Kristi Noem - 2025 ACF Winter

Question

A drug awareness campaign led by this person was called “Meth. (10[1])We’re on it.” (10[6])After (10[1])claiming Native American (10[1])leaders (10[2])colluded with drug cartels, this politician (10[2])was banned (10[1])from all (10[1])of her state’s (10[2])Indian (10[2])reservations. (10[12])When trying (10[2])to ask (10[2])this (10[1])politician (10[1])a question, (10[5])California Senator (10[1])Alex (10[1])Padilla (10[5])was forced (10[1])to the ground (10[2])and (10[1])handcuffed. (10[8]-5[1])To avoid (10[1])violating (-5[1])the Hatch Act, (10[1])airports have (-5[1])refused (10[2])to play (10[2])a video (10[2])featuring (10[4])this (10[3])politician (10[2]-5[1])blaming Democrats (10[1])for (10[1])a government (10[1])shutdown. (10[4]-5[1])One of this (-5[1])woman’s first acts of office (10[1])was to (10[1]-5[1])rescind the temporary protected status for Venezuelan refugees. (10[3]-5[1])In her autobiography No Going Back, (10[3]-5[1])this politician recounted how she shot (10[1])her (10[1])“untrainable” dog Cricket. For (10[1])10 points, what former governor of South Dakota nicknamed “ICE Barbie” is the current Secretary of Homeland Security? (10[2])■END■ (10[3]0[2])

ANSWER: Kristi Noem [or Kristi Lynn Arnold Noem; or Kristi Lynn Arnold]

= Average correct buzz position

Summary


Northern California	Main	Y	5	80%	0%	40%	58.75
Southern California	Main	Y	5	100%	0%	20%	62.80
Eastern Canada	Main	Y	12	100%	0%	0%	67.33
Florida	Main	Y	5	100%	0%	40%	90.20
Great Lakes	Main	Y	7	100%	0%	14%	52.14
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	8	100%	0%	0%	47.13
Upper Mid-Atlantic (1)	Main	Y	10	100%	0%	0%	37.10
Upper Mid-Atlantic (2)	Main	Y	5	100%	0%	0%	35.40
Lower Midwest	Main	Y	4	100%	0%	0%	41.50
Upper Midwest	Main	Y	10	90%	0%	20%	50.44
North	Main	Y	5	100%	0%	0%	28.20
Northeast	Main	Y	1	100%	0%	0%	38.00
Northwest	Main	Y	4	100%	0%	0%	66.25
South Central	Main	Y	8	100%	0%	0%	45.88
Southeast	Main	Y	8	100%	0%	0%	60.63
UK	Main	Y	3	67%	0%	33%	62.50
Upstate NY	Main	Y	4	100%	0%	0%	71.25

Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Buzz Position	Value
Alexander Wong	Rutgers B	Columbia A	10	10
Ishan Ramesh	Illinois C	Notre Dame A	13	10
Stefan Vlad	Ottawa	Guelph A	13	10
Noah McRedmond	Notre Dame E	Maryland C	13	10
Asher Lyons	Maryland D	NYU A	13	10
Evan Schleck	Georgetown A	UMBC A	13	10
Ethan Buermann	Huntsville B	Auburn B	13	10
Will Hollister	Lehigh A	Lehigh B	14	10
Vivian Adolph	North Carolina C	Clemson A	17	10
Alden Baker	St. Thomas	Minnesota A	18	10
Ryan Hppel	SIUE	WashU A	18	10
Annika Larson	Claremont Scripps	USC	24	10
Meggy Mani	Georgetown B	NYU B	24	10
Robert Szot	Nebraska	Macalester B	26	10
Vikram Narasimhan	Stanford C	Berkeley A	28	10
James Horsley	Iowa State	Minnesota B	31	10
Benjamin Chapman	Toronto A	McGill A	31	10
Carter Herron	Chicago B	Indiana A	32	10
Anne Fjeld	Alberta B	Tulsa	32	10
Simon Zimmerman	OSU A	MSU A	33	10
Jack Casey	Illinois B	Chicago A	33	10
Aneesh Shrotriya	Purdue B	Chicago D	33	10
Simon Bennett	Macalester A	Minnesota C	33	10
Alex Smits	Wisconsin	Carleton	33	10
Sean Yang	Waterloo	McMaster C	33	10
Matthew Bucek	George Mason A	Maryland A	33	10
William Groger	Princeton A	Vassar A	33	10
Braden Booth	Missouri A	Truman State	33	10
Jackson Slaughter	Tennessee A	North Carolina A	33	10
Luke Houtz	Arizona State B	McGill D	33	10
Agnijo Banerjee	Cambridge A	Bristol A	33	10
Abby Smith	Berkeley B	Berkeley D	35	10
Keerthana Krishnan	Texas B	Northwestern B	35	10
Andrew Amygdalos	CWRU A	Kenyon A	37	10
Sharath Narayan	Northwestern A	UCO	37	10
Lance Hulme	Bowdoin A	Yale B	38	10
Brielle Rach	Iowa	Texas A	39	10
Prahalad Rao	OSU B	CWRU D	41	10
Andrew McKenzie	OSU D	MSU B	41	10
Yaj Jhajhria	Washington A	Washington B	41	10
Akshansh Chauhan	UTD A	Arizona State A	41	10
Max Averbach	Northwestern C	Ohio	41	10
Joseph Chambers	Virginia A	Virginia Tech B	43	10
Emily Snider	Liberty B	Tusculum	44	10
Swapnil Garg	Berkeley C	Stanford A	45	10
Scott Sibley	UCI	UCSB	45	10
Zachary Leblang	Penn B	VCU A	45	10
Emilie Moore	RIT A	Cornell-DII	45	10
Blake Enwiller	Vanderbilt A	Alabama B	45	10
Tate Osborne	Auburn A	Sewanee A	47	10
Grant Koh	Michigan D	Purdue A	50	10
Gus Vanskike	Maryland B	George Washington B	50	10
Sumukh Murthy	UCSD Vices and Virtues	UCSD What Hath God Wrought	51	10
Ryan Fang	Stanford B	Berkeley F	52	-5
Jacob Ergueta	UF B	UCF A	52	10
Safiya Hasan	Missouri B	William Woods	52	10
Adam Hermann	Notre Dame B	Michigan C	52	10
David Thomas	Purdue C	UIC	52	10
James Xiao	Toronto E	Toronto J	52	10
Gabriel Dodds	Liberty C	Tennessee B	52	10
Joe O'Connor	George Mason B	Johns Hopkins C	52	10
Thomas Watkins	South Carolina A	Clemson B	52	10
Dhruvi Shah	Columbia C	Rutgers C	54	10
Ben Herbst	Notre Dame C	Illinois A	55	-5
Kieran Freed	Rochester	Binghamton B	58	10
Thomas Wu	Berkeley E	UCSC	60	-5
Todd Maslyk	Michigan A	Louisville A	61	10
Elias Ziyadeh	Penn A	George Mason C	61	10
Joey Sun	Toronto B	Toronto Metropolitan	63	10
Theodor Martin	WashU D	WashU B	63	10
Jeffery Austin	North Carolina B	Roanoke	65	10
Ryan Zhang	British Columbia C	British Columbia D	65	10
August Szpak	CWRU C	Pitt B	66	10
Aarav Kakad	UCLA C	UCLA B	66	10
Ben Hellman	Swarthmore A	Rowan A	66	10
S. A. Shenoy	Georgia Tech B	Huntsville A	66	10
Justin Qian	British Columbia A	British Columbia B	67	10
Andrew Massaro	Catholic University	Johns Hopkins B	67	10
Alex Thomas	Georgia Tech C	Mississippi State A	67	10
Aditya Patnaik	OSU C	Pitt C	68	-5
Sarah Khan	Queen's B	Toronto G	68	10
Darren Kellis	Vanderbilt B	Alabama A	68	10
Jeevan Iyadurai	UF E	ERAU B	70	10
Charlie Weaver	Virginia Tech A	Virginia B	71	10
Travis Johnson	Pitt A	Kenyon B	73	10
Niru Shakya	Melbourne A	USF	74	10
Ella Mankowski	Pitt C	OSU C	74	10
Kaiden Webb	Chicago C	Indiana B	74	-5
Yash Modi	Western Ontario	Toronto K	74	10
Kapil Nathan	UAB A	Georgia Tech D	74	10
Matthew Andersen	UF A	ERAU A	77	-5
Uday Bhardwaj	McGill B	Toronto H	82	10
Aryan Pathak	UF C	UCF B	84	-5
Gregory Stone	ESF	Syracuse	84	10
Liam Markland	Alberta	Simon Fraser	92	10
Shaynee Ruffle	Toronto I	Toronto F	92	10
Shlok Dev	LSE B	Warwick B	92	-5
Ethan Lehane	Manchester B	Edinburgh B	92	10
March Delfin	UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms	Claremont Pitzer	98	-5
Yusuf Baig	McMaster A	McMaster B	98	10
Nameer Qadir	Toronto D	Toronto C	98	10
Peter Smith	Binghamton A	RIT B	98	10
Ian Theysmeyer	Queen's A	Guelph B	104	10
Jack Lewis	Bruin A	Georgia Tech A	105	10
Amiya Zope	UTD B	Rose State	109	10
Mia Liu	Berkeley F	Stanford B	127	10
AnnaMaria Donnelly	UCF B	UF C	127	10
Gavin Littrell	ERAU A	UF A	128	10
Akshar Goyal	Illinois A	Notre Dame C	128	0
Nermeen Rahman	Indiana B	Chicago C	128	10
Jackson Crickard	Claremont Pitzer	UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms	128	10
William Gillard	Warwick B	LSE B	128	0

Northern California

Main

80%

40%

58.75

Southern California

Main

100%

20%

62.80

Eastern Canada

Main

100%

67.33

Florida

Main

100%

40%

90.20

Great Lakes

Main

100%

14%

52.14

Lower Mid-Atlantic

Main

100%

47.13

Upper Mid-Atlantic (1)

Main

100%

37.10

Upper Mid-Atlantic (2)

Main

100%

35.40

Lower Midwest

Main

100%

41.50

Upper Midwest

Main

90%

20%

50.44

North

Main

100%

28.20

Northeast

Main

100%

38.00

Northwest

Main

100%

66.25

South Central

Main

100%

45.88

Southeast

Main

100%

60.63

Main

67%

33%

62.50

Upstate NY

Main

100%

71.25

Player

Team

Opponent

Buzz Position

Value

Alexander Wong

Rutgers B

Columbia A

Ishan Ramesh

Illinois C

Notre Dame A

Stefan Vlad

Ottawa

Guelph A

Noah McRedmond

Notre Dame E

Maryland C

Asher Lyons

Maryland D

NYU A

Evan Schleck

Georgetown A

UMBC A

Ethan Buermann

Huntsville B

Auburn B

Will Hollister

Lehigh A

Lehigh B

Vivian Adolph

North Carolina C

Clemson A

Alden Baker

St. Thomas

Minnesota A

Ryan Hppel

SIUE

WashU A

Annika Larson

Claremont Scripps

USC

Meggy Mani

Georgetown B

NYU B

Robert Szot

Nebraska

Macalester B

Vikram Narasimhan

Stanford C

Berkeley A

James Horsley

Iowa State

Minnesota B

Benjamin Chapman

Toronto A

McGill A

Carter Herron

Chicago B

Indiana A

Anne Fjeld

Alberta B

Tulsa

Simon Zimmerman

OSU A

MSU A

Jack Casey

Illinois B

Chicago A

Aneesh Shrotriya

Purdue B

Chicago D

Simon Bennett

Macalester A

Minnesota C

Alex Smits

Wisconsin

Carleton

Sean Yang

Waterloo

McMaster C

Matthew Bucek

George Mason A

Maryland A

William Groger

Princeton A

Vassar A

Braden Booth

Missouri A

Truman State

Jackson Slaughter

Tennessee A

North Carolina A

Luke Houtz

Arizona State B

McGill D

Agnijo Banerjee

Cambridge A

Bristol A

Abby Smith

Berkeley B

Berkeley D

Keerthana Krishnan

Texas B

Northwestern B

Andrew Amygdalos

CWRU A

Kenyon A

Sharath Narayan

Northwestern A

UCO

Lance Hulme

Bowdoin A

Yale B

Brielle Rach

Iowa

Texas A

Prahalad Rao

OSU B

CWRU D

Andrew McKenzie

OSU D

MSU B

Yaj Jhajhria

Washington A

Washington B

Akshansh Chauhan

UTD A

Arizona State A

Max Averbach

Northwestern C

Ohio

Joseph Chambers

Virginia A

Virginia Tech B

Emily Snider

Liberty B

Tusculum

Swapnil Garg

Berkeley C

Stanford A

Scott Sibley

UCI

UCSB

Zachary Leblang

Penn B

VCU A

Emilie Moore

RIT A

Cornell-DII

Blake Enwiller

Vanderbilt A

Alabama B

Tate Osborne

Auburn A

Sewanee A

Grant Koh

Michigan D

Purdue A

Gus Vanskike

Maryland B

George Washington B

Sumukh Murthy

UCSD Vices and Virtues

UCSD What Hath God Wrought

Ryan Fang

Stanford B

Berkeley F

-5

Jacob Ergueta

UF B

UCF A

Safiya Hasan

Missouri B

William Woods

Adam Hermann

Notre Dame B

Michigan C

David Thomas

Purdue C

UIC

James Xiao

Toronto E

Toronto J

Gabriel Dodds

Liberty C

Tennessee B

Joe O'Connor

George Mason B

Johns Hopkins C

Thomas Watkins

South Carolina A

Clemson B

Dhruvi Shah

Columbia C

Rutgers C

Ben Herbst

Notre Dame C

Illinois A

-5

Kieran Freed

Rochester

Binghamton B

Thomas Wu

Berkeley E

UCSC

-5

Todd Maslyk

Michigan A

Louisville A

Elias Ziyadeh

Penn A

George Mason C

Joey Sun

Toronto B

Toronto Metropolitan

Theodor Martin

WashU D

WashU B

Jeffery Austin

North Carolina B

Roanoke

Ryan Zhang

British Columbia C

British Columbia D

August Szpak

CWRU C

Pitt B

Aarav Kakad

UCLA C

UCLA B

Ben Hellman

Swarthmore A

Rowan A

S. A. Shenoy

Georgia Tech B

Huntsville A

Justin Qian

British Columbia A

British Columbia B

Andrew Massaro

Catholic University

Johns Hopkins B

Alex Thomas

Georgia Tech C

Mississippi State A

Aditya Patnaik

OSU C

Pitt C

-5

Sarah Khan

Queen's B

Toronto G

Darren Kellis

Vanderbilt B

Alabama A

Jeevan Iyadurai

UF E

ERAU B

Charlie Weaver

Virginia Tech A

Virginia B

Travis Johnson

Pitt A

Kenyon B

Niru Shakya

Melbourne A

USF

Ella Mankowski

Pitt C

OSU C

Kaiden Webb

Chicago C

Indiana B

-5

Yash Modi

Western Ontario

Toronto K

Kapil Nathan

UAB A

Georgia Tech D

Matthew Andersen

UF A

ERAU A

-5

Uday Bhardwaj

McGill B

Toronto H

Aryan Pathak

UF C

UCF B

-5

Gregory Stone

ESF

Syracuse

Liam Markland

Alberta

Simon Fraser

Shaynee Ruffle

Toronto I

Toronto F

Shlok Dev

LSE B

Warwick B

-5

Ethan Lehane

Manchester B

Edinburgh B

March Delfin

UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms

Claremont Pitzer

-5

Yusuf Baig

McMaster A

McMaster B

Nameer Qadir

Toronto D

Toronto C

Peter Smith

Binghamton A

RIT B

Ian Theysmeyer

Queen's A

Guelph B

104

Jack Lewis

Bruin A

Georgia Tech A

105

Amiya Zope

UTD B

Rose State

109

Mia Liu

Berkeley F

Stanford B

127

AnnaMaria Donnelly

UCF B

UF C

127

Gavin Littrell

ERAU A

UF A

128

Akshar Goyal

Illinois A

Notre Dame C

128

Nermeen Rahman

Indiana B

Chicago C

128

Jackson Crickard

Claremont Pitzer

UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms

128

William Gillard

Warwick B

LSE B

128