A short story opens by describing the appearance and eating habits of three practitioners of this activity: a coward, a faded novelty, and a man hiding an illness. In a novel, when a man says that the other participants in this activity are his best friends, a woman flirtatiously reading his palm asks, “You kill your friends?” and he replies, “Always.” While simulating this activity, a dishwasher fatally stabs a waiter by accident in the story “The Capital of the World.” In a non-fiction book on this activity, an author introduced his “iceberg theory” of writing. A man skillfully performs this activity with a swollen face after Robert Cohn beats him up in a novel by that author, who profiled this activity in the book Death in the Afternoon. For 10 points, in The Sun Also Rises, Pedro Romero performs what activity in an arena in Pamplona? ■END■
| 2025 ACF Nationals | 04/19/2025 | Y | 24 | 100% | 0% | 58% | 131.67 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yash Mandavia | Illinois B | UCF | 93 | -5 |
| Kevin Wang | Georgia Tech | Iowa State | 95 | -5 |
| Rachel Fanous | Michigan | RIT | 95 | 10 |
| Jim Fan | North Carolina A | Rutgers | 95 | -5 |
| Richard Niu | Cornell A | Johns Hopkins | 97 | -5 |
| Adrian Wong | Ottawa | UC Berkeley B | 98 | 10 |
| Teigue Kelly | Penn State | LSE | 98 | -5 |
| Noah Chin | Virginia Tech | MIT | 99 | 10 |
| Cooper Roh | Columbia A | UC Berkeley A | 99 | -5 |
| Jisoo Yoo | Texas | Toronto B | 99 | 10 |
| Ned Tagtmeier | Chicago A | Illinois A | 100 | 10 |
| Joel Miles | Minnesota | Toronto C | 102 | -5 |
| Tim Morrison | Stanford | Waterloo A | 110 | -5 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State | Yale | 111 | -5 |
| Tony Chen | Toronto A | WUSTL A | 111 | -5 |
| Gavin Markoff | Vanderbilt | Virginia | 114 | -5 |
| Caleb Ott | Waterloo B | British Columbia | 114 | -5 |
| Roxanne Tang | Ohio State | Maryland | 115 | -5 |
| William Groger | Columbia B | Winona State | 115 | 10 |
| Eshan Pant | NYU | WUSTL B | 115 | 10 |
| Alvin Guo | Chicago B | Harvard | 119 | -5 |
| Jakob Myers | Indiana | Northwestern | 128 | 10 |
| Amogh Kulkarni | Georgia State | Florida | 128 | 10 |
| William Orr | Yale | Arizona State | 130 | 10 |
| Thomas Tibbetts | UCF | Illinois B | 144 | 10 |
| David Bass | Johns Hopkins | Cornell A | 145 | 10 |
| Michael Kearney | Harvard | Chicago B | 147 | 10 |
| Guy Indorante | Iowa State | Georgia Tech | 147 | 10 |
| Isaac Mammel | Maryland | Ohio State | 147 | 10 |
| Graham Troy | North Carolina B | Cornell B | 147 | 10 |
| Cormac Beirne | LSE | Penn State | 147 | 10 |
| Eve Fleisig | UC Berkeley A | Columbia A | 147 | 10 |
| Aiden Dartley | Rutgers | North Carolina A | 147 | 10 |
| Mattias Ehatamm | Waterloo A | Stanford | 147 | 10 |
| Neal Joshi | WUSTL A | Toronto A | 147 | 10 |
| Parth Jagtap | Toronto C | Minnesota | 147 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia | Vanderbilt | 147 | 10 |
| Tai Belke | British Columbia | Waterloo B | 147 | 10 |