Question

Activists spat on a chart illustrating this concept at a protest in London two weeks before the 2012 Olympics. Using data from French and Scottish conscripts, the Belgian “social physicist” Adolphe Quetelet theorized this concept. The ponderal index was the worst, whereas this metric was the best, out of three metrics evaluated in the 1972 study by Ancel Keys that coined its name. Most providers of gender-affirming surgery dubiously set a (*) cutoff involving this metric. (-5[1])In 1995, the WHO endorsed the use of this metric to classify children, stoking fear about an American epidemic. The term “class III” is now preferred to “morbid” (-5[1])in describing those (-5[1])in the highest range of, for 10 points, what ratio of body weight divided by height (10[1])squared? (10[1])■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: body mass index [or BMI; accept Quetelet's index before “Quetelet” from 19th century eugenicists; reject “obesity”]
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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Shahar SchwartzBerkeley AStanford A74-5
Ankit AggarwalIt's JoeverBerkeley B102-5
Jason Golfinos[Insert Lawyer Joke Here]Stanford B105-5
Vinu HariharBerkeley BIt's Joever12110
Trevor HartStanford B[Insert Lawyer Joke Here]12210
Natan HoltzmanStanford ABerkeley A12310

Summary

2023 BHSU @ Maryland03/11/2023Y3100%33%67%99.00
2023 BHSU @ Berkeley03/18/2023Y3100%0%100%122.00
2023 BHSU Online04/15/2023Y4100%25%75%107.50
2023 BHSU @ Sheffield04/15/2023Y2100%100%0%34.00
2023 BHSU @ Waterloo04/15/2023Y367%0%67%108.00