China - 2025 ACF Winter - Buzzpoints App

Question

A leader of this country names an index alternative to GDP (-5[1])based on electricity consumption, (-5[1])rail cargo, and bank lending. The New Development Bank is headquartered in this country, (-5[3])which was the last (10[1])in the [emphasize] original acronym of rising economic (10[3])powers (10[2]-5[2])coined by (10[1]-5[1])Jim (10[7]-5[10])O’Neill. (0[1]-5[1])A (-5[2])namesake (10[2]-5[3])“shock” on (10[2]-5[1])manufacturing jobs (10[2]-5[1])resulted from (-5[1])this (10[4])country joining the (10[4]-5[2])WTO (10[2])in (10[20])2001. (10[1])To (10[2])attract (10[2])foreign direct (10[2]-5[1])investment, this (10[2])country (10[1])opened four southern (10[1]-5[1])ports in (10[7])1979 as (10[5])economic (10[8]-5[1])“experiments.” This country has been accused of “debt trap (10[5])diplomacy” through (10[2])loans to (10[2])African (10[2])countries (10[1])as (10[1])a (10[1])part of (10[1])its (10[3])Belt and Road (10[3])Initiative. (10[1])For 10 (10[1])points, what (10[1])country’s (10[1])Special Economic Zones include (10[2])Shēnzhèn? (10[13])■END■

ANSWER: China [or People’s Republic of China; or Zhōngguó; or Zhōnghuá Rénmín Gònghéguó; accept China shock; reject “Republic of China”] (The acronym BRIC referred to Brazil, Russia, India, and China. The index is the Lǐ Kèqiáng index.)

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= Average correct buzz position

Summary


2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	04/19/2025	Y	4	100%	0%	25%	69.00
2025 ACF Nationals	2025-08-09	Y	14	100%	0%	29%	76.64
Florida	Main	Y	13	100%	0%	23%	71.54
Great Lakes	Main	Y	6	100%	0%	67%	88.00
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	7	100%	0%	0%	66.00
Midwest	Main	Y	10	100%	0%	30%	78.60
North	Main	Y	11	100%	0%	45%	72.64
California	Main	Y	5	100%	0%	20%	68.60
Overflow	Main	Y	4	100%	0%	25%	61.00
Pacific Northwest	Main	Y	12	100%	0%	17%	74.42
South Central	Main	Y	5	80%	0%	40%	52.00
Southeast	Main	Y	12	100%	0%	17%	66.08
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	8	100%	0%	25%	79.63
Northeast	Main	Y	5	100%	0%	20%	70.80
Canada	Main	Y	6	100%	0%	17%	67.00

Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Buzz Position	Value
Sumukh Murthy	UCSD Vices and Virtues	USC	10	-5
Aryan Pathak	UF C	UF A	14	-5
Ben Hellman	Swarthmore A	Rutgers B	28	-5
Jarrod Curl	Tulsa	Northwestern C	28	-5
Charlie Castleton	Sheffield C	Manchester A	28	-5
Evan Schleck	Georgetown A	VCU A	32	10
Raymond Jiang	Illinois C	Illinois A	40	10
Rajiv Pujara	Dartmouth	Harvard	40	10
Fahian Joy	Amherst B	Brown A	40	10
Vinu Harihar	Berkeley F	Stanford C	41	10
Ben Lanahan	Clemson A	Liberty A	41	-5
Raifton Bartling	Johns Hopkins C	George Washington B	41	-5
Jack Granahan	Brandeis Orlando	Brown B	41	10
Vivian Malouf	Berkeley A	Berkeley C	43	-5
Jake Meltzer	CWRU A	OSU C	43	10
Bailey Lacefield	Toronto I	Toronto H	44	10
James Xiao	Toronto E	Queen's B	44	10
Gabriel McMurren	Guelph A	Toronto D	44	-5
Ian Theysmeyer	Queen's A	McGill B	44	10
Juan Landaeta	FSU	UCF A	44	-5
Nicholas Nguyen	UF E	UF B	44	-5
Ryan Rosenberg	NYU A	George Mason B	44	-5
Thomas Thatcher	Truman State	William Woods	44	10
Sam Hewitt	WashU C	WashU D	44	-5
Carter Herron	Chicago B	Chicago A	44	10
Arun Waran	Macalester B	St. Thomas	44	-5
Puna Ekka	Minnesota A	Wisconsin	44	-5
Dylan Lewis	Nebraska	Minnesota B	44	10
John Cha	Tufts A	Yale A	44	-5
Anne Fjeld	Alberta B	Ohio	44	-5
Phillip Jordan	Imperial C	Southampton A	44	-5
Daniel Bloom	Edinburgh B	Bristol A	44	10
Alden Baker	St. Thomas	Macalester B	45	0
Carlos Gonzalez	Syracuse	Binghamton B	45	-5
Sam McNamee	Notre Dame A	Chicago C	46	-5
Joel Crossley	Manchester B	Warwick B	46	-5
Jonathan Koehler	UCLA C	UCLA A	47	10
Yihong Chen	Toronto C	Toronto B	47	-5
George Churchill	UMBC A	George Washington A	47	-5
Patrick Torre	Maryland A	Penn A	47	-5
Alex Smits	Wisconsin	Minnesota A	47	10
Abbott Sherwin	NC State	Tusculum	49	-5
Ian Parsons	Maryland D	Catholic University	49	10
Alex Hayes	Warwick A	Southampton B	49	10
Sri Lnu	Clemson B	Virginia Tech B	51	10
Isaac Studley	Carleton	Macalester A	51	10
Nathan Long	Imperial B	Cambridge C	51	-5
Alex Olson	UF D	ERAU B	53	-5
Alexander Nichols	UCF A	FSU	54	10
Oliver Rothnie	Durham B	Oxford A	54	10
Aidan Keenan	Rochester	ESF	54	10
Cade Reinberger	RIT B	RIT A	54	10
Cori Zhong	Waterloo	McMaster B	57	-5
Graham Troy	North Carolina A	Virginia A	57	10
Nathan Zhao	Maryland C	Johns Hopkins A	57	10
Reed Sexton	Michigan C	Illinois B	57	10
Anthony Xu	Amherst A	Brandeis Lloyd George	57	-5
Andrei Hui	Cambridge A	LSE B	57	10
Annika Larson	Claremont Scripps	UCSD What Hath God Wrought	58	10
Tosca Zhang	NYU B	George Mason A	58	10
Nathaniel Hull	Berkeley B	UCSC	59	10
Josh Xu	UCLA B	UCLA D	59	10
Winston Zuo	UCSB	UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms	59	10
Stefan Vlad	Ottawa	McGill A	59	10
Benjamin Chapman	Toronto A	McMaster A	59	10
Nathaniel Godfrey	Toronto J	Toronto Metropolitan	59	10
Andrew Harms	MSU A	CWRU C	59	10
Simon Zimmerman	OSU A	Pitt B	59	10
Wyatt Johnson	CWRU B	Pitt A	59	10
John McQueen	South Carolina B	South Carolina A	59	10
Sam Kung	North Carolina C	Roanoke	59	10
Joe O'Connor	George Mason B	NYU A	59	10
Gavin Yang	WashU B	SIUE	59	10
Justin Hawkins	Indiana A	Michigan A	59	10
Grant Koh	Michigan D	Purdue C	59	10
Jaehyun Park	BU	Bowdoin B	59	10
James Wadsley	McGill D	Northwestern A	59	10
Bryce Cruise	Texas A	Rose State	59	10
Albert Nyang	LSE A	Lancaster A	59	10
Derek Li	Cornell-DII	Binghamton A	59	10
Ryan Sun	Berkeley D	Stanford B	60	10
Theodore Lam	Toronto G	Toronto F	61	10
Lance Hulme	Bowdoin A	BC B	61	10
Noah McRedmond	Notre Dame E	Georgetown B	62	10
Shreyas Sinha	Texas B	Arizona State A	62	10
Miles Spieler	OSU D	Kenyon B	64	10
Jeffery Austin	North Carolina B	Tennessee B	64	-5
Chase Barrick	Lehigh A	Columbia C	64	10
Thomas Catuosco	Rutgers B	Swarthmore A	66	10
James Horsley	Iowa State	Minnesota C	66	10
Don Ung	WashU D	WashU C	67	10
Scott Sibley	UCI	Claremont Pitzer	70	10
Gus Vanskike	Maryland B	Penn B	70	-5
Stuart Chandler-Baas	Carleton	McGill C	72	10
Michael Xu	McMaster C	Toronto K	72	10
Gavin Littrell	ERAU A	FIU	72	10
Akif Ismail	Williams	Brown C	72	10
Richard Zhang	BC A	Brandeis Clemenceau	72	10
Ben Richards	Sheffield B	Cambridge B	72	10
Abdelrahman Elsisi	Sheffield A	Oxford B	72	10
Daniel Abrams	Rutgers C	Princeton A	74	10
John John Groger	WashU A	Missouri A	74	10
Matthew Amante	Notre Dame C	Purdue B	74	10
Yrwin Batan	MIT A	Cornell-UG	74	10
Elijah Pollock	UTD A	Northwestern B	74	10
Sebastian Hofmann	Berkeley E	Stanford A	75	10
William Edwards	Tennessee A	Liberty B	75	10
Jack Stuhlman	Lehigh B	Columbia B	75	10
Olin Bose	Columbia A	Vassar A	75	10
Evan Gniadek	Purdue A	Michigan B	75	10
Osbaldo Porrua	UIC	Kentucky	75	-5
Jonathan Schnipper	Brandeis Wilson	MIT B	75	10
Michael Sun	Brandeis Lloyd George	Amherst A	75	10
Isaac Meredith	Tufts B	Yale B	75	10
Mason Lambert	James Madison	Virginia Tech A	84	10
Taaj Rai	George Washington A	UMBC A	84	10
Raymond Ha	Chicago D	Louisville B	84	10
Adam Iqbal	Durham A	Cambridge D	84	10
Zhangir Satzhanov	Birmingham A	City St George's A	84	10
Hannah Worthen	Liberty C	Virginia B	86	10
Brody Sadler	UCO	Arizona State B	86	10
Marianthe Dresios	Johns Hopkins B	George Mason C	88	10
Anurag Shah	Indiana B	Notre Dame D	88	10
Jacob Evans	MSU B	CWRU D	89	10
Ethan White	Kenyon A	Pitt C	89	10
Peyton Legg	UCF B	Melbourne A	90	10
Rayhana Amjad	Edinburgh A	Bristol B	91	10
Zachary Leblang	Penn B	Maryland B	92	10
Yanis Vencatachellum	ERAU B	UF D	94	10
Yash Modi	Western Ontario	Guelph B	95	10
Beckett Gilmore	Louisville A	Notre Dame B	95	10
Grace Early	Iowa	UTD B	95	10
Caleb Hines	Liberty A	Clemson A	98	10
Jeremy Mau	Northwestern C	Tulsa	98	10
Kai Madgwick	Manchester A	Sheffield C	98	10
Joel Dicker	Southampton A	Imperial C	99	10
William Gillard	Warwick B	Manchester B	101	10
Noah Jaye	McMaster B	Waterloo	103	10
Young Fenimore Lee	Ohio	Alberta B	104	10
Aatreyo Bhattacharyya	Berkeley C	Berkeley A	108	10
Danny Tran	Tennessee B	North Carolina B	108	10
Isaac Millians	USC	UCSD Vices and Virtues	109	10
Athan Juritsch	Toronto D	Guelph A	109	10
Joey Sun	Toronto B	Toronto C	109	10
Jacob Ergueta	UF B	UF E	109	10
Matthew Andersen	UF A	UF C	109	10
Malachi Ledford	Tusculum	NC State	109	10
Srikar Venkatesan	Penn A	Maryland A	109	10
Ryan Gameng	George Washington B	Johns Hopkins C	109	10
Kaiden Webb	Chicago C	Notre Dame A	109	10
Nishad Joshi	Kentucky	UIC	109	10
Andrew Verdesca	Yale A	Tufts A	109	10
Oliver West	Cambridge C	Imperial B	109	10
Ariyan Miah	Binghamton B	Syracuse	109	10

2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley

04/19/2025

100%

25%

69.00

2025 ACF Nationals

2025-08-09

100%

29%

76.64

Florida

Main

100%

23%

71.54

Great Lakes

Main

100%

67%

88.00

Lower Mid-Atlantic

Main

100%

66.00

Midwest

Main

100%

30%

78.60

North

Main

100%

45%

72.64

California

Main

100%

20%

68.60

Overflow

Main

100%

25%

61.00

Pacific Northwest

Main

100%

17%

74.42

South Central

Main

80%

40%

52.00

Southeast

Main

100%

17%

66.08

Upper Mid-Atlantic

Main

100%

25%

79.63

Northeast

Main

100%

20%

70.80

Canada

Main

100%

17%

67.00

Player

Team

Opponent

Buzz Position

Value

Sumukh Murthy

UCSD Vices and Virtues

USC

-5

Aryan Pathak

UF C

UF A

-5

Ben Hellman

Swarthmore A

Rutgers B

-5

Jarrod Curl

Tulsa

Northwestern C

-5

Charlie Castleton

Sheffield C

Manchester A

-5

Evan Schleck

Georgetown A

VCU A

Raymond Jiang

Illinois C

Illinois A

Rajiv Pujara

Dartmouth

Harvard

Fahian Joy

Amherst B

Brown A

Vinu Harihar

Berkeley F

Stanford C

Ben Lanahan

Clemson A

Liberty A

-5

Raifton Bartling

Johns Hopkins C

George Washington B

-5

Jack Granahan

Brandeis Orlando

Brown B

Vivian Malouf

Berkeley A

Berkeley C

-5

Jake Meltzer

CWRU A

OSU C

Bailey Lacefield

Toronto I

Toronto H

James Xiao

Toronto E

Queen's B

Gabriel McMurren

Guelph A

Toronto D

-5

Ian Theysmeyer

Queen's A

McGill B

Juan Landaeta

FSU

UCF A

-5

Nicholas Nguyen

UF E

UF B

-5

Ryan Rosenberg

NYU A

George Mason B

-5

Thomas Thatcher

Truman State

William Woods

Sam Hewitt

WashU C

WashU D

-5

Carter Herron

Chicago B

Chicago A

Arun Waran

Macalester B

St. Thomas

-5

Puna Ekka

Minnesota A

Wisconsin

-5

Dylan Lewis

Nebraska

Minnesota B

John Cha

Tufts A

Yale A

-5

Anne Fjeld

Alberta B

Ohio

-5

Phillip Jordan

Imperial C

Southampton A

-5

Daniel Bloom

Edinburgh B

Bristol A

Alden Baker

St. Thomas

Macalester B

Carlos Gonzalez

Syracuse

Binghamton B

-5

Sam McNamee

Notre Dame A

Chicago C

-5

Joel Crossley

Manchester B

Warwick B

-5

Jonathan Koehler

UCLA C

UCLA A

Yihong Chen

Toronto C

Toronto B

-5

George Churchill

UMBC A

George Washington A

-5

Patrick Torre

Maryland A

Penn A

-5

Alex Smits

Wisconsin

Minnesota A

Abbott Sherwin

NC State

Tusculum

-5

Ian Parsons

Maryland D

Catholic University

Alex Hayes

Warwick A

Southampton B

Sri Lnu

Clemson B

Virginia Tech B

Isaac Studley

Carleton

Macalester A

Nathan Long

Imperial B

Cambridge C

-5

Alex Olson

UF D

ERAU B

-5

Alexander Nichols

UCF A

FSU

Oliver Rothnie

Durham B

Oxford A

Aidan Keenan

Rochester

ESF

Cade Reinberger

RIT B

RIT A

Cori Zhong

Waterloo

McMaster B

-5

Graham Troy

North Carolina A

Virginia A

Nathan Zhao

Maryland C

Johns Hopkins A

Reed Sexton

Michigan C

Illinois B

Anthony Xu

Amherst A

Brandeis Lloyd George

-5

Andrei Hui

Cambridge A

LSE B

Annika Larson

Claremont Scripps

UCSD What Hath God Wrought

Tosca Zhang

NYU B

George Mason A

Nathaniel Hull

Berkeley B

UCSC

Josh Xu

UCLA B

UCLA D

Winston Zuo

UCSB

UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms

Stefan Vlad

Ottawa

McGill A

Benjamin Chapman

Toronto A

McMaster A

Nathaniel Godfrey

Toronto J

Toronto Metropolitan

Andrew Harms

MSU A

CWRU C

Simon Zimmerman

OSU A

Pitt B

Wyatt Johnson

CWRU B

Pitt A

John McQueen

South Carolina B

South Carolina A

Sam Kung

North Carolina C

Roanoke

Joe O'Connor

George Mason B

NYU A

Gavin Yang

WashU B

SIUE

Justin Hawkins

Indiana A

Michigan A

Grant Koh

Michigan D

Purdue C

Jaehyun Park

Bowdoin B

James Wadsley

McGill D

Northwestern A

Bryce Cruise

Texas A

Rose State

Albert Nyang

LSE A

Lancaster A

Derek Li

Cornell-DII

Binghamton A

Ryan Sun

Berkeley D

Stanford B

Theodore Lam

Toronto G

Toronto F

Lance Hulme

Bowdoin A

BC B

Noah McRedmond

Notre Dame E

Georgetown B

Shreyas Sinha

Texas B

Arizona State A

Miles Spieler

OSU D

Kenyon B

Jeffery Austin

North Carolina B

Tennessee B

-5

Chase Barrick

Lehigh A

Columbia C

Thomas Catuosco

Rutgers B

Swarthmore A

James Horsley

Iowa State

Minnesota C

Don Ung

WashU D

WashU C

Scott Sibley

UCI

Claremont Pitzer

Gus Vanskike

Maryland B

Penn B

-5

Stuart Chandler-Baas

Carleton

McGill C

Michael Xu

McMaster C

Toronto K

Gavin Littrell

ERAU A

FIU

Akif Ismail

Williams

Brown C

Richard Zhang

BC A

Brandeis Clemenceau

Ben Richards

Sheffield B

Cambridge B

Abdelrahman Elsisi

Sheffield A

Oxford B

Daniel Abrams

Rutgers C

Princeton A

John John Groger

WashU A

Missouri A

Matthew Amante

Notre Dame C

Purdue B

Yrwin Batan

MIT A

Cornell-UG

Elijah Pollock

UTD A

Northwestern B

Sebastian Hofmann

Berkeley E

Stanford A

William Edwards

Tennessee A

Liberty B

Jack Stuhlman

Lehigh B

Columbia B

Olin Bose

Columbia A

Vassar A

Evan Gniadek

Purdue A

Michigan B

Osbaldo Porrua

UIC

Kentucky

-5

Jonathan Schnipper

Brandeis Wilson

MIT B

Michael Sun

Brandeis Lloyd George

Amherst A

Isaac Meredith

Tufts B

Yale B

Mason Lambert

James Madison

Virginia Tech A

Taaj Rai

George Washington A

UMBC A

Raymond Ha

Chicago D

Louisville B

Adam Iqbal

Durham A

Cambridge D

Zhangir Satzhanov

Birmingham A

City St George's A

Hannah Worthen

Liberty C

Virginia B

Brody Sadler

UCO

Arizona State B

Marianthe Dresios

Johns Hopkins B

George Mason C

Anurag Shah

Indiana B

Notre Dame D

Jacob Evans

MSU B

CWRU D

Ethan White

Kenyon A

Pitt C

Peyton Legg

UCF B

Melbourne A

Rayhana Amjad

Edinburgh A

Bristol B

Zachary Leblang

Penn B

Maryland B

Yanis Vencatachellum

ERAU B

UF D

Yash Modi

Western Ontario

Guelph B

Beckett Gilmore

Louisville A

Notre Dame B

Grace Early

Iowa

UTD B

Caleb Hines

Liberty A

Clemson A

Jeremy Mau

Northwestern C

Tulsa

Kai Madgwick

Manchester A

Sheffield C

Joel Dicker

Southampton A

Imperial C

William Gillard

Warwick B

Manchester B

101

Noah Jaye

McMaster B

Waterloo

103

Young Fenimore Lee

Ohio

Alberta B

104

Aatreyo Bhattacharyya

Berkeley C

Berkeley A

108

Danny Tran

Tennessee B

North Carolina B

108

Isaac Millians

USC

UCSD Vices and Virtues

109

Athan Juritsch

Toronto D

Guelph A

109

Joey Sun

Toronto B

Toronto C

109

Jacob Ergueta

UF B

UF E

109

Matthew Andersen

UF A

UF C

109

Malachi Ledford

Tusculum

NC State

109

Srikar Venkatesan

Penn A

Maryland A

109

Ryan Gameng

George Washington B

Johns Hopkins C

109

Kaiden Webb

Chicago C

Notre Dame A

109

Nishad Joshi

Kentucky

UIC

109

Andrew Verdesca

Yale A

Tufts A

109

Oliver West

Cambridge C

Imperial B

109

Ariyan Miah

Binghamton B

Syracuse

109