In a story set after this war, Henry jumps into a river and tells his brother Lyman “my boots are filling” before he drowns. In a story set after this war, Norman Bowker walks fully clothed into his hometown lake after driving around it twelve times, only stopping to get a hamburger. After being shot twice, the protagonist of a story set during this war vows to scare the inexperienced medic Bobby Jorgenson using flares and sandbags. This war is the subject of a collection that contains “How to Tell a True War Story” and another story in which Kiowa drowns in a sewage field. Lieutenant Jimmy Cross lists “can openers, pocket knives, heattabs, wristwatches” in a story set during this war in which Ted Lavender is shot in the head. For 10 points, name this war, the backdrop of the stories in Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried. ■END■
| 2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 04/19/2025 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 103.75 |
| 2025 ACF Nationals | 2025-08-09 | Y | 14 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 101.71 |
| Florida | Main | Y | 13 | 92% | 0% | 15% | 110.50 |
| Great Lakes | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 89.50 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 14% | 82.57 |
| Midwest | Main | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 78.00 |
| North | Main | Y | 11 | 91% | 0% | 0% | 51.80 |
| California | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 44.00 |
| Overflow | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 73.25 |
| Pacific Northwest | Main | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 8% | 69.00 |
| South Central | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 79.20 |
| Southeast | Main | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 74.58 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 71.00 |
| Northeast | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 69.60 |
| Canada | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 70.50 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jack Meyers | Brown B | Brandeis Orlando | 23 | -5 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta B | Ohio | 23 | 10 |
| Quinn Vaughen | RIT B | RIT A | 23 | -5 |
| Marin Burg | St. Thomas | Macalester B | 31 | 10 |
| Alex Akridge | Indiana A | Michigan A | 32 | 10 |
| Kelvin Ni | NYU B | George Mason A | 34 | 10 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri A | WashU A | 34 | 10 |
| Ben LaFond | Cambridge A | LSE B | 34 | 10 |
| Zachary Leblang | Penn B | Maryland B | 35 | 10 |
| Conner Yamnitz | WashU C | WashU D | 35 | 10 |
| Beckett Gilmore | Louisville A | Notre Dame B | 35 | 10 |
| Carter Pisocky | Michigan B | Purdue A | 35 | 10 |
| Jackson Slaughter | Tennessee A | Liberty B | 38 | 10 |
| William Houston | Chicago A | Chicago B | 39 | 10 |
| Jonathan Schnipper | Brandeis Wilson | MIT B | 40 | 10 |
| Sharath Narayan | Northwestern A | McGill D | 40 | 10 |
| Ryan Fang | Stanford B | Berkeley D | 41 | 10 |
| Vivian Fan | Claremont Scripps | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | 41 | 10 |
| John Mitnik | Columbia B | Lehigh B | 41 | 10 |
| CT Tang | Sheffield B | Cambridge B | 41 | 10 |
| Adrian Li | Berkeley A | Berkeley C | 42 | 10 |
| Evan Schleck | Georgetown A | VCU A | 42 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT A | Cornell-UG | 42 | 10 |
| Thomas Newill | Tufts A | Yale A | 42 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Berkeley B | UCSC | 43 | 10 |
| Sam Alahi | Illinois B | Michigan C | 44 | 10 |
| Thomas Wu | Berkeley E | Stanford A | 45 | 10 |
| Vivienne Ruemmler | USC | UCSD Vices and Virtues | 45 | 10 |
| June Miller | UF B | UF E | 45 | 10 |
| Kara Braun | MSU B | CWRU D | 45 | 10 |
| Henry Nonnemaker | CWRU C | MSU A | 45 | -5 |
| Taaj Rai | George Washington A | UMBC A | 45 | 10 |
| Noah McRedmond | Notre Dame E | Georgetown B | 45 | 10 |
| Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt | NYU A | George Mason B | 45 | 10 |
| Elliott Gomes | Dartmouth | Harvard | 45 | 10 |
| Philip Yao | Brown A | Amherst B | 45 | 10 |
| Jeremy Mau | Northwestern C | Tulsa | 45 | 10 |
| Andrew Harms | MSU A | CWRU C | 46 | 10 |
| Travis Johnson | Pitt A | CWRU B | 46 | 10 |
| Fuller Wray | Virginia Tech B | Clemson B | 46 | 10 |
| Benjamin Chapman | Toronto A | McMaster A | 47 | 10 |
| Joshua Iyo " | North Carolina C | Roanoke | 47 | 10 |
| Omkar Marathe | Columbia A | Vassar A | 47 | 10 |
| Justin Drees | Notre Dame D | Indiana B | 47 | 10 |
| Anthony Xu | Amherst A | Brandeis Lloyd George | 47 | -5 |
| Kaitlyn Farrin | Brandeis Clemenceau | BC A | 47 | 10 |
| Vikram Narasimhan | Stanford C | Berkeley F | 49 | 10 |
| Abhinav Rachakonda | UCLA A | UCLA C | 51 | 10 |
| William Schwartz | Guelph B | Western Ontario | 51 | -5 |
| Mattias Ehatamm | Maryland A | Penn A | 51 | 10 |
| Chase Barrick | Lehigh A | Columbia C | 51 | 10 |
| Alex Feller | Minnesota C | Iowa State | 51 | 10 |
| Ethan Erickson | BC B | Bowdoin A | 51 | 10 |
| Daniel Pace-Farr | Arizona State A | Texas B | 51 | 10 |
| Victor Xu | Toronto H | Toronto I | 55 | 10 |
| Hari Veginati | UIC | Kentucky | 55 | 10 |
| Reese Powell | Cornell-DII | Binghamton A | 55 | 10 |
| Marianthe Dresios | Johns Hopkins B | George Mason C | 57 | 10 |
| Heidi Moyer | ERAU A | FIU | 60 | 10 |
| Shardul Parthasarathy | Illinois A | Illinois C | 60 | 10 |
| Ariyan Miah | Binghamton B | Syracuse | 65 | 10 |
| Ted Harrison | Edinburgh A | Bristol B | 69 | 10 |
| Matthew Kohn | Williams | Brown C | 70 | 10 |
| Jarman Taylor | Johns Hopkins C | George Washington B | 71 | 10 |
| Raymond Chen | Toronto B | Toronto C | 72 | 10 |
| Erin Williams | James Madison | Virginia Tech A | 72 | 10 |
| Malachi Ledford | Tusculum | NC State | 72 | 10 |
| Tyler Thurman | SIUE | WashU B | 76 | 10 |
| Paige Crawley | Oxford A | Durham B | 76 | 10 |
| Dominic Heffron | Melbourne A | UCF B | 78 | 10 |
| Stuart Chandler-Baas | Carleton | McGill C | 86 | 10 |
| Shourjo Ganguli | OSU C | CWRU A | 87 | 10 |
| Anuk Dias | Minnesota B | Nebraska | 88 | 10 |
| Kaiwen Xiao | UCLA B | UCLA D | 91 | 10 |
| Liam Rojas | Virginia A | North Carolina A | 91 | 10 |
| Kyan van Beek | UF C | UF A | 93 | 10 |
| Josh Schmidt | Liberty A | Clemson A | 93 | 10 |
| Aditya Shivaswamy | Johns Hopkins A | Maryland C | 93 | 10 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame A | Chicago C | 93 | 10 |
| Grant Koh | Michigan D | Purdue C | 93 | 10 |
| Kennedy Gallaher | Notre Dame C | Purdue B | 93 | -5 |
| Aaron Marchand | Carleton | Macalester A | 93 | -5 |
| Stephen Walsh | Northwestern B | UTD A | 93 | 10 |
| Zachary Foster | City St George's A | Birmingham A | 93 | 10 |
| Sarah Silverman | Claremont Pitzer | UCI | 95 | 10 |
| Sim Spurrier | Swarthmore A | Rutgers B | 95 | 10 |
| Bryce Cruise | Texas A | Rose State | 98 | 10 |
| March Delfin | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | UCSB | 100 | 10 |
| Danny Tran | Tennessee B | North Carolina B | 104 | 10 |
| Mitchell Hacket | UCO | Arizona State B | 104 | 10 |
| Andrew Messersmith | Brandeis Lloyd George | Amherst A | 105 | 10 |
| Halee Carey | Ottawa | McGill A | 107 | 10 |
| Matthew Lam | OSU A | Pitt B | 107 | 10 |
| Thomas Watkins | South Carolina A | South Carolina B | 107 | 10 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE A | Lancaster A | 108 | 10 |
| Jonathan Sung | Virginia B | Liberty C | 110 | 10 |
| Dylan Tanouye | Tufts B | Yale B | 110 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester A | Sheffield C | 110 | 10 |
| Ella Warde | Warwick A | Southampton B | 110 | 10 |
| Michael Xu | McMaster C | Toronto K | 112 | 10 |
| Shiva Tegulla | UCF A | FSU | 112 | 10 |
| Sewanth Paudel | OSU D | Kenyon B | 112 | 10 |
| Ezra Schulman | Macalester A | Carleton | 112 | 10 |
| Lovel Hearn | Edinburgh B | Bristol A | 112 | 10 |
| Michael Wu | Southampton A | Imperial C | 113 | 10 |
| Eva Mandelbaum | Guelph A | Toronto D | 114 | 10 |
| William Groger | Princeton A | Rutgers C | 114 | 10 |
| Yash Tiwari | Minnesota A | Wisconsin | 114 | 10 |
| Owen Ashbrook | Iowa | UTD B | 114 | 10 |
| Abdelrahman Elsisi | Sheffield A | Oxford B | 114 | 10 |
| Hafsa Shaikh | Toronto G | Toronto F | 123 | -5 |
| Ethan White | Kenyon A | Pitt C | 135 | 10 |
| Simon Choist | Queen's B | Toronto E | 144 | 10 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Toronto J | 144 | 10 |
| Rachel Bentham | Manchester B | Warwick B | 146 | 10 |
| Will Hoover | RIT A | RIT B | 146 | 10 |
| Thomas Brittain | McMaster B | Waterloo | 147 | 10 |
| Anna Bocook | Louisville B | Chicago D | 147 | 10 |
| Thomas Thatcher | Truman State | William Woods | 148 | 10 |
| Aneesh Shrotriya | Purdue B | Notre Dame C | 148 | 10 |
| Nicholas Kwan | Western Ontario | Guelph B | 149 | 10 |
| Ian Theysmeyer | Queen's A | McGill B | 149 | 0 |
| Nabhaan Farooqi | McGill B | Queen's A | 149 | 10 |
| Samuel Zheng | Toronto F | Toronto G | 149 | 0 |
| Yanis Vencatachellum | ERAU B | UF D | 149 | 10 |
| Ian Parsons | Maryland D | Catholic University | 149 | 0 |
| Andrew Massaro | Catholic University | Maryland D | 149 | 0 |
| Hanson Huynh | BU | Bowdoin B | 149 | 10 |
| Jack Granahan | Brandeis Orlando | Brown B | 149 | 10 |
| Gus Redding | Imperial B | Cambridge C | 149 | 10 |
| Matteo Fronduti | Durham A | Cambridge D | 149 | 10 |
| Robert Chen | Rochester | ESF | 149 | 10 |