Question

Description acceptable. A member of the Ohio State women’s swim team raised over $12,000 for this cause as she filmed herself using a StairMaster for 24 hours straight. The rival rabbis Yaakov Bleich and Moshe Reuven Azman each present themselves as the leading Jewish voice in favor of this secular cause. A man nicknamed Bohdi (“Bodie”) discussed his six months abroad aiding this cause with date partners on Netflix’s Love Is Blind DC. UNICEF gave a “Goodwill AmbassaDog” award to a Jack Russell terrier named Patron (“pah-TRONE”) who has (-5[1])become a mascot for this cause. (-5[1])The UNITED24 campaign takes donations for this cause, (10[1])whose pop music expression includes remixes of the band Boombox and Kalush Orchestra’s (10[1])contest-winning song (10[3])“Stefania” (10[3])(“STEH-fah-NEE-ah”). At the 2025 Oscars, (10[1])Daryl Hannah (-5[1])said the word “Slava” (10[2])as part (10[2])of a (10[2])slogan (10[1])supporting, (10[5])for 10 points, what war effort overseen by Volodymyr Zelenskyy? ■END■ (10[3])

ANSWER: pro-Ukraine [or national defense of Ukraine; or Ukrainian sovereignty; or Ukrainian resistance to Russian invasion and/or occupation; accept any answer indicating Ukraine’s side of the Russia-Ukraine war; accept Slava Ukraini; prompt on answers such as Russia-Ukraine War by asking “which side?”] (The swimmer is Olena Sadovska. “Stefania” was Ukraine’s entry in Eurovision 2022.)
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Summary

2025 ACF Nationals04/19/2025Y24100%0%13%125.58

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Bryce CruiseTexasMIT86-5
Brian HoffCornell BOhio State92-5
Charles HangWUSTL AStanford10010
Mattias EhatammWaterloo ARutgers11310
Conor ThompsonIowa StateJohns Hopkins11510
Tai BelkeBritish ColumbiaNYU11510
Benjamin McAvoy-BickfordNorth Carolina ANorthwestern11510
Noah ChinVirginia TechHarvard11610
Skand ParvatikarArizona StateWUSTL B11610
Tiffany ZhouFloridaWaterloo B11610
Gus VanskikeMarylandVirginia12010
Maude-Sophie LockmanOttawaPenn State122-5
Justin WytmarIllinois AColumbia A12610
Gavin MarkoffVanderbiltUCF12610
Gareth ThorlaksonToronto AChicago A12810
Vinu HariharUC Berkeley BYale12810
Nathaniel HullUC Berkeley AIndiana13010
Aidan RoulletRITWinona State13010
Marcus Forbes-GreenToronto CToronto B13110
Cormac BeirneLSEGeorgia State13210
Aryan DesarapuMichiganNorth Carolina B13210
Shardul RaoMinnesotaGeorgia Tech13210
Liam StarnesChicago BCornell A13210
Derek ChenColumbia BIllinois B13210
Shourjo GanguliOhio StateCornell B14310
Ani PerumallaPenn StateOttawa14310
Anurag SodhiMITTexas14310