Specific term required. Reuben Gronau distinguished home production and this concept in a paper built on Gary Becker’s “A Theory of the Allocation of Time.” This concept’s “gap” of two to three hours per week between American mothers and fathers was studied by Arlie Hochschild (“HOKE-shild”). A book partly titled for this concept calls gambling “barbarian” in the chapter “The Belief in Luck.” The opportunity cost of this activity increases with wages, but at high wages, this activity [emphasize] increases in labor’s backward-bending supply curve. Per an 1899 book, pecuniary emulation seeks to surpass a group named for this activity that engages in conspicuous consumption. For 10 points, name this activity of voluntarily abstaining from labor, whose “class” was theorized by Thorsten Veblen. ■END■
| 2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 04/19/2025 | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 75% | 117.00 |
| 2025 ACF Nationals | 2025-08-09 | Y | 11 | 91% | 0% | 45% | 100.70 |
| Great Lakes | Main | Y | 6 | 33% | 0% | 67% | 101.50 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 7 | 86% | 0% | 43% | 110.67 |
| Midwest | Main | Y | 9 | 78% | 0% | 11% | 80.29 |
| North | Main | Y | 10 | 80% | 0% | 10% | 87.63 |
| Northeast | Main | Y | 5 | 40% | 0% | 80% | 109.00 |
| Pacific Northwest | Main | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 94.78 |
| California | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 87.40 |
| South Central | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 102.50 |
| Southeast | Main | Y | 12 | 75% | 0% | 42% | 100.33 |
| UK | Main | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 75% | 114.00 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 38% | 95.75 |
| Upstate NY | Main | Y | 8 | 75% | 0% | 50% | 108.00 |
| Pacific Northwest | Main | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 111.00 |
| Canada | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 91.00 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Cha | Tufts A | Amherst B | 34 | -5 |
| Vinu Harihar | Berkeley F | Berkeley C | 41 | 10 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta B | UTD A | 41 | 10 |
| Eoin Neale | Lancaster A | Bristol B | 41 | -5 |
| Eloise Wood | Imperial B | Edinburgh A | 43 | -5 |
| Tiffany Zhou | OSU C | OSU A | 44 | -5 |
| Chase Barrick | Lehigh A | Vassar A | 44 | -5 |
| Devon Kumar | Tufts B | Brandeis Wilson | 44 | -5 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT B | Binghamton B | 46 | -5 |
| Mattias Ehatamm | Maryland A | George Mason C | 47 | 10 |
| Miles Spieler | OSU D | CWRU B | 48 | -5 |
| Adrian Li | Berkeley A | Berkeley D | 51 | -5 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | NC State | 52 | 10 |
| Amiya Zope | UTD B | UCO | 55 | -5 |
| James Ferrabee | McGill D | Texas A | 63 | 10 |
| Rohan Navaneetha | OSU B | MSU B | 67 | 10 |
| Matthew Forster | Dartmouth | MIT B | 68 | 10 |
| Ben Spirtas | Maryland C | Georgetown B | 70 | -5 |
| George Matsumura | Washington B | British Columbia A | 70 | -5 |
| Gregory Stone | ESF | Cornell-DII | 70 | -5 |
| Aryan Desarapu | Michigan B | Louisville B | 71 | 10 |
| Eshan Pant | NYU A | Catholic University | 72 | 10 |
| Jeffery Austin | North Carolina B | James Madison | 74 | 10 |
| Henry Jameson | LSE A | Cambridge C | 74 | 10 |
| Ethan Bosita | Stanford A | Berkeley B | 76 | 10 |
| Clio Selyuzhitsky | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | UCLA C | 76 | 10 |
| Nikola Wu | UCLA A | UCSB | 76 | 10 |
| Liam Markland | Alberta | British Columbia B | 76 | -5 |
| Phillip Jordan | Imperial C | Oxford A | 76 | -5 |
| Andrei Hui | Cambridge A | Manchester B | 76 | -5 |
| Abhinav Dinesh | LSE B | Bristol A | 76 | 10 |
| Kevin Cronk | Virginia Tech B | Liberty B | 77 | 10 |
| Jonathan Li | Penn B | Maryland D | 77 | 10 |
| Rae Meyers | Arizona State B | Northwestern A | 77 | -5 |
| Zach Tseng | Georgia Tech B | Auburn A | 77 | -5 |
| Christian Sherrington | Southampton A | Manchester A | 77 | 10 |
| Abigail Lee | Virginia Tech A | Clemson A | 79 | 10 |
| Ethan Young | Williams | Bowdoin A | 79 | 10 |
| Nathan Sheffield | MIT A | Brown B | 79 | 10 |
| Josh Schmidt | Liberty A | Tennessee B | 80 | 10 |
| Teddy Fogel | Birmingham A | Sheffield B | 80 | 10 |
| Mateo Acosta | FIU | Melbourne A | 82 | 10 |
| Eva Lettiere | George Washington A | Johns Hopkins C | 82 | 10 |
| Edward Zhang | Vanderbilt B | Georgia Tech D | 82 | -5 |
| John McQueen | South Carolina B | North Carolina A | 85 | 10 |
| Jonah Hubert | Notre Dame A | Purdue B | 85 | 10 |
| Ethan White | Kenyon A | CWRU C | 86 | -5 |
| Todd Maslyk | Michigan A | Chicago D | 86 | 10 |
| William Gillard | Warwick B | Edinburgh B | 86 | -5 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Huntsville B | 87 | 10 |
| Ben Hellman | Swarthmore A | Columbia C | 88 | -5 |
| Arun Waran | Macalester B | Iowa State | 88 | 10 |
| Annika Larson | Claremont Scripps | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | 93 | 10 |
| Rohan Ganeshan | Harvard | Yale B | 93 | 10 |
| Evan Gniadek | Purdue A | Illinois B | 96 | 10 |
| Puna Ekka | Minnesota A | Macalester A | 96 | 10 |
| Dexter Hine | Simon Fraser | British Columbia C | 96 | -5 |
| Isaac Millians | USC | Claremont Pitzer | 97 | 10 |
| Omkar Marathe | Columbia A | Princeton A | 97 | 10 |
| Coy Mier | Auburn B | UAB A | 97 | 10 |
| Tanay Bodducherla | Berkeley E | Stanford C | 98 | 10 |
| Olivia Kiser | Kentucky | Notre Dame D | 98 | 10 |
| David Bass | Johns Hopkins A | Notre Dame E | 99 | 10 |
| Justin Hawkins | Indiana A | Purdue C | 99 | 10 |
| Akshar Goyal | Illinois A | Indiana B | 100 | 10 |
| Ryan Fang | Stanford B | UCSC | 101 | 10 |
| Russell Nip | British Columbia D | Washington A | 101 | 10 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State A | Northwestern B | 101 | -5 |
| Jisoo Yoo | Texas B | Northwestern C | 101 | 10 |
| Krishay Garg | UCLA D | UCI | 102 | 10 |
| Josh Xu | UCLA B | UCSD Vices and Virtues | 102 | 10 |
| Cole Hartung | Georgetown A | George Mason B | 102 | 10 |
| Tyler Turnpaugh | Georgetown B | Maryland C | 102 | 10 |
| Patrick Rivas-Giorgi | Columbia B | Rutgers B | 102 | -5 |
| Sam Kemeny | Brandeis Clemenceau | Yale A | 102 | -5 |
| Jacob Puthipiroj | Northwestern A | Arizona State B | 102 | 10 |
| Young Fenimore Lee | Ohio | Tulsa | 102 | 10 |
| Oliver Rothnie | Durham B | Sheffield C | 102 | 10 |
| Isaac Studley | Carleton | Minnesota C | 105 | 10 |
| Alvin Guo | Chicago A | Michigan D | 106 | 10 |
| Gavin Markoff | Vanderbilt A | Huntsville A | 108 | 10 |
| Atharv Chowdhary | Brown A | BC A | 110 | 10 |
| Carlos Gonzalez | Syracuse | Binghamton A | 110 | 10 |
| Jacob Graham | Chicago C | Notre Dame C | 111 | 10 |
| Richard Lin | Amherst A | Brown C | 111 | 10 |
| Osbaldo Porrua | UIC | Notre Dame B | 112 | 10 |
| Alex Olson | UF D | FSU | 113 | -5 |
| Aryan Pathak | UF C | ERAU A | 113 | -5 |
| Jack Granahan | Brandeis Orlando | BU | 113 | -5 |
| Kevin Peng | Cornell-UG | Bowdoin B | 113 | -5 |
| Emerson Patmore | Georgia Tech C | Alabama B | 113 | -5 |
| Aidan Keenan | Rochester | RIT A | 113 | -5 |
| Wyatt Johnson | CWRU B | OSU D | 114 | 10 |
| Liam Buck | St. Thomas | Nebraska | 114 | -5 |
| Eve Gaspich | Melbourne B | UF E | 115 | -5 |
| Malachi Ledford | Tusculum | South Carolina A | 115 | 10 |
| Matthew Sumanen | Georgia Tech A | Alabama A | 115 | 10 |
| Sawyer Smith | Mississippi State A | Sewanee A | 115 | -5 |
| Addison Wiggins | USF | UF A | 117 | -5 |
| Jason Cottle | Clemson B | Tennessee A | 117 | -5 |
| Stephen Walsh | Northwestern B | Arizona State A | 117 | 10 |
| Dennis Reppen | Imperial A | Cambridge B | 118 | 10 |
| Harry Sexton | Edinburgh B | Warwick B | 118 | 10 |
| John Shelly | Rowan A | Lehigh B | 119 | -5 |
| Collin Leck | UCO | UTD B | 119 | 10 |
| Frank Schuster | MSU A | CWRU A | 120 | 10 |
| Aidan Ross | George Washington B | NYU B | 120 | 10 |
| John Chen | British Columbia B | Alberta | 120 | 10 |
| Arhith Dharanendra | Georgia Tech D | Vanderbilt B | 120 | 10 |
| Elliot Cosnett | Oxford A | Imperial C | 120 | 10 |
| Emilie Moore | RIT A | Rochester | 120 | 10 |
| Ryan Sun | Berkeley D | Berkeley A | 121 | 10 |
| Juan Landaeta | FSU | UF D | 121 | 0 |
| Kenneth Moeller | ERAU B | UF B | 121 | 0 |
| Matthew Andersen | UF A | USF | 121 | 0 |
| June Miller | UF B | ERAU B | 121 | 0 |
| Nicholas Nguyen | UF E | Melbourne B | 121 | 10 |
| Mohit Nair | CWRU D | Kenyon B | 121 | 10 |
| Simone Green | Kenyon B | CWRU D | 121 | 0 |
| Henry Nonnemaker | CWRU C | Kenyon A | 121 | 10 |
| Ella Mankowski | Pitt C | Pitt B | 121 | 0 |
| Simon Zimmerman | OSU A | OSU C | 121 | 10 |
| Zac Stapler | Pitt B | Pitt C | 121 | 0 |
| Sam Kung | North Carolina C | Liberty C | 121 | 0 |
| Fern Fang | VCU A | UMBC A | 121 | 0 |
| Srikar Venkatesan | Penn A | Maryland B | 121 | 0 |
| Sayan Chandaroy | UMBC A | VCU A | 121 | 0 |
| Kevin Liu | Maryland B | Penn A | 121 | 0 |
| Jason Lee | Rutgers B | Columbia B | 121 | 10 |
| Andrew Wu | Columbia C | Swarthmore A | 121 | 0 |
| Juan Diego Cisneros | Lehigh B | Rowan A | 121 | 0 |
| Ezra Siegartel | Vassar A | Lehigh A | 121 | 0 |
| Cole Hammans | Nebraska | St. Thomas | 121 | 10 |
| Ryan Powell | Brandeis Lloyd George | BC B | 121 | 0 |
| Yixi Yang | Yale A | Brandeis Clemenceau | 121 | 10 |
| Luc Vulliez | Amherst B | Tufts A | 121 | 0 |
| Christopher Dech | Brandeis Wilson | Tufts B | 121 | 10 |
| Nicholas Enbar-Salo | Bowdoin B | Cornell-UG | 121 | 0 |
| Nikhil Nair | BU | Brandeis Orlando | 121 | 10 |
| Sriram Susarla | British Columbia C | Simon Fraser | 121 | 0 |
| Tai Belke | British Columbia A | Washington B | 121 | 10 |
| Abigail Zimmerman | Iowa | Rose State | 121 | 10 |
| John Hrom | Alabama B | Georgia Tech C | 121 | 0 |
| Will McCurley | Auburn A | Georgia Tech B | 121 | 10 |
| Nelson Adams-Riley | Sewanee A | Mississippi State A | 121 | 0 |
| Joel Crossley | Manchester B | Cambridge A | 121 | 10 |
| Ted Harrison | Edinburgh A | Imperial B | 121 | 10 |
| Ella Keavy | Bristol B | Lancaster A | 121 | 0 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell-DII | ESF | 121 | 10 |
| Elijah O'Sick Johnson | Binghamton B | RIT B | 121 | 0 |