Question

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” (-5[1])of writing. (10[1]-5[2])A man (-5[1])skillfully (10[1]-5[1])performs (10[2]-5[1])this (10[1])activity with (-5[1])a swollen face after Robert Cohn beats him (-5[1])up (-5[2])in a novel (-5[2])by (10[2]-5[1])that author, who profiled (-5[1])this activity in the book Death in the Afternoon. (10[2])For 10 (10[1])points, in The Sun Also Rises, Pedro Romero performs what activity in an arena (10[1])in (10[1])Pamplona? ■END■ (10[12])

ANSWER: bullfighting
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Summary

2025 ACF Nationals04/19/2025Y24100%0%58%131.67

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Yash MandaviaIllinois BUCF93-5
Kevin WangGeorgia TechIowa State95-5
Rachel FanousMichiganRIT9510
Jim FanNorth Carolina ARutgers95-5
Richard NiuCornell AJohns Hopkins97-5
Adrian WongOttawaUC Berkeley B9810
Teigue KellyPenn StateLSE98-5
Cooper RohColumbia AUC Berkeley A99-5
Jisoo YooTexasToronto B9910
Noah ChinVirginia TechMIT9910
Ned TagtmeierChicago AIllinois A10010
Joel MilesMinnesotaToronto C102-5
Tim MorrisonStanfordWaterloo A110-5
Tony ChenToronto AWUSTL A111-5
Bryan UgazArizona StateYale111-5
Caleb OttWaterloo BBritish Columbia114-5
Gavin MarkoffVanderbiltVirginia114-5
Eshan PantNYUWUSTL B11510
Roxanne TangOhio StateMaryland115-5
William GrogerColumbia BWinona State11510
Alvin GuoChicago BHarvard119-5
Amogh KulkarniGeorgia StateFlorida12810
Jakob MyersIndianaNorthwestern12810
William OrrYaleArizona State13010
Thomas TibbettsUCFIllinois B14410
David BassJohns HopkinsCornell A14510
Michael KearneyHarvardChicago B14710
Joseph ChambersVirginiaVanderbilt14710
Graham TroyNorth Carolina BCornell B14710
Eve FleisigUC Berkeley AColumbia A14710
Parth JagtapToronto CMinnesota14710
Aiden DartleyRutgersNorth Carolina A14710
Isaac MammelMarylandOhio State14710
Mattias EhatammWaterloo AStanford14710
Neal JoshiWUSTL AToronto A14710
Guy IndoranteIowa StateGeorgia Tech14710
Tai BelkeBritish ColumbiaWaterloo B14710
Cormac BeirneLSEPenn State14710