This activity provides an alternate name for Cindy Sherman’s Untitled Film Still #48, in which a woman in a plaid skirt stands facing away from the viewer next to her suitcase. John Maynard Smith referenced this activity for the name of a genetic effect in which an allele increases in frequency due to a linked beneficial allele. Dutch liftplaats signs mark places for this activity, which is similar to the D.C. area’s “slug lines.” In 2013, a Canadian robot that did this activity across Canada was destroyed in Philadelphia. In a book titled partly for this activity, Vogons destroy Earth right after the protagonist is saved by the towel-carrying Ford Prefect. For 10 points, extending one’s thumb towards the road is a gesture for what activity that inspired a series of “Guides” by Douglas Adams? ■END■
| 2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 04/19/2025 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 95.25 |
| 2025 ACF Nationals | 2025-08-09 | Y | 11 | 100% | 0% | 18% | 97.45 |
| Great Lakes | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 93.17 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 14% | 90.57 |
| Midwest | Main | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 40% | 102.10 |
| North | Main | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 87.30 |
| Northeast | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 82.40 |
| Pacific Northwest | Main | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 22% | 91.22 |
| California | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 85.20 |
| South Central | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 84.00 |
| Southeast | Main | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 86.92 |
| UK | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 84.75 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 79.75 |
| Upstate NY | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 93.00 |
| Pacific Northwest | Main | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 88.00 |
| Canada | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 90.33 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State A | Northwestern B | 31 | 10 |
| William Orr | Yale A | Brandeis Clemenceau | 39 | 10 |
| Ryan Rosenberg | NYU A | Catholic University | 48 | -5 |
| Sharath Narayan | Northwestern A | Arizona State B | 50 | 10 |
| David Bass | Johns Hopkins A | Notre Dame E | 55 | 10 |
| Nathan Sheffield | MIT A | Brown B | 56 | -5 |
| Fish Tsai | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | Claremont Scripps | 57 | 10 |
| Jacob Goodson | OSU B | MSU B | 58 | -5 |
| Malachi Ledford | Tusculum | South Carolina A | 67 | -5 |
| Ted Warner | Bristol A | LSE B | 70 | 10 |
| Zachary Joseph | Columbia A | Princeton A | 72 | 10 |
| Jaiden Li | UCSD Vices and Virtues | UCLA B | 73 | -5 |
| Erin Williams | James Madison | North Carolina B | 73 | -5 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE A | Cambridge C | 73 | -5 |
| James Ferrabee | McGill D | Texas A | 80 | 10 |
| Danny Han | Stanford C | Berkeley E | 82 | 10 |
| Aidan Bernardo | Melbourne B | UF E | 82 | 10 |
| Elise Economou | Pitt B | Pitt C | 82 | 10 |
| Asher Lyons | Maryland D | Penn B | 82 | 10 |
| Joshua Koch | Michigan A | Chicago D | 82 | 10 |
| Nihal Jacob | Kentucky | Notre Dame D | 82 | -5 |
| Yash Tiwari | Minnesota A | Macalester A | 82 | 10 |
| John Cha | Tufts A | Amherst B | 82 | 10 |
| Tai Belke | British Columbia A | Washington B | 82 | 10 |
| Kapil Nathan | UAB A | Auburn B | 82 | 10 |
| Dennis Reppen | Imperial A | Cambridge B | 82 | 10 |
| Ethan Bosita | Stanford A | Berkeley B | 83 | 10 |
| Gary Lin | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | UCLA C | 83 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | NC State | 83 | 10 |
| Rose Phipps | George Mason B | Georgetown A | 83 | 10 |
| Jacob Chambers | Iowa State | Macalester B | 83 | 10 |
| Connor King | St. Thomas | Nebraska | 83 | 10 |
| Russell Nip | British Columbia D | Washington A | 83 | 10 |
| Tianyu Xu | Georgia Tech A | Alabama A | 83 | 10 |
| Ethan White | Kenyon A | CWRU C | 84 | 10 |
| Jake Meltzer | CWRU A | MSU A | 84 | 10 |
| Vivian Adolph | North Carolina C | Liberty C | 84 | 10 |
| Jun Chen | George Mason C | Maryland A | 84 | -5 |
| Ryan Gameng | George Washington B | NYU B | 84 | 10 |
| Rahul Rao-Pothuraju | Rowan A | Lehigh B | 84 | 10 |
| Ishan Joshi | Rutgers B | Columbia B | 84 | 10 |
| Peter Ballas | Michigan D | Chicago A | 84 | 10 |
| Jack Granahan | Brandeis Orlando | BU | 84 | 10 |
| Davin Sivertson | Alabama B | Georgia Tech C | 84 | 10 |
| Eloise Wood | Imperial B | Edinburgh A | 84 | 10 |
| Danny Cutbill | RIT A | Rochester | 84 | -5 |
| Suren Grigorian | Berkeley F | Berkeley C | 85 | 10 |
| Katherine Mack | UCI | UCLA D | 85 | 10 |
| Anirudh Bharadwaj | Penn A | Maryland B | 85 | 10 |
| Ben Spirtas | Maryland C | Georgetown B | 85 | 10 |
| Eugene Kim | Purdue C | Indiana A | 85 | 10 |
| Nolan Jones | Purdue A | Illinois B | 85 | 10 |
| Abigail Zimmerman | Iowa | Rose State | 85 | 10 |
| Isaac Millians | USC | Claremont Pitzer | 86 | 10 |
| Taylor Salazar | Roanoke | Virginia B | 86 | 10 |
| Owen Steele | Swarthmore A | Columbia C | 86 | 10 |
| Alex Mayernick | Lehigh A | Vassar A | 86 | 10 |
| Isaac Studley | Carleton | Minnesota C | 86 | 10 |
| Henry L'Heureux | Minnesota B | Wisconsin | 86 | 10 |
| Jacob Peitz | BC B | Brandeis Lloyd George | 86 | 10 |
| Andrew Pham | MIT B | Dartmouth | 86 | -5 |
| Kevin Wang | British Columbia C | Simon Fraser | 86 | 10 |
| Shreyas Sinha | Texas B | Northwestern C | 86 | -5 |
| Elliot Cosnett | Oxford A | Imperial C | 86 | 10 |
| Alec Csukai | Manchester B | Cambridge A | 86 | -5 |
| Lainey Pierce | ESF | Cornell-DII | 86 | 10 |
| Asheton Wilbanks | Clemson B | Tennessee A | 87 | -5 |
| James Norris | Huntsville B | Bruin A | 87 | 10 |
| Ben Tibbles | Sewanee A | Mississippi State A | 87 | 10 |
| Vivian Malouf | Berkeley A | Berkeley D | 88 | 10 |
| Derek Kuldinow | Stanford B | UCSC | 88 | 10 |
| Kathleen Perez | ERAU B | UF B | 88 | 10 |
| Ryan Gomes | Melbourne A | FIU | 88 | 10 |
| Matthew Andersen | UF A | USF | 88 | 10 |
| Yishak Kelkay | ERAU A | UF C | 88 | 10 |
| Emily Kadolph | Virginia Tech A | Clemson A | 88 | 10 |
| Alina Moore | Tennessee B | Liberty A | 88 | 10 |
| Benny Shtutman | South Carolina B | North Carolina A | 88 | -5 |
| Fuller Wray | Virginia Tech B | Liberty B | 88 | 10 |
| Dominik Marshall | Catholic University | NYU A | 88 | 10 |
| Max Bendsen | VCU A | UMBC A | 88 | 10 |
| Taaj Rai | George Washington A | Johns Hopkins C | 88 | 10 |
| Carter Pisocky | Michigan B | Louisville B | 88 | 10 |
| Akshar Goyal | Illinois A | Indiana B | 88 | 10 |
| Sam McNamee | Notre Dame A | Purdue B | 88 | -5 |
| Jacob Graham | Chicago C | Notre Dame C | 88 | 10 |
| Adrian Dooley | Notre Dame B | UIC | 88 | 10 |
| Andres Cordoba | Yale B | Harvard | 88 | 10 |
| Anthony Xu | Amherst A | Brown C | 88 | 10 |
| Ethan Young | Williams | Bowdoin A | 88 | 10 |
| Neal Frankenberg | Brown A | BC A | 88 | -5 |
| Christopher Dech | Brandeis Wilson | Tufts B | 88 | 10 |
| Liam Markland | Alberta | British Columbia B | 88 | 10 |
| Young Fenimore Lee | Ohio | Tulsa | 88 | 10 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta B | UTD A | 88 | 10 |
| Brayden Zhang | Vanderbilt B | Georgia Tech D | 88 | 10 |
| Gavin Markoff | Vanderbilt A | Huntsville A | 88 | -5 |
| CT Tang | Sheffield B | Birmingham A | 88 | 10 |
| Odysseas Gabrielatos | Warwick B | Edinburgh B | 88 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester A | Southampton A | 88 | 10 |
| Daniel Griffaton | Syracuse | Binghamton A | 88 | 10 |
| Quinn Vaughen | RIT B | Binghamton B | 88 | -5 |
| Shalin Zerbe | Binghamton B | RIT B | 88 | 10 |
| Tiffany Zhou | OSU C | OSU A | 91 | 10 |
| Riley Roessler | Bowdoin B | Cornell-UG | 91 | 10 |
| Amiya Zope | UTD B | UCO | 91 | 10 |
| Kara Braun | MSU B | OSU B | 92 | 10 |
| Anthony Yin | CWRU B | OSU D | 93 | 10 |
| Jack Meyers | Brown B | MIT A | 93 | 10 |
| Winston Zuo | UCSB | UCLA A | 96 | 10 |
| Shining Sun | BC A | Brown A | 97 | 10 |
| Henry Bylinowski | Auburn A | Georgia Tech B | 98 | 10 |
| Noah Fine | North Carolina A | South Carolina B | 99 | 10 |
| Aneesh Shrotriya | Purdue B | Notre Dame A | 99 | 10 |
| Kyle Chua | CWRU D | Kenyon B | 108 | 10 |
| Annabelle Brett | Sheffield C | Durham B | 111 | 10 |
| Jake Wingfield | Bristol B | Lancaster A | 113 | 10 |
| Elliott Gomes | Dartmouth | MIT B | 119 | 10 |
| Jordan Parker-Martin | Rochester | RIT A | 119 | 10 |
| Emily Hackwelder | Notre Dame D | Kentucky | 122 | 10 |
| Alex Olson | UF D | FSU | 125 | 10 |
| Max Averbach | Northwestern C | Texas B | 125 | 10 |
| Jacob Price | Cambridge A | Manchester B | 127 | 10 |
| Kaiwen Xiao | UCLA B | UCSD Vices and Virtues | 135 | 10 |
| Parker McCoig | Tennessee A | Clemson B | 135 | 10 |
| Caleb Slusher | South Carolina A | Tusculum | 135 | 10 |
| Joseph Cole | North Carolina B | James Madison | 135 | 10 |
| Patrick Torre | Maryland A | George Mason C | 135 | 10 |
| Felix Garrett Johnston | Huntsville A | Vanderbilt A | 135 | 10 |
| Henry Wong Tok Shing | Cambridge C | LSE A | 135 | 10 |