	100%	0%	0%	68.71
Eastern Canada (1)	Main	Y	5	100%	0%	60%	93.20
Eastern Canada (2)	Main	Y	9	100%	0%	0%	76.33
Florida	Main	Y	4	100%	0%	0%	71.00
Great Lakes	Main	Y	12	100%	0%	8%	73.42
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	9	100%	0%	11%	71.44
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	10	90%	0%	10%	79.67
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	2	100%	0%	0%	80.00
Midwest	Main	Y	9	100%	0%	0%	58.44
North	Main	Y	4	100%	0%	0%	86.00
Northeast	Main	Y	11	100%	0%	0%	69.55
Pacific	Main	Y	8	100%	0%	0%	62.38
South Central	Main	Y	7	100%	0%	0%	86.14
Southeast	Main	Y	13	100%	0%	0%	75.08
Northern California	Main	Y	4	100%	0%	0%	60.25
UK (South)	UK	Y	7	100%	0%	0%	56.57
UK (North)	UK	Y	5	100%	0%	0%	72.40

Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Buzz Position	Value
Ben Spirtas	Maryland C	NYU A	28	10
Camden Walker	WashU Grolars	Indiana A	28	10
Danny Han	Stanford B	Berkeley Boss Bandit	28	10
Benjamin Silversten	William & Mary C	Liberty A	29	10
Arhith Dharaendra	Georgia Tech B	Auburn B	29	10
Snehan Saroch	Louisville A	Michigan State A	30	10
Liam Rojas	Virginia A	Virginia Tech B	30	10
Victor Xu	Toronto B	Toronto C	34	10
Saswat Sasha Tripathi	Chicago A	WashU Grizzlers	34	10
Sophia Madrazo	Purdue B	Illinois Canada	34	10
Shlok Dev	LSE	Warwick	34	10
Jacob Ergueta	Florida A	UCF A	34	10
Wesley Yu	British Columbia A	Washington Coho	34	10
Luc Vulliez	Amherst A	Tufts A	34	10
Keerthana Krishnan	Texas	British Columbia B	34	10
David Latimer	Imperial A	Cambridge D	34	10
Annika Larson	Claremont A	UCLA D	37	10
Terrence Han	UCLA B	Claremont B	41	10
Yoyo Liu	British Columbia C	Washington State	41	10
Samarth Prajapati	Georgia Tech E	Georgia Tech F	41	10
John Rootham	Ottawa D	McGill B	42	-5
Oliver Thompson	CWRU D	Michigan C	46	10
Ben Mowery	Vermont A	Tufts B	49	10
Penelope Graham	Williams B	Dartmouth B	49	10
Jacob Coyne	Durham C	Sheffield B	49	10
Honor Mountford	Cambridge C	Cambridge E	49	10
Tom Morris-Jones	Birmingham	Imperial B	51	10
Arlene Lopez	Stony Brook	Vassar A	52	-5
Eric Yang	Purdue A	Chicago B	55	10
Michael Ai	Williams A	Vermont B	55	10
William Henley	Illinois Champaign	Iowa B	57	10
Suren Grigorian	Berkeley Mighty Miner	Berkeley Archer Queen	57	10
Kushagra Bahuguna	Washington Chinook	Washington Steelhead	59	10
Nina Chen	Waterloo B	Toronto G	61	10
Jesse Mindel	NCSU A	William & Mary A	61	10
Yuxuan Lu	Vanderbilt A	Alabama A	61	10
Jacob Goodson	Ohio State A	Louisville B	61	10
Ethan Miniard	Montevallo	Clemson B	61	10
Jacob Cohen	UCLA A	USC B	62	10
Elliott Gomes	Dartmouth A	Brown A	64	10
Valentina Chamandy	McGill E	Carleton A	66	-5
Abhay Ariyapappillil	Ottawa B	Ottawa A	66	10
Nayaaz Hashim	Oxford	Imperial D	66	10
Kara Braun	Michigan State B	Ohio State B	66	10
Dmitri Anh-Minh Tran	UC Santa Barbara	UCLA C	67	10
Ritisha Dey	Stanford A	UCSC	67	10
Nicholas Nguyen	Florida B	Florida Tech A	67	10
Sidarth Erat	MIT A	Brown B	68	10
Diego Almaraz	UNC C	UNC B	69	-5
Anneke Stracks	Macalester	St. Thomas	70	10
Will Hoover	RIT A	ESF	70	-5
Liam Markland	Alberta A	Washington Atlantic	70	10
Graham Dirks	Kansas State A	Kansas State B	70	10
Derek Li	Cornell A	Cornell D	71	10
Sarah Dong	Michigan A	Michigan B	71	10
Nathan Zhao	Maryland B	George Mason A	71	10
Harry Sexton	Edinburgh A	Sheffield A	71	10
Sicheng Jiang	Toronto H	Toronto I	73	10
Eric Morshed	Johns Hopkins	George Mason B	73	10
Sam Alahi	Illinois Orange	Indiana B	73	10
Jiping Fang	Illinois Blue	William Woods University A	73	10
Jaehyun Park	Boston University A	UConn A	73	10
Ian Hatcher	Chipola College	Clemson A	73	10
Alex Randall	Kentucky	Pittsburgh	73	10
Lauryn Hendrix	Louisville C	Michigan State D	73	10
Ishan Chahande	Ohio State D	Michigan State C	73	-5
Jeffery Austin	UNC D	Virginia Tech C	73	10
Atticus Teter	Durham A	Edinburgh C	73	10
Aditi Nebhwani	Bristol	Imperial C	81	10
Daniel Lu	Washington Pink	Washington Masu	81	10
Sage Snow	Central Oklahoma A	Tulsa A	81	10
Britt Bernstein	Georgia A	Emory A	81	10
Charlotte Nicholas	Durham B	Edinburgh B	81	10
Lauren Stamp	Cambridge A	Southampton	81	10
Gabe Rosen-Turits	NYU B	Lehigh B	82	10
Steven Pan	Georgia Tech C	Georgia Tech A	82	10
Elizabeth Megson	Tulsa B	Central Oklahoma B	82	10
Sophia Schlag	Ottawa C	Carleton B	83	10
Sean Gao	Toronto E	Guelph A	83	10
Arthur Zhang	Purdue C	Iowa A	83	10
Jacob Chambers	Iowa State	Wisconsin A	83	10
Gentry Dowdy	Liberty B	NCSU B	83	10
Trey Lewis	South Carolina A	Tennessee A	83	10
Chase Moss	WVU A	WVU B	83	10
Mikkie Smylie	Brock A	Queen's A	84	10
Ben Stras	Wisconsin C	Michigan Tech	85	10
Owen Linder	Binghamton A	RIT B	85	10
Michael Xu	McMaster B	Waterloo C	85	10
Joseph Wang	UCLA E	USC A	88	10
Nathaniel Godfrey	Toronto D	McMaster A	88	10
Daniel Kim	Maryland A	Rutgers A	88	10
Vedh Ramesh	Penn	Rutgers D	88	10
Vincent Misterkiewicz	Cornell C	Binghamton B	88	10
Nolan King	Nebraska C	Oklahoma	88	10
Towery McNeil	Mississippi State A	Vanderbilt B	88	10
Miles Spieler	Ohio State C	Louisville D	88	10
Nick Smemoe	UNC A	Virginia Tech A	88	10
Simarya Ahuja	Washington Sockeye	Arizona State A	88	10
Sam Beshear	Murray State College B	Murray State College A	88	10
Cole Hammans	Nebraska A	Nebraska B	88	10
Eoghan Herriot	Durham D	Edinburgh D	88	10
Tianyi Zheng	UCSD B	UCSD A	89	10
Malcolm Meyn	McGill C	McGill A	89	-5
James Xiao	Toronto A	Waterloo A	89	10
Alexander Rutten	Columbia A	Princeton	89	10
John Shelly	Rowan	Vassar B	89	10
Renita Tang	NYU C	Rutgers C	89	10
Austin Tran	Rose-Hulman A	Purdue D	89	10
Molly Oakley	Binghamton C	Rochester	89	10
Yishak Kelkay	ERAU Daytona A	Florida State A	89	10
Emily Snider	Liberty C	Tusculum A	89	10
James Braxton	William & Mary B	JMU A	89	10
Jaden Bandy	Rutgers B	Lehigh A	89	10
Hanson Hunynh	Boston University B	Amherst B	89	10
Blake Johnson	Boston College A	Brandeis Mozart	89	10
Doug Frederick	Auburn A	Tennessee Tech	89	10
Hansen Jin	Berkeley Skeleton King	Berkeley Little Prince	89	10
Meredith Wiper	CWRU B	CWRU A	89	10
Richard D’Angelo	Tennessee B	Georgia Tech D	89	10
Imtiaz Kidwai	Toronto F	McMaster C	90	10
Brayden Whitlow	George Mason C	Columbia B	91	10
Tri Lam	Washington Chum	Alberta B	92	10
Addison Wiggins	South Florida A	Florida Tech B	94	10
Kaitlyn Farrin	Brandeis Beethoven	Harvard	94	10
Jack Rabaut	Michigan D	CWRU C	95	10
Sarah Silverman	Claremont C	UC Irvine	97	10
Abby Tipton	Auburn C	Vanderbilt C	98	10
Ezra Zareba	UNC B	UNC C	101	10
Eleanor Arron	Williams C	Dartmouth C	101	10
Jacie Bradley	Clemson C	Sewanne	101	10
Charlie Ruff	McGill A	McGill C	105	10
Alden Thompson	Carleton A	McGill E	106	10
Galen Mueller	McGill B	Ottawa D	106	10
Eli Young	Vassar A	Stony Brook	106	0
Virginia Brooks	Minnesota	Wisconsin B	106	10
Ayden Gates	Rose State	Harding	106	10
Maya Hunt	Michigan State C	Ohio State D	106	10

Upstate NY

Main

80%

20%

83.25

Southern California

Main

100%

68.71

Eastern Canada (1)

Main

100%

60%

93.20

Eastern Canada (2)

Main

100%

76.33

Florida

Main

100%

71.00

Great Lakes

Main

100%

73.42

Lower Mid-Atlantic

Main

100%

11%

71.44

Upper Mid-Atlantic

Main

90%

10%

79.67

Upper Mid-Atlantic

Main

100%

80.00

Midwest

Main

100%

58.44

North

Main

100%

86.00

Northeast

Main

100%

69.55

Pacific

Main

100%

62.38

South Central

Main

100%

86.14

Southeast

Main

100%

75.08

Northern California

Main

100%

60.25

UK (South)

100%

56.57

UK (North)

100%

72.40

Player

Team

Opponent

Buzz Position

Value

Ben Spirtas

Maryland C

NYU A

Camden Walker

WashU Grolars

Indiana A

Danny Han

Stanford B

Berkeley Boss Bandit

Benjamin Silversten

William & Mary C

Liberty A

Arhith Dharaendra

Georgia Tech B

Auburn B

Snehan Saroch

Louisville A

Michigan State A

Liam Rojas

Virginia A

Virginia Tech B

Victor Xu

Toronto B

Toronto C

Saswat Sasha Tripathi

Chicago A

WashU Grizzlers

Sophia Madrazo

Purdue B

Illinois Canada

Shlok Dev

LSE

Warwick

Jacob Ergueta

Florida A

UCF A

Wesley Yu

British Columbia A

Washington Coho

Luc Vulliez

Amherst A

Tufts A

Keerthana Krishnan

Texas

British Columbia B

David Latimer

Imperial A

Cambridge D

Annika Larson

Claremont A

UCLA D

Terrence Han

UCLA B

Claremont B

Yoyo Liu

British Columbia C

Washington State

Samarth Prajapati

Georgia Tech E

Georgia Tech F

John Rootham

Ottawa D

McGill B

-5

Oliver Thompson

CWRU D

Michigan C

Ben Mowery

Vermont A

Tufts B

Penelope Graham

Williams B

Dartmouth B

Jacob Coyne

Durham C

Sheffield B

Honor Mountford

Cambridge C

Cambridge E

Tom Morris-Jones

Birmingham

Imperial B

Arlene Lopez

Stony Brook

Vassar A

-5

Eric Yang

Purdue A

Chicago B

Michael Ai

Williams A

Vermont B

William Henley

Illinois Champaign

Iowa B

Suren Grigorian

Berkeley Mighty Miner

Berkeley Archer Queen

Kushagra Bahuguna

Washington Chinook

Washington Steelhead

Nina Chen

Waterloo B

Toronto G

Jesse Mindel

NCSU A

William & Mary A

Yuxuan Lu

Vanderbilt A

Alabama A

Jacob Goodson

Ohio State A

Louisville B

Ethan Miniard

Montevallo

Clemson B

Jacob Cohen

UCLA A

USC B

Elliott Gomes

Dartmouth A

Brown A

Valentina Chamandy

McGill E

Carleton A

-5

Abhay Ariyapappillil

Ottawa B

Ottawa A

Nayaaz Hashim

Oxford

Imperial D

Kara Braun

Michigan State B

Ohio State B

Dmitri Anh-Minh Tran

UC Santa Barbara

UCLA C

Ritisha Dey

Stanford A

UCSC

Nicholas Nguyen

Florida B

Florida Tech A

Sidarth Erat

MIT A

Brown B

Diego Almaraz

UNC C

UNC B

-5

Anneke Stracks

Macalester

St. Thomas

Will Hoover

RIT A

ESF

-5

Liam Markland

Alberta A

Washington Atlantic

Graham Dirks

Kansas State A

Kansas State B

Derek Li

Cornell A

Cornell D

Sarah Dong

Michigan A

Michigan B

Nathan Zhao

Maryland B

George Mason A

Harry Sexton

Edinburgh A

Sheffield A

Sicheng Jiang

Toronto H

Toronto I

Eric Morshed

Johns Hopkins

George Mason B

Sam Alahi

Illinois Orange

Indiana B

Jiping Fang

Illinois Blue

William Woods University A

Jaehyun Park

Boston University A

UConn A

Ian Hatcher

Chipola College

Clemson A

Alex Randall

Kentucky

Pittsburgh

Lauryn Hendrix

Louisville C

Michigan State D

Ishan Chahande

Ohio State D

Michigan State C

-5

Jeffery Austin

UNC D

Virginia Tech C

Atticus Teter

Durham A

Edinburgh C

Aditi Nebhwani

Bristol

Imperial C

Daniel Lu

Washington Pink

Washington Masu

Sage Snow

Central Oklahoma A

Tulsa A

Britt Bernstein

Georgia A

Emory A

Charlotte Nicholas

Durham B

Edinburgh B

Lauren Stamp

Cambridge A

Southampton

Gabe Rosen-Turits

NYU B

Lehigh B

Steven Pan

Georgia Tech C

Georgia Tech A

Elizabeth Megson

Tulsa B

Central Oklahoma B

Sophia Schlag

Ottawa C

Carleton B

Sean Gao

Toronto E

Guelph A

Arthur Zhang

Purdue C

Iowa A

Jacob Chambers

Iowa State

Wisconsin A

Gentry Dowdy

Liberty B

NCSU B

Trey Lewis

South Carolina A

Tennessee A

Chase Moss

WVU A

WVU B

Mikkie Smylie

Brock A

Queen's A

Ben Stras

Wisconsin C

Michigan Tech

Owen Linder

Binghamton A

RIT B

Michael Xu

McMaster B

Waterloo C

Joseph Wang

UCLA E

USC A

Nathaniel Godfrey

Toronto D

McMaster A

Daniel Kim

Maryland A

Rutgers A

Vedh Ramesh

Penn

Rutgers D

Vincent Misterkiewicz

Cornell C

Binghamton B

Nolan King

Nebraska C

Oklahoma

Towery McNeil

Mississippi State A

Vanderbilt B

Miles Spieler

Ohio State C

Louisville D

Nick Smemoe

UNC A

Virginia Tech A

Simarya Ahuja

Washington Sockeye

Arizona State A

Sam Beshear

Murray State College B

Murray State College A

Cole Hammans

Nebraska A

Nebraska B

Eoghan Herriot

Durham D

Edinburgh D

Tianyi Zheng

UCSD B

UCSD A

Malcolm Meyn

McGill C

McGill A

-5

James Xiao

Toronto A

Waterloo A

Alexander Rutten

Columbia A

Princeton

John Shelly

Rowan

Vassar B

Renita Tang

NYU C

Rutgers C

Austin Tran

Rose-Hulman A

Purdue D

Molly Oakley

Binghamton C

Rochester

Yishak Kelkay

ERAU Daytona A

Florida State A

Emily Snider

Liberty C

Tusculum A

James Braxton

William & Mary B

JMU A

Jaden Bandy

Rutgers B

Lehigh A

Hanson Hunynh

Boston University B

Amherst B

Blake Johnson

Boston College A

Brandeis Mozart

Doug Frederick

Auburn A

Tennessee Tech

Hansen Jin

Berkeley Skeleton King

Berkeley Little Prince

Meredith Wiper

CWRU B

CWRU A

Richard D’Angelo

Tennessee B

Georgia Tech D

Imtiaz Kidwai

Toronto F

McMaster C

Brayden Whitlow

George Mason C

Columbia B

Tri Lam

Washington Chum

Alberta B

Addison Wiggins

South Florida A

Florida Tech B

Kaitlyn Farrin

Brandeis Beethoven

Harvard

Jack Rabaut

Michigan D

CWRU C

Sarah Silverman

Claremont C

UC Irvine

Abby Tipton

Auburn C

Vanderbilt C

Ezra Zareba

UNC B

UNC C

101

Eleanor Arron

Williams C

Dartmouth C

101

Jacie Bradley

Clemson C

Sewanne

101

Charlie Ruff

McGill A

McGill C

105

Alden Thompson

Carleton A

McGill E

106

Galen Mueller

McGill B

Ottawa D

106

Eli Young

Vassar A

Stony Brook

106

Virginia Brooks

Minnesota

Wisconsin B

106

Ayden Gates

Rose State

Harding

106

Maya Hunt

Michigan State C

Ohio State D

106