Battle of Midway - 2025 ACF Winter

Question

During this battle, a defeated rear admiral said “let us enjoy the beauty of the moon” while going down (10[1])with his ship. (10[3])The Chicago Tribune was almost prosecuted under the (-5[1])Espionage (10[1])Act (10[1])for Stanley Johnston’s (10[1])report on this battle, (10[1])where the Thach Weave debuted (10[1])with prior help (10[2])of “Butch” (10[1])O’Hare. (10[3])This (10[1])battle’s location (10[2])was (10[1])deciphered (-5[1])from (10[1])“AF” (10[9])through (10[1])breaking (10[4])the (10[2])JN-25 (10[12]-5[1])code. (10[8]-5[2])The (10[1])losing (10[1])side (10[1])of this battle (10[2])had (10[1])also attacked the Aleutian (10[1])Islands (10[8])as a diversion. (10[7]-5[1])In this (-5[1])battle, (10[4])bombers attacked (10[2])the (10[1])Akagi (10[3]-5[1])and (-5[1])Kaga (10[4])as they (10[2])rearmed (10[2])planes (10[1])for a second (10[1])strike. (10[1])All (10[1])four Japanese carriers in this battle (10[1])were (10[1])sunk in exchange (10[1]-5[1])for (10[2])the loss of the USS Yorktown. For 10 points, what battle (10[1])considered a turning point (10[1])in the (10[1])Pacific Theater was a June 1942 victory for US forces? ■END■ (10[8]0[1])

ANSWER: Battle of Midway

= Average correct buzz position

Summary


Northern California	Main	Y	5	100%	0%	0%	55.40
Southern California	Main	Y	5	100%	0%	0%	59.60
Eastern Canada	Main	Y	13	100%	0%	8%	73.54
Florida	Main	Y	6	100%	0%	17%	83.00
Great Lakes	Main	Y	7	100%	0%	0%	79.57
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	10	100%	0%	0%	73.90
Upper Mid-Atlantic (1)	Main	Y	11	100%	0%	0%	62.73
Upper Mid-Atlantic (2)	Main	Y	5	100%	0%	0%	80.40
Lower Midwest	Main	Y	4	100%	0%	0%	58.75
Upper Midwest	Main	Y	12	100%	0%	8%	55.83
North	Main	Y	2	100%	0%	0%	74.50
Northeast	Main	Y	11	100%	0%	27%	89.73
Northwest	Main	Y	4	100%	0%	50%	90.25
Southeast	Main	Y	8	100%	0%	0%	61.25
UK	Main	Y	10	90%	0%	20%	84.89
Upstate NY	Main	Y	3	100%	0%	0%	58.67
Upstate NY	Main	Y	1	100%	0%	0%	59.00

Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Buzz Position	Value
Arthur Zhang	Purdue B	Louisville B	18	10
Ethan Enochian	Purdue C	Notre Dame D	21	10
Nathaniel Godfrey	Toronto J	Toronto G	21	10
Jiping Fang	Illinois B	Notre Dame B	21	10
Dexter Hine	Simon Fraser	Washington A	29	-5
Kelvin Ni	NYU B	UMBC A	30	10
Mats Miller	Chicago B	Purdue A	31	10
Derek Li	Cornell-DII	Binghamton B	34	10
Nathan Zhao	Maryland C	VCU A	38	10
Ethan Bosita	Stanford A	Stanford B	43	10
Jackson Slaughter	Tennessee A	Virginia A	46	10
Felix Garrett Johnston	Huntsville A	Georgia Tech C	46	10
Cole Hartung	Georgetown A	Maryland A	48	10
Dillon George	Catholic University	Georgetown B	49	10
Aidan Ross	George Washington B	Johns Hopkins B	49	10
Cameron Ricketts	Warwick A	Oxford B	49	10
Aatreyo Bhattacharyya	Berkeley C	Berkeley D	50	10
Vikram Narasimhan	Stanford C	UCSC	52	10
Dennis Reppen	Imperial A	City St George's A	52	10
Frank Schuster	MSU A	OSU B	53	10
Alan Fan	Washington B	Alberta	54	-5
Josh Xu	UCLA B	UCSD What Hath God Wrought	55	10
Matthew Wang	British Columbia D	British Columbia A	56	10
Sriram Susarla	British Columbia C	British Columbia B	56	10
Terrence Han	UCLA D	UCLA C	56	10
Tyler Thurman	SIUE	WashU C	56	10
Akshar Goyal	Illinois A	Michigan A	56	10
Sam Kemeny	Brandeis Clemenceau	MIT A	56	10
Thomas Watkins	South Carolina A	Virginia Tech B	56	10
Zach Tseng	Georgia Tech B	Sewanee A	56	10
Darren Kellis	Vanderbilt B	Auburn B	56	10
Elliott Gomes	Dartmouth	Williams	57	10
Raymond Jiang	Illinois C	Indiana A	58	10
Tommy Donelon	Missouri B	Truman State	58	10
Franklin Wu	Toronto C	Guelph A	58	10
Tate Osborne	Auburn A	Vanderbilt A	58	10
Brigham Blundell	ESF	RIT B	59	10
Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt	NYU A	Johns Hopkins A	59	10
Alex Olson	UF D	UF B	60	10
Simon Zimmerman	OSU A	Pitt A	60	10
Adrian Li	Berkeley A	Berkeley B	60	10
Kerry Xu	UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms	USC	60	10
Nabhaan Farooqi	McGill B	Toronto I	60	10
June Yin	WashU A	William Woods	60	10
Orion Brey	Louisville A	Michigan C	60	10
James McCurley	Harvard	Brown C	60	10
Michael Sun	Brandeis Lloyd George	Tufts B	60	10
Kritanu Saha	Cornell-UG	Yale A	60	-5
Scott Sibley	UCI	UCLA A	60	10
Graham Troy	North Carolina A	Liberty B	60	10
William Groger	Princeton A	Columbia B	60	10
Andrew Amygdalos	CWRU A	OSU D	61	10
Aryan Desarapu	Michigan B	Chicago A	61	-5
Aiden Hart	Kentucky	Chicago C	61	10
Wyatt Curry	Missouri A	WashU B	61	10
Robert Chen	Rochester	Binghamton A	61	10
Stuart Chandler-Baas	Carleton	McMaster C	61	10
Platon Gorokhov	Toronto F	Toronto Metropolitan	61	10
Nicholas Ryan	Lehigh A	Columbia A	61	10
Jack Lewis	Bruin A	Alabama A	61	10
Aisling Skeet	Durham A	Southampton B	61	-5
Sam McNamee	Notre Dame A	UIC	62	10
Rahul Rao-Pothuraju	Rowan A	Vassar A	63	10
Stefan Vlad	Ottawa	Toronto A	64	10
Dmitri Anh-Minh Tran	UCSB	Claremont Pitzer	67	10
Arhith Dharanendra	Georgia Tech D	Georgia Tech A	67	10
Christophe Savoie	UF C	FIU	68	10
Suren Grigorian	Berkeley F	Berkeley E	72	10
Matthew Andersen	UF A	Melbourne A	73	10
Jonathan Sung	Virginia B	Clemson A	73	10
Thomas Glotfelty	Virginia Tech A	Liberty C	73	10
Matthew Amante	Notre Dame C	Chicago D	73	10
Aaron Marchand	Carleton	Minnesota A	73	10
Davin Sivertson	Alabama B	Mississippi State A	73	10
Ethan Burks	Huntsville B	UAB A	73	10
Teddy Fogel	Birmingham A	Cambridge B	73	10
Khumoyun Bakhtiyarov	Brandeis Orlando	BC A	76	10
Tobias Smerdon	Toronto K	McGill C	76	10
Arun Waran	Macalester B	Iowa State	76	10
Michael Zheng	Amherst A	MIT B	76	10
Will Zhang	Tufts A	Bowdoin B	76	-5
Amir Dolansky	Toronto H	Queen's A	76	10
Jeffery Austin	North Carolina B	North Carolina C	76	10
Kevin Herro	George Washington A	Notre Dame E	76	10
Lucas Guan	Brown B	Amherst B	78	-5
Peyton Legg	UCF B	USF	79	10
Nicholas Kwan	Western Ontario	McMaster B	79	10
Asher Lyons	Maryland D	George Mason A	79	10
Henry Wong Tok Shing	Cambridge C	Edinburgh A	79	10
Hanson Huynh	BU	Brown A	81	10
Aidan Roullet	RIT A	Syracuse	81	10
Angelo Pan	CWRU B	OSU C	82	10
Galen Mueller	McGill A	McMaster A	83	10
James Xiao	Toronto E	Guelph B	83	10
Danny Tran	Tennessee B	Roanoke	83	10
Henry Jameson	LSE A	Bristol B	83	-5
Nicholas Nguyen	UF E	FSU	84	-5
Aidan Bernardo	Melbourne B	UCF A	85	10
Asheton Wilbanks	Clemson B	Tusculum	85	10
Ben Hellman	Swarthmore A	Rutgers C	85	10
Kai Madgwick	Manchester A	Imperial C	85	10
Anirudh Bharadwaj	Penn A	George Mason B	87	10
Gus Vanskike	Maryland B	Johns Hopkins C	87	10
Jonathan Li	Penn B	George Mason C	88	10
Christian Sherrington	Southampton A	Durham B	88	10
Grant Koh	Michigan D	Indiana B	89	10
Zac Stapler	Pitt B	MSU B	92	10
Josh Schmidt	Liberty A	James Madison	93	10
Conner Khan	NC State	South Carolina B	94	10
Charlie Castleton	Sheffield C	Oxford A	100	10
Hassan Elshayeb	Waterloo	Queen's B	101	10
Kyle Chua	CWRU D	Kenyon A	104	10
Ethen Sun	Toronto D	Toronto B	104	-5
August Szpak	CWRU C	Kenyon B	105	10
Elliot Earley	Sheffield A	Cambridge D	105	10
Yaj Jhajhria	Washington A	Simon Fraser	116	10
William Houston	Chicago A	Michigan B	120	10
Ethan Erickson	BC B	Brandeis Wilson	122	10
Luc Vulliez	Amherst B	Brown B	133	10
Liam Markland	Alberta	Washington B	133	10
Juan Landaeta	FSU	UF E	133	10
Graham Lucas	Bowdoin B	Tufts A	133	10
William Orr	Yale A	Cornell-UG	133	10
Joey Sun	Toronto B	Toronto D	133	10
Jack Stuhlman	Lehigh B	Columbia C	133	10
Jake Wingfield	Bristol B	LSE A	133	0
Tevin Francis	Southampton B	Durham A	133	10

Northern California

Main

100%

55.40

Southern California

Main

100%

59.60

Eastern Canada

Main

100%

73.54

Florida

Main

100%

17%

83.00

Great Lakes

Main

100%

79.57

Lower Mid-Atlantic

Main

100%

73.90

Upper Mid-Atlantic (1)

Main

100%

62.73

Upper Mid-Atlantic (2)

Main

100%

80.40

Lower Midwest

Main

100%

58.75

Upper Midwest

Main

100%

55.83

North

Main

100%

74.50

Northeast

Main

100%

27%

89.73

Northwest

Main

100%

50%

90.25

Southeast

Main

100%

61.25

Main

90%

20%

84.89

Upstate NY

Main

100%

58.67

Upstate NY

Main

100%

59.00

Player

Team

Opponent

Buzz Position

Value

Arthur Zhang

Purdue B

Louisville B

Ethan Enochian

Purdue C

Notre Dame D

Nathaniel Godfrey

Toronto J

Toronto G

Jiping Fang

Illinois B

Notre Dame B

Dexter Hine

Simon Fraser

Washington A

-5

Kelvin Ni

NYU B

UMBC A

Mats Miller

Chicago B

Purdue A

Derek Li

Cornell-DII

Binghamton B

Nathan Zhao

Maryland C

VCU A

Ethan Bosita

Stanford A

Stanford B

Jackson Slaughter

Tennessee A

Virginia A

Felix Garrett Johnston

Huntsville A

Georgia Tech C

Cole Hartung

Georgetown A

Maryland A

Dillon George

Catholic University

Georgetown B

Aidan Ross

George Washington B

Johns Hopkins B

Cameron Ricketts

Warwick A

Oxford B

Aatreyo Bhattacharyya

Berkeley C

Berkeley D

Vikram Narasimhan

Stanford C

UCSC

Dennis Reppen

Imperial A

City St George's A

Frank Schuster

MSU A

OSU B

Alan Fan

Washington B

Alberta

-5

Josh Xu

UCLA B

UCSD What Hath God Wrought

Matthew Wang

British Columbia D

British Columbia A

Sriram Susarla

British Columbia C

British Columbia B

Terrence Han

UCLA D

UCLA C

Tyler Thurman

SIUE

WashU C

Akshar Goyal

Illinois A

Michigan A

Sam Kemeny

Brandeis Clemenceau

MIT A

Thomas Watkins

South Carolina A

Virginia Tech B

Zach Tseng

Georgia Tech B

Sewanee A

Darren Kellis

Vanderbilt B

Auburn B

Elliott Gomes

Dartmouth

Williams

Raymond Jiang

Illinois C

Indiana A

Tommy Donelon

Missouri B

Truman State

Franklin Wu

Toronto C

Guelph A

Tate Osborne

Auburn A

Vanderbilt A

Brigham Blundell

ESF

RIT B

Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt

NYU A

Johns Hopkins A

Alex Olson

UF D

UF B

Simon Zimmerman

OSU A

Pitt A

Adrian Li

Berkeley A

Berkeley B

Kerry Xu

UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms

USC

Nabhaan Farooqi

McGill B

Toronto I

June Yin

WashU A

William Woods

Orion Brey

Louisville A

Michigan C

James McCurley

Harvard

Brown C

Michael Sun

Brandeis Lloyd George

Tufts B

Kritanu Saha

Cornell-UG

Yale A

-5

Scott Sibley

UCI

UCLA A

Graham Troy

North Carolina A

Liberty B

William Groger

Princeton A

Columbia B

Andrew Amygdalos

CWRU A

OSU D

Aryan Desarapu

Michigan B

Chicago A

-5

Aiden Hart

Kentucky

Chicago C

Wyatt Curry

Missouri A

WashU B

Robert Chen

Rochester

Binghamton A

Stuart Chandler-Baas

Carleton

McMaster C

Platon Gorokhov

Toronto F

Toronto Metropolitan

Nicholas Ryan

Lehigh A

Columbia A

Jack Lewis

Bruin A

Alabama A

Aisling Skeet

Durham A

Southampton B

-5

Sam McNamee

Notre Dame A

UIC

Rahul Rao-Pothuraju

Rowan A

Vassar A

Stefan Vlad

Ottawa

Toronto A

Dmitri Anh-Minh Tran

UCSB

Claremont Pitzer

Arhith Dharanendra

Georgia Tech D

Georgia Tech A

Christophe Savoie

UF C

FIU

Suren Grigorian

Berkeley F

Berkeley E

Matthew Andersen

UF A

Melbourne A

Jonathan Sung

Virginia B

Clemson A

Thomas Glotfelty

Virginia Tech A

Liberty C

Matthew Amante

Notre Dame C

Chicago D

Aaron Marchand

Carleton

Minnesota A

Davin Sivertson

Alabama B

Mississippi State A

Ethan Burks

Huntsville B

UAB A

Teddy Fogel

Birmingham A

Cambridge B

Khumoyun Bakhtiyarov

Brandeis Orlando

BC A

Tobias Smerdon

Toronto K

McGill C

Arun Waran

Macalester B

Iowa State

Michael Zheng

Amherst A

MIT B

Will Zhang

Tufts A

Bowdoin B

-5

Amir Dolansky

Toronto H

Queen's A

Jeffery Austin

North Carolina B

North Carolina C

Kevin Herro

George Washington A

Notre Dame E

Lucas Guan

Brown B

Amherst B

-5

Peyton Legg

UCF B

USF

Nicholas Kwan

Western Ontario

McMaster B

Asher Lyons

Maryland D

George Mason A

Henry Wong Tok Shing

Cambridge C

Edinburgh A

Hanson Huynh

Brown A

Aidan Roullet

RIT A

Syracuse

Angelo Pan

CWRU B

OSU C

Galen Mueller

McGill A

McMaster A

James Xiao

Toronto E

Guelph B

Danny Tran

Tennessee B

Roanoke

Henry Jameson

LSE A

Bristol B

-5

Nicholas Nguyen

UF E

FSU

-5

Aidan Bernardo

Melbourne B

UCF A

Asheton Wilbanks

Clemson B

Tusculum

Ben Hellman

Swarthmore A

Rutgers C

Kai Madgwick

Manchester A

Imperial C

Anirudh Bharadwaj

Penn A

George Mason B

Gus Vanskike

Maryland B

Johns Hopkins C

Jonathan Li

Penn B

George Mason C

Christian Sherrington

Southampton A

Durham B

Grant Koh

Michigan D

Indiana B

Zac Stapler

Pitt B

MSU B

Josh Schmidt

Liberty A

James Madison

Conner Khan

NC State

South Carolina B

Charlie Castleton

Sheffield C

Oxford A

100

Hassan Elshayeb

Waterloo

Queen's B

101

Kyle Chua

CWRU D

Kenyon A

104

Ethen Sun

Toronto D

Toronto B

104

-5

August Szpak

CWRU C

Kenyon B

105

Elliot Earley

Sheffield A

Cambridge D

105

Yaj Jhajhria

Washington A

Simon Fraser

116

William Houston

Chicago A

Michigan B

120

Ethan Erickson

BC B

Brandeis Wilson

122

Luc Vulliez

Amherst B

Brown B

133

Liam Markland

Alberta

Washington B

133

Juan Landaeta

FSU

UF E

133

Graham Lucas

Bowdoin B

Tufts A

133

William Orr

Yale A

Cornell-UG

133

Joey Sun

Toronto B

Toronto D

133

Jack Stuhlman

Lehigh B

Columbia C

133

Jake Wingfield

Bristol B

LSE A

133

Tevin Francis

Southampton B

Durham A

133